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Stocks and bonds, manufactured to sell, costing the manufacturers nothing, some of them put on the speculative market, others held by the manufacturers and marked up daily and hourly to meet the holder's views of his Increasing wealth; older stocks and bonds that did have actual or representative value, but thrown into the gambling market, were carried in successive cyclonic whirls up to heights far above earth and clouds, but now are settling back, after the exhalation of the hot air, which must fly off some where as the balloon descends thy ; say these "values" to the amount of three thousand millions of dollars have gone fluttering and glimmering and out of sight. But real values don't disappear In this way, taking their flight into fleecy clouds and fine ciuu an. iicaivu ui tueir vapors, me real values are better, much better, on... I ' 1 J a ,1 I . 1 than before. For the real value of securities, based on solid property and its earn ing power, never was so substantial In this country or in any other coun try, as in our country today. The productive power of the country. shown in the output of all branches of industry, has enormously outrun all expectation, yet obviously has not approached its limit, since we see un appropriated resources on every hand. The railroads have more business than they can carry; the manufactur ers are behind with orders; the de mand for labor exceeds the supply, at wages above those ever paid before anywhere; the markets for actual products of all kinds are active and, booming. Wheat and corn and all cereals are making a new record of prices, and the supply is not scant. but full. So of the cotton, the to bacco and other crops; the building industry everywhere is so active that producers of materials are overrun with orders, and the animal indus tries, with their products of meats, butter and cheese, wool, poultry, eggs and fish, are in the stream and rush of prosperity. Fruit and lumber are the came. The only complaint is cost of living queer complaint for a people who produce so much of everything as we do, and who still have immeas urable resources of production to draw upon. Now the fact that three thousand millions of fictitious values have been squeezed out of certain of the agen cies through which the work of pro duction and distribution (chiefly dis- trlbutlon) is carried on is a fact that signalizes and attests the soundness of the general prosperity. The produc ers of the country do not have to sup port longer these fictitious values, on which the lords of Inflation wanted in terest and profits. As the country in creases in real wealth, as It gains higher standards of morality and comes to Itself and into its own, it is repressing these swindling schemes and means to prevent them hereafter. Control of the issue of stocks and bonds is to be regulated by law and guarded by strict supervision. Indl vlduals, singly or in association, are not to be permitted to continue the manufacture of "securities" as they have been doing, to be "unloaded on the market," for the working people of the country to pay interest and div idends upon. Knowledge of this truth is what has let the gas to the tune of three thousand millions out of the bal loon. The gas is not all set free yet. But the country is in splendid conn dition, and especially our Pacific States.- There is no reason for panic, except among those who have been burning their fingers by handling fic titious securities during the processes of inflation and combustion. The country has lots of stuff to sell, and the market demands it all. It can put up without much suffering with the poverty that reigns in the vicinity of Wall and Broad streets. PTBLIC SERVICE TOO COSTLY. The Herald, making an exhibit of the yearly expenditures of the City of New York, shows that the. total is as great as the annual disbursements of Denmark, Switzerland and Austria- Hungary all put together. Probably the expenditures of New York do not much exceed the proportion for other cities of the country, great and small. Here Is one of the causes of the high cost of living. Municipal administra tion, and indeed all government, with us, runs to excessive and extravagant cost. The system is not organized for the good of the service so much as for the benefit of placeholders, and of those who administer it. The taxpayers get little service for their money; the placeholders and other beneficiaries, of whom there is an excessive, number, cost much money and render little- service. The whole system is organized for expense. Half the pay in private service everywhere produces more results. The system forces all municipal con tracts to high cost. In municipal service everywhere nothing is got for the money in proportion to what is obtained for equal money under pri vate direction. One excess becomes a precedent for another, and the cost is continually increased by setting up the customs prevailing in one city as ex amples for others. Every other city, therefore, must be as extravagant. proportionally, as New York, and the tax-consumers play the smaller cities against each other, on the like system. Why shouldn't Portland raise and spend as much money as Los Angeles or Seattle? AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. There are ten millions of Germans in the Austrian Empire, and reports are persistently published in the Eng lish press that there Is desire in Ger many to absorb the German states of Austria, after the death of Emperor Francis Joseph. But at Berlin this is vigorously de nied; and reasons are offered to show and to prove that the present German Empire, under the lead of Prussia, cannot possibly desire the absorption of the German states of Austria. The argument reviews the relations existing in former times between Prussia and Austria, recites the con troversies in the old German confed eration, which brought on the war of 1866, and sets forth how Prussia since then has maintained the hegemony of the German states. But a new en trance of Austrian influence into the German imperial system would, ac cording to the Prussian view, tend to revive the old antagonism which had cojne to an end with the entire ex clusion of Austria from German coun cils. It Is argued further that a strong Austrian Empire is a distinct advantage to Germany, because it is a support to the present equilibrium of Europe. Again, it is remarked that the pro cess of German unification is not so far advanced that the German states of Austria could be taken In with safety to interests not yet' too firmly established. It is known also that the Hohenzollern dynastic Influences are against a course of action which might increase the numbers and strength of the Catholic party in Germany. This party already is powerful, comprising about one-third of the total popula tion, and should Austria . come in with an immense addition of Catholics It would rekindle religious controversies and make the problems of govern ment more difficult. These things indeed are possible, though the Catholic party in Germany Is now, for the time, the chief con servative protector and defender of the government against the Socialists and other revolutionary classes. The Catholic Center supports the govern ment because it fears the ascendancy of the classes of unrest, agitation and revolution. But the. Imperial Govern ment, on its side, entertains the fear that the great increase -of the Catholic party which would follow the annexa tion of the German states of Austria would place it very much at the mercy of that party, and destroy the balance through which it exists, by play of the various parties against each other. MULTNOMAH COUNTY FAIR. It is regrettable that the inadequate transportation facilities between Port land and Gresham prevented more of the peopl i of this city from visiting the Multnomah County Fair held at Gresham last week. To those who were so fortunate as to find standing room on the cars, the display of Mult nomah County agricultural products was a revelation. All products on ex hibltlon at Gresham were grown within an hour's ride of Portland, and between this city and the place where they were exhibited there are a num ber of remarkably well-tilled farms, gardens and orchards. Portland is bringing in celery by the carload from California, Colorado and even from Washington, but nothing in the celery line that has ever been brought to this city from outside the state equals that which W. W. Cotton exhibited at the Gresham Fair and which :b growing in wholesale quantities on his farm near Gresham. The Winter Banana apples which sell for $8 per box when grown on JlOOO-an-acre land at Hood River are no finer than those grown near Gresham, and the Yellow Newtowns, Spltzenbergs and other varieties of fruit exhibited at the fair were also the equal of any that could be pro duced elsewhere. There were the same marks of superiority on all the vegetables and fruits, poultry and live stock exhibited. But, while the show lng made as to what has been done in the development of our natural re sources which lie at the gates of the city is remarkable, it is no more sur prising than the possibilities for fur ther development along similar lines. Between the cl'.y limits of Gresham and the City of Portland, in fact Jor miles in any direction out of Portland, lie thousands of Acres of rich land capable of producing enormous quan tities of fruit and garden truck which lwe are now obliged to bring Into the city from beyond the state line. The success' that has attended poultry-raising in the vicinity of Gresham is a guarantee that the industry can be expanded to proportions which may some day be sufficient to supply the Portland demand and even leave Knmpthlnp for- shinmpnt Fni- tVt small farmer of limited means perhaps the best feature of the matter is the comparatively small cost of the land. Five and ten-acre tracts can be se cured at but little more than the cost of a single lot in the suburbs imme diately adjacent to the city. Construc tion of the Mount Hood road and es tablishment of an adequate service on the electric line now in operation to Gresham will enable hundreds of small farmers to put into use the land now lying idle in that vicinity, and not only the country, but Portland as well, will profit by the change that is bound to come about as the possibilities of the region become better known. As an exposition of the resources of the eastern part of" Multnomah County the Gresham Fair was a success, and sufficient interest was aroused to make the 1908 fair equally successful on a larger scale. DEADLY SUNSHINE. Although they are pretty nearly for gotten now by everybody except pro fessional record makers, the victories of the American team in the Olympic games at Athens in 1906 caused at the time great jubilation in this coun try. They were supposed to establish once and for all the superiority of American physical- stamina. A writer in the North American Review for October, Mr. Chas. E. Woodruff, seri ously questions this inference. He points out two or three facts which distressingly mar one's complacency over the results of the Olympic games. In the first place, while our team cer tainly won many victories, a large proportion of them were accredited to athletes who are Americans only by courtesy, being foreign born. Of the other points a major fraction be longs to men whose parents were for eign born. This leaves but a slender total for Americans cl the older stock. and Mr. Woodruff remarks that the events which were won by genuine Americans were of the sort which re quires a sudden burst of energy rather than prolonged endurance. Thus our team won the 100-meter sprint, which requires but little stay ing power, while it lost the flve-mile run. It won the 400-meter run but lost the long Marathon race; and so on through the list of events. For those which require a sudden and in tense output of energy the prizes came to America; for those requiring great stamina they went elsewhere. Where did they go? To Canadians and na tives of North Europe, where there is more cold, fog and cloud and less of sunlight than in the United States. Mr. Woodruff agrees with numerous other writers In the belief that too much sunlight Is not a good thing for the human race. While It is abso lutely necessary to keep water pure, to make houses inhabitable and to destroy the germs of disease, never theless too much of it excites a fever ish output of energy which is wasteful and in the long run destructive. The natives of Italy, Greece and Spain are protected from the sun's rays by the pigmentation of their skins, but even thus they fall below the Scandinavians and Germans in physical stamina. Their bodies are smaller and their en durance less. The original American colonists came from Northern Europe, where the human race is at its best physic ally. Being protected there from the lethal sunlight by fogs and cold, by the shade of forests and the shelter of houses which must be used night and day, man has attained a bodily devel opment which no other part of the world can equal. From this stock the American colonies were populated in the beginning. But our climate, even in the northern part of the country, is noted for clear skies and intense sunlight. Our earlier writers were wont to boast that the sunny skies of Italy could scarcely compare with ours in brilliance. Mr. Howells has some delightful paragraphs describing the crystalline atmosphere of New York city. Of us, as of the ancient Athenians, it may be said that we are "ever delicately marching through most pellucid air." But it may also be said that, like the Athenians, .we must beware lest our too stimulating clim ate ends with ruining us. Its first effect on the British, Dutch and Scandinavian stock which settled the country was to set free an enor mous amount of nervous, energy so that we acquired great fame for a "strenuous life," which had forgot ten how to rest; , but this period of excessive activity seems to be followed In our older families by both physical and mental deterioration. They cease to breed, which is the worst possible sign of racial decay, and their bodies become spare, thin and delicate. Their futility seems to show itself In two ways, of which it is difficult to say which is the more exasperating to the normal mind. There Is the intellectual or "Harvard" type, which displays its futility by a systematic contempt for everything that is worth living for. And there is the monkey dinner type, which wallows in sensuality. Both are. degenerate, and perhaps equally so. ' These are the forms which our racial decay takes among the com fortable classes. Among the poor the sterile New England men Illustrate the same discomforting state of facts. The old American blood does not hold its own. Mr. Woodruff thinks our only hope Is in renewed immigration from Northern Europe. This is certainly the way that the Mediterranean coun tries have kept up their vitality; but it occurs to us that America carries her physical salvation within her own bosom, so to speak. There are sec tlons of this country, as yet only thitily populated and which the hand of man has scarcely touched, where almost those ' precise climatic conditions pre vail which have made for the physical perfection of the human race in Northern Europe. Here in Oregon, as well as in Washington, we have the long season of fogs and rains with tempered sunlight and low tempera ture which has nurtured the massive frames of the Scandinavians, Germans and English. ' Why should not the same cause produce the same effect? If it is true that the Intense Bunlight. of other parts of America excessively stimulates nervous energy and pro duces untimely exhaustion both of mind and body, why may we not ex pect that before many years Oregon and Washington will become the great breeding grounds of the human race, from which new and vigorous stock will go forth to restore the decayed physical and mental energies of New England, Virginia and California? With this prospect before us, it 111 becomes any Oregonlan to grumble over the rains and fogs of our benefi cent Winter. They may be a little sloppy, but if they give us big bodies and sound brains they are quite likely to make us the ruling element in the coming American race. The Committee of One Hundred, not the "Goats," as an irreverent name-changer suggests they be termed, need not sigh for more worlds to conquer after they get through with Bull Run. There will still be plenty of opportunity to make this a more esthetic world in which to live. There is the papal bull, which has been do ing business since 1296. The religious doctrines set forth in the "Harmonia Apostolica" in 1669 will be read with deeper interest after the late Bishop George Bull becomes Bishop George Somebody Else. Ole Bull has been dead for many years, but we can now understand how much more enchant ing his music would have been had he borne a less offensive name. . Coming back from the Bulls who are not here to defend their names from the Goats," we find Charles L. Bull, the famous artist; Dr. Charles Stedman Bull, the eminent physician; Congress man Bull, of Rhode Island; W. L. Bull, the millionaire railroad man, and a host of lesser lights who have never sought the aid of the courts or the referendum to change their names. Joaquin Miller's ascertainment of the origin of the name Oregon would do him credit if we were looking for a purely fanciful derivation or ety mology. This one is sufficiently far fetched to entertain the most inven tive philologer. But It cannot be the origin of the name which Jonathan Carver, of Connecticut, got, or said he got, among the Indians of the Minne sota country in 1768; of which an ac count appeared in his book published In 1778 in London. Carver, so far as men know, or probably can ever know, first wrote the name Oregon and printed it in his book. How did he get it on the Minnesota River he, a sole traveler among the Indians? Did he invent the name? Did he hear something that sounded like it? There is room for any conjecture; but It Is not likely that he got it from Indians who were using the sounds that at tended a forced Spanish derivation. Yet he says he got it from the In dians. Steamships coming west from Eu rope this Fall are bringing full crowds in the steerage as well as the cabins, the Fall rush of immigrants being nearly equal . to that of the Spring months. Fourteen steamships arriving at New York on October 10, 11 and 12 brought a total of 10,760 steerage and 66 90 cabin passengers. The fleet Included the Lusitania, Cel tic, America, La Touralne and Phila delphia, the best representatives of the British, German, French and American lines, but the largest crowd was brought In by a very, ordinary German steamer, the Main, which car ried 611 cabin and 1671 steerage pas sengers. This influx, if it continues, will in time solve the labor problem. Practically all of the steerage passen gers are coming here to work, and not a few of the cabin passengers will be obliged to go to work again to make up for the time and money they have spent abroad. When the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank closed its doors the assertion was made that the assets would nearly pay the deposits, and later, when W. H. Moore turned over his individual property to the receiver, It was con sidered certain that the depositors would be paid. Now it Is declared that the depositors will get from noth ing to 6, per cent. Some discrepancy Bomewhere. Perhaps some of the en ergy that has been expended in the effort to Induce depositors to take tele phone bonds might better be directed to the collection of all kinds or assets. Those who owe the bank should be compelled to pay promptly. Much is expected, in certain quar ters, of the candidate this year. The country press has to be reckoned with, all along the line. Here's a hint from a Polk County paper: Fred Mulkey Is announcing his candidacy for United States Senator on a calendar. Not a last year's calendar, but for all tho good It will do him It might as well be. Mr. Mulkey has a host of friends who would like to see him land the nomination, but they do not take kindly to the almanac idea. If you want to advertise, get down to mod ern methods and leave Ayer's means of reaching the public to the patent medicine fiends. When George H. Hlmes, of the Ore gon Historical Society, wrote the arti cle on the life of George Collier Rob bins, Mayor of Portland in 1860-62 the letter which was published in The Oregonian of yesterday he had riot noticed the recent announcement of the death of Mr, Robblns at San Di ego, Cal., nor had the person who passed to the printer the letter sent by Mr. Hlmes to The Oregonian. This will explain an apparent incon gruity or error. Mr. Robblns died about two weeks ago. With wheat advancing 4 cents per bushel in a single day, it would seem an opportune time for the American Society of Equity to Issue another proclamation fixing the price at not less than $1.50 per bushel. If the society can make a failure of the Ar gentine crop, it is difficult to estimate the heights to which the market will climb. Three weeks In October having fur nished exceptionally pleasant weather, the famed Missouri prophet may as well shut up shop for the remainder of the season. Perhaps he was predict ing only for Wall street. Dr. Wilson and Brother Paget have enjoyed the advantage of many times more listeners in the columns of The Oregonian than they could have gathered if they had undertaken a Joint debate. While he is at it, Mayor Lane may as well collect years of unpaid back rent from predatory corporations oc cupying city property. With a seven-billion crop the har vest is sure thi3 country is certain of at least one more year's prosper Ity. n Stocks are down, but the trouble with the plain people is" that they can't eat or wear them. Bishop Potter needn't be scared be cause he dined with a black man; he Isn't looking for votes In the South. GLEANINGS) FROM THE STATE PRESS. Doing Well, for Seattle. Albany Democrat. Seattle is growing, it ships about as much wheat in a montn as Portland does in a day. , Pretty Bin; for Plain Squash. Harrlsburg Bulletin. R. C Ballard, living on Ingram Island, had raised a squash weighing 113 pounds. Just So. Pendleton Tribune. The man who wants to change Port land's name is sadly In need of some sane employment. Farewell Soon to Upland Birds. Corvallls Times. . A famine of pheasants Is the plaint of every hunter. Reports of those who come back from a trip almost empty handed are of discouraging character. Of five bird3 killed by two sportsmen yesterday, four were last year's crop, but a single young one being secured. There Is much talk to the effect that the law will have to close all hunting for a few years or the pheasants will disappear altogether. There is no ques tion but they are far less abundant than in former years. Bad Judgment of the President. Oregon City Enterprise. Mr. President, why fool away your time in the canebrakes of the South when there are hundreds of bears in Oregon just aching to dance attendance on Your Highness? We Feel Relieved. Santlam News. The News assures The Oregonian that cannibalism was not Indulged in at our late fair, but that everyone enjoyed himself or herself so well that he prom ised to come back next year. A Villain, Sure Enough. Drain Nonpareil. Show us the villain who predicted the worst October weather in the history of this country this month. So far, it has been the finest weather here the "oldest settler" ever saw. Settled, bat Howl Port Orford Tribune. "Will the nuts from one side of a buggy fit the axle on the other side," was the subject for considerable dis cussion in town the first of the week) find was at last settled by visiting John R. Miller's new rig by moonlight. Versatile Dr. Large. Forest Grove News. Dr. C L. Large says that the post office boxes will soon be here, as they were shipped from the East October 5. They are the latest design combina tion, 60 In number, and will be installed on the right side of the postofflce. If Doc Large keeps on the way he has for the past two weeks he will soon be an expert cement man. He noticed a little flaw the other day In the walk that had Just been laid and had a hole drilled out so he could refill it with cement. The walk Is getting along nicely with Dr. C. L, Large at tending. Pointers for True Sportsmen. Drain Nonpareil. When crossing a wire fence pull your gun through after you by the muzzle This Is the surest way to get a dis charge from both barrels at the same time. When hunting on a farm where there is' livestock always . shut your eyes when you pull the trigger. You can then swear you did not Bee the horse before you shot. If you score a miss, kick the dog. It was his fault without a doubt. In lieu of something better, shoot a few chickens. The farmers have nothing else to do but raise them, anyway. If your gun misses fire, blow in the muzzle. This will tell you whether or not it is load ed. If you want to make a reputation as a great hunter buy your game from jGome one else. It will taste good to your friends. Judging; Baby Show. Rabbitville Cor. Tho Dalles Optimist. Well, I bin up to the Pendleton fair J and Judged the baby show, and It was a easy joo, ior i naa to juago about forty 2 kids, and they was all so pretty that all I had to do was to find out about the fathers, and I found one kid that had a father what keeps a Jewelry store, ana i give his kid the first prize Then later Mr. Geer, what runs the Tribune, a man what use to be gov ernor and wood like to be some more, and mebbe will be, or sennator when he gets the Statement No. l properly chewed and digested; well "Tall Tim ber" and me went around to the jewel ler's and saw the Jeweller. And he "saw" us, and if you see sumthlng shiny on the middle finger of the off side hand of T. T. you can credit It up to the baby show. CENSOR FOR STREET MANNERS Propowil to Elevate Initiative One Hundred to That Proud Position. PORTLAND, Oct. 20. (To the Editor.) It would seem to an outsider that the Initiative One Hundred could find some thing better to devote its time to than the impossible issues it has raised. For instance, its name would be im mortalized if it could succeed In teaching the people using the sidewalks to keep to the right. Such a custom doeB prevail In some places, but not In Portland. One can't travel "with the tide" on a Port land sidewalk, for the simple reason that the tide travels in all directions. Again, the "100" could become famous by showing the women of the town how to carry an umbrella. It would seem that Portland people should know how to carry an , umbrella, but anyone who bas been in the downtown districts on a rainy day. knows that eyes, face, hats and shower-sticks are constantly endan gered by the recklessness of our women with their umbrellas. They use them as a weapon of offense with which to clear the' track ahead. Portlanders learn street manners. A. J. C. The Passing of the Locomotive. Philadelphia Press. It has been estimated that it would take five years of time and $2,500,000,000 of money to substitute electric power on all the railroads of the United States. That is equal to a sixth of their present capitalization. While such an expenditure may seem appalling. It will not deter the railroad managers when convinced that the change will aid in the more econo mical operation of their properties and when they can get the necessary capital. Whatever else is true, it is certain that in a very few years no obnoxious smoke puffing locomotive will be permitted to enter any large city. Some towns have al ready placed a ban- upon them as a nui sance since electric power has been made feasible. When economy, cleanliness and speed all unite In favor of electrification, the locomotive will have to give up its work after three-quarters of a century, in which the world's material develop ment has exceeded that In the thousand years preceding. Kind of Doga Some People Want. Antelope Herald. A good dog is worth paying taxes on any time, but a worthless dog never. It seems that the more "cultus" a dog is the more determined its owner is to keep it. even to the extent of paying a, tax on Lit. BROADSIDE FOR THE CHURCHES. Paid Ministers and Other Cansea Lead to Decay, Says Thla Novel. New York Evening Post. Weican Imagine that "the situation" be ing discussed by the deacons of the May-neld-avenue Union Church in the opening of Dr. W. J. Dawson's new novel, "A Prophet of Babylon" (Fleming H. Revell Company), is a not unfamiliar one In many metropolitan churches today. The congregation has gradually migrated "up town" and to the suburbs, taking its money bags along. There are more peo ple than ever in the neighborhood, but they are not of the kind that will "mix" with the aristocratic remnants, nor of the kind that can afford to pay for in cense and fine music and oratory. "Look at New York. Where do you find the most churches?"- In the localities where wealth la most evident Christianity has openly become the church of the rich. It is the inevitable Te sult of a paid ministry; how can It be other wise under a system which encourages all those elements of social rivalry and display which are found in the world of commerce. Yes. you can find churches enough In Fifth avenue, but as you travel eastward the chureh spires become fewer, and always fewer. Isn't it evident that the church has practically given up trying to reach the poor? And in every American city the story Is tne same. The cburcn constantly retreats before the invasion of poverty. Down town churches are- constantly sold for immense sums of money, and the wealth so gained Is employed to buna gorgeous religious ciud- houses in the suburbs among the comfort able and wealthy classes. It is set forth In the story that "the situation" can't be remedied by cutting the minister's salary, or substituting pop ular evening lectures. Illustrated by mov ing pictures, for the "piffling vesper ser vice," or by moving the church "uptown" after Its runaway congregation. The church can't be reformed from within. Jesus tried It, Luther tried it, . Wesley tried it. "The story is always the same. Tho reason is that every new truth must grow by its own roots." The church, as it exists today, is on its deathbed, and should . be permitted to die without any deathbed mourners.' "For my part," says Gordon in the story, "I would gladly vote for the total abolition of the church in all its existing forms, and begin right over again from the foundation. For the church In its present form is on Its deathbed, with llgh's and Incense and moving music and all that kind of. thing, but the odor of corruption and decomposi tion is in the air. The world knows per fectly well what is going on. I know noth ing more pathetic than the angry wonder so often expressed by all kinds of ecclesiastical people over the fact that the mass of the people won't go to church. Surely the In ference should be plain; It is to every one save the ecclesiastic. It is that life has gone out of the churches. The Auto Trade Marvel. New York World. On the first day of the present month the amount of capital employed di rectly by the manufacturers of auto mobiles in the United States was ap proximately $77,250,000. The employes the automobile factories this year num ber about 68,000. The value of the fac tory product for 1907, as estimated by the Licensed Dealer, a trade bulletin, from which the preceding figures are quoted, will reach $100,000,000. Reckoning in the labor and funds employed Indirectly in the automobile trade, the amount of capital is swelled to $171,500,000; the nutnber of employes ranges up to 108.500. And the makers of motorcycles are not counted. In 1904 the output of American auto factories was valued at $26,645,000. In January, 1903, there were but 14,000 automobiles in the United States. Tho American automobile Industry had its beginning in 1896, when a first offering of 13 machines, with four cycle motors, was put on the market. More than 220 different manufacturers of motor carriages are now listed in this country. There are few tales of Industrial growth to match this one. It Is a pity that along with the bright pages In au tomobile history are so many dark ones filled In with the misdeeds of irre sponsible drivers. Admirals Must Dive and Swim. Washington, D. C, Dispatch. Great consternation is felt in the Navy over an announcement made by Assistant Secretary Newberry that Rear-Admirals must shortly undergo a test to show whether they can swim or not. In the Army a test of whether Colonels can ride horseback has al ready been ordered. Mr. Newberry's declaration in favor of a swimming test for Admirals, however, is con sidcred far worse, although the aver age Colonel weighs several times more than his horse. The Assistant Secre tary's plan is to have Rear-Admirals dive from shore and swim to their ships. Many Admirals who have not moved a wheel for years except from the Navy Department to the club, are indignant. It Is felt that what th Assistant Secretary is really proposing is a general harlkarl among the most eminent Naval heroes of the age. Two Bults in Place of Teddy Bears. Washington, D. C, Herald. In the absence of the President In the wilds of Louisiana in quest of bears, two bulls have taken possession of the White House grounds. Early Sunday morning two such animals were at large on those grounds . and for a time terrorized belated citizens who chanced to pass in that direction. A Rude Western Comment. Kansas City Star. In Massachusetts the Democratic convention split and each taction nominated a candidate for Governor H. M. Whitney and Charles W. Bart- lett. Whitney is. a member of the Ananias society, but who's Bartlett? Hot Puerile or Uncritical. TjnHnn f)u tl rtsl,- TTierA in one esrtectflllv snnrl nnlnf ,..-... Mr. Roosevelt: he Is not afraid of the constitution. unlike most American statesmen, he denlinen fn'oilnnt if an attitude of puerile and uncritical ac ceptation. FAITHLESS TOMORROW. Oh, faithless Tomorrow Thou promised me bliss; Dost see that I sorrow? There's something amiss! A-ha! now I know thee For the mocker thou ait Thy crimes at last, show thee; 'Tls time we should part. Thou said'st thou would'st 'quaint me With pleasures ' untold What a view did'st thou paint me In colors of gold! But when I would seize them. These promises fair Ah, then. It did please them To vanish In air. Thou promised me hours Of joy, but I mourn; Thou offered me flowers How sharp was the thorn! Thou promised me riches;Y Thou promised me lam' - -I've a patch on my breeches; Who's heard of my name? Oh. the way thou hast fooled me. Thou false smiling Jade! As thy slave thou has ruled me In grief am I paid. Henceforth we are partd! Tls TODAY that I II woo. With thee, O! hard-hearted! Believe me, I'm through. HARRY MURPHY, WHAT JAMES J. HILL GAVE AWAY. Gift of Ore Lands to Stockholders of Great Xorthern Railway. W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald. One of the largest business transactions that ever occurred between human beinns and one of the most profitable contracts that was ever made in the history of man kind, was when James J. Hill leased the 55,000 acres of Iron ore lands belonging to the Great Northern Railroad to the United States Steel Corporation. Mr. Hill bought these lands for, about $5,000,- 000. He sold the mineral rights for a royalty on all the ore that is taken out, starting at 75 cents a ton, and advancing each year at the rate of 2i cents a ton until it finally reaches $1 a ton after ten years. The lowest estimate of the ore in the property covered by this lease 13 500,000.000 tons, and some experts have put the total as high as 1,000,000.000 tons. The royalties upon the products of these mines, which are a part of the present and future income of the stockholders of the Great Northern Railway, will there fore amount to not less than $500. 000,000, and may reach as high as- $l,000.000,CuO, without the slightest cost or rlsK. AU the stockholders have to do Is to stand still and take the money. Mr. KellocB, who is conducting the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company for the Administration, drew all the pa pers In the case and acted as Mr. Hill's legal adviser, so that he is perhaps more familiar than anv other man with the facts; and If the President or any muck raker will take the trouble to question Mr. Kellogg he can learn the particulars of this extraordln-.ry transaction. 1. That Mr. Hill purchased the lands in his own name, with his own money and assumed all the risk. !. That he carried them in his -twn name and at his own risk until it was demonstrated that the investment was safe and would be profitable, and 3. When the enormous value of the purchase was demonstrated he conveyed the entire property and tne prospective profits to the stockholders of the Great Northern Railway. Such transactions should not be ig nored, particularly at this time, when the selfishness and dishonesty of railway management are made so much of. Here la Truth. The Financial World. Like Mr. J. J. Hill, of the Great North ern, Mr. E. P. Ripley, the president of the Atchison Railroad, declares that rail road building in this country has re ceived a severe shock, and that there will not be much of it so long as the attitude of the public remains as it la today.. The last ten years have probably been the best years of prosperity in the his tory of the country. How much railroad building has been going on during this time? Probably less than in any former decade in the history of our railroads. They, raised during tho last ten years millions and millions. What have they done with it? Little has gone Into build ing new lines and terminals, and moat has been UBed to acquire stocks. The conditions under which railroads are suffering Just now are of their own creation. A number of fair-minded rail road presidents themselves have conced ed this. The shortcomings of the rail roads have Blmply begun to hear fruit. The people have not been guilty of over capitalization of the railroads. The peo ple have not encouraged the railroads to borrow money to buy stocks of other railroads with it. Over a billion dollars' worth of railroad stocks have been bought by railroads which liioy don't need at all. They have bought them for speculation Instead of borrowing that bil lion for improvements and extensions. Where Horse Bit George Washington. Philadelphia Record. "Now, please show me the spot where the horse bit George Washington," was the astonishing requeBt made by a country visitor of his host, a down town publisher. The latter had escort ed him about and shown him the Stato House, the Liberty Bell, Carpenter's Hall, old Christ Church, the grave of Benjamin Franklin, and the site of the house in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. The pub lisher . had never heard of the spot where the horse bit the Father of His Country, but, equal to the emergency, he took his guest to Washington Square, and said that it was in one of the corners of that space (which one he did not know) that the horse aid the biting, in commendation of which event the square was named after the General. The gentleman from Down Yonder Somewhere was fully satisfied and has now gone home full of good, ready-made history to tell his neighbors. It would be interest ing to ascertain the Identity of the wag who sprung this new one on George AVashlngton. Are Hard Times the Remedy? ! PrlnevIUe Hevlew. If the prevailing high prices for cat tle and sheep continue much longer. Crook County will soon be practically destitute of both. Five years ago ther were at least 150,000 sheep in the county, which number has steadily dwindled to about 65,000. Cattle have fared somewhat better, not command ing the exorbitant prlco thiit mutton brings. Still, cattle are steadily de creasing also, and each year buyers experience more difficulty in gathering large bunches for shipment. The county simply cannot turn out the stock fast enough to supply the hungry markets, and It would seem that we need a pe riod of depression to allow the flocks and herds to resume their normal standard of numbers. This is true not only of Crook County, but of the wholo state east of the Cascades. "The Empty Shell." Sonnet In the Forum. This body that we love, tfcfc cherished clay. Through which for seventy years we gather pain And call It life, how cold It doth remain When the ethereal Are burns away And leaves It like the clouds at close of day When the red sun descends behind the chain Of distant mountains and his purple train Of vapors suddenly grows chill and gray! That form a moment since Instinct with power, With beauty's smile and youth's impas sioned glow. Now withered lleB like a November flower. While we with pompous step sedate and slow Escort It to the grave and grudge the houi We spare for It from the world's gaud) ehow. ' Subtle, bnt Good. Boston Herald. Lately we descanted on limited liberal ism. It is now in order to narrate an adventure of a fair delegate who came from the West to the recent Congress In Boston. Entering an attractive em porium, the lady said to the floor-walker: "I wish to see the automobile hats which you advertised in the Sunday papers." "Impossible, Madam!" exclaimed the shocked shopman, "we do not advertise In the Sunday papers!" "Indeed," re piled the deeply Impressed liberalfst "but I read your advertisement on Monday." "In that case, madam,," the appeased merchant answered, "you may take the elevator to the first floor." Pessimism. Arthur Schopenhauer. A very noble character we always im agine with a certain trace of quiet sad ness, which Is anything but a constant fretfulneBS at daily annoyances (this would be an Ignoble trait ana lead us to fear a bad disposition), but Is a con- . sciousness derived from knowledge of the vanity, of all possessions of the suffer ing of all life, sot merely of his own.