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TTTK MOTCXTXO- OREGON I AX. FKTTVV. A PR I X. tO. IfXV. in VBl'IVirT10 .TKS. PiVr 9tTixr ir .f i-vi, ee rr -J jne worm in wmcn laTTgvmires rn-r V:rl fvrUr i-.w.Ud. weara. . J . than FngUsh are spoken, the Increase V1:4: Tr;:: m $;m.i m ist to V; r, ' t surrfm r""i ltJ ' in 1507. These ngures show that K:-;' V5Vv!t r'V. ,-rJJCm."th-" i tj the AmfHfun ttwT-- machine ht y wi;-.-t s-miay. . become a factor of rapidly Increasing KVtdsjr and -? resr. ... PMv, SVrrtav ircH-rteC. ,-n ye ... to TS MOW' PiRrv"u "seri ?vv.t-.W-.om ) Uvsl l.nk tn-.r ca'U r J i rs at h Wn,;r riOi pest -T I i in ru'L 'a.-'vdtr wvrity nrM at iv-tnd. Ortfvi. rvtcrtc 1 ii" w r- o 4 r io rr cn. r d not n-vwarMr a4.mnoa. rATTrx iiNF orvivK. f f i;4 tva-.tcr l- n.1 M rMl. Ml - V St. CMflWW' -n Urirt Spring. C. I'1 M fM.m.n;a i'r. K f r '. h tr(. II l Hurwa. Knui ( II. M. -n' -V-f -T OtT Ot ua'.kui: Or,.-, IV'-n Nw vV , Kon-V'e, A- V rfc i'it jr H .tv.rir nwr.rt vrr ti. T r,f p'H , i -.r S;ftnA; v.vr Xl . Uum-; fcV : Kr-rr IV M.lwni 1. J-vN 1 S. i . An-, Co. K. r : f A Uirs-n. G W. JttM. P. O. V. :-.r:, S 't-Cs k t-tv 1 Hrwvh 11. P T. Amt INtMtlritit. Att. Nfl lrTV - i K A-VO Worth, Vvx.-ouihelfrtt d A Jlr AmnrllU. TV. T.rrvr. r.s r.-p N-wp !,Ttd. A-v.s vo . I Ptl Ac-t.o, F- ty tTv;, U. atmo. mm- S-.Ar. 1 K. Att-:.. tninipr flv a )E , X' i-c K v5 ioUlrtfM. fv.- V.v'ui o:M.n. ltRTI IM. rKII Y. ATRIL. . SI PKY COXJtTTI RFS. Ku'.'y tn'-.o.rihs of the votor of tr1 K'p'.iV.car.s, soom? to tv. or thtr.sv. or both otio Ami !o; r.ftnvMy. that ;rif numbers o Oivv.ivra;? h;v rojristtrM ft Re iv.:btw.v. r that tho r.ow immffrrA v 'n. whi.'h h:? boon t. rv hoavy. hrt broujtln o:i!y Rov'.bio.n votor. There i pr.sai tri:th'. dovtbt ios. in both viv posu :or.. in th part of ktrco Tuimho of iho IVnv.'ow of tl'.o ?::-. thoro h? ben oa';i:.:ov1 ami oonoorfl purpose, )f bol-ov in.looi it is we!t Known rocstor as Kopub'.'oar?. That : ht r o b v ; h o m : ? h r mow rn o i y jo n on.' or another of The Roiobhoan fao ttors m the ;T::varies. foro nomt ratiot whu'h nv?fht best serve to oro :;e i-sor,r:? i". tne RepxibMoan j'-ariy. am! :hus open a way to some ,!fn'o of s-ooe for their own. This i the "same," ,!oi:o:ionab?v. it s w o in aooril with :bo Bwork;.r.rs of m.Mlorn virtv sxvri. T t the iv .str;';i ooe an.i wo;ir th:xt yo: are a mt'rr.bor of o:te p.xrtv. and re?ritor .s s.U'h, tltotiirh in fAot yon aro a rno.Vr of nnotVirr. fs r'ir.xreti a vrrv cxouab oery..r. v r;atn".y no i "o;st sc.r.rvt s.:oh praotioo. whether e.irr-'M on by :v. embers of -r.e party or an:h"r. ar.d n- or.ino:at(on vf ;t. can oft'eot :ir.yth:nc it we1, howev t o know ? is goi""? on. and to mark ! v.v A great :v..r.v row voters have com trt the state. t:ndo;:btdly. The gain i-i M-'.trotv.:'..! r.:y a!. to is Id 00 t-a year? It can scarcely be sup p w 1 t hot : a : i of t he m ; re Repn Vs ;ns. et most of them may be. Per r;r? ore of the stirvr:?-' of tho etoc w.1'; be f-nd In tbe results pro vk o I bv the new voters. If they are p re p v. o r.i r. t y R e pu b tea n they may pps-'t tt nyt calculations based on past con . :.t.s. Ft th-y may know and cre Toss a.v.t the o'.d eontenttor and o, .larre'.s nVt w-n f Actions in this s'Afv anv. very gvr.erally may vne their party t:.Vet. wh.Atver ; may br. Of ec-?e tvse things nre merely cor.;eott' ra. WAt i? afp.T.rer.t is the t'Ao that r.rty V.rtes now are s" ex trer.ely loos? that CAlcuations based .rj f.v-rner re;;'.t art god for noth :"g at a . F.t-pub' caps may mak a c ! a n we e . a r. d ye : ma y el ect vc ry few of t h e ;. r c a r. .i d a t e Fro m the tritriary t the e" ectior. the "kntflrg" i' :1T be the mst spectacular thing of :h. k:r,i rv-T seen tn Oregon. About s-x ye.trs .nf Republicans in great r :ibcr. in th s state. beg-Aii to aban d'vn .h- ;r psr :y ar.3 "ply the knife." T'e.rouch tr.d er.ation. resentment, dis-g.:-t ar-J or?e of injury rhe example r ? st re a ?. t .11 mrghty few now. ef v.it. who have par::cipAte-3 !n this ex-er- -. ir who have been victims o? it, can Ne s penned on to ""stand by the r1-! rty a q ie.t:n is whether the n-wrorr.-Ts wi.l he a ieadtr.g factor th s y?tr; ard whrt course they will tak. It rev-T w.i; he known till the votes sre counted. TH T. AMFRICAN TYPKWRITF.R ABROAtX The An.rcan ty pewriting machine made :ts way in foreign countries at art astoa sh:r.g rate in the decade from S? ;o IV37. Ten years arx having mad their way siow.y for ten years previously, the value of thee ma-. fbnrT in foreign market was $1,500. Cot la?t year it was $.250,!0. A r ntarkaMo feature of this demand is that it has been more rapid in those countries usir.g a language other than o.ir own than in the English speaking countries. In the Spanish American cur. tries. frr example, the cf these, exportafons increased f-e-n $7.4c' in 3?7 to $;av0 in 17. wh!l :n Bran!, whre the Portu- pijse Isri'jar i us--d. te value of typewriters er:i from :he 009 !n T7. tbp er.tr vain? of vprwr!'n ivni-b'Tur of AmrVan manufacture .vmiirW in IST !t $t.:tt. nl tn MOT J? JIT. 450. To oi-r tvrt of value In the busings transactions of tha olvlied wor'd. The showing pavs flatter'ng- tribute to 1henvonti e e- ' . - and Mpjic!ty or American manufacture .. V;Mnt douMlw to vap a n nniblhtv. tho Sooat oommutoo an frr'.m art'atrs ba? tvrnod ovrr to tho FneMlent th di?pnto irh Venernla. " w ith po r to sot." Thr Pros)Mi? ".r(y wiM bo oa-.'tiou y h( proo f'r. tho'och 'trotv.iovts. ho not a tviv, und Venrsueta is antonjr weak-r-t i nation. Our c-nnpint of vio'atton of tho tva of tho fn'.tovl State at a Veno K'.io'an p.tortU t oIl fTuU '1 Fvtt atr ha rp'io1 bv what t hey i'M tn iaw oonfe(on anl avvtnnneo. Ho jvlmtt '.he oura. but a It was d-no b. rrvoonsth!e peron. i tr'io the porson- wore Vonctitan v--oia is. mnl t hf;r im.-pon,1bthty. then foro. it ts harviiy i,eorsary to p'o.vV Heretofore we have prevente other At tons from snurtlnit this d(rt y. an--xhistTO bte state ov.t; ntl now we nv.t:n'; snnY it oit oire!vei (f we oan ftml any way to avoM U. In t?S rr''vlont Clerelan! entered .o v-iroro'.: a protect arainst notion asi'inst Vonertieta. undertaken by vitvat Pr'tain on a bonndarv Hnnto N-fwn Venetue'A n1 Tfrt!h OxH ann. that the matter was setite1 by nr bt ration, wit horn projmltoo to the Spa;sh-A morU'an branrarta. whose r rhetoric, not loss than their pro pensity to oonmt ontraev --n fo'en er. i? a :nrke1 feature of their own eharaoter. and perfvt!v iHutr;ttve of : t tc '. r method of d i p 1 o n a t o d o 1 ; 1 1 s . iv!b!y wa may brin the lUtlo revo lutionary a"d robber state up with a round turn, aa we did Colombia in the Panama business, but we shaH hardTy th'nk vt worth while, for tho iramo sr.t worth tho oandle CYNICAL NVNrNr. The fvtiow1nir rxtraord-.nary state ment was latto1 by Senator Aekroyd, of NV York, whose oonstitviont at noyed him with petitions to support Governor Rushes bill ajnilnst race track nmbmir; I w-u'l .'.tXt to tt pv- w ho rx-.n:w t.- r.!V rt tr th ph of nsht "vt r yM-ii5re- t this is m Rf,uMknn nifssvre sWr1 fr tr Wrputiu-iin v;v ernor av.A ihrr nr tn this Sr.;e thtrtv lo RepcWIr!? sS?r.xior. mid it tk only twnty-ic'T tf pass bttt. TSlr h-- tprtral tnofr.et hd better b d!ro:d tii wrvl tf. Rf;iv-!n mT,Wrs ef bi bovly rtr tttun xc in Demeerm.. If the vioc trine of this statement is ?ound. then the minority in a leubela ttve body is frte from ail responsibil ity for legislation and owes no duty whatever to its constituents. It ha no duties, no responsibilities. obliga tions. What. then, is tho use of keep ing the minority in the l-o?ris!ature ? As soon as it is a sov r t a i n o d which party has tho majority, tho minority may s well jro home. There ft would at least bo out of misohtVf and miht jret some useful work done on the farm. Since acoVrd'nfi: to Senator Aekroyd the minority is entirely useless, why shouM its members receive pay if they render no service they deserve ni remuneration. It might quicken their sense of duty to the public and lend them to discover that they are not wholly exempt from responsibility if the moment one of them professes the Aekroyd philosophy his salary were ma vie to cease. The truth is that every member of a Legislature repre sents his constituents and is under ob jurations to do what he can to help on gvod laws and hinder bad ones. Ir respective of his party name. The peopV do no; as a rule send men to theLeisiauiro to make party capital, b it to enact measures f'r the general welfare. Members who ignore this truth, are traitors to their constituents. it is seldom one's privilege to read a more cynical bit of nonsense than Mr. Aekroyd's statement lORTfNl STit.I. I.EAlVi. Building permits and post office re ceipts continue to break all existing records" in Portland, and business has so far regained the ground lost during the panic of last Fall that bank clear ings are rapidly approaching the rec ord figure? of last year. The latest compilation of bank clearing by the New York Financial and Commercial Chronicle gives the figures for the last week in March, for the month of March and for the three months end ing with March. In all three of these periods Portland makes a far better showing than either Seattle. San Francisco or Los Angeles. The statis tics are especially interesting, showing as they do that while for the first quar ter of the year the average decrease in clearings throughout the United States was 2s per cent and m New York alone 35 per cent. Portland's decrease was but 17 per cent, compared with per cent decrease in Seattle. 3V9 per cent in Los Angeles and 31.7 per cent in San Francisco. The showing for the month of March was stiii more favorable pro portionately, for. while Portland clear ings decreased but 16 per cent, those of Seattle were 21.3 per cent less than for March. 1S07, and Los Angeles and San Francisco showed decreases of 27 and $3.4 per cent, respectively. The improved showing was progressive, for In the last week in March Portland's decrease was but 13.4 per cent, while that of Seattle was 21.8 per cent, and Los Angeles and San Francisco had decreases of 2.2 per cent and 3S.7 per cent. New York, which was the first to feel the effects of the panic, seems to be slower in recovery than any of the other cities, for the clearings for the three months show a decrease of 35.4 per cent, and in March they de creased 42.5 per cent. Fortunately for the Eastern trade centers in particular, and the entire country in general, there sterns to be a more hopeful feeling, and there are many signs that the turn of the tide has set ip- One of the surprising feat ures of the "aftermath" of the rich man's panic is the statement of fail ure for the first quarter of 190. While this statement shows 430s dis asters with aggregate liabilities of 1 IISJOS.ISI, and ia a- record Xor tfce period namett. ft faN far short of the reoorvls made in when the tnsnr- atu-e etsurvs aet the flnnnolnl wHd anre FaHurea1 for the seooud nuartor of 1?03 reaehed the rooord total of H 31.000 HabilitWs, For the third quarter thy were J'iS.SOO iH nd for the fourth quarter $.5oa,00v. eaoh or thse quarters fjr exoeedm the Uabilittes of the quarter jtit otosd. Fvery tynp s familiar wth the rapid recovery that was made from the lo f?ttrry and. aa the damajre wrottirht bv the one from hloh e ro now ro- ooTHhJt In htany pepo ts I'jchtor than that of Us prodeAsr four veara earner, it is reasonabV to c spool an I event. Portland Is makinir better finanolal ahowlnr than any other oity of its sise in the I'nlted State, and hv ton odds thr best oily on the Fa oitio voast. TttR orrtvrnx t mk. hhtis. There are ha'T a doven iVmoorntio papnt in Nw York whose perslstont !y bitter opposition to Mr Hryan la one of the most entertaining features of current politic. Tho Ut of thorn includes the Hrok?yn :a-U, the Time, the World, the Kventu Post, and a few othora. Those papers make a mistake in dealing with Mr. Bryan w bch" aM ah)p strategists are careful to avoid. They willful iy underesti mate the character, intolHirenoe and popularity or the man w horn t hey wsh to defeat. The Timvs. for r Am pt, says of Mr. Fryan that "his motives are as plain as dayUght can make them." meaning that ho is a candidate only for the monev there ia in it. Such a statement Is Uttlo short of madnosa. In the measures which M r. Hr an advocate? he often exor cise bad judgment, hut ho is, we think, not insincere, nor are his mo tives base. Again, the Times remark that "the unexplained and' unoxplain ab'.e thing ts how reasonably intelU cent men can listen tt his tirosome prating and his transparent misrepre sentation of curront event." Such language shows a strango obliquity of mind in the person who wrote It. Thee metropolitan papers underes timate the popularity of Mr. Bryan. To follow them one must believe that the Pomoerat i c n a ss e a a cc opt his leadership with extreme reluctance. It almost seems as if tho Times and the Brooklyn Kao Imagined that he had some occult power by which he could make people follow him against their will. The Times remarks, to quote an ot her sentence, that "the Democrats of the Soxtth do not want him; they will accept and support him only be cause somebody must be supported and he Is at present the only man very much In view." Why Mr. Bryan hap pens to be the "only man at present very much in view' the Times dis creetly refrains from explaining. That he is not the only Democrat who would accept Presidential honors if he could get them is clear enough. Indeed, the Times mentions Johnson. O ra y . H a rm on . as a mon g -t hose who are willing and who are Mr. Bryan's "superiors tn every quality that consti tutes ntnes for high political office." Amazing that the Democratic party, which Is so weary of Mr. Bryan's lead ership, does not discover the superla tive tUness of some of these men. Ts it because the masse of the party are irretrievably stupid? Is It because they do not know what they want ? Or. after M, is the solution of the mystery the much simpler fact that the New York papers do not know what they are talking about, that the Democratic voters see in Mr, Bryan qualities hich no other man of their party exhibits? To what other politi cian in recent times has such unswerv ing fidelity been show-n as to Mr. Bryan? Is it a reproach to him or a real tribute that his followers cling to him in evil fortune more loyally than those of other men in victory? Finally, the frequent reproach that Mr. Bryan has divided his party is not true any more than it is true that Mr. Roosevelt has divided the Repub lican party. Both parties ars divided because an irreooncilabte difference of opinion has arisen among their re spective members. This difference of opinion goes to the roots of political philosophy and the science of govern ment. Tn either party we have on one side a faction which believes that gov ernment exists to maintain the privi leges of a class. On the other, a fac- tlon which believes that government exists to promote the common good by abolishing privilege and making all j men equal before the law. Between these I factions there is no hope of real reeon I ciiiation in either party. SENSATIONAL PKCIXNK IA" WHTRAT. The Chicago wheat market yester day touched S3 4 cents for the July option, the lowest figure of the season. The continued weakness in the market is somewhat surprising, in the face of continued reports of light storks throughout the United States. The American visible, despite a slight in crease on Monday, is now under 4 0.- 000.000 bushels, and. with two excep tions, is smaller than at any corre sponding date in the past ten years. But the market throughout the sea son has shown a surprising disregard for statistics, and. with new-crop wheat in the far Southwest only about thirty days in the future, there are at times signs of weakening in the tired holders of "long" wheat. The situation presents some inter esting features whether it is regarded from a National or from a world-wide standpoint. The dependence of the importing countries of the world on the United States and the Argentine Is strikingly hown in the world's ship ments since the beginning of the sea son, last July. These shipments, to April 4. have reached a total of 402. 000.000 bushels, compared with 399. 000.000 bushels for the same period In the preceding season, and yet the increase in American shipments for that period has been 50.000.000 bush els and from the Argentine there has been an increase of 20,000,000 bushels, a gain of 70.000.000 bushels from these two countries alone, while Russia. Aus tralia, the Danube and Austria-Hungary all show decreases in the aggre gate exceeding the gains of the two largest wheat producers in the world. The rapidity with which the Argen tine's record-breaking crop has moved is shown in the statement that since January l more than 75.000.000 bush els have been shipped. It seems hardly possible that this enormous average of weekly shipments can be maintained much longer, and it will be surprising if there is not a sudden decrease in the shipments from the big country down south. With American ship ments 50.000.000 bushels greater than i for a corresponding period in the pre ceding soason. and with the assurance I of the. Government figures that liie trt7 American crop was 100.00a.00a bushels smaller than ts predecessor It woud seem that the American farm ers must be wearing the boUom of the wheat bins. The sensational decline In the July option tn ihioaco eterday would sem to Indicate that the speculative element had decided that there Is a sufficient amount of old-crop wheat to last the country until the new crop Is available In Juiw and that the coming of the new crop will be the signal for tower prices. This may he good rea soning, from a theoretical standpoint, but theories have been known to bn at fault, and there is still plenty of time for crop scares and h'gh-priced July wheat. The "co-eds' of the FhiverUy of Oregon denir. it is said, to heoome better acquainted with one another, and to this end will give an entertain ment at the college gvmnasium to morrow night, from which young men will Im barred. Any legitimate device that w ill have a tendency to break up' the ctamitshues that results from sororttle in this or any other public educational Institution should be wel comed. Fraternities and sororitlesex chtVivo and snobbish In their nature and extravagant In their tendencies, are entirely out of place In any school, university or college that is main tained at the public expense, and finds ns an argument for it existence and support the democratic principle of equality ba-ied upon merit, an d not upon wealth. Beginning with the hgh schools and carried on through state universities, these societies destroy the feeling of friendly competition and genuine, all-around good-fellowship among students that tho scheme of education at the pubMe expense pre su p poses. Seualor Fauchor. of Now York, en tertains tho most lively scruples against gambling, but he takes a queer way to express them. When Uovernor Hughes antUgambMng bill hung In the balance Mr. Fa nclier was at a wine upper, where he won $2000 in a po ker game, and for tack of his vote the bill was lost. He now declares he was "kidnaped." If Mr. Faneher Is not a fool himself ho must have reason to think that the people of New York are fools, or he would never tell such a silly story. He 'don't often play cards." and yet he won $2000 from his kidnapers, and would have won more if he had not lost his glasses. Very remarkable. One la constrained to condole with Mr. Faneher over the loss of his glasses, for his vote was worth much more than $.000 to tho gam bling Interests, and no doubt they would have let him win $10,000 if the unhappy incident had not blinded him. By the way. how many glasses did Mr, Faneher lose before he be came blind ? The March parade of certain Stan ford students who resented the Inter ference of the faculty of the unive tty in their drinking bouts on the campus is now a closed incident, with forty one undergraduates down and out. The rtery champions of these rebellious students who planned to leave the uni versity and their laurels In a body If the unruly paraders were not rein stated have evidently taken counsel of discretion and decided to remain and take, the degree to which their credits entitle them, since the public hears no more of this proposed flaunt of defi ance to duly constituted authority. This is well. It represents tho first lesson in good citizenship obedience to rightful authority early learned. The postponement of such a lesson to a later period Is very apt to bo fol lowed by disagreeable and indeed seri ous consequences, as the number of young men in states' prisons amply testified. The sixty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the first civil govern ment in the Oregon country will bo celebrated, as for several years past. ,by an excursion and suitable exercises at Champoeg, where the organization was effected. The anniversary occurs on May 2. and the names of the or ganisers were given to a modest gran ite shaft and placed on the site eight years ago. There was then and still is one vacant place among the names thereon inscribed a place reserved for the name of F. X. Matthieu. sole survivor of a patriotic band. The ex cursion by river and trolley is one of the most enjoyable of the year, and if the weather is favorable it will doubt less be well attended. The occasion is one upon which patriotism and pleas ure join hands and make a day of it. The death of Cornelius Beal at his home on the East Side recalls an era tn the history of Portland in which ! Mr. Beal was a familiar factor. It ! was Portland the village not Port I land the city with which Cornelius i Beal was identified through his simple, I unostentatious endeavor. Old citizens will recall his removal to what is now- known as Council Crest many years ago. and his simple life there for a considerable time. He abandoned the then lonely hilltop some years ago and lived in retirement at the home from which he passed but now at the age of 7 3 years. The latest charge against the auto mobile is that its wheel chains are rapid disseminators of germs of dis ease that are dust and alr-bnrne. These chains, it is asserted, should be frequently disinfected, and legislation ! for that purpose is suggested. While j they are about it. let us hope that a j law will be passed requiring owners of automobiles to use perfumed gasoline. While the foreign racing automo biles have had a taste of mountainous America, they will have to wait until they make the Alaska leg bpfore they really know what rough sledding is. The Statement No. 1 people claim the next Legislature by the handsome majority of nine. They reserve the right, however, to revise their figures later. A scandal in the French army is announced. This is not surprising. What. Indeed, would the French army be without a scandal ? An expectant and loyal constituency domiciled on the Pacific Coast takes comfort in the thought that warships don't get rheumatism. Mayor Lane doesn't seem to relish the annulment of his vetoes by refer endum to the solid decern. Eack to Santa Barbara wiin that Ibaii team I - - W 4 I IM'OIA A l1ttKlNrt MIM lweretttK hrHtet am H1 PfrMnl Meeril f rtHt IVHmi Wtite . KfFK. Or. ApHl s - iTo the KMt tor. There baa ho eoMMemh V en?on in om of the newnttit of late as to whether er not Abraonm Lin coln used In lx leant. some aeHm that he , never u-e them, and othes that he was a cnl stout dHnker. WhMe nt jrrvMiv Interested in tht question, 1 wrts stH n dav er two wo considerably uvpiisfd t, find that in one ef.the t.n coin -I vmaia dvhairs. tht oeemrhig at Ottawa in Aucust. t:. he I spoken of as ee who had a rrtt eanavll y for Uuuor. I rood the ehatv tht Oouctt tunde first, and then hastened to find Lincoln's roply. thinking that I might 1 sob e this question for thoe who deem i It llal to his fame lVh;tps Iho char d reply aro worth reprodnelnie. as they f I, e eouitdei able tnstaht Into the char acter r-f tm dial incuishod nn-n and their method In debate. In hi speech that day pouwlrts spoke of Lincoln as follows: "I have known him for neartv 'R years. There were many points- of sympathv be. I ween us alien we first not aotpi'ilnted We were both comparatively boys, and both strusttMnv with poverty in a stranae land I was a ehoo! teacher In the town of Winchester, and hn a flnurWhluR gi"n cety -keeper in the town of ftalcm lie was nvv-e successful In hi eeoupnt Ion than I was in mine, and he nee nnv-e for tunate In this world's good. Lincoln is one of those peculiar men who perform with admirable kHl every I h tug whlll thev undertake. I made as od a school teacher I eon hi. and when a cabinet -maker I made a Rood bedstead and tables, alt houah my old bos nid I suc ceeded letter with bureaus and secretaries than with anything else; but I believe that Lincoln always wns more successful in business than I. for his business en abled him to get into the legislature. "1 met him tin .- "d had sympathy with him because of t ne upblll st mural we both had In life. Ho was then Jut as good at lelltn1 an anecdoto as now. Me could heat any of the boys wrest -Hn. or runninir a fot race. In pitching uuolts. or to In ir a copper: could ruin more I fmior than a U of the boy of the town tog-ether, and in the dignity nnd hupavtiaUtv with which he presided at a horse race or a fist fiRht excited the ad miration and won the praise of everybody that was present aM participated. . . . Mr, t.lneolu served with me In the Legis lature In IVit. when we both retired, and he subsided, or became submerged, and was lost to sight ns a public man for some years. "In t. when the Wltmot Introduced his celebrated proviso, and the Abolition tornado swept over the country. I .incohi again turned up as a member of Congress from the Sangamon District. . . . While In Congress, he distinguished himself bv his opittlon to i he Mexican War. tak ing the side of the common enemy against his own country: and when he re turned home he found that the indigna tion of the people followed him every where, and he was again submerged or obliged to retire Into private life, for gotten by his former friend. He came up again in 1M. iut In time to nvike an Abolition or Black Republican plat form. 1n romps. ny with tiiddinss. Love Jo v. Chase and Fred Douglas, for the Re publican party lo stand upon." This would be very Interesting, not only on the drink question, but as a sum mary of Lmootns life and political career prior to tiSs. If It were reliable. Tn his replv Immediately following. Mr. Lincoln said": "When a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him at least. 1 find it so with myself: but when mts n' present at ion become very gross, it is more apt to amuse him. The first thing I see fit to notice Is the fart that Judge Douglas alleges, after runnlnc rn rough the history or too old Whig pric.. that Judge Trumbull and myself made an ar rangement by which 1 was to have the place of General Shields in the United States Senate." (Here Lincoln denies certain political charges which I have omtted from the speech of Douglas. Coming finally to the personal charges, he says: "Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The lodge is woefully at fault about his earlv friend Lincoln being- a 'grocery -keeper. I do not know that It would have been a great sin If I had been: hut he Is mis taken. Lincoln never kept a grocery anywhere In the world. It is true Lin -coin did work the latter part of one Winter in a little sttllhouse up at the head of a little hollow. And so I think my friend the judge Is equally at fault when he charges me at the time when I was In Congress of having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexi can War. The judge did not make his charge very distinctly, but I will tell you what he can prove by referring to the records. Yon remember that I was an old Whig, nnd whenever the Demo cratic party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President. I would not do it. But whenever they asked money, or land war rants, or anything to pay the soldiers there, during all that time. I gave the same vote that Judge Douglas did. You can think as you please whether I was consistent. Such Is the truth, and the judge has the right to make all he can out of it." And with this the great man goes back to a discussion of the great principles Involved in the then pending controversy. It will be noticed that Mr. Lincoln took pains to deny that he had been In his early life the successful groceryman; also to make It clear that he had voted funds for the Mexican War. But so far as these passages throw any light on the question of whether he used in toxicants, it is the problem of the lady and the tiger. He might have omitted all reference to Irs ability as a drinker be cause he could not success fully deny the statement made. Again, he may have passed it over because it was so notor iously false as not to need denial. Any way. I commend the passages to those who deem it a vital question whether he did or did not drink. A. Bryan's Kloqnence. Lippenrott's Magazine. William Jennings Bryan was addressing a political meeting in Iowa on one oc casion when. Ir is said, he fairly carried away his audience by the power of his oratory.. Among those most impressed by the Xebraskan's effort was a man known to be very deaf, but who nevertheless seemed to be listening with breathless attention tn Bryan, and who apparently caueht every word that fell from the speaker s lips. Finally, when a particularly fervid pass age had been delivered by the man from Nebraska- with the effect of eliciting a storm of applause from the audience, the deaf man, as if he could contain himself no lonzer, yelled in the ear of the man next to him: "Who is that speakin?" "William Jennings Bryan!" shouted the man aadressed. ""Who?" roared the deaf man. stilt louder. "William Jennines Bryan, of Nebras ka'"' came from the second man in a piercing shriek. "Well, well!" exclaimed the deaf man. excitedly. "It don't make any difference, after ai!. I can't make out a word he or you are savin: but, good gracious, don't he do the motions splendid!' A Poaer. Kansas City Journal. "How long.'" asks the New York World, "would it take the shopping women of the country to revise the tariff if they had the chancer That's a poser. As a woman ran shop all the forenoon or afternoon or both without making a purchase, there seems to be no practical basis for a calculation. nueeMfTw ntnt tt WMe Mtftte X lvrttr la Plaee4. tndtanapotl Star The peopb of the Slate of Oregon have jtone to considerable lengiha In the pop ulnt!aion or OV moor at (sallon or govern ment. Tev have Invoked a popular vote upon decision that our repi-esent stive v1em hnd referred to etubHes of men oWted bv the mass of Vetera for their exceptional abllUv to deal with the prob lem of siate. All nomination for office, for etample. are mad bv decet vot of the peopV. The old oottsMcra t Ion ad deo'fon bv party conned, under party tvponih'!t v. have beep superceded bv proceduec approximating more and more to tho Vtnattnn of a pur demoeraey. A m per I o t test of this Oemtv-r a t e tendency in operation la to be matte In Oregon at the June election, when numer ous statute, proposed or alreadv enacted, will be pushed upon hv the people, under the velebrated "tnllfatlv. and referendum-' - the rlnn! flower and fruitage. It appenrs. of the psthwav from repvesenirti ive gov ernment, through direct nomination for office, d'reel election of off tear previous y appointed or chosen by letstattve a leotloii, to cotnolete ride bv Hie voice of the me This test relates to a no les. important and essential problem for every aelt-governing penpta that hopes to per petuate Itself than the matter of public education. The rxlslonee of the Sltrtte University is menaced through appeal to the popular antipathy for taxation, to proludica against te higher education, whh-h ts not confined to Oregon, and evl deetiy to numerous loral lealmis'ea from Institutions whoso promoter feel that Hiev nmv receive more If the Stale Uni versity shonM receive less. Oregon wn once proud, as It had reason t be. or its State Universltv. and Its whole educational ayateM, Member of t ho I .eg) slain re had a hesitation which isolated voters do not feel, to cripple the InstH.itlon and the system. Yet under the pressure of the direct vote and Its men ace. I ha support of the University haa been p-eerlou and declining, until now. Perhaps, its lot IP moat discredit a his among tha state. Ono of Its chancel lors a fier another ha been dra a n to of her fields. Sometimes It tnatrnctot have had to serve without pav. and now It Is proposed that no engagements with them vnn safely le made for a longer P-rhd hhan one year. The luatttttl on 1 living from hand to mouth. A referendum has hern called for and ordered upon the appropriation made by the legislature last year. lis result la obviously In grave doubt, and upon Ha issue depend. mM onlv the fa Ii h of the state' masse In the necessity or Importance of popu lar intelligence and In the anchor af forded a people In the stinerinr wisdom and character of II exceptional and rul ing minds, bul also, we should say, tho verdict mankind will render upon tha safety with which grave policies ami im portant Institution like this can be trans ferred from representative custody to the votes of the masses. What la a Candle Power f ft Is very Indeterminate. Pretty much every one think he know what a candle power l a--the light given by a aingla candle, of course. A a matter of fact, candle differ as much la luminosity a lighthouse, oil lamps or fire file, and a candle power la not one thing, but half a dogen, according to t lie countrv wher tha phrase Is used. In Ureal Britain and the United State the standard light unit Is the amount given by a "spermaceti candle, burning up at the rate of lt!0 grains an hour, with a flame 4ft milli meter high.' etc. In France the atand ard candle is made of siearlne. and Oor many's candle wa. until a few year ago. paraffin. Now the I at tor country uses x he so-called Tie f tier unit of light, the amount given bv a certain form of lamp burning acetate of amyl. Another lamp standard, called the parcel, was used in Frame. In this purified rape seed oil is burned. Because of this unsatisfac tory International chaos, ii la now pro posed that our National Bureau of Stand ards at Washington take step to estab lish a standard international candle, which would be acceptable to at least nine counries. The Joint committee of gas and electrical engineers which Is urg ing this standardisation declare that the change could be made with very little disturbance of most of the national stand ards now In existence. Senator Ronrne Talk of the Oe-rll. Washington (D. C Herald. Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon, made one of his frequent visit to the White House the other day. For the thousandth time he declared that Mr. Roosevelt will bo nominated and elected for a second-elective term. Taft can't he elected, and he won't he nominated." he said. ro you expect to be a deleatr-at-largo from Oregon to the Chicago con vention?" Mr. Bourne wa asked. "I shall not refuse, if I am selected.' he said. ' "Suppose the rielega lion should be in structed for Taft?" "1 never hid the devil good morn ins till I meet him.' Newspaper Maklnjc. From I,1fe Considered a a manufacturing business, newspaper making Is enormously hazard ous and absurdly unremunerative. With other manufacturing concerns the rule is that if they don't make profit they quit, but that Is not the rule with newspapers. They always have moral and political rea sons for clinging to life long, long after there has ceased to he any pecuniary warrant for it. A newspaper In these days Is about as Pkfly to declare a divi dend as a church is. Competition be tween papers is intense, the price of near ly all of them is too low. the cost of white paper and manufacture too hlsrh, and they give a great deal too much for the price that moat of them now sell for. Getting; Tired of Jetf Iavla.' Arkansas Gazette. Hasn't "Jeff" Davis learned his les,on yet? Doesn't he know by this time that the people are sick of his continual abuse, nauseated with hi billingsgate, weary of his buncombe and balderdash, con temptuous of bis Insufferable vanity, nnd revolted at the presumption that they must elect the candidates 'who represent his views, that no man can hold office whose candidacy "Jeff" Davis has ve toed, and that tha state must be put in the hollow of his hand, a hand that is soiled nnd besmirched by the abuae of the power that the trusting people of this stare have confided to It. but yet insati ably grasps for more power? A FEW SQUIBS. Mrs Fann Tont yu think thm phro jrraph i pltchad too high? Mr. Baren No; pitch it on the roof! Vonkers Statesman. fjW!tt T palntM this picture to keep the wolf from the door. ' Jewett If you hang ir jvhere the wif can it I guess you will succeed. Judge. Tn Patient But leott hers! How An I know ail the times I'm getting- absent treat ment ? The Healer Don't worry. I'll send you an itemized bill. Life. "Is yea husband voracious In his appe tite. Tnaf'am?" "T can't say a "he Is. doctor. He'ii eat everythlnk and everythink as long as there's any think to eat." Baltimore American. "Janet has told me that ynn used a naughty word, today. Flossie " "Janet shouid be a little more definite In her charges, mamma. I use o many." Cleve land plain Dealer. Xhe rAnstahle Yes. your worship, the prisoner ts a most sijsplcou character. The Accused (indignantly i It's him that's sus ppecious Aw m no suspecious o' on y body. Puni-h. "Cheer up. old man," said the eonsoMng friend "You Know itoe iHugns at lock smiths." ' Yes. I know-.' replied the de-j-ted lover. "But her father ain't & lok tmltVi; he's i boPermaker." Detroit Fre Pres. Why do thev refer to Government ofTiee as pie?"' Beesuse." answered Senator ?or Ehum. "it's something that nearly every-b-dv likes himself, although he thinks it'a bad' for neaxlx averytoody else." Washing- AUt'UHU S Incident Illustrating the want of tact of the father of l.oid Tennyson, ha lust been mad public In a newly published beak of Knallsh literature. The story relate to the period when Mr Tennyson visited lmd St. Helena, the British AmbMsaador l St. peter, burg. Knssla Ur Paul had noM wi'h a violent death a short lime previously. Lord St. Helen gave a dinner parly In honor of Mr. Tennyson, and among oiii er guest were pnveral Russian officer, who did not give ihelr name, the lat ter bring supposed to be unprononu- able. Mr, Tennyson Inslelert on Miking of what liv termed the "murder" of the Csar Fanl, 'T1eae do not dteus the matter," advtard the British Ambassador, hur riedly "Talk of something? else." "Tt's an open secret.' affirmed M r. Tennyson. "Almoat everybody In Knit- land knows that the Cnr Paul was murdered . that t'oun I Zobnff knot ked him down, ami thai Bennlugsen and Count Pahlen then strangled him.'1 'Mr. Tetvoyson. you will InstsniW lea v the la hie. aro to m private of fice and consider yourself a pt isoiirc." lormed Lord SI. Unions. Mr. Tenny son left, in high d'plesiire. Ten minutes afterward. St. Helen ran Into Tennyson's preseuee, saying: ' I- ly for your life! The man who sat r.axt to you at table la Count Pahlen. and your other fellow guest was Count V.ohoff . M v butler will at tend you." Knst horse conveyed Mr. Tennvson 1 o Odes. and. disguised as a waiter. b managed to reach Fngland. Tim Inci dent nearly created an in tenia t ion a I rupture. On would naturally fancy that if the gifted author of "in AI em or la in " had occupied his father' pla-e at tha memorable dinner table, he would ha chosen a safer subject for discussion. a It wa the personal Iwlirf of "Inn Maelaren." of "Kail ant d and Bonne Hrier Bush" rams, that a sense of humpr is a hlndeanee to practical attercs n lifr. "Young men can congratulate themselves If thev lack this dangerous quality," cnun-rllr-d the observing Hoot, "but If they have It. they honld hide It behind a sus tained and impenetrable solemnity until t hey aehicw a competence. Then, ke-p humor as a luxury for foolish old age. " Who would, for Instance, suspect humor In the dignified composition of such a dis tinguished American preacher, orator, and author a Bishop Phltllpa Brooks, of Massachusetts? once. I r. Courtney. Bishop of Nova Scotia, asked Bishop Brook to preach at a consecration serv ice at a iai hedra I. and being a gieti t aut horlt v for splendor of c rrmmiht I, wrote his fallow blshon to be Mire and bring "a red stole." Bishop Brooks ne -rented the Invitation tn preach, and added, this hint In hla letter; "I am sorry to sav that f have no red stole, but I have a pair of red suspender. Will the latter do?" t A young author In St. Paul. Minn., who had become weary of receiving unaccepted manuscripts from polite magazine edi tor, wrote to one of Iho. offenders tho other day: "What I have been sending you does not seem to stilt. I ha i e de termined, therefore, to proceed on a new basis and have every confidence that tha enclosed will not be ret urned 'unsuit able for publication. I now beg to en close my check to pay for a year's sub scription of your valued magazine." In a little town In Wisconsin, one of the first resident, as you enter the su burb. I a woman who .recently engaged a new cook who really wa a stieeeas In her vocation, but It wa noticed that tho new arrival could neither read nor write. "Bridget, how can you cook so welt? asked her employer. "Shnre. mum. ( t lav it t not bcin able, t rnde th cook book.' ' "Literary fame I not very highly re garded by soma people." complain Wil liam Denn Howell. remember wlim I was In San Re mo seeing In a French newspaper a notice that hears upon this question. It wa a nollee Inserted by a rat-trap maker of Lyon, and It an Id: " 'To Whom it May Concern 1. Tierre Ixu I of Lyons, Inventor of th automatic rat-trap, beg to state thnt he I not the same person, and that ho has nothing In common with one Plerra 1Otl, a writer." ' "Hypnotic Them petit les." hy John D. Quarkenhna. which Is permeated with tho conviction that hypnotism Is the greatest regenerative force of the age. continues, to be widely dMcussed. It I praised and condemned, alternately, Another secret Is 'nut." Elisabeth Rtfdand. the author of "Lnfcadlo Fleam's Life nnd Letters." now confesses to the authorship of "The Secret Life." a book which met with much favor here nnd in England and is to be published shortly in a new edition. Victor Herbert, the 'cellist and music, composer. Is a grandson of Satimel Lover, the Irirh novelist. When V. J. Bryan was in Indianapolis recently he met Meredith Nieholson, tho novelist, at a mall dinner party. Some where between soup an salad the au thor asked the orator if he could, and would, tell In a sentence the secret of successful speech making. "Be sure of your facts and believe I1 you say.' replied the Democratic Idol. "And now." Mr. Bryan continued, "will you tell me. In a sentence, how you make, successful fiction?" "Forget the facts and make the other fellow believe all you say," promptly replied Nieholson. whose "House of a Thousand Candles" and Rosalind at Red Gate" would seem to prove his epigram matic receipt a good ona. More tha n a decade has elapsed since Thomas Hardy announced his determi nation to write no more novels, a reso lution which he has kept with a faithful ness rare among other public entertain ers given to "farewell" appearances. He will, however, break silence now and then with a 'little verse. That hip au dience as a novelist is constantly growing is shown by the fact that the Harper find it necessary to continually reprint ntories so wide apart in date of original publication as "Under the Greenwood Tree" and "Jude the Obscure. Anne Warner was "doing aeroum-' the other night, and discovered that for each day spent on "Susan Clegg and a Man in the House" h had received about ?200; whereas. If "The Rejuvena tion of Aunt Mary" runs successfully through a second season, at the end of that season she will have received in all about $50 a day for the time she has spent on it. The Century Company announces April IB as the date" of issue of "Lyrics and Landscapes." by Harrison S. Morris, and of two new novels. "My Lost Duchess." by Jesse Lynch Williams, and "The Cheerful Smugglers." by Ellis Parker Butler. Jesse Lynch Williams "My Lost Duchess" is a romance, with a mystery, the scenes set chiefly in Fifth avenue and Central Park. The book is to have a lunette on the cover by Wallace Mor gan and srx fnsets in tint, in two print ings, from drawings by the same artist.