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The Orcgonian did not believe that, when it was made the argument for elec tion of Governor of Oregon and Mayor of Portland, and Is as far from believ iiiK It now, when the main question in volved is the election of Senator and Representatives in the Congress of the United States. But the Republicans of Oregon have not been disposed to support party. . On the contrary, they have given the Democrats almost everything they have claimed. True, this has not been done by Republicans out of special good will towards the Democratic party, but out of fierce hatred of each other. The Oregonian discouraged, has submitted, and quit; but it has not permitted itself to be fooled by any twaddle about non-par. tisanship, with a great flood of which our Democratic oracles have been deluging the country. The simple truth is, our Democratic brethren have not been in position to ply the argument for party and to profit by it. Hut they may be soon. It is the year of a Presidential elec tion. The National conventions of the two parties are at hand; and the vote of Oregon next Monday will carry the election, for one party or the other, of one Senator and two Representatives. Moreover, it will go far in the matter of Unal decision between the two Na tional parties In November; for, though Oregon has small political strength, its vote every four years tomes at a time when the result is observed by the whole country, and even taken as an indication of the state or tendency of the whole public mind. So It will be taken at this time, s heretofore; only more so perhaps than ever heretofore. A majority vote for Chamberlain in Oregon will cause siti'h elation In the Democratic party of the United States as it has scarcely felt before within living recollection If others don't know what the fruit will bo of such "non-partisan" triumph The Oregonian well knows, and It puts the forecast on record. But It has no faith In the ability of those who make appeal to the Republican party of I Oregon to awaken a sense of loyalty In It, or to a recollection of Its achleve- W .....I. i j V. I n f .it V trarflrlrtrta ni nnpnn.aa Republicans of Oregon bo long have been voting Democratic to "get even with each other that the habit has be come a greater luxury than any regard for the true ends and objects of party action could ba. All such listen to the "non-partisan" twaddle of Democratic) experts anil many take refuge In It though none really Is deceived by it. 1' couldn't really deceive the simplest elmnloton. It is only for the sake of truth that The Oregonian speaks truth merely In the abstract, for It detests the ter. givorsations of the campaign, yet knows they will be played to the end Kor the sake of truth It regrets, too that the Democratic "non-partisan pretense has been worked as It has been, for there ought to be some basi of truth even In political effort. Still what can be expected when factiona differences in one party offer so invit Ing a field for false pretense on the oilier? Tho project of an electric line down the coast from Astoria is again being agitated, this time wlin a fair pros pect for success. Such Ln enterprise would be a very important factor i the upbuilding of the second city tho state. The line would traverse Iwond of su derfully rich country, susceptible supporting an Immense population. There is no richer soil in the country than is found in the bottom lands long the numerous water courses which would be followed and crossed by the line. It would also afford ac cess to some very large bodies of tim ber, and as a scenic line for beach vis itors, would handle immense crowds during the Summer season. The value of the electric line as an industrial de- eloper can hardly be overestimated. especially when it goes through a country where five acres of land Will produce enough to support a good sized family. Encouragement of en terprises 8f this nature will prove much more profitable than idle dreams regarding great transcontinental lines. If Astoria makes proper use of the wonderful resources lying dormant at her doors, she will soon assume a prominence which will not warrant her being slighted by the big rail roads from the outside world. , TRIUMPH FOR OCR GEORGE. Undoubtedly Governor Chamberlain will attend the Democratic National Convention. Should the majority of the electors of Oregon declare for him next Monday, for the Senate, he will go "with all-resplendent triumph on his brow." The least that can be ex pected of his party at home is to send him as a delegate. It certainly will. The ovation he will get at Denver will dumbrate all the glories of William Jennings Bryan. Could anything make Oregon so famous? Perhaps this all the time has been the subtle and far- seeing purpose of those Republicans (so-called) who have been pushing him on from one triumph to another. finally to obtain this last "non-partisan" triumph for the state. Called to the Senate as a non-par tisan, by the Republicans of the state, and walking proudly Into the Demo cratic National Convention as a dele gate from Oregon, perhaps to be called to a place on the ticket as Vice-Presi dent, with Bryan, his appearance t Denver would be the most wonderful and spectacular thing in politics with which the name of Ore gon ever has been connected. But stay! It might lead to greater glory still. Bryan will have opponents even enemies in the convention. Our non-partisan prestidigltateur's en trance into the convention might start a furor that would dethrone Bryan, as Bryan himself in 1896 upset every thing with his figure of the crown of thorns and cross of gold; and our George might walk off with a non partisan nomination for the Presi dency from the Democratic National Convention! It is yet two days till our election; and there is yet time to get the whole idea of these brilliant possibilities be fore the electorate of Oregon except that small part of the electorate that lives away up towards the heads of the distant hollows, and that still smaller part that refuses all thought about politics on Sunday. A SPIRIT COMMUNICATION. The Oregonian prints today in an other column one of those scurrilous anonymous letters which every news paper expects to receive when it ex poses a fraud. This one purports to come from "A traveler passing through your city." The traveler may be a spirit for what we know, but if he is he belongs to the gang that the Savior drove into the swine. More likely our anonymous contributor is one of those 'mediums" who fatten by practicing imposture upon the credulity of the poor and ignorant. The manufacture and sale of the implements of fraud employed by these depraved wretches In their exhibitions have become a reg ular business in many cities. False hands, faces, robes to aid In deception, disguises of all sorts for the use of mediums in "materializing" the spirits of the dead, can be bought almost anywhere by those who know the se crets of the trade. As for the reading of sealed letters, it Is the most transparent of all me diums' deceptions. The trickery em ployed is so patent that one is amazed to see any person fooled by it; yet many are fooled, to the great solace of the medium's pockets. Of all their tricks there is not one which has not been duplicated by Hermann and other magicians who, in the main, do them a great deal better than the me. dlums can with the help of the "spir. its." If reading sealed letters were a proof of communication between the dead and the living, then Hermann must have been a frightful liar, for, while he could read such letters more accurately than most mediums; he de nied that spirits had anything to do with it. It seems to shock our ghost-loving friend to read that no evidence of spirit communication exists. If there Is any we beg of him to trot it out In the mass of fraud which purports to be evidence It would be a cheering spectacle to see something genuine. No medium was ever investigated by com petent observers who did not turn out to be an impostor. If our contributor knows of a solitary exception to this statement, he will confer a favor upon The Oregonian and the public by mak ing it known. . F. J. MAXJI. The pain of loss and of parting in cldent to death is augmented when the messenger enters the home unan nounced and with awful suddenness executes his command. Still greater is the shock when a note of tra'gedy is sounded In connection with his call and the spent life goes out unattended by such ministrations as love bestows upon the dying. It Is thus that the passing of P. J. Mann at his home in this city Thursday night was an event of more than common sorrow to his wife and produced a profound shock to his friends and acquaintances throughout the city. It is not alone that Portland has lost a useful and honored citizen in the death of Mr. Mann that deep regret followed the announcement of his passing, nor that sudden death was his portion, but that the attending circumstances were in the extreme pitiful and shocking. P. J. Mann was one of the pioneer citizens of Portland and one of its most useful and prominent men.. An en ergetic, capable and successful busi ness man, he acquired a fortune from the endeavor of his earlier years and had passed the advance stage of old age in the enjoyment of the fruits of his labors. He was an old, but, as hu man life is now reckoned, not an aged man. and gave promise of attaining to the four-score years allotted to man "by reason of strength." He was a generous man, well known on the lists of silent philanthropy. Mrs. Mann is well known In the charitable and phil- anthropic work of the city, and her husband upheld her hands and encouraged her efforts in all these ways with the large means at his command. Citizens of the city that had been Mr. Mann's home for nearly half a century pay tribute to the endeavor, the quiet, unostenta tious life, the usefulness and the be nevolence of P. J. Mann in the general expression of sincere regret for his sudden demise and in deep sympthy for his suddenly and cruelly bereft widow. MEMORIAL DAY. When Freedom from the mountain height unfurled her standard to the air. She tore the azure robe of night and set the stars of glory there. But the glory of the stars was tar nished. With the pure radiance of lib erty was mingled the lurid glare of human slavery. The Civil War washed the flag of the Union in blood for the second time, cleansed It of the taint that had impeached the sincerity of the Revolutionary patriots and dedi cated it forever to the cause of uni versal liberty. Today the star-spangled banner is the sj'mbol of-freedom not for the Anglo-Saxon peoples alone, nor for the white race, bu for the whole human family. It stands con secrated to an idea and that idea Is Emancipation. When Lincoln set his hand to the paper that broke the chains of the black slaves he gave to the saints and martyrs who love their kind a new watchword. It was a dy namic word resurgent with power and hope. From that day his immortal proclamation became one of the char ters of the City of God on Earth and Emancipation took its place among the mighty symbols which nerve the soldier . to battle and light the fires In the poet's soul. Emancipation is dynamic; Freedom is static. Through Emancipation we become free. Aged injustice shrinks from the glory of Its face and dies. The walls of fortressed wrong crum ble as it marches through the world. The dead hand of the past relaxes its lethal grasp upon us; outworn creeds shrivel like scrolls and pass away; the bodies of perished institutions to which we are chained as living men to corpses shrink into the grave that is weary of waiting for them; old tyr annies grow impotent; old terrors vanish like nightmares in the dawn. Emancipation is the battle cry of the modern world. Philosophers are rea soning upon it and wondering at Its mighty meanings. Poets are singing it. Evangelists are preaching it. The dramatists who record the living his tory of their time for future ages to read make it the inspiration of all he roism. Setting the negroes free was but part of Lincoln's task. Before his work is done he will set the whole world free. Robert Ingersoll said of Lincoln that he was the gentlest memory of the race. Now Memorial day orators are saying of him that he was the freest soul who ever lived. He was free from hatred and malice and envy from too much love of life and from the fear of death. Immortal thoughts were his daily companions. He dwelt in the great future with men as they will be when dreams like his come true. The soldiers of the Civil War who are still spared to us bring with them abundant treasures of memory from that heroic time when they fought their battles, but none so pre cious as the knowledge that they bled for Lincoln's ideals and as the militant apostles of his gospel laid the founda tions of a new and better world. To have saved the country would have been enough, but they did more. By winning the victory for democracy they saved the world. They fought for an ideal." For a ideal their comrades died. The flag that waved above them was the flag of freedom. It was the battle cry of free dom that nerved their hearts at Get tysburg and Richmond. In those years the whole country was aflame with passion for freedom. Since then almost half a century has passed and the ambition for wealth, the lust of power, have seemed to defile the Na tion, making us forgetful of the higher alms that Lincoln and his soldiers fought for. Discouraged Americans have been heard to say our country is traveling the weary old road from democratic freedom down through an. archy and despotism to final ruin Some have prophesied that we shall fall victims to an oligarchy of wealth and see repeated in the land of Wash lngton the cruel tyrannies of Carthage and decadent Rome. But they are feeble souls who yield thus to despair. The ideals of Lincoln are not forgot ten. His unconquerable faith In the common man has not perished from the hearts either of our statesmen or of the common man himself. The plain American citizen still has the courage for great emprise. He is ready as Washington was and Thomas Paine and Franklin to embark on ex periments untried before, to set sail upon unexplored oceans seeking the fulfillment of hope deferred. When the Revolultonary fathers published the Constitution of the United States the Old World Jeered at them. Their Utopian vision' would perish in bloodshed, sneered the feu dal heritors of immemorial privilege and when the Civil War broke out the cynics laughed, thinking their proph ecy had come true. But they were mistaken. It had not come true. The experiment of. the fathers lived and Its success is a lesson' to this generation not to fear ideals, not to be afraid to hope for better things, not to shrink from the sneers of those who profit by wrong and therefore wish to make it perpetual. Through all the ages the ideal has kept the world worth liv ing In. It has given men something to hope for, something to live and fight and die for. And the progress toward the ideal that We have made thus far has been through experiments. Some of them have failed, some have sue ceeded. Let us remember the sue cesses and forget the failures, for if we cease to experiment we shall cease t advance. Who wants to see the world stand still? Who believes that the human race has gone as far as it can go? Who would not like to see all wrongs righted and all miseries cured The aged heroes whom we greet with reverential plaudits on Memorial day lacked not the courage of strenuous effort and noble sacrifice to make th earth a better place to live In. Have we not the manhood to emulate their glory? The harvester trust Is In court a Kansas City, attempting to prove its innocence. One of the pleas set u in an effort to succeed in the under taking is that the price of implement has not been raised and that prices are lower than before the comblnatio was effected, hardly seems Even this contention conclusive. There is hardly a piece of machinery in use to day that costs as much to manufacture as It did years ago, but that does not justify manufacturers in maintaining the same high prices as were quoted before modern Inventions cheapened the cost of production. The consumer should receive at least a small por- on of the benefit, especially when it considered that this kind, neighborly trust is selling the Patagonians. Mexi cans, Japanese and Russians harvest ing machinery, delivered thousands of miles away from the factory, at lower prices than the American farmer can secure it at the door of the factory. As often as the annual bulletin and register of Pacific University is sent out, the efforts of the educators of what may be termed the missionary era to establish an institution of learn ing In the far Pacific Northwest that would be worthy of the name of a niversity are recalled. Familiar to the few remaining pioneers of the Wil lamette Valley are the records of the work of Rev. Harvey Clark, Rev. George H. Atkinson, Rev. S. H. Marsh, Rev. Horace Lyman and Mrs. Tabitha Brown in laying the foundation of Pa cific University. The story of the struggles of the school is clqsely inter woven with the names of these early workers, and the bulletin sent out af ter fifty-nine years of steady, strenu- us endeavor, shows that the builders laid deep and broad its foundation. The ideal "small college" is here rep resented, and it must be gratifying to every one who is in touch with the history, the struggles and the aims of this institution to note the evidences of recent growth that appear In this register. The Seattle Fair project was "roast ed" in Congress Monday by Mr.' Slay den, of Texas, who gave as one of the reasons for his opposition' that the In ternational Exposition held annually t San Antonio was supported entirely by private subscriptions. He further declared that expositions were merely transparent efforts to boom real estate at the expense of the United States. The argument is not well founded, nor will the points be well taken. The country fair at Buncombe Crossing Is also supported by private subscription. and it probtably bears the same rela tion to the San Antonio Exposition that the latter will, bear to the big how in Seattle. The Seattle Fair will be worth all of the money it will cost if It succeeds only in showing a few ignoramuses like this Texas long-horn how little they know about the vast resources of the North Pacific. Speakers at the Republican rally on the East Side. Thursday night, op posed the candidacy of Thomas O'Day for the Circuit Court bench on the ground that he is a Democrat. Just now, and as things go in Oregon, that is not a good reason, especially in view of the nature of the office to which Judge O'Day aspires. It happens that Judge O'Day has been an incumbent of the Multnomah bench for some months, and has made so satisfactory a record that there is on the part of the public a general understanding and recognition of the excellent char acter of his services, and among all vot ers not moved inflexibly by partisanship common desire that he be elected. Judge O'Day is a Democrat, to be sure; but not on the bench. There he is a capable', enlightened and im partial judge. That is the reason he should be kept there. Too many salmon are taken by all fishermen, all along the Columbia River. None of these fishermen is willing to forbear, but all those on one part of the river wish to restrain the others, on other parts of it. The fish ermen on the lower river take all they can, and would take every one if they could; but a few fish do manage to escape, and then the fishermen on the lower river complain that those on the upper river catch as many as they can of the remainder. Meantime the fish should be the property of the whole people, and should be protected as such. No fishing should be allowed except under closest restrictions; and the state should collect a royalty, as large as possible, on all fish taken. Even the poor man has no right to make the property of the state his plunder or prey. Portla'nd will, of course, be courte ous and hospitable to the officers and men of the visiting war vessels. Any other cvpurse would be unpardonable; and no one need have the slightest fear or alarm that Portland people and public bodies will offer any slights or betray any irritation over the fact that the battleships did not come here. Portland's guests had nothing to do with that. It will take Banker Ross 790 years In prison to work out his $576,853 fine, at $2 a day. If he could work it out in twenty-five years he would have to serve at t63 a day or $23,074 a year. It Mr. Ross' friends will resort to the initiative they may Induce the people to enact a law enabling bankers to serve out fines at $63 a day. That Is not exorbitant for a bank president. We feel Justified In declaring that the recent removal of Weather Prophet Beals to another but not better land had nothing to do with the gloomy line of weather he has been passing out for the past month. Each rival in the salmon war on the Columbia River wants the fish that escapes its particular gear "protected," but not the fish that it catches. That Is the whole secret of the conflict. If the Southern Pacific train had broken a wheel, how much sooner would it have. arrived than the Nelson automobile? Strange that, although some of the candidates are supremely confident, this does not keep them from being anxious. We shall, see next Monday whether the people can pick out the good-looking ones as well as they did in the pri maries. ' The moist weather that saddens the strawberry man1 and the rosegrower gladdens the livestock man. Decoration day comes too soon for decorating the 4ast resting-place of political booms in Oregon. Don't worry; there'll be plenty of roses. The Lord will provide. ' VICIOISNESS OF RECALL MEASURE Reason Why Voters Should Snow This Scheme Under at Election. SALEM, Or.. May 28. (To the Ed itor.) The proposed amendment to Ar ticle II. of the constitution of Oregon, to be Section 18 thereof, and described on the official ballot for the coming June election as Nos. 324 and 325, is what is known as the Recall- law. Does this mean reform, or is it vicious? The proposed act provides that after any person has actually held office for eix months, a petition of 25 per centum of the electors based upon the previous vote" on Supreme Judge, shall require a special election for his ret-all from office and to elect his successor, at the expense of the state or county, whether there be any good or suffi cient reason therefor or not. The law requires the petition to state reason for the recall, but fails to prescribe or limit it to Justifiable reasons. Hence any old reason Is sufficient to invoke the recall. If the petition says as a reason that the official Is a "son-of-a-gun." this, under the act. Is a suffi cient reason, and under the law it is mandatory to call a special election at the expense of the people to try him upon the charge before the court of his country, and if he be again elected another petition may be tiled agrainst him demanding his recall, and unless he resign another election must be held. When would it all end. and how much .services would the public get out of the official while engaged in his political try-outs? Then again who would invoke this recall? Friends? No. Peaceful citi zens who pay taxes and saw wood? No. Who, then, would have ue for this extraordinary remedy? Political enemies? Perhaps. What about pri vate vengeance? Now, officials, get your ears to the ground. Whom do you fear? Answer: personal enemies those with a private grudge, and none other. Do we want our . constitution so amended that any person shall be the judge of the sufficiency of a reason for demanding a re-election? The farce would never end. It would rob Judges of the protection they now have, to hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may. Every petition filed would amount to an accusation of a crime' against the officer, destroy ing public faith and credit in him and would array the people against all forms of government and officers of government. District Attorneys might be prevented from finishing prosecu tions and this art used to accomplish that purpose. The Legislature could effectively be held up in this manner. Citv Councils could be prevented from making street improvements by this act tying them up and repeatedly tying them up again. County Courts could be stopped from making road improve ments and reouired to employ their whole time In defending their offices. The proposed act is also vicious. We would have no constitutional or stable government or certainty of laws. We could destroy the old government and make a new one so quickly that we would make the Columbians ashamed of themselves. I hope readers will look up this act and vote on it ad visedly. FRANK HOLMES. INVOKES OREGON PIONEER SPIRIT Replies to Cyrus II. Walker's Attack on University Appropriation. BAKER CITY. Or., May 28. (To the Editor.) Last Monday's Oregonian con tained a letter from Cyrus H. Walker which may fairly cause speculation as to what real motive actuated the venerable native son in making a stubborn fight against state education. As a young man, he must have lived among the pioneers of Oregon and had ample opportunity to appreciate the wisdom in which they framed that article of the provisional government: "Religion morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means or education shall be forever encouraged." Following out the spirit of this declara tion, the pioneers at once displayed noble self-sacrifice and even before their farms had been cleared, established the Salem Institute and Pacific University. Instead of keeping their children at home to help In the farm work, the pioneers denied themselves that profit and went to expense of paying help to keep their children at college. So strong was the pioneer demand for higher education, that in time the whole v 11 lamette Valley became dotted with col leges and in due season an Agricultural College and a State University were established to offer further facility for betterment and education of Oregon's young men and women. Now, the peculiar fact appears that Mr. Walker himself owes a good portion of his education to the gifts contributed for the support of these higher schools, he having been a student at .Pacific in 1R49. As a true son of the pioneers, as one who has benefited by their wise support of learning in all its branches, Mr. Walker should favor state education: but, by his antagonism thereto, , he proclaims him self to be a vicious enemy to the' pioneer command that the "means of education shall forever be encouraged," and takes his place among that ciass of men recog nized by Solomon as "a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother." Well does Mr. Walker know that should the referendum against the appropriation succeed, the State University will not open its doers this Fall for lack of finances. He knows that the cause lie champions will seriously cripple the in stitution and give Oregon an unfair and rediculous fame in the Union as a state which, on the one hand, is ready to abolish a means of education and, on the other, committed to the initiative and "referendum, laws which require the safe voter to possess a high standard of edu cation and common sense. HENRY M'KINNET. SPIRITS' CERTAINLY THEY EXIST This Mi Knows, for He Has Seen -. Them In Ills Mind. PORTLAND, May 26. (To the Editor.) In looking over The Oregonian Wed nesday morning I noticed the sweeping assertion in one of the editorials: "That there never has been any evidence of spirit return or communication." It is not my purpose to make the slightest effort to convince you of the truth of spirit return and communication, but will just say, while passing on my way. that In this enlightened age. a man who will deny the truth of spirit pheno mena is not entitled to the courtesy of being called a skepttc. He is just ignorant. He is one who. having eyes, sees not, having ears yet hears not. rfeitHer will he understand. In trying to convince such a one by simple argument or otherwise I would be disobeying the scriptural Injunction against the casting of pearls. With the hope that your eyes may be opened when you have developed or un folded to the degree that you will under stand. I remain yours, A Traveler Passing Through Your City. Elephant to Walk a Tlarnt Rope. New York Times. By and by Bostock may have a pink rhinoceros that whirls around on a tra peze by holding the bar in his capa cious mouth. While waiting to achieve that wonder of training. Bostock has gone half way. An elephant that walks the tightrope is sufficiently strange to be sure to amaze the crowds in the Bostock arena at Coney Island. Rlon dln is the name of the beast. He is 8 years old. and it took a full year's course in tightrope walking before he mastered the Intricacies of the act. He performs eight feet above the stage, and walks 20 feet. Considering the size and weight of an elephant, this is considered a remarkable feat. HOOD RIVER COUNTY. The Arcmnest of the Hood River Com. merclal Club. The Commercial Club of Hood River s taking active Interest in the initia tive measure for creation of Hood River County. The club submits an argument which The Oregonian is asked to print. A summary follows. The explanation of the act of submis sion of the measure to the people of the entire state is that no other meth od is at present available. It is said that Wasco County will not now make serious objection to the division, but t is believed will vote for it. By The Dalles Business Men's Association a resolution In support of the proposi tion has been adopted and forwarded to the .Hood River Commercial Club. Here is an epitome of the statement of the Hood River Commercial Club: A county Is a public corporation and it is apparent that section 2 of article 11 of the constitution of Oregon, as amended, reserves to the people the right to create & county by Initiative vote. There Is no general law for the creation of counties now. and no one knows when, if. ever, there will be one. The facts as to area, population and assessed valuation show that we are able to maintain a county government. Out of a population of about 7&00 the desire of a county for the j-iooa River country Is earnest and unanimous with the exception of a small fraction of one per cent. We are assured by leading citizens of The Dalles. Dufur and other portions of "Wasco County that they have no objections to the creation of Hood River County as proposed In this bill. More than 400 residents o The Dalles and Dufur have signed the petitions asking that this bill be submitted to a vote at the June elec tion, though 43 names from Dufur were re ceived too late to be Bled with the Secre tary of State. The people of the Hood River country therefore ask favorable consideration of the voters of the state upon this bill for these, among other reasons: Because the new county will be a great benefit to the people residing therein and will facilitate the transaction of their county business. Because as the law stands a countv can not be created by the legislature; ana finally. Because the people of The Dalles and the balance of Wasco County are willing that Hood River County may be created as pro vided In this bill. The assessed valuation In the proposed Hood River County In 1903 was $908. JKS; In 1906 waa g1.G1R.670. showing a gain In valu ation from 1903 to 1906 of $710.10-. or about 78 per cent. , The valuation In 1907 was $2,276,250, a gain over 1906 cf $1,143,530, or about 70 per cent, showing the propor tionate Increase in one year from 1006 to 1907 to he almost as great as that In three years from 1903 to 1906. The proposed Hood River County has a population of about 7300; an area of about 500 square miles: and 20 schoolhouses, seven of which are graded schools, having from two to eight rooms each and with a $30,000 Ugh school under construction. There will be left In Wasco County, after Hood River County Is created, an area of 1646 square miles, a population of 11.5O0, and a valuation of $5,457,720. thus leaving it among the largest and strongest counties of the state. Japanese National Theater Next. New York Journal of Commerce. Tokio is to have Its first modern the ater, probably under government pat ronage, in the near future. It will be built along the latest American and European lines and will contain all of the most recent Improvements. Look ing toward that end, Tamsuke Yoko kawa, an eminent' Japanese architect, is here to study our stage, the con struction of our playhouses, and all the mysteries of present-day stage-lighting, costuming and scenic effects. Mr. Yokokawa, who will remain four weeks more in this city before going to Europe to study the theaters of London, Paris and Berlin, was seen at the Hotel Majestic, where he Is stop ping. He said: "The Japanese people are very anxious to progress in every way, and they realize that they have much to learn from America and Eu rope In the amusement field. We will soon becin the work on this modern theater and it is desired that it shall have every possible advantage. We do not know whether it will be under government patronage or a private en terprise, but it Is considered likely that it will be a national theater In every sense of the word." Jfetr York Ctty'a Automobiles. New York Herald. Since 1904 the city of New York has purchased for the use of its various de partments the following automobiles: No. Cost. Department of street cleaning. 8 $21,714.00 uepartment oi puonc cnaiure. -Board of Education 1 8,000.00 4.700.00 Fire department 7 Department water supply, gas and electricity Police department o Dock department 2 President borough of Manhat tan Department of parks President borough of Brooklyn. 12 President borough of Rich- 1 mond . . . .-. J. President borough of Queens. . 3 President borough of the Bronx 1 Department of correction .... 1 Department of bridges 4 Department of health ........ 8 Department of finance ......... 5 21,200.00 7.277.00 15,185.00 6,775.60 14.000.00 17.340.00 16,040.00 13.086.90 8,800.00 4,000.00 2.000.00 8,142.00 19.908.00 8.285.00 Totals .81 $193,003.50 Illustrated Postage Stamps. Philadelphia" Record. It is not generally known that the idea of printing Illustrated postage stamps originated in Philadelphia. The distinction of having suggested the illustrated stamps is claimed by James C. MeCurdy, a mail Ing clerk, of 911 West Susquehanna ave nue. Mr. McCurdy outlined his ideas to -the Postofflce Department as early 1887. A few years later the Columbian ser ies of illustrated stamps was Issued and found- such favor that many other series have followed to commemorate Important National events. The originator of the Idea treasures a letter from President Cleveland's private secretary, who ac knowledges the receipt of a copy of the original designs for illustrated postage stamps and informed the designer that his suggestions had been referred to the Postmaster-General, who later acted on them. Whistle With Artificial Teeth. Baltimore News. Miss Emma Virginia Ice, of Kansas City, having refused to pay a dentis on the ground that the teeth she or dered caused her to whistle when she talked, the dentist brought suit for his blU. Waiting for the Bogle. By Colonel Thomas Wentworth Htgglnson. We wait for the bugle. The night dews are cold: The liiribs of the soldiers feel jaded and old The field of our bivouac Is windy and bare There is lead in our Joints, there Is frost In our hair: The future is veiled and its fortunes un known As we lie with hushed breath till the bugle 1b blown. At the sound of the bugle each comrade win spring. Like an arrow released from the strain of the string. The courage, the Impulse of youth shall come back To banish the chill of the drear bivouac And sorrows and losses and cares fade away When that life-giving signal proclaims the new day. Though the bivouac of age may put ice in our veins. And no fiber of steel in our sinew remains Though the comrades of yesterday's march are not nere And the sunlight seems pale and th branches ate sere; Though the sound of our cheering dies down to a moan. W shall find our losr youth when the bug! is blown. Boors I T HAS remained for Albert Schlnz, professor of French literature in Bryn Mawr College, to dispel the mystery which has for years sur rounded the last days of Guy de Mau passant, the noted French author and master of the short story. Up to now, the subject has been almost a puzzle, mostly due to the refusal of those in terested to shed the necessary ligiit. New Investigation, applied along inde pendent lines, convinces Professor Schlnz that It would be incorrect to account for de Maupassant's insanity by a single cause, but that on the con trary, several causes worked together towards the same fatal end. As a young man, we arc told, de Maupassant was of a highly nervous temperament and was fond of physic ally and mentally exerting himself to the utmost. His literary activity was amazing. But his strength began to fail, and he sought to regain health by going into society and by the ex cessive use of stimulants, such as co caine, morphine and especially ether. And there is a hint of a cruel woman of course who caused him mental anguish. De Maupassant began to suffer from, freaks of the Imagination, such as are mentioned in one of Poe's sto ries, or in Musset's "Nvit de Decembre." It is related on one occasion, when de Maupassant was sitting at his table writing a story, that the door of his room opened, and that he saw hie own personality sit down at the table and dictate his work in better language than that which he usually used. For 18 months de Maupassant's reason entirely de serted him and he was confined in an asylum In Paris. Death mercifully re lieved him of his sufferings in 1S33. Upton Sinclair e grieved because some one has been unkind enough to uggest that the author of "The Me tropolis" cannot be expected to give truthful picture of society as he pretends to do in that novel, because he has never been "in society." 'Must one be a hippopotamus in or der to write a study of the hippo potami?" passionately asks Mr. Sinclair. I was myself brought up in society. and spent all my early life in its atmos phere. But I'm not at all proud of It. Among the Socialists in New York, I know a man who offered to smuggle me on board a yacht in Newport, R. I., and a manager of theatrical entertain ments offered to dress me up and take me Into many Fifth-avenue mansione. And then I wrote many letters to so ciety people whom I wished to meet, outlining my purpose, and in about three-fourths of the cases I met the . person I wanted to meet." 1 e e In New York City has appeared a translation of the Talmud, by Dr. Rodklnson, and about one dozen vol umes of the aeries have so far been Is sued. Four volumes are announced of Ancient Hebrew Literature." edited by R. Bruce Taylor, and one notable feature In the work Is that the text Is printed without divisions into chapters and verses, so that the reader may not stop at one chapter, but take an edifying dose. The apocrypha Is min gled with the cannonlcal books. e e e Clarence E. Mulford's cowboy story. '.'The Orphan," was out of print two weeks after its Initial appearance,, and" a third edition is announced. see C. B. Whltford's new book on "Train ing the Bird Dog," is promised for the end of this month. My Auto Book," with text by Walter Pulitzer, and pictures by H. S. Watson, Is to be Issued next month. Winston Churchill's novel, Mr. Crewe's Career," is on the market. The Macmlllan Company reportB that the advance orders have been larger than for any of Mr. Churcbills previous books. e Tho Esperanto News, a semimonthly newspaper for the propagation of Es peranto in the United States and Can ada, has just made its first appearance. It Is a bright, little affair of eight pages, written mostly in English. Dr. Zamenhof, the inventor of the univer sal language, has favored the magazine with his best wishes for Its success "mi deziras la piej bonan sukceson." e Among the new volumes imported by Scribner's are "British Socialism," by J. Ellis Barker "Tho Russian Court in the Nineteenth Century," by E. A. Brayley Hodgetts; "Three Voyages of a Naturalist," ' by M. J. Nlcoll; "The Architecture of Greece and Rome," by William J. Anderson and R. P. Spiers; Color in the Flower Garden," by Ger trude Jekyll, and "Modernism: A Rec ord and Review," by A. Leslie Lllley. e Meredith Nicholson is the latest Hoosier novelist to try his hand at politics. He has announced himself as a- candidate for State Senator in In diana. Mr. Nicholson Is a deep-dyed Bryan man. Edward C. Booth is a new author who is to have a novel published in two weeks. "The Post-Girl" is the title, and the story Is the love romance of a Yorkshire musician. Emery Pottle is on his way to Norway on a hunt for fiction material. Before leaving he finished a novel which will be published this Fall. s Rex Beach, Is off once more for Alaska In search of ' adventure and more money-making stories like "The Spoilers" and "The Barrier." A sort of angler's cyclopedia, "The Book of Fish and Fishing," by Louis Rhead, is promised soon. The author, who is a clever artist, has supplied a great number of Illustrations and the United States Bureau of Fisheries has allowed him to use, for the first time, 48 of its drawings. His new volume is to be of pocket-size. e Cale Young Rice's poetic drama. "Yolanda of Cyprus," which Is to be played next eeason by Donald Rob ertson, is being published in a little volume by itself. It was first printed In Mr. Rice's book of "Plays and Lyrics." e Another of E. Phillips Oppcnheim's stirring novels, "The Avenger," is an nounced. Though treading closely on the heels of "The Great Secret," this story was written about a year ago. It Is described as possessing all those qualities of spirited action, tense situa tion and satisfying climax for which Mr. Oppenheim's previous stories have been distinguished. e Holman Day is another author who is lending himself to politics, having laid aside for the moment the literary interests attached to the success of his latest novel "King Spruce." to man age the campaign of one of the Maine candidates for Congress. Mr. Day himself is a candidate to represent Au burn in the Maine Legislature next fall.