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TESTERDAT'S WEATHER Maximum tem
perature. 62; minimum temperature, 51; pre
cipitation, .13 of an inch.
TODAY'S "WEATHER Partly cloudy, with
possibly showers: westerly winds.!
PORTLAND, SUNDAY, SEPT. 13.
BRAINS AND "WET FEET.
Some people talk of the weather with
a clandestine air, as If its Irregularities
bordered upon impropriety. 'Others rat
tle away about its depravity, tell how
badly it behaved in 'S6, how badly it Is
behaving: now, and how badlythey ex
pect it to behave next week, for the
weather In this respect is like a woman
only gossiped of when it goes wrong.
Now, both of these classes are entirely
In error. The weather in conversation
is like a dime in commerce. We do not
sneakingly push a dime across the
counter as though it were a counter
feit, nor, on the other hand, do we
bang it down as we might possibly do
with a double eagle. So in discussing
the weather the unashamed and unos
tentatious mean should be adopted.
Of course you have noticed that it
has been raining lately. In fact, you
have probably been one of the many
that bave been bemoaning the passing
of Summer, and the advent of the um
brella, mackintosh and rubber season.
If you are a recent arrival on the Coast
you have made, very likely, some sneer
ing reference to webfeet and the deluge.
It must be admitted that it does rain
on the North Pacific Coast, and, while
one season will make the visitor water
proof, there is no denying the fact that
sunshine is preferable to Oregon mist.
But the- fact should not be forgotten
that rain and resolution go together.
The man who has the privilege of being
. born in a rainy country is the man
that is going to succeed. Whether the
contemplation of sopping fields makes
him work to gain a cozy home, or there
is some connection between wet feet
and brain power, no savant has yet
discovered.
The Irishman comes from an island
encircled, as Disraeli said, by a melan
choly ocean, and brushed by, the
"wind's wet wings." How great a pari
he has played In making America what
she is none can say. How many polit
ical conventions and how many police
men's clubs have been swung by Irish
men is beyond estimate. Holland is a
gum-shoe country if there ever was one,
and the world knows bow the Dutch
have taken and held Holland. Any one
who bas visited Switzerland wonders
how the mountains manage to avoid
being washed away by the rain, and
the world took its very time from the
Swiss until, In wet New England, other
watch factories were built. The parts
of Germany that are rainy are brainy,
and the statement is also true of Rus
sia. In this country the same thing is
noticeable. "We have mentioned New
England, rained upon, hailed upon and
snowed upon, and consequently produc
ing sages and horse-traders. Here in
Oregon it rains, at least chechakos say
it does, natives don't notice it and
Oregon leads the world In beauty,
brains and brawn.
A VALUABLE TREATISE.
The little book entitled "English Com
position: Standard Rules and Usage,"
recently prepared by Miss Carson, of
the English department in the Univer
sity of Oregon, and published by the
J. K. Gill Company, is a useful manual
of about eighty pages, containing the
essentials for good English composi
tion. It is designed, to be of practical
value to advanced students in high
schools and colleges, to all who do writ
ten work at home or in business offices,
newspaper composing-rooms, and to any
who prepare manuscript for publica
tion. These four sentiments expressed at
the opening of the book define Its
standards: "One of the greatest of all
faults in speaking and writing is this
ithe using of many Words to say little."
'The station of a syllable may cloud
the judgment of a Council." "The first
valuable power in a reasonable mind,
one would say, is the power of plain
statement, or the power to receive
things as they befall, and to transfer
the picture of them to another mind un
altered." "After all, the chief stimulus
of good style is to possess a full, rich;
complex matter to grapple with." The
Index Indicates, that emphasis has been
put not only upon accuracy of form, as
tinder capitalization, punctuation, ab
breviation, spelling, etc., but also upon
quality of thought, as suggested under
construction, letter-writing, copy for
the printer, etc The rules are tersely
stated and illustrated by short, pointed
examples.
The clear thinker who has something
to say will find the book of great value,
and nothing more definitely contributes
to clear thinking than mastery of form
that comes from constant practice "un
der good "standards. The preface cites
among the works consulted a list of the
best modern authorities, and, when
equally eminent authorities differ, the
usage of the best modern literature has
dictated, as far as possible, the rule to
be selected. There can be no final set
tlement of many points in the construc
tion of English. Any language that is
rapidly growing and accommodating It
self to the needB of a growing race
must have more than one way of doing
some things correctly. But it must bold
fast to the standards that refuse to do
anything incorrectly. Flexibility and
richness in the use of English depend
upon variety in tlje choice of words and
methods of construction.
This little book prepares the student
to avoid the inaccurate and the inele
gant, and at the same time it) attempts
to stimulate him to originality of
thought and ease of expression. It is
also of great value and service to all
writers, newspaper and other, andvis to
be commended to all such as a useful
; Lcompendlum for constant reference.
OUR. UNPOLISHED ROBBERS.
Edward Orpin, at the age of 20, is
confessedly a street robber and an in
cendiary. The news that' an untrained
boy held up so many of Portland's
citizens will come with something of a
shock .to the peaceable merchant accus
tomed to go quietly home with his
money bestowed in his boots. Indeed,
after this disclosure, his heart Is more
likely to be found there than his money,
If he must pass down a lonely street at
night To lose money to a trained man
Is one thing. It is another to be con
fronted with a pistol in the hand of a
raw youth, whose finger trembles upon
the uncertain trigger. Surely there is
no warrant for exposing the bodies
physical of the body municipal to such
risks as that Robbers need- training
quite as much as barbers, for instance,
and who, despite the humorists, ever
heard of an untrained barber being
slipped upon the public? For the
safety of those who are exposed to the
risk of being robbed upon the streets, it
is time that a training school for rob
bers was established, and none but
graduates permitted to follow -the
calling.
That is the utilitarian side of the
question. The esthetic side Is even
stronger. What right has a callow
youth to bring opprobrium upon an old
profession and an honorable? There
was a mode in cutting purses, but, alas!
It has vanished with its courtly expo
nents. 'Twas an emotion not altogether
unmixed with admiration to be relieved
of a few valuables by Dick Turpln or
Claude Duval. The etiquette of the
highway was unbroken, and the min
ions of the moon did not cause their
mistress to veil her face in cloudy
shame for any act of theirs. America
has strayed from the paths of art The
conventions are disregarded, and the
country, in consequence, has not pro
duced one really great man in this pur
suit There have been Toungers and
others of similar brand; a Tracy, who
showed flashes of the true spirit; but
not one really satisfying figure in our
entire history. We are too thank you,
Mr. Hill spectacularistic There' is, of
course, something dramatic, theatrical,
if you will, about the gentlemen of the
road, but nothing merely spectacular
istic Orpin sets fire to a house, some
thing Turpirr would never have done.
The matter resolves Itself into two
courses. Let ud educate our robbers
they do not deserve the title of high
waymen, borne by debonair exemplars
until they can rob us with something
of the old-time courtliness and skill, or
let us discourage, even squash, them, as
being totally out of place in this year
of grace.
THE BRITISH HOME SQUADRON.
Announcement comes from London
that the British home squadron of
seven first-class battleshipsone second-class
battleship, two first-class
cruisers and three second-class cruis
ers, will be sent to the -United States
on a courtesy visit In return for Amer
ica's action in sending a squadron to
Portsmouth. According to the judg
ment of English naval critics. Great
Britain's position on the seas has not
relatively Improved in the last ten
years. She has reached equality in
battleships with the two greatest pow
ers, with a margin for contingencies,
which Is the standard of strength
adopted by the British--Admiralty in
18S9, but since that date the conditions
upon which this standard was based
have changed. Then there were only
two serious rivals, France and Russia,"
while today ther.e is the navy of Ger
many and that of the United States.
Great Britain has today forty-two
first-class battleships, four second
class and two third class; she has
eighteen armored cruisers, 105 pro
tected cruisers, ten unprotected; she
has an ample force of coast-defense
ships, torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat-destroyers;
she has also building fifteen
first-class battleships, twenty-three
armored cruisers, and nine protected
cruisers. In battleships built Great
Britain has a slight superiority over
France and Russia combined, but she
has one battleship less under construc
tion than France and Russia, while the
United States alone has fourteen bat
tleships building to the British fifteen,
and Germany has eight The English
naval critics confess that for their
present organization of a fleet of aux
iliary ships the British people are in
debted to the example of the American
people in the late war with Spain. The
Spanish-American War taught the
English naval authorities the need for
auxiliaries of various types colliers
with coal, distilling ships with pure
water, telegraph ships, hospital ships
and store ships.
On these lines 'Great Britain has or
ganized an auxiliary fleet, and she is
the only naval power in Europe that
has adopted this lesson from the Amer
ican naval operations before Santiago
in 1898. In 1895 gunnery was largely neg
lected in the British squadrons, but to
day it has become on many ships the
standard of warlike efficiency. Quick
coaling comes next to excellent gun
nery as a matter of Importance to a
fighting ship, since the'sooner the bunk
ers are full in time of war the sooner
the ship will be able to take Its place
in the squadron for duty. The King
has approved the bestowal of a medal
upon the men who are returned as the
best shots with each class of gun In
each ship. This medal will be the per
manent possession of the winner, and
in each year that he holds this distinc
tion he will be paid a bonus, and in ad
dition will share the prize money, as at
present
Officers and men are to be trained for
a mechanical navy. In future every
officer and man will be a mechanician,
and all the old routine which belonged
to a fleet of sailing ships, will be ban
ished, which has no application to his
present life as navigator, gunner, tor-'
pedo expert, signaler or trained
mechanician. In 1889 the British Ad
miralty bad no Intelligence depart
ment, but today It has a large and well
equipped office, by which the B,oard of
Admiralty is stocked with professional
Information that is up to date concern
ing all the navies of the world. For
the first time in British, history the
ports and squadrons are organized on
a basis that will enable Instant expan
sion to a war footing, and the British
Central Admiralty Office is being mod
eled in the same mold. The British
naval critics accept as sound the view
of President Roosevelt that "when the
day of battle comes the difference of
race will be as nothing when compared
with the differences in thorough and
practical training in advance."
FIGHTER. OR WRJTER.T
Leslie Stephen, in his recently pub
lished "Studies of a Biographer," has
an interesting paper on "Shakespeare
as a Man," in. which, not content with
our very slender external history of
that great genius, he endeavors to
write his spiritual biography as ex
hibited in the sonnets and plays. His
conclusions are that Shakespeare re
veals In his plays that his mind was
vivid and subtle; that he had a unique
power of blending the tragic and the
comic His plays further reveal that
he loved field sports, loved -fine hunting
dogs, loved flowers and was sensitive
to the charms -of scenery. There can be
no doubt that Shakespeare enjoyed con
vivial meetings at taverns; that he was
utterly hostile to Puritanism in his
large and tolerant acceptance of buman
nature. It is clear, too, from his plays
that he was an Intellectual aristocrat,
full of good-natured contempt for the
mob. The speech of Ulysses In "Tro
ilus and Cressida" Is an argument for
order secured through the rule of the
cultivated and intelligent and without
the direct voice of the common herd.
Mr. Stephen inquires whether there
is any real incompatibility between
what we know of Shakespeare's life and
the theory of life Implied by his writ
ings. It seemed to Emerson Incon
gruous that the greatest of the world's
poets should bave been a paid actor
and manager, and led "an obscure and
profane life, using his genius for pub
lic amusement" It Is true that
Shakespeare was a money-saver, but
this fact is not inconsistent with the
poetical temperament, for Emerson
himself lived out of his literary talents
and left an estate of over $80,000, while
Shakespeare . retired from business at
40 with a property which brought him
an income of about 300 a year, equal
to about a thousand a year at the
present day. Franklin retired with a
competence at 40, and the retirement
of these great men at this early age
shows that, beyond a competence, they
did not care for money. Voltaire was
an excellent man of business; so were
Goethe, Pope, Lord Byron, Dickens and
Macaulay. Carlyle and Tennyson grew
rich through their literary work. Lit
erary genius is entirely reconcilable
with business aptitude.
But the most Interesting conclusion
that Mr. Stephen derives from his study
of Shakespeare as the man stands re
vealed in his writings Is that he was
like Walter Scott a man who held that
the man of action was superior to the
man of letters. Scott could hot under
stand how the Duke of Wellington
could take any interest in the author
of a few bits of novels. Scott said he
wrote novels to make money, but that
he did not regard the work of a novel
ist comparable to the winning of bat
tles or the making of laws, and Mr.
Stephen thinks Shakespeare held that
to defeat the Spanish Armada was a
more Important bit of work than to
write a successful play. Shakespeare,
as revealed In his plays to Mr. Stephen,
was a man of too mueh Intellect and
imagination to be a gross sensualist
He was too great an artist to be in
sympathy with the stern, ascetic moral
ity of the Puritan. He had too robust
and sane a mind td be out of sym
pathy with the great passions and emo
tions which are the moving forces of
the world. He sympathizes heartily
with human loves and hatreds and po
litical ambitions. As a humorist, he
has no sympathy with the heroic when
it becomes excessive. He has no use
for bombast or affectation. He per
ceives the vanity of human wishes and
the pettiness of human life. Such a
man would have been an ardent enter
prising lover In his youth; a soldier, a
hero or a statesman in his mature
manhood, and would only have been a
playwright so long as inspiration came
with spontaneous force. Such a man
would naturally have deemed literary
glory a trifle, and would have retired
as early as possible to a country seat
where he could enjoy his daughters'
society and have a convivial meeting
occasionally with his old theatrical
friends.
Doubtless this picture of Shakespeare
holding with Scott the man of ac
tion far above the man of letters is cor
rect, for supremacy in action was the
standard by which public men were
tested at that day. It was a century
of daring adventure on sea and land.
Military glory was sought and obtained
by Sir Philip Sidney, scholar and poet,
who died in battle against the Span
iards. Sir Walter Raleigh became a
famous navigator and discoverer. Sir
Martin Froblsher goes to the Arctic
Ocean. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's ship
sinks in midocean. Sir Richard Gren
vllle dies fighting a Spanish squadron
with his single little ship, the "Re
venge." The Earl of Essex captures
Cadiz. Sir Francis Vere wins the day
for the Dutch In the Netherlands. The
whole spirit of England during Shakes
peare's active career was that of auda
cious adventure on land and sea. No
wonder Shakespeare felt that, meas
ured by the highest standard of bis day,
the most gifted playwright was but a
talented trifler, who served to amuse
men who had planned enterprises of
great pith and moment, and in the New
World had executed great events as
easily as old soldiers pitch tents.
In later tlmeB than those of Shakes
peare, the enmity between writers and
fighters as a class became, evident The
fighter held lightly the writer, the ora
tor and the politician, whose chief work
he thinks Is to stimulate mankind to
civil commotions' and disorders from
which they suffer until some soldier
like Napoleon, or some statesman of
soldier temper like Bismarck, brings
tranquillity out of chaos, with the sword
directed by unrelenting willand execu
tive genius. This prejudice against the
military profession has been felt and
expressed by many eminent men. Sir
Henry Vane, turned out of Parliament
by Cromwell, denounced him as noth
ing but a soldier, which was Voltaire's
judgment of Frederick,the Great John
Milton, as great a scholar as Vane,
was proud to be Cromwell's secretary,
and became-his eulogist and defender.
Dn Swift wid Tope laughed and
snerd,.at Marlborough, who never lost
a bttl, while Addteon was his pane
gyrist Heine, wit, poet and satirist
ridiculed Wellington, and so, for, that
matter, did' Byron. Heine glorified Na
poleon without stint, while Byron gave
him botlj praise and blame.
As late as the day of Dr. Johnson's
literary prime, Boswell reproached him
or .treating with great respect a
famous English General. Johnson re
plied: "A famous soldier is a person
of the highest distinction; as long as
human nature remains unchanged, a
man of high fame as a soldier will
catch and hold the eye and the ear of
the people as no other man can. Writ
ers or orators of the highest ability are
at complete disadvantage with a sol
dier of distinction." This was true in
Johnson's day, although Wolfe ' pre
tended that he" would rather have writ
ten Gray's "Elegy" than to take Que
bec The taking of Quebec decided the
fate of the contest for Canada; it made
Wolfe's name immortal in history,
while Gray's fame Is limited by com
parison. Napoleon, as a rule, de
spised the literary class, but treated
Goethe with great attention because of
his political Influence with the German
Aristocracy. On the whole, Shakes
peare was right and Johnson was right
in their judgment that the world thinks
more of the man of action than of the
man of letters.
AMERICA'S RAILWAY DEVELOP
MENT. "American Railway Transportation,"
by Emory R. Johnson, Is the latest ad
dition to Appleton's "Business Series,"
and it Is not only of exceptional value
as a reference book, but; it is Interest
ing as well. The author goes back to
the time when the toll road succeeded
the old county and state roads at the
close of the eighteenth century, and tells
of the construction of turnpikes by pri
vate capital, occasionally assisted by
state and Federal aid. The canal
building era which preceded the advent
of the first locomotive is discussed in
detail, as also are the tramways which
evolved Into railroads. The railroad at
kthe beginning, as stated by Mr. Jbhn
Json, was an improved tramway, Its dis
tinctive feature being the substitution
of mechanical for animal traction. In
discussing what might be termed the
birth of the locomotive, the author
says:
Although the first locomotives ware small
and crude, their use as an agent of trans
portation marks one of the greatest advances
the world has ever made. Mechanical trac
tion freed society from the narrow limita
tions, which muscular force placed upon hu
man development, and gave man possession
of an agency capable of indefinite improve
ment. The work contains a chart showing
the wonderful growth of the railroads
in the United States since the first loco
motive crawled over the crude tram
way just prior to 18S0. At the close of
that year the total railway mileage of
the United States was twenty-three
miles. Ten years later It had increased
to 2818 miles, in 1850 to 9051 miles, in
1860 to. 30,635 miles, in 1870 to 52,914
miles, in 1880 to 93,298 miles, in 1890 to
163,597 miles, and in 1900 it stodd at
193,346 miles. The book is well supplied
with maps, red lines thereon showing
the location of the roads each decade.
Fifty years ago there was not a mile of
railroad west of the Mississippi River,
and only occasional short stub lines
anywhere beyond the New England
States.
It was Iriv the years following 1850
that many of the trunk lines of the big
systems of the present day were built,
and in 1853 It became possible to travel
from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago
by rail, and a year later Chicago was
connected with the Mississippi River
by rait Land grants and state sub
sidies in the prosperous days of the
latter 50s are credited with causing
the boom in railroad building at that
time, and not until the panic of 1857
was there any interruption to tho
spread of the railroad building. The
Illinois Central received the first Na
tional land grant in 1850, and it was
this generous policy on the part of the
Government that resulted In the At
lantic and the Pacific being connected
by rail in 1869. The decade from 1880
to 1890 was a record-breaker In railroad
building, 70,000 miles being constructed
in the ten years. Of this remarkable
achievement, the author says:
It is unparalleled In the economic history
of any other country in the world. Within
ten years the people of the United States
built as many miles of railroad as the peo
ple of the three leading countries of Europe
bad constructed in fifty years. The building
operations were carried on In all sections
of the country, but the largest Increases
were made In the states 'of the Central and
Western portions of the country, where set
tlers were rapidly -taking possession of the
unoccupied agricultural and grazing sections
of tho public domain, and where the min
eral wealth of the Cordilleras was causing
cities and states to be established on the
great Rocky Mountain plateau.
The magnitude of the American rail
way system is bewildering in the light
of the figures presented by Professor
Johnson. These irigures, which are cor
roborated by the details, show that In
1900 the United States contained 193,000
miles of railway, while the mileage of
the railroads of the entire world was
but 490,000; in other words, two-fifths
of the railway mileage of the world
was In the United States. The par
value of the capital stocks and bonds
of this vast amount of railway prop
erty was $11,724,000,000, and their actual
cost is given as in excess qf $10,000,000,
000. The author also presents some
comparisons with the capital invested
in other lines of business, which aid in
forming an Idea of the tremendous
wealth that Is massed In these prop
erties. The capital stock and surplus of all
the 3732 National banks In the United
States In 1900 equaled $878,000,000 less
than one-twelfth the estimated value of
the American railroads. The total cap
ital and surplus funds of all the banks
National, state and private and of
the loan and trust companies In the
United States in 1900 amounted to
$1,675,000,000 about one-sixth the value
of the railroads.
Every phase of railroad building,
equipment and operation is touched on
In this interesting and valuable work.
State and Federal land grants are ex
plained in detail, the experience of
railroad In states where commissions
exercise some control over them Is dis
cussed, and the legal status of a rail
road at all stages of Its development
and operation Is clearly defined. It is
a complete work on -a subject In which
every business man in the country is
vitally Interested, and no business sub
ject has ever been handled In a more
entertaining manner;.
The religious census of London was
lately compiled with great care, 600
men being engaged in the work for a
period of six months. The religious
sentiment of a community is neces
sarily gauged by the percentage of at-
tendance upon churches. The com
pilers of this census found the ratio of
churchgoers to be about 1 in 4.45, but.
as about one-third of these are known
as "twicers," or those who attend a
place of worship twice a Sunday, the
total number of attendants must be re
duced so much. Hence Ihe ratio be
comes about 16 per cent of the popula
tion. This isfc perhaps, on the whole, as,
large a percentage of churchgoers as
could have been expected in a city like
London. The superintendent of the
enumerators considers that the princi
pal lesson of his work is that it shows
that the pdwer of preaching is undi
minished. He says: "Wherever there
Is the right man in the pulpit there are
few, if any, empty pews," adding: "It
is not necessary that the right jnan be
a genius or anything approaching a
genius. He may In many particulars
be an extraordinarily ordinary man, so
long as he possesses strong convictions,
keen sympathies and a magnetic per
sonality." This part of thereport may
serve a good purpose in giving a hint to
churches that are looking for pastors,
and other churches in which the empty
pews outnumber those that are occu
pied Sunday after Sunday.
The American Mining Congress, at its
recent session in Lead, S. D., submit
ted a resolution asking the Congress of
the United States to pass a law pro
viding for a Department of Mines and
'Mining, .which should have the same
standing in goVernmental affairs as the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
recently created, to be administered by
a head regularly appointed by the
President, and who should take his offi
cial place as a member of the Cabinet.
In conjunction with this was a-resolution
asking the Mining Congress to
petition the Government to build a
suitable and permanent building at
Washington, D. C, for the exclusive
benefit of the mining Interests of Amer
ica, The first resolution foreshadows
the further expansion of the Cabinet
to meet the development of the Nation's
vast resources. When the demand for
such expansion Is a legitimate one
that Is to say, when it comes in re
sponse to the business requirements or
natural development of the country. It
is sure in due time of favorable con
sideration. The interests of agricul
ture demanded recognition In the crea
tion of a Department of Agriculture;
those of commerce, handicapped by the
overcrowding with business of the de
partment which had them in charge,
demanded a Department of Commerce
and Labor, and the demands were duly
met If it shall appear that the devel
opment and encouragement of the min
ing Interests of the country will be
served by the additional department for
which the Mining Congress asks, Cab
inet lines will no doubt open, to re
ceive another member. Over against
the accepted theory that finds expres
sion in the words, "In a multitude of
counsellors there Is safety," there
stands, however, the experience of mod
ern business men which has often
proved that "a multitude" is likely to
become an unwieldy body, whose ten
dency Is to retard the transaction of
business and hamper development It
may be hoped that the expansion of the
Cabinet will stop short of this point.
With the advance in the standard of
general education It Is necessary that
the standard -of ministerial culture
should also advance. To secure this re
sult an Increase In ministerial salaries
is a necessity, for, devoted as many
clergymen are to their calling, It is im
possible for them to live as they should
and to bring up their families as they
desire on the meager stipends they too
often receive. The minister has a posi
tion to maintain, and his manner of
living must be In keeping with that of
his congregation. As his position prac
tically forbids him to engage in any
money-making occupation, he is con
fined to his Inadequate -salary. And
the salaries of ministers are only now
beginning to share In the almost uni
versal increase in wages during the last
few years. The Congregationalist says
"little upward tendency In ministers"
salaries" Is manifest, and that it is not
manifest any too soon Is proved by the
fact that, in the Presbyterian denomi
nation, only 2500 pastors receive as
much as $1000 yearly. The remaining
6000 are ,paid on the average $600 a
year. Ian Maclaren suggests that worn
out preachers be shot, and it seems a
good solution of the problem, since they
certainly cannot have saved anything
out of their salaries. Taking all the
circumstances Into consideration, the
Iowa preacher who refused a profes
sional baseball job at $3000 to remain
in the pulpit at $600 may be branded as
too unpractical for this century.
The Philadelphia Record sums up the
results of the great anthracite coal
strike as follows: "The miners, after
losing five months' work, were granted
a 10 per cent advance and an agree
ment for arbitration. The coal oper
ators secured peace and the opportu
nity to repair losses by Increased prices.
The consumers of coal have secured no
advantage except permission to buy
coal, with the Incidental penalty of
footing the bills incurred during the
stoppage." According to this estimate,
the operators at whom the strike was
directed are the only parties In the
transaction who made money out of it,
while the "unorganized public" came
out away behind.
Italian physicians are In controversy
as to the cause of the death of Pope
Leo XHI. Dr. LapponI diagnosed the
disease as pleuro-pneumonia, while Dr.
Cardarelli, a physician of equal emi
nence, declares that the aged pontiff
died of hydrothorax, or cancer of a
tuberculous nature. Old Father Time
makes a silent record of 94 years In
the case, and leaves the doctors Quar
reling over technical terms whilfi the
world In general wonders not that Leo
died, but that, aged and frail and over
weighted by vast responsibility, he
lived so long.
Snow to the depth of eight inches
covers large areas of Southern Mon
tana. Uncut grain in many sections
mocks the -effort of farmers, while
sheepowners will be compelled to hurry
their flocks in off the ranges. The wind
that brought the untimely snow, how
ever maintained the ill wind's char
acter for blowing something of good,
since It will settle, for this season at
least, the war that has been in progress
on some of the higher ranges by caus
ing the sudden withdrawal of flocks to
the lower levels.
There are more than 2000 American
mining engineers In the gold and dia
mond regions of South Africa. This
may mean American enterprise that re
sponds to a call for superior skill In the
development of these mines, or It may
indicate merely the restless snirlt that
J finds expression In migration..
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Im WoodbHm'g Bright Lexicon.
Woodbum Independent
Never for a moment entertain the for
lorn idea that the Lewis and Clark Ex
position will be a failure, financially or
otherwise.
Nobody Doubts What Ho Means.
Newberg Graphic
When ex-Governor T. T. Geer has any
thing to say In the newspapers he says
hVin Bquare-toed, plain English that can't
be misunderstood; and this Is the reason
his articles are always read by the peo
ple of Oregon.
Its Political Genesis.
Gervals Star.
Thero Is much newspaper comment In
Portland concerning the present city gov
ernment's control. It Is all political bosh,
and the agitation Is for the purpose of
putting into power other political bosses.
We will see what we shall see later on.
Enjoy Yourselves While You Can.
Albany Democrat.
Now that the Oregon delegation has
learned that the President was the man
who ignored them In a recent appoint
ment they have become as silent as a
clam- and their mouths cannot be opened.
A good many newspapers will be the same
way just as soon as the riot act Is read
to them by the politicians In control of
the machine.
Old Quality in a New Setting'.
Whatcom Reveille.
The other day an Indian woman down
In Snohomish County gave up her life to
save that of a drunken husband. He was
lying in on Intoxicated condition in front
of an approachig train, when his faithful
squaw rushed up and threw him out of
danger, receiving herself, however, In
juries from which she afterwards died.
While her act was heroic and deserving
of great praise, yet one cannot help
wondering why she could not have hap
pened to bo somewhere else about that
time.
Monuments to Sacajavrca.
Helena Record
Montana residents will certainly offer
no objection should the residents of Ore
gon choose to erect a monument at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition to the mem
ory of Sacajawea, the Indian woman
who accompanied the explorers from the
Mandan country to the Pacific. The sug
gestion that the people of this state erect
such a monument at Portland is, however,
one not to be seriously considered. If the
state erects a monument at all to that
pioneer woman It should be within Its
own borders, and no place would be more
suitable than Three Forks, a spot of
peculiar historical and geographical in
terest Something: Doing; at Hillsboro.
Forest Grove Times.
What Is the matter with Hillsboro? Not
in all the years since Adam raised Cain
there, has anybody done anything more
exciting than draw his breath until the
last few weeks. If a resident wanted his
name in the paper he laid down and died,
but in half the time he wasn't missed,
the other people simply thinking he was
taking a longer nap than usual. But it's
different now, and the sleepy old town Is
furnishing more sensations than half the
state. It started with the tar and feather
ing of Tromley. Since then robberies,
burglaries, Incendiary fires and jail de
liveries come so thick and fast that peo
ple have no time to eat tor talking of
them.
Hitchcoclc as a Political Force.
Fossil Journal.
In appointing a land officer at La Grande
over ine Heads or the entire Oregon Con
gressional delegation, President Roosevelt
has administered a severe blow to Sena
torial courtesy and jreneral nautical nus
torn. The delegation puts the blame for
ine appointment upon Secretary Hitch
cock, who has all sorts of wild notion
about-land matters in the West such as
maKing forest reserves out of sage-brush
plains, and construing the homestead law
In such a way as to tiracticallv ahnlish u
thereby putting a stop to rural settlement
m tne west, u. Air. .Hitchcock keeps up
his lick. It will be a hard matter maybe to
keep some of the Western Republican
states in line next year. ,
Good but Not Novel.
Le Grande Chronicle.
In view of general discussion over the
best means of advertising the Lewis and
Clark Centennial, let advantage be taken
of tho entire correspondence of the state
of Oregon with all parts of the East by
general use of stationary with headings
neatly designed to advertise the fair.
Views of Portland, Mount Hood and tho
Columbia could be utilized to advantage.
Wholesale paper dealers might be per
suaded or subsidized to have tons of
stationery embellished by skilled engrav
ers and printers and to flood the state
with it, so that it could be obtained at
every crossroads store and every coun
try printing office for private or business
correspondence, and each of the thou
sands of letters that Oregon sends to the
East would be a novel advertisement
t Any Port in a Storm.
! Albany Democrat
The politicians who are willing to kiss
tho dirty shoes of the President political
ly have been squirming and declaring
that Hitchcock did it. but now it is
known that the President himself did it.
As a matter of fact, the President did
most of the other things politicians have
been trying to place on Hitchcock as the
scapegoat He put out Binger Hermann
for one thing. A school boy could see
that far. He has been at the bottom of
the reservation scheme; in fact this
whole Western obstruction business has
beert engineered by the President in
order to curry favor with Eastern men.
Soma men have been trying to make a
fetish out of the President, worshipping
anything he does regardless of the right
of it, but the truth seems plain that he
Is willing to slaughter this Western
country for Eastern favor, for these
things will probably give him favor along
the Atlantic.
X-Rays on Senator Simon.
Bend Bulletin.
John W. Knowles, of La Grande, though
backed by tho entire Oregon delegation
In Congress, didn't get the Registership of
the Land Office In his own town. The
plum went to E. W. Davis, of Union, who
was recommended by ex-Congressman
Moody. This causes Knowles to rush Into
print with a roar that reveals In every
line the wind-jamming politician. We
fancy his backers are much disgusted
over his performance. Here Is another
straw to Indicate tho setting of the politi
cal wind against the Mitchell regime. If
the anti-MItchelL Republicans do not win
in the next Oregon elections present signs
are greatly misleading. The election of
Fulton to the United States Senate last
Winter was the beginning of the end of
the MItchellites, or softs, as they were
called when the money question led poli
tics. It drove Multnomah County Into
the Simon camp and all that remains to
be done now Is to transfer the paper
title. The rest of tho state cannot com
bine agalnstMultnomah. One need not
be much of a prophet to see H. W. Scott
succeeding John Hippie Mitchell in the
United States Senate. Mr. Scott is not a
product of tho Simon machine. Indeed,
It is said that he and Mr. Simon do not
speak as they pass by. But there Is rea
son for the presumption that Mr. Simon
does not care to return to the United
States Senate, that that position is not
altogether congenial to him, and that he
would be willing to keep hands off that
office so long as he could knock out his
historic enemies and get control of state
politics. This would leave Mr. Scott
singularly free of political entanglements
ahd give Oregon a Senator who would in
every way command respect for the state.
30TE AND COMMENT.
- Venezuela Is beginning to think that ar
bitration is not all its advocates claim.
especially when the decision is against
Venezuela.
Secretary Is that all, your Excellency?
Turkish Ambassador That's all this
morning, except to Issue the dally denial
of atrocities. .
Leigh Hunt Is now said to be worth
$73,000,000. which does not seem too much
for a man with sense enough to break
away from the newspaper business.
The British government hesitates to turn
Kitchener loose with a broom in the War
Office. The place needs cleaning, but then
such an energetic housemaid would raise
too much dust for comfort
The Turkish troops are not nearly so
black as they are painted.. The so-called
atrocities are really perpetrated more in
the cause of science than of torture. For
Instance, the investigators who cut open
a woman's side In order to see her lunss
work are displaying the true spirit of re
search, .and they will be envied by many
scientific men whose subjects, in this un
imaginative country, are confined to rab
bits and frogs.
It Is to be feared that the utilitarian
spirit is dying out in this country. The
worthless customs of tottering monarchies
are becoming our customs, and there is
no longer a desire for anything because it
is useful, but because it is amusing or
ornamental. Take, for Instance, the cus
tom of presenting a stage favorite with
bouquets, which are absolutely useless
and only fit to be thrown away. How
much more sensible to present a pair of
rubbers or woolen socks.. -And in cafes
and places of the kind, a plate ot ham
and eggs would be far more appropriate
than a bunch of draggled carnations.
The Sultan has now an American press
agent, It is said, one Morcombe, of Cedar
Rapids, la., being the lucky man. Future
reports from Turkey will probably be in
the following tone:
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 12. The Sul
tan spent yesterday evening at home with
his family, and In this respect sets an ex
ample that might be advantageously cop
led by many Americans. Although fre
quently married, he has never been di
vorced, as he thinks it cruel to turn a
wife out in the cold world. Instead, when
a wife Is neglectful or has an "incompati
ble" temper he has her sewn In a "sack
and sent quietly to paradise.
The Sultan is a little disturbed at pres
ent in consequence of a report that some
of the Turks In Momastir have called the
Christians by various uncomplimentary
names, although he believes the report is
a malicious fabrication by the Bulgarian
press, which, a3 Europe knows, Is sub
sidized by the government
Again, the Hatpin.
To attack a masked highwayman with a
hat pin and put him to flight Is considered
"Just good exercise" by Miss Emily Meyers,
1067 North Forty-second avenue. Miss Mey
ers, rho is 10 years old, was approached by
a robber last evening, and Instead of giving
up her valuables she resorted to the hat pin.
The hold-up man retreated hastily. Chicago
Post.
A Silhouette.
When dusk falls on the river.
And shapes grow dim and dimmer.
And lights in long shafts quiver.
And stars in grayness glimmer;
Red lights and green
Are double seen,
Reflected In the river.
The city silhouetted
Against the clouds' red ridges,
The vista faintly fretted
With lace work of tho bridges,
Whore flash the cars, e
Like shooting stars,
Across the gleaming river.
The Regretful Amorlit.
Of the days that are gone we remember but
blisses.
The sorrows are lost In tho mist.
Our memory's starred with remembranco of
kisses.
And misses no miss that we've kissed.
But It's host far the most to tho ghost
Of the kiss that was missed.
And the miss that was nearly, so nearly, but
queerly not, kissed.
So the Mollies and Follies and Dollies we
treasure.
And wish that their ghosts could be kissed.
But our soul drains the potion of pain and
of pleasure
In dreaming of one that we missed.
We"wonder what blunder our lips kept as
under In the kiss that was missed.
And the miss left so blamefully, shamefully,
trlst and unklssed.
We remember the roses seemed nodding us
to it.
The moon from a cloud gave a wink:
But through fate or a faint heart we trem
bled to do it,
And kisses dont' wait for a think.
The time was propitious, her smile was ma
licious, her Hps as delicious
As ever were kissed.
But we missed.
Heartaches nnd Balm.
ALBINA, Sept. 12, (To tho Editor.) I
now write to ask you what I shall do with
Bill. BUI wants to buyme a ring. Jim's
already got one on my finger, though I took
it oft at the seashore for fear of losing It.
But now Jim Is going to come back from
Eastern Oregon, and Bill don't know Jim,
and I hope Jim won't get onto Bill. Please,
what will I do for It? I know Jim will hato
Bill and Bill will hate me. and Jim won't do
a thing but want his ring back.
FLORENCE S .
You have got yourself into a bad fix,
Florrle. Better tell Bill that seaside ac
quaintances don't go in the city, or scare
him by saying you haven't been vac
cinated. SELLWOOD. Sept. 11. (To tho Editor.)
Irm in the hog raisin business, and I hear
in he papers about end-seat hogs. Do you
know where I could get a bore?
EBENEZER HAYCOCK.
It is almost impossible to raise an end
seat hog. and you would be foolish to go
Into the business.
OREGON CITY, Sept. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) Why doe.s an undertaker always look
grave? THOMAS SPINKS.
One of the reasons Is that people ask
him fool questions.
PORTLAND, Sept. 0. (To the Editor.)
What is good for a self-mado man's squeaky
shoes? NOB HILL.
They will only stop squeaking when his
son steps into them.
PORTLAND. Sept. 11. (To the Editor.)
My husband was In the Legislature one term,
my two ribns are In politics, and daughter
Ann is in a decline. Can you help us out?
SAMANTHA TIGGS.
The Governor has the sole right of par
don in this state.
Uncle Zeke's View of It.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Ebbuh seen a nigguh baby
Settln in de-snow?
Jcs' a tiny specie o darkness
On do white, you know!
Dass de way dat nlgguh queshun
Look to me about.
Speck o darkness bes' keep still, op
Snow 'ull freeze hit outl