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Long Beach B. E. Amos. San Francisco J. X. Cooper & Co.. 740 Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 230 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis 'rtrs Stand; L. E. Lee, Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts, 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. Whcatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. Washington. D. C Ebbltt House, Pennsyl vania avenue. PORTLAND. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1P05. THE EXPOSITION AND ITS SUCCESS. To the enthusiastic spirit of the peo ple of Portland; to the generous and hearty co-operation of the people of Oregon and of all the Pacific Coast states; to the multitude of visitors from the East, and to the admirable admin istration and management of the Expo sition, the success of this greatest of undertakings, thus far, in our local hls torj't has been 'due. It has surpassed every expectation. Not even the most enthusiastic could have Imagined, when the project was first broached, that it would come to results so great. But, admirable as It was in conception, sup-' ported as it has been by the General Government and by the hearty co-operation of so many of our sister states, it never could have attained to success so great without the judicious, liberal and excellent administration of affairs that It lias received throughout. Every statement as to the Exposition ought to begin with express recog&l- tlon of the fact that-4t was the late Henry W. Corbctt who gave the practi cal support at the beginning which made the realization possible. Had he lived, the Exposition would have been carried through -under his personal di rection. Till he took hold of It the 'idea, though talked by many, was altogether "in the air." He set the undertaking upon Its feet; and the work as he out lined it has 'been carried through, upon the plan and by the organization he made. Co-operation of the State of Oregon and of the General Government was in dispensable to the plan. .-It .was ob tained. Both acted generously. The Government exhibit has been a splen did feature. The money of "the State of Oregon, used under the direction of a commission, at the head of which Mr. Jefferson Myers was placed, has been handled most judiciously, and with ex cellent effect. At all stages there has been harmonious agreement between the State Commission and the Port land Corporation due to recognition of the fact, at every stage, that there was a high public object in view, to be pur sued, with a single sense of high public duty. During more than a year past President Goode, of the Portland Cor poration, and President Myers, of the State Commission, have employed all the resources of their ability and en ergy In direction of the policy, the plan and the details of this great undertak ing. To them especially, and 'to the di rector of works, Oskar Huber, the suc cessful executive work of the Exposi tion is due. In all departments they drew around them able cbadjutors men of experience and 'skill In similar under takings; and to the'abillty and fidelity of all of them, and to their singleness of devotion to the work, we owe an achievement which will ever be a source of pride to Portland, and ever will con tribute, with cumulative force and weight,' as the years go on, to the ad vantage, development and progress of the Northwest. It should be stated also, and not for gotten, that many of our leading busi ness men, full of interest in the Expo sition, have devoted to it willingly, and without thought of direct or personal compensation, time, labor, care and judgment that never could be paid for. This Exposition has shown that Port land has a sound and active public spirit The Exposition Itself has done much to draw our people together, to stimulate their energies, and to bring Portland and the Northwest into a heartier co-operation than ever was known foef ore. It has drawn the atten tion of the whole country to the Pacific Northwest, and tens of thousands of Eastern visitors have taken advantage of the opportunity to see the Pacific States. The great railroads have done their full parti by affording facilities for travel at rates so favorable that none could complain. People of the Northwest will dwell long, -in memory, upon this Exposition. Probably there will be nothing of the kind to exceed it In interest till cele bration of the next centennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition shall be held at Portland. One hundred years hence what a city will be here, and what a population in our Pacific States! In all probability not less than twenty millions of people west of the Rocky Mountains. What the Travelers Aid Association lias ;acomplishcd during the, Lewis and Clark Fair illustrates unmistakably the proverb concerning the efficacy' of the ounce of prevention as set against the pound of cure. "With good organiza tion, competent agents and the co-operation of .railway and navigation lines, more than 1500 inexperienced young women were met upon their arrival here and furnished with or directed to shelter. How many of these were saved from falling into criminal hands cannot be estimated, but the number was large. The philanthropic women who undertook this praiseworthy work are now debating whether it shall be continued through the "Winter, with the idea of making it a permanent agency for protecting the defenseless and in nocent In Portland. The matter of finances gives them no uneasiness, for there are always enough charitable peo ple here whose pursestrlngs are not tied tight to depend on for material support A meeting will be called for some after noon this week to sound public senti ment on the subject Mrs. Walter J. Honeyman will preside. Her position as head of the organization amply vouches for Its businesslike and effi cient conduct INVESTING THE $126,000 SURPLUS. The sum of $120,000, approximately, will remain in the treasury of the Lewis and Clark Expositfon after all debts and expenses shall have been paid. It is the property of the Exposition stock holders, and it will, if they desfre it be returned to them as a "dividend." It is not In fact a dividend, but it is, never theless, regarded by every one of them as so much profit on his investment No stockholder in the beginning ever expected to get his money back, or any part of it It was a donation in the fullest 6ent?e. He took stock simply be cause it represented the .measure of his Investment in and personal responsibil ity for the success of the great Fair. Now he is told that he will be able to get back about 30 per centred his sub scription. It Is, after all, only" a frac tion of what he put In. The stockholder who put up $100 gets back $30. The stockholder who paid in $30,000 gets back .$10,000, and the stockholder who Invested 10 gets back $3. In the mere matter of dollars and cents, then, the "dividend" is not great It would have been no disappointment whatever If there had been no dividend at all. It Is, on the other hand, a source of sur prise and gratification to every one that there is to be any surplus. What shall be done with this $120,000? Why should It be returned to stock holders who count themselves lucky that they do not now face a deficit? The Oregonlan is sure that if any feas ible and attractive enterprise be sug gested to them wherein this money may be invested and the fruits of the mag nificent Exposition made a beautiful and permanent monument to the enter prise and public spirit of the people of Oregon, It will at once be accepted by nearly all stockholders. " It has been suggested by many persons that the present site of the Exposition be pur chased for a public park. It Is a splen did idea. If the $120,000 can be devoted to this purpose, it will go far toward realization of a most worthy and com mendable plan. It has been suggested also that the $120,000 be set aside for construction of a magnificent historical building. That is another splendid idea. For the present, The Oregonlan has no "advice to offer as to which plan ought to be adopted. But It is qutie sure that it makes no mistake when It declares that it Is the sentiment of a great ma jority of the Lewis and Clark stock holders that this fund should not be disbursed among them, but should be saved either for park purposes of for a historical building. The Oregonlan sub scribed $5000 to the Lewis and Clark Exposition It will cheerfully devote Its portion of the subscription, which, after all, is comparatively small, to either of the projects. It is sure that other stockholders, large and small, will do the same. "FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE. A sad chapter, not only in domestic and social history, but in the history of idleness, frivolity and disregard of parental obligation, has been closed by the verdict in the Taggart divorce case. The principals in this National scandal are a man and woman, highly educated, well connected in family ties, well known in post military circles a hus band and wife, a father and mother. With salary and position assured, with every incentive to lives of decency and sobriety, this man and woman ended a life of disgraceful domestic strife, of in ebriety and faithlessness, in a plea of each for release from the other by di vorce. The testimony on both sides was reyoltlng to every sense of private duty and public decency. The judge, sorely perplexed for a decision between the two tales of social uncleanllness and marital unfaithfulness, gave the prefer ence to the story of the man, granted him the divorce prayed for, and the custody, under certain limitations, of the two young sons of the discordant pair, aged respectively 11 and 7 years. Now comes a feature in a contest of this kind over which human law has no Jurisdiction.. The child's love lor and devotion to his mother set at defi ance ihe ruling of the court, and the boy of 11 years, with bitter denuncia tion of his father and vehement outcry of faith in his mother, declared that he would not go with the one nor leave the other. Putting all other features of this re volting tale of domestic unfaithfulness aside, the man's brutality, the woman's unfaithfulness and the inebriety of both, as alleged before the court as simply a record of personal Indecency and social dishonor unhappily yoked In marriage the public is confronted here by a reflection -of the consequences of these misdeeds that is pathetic and far reaching. The book in which a record of per sonal disagreement and marital dis honor Is written may well -be closed and clasped. Decent public opinion has no desire to dwell iupon its disclosures. Intelligent sympathy will not waste time In taking tfils side or that In the contest But here Is a condition that awakens the. liveliest Interest and trenches strongly upon the tragical. For this condition there is no remedy outside of prevention. What a strong lesson is given upon this phase of do mestic suffering by childish lips, voic ing the bitter, stormy woe of a child's heart at being compelled to choose be tween his parents! "With what more than a child's fury and sense of wrong and of outrage does this boy cry out In his helpless wrath against his father? With what sublime, unquestioning faith in his mother does he, too young to un derstand the evidence that has been brought to bear against her womanly and wifely purity, take his brave and boyish stand by her side! Is It too much to hope that this lesson, reflecting the anguish,, written In the tears, and punctuated by the ebbs of a child, will cause at" least" some warring parents .who have not passed the point in per sonal and marital disagreement beyond which there is no Teturn, to pause and "for the children's sake" to hear and forbear? To ignore such differences in opinion as cannot be reconciled and to return, at least in outward appearance, to fealty to each other, fhat thereby they may faithfully and Jointly dis charge their duty toward their chil dren? Vice, either of the social sin or of drunkenness, will, of course, be obliv ious to this appeal; but to man and wife whose disagreements tending toward separation and divorce are of temper, of temperament or in the legal term of "incompatibility" this cry of distress from childish lips should convey a les son that will give pause to the dissen sion that threatens to break up their family and put upon their children the stress of sorrow incident to making a choice between them. No one has a right deliberately to inflict suffering and sorrow upon another. Still less has a parent a right thus to afflict a child. Well-ordered thrift protests against the burdens that are placed upon it through caring in public institutions for the children ofmen and women who, after having brought them into the world, de cide that they "cannot live together." Much louder should, be the protest of justice against the infliction of this sore distress upon children which is typifled in the strong woe of Culver Taggart upon being compelled to choose between his parents. THE LESSON OF THE FAIR. The visitors, to the Lewis.. and Clark Fair have looked day by" day, among other things, upon a moving picture of the Industry of the Pacific Coast Be fore their eyes the products of garden, field and orchard , have changed from the salads and berries of early Summer to the ripe luxuriance of Autumn in vegetable, fruit and grain. They have 6een the snow mountains round about Portland in the fierce glory of the July sun; they have seen them veiled in the tender mists of the first days of Au tumn. They have seen the fresh green of the landscape turn brown under the glare of Summer; they have seen new verdure spring up at the touch of the Autumnal showers. And now it is all over. Winter clouds gather in the sky and hide the pure snow peaks. Purple shadows rest upon the fir-clad hills. The long rains have " begun and the transient beauty of the White City passes with the sunshine and flowers. But duration: is no Just measure of value. The Age of Pericles, wherein lay all the germs of modern civilization, lasted only some half 'century. The life of Macedonian Alexander was less than forty years, and the greatest poet of modern England died for the stricken land of. Alexander the same untimely death. Byron was cut off almost In the flower of his youth, but the longest life shrinks to a .point in the endless stretches of time and the most enduring work of human hands crumbles to dust between two strokes of the horologe of eternity. In estimating the value of any achievement we must ask not how long did it last, but how has It wrought upon the human Intellect and the hu man heart? The Lewis and Clark Fair,, no Jess than the other world's" fairs that have been held In American cities, was a' great National university where the whole people came togethor to-learn no ble lessons of private and public con duct If they did not c&me In person, they came by representatives. We say of the public schools that what they do ,of most worth is not to teach lessons out of books, but to make children of all classes mingle and realize their com mon humanity and essential likeness. The Fair teaches this same lesson to men and women. It breaks down the dire barriers of sectional prejudice and state pride. It teaches the man ' from Carolina that he does not belong to a peculiar people In any desirable sense. What is peculiar Jn him he finds disad vantageous, and what Is like the great body of his countrymen . he finds best worth keeping; just as the man from Boston discovers by his visit that ajl his best is equally the possession of other men, and if he is unlike the rest it Is in his defects. The first and per haps the best lesson these great world's fair universities teach is that America Is not an Aggregate of little seml-hos-tlle communities antagonistic In feeling and welfare, but that we belong to a united and homogeneous Nation, one In aspiration, one in feeling and one in in terest If the' Fair had done nothing else, its contribution to National unity through the mutual acquaintance of all the people would abundantly Justify Its existence. There are no bad Americans. We are all good; and the better we are acquainted the more we like each other. The Fair promotes civilization by making men travel. The traveling na tions, whether by land or sea, have for ever been the progressive nations. Homekeeplng peoples, not less than homekeeplng youth, "have ever homely wit, to borrow Shakespeare's words. To break away from the familiar, to cut loose from old habits and see new lands and strange men enlarges the mind and renovates the soul. The best of us are narrow, and the shell of habit thickens about us as the years pass. To shatter the shell means a new lease- of life. The people who have visited the Lewis and Clark Exposition may live no' longer for their trip, counting In years, but they will live more in every year. They have gone -back home knowing as they never knew before what Tennyson meant by his 'Better fifty years of Eu rope than a cycle of Cathay." Every flreslde is a little Cathay where we vegetate and tend to .relapse .into bar barism. A great stimulus like the Fair, when it calls us away, from routine and stagnation, is in a deep and true sense regenerative. It makes us all over again. We see what our countrymen and all the world are doing and grow proud of the human race. It has been falsely said that the discoveries of science pro mote pessimism. Seeing himself lost in the immensities of space where he whirls- about upon -an atom of dust, man, It Is said, grows afraid of his des tiny and loses the dignity of his being, but this Is not true. It should make the human race proud to learn that the God who made it could make such a mighty universe besides. The more science teaches usNibout the Almighty Creator and his works the greater our -confidence and joy that we are numbered among those works; and in the same way it adds dignity to every man and worth to his life to learn what the race he belongs to has achieved. The power of the human intellect is mani fested In a device for reaping grain as nobly as in a work of art; and it has been a liberal education. to many men to study at the Fair the machinery by which the forces of -Nature are com pelled to do .the world's'worlc - ' Ail this Is well to think of; but the prime fact' of the Exposition was that , It was purely and supremely beautiful. r No man has. visited it and gone away without learning the lesson of the abso lutely measureless value of beauty In practical life. He has learned, for ex ample, that the best and most conven ient streets and driveways will neces sarily be beautiful. That beauty in the arrangement of street lights means both economy and the highest usefulness. That beauty In the architecture of buildings means strength, spaciousness and comfort That beauty In the grouping of buildings means saving of time and money. He has learned that beauty is not a thing connected only with externals which may safely be de spised, but that It Is the very heart and soul of all excellence in form and struc ture. Beauty in civic life means health, economy, comfort and happiness. Beauty Implies conscience In plan and execution. It means honesty. It means love of home and country. Beauty In our civic structures means beauty In our civic life. In proportion as we love America we shall build, as the architect of those transient palaces built, with the everlasting laws of God before us; but not as he did for a few months only, but for unborn generations and the long future of our country's greatness. Love your country; this is the great lesson of the Fair, and build your cities and your lives to show your love. THE SIMPLE LIFE. All that Parson Wagner has to say about the simple life has been said be fore and better. The frugal and thrifty pastor takes several books and many sermons to work out his thought, but Shakespeare needed only a few lines. Poor Henry VI speaks them while his friends are dying for him just out of sight over the hill. Lovers of Uie simple life are often quite willing to let other people do the fighting and dying sq often that their philosophy has now and then by careless thinkers been con founded with indolence and cowardice. Fitzgerald puts the sum of it more briefly than Shakespeare even. "A book of verses underneath the bough, " but everybody knows the divine stanza. Di Sam Lawson's case, Sam, take notice, not Thomas he was. one of Harriet Bcecher Stowe's forgotten heroes In his case the simple life was flatly the Idle life, and so it was with Walt Whit man, whose ideal was to lean and loafe; but the poet differed with Sam Law son in a matter of detail. Sam Invited fish, Walt Invited his soul. "I loafe and Invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of Summer grass'.'' Thoreau invited white beans; the Emperor Maximilian invited cab bages. The simple life was preached for thousands of years before Pastor Wagner emerged from the bleak eter nity of unborn souls. It has been the Ideal of the human race, perennially dear and forever unattalned. The He brew poets worked it out In the piteous Idyll of Paradise which Milton's tre mendous genius endued with blasted glory and the sublime energies of the fallen atigels. The Homeric Kings lived the simple life. They plowed and reaped with their own hands, bred horses, and tend ed flocks. Their wives spun and wove. Nausicaa did her own washing on the seashore, though a Queen; but in Greece as everywhere else the path of civili zation led away from simplicity. Those poets sing truest wfio locate the simple life in the past, for all -civilizations have begun in a golden age of one sort or another, and none has ever returned to It. The longing to return Is for the most parth sign of national decadence. It was only when Rome had grown ef feminate and lost the" iron from the blood of her men that the satirists be gan to hone for the simple times of the early republic France was on the verge of the great revolution when Marie Antoinette and her ladles under took to play at shepherdesses. The rev olution was no return to simplicity. It was for France what bursting Its co coon is to the moth. The Insect flying In the sunshine and free air does not lead a simpler life than the worm gnaw ing upon a single leaf, but it lead? a more desirable life. Isaiah saw the golden age in the future, but what he prophdsTecl was the coming rule of righteousness and justice and th.e cen turies have brought the fulfillment of his vision in part and will continue to approach his great ideal. "They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. . . . For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the rod of bis op pressor. ... QX the Increase of his government and peace there shall be no end. And upon his kingdom to order It and to establish it with Judgment and Justice from henceforth even forever." Alexander Pope, with the narrow his torical vision of his time, misread the language of the great Jewish poet and took him to refer to the coming ofvihe Christian Messiah. In exquisite lan guage, but ' with trivial thought; he transforms the grand concept of the prophet Into a savage Arcadia where the lion and the Iamb are" to He down together and all men are to be shep herds. The prophecy of Isaiah is slow ly realizing Itself through the progress of science and the growth of democ racy. John the Revelator foretold the simple life, or the golden age, in other terms. It" was to last a thousand years, the last thousand before the world burns up, and was to be brought to pass by chaining the devil In the bottomless pit; but his ideal of the way people were to occupy themselves does not seem especially attractive. A thousand years of psalm-slnglng and prayer fails to charm the modern imagination. In fact, when we come to think the matter over rationally, we shall not find the simple life a desirable ideal in any form. The snail leads a simple life. The Hot tentot lives more simply than the New Yorker; but his existence is not more desirable. .Psychologists tell us that without change of stimuli consciousness would cease. But consciousness Is life; that Is. life Is reaction to stimuli. In other words, life is the sum total of our dif ferent Interests. If our interests are many we live. much;. ifhey are few we live little. The savage is Interested In few things; he is therefore dead throughout wide areas bf possible exist ence. The lonely shepherd lives only a fraction of man's potential life. Much life means complex life from "the very nature of our being. Simplicity Is the same as partial' death. Our life attains the acme of simplicity when we are asleep; and Shelley has called sleep the brother of death. The great American who preaches so vigorously the gospel of the simple life himself lives a life of Infinite complexity, and so must every man who Is not. deaf to the calls of noble duty - and high opportunity. But complex life does, not mean luxury and flot Plain living, the old New England Ideal, Is what Parson Wagner really wishes to preach and what Mr. Roosevelt does preach," both-in word and deed. But plain living need not be simple. It Is entirely compatible with high and complex thinking on the one hand and with a multiplicity of Inter ests and activities on the other. SIR HENRY IRVING, ACTOR. - Sir. Henry Irving, pie great English actor, who literally died In the harness, Friday night has left a name that will live In history. Of Irving one of Lon don's most prominent dramatic critics most truthfully wrote: "He was elect ed to the distinguished post he held so long by the unanimous voice of the peo ple and of his own profession." Attain ment of such a post and of such world wide honors and admiration was an im possibility with Garrick. Macready, Kean, Kemble, Forrest and other great actors who In the past have made stage history of the lasting kind. Thfe fact does not necessarily result from any Hmltatlons of talent on the part of the distinguished predecessors of the late Sir Henry Irving. The age In which they lived and their environment in tbatv-age prevented them from soaring to such heights as have been scaled by the man on whom death has-just rung down the curtain. Henry Irving, had he lived his life In the same era as that in which Macready or Garrick became famous, would have divided honors with those great actors and would 'probably have outranked them; but the age In which he lived Is so different from that in which they rose to greatness that no comparison of value caiybe made -between them; so Sir Henry Irving-is secure in his fame as the greatest actor of. the present day. Half a century ago, when Henry Irving first appeared before the foot lights, the "elevating" process had not gained much headway on the stage, but he lived long enough to see Its sphere of Influence vastly widened, and the profession raised to a, plane where the greatest ruler on earth was pleased to honor him with the Insignia of knight hood. The life of Irving offers direct evi dence that actors as well as some other successful professional men are "born, not made," for seven years' training in a commercial line- failed to divert his thoughts from the one great passion of his youth to become an actor. Dame Fortune, who deals out rewards of fame and wealth, usually distrib utes her favors with a discriminating hand., and the life story of Henry Irving shows quite clearly that the triumphs of his later years were not secured without early struggles. As an Illus tration of the tremendous effort and small reward that marked his early career, it Is stated that In the nine years following his appearance on the stage he played continuously In the provinces, appearing in 428 different parts, hl3 highest salary during that period being 3 10s per week. Sir Henry Irving was a splendid actor with remarkable talent; but with this talent he possessed In a high degree tact, diplomacy and keen knowledge of the world which sat behind the foot lights. Perhaps the best explanation of his success Is found In his own words spoken In an interview printed several years ago. He said: We often put-a false value on ourselves the boCs of that self-confidence which la vi tally nccewary. But the false value mwl In the course of time b tempered, chastened, transformed Into a true valuation through In creared knowledge or ourselves. Increased knowledge of the world and the view ' that the world taken of w. Thwe who complain of the lack of recosnltton. who nit .Mlghlnff for the time to arrive when the world will corse to their view of themselv. will elgU cnavalllngly. - Mahomet, must so tu the moun tain. ' The future will bring with It other great actors, and in the changed envi ronment, customs and Ideals, new standards of talent and dramatic abil ity may be created, but throughout the changing years to come the fame of Sir Henry Irving as the greatest actor of the day In which he lived will remain undlmmcd. LAND LAWS DEMAND REFORMATION. President Roosevelt will, without doubt, in his next message to Congress, enforce the crying need of radical re forms In the land laws,, and press for early legislation. He has strengthened himself by the report of the Rlchards-Newell-Pinchot Commission, and, being satisfied, he will go ahead. The greatest mixture of absurdlty and recklessness is found In the timber land legislation. Absurdity is demon strated in the limitation of quantity to be acquired from vthe United States to 160 acres to each clalinant. Thousands of Eastern people have come Into Ore gon, paid $100 to locators to point out claims to them, and paid to the Govern ment the $400 demanded for the 160 acres. Then what could they do with It? With the best Intentions possible to comply with the law, sale at ridicu lous prices has been forced on them. In most cases the timber grows In Inac cessible forests, mfles from railroad de pot or logging stream. To use on their own behalf the timber on 160 acres was Impossible; to sell to adjoining owners the only escape? Thus, when all was bona fide, and when all concerned were guiltless of fraud, the Inevitable result has been to consolidate .the ownership of large tracts In the hands of speculat ors and syndicates, who could afford to buy and to hold on Indefinitely. So It has been developed that the Gov ernment received 10 cents per 1000 feet when the 160-acre claim showed four million feet of standing timber, or 6 2-3 cents per 1000 feet when six million feet was found, or 5 5-7 cents per thousand on a basis of seven millions. The first example, of four million feet to the claim, may be called normal in Oregon for forests; the second, of six million feet, frequent, and of seven million feet occasional. Through, several of the great forest areas, on both the Cas cade and the Coast Ranges, timber cruisers have reported many quarter sections on which from eight to twelve million feet of timber are found. So the iron-bound limitations of 160 acres to the claimant and of $2.50 per acre to the Government have produced infalli bly the very results the laws were en acted to prevent And both parties to the first contract are out and Injured. What has been the next step? Hav ing gathered up a group of original claims, the first purchasers see it to their advantage to sell again, either to speculators on a still larger scale, or to lumber-mill owners, big or littler Now prices hegln to approach values. During the past five or six years sales have been made under described conditions for 30 cents per 1000 feet then 40 cents, then 50 cents, and by gradual increases until $1 per 1000 feet la now asked, and is be ing paid. Let us. see how such a sale works out In a recent case It Is re ported that 6000 acres were In question, of splendid timber,' cruised at an aver age of seven million feet to the quar ter section. The sale at $1 per'thousa'nd would yield $300,000, or Just twenty times-what-the Government received from original claimants. And the le gitimate" costs to the ultimate purchaser of making roads, establishing mills, cutting the logs, hauling to the mlH, mllllng and marketing the lumber, will even then enable the product to be sold with reasonable profits at current rates. The. facts suggest the remedy pro posed by the commission. How could they do other than suggest the repeal of existing laws the careful examina tion and scheduling of timber areas yet under Government ownership and conl trol and the sale of ripe timber toMhe best bidder ra desirable and reasonable tracts? Such changes seem to be dic tated by simple common sense. The pity of it is that so many of the steeds have been stolen before the stable door Is locked. With all this is Intimately connected the problem of the use and destiny of the National timber lands. Surely fa cilities should be given for pasturage on the forest lands, pending any other dis position of the same. And In this, op portunities to neighboring flock and herd-owners may reasonably be re served. By all means areas of land suitable for the homesteader, Inter spersed among the forest lands, should be held for settlement by him. But In all such cases such reservations for roads and outlets from the forest should be made as would be retained by any private owner if both forest and agri cultural land belonged to him. Lastly, ample opportunity for reforestation by the Government of areas of logged-off lands should be reserved. In this re spect the rights of future generations must be conserved. Past ages of forest growth have contributed to the mag nificence that clothes our mountains. Let us not be content to leave bare and arid .hillsides, dwindling rivers and drled-uptreams to those who will fol low the present dwellers on the Pacific Slope. A herd of slxty-.elght milking goats has been Imported from the Island of Malta by the United States Department of Agriculture. They have been taken to the?1 Government experiment station In Connecticut, where they will be fed, milked and bred under scientific condi tions. If the experiment proves suc cessful, the kids will be distributed to experiment stations throughout the country. The milch goat is little known In this country, and the experiment will be watched with interest, particularly as goats are said to be immune to tu berculosis. Their milk resembles hu man milk so closely that it Is peculiar ly adapted to the feeding of young in fants. This Is a weighty consideration in view of the constantly Increasing number of "bottle-fed" babies in Amer ica. Moreover, it costs less -to buy and keep a goat than a cow, so that, as Sec retary Wilson, who believes in making it possible for people to help themselves, puts it: "The poor who cannot afford to keep a cow can keep a goat." Three quarts of good milk daily the average yield front the milch goat would cer tainly be a valuable addition to the food supply of the thrifty poor family that counts Its assets In chief many chil dren. The Germans say they have just averted a war with England In which they "would have been crushed at sea and damaged along the coast, although Germany would have been victorious o,n land." It Is a fine thing..to be able to know before a war Is begun just .how It 1? going to terminate. The sleuths continue to unearth many bloodcurdling things Pat Crowe was going to do. and- didn't. What he did do was to show for several years how easy it is to keep out of the way of de tectives who are always going to do something big, and don't. Mr. Harriman thinks that the way to husband trade with Japan Is "by direct straight forward methods." Or to foster the good will of a people much depend ent on a great railway system. Next Summer we can point out to visitors where It was held and tell how beautiful it all was, and probably we'll be repeating the story many succeed ing Summers. There may be a park on the site, at tractive beyond compare, but future generations are certain never to see like brilliant illumination. Washington, Idaho and California, our neighbors, have given enthusias tic support to the Exposition. Oregon must not forget . Let us hope Hall Calne will not write a modern novel based on his views of the problem of America's wealth. FATHER OF THE EXPOSITION H. W. Scott, in the Official Daily Pro gramme of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Successful in the highest degree the great Fair has been. Too much never can be said In praise of the administra tion of if. The plan, from the first a com prehensive one. has been extended and enlarged throughout the period of the Exposition, as demands and opportunities have grown upon it. till it reached a mag nitude and fullness that no one could have anticipated when It began. The management as a whole has been com prehensive; in detail, admirable. With the growth and progress of the Fair It has risen to every requirement But while the management Is entitled to this recognition and commendation, let us not forget, now that the Fair draws to a close, and let the Northwest never forget,' that with the late Henry "W. Corbett. the practical conception of this Exposition originated, and that to him, as the or ganizer of It, what has been achieved through It Is mainly due. He It was who saw the opportunity and the significance of It; he it was who took hold of the idea with the enthusiasm and energy that car ried'it on to success; he it was who sub scribedand he was the first subscriber a sum of money so large as to Inspire the whole community with a belief that the project" could, bo carried through. He ac cepted the presidency; he appealed In per son and through the' press to the citizens of Portland for support for the undertak ing; he called on the State of Oregon for aid, and formulated the plan on which other states were brought Into co-operation especially those of the Papiftc group, which have been most active participants! It may, Indeed, be set down for ccrtalnty that but for Mr. Corbet's efforts the project of the Exposition never would have gained the support necessary to Its success. As "the Exposition now closing, it be comes a duty to recognize the Incompar able services rendered' bv Henrv W. Cor- .bettr. He was, in fact, the father of the exposition. Let the fact go Into history. It is Mr. Corbett's due. silhouettes: The people- love myths. It Is still gen erally believed that the Rude Gallopers won. the- battle of San Juan. Duplicity loves an easy mark. Dicky Dingbat's Essays. First Grade. Age 9. Series A No. 3. - ' WIMMEN. Wlmmen is the other Half of the- truble sketch, they eat mor than a Horse when It Is alia cart They alco talk two Much Meny of them alnt obnoxus enuf so thev chew Guni cents allways call them In dies so the Rite Kind clame they are Just wlmmen. They are astlmpc-rtant as men and sum of them more so but they otent to be. When they arc young they are mostly so ciety Bells or stenoggrafers. Not all wlmmen are stenoggrafers. thow. for I heard Pop tell a nuthcr man that His 13 a Burd. I didn't no that Burds did Sui h things but Pop reads Seeten tomson s pieces and He ought two no. Besides hs has won. Maw Is not a women or a Lady, she Is Just Maw. I like maw. I showed her this essy and she called mo a pre-Kosus tike. Heard In the Elevator. First Doctor Good morning, doctor. What's thogood word? Second Doctor The epidemic is spread ing. Ten new vie I mean patients, to day. First Doctor How arc they? Second Doctor (smiling) Pretty bad. First Doctor Fine I Ground floor All out. Hospitality. The missionary said, and he meant it. too. To the Umlot of Swat: "What can I do To make you better and happier? You Need helping: I hear and I love you more Than, a son of my own. It was granted before I asked of you what can I do?" Said the Umlot, who longed for a nip of gore: "I'll have a cutlet or two on you." And they listened to the lion's roar. An Announcement. Thanking you heartily for your kind at tendance, ladies and gentlemen of the world, we' now desh-e to call your atten tion to the concert or afterpiece which will begin Immediately in the big tent This concert or afterpiece consists of a most Interesting and instructive pro gramme of health, prosperity, happiness and many other stupendously wonderful, marvclously gratifying and transcendent ly edifying offerings presented by an es pecially engaged array of matchless tal ent Including such famous artists as Decency. Energy. Superiority, Natural Advantages. Thrift. Opportunity and James J. Hill, supported by an ensemble unequaled by any other similar exhibi tions which have visited your beautiful little planet. Our handsome young agents will Keep your seats, ladies and gen tlemen. The performance Is only Just commencing. Epilogue! We built a Dream City that all might come To see the victory courage had won. But its glories were fleating. And how' It is done. t T .. " ,. . -- 'Jtl- " The roof of the Missouri building might have been saved if Governor Folk had been -.sitting on the lid. i. ' "As It Was in the Beginning." From out the stillness of a void Where nothing was, A Voice called omnlform creation To spread a feast therein And deck a bower fair. Then called a man And graved upon his soul: "I reign. Thou servest. And art not of thyself supreme." The summoned puppet read no wore. Nor of no doom took heed; For nascent life was large upon his con sciousncss. He reared a tawdry throne. And of Ambition's draught drunk all Then flung the chalice far and shrlektd. "I am the King." The Summoner called seas to rise. And when the day was dono Remained alone the ooze of perished things. It Is Now and Ever Will Be." Cycles and centuries and years. What are they? But a day To Him who In the hollow of His hand Doth hold our fortunes. Dynasties, powers and regimes arise And for their passing hour of glory Are the called. ,, Then to their death they rush And leave behind Naught but rude scrawls Upon the gate of time. ARTHUR A GREENS. "Wc Pause for a Hcply." Woodburn Independent The patience of Oregon is well nigh ex hausted In the matter of lack of full rep resentation in the National legislative halls. Is It not time that there be a more vociferous demand that the lawbreakers resign? They can do nothing more than draw their salaries. They, will never be re-elected. They have assumed such an attitude that they are undeserving of any commiseration. There should now bo a combined movement among the citizens ct Oregon to compel these three men to re sign. There doubtless can be found a way to do it. We have too much at stake ta stand any more of this hold-up game Is the great State of Oregon to be throttled by criminals? Obsequies Would Be Welcome. Kansas City Star (Ind.). Senator Gorman says if the "negro pa!!" Is lifted from Maryland he would die happy. With this end in view the Maryland Republicans could almost afford to let Senator Gorman name his own terms. Progressive Morality. Milwaukee (Wis.) News. The Outlook argues that it Isn't steal.-?, to take other folks' money if the intent Is to take It and not to steal It. Given tlm and the religious editors may yet be abla to construct a moral law that will not conflict with "business" principles. Style or Physical Culture? ' Exchange. McPryme (whose wife won't let him come to breakfast until his shoes are pol ished)!" wonder if Mirandy really wants me to be stylish, or If this Is only to work up an appetite to eat her biscuits?" Strong Proof Offered. Judge. Jaggles How do -you know you talked sensibly to your wife? Waggles She wouldn't listen to roe.