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San Francisco J. K. Cooper & Co.. 40 Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand; I. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitt. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis: N. Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster Orear, Ferry News Stand. Washington, D. O-Ebbltt House, Pennsyl vanla avenue. ItmTLANl). SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1905 JEROME AND HEARST. The population of New York City in 1905 was 3.850,000, of whom one-third -were foreign born. "With this multitude of its inhabitants direct from the Old World and a still larger number born in this country of foreign parents and ill-assimilated to our National -ways and traditions. New York is, neverthe less, the typical American city. Her ideals of -what success and happiness mean are those of the whole American people. Her social standards regulate the conduct of refined men and women everywhere In the United States. Her literature Is American literature. Her journalism lays down the laws not only of American, but of all journalism, though they are reluctantly obeyed and followed with apologies and remorse. Her municipal politics are like seismic disturbances in the ocean which are 'propagated to the remotest Inlets and make or wreck the fortunes of argosies on distant seas. The protagonists In her civic contests are invariably te central figures in the interest of the Nation and success in that turbulent and distracted arena makes the name of a politician a household word through out the United States. She is 'fertile in criminals, with a genius for organi zation and leadership, but, on the other hand, it is an unusual political struggle in New York which does not bring upon the stage some man of .extraordinary ability and exalted character who illus trates with original power the regen erative energies inherent in democracy Such a man is Jerome. If he falls short of the highest standard of the American politician it is in mere ability. for he has hitherto given no evidence of that transcendent intellectual power which seems to have vanished from our public life with Webster, Clay and Sum ner; nor has Jerome the gift of. elo ouence in any such sense as Wendell Phillips had It, though in the grandeur of his moral worth and courage he is fully the match of that dauntless cham pion. Jerome's ascendency over his au diences is the result of an inner qua! ity to which his mere printed words give no olue. Other men have been simple and direct in expression before Jerome. Croker was. Other men have equaled his courage. Parkhurst does. And Parkhurst is a more eloquent man than Jerome, while he probably excels the independent candidate for District Attorney In the fearless use of Anglo- Saxon epithets. Yet Parkhurst could drop out of New York without changing the fortunes of the present or any fu lure campaign, while the loss of Jerome would oe irreparable, not only to the city, where he stands for all that is nigh and' absolutely noble in municipal life, but also to .the whole United States, He w'ill go down Into history! as the author of a Declaration of Independ ence not less dramatic than the one that Thomas Paine inspired and Thomas Jefferson cast Into literary form, and possibly in its consequences not less salutary to the Nation. Jefferson de clared the independene of the Nation from the tyranny of. the English mon arch; Jerome has declared the inde pendence of American manhood from the tyranny, of party names and bosses. He dared to stand absolutely .upon his record and demand the suffrages of the electors because he deserved them. The importance of bis act will Increase with every year of our history The Republicans have tardily nomi nated .Jerome, and this, it is said, as sures his election. The assurance is doubtful. Beyond the expectations of everybody a new' power has appeared in New York politics which disconcerts prophecy and invalidates calculation, The elemental forces of democracy have broken loose. The innumerable dumb units at the base of the social pyramid have found a champion. The figure of William .Randolph Hearst rises vast. and possibly sinister, and fills the whole political horizon like the geni from the fisherman's urn. The roaring flood of popular enthusiasm which seems likely to sweep Hearst-into office may sweep with him the other candidates upon .the municipal ownership ticket, and there is danger that even Jerome may be hurtled to ruin. Straw votes taken In the workshops and stores of New York indicate that the men who labor with their hands are for Hearst, and not merely by majorities," but with unanim ity, as the men of the West are for Roosevelt. Out of 832 qualified electors in one shop, 825 were for Hearst, and the figures are not unique. As the cor respondent of The Oregonlan shows they are typical. Mr. Hearst Is a man whom nobody understands and whose fortunes none can predict. He stands for the poor against the rich, and yet he has never said a word against honest wealth. All that he has ever said tends strongly toward high ideals In public and prl- ate life. He has systematically fought dishonesty and fraud. He has aspired to be thechampion of pure democracy against oligarchy. He has spent energy and money to force reluctant courts to deal justly with criminals In high places. In his public conduct he has been guided consistently by. these prin ciples. In his periodicals he has invari ably advocated them. In the present New York campaign he advocates mu nicipal ownership In its most extreme and relentless form, and he does so with entire consistency. Mr. Hearst is not a man to be lightly estimated. So far as he can be known, the people of New York know him, and their conduct shows that they trust him. His princi ples have been shouted from the house top. They can be summed up in two words, "the absolute dominance of the plain people in our Government." And this idea the voting population of New York seems to be accepting with some thing like the enthusiasm that burned in the Crusaders. What New York does sooner or later we all do. If Tfearst and municipal ownership gain the vic tory there, how long will it be before they are victorious throughout the United States? The fortunes of Russia are not the only problem the near fu ture has to solve. Fate is just now pro pounding some Interesting questions to tne American autocracy as wen as to the Slavic. IS IT BIG CAME? A NImrod who. is familiar with his business does not use elephant guns when he is hunting snipe. Conse quently, when we find mighty hunters abroad in the jungle armed with ele phant guns, the natural inference is that they are not after diminutive sandpipers. This frequently-noticed trait of mankind is called to mind by an incident In the City Council proceedings Friday. One Thomas R. Sheridan, ap parently the promoter of an inoffensive and abbreviated electric line, had ap plied for a franchise to enter Portland by way of Front street. This was not a serious offense, and, to the average lay man, the request would not appear to be unreasonable, but its appearance stirred up almost as much commotion as a Warsaw riot. The Harriman transportation lines, on which the sun or the interstate com merce law never sets, unllmbered the big guns of the legal department and their mighty Nlmrods, with finger on the trigger, demanded that Mr. Sheri dan be driven from cover, so that they might take a shot at him. The game was not flushed at Friday's session of the Council, but the demonstration that was made by representatives of the Harriman lines would certainly indicate that they were expecting something more portentous than an insignificant electric line from the suburbs. Mr. Gould, after years of fighting, at last made his way Into the rich trade field at Pittsburg by means of an Innocent-appearing electric line. Mr. Spreckels' abbreviated local road from San Francisco out to the San Joaquin "Valley, was the entering wedge which the great Santa Fe system drove home to dpen the way for an opposition' route to the Southern Pacific Into San Fran Cisco. Can it be possible that Mr. Har riman Is making an effort to prevent the history of ?ome other railroad en terprises being. repeated In this field? If it should prove to-be Mr. Gould who Is seeking an entrance to Portland, the legal department might as well lay away the elephant guns and put on life preservers, for they are apt to be con fronted with a task similar to that en countered by Mrs. Partington when she attempted to sweep' back the Atlantic Ocean with a" broom. Portland needs railroads, and is now quite kindly dis posed towards men who will build them for her. METAMORPHOSIS OF THE MIXING CAMP The stage settings of the frontier mining camp, as it has figured for so long in play and story, must all be changed. The styles adapted to the Bpet Harte novel or "Wolfville" are no longer even approximately correct At tention to this remarkable transforma tion is called by the death at Goldfield. New, and interment in Portland, last week, of Virgil Earp, one of the old-time "bad men" of the frontier. Mr. Earp, by all the old-established rules orslhe mining camps where he was best known, should have stepped over to the great beyond with his boots on, and should have tjeen laid to rest near the scene of the killing in soil that was the least promising for prospecting. The great bustling, electric-lighted world, with its flying trains, its temples of art and culture. Its pleasure and pain, wealth and woe. would have thus known naught of the passing of Mr. Earp until months after the occur rence. Around his passing the Bret Hartes could have woven almost any kind of a romance, and in the old days there would have been nothing to cast around the yarn the suspicion that It was not in strlct accordance with the facts. Virgil Earp, his -brother Wyatt, Bat Masterson, and a few others of their strenuous strain, made considerable dime-novel history through the West and, in the height of their fame, if the matter of burial was ever suggested to them, it is extremely doubtful If a peaceful cemetery In a civilized city was ever considered as even a possi bility for "their first and final rest And yet all progress that civilization has made in the mining camps of the West is due to transportation and elec triclty. Aside from the modem mlra cles which these two great clvillzers have wrought the camp of Goldfield Is in most respects as crude and raw as any of the old frontier gathering- places for the turbulent spirits who en gaged in the endless search for gold. The Nevada mining metropolis may not contain many such knights of the green cloth as Bret Harte's Oakhurst but it numbers with its population hun dreds of gamblers, with their attendant soiled-dove consorts. There is the -unlucky miner, the common drunk, the would-be bad man and the real thing in that line. All the buman flotsam and jetsam that is ever seeking a. chance to lay hold of an unearned dollar 1b in evl dence in the modern mining camp. Just as It was in the old days; but modern civilization no longer moves toward a new strike at a snail's pace, as it did when Earp was a young bad man. The Industry of salting claims and selling them to tenderfeet is no longer possible, for the tenderfoot now rides into the camp in a private car and brings his expert with "him. John Oakhurst and the rest of the "Outcasts of Poker Flat" would never have perished In a snow storm had they Jbeen ordered out of Goldfleld, but In stead they would have ridden out in a nalace car and there would have been no romance left for what has become famous as one of the finest specimens of American fiction. The bad men of the West have followed the Indian and the buffalo to the happy hunting grounds, - and the mining camp which made the"West famous and picturesque in sonc and story for more than two generations has undergone such a transformation that, if the ghosts of Via man wVin tt-ih rle it ttrnlinil! In llaVS gone by should. now wander back, they would fall to recognize It PORTLAND- AND OREGON. Th Business Men-.of Portland are In demand socially. They went to Lewis- ton and other places In the great Inland EmDlre. and made so agreeable an im pression that .they were urged to come ac-ain. The fame, of the excursion and lts'pleasures and triumphs went abroad and there Is great anxiety throughout other parts of the Northwest to meet the Portland merchants and Jobbers face toiface. away from headquarters, with business cares forgotten, and with the simple task of setting better ac quainted the first and only considera tion. A business man Is, after all, a gregarious being. Just like the rest of mankind, and he enjoys a good time just as often as he can indulge in It Here in Portland it has been learned that commerce has a social side, and it Is proposed to cultivate it within ra tional and sober bounds. The Business Menvof Portland did not go to Lewlston to "drum up" business. They went be cause they were deeply Interested In all that concerns the great territory east of the mountains, and they desired that It be known there Just what their feel lnc and attitude are. Wider personal acquaintance and closer social Intimacy no doubt lead to more satisfactory com mercial relations; but that is all a mere incident to the main purpose of such visits, which is to know and- under stand one another more perfectly. Now the Business Men are going up the Wftlamette Valley to Southern Ore- con. They are coins to brush elbows. exchange confidences, and eat drink and be merry with their long-time friends, neighbors and fellow-citizens on the south. Portland will run no risks of any misunderstandings with the remainder of the state. What Is good for Oregon Is good for Portland, and what is good for Portland is good for Oregon. Portland and Oregon are one family, and It Is to make certain that there may be no family misun derstandings that the excursion south is to be undertaken. .1. STERLING MORTON. Yesterday an ex-President of the United States journeyed half-way across the continent to do honor to his dead friend. The dispatches tell of Mr. Cleveland's remarks at the unveiling of the monument to his Cabinet officer at Arbor Lodge, near Nebraska City, In the state Mr. Morton loved so well and for which he did so much. J. Sterling Morton was one of a band of young men who settled in Nebraska flfts' years ago. Others were Dr. George X. Miller, veteran editor of "the Omaha Herald; A. J. Poppjeton, for years gen eral counsel of the Union Pacific, and J. M. Woolworth. dt one time president of the American Bar Association. It has been said of these four that they molded the young prairie state Into lines of greatness and usefulness. Thls is true; but the work of lasting effect was Mr. Morton's. There Is no doubt the ambition of the young Michigan immigrant was to rep resent his adopted state In the United States Senate, but the fates willed oth erwise. The prairie state looked too good to the thousands of veterans, of the Civil War who enjoyed the benefits of the homestead law to let a Democrat fill the office, and Mr. Morton turned to better things. Arbor day was his conception, and "Plant a tree" his motto. It was uphill work at first but he strove with cheerful pertinacity, in season and out of season, until the day was recognized by law and observed even by the least of the school children. One is never out of sight of a schoolhouse in Nebraska; and by the same token, one is never but of sight of the work of Mr. Morton. J. Sterling Morton needs no monu ment They are swaying In the breezes from Summer 'round till Spring on the prairies from Red Willow north to the L'eau Qui Court from the Papllllon to beyond the Dismal. In the Winter they break the blasts that would chill the marrow; in the Summer they temper the fiery draughts that would burn the substance. And no rounded periods of ponderosity are more eloquent than the murmur of the leaves. HOME FOR INCURABLE CONSUMPTIVES It has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that the Open-Alr Sanitarium, with its limited facilities for the work. is no place for consumptives who have reached the stage In ' their disease In which they require gentle and more or less constant attention, and the minis trations of sympathy. For patients In the early stages of this disease, who arc strong enough to sit up all day, to take exercise In the open air or remain out of doors In any and all weather, with out chill or discomfort; who can. In common terms, wait upon themselves, the Open-Alr Sanitarium near this city furnishes in food, in attendance and In other ways, facilities for restoration to health that are of Inestimable value. The success of this institution, in Its less than a year of existence, with pa tlents of this class, has been not only gratifying, but, in a remarkable degree. satisfactory. With the other class those who have reached the pitifully helpless and hope less state, known as the third stage of this disease. It Is quite otherwise. To place such persons in tents In the woods, where .they are merely fed at stated intervals and left entirely to themselves and their own poor devices, is neither kind nor humane. It Is but fair to say In this connection that the Open-Alr Sanitarium was not estab lished with 'the view to taking this class of patients, and its management has from the first only reluctantly consent ed to take them. Special facilities, nelthei preventive nor remedial, but simply palliative and humane, are nec essary for the care of patients who have reached this stage. These" can only be furnished by a home for such persons a quiet but not a too-secluded place where such needs as they have may be supplied by cheerful, kind at tendants; a home where their friends and acquaintances may call upon them, bring them flowers, fruit or other little remembrances; where they may associ ate together, when congenial, without the feeling that they are shunned be cause of possible contagion, and finally where, when the final moment comes they may not die alone. 1 It win come to It that every humane community will have and support a home of this kind, managed by a com mittee of men and women the latter to look after the details that escape the attention of the former from their habit of taking the larger view of mat ters binder their direction. In the mean time, nendlnsr the establishment of such a retreat for hopeless and homeless consumptives, it would undoubtedly aaa to the comfort of such patients in tne Open-Alr Sanitarium If from three to five capable, energetic observant and humane women were added to the board of control of that promising In stitution, -whose duty It would be to visit systematically and report fully upon the details of dally life and inci dents of those who dwell In this colony of hope and refuge of despair the Open-Alr Sanitarium. DESIGN. "This world," says the familiar hymn. Is all a fleeting show, for man's Illu sion given." Shakespeare hints at the same view of things in the famous pass age where Prospero declares of the great globe, with all upon it which seems most solid, that it shall dissolve and fade like an insubstantial pageant leaving not a rack" behind. From the oldest times the notion has floated about on the shifting seas of philosophy that mind Is the only reality and matter a mere product of thought whose Inde pendent existence was an illusion. Thousands of years before the apoc alyptic vision was vouchsafed to Mrs. Eddy an old Greek, Parmenldes, taught that thought and being were the same thing. "To gar auto noein estin te kal to elnai," said this pre-Eddylte Chris tian Scientist and his words being translated mean nothing more nor less than that the belief in matter Is a dis ease of mortal mind. But this fact need not shake our faith in Mrs. Eddy's In spiration. 'The Golden Rule has Been discovered, born likewise before its full period, among the precepts of Confu cius; and the tragedy of the crucifixion was rehearsed some score of times In many lands and by many Messiahs be fore It actually took place In Palestine; but we are none the less Christians for all that and why should we be any the less Christian Scientists merely because Mrs. Eddy's revelation contains noth ing not known centuries before? The world seems solid and the mind seems thin and airy, but the feeling that we call solidity. It is only a feel ing, is within the mind and not outside it; and whether or not there is anything at all outside to cause the feeling We know not and shall never know. Bishop Berkeley taught that there was nothing outside the mind, and that when a thing ceased to be thought it ceased to exist He is the most ridiculed of phll osophers, but at the same time the most logical. Byron said that nobody was convinced by him, but also that nobody could refute him. Berkeley explained his system to the famous Club. Johnson being present "Don't go," cried John son,- as the philosopher turned towardV the door. "Don't go. We might stop thinking about you, and then you would perish." But the kind of thinking Berkeley meant was something differ ent His notion was that the necessary thought persisted In the mind of God, and that whether men remembered or forgot made no difference. We sha.ll never know whether Bishop Berkeley, Parmenldes and Mrs. Eddy- are right or wrong, but for all prac tical purposes It Is exactly the same to us as if they were right All we know or can ever know of the universe is the states of mind it exejtes In us". We know our own states of mind; to know anything else Is forever Impossible. There may be a universe outside the mind. To deny It would be folly as great as to assert It. And It may be that this universe acting on the mind sets up the series of mental states which we call experience and whose sum total Ls the world we partly know and partly hope to know. In which all the investigations of science are carried on. "Let us accept the theory that there is such a real world outside the mind. If It exists It was designed by a ra tlonal creator. That ls what we under take to prove; and we enter upon the undertaking with the full knowledge that the design theory Is out of fashion. though not so much so as In the hal cyon days of the later nineteenth cen tury when Evolution was In full bloom, The presence of what 6eemed evident design In. the universe was used by writers like Paley to prove the. exist ence of God. The evolutionists held that the argument was invalid because the apparent design was illusory. Things had come to be as they were by the process of natural selection. The results looked like design; but only so because everything which did not Jibe with everything ele had been de stroyed by natural selection. Nothing was left except what fitted exactly Into a rational-system; therefore the system looked as If It had been designed by a rational creator. But it had never been so designed; the appearance was a mere Illusion. Thus Evolution made short work of the most Impressive of all the arguments for the existence of a ra tional creator who. had built the uni verse according to design. What do we mean by Natural Selec tion? We mean by that phrase, "The methdd of action of the forces of Na ture upon living objects." Acting upon living objects and upon all other ob jects, these forces produce results which look exactly as if they had been de signed. The structure of the universe ls thoroughly rational. Every new fact discovered fits In rationally with all other facts. Investigating as they may. scientists find nothing in the universe which might not be part of a plan de signed by a rational being. The unl verse acts also Just as If it were ra tional. The instinct of animals, blind as It appears, reaches upon the whole rational results. The movements of the heavenly bodies obey the rules of for mal logic, or, in other words, of mathe matics; and those rules are rules of thought The ways things have of hap pening in the world are so thoroughly logical that we have stated them In log leal formulas. We call these formulas "laws of Nature." but they are, In real ity, laws of thought The very fact that we make this transfer wonderfully emphasizes the apparent rationality of Nature. Its activjty Is so much like the activity .of mind that we Identify the two and speak of "laws" governing Na ture, whereas the word "law" Inevita bly implies thought .Now natural forces, acting, as these do. invariably In such a way as to produce the Iden tlcal results that design would have produced, must be acting under design. It is a rule of logic and of common sense as well, that two things' which cannot in any way be distinguished must Ife the same thing. A universe which cannot bq distinguished from one designed by a rational mind must have X been to designed. It ls of no avail to. say that the appearance' of design Is produced by natural forces acting un der necessity. "Necessity" has no meaning. It is a word without content to which defeated atheism betakes It self when it has no other refuge. Nat ural forces which produce exactly the same results as design must- be modes of activity of intelligent will. What they accomplish obeys in all respects the laws of rational- thought; it must therefore have been devised by a ra tional thinker. THE NEGRO IN NORTHERN CITIES. A late number of Charities, exponent of the organized charities of New York City, is devoted to a presentment of the Negro In the Cities of the North," and a. somewhat wide discussion of the vari ous phases of this problem. From this presentment it Is seen that In these cit ies the negro has a more severe strug gle for mere existence than he has in Southern towns or on Southern planta tions, to the latter of which he may be said to be Indigenous. The high death rates, especially among negro children. In this new and, In a sense, foreign en vironment, reflect In a striking and most conclusive manner the kind and degree of this struggle. The negro pop ulation has been increased in Chicago by the movement northward of these people In relatively recent years to 35,- 000; that in New York to 70,000. and to other cities of the North and East in like proportion. This population is not generally diffused throughout the' cities. but is gathered largely Into, colonies. The National capital, for example, con tains the largest negro city In the world. while-on every hand are detached Indi viduals working, seeking work or claim ing favors. All conditions of life are found among these people, from poverty the most ab ject to a fair degree of prosperity, and from ignorance the most dense to a degree of intelligence at times quite surprising. The studies of this complex problem are grouped about two words "opportunity" and "responsibility." In his deprivation of the one or the other. according to the estimate given, lies much that proclaims the negro to be a human animal, actuated by motives and hounded by necessities that are com mon to struggles of all races for the right to live and grow. When, for ex- ample, the negro in the Northern city is excluded from industrial opportuni ties, the negro strikebreaker ls devel oped; when kept from decent streets and herded with the worst of his own race, and of all races, the negro crlm lnal Is bred; when earning only the wages of the menial, restricted by the uncompromising law of supply and de mand, the working mother and the neg lected and broken home. Is developed When, on the other hand, the negro father is not held to the same account ability as the white breadwinner, wife desertion, illegitimacy and kindred ills follow. With these fundamental facts as a basis, the attempt to study this ques tion proceeds, and the conclusions reached are pot all discouraging. It has been found that, as a haven for negroes unable to bear up under the pressure of new Industrial conditions In the South, the Northern city Is no sola tion. On the contrary, this study does much to confirm the expressed belief of Booker T. Washington that the masses of. colored people are not yet fitted to survive and prosper In the great Northern cities to which so. many of them are flocking. The optimist sees. however, many indications of the be ginnings of progress tflward a far-off solution of a perplexing condition. The scientific presumption ls that the negro has the inherent capacity for progress for civilization. How far and In what ways this capacity has been developed by his struggle, his opportunity and his environment in Northern cities Is a matter largely of opinion. But it may be regarded as true that the general antipathy of the people of the North to the negro as a neighbor, a citizen, a craftsman, a factor in general Indus trial life, ls quite as pronounced as It Is in the South, and that as many and as formidable obstacles to advancement are placed In his way In Northern cities as he has found In the South, and that finally it is a mistake for him to leave the easygoing conditions In which he was born for the more strenuous life for which he has neither training nor special adaptability. BRITISH COAL More coal was taken from the mines of the United Kingdom last year than In any previous year on record. The total, according to the returns at the home office, amounted to 232.42S.272 tons. Of this enormous bulk 85.822.035 tons were sent abroad, of which 4,255,547 tons were sold to other nations and the re mainder was sent to coaling stations throughout the kingdom. Great Britain may be depended upon not to be caught short on coal for her navy, no matter where the supply sta tlon ls located. Johnny Bull is first of all a good provider for his own immense and widely scattered family. He sees that each branch is well equipped and requires prompt service from each in the event of an always possible emer gency. To the admonition, "In .time of peace prepare for war," the British gov ernment gives careful heed In. all mat ters pertaining to Its navy, the breath of whose life depends upon the coal supply. The anxious statistician will doubtless follow this report with calculations ani warnings In regard to the world's coal supply and Its possible exhaustion a century .or two, or five, hence. But this will have no effect upon the demand of the present century- for coal to stoke the furnaces of the world's navies, of its commerce and of Its manufacturing plants, supply will follow this demand leaving succeeding ages to work out according to their own needs ana through their own Ingenuity, the great problems of fuel and force. DARK DAYS IN RUSSIA. There are worse fates than to have been penned up at Port Arthur or Vladivostok, with a mighty army of terrible Japs pounding at the gates. One might be a . Russian and be obliged to live in St Pe tersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Odessa, Riga, Kieff, or Reval. One might have died gloriously in Manchurla fight Ing for a country that cared nothing for him; but he can only die lgnominl- ously If he fights for freedom against the sanguinary and brutal Cossacks, The revolutionists have no arms, nt weapons, nothing but dynamite and an invincible Will to overthrow the dea potlsm and to perish. If the Russian revolutionists had an army, they might accomplish something. But they are only an unarmed and desperate mob. and can only be martyrs, unnamed, un JLhonored and scon forgotten. The out look for Russia In any event is very dark. The Imperial hopes are all on Witte, again the man the only man of the hour in Russia. Without him nothing could be done by the Roman offs. With him much may be done. Yet Witte knows if he saves the day the royal favor is so fTckle that he may soon be dishonored. But he sees his duty and does It. Ex-Governor James S. Hogg, of Texas, has brought suit for $100,000 damages against a railroad company of his state for an accident upon its road In which he received, while a pas senger between Houston and Anchor. Injuries that developed Into dropsy. He states in the complaint that as the result of a severe jolt caused by a col lision of the passenger with a freight train on the company's tracks, his neck was wrenched and twisted, causing the tissues of his body to become filled with an unnatural collection of water, to his great discomfort and suffering. The medical expert will be largely In evi dence In this trial, to the bewilderment rather than the enlightenment of the Jury. The plaintiff is critically ill, and Is not likely to survive the long con troversy between lawyers and doctors which his claim will engender. Victoria, sealers have ju3t purchased a large new schooner at Halifax, N. S., and will fit her out for a sealing cruise off Cape Horn. All of the schooners that have hunted in these southern haunts of the seal since the branding lrOn of the fur monopoly frightened the furbearers "from the Prlbllof Islands have made profitable catches. This of fers ample proof of the sealers conten tion that pelagic sealing has not mater ially reduced the size of the fur seal herd, although they have been driven to new haunts where the cruel branding-Iron is not in use. The Victorians who have invested their money in the new schooner are among the oldest op erators In the business, and undoubt edly kn6w that they are not putting their money into a dying Industry. Among other modifications which it is proposed to make In the Chinese exclu sion act is one providing for the abol ishment of the 5600 bond now required of the transportation companies that handle Chinese "in transit" The ex perience of the past In handling Chinese who enter this country without the treaty right to do so has proved that a loophole of this nature will be suffi cient to admit of some wholesale Impor tations of Chinamen, who will get l3t "In transit" and will turn up later as merchants. Among the many questions that will add to the gaiety of nations during the coming session of Congress, that of Chinese exclusion will not be the leasl in importance. Russia's Black Sea fleet has put to sea and is supposed to be heading for Turkey for the purpose of - making a demonstration In case the "sick man" refuses to obey the request of the pow ers for financial reforms In Macedonia. It Is undoubtedly very gratifying for the Czar to learn that he still possesses enough of a navy to answer the purpose of messenger boy for other powers. The formidable fleet might even whip Tur key In case the bluff was "called," al though the battleship Knlaz Potemkin, which was captured by a .mutinous able seaman several weeks ago. Is not with the fleet at present And now the stockmen of Eastern Oregon have Joined the rank3 of those who are clamoring for cars. Thousands of head of cattle, sheep and horses are said to be awaiting shipment in Baker County and the stockmen will suffer quite a loss unless, relief Is forthcoming shortly. The car shortage Is now af fecting three of the greatest Industries In the Northwest lumber, wheat and stock. These industries overshadow most of the others to such an extent that If there Is a demand for cars In other lines. It ls not sufficiently pro nounced to attract much attention. The chief offense of Professor Mitch ell, now on trial before the college of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church for heresy. Is found In a book which he published under the far sounding title "The Words Before Abraham." If, as a result of this trial, Professor Mitchell is forced to vacate the chair of Hebrew In the Boston Uni versity, he will doubtless find pecuniary satisfaction in the increased sale of his book. Governor Folk has heard the Mace donian cry to come to New York and help out Jerome. The Globe-Democrat unkindly Intimates that he Is quite like ly to go. provided that he can be con vinced that he will do Jerome no irood. But Jerome needs no such aid from any Mlssouri Democrat The New York Democrats are his great concern. You will be Instructed, edified and In terested in reading an article today on the question as to whether angels are masculine, feminine or neuter. There may be some doubt about the sex of angels that ls, about what Huck Finn would call Just common angels. But there Is none about fallen angels. It may develop that a "capable, im partial person" has already Investigat ed the McLoughlln story, and has in corporated It In an article of some 35, 000 words. Many persons think the "capable, Impartial person's" name Is Fred V. Holman. We suppose that Oswego and Its Just Iy celebrated iron plant will be Included In Engineer Clarke's proposed Itinerary to investigate the water-nlDe situation Don't overlook the Oswego that Is not the place that made starch famous. "Remember," said Count Witte, to s deputation of railroad men and stu dents to whom he gave audience a week ago. "the government may fall, but with it you will perish also by playing Into the hands of the bourgeolse." Candidate Hearst has a walkover in the straw-vote canvass for Mayor of New York. But somehow Tammany- refuses to look upon the matter as set tied. An enthusiastic Texan at the Chicago rate conference says the President will surely carry Texas the next time. No doubt about it And the Gulf of Mex ico. Whatever else happens. President Mc Curdy knows more about the Insurance business than when the Investigation began. Mr. Harriman thinks an era of com petitive railroad construction is upon U8, Or, pernape, he only; fears ,fc SILHOUETTES Roosevelt was 47 yesterday. In three years he will have reached the age of discretion. Idaho seems to have land-fraudr trou bles of her own. Perhaps she'd like to borrow our sackcloth and ashes. A man named Rogoway was acquitted by an Albany court a day or two ago. He was not the man who dramatized "The Conquest' however. Japan jnet her first defeat Friday at the hands of Judge Stewart, of Boise, who decided that Japs cannot become citizens of the United States. My hat la off to Judge Stewart. The Portland team plays ball like the old woman In Indiana kept hotel only some worse. I see that O'Brien has been In another prizefight I didn't know before that the general manager of the O. R. & N. was so versatile. Burly Bandit Bitten. Did you ever bite a bandit. Did you ever tame a thief, ' Did you ever slap a. robber on the wrist? Did you ever hold a hojd-up. Did you ever pich a pirate: Did you ever strike a striker with your fist? If you never did you cannot be a hero. Your percentages are all below the zero Point The moral of this tattle Suggests a. tale of battle That the papers print as coining from Seattle. E. H. Harriman comes back from the Orient to say that he sees an era of rail road building in the immediate future. Oregon doesn't care much now what he sees. It is tired of waiting for him to see that era. However, we can appreciate the advantage of travel to a provincial. Fine Was It Then. How long ago was this old world young? How many years since " the morning stars sang? And what was the hour the solemn bells rang The death-knell of youth and the ra.e begun To look to the East; to hark back always And to bore us with talk of "the good old days?" If Death Ends AH. If death ends all. Why then comes back again This longing just to see your face; This ever-throbbing ache of heart; This pain of tear-blurred eyes; That grope Into the future for a light: This unassuaged desire to see your smile? If death ends all. Why in this room tonight Is thy sweet presence manifest A gentle guidance that would show the right And whispers to me through the dusk of night? No. death docs not end all. Else would this memory-call of thine and mine Come back unanswered. My minister, thou makest me to trust. And 80. I know that death does not end all. It Didn't Mnkc a Jilt. Young Omar wrote a rubaiyat About a feeling he had got. He printed It Into a book And tlym his pen In hand he took And sent It to a girl he'd shook. She answered back: "I've read your rot. Maybe it's poetry, maybe not. If I had time I'd like to cook Up some verses that would look As lame as yours and tell a lot. Just now, however, I'm trying to hook Onto a husband who'd be hot If we started a correspondence rubaiyat." The Fate of Mazic. Mazie was a palmist Who might have been a psalmist If she hadn't met a literary feller. Who In the calmest kind of manner. In the very' best of grammar. Sang a love-song that was very, very meller. Thpn by way of a digression Of hiu lucrative profession He proceeded verysoon a yarn to Ind. She was interested at once. Mazic was a silly dunce. So she promised to go with him. hand In hand. They were married that-a-way And the neighbors now all say. When pointers to young palmists they are giving: "If you marry literary you will find you haven't "ary A thing to live on but a sonnet or a lay. Mazie met up with a psalmist Whose demeanor was the calmest And, honest, she's a palmist to this day." Helpful Henry's Helps for the Helpless. TO AILEENE My dear girl, yours In certainly an unhappy lot. I feel a deep sympathy for you. However, I would advise that, instead of reading Bertha M. Clay for consolation, you try a course of Marie CorelH. You say you are 19 and the eldest of six children, that your nose Is pug and that your eyes don't track, but that you yearn to be a beautiful young heiress. Since your father ls working for fifteen per week In the packing-house, I do not see how I can do much for you. At that the action of your mother In requir ing you to get up.ln the morning at 3:3) and wash the dishes Is simply Intoler able. If, as you say. your musical abil ity ls such that you play Narcissus on the pl-ano without looking on the music, you might run away from home and be come a pipe-organist in a church. That Is. a job where you don't have to look very good. A freak Turk, who is too lazy to work and goes about addressing things, says that the women of America arc not In it with the Sultan's harem beauties, or words to that 'effect He calls himself John the Baptist, or something like that The locust and wild-honey treatment l far too good for the likes of him. ARTHUR A. GREENE. Drawing the Line. Chicago News. Young Slopay was courting th6 daughter of his former tailor. "Darling," he said. "I hope you will learn to love and trust me." "Well." replied the fair object of his affections, "I'm sure I can learn to love you all right, but papa says you are not to be trusted."