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AKED AND THJB CHURCHES. Of the things which Dr. Aked has to say about the reformation of the churches In his magazine article many are entertaining and all are Instruc tive. Dr. Aked Is minister of the Fifth-avenue Baptist Church in New York. His most distinguished and lu crative communicant is John D. Rocke feller. The article of which we speak 13 to be found in Appleton's for August. Dr. Aked's comments upon the condition, of the churches are caustic. Doubtless they come from his heart. He says that the churches have failed to keep pace with the ad vance of knowledge; that preachers utter a great many absurd and stupid fulmlnatlons which turn intelligent people away In disgust; that the churches In America stand more In dread of candid inquiry than do those in Europe. He suggests also that faith may be destroyed by the mere sus picion that religion fears the light and seeks to obscure truth. Much more he has to say of the same tenor and. as we have admitted. It is not to be questioned that he speaks from his heart. Still, so long as men like Mr. Rockefeller remain honored leaders in the house of God, laden with the plunder which they have gathered in defiance of all law, whether divine or human, and contributing largely to the- salary of the preacher. Dr. Aked's rebukes to the churches sound like mockery While the churches continue to cod die sinners there can be no effective sincerity in their denunciations of sin. The suspicion cannot be eradicated that their warfare upon unrighteous ness is a mere pretence until they cast out the unrighteous millionaire, or at least bring him in repentance to the foot of the altar and compel him to make restitution for the wrongs he has done. But we dare say Dr. Aked perceives all this as clearly as anybody. The chances are that he feels baffled by the impossibility of purifying his church from its un worthy members and realizes that his burning words are but sounding brass while conditions continue unchanged. The announcement that the Fifth avenue Church had brought Mr. Rockefeller to Judgment for his sins would do more to call sinners to re pentance and fortify the house of the Lord than a million tons of maga zine articles and sermons. But, for all that, Dr. Aked's remarks have their value. His statement that re ligion is more dogmatic and, Intoler ant here than It Is abroad ought to put us to shame If it is true, and it is probably true. In this respect our attitude Is thor oughly colonial. Observers are aware that colonials adhere to antiquated forms in many other things besides religion out of a false sense of loy alty to the mother country, or the mother tongue, or the mother charch and the like. The Irish descendants from Cromwell's English colonists, for example, speak the language of Milton with a nicety of syntax and a purity of accent which few dwellers on the other side of the channel can rival. Here in America we retain many lin guistic forms which were brought over by the Puritans and which have been outgrown in England. There Is a belief that colonists are more pro gressive than those whom they leave behind, but It is not by any means al ways true. Few of the old Greek colonies were as eager for new Ideas as Athens. In social legislation, as well as religion. 'America Is far be hind most European nations. The fact is that very frequently colonies are founded In places which are remote from the flood of advancing civiliza tion and. being much left to them selves, they stagnate. Professor Vam bery, of the University of Pesth, in his racinatinr antobloirraDhy. remarks that in the course of his wide Oriental Journeys he found the direst fanati cism in isolated communities which were entirely out of touch with the world. Here superstition and sectar ian hatred festered In their own sliine i.rvHi th hwimn of almost Dreter- natural ferocity. We all know that In America religious bigotry is most frightful In the less civilized parts of the country like the fastnesses of Mis- Kiosir.nl and Texas. The farther a lit tie village is from the railroad, the mor a seldom the mall reaches it. the more intense the hatreds among its sects. Since America has been somewhat remote from the currents of the world's thought It Is, therefore, only natural that our religious life should retain, as Dr. Aked says, certain medieval vestiges which are far from oomiv Our Presbvterlan Church. for example. Is much more intolerant than that of Scotland, where Presby terianism is the breath of life to the nnnnintlnn. Our EDlscoDallan Church makes heretics of men whose Ideas would not excite a ripple or protest In England. Protestantism In general hra I. hack-ward In both thought and learning compared with its German brethren. We have plenty of preach- .y,n hoact nf their contemDt for Biblical scholarship. Some of them still seem to believe that the kingdom of Heaven must be built upon igno ranra of history and false interpreta tions of the prophets. All this Is mere provincialism and sometime we .hoil nntKTOw it. but when? Dr. Aked must be commended for hi. nioin -npklne upon this topic t -onuir-erl cniiniirs for him to tell the truth so frankly; courage which Is rare in America. One reads wltn pleasure, also, his suggestion that the ,,,r, for their own salvation, will the flood and turn to modern prob lems. Christianity professes to be a solution for all the evils of the world. How has it fulfilled itr mission? Dr. Aked does well to sound an alarm to the churches before it is everlast ingly too late. THIS GOOD OI-D HTIMF.R. It pays to take things easy in hot weather, but all the while work as hard as you can. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground" which means keep as cool as possible. For there, are many compensations In warm weather. The Mazamas, for example, in the ice cream cool of Mount St. Helens, are enjoying chills, which none of us In the city can get, even for ten cents at the soda foun tain. The chlnook salmon are happy, since Summer makes the water clear in Columbia River and they can see and dodge the nets. Now Is the time, also, when the leaking roof doesn't worry. Then, too, the smoke is gath ering Inland to make the smokeless beach fully enjoyable. Straw hats and .Spring suits are on sale at half price. These are but a few of our many Summer blessings. They more than make up for the extravagance of the family at the resort, and for the big laundry bills, and for the dust that invades the good housewue a carpets, and for the farmer's tussle with the harvest hands. ... ill,. Htitterflle.. Show not their mealy wing, but to the summer. ,, "Trollua and Cressida." Wriih we have all observed In those fancy vests, and costly Panamas and milk-white trousers. And the girls, also, have their light, gay trim mings. When Tennyson said , that in the Spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,' he didn't know about the Oregon Sum mer. Of all the seasons' courtships, the Summer's are the most numerous and sentimental and gallant. Think back on the matcnes you nave onrr mn will count two of Summer's for one of any other season's. Who, then, denies the old Summer time is goou . f ,h sure, the drills at American Lake are a bit hot and dusty, but do the boys ever go camping in aeiense of their country In any other season? Should we not also mention the r.omr. meetings, which take the les sons of right living from under the dark roof . into the bright outside? The Summer is doing an rc can to make good citizens of the persons who, last Winter, swore at the weather. so mnph for the good things or Summer. Next month we shall begin tn find the eood things or Autumn. That is but three weeks distant. Al ready the leaves are tinging with its yellow. PROFESSIONAL BENEVOLENCE. T-nies we are much mistaken, the perplexities of people who adopt the vocation of giftmaking are numerous and real. How much to give, to whom and for what purpose are ques tions which seem to drive them almost distracted and to which thus far they have discovered answers for the most part only indifferently wise. Those who have taken up gittmaKing as a business must, of course, have a good deal of money. One would suppose that they would also neea a gooa aeai of rommon sense, and perhaps they do, but among the somewhat numer ous glftmakers of our cay sense ap r,.0r. tn h aadlv lacking. Can this account for the futility of much of their benevolence? Laying aside our natural reverence for riches, suppose we candidly ask ourselves how much good Mr. Carnegie has done by his Deneiac tinna? Certainly he has greatly glori fied the name of a canny Scot and this must be set down on the credit siae. but what else has he done? Does onVwttv hell eve for a moment that his hero fund has increased the num ber of self-sacrificing deeds in tne i -i vn afMnAMiA mnv rerjlv. but WU11U . .IIS, -ju..-.- - U rewards the person who makes the sacrifice. Not so. It rewaras nere and there a person, but - the great number It overlooks. Of those who are passed toy, many are quite as de serving as those who are rewaraea, bo that the net efTect of the hero fund li to do a little Justice and a great deal of Injustice. Where it excites CT-atitiiriA In one 'breast it excites envy and heartburning in a hundred others. But Mr. Carnegie is not tne oniy oHftmaksr who seems to lack light and leading. Mrs. Sage is also in constant perplexities how to direct ner benefactions. Her latest scheme is to bestow an island, upon the Govern ment, in a genuine Quixotic spirit, for the site of a preparatory military .,hnni Thia is the phrasing of the accounts, but her real purpose seems to be to establish an exclusive scnooi for young aristocrats. We draw this conclusion from the report that her idea is to found an American Eton. How truly patriotic it would be thus to promote the division of the re public into hostile classes. BRITISH IJKABNING FAIR FLAT. It Is not strange that the British were ugly losers in the Olympiad in T.nnrlon. That is their usual way. They were the ugliest kind of losers when Washington crossed the Dela ware, and Arnold beat Burgoyne at Saratoga, and Washington outwitted Cornwallis at Torktown, and Jackson slew 2600 English at New Orleans, and Perry demolished their ships on Lake Erie. It hurts Britishers to "t lii-itpd." A trait of un-Amerlcan- ized Britishers is to give competitors tat Heal nnlv so long as it doesn't cost anything. Americans in Great Britain encounter British disdain at all turns of the road. The American athletes encountered the same thing. T3.. if Miirl not beat them all. It only made things very uncomfortable for the American boys and shut some of them out. "Englishmen treated us fine so ioii" aavi one of the returning vic tors, "but as athletes we were treated 'rotten.' Their conduct was inex cusable. The British showed their iiioonnnintmAnt and Jealousy at all timu T was In the grandstand when the Marathon runners were coming and the women on all sides were ex claiming: 'I hope it isn't a Yankee; nnvthintr but a Yankee. The English are big. people In the world, and they feel it. They are so-r-inhlo. because thev think thereby to show their superiority. They sneer at American customs and American speech with the friendliest of inten tions and forget their own customs and slang, just as freakish to their cousins on this side of the water. They are not willing to concede that any THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. AUGUST 9, 1903. other people can excel them which Is a good trait, so long as it keeps Eritaln at the head of the world's progress. This Infatuation with them selves shoojc them up badly in South Africa. Something more than a cen tury earlier It cost them the 'best of their American colonies. Some years ago " Lord Dunraven came to America to "lift" the Amer ica's cup and went home with his Valkyrie In a huff, although he was accorded the best of treatment. He was a sample of British sportsmen. A little later Llpton. an Irishman, brought his Shamrocks, one after an other, and, though each time he was beaten, he said he was fairly treated. Dunraven's rage was stirred because he couldn't win. In London, the Brit ish were Jealous because they couldn't defeat the American athletes on their own British soil with their own of ficials and with unfair connivance between those officials and rivals of the Americans. It la not customary for the British to give their rivals a square deal. Their big empire has been built up by the other method. That method has made them mighty people and agreeable so long as they are on top. But In these enlightened days the world requires fair dealings. In America, athletic officials would not dare to favor American competitors over 'Englislh. The public would not permit it. That is where Americans are more civilized than Britishers. However, the English are improving. Conservatism is their historic trait. They need time to break out of their old habits. INJURY TO MILK INDUSTRY. Oregon and Washington turn out the best of condensed milk. The pro duct goes ell over the world and Into Eastern states in competition with the old-established packs of the Middle West. Enforcement of the 28 per cent solid standard would greatly injure this industry of Oregon and Washington. That standard Is not necessary to prevent adulteration or fraud, since there is neither adultera tion nor fraud here In manufacture of condensed milk. The peculiar cow- feed conditions of these two states make a heavy percentage of butter fat in ' milk and a light content of other solids, due chiefly to heavy use of green feed. Condensers here can manufacture 25 or 26 per cent solids in canned milk. Including 8 per cent fat. whereas the minimum set by the food standard committee Is 7.7 per cent fat and 28 per cent total solids. Washington and Oregon evaporated milk exceeds the requirement for but ter fat the rich part of the milk and falls short of the requirement for other solids, which constitute the least part of the milk's food value. The 28 per cent standard has not been enforced against Oregon and "Washington cream, on account of Its obvious uselessness. But there are manufacturers in other parts of the United States who feel the competition of this product and want to Impose the handicap on the growing Wash ington and Oregon business. The ex ports of condensed milk from these two states amounts, according to re liable authority, to 3000 carloads yearly, and brings In a large amount of wealth. New condenserles are starting in numerous towns, to supply the growing demand for Oregon and Washington milk. There la no complaint about the quality nor the purity of this milk and none about the measure of the cans. The business is building up fast the dairy Industry and bringing about needed reforms in cultivation of the soil. The total solid standard should be reduced and the butter fat re quirement maintained. There is ex pert testimony to show that It Is Im possible for manufacturers here to tuin out a commercial product in compliance with the 28 per cent stand ard. The proper "basis for a milk standard is the butter fat content. Enforcement of the 28 per cent re quirement would stop exportation of Washington and Oregon evaporated milk. It would put under the ban of the National pure food law the milk of these two states. FACTS ON WATER TRANSPORTATION. The Pendleton Tribune expresses Inability to "understand the apparent position of The Oregonian that rail read transportation in this country has reached, or is about to reach, the state of efficiency where it has or will practically supersede transportation by water, and that the latter will be deserted for lack of ability to compete with the more rapid transit afforded by the railroads." The only "position that The Oregonian has taken on this matter is to chronicle the facts and call editorial attention to an actually existing condition. If the railroads had not superseded transportation by water, on some portions of the Co lumbia River, the splendid line of steamboats in operation above Celllo when the O. R. & N. was completed would have 'been continued on the run. No one has ever accused a rail road corporation of being so senti mental or philanthropic as to abandon a cheap method of moving freight for one that was more expensive. No steanVboat line since the days of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company has been so well equipped for hand ling freight by steamboats as that company was when the road was completed. With a' portage road on both slides of the river, and steam boats above and below the rapids, it was able to handle freight by steam boat at the lowest possible cost. No other loB-lcal reason can be advanced for abandonment of this water route than that it was more expensive to nnrfltA an d" maintain than the rail route. The Pendleton paper con fuses the small river carrier witn tne great ocean steamships, that, can as rend the river as far as Portland but cannot as yet go above the Dalles to compete with the railroads. it asks: "If boats cannot hold their own nr.roEition to railroad transporta tion, why should the improvement of the Columbia River be carried Deyono tho inside of the bar at its mouth? If the Columbia River between Portland and the river entrance were novi mWb only for river steamboats ' of the type that can be used above Celllo, there would be no reason for carrying on Improvement above As toria. Fortunately for Portland, for Pendleton and for the whole Inland Empire, the Columbia and Willamette Rivers are navigable for Immense car riers of 8000 and 10,000 tons. As. an illustration of the economies or tnese carriers, the case of the British steam- shin Fxanklyn, which was chartered Friday to load wheat at Portland, Is J intoiiin Thn Franklyn loaded In this port about a year ago, carrying 790T tons of wheat, and the entire cost. Including pilotage, time of the vessel and running expenses for the round trip from Astoria to Portland and return was less than ten cents per ton. To move the cargo of this single steamship from Portland to Astoria would have required twenty steam boats of the largest size that can be Uffd to advantage on the upper river, end no railroad that was ever built or ever will be built, could move freight 100 miles at a profit at less than -ten rents per ton. It is for this reason that .peruana ns .!. of mnnev in deepening and improving the river channel. Still larger carriers are coming and a rhannl will be needed and it will be provided Just as the present channel has been proviaea. Some day the increasing irauii; ui h n-nr Inland Empire will warrant extension of this deep-water channel far up the Columbia, and great ocean freighters wUll meet the railroads at the Cascades and possibly still farther up. This is a wondenui stream, . ..i,ir, is ml In its infancy, but a- a freight carrier, neither the river steamboat nor the railroad can suc cessfully compete with the mammoth ocean freighters, which always have r-et and always will meet traffic at the farthest point miana tnax can be reached. COLUMBIA RIVER IMPROVEMENTS. Tk nirrpnt number of the Engin eering News devotes eight pages to the "U. S. Improvements of the Co lumbia River, Oregon and Washing ton." The article, wnicn is nanu somely illustrated and contains a world of technical detail regarding tne work at the entrance of the rjver, and also on the upper river, is supplied by W. P. Hardesty, a prominent local r.ixj-11 endni(r. The importance of the subject can be appreciated even by those who are unfamiliar witn tne great river, for In his opening sen tence Mr.' Hardesty states that "The Columbia River is the second river in size, measured by volume, in the United States, its maximum flow of 1,600,000 sec-ft being only slightly exceeded by that of the Mississippi." The immensity of the stream is further described in the statement that it "drains most of Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho, portions of Mon tana and British Columbia, and even parts of Nevada, Utah and Wyoming." No portion of Mn Hardesty s article la of more interest to the people or Portland that that in which he says that, for 75 per cent of the distance from Portland to. the sea, there is a Honth of from thirty to fifty feet of water and for the remainder of the distance a depth of twenty-two to twpntv-flve feet in the shoalest places. This means that for three-fourths of the distance between Portland and the sea there is a depth of water suf ficient for the largest ships In the world, while for the remaining dis tance there Is a depth ample for more than 90 per cent ef the ships now afloat. The comparative ease with which Portland has deepened the channel from Its former stage of ten and fifteen feet, on the worst of the bars at low water, to the present depth of twenty-five feet, is a guar antee that the additional depth for the 25 per cent of the dlstauce in which the thirty-foot channel is not yet In evidence, will be easily secured. It has now been demonstrated that the jetty at the entrance of the river will provide a channel of ample depth for almost an craft on the Pacific, and It is now time to make an earnest. determined effort to clean out tne channel above Astoria to a uniform depth of not less than thirty feet. With such a channel, and two great railroads draining the entire Inland Empire of traffic, the future of this city as a seaport is assured for all time. The task Is not a serious one, but it will require united support and a cessation of rainbow chases after visonary transportation lines. An open river from Portland to the sea means more to the entire Inland Em pire than any other project now be fore the people. THE FIRST THOUSAND DOLLARS. While the views of Mr. Harriman on topics outside of his special field of finance and transportation may carry small weight, he was right when In a published interview the- other day he declared that the opportunities for young men are far brighter today than they were forty years ago. This is an age of Incomparable activity in every line of human endeavor. In the Unit ed States It calls for the driving pow er, the excess of vitality, that dwells In the man whose years do not num ber two score. There never was a time when mechanical skill, executive talent and sheer Intellect had so eager a market as now; when these qualities were so readily and steadily convert ible into cash. Conditions are far easier for the young man today than ever before. True, the opportunity for seizing upon the natural resources of the country are not so wide as in the '60s or the '70s, but he doesn't have to wait until old age, as did his father or grand father, to enjoy the belated harvest. He needs make no such sacrifice as was made by nearly every man who pioneered it west of the Mississippi, nor endure such hardships. Earning a competency in thickly settled re gions entails less labor and privation than in a wilderness. The main reason why so many young men look on the future with doubt Is that they haven't learned to do one thing well. If you expect high wage, you must give high service. This requires thorough training and over average aptitude, whether your voca tion is sawing' lumber, superintending a mine, building a bridge or preaching sermons. In the mechanical arts. In business and in the learned profes sions, you must specialize. There is no room for the Jack-of-all-trades, nor for the novice, except at appren tice pay. Another reason why" multitudes of young men have small hope of suc cess is that -they have never been taught, therefore have not acquired the habit of systematic saving. In quire into the beginning of American fortunes and you will find In practi cally every instance, It was the first thousand dollars saved that laid the foundation. Even those who after ward accumulated great wealth by questionable methods, got their start in the first thousand they laid by. And let no normal young man who has learned to do one thing well, and Is free from exceptional family burdens. av h ran't save a thousand dollars He must do it if he desires inde pendence. One excellent plan . for putting by the first thousand dollars is to as sume that your income has been cut down. Then save this reduction. Sup pose there should come a period of depression, such as we had from 1893 t 1897, and your wages of necessity were reduced 20 per cent. Would you run away from your Job and Jump into the river? No. You and all your fellow-laborers would adjust your liv ing expenses to conform to the smaller income. Now, is it going to call for any considerable sacrifice or privation to do this? . The act will Involve not even a shadow of acerbity, because It is voluntary- Neither your employer lUUUOLiim I reduction. After you have saved the 20 per cent, you will still be provided with all the necessities of life, many of the comforts and a few of the lux uries. If your income is J1000 a year, it will take you only five years to save the first thousand, assuming that the savings lie idle all the time. Unless you are a lunkhead, your earnings will be moe at the end of five years and your proportion of savings much larg er. By that time you ought to have acquired the habit of systematic sav ing which is quite as easy as the habit of spending every cent you earn. No one Is counseling you to get down to the scale of living that obtains among folk of your own station In Europe; all you are asked to do is to live ra tionally and comfortably. The new sensation of a growing bank account or ownership of a piece ef productive property, together with the knowledge that you are creating for yourself your old age pension, will more than com pensate for the consciousness that you are wearing your clean and serviceable Winter suit through its second season. It will enable you, without a blush, to enjoy grand opera or Shakespeare from an inexpensive seat near the ceil ing. It will foster a feeling of self respect and manliness that the spend thrift doesn't know. jOnly one young man in a hundred thousand has the combination of greed. Intellect, enterprise and oppor tunity to become a captain of in dustry, but every young man endowed with health has the capacity to achieve financial independence. To do it he must set out to save the first thousand dollars. MARINO WRONG-DOING EASY. The more one thinks of the facts and circumstances of the Standard Oil -rebate case, the more it becomes ap parent that Judge Landis' decision was Just and that the decision or tne appellate court tends to the subversion of justice not only In this but in fu ture cases. The more fully the case is understood the more generally will the people of this country justify the language used by President Roosevelt In his comment upon the decision. The reversal was a great victory for law-breakers; it was a sad day for those whose interests He with the prosecution of wrong-doers. There was absolutely no doubt of the guilt of the defendant The Stand ard Oil Company was granted the re bates. It made millions thereby, and was thus enabled to suppress compe tition. To say that the company and its responsible managers did not know that the rebates were granted is fool ishness. No one will believe such a preposterous assumption. Does any man in his right mind suppose for a minute that a railroad would grant a shipper a large rebate without let ting the beneficiary of the discrimina tion know that the favor had been given? Furthermore, can any man who knows of the systematic manner in which modern business enterprises are conducted, believe that the com pany did not know all about every freight rate it paid? Large shippers do not pay bills upon presentation without knowing that they are cor rect. Large corporations do not amass enormous wealth by doing business in such a careless manner. A Standard Oil manager would not hold his posi tion a month if he paid freight bills to the amount of hundreds of thou sands of dollars without knowing ex actly the authority for collection of the money. The Standard Oil Company admits that it was granted the rebate, and ordinary common sense declares that it knew it was getting it at the time. The fact that It did get It was a cir cumstance warranting the belief that It knew what It was doing. But whether it had actual knowledge or not should have been Immaterial, for it was its business to know and It should be held responsible accord ingly. It certainly had the means of knowing, for the regular tariff rates of all transportation companies are published for Information of all ship pers. In criminal cases of smaller Importance the offender is charged with the duty of- knowing the facts. Under our laws prohibiting the sale of liquors to minors It has been uni versally held that the liquor dealer cannot set up as a defense that he did not know the purchaser was a minor. Nor is it a defense that he asked the purchaser his age and was Informed that he was over 21 years old. Selling to a minor is the offense and the courts have held that the liquor dealer must ascertain at his peril the actual age of the purchaser. Such should have been the rule in the case against the Standard Oil Company for accepting a rebate. The assertion that the appellate court's decision . tends to encourage violation of law and to protect the violator is easily substantiated. Since the court holds that guilty knowledge must be proven. It will now be to the interest, of large shippers to remain in ignorance of the regular schedule of rates, so that they will have a com plete defense if It should be discov ered that they are getting rebates. No longer is it their duty to know whether their acts are in accordance with law, for ignoranc"e constitutes immunity. In still another particular the de cision encourages violation of law. The appellate court held that In de termining the number of offenses the trial judge should have counted each settlement, rather than each carload shipment, a separate offense. Then U will hereafter be to the interest of those wishing to violate the law to make as many shipments as possible before making a settlement, for the crime is not complete until the set tlement has been made. By making a settlement only once in a year or once in several years, the Standard Oil Company can continue to violate the law and make money by it, not withstanding It may come into court occasionally and pay the small fine that will be permitted under the de cision Just rendered irt its favor. The court, which is popularly believed to labor for suppression of crime, has carefully pointed, out to the offender the means by which it can continue Its violation of law and rest secure from payment of a penalty commen surate with the crime. The fine of $29,000,000 looked large, and it was large, but not out of pro portion to the immense sum of money the Standard Oil Company has made out of its special favors from the transportation companies. If Judge Landis, in his effort to put a stop to crime, imposed a fine a little too laijge he at least acted more wisely than did the appellate court, which laid down a rule making the fine ridicu lously small. Judge Landis' decision, viewed in all its bearings, was an effort toward attainment of a square deal and en forcement of justice. The appellate court's decision is technical. It gets as far as possible from the question of guilt or innocence. It makes con viction of the guilty almost impossi ble and tends to encourage trans gression of law. Among the list of bids opened at Washington yesterday for the con struction of a floating drydock for the Puget Sound Navy-yard, the names of Pacific Coast bidders are conspicuous for their absence. This is somewhat unusual, as it would seem that the builders on this Coast would have at least a slight advantage in their position that would offset to a degree the cheaper labor and cheaper material which are available for the Eastern builders. There Is a possibility that the "raw" deal given the Pacific Coast shipyards that bid on the big dock for Manila may have had something to do with their re fusal to bid at this time. A strict ad herence to Government red tape methods which were .followed in the case of the Manila dock would, of course, prevent the Coast bidders from sharing in any of the saving the Government might make by having the dock built where it was needed, instead of 15,000 miles away. Government ownership of railroads has been a contributing factor of no small importance in bringing Japan Into her present serious financial plight and it is now announced that preparations are under way for a transfer of the rail lines of the coun try to private parties. According to advices from Tokio, the only hitch irT'the proceedings at this time is the difficulty in formulating a plan for the prevention of a wholesale slump in the price of the securities. The experience of the Japanese govern ment with the railroads will probably be a lesson for other countries which have aspirations in that direction. If Japan, with her intensely patriotic cit izens, could not make a success of the scheme, there would not be much hope for a country whose citizens, by hundreds and thousands, spend their time in railing at the government and preaching the doctrine of anarchy and chaos. Astoria is making great prepara tions for the coming regatta and is outlining a programme which prom ises to exceed in brilliancy the highly successful events of this kind in the past. The regatta has become one of the fixed events of the Summer sea son at the mouth of the river and offers a pleasing diversion for the people who spend their Summers at the adjacent beaches and also at tracts a steadily increasing number of visitors from interior points. The beautiful bay formed by the widerf ing of the Columbia, as it nears the sea, offers one of the finest racing courses In the country for all classes of sailboats, and the contests are never Bhort on entries,. Admiral George Shepherd, of Portland, has been honored with the leading position in this year's carnival, and Portland, as usual, will be well represented and willing to assist our neighbors in making the affair a huge success. The Seattle newspapers will con cede, no doubt, that there was enough money left in Oregon to build and pay for a fine building at the A.-Y.-P. ex position. But the conviction Is gradu ally gaining ground here that we were a little hasty In making that .100,000 appropriation in partial acknowledg ment of what many people thought Seattle did for the Portland expo sition, but didn't. Mr. Bryan admits, with great re luctance, that It takes money to run a campaign, but he is looking for "con tributions of considerable size fr(m several sources." Possibly Mr. Har riman may be induced to squeeze up that dollar donation to $1.50. The commission system would be an ideal system of government for Port land, perhaps even more ideal than the present system that Is, if men could be elected to the commission who would quit squabbling. We haven't heard of any suspicious looking Japs hanging around Ameri can Lake, making maps and stealing the secrets of American field strategy. Is it possible that there Is nothing more for the Jap to learn? News that President Roosevelt dis charged the Brownsville soldiers makes the matter right. Roosevelt can do with whites what nobody else can, and so with negroes. Orator Hearst is to make a whirl wind campaign of the country for the Independence party. Oregon is to be In the trail of the cyclone. To your cellars, everybody. Has it occurred to the charter changers that the commission method would put out of office the four-year Councllmen? Here Is something to bo reckoned with. , Senator Fulton's peace plan Is re ceived with the same indifference as was the peace conference of a pre ceding regime in Empire Theater. Put off that vacation as long as you can and your protracted expecta tions will be one of the enjoyable parts of It. That little Gould coup was only a trifle, says Mr. Harriman, just to help George out. Clean out? Anyway, Harry Thaw isn't crazy enough to nay those fabulous expert bills. SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR A. GREENE. Manx- men. roneludtne that the dem ocracy of bachelorhood is a failure, flee to the monarchy of matrimony refuge. Th. oii-a-iQo stneo Manager of the ,miv., mniiM-cooil use of-ten thou sand mean and petty souls as a back ground for a proper display oi ma t great spirits. The merrv narasol manufacturer is always glad to let a little sunshine into the lives of others. . When stockholders fall out the re ceiver gets his automobile. An lnfldel is one who deosn't sub scribe toyour brand of religion. W V tt-hen Alton B. Parker comes to Port land he may expect a demonstration that will drown the noise of the peanut roaster whistles. Th. Veen erice of interest in the re turn of Jonathan Bourne will be dulled somewhat by the fact that Barnum Bailey's has a prior date. a ior.nl fruit merchant is suing for the value of a carload of watermelons which he alleges were overripe when loaded for transit. This seems to be a case wherein to the victim belongs the spoils. rrv,e ne mod thing that can be said for idle curiosity is that it sometimes finds work. I have discovered that the majority of men who use the prefix Professor be nr t,eir Tifimps either do something in the boxing line or give psychic read ings. ... To My Pipe. Old friend, through thick an thin We've stuck together. In sorry times and sunny weather; But come what might Come grave, come gay,' You've been my comrade day by day. Sometimes with solace when things went wrong. Sometimes a-glow with a merry" song. But always faithful and always true You listened, patient, when I talked to you. And if perchance a bore staid long. Went out. which same I couldn't do. You understand and you know why. You never complain when things go awry. But keep your peace and hold your tongue And are always soothing when hearts are wrung. So here's to you. and may heaven forefend You from brimstone and fire. My rare old friend. ... New York Republicans can ill afford nov. fun of John W. Kern's whiskers so long as Governor Hughes stands out against the shaving trust. ... Foreign titles seem to be about the only brand of wearing apparel an American woman can get by the customs officials without paying duty. ... In National politics there's many a slip twixt the platform and the next session of Congress. ... A dicer's oaths sound as true as Holy Writ by comparison with the prospectus of a Summer resort hotel. Hope may spring eternal In the human breast but after 30 Hope usually suffers from rheumatism. Mr. Harriman will spend the next few weeks on his ranch near Klamath Falls watering the stock and shearing the lambs. ... It is but natural that grass widows should object to wearing widow's weeds. Count Zeppelin, the unfortunate air ship inventor, may properly be charged with flying in the face of Providence. When a man contemplates getting married he lies awake nights trying to figure out how he can do It. After he is married he lies awake nlghU trying to figure out why he did It. Those Alluring Ad. Richmond Times-Dispatch. When my two quart, of lemonade Left me 100 in the .hade, Or haply more, Ood wot, I tried, quite vexed, a "Mot" or so. And after that a "Pepal-Co." But ah. they left me hot! I told the hoy to mix m up An "loe-Oold Frlipah" In a cup And then a "Snow-Flake Ball' With several Sundaes on the side -I dranlc 'em. felt myself and crledi "Why, I ain't cool at all!" A "Coca-Pep." a "FriKerate." Some "Fairbanks Coolers" (S or 8), A mus of "Jlnftor-Eaf All these I swallowed on the fir With many like, and then why I Was nearly dead of heat. Each one wan "Ouaranteed to Cool." But didn't there I stood, a fool, 100 tn the shade. said I- "Cuss these newfancled drlnkt!" And, after several lonft, slow thinks, I called: "Boy, lemonade;" Because. AdelaMe Anne Procter. It Is not hecause your heart la mine mine only , Mine alone; It I. not hecause you chose me. weak ana lonely For rour own; Not hec-Buse the earth Is fairer, and th. skies Spread above you Are more radiant for the .hlnlnj of your eyes That I love yon! But because this human love, though tru. and sweet Tours and mine Has been sent by Love more tender, mor. complete. More divine; That it leads our hearts to rest at last In heaven, Far above you; Do I take you as a gift that God ha. given And I love you! The Cold World. FolKer McKlnisey, In Baltimore Pun. A cold iworld. but a ROld world, and th best old world we've cot So, lauKh- and he contented, and b. happy with your lot! A cold world, but a bold world, when th. heart Is beating rljfht, "When the hands have done their duty. And the eves And hidden beauty In the sweet and simple valleys and th. hills that lead to llRht. A cold world, hut a gold world, and the best old world we know. So, deck the lips with laughter and forget about your woe! A cold world, hut a whole world of Mess- Inirs In dlFKulsc. When w,e take Its paths of plenmlng; To the Jgoldcn shores of dreaming. The violets In the meadow, and tli un- ehlne la th. skies! ' find It best to desert Uelchlzedek and
