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WhM VMti luuktlu .).. address, evsn fop one week, don't fall to , mimu emoe ana leave your . order fop The Oregon Dally Journal. 8TOr3rHE BAR AGITATION. - There baa been altogether too much agi tation over the Improvement of the bar at the mouth of the Columbia, it -has v Son no good and much barm. No sooner 1 one plan adopted and work started - Ibaa some ew scheme Is sprung and the work topped, and delay follows. , That thla itiay ot be the Intention of the parties behind the proposed plan la of no sonseqoence. The usual result is a black ly te the port,, and postponement of the , aeoessary work, , The' net result of the recent agitation ' .. ver the plana for the Improvement of the ' Colombia river bar has been the delay f the work for at least one year, the toes of a large amount of the preliminary . ' work, Involving- an expenditure of $260.. , K0, and a constant shoaling of the water Where that should have been a constant .'. fciorease to depth from this. time forward. The appropriation of 1900 gave Captain Langfltt Something more than 1250,000 for krellmlnary work on, the Columbia river L a. careful study had been made by the - engineer and a plan proposed and adopt ed. In the early part of 1901 preliminary work bad proceeded with, this plan in . Mew and had the river and harbor bill ,-' passed much could have been . accom , pushed during that year. TJpOn Itt failure, the preliminary work proceeded, there being sufficient money in band for this purpose and to a large , fegree to protect the work already done. la spite of this, the newer portions of the Jetty suffered some damage during - "1 the- winter of 1901-2. There Is now very grave danger of its being almost entirely destroyed during the coming winter, in volving an additional delay and a very considerable loss which will be charged Up to the Improvement of the Columbia Mver' bar. . While the 1902 river and harbor bill was pending, an agitation was started for change In the plana of the engineers. , This was vigorously pushed and was cora BMBBjaiiteA ,o, tl?A. 4eVyUorvft, .3hiivg-, ton. The result was-that through their efforts a board of engineers was appoint v ed which has recently visited the river and made an examination. -They are now considering what rec-. ' dnunendatlons they should make. No one doubts that they will substantially agree ' with the plan proposed by Captain Lang .' (itt. In fact, whatever plan Is adopted, the first two seasons' work must. In the Bator of things, be substantially upon.! the lines of his project " I Bad Captain,. .Langfltt been permitted "rto prooeed, then this season. Instead of having been entirely lost, would have - seen the jetty extended probably a mile, . perhaps farther. The effect of this upon the bar is more r lees problematical, but it is the be ... lief At many,, well qualified to Judge, that an Increased depth of from one to three ' (set would have been oDtalned. , It is certain that by next season very , '.considerable results could reasonably have been expected. Whereas, as the matter now etands, the best that we may hope ' ' for next season Is what we would have bad this ear, had matters been allowed ' : to take their course. In spit of aU this, thore is now further agitation for the acceptance of the plan .proposed by Mr. tfaupt. This, stripped of patents, "reactions" " and other theories . morS, or less fine-spun, is nothing more than the curving of the Jetty slightly tt the jorthwaxd, instead of to the south ward, as proposed by Langfltt. The first two miles of the Jetty must be built ea practically the same lines, - Whether the Haupt or the LangHit plan be 'S adopted. Since it is conceded by Haupt that his jetty must have a connection . . with the chore for the purpose of trans -: ' porting materials, if for nothing else. i ' .'' There la, therefore, nothing to be gained by th adoption of bis plan at this time. ' ,Xit the work prooeed on Juangfltt's plan, with the) Wkfleratandlag that, H sary, the Haupt plan will receive fun con sideration as the work proceeds. The Haupt advocates admit that hey do not expect the engineers to report fav orably upon bis scheme..1'-What they hope for la sufficient local agitation to Influence the Secretary of War. This would simply mean the appointment of Mother board, and additional delay, and delay Is fatal to the interests of Portland. . ,. Let it be clearly understood, once for all. that whatever plan I adopted for the outer end of the Jetty, the inner end must be substantially the same. The de lay on thla has been time absolutely wasted, and this applies with equal fores to the, north Jetty, which, if built at aU, must be In connection with the Bouth Jetty. The building of the north Jetty will be a difficult, alow and dangerous operation, from the very nature pf the location. And, if Portland must wait for this, the outlook is dark, indeed. By ail means, permit Captain LangfHt to proceed with the plan which he has outlined and studied, and which is most surely more valuable than the plan of any layman. THE SENATORIAL SITUATION. The net result of the movements on the political chess board during the past week has been favorable to Mr. Scott's candi dacy. Good judges believe that the Worst tumbling block in his way is Senator Mitchell This may sound very strange to those who never get below the surface In political matters. But it Is so, 'all the same. The wrongs of a quarter of a century are not so 'easily forgotten or forgiven and besides that the Junior Sen ator will not be satisfied with any one who won't "stand In" for his re-election, or who win In any way out-class him. On the other band, Mr. Matthews will have none but Scott; and brushes aside Senator Mitchell, with no effort to hide his Intention not to let him Interfere with his plans. Indeed, he Is not particularly in love with Senator Mitchell, anyhow, and It would take but little' to kick up a very lively row. ' As far as Charles W. Fulton Is con cerned, he will have to go way back and tit down, for "Jack" has so decreed. In company with his friends Mr! Fjilton does not hesitate to assert that he Is getting ' the "double cross." He is learning what pre-election promises mean. Treachery is talked, for be was the Candidate of all the "its" in MultnomahJrCounty before election. . ld he not bear the brent- of the cam-. palgnT Was he not promised the support , of the delegation from this county? All of this, don't go, for "Jack" says it imply can not be and that Fulton shall not have a vote out of this county, and that is why they don't warm up as they pass by. Outside of this, the members from Mult nomah will do a lot of thinking before they cast a vote for Fulton. The Senator front Clatsop imagines he has votes enough In his vest pocket to elect him, but be la fooled. In Marion County every man but one is for "Oeer," and they will stay by him for a while. Oeer is likely to pick up a few scatter ing votes here and there and presently wlU get lost In the shuffle and will have plenty of time thereafter to wonder where q is ''at" Geer might have been United States Senator if he .had Jtumped the state for the ticket But he didn't. He lacks that element by which great men pluck victory from defeat He is a good letter writer, but he pen won't win out this time. Moody is friendly to Scott, and he can Influence several votes. Scott stood by Furnish, and he is far from a dead one, as some will undoubtedly learn in the future. Furnish Is a whole lot bigger 'man than many credit him with being, even though he cannot make a speech, and he. has never been charged with ingratitude. Then Scott is an old timer, and there are always other "old timers" In the Legislature. Bo take It all In all, the Scott stock is raising. Mr. Hlrsch has as yet given no sign. He is one of the few publlo men In Ore gon for whom practically everyone has a friendly feeling. He evidently is not go hmjtp tatejrCereJn ihe fjght of thejeaders, but will gi ve them a fair field and stranger things may happen in politics than the Senatorial toga falling on his shoulders. , Jonathan Bourne la digging very deep; so deep, Indeed, that few can see any surface indications. It will indeed be a tea party if Fulton falls into Mr. Simon's arms; Mitchell and Matthews scrap; Scott ' and Geer join iareeajd.eewnerp-alces-Thce-alt around. Stranger things than this have happened in regon politics. Two years ago last June who would have believed that in the spring of 1902 the Oregenian would have been in bed with gentlemen it had branded as 1 . We haven't type warm enough to fill in the spaces, e we will let the dash stand. .Besides that, the expressions used were not nice and polite; on the contrary, as most remember, they were extremely dis courteous. WHERE ALEXANDER FOUQHT The Emperor of Germany Is busy- with an unique project that will be of value to the historical as. well as the military world. Some time ago he dispatched Colonel Janke and Captains von Bis marck, Von Plessen and Von Marees to Asia .Minor to make topographical and photographlcal studies and to draw up complete charts of the famous battle fields of Alexander the Great Especial ly good chart! and pictures have een obtained of the fields of the Issus, where Alexander conquered Darius 2236 years ago, and the battle of the Cranlkos, where he beat the Persians a year before that WILL. LECTURE. Francis John Reits,' ex-secretary of state 'of the South African Republic, or Transvaal, who arrived In New Tork on Saturday, will go on a lecture tour in this country. H declares he will never return te Booth Africa, ' THE TABASCO C0LUBIN, A dispatch from Washington a, .few day ago says: "Society and official Cir cles at Washington are interested In the announcement of the engagement of Miss Helen Roosevelt-Roosevelt, the daughter of Jamea Roosevelt-Roosevelt, to Theo dore Roosevelt Douglas Robinson, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson, a nephew and namesake of the President Miss Roosevelt is a cousin, several times removed, of her fiancee. Her home la in Hyde Park, on the Hudson, the country place of her late grandfather, James Roosevelt-Roosevelt" How do yon sup pose the Roosevelt that 1 the Roosevelt velt, when he read about the double Roosevelt-Roosevelt who raised Helen Roosevelt-Roosevelt? Congressman Jefferson M. Levy has been telling Londoners that prosperity "has come to America to stay, but he didn't say bow long it would stay, or whether it would spend its time at Newport or with the common people. Coffee growers are trying to devise some means by which the heavy surplus now on hand may be disposed of. ' As a suggestion, prayerful entreaty in the res taurants might cause some of them to use It in their coffee. The coal barons say they have a plan by which the poor people of New Tork City cart be supplied with coal in small quantities at low prices. If the rich man get cold he can either stand and de liver, or shiver. A minister at Hastings, Neb., recently went slumming and found ainumber of his congregation in a gambling room. Maybe they were slumming, too, and were sur prised to find their minister there. ' Miss Anna Daun was married in the Anthony homestead at Rochester, N. T., Thursday last, and Susan B. Anthony was the "maid of honor." She might be classed as an "old maid" of honor. , A preacher discussing the coal strike says the operators should follow the example of Christ. It depends on the ex ample. If it was walking on the sea, the suggestion is not without merit It is hoped that Schwab will draw suffi cient inspiration from the aesthetic en vironments of the Mediterranean to teach him how to spend his "steel" money iq the most poetical manneft What would become of a fellow's best girl If she followed all the health culture advice she gets In the Sunday encyclo pedias, and then ate all the breakfast foods advertised In them? Seventh street, back of the Portland Hotel, has been plowed, but whether it is to be sown to grass, or Manager Bowers will use it for a garden patch, nobody knows. A company of Latter Day Saints has purchased the La Orande Electric Light plant. It Is hoped that "religious illumin ation" will be more plentiful thereabouts. Tohe and "Puttee" are In Buenos Ayres, which means good air. Well, they will come as near keeping' it from getting stuck up over its name as anyone could. Some scientist has discovered that there are germs In the telephone. They must be germs of profanity, for that is what the 'phone breeds. The Chicago Chronicle says: "A deficit Is a good thing." This may be, but it suits us better when It Is In the other fellow's pocket. W. J. Bryan Is Said to have S168.000 In the bank, a home worth $40,000, and an Income of 91500 a week, and yet people say talk Is cheap. ' Professor Garner now asserts that he can understand the monkey language. Maybe he has been talking to Harry Lehr. Saturday at the play at the Marquam was Hall Calne's "Peniteat." That's where he differed from the original Cain. Although the President is on crutches, his utterances on the strike situation and settlement are not in the least lame. From its malignant tendencies, "wide openness" cannot be cured without the use"of the political knife, it seems. The facts surrounding the robbery of the Indianapolis cemetery by negroes are doubtless somewhat "colored." Speaking of Juvenile naughtiness. It 1 no worse that "Johnny-jump-up" than It is that "Merry-go-'round." A Chicago professor calls Baer an an archist This is the meanest thing ever sprung on the anarchist President Roosevelt should be careful In handling the throttle of publlo policies. He is only a fireman. In the Interest of publlo safety we hope there will always be Miles between us and the Filipinos. Santos-Dumont can turn trp his nose at the other aeronauts. They are not highflyers. A Boston girl is never "up to date" be cause she is always one of the has beans. The slot machines are Itbale to be as rare and hard to find as nlckles. A harrowing operation smoothing Seventh street Hail Calne's "Eternal City" at of coarse a holy show. Autumn If thread-bare. " . A H0JIEE? SKETOL - .1 1: ! 'M- k' At the extreme acuta end of Grand Bond Valley, whet the rock-ribbed hills, that run south for seven or eight mile parallel to form Pyle Canyon, open out to Otake room for the smiling valley, stands a rugged, uninviting cliff of red rocks. No vegetation grows upon this pinnacle, tospeak of. except ellngthg sarvls bush and the Uttle spray Of Indian arrow wood. Pyle Canyon narrows down to about 100 feet in width, at this point and it was hero in the days of the pack train and emigrant caravan that Joseph Vowel) planted hts toll gats. Here the toiling argonauts bound to ward the Idaho mines left the pleasant meadow lands or the Grand P.onde, and began the jugged ascent of the hills. The Idaho stage, dashing down the tortuous grade, blew a bugle on approaching this gate and the keeper let down the bar so it might pass without delay. Many a blast of that old bugle has echoed back among the cliffs of that historic ground. On this spot, in 1M2, a band of Immi grants were camping for the night. It was In September, that haunting, hacy time, that stands (between summer and autumn. The pickets were out. The stock was being guarded near. The fires were blazing brightly. Women and children were laughing and chatting among the changing shadows of the night. A yell of the Cayuse warriors sent consternation into the camp. The stock was stampeded. Half a dozen of the guards were pierced with arrows. The Immigrants rallied to the attack, chased the Indians over the hills to the north and after hard work, gathered up their scattered stock. W. H. Hutchinson, who was with this party, lo cated a homestead about one mile west cf the spot, and lived a long and useful life under the shadow of this range of hills, over which the Cayuse charged the camp that night Today the arrow heads and flint spear heads of the warriors may be found here. The rock hut, which formed part of the abode of the toll gate keeper, stllj stands In part. The pack train men cut a grade around the brow of the hill above the toll road, about three miles in length to avoid pay ing toll. It is still visible from the car window. BERT HUFFMAN. AFTER NINE YEARS. A mother and son who had been sep arated for nine years were brought to gether at Maricopa on Tuesday night in a curious manner. Among the passen gers who arrived there en the west-bound train were two women, one of whom was coming to Phoenix on her way to the northern part of the territory. Leaving the train both women went to the Ed wards House and ordered supper and ar ranged to stay there until the train left for Phoenix in the morning. While their supper was being served a group of half a dozen men gathered on the porch in front of the dining room. Among them was a tramp who . had; been hanging around the station for a. jahort time. He was sitting on a bench taking no part fn the conversation. In the meantime the women at supper were busy talking. After awhile the tramp said, more to himself than to those who sat near him: ''That sounds like my mother's voice:" JaclHarrls. the manager of the hotel, asked him if his mother were living. He replied that he did not know; he had not heard from her for nine years. He lis tened a little longer to the speaking woman and repeated: ' "That sounds ex actly like my mothers!volce." There was something about his" wanner of say ing it that impressed Mr.' Harris and (he went Into the dining room and asked the woman who Was talking if she had any children. She replied, that she had a daughter. "Have you no son." asked Mr. Harris, "yes," she replied ."I may have: I had one, but I don't know where he is. He is twenty-five years old if he is living, I heard from him In Colorado nine or ten years ago, and I suppose ha Is there yet." "No, he Isn't," said Mr. Harris. "He's sitting on a bench out jthere," pointing toward the door. The woman looked at the manager in amazement and then fol lowed him to the door. "TJje recognition ox the tramp and the woman 'was mutual and Immediate. There was no over whelming demonstration; They were mother .and son. The woman took the young man- into the dining rooga and or dered supper for him, the first square meal he had had, perhaps,' for days. He was given decent lodging at the hotei that night, and yesterday, morning his mother . hfoig,h.t htm.. Xk. Phoenix, , With her. Now that she has found him, she is going to keep him with her wherever she goes. They left this- morning for Je rome. Arizona Republican. ZOLA'S ROYALTIES $60,000 YEARLY. Presumably Zola died a wealthy man very wealthy as Frenchmen count wealth. A few years ago It was estimat edth,aJu.hjExoyaltles, serial rights and rights of translation" 'oTnBft"oWW readg, published reached a total of $60,000 a year. When he was first employed by Hachette et Cie, in the early '60 s, he re ceived a salary that might have been about $6 a week, and that was after months of pinching poverty when he worked for a pittance of between $2 and $3 a week. When he died he owned a luxuriously furnished house in the Rue de Bruxelles in Paris and a country house at Medan, nr-ar'the SeTne, a few miles from Paris. New Tork Sun. THE BREAKFAST FOOD FAMILV. John Spratt will eat no fat Nor will he touch the lean. He scorns to eat of any meat; He lives upon Foodine. But Mrs. Spratt will none of that; Foodine she cannot eat Her special wish is for a dish Of Expurgated Wheat To William Spratt that food Is flat On which his mater dotes. His favorite feed his-special need: - Is Eata Heapa Oats. But Sister 141 can t see how Will Can touch such tasteless food 1 As breakfast fare It can't compare ' She says, with Sliredded Wood. Now, none of thle Leander please; He feeds upon Bath Mitts. While Sister Jane Improved her brain With Cere-Grapo-Qrlts. , Lycurgus votes for Father's Oats;. Proggine- appeals to May; The Junior John subsists upon Vneeda Bayla Hay. Corrected Wheat for little Pete; ' Flaked Pine for Dot; while "Bub," The infant Spratt Is waxing fat On Battle Creek Near-Grub. -Chicago Tribune. THE STATE PRESS. It is Not Profitable. ' , ... A party of. surveyors were at work last week -down the Tualatin Valley: from Beaverton towards the river and it Is surmised that the Southern ' Pad flo Is going to make .another effort to get out of Portland this way without climbing the Fourth street hill. This thing of tak ing two engines to get three passenger coaches out of town IS not a profitable enterprise aa a steady business. Forest Grove Tiroes. The People Wits the' Miners. Even if the first conference held under the auspices of the President did nothing else It served to show that the miners were willing to go more than half way towards settlement They have never Increased their, demands with the ad vance of public opinion, but have simply stood firmly on a demand madei when they did not know whether the world would be with them or not That the great mass of the people is now with the miners' cannot be denied and if they can suppress the more enthusiastic of their numbers so as to eliminate all vio lence, their position ' will strengthen 'day by day. Astorlan. A Pretty Good American. There may be some difference Of opin ion respecting the legitimacy of the methods by which our acquisitive fellow citizen J. Plorpont Morgan matt his millions, but ft must be said that he hows no disposition to spend them in buying titles for 'his female relatives. In some things Plerpont is a pretty good American. Astoria Budget. -, Possibilities of Flax Culture. It Is not at all Improbable that within a decade or two the business of growing flax for fiber will be worth more than hops to the farmers of the Willamette Valley. This would in itself mean much. Whenever the business of growing flax for fiber reaches large dimensions in this state it will result' In the development of a manufacturing business which will be of greater importance to the state than the production of the fiber. More Profitable. No cargoes of Willamette Valley wheat are now being shipped abroad. All the large wheat shipments from Portland come from east of the mountains. But this Is not a sign of tne decadence or retrogression of the Willamette Valley; on the contrary, of Its advancement, its farms can be put, and In a yearly In creasing number of cases are put, to more profitable uses than raising wheat for export. Development In this direc tion will continue, and will Involve many more and better dairies, more and better orchards, more and better live stock, and a greater diversity of products. . Will Be a Busy Session. The members of the next State Legis lature will have their hands full working for their constituency, and the member who passes through the session with a good record will be subject tq congratula tions. Already there are several im portant matters up for consideration; the question of an appropriation ot $500,000 or some other amount for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, that Is tne amount that will be asked. A request for an appropriation Of $300,000 for the Indian war veterans, and the usual big demands for appropriations for the U. of O., O. A. C, and Normal schools, be sides numerous other things - of an ex pensive character, J not. forgetting tne present graft system of paying fees to state officials. Iij fact the member had better begin scratching his head to learn what the dear people wish about these and other things that may come up. Albany Democrat. Patriots Are Scarce. The failure on the part of the public to rush before the Board of Equalization to have assessments raised, illustrates the fact that there are always more chronic howlers than men of action. Any one can stand on the street corners and score the manner In which public affairs are conducted and can calculate to a mathe matical certainty how long It will take to land on a back seat, but when it comes to facing the situation and offering a remedy or taking such action as will recover a country that is rapidly going to the dogs, patriots are scarce. There are a great many things done -nowadays on paper and through the hot air pro cess. East Orpgonlan. Their Attitude Is Brutal. Nothing could be more unreasonable than the stand taken by the coal opera tors In their recent conference with the JPrestdent These -"captains of Industry" l r attrlA tViAtaaalv.a "find', nhnnan nan. pie," perhaps are not gifted with enough brains to realize that the operation or coal mines concerns them not alone, but every one who uses coal for fuel. Their present attitude is fully as brutal as WHS"that-t5f- the- Klondike -transporaOan. companies, which a few years ago had hundreds of tons of provisions locked up in warehouses while miners actually starved to death. Baer and the men associated' with htm are scoundrels. The miners ask an advance of only 1 cents an hour. These men, whose work is most laborious, eat meals which cost but 3 cents each. Things have indeed come fo a sorry pass when American worklngmen must thus limit themselves. Baer and his co-conspirators against the general welfare are rolling in millions, yet they have no thought for 'the 150,000 miners and 1,000,000 others who must pinch themseives because the operators are absolutely devoid of any sense of Justice. Astorlan. JEROME WILL CRUSH. Addressing an audience of New York w or IclngmeJiPlstrict Attorney Jerome is quoted as saying: "Let me tell you that if ever you arouse capital it will crush you into the dust as labor has never been crushed before, and the political liberties1' of thlseeuntey. will- be a mteg of the past." Bad as that? It's awfuL But we feel safe as long ss our unselfish. patriotic orators Continue to labor for us with . their powerful Jaws, no matter what the wear and tear on their larynx es. New Orleans News." THE POINT OF VIEW. Tom ml e How was w the table where you boarded this summer T Babble All right for ping pong, but pretty poor for grvb. Tcnkers Btates- 11 W-H ENTERTADUNG CONVENTIONS.' Nearly, all the" Western cities have a burning desire , to : become . convention cities, - ss they call It rand all kinds of schemes are put up t secure sueh alleged honors. ' S -.,;r ':.;.:. -."v--, . , Ot course, no en supposes 'that the eagerness to entertain convections Is the result of any civlo philanthropy: certainly no one does who has had the misfortune to arrive In a convention pity when the entertaining was in full blast. . The whole Idea that "makes the Wheels go round" is the insatiable wish for" more adver tising. This is a very honorable desire, and ons -that pays wen, provided the re sults are pleasing to the guests, but if for any reason, the' majority of them go away dissatisfied you can bank on it that the investment has been a Very poor one, and the money spent In this typs of adver tising has been worse than thrown away. Salt Lake City and San Francisco have both recently entertained conventions, the one. the Elks ahd the other the Knights of Pythias, and from all accounts we gather that neither of these places In any way covered themselves with glory, In fact tho number of . "kicks" that are being registered suggest that they didn't even get . ay spatter of glory. One of tho kicks Is re-printed under "Sparks," and certainly does not warrant any high hopes of the advertising received by these two cities being of the slightest appreciable value. One reason for .the frequent failure in such undertakings is (hat most of the cities, particularly in the West are really not large enough to entertain conventions that mean the temporary addition of sev eral thousand persons to their population, and this causes the unsatisfactory and irrlatlng over-crowding of the hotels, etc., makes opportunity for the landlords thereof to charge robber-fates, and opens the door' for the, usual all-round-fleecing of the "welcome guest" that is so com plained of. The result is, too often, that the visitor gets a most unfavorable Impression of the place and people, and returns horns with the firm belief that, after all, there is no place like home; and when such is the case there is no room to question w hether the lnvestment'on the part of the convention city Is a good one. It Isn't. Western Investments. TO BLOW FOG AWAY. The fog bogle costs the people of this city from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 annually, to say nothing "of the continual Inconven ience of It, and the accompanying danger from accidents. ' . These figures are based on estimates made by the Hon. Rollo Russell, who would also regulate rainfall, by his fa mous "rain walls," about which he wrote a book recently. "I think my calculations fairly ac curate," says Russell, "when I fix the cost of one bad fog at $25,000 a day in ad ditional gas alone. "It seems to ma that the atmosphere o London yes, of the whole city of Lon donmight be cleared by scientific drf vices such as huge electric fans, to blow it away, or something of that sort. This, 1 think, could be accomplished for not more than $20,000 a day and the heaviest fog that" ever riled a cabby could be driven away. I'm Working on a scheme with this In view and I shall not give up till I've solved" the Sftrblent. : "Do you know. In summer we realiy lose one-sixth of our sunshine and day light by fog, mlBts and smoke, while, in winter, the loss is one-half. , "There Is really no reason why the problem of fog removal should be moie perplexing than that of disposing "of sewage. The reason It Is, Is that sewage problems were wrestled with as long ago as the palmy days of the Roman repub lic, while no one has gone at fog or smoke with anything like a scientific method." Russell says the death rate will be greatly reduced as soon as the fogs can be coped with successfully. St. Louis Chronicle. WATER DRINKING IN CHINA. Among the numerous forms of water filter, to the use of whleh the resident of the Far East Is in a chronic bondage. is one which is a combination of suc tion pump and force pump. There are two parallel tubes Joined, in one of which in fitted a piston, the raising of which draws the water into Its cylinder through a ball Valve. . By pressing down the pis ton the water is now driven Into the other tube. Into .which Is inserted a filter cylin der like a thick candle, which seems to be composed of some form of compressed mineral. The water, having nowhere else to go. Is forced through the pores of the filter cylinder, emerging through a nickel plafed tube in a stream of pure water tho size of a lead pencil. By means of this Invention, which Is packed In a tin case useful for sterilization, the traveler who arrives at an Oriental mudhole has only to screw on a tube (fitted with, a stirrup to give pressure by the foot), insert the auction .nd-o his tuhaln .thajsater pui1. and push the piston a sufficient number of times, and he is provided With the re quired amount of germ proof water, pure and wholesome! Distillation, with its wearisome delays and its insipid prod ucts, is dispensed with altogether. Theo retically, all that one needs Is the mud hole, a cup and the filter, and the re sults are speedy, sure, and satisfactory. North China Herald.- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF F088. The most significant result in all last night's caucup contests is beyond ques tion the success of Mr. Eugene F. Foss In the Eleventh district in carrying oft the nomination against so formidable and popular an antagonist as Mr. Adams. Local Interests and sympathies doubtless exerted great Influence In behalf of Mr. Foes, but his Strength even In the wards which Mr. Adams carried demonstrates the popularity, within "Republican' lines," of the policy , of tarlif revision which he has championed. That Is tho significance of the' success of Mr. Foss. In no other district ha this issue beeB " of i.nyTs portance In determining the result though it is noteworthy that Messrs. Levering and Gardner both art inclined to believe that the time Is at hand when revision, maintaining the protective prin ciple, must be taken op tor consideration. Boston Transcript , - - NOISELESS AT TIME8. A writer in the Nouvelle Revue bewails tne absence of a noiseless . typewriter. Treat 'em right They won't make any noise. New Orlenas News, f-; ' , TONIGHT'S ATTRACTIONS, ' The i- Baker-The". " Christian," Hall qaine'g pjay. NeTU.Ctock Company? Cordray's "Nevada," Elsa Ryan. " ', COMING ATTRACTIONS V ,-Marquan-"Llberty Belles,'' Tuesday and Wednesday nights. v' "King Dodo," Thursday Sad Friday nights and Saturday matinee. The Baker "The Christian" for the week. Cordray's "Nevada for ths week. ' - The Christian' a Top-Liner. - v Every person who attended the Baker Theatre on Sunday afternoon or Bight Is wondering how the, Nefil Stock Company '. could learn parts in, rehearse, stage and produce Hall Calne's "Ths Chrlstlen" within on week, and present so high . class product as that given at ths two performances. It was flattering sue- , cess. It was witnessed by an audience that brought ths standing room sign into use bsfore ths doors opened, advance sales having exhausted the capacity. Tho " 'first two productions were necessarily slower than the others will be, and ths audience last night were kept In their ' seats until midnight Tet, with "last . cars" leaving and long Walks homeward in store, the audience waited until the denouncement of tho absorbingly inter esting stage story ot The Christian." congratulations, are due Manager Baker, fjtage Directors Morris and Dills, and every member of the company. Miss Ccuntlss, as Gloria Quayle, had her triumph of the season, perhaps, ths triumph of her career. She must find some part of great excellence, and enact the role upon fie level of the geniuses, if cnee more she attain to the brilliancy of her work in these first performances . of "The Christian." It was In the middle of the first act, after the prologue, when Horatio Drake mistakes the situation and she realises his mistake, when she in return mistakes his motives and mistakes them to the limit of izrjustloe, that Gloria Quayle rose to command and was there after mistress ore very situation. A finer hit of acting than in that scene with Diake has seldom been seen, and yet it was duplicated, and reduplicated, with John Storm In the third act, and several times during the play. And John Storm, played by Charles Wyngate, was one of those finished pro ducts Of the actor that he never falls to give whatever be the character as sumed or the weight of the demands. In his scene with Gloria in the club room of the brotherhood there was approximate perfect ion, and a doses times 'during the performance he was sgatn flawless. Gloria Quayle is the part permitting the greatest range of talent It offers boundless possibilities. It Is of a woman whose range of emotion embraces the en tire scope of what a good woman feels and thinks and Which enlists sympathy in every situation. It Is electric with feeling. It could so easily be marred by crudities of enunciation or facial expres sion or made weak by lack of that subtle clement which the true artist always in jects into acting temperament. Ahd yet there was not a weak spot In the por trayal. while many times there were power and strength. Slorm, the complement of Gloria In ev- . cry essential ot human nature, also afy fords wonderful opportunity for Mr. Wyngate. who grasps the situation with masterful command of all of the essen tials. I One might go through the cast and commend without leaving one exception. Indeed, Justice compels it. Next to ths two lead parts, air. Bernard as Drake was entitled to recognition of good acting and finished work. But one may read the cast com plete and throw compliments galore at every one. The play will have do served capacity houses for the week. Its success Is assured. "Nevada." "Nevada," at Cordray's in which Elsa Ryan is the star. Is a dratna which has for Its setting a mining camp, in tho frontier districts during the turbulent days of '49. The play brings out those re freshing traits of loyalty and 'Independ ence whieh were characteristic of ths days When' right was enforced at the point of the six-shooter. , The scenery througnanT is paTritM"td show to the best advantage the motin ' talneer and woods In which nestles the mining camp, where the character In the plot is laid. Some of the effects are' grand and realistic. Little Dolly Gray Is the wild, nntam'i' daughter of George Gray, a drunken miner. She Is the Idol of the camp and is a ciamond in the rough. Her acting Is natural, and manner pleasing. Her sup port is good. Jack Marshall, in his ref- 'omtattcrn from-" aarblerr thew-man :-" manly traits that are subject to applause. Jim Curtlss, the villain, is the worst kind and comes to grief in the end. Pretro Peres, the tool of Curtis, i cordially hated by the audience from his first appearance on the boards to the very last. The play is Intermixed with enough of the humorous to keep the aud ience good natured. It runs for the week and will have Immense business. If the first perform-, ances are criterion. . "The Christian." The Portland- theatre-goers certain! owe a debt of gratitude to George L. Baker, for being able to get such pro ductions as TJie NelU Stock Company have been putting oh this season at pop ular prloes. Though "The Christian" has . . been here twice before, we will venture to. say that not altogether It has been seen by over 5000 people In Portland to daynot that they did not want to see It the other vast majority but It would be here f ot perhaps two nights at a tltttA . In many cases conflicting with sickness or other imperative engagements, making It impossible to go; or the prices were such that by the time two or ..four mem- ' berS'Of the family would go, a sum had been , expended that to a great many peo pie was aJ matter ot rather serious con sequences. Now,- however, the play will have run nine full performances, two matinees ' and seven evenings, and with aproduo tlon re feel, perfectly safe in asserting; that Is' Second In no way to any ttut kia ever bees, seen la Portland j. -T v. . i .......