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EDITORjIclL COcTWcTWENT cAND TIcWELY TOPICS THE ORjEGON DAILY JOURNAL BY S. JACKSON Jfrmmtaf JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. Address! THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth yd Yamhill Stt.. Portland, Or POOR KING EDWARD WORKS PRETTY. HARD CITY OFFICIAL PAFER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Entered at the Post office uf tlaiut. Oregon, for transmission through the malls as eecond-clar matter. Postage for single copies For an 8. K), or 12-puge paper, l cent; l to 2S pages, 2 cents: over IS pages, 8 ien!s. ; Business OffUf Or Jon, Main S00: Columbia. To5. Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 250. . . . fX Terms by Mail. .I.OO The Pally Journal, by mall, one year.. II. 00 2.60 The Dally Journal, by mall, hIx months. 2.25 1. 30 , The Dully Journal, by mull, three month 1.2j .10 The Dallv Journal, bv mull, one month. .50 Terms by Carrier. The Dally Journal, on year The Dally Journals six months The Dally Journal, three months . The .Dally Journal, by the week ... The 8eml-Weekly Journal. Tha Weekly Journal. The Semi-Weekly Journal, eight to twelve The Weekly Journal, 100 columns of read 'pagea each Issue, all the news ami full ; Ins each Issue, Illustrated, full market re market reports one year $1. &0. ' j ports, one year. 11.60. - .ij.. Omittances should be made by drafts, postal notes, express orders and small amounts art acceptable In one and two-cent postage stamps. ' THET JOURNAL, P. O. Box 121 Portland, Oregon. . Wealth Is simply one of the greatest powers which can be entrusted to human hands; a power, not Indeed id b envied, because It seldom makes us happy, but till Tes to be adblcated or despised; while In these days and In this country, It has become a power all the more notable. In that the "possessions of a rich man are not represented, as they Used to be, by hedges of gold or coffers of , Jewels, but by masses of men variously employed, oveV whose bodies and minds the wealth, ac cording to Its direction, exercises harmful Influence, and becomes, In that altern ative, mammon . either of unrighteousness or of righteousness. John Ruskln. , , : y , THE TRUTH IS NOT "MUD" . To search out facta discreditable to a ian - dJdate Is nor 'TOud slinging.;' If they be facta. It Is right that a tierce light should beat around the man who aspires to repre sent the people In public office. Ills charac ter Is Justly subject to Inquiry'. 1 The voters Of Krn tnstr.iet nave oeen considering the i-luiir ot two men for rlec- . . UnUV'CntMA".Rw"', f Jnck- SOnvllle, and Binger Hermann, of Roseburg. It la trylng,f Indeed,' for the mart "who offers " himself" fori the " people's " suffrages.- " Tho )oes so, mtist expert (hut a brilliant search light, will be turned upon Mm; thnt.Jf he has ajt any. time besn derelict In his duty, that dereliction will bo discovered. v . ' Arid., If failure to", measure up to alight standard baa marked' his" public laroer, then he has no Just complaint If such failure be fold to' the people; " .. Maln.:jet. lt.be ald. tttat truth telrng Is not mud Slinging- v Truth 1 pare, and no "honest man objects to the fullest publica tion of any fact . that pertain to his career, public or private. -f Indeed, the honest man i comparatively small proportion of the Immi grants who now reach our shores come from northerti or western Europe. Fully two thirds of them are fromy Italy. Russia and Aus trlu. Those provinces of the Russian Empire most nearly adjoining Asia have of late years contributed more and more heavily to the great flood which has been pouring into the United States. The consequence has been a marked deterioration even within the past 20 years, In the chapter of the Immi grants arriving from Europe. They are on the average much lower in (he scale of . In telligence, and much less fitted for Amer ican citizenship' than the average arrivals two decade ago. The problem of assimila tion of' these foreigners becomes increasingly grave and is the subject of. much serious discussion among students of . the nation's progress. The Eastern states are slowly awakening to the dangers Inherent In practically unre stricted Immigration. They huye had little sympathy with the demand Gtfsthe West for Chinese exclusion, but the wlsodm of that policy must be Impressed upon them as they witness the consequences attendant upon the (By. T, TP. O'Connor.) ' ' I cannot hope to add anything torthe excellent descriptions of the King's visit to Pai ls which have appeared at such length- In the dally papers, but I have gathered one or two Intimate Impressions pf the -visit from a friend who has Just returned from the French capital. ( .'. ' In the first place I hear that the number of the ceremonials which were prepared for the King was In strict accordance with his own wishes. In these things there is al ways a confidential exchange of views between the diplomatists of both nations, and the foreign office here was sounded as to whether the King desired to be spared or to be worked to death, It wasn't put hat way1, but that's "what it carte to. The answer was that the more ceremonies thjre were the better the King would like it, and that accounts for the extraordinary number of reviews, receptions, dinners, gala performances,:,, etc., through which the King had to pass, "f ' . '. .... ' ' , V i ..-;...-.--.,.. Of course, It was very fine of the King to prefer doing even the hardest duties to disappointing the Parisians or neglecting anjj. opportunity of turning his visit Into a great international act of peuce and good will, but all the same It makes one almost dJssy to read of the vast muss of events that had to be ( rushed Into the 2 hours of a day. From 8 In the morning till long after midnight the poor King was kept folng. and during all that time he bad to watch everjr. word and almost every look, to be pleasant to everybody, never to look bored, always" to have the right word for the scores of people he met, the right look for the hundreds of thousands of spectators through whom he pussed. - j-'.T - '' It proves what everybody on the Inside track of public affairs knows that royalty, Instead of. being one of the easiest, Is nowadays one of the most laborious of trades, and that the King, of a country like England has to w ork harder than the most hard-worked 4 politician. In bis wide-empire, ': , . . .... ..w- . . l nave detected only one occasion in ail tne reports wnere tne iving seems ror mo ment to have given way to the naturalixnan. When he and. M. Loubet, the President, appeared at the Comedle Francaixe for a gala performance it was observed that they said very little to each other; and It Is even hinted thnt M. Ioubet. the simple country at-' torney, who Is the typical and excellent representative of a republic of small fortunes and frugal lives, now mid then went dangerously near to haying his 40 winks. The King was beset, I am sure, by the same awful temptation, but he Is too stout a soldier to show any weakness while onsentry. Yet he wss silent, and evidently fagged out. and It was observed that he. was Jjklne lozenges, doubtlessor a slight cold. " My friend, returned from Paris, tells me thnt the docorations of the streets were beautiful and opulent beyond anything she had ever seen In London even on great oc casions. The expense to which some of the hotel-keepers and shopkeepers, as well as the nobility, went, must have been enormous. The Hotel Hits, for Instance, was decorated with ruby velvet, and with banks of flowers which must have cost large sums1 Indeed, so beautiful were the hotel decora tions that many people thought the King was stopping there. It was not so; as everybody knows, ne round his temporary home In the fine building of the English embassy. A It shows what shrewd and prompt people the owners of the big shops in Paris are, that they had even at such short notice manufactured vast quantities of huge artificial flowers, representing the rose, thistle, and shamrock. " The reception by the people In the streets was extremely friendly; Indeed, the visit of the King produced something like a big outburst of motion, and "le Roi qui passe" be came one of the cries that brought hundreds to a spot and scores to a window. Two morals I draw from the. whole business. The first Is that the King Is resolved, that his reign shall not be a mere fashionable chronicle, but shall figure among those made memorable by great acts of policy, and, above all, by great acts of reconciliation In the Jarring discords, wherever they may be. among the relations of his country with other peoples. The second Is a strong proof of how wisely royalties are educated com pared with other people. Everybody in Paris is won by the graclousness, affability, and approachableness of the King. , But it must be at once said that, great as la the King's natural tact, he would not have felt so completely at his ease If he had not been a perfect master of the language of the people among whom he was moving. To be able to "speak with a people In their own tongue Is to have at once a key to their hearts, and the French of the King is as perfect as that of an academician. How few' of his subjects have had the same ad vantage of proper education! HE LEFT- MILLIONS TO HIS FIANCEE upon us from Southern and Eastern Europe. If European governments are permitted to continue to unload upon the United States all the undesirable elements of their popula tions, the "Ignorant, the' paupers and the criminals, the. political and Industrial Ills from-whlch we already suffer must be vastly augmented. ' . . j...i.iL I... n.il l.la . J .. pourw complete imcIB..iv" ""-jinfiux of the vast hordes now floating In anro:hm-Tfianrwircn-fart ,-, .i,;r A v:, w.nrw, that .-create- suspicion in the minds of . Justly disposed persons falls to demand Inquiry, to the end that he 'ma? have vindication, j t - '- Bmger Hermann stariiis Indicted before th world for .questionable conduct In the, pffice et thCominlslonet.of,. ibA.l3eneraL Land Department at Washington. He was .forced ut therefrom, "under clouds that Justify be lief In his serious guilt, a belief that will al ways remain, unless dispelled by Endings in official Investigation. " It has been alleged that one A, R. Green, special agent of the Interior Department, Hied a confidential report last year, that -was , the cause for President Roosevelt and Sec- ' retary Hitchcock imperatively demanding Mr. Hermann's resignation, a resignation be- ' frig permitted as - a compromise effected through the entreaties of Oregon politicians -ho pleaded potential Injury to their party affairs in Oregon if other course be pursued. ( The rule of the Interior Department could be waived at the request of the ex-commls-ioner, and the confidential reprt would then be accessible. The Journal. hflS striven . to secure this report, but w.-ip mc ut the In terior Department with the answer that these -onfi';enti;il report m. when they reflect Upon or sue ;iccii?;ilory of any officii!!, lire' retained fii.ci 'he public. j The JouriM, tKflilx 'that refusal to permit, the tireen report to ro to the world lia been ! Constructive i or'i er.sion of the allegation thst it would h..vr Iwn ilWas; rocs to Mr. Hermann s , iiinliii.i. y li. il it lien published. It Is ntere!y lor Mr. Hermann to do what a lawyer doe: uhf ii hf pr-vents the introduc tion of darr.ajsiiir: testimony. ol'J'"etlns upon i ''t-hnicali' i"1 ; 1 1 1 v. innlu! upon tei hnii al Ities. ' . j It ,is irt'.ial of the claim that Agent Green report-'I f.n l. that Mr. Her mann dare i,ot till to llie v.oiiu, jind that. Mr. Herniiii;'i .: 'i-'-t!isnel because of the atatementu suluiii'teiJ by Asent 'ireen anil for the open r'-fntiit'on of w hieh .Mr. llcr , matin has 'iver askeil an invcstiKutiou. j ...i When .in Ami'! i ttp itlrman fears lnves- i tigation, "Is it ruiil i 'in-ill, k 1o proceed to I prove facts that ni'irontraie his lack m. tlt liess for public office ? Do not American gentlemen, such gentle- ' ir.en ui we delight to hold up before the youth s ideals of manhood MORE THAN A MERE -STUMP SPEECH When S. W. Tulloch, former cashier of the Washington. D. (.'.. postofflce, declared that gross frauds had been perpetrated In the de partment, charging, among other things, that there had been Jobbery In connection with the purchase of letter boxes, Postrriaster Oenerql Payne ridiculed the assertions, which lie" described as "largely a stump speech." "('an you," he asked, "expect us to investigate a stump speech?" 'ow that Superintendent Machen Is form- ally accused of having received an- annual rake-of? of 120,000 from letter box contracts, the evidence, being strong enough to lead to his arrest, perhaps the Postmaster-General may conclude that even a "stump rpeeclr" Is sometimes worth Investigating. Mr. Payne's attitude flnce this Investigation was commenced has not been such as to gain for hlni either the respect or the confidence of ; the public. His persistent attempts to be 1 Utile the revelations of corruption have , placed him In a most unenviable light, i While he hp.H been engaged In unearthing a two-cent embezzlement in Indiana, the swindlers and the grafters who have been j ' stalliiK thousands have been permitted to j i carry, on their operations undisturbed. Tulloch's charges appear to have been .something more than a mere "stump speech." RUSSIA'S STERN, UNJUST POLICY TOWARD THE JEWS. Hideous as Is the crime of Klsheneff, it calls for no hysterics and no Indiscriminate ravings against Russia, any more than for attempts to Justify race hatreds and their tragic outcome. The simple facta, are what the world wants, and then Impartial Justice.- There haw bwn -sorrte -f reifSeWt having again) all Russia, from the Emperor down. There have also been attempts to. palliate the Bessarablan Infamies and to make It ap pear that the Jews have suffered not because of government discrimination against them, but because of their own bad qualities. We have been told fn behalf lot the Russian government that it gives the same protection to Jews that it does to Russians; that under Nicholas I, It strove to establish the Jews In agriculture;-that the Jews j-efuse to be farmers, but insist upon being money lenders and grogshop keapers; that, they thus corrupt and ruin the Russian peasants, and that consequently the latter now and then raise against them. - - , The facts, however, seem to be somewhat different from these statements. The Jews were udmMted Into Russia by Peter the Great two centuries ago. Elizabeth ex pelled them in 1743. but Catherine II. readmitted them, and Alexander I. gave them full liberty in trade and Industry. These latter privileges were withdrawn by Nicholas I., who excluded them from the greater part of the empire and crowded them Into a few provinces. ( AUBURN; -N. Y May The fortune of the late Albert u. Burt Is,, tfbose death oc curred recently at Springslde, will go In Its entirety to Miss Elizabeth C. Burgess, a most attractive young woman, about 22 years old, and a daughter of Mrs. Sarah J. "Bell and her first husband, Andrew Burgess. The young woman will ( receive ,Mr, Burtls" entire es tate, whatever It may prove to be worth, without a contest on the part of Mr. Burtls' relatives. ' Y , ) , t r '. More than three years ago! on August 28, 18J9, Mr. Burtls made. a will in which he left his property of every name and nature to his cousin. Miss Elisabeth Cornell, who for1 years had 'been the constant companion of Cary 8. Burtls, the aged father of Albert. Miss Cor hell IS now the wife of William W. Scott, v .-.' i . .' About for years sgo, so the story goes, Mr. Burtls met Miss Burgess,' She, a-girl of. 18, with large eyes and wavy blond hair that nature gave her, attractive In appearance and stylish In dress, fixed his attention at once, and he soon became Interested In her. She was pleased with his notice and his ample means provided a way for her to ad vance her education In music and art. About three yeara ago they became engaged and Miss Burgess wears a dazxllng solitaire ring on the third finger of her left hand In evl dence of that. But she does not depend upon that evidence alone, for she gave aa surance In the very little which she could be Induced to say about the subject that she has documentay evidence to prove.lt, and that It was her Intention and expectation to be married to Mr. Burtls. in a short time. In October, 1901, Mr. Burtls drew a second will. This was "written on a sheet of legal cap paper and entirely In the handwriting of Mr. TJurtls. By lis terms he bequeathed his property of every name and nature to Mis Burgess, whom he also made executrix of the estate. . On May 26, 102, Mr! Burtls made a third will. This was almost Identical with the one which he had made in the October pre ceding. It was made, however, upon one of the blank forms provided for lawyers and the matter was' filled In by Mr. Burtls him self. It bequeathed his entire estate to MU Burgesl and made her executrix. This will. as well as Its' predecessor, he turned ovefto tne young woman and she retained them un til his death, when she placed the one made In May last Jn the hands of her attorney, John D. .Teller.. This will Was witnessed by former Supervisor John Marshall, who had charge of Mr, TJurtls' country place, and by Mrs. Sarah J. Hell, mother of Miss Burgess, and was drawn t the1 home of the last named, No. 6 Fort Street. - Upon the death of Mr. Burtls the Inquiry was general as to where his money would go and it became noised about that Mrs. Scott had a Will In her possession by which she. in herited all his property. Underwood, Storke & Seward were retained as her attorney un til Miss Burg-ess' claim was fully established. Mr. Burtls died without revealing to any one the combination of the safe in which he kept his private papers at Springslde. When Mr. Teller Informed some of the parties in- j had a will In. his possession by the terms of which Miss ! Burgess was Jo Inherit all fils ; property, there was consternation. . The. ser-1 vices p lAjcasmun James J. Cerr .were In voked to open the safe at Springslde In order that It might ; be definitely '" determined whether or no) Mr. Burtls had made another and still later will than the one making. Miss " Burgess his heir. ,',. . - -X :: " 3"' K' It took Mr. Carr the greater part ' of two" w vhm imi ana tne operation was ntucuea or representatives or the attorney of Mrs. Scott and Mlsi Burgess. But hen It was opened a mass of private corresoondt ence. some least documents. Hilt hA 0H mrAm revealed, but there was.no other will. ., Judge Teller t0wy filed petition for proof" of the will In his possession and It will prob ably be probated May 27. The document Is very brief and there Is not a chance In the wuriu oi aiiacaing ine construction o it..., Miss Burgess has recently , been atteridlnf a school of acting In Chicago In preparation for work upon the stage. 8he was in at- ( tendance there when Information, reached her that. Mr, Burtls was In a serious condU tlon. She at once returned to Auburn and hastened to Springslde. There she whs. the nurse of her affianced husband until he be came unconscious on the Sunday before his death, when her sen-Ices were : not longer of benefit to him. She Is unusually tall, ol stately appearance, has a well-rounded fig: ure, fair complexion, and 1s a 'well-dressed, flne-looklnr woman, who would attract at. tentlon anywhere. She has numeroui elry which were given to her by Mr. Burtls, But withal, she Is a resolute young woman. She does not deny herself to cal lers, but she declines firmly to' talk about her caae further than the statement above mentioned, that she was the affianced wife ot the dead man. She declines to talk about her plana for the future and refers all In: qulries to her counsel. Judge Teller, who confirms all the facts as given above. There Is 'more speculation now than ever over the value of the estate which Miss Bur gess will receive. By some it is placed at a fabulously high figure. The estimates run all the way from $1,000,000 to 15,000,000. There are those, however, who claim to have authentic information regarding the holdings ' of the dead man, who express the belief that Miss Burgess will not receive more than $250,000. It Is known that Mr. Burtls owned a house on . Fifty-second street. New 'S'ork. And it is also positively known that he owned realty on Coney Island which is said to be valuable. And here he ownod "Spring side." Much of his personal estate, which was largely augmented a few years ago by Inheritance, he "lived up to," as his friends say, and the amount of ready money that he left is not supposed to be large. Efforts arc being made now to find out just what ehtpe his affairs are In. Announcement. has been made by Mr. Bur--tls' refatlves tliat;ewbu)4''not'' inake' fight against the will tnt wtts made in 1902 and by the terms of which. the entire estate terested in the affairs of Mr. Burtls that he goes to Miss Burgess:' knowledge Is It that he possesses, and to In annexing Poland Russia acquired a large Jewish population, multitudes of Jews i,what use does he put his knowledge? For having In -the fourteenth century flocked Into Poland to find asylums frbm German .persecution; and rnany more were annexed to Bessarabia. So it comes about that Russia has a larger Jewish population than any other country in the world. It Is also true that the Jews are treated with more harshness by the Russian government than by any other. a ' . ' , The "pale" within which Jews are permitted to live comprises Poland, West Rus sia, South Russia, excepting the Don Cossacks' country, a part of kittle Russia, and the one Baltic province of Courland. From all the rest of the. empire they are excluded by law, save that a few wealthy and influential Jews are tolerated there contrary to the law, and thnt, tinder a decree of. Alexander II., -three Jews sre permitted to live In each town where there Is a, railway station.- LETTERS .FROM THE iEOPLE. ,. . , How any honest Republican can Wote for Hermann for Congress Is a mystery to those who cannot give him their ballots. But, the Hermann iellows plead, he has had so much experience and knows so much about public business! r Yes, Indeed, there is just where the trouble comes li. He knows a great deal, no doubt, but what kind of .id a.U:i :tn:en,t, 5. . i. cure vindication? Such maudllii sentimentality Vs "hus beeii dlspluyed in the case of the. chambermaid who refused to make up the bed which had been occupied by- Hooker T. Washington, brings a blush to the cheek;! ot intelligent .Americans.. Olft of juoney and valuables have., been IjourinR in upon the woman, who has already received cash to the amount of four or five thousand dollars, and subscriptions are being Taken "for her benefit In several southern cities. A less meritorious appeal to the generosity of the public could scarcely be imagined. But it must not be supposed that in the sixteen provinces within tbe pale the Jews have anything like equal rights ' with Russians..' In Courland Jewish residents are confined to descendants of families settled there before 1825. In the provinces of West, South, and Little Russia Jews are compelled to live within the towns and are strictly forbidden "to purchase, rent, or occupy any agricultural land. They are practically excluded from the service of the state and from the learned professions, and are not permitted to take part -In communal and municipal elections. So, Instead of their refusing to be farmers, the Jews sre. In fact, not permitted to engage In that occupation. They are crowded Into the towns and cities of a part of the empire and are allowed to pursue only a certain limited class of callings. The law compels them to do the very thlngs4or which they are now condemned, the very things which, according to Russian apoldglsts. cause the peasants to rls against them. ".' , f - ' If the Jews are an-objectlonable element ef the -population tt- Is the Russian govem- irieiil Useir'tBat. hasrnade Them so by its repressive and unjustly discriminating- pollejr toward them. They are what It has made them, .To blame them for It is as unreason able and unjust as the condifcl of the Klsheneff mob was wicked and barbarous. New York Tribune. . ' IMMIGRATION RECORDS BROKEN. Immigration statistics - for Hhe first If I he seven thousand dollars worth of fax sab' certificates which thcrst National (.iank seeur"d from Multnomah County were ! of no value," as t4e bank alleged, why was 1? it' so anxious to get them, and why are thy "tneiitM Of the tlsrat -year which- ou.trrot suwiwlirfcl now when the cuunty fl-ants June 19. indicate that all ,p,evTous re; ords ; them Aack? Why did the bank place itself will be broken and that the Total Influx m,f j in co.tmpt of court by presenting its foreigners for the year Will probably up- j worthless warrants in exchange -for these proximate l.OGfl.OOO. The largest Inimlgr-j certificate, after being expressly enjoined tlon' H ny prevMus- year was In' If S2. when! from o. doing V a total of J?)i.f02 .was recorded I 1 ''. Alt 'nnpleasawt feature ef this vast and In-. Xo censorship of the press was ev er more j Creasing flow Ol population - frow foreign j rigid than that' exercised- by' the octl news-" lands Is that , the Increase Is chiefly from j paper Irusi. to prevent any mention of the ' -unifies whose people we are wont to re- i county, tax scandal frojn . gard as midestrable as American citizens. A I mornieig and evening editions ' WHAT HE NEEDED. , ' A coal carrier In Yorkshire, England, w as sent to deliver a ton of. coal at a college. Meeting one of the professors In the grounds the coalman asked where he should put the coal. The professor came put of the brown study in which he was immersed and replied: ' T-- ' "Coal? Ah. yes! You must traverse the quadrangle at right angles and pass under the. cinquefoll arch, to the exterior curtilage of the building. There an orifice In the ed ifice will at once become evident to your" ocular perception, ' There you may evacuate your vehicle of its amorphorus substance." The mau scratched his head. 'That's all right, malster.14 he said, "but it's, a coal hole ahm seekln." Brooklyn EaKle. ;i. -;'"' t " - what purpose does-he live, and In what di rection is he steering? Is he studying the public welfare "and turning all he knows for the benefit of the people who are to" become his constituents? Does he lie awake of nights, thinking-.how, when he takes a seat in Congress, he may be good and true and faithful and honest, In the performance of his duties, or Is" he engaged in scheming for his own personal advantage and for the advantages he can confer on his friends in the way of special personal favors? The people of Oregon have a right .to true and faithful answers to these questions. If Hermann has been an honest man In the past, and is honest now and will remain honest in future, and wiy devote his ener gies to the highest and best Interests of the people ot the First District, the more he knows and the wider his acquaintance with public men, and the more thorough his identification with the dominant political .JZ , A JAV M0RN1NG, What magic flutes are these that make Sweet melody at dawn, And stir the dewey leaves to shake Their silver on the Uwn? v -. What miracle of music wrought In shadowed groves is this? All ecstasy of sound uncaught: ' Song's apotheosis! j The dreaming lilies lift their heads To listen and grow wise; The fragrant roses from their beds . In sudden beauty rise; , Enraptured, on the Eastern hill. , A moment, halts the sun: bay breaks; and all again Is still:. The thrushes' song Is done! " Frank Dempster Sherman.. Miss, Alice Thaw s dow ry will come In handy. In rehabilitating the .Marqulsate of Hertford, to which Lord Yarmouth, her future husband, Is heir. The estate was much Impoverished by the alienation of a good portion of Its resources to the natural son of the former marquis. ' . Andrew Lang, the English author, will visit, the United States later this year. He f- will also visit Samoa, Stevenson's exile home, Xang having been very Intimate with the n - ... . late novelist. - ; - . , ' ' i - , "(up into Us Two sons of Eugene Field have" arrived 4n Xew York wlb a comic opera from the pen I of their fattjei It will be produced in the fall under the title of "The Buccaneers." The music Is being written by a well kuowu composer of Ught oera ' Y ; ' . j :V.' ". i ... 1 .".;"- . '- '' ' '' ."" party the better.- But If in the past, his rec ord for integrity has been smirched, if he has been given to looking out carefully for number one, nd. has stood In with sharpers and p!underers.the -more he - knowsr the wider his influence, Jhe stronger his party backing, the worse it will be for the people who put power Into his hands, These fel lows whoaknow so much arenot always the best custodians1 of public interests,1 It all depends on how they, use their knowledge and for what purposes they use it. The question as to who ought to ,be Congress man from the First District depends much more on the Integrity of the candidates than on their ability. Almost any ordinary citi zen knows enough to be a member of Cort gress, and, as a matter of fact, a good many common mortals .have occupied that po sition, but a man wanting In high purpose, and In Integrity tight never to- be sent, no matter how much he -may know, vor how much experience he may have had. Better always, the Innocent, uncontarntnated youth, than the experienced ogvie and gambler, or the plain country maid, than the .painted ,wjtman from the, slums. .S v ; The intelligence and. tie good cltisenship of . the voters of 'the First District are to be measured In the vote ta"st af the ap proaching ejection, . . X. .. . ' . , .'.'''. : - 1 . , ' ' : ' There are more millionaires and more paupers in Moscow than .In the -whole of Enfland. - ' " A LITERARY TREE. One by one the traditions of antiquity and the illusions of youth are ruthlessly dispelled. Many people will hear with sorrow and re- " gret that the sacred tree of Kum-Bum, In Tibet, is' a fraud and imposture, like the Mahatmas of that interesting but thoroughly mendacious land. Who has not heard if the wonderful tree which sprang from the spot where the mother of Toong-Kape shaved . her worthy offspring's head when she dedi cated him to the divinities and threw his matted hair on the' ground ? ; Ever since that memorable event the leaves on its branches and the bark qn Its trunk .have not been tbe same as on ordinary, trees, but contained sacred prayers and-aym- ' bols, whichever supposed., jtQ grow naturally on them and diffused a strong 'odor of' in cense. The nriests were very jealous o it. v watched over It themselves and were care ful to prevent strangers "seeing either leayes or branches until ready to be sold with let ters arid signs on them. 1 The tree has-been Identified as an ordinary syringa vlllosa, common In China, and any marks which the leaves . contain are im pressed on them by the priests1 With molds, aided probably with heat. Kum-Bum, therefore goes the way of the celebrated plant in Kent, England, which was, believed to produce live geese 1n Its branches." One brthe early. Popes sent a messenger to investigate Kent County's phenomenon. When he arrived the people told 'him the tree grew in the midlands; in the midlands they said it was only to be found In Scot-: land; IiTTScotland they said it flourished solely In the Orkneys, and had he gone there he would ; very likely have '.been Informed that th goose tree acted as the North Pole. it The congested counties of Ireland are all on the western coast.. ' , 7. . Aa . electrically changed wire gridiron Is ' the newest- fly killer, .