EDIT0RjIc4L COc7Wc7krENT clND TIcTVlELY TOPICS THE ORjEGON DAILY "JOURNAL Jj 5 ' BY ? G & JACKSOrJ Mtt, A TRAGEDY OF THE FOREST (By Henry . Westbrook.) AROUND THE CORRIDORS JOURNAL PUBLISHING 0 COMPANY, Proprietors. AtfrJressf THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill 6U Portland, Oft CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Entered at ti Postofflce of Portland, Oregon, (or tranaml::Ion through the mailt as econd-cl j matter. Postage for single copies;, or an . 10, or 11 -page paper, 1 cent; II to IS pages, 1 casta; ovar 28 pages, S cents. TELEPHONES! Business Office Oi jon. Main 600: Columbia, TO. Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 260. SUBSCRIPTION Terma by Carrier. Hie Dally Journal, one year . The Dally Journal, six montha Ihe Daily Journal thre montha .Tbs Dally Journal, by the week . The Semi-Weekly Journal. The Semi-Weekly Journal eight to twelve pages each laaue. all the news and full market r ports, one year 11.80. J.00 1.M .1 , Remittance ahould be made by drafts, postal notes, express a mounts are acceptable In one and two-ceo t postage atamps. THE JOURNAL P. O. Box Ml. Portland. Oregon. In speaking of the soil east of the Cascades, which takes In the large agricultural belts of Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, Prof. W. J. Splll man of the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. says that T the capacity of the soil for moisture Is so great that nearly all the rainfall penetratea Immediately into the soil. After a period of continued rain, the surface portion of the soil Is saturated with moisture, which gradually subsides into the subsoil wetting It for two and a half to 10 feet, according to the rainfall. The deeper soil does not readily absorb the water, so the moisture is utilised by the crops in the spring and early summer. It is this fact that makes it possible to grow the enormous crops, of grain for which the Inland Empire la noted. The depth of the soil varies, but everywhere extends down to solid rock, which in many places Is 100 feet, but 'the" soil Is practically the-mmt- throughout except that-towards surface Jt contains more organic matter and Is darker. From O. R. & N.'s book, "Oregon, Washington' and Idaho." JELLYFISH NEWS' PAPERS One of the worst afflictions from which the public suffers Is the spineless newspaper. . Flabby and purposeless, with no more back bone than a Jellyfish, weak, vacillating .and aimless, Its one solicitude is to catch the breeze of popular favor. Timid and tlme ' serving, .It Is ever conservative, fearful of ' the risks which must attend any new de parture. When great public scandals are unearthed or when official misdoing comes to light, the jellyfish newspaper Is alwaya quick to come to the rescue of the iawbreak ers and eager to minimise their offenses. It is always the apologist for dishonesty, in . competency and corruption In public office, for such a role demands no courage and no enterprise. When an honest, fearless and vigorous contemporary comes forth boldly "with" an exToiiiTtro the shortcomings- of the public servants and with a demand for civic reform, the Jellyfish newspaper is found weakly excusing , and defending the delin Quenta, evading the charges against them and deprecating any assertion of the people's rights. - Portland has Its jellyfish newspapers Ever since The Journal began its determined fight for a better government In this city, and county, It has had the opposition of these flabby contemporaries. As far as they dared, they have belittled the sensational evidences of past corruption and extrav agance, and they have consistently striven to gloss over the blunders and the wrongdoings of Incompetent officials now in office. It is notorious that neither the police . nor the Sheriff have done their duty in the suppres sion and prevention of crime in thla city, and the carnival -of robbery -which has pre vailed is directly due to their shameful laxity and inefficiency. Tet, as might have been expected, these officials find an eager de fender in the Jellyfish press, which grows almost hysterical in its efforts to protect them from censure. It Is anything but complimentary the in telligence of the people of Portland to as sume that they will take their Ideas from such a source. The papers now defending the Sheriff and the police are the same that have consistently shielded dishonest officials in the past, and striven to conceal the frauds perpetrated "upon the taxpayers. The grafters always And a friend in the Jellyfish press. and of avoiding the graft which is so in evitable under any other system. The German doctor, who has discovered after several years of investigation that piano playing makes children nervous, would have learned, if he 'had pursued his re searches further, that some piano playing affects older persons In the same way. That Ohio artist who is about to establish his residence in the branches of a tall oak should certainly visit the Lewis and Clark Fair. He will find ample hotel accommo dations here of fhat description. There is io real danger that the rubber supply will give out at least not so long as impressionable man continues to crane his neck whenever a pretty girl goes by. The failure of the "woman's daily" which was to be published in Chicagq is explained. The ladles would not consent to have the paper entered at the postofflce as second- class matter. To the fast flying yacht Reliance has fallen the honor of defending our claim to the America Cup., It is gratifying to know that Shamrock III is a boat well worth beating. Some charitable person ought to send baseball passes to the prisoners In the county jail, so fhat they can go to the ball games along with the Sheriffs deputies. It is well to remember that that high C OBSOLETE METHODS. The recent trouble in ...the ... government, printing office over the discharge of one of the bookbinders, who was persona non grata to the local union, 'has called public at tention to the archaic conditions prevailing in this department. The most obsolete methods prevail. Not a single typesetting machine is in use in the government printing office, ll of the composition being by hand. Although It is the largest printing establish ment in the world, not one of these labor saving machines is -used. President .Roose velt is said to have directed Secretary Cor telyou to make investigation as to the rel ative cost of machine and hand composition, with a view to the introduction of typeset ting machines. If hand composition were to be abandoned,' It would result in a very ma terial reduction in the number of employes, and this may prove a considerable factor In settling the present difficulty between the President and the urflon. RATES i Terms by Mad. The Dally Journal by mall, one year..4.C The Daily Journal, by mall, sis months. I.II The Daily Journal, by mall, three months 1.26 The Dally Journal by mail one month. 4 The Vtckly Journal. The Weekly Journal 100 columns of read ing each Issue, Illustrated, full market -reports, one year, 1.00. orders and small The eagle folded his wings and his body shot downward through the evening air. He stretched his talons outward and they caught the topmost crag of the lofty moun tain. He paused for a moment'! rest ' The shadows were lengthening. The sun being low on the western horlson, melt ing the sky Into an ocean of mellow gold. The wayward clouds, lost from the trackless milky way, stole across It and stranded in Isles of pearl and amber. The lake, pressing the beauty of the hallowed scene to Us bosom, mirrored the breast of the snow-white crane as be slowly wended his way to bis hermitage. The brooklet murmured a melody to the sighing pines, and the sephyrs cams whispering among the mountain laurel to lull the day Into the calm repose of evetlde. Brave, calm, defiant and serene, the eagle poised himself upon his snow-bound throne, the king of American air. He viewed the limitless space, and his heart swelled with pride at the thought that he had spread his pinions over every mountain, lake and stream from horlson to horlson. He smoothed the feathers on his breast, and bent it forward to again swim on the evening air. But the calmness of the evetlde was broken by the report of the huntsman's rifle, and the eagle felt the sting of the leaden missile burning In his breast. He spread his wings to fly, he knew not where. As be crossed the lake, it reflected his Image from Its asure depths and drunk the crimson drops which welled from his breast and fell like dew-drops upon the sleeping waters. His strength grew weaker, and he fell among the rushes and water-llllies at the lake's margin. His heart was filled with pain and' sorrow, and he threw back bis bead and sent his melancholy death wall echoing among the cliffs. Elated over his marksmanship, the hunter wended his way to -.the wounded bird. and leaned upon his rifle to watch the eagle's life-blood ebb slowly away. "See." said tlu eagle, pointing with his beak to the red on his breast, "you have wounded me, and I must die. Come closer, I want to tell you a story. My mate and I built our nest In yonder fir. One May morning we woke to find three young eaglets there. We were very happy. We tolled all the day long for their comfort. Just one week ago some ruthless boy shot their mother. Since then I have flown far and near to find them food. Then cannot yet fly. Tou have wounded me I must die and my young must slowly starve and perish crying for a father who cannot return to appease their hunger and quench their thirst. Why did you kill me? Was It because. I soared so high above you? My breath comes short I must hasten. Learn a lesson from me. .Never take life recklessly and wantonly. You can never rise by destroying those above you. To die Is easy, 'but to die knowing my offspring must suffer and starve sends a chill through my heart." He lay "his head far "backward and gave a whickering, piteous cry, his great pinions quivered, a large purple drop welled from his breast, his head fell forward and he was dead. , The sun sent a sheaf of beams streaming through maple branches to shroud the dead king in gold. The hunters eyes gated gloomily across the lake at the mountain show-taps silhouetted against the "gray,-eastern sky. Sorrow mingled with sympathy sent a show of tears shimmering In the sunlfght. He shouldered his rlfleand, with bowed head, and thoughtful brow, turned away a new and nobler man. The coyote, hearing the death wall, sent a requiem for the forest king echoing on the twilight air. Again he sent his warning notes stealing across the lake. All nature was silent and still. Then the gathering gloom growing beneath the darkening shadow of the ragged mountain, sent the answer, distinct and clear, back across the listless water. INEXCUSABLE IGNORANCE.. If the answers to letters of Inquiry regarding the Lewis and Clark Fair, sent out by the Oregon Dally Journal to parties in Eastern titles, represent the general . knowl edge of the Fair, in that section of the country, there is a great deal of dense. Inex cusable ignorance on this historical subject, there. If the people of the East do not generally know of the Lewis and Clark expedition and of the plans now being carried out for Its commemoration, there fs truly a great work ahead for Oregon newspapers. The truth of the matter is, the provincialism and narrow views of the far East, blind all eyes to subjects and events not concerning them directly. It was the New England sentiment in Congress which prevented the government from sending assistance to the struggling Oregon settlers It was the New England sentiment which thanked God that the Rocky Mountains lay between Boston and the Oregon wilderness. People of that old coast have not mingled widely with the world. They have not touched shoulders with the ideas and views of people of sister states to any great extent. There is a tendency to stay In the shell year In, year out. There Is a world , of education and enlightenment there, but It Is confined to dead. Issues and antiquated subjects." Current" history, -current events, thrilling- touches of the present ' day and age are not parts of the New Englanders life, It would seem. They are wrapped up in the history of their own little sea coast towns of 6,000 to 60,000. The movements of the other 80,000,000 people of the nation do not concern them do not claim their attention. Although the work must be done free of charge, by Oregon newspapers, the East must be educated. The olden shell of provincialism must be pried open by the Westerner and a little sunlight of twentieth century events forced In for the little easterner curled up within. The great spirit of Western enlightenment must Invade the East. The young offspring of the pioneer must send back a token to the lethargic dreamer, bidding him to awake and know that the war is over, the highway to the West open for travel and that the greatest country on earth lies within a week's travel of Boston. Oregon newspapers have already done more to bring the two sections of the country into closer communication than all other agencies combined. The work is not yet finished. Until every hamlet east of the Alleghenles has read the story of Lewis and Clark and of Oregon's great anniversary event of 1905, Oregon journalists must, not rest It is almost startling to the average Oregonlan to think that there are prominent people In Philadelphia, in Boston, in New York, In all the great cities of the East, who have not yet read of Lewis and Clark's expedition. Pendleton East Oregonlan. A . certain young man employed in the warehouse of one of the large commission firms on Front street was rather In an, of flclous frame of mind alj the time. v He con-r tended that as he worked In the storage room he was responsible for everything that went in or out of the plaoe and he repeatedly asked the higher employes of the place for a book so that be could keep a proper record of the Ins -and outs.,' His requests became intolerable so the other day some of the boys banded together and went on a hunt for a suitable volume to present to the officious lad. It was found In front of a vacant book bindery establishment In the shape of a wooden imitation of a book, nicely painted and about two by three feet in dimensions. The back of the sign was painted in regula tlon style and contained the words "day book." A small express wagon was engaged, the book delivered at the store and duly pre sented to the young man in question. After a great deaf of pondering and scratching of the head he finally gave up the task of open ing the book and hied himself with his two by three to the office. "Say, he eeld in a tone in which he vainly tried to hide his chagrin, "I wonder what's the matter with this book. I can't get the thing open." And still he wonders why all of the boys laugh when they go Into the warehouse. State Superintendent of Public Instruction J. H. Ackerman of Salem, says that the po tato crop in the upper Willamette Valley is going to be exceptionally large this year. "The oat crop will be fair," he said, "and I believe the farmers expect an average wheat yield. Harvesting Is now In full blast and in my roundel saw some very good fields." Mr. Ackerman is taking a short vacation at the present time. "You don't know how good It Is," he said as he lounged in a chair at the Imperial, "to be at home once in a while." Wild blackberries as large as the cultivated varieties and with a flavor unsurpassed were displayed in Portland .yesterday by Mrs. Charles Weltner of Oswego. Mrs, Weltner had with her some of the bushes to which were clinging in clusters so thick they could scarcely find room to hang; on. The berries were green, turning red and ripe. '1 never saw the wild berries so thick and large," she said, "and I wanted some one else to see' what the- wonderful Oregon climate can produce. The berries were picked about seven miles from Oswego at i place called Stafford. In one day my hue band and two sons picked 14 gallons." Some two years ago Whitman College at Walla Walla, Wash., inaugurated a plan whereby every member of the faculty should receive a full year's vacation every seven years for the purpose of recuperation and study. This plan has been found to be very acceptable to the Instructors and is said to be causing no Inconvenience at the col lege. Two years ago Prof. Louis F. Ander son, of the Greek and Latin chair, visited in Europe. Last year Prof. Otto Hauerbach was granted leave. Prof. Anderson was In Portland yesterday on his way to the Coast. "Prof. W. A. Brat ton and Miss Grace Peppoon will be absent from the college next year," he said. Col. L. L. Hawkins, upon his return re cently from, the trip to the summit of the Three Sisters, brought back quite a collec tion of curios for, the free museum and also a wonderful lightning story. He says that the lightning is playing around the moun tain peaks all, the time and that the sum mit is covered by objects which have been shattered by the destructive bolts. An old record box was fqund pierced in half a dosen places and a piece of lava had been cut through as clean as could have been done with an auger. The vagaries of the stray electrto. currents from the sky are wonder, ful to behold, he says. "' , ; . r In addition,-the poionet has "on view specimen of obsidian, fused lava, pieces of the rock formation and other interesting ob jects which he chanced upon. "There's nothing like being good to oho friends," said "Doc" Haynes. foreman Chemical Company No. 1 last night, as he looked into a box in which 'were a" dosen fresh crabs of exceptional else. "Tou see, there is a sort of fraternal feel ing among firemen everywhere,' he ex plained. This is a present from Fireman Llewellyn, driver of Chemical 'l at Astoria. He was in Portland a few weeks ago and we tendered him the freedom of our house. He didn't forget us when be went back and this is what he sent us." The crabs did not last long, for the mem bers of Chemical 1 and Hose L with a few Invited friends, spent a good part of the night, lunching on the salt water crawlers, ' fresh from the deep. They are a delicacy at this time of year. Firemen seem to be bound together by a bond of brotherly sym pathy wherever they go. . Mr. Wolfstetn arrived in Portland yester day from Nome, and expects to leave In a few days for bis home in San Francisco. '1 was only in Nome eight days," said Mr. Wolfstetn, "and that was Just one week and 24 hours too long to suit me. Nome is a little bit the deadest town I ever saw. There are hundreds of men there '. walking the streets who can get nothing to do. It gives me the i blues yet . to think about it. After I realised what the conditions were I made up my mind to leave on the first steamer. "One can live there as cheaply, however, as he can most any place else. A pretty decent meal can be had for 25 cents. But that doesn't do a fellow any good when he hasn't got the price; and there are many of them up there who haven't I don't see bow they manage to get along." H. G. Kundret, a member of the child labor commission, yesterday received a surprise from which he has not yet fully recovered. He was walking on Washington street, near Second, when It began to mist quite freejy. As he was wearing a new "Panama" fill 'tis raised his umbrella. No sooner had be lufne so than It was struck by a silver hllfKlol- lar which rolled ' off on to the pavement, He stooped and picked it up, and as no one appeared to claim the coin, he put It in his pocket He walked on feeling at peace with the world and all mankind. ' Hello!" said a voice behind htm. "Here Is a half dollar you dropped: I saw it fajl." "Thank you," responded r. Kun&ret, simply, as he took the coin and slipped" it In the money-bag of his pantaloons. 'f In telling about the incident Mr. Kunlrej " said: . r "I have no idea to this hour where those two half dollars came from unless they were dropped accidentally from an upper story window near the building where I was walk ing. I stood there for probably half an hour after the stranger gave me the last 50-cent piece, expecting more of them to make, their appearance, but my streak, of luck hacr un Its limit. That Is the first time I ever piw it rain money." 8EES PERIL FOR PROTECTIVE TARIFF. Addressing the Furniture Association of America at the annual convention at New York, Congressman Loverlng of Massachusetts, who proclaimed himself a protectionist, made an appeal for a revision of "some of the glaring Inequalities that are today shutting us out from the markets of the world. If our legislators are wise they will not an tagonize the great growing sentiment in favor of tariff revision whether it comes under what is known as the 'Iowa Idea,' or that older' and country-wide demand that has been forcing Itself upon the attention of the party leaders for the past few years., "Nothing less than a liberal drawback law enacted at the next session of Congress will save the protective tariff from a fearful onslaught If not utter demolition. The only way to hold the friends of protection together is by the recognition ofthe material Interests of our great and expanding Industries. They need and must have every possible outlet In the markets of the world for their products." Much has already been accomplished by the present County Court toward the intro duction of economies in the affairs of the county. Many Unnecessary . expenditures hare been curtailed and needless employes have been dismissed. - But much remains to be done, and a fruitful field for furtherj-av-tng lies in the purchase of supplies of every description.- .The only wie course to pursue Is to Insist in aifcase upon the rule of com petitive bids. Only by this method can the county, be sure of getting reasonable prices, note may be Just as fatal to the neighbors as to the mosquitoes. PLATT MAKE8 "UNCLE JOE" LAUGH. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker-to-be, laughs at Senator Tom Piatt's suggestion of Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island as a vice-presidential candidate. Said he In New York; "That was a fine bit of humor of Senator Piatt's, wasn't It, when he suggested Senator Aldrich as the. candidate. I saw Piatt today down at. Oyster Bay and., said to him: "Say; dern me. Senator, "but I didn't know" you were "another Artemus Ward." That was a great Idea of yours about Aldrich," bu the Senator only looked at me with that Impassive face of his and drawled 'What?'" And Mr. Cannon chuckled Over the recollection, repeating: "Yes, that was certainly a bit of humor on Piatt's part. The Idea of taking Aldrich, one of the strongest men in the Senate, and bottling him up in the vice-presidential chair for four years, where he wouldn't have a bit of power or anything to say and Aldrich from Rhode Island, too." President Roosevelt is said to spend a por tion of his vacation in. cutting down trees. It is a good idea, for he will need lots 6f lumber to mend his fences. Alphonse and Gaston are not in It with Chief Hunt and Sheriff Storey in the eager nes of each to surrender to the other the center of the stage. GEN. CLAY AND THE CZAR. At the court of Russia the late Cassius M. Clay was a character. He dared every thing and acted as he felt, obeying none of the recognized forms of etiquette. In the Metropolitan Art Museum is a painting qf the Russian court during Clay's administration at St Petersburg. The group consists of the Czar and his staff and the foreign ambassadors. Of the entire assembly the Czar and Clay are the only persons to be seen standing with their hats on. It is said that one of the foreign representatives suggested to Clay that he should remove his hat In the presence of the czar, but Clay declined, saying: "I only take off my hat to those who take off their hats to me." As the Czar kept his head covering on, Clay did the same thing. It may be true that the trust magnates have lost $400,000, but none of it seems to be lying around loose In this vicinity. The report that Grover Cleveland is to name his boy after William Jennings Bryan is authoritatively pronounced untrue. 1 ' I Mr. BrlstoW seems to be the only person in the Postofflce Department who does not think he needs A vacation, . i REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. ' The man who boasts that he is the head of his house is simply a reckless liar If a girl can't have the man she wan aer idea of getting even with hlmJs not to let the man. have her who wants her. ' Half the time women wear their finest things merely to get them on their clothes line and make their neighbors green with envy. A young man begins to amount to something by the time he learns that the old men really know little, but by that time he isn't young any more. New York Press. Some one should" pass around the hat for the millionaire who were squeezed last week In Wall street, ..!, The Countess of Carlisle Is Undoubtedly the most radical Woman in the British Islea, not only on the drink question, but In other things.' She would like to abolish all titles of nobility and if ber husband and relatives did not insist 'upon her using the title, which s very old, tt is said she -would have dropped it long- ago. Lady Carlisle has succeeded Lady Henry Somerset as president o the Women' Christian' Temperance Union'' of reat BritaULViwMi WHISTLER'S MARRIAGE. Mr. Labouchere, In Truth, tells the follow ing anecdote of James McNeill Whistler, which corrects certain apocryphal versions of the late artist's marriage: ' "I believe," writes Mr. Labouchere, "1 was responsible for his marriage to the widow of Mr. Godwin, the architect She was a remarkably pretty woman and very agreeable, and both she and he were thor ough Bohemians. "I was dining with them and some others one evening at Earl's court. They were ob viously greatly attracted to each other and in a vague sort of way they thought of marrying, so I "took the matter In hand to bring things to a practical point. Jimmy,' I said, 'will you marry Mrs. Godwin? . " 'Certainly he replied. -"'Mrs.-Godwin.' I said 'will you marry Jimmy? , " Certainly,' she replied. "When? I asked. - t 'Oivaome 4ay.iatd Whistler. :;: :: " 'That won't do,' I said; 'we must have a date. ' "So they both agreed I should choose thj day, tell them what church to come to for the ceremony, provide a clergyman and give the bride away. "1 flaed an early date and got them the chaplain of the House of Commons to per form the ceremony. It took place a few days later. After the ceremony was over we adjourned to Whistler's studio, where he had prepared a banquet The banquet was on the table, but there were no chairs, so we sat on packing cases. "How unpractical they were was shown' when I happened to meet the bride the day before the marriage in the street. 'Don't forget tomorrow,' I said. " No, she replied; 1 am Just going to buy my trousseau. "A little late for that. Is it not? I askedJ - " 'No,' she answered; Tor I am only going to buy a tooth brush and a new comb,, as one ought to have new ones when one marries.' r "However, there never was a more suc cessful marriage.- They adored each other and lived most happily together, and when she died he was" broken-hearted, indeed, VH never ' recovered from the loss. , . ,v . DIDN'T WAIT FOR THE FRYff. T 1 Will J. Lampton, the poet, is tellltig a sweetly poetic story these days, and he in- slsts that it is perfectly true. Once upon a day he was making a driving tour through the country near Harper's Ferry, and stopped at a little wayside inn for refreshment A sign In the window announced that "oysters In all styles were to be had, and M. Lamp ton ordered a fry. ' , . "Don't you want a stew?" asked thjn In charge. "No," said Mr. Lampton, "1 want eTry," "Raw wouldn't do, would .it?" queried the man, who seemed to entertain a prejudice against unnecessary exertion. "No," repeated the poet; "I want a. fry." The man walked over to the stovV an sought the frying pan. It was lying on the AT I floor. "Here!" said the man. "Get onf; of that pan, Jim; the gentleman wants a fry." Jim was the family cat Washington Post A pretty glra waist can get all the mas sage treatment she wants without her having .to pajfor it,, , BRYAN COULDN'T 8EE THE JOKE. Charles Mott was down from St Paul to"1 spend Sunday with his family, and In VI course or conversation saia mat wnne stana ing at the counter of the Hotel Ryan the other day he saw William J. Bryan pay his bill. It was $7.60, and the apostle of free sli ver extracted $8 of the dads from the re cesses of his raiment. 'Always consistent, Mr. Bryan," the cleric remarked. "Yesuslr," was the dignified reply. "But I notice by the dates," the clerk con tinued, "that these dollars were made while the late William McKinley was president." "The conversation closed right there," Mr. Mott added. "Mr. Bryan seems to be a man who cannot appreciate a Joke." Milwaukee Sentinel WHO OWNS LIBERTY BELLf ' , Heirs of. John Wlltbrank in Philadelphia. have made; claim to the possession of - the famous Liberty Bell and have brought in junction proceedings to " prevent ita , being sent on i any, more - junketing trips. They ? say the' cracked emblem "was assigned to Wlltbank a century ago as part payment of . a debt due to htnffrom the ttt&zift&pifyA The two things that a boy cati never for- give his mother for are castor oil and clean hand . . , , . vf'X:-i!j:M;v-;:;''.;;i P