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PORTLAND,' OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1903 I '. f(pr , . . , ,-. ""V :r. m',. ,-. . THfe OREGON DAILY JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C f. JACKSON PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. JNO. P. CARROLL Published every evening (except Sunday) at The Journal Building, Fifth and Tamhlll streets, Portland. Oregon. nw toxx A" cm or rows. K6neyTnAmerloa Ii Onr Measure of ?owir. Hnmlln Garland In December Metro- poll Un. OFFICIAL, PAPER OP THU CITV OP PORTLAND ATHANKSGIVING EDITION. T , HE JOURNAL will Issue a Thanksgiving number tomorrow that will be well worth while. Any body who reads will have no doubt about tht solidity of Portland's business enterprises, nor wUl he ha(ve to Inquire further for the reason of Its being. There Is more business done In Portland With less fuss about It than In any other iity In the Vnlted States. The variety -of enterprises Is really surprising to every one who has attempted n Investigation. It Is this which amazes the tranger within our gates who, having hear.d no bragging, Js delighted lo discover so very much more than he ex pected. On every hand h finds evidences of prosperity- He sees great business enterprises conducted without fuss, doing millions of dollars' worth of business alto gether as a matter of course. He sees our products util ized In their manufactured form and scores of Industries : In full blast that he had no reason to suspect were in ex- 'istence here. For these and such as these tomorrows edition will fur nlsh a fund of Information. It will tend to make our own people more proud of the great city In which they Jive and we hope it will help to Increase that rapidly growing feeling of civic pride which is doing so much to place Portland In its proper light before the world. THE BALL SET ROLLING. CTENATOR MITCHELL approaches the congressional! appropriation for the Lewis and Clark fair with the diplomatic skill and cleverness of a man who knows his business. His experience has made him per fectly familiar with the ground and he takes occasion to Introduce his subject to those upon whom he can most rely, under the attractive guise of a banquet which leaves " nothing to be desired In the matter of appointments. There is a hard fight ahead for the Oregon delegation to ecure the federal appropriation which is so essential to the success of the fair. There is precedent in its favor and were it not for this It is possible that all efforts in this direction would be marked by failure. But so many similar appropriations have been made and so many of the present members of congress have gone on record in favor of them that the basis of a working force in favor of the Lewis and Clark appropriation is undoubtedly now v' lw sight But even so, and admitting the powerful .aid of men like Senator Dolllver and Congressman Clark, who have been here and who have noted the substantial foun dation for such an enterprise, it will require every atom of help which can come from any source to secure the money : which we are after. Portland, Oregon and the Northwest have already shown their good faith by liberal contributions. They do not need to go before congress on a begging enterprise. Whatever demands they make will be made on the basis of a great public undertaking which - celebrates an event the most famous, if indeed not the most far-reaching, in the history of the West. Opposition may be expected from the East, for It always seems to come as a matter of course to any Western enterprise, but with such a com petent chairman of the steering committee as Senator Mitchell, we may look forward hopefully and confidently to the result and cheerfully accept whatever happens us the very best It was possible to do under the circumstances. secured not only secured but maintained over the Co lumbia bar and ships of the greatest tonnage thus given safe and speedy egress and ingress? All of this only makes the more essential the agitation In favor of deep water at the mouth of the Columbia. It can no longer be concealed from practical men that the work done during the paBt season at the Jetty has neither progressed so fur nor Is It so satisfactory in Its results as was anticipated. The conviction Is also forcing itself upon the public attention that under the arrangements which now exist, the progress likely to be made next sea son will In nowise be more satisfactory than It has been America; but the world power will con- XI May Achieve Its Besulta la Bonta Amsrloa As la China. - i win ww vi A tliivafc I .- Uini.i.r B,.ni..v.nii i. .Uniii. Jamea M. Dodge, the president of ths Greater New York should rise to her his credentials to the tira.M.nt of tha American Society of Mechanical Engl- remendous possibilities as a city. . She united fitatna laat wn.ir H.oi.ri thmt Insert, in a speech at the commencement Is the place where all. our ways meet. the Kenubllo of Panama, had com. into ot tho Williamson Trade school In Phlla- Bhe. too. has duties as well as her prlvl- existence to fulfill tha daatinlea vouch. delphla, which is printed In 8t, Nicholas, leges. In proportion as her citizens are area 0 it by Providence. If wa lift took tn novel vlew that he rep- ln the light should her works be lnher- OUP ahova th. imm.Hic. ,,- resents a "potential Investment," and ently dignified and beneficial. I do not .tanoes that have' aiven birth to the aro to be a New Yorker-I prefer to n,w -Republic, and regard the event as ue an American, just as i prerer. to pa, inscribed unon the ceaselessly un- an American rather than a cosmopolitan, filing 0vron of history, ws may Ven because the first means something larger tura tho opln,on U)Bt ,n h- fortunaU man me second ana trie tnira, ana illusion to d.tin th. mim.i.r calculate his own "caDltallaed" value hv something more vital and tangible than n,. a philosopher and a prophet. Dee- this rule: As many . thousands Invested the last. ' liny Is a word to coniura with, it la as his salary per week amounts to for Washington Is still our political continually Invoked by great nations to M weeks, allowing two weeks for vaca- gangllon our cerebellum (wreaking cover alike thwlr good and their evil lloJ! or ""nesa. , wiih iuA ni.i-i i it ii in-uiv Imuiu- works. Fifty veara no n.riv thut The boy who goes direct Into a ma- tlfui city, soon to be a splendid capital, "gray-eyed man of destiny," Walker, cn,n h0V according to Mr. Podge's fig l,i........nu ..,.ri,.r . ih. in altemntffd to form th. huiui nt nm,ru. I urea. Increases his capitalized value to .1 l in l V UI ,! vuf. , , . ""I. . gr.vB... I,-.. . , n L. i i i . , . . in central America, and got nunsaii ' nnw nnin tinu to center alorlouslv and danaer- AOt ror His temerity. He waa only In l" . wnen no ovcomes THE AMERICAN BOY CONSIDERED FROM THE r STANDPOINT OF AN INVESTMENT ' " urged his ambitious hearers to "Invest in themselvea" : . . According to Mr.. Dodge the average boy at It Is worth IJ,0UO-that Is, he usually earns ( per cent Interest .upon that sum, or W a week. Any one can during the past season. It Is utterly Impossible for the 0UBly , New yorK Try a, wo may to advance of his time. Destiny will not R fu"-"n'''d workman, and to $15,000 at present contractors to furnish either the quality, quantity avoid the Implication, money In Amer- be hurried, nor, we think, can it be 4, byn& which time his Value and his or size of stone required to make a satisfactory Job at lea Is our measure of power we may much retarded. Protest as we may ' " " '"" IIVa . the Jetties. All of these facts have been demonstrated by increasingly our measure of power ? th. nn.r . I wh,eh the Re- DX'nt,rrlacePi -jh ?h" jS 'Jho , , Some of us would not have It so, and public of Panama has so suddenly been ,y .", V j , " , ! , , , minui invmiiuiiuiii nmuc u, i nr ..ni. i.i rebe, Hgajnat tt; Dlit our words are citatea, cry out to the full power of our : 1 V . ' '"' size of the rock called for by the contract It Is not In the I of no avail. Doubtless In ttio golden lungs .In dissent from the administration power of the present contractors to secure It. We are, future the idealist, the artist, the mail policy of unwarranted interference on therefore, face to face with an emergency which many OI W"V. T 1 , H J eves to ,r "ii 1 ' " ' ways has. But today he Is a sad figure, e to accomplished fact Nor can practical men realized lust summer, but which Is now self- countlng for uttle in the business tumult we conceal from ourselves the very evident to the most casual observer. It is now a demon- of New York and the political whirl- great probability that the establlsh strated fact that the contractors cannot fulfill the literal pool of Washington. "ent of this republic under our protec- New York Is about to receive millions mui uv regarded i one or a chain nf dnilura from Kh dvliis millionaires. r events wnicn in the end will brina- short the value, If not the actual permanency, of the and jn the expenditure of these vast the states of Central America, and some, . . . i . I .. . l. k IDF lakaait if til. Ma. .al a Ak. . jeuy win ue enanngerea. sums sne snouia set an exampio iu nrr i.i ooum America, jg oiwaya (K. risk Of sudden death and It Is a question of the most vital Importance to Major sister cities. Her bridges, tunnels, "T"' lr'y w our sphere or control. the certanty of death avuHy. But ao the man stead of sot tasks which do not vary. Increases his capitalisation much more rapidly. He enters the shop at 19 at flz per week, or capitalised at $12,000. At 24 he Is getting 120 per week and at 17 he Is getting 2i per week, representing a value of 128,900, and Is still mounting. In his case there Is no limit to the possibili ties. Perhaps the S per cent basis Is rather too high for capitalisation, because there mujui - . . . , , , if , ,.,, n .. a ... ine crrxainiy oi onain nvvniuau; i. i libraries, schools, should be models; for ' not actually under our flag. We may , ther , h M da . dan-or 18 ,n" h. she not at command the best of our nope It is doubtless our duty to pray ''A"' ..!,, But the people are much less con- bnild.rs? There Is. Indeed, no valid ex- that our future conquests may be ac- . c . ,, cerned In this than they are In the speedy conclusion of cuse for bad public service, tawdry dec- comnnsneu by more respectable pro- lowt,r the work and that upon a basis which will Insure Us per- "ration or formless piles of brick and "unr'" in.,wJ" JJ? ow.J5!..B5: Why s Stone. It is new kith a mission 10 uo pnn uuimuoi right, so that all lesser cities may not i accepv ainiosi as a nieionc certainty. And In her the slightest palliation ror any offense agulnst the higher laws of Lord Salisbury's classification of the Hf living und the dying nations, made dur- London formless, unlovely, has em- ln e upanisn war. furnishes us with Langfltt, the government engineer, for his reputation volved In the outcome. lon a basis which will insure its per manency and which is, therefore, most likely to meet the vital requirement of deep water over the bar. From Its public as well as Its private aspect the matter deserves the Immediate serious consideration of Major Langfltt, average of but a few. hours a day de voted to actual manual work, .can lu no way compare with three years' time spent In actual work In a shop. I feel that this Is a popular error.'" , "In shop work a man may spend months tn repetition of the same task, to no ultimate advantage to the worker. Instead of his skill being qulckened.lt Is dulled. He very quickly acquires the skill which Is Unconscious In Its opera tlon, and, like the old lady with her knitting needle, he can. talk to a fellow workman or think ana dream about far distant places and matters without In any way lessening tha rate of production. "In fact, sometimes his pace might be" actually quickened by some mental emotion having an exciting effect upon hls nervous organization,' In the same way that the old lady, In chatting with her friends, will knit fast or slow . In harmony with the dullness or animation of the conversation. It Is quite obvious that repetitive routine work la not de sirable for a young . man of natural ambition and aptitude. In the trade school he escapes routine, - but Is In structed In the underlying principles of hlo work. "I have a letter from the president of the , Williamson Trade school in which he says that the cost of - training their boys Is about IG00 per annum each, or $1,500 for the three-year term. Bear In mind that during this time the boys get very little, and some get nothing, from outside sources. This result Is truly as tounding when you consider that . Mr. Williamson's payment of tl.500 for each of the scholars shows an Increase' In1 po tential value of the indlvaduaj of S9.0O0. or a gain of six times the Investment.' Other figures on the value of educa tionof Investing money in the boy- to Improve his commercial value are quits as striking. Of the men who have risen to success which entitles them to men tion In "Who's Who," a very much higher proportion are of the highly edu cated than of the uneducated or of even the graduates of the ordinary schools. CITY ATTEB BBX.XJt.MT. VAST RAILROAD EXPENDITURES. T HE AIM of the Harrlman roads Is to become the great business transcontinental highway of the beauty." said Franklin MacVeagh. presl- ,urable. Incapacity country. In pursuance of this purpose money has of the Municipal Art le.guof not to London. London Correspondence of the Boston Transcript. It Is no small tribute to the power pf the wave of thought started by Edward Were that the Bellamy that one ripple from It should phasized the historic has been content the key to the territorial situation upon therewith: but New York, like Paris, the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and has a different mission. It should serve the Caribbean. We see there peoples I "looking Backward" to Be Tried Hear h causa of beautv. 'There Is no civic fearing Spanish names, but of mixed unset ho lastlm. so remunerative, as oioou. wtio seem to be smitten with an ror sen-govern to their numerical to the narrowness of been snent like water in the past few years. It Is said in dollars and cents, their borders, that their political fall- wlth unnnrent authority, that the amount of monev snent lit..,.niv .nt hnalness may walk together ures are attributable, In track Improvements. In leveling, shortening, reducing In the great highway of trade. A city ,.eumre'n'" .'"V"? Jh "edlt of urtln nother very , . . " need not be destructive of life and aspl- or Belgium, created and maintained as notable movement here In England v.u. ... ,. it. the contrary It Is because I "'""' bihips oy me concert or Europe. iii.i h .,, .... v.t ..rh A.(lmU(fl knf Ki.llrllnv . V, . I n ,1 , n r, , 1 n K , . , f I . , .... 1 i . V. I WG II 1(1 (' P T V t nm (111 r mlitlnff nrc,U m T.i UU,.U.,.B . u. vo..a, i we nave noi sinm uui " , cT .7 , Ma the case. With an array of more $110,000,000. This work has been prosecuted with much vet and clothed our highways w.u. - . "w" Bw?I than J00 men and women of national vigor, yet so quietly that many Were actually not aware , , nf There s and Industrious on earth. Thev main- nd even International repute as vice of it until it came under their observation as they rode l(1 Hbi',jing reason why our cities should tain themselves In great prosperity, and presidents, and backed by some of the over the various lines. Among the really wonderful things done Is what is called the Lucin cutoff from Ogden to Lucin in L'tah. That cutoff shortens the distance to Kan Francisco by 40 miles, a matter on its face not, of extraordinary consC' quence, but which in reality constitutes one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted by a railroad company. It la mainly a bridge 31 miles Great Salt Lake and Involved which threatened many times to be a tumult, a mad rush, a filthy scram- oy no quarrels or clash of ambitions do most successful business men as well hie Thev cjin he made clean, quiet, they disturb the peace of their neigh- as by a membership that showed their sanitary, and they can be made beautf- bors. Molesting nobody, they are them- sincerity by subscribing $100,000 worth ful. New York does well to lead In tho selves by public law exempt from mo- of slock ,n veTy ehort order, the Garden ..tter nf rlesn Streets and Kood water, lestation. The policy of neutralization i.... but she should lead in a thousand things would not cure the internal evil, which ' "in for th. Apropos! fon they are hardly less essential to comfort than beset the Spanish-American republics, ful hearing ror the proposition tney are these and consequently It would not free us making, which Is no less than to build . . ... - . itt...t of continual amrietie. in n,.r n from the ground up a new Sort of city. ,lon over an arm of the rtZWlrJumU buoy- l-ce and safety for which they give .'J and difficulties in construction ant. hopeful, beaut.fuJ city in occasion. SXian o put an end to the.work. OM K world cltyi Politically Incapable, they are also In- they propound a scheme wherein the The work was prosecuted with bulldog tenacity and ut- ab"B nd spiendld, modern and prophetlcj dustrlally Incompetent! They do not ad- advantages of both are combined HEAVY SHIPMENTS AND THE COLUMBIA BAR. IT IS GRATIFYING to know that even under adverse . conditions, Portland lead all the ports on the Pacific In its shipments of flour, wheat and lumber and that In these respects it Is surpassed by only four other ports In the country. No better demonstration could be given of the productiveness of the country back of us when, de spite the lack of desirable depth at the mouth of the Co lumbia, such a gratifying showing can be made. But if this is possible- under adverse conditions, what might not be accomplished were the depth that could be lerly regardless of cost, when it was apparent that results and when they have done that, behold! mlnltfter their estates as the world, . , . , - I l.i I u II m i A r , , - I ..... ...111 !..,.. ...... l. V - ..,.1,1 v, !,!... n.i ,..u,...... .,..!.. k von wl l nml your sisier cmes waisinis - f i-ni, n. ui inui ii ue wwii ii 1 1 1 v . cm, j i ii. L'liiiiiiii'ii v ii i nil .iiii if v: nun l u ; " . , I ,. ,l n-. ... . . . , .., . w th even piice Dy your siae. your rivais ou....i..Di.c-i.Iu. x im imiumn uiu visioiy with much ceremony on the Hoene tomorrow. Eventually, 1 ony ,n the,,aya if civic worth and civic making preparations for . the partition- no aouot, ine wiutn or a noupie trucK road will De nuea in beauty. "l 1 "lnH- 1 ne penuing iaie or that for the whole length of the bridge, thus adding to It a new element of safety as well an utility. When such enterprises as this ure undertaken In the fur West one begins to appreciate the capabilities jpt the country and the expectations bused upon them by the shrewdest, railway managers. When they can afford to spend so much money through such barren stretches, great I empire should warn the peoples of STANDARD OIIi PATS $44,000,000 IB tou' America, at least of all the back- yu.u nun iui uuieiii repuoucs. wnai iney 1903. Ihnve t evnerit Am ..r.nn v lsn I In this city there is to be no private landlord, the whole of the land being owned and controlled by the munlcl pallty. All the Increases In land values are to be used for the further develop ment of the city and the benefits shared by all citizens. This will also allow the city's being built in a comprehensive systematic plan Instead of the hlt-or- Comparatlve sine of Properties Con- supply Its demands, the world grows trolled by Morgan and BookefeUer. ,e8B al' less tolerant or the neglect of From the New York World natural resources In any quarter of the Tk. Bt.nHnrH nil comnunv declared Klobe- The conversion of Africa and ,.reo. ri. - miss makeshift plan so generally fol ' ' " . . , . . i , i Ltiv. ii in nil I IU 1 , . . . . . v. , , . m . , , , -.- JUffCU. iliuinri itiii ill men (.ue.u... Is that under no conditions should more things may be expected from them when they seriously yesterday a dividend of l'i percent, or Asla t0 tn. useB of civilization Is in take up the question of exploiting a really rich region ke Xuth Amt,farPremrnsrrnrennanedns Oregon and follow in the wake if they do not actually lead ,',,,.,, , ' i nn noo and which have possessed it for a century. than one-sixth of the land be built upon, and that each city should be surrounded by an ample zone of farming land, as well as having in its midst large park spaces, with the houses facing on broad avenues and boulevards. the way in the development of its resources. The next great movement f- population will be In this direction. Indeed it hus already set In. Men of experience are be ginning to wonder why they have been so shortsighted as to spend their time and energies In exploiting the arid sections of the country when with much less effort they can produce much greater results In a really favored sec tion like Oregon. This is the actuating motive of the movement which has now set in. It means great addi tions to the population, wealth und productive powers of the state and must necessarily mean greater activity in railroad building which has not quite kept pace with the growth of this great state hia.broWffcr William will receive $2,400,- nvnile some or its states--Chlle. for in- Hiaiice nave exmnueu caDacltv for It. AJTSBB HXCHZX AXT CBXTXO. Impressions Gained Xn America By Hoted Frenchmen. From the New York Times. M. Andre Michel, the gifted French STt authority, who, came to America as the o facial lecturer of the Federation de I'Alliance Francalse aux Etats Unis (and will lecture in Baltimore on Nov ember 21), gave his twelfth conference on French art at Harvard college on Tuesday, and arrived In this city yes terday to begin his series of lectures in New York and Brooklyn. Chevalier Michel chatted last night in Ills , rooms, at 64 West Twenty-fifth street, about his visit to the United ' States and his experiences on the lec turing tour. He is a typical Frenchman .bearded, vivacious, amiable and of excel lent courtesy. .."It is my first visit to America." he said, "and I am sorry that my knowl edge of English is llmlteei lo being able to read it a little. i get bewildered sometimes when it is talked. Oh! those portera at the stations! When they start In talking my head goes b-r-r-r-r. "I can give very few "impressions' of America. My time has been so taken up In traveling that I have had little opportunity to observe and note. I will sa.V, however, that I have been treated with delightful courtesy everywhere, especially in Boston. As to New York, ' I saw It in an artistic atmosphere when I arrived aboard the steamship La Touraine, on November 1. It was a drak-gray day, and the effect of the musses of buildings, the water and the water craft was sublime, Turneresque. I have not yet been Impressed by New York's architecture. With Hoston old Boston the result was different. It came to me as an old French town of the Eighteenth century. It is charming. New Boston suggested an Englislf town to me. gram of lectures so far. Such choice has been to the practical exclusion of the Intermediary period, the transition from Moyen ago to Renaissance, part of the Founteerth and the entire Fifteenth century. The choice has been for the other periods, so that there has been, with one exception, no request for lec tures on the transition period, the min iaturists of the Fifteenth century and the sculptors of the same cycle. "I can hardly talk of plans, but I de sire above all things to see as much as possible of art collections in America, because in time I shall have something to say of fhem. I shall pass tomorrow at your Metropolitan Musemum of Art. I hope, and perhaps it will be my privi lege, to have New York's private gal leries of paintings and sculpture opened to me. I would like to see them all." DBXB GATHERED GRAPE CROP. THE BEST KB COULD riBTD. "What has Impressed me most have been the colleges of Harvard, Dart mouth, Williams. Welleeley and Smith. The massing of the buildings set in charming country the entourage the character of the scenery 'accldente'? Yes. that Is the term were delightfully artistic. The organization of the groups of college buildings was admirable, and the architecture west of merit and suit From the New jYork World. Comptroller Grout was In Washington last night on his way to New Yik from V lrginia Hot Springs, where he had been conferring with Leader Charles F. Mur phy of Tammany hall. "Did you talk any politics, Mr. Comp troller?" a dozen reporters asked him. "No," Grout replied, without batting an eye. "Are you sure?" "certainly; l went down there ror a rest." t There were a few expressions of In credulity, and Mr. Grout said: "This conversation and my answers remind me of the man who was haled before Police Justice Hogan in New York for stealing a garbage can. "'Did you steal the can?' asked Ho gan. " 'No, sir,' the prisoner replied. 'I was walking down the street last night and a man met me and sold me the can for 10 cents. I was taking it home when I was arrested.' " That's a pretty thin story,' said Hogan. " i know It,' said the prisoner, 'but It Is the. best l'vp got.' And it was the same way wlthnmV visit to Murphy." From the Jacksonville Sentinel. J. W. Bonar. who has a vineyard on Griffin creek on the road between Phoenix and Jacksonville, and who makes regular trips to Ashland with his products, while in Jacksonville re lited tne unusual way in which he had lost his entire crop of Muscat grapes. The Muscats had been left on the vines to attain tholr greatest perfection by thorough ripening, and Mr. Bonar. pre vented by tho storms of last week, had not visited his vineyard, which is some distance from his house, for' several days. Hundny he went up to Inspect the condition of ills choicest variety, but he was nearly paralyzed to discover that IDs entire crop of Muscats had disap peared. Hardly a bunch remained on tho vines, which covered an acre of ground. Mr. Bonar was not long in solving the mystery, for scattered all over the vineyard were innumerable Drlnfs of tiny deer feet: The deer hav ing been driven from. 'the upper levels of tne surrounding mountains by the heavy fall of snow,' had come below in their search for food, and Mr. Bonar's Muscat grapes seemed to be the very thing to tickle their palates, and they made a good job of gathering the crop, for nothing was left The. loss to Mr. Bonar will be keenly felt. IiAVD PIRATES' WORK. Mast Have a Hunch. Froim the La Grande Chronicle Deputy United States Marshal Roberts, who seeks Asa B. Thomson's Dlace as receiver of the I.h flrunrie limit 'able to the use to which they are dedi-'H office, summoned the witnesses before rated. And let me say I waa greatly im pressed by the young girls at Wellealey and 'ShilthV their appearance, their bear--tog,, their number. So many understood French, and not a fear spoke It well! "I am not a tittle Interested n the choice f subjects cuttle from my pro- Al lhe grand Jury that Indicted Thomson. Ar must have a hunch that Thomson wljl be convicted. ifakea The Duke acakea Change. Yes, the Duke of Roxbtirgbe now ac cents his name on the first syllable. From the Prlnevllle Review. Last year two eastern gentlemen came out to Oregon looking for lands to buy. They hunted all over Central Oregon and. finding nothing that suited them, went back home. Shortly after ward they met someone who had school land to sell and bought t wo half sections which, it was guaranteed, had 4,000.000 feet of yellow pine. The' tract is in Harney county. Last week the pur chasers sent word to Messrs. Graves & McCullo'ch to go out and estimate the timber on the two tracts, which they did. There was about 20 cords of Juniper on the tract and it was a bar ren 4leee of rocky land. Eastern buyers should remember that a number of .cruisers in prinevllle are ready to attend to such business, and If these gentlemen had been a little, sharper they would not hat e beeri taken In so easily. nan Yesterday's dividend, which is payable i" wnne men or inausiry ana or TWmw is to stockholders of record energy are to be found in all of its on November 20, makes a total of 44 per states, no competent authority would cent, or $44,000,000 for the year, against pretend that Its advancement has been $45,000,000 In 102. $48,000,000 in 1901 what it wouldvhave been under the and loo. $33,000,000 in 1899, $30,000,000 domination of tho northern races. Op- In 1898, $33,000,000 In 1897, $31,000,000 portunlty has been neglected, boundles In 1898 and 112.000.000 each in 1891, resources Darely opened. 1892, 1893. 1894 and 1895. When we talk of destiny In South and Standard oil. on the curb, was strong Central America, we mean only that on the strength of yesterday's dividend, these talents shall not be wrapped up the stock selling up to 866. Tne aivi- in tne napK'ns or slothfulness; that dend for the previous quarter this year senseless vanity, consuming ambition, was but 6 per cent, and for the corre- internal strife and perpetual revolution spondlng quarter last year 10 per cent, shall not forever blight these lands nnd As J. Plerpont Morgan ana tne noose- stunt their development. We have. feller Interests are now generally De- moreover, as we had in Cuba, the ex- lleved to he in the miasi oi ine greaieni cuse, or at least the pretext, that war inHi wan blutcv ho c,ci miniume Kovernmenis . so near our Its ramifications taking in a greater i borders endanger our peace and safety numner or nnancieis wiumt ikhumco ny continually inviting European inter linked witn one or ine owier ui rerence. We have Porto Rico: we hold '"writ, ii. i. .... on.- . - - Luna in it-HDii, Hna ner ultimate destiny gan and Rockefeller properties, based es wtth UH. We have now caused to upon tneir capitauzaiiuu, in ic.ny...B De established a little republic on the considerable attention. fsthmus. We should be guilty of the The tables presented herewith make basest ingratitude If we did not protect h emniRBuie u. r Torn protection to annexation teller properties, ncraiuin, io mo ROt so long a step. Bevond that quotations yesterday, are worth .- need now venture unon th nrnn c n II. n 4..1 thnlF no nt- 1 . Those Restless Americans. Ian Madaren. It is the American's regret that at present lie can do nothing with his feet while he is listening at the telephone, but doubtless some employment wlH be found for them in the coming age. 979,282 more than the total of their cap! talizatlon. The Morgan properties, on the other hand, based upon yesterday s quota tions, are worth the stupendous sum of $1,132,841,788 less than their capitaliza tion. In other words, the Rockefelller properties have increased nearly 100 per cent upon their capitalized value wnue the Moritan properties show a shrink age of almost 60 per cent upon their capitalized value. All of the Rockefeller properties, with the exception of Amalgamated Copper, have a greatermarket value than their capitalization. On the other hand, every one of the Morgan properties, with tho exception of the International Harvester company (the reaper macnine irusij. has a smaller market value than capi talization. At the present price of the United States Steel corporation stock a con trolling Interest of that btllion-and-a half company could be purchased with dividends of the Standard oil company declared in the last year and a quarter. Strikes the Keynote. From the Tillamook Herald. One of our brainiest contemporaries strikes tha keynote when it says that reckless and unscrupulous promoters have done more than legislation or preaching can do to put an end to stock inflation and to discredit get-rich-qulck concerns. "Such enterprises must fool the public If they are to flu anyone's pockets and by their own greed they have warned the public to fight shy of them. is no one nronhecv nf particular events. But of unmistakable lenoencies, or the probabilities which weakness and folly there conspire with strength and interest here to translate into achievement, of destiny, in fact having reference now to what the full ness of time will accomplish any ' ob servant American may permit himself to speak. Destiny does not .much mind false steps. We have made false steps In the Panama business. They cause us some shame; they may excite our in dignation. But the wheels of time roll ig on. Three Attorneys la Case. From the Astoria Astorian. The acquittal of M". A. Moody was not unexpected". He had three attor neys in- the case, Judge Bellinger, Judge Pipes und his brother, Ralph Moody. Tndtr the circumstances, there could have been no other result. It Is the opinion of the Astorian that Mr. Moody would have been acquitted before an unprejudiced court, and It certainly would have- been more creditable if he 4 v ADVERTISING OREGOR-. From the Woodburn Independent. Men arrive in Oregon daily and nra astonished at what they see hero f ine same iimo expressing wonder that this state is not extensively advertised in ine Ji,B8t. We were under thn im pres3ion that it had been, but visitors inrorm us differently. iet many thousands of dollars have been ex pended in the effort to enlighten the jasi as to Oregon's great, varied and rich resources. The conclusion must therefore be drawn that the advertising iiiua jar, inougn in the opinion of some n may nave been extensive, has not been conducted in a Judicious man ner. If so, it is high time to accept nuviuo j rum quarters noi yet consulted, wrii xakb Btnurr OPTERnra. From the Sheridan Sun. It Is reported that Creffleld, a leader cf the Holy Rollers at Corvallls, re cently state that "if the Lord bade it he would make a burnt offering of a child." When a man becomes so crazed as to make that assertion it is time that the law waa taking a hand at the Holy Rollers. Their . willful destruction of property and cruelty to animals is enough to warrant their arrest, but when it comes to making threats that they .will murder a child by burning it to death Is more than a civilized people can stanqt ana tney should be - taken care of before their threats are out into 4pracuce-, As illustrating the possibility of this latter plan, Mr. Northcroft, the secre tary of the Garden City Association, pointed out that recently the London county council paid for a few acres as a site on which to build worltmen dwellings nearly 200,000 ($1,000,000), one-quarter of which sum would be enough to buy S.000 acres of first-class farming land within 50 miles of London, 1,000 acres of which would be ample to build ideal homes and workshops for 30,000 souls, with the best of municipal advantages, leaving 6,000 acres of land for farms and market gardens, the city being a good market for the farmers and gardeners, and the rent from the farms in turn a source of revenue to the city funds. At the same time, the large park spaces in the heart of the city, and the considerable expense of field and hedge row -which will surround the city, will make it impossible for any one to live more than a few minutes from God's fresh air. Realizing the advantage of a concrete example, they are now ar ranging to build a city which shall pre sent the actual working of the whole scheme. "The Garden City Pioneer Company" is the title of a "strictly business cor poration, organized for a philanthropic purpose, that is to say, the preparin of ways and means for the' establish ment of a "garden tity." Already they have secured a site of more than 4,000 acres not far from London. The con tract in all signed, but the exact loca tlon will not be made public till the formalities of "conveyancing" have all been complied with. Committees of specialists are now preparing plans which shall eswbody the latest work of science on all . ihases of municipal Ufa Architecture, engineering, health, educa tlon and domestic economy have each a separate committee, and as soon as they shall report and their schemes be in dorsed by experts the actual building will begin. It is very probable that within a few months the dirt will be flying and the city taking shape. One other item of note IS the fact that there has been of late a steady migration of larger industries from the high rents of the large cities to the smaller towns and quite a long list of manufacturing conoerns have signified their willing ness to remove their plants to Garden City when it should be ready. Such Is a rough outline of what may become a revolution tn English industry, and all of it arose from a small book published In the winter ofyflS-'SS. The man who can build a city by writing a book is one of the world s notable men. and to see Mr. Ebenezer Howard, the author of "Tomorrow" (known in its later edition as "Garden Cities of To morrow"), was my privilege recently, subjects has enabled him to become a competent authority on social questions. "When did I first have the Idea of Garden Cities? That I could hardly say. 1 have been keenly Interested In all social questions as long as I can re member, and this present scheme of Garden Cities has come gradually. I do not claim any originality for my plan; all that I propose has been urged before by many thinkers. My endeavor has been to discriminate, to co-ordinate the essential necessities of the great prob lems with methods and means that are Immediately feaslblo under conditions we are now living in. If I should speak of any event more than another as being the point from which I could date tho beginning of tho Garden City 'Idea it would be the reading In 1890 of a book. Edward Bellamy's iooklng Backward," which was sent to me by an American friend. . I read the book through in one sitting, snd It made a most profound Impression upon me. So much so that I Immediately went to William Reeves, the publisher, and persuaded him to publish nn English edition (for which I complied an index, the only one ever published, to my knowledge)." "And so this is in some sense based on 'Looking Backward' V "No; hardly that. for. though "Look ing Backward' had the power to present a most vivid picture, It failed to show the connecting links from the present. And at that, to my mind, Is the chief fault In the arguments of most social reformers. They see the end to be at tained, tiut In their eagerness to reach It their minds skip over the present difficulties which beset the path. Their heads run away from their feet. The thing that I tried to do was to embody into our present system of society the essentia) basis from which could grow a more Ideal form of society. "Of course, the scheme was of slow growth, it had to be worked out In my spare times, for I was a very busy man In my profession. Some of the evidence given before the royal commission on labor and before the commission on the housing or the poor brought my atten tion very directly to those phases; and the little book was the result." OA5IOT GET IN FOR THREE TEARS. The first impess!on of Mr., Howard was a quiet, scholary gentleman, with kindliness written in every feature, age 65 or thereabouts, with a striking re semblance In feature, figure and manner to our William Deaft Howells. Mr. Howard is the head of a. Arm of expert stenographers, and personally is one of the leaders, jn his profession. Whenever a royal commission Js ap pointed or any specially important evi dence or speech is to be preserved Mr. Howard has the preference. His work tQ taking the evidence before the vari ous royal commissions., on such ques tions as conditions and hours of labor and the housing of the poor and similar, From New York Correspondence of the Philadelphia Ledger. As a reply to the demand of the Rockefeller-Standard Oil Interest that Mr. Cassatt resign and give them the man agement, the Pennsylvania railroad of ficials show that the amendment to their charter, obtained four years ago, was framed for the express purpose of keep ing off such raids as that proposed. There are 13 directors of the Pennsyl vania Railroad company, the president coming before the stockholders for elec tion the same as the others. Four of the five vice-presidents are members of the board by virtue of their positions, this making 17 members entitled to a vote. Under the amendment to the charter the terms of one-fourth of the directors ex pire each year, so that only three mem bers retire annually. The members of the board and the date of the expira tion of their terms' follow: Term Term expires. expires. 1904 J. J. Casaatt. llWHt T. DeW. Cuyler. J a. j, uriacora. itxm jameti Mcurca. 1WI0 Lincoln Godfrey. 1907 Wm. II. Barnes. lo7 Uenrgo Wood. 1007 C. 8. Patterson. 1(104 A. R. Little. 1906 Alex. M. Fox. jllo.VN. V. Sburtrldge. 1905 'Rudolph Kills. 1906 E. B. Morrla. The other members are Vice-Presidents Green, Pugh, Prevost and Rea. From the above table it will be seen that the Rockefeller-Gould combination would be obliged to elect directors for three years in succession before securing full control of the railroad. Mr. Cassatt's friends point to this. and also to the fact that, despite the as saults made on the credit of the com pany, it has been able to borrow $160. 000,000, when other railroad companies withdrew and abandoned their financial schemes. The railroad and monetary world awaits the next move. , Has ths Offloe Xtoh. a From the Stayton Times. -The writer had the pleasure of an interview with Hon. W. H. Hobson of Stayton last Tuesday, whom we met otj the train coming from Portland, and when asked if he was a candidate for nomination for state treasurer, Mr. Hobr son said in substance: "Many of my friends in different parts of the state have urged me to enter the race, and while I would be pleased to accept of the nomlnatitti If It is the wish of ths people, I have not yet decided to be-. come a candidate." He further stated that he would be a candidate unless circumstances 1n the future give him reason to change hia mind. - , A Natural Question. From the New' York World. Representative Fred Land is of In diana, who said he had cpme to congress because there was nothing. else to do. is thin. He was sitting in a street car when a fat man came in and sat down in his lap. "r "I beg your pardon 'Lsald the fat man. "It's all riaht-" IJindla nnlM "h (ell me. did you think I was painted oh the bench r , . .-.'. - , .1.' .J . ... .&;i " j 1 I tJ - V