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Editorial Page off. Ho Joiraal SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1904 ' " PORTLAND, OREGON THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. C.I. JACKSON PubUa-hed' every evening (except Sunday) at Tbe Journal BuUdJnt, Fifth LET US SQUARELY FACE THE HANDICAP. AT"HE MAX with a cancer who would cover tha sore I ' with a rag and because the cancer was hidden try y. A to make himself believe that It had disappeared, would Justly be regarded aa a bloviating ass, In fixing Mb status there would be no difference ot opinion among sane men. " And yet from the standpoint of common sense this is precisely tha principle upon which the people of Portland have been acting- since the year, 1 with Teference to the bar at the mouth of the Columbia river. There are peo pie living here who apparently have not the faintest sus: piclon that such a thing as a bar exists. There are many others, largely Interested In -business and property, to whom' the whole subject Is one of the profoundest indif ference. Out of the whole population of, 130,000 there la apparently not a good handful who aeriously realUe the vital Importance of the work In progress there and, realis ing It, are making an industrious effort to push it along. ' The newspaper policy, the policy of fha public bodies, In the past has been to . hide the cancer. To speak of It above a whisper was regarded aa treasonable to Jhe best interests of the city, .Keeping It julet ourselves, ve be lieved the -bar -lUelfwould-keep quiet and let the ships pass, when, all the while, we have been like the ostrich which, with Its poor foolish head burled In the -eand and therefore) unseeing, Imagined Itself unseen. . . .; :'- But, brethren, there la a Columbia bar. It haa been there from the beginning and It is still there, a tangible, ugly and disagreeable fact that cannot be conjured away by sophistry or removed by self Illusion, however flat terlng. The transport Dlx, drawing a little over ?0 feet of water, found; It out the other day. when It waa held there for a good many more hours than our pride will permit ue to confess True, the weather was far from pleas ant and excuses in plenty could be offered In explanation or extenuation of the detention, And they are all ': satis factory and convincing to the people of Portland, , but, un fortunately, to no one else, A harbor that will permit the departure of a vessel only during tha combination of calm weather and favorable tides can scarcely be said to possess all the advantages to attract the larger vessels to visit it, ' '.. ':' ;'V : ' . Now while we can say with perfect truth that' vessels With 1 feet and even greater draft can- find a safe and DEPRECIATED CREDIT, EOUR parties have made offers for $480,000 worth of f ..Portland bridge and ferry bonds at discounts vary , lng "f rom7iMOTi3-per ent.Two -of 4besa-blda were local, being for small amounts, $50,000 and $5,000 at discounts of 1J.65 and 11 per cent respectively. "7 V ' A little less thaii a year ago a block of street Improve ment bonda was sold at a premium ot 2.11 per cent, and la years past the city's bonds have sold In some Instances a remarkably high figures, '' "' v ..7 "7T .' In vesterday's Oregonian the reasons given for the dls- aoDointing prices now offered are; ': wars,' great fires In eastern cities and the approaching presidential election." Are these a.11? , : '', The value put upon any commodity by the public Is signified by the price offered for it, and our own people In the present Instance put the lowest value on our bonds, - WHV J-T r--r - - ' ' . . .... it ia less than a year azo since Mayor Williams as tha mouthpiece of our municipal government in a manner that left bo question In any the policy of the executive to protect consideration ot forfeiture of certain nnes., Tnis in in fare of all enactments of the state, and specific require ments of the city charter. Has this price offered for our bonds T ,v runltal aeekln legitimate investment l;ive thlag In the world, and It shuns as connected -with gambling as security. ' gambler as an obllgant, and It Is no extreme elaboration of this truism to say that capitalists will not anxiously seek after the bonds of a city that avowedly goes hand In hand with direct opposition to its own Mark! '.The statement Is not that as to the fact whether or not gambling erated In a city. The kernel ot the matter Is this, that we WttlOAK KAJTDOXJPm mZAJtgT. Aa Sstlnate of a Votable Kaa' by Aa Stdepeadeat Jtewspapor. rrora the New Tork Herald. Mr. Hearst is in his 41st year. He ' has supported Cleveland three times for the presidency, and Bryan twice. He has been a loyal and active Democrat and a newspaper owner and editor for SO years. 80 much for the statement that he Is an inexperienced youth. 1 Mr. Hearat la not a demagogue, he Is not a violent radical. He believes that nothing more "conservative" than ad herence to the fundamental American principles that have made this country, itu-oui h guaranteeing to every cltisei, Mr. Jefferson's famous prescription 'Xlfe, liberty, and the pursuit of happl . The agents of the trusts, who seem to dlallke the Idea ot Hearst' name on a national ticket, denounce him as "an : enemy of the business Interest. " To act .as president of the "United . States a man ought presumably to un derstand and to be in sympathy with the different classes of population. And he ought to. be personally a man ot .: etecutlve ability and Judgment. Am to the executive ability and Judg ment, an examination of Mr. Hrarst'S rtewapapers and of the success that be Ms achieved In a difficult field in a very short time is recommended. He has successfully studied, repre sented and led public opinion in New York. Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, where his newspapers are pub llnlird, and elsewhere where his news- : papers are felt The support given to him by the mass of the dwellers in the cities proves that, he understand the rlty man. But his interests are not lim ited to those that live In cities. He owns several farce wheat farms and cattle ranches and has, consequently, a knowledge of and sympathy with the requirements of the agricultural claisea. . ' One of tbe moat conspicuous and ener getic fights in which he has used his newspapers has been waged In the effort to protect the farmers and wool growers - ly regulating and discouraging the man tifaeture Of shoddy. K man.1 to make a good president, should have demonstrated his. capacity to put the interests of the majority ahead of hi own private Interests, Mm Oood Haters. From the Manila News. f Hll nr the Moro Implacable, a neral oWcr told a reporter some tlm ace that, Ute condition of warfare here PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. OFFICIAL, PAPER OF TUP CITY OP , ,- commodious channel from Portland to the river's mouth, vie1 CANNOT" truthfully say that -uch vessels can always get to sea without ' being subjected to vexatious delays. And let us face this fur ther disagreeable fact: Not , until "the Columbia bar. shows ten feet greater depth than it now' shows could we maintain that any delay to any vessel in getting to sea waa caused by an "unusual combination of circumstances." Until that time comes Portland will suffer a serious com mercial handicap and no matter to what degree we delude ourselves we may rely upon It that no one else In the wide world will in the least degree be blind to the actual facts and, generally speaking, we will get the benefit of the doubt to a less degree .than we, are actually entitled to. iFor a whole year the wise men discussed how the bar waa to be removed.. Another year went rapidly by while material for Jetty' construction was being sought. Still another-year has been devoted to actual work. iWhat are the naked results to date? The dredge Chinook equipped at enormoua expense, kept in commission at enormous expense when work was im possible, Twill now, in accordance T with "established' govern ment L precedentLbe laid up for jrepaira as the season for work approaches. - , ;,. '. Of the five miles of Jetty deemed necessary by the en gineering . experts to control the currents across the bar, about 600 feet have been actually constructed, less than 2 per cent, lesa than one fiftieth of the total work. . Inasmuch as the portion of the Jetty already built barely reaches the elevation of low tide and, aa in the opinion of engineers a high tide Jetty will be needed to achieve the intended purposes, we can only regard this part of the work aa half done or one one-hundredth part of the' total to be accomplished. " '.''''i x Of the money appropriated to remove the;.bar about 1600,000' or . 40 per cent of the total appropriation, which was $1,100,000, already has been expended. There is the problem; there Js what has been done and there Is what yet remains to be don. Verily, brethren, we have A real contract on our hands. It is a contract to en gage 'the attention of full grown men and it should be looked squarely In the eye and met as full grown men meet the difficulties which confront them. ' have a city government openly and avowedly pursuing a course diametrically opposed to all Maw to which it Is amenable in respect of capital is touched, for If the city is pledged to lawless ness tathbfjwgar a ib mare mai me same poucy win not oe pursued in otner matters should circumstances make it desirable for those in power? The ''weakest link" any more than In haa gone loa record the land in a manner of all that stands "Wars, rumors of our sowing in a harvest of impaired credit as well as in other . ways, while we continue to submit trf the course dictated by the foolhardy determination of a man who, by his persistent action In opposition to the demands already made upon him is forfeiting all claim to the respect ot the people. declared publicly mind, that It was When the mayor natural that his open gambling In any bearing on the ----fV---. Is the most sen a plague anything No one wants a ultimately to be drawn, or what sort of a rump parlla men't may eventually be set up in Portland. -r and Its state s laws. capital Is overwise la In any way toi wuurnai. -.. are practically the same that obtained at home year -ago among tbe various Indian tribes of the far western plaina. except that the Filipinos are more troublesome to catch and hold. The quality of being a good 'hater is not limited to the American aborigine. ' Sympathy Wttk Japes. From the Chicago News. "It Russians need our goods they will buy them," waa the answer mad by Dr. Emll a. Hlrsch, the noted Chi cago rabbi, to the queatlon raised by Charles R. Crane la an interview In which ha favored a continuance of the old friendship between the United States and Russia for commercial and other reasons. 1 "Sympathy is a factor in the commer cial equation." Dr, HLrsch. .continued, "that I have never heard of. It- may be advantageous for us to have some mer chants over there who will buy our goods, but when they do they are actu ated, by a desire to purchase the best at the cheapest price. This motive la the sura total of commercial sympa thy. ''. Russia s diplomacy was treated with a scant courtesy, by the doctor, who de clared it has been in many Instances nothing short of duplicity. ' "In this Mancburlan affair," he said, 'the Russian foreign office bam boosted the whole world, including the United States. The whole advance of Russia in Asia has consisted of deceitful movements, strategic and otherwise. I have heard ot eternal friendship be tween Russia and the United States, but if Russia helped us In the civil war It was to advance her own interests and take an opportunity to tell France and England to keep 'hands off' on' this side of the water. Russia never did anything without an object in view. In the civil war she knew that if the confederacy won France and England would, become mora potent in. the west ern world. , Russia as quickly would have sided' with the south if it had been to her own interests. "In this war Japan is fighting for her own life and to prevent herself from becoming a vassal of Russia. Ja pan ha adopted everything that civil isation stands for, while Russia is a sixteenth century powen I cannot see how the sympathies of any thinking American can be on any other side than that of Japan." . r Monarehs' prayers don't prevent them from fighting. Just as if they Supposed, contrary to their professions, that 4b Lord Is neutral. JNO. P, CARROLL and Tanjhlli trtt, Portland. Prison. PORTLAND .COLUMBIA BAR ! , - to gambling. Here the sensitiveness c -v:,. -- '.':, .;'. .. .' '. . ' is no phantom theory in civic affairs other relations of life, and our executive throughout the length and breadth of which brands the city aa subversive for good government, and we must reap . : . . .; , assumes to set aside the law It is only subordinates should follow the evil ex ample set them. It is, therefore, not surprising to find the chief of police assuming the' authority, which the law does not allow him, to set at large the prisoners whom he finds In the city Jail without any pretense of putting them to trial before the police magistrate.-At the present' rate ot progress it is difficult to predict where the line is One Portland pastor believes in Printers' Ink as an ale ment in attracting people to his church. This innovation Is Introduced by tha Rev. Dr. BhorL tha Tay'loT street Methodist church, the advertisement for whose Sunday services will be found In today's issue of. The . . BSSCXTTZ8 TOBXST XXSXBYB. After Changing rattle, Lines Will Be Hade remanent. From the Frlnevllle Journal, Feb. II. The Deschutes Forest Reserve, ex tending from an eaat an) woat tin 1 short distance below Bend and running south the entire length of the state, win oeoumj , permanent reserve. For est . Inspector W. H. B. Kent who has Just returned from The Dalles and la now on hi way to the Deschutes dis trict to pass upon the final boundary lines. 0 Stated this mnrnlnr' Mr.. Kent stated that, it n ,h. government's intention to include in this inj larming or agricultural lands and in consequence the big strip of meadow territory in Lava and the sage bruah territory lying rwm or Oliver LmKm win be eliminated rrom tne area recommended to become Dermanent reaArv. Mr. Kent expects' to visit tbe district In question the last of the present week or the first of next week and examine the territory around Bend which is to xau witnin the boundary lines. His recommendations in the matter will be final and the reserve district will be established permanently soon after his report which, .will be mad some time inn munin. , Mr. : Kent Stated that h, countered many petitions in the south em part of the state both for and aealnst the creation of tha raArr most of the protests came from Umber locators and homesteadets within the proposed reserved district. The stock men, he. said, were universally in favor of the reserve as a partial solution of the much argued range question. From statistics which , he has a-ath ered. from timber men, he says fully 90 per cent of the entire district to be set aside is owned either by individuals or umDer synaicates. - it Is not likely, thref ore that the district Will be re tarded in Its development of either the timber industry or in the Irrigation schemes, the latter, with one excep tion. the : Walker Basin company, lying entirely outside of -the lines of the first withdrawal. : As the reserve has no effect on titles' the timber will pass Into hands whicht will manufacture it . into lumber, the government still keeping the land and - protecting the young trees which are not yet matured. A Japanese private soldleri it Is said, receives only 70 cents a' month pay. He must, indeed. DOB Hal A lfltsyb atra"lr nf patriotism. , ' , . Oregon Sidelights There will t a Ladv on the next m-nnH jury, though no woman. t Is I. ..... m j.. and county warrant are at a premium. Now aome Of tha m-nnA nennlh nt n. ton wish they had not helped to atart UU1S, . :' ." .!': : V ' 1 : V...' Hood River is assuming airs of Im portance. It is to have a baseball cor. poratlon and team. William Simpson, who taught school for 14 year in Marlon county.; died Wednesday at Hubbard. Yamhill county has a new livestock association, which should aid in Improv ing the livestock of that one old county. Many item in state papers noting the transfer of farms show that homeseek ers In Oregon are . becoming more nu merous. The Socialists have their ticket In the field already, perhaps to make up in the length of their race what they will lack la strength. Astoria ean beat Portland in winter wetness by a large majority. -During February 13.8 inches of rain fell In the city near the sea. Increased' patronage prompts the newsy Burns Times-Herald to enlarge and improve-" which all over Oregon la the order of the time. . , The new Taylor-Street Methodist min ister cornea . from Delaware, where, he remarks, "the preachera come from." Also where Addick operates politically. In the late municipal election In Jack sonville, two "Independent" candldatea. those for recorder and marshal, were elected. The people everywhere are be coming more Independent politically. Paul Showaway, a Umatilla Indian, la the most widely advertised of his race, his portrait being on tens of thousands of cards distributed for adverltslng pur poses., And lie does not want to be a candidates for president, either. Tbe Salem Journal wants a census of that city taken next year, so ss to show up its big increase of population since its . legal .boundaries were extended to Include tbe actual city. Considering Salem's - very-joor-ofllclal showing In 1900, the suggestion is a good one. Mrs. Alex Rlngeling is postmistress at the Chloride mine, where a big snow slide occurred last week, and her office and residence were but a few yards from its path. She claims not to have been or to be afraid, though seven snow slides ot large proportions have oc curred within two weeks, but very likely she might sleep more soundly else where. ..,.;.'.'',:; AlbanyDemocrat: That -is a, some what funny business In connection with the reappointment of J. H. Booth ae re ceiver at Roseburg. He Is again given the position, provided he retires from the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, which of course he does. But as a matter of tact, does any on suppose that will make any difference with his position on the timber land business? A man hanging around Albany sup posed he had made arrangements to meet a girl of that city on the bridge across the sometimes beautiful Willam ette, at t o'clock p. m., but she was only luring htm up to Tennyson's sad re frain, "She's fooling thee," for she told her big brother, who organised a youths' brigade, armed with odorous eggs and other missiles, and now the would-be Lothario la a sadder and pos sibly a wlssr fellow. zs vs MATBXXCnrS POSKT The following poem, entitled "Faith," published in the New Orleans Time Democrat, and attributed to the poetic pen of Mr. Florence Maybrlck, ha been the subject of comment In literary clr. cles. It is claimed by a Journal reader that Florence Maybrlok never wrote the lines, and in order to give the critics an opportunity to scan It, the verses are herein published: Falta. '' "Unanswered yet? The prayer your Hps nave pieaaea In agony of heart these many years. Does faith begin to fail, is hope de parting, And think you all In vain those falling years t Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer, Tou shall have your desire some time , somewhere. ... "Unanswered yet T Though when you first presented This one petition at the Father's throne It seemed you could not wait the time of asking, 80 urgent was your heart to make It Known; 1 Though year have passed since then, ao not aespair. The Lord will answer you eome time- somewhere. "Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say nn- ' granted. . Perhaps your part Is hot yet wholly done. The work begun when first your prayer was utterea, And God will finish what , He has - begun, If you will keep the Incense burping there , . His glory you will see soms time ,.1 somewhere. - -;: .-. , . . ..., , "Unanswered yet? Faith can not be un- ;. answered, Her feet were firmly planted on the Rock. Amid the wildest storms she stands un- .. daunted. Nor quails before the loudest thunder '. shock. "', ' 1: She knows Omnipotence has heard her 'i ' prayer . r ' . And cries: 'It shall be done some time somewhere." ' . Oood, Square Boetrlae. Front the Eugene Register (Rep.) Whether .Portland shall continue to grow as a shipping center has nothing to do with the position of our Oregon senators on the ehlp subsidy bill. Op position to the measure is a matter of principle- with ; our Oregon statesmen, that would still be a matter of principle wer there neither "a Portland nor Columbia river. . If this 1 nation has subsidies to. bestow let it be for such a purpose a enumerated in the Brown-low- Good Roads bill.. We ran spend millions for such Internal improvement and (not mis It, for it will be- in a grand cause in behalf of the agrlcul tural classes, . who are the backbone or tne nation, we are too Dig a coun try to ' give, bonuses to glgantlo cor porations such aa some of our big shipping companies. We believe in car rying "Anvrican goods in American bot toms," but our American tub should be able to stand or nail on their own bottoms, without asking Uncle Sam for motive 'power of a financial character. CURIOUS CITY Ellxa R Scldmore in Chicago Tribune. . Hongkong is one of -the most varied and moat picturesque cities in the world. All nations and races are represented m the crowds that throng the arcades and roadway of Queen's road a road where only half a doxen horses are ever seen, and they small posies .drawing shuttered gharrle that might be roll ing In . Indian streets. These splendid vehicles belong to Parses arid Chinese opium merchants, who thus disnlay their abundant wealth. All the rest go afoot or patronise the sedan chair or the clumsy Jinricksha that cannot climb. but atavs on the level Queen' road or the seaside prftya. Btiort-walsted Sikh policemen in enor mous turbans maintain the severest order, the coolies and vehicles keeping to right and left as uniformly as in London, since the Sikh has a splendid contempt for the Chinese and does not hesitate to use his billet freely and pull offenders by the queue, which seems purposely Intended for Corrective treatment;-''.- ,-"- ...v. One sees nearly every uniform and na tional coatume known to'the British em pire, it would seem, along tbe six miles of. Hongkong's sea frontage, -an ethno logical museum crowded with living specimens, streets and sidewalks both streaming with the heterogeneous as semblage. : ; -,y There is a half mile of . this road lined with tempting silk, silver and curio shops, the latter, alas! 'yearly reduced to modern inventions and: sorry Imita tions, that do as well for tile; popular globe-trotter, soldier and : Sailor trade. Silver shops are dazzling treasure caves where evry object of Chinese or Euro pean use Is shown in the white, white Chlneee silver that so soon . becomes dark as lead and persistently remains so. But It Is fascinating In its fresh ness, everything ornamented in repousse work of a few standard, time-honored patterns the dragon In clouds, the peo ple in landscapes, the plum blossom and bamboo. . . - -' ' Ths Japanese -curio shop, with Its lac quer-tables and screens, porcelain and crepes, ia omnipresent now around tha World and And abundant patronage here a elsewhere. The Japanese photogra pher 1 equally In evidence, while every propeller in harbor move by and every cnimney breathe out the smoke of Jap anese -coal. " ,vrj it:-,,; ;.-..; ; ,.). ;t. ... An electrlo tramway track is almost completed, and one may see the last Stage of constructing the solid cement bed on which the rails are laid. In an other month; when the race week makes gala time for all: the world and the sporting fraternity, etectrlo transit will e a reality. It will not he rapid tran sit, if the sedate conservatism of tbe colony affects it as It did the cable' road to the peak. . and the clumsy English cars are already the laughing-stock of the Americans of the community. ..11 (.,' Hongkong shared In the boom and prosperity that came to -all the east with the China-Japan war of 1894. Sil ver- fell-and prices -roa, hotel -charge and rants doubled In a- season, until NEW YORKERS By Ellen Osborn in the Chicago Record- Herald. A mild Lenten sensation haa been created by one or two New Tork host esses who: are experimenting - with - a fashion that began . to gain ground a year ago in Paris that of wearing - a hat while entertaining at dinner. The giver of a dinner opera party tha other night received her guests in her drawing room, her bat on - and her wrap thrown over a convenient chair. Of the women Invited some left cloaks in the drawing room, other sat down at table with fur and lace drooping from the. backs of the chairs. Hoods, when worn, were thrown back, and. hats were not removed. . " . Old-fashioned folk find In this pro ceeding a lack of graceful hospitality, but there is pretext immediate : de parture after dinner for the opera; and excuse the picturesque combination of big hat and low-cut costume. The hostess of ' the other evening wore black taffeta that thick, soft gleaming taffeta that 1 on of the silk wonders of the season. Her dress waa out in princess form with delicate em broidery, in Jet, of leaves and scrolls decorating the full, trailing skirt Around the shoulders drooped a deep flounce Of black lace lncrusted sparsely with Jet and silver and Strang green stones, and headed as a frame to'the decolletage with a succession of little taffeta rosettes. Straps of the same rosette were carried across tha white of her ehoulders.'f At the left of the bodice were fastened weirdly beautiful pink and green orchids. Her hat waa an immense black tulle affair arranged in soft piles of tucks that radiated from, "the crown. It drooped a little over the face, and hung down the back to the shoulders, form a halo to the head, its circumference made even greater by lta shadowy black plumes. Her cloak was a loose wrap of pale green cloth, in shape like a priest's robe. It, was lined with ermine and Us col lariess neck was finished with bands of Japanese embroidery In green and pink on black aatin, pink cords and tassels falling on the left side. - The neck, left bare in this ridiculous but fashionable way, was covered by one of the new flat stoles that fear of pneu monia has created, falling nearly to the feet and composed of black lace and pink and . green. - Watteau-flgured rib bons. - ; ' '" . Hats and low gowns will not make a lasting combination, but Lent needs diversions. So far the penitential sea son has been livelier than common, for the odd reason that the rich feel poor. Fewer people than usual have , gone south, and many who have lain by dur ing the expensive season of dances tire now peeping out of their shulls with invitations to gay little dinners. ; At these functions and at Lenten re ceptions the vogue of silk is remark able. The new taffetas are probably the favorites, as they deserve to be, with their lustrous pliancy and shimmering softness of coloring. But taffeta has no monopoly. A few years ago there were hardly six sorts of dress stiks in 'the market; today there are at least f0. Strong favorites ' are the new china louisines. - Like the. taffetas, thesa have budded in a profusion of flower patterns --single peach blossoms shining indis tinctly against a silvery . background. Pompadour roses and old-fatfhioned bunches tied up with ribbpns. Abso lutely without stiffening are these louis ines, ' Japanese silks are beginning to feel war prices. There Is one delightful Japanese novelty, a Dowered silk, firm, yet almost a sheer as gauxe. Demurely decorated with the smallest of Ho wer sprigs on a white ground, this, matertnl lends itself to coquetilah Watteau mod els with' petticoats of plain, stuffs and trimming of laces and ribbon. The shaded silks are not attaining popularity. .Exquisite as are their shjm mering effects, they are found too pro OF HONG KONG the American occupation of Manila brought a second boom. ; , Then came , the North China disturb ance of 1800 and the transports of six nations, their attendants, fringes . and followers came this way and gave an other hoist to prosperity. The leading hotel having reached the braaen demand of 12. it and 18 silver dollars a day tor a front room, with board, jould go no further, but adroitly cuotea its prices in pounds sterling English, so that one pays by the dally rate of exchange, and no man knows what bis next day'a board bill will be. . i . - .Even at their exaggerated prices there are no houses ' to be had, and building is going on wherever one goes on the higher levels. ., Servant -blre has advanced some, 'the prices of market products little, how ever, ana to, read the Hongkong market reports each day would make an Amer ican housekeeper envious.,, Beef, chick ens, eggs, fish, fruit and vegetablee are one-half and one-third Hb. "price In American cities, and in all housekeeping no. provision is made for the servants. One pays them a fixed wage by the month and they provide their own food, nor- does the :. employer , always lodge them. ' ,' '.-' - Therefore one ' asks the reason for this extravagant charge at the hotels and finds it only in the grerd of the resident European stockholders, who de mand large dividends and further the advances in'' rates. Ten per cent is a pitiful return for his Investment, the resident thinks, and one hears freely discussed the concerns that pay JO and 40 per cent.-' The traveling public, the tourist 'and globe-trotter are considered legitimate objects of pillage and spolia tion, chosen victim for whit Hong kong's fleecing. The touriat may pro test and denounce the impudent robbery, but he pays and goes, and other victims crowd in his train. ' , 4 One hears In Japan, and he hears with more envy, in America, of the perfection of Chinese servants, the perfect treas ures, whose precise, well ordered, un varying service makes life all an easy dream, a bed of roses in China. But now. there la a canker In the rose, crumple in the rose leaf, and S46 Eu ropean women, practically all the house keepers in Hong Kong, have prayed the acting governor and the council for re lief from trials that are too much for human flesh, coupled with cllmatlo con ditions, 1, ' Tne women refer to the deterioration in tha character or the quality of domes tic servants, the insolence. Indifference, thieving, boycotting, and general rascal ity that make life an Insufferable bur den to the mistresses of even small es tablishments. They ask for the com pulsory registration of domestic Serv ants, their taking out of registration papers on which must sppear their pho tographs, records ot past services, and reasons for discharge. - . - This system, which has worked -well in Ceylon and other colonies, will, it is believed, effect a needed reform here. Worried housekeepers begged this same boon some years ago, but a soulless council tgn oreoi the appeal a-almost -a trifling with their dignity. IMITATING PARIS nounced and too ahowy. Already they are going the way - of shaded chiffons, the road that will be - traveled , soon by shaded voiles. , ;. '- In their making these soft silk dresses come near to achteving the impossible. That skirts of such yielding, pliant ma terial could be made with the present exaggerated ' fullness and supported without crinoline the dressmaker of a few years ago would have found unbe lievable. No one at present looks for ward . to hoopskirts. and yet If ' the amount of material bunched in a dress continues to Increase at the present rate, history, and hoops, may be repeated. At one of the prettiest receptions ot the week the dress of the hostess was composed of a delicious pale yellow taf feta, as' soft and easily maneuvered ss cheesecloth. The skirt, of enormous fullness, was gathered at the waist and spread evenly toward the feet, its deco rations being tucks, and wide gathered flounces. . The bodice was a blouse that turned back in lace revers from a pointed chemisette of lace and yellow chiffon. On the shoulders were1 rows of shirring and lace flounces, from which fell wide sleeves of yellow chiffon opening on tile inside to show the arms. Almost of equal fullness waa a drss worn by one of the guests, of pale-blue silk chiffon, its skirt plaited n la rellg ieuse and trimmed with full flounces lncrusted ' with lace- medallions. The bodice, . which bloused slightly, was trimmed with lace and black velvet rib bons,, . -. V.-: .,,.: . , . A new color much worn at tvenlng re ceptions Is a soft grayish -pink. It is prettiest in silk, though liked also' In veiling. A color of which one sees too much Is black. Even, at dances specta tors have complained of late of Uie amount of black worn by young git Is. Interesting exhibits have been made during the week of dresses , for . tlio south onl for spring wear. An import ing honsa has drawn many visitors by grouping its prettiest, toilets . among southern scene and on verandas cop led from those of a Palm Beach hotel. One of the feature of this display was an exquisite dress of blue and White dotted net, trimmed with white v.ilcn ciennes. . The skirt, of course, was of almost impossible fullness, and was trimmed at the , bottom with a doxen gathered ruches,, each not more than an ineh wide.' ' Above these came a deep lace flounce, and then lace frills with standing heads run with ribbons. , ' The blouse-bodice was - collarlesa. a ruche of blue ribbon finishing the neck. Over the shoulders hung a lace bertha, incrusted with ribbon ruches and end ing In scalloped flounces that covered the tops of the sleeves. The wide draped belt was of blue taffeta. The sleeves were flounces of net and Valenciennes. The . hat waa a white tull trlcorne trimmed with blue ribbon and large wings.;... . v. ',-V -, ; Fensio&s fox Xailroad Employes. From the Philadelphia Press. Railway papers report thst the plan adopted about three year ago by the Pennsylvania, and the Chicago & North western of pensioning superannuated em ployee has proved so satisfactory that it is Spreading rapidly. The details vsry somewhat in different companies, but in general the pension Is based on a fixed percentage .. of the monthly wages re ceived multiplied by the number of years In the service. Like government pensions, the amount yielded is In no case large enough to support the re tired employe in luxury, but it is enough to insure him against actual want. - Wrong Sort of Ziorer, . From the New tork Herald, s, t"Would you want a man- to love you enough to be willing. to die for you?" he ssked. : . : , . "No," she replied, backing away from him. .''When men Move - girl enough to .he willing.' tu die. for. them, they generally-kill the .girl first,"- . r-y I Small Change ' j "Good streets cost money," is the title of a leading editorial in the Oregonian., Yes, and bad streets, too, It appears, v - " Aa soon as people back east can get a rest from feed lng stoves with expensive coal, they will have to begin pungllng jto an ice trust. - - , A Detroit beauty doctor has been sent' n loii tn an H.r, wh,t 1 flplil" for operations a beauty doctor would have lq Portland s city jail. ' ,,'w :' ?A 'v--:.. ;' ;:').''.. .'" '.. 'i t "rl':'Kv(tf S-''. v 5,' An.' set- us a. fi-ooff examDle .. In some respects', for instance only one divorce la granted there to about J0.000 in Jhis.ana ot rawer too mucn uoeny, One deputy in the city engineer's of fice, drawing a salaVy of $125 a month, has been dropped. Waa It discovered that be was doubtful as to his zealous allegiance to the maohlnef.:.;'..'-.. - With many editora, as well ss others.., these days, whether whet a person says or writes is wise or foolish, right , or wrong;, depends on whether he agree with you in politic or, not . . Walla" Walla I to be congratulated upon the decision of the war department to retain and rebuild -the fort there. Walla Walla is as welt entitled to this valuable accessory as any interior place. The president credits Postmaster-General Payne with the conviction of the Machen gang. Now If Gaston Payne will Insist that : the Presidential Al phonse should have the credit, the score will be even., ,-,:. Some men will spend enough time, effort and money trying to establish a saloon where It is pot desired . by the surrounding residents to make a small fortune if expended in some more worthy direction.,,; ', V;; . "There is a Urge opportunity before Ohio's ' new senator." Philadelphia Item. No doubt of it; several large op portunities in fact. One Is to be more of a statesman than a politician, of a patriot than a partisan, But this one may not be observed. Too many assessors of local - office holders for campaign funds are sure to cause trouble. Should there" not be .Aariiltti. nAimlv anil Hv nffinialfl Aliwtf1 or appointed, at larg salaries, to 'assist committee chairmen for Douse in tnts . important work? The supreme court hss decided that Indian war veterans csnnot draw money from the state treasury beyond the -amount of the appropriation, but" they will only have to wait a year or so; the next legislature will, appropriate more money. Appropriations are sel dom enough. . A Mormon elder preaching in Port land says the Mormon church haa exer cised no influence In Utah ; politics. Which, supposing . the elder to be a truthful man, shows that however much he may know about Latter Day Saint ship, he Is not well Informed regarding the political activities, of his state.. It may not be difficult for the Tax payers' . lepgue to make .out a caso of. extravagance, or even one of political grafting, against the present city and county administration, but perhaps eome voters) will prefer to "endure the Ills, they have-than fly to Other that they know not of" or know too much of. , 1; In consequence of the Increased cost of white paper and Other materials, and the higher wages paid compositors, as the result of the recent arbitration, the proprietors of the four dally newspapers published in Vancouver, B. C, will soon Increase thMr price. If the cost of white paper and living keep increasing. United States newspapers may have to do the same. , - POLITICAL POINTERS Albany Democrat: The Republican press is greatly , troubled about the is sues of the Democratic party. : A gov eminent by the people and for the people as against the present system of a gov ernment by and for the trusts is a pretty good one. , , ; , . The Dalle Chronicle: , In the past years of Mr. Hermann's congressional career there was no more earnest work er for Oregon's Interest, and it appears h baa lost none of his former activity. He ta simply filling the unexpired term of Mr. Tongue, and it would seem to be only fair, that he should be given an other two years. To replace Mr. Her mann with a new man would not be giv ing him an opportunity to demonstrate his capability as a congressman and would appear unwise on the part of the people. .. . - Hood River Glacier:' The Republican party la in the ascendancy In this county with a clear too majority on a straight party vote, and were it not for the fierce factional fights a nomination in the con vention would in most. cases insure elec tion. But as goes the old saw, although with no insinuation in this Instance, "when thieves fall out honest men get their dues," and the Democrats are ge--erally found filling two or three Impor tant offices. The same old scrap seem to be on again between the Moody men and the anti-Moody followers, the lat ter represented by the supporters of Congressman Williamson. Both sides appear confident ot success, v In a long article urging the nomina tion of L, T. Harris of Lane county for representative in congress the Albany, Herald (Rep.) says: The time has passe when Oregon can' afford to send a representative to Washington as a mere matter of recognition, even when recognition is due. The question of a suitable congressman Is far too grave to resolve' itself into a matter of bou quets. Oregon needs to send men to congress who can accomplish the most possible for their districts and their state. ' The time Is coming, If it is not here already, when in fitness rather than in pull will consist . a candidate's strength. f v CotUds't Agree. . ' , From the New York 'World. "Cleveland and Bryan, in their effort to secure the Democratic nomination, remind me, of an incident that happened at the Republican convention at St. Louis In 189," said Representative Sid ney Mudd of Maryland. ' "The roll was called by states for th naming of. national committeemen,- and the District of Columbia was reached There were only two delegates from thp district Andrew Oleeann and f'ni Carson, the picturesque negro, ' - , , " -The : district we tits a little hWre time,' Carson said when his name wns called. "There Is only two of us dele gate, and I'm fnr myself and Mr. Otee son ia for hlsselt, .We can't agree.' " .. -f.