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PORTLAND, OREGON. ;
THURSDAY, - JUNE 23, 1801.
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,
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PAPER OF TUB CITY OF PORTLAND
Tou night probably' get warmed
by taking a trip to St Louis.
Tba aaa serpents nead ba In no hurry,
They have tuna enough yet to give them
selves a final primping; .
Ttrw PAn.ROADS SHOULD BE REASONABLE
TT WOULD in no sense be either just or decent for the
western passenger agents to fix the round trip rata
; JL, ., tv. t t. mnA Clark axnoaltion at a tare mu
; .hira That la what they have tentatively decided to do,
i; although the action la subject to revision at the August
meeting when final action win oe taaen.
, .l. -.kiv toifin r-namt in mlahtlly Inter
, great deal of good. ' But however much It may do for the
aactlona It will do even more for the railroads, for no dol
- ... f riiri nn naasene-er that comes here can
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escape a proportionate tribute to the railroads, If.
through the aUmulus thus given by the rair, seiners DeB...
to pour In, aurely none will benefit like .the railroaoa, me
. . nuii. ahould not forget that from a
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.. nuralT business point of view they are qotteaa largely in
terested In the success of the fair aa are the people of the
Pacific coast More people -and mora investments mean
ttoVe business for them. Many sections of the coast are
till In an. undeveloped state. The chier reason ior u is
. . . . tr Mm. nf th atiird American
(OK Llic mim iwt iiuwwii,
neonle who are, now seeking a foothold under tne air
Acuities which the middle west presents, or who are boldly
facing the harahnaaa and rigor of the conditions which are
found in the virgin reglona north of the uncle bam a ao
main, realised how Infinitely aaaler it was to obtain a ioov
bold here, how much pleaaanter it would be for them to
- dwell under their own lawa and among tneir own peopie,
none who know all the oonditiona aa they exist would heal
tata a moment in pronouncing in faror of the Paolfla coast.
' Which la at tha tndpiency of Its great career. One of the
great problema before the railroads, and one which moat of
them realise, la that of bringing to the attention or tne ngni
A . .e. . ' - A. IV V wliUk t St A tAnlsl lis!
yCJJsW Ul VU7 VVUllU MW euaw tt ew " m m
sosaeaa of thle aection and lta resources, wiaeiy rouowing
the plan of generously advertising they have made a low
fate ai certain, seasons which mrw ui uiiii u .
numbers of people; Not all of them come to stay, not all of
... a. a - V. ls let aaak7a
to say that all of them return to their bomea with increased
, knowledge of the country, aurpriaed and delighted with tha
extent and variety of its resources and opportunities and
become the most effective of all agenclea to spread ine
. Information which they have gathered among their friends
and neighbor. '
- What tha railroads do la this way on a small scale and
upon their own Initiative they may do on a very much
.larger scale and 'proportionately with the aama profit in
making rates that will attract people to the fair. The
. holding of tha fair is a big undertaking; it will cost the
people of this city and state a great deal of money, more
, than they can hope to get back from It directly. But it will
prove In the long run a wise Investment. At best we are
far away from the centers of population and the coat' of
coming here ia an item which everybody will consider.
Nevertheless as a result of. the advertising that baa been
done, as a result of the Influx of population which haa
' marked tha past few years, many people have their eyes
turned in this direction with tha fair aa aa immediate ob
Jective but with an underlying- motive to see at first band a
aection of tha country about which they have been led to
form a favorable opinion. To provide the opportunity at
rates that are not prohibitive, remembering always the great
distances to be covered, Is th work of the railroad com
panics. - And In this connection they ahould not forget that
' for every, blow whiCjh Jhey thus strike for the fair, they
are striking two for themselves, for, beside the- Immediate
profit which will come to. them for carrying the passengers,
each one that cornea here will become either directly or In
directly a source of future permanent profit.
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KIND, NOT NUMBER, OBJECTION AB LE.
XTREMELT CHEAP steerage rates across the At
. laatlc westward have 'been partly Instrumental In
bringing into ' thla country lately an unpre
cedentedly large number of Immigrants, many of them of
the undesirable- kind. Ignorant and poor people, who add
to the swarms of their kind In large American cities, or
contract laborers,, brought over to work as practical serfs
for corporations, are not desirable Immigrants, and ought
to be kept out The present law is .scarcely strict enough
upon this subject, yet there la little room for doubt that
even the present liberal lawa are violated, and that tens
of thousands of the classes of people mentioned are ad
mitted illegally. The big steamship companies and other
corporations are prone to obey laws only when it accords
with their business Interests to do ao.
TfBuFTor intelligent, moral immigrants, who will scatter
out Into the country and gain homes for themselves, who
will help develop the country, and. Improve themselves
with the betterment of their condition, who will give their
children a common school education in English, and pay
taxes and appreciate their adopted country, there Is room
enough in the United States for an unlimited number.
This great country, considering Kb' natural resources, la
as yet but very sparsely peopled.
China affords a rather fair case for comparison, because
It comes . nearer to tha United States than any other
country In the extent and variety of its resources and
physical features. It has, however, only a little more
than one half the area of the United States, exclusive of
Alaska, and yet upon that area are supported 407,253,000
people. At this ratio the United States should be able to
support over 100,000,000 people. It is true that the- masses
nf China are not affluent, do not have majiv thinea that
we consider necessaries, but remember that China's
natural resources are yet but slightly developed, that her
people have, not become Industrially progressive, and con
sider how much they might improve their condition if
they had the American industrial spirit.
But take tha population of some more progressive coun
tries for comparison. The number of people to the square
mile in Belgium is 689, in Netherlands 528, in the United
Whatever other crops may be light.
the burdock and thistle crops of Port'
land are certain to be large.
Nobody has heard of Seattle suffer
Ing vary badly slnoe Mayor Humes was
exenangea ror Mayor saiunger.
But wait till the Democrats
theirs. They will give visitors
value received for their money.
hold
some
Kingdom S4S. in Japan 111. in Italy 893. In the German
Emolre 380. in China 365. In the United States tha- pop
ulatlon ter sauare mile is only 3.B. Is not then this
fear of the "pressure of pppujat'lon upon means of sub
slstence" unfounded, a bugbear?
Anu w,pn "-"I An Ohio baby weighed IT pounds at
tries lying on both sides of us Canada, stretching from b,rtn Notnln but fc bl 0ffc, wm
the Atlantic to the Pacific and extending to the rroien satisfy him when he .grows up.
sone; and Mexico, also reaching from ocean to ocean and
far Into the tropics. Either of thee countries coujd com
fortably maintain 100 people where It now has one, and if
the favored great republic of the west should ever .become
overcrowded, there Is on- either hand "ample room and
verge enough" for great and continuous overflow waves.
So there is no danger In Immigration Itself; the danger
is in the kind of immigration. We cannot allow the cor
poratlons that employ great numbers of laborers to Import
hordes of foreign laborers who cannot become desirable
cltisens, nor is It well for our large cltlea to be too greatly
overrun with .swelling colonies originating in southern
Europe; but the more immigrants of an independent, in
telligent, producing, progressive, moral type we receive,
the better.
With good laws and administration of them, and an Im
proved Industrial aystem, there Is room in this country
for half a billion people, and more.-
In some phrases, Rev. J. P. Frost's
opening prayer in the Chicago conven
tion took the tone of an lndlotment
The platform makers did not want to
mm any more or - stronger pretenses
about reciprocity than they could help.
If young people will be patient they
will no doubt be rewarded with some
westher warm enough for picnics yet
Soon Portland's population, if not her
prosperity, may be increased by the ar
rival of eome gamblers from The Dallea.
EXPENSIVE MUNICIPAL GOVERN ME NT.
The Democratio candidate for gov
ernor of Illinois is named 8trlnger. But
It la doubtful If he can string . votes
enough.
N'
The New Tork state attorney general
la named Cuneen. which he thinks Is
quite aa good a name for governor s
Deneen.
EW TORK is generally credited with being a well
governed city, as to the character of service ren
dered, but it Is an Immensely costly service, the
budget for the coming fiscal year being $106,074,169. This way In the St. Louis convention, but
l. th. amount annt b anv miiniclnalitv in the "nr. n to oe nopeo, wm August
world. London has a population nearly three millions
greater than New York, yet its municipal expenditure Is
only about 176.000,000. While. New York spends $31.63
per capita.' Chicago, which is not slow, spends but $11.49
per capita.
But this vast expenditure for New York's municipal
maintenance can better be estimated by comparing; It with
some national expenditures. New Tork City spends
three times as much as Mexico and more than all the
Spanish -American republics between the Rio Grande and
Chile. The Income of Canada, and of the Netherlands, is
each about $40,000,000 less. The amount spent on schools
alone In New York Is four times the total revenuea of
the Persian empire. ,
New York Is thus a very expensive city, but it has the
money to spend. And its government, while far from a
model from a political point of view, haa constantly im
proved In practical service, and in some respects excels
that of any large metropolis.
Mr. Bryan may not have quite his own
Belmont.
Uncle Russell 8age haa always been
so busy taking the money of his vic
tims that ha never had any time to take
a vacation.
If Hannah Ellas keeps olear of Jail,
aha will go on the stage, of course Per
hapa Nan Patterson will leave a perma
nent vacancy.
Julia Ward Howe has been made an
LL. D. She deserves the honorary title
more than the majority of those on
hom It is conferred.
If that Democratic convention la
opened with prayer, the minister should
be very modest In his requests, if he
expeota his prayers to be answered.
All the Democrats are for "true Dem
ocratic principles," but scarcely any two
of them agree on what those principles
In sptte Of the constant Influx of all sorts of foreigners, are or rather how they should be stated
Krw Vnrk It la rallahlv atatari. haa mntfnuallv Imnroved ana appuea.
In sobriety, decency, order, health, comfort. Intelligence
and conveniences even faater than it haa grown in pop
ulatlon. .
AGE AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The thirteenth and last member of a
suicide club of Connecticut, a wealthy
man with a good home and supposedly
in good health, carried out the Tool's pro
gram to a rinisn by uuing nimseif one
day last week. Some fada of folly are
past comprenenalon.
June f I. The wind was against us
this morning, and became so Violent that
we made only three and one-half miles,
and were obliged to lie to during the
day at a small Island. This is separated
from the northern aide by a narrow
channel which .cannot be , passed by
boats, being choked by trees and drifted
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wood. ' Directly opposite on tha south
Is a . high commanding position, more
than 10 feet above high-water mark,
and bverlooking- the river, which ia. hare
of but little width., This spot' has
many advantages for a fort and a trad
Ing house with the Indians. , The river
fell eight inches. last signc i.
THE CZAR'S PRIVATE LIFE
George Weiss, in the July Success.
The csar earns a bigger salary than
any other man . in the world, for the
public exchequer of his country pays
him the sum of $4,800,000 per annum
for acting as managing director of the
Russian empire, with Its' area of $8,000,-
000 square miles and its population or
130,000,000 persona. But. considering
the orushing weight of care and respon
sibility which he bears on bis shoul
ders, his remuneration, high aa It Is.
does not appear excessive. His salary
Is paid him In monthly Installments of
$400,000 each, which are seHt-to him
by a Special messenger from the treas
ury buildings In "the form of a oheck
on the national bank Of Russia, Just aa
an office clerk receives his monthly
wages; with the difference, however, that
the caars talent and Industry exercise
no influence on his payment At tne
same time, he is expected to maintain
certain standard of living which he
would be unable to do in the style re
quired of him if he did not possess a
private Income three or four times as
big as his official salary. He la the
owner of over 100 estates, all of which
supply him with private revenues, but
he is also the possessor of 100 palaces
and castles, which have to be main
tained In Imperial atyle at a great ex
pense to their owner. He haa more
servants than any one else in the world,
for a veritable army of over 10,000
domestics, cooks, pages, butlers, grooms.
gardeners and ao forth is employed on
his 100 or more estates. He possesses
over 40 residences which he has never
seen, a score of homes which he has
viewed externally, but never inhabited,
even for one night, and another score in
each of which he haa slept on only one
occasion. His private stables contain
over 6,000 horses belonging to him. and
the herds of cattle feeding on hla own
lands are estimated to number over 60,-
000 head. Hla wealth ia enormous,, yet
there Is no doubt that he extracta very
little pleasure out of hla life of per
petual toil ana worry. ,
He habitually rises at I o'clock and
sata a characteristically English break
fast of ham and egga, bread and butter
with marmalade specially and privately
prepared for him, and tea, Thla predilec
tion for "English manners ana customs is
common to both the csar and caarlna,
for both like English fare best, prefer
using English to their respective mother
tongues, and are agreed upon the ne
cessity of educating their children ac
cording to English methods, immedi
ately after breakfast the csar begins to
amoks some of the heaviest brands of
Havana clears, which he continues to
puff almost continuously till bedtime,
notwithstanding the fact that his doc
tors have warned him again and again
that excessive Indulgence in this habit
la exposing him to the worst dangers of
nicotine poisoning. By 7 o ciock in ine
morning he is at his deck,- perusing
an enormous heap of state documents
sent to tha Dalace for his Inspection.
Tha variety ct subjects with which he
is called upon to deal Is astonishing, for
he Is not merely the emperor,. but also
the father of his people. No order or
instruction or communicatlori of any
kind can be dispatched from any minis
try or state office In St Petersburg to
local or subordinate authorities unless
It bears the signature of tha csar. in
dlcating his aasent and approval. Every
communication aent from the ministry
of war to tha reDreaentattvs officers com
mandlng several hundred garrisons
throughout tha Russian empire, every
dispatch aent to the captains or Kuasian
warships all over the world and every
circular Issued by tha ministry of the
Interior to the police and to all varieties
of local authorities have to bear the
csar's own signature.
THE ORIGIN OF ROSES
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The present Russo-Jap war Is becom
ing costly enough in human life, yet the
Datues are small affairs in this respect
in comparison with some of those
in
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT will celebrate his forty-
sixth birthday just before the date set for the No
vember election. He Is the same age as the Oar-
man kaiser. The Republican candidate for vice-president our clvU war. At Gettysburg, 45.000
ir.irhnnka. hu not onlr had the rood Dolitical fortune en wer au'eo, wounded or missing,
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to nave oeen corn in unio, dui u iuu in wm '"c lorsvllle, 83.000 at Chlckamauga. 33,000 at
he Is 53 years old. In the ordinary course of events both ghlloh, 18.000 at Fredericksburg, and
men should have before them many years of usefulness,
Mr. Roosevelt waa the youngest man ever Inaugurated
aa prealdent though he was no directly elected to the
office. Of those directly elected by the people the recora
Is held by President Grant, who was 47; Cleveland comes
next, having been 48 at the date of his Inauguration, while
Garfield was 49. If Ropsevelt is elected and lives to be
Inaugurated he will still hold the palm for youth. Until
23,000 at Btone River.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Objects to Bigger Salaries.
Portland, June 32. To the Editor ot
The Journal Please allow me a little
Zachary Taylor's day all the presidents when they were space in your valuable paper to say a
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inaugurated were-in the late fifties or eariy sixties, wu
Ham Henry Harrison, the oldest of them all, having been
68; Taylor was 61. From that time forward no president
has been 60 years old at the date of his inauguration, with
the single exception of Buchanan, who was 66. Lincoln
was 63, Hayea 64, Harrison 66 and McKlnley 84. In this
direction, as well as many others, the tendency to thrust
heavy responsibilities on younger men Is steadily becom
ing more pronounced. .
STAND PAT ON THE TARIFF.
I
T IS QUITE EVIDENT from the tariff plank in the
Republican platform, though it Is drawn with dis
cretlon and adroitness, that the "stand-patters" have
absolute control at Chicago and that whatever eloquence- who ar probably paying taxes on $50
few words about the petition being
passed by the school teachers for an
increase In their salarlee. The teachers
are asking ior salary during the vaca
tion time. We property-owners think
that the teaohers get fair pay for their
work of 4 and 6 hours labor. Many
competent girls are clerking In stores,
working 8 and 10 hours a day, for less
wages. If the teachers think their sal
anea are too small, wny are there so
many applicants for the position? Why
not let the teachers who are complain
ing quit? We will have no trouble to
fill their places with able taachera
Some teachers who are holding their po
sitions through Influence are not able
to do the examples a pupil can do.
suppose these are the kickers. No doubt
this petition the teachers are circulating
will be signed by so-called taxpayers
or $100 worth of furniture; but the pe
tition really should be signed by real
property-owners, as you know. Mr. Edi
tor, that there are hundreds of pieces of
property for sale Qn account of high
taxea TAXPAYER.
may be wasted by the oratorical corps during the cam
palgn no rearrangement of the tariff schedule will be made
until congress is literally forced to act by the pressure of
powerful and unmistakable public opinion. From present
appearances conditions are such that the party can afford
thla year to take the chance. It is powerfully Intrenched,
Its forces seem to be pretty solidly arrayed and, so far,
the opposition is divided in such a way that it seems at
least unlikely that the two wings of . the Democratic party tonight's paper, ,'The Case of the Teach-
...... ,i ers." I. for one. cannot see what teach-
Can VQ UrvUSut iiilu Vfiovu uwmvuiuui vvnuuh
It therefore, starts in, as far as the future can be
Judged from the present outlook, with the chances of suc
cess in its favor and it can for that reason afford to take a
chance In making concessions to the tariff protected in
terests and the financial Interests that are back of the
trusts. This Is practical politics, by which standard alone
waa the question shrewdly judged. At the same time
there la nothing so uncertain In politics as certainties and
might be neither wise nor well to "rub it in" on this
score or even to accept success next November as ary ex-
ouaors nurEaVAx xxxxbxt.
The International Miner, published at
Et, Louis, in a special edition, says of
the Oregon mineraji exhibit:
- One of the happiest conceptions In
the mines building at the world's fair is
one. conceived by Frederick R. Mellis,
superintendent of the Oregon mineral
exhibit Out of the space utilized by
him for office purposes he has evolved
what. Is now popularly known by every
visitor as the Oregon . mineral palace.
This creation of the beautiful and utili
tarian combined occupies 'a apace ot
30x14 feet and is ' about 15 feet high.
The whole exterior ia studded ' with
bright glistening gold, sliver copper,
galana, nickel, cobalt and cinnabar speci
mens, while the terraced roof Is filled
with chunks Of gold-bearing : quarts.
The facade surrounding the structure
baa four signs, representing gold nug
gets and forming the word "Oregon,"
which confronts the sightseers1 at all
Sides of the miniature, mineral 'palace.
Tha ; corner ' columns , supporting the
structure are covered with photographs
of mines and their workings.
Surrounding this unique product of in
ventive ingenuity Is theayhlbit proper,
which consists of all the. minerals
found In the wonderfully favared state
of Oren. With the exceptlorV of four
long tables, weighed down with, heavy
specimens of commercial ores, every
thing is housed in plate glass floor and
wall show cases. .Two 3-foot plat
glass floor cases are veritable jewelry
caskets, displaying gold nuggets, gold
quarts, gold buttons, gold bars and pol
ished gold specimens. Another contains
nothing but copper, but in the collection
are some of the richest copper specimens
that the eyea of a mining expert ever
feasted upon.
The other floor cases, are filled with
silver and galena ores, cinnabar, cobalt
nickel, petrifactions of all kinds, agates
and crystals, most of them polished, dis
closing nature's freaks to tha best ad
vantage. - j
, Highly polished oak wall show cases '
are devoted to each gold producing
county In the state, each district occupy-1
Another Objector.
Portland. June 21. "To tha Editor of
The Journal Regarding your article In
ers have to complain of. This whole
movement to raise their salaries I con
sider an outrage on the taxpayers.
Teachers at present- receive 1700 per
year, or $2.26 per day, rain or shine, for
every day In the year except Sundays,
This Is more than the great majority of
married men earn who have to support
their families out of such earning. Be
sides, teachers have three months vaca
tion at the rate of $2.35 per day. They
work only five days per week, from 9
to 4, no school on Saturday. They keep
any and every legal and other holiday.
pression of unqualified approval of the tariff schedules as In fact, their lot is not sucha bad ona
in regard 10 ineir expenses, lei mem
do as other people do viz., economise
and by doing so set a good example for
our children.
I Inclose an account of a drug clerk
who has to work from 7 a. m. till 10 p.
m., also every other Sunday all day, for
lees than $700 per year. Tours truly,
ALFRED PIETZOLD,
708 East Thirteenth Street
they stand.
Ing its Individual space. Every speci
men in the mammoth collection is ar
tistically labelled, thus obviating the ne
cessity of hunting for descriptions In a
catalogue.
Handsomely framed photographs of
mines, equipment and mining operations
are tastefully scattered throughout the
exhibit and the effect of the tout en
semble Is one of untold wealth, awaiting
the intelligent touch of industrious en
terprise. Too Many wives.
From tha Chicago News.
T hear you have discontinued the
custom of giving your clerks a raise
when they take a wife," said the vis
itor. .
"1- have, indeed," replied the great
merchant
"Why sor
"Wall, the laat clerk waa a Mormon
and came for a' raise four times in a
month." -.-i
- It Is well the pioneers brought their
overcoats and woolen shawla -.
Monthly expense of, a Portland drug
clerk: , .
Board ... .'.......$20.00
Laundry..,,.. .....'.. 1.50
Clothes cleaned. .60
Clothes . . . 6.60
Amuaement i , , 15.00
Dentist . . . .................. ,.V 3.00
Total
.$44.60
Mr. . Maok's 'ToU'. -Woodburn,
Or. June 20. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I see by your paper
ot June 16, In the official count of -Marion
county, you put my vote for county
clerk on the Socialist ticket at 45, when
It should have been 451; and aa a reader
of . your paper it does me an injuatlca
Hope you .will correct my vote.
,H. MACK. ,
Martha McCulloch-Willama, In July
8uocess.
The royal rose hss a pedigree to
shame any other queen it Is so long,
so full of enchanting turns and twists,
and so delightfully cumbered with myth,
fable and history. She Is, In a way, a
paradox, since, although by appearance
and nerfume the moat tropical of blos
soms, she is yet by nativity a flower of
north-temperate latitudes. Her naniiai
is bounded north and south, roughly
speaking, by the 30th and the 17th par
allels. She grows wild all over Europe,
In Africa aa low as Abyssinia, In Asia
to and through India, and In North
America to the edge of Mexico.
Most wild roses are single, yet Pliny
mentions double ones among them the
Hundred-leaf and Herodotus aaya:
"Macedonia has gardens of Midas, with
roses of 60 petals breathing out a -delightful
perfume." Whoever has read
Roman history must recall the roses of
Jaestum. which bloomed twice a year.
Notwithstanding thla, Rome's favorite
rose was the Hundred-leaf. It followed
the eagles and the legions wherever they
went and grows today over three parts
of the Roman world, a vital, record ot
that old-time occupation.
Etymologically, "rose" Is from the
Celtic rhodd or rhudd, "red," also the
root of "ruddy." The Qreek name, rho
don, has the same meaning. Bo have
most rose names. In any language. Bo
tan leall v. the flower gives name to the
great natural order rosaoeae. Artificial
ly, it is dlassed under polygoniae the
many angled. The wild forms have al-1
ways fleshy, urn or pitcher shaped
calyxes, 80 or more stamens, live petals
and five sepals. The sepals show a bit
ot nature's most cunning work. Two of
them are bearded at both edges, two
without beards, and the fifth bearded at
one edge and straight along the other.
Thus they Inclose the bud with a bearded
overlap along every seam, good to repel
moisture and to put to rout every in
trusive creeping thing.
. Rose culture's beginning goes back
beyond records. The flower Is men
tioned in the earliest Coptlo manuscripts.
India's traditions take the rose to the
times of the gods on earth. Egypt had
roses, wild and tame, before the Roman
occupation made it In a -way, Rome's
commercial rose garden; yet- curiously
enough, there la no reference to the
flower In painting, sculpture or hiero
glyphics. Japan, in our time, parallels
Egypt Roses flourish there but do not
serve as a motif for artists. There is
this further likeness neither Egypt nor
Japan has a rose song or a love song
proper so it may well be that madam,
the rose, is avenged ror tne sugni.
The Jews, returning from the Baby
lonish ' captivity, took with them a reo
ompense of rosea Bemlramls, with the
world at her feet found her chief joy In
a bower of rosea Mahomet turned back
from Damaacus, after viewing It en
circled with rose gardens. "It Is too
delightful. A man can have but one
paradise," said the prophet Damascus
lies in the heart ot Syria, whose name
some geographers derive from sen.
meaning a wild rose, and wild roses are
abundant there. .The damask roses of
Our gardens go back to DamasCua They
were brouaht from It at the time ot the
Crusades although exactly when, or by
whom, nobody can certainly say.
Oregon Sidelights
From shooting sheep It . 10 not far to
Shooting - men, 3 . :v v :
Three Wallowa lake "trout were 18, 18
and 14 Inches long and weighed almost
10 pounds.,.' k-,v .tj, , ,
Still the ery in western Oregon Is for
rain, but it would be louder If the tem
perature were higher,
' The Union county fruit crop will be
much larger than ever before, owing to
big yield and newly-bearing trees. , .
There Is to be a right-through daily
mall service between Bend and Shanlko, ,
via Madras, Haystack, Culver and For
rest'S.;;! - j :, y
The hand Of a member of an Albany
charivari party was torn to nieces by
a bursting bomb. He should have not
been engaged la such rowdyism.
There are T8 names on "the navroll of
tha Bannockburn woolen mllla at Al
bany, and it amounts to $3,000 monthly.
The output la being gradually increased.
A Lane county woman lost her purse
With $40 in it and did not miss it tUL
she got partway borne, but when aha re
turned to Cottage Orove she recovered it
from an honest man who had found it
Steps are under way- for the enlarge
ment of the Union woolen mills to three
times the present capacity. . This will
Increase the payroll to 160 persons and
will mean a big thing for Union. , .
The Taqulna Bay News describes the
editor ..of the McMlnnvllle Telephone
Register as "genial, handsome and ae-
oompliehed." Now, what will the T.-R.
man say about the News edltort
The Bend Bulletin claims that vege
tation la growing all the better -on ac
count of the frost and that up there
"streams freese front the bottom, stones
float and frost only freshens cropa"
What do editors drink T '
A Silver Lake man named1 W. D. West
is popular at home. The 08 votes cast
In that precinct for assessor in the re
cent election were every one for him.
although he was on the Democratic tick
et and running agalnat Roosevelt
A Hllyard young man, arrested at La
Grande for drunkenness, made the ex
cuse that he waa troubled with rheuma
tism, which afflicted him worse than
usual the day before, but aa he had no
scientist's asseveration that whiskey in
large quantities is curative of rheuma
tism, the court fined him $30.
Jessie Moore, a Umatilla county stock
man and farmer, who came to Oregon
63 years ago,' when 11 years old. and
went to Umatilla county 45 years ago.
had lost all trace of his relatives until
a short time ago, when In Missouri buy
ing blooded cattle, he learned of some or
them, and now haa gone on a visit par
ticularly to n brother whom he haa not
seen for 64 yeara .
There are 33 looms running In the
North Bend woolen mill, 7 spinning ma
chines and 6 sets of carding machines.
Tha mill employs in the neighborhood of
75 people and Is said to pay the high
est wages of any woolen mill ' In the
stata As the present time it haa orders
for an enormous quantity of carriage
cloth and high-grade flannels, which
will take several montha to fill. The
mill uses only the best best quality of
wool.
STBAVaSB'S YEBW.
pleased With the Oregon Country, He
Vrgesvthers to Come Here.
Gustaf Swensson In Mollne, HI., Evening
Mall.
From Salt Lake City to Portland, Or.,
the Oregon Short Line and Oregon Rail
road Navigation company provide
splendid accommodations for travelers.
The roadbed is smooth, the cara are ele
gant and the attendants are polite and
accommodating. For hundreds or miles
the country Is level and looks barren,
but wherever nature has provided water
it is used by artificial means and- green
alfalfa fields Indicate what the country
will be In 16 to 20 yeara from now,
when theae plains will get a general
system of Irrigation. About 300 miles
this side of Portland, Or., the aspect of
the country changes. The road again
enters Into a mountainous country roi
lowing the Columbia river, tne most
beautiful river in the world, nearly the
whole way to Portland. Portland is,
however, one of the most beautiful
cities In the country and its surround
lngs are simply magnificent The city
of Portland now has a population of
125.000. or . about one-fourth or tne
population of the state of Oregon. It is
situated on the Willamette river, which
enters Into the Columbia 13 miles be
low. Portland Is a seaport is one of
the best on the Pacific coaat and Its
drydocks, lately completed,, can receive
ships 600 feet long and up to 10,000
tons dead weight for repair. Portland
is one of the cleanest cities In this
country and its water supply ia without
question the very best. The water is
ice cold, without ice, winter and sum
mer. and is perfectly pure.
The state of Oregon, having a larger
area of land than the combined area of
New Hampshire, Vermont Rhode
Island, Connecticut New Jersey, Dela
ware and New Tork," offers better In
duoementa in different Industries than
any other of the western statea . It
leads the world in Its fruit and. vege
tables, and its agricultural and mining
interests are great. Eastern Oregon
probably has' the richest gold mines la
the world and southern Oregon has an
inexhauatable supply -of coal as well
aa minerals of all Kinds ana minions
of acres of fine timber, which, when
railroad transportation facilities will
be provided, cannot fall to produce
great wealth. ; Portland had 3,000 manu
facturing establishments in 1903, cut
8(1.000,000 feet of lumber and the fac
tories employed 28,000 wage camera
Its climate is the best ia. Mm world, ,
never extremely cold nor warm and Its
educational facilities are first-class.
hope that this short description of my
observations , will Induce many readers
of the Mail to go west for the purpose
of seeing the country, if for no other
purpose and I will guarantee them that
they win benefit iio ror eaen si it
costa Portland will have a world's
fair next year and eastern people who
will go there will get their eyes opened
and see the opportunities' offered by the
Pacific coast statea " -
DOJTT gQTTA3fXB9 TOVB YAOATXO.
From the Chicago Journal.
Two thoughts are suggested by Bishop
Fallows' address In which he takes Issue
with Russell Sage, who recently as
serted that vacations do more harm than
gOOd. ! ,
One is that occasional relaxation from
the strain of daily toll Is necessary. The
other is that a vacation is helpful or In
jurious according, to the manner In
which it is utilised. -The
man or woman who devotes his or
her vacation to valueless , pleasure, to
wearying social dissipation at soma
fashionable resort la rarely benefited.
They usually return to their labors
tired out and filled with discontent
He who devotes his vacation to health
ful exercise which Is the best form of
rest and to a renewal of the ties which
bind him to his family and friends goes
back to his work strengthened u body
and invigorated In mind. ; r r:
Tha main point to be . considered is
this: ) The person who squanders his va
cation in a useless or harmful manner la
foolish as . the spendthrift ' who
squanders his earnings at - the gaming
table.
'The laaa
Susuess,
Who Attsacts
' From Succesa ' ' - -A
sunny man attracts business success;
everybody .likes to deal with agreeable.
cheerful people. We Instinctively shrink
from a crabbed, cross, contemptible
character, no matter how able he may
be. . We would rather do a little less busi
ness or pay a little more tor our good;
and deal With an optimist. . " .'
i-f ':;Yi- Woman la ffapan';:S:V-'K.:.i;f;.
From the ' Japan Weekly Malt
Countess OtanL elder sister of the
crown princess, wife of the lord abbott
of the Niahl Hongwan-Jl. Kyoto, has
arrived at Glfu on the way from Toklo.
On May. 10 she delivered a speechr at a
meeting of Buddhist ladles,", with ' ref
erence to the obligations, of women at
the present time.' - . - " (
Advice to the Lovelorn
bt bzatbjcx yantrax
Dear Miss Fairfax I am in love with
a young lady of about 20 years and I
am about two years her senior. I. know
she loves 'me, for she has told me so,
and I know by many other thinga. There
is a young man who sails at her house
very often, and ha la also In love with
her. She does not love him, so she tells
me, but I think that the parents favored
him till lately. As I rive out of the city
I cannot call at her- house on account ot
business, but this man calls very often,
having more time and living In the same
city as she does. So the man haa aaked
me to stop calling at her house, and
If I do not he threatens to trouble me.
As I do not care to come into any
trouble, and because I think the parents
favor him more, I stopped calling. But
a few days ago I saw the girl near her
house and stopped to speak to herand
she wanted me to call, asking me the rea
son why I did not call any more. Her
father saw me then also, and spoke to
me, but did not mention anything in par
ticular. Now, I want to ask you If I
should continue to call at her house, or
should I let her go and let the other man
pay his attentions (o the girl,
BEN BOLT.
Do you mean to say that you let an
other man frighten you out of calling
on the girl you lover She must think you
a pretty poor specimen of a man, and
I wonder that she asked you to call
again. Tou should have told the man
that you would do exactly as you pleased,
and let him see that you would have no
interference on his part. Do not let the
girl - think you a coward. Go and see
ber, If only to show that you are not
afraid of the other roan. She must like
you, or she would not have asked you
to call. i
Dear Miss Fairfax I have been going
with a young, man 21 years of age for
about nine, montha I love him dearly.
My parents also approve of him. He Is
now earning $18 per week, and told me
that we will get engaged on the Fourth
of July, it being his birthday. Of late
he has come to see me but once a week. '
I have asked him the reason and he told
me that he was working night work.
which I would not believe, and quarreled
with him. He went away and did not '
come to see me ait last week. I have '
met some of his friends lately, who have
confirmed his story. I. am almost heart
broken with grief. Can you give me some
advice in the matter? S. 8. C.
The Only thing you Can do is write and
ask his forgiveness. I do not wonder
he1 Is angry at you. Tou doubted, his
word. That Is a poor sort of love. If
he forgives you try and be more trusting.
tmna it win an come right.
ery Uttle Time.
From the New York Tribune. '
An English watchmaker has Just fin
ished making a tinywatch in the form
of a shlrtatud. Its dial Is two-six- ,
teenths ot an inch in diameter, and It is
to be worn with two other studs. By !
turning the upper stud the watch 1s'
wound, while by turning the lower one "
the hands are adjusted. , "
.--"Fatter - and Thiaaec. ' "
, From the New Yprk Herald.
v Jones--YouTe looking fatter, old boy, ,
than when I saw you last
Smith Yes, my wife's literary ' clubA
has disbanded. But you're thin. What's -up?'
' . ' '
Jones My wife's cooking " school
class hasn't disbanded, . 1 ,