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Page of 153 Joorsifll- 1 ( PORTJLANPi OREOON." ' WEDNESDAY. JULY 20, 1904. Editorial THE OREOON C. 8. JACKSON Published very evening (except Sunday) and every Sunday morning . at The OFFICIAL. r"; GET. TO THEjjROOT OF THE TROUBLE. VNVER the bills at the- poor houss the m - qmu "a . witn tne care pi me county puur. au miunytni. ""of"troubl has pervaded "the Institution tor many months cast. Frequent complaints have been ' mates and charges and counter charges have been bandied by the officials. There Is no good reason why this state of affairs should hot be summarily, ""nurse who has been In charge of the hospital has resigned - and another the third within a year has been Installed i.m ft itnuMfnl whethtr this' will accbmDltah , 1 ( MV. T .. . mmm - anything more than temporary peace. the county board has not reached the '"The proper course for the board to pursue Is to make a T rigid Investigation so as to fix definitely the responsibility Of the' complaints made by the Inmates talned and if they have any real grievances they should be remedied at once.- V -n In any public, 'charitable- mstltutlonr of dissatisfaction among the Inmates of them are old and querulous, and rules which are ab soiutely- necessary for health and cleanliness are often en Tftwiin wirn niTTipnirw. miit i t i nua the county to see that they are comfortably clad, amply provided with nutritious food and housed In . clean and wholesome quarters. The sick' must have such care and such additional comforts as their condition demand If the present management of the poor house falls short of these requirements It Is the obvious duty of the county Am i- i j i . i . v. wvbw in. i v-mh.. wnllu. hMI tit the inmates' of th ' nnnf strongest arguments for unusual care those who are to have them In charge. CLOSING" THE EXPOSITION THOSE who have advocated the closing of the Lewis , 'V and , Clark fair on Sundays may study with profit : ine resuus or mat policy in ou XjOuis, wnere me . public Is rigidly excluded from the exposition grounds on the first day of each week. An Interesting discussion of the subject appears in a recent Issue of the Outlook, and while conditions in St. Louis are very different from those In Portland, the experience of our sister some valuable suggestions. The article is as follows: If the doors of all the buildings in the exposition, except those of art galleries, were closed -on Sunday, writes a correspondent. It would take a combination of .Richmond Tarlr Tfvde Pnrk and fit- -Tampa Park with h TCarlnnal Gallery. Talt Gallery at Chelsea, and - Gallery at- Wh Iterha pel all thrown lrv beautiful and an art gallery as complete- as that in Forest Park, where now everything Is closed and only the Jeffer son guards are In possession. From all this beauty vis Mors are now rigidly excluded, by the clause embodied In the exposition appropriation by act of congress four years ago. ' - .- - " TBt Louis is a wide-open, cltyr-wide open on Sunday after the German rather than the American fashion? No whisky Is sold in the- saloons, or at any rate the -front doors of the saloons, are all closed. But' the beer gardens are all open, and in ' the neighborhood of the exposition there are two immense beer gardens which combined can entertain from thirty to forty thousand persons between noon and midnight on Sunday, Right next to the largest and most popular of these gardens there Is a race track. with races on most Sundaya durlnsr Iha and In the open country about the exposition grounds there are scores of resorts and attractions which would not be tolerated on the 'Pike." All the- baseball grounds on the outer edge of the city are open on Sunday; so are all the billiard rooms in every part of the city. In the city itself three or four theatres have two performances a day, and down at the levee there are dosens of excursion, boats in waiting for' Sunday crowds which seek a cool river breese, combined with opportunities for gambling with profes sionals of the lowest and most dangerous type. On Sun days all these places are In full blast; while the beautiful grounds out at Forest Park are tightly closed to the pub- no oy a nign tence. "Even if the exposition buildings are to be closed, this policy of excluding people from the terraces, the plazas, s-nAsroous nosrxsxTT. The 014 Paradox That There Stay Be Toe Kueh of a Oeod Thing. From the Wall Street Journal. ' A leading railroad president recently made the remark that the considered the year ending June 80. 1904, a disastrous year to railroads on account .of the gen eral prosperity that prevailed through the better pert of it He maintained that if the railroads had to undergo two or three years mors of such prosperity -as has been seen -in the past 1twcnld mean their complete bankruptcy. Some times truths arc best stated paradoxically, but this is pot so much paradox as It 1s a striking statement of actual fact. Prosperity and boom times are disastrous very frequently to stable Business. everisn prices ana rererien unrest in the labor situation defeat all advantage which could possibly come to the railroads from an Increase In freight and passemter rates. Rapidly changing prtnes disturb the established notions of value, and open asaln to the uncertainty of dicker the schedules of values on which the old Industrial order has been built . Enlightened business men no longer consider a railroad rate war a) publlo benefit On the contrary, the un certainty of railroad rate schedules Is Justly considered a most disastrously disturbing factor In all business, to be avoided at all reasonable cost Whan the germ of unrest is abrosd In the labor situation, existing standards of fair wages loss their force, and the whole industrial system Is Involved In chaos until there is established some new snd gftnsrally recognised schedule of wages, The adjustments from a low to a high price and wage schedule sre not alto gether unlike the chase of the "sooners" for the publlo lands. There is scrim mage and disorder all along the line and general demoralisation. - - The railroad president before referred to laid eapeolalaiphas1s upon this de tnornllsatloa of the sprl du corps of his working . force, due to the violent r ha sges In pries anf wage schedules, lie pointed specifically fo ' Hie heavy damage expense of the railroads, during the past few years as an Indication of the demoralisation, which existed. . The road Itself by too great prosperity was cluttered up with too much business. It was under a strain st evecy point and the morale of the force was undermined at the ks me time by a general uneasi ness which pressed Itself In the de mand for more wages. ' It Is farela-ft fa the American spirit to tlod fault with any Individual or Slsss DA I LY INDEPENDENT i it.... NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. PAPER OP THB CITY OP the lawns, and the galleries, carries Streetcar traff to to dissenslor.j have Mnora entrusted the vllto.rfrorn. a which Is offered. made by the ln the agreement with loyally,, In fact, that ended. The trained - ' ' To all appearances root of the trouble. the right .keeping should be ascer a certalrr amount helpful places of is Inevitable. Many ful, degrading, and vn Tnmmm rn rir suffered at the hands of Its friends." - ' A MERICAN " derive a r wii IHJ m.iyic.M-. rimiaa la An nt th .which exists ject the prevention In the selection of primary .object .is . -. . ON SUNDAY. this is accomplished Ipurance, but . by and It Is their duty city should afford oiner sources 01 remedied.- Prises cial success and it guard for Ihe employes of its members. the National Portrait to make a setting as SMATED by considerable grieved member of something more household beyond highly exasperating it is probable,- ciivifiltlnn uuabU Judgment which should be found In all households." frequently serves wife. When one has perfection of character may drive the beholder to drink. striving for Its betterment One of the greatest leaders of thought in this coun try has long sgo described contentment as a vice.- But at the same time It must be well recognised that there are limits snd restrictions to the struggle. Espe cially is this true when it is so short a Step from legitimate competitive pres sure to the hysteria which In the past year or two has been so marked a fac tor in business. . We have been accus tomed to speak much of the hysteria of markets This is a grave defect which cannot be avoided when values are thrown Into one great market for a gen eral rating, Where sentiment" must so largely control the fluctuations of prices. When It extends te every form of railroad supply and pervades every department of operations of so great an industry as the railroads, it can bring' about very bad results. With the decline In the exorbitant prices snd a healthier tone In the labor situation, he Saw a brighter outlook Tor railroad earnings than they had known for many years past , , Diczzira at gi,ooo a tox-uks. Ths costliest books ever printed are now being published at Cambridge, Mass., the typographical work-being done by the University Press rfant and the binding at the Boston bindery. In the vicinity Of llarvard college. They comprise the complete works of Charles Klckans and will cost Il.OOw each There are 130 -volumes to a set, making the total cost to each subscriber $110,000. Only 10 sets are to be Issued, however, and all have already been sold, J.,Iier pont Morgan and the Luke of Westmin ster being among those to whose libra ries these, expensive volumes will be added.' "' . - There la one feature of these costly volumes which makes them of unnsual Interest to all who have to do with ths printing or- collecting of books. . Tbey are being printed on real parchment, such aa was used four centuries sgo. The permanent qualities .of parchment srs known snd appreciated everywhere, but all efforts to do successful printing on that material In recent years have failed. Since the secret died with the printers of 400 years sgo, all attempts to successfully print a book on parch ment hsvs proved failures until the pro cess wss rediscovered st the University Press snd a successful experiment made In the case of these rare and costly vol umes. A set of books of this character can not be produced la a day, or a year for that matter. Although only 1,800 val smes in all are te be issued, slght years J O U RNAL J NO. P. CARROLL Journal Building. Fifth and Yamhill PORTLAND groves of Forest Park, and from" the art with It no - saving of - Sunday hfbor, the Sunday attractions is as heavy as It Is. on week days. It Is even heavier, for St. Louis' working-class population is at liberty on Sunday and like distanqe, lt..$sdrawn..t.Q. any attraction There 1 even-no saving of work for the restaurant waiters, for visitors must' get their meals some where, The exposition management la keeping loyally to - congress, as to - Sunday closing so "on BunUays a fence Is built about the hotel within the grounds to keep the 8.,000 visitors and the 1,200 help from straying on to the boulevards and avenues of the exposition. But it can soarcely be claimed that the closing movement has been wholly successful as regards of Sunday. , ' . . " --"We suppose that It is now too late- to correct the error; ltcpuld becorrectedwe judge, only by act of congress; but that It is aa error from every point of view appears to us almost self-evident, and the fact is worth noting now In order that the country may be saved from similar errors In the futdre. To shut up by law innocent educative, and recreation on Sunday; and, leave doubt? positively vicious ones in full opera tlon. and to do this In the name of religion, Is to Inflict another of those wounds from which' religion has so often r MAKING WORKSHOPS SAFE. - manufacturers and mill owners might valuable suggestion from an organisation In France, and which has for Its ob of accidents among employes. ' The to safeguard employers from damage arising from personal Injuries to ' their worklngmen .and sot merely by the ordinary plan of systematic Inspections which are de signed to prevent the occurrence of accidents. The society was formed In. 1880 and has ceased to be an experiment Its .members pay dues which are graduated according to the number of men employed by each and the nature of the" employment,- a higher rate' being charged "where, the business IS unusually hazardous. Inspectors are sent periodically to the mills and workshops of the members to report alt defects In machinery orj aaqger, -ana to see tnat SUcn defects are are also offered by the society to en courage the invention 'of devices which shall tend to diminish the risk of accidents or which shall improve the hygiene of the workshop. The society has proved a finan has undoubtedly operated as a safe. TACT IN THE HOWE. --v- couples who find that double' harness does not always rqake easy going may not get much satisfaction from the decision rendered In a divorce case by a-circuit Judge of this county, who holds In 'substance that mere Incompatibility of temper affords no ground for divorce In Oregon, even though accompanied degree of friction, : and that the ag , the domestio partnership must do toward the maintenance of peace in the the exhibition of that excellent, but virtue, Christian patience. said the learned jurist, "that no caus of complaint would have developed had the plaintiff shown that-aphit-tf Teasonable-T:oncegsloTrorexercIsed"lhe-g6da Theoretically, when connubial storms arise; a display of resignation should act as oil upon the troubled waters, but unfortunately, such is the contrariety of human nature. It to make matters worse. When a hus band is "real mad," It makes him still madder to see his Wife assume the look of a St Cecilia, with upturned eyes and the air of a Christian martyr. And it Is suite as Ir ritating to his better half when the tables are turned and her husband adopts an attitude- of saintly forbearance, well calculated to arouse the Indignation of the most devoted yielded to a petty outbreak of temper It is highly exasperating to be reminded that the partner of bis Joys Is superior to such .Weakness. A too patent will be required to complete the work upon them. ' Ths books will be bound in "the most perfect levsnt, with exquisite colors in laid In beautiful designs. Much of the ornamentation will be done In solid gold. The entire edition, is hand-illuramed by expert American, French and Italian artists, who have used the most entranc ing colors in weaving dainty and fan ciful designs upon the parchment pages. The owner and manager of the bind ery was brought up In a circle which gave htm excellent preparation for his Ufework. Norman II. White, who is yet In his early 80s, wss prominent at Harvard college as a fraternity man and aa an amateur actor. He was grad uated In the class of '95.- He has trav eled extensively, and while In London discovered at' the British museum the little book which Henry VIII wore In his watch charm; He had a sketch made of It; and now shows It, together with pictures of some 60 other famous books, as a lantern 'slide. nroam rArnxza-s tx&xobam. From the Corvallls Times, if Judge Psrker-s telegram to the Bt Louis convention .doesn't put him in the White House, 1t ought to. It gives him a characterisation for honesty and can dor that the words of his eulogists In their nomlnetlng snd seconding speeches were powerless to paint Hie country men know -now from his own act that he is no humbug, no strsddler, no moun tebank, but a man of stern snd rugged truth. , THB 0T 01 TOSAT. The time Is past when poets starve In garrets without hope. They're making scads by writing ads For breakfast foods and snap. - Philadelphia Record.' Ooaolnslve Proof. . ; From the Chicago Journals Billionaire's Daughter Tou wrong him, papa. - He does not love me for my money. He scoffs st the world's sordid eagerness for wealth. Papa-iWhnt proof 'have you, child? " Billionaire s Daughter Why, only last night 'he. told me he didn't care if he whs never able to mnke a penny In his life If he only had ma He Chanee for BdnoaUd Persona. Oreece - Is overrun by well eduoated men who do not know how to earn a living. The country swarms with doc tors who have no patients and lawyers wno nave no oners,. While laborers to till the soil are at a premium- Small Change I -Oyster Bay la a bigger town than Es- pus, anyway) . . , 1 Now the spellbinders begin to' study phrases and attitudes. -. . K- Even If the hop crop is short there will be plenty ox beer. Who- was the original Parker man? Don t- all speak at once. Next year will be a good one in which o take the stats census. v . , , 0 ' At least nobody-ean- allude -te- Mr. Pa vis as a boy candidate. The great harvest of gold Is going on merrily In the Inland Empire. The person who doesn't get up early these mornings misses something good. Come to think of it the streets be long to all the people, not to a few of them. .. .. ' It is the good, old. young summer time.' The old . world morning. ... . . : ' Is- new every Albany . Democrat: . Chicago strikes sre ss hard to settle as coffee In a Port land restaurant The 'Russians appear not to be of quite so retiring a disposition as the Japs thought they were. -'The fat steers on the western ranges sre kicking up their heels In enjoyment of ths meatworkers' strike. Chicago Chronicle: Our young friend Charley Schwab is said to have handed over .82,000,000 he let his friends In for on one of his deals. If that is ths kind of a man he Is, It la no wonder he was not ' a success In . ths field of high finance. SOMS OBOST TOBXEaV, Curious - Incident Which - Strengthen : Superstitious Ideas. T have had only one experience In telepathy," said the man, "but that was strong one. ' I ran away from home when I was a boy of 8. My father was cruel to me, but I loved my mother dearly! f got on a Ship gt..the.Brooklyn docks, bound for I didn't know where. Eventually, after y much roaming, 1 landed at Bombay, where I became printer's devil on a small paper. T was taken 111 there of fever, o HI that I thought I waa at the point, of death. That night It waa very hot but somehow I got out of bed and stood st the lattice of the open window. "That Was some seven yeara after I had run away from home, but I had never once forgotten . my mother. She was my IdoL I prayed to her. In my troubles I talked aloud to her, and she mukt -have heard me;, for though- all the rest had long before given me up for dead, she wquld never believe It well, as I stood tnere I said to her that I was sorry I had left her and caused her. so much unhapplnesa. That now that I was about to die, I wanted her to understand that I wanted her to know, too, that I had always loved her. 'Just then it became a little light in the east and there began to be a breese, rooting the Intensity, .of the heat I heard her voice at thetsame time saying as plainly as I am talking to you now: You will not die.' Then It was ss If shs kissed me ss I stood there.. 1 ' - "I got well and went horns to her. She told me the day and the hour that I stood at the lattice In India talking to her and her answer to me.'L I believe in such thmgsi'-sa1d-the psychic woman, "and also In the near ness of the soul or spirit to earth and loved ones immediately after death, par ticularly In the case of those who die suddenly. Not ' long sgo a friend, a young man, came to see me. He waa the wreck of hlnfself. His eyes were hol low, his face haggard. . " What in the world has chsnged you sot I asked him. This.' he answered. 'My best friend died suddenly and he has' been haunting me. J. see him -near me always, and I wish he would rest in his grave and ault haunting me.' . .. . 1 know all about that I knew a man of such splendid ' physique that- you would have thought to look at him, that he would live ' forever. He -was taken with appendicitis spd died In three days. . 1 '.'He hsd beautiful auburn hair a splendid mass of It ss thick ss could be. He used to sit when living. In a certain chair when he called on me, and the sunshine coming in at the window; made a. soft flame of his hslr. I used toi go to the head of the stairs and watch him corns up, his fine hair gleaming in the dusk of the stairway. . For weeks after he died, whenever I entered the room I could see him in that chair, with the sunlight on his ,halr. Whenever I went out and looked down the stairway, I"could se the shine of his beautiful hair as he came up. Tou may call It nervousness or the effect of my constant thought of him.i but ss for me, I believe the spirit of. him , wss there. "One proof, to my mind, is this story of an' old manor house that belonged to n army officer who had rented It and gone to Inifla. The house was In the suburbs of London. The officer hsd lost an arm. A girl whose father had rented the manor house was stricken- with the kodak fever. She took pictures of the house, one room after another, until she had taken them all. Then she took the Alms to a London photographer to be developed and printed. After a week or so she called for them. They are very -. good.' said the photographer, "with the exception of one that Is a little dim the one of the one- rmed man who is sitting In ths library by the table.' " What one-armed manf aha asked In amasement There wasn't a single soul in any room' when I took ths pic tures. Not a soul.' ' . There wss a man In the library.' reiterated the photographer, for here la the picture of him,? He brought out the picture of the library, and tnere waa the one-armed man sitting sadly there by the table. pon investigation it was found that the owner of the house, the one-armed rmy officer, had died suddenly In India on the day on which she hsd photo grsphed his home. "Was there snythlng more natural than that his soul should come back on a visit to his old home the moment it waa freed from his bodyT . Or that my friend's soul should come back and visit meT" Bow Be Oaessed It . t From the Chicago Journal. -"Ah," murmured the old boarder, "I'm glad to see you're giving us union but ter." 1 there a union label on that but terr' , ' , "No. but I can tell It In union there Is strength-1 Journal AW July 18. The Oven Islands are small and two la number; one near the south snore, the other In the middle of the river. 'Opposite to them is the prairie called Ttrrlen'a Oven, from a . trader of that name. At IK miles we reached some high cliffs. of a yellow earth, on the south, near which are two beautiful runs of wster. rising In adjacent prairies, one of them with a deer-lick about. 800 ysjds from its mouth. In this neighborhood we observed some Iron ore In the bank. At thi miles above the runs, a large portion of the hills,' for nearly three-quarters of a mile, has fallen Into " the river. We eamped on the western extremity of aa island, in tire middle of. the riverhav-4 mg made 10 miles. . Ths river falls a little. The sand bars, which we passed today are more numerous, and the roll ing sands more frequent and dangerous than any we have seen; these obstaclea are Increasing as we approach the Platte river, The Missouri here Is wider than below, where the timber on the banks resists the current: while here the prairies which approach are more" easily waanea and undermined. Ths hunters have brought for the ths last few days no quadruped but deer;, great quantities of young geess are seen today. Ons of the hunters brought calamus, which we bad gathered opposite our camp, and a large quantity of sweetflag. , July 80. There waa a heavy dew last night snd this, morning was foggy snd PANAMA PRESENT AND FUTURE From a Staff Correspondent of the Rati- - way Age. . Tt seems a far cry from .cause to ef fect that a revolution in a small Central American . state should have ' any real bearing upon a great transportation pro ject Yet the permanent disbarment of Colombia from all Panamanian affairs is pregnant with ' significance and -has eased a situation which was Intolerable; has also brought peace to a community from which it was banished nearly four centuries ago. So long as Colombia had control -of the Isthmus, It Is svldent in the "light of present knowledge that nothing less than constant watchfulness and anxiety would have been the portion of what ever outside nation might have built the canal, and now by the; simple process of a community's insistence - upon its rights even the anomaly has disappeared of a French company protected in Its op eratlons-by - the - United States- govern ment through a treaty Intended to se cure the continuance of a railway's traf fic. - But although the air Is now cleared and the way is opened for a peaceful and economical exploitation of the work, 400 years of a brutal and dlahonest scheme of government have left scars snd living sores which first must be healed. Pan ama and Colon, the two termini of the canal, as well as of the railway, are destined to become great centers of pop. illation, and unless the fearful mortal ity which followed the operations of the old French- company 1a to be repeated. they must be "provided with f running water, rit ror arinmng as wen aa wann ing, and they must be both drained by sewers and smoothly paved.- This is work which requires long preliminary Study of actual conditions, and ths lm; provements themselves are so great as to involve some delay In beginning the precise object of all the preparations. But It Is a delay which will have as an ultimate result a much earlier comple. tfon of the canal .than any .haphazard method, - :" , " The long Suspense which ensued upon the practical abandonment of French efforts has left some doubt In the na tive mind as to whether there may not be something spasmodic In the present movement also; a very rational fear in a people so bred to expect nothing perma nent hut disorder In government affairs, and so little scqualnted with our meth. ods. - This feeling, however, is gradual ly disappearing and must Inevitably give place to the confidence which prac tical operations will bring. But aa has been, shown, practical operations must await' every necessary precaution - to guard against the dangers which sur round all tropical work, and the time which must elapse before the fulfill ment of this purposs Is sure to entail much disappointment, not only in the local mind,' but In the United States ss well, where many hopes srs directed to ward this greatest of modern projects. There are. to be sure, great opportuni ties for profit to contraotors and manu facturers, but let no one Imagine that tbey will come so soon aa they are ex pected or that to Secure them Will re quire less effort than in the United States. In the latter regard It should be understood that much greater effort will be needed than at home, and this In a climate where 80 .degrees Fashen. helt Is regarded as cool In a dark room during -the cool -season. With this also must be taken the fact that no hostelry at all possible to a North American ex ists between Panama and Colon, where even in these comparatively large places but ons really comfortable hotel can be found, and others offer a choice princi pally of evils. Here, by the way. Is sn opportunity for some Yankee hotel man or men who will set their faces sternly toward cleanliness, moderate, prices, lib eral bathing facilities and a 'special em phasis on well-cooked native dishes BATXWATS I BCZHT TWAJrCB. Alex D. Noyes In July-September Forum. Railway earnings, always an Index to' the state, of- general trade, have steadily decreased, and the decrease has not been made good by the reduction In expenses. - Shrinkage of 18,100,000 on the Important lines during the opening quarter of the year was accompanied by 818,000,000 increase In outlsy for op eration, and, therefore, by 818,100.000 de crease In the net; and April and May re turns, so far as reported. Show the same tendencies st work. Yet we have seen no really formidable Increase In come merclal features, no trouble whatever with he banks and no slgft Of distress among the ,ril7sys. Indeed, ths most noteworthy oTh Incidents of ths period has been the fact that although the In ability of great corporations to sell new stock or bonds st prices asked baa been emphasized, and although a number of such corporations have been compelled to borrow on their short-time notes at ratea ranging from I to T pet cent nev ertheless the financial soundness of ths companies has not been questioned, and their outatandlng securities have held their ground upon the msrkets. This problem of ths Inability of great companies to borrow on ithelr long-term bonds st the old-time rsts of 4 pef cent or 'thereabouts, at a time whea lenders J cool. -Ws passed at about three miles' distance a amall willow Island to the north, and a creek on the south, about 15, yards wide, celled by' the French L-Kan out Pleure. or the Weening Water, which empties lust above a cliff of 1 Uiewn clay. Thence we make two and a half miles to another Islam; three miles further to a third, six miles be yond which Is va fourth Island, at ths head of which ws eamped on the south, era shore; In all IS miles. The party who walked en .the shore today found the plains to ths south rich, but much parched with ' frequent fires, and with no timber, except the scattering trees sbout ths sources of the runs, which are nupieifl.ua, ..gndjClnfl. Qn theporth Is a similar prairie country. The river con' tlnuea to fay. - A large Yellow wolf was tbls day killed. ' For a month past the party has been troubled with bolls and . occasionally with the dysentery. 'These, were large tumors which broke out under the arms on the legs and generally in-parts moat exposed to action, which sometimes be came too-painful to permit' the men to work. After remaining some days, they disappeared without any assistance, ex cept a poultice of the bark of the elm, or of Indian meal. This disorder, which we ascribe to the muddlness of the river water, has not affected the gen eral' health of the party, which la quite as good ss, if not better than, that of the earns number of men in any other situation. . .. - , Which sre suited to the climate and the products ofthe land, instead of the 111. conceived, dyspepsia-dealing - masses, misnamed ''home cooking," which usual ly follow ths North American Innkeeper lias a piague. . - , . . It is not' generally understood that the original rights upon which this work ' rests are vested In 'the Panama railroad a New York state corporation, built In the latter fifties and extending southesstwardly from - Colon on the Caribbean (Atlantic) to Panama on the PaclHc, a distance, of 48 miles; oertalnly the shortest, as well as the most Impor tant" transcontinental railway in the world. It will also be observed thst In order to travel westward, one must go In a southesstwardly direction. The Panama railroad owns the sole right to build any form of communication In this psrt of Central America, including highways and telegraph lines, ss well aa railways and -canals, Henoe.-lt-was necessary for the -old Panama Canal company to buy ths railway before it could secure a concession to build a canal across the Isthmus, and because of the purchase of the canal concession by the United States, the railway also belongs to our people. , . . - " Again, owing ta the comprehensive ness of the railway concession, there la no highway on which any form of ve hicle can be used outside. of Panama and Colon, so the only means of com munication, other than by train, ta on ponyback - through Jungle, which Is In describably matted to ne wno nas not seen Iti and over tratla wnicn in steep ness chsllenae the sstllty of a goat The ponies ars' a dlmtnutlve "form of our western "cayuse" and seldom grow taller than 18 "hands;" I. e 63 inches, pearly H tnch" shorten thaw a welL. slsed American business horse. - To reach any point not on the railway right of way means; therefore, a Journey of the slowest speed and the maximum of effort and discomfort. Fortunately tT) except to mahogany cutters and banana growers, there is no reason for going into the "bush" sines the almost undis coverabla. population are highly content with a lion cloth in tne matter oi ciotn Ing, after the age of about ten years (before which, nothing) and the Inner needs are met by feral nature. So, since there Is nothing to be sold, everything swsy from the narrow strip ocoupled .by ths Panama railroad lacks interest to the business" Yankee. i,. Ws here reach one of the great ques tions connected with ths Panama canal: What is to be the permanent effect on the land and Its resources. - In ths past nothing could be done because no prop erty wss ears tn tne tnroes oi a con stant revolutionary activity, wherein both - sides - took when and - how they pleased and could And. The land is fertile bevond anything known In our northern latitudes, yet it is ss hare of results nearly as ths desert or uoou While construction proceeds on . the canal, there will be demand, but with this construction, demand will cease un less other markets sre developed In the meantime and1 an energy, . foreign to both race and climate. Is born to utilise them. i ' There Is nothing to require a much larger force to, maintain the canal after Its completion, than now exists for the railway and the slight efforts projected toward ths canal work proper, bo witn present conditions of - population re stored at the end of the next dosen years, the temporary local demands will cease and the Isthmus Is in great dahger of a relapse. ... On the other band there will be peace andatable government for the first time In ths history of Panama, so with the eyes of the world sttracted to her fertility, beauty and practical value, a means may be found to utilize them for the benefit equally of her cltlsens and those of. other lands. - ' wtlHngly advanced the money at a higher rate on. one and two year obligations. Is in some respects ths most notable phenomenon of the time. Nothing akin to it has been witnessed in this genera tion, for the railway floating debt on the eve of 1888 waa 'created when the companies', credit was admittedly Im paired, and when to hreet -their pressing debts they had, to pledge with banks their last assets which remains in their almost exhausted treasuries. ' Today these notes are Issued by companies In the highest credit; they are in many caaes eagerly sought for by Investors, end on this basis upward of over 8169, 000,000 of such, paper is outstanding. Not a few i thoughtful financiers and critics hold that this strsngs phenome non has a simple! explanation the fact that the Interest rae In the broadest sense has risen; that borrowing corpo rations must hereafter pay a higher price for money; that lenders and In vestors recognise this fact, but that the borrowers will not recognise It or at all events will admit it only as a temporary tendency which Is to pass away before the short-time notes fall due. This hy pothesis Is to be tested with the prog ress of ths year; If true. It Involves soms interesting corollaries, affecting msny Interests and many markets. But aa yet it Is nothing more than theory, and cannot be said to have created act ual alarm. " . . , Oregon Sidelights . Two Linn county saw mills were burned, last wsek.- - . ' - - ' 'in "Klamath eounty harvest' bands sre paid 81 a day and board., , . 'lone, .the -Post fiercely asserts, has no bank except a sandbank. - . . . . k . . . . i Oregon towns are organising local de veloptnent leagues. They're the things, , ' One cherry picked by a Lane county man measured four Inches In circumfer ence.'. - t - . .- . The11 old town of Jacksonville la Im proving by the building of many new sidewalks. ., - ' ' : Eight men are at work at The Dalles foundry, most of them making hop presses and hop stoves.. . ,i Many farmers , are raising oats and vetch, sewn together, . which makes a fins feed for cattle and sheep. Z. T. Llglln, Democratic candidate for sheriff of Coos county, .will con- tesi tne .election vj. nie opponent. The Weston' city marshal,' while - standing near a telephone, pole, was struck by lightning but not . ' fatally ' hurt i.-.. ,.5 -., r ..- ,- : William Bailey of Cloverdale, Benton , county, aged 78, recently - married. Mrs. Barah . Edelmaer. aged 70. - They . met ' for ths first time only a few days be-' fore the wedding. Wasco News': Dr. Qoffln has got water at last not so very deep either - only 100 feet The drill went through some hard rock that waa a corker, some days only going dowel six or eight Inches. It Is well demonstrated -that ,' water can be. hsd all over the county at I S moderate, depth. . ,. Maury correspondence of Prlnevllle Journal: -James Gilchrist Is not haying ' much this year. .We presume hs Is - fishing .too. He is doing a, great deal of It on Beaver- creek near the school house. - Of course the school is near -the creek and James knows the best Ashing Is -near the school house. . . Marshfleld News: -' It Is claimed by .. those who thoroughly - understand the ' situation that the expenditure of 10,- - euu in- areaging wouia give a so-root depth of water In the channel, at low tide, between Marshfleld and the bar. -Considering the amount of shipping', done oh the bay, this Is a very small sum, and if the matter la properly pre- sented to the . powers that be, there should be no difficulty In securing the ' appropriation. , r, , Prlnevllle Review: Only bottoms of. . canyons ever suffer from cloudbursts lite solitary msnar to property n Ore gon end Prlnevllle can shake hands with Itself . that, no such dsngef wlll ever threaten Its homes. Crooked river valley at this point Is a mile wide and - perfectly flat so that a stream aa large ' as ths Columbia would do very t little damage If suddenly turned loose In It. Narrow canyons - In eastern Oregon' should always be avoided as townsttes.. Crook County Journal: Three' weeks . the farmers prayed for a' little rain. ' They got It Then they prayed for a little more rain, and they got that too. -Last week some, few more drops then v were necessary descended. ':. They spoiled considerable bay. but made up for the - loss by stimulating an abun dant and verdant growth of range grass. The cattlemen In Consequence, -cannot be Justified In registering a very heavy kick. Plenty of hay this year. gopdrnge. ; , - r , On visiting a tract of land' for the Brat time In several years, - H. R. Kin- , catd of Em gene found that timber and brushhad grown up nearly, all Over , ths land,- In soms plsces trees large enough if or telegraph poles, bridges or wharf piling; or saw logs, growing oo -land where ho plowed and raised wheat ' and garden vegetablea ' 80 'years sgo, ' Nearly all of the 880 acres Is covered with a dense forest of nsw flr snd oak ' timber and brush thst has grown up . since the donation claim waa settled on by Thomas and Nancy Klncald In 1853. There are thousands, perhaps tens of ' thousands, of cords of wood now grow ing on the land.- r i- : DOOffZD TSTtrmOZaVXat Ths Xaa leatenoed to Be Hanged Shows '. go Ohaage ef Pemsaaor. . D. ' Norman Williams, ths man sen. tenced to be-hanged on the-I'd of this month, seems to be perfectly Indifferent to his fate, and sines a stay of proceed ings has been decreed by the supreme court, there Is no apparent change'-in his actions. He refuses to be Inter, viewed regarding the crime of whloh he has been found guilty, and if he In. dulges in sny conversation it la sbout ordinary affairs, and earefully avoids arly reference 'to the murder of the Nesbltt women. He hss received a let ter from the brother of Alma Nesbltt begging him in the most pathetic man ner to disclose what became of the bod ies at the victims of his diabolical crime, but this does not effect him In the least. If he is hanged, and It ia very likely he will be, the details of the terrible crime will go down with him to the grave. He has been visited by persons of re ligious inclination, who havs prayed with blra; but recently he expressed a desire not to receive visits from preach ers of any religious denomination. After taking hla exercise In the corridor-he retires- to his cell,, where he spends his time reading religious books, and qne In particular he has read through four times. After perusing the contents he told the Jailer that anybody who would read that work and not be thoroughly convinced ; of the . absoluts truth of Christianity was , beyojad hope. . - Fre quently he can be heard reading-the Bible, and sometimes apparently pray ing. He -has expressed the desire thst his fate be definitely settled ss quickly ss possmie, a no u ne were to be hangd he didn't care how soon It might happen, ss he wss becoming tired of the sus pense. ( i To look at ths man as hs paces through ths corridor. Joining In conver sation with the inmates'ot the jail, with head erect and no tremor on bis coun tenance, one can hardly realise, that hs Is about to expatriate the most horri ble crime the murder of his wife and mother-in-law under the' most revolting circumstances known in the history of wsaco county. The sheriff would have commenced the erection of the gallows this week If stay or proceedings had not been granted; but now hs will, wait to hear the decision of the- higher court It la hardly probable that a 'decision can ha made by the 2 2d of this month, snd the exeoutlon of the sentence mey be post poned sevsral weeka From appearances now, there will be no -confession on his part of the crime of which he has been found guilty, or of ths murders com mitted near Muscatine, la., with which he is charged, , 1.1-