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e of TEe Journal PORTLAND. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1804. Editorial Pag THE OREGON DAILY AN C 8. JACKSON Published every evening ( except Sunday ) aad every Sunday morning at INCREASE OF CRIME IN UNITED STATES. STATISTICS gathered for McClure's Magazine in regard to the prevalence of crime in the United States, as compared with other countries, are not flattering to our boasted institutions, and may well cause statesmen as well as sociologists to inquire not only with diligent scrutiny but with pained humility into the causes and the remedies. Only in Russia, according to the magazine mentioned, are more murders committed than m the United State's, and we are a close second to Russia in this respect. The proportion here is more than double that of any other European country, and ten times as many murders are committed here as in Great Britain and Ireland. ' Not only so, but this and other atrocious crimes are alarmingly on the increase. This is not due to the in flux of foreigners, for states with few immigrants, like Kentucky, show their full quota of murders. McClure's insists, indeed, that the immigrants who commit crimes mostly get their education m law-breaking after arriving, iu this country. The principal reasons for this deplorable state of af fairs are two: The delay and uncertainty of justice; and the open and insolent violation of law by corporations, financiers, politicians, officeholders and leaders of so ciety. Here, if a man of means, or one who has friends with money, commits a murder, the chances are at least even that he will not be punished according to law, and if he is executed it is only after long delays for the most trivia reasons. And as to other crimes, few rich people or those with influential friends are punished at all, or only nominally. A bank president may rob hundreds of peo ple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the chances are now about ten to one that he will escape with a light penalty, even if he be punished at all. Our great railroad corporations violate the laws daily, openly, defiantly, scornfully, and our courts are power less to punish them, to prevent them from doing so, or even judiciously to ascertain the facts. And congress, session after session, term after term, refuses to take any steps to bring them to book. Why should not individ uals reason that they should have the same privilege to violate laws at will that corporations and syndicates en joy? The spirit of lawlessness does not spring from the soil, from the foundation, and spread upward, so much as it springs from the creatures of law who spurn and trample upon the very means, which gave them an existence and opportunity to acquire vast wealth. There is a widespread and growing feeling permeating like an insidious disease our whole social, political and economic systems, that laws are made for other people, or to obey only when it suits our convenience and will be to our advantage; and further, that if we do get caught in the meshes of the law we can readily escape that is, if we are anybody at all. This pernicious spirit permeates officialdom. Burton was kicked out of the senate but nobody doubts that men, worse than Burton, have been influential there for a quar ter pf a century. Our state passes a law to protect sal mon; the officer charged with its execution ignores it. Contractors systematically plunder the taxpayers and' nobody supposes they can do so habitually and contin ual! without collusion with officials. It is more trouble and work to close up a gambling house, a clearly and in disputably illegal and an utterly vicious concern, than it would be to build the portage railroad and a line of river steamers. One crime leads to another; one violator of law cor rupts others, either by example or precept- Some will only go so far in law-breaking; others lose all restraint, and become everything criminal up to murderers. What is needed badly in this country is fhe prompt Enforcement, of laws against all alike, both in original, prosecutions, in subsequent proceedings, and in penalties. FRUIT INDUSTRY IN OREGON. WHILE complete and exact figures are not yet obtainable, enough are available to show that the fruit crop of Oregon, as a whole, has ex ceeded in quantity, quality and value that of any former year, and this despite the large shrinkage in prune pro duction, owing to non-paying prices. For all other fruits of good quality there is and has been a ready and brisk demand, at prices yielding fair profits, and in many in stances very large profits, to the horticultura'lists of the state. Every year for several years past this has been true a larger yield, and taken altogether products of better quality, than the year before. And this will doubtless be the case for many years to come. While the yield of fruits this year makes a fairly good showing, the state has made as yet only a beginning of what it can and should do in the prosecution of this pleasant, useful and profitable industry. The Hood River apples have literally obtained world wide fame. They are the favorite apples not only in New York and Boston, near which cities are countless or chards producing good apples, but .in London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Hongkong and Manila. And perhaps not more than one tenth of the Hood River valley is yet util ized to the full extent in fruit production. But it is not only Hood River that can produce apples of very su perior quality. Other localities in various eastern Ore gon counties, almost all of them in fact, can do the same. Then in southern Oregon, especially in Jackson county, so far as development along this line has yet gone, there are thousands of acres of as fine apple orchards as can be found in the United States, producing fruit almost if not quite equal to that of Hood Riverr and there are other tens of thousands of acres equally well adapted to this purpose. And in the Willamette valley, while per- pooling A PRACTICAL JO New York's all too well known prac tical Joker, Brian O. Hughes, owes his reputation part of It, at least to a carefully planned practical Joke on some unsuspecting- friends. He actually went to the trouble to box up a harmless little powder, which was labelled "Poison to Roaches," and this he dis tributed widely among- his friends. Bach package contained a slip announcing that the second box of the preparation would be infallible. A number of people were Induced to ask for this box. The second box contained the following directions: "First catch the rosch, then hold it firmly and tickle It with feather till It laughs, then. drop some of the powder down Ita throat and choke It " Street of a From the Philadelphia Record. The judicial dignity that character ises proceedings In the central police Court, where Magistrate Korkereperger dispense Justice, was rudely Jarred yes terday. At the ber was a prisoner with a record as a hardened offender, and upon Mas the magistrate fixed a stern, un compromising eye. 'You are a bad man e very bad man." he aald. "It Is necessary to make an example of you INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. streets, ror nana, uregon. FICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND limited quantities. well-tended apple The apple is the tury, toward supplying that demand. But Oregon can, be an increasing gions where they ford a constantly is apparent that fruit state. The become, one of vast ond to any in the forward and upward growing states that the state should adopt such changes may fall far. below as sewer work, the Imperfect work may the resulting damage may be enormous, as was illus trated by the Tanner creek sewer lsst spring. Ohe well authenticated case of carelessness or connivance com pletely unsettles goes even back of that" for it necessarily calls into ques tion the method of advertising for the bids and the de termination of whether certain withheld information was at the disposal of favored bidders thus giving them an undue advantage. It likewise brings 'into question all bills for extras. city and taxpayers. hirst, that there be report on all jobs of the city engineer's department, and second, that the engineer, assistant engineer and the inspector involved in the Tanner creek scandal be at once removed from of fice and the whole department at once placed upon a basis to command public confidence. GETTING TOGETHER ON THE SALMON LAWS. THE southwest Washington legislative combine, consisting of senators and representatives, will meet with .the western Oregon legislative repre sentatives at Astoria tomorrow afternoon at I o'clock for the purpose of arranging for a uniform system of laws with reference to the salmon fishing industry. The whole outlook has become so serious that those engaged in the business have themselves become alarmed, for a continuance of the present methods will undoubtedly lead to the destruction of the industry. In this respect Washington has been a great sinner but Oregon has also sinned. It is absolutely necessary that sharp and decisive action be at once taken in this matter, but it is quite as necessary that whatever is decided upon-shoulrnbe up held by public sentiment and that the fish wardens ex ecute the law to the letter. Much of the trouble now ex perienced results from the very fact that the law as it stands is not enforced. The wardens have winked at evasions and the closed seasons have been delusions and snares. Nobody has paid any attention to them and no body now would but for the fact that the industry is threatened with a genuine calamity. It is probably not yet too late to set in motion plans to remedy the evil but the starting point must be a strict enforcement of the laws no matter against whom they may operate nor what apparent hardship they work. The general interests are involved in the outcome and the lesson of the past should not be lost upon any one. and I am going to give you a heavy sentence an extra heavy sentence. You will go to the house of correction for one year." Aa the magistrate pronounced the sen tence the court aeatof Justice gave way In the underpinning and dropped the "Judge" to the floor. "I guess the weight of the sentence busted It." chuckled the hardened offender as he was led to the pen. Bow Osriyls Talked. From "Retroepects." I have heard Carlyle pour forth a continuous stream of Impassioned decla mation for more than an hour at a time; and eo keen were his charactarlsa tlona, ao felicitous his arrow-shots of criticism, so rich his satire, eo Intense his patriotic sympathy wth all that be longed te national life and character, that no listener could wish the wonder ful utterance te ceaae. Italian Xm migration. From the World s Work, a the past 30 years Italy has sent more than 2.000,000 persons to the Uni ted States. A number of these have re turned In the course of time, bringing with them carefully , hoarded ssvlngs. A very lnrge msjorltv hsve remained In the United States. JOURNAL JNO. P. CARROLL The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill haps not quite so delightfully pungent a flavor can be ob tained, apples of excellent quality, and that will (jnd reiidy sale in the markets, can be grown in almost un We speak here of apples particularly because they are the great standby among fruits. Good apples are good nearly all the year, and are always salable. The supply, the year through, newer equals the demand. - They make the safest fruit crop, both in the matter of production and in point of marketing profitably. A man with a good, orchard is always sure of an income. king of .fruits. The world is constantly demanding good apples, more than it can get, and Oregon can do considerable during the next quarter of a cen produce a large list and variety of other fruits and berries in great profusion and in size and quality equaling those raised in any part of the country. As our population grows there will of course home market for these fruits, and re' cannot be profitably raised will also af growing market. For these reasons it Oregon is destined to become a great fruit industry may become, and should proportions and value, scarcely sec state. Whether this shall be so, whether Oregon shall move into the place in the rank of fruit fts soil, climate and other advantages entitle it to hold, depends largely upon the methods pur sued by horticulturalists, upon the care and conscien tiousness with which they raise and market their pro ducts. A great change for the better has taken place in this respect during the past few years, but there is still room for much further improvement .And to effect this assist by siitfi legislation as experience has shown necessary or beneficial. The state board of horticulture has done an excellent work, and it will be safe and reasonable for the state to follow its advice and in the law as it may recommend. TWO NEEDED STEPS. THERE, IS NOT an unprejudiced man in Portland who now believes that either the city engineer, his assistant, his inspector or the contractor did his duty in the Tanner creek sewer construction work. The dereliction of the city engineer, who, after all, is the man directly responsible to the people, is so far reaching in its consequences that the public has been fairly startled. Public work involving thousands upon thousands of dollars is done each year under his super intendence. He, and he alone, stands between the tax payer and robbery. It is not afione that the contractors may be overpaid for the work niey ought to do but thlt with his connivance or through his carelessness the work the standard specified. In cases such subsequent damage may be enormous. cause the sewer to be blocked and public confidence. When one case is discovered the public is justified in fearing the worst. It puts an odOr of suspicion about every other job com pleted or in progress under the same administration. It The situation could not well be more serious for the It calls for two distinct steps'. a rigid investigation and an impartial now being done under the 'supervision SPARE XJSaT NOT WANTED. From the Chicago Tribune. Plerpont Morgan Is not what might be called garrulous. In fact, he seldom speaks unless he has something to, say. On one occasion he wanted to get a superintendent for a certain new depart ment that he had established. He thought he knew the man for this sup erlntendency en assistant to one of his colleagues. He sent for the colleague and said: "I am setting up, you know, a certain new depertment. I shall want a new superintendent. I think Bfbwn. In your office, would fill the place well, Indeed." "I am sure he would," said the other. "The only trouble Is, Mr. Morgan. Brown can't be spared." "I don't want a man that you can spare," replied Morgan. Brown was appointed. at From the Lebanon. Va.. News, Misses Maud and Minnie Thompson, Lillian Wilton and Katy Hummel, ac companied by Harry Thompson. "Sam" Couch snd Floyd Thompson attended a funeral In Buchanan, Sunday, and. got plenty of grapes and chestnut, and a good old dinner and reported Just a tine time. We bet they will do Regain. r Small Change j Tax the fakers high. Will Mrs. Chadwlck write a book? This Is the week to do your Christ, mas buying. Be cautious about Christmas enter tainment fires. s Shouldn't the coroner be arrested for something too? Nan Patterson will now edge In front of Mrs. Chadwlck. Don't begin to worry already about next year's weather. Maybe Mrs. Chadwlck contributed to Cortolyou's campaign fund. Old Habeas Corpus scarcely gets a day's rest In this lively town. Any town that doesn't want a new charter Is entitled to a premium. The twilight of the day of public gambling In Oregon Is approaching. Banker Beckwlth forgot to give her a little loose change he had In his pocket Perhaps Mrs. Chadwlck will now have an opportunity to enjoy the simple life. Now Mrs. Chadwlck will be under the necessity of proving her Insanity again. There Is nothing small about Mrs. Chadwlck, financially, except the out come. If Banker Beckwlth had had any more money Mrs. Chadwlck could have had It Sixteen canons to one crown prince, was the ratio In an Italian baptismal servloe. Glad to hear that Senator Mitchell and Representative Hermann are so busy In Washington In Oregon's behalf. That Baltic fleet la not making the time that the battleship Oregon did from the I'acinc coast to Santiago bay. Tariff reform Is to be put off till fall. It Is said. And then till spring, and then till fall, and so on, probably. Albany Democrat: As a big land thief what Is the matter of the Northern Pacific and numerous other Pacifies? That there Is a Mrs. Chadwlck Is not so strange as that there should be bankers like Beckwlth and Newton. We may have to Import some sheriffs, constables, coroners and police officers to help take care of the arresting boom. The nnvv last- VMr eosf ahnnl 11 via. capita. We don't msjd our dollar, but feel a good deal of sympathy for Uncle Russell Sage on account of his. What Is the matter with the Olsens? Within a few days one committed sui cide, another attempted to commit sui cide, and another narrowly missed being murdered. Jim Jeffries' father Is to make a preaching tour around the world. He and Jim traveling together ought, to draw piles of silver, but the old man alone Is likely to encounter frosts. Mrs. Howard Gould has chosen a queer way to acquire notoriety and keep ner name in the newspapers by refus ing to pay her bills. If she keeps this up much longer she will have to pay cash whan she orders a few thousand dollars worth of gowns. Oregon Sidelights t Stayton chair factory running "full Dinar. Coos county also exports a good many turiceys. All of IS votes were cast at the Amltv city election. Thirty votes were cast in the Pilot Rock election. Sixty-three votes were east at the lone city election. The Urtratllla river is lower than It has been for SO years. Isn't this playing st being a city by some small settlements rather absurd? No use yet for sleighs In eastern Oregon. But wait a little. There are 200,000 sheep In Umatilla county two thirds of them ewes. Klamath countv sawmills are all tintr and improvements are going on all over the county. The Nyssa Progreas gives notice that hereafter no liquor advertisements of any nature will appear In Us columns. It Is now believed that the W. V. A C. M. Wagon Road compann. will loin with the people of the MalMlur valley. and that the big Irrigation project will be pulled off. Rcho News: The Maxwell Land A Irrigation company, backed almost ex clusively by Seattle capital, Is now vig orously pushing the construction work on Its large Irrigation system In the Maxwell and Cold Spring valleys. Out of a vast expanse of sand and sage brush, practically worthless, will be produced hundreds of thousands of dol lars worth of taxable property. This one enterprise alone will Increase the sasessment roll of the county over 11,000,000. A. H. Carson, near Grants Paaa, raised 3,000 crates of fine grapea from 35 acres of land, and will plant 15 acres more. He raises principally the Rose of Peru, Mnlvolee, Tokay and Mission He has engaged in general farming and nursery business, but has found thst grape grow ing la more profitable than either of the other vocations and he will here after confine his attention to grape growing. Mr. Carson's success Is but added proof thst the Rogue River valley will soon become one of the great vine yard districts of the United States. 5? Vale Oasette: Fully 120,000 seres will bs Irrigated under this (the government) project It Is now estimated that the cnet of reclamation will not be over 126 an acre. All the government asks Is the cost of reclamation. The govern ment loans you 12,000,000 without In terest. What mere do you want? You've got the earth, and the government offers you the water. Will you tske It. or will you linger on snd let It slip from your grasp? Now Is .your time to make Melheur county the most productive section west of the Rockies. Land Policy of German Cities From the New Tork Churchman. A conference on housing reform was recently held at Bournevllle, a model village near Birmingham. From an ac count of It given In the New York Even Ing Post, Its chief Interest seems to have been the revelation of astonishing prog ress made by German municipalities and the rapidly widening scope of their Ideals of corporate functions. Scien tists, engineers and sanitarians have co operated with the governing bodies of the nation, states and cities to elaborate a system of laws that shall facilitate condemnation of lund for municipal use, a fuller control of the use of building sites, the elaboration of far-reaching street plans, and progressive taxation of vacant lands according to the unearned Increment of their value through urban arrowth. Under the Saxon law. If the city thinks any plot of land too small to serve aa a site for such buildings, as it would like to see built, the plot must be sold to the community. The city has also power to distribute plots If their ownership hinders the carrying out of the city's plan by reason of their form or else or position. Every New Yorker knows of cases In this city where such municipal rights aa the Saxon law con fers could have been used to the great gain f the public and the Injury of no man.' German municipalities are also purchasing large aores of land, which they cover with dwellings for the poorer classes. It Is stated that no leas than 1,100 communities have already sum clent Income from rents to do without local taxation. The purchases of Ber lin-have extended 20 miles beyond the center of the city. Frankfort-on-the-Maln ha adopted a measure of land taxation that Is the nearest approach yet attempted to the single tax of Henry George. Unimproved building sites are In many cities taxed as they would be In this country, on She basts of their sen lna- price. A few years ago, when .the tax was on income, tney practically es raped taxation altogether, and specula tion was thus greatly encouraged. But Frankfort has gone a step further After the land has Increased SO per cent beyond Its original assessed value it Is taxed 6 per cent on any increase up to 48, 10 per cent on an Increase from 50 to 74. and SO per cent on any greater in crease. This does not actually conris- cnte the unearned Increment, as Mr. George proposed, but It Is certainly a long step In that direction, and a step that Berlin is about to follow. The ad vantages claimed by the advocates of the measure are that It tends Pa depress the price of unimproved lands, to prevent speculation, and to stimulate building, and thus In every way to assist In the housing of urban population. TBAOxnra otaha to shoot. Horace Fletcher In the December World's Work. ' 'Twenty-five years ago I was an ax oerlencod rifle shot, and could hit .1 moving object every time. The 32-call- ber rifle and machine, made cartridge. which came Into general use In the 70s, made extensive rifle practice possi ble. I wrote and published at the time a tmrnchlet on how to shoot with a rifle. It happened that coplee of the pamphlet reached Japan, where I spent some time soon after. Japan hsd Just begun to make a military organisation on the most modern lines, and Marquis Oyama WW Tntrrtster of war. He invited me to visit him In his home at Toklo, and showed great Interest In the method of learning to shoot at a moving object with a rifle. He had already seen the pamphlet I had a number of American rifles and ample ammunition with me In Japan, and Marquis Oyama and the then Colonel Murata (Inventor of the Japa nese military rifle) Joined me several afternoons at target practice. They en tered enthusiastically Into the spirit Oyama In particular showing the en thusiasm of a boy. I shall never forget his keen Joy the first time he hit a moving object with a bullet. It was a teapot thrown In the air. I believe, and when It came down In dust and pieces he capered about and screamed in his delight like an excited schoolboy. OXOVZTT. From the Chicago Tribune. In the early days of Springfield, Mo., a preacher bought some sausage for lunch one Sunday and took it to church with him. He carried the sausage In the back pocket of his coat, and a dog, catch ing the scent, followed him. Every few feet the preacher would kick backward at the dog without looking around. Ar riving at church, the preacher began the services and the dog lay behind the al tar. A few minutes later one of the deacons stole quietly up behind the preacher. In tending to hand him a sheet of paper, and pulled his coat tall. Without glanc ing back, the preacher gave one vicious kick and sent the deacon rolling down the altar steps on to the dog, which set up a terrible howling. The preacher, still looking straight ahead, said: "My friends, this thieving scoundrel hss been trying to rob me ever since I made a purchase at the butcher shop before coming here." When the preacher discovered what he had done he dismlased the congregation aad went outside to kick the dog. TJP-TO-D ATE AOTJTXgdara. From the New York Herald. It Is a surprise to find some of the newest methods of sdvertislng In com mon practice in Russia. Indeed, the tricks of the trade there are perfectly understood. A New York business man connected with one of the 'largest ad vertising agencies is authority for the following story. He was In St Petersburg, on a crowd ed street, when his attention Wss at tracted by a forlorn little boy, ragged and apparently half-starved, who was crying bitterly. "What's the matter, little boy?" he asked. A crowd quickly collected sbout them. The boy continued to cry until the crowd had thickened, when he raised a shrill voice and repeated the following for mula: "Please, sir, I am lost. Will anybody take me to my father, Ivsn Troubetskoy. the champion clothier of the east end, who has Just got in a stock of autumn overcoats, suits, neckties, shirts, hats and umbrellas, which he will sell cheap er than arty one In the city?" SUP, OF BIOBTBO From Leslie's Weekly. Under a local regulation made possi ble by the new state municipal cods the city of Cleveland, O.. haa forged to the front among American municipali ties In dealing with the signboard nui sance. The regulation referred to de clares all signboards and billboards now and hereafter erected -on any residence street within 200 feet of any park, park boulevard or driveway Cexcept on one sheet boards for advertising premises thst are for sale) to be nuleances, and ths Inspector of buildings Is given power to abate them. Moreover, the code provides that "no sign, signboard or billboard shall bs placed upon any public property, nor shall any auoh signboard or billboard, inclusive of placards, be ftxed or placed upon any building so as to project be yond the street line," without an official permit This action should lend en couragement to other cities that are seeking to abate similar nuisances and point ths way. The women and offlolals of Cleveland have also devised a simple way for over coming soms of ths objectionable fea tures of billboards which will not come within the provision of the cede, by the planting of quickly growing shrubs and bushes In front of ths offending bill boards. It la Strang Indeed thst It requires so much effort In civilised communities to arouse public sentiment against the signboard abomination. Helped Make ' "Cardiff Giant Michael Foley of Fort Dodge, lows, remembers well ths time he was en gaged to quarry ths rock which was af terward made Into the Cardiff Giant one of the most colossal frauds svsr per petrated upon the public. It was In July, 186 8, that two men, one giving his name aa Hull of Syracuse and the other Martin, claiming to hall from Cedar Rapids,- sngaged quarters at ths St. Charles hotel In Fort Dodge. They pretended to be studying condi tions about Fort Dodge and Inquiries as to where they could find a large ledge of gypsum rock. They even went so far aa to buy an acre of ground and quarried it to find Just what they wanted, but faljed. They were finally Informed In a casual way that Michael Foley, ,who was getting out rock for a railroad company, could prob ably gst them what they wanted. When pressed for an explanation as to what purpose they had. Hull explained that they were going to ship it to New York to exhibit and then raise a stock com pany to. manufacture plaster of parts. Martin said they were going to take it to Springfield, HI., as Iowa's oontrtbu tlon to ths Lincoln monument, which was being built Mr. Foley informed them that he could flu their order. He had Just stripped a ledge of gypsum rock about 100 feet long. On top of this he drilled some IS holes and poured In powder. A long fuse touched It off end a rock was broken loose 24 feet long, S feet wide and II Inches thick. When It had been placed on a dock, previous to loading on a wagon. It was cut in two. When all was In readiness for transportation to Boone, a distance of 40 miles, six yoke of oxen were hitched to the wagon. So heavy was the load that every bridge succumbed to the weight and It was found necessary to follow ths stone with a derrick to rescue ths load from ths wrecked bridges. Mr. Foley was paid nothing more than day's wages, and at the time gave no heed to what might be the real purpose of the men. The stone was shipped to Chicago, where It was given over to a sculptor, who carved It Into a giant, pricked It with needles while It was soft, to give It the appearance of human skin, treated It with adds to give it an ancient ap pea rnce and packed It In an Iron box 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and I reet deep. In this manner he shipped It to George Olds, at Union. N. Y. It arrived at Union on October IS, list, a m claimed the box. loaded it on a wagon, hitched on four horses and carted it 50 miles to Cardiff, in Onondaga county; New York. There the giant was burled and remained until October 11. 1869 when discovery of the giant was made by persons pretending to dig for a welL Special trains were run rrom new York, carrying visitors by ths thou sands, and It Is estimated that 50.000 t arsons visited the spot during the first week sfter It was discovered, paying il each for a sight of the giant Many scientists were attracted to the place and viewed it and differed in their opin ions. Some pronounced It genuine, while others called it a fraud. P. T. Barnum offered $40,000 for It and his offer was rejected. It. F. Gue. lieutenant governor or Iowa, then editor of the Iowa Northweat. traced the matter, and published the first exposure of the Cardiff Giant The story Is told by President Hadley of Yale university, who enjoys a gcod story none the less If he himself be the victim. Mr. Hadley was traveling In Yellowstone park when he chanced upon a young man whom from his appearance he Judged to be a student "Thla la a wonderful scene, isn t ht" sald the professor. The stranger smiled, nodded to nis questioner and turnsd without speaking to look at the view. 'Do you think." asked President Had ley, now confirmed In his Idea that he was talking to a student, "that this chasm was caused by some great up heaval of nature, or Is It the result of erosion or glacial action? What are your vlewr 'My views, said the stranger quickly. opening a bag he carried containing photographs, "are only S2 a dosen and are cheap at the price. Let me show you some samples." TO AJK)t.Tg SPT!CTACI.ES. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. Optimists believe that Dr. Stephen Smith, surgeon of the eye department of Battersea Park hospital, Nottingham. England, has discovered a new treat ment of the eye which will practically abolish epectaclss. It Is styled "manip ulation of the eye," and Is gentle and gradual, occupying a few minutes daily, cauatng no pain and having no injurious effect of any sort Some patients are cured In a week, and in all cases Im provement la rapid Thirty patients who have been obliged to wsar spectscles for a long time have so far been treated by Dr. Smith, and. 1th a single exception, all have dis carded glasses and can now read, at either long or short distances, aa well as people who have never needed assist ance. The cures of myopia, hypermetmpla and astigmatism are said to be perma nent, y ' "2sOitobabi.ii tomisaiib - From ths New York Herald. A neighbor of mine up In New Ro- rhelle has a boy of 10 of peculiarly Inquiring turn of mind," ssid Marc KlaW, "and. during ths recent campaign he was an omnivorous reader of the po litical columns in the newspapers. He knew the name of all ths leading can didates and took a deep Interest In their personalities One day while ha wss studying out a paragraph In a paper he looked up to his mother and said: '"Mamma, what does "Hon." mean? "'"Hon?" I don't understand you. Hon Whatr " "Why, it says "Hon." Tom Watson. What Is "Hnn.' T " 'Oh. 1 hut's only an abbreviation "lion " means honorable.' " 'Well, mamma, who is the Honorable Tomerable Watson, any way r " Tke Yankee Head Losing Shape Jamea Creelmaa in New York World. After years of observation la ths crowded tenements of Now York and Chicago, Robert Hunter, the young so ciologist who married Anson Phelps Stokes' daughter, declares that continued immigration from southern Europe -will make the American skull shorter and broadar. - Whan It is remembered that more than 20,000,000 Immigrants havs coma to ths United States since 1820, and that our Immigration which at prssent amounts to about 1,000,000 persons a year has largely changed from north ern Europeans to southern and saatern Europeans Italians, Hungarians, Lith uanians, Croatian and Polish, Rou manian and Russian Jews this proph ecy regarding the shape of . ths future American's head la pregnant with sug gestions of coming changes In our na tlonal characteristic. The broad-and-short-headed man Is practical but unimaginative. Ths man with the high and narrow head is the Idealist One can execute, but cannot invent. Ths other IS a dreamer, without force or mental disposition to carry his Ideas into, effect Last Friday 4,(05 Immigrants were landed in the port of New York. The next day 4,949 more were landed. Thla made 9,8(4 Immigrants In two days, ths vast majority being of the short-and-broad-headed type of southern and east ern Europe. In these two days leas than 600 per-. sons were born in the whole . city of New York. It la said that Americans were be coming less sentimental and more prac tical, and this criticism is applied mora frequently as ths industrial supremacy; of America becomes more apparent It Is also asserted that the birth-rate among native Americans Is decreasing in communities where the inrush of aliens has Increased Industrial competi tion and forced the standard of living downward. That suggestive fact la shown in Connecticut. Maine, Massachu setts, New Hampshire. Rhode Island and Vermont, where In 1900 the yearly death rate of whits persons of native parent age exceeded the birth rat by mors than one In a thousand, hut the birth rats among whits persons of foreign parentage exceeded the death rat by, more than 44 in 1,000. The change in economic conditions be ing better for the Immigrant and worse for the native, explain this curious and startling tendency which leads many who are studying the situation to prophecy the rapid submergence and final extinction of ths original whlta stock of the country. If the American of the future Is to have short and broad skull and a glance at any averag audience In the crowded neighborhoods of Nsw York tend to confirm the theory it 1 inter esting to know what aclsnc rsvsals con cerning the aubject. While ths so-called science of phre nology is not seriously accepted, there are certain average characteristics of ths skull, as to sis and shape, which the scientific world takes as indications of msntsl power and type. Man like Brooa, the criminologist aad Mante gassa. ths anthropologist have by In vestigating the skulls and mental char acteristics of thousands of human be ings, proved a relationship between the twq to which there are few exceptions. The moral and Imaginative faculties) lis on ths top of ths brain. Ths prac tical faculties lie at the base. The per ceptive brain 1 to front The attribute of domeatlolty are behind. Among the early immigrant to Amer ica was a large number of persona whose devotion to political Ideals In duced them to cross ths Atlantic The Irish. German, English and French, whose lovs of Individual liberty drove them from their native soil, had high top heads. They brought with them minds strongly disposed to Idealism. Thsse pioneers with high skulls drew after them those whom poverty and drudgery Impelled to seek new homes for purely material reason Ths immi grant with the broad, ahort head was seen more frequently. Today the great bulk of our Immigra tion comes from the countries In which (he peasantry havs for generations been coerced from the Ideal to the practical and material. The' few artists among them have high skulls, but the masses havs short heads widened at the bass by the struggle . for exlstsnos which ha called for the almost exclusive exercise of that part of the brain which deals with the vital and practical. Wldeness Just over the ears la taken to Indicate destructiveness and combat Ittveness. Wldeness little higher up means cautiousness. A full, overhang ing backhead. such as one sees in ths German type, represents domesticity. A famous authority illustrates ths point by an examination of the head of m cat "If It is a domestlo cat It will bs largely developed In the posterior region and the back of the head will protrude, out li it is averse to being petted It wl'l show no particular development In thla region. If It Is a very cautious cat the side development will be fully repre sented and cautiousness will be large and active. If it is an observing cat. and a good mouser. It wlU be developed over the eyes." A study of the Immigrants pouring Into New York Just now seems to oon- -firm the Idea that the typical Amarlcan of ths future will be more practical and domestic, but lsss Imaginative, less be nevolent and lsss reverent Another fact not without grave Im plications ths expenditure of about 150,000.000 In 10 years for ths cur of ths, foreign born Insane to the United States, not to speak of the official state ment that, of something like St.ono Insane persons In New York stats, one- half are foreign born, although the aliens In the state only amount to one- fourth of the whole population. J Clark iewis an In winter quarters In what Is now North Dakota. December 14. The morning was fins. and the weather having moderated eo far that the mercury stood at sero, Cap tain Lewis went down with a party to hunt; they had proceeded about IS miles but the buffalo having left the hanks Of ths river they saw only two, which were so poor aa not to be worth killing, and shot two deer. Notwithstanding the snow ws were visited by a large number of the Mandan From the Chloago Tribune. "Well," said ths old doctor, "you've got your diploma now." "Yes," replied the young on. "1 worked very hard for it, and now I d like to go away for a vacation, but I havs to start right in and practice." "Well, that will give you a long and much needed rest' t