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FRIDAY, .. . ;' f C JUNE ; 18, 1SC5. PORTLAND, OREGON. i THE ORE GON DAILY r . Published every evening except - Sunday -4vTy-8uo4y7: morning -at-Th . a ' . . V-' .. . . etreeta, Portland, Oregon. -, GRAFT UNKNOWN IN T 7AR10US reason have been assigned, and all eft -'-'A- them correct - to a greater or less extent, for I VI . . Japan invariable and to rnanyastanishingsuc-,,-ess and unbroken series' of victories on botfi' let.. arid r I rind over the Russians, but one reason given iti a recent t -dispatch may not have been accorded enough prom? ? : iiience and attracted due notice. The statement was: lv -f'Graft i unknown jn Japan."- This has been stated be : L "."ure by observers entitled to cre'deace and if true this J - one fact -sjoe far to explain ail of Japan V victories, is 'in-' :,-,' deed the chfef cause of them. And more than that, it Uawet Japan as a political entity in the world to. a. po dium nf minpnciJliat-4ioreeatsf-amsV0utu' j V entitle it to hold. . V ;. ... ,. : ' ;; . ;V . ' No graft in all the fcreatand complicated machinery of that natioirfhat a stupendously important fact if .true, T V when? we consider how according to reports, rumors and current belief the -governments of jlmostvaJl' other na J y-tiohs, including Russia, are honeycombed" and dry-rotted "' with graft. . V ' ':- 'x-'- - - f' : No craft in Japan." That means first-class warship . v V, built at a reasonable price; and all stores, utensils, implements tlpthing r ' raterTiualny"and"dependab!e, and bought for fair values. ' .No immense rake-offs to officials, and third-rate and un reliable iiifplements' of-war: How' about-the Russian i navy?; Now that Rojestvensky's ships have been sunjc, i almost without- attemptiftg to save themselves or inflict V . damage upon the Ja,psit j reportetLthal GrandLDuke ( Alexis, head of the navy and reputed chief grafter, is to T' ' le put out of office, along with some of his subordinate I ' grafting , admirals. Too late. Th graft microbe "has S done its. deadly: workr The ships' are at the. bottom of r :the sea and thousandsof merrwith themrzTlie"e'7 LjLaa4serythibg-lses.eO ' -1 . r . . I i . 1 a -inree, live or ten prices, ana wncu ' worthless. 'Craft did it, "M - month or so, and the grand dukes And .officials-aH-along ' the line grafting millions and billions. No nation thus ruled can. fight successfullynor, in the swiftly coming f time, can even maintain itself at all '-; ' -- ...i.rNo graft in Japan.1 Consider 'too what that means I with respecTTo the morale of all officers, civil as well as ! ,. military. Everybody, strictly .honest with the people ' they serve,, as well as ' exceptionally competent. No 1 stealing, no fat percehtagles, jhx rake-offs, no bunkoing of the unsuspecting public thoroughly straight and scrup ulous all along the Ime from the mikado down to the ; lowliest official underling." Whyr a government like that is founded on a rock. At times the'winds may blow and ; ' the rains descend and. the storms beat, but that gov f ' ernmcnt will ho fall. - J.:;-'"-'"', V- I ..'We saidlhe other dayy and meant it, that a grafter in I ' public office, .a man honored and trusted by the people who-cannot watch all bedoes, one who plunders and T J" veakenT arid disgracesnhetnand causes them gradually r Kattegat that rii f t sn ew in miKft r( ( tfm in in rtt o Vila . a t a mere peccadillo artd rather a'dmiraUe-thaiucaherwise 3re JQJpend anywhere from $150,000,000 to $300,000,- that Mich a man is essentially a traitor. Japan has no traitors Russia is barnacled and morally besotted with th,eiu. e'OraTea.nAknown inapanJl - f - Tib longer at Japan'a-auccess, nor sneer any more at "the 1 heathen sitting in darkness. . Japan PORTLAND AND THE HILE Portland cordially ; welcomes . the an nual return of the pioneers and delights to honor them,' they must find something new and interesting" and even wonderful in-portland "with every recurring visit, and must look with pleasure and I ;oine degree of pride upon the progress made in the chief i city of the state since Jhey first beheld it and some of thenvvnot many now, beheld" its site,' an utte? wilder ness, before the first house of the city that was to be was built. ' . y ;' ' " . Yes; they have seen interesting events arid important t. t. ones for the times of their occurrence,-developing, tran- i spiring, Jsccomplished, on their recurring visits though j- 1 some of these events happened beforejthe formation of an0,regonpioneetsaociatiott-J2year--ago frwi farther back than thatheo-lhe first of its phases bitterly contentious struggle was made for a railroad in Oregon, and many years later before that first road was" extended to connection with any portion of the outside world.. It was 22 years back when on com ing to Portland they foundjit the. terminus of another road that united Oregon with the. eastern states.." For many rear thrv rame aKf found the Willamette river i still ttnbridged, although-a "Jiridge had been ialked 61 ever since Portland began to "grow into a town, but one year -they-caraeand found -the- bridgej-and -not -many -years later other bridges. For many years the only streetcar line consisted of-a few bobtailed cars drawn by lazy THE BEST WIFE i. By Baatrloe Talrfax. (Copyribt, 1905, bj W. B. Beant.) -- D OE8 the bualness girl or the home girt make the best wireT This 4 a nieaon-that-dmHs .Vof murh diacusslon. There are " so many polnta on both sides to be con - std-red. . ' The home girl certainly ha the '.. greater-opportunity-ef cultivating the domeatle virtue. ; On the otber hand the buslnes girl come more in contact with the outside hi world and therefor ha chana""oT edu cating and broadening ber mental hori zon which, do-not com to her stay-ai- f home alster. Though they may be !-terfc-th two glrla differ In ao many re epect that It la better to discus them " singly." ' ' ' '- V "" '-. - ...it us take the home girl first - Bhe - ' come under two head, first, the nat- urailyaeaUc. girl who much, prefera Maying home and attending to' house - hold duties-to going out Into the -world. Necond, the girl who stay home be- cause duty demand that ah should. The latter often performa her duties 1 6nde'rmentat prot'srVbur aesefve all . the more credit if sh doe them well. ' Naturally the domestic girl appeala to i. , a. large claaa of man. Bhe understanda i ' the management of a household and how , to make a man eomtartable. - Incidental- - ly, ah is usually a good cook, and they do say that a good maai Is a short cut to a man's affection. Aa a rule, ah ia fond of children, and the fondnea I reciprocated. f)he perhaps a .trifle - pftttr u limit' her" Tritereat to her own Immediate circle What h grsSUworld Is doing 1 a matter of supreme Indtf f erf no to her a long as hrr'owir little corner remain undisturbed. All thla,' of course, applies mora dl 1 reolly. to th girl who la naturally 'do mrs$lt than to her wr e through , force 'of clrcumatanoe. The latter, ' thniich she may go through her round ef duilea to th beat of her ability, still ' reg-ard them duties only, while the former-lHa;' on them s pleasures. Csm as m gaU IBM aaalerla a- V !-ANINDEPKNDENT "NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING, CO. JAPAN. Jttagglinglights - nearly a quarter roarvcloiis, mysterioys, electric lights. .. But sDace forbids guns, ammunition, J and faod-oi-iirst T department not most of the iu icn cmuc were niihlished. of course. sionsi at which the 4hiW4ru - wde4.bJ' stands in. the light, bagatrilerdeiMtfi PIONEERS. . j; MERIT M the annual contention great and in some fort ha much to do with man's happi ness. The average man who comes home tired after a hard .day'a work asks little more than to be well fed, kindly treated and left in- peace -and comfort. . Body and brain are ready for relaxation, lie geta enough excitement and cumulation In his strenuous struggle to rllmb the ladder of euccess. Ilia home life may be a trifle monotonoue, but in" the aweet content of.)' happy homhejcanbear with a little monotony V'V ; The domeatle woman' ambition are that her husband will continue to love her. that Jje will succeed in his busi ness, that her datightere will grow up to bp pretty, healthy and good, and that her ' sons will be prototypes of their father. They are all loving, womanly ambltiemn and flffher credit She ia not particularly -anxlou that her hus band should soar to height beyond her eomprehenalon, but ahould he do ao she is content- to win ship him, even though he doe not understand th quality which make him .worshipful. - - - Dear little mother-woman! Sh la' the backbone of .civilisation. . Her hus band and sons regard her aa th holiest of women; her daughters know-tier for -friend and confidant aa well a mother. How about the bualness gtrt as a wife and home-makerf. It ha baen claimed that her bualness duties fill her life tc such- an -extent that shs- aa- no- time to cultivate th domestic accomplish mente, . Tilt may be true to a certain extent, as the demand of buslnes ere Imperative, and cannot be neglected. Moreover, ahe la under salary, and. her time Is not .her own, but her employer' a. At the earn time there la no reason on earth why she should, riot make th beat of wive, mothara anil-housekeeper." "iter buElnesa-tralnlng-teaehea her to be methodical, neat and punctual, three vary nereasary qualtncatlona in a good housekeeper. Bhe la slway on the alert; her intelligence I conatnntly stimulated. " There la not the slightest reason why her buslnea Ufa should in terfere with her womanliness, for the girl who Is-snodeet and womanly will hold these qualities no matter what her environment may be. Rh Mtn be of the greateat assistance to her husband In many waya, -as "her business training lias' taught her - to taasen as men. J)ie Intricacies e( JO URN A L -it..' ;no. r.'cARRou ,t, - Journal -Building-, Fifth m4 Yamhill ' , ; ' horses 'along First Street bet ween Caruthers and Davis; but one year they found change, and year after year further and greater changes, in the matter of streetcar service, until now they can ride. for miles in any direction- throughout "the city on -elegant and rapidly moving f.irs.- For vearithev saw in the evening but a few dim but one year -when they carnetwekvt ot a ceniury. ago now, incy uracw iention of more of even the prin cipal and prominent features. of this transformation that has been going on the paved streets the fine, large busi ness blocks, the great stores with their plateglass fronts, th hitr libtels and churches and schoolhouses, that suc- ceeded-trre-old 'woodenoheS," the sfiTp-thronged harbor that erstwhile was seldom disturbed by vessels prows these and many other wonders of development they have seen and noted, and no-doubt look upon now "with sub dued pleasure, if through, dimmed eyes,-as something hi which as founders. of a state and nurturers of its in fancy they have a part and. lot as indeed they .rightly have. , ; ' :''',.' :.' llEv rOSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT ha never Vbeen self-supporting, ana tnougn tor many years the revenue-gained on the expenditures this process has latterly been reversed, the deficit this year being estimated at abbot $15,000,000, the largest for a long time. The great increase in expenditures, thus, ex ceeding the increase'Hrf receiptsr is due largely-if not chiefly to lh extension of the rural free delivery sys tem, and tome newspapers that view this deficit with alarm are. clamoring for a curtailment ofjhisbranch of tbeTostoffu;eeTvic.erTn order to render the postoffice self-sustaining they wouia cut oui many n Itee rurirTTfTi-frrTnrTri-i owns where their newspapers are " 7 - - We thjnk this is bad and narrow-minded advice-and a suggestion that ought to find no" favor with the postal Authorities or congressV The rnral free delivery sys tem is rjne of the. best features of the service. It has been and is - ef inestimable value in - many waya Through it people are far more intelligent upon affairs generally than they were a few years ago. They are bet-ter-informed and wiser, and make better citizens and neighbors and Tivembers of a family than4when,thev read and learned and cared less about their country's and state's current affairs.-L.The rural free delivery "has been a great nlightener and educator of the common peo ple, and it has Come not only to Stay but to grow arid ex pand and become still more useful, even if the postoffice department never catches y and keeps even. , Fifteen million; dollars isn't much in a rowntry Jike this, nothing worth mentiori in g if expended good cause. Tti government spendssome $140,000,000 a year in pen- people do not complain much,- vve 000,, on, the Panama canal, and ibme onevTemarkedTre- cently that the country could do the same every year in uhjwork.jind notrniss the money or make taxes appre- "and strict accountability in the expenditure "all public funds are desirable and important, complaint of a service is" a case of straining at a gnat-. ' , . V Instead Of complaining of the cost of rural free de livery let ua turn rather to the enormpusly excessive price we pay for transporting the mails over 'the rail roads. Regulate that and the deficit will disappear. 4 SYSTEM IN THE SCHOOLS. RrWlTTENBERG quotes some proceedings of taxpayers meeting to uphold the of the authorization of the merit system in the publicrschools. He may find something in the letter of the resolution upon which to base his claim but this was not the spirit of jt, neither was it the spirit of the meeting. - Indeed nothing could be more unfor tunate "for the welfare of the jichools than to; introduce here' SUchsystem. A certain fixed 'Slid definite salary should be paid for a tertain grade of work. If this sal ary is nott, earned by any teacher or if she fails tot ce-me up to the general standard, required then she shotil e dropped from the rolls. The" objection to the bonus sys tem is that it is likely to create favorites and that the test will become not so .much service as fealty to those in charge of the administration of the schools. This is the danger to fce apprehended and it is the danger which will mult. 1-aery Hamlin wlifl' sUdi, ' irpori lit.own merits I .- . ..i . . . i . . ... 4 objects teethe system and, in our judgment; with good cgttse, ana mvpwwtc-opjci.n iu u Because it rs les businesslike than the other method and will inevitably lead to abuses. " ' checks, drafts, debts and credits - will never have to be explained te her. Th grocery, and milk bill will have no terror for her, a ahe will have a sys tem with all her expenditure that will keep her out of hot water. When ah first marrle ahe may b very ignorant regarding cooking, but' eurely th in telligence that unravels a tangled balance sheet can wrestle with a boiled potato and - even finally - reach the heights -of pumpkin pie. The business girl la, as a-rulr, content to settle down into "th most domsstlo l of women.; She ha had her experience, of Independence,- has had to look after herself ao long that It I very comforting to know there la some one who will care for her and stand between her and the world. -' - . Bhe may, perhaps, grow a trifle self opinionated and dictatorial, ' but these are surface faulta which a little loving enrroctlon and firm handling will soon rsmedw She- will be ambition for her husband's success and spur him on In many ways. 8h has aeen enough of tha-World to understand the-keennee of -competition and to realize that if sh wis'ies - htm - tosuece6dhmut keep him well nourished and comfort able ' In hi home life. The half-fed man -cannot put- his - best- energies rnte anything. The - business girl makes) n . economical wife because, .having earned money herself, she know th ralue of It. . The motherly aid of her nature may be undeveloped, but in every good wom an It lies dormant, ready. to spring to llf at the rtrat touch of a tiny hand, and the buslnea' girl may make quite as--lae a mother as the -domestic girl. -Many men prefer the dinging, depend ent girl to the aelf-reDant, Independent one. -But the one Is quite-aa capable ef deep, laatlng love aa the other, and though she may not look up to man with n much admiration as her domes tic slattr, th bualness girl aaka noth ing mor than to tread th path ot life id by d wl'h her husband In loving, mutual underatnndlng. A woman can hav no greater career than that of wife and mother, and It is the natural ambition-of every girl, be ahe btrslne ftke' pr. domestic, to fee a good. wU e, SMALL CHANGE The tewn blona to the pioneers to- Ayr ""if you want a big. fat Job In Qotham, flrat get a cabinet poattlon. - ' Poaalbly old King Oaear eeeretly will be glad to get rid of Norway, anyway. Meanwhile the standpatters are rapid, ly becoming beautifully lesa In nolay numbera. - ' " ."V May Toh la a bankrupt financially. j-lTH'tierae.; How lawyara can keep straight facaa when they make aoma allied argumfnta la jnyaury rr;.rTrr-r. 'Now It la rumored " that Fekaboo shoes will ha the faahlon at tha aaa- ehore thla season. - - - ' - , - ' Soma- of the. old 'upa are nearer boys ahd glrla In heart and conaclence than soma of their grandchildren. ' " Anybody who doaan't lova ; tha pio neers should chaaa hltwelf away - to soma worse place than Oregon.' . ' At least Ruaslai can show a, new., rec ordan unbroken serlea of defeata for a year and four month, tn a great war. Even-lf -tha -csar decides ... to make "peace with, Jnpaiw It la verf doubtful If ha can make peace wHtr hU 'own paopla. . . . - The fit Panama hat ought to' be per mitted to keep ' Us tag on after pur- ehaaa, elaa lta remarkable value la not likely to be observed by the undtacrlm- Inatlng public.- - . --r: - "Are men leas bad In warm weatherT" aaka an inquisitive exchange. Here's an other! Are women mora good tn the warm old summer, timet yvhat fool question can be aaked. - - , , 3!ha publTohaS about "concluded" that Chlcago'a atrlke 1 perpetual, and so It has become Unintereatlng. People would rather read about, something new and chang-eftrtr ------- t- ' "" ' ' - Perhaps the wlae men of Japan have read and remembered : - When he shows aa seeking -quarter, with Ma paw Ilka hands In prayer. That la the time of perU the time of : the truce of the bear. The three or four Oregon papera" that' are always abusing Portland- and tta business men and people generally 'are In small business, and only exhibit' the narrowness and -email Caliber of their "lntellecta." There are. aoma mean. bad people fjTTortland, but their nam-. her l conatantly -becoming prooor- tlohately leas. "The "conntrv - brethren pughttp be . proud, of Portland. ,t . . . v . ,m .. . .'- OREGON SIDELIGHTS m, m 'I g) Lake county-alfalfa field are look ing fine. .----.': HopratfTrTTirWulldrOvoltrTacIi soncounty.- imfrirTncTeaBlilgTrrr fir, but it will al way a -be prlnolpally afoek country. , : , Most country people' waitingtill after harvest to coma to the fair. But they'll nearly all come. Pendleton raked ln . about 1500, Jn fines from gambler Monday. Poor, way to make" money all aronnd. John Jonea 1 the only northern Grant eounty sheepman who ha not sold his wooU . He ha 45.000 pound. ' . .. i , A Crook eounty farmer and dairyman plows - under a crop of alfalfa -every four or five years, with profitable re sults. "North- Pewder..le. growing several new residence going up. Freight busi ness at this point ts nearly three time what it ywa last year. -j Ladd , creek, one of the beat trout streams in Union county. Is being ruined by the dumping of aawduat into it from a mill on lta banks. Perhaps the dep uty game warden up there should get busy. -. : :, - The Oana'im Tlwn dsaaawai the aa forcement of the law. there agalnat bawdy , houaeeAwhlch now pay $10 a mouth for t he privilege of carrying on their business In the heart of that town. - ' - The town of New Pine Creek.' In Lake county, wants a doctor and offers 178 a month for a year, to one that will locate there. The town ha 25. families and it Is 14 miles over the mountains to the nearest physician. Growing in the vicinity of Umatilla and for miles about - here are - the most beautiful eactu plant known. The flowera are of a bright yellow and the whole eountry for mrle is , tinted with this peculiar- flower. " - - Dufur Dispatch:- Hugh Jackson, an old stager that w all know, bought a new wagon her the other day nd when he hitched up cut a figure. Hugh swears sometimes but In thla he stopped with the lngl exclamation, "th dam tongue la. too long. ( Cloudbursts are to arEerat Hepp ner, John Pay, Mitchell and FrimMr'llle this year, if the prognosticatlona of an ancient aeercs of th Warm Spring can be depended upon. . Probably ahe was inspired by some Dalle. Piinevllle or other firewater,... " , JoMph. Herald: The prospect aot an abundant harvest thl eaon are moat flattering and unleaa heavy frost come later the yield of grain -promises to be the largest thla county ha ever pro duced. . The fruit crop ( not damaged a heavily aa was at flrat uppoed.- - Weston' leader: Daniel Shaw, his wife and alx children, ranging in age from two to a dosen years, were put off th train Wedneaday morning at Wea ton station. They had boarded the train at Pendleton; hoping to get to Lewis ton without paying fare. 'The head of the family had but 20 eents In hi porket. .WesTonTfnnTsteTa-paid th; fm-lly'a-far on to Lewlaton. "Paker City "Maverick: While "'the Falrbaiika vlce-prealdentlal .train, was sipping along the eight-mil tangent between Heine and Baker, th locomo tive whistle blew. "What town I th!r asked Mr. Fslrbeilt. " Hi provate sec retary looked up th record. "Baker City. air in Wllllamanna rtlstrlrt." "Oh!" aald the vlre-oresldent. The In- I uiinn w.. rn.. opned Ihe-ice cheat to heat ud the atmoiDhsra. k rourH.l -ENGLAND'S IMMIGRA - - TION PROBLEM . "' .. . r ;-.': From tb London 'i4all. Com along, gents, turn out o' there." W roll over on our hard mattr, Th atawards' ahouta ar heard along th corridor, doors bang, a bell rings in. blatantly, a sickening whiff of oil floats up from the engines, grunt and ejacu lation can be beard through the thin partitions., which aeparat the . cabin, and aa , Intolerable, penetrating' atench of garlic Indicates to us that our Italian How -pas aengcr have awaKenea to I 4UiUir.4ay, . . . . ,. t 1 We are in the trough of the Atlantic, .half-way from Sandy Hook to the Lls- ard. Some of -.us . are returning iront America lo yvlit -our. homeaitUera. rejected ey th Immigration- authori ties at the port or New York, "are being dumped down in EnglandrrrWe may be divided -eoughly. into four equal part. eonitlng-f - Anglo-American " and Scandinavians, Polea, Italians, and "a aorted," moral pithecanthropi, wltneeaea to Darwin, wlrom the hoapltabt repub lio of America ha dcllnd to' welcom to har expansive field, which ar con tinually crying out for mora laborer. Ther are neither Oerman nor Irishmen among ua, far men. of theae nation, though' they -orpwd - the lower decka Of each-outgolng'Steamer, generally return by atat cnbln. having mad their for- iUiisaxfipecUi- ing and politics. . In the cabins we have been sorted ac cording to nationality a meaeur of ne cessity, for the domestlo-lives of the dago-and the pithecanthropo ar not at tractive, and Only this Judlclou ae r re gat Ion' prevent national . antipathies into a sea. vendetta. We Of the, Anglo American section throw lacK our blan ket and get out of 'bed, somebody switch on th electrlo light, and as a Whiff th. aMMW knlllk I rt . swallow a mouthful of brandy and proll ceed along the coiridor toward the waah-hOffffl nn " r trecxT The Awakening bell' la also th break- 1 ast al g na fc-j-for" thoaer in au t h ority "rightly conalder that most of . our.fel-low-travcler require no Interval for ab lution. There 1 always plenty of room at the half doier. basins Into which once a day, for-hatf an hour only, fresh water can "be forced through' a rubber pipe by turning a - stiff faucet. Soap may be obtained from a steward by a Judicious emolument, and some one of us nearly always possesses a towel, which we make common property. - We are. few who. waah. and even. .a. amaU towel- will go round and allow a dry square Inch for each -of ua. -- r- The Poles also wash -their, hand to the wrlat, and even the Italian' perform a ort of irrigation at interval. Th pithecanthropi, however, became, pro gresalvely darker during the voyage. - It- the washing facilities on this line ar primitive, the food 1 -excellent of it Rind. An unlimited' Supply)! bread and Doner is-provMie4 at encn meal."wlth coffee or tea, and invariably a diah of meat and vegetable. There ia a 'piano in th -large aaloon, when all day long the passengers fight over packs of iiiiny .caras, nation tr natio The Immigrant exist In the middle agea." Foe thein geography I non- exlatent, - time ha no value; persons. not. law, control eyents. and steam and i electricity-ar o man mysterious agencleswhich transport - them from one lnnoapitaDi country to another over ajs trange world ... I go to AhannlBbag.siId an elderlv Hebrew with a patriarchal beard, appar ently nearly SO years of age. who had asked me to indite, a letter for him to St Louis. 'Johannesburg?' I hazarded, 'Ye. How many daya?" - "T '"-" 1 He knew Southampton -was on - the way to South -Africa, but had Imaglnefl that the. ship touched at It and then eon. ttnued east, outh, or north, until sh reached the port of Johannesburg. ' is my trade good there, peddling the fruit?" he asked. "Tea, but It is In the hsnds of the Greek." . . "Ah! I undersell!" - Then He-told the story of his life. About the age of 70, which h regarded as early manhood, he had betaken him self from Russia to tb Klondike, where he peddled needle at a shilling apiece and amassed several hundred dollars. Thence he went to St.' Louis, opened a Xrutt store, failed, and' now, eager as a young man- to pee ins wona, was oouna for the goldflclds, where he hoped to peddle fruit. . .1.. "And if I tio-i not like it." he said, "af tertree. Jlouryears.. I . gol to Owi tralle. And if I not like that I go to Port Arthur , or perhapa Slberle. Wh rii'ritiurtime. Trteiny ot nine. To the ornelals at Kill Island, New York, whither ihaJmmlgrants are taken,J much-latitude I allowed in deciding who shall b admitted. It 1 not neces sarily the poorest who are rejected, but those not likely to rnak good -cltliens. Our particular plague were certainly the dlrtleat ot the human specie. It was hardly human, thla flotaam of humanity, thl acum of civilisation,-that seethed round the pot of the world, tossed here and there, caat out by all nation. There were the dwarf, the morally dlseaaed, the mentally irresponsible, the blear-eyed- - trachoma sufferer, verminous. Ignorant, having their only hope In the British Isles. Some of the worst of theae were taken from their eabtne by the ship officers and Confined for the remainder of the voyage in the empty "hoapltal, while the lower regions of the ship were sealed hermetically and fumigated with burning aulphun -And wnerever the picturesque Italian moved -the stink of garlio followed, clinging with a aoft insistence which not even the fume of rank hlp tobacco could obscure. It dwelt round him Ilk a halo, clung to the washhousa, curled through th saloon anit corridors. W lived In it, we breathed HI it,lepl in it and dreamed ot 1. . W Sad passengers of ridiculous races, whoae name ar hardly known today. There were Ltth'iantana.Slovaka, Kurd. Huthenlansr tUtlay-.XvantUiea, men. from Bagdad, Syrians, Armenlaria, Georgian, th outpouring of weatern Asia, who should haver-pr1shd out of the world with th sepyornl and th plealosaurua. Get off th,fac.of the earth!" ex. claimed an American, looking after them in meaaureiea contempt, Thea men, replacing the old, free aattler of America, have drifted thither In Increasing number during th past IS year. Today th Immigration into tb port of th United State reache a million per annum. The Immense gulf which eparate them from th Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Tuton nd frenchman, aeern- almoat unbridgeable. These were the men who were com ing to England. They pour In. from the continent? some tay,-soms go through to America but the worat of these, cast. out by the republic, stream back to the English ports. If I were an Immigrant efflolal with large powers I would make the "reet ef admr"ln to England not one of wealth for that would exclude 'the artisan. 'vra f -Jltlzep not yci or pa- ri.ilAn 'fclri woiilil let in the snarohlst and forger. I would make It, mor thn l.nvihlnr. ona of clcaniloes. . f - A ROYAL PATRIARCH acarqaJae de -omeoy. -Trine oprt of Bourbon. Infant of Spain and x-aovereign Duk ot Tarma. haa Just been preaanted by his consort with hi twenty-first child, and, aa tar as th number of his legitimate off spring Is concerned, may be regarded as the. patriarch of European royalty. " He has been twice married. His first wife, Prtneeas Marl of Naples, left him with? nine -children, and hie second wife, tno Infanta Marie Antonio ot Portugal, has Just given birth to her twelfth child, Tlia duKes . eldest naugnter marrien Prinoe Ferdinand ef 'Bulgaria,-Jy-whom she had four children before ah died. and her brother, Prlnre Silas of Bur-bon-Parma, married.- to : Archduchess Marie of Auatria. has a little glrU so that ther are. all told, five grand- children In addition to the 11 sons and daughters' of Parma's duke, the moat reactionary - and narrow-minded -of all the scions pf old world royalty. . : - Th duke succeeded to the throne of Parma on the mysterious and still un punished assassination of hi father in im. when he wa but year old, and flv year later he was deprived of hi crown," driven from hi dominion, and forced to seek refuge in Switzerland by the war of 1&6 between franca and Sar dinia pa th on aid and Austria 6h the other, which culminated in th 'Duchy of Parma and .the Grand Duchy of Tua- anv being lncorporatea UUQ wosvls now known a the Kingdom or ttaiy. Th-X)uke.j)fi-Parma"ha- sines- thn been permitted to return to Italy., but make hi home In Autrla. where he is accorded; all ,th prerogative and Im munities of. a prince of th blood, and treated with the utmoat distinction and consideration. Ha Is eotbieally rich, and. Inherited the major portion of th for tune of hie uncle and. aunt, the late Comte and Countees de. Chambord, a well as th superb chateau of Chamoora, In France, .which, formerly a royal residence, had been repurchaacd by the rovallata of Frnnrn gnit f" them aa. A . token of their loyalty ana affection to, the Count de Chambord, tn whoae, favor King Charles X had abdi cated the throne ef France In 1SS0, end who reigned for the brief 'pell ef 48 hour a King Henry V of Franc. LEWIS AND CLARK En rout up the' Missouri river from Fort Mandan. near the ett. of Bismarck, North Dakota. . Th party is now near. Ing the Rocky mountains. - June 1( Some rain tell last- night, and this, morning th ''weather wa cloudy---and thwlnd high from' the aouthweat' V passed the rapid by dpubly manning th plrlogue and canoe, and halted at the distance of a mile and a quarter-to' examln' th raplda above, which we found to be a continued ue cesslon of cascade aa far aa th view extended, which wee about two -miles. About SV mile above where We' halted wa a large creek falling in on th south, opposite to f hlch Is a largaauUJ phur spring railing over tua roc a on th north. Captain Lewis arrived at I from th fall aboue'-Bv mile abov ua. and after consulting upon tb sub ject of the portage. We crossed, the river and formed a camp on the north, having come three quartera Of amlletoIy."" - From our own observation we had deemed the south aid te t) the most fa vorabla f or i a portaSr- but -two- men sent oat forthe-purpose of examining it reported ;thst the ereek - and the ravines Intersected the plain o deeply that It Wa lmpoaslbl to crosa.lt Cap tain Clark ; therefore -resolved to ex amine mere minutely what was the beat route; the four canoes were unloaded at the-cam? and ' then sent across the river, where, by means oT strong cords, they Were hauled over the flrat rapid, whence they may be easily drawn into the creek. Finding,-too, that the pont age would be at all events too long to enable ua to carry' the boat on ouf shoulder, ix men welre set to work te make wheel for -carriage to transport them. Sine leaving Maria' river. the wife of Chaboneau,- our interpreter, ha been dangerously ill. but sh found great relief from, the natural water of the aulphur spring. It Is situated about 200 yard from the Missouri. Into which it empties over a precipice ef -rock about 26 feet high. - The water la perfectly transparent, strongly , Impregnated with sulphur and we suspect iron also, as the colov of th hill and bluff in th neighborhood Indicate the presence of that metal. In short.- the water to aU appearance is -precisely similar to that of Sawyer's sulphur-spring-n -Virginia. B "apart and tha Smith ' From the Atlanta. -Constitution.' U-ome-a something like shock to find administration organ hailing. the appointment of Mr. Bonaparte to the cabinet ae a "recognition of the aouth." . So far a th south, th real aoutlf, I concerned. Mr. Bonaparte In an- entirely unknown quantity. Up New England way they have a hasy sort of Idea that anything below New York le "south ern." but down in thl neck of the wood It la very different to persuade anybody that a man can live in Baltimore all hi life, and be a aoutherner. Mr. Bonaparte t an able, hlgh-claaa renreaentativ cltlten of Maryland. Th south would doubtless be glad enough to claim him as her own. If she had-any claim upon him; but in the sbaenc of any euch valid claim, the natural ten dency will be to resent th suggestion that there la any recognition ot the south in his appointment. . - -EepeclaJly will th Republican party in th soutnern stajea reaeni mo accrea-- . Ittnr of the -appointment, to ItThere- mr not be much of a Republican party kdn:wn.tIh.,: oVn'' tmrhat 0t " know it own. In th eoutbern stages resent the accrea- The fact 11" Mf7 Bonaparte: la not much of a Republican anywhere. He 1 a Ra publlcanlsed mugwump, wlth th mug wump characteristics ; predominating. There I personal friendship In hi ap pointment, and, perhapa, there may be om . eentlmen t in easing a descendant of th king of Westphalia sluing In the administration household; but just where the good politics of the appointment comes in It la difficult to see. In any event Mr, BonasVrt does not belong to th outhr - : The Forbearing Editor. From' th Tillamook Herald, fluppoa th editor every time he hears someone critlclsS him or hi -paper should retaliate, holding up to th pub lic gas all, or part or in fault and hortcomlngg of thea faultfinder, what would be the.reault,.. The editor wiay not know It all,-hut h doe not II v in a community vary long before he kriow a blamed "sight more" mm he cares to publish. , . . ' ....' . ... Not Important II Trut. . ' From the La Grande Observer (Rep,) H. W. Bcoft." editor of the Oregonlan. come out In hi usual semi-annual an- riou nrrm rut that-Tie- is not 'a eandWate for the Uplted Stat aenat. It mat ters little whether or not h I a candl- Irtgte he will never be elected. PARENTS OUT Ol? TUNE WUHailLDREN " -. --; Borothy li " s- The time-f the- year la upon u inf-- when, in thouaanda of home thaqugh- " out th eountry the great tragedy of life I about to tak place. The aona and daughter t returning. -J-from college, and the parent, who hav 1 waited jrlth uoh loving lnrpatience to '-. weloome horn their. Sally and John, re finding out that they hav loat their children, and in their plaoea hav com strangers, whoae waya are not their -way. . whoa thought ar not their ' thotrghts, wlioaw-Jdealsrsnot.theIr ideals and Who god . ar nor. their god. . ..',,.... -' '' - Many of th parent ar plain and ' poor people, who hav little culture and Ilttl education. They have mad herolo acrlflc to glv their sons and daugli- J.. tar th advantage that they did not have themselves.. To keep their chlU..'. dren at; college haa meant that they muat strip llf down to Its-har ncea altlea, that they -muat work early and late, that they muat know every pinch- - ; lnf economy And hardship. . . They' have paid th full tell of their boy' and girl education In bent backs .. and whitened heaae, and - toil-knotted ,' hand a. but it haa seemed worth -all It . cost them, because they looked forward to the day, when their children woul4-,.---eome home to repay them In love and 1 ' giatltude for all tny7naddone - for them, and to mak th horn bright and -beautiful with th eultur that th par ;, ent had bought for them at ao (earf ul ' a prlc. -, . . '-. Andnow th day hag eome. The ona . - -,. and daughter - hav; returned to the' ' t home neat and after the trembling old handa have drawn thern acroaa th -. threshold, and the wistful eld eye hav arched th handsome young face for 1 the traeea of th boy and girl that was : their. It begina to dawn upon the par -enta. slowly, urely, -' with Nilcksnlng' ' rfind fnd reriB'Tt)'i nhrl 111 1 1 l Is n man or woman In all th world , they know so little ee their own son and daughter. .. ..... : Sometime they 'see something worse than strangeness tnr-the yeung face They see contempt . and realise that the children, they have raised abov thm- . selves at the eost ot what - self-denial , , and. suffering only the-pltlful All-Father know, are ashamed of thra.- ' - - In th average " life" thef ar two' J tragedies of dlaappolntment. '. : .T-h' flrt I the dlaappolntment of"" matrimony when a man and woman, find out that marriage doe not bring them the happlneaa thetthey expected,, but--'.-they have then the consolation of their children, and hope' begin building lta - -dream of bliss about tnem. i ' "I shall find.", aaya th lonely hearted - -man and woman to themeelvea., ,"tho eomprehenalon, the sympathy, the com-r pantonahlp in my children that I have T" missed In my marrlsge, and that give them -courage to live through the- dull monotony of uncongenial wedlock. " Then comes t he. second trsgedy of dta-. appointment when tho,-ona and daugh- . ters return home from -college and . the. parents find that -they have noth-V ' . Ing - in common, with their-i-ehlldrenv--and that In place of the comradeship they had Joked forward ' to they ar confronted by patronising young people :, . who.llaten to theat with forced olltT nes and feigned interest - - "" And thla- seftmt: tragedy-of -lp" . . polntment is bitterer then the first be caua there la nothing then hft tn th war of tender human ttea to which th " ; man and woman..can- look -forward ta ; v When you hear a hard-heaad.haroV Bsted old man calli his. college-bred sonLi gyoung f ool,i or see-a 'woman- look furtively artiL constrainedly around for Lheri. accomplished daughter- before aha vvnturea to expre an opinion t u, a thing, you ar glimpsing this poignant human drama. To th out!d world it seems noth ing that th boy. who father l a partlaan Republican or Democrat ha -turned Socialist in pelage, or that the , lad. whose fthr la a mony-maklng machine, ahould come horn with, wild dreams of devoting hi life to art for art e sakxr .that- th eon, on whom a. man'a heart waa act return to him . filled with, opinion. very one-f which -re ntagonltle to hi father" a a red rag to a mad bull, but to the father It la the overthrowing ef the plan and hop of a lifetime. Thl la not what he ha worked for, not what he ha trivn for. and ther la no crueler moment In a man'a life than when he realise that h 1 more In sympathy wtth.th bill clerk In hi outer office, who ha' grown up from a frckld-facd errand boy in his srv--lcr than b Is with his own son, Nor can anybody measure the oeptnai or wnat a roomer iuurn deue-hter. In whose society she Bad ex- . pected to find -consnlatrerr- for all- the . aorrows of life, return to hr with idea and wy Jhat em to th mother . monstrous and shocking. - . Th mother may be a religious de- . vote. The daughter Is rampantly ag-, r : nostlc. - " " " ... : The mother adore Marie Corelll. The girl eeoff at anything but Ibn. Th , - mother 1 rigidly conservative. girl affects bohemlanlsm. , " The mother dote on oclty and ha loked forwrd to reveling In the glory of a beautiful young daughter who was -a belle. The girl refuse to do any thing but settlement -work,-- j Worse still, It may b that thsgirt . come horn to derld.hr mot her. a taste, acorn her opinion and advice, criticise her, pronunciation and insti tute a domeetlo reign of terror under which the mother cower nd tremble. ,. Thl I very common, nn tnere .m. - the chaDron '"iJAVr LVh mother, who feel, her .. . rT TJ&T ..' t - h.rthstone. . .. i...nt.AB.lh. nearxnsiano. When, on th flrat day of their re turn home. Jack Innocently puts fortn. some ef ths broader vlewe ef a b"' humanity that b hs learned at en I lege and father growls out omethlng about it being "rotr when mother helpa Sally unpack the-thing thai hav mad h.r room, beautiful "V.t'"'1?- " school, and. Uklng-out a ea.t ef th. Venu d Mllo, exclalme La, Satlyf Why did you buy thla old broken-armed thlng!"-a chaam fca-opend up-b--tween parent, and ehlldren. . . ",.-- And the moat important que.tloti tht can eome to either I how en thl. beat be. bridged. rj - . ;.. ; - ' Where They Ara Needed. From the Philadelphia Record. - Itnpplly there I room lnthe weat, and outhwet for . eVri-rflAu-rearM-nf labor In the Held. Ther th demand for unkllld labor waa never more In alatent, and thither the ewarmlng Imml, grant should tak thMr way and; be-., com an Inatant factor fn promoting th ... general proaperlty. ' '.,.' J And a "Pew Unappointed. From the New York -American -Another rough rider has been given a federal apflhinlment,, In Kew OrJrana. trtla. tlfne. Thr cannot h more'than bout S.OOS member of that reghnnt " now In ths federal .rvlc, . . ,:-' . ' ' v T-; " "-'ff