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'THE OREGON' D A I LY
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C. a. JACKSON
'! PublUhcd rrtrjr mninf ( tzcept' Sosday) and erjr Sunday moralnf at
. - "T trtwa, Portlaad, Orccoo.
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T I
f -PORTLAND ON ThS EVE OF
1
N THE PAST TEN YEARS Portland hat eea mak
wgf quite satisfactory jprogreasj
vtari it hasniade extraordinary
I w et five years it will show a record of material pro
; Egress that will pit blush everything ..that has been
don in wo decades. . io a very grai nejjree wnai nas
j ' JeenTwrought in the past three; and what will be done
I v in the next five, years will be fraceable t our changed
' " , "point of view. The; changers not alcie in conditions; it
r v ? is notloneAn thwidelW? opportunities wht eieumr
: stances' have made fpr ubut it is in ourselyfi - Ihere
'v" - is a new air abd a nt spirit, ..and 'in no rwpeci his
, Portland progressed so' extraordinarily as in thiv The
people. at no longer satisfied) With things, as they are
4 . they.areno longer cojitent 10 accept conaiuona wunuui
question ' and let thent go .atthat. The spirit of civic
' 'pridSnd generousTrivalry is thoroughly awakened and
' the- result is apparent on every hand. Municipally and
.; r.lJ.J ifovernmentally wejiave taken a long- forward step;
, " , Ve havg"o pur public affairs upon higher plaue lhan
: -ever before. There" is a clean, determined public spirit
:' tack of it all M which is now in a fair way to make
- of Portland a model municipality iti many ways VVle
" have made much progress in municipal improvements;
': "tty have cost us too imich, more than they will ost h
iu me luiurc, uui c .... y "jj
'a good beginning. TJjere is very much yet to be done
1 . and we do not believe" the people of Portland will rest
( "content until they have the aiknowLjjdged best paved, as
-: '" it will- be tht; cleanest hr h mutiicipat government," of
j, any city in- tbe"west. . .; .-'- ' "s'
.'? This new' feeling, of which evidence is seen on eVery
" 'hand, will " materially aid us in other directions. But
;- , - there will be'much adveotious aid., given in this work.
- Portland is now being "tfwcoVered by tie outside in
vestor. He has seen it -face totfact "and in studying over
the condition he has been amaET to find it presents so
' "many opportunities.- In the past two years therj have
. been many important investments quietly made in busi
1 tn and real estate. In the past year one individual
'' ifrom an adjoining afatc has invested
alone nearly a million aouars ana is reaay o pui in a
f.-r"- much more when he finds whfuits' him. Men from
! the middle west who have , made "their money there are
"brtilllg"here looking for'similarinvestments. Many of
ihem have lound them, jney aee.
country of unexampled proauctivuy, m eastern Oregon,
AVashington and Idaho. They see the people thor
ibughTy a wakened "tcTlheir oppdrtunityTbuIlding portage
roads to make the river free and donating tq the general
government rights of way for a eanal which will clinch
that problem for all" time and prove.such a regulator of
ireight rates that the producers ;may always rely ilpcjn a
annare deal. -They see back of them the valley of the
vVillamette, unexampled for "fertility
States and capable alone (.sustaining
- .lion people. - Ty e twa other xalleyf still farther!
south that present the; same opportunitiesThey know
that four fifths of this great state has nos-yet been pene
'' trated by railroads and realize that their coming. will
. bring an era. of developtnent and progress such as has
."" seldom been seen even in this great cJlintry. They see
the. railroads gradually waking up, they note a few exten
. ainna tnadeand some more promised. .' They know of
" other 'independent' systems already
' doors and ready to enter and they realize tnat the move
ment once started in this direction will not stop short
with a singte new road. Two oher-roads are headed in
,' this directioni.iwhen they are ready to decide upon their
western terminus they will, find Portland waiting for
them, presenting incomparably the best Pacific outlet
All that is needed is to Study the topography of the
country to realize thar Portland situated at-the point
'where the Willamette flows into the Columbia is In a
position jot dominating -prestige. The growth whici is
immediately ahead of it wiltbe. so great that it wilTbe
characterfzed u a boom.-1-t is1 destined to place Poit
- lirtd, preeminently to the front in . this section of thi
country and those who have any doubt
the signs of the -times which arecrowding on us to.L telegram received this, morning from Philjipsburg,
jealize that this prophecy which is
'": very soon be history. .
7 AN EXHIBIT WHICH IS WELL
T
HE ARIVtttfSEUM at the.fair.aiA.tacting' much
attentiojjut not nearly-so ifrtftK a itleiervei.
The fact hat it is in a special buildipg sef away
by
itself causes it tobe overlooked fiy
. wise Would enjoy what it has to show.
fair should overlook-it and those who
i return many .times. The exhibition is, of course,; by
L iiF-Xbt. greatest eversecn in this section of the country.
Should Represent Oregon.
From the Salem Journal.
"The Oregonlan la seeking -to arouSe a
controversy over the tariff In the Selec
tion of a candidate for congress In this
district. ' .
Let the public ieware, lest thle be
used simply to hlde the designs of the
Portland managere to the confualon of
Issues.
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Oregon la not deeply -tntereated In
tariff rsvlslon. Oregon la Interested in
! freer trade relations with the orient.
? If we hope trj build up commerce with
1 Asia and tha Philippines there must be
1 reciprocity with those-countries.
' Tha Atlantic coast la highly benefited
-1 and trotecied with .reciprocal trade ar
rangements with Cuba, and Porto Rico.
; The1 Pacific . coast' ahould have the
; same advantages for trade across the
Paclflo ocean, with Hawaii and the
Philippines. -
J Whtn ever a-great, hosgUh trust la
Vbullt up , on protective .tariff arranga-
ments, and la fleecing : the Ameflcait
'3 ' eople, It should be altered.
'The tariff - la no the mother of trust,
. but there are trusts that are the bene..
flrlarte ofjhe tariff. Give the people
i some othe. benefit.
'' i OandidaVea for congress should not
I t ailow themselves to be bulldosd by the
t in. .onlan or any nrwspnper JntQ pledge
'- i tl.ey may afterward rftgret' '
, r- ' Whatever Is one, the next Oregon
delegation should not be the persoiuil
agent of tha Harrtman syndicate. They
e i should represent Oregon. . i
Prosperous, Astoria.
r7 From the Aetorla Astortan.
. i .Among a certain-element the opinion
t,4rellthat . the cloalng of the Astor
'.d BirefLjemnce ..nails will result in a loss
'J of population and the- possible closing
-1of a nomher of buslneps concerns. It
f ... I estimated Ihst people wIlMeave
'i- - f te etty.-Let them leave. Those jkho
? see Tit to another community be-
, ran they hare been denied aif oppor
tunity to. indulge tn their lustful. dl
Vrrainna Will not be mled. They; will
rtpresiait tlie rials' that not only en
reive and mauitalned the dance Jiella,
but auDtortit thetnL anit- imnni.1 tha
. emlgranta wlir. be ax. goodly numiJer of
ihna mleerabl parasltaa, who.dperM
ooon rslien women for their austenanre,
- kureiy a person, wbe la favetad with
K INDEPENDENT WBWJJAfSR - ..'
. PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
GREAT THINOS.
in the paiKthree
progress, e In the
jectives when visiting the fair. . .
ORTLAND
9 . notable
genuine, courage to
hvoman suffrage in
in real property11
mck - oi ini ciiy a
partywQuld disturb
mating along the
in the whole United
in 'affluence a mil-d-list of Saved. Meantime hey continue with extreme" n-
ican men ,wil doft
hard., part wifh rare
superable difficulties.
' knocking at our
KANSAS AND
rabulous - amountA -
and other thingsJ-
fearful" at times
when the ground
lives OUl;Oi inc
Kansas.??-
.Yesterday The
need only watch
itm " -v- .
now being made will
Kansas, states. hat
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WORTH fWHILE.
manjwwiro otner-
Nojrisjrto thethus destroying
go
u tner-pnce.jwuj rcursr . t
prosperous.
t
more than a limited conception of com
mon sense, or-aaorala, r whose Intellect
assumes more than mediocrity, can per
cel ve aught but goorf In the . removal of
these placea and their frequenters. - Ha
Portland suffered aa a result ot Sheriff,
Wod s crusade? Of course noi. Then,
Is It not reasonable to assume, or may
not the Aatorlhif predict, with more than
mall degree of certainty, that the era.
aade for a clean city will give Astoria
an lmpetua such aa It . hsa never en
Joyed. Rather than a business concern
being forced to the wall, it patronage
will be Increased. Money which here
tofore found its way Into tha coffera at
the dance hall element WJU be -circulated
.though varloua -e-hannela. The
ptttanra leeched from the younger ele
ment Will. Teach th merchants of the
ctry. The' boya will eventually apprecU
t that self-support la one of the rudi
mentary and moat essential character
istics of the true manhood and they will
learn to husband the money they earn
land purchase neceasltles rather then'de-
fifiiu upon tne inauigencn or their
parent. Those who have ;o wantonly
given out this Jobs comfort have been
mrmt Indiscreet. j ' i"
Roosevelt's Little Joke.
(- From tlfflloaton He-raldr"
When the' president alighted at Red
Hill, Virginia, the Hher ilily," When he
went over to uee hia wife's new cot
tiiife, he noticed that an- elderljt woman
was about to board. tho -train, and with
his usual 'rourtenv. tie ruaheri flnrwaril
fio assist, her. , That done, he grasped
her band and gavo tt - an -"executive
shake."- Thla was golitsr too far ang
the vomart, janatchlnir 'her hand awirf
and eyeing him wrathfully, exclaimed:
"Young man; T Bon't know who you are(
and I don't "care a cent; but I must aay
you. are the freshest somebjMy I've ever
seen In these parte." Ulut president
tells thla as a good Joke on himself.
The Virginia country people, however.
will soon get used, to hIS breesUiess of
A Barber'a View.,-.
Front "The Pig Rapids Bulletin.
Tonaorlsllat Nsgle aacrlhee the defeat
of the Russians - to HhetA- wearlna
whlskera ' No natiofv aays he, can be
successful in war unless Its fighters are
mXAit..akaa Vamea !
HWtH sua) rJ,
JOURNAL
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r. CAMtOUj
TbaJoumal Building Fifth and VkaM
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Unlike many more pretentious aHe"xhibits at the bigger
fairs of the. country it contains nothing that is put there
simply for the phrpQse of malting a show; it is aHf cream
without tpe skint milk. .1 - . " "
When it is remembered that an insurance of a million
dollars (j carried on the exjbib one begins to realize the
monetary value vliich is placed upon it In this one re-
tlpect Oregon owes'much td California for the generosity
shown by some of its leading citizens in loaning pic
tures from their private collections.-. It is under deepest
obligations perhaps 'to the Crockers for their loan -of
."The Man With the HoeSvhich of itself, would make -a
star feature in any collection gathered anywhere in the
country. In no respect has Portland greater reason to
be proud of its iair.than in its art exhibit and no' one
should fail to make that feature one of their main ob
A WEllcOME'TO THE SUFFRAGISTS.
' - .",'... . . 1 . . (i
extends a warm welcome to the many
women who are hereto attend , the. ha.-
.. tional session of the suffrage association, Jt is
particularly appreciative of the fact that it is honored by
the first session ever held west of the Mississippi river
and that that fact has had little if .any influence in les
sening the attendance. This is true not1 alone of the rank
amffile but of the great leaders who have for 50 years
held aloft the suffrage banner and maintained it at the
very forefront during strenuous daysf when it took
.even talk of. such . mavement. . . - J
Wyoming was the practical leader in tne woman s si
frage. movement though it, has given to the wprld, nofce
6f,the ereat leaders in the battle. ? It incorporated
its lwr soon after it wasraade a ter
ritory in U568. It cannot be, said tnat jne step was men
taken as a matter of intellectual conviction, fan in -those
days1herewere few women inWyomini-ad a great
nfiuv nf .annn wit nnt rxnected for manv vears there
after;. AS a matter of fact nvwaariginalfy decide -upon
as a semi-humorousstroke out of which would come a
arreat deal of advertising for the new territory carved
out of what had' been regarded as part of the great
American bisef and which vas soon destined tj become
one of the great' range. states of the wet. That purpose
was served, for all the newspapers of the country bristled
with funny stories abputj Wyoming and : the .effect of
woman suffrage on the male portions Of its population.
Rut once inenrnorated-aa oart of the law neither political
it and 4hen-the 4erHtory-cam"to be
admitted as a state theswoman suffrage feature was
adopted as parfbf the constitutwn-njtjij stands ihrrfr
now irrevocably.- Four other state's hT since followed
that examole and the suffraeists arc still hard' at work,
linerof least Resistance. When theyi
una a siaie in wnicn ui c cuiiumuiis ,m iuc uimijj
to bear all theirpressure in the hope of landing it in the
dustry and intelligence the general propaganda ana tnere
an be no doubt they jtre doing the. work effectively!
To leaders like Susan B. Anthony. Rev. Anna ShawAMrs.
331ackwetl, not to mention other brilliant women, Amer
their hats.; .ahey have sustained a
'ability and courage-and they have
oftentimes triumphed in the face of what seemed in
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
ANSAS, as we mentioned recently, andras is a
- matter of foliimon knowledge, is. a vastly rich
. andtiresourceful state. In it are rais.eii 'almost
of wheat and- corn-and hay-,ind hog
Yet the Kansas climate is "something
and quite frequently. ,Thef re times
freezes seven'feet deep, and,there are
limes when the summer sizzards almost scorch" the very
i. - . . r .t . i t. ..1.- , .....i:-t i. ,r
guuu, iu.iiiuik, uoiiniii ywyic v
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Journal's news service brought .'this
.' t 'i - "
that city narrowly escaped destruc
Hibn1 by a tornado which, swept its outskirts last, night,
bu missed 'the main portion jbf . the city. Eighteen per
sons, were killed and throughout that region hundreds 61
houses and barns were destroyed and heavy damage was
done to crops." ' . f v
Now, realIy,v-who with sense enough ' to get the best
possible out of Jife wouldnot prefer life itt .Oregon 6t
Washington or i Idaho, wherS such a cataclysm of air
human life by the wholesale flvr oc-
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Come tothe Facific" northwest and. be safi, happy and
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J Corvallla Needs Pure Water.
From the Corvallla Times.
The .Times apologises to country read
er, fc.. devoting so much space to the
water question. Thl truth Is, ar bold at
tempt la being made to fasten Willamette
river water, notoriously dirty And un
clean, upon the people of Corvallla for an
Indefinite number of years. A cabal ot
lawyer has been hired to assist In de
ceiving and duping the people Into cheat
ing- themselves out of the chanee to get
an ammaance or pure water from the
mountains for domestlo use and for fire
protection".- With the utmost Ingenuity
raise Issues are raised with (he expecta
tion of gulling people Into voting down
the propoeed grant of authority to the
water committee for the Issv.j of bonrt.
The plot Is known-' to Involve, In caae of
present defeat, the eea'seless cultivation
of false Ideaa whereby any future at
tempt to recreate publlo sentiment for
mountain water may-be prevented and
opposition to municipal ownership be de
veloped. .
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A Drive in the Country.
Fram Bllverton HIlvertoiilan-ADOeal
Friday afternoon we took a drive tn
Scott'a MITIa and Marquam. and passed
through one ot . the, rlcheat sections
or Oregon. The many hopynrds. TrultC
orennras., nems or. grain and belta-of
timbtr.are a wonder tu behold". .--With,
few erepfion every farmer has a large
White house and red barn.' and his other
build Inn are all (minted and well con
structed, showing thrift and aufleens.
WeNiaw. many herds of flne'cattlei, hoga
and goat, not to mention the numerous
teama nf fat, sleek horses and colt. We
may add that many fields of alfalfa are
now Jbelng harvested. Moat of It la put
In alio, netween here and Rentt's Mills
Lthe farmera are doing tycellent work on
tne roans, cuiiin nownvgraaea and cor
erlng'the baplaees wlflV crushed rock.
These rock roads, when eemplated, ar
the best for Oregon, as hae been proved
by experience, and more of them are
being constructed every year
! " Mr. Mfjrton'a Opportunity
From the -at Loula PdYt-Dlslmteh.
Ex-Kecretery Morton may succeed In
showing tha. in i ranee - may - become
goors equitable tbaa railway rebate.
St. -., .Jw.rL .lKl.w.-.M...w --a (weather, ha may be seen placidly plod- . , ...-.. . m
SMALL CHANGE ,
has clearad up. ' . .
Get Into" the waathar. . v
Fndera vara no Jendera.
" Tha wind Is In tha north.
Juna Is tolng out In f lory., -Never
weary In walldolna. ' "
There la no dirt In trua art.
Tou 'can't help smlllnt now;'
. Tes, Mount Hood Is still there..
Tha hllla are eternaljknd evergreen.
' Tou have to ahow thaABoatoncsa a lot.
Don't overlook that mag-olfloent art ax
hlblt. jv.
.Dr. Lane troublea will really bectn
tomorrow. , '
People of judgment ara predicting- that
Portland will beat Ban Franclaco. why
not? , . i ...
The art gallery at tha exposition, -peo
ple who are auppoaed to know, aay, la
the bait ever exhibited. '- . , , -..
."Praaehera, of Toledo, Ohio, have
olganlaed and aay they will try and have
a city QTdtnane paaaea that -wUl prdhlblt
dry gooda merchants from displaying
hoalery In their ahop window. Now,
If It la aV violation of the mofal law for
idry goods, tnerrhanta to htai atocklnga
in their chop windowa. -whjc not prohibit
tha . waahar ' woman from hanging - the
product of her tub- out on tha cloth
liner aalce tha Tillamook Hanld. which
add: "Tha Toledo brand of -morallut la
enough to give a morally good peraon a
It la eaay to pick out faults and "hold
them up to the public attention, provided
they exist In others. Our own faults
are ttot apt to regard soma people aa all
good and others as all bad. Recently a
quaint old epigram has been revived and
given wide circulation that la applicable
to the moat of our readers: 'There la
ao much bad In the. beat of ua and so
much good in the worst-of us -that It
behoavea each one of ua to have charity
for tha rest of ua." - '- .
. OREGON SIDElTgHTS " j
' Cropa enough.
7airt
After haying, the
The harvest is ripening.
Oregon is always all right . .
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Kay never awr abundant around Riddle.
Mud being acraped up fromf "Athena
street!. ;
Jfify i In five days, and scarcely any-
DOtT caring. ... . . r
look out fo'blr auiaf beet ranches
In eastern Oregon.
' Normal schools are
'active," notwUh-'
standing the referendum:
it- .
A new farm residence In Polkr-county
haa 20 rooms and 10S feet of porch.
Cor vail Is 1 still atruggling fojr pure
water. "River 'water won't do atiy mors
In anup-to-date city. -
""Fine showers make hay. Sandlake
corrmpQa4nv of Tillamook Herald.
Needs ome sunshine; too, doesn't ItT
The - Albany Democrat man said:
Editors' wivs are better looking than
the editors aa a rule." And then he had
the best supper .he ha had In six
months. - Foxy fellow, that-
TlieMown of Lostlne haa -been with
out a, paper- fori the laat ejht months.
but. that long reit want naa Deen sup
plied by the rcuirrectlo of the Lostlne
Review.. The first Issue appeared last
weekir ' J . -.-i ,
A man, who came 40 Ashland front
Minnesota last spring and bought a
place haa been seriously. Ill for a week;
past from lead and arsenio poisoning In
a spray solution. It' Is presumed he
swallowed aome of the mist of the solu
tion while spraying and was aggravated
bk the heat.
Tillamook - Herald:- The gasoline
schooner Delia was In this week from
the Nestucca and took out aome freight
for that place; also the printing pre
of the defunct Independent plant. W
understand that the Independent plant
will be used by Nelson Ray at Clover
dale to boom that place.
The actual reduction of insurance
rates aa a result of the new gravity
water system In Dallas runs from 10
to IS per cent. The average reduction
Is about IS per cent. If the town had
fire llmlta the underwriters would havo
mode the reduction average 25 per cent.
As it la at present, the saving to the
people In- CO per cent more than the.ln
terest the town pays on yie bonds ahe
floated to .pay for half the coat of build
ing the system.
Astoria News: In West Astoria there
Is! a "for rent" sign In a pretty horn
which haa Just been built. This la the
only house In the city that was not
rented before being built, and It Is prob
able hat the sign will notilong remain
In the window. The wetnd,l rapidly
btlng built up, and there are 60 to Tt
new residence there. Several other fin
homes are In course of construction, and
within another year that ' part of the
city will perhaps be more populous than
any other precinct. . . :
"Pendleton ' Kast Oregonlan: C. O.
Brownell of fit. Paul. Minnesota, and a
cvualn of Oeorge C. Urownell, the fa-
moux . Clackumaa county, politician. 1 Ij
WlthUfi the city and in a gueet at the lintel
renuieton. sir. Hrowntii 1 somewhat
larger, in sie than his Oregnir couRltfJ
and welgha 29t pound. He IS an oprr1
singer of .considerable ability. He I
traveling through the west for tha bene
fit of his health and will remain In Pen
dleton for a short rime. '
, Oregon Irrigator: Mr, It. L. Gill 0
th. Woodburn Independent came up to
see us last Hunrtar. He and the writer
cocked our, heel .upon the Imposing
stone, snrnked Holbrook IP-cent Optl-
.." imi nwappea ne about when wo
used to plan to ateal county seats and
r!!.!,w,,'pr"' b"c ln Kanaaa In th
elghtie. w had a teal sociable time?
IT tn brln M" lul 'P evith
him. but he took advahtaa-e of her a
m lhe hrrt' now she ,ls
Herb ."way. .r,V'"y' pTr womanl
ttero always si g cruet to "Jitfl v
LUTIiER BURBANK AND
PLANT LIFE
y
George ' Archibald Clark
t ' ' ' U.M.In.
'in
Success
The procesaes by which he ('Luther
Burbank. tb . famous horticulturist)
worka are not anew or peculiar. They
are ln accord wiih well-known anf -uo-
aiterabie laws.pt nature. The principal
methods used are selections and cross
Ing. - Nffrnre ' la ' using . these same
procegsea ever- dV. The beea and 'the
wind carry fire pollen of one flower to
fertilise another,' thua bringing about
the. crosalng of species. The struggle
for existence, and a thousand circum
stances of growth and development,
tend to weed out the unfit among the
plants, leaving the beat to surviva
This Is selection. But where nature's
operations are largely left to chance
and accident,. Mr. Burbank gives them
Intelligent direction and his results are
sure and immediate.. -
He takes two plania -whose lrfetftabits,
structure end environments may' have
been wholly different. He bring them
together, Implanting the pollen of one
upon the atlgma of the other. Aa a re
sult the apeclea are thrown Into a state
of perturbation set to y' waiiHng." as
It were. The llfe-Bhdertclee. aife broken
up by the shock. . The plants resulting
from the crossing may resemble one or
the other -of the parent . plants. , These
are not Important. Some of the plants
will combine the beat qualities of the
parent. ' From these improved varieties
or fruit -and flowers ar produced.
Some of ,-the, plants will be different
from either parent perhaps unlike, any
other -plant In existence. From -these
unuaual varlanta nee; plant may be
ueveiopea. n aeiecia-nia original iud
Jeots from far and near. H taring a
raspberry from Siberia to cetnbtne tt
with" a" blackbferry" '6f California. "He
brlnga a plum from China or Japan to
combine It with a native apricot, An
experiment Is built up on the foundation
of a common wild flower, aa the dalay,
for .example. In another experiment, a
flower from' Australia, may be ud. He
bring a cactua from Central America to
croea with a"pec!e from Arizona.
Having crossed hla species, he slants
this seeds. From the resulting seedling
he selects the single plant,: or the two or
three aft moat, which he finds, best suited
for his .purpose. The seeds of thesa
sre sgaln planted and the work of the
aelectton goes on. . It was from a bed of
66.000 plsnts that he selected the one
from which hla white blaekberry was
developed. The seeds exccumulate by a
rapid progression. In a few seasons
there Is an immense quantity of them.
All ar planted. .He does not Believe In.
delating with a few examples. . He
choosesew,'nra?5riths "number to be
ehoaen from la large. ' .When the time
for selection comes, the whole Jot It
may.be 100.000 or tOO. 000 Is passed
before him In review. He selects those
which suit his purpose, and the other
go to the brush heap and the bonHce.
Professor De Vires has remarked: "It
Is no easy task to pick the right apple
tree from a growing bed of 300,000 seed
lings." . But this Is exactly what Mr.
Burbank does. He deal : with large
numbers and hla result are corre
spondingly large and important. ' '
Soma idea of the scope of his opera
tions may be gained from the fact that
there are growing on his farm as many
aa 300,00quditlnct varieties of plums.
0. 000 varieties of "peaches . and nec
tarine; 6,000 almonds, and like num
ber of wlnutsand chestnut, besides
thousand Of berries and flowers. .
One day he dlacovers, smong the
thousands of yellow popples growing ln
one of his beds.-a single flower in which
there Is a threadlike touch of scarlet
eolor. - He Isolates the plant, saves Its
eeit end nlenia t hem . SUtm Af tVim
ae.cdUngaah.ow , the characteristic of
thelr scarlet-tinged ancestor. These are
chosen i the others are discarded. The
new aeeda-are planted and the seedlings
subjected 'to careful selection. After
years of JiaUent labor ha la rewarded by
the posteflwlon of a scarlet poppyMnl
atead Qfthe yellow one with whlchhe
started. Other popplea ar"slmllarly
turned te orange and white and varie
gated Tiues.
In atudylng a bed of verbenas nf a
scentless variety, he notice a faint
odor as of the trailing arbutus. ' He
searches for the plant with the odor,
but fails to nnd It. Another year the
.niilO wr uir.vvi.ricu. mill K
slstent flower-by-flOWer search discloses
the plant which in some way ha com
to possess this property. It ln Isolated
and the work of selection and reflec
tion goes on until the result is a beau
tlful flower, naturally odorless, which
exhales-a delightful fragrance.
. Contests for Seats in Congress.
Papera in six contesta for Stents In
the flfty-nlnth congress have been filed.
and -on July 11 hearing will be begun
before House Clerk McDowell to ar
range the evidence for presentation to
the house when It aasembles. under the
law the- contestant is allowed $2,000
for his expenses, but It has been the
custom In recent years to allow the
other side the same.
The contests filed are:
William H. Jackson (Rep.) vs. Thomas
A. Smith (Dem.), first Maryland dls
trlct.
Aaron P. Prlolean (Rep.) vs. Oeorge
8. Legars (Dem.). first South Carolina
district..
Isaac Myers (Rep.) vs. M. L. Brooks
(Dera.). second Texaa district,.
Harry M. CouUrey (Rep. I vs. Krnest
K. Woods (Dem.), twelfth Missouri dis
trict. .1
C. P. laukea (Home Rule) vs. Jonah
Kalanlanaola, (Rep.), Hawaii."
The Hawaiian will be the first conteat
opened. Kalanlanaola ("Prince Cupid")
I the present holder) or tne seat ana in
very popular among the members of
the house. The.irgrit-ln tnis case win
probably be over the validity of tho
certificate. - . -
Thfl. . Jackson-Smltll contest, from
MarvlHV'. will be the most determined
of oil. "Thus far a. wagonload -or testi
mony haJ been' received, and It repre
sents only the side of the contestant.
Among the exhlbH,are 10. uniiot noxes
with the ballots Inclosed.
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kr. The TracV-Walker. ,
Theodora Dreler In, Tifm Walsori's
-Magaxlne.j
If you have nojhlng elxe to do som
daytwhen you are rVln tnrougn ne
network of tracksnf'. for example.
the Streat" railway running northwatd
out, of New York, give a thought td the
mn who walks them for you. th man
Tn whom your aofety. In this particular
place, eo much depenas.
He la a-peculiar Individual. HI work
1 o ivwry exceptional, so. very different
- 1 II 'I. II. ...... m .A .1 1 1 li.tf
from our wn.
In your seat placidly wondering wheth.-r
you are going to have a pleaaant even
ing at the theatre or whether the huai
nee to which you are-about to attend
will be as profitable as you delre, he
s out on the long traca over wnicn you
re'speedlag, rslmly examining im noil
that hold the. shining' meiai '"aeinrr.
Neither rain nor sleel can deter him. The
presence of Intense hat or Intense, cold
ha no elTect on hla labors. Day after
day,, at all hours jndJA aUsortaot
weather, he may be a'een plaoldly plod
ding these iron highway, ni wrencn
and sledge roaed over hi 'shoulders,'
bis eyes riveted on the rail. 'carefully
watchlna- to aee whether any bolta are
loose or any apfkea sprung. Upward of
ZOO cannon-ball flyers rush by Mm on
what ml Bltt bo called a four-track bowl
ing alley each' day. and yet he dodge
them all- for pertfaps aa little aa any
laborer sJ-pa Id. If he were not watch
ful, if he did not perform hia work care
fully and well.-. If he hud" a touch, of
malice or .a) .eating of vengefulnes,-b
could wreck, your train, mangle your
body and aend you praying and cream
ing, to your Maker. There would bea
sur way Of detecting him. . .
From the New Yprk Sun.
Maximo Gomes. commander-in-chief
tK Cuban army during)1 the war for lib
erty against Spain, who won for, him
self the name ."Cuban Napoleon," was
81 year, old. ' He waa born tn Santo
Domingo! In ' IMS, - and - was of good
Spanish jLeacent. . ;" .
When he was a very-young man h
entered the Spanish army a it.Ueuien
ant, but when hla family emigrated to
Cuba he withdrew from the service of
Spain and gave hlmaeir heart and soul
to the cause of Cuba llbre. His home
for many years waa near iSantlago.
He landed ln Cuba on April 14, 186.
waa hailed by the Cubans with wild en
thusiasm., and was made commander-in-chief.
His ability and energy rrd his
genius for accomplishing results with
out fighting pitched battles spread the
revolutlouftintlt the whole island was in
volved. Hla Fabian tactics caused him to b
criticised and sneered at by the Span-
lard, and even aome of bis own ofneer.
but 'he has -adored r by the' rank' and file"
and by the Cuban people, who looked
toward him to aecure the liberation ,of
the island. jTtme after, time he used his
tactics WjUX success against large Bpan-
isly armies,., outflanking ' the ovrconfl
llent enemy? fallnig Unexpectedly on
t-thelr rear and turning apparent defeat
Into . Jctory. Time , and .eraJninJil
wonderful marcjt from tne uriente to
Plnar del R1ot1 stratagem was prac
ticed auccesafuirt'. until General Campos
got In the habl'teVof aaylng to hts of
ficers: - . .: '
'Look out- for the old rox when he
commence' to fall back."
Perhaps his most remarkable achieve
ment waa at t&a battle- of Saratoga,
where h haatlly gathered 600 men to
meet the advancing columns of General
Castellanoa. With his little force of 60S
and odd he met, 'defeated and drov
back the 1,600 Spanish troops under Ca
tellanoa in spite of the artillery and un
limited ammunition'1 his foes had. The
fight lasted four days. Gomes lost.. ft
killed and 133 wounded. -
General Gomes waa hard as "iron
against a soldier who foiled In his duty,
or who Jld- not Show loyalty to the
cause.. His army to honeycombed with
treachery, and some of hla Officer were
willing to sell him out at any minute.
He forbade all loyal Cubana to accept
money for any service rendered or any
commodity furnished during the revolu
tion. .One of hla brigadiers waa caught
selling brown sugar to a Spanish garri
son. Gomes ' stripped him of his stars
and said:
From this time forth; he Is Brigadier
Raspadura ugar cake)." No man in
Cuba' shall "give" him -any, other, name.
Go back in the rank, xou are not a
patriot. -Tou are a common peddler of
privileges. . Be grateful tf my soldiers
condescend to march- with you."
The old veteran waa vs-w fond of An
tonio Maceo and Callxto Garcia, hla
aides.. Maceo comprehended1 and exe-
cuted Gomes's orders with f a kind ot
military telepathy.
One of the saddest
h-
hen the
news waa brought to him that Maceo
was dead.. Of Garcia he one aald:
With Callxto and plenty of cartridges
.we would soon free Cuba." General
(tomes never entertained the shadow of
Jealousy for the success of either
Maceo or Garcia. '--
The old general was very proud of the
reputation he gained" of never having
lost a battle. His personal bravery had
a wonderful effect on the raw recruits.
of which the greater partiof his forces
was made up during the. first part of
TRAITS OF Q&MZZ j
was maae up aurins ins. iirei pun ui i -r,. -e thi w.,'.h.e
the last revolution.' It is said that norVfllt lfecr't ot tn wthet
man ever flinched, no matter how thick
the bullets flew, while Gomes' eye was
upon him
! General Gomes was a small man,
about t feet 6 inches tall, and slenderly
built. During the last years of his life
he suffered(eatly from a.' wound he re
ceived In the -right leg. ".Jle had keen,
penetrating eyes and a' restless, wary
look. ... - r -
General Gomes had thev-. friendliest
possible feeling for ' thw -Pnlted States.
He was sorely disappointed when, after
he had scored Important successes
against the Spaniards, the I'nited 8tates
refused to recoa-nlxe the belligerency of
Cuba. But whefi 4hle country lent a
hand " General Gomes did sll In hli
power to bring about the friendliest re
lations. .
He enjoyed perhaps more than any
ether Cuban leader the love and con
fidence of the Cuban people. His last
visit to the I'nited State was In the
spring of 1S03, when he visited the St.
Louis exposition. .
. More Roads Coming.
From the Pendleton Eaet Oregonlan1.
The Western ' Paciilc, the Burlington
and the Northwestern railroads are
all headed toward the Pacific eabar4. '
If anyone of Ihem actually 'come
to the coaat lt-wlll penetrate central
Oregon. - .
And th,en- that vast sleeping empire,
lying In disuse and commercial coma,
will awaken and shake off Its dream and
cities and settlements will arias' on Its
borders as If by magic. . - -i -
And then the pregnant valleys will
teem with riches and the vast stretches
of desert : will ring -with activity and
virile life. - .' i. .
We often despair at the delay of de
velopment, Why, Oregon la but SO year
old. The best era I not yet opened.
Hints of It aire Just now seen upon the
horlson. Thei next 10 years will trans
furm tha IbIh: Where &UO.0OO l eonle nnw
''occupy an emyire.l shall we say that 1.
UUO.OW will UvT . ... ..
Oregon I the gnteway to the orient
ami to Alaska and front; her territory
and over her. niglways tne commerce
of half a continent will speed fp market.
Portland and
he fixate. '". -
From the Woodburn Independent.
Portland la now- being benefited by
the Lawl and Clark exposition, but as
soon V the ruMh from. the east baa-Ins
other towns In' Oregon of le' preten
sions wlll.alsoreap a-bsrvest. People
sre coming here not-orflyte visit the
exposition, but to see Oregon, snd many
will remain In' the state. -Portland will
retain those who desire to be in a big,
prosperous city, while-we will hav
othera who wish to farm or-enter into
huslnesa'or Invest their capltal'ln T-ro-g
rennet- . communities on rock bottom
foundation. In time the smaller town,
aa In. Missouri,- will gain, more In pro-
portion. than Portland through ths Lwl
and Clark axpositlow - - ;
r Why prophets are
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A correspondent wishes to know why.
weather prophecy cannot be ' madex
mathematically exact He. thinks thai
If an astronomer can predtctan eclipse
a century ahead within a second or two
of the exact time, a meteorologis,-
should be. sble at least to foretell a
tdcra a dayln advance, withlnnhour .
of - the moment of U occurrence. (,
But the trouble with weather prophecy
Is that It doe not deal, like astronomy,
with solid bodies moving In ascertained
orbits, at known ralea of speed, ami
under the contro ef, simple law.- It la
fundamentally as -easy to foretell .an
eclipse as to say where an express train, -traveling
at unvarying speed, will be
at any particular-honr of Its schedule.
In fact, the astronomer has a ' great
advantage ln thlg respect, tor the bodies
whose motions he deals with meet with
no accidents, get ho hot boxes, and bava ,
no delayed connections to make.
The . weather prophet, .on the other
hand, deals with sn ocean of air,' In
closing the solid globe of -the earth, and
ubject to a hundred varying forces and
Influences, to foresee all of whose ef
fects would need practical omniscience.
The-sun heats the air over -that part
of the earth- where It happens st the.
moment to be shining, and the heated
air expands and rises. ind:the commo
tion extends In one way or another to.
Ahe air over the other parts of tho
globe. n since half of the entire mm'
of the . atmosphere la compressed by
gravitation below the level of the high
et mountain peak., and ' since - tha -earth's
mhrtar ..nt ah... "mmmm "
He, Is broken by many lofty range ot
mountains and many elevated plateaus,
the air currents ' which flow over the
earth In conaequenc of the disturbances
created by the sun's raya are diverted
by the irregularities of the surface be
neath. Then moleture ariaim from tha
sea under tha infjyenre "Vi 1 the sun
and charges the air with clouds, and
the moisture and the clouds. In turn
Interfere with'' the 'distribution of t
heat, and consequently with the direc
tion and strength ot tha aerial cur
rent. .. ... .... ,. . j
All this while the earth la swiftly ro
tating on Its axla, so that the parts of
Its surface exposed, tc. the.-auh'e.rys
are continually changing- and air cur
rents - traveling north o south- . ar..
Bnirtea et or west, relatively to the
surface over which they pass, and thua
additional. complexltea are Introduced In
the atmospheric circulation. Moreover,
as a result of .the Inclination of tho
earth's plane in which it revolves about
the sun, the position of the- latter in
the sky Is never exactly the same two
days ln succession. From December il
'until June 21 the sun rises higher above
ths southern horlson every day,- and
from June. 11 toV December 21 It grad
ually sinks! again toward the, south, and
thus the whole 'system of thle solar In
fluence upon the atmosphere -shift
slowly north and south -across the equa
tor as the median line.
1 Yet . again, the earth's orbit Is an
eclipse, and "Tn -midwinter we are car
rted 1,000,000 miles nearer the' sun than
We were ln midsummer, end this change
of distance causes an alternats Increase
and decreaae in the' total amount of
solar heat received per day by the earth.'
Add to all this the fsct that evidence
la accumulating that the sun Itself Is.1
not perfectly regular In Its outgiving
of radiant energy, and we have enough
variability to show that weather
prophecy must always remain a very
uncertsln branch of Intellectual exer
else. Usually it ean only deaj. wltli
generalities; EverPtlie predictlorTof the
arrival Mtt any particular point of Is
great storm known to be crossing the
country Is frequently falsified through
some unforeseen Influence acting upon
the atmosphere. ' The more genuinely
scientific the basis on which, a weather
prophet .rest hla calctilatlona the more
ready he will be to admit that -there I
a broad margin of error tbeillowef
for. and the less certain ,. he wlll feel,
on finding one of his pretUrtJOns- fully
verified, that he has jfllscrtVyed - the
LEWIS AND CLARK
f Bart route up the "Missouri river from
Fori Mandnn. their winter quarters, near,,
the alte of Bismarck. North Dakota. The i
party Is now nearlng the Rockies. .
June 30 in the morning Captain CUrk "
sent the men to bring up the baggage
left in the plains vesterdsy. On their
return the axJetrcef and carriages were
repaired and' the baggage conveyed on
the shoulder of the party-across Willow
run, which had fallen aa low aa three
feet. The carriages being tjien taken
over a load dt baggage -'' carried to
the six-mile stske. deposited there and J
the carriages brought hack. Such Is the 4
state of the plains that this - operation
consumed the' dsy. Two men were ent
to the falls to look for the article lost
yesterday, but tlrey found nothing but
the compass, covered with mud and sand,
at the mouth of the ravine; the place at.
which Captain' Clark had been catighjf
by the storm waa filled with 'large rocka.v
The men complain of the bruise re
ceived yesterday from -the hall. A more
than usual number "of buffaloes appeared
about ,the ramp today and furnished,
plenty of meat; Captain Clark thought
that at on view he must, have seen at '
least 10,000. In the course of the day
there ws a heavy gust of wind from tha
southwest, after which the evening , was
fair. . ' ' f-
At the Whltebear camp we hied a heavy
dftw this morning, which lao,tlte a re
markable occurrence. Theiaixty ton-',
tlnues to be occupied with tha bost.
the crowbars for which are now finished. -and
there, remain only the strips to com
plete the woodwork: the skins necessary
to coverlt hsve already been prepared
and they amount to K elk skins and four.
buffalo skin. Aruung- our .game wore
two beaver, which we had tDcoaBlort,' to
observe always are found wherever there
Is timber. We also killed a large bat.
or goatsucker, of which there or many '
thla neighborhood, resembling In every
leaiiert fhe of the sadie ierles In the
I'nited --'states. - W have jnot Been -the
leather-winged bat for some time, nor
are there any .if the small goatsuckers In
this parrot the Missouri. We have not
seen either that species of goataucker or '
nlghthawkcalled the whlppoorwill, Which i
Is commonly confounded In the "I'nited '
States with the Is rg 'goatsucker which
we observe here: this , last prepare 'no
neat, but lay It g In tha open plains:
they generally begin to' sit .on two tt
snd we believe raise only one brood In a "
season: at the present moment, the ar -Just
hatching their young. 'i
.v . The Road (o Success.
From tlje Chicago News. Y '
,Now that Mr. Morton Is to quit, Bt
meTOuB other ambitious young - men .
would b pleased to use the cabinet as :
a stepping-stone to the presidency ;ot I
a treat Nssr. Xeik WAOXAflea. .
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