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Pag rOHTLAND, , OSEGON. vediiz:dav, aucu:t ' cv xJ; -',- .' ' ' . ' . : 'E; -:ORiE G O N DAILY JOURNAL AM INDEPENDENT; NEWSPAPER ,!.-Manas PUBLISHED BY -JOURNAL PUBLISHINQ CO. no. v. caeoix PvUktMd very evening, (except "8undy) end vry Bandar moraine at; The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill etreeta, Portland. Oregon. . .7- N BENEFITS OP, COLLtGE FAgMr ;r v; ... -'''.'' OTTHE I,E4?Tiif not the most -tisefu.1 feature of..the Oregon AgricuUural college is the farm rn connection therewith and the practical and "in- ;- structrve experiments, made' thereon, annually. Tere I s was -formerly a disposition to sneer at scientific' farming, or the teaching of farming at a college, but nobody but , acme. very stupid 'person, who either cannot or does not ' , want to learn anything does this riow. , -;, 1 The college nds' out - frequent bulletins, 'containing . concise and easily understood statements of the farm's , work and. the results, by-uhich iarmers throughout the .country may be greatly profited. Some'pf ih'em'have'al" ready profited through , learning the methods of these scientific! farmers, rand tnany others, .especially in the .VillaenettevvIley,:waer conditions are similar to thp&e ' at Corvallis, may do so. Tbi? jrea'c.ot example, .while "the" report of light-wheat cropscamtf from 'all CVfr the WHlamette yalleyra-Trwrd top fil that cereal being the rare exception, the 'wheat ields of the college farm yielded from 40 tq 60 bushels " f wheat? arid this1 a portion of the land, can be -triad to ' O' very "year. ? " i:.- '' .''!:. . "i . v;V It may' be said that the average farmer does not have d cannojt have the advantages possessed by the college .arm, that be has "not the means at command and can- 'iot pay the special attention to his wheat field that the college, farmers have and-can. This may be in some measure true, yet -to a. great extent-any farmer .with t equally good land,, which, most farmers have, Can do what was done. on. the college farm. ', The big wheat crop there this year was Hot produced by artificial stimulation, or nu5Fl and expensive care- taking so mucb as simply by ,pnor sensible and profitable rotation of crops. . Lands east of the mountamrmay pro-tf'jce- large crops 'of wheat every other year, but ,WiI- :t lamelte valley lands will not do so every jear for many ' years. ;'-;;,'; . :M ;.. ?V ''." - . ' Wheat should be raised on an average piece of land in , f western Oregon only once in five, .four or "not less than , three years. In the intervening years lC3n be made to I raise other crops that do nbf exhaust the chemical prop 1 rties necessary to produceiwheat or. unfit the soil, but ' rather on the contrary prepare it for a crop of wheat. , ' This lesson and others -that can beiearned at the ex j periraent station of the Agricultural college shotlld be ! of great ultimate aggregate value to Willamette valley I farmers not only -grain raisers, but fruit raisers, and dairymen. ;,The college farm is duipgAgopd wpek, which Reserves more attention.' y; . v '-... '' ' BOTH NATIONS VICTORIOUS.' i NTVEW of., the .whip hand that JapafTfietd over Rus - aia,-Enroy Witte may , congratulate himself and y may well be congratulated on making an exceed ingly' good bargain. And he played his game like the master in such business that he is.. He first yielded this, 'that and the other point, haggling about nothing, that-he f. expected finally to. yield, put himself before the world as I being iin.terely desirous x of making a peace .agreement, as indeed he was, cleared the grounder the-smaller mat , tcrs,-xr rather thoae upon which he .knewt japan would not budge from its position, andsb gain(fttic waitifg iKoff fH IWfaM1inrFW9nt s of" profession and .'liberality in bargaining in the interest of peace,' andheji ,Jsaid:v -Jter6 I atandi and "y?cfd io.furtherghTsteps ,.tout of eleven between us I have advanced, but . hot an . other one will I take. I have proved, that. Russia wants peace by .doing this. tmiehf-but Russia, 4en if badly r. worsfed,rn not Afford tr yield every, point anj suffer hirmiliation 'in'makitig peaee as well as in making war. yi will .rtjpVpay- a-kopeck of indemnity. , I .-will not yield , npj ofir interned ships, .and I will not give up. a foot, of , territory, except that on certain conditions to be ar-. ' .'ranged. I will -divide Sakhalin with Japan. This is my ,Ll final j word. Russia can yet fight, but if the war goes on .'. the. responsibility wjll rest with Japan, not with Russia." ; It looks as trfough Japan got the worst of the bargain, ...considering its present tremendous advantage over Rus sia in the arena of war. 'The probabilities are many to one that - Japan could' have gone on wiflning' victories, could jiave driven back and even routed the Russian army ; in Manchuria and ' taken Vladivostok, . but when the awful loss of life and cost are taken into account would .- it have paid? Russia, goaded to desperation, would. have fought desperately, and could have fought a good while " yet, and every foot it was driven back it made the prob- lem that much more difficult for the Japs, and. Japan i ? not a very rich nation.. " As Witte would yield nothing , more; Komura did wisely to accept the Russian's- terms. 1-Japan has got all it began the war for, and a good deal ; . mote than it demanded '9 Russia in order to avoid war, though at big cost It has regained Port Arthur, it has ' driven the Muscovite out of -Manchuria, it hs crippled , y Russia-' c. power for a generation to come, it has se - cured undisturbed suzerainty in Korea and it will get the . ' f, southern, half of Sakhalin island, so essential to its agri , culture, though it should have the whole of that. - ' On the whoje, when one considers the, awful cost' of such a war, both nations have done well. The greatest ' victory of Russia was won at Portsmouth, and if Japan was worsted a little there it can yet consider it a victory , for it also. " ; v: i ' GET OUT TO THEAIR." HE FIGURES show that the attendance at the ; fair has steadily increased from the very begin- - ning and that they have now reached over mil lion and a half, just about what was ifpected for the whole, season.- Front this time forward the attendance from the sections Hereabouts will be much larger than they have ever been. While many people from. Cu fornia, Washington, Idaho,' Oregon and Montana have been here there have oeen very.jnany more wno nave been kept away by their business. This is particularly true of men rntraced id aericultural enterorises. . From fihis time forward the attendance of this class will in crease enormously. . The,, beginning of it is. apparent now but it will become increasingly evident in the next week or two. None who can afford it should overlook this fair. . As a mere picture it would be well worth see inn. but that is onlyvone feature of it. As an exhibition it is-worth while and as an aid, to education it will be found, the fcbeapest investment Xit one could, well make.' In this same connection we wish again to urge upon the people of Portland, the advantage of more frequent visits to the fair. The' evenings carry with th'em' special attractions an4 pleasures but every one of the buildings deserve several prolonged visits. There are those who can exhaust everything the fair has to show, in the brief space of one afternoon. They, rush through the. build iiigs at lightning express speed and having gone through trie buildings they imagine they have seen the .fair. As a matter of fact the government buildings alone would take three days of one's time and give full valuer for every minute devoted to it. " -' s . ' ,. ' : - Now that it is apparent the attendance will.be so large the -people of Portland should make it a point to swell it as much as they'conveniently can. In addition to the good which it will do' them the record they will help make will be of great benefit to the city as a whole in making up an exposition result such as no city has yet scored. 4 . ..: ; ; ,..- THE PROBLEM OF REVENUE.. C OME of the ways and means committee and finan ' ciaf-leaders of the. next congress are. wondering ,r.J.. how. they are going to increase the taxes, for an increasing deficit renders this ' nefessary..- Statesman Dick some time ago suggested"1. stamp"tax, but med iately subsided. A stamp tax. is not only a nuisance to all business men, but is associated .with a war tax, and the people would be ringing up from all over the country and saying: ,"ateIlo-4Jtfk,rwjtihwnom are we-going to war?"- - ' ' ,' ' ' ; ' , . ' , It must "have been ' Imember secretly inclined to pro hibition wha.proposed a. tax on beeV. j Such a proposition would bring down on congress" such' a lobby .as would make the members tremble, and turn pale, and submerge the bill at once in free beer. - , Another member timidly suggests that a tax on coffee would not only bring in easy money but would. benefit our island possessions. But while tbe trusts must-Jtie handled gingerly, the consumers of the poor jnari's break fast are constituents, and pot to be thus tajtca in a way that they can see, understand and feel the added burden. True, the; average wholesale price of the coffee imported into the United States is 7cenU a pound,' while it costs the consumer from 25. to 40 cents a poundV.so it would seem that- there ir room between these ptices for a little tax; but it would 'finally land in the poor, man's breakfast cup all the same, and ao congressmen who-love the common-people are afrid of it-- '. --. .. e- -; . " Some Republican members have become so heretical that they would cut down the duties on' imports, so as to let in more of them and thus increase the' revenues, but against this horrible sacrilegeThe-MarTdpattera will raise a howl of holy horror: f--- . if,-, ; So what will be done nobody knows. It is a big prob lem. But it must be solved. The country cannot go on accumulating a deficit. 'For economy in expenditures is an iridescent dream. - ,r vm" . . . v E SMALL CHANGE. The .dove of peace waa pretty tired, Now llatcil to the Kuaalan bureaucrat and generals aaaertlng that Russia couli have whipped japan. G 4 JAPANESE PATRIOTISM. ' j. NE REASON why the -Japanese can win victories is shown by their ' first '-remarks, wheresoever dispersed about the globe, on' hearing of the terms of peace a"gree4'to"'atPorfimouth.;' Their first feeling and utterance are .those, of'indignant humiliation or at least of keen disappointment. ; They have un bounded confidence that by "more fighting Japan could have forced Russia to -accept all the terms Japan pro posed. This shows their, self-confidence, their faith in themselves, 'their martial, enthusiasm, their willingneisT even eagerness, to fight lor their country's rights. This is one form .of patriotism. , .' " . ; ' i - But the second thought and expression follow immed iately: VThe emperor knows .best, better than we; he is right always right; no, we have nothing to complain of, the terms of peace are honorable to Japan and satis factory to all its people. This submission is intelligent and patriotic, rather than servile. It is the essence, of patriotism .in such a case- y. . . . - . Whatever the czar had done, he will have plenty of trouble among his people at home. ; ; Whatever ,. the mikado has done or had. done, his people say, "It is welL" i -i '- The Stage American, , , i . . From tha London Saturday Review.' y 'A real American would have helped ; the play in place pf . thai ridiculous ' vtock-flgura which on the Engllnh 1U111 V liu. for m many yeara dono duty (or ( .American men. Always blatant always -enOL. 'always raadurcefut, always , ready with dreadful funnlmants la the man " ner of Max Adeler,1 that 'twk-neure duly creaked Its Joints under the label of "Hawthpone, V. 8. A" Thirty years fO, before tha development of steam ' irhlp toavlffatlon, It wag statural enough that Kngllsh playwrights should be con tent with this figure. But nowadays, when .London, throughout every aum- rner, , la-overflowing- with real Amerl 1 cans, -it . certainly doea -heem strange that our playwrights can give ua noth inia better than this one old batterad .' elmulaerumv - . ' .-: fin far as I know, the one playwright 'who haa mad no attempt to portray an American from actual experience' of Americana is Mr. 'Bernard Shaw. . Hee ler Malone, In "Man and Superman," Is an admirable study. Not only has Mr, Shaw need hie earn, and delicately re produced typical modern American peculiarities of speech. Instead of offer' .hut a latgon which ta as remote aa tarred and striped Waistcoats from reality, e haa ala entered thoroaghly into a typical modern American souL , : ' -Juat for ,Pbb..'? v.t,-; t "m tha Philadelphia Record. '' - ilf-pralae 'la no reoommendatlon," ' the Manayunk phlloaopber. 'When ;J"r " boaatlng of his honesty I i up the apoona.". I'eedg Every Qualification, 'U . d,,mb mn applied for Hh the FViutt.i.i. t ta ra t.- t, too t But ,..Studieg of .the Vernacular..' . From the Chicago Tribune. V Thla la the conversation between the girl with tha 10-cent earrings arid the girl with the' gold-plated braoelet on bei wrlet: . r t ' "Ravlla! HaJJer vacaUoa yotr ; . "Nope. Oettlt week afnex. HaJJoraT' "Betl ' Haddagoodun. too." i f ; "Whero jugor- -,.-' '' "Allaroun. Croaalake. ' Downtlndln naoolla. OOnnaweek. Mettalotarold friends naddaaplendldtlma. flumplndotn' everyday. -SayUa, did Jevvergo tinflln na poller' 1 - .-. -',.'..-' 4. - a "Nooo."' ' " '- '; . " Sallrlght few gottalotta frlenda there. , Punk few hain't. Ootcher place picked out chetr - . i ""T.'betl . Imagoln' twaukahaw. auaa alle gofura there f tha country." k . i "Wawforr 1, - I "OJuacauae. Oottabuncha kldriong Llbbenjlnnentom. Mawaea theyvall got ta go." , . t ' . -Btoobad! . Baylls. " howja like Ous peter'a noomua tashf' " . t Punk. Flue him I'd shave." V . "Bod I. .Alhgotno uaa frlm anyway." ' "Neithervl.. . Well, along, v, i' --.- ; '. A Contrast 'In'- Salaries. ., From tha Springrleld ' Ripubllcan; ' It la aald that Admiral Togo's salary ia IS. 1 a. year, and Admiral vRojeat venskv'a l((.00e. American -Ufa ilnaur- ance.aalartea generally work In about tha stmt way. . . , . . . ' I t , -', V l0: rt No Poagfbility. ; !;( - Fromi the-Washington Star. The beef and coal trust may absorb ao much, of the average cltlsen a Income that In a few yeara Tie' ay feel that fee canaot ttord life Insurance, t- ' ( f ; . ,; Alaska. V "Do1 yon know." aaks William T. Perklna in tha World'a Work, "that Nome. Alaska, Is too miles 1 west of Honolulu? Do you know that Alaska haa almost two and a half times aa much ooaat line aa the , reat of . tha United StateaT" The fpanhandUf- nf-AIaska Includes 1,000 miles 4f Inland sea, protected by a, range of lalanda. .. Tha Yukon carrlea aa much water aa the Mississippi It rleee within . JO miles bf tha Pacific and travela ,000 m Ilea to Bering aea. ' , ' The mouth of the Yukon la 10 mites wide. Aa In the Amaaon's mouth, you may ascend It on a clear day and aee ne abore. . . , From Cap Prince of Wares, Ameri can anil, you can aee Aala acroaa only It mile of 'Bering strait. ... .... ' . Seven "railway are in operation or being" eonatrueted. - The moat famoua Lla the Bkagway-Tukon connecting link OI lv nuieet Alaska's canned calmon output la esti mated this year at tl0.000.000. ' -On alath of the jnembera of Camp Nome, . Arctic Brotherhood, ar college graduatee. ' ..... ; .Almost' Discovered. : From the New Tork Pre. 'J "' Back -of tha naming of an Alaska town after Vlce-Prealdent Fairbanks w can almost discern th akulklng shadow of a knocker on tb Uff of Secretary BhawM. -v- , , ' - ; . . !' . .,';.-'t tMitigttterr: v :'.- From lh WaahingtmPoat 1 .The horroa of th bakera' atrlka In New Tork ar mitigated by the Inven tion of a. ple-maklng machine la Pitts burg. - ..... ... .-1 ' In the peace conference, sia well as In war. Japan baa shown -tier true 'great nea. . j . ' -r , ; : I . It' worth while going to th fair to are now Seattle people enjoy them aalvea. . , - ' - ' Considering Its age aa a-eity. St, Johna haa had more than Its ahare of trou W. a - , . ' 1- Seattle people are all right; 'wherever they are . . T ' Dr, Gladden will not ceme to th fair, being afraid of 'tb Trail.. He might b IwuQir 11. ue. wnuia Dona . v 't :'j e t' e ; v; ; P': : Perhapa Japan never expected to ge an jnaemnuy, .- , . . f . . - ifwrfl'.. ' 11 , '' t 1 Old General Linlevitch will be pretty NO doubt Teddy helped a great deal The csar ought to feel happier' than he haa alno tb boy kid appeared. Several f Irat eongreasional ' dlatrlct oeearar improving- aacn ahlnlng or anowerjr nour, : ' , . 'fc r .. -i - . - ' -. -v . John D. Rockefeller aays he haa never taken drink of liquor In hla, life, but th temperance people would better not ua thla In their appealaTTor look what a wreck ha ta..s. . t- ... .... . ' ' ... e. . 'a.'' t -V - When Caatro thinks h haa licked lh United States, we'll bet Teddy will r ruaa to pay cent or indemnity.; . - '- " - -" - . ; ., . .;. .... a; Teddy haa th dove tied to the end of the big atlck. -I - . Then perhapa th mikado waan't aura or collecting tb money, anyway. Th Salem Statesman will read with horror that the Republican congreasman ho went over to th Philippines are In favor of reducing th tariff on Im port from those lalanda. ..r.;..T.:-. .-A Now maybe M. Witt can borrow, some nvny in this country. ' .. ' - - -: . .,. e e .... - Perhapa'th envoys ean now -wind up the buslneaa in time to com to th Lew la and Clark exposition. ..." Eddie Bok aava women dreaa to nlaaaa menV Other men than thoae who pay th blllg. perhapa, he meana. Wltneases sav"Cap. Tag. waa nervous and peevlan. . Of course, in th morning. . - - . - Travel ia aald to broaden th mind. out it anruuea to purs. -Trlv th trothl and opium-smoking ointxeepers out or th saloon business. - .- ; . . Th troubl with a alck man la that he hasn't tHna to take half th aura cures. ' . Coal toil, applied externally,. Is said to be a sur cur for rattleanak bit. Bo irwould be If taken internally. . .. ' ' Each, of th many box of peaches being received by country editor theae daya ar extraordinarily delicious, and certainly equal in 'quality and flavor to thoas ralaed anywhere. - ' Everybody connected with th Jensen base protests innocence. But where la. janeen .,bv r . , , . , . OREGON SIDELIGHTS farmer' aduth of Salem ralaed bushela of wheat an acre becaua the land bad been rtd by tb raising of good rotation cropa and it had re ceived aom fertiliser, . ..'. - ' '" ' - ' : "' . ' "Watch Haines get on the map" is the slogan of the Record of that town. ; i -I .- '.'I--; Lamb held vry high In Wheler county. , '- a- . .-v , ?Tak up dairying." the Hlllaboro Argua ad viae , Washington county farmera- ' '. - ' ' .' , -) . .-.-);. ' e . :.. .. Hopplckera. Will gat busy thla 5f. T Hop prospect good in Coos county. ' . - - v ' Miss Sadie Copplnger haa a homestead east of Echo and haa farmed the land for two yeara, getting a , good crop each year, and thla-year ah is on of th first to flnlah her farm . work and deliver' her crop to the warehoaae. Two thousand dollar for barley crop, clear money and depoelted In th bank, ia a record ah is proud of. f 1-, . 1". e . e .. ; - ? ',' ' 7 -:,'v Arlington bank doing a larger busi ness than ever before, ahowlng that town waa not killed by th railroad ex tension. . - ,. - - ; . '.. ':V'V','' -; ' ' ' ' '" Strawberry ylnea In bloasom and con taining green berries In Hlllaboro. . -. '- - s . ," ' High hop' of striking o0 In Tilla mook county, , .',,. . :j 7 - ' '" v Heppner needs more residence build ings. , - .-' . -, , ' .. e e -. ... ' .vy ; The harvest fields ar beckoning In vain to more .than one young man In Fosall who might be earning from two to four dollar a day, but who Mm to prefer to "bum" their way through Ufa. Take on a llttl sel&rsapact, boy a;, get out and work gnd pay your debts, ad vise the Fosall Journal., An Astoria man who 'went hunting tied hla hired horse to a tree to follow an elk tracks, and after walking for eeveral hour and than elng an animal In. tha brush shot and killed him, be ing than obliged to return hom on foot and pay for th horse. ... , , .... N 1 e Sentiment lit Rainier, la .atrong In favor of municipal ownarahlp of water and light plants. "".'".. e . Water from several wells In the, Hay attack region ift Crook, county ;taat strongly of petroleum. .. 1 ; , " "... : f ' ' ' ' ' No finer fruit la raised In the eountry than that produced upon th ranch along' th Dachuta. 1. . ; .e 'V, . v .jv New fossils of - targe animate have been found near Fosall by. children, ' ' ' . ' . (getting right 7ONE YOU WRONGED ,, By Rev. ThorAaa 'B. Gregory "Montaigne--wrote a hundred esaaya, mostly about himself. I am not Mon talgn; but this taorplng I m going, for the want of a better theme, to re late a. bit of recent personal eiperlente. Th charming old Qascort wrote about himself, ii declared., for. two-reaaona--flrat, becaua he knew-himself better than, he did any on ela;rand, second, becaus he felt that in telling bis own story h would come pretty near telling that of every other man. ' My atory, I trust, will do. soma, good in tn world-nd her it la. -- - Not long ago I wroHgcd a man. J did not hit him with a club, or atlck a. knife into him, or ateal from him, or II abou him, but all the aam I wronged him. At th tlm I did not know I wi wronging . him. I waa pretty aever with him, and t could see that my worda cut him to the . quick; but I thought he aeeerved it, and my oonaclence did not upbraid m for what I was doing, Lator on. I learned that I had ml underatoad-thajBan; learned, in a word tnat 1 had been-unjual to -him; that' bad don hlro a wrong. - v I could not aleep that night. "Tired natur' aweet restorer" would have nothing to do with me. I rolled In "reat less ecstacy."- I had broken the law of right, and my ayes would not cloa in slumber) - . - Th next morning, bright and a,rly, while th folks ware getting braakfaet. I started out to find th man I . bad wronged. I found him. stated th ob Ject of my 'call, sought and obtained forglveneaa, shook handa With him and stated back home. My Journey homeward waa a trf umphal march!. I had won asrreat vlo- toryt ana in (iaa voice war aouna ing all about mI . It aeemed to m that I waa nvr so happy in my life! ' L Th birds war singing tjielr morning graoe." and It appeared to in to be th aweeteat bird-melody I - had ever listened to! . . . . .' :. There aeemed to be an unusually rich green In th grass, a atrangaly. benutl ful blue In the aky . above, a new glory In everything upon which tny eyes chanced to fall! . . The wrong, righted, made all' thing glorioeaf...; j The ,twlatd chorda of human fellow, ahlp, onoe more straightened out and at tuned to good will, made - muale in, my soul I s '. '...'.-''-'' f ., Mr breakfast, when I got. around to It. taated Him nrnl. .and I have been aa happy aa a lord vr alnce. - Now, I want to aay toMny frlenda that if they can think of-any on they have In any way wronged they would do . well to go at once to the peraona xA get thing tralghtened out, . . It will pay them, it win giv them the happlneaa that cannot be bought with-money, and that cannot be found Jn any other way than by righting; th thins that ia wrong. ',- . t No stubbornneaa, no foollah pnge, jio vulgar prejudice agalnat the Idea.- of apologising, ahould ' be ' permitted to atasd -in the way for a moment. Go Ilka lightning to th person you hare wronged, : get right with htm and be happy! finv Thar r various aorta of happlneaa ptnthls world, Juat aa thr ar varloua aorta f troubles. i. - .' ." There 1s. th happlneaa of th idiot with, his selok of "tarty, and th happl neaa of th epiour in th mldat of hla del lea t viands. '. . v .-. . There l th happlneaa of th sensual st beeirt about with th varloua animal pleasures, and th happiness of th mlaer hoardlnrtila ahtalng gold. Thar la th happlneaa of tb aclentlet discovering tone great truth of nature, and th happlneaa of the arttat listening to soma fresh rhythm or standing face to face with aom newly found beauty lln. . ,..- Thar "is : tn - nappineaa or -iov young dream," and th happlneaa of comradeahlp of kindred aoula. And there la still another happiness, higher than all these, deeper, mors n during, aweeter, holler th happlneaa of atoning for. tha wrong you may have don a fellow human being. I hav told my atory. It la possible that some one may read It and be bene fited. , . v . Tolstoi's New NoveL ' " Warsaw. Poland, Letter In New York 8un.t ' The Syn Otlecheatva (Son of the Fath erland) la tb first publication to give aketoh of th new novel which Count L. Tolstoi haa Just completed and which will soon ba publlahed. Th chief char acters are a peasant and hla-two aons. Th alder of the boys dectdea to remain In the country village -with hla father and till their allotment of land. The younger,' allured by the attraction of city life, decides to leave hla rural home and go to work in a city factory. The atory follows th career of the two young men. It la full of Incident, and la powerful and artistic piece of compo sition, whit at the aama time tha atory la tha medium for-presenting the lateat development of tha moral and phllo- aophlcal vlewa of tha author. x - The conclusion reached la that lire in th eountry conduce to preeervatton of purity of aoul and conscience, while tha influence of th city have a tendency to dwarf and deteriorate tha beat qualities oWte inhabltanta. .. ' .; . A writer on the staff of th dally Rus haa been apendkig a few day , with Count Tolatot, and haa Juat printed a ldng interview with him on the political reform which th government proposes to carry out. The nature of this Inter view haa probably been published In th United States, but It may be Interesting to auDPlement-the following summary I or the count s view witn soms oz in comment which thay are 'evoking among th educated claaaes In thla country. The count aaya in effect that the gov eminent Is putting the cart before the horse; that what it la trying to do la not bad. but that It ta not touching th eaaentlal need of Russia, which Is to se cure ths ownership of th eoll by tho peasant Th vast majority of the na tion need nothing so much aa the own erahlp of the -toll it tills. The tandeif property must be given to therm Just ns freedom from serfdom . was given to them 40 yeara ago. 'Thla policy muat be adopted snd made primal, and all leesr reforms must be baaed upon It -Until thla la don all th reform now author.' lied will be about 'aa helpful aa comb ing the hair of a dying man . .... ., ( It la very notcabIe, both here In Po land and In all other parts of Russia, that among tha landed gentry and th educated c leases generally Count Tolatol haa entirely loat the prestige which his earlier writings secured for him. The feeling evoked among property owners by th count's latest utterances ia fully presented tn many letter to th news, papers and In th editorial expression Of the leading Journals. Many of the wrltera rail Count Tolstoi a eommon scold, and others say-hs Is the most ira practicable' visionary Ruaala haa , ever produced. Numeroua.jCacts are men- ttoned to show that Count; Tdlstbl'e the ary of land distribution aa the only sal vatlon . for Ruaala ia not founded upon correct Ideaa of th preaent situation.' It la aald. for Instance, that ths peas ants ar not deprived 'Of land, for all received email aoJdlnea after the abol lion of aerfdom. The peaaanta have dl vlded and subdivided these holding until they are undoubtedly ' too small It la a fact however, that ther la continual Increase In the quantity of land owned by tha peasantry and 'ths large estate ar being correapondingiy reduced.' With regard to thla statement, the correspondent of the Sun has per sonal knowledge of peaaanta who went to America for no other purpose than to earn money .40 Increase their lananoid Inga at horn. They know Juat wha land thay wish io buy. and 1n two In stances tha writer knowa that the nee eaaary money haa been sent from Amer ica, andthe lan&. has bean purchaaed by th wive of th tmmlgranta. Who in. tend, to return and spend the rest of heir, daya on their Increased holdlnga. 1 An article printed recently under th title "Subdivision of Land and Peas ant Banks" quotea many statistic, for HOt showing conclusively that peaaant proprietor are multiplying and that the land la paaalng alowly but aurelv into tha handa. of. the common farming peo ple. r Th burden of all the protest against Count Tolstol'a vlewa la that what tho whole country -needs la not th violent distribution of the landed aatatea among the peasantry, aa actually advocated by the count but the education of the peaa aptry. Many of th writers say that th whol country, exeepttng Count Tol atol, reallsea that thla Is th most crying need of Russia.. The fact la fully reo ogniaed that moat of th peasantry are wretchedly poor, but ao, . for that mat ter. are many of the email landed gentry, Th moat enlightened public opinion of Ruaala la that tola condition can beat be relieved by th -education of tha peas- entry and the carrying Into affect of the rerorma wnicauaave . recency oen au mops a. . h - ... - ,. V .! ' . 1 w 1 ' 1 ji u 1 .; LETTERS FROM THE '; . .eeople 'ey JSotk Portland, Aug. IS. To the Editor of Th Journal In your isau of Auguat It "A Subsortber" denies the right of certain Ml Skinner to the credit of being the first whit child born in Lane county, and clatma that Mr. Caro line K. Hawley of Wlldwood, Lane coun ty, la entitled to th distinction. Allow trie to aay that they ara both wrong by over 10 year. . Oeorg M. Winds (pronounced Wlnea), waa born In Lane county, Oregon, Aprllf J7, 18M. and ia now living. He - left Eegen,- Lane county, in 1110 and now live in Clacka maa a tMtnfv. ".".-V-"" ' ' Mr. Wlndes served-daring the Yakima Indian War of iltt-M under Captain Layton, and la tn my opinion, not only tjh first whltei child born In Lane county, dui lam utwt. wnii cuiio pom in Oregon. . , W., HOSEA WOOD. e 'Y :-' Ghtto Romance, .. ' ' From the London Mall.' " -" Unannounced . and unrecognised,' Mrs. G. PhelDa Stokes and her millionaire husband on t . Saturday vlalted No. IT Black Lion ! yard. Whttechapel. where she, a Ros Pasteur, had lived until gh waa 11 rears. old. 1 - ' , ' Th neighboring residents, taken tnur bv surer Is, failed? te realise tnat tnt ladv la arav . motor-coat - and can to match, accompanied br tall, youthful- looklngman in tweaaa ana a atraw nt were th one-time aaugnter or to Ghetto and her American husband. Mr. and Mrs. Stoke arrived in -a motor-car. - Which they, left in W hue- chapel . road. ' On foot they walked quickly up to No. IT Black Lion yard, where they atopped but a moment to look at th vrv ordinary dwelling which had "known Mrs. Stokea long before she,fve, th great peace; th aympath DV I'.a mm yeetesa. poorworaer ana weenny brld. . -. r Mr. Stokea waa aeen to apeak ex cltedly to her husband, pointing out the rooma which her family .had occupied. Then, th couple, passed swiftly to Old Montague street and by a rounaanoui back to the waiting motor-car la Whltachaoel road. ' ' Earlier tn the day Mra. anoaes caueq on. Mr. Samuel Levin e, an unci living at No. T Chambord atreeC Here aha waa expected, and a crowd gatnarea aa aoon aa word waa passco mat a rooiur car had stoDoed In Calvert avenue. Sev eral hundred peraona .followed Mr.' and Mrs. Stoke. tney -maee tneir way alone- Mount atreet and gathering in front of th sou tn Chambord atreet filled thw trt to tn ouuaing lines, held In check by.two policemen.. , For an hour and a half Mr. and Mra. Stokes eat talking to tha old uncle who had knowa her only aa a llttl girl, m had . story of hsrdsnlps and falling health toi telL Idr tha old man ia a ehronto invalid, although he still works at hla trade of bootmaking. "You muat start at once for America," aald Mra. Stokes, and gave him the ad dress -of tha settlement in mw xora City which owe so. much to har and her husband's untiring euon. ao aunt named Mrs. Maurice Roaentnau wno live in Chiral street arrived before th visitors ltt with her husband, son, daughter-in-law and grand-children. Th old lady , wept when . aha aaw "little Roaey."- ' .- . . " , ' ' - ' I shan aee you all again on nonaay. aald Mra. Stokea aa .she prepared to leave. - - ; , ',- - ' . Chambord atreet raised' cheer after cheee as Mr. and Mra. Stokea returned te tb motor-car.; ,.;;.':..-,,-'. ,. f ' : When Do We Die? . .. s From tha ' World Today. In tha first place there la no definite moment of death. We all are gradually dying for yeara. ' Th moment which ta ordinarily ascribed to death la wnen tha breathing stops, but thla la purely arbitrary and tha aurvlval of an old be lief that Ufa waa drawn in In tha breath and the aoul paaaed out with the breath. The -heart may continue to beat many minute, and In animal under expert mental conditions even for hour after rewrdTntlon haa stopped', th muaciee ara still Irritable; the nervea are still able to carry nerve Impulaea, - But while tb ceeaatlon of- respiration cannot be called the moment of death. It la the caua of It-wecaus the body eannot live without nlr) the heart accordingly atopa and the tissues die of suffocation. - .. How arbitrary it, la to rail a man dead when hla heart ceaaes tq. beat and he no longer breathes will bpparant when It la remembered that doga may easily be revived after 'they have lain In thla State for six or more minutes If -the dog's chest Is opened and -artificial respiration begun, and If tha heart la taken In the. hand and rhythmically squeesed, gradually it begins to bsat again, th dog begin ' to breath; - in fact h recover normal life. I believe the same experiment has not been tried In men, for-th reaaon that In -Illness the ayatem la generally ao poisoned by th tnxina et diseaae aa to make it Im possible spontaneously to recover, vn though th heart ahould b kept beating. WHAT 13 IT TO BE ' EDUCATED? j By Rev, Thomas B. Gregory The word "education" la eonat Uiioar-TJur Upa. Wa bear it early late, In season and out Of season, the right hand and on tha left, ,- To be educated la every oae'a supi desire. The one ever-present arid ne to-be-allenoed wish ijof every vf at her mother la that they may be ena to give their children an education. For education tha people of this e try apend hundreda of millions of lare every year, and spend It cbeerf and gladly. " . '. ' , ' In every city . and town' and 'hai throughout the nation- the machinery education I ateadllv at work - An army of teachers, In schools. leges end untveraltlea, are busy aa i year in and year out educating "rising generation.'1 jrr- -:v 4 ... But how many have thought eerie to ask themselves ths. question;. "W Is It to b ducatdrt It. I on 'of th moat Importan may aay vital. Question 'that .wa possibly put to ourselves, and pon answer that we make to it trementl Issue hang. ' ' . Does education, so called, stop wit cartels specified training of .the n and body! -, . Ia th young man or woman educi who haa aucceaafully paaaed ' the amlnatlon in the claaalc. In ms matloa and - history, In drawing muaio. In composition and declamat 'I education a matter of mental ai neaa and Intelligence, combined wit certain degree of physical - perfect agility and grace? By the heart In us that makes human and by tha soul In ua that mu ua OOd-llke. I answer: "Educatlor far more than that!" The education that .atopa with Intellect and ' that, therefore, falls recovnlae snd provide for the heart 1 aoul within, ua ia education, falaely eaiiea. , .' .... . Such' education doea more harm good;, for tha sharpening of tha di with . no corresponding awakening tha moral eens and th conaciouai of spiritual beauty but acrvea to. m men and women the sharper crlmln Ureek and Latin,, the caioulua tha aylloglam, tho eaael and dumbbJ are an very weli;- but they, are one an mere paubtea in comparison truth and honor, with love and, a sacrifice, with hop and faith! Without saying a' word agalnat Intellectual "education, , which . la one th prim necessities, snd Without 0 lifting up my vole against the pr training of the limb , and muacle would yet cry out with all the ml of my aoul ; for th education wH shall v Stnn iinlll It tiaa fitted r and womn to appreciate and love manhood and womanhood - which creation' a erownlng glory. Ae a reault of your education are rdckrlbbed In your devotion to ej pure and generoua Idea it Aa a result of your education are sympathetic with every movement' t mean weM - for the moral . uplift humanity the. world overji - Ae a result of your education you th better prepared to stand up the weak agalnat the strong, to JN wron to the death, to ao to any len of . heroic . endeavor .for .the . fight ' tl charms your soult .-'. . Ae a result or jrour education ti you developed .the cnaracter wnicn tittle children love, which -a-tve void your community a kenerally recogni standing for truth ami fair dealing,' thamoral' equrags - which cannot Beared, for the Integrity which -esn b- bouaht with gold?-'; ,,..- Aa a reault of your education are. prepared to. look out upon- th,wolrtl which God haa placed you and see Ii many thlnga that are better than mi and fame, and power over your fello Hav you learned that .better than thee- thlnga la th pur heart , whl and aoul which loves everything everything Is loved T- If so. then you are educated. - OtH wise, though you may hav "all knol edge," .you are but an Ignoramus. LEWIS AND CLARK Auguat 10. The weather waa f i and having now made all our purchal w loaded our horsea and prepared Start Tha greater part of tha "ba which had delayed their Journey en account were alao resay to depart took our leave of the Shoahones, who out on their Journey on th Miaaourl the aame time that wet accompanied the old guide, hla four sons and ther Indian, began the descent of river along the same road that Cap ti Clark . had previously . pursued. . ' Af going 13 mile , we encamped - on,, aoutb bank bf ' the liver, and -'a a ' huntera had brought In three deer In, t morning war did not feel th want I provlalona. -' . Th Ideal Wife. hi The following' original deaoriptioif perfect wlf. Is taken from-a bd by th - let Max 'O'RelU -tha Freri humorist lust published In Parla: "Marry a woman," he writes, "small than youraelf. Do not tnarry' a worrj doea 4 whoa laugh . la - forced soring from th heart, but. marry woman who enjoys a joke, snd looks the brlaht aid, of everything. - "Marry a girl who la a bit or nhlloaoohar. If you take a. girl tc theatre and on hearing 'there are" aeata In th stalls or circle. b gn exclaims. 'Never mind, let us go Ii ths aralleryl marry her. It" will eaayto live happily with a girl will! to alt even on tn nacg aencnea "Do not marry a worhan Whe haa i faat waya of what is called -smart cletv.' If you so to pay a vlalt a muat wait half an hour while aha f tahea har toilet, do not marry her. J if aha comes to you Immediately- hair put up In g hurry, but neatly a timnir dreesed. aha la a girl of co mon aenae. Marry her. espectslly if el Is not too proll In her excuses ro neerlna- in neallseet . . '" . "Marrf a girl whorcaree a lot for i father, who takea an Interest in seel that hla atudy la In order, wno likes sit on his knee, and who calls him all aorta of loving and infantile nam , "Tha,4lrl who ehow ao much afr tlbn for her father, who won't -let h so out without seeing that hla clot) ar Immaculate, who, when at lensf f satisfied with papa'a appearance, klaa Mm before he goea oft that girl v. make a.modei wire. - . Further Improvemefitt 8ugjrette From the" New York World. A specie! train for drunks, la a. ti aervloe fetftrc on an Engl I ah rallw With aa ettenston to accommodate t man who spits and th man who awln hla foot In the alale. It Shjould be woct. of American Imitation. . . h . . -V. t'-v- ,'
