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l;rri.oRTLAND.,OREOON L Jrf( W. (ci PJ P. ::J?.f?.. J?.-'-'j " S -QWpti&i t. : Ti.ur.CDAY, i--r.uA::v c. i: . P-HrE'r-.O. RE O B. JACXSOS fhibliabcd every crating (except 8undajrX and aery Sunday morning, at The Journal J uildinf. Fifth tad Yaro ; ,' , , . t hUl streets, Portland, Oregon. ' ". ' . , ' t:'.'r WHO OWNS THE CITY COUNCIL? t " IT- WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE for anyone, no mat ter h&vr cheerfully disposed, to do the majority of the council the Injury which they,are wilfully doing ' themselves. It has been charged Jhat those who were I upon the Red Ticket iu the last campaigu were given places there under the distinct' pledge that they would V, follow" out a line of policy dictated by- the Wholesale VUquor Dealer association, This was met with most vhwint fcwuil" h4 yt th abfcolutt . proof ot tt lj pledge..!, forthcoming with phenomenal regularity i rum - r'l rivtry mUng 4l -tha connril. , ... ' - .New liqupr licenses have been granted with reckless prodigality, oftentimes .in opposition 4a the most . vig ' prous protests. of the people in the several neighborhoods " : affected, and dives have been maintained in 'he facr of the strongest evidence oj their utterly disreputable and 'debasing character. There are here in Portland ,450 V saloons; in Lo Angeles, from vyhicli 4 nuir.btr of Port land excursionists have recently returned, a city with a t greater population than we can boast, there ' are 200 saloons rigidly kept "within the provision orth law, There was a bojcrdinancenjtm I L" ill" . . ..........ll ..ma intn nAiuar' Tl 1 - ftS.irhen the" present council came into power. The ordinance had met with the warm approval of the law V abiding people of thia community. It had received the approval of the circuit court and the supreme court of the- state.' The or.ly opposition to it came from the liquor dealers association,' It was rimmediate'y - re ;voked.T Several ther ordinances? were then introduced, ' some of them, it is only reasonable under the cirrum sUnces to believe, containing "Jokefi Since lait July there has been much false pretense of what the council was going to do; the fact remains that it has done noth ing. Its latest plan is to amend the box. ordinance be fore it haa been tried. That suggestion can come only from those who bitterly opposed the ordinance from the first; therefore from the very people who backed the Red Ticket but carefully refrained from making the oox ordinance an issue of the campaign. (' . ; The council's committee .banded in a majority report recommending that the license , be k taken away from Richards' "hotel. At its meeting last night the council 'adopted a minority report recommending that it be not ' "taken away, The orders had gone forth and it was up . to the council to obey the will of its political sponsors. It Ja,Safe to aay that not one of the men who thus voted had the shadow of doubt in his own mind that the half had not been told about the Richards place. But they come forward with the false pretense that they want an other investigation.- 'Alderman ' Vaughn punctured this pretense when he asked what evidence there was that the v council majority would pay any more heed to another in . vstigation than they had to the last. Indeed by their ,. expressed determination to have all witnesses come be- fore 4hemJna public investigation there )o- -g ive -evidence, they utterly block the way f o a fair Investigation. .The young girls who were ruined there could not be ex pected by decent men to come forward and publish to the whole world the evidence of their own shame. They have told the story to an investigation committee, under (pledge of protection, and their, names and stories are known to Judge. Eraser. Hack men, bartenders, waiters and others who have told some of the things that fell under their observation could not be .before a public meeting of the council sons so obvious that none need be told an intelligent pub lic. The suggestion made by the Oregonian that this will give a chance to Investigate other and equally bad places is disingenuous, for the reason that it asks the "public to give up the bird in the band and go hunting for the bird in the bush. .The obvious answVr is why not , attend to the bird in hand and go after the birds in the bush, it there are anjrujQhej ajnel The council is doing tnis good- it ing the line of demarkation that in the coming election there is very likely to be' landslide against everything ." ihe present council stands for, with the accompanying probability that publie sentiment will demand more ex treme measures than have heretofore been demanded 1 or perhaps even seriously discussed. This might prove exceedingly unfortunate for the interests which the ma--' jority of the touncil seem so eager to protect and foster, NO REFORM IN ' A TTXHILERUSSIA has been comparatively quiet S If f" since the "reds" were suppressed at Moscow 7 and other cities a few weeks ago, there is slight prospect of the country settling down soon to a condition of peace, security and progress. "Fragmentary telegraphic advices that leak through the Censorship in dicate ihatthe governments-Having-gained the Upper hand againT has been carrying on a campaign of indis crHninaterevengerand a1aughler.Tci.ling and imprison ing great numbers of people who were or are suspected of having been active in conspiring to overthrow it Having regained sufficient power, the government is us- ing it bear's teeth and claws energetically and merci . rlesly.. The saintliness of "the devil" lasted only while he' was threatened with fatal illness and violent death. , The dotima is to be elected and soon convened, but it fj j' i not likely to afford the people any appreciable de gree of relief, for it will probably be dominated by the .-luraucracy,ihecJinrcb oligarch jnand-lhe greatland 'holders.. The peasantry and workingmen will get but a small sop of reform or Justice. They, too, ir is- reported, i are resorting to destructive " violence in many cases, '.. .showing that they understand thai nothing is to be done . ' to ameliorate their condition. It seems improbable that . y there will be any widespread,- genuine refo'rm until, at v . ' some ' future linieTThe revolutionisfsar TiearFbecome . -stronger, better prepared and more united. , The ques , tion of the Russian government" will not be settled, ex jcejrt temporarily, and the government will maintain it only by cruel forcc, until the land ownership sys '"'tern i radically chunked, the church restricted to its in n iimif i i ii iii '.. The Dead Before the King. - I From "Kemlnleeenree of k tjrm Uf," by Car Bchur. In McClur . ' - At last on th afternoon. of Sunday, March IS, IMS. th withdrawal of the Ci Z.oldler: had-marchet :l. of f- aomethlnt t - happened., that in dratiwtla fare and lnlflciwe ha oeer ben eurpaaerd . - Jla the hltor ....of revolution. , '; Krura all part of th city olemn t ' proeeaalon moved toward the royal palace. ' Tbey eaeorted the bodie ot thoea or th people who bad been klll-d In tb battle. The core of -th alaln were carried ' a Ion a ' on litter. their T"aptnfwogndS"uiieoTera; their-heaas i wreathed with laurel branches and lm- (Bortellea. -' . ' J . So th proceealoa marched Into th . Inner palace eourt, where i the litter ,wre placed la row In ghastly parade Around 4 hem stood th multitude of men with Tallld face, besrlmed with blood and power amoke. many' of them ..etllJ carrying th weapon with which . i hey had fought duiinc th nlaht. and " lie I ween them women and children ba evalllna their dead. V- - Thewthe-ktne -wa loudly-calUd-forJ te appeared in- an Open gallery, pale end dejected, by hi Id bl wepln . -JUat ofij" U muiutua GO TttfrYrrJ-OBrA AN IND1PIND1NI NIWIfAMB PUBLISHED 1 BY JOURNAL . PUBLISHING CO. I orooer functions, IMPORTANT HE VIEWS municipal and commerce of portion to the epactd-4o-api torrfmittee for rea G OVERNOR bear the burden there are .strong a policy,-though is so sharply defin RUSSIA. is by no means mi i in i in houted. and 4h king took off bl hat to th dead below. Then a deep vole among- the crowd Intoned th old hymn. "Jeaua, melne !Suv,rlcht" "Jeau. . My Befuae" In which alt present joined. Th chorua finished, th king silently withdrew, : th - earpaa were lifted -.up again and th proeeaalon moved away. Rich Wives for Poor Men. -......-.. By-Tterothy XX. Th absurd Idea of the society girt haa stood In th way of a deal of happl nee. Many a poor, rich girl haa broken her heart about th man who loved her but waa afraid to ask her to hr hi lary Tet nine time out of ten th girl who ha bean aoouatomed to wealth makea the beat poor' man' wife. - , .Nor is th.1 hard to- understand. For one thing, aire "wouldn't exchange m aatln-ltned jewel box for a alx-room flat unlea a he wa a woman of char acter. For another, ah bring with her a certain aatlety of the gay world that gWes charm to a quiet Mf.v""- It la not th pereon who fare dell ralely who gourmand! at a feaat. It la.tlia-poorJiaJf-taraUhed wretch., who haa been looking on with hungry eye and who Is suddenly bidden Jn. , Th women - who are - insatiable )a no, y. oabsou and the bureaucracy utterly ' over thrown and crushed. . These are 'the only true' reforms for Russia, but they will not soon be brought about, nor until the people who are striving for them arc not. only stronger"' and more . united, but . wiser and better led, than they are likely to be for years to ome, r . ,. AND PRESSINO PROBLEMS. expressed by prominejtt, members of iinercial bodies on the Question lol ownership Of a belt line of railway for th equal accommodation of all rail tranaportation com panies will be indorsed, we are quite sure, by a large majority of ihe people-of Portland. Thr sentiment in favor of such a policy is manifestly growing, the more its significance and importance are considered.- It is evident that all transportation lines seeking a terminus on the. Portland waterfront should be welcomed. and en couraged, and it necessarily follows that no one of them should be given an advantage oyer the others. The strips of ground along the river, on both sides, from one extreme nf the harbor" to the other, ought also to belong . . I . . ! . . . 1 : f - thecity are its very .life, the chief elements of its growth, and the city owes it to itself to safeguard and protect and encourage its commerce in every possible way.-- The city- must -see to it that charge! for towage and dockage are reasonable, that the harbor is improved, and that transportation facilities along the waterfroift are fair and equal to all "users in pro- amount they are used. - It may be possible to grant a franchise to some com pany so conditioned and safeguarded that the same. re sults will be obtained, but it is not probable., If this, however, is to be done, it is time to consider carefully the terms upon which such a franchise shall be granted and which proposition of private corporations would be most Acceptable. And if it be decided, as we think it ought to be, that the city keep the Front street and other waterfront avenues of transportation in the municipality's hands, then it is none too early to be formulating definite plans for their use, - Public ownership of the waterfront Jt self,, with -its docks and wharves, involves a different and more dif ficult problem, for these are already in the hands of pri vate owners, and to acquire them would require legisla tion, probably protracted litigation, and a large issue of bonds; yet it qan be accomplished, and if the city de termines upon it the movement therefor should be begun at once and carried forward energetically and systematically.-".. ' v ' 1 . ; .'. Portland lias done a good deal for itself, but the time has come and its growth and prospects' are such that it must, go right ahead and do much more, and expend a great deal of money which, however, it is to be remem bered, would be safely and wt$ely Invested, and would all come back in due time.. These, perhaps not excepting .a line of steamers to Alaska and a smelter to give' the vessels return freight, are the most important matters for the authorities and commercial bodies of Portland to consider; they are bit; problems to be solved, and require attention, discussion, decision and wise action. . .' " ...... .-r , ,fV 1 rAXATION-OTTKRSONAIrPllOPEl FOLK of Missouri advocates the en tire abolishment of tax on personal property, principally on the ground that H leads to whole sale perjury, and that those who should pay the greater portion of such taxes really pay very little.- There are others who advocate the1 exemption of all personal prop erty on other grounds, and insist that realty only should of direct and individual .taxation, and arguments to be made fit favor of such at first examination of the subject at least it seems unjust as at present it would no doubt be unconstitutional. V '- It seems impossible to fairly and fully assess and col lect personal property taxes. . The man with a small mount of easily discovered personal property. gets the worst of it, and a large proportion of such property in the hands of the rich escapes taxation, because great many men who are strictly truthful in private business consider it a. venial offense at most to dodge tax-paying as far a- possible. Then it is not easy to tell in many cases what assessment of men supposed to have much "money, notes and accounts", and "chose in action" would be lust; for. stocks, bonds, etc., may represent tangible property otherwise taxed . We doubt if Governor Folk's proposition though it original with him will be approved by the majority" of people in this or any other state as yet, though--thetime is apparently not far distant when it will be regarded with less opposition than now, and with comparative indifference, because of the increased taxa tion f corporate franchises, which in a few years will largely if not wholly offset the personal property tax, and we may finally settle down pn the basis of taxing only realty, corporations and franchises, except for municipal revenue, v' ' . i. . ' - , . It appears from Engineer Wallace's testimony before the senate canal committee that Lawyer Cromwell, who madea few-millions by-helping the legally defunct French Panama Canal company to work Uncle Sara to the extent of $40,000,000, a veritable gold brick transac tion, is still really the master mind and hand in the work of constructing the canal, and that whatever he says goes with Secretary Taft and the president. It would be interesting to learn how many more millidna thia New Y6rk"lawyerrTorpossessora of gold bricks is going to make out of the canal business. The more money Mr. Harriman and Mr. Hill spend in their Var in the Pacific northwest the better. This hr a case in which the people are not crying for peace; their thirst for society are not thoa born to It, but thoa who hare achieved It ' - Th Am thing nay b aald of aoon omy. Tp th girl who haa had nothing a year, two or thro thousand ema irk a pure of Fortunalua that can never ha ehauate. and aha tarts un a career of wild extravagance. To the rich girt It aeem o little that ahe feel ah must economts and make It go aa far aa possible, and, aa a mat ter of fact, a woman who la need t handling money la almost always a bet ter economist than a poor girl. It I on of life' little Ironies- that only the rlrh m "tti1 In learn hew lo economise. - ' How Woman Reaaons. l mrem th Council Grow Kan.) Guard. A woman never loaea Interest In th man h might hav married. If h sue ceed he pride herself on th fact that ah could hav had hlntr If h fall she I uaually proud of th fact that she bad foresight enough to turn him down. It It- tfxik aneny months to find man fit for ' federal district attorney, how long will it tak now if Bristol should be removed?.. , , : 'v ',.'.' :. i . '" .' . '. ' . 1 - :- "I ; SMALL CHANGE . The nnfy Swift-thtw that btwf IKikm' trial la th nam of one of th Jfndania tor Is It plaintiff?) aaalaal UK-IIIHIimUl. . -" .i , ; ' RiiMia is braaklng- out aaaln, 'but 0t John ta rmarkbly. peaabla. Th Alaska trad and a amalter lo or ahould coma together. . .. , , , . .' :" " ' Somehow h contrary mayor won't lay In the hot. - ' . t . m w . . ... . . 1 No windor- Mark Twain enjsyad h aanatarlt I uoh a Jok on tb Amrl- can 'paopla. . ThrMt arouhdho- J""intln aom mighty fin waathar. . . ; . - - Tli hiM-e( rprMntatlvs - may have to appoint a oommlttaa tokep watch of Nick, who m to b In a dansraroaa condition; 1 - V . i t -i,'-' ,... l -! i ' " .' ; May th beat man at th ncanr plurallttaa. ... - t -,,., - A aelanttat ha dlcovr4 .'thai an Alaskan tinder move at th rat of two Inch year. "When Alaska la ad mitted to atatehood It should ndih glacier to th senate. . - e 1 . i . , 1 , Who'll b th first to report th fruit crop destroyed? It's tiro. ....... . - e - . . :' - - Republlean harmony la Irapoeslble in Baker and Marion counties too many candidate. . . .-a:-...- If you ' didn't " rcelv "aa invitation you won't have to nd Alio a present. . : : Now 8 moot is lugged forward again. ; : ...... ... The late' Captain Johnaon of th Va lencia haa bean exonerated by a Victoria coroner Jury, whloh concluded that ha eould not be punished by any earthly authorltlea anyway. ..'., , . , Alice think that all the world loves In some case to rubberneck. . , A-glrl in an automobll la worth a good many on a streetcar Judging .by th coat of th rid. ... ...... , ' ; Th next time Representative Bab- cock feel impelled to lead a band of Insurgent, perhapa ha will hike down to Central or Buutb America. ... it Profeaaoa Hawley should be elected and the house chaplain ahould be indis posed th member, from Oregon eould take Dl PUoe. -.-- , , . , An eaatern young man waa ao enam ored of a certain young woman that he married her, although before the cere mony eh required blm to sign am agree ment to waah the supper dlahe every day except rJundy. darn hla own aocke, abjur tobacco and coffee, visit hi hi mother-in-law thr time a year and wear whlakera the latter provlalon because unless ha ahaved twice a day hla beard would Injure her comnlezlon. ao It aeem h expect him to be affec tionate too. When he Isn't vial ting th moiner-intiaw it la auppoeea she wUl be at home In hi hou. though th.! 1 ol7jlpoind. 11,1 easy to aa that thia worm' day win be fwn -f ull of trouble, unleas It turn toward a di vorce court befor long, which 1 alto gether probable. -. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Myrtl Point' 1 a good plac for (e- torie. aay ta enterprise, .... "'' , " e e. . .. I M. Beebe le proprietor-and editor ot th Springfield (Oregon) New, and ha thu shouts In hi happtnaaa: "Blow ye tAa trumpet, blow; and about, ye flenda, for Joy r let air th people know, that Bee be haa a boy. 1 The year of Jubilee ha - come, alnc th doctor brought our llttl . on." But why nend T i , , ' ; Consolidation of Independent mutual telephone lines throughout th Wlllam tt valley seems to ba the rule now. "In union ther is trength," 1 th cry. e e A Weston : man aubacrlbe for atx copies of tba Leader to aend to aa many persona back east. That la a good way to help develop Oregon. , , . k ' ; e Philomath Review: The frog have begun to alng. What - more welcome sound to the heart and aoul of an Ore gonian than th tuneful melddy of the little nocturnal, aquatic, webfoot troubadour? The meadowlark for th field and th robin for th back yard, but . for energetic, ' whole-souled crescendo, for caro-dlspelllng, debt-forgetting enjoyment, give u th frog. . ..-! : ' a , , A wildcat broke through a window of a Crooked river men's chicken-house after vanquishing a dog, and killed 71 chicken, but th man, awakened by th dog'a outcries, killed the wildcat, -- - e . Many people contemplate taking up homestead in Lake county. , ' ' ; ' v' . " Ophlr Correspondence of Gold Beach Olohe: On aocount of - th dance our mall carrier haa been Indlapoaed for a few days end his absence wms noticed. We don't know -If that waa- hi only night UP. . I -r y . . , . A cattle-tender In Orant county whit endeavoring, with a horse, to open' trail became stalled In the deep anow and layout two nlghta. with no fire, hi matches being wet, and only two small biscuits t eat.. Th last . night he ramped three quarters of a mile from hla destination, and It took him four hour next morning to travel, that dis tance, arriving exhausted and dellrlou. -' Grant Pass I growing right - alone. and the Courier haa - doubled It alae and uiherwls Improved It People hare to be turned away every day from tha Echo hotel, and new room win be bum at once. X..., , . . ; S ; - , An Rrho man raised sorirhura that last year yielded SO gallons of syrup per acre, a net profit of $ an acre. 1 Pendleton may pv It streets with blue stone, found all about there; It can be laid for $1 par quar yard. .' " ' ' . I ' Deer ar being, Illegally killed around Meaeham. . : ... .. ,.-.; .' .'-,,' . Lovely , alctghing at Lovely, Wallow county, .,. . i ; . . , ... , ,.v . - Big ranches ar being ' aut up small farm In Klamath county. InU Nearly $21.00 worth f tie w build IngM, mostly brick, were, erected in Teq alia last year. . lH ... 'lawi. ii i i ' W rrttrwrBa-py-fiie government It U certali GEORGE j W. PERKINS TALKS OF I1IS LIFE i Jamea B, Morrow In New-Tork World. Outwardly, ill dominating nualltyol Oeorge W. Parkin I hla simplicity b tm a plalsrrnaa tn dreas and conduct. homespun -JndrvldmiJUy, ' neither turned to 'vulgarity nor arrokanca' by remark able fortune and Uncommon ' achieve ment. ia t tall and slender, andbla short muaUche,, hi hair and bl e'yss ar brown and bHIIIunt aa the ' best sealskin.; At hla officewhere men 'are urgent. and measurea nrcaa, he i quick, eager and Incisive a master of hi faculties restless with Intellectual seal and capability, but calculating and us. emotional., , tn tH, , great pa SJherry'a, whloh Ji. maintain in and 'out, Ji la tramruil, Jelsurely ,and oorauu- Wltatwaa jQeorga W, PerfclnW -philosophy of life. wlUt It eombatar disasters and triumphs? . So I asked Mm "I have heard (that- you- onoa olerked in a grocery atore Jn Cleveland?" "Tea, -and I owned tb store, a little place .at . a railroad eroaalng. where kept a modest tock of thing to eat. for both man and beast, and also. upply of coaL I wa born in Chicago, but my father moved to Clereland when he waa mad manager of the Ohio busl nesa of th New York Ilfe Insurance cujuurv, f had'gon 10 work in hi Chicago offlc when I wa IT years old and waa with blm for tlm in Cleve land. - Llf indoor, however, wa not good for ma my health waa not robust, any war and ao my father thought the physical exercls and experience or a grocery stora would b to my aavan tag. Coming in , contact ... with cu toraera, a boy of IS, I' got a new view of Ufa and. I must -confess, some point in in nractlc ana etnics oi iraae. kept th tor nine month ana then exchanged it for a farm and some- cash." 'Old you loaa or max money r' - "At Ant I thought I had lost, but tn farm waa tn tb direction of the city's expansion and by and by I sold It Th um and total.- therefore, of th whole undertaking gay m . a substantial prone ' "And then what Happened to your "I returned to my father's Insurance office and presently yea pi-omotexi rroia a clerkship and made cashier. My sal kry waa now $1,200 a year. - I want Into the field whenever I could and soia in suranc ilka any other agent. Suddenly a terrible blow "fell upon my bom. In th vary floodtlda of hla powera and use fulness my father died. Soma of our agenta in Ohio, without my knowledge, telearaohed our- ameer In New Tork and asked that I be given my father Disc. Th request mad some impres sion and I was permitted to ran th buainasa la unio iorf nm rem w in vear. Moreover, my aalary waa - in- creased to $1,100. But. in fact, I wi Imply cashier of tha Cleveland office, even If I did assume the responsibili ties and do th work of a state agent. I went into southern Ohio, obtained a larg amount of new business and toned nlaht and day in my ambition to get my father" position. ' On day I got a telearam to meet an officer of our com nanr at tha Hotel Richelieu, tn Chicago With a heart bursting with hop I bur red to Chicago, getting thr in th morning in tlm for breakfast. I had been living at $i-a-day botela in oath em Ohio and had never heard about I tha new-fangled European auetoovof or dering on' maia by Jib oara. bo i askeevforjut-boneal, country breakfast of eteek - and potatoes., .The waitef brought m anotigh for three hearty men and ehara-ed me II. SO. - - "That waa bad atari for th day and I left th dining-room lh om doubt. Then th officer of our company told ma that It had bean decided to glv Ohio to an experienced and capabl agent who also had charge of ourbus.U nesa In rsnnsyivania ana iinnuie. ui they appreciated my aervlcea; knew . I had earned In commisalone everal thon aand dollara more . than actually had been nald to me aa cashier, and wan tad ma to remain with the new man, who would make ma a liberal offer. . I went back to Ohio In gloom but not in de apalr. Bur enough, tha new general agent cam along and told me he would pay me $.000 a year if I would work for him." ' "How old were you T's "Between SS and 14. At tha earn tlm William H. Beera, president of th company, offered m th general agency of Indiana and a salary of $3,000. I dtdn't intend to work for a general aaent If I could help It: I didn't Intend to get out-of personal touch with th officer or our company, to atep oaca from th lln and alnk my Identity In another man, nor did I deair to go to I nd I ana. ' ; Tuf ayoung -fallow-4 getttngis a week, and aom on agree to pay hi in $20, h I almoat aur to seise what appear to be th better chance. With out carefully looking Into each situa tion, and without Intelligent reflection, only feeling hi present needs and only aeelng hi visible opportunities, V th probabilities ' ar that ha will, blunder. I declined th $1,000 Job and accepted $1,000 and Indiana; but I didn't purpose to go to Indiana without trying an ex periment elsewhere. I obtained a leave of absence and began , to writ Insur ance In Kansas that wa my experi ment. Th officer of th company In New "Tork were not Informed about my movement. I heard about Ienver and went ther. Befor my leav of abaenc had expired I wa In New Tork with new pollcie to th amount of $100,000. Th officer of th company- wero pleased and all that. but. of course, I would hurrv rlcht off to Indiana. I- "I returned iopenverr"6tensibly"Te gather aome odd and and, but actually to do th hardest work ft my life. . I put agent Into th field and solicited business myself. When I again went to New York I bad earned $23,000 In commissions more, than my aalary aa general agent of Indiana,' and .exactly $21,000 more than I ever got. '. VI laid th whol altuatlon befor Mr. Beer, th president of our company. He waa a sagacious, man,' and pretended that he had not known of my work in Colorado. , Ha complimented me on my aucoeas, but he ordered me to Indiana. I went to mv hotel, consulted my moth er, who alwaya traveled with me, and nkwr hlra for hi courtesy to' me, and told him I , would remember hla kindness. but that I waa going ta hunt another Job. Well., they didn't wait to write to rna. but ant a man straight to tha hotel. So I negotiated with Mr. Beers, and waa on th point of signing a com mission - contract for Colorado. Utah. whan a man who knew something about that country cam In from th Rocky mountain and said to Mr. Beera: Why, that young fellow will make $100,000 a year In no time.' - Accordingly.' the contract fell through, and""! hired out for $1,0 a year.'. ' The Flag and the Railroad. From th' Philadelphia Presa ' 'American capital ha unlimited faith 1n the American- flag.i The laleat proof of this I the effer made by banker of th United State to build many hun dred .mile of railroads In th Philip pines. Without; the fostering care be- strrWKT by ITie government It 1 certain that American capital would still be aa loth to go to Lueon or any of the other Island aa It was when Spain held do minion there. It 1 not only because the United State will offer certain guaranteea in the way of revenue to tb builder of these new' railroads that eminent banker ar -- willing to risk many millions of dollar. That I only ona consideration? " .rr" - .7 ' Another and mora important on I th belief' that where tb star aneri atrlpea go proaperlty will follow, Thia la above .everything a buelneaa nation. Tha material - welfare haa alwaya been and. ia today-a prim, .factor In every enterprise. Aa part of thia material lam are tbe'broadeat and freest educa tion, the 'most liberal rellgioua senti ments' and political enlightenment. ' All these -make tor better time, more hap piness and eventually more traffic for railroad a. - ' ii j 4 When tha railroad r one laid down m the-Philippine thojrr wtir 'form a powerful chain to bind the laland for ever to thia. country; Thoa whohav money . Invested . there j will constantly endeavor to kp the ilg ther also. Who can Overestimate the Effect 'this will hav In the ultimate aolutlon of the vexed question of national expan sion? - ".,0 7---' ' v. A.'w"' , THE CONTROL OF TTWA1X STREET- ':': From the Twentieth Century.. " . Th control of th Immense Interests -transportaflon, finance and Industrial which center In Wall tret Include It group.- Theee are- distinct because of th pro pert tea In- which they operste. These" 1 1 -eOitatUute -distinct .groupa. and. though interrelated In a thousand at independently. When,-now- ver. It oome to political control ana national legislation, they move with rhythmic-tread. They may be roughly classified a 101 lows: I. J. Pierpont Morgan, with, hi chief lleutonant Mr. Parkin, and a group of bank presidents, trust officer and rail road heada aa support. Th vanaer- bllt Interest are In practical harmony with thl group, 1. John P- Rockefeller, having a hi lieutenant Meaera. ' Rogers, William Rockefeller and Stlllman, each exercis ing control over a boet of official at tha ' head of bank and Industrial cor poration, and th astute lawyer who ar at their beck and call. . Belmont Inferior in organisation and' Intellectuality '. to. th preceding groups, but with th Rothachllld stand ing ever In th background representing unlimited capital for any enterprise.' 4.' Thomas f. Ryan, wltn th beads of th great corporation be control a hla . business lieutenant, and aup pnrtea also ny ma political aiuea, Mur phy, th leadera of Tammany. Grover Cleveland and certain men prominent In- th Republican forcee. ' S. Jamea J. Hill, with hi control of th northwet,- working-out- hi - plan not a speculative .but aa Industrial ucccanee. S. - Caaaatt and th Pennsylvania rail way- group Mr. Schlff . th financial manager, including alao th big bank ing . firm of Philadelphia, and - New Tork who find profit lh th connection. 7. Edward H. Harriman. - having Prick a counsel and Odell a political lieutenant, controlling tha central con tinental, southwestern and aouthem Pa- clflo coast lines of transportation. S.n Georg r Gould..- with 1 Preatdent Jaffary,, head. ..oftha.BJo, Grande aya tern, aa hla chief lieutenant, .working mainly along Una of railway develop ment. S. Messrs. Moore. Reid and . Leeds, the Rock laland crowd," with Bpeyer a tha financial ally; a minor Influence barely preaervlng it Independence ot tb larger forces, butundi)ubtdiy to, be reckoned with a an . Independent bulk aalllng th financial sea a 10. . Th r industrial group Messrs, Weatlnghouaa, in control of extensive leotrlcul and manufacturing Interest, th Gurrenhelms and. th vast Indus trie of th smelter trust, Schwab of th Bethlehem Steel company, and cer tain ' other men of high -vitality who bav to be counted. . ' 11. Th Independent, who for con vcnlenc may be called th marauders lawson, Qatea, Keen, et cetera. no attempt ia maae nere to more than broadly Indicate th cleavage lines by which, the financial world 1 sepa rated. No attempted analyst of theee group haa been put In print, exoept in a frag mentary way. It ahould, therefore, be found Uitereetlng to th general public to kep the dlvlaions In mind If they ar to understand th various opera. tiona which ar reportednhipx$sg . Keason for the Hot.Wave ' '" From a Washington Dispatch, Th causa of th extraordinary heat wave I that som other country cor nered our air. That la th official ex planation. . The guilty country I a yet unknown. '... The hot weather we hav bean hav ing," said Professor Willis Moore, chief of th weather bureau, "ia tha result of an unusual distribution of atmoepherld pressure, leaving a deficiency over th continent of North America and e com plementary excess of air Jn som other part of tb glob." . Then he explaned, unofficially, what that meant. "It meana," aald ha, "that tha air la banked up In on part of th glob and withdrawn In another. But neither Chief Moore nor any other official could tell what part of th globe It ia that haa effected a monopoly in American air. It ta believed to x Europe. . .... Professor Moor did not know what cauaed th corner In air. 1 , , ! ; "Nobody know," aald he. "All the theorlea break down. There ar plenty of them, but they ar merely guessea. A favorite ona 1 th presence or absence or sunspot. - Th trouble with that theory la that It 1 used to explain hot summer and cool Bummers, cold win ters and warm winter. - ; "Then ther 1 th theory that tha Gulf Stream I chanting Its course. Even If it did. that would not afford th explanation. The. Gulf Stream baa not nearly ao much to do with our climate le iomesuppoee. TtI not the Uulf Stream which make- western Europ warm;" It ia th ocean. If th Oulf Stream we're hot there tha ocean, would do Its' work Just th same." In . ehort, according - t Professor Moore, science Jiaa not got .to th point of determining what cause hot apclla. "Th climate .Isn't changing." aald Pref r Mowrev '-That ley M ehaagee In a. geologic period, but It doesn't change appreciably In on man's life time. It change In 10.00 year or so. Whenever .ther am a few warm win ters or -ooot- eummere people say that tba climate la changing. . Than along come a cold winter and . confound thm."; --, ; - - ' . ; ' . .. ' ' A Hard Problenv !.' - . From th Boston Post. Bom . (nqulsi Uv person wantsuto know why th man whoV. waters hi milk la put In Jail, while th man who "watera" trut tock,l called a treat financier,.'-'..".. ,a .v"1'-' ', :' ' CHARLES LOCKHARTS - MILLIONS , - From th New Tork. Herald. : Aiiegneny county's board ol easor purposes to clear th mystery that baa - hitherto enveloped the catat of the lata Chariea Loekhart, which la now said to amount to $110,000,000, and to hav grown to that else from three barrels of crud petroleum bought la 1S&S. ' . .. t Mr. Loekhart was a man of simple but " cultured tastes. Whll b had a remark able talent for making money, he waa one th few Pittsburg men of wealth wh! bad not, at some tlm or another, been imposed upon with a crude copy. HI gallery contains th best private collection of palntlngaW the city Ille gal! ery was never opened to the public. nvHBu enjoyett anowing ni picture to bl guest. - .... , - Hi an ardent United Preabyterlan. nd th ... Sixth- United - Preabyterlan- church, near hla home, was practically. " built and aupported by him. He wa charlUbla, but waa afraid of appearing ostenutloua. It 1 told of him that when a oommtttee of women - waited ' Upon him to secure a contribution to charity .Mr. Loekhart would perhapa put t' hla nam down for ISO. Then the com mittee would seek Mr. Lockllart to. se cure her mite.' y y . . , Glancing over tb list. Mr. Loekhart would com to the tlm,-"CharUs Lock- hart. $50." There 1 om,mlsUke here." Mr. Loekhart would aay, "Mr. Loekhart meant $500. not $50. I will ' correct it." Than h would subscribe : her "mite," probably $260.- . ,'. ... - When th list waa returned to Mr.,.. Loekhart for the two subscription he would make no protest, but with a mll draw-hia check for $7.-r - Mr. Loekhart' great fortune grw from -the purcha' of three barrels of crud petroleum. He waa born on a " farm in Scotland tn 1$1S. . His parent were, for the time and Rise. Well to do. . .. When T year old ha went to llv with hi uncle, a, merchant at Qarlleatown, a 8cotch seaport. In 111 th Lock harts emigrated to thia country. Charles ' Loekhart cam to Pittsburg, securing em- ployment with the wholesale grocery firm of Jamea McCully eV Co. In 1$(S ba became a member of th firm. - v-' Iwaa-whllaBttnTSleraVlnllSITThaT- Loekhart mad bl venture In olt Till waa th purchase of thre barrels from ' Isaac Huff, who waa part owner In a---- alt wall. In Westmoreland county, from wntcn th McCully company obtained the salt It sold. Disposing of thl oil at considerable profit, Loekhart purchased a controlling Interest In tha salt well. From that time April. 1SSS until Ms . death he waa an oil producer. ' After th discovery Of oil at Olt ereefc, -in lISS, by Colonel Drake, Loekhart sent a repreaentatlve to investigate th field. - ' Phillip. Frew ft Co. wae organised, Loekhart being a member. In March, - 1SS0, oil waa struck, and 04 barrel were shipped by water to Plttabarg. Ia May, . .' 1SS0, Mr. Loekhart want to Europe with , samples of crude and refined petrolum and opened up th European market for . , American oil,, . . . .,. - .... - In the 1 earn year Loekhart. with other, built th first refinery In Pitts burg, and later,, with William O. War den. eetabllahed a commission bona In Philadelphia and built tha Atlantlo re- finery t nere. . Upon tb organisation of tha Standard Oil-company, In JI74, all . . Mr. - Loekhart' oil intereat wr merged Into it . and he became an ' active factor In thia corporation..- . ' Mrr Loekhart had many other inter ests, among them Iron and glasa manu facturing, timber land In th aouth. mining - tar 'Colorado, and -ther-slnte. owning and operating two larg wheat farm in th Red River valley, in Mln- . nesota. Ha wa president of.th Pitts burg National Bank of Commerce, and had a larg intereat to the International Navigation company, . which controlled : the American and Red Star lines nf ocean aiearnanipa. . . a . " ; ' ' ' lewis And clark At Fort Clatsop. ' " ' ..; February Sent Sergeant Ordwy -and two men thl morning to Join th party with Sergeant Gaaa and bring In . , the remalnedr of R. Fields lk. In tha evening they returned with th fleah of flv; but on had become tainted and unfit for uae. , Later Sergeant Pryorx returned, with Shannon- and Labtch and 7 hi party down th Netul. They brought with them' th flesh 'of four elk which ' thoa two hunter had killed. W uppd on tongue and marrow-bones. Indians' and RaflroadC? About- flv mile abov The Dallas, on -the Waahlngton side,-1 th historical village ef Wlshram, where the early voyager down the dangerous stream . Stopped to barter with the Indiana. Her a settlement of aborigine still make their abiding place, most of the Indian .. seen on th street of thl city being " from th neighboring village, which la a favorlt resort for visitors and an In tereatlng on. In th center of th col- ' lection of ahacks and wickiup I on -of especial Interest, not because of its . beautiful architecture, but on account ef tha halo which hang over It, for It I th . plac wherd th .Indiana worship. - Seeing nothing unuaual about thia "temple,'' th heedless forerunner of th whit man' railroad 'ran hi lln ' straight through th village, cleaving th building In twain. It took soma tlm for the, Indiana, to comprehend what the - Intruder waa about, and when h did there wa a wall went UP and fear elsed. the tribe, for would not th spirits of th departed one be disturbed f -? Would they not rise from their gravea and protest against thl sacritegeT - -' And o deeply rooted wa thl belief In th heart of th red man that not all the persuasion of the entire railroad fra ternity, financial or otharwla, could hake them. So the only thing to do. waa to corapromlae and- make a new urvey which, would leave tha meeting plac and.tW spirits who hover about it ; in sola possession. - T - This -tha evrveyoT did,' and,- as the government must b dealt with In ecur Ing the right of way, which mean red -" tape galore, th contractor will ram em- -ber Wlahram a on of tb greatest oh stacles to their progreaa. - .-v m 1 '.,- i. i Jam la New York Houla. -From the New Tork Herald. New Tork waa th moat congeal . city In th United State so far aa.lla hotels were ooncerned laat night Every hotet wf -any -tiote- f 1 mil Fffty-nlnfH'1 " treet- down-, and- many above, turned away many visitor during th day ,aad - nor or maal houses, lee known, were filled with th overflow. On manager of big bote! whe- requested tht hi J nam be not need, expressed th opinion - that laat night fully 171.000 viaitora were being taken car of In New Tork. . "It ha been estimated." ha aald. "that . tha hotela ef th city, big and llttl. eon-, lata an average of 10,000 person, when ' doing a fairly good business. Every .. hotel la now crowded to Itaatmee -en parity, ami you ran depend open It tit lodging-house a re pretty well filled, and - I don't think my figure at all averahool tha mark.'-' .. !.-.'.".