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
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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.'-' .. !.-.'.".