Editorial . Page of The Journal -I:-,if , j;; THE JOURNAL .: AN H(DKPIDT iwr. Ol S. JACKSON. ..- ..ftbnsaer ' raellebl e-ary erasing .T?pt.,',,,V'L.t". iwr Sunday aasminf. Tbe Jootl Itulld S xnk l.aihlli streets.- Hrtkai bresra, ' . - t aeetofaee at Pnrtlaa. Or trsakMka. Uravck tee anils as son, ter end-claaa Mttar. TKLIPR0NE9L 'Kaltartsl Kejs.,. JM 'Bealness Ofd. ...Mala MO t roftUGN ADVIaTlSINO BPEB8CNTATITE . Vr-fnl BoJiraJ Bpaetal AaXrttalng Ac;, ';' 15o jiiiua street, Hew Xrkl TtUmmm belle. lag. caicsso. -. ' ' Baai4ntla IWu ha nail ta MBT ' te ina lalta Stataa. CaoaU ar MutM , - On ar..M.....tS.M One snath. ...... JO ; o year. ....... '.2.o I one raoet... ..... . , DAIIiT-' AND SONDATf. '':0 yoar .IT.o I Oh snata ...'.... .68 A man who bath na virtue in himself ever envieth oth ' era; for man's minda will either feed on their own food or on another's evil, and who i. want.eth the one will prey on 1 the other Bacon. - WILL IT HOVE? T IS TO be hoped that there is .'. ... JL. J , basis of truth for the rumor that the Southern Pacific con - ; templates removing'. it, track' frofn j Fourth street and finding a more ac ceptable if not so direct a route to the terminal grounds. One reason for such an intention, if it be enter- tainedi doubtless jthe heavy, grade . 'tip Fourth street, entailing constanfr " iy a heavy expense. ; Another reason may.be that the officers of the com !fany .are aware of tbe i great and growing public sentiment in favor of 1 freeing the street from the tracks and trains, and a conviction that they. - will not be able long to resist it Moreover, It is , reasonably certain that the courts would not 'sustain the perpetuity of the , railroad's use .of the street, under, the changed condi tions, , for some courts are taking a more enlarged view of such questions , and are yielding to public sentiment and the people's' demands. 7 BuV f .there is" nj truth in the rumor, then the people, through their duly, constituted' public officers and . servants, should act, and - at least make a" determined effort to ofttain Justice for the people in this matter. preferably by getting jd.f tfiejoad. : or if that cannot be'dohe by imposing - a- reasonable lax on its use of the P street. And all this .out. of no malice or spite toward tne railroad, even ', ' with a business; friendship for' it, but in justice to themselves. If there be no, other way for the road to get to a suitable terminal point, and it must aUy where: it is, then surely in all I equity the' city should-be duly re munerated, for the use of this thor- oughfare. -, . v '. .. ., '-.; The councilmen by the way, who voted;against taking up the Vaughn ordinance disagree greatly ( as to the '. reason for their action. 1 One says the . prdinance would be void and there is no use in passing it. ' But this conn ' ; cilrriah is not a court, not even a law yer, Another says he had heard that (the company , was going to vacate the street voluntarily. A third had never heard this rumor, but wanted more . time to consider the matter. And so on., But whatever the merit of the excuses or reasons, they will not serve always, nor very long with ' the people interested in this question. If the company will move, well and good, give" it a reasonable time to do v ao; if not, the people will elect men whowill move in their behalf.' V SENATOR CULLOM WINS. ; CCORDING TO the result of the primary election held in Illinois SaturdayShelby M. A JX V ; Cullom will probably be returned to ,. the senate for a fourth term. ' He Is an old man, nearly an octogenarian, ' bt 'Hke several other old senators ,-, seems to have well retained the pos " aesston of his faculties and to be capable to perform the rather per , functary services required of hfm. ' lie long ago became familiar with and an "adept in the game of politics, '.-. ao that the playing of it is no great ', tsx on him now. He is a politician rather than a statesman, a politician of the machine order, yet not of as 1 offensive, a type ar Piatt or the late ! Senator; Quay. He will never start a' reform flame, or do anything po litically -irregular, but he is rather a decent old man, fora mere politician. He has never been quite so promi nent -in committee work or business legislation as Allison, but is much the tame sort of man." '. Yates, his opponent, seem to be a rather IH-balartced ; man whose one term as governor brought him no large " amount "of credit or popular ciiteem.' As between the two the Re publican voters, though with a very light vote, preferred Cullom, and if there should be Republican legisla ture he .will,' be' -elected, as he de servci to b. ll thd ptopt hadn't. wanted him they could have said so at the polls. . In this case, as in others that may occur, the results obtained may pos- sibly not , always be the , very best and most desirable, but for reasons that we have often stated the pri mary system is far preferable to the convention system, Illinois in this respect has followed the example of Oregon,-and other states will ere long doubtless do the same. ", .. . WHERE THE MONEY GOES. IT IS ONLY when stockholders . - in big corporations fall out that the public is informed a to their earnings and the disposal, of them. Only, when Hyde' and Alexander quarreled was light .shed on the in surance companies. According to the pleading in a uit against the Wells-Fargo , Express company by dissatisfied stockholders, that -corporation is - earning 40 - per cent on its capital, though it is py ing only 8 per cent dividends. Where does the other 32 per cent go? ' Ac cording to these plaintiffs, the enor mous surplus, said to amount to $20,000,000 or more, is being used by Mr. E. H. Harriman, who will prob- abryTsk these complaining stock holder what' they are going to do about it, as he is said to own 55 per cent of the stock. : v . i - But why should not the people be asking why a concern doing business with them should be permitted to earn 40 per cent dividends? Aifjc press companies will soon be subject to the interstate commerce commis sion, under the new rate regulation law, may it not be possible for the rates of this corporation to be cut so that only 8 per cent, which is a very good rate of interest, will be earned? Why should not the patrons of this semi-public corporation save that -32 per cent, instead of paying it either to Mr. Harriman or to the rest of. the Well-Fargo tockholder? . ' . : ' Mr. Harriman is primarily in the railroad business, the express 'Com pany being a sort of adjunct of. his railroad System, and if the interstate commerce commission ' is going to regulate rates, on complaints .of shippers, may it not regulate express rates, so that patrons of express com panies will' have to pay only about 60 per cent of the present exorbitant rates? f Z'-: . t f ', WOMAN .'NOMINEE. HE SLATE was broken in the recent Idaho Republicah state convention by the nomination of a woniarf Miss -Belle Chamber lain, for state superintendent of pub lic instruction, and, assuming her to be otherwise capable of filling the position well, her sex should consti tute no objection to her nomination and election. Most of the teacher in thi country - are women; in' many cases women are principals of gram mar school and professor in semi naries and, colleges; so why. should a woman not be a state superintendent of instruction? This' could not be in this. state, for our courts have held, in the case ; of , a -woman elected a county ' school ' superintendent, that not being a legal voter at all elec tions, a woman cannot, with a few minor) exceptions, hold a public of fice." But "under the equal suffrage constitution of Idaho a woman as well man may be elected to any office, and several Idaho women have held offices. The Democrats - will very likely nominate a woman also, and then let the best woman win. It was only six degrees warmer in New York City and Washington, D. C yesterday than in Portland, and not so warm as it has been here some days this summer, yet the suffering there was intense, and in New York 20 persons died of the humid tor ridity. Ours is a dryer atmosphere, and circulates more freely, so that the heat doesn't hurt. ' Seattle claims 202,000 population or did last week; it is probably a good deal more now--and the Ta coma Ledger ssys that, figuring on the same basis, Tacoma has 118,556 inhabitants. There is no law against newspapers amusing themselves -in tliis way; by similar processes Port land's population might be figured out as about 250,000. ' ' - The statement that Mr. Shaw's boom for the presidency has blown itself into half flinders will arouse a tremendous interest among the great majority ol the voters, whose atten tion .is thus drawn to the fact that the secretary ' had higher political aspiration than might have ttirred him to seek to control a "township convention in Iowa.' ". Portland is indebted to Astoria for valuable hint on the best method of dealing with nuisances. The flour ishing city near the mouth, of the Columbia has passed an ordinance providing that xil tank shall not b WKat:Is PortlanJV Greatest tied? MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL TELL JOURNAL READERS ' WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY. Mora Water: Frank 8. JElennett rrank 8." Bennett of the lhth ward reIxea that Portlauid'a needs era many, including a Urrr flr department. better polio depurttnent and olty JU and nior tret lmproremcnta; but. In his opinion, the Rrcateit need of ail la amure -Affldent- waUr-ayatara- forth eaat aide. ;; ... .'';. "There la a rraat deal of talk about tha purehaaa of parks for th aaat mli" aaid Mr. Bennett , "Now, I baliava Haw thorn park a moat daairabla apof for a public park, and hop It wUl be ao qulred by th city for th purpoe eu- vaiea. ai tn aam Um. whll I am not tn favor of buying; a trine- of park altea In every .suburb, I think It would be advisable for th olty to secure th top or Mount Tabor aa uatreated, where a oeautirui -park could be laid out. "Whll the location la admlrabl for a park, th faot that It la tha Ideal lo cation for a larg-e reaervolr should haaten th purchase of thla property by to city. "Th east aid ia bulldlnc ud ao rap idly that In another year th old reser voirs on, the slop of Mount Tabor will be entirely Inadequate and something will bar to be dona to relieve th situ ation. - Mow Is th time to purchase th 40 or more acres of around an tha Tan top o th knoll and commence th con struction of an Immense reservoir.: If would be at a much a-reatar elevation than th old onea and would Insure a splendid water system , for th entire Nooks and Corners of History NATHANIEL By Rev. Thomaa B. Gregory. It ia my purpose, in thla short article, to bring to tha remembrance of the American people th name of ona of tha grandest men -that ever lived In our great country, Nathaniel Macon, born In Warren county. North Carolina, Decem ber IT. 1767. When th Rovelutlonary war negao young Macon was a, atudant at Prince ton, but with hla countrymen aturggllng for liberty ha could take no further Interest in his studies and, returning home, he volunteered as a privet sol dier in a eompany that was being raised by hla brother. During the days tnat tnea mens souls Macon atod at hla post Ilk the hero that he was, never absent from roIlcalL always ready, for duty, and doing that duty Ilk a man. From 1780 to 17S6 Macon waa a mem ber of the North Carolina legislature. and while serving in that capacity he waa tha unyielding foe of every form of compromise with tyranny and opprea slon. Aa a member of th assembly he fought to the bitter end against th rati ne t Ion of tha federal constitution. - Ha did thla. not because ha waa un patriotic but because ha waa an Intense lover of liberty, and wag afraid that the government of the constitution. would turn out to be th octopus which ahould strangle liberty and transform th free commonwealth into so many de pendents upon th ; central power at Washington. . He declared that government, at beat waa a necessary evil, and that th leas we had of it tha batter. "Let th people alone,' ha used to aay, "and they will pretty nearly alwaya do what la right." From 171 to ltll Macon was a mem ber of eongreaa, and from 11 to list United Statea aenator, when he resigned hla aeat, having aerved In th national eongreaa for tha long period of IT years without a break. Nathaniel Macon never sought an of- flee in hla Ufa. Tha office always sought him. He was a very modeat man. When plowing In hla flelfl on day ha waa In formed by his neighbors that h had erected within th town limits. This way out of our difficulty apparently had not suggested itself to the city fathers. "' - If enormous crop are due to the high protective taiff, as the stand patters inferentially claim, should they not attribute hot winds, drouth and floods to the same cause? But wilhlhemKing Tariff can do no wrong. Whatever may be said of the Pil grim fathers, it doe not seem . that their iniquities were of such an in famous character a to merit a rebuke from ex-Secretary Long or a defense from John D. Rockefeller. ,''.". A spiritualist asserts that she has had a communication from Russell Sage, who ! emphatic jn.the state ment that he does not like hi present quarter. The message sounds au thentic.' ::- -.' i . '- Because of the failure of the (work men to strike, the rebellion in Russia ha been indefinitely postponed.' A citizenry, that' will not quit work to view the birth of liberty is the best safeguard a despot can- have.-' ' . , The practice of cabinet officer go ing out - biennially on campaigning tour is not one to' be commended. They are paid servant of the whole people; not of a'party. Fairbanks buttons are said to be numerous in the south already.' But it will take something more than but ton to carry any southern ctate for Fairbanks in 1908. Cummin beat the Iowa stand patter for th nomination, but they got the tariff plank 'of the platform in a shape much to their liking. Did Cummins recant again? ' .. Cleveland is aaid to be -the best goverried city an'd Tom Johnson the greatest mayor ia th country. Welli Frank S. Bennett. peninsula. Thla I eonalder Portland's greatest need. ' I eellev th property can o pur chased directly from th owner at leg-i timet prlc." MACON. Just been elected' a member of th legla lature, whereupon . he replied:. "You muat be mistaken. I am sure you have got m mixed up with aomebody else." But hla neighbor war right. ' The people had elected him to tha aaaembly. and they kept on electing him to tha legislature,, to eongreaa, to th senate and to all of tha Important conventions simply because they believed In him and wanted him to represent them .. In the publlo councils. - Macon waa absolutely Incorruptible No man's bribe could buy him, no' man's frown could scare him. To what he believed to be right he was unfllnch tngly true, and when he laid down his commission aa publlo servant It waa Stainless. A Democrat he was of tha old school and In th best and highest aenaa of tha word. He wore homaapun elothlng made by th servant at home, ahoes and hats made oy tnoae aarae aervanta, and In hla manners ha waa as plain and simple aa a little child Afraid of no man, he despised no man. and was with every on a brother and a friend. Meeting all men upon tha level and parting with them upon tha aquare, ha exemplified tn his every action tha princlplea of th truest and finest Americanism. Macon was the warm personal friend of Jefferson and Madison, and those great men trusted him with a confidence that knew no limit. Jefferson called him th "Last of th Romans,' and tha celebrated John Ran dolph said of him In hla wllU -He la tha beat, tha purest and wlaest man I ever knew." This great and noble American died on his farm in Warren county, Worth Carolina, on tha zth day of June, 1817, In the eightieth year of hie age, and when It waa whispered abroad . that Nathaniel Macon waa no more the peo ple wept Ilka children. Long before hla death Macon aeleoted for his place of burial a shady ridge upon his little farm, and there, in a cofln mad of plain boards, ha waa laid away, with nothing to mark his resting place bnt a pile of loos stones. then, shouldn't he be mentioned again some more? Still there teem no immediate prospect of the Standard Oil being sent to jail or made to suffer very much. " ' Stand pat and pass the hat for a dollar apjece is to be the slogan, it appears. Want No BuddhUta. The Hawaiian Buddhist society has run afoul of Governor George R. Carter and It la understood that tha governor's American patriotism Is the cause of th disagreement, . Th Buddhist society applied some days ago for a charter under the laws of the territory. The treasurer, who has charge of such appli cations, referred tha matter-to the attorney-general for an opinion, and the latter referred the matter to the gover nor. Tha governor declared against the application. It is understood that the reason the governor refuaed to give the society a charter la tha fact that the organization Is aaid to be In existence aa much for the Inculcation 6f patriot ism to Japan as It is to the worship of Buddha. The governor holds that auch a society, while having a, perfect right under the constitution of the United Statea. to worship as it please, has no right to an official existence within American territory for the purpose of inculcating principles among people liv ing in America that are opposed to American principle. Th Japaneae are talking of Instituting mandamus pro ceedings against the governor and the treasurer to compel the issuance of the charter. ..- ( . Minister' Sons. From Leslie's Weekly. Th bishop marked th names of those whom he deemedJ.'wortbJLof . remain, brance for some service performed in religion or politics or literature or sci enco or art or commerce or philanthropy or warfare, or soma other aspects of the. various life of the - nation." Of auch names he found 1,170 who were the chil dren of clergymen or ministers, tak ing no account of those- who were grandchildren of clergymen or more re mote descendants. - Of the children of lawyer there were tie, and of doctors IB. Th aona of clergymen who became themselves clergymen were. 160. Ha further aaserta that "the superiority which th . clergy- enjoy, tn - re pact to their children to tha other profeaalone, lies beyond dispute. Th su periority has been not of number only, but of degree. . From clerical homaa have- sprung more distinguished sons than from the home ef any aecular pro- lession. - , A Little Nonsense "' eJBBfSSBaSB , In Praia of Tramps, ' '' Jack ' London. ' the ' brilliant novelist, waa praising the tramp. "Many a tramp. ha aaid, "Is more Intelligent and honorable, and has happier life than the average rich man. Tramps ar renowned the world over, too. for their humor, . . "I once knew a tramp named Boston Jack. It la aaid that Boston . Jack knocked on th back door ef a farm boue on July afternoon and naked for aaslstanca. ', . .tThs- farmer wife-alr-aharply- to him: ... ..--' . .; "Why don't you go to workT ' Don't you know that a rolling stone gathers no rnossT -'.' " 'Madam,' said Boston Jack, -without evading your question, mar I ask .of what practical utility moss would be to a man In my condition T " No Clothes Only Fig Leaves. Oscar Hammerstein, whoa new opera house In New Tork 1 one of th finest In th world, said at a dinner, apropos of a certain Joke: , "That Joke 1 far-fetched, very far fetched indeed. It Is as far-fetched as the . sign that a,, tailor once put up la hla boyhood home. "The tallor'a sign -was an applet aim- ply an apple. The people were amased at it. They came in crowds to the tailor, asking him what on earth the meaning of the sign waa.--;- ... '- "Th tailor with a complacent smile replied-- ... - - . "If It hadn't bean for the apple. where would the elothlng business be todayr- . . Warning Before Marriage.-. An old-time English barrister waa John Williams, a earcastlo wit and bachelor with an Intanae prejudice against marriage. Hla clerk on day aaked him for a holiday to get mar ried, and aom months afterward, on entering hie chambers, Williams found his dead body auepended from th door. H encased another clerk and aaked him If he was married. "No," the clerk replied, but thinking - that Williams would regard marriage as a guarantee of ateadlneas, he added, "but 1 am going to be." "Very well," replied Wllllama: "but understand thla when you hang yourself, don t do It here!".. Wide Circulation.' . In an addraas recently delivered be fore the "-Chicago Press club. Opto Read told the following story: "When I waa connected with the Ar kansas Traveler I on day called upon a large advertiser to aollclt hla patron age. Naturally th first question he asked was aa to th circulation of my paper.' Where doe It goT he queried. Where doe it got I replied. "Why it goea north and It goes eouth; It goes eaat and It goea weat; and would have gone to hell long ago If It had not been for m.' " ' ..; -.--f? Defiant English. ' : j; When struggling with a foreign lan guage ancient or modern, one seldom stopa to think how ludicrous 'or- en deavors to- translate th meaning Into our own tongu would seem to .on born to apeak that language as hla ow: to appreciate this, on baa only to the tables turned when traveling Jn foreign parts, Underneath the electrlo light button In th bedroom In a popu lar hotel tn Th Hague ar theae words: "The alectrlo light darea not . be touched.' -, - - '' , ' . Dream of Wealth.- TT R. R. Murray In a sketch of H. H. Rogers, the "brains' of the Standard Oil octopus, tails this: Roger one walked Into th hut of Ned Hasklns, who lived th Ufa of a semi-hermit In a hut eight reet squar, close to Fort Fhoenlx, In Falrhaven, Massachusetts, where Mr. Roger' summer house ' stands now. "Ned, what would you do If you had $10,000,000 r asked Rogers, "By jinks," said the hermit after long cogitation. I'd have thla hut built two feet larger." Up-to-Date Spartan. "Now, children." said the teacher of class In Greek history after an earnest lecture of half an hour, "who can tell me what w call a person who bears the greatest suffering without wincing; ho, even If a wolf were- gnawing at bis vitals, would make no complaint T For a moment no response waa made and then a little girl named Carrie Brown called out: "I know a Chris tian Scientist." v 4- .Ths Peg-Top Soldier. The army uniforms designed by the English tailor ar to have . peg-top trousers. A man today must be fitly clad . For whatever he tries to do; The soldier now is all to tha bad I av an iii-ritting suit or mue. . He must- look laod-up and stiff and . . 'smart " And loae his easy swing. For the tailor, sweara by hla ahears ana art That the uniform's the thing. v Th farmers who fought at Bunker Hill Disgraced th army's fame; They gave tha regular troops their fill But tneir clothes were a orylog shame. And Old Hickory's men, they were all true diu i ; And they crumpled th veterans' line. But the tailor aays they would never do, For their uniforms lacked design, Our boys In blue used' to fight like mad. In their vulgar, winning way, But now. In his peg-top trouaers clad. Each aoldler may calmly aay; "1 11 do all that a well-dressed aoldler can .-,' ... Who la eareful what he's about. But I eannot mix with a bolo man la an 111-f Ittlng, dingy suit,". What One 'QuarteT' Would Earn. From the New Tork Herald. It'a enough to make a money-lender turn' ever In hla grave to think how long that coin just discovered at St Mark's has been lying Idle. Supposed t hav fallen from thi clothing of a workman, tha coin has re mained Imbedded In ths cement as its date shows for more than seven cen turies. ' . - ... - a, . Th value of 'the eoln is not stated. but, aaaumlng that It waa equivalent to a quarter of a dollar, the lose tn interest upon It amount to quite a tidy sum. If that workmen had deposited or In vested the eoln for his descendanis at I per cent, the Interest being duly com pounded, that quarter dollar would now represent nine and a half billions of dol lar to be divided among them. - This ia equal to th Combined' for tunes of It Russell Bases and is more than three time th amount of all th gold, silver and paper money and cur rency in th United States today In ths treaeury and In the banks and la circu lation. ... . (N. B. Begin nowt . rn "RIRDSEYE liJ M cf TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHANGS. r Good evening: been convtoted yelt (' .-. v. e e :.. . .. Heney- gata 'em, every time, ao far. .''. a ..;,, . ' Looks Ilka Hn a... . vu juv j a L before him her. ...'! - r- . . e . e, ., j .-':-:-. A Cabinet nfnr .Mm. A v. . ... - " . . M limited leave of absence. ... ; . McNeil's Island i: mm n t.. . vary, daairabla summer resort ,. V s ' " ' v.. ,e e ;,. . . Tha hotter tha lattu t'k. people want to go to hot springs. , , , Th attorney for tha afnu am tO make llttla Imnraialnnnnl .nn.l n Colon! Starbottle, - v v. .v . . .-,t.e....e ,:v- vs. . Tha circus la not aa siaat an afrall though much rreater in alsa and acona- aa It waa SO years ago. -.-v e"e ''"V. " It is charged that Sarah Bernhardt never pays bar debts. But eonalder how llttla money she makes. . . . . - e e ; . Th rural' region yelling for work ers and lota of husky Idle men In the towns. But K ean't be helped. , . ... . -v.;.' ' Roosevelt aays . golf la a grand- mothra'gam. But everybody, doesn't want to go put and pitch hay. . ; ' , . Now la also th time when If you have good -teeth and ar not avers to hard work , you . can .eat corn oft the cob. . ; . .. ... ' -'.' e ;4;. - It t well that all people do not con sider the same thing baseball, for in stancethe most Important on . on earth. . v 'i -a ..-'. e '-'.'' 1 ;'. I.' New " the wisdom of Mrs. Saga, as expreseed in her former talks. Is being published by th column much padded and ornamented, probably. . - . .- e e "Women" suffer much needless mis ery, says a medicine advertisement But nobody can Indue woman to dress differently and ao be comfortable. v - The gaakwar haa gone home after indulging in some criticisms of. thla crude and aeml-barbaroua country, and we ar not stir that be waa not mora thaa half right, . i . How doea the Albany Democrat know so much? ' It says: In order to settle a question that disturbs some peopl it may aa well be stated now; Mr. Hearst will never, be president '- e - ; . It is said thai General Stoeasel will not be shot after all. Mayb th csar only wanted to scar htm ao - that he would understand how the. csar feels himself most of th time. i ', ' . . - f - ' ' V A Tonkars. New Tork. Judge Is ap- nlvlns tha lall cur to automoblllsts. Mtqth- elututruraand ewnerSPWIko'' "Jeop ardise' people' limbs and rrvea by rac ing a precedent that other judges would do well to follow. ' . A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT. Much in Little. . .' " nr.. Im ManHrallar tha ' OnlV Ull BBIUIIBIMU mm ---- - national capital that haa no slums at all. but Berlin rune It cloa tn thla re spect , . . 1 The hlahest mountain In tn moon is .1 k. . laaae IK (10 fat In lUUUHUk J vm - - -' - height; that Is ,800 feet higher thaa Mount Everest. . Mm wtalra m hauia damn: en th contrary, Ita small root eatract very particle or moisture inra brick or stone to which It clings. . i.hn..h ik. imi of the flrat rop- maker and that of th land in which he practloed hla art have do in urn "v i -. n -.. v.wnH.a umlnturai nrova that th art waa practiced at least t.000 years Derore tn umw ox !" Arrangements were made to tak a sunlight photograph at th bottom of th shaft of a mine 1.000 feet deep at Sombre rete. In Mexico, on Jun tl, th ..i. i tha vear when . the aun shine there. Even then Its rays -touch th bottom or in mine tor raiy minutes. The natives of the Malay peninsula have In use the smallest current eoln in th world. It is a eort of wafer, made 4K. MMlnstiia 4il1na nf a traa. ana la worth about ona twenty thousandth of a cant The smallest metal coin in circu lation at the present day la the Porta aiiaa s.rela niece, worth six one hun dredths of a cent V Women Duelists, nuellnar haa not been confined to men. The wlf of Gay d Murat waa a noted woman . duelist She possessed In domitable courage and in her time killed several men on th field of honor. She waa finally slain in an encounter with three men whom ah attacked for hav ing Insulted her. . Madame J-.a ueaupre was anoiner noma woman duelist, un ana jaay urns one engaged in an encounter in which both were severely wounded and which would probably havr had a fatal termi nation but for the timely intervention of some men. ' Madame La Maupin. tne actress, was fine swordswoman and when a male fellow performer made slighting re marks about her character she hold him up, attired in men's clothea, and be cause he refused to flaht relieved him of his watch and snuff box. Some years later ah attended a ban dressed in male attire, got Into an altercation with three men, challenged them and then killed them all one after th other. ' - Beware. iheVacatlot-Hatr-- "If your bookkeeper or your cashier," i(d Leeoq, th- detective, "cries down Graceful Parisian Women. ', From London Tit-Bits. The graceful figures of Parisian wom en are said to be due mainly to diet antf exercise. The French girl - drinks a great deal of milk until about the age of 10, after which her repasts are of a light and non-fattening kind. ' Where In other countries a woman would take a heavy meal, the Parlalenne contents herself with a bowl of soup. Altogether her outdoor exercise is mainly limited 4o shopping excursions or short strolls In tha city.- She Is very active about her household taske, both from motives of economy and also as a means of keep ing down superfluous flesh. - . HI OREGON SIDELIGHTS. r Hope are getting to a hope again, - : s .' . , ' ' ' Bears - also numerous. In Columbia eounty. ' ; ' . . - . . -.-".'- .... V. - . ';' . Bearaare plentiful ' notJaf Xrosa . . j.; ... .V;..c;". ', Toledo sawmills !ar busy and have orders ahead. ; - . - ;': ,t' ' ' ." '.ij . Soma second crop ' strawberrtea In.' Tamhlll county. . . - ." . : . -'"'-..', '"' "' '"' .:" Many fat cattle betas marketed la - and around Sclo. '. ' Over 14,000 feet of lumber is hauled through Sclo dally. ; . " Drain has a new .l7-room hotel "and will soon have a new depot . . , .,...;....-. , . , ,,. fillets crops, nartloularlv eats. ' will ' be much larger than ever before. ' A fisherman on Rogue river landed a lS-pound steelhead unless he told fish story. ,, , ... .-v ' . .-.. aj . V- - Several famillea from North Dakota and Idaho, after looking the valley over - pretty thoroughly, bought places near- Central Point e-.e . -. v Willamlna correspondence of McMlnn- - vllle News-Reporter: More than- rlxty - teams passed through town. last . Thurs day, and not any more than common. Thar are good peopl left In town,' although many of our oltlaens ar away in the pursuit of pleasure and hsppl- ness, remarka the' McMinnville ' News Reporter. - -;" '"...'.". -''i' .':. Sclo 'News: - Our trout Sahara' are ao ; euccesaf ul that one would ' think th supply of trout In ' the streams would, run abort, but auch seems not tha ease. as every fisherman brings In a full basket - . - ' - . V ' A beautiful spot across th liver from . Salem, in Polk county. Just abov th point opposite th city, I being cleared of all underbrush and made Inte a real ly Ideal picnle ground and park by the Salem Launch club. ' t : ;'.;'. e .. " ' - . - A prosperoea and contented commu- , nlty is that known aa the Table Rock neighborhood, lying between the fa mous landmark of that name and th Bybee bridge, which spans Rogue Hver . some si miles east from .Central Point, aays th Herald.. Farming, fruttgrow-, Ing and dairying ar alt aueeeaafully followed and on every hand may be seen evidences of fertile soil-and progressive, -prosperous people. , . -t - . .'" T. , . . e ' ' f ' . Toledo Reporter: Why pay taaea on hundred of acres of land and wear yourself out keeping up line fenceeT A family near thla city la making -a cosy, comfortable living on four acres of land. On thla model . little farm . they raise fruit, . berries, vegetables and flowers Theylak more solid comfort in S dsy than th csar of Russia does In a, year. Thla Is the ideal v country for, email farm a and Intensive farming. ' '. . . of. tte Common the vacation and refuse to tak en, overhaul hla accounts at Once, for thla I th worst sign that yon can find la an employe trusted with- money; ' "I could point you out a doaen eaaea of clerks, bookkeepers and cashiers' who for year refused vacations; and, 1 and behold, ' when these fellows' - accounts were looked Into It was found that for long stretches of time they' had been tapping the tllL They couldn't take any vacation, of course, for the reason that they were afraid their substitutes would discover their crookedness." Is This Bliss? The census of Illiteracy in Europ and America Is as follows: Roumanla, Rue- ' sla and Servla, (0 par cent of th pops latlon Is unable to read or' write; Spain 41 Hungary, it; Austria. SO; Ireland. 11; France and Belgium, each IS; Eng land. 1; Holland. 10: United Statea, ; Scotland, T; Swttserland. t H ; German" empire, 1; la Sweden. IJenmark. Bavaria. Baden and Wurtemburg there 1 not a . single-person over 10 years ef age u un able to read and writs. . ( ' ' : Apostolic Jewels, . Vl- , ; - 1 j Several gem were consecrated to the apostles. Just when the Hat - was de finitely fixed ia not known, but it seem to be Bysantlne In origin. This la the list: St Peter, Jasper; St Andrew, -sapphire; St John, emerald; St James, chalcedony: St Philip, aardonyx; - St Bartholomew,, carnelian; St Matthias, ' chrysolite; St Thomas, beryl; St. James the Less, topas; fit-Thaddeua, chryeo-, praae; St.. Matthew, amethyst; St Simeon, hyacinth. ; v ' t , " Mr. Peck's Epitaph? Hare lies a Peck, which Some men eay Was first of all a Peck of clay; This, wrought with skill divine, while fresh, .. a , ' Became a eurtoua Pack of flesh. ' Through various forms it maker ran, Then adding breath, made Peck a man. Full fifty years Peck felt life's bubbles. Till death relieved a Peek of trouble; Then fell poor Peck, aa all things must. And here llee a Peck of dust , v Y , Epigrams, ., ' Egotism. Belief that we are necea. -sary while giving, and, ahall be remem bered when dead. - Religion. With some a hope, with others a belief, and with many a fear -that the injustices of this life will be remedied In the next - Wealth. Tha modern standard -of succexs. Fool - worship It; ascetics despise , It; wise men us it J, F. Flnley. , VIEWS The old maid smiled maliciously, "Which type Is the more popular, the blonde or the brunette. Miss Summer glrlT" she said. - "I'm sure I don't know," yawned daln- ' ty Birdie SummerglrL . ... "And yet- you've had experience tn both role, haven't youT" tittered ths maav old thing. That waa a very poor quality of light ning which waa uncorked out in King's Valley, Oregon, laat Saturday, says the Toledo Loader. It managed to wrack a buggy without Injuring th occupants ' and tor the harness from the horse ' ' jrlthout Injuring the horse, . ' "' " - v7"'"':.i'7 ,