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The Editorial Page of ournal - .. m v. Ail THETJOURNSt AN INnPNDNT mtW8PAPBB. C. . JACKSON... .Publisher Puhllali A ' kirv uMlR ltwn( Sunday! ant - triri ttnnda hwrnlnt. at The Journal build- in, una awl I'smalU strest. rwtuud. nostofna ffc trsasmlftaloa ibrouxs the nails a seeuae- I els as Baiter. TELEPHONES' Mltnrlsl- Roma. .Mala tM Business Otic. .............alalB rORKIft iDVKHTISINO RKPRESBNTATIV Vri-vUnd-BenJeoilB Special Adrtlli ,l I'M ltuu'ilrnt, Kw Vor; TrlUiM VaUdr inc. voicaaa. i.iWeiiHn term br tl t any address la Uw Hulled BtaUa. Canada or Mexico. .- , v. niivT. rr-"T , ' Ooa year ...5 00 I Oh moats.. ......I M Ob .... .....li.ool OnvmoBtti. . : DAILY AND SUNDAY. On r'.... CT.00 I Oa moat . The situation that nag not ita duty, its Ideal, waa never w rafini t4 htm i lyle.. A SIMPLE PROPOSITION. ; t CONGRESS it ; supposed to be , f-r ; composed of good business .'I "" men, such as are able intel ligently and wisely to conduct large and important ' business T affairs. Among other public matters which it has to look out and care for is the . deepeningTortheTchahhelafT'fhe I. mouth of the Columbia rhrer, one of : thq country's largest and most im portant streams and one draining a ; , Wast and resourceful area. The plan of improvement has long , been de cided on and ty . intermittent and piecemeal operations, carried on, and thus a large portion of the money ap propriated has been wasted, the work done having in large part to be done over again by another inadequate ap propriation. Now it is proposed to continue this policy, and the chief of r .000, which the officer charge of the , work 'says, will only be sufficient to pay for work that tmless supplement ed with further and -continuous work ( , until the Job '''completed will be of little or no value. As a matter of .- economy, of simple business common ' sense meaning no criticism of Gen eral Mackenzie; he cuts his garments according to the probable amount of cloth he will getevery member of ongr- oghi iu ague iharif-Thti; work is to be done at all it should be earned on continuously and diligently until fully completed. Itisofa char- acter that cannot be done successfully The journal," on which was printed murderous declarations against President McKinley, intended to or without a very large percentage of expreS9 that these sentiments had been expressed by The Oregon Journal and that Mr. Ladd ap waste and loss in any other way. nroved of them. Whether or not this was .he intent of the cartoon, and whether or not neonle whn nt j; 4 . , i i nrre no aispuic, no ijucsuon, aooui mis. ji seems aa.ii ine mere statement of the case should be suf- ficisnt to indust the comruitrccs 1ny ing the matter.in hand and members of congress generally to appropriate enough money to carry this job for v ward to completion or make it a con tipti'mg . contract job. Any other ; trf atnient of it is manifestly wasteful and foolish. The important thing to " do is to impress this upon the mem . bers of congress who will have the matter in charge. . " . There is no avoiding jr Repressing "occasional floods in western Wash ington, and people along the streams - - will have to take their chances and expect overflows quite frequently and once in an indefinite number of years a more torrential and ; destructive flood, such .' as occurred. lastweekt ' But where land is rich, and resources are abundant, people, will take chances, and perhapscagafford to sustain an occasional flood loss. . ' The next legislature will have, sev eral very important matters to con sider and act upon, and all members ought to be preparing themselves the best they can to act intelligently and wisely. Legislation musTTiow be framed up to meet new and expanding conditions, and to do it right and for the best interests of all the people will require' the exercise of diligent and conscientious wisdom. Wlti! evi gStOu" sly-pro 8 e cutTri g a few ,T " individuals "who were" guilty of un lawful action with reference to the ac quirement of public lands, it seems that the great Union Pacific railroad . was entirely overlooked when by sim ilar or worse frauds it gained posses sion of an immense area of coal lands in Wyoming. .We suppose the Union Pacific officials, however, are immune jfrom punishment. The Standard Oil officers say that company is perfectly innocent an'd in every way entirely proper, right," nice Hand even lovely. Well,, nobody ex pected them to plead guilty the first -life-; r TeddV is homeward bound again, and it is to be hoped that what he row knows about the canal won't be so big a load as to swamp the ship. t' Those who attend Pat Crowe's re vival meetings should leave all but a little small change at home, and keep i' hold of the kids.., .':VV'; y' .The Ore-gonian, in a half-page editorial statement, came before the bar of public opinion yesterday-"with a labdrecr-atterrrptat explanation of its falT and unprincipled "libel of Mr. Ladd. Its defense is not. a manly apology; it .is a confused attempt to justify the outrage and is so fultfcf dis honesty that it seems tp us to leave the Oregonian in a worse position than before. T He who is First That Mr. Ladd is a Oregonian' is the people's champion," especially against franchise grabbing.' ' ":, ; ' Now, in fact, thjs has nothing whatever to do with a false and malicious assault upon a man's character, be he plutocrat or poor..:. Bitt jsince when has the Oregonian been so virtuous? . We have printed before its defense of the blanket franchise, extending the charter of the street railways of Portland and ita rnnternnttinu. information tn the oeonle that the rieht t6. monOOOlize the Streets of KPprtland was worth nothing ; .that The Journal has printed repeatedly the Oregonian's past titterances on . the subject otonese franchises. For the present it is enough to quote once more from its editorial of November 20, 1903, when it said : " ' , , .'...:'''':'"'.. ' :- "The.blanket franchise agreed upon between the city authorities and the Portland consolidated streetcar system is erne that will be looked back upon with pride in future years by every participant in its framing. The city officials have served the public well, and the streetcar people themselves have set an example which entitles them to the honor of pioneers in an inevitable era of profit-shar- I ine Dv tne citv m coroorate enterprises. recently as the question ot the use of Jbront street it had nothing to say m aeiense oi tne peoples rights in that thoroughfare. It did turn, in a vicious assault, on the gas company and Mr. Adams The Journal admits, for its part, that the service of gas to the people was open to just criticism, but how far it could have been otherwise, under our rapidly growing conditions, The Journal does not pretend to say, for the hateful cry of "Plutocrat" will not intimidate The Journal into consciously doing7awrong to any man, rich or poor. Mr. Adams said that the hostility of the Oregonian began because he refused to permit-the gas company to be held up by a species of extortion on the part of ,the Oregoniaji. , , '. ' '' ""'"","" ' . ' : ..r - Now, do the people of Portland believe that the Oregonian- reversed all. its .-.past, because of a. suddenly acquired love for the plain people, or because it was determined to punish those whom it could not blackmail ? The Journal will be glad to see how far the Oregonian, will, follow it in an honest and- jnr ef fnrtitA instruct: :th pgopT in tteir fights and protect them. " ' ----- The Journal believes that the gas and electric light Juojlltxeet railway companies, and every other public utility corporation, should either be owned by the people themselves or actually managed by the people, but not in a way to further increase the profits of landlords. ,The Journal has always ad- vocated this. The curious may examine the files of the-Oregonian to see' where it has stood. The Journal has faith in the equity and justice of the single tax theory of Henry George, which would not only compel Mr. Ladd to bring vacant property into- use, but would compel Mr. Pittoclc cither to improve or to let go his hold of the vacant block on Washington street, which is worth as much as the Ladd .farm. .Will the Oregonian advocate this release of the plain people from bondage? The Journal is not wholly in accord with the details of the present effort to reform the water system, but it believes and declares that the present system is radically wrong and tha the cost of water mains should be paid for by the property benefited, just as sewers are. ' Unlike the Oregonian, The Journal is against, any free gift whatever of any special privilege or franchise whatever by any legislature or council whatever. The Journal is against every monopoly, wherever existing. It be lieves where monopoly exists, tyranny will follow. It believes there is no greater monopoly in this 3tatethanhemonopoty70ftheA is heTfTy the pIutocratiPOregonian. The Journal denounces the efforts of the Oregonian to belittle and "knock" Portland,-as an outrageous use of plutocratic power, prompted by sordid and selfish fear that its monopoly may be broken. JThe Journal believes the Oregonian to be a bulldozer of the people and a tribute-taker from the peopli of the most unscrupulous and plutocratic type. - The Journal believes that every corporation, be it rail way, or newspaper corporation, ought to be subject to a suit to revoke its' charter, or corporate exist ence, whenever the corporation has been wilfully guilty of gross abuse of its corporate power. Will the Oregonian join The Journal in advocating this protection to the people? V It is because The Journal has always said thess things of the Oregonian, and because The Journal has made some inroad on the treasury of the Oregonian, that the Oregonian has singled out Mr. Ladd, the richest stockholder of The Journal, for its venom, but, as has been said so many times, Mr. I T.aHr1 ? a mri minfirit- storkhnldpr and has nothinc Jtmla-with, the' Uke Mr. Pittock, the controlling stockholder, he could then be held .permitted his paper to do, v.-,u v ;; , " (; ,V , c-rnnd-The Orewnnian sava no one could have been deceived Lhirh renreentef Mr. Ladd clothed as a clertrvman. holdinc uo a I " . . gaw lt tcxk so, wc leave each ed, it would have been easy to have had the words read, ' Editorial Page of the New York Journal, instead of "Editorial Page of The Journal." Whv were the wnri "Mew Vtrlr" rnittffd? TMit n? matter what paper originally printed those fearful words, Mr. Ladd was held up to the world, wher- ever the Oregonian might circulate, as standing in hypocrite's garb and approving these revolting sentiments. ,: .' '-, " ' -: - .,..".:. . ... -. '. It is said that this paper has rushed to Mr. Lvdd's defense. ' It has. It has rushed to. the de fense" 6T common decency, and it now offers its columns and pledges its help to the humblest man or woman who shaltver be so outraged. This is no'., with The Journal, a case of rich man or poor, man.'of a stockholder in its company or a stranger to it. It is a case of American manhood and a preservation of the- ideals of justice and fair play. . Third The Oregonian seeks to becloud in some way its infamy by intimating, that this is a newspaper fight. It is not, andthe Oregonian knows it is not, and no one is deceived. But let us say it is a newspaper fight. Does the honorable and haughty Oregonian, with no tinge of yellow in its veins, mean to say. that anewspaper fight justifies a. resort to every infamous. .method? That it justifies lies, and lies upon lies, and cruel and malicious lies which make women weep? The Oregonian sneers that Mr. Ladd's aged mother, and wife, went before the grand jury Why should they not go? The law itself says that he is a malicious libeler who out'of his mouth annoys the family of any one. Does this infamy not annoy the family of Mr, Ladd? Shall they sit silent, as they have for years, or should they not, in their desperatjon; lay their case before the men of the grand jury, upon whom the law has put the duty of protecting them? . It is a cheap defense, this sneer at women who, finding no consideration for them in Mr.' Scott's tiger heart, no protection from" the generous impulses of manhood,, are compelled to go before the people in the course of law and ask for help and protection. Did Mr. Scott think that his false' and malicious attacks on her son would not cut the aged mother to the a T t 1 . At ...t. ' -nevcr-attackea any-one out ivirrj-aaa J What pitiful pettyfogging. Can a newspaperJash-Jwith mother and his children will enjoy helpless ones, even more than tor the man mmsell, who has other means of protecting himself, and it is out of consideration for the helpless ones that the law makes it the duty of the grand jury and the district attorney to proceed, whether the one who has been libeled desires to, or hot. But when the Oregonian says if has not attacked the Ladd family? it lies again. Time and time again it has held up the dead man and his widow and the whole Ladd family to opprobrium, by direct charge and mean innuendoThe Journal appeals to every man and woman in the community, with an honest heart and asks, is n&t-hejwho will crutify either men or women maliciously and from re- venge, a coward beyond contempt? A marTwho is aman-in allthat manhood implies, aman-with -clear and honest eyes and a brave and manly heart, would as lief cut off his hand as to throw into that widow's face sneers against her dead husband and lies against her son. .JQwejLiheJDregQiiiar end ot her earthly career to excite sympathy, we are replying to the Oregonian s attacks. It is the Oregonian which has assailed women as well as men. And by-the Hying God, Mrr Scott,7The Journal will close its doors on that day when it shall be wrong to show to an outraged people wounds calling for their, sympathy and help. ' , ., ' -Go to any teachers of morals and decency,' Mr. Scott, to any clergyman whatever, and ask him, in secret, what he thinks of you. .Go Jo any teachers of law and order, to the federal judges and the judges of this county and the supreme judges of the state, and ask them what .they think of you. Try and turn the X-ray on the secret hearts of the men of the City, of the cluby-of the Masonic lodge, from the plutocrat to the plaii jnan, honest in his manliness, and see what each thinks of you. Close the doors on the grand jury and on public opinion and stand up before the bar of your own con science and ask yourself: j Have I lived an,,'honorable and worthy life? Have I done well? Have I -leftarr honble-xample thevvOTkt-- : r The Play Br Johnaton. MoCulley. ' -"Oh, Odd! mnke thim as clay fn my handw" "Tha Myidlo- hiah" Act 11." . ' When tha Bclaaco thtater, oDened In thta city, John SalnpollS played ColoaaJJ Thorpe la "The Heart or Maryland," and Portland playgoers declared he had reached the arms of his ability. Teeter day on .the stage of the Baker, John Balnpolls played Cyrus Bltnkara In "The MMdoman.'" and the local play-""rarel-Ised that he had advanced a few vft. BalnpoHa la an actor near to aanlue. A Cyrua flletikarn In Henry Arthur Jones, 'The allddleman,t' Balupolla lak A HYPOCRITE UNMASKED. plutocrat and this paper is the organ this right, oughliaie gyjgjLawayJrec to whoever wanted it ... ... .. ... man to say tor himself, but it this cowardly deception was not intend- mmseir. r envenomed Jie3-lheface.- of jl man the outrage? The law of libel was and holds the center of the stage. It la a one-man show, but one of those one man shows where the one tnan, to save the play from failure, muat poaaeas great magnetlam, muat realise the depth of his role and muat portray the light and hKi-f ar naturally -eunny- nature hardened by hatred to the point ot re venge It la a great character, and Halnpnlls la great In It. If Is graap upon the character 1 a exact. The light and ehada ot his work are brought out with fidelity. ' He has stepped Into the shoos of EL 8. Wlllard and gives just a char' acterlatla a performance ae did that Star. There Is no false ring In nd voice, no false movement In his gne turea. He portrays the angulah of eon' atant faiure and tha hope of ultimate success well, i f . Aa a whole, 'The Middleman" U one of "the pluto-aristocrats andthe , . 1 rolicv-nf thin r4arwr.Wr4Ji justly responsible fofwharlir ... ,..-. v .,:. ., J, . into the belief that th vartnon shee' labeled "Editorial Ps of ... . r heart? The Oregonian says it I - " ' - 1 and-suppose- that- his wifer his-f made for the protection of the of the most sucoeaaful produetlona of the Bakerltes. ' It Is not aa modern aa soma of the playa the company has pro duced, but In regard to merit It stands near the top of the Hat, William Oleu aon, aa Joseph Chandler, played second to- Balnpolls alt Through. William bills was damned by a part that doee not suit his talenta. but he acquitted himself well. William Harris (there Is a bunco of Williams In the Bakerltes) had a lit tle "bit" of character work In the flrnt act, when, as Epiphany Danks, lie held the center of the stage for a few mln utesand hiaaa good In huge quantities. Harris Is a talented actor and In a rotkt suited to his personality can make good anywhere. , . S Mrs; Gleaaon dlrtiv't have much to do, and did It well. Donald Bowlea waa fair aa Captain Chandler, a role that la Ira- JM S I " - - "" IJpinipnsLioncerning Harrima ' From the Springfield Bepubllcan. It Is to be noted that In the throwing out of Stuyreaant Flah from the Illinois Central the decree of B. H. Harriman were carried out In tha board meeting by-John.W. Auchlacloaa and Charles A. Peabody. . The former put the motions and the latter aeoonded them. Peabody Is preaident of the Mutual Lite Insur ance company of - New : Tork, aad la trying to Jiold on; Auchtncloaa waa a member of the company's lnveatlgating committee: and. with Peabody and w. H. . Truesdale, Auohlnoloaa prevented anr aave a whitewashing investigation and -ttrae -forced - flarr-tn hrmesty-aJid self-reepect off theeornnUttee and out of the Mutual'a directory.' Now Pea body and Auchlncloaa appear as Harri man agenta In the punishment of Flab for refusing to be tied to tha Harriman chariot. How do the Mutual'a policy holders enjoy thle exhibition T . rrora the ChloagO Reoord-Herald. - Control of .-that road la now desired by tha group of "sure thing" gamblere who -make.-aa4.-mta fortuaea-' at , their secret conferences on a scale that was never before deemed of. The United Btatee. If not the world, la their oyster, and what they may do with the Illinois Central or any other property depends to a rery large extent upon their win, Naturally, the people of Illinois do not relian. the prospect, and we anouia sup pose that the small stockholders would feel soma alarm over the thought that the road may be made part of the gam blers' paraphernalia. "W aaythle with au due allowance for the constructive work that baa been don under the di rection of the system. ( . I ironCHa,OeyaUnA-Plate-I)aIefc It thus appears that on of the most upright and conservative of American railway presidents has been ousted by a notorloua and typical representative 'of the "system" convicted, among other things, of using Insurance runas to f Inane these great corporate Interests; whose well-earned fame as- a railway builder la eclipsed by his notoriety aa a Wall-street operator. Hla possession, or control of the Illinois Central will atrengthen a hand already so strong as to be a public scandal and danger, and Influence a public sentiment whloh Is becoming almost aa menacing to -legit imate bualneaa aa It la to financial buccaneering. , ' Frbm the Philadelphia Record. Btuyveaant Flab, for-II year presi dent of the Illinois Central, under whose management the road has made great progress, ha been ouated by Harriman, and, we may see another great railroad merger, that road being aosorDea oy the Union Pacific In New Tork Har riman baa the reputation of regarding the stock market - aide of a railway company aa far more Interesting than the tranaportauon aide.- - From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Not content with his unsavory fame in having kept secret the dividend of 10 peg cent declared on the union Pacific railway stock until. his friends could buy this stock from the unsus pectlng public at price far below Ita Intrinsic worth. Mr. m. n. uarnman has again hoisted the lack flag of political high finance In depoalng Htuy veeant Flah, ' preaident of the IlUnole Central railroad. j From thai Philadelphia Prea. Th aummary vot by which Btuyve aant Fish has bene turned out of the president of the Illinois Central ' rail road by E. H. Harriman is on of those ruthless exercises of the power of sheer nrtrrnmg-nre diminish bubiie conn- denc In railroad Investment and make the small tnveetor feel that be haa no security, no adequate defense for his rights, and no efficient way to exercise hla voting power. ' From the Hartford Time. Mr. Harriman will not fool anybody by asserting that he is not the prime mover In displacing Mr. Flah. The con trol of the Illinois Central I easentlal to the completion of his trans-continental ltn between New Tork. and San Fran cisco, no lea than for atopping compe tition -with- the Southern Pacific at New Orleans. From th Chicago Record-Herald. There are people who believe Br IT. Harriman Is now doing- more "than all other force combined to advance the principle of government ownership of railroads. 1 Good for Dayton. From the Dayton Optimist. ' Tha - Journal la offering space . for- a l.SOO-word wrtteup to any town in Ore gon, wltb the additional Incentive of a full-page Illustrated writeup of the sec tion that geta "up the best article. Th Dayton Commercial club has taken up the matter and will get facts together for an article on Dayton. You can help in this' movement by handing any Industrial facts to any "business man In Dayton. , Let us make this a good article, for we have wonderful resources and a simple atory of what has been done and can be done .In this part of the valley should win the prlxe of the full-page, Illustrated wrtteup. portant from hearsay rather than through direct acting.- Mlaa Lawrence aa Marr Bhsnkarn played-with her usual skill, but waa plainly out of her element. Th role is not suited to Miss Lawrence Frances Slosson was excellent as Nancy N6' iiewspa'per' reporter would ever act' as did Leo Llndhard aa Dantper In th first act. . . Thereforer Balnpolls I the ahow. and keeps the , movement of the drama, which Is strong In conception and treat ment, progressing rapidly and with In tense feeling. 'Th Middleman' ts worthy a visit by the moat exacting the atre-goer In Portland. The klliv scene In the third act, where tha climax of Blenkarn'a ' 20 yeara of wrrk and pa tience Is reached, la worth many tlmos the price of admission. " The Middleman" will be the bill all week at the Baker, with a matinee Bat urday, In all sincerity. t Is worth so;-; lng. Peck's Bad Boy.' As old aa the hills and then soma Is Peck's Bad Boy." which opened at the Empire yeaterday afternoon for a week's run. .And aa popular aa "Unci Tom with -the. Juvenile population U la, ami conaequently may b expected to draw a record crowd at the Morrison street playhouse. It has delighted a multitude of people and will, perhaps, continue to do so for several years to' com. This season tha piece has been fresh ened by new jokes and tflctlrk; and while the baslo idea Is old. there are enough new things to draw out many a laugh. The company , thia year la fairly good. Cora Quentln Is excellent as th "Bad Boy."- Jack Marsa Is good as Everett Wrest and his Juggling Is worthy (if mention. All week at th Empire -with matinee Wednesday and Saturday. I BIRDSEYE VIEWS - TIMELY-TOPICS ; Small change. . It waa an unseasonable Chinook,: . Bonl might get a Job "aUnglng hash." Anna got hers and tha no-count hla. a . ..J.'...,;',.'- . Nobody weepa -when . Rockefeller loaea. ., - , , , '- ' ' Mayor Sohmlta will also be welcomed horn. r . To serve the people, Hughes must be a party splitter. , . , 3ealdes, Hermann needs tha salary until Maroh 4 next ...........:.. .u,..-..:-w.-i:.:-...t It rained alao at Colon but Teddy la not afraid to get wet. Market Item (ltOTi Bgga in brisk demand at 10 centa a dosen. : ;-- ;-- e ; .' -. :"' - Ar the landalldea ocourrlng .over in Waahlngton also Republican T .'' . '..'.. i ' :' These ' ar days when on can ae fine games of Irrigated football. -v ' e e - Silver without th .mint stamp 1 be ginning to look reepectable again. 1 tr-w?".-f Look Ilk Portland ' would extend out to Fair view and Troutdal In a few year, ;.'!. ; :. L.... .Uncle Joe wllL be a bigger boaa - ot legislation, than ever. Smll when he euasea. " -. ' ; . , .: , - . , " e ,. Country people act a If poultry and egg money were tainted; few of them want It ' . i e i ' : CoL Hofer seems e -entertain hope yet.He jemarka: "Malcolm la not yet collector: . - .. '"' e Whatvr happen to young Murray, other young men will notice what hap pened to young Whitney, . , , . !. " e e Governor Qoodlng waited until after th election' to iaaue hla Thanksgiving proclamation. Now he meana It . - , -: And th rains dlscended and ' . th flood came, and the house along th rivers emptying into Puget Sound had to b vacated.. - ' Upton Sinclair reoetved only 71 1 votes for representatlv In congress In a New Jersey district, and now he re gards that atat aa a Jungle. '. e e whether flghta are Immoral or not but ooes anow mai' mey ar unDecomlng to most women. How can b know any auch thlngT , - Notmg 'ha-birth-0fnv8grrirl6 on boy In Spokane, the Pendleton Tri bune aaya that at thla rata th aervant girl question wUl be aolved In a few yeara. Vain and Impotent conclusion; girls ar not born theae day to be come servant girls, mister. , Th sug gestion 1 a gross Insult to the little pink darlings. ; --r Men and Women No Lore In These Weddings. From tha New Tork American. Nothing la rn$rorThsnovslgrmH sac Could be more squalid than-th un happy story now before the courts of th marriage of Bonl d Castellan and Anna Gould. They ar fighting for a legal separa tion. - Apparently the "oount" wlahea a large share of hla wlfe'a money. Th oounteaa" wishes only what any wom an parted frdm her husband ahould have, th custody of th children. ' A a matter of fact there . 1 no 'count" -'hor Is thr aay "counteas," since In France, titles of this sort under the law are as purely a matter of cour tesy as th title of "Hon." la In th United Statea when prefixed to th nam of a man who run for th state assem bly and falls for election. D Castellan - came to New Tork avowedly a a fortune hunter. He had a nam which belonged to him, nd a title to which he had no real. right-and a Hat of creditors, which waa hla only achievement In life. He succeeded In getting admission to what Is really the )emt admirable ao- clety In America H , dazzled this American girl with stories of his aris tocratic 1 In cage and hi aces, and ahe married him. Ja the United State on who calls himself a gentleman does not ask the amount of th fortune of th girl he may desire to marry. He marries her for herself alone, and not for the money which her parents may be willing to glv her. - - - To the average American auch a mar riage contract aa that of d Caatellane Is utterly Incomprehensible. And th amazing thing about not merely this do Castel lane-Gould marriage, but about manyolher which hav come, or ar coming, to Ilk ignominious conclu sions, is that the girls Involved should b-eo -eaallyda led by the glnmeuy of a title, and that the hard-hearted busi ness men who a re their fathera or their brother should, permit themselves to pay spurious counts or doubtful dukes an enormous price to marry women who In themselves ar ibov price. . Entirely Financial From th St Paul News. Th failure ot th two most famous International marriages ' haafSihttracted th world's Interest as does fa failure of a government. orof a barne. The af fairs of AnnaT Cbuntess of Caatellane, of Consuelq,' Duchess of Marlborough, ar as-enwh discussed as the nffSTrs 6 say,- Thereae Humbert or of Casals Chadwlck, and In much the anme tem per. Th world, especially tha Ameri can world, looka Aipon these marriages a no more and no. less than financial transactions. It would be well if thl world would consider that'th failure of these marriages has no more spiritual significance than though they were Classed as financial transactions. - Yet It must not be supposed that th end of International marriages Is In night. The past holds other alliances than these failures. There waa Mary Anderson-Navarro, if there waa also Nelll Grant-Sartorl. There has been an American -. quern of Portugal with succeas; there was Margaret Fuller Oasolt in th mid-century; , there was Lady Curxon, whose marriage waa a success In both, private and public rela tions; there la the Countess of Cham brun, sister to th president's son-in- ffl OREOON SIDELIGHTS. A' band haa been organised at Amity. ' i . -' e .:-- i,- - ; Enough, aay th farmera, speaking of rain. , Benton county will hold a fair next yearv - - . - - -;. , t . , ,., " . e -.; V ' . Bom exceptionally ' fin 'corn was! ' raised near Eugene. , ' Cottage Qrove business men have ta nlarg their premise. . . -. ' ; e"' "';;. ,' v Th express company charged IKS . for carrying away the body-of murderer -and aulclde DAnna from Salem. ". ' a '.,-;' ; ' :' A Newberg woman dug 10 pounds of poUtoes from one hill. , Moral: . Let women attend to th potato crop. e ' a , . " '' The -wheat crop around -CrttagiS'tJroTil""" was larger and better than for year before, and moat farmers ar holding It. ' -. , ;, Considerable pure-bred stook has been lately added to the large number al ready In Polk county, which la becoming celebrated for ita flna Block. T .,- ' '! - :. . " Harm la ton is lively; above and below; -ar various camp -with aevaral tenis aoh for mile along th O. R. N. where men ar engaged at ditch work ' for tha east Umatilla project - e: e . - v ' . "Bugen Register: " When Hood River ' and Willamette valley get to nuarrllnej" over which can raise tha best apples It Is a hopeful . sign that a -rivalry has sprung up that will prove beneficial to both in th fruit lnduatry of th two actlona. . - " . :, ; Raw land"around- Echo that waa consid ered almost worthless only a few year ' ago, and which ha changed hand at from S to It per Iter for graslng pur pose la now worth from 140 to 7S per acre and aa soon aa it Is fully reclaimed will be worth .o0 per acre and upward. '""'': : Canby Tribune:' If om enterprising man will put In a aheet at Hlto, Boon Ferry, Barlow, Needy, Woolfer, Prairie, Molalla. Macksburg, ButtevUle, and two or three other place where there 1 a couple ot houses and a barn,, th flelJ, would be pretty well covered. There Is ' nothing Ilk a newspaper as a money maker. . . - - . . ...'...I;'.-, e . :. . . ' Scio New: It 1 true that men did get drunk when w had a lioenaed aalooa in town. - It la tru that mn ar en drunken even more frequently alno th town was cloaed down. They do not get th liquor In Sclo. Package received, '' by expreas tell th story. Th Uquor question Is a dlffloult problem to solve. -Just which Is th better system haa not yt been olvd . . x e , -: '- . fTfcMInnvni Telepbone-Reglstari-Th-' exhibit of cholo fruit haa demonatrato-i , th fact that th Willamette valley oan -produce apples aa fine aa oan be raised la th world, when palna-talcing and Intelligent effort la put forth, by th farmer In cultivating their or- chards and preparing their fruit forih' market . ... f . Sell Themselvef , law; there ia Mrs. ChamberlX ., V N of Britain's ona great man. rand thr U-damaemanseauJwja gty French prim minister. No,, he lit national marriage la Just 'as nosslbi. success aa the noma alliance. , nut. ancb. , But aetlllngS f must be founded on someti than finance. ptea.;-.y' It Waa to B Ex - From th Detroit News. Tha Castellan row, which appears to -hav reached Ita climax. 1 In on sens , a family affair which does not concern -outaider. In another -Sena It Is in ' affair of national concern, because It is an aggravated case of a sort that la al- together too common. When Mlsa Gould entered tnto a deal with-the Castellan family by which ah paid, out of. ' dower of 110.000,000, to the mother of Count Bonl. 12,000,000 for her consent, and to th count himself 11,000,000, ah gav a demonstration of the maxim that, a fool, and hla or bar money ar soon parted. . Thl whole affair waa vibrated ' be tween the state of an International Jok and a world-wide acandal. - It haa been : humiliating and disgusting to th sensi ble Gould e. J , Some American women who ' marry foreigner find dlaappolntmnt when they discover that th man they hav supposed to be th superior of those " with whom they hav asaoclated la usually less attentive and leas com panionable than waa expected. In Eu rope, marriage for love I common enough,vbilt th commercial aid la al ways conspicuous. Tha percentage of fortune hunters Is greater and profli gacy la more common. -, The Duke to a Flat. It la reported that tha Duka of Marl borough will close his great . Blenheim palace at once. The duke will be lucky If he manage to keep up a two-room Hat,: now that ; tha "Vanderbilt Income : haa been taken away from him. - - Keen Sympathy. V From tha Chicago Record-Herald. '.Count Bonl de Castellan' probably Sympathises deeply with th king of Annam, who has recently been getting Into troubl by having, on of hla wive killed and cooked. An Infallible System. Iphla Ledgiw Th stranger gaaed smiling around th office and removed his hat which h laid aside. - - "I hav here," h began, "a comp1t memory ystem perfected by myaelf. It rejuvenates th power of recalling th past. - Buy it and no more the string about , th finger. Never again a r proetchfutglanee as your - wife ftahe forth the unmalled letter. Never " "Nothln doln'," aald th sad-yd man addresaed; "there I ao much , t want to forget." Th visitor went away, but returned breathlesa In a few minutes. . H had com back for hla hat. ,j . Quotations. " From Puck. Robinson How's th market? Crusoe Dull. Straight ticket voter. Ill bid and 120 asked; no call - for ticket aplltter at II, or repeaters at la. 1 f f