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A ' young woman, just in. the early springtime of life, for no serious fault of her own, lies dead among weeping relatives, ' because a youth, crazed with so-called love, had a gun when his passion " had been' self worked up to the killing point . Another young man is now jn jail, and his attorney is trying to make him out insane; he killed. one man and nearly kilted another for no of fense whatever, because when he had worked up a brainstorm he had a gun..; y .y f:;y I -.;..',.. iy,, r These are only two of many re cent cases of murder or accidental death - in . consequence of the gun carrying habit" Many boys, younger than these, habitually or occasionally carry a gun. It is not uncommon for even little children to kill one an other with gun negligently left where they caught hold of them. . '."" The gun habit is entirely too prev alent We doubt not that if the police would search all the male youngsters found on the streets of an evening a gun would be found on many of them. They think it is smart, or manly, to carry" a. gun,' and "asTthey. grow In toughness and depravity, or in pas sions unrestrained, they become ac customed to the thought of. using the gun. Not only should all young men and boys be prevented from carrying a gun, so far as is possible, but boys ought to be taught from infancy up to let guns alone, except on the rare occasions y when they may properly be used -: ,-' ,1 . ', ; i t STREET PAVEMENTS V . ' ewAaBaB WOODEN PAVEMENTS are not so much in favor in this . country as in some Euro pean cities, particularly in France,' yet re used quite extensive ly in some American cities, notably, in the order named, in Indianapolis, New York, Minneapolis, Toledo and Boston. The total amount of wooden pavement in American cities was es timated at the end of last year at 1,400,000 square yards. The cost of suitable woods is givjn as the. main reason why this pavement is not used more, but wood in London" and Paris must be more expensive, it would seem, than in this country.' The ar guments in favor of wooden pave ment are its smoothness, low traction resistance, minimum noise, and. con sidering its smoothness, itt compare tive xion-slipperytfets. Or if too slip - pery- in-wet- weather -a.- sprinkling -of sand obviates ' this objection. It is believed, in some European cities and in Boston and New York, after quite prolonged i experience, that . wood wears well and is not affected as much by variably temperatures as asphalt Yet it teems that experiments have not been 'carried on long enough , to prove that wood it the best pavement, and H certainly is a failure unless the timber is of the right and an even quality, is properly treated, and - laid with great care. Most American cities have depend ed chiefly on asphalt, and nearly al ways with more or less disappoint ing results. No doubt the best grade of . asphalt, laid in the best manner, . makes an agreeable and a quite Jura-J ble pavement, but for some reason, In too many cases, It' has proved a failure, and people have . turned to other paving material, for investiga tion and trial. Perhaps there will brJ a revival of wood pavements. . ';'. : An experimental ;wod pavement has been lately laid in Minneapolis, ! fTc irnt woods being donated by va rious lumber companies, and creosote and treatment being "contributed by wood pavement manufacturers. The wooili used were pine, tamarack, 1 i'r, h, larch and fir; the blocks were 4x4 and from 4 to 10 inches long; they rrr impregnated with creosote, and I rn a foundation of Portland ce - - flgW of courses were varied . t ' rent Jopreet to the line of n' This pavement was laid oa a street carrying the city's heaviest traffic, so at to get results as early as possjble. , Thus Is wood pavement being experimented with, although it has been, in use in London for about 70 yeart.'; ' .--v :,V ; Portland tried wood 'pavement on Fourth street once, end wants no more of that kind and quality. But possibly there might be a wood pave ment that would last several times aa long. But if not wood, what? And. how is it to be obtained and laid at reasonable cost, with the cer tainty of its being a durable, profit able pavement, and without constant remonstrance and litigation? We must have good, 'durable pavements, but how we are to get them at fair cost and so that they will stick in the courts as well aa on the ground ia a perplexing problem. RECIPROCITY.- A BULLETIN of the American Reciprocal Tariff league states that although congress did ' hot take any action on the subject of reciprocity, and the presi dent sent in no message advising action, people should not be swift to censure either department of the gov eminent for "the negotiation of trade treaties or " commercial agreements with leading nations is a matter of vast Importance, and arrangements covering contravened points cannot be consummated in haste." The na tion with whom we are most con cerned in this respect is Germany, to which country the president some time ago appointed commissioners, who were to confer with the govern ment at Berlin as to a basis for ad jutting (the disturbed butinets rela tions between the two nations. What tort of a bargain these commissioners arranged is known ' as yet only to the government, but the Reciprocal Tariff league believes that "good progress is being made in arriving at an understanding which should prove " decidedly advantageous to both countries, and especially, to the agricultural west." The present truce in the tariff war with Germany .ex plres on July,l, and if nothing better is done this may be extended for a while. The bulletin eoes on to say: " Tha if ricultura.1 wast Is very deep ly eonecrna4 In tha pandlna; negotia tions. It la tha opportunity of a gen eration . to euro tha removal 'of un fair regulations whereby tha Oermana exclude moat o our feodlot products. The officers of - the America. Recip rocal Tariff league are 1 doing every- mini in ineir liuwir to imurvaa 11 1 1 fact upon themliilatratlonTha-lThe mlaalon of live cattle and meats to the German market would of course prore a great boon v to tha farmers of the middle west and to all who are oper ating In cattle on the western ranges. The president the aecretary Of state and the secretary of agriculture real ise' fully the magnitude of the. trade that might bo built up la theao prod ucta under suitable reciprocal arrange ments, and It la hoped and believed that when the negotlatlona shall be finally terminated an agreement which ahould command tbe active, ag greealvs support of our agricultural In terests, , will have been reached. ' This reads quite well, but we do not expect any largely beneficial sys tem of reciprocity, put into operation at long at the high protective, tariff tystem is maintained. : The two are antagonistic, and nothing more than alight piecemeal reciprocity will be had at long as the protected interests are allowed to dictate our tariff laws. An administration that has nothing to" say against the iniquities of the present tariff cannot be expected to do very much in the way of genuine reciprocity. ' . u ill it 'I --': SUFFRAGE IN FINLAND. I Y N THE recent election in Finland, I eyumcny ior the firtTirnelnPie history of Europe, were given ; the right of suffrage and made eligible to membership in the diet It seems strange that this should happen in one part of the czar's do mains, while throughout the rest of his. vast empire not only women have no political rights but the. masses of the people, including both sexes, are struggling for the - first elements of political liberty. Finland, however. has been a peculiar part of Russia, and is now" in- a large degree inde pendent When the war with Japan came on Russia gave up its attempt to force certain laws npon Finland, and it hat more of self-government than ever, though not altogether free from th Russian yoke. - Nowhere else in Ruttia are the people, including the women, so ca pable of self-government as in Fin land, where they have long taken an active interest iiv education. While outside of. Finland, Russia is the most 1 illiterate country" -of Europe, in that province the percentage of il- iteracy is one of the lowest in Eu rope. . Nearly everybody in this far northern land can read, and write, and there are several creditable in stitutions of higher learning. , Girls are taught equally with boy t, as, in this country, and take an active part in many affairs, to that the -Finnish women are well qualified to become electors, and perhaps legislators. Woman tuffragittt, or "tuffrag ettes" in England will no doubt point to Finland aa a country that hat tet a good example, though this is not likely to have, much influence on the phlesrmatic British statesman. This movement in Finland and the oroir ress generally of that country will be watched with interest throughout the world. It has in a large measure de fied Russianization ao far, and has made a respectable name for itself in the world of nations. ' ' ' . . " RURAL MAIL SERVICE. A STATEMENT recently issued - by the pqstoffice department - shows that there .are' now , 37,000 rural delivery routes in the United States. Illinois has the largest number, 2755. Following are Ohio with 2,492, Iowa with 2,303, and Indiana with 2,130. Pennsylvania is the only other state with, .over .2,000, while Nw York-has less than that number. It seems the great prairie states have been deemed best adapted to the development of this service. . Taking the country throughout, the average number of pieces of V mail handled on a rural route per month is 4,425, a 'gab of 20 per cent over the showing Made a year, ago, when the number was 3,688. And the gain is general, a falling-off bejng rare. In the number of money orders is sued by carriers, the gain has been 25 per cent, the average being 685, at against 548 a year ago. This feature of. the service gives it an added im portance and usefulness, the farmer being able to pay at his own home bills due at a distance. The report says, what everybody has observed them knows, that the carrieri are worked to the limit of their ability. The last congress, -we believe, granted some increase of pay to these hard-worked "and faithful public servants, but they are not being spoiled as yet by Uncle Sam's lib erality. Thit hat become a very pop ular form, of governmental rtervice and the people will insist upon its gjradual extension. And the pay should also be gradually increased to that carriers who devote many years to the service could have some thing Jaid by, to show, for ft and to sustain themselves with when old, To attempt to tell the benefits this service haa been to the . country in many waya would be a long ttory, bdt'Vgoofl 'one. Some of them are greater, intelligence, better acquaint ance, and , an v awakening of the spirit of progress, among the people. I m c . m. , , benefitsnnot-well-be-mae- ured in figures after a dollar mark, The men who got this service started did a .mighty good work for the coun try. , Tom Watson of Georgia was the most conspicuous champion. And the granges exerted a powerful influ ence.':'"; . ; ' - 1 The country will never complain about the increasing cost of this serv ice, so long as there is no graft m i. The people can't help it if congrett allows the railroadt to graft a good many millions a year in carrying the mailt, but the people will demand liberal . appropriations for the rural delivery service. - The Pendleton Tribune says that "when congress turned the ship tub tidy graft down, It" "the Tribune, "commended the act very warmly praised congress for doing a good act" . "Congress", did not "turn the ship subsidy graft down." The bill was passed by the house, wholly by republican votes, and aa only two republican senator would have voted against the bill it would have 'passed the senate except for the brief time before adjournment which gave the democrat! time to filibuster against it . The ..Tribune should commend these democrats, not "congress." ; Not Defending the Legislature. . ' ' From the Pendleton Tribune. " 1 Editor Hofer Is still dally harping on Ms claim that the Tribune la "defending the legislature.'' It haa recently added Editor Klncald of the Eugene Journal to Ita list of recalcitrant who are ''de fending the legislature. " But once again the Tribune wishes to remind Edi tor. Hofer that It has never "defended the legislature." It kas criticised" It often and In various ways. Tha Capital Journal once printed an entire editorial taken from thla paper and added Its own black-faced type to glre it special prom inence, ana printed It as an editorial, though dulr credited, because It aevere ly ctitlcleed that body for many things It was doing. But the Tribune haa re fused to beqpmea.hOwllnaV-shouting, hysterical and generally . considered nulpanoe In ita accusations of looting, grafting and unreetralned, unexampled depravity on the part of a body of men who atand aa well In their respective communities as doea Editor Hofer or any other editor' In the state. There I a difference between Intelligent criti cism and hydrophobic hyeterlca. V - A Biting ' Jeat.- v " At one time the bailiff In charge of a jury was 'sworn to -keep them "with out meat, drink or fire." It was Mr. Justice Maul ..who gave the claealo reply to the . bailiff who Inquired whether, be might grant a Juryman's requeat for a glass of water: "Well. It Is not mat and I should not call It drink. Yes. you may." Nearly all Maule'a good sayings had a strong touch of irony. "May God strike me dead, my lud. If T am guilty!" exclaimed a prlaoner when the Jury found him giillfy. Mr. Justice , Maule welted a few minutes, and , thn said: "Frls oner at the bar, as providence has not seen fit to Interfere, the sentencs of Lbs court is"." Bellmaa, Letters From the People Fisb Stories in Season. Portland. March to. To the Editor Of The Journal The following llnea were published In the Atlanta Constitution in the eariySOs. I think It appropriate to a number of the disciple of Isaak Wal ton la Portland: y . , ' Spring la haret We see her smile; , 8un and stars serenely shine, 'And the poet strings hi lyre, And the liar suinrs bis Una WM. F. JAMES. The Play Charles B. Hanford I naturally in clined to oratory, which may be on of the reasons he , has remained so loyal to the, elasslo roles of Shakespeare. In delivering an oration his effort Is cer tainly mora satisfactory ad the effect la more striking than In a strained or difficult; pleeepfcJdDg, As Mara Antony In "Julius Caesar," which was presented at the Helllg last night Mr. Hanford made a profound Impression. His effort In the famous Antony oration was far better than any thing else In the performance and was warmly applauded. Miss Drofnah was an Ideal Roman matron, giving an excellent portrayal of tha character of Portia. Other part were fairly well sustained. ' The performance of "Julius Caesar" concluded the engagement of Mr. Han ford. HI visit this year Included the performances of "Cymbellne" and "Julius Caesar." There was a good audience at the Helllg last night , to witness ths performance. - t Women and Gambling. -From tha New Tork World - ."Do women gamble? Tbta time It Is not a social censor who asks the ques tion: tha facta In the case of the raid of a feminine poker party In Harlem raise It Change the number of the street add a patrol wagon, and the de tails of the police descent on the women players fit Tenderloin episodes of an o'er-famlllar kind the participants In whloh hitherto have been men only. I it to thl that bridge I leading? Was the Harlem poker party exceptional and unique, or are similar games going on about town under dlscreeter condi tions, with no woman's ahrlek summon ing th police T One swallow does not make a summer, but a single glimpse of women In .feverish excitement about a table strewn with Ivory chip must rouse suspicion aa to the length to which th gambling spirit la leading the aex. It la hot a feminine trait to flock by one's self. i Why Is the afternoon tea forsaken T Why ar call out of fashion among women? Brldg haa become responsi ble for. many breaches In th old social code. And from bridge parties with a eostly prise at very tabl to bridge club play for a cash pool, and from that to gambling pure and simple at pokers easy Is the descent To withdraw and reform -under the eontemptdoua disap proval of the rest of th club that I th difficult thing. Bridge has been charged with exer cising' subtle snd pernicious influence on the feminine moral chsrscter. It ap pealed to a latent love of risk and ex citement such a no other: game of cards haddone. What woman now plays duplicate whist? If bridge baa created aa appetite for poker It Is only aa a natural reault ' But at any rate, women to play poker successfully must conform to th rule of tha gam as men play it Chip must ba oald for when purchased. , It was ao unwls extension of credit ' which caused all th trouble in On Hundred and Eleventh street. 1 To Grover Cleveland. j By W. J. Lampton 1n New Tork World. Note Mr. cieveiana a sevenuem birthday wse very generally celebrated. Ah. there, Grover! Tou'r getting over i . Th limit; but. ssy, " Th sort of clay ' ' In your make-up is sound. And youll be around For a loni time yet: - r - And the older you get The firmer you'll stand In th confidence of th whole land. There was a time, Grover. ' When . you - weren't tn clover, Bo to apeak, and your aid Didn't point at you with pride; But say . j You war In tbe straight way. And you stood there - For fair: . .5 And you had th sand , . In your craw to hand ' Out th stuff . That would beat any' bluff. .. Tou wer not mad To be afratd. . And. by thunder! ' , Thjnanhst;dnljtsndfromundr oot What Was p. d. hot Tou paved th w" For th square deal , of today. - And you're getting you shar From, everywhere. Tour birthday was truly gay. : They whooped It up In every atat, They flew th flag all ovr. And everybody, amalland great' ' ; Turned out to honor Grover. The past Is past what was 1 not And now knee-deep in clover'- His seventy year a burden light-- Wades well-contsnted Grovr. "Old Hundred" Over 300 Years Old. ' From th Musical Million. '. "Old Hundred" haa been- variously ascribed to Martin Luther, Dr. John Dowland and William Franck. Dr. Iowell Maeon wrote quit a treatls on the old tun In 1SBJ, saying emphat ically that It vii written by Outllaume (William) Franck In 1641. But later musical historians and antiquarians Who havi Investigated moire closely say It was composed by Louie Bourgeois, bora about 1S00 and died about 1ST2 aome say In the massacre of St Barth olomew, In 15B1-62. ' Bitter Cry From North Dakota. 1 rrom th Litchvllle (N. D.) Bulletin. Th sooner soma very email potatoes masquerading as statesmen down at Washington get after thla coal trust the easier .they will feel next eleotlon day. We've th hard csah ta buy coal enough to heat Gehenna 100 degrees hotter than th thermometer now registera, ' and we've grain enough to run all the flour mills from Androecna-gln to Tuba Dam. W want coal! W want flour! W want ears to ship our wheat outt , How Machinery Pays for Itself.' It IS estimated by the department of agriculture that last year'a erop was (.re duced and garnered at a saving of twos,, ono.ono over what would have been th cost of raising an equal crop M years ago. Thla saving wss accomplished by the na of modern agricultural tin pi a- Subject of Tainted Money; By Rv. Thomae B. Gregory. -' I have been requested by an Ameri can reader to give my humble opinion upon .the much-talked-of subject of 'Tainted Money.' Ts begin with, it : will readily be seen that literally speaking, there Is no such thing a tainted money In th sense In which th term Is used in th heated discussion that Is now going on. Money of and within Itself I neither good nor bad. and, so far a- th money part of It goes, on dollar. If it only be a dollar, 1 quit aa good aa any other dollar. The dollar that la robbed or stolen Is, aa a dollar, fully equal. In every commercial sane of th word, to th dollas that la made honestly. Th "taint" is not in th money, but In th way th money Is made, and In this sens there I plenty of tainted money la the world. But to com to th gist of th mat ter. Is it wrong for any man or insti tution, claiming to be honest and re- specUblaLtO-Sccapt. as-a-means- of furthering Its work, money tnai was wrongfully made? It seems to m that therein be but one answer to th question, and that answer la beat given In th cogent work of Thomas W. Phillips. Says Mr. Phillips: '"Any church or moral Institution receiving money ob tained In a criminal or Immoral way, and knowing th fact must necessarily become partlcepa erlmlnla, and will naturally be considered as persona) re ceiving stolen goods."- - N I see not how It Is possible to get away from Mr. Phillips' conclusion. , If a man of fere me money that I know h haa obtained by fraud or fore, or In some other way that was Illegiti mate, and I accept th money, I se no cap from th conclusion that I am a party to th erltn and that morally peaking. I am every bit aa bad aa h la. Legally. I may be able to clear my skirts, but In th eye of th moral law I am a criminal, guilty of ualng th money which I know has been wrongly taken from other. Of course. If w ar ready to say that there' la no auch thing aa a moral law that there Is no right and no wrong, no Justice and no Injustice; that the only thing 1 to gat what you can and to get It in any way that present Itself If w ar-prepared to take such ground, than the talk about tainted money - Is all nonsense, and w can accept any money that cornea our way, regardleaa of th method by which It was mad. Jf th only trinity' worth thinking about la Selfishness, Fraud and Fore; If there ar no auch things in th world aa Truth, Honor, Humanity and Justice, then tha money that Is made by vllllanoua methods, by lying and deceit by oppression and cruelty, at th expense of th teara and groans and blood of mlllons of our fellow human beings. Is all right Otherwise it is all wrong, deeply, damnably, monstrously wrong, and the moral or religions msn or Institution that knowingly accept aucn money will never. In th long run. do much good with It Th progress that la mad over the fallen, mangled bodies of our fellow human beings Is such progress aa no right-thinking, right-feeling person can contemplate without horror and regret; and It is that kind of progrea only that la being mad by th "moral" and "re ligious" institutions that are using tha nainted money.' .. " Tha Deathles Flower. ' I beard on mourning. "Old Romance," he aald. "Romance, th flowar of our 'life,' 1 : dead! - ' , Th men, of Iron who in teon daya Did deeds of daring they hav. gone their waya, And In their stead behold a wooden breed Whose highest good Is Gold, whose god la Greed! Old Earth, exhausted, has her ; labor pain But her last children show hr labor vain. ' ' Where are tha knightly warriors ef irora. v Whose hearts were stouter 1 than ' th mall thev wore? v Where ar th courtly damss that lOved o true. And whir th mighty kings for whom thev draw? - ' . Gone are tho knights and kings, their eiorv fled: And Chivalry and Romance they ar dead! Th flower," he grieved, "Of aweet Romance dry-leaved: And Flnl wrtttn to a wrought-out atory!" So he intoned'hl melancholy plaint: And I. who listened with but ill re straint. ' . Mad answer thus: "Ths flower of Ro- - manca ' - Haa never died, nor win by any hance Bnt live for aver on. . Th flower thriva . Deep-rooted In man's Ufa, not. In men's -. Uvea. Perennial, immortal. Cornea each day Tha miracle of Dawn. Th planet play Ia their appointed orbit their appointed orbits see, wn ere shin Th lights thst looked on Bethlehem's dlvln Forthbringing. . Men atin,. yearning to th stir, : .,- Heed, aa of. yore, Ita beck'nlng beam - afar. -' Th trinity" of Faith, Hope, Lov. aur- vlve. And heroism dwells In modern lives." E'en as I spoke, . ,.,. Th moon, cloud-veiled, forth broke And bathed th nlghted world in golden glory. 1 '' Today in Hiatory. IMS Royal Society of England char tered. 1791 Count Mlrsbeau, "th grandest flgurc"T-th-Frnch revolution." died. 172 United States mint eetsbllshed. 1801 British fleet under Nelaon bom barded Copenhagen! J- 1806 Hans Christian Andersen bom. Died August 4, 1S7B. 1811 James Monro of Virginia bcam secretary of state. 1S19 Th American Farmer, first agri cultural paper. Issued at Baltimore. 1844 Th Fleet prison In London abol ished. ' 1447 Alvarado, Mexico, surrendered to the Americans. , --' .... tIMR Battle at Sal ma, Alabama. 1S7S Victory of British at Futtshabad, Afghanistan. , ISSe Frog lake massacre. , Bridget's Influence on Manners. "Th women of my acquaintance," wrltee Josepbln Daskam Bacon In ths American Magaslne, "are more consider ate ' In their manner ta their servant than to their relatives and friends, snd for the beat of reesons-"-thy sr mors likely to lose the first-mentioned through Inadvertence than th last, and It is practically, of far more Importance to eeaault their Idloiyncrsslea'' - Railroad Mismanagement Caused the Wall Street Panic " ' From Collier's (March X. Ths panto which some prophets had been predicting for year struck Wall street in good earneet on th 13th and 14th of March. Price had been sagging for months, and during ths preceding week Bad taken a sharp lurch down ward. On th 13th th collapM cam. Th whole list gav way, and the slump wss helped by salea and panicky rumors from London and Berlin. Th Hill and Harriraan atocka were especial sufferers. Great Northern closing wltir a net loss of KM points for . th day. Northern Paclflo 10. and Union Paotfio US- Read ing, which had also had the benefit of association with Mr. Harrlman'a name, waa another victim with a decline of 10T4. 'The bargains exposed attracted few buyers, and th market closed in gloom with th lowest price of th day. . The gloom waa Justified.- for tha next morning th crash of JWllapaln;: stocks was louder than vr. Union Pacific dropped SOU points further, - Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul 1SK. and Reading to. Tbe average decline on IT active Blocks was points for that on day. Call money waa U par cent on th 13th and IS per cent on th 14th. By th close of th day Northern Paclflo had declined 71 points sine th beginning of th year. Great Northern preferred 7. Union Pacific 0U. Reading 44Mk and Amalgamated Copper U. . ,.' r e e e . '. ; , " Aa far aa th stock market waa con cerned, this panlo ranked with the greatest crises of our history. In The decline of quoted prices It exceeded not only th Northern Pacific corner of 1901, but th great pan lea of 1871 arid -1891, while th bllllon-dollar ahrinkag of paper values urpaased anything ever known In an equal length of time. But there la aa yet nothing to show that It represented such a real financial disaster as th country suffered In 1871, and again 10 years later. Not a single New Tork bank or stock exchsnge house failed a fact that In Itself would give th panlo of 1907 a unique distinction. - Few smalt speculators aeera to hav bees wiped out for few of them- appear to hav been In the market. Call for more margin were almost universally met It was common ly said that tha sufferers wer rich man who could afford to loss.' But tha de clines of JO, 10, and 40 points In two daya, sometimes at th rat of i point in as many minutes, wer a solemn warning to th gambler who speculate on t and I point margtns. By th end of th second day th bargain-hunters made their ap pearance and th brokers' offices wer filled with buying order for larg and small lota. Europe took a hand In th buying; th London market roe on the l&th far a hove tho New Tork parity, and prices In Wall street bounded up again, aettllng down afterwards In th usual post-panto, weakness. . .. ' r- ,.', When Wall street began to ti up Ita wounda and assign tha blame for the damage, there was a general agreement that President Roosevelt wss at th bot tom of it As President Ripley of the Santa F expreased It Mr. Roosevelt had started a brush fir that had become a conflagration. In Europe It was felt that th American pinch, waa only a symptom of a worldwide trouble, due principally to tha fact that th activity! or business everywhere had outrun the supply of available capital, and aggra vated In thla country by an Imperfect fiscal aystem. and by tbe distrust caused by th revelation of unscrupulous cor porate financiering. But that .explana tion could oot satisfy American railroad men. who saw ferocious - Rooeevelts gnashing their teeth behind every tree. Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan had seen th president shortly before, and had asked whether he would not be willing to talk over tha situation with certain represen tative beads of American railroad sys tems, naming President Mcllen of th New Haven, President McCrea of the Pennsylvania. President Newman of th New Tork Central, and President Hugh Itt of th Northwestern. Mr. Roosevelt said he would be delighted, and then Mr. Morgan glided unobtrusively across th Atlantic leaving hi friend to bell th whit hous cat alone. They waited for a apeclat'tnvltatlon, but Don cam. President Roosevelt' position waa that If the railroad men had anything to say to him he was perfectly willing to hear It. They felt-a delicacy about -volunteering to represent other railroad heads, whose views might be different . from their own. Finally the Joint deputation wa abandoned, and Mr. Mellen went to Washington alone, preceded by Mr. B. F. Toakum, chairman of th Rock Isl and board of director, who had been known as a believer In oordial coopera tion between th government and th rallroada. . '. "".'. e ;-.': :'r Tha apprehenalona for th safety of railroad property In thla country ar ' Small Cnange - a-sjsaassm "W have' begun t See the presi dent's point" say Mr. Harriman. And feel it too, h? , V . ' e e i If a Boston man's agotlsm had weight h would weigh about a ton less-Just after death than Juat before. ' " ' .... Are there no duplicates of Honey and Burna In th country, that municipal boodllng can only be exposed by them? " ,' n It was doubtless ths father of sev. aral well grown, daua-htera vhn mm.A th report that plctur hat wer full or roicropes. . -, ...-. ' "' . " e e' Vu ;- .' . - . Tt will orohahlv be AmIAmA that ti is capable of advising hi attorneys. uui wnemer mey are capaDl or advis ing him Is another matter. ' ' . - e e .,.... ... - Th editor ef an Idaho country newa- nanel la "tha tmthmr ,f II .kiM... -it living, and at home." Who aay the country editor can't-: prosper? - e - e . The "clrculse Inssnltv" altiM i. the Thsw trtsl does not refer to the madneaa that people hav on ftndlna- thetr front porches littered with fir. culars. . - . ! '..';.,'.., , ; On reachlna his seventieth fcirthj... th 1st T. B. Aldrleh remarked to a reporter: "I don't approve of it- 1 haven't . any etnuse to - make, but I promts never to allow It to happen agsin." , ' , ; e Mr. T. B. Aldrlch'a "Bshy Bell" was successively declined by several msga sines, snd whether they. or the people who thought It fin poetry were right esnnot be determined. - It Is all a mat ter of. taat. r e ' ."Grafting at.Harrlsbura" Is the title of sn editorial la the Indlaaapolla Star. Incredible. Impossible. One could im agine grafting, almost - anywhere else, but In the capital of Pennsylvania, with Ita new atatehousa, never! ' charaeterlatlo of a transition stag of development American railroad men hav been brought up in the tradition of absolut anarohy. This tradition was not seriously challenged by th publle until a generation ago.- when th if "Granger law" In th western state attempted 'to subject tbe road te some sort of publlo control.' In 1887 congress too a a nana wua uie inuwi com mere -law, and statutes of steadily In creasing stringency hav succeeded each other since. Meanwhile th rail- ' roaa men nav oeen gigniing aeapvr&iv- 1., fnm fhul, nl a Al mm Ih.W plea and "the public b d -d. At , laat th realisation has corns to them with a shock that they ar beaten, that ' th publlo, through Its government, state and national, has definitely es- ' tablished its control, and that corpora-1, lions Bvrvatier roust m iamiuwwrea in obedience to th law. They ar be- ' wlideredrlliey do not ret know.how . to "i find their way about In these atrang """ surroundings, and they ar afraid that thla uew, many-headed tyrant, th peo. . pie, will use hi irresisWbl power for ' their destruction. - . , ' , .. e " e - " - ' ,..-v Their feara'ar not entirely ground-' y lea. , In th first exuberance of an on familiar strength many state hav gone to extreme. Alabama haa not only - reduced passenger rates to two and a half cent a mil, but h' has ' fixed many freight rates, which l a ' . much more serious tnstter for tha rsll- roads. Arkanaae has passed a two-cent passenger bill and a reciprocal demur rag law, and haa authorised her rail road commission to regulate freight ' mtea. Delaware haa doubled railroad taxation. Indiana haa adopted two-cent fares and enforced many new require ment In th detail of operation. -Iowa -ba passed a two-cent far law, a re ciprocal demurrage law. and a law com pelllng road to roov freight ' train at least S miles a tUT. Kansas haa ordered a borlsontal reduction ef It per cent In freight rates, and a valuation -of railroads aa a basis for further rat regulation. 8h has also demanded passenger mileage book at two cents a mil. Missouri has reduced both pas senger and freight rates and threatened corporations that take suits from th state to th federal court with th lo of their licenses. Montana baa Intrusted , to a railroad commission the power to regulat paasanger, freight and Pull man rates, aa . wall as equipment and train service. - North Dakota baa pro vided for two-cent mileage book and reciprocal demurrage. Nevada ha re duced passenger and freight rates. North Carolina haa dona tha same, Ne braska has reduced paaaenger rates to two cents a mile. Oregon ha given control of rates of all kinds to a rail road commission and haa subjected ths . roads to dally penalties for failure' to furnish cars. South Dakota has llm-. Ited passenger rates to two and. a half .' cent a mil and authorised a ' valua- ' tlon of railway properties. Texas haa required all roads to be equipped with electrto headlights, and ha a bristling . array of other anti-railroad legislation on her calendars, Washington ha passed a reciprocal1 demurrage law and given full power over rates of all kinds . to th railroad commission. Score of . other bill vitally; affecting rattroad 1n- terests have been passed or ar pending" In these and other, ststes. r '". I In th minds of many politicians, and probably of th majority of railroad ' men, ths relations between th publle. and the companies ar those of war. Railroad legislation mesne antl-rallroad legislation. But thl 1 th mark of a ' transition period. In Europe those gov-' ernments that do not own tha rallroada " regulat them aa a matter of course. It does not occur to th road to fight ' th governments, or to consider regula tion a sign of an unfriendly 'spirit Tha rulea that must ba obeyed go into the moat minute detail. In thla country a ' new generation of railroad man la grow- , Ing up, willing . to substitute legalised order for the anarchical rule . of the strongest These men realise that whan th relations between th corporations and th people become settled on the ' new basis thy will be mors settled and mor satisfactory than tha old. They see that when th principle of corporate subordination to law Is fully . accepted lt,wlll be poeslSt to ask eongres for'Z" favorable law, such as aa act per mitting agreement for th distribution of traffic which It would now be hope less to expect. Wb.11, th fr of hostn legislation ' may have affected the Insiders In Wall street there esn be no doubt that the thing that kept th publlo out of th market and o allowed atocka ta rail . with auch an unmerciful Jolt waa th ' disclosure of th methods by which th Insiders had enriched themselves at the expense of th corporation they wer supposed to guard. . . . ' Oregon Sidelights There hss nt dun m..v. m i ordrly' man seen on th Irrlgon street v. luur nivnins. . - ''' . Sine January lit, 1107. th volume, of business handled at th Toledo depot . haa increased over 20 percent A Glendal man killed a Wolf that weighed 110 pound, stood ll Inch In height wii ty, feet from tip to tip, and measured II lnche scross th ears. . . V ..; - ; e . e ' '.-''' Th crying need of Baker City and eounty, says th Democrat la roads, street pavements, electrto railroads, electrto street Una, diagonal railroad from Baker to the copper belt extension ' of th Sumpter Valley road Into Harney and then a few other roads. . - e ' A -Salem man says r "Beyond a doubt mere is more money and more atir In me cnicaen industry her than thei naa oeeti xor year. Thar la a great demand for chlckena and eggs at pres ent In fact the production of poultry and egga will not meet tha demand for the next five yea re.",- .. , v Three years as A the editor ' of th Irrigator could stick his rifle out of the window at any hour of th dsy and shoot a rabbit! That ia. he could shoot at one! As a matter of fact h could not hit a flock of rabbits with a how User. And now If one, wants to shoot even one messly rabbit he must Journey thre or four mile to th south. .,' . ? ' Toledo Reporter: Less than It ysars sgo th splendid grove of young fir that ar aoattered over these hills had no commercial valu. Timber cruise- were of th opinion thst It would take year of growth before ther would be a demand for that clas of timber. Today there I a competitive demand' for every-tre that can b delivered at tidewater or at a railroad station, . The smaller treea ar needed for plUng and ' ties,- .-;. ,