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Newspaper Page TextI the Times Poor little Infant Cuban republic! It died teething. Never call a man a bad epg unless all possible tests prove hliu to be hope lessly bad. The farm ts the place for safety. Ev ery man wbo 1 able should provide himself with a farm. "Do your meals fit?" a writer asks. No, they are generally either a little to skimpy or else too full in the waist Everybody In Cuba except the per sons wbo are holding the offices seems to want the United State to Inter vene. Marie Corelll vows that she loathes America. This settles It AVe are go lug to admit that Hall Calue looks like Bhakspeare. There Is one argument In favor of spelling reform that Its advocates seem to have overlooked. The English are opposed to it Naturally the dialect writers are op posed to the general adoption of the simplified form of spelling. It would kill their business. - In England a widow named rings! ns Is suing a tradesman for breach of promise. Probably trying to squeeze him for all she can get According to a New York newspa per, "the new alcohol will stimulate trade." The old kind, however, will continue to paralyse people. "Thoroughly" Is another exnmple. It Is a word that "conveys too large an Idea" to be expressed adequately by such a shabby, sorry. 111 looking mon strosity as "thoroly." The Argentine Republic Intends to In vest f29.(XiO,000 In war ships. It may soon be time for some other great pow er to make a hasty purchase of war ships In South America. ' If the Nestor of American humorists Is In earnest In advocating the new or thography he ought not to spell his name "Samuel Lajtghorne Clemens" end pronounce It "Mark Twain." Notwithstanding the fact that 4,805 persons were killed while walking on the railroad tracks In this country in 1906, there are still plenty of theatri cal people taking that form of exercise. The Indian who has just wedded Mary Kiek-a-bole-in-the-sky and ac quired a mother-in-law Afrald-of-no-man may soon be in a position to un derstand why marriage Is often a fail ure. Under the grant of liberties lately made to Finland, the right of suffrage was conferred on women. A few weeks later the legislative council of Victoria, Australia, rejected for the fourteenth time a proposition to permit women to vote. This Is one of the differences be tween autocratic Russia and a demo cratic British colony. , American men, and especially Ken tucky men, have always been noted for their appreciate of American women and their gallantry to them. Now they have their reward. Thirty 's!! Kentucky "schoolnm'ams," who spent the summer traveling on the con tinent, remarked, when they set foot upon their native soil again, that as compared with the Americans the men of Europe are "a most ornery-looking and ornery-aetlng lot" The girls seem to have accomplished Burke's lnios elblllty of Indicting a whole people. Pennsylvania may now be ranked with thope States which have secured new capitol buildings erected within the amount appropriated. The new capitol In Harrisburg was turned over to the building commission by the con tractors four months ahead of the date on which It was to have been finished. The cost Qf the building ts $40,000 less than the amount appropriated. ue building Itself Is a splendid pile of granite, covering two acres of ground and surmounted by a dome 2!2 feet high. The State has followed the ex ample set by the nation In the Con gressional Library In Washington, for the original appropriation Included sev eral hundred thousand dollars to be spent on Interior and exterior decora tions by noted American painters and sculptors. Co-operation in the vending of agri cultural products has made some prog ress In this country, for example, in co operative creameries; but the Idea has not gone as far In practice here as la European countries: In Denmark three-quarters of the million cows are owned by farmers who are associated tn the thousand or more co-operative rtvnmertea, and many bacon-curing e tatilUhnipnta are organised on the co rporative system. Holland has a tol eration of co-operative dairies organ- I ed under royal patronage. Iu Si beria there are more than two thou sand societies of farmers, which not only sell produce, but promote Irriga tion plans attd other agricultural activ ities aud buy Implements, fertilisers and other farm supplies at wholesale. The development of the grange In America has been accompanied by some effort at economical co-oprrattou, but so far this form of union has not made great progress, owing perhaps to the fact that proserlty has rendered such devices of economy less necesary here than tn Euroi. The fact that the farmers are scattered over a vaster ter ritory has also stood tn the way of widespread co-operation. Atherton Brownell contributes an ar ticle entitled The Commercial Annex ation of Cuba" to Applehui's Magaitue, the facts and figures In which are of s(eelal significance In the present Cu ban crisis. It shows that the Interest of the United States In Cuba is differ ent In the year UHKt from what It was In 1SSS. Up to the earlier year Amer ican Interests had luvested In Cuba about SO.0O0,0UO, principally lu sugar and tobacco. As much more has beeu Invested since the war, so that now the American capital luvested In the-Island amounts to. ittSO.HOO.OOa About 4,:t0". 000 acres of land In Cuba, about 13 per cent of the whole area of the Island, or a much larger percentage of the land under cultivation, belongs to Americans. Three-fourths of the $40, 000,000 worth of cattle on the Island be long to Americans. One-third of the money Invested In railroads, $24,500, 000, Is American, as against f4S.lKU, 000 Cuban and British. Amerlcau cap ital monopolizes electric transporta tion, telegraph and telephone systems In Cuba. The bonds of the Cuban re public were bought by a New York house. American capital has given new life to the lslnnd, and our Inter est Is no longer merely a sentimental one. The Cuban market Is the only one In the world where" the United States sells as many goods as all c.tlier nations combined. Cuba's buying power Is about $100.1X10,000 annually, and one-half of tills Is spent In the United States, Chile, Peru, 1'rugnny, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil to gether do not buy as much as Cuba, lu 1.700,000 eople. If there are Unit many there, buy from us more than the 5iXi,000,000 people of Japan and China. Cuba hus an open door. Americaniza tion of Cuba will be a slow task. If not an Impossible one. If by that Is meant the substitution of Auglo-Snxojn habits of thought In social relations or lu business Interests for the Spanish type. Americanization In the sense of milk ing the United States the dominant fac tor lu the material prosjierlty of the Island and In the value qf the Inter ests as represented there has pro gressed a long way since the Inst Spanish governor general sailed away. American occupntlon, temporary though It was, freed Havana from the yellow fever pest and taught lessons of sanita tion which have made the island a fit place t-r Americans to live In, and the number of colonists who have gone there from the United States Is not insignificant Atherton Brownell, In Appletou's Magazine, sums up the situ ation by saying that "In the four years since the Intervention jktIoiI a move ment quietly has been gcilng on that is rapidly tending toward practical com mercial annexation." Under whatever form of government develops In Cuba, provided that It preserves order, fur ther injection of American capital Is Inevitable. The future of Cuba and that of the United States are linked together by ties of mutual advantage, and as the natural resources of the Is land develop the time will soon come when a majority of the people of Cuba will be of American birth and alle giance, and a majority of the wealth will lie an American possession. Then the Cuban problem will have disap peared. A Foreat of Giants. It Is almost Impossible for one who has seen only the Eastern or Rocky Mountain forests to Imagine the woods of the Pacific coast Pictures of the big trees are as ctuumon as postage stamps, but the most wonderful thing about the big trees Is that they are scarcely bigger than the rest of the for est The Pacific coast bears only a tenth of our woodland, but nearly half of our timber. An average acre in the Rocky Mountain forest yields one to two, thousand board feet of lumber ;. in the Southern forest, three to four thou sand; In the Northern forest, four to six thousand. An average acre on the Pacific coast yields fifteen to twenty thousand. Telescope the Southern and Rocky Mountain forests, toss the North ern on top of them and stuff the cen tral Into the chinks, and, acre for acre, the Pacific forest will outweigh them all. American Magazine. A druggist as surely become "Doc" a a lawyer becomes "Judge," COLLI G I MOUNTAIN DAY. lew It Is Oneerveal ay New Kaslaaa Vaavraradaala. A unique holiday la that of Moun tain day, which lu the Inst few years haa spread to most of the colleges In the hill portion of New England. A New York Tribune correspondent hap pened to be lu Northampton on tlie last Mountain day. Front the moment be left hla hotel It was evident tluit some unusual celebration waa under way. The streets of the old Massachusetts town were crowded with Smith College girls In every sort of outdoor garb. They were plentifully supplied with luncheon baskets, but In all the throng there was not a single man. The daughters of Smith crowd! every long distance trolley that ran out of North ampton, "What causes the migration" the Tribune man asked a dark-haired, blue eyed young woman, whose dignified bearing spoke the experience of the senior. "It la Mountain day," she explained. "All of the colleges In this region are closed, that we may go Into the hills and commune with nature, drink In the beauty of the falling leave and tramp over miles of wooded heights." The Tribune correspondent decided to follow tlie crowd and try this moun tain communion. The car which he boarded waa labeled Amherst, ami rushed, for ten nillea through as beauti ful a stretch of valley country a Is to he found anywhere In the broad land. Yet the mountains they would call them hills west of the Mississippi seemed to be Just as far away. They loomed up on the right aud on the left, but the electric car l-ept to the valley. Why were these college girls going so far out of the wayT The answer was plain when the car crossed the campus of Amherst College and came to Us terminal In the quaint old town. There were men at Amherst. hundreds of "perfectly fine" under graduate men. and tliey were waiting for their sisters from Smith to begin their mountain trip. No one seems to know Just when the celebration of Mountain day began, but Amherst claims tlie credit of originating tlie Idea. For some years the day was not observed, but with the formntlon of the Amherst Mountain Club a few years ago It again became popular and Ha observance has spread to Smith. Mount Holyoke, Williams, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and other Institu tions of higher learning In Massachu setts. Pr. Edward Hitchcock and Prof. Arthur J. Hopkins of tlie Amherst fac ulty are the ollkvr of the club, which has a large membership among the stu dents. It has been most active lu blaz ing traits about the nelghltorlug moun tains of tlie Holyoke range. In naming the unnamed peaks and In building mountain paths and observation boxes. The club has oined up the old lumber ing ronds, which lead well Into the mountain country, and from tlie end of these roads Its members have blazed trails to the prominent peaks. KRUPP PLANT PAY ROLL BIG. In the Work! An Employed 413,000 Men and B.ooo officials. The famous Krupp works for gun- making keeps on Its rolls tKi,!.'i5 work- Ingmcn and 5,0(9 officials, and the Im mense area It covers Includes the Ks sen works, firing ground for testing cannons at Mepjien and Tangerhutte, steel works at Annen, the Gruson works at Buckau, the Germunin ship building yard at Kiel, the smelting works, steel works and rolling mills at Rbelnhnusen, the blast furnaces at Neuwled and Engers, the melting works, machine works and Iron foun dry at Sayn, three coal mines and a large number of Ironstone mines In Germany and northern Spain and a steamship company at Rotterdam. Communication Is carried on between the various workshops by means of a railway forty-two aud a hnlf mile In length. The telegraph system of the works consists of twenty-one stations and fifty and a half miles of wire; the telephone system has 500 connections, with twenty-eight and a half miles of wire. Insurance and pensions for working men are. as elsewhere in Germany, quite common. There are also a hos pital, two Isolated hospitals for Infec tious diseases, a convalescent home, two almshouses, a "worklngmnn's borne" with rooms for 613 persons, a club for the officials and another for the foremen, a school for teaching and housekeeping, an Industrial school for adults, three industrial schools for girls attending school, a library, a savings bank, a life Insurance society and a dental hospital. Under the terms fixed by the Impe rial law concerning Insurnnce the Krupp works paid $250,000 for sick In. snrnnce, $.'MX),000 for Insurnnce against accidents and $100,000 for old-nge pen sions during 1004. This money has been put aside by the worklngmen themselves. But the Krupp works out of Its own funds paid for the Increased welfare of its workers during 1004 $1,022,000. ' Some men look upon religion as a sort of moral fire-escape. The laaalaltve tlnraer, t No doubt many readers have heard Of the austere itlioltlon of America's greatest living actor, Richard Mans field. Perhaps the following conversa tion, which took place lu one of llos tou's leading hotels, tietter Illustrates the satirical nature of the player. En tering the barber's shop one morning, he was Immediately recognized as Rich ard Mansfield by the barber. "flood morning," said the barber af fably, A grunt was the only reply. "Well, bow was tilings over at the house last night V "What houaer" answered the actor Ironically. "The llollls." said the barber. "What do you mean. slrT" "Why, are you not Richard Mans field r the barber asked. "Oh, no. Indeed.' replied Mr. Mans field, "I Just got out of Jail this morn lug." "What I Tou're not Richard Mans field ; and you Just got out of Jail this morning! What for, pray?" "For assaulting Inquisitive barbers," waa the reaiionse. Bold Invaders. There were some phase of country life with which the little rlty girl had as yet otily one day's acquaintance, but the rights of proierty -owner and property-renters were firmly fixed lu her mind. "Mother!" she called. In evident ex cltement the morning after the family had eel tied for the summer In 8utis View Cottage, "mother! Just com here and look! There are somebody', hens wlilug their feet on our nice clean grass!" Transportation of trults and vegeta ble In a vacuum Is said to ksve ba tried successfully by a California Inven tor. 1 Banking by Mail WE PAY INTEREST On savings deposit of a dollar or more, compounded twice every year. It is just as easy to open a Havings Account with us by Mail s if you lived next door. Hend for our free book let, "Hank tig by Mail," snd learn lull paiticulars. Address Oregon Trust & Savings Bank Portland, Oregon Sixth and Washington Sta. New York City pays l,UK,000 a year for Its municipal printing, stationery ami supplies. 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