1
mi: repay oheco;. statin
fettiihed every Tueadav and rVklajr by the
; ITBLIBHINO COUPAHY
; ; 8UB.CIPTIOK KATE&
One yeir n a4van...
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The 'uin.n Iia been establish tor nearly
Oft 7-two y en.ru, and It hut some soljacrlbera who
bay K-wfna It nearly thai lont, aul many
who h 'm ft for a generation, Horae
tbeaa object to baring tne paper dhrxmUnoed
at tbe time of expiration of their subacnpciona.
For the benefit of these, and for other ksmiqi
nave concluded tolutoautiDae aaberlpUtna
only when tOAed to do ao. A" persona paying
wnea ntmeritmf, or parto i advance, wl3
ja ve tne oeou t or tbe doi lar ra le. But if they
a year. Hereafter we will send the paper to aSJ
rtaponaible persona wbo order it, though they
may not tsl the money, with tbe a federate nd
Itik tbattbey are to pay tl.2& a year. In ea they
let tbe intbacrlpttow araoont run- over six
Month, -la order thattbere may be no xnisnn
lrstandlng. we will keep lb la notice atatuliiig
at this place In tbe paper.
-CIBCULATION (8WORN) OVER 4000
Balem'a building boom for 190.1. is
-ust. beginning.
The busiest day of the year eo far,
in Salem wa April I... Never were the
business streets livelier. - ; "
" Kverywhere the wild strawberry is
in bloom and soon again the delicious
fruit wOl be tickling your palate.
Oyama will probably have time to
make a few turning movements before
peace is declared, to say nothing of
taking Vladivostok, and he is improv
ing bis time.
Admiral Walker might get mad now
and tell iiow tha canal commission
came to change its recommendation
from Nicaragua to Panama on such
short notice.
Tho president is off after bear again
in the wild and woolly west, lie says,
'however, that if any bear steak is to
.be eaten, "it must be "meat of the
presidential rifle." s
Who would be. a BOekcfelior and not
be permitted to give away money! Tho
unfortunate Standard Oil prisident
flpms to 3o damned if he does and
.damned if lie don 't
I "g-ii- -' . j ... . .
Tlie' state land agent seems to - be
deeply impressed with the Necessity for
campaign material for the coming gu
(ernatorial campaign. Without some
oflt he is liable to lose' his Job.
Mr. Ileney, the government 'a dis
trict attorney, scenia to have more
blood in hi eye, and says none guilty
must escape, nntf the band will begin
to play again today iu the alleged land
fraud cases.
Wall street lias to halt and take a
survey of things once in a while, else
the' over-sanguine, would have prices
out of sight. This has been done lately.
Hut the business coiidtion of the coun
try is so ound that there can be no
serious slump, and there will not be.
Because no noise is being made, do
not imagine that the matter of provid
ing Salem with motor lines has been
abandoned,- or will be. We are going
to have the motor lines, and they will
help more than any one thing over did
in. making this city what it ought to l e
the metropolis of the central Willam
ette vallev.
The matter of providing the medical
department of Willamette university
with a building is being taken up vi.f
oronsly and in earnest, with every pros
pect of success. There should be no
turring bark and no lagging." Salom
Tteperty holders and business men will
giveheir share towards the cost of the
mew building, as they should. 4
. - ! -
Admiral Walker, General Davis and
the other great men who saw oppor
tnnityand fame eominfc together when
.they were selected to construct, tho
great ditch across the , Central Ameri
can isthmus now see taese thing in
retrospect only. They are all dowii ia
the list of failures." However, nd3
than likely they will all live to see the
- next -commissioners give way, to ; -teit
successors lefore the Panama canal is
opened for the passage of the shipi of
the world. j
Tired Out
I mat very poorly and could
hardly get about the house. I waa
tired out all the time. Then I tried
AyerV Sarssparilla, and it only
took two bottlea to make me feel
oerfectlv well." ,
Alra. N. S. Swinney, Princeton, Mo.
Tired when you ro to
bed, tired when you get
up, tired all the time.
Why ? Your blood is im
pure. You are living on
the border line of nerve
exhaustion. You need
Ayers Sarsaparilla. ;
iLMaMtte. AllaratrMa- :
" Ak your doctor what he tbloka of tbfs
rrand old faii'y medic iu. olbw nia
kdriceapcl we wCI beaatfamea. -
i Take Ayera Pills with tbe Sarsa
tjariUa. They act on the liver, cure
I W!!ottSaess.headache,constipation.
i J C. AYEEt CO- Lowell, Hut.
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PSYCHOLOGY IN MEDICINE.
Un article in a recent isitao ot tbe
Xjpw Tork iTedical Jfecbrd treats of
fiNyehokgical aids in the treatment of
physical disease in a way that will at
o'ice please and enrage all elasses -of
lapntal healers.' Its antbor, Pr. Sav
blge,!is ja-" physician a regular" of
regulars but he frankly . admits that
tVre .is a certain intangible quality
aiaong the- resources of medical men
wbieh makes one man's ealomel or
figital'-s better than another man's. It
is not a new , thing, of course, to say
that tbe physician i inflnenee, the
pi tiert's rr.ind. : AH medical students
are taught tht thfiy must oetablish
tbe patient's confidence in them
selves and tbat the strorfger his faith
the sooner ' will the sick man show
signs of improvement. , '
' ( Dr. Savidge goes further than this,
however, and shows what the scien
tific basis of this recovery is. Fear and
anxiety, j he says, cause a destruction
of the red, corpuscles of the blood,
which are the practical basis of life
itself. '? i'hus the eftadel of a man's
vitality is expose to an attack from
an intangible thought." Conversely,
he asserts, there can be a physical ad
dition to this citadel by stopping the
loss, and this may be done by quelling
the anxiety, which can be achieved by
the practitioner -who is the best avail
able exponent of wisdom, honesty and
skill and symbolizes these things to
his patient. A certain cause of red
blood corpuscle destruction is re
moved and there is, therefore, physical
measurable addition at the very foun
dation of life. The optimistic therapeu
tist will get a better blood eount than
the resigned and somber pathologist.
It is in this sense, he says, that an eye
glance or an unweighable thought
does weighablc things, and makes one
man's dritalis better than another's.
It explains why the professional as
sCrviteness of the fcigh class man has
a! value. The leading medical man of
the town may administer the same
nidieines that would be given by
otters, but the assurance going with
N thit the lest has been secured is
lastinrr and soothing and makes the
tfcedtment of more iniortance. Inei
djcrtally and bToadly the doctor points
out that it U thus an error to suppose
that" uniform tariff rules apply to med
HI
al service. "
J8t he be suspected of giving en
couragement to the various svstcn'.s
of mental "cures" he pays his respects
til them in passing by saying that each
rings iu to play more by ignorance
tan by design the subtle laws of tho
nond which medical men are apt to
neglect or distrust. They do dis
trust them because modern medicine
a reaction from the former system
iieh was made up of deceptions and
abuses. The reaction went too far,
.wi I now they must take up in a seien
tififl way all psychological aids to the
cure of bodily ills. They must study
the mind and its laws, he says the
effect of monotony, of novelty, of
efjano of environment, of mental ex
eiieise. They must study the patient
inj order to know what course to take
wlien drugs fail, as in cases of nerve
prostration.
! In a sense the article is an admis
sion of the truth of much that is
claimed by the various mental cults,
but by placing the matteron a purely
scientific basis he ; gives it another
character from that of the vague and
abstract teachings ' put forward by
these bodies. It is a recognition of
those movements in that it acknowl
eMgts that they have-an element of
act on which to establish themselves.
In doing this, however, and in urging
tbe Orthodox medical profession to
iake it up and make it their own, Dr.
lavidge shows a wisdom and breadth
1 view not shared by all his brethren.
Vhen the 'profession becomes willing
o take truth from whatever source it
jrilt increase its usefulness to mankind
at a more rapid rate than ever before.
"COMING IN SHIPLOADS.
As one result, of the war waging in
jthe Orient, this eountry.is getting an
junusually large quota-of immigrants
from Eussia. It niay be that these new
comers are representative of ' tho cls?
which includes millions of discontented
subjects' within the realm of the ezar.
Government statistics, recently issued
show that during last Japuary fifteen
thousand Russians arrived at United
states porter.' For the same montkrin
1902 the KuHsian arrivals v were 404S;
for January in 1903; they were a total
i.f 6171 and of about seven' thousand
ffur 'juyaryy 1304. j
i Not less remarkable is the increase
in 'the number of arrivals from Austria
Hungary, an empire which, except for
the actuality of a foreign war i-s quite
as much s Russia, a region of unrest
and internal disturbance and popular
discontent. Last January 19,523 .immi
grants arrived in the ttnited States, as
the contingent from Anstria-llongary.
The record for the same month in 1904
of arrivals from the discontented em
pire of Francis Joseph was 5669 immi
grants. ;Tbis showing is in contrast
with the record from Italy. r The num
ber of Italians landed in ihe United
States, last January, was 79C4l That
was i a total larger than for last year
but less than for January in 1903. - In
January there came to this country '
3474 immigrants from England and .
ll4 from Germany. ' . '
But the . month of March found
Europe's humanity pouring into the
United States.; Official Sgu res for the
last - month ,are, of coarse, not ; nw
available. But the newspapers are tell
ing about tt veritable army of foreign
ers brought on incoming liners from
European, ports. , la apt " illustration,
tbe Chicago Becprd-IIerald remarlts that
for the second week of last month the
arrivals of immigrants made np a total
great enough to people a city aa. large
as Chattanooga,' Tena or Canton, O."
And the forecast inade about March 10
was that last month's total of arrivals
at New Tort will far exceed that for
any month of Ifareh sinee tha -federal
government has suprvisel the landings
at that port. ' ,
GOLD STANDARD FOE MEXICO.
Mexico las finally taken the step for
which the Diaz government has been
preparing for more than three years,
and established the gold standard. The
unit of value ig to be tbe , gold peso of
equal value to the Americas gold dol
lar and the token value of the silver
peso is fixed at 50 cntsjwith a reserve
fund of 15,000,000 in gold behind it,
which may be increased Jas occasion de
mands. The mints will be closed to the
free eoinage of silver the middle -of
April and the monetary system will gpi
into effect May 7 1.
The 'comparatively- rapid change of
the whole commercial world to the gold
basis had left Mexico in a peculiar sit
uation. Exchange has fluctuated so
violently that merchants engaged in
foreign trade have at times been com
pelled to undergo heavy losses in mak-
inT their foreign remittances that would
much more than wipe out their profits
on the goods sold. These violent fluc
tuations in J!xehang caused correspond
ing fluctuations in prices of manufac
tured articles and forced them all to
higher price levels. - .
The seriousness of the financial dis
orders incident to being out of line
with the rest of the world wero recog
nized some years ago by the Mexica
government, and commission composed
of tlie ablest men of the republic have
studied the subject with great care and
made exhaustive reports. Based on these
investigations a bill was enaeted by
the Mexican congress last December au
thorizing President JJiaz to introduce
the , gold standard as outlined above
whenever the government should be
ready for it.
; This action will have an important
bearing reaching far beyond tbe borders
of Mexico. " It was far and away the
most important of the silver standard
countries left and the re-organization
of its currency along modern lines will
raave a steadying effect on international
commerce the world over. Furthermore,
it is likely that the Iiat in-American
countries still dinging to tbe silver
standard will quickly follow. But one
of the most important effects will be
upon the currency of the far east, where
tho Mexican dollar Las long been the
coinmost commonly used in commerce.
The export of Mexican dollars will be
stopped and it will be .interesting to
watch and see what coin will- replace, it
iq. China.
ZNDINO NIAGARA FALLS.
There appears to be some foundation
for the prediction that there will soon
be an end of" Niagara falls as a great
spectacle. At least A. D. Adams gives
in !assier's Engineering Magazine a
calculation that poinis to that result.
Two countries, Canada and the Unit
ed States, or, rather, Ontario and New
York, are competing with one another
in withdrawing the waters of Niagara
river for industrial purposes. This
has loen going on for some time, and
is to continue. The plants now in oper
ation divert 48,80u cubic feet per sec
ond, which is said to be 29 per cent of
the total flow. .When the plants now
authorized are completed the amount
withdrawn will' be increased to 41 per
cent. Of itself that is a very totalle
diminution of the volume of the falls.
But-if that were the end of it, there
would still be a great natural wonder
spared fdr the contemplation of future
generations, and they might not miss
the two-fifths of the former volume
that - will . have been diverted. But
there is no prospect that the industrial
exploitation of . the waters of Niagara
river will cease when the plants, mw
begun, are finished. The Canadians in
the province of Ontario say that if
they do : not take the water the New
Yorkers will, and the people of New
York may jWelf say the same thing of
the Canadians. ; An international agree
ment is a possibility, but neither party
appears to desire it. , The influence of
the capitalists, who wish to use the
water, is moret powerful, apparently,
than that of the sentimentalists who
would look upon the destruction of the
falls as an act of vandalism not to be
pardoned. Mr. Adams sums np na fol
lows: ! .. .,: .'j "
" ' Niagara .fall ia doomed. Children
already born may yet' walk dry-shod
from the mainland of the NewiYork
state reservation to Goat: island across
the present bed of tbe Niagara river."
V"hile this conclusion seems to, rest
upon a mathematical basis, many pco-j
pie will still hope that the fall may !
yet be saved, though the rate at which
the water it diverted appears; to de
mand" prompt action;." -anything is to
fee accomplished- : It is the lack of anv
prospect of such action whieh Icmbi
probability to Mr. Adams vnplenarnt
predictioa," says an exchange.
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CONSDMPTION CAMPS..
The tul.-ercilo.is specialists arepret-
ty well agree.1 that medieal. science as
yei uas notuing ixnTer to prscrue lor
the victim of the great whiite jdague'
than life in the ojMn, with pleiitv of
plain .food and i exercise, preferably in
an altitude of exceeding a thousand
feet a!ove sea level, wlfere malaria is!
i
nor iirpirs lout - anil tlie lrir :inl milder
the elinmte tl.e better. The ensumn-)
trve ciinnot stand extremes of heat or
cold, itihd to be out-of do.rs all the time
the climate must be equable.
Kccogni7.ing - the ' pructieability of
this mipthod of treatment, a number of
states have established mountain . rc
trents for consumptives. Pennsylvania
has onie in the Alleghenies that is bring
tue scores of invalids bark to health,
and New York has one in the Adiron-U(-l:s.
But the best results are ob
j tilae.1 in the high, dry climate of the
sKockv mountains or on the plateau fnr-
ner "outi. wn o. im. K,vtvi
these camj is now "being projected y j
. . . i. j e .1. . . a.
of
toe iri'iernai ur"irm; i'i iiht ruuiurv
ur.ited hs thi. great work-of humanity.
The plan ia tr establish in New Mex
ico a camp for the treatment of CO,0(K)
su fferem.
This is a noble work, than, which
. 1 t 1 .. " 4 1.., '
our great fraternal sv:eties. One of
the interesting features of the national i
tuberculosis congress to be held in At
lanta -this month, says the Constitu
tion, will be the reading of ' autborita
tive papers JthOwing the progress 'that
has been made by the varbuis-consumption
camps of the country and the de
sirability of that natural method of
treatment. ' .-.'' '
SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE.
Oommenting on progressive farming
in its general aspects The Chicago
Tribune says! ' V
A few years ago men laughed at the
i;lea of ajplying science to agricul
ture. The farmer' hi lighter was the
loudest of a'L But science, like rcvo
Irtions, neve? goes backward. There
are still many farmers. , who plant,
reap, feed their cattle, and b?t their
jmplementii stand out in the'sun and
rain in the careless, thriftless old way,
but tie agricultural .department, aerb
i ... . -
cultural tollegea and the agricultural
press' are rapidly diminishing their
number, ijcience is revlutionir.ing the
fanning bnsinesslis if. has revolution
ized almost every other niolern' busi
ness. - - v ! - . -
.There are 0,000,009 acres of land in
the west whose alkali soil has here
tofore rendered them worthless. Bv
- . ' " , . .
underd raining and floiing, science
will make them ealtivable. They will
then be worth C00,0O0XW). The fields
in tbe United States which "have been
abandoned .because they are "worn
ovtJZ have an aggregated area greater
than that of six New'England itates
combined. T';.tronbJe'.-with. -the soil
is that it has been exhausted of nitro
gen. Science Las idteeovered tbit le
gumes beans', peas, alfalfa will gTow
in these fields, an 1 .that the culture,
besides being financially . profitable,
s.i enriches the soil with ' nitrogen that lyfrk-Lwalmer' Jance, as though the mu-
other' crops 'may aftenvard le--r.ai'd.j sic had leen romposed for it. During
"Worn out" l.inds are, therefore, be-
! ing hriUf(ht' ha(.k Jto cultivation b
the- 'simple expedient of
growing
beans and peas upon them.
fVicnce'is teaching the farmer how
to combat successfully the diseases
that break ov.t aniofug his crops and
! b t
h? l" of Vkftion, to improve
l"V ijiavj cm km. ijUMU4.it t a, sua s '.r'Oa
The "old fafoioned" farmer is not
jiartieular what kind of corn-or wheat
or cotton he sws. The scientific far
mer "goes through his fields every year
and carefully selects tho best ears of
cornier tho, seeds of the Lent eottcra
and saves tuem for next year's sed.
Tho result is, the old fasaioned farmer
raises about the wme sort of crop
year after ' year. Scirntisfs estimate
that within fifty ..years the yield of the
principal, crops of the Pnited States
m:gy l,c inc-iFe I Si) pe
,t j "- , -
cent by. seea
S.ience is teaching "the farmer to
adapt crop to ioil.-. Cubrm tobacco ban
been successfully iutroilucd in the
south, navel oranges iu California, rice
in Iouihijna and Tcs.is, macaroni
wheat " in the west ' anl northwei't,
dats AHfornla and Arizona. The
vegetable produ'ets we imiMrt cost us
f344,0)0,(04( a year now. The recent
progress of scientific agriculture in
dicates that we may in time raise at
home a considerable projMrtioa q.f the
products for which this immense sum
is now sent abroad. -
Scientific, agriculture lias ceased to
be a joke. It has already been worth
many millions of dollars to the peo
ple of the Uniledtates, and it will be
wortn to them many hundreds of mil
lions more. ' r. ' ; ''" - -
PSOSABLS OEIGLN OF "YANKEE
. DOODLJL" .
-Walter Si-kumann, ,tiie Unite! ftfatea
ronsul t'Mains, Uerinany, reports' to
the department at Washington .as fol
lows .'; . -
"The foilowiag is a trandation of
an. artiolc from the Frankfurter Zei
tubg: In the publication' Ilcsscnlantl
'(Xo. 2,' 100.), Jokannj Lcwalier grVcs
expression to his opinion t'ii, Yankee
DooIIe'' was origically a. onitry dance
of a district of tLe former province -of
Kurr-Hesse, called the: Schwalm.' It
Is well known that toe tone of ' Yankee
Doodle ', was Uerivel from' a military
march played by the; Heseion trop
during the war of1 the revolution in
America. -'. In studying the dances of
the ..f 8cbwalni,f Lewalter was struck
by, the; similarity in form and rhythm
of "Yankea loodle'- to the musie of
these dances. Last year at the kir
rnCf8 of the village f Wasenberg wiev
Yankee Doodle' was played the young
men and" girl swung into a troe
. IWiilUNU Strength-Giver
"-i' - - - p
7(5 the chief recruiting
the war of
ofiic for the enlistment of the Hessian
hired soldiers was Ziegenhain, in IvuT
Hesse. It therefore seems probable
that the I!crij
ian recruits front
the
of
'Scwalm,' who served in the Jay
Great Britain in America during the
revolutionary war, and whose military
band instruments cousisted of bogies,
drums and fifes only, carried over with
them the tune, known to them front
childhood, an played it as a march. t'
Anotlier new method of relieving fTio
farmer of his
surfdus cash has apjeired
ia sections of!
Washington. A sinootli
stronger appe
ars and offers to sell a
graphophone ttith twenty discs for W,
and gives a discount of 10, . which
makes the entire outfit coht imt ..
The machine days some pretty music.
anUne fnrr.ieir is induced t.i invest
for the sake jrf securi'ng music in his
home. TKe payment is to be 'made on
delivery, but
The contract
chaser is to I
1 and is to
the machine,
type provides
bi t-ontrnct is rcouireil.
-
sjcities that the pur-
ake the graidiordione at
have twenty discs with
......
'Mil Ml rlUillir'i
tuat he is to jtay.$l3
each for these discs;
This brings the
total purchase! price to $3U.. It is time"
o.. i .n ; i -i i
iiunr or oiiy oiner ptrson aiiouin
Iositively refuse to sign any alleged
contracts wiijiout first carefully scru
tinizing every word, figure and line.
IK) this and thus save much trouble.
Still better,, ijiake such purchases at a
reliable establishment iu your Stomal
town. In other words, "cut out" this
purchasing at! random.
Harrison R
Oregon State
Kincaid, eilitor o the
Journal at Kngene, and
an, ex wcreUn-y of state, speaks s fol
lows concerning tb denial of a promi
nent erHon of '.hat town that he is a
candidate" for
ernor: " "He
the nomination ot gov
says be has . not been a
candidate for governor, and will not
hereafter Le Ja candidate for that or
any other oftVe, i nt intends to .leave
polities alone
Lu si nr. is. An.
gool business
certain than
ought to fiay
and attend to his own
I, by the way, he has a
that is a g'Mtd deal more
any. Hlitieal ofiice and
better than being gbver.-
nor.' In this be shows good' judgment.
The abuse, lying and ignorant vituper
ation heaj-d.pn every public officer of
any importance, who. tries to do his
duty faithfully,by envious and jealous
people who jare themselves grafters
and are in poitics'for reveune only, is
enough to uMgust any sensible person
with the whtJe business." -
m aMaHaaMMMiBaMawMW -
There In tallk of a telephone line be
tween Corvallia, in Benton county, and
Tolelo, to th county' aeat of, Lincoln
county, and ntermeliate , towns and
sections of country, and there is every
reason to believe that the project will j
le carried jTit before .tho coming sum-;
mer, and thus bring that jwirt of (lie
' coast rouutry in ay ctiiumiiiiicat in
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with tho outside world. The line n
be extended on to Newport imiJ I.wii
the cfwut to V:ddrort in tlf ri'-li AN'M
district. The rural teb-phoiif Jin.- in
cmii!g into prominence ' in every ;;irt
of Oregon ;nd -the Nrthw. t. ( i, ,i
necessity to very farmer wh Iia a
sp'irk of pride had businens ability, im-l
the time is coming when tlif-rc iil !
a periH-t nptv.-ork of '!suh wirtu in tU'u
j reat corner r of AmerK a. ;
It ii a condition tli.it ronfroiiH t be
Cinigregationtil mission boarl, imi a
tliciiry. Kotkefeller : h:i the money,
however he mav have come bv it." It
sems .berdly likely any portion ot his
funds will be rcturne 1 to th.i Key,
p Ciii.l In calls its "rightful
ers," so is it not bdter to ai-tij.t it
at Mr. Ifockefcller hnnds and m.tke
good use of it wlii'ji applied, t.i:in b
insist on his retaining it? This tiling
j of refusing it ln'cause Mr. iiorkcf-llT
t niade it in wuvs not nnirivd lv a
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lew iuipraciicaoie iau is an nwi.
nm . . , ' Ilv,,n . .
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the oflcrtnrv that "thos. in biiin.'"
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I . tirtrin.-el lv tli fliiirclK'S will
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please refrarn from dropping numcy
on the plati! na it is passed."
Just why it ha taken tbe people of
the United rotates so long to come M
a realization of the tcrrihle effects U"
ingsuffered from the adulteration of
foods, magazi no au newspaper writer
have but just begun an ojhmi disciijsiin
"of the subject, and, the reports from
scientific investigations Into the ques
tion of adulteranta are but now lK:in
ning to be made public. The statement
that impure food caused by tlie poi
ohs in coloring or preservatives used in
its preparation causes more deaths
and degradation than theTise of ah'
holic, beverages may well make Ui
people pause and consider. Yet S-nnS
complain of the passage of .pure f"i
laws. "'-:'.';'!
Too much time has always been de
voted to preliminaries on the Panama
canal and not enough to tho actiud
work of. emptying, the ditch -of gravel
and dirt. It is to be hoped the ncr
commission may, get at the real work
and cnt out a brt of the preliininarici
that have heretofore simply meant
collecting salaries by tbe commission
ers while they sailed from New York
to the isthmus andj back on "tours of
histieetion." ...
Igistration in Portland shows sv.
en registering as Jfiepublicans to ne
who - declares his proclivities to be
Democratic. One of the surprises ot
the introductory of the new fangkd
primary law will probably De cjmu
licans nominatel by Democrats rei-
tered as Bepublicaas. There will
bemany other surprises thereunder.
. Jvi Ter.S Vcrnu.'.