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Show der that, with the dyspepsia fiend as his right hand supporter at tho editorial 'desk, it was a great relief to him to got away from brain work and newspaper reading. During those threo months in contact with nature and witli men lie has learned many things and unlearned some others which unfitted him to distribute dis-tribute healthy editorial food from his dyspeptic labratory. He says: "We are cured of the idea that all men are dishnoest who arc ambitious to figure iu public life." He has "dined and wined" with very mauy oflieials in the British pos- sessions and in this country, but it is evident that he is not in love with President Harrison and his cabinet. Of Harrison, ho says: "Our estimate of the president and his cabinet has not rendered us enthusiastic for the re-nomination re-nomination or re-election of President Harrison." As between Grovcr Cleveland Cleve-land and President Harrison, should they bo pitted against each other in tho next presidential campaign, Mr. Pixley thinks Cleveland would win. Possibly tho ailing editor's stomach rather than his sterling brain gives tone and direction direc-tion to liis conclusions. He favors the plan proposed by Senator Sena-tor Stanford, to issue treasury notes and loan them in reasonable amounts to the farmer and producer. 1I5 thinks real estate "booms" de- nioi'.ilizinff In he.-irr. mid luii ki l : that Oregon, as an all round state is the hnl on the Pacific coast, and that the people of the new state of Washington are speculatively crazy, every farmer on the sea coast imagining that his wooded farm is to be tho site of a great city; that the two-year-old town of Vancouver at tlic terminus of the Canadian railway, rail-way, is destined to be a great city; and that on the whole there is some foundation lor the opinion of every man, woman and child he met that Puget Sound is the great port, of eastern commerce; that through the straits of San Juan del Fuca the oriental ori-ental trade, which has budded the great cities of commercial Europe, will build on its shores at some point a metropolis metropo-lis rivaling in wealth and population any in Europe. It seems to us that if the able editor of the Argonaut, in the search for health of body and mind had spent his three months vacation in nature's solitary places, rather than in the busy haunts of men, both himself and his large circle cir-cle of readers would have been benefitted bene-fitted more than at present. To be "wined and diued" by dignitaries and politicians is not the best treatment for a diseased mind and body. A IYK1E1TIC KDITOR. Frank M. Pixley, the able editor- of the San Francisco Argonaut, dropped his editorial )M!ii some three mouths ago, stopped reading newspapers, and discarded dis-carded the. de il and all his works, so f ar as ''copy" is rouecrhed. No won- |