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PORTLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2.
NO MORE SCRIP FOR CORPO RATIONS.
The great evil of the forest reserve
system has been the wholesale creation
of "scrip," by means of which corpora
tions were enabled to exchange worth
less land for valuable timber land. Sec
retary Hitchcock has recently given as
surance in the plainest terms that no
inore permanent reserves will be cre
ated until the lieu land' laws have been
amended or repealed, so as to make a
repetition of the abuse Impossible.
This assurance will remove practical
ly all the antagonism to the creation of
reserves in forested regions. The ex
tensive withdrawals of public lands for
reserve purposes. Including some lands
not valuable for their timber, were suf
ficient to arouse apprehension that the
old programme would be repeated. It
was by means of "scrip" that large
tracts of our best timber lands have
been secured by corporations without
sufficient consideration. The people
want no more of that method of dis
posing of the public domain and their
wishes in- that respect are too clear to
be misunderstood.
The Administration's intentions re
garding forest reserves are also quite
clear now and a better feeling will
result from the understanding. The
people do not want any more perma
nent forest reserves until the laws gov
erning the exchange of lands have
been radically changed, and, according
to Secretary Hitchcock's statement, no
reserves will be created until the de
sired changes have been made.
"Withdrawn lands are now being ex
tensively explored by the corporations
under the evident expectation of their
restoration, when they would scrip it
nil In haste, while the genuine settler
Is kept out. Nothing could save the
Administration's forestry policy from
universal execration if the device of
withdrawal should in this way be
turned into a means of enriching tho
corporations. If Congress wants the
lands opened, let It amend the laws.
HOW ERRORS MAY BE AVOIDED.
A defeot that could have been avoid
ed by the addition of four or five lines
to the new tax law will probably cost
the State of Oregon $15,000 for a special
session of the Legislature. The omis
sion is one that the ordinary citizen
would not discover, and perhaps one
that the average member of the Leg
islature should not be expected to ob
serve. There is one man who cannot
escape responsibility, however, and that
one is the father of the bill. Represen
tative G. W. Phelps. When a member
of the Legislature Introduces a measure
he does so upon the belief that the
purpose of the bill is of sufficient Im
portance to warrant its enactment Into
law.
Having assumed for the measure this
importance, a decent regard for the in
terests of his constituents requires that
the member who introduces a bill shall
see that it Is consistent in Itself and
in harmony with other laws that are
to remain In force along with It The
general purpose of the bill Is all that
the Legislature as a whole can be ex-J
pected to consider, and the technical
details must be left largely to the
framer of the bill and the committee
to which It is referred. According to
the record, the tax bill was referred
to a committee, .of which Mr. Phelps
was chairman, and that committee held
it for consideration for 20 days. Though
the bill was introduced comparatively
early in the session, it was not sent
to the Senate until the day before final
adjournment and could not be consid
ered by that branch of the Legislature
until the last day, when all was rush
and confusion. It,ls not surprising that
the defect was not discovered In the
Senate.
It Is the business of a member of the
Legislature to see that his bills are
properly drawn, that there .are no un
necessary delays In their consideration,
and that they contain no errors as final
ly enrolled for the signature of the
presiding officer and the Governor.
When he starts a measure he assumes
the task of seeing It safely through.
Each member is in duty bound to un
derstand the general effect of all the
bills, and each is responsible for his
part in their enactment into laws.
The discovery of this annoying and
.expensive flaw in an act of the- lasthe has been overtaken by disease, bou-l
Legislature emphasizes the need'of pre
cautions which have been suggested
several times In these columns. One of
these Is that the joint rules of the leg
islature should be amended so as to
forbid the transmission of bills from
the house in which they originated
in the -last five days of the session.
This would relieve the rush of business
during the last few days. Another sug
gestion Is that one or more clerks
should be appointed by he Governor,
whose duty it would bo to examine the
bins, after they are enrolled and before
they are approved. Having men of his
own choice to assist him, the Governor
would be in a .larger degree responsi
ble for defects which escape his notice,
and presumably more of the defects
would be discovered. Such assistance
would 'not be needed by the" Governor
'until the last ten days of the session
and the ten days following adjournment.
-EXPORT TRADE UNHAMPERED.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was
one of the speakers at a political meet
ing In Boston Thursday night and in
advocacy of the shipping subsidy meas
ure spoke as follows:
We are securing only 10 per cent of the
trade of South America, of South Africa, and
of the countries washed by the Pacific Ocean.
This trade is worth moro than 51,000,000,000
per annum. We get 10 per cent of It. Other
countries secure the remainder. Why? They
are ready to pay the price. ... All Europe
Is establishing commercial colonies, ware
houses, branch ofUces and banks on many of
these shores. ,
The Secretary then stated that Sen
ator Hanna had Informed him that had
the ship subsidy bill become a law
three companies were In readiness to
make contracts to build ships and es
tablish and maintain regular lines in
three directions where we have no
American ships. In attributing this
loss of trade to a lack of shipping facil
ities, the Secretary falls Into an error
which Is quite common. In viewing the
effect he loses sight of the cause. New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and for that
matter every American port are today
well provided with ships which will
carry cargo to any port In the world.
Not a single line of trade is or has
been hampered through lack of ship
ping facilities. In nearly every ad
vertisement of the regular lines of
steamers running between the Ameri
can ports and South America, South
Africa and the Orient, appears the an
nouncement that "more steamers will
be added whenever the business Is of
fering." As to the rates, the American shipper
can get Into the markets of the coun
tries named on the same basis as the
foreigner, and In the case of the Orient
at a much lower rate. Outside of the
Suez trade with the Orient, practically
all of the business from American
ports is handled by the steamship lines
operating out of California, Oregon and
Washington. The vessels In this trade'
are under the American, British and
Japanese flag, and rates and shipping
facilities are exactly the same on all
of the lines and under all flags. The
flour trade with the Orient out of
American ports has nearly doubled In
the first four months of the current
season, as compared with the same
period last season, and yet there have
been no limitations in the way of a
scarcity of ships with which to handle
it On the contrary, there are more
ships in readiness to help the Amer
ican Jlnto this foreign trade than ever
before, and, the freight rates are the
lowest on record. The same Is true of
the South African trade and of the
South American trade.
In the face of such indisputable facts,
it seems strange that a man in the im
portant position held by Secretary
Shaw should seek to create the impres
sion that trade with those countries is
hampered by lack of shipping facili
ties. The Secretary is correct about
Europe establishing commercial colo
nies, etc, on many of these shores.
The steadily contracting limits for In
dustrial and commercial development
In the Old World resulted In sending
colonists and capital to new fields,
years and decades before American
capital and American citizens began to
feel the need of expansion. Now that
we have reached a point where In
creased population and correspondingly
lessening opportunities for labor and
capital have rendered it advisable to
break Into new fields for trade and in
dustry, we are moving in that direc
tion. The American tradesman and his rep
resentatives can be found' today in ev
ery civilized country on the face of the
earth and for the short time theyhave
been in these new fields have made
wonderful progress In developing trade,
and wherever goods have been sold no
difficulty has been encountered in se
curing vessels to carry them to their
destination. If the ship subsidy scheme
Is to be dragged into the campaign, its
sponsors will do well to cut out any
reference to foreign trade being ham
pered through lack of ships. Freight
rates, the world over today, success
fully refute that argument
THE ENEMY OF HONEST LABOR.
Walking De&gate Sam Parks is
again convicted before the courts of
charges of perjury and blackmail. He
has heretofore defied the-law and risen
impudently superior to penalty. Only
six days after his release from the
state's prison at Sing Sing he headed
the great Labor Say parade In New
Tork City, mountel on a superb white
charger and bedlght with the Insignia
of office and power. A few days ago
he was again haled before the court
and with scarcely smothered curses and
imprecations pleaded not guilty to
charges that if proven, as It was almost
V certain they would be, will send him
back to Sing Sing on what promises to
be the brief remaining term of his life.
He is said to be suffering from con
sumption, and he certainly looks like a
man marked by the disease, even In the
picture In which he appears as leading
the great column of labor on the 7th of
last September, in. Its holiday parade
in New York.
As the unworthy pensioner on his
country's honor roll only disgraces it
as" long as its worthy members seek to
screen him, so Sam Parks could only be
a reproach to organized labor while Its
honest leaders indorsed him and its
rank and file gave him place and power.
The grand Idea of trades.-unlonism was
not exploited by Sam Parks. He cre
ated a powerful undertow, so to speak.
In the Justly popular wave of labor
unionism and successfully worked it
for spoils. Already infamous, he grew
rich; already arrogant, he became ty
rannical; already coarse,, he became
brutal. But it now appears that he
has run his race as a labor leader, that
he Is doomed to death by an Implacable
disease, and that he will spend his re
maining months of life in prison.
"While sympathizing with him In that
est labor, In Its loyalty to .the union
idea, may well rejoice that the wings
of Sam Parks' unscrupulous power have
been clipped and that he has settled
into the niche which by his dishonor
able methods he prepared for himself.
The purpose of "his union to drop him
from its membership Is at last an
nounced, and the only fault of the act
Is that long delay has robbed It of Its
welcome.
PANIC STILL INVISIBLE.
In. spite of a wheat movement smaller
than at any corresponding period since
the short crop year of 1896, general
trade conditions continue remarkably
favorable, and the demand for both
luxuries and staples shows no indica
tion of falling off. The circulation of
funds for handling the wheat crop Is
always an Important factor In bank
clearjngs at this season, and with such
a small movement in the cereals, clear
lngs for the week ending last Satur
day showed a slight decrease compared
with those for the corresponding week
last year. As the decrease was but
$22,000, and the total clearings for
the week were $3,584,819. a fig
ure which is more than $250,000
greater than for any correspond
ing week except that of last year, the
showing can hardly be regarded as
other than gratifying and effectually
refutes the rumors-of a financial strin
gency which have become unnecessari
ly numerous within the past few years.
The healthy condition of the country
tributary to Portland Is reflected In
practically unanimous reports of good
collections throughout Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho, while the country
banks are so well supplied with money
that the demands on the pity banks for
crop moving purposes are much less In
proportion to the whole amount needed
than ever before. This general pros
perity among the farmers Is by far the
largest factor in the restricted move
ment In wheat, the growers having
strong faith In a higher price later In
the season and. being well equipped
financially for holding on without the
usual assistance from the banks. There
has been so much Industrial develop
ment along other lines in the State of
Oregon within the past few years that
the temporary sluggishness of the
wheat trade no longer has the wide
spread effect on general trade that was
such a pronounced feature of business
a few 5'ears ago, when wheat was the
one big factor in trade in the Pacific
Northwest.
The lumber business, while hampered
somewhat by shortage of cars and p.
slight falling off in trade with por
tions of the East affected by labor
troubles, Is still of big proportions, and
Is dally placing in circulation large
sums of money. Fruit and hops are
also bringing large quantities of money
Into the country, and the growers are
receiving prices which make both in
dustries highly profitable. The contin
ued reports of a tightening money mar
ket in the East, with a resultant de
pressing effect upon speculation In
stocks and bonds, naturally have some
effect on the local financial situation.
There is still plenty of money obtain
able for carrying on all enterprises
now under way, and for the promotion
of new enterprises,, but there has been
a slight hardening In the rates, and
lenders are examining the collateral
offered with more care than was exer
cised a few weeks ago. Building loans
have advanced from one-half to 1 per
cent and a certain amount of capital
is being hoarded for the purpose of
taking advantage of the situation
should the predicted depression become
a reality on the Pacific Coast
"Very few of the business men, how
ever, expect to suffer very much from
the approaching stringency in the East
That this depression is yet some dis
tance removed from our immediate
vicinity Is apparent from the fact that
the railroads are unable to handle the
business offered them. Most of our
mills are still working up to their ca
pacity; common laborers along shore
we striking for 5o cents per hour, and
wages" In other lines are higher than
eve before since Portland became a
city. High wages and strikes are in
evidence only when times are good.
FLITTERS OF THE WINTER TDIE.
Following the Summer vacation im
pulse closely Is the tendency to seek
milder climates for the Winter months.
Both of these tendencies have increased
to an extraordinary extent In recent
years, with the result that those who
can afford to rest In the Slimmer and
travel In the Winter would seem to
have little use for a " settled abiding
place. The Winter is, however, for
most people the great rank and file,
of the working army of the world the
busiest time of the year. But those
who are able to Indulge their inclina
tion to turn Winter into Summer by
travel are multiplying and in conse
quence a great traffic has been de
veloped in pleasure travel at a time of
year when, until very recently, this
traffic was at its lowest ebb.
Facilities for travel have responded
promptly to the development of this In
clination. Winter travel from the ports
of New York, Boston and Philadelphia
compares favorably in volume with the
Summer exodus from those ports and,
the voyage across the wintry seas Is'
every whit as comfortable as Is a Sum
mer voyage. There Is, moreover, room
for wide choice In the destination of the
Winter traveler. There is to be,
throughout the coming Winter, a fort
nightly service from-Amerlcan ports to
those of the Mediterranean by way of
the Azores, connecting, at the latter
point with Lisbon and" Madeira; fruit
steamers for Jamaica have passenger
accommodations that compare favor
ably, with those of the smaller trans
Atlantic lines, while connections are
made with Steamers for Porto Rico,
Cuba and other West India islands that
have formerly been .difficult to reach
by regular lines of traffic Port Llmon
Is Costa Rica Is a most interesting
point In Winter and from that point
connection is made with steamers for
the Spanish main. V
These facilities for Winter travel con
stitute Important developments In the
steamship business. They represent a
substantial response to the tendency,
born of prosperity and nurtured by the
spirit of restlessness, toward seeking a
mllder"cllmate In Winter than that of
the Atlantic seaboard. A Winter flitting
Is not necessary for climatic reasons to
the people of the Pacific Coast, but the
tendencies in this direction will reach
them In due time. Already Hawaii pre
sents attractions to the Winter flitter
of the Pacific. Coast, and It requires
but little inducement to make him con
tinue his Journey to Manila. From the
more Northern Pacific ports the out
look toward Yokohama and other ports
of Japan has already become an attrac
tive one and there Is "reason to sup
pose that it will become more $ttra.c-
tlve as Western civilization secures In
the wonderful Island Empire a strong
er foothold.
Maryland Is the only doubtful state
among those which will hold elections
tomorrow. There is no reasonable"
doubt about Ohio, Massachusetts and
Iowa, which are sure to go Republican;
Kentucky Is sure to be Democratic; In
the last Congress it had but a solitary
Republican in Its delegation. West Vlr
glnlahas becomeasureRepubllcan state.
Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina
are now as securely Democratic as
Texas. Delaware Is classified as Re
publican. Maryland alone Is doubtful.
Its present Governor Is a Democrat and
Its last Legislature was Democratic by
fifteen on a Joint ballot Its latest Sen
ator, Mr. Gorman, Is a Democrat, but
of Its six Congressional districts four
are Republican, and In 1900 McKlnley
carried the state for President by near
ly 14,000 plurality. Maryland may there
fore be called a close state. The qual
ity of the Democratic canvass may
be gathered from the following extract
from Senator Gorman's campaign
speech:
The President of tho United States invited
tho Republican candidate for Governor of
Maryland to dlna with him and to occupy
the same seat which was probably occupied
by Booker Washington. 1 tell you that no lib
erty, no safety, remains when you haye a
Dictator or a Czar or an Emperor in Washing
ton, who can send for Maryland "Republicans
and tell them to harmonize their differences,
to brine the negroes to the polls, to sustain
him in his effort to establish social equality
of the two races. '
The Commercial and Financial World
insists that our trade with China is too
large and is too rapidly increasing for
us to consent to its extinction in large
part by the closing of the ports of Man
churia. Our exports to China in 18S0
were worth $1,101,383; In 1S90 they were
worth $2,946,209; in 1900 they had grown
to $15,259,167, and in 1903 they were
worth 18,603,369. Last year the United
States was fourth in the list of coun
tries from which China drew her" Im
ports. The significance of the Chinese
trade lies, however, in the fact that It
Is susceptible of vast development when
the 400,000,000 subjects of the Sons of
Heaven come Into relation with the
outside world. Our present trade of
$18,000,000 is not one-tenth of what It
may grow to be after a few years. That
part of China Manchuria which lies
nearest to the United States Is the only
part with which we have so far devel
oped much trade, but the other parts
are similarly promising. We do not
hear so much about the unprofitable
character of Chinese trade from the
antls as we did when they were com
plaining about the acquisition of the
Philippines. Their cue now Is to mag
nify it, so as to show what we shall
lose If we do not go to war with Rus
sia. The elephant, represented by the
grandstand' and high fence built to the
order of W. H. Lucas, J. J. Grim and
others, for carrying on the baseball war
In this city at the beginning of the
present season, must be paid for. So
Judge George decides, though nobody
wants or has any use for it Dr. Em
mett Drake and the Hawthorne estate
are designated, mainly because they
are solvent, as -purchasers under com
pulsion. It required many sturdy
blows of the hammer and much exer
cise with the saw to place this "useless
aggregation of old Junk" on the Haw
thorne property, not to mention the
good, hard coin of the realm that went
into the lumber and nails. The laborer
Is worthy of his hire. So .says the
Scripture, and an upright Judge can do
no less than Indorse the sentiment.
People who are financially responsible
should be careful lest at times their
.enthusiasm gets the better of their
Judgment
The goo'd roads movement should not
be suffered to sleep from the adjourn
ment of one session of the Good Roads
Convention to the opening f another.
The right way to build roads Is to build
them. Even at this time of the year
some valuable work can be done,,
though the farmers will be busy with
their plowing. Organization work
should be carried on In every communi
ty this Winter, with a view .to push
ing permanent road building under co
operative efforts. Let each resident of
a district supplied with mud roads con
sider how milch more valuable his
property would be Is he had a hard
surfaced road to travel upon, and It
won't be long before there will be a
movement started that will bring won
derfully good results. Wherever roads
are built, let them be first-class. What
ever Is worth doing at all Is worth do
ing well.
That Is a very true remark of Mr.
Pettygrove's that the canyon road,
built by fhis town with great sacrifice
in its infancy, made Portland what it
is. Perhaps there is -a hint here as to
more wagon roads as well as steara
and trolley lines.
Grossly Indecent.
Chicago Inter Oceari.
A universal Instinct of human decency
and fair play has decreed that every man
should be judged by what ho is and does,
and that no man should be reviled or de
graded because of the sins of his father
or the misfortunes of his mother.
Particularly among the American peo
ple, who have expressly denied In their
fundamental law that ancestral merit Is
Inherited, is this feeling strong.
That Is why the attacks lately made
upon John Alexander Dowlo by certain
newspapers, and particularly by one In
Chicago. Inspire every decent American
over decent man with instinctive aver
sion and disgust
Dowle may not unfairly be described
as a charlatan whbso follies are not re
deemed by his personal sincerity of be
lief, if he possess It, or his personal suc
cess in pursuing them. Nevertheless
Dowle Is a man, and entitled to be treat
ed as a man.
To gloat publicly over Dowle at the time
of his daughter's death because his re
ligious theories broke down before his
feelings as a father to cast In his face
the sins of his father and tho sufferings
of his mother, as one 'Chicago newspaper
has done and is doing Is cowardly 'and
Inhuman.
To use such poisoned weapons and then
to gloat and chuckle over the sufferings
of the victim, seems to every man, who
is a man, to be at once Inhumanly cruel
and grossly indecent
A Task for a Greater Alexander.
New York Sun.
Alexander tho Great wept bitterly on
the shoulder of a Sous-Lieutenant
"Why spoil my epaulets, Sire?" .asked
the youth In timid awe.
"I have broken every combination and
can find naught husky enough to trifle
with," sobbed Alex.
"Observe the Court Chauffeur, Sire,"
said the officer. "He has been endenvor.
lng to repair your motor car for the last
six parasangs."
"Ah, ah!" and Alex's eyes sparkled un
til they burned up all the tears. "Dis
miss tho army, and brln mo a monkoy
wrench I '
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SHOULD ALASKA BE SWAPPED?
Springfield Republican.
A few voices in America have already
been raised in favor of the utmost gen
erosity in allowing Canada access to the
Yukon territory through the American
strip of land which separates the Canadian
northwest from the sea. Would not gen
erosity in this particular bo a paying
National Investment? "Undoubtedly it
would.
But there are difficulties In the way. The
situation Is this: For some years, under a
modus vlvendl, British goods in transit
across the Alaskan "panhandle" to the
Yukon district have had the bonding priv
ilege, owing to the doubt ralstd as to the
location of the boundary In the vicinity of
the Lynn Canal. To continue the grant of
tho. bonding privilege ought not to strain
the good nature of the United States Gov
ernment But that alone would not serve
to make Canada the master of the trade.
of the Canadian gold flleds. Under the
American navigation laws, American ships
have the advantage in the coasting trade,
and as the towns on the, Lynn Canal are
to remain in the Jurisdiction of the United
States, the ports of Tacoma and Seattle
cannot fail to overshadow the British
ports of "Vancouver and Victoria In tho
commerce of the Klondike. For the reten
tion of their advantage in this coasting
trade the whole Pacific Coast of the re
public would surely struggle, arguments
based on the deslrablltiy 'of international
generosity being lost upon the shippers,
merchants and steamship owners from
Tacoma to Los Angeles.
The situation seems bound to be Irritat
ing to Canadians, however, because they
are sure to bo debarred from the enjoy
ment of much of the commercial advant
age which the development of their own
territory in the far Northwest creates. In
time the Canadians may be able to run a
railroad up to the Klondike, and thus cap
ture a commerce which they consider to
be legitimately their own. Yet the rail
road scheme Is, as yet of very doubtful
feasibility. The distance to be traversed
Is great, and much of the country through
which a railroad would pass might never
bo settled enough to furnish traffic. Be
sides, no one can tell how long the gold
fields themselves will be profitable. For
years. In any event, railroad communi
cation will probably be out of the ques
tion, for the Dominion is alwady assum
ing a heavy burden in undertaking to
construct another transcontinental road
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mean
while, the real command of the Canadian
Klondike trade must remain with the
United States.
It has been suggested that tho United
States should cede to Canada, or rather
Great Britain, the full sovereignty over a
tidewater harbor on the Lynn Canal In
order to removd any possible cause of
Irritation. Such a cession would at once
place Vancouver, and later on Port Simp
son. In touch with the Canadian Klondike
without reference to bonding privileges or
American navigation laws, which require
that all ships trading between American
ports shall have an American reglgtry.
This would, however, be as much of a
blow at the commercial position of our
own Pacific ports as the, cession of nearly
the whole of the Alaskan "panhandle"
would be. .The real question to consider,
therefore. Is whether the United States
and Great Britain could strike a bargain
by which the "panhandle", as a whole
should be transferred to Canada In return
for adequate compensation, territorial or
other, In a different quarter.
To appoach this question with any hope
of solving It successfully, on Cur own
side, it would be necessary to secure com
pensation from Britain and Canada which
would go far to retrieve the possible loss
to our Pacific Coast States of the commer
cial advantages Inherent in the possession
of the Alaskan "panhandle." It would not
be fair to the Pacific States to trade off
Alaskan soil for British territory in the
East, which would bring profit chiefly to
New England. This consideration at once
disposes of the possible suggestion that
the United States, give up part of Alaska,
or possibly the whole of It, for Newfound
land. In fact it is difficult to think of
any territorial exchange that would be
acceptable to both sides and all local In
terests. England might give up Jamaica,
but that would not suit our Pacific States.
They may be counted upon, probably, to
opose any transaction which would cause
a change of flag in Southern Alaska. To
cede to Canada a port on the Lynn Canal,
for a money compensation, may conse
quently, be beyond the possibilities of our
politics.
Still, there should be none of us who
docs not appreciate the irritation under
which Canada must labor in having her
hinterland perpetually cut off from the
sea; nor should we fall to value the
growth of good feeling between the two
adjoining countries. While, In considering
this question, obvious difficulties In tho
way of meeting 'Canada's desires have
been pointed out, It Is apparent that here
Is a point which may well command the
study nnd engage the diplomacy of tho
governments concerned In the near future.
A Child's Heroism Costs Her Health.
New York World.
When 12 years of age Katie Knlcp brave
ly suffered some of her skin to be grafted
to the burned body of her playmate, Tlllle
Meyer, and today sho Is an Invalid for her
heroism.
Katie resides with her mother, sister and
brother in Butchervillo Lane, Bull's Head,
Staten Island. Three years ago she was
in the back yard of the Meyer homestead.
Mrs. Meyer was not at home, and the
llttlo girls amused themselves by making
a bonfire of the refuse paper In the back
yard.
Getting too near the blaze, THHe's dress
caught fire, and in a minute she was
ablaze. Katlo did not lose her presence
of mind, although a child, and threw Tll
lle to the ground after sho had been terri
bly burned, and helped extinguish tho
blaze.
When the doctors camo to see Tlllle they
said that tho only hope of saving her life
was to have some skin grafted on the raw
flesh. Mrs. Meyer told this news to Katie,
and she at once offered herself to save
her playmate. Her mother consenting,
phe underwent tho skin-grafting opera
tion. "Right after that operation," said Mrs;
Annlo .Kplep, the mother, who Is a poor
widow, "Katie showed signs of falling
health. The skin-grafting process In. some
way weakened her spine and at the same
time her whole constitution. From a
healthy and robust little girl she has been
turned Into an Invalid, and tho doctors
tell me that she will be one until the end
of her days." 9
Katie Is a wan-faced girl of 13. Sho Is
very shy, and did not want to say any
thing about her heroic self-sacrifice of
three years ago.
Eight other llttlo girls, seeing how brave
Katie was, allowed some of their skin to
be grafted, and today little Tlllle Is strong
and well.
Sending Meat by Mall.
World's Work.
I know a resident of Berlin who has a
package of meat mailed to him every
Saturday from u point 150 miles away in
Silesia for a little more .than 12 cents
the rate for a 22-pound parcel. German
merchants deliver most of their goods by
mall tho small storekeeper thus provided
with as good a, delivery service as the
larger. Germany has even been permitted
to mall 11-pound parcels to addresses In
the United States.
Jig.
By Filson Young.
Fleet and light.
Left and right.
Fluttering, billowing, quicker than Eight
Merry and mad, '
Happy and sad
Wouldn't sho make a sore heart glad?
Sun and shower,
Beo and flower.
Summer tho weather and sunset tho hour:
Light in her eyes.
Faster she flies
Wouldn't sho m&ko the slmpto wlsaf;
X"
JL.,
MARLOWE AND WORTHING.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Frank Worthing, a young Scotch actor
who has been doing good work on our
stage for several years, appeared at Pow
ers' Theater Monday night In a play
called "Fools of Nature," he portraying
the only one of the fools who was not
entirely given over to his folly.''
Mr. Worthing made a considerable Im
pression during the first act a bad one,
later a very good one, but always an
impression. His office was to delineate a
weak, hard-drinking type of man who Is
enabled, through his unselfish affection
for a woman, to save that wonfan from a
great mistake when she Is all but swept
away by moonshine and music
Mr. Worthing had the assistance of a
company of explosive, stilted English
actors, and of Miss Julia Marlowe, who
acted In a pale, graceful, languid sort of
way when she had any opportunity to
act, and seemed ill at ease and out of
the picture when she had nothing at all
to do which was frequently.
She depicted the gentle suavity of a
well-bred woman with distinction. Per
haps half a dozen times she spoke sig
nificant bits of dialogue with a quiet au
thority that was altogether reasonable',
convincing and fine. Once she struck the
note of feminine anguish quickly and
fleetlngly, but with power. Again she
lectured tho weak, hard-drinking man on
his shortcomings with that assumption
of maternal tenderness which is always
so sweet and touching In women about
whom the fragrance and beauty of youth
still linger.
"And again when Lady Branchester, the
woman portrayed by Miss Marlowe, drew
her little eon to her In her hour of trial
and whispered: "Be gentle to mother she
Is very tlr$d," the actress achieved one
of those subdued but Intense bits of emo
tional pathos In which her art Is dis
played at Its finest
Otherwise Miss Marlowo did nothing
that any competent leading woman on the
American stage could not have duplicat
ed. At times she did less, for the proof
of the languid Interest she took In her
work were frequently so evident that she
failed to win deep sympathy for troubled
Lady Branchester, whom "mjslc and
moonshine" brought to such a sentimental
pass that she nearly ran away with an
other woman's husband.
And with those few remarks the sum
total of Miss Marlowe's personal con
tribution to dramatic art in the month
of October of the year 1903 is stated with
every bit and a shade more of the con
sideration and courtesy It deserves.
And she Is the artist about whom It was
once a Joy and a privilege to write col
umns of analysis and appreciation.
"Fools of Nature" was written by
Henry V. Esmond, author of "The Wilder
ness," "Imprudence" and "When We Were
Twenty-one." If he did not write it when
he was 21 and a long time before the other
three It simply proves that ho is working
backward Instead of forward. The prede
cessors of "Fools of Nature" were by
no means great plays, but they were good
plays, and they Interested one. Their
dialogue was compact and crisp, their
people sharply defined and their climaxes
had some dramatic tone. Tho new play
possesses none of these merits in any sat
isfactory degree. It maunders on and on
for tho two acts, and the English actors
fire moral platitudes at one another until
you get so nervous that Mr. Worthing's
cheerful llttlo sketch of a man on the
raw edge of delirium tremens fairly gives
you the jumps. Toward the end of the
third act there were a few minutes of
brisk movement, and along in the fourth
there was some fairly smart dialogue
that had nothing whatever iq do with
the case. Lady Branchester, saved from
a runaway scandal, then spoke those pa
thetic lines to her little boy, and the cur
tain fell on a tiresome, Impotent, languid,
talky affair.
Mr. Worthing a3 the dipsomaniac who
could not save himself, but was useful In
setting other people to rights, just missed
a fine characterization by laying on the
color too thick at the very moment he
should have subdued his effects. Captain
Jim Chlrol Mr. Worthing's role Is one
of the guests at a house party on the
Thames. Also present are tho widowed
Lady Branchester, her son, and the man
whom she loves. Captain Jim, whoso -only
redeeming trait Is his pure, loyal affec
tion for Lady Branchester, sees the grow
ing attachment between these two, and
knowing that the man Is married already,
though hopelessly estranged from his wife.
Is naturally, In his own words, "awfully
worried." For two acts he pesters tho
guilty lover to confess his past a thing
he has not the courage to do. The crash
comes, however, through the appearance
of the discarded wife. The man sinks
limply after the disclosure and cries to
Lady Branchester: "It Is ended!" "End
ed?" she answers, concealng her hurt
and 'shame bravely in the presence of
tho other guests, "how ended? What had
begun?"
Miss Marlowo did this bit with that
subtle" Intelligence, quietly demonstrated
strength and underlying strain of heart
breaking pathos which are among the
most beautiful attributes of her method.
It lasted about ten seconds.
In the next act her ladyship lamented
melodiously about the bitterness of her
fate, while a harpist thrummed outside
in the moonlight Under the Influence of
"music and moonhhlne," as Captain Jim
later put it very sensibly, she works her
self Into quite a state of mind, writes a
fond letter of farewell to the would-be
bigamist and later has a personal scene
of parting with him. They almost decide
to fly to happier, warmer climes, the
charms of which Lady Branchester de
scribes In highly attractive terms, when
Captain Jim breaks in on the Intensely
artificial and theatric scene, shuts out
"the moonshine and music," switches on
the electric light clears out the morbid
ness and briskly sends the lover about
his business. Mr. Worthing was splendid
In this scene, sharp, quick, decisive and
sane. Ho struck just the note of humor
that was required to disentangle a foolish
but serious "affair" and he carried every
thing with a firm, strong hand. If he will
tone down his painful study of Intoxica
tion In the first part a piece of work
really revolting in Its verity, and quite
unnecessarily so he will have a plausible
and actorly achievement to his credit The
tendency to gasp and lunge and gurgle
grows on him season by season, and he
ought to subdue himself before It is too
late.
Miss Beverly Sltgreaves, nn English
actress of whom much was expected,
would have been commendable as -Lady
Branchester's sympathetic but vulgar
friend had she been less abrupt, explo
sive and mannered. At times she dropped
all those pranks and then she disclosed
real charm. But, given an epigram, sho
mouthed It to distraction. The rest were
well enough and the investigature satisfied
save In the last act where It was shock
ingly tawdry and shabby.
JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.
A Dresden Frock for the Debutante.
New York Evening Sun. t
A Dresden crepe de chine was selected
by one young and lovely debutante, who
long ago !nthe nursery decided once and
for all that her type was that of the
French marquise. In this frock, the finest
panne crepe de chine Is striped with Dres
1 den bands of trailing tiny roses and leaves
in their natural color. Wreaths of silk
roses dlvldo the double ruffles that trim
the full skirt, and there Is a rose velvet
girdle and a huge silk rose In place of a
buckle. A narrow lace yoke has an ap
plique of qhlffon roses, and below Is a
rather natty little blouse and short sleeve
ruffles an odd combination of a" Pompa
dour color scheme with a distinctly 1830
fashion design.
i
The Golden Lot.
Joseph Sklpsey, the "poet of the coal pits,"
In tho coal-pit or the factory.
I toil, by night and day,
. And still to the music of labor
I lilt my heart-felt lay: t
I lilt my heart-felt lay
And tho gloom of the deep, deep mine.
Or tho din of the factory, dleth away
And a Golda ot la mlgoj
lEi?
KOTE'MD COMMENT.
And Put It In Practice.
Some of the people of Oregon seem to have
been strongly Imbued with the Idea that public
.lands were a private graft. Seattle Post-In
telligencer.
Would Be End-Seat Hog?
Canada is rapidly becoming a strapholder on
the continent to which Tie belong. Toronto
World.
Soon the Senate will be all bridegrooms.
When in doubt roast the Four Hundred.
Hoquiam isn't staving off the tub factory-Montana
has several doctors, but no
remedy.
Converts don't seem-to be rolling up
to Corvallls.
Even of the aurora borealls Canada has
no monopoly.
Give the skipping fad rope enough and
It will hang Itself.
Yesterday was the first day of" Win
terby the calendar.
Once more Bulgaria Is forgotten, but It
Is likely that she doesn't forget.
What a fine world this would be If It
were always the middle of the week.
Multnomah put It all over Overall, but
then his place was the one for breaches.
The trotting limit seems to have dis
tracted the prophets from the end of the
world.
A man has sailed a 17-foot dory "across
the Atlantic. The deep doesn't mind over
looking a small bet now and then.
The Chicago dealers whb have cornered
the short ribs should remember Adam's
disastrous failure to do the same thing.
""Like snow before the Chinook" will
have to be amended when the new dredgo
comes, to "like mud before the Chinook. '
Basket ball Is making for "sweetness
and light," since the Chicago co-eds have
given up candy and chewing gum in their
struggle to get a place on the team.
"Cutting Nails Campaign Lie" is the
head line In a New York paper. The
story has nothing to do with manicur
ing, but tells of Mr. Cutting's services
to tho cause.
The Chicago Journal In Its description
of the horse show has a picture of "Maple
Leaf, the great saddle mare Mrs. Wood
end up." Quite a comfortable sort of
name for a long ride.
Richard Lo Galllennohas made a trans
lation of Haflz, whose subjects, he says,
are principally love and wine.
Fitzgerald and his Omar the wild ass
Stamps o'er his head, but cannot break his
sleep.
A scientist declares that a sunflower sucks
up 145 pounds of water during its lifetime.
Some philanthropic gentleman should sow a
few pounds of sunflower seed la Wall street.
The Commoner.
Enough suckers there now.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small.
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all. Kipling.
i The trouble comes when the spot wo
love Is claimed by another country.
Rules of hygiene are continually being
'published. When all of them are summed
up, however, three lines contain their
gist:
Do not worry.
Do not be sick.
Do not die.
It Is up to the Tacoma papers to pro
test against the proposed name for the
consolidated cities of Fairhaven. Belllng
ham Is on the same plan as Rainier, and
the good old Indian name of Whulso
would be far preferable from the Tacoma
viewpoint
Wind shields will undoubtedly remain
If they assist a horse In making records.
And there Is -no 'really strong reason
against their use. To do away with them
because they were unkown to drivers of
earlier champions and to still use the
faster tracks would be illogical.
It has beep computed that considerably
more than half a million words were writ
ten about Kipllng3 now book of poetry.
And the remuneration for the whole bunch
probably didn't come to a fraction of that
for the small book they were written
about
Pattl's costumes are described this way:
A wistaria dres3 is particularly exquisite.
Of a white silken gauze-like material, with
silvery suggestions. It is embroidered In clus
ters of wistarias, tho delicate violet blue of
the fiowe'rs being shown with gratifying fidel
ity. There is a suggestion of foliage, too.
"Silvery suggestions" is good, although
golden would bo better.
From the Union Bridge Pilot, the Bal
timore News copies this gem of abbrevi
ated writing:
On thfir way from Frederick to Balto., yes
terday, 2 gents. In a 7-passenger Au-to-go,
stalled for an hour on tho newly made steep
grade on west aide of South Main st. A num
ber of our men pulled them, up on Main st.
To continue the story a little we might
add:
Coming back 2 Fred, the Au-to-go was
upset near the r. r., but 0 of the passengers
was hurt. In 1 2d. it was turned over, and
4thwith returned.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Rastus Dis yere's de limit! Does w'ite
boys is askin me to steal me mammy's
clothesUne so's ter play lynchln' wlf me!
New York Journal.
Lady But you promised If I gave you the
beefsteak you would do some work. Dusty
Well, didn't I do some work when I chewed
such .a tough steak as that Chicago News.
"Did you engage the cook, dear?" said
the young husband. "Yes. I did," replied
the young wife. "Do you think she's a good
cook?" "She must be; she says she goes to
church twice every Sunday!" Yonkers
Statesman.
The Violinist (sarcastically) Pardon me.
Miss Porkham, but 1 do not play ze rag
time, as you call It. The Accompanist Oh,
don't apologize. Professor! This is too gen
teel an audience to notice a little shortcom
ing like that! Puck.
Ascum I notice. Colonel, that you always
take, your whisky straight. Don't you Ken
tuckians ever put water in your liquor? Colo
nel Blood Some Kentuckians do, sah. Ascum
Indeed! Colonel Blood Yes, suh; but they sell
It. Philadelphia Press.
"That's as good as any ten-center," said Mr.
Makinbrakes, taking another puff at It and
holding it up admiringly . "It coat fifteen,"
said the man who had given him the cigar.
"I I take it all back." hastily rejoined Mr.
Makinbrakes. Chicago Tribune.
"I wish we could discourage those cousins of
yours, the Blanks." she said, wearily. "The
circumstances are such that we have to invito
them to dinner about once in so often, and they
never by any chance decline." "Suppose," ho
said, thoughtfully; "suppose you cook the din
ner for ttMER yourself tirt. next VmVIr-Shlcaea
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