Editorial Page of TEe Journal
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1901
f PORTLAND. OREGON.
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THE OREGON DAILY
AN
C S. JACKSON
Published every evening ( except Sunday ) and every 8unday morning at
streets, Portland, Oregon.
SHABBILY TREATED BY THE SECRETARY.
THAT QUEER INSTITUTION called the Wash
ington bureau of the Oregonian, which betray
such an amaking knowledge of what is wanted at
the Portland end of the line irrespective of what the
actual news itself happens to disclose, has made a fresh
discovery. Secretary Hitchcock is after Ringer Her
mann and were it not for that regrettable circumstance
the land thieves in this state would now be enjoying an
appreciated respite while the thieves of other western
gtates, notably those of Colorado and Montana, would be
getting the warm dose now too liberally dealt out to the
thrifty gentry who have so long and audaciously op
erated here. All of which is reminiscent of some recent
pungent paragraphs in the Oregonian itself.
The correspondent naively remarks, and the mofst note
f woe running through it is plainly felt, that several
years ago the secretary "began o show hostility" to
ward Binger Hermann, "having early conceived the idea
that Hermann was conspiring with speculators on the
Pacific coast to defraud the government out of large
, rea of public lands." Now if this is a true statement
of the facts the secretary has been guilty of an indis
cretion that cannot be too severely condemned by the
unprejudiced public or too bitterly resented by the
friends of the eminent statesman from the Rogue. Why
should the secretary begin to show hostility for such a
. trifling reason? Why should anybody be condemned
ior defrauding the government? Surely there is no more
fashionable or common occupation. Many men for
many year have been industriously engaged in it; they
have made the business pay and some of them have re
tired upon their hard-earned profits. The secretary him
self could not possibly lose anything by the transaction;
his own fortune was made and secure! j invested why
then should he begrudge other ambitious American citi
ens the opportunity which they had found to place
themselves above sordid want and in that class of thrifty
citizenship before which we all humbly bow? It is not
surprising that in the contemplation of disturbing ques
tions such as these the able correspondent should have
been filled with pain and misgiving or that he should
have sought in vain for an answer to' assuage his cul
tivated thirst for knowledge. It i now doubtless per
fectly clear to everyone what the secretary should have
done he should immediately have taken Hermann to his
bosom and thrown open the resources of his office so
that the primrose path might have been made all the
easier for Hermann and his cohort.
But what did this obdurate and sacrilegious secretary
Ado? Did he stick by his brother officeholder, giving him
trT aid and encouragement he so' sorely needed? He did
not; on the' contrary, to quote the correspondent, "Ever
Mac he forced Hermann out of office he has concen
trated his inspectors on the Pacific coast." Now if this
is not adding insult to injury we should like to know pre
cisely what it is. Having first suspected that he was
conspiring with the land thieve he conceived against
him an unmanly prejudice. Then he began to show hos
tility against the meek and long-suffering commissioner.
'Still unsatisfied he forced him out of -office and even had
the temerity to set in motion the machinery of the law
to run down the conspirators who had defrauded the gov
ernment "out of large areas of the public lands" on the
Pacific coast. Could malevolence go further? We .are
in nowise surprised that the correspondent is filled with
grief and mortification in contemplating such an out
rageous spectacle.
But on the other hand why should Hermann have al
lowed this iconoclastic secretary to force him out of of
fice under a cloud? True the secretary had violated
precedent and even sought to lay impious hands on the
elect, but in the full consciousness of his own rectitude
hy should Hermann have contentedly hummed, "I
knew that he loved me, yet why did he kick me down
stairs?" and allowed it all to go at that? Surely there was
something more than that coming to Hermann provided
. Indeed we are well inclined to fully agree with
the able correspondent that there was something more
than this thing coming to him if he were perfectly sure
of his own ground. And whenever he is and proves it we
wish to say further we will join in the denunciation of
the secretary for his vindictive conduct toward a dis
tinguished citizen of Oregon. 'Until then, however, un
willingly and sorrowfully, we are forced to withhold our
unmeasured condemnation on the homely old theory that
it is still up to Hermann to pass the buck back to Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, the honorable secretary of the interior
'who appears to have treated him with such contumelious
hostility.
GERMANS IN SOUTH AMERICA.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR has long regarded
South America as a desirable land in which to
establish colonies of his people, and some jingo
ists in this country have looked upon this movement
of Germans to South America as a menace to the" United
States. We think this fear is fanciful if not affected.
The Germans who settle in South America are thrifty
and intelligent, if poor, people, who make good neigh
bors. They may be predisposed to trade with Ger
many, but if they do we lose nothing, for where they go
there was no trade for us before, and eventually, if we
Lreak loose from our policy of isolation and offer them
better bargains than their countrymen do, they will trade
with us. Most of the Germans who settle in South
America are farmers; they obtain rich soil at veryJow
prices and in a few years, through industry and frugality,
become forehanded. A movement is now on foot to in
crease the present German colonies in Latin America,
and establish new ones. Germans multiply rapidly in
the Fatherland, and some place must be found for the
surplus population. Why not South America, neg
lected, ttnuf.ed by its thriftless, non-progressive peo
ples? There are to be among these colonies not only
tillers of the soil, but craftsmen and tradesmen, all sorts
oi people necessary to be self-sustaining. The first of
these large colonies is to be in Argentine. Dr. Jon
IHisch, president of the Commercial society of Berlin,
who has been examining that country, is delighted with
)T or YOV2M.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
We chaperons our girls and carefully
guard them against unworthy boys, but
we leave the boy to choose for himself
his associates and his achievements.
Olrls are naturally winsome, gentle,
companionable They win their way In
homes and hearts. But the boy, noisy,
awkwsrd, mtschevlous. Is Invited Into
few homes snd feels none too much st
home In, his own.
About the only door thst swings with
Sure welcome to the boy, about the only
chair that la shoved near the Are es
pecially for the boy, about the only
plaee where lie le sure of a cordial greet
ing Is where be ought not to go.'
It Is one of the hardest filings In the
world to get hold of a boy to get a sure
grip on him
II Is hungry for companionship snd
he will have 11. He waats the com pan
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND
.harm and be no
to the "Yankee
REFORM
body except some
SOME
MRS. MAYBRICK must experience pleasure min
gled with gratitude not only because of her lib
erty after 15 years of confinement in British
prisons, but because she is in her native land, and finds
that a host of American people, from the highest to the
lowliest, have all the time asserted her probable inno
cence, and done everything in their power, though with
out success, to secure her pardon. More than one presi
dent has interested himself in her case, one secretary of
state after another has used his good offices in her be
half. Members of congress, judges, and many other of
ficials and prominent men and women have joined in ap
peals, numberless articles have been published in news
papers showing the injustice of her conviction, and mil
lions of American hearts have pitied her as the victim
of malevolence or prejudice, and later of mere official
pjgheadedness, and longed to be able to help her. All
tis she knows now, as she could not know it while in
prison, and this knowledge must be exceedingly com
forting to her.
That Mrs. Maybrlck was convicted on Insufficient evi
dence and in consequence of the morbid prejudice of a
mentally diseased judge, nearly all Americans have all
the time believed, and that tKe British home office also
believed so is at least probable, bu.t disinclination to
acknowledge a mistake of a judge, coupled perhaps with
the late queen's antipathy toward one whom she thought
a social culprit, kept Mrs. Maybrick behind the bars for
1 - long years. Now she is free; she lias told her story,
a sad and tragic story; and she will be generally be
lieved, and altogether forgiven for whatever were the
errors or follies of her younger womanhood.
Considering that Mr. Grant and Mr. Solomon had sold
out their interest in the Portland club, as they testified
with such enthusiasm at a recent trial, it is rather surpris
ing that they should still manifest such a keen interest
in the fortunes of that establishment. Mr. Grant when
he had a chance to get in, notwithstanding that the
building was in the possession of the sheriff, spent some
breexy moments on the top of the building dallying with
the water-works or the weather vane or the faro hot
boxes or something of. the sort, and then put another
n-.an, his own, on guard, in what used to be, but what he
now denies is his private office. Considering that he had
sold out we repeat that he showed the liveliest sort of in
terest in what the establishment contained. Has he
bought in again?
lonshlp of boys, and nothing will take
Its place.
If the rime of selfishness hss so In
cased your heart that the Joys and hopes
of your boy cannot enter Into It, the
boy Is to be pitied, but so sre you.
It happened long ago. when Mark
Twain was an editor In the west. The
morning's msll had brought a bill from
his tsllor, not an unusual occurrence.
The boy who went through the mall
called the future humorist's attention
to It.
"And." added the boy. "he has written
on the back that he wants a settlement
at once,"
"Tou should know what to do with
each copy without asking," said Mr.
Twain. -'Enclose It with the regular
printed slip stating that all manuscript
written on both sides of the paper is
unavailable.''
' J. . ..,ei.
JOURNAL
JNO. P. CARROLL
The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill
it, and will return to Germany to institute a vigorous
propaganda in and of German immigration to South
America.
We see no cause for alarm in this; rather for ap
proval. The development of South America by such
people will help, not hurt us. This fear that some na
tion is going somehow to get the best of us and sud
denly give us a knockout blow below the belt is childish.
Very likely the German emperor would like to colonize
portions of South America politically also, and create
German colonies there, and we believe it would do us no
menace worth becoming scared about if
he should, but that will not be permitted. We are com
mitted to the Monroe doctrine, and Germany under
stands it. Rut in one respect Dr. Jonnasch, as a repre
sentative .of the German government, seems to have laid
himself open to criticism, and that is in his alleged at
tempts to stir up enmity in South America against the
United States. The attention of the government at
Washington has been called to a lecture by Dr. Jon
m.sch at Buenos Ayres in which he made some invid
ious' remarks against the North Americans, and alluded
peril." Such speeches as this will only.
atouse in the United States hostility to German colon
ization in South America and tend to extend and
strengthen the lines of the Monroe .doctrine. Let the
people of South America, ' Germans or others, trade
where they please, but Germany must not thus semi
officially excite prejudice and commercial hostility. The
world is broad enough for both the Germans and the
' Yankees," and the "peril" lies, mostly in the threatened
lost of undue and undeserved commercial advantages.
OF THE JURY SYSTEM.
SEVERAL EASTERN newspapers, and prominent
lawyers and other citizens as well, using the Nan
Patterson case as the latest object lesson, are
urging a reform in the jury system, so that in the case
of the death or illness of one or' even more jurors the
trial can and must still proceed, instead of dropping the
trial and having a new one at great cost to taxpayers
and much vexation to witnesses and even the lawyers
themselves. Many New York lawyers, aided by the in
dorsement of Several justices of the supreme court,
county judges, and some of the justices of the supreme
court of the United States, sre to make . efforts this
winter at Albany to have a constitutional -amendment pro
posed that will effect this reform. One plan is to pro
vide for verdicts by three fourths of a jury, nine out of
the twelve. This is one method of doing away with
hung juries that is often proposed, and almost every
lawyers, seems to agree that it would
be a sensible move, and yet legislatures neglect to act
upon it. Many, however, would object to its application
to first-degree murder cases, and as to them it is not
likely soon to be adopted? if at all.
Another proposed amendment will provide that when
ever a jury has been selected to try a criminal case, the
judge in his discretion may have from one to six ad
ditional jurors drawn, as a supplemental jury, who shall
listen to the testimony and be prepared to take the place
of one or rnore jurors who may becqme incapacitated.
This we think faulty in leaving the matter to the discre
tion or caprice of a judge, and also because it is unneces
sary to have twelve men decide any case. A less num
ber, in case one or more jurors become unable to serve,
will do just as well, and the constitutions of the states
ought so to provide. This should be the next constitu
tional amendment submitted to the people of Oregon.
SUNSHINE AT LAST.
DBAS B. AKTIOItT ON DIVORCE
At a recent meeting of the Minerva
club of New York, which Is composed
Isrgely of progressive women and club
women, the question of the relation be
tween the church and divorce, which la
occupying so much of the public's at
tention Just now. was naturally the sub
ject of more or leas Informal talk among
some of the members.
"Susan -B. Anthony hit the nail fairly
on the head several years ago," said one
member In a confidential chat with a
little coterie of friends, which was not
to go one bit further. "She aald then
thaf the divorce court was to the Amer
ican woman what Canada was to the fu
gitive slave 60 years ago. Well, the
Kpjscopal church seema to be of about
the same opinion."
And the other members said, "Indeed!"
j Small Change
i
A Boston female child has two heads.
And a tongue In each!
Remember that there are such things
as clothesline thieves.
Lots of good single men In Oregon,
and only 20 days of 1 espy ear left
Jim Jeffries wants to fight some
body. How would an Arkansas mule
do, tall end up? '
We are glad to observe that 'all our
weekly Republican exchanges thorough
ly approve the president's message.
Reasons assigned by plaintiffs In
divorce esses are constantly Increasing
In variety, and some of the new ones
appear to be the pretty good ones, too.
ffjuch. for Instance. Is that of the east
side woman who is suing her husband
for divorce partly on the ground that
he keeps a phonograph playing one tune
In the house. That Is enough to drive
any woman craiy. But why aian t sne
Carrlensttonlse the nuisancer
A load of anxiety has been lifted from
the minds of many people who annually
attend the state fair; the attorney gen
eral has decided that noth withstanding
Chemawa precinct. In which the fair
grounds are situated, went for prohibi
tion, the board of agriculture can allow
wet goods to be sold on th fair grounds.
Thug again are the wicked Prohibition
ists foiled, and dry people can wet their
whistles at the fair.
The country Is saved. Don't worry
about the deficit any more. Congress
Is already cutting down expenses. The
house refuses to Increase the salary of
the 'secretary of the clvt) service com
mission, and hss actually voted to. re-
dace the salary of a lot of stenographers
from 16.000 to $3,000 a year. But this
Is going too fsr. How can a
stenographer, working half the time.
live on 13,000 a year? This sctton will
be reconsidered.
There Is no end or limit to the queer
prsnks of married people. An Iowa
man not only consented to his wife's
elopement with snother msn, but gave
her 600 to help her along. And an
Illinois woman not Only consented to
her husband's departure with a neigh
bor woman, but helped pack their
trunks, although she still loved him.
but gave him up because the other
woman said she loved him better. To
paraphrase Puck, "What curiosities we
mortars be'- "
The majority for Roosevelt in Pennsyl
vania would have been larger, no doubt.
with an refhest election, but nobody
can tell what It would have been, for
In Pennsylvania they have become so
accustomed to counting fraudulent votes
by tens of thousands that they do It
anyway, whether there is any need of
them or not. The Philadelphia Reeord
says that In the recent' election 15 J00
votes In that city were registered from
stables and chicken coops.
A local Item In The Journal stated
that word having been received that a
man who robbed freight oars - In Port
land had been captured In Oakland, Cel.,
Detectives Snow and Kerrigan, who with
Special Agant Fitzgerald of the O. R.
& N. Co., worked up the case against
Keith, will be sent after him. Is this
right. Is it safe, to send only three
detectives after this man? Think what
a tragedy might happen If he, a terrible
hobo, should attack these three lone
men? But perhsps the rest of the city
detectives are taking pleasure trips In
other directions and couldn't go.
Oregon Sidelights
Fall wheat
oounty.
Is sll. right In Douglas
Oregon grangers are enjoying them
selves. Corvallls Juveniles are going to
form an opera In a woodshed.
"Seversl changea are necessary In our
city charter" Many stste exchanges.
Evening grosbeaks. "harbingers of
winter," have appeared In eastern Ore
gon. Still some ripe raspberries sre re
ported In various parts of eastern Ore
gon. The HUlsboro cow feels like kicking
over the bucket can't run at large any
more.
The HUlsboro Independent office has a
potato weighing four pounds not raised
In the office.
The Washington County News (Forest
Orove). has changed Its form and Is
enlarged and Improved.
A goat show In Polk county Is talked
of. That will be a good place to butt
lut but with goats only.
Sheriff Shutt's order to closs all sa
loons Sundsy will meet with strenuous
opposition In Ileppner, the district at
torrmy and council being against him.
A Moro young woman got a cash prise
of $50 for being, according to vote, the
most popular young woman In that
town. But the others have their own
opinions still.
Rev. II. M. Street lives In Crook coun
ty, 28 miles from the nearest school.
He hss some ohlldren, Hml there are
several other families within n radius
of 10 miles, no he hss employed a young
woman assistant and started a boarding
school, chtrging only 111 a month for
board and tuition. Good Idea, but my,
won't the youngsters have io go hungry
at that price?
Cllne Falls Express: Portland Is try
ing to stop some of Ita had habits, among
them the smoking of cigarettes; the con
struction of rotton bridges; the building
of bad sewers; the laying of humpbacked
sidewalks; the gambling habit; the
swindling of young ladlea by slick indi
viduals; the holding up of women on the
street In the daytime and men by night,
and put a stop to policemen who make
mashes on their beat and neglect theh
faratlles. She will iilso try to atop the
rain habit during the exposition period.
Drain Nonpareil: Douglas is one of
the few counties .In the stste that has
not arranged for space for an exhibit
at the Lewis and. Clark fair next year.
A letter from Roselmrg says very little
Interest la taken In the matter there.
If the county doss not do something
as a whole, the Drain Nonpareil would
suggest that Drain, the gate way to the
COM Bay country. Toncalla. Rlkton,
Scottsburg and Gardiner, get together
and at least let people know what we
have and what we need In north Douglas
county.
The World
Growing Better
By Rev. Thomas Gregory.
Unquestionably the world Is growing
better. There Is no doubt about It. The
fact Is so clear that he who runs may
read It
I do not mean to be uncharitable, but
I am mightily tempted to feel that there
Is something wrong with the man who
cannot see that. In pretty nearly every
respect, the world Is steadily Improving.
Would you begin with the Intellectual
test? When were men so wise ss they
are 'today? When were they so well
equipped with facts facta about the
earth and about themselves? When was
there such a science as the world pos
sesses today a science that has given
us the mastery over natural forces, over
time and apace, over disease, over the
manifold physlcsl enemies of the race
that was not even dreamed of in the
olden time?
Would you make the test a moral one?
The answer Is that humanity was never
so clesn as It 1s today. There are mors
good men and women on earth In thla
year of grace 1904 than ever before In
the history of the world.
There are liars still, but the number
of those who speak truth Is steadily
Increasing. Still there are rogues, but
day by day honesty la gaining upon
dishonesty. People still drink, but as
compared with former times the num
ber of drunkards has declined.
Shall we try the test of brutality?
The man Is beside himself who cannot
see that In this respect humsnlty has
made an Immense advance. We still
have murderers snd murders, wars still
disgrace us, violence Is still heard of
In the land; but against these things
there la the sentiment that did not exist
In the ancient days, except In isolated
cases.
Today this sentiment of peace and
good will, of love versus hate, of
brotherhood versus the bloody spirit of
the clan, Is so powerful thst It Is be
ginning to dominate not only communi
ties, but nations.
There was a tlma when murder was
popular, and when war was in Uns with
the highest thought of humsnlty, but
t.. lav the killing of men. whether in
private feud or In war, 1 don only
under protest. The grand new senti
ment frowns upon It as with the weight
of the universe.
The greatest curse of the old time was
Kits racial bigotry and hate. This evil
lay at the bottom of nearly sll the older
troubles. But nothing Is clearer than
the fact thst the 20th century Is wit
nessing a happy change In this respect.
The world hss received a baptism of
humanitarlanlsm. The holy spirit of
human brotherhood has descended upon
us, and we no longer hate or despise
one another on account of racial dif
ferences. OHOON PUT TO SHA1
From the CorvaHts Times.
The spectacle presented in Judge Bel
linger's court at Portland for the past
two weeks has been humiliating to the
people of Oregon. The uisclosures tnere
In connection with the land fraud cases
have been a revolving panorama of
swindling, perjury snd deceit. The pic
ture of shame and rottenness, revealed
by the testimony Is the worst that has
ever been seen In an Oregon court In
many a year. The operations of a gang
of adventurers, Involving not only ordi
nary mountebanks but even salaried ser
vants of the government, have smeared
shame all over the fair name 01 Oregon.
In some esses men whose business It
wss to defend the public domain against
the operations of land-grabbers, have
actually Joined the gang and become ald
ers and abettors of the frauds. Faise
land entries, false certificates, false
ststements and false representations
have been the assets of the swindlers,
and the despoiling of the public lands
their achievements. In the process
honest men have been corrupted, perjury
has been suborned and theft promoted.
Sometimes when a government official
became troublesome, a share of the ill
gotten profits was thrown to him. and
apparently he surrendered to the pirates,
to wink thereafter at their corrupt
machinations.
As the disclosures multiply, and the
surprise of them wears off, the wonder
grows ss to how far up In official posi
tion the rottenness extends, and what
guilty ones more or less remotely con
nected with the steel will escape the
punishment their perfidy calls for. If,
too, so much of the rottenness sppears
In this Instance of Oregon frauds, In
which the operators are "tin horns" In
their class, whst monstrous steals of
timber and other lands have not been
perpetrated on the government by rail
road corporations, syndicates and other
full-fledged pirates, whose opportunity,
capacity and power for fraud made them
adepts In conspiracy snd more success
ful In Its promotion? The condition Il
lustrates the widely prevalent notion
that to plunder the government or the
people, by fair means or foul. Is not
stealing, but a legitimate means of
there be not all through the government
profit. It also suggests the query If
service dishonest scrubs who draw of
ficial salaries with one hand while they
plunder, peculate and pilfer with the
other?
The one refreshing thing In the
present Instance, Is that the rotten mem
bers of the gang are at the end of their
rope, that government officials who
could not be bought are prosecuting
them, and that the prosecution Is
merciless.
DIlflELSPIELS BPPT O
By Oeorge V. Hobart.
(Copyrlsbt. llsX, by W. R. Hearst.)
Truth vas mighty, but It aln'd mighty
enough to be a popular favorite, al
retty. Rich peoples haf troubles vlch poor
peoples can nefer enchoy.
Temptation alvays venrs rubber shoes
und speaks mil a vlsper.
It doan'd took two to make a' quarrel
mlt der man dot Is his own vorst enemy.
Aln'd It strange dot ve' nefer hear of
a henpecked husband flying dor coop?
A mean man chenerally has a mean
time mlt his money.
Man Is dust, und ven der man mixes
enough vlskey mlt der dust his nsme
vaa Mud.
Sometimes It vss more trouble to
avoid trouble de nit vas to let der trou
ble vslk In und get you.
Some mens vot I know vaa writing
awful fast dese days so dey vlll be able
to turn ofer a new leaf.
It was a strange ding, but ven der
vnrld glfs a man der frosty face he
stops cutting tea
Picklesauer ssys he aln'd superetltl
ous, but 1 hsf seen him using a hair re
StSI I r. neferdcrlesst.
Necessity vaa der mother of a goot
many wlrtues.
Nuddlng succeeds like der Imitator of
successes.
If you doan'd face der vofld der vorld
vlll make faces at you behind your
back, yet
Consistency vas a chewel, but It ain't
much goot tot a Christmas present.
Tke Play
"The Prodigal Daughter" was se
lected for presentation by the Columbia
theatre" stock company because melo
drama, of all the varieties of entertain
ment offered this season, has proved the
biggest winner from a box-office stand
point.
This la an English racing play. The
title doesn't suggest It, but It Is as
much so. In fact, as "Th Sporting
Duchess," which was doubtless Inspired
by the older work, for which Henry Pet
tltt snd Sir Augustus Harris are re
sponsible. There are two great scenes
In "The Prodigal Daughter." One Is the
race, In which real horses and a stage
ful of supernumerarlea are used; the
other, a short moral lesson presented by
Ms. Bloomqueat as Tom Blinker, the
stabhi boy, and Mr. Bernard as Captain
Vernon, the true friend of the aristo
cratic family.
Tom has been bribed to "dope" the
favorite Just before the run of the
Urand National. Vernon suspects It,
and gives the lad a fatherly talking to
on conscience, snd the results of this
sore of perfidy. Under It the cruda boy
breaks down, confesses, decides upon
the honest course, and throws the bribe
at the feet of lta offerer. This la all
done In plain, matter-of-fact Queen's
English, but a more touching bit la not
to 'be found In melodrama- Incidentally,
It was beautifully performed by these
clever actors.
Donald Bowles sppsara In a character
Juvenile part. In which there Is an un
limited amount of Hue comedy, and I
was sorry. Indeed, to witness this splen
did actor's unusual and uncalled for an
tics to Improve upon It This "kidding"
business, which resolves Itself into an
effort to break up the other players In
their lines, may possibly be a mighty
source of recreation, but the public did
not go to the theatre to see It; nor has
it always been found necessary to In
clude a portion of the audience In the
enactment of an Individual role. In
less facetious momenta, Mr. Bowles was
extremely good. ,
.Mf Baume appears as Julian Belford,
a role which la so thankless that the
actor's striking personality Is not forced
as far to the front as In most of his Im
personations. Fred Esmelton plays the
polished villain forcefully. William
Dills Is the old aristocrat. Scott Sea
ton was equal to the requirements of the
second villain. Oeorge Berrell did a
good work as Miserable Jim, the dis
honest stable hand, and Charles York
had no trouble with his bit
Of the women of the company. Miss
Countlss came Into her own In the emo
tional happenings, which befall me
prodigal daughter. Her second act,
where she finds herself deserted by the
man with whom she ran away, was ex
ceptions! y well done. Miss Brsndt
scored another decided hit as the win
some Quakeress. Miss Barhyte made a
fine appearance as v loret ana me two
Parisian hotels were gracefully con
ducted by Lauretta Allen and Ray Ber
nard. The acenlc effects are excellent, tne
painting of the Grand hotel being one
of the. best pieces of work Artist King
has don.
AT
Tou don't find many melo-dramae In
the popular-priced houses which excel
"A Little Outcast." tv J. carpenter, me
Chicago producer, returned to the Em
pire with the play yesterday and It car
ried two large audiences by storm.'
The story is familiar .to patrons of
popular houses. It la al, about Paul
Weston, a victim of olrcumstantlal evi
dence, and his little friend, "Bob." who
Is forever to the rescue and who takes
upon his young shoulders ths task of
proving Paul's Innocence of the sus
pected crime of robbery. Of course, he
succeeds, through the agency of a phono
graph, which Is made to record the con
fession of the real thief.
Manager Carpenter has some very
clever children In tha cast this year.
Dolly Dupree, In thje title role, was.-a
lasting delight to the audience and Mabel
Shaw and Little Lillian each came In for
a smack of approval.
Walter Harmon plays Psul Weston
convincingly, the scsne In which he
straggles against Imaginary serpents be
ing of especial note. The wife Is capi
tally enacted by Mtlllcent Evans, a beau
tiful young actress well remembered In
Portlsnd since last year.
"A Little Outcast" will be rspeated to
night and tomorrow night.
RACE WHITNEY.
LAWS AS TO COST or LrVHO.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, lecturing
In Philadelphia on "How to Regulate
Expenses" and "How to Dress," said
Engel had carefully studied expenses
and his three laws sre:
1 That the greater the Income of
any person or family, the smaller the
relative percentage of the outlay for
subsistence.
t That the percentage of expense for
clothing Is approximately the same,
whatever the Income.
S That the percentage of outlay for
lodging, rent, fuel or light Is Invaria
bly the same, whatever the Income.
As to the clothing there must be a
decent regard for the opinions of man
kind along with a determination not to
be wholly subservient to them. The cost
of clothing to the workman is from 7
per cent to 19 per cent of his Income,
the average In Massachusetts being 15
per cent. In Germany the average Is it
per cent and In Illinois 21.
Then there Is the question of how
much of one's Income to devote to other
people In the social life. That must
depend on a person's own consciousness
and circumstances. There Is also the
problem of contributions to charity.
Dr. Hale read the principle enunciated
by Starr King, that for every expendi
ture In amusements we ought to make
a corresponding contribution to the Im
provement of society nnd In the inter
est of ths offspring, for "when we do
that we have a right to our amuse
ments; otherwise we have no right to
them."
AO
From the Los Angeles Times.
A little red button worn by some
200 women, old and young, married and
Indifferent, among the leading social
sets of the City of Mexico marks a new
departure, or rather a new- step. In
progress. This little, round, ' red but
ton signifies membership In what Is
known as the Antl-Kleslng league.
Members of the league take solemn
pledge not to kiss each other. In public
or private, but put It on the ground
that kissing Is contagious, or. rather,
the means nf eonveylng contagious dis
eases from one fair lip to snother.
There Is nothing visible to the naked
ye Iff the constitution of this league
against kissing other than members of
the female persuasion, and. In fact, the
practice, aside fronf the supposed dan
ger of Infection. Is decidedly, to the
male sense, not only deplorable, but un
necessary. When one woman takes two
or three minutes of time In a street car
to kiss three or four other women be
fore slighting from the csr she cer
tainly violates the golden rule by mak
ing sll those passengers wait. How fsr
this nsw league will conduct Ita of
fensive and defensive campaign remains
to be seen.
A Silvertoman
R eformer
From th Sllvertunlan Appeal.
"On of the curious characters of the
Pacific ooaat of the United States- la
Jamas K. Buff. For the past 20 years he
has been a teacher In the schools of 811
verton. Or. He disapproves strongly of
the prevailing fashions In men's and
women's dress, and, to caricature them,
wears a most extraordinary costume. On
his head he has a cap made of various
materials used by milliners, and adorned
with a buckle, a little silk American
flag, ete. Wrong side foremost and laced
up the front, over a white shirt, Is worn
a pink satin corset A cloak of chiffon,
fantastically bordered, hanga from his
shoulders. He wears baggy pantaloons
of brilliant color, fastened at the knee;
also atocklngs of gayest colors and most
striking design, held In place by orna
mental garters. He does not confine his
remarkable costume to the quiet streets
of his town, for he has visited the
Oregon state fair at Salem. The rain
caused the color of his bright blue
nether gsrments to- run, and the chiffon
cloak suffered considerably. Ha went '
barefooted and barelegged while It
rained, but when It became fair again he
put on bright plaid stockings, shoes and
another pair of brilliant pantaloons. Ha
Is an excellent, pedestrian, walking in
bare feet and putting his shoes ou when
he reaches his destination. Though he
Is by no means Insensible to the ridicule
that his strange dress excites, he per
severes in his purpose of showing by
caricature." Mr. Arthur Inkersley, San
Francisco, Cat
Due credit has not been given Mr.
Buff In the "write ups" of the press for
scholarship. He Is a graduate of tha
Willamette university. His Is classlcsl
education. Latin and Oreek completed,
and a full course In mathematics; In
cluding mathematical astronomy. The
elements of an eclipse of the sun, or of
the moon, are as familiar to him as are
the rules of surveying, or navigation, or
calculus, or the multlpllcstlon table.
i Clark
.ewis an
December. 11. The weather became so
Intensely cold that we sent for all ths
hunters who had remained out with
Captsjln Clark's party, and they returned
In the evening, several of them frost
bitten. The wind wa from the north
and the thermometer at sunrise stood
at 21 degf ees below aero, the ice In the
atmosphere being so thick as to render
the weather haxy and give the appear
ance of two suns reflecting each other.
The river continues at av stand.
Pocapsache made us a visit today.
December 12. The wind Is still from
the north, the thermometer being at sun
rise 38 degrees below aero. One of tha
Ahnahaways bounght us down half an
antejope killed near the fort; we had
been Informed that all- these animals
return to the Black mountains, but there
are a great number of them about ua
at this season, which we might easily
kill, but are unwilling to venture out
before our constitutions are hardened
gradually to the climate. We measured
the river today on the Ice, and find It
600 yards wide Immediately opposite the
fort.
AOS AJfD JUFXTaUs.
From tha New Tork American.
Russell Sage Is 87 years old and Is not
dead. The old man nodded yesterday
and no shake of the locks of Jupiter
ever caused more commotion among tha
little gods that loafed around Olympus
than did Sage's word create among tha
little gods of finance yesterday.
The market has been rushing upward
under a ateady head of steam. With tha
money of tha United Statea In the banka
and the reserves of outside banks here,
cash has been chesp. and with cheap
money you usually have high priced
stocks.
Sage had 820,000.000 out at 8 per cent
"on call." "Call" means that you lend
a man. money with the right to make
him pay back at any moment you say.
About 1 o'clock Mr. Sage let Wall street
know he was alive. He "called." Stocks
fell off und there wss a scurrying around
to borrow money to pay Mr. Sage. Then
the rate advanced from 8 to 4 per cent,
and Sage concluded to lend. In 10 min
utes he had placed 820,000,000 In a way
to earn 8800.000 a year Instead of 8800,
000. Then slso part of the 825,000.000 tha
government has on deposit In New Tork
without Interest was loaned out at 4
per cent by those favored with govern
ment funds, snd the market resumed th
even tenor of Its way.
Jupiter nodded and made only a riot;
Russell Sage nodded and if he does nob.
call for a year he will be 2200.000 ahead
MAXIMS FOB
8 AID WOMB.
From the Chicago Journal.
When a woman says she wouldn't
marry the best man alive she speaks tha
truth; she couldn't get him.
"Tomorrow" la the reef thafnaa cost
the life of many a business maw.
If every woman's face was her fortune
there would be a run on the veil mar
ket. Justice might take your part but In
justice takes your sll.
Too many Irons In the fire eat up
much expensive coal.
Don't take a polite acknowledgment
for an encore.
The man who Jumps at conclusions
usually falls with them.
Curiosity ofttlmes hides behind the
mask of solicitude.
Everything comes to him who. waits,
except the waiter.
When you are arguing with, a fool.
Just remember the fool Is doing the
same thing. '
During a recent shooting expedition
former President Grover Cleveland spent
I ma greater pan mw imi w,m
guide without any substantial results.
In the end he gave up the chase for tho
time being and sought the nearest rail
road station. Before leaving the scene
of his adventures, so the story goes.
Mr. Cleveland chatted pleasantly with
his guide, good nsturedly bemoaning his
hsrd luck. The guide waited for an
opportunity, and then remarked gravely:
"Anyway, sir. the ducks today may
have made fun of your aim. and there
may be some who think you wasted
cartridges, but nobody can say anything
about your liberality."
The tip he received Is ssld to have
completely covered the case.
Wot Complaining.
From the Wsshlngton Star.
"Are you deprived of the right of
voting?"
"Well, stih," answered Mr. Erastus
Pit. klev. "I reckons I manages to strike
a average. Sometimes I doesn't get
to vote at all. an' sometimes I man
ages to vote three or fo' times at da
same election. It all depen's on whah
1 happens to be llvln'"