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IN PORTLAND CHURCHES LORD'S PRAYER. ANALYZED BY DR. .KROST, OF CALIFORNIA. Christ's Teaching: to His Disciples Is the Privilege of Every Child of God to Offer. A large congregation assembled at the First Baptist tJhurch last evening to hear Rev. A, J. Frost, of Los Angeles". He is a man of gigantic stature and most Impressive appearance. In early life he preached In New York State, and after ward -was pastor of the University Place Church, in Chicago. For 25 years he has been on the Pacific Coast, where he is known as preacher and lecturer. He is here to fulfill engagements in the Chau tauqua assembly as Bible teacher and lec turer on "The Grand Canyon of the Colo rado." Dr. Frost's theme was "The Lord's Prayer," and the sermon was a fine speci men of the expository style of preaching. After saying that this Is not the Lord's prayer at all, but the prayer Christ taught his disciples, Dr. Frost gave his analysis of the whole: "First!, 'Our Father.' This is the filial spirit which can only belong to a true'dls. clple. The common. expression, 'The Fath erhood of God,' is not Scriptural In the highest sense. God is more than Creator. His fatherhood carries wit it oneness of nature, and this no unregenerate soul can have. The true filial spirit means a great deal. "Second, the reverential spirit. 'Hallowed bo thy name.' He who truly prays must come to God in reverence. "Third, the mission spirit. 'Thy kingdom come.' This includes the fullness of the kingdom of God. "Fourth, the submissive spirit. 'Thy will be done.' All prayer Is made in submis sion to the will of God. Anything less than this lacks an essential element of real prayer. It is blessed to submit to the will of our Father in heaven. "Fifth, the dependent spirit. 'Give us this day our daily bread.' "We literally depend on God for our daily food. No chemist has ever made a grain of bread or food. If production of food should cease for 18 mouths, the Inhabitants of the whole earth would starve. "Sixth, the forgiving spirit 'Forgive us our, debts as we forgive our debtors.' He who does not forgive cannot expect to be forgiven. Yet this does not remove moral distinctions. We are only' required to forgive as God forgives; that is, when men repent. "Seventh, the cautious spirit 'Lead us not Into templ'atlon.' No one can expect to rash needlessly Into temptaton and receive God's h?ip. The only safe course Is to keep as far away as possible. "Eighth, the sanctifying spirit 'De liver us from evIL God does deliver his children when they call upon him in sin cerity, and in this is strength. "Ninth, the adoring spirit Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.' This is to be fulfilled in tha. world to come. "This wonderful prayer it Is the priv-, ilege of every child of God to offer, and' if we do then the richest of blessings will come." Rev. Dr. Mitchell, of Minneapolis, was present, and made the closing prayer. THE SEW STONE CHURCH. Command for Common "Worship Is From Divine Autliorlty. At St David's Episcopal Church, East Twelfth and Morrison streets, yesterday morning Rev. George B. Van Waters, D. D., spoke from the text in Exodus, xxxv:21: "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord's offering to the work of the taber nacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the Jioly garments." He applied the text to the subject, "The New Stone Church," saying In part: "The direct command for common wor ship Is from Divine authority. Also, comes the command for the public build ing for this common worship from the same source. Along with this question comes the one of the. style of structure for God's house of worship. An everlasting answer to this question of God's regard for the character of the building Is found in the description of the tabernacle to which reference is made in the text From this we know that it should be built and furnished Intelligently by the best architect and workmen. It Is right to employ the best materials in the con struction and as splendid as means will allow. This does not mean that we should be extravagant and careless, but that we should adapt ourselves to our circum stances and build the best that we can afford. The objection some people offer to making God's house beautiful, because of the expense, springs primarily from selfishness, and unfits one for acceptable worship. "The obligation for worship did not cease with the Mosaic dispensation. It Is a necessity for us because of the spirit ual 'nature God has endowed us with. Furthermore, our Lord in his great wis dom made us love the beautiful, and It is sooa tnen tor us to admire the beautl. ful In structures of wood and stone, as well as In nature. By meeting together we draw a common benefit from the di vine service. There is an Inspiration full of spiritual delight and benefit to be derived from congregational singing and worshiping. We cannot be as good Christians if we neglect this public wor ship. , "In the case of the tabernacle the place of worship was freed of debt, and let us take a lesson from this wise ex ample set for us by the Jews. They did not j?retend to offer unto God what was not theirs. Men, women and chil dren contributed something, however small, to the building of the tabernacle and received a great blessing for their sacrifice. This, too. Is a valuable lesson for Christians to learn, and if they are true to their vows they will emulate the example of those people. Truly, it Is said that God loves a cheerful giver." FIRST THINGS. If Man Was Slowly Made, He "Was Given a Soul. Rev. B. J. Hoadley, D. D., began a series of Sunday evening sermons on "First Things" at the Clarke Methodist Episcopal Church last evening The text was Genesis, 1:1, "In the beginning God." Dr. Hoadley said: "The book of Genesis tells the history of creation in fewer words than a mod ern writer uses In portraying the visit of a President to San Francisco. The account given by the author of Genesis does not reveal to us the method of crea tion, but simply the fact, and the ex planation of the fact is found In the sub lime statement, 'In the beginning God.' "In the first chapter of Genesis the mat ter and form of historical utterance are put within a parallelism worthy of 6tudy. The opening and closing words corre spond, and the whole Is presented In two halves, each half having three days, and each day of the first three being parallel with the corresponding day of the sec ond three. Our Bibles in English would seem to speak of natural days In the history of creation, but the original tongue the Hebrew permits more lati tude. Notice creation is spoken of 'In the beginning, an indefinitely remote pe riod of hoary past. The earth's surface goes on with a gradual advance from rocks to vegetation, the lower forms of animals, to birds, and lastly man last of all. "The study of the earth speaks of ma rine plants, two marine animals, three land plants and four land animals, while in Genesis we have one plant, two ma rine animals, three land animals. Here Is a difference of account which does not rise Into a contradiction of statement. "Was man directly created, or was he developed? Man could be made by a long-advancing process. The objection to this view is rather from science than the Bible. The explorers of nature have not yet proved that all species came out of species less perfect. Indeed, all sci entists know that new and remarkable forms have appeared, with no hints of their coming. Look at instinct Profes sor Darwin, In the 'Origin of Species,' one of the few great books of the pre ceding century, did not attempt to ex plain why the parents of the working bee are neither builders nor makers of honey. "Look at civilization. Civilization is to be taken to the Philippines from with out It Is a long way from Aguinaldo to "Washington. Barbarous people look back to more civilized conditions. The wild state is natural to brutes; the civ ilized condition is trie normal of man. Let the domestic animal return to a wild animal, and it becomes more powerful; but If man goes back to a wild man, he becomes more feeble and dies. If man was slowly made, there was a time in the making when a soul was given him, for only soul can be developed into soul." Trrenty-EIfirht New Members. The services at the First Congregational Church yesterday morning were of un usual Interest. A larere audience assem bled to welcome new members and cele brate the Lord's Supper. It was the last communion season before the pastor's va cation, which will be longer than usual this year.. Twenty-eight new members wore received, 14 by letter from other churches and 14 on confession of faith. This is the result of faithful and earnest work on the part of the members, and Is considered to be a fitting climax to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the church. PLUGKY BOY SCOUTS, Two Arizona Lads "Who Have Helped Their Father Capture Bandits. Chicago Inter Ocean. Phoenix Ariz. Two young heroes have been developed In Arizona. The "boy scouts" Dick and Alfred Boscha, 14 and 15 years of age, diminutive of stature and with simple and childlike faces and manners have accompanied their father, Pete Boscha, Deputy Sheriff at Congress, Ariz., on the most perilous expeditions and criminal hunts, never flinching in their duties and braving leaden missiles from ambushes with the impunity of two boys engaged in snowballing. They started their crusade against san guinary Indians and desperadoes more than two years ago, when they had scarcely ceased lisping their numbers, but they began the practice of pistols and rifles at an age when the ordinary lad mounts his first hobby horse. The early predilection of Dick and Alfred for fire arms delighted the father, and before his wife could offer remonstrance, he had purchased for his two sons two brilliant nickel-plated pistols that were the envy of the older boys of the ancient pueblo. For marksmanship the two Boscha boys outrivaled everything in the community. "I can't remember when I didn't want to kill Indians and bad men," said young Dick Boscha. "When I got my pistols I used to shoot at tin cans and beer bottles. Then I would hunt jack rabbits, and then my father took me and my brother with him when we trailed three Indians that had murdered some squaws. We could ride norses as well as the men, and we helped them to trail because our eyes were better. We were never afraid. My mother wants us to stay at home, but my father says he trailed outlaws for 25 years and never was even wounded by a bullet. Alfred and me want to be Sher iffs some day." The boys are both very much under sized. Although their swarthy complex ions indicate a liberal flow of Latin blood in their veins, they speak the English language with more fluency than French or Mexican, and frequently they are found entertaining American visitors with their experiences and tales of hair-breadth es capes. President McKinley, In his trip to the Congress mine, recently heard of the wonderful achievements of the youths, and called to Dick, who was pointed out as one of the lads, assiduously following the President and his Cabinet officers along the trail leading over the Congress Mountains to the workings. The Presi dent placed his hand on the lad's shaggy head and complimented his early brav ery. A few moments later the boy was posing at Secretary Cortelyou's sugges tion, with the President and several dis tinguished members of the party, before an array of artists on the rock-ribbed side of the mountains. He modestly took the extended hands of statesmen as they filed by him and retired to his mountain home. He had ridden over the mountain to see the Chief Magistrate, of whom he heard but meager mention during his life of iso lation. Alfred Boscha first distinguished him self two years ago by the capture of Slno vla Garcia., a notorious Mexican desper ado. Garcia made love to a pretty young bride and alienated her affection from her husband. Manuel Valdez. Garcia and the wronged man fought a sensational duel in the mountains near Congress by a prearrangement which contemplated a survival of the fittest. Both were wound ed, but the wronged husband fell a fatal victim to the bullets of his hated en emy, and the latter made for his moun tain rendezvous to join his companions and plan for the capture of the young widow. Sheriff John Munds, of Gavapal County. Deputy Sheriff Pete Boscha and his two sons started In pursuit of the bandit, and, after following the trail for some distance, separated. Several days later Alfred encountered the duelist In a lonely canyon and succeeded in getting the "drop" on him. Garcia surveyed the dwarfed and youth ful figure before him with considerable amusement, and laughed at the boy's as sertion that he was under arrest He reached for his gun, when young Boscha opened fire, chipping off one of Garcia's ears and sending two bullets through his hat This was convincing proof of Al fred's aim, and the bandit surrendered himself unconditionally. A few months later Dick Boscha was the hero of a capture that was equally as remarkable. Vicente Ortego and two others cut the throat of an Italian and robbed him of considerable gold dust The lad trailed the murderer over precipitous mountains, and, after several days, .re turned wlthjilm triumphantly. Ortego Is now serving- a life sentence In prison at Yuma for his misdeeds. The Weaver district, where the Boschas live, 'is the heart of what once consti tuted the bad lands of Arizona. Policeman "Was the Iceman. Policeman Shanahan, of the Chicago force, agrees with dog fanciers that not one dog In 500 Is afflicted with rabies when accused of being mad, but is suffer ing from some other disorder, says the New York Sun. So when he was called yesterday to kill a "mad dog," the pet of Mrs. Charles Edwards, Instead of bringing his revolver to play, he ordered some Ice brought. "That dog is no more mad than I am," said Shanahan. "It is simply suffering from heat, and I'll try a different remedy than bullets." Ice was brought and the policeman cracked it Into small pieces, and bound It on the animal's head. Then he led the dog into the shade of a tree, where he tied It with a rope. In a few minutes he dog's blood began to cool and it wagged Its rail as If to show its gratitude for what had been done to alleviate Its Buffering. Later in the day Mrs. Edwards ?Hca up the police station to Inform Shanahan that her pet? was as well as ever, and to thank him for The common sense he displayed. m It is a curious fact that all the three coun try houses of Sir "WaRer Scott in Scotland are at present to let Lasswade Cottage (occupied from 170S to 1804), Ashiestlel (occuplbd from 1S04 to 1812) and Abbotsford (hie hoige from 1812 onward). THE MOBNING FOUGHT IN A NORTHER WIPING OUT OF VALDE'S GANG OF CATTLE THIEVES. Cowboys Met and Gave Them Battle in One of the Terrible Texas Storms. Half a dozen cowboys, with old Major Lewis, the boss, and black Sam, cook of the outfit, were camped for the night in Wild Rose Pass, 20 miles north of the Limpia River, after having gone through a fierce norther, which had driven the big bunch of cattle which they were herding into the woods and canyons for refuge, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. After the boys had swallowed their coffee and ash cakes for there wasn't a man on the frontier who could make such ash cakes as old Sam-Hod Jackeon struck a match, lit his pipe, raised up on his elbow and said: "That was a lively old whistler, boys, and I don't remember a worse one In my 15 years' experience." "I recollect one o' them northers thet 'd give this yer zeffir cards an' spades an' then 'd discount It" said Bill Little, a six and a half foot giant, who, with the exception of Black Sam, was probably the strongest man in Texas. "That must have been the norther that struck the panhandle m '88," said the Major. "That was the worst one I ever saw." "That was the yeer, Major," replied Bill. "Thet norther wiped out more cat tle on the frontier in 24 hours than the hull of any Winter since '79, but et did some good 'long with the bad." "How was that, Bill? if a norther ever did any good, we'd like to hear of it Let's have the story." "Wal, I don't mind tellin' it, seeln thet yer cu'ro&Ity's excited. It was late in the fall of '88 thet a gang o' Juan Valde's rustlers an' hoss thieves raided Sunset ranche an' got away with nearly a thou san' head o' steers afore we know's et Ole Colonel Vanceburg, the boss, c'lect ed 20 of the boys soon as he heerd of the raid an' took up the trail. I was one o thet crowd, an' it was a good one, too. We follered 'em up as fast as hossflesh 'd stand it an' struck their rear guard on Reboso Crlk. They was 'bout 30 of them greasers In thet crowd, an they was fighters, but they couldn't etan us long, an' in less'n a hour we drove 'em back a-kltln' with the loss of six men four killed an' two wounded. 'Course we didn't hev no amb-lance long, an as we couldn't sen' 'em back comflt'ble like, we p'roled 'em- "What you laffin' at, Tod?" "Paroled them! Ha, ha!" laughed Jackson. "Yes, sir: et was a pecan tree, ef I r'member k'ree'ly. Wal, as I was goln ter say, 'bout the time we had drlv the greasers back, Jeff Rogers, one of our fellers, heP up his han' an' said: 'Boys, thar's a norther cummin' shore, an et's goln' ter be a whooper, too. Smell the ar?' As soon a& I smelt thet hot puff o' win' I know'd an' everybody else know'd thet thar was sroln' ter be a mlty change In the climate o' Texas befo many min its. an', as all o' our crowd was ole, 'sperienced frontiersmen, we looked 'round for a hole ter crawl Into. T,ro u,i , i i tt .i.rr.r' :r',-J "Sr""a!"V.e L11U.1 H. llLLir LJlt? KILL litlllll fill Ilia nri tr crost that divide rite in front. If we kin reach it we're oafe. Ride straight ahead, every man of you, for if we're caught out in this norther we're goners.' An' ride we did, but 'bout the time we struck the top of the divide we could see a big, lead colored cloud reachin 'way up inter the flrm'ment rite ahead of us an not five miles off; an even then we could feel chunks of cold like icicles jabbin' us In the face an' cuttin thro' our duds like bullets a hlttln half inch bo'rds. 'Great Scott,' yelled the boss, 'she's comln' like a race hoss, an' we've got a mile ter go ylt Ride!' An we did, but thar was no persprashun runnln' down our backs, fur the cold was fast drivln all the heat out o our bodies. We struck the foot of the divide, an' turned up about ha'f mile from the ole log hut, trnen one o the men yelled: 'Dummy hide, ef thar ain't a crowd o greasers cummin' down the valley.' Shore nuff, jest about as fur away up the valley from the cabin as we w.as down the valley, ef thar wasn't plumb 40 greasers a puttln' In ther best licks. They'd seen the norther comln' an some of 'em had heard or knowed of the old shanty an' they was a rldln' full gal lop fur It " 'Pistols, boys; it's a fight or a freeze,' yelled the boss. 'Don't let the blamed greasers reach the cabin before we do or we're goners. Come on. "Say, but that was a ride! The cold wind cut like knlve's, but we didn't hev time to freeze, then. It was a tight race, an' fur a time I thought ther greasers would git thar ahead of us, but they didn't, fer ef they had this hoss wouldn't be heer now. We didn't beat them, nuther, but we struck them less'n a hundred yards In front cf the old cabin. 'Jack,' yelled the boss, just as we struck the crowd, an' as the pistols began to crack, 'you an' Bill an' Red Sam break fur the cabin an' hoi' it Shoot to kill! An' off went the boys, leavln' the rest of us to fite the greasers. "Just then the breast of the norther struck the crowd. Say! But It was cold. The sand pelted us like needles; the leaves, dried grass an' small limbs hit us in the face an' on the hands, cuttin the hide like a mlllyun needles; pistols cracked, knives flashed, men cursed an' yelled, an every mlnut a feller'd drap an freeze stiff afore he hit the groun'. I heerd the boss yell, 'Now, boys, every man of you break for the cabin!' an I J REV. A. J. FROST, D. D., OF LOS ANGELES. . J ) WHO PREACHED AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LAST EVENING. OKEGONIAN, MONDAY knowed he was rite, fur human natur couldn't stan' it much longer. I scarcely know how I got to the cabin, but I did somehow, an' so did all the rest of our fellers, 'ceptln' three what had gone un der, an' -half of the rest was wounded, mor'n less. "But we wasn't done with the greasers yet. They'd hed the same Idee at the same time, an' thar "we was all mixed up, afltln' rite roun' the door of the shanty. Et was mlty lucky that the boss had or dered three of our fellers to take posses sion of the shanty when he did, fur them fellers wan't froze so bad like the rest of us that they couldn't cock their pis tols, for they were perfected from the wind a good deal by the walls. Red Sam an' Bill an' Jack, seeln' our perdlc'ment, rushed In an' soon cleaned out the greasers or drlv 'em back, fur they, like our crowd, was friz so stiff thet they couldn't han'Ie their knives or guns. "As soon as we could git off our hosses we crowded into the cabin and led our hosses after us. Then we managed some ho wto shet the door an fasten It. We were all so blame near froze to death thet nobody could light a match. Some of the boys managed to kick a lot of ole, dry bark off'n tho logs, somehow, an' Red Sam tuk a box o' matches an lit 'em by grindln' 'em under his hoof In the ole fireplace. While they was a burnin' other fellers managed to kick tergethcr a lot o' dry sticks and litter, an' we soon hed a fire agoln. Bill Rogers broke down a' ole bunk which was fastened to the wall, an one of the other fellers hauled up a ole table made out'n a split log an' shoved 'em into the fire. Pretty soon the Are blazed up lively an' we crowded roun clost as we could git. The ole cabin hed been built tight, an' though it hedn't bin occupied for years the daubln in the jlnts of the logs was ylt mos'ly thar. "It. mite a bin a half hour, mebbe more, afore we begin to git thawed out, but soon as our fingers begun ter limber up a little, the boss called for volunteers to go out an fetch In our three fellers. We managed ter fin 'em, somehow, though the snow an sleet an' wind was so thick we couldn't see half a dozen feet, but it wa'n't no use; they was all three froze hard as rocks. We didn't pay no 'tentlon to the greasers. "That thar norther lasted two days, an we hed 'bout tore up an burnt the hull floor It was made of heavy punch eonsafore it quit Of co'se we was on shorty rations, an our hosses didn't hev nothlh', but thet was a heap better'n beln froze to death, an' when the storm let up we rid out mighty weak, but fcel ln' like livin"." "What became of the greasers?" inter rupted Tod. "We foun 11 of 'em whar we'd fit 'em, an we foun' three more less'n a. hunderd yard further up the valley. The rest of 'em must a took ter the bresh, an ef they did I s'pose they're thar ylt, fur no human beln' could stan' that cold. "I forgot to tell you how we caught Juan Valde, the boss of the greaser out fit. He was a slick one, I tell you! 'Bout a mile up the valley thar is a little glen or gap, an as we was passln It one of the boys yelled out: " 'Fellers, thar a b'ar or suthln' in that holler log up in that gap. I saw suthln crawl inter It jes now. S'pose we go over thar an' git it; b'ar meat'd go mighty good jest 'bout this time.' "An' over half a dozen of us went, an' what ye s'pose we foun'? 'Twan't b'ar, an twa'nt a coon ner a possum; et was a pa'r of Mexican boots that we seed about three foot up that holler log. Them boots cum out mighty quick when one of "1C uu5 koi- "oi t the boys got hoP of 'em, an' they was Mexican's feet in 'em, II in a - " 'Say,' yelled one of the boys, when the greaser was pulled out an' stood up. 'ef it ain't that devil Valde I'm a liar!' An' it was. The greaser Cap'n knowed of that holler log, an' when he saw that thar was a mighty good chanst of freezln' er glttln' wiped out, he deserted his crowd an' broke fer It An' how'd you s'pose the cuss kep warm? Why, he had foun' a couple o' young b'ar cub3 in the holler when he crawled in, an he knifed 'em both an' pulled 'em out; then he crawled back an fastened up the mouth of the hole with their bodies. It was a slick scheme. The cubs war thar yit, an' we eat 'em fur our dinner." "What did you do with Juan?" Inquired Tod Jackson. "Took him 'long with us till we got back, an then we struck his mortal coll down by the crick whar a big sycamore tree hoi's Its umbreller over the catfish ter keep 'em from glttln freckled." Will Not Work . Anywhere. New York Tribune. Labor Is so much in demand In some of the Western States that the wandering tramp Is pressed Into service and com pelled to do a yeoman's part in gathering the crops. It is well that the "hobo" way farer should be compelled to earn his bread In the sweat of his brow when he can be caught and sent out upon the farms. But the, scheme of shipping troops of the Idle seekers of alms In New York to the Western wheat fields at the e pense of the city is visionary and lm practlcable. Transporting Weary Willies from Cherry Hill to Wichita is not a bur den which should be imposed upon the municipal treasury. What Sickles Is Doing:. Philadelphia Ledger. General Sickles Is doing his best to bring the Grand Army of the Republic Into discredit. He now says that organi zation wants a Pension Commissioner who has had Army experience, who can sympathize with the old. soldiers, and who will "construe the statutes liberally." His previous utterances show what that means. He wants a man who will ignore the statutes and open the Treasury to the spoilsmen. It Is not believed that the Grand Army .wishes to override the laws for the benefit of men who do not deserve a place in it JULY 8, 1901. THE GAMBLING INSTINCT HARPER PROFESSOR SAYS IT IS ALMOST UNIVERSAL. Effort Seems to Be to Acquire Gain Without the Usnnl Necessary ' Drudgery. I have always been o ftho opinion of Dr. Johnson that the worst that can be said of gambling Is, that It Is a waste of time, and this, of course, can only apply to a person who, If he were not gambling, would devote his time to some more useful purpose. Thla can be said of very few gamblers.- Laboucbere, In the Look Out Weil, well, it Is a sad thing, no doubt. But we are all going to try and bear up under the affliction, says a writer In the Philadelphia Telegraph. Sorry are we to see our good friend Jerome, amiable but misguided chap, in the doleful dumps. But he was bound to get there; he would not take advice from the wise and kind, of whom we are in the front pew. The poor fellow has so "convinced himself that he was a sec ond Theodore Roosevelt, able to mount on the wings of quixotic endeavor to high office and fat salary, that he 'Insisted on climbing his Rosinante and putting spurs to it. We tried to hold him back. In vain. And now that he lies tangled amid the debris of the Committee of Fifteen, to which he had harnessed his piebald steed, we feel exceedingly sorry for him. But, as I said before, we will endeavor to bear up with that fortitude and phil osophy which comes from years of hard training along Broadway. No Fat Office Awaits. We fear, good Justice Jerome, that neither a Governorship nor a Presidency awaits you as the result of your recent abortive raids on what you are pleased to term the "gambling fraternity" of New York. However, cheer up! You are young yet. Possibly a wiser course m&y suggest itself to you in the future. I like Jerome. I have known him ever since he was a lean, earnest, self-opinionated young law student Even during his apprenticeship In the law he was al ways striving to knock down windmills in Don Quixote fashion. But ho was so manly and straightforward about his foolishness that one could not help feel ing proud of his courage while laughing at his want of common sense. I knew his father before him a royal good fel low, one of the gamest gamblers and most lovable men that ever graced Broadway with his sunny presence. He won and lost great fortunes in games of chance, in Wall street, on the racetrack, at the poker table. He was not ashamed of It, either. Why should he be? I won der what he would think of the ground and lofty tumbling of his son, If he were here to see It? However, let us not get personal. It is bad form, you know. But for an out-and-out vindication, com mend us to the remarks of Professor W. I. Thomas, sociological and biological ex pert in the Harper University, who de claresand brings the facts and figures lb prove it that the only children of Adam who are worth while are those who gamble In some form or another. "What the Professor Says. The love of gain. Professor Thomas says, while It -doubtless plays a part In intensifying the gambling Instinct which is alive in all healthy, normal men, Is by no means the whole thing. The founda tion for the fascination, he says, lies In the fact that "gambling Is a means of keeping up the conflict interest? and of securing all the pleasure pain sensations of conflict activity with little effort and no drudgery." The gambling Instinct was born in the first man. It arose from, the conflict or competition necessary tfo enable man to get hla food. It has been handed down from that man to the present day by di rect Inheritance, and the man who makes a series of abortive raids In the hope that the gods of chance will turn to his future profit and give him exaltted office Is but appealing to the same gods of chance that he pretends to condemn. "In gambling." says Professor Thomas, "the risk is Imminent, the attention strained, the emotions strong; and even where the element of skill is removed en. tlrely and the decision left? to chance, an emotional reaction analagous to the feel ing in thD genuine conflict is felt. From this viewpoint our problem is not so much to account for the gambler as to account for the business man. ''The gambling instinct is born In all normal persons. It is one expresset of a powerful reflex fixed far back In animal experience. The Instinct is in Itself right and indispensable, but we discriminate between its applications.. It Is valued In war and business, It expresses itself in a thousand forms in the games of children and in the college athletics; it is ap proved in such expressions as golf, tennis and billiards, as a recreation for the man of affairs; but society justly condomns the exercise of the Instinct aside from activi ties which create values. The value may be in the increased health and vigor which the business man derives from recreation, or it may be in the creation of wealth by this same man in a competitive business, but the gamester pure and simple is not regarded with favor by society, because he creates no values and is therefore para sltlcal, and is, besides, a dlsorganlzer of the habits of others." Give Professor Thomas a man without the gambling instinct and he will show you a drone, a lazy ne'er-do-well, a man without ambition, the soiled tramp by the wayside, the husband of the lady who washes, and who lives, unehamed, by her toll. Give him a man of moment, whether he be the proud occupant of a great pulpit, worthy of the place a Pres lCent of the United States, a General, a cmeitain, a great captain or commerce, a financier, a great merchant, or editor, or poet aye, or a politician worth the name success and you will find a natural-bom gambler. Cannot Be Suppressed. "Gambling," says Mr. Crlmmlns, wisely, "never has been, and never can be sup pressed." Why, all the world's a gam bling house, and men and women but the players In it, and young Jerome sits at the table, but up to the present time he has shuffled the cards poorly, and played them even worse, poor fellow. In order to show the conflict interest which is Inherent In the human race, Professor Thomas cites the fact that men and women, too, will pause and watch a street fight They go In floods to see a football contest, a gamble on the baseball green, a handicap or suburban. And they gamble with heart and soul at any of these grand conflicts of the war of peace. "There are," says Professor Thomas, "among the bookmakers, card and con fidence men, professional billlardlsts and adventurers, men who by every psycho logical test have a high grade of Intelli gence. They have excellent associative memories, capacity to see general rela tions amid details, to reach judgments quickly and surely, and to readjust them selves skillfully to changing situation. While there are In this class men of ordi nary Intelligence, there are others who, under the proper conditions, would have taken high rank In the Army, In educa tion, In the ministry, In business and poll tics, and in literature and art, just as there are men In these professions who, In the absence of normal opportunities and copies for Imitation, would have turned out card or confidence men, keep ers of gambling establishments or thugs." Domestic and Foreign Porta. ASTORIA, July 7. Sailed at 4 A. M. Steamer Columbia, for San Francisco. Sailed at 7:15 A. M. Steamer Alliance, for San Francisco, by way of Oregon Coast ports. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M smooth; wind, northwest; weather, clear. San Francisco, July 7. Sailed at 11 A. M. Steamer Geo. W. Elder, for Portland. COmUtHT MM IT TKI NtSCTI A 1AU1VC eo.QIKCIPIKATJ TWO SPHERE are two H.l. 'V'M what it costs and what it pays you. Cork costs 8 cents a pound, but if you are drown ing half a mile from shore, its value would be "not what you pay for cork, but what cork saves you' When a woman buys soaps she often con fuses the two values. She sees only what she pays. She overlooks what she receives. Now a single cake of Ivory Soap pays back from ten to twenty times its cost in the saving it effects. Test it your self I Vegetable Oil Soap. Ivory white. It floats! Arrived at 8:40 A II. Schooner Repeat, from Knappton. Hoqulam, Wash. Sailed July 5 Schooner Lizzie Vance, from Hoqulam for San Francisco. July 6 Steamer Grace Dollar, from Hoqulam for San Francisco; schooner Oceania Vance, from Aberdeen for San Francisco; schooner Peerless, from Aberdeen for San Francisco. Ar rivedSteamer Coqullle River, from San Francisco for Aberdeen. Sailed, July 7 Steamer Newberg, from Aberdeen for San Francisco. San Francisco, July 7. Arrived Schoon. er Volante, from. Coos Bay; steamer Rival, from Willapa Harbor. Sailed Bark Levi G. Burgess, for Tacoma; steamer Fulton, for Willapa Harbor; steamer Samoa, for Gray's Harbor. New York, July 7. Arrived Menominee, from London; La Normandle, from Havre; Potsdam, from Rotterdam; Penin sula, from Lisbon, via Azores. Dover, July 7. Passed. Grosser Kur furst, from Bremen for Cherbourg and New York. Antwerp, July 7. Arrived Vaderland, from New York. Moville, July 7. Arrived City of Rome, from New York, for Glasgow and pro ceeded. Gibraltar, July 7. Sailed Trave, from Genoa and Naples, for New York. Queenstown, July 7. Sailed Umbria, via Liverpool, for New York. Philadelphia, July 7. Arrived Waes land, from Liverpool and Queenstown; Co rean. from Glasgow and Liverpool, via St Johns, N. F., and Halifax, N. S. Law of Mixing: Brandy Julep. 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