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."
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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
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San Francisco, July 7. Sailed at 11 A.
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Hoqulam, Wash. Sailed July 5
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Dollar, from Hoqulam for San Francisco;
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Steamer Newberg, from Aberdeen for San
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from Willapa Harbor. Sailed Bark Levi
G. Burgess, for Tacoma; steamer Fulton,
for Willapa Harbor; steamer Samoa, for
Gray's Harbor.
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Queenstown, July 7. Sailed Umbria,
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