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TOIITLAKD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5.
irrigation problems.
People of Utah are taking great in
terest in legislation looking-to the Irri
gation of arid lands. Last week a state
convention on this subject was held at
Salt Lake City. It will hold another
session early In April. The convention
adopted a memorial to Congress asking
that all the remaining arid lands within
the State of Utah be ceded to the state
for the purpose of extending and per
fecting the Irrigation systems. Resolu
tions were adopted favoring the control
of the watersheds by the people resid
ing on the flow from them, favoring the
forest reserve policy of the United
States, and approving the Newlands
bill In Congress, as amended by Rep
resentative Sutherland, of Utah.
Although the mountain ranges of
Utah furnish considerable water supply
and the flow of the Colorado and its
tributaries from other states through
Utah is heavy, yet the climatic condi
tions of Utah place the state In the
"arid" class. In most, perhaps all, the
valleys, irrigation is necessary, or at
least very desirable. The state is as
well watered, on the whole, as Eastern
Oregon. But Utah finds complications
with other states In control of some of
Its streams. Bear River flows for a dis
tance through Wyoming; Green River,
rising in Wyoming, enters Utah, makes
a detour into Colorado and returns
thence to Utah with the Grand River
forming the Colorado, which continues
its course through Utah and into Ari
zona. The Salt Lake convention recog
nized the necessity of conferences with
other states, on the use of the water
from the streams which issue from their
borders.
This subject Is before the Supreme
Court of the United States, on a suit
to determine a controversy between the
States of Colorado and Kansas. The
Arkansas River, rising in Colorado, for
merly sent a strong stream through
Kansas; but the water is used now in
such quantities for Irrigation by the
people of Colorado that the Kansans,
during the dry season, when of course
they want water most, get none at all.
The case Is exactly similar to that of
the Rio Grande, which at El Paso,
Texas, is a dry bed large part of the
year; and Mexico, having a joint inter
est with the United States In tru
stream,' Is charging up damages and
losses every year against the United
States with the intention at favorable
opportunity of pressing them for settle
ment Kansas has brought suit against
Colorado to prevent the diversion of the
waters of the Arkansas from their nat
ural bed alleging that the diversion af
fects 2,500,000 acres of land, much of it
owned by the State of Kansas Itself.
The grievance of Kansas Is the greater,
from the fact that the western part of
the state has little rainfall, and It ha
bitually depends in large degree on the
streams that Issue from the Rocky
Mountains.
In proportion to the arid lands of the
country there Is scarcity of water, and
controversies of this nature, between
the states, are likely to 'become very
frequent. Can the General Government
enter upon the irrigation of the arid
lands of the states, on any considerable
scale, without first having it settled
whether, and on what principles, these
contentions are to be adjusted? How to
prevent the people of a state in which
streams have their sources from using
all the water they want, even if the
streams should be exhausted, is a
troublesome question. It will be Inter
esting to see how the Supreme Court of
the United States will deal with it
ELECTION OP ROAD SUPERVISORS.
The State Legislature at its last ses
sion made certain modifications In the
regulations governing the election of
Road Supervisors which must be re
garded in the coming general election.
The law as it now stands provides that
the County Courts shall, when they may
deem it necessary, but not oftener than
once in two years divide their respect
ive counties into convenient road dis
tricts, each of which shall be given a
specific number. No road district shall
be so made that it shall be partly In one
precinct and rartly in another. All the
territory within any Incorporated town
or city may be one road district The
system provided by this act Is required
by the terms of the act to be inaugu
rated at the. January term of each
County Court for 1902 last January.
And at the January term -of court
every two years thereafter, and at no
other time, such changes may be made
as the rniirrs mav flppm npwwarv
, rf. .
It is further provided that at the gen-
eral election of 1902 and every two years
thereafter there shall be elected In each
election precinct In which there is one
or more road districts a Road Super
visor for each road district. The person
ihus chosen must be a resident of the
district, and the term of his office la
two years, - or until his successor Is
elected and qualified. Each person en
titled to vote for precinct officers Is en
titled to vote for one Road Supervisor
for each road district
Before entering upon the discharge of
his duties, each Road Supervisor is re
quired to take the usual oath of office;
and Jt is provided that any perssn who
shall fail or refuse to accept the office
of Road Supervisor after having been
elected shall be fined In the sum of 25,
the fine to go to road purposes within
the district The County Courts are au
thorized to fill all vacancies In the office
of Road Supervisor.
INDUSTRIAL SUGGESTIONS.
The enterprise of the O. R. & N. Co.
In Importing 200 blood bulls to Ore
gon and Washington in an effort to
bring up the quality of our range herds
Is suggestive of many things. Nothing
counts for so much in the general mar
kets as quality, whether it be In beef
stock, a bate of hops or a box of apples,
and, broadly speaking. It costs the pro
ducer scarcely more to turn out a prod
uct of good quality as distinct from a
product of bad quality. A steer com
pounded of bones, horns, muscle and
tough hide, all but worthless In any
market where first-class beef is wanted,
and worth little anywhere or for any
purpose, costs as much at a marketable
age as does a Hereford or Shorthorn J
grade whose market value is three
times as much. The ranger requires as
much food, is, In fact more difficult to
carry through a severe Winter, and Is
less easily handled than the steer of
better breed.
And to a considerable extent the prin
ciple holds good In connection with
every other product It costs more, to
be .sure, to prune, to spray and properly
harvest an apple orchard than to neg
lect it and allow its crop to become in
fected, at last to fall to the ground of
its own weight' and then be scooped up
and sent to market without sorting, but
the first method will yield more'apples
and better apples and will bring larger
returns. The demand everywhere now
adays Is for products of first-class -quality,
and any farmer or any country who
puts a second-class product upon the
market must be content with a second
class price. It pays to put the best
blood Into herds, to put the best varie
ties in the orchard, to select the best
and to apply the principle of thorough
ness everywhere; and under the condi
tions of modern competition there Is no
chance of prosperity through any other
principle or method.
There is in this large importation of
blooded sires the suggestion of a busi
ness opportunity for the farmers of the
Willamette Valley. The large range
stock industry, which spreads over a
vast section relatively near at hand,
calls each year for a large number of
blooded sires bulls, boars and rams.
The volume of this demand from East
ern Oregon. Eastern Washington, Mon
tana, Idaho and Nevada is not appar
ent because It la nowhere concentrated,
but it aggregates many hundred head
of fine stock at double butchers' prices,
It supports many large breeding estab
lishments both In the Middle West and
in Canada, the business going there be
cause there are no sources of supply
nearer home. If the Willamette Valley
were able to supply the demand for
blooded sires In even a few leading
lines, notably in cattle, sheep and hogs,
it would bring into Oregon no less than
a half million dollars per year.
There Is no reason why we should not
do it The conditions here are in every
way favorable. An expert in these mat
ters visiting Oregon a season or two
back declared Western Oregon to be an
ideal situation for the production -of the
most profitable crop which can be pro
duced In any country, namely, that of
blooded sires, which always sell foi
fancy prices. The market for sires is
one that grows rather than declines
upon the basis of generous supply. It
is, as all stockmen understand, not pru
dent to breed continuously from the
same strain. Each year calls for a new
equipment of sires for the sheep ranges,
and every season of two years certainly
calls for a similar change on the cattle
ranges. And when once the high stand
ard of a herd Is established, there are
a multitude of reasons calling for its
maintenance. All this, of course, tends
to make the business of breeding sires
a continuing and profitable one.
THE FLOUR MILLS "MERGER."
From a Portland standpoint, perhaps
the best feature of the rumors concern
ing the milling combine Is the improba
bility of the differences of the Interested
parties being reconciled. Mr. Wilcox
and hla associates have made Port
land's milling business famous the
world over, and have from a small be
ginning built up an enormous trade
with the Orient It does not necessarily
follow that Portland will suffer In the
event of the big deal being carried
through. It is certain, however, that
we have nothing to gain by the change,
and if Mr. Wilcox decides to part witr
his Interests and withdraw from the
active management of the enterprise,
Portland will be a clear loser by the
formation of the trust Others men
tioned in connection with the consolida
tion scheme are aliens so far as Port
land is concerned, and have no such
interests in this city as are now guard
ed by-Mr Wilcox and his associates.
It is frequently stated that there if
no sentiment in business, and while
there may be an element of truth in
the statement, it Is subject to qualifica
tion. When a man has grown up In a
community and become prominently
identified with its industrial and com
mercial growth, as is the case with Mr.
Wilcox and his associates, a certain
amount .of "aentiment is involved in
their business operations. Civic pride
or patriotism may frequently offset x
seeming advantage, offered by rival
porta, and, everything else being equal,
a man will stand by the place he calls
his home. Portland's milling business
will undoubtedly continue to grow Ir
the future as It has In the past hut no
trust can ever do any more for the busl
ness In Portland than has already been
done by the Portland Flouring Mills
Company.
With this exception and objection,
Portland can probably view with
equanimity the attempts to effect a flour
trust, as outlined In yesterday's Orego
nlan. This city will still remain the
only port in the Pacific Northwest to
which the raw material can be hauled
to the flour mills by a down-hill grade,
and this is an advantage which cannot
. v... u u,u uv.aUiutc Trunin btmuui
be overlooked even by the largest trust
THE. MORNING
that attempts to do business In our ter- "l
ruory. The development of the Oriental
flour trade by Mr. Wilcox made- It pos
sible for Portland to establish a line of
-steamers to the Orient and the estab
lishment of this line was a prominent
factor In causing the river channel to
be improved. We have been taught
how to attract trade to the port, and
how to take care of it after It is here,
and by the time the flour trust, merger
or consolidation settles the large-sized
differences now confronting It, and gets
down to business as a -trust, Portland
will probably have enough inducements
to offer to assure at least a portion of
the business to which, by our prestige
and geographical 'location, we are enti
tled. Meanwhile, the various corpora
tions mentioned as making overtures
toward the formation of a ""trust are
grinding out flour on individual ac
count, and may continue to do so for an
indefinite period. '
A BRAVE AND SHREWD MAN.
The decision of President Roosevelt
to go to Charleston Is most sensible
The people of Charleston are in no way
responsible for the ruffianism of Sena
tor Tillman, or for the insolence of
Lieutenant-Governor Tillman. The Gov
ernor of South Carolina has already
expressed his disapproval of the ontlcj
of Senator Tillman, and his wish that
the state was more fitly represented in
the Senate; the Columbia (S. C.) State,
a paper politically opposed to McLaurln,
ssutalns President Roosevelt In his posi
tion of withdrawing his Invitation to
Tillman to dine; the advertised recipi
ent of the sword, Major Jenkins, has
refused to be a party to the attempt
of Lieutenant-Governor Tillman to In
sult the President Under these cir
cumstances President Roosevelt could
not afford to decline to visit the
Charleston Exposition; it would have
been an act of moral cowardice on his
part which would justly have earned
him the contempt of the people of South
Carolina. Southern men admire a man
of pluck who stands by his guns, and
we predict Charleston and the whole
State of South Carolina will give the
President a hearty welcome.
Of course, nobody has ever suspected
President Roosevelt of a lack of pug
nacity, but he has been charged, before
he became President, with deficiency in
the saving quality of discretion. Thus
far, however, the President has acted
with unflinching moral courage and re
markable discretion. He is not only a
very bold man, but he can be a notably
shrewd man on occasion. He has been
in office not quite six months; he has
dodged no question; he has met even'
emergency and responsibility fairly and
fearlessly; he has apologized, for noth
ing, not even his dinner Invitation to
Booker Washington; he has taken the
insidious enemies and violators of the
civil service rules promptly by the col
lar and given them sharp notice to obey
the law In letter and spirit or expect
removal; he has reduced General Miles
to his proper proportions; he has moved
in the courts against the Northern Se
curities Company; he has warned th
great railways against further defiance
or evasion of the interstate commerce
act; he has dispassionately reviewed
and sustained the judgment of the
Schley court of Inquiry, and altogethe:
President Roosevelt makes the impres
sion that he is not only a man of self
confldence,. but, .what Is more Import
ant, a man of self-possession "resolution
and courage. Good sense, veracity,
courage and firmness are great qualities
that, when found In unison, will gener
ally acsure success In the upper walks
of high statesmanship.
President Roosevelt has thus far dis
appointed nobody save his enemies; and
he counts among his friends today not
only all shades of Republicans, but a
great many patriotic Democrats anc
"Independents." Even anti-Imperialist
journals confess that he is likely to br
renominated without a contest and ad
mit that, outside of his Philippine pol
icy, they are able heartily to support
his Administration. The President's
career Is watched with the deepest In
terest by high-minded men, who admire
a President who refuses to play the
part of a shifty, cunning politician In
his great office. The salvation of the
President has been his Ingenuousness
of purpose; he has not used his office
as an opportunity to reward his friends
oc punish hl3 enemies or assure his own
renomlnation. He has simply tried to
do his full duty as fast as he found it
and trust to the uprightness of hls rec
ord as his best and only title to re
nomination. And -he will win, as Uri
coin won, as a statesman; as Grant
won, as a warrior, by letting his repu
tation take care of itself so long as hla
duty was done. He that seeketh fame
rather than to do his duty shall lose it;
but be that is ready to risk his fame
In order to do his duty shall find It
WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE!
An advance of a dollar or two per
thousand in the price of lumber will
perhaps be unsatisfactory to most of
the users of that valuable commodity,
but as a general advantage to
Oregon the advance will be most
welcome. It will add more than $1,000,
000 to the value of the annual output
of the mills of Oregon, and but a small
fraction of this sum will be exacted
.from lumber-buyers within the confines
of the state. Lumber Is too cheap, and
it will stand several advances of a
dollar or two per thousand, and still
fall far short of making financial atone
ment for the reckless sacrifice of one
of our greatest natural resources. In
making tho price of timber land ?6 and
$7 per acre, and the price of lumber $7
to $S per thousand feet we are almost
giving away a heritage which in a few
years will double, treble and quadruple
in value.
The giant firs and spruce and the
stately cedars now falling before the
ax of the loggers are gone forever.
These trees began growing long before
Drake sailed Into the Pacific They
were more than lusty young saplings
when Juan de Fuca and Viscalno were
skirting the shores of our state In
search of the northwest passage. For
centuries, undisturbed by the vandal
Ism which seems Inevitably to accom
pany civilization, these triumphs of na
ture continued to expand and reach
heavenward.
But reproduction of these remarka
ble specimens of forest life Is practical
ly Impossible. "Their growth is a mat
ter, not of generations, but of centuries,
and while the pursuit of the almighty
dollar has eliminated from the ques
tion all consideration for posterity.
It would seem that a little less
haste In the matter might prove profita
ble to the present generation. The larg
est buyers of Oregon and Washington
timber lands at the present time are
um oyeiuiuia ivao nave spent tneir I
lives In the "pineries" of Minnesota, J
Old operators who have spent their
OKEGONIAN, WJEDKSSDAT, HARCH , 5, 1902.
Michigan and Wisconsin. They have
witnessed the disappearance of virgin
forests, which, after unnumbered cen
turies In reaching maturity, have van
ished from the earth within a single
generation of mankind. They have seen
the loggers who scorned to touch
anything but the largest trees tro
back over the land and take off whatl
the North Pacific lumberman would call
saplings and piling, and sell them for
sawlogs. They have seen them go back
for the third time, and pay stumpage
for the butts of the big trees which the
wastefulness of man, as a rebuke to
the prodigality of nature, had ignored
on the first trip.
The history of the logging and lum
bering Industry in the states first made
famous by that business will certainly
be repeated in Oregon and Washing
ton. The man who buyB a heavily tim
bered piece of land at the small figures
now exacted can well afford to make
the "butt cut" high above the ground
and leave to rot the smaller portions
of the trunk, which a few years hence
would bring almost as much money at
Is now realized from the entire tree.
Cheap land and stumpage for the log
ger mean cheap logs for the mills, and
cheap logs for the mills mean cheap
lumber for the consumers. If the latter
were all located in the territory in
which the lumber Is produced, the mat
ter of price would make more differ
ence. As it Is, however, the bulk Of
the output of the mills of the Pacific
Northwest is disposed of In the East
and Middle West and In foreign coun
tries. The demand Is steadily Increas
ing, and the supply of raw material Is
steadily decreasing. Very limited
knowledge can foresee the result of this
problem in economics. In a few years
our forest lands will be denuded of their
natural wealth, and the returns there
from will seem small Indeed in com
parison with the values that will pre
vail when the North Pacific States are
in the treeless condition of the once
great lumber districts of the Middle
West.
New Jersey, it must be admitted, does
Eome things effectively, even If In the
old-fashioned way. Witness the pen
alty administered In the Police Court
of Kearsarge, In that state', a few days
ago, to six boys, ranging between 1
and 12 years of age, for breaking into
freight-cars and destroying property.
The alternative of a fine of $5 each an
a "good, hard spanking" was given, and
the parents of the boys wisely chose th
latter penalty as the most promising
for future good behavior. To the end
that all might be done decently and i
order, two broad-palmed policemen were
delegated to administer this good,
grandmotherly punishment, and In lieu
of the maternal slipper, upon whicl
many a man has risen to place and
power, the officers applied the palms o
their broad right hands with ho un
certain sound to tne youthful offenders,
the courtroom ringing, as many an oli
farmhouse has done in days gone by,
with resounding slaps and boyish voices
In loud lamentation. The punishmen'
ended, the boys readily, even eagerly,
promised to "be good" In future, and
were discharged. Can any one doubt
that the effect of penalty In this casu
will be more salutary than the payment
of a fine by parents or commitment to a
reform institution? Certainly not. Too
many good and worthy citizens have
been brought up on this plan to admit
of a question as to Its efficacy. It may
bexheartlly commended to the Police
Judge of this city and the parents of
boys who are brought before him fo
acts of wanton destructlvene-B and
petty thieving, as at once cheap and
salutary.
Ex-Govemor Hogg, who was in 1896 a
wild Texas Bryanlte, and who is now a
millionaire oil well proprietor, is cut
ting a wide swath in London, He ha:
Just succeeded in organizing "The
Texas Oil Field Company," with a cap
ital of 54,500,000, to market Texas oil
In Europe. It is added that Mr. Hogg
is a society "Hon" in London, dining
nightly with the nobility. Another of
these transformed gentlemen Is Charles
Towne, formerly of Minnesota, a little
later of the Texas oil fields, and now a
millionaire plunger. In Wall street, New
York. It Is feared that Brother Bryan
will have to reckon these former prop:
of 16 to 1 as a total loss.
Both houses of the Legislature of New
York have passed a bill to permit the
Pennsylvania Railroad to construct its
tunnel under the North and East Riv
ers to connect New York with Its great
trunk line. The bill was amended tc
protect the interests of the city at the
suggestion of Mayor Low, and It re
ceived the approval of the Corporation
Counsel. The direct compensation to
the city is to be fixed every twenty
five years by the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment and the Board of
Aldermen. This Is a distinct advance
In the policy of protecting the public
Interests In the granting of these fran
chises. A gross error was committed In an
article on sugar production, reprinted
by The Oregonlan yesterday from the
Chicago Chronicle. It was stated that
the annual consumption of sugar In the
United States Was 30,000,000 tons, of
which our production of beet sugar was
only one four-hundredth part The an
nual consumption Is 3,000,000 tons, and
our production of beet sugar is' one
fortieth part of that total.
Portland has gained one thing by con
tending that the transport Seward could
and should have been repaired here. It
hag been shown Ibeyond doubt that If
she aspires to be a commercial city of
the first grade she must have a drydock
In which -any vessel that can reach her
wharves can, when necessary, be
promptly and safely docked, cleaned
and repaired.
The German Emperor, it Is said,
cabled to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
whom he had met InEurope, asking her
to entertain his brother. Prince Henry,
at dinner, his wish being that the
Prince should see something .of "repre
sentative American life." Here, truly,
Is where plain Americanism gets Its In
nings. It is probable that the actual facts
about the clubbing of H. C. Albers, and
who did It, will have to wait for devel
opment till trial before a judicial tri
bunal competent and willing to evoke
the testimony and to pans upon It
OHr Native Aristocracy.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Unless tho appropriation bills can be
hurried through it is feared that the
Cherokee Indians may be forced to re
sort to manual labor In order to main
tain themselves in anything like their
accustomed luxurious mode of living.
IDEAL HUSBAND AND THE REAL.
San FrncIsco Bulletin.
Girls under the age of 20 delight la
telling one another what sort of a man
they Intend to marry. The ordinary
male of the genus homo is not good
enough for them. Rather than accept an
ordinary man they will die old maids.
Their Idea of a husband is a tall, hand
some, dark man, who never' drinks or
gambles. Ho may smoka very fragrant
cigars, from -which, In times of great
excitement for example, on occasions of
train wrecks or collisions at sea, he
coolly flicks the ashes with his little
finger.
As a rule -he must not swear, but there
are dramatic moments when he throws
out an emphatic "damn,' He must be
well educated and well bred and have
made a notable name at an early age.
Of course he must have brains plenty
of them and must say clever things and
be universally admired. His savolr falre
must be perfect He must be a reading
man and yet a man of action. His tam
per, though high, must be under thor
ough control, and in moments of the
most intense indignation against villainy
or insult he must bo able to turn grace
fully to women, especially to the one
ho loves, and address hor calmly and
courteously. Above all. he must bo a
man who never loved another woman and
who. from the moment ot his birth, was
cold. Inflexible and absolutely Indifferent
to women until he met her who roused
in him a deep, still love- calm as th
waters of some mountain lake, but, like
such a lako, capable. In times of storm.
of a grand fury. He must have a clean
mind and a spotless past and must be in
every sense and from every point of view
a gentleman.
Naturally, so perfect a man has a right
to trpect perfection In hla wife. Sh
should be beautiful, graceful, well-mannered.
Her brain should be equal to his.
Her past, also, should be aulte Irre
proachable, and there should be no flir
tations, no tender but transient senti
ments, no Improprieties, however inno
cent, in her record. She should have
the temper as well as the mind of an
angel. Perhaps many young girls thlnV
they embody such qualities. A good
many men think they know at least one
girl who does embody them.
After a year or two of soeiety and the
world, during which tho young woman
of 20, or thereabouts, does not meet the
godlike hero of her maiden meditations,
she begins to suspect that the noble
creature, so common in play and ro
mances, does not exist In the flesh. Hho
discovers that English literature has
omitted certain sides of life, both high
and low, and has sketched &I1 Its heroic
figures, as It were, from draped models,
idealizing every curve and making a per
fect and composite out of many imper
fect subjects. Ono model contributes his
intellect, another his wit, another his
beauty, another his force of character,
to miko a slnglo. marriageable horo.
Nature, being a realist, docs not work
that way.
Having measured not only men. hut
herself, tho young woman, at the tgo
of 23 or 24, modifies her ideal to fit the
actuality. Having got the range of
human nature, as it were, she ceases to
aim at the clouds or the horizon. Sho
decides that sho will permit a favored
suitor to havo a few failings. He need
not be so handsome or so very clever, a
her earlier specifications required. If
he has good sense, fair prospects and
the habits, manners and ideas of an
ordinary gentleman, he may cherish
hopes of winning her affection.
And her chance of being happy Is bet
ter with such a husband than It would
be were she to marry a paragon whn.o
monotonous perfection would weary her.
Being human, it would not bet well for
her to mate with a god. Heaven is a
very charming placo for angels and
saints, but men and women are of the
earth.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS.
In the eulogy of President MoKinley de
livered before Congress last week there
was no more striking passage than that
which pictured the humble beginnings of
Mr. MoKlnley's life. It is a fine setting
forth of the Western home life of half a
century ago of the life out of which came
some of tho best intellect and best char
acter our country has known. Referring
to McKlnley's boyhood, Mr. Hay said:
"The life of- William McKInley was.
from his birth to his death, typically
American. There is no environment, I
should say, anywhere else in the world
which could produce just such a char
acter. He was born into that way ot
life which elsewhere la called the middle
class, but which in this country is so
nearly universal as to make of other
classes an almost negligible quantity. He
was neither rich nor poor, neither proud
nor humble; he knew no hunger he was
not suro of satisfying, no luxury which
could enervate mind or body. His parents
were sober. God-fearing people; Intelli
gent and upright; without pretension and
without humility. He grew up In the
company of boys like himself; wholesbme,
honest, self-respecting. They looked down
on nobody; they never felt it possible
they could be looked down upon. Their
houses were the homes of probity, piety,
patriotism. They learned In the admirable
school readers of 50 years ago the lessons
of heroic and splendid life which havo
come down from the past They read in
their weekly newspapers the story of the
world's progress, In which they were
eager to take part, and of the sins and
wrongs of civilization with which they
burned to do battle. It was a serious and
thoughtful time. The boys of that day
felt dimly, but deeply, that days of sharp
struggle and high achievement were be
fore them. They looked at life with the
.wondering yet resolute eyes of a young
esquire in his vigil of arms. They felt a
time was coming when to them should be
addressed the stern admonition of the
Apostle, 'Quit you llko men; be strong.' "
Value of a Cabinet Post.
New York Evening Post.
A Cabinet officer, who not very long ago
retired to private life, started to build up
anew his law practice. A corporation caso
was sent to him by a brother lawyer.
Meeting that lawyer later, tho ex-Cabinet
Minister asked what ho ought to charge.
"What did you think of charging?"
asked hla friend.
"Well." the reply was, "I thought $1000
would be about right"
"My dear fellow,'" the other lawyer re
sponded, "it you do 'that you will never
get 'another case. Ex-Cabinet 'Ministers
aro a luxury, if they aro worth anything.
Send a bill for 5000 retaining fee and you
will get a check tomorrow. Then adjust
your regular chnrges at your leisure."
The thing was done, with the result pre
dicted. It Is aaid thnt tno gentleman in
question made in a month nti much an tho
sum of his sulnry during his untlro of
ficial term.
Load' Cnmpulfcn Toothpick.
WuxhinKtoti Btnr.
William B. llnllnni, nn employe of tho
Senate. hnV nn intcrontlnc rnltc of a Cali
fornia campttlHU. which no cnrr!i in hit
vest pocket It In a celluloid toothpick,
with nn nxct'llNU inlnlnturo likeness ot
Ropropcntatlvit J.oml. of California, print
ed on It buck, with the Inscription, "My
pick for ConKr.M DurlnK tho lost cam
paign Mr. Loud' tllfltrlct vfiw filled with
these toothpick, popular hotels and
eating-house 8crvtt1 (hrm to their guests,
nnd thousand.'! of hi frltml aupplled them
for their tnblon nt Immn, Tho light didn't
prove to bo a very clono ono. Loud polled
ovor 5000 votes morn than his Democratic
opponent
A Receiver Hopes.
Minneapolis Journal.
Tho Detroit bonk man who saw tho
bank to the extent of Jl.100,000 Is troubled
with nervous prostration. What does
ho think the depositors havo 7
H0HENZ0LLERNS IN HISTORY.
.Philadelphia Times.
The Hohenzollerns have not shown
themselves so inordinately eager for self
aggrandizement as many other families
that have supplied long lines of rulers in
Europe. Their history begins far back
of the time when the first Elector of their
blood obtained possession ot Brandenburg
and their ambition blossomed in Its full
vigor. There is e theory of their origin
that traces it to tho Colonna family of
Rcrae, and the Colalto of Lombardy, but
in history they were first heard of as
dwelling in the obscuro castle of Zollern.
or-Hohen-Zollern, in the Alps. It Is a
curious thing that the most intensely
selfish royal house of Europe, the Habs
burg, had an historical origin equally In
significant, if not more so, In about the
same period of the 11th century, both rul
ing over very small fiefs In the Alpine
country, and that the Hohenzollerns later
devotedly helped tho Habsburgs to im
perial power and stood faithfully by them
in the Inter-Germanic quarrels for many
generations. It was not until nearly 165
years after a Habsburg first came to the
throne of the Holy Reman Empire that
the Hohenzollerns entered Into political
competition with them, one of the latter
seeking to succeeu to the German elective
crown. The Hohenzollerns administered
with u strong hand whatever they under
took, and, from, the standpoint of sov
ereignty, improved upon everything that
they acquired. The burgraves of Neurem
burg, heads of the house, subdued the
robber barons about them. The early
electors of Brandenburg successfully con
tended against the exacting pretensions dt
tho Teutonic knights. The kingdom of
Prussiar llko Germany today,, was formed
as a kind of mosaic work, of many fiefs
and principalities and bits of principalities.
This labor of statecraft and warcraft re
quired the peculiar qualities that the Ho
henzollerns in the main have possessed
Immense will-power, persistent energy and
calculating courage. While there havo
been some weak rulers of Brandenburg
and Prussia, nearly all have left behind
them some addition to tho power and do
minion of the state. Nearly all furthered
the development of a distinct sense of na
tionality in the people. The two great
Frlednch.Wilhelms and the great Fried
rich marked Important epochs In the his
tory ot Prussia. Friedrlch Wilhelm I,
the King, in the latter part of the 17th
century, finally broke with the Habsburg
Emperor, after proving him false, and
made an alliance with England. Thafwaa
the end of the tacit acknowledgment on
tho part of the Hohenzollerns that tho
head of the Habsburg house was their
natural suzerain. It began the rivalry
between Prussia and Austria, which, aa
a writer has put it, "formed the pivot of
European politics for the rest of the cen
tury," and it was partly the results of
that rivalry which made It possible for
Napoleon in 1E06 to put an end to the long
enfeebled Holy Roman Empire.
The four really Imposing figures in the
Hohenzollern line Friedrlch Wilhelm, the
Great Elector; F-iedrich Wilhelm, the
first King of that name; Friedrlch the
Great, and Wilhelm I. Emperor of Ger
manyhave each had a distinctive part In
the upbuilding: of what today is known as
the German power. Of course, the most
brilliant period" of all was that ot the de
feat of France (1870-71) and the consoli
dation of the German people under iho
grandfather of the present Emperor. The
Great Elector, father of the first King,
made PrusEla worthy to become a king
dom; his grandson, Friedrlch Wilhelm I,
was the economist of the line, and also
laid the foundation of the wonderful mili
tary efficiency of the Prussians; Friedrlch
II was the warrjor, who. with greater
forces at his command, could have been an
Alexander. Tho present Emperor of Ger
many has always shown himself conscious
of the great prestige which ho is called
upon to support Lacking an opportunity
for a brilliant war. ho has thrown himself
energetically Into the diversified duties of
a ruler in time of peace. He has often
been accused-of posing, of arbitrariness
and of bluster, but on the whole ho Is
rather an amiable sovereign. Prince Henry
Is usually regarded as having all of the
milder qualities of his brother, at least,
and as being therefore of a temperament
that invites popularity.
Oar Portland Man Ivey.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Hooray for Mr. Ivey! He may be
wrong, but hooray, all tho -same. For
he Is a rebol, and we all have an ad
miration, even when we are afraid to
speak, for the man who believes he is
right and acts on that belief, though he
has to bump a whole government Mr.
Ivey is the Collector of Customs at
Sitka. He will not allow Canadian seal
ing vessels to buy supplies in his dis
trict Americans are not allowed to kill
tho seals, and he will see tho Canadians
hem! blessed before ho will encourage
or permit any of the like doings on their
part And he tells the head of the Unit
ed States Treasury in plain terms that
he would not bo asked to do so, either,
if there were a Reed, an Olney, or a
Blaine who was doing things. Ho furth
ermore confesses to having bounced the
Canadian officers at Skagway, "bag, bag
gage, flag and other paraphernalia,"
because ho found them meddling with
United States malls, bossing railroad
officials, interfering with American of
ficers, discriminating in favor of Ca
nadian over American merchants, col
lecting money and establishing Canadian
quarantine, and he doesn't care who
knows it He is not afraid or ashamed of
being an American, and ho won't obey
any orders from Washington that hint
that he ought to stop being one. Not
he. For which we cannot but admire
him and hope that he may long live
to fill the place ho has now, or a better
one. Ho may be wrong, but how can
you help liking him?
Wisdom's Whispers.
Enthusiasm often Is mistaken for religious
conversion.
It Is not always policy to tell one man what
another says against him.
Sons aro more lovingly disposed toward tho
mother than are daughters.
Was there ever a girl who felt entirely sat
isfied with her station In life?
Tho love dt a. maiden aunt Is responsible for
the selfishness ot many a youth.
When a woman falls In lovo she likes to say
Jealousy Is impossible in her case.
A man regards it aa effeminate to tell his
associates about his woddlng outfit.
Tho man who is arrogant In official life
shows the graces of humility when reduced In
station.
We may promise not to be angry If told of
uncomplimentary remarks, but we rarely keep
the promise.
When a middle-aged woman takes to posing
In public sho gives evidence of the regret she
feels for hor departed youth.
i
Saraael Serrall.
J. O. Whlttler.
Up and down tho vlllogo streets
Strnngo aro the forms my fancy meets.
For the thoughts and things of today are hid.
And through the veil of a closed ltd
Tho ancient worthies I see again:
I har the tap of the elder's cane.
And his awful periwig I see.
And tho sliver buckles of shoe and knse.
Stately and slow, with thoughtful air.
Ills black cap hiding his whitened hair.
Walks the Judge of the great Assize,
Samuel Sewcll, the good and wbo.
Ills face with lines of firmness wrought.
Ho wears the look of a man unbought.
Who swears to his hurt and changes not;
Yet touched and softened nevertheless
With tho grace of Christian gentleness,
The face that a child would climb to kiss!
True and tender and brave and Just,
That roan might honor and woman trust.
The Bonnie.
Christina Q. Rosseitt.
Underneath the growing grass.
Underneath the living flowers.
Deeper than the Bound of showers;
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.
Youth and health will be but vain.
Beauty reckon'd of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can liotd round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to' contain.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The primary Is-by no means a secondary
consideration.
The "nephews of bank cashiers" are still
numerous on the streets.
The wind is so" busy this March that it
is sitting up nights to work.
Of course, the Prince wore only his hon
orary title of Colonel when he visited
Kentucky.
Bunco games are .classed as grand lar
ceny, but uie police seem to have mislaid
the statute.
Perhaps Mr. Hohenzollern will be so well
pleased with this country that he will
move over here.
General Dewet has been shot It is not
surprising, when he has been taking so
many laagers lately.
Representative Wheeler has found him
self completely outclassed as an exponent
cf the strenuous life.
If they want to. the Bulgarian brigands
can now come over and spend a couple of
days at the Wnldorf-A3torla.
The President ha3 notified tho railroad
magnates that their systems must be con
ducted by rail and not by water.
Jow should each honest citizen
Lar business away.
And tako about an hour off
To register today.
If the hunt is successful, there will soon
be several fine specimens of stuffed octo
pus adorning the halls of the White House.
Mr. Croker has established a dairy la
Wantage. Ho seems to be determined on
having an excuse for subscribing to the
Commoner.
Tho flowers that bloom In the Spring, tra la,
Aro very enchantlrc lndeod.
And they soon will be ail blossoming, tra la.
It we can set plenty of seed.
Congressional Kocord please copy.
Mrs. Richard Lewis Howell, of Wash
ington, has In her possession the sword
worn by Richard Rush, when. In his ca
pacity as Minister at the Court of St.
James, he was present at the coronation
of George rv., and also of William
IV. It was also worn at Queen "Vic
toria's coronation by the celebrated Ben
jamin Rush, when, as a young man, ho
was an attache to the American Legation
in London.
An ordinance has been prepared by Cap
tain W. T. Norton, a prominent citizen of
Louisville, providing that ministers of all
denominations shall pay a license of 550 a
year, and that their salaries shall be gar
nlsheed in the event of nonpayment. Tho
ordinance was given to a Councilman to
introduce, but he has so far declined to
present it. Captain Norton's reason for
desiring the passage of such an ordinanco
is that the ministers of late "have been
trying to butt Into politics and attempting
by advancing unwise theories to take a
hand In the conduct of municipal affairs."
At a gathering of medical men who had
assembled at the Philadelphia College ot
Physicians, a discussion arose as to tho
utility of the X-ray on the battle-field, and
tho surgeon, Dr. W. W. Keen, told thta
story: "After the battle of Gettysburg a
corps under the command of a young phy
sician, who had recently been appointed,
was ordered to collec the wounded.
Among the disabled was a man who haJ
been shot through tho leg. The young
doctor proceeded to use his knife. After
cutting for a half-hour, he was interrupted
by the young soldier with: 'Say, how much
longer are you going to cut? 'Until I
get the bullet,' replied the doctor. 'Why,
you fool. If that's what you want, I'vo
got It in my pocket' Sure enough, tho
bullet had lodged in the skin of the man's
leg after passing through, and ho had
kept It as a souvenir."
PARAGRAPHIC DETAIL.
France Is asking for and receiving moro St.
Louis exposition literature than any other for
eign country.
As soon as cold weather begins each Fall. a.
tramway is laid on the ice across the Neva, at
St. Petersburg. It is taken up again in tho
Spring.
Assemblyman Peter B. Fairchlld. of Orange.
N. J., has In his possession four ofllcial docu
ments signed respectively by, tho four first
Governors of New Jersey. The first commis
sion, made out to his great-grandfather, is
nearly 117 jears old. having been issued on
April 4. 17S5.
Tho Postmaster of Orange Court-house. Va.,
has the unusual distinction of having his namo
enrolled among tho heroic dead, and of reading
It often In granite characters. His name is on
the Confederate monument at Front Royal, as
being among the killed at that point.
Tho Rev. Dr. Edward Roble. of Greenland,
N. II., on February 25, rounded out a ministry
of 50 years over tho Congregational Church, in
that city. He is the seventh minister of tho
congregation, which was organized In 170(5. It3
first pastor served for 53 years, and Its second
for 48 year3.
A Georgia exchange says: "At a revival meet
ing a man arose and said he was the wickedest
roan in the town. "I'd go to perdition if I
should dio tonight," he concluded. Immediate
ly an old deacon started the hymn, 'It you get
thero before I do, look out for me, I'm coming,
too.' And then the deacon wondered why every
body laughed."
.A writer in s) Catholic periodical notes tho
striking effect on religious statistics ot the ac
quisition of Porto KIco and tho Philippines by
the United States. By including the population
of the Islands as given by the bureau ot sta
tistics he finds that ot the church-going peoplo
under tho American flag 17,000,000, or moro
than CO per cent, aro Catholics.
Big packing-houses in tho Chicago stock
yards are at war. and as a result tho price of
dressed beef In tho Chicago market has been
cut over 25 per cent. Instead of receiving 9 to
10 cents, tho packers are getting- from 6 to
7 cents for the best-dressed beef, and the
marketman is said to be reaplrg all tho bene
fits, for the retail price ha3 not been reduced.
The almost unanimous passage of the anti-
pigpoc shooting bill by the Xew York Assem
ble is one ot tho most creditable pieces of
work that -that body has accomplished, and
removes a bad smirch upon the good namo of,
that commonwealth. Oregon and every other
state ought to do likewise.
PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPIIERS
"He Is In the sprlngtimo of life." "Shouldn't
wonder. He gives one that tired feeling."
Puck.
ilrf. Wigwag Does your husband keep liquor
In the house? Mrs. Guzzler Not very long.
Philadelphia Record.
Clara Jack intends to have everything hl3
own way when we are married. Clara's Mam
maThen why do you marry him? Clara To
"rellove his mind of a false impression. Tit
Bits. Mamie (aged G) Are you going to give mo &
birthday, present. Aunt Elsie? Aunt Elsie
Yea, dear. Tell me what you would like to
havo. Mamie Oh. anything at all, Just so it
isn't useful. Chicago News.
Her Serious Offense. The timo had coiao
when women were In control of all business
affairs, and two of them were discussing a
third. "She was dropped from tho directorate,
I understand." "Yes. We found she wouldn't
do at all. She Insisted upon wearing a morn
ing gown at our afternoon sessions." Chicago
Evening Post.
Perfectly Proper. Customer (after beating
tha price down from J3.C0 to $2.25) What right
have you to call this a "One-Priced Store?"
Dealer Why not? Customer Why. you ask all
kinds of prices. Dealer But. my dear sir, the
prlco of a thing is not what is asked, but what
ut accepted for it. Philadelphia Press.