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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10.
SOME MISTAKE HERE.
"We have been so accustomed to the
idea that Seattle Is entitled by right
divine to the entire earth and the full
ness thereof, and to the further Idea
that she gets everything that Is coming
to her by virtue of an alert persistence
which is the despair of all Imitators
arid would-be rivals, that It is with
something of a shock that we come
across this paragraph In the columns
of the Walla Walla Union:
S. B. Caldcrhead. general freight and
passenger agent of the W. & C R,, has
given the Seattle Post-Intelligencer an in
terview In which he calls the attention Of
the Jobbers of Puget Sound to the fact
that Portland gets the business of the Wal
la Walla territory while Seattle and Ta
coma hardly get a slice. Of course, in
Portland's favor it must be remembered
that the distance Is shorter and that the
haul Is not as great, but nevertheless, as
has been pointed out by this newspaper be
fore. Portland makes a decided effort to
get the business of Walla Walla, while Pu
get Sound as a general proposition Is ap
athetic. Perhaps Seattle and Tacoma have
all the business they wont without the
Walla Walla territory, but it stands to
reason that if such wa the case they could
make an enlargement and keep at least
the business of their own state.
If any one can explain this mystery
we should like to have it done. The
discrepancy between the Isolated phe
nomenon and the established order of
the universe Is painful and puzzling.
It not only appears that Portland gets
business, but that she gets It by virtue
of effort, and that Seattle, moreover.
is apathetic These things are un
thinkable.
It Is sufficiently understood, we have
supposed, that Seattle has all the bust
ness there Is anywhere; that she gets
it by pure energy, unaided by railroad
influence; that she Is never apathetic
upon any topic where her Interests are
concerned. It is also an axiom of com
merce that Portland is asleep, always
has been and always will be; that she
does no business, and that this achieve
ment in nonentity Is the logical and
Inescapable result of her own supine'
ness.
Mr. Calderhead, if there is such a
man, is evidently an impostor. He is a
renegade to the Seattle Idea. To 'him
may be appropriately addressed the
words of the old song:
Does yo believe yo' honey or yo' eyes 7
MANKIND'S GREATEST NAMES.
William E. Curtis was asked recently
to name the twelve most eminent men
In human history, not including those
mentioned In the Bible. Answering the
request through the Chicago Record-
Herald, Mr. Curtis gives a list at which
there will probably be some cavil, but
which shows that he has been a close
and impartial reader of history. By
way of preface he says that, in his
opinion, the only way to determine a,
man's greatness is by measuring the
influence he has exerted upon the af
fairs of mankind. In this view he
places first in the catalogue of great
ness the founders of the great religions
who for ages past and even up to the
present day guide and control the con
duct of hundreds of millions of the
world's inhabitants. At the head of
the list he places Buddha, a man of
humble origin, who was born in a lit
tle village in the Himalaya Mountains
in the year 560 B. C. and died eighty-
eight years later. The adherents of the
Buddhist faith, after the lapse of more
than twenty-three centuries, number
about 400,000,000. The basis of the re
ligion preached by Buddha is defined
as four noble truths, viz.: Love of
mankind, holy calm, the expression of
desire and the protection of life.
Next to Buddha Mr. CurtlB places
Confucius, the Chinese philosopher,
who lived from 550 B. C. to 475 B. C.
He taught no 'religion, but founded a
code of morals the maxims of which
are the foundation today of Chinese
morals, law. Justice and systems of
government.
Then comes Mahomet, the camel-
driver, who lived from 570 A. D. to 632
A. D.. founder of the Moslem religion
and author of the Koran. His follow
ers number today not less than 300,000,-
000, and they are loyal to their faith.
Fifth comes Martin Luther, the
founder "of the great Protestant faith,
and next comes Charlemagne, whom
Mr. Curtis estimates as the founder of
civilization. Number seven is Alfred
the Great, of England (871-901), founder
of law, courts and trial by Jury, and
the first to Impeach the doctrine that
"might makes right." Then come In
order George Washington, founder of
civil liberty; Napoleon Bonaparte, the
greatest of soldiers; Michael Angelo,
the greatest of architects, artists and
sculptors; "William Shakespeare, the
greatest of writers, and Plato, the
founder of philosophy and ethics.
An attempt to revise this list would
be fraught with difficulty. Opinion
rules In a matter of this kind, and Its
rule Is at once dogmatic and variable.
Our National pride Is not flattered In
" Dcienuij, biuuc uic uumc ui uut
American appears.ln the list, we couia
easily extend It to Include Franklin
and Lincoln, but upon Mr. Curtis' basis
of greatness could not expunge any
name that he has given to make room
for one of these. After all, America Is
new In- the annals of the world, and
may be accounted fortunate If In little
more than 400 years It has given one
to the list of the twelve greatest names
in the history of the world, outside of
those mentioned In the Bible.
Measured by their Influence In human
affairs, no names probably are equal to
those of Alexander of Macedon and
Julius Caesar, after the lapse of more
than twenty centuries. If not what In
detail what they made it, yet In sub
stance and in fact what they made It.
This could easily be developed Into a
volume. Buddha, Confucius and Ma-
hornet have had no great Influence
upon the larger course of human af
fairs.
BRYAN'S OPPORTUNITY".
If Mr. Bryan would undertake the
nomination of Grover Cleveland for
President at the hands of the Demo
cratic party next year, he would dis
play a measure of political wisdom
which has thus far been Justifiably de
nied him. He would atone somewhat
for the damaging errors Into which he
led his party; he would; unite It as
nothing else can unite it, and he might
possibly start It on the road to victory
It is possible that a united Democracy
with Cleveland as the candidate might
carry enough doubtful states to give
him, with the aid of the solid South,
the election. It Is perfectly certain
that a divided Democracy cannot do
this.
If we nut aside for the moment the
money question and the suppresson of
labor riots, there Is nothing In Mr.
Cleveland's' Chicago speech which need
give a man of Mr. Bryan's views any
offense. There is very much in that
speech which Is In direct accord with
Mr. Bryan's views. The ex-President's
position on the tariff and the trusts is
Bryan's own. The method of attack is
the same. Moreover, this subject Is to
be the main reliance of the Democrats
in the campaign. There is Htt9e differ.
ence between Cleveland and Bryan on
our Insular policies. There is no dif
ference between them on ship subsl
dies, on the negro question, on reform
of the administrative departments at
Washington.
As to the money question, and labor.
Mr. Bryan has already set himself a
notable precedent in the case of John L
H. Clarke, candidate for the United
States Senate from Ohio. He Is a gold
standard man today as In 1896. He is
a capitalist and a believer In law and
order. His expressed attitude toward
the trusts and the tariff, which Mr.
Bryan has commended, Is substantially
Mr. Cleveland's attitude. It would be
a remarkable and an Interesting thing
to see Mr. Bryan going up and down
the land next year, attacking the tariff
and the trusts along the line of Mr.
Cleveland's Chicago speech. If he
would now enter Into an undertaking
to nominate Cleveland, he could com
pass It. He coKld be nominated for
"Vice-President. He might be Presi
dent. He could be nominated for Pres
ident in 1908. He would execute a
stroke of policy that has never been
surpassed for boldness in our political
history.
It is too much to expect of Mr. Bryan
to do this; but it is a more promising
course of action than any other that
lies open to him; for "otherwise he must
either win out at next year's conven
tion and see his party beaten in the
East, or else he must see the Cleveland
faction prevail and organize a bolt. It
Is to be feared that he thinks more of
having his own way than he does of his
party's success, or of seeing the anti
trust and tariff-reform Ideas shared
by himself and Mr. Cleveland carried
to victory at the polls.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE
LABOR VOTE.
The "walking delegate" form of labor
now denounces President Roosevelt and
passes resolutions condemning him, but
it is not likely that this denunciation
means that the labor unions will make
a concerted movement to defeat him
for election in 1904. The membership
of the labor unions Is estimated to be
about 2,000,000, while the wageworklhg
population is something more than 18,-
000,000, which Includes farm laborers,
who are never organized, and women
workers, who are but imperfectly or
ganized. Not more than one-tenth of
the 80,000,000 people In the United States
are believed to be In trade-union fami
lies or owe their support to trade-
unionists. It' is not believed that the
railroad brotherhoods, who are verx
conservative, would oppose the present
Administration. Many labor organiza
tions are not affiliated with the Amer
ican Federation of which Gompers Is
the chief, and between that organiza
tion and the Knights of Labor there Is
hostility of long standing. The Knights
of Labor are estimated .as 100,000 strong.
It Is asserted by the opposition to Presi
dent Roosevelt that New York State
has 65,000 labor union votes, Connecti
cut 5000, New -Jersey 11,000 and Indiana
15,000.
The enemies of Roosevelt say that if
only half of- these votes In the states
named were thrown against the Repub
lican candidate his case might be crit
ical. It Is further pointed out that
when Harrison defeated Cleveland in
18SS he lost New Jersey and Connecti
cut, carried New York by only 13,000
and Indiana by only a little over 2000,
and the question Is asked by the Roose
velt opposition whether with 65,000 and
15,000 union labor votes against him In
New York and Indiana his chance of
election would not be endangered. In
the next electoral college 239 will be a
majority. The solid South, Maryland,
Delaware and West Virginia will fur
nish 169 of these. New York, New Jer
sey and Indiana would add 73 more,
making a total of 242, or two more than
enough to elect. Theoretically, this
Democratic forecast of the assumed
hostile organization of union labor
seems plausible, but as a matter of fact
labor unionists are cut up In politics
Just like everybody else, and in .a Na
tional contest it would be practically
Impossible to make them ajl vote as a
solid labor unit Furthermore, the la-
bor unionists for the most part will not
refuse to admit that the President Is
sound In his decision that under his
sworn duty to execute the laws of the
land he could not do otherwise than re
fuse to dismiss a man from the service
of the United States because he was a
nonunion man.
The Central iTabor Union of New
York City at a recent meeting stated
that they are not opposing Mr. Roose
velt and that they will not make a
political fight against him, and that the
union does not intend to cause Presi
dent Roosevelt political embarrassment.
Intelligent leaders of union labor see
that the President would only have
stultified himself to reach any other de
cision, for when the Anthracite Strike
Commission last Spring decided In favor
of the open shop, this commission had
on It the head of' one of the great
National railroad labor organizations,
which has always practiced the princi
ple of the open shop; it had on it Bishop
Spalding and Colonel Carroll D. Wright,
both supporters of the claims ol labor.
These men united in recommending that
employment In the anthracite mines
should be open to any man, Independent
of his membership In a labor organiza
tion, and President Roosevelt" approved
the findings of this commission. He
could not repudiate this approval, and
It guided him In his "no discrimination"
order. Many of the strongest unions in
this country have long accepted the
principle of open access to every work
for every worker, without reference to
his membership in any society,, organi
zation or union whatsoever.
The intelligent and upright leaders of
union labor know that the President
could not possibly have done other than
decide as he has done, and they know
that the President Is a sincere friend of
American labor, save when he is asked
to do that which he cannot do under the
laws he has sworn to execute. The
President, as a careful student of Amer
ican history. Is familiar with the honor
able and successful struggle of Amer
ican labor for enlargement under the
law, and he heartily sympathizes with
it He knows that at the opening of
the last century a Labor day proces
slon, had it formed, would have been
promptly dispersed by the police in
New York City, and its leaders would
have been open to Indictments. Less
than a hundred years ago labor unions
were under the ban of the law In New
York, and the calling of a strike was
punished as a criminal conspiracy.
President Roosevelt knows that to labor
unions has been due the fight for safe
and decent conditions of toll; he knows
that It has been a conservative force In
the Industrial revolution that followed
the Introduction of steam power; he
knows that at the outset unionism In
both England and America was a fight
for fair play between labor and. Its em
ployer. But because President Roose
velt knows thoroughly the history of
the upward struggle of labor for Its
Just rights under equal laws Is no rea
son why he should be expected to favor
the attempted restoration of the closed
shop of the medieval guild. He be
Heves In the freedom of labor; he re
fuses to permit any man to say who
shall or who shall not work for the
Government of the United States. The
people are clearly with the President In
this matter, and all the forces of our
democratic institutions are with him
and we do not believe that organized
labor, can be brought into a state' of
active political hostility to tbe Presi
dent, simply, because he says that he
cannot dodge his plain duty under his
sworn pledge to execute the laws.
The President has been an ardent, an
earnest and aggressive friend of Amer
ican labor in time-of need, and organ
lzed labor knows that It would be
neither justice nor sound public policy
to cast a solid vote against the elec
tlon of a man who . has only obeyed his
oath of office In his "no discrimination
order, and who Is sustained by the vast
majority of public opinion, a public
opinion whose support Is necessary to
organized labor In all Its subsequent
conflicts with autocratic employers
Opposition to President Roosevelt
would be an act of Injustice that would
discredit the governing wisdom and vlr
tue of organized labor with the Amer
ican people.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
The idea of municipal ownership is
slowly but steadily growing In the
leading cities of the land. Its growth
In New York City is exhibited in the
platform adopted by the New York
Citizens' .Union, .which declares Its 'be
llef In the principles of municipal own
ershlp and control In the matter of
water, light and transportation, and
urges that the city shall have full
power to either lease for short terms
or operate such Instrumentalities of the
general public service. Private fran
chises should be limited to short terms
with option of- resumption by the city
on prearranged conditions. The amend
ment of the rapid transit act Is de
manded, so that the city should control
the situation, and If necessary the city
should have the power to operate the
service. Ownership of gas and electric
light supplies by the city is advocated
as well as retention by the city of own
ershlp of all Its franchises, with no
leasing of the same, save for short
periods.
The principle of municipal ownership
of ferries has already been applied to
the Staten Island ferries, so that the
city will own the plant and through Its
Increasing value be able to lmprov
and extend its service. It is notewor
thy that the New York Citizens' Union
which advocates this extension of mu
nlcipal ownership, is largely composed
of men of property Interests, a class
that Is generally-hostile to municipal
ownership. In Chicago the Municipal
"Voters League, In its efforts to Im
prove the character of the City Coun
cil and purge It of boodle Aldermen
who vote away public franchises with
out compensation, has found out that
the presidents of banks, great business
men and financiers interested in public
utility companies were the chief source
of corruption, the chief beneficiaries of
these boodle Aldermen. These men
curse the reform of the city govern
ment, call it "anarchy," "socialism,"
denounce It as "hurting business," be
cause corporations had left the city
and others that had planned to come to
Chicago had gone elsewhere. The au
thor of the article on Chicago in the cur
rent number of McClure's Magazine
makes these startling representations, and
among other things says:
"But Isn't the reform Council honest?" V
asked. "Honest! Tea, but oh, h 1!"
"And do you realize that all'you say means
that you regret the passing of boodle and
would prefer to have back tho old corrupt
Council?" That brought a curso or a
shrewd smile or a cynical laugh, but that
they regretted the passing of tho boodle
regime is- tho fact, bitter, astonishing but
natural enough.
The Bigns of the times are good, both
in Chicago and New York, but New
York will probably extend reform In
the- matter of municipal ownership far
ther than Chicago, because there are
stronger property Interests actively en
gaged in its support In New York than
in Chicago; that is, there are more ab
solutely vulgar, brutal rich behind
boodle government In Chicago than In
New York. Today a majority of the
cities of the country own and operate
their water works. Quite a number of
municipalities have gone into the alec-
trie lighting business, and a few Into
the gas lighting, and the Illinois Legis
lature at Its last session enacted the
Mueller municipal ownership bill, un- I
uer wnicu every cuy in niiuuia io i
powered, to own, construct, acquire,
maintain and operate Street railways I
within the corporate - limits, and to
lease the same for periods of not longer
than twenty years. This measure was
framed and forced to Its passage by the
Chicago Municipal Voters' League.
The people of Chicago have over
whelmingly exnressed themselves In
favor of municipal ownership, but they
were obliged to appeal to the Legls
lature for this Mueller law In order to
stop boodllng In connection with street,
railway grants. Under the new law all
action regarding the purchase or con
struction, the operation or lease of
street railways must have the approval
of two-thirds of the popular vote.
So successful has municipal owner
ship been In the matter of public water
supply that in future the granting of
franchises to water companies Is likely
to be Infrequent. With very few ex
ceptlons only small cities In the United
States have municipal electric plants,
and scarcely any have attempted to
manage municipal gas works. Most of
the street railways now In operation
In the United States have been built
and are managed under franchises
granted by City Councils for periods
of from twenty to forty years. When
the privileges were "granted the street
railways did not make very great
profits, but In the course of a few years
a franchise has become worth an enor
mous sum, no part of which has found
its way Into the city treasury. In case
there Is a union of different companies
which has averted, competition, the
cities are obliged to suffer from poor
rv!Po hirtps th lnss nf Incomo thpv
his "American Government," writing
with regard to "public utilities," holds
that three rules may be laid down
Firt, streets are public property, and
should be used solely for the good of- the
community; it follows .that, if permission
is given to individuals or corporations to
ia.y iruuns ur naicr ji":, ui iu cic jiuica
that carry electric wires, the benefits ac-
crulng to the citizens should bo In propor-
tlon to tho value of tho privileges granted.
ci'cunui), a ciiy snuuiu. rctcnu u. uui in
come from the use of its streets for such
purposes, whether the. business Is conducted
by the municipal government or by pri
vate parties. Thirdly, the citizens should
have the benetlt of good srvlce at reas
onable rates.
That the desirable results can be
best obtained by private rather than
municipal ownership will depend upon
whether the business undertakings are
naturally monopolies or become mo
nopolies. In that event there would be
need of adequate municipal control, if
not municipal ownership. In case the
original cost of the undertaking Is
large In proportion to the annual ex
pense of operation, as in the case of
water works, public ownership would
be clearly advantageous. But any
business of a eml-public nature. In
which the employment of large num
bers of men Is necessary, Mr. Ashley
thinks is best left to private parties.
except where the continuance of pri
vate ownership has proved a menace
to the welfare of a' city. Even In that
event he would advocate private man
agement under public ownership,
The mists of fifty years dissolve In
the light of the present and the old
Acadeny building, half-finished, square
and Indeed of paint, gleams among the
oaks that stand upon the college cam
pus, at Forest Grove. At a little dls
tance among the trees is seen the log
cabin in which religious services were
held on Sundays, and a little farther
on another cabin in which other serv
ices were held there being even at
that early day church factions, each
with a leader and each stubbornly in
trenched in what was believed to be
"the right." Hard by stands a ram-
Mine- slrnntnr half rimntv. half w
bllng structure, half shanty, half log
cabins the boarding-house of the infant
college, of which Grandma Brown is
the head. President S. H. Marsh Is
there, and the worthy woman whom
the academy girls firmly believe had
never been young enforces a discipline
partly In his honor that makes meals
there as formal and solemn, an occasion
as the most orthodox commemoration
of the Lord's Supper. There are few
who with mortal eyes can see this
picture now, but to those who can it
furnishes a glimpse of another world
The landscape only Is the same. And
the remaining few to whom the vision
of fifty years ago appears look upon
It fondly for a. moment and are fain to
steal softly away as "from a house
where someone Heth dead."
The Zionists, who have descended
3000 strong upon New York City, differ
In personal appearance, In language
and In mode of travel from the Dou-
bokhors of Manitoba, who some months
ago set out on a pilgrimage to. Winni
peg. The quality of the religious fa
naticism that spurs them on Is, how
ever, the same. With narrow minds
trained upon a single Idea they propose
to bring all the world to terms. In so
doing they add a brief but not a new
chapter to a story centuries old, the
plot of whloh turns upon the emotional
nature of man wrought upon by the
subtle power of the zealot.
The disgust of people of decent sensi
bilities over the announcement of the
union of May and December Is never
quite complete until the pictures of the
twain are printed In the newspapers.
Smirking senility Is pitiable by the
contrast with the charms of youth or
the well-preserved beauty of middle
life, and the contrast becomes painful
when the two are presented as husband
and wife. Modesty turns away sickened
at the sight of the pretty face of the
woman, and dignity frowns darkly at
the self-satisfied smirk on the face of
the" aged man.
Senator Piatt, of New York, has
made his second spectacular appear
ance before an astonished public the
first In a political, the last In an ama
tory role. The catch-rfhrase of the first
was "me, too." Upon the Hps of Miss
Mae Wood this phrase would be very
appropriate to the present occasion. To
the gay and festive Senator, however,
the words "we three" would' be much
ought to have obtained If they had hot A"er e t wouoiesomo worn nan gone d butter but it
. j - , , , never to return. Mr. Knapp hastened home 1 churn; it mnKes gooa Dutier, out it
parted with their franchise for "a pic- ?r.Zt nil n throws awav a lot of buttermilk."
ture book." Roscoe Lewis Ashley. In I , . u ,'. I r-hnxioa Sumner in the Senate
more suggestive.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Who Wib Itf
Eunene Journal.
Many a man In trying to kick a- fellow I
man down the stairs of prosperity and I
nonor.nas lost nis own balance ana
gone farther and acquired more bumps
than hl3 Intended victim.
Even Reform Has Its Objections. ,
Olympla Recorder.
A Walla Walla warehouseman com
plains of the effect of the antl-gam-bllng
law, Formerly, when ;the gambling
houses were open, harvest hands rarely
thrm,n tll, mnn.. i,n
got back to work. Now It often requires
a week for them, to "go broke .and in
consequence the labor supply Is erratic
and Intermittent. This Is certainly a new
view ot me vexea question.
Eugene Register.
Will it be necessary for the Eugene press
to hammer away for the next six months
to convince the general public that Eu-
gene's water supply has been pronounced
by experts toMie absolutely pure? That
Is the fact. The greatest trouble has been
for lack of sewerage which Is now be
ing rapidly supplied. Very few typhoid
"'b i.oiuijr iluJJUCU. Viijr IJI"'"""
cases have existed la Eugene and what 1
have appeared are not due to the city 1
water. Eugene objects to being persis
tently libeled In this matter.
His Record for Economy.
Salem Journal.
Mr. Simon 13 turned down about once
in 10 years, but he soon comes up again
and history may be repeated in the not
far distant future. The last State Senate
controlled by Mr. Simon Is remembered
as a very economical body. It Is also- re
called that few since have been. In Mult
nomah County Mr. Simon's friends are
largely the big taxpayers "and when his
faction has been In power taxes In the
city and county have been low, If there Is
ever such a condition In Portland
Dentists Are Often Butchers.
Pnrt Orfnrrt TrUnino.
Louis Knapp Is the handiest man about
town. Mr. Knapp can get up a good
dinner, butcher a beef, grease a wagon.
fnllr a loc nff rman n ton mlmitAn nhnnt I
a dog. or pull a tooth. We last week!
trttnoccDil tKft fiTinrntlnn TtrnHft io I
trantoA o tnnth fnv n ln'rlv "Ur Tfnann I
hung on "to the tooth" and the lady Ism that It had produced splendid char
hung on "to the chair" unUl finally tho acters. "Yes," Mr. Beecher replied, Cal-
two were narted the lady and the tooth,
quired his attention.
Natural Gns In Alaska.
Juneau Record-Miner.
One of the wonders of the Kayak district
is Kousterca Lake named Devil's Lake
by the Indians, who believe that his sa- I
mnic majesty Qweus in cavernuua uepi.ua
beneath its bed. This belief is due to the
fact that gas generated from the oil and
coai deposits beneath the lake sometimes
causes the surface of the waters to rise
several feet in a short time, m tne win-
ter the gas explodes and sends large
blocks of Ice Into the air, and at times
causes the frozen surfaco vto rise and
tall like the surfaco of the sea auring
a storm. Tho gas can easily be collected
by means of a rope and funnel and set on
fire.
Heroism Not Forgotten.
Heppner Times.
The people of lone gave a banquet Mon
day in honor of Leslie Matlock and Bruce
Kelly for their heroism In making the
June 14, to warn the people of the Willow
Creek valley and those of the town of
TnnA nf tho lmnendlne dancer of the ter-
iv,i wwi .na ei..ninp rtmvn fhp
vallev.. Beside banoueting these gentle-
men in royal style, at which numerous
appropriate toasts was afeature, each hero
was presented with a valuable anu beau
tiful ebony, gold-headed cane which, he-
side the name of each Individual, contains
the following Inscription neatly engraved
on the handle of the canes: "Presented by
the peoplo of lone In grateful remem
brance of heroic ride during tho flood at
Heppner June 14, 1S03." The boys natur
ally enough feel very proud of their pres
ents, and the manner In which they came
causes the boys to prize them very highly.
An Eye to Wrapping Pnper.
Medford Mail.
The annual visitation of Klamath In
dians to Medford commenced this week.
several families having come In to do
Vi( "Coll fi-ndlnf HiitHih th a Ti!at ffw
nru w f
tonms nn the. road. This has become a
trade which the Medford merchants have
come to rely on every Fall, and it amounts
to no mall sum. Besides that, it is
cash on the nail. Indeed, some of the
older Indians have a system that they in
sist upon following, and which has the
effect of prolonging the transaction to a
considerable extent Instead of handing
l X.i A hn.rlnf. filing inrl tVlOTl
nav ns In a 'lump, the red man selects
an article, has It wrapped up and pays
for It. Then another article is purchased
In the same manner. No matter how large
the bill Is It must be purchased In this
way. This makes the transaction slow.
but It is the only way.
Felony Lnvr Recommended.
Chehalls Bee-Nugget.
Portland's ministers may recall. If they
will, that the venerable Mayor Tom
Humes, of Seattle, was elected repeatedly
by overwhelming majorities on a platform
In which he declared mat it elected ne
-would run a wide-open town. It IB not
unreasonable to presume that Portland
citlzons would re-elect Judge Williams on
the same kind of an issue, for theposi
tlon he has taken. Public sentiment In
Portland Is undoubtedly back of the
Mayor, and he knows it. Jiayor jaumes
knew this In Seattle. What Oregon should
do Is to enact an anu-gamDiing law sucn
as we have In asnington, ana
put the professional gambler out of the
business. There usea 10 ne open gam-
bllng over here In Washington, and. now
that It has been suppressed, conditions
nr nsanrpdlv better. True, tho sure-
thing men who used to run the games command this Independent vote Is Grover Cleve- exclaimed Miss Weery, ostentatiously emu
have uone to work at honest labor like land. No one else that we know of can do It. latlng tho abyss. "I don't suppose it began
" . . -. I ... I tn vnnrn until vrtut rr nnn t f t Phtlolat
nthor nfonl but that hasn't miurea so-
clal conditions In the least, and the gen
-. . . . .
eral business of the towns of the state has
been bettered rather than suffered as a
result of tho riew law.
How It All Ifnppened.
I got to thlnkln' of her. and a wundern what
she done.
That all her sisters kep' a-glttlng 'married
one by one,
And her without no chances and the best
girl of the pack.
An old maid with her hands, you might 6ay,
tied behind her back!
And mother, too, aforo sho died, she ust to
ius take on.
When none of "em was left, you know, but
Evallne and John.
And Jes' declare to goodness 'at the young
men must be bllne
To not seo what a- wife they'd git it they'd
got Evallne!
I got to thlnkln' of her, as I say, and moro
and moro
Td think of her dependence, and the bur
dens 'at sho bore.
Her parents both a-beln dead, and all her
sisters gone
And married off. and hor a-llvln' there
alone with John
You
might ay Jes'
a-tollln' and a-elavln'
out her life
For a man at hadn't pride enough to git
hlsself a wife
Less some one married Evallne, and paoked
her off some day
So I got to thlnkln' of ' her and It hap
pened In that way,
James Whltcomb Riley In Collier's Weekly
BOSTON HAS HFARD ur
Boston Herald.
Another fair in commemorauon oi im
historical achievement is projected to
follow close upon the Louisiana Purchase
Vn,, Qf t npxt vear. This Is
T . - ionnt,d to be
wiv. jcwia uiiu v. i
held In -Portland, Or., in Summer or
1505, to commemorate the centennial of
the crossing of the continent by these
Intrepid explorers whom Jefferson In
duced to undertake the difficult task soon
after the completion of his bargain for
the Louisiana territory, then extending
to Canada. They went up the Missouri
iver, crossed tne tocKy iuounuinia,
followed down the course of the uoium
bla River to the Pacific. The "country
west of the State of Missouri was then
wholly strange. The directors of this Fair
have just determined to ask Congress for !
J2.125.O0O In aid of the project, and we
are disposed to believe they will get it,
or most of it. The Pacific Coast States
want a great centennial Fair of their
own, and it Is a good while to wait for
the centennial of the acquisition of Cali
fornia or the discovery of gold In that
state. One or the other of these events
0
vrlll be duly celebrated when the time
comes.
ANECDOTES OP BEECHER,
Recollections of Ills Successor
in
Plymoptli Church. Pulpit.
Lvman Abbott in the Atlantic .
One April 1 Mr. Beecher found in his
morninff mail a letter containing only the
words "April Fool." "Well, well I" he said.
"I hayo received many a letter wnere a
man fonrot to slcn his name; this Is the
first time I ever knew of a writer signing
his name and forgetting to write the let
ter." After I took the editorship of the Chris
tian Union I urtred Mr. Beecher to give
his views on public questions through Its
columns. "As It is now," X sata, any
Interviewer who comes to you gets a
column; and the public is as apt to get
your views in any other paper as in your
own.
"Yes," ho saia, "l am use uio iw u
mimn: aTTV One WHO Will COIUB UUU num.
the handle can carry off a pall full of
water."
On One Occasion I aTKUed for Calvln-
vinism -nakes a few good men ana ae-
and.
Thaddeus Stevens In the House were
pressing the reconstruction measures for
forcinb universal suffrage in tne uoutn.
Tn conversation with me Mr. Beecher
thus dlaenosed the situation. "Tho radl-
i nrA trvinsr to drive the wedce into
uA ,nt, fatt end foremost: they will
nm thir hpptlp." Thev did: they
solidified the South and diviaea tne ne
pubiican party. If ho had been preach-
Jnff on reconstruction the figure would
haVQ flashed on him then, and he would
navQ given- it to his congregation from
the oulnlL
I -tTm Beecher was denouncing tho lncon-
slstencv of church members; stopped;
imacrlned an interlocutor calling him to
account for exposing the sins or cnurcn
members before the world, ana thus re-
piled: "Do you not suppose the worm
knows them better than I do? the world
sees this church member In Wall street.
as ereedv. as rapacious, as eager, as un-
scrunulous' as his companions. ie says
to himself. 'Is that Christianity? I will
go to church next Sunday and seo what
the minister says about this." He goes;
and what Is the minister saying." Instant-
ly Mr. Beecher folded his arms upon his
breast, held an Imaginary cat purring
comfortably there, as he stroked It Tilth
the other hand, and continued: lfte mm
isfer is saying. 'Poor pussy, joor pussy,
poor pussy.' Air. ueecner maoe ma win-
inn in tr-Vi nrf rvr cor rmrnnsA Jinn
Z V" itZT'ir n w i,,p.t, w h.
ItCVCI 1U1 "lO .Jlfc-n-vj w. CJ-"
ocn. vm Mmcpif raw. and made tnern
see, those lncongrunres wmtu u-ie mo
essence of humor and often the most
powerful of arguments.
Co nun Doyle's Departure.
New York Mail and Express.
We do not know that Sir Conan Doyle
Is exactly a genius," but ho comes, at any
rate, within the category of eminent men
whose interesting avocations we have in
mind. Sir Conan, It appears, in emulation
of Mr. Georee R. Sims, who has success
fully combined the pursuit of letters with
the production of a rare quality of hair
oll. Is now the part proprietor ot a ma
chine for making portrait busts In marble.
We are delighted to hear It Sir Con an Is
u- Jutiuucu w. iuU -u ul
In literature.
What will not these men of genius do
In order to surprise us? The great Greek
scholar. Porson, drank Ink. Emerson ate
pie. Byron became a GreeK rebel, uoetno
tried to become omniscient, uictcens es
sayed the stage. Victor Hugo trifled with
sneare and Btok w
Skespear.e . and Shakespeare was an
I aillUlCUI UUIK1U1. " " " "" ' '
lam Black tried to Invent a new fly for
trout: Ruskln a new machine for potters,
and William Morris a device for bookbind
ers. So much for the lngenultjfeof men
of letters trenching upon the preserves of
men of action.
As for the latter, it Is to be noted that
from the time of Socrates to Lord Rob
erts tney have been as handy with the pen
las the sword. Not to mention the distin
guished contributors to the Napoleonic
memoirs, what trainea or proiessionai
writer could have set down so simply and
charmingly as did Grant his personal rec
ollections?
By which we would not Imply that the
sword Is mightier than the pen; only in
vite consideration ot tne apparently
greater ease with which the master of one
turns to the casual play or tne otner, ir
not lesser. Implement.
VIEWS' OF CLEVELAND.
Wke prospective Republican candidate.
Grover Cleveland Is a record-breaker, and It
may jai to his lot to break the unbroken line
0j precedents against a tniru term. iroy trres.
It mU3t be admitted that the Democratic
vote, when divided, cannot elect a President in
mi without outside helD. The man who can
aioDiie itegisier.
1 .....
The strongest man m tne party, ot course
thn man who would bring to the support of the
National Democratic ticket more voters than
any other who could be warned Is. Grover
Cleveland. Ho has the confidence ot the coun
try, the courage of his convictions, the ability
to administer the offlce with entire satisfaction
to the business and commercial interests of
the country- Charleston News and Courier.
There Is a large sprinkling of Democrats In
tho South who favor tho nomination of Mr.
Cleveland, while every" Southern State would
give him. Its electoral vote if he were nomi
nated. It is not surprising that Republicans
are opposed to Cleveland's nomination, but they
cannot prevent it, 'nor could they nrduco the
Southern voto for him by appealing to the
prejudices of Southern Democrats. Nashvillo
American.
As for the former slave states. Mr. Cleveland
would sweep every one of them. Could Mr.
Cleveland carry the States of New Tork, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana? It he is un
able to carry those four states, there is no
living Democrat who can. In any one of those
four states any posslblo disaffection on' the part
of the Bryanlto element would be far more than
counterbalanced by votes gained, from those
Republicans who look with distrust upon Mr.
Roosevelt. Harper's Weekly.
Ex-Congressman Jefferson M. Levy, of New
York, has returned from a Southern trip with
the information that the tide in tho states he
visited is setting strongly toward Mr. Cleve
land as the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. There Is tho third-term tradition
dead against him, but Mr. Roosevelt has
against him the tradition that no man who
has succeeded to the Presidency by a death
has won a Presidential election. That is Just
as good an "unwritten law" as tho othor.
Philadelphia Record.
mnnra man It IS IlKA .1
; JiOTE AND COMMENT.
October.
The poet tipsy, poet sober,.
Both are singing of October.
One declares the whole world grieves
At the fulling of the leaves;
"While the other feigns alarm
At the job of keeping warm, .
And enjoys a passing- knock
At the price of coalmen's stock.
Then we hear tho sad one sighing
For the year, exhausted,, dying:
"While the glad ons, smiling -wider,
Hails' the , hardness of the .cider.
Sly old Piatt!
Records are troublesome" things.
"All Join hands," Is Cleveland's advlco.
Tillman is not guilty, but Gonzales ap
pears to be dead.
Put a criminal behind the bars, and
some woman will fancy him an angel.
Schwab's attitude toward the shipbuild
ing trust stamps him an Ideal financier.
A Redding hotel boasts of having the only
elevator between Sacramento and Portland.
Los Angeles Times.
H. E. Huntington has lost $500,000, but Is
not yet disqualified for tho Financial Red
Bcrok.
Soon we shall have nations declaring
war on those that won't sign arbitration
treaties.
N
Dowle Is rash. It is more than likely
that tough old New York will pervert hla
"restoration host."
Maud Adams will be welcomed back to
the stage, if only by those anxious to find
a change from Lillian HusselL
King Emmanuel's visit to Paris must
have made the dry bones of the triple
alliance rattle In their caskets.
lA Downey girl who read William Dean
Howells' new book, "Questionable Shapes,"
says she was grievously disappointed. In
tho contents. Los Angeles Tlmea.
Oom Paul Kruger's 78th birthday re-
mm(i3 that he who "staggered human-
ity" is drawing quietly to the grave.
With bears at Mount Scott and bears in
Phoenix on a Sunday morning, too Ore
gon towns have other game than the tiger.
Mayor Condon, of Troy, has been re
quested to send a supply of eligible girls
to Seattle. Arid tho census so far in tho
future!
It would keep the curious statistician
busy a month or so to compute the num
ber of "Florodora" soxtetters that have
been divorced.
The New Tork restaurant man who shot
a customer because payment for a meal
I was not forthcoming, should have waited
for the grub to get In its work.
The Blackfoot Indians threaten the man
whose, sale of whisky resulted in seven
deaths by violence. It seem3 unfair that '
all the threatening to be done should be
left tb the redskins.
In mournful mood. Senator Piatt writes
to Miss Mae Wood that "such Is the Ufa
of a politician." Other people having the
same sort of time would use the same
phrase with anything but a mournful
tone.
Salem has had the courage to bust the
old tradition that plays must not begin
before 8:30 P. M. Now. if nlaces farthar
aI tho lme take the same tack, we
I
shall be able to see the show before
. -
ureuis.iiat..
A Portland man ha3 been cured ot
swearing through watching the peaceful
pigeons of the city. Let him never at
tempt to cultivate a garden, or the sub
urban chickens will undo all the work of
their cooing cousins.
Tho announcement that Congress will
make no "pork-barrel" appropriations in
view of tho approaching election, makes
one think of the dear little wife that
keeps buying less and less expensive hata
as the end of the quarter draws nearer.
A Kansas City blacksmith wanted to
commit suicide, so he jumped off a bridge
50 feet high. The only result was a few
bruises. Did this blacksmith joyfully
arlse, and go forth rejoicing that fate was
guarding him for some good purpose?
Not so; he walked to the nearest railroad
track and put his head under a freight
train. This time he accomplished his ob
ject WEX J.
PliEASAXTIUES OF PARAGRAPHS RS
Tommy Pop, what is a health resort?
Tommy's Pop A health resort, my son, 13 .
a place where people go to die. Philadel
phia Record.
Nell She's awfully hysterical. Isn't she?
Belle Yes; somebody foolishly told her that
she was most charming when she laughed.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Visitor Remember, my-friend, that "stone
walls do not a prison make, nor Iron bars
a cage." Tuft HcXutt Den I guess I mua'
be hypnertized. New Tork Journal.
Mr. Brown If we all go to Jones' wo must
start home early. Mrs. Brown What for?
Mr. Brown Why, four of us and four of
them that's 32 good-bys that will have to
be said. Detroit Free Press.
"Remember," said tho serious man, "that
money is not tho only thing to be striven
for In this life." "Maybe not," answered
Senator Sorghum, "but a whole lot of peo
ple think It is, and. I am not egotist enough
to try to set any new fashions." Washing
ton Star.
"I had scarcely' taken a dozen moro steps,"
continued Mr. Borem, "when right before
my feet I saw a yawning abyss!" "Indeedl"
-t "
i " "
I Thfo T.afoAr
Jack I hear you are going to marry Mlsr
Prettyun. Permit -me to congratulate you
on your excellent taste. Tom But the en
gagement Is off. I'm not going to marry
her or anyone else. Jack Indeed! Then
allow me to congratulate you on your good
sense. Chicago News.
"Old Gaffer 'Iggins says as 'ow 'e won't
ave 'Is 'air cut huntll Llpton fetches the
Hamerlca cup 'ome," says one of the hab
itues of the public house in London.
"Bllmyl" comments the barmaid. "Gaffer
'Iggins is bloomin well safe hln sayin
that. E'i bald as a hegg." Judge.
"I see," said the Missouri Legislator, "that
it cost France $120,000 to send President
Lbubet over to England." "Gosh!" said hla
fellow-member, "I guess the railroad and
steamboat, companies over In them coun
tries can't think ot any more laws they'd
like to git passed." Chicago Record-Herald
Mother- I heard Mr. Haggard telling you
last night that It you treated him coldly
he would go away and never come back. I
was glad, also, to hear you say he could do
as he liked. Daugter Tes. mother, that
was what -I said. Mother Was that all ha
said? Daughter Why er no; you didn't
hear tho first part. Ho said he'd like to
kiss me. Philadelphia Pres3.
Phrenologist Here Is a man out of hla
proper sphere. His head betokens high in
tellectual and spiritual qualities, yet he Ij
spending his time behind tho grocer's coun
ter. Sir (to tho grocer), I wish to ask you
a question.- Have you any aspirations
Grocer (calling to clerk) John, have wo
any aspirations? Clerk All out, sir. Have
somo In tho la3t ot the week. Kansas Cliy
Journal.