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SUNDAY AT EXPOSITIONS.
An Oregonlan, writing- from St. Louis,
Bays that no one should deceive him
self with the idea that the closing of
the gates of the Exposition on Sunday
is a benefit to the throng of strangers
in the city, to the city itself, or helpful
in any way to public or private morals.
The gates of the Exposition being
closed, and the throngs shut out from
the place where quiet entertainment
and instructive amusement might be
found, throng the questionable places
within sight or reach, fill the "resorts,"
crowd the car lines and steamboats,
and spend the day far less to their
profit and satisfaction than if the gates
of the Exposition were open to receive
them; while the more quiet folk remain
at their hotels or rooms, bored to death
throughout the day.
This is unquestionably what happens
and will happen in every case, and on
every occasion of this kind. In St.
Louis the most moral of the places
where the people would go, if permit
ted, is closed against them on Sunday;
under the mistaken notion that the
masses of the people can be -driven or
forced to spend the Sunday as a minor
ity, doubtless of good intention but of
mistaken judgment. Insist they shall.
One of the arguments is that the
gatekeepers, attendants and workmen
are entitled to one day's rest In the
week. Let them have it. But substi
tutes may be found, innumerable, for
that day or for any other day In the
week, as In the great lines of business
and Industry that allow no interruption.
The malls cannot be stopped on Sun
day. The most rigorous Sabbatarian
would complain. A traveler may not
start on Sunday, but if he is on his way
he doesn't want his train to He on a
sidetrack over Sunday. The street
cars, the milk trains, the ice wagons,
are wanted on Sunday as on other
days, and the newspaper, too. Is the
Exposition less moral than any of
these?
A mistake has been made at St. Louis,
in obedience to the professional Sab-
' Vatarians, who maintain a lobby at
"Washington, under direction of one
"Wilbur F. Crafts, a reverend gentle
man of sanctimonious aspect, who tried
also to make the appropriation for the
Lewis and Clark Exposition conditional
upon closure on Sunday. This failed,
through the address of the author of the
bill CMr. Tawney, of Minnesota), who
took the ground that as the "United
.States was only going to make an ex
hibit at an exposition held under the
law of Oregon, It could have nothing
to do with administration of the
grounds. But St. Louis wag asking so
much of the United States that it was
felt to be necessary to reduce the op
position or friction, by yielding to the
demand that Sunday closure should be
made a condition of the appropriation.
It may be expected that an appeal will
be made to the Legislature of Oregon
next Winter for an act to close the
Lewis and Clark Exposition on Sunday.
But it probably would not pass; or if it
should, It might be no more effective
than certain other Sunday laws long
on the statute books of Oregon. De
cent behavior on Sunday Is required;
but the people of Oregon and of the
"West generally will not consent to be
deprived of recreation, outing, amuse
ment and freedom of movement on that
day. Nobody wants to molest another,
and they who wish to keep the day
after a solemn, gloomy or ascetic fasli
ion, will in no wise be Interfered with.
,They needn't go to the Exposition, to
the park, to the river, or elsewhere, If
they don't want to; but others will do
as they please, too. Movement of the
people for recreation and amusement
on Sunday cannot be stopped; and the
notion that morality may be promoted
nnd sustained by closing the gates of an
exposition on Sunday Is merely a mis
takewe had almost said, a ludicrous
anachronism.
THE JUDGE AND THE JUGGLER.
By what right, on what ground, does
Judge Parker assume that "the gold
standard Is firmly and irrevocably es
tablished"? He has opposed the gold standard him
self; he has voted against it, for years
past, his party even now refuses to ac
cept or affirm It. Is he not, as a sup
porter of Bryan in 1896, and again in
1800, and as an opponent of the gold
standard through all these years, now
playla a. contemptible part when he
rraerPMWntO'snmsotoiisXPuet Sound, -but New Orleans and
convictions, for the Bake of a nomina
tion and hope of election, and declares
that he regards the gold standard as
"firmly and irrevocably established"?
No wonder that Bryan and the millions
who supported Bryan hold him In con
tempt. But how is the gold standard irrevo
cably established? How can it be?
Congress is master of th money stand
ard. The Kepubllcan party, declaring
for the gold standard, has fixed it for
the present in law. The Democratic
party, which for years has fought the
gold standard and now refuses to ac
cept it, may, if it obtains power, de
clare against It and repeal It.
Possibly the American pe'ople, in view
of their past experience, will think It
best not to juggle with this question
further, and will be willing to leave all
jugglers, like Judge Parker, out of consideration.
MOLYBDENUM.
In a new pamphlet on "The Mineral
Resources of Oregon," by J. H. Fisk,
published by the Lewis and Clark State
Commission, mention is made of molyb
denite, which Is said to exist in exten
sive bodies in Union County, from
which shipments are soon to be made
Molybdenum, though not widely
known, was discovered a long time ago,
but only now is coming into use. It
was named from the Greek word rao
lybdos (lead). Is a silver-white metal,
fusing only at very high temperattrre.
-Specific gravity, 8.6. The ore in which
it commonly occurs Is known as molyb
denite; but it is also found in other
forms or combinations.
The Canadian Manufacturer has an
account of large deposits of this ore in
British Columbia, chiefly about Ross
land. The same publication also has a
statement of the uses of molybdenum,
which are many, and certainly will be
much extended, as soon as It can be
produced in quantities. The metal has
recently been made applicable to the
production of high-class steel. Molyb
denum steel tools, we are told, possess
the quality of cutting ribbons with ease
from steel bars, will cut bars as readily
when red-hot as when cold, and when
once tempered will retain its temper
under all circumstances. Molybdenum
has been successfully tested In France
and Germany for armor plate, for cru
cibles, for coating cartridges for rapid
fire guns, for manufacture of heavy ar
tillery and the manufacture of Jewelry.
As a lubricator for diminishing friction
in machinery and preventing hot boxes,
it probably has no equal.
Canada, it is asserted in the publica
tion before us, has the largest and most
valuable deposits of molybdenite known
in the world. Because of scarcity, here
tofore, it could not be supplied In quan
tities for all commercial demands; and
of course prices have been high. But
the Canadian Manufacturer holds that
the supply from Canada will soon be
large "enough to dominate the world In
the production of armor-plates, cannon,
marine and other machinery, the manu
facture of iron and steel working ma
chines, and a thousand other things
where strength, lightness and durabil
ity are required. These are interesting
statements, though as yet only of possi
bilities. If we have in Union County,
Oregon, quantities of molybdenite the
subject may become one of interest and
importance to the state.
BIYEKS AS KATE REGULATORS.
The Minneapolis millers who have
been fighting for years against the dis
crimination of the railroads which make
a lower rate to the seaboard on wheat
than on flour are agitating a resump
tion of river transportation. The North
western Miller, which Is the chief or
gan of the flour milling Interests, refers
to the Mississippi River as "the great
est neglected opportunity in America,"
and declares that with proper faclltles,
which the millers themselves can easily
provide, flour can be transported from
river points to New Orleans at one
quarter the rates now exacted by the
rail lines for moving it to seaboard. It
cites the experience of the lumber
men and the coal dealers, who annually
ship millions of tons by barges towed
up and down the Mississippi Rhjer, at
rates so low that it is Impossible for the
railroads to meet them. Almost simul
taneously with the suggestion of this
new plan for relief for the flour millers
comes the announcement from New Or
leans that the railroads terminating
there will improve their facilities for
handling grain at that port and will
this season attempt to win back the
prestige that has been annexed by Gal
veston. So rapid has been the gain in grain
shipments of these two southern ports
over New York, Philadelphia and other
ports lying farther north that it is no
longer a case of rivalry between North
ern and Southern ports, but between
the two big Southern ports. This shift
ing of the grain trade is in part due to
the opening of new territory to which
the Southern ports have easier access,
and in part to the increasing consump
tion and attendant decreasing surplus
for export in the wheat districts lying
farther north. The great factor, how
ever, in the changed routing of the ex
portable surplus of grain lies In the
recognition of the law of gravity, which
precludes the necessity of dragging
grain uphill to a tidewater market
when it can follow a course of less re
sistance and reach an equally good
shipping point at the foot of a downhill
grade.
The Government has spent something
over $10,000,000 on the Mississippi River
above the mouth of the Missouri, and,
even had returns traceable direct to
river traffic failed to have justified the
expenditure, It has been returned many
times over by the reduction which the
railroads were forced to make in order
to. meet the river competition. New
Orleans and Galveston have wrested
the export grain trade from New
York, Philadelphia, Boston and other
Northern ports. This accomplished,
New Orleans, situated at the ocean ter
minus of one of the longest systems of
Internal waterways to be found any
where on earth, will now demand and
receive more than an equal division of
the traffic now shared by her with Gal
veston. The latter poet will remain
practically Invincible in the grain trade
of Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory
and a portion of the states lying farther
north, but the water-level lines from
the Northwest and Middle West will
take the grain from that vast region by
the easy and natural route to New Or
leans. On a smaller scale the same condi
tions which will eventually govern the
grain movement there are noticeable In
the Pacific Northwest. New Orleans
was shipping wheat before Galveston
was ever mentioned aa a wheat port.
Just as Portland was a heavy shipper
before Puget Sound shipped any wheat
The development of new territory sup
plied business for Galveston and for
Portland continued to Increase the vol
ume of their business, losing little or
nothing by the growth of the other
ports. Portland's waterway to the in
terior Is not yet sufilclently improved
to offer the unobstructed passage from
the wheat fields of the Inland Empire
that is available for the Mississippi
barges, but the time is coming when
this route will be open, and when it is
the rates to tidewater will be governed,
not by the cost of lifting freight over
a mile in the air and dropping it down
on the other side of a mountain, but by
the cost of moving It over a water
level grade or by water.
The railroads which are now planning
to divert wheat from other ports to
New Orleans are doing so because they
have an advantage in routes and
grades. Retaliation by roads less fa
vorably situated and leading to other
ports will be too dangerous to attempt,
for the water-level route will In the end
make the rate, be It low or high. The
advantage possessed by New Orleans In
this respect is also one of the greatest
commercial assets possessed by Portland.
APPALLING LOSSES BY RAILROAD
ACCIDENTS.
Recent fatal disasters by railroad are
calculated to send t us back to the rec
ords of these fearful losses of life and
limb, as presented in the official re
ports. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission In Its railway statistics for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1003, gives
the number of persons killed at 9840.
and those injured at 76,558,. making a
total of killed and wounded of S6.39S.
This is a shocking record, taken by
itself; but it Is even yet more appalling
when we compare it with losses in bat
tle. This annual sacrifice to the loco
motive Juggernaut exceeds the loss In
any of the many bloody battles of our
Civil War. In the fighting from Port
Gibson to Vicksburg, the losses sus
tained by Grant were 1223 killed and
7632 wounded. The Confederate loss Is
still unknown, but was not far from
10,000 In killed and wounded. The loss
on both sides was less than one-fourth
the killed and wounded of dne year of
American railroading. The Union losses
at Gettysburg are given by General
Meade for the three days' engagement
at 2834 killed and 13,709 wounded. The
Confederate loss was somewhat larger,
but all the losses of that memorable
and sanguinary engagement did not be
gin to compare with the Interstate
Commerce Commission's record of dis
aster for one year.
It Is not to be supposed that this
presentment, or any that might be
formulated, will have any effect, either
upon the railroads themselves or upon
public opinion or conduct. No consid
eration of humanity will outweigh or
much Increase the motive for caution
already imposed upon the railroads by
the tremendous financial loss involved
in wrecks, their immediate cost In de
struction and delay and their indirect
charge In decreased traffic, in renewals
and in claims for damages.
These losses are in fact if not a
necessary at least an inevitable con
comitant of swift travel. The number
of passengers carried In the year was
694,891,525, and it is only In contempla
tion of this inconceivably great num
ber that the comparative smallness of
the losses appears. Indeed, when one
reflects upon the carelessness and inex
perience of many travelers, the won
der perhaps Is greater that no more are
Injury. Where trains plow through ex
cited crowds at open stations, as at
Gladstone Park or Coney Island, it
seems almost a miracle sometimes how
some of them escape being caught un
der the wheels.
This does not mean, of course, that
official vigilance should be relaxed
or strict accountability waived or
condign punishment withheld in any
case. With all that conscientious op
erators and stern courts can do, there
will still be disaster; but every prevent
able one, and this Includes nearly all,
should be followed by searching In
quiry and exact justice. Every life lost
or person maimed unnecessarily In our
railroad administration Is a blot upon
our boasted civilization. The misman
aged railroad suffers financial loss for
Its mistakes, but this is not enough. Its
guilty officials or employes should also
pay the penalty society exacts for crim
inal sacrifice of human life, and travel
ers should not be in such a hurry. They
always want fast trains.
TRUCE FOR BATTLING GIANTS.
The financial world, or at least that
portion of It that takes its tip from
Wall street, Is still awaiting further
light on the celebrated Northern Se
curities case, and a slow and uneasy
stock market Is expected pending the
final settlement of this suit. This re
markable contest, better known to the
general public as the Hill-Harrlman
fight, is an affair of such gigantic pro
portions that Wall street has good rea
sons for awaiting the result with
breathless anxiety. The world, ancient
or modern, has never before witnessed
a struggle In which such a vast aggre
gation of capital was involved or in
which the Interests of the people in
such a large scope of country were af
fected. The railroad interests Involved
In the deal include more than 32,000
miles of road, on which there Is a bond
and stock valuation of$l,500,0do,000. In
cluded In this mileage are four lines
which cross the continent from the
Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean,
and more than one-third of the states
of the Union are traversed"by either the
Hill or the Harrlman lines.
Neither Wall street nor the country
at large will soon forget the shock
which followed the collision of these
great forces in May, 1901, when, in a
frantic endeavor to secure control of
the Northern Pacific, the? rival bidders
forced the stock up to $1000 per share,
the struggle precipitating a veritable
Black Friday in Wall street. Then
came what had the appearance of a
settlement of the differences- by the
formation of the Northern Securities
Company, the magnificent proportions
of which dwarfed in comparison all
other consolidations of railroad inter
ests that had ever been attempted.
With the subsequent history of the Se
curities Company the reading public is
quite familiar. The financial peace that
was restored by the merging of the
Hill-Harrlman properties vanished with
the appearance of the Supreme Court
decision sustaining the cont&ntion ol
the lower court that the merger was
in violation of the Federal anti-trust
act
The decision in itself was not neces
sarily conducive to war, but the court
neglected to Instruct regarding the dis
tribution of the securities, and the Har
rlman objection to the Hill method of
returning them brought on the suit
which has kept the financial world In
a feverish state for months. The ex
tent to which this great case has be
come a- factor In rejntf attn the pulse of
Wall street was forcibly Illustrated last
week by the demonstration which fol
lowed the decision of Judge Bradford,
of the United States Circuit Court of
New Jersey. This decision only grant
ed a temporary Injunction preventing
the distribution of the stock according
to the Hill plan until such a time as
the case could be tried out on its mer
its. In effect it was only a stay of pro
ceedings which the subsequent decision
might prove to be of no benefit to the
Harrlman interests. Wall street, how
ever, regarded it as a straw which
might show which way the wind would
blow, and in the few hours following
the announcement Union Pacific stock
shot up nearly $4 per share, with deal
ings amounting to mora than $20,000,000.
The West, by reason of a number of
years of good crops and high prices, is
In a measure Indifferent to the antics of
the New York money market, but
would like to see this famous case
speedily settled m order that railroad
building in the Pacific Northwest,
which is now being held up by the de
cision, coujd proceed. A victory for
Harrlman would be highly beneficial to
Oregon and Washington, but a defeat
would hardly change some of his im
portant plans for this country, and he
would still remain an antagoist who
could make his prowess felt by Mr. Hill
in Quarters where he has not yet
landed.
Men who have been interested for a
number of years in the Santlam mines
in Linn and Marlon Counties show their
faith in the future of that district by
continuing to invest money in develop
ment work. Ten years ago the Lawler
mines at Anidem were worked exten
sively, though, It seems, not profitably.
The development work was carried on
at such a large expense that the town
of Gates possessed all the characteris
tics of a booming mining town. As
soon as work was suspended the town
lost its activity, and all that remained
to recall the livelier days was the
gaudily painted sign over the principal
saloon, "Gates Ajar." In the last year
or two mining operations have been
commenced on Gold Creek, north of
Gates, and now it Is announced that
work will begin again in the mines to
the south. While many people will
smile and predict failure, there is some
thing reassuring in the confidence dis
played by the men who have been and
are putting up the money to carry on
the work. Perhaps some day their ef
forts will be amply rewarded and the
deserted town of Gates will take on new
life.
It is an encouraging sign, speaking
from the standpoint of missionary ef
fort, that missionaries are finding plenty
of work to do In the home field. The
expense of long journeys across the
water, the time and study involved In
learning a strange language, the dan
ger of being captured by brigands and
the possibility of being murdered by
the Thibetans, are expunged from the
missionary problem by this discovery
of the home field- Whether laboring
along practical lines among the isolat
ed, ignorant people of the Southern
mountains, or in the squalid homes of
the deniaens of the city slums, the
home missionaries find enough to do to
keep them busy the year round. MI3S
Roberts, National organizer for the
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, now with us,
says the society now has 100 mission
aries in desolate parts of the United
States, and that there is work for 1000
more. This discovery of Borrlboola
Gha at our very doqrs Is an Important
one, and will doubtless lead to happy
results.
From many readers throughout the
Oregon Country The Oregonlan receives
copies of newspapers from distant
places, containing long articles on the
Lewis and Clark Exposition, with de
scription and history, which it 13 asked
to reprint Should we comply with these
requests we should fill a page of this
paper every day. Besides, we receive
direct from newspapers In many parts
of the United States marked copies con
taining similar articles. They go to
show that the Lewis and Clark Exposi
tion and the Oregon Country are getting
large notice and wide advertisement;
and we note the fact with pleasure. But
it Is not worth while to reprint these
long and numerous articles, descriptive
and historical, in The Oregonlan. With
all they contain our people here are
perfectly familiar. What we are glad
to note is their publication in other
states. It Is wonderful what an amount
of this work is now being done; and
The Oregonian wishes to thank it3
brethren of the press throughout the
United States fpr the Interest they man
ifest in It, and for the effectiveness of
their kindly effort
The whole situation as to "the Russo
Japanese War is this: Russia has no
right or business to be In Manchuria;
and Japan ought to expel her, with the
plaudits of the world. For, If Russia
should absorb Manchuria, she would
soon absorb Corea, and then Japan
could not exist. A3 for the rest of
China, her fate would soon follow that
of Manchuria. China Is an inert mass,
of jellyfish or blubber, from which noth
ing 1b to be expected through her own
initiative; but if Japan, withstanding
Russia, can take the hegemony in the
Orient, great things may be effected.
Japan shows a gallantry In this busi
ness that entitles her to the considerate
sympathy of mankind.
The Democratic party "now is sane."
So says Grover Cleveland. So says Hen
ry Watterson. So says Fred V. Hol
man. So say many more. It has not
been sane heretofore, then these
statesmen, orators and rosarlans ad
mit But it is now sane. Thus, ebrios
lty, quitting Its cups, starts out to lec
ture the world on the virtues of so
briety and sanity. But It always has
been doubted whether presentation of
"the horrible example" was the best
lecture for temperance.
The main question, the question of
prime interest and Importance as to
Judge Parker will be pressed later, to
wlt: How could thjs "safe and sane"
man vote twice for William J. Bryan,
on the platforms of 1896 and 1900? That
is to say, or to inquire. Is Judge Parker
"safe and sane?"
One thing indeed is gratifying, to
wlt: We find among our Democratic
brethren those who tell us that their
party has recovered from the crime of
'73. Yet there are those who- dispute It
Why don't the Republicans In the
State of Washington pull down Mead,
misnamed for Governor, and put up a
man whom they can elect?
An enthusiastic Democratic editor
writes that Henry Gassaway Davis is
"still in the bloom of vigor and health."
i An octofferanlum; Indeed J
JUDGE4PARKER AT HOME..
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Parker stories are scarce. There is no
public men about whom fewer anecdotes
are told. This is due largely to his re
served life and reticence, although no one
loves a good Joke or story better.
' One Is related at the Judge's expense.
A very able New York attorney, who was
quite deaf and very sensitive, was argu
ing a case before the Court of Appeals.
He dwelt at length upon a fundamental
law principle. Finally Judge Parker in
terrupted. "It would seem, Brother , that
you infer that tills court is not well versed
In this elementary law point."
Now, the attorney didn't catch what
was said, but he made It a rule to agree
always with what the court said. So,
smiling and bowing, he said;
"Precisely, Your Honor, precisely. You
have stated the proposition correctly."
The court laughed, Judge Parker smiled
and the lawyer continued his argument.
"Goin' to the 'Nauguratlon."
Out at the general store at Esopus the
village wiseacres gather each night to
discuss the events of the day. On every
night save Friday, by the light of a very
smelly oil lamp, they talk Judge Parker.
On that night they talk something else,
for Judge Parker Invariably Is present
To the simple minds of the villagers
Judge Parker is certain to bo the next
President. It would be high treason, lese
majeste and horsathlef, to hold other
vvisc. They all talk of "when the Judge
Is down to Washington," and they often
refer to "President Parker."
One of the shrewdest of the old wise
acres is "Uncle John." He Is a tall, angu
lar farmer who wears a small bunch of
whiskers on the point of his chin. His
clothing Is homespun, and he wears huge
felt boots. He Is the hottest Parker man
In the country.
"Reckon I'll go down to the 'inaugura
tion," he remarked.
"Inauguration of whom?" Inquired the
writer.
"Humph! Who'd you think? Why, the
Jedge, of course!"
"Would the Judge make a. good Presi
dent, Uncle John?"
"Why, of course, he will! Why, land's
sakes, he's got the finest bunch of Here-fords-
in the hull of York State! Will he
make a good President? Humph 1"
"Uncle John" has an old beaver hat, "I'm
calkerlatln' t wear It t th' 'nauguratlon,"
he said. "Th' Jedge has one, too. He got
his'n when I got mine, long about 30 years
ago."
Parker Totes Freight.
On a little plank sign above the dock
at the foot of Rosemount is the sign:
THE KINGSTON NAVIGATION CO..
A. B. PARKER, FREIGHT AGENT.
The villagers cannot see any joke In
this. He simply lets the little freight boat
use his dock for the accommodation of his
neighbors, and one of his men attends to
the freight And sometimes, when the
man Is very busy, "Freight Agent Par
ker" handles a few pieces of freight him
self. Hl3 Mother's Switch.
The Judge's mother, Mrs. Harriet Strat
ton Parker, lives at Derby, Conn., but
spends the Summer months at Rosemount
She Is of Puritan stock and a firm be
liever In temperance and humility.
Whenever she sees something printed
about her distinguished son she writes
mm to beware Of pride and urges him
not to become too fond of worldly things.
She also lectures him frequently on
temperance, and the Judge listens gravely.
Ho is a very abstemious man, once In
awhile Indulging In a Scotch highball at
his dinner.
"Mother Is the best mother In the
world," he often says. Then, with an
amused twinkle, "and she always used
the best and strongest switches."
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How Diaz Polices Mexico.
Boston Transcript
Bandits and demagogues having been
exterminated Diaz sent soldiers into every
city sent them there to remain and as a
menace to evil-doers. He organized a
rurai pouce force, a civil guard of heavily
armed horsemen. These men patrol the
republic, the mountains and the valleys
the arid North and the tropic South. They
are to be found on the Pacific Coast far
from the habitation of man and In the en
virons of village, town and city. Their
guns are sure and their horses fleet They
aro policemen and spies. Thus every In
dian and every planter in the country can
be watched. Diaz In his palace in Mexico
City Is likewise in every highway and
mountain trail throughout Mexico. His eye
Is on every man. If a demagogue arises in
some remote hamlet to condemn the gov
ernment Diaz is immediately Informed
And in this manner Is crlmo put down
In the country and In this manner is revo
lution made impossible.
Policemen In large cities carry heavy
J DF ptetols" afe thrust Into belts
outside their coats. At night they have
lanterns with which to signal and every
Le.T,mU,tes ? rap upon the Pavement
with their sticks, in the villages and
small c ties the police are armed with
short rifles, revolvers and swords. A
hamlet of 300 Inhabitants may have six
policemen. If it is on a railroad the en
tire force Is at the station whenever a
train comes ln-at the station In line for-
2SHSnvSuia r,sld but ready- han- upon
thing eyes flxed but seelns y-
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"Returning Sanity."
Philadelphia Record. Dem.
The wldesnread recnminn , .,.
that Mr. Cleveland was right when ht
Z7-., v"ou mj a portion of his
party Is one of the most remarkable
2??tf !? rUr F0""08- The demonstration
In the St Louis Convention over the men
tion of Mr. Cleveland's name was an
wology by the party to the ex-President
A like apology from the late Senator Irby
of South Carolina, was related by the
Senator's friend. Ellis G. Graydon, to the
Charleston News and Courier. Speaking
of Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Irby Is reported by
Mr. Graydon as saying:
He stood in the breach single-handed and
alone, and fought the whole Republican party,
and all the hobos In the Democratic party)
of whom I was one at that time. By that act
he preserved the honor of the United States
and Its financial system, and I believe he act
ually eaved the Government Itself from disrup
tion. What He. Owes It To.
Boston Transcript
As a jurist Parker Is not more distin
guished than are some of his associates
on the bench of the Supremo Court of Ap
peals, say John Clinton Gray or Edward
T. Bartlett He owes his pVomlnence to
his position as Chief Judge and his posi
tion as Chief Judge he owes to politics.
Will Get a Run for It.
Providence Journal.
Mr. Davis' bar'l will bo subjected to an
exhaustive drain, but when a man reaches
his Hst year it is a pity if he cannot have
some fun with his money.
The Joy.
Smart Set.
The joy is In the doing,
Not the deed that's doner
The swift and glad pursuing.
Not the goal that's -von.
The Joy Is In the seeing:.
Not in what we see;
The ecstasy of vision.
Far and clear and free I
The joy Is In tho singing-,
"Whether heard or no;
The poet's- wild, sweet raptnre,
And song's dlvlnest flow!
The joy !a in the being
Joy of life and breath;
Joy of a soul triumphant,
Conqueror of death!
Is there a flaw in the marble?
Sculptor, .do your best:
The Joy la in the endeavor
Leave to God tb tut,
IDAHO ATJTHE FAl.
Boise Statesman.
Those In charge of the Portland Expo
sition to occur next year are very active
in the work of preparing for the event
and they have mado the success of the
undertaking certain. The subject Is one
that is of much interest to our people,
as Idahoans will attend In large numbers
and also contribute to the exhibits. All
will be glad to know the Exposition la
to be on so grand a scale. The United
States Government will transfer prac
tically the entire display It has at St
Louis to the Coast Fair, and a large pro
portion of the foreign exhibits will like
wise be moved west The states to the
eastward will be very generally repre
sented, while those of the West and
Northwest will send large exhibits and
some of them will establish state build
ings. That the Exposition will be at
tractive is beyond all peradventure.
This Is all of Interest to Idaho people,
not only because of their desire to visit
the Fair, but also because of the oppor
tunlty that will bo afforded to advertise
our state. "Visitors from Eastern points
will very generally desire to stop oft to
see the lands growing the products ex
hibited. In this respect the Portland Ex
position will bear a very different rela
tion to Idaho than that at St Louis.
People who may become Interested in
Idaho from what thoy see at the latter
place would have to make a long trip
especially for the purpose of visiting the
state; those becoming lnterestqd at Port
land In our resources will hae but to
secure a lay-over ticket and pay us .a
visit
There can be no doubt that a great
multitude of people will stop over in this
stato on their way to or from the Ex
position, and it is a foregone conclusion
that large 'numbers of them will deter
mine to settle hero. More visitors will
come into the state during the Exposi
tion than have ever stopped within its
borders In any three years. Moreover, a
large proportion of these will be per
sons looking for investment or a place
In which to settle. It is for these rea
sons that the Portland Exposition will
prove of such very great benefit to the
state. Furthermore, our people should
take special pains to have a good display
at the Exposition. There is no doubt they
will take steps to have the state very
creditably represented, but the subject
Is one to bo kept In mind so that noth
ing shall be overlooked when the time
comes to act
They're After Him.
Chicago Chronicle.
If Uncle Henry Gassaway ever heard
that once popular ditty, "They're After
Me," he must reallzo Its peculiar apt
ness In his own case.
9 They're after me, they're after me
To capture me Is every one's desire;
They're after me, they're after me,
I am the individual they require.
They are surely after Uncle Henry.
They have lost no time. They have cor
ralled Uncle Henry In a New York hotel,
and what they have done to him is an
awful secret between Undo Henry and
the paying teller.
What Is more, they evidently do not
mean to lose sight of Uncle Henry. The
Judge, up at Rosemount splashes and
plunges around In the limpid waters of
the Hudson, attracting the curious atten
tion of the people on the steamboats, but
practically neglected by the directors
general of the Democracy. Uncle Henry
is accompanied In his comings and goings
by no fewer than half a dozen National
Committeemen, each of whom carries
constantly In his pocket a supply of blank
checks in readiness for the psychological
moment
The Judge is an abstraction, so to
speak; Uncle Henry is something con
crete. He Is, In very truth, the Individ
ual they require, and It is all nonsense
to give way to gloomy Imaginings be
cause of his advanced age and lack of
physical vigor.
If Uncle Henry's writing hand gives
out he can sign checks with a rubber
stamp. A3 we have remarked before, all
Is well.
O My! O My!
Birmingham (Ala.) News, Dem.
Roosevelt Is exceedingly unpopular with
a very large proportion of his own party.
The business Interests of the country are
afraid of him. There Is a widespread Im
pression which Is based upon the conduct
of Roosevelt himself that ho will get this
country badly Involved in international
complications if half an opportunity pre
sents Itself. He Is personally offenslvo to
millions of voters. He 13 unreasonable,
bombastic, high-handed and arrogant
With a self-esteem and an insatiable am
bition he has put himself In the same
class with the I-am-the-state French
monarch who considered nothing higher
or greater than his individual views and
aspirations. This strong imperialistic
tendency of a bigoted autocrat will neces
sarily react upon him at the hands of a
democratic people. They have had an
ample sufficiency of an erratic, domineer
ing egotist, and the returns In November
will register their repudiation of the most
obnoxious mistake that ever got Into the
White House by accident or otherwise.
A Singular Statement.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
James M. Head, member of the Demo
cratic National Committee from Tennes
see, talks In tho manner in which many
Democrats are talking. "The Issue,"
says he, "will be Rooseveltlsm. That Is
Inevitable. The two National platforms
are almost identical, so that It will be a
question of which of tho two candidates
or President can best be relied upon to
carry out the pledges of his party If
elected."
The Development League.
Gervals Star.
Any movement for tho upbuilding of
Portland means equally as much for Ger
vals and the balance of the state. We
urge the citizens of Gervals to assist the
movement now pending for a meeting at
an early date In Portland, composed of
the commercial bodies of the state and
cities. It can do no harm and may re
sult In much good. ,
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Short, Good Stories.
Senator Benjamin Tillman goea shy of Sen
ator Hoar in colloquy. Not long since the
South Carolinian remarked to the Massachu
setts Nestor that there were not seven men
In the Senate who would know the Lord's
prajer If they saw It In French, "Whereupon
Senator Hoar remarked: "Perhaps eo, perhaps
so; but that would not be because they can't
read French."
At the Democratic Club In New York one
evening last week, Bourke Cpckran was con
tinuing his luminous explanations of how it
happened at St Lou la. "That's all reasonable
enough." said a Tammany leader, "but It
doesn't account for the landslide to Parker aft
er the telegram was read." "Hush." retorted
Cockran. "There was an awful possibility of
a stampede to Hobson."
President Hadley, of Yale University, is
sometimes absent-mlntfed. He was to lecture
in a city eome distance from New Haven. His
train was late. Jumping into a cab he handed
'the driver 52, and told him to "drive fast."
For half an hour tho horse' kept up a rapid
gate, up one street, down another, until the
professor called to the cabby: "Are we nearly
there?" "Damflno, mister." was the reply,
"where do you want to go?"
Senator Thomas C. Piatt, of New York was
told by Charles H. Murray, a local politician,
that Judge Parker wa "so towering that Eng
land sees and salutes him' "Yes," remarked
the Senator, "the candidates can be seen a
long way off this year. Both, ao to speak,
stand on hjgh ground." Mnrray is shrewd, but
didn't grasp the Idea. So Piatt simplified It:
"Roosevelt on San Juan Hill; Parker on David
B. Hill."
Senator Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, tells
one on "himseir. He was admiringly looking at
a pretty woman at the railroad station in
"Washington not Impertinently, but courteous
ly, because she was beautiful when she ex.
claimed: "Rubberl" shrugged her shoulders and
frowned. The Senator took off his hat and
said: "Madam, I beg a thousand pardons. I
took the liberty of admiring you because 1
pJL thought you were the real thlag."
, NOTE AND COMMENT.
Overstocked.
"Now, you Stork, see here
And the Czar looks, black
"IP you bring a girl
- You'll Just take her back."
Mum's the Word.
Since the packing 'strike begun, It's the
public that has been beefing.
Why does the fireboat shiver the night
with its searchlight: looking for a- Are?
Yes, Constant Reader, the games are
closed; but there's nothing to prevent you
from dropping your money into the river.
These cricket matches between married
and unmarried men: Don't they last ao
long that some of the bachelors' team be
come disqualified.
By the way, those Royal Company Is
lands that the British government wiped
off tho charts and its list of possessions
does the governor get a pension?
The amputated foot of a patient who
died In a Seattle hospital was found ina
dustheap. But it wasn't the patient that
put his foot in it; it was the hospital.
Frenchmen complain that they have to
drink bad chartreuse, since the monks
were driven out of France. The American
product however, maintains Its stand
ard. The person suffering from what the
Atchison Globe calls tho "old-fashioned b.
a." Is worthy of relief If he Is capable
of believing "Dr." Mlnard's dictum that
"your Inside is filled with divine love."
A woman at Coney Island got so scared
that her false teeth slipped their moor
ings and choked her to death. What wo
want to hear of Is a woman whoso falsa
hair blew round her neck In a galo and
strangled her.
The Rev. I. H. Albright, pastor of Christ
Church, Lebanon, Pa., has attracted soma
attention by preaching In his shirtsleeves.
Somehow a man always does attract at
tention when he does anything sensible.
What the people want, ummer or Winter,
Is shirtsleeves religion.
"Famo," said some cynic, "fame is hav
Ing your name spelt wrong in the papers."
The New Tork Tribune gives famo to a
Portlander in this paragraph:
"Qus" Danguisse. a resident of Portland,
Or., was brought before Justice Hoyne. of the
Municipal Court, charged with Ill-treating hia
wife. The evidence showed that he had choked
the woman brutally. The court directed Of
ficer Goetz, an Immensely powerful man. to
choke the prisoner, ih order that he might
have practical knowledge of. how his wife suf
fered. The officer obeyed with a will, holdinjr
the wlfebeater until the brutal fellow became
limp. Then Justico Hoyne sentenced him to
SO days in jail.
The Now Tork Globe conducts a "bach
elors' column." Therein replies are mado
to the questions of various men distracted
by questions of etiquette. One poor fel
low has been requested to act as godfa
ther to a friend's child, and he writes to
the Globe asking what a godfather hna
to do. All most godfathers do Is give the
kid a silver mug, but there are presuma
bly other duties attached to the ofhae.
If men aro going to worry over little
things like th'ls, however, every newspa
per will soon have to publish a men's soo
tion. All these lamentations over the pasilng of
the old-fashioned woman that was a true
helpmeet to her husband have no founda
tion in fact The women of today are as
much of a comfort to their husbands as
the women of our grandmother's genera
tion were to theirs. Countless instances
of wifely devotion are to be found in the
press. Look, for example, at the Phila
delphia dispatch In yesterday's Oregonlan
Robert FItrslmmons, in the exercise of his ""'
profession, was engaged in pounding the
head off a Mr. O'Brien. Close to the storm
center sat Mrs. Robert Fitzslmmons, and
during the six rounds she "never took her
eyes oft" her husband. When the lasi
blow was struck, Mrs. FItz was first into
the ring, and she pressed a kiss to the
swollen lips of her Bob. Wasn't thai
wifely and comforting? And even if FItz.
Simmons did miss the presence of the for
mer Mrs. FItz, she who at Carson City
adjured him to "crack the slats" of Mr.
Corbett ho Is still a lucky man. And
while on this subject, do not let us for
get that James Jeffries is equally fortun
ate in having a wife of the good old-fash
loned kind that i3 declared by tho pro.
fesslonal keencrs to bo extinct Does nol
Mrs. Jeffries know how to train her hus
band, and does she not increase bis con
fldence by assuring him that such dubj
as Munroe are not in the same ring with
htm?
WESL J,
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Mr. Oldboy The mountain air Is very ex
hilarating. I feel like a two-year-old thli
morning; MIs3 Younger And you look. It, toe
fifty times over. Chicago Journal.
Customer I'd like to get something In the
shape of a Panama hat Salesman 'Well,
Panama hats haven't any shape, you know
but we've got the hats, oil right Chicago
Tribune.
It is pretty hard to believe that woman will
be able to take a prominent part in running
the affairs of the Nation while she wears 8
waist that buttons down the back. Chlcagc
Record-Herald.
Hicks I hear that "Wyllls had a bad fall
t'other day and-came near killing himself.
"Wlcki Yea, he hasn't been so puffed up
about anything since be had the appendici
tis. Boston Transcript.
Backlotz That newcomer is very rich,
isn't he T Subbubs He's either very rich or
very Ignorant. He says he's going to raise
enough vegetables in his garden to supply
his table this Summer. Philadelphia Press.
"My son," said the fond father as he pro
duced his light hickory cane. "I want you
to understand that this hurts you a good
deal more than it does me.' "Father," re
plied the noble boy, "I'd sooner have & fath
er that told the truth than take a thousand
lickings." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"So." said the stern parent, "you want
to marry my daughter, eh?" "Ah, yes!"
sighed the romantic young man. "I would
gladly He down and die for her." "I'm afraid
you won't do," replied the practical father.
"What I want is a son-in-law who Is willing
to get up and hustle for her." Chicago Dal
ly News.
Daughter Doctor, father has been acting
so queerly lately. Will you please examine
him and see it he should be put in an asy
lum? Insanity expert what is he doing
now? Daughter He's reading the Sunday
colored comic supplements. Insanity expert
Gimme the commitment papers and I'll
sign 'em. Judge.
"What was the matter with that audi
ence ?" asked Mr. Stormlngton Barnes,
"Don't the people like Shakespeare?" "I
should say they do," answered Broncho Bob.
"Then why did they shoot out the lights?"
"Well, you see, they called for the author,
and when nobody came out. they felt kind
o' slighted." Washington Star.
Not long ago an old colored woman of
Virginia visited a doctor and Informed him
that her husband was seriously ill. The doc
tor hastened home with her, and upon mak
ing a diagnosis of the man's case informed
the wife that he had a hopeless case of gas
tritis. "Gastritis!" ejaculated the old wo
man. "De Lawd knows I don't know how
he ever got gastritis, 'cause I don't burn a
I thing but coa and lie In his house, an bat
f poweVcl fltt.Vo't thttt." Phnadeljbi Ld
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