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Candee, of Weiser, Idaho, thus addresses The Oregonian: Several times recently In your editorials against Socialism you have made utter ances elmilar to the following from your issue of January 14: It is impossible tliat the individual under Socialism should have private property to any extent, or of any permanent value. He would have the clothes on his back, but they would oon be threadbare; he would have the bed he bleeps on, but it would soon be rotten or worn out: he might for a time keep the house he lives in. but he would have no means of keep ing it In repair. As for travel, for new furni ture, for articles of luxury and art, they would e out of the auestlon. The human being-, in his capacity as a producer of wealth, either by handwork or bralnwork, produces everything of value to mankind, Including accumulated capital. The human being. In the capacity of a capitalist, produces nothing, not even his capital. Why should the coats and houses and other articles that are privately owned and used wear out nd not be replaced when the people that use these articles are the people that make them? Why should a man produce less for himself when he gets it all than he will- for another man when he Is only to have a part of his product 'back for his wages? With his dally wages or yearly salary the worker now pays for all of hte cloth ing, repairs the house he lives in. with the rental, gives his children all tho schooling they get, furnishes his wife with all the vacations she gets and does every thing for himself and his family that he has done. "Would he have any less for himself and family If he got all that he produced, Instead of only a part? The wealth produced In the United States every year on the farms and In the factories and mines by handwork and bralnwork Is over 3000 for each worker, and -there Is no logic in saying that the people will wtarve and freeze when they are given a chance to produce this for themselves and then a chance to use their produc tion. This misses the whole subject The essence of Socialism is equality. The state Is to take possession of the means of production and of distribution. The state is to direct not only the manual labor, but all the brain work. No man is to be allowed to have the benefit of superior talents. The state is to direct a'l and control all and distribute all, ko as to establish "perfect equality." The whole accusation against the pres ent (competitive) system is that It al lows one man to make, to accumulate, to possess, more than another man. Socialism is to cut this out, root and branch. Brain work is not to be di rected by the individual, but by the state. How much brain work will the state get out of such conditions, when the work of the proprietor of the brain is confiscated by the state? Is it really worth talking about? Likewise the assumption that wealth would still be produced as now over 52000 a year for each worker Is Utopian. The wealth produced would fall to the lowest average level, be cause no one would have anything to strive for or to expect, more than an other, even In best conditions; but cheapest food, cheapest furniture, cheapest and commonest clothing no luxury, no art, no travel, because all couldn't have these things. The state, the universal producer, would produce oniy the common articles that the gen eral mass would want and could pay for with their daily or weekly wage, on "labor time." Nobody would have means of buying any, better kind. Observe always that it is the purpose of social democracy to shut out every lierson from the opportunity of accu mulating -wealth In excess of the wealth of his fellows. Hence the state Is to take possession of all lands, machin ery and means of production. Hence private property, except on the lowest basis of man's poorest needs, would disappear. Even workers couldn't earn so much as now, because wages paid for service of various kinds to the rich would ceaee for there would be no rich. At best, every man and every woman would live in poor condition, on a monotonous level of poverty, without hope of rising above it, clad in cheap garb made In poorest average style, with no distinction or variety, because on the one hand the Socialist state would be devoted wholly to the com monalty; and on the other, since no person could make money any more even money would no longer exist, but scrip only. Issued on "labor time" all would be wearing cheap state-made garments, like prison garb, or garb of coolies; "dolns time" on this basis, with, no hope of rising above it. For It would be Intolerable in the state of "equality" that Socialism Is to Intro duce and to maintain, that one person should receive wages, favors, salary or reward sufficient to enable him to live in luxury above the level of his fellows. A eoclal democracy, founded on equal ity, never would permit it The Socialist is so devoted, to his Idea of "equality" that he doesn't think for a moment of the consequences. His Idea is a "fixed Idea," resembling that which produced the silver craze. He iorseta, orrefuses io admit, jtbt the whole progress of society and civiliza tion, as well as of the Individual man, has its roots In inequality of talents, which must have free scope or perish. Human nature is so constituted that men will not make effort unless they ere to have the reward. It Is useless, too, to cite the examples of Jesus and of St. Francis. There you are In the realm of religious feeling and imagina tion; in an ideal, not a material, world. AUTHORITY IN RELIGION. TheOregonlan has high regard for the Catholic Church, and it Is sorry the Catholic Sentinel (Portland) does not think It "orthodox." Some days &go The Oregon Ian published an article on "The Power of the Pulpit" In which the following passage appeared: The church-goers of the last generation ex pected, and were willing to learn, more from the pulpit than nowadays. The spread of edu cation, the ability to urdfllrstsnit inrt to mnn on religious matters, has advanced more rap- jtuy in me congregations than In the preach ers. Tho Injunction, "This Is the way. walk ye In it." is DOt without. miMtlnn jari-.n'irt ft was In the past. The historical and critical racts on wnicn religious argument are based have been, in newspaper, magarlce and book, brought eo close to the intelligence of the ordinary reader that conviction comes rathe from printed than spoken arguments. "Which passage the Catholic Sentinel reprints; and then proceeds to say: The Oregonian aeems not to know that this is an age of specialization. A couple of hun dred years ago a physician could set up shop with only & blood-letting outfit and a fairly good amount of self-assurance. Alexander Hamilton, after devotinr thr study of law, could cope with the best Amer ican lawyers or ma day. But people don't do things that way nowadays, not ves in re ligion. People who can Justly 'lay claim to be ing eoucaiea insist on getting their religion from specialists. Just as educated men go to trained physicians for a. nmwrlntlfln f -morii. cine, instead of buying a bottle of somebody's farsaparllla. because it happens to be adver- uawj expensively. This, of course, is from the stand point of those who find the Catholic Church the seat of authority in relig ion. To them It is an Infallible church, with an infallible head both guarded against error and protected from falli bility by IMvlne guidance. From Its "specialists," therefore, its adherents are expected to take their religious doc trines and beliefs. That Is matter for their own conscience and judgment, wholly. But .herein Is the, very point of so much dissent In the Christian world, and of that general "noncon formity" in that larsrer world which. for want of any more definite name, commonly goes under the term rationalism. They who can find the seat of authority in the church naturally are Catholics, and could be at home nowhere else. Planted on this basis, a structure has been built and strengthened by the work of nearly two thousand years. It is the great historic monument of. the ages. "But the constitution of the human mind is such that in religion, which Is so largely a matter of feeling and of personal char acter or characteristics, there can be no universal grammar of assent. Some can "take their religion from special ists,' and be content They are fortu nate, perhaps. But others cannot; for it is a field in which absolute truth, to many minds, is either difficult or im possible. The fact that the Catholic Church itself, for more than ten cen turies, has been divided Into two great branches, the Roman and the Greek, is a fact of the first significance In show ing the Impossibility of. agreement in the Christian world. So with the later Protestant Reformation, so-called, through which Christianity has taken the color' of doctrines and opinions in numerable. "Specialists in religion" are for those who want them, not for those who do not These last cannot place theology -among the exact sci ences. PORTLAND AS A SCAPEGOAT. The Senatorial fight In our neighbor ing etate has not yet reached a stage where sensational developments sup ply the groundwork for tho usual racy stories that come out of a state capl tol during one of these contests. In the absence of facts, some of the Puget Sound papers represented at Olympia delve deep In the realm of fancy and, for the edification of their readers, and presumably to aid the cause of their respective "candidates, present some wonderful theories as to why the other man should not be elected. Portland, of course. Is dragged Into the game. "When the small boy stubs his toe and skins his nose, his first thought is to find some one on whom he can lay the blame for the accident So with the Puget Sound newspapers. Whenever the everlasting squabble between King and Pierce Counties reaches a stage of Intensity -where the political Xat of both counties gos into the fire, a resting place for the blame Is Immediately sought. Of course It never occurs to these strenuous belligerents to place the blame on their own petty jealousies, where it belongs, and they dare not at tempt to palm It off on other portions of tho state, which would very properly resent It Portland and Oregon being handy. It thus becomes almost a duty that the blame for all King and Pierce County troubles should rest at our doors. By a line of reasoning that would pale Kant Into Insignificance, the Tacoma Ledger has discovered that Oregon wishes Sweeny elected In order that Foster may be defeated. Start ing at this point for a base, It de clares that the defeat of Foster is sought because Oregon wishes Senator Fulton to secure Foster's place on the commerce committee. The Ledger does not go Into details as to what might happen if Sweeny was elected and Ful ton secured the place. It does say, however, that "people of Eastern "Washington who are desirous and anx ious to have the work of opening up the Columbia and Snake Rivers to naviga tion completed should be unanimous for Foster's re-election on account of his ability to push the work." The Ledger has also made the alarm ing discovery- that "the open-river proposition la a serious menace to the future of Portland" because this city, "not being a seaport for large ves sels, views with alarm the possibility that the opening of the river will sencT cargoes to Astoria instead of to Port land." Having sounded the alarm and presented the matter in such a clear light the Ledger writer concludes: "When the facts are clearly stated, one ceases to marvel at the anxiety of Portland and the Oregon press gener ally that Sweeny be elected and Foster defeated." It is thus quite plain that the election of Sweeny would be fol lowed by an Immediate attack on the open-river proposition by Senator Ful ton, and both Oregon and Washington would quickly understand that Ore gon's appropriation of nearly 200,000 for a portage road and $100,000 for right of way at Celilo was only a bluff in tended to prevent the re-election of Senator Foster, The Ledger made one serious omission in Its note of warning. It failed to state what would happen to the vacant chair in the commerce committee In case S. H. Piles or John L. Wilson were elected Instead of Charles Sweeny. Inasmuch as the Ledger has steadily -belittled the chances of Mr. Sweeny, It would appear that the open river Is In more danger from the Seattle candidate than from Sweeny or Portland. In con clusion. It might be well for the Ledger to remember-that If Puget Sound had given the open river the support It was entitled to In the past there would be less antagonism to the Puget Sound candidates on the part of the East Side members of the Legislature. The sort of representation that our neighbors need is not a Senator from King County or a Senator from Pierce County, but a senator from "Washing ton east, west, north and south. Port land and all of Oregon will rejoice In the election of such a man, for Port land has many millions Invested in Washington on both sides of the Cas cade Mountains, and would like to have the best representation possible at the National Capital. INTERN AIi CONDITION OF RUSSIA. Madame Breschkovsky, for twenty two years a political exile in Siberia, has lately arrived in this country with the purpose of lecturing on the. internal condition of Russia and the Socialist revolutionary movement In that Em pire. An article, accompanied by a picture of.this woman, appears in the Independent The latter Is that of a woman past middle life, with large features, strong chin, firm mouth, and eyes that tell of having seen things of great import to Russia and the Rus sians. Her coming Is timely, since the eyes of the world are now fixed upon Russia and the heart of humanity cries out for the relief of her oppressed mil lions through the abrogation of some of the more severe. Intolerant and grossly unjust of her governmental methods. "Madame Breschkovsky tells In this brief article of the flower of cultured Russian society tortured In prisons; of children of nobles, high functionaries and the clergy, students of universities, parted from families and business, fac ing death at the hands of the imperial administration rather than betray their convictions, and adds: "The great hopes of these are coming true." Events In Russia of more recent date than the article in question indicate that this estimate Is well based. From top to bottom the Empire Is In a stato of unrest bordering upon revolution. Tyranny political, social and ecclesias tical bitter as death and cruel and unrelenting- as savagery itself, has done its work" in Russia through slow-moving periods of time. Resistance, fear less, determined and implacable, rises to meet It The Emperor, whether pup pet or tyrant, It matters not, Is the head and front of this deep and wide offending. If Nicholas n escapes the fate of his grandfather, Alexander H, even to dlo a gloomy, despondent dis appointed man, as did his father, Al exander HI, it will not be because pf tho greater virtues that are attributed to him as a man, but to the sleepless vigilance of the armed host by which he Is surrounded. The story which .Madame Breschkovsky will tell In this country will arouse special Interest at this time, maklrrg plain, as It will, the quality of tyranny under which the flower of the Russian Empire writhes today and against which reason and unreason, enlightenment and Ignor ance, have formed" a mighty coallltion. Opposed to this combination is the mili tary and ecclesiastical power of the Empire, Its Imperial family and tradi tions, and the haughty. Insolent aris tocracy. The onset, when It comes, will be a furious one. If It passes for the present with a sharp tilt, It will merely mark the postponement of the Empire's evil day. A CLAIM, NOT A PETITION. One duty which Oregon owes to her sister states, "Washington and Idaho, at this Juncture, Is to be Instant, In sea son and out of season, in pressing the claim of the three states to the two Columbia River Improvements by the General Government. The position of Oregon as the state with which the United States Government is under a plain moral engagement makes her spokesman for the three. But the Im mediate benefits from the two under takings, at the mouth of the Columbia and at the Celilo Rapids, will Inure to no one state more than the others. Each has an equal right to demand of the Federal Government the earliest possible opening of the Columbia gate way and highway for commerce. So, If the question were now a new one. the voices of the three states would, and rightly should, have equal potency In petitioning for the help of the United States. In that case the argument of econ omy put forward by Mr. Burton as chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of the House, would have force. The other argument of political expediency, which Is understood to in fluence him, would weigh with Repub licans In these three states, as well as elsewhere. But the plain facts of the case, plainly stated, will demonstrate that neither of these two arguments applies now, although possibly applica ble before distinct engagements were entered Into with Oregon and carried into effect by her. The contract of the state Involved large expenditures on her part, and her complete performance entitles her to ask from the General Government that It undertake now not after the ordeal of a future river and harbor bill has been met the carrying out of the Celilo Improvement as soon as reason ably practicable. Under parallel condi tions between parties before a civil tribunal nothing but demonstrated Im possibility, not Inconvenience or- the pressure of other engagements, would be pleaded by the party claiming the right to delay the commencement and due carrying forward of the work. The facts are before the -Government and before the public Let us summarize them once again, and leave It to the unprejudiced reader It the case has been stated too strongly: First By act of Congress approved June 13, 1902. the construction of the Celilo Canal was authorixed. Second The report of the Beard of En gineers under that act recognized the feasibil ity of the canal, but recommended that the right or way be first obtained by the State of Oregon and transferred to the United States free of cotl and released of all damages be fore the United States Government should be gin wcrfc. Third The report of this board and Its rec ommendation was concurred in by the Chief of Ecrlneers of the United SIjIm anil ni was approved by the Acting Secretary of War" .NovemDcr ft jwc Fourth The State of Oregon accepted the -provisions of the act of Congress, and appro priated $100,000 to xy for the right of war. and appointed a, tata CaaasaVeslosi to obtain the tame and turn it tver to the United Slates. Fifth The State Commlrilon obtained and paid for the right of way xm&tr the plans, and with the continuing concurrence of the local United State Engineers offtce It completed its part and tendered the right of way. duly re leased, to the United States Government Here, then. Is an undertaking, of Na tional Importance indeed, but of vital Interest to three contiguous states. The conditions are embodied In law, the ac tive state doing her part honorably and energetically, to the satisfaction of the stipulations made on behalf of" the Na tion by the United States Engineers and accepted by the Government, through Its representative, the Secre tary of "War and then execution of the arrangement Is in danger of being in definitely postponed on the two pleas of economy and of party advantage.-. That the former plea, of economy. Is with out weight Is seen from the fact that If the work were put under the con tInu!ngcontract system, as It should be, only a small sum could be properly asked for and expended during the cur rent year. But the faith of the Gov ernment would be kept and the work would-go on to as early a completion as would be wise. The suggestion that by such action the completion of the Jetty would be endangered may be left untouched. "Whether Mr. Burton be Justified or not In his contention that this work Is not under a continuing contract plan, as Is universally .understood here, may be In doubts yet It does not seem possible that-be wSfeJde a party to delays that would endahger,$WNjrrjtoaa done as well as hinder the WnentsHpcom roerce Intended especially when he In dicates, as In yesterday's dispatches, that funds are In sight for carrying- out the Jetty construction. It Is justice rather than favor that Is In debate. There Is a time for each. The time for favor was when these three states were pleading for the work to be undertaken. The time for justice to be dealt out is when one party to the engagement has loyally carried out Its part, and when there is hesitation on the part of the other. It, is the opinion of many citizens whose judgment is worth consideration of the Lewis and Clark unds should be acquired by a public park. The plan perfected, but an outline of other columns of The Ore gon lan this morning. It Is believed also to be desirable to acquire for the city Hawthorne Park, on the East Side; the two will probably be taken into the same plan. The reason for urgency now Is, the Fair Grounds at the end of the year must revert to their own ers. unlesB the city take this opportu nity to purchase. The project thatl seems to have most favor would In clude in the purchase at the Fair Grounds of about forty-two acres, This tract has been beautifully improved, it contains two buildings or more that would be of use to the city, and carries various Improvements of value that could not be replaced for $400,000. Very little expenditure would b required on these grounds for the next twenty years. The Hawthorne Park. Is In an Ideal place, and It is felt that the city ought to have It Hence, since it is ur gent now to secure the tract at the Fair Grounds If It is to be acquired at all It Is thought best by many to in clude Hawthorne Park In the under taking. Some approximate estimate has been made of the, cost It proba bly will be a little over WOO.OCO; to ob tain the money for which It Is suggest ed that the Legislature be asked to authorize 4 per cent city bonds. , It is a conclusive argument that the Taxpayers' League has presented against the proposal that has appeared In the Legislature, to levy a two-mill annual tax on the whole city for pay ment of bridges over gulches, that were ordered on the understanding that local districts were to pay for them, and for erection of other like bridges that may be called for hereafter. The review of this proposed measure Is clear, and leaves nothing to be desired. The de mand Is unfair; It is a "scheme," for realization of which Its authors have been waiting till the Legislature should meet. For these local Improvements the whole city ought not to be taxed; and If the plan be not rejected there will be clamor from every quarter In the "outskirts" for like improvements, with bridges or fills every 200 feet, on every gulch. Prevention Is the rem edy. Whether the great strike that Is now in force in Russia is political In its ori gin or purely Industrial, there Is no doubt that It offers the extremists a great opportunity to strengthen their party. Men working steadily are not as a rule likely to bestow much atten tion on the propaganda of the agitat ors, but when the same men are Idle and begin to feel the pinch of hunger they are In the mood to listen to any denunciation of the government and to take an active part In measures that would formerly have frightened them. Here Is a matter that even the most hidebound bureaucrat must heed, and a settlement of the strike, at the cost of begrudged concessions. Is Imperative If the bureaucracy wishes to prevent an explosion that may shatter the system to bits. What object is to be attained by the Commission now Inquiring Into the "North Sea Incident" is by no means clear. Should the Commission unani mously decide In favor of either con testant what is to be done further? All the power It possesses merely per mits the placing of the blame, and there seems little real advantage in such ac tion, especially as there is no provision demanding that the culprit nation take any steps suggested by the Commis sion. Russia has already offered com pensation to those'lnjured by Rojest vensky's acts, and nothing more is likely to result from all the pow-wow on the Qua! d'Orsay. It migh not be quite agreeable to Macedonia, but it would save the great European powers a lot of unrequited worry. If the territory were divided be tween Russia and Austria. While the partition was being made the pugna cious little Balkan States might also be divided between the stable powers. Evidently there Is strong opinion In the Legislature that Oregon Is main taining too many Normal Schools. In that opinion The Oregonian concurs. Normal Echools have been multiplied for the sake chiefly of throwing upon the state the burden of supporting local high schools. Reports -show that the Russian fruit crops suffered badly from frost this year, probably to be In keeping with the general order of things in the Empire. that a part Fair Gr5 the dtp for is nor yet it Jtapea.-s in NOTE AND COMMENT. One of the Hood River men at Salem la R. E. Morse. No doubt many of the Legis lators have made his acquaintance. Representative Smith of Josephine wants to prohibit candidates for office from giving the honest voter a drink or a cigar. That Is all very well for the can didate, but what will the voter think of It? Pretty soon Venezuela wiU be hiding under the bed. A Seattle jury acquitted a prisoner and presented him with $10. If the custom spreads none but wealthy jurors will dare to vote 'for acquittal. One hundred indictments were returned by the grand jury at Pueblo. Colorado leads Oregon by several laps. Life, which has for many moons - been full of gibes directed against the automo bile, now comes out with an automobile number, proving that It is possible to make both copy' and profit out of. tho motor car. A Portlander was rushing around town yesterday, looking for a new house. "What's the matter with the house you took last week?" asked a friend. "It has three bedrooms," replied the other, "and I'm. chasing a house with only one, so that all our relatives can't come to stay with us during the Fair." Ethical education must be going ahead In kangaroo-like jumps. Testerday we had the Northwestern Ethical Educa tional Society and today comes a pam phlet from the New York Society for Eth ical Culture. It Is evident by the way, that New Tork Is a trifle ahead of Portland, having passed from education to culture. The New Tork society, however, is not concerned with Letters of Love to All, but wishes In this Instance to distribute, free of cost, an excellent pamphlet "Concern ing the Simple Life." written by Felix Adler, and sent out from S3 Central Park West Because her husband scolded her for smoking cigarettes a Chicago woman committed suicide. If all the husbands are scolded for smoking were to commit suicide what a number of vacant Jobs there would be. Enemies assert that Russian civilization Is not equal to American, and yet Russia Is having a strike, almost as big as any this country has ever had. Every day some Incident illustrative of woman's advance In physical prowess Is reported In the newspapers. Three cops raiding a New Tork house a day or two ago were knocked down by a woman who had only her flsta for weapons. Tester day Lawyer Hltchlcgs came off second best In an encounter with a woman, who appears to have literally wiped the floor with her opponent Nor Is It alone against a human foe that woman distinguishes herself. The Oregonian recently contained the story of two Northwest girls who tore their pet dog from the clutches of a ferocious lynx and then potted the beast through tho head. Of these two girls one Is a graduate reader and tho other had Just finished a course In music In Port land. The rifle trigger and the Ivory keys the Oregon girl's finger touches each with equal certainty, and teaching the young" Idea how to shoot "Is done with no more readiness than teaching a lynx how she herself can shoot Denver municipal offices are closed to allow the employes to attend revival serv ices?. Pretty safe to do this before the ball season starts. "A New Torker drawn for the Jury to try Nan Patterson for murder," says the Green Bag, "declared that he had bias because he was defendant in a breach of promise case and could not, therefore, give any woman a fair trial." The thou sandth worm will turn. At Pacific University the young men have been excluded from matches between girls' basket-ball teams, and the girls are said to be distressed, not so irirKh over the absence of the students as over the absence of the gate money they would contribute. Were It not for this feature. It is to be presumed that the exclusion of the men would be welcomed, for basket ball is one of those strenuous pursuits In which the pretty-pretty has small place. Apart from this, however, It looks as If the Idea of co-education was being gradually abandoned, since It is not car ried Into effect in so Important a branch of the curriculum. - Owing to overwork, a nurse In Penn sylvania recently became blind for a day. When she recovered her sight she saw everything double. Avoid the overwork Jag. f Frederick the Great evidently grated on the bomb-thrower's nerves. Now to let the latter see daylight through the grated bars of a prison ccIL Philadelphia Press. Abominable! Tsaye, the violinist, eats pie three times a day when In America. If he treats his violins as roughly as he does his stomach he must use a good many In a year. WEX. J. Washington at the Fair. Tacoma Ledger. The Legislature should take prompt ac tion on the bill appropriating $100,000 for the Washington exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Fair. The sum named Is none too large; in fact. It should be regarded as the very minimum to be considered. Washington has a great opportunity In connection with the Lewis and Clark Fair. Instead of advertising the state in discriminately at a great distance, as was done at Buffalo and St Louis, reach ing but a few out of the tens of thou sands who would be impressed to the ex tent of making a trip to the Coast with a view to settling, the opportunity at Port land Is to reach people who are suffl clenly Interested to have taken this long Journey to see the Fair, and more likely to see this part of the country. The old saying that a bird In hand is worth two In the -bush has some application to the case of the Portland Fair. It Is more sensible to appeal to those who will come to the Fair than to try long shots at any where from 2C00 to 3000 miles range. Washington has more than a neigh borly interest In the success of the Port land Fair. There are selfish reasons which appeal quite as strongly In favor of the project, provided Washington is well represented. This state will derive the maximum of benefit at a minimum of cost Oregon and Portland have spent a million of dollars on the enterprise. If "Washington appropriates $100,000 or more, this state will be conspicuous at the Fair, and will enjoy the benefits with little of the expense or discomfort The appropri ation of not less than $100,000 will prove a first-class business enterprise for this state. Lucky Doorkeeper. Evening. Sun. An English schoolboy, asked to ex plain David's reference to "a. doorkeep er In the house of tne Lord," said he supposed it was "because he could walk about outside white the sermon was feeing: preached," STRANGE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD ARAUCANIANS. PATAGONIANS, FUEGIANS By arranjement with the Chicago Tribune. "pc LARGE number of tribes of bar r barous aborigines are scattered over South America. The most inter esting of thesa are the Araucanians. Patagonians and Fucglans, who In- uaoit the extreme southern part of the continent and the islands cut off from It by the Strait of Magellan. The Araucanlans are among the fiercest boldest, most warlike and moat untamable of American savages. They fought the Spaniards for threo centuries, often with slirnal success. showing remarkable skill In the use of tneir native weapons and much ca pacity for organized action. TJhe prin cipal native weapons arc the bolas, lasso and lance. The bolas Is an iron, stone, or copper ball covered with hide ana attached to the end of a, plaited leather rope. It Is used with deadty effect In hand to hand fights as a sluugshot The natives sometimes tie together three or four bolases and hurl them with such skill that animals 30 or 40 yards distant are either killed or so entangled In their meshes that they cannot escape; and an expert thrower can fasten a rider to hia norse with them. The Araucanlans learned the use of the lasso from the Spaniards, but they soon outdid their teachers In handling it Tho lasso, as most Americans who have lived In the West know. Is a long hemp or leathern rope with a noose at Its end and the object in throwing it is to catch the neck or legs of the anlma it Is aimed at In the noose. The earliest toy of the Araucanlan as a boy Is the lasso. It Is his constant companion In youth. Before he reaches manhood he can bring down the most re fractory steer, bac birds on the fly, or drag his enemy rrdra his saddle and choke him to death with It The Arau canlan lances are about 18 feer. Ions. Their weapons are made still more for midable by the natives' wonderfully expert horsemanship. The women rldo astride like the men; and both are amons tho finest riders In the world. The Spaniards found It impossible en tirely to subdue them, and the Chilean government has had equairy little suc cess in that direction. They have a wild love of independence and a savage suspicion and hatred of foreigners; and explorers and prospectors who r meir country take their' lives In their hands. The Araucanlans; huts are frames of wicker-work plastered with mud; and men. women, children and Jogs crowd Into them at night in a hetreo geneous mass. Polygamy Is practiced, and each wife has a separate hut Marriage by purchase prevails. Wife stealing formerly obtained, and the pretense of it Is still kept up. When a man picks out the girl he wants he bargains for her with her father. After the amount he Is to pay for her is agreed upon he rides rapidly up to her father's house with a party of his friends, thrown his lady love on his horse behind him. and makes oft with her- toward the forest The bride's rel atives follow In hot pursuit, but soon quit the chase. The couple emerga from the wood a day or two later, the groom settles for his wife with her father, and ie Is received Into the bosom of her family by all its mem bers, except her mother. The old wom an pretends to cherish her resentment against her son-in-law for a long- time and often refuses to speak to him for years. The Araucanlans never eat or drink without throwing some food or water on the ground aa a meat or drink of fering to the evil spirit When orie of their number dies they double him lUp like a jackknlfe. tie his knees to his ohest, and bury him along with several norse la killed and eaten, and Its akin BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE. Alex Hoodenpyl's Helpfulness. Scoggtn Valley Corn Forest Grove News. Alex Hoodenpyl Is helping Newt Hall on his milk route while the roads are so bad: they each take it a day about on the road. Terrible Casualty to the Ducks. Hillside Corr. Forest Grove News. Anderson Baker, while duck hunting, had the misfortune of an explosion with his gun, bursting the barrel and blowing the lock off. He escaped without injury, but several of the ducks did not survive. Pern Patton's Enterprise. Patton Valley Corr. Forest Grove News. Pern Patton has made a wonderful im provement In opening a lane from Red bridge to the church. He Is planning on having R. F. D. at his door, which will be a great benefit to a number of others. Jake Buxton's Misery. Forest Grove News. Jake Buxton says that the sorrowful look oh his face these days Is not caused by the closing of the Iron House, but because Mrs. Buxton and daughter are visiting with her parents at Newport and he has to get his own meals. Dey'll Get Dem Presents Back. Arlington Record. We are receiving reports of several thrifty young men who gave their "best gals" engagement rings for Christmas presents. Well, some of them will feel rather sheepish when they get a "shake" and find that the "gal" considered the ring merely a Christmas present He Did Not Return Alone. Springdale Corr. North Takima Herald. Dwight Moody was not so fortunate as to bring back a wife from his Eastern trip as was Ben Cuttler and L. M. Cox, but instead of a wife he brought some thing else more Interesting to the gen eral public the measles, and has inocu lated the community la the vicinity of Springdale. Governor La Follette's College Days. Earle Hooker Eaton In Harper's. During his university days young La Follette's oratorical powers began to make themselves felt. Born with a gift for public speaking-, he speedily developed Into an eloquent and con vincing talker, and was a conspicuous figure in the literary and debating so cieties. The Interstate oratorical con test between Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri. Indiana, Iowa and Illinois was ono of the notable events of the college year and In 1878 he entered the lists as a competitor. The subject of his oration was "Iago." and even as Iago's dupe. Othello, smothered luckless Desdemona. so Iago's young analyst and Interpreter smothered his forensic rlval3, first In the University of Wisconsin contest, second In the broader forum of the assembled colleges of the Badger State, each of which had sent Its best speak er, and third in the Interstate competi tion -Itself when the six champion ora tors of as many states were pitted against each other on the same plat form. Toung La Follette staked everything on the merits of "Iago," used the samo oration in all three contests and car ried off the interstate championship with ease. The winning oration, treas ured still In scores of Wisconsin scrap books, although a quarter of a century has passed, was printed In many West ern newspapers, was recited by ambi tious schoolboys for years, and was even said to have given the jrreat Ed win Booth a new conception of this f fearactec of Iago, and a spear laid over his grave. The same rites are performed over wom en, except that cooking utensils In iltcad of weapons aro burled with them. The Araucanlans are governed by chiefs, called "toquins." In war the various toqulns elect a grand to quln. who becomes commander-in-chief of the warriors of all tho tribes. The first explorers who saw the Pata gonians thought they were giants. Their name means In Spanish "large feet" They arc taller than the neighboring tribes, and some men have been found among them who measured six feet four inches. Their average height, however. Is about five feet ten Inches. The most remarkable peculiarity of the Patago nians, considering that they are savages, is their cleanliness. They bathe every morning, after which the men's hair is carefully combed and elaborately dressed by their wives, daughters and sweet hearts. Their houses, which are made of guanaco hide, and all their cooking uten sils are also kept scrupulously neat and clean. In respect of their cleanliness the Patagonians arc unique among barbar ians. The most wretched people on the Amer ican continent perhaps ( the most wretched on the face of tho earth are the Picherays. or as they usually are called, after the Islands they Inhabit, the Tierra del Fueglans. Their country is almost as bleak, cold" and desolate as that of the Eskimo, but instead of wear ing warm furs, as the Eskimos do, the Fueglans go almost naked. A small piece of sealskin thrown over the shoulders Is their sole clothing, and even it is thrown off when they are rowing a boat or tak ing other vigorous exercise. Their bare skins are exposed the year around to the rain. snow, sleet and ice which the violent winds are constantly blowing about Thcy wear sealskin boots, but they never saw a hat or other covering for the head until white explorers came among them. Their best protection from the cold Is the thick layers of dirt which always con ceal their bodies. Their . rude huts are built of boughs, and the entrance la never closed. The Fuegian is stunted in stature. He walks stooped and ehivers constantly. His lower Jaw Is projecting and his hair Is long, straight and black. Like the Patagonians and many other savages, he imazrines that if hl nmv t.t.' an. p his hair it will give him a sinister Influ ence over Itn original owner. The Fuegiaus live mainly on fish, and have their dogs trained to dive into tffe sea and catch food for them. Unlike many savages, they do not eat their food raw. They carry fire with them wherever they go. They usually have It even In their canoes, so they can cook a meal without returning to land. When the sup ply of fish runs out they dine off their aged relatives. They prefer their old folks to their dogs not perhaps, because hu man meat is better than dog meat, but because the dogs can fish for them while the old folks cannot. Mr. Darwin, who made a pretty careful study of the Fueglans. declared that they had no religion. As soon as a yonth is able to support a wife he picks out the girl he wants and asks her parents' con sent to marry her. If it be given he bUHds or steals himself a can6e and watches for a chance to carry his sweetheart off. She may at first hide, but If her suitor Is persistent he will usually be successful. It was long uncertain where they put their dead, but it is now known that they bury them in caverns and cover them with stones. The Fueglans can hardly be said to have a government Each man is the ruler of his own household, unless, as often hap pens, his wife Is the stronger. Their origin Is doubtful, but it is believed that they were formerly Patagonians. or Arau canlans. whom the fortune of war ex pelled from their native country many centuries ago and forced to- adopt their present miserable mode of existence. . 3. O. D. GROWTH 0F NEWSPAPER. Coos Bay Harbor. tbc Oregonian printed, a great paper New .tears, it was a credit even to The Ore gonian. This is saying a good deal. Tot.' cannot praise Tho Oregonian. It has passed d hat- One does not praise the sun. .v . Oregonian Is recognized as one of the leading Journals of the United States, and Its Influence is felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. It has lbng had the reputation of being one of the best edited papers In the country. The Oregonian is one of the established monuments of the state. We are all proud of It Just as we are proud of Mount Hood. Crater Lake or the deep-water harbor of Coos Bay. The Oregonian is one of our fixed Institutions and it bespeaks a great state that can sustain such a paper. The Oregonian is a fine Illustration or what results when opportunity and ability meet. The Oregonian Is not an accidemr. It Is the studied product of the brains ofJ Its owners. Mr. Scott and Mr. Pittock. They had the field and they had the ability to make the most of the opportunity. The history of The Oregonian Is the his tory of Portland itself. The Oregonian la and always has been bigger than Portland. It Is The Oregonian more than any other one factor that has made Portland. The Oregonian has been almost fanatical In its zeal of Oregon's metropolis. It is Interesting to speculate what might have been had The Oregonian located ore Coos Bay. Let us give the newspapers of the bay full credit for what they have done. Probably no ono but an Oregonian could have done better. But the fact re mains that the newspapers published on Coos Bay 30 years ago were just 33 good if not better than the ones published In 1004. They were Just as large then and set Just as much type and were Just as i ably edited. They U3e today the same hand, press that they used 30 years ago. The files show that In no particular have they Im proved over the paper Issued 20 and 30 year ago. But this does not answer the question of what might have happened had there been another Oregonian on the bay. We have here greater resources than surround Portland. TVe have the only coal in th state, and we have salmon fisheries. And above all we have a harbor that with the expenditure of one-tenth the sum that ha; been appropriated for the Columbia River would make a channel enough to receive the Minnesota, the largest of ocean-going; vessels. In view of all this we may be lieve that with an Oregonian the metrop olis of the state should have been on Coos' Bay instead of the -Willamette. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "She said I was a reguar Venus de Mllo." "Yes; she told me that you had Just na arms at alt" Houston Post. Miss Pert Which half is it that doesn't know how the other .half lives? Miss Cos tlque The better halt Philadelphia Rec ord. "Mr. and Mrs. Nubride have joined the church." "Why not? Turn abouts fair play: didn't the church Join them?" Phila delphia Press. Kidder I had a fight with my milkman this morning. Kodder Did you lick him? Kidder No; he made me tak water. Cleveland Loader. Amateur Sportsman I say. did I hit any thing that time? Gamekeeper I think not, sir. There warn't nothing In sight 1ut ths birds, sir. Judge. Man overboard "Help! Help I" Stranger Phuy don't yer swim? "I don't know how-" "Begorry. ye've got an UUgant chance to learn." New Tork Weekly. Little Clarence Pa. what is an optimist? Mr. Callipers An optimist, my son. Is a person who doesn't care what happens if it doesn't happen to him. Puck. "He talks a great deal about his family tree." "Yes." answered Miss Cayenne. "A family tree is much like other trees. Tha smallest twigs do most of thn rustling." Weshlngton Star. Haggerty There's a story round that you spent money to get yourself elected. Alderman-elect Nothing of the kind. I did spend some money, I won't deny that; but It was understood that my object was to defeat the other fellow. It did defeat him'; but be cause that give the election to me, th only other candidate, amounU to nothing. X couldn't help It, you know: Boston Transcript.