Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1905)
THE MOBNIKG- OREGOKIAIJ, . WEDNESDAY, . FEBRUARY 2a, 1905. Entered at the Postoffice at Portland. Or., -as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year... $9.00 Dally and Sunday, six months... 3.00 Dally and Sunday, three months 2.5B Dally and Sunday. jcr month.......... -So Dally trlthont Sunday, per year .50 Dally without Sunday, nix' months ...... 3.90 Dally -without Sunday, three months .... 1-D5 Dally without Sunday, per month .65 Sunday, per year 2.00 Bunday, six months I-00 Sunday, three months 60 BY CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week....... -15 Dally per week, Sunday included 20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. flssued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year L&0 Weekly, alx months ' Weekly, three months 50 HOW TO BE3IIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckwlth Special Apency New York: Rooms 43-50 Tribune building. Chi cago: Rooms 510-512 Tribune building. The Oregroaian does not buy poems or Ptorles irom individuals and cannot under take to return any manuscript sent to It without 'solicitation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. KEPT ON 6 AXE. Chicago Auditorium Annex: Postofflce tfews Co., 178 Dearborn street. Dallas, Tex-Globo News Depot, 260 Main street. Desrrer Julius Black, Hamilton & Kend rick, 806-012 Seventeenth street, and Fme suS Bros., COS Sixteenth street. Dn Moines, la. Moses Jacobs. SOS Fifth Mreet. IT much City, Mo. Rlcksecker Clear Co., Ninth and 'Walnut. log AareXes Harry Drapkln; B. E. Amos, EM West Seventh, street; Oliver & 'Haines. aOmeapoIfe M. 3. Ksvsn&UKh. CO South fftajra; 3 BegeWrorgcr. 217 First avenue EottttL ?0rr STorfc CSrjr I. Jones & Co.. Aator Hoase. tfrrlmiiT. Ch W. H. Johnston. Four teenth and Frsnklls streets. Qrde 3f. R- Godard na Meyers & Har kopt D. I. Boyle. pterin Bartalow Brot, 1612 F&rnham; Tlffrlwim Stationery Co.. 1808 Farnhaxn. PftMsbe. Arlx The Berryhlll News Co. fjlu hi i ts OaL Sacramento 2ewa Co., (ftreet. Eytt Xk Salt rake News Co., 77 West feecirrrtj eoeet South. Seats fiacfears, CaL S. Smith. Eaa Ditto. CaX J. SUlard. gaa XfeaadKO J. X. Cooper & Co., 746 Market street: FosJcr & Crear. Ferry News .Stand: Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter; L. B. Xe, Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts, flOOS Market; Frank Scott, 80 ElMsj N. Wheatley. 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis 2s"ew8 Stand. St. Irfral. Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company, 806 Olive street. Washlnsrton. D. C. Ebblt House News Stand. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1005. THUS FAR- SHALT THOU GO. A great service is rendered to the pa tient when the surgeon sets his finger on the deep-lying cause of the disease. It may be that pain Is the Inevitable at tendant on the cure, but the disease that worketh in darkness ia at last to be fought in the open. Such, it seems, is the attitude of the American people today. Fraud and deception have been hanging round the offices of the Gov ernment for handling the public do main. The exposure costs dearly but let It "be thorough. Laws intended to be "beneficent an evolution from the conditions under wmcn tne economies ana savings or me people should be contributed to right, reasonable and profitable purposes have been perverted. The very few, and those not worthy, have found means to possess themselves boldly of the necessary link between the ro ducer and the consumer and defy inter ference. A more complete and startling disclosure was never published, than in yesterday's Oregonian as to the deal lngs of the beef trust with the supply of fruit and vegetables over this wide land. So many disguises, but Mephls topheles hiding in them all. It is easy to denounce, very hard to define and suggest a remedy. Still, the one great right of the people to regu late and control the charges for rail road 'transportation within the limits of rwhat is -right, just and reasonable can apply. To say once for all that the use Of private cars on public railroads should be prohibited is to suggest harsh remedy. The aggregate of the cnefrigerator cars of the country is in private ownership, as we see to pro Siibit their use now on any terms would be unjustifiable on any legal principle, and nrould disorganize the whole food supply of the country. But transportation of freight by -rail road is, as regards rates and condi tions, admittedly a matter of public in terest, and open to public regulation. -and the justification for the practical monopoly accorded to the common car rier lies in the carriage by him of every one's freight on Just and parallel con ditions. Does it not follow that the priority and advantage of carriage al Sowed toy the raifroad to the owner of tne private car is an essential viola- Won ot these; principles o just and even idealing? If a railroad be allowed to &ave substituted the use of 1000 private cars for a. similar use of 1O00 public cars Fbich it would be its duty to provide, on w2ta reasoning could it be pre vented, from allowing all of its freight transportation to be conducted in pri vatelynowncd and operated cars? Then the regulation of freight rates "would vanish because there would be no cars left on svhlch to operate. It is no secret that the fruit crop of Oregon strawberries and apples is car ried largely to market in cars belong ing to one or other of the Armour lines, with. Ice supplied by them, and so pays tribute to the trust. The transporta tion of fruit is, and rightly is, very valuable to the carrier. It demands safe, efficient .and rapid handling. Both grower and purchaser can afford, and should not object, to pay freight rates' based on these conditions. But the overbearing power of the monopoly has got to be broken; and this by righteous, not 'by unfair and violent, means. It is possible to Imagine a require ment on the railroads that at a certain day, a reasonable time ahead, they should be required to have in readiness a sufficient supply of modern cars to vcarry the fruit and perishable goods tendered to them by any patron, at rates that bore a legitimate proportion to the cost and conditions of the trans portatiou. To protect- human life and limb by the provision of a costly car coupler has been imposed on the rail roads. Thus the principle contended for is admitted. In order to secure the Interest of the fruitgrower and to al low the Nation -as unrestrained use as possible of one of the most pleasant and healthful 'of foods, the cost of trans portation to market should be reduced to theJowest practicable point, A grcs obstacle will be removed if it appears that this can he effected, not by confis cation of the "profits of the railroads, hut by setting: them In condition to earn still more profits, and those both reasonable and righteous.- The day has to come, and that soon, when, the ille gality of the operations of this beef trust having been declared by the high est court, its exactions -on "all classes of the people shall cease. Today the plight of Slndbad is ours. The quotation Is apt: I saw an old man, & comely person, sitting by a streamlet. So I approached and saluted him, but he shook his head, and lghed. and signed to me, Carry me upon thy neck 'and transport me to the other side of the stream. Then I took him upon my shoulders and conveyed him to the place that he had shown, when I said. De scend at thy ease. But be descended not from my shoulders. He had twisted bit legs round my neck so I was frightened and desired to 'throw him off. But he pressed upon my neck with his feet, and queezed my throat so that I foil on the ground as one dead. But he kept his feet on my shoulders, raised his legs and beat me on my back till I took him to every place where he would go. Poor Sindbadl A CRITIC CORRECTED. As Mr. Tufts, of the Anti-Saloon League, has risen to "correct" an Ore gonian Salem dispatch which contained the statement: "The clean-cut issue lay between precinct option and county op tion," the Teverend gentleman should be corrected himself. Whatever doubt ex isted of that" issue when the Jayne- bill passed the House may be waived, for the bill was amended in the Senate so as to make that issue clear end Indis putable. The Oregonian dispatch above mentioned described the issue as it was presented in the amended Jayne bill on the day when that measure was defeat ed in the Senate. On that day the Senate was confront ed with two amended forms of the Jayne bilL One came from the Senate committee on judiciary. Its cardinal point was strictly precinct option. The other came from the Senate committee on education. It provided not alone for option by precincts, but also for option by counties and groups of precincts. Defenders of the present local-option law upheld the education committee's amendment, and those who sought re vision of the law supported the judi ciary committee's amendment. Could anything be clearer than "the clean-cut issue lay between precinct option and county option"? That was an accurate statement of fact, and members of the Senate know it, if Brother Tufts does not. Mr. Tufts labors to discredit that statement by dragging in the original Jayne bill as evidence that "the pro moters of the Jayne bill, were not In favor of any effective local-option law at all" an utterance which, besides be ing false, has no bearing on the issue as presented in the Senate on the last day of the session, after the Jayne bill had been so amended by both the edu cation and the judiciary committees as' to alter its countenance completely. Despite everything Mr. Tufts and his associates can say to the contrary, the issue of the fight from first to last was precinct vs. county option, or prohibi tion. The original Jayne bill -gave liquor interests certain unfair advan tages, -which Mr. Tufts mentions, but they were all cut out by the House committee on revision of laws and the Senate committee on judiciary. Those committees left precinct option in the bill as its main principle, while the Senate education committee switched off and inserted option by counties and groups of precincts. The other dissimilarities between the two bills in the Senate were as nothing be side the main issue. If Mr. Tufts will tell "the promoters of the Jayne bill" face to face that they "were not in favor of any effective local-option law at all," and will close the ear of bigotry and open the ear of truth, he -will find himself convinced by their protests. Let him go to the Sena tors who supported the judiciary com mittee's bill Malarkey, Hodson, Hol- mau, Coe, Sichel, Rand, Tuttle, Coke, Brownell, Bowerman, Avery, Hobson, Croisan, Farrar and -Kuykendall and find out for sure if they do not favor an "effective local-option law." He will then know that he has been tak ing a great deal for granted. Then let him interview "promoters of the Jayne bill" in the House, such as Speaker Mills, Chairman Muir, of the commit tee on revision of laws; Llnthlcum, Steiner, Colwell, Holcomb, Bingham, Bailey, Cooper, Henderson, Hermann, Burgess, Hudson, Huntley, Griffin These are not all the thirty-four House "promoters," and if Mr. Tufts will go through the entire list he will find them all local optionists and tropically re sentful of any assertion to the con trary. One thing more: Those who fought for revision of the local-option law for strictly precinct option were stronger in the Legislature than those who op posed. The former did not, however, have sufficient strength, to pass a re vision' bill. Their defeat, while grati fying to prohibitionists and Anti-Sa loon Leaguers, should not deceive them as to the real strength of the revision sentiment In Oregon. Their victory niay be a triumph for "decency" as they define it, but many other "right eous" persons have other ideas of "de cency" wblch they believe quite as moral and uplifting to the- community. MR. STRONG AND CHAR IT V. Mr. Thomas N. Strong, of the City Board of Charities, Is out with a long letter in which he explains to his own satisfaction, and no doubt to that of his co-workers upon the Board, the great good that "our kindly salaried officers are doing In helping the poor and needy to help themselves. Self-help is a good thing. It is. in fact, the real thing, And in the examples cited by Mr. Strong, wherein applicants for work have, been given a chance to earn sum sufficient to keep want at bay for a time, and thereafter to become inde pendent toilers, the Board of Charities has done good work. From the standpoint of a. man who may be said -to be chief engineer of the charity-machine, as represented by this Board, Mr. Strong has made a good showing. That he is sincere in the be lief that it is through the efforts of the City Board of Charities that beggars have been driven off our1 streets, and in the assumption that honest poverty has been provided for and practically banished by and through the efforts of "our kindly salaried ones," is probable. All of these things depend upon the point of view. It need hardly be said that Mr.-Strong has the reputation of heaving become "squint-eyed." so to speaK. xnrougn nis very positive and decidedly one-sided way of looking, at things. it may be submitted, we trust, with out offense, that there are other agen ales at work in ?the community besides the one he champions so strenuously and accredits so exultantly, that have had something to do with driving beg gars off the streets and providing for honest poverty. There is, for example, a city ordinance that outdates the or ganization or the City Board of Chari ties by some years, that prohibits pub lic begging upon the streets of Port land, and there are those who have the temerity to think that this has had something to da with abolishing open mendicancy. It may also be said, with due deference to the efforts of the "kindly salaried people" of whom we have heard much from time to time for the past few years, that there are oth ers equally kindly, and prudent withal, who have been engaged In this work, and who, by the judicious disbursement of funds and the careful bestowal of articles of clothing and household ne cessities, contributed for that purpose, have supplied the pressing needs of many destitute but self-respecting men and women, pending the not al ways easy task of finding work for them to do. The attitude of the City Board of Charities toward people of this class is fairly shown by Mr. Strong. His indi vidual attitude upon the matter was Indeed well known before his latest let ter was published. To the extent that he advocates means of self-hglp and deprecates indiscriminate giving of alms, his opinions are indorsed by prac tical philanthropists generally. But when it seeks to defend the process by which the donations of benevolence are absorbed by "kindly salaried persons," according to their own estimates of their abounding usefulness, it is not so easy to agree -with him, since most peo ple will feel, and 6ome will boldly in sist, that he claims too much for the organization of which he Is chief en gineer and for the efforts of his lieuten ants. WASHINGTON. Of very few In the world's history is It true that the more distant In time Is the point of view the clearer, the brighter, their figures appear In per spective. The farther from them we stand the -better the proportions. Near by one side, one aspect dominates the whole, and we fall to note not only the central figure, but its surroundings. Standing too close to the great statue we see the chisel marks of the artist, and even the flecks and stains on the marble. "We withdraw. and the majesty of the figure as a whole, the harmony of Its parts, fill the eye of the ob server. Every nation has Its heroes, its patron saints. Most of them are dim with age. " The Knights arc dust. And their good swords are rust; Their souls are with the saints we trust, But "Washington belongs yet to our age, though to the earliest years of it; his alms, his personality, his wars, his victories, are ours, and can be under standed of the common people. For he was a very human man. As we study his well-known face it seems to "bear the record. In its lines and marks, of the wear and worry, of the disappoint ments and burdens, of the deferred hopes, aye, the agony of the months and years of lingering conflict. To fight with insufficient means, with untrained helpers, to bear and forbear, yet never to lose heart; to see the clear vision of the Nation which should surely emerge from the dust and turmoil of the weary war, and to hold it through all in such a life battles, sieges, maneuvers, block ades, are but passing episodes, each lending, however, some trace, some line, to the growing character of the man But it is to the completed, the rounded life of the .patriot that not only Amer icans, but distant nations, render horn age today. IGNORING AN ABSURD LAW. The American Government, it seem is big enough to break Its own laws when it is to the interest of common sense and economy for it to do so. It has departed from the law compelling the shipment of Government supplies for Manila in American bottoms only. After contracting with the owners of American vessels for the shipment of 50.000 tons of coal from Baltimore and Norfolk to Manila at $7.50 per ton which was the lowest rate obtainable. the Navy- Department has chartered five British steamers to carry 25,000 tons at $4.87 per torn "When the first 20,000 tons were contracted for with American shipowners, the foreign lines put in a bid of $4.12 per ton, and on the next 30,000 tons made bids of $4.S7, the same price at which they have at last been awarded a small portion of the busi ness. It is apparent from these figures that the Government paid the Ameri can. shipowners $146,500 more than the foreigners were willing to accept for nanoiing tne Business. Even after securing two-thirds of the business at a rate not far from double that asked by the foreign -lines, the American shipowners are complaining of unfair treatment on the part of the Government because time was not given them to get enough ships to gether to handle all of the business at their own convenience. This is a mat ter of considerable interest to Portland for the reason that, with the exception of coal, this port is the most satisfac tory market in the United States for the purchase of supplies needed in the Philippines. There is further interest attached to the transaction for the rea son that one ot the foreign ste"amers chartered to load at Baltimore had last year, before the enactment of the un fair law, loaded Government supplies at this port, thus enabling our mer chants to sell forage and supplies in competition with ports that were better provided with American tonnage than we were. " t The Government requires large quan tities of coal at its stations in the Far East, and it is also a heavy consumer of lumber, forage and other supplies. In favoring American ships in accord ance with the absurd law which was forced on the statute-books by Ameri can shipowners, 'there Is a clear loss of $146,500 on this one contract, and had the Navy Department failed to depart from the law, and let a portion of the work to foreign ships, the loss would have been over $200,000. This reckless waste of. money, coming at a time when it is almost impossible to secure river and harbor and other badlj needed ap propriations, should be sufficiently plain to demand the immediate attention of the watchdogs of the Treasury, who are ever ready to growl over modest appropriations 'that are really needed. The Incident also servesvto illustrate the conditions which will obtain when the law extending to vessels engaged in the Philippine trade the protection of the American coastwise regulations be comes effective. 'This protection will enable American shipowners to hold up- our. exporters- for extravagant freight rates and-lhusMeaVe an avenue for the competition of other countries that carry not a few of the commodities In which we are developing a"trade. These trade rivals of ours have no ab surd laws restricting the movement of their tonnage to certain flags, but in stead they are at liberty to charter the vessels that will carry their freight cheapest. Thi3 latest transaction has certainly established a precedent which showa that the Government can, when it so desires, ignore the law requiring the transportation; of Government freight in American bottoms. . This is a concession In favor of economy and business principles which Portland bid ders should insist on being granted them when they are again called on to bid on supplies for the Philippines. Tsin-is-tum, the last of the Clatsops, whose death occurred at Seaside a few days ago, was a typical- Indian woman of her day and generation. Stolid, in dustrious, uncommunicative; content to abide in squalor; a drudge, without thought or desire beyond the work of her bands wrinkled, withered, mal odorous, she dropped her work one morning and died as she had lived. lonely, unfearing, uncomplaining. Her story, though covering, according to her own reckoning, a century, may be briefly summarized in the words work and endurance. It was life to her and she -found no fault with what life brought to her. Contentment thus ex emplified will find few to admire, and let us hope none to imitate it. My life for me Is the best or It had not been Sang Phoebe Carey, daughter of our Western civilization, and we admire the spirit of content that shines through the declaration. Perhaps also the life of Tsln-ls-tum, the bare outlines of which are above given, was the best for her; yet we see little to admire in the contentment that was its chief charac teristic Chickens are scarce. This statement represents the usual .condition of the Spring poultry market In this city, and, with slight qualification, it represents that of the market the year round. The circular letter sent. out by a local com mission firm urging this fact upon the attention of farmers and warning them to prepare for a heavy demand for poul try next Summer Is timely. The farm or's Tvlfe; who, in the hope of getting another "laying of eggs." thwarts the old speckled hen in the motherly desire to "set" on the first clutch, stands in her own light, financially speaking, Encourage the biddies rather by giving them each a good nest with full fifteen eggs to cover, and be reasonably sure, with proper care of a dozen chickens from each nest that four months hence will bring a price that will pay well for the trouble. No farmer's wife or daughter In the Willamette Valley should be without money to visit the Lewis and Clark Fair, clad in smart attire, after this timely hint. The ancient rule that A pints a pound the world around" of course pos sessea more ruyme Ul some oi ine rura u..uV ,m- - "Te'U ,S, -WMU , cictuous. Many inonxns ago i wa made for bids for two lightships to be used on the Pacific Coast. For-reasons that have always operated against Pa - by the Atlantic Coast concerns were lower than those of the Pacific build ers by $5000. Instead of considering the cost of sending the lightship from an Atlantic yard, where it was built, lo the Pacific Coast, where it was to be used, the contract was awarded to the Atlantic builder, and now the Govern ment must paj a jnatter of $15,000 to get the ship out" to San Francisco, where it should have be?ii built. ' Murderer Guglielmo Is reported to have "broke down", completely when Informed that the Supreme Court had declined to save him from the gallows. Rn ffwvr f u ii v innrp rmvariliv mur- ders have been' committed in this city than that for which this coldblooded . ltf frt fVl nnrllllfv "Between sobs, when informed of his fate, he wailed "It Ishard to die." That undoubtedly va& the . feeling experi enced by his innocen-e victim in the few awful moments of agony before death relieved her of the -pain he had Inflicted. The expressions of sorrow which were heard, jwhen poor Freda Guarascia was so cruelly murdered by this monster will be missing when he receives his final and fullest realiza tion of the fact that "it is hard to die." King Leopold of Belgium Is one of the richest monarchs in Europe, as well as one of the most dissolute. He has no "legal heirs except his three daughters, from two of whom he is estranged, The late Queon Henrietta Maria brought to the marriage compact a large rortune j been throttled. Good. Thoao whistles which the King absorbed ,and for an nsted to call a number of men to work in accounting of which his daughters have the mills, but probably disturbed a great brought suit. They claim one-half of er number. The good old Hrebell. which all the wealth acquired during the life time of their mother, and this claim the King disputes. King Leopold Is old, gray, stubborn and pugnacious. His strife with his family will hardly cease during his lifetime. Jn the meantime, however, he lives at ease, utterly obliv ious, of the rights of others, whether these are his own children or the na tives of the Congo State. The Portland and Asiatic liner Nico medla, drawing twenty-four feet of water, and carrying nearly 8000 tons of cargo, went through from Portland to Astoria yeateray In less than 10 hours, without being obliged to wait for the tides. Considering that the river Is at an unusually low stage for this season of the year, the performance proves that the work of the Port of Portland Is of a permanent nature. The bar is also showing an Improvement, and be fore the bupy season pats In next Fall both bar' and river will be In better shape than ever before. Mr. Thomas Lawson continues to add new characters to his hall of fame, and, in order that Dennis Dopohue would not fall to get all that was coming to' him, the frenzied financier-iR reputed to be behind a suit for criminal libel against the gentleman with a Hiber nian name that he is apparently en deavoring to live up to. The Standard Oil crowd may succeed In making a financial wreck of the Bostonlan. but if It should there still remain unlimited possibilities on the lecture platform or with the continuous performance houses. v History repeats Itself with grim fidel ity to detail when it Is-called upon to record disaster and death In the coal mining Industry. The explosion in . the Virginia, m'fne,. near Birmingham. 'Ala., Monday, adds no new features jto 'the Ions record of disaster. - N0T AND COMMENT. It is hard to die," says Gugliclmo. It certainly is much easier to kill. Mutton chops, which, in conjunction with tomata sauce were such sinister fig ures in the case of Bardell against Pick wick, appear In matrimonial affairs here in Portland. A husband seeks divorce from a wife who was hasty enough, he says, to hit him on the head with a fry ing-pan full of sizzling and succulent mutton chops. Aside from the regrettable waste of good food and the humiliation of being battered .with such a vulgar weapon as a frying-pan, the discomfort of being anointed with bubbling grease ia quite enough to make a man sigh for a less obstreperous partner. The gold brick wllj never cease to be effective while there are skilled gold- bricklayersi Chickens are very scarce just now, 'but there will be lots of them when our gardens begin to sprout. V A clerk on the House agricultural com mittee has returned part of the money he received, because he didn't earn it. If members only took what they earned, the Legislature wouldn't cost much. The assassin of Sorgius fought to keep, on his thick underclothing, lest he should catch cold in the prison dross. He seems pretty self-possessed now, even if he is likely to lure his head later. St. Johns has risen agin the cow, which may still be Bossy, but no longer bo3s. In a caso in a New York Police Court last week-a woman was held under $1000 bonds on. the charge of stealing her em ployees collection of coins. One ot the coins stolen, the employer said, was one of the 30 pieces of .silver paid to Judas slscariot, and he set a high value, upon It, Bince there are, according to his informa tion, but four of the 30 left. His belief In this rare possession of his did not pre vent him from running ah automobile business so that his brains are not all soft. The Washington Post notes with sur prise that there is nothing in the Presi dent's "Little Hungary" speech to ohow that some of his ancestors were Hun garians, it does seem a little strange. for the President can talk to Hollanders as a Dutchman, to Irish a? an Irishman and to English as an Englishman, to mention but a few. Gladstone used to be a Scot In Scotland and a Liverpudlian In Liverpool, and now and then a Welsh man, If memory serves. Ancestors are mighty useful things, sometimes, espe cially as they can be dropped altogether when it is necessary to address a Popu- llstlc crowd. A great many persons are writing let tors to the papors on the topic, "Do Anl ma Is Think?" As ihey arc not able, like men. to speak instead ot thinking, we are of the opinion that the question should be answered In the affirmative. Carter Harrison says succinctly. "Mimic JpuJ ofi.ners,iIp of pubUc utilities is buni Bunko a g(wd word ,n d8Ff t sj njodcrn pnIIofopherfl, . M ol MW m,rplBns. , gumsp m a mooByi!able tle whol, of , thfl groat pi.oblom lr raumc,ral owner- ship bunk 'Tis a fine word, and a use ful rhyme to punk. Kansans are rallying around the Stand ard. Newspaper correspondents have wor ries of their own. One young man.' who "takes notes" among the xmdents of' a j college In the Northwest, had a report to j make of a beauty contest held by the co- eds. Naturally he desired to get photo- ... . , , , , , c- . graphs of the most beautiful girls In Such- nndsuch College, but all his requests were met with refusals, and he admitted that he didn't like to steal them-thc pic- turea. tween There seems to be an analogy bo- this case and one hi which a man ' Mta flrl for a Mm. Refusal must be expected. were audacity would be con- ! donetl. There te no theft In kiyue5f nor la photographs neither. Tho New York Mull refers to Colonel Cody as Buffalo Divorce-Bill. A correspondent says that the story of pawping a $2 bill reminds him of si prob lem which set some of his friends by the cars a number of years ago. "A monkey Is perched on top of a pole. A man hold- ing the end of a chain, which is fast to the monkey's collar, walks slowly around the pole, tlie monkey turning o us to face the man all the way around. Query: Does the man go round the monkey." Special cells at Salcni have been reser-cd for readers attempting to solve this prob- lem. Six-o'clock-In-the-morningwhlstles have presumably calls one or two men. still continues to murder sleep. An Australian yarn is fb the effect .that a travolllng American was told that kan saroos had been trained as rural mail carriers, and that one of them met the stage at each station, took the letters and hopped off with a pouchful. It may be funny for the Australians to poke fun at a stranger in such fashion, but it is a sure thing that If the kangaroos lived over here they would long ago have actually been trained in the manner dt:icribed. The Butte Miner lias the unique distinc tion of having written a paragraph on the death of General "Lewis" Wallace. . Every, other paper had It "Lew." It might bring about a compromise to put all the East Side people-"aboard river steamers and mako all thc steamship men cross the bridges' to get to work, WEX J. Disadvantage of Ownrng Railroad.' "Washington Post. Representative Page, of Biscoc. N. C, is in a plight such as comes rarely to members of Congress. He is the treas urer and chief owner of the Asheboro & Aberdeen Railroad, some So miles long. There was a wreck on that road the other evening. In which the Rev. G. A. Ogiesby. pastor of a. neighboring church, was killed. It was the first lime any one was ever killed on tho road. Mr. Page was doubly grieved over the occurrence, because it was unfortunate for hia road and also because, the vic tim was his warm personal friend. But, to add to his troubles. Mr. Page Iearn3 that the dying request of the Rev. 31r. Ogiesby was that the member of Congress should be the administrator of his estate. As the estate will natural ly claim damages, Mr. Page fcel3 that it would put him in a delicate position to "nave to sue- his -own road. At the same time he docs not like to refuse compliance with a dying friend's re quest. y GREAT ACTORS AND ACTRESSES RACHEL By Arrangement with the Chicago Tribune. IN the early part of last century a Jewish peddler named Abraham Felix tramped through France, Germany and Switzerland, earning a scant living for his family by the sale of the varied as sortment of merchandise which he transported in the pack on his sturdy back. In March, 1S21, Abraham ar rived. In the course of his Itinerary, at Munf, Switzerland; and here, on the 24 th of this month, his wife, by whom he was accompanied, gave birth to a puny, scrawny, black-haired babe. The babe, a girl, was called Elizabeth Ra chel. In these singular circumstances began, just two years after Mrs. Sid- doris"" made her last "farewell" appear ance at Coven t Garden, the life of that strange, unhappy, bizarre, wonderful woman who inherited Mrs. Siddons crown as queen of tragedy and became tne unrivaled glory of the French stage. Several years later Abraham quit the peddling business and located at Lyons, where he sat up as a teacher of Ger man. Perhaps the people of Lyons did not take kindly to German, or perhaps Abraham did not teach it welL Any way, Rachel and her older sister. Saran. were sent out daily to sing for pennies in the 3treet. This sort of life Joes not seem adapted to warm and foster the germ of genius. Neverthe less, a few years later Rachel's music master in Paris, whether the famlly had now drifted, detected dramatic ability in her, and got her a place in Pagnon Saint Aulaire's dramatic class. Saint Aulairc recommanded her to Jouslin. director of the Theatre Fran cais as the "ideal of tragedy." Jouslin consented to hear her. Rachel w3 but 15. Her face was pinched and ghastly whitc. her figure was lean and hungry. But the feline -glitter and brilliant flash of the fine dark eyes, the thrill in tne voice, tho energy and fire of the manner of this child of the streets as tonished the experienced manager out of his cynicism, and Mile. Mars, the former queen of the French stage, who was prefent. seized the girl, kirad ner, ami predicted she would be a great actress. Rachel did not make her debut until a year later, and it took place, not at the Theater Francais, but at the Gym nase Theater. The next year she ap peared at the Comedic Francaisc as Camille in Corneille's "Les Horaces," and, although but 17, interproisd the role with a genius unsurD3H.d. "She walks the stage well." suid Mile. Mars, In burst of generous enlhiwia-sin. "And she listens well. Ah. J told you so. She does not declaim: she peaUs." But the young actress did not achieve Immediate popularity. Her early per formances lost the Comedic Fraucale money. Tne great critic. Jules Janin. took the Parisians sharply to task for neclecting hr. "W pewss." ho virrot". "tin moat marvelous actress (although still only a child i that this generation liaaeen." The theater soon after be gan to h's crowded: and when Kaehol played Roxanc in Racine's "Bajanet." the m rcurlal Parlnlanp. from lords ty gamins, literally fHl down and wor shiped her. Mmc Reitmlcr invited her to ner salon. I'liauteauhriaiul compll memed her. King I.ouls Philippe sent her a purse of 1000 francs. Her triumph in London, when she first visited that ODD BJFS OK NORTHWEST LIFE. Grcen-Banta. Haystack Correspondence Madras Pioneer. It has been noticed of late that Fnnio Banta i getting coJor-blind. It is said that she can't sc nothing but Green. The March of Progress. Porter Corr. Elmo. Advance. M. B- Shnmbley is putting u"w sills un- 1 ?er his store this wb. Tim i there Is the spint of Improvement " v , Tlius we see j GTacjcug-Ernrna, What's This About? ,m,..M. , .Zlft waTto om.ee j on gunaays may return by the sain J carrying rhelr "shoes under their same road nrms En" ' gre.tlw. but may have to limp a little. Emma? f. . o . u ir..nM ctui. Brief Cample of the "Oregon Style. Marshlield Mall. Our esteemed contemporary down the creek who is worried over the Mail's edi- torials on "Sheep. Hens, etc.." nod not feel sliphted too soon. Wo will get around to ""Asses" after awhile. Discretion ,, . . ,j, v,..! Pinnr (jiHm!c. lngrahara has given up his school at Laraonta and returned to hhr home in Linn County. Mr. Ingraham thought It would bo unwise to beplu leaching so soon at'tor having ths meas- les. Taking Up thj White Man's Burden. Ontario Argus. Last Saturday the stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cnarles Madden and left a bouncing baby girl. Charley has discarded" his buccarro walk and now treads the way of the wise. Surprising Success of Evans' Party. Eight-Mile Corr. lone Proclalmer. Mr- and Mrs. Evans pave a party to the young people of this vicinity. All enjoyed a splendid evening. Some were so well pleased that they remained all night. Ontario's Gallant Population. Ontario Argus. When a woman with it lot of children and baskets and valises leaves on the train In Ontario there is no one to see her off, but when a young girl, with nothing to carry but an empty pocketbook, leaves, there arc enough people at the train to start a town. Ex-Waiter's Winning Ways. Spray Courier. -It Is reported that Frank Bayless, for merly a. waiter at the Hotel Cross, of tills city. Is to be married at Monument today. "We understand that the deal in cludes a buxom young widow with sev eral children, a good ranch and a band of sheep. Lone Bachelor's Yearnings. Madras Pioneer. Our old friend Thomas; 5V Burden was In town the fore part of the week, and while here made this office a pleasant visit. Thomas was one of the judges of the debate held at Agency Plains school house a week or so ago on tho question. "Resolved. That Married Life is Happier Than Single Life." Friend Burden ic a bachelor, but lie says that any blankety-. blank bachelor that says that a bachelor's life is happier than a married life nccd3 flxln'. Missouri Perfumery. , Joplln (Mo.) Globe. A young man bearing the earmarks of an "agriculturist" walked into a Main street grocery last evening and called JTor a bottle of .vanilla, extract. Before open ing the door to step back Into the street be pulled the cork with the aid of his trusty Barlow, poured a few drops ot flavoring on his handkerchief, and as he placed the bottle in his waistcoat pocket Temarked to -the clerk: "If there is any thing that Missouri gals like better than chewin' gum It's perfumery." city in 1S41, was as complete as it had been In Paris. Rachel seems to have been less ex cited over her success than anybody else In Paris. She continued for some time to live in a cheap house In an ob scure street. She cooked the meals for her family whose members were noth ing loath to share her growing Income and slept la the carret. Alfred de Musset .and several friends went home to supper with h&r one night after sne attained to the luxury of a single serv ant. The servant was sent to the thea ter to get some jewels, whereupon Rachel prepared to cook the meal her self. The servant had taken with her the key to the bufTct in" which were locked all the family's small store of china and silverware. Rachel got out tin plates for her guests to eat from and then began to tell them how strange It seemed to be able to have more than two pairs of stockings. The incident illustrates the most marked characteristic of. Rachel on the stage and off ft her total lack of affectation. '"As actress and as wom an she played her parts naturally and sincerely. The spectator forgot Rachel when he saw her in "Roxane" and thought only of Roxane. Besides her matchless gift of identifying her self with her characters, there was a Ugcrlike gleam in her eye, an uncanny and almost diabolical expression on her countenance, and .a terrible inten sity In her manner. "Hate, and mur der. and madness Incarnate she stood." said Charlotte- Bronte. "I have seen acting before, but never anything like this; never anything which astonished Hope and hushed Desire: which out stripped Impulse and paled Concep tion." The Intense and lawless pas sions she portrayed so well upon the stage impelled her. in real life, to form an erring and unhappy connection with Count Walewski, natural son of the great Napoleon, to whom she bore a son. Alexander Walewski. If her lapses from virtue degraded her wom anhood they also ripened her art. "When she first played Phedre in 1S43 she had suffered the cruel effects of this love affair, and she interproted the rart with tho power and emotion which suffering lends to genius. Phedre is th greatest of Racing's characters; and it was also Rachel's greatest role. For nearly 20 years Rachel reicned as the almost undisputed queen ot drama. A rival for her crown then rose in the great Italian Metres. Ri torl. Ristorl made her first appear ance in Paris. In J855. Rachel went to see her play, but tho jea.ousy rankling in her heart prevented her. much to the annoyance -of the magnanimous Ristorl. from applauding. The fickle Parisians flocked to see the Italian, and Rachel- was neglected. Rachel there upon started on a tour of the United States. On September 3 she appeared In New York as Oamille. In Corneille's "Les Horaces." f?lie was received with much enthusiasm, but the receipts for which she always had a keen appre ciation wsrc disappointing. Con sumption was killing her by inches, and whtl? playing at Charleston, in December she broke down. She never played again. After returning to France and seeking health in "various parts of the vorld. she died at Le Can net three years later. One is aston ished to learn she was but S7 years old when her remarkable career ended. S. O. D. ESSAYS OF LMTLE BOBBIE. Milwaukee Sentinel. EDITORS. - - editors Is mn which aint got anny Snap job i guess, my Uncle Is a editor and they have tharc furniture to pay for bnt he is a editor of a little paper on the big papers thay pay for there furniture befoar they git it. Thay are 3 kinds' of editors: 1. boss editors. 2. other editors. .1. snoartlns editors. i would like to be the .voartJng editor j bce-kaus he gits? into all the fights ball paints free, and the other editors when thay go but, thay doant go into all the fights and pay thay "'" ' "K UUM JU 1 101 n,,,;'" editors is pretty hard to lick they doant i pit licked much. Once my Pa tried to ' ikk a editor but pot licked hlsnclt and come home with a eyo all black and Ma jsaid ,t s2rvea yu rite u.vlng to tai away ! the freedom of the Prcs. j PALM GARDENS, ; paim gardens Is- nice places to go to j v,-he yn want ;t nice place to go. All j tne pApIe that go to palm gardens behave ; nce but sum behave nicer than others. 1 only been in palm gardens 3 times, but , whenn I pro up I am going 0 times a ! dav anvwav. I like to sit under the palms and uecr .the niuslck and watch the wait- era talking iipus i wisn i was a ; so i couid git all them Tlpps and when I , got rich I would have a palm garden too. 4 l night Pa and Ma and me went to a palm garden. Jia uramt - glasses ot soda and i drank 1 glass of soda and Pa drank 14 of sum kind of drink ho called them eyeballs orsumthing. I guess bekaus ther made his eyeballs stick, out and thenn Ma said -Well, como on home nowv you have made a site of yureself befoar all our friends and when we got home thay had a dandy scrap. Don't Shoot Hawks. Field and Stream. Why shoot tho chicken hawk when it comes within range? Why shoot any hawk? True, we all do so, or have done so. But why? For the most part, we fear, -because we were simply savages out to slay; Indeed, more savage than the sav ages, for the latter rarely killed animals which were not dangerous or which could not be used. Now. about the hawk, let us go once more to Uncle Sam. who Is pass ing wise In many things. Uncle Sam has i hen studvinp hawks. Of 124 stomachs ' of marsh hawks which were examined. 15 ner cent of the hawks had been feeding on mice. IS per cent on other small mam mals, 18 per cent on reptiles, frogs ajid insects, and only a very low percentage on poultry and small birds. "Wo do not find that this bird was so very destructive to quail and partridges after all; and it is undor this latter supposition that most sportsmen shoot hawks when they find opportunity. Uncle Sam concludes that the marsh hawk Is a beneficial bird and that Its presence and Increase should be encouraged In every possible way. Then why shoot It down, as It flits by, striv ing. In its own ancient and appointed way. to get on in the world, just as each of us Is striving? "We counsel each sports man to think the matter over, and to remember that the results of scientific investigation are more conclusive than hasty suppositions. A Dog's Perilous Ride. The Dalles Chronicle. A poor, frightened dog was having a fearful ride yesterday afternoon, floating down the" Columbia on a huge, cake of Ice, howling-plteously. He was seen by some kind-hearted men at the Umatilla House, who put out in a small boat. and. though it was risky, pulled through the floating Ice and saved the frightened an imal. Must Be a Dr. Large in Kansas. Atchison Globe. We wish to thank the friends who were so kind to us recently upon the birth of our baby. The doctor, particularly, was kind and we feel under-lasting obliga tions to the two neighbor women who stayed up with us all night. LON. GOSDELL AND WIFE.