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SATURDAY. MARCH 25, 1905.
PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND SPIRIT.
Movements of the human mind In ec
centric orbits, or in cycles, have attract
ed attention ever since observation of
the operations of the human mind be
gan. Since the range of human experi
ence is limited, there Is continual re
currence, under conditions changing
more or less, to movements of mind
and feeling with which the student of
history is familiar. Yet history cannot
be said, truly, to repeat itself
though it does- repeat Itself, with
Qiirerences. one state of feeling or
emotion, and then another, is due for a
return, at intervals more or less irreg.
ular. It reminds one of the movements
of comets in eccentric orbits, of which
the elements are not calculable. In only
a few cases are their periods known
The tides of human feeling may not
be calculable at all. They come and go,
All we know Is this, namely, that the
human mind, as a great French writer
expresses it. Is Incessantly turning
from one object of interest to another.
For illustration, there are tides In the
history of religious revivals; but no
body can calculate their times or peri
ode. The flow and ebb are extremely
erratic. Yet we have here, as In other
matters of human Interest, the ebb and
flow.
But it may be doubted whether a re
ligious revival among a people can be
deliberately "worked up." The effect
or energy of such a tide of feeling or
emotion comes from its spontaneity,
The "evangelist," coming opportunely.
may "pursue the triumph and partake
the gale"; but can he create the trl
umph or make the gale?
It is a peculiarity of the human mind,
as a great English writer observes,
"that it cannot long at a stretch endure
the active consciousness xf its own op
erations." This it is that causes it to
"turn incessantly from one object of
interest to another," for relief. "It
eeems possible," says one of the most
modest and cautious of physiolo
gists, "that certain cases of mad
ness cepena on a cause which can
scarcely exist, even in slight de
gree, without producing some mental
disturbance, viz., the too earnest dlrec
tion of the mind inward upon itself
the concentration of the consciousness
too intently on the subject before It
Religious revivals, when they become
intense, always run into characteristic
mental aberrations. These tides of
emotion once were more common than
they are in our day. They followed
laws of life and mind not so generally
prevalent in these days of close obser
vatlon and growing sense of personal
responsibility and of necessity of per
sonal control. There have been what
history has called "great revivals.'
xney nave Deen spontaneous move
ments. It may be doubted whether at
tempts to repeat them, by artificial
and imitative methods will have or can
have the success which the promoters
may expect. These problems of the
6plrit call it human, or divine, or both
are exceedingly subtle, and are sure
to disappear under the touch of analy
sis -or calculation, xne genuine "re
A-lval" Is spontaneous. When It comes
in any direction. In any domain of feel
!ng or life, it has real power. But can
these great upheavals in the moral, re
llgious or political world be reproduced
by imitators? At leasl it demands a
doubt.
The. Colorado School of Mines at
Golden is well equipped to prepare
young men for a strenuous profession,
It Is not In any respects a "ladylike'
school, but from start to finish requires
muscular as well as intellectual devel
oprcent. Still It seems hardly neces
sary that Its students should be re
quired to undergo or even risk concus
slon of the brain in order to prov
themselves worthy of its certificate of
graduation. The rough-and-tumble
class fight between the freshmen and
sophomores of that institution, which
lasted intermittently from 2 o'clock A.
M. Thursday of this week until dusk
vn the evening of the same day, and?re
suited la the serious disablement of a
number of students and perhaps fatal
Injuries to two of them, would be a
disgrace to a training school for pugil
ists. A college that Is not strong
enough to suppress a student Tlot may
well be considered weak In spite of a.
strenuous educational course.
FULLING TOGETHER FOR OREGON.
Oregon people are at last heeding the
ancient injunction, "Forsake not the
assembling yourselves together, as the
manner of" some is." Nothing marks
the progress of the state better .than
such action If the benefits do not evap
orate with the glow of the banquet and
the speeches, but lead to practical as
sociation for practical ends.
It is worth while to note what sug
gestions were made and applauded at
the recent meeting qj. Salem. The first
point discussed, extension of the tele
phone service into now isolated places.
has already received general approval.
The Oregonlan has not been backward
urging necessary expenditure . for
this purpose wherever practical. Into
how many districts of the "Willamette
Valley can this link of places and peo
ple be carried! Not only for what are
called business. Or dollars and cents,
reasons, but equally for abolition there
by of the Ionesomeness of the farm.
The neighbor's telephone fills for the
farmer's family the next-door neigh
bor's friendliness In the town. Once
tried, it surely will never be aban
doned. "Telephone In the house" is
getting to be a recognized attraction
when- a buyer for the farm is belnsr
sought.
The abundant water powers in -the
foothills of each sideof the Willamette
Valley are noticed much more often
by the enterprising newcomer than by
the old residents. But a possible power
is only one of the attractions for the in
vestment of outside capital, though a
very Important one. The Industry must
Invite in the first Instance; then the
power possibility comes in. Our farms
are not on a large enough scale to use
power for machinery to a noticeable
extent Therefore the two openings for
development and use of our water pow
ers are for motive power on electric
roads, and for factories of all sorts.
This leads up to the point often over
looked by our local development leagues
and associations. Oregon Is not merely
a farmer's country- In issuing our in
vitations to the outside world, let us
not forget the unopened treasures of
our mountain ranges and their foot
hills; nor yet the possibilities of workv
ing up our raw materials from the
farm, orchard and range. Certainly
these are but suggestions. It lies in
the power of these leagues to take steps
to translate and condense the general
ideas put forward in every meeting into
black and white statements of fact and
commercial possibilities and attrac
tlons. Then publish the invitation to
capital seeking investment to join in
what is Teally permanent development
but not till then. The Oregon Water
Power Railroa'd was used as an lllus
tration by one speaker, who enlarged
on what that enterprise had done and
was doing for increase of population
and development of the resources of
their district What has that company-
done? It has not been content to build
an electric line into Clackamas County
and there leave to chance the filling of
ltB cars. An Intelligent examination of
adjacent resources has been followed
by judicious publication of results. And
more, when openings were presented
for manufactures of divers sorts, in
vestment of capital has been made at
tractive by demonstrating business opportunities.-
It Is not boasting of the
Willamette Valley, but sober fact, that
as much could be done for every one of
the eight counties among which its
five million acres are'dlvlded.
One of the orators at the league meet
ing enlarged on the backwardness of
Oregon compared with her sister states.
That spur Is less needed today than at
any time for the last twenty years, and
she Is surely making up time now. - The
viiii. iu sujjjjuit uy every uuuaiy oi me
Lewis and Clark Fair should be kept
sounding at every meeting of .every
league. That enterprise Is surely grow
ing as Jt goes, and the bigger it gets
the more pride we must all take in It-
Oregon's Fair. Oregon's opportunity.
ABUSE OF 1TE INITIATIVE.
Exercise of, the powers reserved to
them under the initiative and referen
dura, amendment to the constitution will
soon teach the oeoDle of this state to
be careful what kind of petitions they
sign, care in such matters has not
been the mle In the past Speaking not
of initiative and referendum petitions
In particular, but of petitions In gen
eral, it may be said that carelessness
has been the rule to such an extent that
it Is possible to get signatures to almost
any kind of a proposal. Men and worn
en who are ordinarily upholders of law
and good morals, have been found will
Ing to attach their signatures to re
quests for the pardon of criminals ad
mlttedly guilty of heinous offenses.
man who wants appointment to office
can secure signatures to a petition in
his behalf even though the signers know
him to be incompetent
If blackmail and graft are possible in
the Legislature, they are possible also
through the medlumshlp of direct legis
lation. It has been charged that graft
ing legislators or lobbyists secured the
introduction of bills in the Legislature
attacking corporations or other large
property Interests, and that such
measures were abandoned only when
demands of the grafters were met If
the people will permit themselves to be
used for the promotion of such schemes,
the levying of blackmail ca.n now be
carriea on tnrougn me use or me in
itiative. Let a cunning, unscrupulous
man of fair knowledge of affairs go to
work with an initiative measure and he
can make a corporation squirm as
never squirmed before. Let him draw
ablll that has many acknowledged mer
its out aiso one or two provisions mat
are unfair to the corporate interests.
The meritorious features appeal to the
people, who perhaps have been unjustly-
used by the corporation, and there
no trouble In getting signatures wher
ever the petition Is circulated. With
this petition in his possession, the
blackmailer Is in a position to demand
a good rc-und sum from the corporation
in consideration of his not filing the
petition or filing: It In fatally defective
form. Rather than carry their fight
before the people, who have already
prejudlce against It, the corporation
will find it advisable to meet the de
mands of the grafter and save troubje
and expense and possibility of. defeat
in a righteous cause.
Legislatures have been worked by
grafters of this type, but the people
must not permit themselves tobe used
as tools for the accomplishment of such
dishonest purposes. No man should
affix his oiame to a petition for the in
illative or referendum unless he is sat
isfied first that the object sought is a
good one, and second that the man who
has charge of the petitions will use
them for the public good and not for
private gain. When one man Is given
custody of petitions containing the sig
natures of 8 per cent of the voters of
this state, he has more power than he
ought td have. If proposed leclslation
Is of sufficient Importance to merit the
exercise of the Initiative, It Is of suffi
cient importance to enlist the efforts of
considerable 'number of prominent
men, who should form an prganlzatlon
and direct the initiative proceedings.
No one man should be permitted to
gain control of petitions which he can
use to further his personal Interests.
Let the people be careful what thev
Ign and for whom they slim, and If in
doubt he on th safe side by refusing
to sign until fully advised.
AFRAID OF BOYHOOD.
Who that has been a boy by the Win
ter fire, book In hand surroundings for
gotten, mind whirling along from won
der to winder In company with ad-
enturers after a boy's own heart who
that has known this magic cn hear of
Jules Verne's death without the tribute
of a sigh. Jules Verne the very name
has a gramarye of its own. Jules Verne
means breathless races around the
world; It means flights through space
and voyages in the depths of ocean; It
means mysterious islands and topsy
turvy planets; It means. In a word, all
mat transports round-eyed youth Into
he strange and glorious world of
nake-believe.
Those were books for boys! "Five
Weeks In a Balloon," "From the Earth
to the Moon," "Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea," "Around the
World In Eighty Days," "The Mysteri
ous Island" could there be a more stir
ring list? No foolish lovers In these
books; no dull backwaters In the cur
rent of -the stories, just one on-sweep
ing rush; no Impossibilities, for was not
everything explained satisfactorily to
the boy scientist? It was In that
happy combination of good narrative
and specious .jclence that Verne ex
celled. He made the field his own, and
his imaginary voyages are more real
to the boys, old and young, of the world
than are the real voyages of any ex
plorer, however daring or momentous.
Those early stories, already men
tioned, produced in the sixties, and
seventies, gave Verne his unassailable
place as romancer to boyhood. In his
seventy-seven years of life he produced
three-score volumes, but thoso of his
old age lacked the fire that made his
earlier stories live In the European lan
guages, in Japanese and In Arabic. To
tell a tale that shall sweep on from
wonder to wonder and yet preserve
verisimilitude is not an easy task, and
few are the writers capable of accom
plishing the feat There Is none to fol
low In the footsteps of Verne. The in
genious English author, H. G. Wells,
has as much invention a3 Verne and
greater command of the scientific ma
chinery of his fiction, but he has not the
simple story-telling power that held
captive the young readers of Verne.
Grown-up readers would undoubtedly
prefer the fiction of Wells, as affording
more Intellectual pleasure, but It Is the
boy. who Is the true judge of what
makes a story.
As ar 'playwright Verne Is not known
in this country, except by the dram
atlzations of "Michael Strogoff," that
perennial melodrama, and "Around the
world In Eighty Days." It was as a
dramatic author that Verne ,first made
a name, but it is by his Incomparable
"yarns" that his memory will be pre
served, and what better shrine could
an author ask than the heart of youth?
DEVOTIOX THAT IS UNWOMANLY.
Judge Scott, of Wyoming, in denying
the petition'of William E, Cody (Buffalo
BUI) for dlvorte from Louise Cody, gave
this doughty" exponent of cowboy man
ners ana emics sucn a warming as
must have made even his callous cuti
cle tingle with shame. "Bill," how
ever, probably mistook the unusual
glow for Indignation, since, after the
manner of his kind, he Ignored the
stinging rebuke of the Judge and an
nounced his intention to carry the case
to a higher court
The character of "Buffalo Bill" needs
no delineation. Coarse, brutal, with
every finer sensibility blunted by the
habitual use, or misuse, of whisky, he
has long stood before the public for
Just what he is. The defense set up by
his wife has added some details in re
gard to his manner of speech and ac
tion, but it has developed nothing new
But what of the wife? As shown by
the evidence, she was loyal to him and
faithful to every duty. Being human
and sorely tried, her patience under the
indignities that she suffered sometimes
gave out But, as stated "by Judge
Scott, "she was an overindulgent
mother and wife, always took pride in
her husband's success, looked forward
to his homecoming -with pleasure, en
tertained his guests with cordiality, ac
companled him to the depot when he
departed and met him there on his re
turn."
When we read further that in return
for this wifely devotion he treated her
cruelly and heaped indignities upon her.
we must abate In a degree the admlra
tion that her wifely devotion incited,
since It discloses a laqk of self-respect
that Is the basis of true nobility of
character either in man or woman.
What a man of this kind deserves and
needs is not devotion and sublime self-
abnegation In a wife. A woman of his
own fiber, who will not submit to In
dignity, whether of blows, of speech
or of open humiliation commands the
respect of the human brute wnen tears
are unavailing, when self-abnegation Is
repaid by spurning and pleadings are
answered by curses.
No fact in modern social life is more
patent than that no woman Is required
to submit to abuse of this character.
With reference to a type rather than to
any Individual In the class represented
it may be said that self-respecting peo
pie of good commoi sense see nothing
womanly In servile devotion to. a- brutal
husband. . One may pity, such a crea
ture, Indeed one must pity her, but the
feeling Is akin to contempt, and has In
It no touch of admiration.
Love that survives- cruelty, abuse.
disgrace and humiliation is so cheap
and servile a thing that its object can
almost be forgiven for trampling upon
It Magnanimity that does not beget
magnanimity In daily intercourse is
starved and wasted thlng-that contrib
utes every day of its substance to low
bred tyranny. The woman who, as
wife, puts herself under a man's feet
merely invites him to trample upon her.
The same is true of the mother who be
comes the slave of her children. They
regard and use her as a servant There
is nothing lovely, - nothing womanly.
nothing of good report, in utter seir-ab
negation. It is cowardly, servile, hypo
critical, its open demonstration in
court is much more painful to the ears
of the truly compassionate than Is the
recital of conjugal abuses which It
would fain condone. '
His Majesty Emperor Nicholas is an-'
gry. JBven though his anger appears to
be wholly misplaced. It presents him to
the world In a refreshing light, since
hitherto he has seemed to be Incapable
of any strong emotion of the sturdier
sort "Prostrated with grief," "over
whelmed with anxiety," "undeter
mined," "filled with alarm" these are
the poses In which the autocrat of all
the Russians has appeared heretofore.
Now It is said he is angry-r-very "angry.
In witness whereof he o reclaims him
self ready to wipe out with blood the
disgrace of Russia. Of course It Is the
blood of the peasantry that he is anx-
ious to have used as an eraser, and the
mighty 'and warlike Gfand Dukes re
main in their palace prisons while It Is
being applied, for fear of accident. But
the spark of Imperial spirit disclosed la
refreshing, nevertheless. Nicholas-was
too angry perhaps to consider for a mo
ment what Japan would be doing while
the gory disgrace eradlcator was being
applied.
Farmers of the Willamette Valley
will greet with Joy the announcement
that $50,000 will be available this year
for the improvement of the Yamhill
and Willamete above Portland. While
appreciating fully the great conven
ience and the market value of railroad
transportation, the people of tho Valley
are loyal to the river, and In having It
kept In navigable condition as a sure
guarantee against exorbitant freight
charges on wheat and other products
that will bear slow movement to mar
ket There Is something In the sight of
steamboat, "loaded to the guards,"
coming with heraldry of puffing steam
and sounding whistle to her dock, that
awakens commercial pride and recalls
memories of the strenuous days of Ore
gon's early transportation era. It may
be hoped that "Beautiful Willamette"
will long be kept In a condition of com
mercial usefulness by the proper appro
priation and expenditure of Government
funds for this purpose.
No community In the United States Is
free from girls and young women who
have more or less talent for public
reading, combined with a touch ofthe
dramatic. Oregon Is full of them. No
small number long for a career oh the
stage. Inexperienced youth, some of
them encouraged by equally- Inexperi
enced parents, dream of Broadway,
New York; then plan to get there.
What awaits them when they arrive In
this Mecca of stagestruck thousands Is
well set forth In an article by a wide
awake woman correspondent to be pub
lished In The Sunday Oregonlan tomor
row. It Is no lurid tale, but a matter-of-fact
statement, which. If read, may
save to -many a good girl sore disap
pointment, heartburning or worse.
When Buffalo Bill got drunk, Mrs.
Buffalo Bill ministered to him; when he
was sick, she gave him a lotion, or per
haps a potion; when he returned from
a trip, she made great preparations to
receive him; when he heaped indigni
ties or reproaches on her, she mani
fested only a reasonable degree of
wifely Impatience; when his numerous
dogs were hungry, she fed them. In
nearly all respects Mrs. Buffalo Bill
was a model wife, according to the
findings of the court; while William
was a long way from a model hus
band. People out this way never before
heard of Mrs. Buffalo Bill; but they
have seen her husband; so they are
prepared to Indorse the finding of the
Wyoming court.
From the haughty attitude of the Rus
slan Grand Dukes and the lordly man
ner In which they deign to designate
the terms of peace which they will ac
cept, the world, were it not better In
formed, might suppose that Japan was
at the feet of Russia begging clemency.
If Japanese statesmanship at the cap
ital is equal to her generalship afield,
she "tf 111 insist upon terms that will set
tie the question of Russian aggression
in the Orient once for all, and keep
Russia working for a term of years to
pay a war Indemnity, as Bismarck's
edict has kept France at work lo, these
many years, to make Germany whole
That which the Exposition managers
have feared from the first has come
upon them. All the available space for
exhibits Is taken and a large number
of applicants are disappointed at beln?
shut out This shows how the fame of
the Lewis and Clark Fair has grown
under Judicious management and Intel
llgent advertising. The limit In space,
though feared from the 'first, has been
reached sooner than was anticipated,
and is a matter of sincere regret to all
concerned.
A ..fortiana masner insulted a
young woman and was arrested.- He
gained his liberty somehow, and he In
sulted her again. -V bystander licked
him soundly, and the Police Judge com;
mended the bystander's excellent work.
and intimated that he could have an
indulgent hearing in that court when
evr he saw fit to take the law in his
own hands. But It may xccur to the
police department, next time, to send
Joe Day after the masher.
Sir William MacDonald has given
$4,000,000 for the erection of a normal
school building at Quebec, and for the
establishment of free scholarships. If
reports as to his consanguinity to
well-known Portland nuisance are true,
It may next be expected that the Cana
dian philanthropist will establish i
home for superannuated bad-bill col
lectors.
The "new-deal" Republican organiza
tion has made a most Btartllng discov
ery as to candidates for the City Coun
cil. As a rule. It is learned, those who
wish to run are not the fittest, and
those who are fittest do not wish to run.
This situation must be unique in Port
land. They never have trouble about
their City Councils anywhere else.
Poor old Jules Verne may now have
a chance to verify sojpe of his highly
scientific observations In his "Trip to
the Moon."
The powers appear to be playing
most polite after-you-Alphonse game as
to which shall close in on Venezuela.
When President Castro arbitrates, he
wants It to be with somebody of his
size.
The Russians appear to have been
able to lose everything except Oyama.
NtfTE AND COMMENT.
They don't call 'em 4pefek-a-boos" -this
year, but ,Tneum6nla shirtwaists. -
Truth sometlmel comes out by accident
despite careful proofreading. A para
graph from the Kansas City Star says:
Mrs. Conway F. Holmes has sent out cards
tor brldgt parties Thursday and Friday aft
ernoon. March 23 and 24. The parties will
ba 4olte loiernal.
"Why won't Molly accept young Sniffles
he's dead in love with- her?"
That's Just It She wants a live one."
we can understand me izars reluct
ance to appoint & Grand Duke as commander-in-chief
in Manchuria, lest the
grand ducal prestige might be damaged.
Of, course. It would have been different If
he had mentioned the Grand Duke's rep
utation. In other words. Congressman Hull Is a
blooming ass.
On Its front page., the Inter-Ocean bears
the legend. "The Only Reliable. Newspa
per in Chicago." That proves Its unreli
ability. We fail to understand the agitation in
favor of having saloons draw aside their
curtains at 1 o'clock In the morning so
that the police may watch for Infractions
of the closing ordinance. Why can't tho
police ring up the suspected saloons by
tolephone and ask If drinks are being sold'
In violation of law?
The Inaptly named Dr. Mix. of Chicago,
has a plan for reforming drunkards. He
would confine them In hospital ships to
be anchored off shore. Think of sur
rounding a poor, thirsty follow with
germy water. That would not reform
him, but drive him crazy. -
Mrs. Buffalo Bill Cody used dishes bear
ing her husband's portrait Surely wifely
devotion could go no further.
Police Commissioner McAdoo. of New
York, has been requested by the Intcrrau
nlcipal Committee on Household Research
to piace a iew women on tne police lorce.
The members of the I. C. H. R. think
that a woman in a blue coat with brass
buttons would be a great aid when a re
fractory cook refused to work and hubby
wasn't able to throw her out The I. C.
H. R. may be right but it seems to us
that tho appearance of the. pcttlcoatcd
cop within the kitchen would be the sig
nal for a battle that would have terrible
results for the crockery' and furniture, to
say nothing of the law's representative,
From an cxchaigo we Icarp that "bridge
eye Is the latest fashionable disease. It
Is caused by a phrycr's revoking and the
impact of her partner's fist against her
eye in the subsequent altercation.
Japan is the most progressive country
in the world. F. A. G., who writes in (he
Kobe (Japan) Chronicle, says that tho
Japanese arc beginning to follow Ameri
cans In taking considerable interest in
jlu jltsu.
F. A. G. also notes In the Kobe Chron
icle that women In Japan are by no means
the downtrodden creatures Occidentals
think them. He quotes the following par
agraph from a Tokio paper in support of
his view:
On Thursday Vice-Admlral Kamimura de
livered a speech lasting for more than one
hour before the students of the Tokyo Girls
Higher School, Jllta, Shlba. We are not
permitted, to publish his speech in full until
the end of the war.
Great Is the censor, and wonderful are
his works.
The Spring opening. that Interests' the
small boy is the swlmmlng-hole.
An Austrian physician "suggested" 520CO
as Ms lee for treatment of Rudolph
Spreckels. The patient thought the sug
gestion was a little too strong, and the
matter is now in the courts. As Spreck
els is a millionaire, the physician's action
is considered strictly ethical.
From all this talk of navies being mere
ly guarantees of peace, we gather that
some people are confounding warship
with worship.
Sometimes a roan speaks of so much
cold cash." Thore is no such thing as
cold cash. There's a genial warmth about
even a EO-cent piece.
The King of Slam is trying to borrow
$5,000,000. If he gets it we hope he won'
keep the place a secret
A balance-wheel that will prevent ships
from rolling has beon patented by a Ger
man. If the invention proves practicable.
It will undoubtedly be" adapted for use by
homeward-bound men who have been
drinking too much.
Chicago's union musicians insist upon
harmony.
"We having nothing to arbitrate," orice
said President Baer, of the Philadelphia
& Reading.
"We having nothln. to arbitrate," say-3
President Castro, of Venezuela.
Castro, however, falls to claim divine
authority.
"Onward, Christian soldiers l"
WDX) J.
Football Test of Character.
C B. Fry In London News.
President Roosevelt once attended
xootnau matcn oetween laio ana Har
vard University teams and sat by one
of the Yale professors. He noticed one
of the players who again and again
failed to support his side at a critical
Juncture. Turning to the professor, he
said: "What is your opinion of. that
man?" The professor replied: "I ad
vised the captain not to play that man.
He is slack at his studies. Being slack
at work he will be slack at play.-' "Yes,
replied the President, "It Is character
that counts both In work and play."
Queer Bequest to Maine Town.
Kennebec Journal.
There was a unique article in the Paler
mo town warrant It jyas this: "To sea
If the town will accept of Thomas Dins
more the sum of J1C0 as a trust fund, the
interest of same to be applied as follows;
to-wlt: to celebrated the memory of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen
dnce of the United States of America,
also the lives of the pioneers of the towns
of China and Palermo, once In every .ten
years at Branch Mills, China. The first
celebration to occur on the fourth day
of July, 1915, and each succeeding ten
years thereafter."
Reasons for Laughter.
Birmingham Post.
When the young mistress of the house
entered the kitchen she carried herself
with great dignity. She had come to call
the cook to account
"Mary," she said, "I must Insist that
you keep better hours, and that you have
less company in tnc Kltcnen at nlgnt.
Last night I was kept awake because of
the uproarious laughter of one of your
"Yis. mum. I . know." Mary replied
cheerfully, "but she couldn't help It
was telling her how yob tried to make
,cakes yesterday afternoon."
LIFE .CHEAPER
Desyerate Straggle far Existence
V Hob ia
(Poland new Governor-General, it Maxim-
cvltch, who. arrived In Warsaw oa Thursday,
".rowieu 10 lavor more- conciliatory treat
ment of the Poles. His task is being; rendered
extremely difficult by tho rreat excitement in
Warsaw, consequent upon th slaughter of ten
ana use woundlnr of 00 unarmed, pasants by
iuo i"co xl n.mno, io cults zrom Warsaw.
The firing- appear to have been absolutely
uncalled for, the only warnlna; jtven the assem
bled peasant havlnr been la Russian, which,
was not understood by tha Poles. Ufa in
Warsaw, rvhero Ru&slana and Poles sneer at
each other, even in times of "peace." Is de-
scribed by W. Holt White, in the following- let
ter to the London Express.)
Thinking of the tangled skein of
things at Warsaw, where In these days
blood is cheaper by far than bread, it
should be borne in mind that there are
in Poland the makings of not one but
two revolutions.
The first springs from the hearts of
all the people aristocrats, citizens and
peasants alike; it is simply the wild,
spontaneous cry of a wild and passion
ate people claiming the freedom of
their own land. And this great senti
ment is covered by that mean little
word, "nationalism,"
Then there Is the exceeding bitter
cry of the working people, who now
ure banded together against conditions
of labor which render them more hardly
used man easts. Tnere Is great hun
ger. .
Th Rucslan Governor-General is in
the position of a man who holds a
starved and tortured tlgor cat In chock
upon a chain, and sometimes chains
break.
T6 vl3lt Poland, to visit Warsaw is
to undergo a strange sensation. One can
never lose tho sense that one. Is In a
country occupied by foreign troops. One
looks round and beholds the amazing
spectacle of a whole nation mada pris
oner and held fast To be in Warsaw is
to be In a vast jull whore the citizens
are little more than convicts. At the
streot corners the police the warders
of this prison city grin comfortably.
But now there is a riot In the Jail.
Even In normal times captors and
captives do not forget their quarrel and
their hate, and but for the underlying
tragedy one might laugh to watch the
play between the Russians and the
Poles In the theaters and the restau
rants.
In one hotel In Warsaw a hotel for
which Paris would have no cause to
blush there sits at the receipt of cus
tom a singularly handsome and Im
posing personage. To him I have seen
Russian officers speak as they might
to any dog, and then I have smiled to
watch them wince before the lazy.
scornful glance and the polite but cut
ting answer of the handsome Pole. Or,
better still. I have seen the Czar's of
ficers stand aside and watch with
rude-eyed wonder some (beautiful and
haughtv Polish woman sweep In and
shako tho bqoklng clerk's shapely and
well trimmed hand. But than he Is
Count In his own right
Again In the restaurant itself the
Russians and the Poles sit as wide
apart as may be,
Officers clank In and out Tney sa
lute each other and each other's wives;
they may be officers of the guards Or
the finest cavalry regiment in the Rus
slan empire, but the silent haughty
Poles make no sign of recognition.
It is easier for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven than for i
Russian to pass the portals of the so
clety in Warsaw. Yet exclusive as this
society is It -does not scorn Its own.
however poor; and many of tho Polish
nooies are poorer even tnan cnurcn i
OVER TWO HUNDRED MILLION.
To Be Spent r Equipment by Rail
roads in 1905.
Chicago Record-Herald.
More than 120O.CO0.0CO for now equipment
for railways In the current year 4111.000,
000 by ten systems and about J90.000.0CO by
other lines 13 the almost unprecedented
record made by American transportation
companies, and It Is taken as a foreast
of an era of still greater prosperity in the
Nation. This vast sum represents a con
servative estimate of the orders placed,
but some authorities insist the total ex
penditure will reach a much higher ng
ure. Soon after the National election the de
mand for equipment of all kinds began
to Increase with such rapidity that the
rafiroads became convinced that they
would need to move quickly If they did
not wish to see a general congestion of
all kinds of traffic during 1905. and conse
quently a tremendous loss m revenues.
The big orders:
Pennsylvania ? 23,000,000
Baltimore & Ohio 14.000.000
New York Central lines 20,000.000
Southern Pacific 2-X'XXX
Banta Ee 8.000,000
Snnlbnm R&llnraY 8.000.000
Rock Island System "SSS'SSS
Norfolk & Western 2.000.000
Erie 16,000.000
Frisco System 2.000,000
By other systems (estimated)... uu.uuu.uuu
Total ,.$201,000,000
In forming a correct estimate of the Im
port of the enormous expenditures which
the railroads are making to take care of
?c..ffc'. Vt. JSl
V liL on rMi TVmi the
ti,Si,at1SS
j.j i niiMsnt
the demand far exceeded the supply, and
traffic congestion occurred at all the Im
portant tonnage centers.
Man's Absurd Clothes.
George Bernard Shaw, In the World ot
Dress.
I like to feel clean, and my great
Idea of clothes is that they should be
clean and comfortable, as far as such
a thing Is possible In London. This,
of course, excludes starch. I couldn't
wear a thing which, after having been
made clean and sweet is then filled
with nasty white -mud, ironed Into a
hard paste, and made altogether dis
gusting. To put such a garment on my
person, wear It move in it, perspire In
It horrible!
The shiny white tubes on the wriSt,
the shiny black cylinder on the head,
the shiny white front to the shirt the
shiny black boots, the rain-pipe trouser
leg. the Japanned-zlnc sleeve that Is
your fashionably dressed man. looking
like a cold blackleaded stove with as
bestos fuel. The great tragedy of the
average man's life is that Nature re
fuses to conform to the cylindrical
I deal, v and when the marks of his knees
and elbows begin to appear In his cyl
inders he Is filled with shame.
The Gunner's Prayer.
Harper's Weekly.
"T. P." recalls a good story of British
piety on the eve of battle: A Lieutenant
of H. M. S. Revenge. Just before the
battle of Trafalgar, discovered one of the
gunners on his knees before his gun.
"What the are you doing?"
shouted the amazed and angry Lieuten
ant "You're not afraid, are you?"
"Afraid!" cried the gunner, scornful,
rising from his knees. "No, I'm not
afraid. I was praying."
''What were you praying for if you're
not afraid?" retorted the Lieutenant
"I was praying, sir." was the response,
"that the enemy's shot may be distributed
in the same proportion as the prize
money almost all of it - among the offi
cers." Going to Be a Dandy.
Seattle Times.
All's well along the Willamette, says
Will A. Steet No use talking, that Lewis
and Clark. Fair is going to'be a dandy. -
THAN BREAD
in Warsaw, Jall-Capltal of a Ja-
Chains.
mice. Their lands have been confiscated
and their property of every kind given
to the Russian spoilers, and the Rus
sian official on the loot strips cleaner
than the locust Thereoro the Polish
nobles have bee'n driven' Into trades of
many kinds. Some have become manu
facturers, some sell goods, even In the
retail way. One, indeed, has (Soma to
the cleaning of boots. But these things
are counted no disgrace.
As with the rich, so too with the poor.
Pride is the citadel which Russian arms
have never taken and never win. -trwe
Is the spirit which keeps alive and nour
ishes the national idea. It 4 pride which
Is breeding the first of the revolutions.
The second revolution is being born
among the poor by an almost everlasting
hunger. In Poland dally bread Is not a
thing to be prayed for wjth any sense df
hope. The lsaf has to be fought for and
kept, till wolfed, by fighting. Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman computea mat m
this country there w,ere 13,000,000 people
perpetually on hunger's- brink. In Po
land almost an entire nation goes hungry
every day.
Empty stomachs-ever Dreed mtter spir
its, but when one is empty that one's en
emy may go full is when the bitterness
becomes past bearing. Thus it is in Po
land, s. .
To dratrooa Poland the "Little Father
needs many -thousand troops and many
thousand police, uniformed and, secret.
And who should pay for these luxuries
except the Pole? So the Pole Is taxea xm
he goes hungry that he may feed men
who will shoot him when the need arises.
Out of Poland, out of Warsaw have
come many geniuses, in the main poets
and musicians who poured out tne pas
sion of their hearts in song. There are
passionate hearts In Poland and in War
saw yet and every day there are pouring
from these hearts at little secret meetings
words of patriotism and freedom which
inflame.
To heln tho work, students fling up their
studies and the sons of men quite well-
to-do put on workmen's dress and labor
in factories and in the fields-. The secret
police do the same, and every now and
then the "comrade" who has been the
leader mysteriously vanishes and Is never
seen again. Afterwnrds suspicion aome-
tlmes falls upon this "comrade." of tne
secret police, and by and by his mates
"find " him one morning nvitn ms tnroac
slit from ear to ear.
.
Before peace such as peace Is in Poland
returns to Warsaw there may yet be
hideous work. Men may march in their
thousands and bo shot down by hundreds.
But that Is all. The running brain and
cruel hand of the Russian autocratic, bu
reaucratic machine Is too strong for
them. The young men, tho men who
might have struck, have carefully been
sent away. Forty per cent of the Poles
now serving with the colors are in Man
churia, the rest are guarding, the Finns,
or have been lost in lono regiments in the
waste tracts of Siberia.
Their leaders have altogether vanished
or they are living under surveillance In
distant little towns where they can do
no harm. What leaders remain will also
disappear. Without any fuss they will
be quietly fetched from their beds In the
mornlng'watch and quietly hanged at the
dawn of the day.
The men and the women of the prison
city may turn their faces to Russian bul
lets and their breast3 to Russian bay
onets; but the sacrifice will be vain. It Is
said that every Pole desires to kill one
Russian. That Is a feeling not wholly un
reciprocated by the Russians; and the
hosts of Russia In Poland are many.
I The men and the women of the prison
j city may rage furiously together, but the
time or tneir deliverance is not yet come.
ODD BITS OR OREGON LIEE.
Passing the Honors Along.
Grangeville ;News.
The voune lady who said Joe was the
ugliest man she evor saw ought- to be
ashamed. I think It was -Jack she saw.
Guess again, Joe.
Proposed?
Methodist Hill Corr. Madras Pioneer.
Chris Relchen feels quite content In hl3
enlarged house. A new organ has been
added, and when his proposed cook ar
rives there will be happiness complete In
that house.
Who Wouldn't Learn to Ride?
Agency Plains Corr. Madras Pioneer.
Henry Parker would do well to take
& few lessons from Madras' female
bronco buster and especially to take her
advice and stay on the bronco's back if
he expects to ride.
A Larger Seat, but Not Too Large.
Agency Plains Corr. Madras Pioneer.
John Evlc has treated himself to a new
buggy and the seat is Just large enough
for two. Now look out girls. John Is "a
splendid good fellow and he means some
thing, but he may tell you the rest
Memento of a Hard Trip.
Madras Pioneer.
Kyle Doucks had an exciting trip from
Shaniko. His trail wagon broke down in
Cow Canyon and he had all kinds of
trouble. On arrival here he found that
the had a well developed case of measles.
He has changed front now and says that
Ue would take a girl that has had th
measles.
Mr. Roosevelt's Open Secret.
New York World. ,
No matter what nationality Mr. Roose
velt Is speaking to he manages to sh&w
himself in sympathy with its language.
Its literature, its traditions, its customs
and Its spirit Nothing human Is foreign
to him, and yet stupid people are still to
be found who cannot understand "why he
is the most successful politician of his
day.
Exchange of Courtesies ?n Missouri.
Jeplln Globe.
For a couple of days the editor of a
Webb City paper has failed to insult
any resident of Webb City or Joplin.
.Now, that won't do at all. The strident
exponent of profane journalism must not
permit the suspicion of respectability to
fasten Itself upon him. '
Dr. Osier at Mukden.
New York Globe.
Kuropatkln in retreat, a most dejected-man.
He sat In contemplation on an emptyu.vodka
can, - -
And as the little yellow- men their cordon
closer drewr
He muttered low In Muscovite, "If Osier only
knew!
"That "little fellow Nogl. though he's "past
three score and ten.
Is prancing like a three-year-old arcund my
Russian men,
Is tjlnff Tie Llns In a knot that breaks my
line In two ,
If Osier only knew of thlsj lfOsIer only knew:
Thenthere's that old Oyama, who my stub
born center stormed,
He certainly Is past the age he ahc-uld be
chloroformed:
Tet there he stands performing tricks that
younger men should do
If Osier only knew of this, if Osier only knew!
"Karokl's getting, on in life and surely should
retire;
Then, -what's be doing on my left directing of
'the fire.
And- doing; other boyish things an old man
shouldn't do?
If Oaler only knew of this. IX Osier only knew!
"That old -man Negi's worth about three hun
dred thousand boys.
Bat oh my military pride it certainly annoys
To b. defeated by this superannuated', crew,
"Who'd be retired and" fossilized If 'Osier only
knew!" ' '
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