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PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28.
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A WORD TO THE PURPOSE.
Last night the following statement
was reported and adopted at certain so
called evangelical meetings in Port
land: Whereas. The Morning Oregonian In Its Is
sue of today. March 28, 1905, has unjustly
and venomously attackedDr. D. S. Toy, one
of the honored members of the corps of
evangelists whom we have Invited to our city;
and.
Whereas, The Oregonian persistently arrays
Itself against evangollcal Christianity. sneer
Ins; at Its methods and scoffing at Its funda
mental truths; and.
Whereas. The Oregonian. for yesra, has
taken a position en moral Issues subversive
of the higher life of the community and In
antagonism to the moral Interests of our city;
be It
Resolved. That we. the members of the
evangelical churches and congregations of
this city, do hereby condemn the discourte
ous and uncalled for treatment of Dr. D. S.
Toy, the noted and honored minister of the
gospel; and. further, be It
Reolved, That we do hereby enter our vlg.
orous protest against the policy of The Ore
gonian In maintaining such an unfair an
unreasonable attitude toward those Interests
so vital to the moral welfare of our city.
That it may be seen, in connection
with, this statement, just what the ar
ticle was that has called it but. the
article is here reproduced, viz:-
ONE'S MORAL NAKEDNESS.
"Rev. Daniel 6. Toy will tell the trtory of his
life. 'From Sporting Life to Preaohlng. " Such
ls the public announcement. Brother Toy
probably, has been a very vile. Immoral and
-wicked man. Such confession, unhappily, ls
Included In his statement, or at least ls to be
Inferred from It.
But Isn't ellence about such a life better
than exposition or exploitation of It, for sen
sational purposes? ls it edifying, -can It be
conducive to the cause of truth 'and virtue.
for one like Brother Toy to tell how bad he
hafl been?
Again, wouldn't It be more In accord with
the dignity of human nature if such an one
should enter Into his closet and shut his door.
and refrain, even for revival purposes, from
exposure of his past life. In Us monstrous moral
nakedness?
Most people are decent people and moral
people. They have an Invincible repugnance to
chorters who undertake to preach virtue and
morality and religion by telling bow bad they
ineinseivcs nave oeen.
The oregonian In a newspaper of the old
faahlon. It doubts eeriously whether the best
preachers of morality and-ylrtue are those
who admit they have been dissolute, but profess
reformation. Doubtless, It ls a great thing for
a woman wno has led an evil life to abandon
It But she can't proclaim herself ad van
tagcqusly as a reformer. Your revival preacher
wno tixe -reiormed" la much In the same
caw. Quiet repentance and works meet for
repentance are better, every way.
There are situations In which modest still
ness and humility are especially becoming, and
Impressive, too. Brother Toy doubtless knows
why he ought to repent and what he has to
repent of. But be needn't tell It; and It will
not neip the cause of "virtue. If he should.
Readers will judge. Mr. Toy was a
sport Now he ls a preacher. It is
his capital. The Oregonian expressed
its opinion.
Of course, if the criticism had not been
just. If it had not touched sore spots,
naa mere not been in it statements
known to "be in accord with reason,
right feeling, truth and morality, had It
oeen vicious or wrong in spirit, im
moral or untrue, and therefore impo
tent. It would have passed without no
tlce from those whom it criticised. But
It contains truth that Is timely arid
hiuu jh u. jj.iuvipit; lxicll is everiasunjr.
The reason why it ls assailed ls that it
bears so hard, and yet so Justly for it
wouldn't be felt unless It -were reason
able and just on the form of error and
evil which it criticises. Every person
instinctively feels and knows that the
kind of preaching and exhortation thus
censured is unbecoming, and even
worse.
For the rest. The Oregonian has been
published here more than fifty years,
It has always been a leading advocate
and main stay of order, reason, truth
Justice, judgment and morality, in this
community. Its record speaks for It,
and it cares not, nor ever did, for the
denunciations of emotional and hyster
ical preachers and upstart politician's
and lecturers who come and go. Of
course, it never would have won its
place, and held its place, against all
comers, through all these years, had
not its career teen well In accord with
the requirements of honor, truth, in
teDigent purposes and .high moralends
It has stood against the storm of every
tvTonsiand rage and folly, and every
body knows it. No other answer 13
necessary, to any assailant.
The Oregonian may leave Its history.
all these years, to speak for it. But It
Is accused of "a. course subversive of
the higher life of the community.". It
knows why such accusation comes from
such a source. Every one knows why.
It is because The Oregonian thinks no
ecclesiastical creed absolute truth or
morality; nor doesany rational hu
man being. The Oregonian is not a
canting Pharisee. God forbid that it
ever should bel Tet here are those who
imagine all morality and all religion
their own. They are of those who make
broad their phylacteries, pose and pray
on street corners that they may be seen
of men, make an Imaginary world of
ecstatic folly, and live In it, and hold
all people of plain morals and orderly
lives, sons f perdition. But a just es
timate of things .comes about. All
these things settle themselves, in course
of time. The .Oregonian Is a rational,
not a fanatical, newspaper; it doesn't
mistake a silly ecstasy and the cant
that goes with it for morality and re
ligion. It speaks for common intelli
gence, common judgment and common
sense. God, as it supposes, does not
damn everybody to hell who doesn't
fall in with the scheme of these hys
terical revivalists.
The Oregonian would have avoided
speaking so plainly, and it does so only
because it is challenged In a manner
that makes plain speaking necessary.
It has within It no "undiscovered
crimes unwhipt of justice"; and It has
merely requested, mat xnose wno nave
may better repent and keep silence.
The Oregonian challenges the jurisdic
tion of all such to sit In judgment upon
morality and religion, either for Itself
or for any who protest with it. "
cine VIRTUE.
"We have heard a good deal lately
about "civic pride." Exhibition of this
most excellent trait consists largely, we
have been told. In cleaning up the city
as It la today purifying the alleys and
back yards, reducing the billboards
within picturesque limits and decent
matter, painting the telephone poles.
bringing order out of chaos in vacant
lots and ragged spaces, indulging, in
fact, in a general Spring cleaning. If
you come to think about it, this can all
be done by deputy. Heads of house
holds may give some instructions, hire
some work done cheap work sX that
pay for the dolng, and close the ac
count. They may get the advantage.
they and their families, first in Improv
ing the surroundings of the home, and
second in the satisfaction of having
taken part in the procession of civic
improvement. So far so good.
But there are surely other burdens to
lift and carry where the work cannot
be done by deputy, by giving orders
and drawing a check or two personal
responsibility, personal effort, personal
sacrifice, the outlay of personal time
and trouble conditions, in fact, where
a man must be content to give
himself for the public benefit. If such
a call comes to a man, he must either
enlist or else refuse to serve, for sub
stitutes are not allowed as between the
man and his afterthought (which some
people call conscience). The time Is
close at hand when City Councilmen
have to be selected with a view to their
being elected. If Portland ls to be the
city her people desire, her high estate
can only be won and held because her
best citizens are willing to serve her.
It is not in the well-paid and prominent
offices which bring glory and dollars,
but in the day-In-and-day-out over
sight, care and thought-needing places
where honest work Is Its own best re-
ware
We have too many critics in Portland.
It is easy to stand aside and tell the
other fellow to pick im the load and
walk off with it, and then whisper "See
how he staggers; you wouldn't have
thought that little thing would have
been too heavy for him. I wonder if he
knows the road." And so on. "We have
all heard it, too often. It may be, It
often ls, that the work Is too hard for
the laborer. Possibly he had to take It,
for want of a better. In the ancient
days no man was too good to serve his
city. From the city he drew his repute,
rather than that he shone by his own
light, and let the city catch a ray or
two from him if she could. The same
thing is true today if we could but re
allze It. The man diligent in his busl
ness can always find time to 'serve his
fellows, if he wllL There's the rub.
One word, then, of counsel to those
who are "looking round" to choose men
for city offices. Select the best, and
refuse to take no for an answer. Who
are the best? "We all know. Cjharacter
ls not and never can be hidden. Those
who serve the city must be honest.
wise, laborious, Interested, kindly, mod
erate, and gifted with that best of en
dowments, common sense.
WHAT THE SCHOOLS ARE TOR.
The School Board wisely declines to
permit the public schools to be drawn
officially, so to speak, into systema
tized methods for beautifying the city.
That body is to be commended also for
declining to sanction the suggestion
made by a patriotic citizen that school
children be asked or required to bring
lunches from their homes to be sent to
the soldiers of the Nineteenth Infantry
on the morning of the departure from
this port of the transport Buford with
these troops.
The public schools are maintained for
a specific purpose. This purpose does
not comprehend the formation or in
dorsement of Juvenile boards or soci
eties for any purpose whatever. Cer
tainly it does not comprehend invasion
of the kitchens and larders of patrons
with a demand upon the family sup
plies, even for a most worthy purpose.
Employes in any business, or those
to whom any special interests are dele
gated, are discharged of all obligation
when they have faithfully met the re
quirements of such business or Inter
ests. The tendency at,present is toward
works of supererogation. Intentions
are of the best, but the place which.
according to tradition, is "paved with
good intentions, gives evidence of
close proximity when the meddlesome
spirit becomes rife.
People who attend to their own busi
ness, now as ever, are at a premium.
Those who do not (and the littered,
unsightly i and even filthy places that
abound InVthe city show that there are
many of these) may well be notified of
their delinquency through the Civic Im
provement League, or any other duly
constituted authority, and required, un
der pains and penalties, to "clean up."
The duty of the School Board in this
line is to see that the school property is
kept in a clean, sanitary condition and
in good repair. Teachers may, if they
choose, interest their pupils In "beauti
fying the grounds and In keeping them
clean. For the latter object those in
Immediate charge of the schools may
be justly held accountable by and to
the Board.
"Whether the schoolyards are sanded
and used as playgrounds, laid "off in
walks, bordered with roses, or set with
geraniums, may properly be decided by
the principals and teachers after due
consultation with the Board. This ls
largely a matter of taste, though the
advocates of physical exercise in con
nection with study advance some ar
guments in favor of the sanded yards
that' are. worth considering. A clean.
well-drained playground, though devoid
of verdure, can hardly be called an un
sightly spot, especially since one has
only to lift his eyes in any direction
from one of these in our city to meet
a wide diversity of landscape and
yaried tints in leaf and blossom.
BUSINESS IS A SOUND BASIS.
Unquestionably the business of the
country is in good condition. In all the
Important centers of manufacture and
trade business is better than it was a
year ago. It ls shown in larger orders
for goods, In increased 5ank clearings.
in projects of railway extension.
"Wages, on the whole, are better. The
output of all business is greater.
Reports of financial transactions in
Eastern centers show that money ls not
lying Idle. It is at work. Building op
erations show Improvement. "Wages
are maintained, and in general prices
are maintained. All these conditions
indicate healthy state of business.
Many persons haye thought, or pro
fessed to think, that reaction or re
verse, from the favorable conditions of
the past seven years, was due this year.
There has been so much talk to this
effect that timid ones have actually
been expecting the predicted conse
quences. But, contrary, there has been
actual improvement since last year.
On all sides there are proofs that the
American people believe that their in
dustry and business are on a sound
basis. The main trouble in the period
from 1892 to 1897 came from the attack
Sn the money standard. That was a
readful experience, not likely to be re
newed Impossible, indeed, of renewal;
Sound money assures continuous indus
try, sound values and steady prices.
Trr.ATtTm TOR THE COAST.
Out of Wall street, home of the
railroad-makers, comes another story
that the Chicago, Milwaukee Sc. St.
Paul Railroad will extend Its line
to the Pacific Coast. The same
story, with occasionally varying de
tails, has been circulated a num
ber of times in the past, and with each
appearance there are new confirmatory
elements attending the announcement.
That the big road from the Middle
West has long viewed with envious
eyes the immense traffic that ls now
crossing the Rocky Mountains on rails
owned or controlled by some of its ac
tive competitors has been no secret In
either the railroad or the commercial
world. That It should eventually make
arrangements for securing a larger part
of that traffic than It can handle with
its present restricted mileage Is quite
natural. No other portion of the United
States ls attracting so much attention
at the present time as is given the Pa
cific' Northwest. Not all of this Inter
est ls exhibited on account of the won
derful resources of the Pacific States.
but it ls .because the marvelous trade
possibilities beyond the Pacific are at
tracting attention of the American rail
roads.
In these days of railroad consolida
tion- and absorption, the lines that are
forced to turn over a portion of their
traffic to other roads which complete
the haul to market are at a dlsadvan
tage compared with the "ocean-to
ocean" systems which divide their
traffic with no other company. This
stead drift toward consolidation has
undoubtedly been a prominent factor
In Inducing the Milwaukee to make an
effort to get into the Pacific and Ori
ental trade over its own rails. The Mil
waukee ls a great road. It has grid-
ironed the States of Wisconsin, Iowa,
Illinois and Minnesota with its tracks.
and has thrown alr-llne branches as
far west as Evarts and Chamberlain,
Dak., north to Fargo and Duluth, and
south as far as Kansas City. Through
out all of this vast section the MUwau
kee has built feeders and spurs over
which have rolled on to the main lines
an immense traffic.
So thoroughly has the road gone after
the traffic that the system includes
nearly fifty branches. In a sixty-eight
mile stretch between Janesville and
Shullsburg, Wis., there are five spurs
and branches varying from seven to
thirty-four miles in length. But the
Milwaukee is only one of a number of
big roads that have cultivated that
Middle West territory so carefully that
It is yielding large returns In freights.
There are a number of other roads.
some of which are much closer to the
transcontinental lines than the MUwau
kee, and they also have feeders and
branches radiating In all directions
through that rich territory. It ls un
necessary to explain that only a 'portion
of the traffic from that section is avail
able for the transcontinental roads, but
there Is already a -vast amount of it.
and It ls increasing. The transtonti
nental roads and their connections
sweeping across the United States, with
a gulf stream of commerce, are not
only developing an Immense west-
"bound traffic, but the east-bound traffic
ls increasing so rapidly that for months
it has taxed the capacity of the roads
to handle It.
The Milwaukee road follows the Mis
slsslppl River from Minneapolis to
Rock Island, and adown that stream In
the past have floated numberless mil
lions of feet of logs and lumber. With
the exception of the comparatively
small amount useS In the river towns
and cities, the railroads distributed this
lumber on both sides of the river
'through an enormous area of country.
the business since its inception contrib
uting millions to their revenues. Now
the lumber trade of the Mississippi Val
ley has gone forever. That vast region.
formerly supplied by the pineries of
Minnesota ana Wisconsin, is now turn
ing to other fields for stocks, and in no
other quarter are these supplies so
abundant or obtainable to such advan-
age as.In Oregon and Washington. This
traffic alone will reach astonishing pro
portions within the next ten years, and
it is a certainty that not only the Mil
waukee. but other big roads from the
Middle West, will extend their lines to
secure a portion of it and also some of
that traffic which 'is now flowing across
the Pacific in a rapidly swelling stream.
The teachers of Chicago some time
ago entered into a systematic compact
to secure unlfprm and adequate wages?
double-dealing strengthened the pur-
pose of the teachers engaged In this
workup protect themselves, and after
many adverse and discouraging experi
ences they have emerged from the con
flict fully equipped to do battle for their
right to a living wage. The movement
which resulted in the formation of the
National Teachers' Federation was, ac
cording to an article published in the
April "World Today." born of a con
dition. This condition was one of in
difference or worse on the part of
School Boards, and constant encroach
ment upon the rights of teachers in
various ways. The Federation of
Teachers has grown to enormous pro
portions, and extends to the large cities
throughout the East. It will doubtless
in due time show its power, in com
pelling recognition to the just demands
of its members.
The story comes from lane County
of a boy of 12 years cruelly beatenby
his father; of a fine imposed upon the
brutal parent, on his own admission of
guilt, and the subsequent hiding under
the house for three days and nights by
the terrified child, where he subsisted
upon scraps thrown to the dogs, from
fear of his unnatural parent. The first
Inquiry that arises in connection with
this case Is, Where was this boy's
mother and ,what was she doing while
her child was being thus Inhumanly
treated? A woman of any spirit would
not 6ubmit to such abuse of her child.
even though to stop or prevent it she
had to havo recourse to a club or, to
boiling water from her teakettle. To
fine a brute of this kind la only to im
poverish his family to the extent of
the amount imposed, without offering
them further immunity from his bru
tality. A punishment that would fit the
crime is the only safeguard against its
repetition, and the mother is the agent
ordained by Nature to Inflict it.
The Japanese loan ls taken enthusi
astically in Ixradon. But the Russian
loan goes a-beeginir. even in Paris.
Great Britain Is an ally of Japan and
prepared to back her. But France Is no
such ally of Russia. Sea power, or
power at sea "commandment of the
sea," as Lord Bacon put it ls and ever
will be the decisive factor In interna
tional affairs. Upon it depend the po
sition and supremacy of Great Britain
among the nations. Power at sea will
be the test of the. position of the United
States. This is what President Roose
velt foresees and understands. Power
at sea gives standing in the financial
world and makes national loans possi
ble. If Russia had sea power, the Jap
anese loan wouldn't have standing in.
London. As It Is, crowds in London
rush to invest in the new Japanese
loan, and people In long lines struggle
for admission to the windows where the
loans are taken.
The hop contract continues to gain
standing in the courts. At Salem Mon
day Judge Galloway decided two cases
In favor of dealers who had sued for
failure to deliver their crops at a stlp
ulated price. There has been much of
this class of litigation during the past
year, and the results have in nearly
every case been disastrous to. the hop-
grower. Perhaps it was the example
set by the dealers themselves, a ' few
years ago, that caused the growers to
make a legal test of the -value of a hop
contract. In former years.' -whenever
the price declined, there was an aston
ishing number of contracts which the
dealers refused to fulfill. Some of those
cases got into court, but the old-time
hop contract was such a jug-handled
affair that the grower made little or
nothing by attempting to enforce it
against the wishes of the dealers.
The gravel pit Is an unsightly and
unsafe excavation, a damage to adjoin
ing property in a town, and wholly at
variance with the utility and symmetry
01 street-ounoing ana purposes in a
city or a flourishing suburb. The pro
test of the people of Woodlawn against
the further excavation of these pits
within the limits of the city corpora
tlon is well placed. The gravel pits are
unhandsome and objectionable," said
Mayor Williams in Indorsing this .pro
test. So say we. all of us.
It is too bad that the hangman's
noose may prevent a quiet little wed
ding id Paducah. The woman in the
case confesses that she -poisoned her
three children, saying that the man had
promised to marry her when she got rid
of these "Incumbrances." Both the
prospective bride and the prospective
groom are in. Jail. It is a pity that the
marriage should be thus rudely Inter
rupted, for if ever two persons were
made for each other, these two were.
Russia has now given out the text of
her last offer to Japan. It contains
nothing of especial interest, except the
firm refusal to permit Japan .to use
Corea for "strategic purposes." In
other words, Russia might make her
self ready In Manchuria to take Corea
when she wanted it, while Japan must
remain defenseless. Russia's disclosure
of this document has not helped her
much.
Pedestrianlsm on a railroad track has
an unexplalnable charm for a deaf
man and a drunken Indian. White
Bull, a member of the Cayuse tribe,
living near Pendleton, is the latest ex
ample of the perils attendant on indulg
ing in this diversion. The O. R. & N
train which had the right of way was
uninjured.
Perhaps John Dough Rockefeller
would spend his money to greater per
sonal advantage if he gave 5100,000 to
send missionaries into the wilds of
Kansas, which really doesn't think
much of the benevolence and deep re
ligious spirit of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
Loggers, farmers and miners are all
rejoicing over the generous showers of
the past few days. Naturally an end
less chain of Industries will profit ac
cordingly, and if there is any complaint
against, the weather, it has not yet been
registerea wnere it CQUia oe neara.
Rebels are said to be actively organ
lzing against President Castro, of Vene
zuela. Castro seems so fond of blood
and cayenne pepper that he may keep
a few energetic rebels in his pay to
prevent attacks of ennui.
Santo Domingo insists on paying Its
debts, whether the United States Sen
ate interferes or not. This Is some
thing new for Santo Domingo.
No doubt the word "union" has a spe
clal attractiveness to mo3t school teach
xs.
Rousseau ls doubtless also the youth
who fired the Ephcsian dome.
NOTE AXD COMMENT.
While the motor car does not give the
same glorious effect upon the, stage as
does the prancing destrier upon -which
Joan of Arc or some glittering knight ap
pears. Jt has the advantage In scenes
wherein it does not actually appear. In
scores of plays the audience hears the-
Iover or some other character sigh. "Will
she never come!" and then there is a
plttitr-pat that grows louder until the
carriage draws' up In the wings and the
hoof -beats are .heard no more Or in the
'down East" plays, the jingle of Bleigh-
bells is heard before the door opens, and
the fur-clad fanner's daughter enters,
while the cruel wind whistles wildly past.
These devices are tamo and ineffective
beside the hoarse toot-toot that heralds
tho approach of the heroine in an auto.
Nervous women in the house involuntar
ily Jump when they hear that familiar
croak. Tes, the toot-toot has the hoof
beats and the slelghbells badly beaten.
The Dally Consular reports say that
tramway line will be built in Java,
and that contractors should apply for in
formation to the Nederlandsche Handcls.
Maatschappy. Pas or can. That's even a
better chappy than OkrjeiaJ, the lock
smith who "bombed" the Warsaw police
station. None but a locksmith could ever
master such a combination.
Judge Smith namo Indicative of plain.
strong, common sense-has decided In a
Chicago court that a widow is not to bo
blamed for being pretty. It appears that
a widow was sued by a wife,, who wanted
$30,000 for the alienation of her husband's
affections. The widow was "as pretty
as paint and also had plenty of dough.
However, since she didn't unlike widows
encourage the flirtatious, husband, she
wasn't mulcted of the $50,000.
"Kim" appears to be the Corean equiv
alent of the English "Smith." A clip
ping from the Seoul News contains an
Item about a robber who took bags of
rice from Mr Kim, Mr. Mln. a second
Mr. Kim, Mr. Choi and a third Mr. Kim,
Another paragraph in tho same clipping
says that the magistrate of Syukchou ls
In hiding. "He punished a man too se
verely. The man died under the opera
tion, and the man's relatives are now
looking for the magistrate." Relatives
appear to be somewhat of a check upon
tho Corean Judiciary.
Dr. David Paulson, lecturing before the
Chicago Institute of the W. C. T. U.,
recently said: "The poor cook Is in league
with the saloonkeeper. The poor cook
is the bane of modern life, and the rec
ords will show that where a man re
turns to drink after he has been tempo
rarily cured It ls because he has been
driven to It by poor food, poorly cooked.
"Poor," as applied to the cook, docs not
express any Idea of pity In this Instance,
but refers to the cook's qualifications, or
lack of qualifications for her job. Fur
ther says the sober Dr. Paulson: "Highly
seasoned food la another factor in the
making of drunkards, and the young man
.V, V.. 1 . ,, .
nuu uuja u. 11U.UX btuiuwicii ana. seasons
It with mustard ls laying the foundation
for a drunkard's life." Shun, oh, shun
the devilish mustard-pot. If you must
tickle your palate with mustard avoid the
pungent English brand and stick to the
less demonlzlng French. As for the poor
cook, reason with her. Tell her you don't
want to be a drunkard. Raise her wages
as an Insurance against the rum fiend.
Make the poor woman dissolve her un
holy alliance -with the saloons. Thus,
with abstention from titillating condi
ments, you may live soberly if your
spectacles fit, for another authority says
drunkenness is caused by misfit glasses.
Dogs of the different Jbull" varieties
had an honorable place in the news yes
terday. A couple of bull terriers kept
watch over their mistress, who had drunk
something that "went to her head." These
plucky and devoted little fellows guarded
the woman until she was taken to the
-police station, and then, seeing that they
could do no more, trotted off and brought
back their owner's husband at least they
came to the station with him. Then an
Albany man, who sold a bull pup for
MOO shares of worthless mining stock,
finds that the stock I3 so far from worth
less that he has sold half of it lor iOOO.
That is a waggish Chinook man who
calls his goose Macduff because she lays
on. Twenty-four egg3 In SO days, and
still she hasn't cried "Enough!"
Judges' wigs are to be done away with
In British Columbia, and. as a conse
quence, there are now wigs on the green.
Revelations tsf an International Spy.
I THE FATAL ERROR.
By "Q. T."
(Synopsis of previous chapters: Moasleur VQ.
T." receives a. message from the Grand Duke
TTclrlyvItch. cum naming them to St- Peters
burg". The hand which tbnist the measagc
through the roof of his hansom cab proves to
bo artificial, and Monsieur "Q. T." keeps It
In his pocket. As he ls about to enter the
Winter Palace a heavily ' veiled woman lays
her hand upon hla ehoulder, shows that she
knows tho famous agent, and Is about to
disclose a secret w&n the -sate of the pal
ace opens.)
CHAPTER ni.
It was Nicholas himself!
I was about to speak when the Czar ad
dressed me.
he said fiercely.
"But, Tour Majesty
say. I ventured to
he exclaimed.
"In that case," said I, "there remains
but one thing for me to do."
said the Czar, with some surprise.
"Precisely," I answered.
exclaimed Nicholas, In a tone of decision.
I started.
In that event I should be helpless.
At that moment a bomb was thrown
with great accuracy right between us.
When the smoke cleared away, what a
sign 1 met. -my eyes:
Editor's Note Erased by the Imperial
Censor.
(To be Continued.)
y WEX J.
Beating of Dead Hearts.
April St. Nicholas.
Hearts of cold-blooded animals will
beat for a comparatively long time after
death or removal from the body Of kept
cold and moist), because of powerful In
ternal collections of nerves, known as
ganglia, whose automatic impulses cause
the regular contractions of the muscles.
Similar ganglia exist in man and other
warm-blooded animals, but their action
is less prolonged. Scientists have ascer
tained that a turtle's heart will beat
after removal If put on a piece of glass,
kept cool and moist and covered with a
bell-Jar. I believe it has been known
to beat 36 or even S hour's; 12 or 14 hours
is a common record.
You Bet It's NoU
Atchison Globe.
The fat la bacon la'net as fat as It used
to be-
HOOLIGAN AS A WORLD POWER
Far-reaching Influence of Starving British Paupers In Shaping Na
tional Policies Described by John Dennis, Jr., In Everybody's.
ONE day in London last Summer when
the sun happened to shine clear.
four wretched men warmed themselves
in tho rare geniality, clinging to the rail
ings of Leicester Square. The street tides
flowed past, unnoted and unnoting. There
was presently a stir on the sidewalks;
people stopped and turned, necks were
craned, a buzz went through the throng.
A man was driving by In a carriage, a
clean-shaven man. elderly, erect, with
firm, keen face and cold, steady eyes.
In front of the Hooligan squad a stout,
florid person, who somehow seemed to
haye stepped from a Cruikshank drawing
as he in the carriage from a Punch car
toon, raised a clinched fist and shook it.
"Chamberlain!" hS snarled, "Chamber
lain! xJ's no good!"
Some of the crowd laughed, some jeered,
some looked shocked at the departure
from London decorum. The men against
tho railings did not laugh, nor jeer, nor
rouse from sodden lethargy, nor heed
aught, but only stretched anlmal-llke in
the sun. And yet if 1.10 man'in the car
riage had alighted there, it he had taken
one of these creatures by the hand and
cleped him brother, if ha had stood there
side by side with, him in the face of Lon
don, the spectacular requirements of a
great worla-drama would have been com
plete. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and the
Hooligan, the Hooligan and Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, side by side in Leicester
Square, as side by side they .stand on the
world's 'stage to pull down its vast com
mercial fabrics, to overturn national con
ditions, to build empires, affect destinies
and change maps.
Sometimes with a half-score of his tribe
Hooligan summons courage to rob a
drunken man; onco with a hundred thou
sand llko unto himself he startled com
placent London by marching in procession
through her streets. Otherwise he has
merely existed; otherwise he has crawled
from his lairs and back again unheeded
and unheeding. And now this melancholy,
feebly creature, the titular sport of the
unthinking, the type of all that is weak
and fataous in mankind, suddenly stands
forth the most portentous figure on tho
world's horizon: now he thrusts forth a
flaccid hand, and the farmer of America,
the starving peasant of India, the cattle
herders of Australia and the Pampas, tho
builders of empires and the lords of war,
and millions that never heard of Hooligan
will feel his clutch around the world.
Is It not something to make us all stop,
half-appalled, to think that from tho
slums we have tolerated and neglected
should Issue. In a moment, vengeance In
this fantastic shape and threaten to pull
our houses about our ears?
Why? Because for the sake of Hooligan
the whole economic policy of the British
nation Is to be overthrown. For him the
British free trade by which America has
thriven Is to be destroyed, the wisdom of
Cobden and Bright is to be made foolish
ness, the one feature of British policy
that for more than 50 years has been
held to be fixed and immovable is to be
reversed; the circle of British possessions
is to be brought into a new and compact
commercial empire; conditions, trades,
commerce. Industries, international rela
tions, treaties are to be changed. The
slum has overcome the palace, the dweller
in the subcellar of Stepney haa proved
more powerful than tlje millionaires of
Park &ane, and Hooligan, rags. dirt,
neckcloth, hunger, and all, arises In this
extraordinary fashion a triumphant world
power. Ho has stood thus before' in his
tory when the triangular steel was busy
in the Place de la Concorde and the
Seine rolled heads seaward. Forms
change, and tools; work and Ideas remain.
the same. The slum does not use the
guillotine now to avenge Itself, nor force,
nor bloodshed; but in the fullness of time
its day seems to come as certainly.
For there is nothing In the tariff pro
posals of Mr. Chamberlain now convulsing
Great Britain, nothing but Hooligan.
Thev know in England the useful art of
phrase-spinning. Much they say in this
iremenaous aiscussion oi igur ixaae ana
equalization, of "dumping" and unfair
competition, of cheap food and dear food,
of colonial brotherhood and British ex
pansion. But back of all the neatly
woven webs ls Hooligan alone, steady. In
sistent, starving. All the ways of thought
and discussion lead back to Hooligan,
child of the slums. No one mentions
him, no one refers to, nor hints of him:
but all men that think at all, think of
him with a growing sense of the "awful
question he compels, "What shall we do
about Hooligan?"
Do you know what forced him upon,
the reluctant attention of reflective states
men? The Boer war, that big-little strug
gle that has already meant so much In
so many ways to British greatness. A
few thinkers had taken note of him be
fore and uttered unheeded warnings. They
had said repeatedly, "This can not go on;
this overcrowding and starving: this
slum-living and alley-swarming; this Is
the sure road to trouble."
For in spite of all. Hooligan multiplied
ODD BITS OF OREGON LIFE.
The Drum Wouldn't Stick.
Prlnevllle Review. -
E. xl. Smith, the saddler, can, make
anything, from a bass drumstick to a
Hoe-made chain "harness and make it
while you wait We had labored two
hours and a half trying to make a
drumstick and had to give It up. Smith
fixed It in 12 minutes.
Cubit Steps High Now.
Grizzly Com Madras Pioneer.
Albert Cubit returned home from
Prlnevllle the last of the week with a
brand new saddle which he had pur
chased from Jake Boone. We don't
wonder at him wearing his hat on the
back of his head, but then we can't
blame him a new saddle Is something
all bronco busters are proud of.
Dancing Good, but Pies Shy.
Grizzly Corr. Madras Pioneer.
We had a nice little dance at the M.
W. A. Hall on the 10th. QUite a num
ber from Lamonta and Hay Creek attended-
We hope they enjoyed them
selves and will come again. There
wasn't many ladles present hut the
boys filled the vacancy almost as well.
'Twas a basket supper, and one young
lady lost her pies. We hope they wero
good, but as we didn't get to sample
them cannot say. How about it. Wes?
But. come again, boys; we'll have
more pie?1 next time.
Matrimony Will Out.
Prlnevllle Review.
The wedding cannot be very far off
now. Every evening they go down and
visit their future residence, Inspect
the linoleum on the kitchen floor and
sweep the carpets clean of any unfor
tunate speck of dust that happens to'
stray in through the windows. The
kitchen stove has received three coats
of blacking In readiness, and the par
lor table is covered 'with the finest
damask. If we hadn't been sworn to
secrecy. Mart, we should certainly give
the names to the public.
A New Game.
Atchison Globe. .
An Atchison man and his wife decided
they would not buy anytnlng for a month
that they could get along without They
spend on an average of $50 a month, but
.the. month they made the experiment they
sbent just 312.
amazingly, and in spite of all. Hooligan
lived -and bred in places and conditions
fatal to health and strength. He cama
from the country: that was the double
edged harm. Ho had been coming from
the country for more than 50 years. In
the silent revolution that followed upon
the abolishing of ihe corn laws upon
free trade, if you will agriculture, which
had been the backbone of English char
acter and English strength, withered
away. Vast areas devoted to the growing
of wheat became hunting fields, meadow
lands, moors, nothing. The stout yeo
manry, their country's pride, ceased to
exist. England turned from agriculture
to manufacturing; the country and the
country town and village began to dry
up. and a steady stream of indigent men
and women poured Into the great cities.
The yokel became a Hooligan.
The blow that the wise men had fore
seen fell with the Boer war. It was the
first serious struggle that England had
confronted since the Crimea, almost 50
years gone: the first war not with in
ferior peoples. Enlistments were called
for to supplement the regular troops that
had been invulnerable against Ashantis
and Louis Rell's halfbreeds. In a day. as
It seemed, the nation awoke to the fact
that its physical vigor was sapped. It
had no material for soldiers. The per
centage of rejections at the enlistment
stations appalled every reflective mind.
The standards were lowered, the test3
were conveniently made easy; the rejec
tions continued to bo most alarming.
Regiments were ratched together of boys
and anemic youths. They were food for
the hospitals, not for powder. Once in
South Africa, enteric swept them off like
flies; they were only the shells of men.
But one man saw or believed he saw the
road of light. Hooligan was- the product
of decaying agriculture. "When the farm
lands of England had teemed with wheat
and oats he was unknown. When the
typical Englishman of the class that
went to war the John Bull of tradition
was broad-shouldered and deep-chested,
a ruddy-cheeked giant, then the brawn
and endurance of the Englishman were a
proverb. Against him Hooligan, anemic
neurotic, emaciated, too often degenerate,
dull of wit and feeble of will, showed
like a figure of fright. Yet John Bull
had vanished ana Hooligan cowered JM
his place. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain be
lieved that the only way to bring back
John Bull and remove Hooligan was to
restore agriculture, and by making it
profitable and largely followed, draw the
teeming millions again to the country.
The way to do that was to place import
duties on foreign agricultural products.
In other words, to "abandon free trade
and return to protection. And that, in
naked terms, Is the Chamberlain pro
posal and the reason for It- No one
knows better than its projector the enor
mous difficulty of the task he has under
taken. Or am I exaggerating about the cause
of these calamities? In 1852 Great Britain
produced nearly all the food It consumed;
now It Imports 75 per cent of the food it
consumes. In 1S76, according to a very
able writer In the Nineteenth Century,
the yield of British wheat was IS.000,000
quarters, valued at $235,000,000; in 1901 the
yield of British wheat was 6.500.000 quar
ters, valued at $45,000,000. In 20 years
there has been a decrease In the cul
tivated area of British green crops of not
far from a million acres. And meantime
the normal population of the agricultural
regions has decreased by half a million
souls.
Tes. Mr. Chamberlain and Hooligan
will win: soon or late they will win. And
when they win, and Mr. Chamberlain
stands premier In the full glory of the
most astonishing- achievement in modern
politics, how about us? How about the
rest of the world? At present Great BrH
aln takes 40 per cent of our total ex
ports. How will It be when a tariff, wall
shuts oft this enormous business? whit
about our wheatgrowers then? Over In
Manitoba, across the border, the farmer
will be sending his wheat free of duty to
our old customers, cut off from us by a
preferential tariff. What will - Dakota
wheat farms be worth then? How about
our manufactures, deprived of their larg
est and most lucrative foreign markets?
What will Canada be when all her prod
ucts are admitted duty free and ours ara
excluded? And not ours alone, but all the
non-British world.
Germany, that now floods England with
cheap and excellent goods to the error
of the English manufacturer, where will
she turn for a market? What about the
ironworkers of Belgium, the dairymen 6f
Denmark and Holland, the lace and silk
weavers of France and Switzerland? How
about the wheat-growers of Russia and
Argentina?
,
And all this for Hooligan; all this for
the gaunt, shrinking, wretched creature:
all this for the -reeking slums that Great
Britain has neglected so many years.
Is It not a monstrous price to pay for
slums and slum products? But so was
the price monstrous when the heads
rolled Into the Seine. Wher ls wisdom
and what nation learns it?
ESSAYS OF LITTLE BOBBIE.
Milwaukee Sentinel
LOVE.
love is the beginning of mariage if the
beginning alnt munny. love ls what
maiks the wurld go" round and It keep3
going round until yu git in a flat and
have to live there without no steam,
when yu cant eet maybe you are in love
and maybe yu have a week stumlck.
yu cant always tell the diferens. 1
hoap when i gro up i wont be in love
vary often, its all rite to be In love
wunst In a while but sum fellers i kno
is always In love with sumbody and
sumtimes 2 or 3 gurls at the saim time
and that is pretty nice till they ketch
on and then thare ls trubble about It
sum grate people who have been in
love are Mark Antony and Cleopatry,
and Lillian Russell lots of times and
Venls and Adonis thay had quite a case
too but Adonis he had lots of sense
and he said to her Well you look pritty
good to me but i only git a small salary
and If I marry you 1 am afraid I'll
have to quit smoaklng & drinking, so I
guess we better call it off. Venis she
felt cheap and so she went and married
a .undertaker and they buried Adonis
when he got killed by a wild bore and
dident send his foalks no bill.
' love Is of different kinds, for-instens 1
love my teacher and thats all rite but
if Fa loved my teacher thare would be
sumthlng doing at hoam. I doant love
no gurl. most of them is too much
stuck on themself to have anyone love
them. 1 love my dog best of all. When
you love a girl you git 'married and
when you love your dog yu only git fleas.
The Papal Flag.
Chicago Journal.
The. papal flag- Is comparatively un
familiar Outside of the Eternal City.
The war flag of the defunct temporal
power of the pope was white and in
its center stood figures of St Peter
and St Paul, with the cross-keys and
tiara above them. The flag of the mer
chant ships owned by the subjects of
the states of the church Is a curious
combination, half yellow and half
white, with the design of the cross-keys
on the white. In the banner used by the
crusader" King of Jersualem. Godfrey, the
only tinctures Introduced were the two
metals, gold and silver, five golden
crosses being placed upon a silver field.
This was done with the intention of
making (he device unique, as in all
other cases It Is deemed false heraldry
to Dlace metal on metaL