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But to large numbers of our citizens his candidacy would not be commended by certain appeals made for hini among the churches (Protes tant) of the city, of which the follow ing, by Rov. A. W. Wilson, of the First 'Njjilted Presbyterian Church, is at once an example and illustration: What are you Christian Republican going to do next Saturday? The only man who asks your suffrage as a Christian man who stand? 'or Christian principles. Is II. R. AJ bee, and for him the Christian Republican who will not repudiate his Chrlstlaulty must vote next Saturday or fall to vote. Such appeals The Oregonian cannot but deem unwise. Is the Christian to . .rule thu city? Is the. Christian Repub lican to rrle it? Then is that Christian Republican tp be Protestant or Cath olic? Better leave these things out al together. People who are not Chris tians; people who are neither Protes tant nor Catholic Christians; people who are Jews or Rationalists, or Infl dels ,as those are often called who do not accept an "orthodox" faith, have rights in our government, and a right to assert theml Besides the general code of morals, which must prevail in government, is not Christian, it is not Jewlsn. it is not Protestant or Catho lie It cannot be monopolized; It Is uni versal; it belongs to mankind. Multitudes, therefore, will be repelled "by the assumption that any creed or section of Christendom has supreme au thority in morals, or a monopoly of morality. These all will vote against any man .who may be nominated for political and municipal office, on the ground that he stands for-"Christian principles." Moreover, the moment you talk about Christian principles you start the debate as to what they are, among Christians themselves. This de bate may not be public, it will probably not -come Into the open; but it will be carried on', in private intercourse and in the forum of conscience, nevertheless Better leave all terms that denote re Uglons out of the political discussion. For it cannot be too often repeated that no religion has a monopoly of mor als, private or public, social or political, It is a mistake to drag religion or re llgious belief into -political discussion or to use In politics terms that imply such method or Include such conse Jiucnce. In politics we are not Chris tians, either Catholic or Protestant; w arc not Jews, nor Rationalists, nor Dls senters, nor Arlans, nor Monophysites, but simply members of a body politic REVOKE THESE SALOON 'LICENSES. It is evldant that the license commit tee of the Common Council, in grant ing a large number ot licenses to open saloons in close proximity to the en trance of the Lewis and Clark Fair grounds, did an Inconsiderate thing. If zeal to Increase the city revenues was allowed to outrun the judgment of the committee, to overshadow its civic pride or to obscure Its moral sense, that body should take counsel of popular opinion, revoke these objectionable 11 censes, refund the money paid, and thus do what can be done to correct the mistake made in Issuing them. Fanatical opposition to the liquor traffic is one thing; prudence in the re strlction of the number of saloons near the entrance of a great Exposition is quite another. It should take no argu ment to convince the City Council of this, or to ehow the license committee of that body that a mistake which may readily be corrected has been made in issuing these licenses. Multiplication of words upon this subject, should not be necessary. The public understands that, as -matters now rest, something like thirty saloons will be open for business within a few blocks of the entrance of the -grounds whn the. Lewis and Clark Fair is opened, a month hence, unless the H censes that Jiave been Issued for this purpose arc revoked. Let civic pride and an honest desire to serve the best and hlgbeet interests of the city and th Fair decide this matter promptly and In accordance 'with public opinion that has been -so freely expressed within the past week. The presentment of the case is simple; its moral is plain. To admit the truth ot one is to acknowl edge the force of the other. CANNOT BE REVERSED. We read In a paper of Eastern Oregon that there are "scoundrels in all our towns who are ready to allure girls astray"; and' that "parents do not know what perils surround their daughters In these conditions." Both statements are true. Society and government and law should pursue such scoundrels to the uttermost. But when it Is urged that society and government and law- must be looked to as the main defense against these evils, and that the. burden rests on the community rather than on the parents, the reasoning is fallacious and the result nothing. Perhaps It will be asked if it Is really true that "parents do not know what' perils surround their daughters In these conditions." No doubt In many cases is. But why shouldn't they know? And what right have such to be par ents? The moral health and well-b'elng; of the community must come through the family. Very Inferior agents are ociety and government. If parents are ignorant or neglectful of duty, soci ety cannot make up the deficit. Their children, both sons and daughters the latter especially will be liable to ruin. Nevertheless, it is the duty of society to extend to these parentless children all the protection It can, and "to hunt down relentlessly the monsters who be tray or mislead them. - But what The Oregonian wishes to say once more Is 'this, namely, that If parents are remiss, society and govern ment canjiot be depended upon to do their work. Government of the family cannot be thrown upon society or upon the state with hopes of success. Noth ing can make up for lack of parental responsibility; and it Is a serious ques tion whether the evil consequences are not increased by the suggestion to par ents who are Ignorant, or thoughtless. or Indifferent to their trust, that rem edy may be found in appeal to society and government. Society and govern ment are In the final analysis simply hat the family life of . the country makes them. Neither the caupe, the process nor the result can possibly be reversed. THE CZAIVS EASTER GUT. Jn Holy Russia the ties between church and empire have been of the closest for 900 years. In early days the people received or changed their faith at the will or the Prince. Vladimir, In A. D. 1000. received baptism at Kher son from Greek priests as a sign of con- erslon to Christianity. Returning to his capital. Kief, he began by ordering the idol Perun thrown into the Dnieper, and followed It up by commanding the entire population of the city to plunge naked into the- river while the priests. standing Tjy the Prince on the river bank, read the baptismal service. Tra dition. through the monkish annalist. tells of the fruits of conversion for the Prince, in that he ended wars, distrib uted his revenues to churches and to the poor, and eased the brutal punish ments common to that age. Like Prince, like people. Thence dates the story of the orthodox Russian Church. In the history of the same Prince ap pears the "drujina," the band of war riors surrounding their leader, devel oped today in that bureaucracy whose influence has grown with the centuries. Russian Christianity was brought from Constantinople, not from Rome, and the division line between the two forms stands today as hard and clear as when, in its northern and western expansion, the Russian power came in conflict with the Roman Catholics of Poland and Lithuania. It was easier to conquer the peoples and to annex their country than to extirpate their religious faith. But the Iron hand of orthodoxy attempted the impossible- The last stage of the never-dying conflict Is reached today In the May-day edict of thq Czar. Not satisfied with inspiring open war with the faith of the Western Church as a main part of the resistance of the Polish people, the orthodox Russian Church has held the same haughty and ; unyielding front towards all and any who claimed to exercise the right of private judgment. Reformers have been many, but their fate has been the same. For priests and people, ortho doxy and religion have been confound ed, and orthodoxy, having Its visible show in signs and symbols, fought for them, the more bitterly for their triv iality. When the Abbot Nikon, in the reign of Czar Alexis, father of Peter the Great, succeeded with the help of his royal master in securing revision of the ancient books of religion, he was met by the textuallsts, who declared that not a word, not a letter, but was sacred and should not be touched. The same conservatives insisted that to shave "was a mortal sin; that seven, and not five, wafers were essential in the communion service, and that the faith ful should die sooner than substitute Iisus for Isus in the name of Christ. In the Russian character, the aris tocracy excepted, is a strange capacity for suffering in defense of their ideals. Once this enthusiasm is excited, with some religious or seml-rellglous tenet for its base, they go willingly, not cheerfully, to death or evils on its be half. On the other hand, there has een no limit to the spirit of persecu tion among the orthodox, which deems no point of faith or ritual too small to be enforced by the temporal on the de mand of the spiritual arm, with no sense of proportion of sin to punish ment. The governing powers have doubtless been sincere in their pursuit of national unity through religious uni formity. But the end has come at last It has needed the compelling- powers of outside crisis and internal unrest car ried into the region of insurrection; to enforce this surrender, for surrender it is. It is a death blow to the haughty Procurator of the Iloly synod and his domination over outward acts of re ligionbut what relief to Polish Cath ollc, to Lutheran, to Stundist and Jew, to dissenters of all types and grades, to Mohammedan and Baddhlst. The. cage Is broken and the birds let fly to all quarters of the heavens. The grandfather of the present Czar, in his emancipation decree ot March. 1S6L set free nearly forty-six millions of serfs from phj'slcal bondage, from chains binding them to the crown, the nobles, the church, and to the soil they tilled. Czar Nicholas II signalize this May day of 195 by freeing- a number that no wan can tell from as galling a bond age. No rmd to bring Into array the motives by which he ha eea fcoth led and driven to tfete act. -If feeliae thre by re-bound many of his people to his throne and dynasty, time will tell. It Is hard to believe that peasants in arms for lands. Intellectuals ready to rise for constitutional liberty, reservists herded to the trains or the Par Eastern war. sullen and mutinous, workmen striking for rights to -more than starvation wages, provinces rebelling against le galized oppression that this sea, this ocean of trouble, can be stilled by the new decree. It would possibly have availed more in an earlier century, when national life was simpler, ran In fewer channels, and when religious be liefs and formularies counted more in daily life. Doubtless it will be taken for what It Is worth, hailed by many as a real relief, but by all as in indica tion of a yielding- spirit In Czar and his surroundings, the end of which is not yet in sight. RAILROAD MONEY PLENTIFUL. The alacrity with which foreign bank ers subscribed thejbonde of the West ern Pacific, and then begged for more, indicates that there are some railroad men in the country who can find money with which to build a road where it Is needed. The coming of the Western Pacific will be a great boon to the Pa cific Coast, and it is hardly within the bounds ot reason to expect the line to terminate at San Francisco without forming a connection with the rich and rapidly growing North Pacific States. The coming of the Gould line to the Pa cific Coast means that the day of rail road competition is not yet at an end, and the retirement of Mr. Gould from the Union Pacific can hardly be Inter preted as indicating anything else than relinquishment of hope of effecting sat isfactory connections for his Eastern lines with the Harriman system. The East has only recently begun to grasp the wonderful possibilities for trade in the Orient, and the marvelous latent wealth of the Pacific Coast States. Hill and Harriman, however, seem to have had a pretty keen Insight as to the value of this trade, and, prior to the formation of Northern Securi ties. It was apparent that they had di vided the territory between them and would develop It at their leisure. In this division Portland and the Colum bia River Basin got decidedly the worst of the bargain. Mr. Harriman had costly terminals at San Francisco, and Mr. Hill was similarly equipped on Puget Sound. Neither felt the necessity of paying any attention to the interme diate territory any further than that Hill was to drain as much as possible to Puget Sound, while Mr. Harriman was to take similar action In the terri tory lying south of a certain line. This line, unfortunately for Portland, seems to have been drawn by Mr. Hill, and. for the past four years, -there has been no more real competition between the Hill roads and the Harriman roads in this territory than there would have been had the merger stood the test of the courts. The Harriman policy of backing down every time the Northern roads put up a stiff bluff must have been very repugnant to Mr. Gould, who all of his life has been a fighter. He undoubtedly realized that under the Harriman regime the Gould roads In the East were not getting the share of the transcontinental and trans-Pa clfic trade to which they were entitled, and, seeing little or no hope for improv ing the situation by a tie-up with Hill, decided to come to the Coast over his own rails. The development of Ore gon's neglected regions by the Gould systems will not, of course, be as sat isfactory as would have been their de velopment by the Harriman system The Gould system. If it Is extended. must enter the state from the south, and, pending its arrival at Portland and Puget Sound, much good traffic will be diverted to California. With the coming of a new road we shall also witness a' renewal ot the aggressiveness of the HIU roads. Reasoning from the Hill policy In the past, this aggressive ness will result In further encroach ments In Portland territory by the lines tributary to Puget Sound. All that Gould will drain ajvay to the south be fore he reaches Portland, and all that Hill can drain away to the north, will not retard or harm Portland as much as she is being retarded and injured by the present masterly inactivity of the Harriman lines in Oregon. With millions for betterments of the trunk lines, improvements of terminal facilities at San Francisco and branch lines into mushroom mining districts. there does not seem to be anything for providing facilities for opening up Ore gon to civilization. There was a time when Portland, relying on the solemn assurances of Mr. Harriman that he would build to the Clearwater, to Cen tral Oregon and to other isolated locali ties, would have regarded his dethrone ment with genuine regret. That time has passed, and we must now look for relief, not from Mr. Harriman or Mr. "Hill, but to some Independent line, like the Western Pacific. Consolidation, monopoly and oppress ive agreements are, ot course, always possibilities, and they may be attempt ed when the new line reaches the Coast. There, is so much mone in the world seeking investment, however, that the desire to break into these pools with independent lines will never be entirely lacking. Growth of the country and development of the Ori ental trade may render it easier s dozen years hence to float the bonds for still another Pacific road than it was to get those of the Western Pacific in the hands of foreign buyers. AGAIN THE HIGH SCHOOL "mATS. It is said, on one side, that the "frats," as developed in the High School of this city, have as yet shown no objectionable features. On the other hand, some very objectionable features have been plainly set out. Chief among these latter, perhaps, is the clique or ring that has been developed, that has controlled class elections not by over' whelming numbers, but by the tricks and shifts employed by an organized body against one that Is unorganized. The question is whether it is wise to foster within the student-body of the public schools an element, the tendency of which is unmistakably In this direc tion, until such time as the class man agement becomes an open scandal which It will be Incumbent upon the authorities to suppress, or to take the matter in Its lnclplency and root it out. In favor of this latter course Is a dec laration of the wise man of antiquity, to-wlt: "The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hldeth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." Professor Rigler is no doubt entirely- honest Vo saying that he would scarce ly have known of the existence of the two fraternities and two sororities fa cpnaectkm with the Portias High Scheel, had not the papers called at tentlon to the facts. The assumption is that these societies axe se adt and orderly as not to attract by their move ments the attention of even the City Superintendent. Perhaps, however, there Is another reason for this obliviousness to a very patent condition of affairs In the High School as a result of these secret socl-" etles among stu'ents. It is sometimes not convenient t. look too closely into things that, as Mr. Rigler says, "may stir up trouble" for the school authori ties. Again the City Superintendent has a wide area .e cover and he Is physically unable to meet many of the demands of bis position. But, this aside, is not the dreaded potency of these "frats" In the realm of "trouble" a sufficient cause for eliminating- them from the High School? Is It not a fact that power without the Judgment that comes only with matur ity of mind, is a tiling to be avoided? And is there any reason to suppose that what "Doestlcks" denominated "Youna Merika the Mighty" differs materially In Portland from the effu sive, headstrong, self-sufficient element of this. type in other cities? Or that students in the Portland public schools. If permitted to take the bit In their teeth, will not lead those who handle the reins a swift and merry Jolt over such Impediments as it will be neces sary later on to place In the road, as a check to their hilarity, frivolity and assumption of superiority over their classmates? Should we not rather be reasonable about this matter, and ad mit that children are children the world over? Should we not" insist as long as they are pupils of the free schools they are not men and women, but boys and girls? And that, in the Interest of all concerned, they should be Induced by such means as are neces sary to postpone entrance into secret societies until their public school days are ended? If to take this stand Is to "hunt trouble," Is It not the part of wisdom to engage in this hunt early, that the "trouble" may be more readily handled? The Seattle Times has an appreciative editorial review of the hotels and res taurants of Seattle, which it describes with much enthusiasm and somewhat pointed comparison with other cities, as the finest to be found anywhere. Everyone knows that Seattle has good hotels, and everybody who has been there knows that they charge good prices. Butr as the Times says,, "we mention these things simply to show that iMhere should happen to be a rush to the Lewis and Clark Fair, as we hope there will be and they do not re ceive the accommodations which they had expected to receive because of in creased numbers then all they need to do is to come up to Seattle and be roy ally entertained." We shall hope to take good care ot all visitors, to the end that they may go away with a fine impression of Portland, hotels and restaurants Included. If they go to Se attic, we shall take the Times' word for it that they will be well fed and well housed. The thing that is really inter esting about it all is that -Seattle is sprucing up to get the Portland over flow. The Pacific, a church paper of San Francisco, speaking of certain recent events in Portland. Including The Ore- gonian's criticism of Mr. Toy, because he told publicly the wickedness of his former life, says: "The Oregonian has always been a law unto itself. Until recently It has had the dally newspa per field in Portland and largely throughout Oregon. But another daily- was started two or three years ago. This, however, has not Improved The Oregonian, for the new paper was at once much more on the sensational line and The Oregonian has been led to cater somewhat to the element liking that kind of a paper, and has accord ingly deteriorated." This is highly In teresting. Evidently the Pacific has a fear that The Oregonian has been af fected by a bad example and will try- to follow it downward. We assure the Pacific that It makes a mistake. Nearly 22,000 Immigrants arrived in New York last week, and the number to arrive on steamers due this week is 25,000. All previous records In the im migrant business have been broken sev eral times this year, and when Jhe av erage runs up in excess of S000 per day at one port, the effect will, sooner or later, be felt on industrial conditions throughqut the country. Women and children, of course, make up a consid erable portion of the crowd now pour ing in Irom the Old World, but in the two weeks" "receipts" mentioned there were enough ablebodicd men to fill every position vacated by the strikers In Chicago and leave some to spare for other points. This heavy immigration Is a more serious menace to the cause of labor than all of the "Farleys" in the country. Leigh Hunt, formerly of Seattle, later In Corea, is now in the Soudan, ex ploiting the growth of cotton for a syn dicate ot British manufacturers. He reports great prospects of success. Mr. Hunt is a man of singular energy. His faculty ot impressing important people with ideas ot what he can do is remark able. Indeed v yet it did not appear here, in former years, that he was likely to be a man of achievement. His state ment of the vast agricultural posslblll ties of the Upper Nile region is re celved with high credit by the London press. One way to avoid the presence of saloons near or opposite the entrance of the Fair would be to change the en trance. Shifted to another place, the objectionable features might be left be hind. Perhaps a better and- more prac ticable way would be to set up a high wall at the present entrance, and hav the street railways deliver withjn it all passengers to and from the Fair rounds. The Oresonian is not at tempting to "run" the Fair, but thinks it may take the liberty to make suggestions. Five persons were killed in one week in New York by automobiles. The In noccnt bystander has a tough time in this world. He has no remedy but to keep oft the streets, or go to Seattle, where he can have his, soul saved for 13.50. In Chicago an ordinance prohibits the exposure of meats in the street in front of butchers' and produce dealers' shops, In New York, too, the same regulation is enforced. Here is an example that might well be followed in Portland. If Mr. Cortelyow becomes president of the Equitable, the Nation, will lose a very good Feetsaaster-Geiieral and the insurance eemp&ity will gain an execu tive wh will cmxoe all difference, If anybody can. "NOTE ANDCOMENT. - Cnlcago is America's Warsaw, ar Warsaw ! Russia's Chicago, we are 'net quite euro which. Tne Astoria News thinks that "It is fair to assume that thoughts that are uppermost are first to find expression." This Is vry probably true In the caae of oral expression, but it Is a long- way off as regards written expression. It it were true one would conclude, for In stance, that-half the editors irr America, were lying awake o nights thinking of trie best place In which to Inter the bones of John Paul Jones, whereas there is not one editor in a hundred who knows more of Jones than a re membrance of some phrase about we have not yet begun to fight." Further the News hints that the reprinting of an article signifies complete acquies cence In' Its statements. This is far from being- so, but then the News is probably joking and In Joklne most everything is fair. So when this column Is accused ot advocating cheap bou quets -for the beautiful girls of Ore gon, it Is beat merely to deny the alle gation and to scorn the alligator met aphorically, of course. A sermon "full ot Western slang" should be well worth hearing, and the President's church-going at the Old Blue Schoolhouae must have been a memorable event. Now that the forecast officials of the Weather Bureau have reached such a stage of accuracy that jokes at their expense are beginning to disappear from the comic sections of the press, there is an innovation that .we should like to suggest. Why should not the fficJals be required to add a forecast of the ball games in their districts? There would be as much chance to gue5s these correctly as there Is about the weather, and such guesses would be of deeper interest than those dealing with rain and lrost. In the fu ture we hope to see cards like this: WEATHER AND BASEBALL FORECAST. Publlfhed by Authority ot the Secretary o Agriculture. Tonight and Wednesday Fair. Portland, S: Seattle, 0. We can't consistently wish Miss Mae Wood success in her action for 'dam ages against Secretary Locb and the others. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who spells her name that way. Anyone who cats shod will agree that the world owes a debt of srati tude to Providence for leaving the bones out of poached eggs. Tne Seattle Times offers a prize for the best sketch of the Washington Girl. An umbrella figures prominently In some of the drawings sent In by compctitora, srf it may turn out that the winning sketch will do as well for the Gumshoe Girl. Why will the shortest jfirls wear the widest shoe knots? Boston Herald. It Is refreshing to notice that Bos- toniana now nnd then refrain from mediating upon the mutability of hu man affairs to worry over such apparr ently simple yet really insoluble prob lems as this. A careless shoestring has attracted the attention of several ob servers of note, but so far as memory serve the sage of the Herald is the first to point nut the phenomenon in dicated In the above question. There may be some recondite psychological r c:iron for the association of the shorU est girls and the widest shoe knots. but we arc unable to aid Boston in the search for It. There are no short much less shortest girls in this land of fresh air and sunshine. An Illinois woman was injured re cently by the explosion of a match which she was uaing as a toothpick. We cannot impress too strongly upon our readers the Importance of putting the noncxplosive end of the match In their mouths when toothpicks are scarce. The Czar's Luck. The Czar keeps all his -nrlndotvs closed, lest bqmbs should, fall in there,- Yet. thanks to the little Csarlets, he ' has plenty ot trcsh heir. Books. How do the books come out in the Spring? My! but the publishers don't do a .thing There's Russian Coots And cushln books. And Action That's affliction. And story books And cory books And dry books And fly books And books to shun At any "man," Cheap books and dear books. Real books and near books. Weighty books And d rate-j- books. Rig books, small book;, medium-sized books books in one volume and books in ten vol umes. biographies and hodge-podge. Fen we need. And none ire read. "Physician, heal thyself couldn' have been said to a Seattle man, be cause Seattle hadn't been invented then. , Bluebeard Hoch says he is satisfied with his jury. W.e hope the Jury Is sat lsfied with Hoch. WEX. J, Duat Menaced Foodstuffs. Chicago Post. The new "rendering" ordinance which goes Into effect on May 1 specifically for bids the exposure of meats In the street In front of butchers' and market dealers' shops. The prohibition includes sausages and all kinds of game. The strict enforcement of this ordinance Will remove a menace to which the peo pic of this city have been exposed for years, but It does not cover the entire matter of exposing articles Intended for eating to the germ-laden dust of the ty' streets. Candy and fruits still may be carried and vended In the streets and ex' posea uncovered street sianos. It Is the purpose of the Council com mlttcc on health to Investigate this mat ter. In all probability the committee will not need to spend much time in inquiry to convince it that a city careful of the health of Its Inhabitants should not con tinue the practice of allowing anything intended ror e&ung to oe Kept nncovrea and unprotected irora the dust and dirt of the street. , -There are some fruits, perhaps espe cially those which cannoTbe eaten un pccled that offer no particular menace to health through ooen display; but fruits that are largely eaten unpeeled peaches, anBles. strawberries, eta ought toN be .kept covered. Whether the restrictions concerning meats are extended to all fruits er net. they should be made to cover can dr, which is bought and eaten chiefly by chUirea, and wnicn. tnereiorc, nas pecu liar ooBdrttinity to do harm. Jn passing an ordinance torbtddlns the exposure ot focdetuSf to dieeaseladen dttet Chieage siapty will be foMewisg the cxampte New York. We should have feed such a" law years age. PARLEY, PROFESSIONAL STRIKEBREAKER latfsMle Sta4y et the SXaa Wke Is -CeadnctlBar Great Catanalsa Asralaet OrsTwlxed Werkern et Chlcajre.- Leroy Scott In World's Work. A new business strike-breaking has sprung Into being from the disputes be tween capital and labor. Its creator Is Mr. James Farley. He sat in a small green office In New Tork during the re cent strike there on the subway and ele vated railroads, a bald-headed, broad- shouldered youag man of 32. shouting or ders into a telephone, listening to re ports f lieutenants and responding with quick commands. For the week the strike lasted he was coramander-ln-chlef of an army of 5000 strike-breakers, the sole manager of a property worth $200,000,000, responsible for the safety of 1.000,000 daily passengers. And ten years ago he was a detective making $20 a week. He has a -long, lean head, serai-circled by a fringe of brown and grey hair, big cheek bones and a heavy chin. Remove horseshoe set with diamond brilliants from his tie. and his clothes might be the lay garments of a clergyman. The most striking quality of his personality is his colorlessnese: a pale face, lustreless grey eyes, a mechanical, Impersonal voice and an almost languid manner. He talks In a low, uninterested, nasal drawl, which under very moderate excitement can mount to a metallic, painfully distinct shout suggesting how the rest Jit that languid personality can become energetic hen real business la. on hand. Seated In his office, a cigar going alt the while (fifty to sixty black Havanas day are his allowance) he told me how he had come to take up strike-breaking professionally, and acquainted me with tha details of his business. lie left home he is an up-state New Yorker at 14. He was first an attendant in the billiard room of a hotel at Montlcello. New York, then bartender, night clerk, day clerk, and it IS Its manager. The hotel business was too slow for him, and at the age the college man first enters his university ne became a detective In New York City. In 1SS5 he was on the Brooklyn street car strike In charge of fifteen special officers. Later in the same year he was timekeeper over aw strke-breaker3 in the street car strike in Philadelphia. His experience on these two strikes set him thinking. De tective and employment agencies then furnished workmen, each agencj; (half a dozen might have supplied men on a trlke) controlling Its own men. the com pany exercising general management of the situation. With all these heads the result was chao3. Mr. Farley saw an un exploited field his great chance. An ex Dcrt strike-breaking general, having under nis command an army of experienced workmen whom he could throw Into the positions vacated by the strikers such a general could demand almost any fee for taking entire .control of a strike and breaking it. t tie saw nis career. lie would be a strike general. He decided to specialize on street car strikes, and he determined to know his new business from the bot tom up. He gave up detective work at $4 a day and became a conductor on the Atlantic avenue line In Brooklyn at $1.60 a. day. The Job mastered he became motorman. then an oiler in the engine house, then a fireman in the power house, then an Inspector; and then he was taken into the office. These shifts wcrc readily maae, ror tne management was ac quajntcd with his tiurpoEe. In two years he felt he had completed his course in the school of strike-breakjng; so he gnu uated himself and began to Jook for clients. He established a detective agency and divided his time between private de tective worn In which he is still en aged, and helping to. break strikes. At first he did nothing more than supply small groups of strike-breakers. Then he supplied larger groups, and began to gain larger and larger share of the man agement of strikes. Three years ago, at tho street car strike in Providence. R. I., DOES IT PAY? The Conclusion of an Observer 1$ That It Doesn't. Arlington Record. This ia the question asked by Americans when any proposition' Is presented. Docs it pay to hold a Federal or state office in Oregon? From Joseph Lane and Delazon Smith on down the line to the present In cumbents, what Senator has Oregon had that bettered his condition in any way by being Senator? What Representative In Congress has Oregon had tilat would not have been better oft financially and otherwise If he had not been a Congress man? Tyhat Governor has Oregon had who would not have been in better cir cumstances financially had he given the same time and attention to his private affairs that he did to the state? The same question might be asked in refer ence to other state, district and county offices, and the answer. If given, would be conclusive that not one man in twenty who has held office in Oregon has been benefited thereby. The writer has been personally acquainted with nearly every man who has been sent to the United States Senate or Congress from Oregon, as well as everyone who has been Govr ernor or other state officer, and many of the Judges, District Attorneys, Sheriffs, and Clerks, and cannot call to mind one who was benefited by holding office, while many good men before being officers were complete wrecks after. There seems to be something about office-holding that disqualifies a man for the ordinary avo cations of life, and when his term of offleo expires he Is stranded. He sees men busy all around him doing this and that, hut he knows not what to do or where to turn, and. like the drone among the busy bees, is driven from the hive Into oblivion or disgrace. The Great Steel Bridge at Quebec. Consul-General W. R. Holloway. The steel bridge now under construction over the St. Lawrence River, at Quebec, is a remarkable structure. The weight ot this bridge will be about 33,000 tons. Its span of 1S00' feet across the entire St. Xawrenco River at such a height as not to Interfere with navigation, and will be the longest In the world, the Forth bridge in Scotland being 1710 feet long. the Brooklyn bridge 1680 feet, and the new East River bridge in New York 1600 feet. There have been manufactured by tho Phoenix Bridge Company, Phoenix- ville. Pa., to date, and partly shipped to the site of the bridge, about 10,000 tons of steel. It will take about two more years to complete the struoture. The masonry piers are entirely finished, and the tem porary false works, of steel, are now in place on the south shore, upon whlcn erection will begin at the opening of Spring this year. - The 1S0O feet of steel bridge work between the piers will be erected without any false work In the river. The bridge Is to be SO feet wide over all. carrying a double-track railroad. a double-track trolley and highway, and two sidewalks. Many novel features have been adopted In. the design and manufac ture of this bridge The total length of the bridge will e 3300 feet; length of chan nel span. 1500 feet; ship clear headway. 150 fe above highest tide; height of can tilever towers, 30 feet above the river. aiudslinglng Out of Season. , Oakland Enquirer. The roudsllnglng of Mount Shasta is entirely uncalled-fcr, as there Is po campaign on in California. Rumors Arc Afloat. Tacema Daily News.1 Of the Japanese and Russian fleets Hotting' appears to be fttloat. but a lot of ' ruwors.. f ho first attained his present rank as :a- strike-breaking general with absolute power, superior even to the -president-.of the company. While the New York strike' was on I happened to mention August Belmont to one of his men. "Who the Is Belmont?" he demanded putting on a blank look. "Farley's runnln this road." He has been In thirty-five strikes and has not lost one of them. When he Is engaged to break a strike (usually weeks or months before the strike begins, for the company sees it coming; at tho time ot the New York strike he was under contract to manage one In San Francisco expected May 1) he makes a study ot the local situation, and decides upon his cam paign. In the meantime he collects his strike-breakers, and holds them In readi ness near the city where trouble Is ex pected. In the case of the New York strike he held a large body of his men In Philadelphia and threw them Into New York the day before the strike began. The union men stopped work at 3 o'clock in the morning; his men began at 4. If he cannot get together enough ot his reg ulars (three-quarters of the New iork strike-breakers, had never served under hlra before) he advertises in the principal cities for experienced street car men. saying that they are wanted for a new line soon to be opened. JIany of the men employed In Western cities to break the Now York strike did not know their des tination or the real character of their work till they reached Philadelphia. e Mr. Farley has 33,000 men enrolled, and he keeps la communication with 7000 or 8000 of them. From twenty-five to 100 ap plications are received every day. If the experience is sufficient and the reference proves satisfactory, a time for examina tion Is set, and the applicant' appears be fore him. If the applicant passes the ex amination a very lax test If men ave badly needed his name Is entered on Mr. Farley's books, and he goes away to wait till he is summoned. When the strike is on a card is sent him. If he wants to come he comes; If not, he stays at home. If he comes he usually has the privilege of retaining his job. . A number ot Mr. Farley's best men have regular- positions which, according to private agreement be tween Mr. Farley and their employer?, they are licensed to quit on "leave of ab sence," and which are open to them on their return. Mr. Farley is now getting the financial returns he dreamed ot when ho conceived his new business. According to his usual arrangement, the company pays him $5 a day for each man he furnishes, pays the men's traveling expenses both ways, and boards and lodges them during the continuance of the strike. Mr. Farley pays some of his men $2.50 per day, some $3, and some $3.50. and some of his lieu tenants and department superintendents he has thirty or forty steadily employed large annual salaries. The difference be tween $5 a day per man and what he pays the men represents Mr. Farley's daily profits. He had about 5000 men on the New York strike, three-quarters pf .them at $2.50 a day. His Income for hand ling that brief strike was equal to the annual salary of President Roosevelt. Be sides his earnings from the active man agement of strikes, lie receive annual fees from several companies as retainers to manage their strikes In case they have any. Ho considers that in every strike he ha managed the employers have been in the right. "I've turned down more than one case offered me because I thought the men's demands wore just." He hastfo es pecial dislike for unions. He regards them as necessary. He baa .no especial like for employers. The disagreements .between the two give him his business opportunity.. Strike-breaking Is purely huslneps with him. g A POEM BY JOSEPH JEFFERSON. New York Tribune. Through the kindness of the comedian's old friend. E. C. Benedict, the Tribune is privileged to publish these lines by Jef ferson on "Immortality." Read at tills time the fable will seem to many persons like a veritable message from beyond the grave. Fanciful Invention and quaint humor arc the obvious characteristics of thiA unpretentious bit of verse, and it ex presses a conviction that its author cher ished, with steadfast faith, all his days. Mr. Benedict writes: "One day last Summer, when Mr. Jef ferson and Mr. Cleveland were taking luncheon on board the Oneida, in Buz zard's Bay, the conversation drifted to the subject of a future life. Mr. Jefferson expressed himself as very grateful for having had more than his share of the joys of tuts life, and as being- prepared to meet, at any moment, the common fate of all. He said he had lately been 'scrib bling some doggerel' on the subject, arid he recited his lines to us. I asked him for a copy of them, which he said he did not possess, but he promised to send me one. In February I reminded him of hi3 prom ise, and received a signed copy ot the verses, which he entitled 'Immortality. It seems as though these lines construct a beautiful bridge between faith and rea son." Immortality? By Joseph JeCcraon. Ttro caterpillars crawllnjr on a leaf. By some strange accident in- contact came-, Thejr conversation, passing all belief. -Was that same argmncnt. the very same.' That has been "prood and conned" from tnn to man. . - Yea. ever since this tvond.rous world bt;an. The utly creatures. Deaf and dumb and blind, Devoid ot features That adorn mankind. Were vain enough. In dull and wordy trife( To speculate upon a future life. ' . The first was optimistic, full of hope; The second, quite dyspeptic, seemed "to mope. Said number one, "I'm sure of our salva tion." JEatd number two, "I'm sure of our damna tion; Our uzly forms alone would seal oar fates And bar our entrance throuzh the- solden Sates. Suppose Ahat death should taki us unawares, How couIJ wo climb the golden stalraT ; If maidens thun us as they para s by. Would angels bid us welcome In- the sky? I wonder what great crimes we . have com mitted, That leave us ao forlorn and w unpltled. Perhaps we've been ungrateful, unforgiving; 'Tis plain to me that life's not worth the living." ' "Come, come, cheer up." the jovial worm rs- plled. "Let's take- a look -upon the other side; Suppose we cannot fly like moths or miller. Are we to blame for being, caterpillars? Will that same God that doomed us crawl the earth, ' A prey to every bird that's given birth. Forgive our captor as he cata and' sinss; And damn poor us because ine have noi wings? It we can't skim the air like owl or btt A wonh will turn 'for a that,' " They argued through the Summer: Autumn high. The ugly things composed themselves to "lie; And so to make their funeral quite complete. Each wrapped him in his little wuvling-sheet. The tangled web encompassed thea' full soon. Each for his coftln made him a cocoon. All through the Winter's drilling -blaxt they, lay Dead to the world, aye, dead as human cljjy to. Spring conjee forth wjta all her warmth and love; She hrlnrs sweet Justice from the realm above: ... ' She break the chrysalis, she resurrects the dead: ' ' Two "oetterales uscepd. eaclrcliBg Jwr fcsi- &n4 so' t&l.eWei elffef ever se '" ' ' A sign of taHMCttWty. - V