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PORTLAND. HOU?, MAT If, 1905.
T"
tTUDGE BELLINGER.
If the late Judge Bellinger had been
asked to express a wish as to the form
any eulogy of his life and public ser
vices might take, it would doubtless
have been -that all ostentation "be avoid
ed. He perfectly realized the Simple
Iilfe. Modesty was a leading trait in a
character finely matured and altogether
admirable. He conducted himself in his
public duties with the same unassum
ing and dignified demeanor that marked
all his acts in private station. He
shirked no duty. He sought no notori
ety. He had e splendid sense of his re
sponsibilities to the state, to his family,
to Tiis friends, and to all his fellows.
He was extremely jealous of the honor
of the bench, though his attitude
toward, lawyers and litigants was at all
times courteous and considerate. But
If any presuming practitioner thought
from the gracious and easy manner of
the Judge that he might take liberties
in his court and none ever did unless
he might be an utter stranger he was
quickly apprised of his error.
Judge Bellinger knew the law and in
terpreted it Intelligently, and with a
lucidity and felicity of expression that
bespoke both the trained writer and the
learned jurist He hated wrong in all
its many forms and disguises. He
never compromised with error, and he
had no illusions that swerved him from
the straight path of conscious rectitude.
He had during his life more than the
usual number of sorrows that are the
common lot, but he bore them silently
and patiently..
On his purely personal side, Judge
Bellinger's amiable humor and bright
wit were widely known. He was gifted
with a singularly genial disposition.
He was much admired, much liked, and
much respected by many men, and his
companionship greatly sought. He was
tenacious in his friendships, and would
do much for his friends. His charities
and benevolences were numerous. His
name is identified with more than one
deserving cause. The destitute widow,
the homeless orphan who needed a
friend, always found him In Charles B.
Bellinger.
It is not too high praise to say that
Judge Bellinger's was at this time the
most valuable life in Oregon. His
death is a most grievous public misfor
tune. He had lived in this state since
he was eight years of age. He had
risen to his high eminence through no
special circumstance of fortune, but tie
cause he was fitted for the peculiar and
responsible duties he was called upon
to discharge. His career was from the
first under the eyes of people who be
lieved In him and continued to believe
In him all his life. These friends, the
friends of his youth and early man
hood, are all those who survive
among- the heartbroken mourners of .his
melancholy demise, when he was in the
run maturity or his powers and useful
ness. But they do not grieve more
deeply than do the friends of later
years who knew him not less well, If
less long.
Mr. Bellinger had been Federal Judge
for twelve years. He had earned, and
he deserved, the complete confidence of
every lawyer who appeared before him;
and no litigant ever had cause to fear
that he would not get complete Justice
in his court. Many important and In
tricate problems were submitted to his
judgment; and he rarely erred In his
decisions. It became his duty To pre
side in the land-fraud cases, wherein
Issues of profound moment to the pub
lic and to certain prominent men of
Oregon are to "be determined. He ap
proached this diflicult and unwelcome
task "with the same calm purpose to do
justice to all that has marked his whole
career; and that he would have done it
Is the unlvwsal sentiment of all imme
diately concerned, and of the public at
large, which, has scarcely a less direct
interest in these weighty cases. Indeed,
the common feeling is that none other
is, or can be, go well equipped to sit In
these trials. The death of Judge Bel
linger teas thrown saany matters into
confusion, from, which it may at best
be hoped they will be satisfactorily ex
tricated by some other Judge not less
upright, courageous, experienced and
impartial.
To Ids fa rally; t&e death .m Judge Bel
linger is. of course, a tragedy; to his
wide circle of friends it is a heavy
sorrow; and to the public it is a" real
calamity.
REFER END USC AND NORMAL SCHOOLS.
The million-tdollar appropriation bill
passed by the late legislature is to be
submitted to referendum of the voters.
The Yamhill County promotion bureau
has obtained more than enough signa
tures to its petitions. It has obstinately
pursued Its work in face of warnings
that it was doing great injury to the
state. Imposing much hardship and In
convenience upon the great army of the
state's employes, and otherwise making
mischief for the public serviced The
committee has cheerfully accepted this
responsibility because it has thought it
had both a duty to perform and a les
son to teach. We may not be so sure
about the duty, but every thoughtful
and disinterested citizen will agree as
to the value and necessity of the lesson.
Normal schools of Oregon, through
their representatives at Salem, entered
Into a conspiracy to "shake down" the
state treasury. They were not willing'
that each normal school should stand
before the Legislature on its merits. If
they had any merits, but they distinctly
feared that If appropriations were to be
asked for the sole reason that they
were deserved they would not be ob
tained. Everything had to give way
before the normal school combine. All
other legislation and every plan, every
scheme, every object, worthy or un
worthy, that was in the mind of any
other legislator had either to make
terms with the combine orto keep out
of Its way. The ' normal schools ran
things. They bulldozed everybody ex
cept the Governor, and a plan to In
timidate Tiim failed only because of a
well-grounded fear of an -executive
veto.
Now we behold the fruits of this de
liberate policy to make the normal
school interests paramount. Appropri
ations for the state, educational and
eleemosynary Institutions are to be held
up until June, 1906. "Whether the ap
propriations are voted up or voted
down, the state must get along the best
it can. Public employes must discount
their warrants. Dealers in supplies
must get their money in the best way
they can. Inmates of the Insane Asy
lum, Blind School. Deaf Mute School.
Reform School and Soldiers' Home will
find something to eat and have some
thing to wear because means must be
found to provide it for them. But all
plans for the Improvement of these In
stitutions and for the enlargement of
their facilities must, for the present, be
entirely abandoned. It Is a great hard
ship on all, but perhaps there is no
other way to instruct a State Legisla
ture as to the proper performance of its
duties.
31eanwhlle, the normal schools will
have a hard struggle for existence. It
is impossible to avoid a word of sympa
thy for the members of their various
faculties, who are for the most part
unselfish and deserving men and
women, thoroughly interested in their
work, and desirous of improving both
the moral and educational standard of
the public school teachers. It Is un
fortunate for them that politicians took
charge of their proposed appropriations
and made deals with other politicians
to secure them. If they had all been
content to submit their claims and thoir
merits to the Legislature for what they
were worth, results might have been
different.
THE ritOMUSING 31 It. 1IAKHIMAN.
Advices from New York indicate that
Mr. Harriman, who promised to build
a line Into the Clearwater country:
promised to open up Central Oregon;
promised to go into the Wallowa coun
try, and promised to give us an ade
quate steamship service to the Orient,
has. to use a figure of speech, been
"knocked down and dragged out" by
the friends of Mr. James J. Hill, a rail
road man who has always been short
on promises and long on performances.
Mr. Harriman has fought long and
hard to prevent other roads from mak
ing breaches in the'Chlnese wall which
he has built around the State of Cali
fornia. He has sacrificed all of Central
and Southeastern Oregon, all of the rich
Clearwater country, and a goodly por
tion of Eastern Washington, In order
to appease the powers, and yet every
sop that he has thrown to his enemies
has made them hungry for more.
From every tussle In which he has
engaged, this evil genius for Portland
and Oregon has emerged the under dog
in the fight, and through it all he has
won and held but small sympathy from
the Oregonlans. who supply the most
profitable traffic handled on any portion
of the Harrlman ssytcm. It is, per
haps, too late for Portland and Oregon
now to expect anything from the hands
of Mr. Harrlman, who has apparently
passed the zenith of his power as a rail
road genius, and. in view of the treat
ment we have received while he had the
power to help us. there will be no re
grets at his passing. We can do no
worse, and accordingly there Is a
chance that we may do better. Mr
Harrlman has the trade of California
bottled up good and tight, and for thu
immediate present he may be permit
ted to enjoy his little monopoly; out
sooner or later the big roads which
have commanded him to keep out of
the Clearwater, out of Central Oregon,
out of the Nehalem, out of the Wal
lowa and out of the Oriental steamshtn
trade from Portland will demand a slice
of the trade where he is now alone in
his glory.
When that time comes, it will be too
late for the Union Pacific magnate, who
has been retarding the growth of Ore
gon for so many years, to replace his
disappearing trade field in California
with the rich fields in the Pacific North
west which once were his for the ask
ing. The great trouble with Mr. Harri
man seems to be that, when he ac
quired the old Huntington property,
the Southern Pacific, he also received
with It the Huntington policies, which"
were all right when the late Collis P.
was robbing the public a. number of
years ago, but which" are all wrong in
this present day and age. No legiti
mate excuses can be offered for the
failure of Mn Harrlman to build into
the Clearwater country, for he is on
record on more than one occasion as
favoring the plan and asserting that he
would build Immediately.
No fault whatever was found with
the outlook' for business In Central Ore
gon. Mr. Harriman not only stated
that he would build the road, but his
chief lieutenant, Mr. Stubbs. when
chlded for hs dilatory tactics regard
ing the project, admitted that, the mo
ment any independent line started to
build into Central Oregon, It would be
paralleled by a Harriman road. A few
years ago, when the outlook was quite
brilht for as iadep-eadent read ia-to the
Nehalem, both the Northern Pacific
and the Harrlman system threw large
corps of engineers into the field, and
were .so energetic in their movements
and so positive in their assertions that
they would open up that country that
the independent line was "bluffed" out
of business In short order.
,Mr. Harrlman also promised to give
Portland an Oriental steamship line
adequate to the requirements of the
port, and yet Portland exporters are
unable to secure half the freight space
needed on the Harrlman liners, and In
the past sixty days have dispatched
four outside steamers which they were
forced to charter themselves, while the
Harrlman line was dispatching two.
These are a few of the. grievances
which have resulted in creating an
anti-Harriman sentiment throughout
the Pacific Northwest that may some
day culminate in drastic state legisla
tion. The railroads have made Washington
and. have done nothing for Oregon, and
yet every reduction that has been made
in rates has had Its initiative in Wash
ington, while nothing has been - at
tempted in Oregon. The olive branch of
peace has been a failure In securing for
Oregon that to which she was entitled.
Perhaps a club might prove more- effective.
A KACE FOR, HEAL YACHTS.
Interest in the ocean yacht race, for
the German Emperor's prize continues
to increase as the time of the contest
draws near The event will not stir the
public as would another duel for. the
America's cup, but, nevertheless, fmany
will eagerly await the reports, of the
racing vessels as they near the Lizard.
In a trans-Atlantic race the .competing
yachts must be seaworthy and staunch,
whereas the America's Cup Is chal
lenged for and defended by craft that
are anything but cruisers. The provis
ion that the challenger must cross the
Atlantic on Its own bottom Is largely
nullified by the towing done by the con
voying steamer, and Shamrock and Re
liance alike would be unfit for entry In
such a race as that in which eleven
yachts will start this month. At one
time ocean racing was the most popu
lar form of the sport, and the present
contest Is a sign of reversion to the
healthy and seamanlike style.
Perhaps the only objection to a trans
Atlantic race is that the distance to be
traversed is so great that too much
room is left for accident and chances
of various kinds, although it is won
derful how sailing vessels often race
nip and tuck from one side of the world
to the other. It Is only a few days ago
that two ship from Portland to Cape
Town made almost identical time, sail
ing a day apart. However, the race on
the other hand offers greater opportu
nities for the display, of seamanship
and Judgment. In the forthcoming
contest eight 6f the yachts are Ameri-.
can. two English, and one is German.
This makes it likely that an American
will become entitled to appear at Kiel
when the trophy will be presented by
Emperor William. To the two English
entries, the Valhalla and the Sunbeam,
particular interest attaches. The Val
halla Is A full-rigged ship, the only ves
sel of the kind In the race, and In heavy
weather, with fair winds, is regarded
as a probable winner. The other yacht,
the Sunbeam, ie perhaps the most fa
mous cruising pleasure craft a noit
I owing to the publication of "The Log or
j the Sunbeam." when Lord and Lady
Brassey made a voyage around the
world. The Sunbeam. .commanded by
Lord Brassey. who is 70 years of age.
arrived in New York last week. Lord
Brassey admitted that he had no
chance of winning the race, but said
that he Imd entered solely to encourage
the sport of ocean sailing, which he
considered far ahead of the mere racing
game. Few of the American yachts
earrv anv hut fnrn-arnl.aft u i --- i .i
j in the event of easterly winds, are al
most certain to furnish the winner.
The German Emperor 'has done a
great deal for ocean racing, and he has
succeeded in stimulating American in
terest in this branch of the sport. A
victory In this race will do much to
establish American reputation as build
ers of the best vessels of every type,
from "racing machines" to fast cruis
ers and from motor boats to battle
ships. THE .MKKITS OF THE SMALL COLLEGE.
An editorial, brief and tothe point,
appears In a late number of the Satur
day Evening Post upon the, endow
ment of small colleges undertaken by
Andrew Carnegie. It Is assumed that
the small college's need money not too
much money, or they will become taint
ed with the diseases of arrogance and
social snobbishness that are eating' at
the core of our big institutions of learn
ing, seriously threatening their use
fulness. But they need enough money,
in the words of the thrifty housewife,
to get along with comfortably, and they
need the support of the great mass of
well-to-do Americans whose sons and
daughters later on will have the desti
nies of the Nation In their keeping.
The Post states a literal fact, the
proof of which exists In the .disap
pointment of many parents at the out
come of the money spent arid hopes
lavished upon their sons In college
when it says:
A college education Is In ltelf a dangerous
enough temptation to the average youth, with
all youth' tendency to exaggerate the im
portance of things academic, and to dis
parage the Importance of things practical. If
while getting the education the youth gets also
snobbishness, he or she gos forth the worse
for college and a force for evil. And It la
In some of our big colleges, especially In the
East, that the spirit of social and educa
tional snobbishness has beconw so strong ax
to make sensible parente hfsitate to rend
their sons to reboot there.
There Is no question but the "public
school and the small college together
are the best educators for American
youth today. This is especially true
when the education follows purely lit
erary and classical lines, and embraces
the sciences that are In close "touch
with these. For technical instruction
and development In mechanics the col
lege with an equipment looking to these
ends is necessary, and small colleges
without ample endowment cannot fur
nish this. Otherwise the statement of
the journal above quoted tha't the pub
lic school boy or girl who graduates
from the small college has the best
chance in the activities of American life
today may be accepted. He or she will
not learn as much in ways, but there
will be less to unlearn In the demo
cratic struggle for a place In the world
after college days are over. By call
ing atteution to these conditions An
drew Carnegie has done a good work
over and beyond the substantial aid
that he .proposes to give to colleges of
this class.
. The GernVaa Ambassador in his
spcecfa-af-ta-e Americas Railway cwf-
gress at Washington was not very en
thusiastic over the National ownership
of railroads. He said:
"We do not recommend that you follow our
example. We ftmply say we will be glad to
contribute to your knowledge on this subject
by opening our 'doors to your inspection.
Europe constructed her roads- to provide bet
ter facilities for transportation for traffic
which had existed since the dark ages. Ameri
can roads, on the contrary, were mostly built
to create, traffic.
'With such a radical difference in the
economic conditions under which the
railroads of this country were built, as
compared with those of the Old World.
It is quite obvious that what might
prove successful abroad would be a
failure here, and vice versa. The Ger
man government holds Its corporations
as well as its subjects with a pretty
tight rein tighter perhaps than the
Americans would submit to. For that
reason it Is not apparent that much can
be learned regarding the feasibility of
government ownership of the roads by
studying the results obtained in Germany.
A case of special interest before the
Probate Court of this county is that
which Involves the bequest of Amanda
"W., widow of Simeon G. Reed, both late
of this city. The foundation of the
Reed wealth was laid in Portland, and
indeed the greater part of it was ac
quired here. Loyalty to and Ioe for
the city that was In the truest sense
home to her, and a desire to honor the
memory of her husband In the place
where the accumulative years of his life
were spent, induced the bequests of
Mrs. Reed, which are now contested by
certain of her helrs-at-law, who. how
ever, were generously remembered In
her will. The decision in this case
means much to Portland, as upon it
hangs the establishment of the Reed
Institute for Literature, Art and Sci
ence, intended as a memorial to the
husband of the testatrix, that was des
ignated by her as residuary legatee of
her large fortune. Whatever the legal
decision in the case may be, Mrs.
Reed's loyalty to and affection for
Portland and her interest In Its local
benevolent institutions are amply at
tested by the provisions of her will.
Another attempt to regulate personal
habits by law has failed this time in
Indiana. An anti-cigarette law was
passed by the Legislature of that state
a few months ago, which was exceed
ingly drastic In its provisions. It for
bade any one to be concerned In any
way In owning or keeping cigarette
paper or wrappers about his person or
premises. A man. not a dealer in to
bacco, was arrested" and charged with
violating the law by having the "mak
ings" of cigarettes upon his person.
He did not deny the charge but made
answer that the law did not apply to
him. He was haled before the court
and acquitted, the decision being that
the provision under which he was ar
rested applied only to dealers. Laws of
this kind are stumbling blocks In the
way of legitimate legislation In the in
terest of morality and public decency.
They make It harder than It would
, otherwise be to pass measures of merit
! the terms or restrictions of which could
I be enforced.
Nan Patterson is at liberty. Caesar
Young is dead. The testimony in the
long-drawn-out case does not make It
exactly clear that Nan was innocent.
It did. however, have a strong tend
ency toward proving that Young got
what he deserved. Perhaps the re
moval of such a man from earth and
the year of agony she has since suf
fered, if credited on the punishment
which the law sought to Inflict on her.
maj- come very near to evening the
score. The contemplation of what the
showgirl has pad through since that
fatal dny Jr-i June certainly ought to
cause others of her kind to think twice
berore thy place themselves in a sim
ilar position.
Wasco County Is out of debt for the
first time In many years. Warrants
aggregating over $51,000 were called In
and canceled last month, and there Is
still money in the county treasury.
This condition of affairs is only a mat
ter of congratulation when no legiti
mate interest of the county "has been
neglected liy the determination to "gqt
out of debt." To be oil: of debt is not
always a sign of prosperity or. of intel
ligent financiering. In this case, how
ever. It Is held to show the exercise
of economy without parsimony in the
management of counts funds and af
fairs. Mr. Alexandrovsky, who, as his name
indicates, is a Russian, has challenged
Baron Tiezenhausen and Count Massin
puskin to fight duels unless they re
tract some statements 'derogatory to
the Alexandrovsky administration of
Red Cross affairs In the field. The two
noblemen with the Muscovltish names
have very properly declined to accept
the challenge. This is as it should be.
The Japs are reducing the Russian cen
sus at a sufficiently rapid-.gait, without
the necessity of Interference or-aid on
the part of home talent.
If Portland does, not fully establish
her claim to the title of the "Rose
City," it will not be the fault of her
loyal women. Every citizen,, as far as
possible, is to be pledged to wear a rose
every day from the opening to the close
of the Fair, while committees Tiave been
appointed whose duty It Is' to sec that
the choicest of roses of the city are
placed each day during the Exposition
in the Forestry building. "The effect
will be charming, and the device is an
ingenious one.
The famous Hyde ball continues to
be one of the most prominent stage set
tings of the great Equitably farce.com
edy and tragedy which is now holding
the boards. The latest reports, are- to
the effect that no Equitable money
was spent at the famous ball, and that
there was no unseemly action on the
part of those present. If the situation
continues strained, as it is at present,
we may eventually discover that Jimmy
had no ball, except perhaps a high one.
However faulty the estimate of -Dr.
Osier in regard to the total Ineffect
iveness of old age, his estimate that "a
man is physically sound at twenty,
mentally sound at thirty, morally sound
at forty and spiritually sound at fifty
or not at all." is not. exaggeration, but
a simple statement of fact. There are,
or may be, exceptions to this rule, but
they are few and do not militate against
the actual facts of existence as they
are known to all observant men.
The news accounts are silent as to
whether the Prosecutlag Atorney was
considerate enough ts return Nan Pat
terson's pistol to her; She may need it
far Tjt &xt CasswIstiMf.
NOTE ANDCOMMENL
The death rate among Innocent by
standers In Chicago Is now 976 per 1C00.
"Fat men make the beat husbands"
says one of those writers whose advice
to girls ranges from the best kind of shoe
laces to the best hundred books in the
world's literature. This assertion maybe
true. If a husband Is a good thing, nat
urally much husband Is better than little.
Just -as a fat chicken is better than aJean.
Perhaps the worth of husbands may some
day be estimated In pounds, and the man
anxious to marry will have to go. through
a course of fat-producing dinners.
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of non
union men" Is all that's wanted by the
Chicago teamsters.
In the columns of a Missouri paper we
come across - the name Alfonse Doolcy.
which ends up In a different way from its
beginning.
A meteor is reported from Tacoma. It
passed over the city at 10:20 P. M.. so It
was probably observed by the night
watchman.
More about the crinoline. John Strange
Winter, whose real name is Mrs. Arthur
Stannard, is the leader of the opposition
in England to the proposed fashion. Mrs.
Stannard says that she prevented a re
vival of the crinoline on a former occa
sion by getting 21,000 women to write pos
tals pledging themselves not to wear the
detestable hoops, and now she wants 12.
000 women to Join a noncrinollne league.
It might be a good plan to have the anti
crlnollnlsts wear distinctive buttons with
the legend. "No hoop the hoop for mine,"
or something to that effect.
"Learn to forget," advises an exchange.
But It's so much easier to forget to learn.
Now that churches are conducted on
systematic business lines, there is one
improvement that should have been Intro
duced long ago. Instead of the unmethod
ical collection-box or plate that Is handed
round haphazard, why should not the ex
ample of all other houses be followed and
cash registers be installed? One man with
a good cash register could do the work
of ten with plates, and besides have his
accounts In perfect order. The eleemosy
nary church members could flic past the
register at the door as they entered the
church, and the accountant could, if de
sired, hand each contributor a slip show
ing the amount of his gift. When a mem
ber had collected, say. a hundred pink
checks he might exchange them for a
book of trading stimp. good for hymn
or prayer books-but this merely a
suggostlop.
According to the New York Sun, men
may now buy "holeproof" eocks. a six
months guarantee accompanying each
pair. Presumably at the end of that time
the socks go to pieces all at once. like
the one-hess shay.
James H. Hyde wc promised to pay a
cent fine If his name appeared In this col
umn, but here goes, quite regardless is
not allowing himself to mope over any
little troubles he may have, for he has
just organized a company which will con
duct a theater In New York next season
for the sole purpose of presenting French
plays. That's a great deal better than
worrying over trifling insurance matters.
The most ornate letterhead that a busi
ness house ever used would appear tamely
formal when compared with the most
simple one used by a vaudeville perform
er. Usually the clubswlnger. buck-and-wlng
dancer, coons houtcr or whatever
specialist may be represented, has a iet-ter-hcHd
printed in all the colors of the
rainoow. with at least two photographs
of himself, much Intricate scrollwork and
a few legends. uch as "Peerless Provider
of Popular Pleasure." It is the fashion
In vaudeville circles.
In Russia when Christians kill Jews it
Is a riot: when Jews kill Christians it is
a massacre.
An Eastern paper points out that the
cSl-talnted dollar also bears the motto,
"In God We Trust." Just what influence
this important discovery will have upon
future controversies It Is difficult to pre
dict. It might be well to coin dollars
especially for the use of Standard OH
men. The motto might be changed to
"In the Trust We Trust."
A New York Italian shot and killed a
man who persisted In playing an accor
d!on in front of his house. The man de
served to be punctured, and wc hope the
accoraion was fatally wounded as well.
Hot Water, a Yuma Indian, has been
awarded 525 damages for the forcible cut
ting of his -hair under the order of the
Indian Bureau. The court decided that
the Indian had a perfect right to wear
his hair a fathom long If he pleased, and
white men generally will agree. Suppose
the Indians became bosses of the country
once more, and the Anglo-Saxon Bureau
at Washington issued an order that whito
men must wear their hair at least six
inches long, except in the cases of bald
heads. Wouldn't there be a howl!
In Seattle, a woman Is advertising for
fierce dogs, which she will chain around
her house In the hope of keeping her hus
band off the premises. A good dog Is as
much of a protector as a husband, any
way, and costs much less, to keep, so the
Seattle woman is economically right.
WEX J.
A Good Majority.
Medical Age.
A well-known English surgeon was
imparting some clinical instructions to
half a dozen students. Pausing at the
bedside of a doubtful case, he said:
"-Vow, gentlemen, do you think this
Is or Is not a case for operation?"
One by one each student made his
diagnosis, and all of them answered in
the negative.
"Well, gentlemen, you are all
wrong," said the wielder of the scalpel,
"and I shall operate tomorrow."
"No you won't," said the patient, and
he roso In his bed; "six to -one is a
good majority: gimme my clothes,"
Was She Right or "Wrong?
New York Examiner. ,
A friend of our, a Christian lady of
singular sensitiveness in matters of con
science, was engaged in a beautiful out
door Sunday afternoon work for children
on the upper West Side, two or- three
.Summers ago. Among those who came
within the circle ef her gracious lnfluesce
were the children of a llquerdealer. The
father was so deeply toacaea by the bene
fit derived by bJ chUdrea from, our
friend's lnstractlen that, although he was
a Roman Cathellc and she a Protestant
and a Strang advocate of temperance, he
offered to contribute liberally to the nec
essary expenses of the work. Was sbe
rigat or wroogr in accepting hia offer?
A 'FRIEND'S APPRECIATION.
"The long day's task is done," Judge
Bellinger !s ;Jead. The good man is face
to face with the good God whom he
has. served these many years In all fealty;
the just judge stands now before the
Just God and answers unafraid for the
life" he lived on earth; a true friend, a
kindly father, a tender husband he Is
gone whither our love and regret cannot
for a while, follow him. and whatsoever
of the eternal mystery a man may know
so much he has learned.
He died as he Jived, brave, serene, ra
tional. The baffling symptoms of his
Illness he learned and calmly discussed
with his physicians, seeking all available
remedies with a wise man's love of life,
but with no fear of death; and when
hope at last failed he took his measures
for the great accounting with no tremors
but fo"r those' who could not go with him
into the chamber where the books; are
opened. Of the conventional consolations
of religion. Judge Bellinger had few, or
none. His faith was independent of for
mulas' and transcended creeds. Concern
ing the unseen world he did not dogma
tize. The belief 1n God which Is common
among men of his intellectual station he
shared, but all positive assertions about
the supernatural he had come to replace
by that "larger hope" which does not
seek to limit the destiny of man or cir
cumscribe the beneficence' of God.
His every-day, working faith was in
mankind. It was one of his favorite say
ings that most men preferred to be good
rather than bad, and that evil was forced
upon them by circumstances instead of
coming from their hearts. His sympathy
for people In distress was easy to awaken,
his kindness was untiring. Portland Is
full of people who will mourn for Judge
Bellinger as their best friend. Never a rich
roan, he gave freely of his professional
advice. The distressed, the wronged, the
widow, had his wisest counsel. He
would listen patiently to a tale of wrong
when his own brain was weary with his
enormous toll; he. would lighten another's
burden of care when his own heart was
breaking under the strain of his work.
He gave his time and his thought lavish
ly, too lavishly, up to the moment of his
fatal attack.
Of a character fundamentally serious,
with a grave, masterly, judicial Intellect,
Judge Bellinger, like the great father of
English philosophy whom he so excelled
In professional honor, was a wit: but one
who has known him intimately for many
years remarks that he never heard Judge
Bellinger utter a sneer or cynicism. The
experience of lawyers does not greatly
foster optimistic opinions about mankind,
but in the sunshine of his character
everything turned to gold. He loved to sit
by his fireside of an evening with a friend
or two and pass the time In quiet talk.
From his endless store of anecdotes he
would tell one after another by the hour,
voice, eye. gesture, all active and all
charming. He knew hundreds of stories
about the pjoneers and 6arly public af
fairs In Oregon which it Is a pity to have
lost, some tragic, but most of .them pure
fun. His delight In these stories recalls
Abraham Lincoln's love of anecdotes.
It did not displease Judge Bellinger to
be called a bibliophile by his friends.
More and more as the years passed and
cares weighed heavier he Interested him
self in accumulating rare books and
sumptuous editions'. At the time of his
death he was negotiating for a rare Mon
taigne, which now. alas! he will never
see. He was a great reader of Turgeneff
and was for years lover, of Balzac. The
weird Imagination of the Orient charmed
him. He would spend an afternoon over
the Arabian Nights; he delighted in the
Koran and the poc philosophers of the
Immemorial East.
Of Judge Bellinger's ability as a law
yer, of his vast legal attainments, of his
absolute fearlessness and integrity on
the bench his professional brethren will
make timely record; let' It suffice here to
commemorate him as a man and a friend
of man who lived his lhe wisely and well,
who me. his death with patient courage,
and who will be mourned in this city
and state deeply and long.
C. H. chapman!.
Woman's Safe Depository.
Philadelphia Record.
A Germantown householder who had
given various valuable papere to his wife
to take care of recently hunted all over
the house for tho Insurance policy on his
furniture and could not find It. W'hcn the
wife came home from a tea he told her
his trouble with considerable perturbation,
lest the document should have been lost.
"Is that all?" said the wife, looking
with disgust at her very much disturbed
desk, where the husband had been rum
maging. "Why didn't ypu ask me?" and
going to a picture on the wall she pulled
the policy from behind It.
"And where," Inquired the husband,
after he had recovered from his surprise,
"do those shares In the Pullaback Valley
Railroad &. Timber Development Company
happen to be?"
"They're safe enough." was the answer.
"They're In the cloeet under the stairs
behind the grape juice."
"And the deed to the house?"
"That's upstairs In the spare room
packed away under your Summer suit."
By diligent cross-examination the hus
band found tho locations, scattered from
cellar to roof, of numerous other docu
ments of value. "And now," said he.
"what's the answer?"
"Why," said the wife, who was1 used to
his slang. "I don't mean that any robber
shall ever come In and clean us out In a
one hour search. He'd never think of the
places I've chosen, and If he did he would
be heard cobu. up and down stairs and
knocking over bottles."
Great Fame of Lewis Clark.
Freewater Times.
The other day two old sheepherders were
sitting in the Louvre saloon conversing
about different topics, when one of them
asked the other:
"Who Is thait feller Lewis Clark the pa
pers Is alius talkhV about?"
"Why, that's a feller that lives down
tew Portland," answered his companion.
"D'ye know him?"
"Yaas, I know him well. He's the feller
that runs the Log Cabin saloon. He's got
a Russian bartender by the name o Sas
cajewea. I think he's the feller that's
gettln' up this big circu3 they're all talk
in' about."
A Prayer for Sad Pilgrims.
Emery Pottle in the Century.
Lord God. I have not'overvexed thine ears
With meek requirements, nor with wild.
. weak tears;
I have not beat upon thy listening gates
To save mine argostes with precious freights;
Nay. surely, my petitions have not stirred
Upon .thy patient Hps oae weary word.
The trivial thorns that stlag my naked feet.
The pool of Xarah that I .dreamed, waa
sweet.
The goMea day I touchedv and touching, lost.
Lord God, It were not meet that thou the
cot
Of these ay sorrows recompense again.
X would sot burden thee with prayers at
pain,
Strange, then, my scanty confidence today;
X kneel beside this dreary, dusty way
To ask not where my troublous paths do
tread,
Ner wha ray sorry pilgrimages end;
Grant ut sock wartfde hjp4Ke4 . to ,
Lord God, as I discern la taiae owa. Ida,
VITAL QUESTION IH CHICAGO '
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The strike situation is Interesting
rather than particularly exciting. "
There is local' excitement occasionally.
-Kit 1 1- to looo f,.dn,,anf .1 T..-n -,..,. 1
than might be supposed from the ac
counts submitted. The strike Is now
at the close of its fourth week. A
death reported on Tuesday made the
third which has been caused by "riots"'
and "civil war." ' It is true there have
been many cuts and bruises. Tues
day's list of injured included more
than 60 names. But that was a record
breaker, and the casualties were at
tributable in the greater number of
cases to assaults made upon the newly
arrived crews of strikebreakers. In
some cases the strikebreakers appear
to have been the-aggressors, if not the
actual assailants. More than 20 of the
Injured were negroes and nine wer
policemen. A few were bystanders.
The strike is a mistake and It will
be a failure. Public opinion Is strong
ly against the strikers. On December
15, 1904. 19 garment-workers employed
by Montgomery Ward & Co. disagreed
with their employers and quit their
jobs, as they had every right to do.
Four months later, on April 6. the
teamsters employed by that -firm
struck because the house refused to
arbitrate the case of the garment
workers. The strike of today Is based
on the offensive and untenable union
ist policy of the sympathetic strike.
Nominally, grounded in the loyalty of
class to class, and actually based upon
a false conception of brotherhood, it
Is at best ho more than a club used by
a group for the purpose of striking
the community. The refusal of the
employers to arbitrate the claims of
the garmentworkers on the demand of
the teamsters led to the second false
step. This brought into the case the
even more offensive and more ques
tionable policy of the boycott. It was
declared that no goods should be d
livered to Montgomery Ward & Co.
and that no goods should be delivered
by them.
For a few days tho fire smoldernd.
then it spread and burst into flame.
The Employers' Association took cog-:
nlzance of it. and seeing in the situa
tion a principle for which they knew
they must light, sooner or later, they
decided to meet the issue squarely and
fight It out. It is doubtful if any
other group of wage-earners holds
such power as do the teamsters and
the drivers of delivery wagons to
throttle a city's industry. They can
empty .coal bins and close down every
shop and factory. The can almost lit
erally prohibit distribution to or from
establishments through which th
public does and must obtain its. daily
supplies. The Chicago teamsters, in
cited by their leaders, have grown ar
rogant. Minor contests have occurred
In the city from time to time, and tho
Teamsters' Union has been rapidly
acquiring an undue belief In Its power.
The merchants of the city lived at all
times under a menace. The commer
cial and Industrial wellbeing of tho
city was threatened by a small minor
ity of men subject to the orders of the
officials of their union.
This was the situation . faced a few
days ago by the Employers' Associa
tion. The question was not general:
it was specific Do the streets of a
city belong to the citizens or to a labor
union? If the union could at any time
suspend traffic, the union is the master
of the streets as a result of its power
to say that they shall not be used for
purposes of transportation except by
consent of the union. The Employers'.
Association holds that the streets- shall
be ooen to all. freely and without re
striction. It faced the situation. Act
ing as individual firms pr corpora
tions, the boycotted concerns would
doubtless have settled their own-cases
after the usual manner, by yielding to
the demands made upon them or by
compromise. As individuals they were
quite at the mercy of the unions. The
Employers Association seeks the es
tablishment of a prjnclplc. It at
tempted the transportation of the
merchandise of the boycotted concerns
in wagons under its own control, and
called on the authorities for police
protection.
Th'is. -in a way. creates an artificial sit
uation, forced for the purpose of reaching
a definite end. The association is .disposed
to go a step further and at any time may
take that stop. Declaring the present
protection Inadequate, as shown and
proved by the reported assaults and riots
and by the casualty list, it may peremp
torily ucmana uie railing uui uj. swk
troops and perhaps the Federal troop3.
The state troops arc in readiness, and
their commander says that he can put
3000 armed men on the streets at two or
three hours notice.
This, then, is the situation In Chicago.
A powerful organization of the commer
cial and industrial leaders of the city de
clares that merchandise shall bo carried
through the streets and delivered any
where without molestation under the
charge of drivers who do not belong to
the Teamster's Union as well as of those
who do. They feel that the merchants
must fight and fight now. or go on with
their business at all times liable to Inter
ruption or stoppage uy Lite iihl ui a
leader. They are clearly within their legal
and their moral rights, and labor union
ism can find no surer way to cut its own
throat than that of opposing the move
ment by force, and violence.
The strike, as a stike. Is already a faiN
ure. and the Teamsters Union must per
ceive that society Is its master. Its only
resource is the general strike and the pre
cipitation of a state of widespread an
archy which would mean the death of all
labor organizations, the destruction of all
that has thus far been achieved. For that
unionism Is not yet ready, and whether
It be this week or next week, or next
month, the Employers Association will
have established the principal of the open
street in Chicago, and will have added .one
more tally to Its list of -victories for the
open shop. It cannot now turn backward
or swerve from its course.
Such strength as the Chicago strike has
shown Is due less to the power of the
strikers and their leaders than to the
weakness of the Chicago authorities. A
ringing proclamation by the Mayor when,
about April 29. the signs of disorder and
lawlessness assumed menacing propor
tions would have had a powerful influence.
A week passed, during which the prom
inent business men of the city clamored,
for police protection in the processes of
their business and the daily press pub
lished lists of more than 300 casualties
resulting from rioting and disorder. The
police force was Increased, but not as It
should have been. A clear-cut announce
ment by Mayor Dunne, at the very begin-
ning. that violence would be suppressed
and full protection given to all in need of;
It, and a swift summoning of an ample
force to make the terms of the proclama
tion effective, would, in all probability,
have led td the termination of the trouble
within 48 hours.
The Employers' Association opened the
way for municipal action. It made no
light against organized labor. Its battle
was waged for the rights of society.' It
stood ready to teach labor that lesson
which It must some day learn that so-t
ciety has rights which unionism cannot
override by unreasoaable and tyrannical,
methods backed by violence. Unionism
has gained nothing and will gain nothlng
by the Chicago experieace. Oh the con
trary, it has. rest much. Society is mere
than ever distrastfal of it. an4 the oppo- '
s4tion to thaee methadz which it regard .
as its. most pawerftd. weapoas,, has
strengthened and become mors cGimeat.