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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1905)
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At it will say that In the history of stical theology there is no sub more interest than the relation 'aul, the apostle, to the Roman d to -Gredk jfilosophy in its fcrian dress. Development of the would require volumes. Here offer only a few hints. old view, srtill largely current. is to be that the entire edifice of Esti&n theology came down from ohn. Study of Roman law has generally regarded as so alien to omRin nf dlvinltv that it has hpn ii theological students. Again, fluence of Platonic speculation. g through Alexandrian forms, la JcnoTjn in the church at large. and yet there are few who that the author of St. John's gos- s giving an apostolical lmprlma the philosophy of Plato and , of Judaeus, or that St. Paul was g a religious sanction to praetor- ulty. Little also Is known In the at large of the influence of the nonlfwil ficrlnturen of the Jewish Paul was the chief formulator of Interpreter of It to the general l. Tht world wns th Roman be Roman people had an ln us for law. The science of nee was the only intellectual t which they discovered the order of excellence. Already. the close of the Republic, the law, once an Intricate maze of by. that praetorian equity, fruit of wth of larger ideas, arising contact with the world, ch was destined to transform it Into ymmetrlcal and philosophical sys- In the reign of Augustus a school vyers had arisen whose genius and avc no uncertain promise of that dlan brilliance of lurisnrudenee The Augustan age of litera- law. Paul, full of Roman as of Greek Jewish culture, used the materials .at his hand for enforcement of his tfdeas. His knowledge of Roman law and usage appear at every stage of his effort. From Roman law he got the 11 lustration of his idea of adoption, which has been transferred and transformed Into the thought of the Christian world adoption under the Roman law a nrcr In Mnnil ti-ho n1mtttw Into n r exactly as if he had been born t. He became identified with the in a higher sense than some who ute family blood in their veins, their emancipated sons or descendants through females. This legal Idea, transformed through metaphorical use into religious uiought, became a thing of immense use and lorce in the -transformation of the religious world. Jt was the key which opened the door "to the deliverance of the new religion from the forms of the old. Terms of ftoman law, applied to the new move ment, gave it In progress of time as- cendfcjicy over the religions both of an clent Jtrdea and of ancient Rome. Likewise through SU Paul the doc trine of inheritance, fixed in the Roman taw, was given a spiritual meaning and feecaxne one of the bases of Christianity. The passages in Paul's writings relat ing to spiritual- inheritance, though highly rhetorical, are based on concepts of Roman law; and but for Paul'6 power la turning to metaphorical and eplrltuai we fcynularles familiar through Roman lavi and custom to the general mind, diruManlty would not have passed beyond its beginning. It would scarcely have remembrance in history today. It is a curious 6tudy also to follow Roman law In church formularies, even to the modem time, and to follow it in ante-Nicene and post-Nlcene theology. Hints only can be Riven; for a news paper is held by the very necessity of its life and work to the affairs of the passing: day. But when there is a lull in this debate, or for a time, inhibition of current topics, even the history of religious and ecclesiastical doctrine may get brief attention from a news paperIf only It Is attempted in the right spirit. "Whole treatises, however, tend to- make such subjects obscure. Simple suggestion may offer a better way, by stimulation of Individual in quiry. Only one more remark now; St. Paul is perhaps of oil writers, either ancient or modern, the most difficult J to understand. That must be due part ly to the mysticism of the powerful nature within him, and partly to our Ignorance of the intellectual atmos phere In which he lived. For, mystic as he was, yet he was an Intellectual giant. Has The Oregonian this day run into an open switch? If so. it-trcata with out injury to those who have taken passage with It. IS THE SUBJECT REMOTE? Matters of current interest a trial is in progress here the newspaper may not discuss. These matters must wait. It will not do for a newspaper to have opinions, just now, on the main matters of the current time. Let us look a little. therefore, into subjects of historical and of permanent interest. Let he in quire into the historical grounds or rea sons of the celibacy of the Catholic Christian clergy. The subject is dealt with at length In Mlchelet's History of France. "We find in this analysis an explanation of the course It was necessary to pursue, that tie clergy might free Itself from the secular-ecclesiastical superiors. The church was compelled to place itself under the domination of Rome. This has been the preservation of Christian ity. The great Pope HHdebrand (Gregory VII) saw that If Rome was to main tain her dominion, she must make her ruling agents entirely dissimilar to those over whom they were to rule. This is a broad political principle, which has often since been recognized and formulated, perhaps- by none more suc cinctly and precisely than by John Sel den. who declares that "all men who would get power over others must make themselves as unlike others as they can. This deep psychological idea was grasped once for all by HHdebrand, and by a series of measures he established the celibacy of the secular clergy, who, up to 1073 A. D.. had been permitted to marry. This saved Christianity. Married life has its sanctifying . part, no less' than the single. Nevertheless, is not the hj'meneal of priest and church dis turbed by a less pure union? "Will he to whom Nature gives children accord ing to the flesh remember the people whom he has adopted in the spirit? "Will the mj-stlc paternity hold its ground against the other? The priest may deny himself In order to give relief to the poor; but he will not take from his children for their relief. And though he should hold out. and though the priest should triumph over the father. though he should fulfill all the obllga tlons of his office, one might well fear his preserving its spirit. For, in the holiest marriage there is something soft and enervating connected with a wife and family that breaks Iron and bends steel. The firmest heart loses In the union a part of Itself. The priest was more than a man; he Is now but part of a man. He may exclaim, as Jesus did when the woman touched his gar ments. "I perceive that virtue Is gone out of me." Christianity, therefore, was sped, was lost. If the church softened and her soaring aspirations, checked by mar riage, should lapse into the' selfish law of feudal and of family inheritance. Justification of the celibacy of the clergy Is here. To those who do not approve there can be no justification of it; but it has been'the strength of Chris tlanity for a thousand years. It has this advantage also, that ft Is the clos est Imitation of the founder of Chris tianity. Undoubtedly, to awaken and to see. on the one hand, the cradle of one's little ones, and pillowed on one side their mother's loved and honored head. Is fraught with a pious emotion but where are the solitary meditations the mysterious dreams, the sublime stories, in which old Adam battled with us? Even the historic church could not sufficiently enforce this self-denial, till Ignatius Ixyola came with his Society of Jesus to enforce It. Is all this theoretical or Imaginative? By no means. The position of Chris tlanity in the world today is founded upon it. WILL MAKE THE DESERT BLOOM. It is fortunate, indeed, for Oregon to be favored with a close-range study of the irrigation problem by so dlstln gulshcd a party as the Congressional delegation now in this city. Irrigation as a method for reclaiming worthless land is so far past the experimental stage that its benefits are no longer questioned. Throughout this state are vast tracts of rich soil which need only the application of life-giving water to make them the most productive that can be found anywhere in the world. Proof of the soil's richness has been demonstrated wherever the settlers In a crude manner have diverted the waters of small brooks and streams to patches of alfalfa, vegetables and fruit. But the reclamation work of the Indt vidual. or even of the small company, is at the best imperfect compared with what will follow the carrying out of the plans of the Government in the des ert regions, not only of Oregon, but of other "Western states and territories. Nearly all members of the Congres slonal parts are men who have had op portunltles to study the irrigation ques tlon In the respective localities from which they come, and they are accord ingly familiar with the value of the work. Oregon and the rest of the states interested will especially profit by the visit of the party at the National cap ital In the -committee-rooms, where the Congressmen can discuss the various reclamation schemes with a thorough understanding of the merits and condi tlons of each. Representative Jones has witnessed the development of the great Yakima Valley from a comparatively Barren re don to one of great richness, where Ave and ten-acre farms return to their owners greater profits than are secured from entire quarter sections of grain on -unirric&ted land. In their extended trip Mr. Jones and his colleagues have viewed thousands of acres of similar land, -which, ten years after the water has been turned on. will be supporting an equally dense population in regions. 1 now given over entirely to the jackrab- I bit and the coyote. The man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one has grown before is a public benefactor, and the reclamation service of the Government goes still farther, for it makes grass grow -where none has grown before. DEVELOPMENT FOLLOWS THE KAIL- ROAD. Central Oregon is again under exam ination by a party of Harriman offi cials. There is a very slight difference in the personnel of the party from that which went out two years ago and com plied exhaustive reports. Even the sci entific expert. Professor French, was a member of the last previous excursion. Thev will find conditions much the same as they were two years ago, ex ccpt that there has been an Increase In I the number of settlers who are waiting in semi-idleness for the coming of a railroad to enable them to reach the markets with the products which their farms will turn off in such large quan titles That rich country has not yet been a large producer of much except 'a 1.,' rrhn ,w iinoH could force to be brought to a remote shipping point, and, as the agricultural traffic was undeveloped, the excuse was offered that there was nothing In Cen tral Oregon for which a railroad should be bullL Of course, it followed that there could be no profit In agricultural Industries until the railroad was bullL In short, this endless chain of railroad loelc was. "no railroad because no traffic and no traffic because no rail road." The fallacy of this line of reasoning is admirably exposed by the work of the Canadian Pacific and other lines oper ating In British Columbia and other parts of Canada. For the past live ears there has ben a stsady increase in the number of American immigrants going into Canada. The emigration from this side of the line has reached such proportions that in a single week in April 120 carloads of American set tiers' effects arrived at Winnipeg. From our own state and "Washington there have been a number of farmers, tiring of poor shipping facilities, who have taken advantage of the enterprise of the Canadian Vallroads In inducing 1m migration by providing excellent trans- portatlon facilities, and have crossed linn to live under a flair for which they have no special admiration. "What Canada, and especially British Columbia, has been doing in the way of branch roads for opening up new ter ritory is admirably set forth In a recent government report from Consul Smith. stationed at Victoria, B. C This report shows a total of 1712.47 miles of rail road in the province, of which but S24.S miles are of the main line of the Cana dian Pacific Railroad. The remaining 1200 miles are made up of no less than twenty-five branch roads varying In length from eight miles to 241 miles. and not Including forty-eight miles of electric road and forty-three miles of logging roads. This mileage will be further increased this year by the con structkm of a road from the Kootenai country to the coast by the Great Northern Railroad. Arrangements have also been made by this road for con traction of a number of feeders to the arious mining districts. This policy of providing the settlers with transporta tion before the actual development of the country has proceeded beyond the Initial stage is Just as apparent in the Canadian provinces farther east. The Edmonton branch of the Cana dlan Pacific traverses a country not one whit better than, and In some respects not as good as, the Central Oregon country, but the scientific experts who examined the land before the railroad was built reported that It was good land, and the railroad company, with out waiting for the settlers to make the discover, threw a branch line In there and hauled the settlers in before there were any agricultural products to haul ouL This policy resulted in an enor mous influx of settlers, who speedily began creating a big traffic for the rail road. Exactly similar results followed when E. E. Lytic, in the face of almost Insurmountable obstacles and amidst the ridicule of the "wise" railroad men. succeeded in building the Columbia Southern Railroad into Central Oregon as far as- Shanlko. Lytle's Judgment has long since been vindicated, and his bank account kept pace with the vindication. Similar suc cess for the railroads will follow ex tension of that line into Central Ore gon. and the hundreds of settlers who are now waiting in Idleness the com lng of transportation facilities to ena ble them to reach the markets of the outside world will profit with the rail roads by the change. ASSESSORS AND THEIR DUTY. The chief reason why the rate of tax ation is so high Is that a large propor tion of the property owned in the state is never listed on the assessment rolls. The property not assessed Includes not om iiautiiiacs. are hiuiukiuic, out aiso personal property, sucn as money, notes and accounts, which are easily conceajeo. in every county there are weaitny men, bankers ana retired capitalists, wno are Known to De worth large sums of money, yet their total assessment., is comparatively smaiu Assessors dismiss uie matter witn me remaric mai mey cant nna the property." or "that Is all he gave in." As a matter of fact, the Assessors xor some reason ao not try 10 -nna ue property or to prove its possession, uut are content to let poor peple bear an unjust portion of the burden. There should be an end of this. If it cannot be terminated In any other way. the honest taxpayers should form leagues in their several counties and go after the Assessors in a manner that will arouse them to a sense of their duty. The small property-owner who is compelled to pay an undue proportion of the public reenue is being robbed under the forms of law. and should en dure it no longer than he would permit himself to be robbed by a highwayman or sneakthlef without complaint. The tax-evading plutocrat, whether he lives in Portland or In the farthermost cor ner of the state, should be brought to account, and be compelled to pay his honest debt to the state, county, city and school district. No Assessor should be allowed to close his roll until he has made every possible effort to list all the property in his jurisdiction subject to taxation. The automobUe lately appeared In a j new role in New York. and. strange to ! say. it met in this role universal appre- J elation and unstinted praise. As stated in the Outlook, a hundred, machines. from "red devil .wagons" and glass-In closed touring cars to the lightest and latest-built runabout, preceded by a squad of mounted police at a gallop, sped from New York to Coney Island and back again with never an arrest or an accident or an attempt at racing. The explanation of the universal in dorsement of this gay and vapid ride is found in the fact that the automo biles were Ailed with orphans from a dozen institutions of the great, stifling city, and that the New York. Motor Club had Inaugurated a new holiday for these children and named it "Auto mobile day." The owners had loaned the machines, the guardians of the chil dren had selected from their wards those whose good behavior had entitled them to a holiday, the municipality fur nished the escort, and the rest was easy. The result brought new scenes, new Ideas, new experiences, into monoton ous institutional lives, which would re main with them as pleasant memories. and the automobile took Its place ,mon in instruments of nhllanthronv UDOn Which the tenderest harmonies of modern life are played. "William ZJegler. son of the noted Arc "V ' 111 . i. V , s.u . , " father's plans for the discovery of the North Pole. The young man lacks Ave years of his majority, at which time he will inherit a fortune of $30,000,000. "With the enthusiasm of boyhood he is look- in? forward to the time when be can not only fit out an Arctic expedition ac cording to his father's Ideas, but can accompany it himself, as he hopes, to the farthest north. In the meantime the lad will devote his spare time to the study of Arctic expeditions and prob lems in the hope of adding to the world's knowledge of the frozen zone, and Incidentally of shedding luster on his father's name. He is a filial lad as well as a plucky one. and the world will be pleased to learn of his success In the great realm of silence and science, to which he has dedicated his Inheritance when the time comes. The Portage Road has been turned over to the state by the contractors, and is now ready for business. It was com pleted at a cost to the state of $165,000, and the upper country now has an In dependent highway .to tidewater. The action of the O. R. & N. Co. in giving a right of way over its own property. ln providing special trains for the friends of the Portage Road, and oth- erwise aiding the project, displays a friendliness that would not be In evi dence if there was fear of a diversion of traVIic The river "Is "open, how ever, and anyone who can carry freight by boat and portage at a lower rate than Is exacted by the railroads can secure a considerable volume of busi ness. The "Washington Railroad Commis sion appointed by Governor Mead is unsatisfactory to the Spokane Spokes man-Review. This is a strong recom mendation for the commission. The Review says the appointment of such a commission vindicates every Republi can who voted for George Turner. "While not giving the public full details regarding Its grievance. It Is slightly apparent that the Review is disappoint ed because George Turner was not ap pointed to the position. Considering the excellent support It gave Governor Mead, it Is strange that Spokanp was overlooked when the pie was cut. Secretary Taft Is precisely right in his statement that "too much time is spent in developing testimony against Chinese who presumably are entitled to enter the country." The trouble Is not in the exclusion law, but in its admin istration. No Chinaman is permitted to enter the country whose right to do so can under any pretext whatever be questioned; and many are driven away whom the law unquestionably intended should be allowed to come In. The un fortunate applicant must accept the de cision of the immigration officers. He has no remedy. No wonder the Chinese empire has taken offense. It Is a matter of extreme regret that the religion of the Mormons Is so pe culiar and pernicious as to subject them to frequent criticism and humiliation. The Mormons were the original Irrlga- tlonlsts In the "West, and their work and influence in that branch of agricul tural industry has been highly benefi cial not only to the country In which they first settled, but by example to other states and territories. Senator Dubois fears that the advantages which will follow their settlement In Idaho will all be nullified by the oblique re ligious practices which they apparently are not yet ready to abandon. No harm is golns" to come to the pol icy-holders of the his New York life In surance companies from the investiga tion now afoot by the state authorities. New York has excellent laws regulat ing life Insurance corporations, and that department of. the state govern ment has ever been above suspicion. work undertaken by the Attorney- O-neraf Will be Watched With interest over the country. Any effort put forth to lop off unnecessary expenses .., --e universal anni-oval. t,a Oreeonlan holds the position it t(ldRV KimDiv because It Is and has throutrh all Its life an incompara- ole Mll unapproachable newspaper. Whatever work was to be done it has done through au its past. Just as It is dolns today. 0n one point there is perfect unanim ,ty of opmlon among the multitude who. during the past three weeks, have vis ited Portland; namely, that the Lewis and Clark Fair grounds surpass in beauty every other exposition, includ ing Paris. An up-to-date German chemist is re- norted to have Invented a beer that contains no alcohol. Why will scien tific men devote labor to utterly useless purpose"? , Taking1 It all in all. Oregon has been able to furnish the many visitors this month with the average article of weather. And no one hears a com plaint. The Queen of June Is no longer the rose out tne straw oerry, wnica soon must abdicate In favor of the cherry. Will It be as easy for Japan 1o deal with Russia in diplomacy as It was in warfare? The present Chicago -strike is in pro cess of settlement for the fourteenth time. 0REG0NJ)Z0NE Carrie Nation, of Kansas, the only na tion that never signs a peace treaty, has declared for Governor Folk, of Missouri. as a candidate for President cC the United States. Mrs. Nation bases her advocacy of Mr. Folk upon the assumption that he is the only man who keeps the lid down. Does the eminent lady mean to cast a slur at Secretary Taft, whom President Roosevelt left "holding down the lid" when he went bear-hunting? In fixing the punishment of the Port land thief who stole gold fillings from a dentist's offlcp. due weight should be given to the fact that the man was kindly considerate of personal feelings In wait ing until the fillings had been extracted by the dentist, instead of burglarizing the mouths of the original owners while they slept. It Is a pity that prizefighters cannot be taught to prefer ladylike pets. Mr. Rob ert Fltzsimmons for years has been ac companied about the earth by a huge Hon. Once In New- York the Hon got tan gled up In tbe electric wires at a roof garden and caused a panic At several hotels the beast has created consterna Uon. not being amenable to the "No Dogs Allowed" regulation, because it Isn't dog. Down in California, the other day. Fltx's pet got loose and devoured several select morsels of a boy before he was caught and caged. Perhaps one cannot expect a pugilist to be -contented with a pussy cat or a meek little poodle, but If Mr. Fltzslmmona were only"!, poet he might be content to carry a caged canary. This Is a reform that needs attention. "If all the eggs handled In St. Louis last year were strung like pearls on string," writes a Missouri poultry en thusiast, "they would encircle the earth seven times at the equator." Conceive, If you can, this dignified member of the solar system sweeping through the ceru lean vastness of the nebular hypothesis at a seven-league stride and wearing seven-strand belt woven of-'Mlssourl hen fruit plucked last year! Such an excur sion would cause a cataclysm that would turn cosmos back Into chaos; the Milky Way would curdle and clabber; Saturn would draw his rings closer In a shiver ing shrug; Venus would dart into the sun for protection, and old Jupiter, the plane tary heavyweight, would call upon the I comets and the meteorites and the shoot ing stars to hit anywhere above or below the belt, but for heaven's sake not to hit on the belt. By all means, let us take steps to forego this impending catastrophe; let us petition our guardian stars not to per mit the great egg belt of the United States to weave Itself Into a girdle for the earth, so long as tho wind blows and ago continues to wither and custom stale tho Infinite variety of odors that repose within the egg that has outlived its use fulness. The Riksdag Is willing to forgive, but the Storthing refuses to forget. Let the Storthing and the Riksdag get together and have a mlx-up. An Eastern newspaper calls Oregon the Greece of America. If that be true. Joa quln Miller must be our Homer; but. by Hector! where Is Helen? It is an encouraging sign of the times that so many newspapers this year are printing pictures of college graduating classes. Ever since the art of half-toning made newspaper Illustrations practicable. the domain of athletics rather than the realm of Intellect seems to have doml nated the pictorial part of educational publicity. "We have been wont to shake open our morning paper and peruse the forms and features of hulking Herculeses (or Hercull) with abnormal hirsute devel opraent; the mighty-muscled members of the 'varsity eight, or eleven, or nine; the lanky, s hanky track team and all that sort of college product, until we had come to believe that only tbe brawn wins the bay and tho brain has gone away back and sat down. But this season the college man wearing a full suit of clothes, with evidence of having possessed the price of a haircut, permeates the papers and re minds us that young men still go to col lege for the ancient and honorable pas time of studying books and attending lec tures. Descendants. "Who are those fellows .at the banquet table?" " "Oh. those are big guns." "Smith said they were Native Sons." "They are." "Of whom?" "Guns." Explained. Little Joe Papa, why is that theze man's nose so red? Papa Hush, Joey; he's a painter. Little Joe What does he paint, papa? Papa The town. Literature in Illinois. In the Illinois building at the Lewis and Clark Exposition is a large frame con taining photographs of the Uterary cele brities of the stafe' that Is bordered by Chicago on the northeast. One picture is labeled "Robert Ingersoll, Essayist." This Is interesting, if not Instructive. Near the likeness or colonel ingersoll Is one marked "Myrtle Reed, Writer of Poetry; .nil hart! hv- rPnoc thft fnmlll9r rmmto. nance of the bard of "Little -Boy Blue," described as "Eugene Field, Writer of Verse." The Illlnolsan critic Is discern ing, indeed. Miss (or Mrs.) Reed Is (or was) a poet, but Eugene Field was a writer of verse. Let the rhymers strive to write verse, leaving the poetry to poets. The world loves Eugene Field's verse and reveres the versifier. Had he been merely a poet he might not reraembre1. For 80me t!m9 we have entertained the notion, though fearing to give It public expression, that verse Is a hIgher form of Uterature than poetry, and now we have tne delicate unt oc tne Sucker State critic to support our theory. ROBERTUS LOVE. All in the Preparation. Pittsburg Gazette. A college education was-roaming around in search of "a Job. "Take off your coat." said a practical Idea. So the college education took off his coat. 'Now take off your waistcoat," said the P. I. The college education did so. "Now." said the P. L, "remove your col lar and tie. your shirt, your" "But," Interrupted the C. E., "there'll soon be nothing left of me. "I know It." replied the P. L, "then you can begin." Enraged Bull at "Worship New York MaiL When an enraged bull broke into a Phil adelphia gospel meeting last night, the worshipers began to sing "Nearer. My i God. to Thee." And yet we have often I accused the Philadelphia as at Jacking the sense of humor! THE MOST SUCCESSFUL Jaba D. SeckefeUer MesfHr4 by a National Standard-A Paale-a tor Mosey. "He Is Jst Master Mad," SaM tfce Zate Senator Aiubi Ida, 3t TarbelL In Jutar McClure'a. John D. Rockefeller he of the Standard OH Is without question the most conspic uous type of our present dominating com mercial man. "The most Important- man In the world" a great and serious news DaDer passionately devoted to democracy calls htm. and unquestionably this is the popular measure of him. His Importance lies not ao much In the fact that he Is the richest Individual In the world, with the control of property which that entails; It He3 in the fact that his wealth, and the power springing from It, appeal to the most universal and powerful passion In this country the passion for money. John Rockefeller, measured by our national ambition. Is the most successful man In the world the man who has got the most of what men moat want. How did he get it. the eager youth asks, and asking, strives to imitate him as nearly ns ability and natlence cerailt. Thus he has become an Insplrer of American Ideals, and his meth ods have been crystallized Into a great. National commercial code. .Nor Is this nil. Mr. Rockefeller distrib utes money In charity and In endowments. If not our first, he Is certainly our second philanthropist; the amount of the money given being the standard. All over tne land those who direct great educational. charitable and religious institutions are asking. "Can we not get something from hlraT Receiving his bequests, they be come at least the tacit supporters of the thing for which he stands that Is. John D. Rockefeller exercises a powerful con trol over tho very sources of American Intellectual and religious Inspiration. But has he made good? From time immemo rial, men who have risen to power have had to face this question. Kings, tyrants,- chieftains, since the world began. have stood or have fallen as they have convinced tho public that they were giv ing or not giving a Just return for tho power allowed them. The time Is here when Mr. Rockefeller must face the ver dict of tho public by which ha lives. In his boyhood. John D. Rockefeller went to the district school a few montha of the year, and the rest of the time worked and played as a boy ordinarily does in a country settlement, chopping wood, caring for a horse, milking cows. weeding garden, raising chickens and tur keys. Nowhere does he seem to have made an Impression, save by hl3 silence and gravity. "He never mixed much with the rest of us," one old man tells you. Tie seemed to be always thinking, says another. "He was different from his brothers and different from the rest of us." says a third. when he went into the oil business, he gave himself to this venture body and soul, one may truthfully say, working with a persistency which put day labor ers to shame. He watched details with a hawk's eye not a cent must go astray not a plnl of oil be lost not a rivet or bung be wasted. "Pay a profit to no body," ho began to say. and It was he RECLAIMINGJHE DESERT. On the 17th of June the sluice gates wera opened in the Truckee River reservoir by which thousands of acres of arid Nevada land are to be brought under cultivation. The issue of Public Opinion appearing on the same date, there is an article by Rufus Rockwell Wilson on the "Conquest of the Arid West." Mr. Wilson, In writing of the general situation, says: "There are In the West 100,000,000 acres of arid land which experts declare can be reclaimed by Irrigation. When that Is done the reclaimed lands will add nearly one-fourth to the actual crop-producing area of the country, and will exceed by a liberal margin the tillable land of all the states on the Atlantic coast. Cut up Into 40-acrc plots, the average size of Irrigated farms, this area will make 2,500,000 farms. The occupants of these farms will add di rectly to the population 12,500.000, and In directly at least 6,230,000 more, an Increase of nearly one-fourth In the population of the country. These figures have been cited because In no other way can be so clearly shown tho promise bound up in the reclamation act passed In 1S02 by Congress a clear and explicit measure which provides that the money derived from the sale of public lands shall be devoted to the erection of dams, reservoirs and canals to be used In tho irrigation of the arid lands and dis tricts of the West, Since the passage of the act the ablest engineers in the employ of the Government have been -continuously in the field examining sites with reference to their fitness for the erection of Irriga tion works. Aside from the Trucke Ca nal, the most Important of the undertak , lngs upon which work has already begun have to do with the regions through which flow the Colorado. North Platte and Snake Rivers. ... It Is estimated that 1,200,000 acres of land that can be reached by division canals border on the Colorado River between the Grand Canon and the Mexican line. The plans of the Government engineers call for a series of reservoirs et points along the river where the conditions for storage ore most favorable, to be formed by build ing dams from 100 to 400 feet In height. Each dam wiU have a sluiceway through Its base, so that the water may be drawn off as desired, and also to provide a means of flushing out the sediment brought down by the river In great quantities from its upper courses. So slight Is the fall of the Colorado that dams of the desired height make possible reservoirs of an enormous capacity. It Is calculated that each reser voir will gradually fill with sediment. When this occurs Its surface will be drawn down from 33 to 40 feet, and all of the site. except the river channel, converted Into farming land. The crops planted on this land will be irrigated as they need It by doslntr the sluices, and this, with the seml-troplc climate, will maxe larming possible the year around. Sane or Insane. Dr. Stephen Smith, In Leslie's Magazine. Is there any sure test oy which to tell the sane from the Insane?" Inquired a student of the famous French alienist Esculrol- "Please dine with me tomor row at 6 o'clock." was the answer of the savant. The student compuea. xwo other guests were present, one of whom was elegantly dressed and apparently hlKhlr educated, while the other was rather uncouth, noisy and extremely con celted. After dinner the pupil rose to take leave, and as he shook bands with his teacher he remarked: "The problem Is very simple after all; the quiet, well dressed gentleman Is certainly dlstln gulshed In some line, but the other Is as certainly a lunatic and ougnt at once to be locked up." "You are wroag, my frjend," replied Esqulrol with a. smile. "The quiet, well-dressed man who talks so rationally has for years labored under the delusion that he is God, the father; whereas the other man, whose exuberance and self-conceit have surprised you, is M. Honore ds Balzac, the greatest French writer of the day." Went Wrong:- Exchange, A party of Americans touring In Montreal visited the Convent of Grey Nuns. They were conducted about the grounds and "different depart ments, and -at length reached the in sane ward. As they entered the main hall, in which a group of harmless in "vallds were seated, one of the party glanced up at a great clock on tne wall, and was surprised at the late neas of the hour. Whv." she exclaimed. "Is that clock rlxht? "You may be sure it is not right.' BToke u one of the patients, "or.: it I weula never hz.ve been put la here." MAN IN THE WORLD and his partners who. themselves, went to Oil Creek for oil. and' so saved com missions; he who made his own barrets, and so saved a middleman's profits: he who hauled and loaded, bought and sold. Nobody but him must make a cent on his oil. from the well to the lamp. It was combine, save, watch. A sort of mania for saving seemed to possess him. It was over this he brooded from morn ing to night, and It was the realization of this alone which awakened In his face, al ready grave with Incessant reflections, a sign of Joy. Indeed, the men who worked there In Cleveland at his elbow win tell you today that the only signs of hilarity John D. Rockefeller ever showed In those days were over a good bargain. This would make him clap his hands. Let It be a very good bargain, and he would throw up his bat kick up his heels, hug his In formant. This was Joy for him. this was the satisfaction of passion this good bar gain. And as he succeeded his desire for wealth seemed, to his friends, to grow even more rapidly than his business. "1 am bound to be rich, bound to be rich. bound to be rich," they report him as saying. -v For 33 years, Mr. Rockefeller has ap plied his income to accumulating not only oil property, but real estate raliroaa stock. Iron mines, copper mines, anything and everything which could be bought cheap by temporary depressing and made to yield rich by his able management. For 33 years he has worked for special privi leges giving him advantage over competi tors, for 35 years he has patiently laid networks around property he wanted, un til he had It surely corralled and could seize It; for 35 years he has depreciated values when necessary to get his prey. And today he still Is busy. In almost every great financial maneuver In the country Is felt his supple, smooth hand with Its grip of steel, and while he directs that which Is big. nothing Is too small for him to grasp. "Why does he do It? What does he want an income of J23.000.000 and more for? Not to spend like some splendid old Venetian In palaces and galleries, for none of the glories of the fine old-world life are known to him. Not to squander In riot. So far as the world knows, he Is poor In his pleasures. Not to give away his char ities and bequests are small compared to his wealth. For what then? Why this relentless, cruel. Insistent accumulation of money when you are already burled In It? There seems to be only one explana tion, that Mr. Rockefeller Is the victim of a money-passion which bllnd3 him to every other consideration In Ufe, which Is stronger than his sense of justice., his humanity, his affections, his joy in life, which Is the one tyrannous. Insatiable force of his being. "Money-mad. money mad! Sane In every other way. but money-mad." was the late Senator Han na's comment on John" D. Rockefeller. And the late Senator Hanna could not be I accused of holding money In light regard. JAP SPIES NOW EXCLUDED. Sacramento Union. The action of the naval authorities In excluding Japanese attendants from war ships in the maneuvers in Chesapeake waters Is timely. The Intimation that the order is the beginning of the ridding of the navy of all Japanese help Is even more Important. The Japanese servant Is much in evidence In the messrooms of our warships, some vessels carrying as many as a dozen of these very competent and always willing helpers. .Admiral Evans had a serious shock the other day when he discovered In a prominent Jap anese naval officer commander of one of Togo's battleships, In fact the Japanese "boy" who had attended the Admiral as a servant on his flagship. Many other American naval officers have had similar experience so have European naval offi cers. The Japanese spy system Is the most perfect in the world. Japanese of the highest rank will perform tne most menial work to gain Information for the" strengthening of their country's position Tho "coolies" who loaded coal on Admiral Rojestvensky's ill-starred fleet are now known to have been In many instances Japanese naval officers In disguise. Togo was probably better informed as to tna condition of the Russian fleet than was Rojestvensky himself. That the Japanese have detailed plans of American battle ships down to every "blow hole" left la the ship's armor by rascally contractors is something more than probable. They certainly know more than It Is well for us that they should know. The shutting ofr of their chief source of Information by excluding all Japanese from our war ships should not be delayed. Vast Waste by Forest Fires. 1 Boston Transcript. The average destruction by forest Area in this country is estimated at $23,000,000 or more annually. It Is im possible to prevent all this waste In some respects the worst that fire can cause, because It takes years to re place it Just as it is impossible to es tablish conditions whereby all other forms of property shall be protected" against this agent of destruction; but It undoubtedly Is possible to enforce a policy or policies to very appreciably reduce the danger and tne loss 11 once the public is brought to realize the gravity of the situation. In Germany and France these experiences ara guarded against In large measure, be cause tne governments nave sinct forestry laws, and the forests are well policed and vigilantly cared for. Hera the general Government can uo nttie excopt on Its own preserves and the work of protection must be left to the states, which as yet do not seem to have risen to a sense of their respon sibilities. Hospitality Up to Date. One member of a certain woman's club was leaving the Sunday afternoon recep tion when she met anotner just coming ln- , "You're a cordial hostess." remarked tne first. "Why don't you come early una entertain vour company. That gue3t you Invited has been waiting- and waiting for you a solid nour- "Heavens!" exclaimed the other, much annoyed- "Hasn't she gone yet?" Penalty of Greatness. Washington (D. C.) Post. Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, is al ready paying the penalty. He Is Being "mentioned" as a Presidential candidate. Love at Sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne. We are In Love,' a hand todsr Where shall we go? I-ove, shall we start or stay, Or sail or row! There's many a wind and war. And never a Mar bat Mar;' We are ln Love' hand today: Where shall we go? Our land wind Is the breath Of sorrows hissed to death And Joys that were; Our ballast la a rose; Our war h where God knows And Lotb knows where. We ara ln Love's haad today Oar seamen are fledged loves, Our maata are bills of doves.- Oar decks fine gold; Oar ropes are dead maid's hah. Oar stores are love-shafts fair And manifold. We are In Love's aaad today Land me, she says, where Lore Shows but oae shaft, one dove, " One heart, one baad; A shore like that. r r. Lie where ao mam will Kr, Xa waller J.