Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1905)
TTTE MORNIXG OBEGONIAW, MOSDAT, JULY 24, 1905. "1. flu Fastitaia at TerUasa. Or.. 4s Meosd-flMM matter. aMiiim. uuy -katxs. IRta-uxblt ix advance. year- ..........$8.00 r. mentns a-uu -."three months. ...... 3-55 toitr, -w -steath .S3 ML tMter. 'Mr retr "-50 wtHmmt stx months S.BO tMUy "WjU't 4r, three montha... 1.95 Lanr WNt NiUr. per montn " fcaedsr. -sac year - 2.00 uter. sts: ssontHa 1.00 Sunday, ttar mmMJm ........ .60 ST CARRIES. Paily aHhi at 8-utday. per week .15 'iaUy.- par mti; Bma&y Included -20 ' !bB TTBMCLT OREOONIAX. " Iasued Stmt- Thursday.) WiM cbrt -Booths -SO jKwr w vnar-seBd potcfflce noser cxrder. .as-Bees order or personal check on , yew ,leal ba&k. Stamps, cola or currency 'at sealer's rtek. 1 . aWiBTXKX BUSINESS OFFICE. "SfcaaT, C. SeelcwMfe. Special AgT-ew York. MHH 4C-M TtfbHBe building. Chl jcog; -Varna 516-S12 Tribune building. fJ . v ) KEPT OX SAT.P.. ftMiii Audltortera Annex. Po-tof2c Hftwa ":-. 178 riearbera street. .CHm, X-esv-Globe Newa Depot, 20 Main AoIa. Ttsr-Lon!s book wa wwr tSeljMl Vast Hosstofi street. HemfiJu.w Blaek. Hamilton & Xend rtcfc; "- 12 Seventeenth atreet; Harry D. Ott, ,JMC Broadway; Pratt Boole Store. 1214 IVMlltk street. C4tM4e Spris-, Celo-Ho-wari H. Bell. JXtritetftea, la- Mosti Jacobs. 309. Fifth ? ;?f? . . ' strnttk, Tiflnit " Biacnrern. zio wen k.t. street. - !,MltM, Nenrv-C. 3f alone. s T-liiiij CKy, Kev-Rlckseclur Cigar Co., "Xlntiraad Walnut, jum jiBgriea -iarry u rap Kin; x. .n. au. .- - e--i Mvcfiia ftiieeu , MfawToMi-M. J. Xavaaaugb, SO - South '.Third; I- Xegelsburger, 217 First avenue ! ; lteBth. tirr island, O, Jaxsee Pusbaw, SOT Superior treat. , I-. Fork City L. Jones & Co.. Astor .House. OaKksd, CaL SV. H. Johnston. Fourteenth 'j' fltim-f ? Coflarfl and Mfren & Har- top.'D li. Soyle. Osi-lm 8arital0w Bps., .1612 Farnam; Kaceath Stationery Co.. 1308 Faraam; Mc- T .uklln Ti Oil? O V. ...i.. T -A 1 1 -i Wa i m nm mile. CaL Sacramento 3wa Co K atraeL fMt rake Bait Lake Vein Co.. 77 "West Second' etreet South: Frank Hutchison. 17IiC?FstBe FbtIc IVto. Canyon Hotel. tel. Tellowatone Park Aasn. B. E. Amos. sco J. k. Cooper & Co.. 748 freetj Goldsmith Bros., 230 -Sutter: Palace Hotel News Stand; F. tarket; Frank Scott. 80 Ellla: N. ole ews Stand, corner ilar- ley streets: Hotel SL Francis I Foster & Orear. Ferry Kews fe. E. T. Jett Book 4: News Olive street. X. O-P. D. Morrison. 21S2 I avenue. OR MONDAY, JULY 24. 1995. SAVT TASK AT PANAMA. II construct the Panama it realization of the dlfflcul- l;ns. and the flamboyant op inat possessed the country bought the right to undertake giving way to -a sober sense tture and magnitude of the Stacles. There will be money for the. united States, having the work, cannot draw back tomi'- I . . . rvweatest or hindrances is the troo- -vu climate, which enervates the la W subjects him to the dangers 'Bisease. This makes the labor prob- ftoir of a colossal work like this, the :tnt. serious that man Vin vn f jiivn uiBiury nan jnaue a record. -Our country Is rich enough to con itructihts canal; but where is It to get .'the latfeor? Were the 'work to be done fAn any1 northern climate it would be put through rapidly. Men sturdy and strong would be ready to enlist men of the sort who have executed all the great '.''and strenuous work that the world has "jr-witnewsed. But in tropical climates each vigor and energy wither. Men of iXh most vigorous races will perish 'there more surely than those of the ' weaker. Ana in iaci men or ine vigorous work' ins races cannot oe nirea lor mis serv Thejwork, therefore, is left to fee ble 7Mi: i?ne of our great, sturdy fel- lOKS. Wklng in a northern climate. f iwill'tateas itnuch as a half dozen men 0CtlvTa6es; who can work, and sur jriVaj; bA,tle climate of Panama. of engineers, therefore. -eost of the work at Panama, i they have been on the cost of raforic in our northern climates. titalready to be erroneous. Some . think, the labor cost will be thrice what vlt ' "estimated, or even more. The tasks TNbably will take many more years; and cost a far heavier sum. than jrs yet been calculated; but it will be executed, and when finished will be wortti,HKH-e than all the time and money :ttxpmi&L in Its construction -"JOINTS" HIGH AND IX) W. Ladtos of the "400" can frequent fash ionable "Joints" and it's nobody's bus! neCt But ladles with dimmer diamonds and scienter silks are "pinched." by Chief Grkzmacher's police and made to I lact Judge Cameron, for the same In dulgne In resorts less brightly gilded. Why tke difference? T fashionable resort is a hotel grill or rathskeller: the - other is a saloon 'Each attaches to a bar which dispenses - whteky and champagne and sauterne amefe. ladles imbibe behind screens r and Mima and seen at irentlemen who j illrie :up at the bar. In the fashionable .hotel "4nt" this is a beflttlng social fwcJon: in the other "Joint" it is Mfjotts breach of social and sexual eti- uM, deserving Judge Cameron's tersMflt penalty. ' JDck 'Jfcit" has Its ladies' entrance, the --M beautifully gilded and silvered .and .tMsstrled; the other ugly with un MM .boards or battered panels. fi tk one case the screens and the jlimBps are gorgeous and grand; In the m&Mr,' tawdry and cheap. The one "Jajtair bright tapestries from Bay- . onn; -the -other has dingy draperies froaa ;Ktw pngfand. The one is fres coed to deUghts of fairyland; the other is wkWwashed as a roost for flydom, Th mmt resounds with an enrapturing pipe e&n or orchestra; the other with a mweekj- fiddle of wheezy phonograph. In ke ene "Joint" a gentleman and a -j lady ean "enjoy themselves" in the mu- , sic .and the "boose" for 52.50, more or Jlees; .In the other for 26 cents. The higher Jrice Is aald to make for refine- - rr.ent and culture and noble sociability; the Vower Is said to debauch both the eze ttaad ive.themsinful lazlne, not touch them. One of tkem hu, more liquor than any saleon In the city. It made more money last year, out of Its bar than out of Its hotel. It Is con trolled by men of high respectability. members of 4 "reigning" and "first" fam ilies, "who -pose as paragons of virtue and carry their pious faces to church every Sunday, and can the saloon bar (not the rathskeller bar) a sink of ini quity. The outside of the cup and the platter Is clean, but tie Inward part, is It full of ravening- and wick tin ess? A GUESS AT THE CENSUS. In the year 1900. the year of the Fed eral census, there were 24.877 school children in Multnomah County, and the -whole population of the county, as ascertained by the census, -was 103,167. The ratio of children of school age to the whole population was 1 to 4.2J. There are now 319S9 children of school age in the county, and upon the same ratio the populas"5 of the county now would be 135.305. By the census oJ the year 1900. taken in June, the population of Portland was 90.426. In the county, beyond the,cltyllm- its. that year, there were 12,741 inhabi tants. Recent annexation has taken into the city territory containing now perhaps 2500. If now the population of the county. Including the city. Is 135.300 which is the result on the proportion of the school census we should find that the population of the city was about 120.000. and of county territory outside the city about 15,000. We shall have the results of the state census soon, and The Oregonian. haz ards the guess that the figures will be very close to these. INTERESTING HARBOR REPORT. The one Government report scanned by all classes of our people with in terest is that which sets out In detail the work done during the year on har bors and water courses. Without fear that their title In the premises will be disputed, the people claim the rivers and harbors (subject only to Govern ment control) as their -ery own. The vast railroad trackage of the continent. with its absolute rights of way. Its sub sidies. Its valuable land grants and Its close corporation privileges. Is the prop' erty of a few men; the enormous traffic passing over it Is subject to conditions by which the public that It serves must abide. But waterways can never be subsidized or held exclusively by cor porate Interests. Corporations may use them, but they cannot control them.. Hence the people of Oregon regard al most with affection, certainly with pride, their navigable rivers. Hence they feel richer by so much when In formed through the Government district engineer that the expenditures on the Willamette River above Portland, to gether with those of the Yamhill River. have aggregated during the year 520,740; that on the Lower Willamette and Co lumbla $74,395 has been spent In the same period, and that In general Im provements of the rivers and harbors of the state, in addition to these sums. $706,847 has been expended: The whistle of the steamboat on our rivers In the early days was a herald of progress. An "open river" has been the dream of many years, first on the Wlllamettein the effort to ox'ercome the obstacles to navigation at the falls at Oregon City; next on thq- Columbia, In tne purpose to overcome, with a port age railway, the obstruction at the Cas cades, and then wltha canal and locks; next at Celllo. In the endeavor to es tablish another portage railway, and now nnaiiy in tne enort to secure a canal and locks there also. The Interest of the people In these Im provements has never flagged. Engi neers have come and gone. In accord ance with department regulations, each reporting progress. Much more might have been done but for the mrstaken policy that pend6 the man who has be come laminar witn me wont to a new field and brings one unfamiliar with It here to learn his lesson by experiment. but for the progress made the people are duly thankful. They wait for an "open river" with what patience they can muster always loyal, always hope ful, but sometimes sorely chafing at what seems needless delay. a pundits view. The question of foreign missions is one that agitates more or less con stantly, and now and again violently. the western ecclesiastical -world. Re ligious denominations vie with each other In raising money to keep mis slonarles in the field, and tell each other through their conventions and confer ences and assemblies wonderful tales of what Is being done to Christianize the "heathen" of Turkey, of India, of China and of Japan. Inspired by a zeal that lifts the spiritual vision above the heads of the squalid hosts, and Ignorant hordes that exist at close range, the ec clesiastical glance falls and rests upon the disciples of Buddha, of. Mahomet, of Confucius, and a burning desire to supplant the precepts of these ancient teachers by those of the Christ blinds the mind to the practical Impossibility of the task. We are told that mflllons have been converted to Christianity In India. We know that millions of dollars have been SDent there In what is known as the "missionary cause"; that Western com mercialism has touched the border, so to speak, of the ancient civilization of the Empire of India, and that, in obedl ence to the law of -change and of self- interest, large numbers of people have come to Areat with religious dogmas that have been pressed upon their at tention without accepting them as pre ferable to their own ancient creeds and centuries-old beliefs. Baba Bharatl. vice-president for In dla at the Boston Peace Congress in 1904. In an article that lately appeared In Public Opinion, has this to say in re gard to the missionary effort in India: They have bared everything on business principles, these wonderful Americans, Includ ing rellgloc "Christ la the Only Incarnation of God," proclaims the religion-trader. Mil lions upon millions of dollars are spent by these deluded Christians to send mlsslosarleo for carta the soula of Asiatics whom they call "heathen." not knowing the Christian missionaries are regarded by these As! allot as the biggest jokea. being studiously kept unconscious jof the fact that if Christian be that Christian doca, then the average Hindu or emere or Japanese n a Dorn uinsaas. This is. of course, the opinion of one who reads by the "Light of Asia," but it Is the opinion, neverthefees, of & mac learned in the lore of India's uncount ed ages and in close touch with such progress as has come to the East through contact with Western chiliza tlon. and Western ideas. Hear this pundit -farther: From the study of the Vedae the spirit ef -which te the spirit of Buddhism. Taeteaa aad Bhlatatoafl amy earstMt-aatsded Waleeer in f tae trwtfc will Had Htat tfcts whet -wstete ,ibrMac life, -as jBtaesffBs " sAaMabJaaaaaaJ. - Vt part f the vaole: that all the ;rlsc!tea Mca con pore ad all lami -which regulate the fn actions of this -wolr 11 are jireaat la every atomic part of It. -whether they are manifest or sot to the euperficUI vision or lnvMUcaUoe; that man represents the most ad vanced ataxe la the evolution of the atom oa the terrestrial surface, -with posKblllUes within him of still hlrher development, either en the earth place or planes higher than the garth prcgresi higher and higher till he reaches the atage of perfection which la called the absolute. In which he Is then merged. This central Ideal of the East will teach the "Westerner a much-needed leaf on, that the Fatherhood of God the basic all.perradmr principle of life argues the brotherhood of cot merely man, but of all the universe. The religion of the Easterner, which is. according to this wmt authority, the "chief business of his life, the very breath of his being, whether he Is con scious of It or not." enjoins certain rules and formulas of dally conduct which he must go through and which he and his family and his society deem to be more Important than eating and sleep ing. This Is the rck called "pagan Ism;' against which Western eccleslas tlclsm has been beating with Its creeds for a century. Zeal has not been wanting in this effort; sincerity has attended Its most important steps. It pleases those who have devoted their lives to It to believe that they have engineered a great work, the results of which will be Impressed upon the ages. They do not see the "Joke" that this pundit of the East says the Asiatics see in the mis sionary and his effort. It is a reality to them, and In this view is entitled to re spectful consideration. THIS MAN OK HIS PARENTS? Mr. John P. Stevens, the newly-ap- polnted chief engineer of the Panama Canal, is quoted as saying: Chascea of saectsa for the average boy or young man are not aa good now as they were twenty or even ten years ago. And It Is chiefly because the young man of this age does not understand the value of either work or money. Nine-tenths of the young men who start Into the world are unprepared for their du ties. They have spent their college days In learning to color a pipe., train a bull pup. wear clothes that did not fit. play golf and run an automobile. I do not belittle higher education, but most of the young men who go through college do not appreciate the purpose for which they are there. This is the trouble. Much truth here. But are the young men to be blamed? Are not their parents; rather? The,, parents, chiefly: because they have not brought up their children upon principles of industry, frugality, so briety and self-denial. Perhaps- they couldn't. Then the fault was In the nature of things. The young people did not have to work for a living, go to bed early because they were tired, and save every cent they earned. They had net the (advantage of poverty. Who did sin. this man or his par ents?" It makes little difference. The effect In either case Is the same. NEW WOItLD'S HIGHWAY. Sir Weetman Pearson, one of the principal English owners of the huantepec National Railway, Is Te au thorlty for the statement that under the recently completed arrangements with the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, freight can be carried be tween the principal Atlantic and Pa cific ports in twenty days. Such a service; If it can be maintained, will prove the most formidable competition that the American railroads have ever encountered. On account of the distance saved, the Tehuantepec route may also continue to-handle-a large traffic after comDletlon of the Panama Canal. This will be rendered possible not only by the distance that will be saved but by what might be termed the "local" traf flc between Coatzacoalcos. the eastern port of the Isthmus, and the American ports on the Atlantic, and Salinas Cruz and. the Pacific ports lying north of me western terminus or tne isinmus railroad. Panama is nearly 1200 miles south of Salinas Cruz, and Coatzacoalcos 1? only SOO miles south of New Orleans. On the Atlantic the West Indian ports would be right on this new route to the Pa clflc and on this side of the Isthmus there Is a rapidly growing trade with the Mexican ports. The Mexican gor eminent has expended about $40,000,000 In building a fine harbor on the Pacific, and. In conjunction with the railroad ! company, has made expensive Improve ments at the gulf port, the eastern ter minus of the line. The distance across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by the line as It Is now built. Is 190 miles, but In view of making a new world's highway, the owners of the road, assisted by the Mexican government, will rebuild and repair the line so as to shorten' It slightly, and at the same time get It into condition for high speed, in order that there will be no delays in trans ferring cargo. Until the completion of the Panama Canal. It seems probable that this-road will have a very heavy traffic. Natu rally, when the canal Is completed, and cargoes can be sent through from the Atlantic to the Pacific without break ing bulk, the Tehuantepec route will be at such a disadvantage on certain classes of heavy freight that it will lose much of that kind of business. The most optimistic persons do not expect to see the Panama Canal completed In less than ten years, and It will prob ably be hearer fifteen years, especially If the present progress may be taken as a criterion as to what Is to follow. This Is sufficient time to enable the Tehuantepec route to work up an Im mense business on both coasts. The canal could, of course, shut the more northerly route out of the South Amer ican and most of the Central American trade, but there would remain an enor mous business with Mexico and the West Indies, which might be sufficient to form the nucleus for a steamship service that would thrive long after the canal had diverted the "slow freight" to the all-water route. Some of this prestige of the English American line might be headed off by an exceptionally good service on the Panama Railroad, pending completion of the canal. It is not the Panama Canal route that will suffer most by the new highway for transcontinental trade but the railroads which, for. more than a generation, have throttled all competition between Atlantic and Pacific ports except lor the- Insignifi cant traffic thai found its way around Cape Horn in the slow-moving sailing ships. For these land routes a new deal is to be made. They can no longer be permitted, by the payment of prince ly subsidies, to make the rate by the isthmus rente in order to throttle in stead of encourage the nee of the -water route. Had the Pacific Mail been permitted to continue its monopoly on the Pan asm Railroad, k cottld have effected a "peeling" arrangement with the Te huantepec Km. and continued tfcje x- toting high rates. As matters-now stand a jsaakBMhaM it AtaL stf w- as soen as the promised service of the Asaerlcaa-Hawaiian -Steamship Com pany and the Tehu&ntepec National Railway Company Is established, there will be a very effective safety-valve against excessive freight-rate pressure on the vast traffic flowing between the two coast lines. The evanescent nature of all fads, po litical or otherwise. Is brought to mind by the death In an Insane asylum of Marion Williams and the critical ill ness of Jerry Simpson. Both these men rode Into pubUc prominence on that wave of Populism which swept over the country a few years ago. The radical position assumed by Williams as the original "middle-of-the-roader" gave him Rational fame at the time, but his claim to greatness was so Inse cure that were not the death notice accompanied by an explanation as to bis identity, few would have recalled his right to public mention. Simpson, always theatrical, has managed to keep a little closer to the limelight, but even he has been rapidly drifting into ob scurity, and will pass on to the great beyond. leaving no lasting monument to the imitation greatness which he en- Joyed for so brief a period. The Missouri railroads have secured a temporary Injunction restraining the State Railway and Warehouse Com mission from enforcing the maximum rate law enacted by the last Legisla ture. The railroads make the claim that the rates provided by the new law are prohibitive, and would amount to confiscation of their property. This in cident serves to show the folly of the people in demanding a railroad com mission, and the folb of the railroads In opposing it. Both parties to the transaction have recourse to the law whenever they are injured. Th$re are laws againct discrimination, rebates, and other railroad abuses, and there are courts to prosecute the vlolaters of thosj laws. The powers of the courts cannot be delegated to the railroad commissioners, and accordingly their office becomes merely a fifth wheel on the state political wagon. By a body of Filipino law students at Manila a message has been addressed to the Japanese Consul-General at that port, expressing admiration and sym pathy on their part with the manner In which Japan has conducted her war with Russia, and congratulating Japan on the discipline, patriotism, self-sacrifice and heroism which her people and their soldiers and seamen have dis played. "The triumphs of Japan." says this address, "have enlarged the horizon of the Eastern problems. Indicating a powerful factor toward their solution. The Philippines, our own country. Is Involved In these problems, hence the general interest which these campaigns have awakened among our people: hence the sympathy which their success inspires." The message bears the sig natures of SS students (native) of the law school of the Philippines. Nearly one-half the Jews in the world live in Russia. The number Is said to exceed five millions. Great as certalnly would be the difficulty of removing so large apopulatlon,theatemcnt Is made that the Jews of the world have formed a plan to remove every man. woman and child of their race from Russia, because of the cruel intolerance of the treat ment they receive. For a beginning they will move 600.000 to the 'Eastern Mediterranean, for which they have gained the consent of Turkey and other countries, and will bring 400,000 to America. The expense of the effort will be borne by Jewish societies and by wealthy Individual Jews, the world over. No similar movement on so great a scale has ever before been attempted. The Seattle Trade Register says that the "West Seattle street railway line. owned and operated by the municipal ity. Is paying a profit with a 214-cent fare." The same satisfactory showing might be made In Portland If the profits were based on the actual cost of the road and operating expenses. When, however, the public Is compelled to pay enough to give the street-car monopo lists a profit of $6,000,000 more than the cost of the road, a higher fare must be exacted. On a 5 per cent interest basis on the value of the franchises given by the people, we are paying the street-car company In round numbers something over $S00 a day more than we would need to pay If the West Seattle plan were followed. Grafters of millions are "respectable," and of thousands, "reprobate." In New York, honored citizens, including a Uni ted States Senator, have been grafting from Equitable policy-holders. In Portland, honored citizens have graft ed from the public $5,000,000 in selling street-car franchises, which cost them not one cent. The big thieves go free. But other citizens, charged with hav ing cheated the United States Govern ment out of a few thousand dollars' worth of public land, are made to face a trial jury, while a Senator, accused of receiving $2500 for his Influence In Washington, Is convicted. It's a strange world. A bevy of gentlemen in Oregon's First Congressional District desire the Re publican nomination for Representa tive. They are all very- fine gentlemen, and known afar as such. Doubtless they have Ideas on public questions, and will consent to take the people Into their confidence at the fitting time. One of their opinions, of high interest. Is whether eight of the nine aspirants now in the field, after the primaries, should support or "knife" the nominee. Another opinion 'of interest Is whether the candidates should each reserve their answer until after the primaries, to see if the "other fellow" is to be the nomi nee Instead of themselves. Whether the Peace Convention is to take its name from Portsmouth. N. H.. or from Klttery. Me.. Js a question that agitates the mind of New England, and the antiquaries are at werk'on the gen ealogies of the towns. The towns lie opposite each other in the respective states, "adorning." as the poetic enthu siasm of the Boston Globe puts 1L "as with golden teeth the -mouth of the Pis cataqua." That ought to suffice. It Is not. necessary to have a big town for an important treaty. Witness Canape For mto. Amiea-s and Ghent- and many more yoti may think of if yon try. Sherman County has a roof-lifting windstorm. It is a mystery past find ing out. If It had occurred in "Baker Cevnty. or Umatilla, or Multnomah, or Mario-, or Ltan, or Jeglas, or Jack sea. It might be. expied. for those eoonties are a-tnowAcisig cendkUiBai iar .C OREGON OZONE " Celebrities. How they come and how they go! Yesterday 'twas Patrick Crowe: Then an hour or so 'twas gay Nancy Patterson; tsday Cassle Chadwlck holds ths stage For & column or a page. Bows and vanishes: and thecsky Comes the awesome Rojestveaskyl Carrie Nation came -in view Back in nlneteeo-hundred-two; Stephen Brodie climbed the ridge. Then he Jumped the final bridge; Blgelow dallied with the bank. Then he swiftly walked the plank.. When was Casey at the batkin? Where, oh. where Is Kuropatkin? So they go and so they comet Now they make the presses hum For a day or for a night. Then they vanish out of sight; But of this we may be sure There is one that will endure: Though the rest be gone, or going. Ne'er will Patrick cease from Crowelngl sThe difference between a horse, and some people Is that the former has horse sense. A Los Angeles doctor charged with mal practice declares that he Is a graduate of 13 medical colleges. Truly that Is an unlucky number, for bis patients. The "Bunch of Beauts From Butte" is the nonclasslcal title bestowed upon the bevy of beauties, ten in number (count em ten) who are Tlsjtlng the Lewis and Clark Exposition as guests of the Even ing News, of Butte. Mont. Now, what have you to say to that, Boston. Mass.? Letter From a Self-Made Idiot to IHmseir. Idlotvllle. July 22.-My Dear Me: I am sure that I shall be delighted to re ceive this letter from myself. Surely no body can write more lovely letters than I: then why should I not write letters to myself I, the self-made? I lone to tell myself what I think of myself. I burn with eagerness to be stow upon myself, in sweet confidence. the honor that is due me- When I think what a delightful success I have made of myself I alone," all self-made, all mine I am positively feverish with fond ad miration. Ah, me! admirable mel I am alto gether mine, to have and to hold, until death do us nay! not even death shall part us. for I will be me forever, mine own devout admirer throughout eternity. Sublime thous-ht! I am thrilled to the utmost edges of my Ego! Ah. how I am filled and thrilled with myself mr own mighty me-ness! I have made myself what I am; I have evolved myself from a mere molecule to an awe some entity; I am I 1 alone! Others may desire to see themselves as others see them, but I shall prefer-to see myself as I see myself, and I shall therefore commune with myself "alone. Now I must close, and dress for dinner. The ladles downstairs, await my coming with eager anticipation. I can see their fond hearts flutter. Ah, how adorable I am! Mine as ever, with tender self- love. S.-M. IDIOT. P. S. Write often, my own. my only I. "What would you think of me If I said that It la very possible to reach the North Pole In 'an airshlpT asks Santos Dumont or his press agent. We'd think Just- the same of you as we have thought since the St. Louis episode of your slashed gas-bag. Santy4' No matter what wild and woolly theory you may advance. It cannot make us .think any the worse of you. Don't worry, at all. It is sold that Montgblfier, inventor of the balloon, inflated his first apftfratus with hot air. Aeronauts and airship builders ever since have been using this same hot air for exploitation purposes. When a man becomes so fond of his own company that he plays solitaire in the midst of a crowd, the person who promulgated the proverb that while there's life there's hope Is proved guilty of prevarication. ROBERTUS LOVE. TEXAS' BEAUTIFUL CAPITOL. And How If Was Built Without an Appropriation. William E. Curtis In a Letter from Aus tin. Texas. With the exception of New York, Texas has the largest and finest capltol of any state In the Union. It stands on an em! nence in the center of the City of Austin, and was built by A. M. Babeock, of Cri cago. and his associates, John V. Far well, C B. Farwell and Abner Taylor. The circumstances were unique. The building did not cost the taxpayers a dot lar in money. The syndicate received as compensation a tract of 3.000.COO acres of land lying In the northwestern part of the state, mostly In the Panhandle. They had considerable difficulty in realizing upon t. because the panic of 1393 occurred at a critical period In the enterprise. But the people of Texas lost nothing. They got a splendid statehouse without paying a dollar or doing a day's labor or losing an hour's sleep. The offices provided for the officials are large and convenient, and the halls for the meetings of the two houses of the Assembly are noble apart ments. The state courts, the state libra ry and other Institutions have more room than they want Few states have been so wise as Texas in providing for the future. Origin of Dog Days. London Chronicle. According to the generally accepted doc trine, the dog days begin on July 3 and end on August 11. but there have been disputes as to every possible point about them. It was universally agreed that they were connected with the Dog Star, but which one? The real Dog Star. Slr lus or Procyon, the Little Dog? Then mere were disagreements as to the par ticular astronomical performance of the star that fixed the dog days; as to their number which varied, in different esti mates between 30 and 54: and whether they were to be reckoned before, after or around the stara performances. The 40 settled on precede the rising of Sirius with the sun. A belief grew p mat in. these days dogs went mad, but terrestrial dogs have really nothing to do with It, The original belief was that the star and sun together brought intense heat and all sorts of plagues. Longfellow's Meaning. Catholic Standard and Times. Teacher Now. WlHle. I want to -see If you can remember that little verse I re cited to you yesterday. Came, now: "Lives of great men all remind us" what's the rest? Willie I don't Just reJaamber the words, but I think I know wat they me&at. Teacher Well? They remind ae Willie That we ean go to the seashore and play in the saad all the time. By Comparison. Wasfemgtoa Feet.' "The Japanese are not ayetiew race at aX.' says the rhHaaalhtk Isj4rer; "they are, ewty tan ad." SttK.- they have I tfcwsMjMr a the WORDS FORjOUR f AIR. " An Appreciative Article oa Omr Pa cific States. Boston Transcript. The Lewis and Clark Exposition now "In progress at Portland. Or Is sometning like an Alaskan Summer, being of com paratively brief duration but very busy while its lasts. Reasoning from the for tunes of national and International ex positions of recent years and various pre tensions In this country, there were many to predict that the backers of the Oregon enterprise were preparing a frost for them selves, a disappointment to tne country, and a humiliation for the city; but the' reports that reach us from that center of. attraction make It apparent that thus far patronage and appreciation have been realized in considerably larger measure than was anticipated. That 'is something to, think of and perhaps wonder at a world's fair right on the heels of another world's fair, and apparently scoring a success while its Immediate predecessor was more or less of a failure. A41 this goes to prove that we cannot , construct great triumphs along this line upon the basis of a national sentiment mat clusters about great events. The Louisiana Purchase was perhaps a larger j and more vital feature of our national history man me exploits of Lewis and Clark, valuable as the latter must be regarded. But these are only names, and they have had no potency In winning patronage to the two elaborate enter prises organized In commemoration of them. We do not attend shows because we are moved by patriotic Impulses, but because we want to be entertained or amused or personally profited. Yet there-has been operative a -kind of local patriotism responsible for the "move ment" at Portland. It is not the great East or the Middle West that is throng ing to see the sights and enjoy the elab orate provision made for their enjoyment. but the Pacific states, iney reel mat this is their affair and they are going to stand by It. There may be many who have never heard of Lewis and Clark who yet have a profound sense of their sec tional tangibilities and potentialities, and these are the matters to which they are lending their support. California. Wash ington. Idaho, Utah and Nevada as far as she goes have Joined hands svlth Ore gon. The section is more than the state. This is its first great opportunity for ex ploitation and they are -going to make the most or It possible. It Is a long journey across the continent. but it Is one worth the making at any time, and particularly so at this time when special economies may be practiced through taking advantage of the lower rates offered by the transcontinental lines. and which are flexible enough to afford diversion Into the various attractions of that wonderful country that lies between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast. It is an enlightening as well as stimulating trip, And probably not for some time again will there be so favor able a season for taking it. "Lobster," In Slang-. "Lobster" is so often used In Its slang sense that many have been moved to In quire as to its origin as applied to per sons as a term of reproach. Replying to one of these Inquiries, the Philadelphia Press gives the following facts: The word "lobster" is usually credited with belonging to the sporting man's vernacu lar, and with having had Its origin on the racetrack. As a. lobster (which In reality goes sideways) Is accredited with locomotion backward, the word would be applied in disgust to any horse that made a poor showing in the race. The extension to other laggards would be a natural sequence. Another suggested "origin Is more ancient, and. one may add. more plausible. In letters from Sir Walter Scott to William Clark of Eldln. under date of September 10 and 30, 1792. we . find allusions to the word "lobster" aa a playful sobriquet for the redcoat of ficers and soldiers of the British army. In this case a boiled lobster Is meant, as per evidence of the following couplet, one familiar to the English street boys and quoted whenever a rifleman In green was seen walking arm In arm with a soldier in redr There go two lobsters, claw In claw. One is boiled and ''other's raw. We are told that Sir Arthur Hazlerlgg in Cromwell's time commanded a regi ment of cuirassiers who "from their com plete armor obtained the nickname of lobsters." (Baldock's "Cromwell as a Soldier.") What was mere raillery In England may readily have grown Into an expression of hatred and contempt in America at the time of the Revolution, and. In point of fact, Bancroft's "History of . the United States' tells us that "lob sters" was one of the abusive epithets applied to the soldiers by the mob on the occasion of the Boston massacre- Keeps His Money on the Move. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. If there Is any waste hat can he viewed with equanimity It Is the free and easy squandering by Death Valley "Scotty" of his gold. Here Is no fortune painfully accumulated by toll and thrift, to be dissipated by an Improvident heir. Scott found It, It is his and he doesn't know what to do with it now that he has Jt. It. Is nothing subtracted from the general store, but a now addition to the world's wealth- Ideally it should go di rectly to the Nation for the people's good. But there can be no great harm In having It get Into quick circulation by tho -effective method of special trains and high-priced motor cars. The falla cious theory of extravagance as a public benefit comes as near to justification here as anywhere. He might do worse with his money than to throw it away. The Cart Or the Horse? Milwaukee Wisconsin. . Secretary Bonaparte says that the graft evil is the result of the spoils system In politics. But there are others who regard the spoils system In politics as the result of the graft evil. Which ever is the cart and whichever la the horse, there can be no quibbling regard ing the soundness of Secretary Bona parte's advice to voters to use the bal lot against all grafters in puduc me. NEWSPAPER WAIFS. It takes two to make a bargain, but one can break iL Philadelphia Record. Dressmaker And would you have leg of mut ton sleeves, madam T Customer Most cer tainly net. I am a vegetarian! Punch. "Did you ever see such an ostentatious dls ular of wealth?" Never! One would think they were really rich-" Brooklyn Ufe. New Tork Man Why do they call Boston "the Hub"? San Francisco Man Because the swiftest part of the country Is the furthest from it. I gueea. Cleveland Leader, pa, why do you always Insist on my sing-- tag when Mr. Spooxleton comes here 7" "Well. I don't like the. fellow, and yet I hate to co-ae right out and tell him. to go." Chicago Record-Kerald. "There are too many grafters to the world," said the patriotic citizen. "Unques tionably." answered Senator Sorghum. "Pretty sooa there won't be enough graft to go 'round." WasMagten Stir. "Yon can't judge pf de Importance of what ee-le does by de noise dey makes," aald Uncle Ebea. "A goose egg la mo' dan twice as Ms aa a hen egg an Is laid wlfout no eaeklia whataseaever." Washington Star: Ready for the &trggle. Edwia rm peer. devest. Ws shall have to live very almply. Angelina Why. of course! When we're rear- rled m golf aad yacht Jaat lets! Because oa oaa do thaee thhtga la ssch etasple dresses. ye kaow. Chicago Dally News. "Se glad yott itaally -aaaaged to visit as,' saM Mrs. S-fere. e Ylrghsla. "First of all. seme rirfct latto Use afetare saUery: I wast ts afcsw yo mr " "My laassl' exetsJsaed Mrs.' XteMer. af Chlaage. "I did katsW s?i tu twar a sWun." Pa m s 1 tfcln a Fitssx rf GRAFT IN GREAT BRITAIN. Boston Transcript. At this time, when so much Is said and written about corruption In our politics and high finance, when the public is in dignant over the "cotton leak" scandal in the Agricultural Department, an American need not be a. cynic to derive comfort from reading English papers- of the Liberal persuasion. They bristle with denunciations of the corruption and mis management which made the African stores scandal possible, and, according to Arnold White, the people "of England are so depressed by the revelations dally made of what we call "grafting" that they drink to drown their sorrow. That at least Is the interpretation to be placed on his utterance at a great meeting held in London. After setting forth nu merous examples of grafting he said, he believed mat "the real origin of the peo ple's indulgence In drink was hopeless ness." Perhaps Mr. White was carried by the vehemence of his denunciations rather farther than he meant to go. but he certainly did present some startling Indictments of Parliament as , having made itself simply a registry of the de crees of the ministry. Party rules everything In England, ac cording to Mr. White, and the people aro nowhere. He does not see that aCchange of party ascendancy carries with It much promise of a reform. Said Mr. v nlte: "Under our constitutional system, If is Inevitable that the. stores scandal should become a party question, but the mero dismissal of one party and the substitu tion of their rival? does not touch tho root of the evlL Those in authority are really opposed to reform, not because they are themselves corrupt, but because subtle corruption In various forms is now interwoven with the fabric of our admin istrative system, and nothing short of rudely shaking the present authority to Its foundations will do more than palliate a disease requiring surgery, not drugs. We want the middle and working classes to govern the country." Would the middle or working classes do any better? is a question to which others are not so sure of their answer as Mr. White appears to be. A wave of In difference to moral obligations in money matters seena to be sweeping "over tho world. Mr. White gives an instance of Its effect on England, when he tells of a "gentleman." now deceased, who for 27 years made the annua) declaration that he was In necessitous circumstances requisite to his drawing a pension, and whose estate was probated as of the value of $l,775.00ft. Evidently, "me retainer ldea Is current in Great Britain, s The Jury. Corvallls Times. According to the view of Flook and Walker, the ten men should have come over to them and have returned a verdict of acquittal. It often happens that two men know more than ten men as towhat a verdict should be. especially if one's name Is Flook. When ones name Is Obadiah Flook, and he halls from Olalla, then It Is- almost certain mat the other jurors in the case, so far as law points are concerned, don't know enough to be at large. . Of course the ten men on the jury had views, and of, .course they endeavored in the Jury-room jo impress those views on the two. but whit of. that? Of .course, too. the views of the ten men. in the opinion of all the people of Oregon, are correct, but what of that to an Inspired pair of jurors like Flook and Walker? The fact that the pair offered to vote for the conviction of Gesner and Biggs if the ten would vote for the acquittal of Williamson makes the blind goddess of justice squirm. It suggests that If. Instead of the ten men. ten cherubim had been on the Jury the "result would have been, the same the Flookses and Walkers would have hung the jury- Their superior wisdom on evidence ana law pints, apparently, knocKs me courts all holler." A Spartan Exposed. - Exchange. It was In the commercial room of an hotel, and the conversation had turned on the topic of the powers of endur ance shown by men of tne past ana present. During a lull in the conver sation a young drummer said: "Any man. if he has the will po.wer. can endure pain or fatigue; I know I can." Silence for a moment, and an old man or tne roaa repuea; Til bet you a dinner that you can t hold your right foot boots on In ai bucket of hot water as long as x can. The bet was taken, and two buck ets of "hot water were brought In, and a kettlet of boiling water to raise the temperature to the point or endurance. In went a foot of each bettor. The young one's face began to pale, but the other called. ior more- Douing; water. - . "What' the deuce is your leg made of, sir?" yelled the youngster, sud denly taking his foot irom me DucKet "Cork, sir cork," was the coot answer, and the other man felt that he hod Indeed lost. Blasts Rout Sittin-r Hens. New York Evening Telegram Farmers along the main line of the! Pennsylvania Railroad have a somewhat unusual complaint. Tney wm proDaDiy nnt hrlnsr suit asralnst the company, duc they claim their hens will not sit and that the company is to Diame. Tha building of me new low-grane- freight line is causing ail me trouble. A. large amount of blasting Is being done, and the farmers declare that hens will not remain in the nests while It Is in progress. They also say me snocK ot the blasts kills the chicks before they aro. hatched. There will be few little chickens alon-fi the main lino thl3 Spring. Going Cheap. t Louisville Courier-Journal. - Senator Steele I want $50,000 for that: Job Railway Magnate You won't getvtha tenth part of it- Senators are going to jail now for $2000. This Is a bear market for Senators. No Longer Useful. New York Tribune. General Stoessel Is not to be allowed to receive the sword subscribed for. by his French admirers just after the fall of Port Arthur. However, the General Is not In pressing need of a sword these dass.' Paul Jones. " ' Clyde Furst. In The Critic Land of his fond adoption, from the. past Welcome thy bravo commander, who at last Returns, o'er chance and time the conqueror. Triumphant, as o'er sea and strife before. Salute and honor hint, forever famed With commodores and admirals -who claimed Freedom for nation, slave and fellow-nan Who won the triple fight that he began. Thus much Is done, nobly and. well, yet long Is still the strife 'twlxt righteousness and wronr. Already there appears a strengthening host Of traitors to liberty. In. self so lost They eels and seal from, weaker men & poor The birthright they belle for gold and poweri Forgetful that whoever would receive The gift of freedom, must aa freely givel Let us then honor' and commemorate- The aames aad deeds ot thoee so truly .great They gave the-aselves to free their fellowBsea; That la tas their high ceal may rise asate. Bebuke or sternly punish, as we IB net. All who would crusfc their fellows to the aVssc. Thus saay the esaaa4aM ot Liberty Le4 the ae-c, warfare of Ha-aawtty. Aad. far wMMsl tame'a fuBansa; fceraMs se Of aatr bast aestteir, aassaHy !pr" 'rw" i f s"rv - iAtn- - -X ""llKiS s I-----.-.' t.r