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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, NOV. 13, 1900.
MJi. UOMPEKS' REPORT.
President Gompers' report to the
twenty-sixth annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor, now in
session at Minneapolis, tends to con
firm the opinion already widely held
that he id an astute strategist of . high
character and moderate opinions.
Though the report deals altogether
with matters in controversy, some
times exceedingly bitter, its tone is
reasonable and fair throughout. He
uses no harsh language and little inten
tional exaggeration. Of course, opin
ions must vary in regard to the state
ments which Mr. Gompers makes and
the measures which he advocates; but
he setii some of his opponents a fine
example of restrained and dispassionate
discussion. .
I Many will take issue with Mr. Gom
pers upon hie assertion that "The mod
ern labor movement has done, is dbing
and will undoubtedly do, more in the
interest of mankind and to humanize
the human family than all other agen
cies combined.'.' One would not be sur
prised to see it met by the counter
statement that this honor belongs to
the churches. To the efforts of the
churches for their betterment working
men commonly object, however, that
they are unpractical. There is a cur
rent belief that the churches incline to
seek a solution of present difficulties
in promises whose fulfillment is de
ferred to a future too uncertain and
remote for the pressing needs of strug
gling men.
"Nothing has been brought to labor
on a silver platter," Mr. Gompers truly
and somewhat pathetically remarks.
All that haa been won hae been earned
'by the hardest kind of work. Perhaps
this work has been even harder than
was entirely, necessary. Labor has
often allowed itself to seek by violence
ends which it might have reached by
gentler methods, had its zeal been tem
pered with adequate wisdom. The use
of the ballot to gain those ende which
have sometimes been sought through
strikes and boycotts has been delayed
surpriwingly long. The ballot is the
accepted and constitutional means
through, which Americans must bring
about the reforms which they desire.
The remark of the New York Evening
Post that the entrance of organized
labor into politics means class hatred
id absurd. It means, much more like
ly, the allayment of claas hatred. What
is accomplished through the ballot must
be done by force of fact and reason.
Is this not better than brickbats, riots
and injunctions? All other interests
seek their ends through political activ
ity; why should not workmen do the
same? There ie nothing to fear and
much to hope from the entrance of or
ganized labor into politics. It means
that the great army of labor accepts
American ideas as to the proper means
of progress and abandons the outworn
resort to violence. It is a notable tri
umph of reason over brute force'.
Mr. Gompers in summing up the re
sults attained thus far through politi
cal activity, presents no very startling
facts. He states that in the campaign
a great moral victory has been -won,
and that "there has been among all
our people a general awakening in be
half of labor's just demands." If this
were true and nothing more had been
gained, Mr. Gompers might rest satis
fied with the outcome of hie innovation;
But, as a matter of fact, he under
rates the results. Both in Congress
and in some of the state legislatures
labor has acquired a substantial repre
sentation. The president of the Federation ar
guee the question of the eight-hour day
with temperate confidence. He believes
that "in our time there can no longer
be justification nor excuse for defer
ring the ideal and practical universal
workday of eight hours." Dispassion
ate students are prepared to admit,
with reservations, his statement that
the eight-hour day diminishes neither
the output of productive industry nor
the profits of capital. The history of
industry admits of no other conclusion.
But there are serious difficulties in the
way of a "universal" eight-hour work
day. The farmer, for example, could
hardly adopt it without ruin; though
it must be admitted that the arrange
ment of the fanner's work is at pres
ent so unstudied and slovenly that no
body knows Just what it is capable of
In the way of abridgment. Farmwork
and kitchenwork are the two industrial
realms where tradition has always had
a clean sweep, and common sense has
had little or no Influence.
ONE LIFE AT A TIME.
Rev. P. J. Green is an exponent of
"rational divine healing." He hae
formulated a theory that will bring
gladness to those who fear and dread
death as an enemy, while those who,
with Dr. Edward Young, of "Night
Thoughts," believe that the King of
Terror is in fact the Prince of Peace,
and school themselves in readiness to
meet death, when, in the course of
nature, it comes to them, will adhere
without dismay to the old, if not the
more "rational" way of thinking.
Whether the theory that mankind can
conquer pain, disease and, ultimately,
death itself, is true or false, Mr.
Green's exhortation is well worthy of
consideration. It is "Stop thinking of
ihort life; stop thinking of death and
sickness; let the mind est on health
ful, pleasant things; make yourself use
ful and be happy." While it is not
likely that the "last enemy" will be
conquered by following this advice, the
individual who heeds it will enjoy life
while ' it lasts and be a much more
cheerful companion and useful citizen
than he who thinks it his duty to "be
mindful of death," and in his zeal to
prepare for another life. Ignores many
of the most sacred obligations of the
present.
Of all the dismal,'. unhappy, disagree
able creatures that live, he who makes
a constant study of his physical ails
and presses his own demise, only to
deplore and groan over the Inevitable,
Is the most to be shunned. He who
orders his life in accordance with the
admonition, "Be mindful of death," not
only "dies daily," but limits the useful
ness of all with whom he is naturally
associated, by making them impatient
and unhappy. There is a volume of
truth and helpfulness in the brief day
sermon contained in the words: "Wise
ly Improve the present it is time;" or,
as more primarily stated: "One life at
a time; make the most of it."
REINCARNATION.
The report that the old idea of "rein
carnation"' has been chosen for the
theme of a play by a Chicago writer,
Is interesting. It shows among other
things how abiding is the interest of
the general public in the things of the
soul. Theee mysteries, deep as they
are and forever baffling, never fail to at
tract and often to charm, one is a lit
tle puzzled to understand how the au
thor imparts dramatic movement to
the metaphysical theories of Pythago
ras and the Hindoos, but it seems from
the report that she has succeeded.
Rider Haggard used the idea of re
incarnation to good purpose in his fa
mous tale of "She." Wordsworth al
luded to it, if nothing more, in the
greatest ode in the English language,
borrowing Plato's doctrine that "our
birth is but a sleep and a forgetting,"
and that the soul comes to earth from
a state of preexistence. "Not in entire
forgetfulness and not in utter 'naked
ness, but trailing clouds of glory." The
glory fades, according to Wordsworth,
as we grow older, but Plato held, or at
least Socrates did, as Plato reports him,
that it gets brighter and brighter all
through life.
He taught that the process of "learn
ing" is but a remembering of things
which we have known in a previous
state of existence and partially forgot
ten. Hence to Socrates teaching was
but the art of making pupfls search
their minds for these-dim recollections.
He believed that the teacher could by
skillful questions bring out the most
abstruse knowledge from the dullest
mind. . He therefore 'called himself
and by implication, all teachers, "mid
wives," because they assist at the birth
of knowledge from the soul.
The idea .of reincarnation is one of
the most abiding and vital in the his
tory of religion. Shakespeare did not
disdain to -allude to It in Twelfth
Night. "What is the opinion of Pytha
goras concerning wildfowl?" inquires
the Clown; to which unhappy Malvoiio
correctly replies that thfe great philoso
pher believed "the soul of our grandam
might haply inhabit a bird." There is
an allurement, one must confess, in the
belief that the souls of men go after
death into beastly or human, bodies,
which express their ruling passions in
life; one into a hog, another into an
ass. No other creed seems quite so con
sonant with the demands of exact jus
tice. THE TIDEWATER RATE.
The advantages of water transporta
tion cannot be nullified by any at
tempted favoritism" on the part of the
railroads for inland cities or towns
which are beyond the zone affected
by the tidewater rate. The American
Hawaiian Steamship Company is today
handling more freight between Atlan
tic Coast ports and North Pacific Coast
ports than was ever handled in the
same length of time before the rail
roads came into this country. Not
only is the company now operating the
largest fleet of steamers afloat under
the American flag, but it has under
construction a larger amount of ton
nage to be used in this trade than
has ever before been contracted for
by one company. As soon as this in
creased amount of tonnage is available,
direct and frequent connection Between
the Atlantic and the Pacific will be es
tablished by way of the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, and there will without
doubt be a still further reduction in
freight, which must be met by the rail
road companies or they will lose a still
greater proportion of the business than
is now drifting away from them.
Spokane is very much offended at the
attitude of the Pacific Coast jobbers in
protesting against the granting of a
water terminal rate to an inland port
which has not the advantage of water
transportation. And yet the granting
of such a rate to a port located more
than 400 miles inland, would be an In
justice to the water seaports on the Pa
cific Coast, and in the end would be of
no benefit to Spokane. The water car
riers which are now delivering im
mense quantities of Atlantic Coast
freight at Seattle, Tacoma and -Portland,
make a much lower rate on many
of the commodities carried than is
made by the railroad companies. On
other commodities, the rate, is nearly
and in some cases fully as high as the
rate made by .the railroad companies,
but in all cases, the water rate is the
base on which the railroads must fix
their charges. If they desire to partici
pate in the Pacific Coast trade, they
must make the rate law enough to meet
this water competition.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
will' of course not toe influenced by the
clamor of the Coast jobbers or the pro
tests of the Spokane jobbers. What It
will do will be to investigate and learn
the conditions which govern the fixing
of both rail and water rates. This In
vestigation will disclose the fact that
the railroads must make a very low
rate to the Coast jobbers in order to
prevent the business going over to the
steamers which can carry it at a much
lower cost per ton per mile. If it
goes over to the steamers, the railroads
will be obliged to haul empty cars to
the coael for use in . transporting the
lumber, salmon, fruit and other Coast
products, and.it will of course become
necessary' to increase the rate to meet
the added expense of hauling the
empty cars. The Interstate Commerce
Commission, since its inception, has
recognized the advantages of water
transportation . and the limits it has
placed on the fixing of rates to tide
water points.
Neither Portland nor the other Coast
cities is making any fight against Spo
kane. They have simply raised a dig
nified protest against the nullification
of the natural advantages conferred on
the port by attempted favoritism for a
port less fortunately situated. What
Spokane demands in the way of water
terminal rates can with equal justice
be asked by a dozen other inland cities
which are now not enjoying tidewater
freight rates simply because they are
located hundreds of miles from tide
water. The Almighty has taken such
a prominent part In fixing conditions
which regulate these rates that the
work is easier for the Interstate Com
merce. Commission than, it otherwise
would have been.
VANITY OF SALMON THEORIES.
Fisheries on the lower Columbia River
always deny that long open season Is
endangering the recurring annual sal
mon supply. Their opposition to closed
season withheld the Oregon Fish War
den from enforcing the closed season
In 1904, and their influence has secured
from Legislatures repeated extensions
of open season. It has been proved
that they cannot be stayed from taking
salmon in closed season, if there are
any considerable schools of fish In the
river unless there shall be a resolute
and determined Oregon Warden and
Washington Commissioner, beyond the
reach of their persuasions.
Gillnetters, trapmen, seiners, canners
and cold-storage men have theories ga
lore about the waning supply of
Spring salmon, and the increased runs
of August salmon. Few of the
theories last more than a year
or two. Most of them are in
vented to satiafy their authors that
salmon supply is governed by condi
tions entirely independent of the annual
quantities of salmon caught. Their au
thors persuade themselves by such
means, when a large school of fish is
in the river during closed season or
when they seek to lengthen the open
season, that they are not damaging
the industry by working their gear,
canneries and cold-storage plants to
full capacity. The greed for immediate
private gain outweighs considerations
of future growth of the industry.
So little is known of salmon that
assertions of fact can be accepted only
after long and unbiased observation.
One fact, accepted by learned scientific
experts and by unprejudiced observero,
and recognized in legislation, is the
saving efficacy of closed season. It
will lend to the general understanding
of the perplexing salmon question, to
sweep aside theories and other rubbish,
and to center attention on the subject
of closed season. It will be seen that
there the whole fight wages. Exten
sion of the open season has been driven
as far as it is worth while to take
salmon, and the fisheries are ready to
fight any considerable curtailment of
open season.
Many explanations for salmon phe
nomena have been advanced on the
Columbia by old fishermen, or old can
ners or old settlers, nearly alt of which
have been abandoned. In 1904, when
the closed season was not. enforced,
small take of salmon eggs at the hatch
eries (little improvement since) brought
out several plausible theories, one of
them that of the impassable Swan Falls
Dam in 1900, another that of a "dry
Fall" and "waterspouts" in 1904.
One explanation, however, has not
been exploded that of Claudius Wal
lich, then superintendent for this
district of the United States hatch
eries, a man of wide study in
fish matters and one of the beet experts
in the United States.
"If the fish are in the can," said he
in a letter to Warden Van Dusen, "we
cannot expect to find them at the
spawning grounds. . . This year (1904)
no closed season was observed, and the
pack of . the commercial fisheries was
fully up to the average, while at the
beginning of what should have consti
tuted the closed season (August 15)
they had only half a pack. Last year
(season closed August 15) the take of
eggs at our Columbia River station was
40,000,000, while this year it will not be
5,000,000. . . Almost every fish han
dled at the Little and Big White sal
mon stations, that was large enough,
showed unmistakable marks of gill-net
twine."
Since that letter was written the open
season has been extended ten days
after August 15, and the explanation
of Mr. Wallich's has been verified each
season in small takes of eggs at the
Government's station. Mr. Wallich
said further (see Master Fish Warden's
report for 1905, page 116):
All this talk about the lateness of the
fish entering the river during the past few
treasons. Is not all founded on facts. Were
It really so we should expect the fish to
appear later and later on their several
spawning grounds. 'I have been connected
during the past seven years, at one time or.
another, with the majority of the hatching
stations on this Coast, and I have never
known salmon to vary more than a few
days, either in making their appearance or
in their maturity at a given point.
The abundance of the late schools of sal
mon, during the past few years, is in strik
ing contrast with the paucity of the earlier
runs of fish and Is due to two causes, one
of which is the closed season, beginning
on August lr (since shortened to August
which was rigorously observed until
the present year, and the other reason, I
have great cause to suspect, is the assist
ance rendered by the hatcheries of both the
state and Federal Government.
If there was any doubt as to what runs
were handled by the Federal hatcheries, that
are tributary to the Columbia, that doubt
in my mfrnd, from my experience In the
past two seasons, is now thoroughly dis
pelled. It Is scarcely necessary for me to
call your attention to the reasons therefor,
as you are well aware that the exact date,
even the- exact hour, of the entrance of
schools of salmon into the Columbia River
are known; that last year, up to July :JO.
no amount of fish entered the river. This
year the conditions up to July 30 were prac
tically! the same as last year (and were the
same In 1905 and 11)0(1). The runs of fish
subsequent to this date, while not so large
as last year, were undoubtedly of average
size.
A suitable motto for the Columbia
River fisheries is the expression of Mr.
Wallich's: "If the fish wre in the can,
we cannot expect to find them on their
spawning grounds." It has been the
wish of the fisheries, that no matter
how many salmon they should take
from the river, enough would remain
to reseed the industry. This wish is
the father of many theories, and If they
shall be scrutinized closely, their mo
tive will be plain the desire "to eat
one's cake and have it. too."
Searchers for "real Western color with
which to illuminate their tales of the
frontier have for some time been com
plaining that all the snap and ginger
of -the old life in the West bad de
parted. To a certain extent, this is
true. The genuine Indians have nearly
all followed the buffalo over the di
vide into the happy hunting grounds
of the Great Spirit. The modern cow
boy is less careless with his shooting
iron and his branding iron than he
was in the old days, but it is an
error to believe that all of the pic
turesque ' deviltry which gave color
to early days in the West has been
eliminated. The bad man with the gun
out on the fringe of civilization is fully
as bad as his predecessor of earlier
years. In proof, note the fatal duel
over a ppker game out In the wilds of
Harney County. Aside from the fact
that the body of the victim is in the
morgue, and the victor In jail, the stage
settings of this incident of modern
frontier life contain great possibilities
for the production of thrills If they are
properly handled by the word painter
who seeks Western color for a story.
The sensational newspapers of the
country recently made elaborate com
ment on the fact that Mr. Howard
Gould, of New York, had a Chinaman
for a brother-in-law. News now com
ing to hand from Paris would indicate
that he also has a good deal of an
"Indian" for a brother-in-law. Com
parisons, according to Mrs. Parting
ton, are "odorous," but, ignoring any
racial favoritism, it would seem that
Mr. Gould has much more cause for
being proud of Brother-in-Law Ah Sin,
the heathen Chinee, than of Brother-in-Law
Boni, the heathen Castellane.
Brother-in-Law Ah Sin runs a laundry.
Brother-in-Law Boni should "be run
through one and then emptied into
the sewer.
Now comes the East Side Business
Men's Club asking that streetcar con
ductors be instructed, and, if neces
sary, compelled, to stop their cars so
that passengers can alight upon street
intersections instead of in the mud of
the street. The next thing we know
these intermeddlers will suggest that
car conductors be instructed to assist
the woman with the baby and the other
baby in her effort to board his car or
alight from it. They may even push
their way into the inner office and ask
that the steps of streetcars be dropped
four inches for the benefit of tugging,
straining humanity.
According to careful estimates, based
upon the average ruling price for the
crop last year, the apple industry will
bring in the Hood River district not
less than $300,000 this year. This sum
should be sufficient to stifle all jealousy
of other apple growing sections of the
state. There is room for all. The
Spitzenberg is a Spitzenberg, still.
Whether grown to perfection in a Hood
River orchard or in an orchard of
Yamhill or Marion County, or In the
sunny valley of the Umpqua or Rogue
River. All are Oregon apples. Let us
not forget this basic fact.
The championship for swift tjpe
writing in the late contest at the Na
tional Business Men's Show at Madi
son Square Garden was won by Miss
Rose L. Feitz, with a score of 2467
words from dictation in half an hour,
her work showing but five errors. The
content was a close one, her competi
tor, Paul . Munter, having written in
the same time 2466 words, making thir
teen errors in his work. The achieve
ment in both cases recorded a phenome
nal combination of human intelligence
and quickness of movement.
Nearly a month has elapsed since the
British bark Iverna 'appeared off the
mouth of the river, and she is still at
sea. The vessel is so long overdue that
she must certainly be short of provi
sions, 'and undoubtedly there is suffer
ing aboard. A revenue cutter should
be sent out to look for her at once.
Her experience and the indifference
with which the matter has been treat
ed will not enhance'the reputation of
the port among foreign shipowners.
Fild-er Snyder should devote a pint
or two of midnight oil to his Darwin
before he lectures on Evolution again..
Evolution does not teach that the
"strongest" survive, as the Elder mis
takenly states. It is the "fit" that
survive, and the fit are often the weak.
Mere strength never hae been much
of a saving factor in evolution. Cun
ning, gregariousness, the spirit of sac
rifice and many others have been far
more potent.
The death of. Mr?'. S. C. Travis in
this city Sunday closed a long life
abounding in cheerfulness, helpfulness
and good works. Those who will miss
and mourn her are not confined to the
circle of her church, her home or her
family. They comprise many members
of the community in which for nearly a
score of years she went her cheerful,
hopeful way, charitable way.
Mrs. Sage intends to bestow her JS0,
000,000 upon those, who are too proud
to beg and too feeble to dig. Some
would hold that it were better to de
vote the money to those who are will
ing and able to dig, but lack the oppor
tunity? It is a difficult problem; but
Mrs. Sage is a discreet woman, and
if her solution is not the best possible
It is still good.
The maniacal orgy of crime in Pitts
burg is the logical outcome of the law
lessness of its millionaires. Criminality
is contagious. In the upper classes it
takes the form of sensual depravity.
In the gutters it appears as murder and
burglary. When one social stratum
rots, all must rot.
President McDoel is troubled with the
haunting dread that under government
ownership the railroads would "develop
into an immense political machine."
This is indeed a fearful anticipation;
but what are they now?
What scriptural authority doe Rev.
H. C. Shaffer find for setting $25,000 as
the limit of a Christian's wealth? Can
he quote a text to that purport?
The more candidates the Democratic
party tries, the less it is disposed to re
gard Bryan's defeats as absolute fail
ures. The Duke of Marlborough and Count
Castellane are fighting like little men
for their pensions.
It ought to be worth more money to
Anna Gould to get rid of Boni than to
keep him.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is not equal to
Mrs. Nick Longworth as a helpmate.
HOXKST AND LOYAL DEMOCRATS
How They Were Betrayed by the Guns;
at Saratoga.
(This striking article, published by tho
New York Sun on the day after the election
in New York, ought tc be reprinted in every
section of the United States.)
If Mr. Jerome had been nominated
by petition and had gone into the cam
paign on the same footing as that upon
which he sought and won his present
place he would have been elected.
Hearst In that event, if he ran at ail,
which is unlikely, would have had to
be content with the nomination of his
close corporation, the so-called Inde
pendence League.
The Democrats at Buffalo would have
indorsed Jerome. They could not have
done otherwise.
The Republicans at Saratoga would
not have nominated Hughes. They did
not want him. They would have nom
inated Higgins, or possibly Black, and
the election of either would have been
impossible. Hughes was nominated
only In tardy recognition of the spectre
of Hearst and because the most con
summate and masterly politician of
our time compelled the cowed and ir
resolute cohorts at Saratoga to choose
him.
Had Jerome been in the field as an
independent candidate there would
have been no Hearst, no necessity for
Mr. Roosevelt's intervention, no possi
ble thought of Hughes; aod the Re
publican candidate would have been
defeated by 250,000 votes.
Wallowing In their own disgrace and
hebetude, a degraded party went to
Saratoga to complete its own destruc
tion. It had not an idea above its own
dirty factions, its miserable Odells,
Higginses, Blacks and all the rest of
them. The honor of the state, the
traditions and time-honored principles
of party, self-respect, decency, the very
outward forms of morality and probity
all were as nothing. Hearst meant
no more to these debased people than
Jerome would have meant to them.
Nothing concerned them but their oc
casions of graft and their personal
feuds.
But Theodore Roosevelt in his Sum
mer home at Oyster Bay was watch
ing the fate of his native state with a
solicitude as intense as was ever
aroused in him by any event in his
career. None better J than he appre
ciated the crisis. He knew it was no
question of mere party success or su
premacy. He knew that something
was about to take place which con
cerned the very vitals not of the party
but of the state, and not of the state
alone, but of the whole country. He
knew, he recognized, the forces which
he had himself unchained and there
must have dawned upon his conscious
ness a sense of whither, if they were
not Instantly checked, they inevitably
must lead. Envy of the rich, hatred
of class for class, intolerance of the
law, impatience with the Constitution,
resentment against Judges, a restless,
troubled surging of the mass, no set
ideas, no definite conviction of ariy
thing, but everywhere a deep, dull sus
ceptibiiity to a man with a torch!
And the man with the torch appeared
and he seemed about to lead, but by
the grace of an all wise Providence
which watches over this pepole and
over Theodore Roosevelt, the torch was
a bogus torch, a sham, dishonest and
wholly fraudulent torch; and after
stinking horribly the waters closed
over it on the 6th of November.
Charles E. Hughes was the man
walking in the wilderness; the misap
prehended," the unknown and the in
dispensable. Theodore Roosevelt's un
failing genius forced Hughes on the
Saratoga convention, snatched the Re
publican party from the grave and
saved the state; and, for all we can
tell, saved the nation.
What has the Republican party done
for Hughes? Nothing. It advanced
the use of Its name and a reluctant
nomination. But he has been elected
Governor of the State of New York!
Yes, he has been elected Governor of
the State of New York in spite of the
Republican party. Even the stupidity
and futility of Woodruff and his in
competent, apathetic gang have not
availed to defeat Hughes. The party
is reeking with leaders whenever there
is graft in the air, but what has a
leader done for the lonely figure that
has beaten the state into decency and
common sense? Not a thing. Not one
of them has raised a finger in his be
half. It looks as if only their lack of
courage kept them from openly join
ing the party of Murphy, Hearst and
the Devil!
No, the Republican party had little
to do with the election, except as The
odore Roosevelt may be taken to em
body and personify its ancient spirit
and actual existence. Mr. Hughes was
elected by the people, by good Repub
licans, by honest Democrats, and by
good citizens guiltless of tags of any
kind. The benefit that the Republican
party gets it gets by the individual
dispensation of both Theodore Roose
velt and Charles E. Hughes.
We repeat that Jerome, the independ
ent Democrat, In his quality as an
honest and incorruptible public ser
vant, with hi3 oath of office for a plat
form, would have swept the state and
restored his party to effective opposi
tion. Never was that party more
needed than it is now. Our whole the
ory of political welfare and comity is
related to the existence of two sane
and patriotic parties. Now we have
only one party, not too sane by any
means, and outside it chaos and chaos
only.
Will the Democratic party rise to
life again in this state, recreated, sus
tained and nourished by those true and
patriotic Democrats who voted for
Charles E. Hughes, and but for whose
honest and manly stand our lot today
would be more deplorable than the
minds of most men can conceive?
Free Rent to Spur Matrimony.
Milwaukee Dispatch.
The originator of the "Baby Flat" In
Milwaukee has taken another step to help
keep the world from becoming depopu
lated. Louis Auer. to show his Ideas on the
subject of race suicide, a year ago built
two tine apartment buildings, with floors
specially deadened, and with other de
vices desirable to families with children.
He then announced that babfes were wel
comed and that he would offer a month's
rent free for every child born in the
apartments.
This week he will let contracts for the
largest apartment-house in the city, to be
built in two wings, with a court between.
One-half will be devoted to bachelor
maids, the other to bachelors.
The apartments will be specially fitted
for those living singly. To every couple
occupying apartments in the building he
will give a month's rent free upon their
marriage.
Teachers WH n Tear Janitors $lOOO.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Holyoke. Mass., teachers do not think
it fair that they are paid but JSOO a year,
while the janitors get $1000. Still, the par
ents of the school children seem willing
to have it that way.
AX AGED NEGRESS .HONORED.
Lovlns; Tribute of Southern Women to
a Faithful Dependent.
Augusta Chronicle.
In Alabama an aged negress recently
died "Aunt" Clarissa. Following her re
mains to the grave Were, among other
vehicles, six carriages occupied by the
leading white women of the community.
On her grave there were piled myriads
of floral tributes, the finest display of the
kind ever seen In that section of the
country. Twenty-five wives of farmers
and business men heard the sermon over
the grave by "Aunt" Clarissa's negro
pastor. The pastor, among other things,
said :
'Much is said of the race problem, of
the present and future relations of the
black men and the white men. I am
willing to say that if all negroes livitd
the life this dead sister has lived, the
race problem would be solved."
"Aunt" Clarissa was 80 years of age
at the time of her death. For 50 years
she had lived in . one white man's serv
ice. She had cared for his wife and
children and grandchildren. She was the
person in the household who handled the
money. She bought the household sup
plies. She rendered accounting to no
one. She paid herself her own salary.
She saved all she made. She was more
than housekeeper. She was friend.
It is said that at the burial to the sobs
and tears of relatives were added the
manifestations of sorrow of the white
women, and that the lady in whose
home Clarissa had lived was deep in
anguish.
This is a suggestive picture in contrast
Iwith the cry of the negro orators and
tiuuuwnuo wihl is iieura tnese ciays me
cry of the negro who claims that his
race is downtrodden by the white man.
"Aunt" Clarissa lived a life of integrity,
of usefulness and of uprightness. In
life and in death she was accorded honor
and respect.
Notable First 3-Cent Sunday.
Cleveland (Ohio) Despatch.
Last Sunday was the first day of the
3-cent fare line and between 6000 and 8000
people took their first ride on the new
West Side line of the Forest City rail
way. Clinging to window frames, jam
med into, the front and rear vestibules or
swarming over the bumpers and fenders
and some of the more venturesome perch
ing on the roof, they braved the discom
fort to ride for three cents. In the after
noon the Mayor and Mrs. Johnson, with
Frederick C. Howe and Mrs. Howe, ar
rived in the Mayor's automobile. Arms.
legs and heads projected through the
open windows. Half a dozen young men
had climbed to the roof and were perched
under the trolley arm when Mayor John
son's eye caught them. The Mayor sprang
out onto the pavement and stopped the
car.
"Get down off that roof; get down in
stantly or I'll "
They got and the car proceeded.
President's Daughter Expects Stork.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
A rumor comes out of the West that the
President's daughter. Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, is engaged in an even more
engrossing speculation of the future than
the outcome of the campaign, in the in
terest of which she has canvassed the
State of Ohio with her husband. This
rumor has caused a flutter of delight in
the Presidential household and among
Mrs. Longworth's innumerable friends in
Washington. If reports are true, the ap
proaching Winter season will necessarily
be one of retirement for Mrs. Longworth
No Home Phone For This Senator.
Philadelphia Press.
Senator Lodge is the one prominent
political leader in Massachusetts who de
clines to be listed as a telephone sub
scriber. He considers it important to
have some period of complete rest while
away from Washington, and, in spite of
the grumbling of lesser political workers,
the Senator has never succumbed to the
house phone.
Carriage Driver For Davis Family.
Baltimore News.
James H. Johnson, of Washington, D.
C, who drove the remaining members of
the Davis family at the funeral of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, in Richmond, has driven
the Davis carriage at the funerals of each
of the members who have gone before.
He drove at the funerals of Jefferson Da
vis and Miss Winnie Davis. He has never
missed attending a Confederate reunion
since the war.
Kong of the Buck Log.
BY VICTOR A. HERMANN.
When de windows creak on a stormy night
En yu heah de noff win' howlln';
En de shaddehs dance by de candle light
Till you think det spooks am prowlin'.
Den tads mus' hab de leas' to say
En sit close to de nah;
Foh de ol' bac'-lawg keeps spooks away
When his red tongue leaps up highah.
De ol" bac'-lawg,
De ol' bac'-lawg.
De gale may sweep
Bat tads kin sleep
Safe en snug by de ol' b&c'-lang.
Gran'mamy say when de blaze buhns blue
En de knots lak eyes am gleamln';
De Dragon ob Dreams creeps down foh yu
Den away foh de I,an' ob Dreainln'.
He tucks yu away In his smoky sac.
En climbs when de spanks am flyln';
"When mawnin' cums he brings yu bac'
Es de ol back-lawg am dyln.
De ol' bac'-lawg.
De ol' bac'-lawg.
Oh, fly, 11 1 chap.
Fum ol' mam's lap
She'll wait foh you by de ol' har-lawg.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO THE FRONT
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MRS. DOWIE IS ABANDONED.
Wife ot Former Zion Leader Dors Her
Own Huusework.
Muskegon (Mich.) Despatch.
Mrs. Janie Dowie. wife of the deposed
head of Zion City, is now living almost
like an outcast at her beautiful SCO-acre
Summer home, Ben MacDhul. on the
shores of White Lake, Muskegon County.
Her only companion is her son, Glarl-
stone. Her army of servants, gardeners.
landscape artists and even Mrs. Dowie s
private maids and cooks have been dis
charged to save expenses. She seems de
serted by her friends and none of the
old citizens of Zion call on her. Mrs
Dowie does her own chamber work and
prepares breakfast, while Gladstone lights
the tires and miikn two Jersey cows. Mrs.
Dowie says she enjoys doing housework.
She has improved greatly in health since
leaving Zion City and Chicago and In
tends, unless something unforeseen
arises, to pass the entire Winter at the
Summer palace, where John Alexander
Dowie's pomp and splendor formerly was
exploited each Summer. Voices of the
white robed choir, a thousand strong,
never again will echo over the vast
estate.
One reason for Mrs. Dowie and Glad
stone living like exiles away from former
scenes of splendor Is that Mrs. Dowie
some time ago commenced suit to recover
the White Lake property, which is valued
at $2rt),000, and she, like the squatters of
the West. Intends to stay on the property
and see that no one gets the better of
her.
Gladstone was in Muskegon lately and
stated that he Is doing manual labor for
the first time of his life about the estate
and that his rainy days are passed in
preparing writings which will later be
given to the public. He intimated that
he intended to publish a book. He says
he does not think his father knows what
he is going to do.- ,
Since the Dowies parted and Dowie was
ousted from Zion Mrs. Dowie's finances
have been greatly embarrassed. Much ot
her property is tied up in lawsuits.
Matador Hissed and Bull Spared, I
Paris Despatch.
The Petit Marseillais relates the un
usual occurrence of a bull being released
at a bull light at Valladolid.
The bull, which was a particularly fine
animal, and called Aldeano, fed out of
the hund of his keeper and followed him
about like a dog. These facts became
known to the public, who applauded Al
deano when he was led into the arena.
The keeper cried bitterly that his friend
would be killed, and his sobs so distract
ed the matador during the tight that the
toreador became nervous, and instead of
killing the bull with a blow of his knife,
only wounded hlm in the shoulder.
The audience hissed the clumsy fighter,
and then demanded that the bull's life bo
spared. So great was the uproar that he
president of the bull fight was obliged to
declare that Aldeano should not be killed.
Mexico's Fiulitlnjr Force.
Review of Reviews.
In the quarter of a century that Porfirlo
Diaz has been enforcing peace in Mexico
he has been preparing for war. Starting
with the disorganized troops that placed
him in power in 1876 and those that op
posed them, he has built up an army of
27.000 men an army well fed, well clothed,
well equipped and well of fleered and has
perfected arrangements quickly to in
crease me fighting force to at least 60.000
in case of war. Crediting the country
with a population of H.OoO.OOO, Mexico
now has a soldier to every 519 inhab
itants, and within a short time following
a declaration of war against a foreign foe
the ratio could be changed to one to
every 233.
Almost As Bad As the Czar.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. William Astor, long leader of New
York society, is the victim of hallucina
tions about kidnappers, poisoners, etc.
She would not leave the Newport house
unless attended by her daughter, Mrs.
Haig; her companion. Miss Simrock, and
Hade, her personal servant. She also in
sists upon the nurses and servants tasting
all the food that is brought to her before
she will consent to eat It. ,
An Indian Rnilroud President.
Boston Post.
Chief Pleasant Porter, of the Creek Na
tion, is the only Indian railroad president
in America. His railroad is the Indian
Central. It filed its charter at Guthrie,
it is capitalized at $15,000,000. and con
templates the construction of 4'J0 miles of
railroad in Indian Territory and Okla
homa within the next two years.
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Sea Dog's Tribute to Teetotalisra.
Pittsburg Despatch.
Lord Charles Bcresford is a staunch
teetotaler. "I am now 60 years old." he
said recently, "and since I have entirely
given up wine, spirits and beer I flnd I
can do as much work, both physically
and mentally, as when I was SO, if not
more."
Finest Illuminated Fountain Known.
New York Sun.
Vienna has the largest and finest illum
inated fountain in existence. The illum
inating power will equal 900.0HO. 000 candles.
It includes 27 immense reflectors capable)
of giving 70 variations in light effects
every 17 seconds.
Wireless Telephone Is Next.
Copenhagen Dispatch.
A Lieutenant of the Swedish army, aftsr
four years' experimenting, has invented
a complete wireless telephone. Swedish
newspapers state that thco-e will be a
public demonstration of the Invention next,
month.
DELIGHTED!
.SSHI AVW.
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From the Denver Republican.
OF THE PANAMA CANAL.
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