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PORTLAND, MONDAY. J I F. gl, 1909.
THE CALHOUN CASE.
It can occasion no surprise .that
the Jury refused to convict Calhoun.
It was certain that If It did not dis
agree it would acquit; not because
there can be a reasonable doubt that
Calhoun caused the money to be fur
nished by which the Supervisors were
bribed but it revolts all sense of fair
ness and justice that public officials
should rob a man who is doing busi
ness, hold him up and make him pay
for the right to do business, and then
be permitted to save their own car
casses, by confession, and send him to
the penitentiary.
It was almost an acquittal. Yet the
grounds on which the jury stood ten
for acquittal, two for conviction were
not pleaded on the trial at all. They
could not be, for the law cannot allow
such a plea. But the Jury Inevitably
would be guided, or moved to an ex
tent, by a principle or sense of pro
portional justice. The scoundrels
who had been elected to places of
authority, and had taken their oath
to support the interests of the people,
used the opportunity to extort money
for themselves. Then, weak as they
were corrupt, and each fearing one
would tell on another, they all con
fessed, under promise of pardon on
condition that they should throw the
burden on the man whom they had
robbed. It is not in human nature to
expect conviction at the hands of any
Jury, In circumstances like these.
San Francisco had been destroyed
by earthquake and fire. To restore
the carlines in the city as quickly as
possible was a necessity. But the ca
lamity was so great that money for
the permanent underground conduits
could not readily be had, and the con
struction, moreover, would have taken
much time. And Calhoun had ene
mies, on all sides. Rivals, represent
ing great wealth, had long been trying
to hamper, embarrass and beat him
Out. These same rivals have since
put up very large sums of money to
prosecute him.
The corrupt Supervisors saw their
chance to extort money from Calhoun.
They .were a gang of worthless
wretches, who had been elected, to
gether with the Mayor, by an irrespon
sible labor-union movement; and the
streetcar company, moreover, was en
; gaged in a struggle with the unions.
There cart be no doubt that the money
drawn from the mint was used to sat
isfy the rapacity ' of the . robbers,
o purchase peace for the streetcar
company and the right to do business.
But after an exhaustive trial, the jury
has refused to bring in a verdict of
guilty. A week ago The Oregonian
anticipated this result, giving these
reasons, substantially, to-wit:
First, if the people prefer to elect
and do elect corrupt rascals to im
portant official positions, and a man
can save his property and do business
only by buying them, there is a feeling
that he is in some degree excusable for
doing it.
Second, when such scoundrels obtain
immunity by confession of their own
crime, on condition that they will bear
testimony against the man they virtu
ally forced to pay them money
"bringing about his conviction that
they may themselves go free the in
stinct of human nature may be ex
pected to make itself manifest in some
of the members of the Jury.
Third, since it is the rivals of the
Calhoun company -who have supported
the prosecution from the first, and
who, by their own admission, have put
up enormous sums of money to push
It, there was certain to be hesitation
mong members of the jury to bring
in a verdict against the defendant.
Of course, it cannot be pretended
that the offense of which Calhoun was
accused is permissible In law even in
these circumstances, nor abstractly in
morals. And yet any Jury was sure
to feel that a verdict of guilty would,
in the circumstances, be a violation of
a true sense and principle of propor
tional Justice. There is no probability
that Calhoun will be tried again; but
the prosecution, nevertheless, has ren
dered a public service. It has put a
etop to this species of corruption for a
Ions time, for it is a lesson for the
whole country.
NOTHING CHEAP ABOUT SUCH LANDS.
The Oregonian has recently been be
sieged with Inquiries as to the pro
posed opening for entry of 700,000
acres of Snokajie. Flathoart anj o,,-
d'Alene. Indian reservation lands. To
give all available information about
this very important event, there was
printed yesterday nearly a page of
matter, which ought to be a sufficient
guide for all who desire to partici
pate in the drawing. .
The drawing will occur on August 9,
1909. under terms and conditions de
scribed yesterday in complete detail.
. All -who are land-hungry will have a
chance to get lands through homestead
entry at their appraised value. It is
w-ell enough for all who think they
are to get something for little or noth
ing not to overlook those significant
words "at their appraised value." No
appraisement has yet been placed on
th) Coeur d'Alene or Spokane lands;
but other such lands on these reserva
tion. . we are told, are worth about
JlOp per acre. On the Coeur d'Alene
reservation there will be sold about
1000 farms, all to be appraised on the
basis of values for surrounding lands,
which are in possession of Indians and
are doubtless not purchasable. The
Flathead (Montana) lands are cheap
er, having been appraised at from
J1.25 to $7 per acre.
For all who want lands "at their ap
praised value" the August drawing -will
be a good thing. But they cannot be
bought or held for speculation. They
must be settled and cultivated in good
faith. There are, of course, lands just
as good and Just as cheap to be found
in many places besides these Indian
reservations; but there is ah element
of luck about a drawing, and of ro
mance and mystery about Indian
lands, that will doubtless attract thou
sands. VK SHALL ALL SEE.
It isn'f good for Oregon to adver
tise that the state is "bottled up" by
the inertia of our railroad manage
ment, without hope of progress; nor
is it fair to assume that the announce
ment that construction of the line up
the Deschutes into Middle Oregon is
about to be undertaken is not made in
good faith. First of all,' it was neces
sary to get right of way from the
United States, for any beginning of
construction, without such conces
sion, would have been stopped imme
diately, by the Government. It will be
necessary, furthermore, to clear up a
number of private contests about right
of way; but this should not cause any
long delay. The status of water-power
claimants on the river may have to be
settled, and higher grades taken in
places than may be desirable, causing
greater expense of construction and
less feasible operation; but the repre
sentatives of the railroad here say
they are anxious to begin as soon as
possible, and that the money la at
their command for construction of the
line. It may be as well, before con
cluding that all this is merely a pur
pose of deception, to wait a little and
see for the Government granted the
right of way over -its lands only last
week.
It does Injury to the state, and no
good, to be continually declaring .to
the world that Oregon is "bottled up,"
and has no promise of relief. We
want more railroads, indeed, and must
have them especially into and
through Middle Oregon, and a line to
Coos Bay. It is . not now reasonable
to suppose that the road up the Des
chutes will be much longer delayed.
Western, Northern and Northeastern
Oregon, so far from being "bottled
up," have almost adequate transporta
tion. Completion of the Tillamook
line is assured within a year.
Perhaps it may be just as well to
give our native pessimism and dis-.
trust a little respite for the present,
till we see whether the poject of a
railroad into and through Middle Ore
gon, so definitely announced, is not
now shortly to be executed. Should
it not be, then of course the "croak
ing raven" again; and he will "bel
low for revenge." But we think the
men we know here such men as Cot
ton and O'Brien haven't tried to de
ceive Oregon.
DODGING THE POINT.
A communication from Olympia, re
cently printed in The Oregonian, seems
to have unduly incensed the Spokane
Spokesman-Review. The Oregonian's
correspondent asked some rather
pointed questions regarding the dis
criminatory rates with which the rail
roads have favored Spokane, and The
Oregonian in goooT faith answered the
questions, assuring the correspondent
that he was "correct in practically all
of his assumptions." Now comes the
Review vehemently charging The Ore
gonian correspondent with "downright
ignorance," "sheer mendacity," -"stupidity,"
etc., and censuses The Orego
nian for its alleged "attempts to back
up the correspondent's ridiculous
statements." All of which is unjust
and unfair, and again reveals the tre
mendously biased and distorted view
point from which the Spokane paper
looks over the situation.
The Review carefully ignores the
basis and starting point for the entire
contention between that city and the
Coast ports. That basic feature was
discriminatory freight rates which en
abled Spokane to control the jobbing
trade for 100 miles in any direction.
these discriminatory rates permitted
Spokane millers to buy wheat at points
nearly 100 miles west of the city, ship
it to Spokane for grinding, and then
ship the product to the Coast mar
kets at the same rate charged the
miller 100 miles nearer the Coast, In
other words, the advantage of distance
from the Coast markets enjoyed by the
miller at Colfax, Davenport, Harring
ton and other points west of Spokane
was all nullified by action of the rail
roads in favoring Spokane with a mlll-lng-tn-transit
rate. The Oregonian
has never questioned the existence of
great natural resources in and around
Spokane, and in the main agrees with
the Review in its statements that
mis city (Spokane) Is at the heart of
me miana Empire, and the Inland Empire
nas an me ncn irrigated valleys and pla
teaus. There Is not an Irrigated tract west
of the cascade Mountains.
This Inland Empire la the rranarv of the
Pacinc Northwest. It produces several times
aa mucn grain as is raised west or the Cas
cades.
The Inland Empire has all the rich, pro
duclng mines of gold. eoDDer. silver and
lead. There are none of these In "Western
wasnington or western Oregon.
But Spokane is not in the heart of
the grain district. There is no grain
of consequence produced either north
or east of that city, and, were it not
for the discriminatory milling-in-transit
rate on wheat, there would be little
if any more flour manufactured there
than was needed for home consump
tion. That "granary of the Pacific
Northwest" is all tributary to Portland
and Puget Sound, because at these
ports alone can it find a market from
which it can be shipped to the over-sea
buyers. Spokane is not in the heart of
the wheat country. Walla Walla, Col
fax, Rosalia, Rltzville, Davenport,
Garfield, Odessa' and a dozen other
flourishing cities many miles distant
from Spokane are much nearer the
"heart of the Inland Empire." Were
it not for the discriminatory rates by
which Spokane has been built- up,
these cities would today be much more
important trade centers. .
As for the mining industry, Tekoa
and Northport, and not Spokane,
would be reaping the benefits of that
traffic, if they had been given the same
rates as the railroads have given Spo
kane. The Review closes its column
of wanderings away from the mihiARt.
with the statement that "since Spokane
wants terminal rates and the Portland
paper pretends to believe that Spokane
is a favorite of the railroads, let us
swap. Let Portland take the Spokane
tariff and give us its schedule. Will
it do it? Not in a thousand years."
As has been repeatedly stated, It is
not in the through rates from the East
that the railroads have practiced the
discrimination that ' has built up Spo
kane as, a jobbing center. It is in
the establishment of an arbitrary and
inexcusable Jobbing zone 2 00 miles in
diameter for the exclusive exploitation
of the Spokane jobbers. Whenever
great ocean liners can land goods in
the warehouses of the Spokane Job
bers as they land them in the ware
houses: of the Portland Jobbers, we
shall gladly consent to "swap" in
freight tariffs. Some day Spokane will
wake up to the fact that it was the
Almighty, and not the railroads and
the Coast jobbers, that placed the ter
minal rate handicap on her through
business from the East.
Of course, however, Portland wouid
not "swap rates" with Spokane, be
cause Portland has the advantage of
the sea, nor ever will, "not in a thou
sand years."
MISGUIDED EFFORT.
They are not persons of good judg
ment who make effort to "Christian
ize" the Oriental races. The distance
between the intellectual, moral and
ethical standpoint of these races and
their Christian teachers is immeas
urable. The religion that takes hold
of a people must be developed from
within them. The Oriental races are
as God made them; and their religious
systems are such as have been evolved
naturally from their own natures and
situations. In so far as they have anv
religion at all, they have such as suits
them, and no effort to force an exotic
system upon them can do them any
good. It is effort wasted; it is seed
sown in barren soil, that might be
sown with promise of increase in good
soil at home.
The distances between the spiritual
instincts and moral life of the West
and of the East cannot be bridged by
any missionary effort. Nothing can be
done even with the Chinese in Amer
ica, surrounded as they are here with
every kind of influence that tends to
inculcation pi ideals other than their
own. The completest effect is a mis
erable veneer of hypocrisy and cant,
grafted on the calculating shrewdness
of the Oriental mind. Our misguided
men and women who give themselves
up to this business, either here at
home or as missionaries to Oriental
countries, throw away their own legit
imate opportunity of working in con
ditions where they might have real
usefulness yet do no good to those
whom they strive to "convert."
The tragedy in New York, of which
so much has been reported during the
past few days, is what might be ex
pected by parents who, for the pur
pose of "Christianizing" the Chinese,
push their daughters into associations
that cannot but lead to their degrada
tion. These Orientals are as God
made them. Let them alone. This is
the view that people of rational Judg
ment, who do not suffer themselves to
be carried away by religious emotion
and fervor, hold towards propositions
and efforts to "spread the Gospel"
among the peoples of the Orient.
WHAT IS A LADY?
In the Gould divorce suit we are
admitted into many matters of mil
lionaire fashion, and some secrets.
We are informed that a prominent
memoer or tne elite must have not
less than 100 gowns every year, and
"an Infinite number of dainty arti
cles." She must have valets, maids,
butlers and a host of other personal
servants.' She is allowed to receive
the attentions of men besides her hus
band at hours and in places that in
other social strata would be deemed
decidedly improper. She may drink
largely of intoxicating liquors. Her
husband she may order out of her
presence with epithets of "hound"
and "puppy," and worse. She may
kick her slippers into the air, go to
bed dressed, and snore in the sight
of male servants. In cases of extreme
provocation, she may curse her serv
ants and husband in unselected lan
guage. All these accomplishment. w
are led to believe and, indeed, must
wait for evidence to the contrary be
long to a perfect lady of Gotham's
multi-millionaire set.
Much as we are inclined to doubt
the evidence, there it stands in un
impeachable court testimony. In our
youth we very much questioned the
truth of the Xantippe story, but, of
course, have been forced to believe it.
Xantippe's husband, Socrates, didn't
have in his pocket one tetradrachm to
rub against another, whereas Howard
has millions of corresponding coins.
Whereupon we conclude that Xan
tippe, had Socrates possessed several
million tetradrachms, would have been
a very superlative lady of Athenian
fashionable society. Lack of money,
therefore, was all that deprived, the
wife of Socrates of a place in history
as a perfect lady.
Here is a list of the indispensable
gowns needed each year by members
of Gotham's ultra-fashiorr, according
to Mrs. Gould's testimony:
Morning crowns 32
No.
Cost. each.
$ 40 to 100
finner gowns .... i ........ . 3 5
350 to
800
350
200
350
170
ISO
ISO
150
500
reception gowns 13
Street (towns 24 '
House gowns n
Negligee gowns e
Klding suits ......... 4
Yachting suits o
Tailored suits R
Evening wraps 6
250 to
100 to
SO to
90 to
250 to
. scans, fans, um
brellas, handkerchiefs, perfumes, veils, toilet
articles and an infinite number of dainty
articles.
The world's authorities never agree
on all the fine points that constitute
a lady. Some think she should be
dressed thus and others so. Manners
and conduct that please one expert on
the subject do not satisfy another.
On one point, however, there is uni
form agreement a lady must have
millions of dollars at her beck and
call; all mode artists, tradesmen and
chauffeurs tell us that. This propo
sition is made the clearer by the re
flection that before Mrs. Gould got
hold of Howard's millions she was no
lady at all, only an actress whom the
Gould family disdained.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO PORTLAND.
There is nothing surprising in the
announcement that the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railroad will en
ter Portland territory over the rails bf
the O. R. & N. Co. With the neces
sity for economy of operating expenses
ana maintenance forcing everv rail
road in the country to seek the best
grades and the shortest mileage, it was
a certainty that the Milwaukee would
seek an easier route for reaching
Portland territory than by way of Pu
get Sound, the point for which the
road has been heading since its Pacific
Coast extension was ordered. The
dominating influence in the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad is what
is known in Wall street as "the Stand
ard Oil crowd." The same persons
are also very heavily interested in the
Harrlman railroad properties. As the
Rockefeller fortune has not reached its
present colossal proportions by un
necessary expenditure and opposition,
it is but natural that there should be
no competitive railroad building be
tween their Milwaukee road and the
Harriman lines, in which they are also
interested.
The O. R. & N. line between Port-
land and Tekoa, Wash., which is near
the junction point with the Milwaukee
road, is a remarkably well-built road,
with 'Water-level grades for practically
the entire distance. By the new
traffic arrangement Portland shippers
are given the choice of a new route to
the East which will take them direct
into new territory not reached by the
lines already in operation out of this
city. Aa the Milwaukee will, under
the agreement with the O. R. & N., be
in position to deliver large quantities
of lumber from Portland territory in
a field heretofore reached only by the
Northern Pacific, there will undoubt
edly be an increase in the rivalry be
tween the two great systems on which
the Pacific Northwest is so largely de
pendent.
Knowledge of this coming traffic
agreement may have hastened the ac
tion of the management of the Hill
lines in ordering .immediate construc
tion of the branch road from Connell
to Adrian. This braneh will cut the
Milwaukee out of the only new grain
territory tapped by the road, and, as
the Hill branch will afford a downhill
haul to Portland, very little grain will
find its way over the Cascade Moun
tains by the Milwaukee road. With
excellent traffic facilities over every
transcontinental road now in opera
tion in the United States or Canada,
Portland, with a water-level route
from the interior and a deepening
channel at the river entrance, has
nothing to fear from any other city on
the Pacific Coast. This prestige, which
is causing the most rapid growth the
city has ever known, will be further
enhanced by early completion of the
Central Oregon and the Tillamook
lines and extension of the electric line
systems out of the city.
Senor Velez, in discussing the unsuc
cessful attempt of Spain to recover
$60,000,000 from Cuba, expressed the
opinion that "the result of the nego
tiations was not fraught with the least
danger to the amicable relations be
tween Cuba and Spain." The Spanish
Minister of Finance is said to have ex
pected payment of the claim, which he
considered "but a slight return, for the
enormous sacrifices made by Spain for
Cuba's prosperity." It is undoubtedly
the recollection of what happened a
few years ago, when Spain was en
gaged in collecting for Cuba, that im
pressed Senor Velez with the belief
that relations between the two coun
tries woukj remain amicable. The
Spanish Minister of Finance, with an
even more painful recollection of the
happenings in old Cuba, will presum
ably continue to regard the $60,000,
000 as" such a "slight return" that he
will make no further effort to collect it.
Proof of the rapid Influx of popula
tion into Canada is supplied by the
Canadian Superintendent of Immigra
tion, who, in a speech at Ottawa a
short time ago, said that 146,908 per
sons from other countries had en
tered Canada as settlers during 190 8,
and he estimated that at least 200,000
would come in during the present
year. Of these, he predicted that not
less than 70,000 would come from the
United States. A writer in a recent
number of the Century Magazine
stated that the number of persons who
had migrated from the United States
to Canada during the last six years
was estimated at no less than 388,000
more people than dwell in the State
of Vermont.
The Skeena River Indians, like the
Central Oregon "Indians," are trying to
drive the . white settlers out of th
country, and it is feared that blood
shed will result. The Indians claim
that the whites are Bettling on land
which is theirs by right of possession.
The only real difference between the
red men of the Skeena and the barn
burners, sheep-killers and fence-cutters
of Central Oregon is that the
Skeena Indians have some semblance
to a claim against the land which the
whites are appropriating, while the
Central Oregon outlaws have no claim
whatever on the land from which they
see 10 anve tne settlers.
Miss Mary Adele Case is desirous of
singing in opera and is confident that
sne can sing roles. that are impossible
to many singers because nf tVioir
build." Mary should remember, how
ever, that their "build" has helped
quite a few singers along In ODera
where their voices otherwise rwonlrl
have kept them on the 10-20-30 circuit
warbling "When the Swallows Home
ward Fly" and similar classics of the
musical stage.
A Kelso (Wash.) hotel DroDrietor
sued to recover payment of a board bill
tor which the boarder's trunk was held
as security, and a jury decided the bill
must be paid. The boarder brought
counter suit for legal advice. News
dispatches conveying the information
do not state what the .advice was, bu
it is not improbable that it was against
holding a boarder's trunk for his bill.
Coal mined at Scott's Mills is said to
have an efficiency for steaming and
heating that equals the Rock Springs
product. Scott's Mills is in Marion
County, and old line and trolley peo
ple nave an eye on the possible ton
nage. ' This mine may eventually fur
nish Portland's cheap fuel.
Mr. Harriman is in Vienna, ill and
weak. A man no sooner creates a
kingdom but he is unable to rule it.
He strives to amass wealth, only to
find money will not buy what he wants.
Perverse world, this.
? v
Forger Ross, who has gone to the
penitentiary, made a mistake by plead
ing guilty. Bank-Wrecker Ross, who
didn't make that mistake, was con
victed long time ago; but that's all.
A Sacramento girl who two months
ago eloped with her husband has
eloped with another man. It is a draw
back to matrimony that a girl can
elope only once with her husband.
Mark Twain has attached the home
he gave his ex-secretary as a mar
riage gift. The Joke is on Mark, and
he can't see' it.
Russia has had an airship built in
France. We suppose there . are
Frenchmen in Russia to sail it.
The Columbia River salmon pack
is again below normal. That makes
less for the salmon-men to fight over.
Mayor Lane will take some of his
rubbish with him out of office, but
only a small part of it.
Of course Binger Hermann was one
of the earliest to hear about the Cal
houn jury.
LIKE IX THE OREGON COTTNTRY.
More to Come.
Independence Enterprise.
Portland has elected a Republican
Mayor. Will wonders never cease?
Wont It Might Have Bean.
Eugene Register.
Still, Mr. and Mrs. Bean who named
their baby girl "Lima" have done
worse, we suppose. They might have
named her "Boston," for instance.
Listen to tbe Fnuse.
Newport Signal.
People who get fooled about every
time the alarm rings at the station
will do well to remember that three
taps followed by a pause means busi
ness. Old Yamhill In Its Travels.
McMinnville News Reporter.
There were about 600 tickets sold
to Portland at this place last week,
besides a great many for other places.
Our people are of the kind that enjoy
the various kinds of entertainments
which are being instituted all over our
county at the present age.
Real Fun In Prospect.
Astorian.
Dr. B. Owens-Adair was in the city
yesterday morning on matters of busi
ness, and while here announced that
her big new barn on "Sunnymead" ls
just about finished, with Its three floors,
at a cost of practically $3000. The good
doctor intends to give a regular old
fashioned barn dance as soon as It is
completed, and to that end was hiring
a band here yesterday.
Everybody Snvr It, So It's True.
Pilot Rock Record.
A phenomenon was witnessed in Pilot
Rock Wednesday that almost passes
belief. A sheet of newspaper was
caught up by a current of air and
carried to a height of perhaps 500 feet.
The paper ascended like a balloon, be
ing In no particular hurry, and went
nearly straight up, although there was
no whirlwind or anything out of the
ordinary In the condition of the air
currents to cause It to do as it did.
When it got ready it came down slowly,
fluttering back and forth like a bird.
No person who saw it, including the
usual oldest inhabitant, could give a
reasonable scientific reason for the
strange sight.
Where Ther Drew the Line.
Hlllsboro Argus.
J. A. Zimmerman, of Roseland Farm,
was up Tuesday, and says that several
young ladles down in his section went
over Sunday night and charivarled Vic
tor Nord, the 37-year-old groom, and
his 80-year-old bride. The young
ladies, he states, found no one at the
house, but later found the bride and
groom at , the barn,' where they were
entertaining their friends to & regular
old country luncheon with a large keg
of "hop Juice.". And all went merry
as a wedding bell. It la rumored that
the young ladles attired themselves
like their brothers before they made
the visit, but they couldn't stand for
the beer, and refused to indulge.
THE MYTH OF JESUS
Something About the Records
Their Interpretation.
PORTLAND, Or., June 20, (To
and
the
Editor.) The life and achievements of
Jesus have had larger shares in direct
ing the Intellectual and moral develop
ment of Europe and America than all
else combined; and yet, the details of
his personal character are shrouded in
obscurity. The scantiness of historical
records of his life may be . attributed
to two causes.
In the first place, the activities of
Jesus were private rather than public.
Confined within narrow limits, both of
duration and space, it made little or no
impression on the literature or politics
or tne time.
Secondly, Jesus did not leave behind
writings of any discrlption whloh
might serve to throw historic light
upon hlmsell or his career. 1
It is true, many of the words of
Jesus were preserved by others which
it ls believed have come down to
probably with little alteration In the
four evangelists. And yet, the historic
data thrown upon the life of Jesus by
the evangelists themselves, are in the
main vague and uncritical. The evan
elists were absorbed rather by the con
tinuation of his Immediate return to
earth as a ruler and king. They lived
in hourly anticipation of this. The
end of all things being so near at
hand, no attempt was made to insure
accurate and complete memoirs for
future use. It was thought they would
not be needed. In fact, the first Christ
ians wrote but little about anything.
Not until differences of opinion be
gan to disturb the harmony of Jesus'
early followers, did they see the neces.
sity of written standards to which ap
peal could be made, and even then
were these records made chiefly for
dogmatic purposes. While no historic
truth was violated, such incidents only
in the life of Jesus were selected as
might favor : thir views of what he
meant to do or teach. Their aim was
more polemic than historical.
Any attempt to deal with the life of
Jesus upon purely historic methods.
would have been regarded probably
with indifference. Spinoza, and Lessing,
In the 17th and 18th centuries, are
the first men of erudition to deal with
the life of Jesus on purely historical
lines, followed closely by a host of
others, including the incomparable
critics, Strauss, Baur and Renan, whom
tne dimlnltlve rabbi, Bimard, of Minne
apolls, In "The Jewish Tribune," of 11th
Inst., feebly imitates. This any scholar
win readily detect.
But we have not far to go in search
of the reasons why the rabbi would
have Jesus a myth. Jesus' declara
tlon of the fatherhood of God, and the
brotherhood of man, was never special
ly attractive to a Jewish rabbi.
C. E. CLINE.
A John Brown Pageaat, July 4.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
One of the most interesting pageants
planned for the celebration of Independence-
day will be that of John
Brown and his underground railway
station at 31 Franklin street In this
city. That period of the life of John
Brown in Springfield will be enacted
as faithfully as possible, and an at
tempt will be made to show as graph
ically as may be just how Brown as
sisted the fugitive slaves on their way
to Canada. The old house in which
he lived in this city and where he
sheltered many fugitives and. often held
secret meetings, ls still standing at 31
a ranKiin street, and it will be the cen
ter for the John Brown pageant.
Fhlrty-three-Pounu Mushroom.
Pittsburg Dispatch to the New York
World.
Dr. Allen J. Willetts. a professor at
Carnegie Tech, discovered near Mill
vale a mushroom 22x32 inches in di
mensions, 9 inches thick, and weigh
ing 33H pounds. It. is said to be the
, biggest ever found except one, which
weighed 45 pounds. The mushroom
appears to have grown in 48 hours.
It grew so fast the blades of grass
cut through it.
World's Reeord Tarpon Caugrht.
A dispatch from Tarpon, Texas, says
that L. G. Murphy while fishing at the
latter place landed the world's record
tarpon, measuring 6 feet and 8 inches
In length. The catch was taken on a
9-ounce rod with a 9-thread line.
HIS WHISKERS A LOVELY RROVW I
What In the World Happened, Yon
Think, to Representative Ellis r
Washington Times.
If any of Washington's leading tonsorlal
artists receive hurry-up calls this after
noon from the Capitol they'd better run
quick like the medicine man. because
there's big doings in the whlskatorial line
up on the Hill, and Representative Wil
liam Russell Ellis -of Oregon may be bent
upon the destruction of the most ornate
pair of long-flowing, bristling. etc.
whiskers this side of the Columbia River.
i-nereoy nangs the following tale:
1 1 'j me lonowing taie: i
Never since the day when William Rus-
iii Gnia Y- n. . f
well-known barber shop of Heppner and
rtar-ll v, u T - , , .
decided he would grow a beard and go
to Congress, has he received Buch a shock
came to mm all unexpected this morn
ing. When the news is flashed to Baker in
Clatsop and Cmatilla and similarly
euphoniously named counties in Oregon.
every one of the 35,57 voters who cams
out for William Russell Ellis at the last
Congressional election, and many of the
o,w wno were misled into votmsr for
John J. Jeffrey, and some 3SB5 who ro
istered their preference (Socialists tnr
G. Sanders, and the others of the 26S6 who
proniDiuoned at the polls with H. C.
Shaffer, will rise up on their 'posterior'
limbs ar-d ululate which is going some
in Oregon. From Mt Hood to the Cali
fornia line, Oregon will tremble with
wrath and the doorkeeper in- the house
on tho hill perhaps would better tremble,
too, for he. say it genfly, almost ejected
William Russell Ellis, of Pendleton, from
the House chamber. Think of that.
William Russell Ellis, his brown
shining in the soft yellow electric light
like walnut wood on a wet night, his
brown hair slick with the parpss of an
Oregon pine-backed brush, strode through
mam uoors tnio tne Mouse chamber
this mornlnar rendv tn rir, hu v. h
250,326 constituents out in the Second dis
trict or Oregon. He wandered to a seat
composedly while the doorkeeper looked
and looked and looked a third time.
"And who is yonder person?" murmured
Doorkeeper Lyon to himself as he looked
uHgerousiy at William Russell Ellis.
He ;s not, methinks. a member of this
august assembly. I shall put him hence."
wnereupon said Mr. Lyons, being a man
of action, started to put out William Rus
sell. Before he got there.
kind friend stayed his ruthless hflnd
"That." said .the frlnH trt rtnrt.triun..
Lyon, "is Representative Ellis of Ore
gon." But he had white wl-kers."
"Time," remarked someone ..nt.nft.
ously as they say In storv books.
cnanges all tr.ings."
Now many peoDle about the 1-or.ifoi
wondering if time is the only thing that
can chai.ge things. But meanwhile r-it-
sop and Baker and Umatilla are likelv
to roar tonight when they hear the news,
and Washington tonsorists may be sum
moned by hysteric calls for tonsoric work
at the Capitol. William Rn ssall 1111.
may want a shave.
NEW IDEA FOR LUMBER TARIFF
Put Duty on low-Class Material, Thus
Protecting Hlgh-Grade.
PORTLAND, Or.. June 20. To the Ffli.
tor.; Apropos or the "tariff on lumber'
is it not peculiar that our lumbermen
have not considered what their actual
requirements are in this direction?- All
realize fhere should be some orotectinTi
on me industry, out those who aro di
reciiy interested in the buslns ior,
know to what extent the protection should
00 appnea.
In the manufacture of lumbni- f- in
struction purposes, a vast amount of ma
terial is cut into what is termed side
lumb3r. The mills must have an outlet
for this class of lumber, otherwise the
manu.acture or dimension lumber ls pre
cluded except at a nrohihitlvo t.ri
Therefore, If, measures are taken in r.
.cm. mo uooamg or our markets with the
class mentioned it acts as a protection to
the hightr grade of lumhe.r.
ir a duty were imposed of 1' r thou
sand feet on all sizes of lumber less than
two -inches in thickness and ten lnchea
in width (excepting first-grade flooring.
Biumg, etc.); n per thousand on laths
and pickets, with all other sizes of lum
ber admitted free, ample protection would
be afforded and possibly a great deal of
luo B.-uafomsm manifested in Cnnn..
would bo withdrawn. -
Possibly the strained situation could be
ameliorated If our millmen were to dis
cuss the subject on these lines and advise
uui xepieseniauves accordingly.
R. CHILCOTT.
THE MIRACLES OF JESUS.
Reversal of the Principles on Which
They Were Once Accepted.
MILTON, Or., June 19. (To the TO1tn-
The recent utterances in The Or,cnni.n
icSa.iuins me miraculous works of Jesus
and the matter of the element of myth
In the story of Jesus of Nazaxeth
the undersigned to remark briefly that
me mea. 01 an inaweiiing God, now so
strongly entertained by devout thinkers
does not ask for God to come Into the
wunu m an unusual way, because he
is already in the world. Miracles are
not now so much an evidence of Christ
and Christianity as they were formerly
and Instead of believing in Christ because
of miracles the tendency of many un
orthodox persons ls to believe in the
miracles because of Christ. It is a good
thing to have a natural order of things
about us in which we can rely, and our
prayer is that God may not make miracles
so frequent as to shatter our trust In the
uniform action of law. Jesus did not put
much emphasis upon the miracles which
the New Testament records, and the
strong mind forgets the signs and dwells
upon me enaunng. if miracles are de
ma.no.ea Dy tne administration of the
affairs of time from God, these miracles
uo not stana alone, but have a subordi
nate piace m tne construction of the
city 01 vjoa among men.
ubieties, gone tongues, gone
knowledge, but faith, hope and charity
Jb. J. HOADLEY.
Violin String Snaps Reason.
Terre Haute, Indiana, Dispatch.
Douglass Hall, aged 50, a rich farmer
of Edgar County, Illinois, suddenly be
came insane when a string of a vio
lin he was playing snapped. The end
of the string struck him on the shoul
der and he imagined that his shoulder
blade had been cut off. A number of
years ago he was. under treatment at
the Kankakee Hospital for the Insane.
A KEW 8QLXB8.
"Heard about Jinks?" "No what's hap
pened?" "He's quit drinking" "Oh. poor
chap! Did he leave his family well pro
vided for?" Cleveland Leader.
Sunday School Teacher What was Adam's
punishment for eating the forbidden fruit
Johnnie? Johnnie (confidently) He had to
marry Eve. Life.
"I see they have the same means of
rounding up the lambs in Wall street as
shepherds have in the field." "What is
that?" "A crook." Baltimore American.
He (teaching her bridge) When In doubt
it's a good rule to play trumps. She But
that's just It; when I'm In doubt I don't
know what the trump is. Philadelphia Re
cord. Shoe Salesman I'm afraid these shoes
will pinch you a trifle, madam. I suggest
that you try what we call our h'm our
contracted No. 6. Customer No. sir: I
won't wear a 6. Have you an expanded No.
5? Chicago Tribune.
"So Cayuse Charley met his fate at the
hands of a posse?" "Yep." answered Three
flngered Sam. "What was the trouble?"
"His immejit difficulty was a lack of judg
ment as to speed. He helped himself to a
horse but didn't pick one that was fast
enough to keep ahead of the party as went
after him." Washington Star.
"I wish T could builH up my shoulders."
declared the daughter of the house. "A
phveical culture magazine." observed her
father, "states that it can be done by grasp
ing a broom firmly with both hands and
moving it in a methodical manner across tha
floor from right to left. Why don't you
try it?" "Why. father, that would b sweep
ing!" Louisville Courier-Journal.
GERMANY AND ENGLAND.
German . Pamphleteer Sees Germany
Rise on British Ruins.
i ,A .brllHant Pamphlet is being circu
lated In Germany which describes the
coming debacle of the British Empire,
out of whose ashes a universal Ger
m.,nJS",iCelgrnty ls to-arise. It is en
titled After the Storm." the storm be
ing a great European war. The result
iausimia is mat her "world-wide
, empire collapses like a house of cards,"
following "the destruction of her fleet."
! Before this "storm" v-ni.,.. ,,,
vi n r.. , . ......
. ? ,1 Umii.,a.to fvery Breat BPre
in turn. Victorinuj Pnio -..
f tL l , commani t England to
turn DECk before the E-aree nf i-'nnc
tinople; France met the same fate at
fashoda, where she was compelled to
strike her colors; and Germany was
obliged during the Boer war to sub
mit to the holding-up and searching
of her proud merchantmen by British
cruisers like the ships of any little
piratical state."
But the end of England will come, it
appears, with the dismemberment and
destruction of the whole British fleet
off Heligoland, continues a symposium
of opinion in the Literary Digest. The
North Sea alrshl
bombs which blow the admiral's shins
to
atoms. The German Tl ft. W f rtl 1 rt wn
up this stroke, and th Rniriiah iron.
ciads in flight are broken up by Ger
man guns and aerial bombs. The news
is carried to England by a German
army corps. The failure of the entente
cordials with France ls here pointed
out. France has been Invaded and
occupied by a vast German army, and
Japan, which had pledged herself to
send England a reinforcement of 100,
000 men, seizes Hongkonar instead
Far from bringing anv asslstnnr.A n
she had promised. Russia sends her
Cossacks into India, and thus forestalls
a second Sepoy uprising, and it is only
wirougn tne intervention of Italy that
Egypt ls saved from a bloody Insurrec
tion. Then South Africa Tjubllshes a rl .-! ra
tion of independence and hoists the
flag of the United Free States of
Africa. At this point our Government
puts In an oar and Congress passes a
resolution .that American troops are to
march into Canada "for the preserva
tion of law and order." The German
pamphleteer rubs It In still more sav
agely by his solution of the home-rule
question, and Ireland becomes an in
dependent republic. As German shins
sweep the ocean, the commerce of Eng
land is paralyzed, all the Drovlslon shios
are seized and the government, seeing
that famine stares the country in the
face, submits to a humiliating peace.
a straw may tell which wav the wind .
blows, ' and the tone of "After the
Storm" positively bears out the saying
of the Kreuz Zeltung (Berlin): "It ls
nothing but the policy of the ostrich
to shut our eyes to the fact that we
are constructing our fleet against Eng
land and against England alone." The
nerman pamphleteers and German jour
nalists wno so frankly avow Germany's
oDject and predict .an Anglo - German
conflict find their views echoed in
England, where H. W. Wilson utters
many forebodings in the National Re-,
view (London), supposed to be the or
gan of King Edward. Here we read:
"The naticn. which in 18S4 attacked
and despoiled Denmark; which in 1866
attacked and defeated Austria: which
in 1870-71 picked a quarrel with France,
levied an indemnity of 200,000,000 upon
her, and annexed two French prov
inces; which in 1905 suddenly threat
ened France with war unless she dis
missed her Foreign Minister; and which
In 1909 menaced- Russia with Invasion
unless Russia surrendered to Austria,
is not likely to spare England if given
a chance of effecting that 'settlement'
which Tritschke a generation ago fore
told would be the 'last and most diffi
cult' for the German people. An in
demnity of a thousand millions, an ex
penditure of five hundred millions on
our own army and navy too late to se
cure success, and the destruction of
British credit, trade and Industry, will
oe tne penalties 01 any weaaness on
our part.' There ls only one way 'in
which such a calamity can be averted
by developing our armed strength to
the utmost without delay, and by con
centrating our whole attention upon
survival In the struggle for existence
which has been forced upon us."
The conflict is foretold also by
Gaston Dru, in the Echo de Paris, but
with a different sequel. This writer
charges Germany with designs on Eng
land for ths purpose of establishing a
universal monarchy, a purpose doomed
to failure.
THE
"IT A RD S HELL"
BAPTISTS
Why One of Them Was Led to See the
Merits of Education.
Berea College Quarterly.
The "Hardshells" had their virtues
and their place, and they have not en
tirely left the stage yet. A representa
tive of Berea, within the last few
months, found real pleasure in convers
ing with two of those pioneer preach
ers in different localities, some dis
tance from each other. They are fear
less and ready talkers. Neither they
nor any of their number were ever
ashamed of themselves or their views.
Strangely enough, they both professed
to be advocates of education. One of
them told of the progress of his son
in his studies; and the other was eager
to relate how the Lord had shown him
the necessity of "larnln"" and his own
efforts to get It after it was too late.
This good man said that many of his
brethren to not believe In education and
preach against it, but that they are in
the wrong, and he can prove it to them
or to any one, for that matter. And he
proposes to do It as long as he lives.
And this. In his own quaint way, was
his proof, and, at the same time, the
manner of God's revelation of the great
truth to him:
"You know thar hain't but one God;
air they? The tiible makes that air
plain; don't it? Well, now, you've seed
the place in Zekiel whar it says
'Zeklel seed the four creeters in a
vision? Now, Brother Jones preached
on this here vision onst, an' I heered
'lm; an' he called the four creeters four
Creators. Now, what is that but'
preachin" aginst God's Holy Word? An'
It was all owin' to Frother Jones-ea
not bein" egicated enough to krectly
pernounce 'creeters. So, ever since, I've
ben sayin' people orter be egicated; fur
God hain't a wantin' 'm to believe in
any mpre gods" than him."
Nods of assent greeted him from the
little band that had edged in to hear
what was being said; and the one that
had led him out to speak so freely
thought his argument might pass for
sound reasoning anywhere.
Chicago Makes Paper Milk Bottles.
TJtica (N. T.) Press.
A Chicago company has announced
the manufacture of paper single-service
milk. bottles In three sizes quarts,
pints, and a half pint size for cream.
They are made of pure fiber paper afid
refined paraffin. The idea ls to have
them absolutely sanitary. The manu
facturers say that they can bo placed
upon the market for a half cent each,
and the milkman will be likely to con
sider these cans at that price a measure
of economy, for it means that there
will be no cans to wash and scald, no
breakage, no second trip back for the
bottle, and they are lignt to transport
Estate With a Wheelbarrow.
Philadelphia Dispatch.
In the will of Edwin Miller, of Ce
menton. Pa, the estate was left to
his widow, the testator insisting that
an old wheelbarrow should always re
main a part of it.