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"WHY OUR PROFESSORS LEAVE VS.
' Of Itself it is no great matter that
another Oregon, college professor the
third or fourth "within a few -weeks has
'received and accepted a professional
invitation -which "will carry him out of
the state. But the Incident illustrates
come tendencies, local and general,
-which it 1b worth while to understand.
First, from the standpoint of the col
lege professor, especially if he he a
strong and ambitious man, Oregon Is
not a promising field. "We have no
liberally-endowed and pre-eminent col-
lege --with large prizes in the way of
distinguished and well-paid chairs; nor
are we likely to have. None of our
several colleges is important enough of
itself to yield prestige to the men con
nected with it, and none of them is so
situated geographically as to give the
members of its faculty frequent and
easy contact with even such intellect
ual life as there Is here. To live in a
small town far from libraries and from
opportunity of association with the
world of active affairs or the world of
scholarship, to be content with mod
erate pay, to have small repute or place
in the social or professional world
this is the destiny of the Oregon college
professor. That much Intrinsically good
and useful may be accomplished under
these conditions we call upon the career
of Professor Condon to bear witness;
and going a little back for still fur
ther illustration, we may cite the names
of Chandler, Marsh, Lyman, Johnson
and many others. But at best it is a
career of many and painful limitations
and of persistent self-sacrifice. There
are few men of the spirit to accept it
unless they have to; and in these days
no man of special ability or accom
plishment is under this necessity.
"We say in these days because within
a. relatively short time conditions have
changed greatly in the educational
world. College training, which in ear-
i lier times was a special advantage for
t the ambitious few, is now a matter of
' course for the fashionable many. The
rich and the well-to-do are greatly
a multiplied of late in the United States
' and their sons and daughters in increas-
t ing and swarming numbers resort to
the colleges. College education is the
fashion of the time; and the state on
one hand and private beneficence on
the other, are running a race in the
snaking of lavish provisions for it.
2?ew colleges are springing up la amaz
ing numbers, and old ones are finding
new resources. There seems outside
t of Oregon no end to the money seeking
Investment in this special form of ben-
' eflcence, no end to the multiplication of
facilities for higher education. All this,
naturally, has been a fine thing for the
college professor; for it has prodigious
ly increased the demand for his serv-
' ices. In truth, the demand has outrun
the supply; and so we ee even in
great universities chairs of science, his
tory and philosophy occupied by youths
whose beards have hardly begun to
grow, and whose demonstrated charac
ter is simply that of efficiency as stu
dents combined with pleasing social
talents. The cry for men of experience
and ability fills the air of the educa
tional world; and men like Professors
Strong and Young, men of proved qual
ity, are literally beset with invitations
into larger, highly attractive and well
paid fielda
It is not surprising that they go. In
most countries, a college position im
plies much that is delightful and ad
vantageous. Commonly it Involves easy
access to some large city, and to the
best it affords, in the way of intellectual
and social life. There is nothing like
this in Oregon. Our colleges are all
away from the city; and no fellowship,
either professional or general, awaits
the college professor when he comes to
town. His trade, Important and dig
nified, as it is honored as It Is In most
countries finds scant consideration
with us. and absolutely no distinction.
And since this is so, we must not be
surprised if the men who come to us
from time to time grow wean, lose
their; enthusiasm, and in the end move
on to fields where opportunities for the
scholar are better and where personal
rewards are greater.
Of course, the conditions which make
It difficult to get and more difficult to
retain first-class professional talent are
bound to affect profoundly the future of
formal education in Oregon. But we
are not sure that we are in danger of
losing anything, practically, on this ac
count. "We are not likely for long years
to come to have any very great colle
giate institution, as greatness Is reck
oned; but possibly we shall be as well
off with the so-called minor schools
which have gained a footing among us.
California, has long had a very consid
erable college, and for some twelve
years she has had two, but the quality
of her intellectual Vnd moral life Is, to
put it gently, not notably high not
higher, certainly, than that of Oregon.
The big and pretentious "universities
produce a crap -of more fashionably
bred youth than the sriiall colleges, but
they do not, we think, produce better
scholars; and their general Influence
is certainly not wider or higher.
The selection of a man of home breed
ing for the presidency of our State Uni
versity is, we think, a fortunate and
hopeful circumstance. In this selec
tion, nothing is sacrificed in the way of
scholarship, and much is gained on the
score of domestic knowledge and sym
pathies. Those whose scholarship shall
be gained through agencies inspired
and dominated by Professor Camp
bell will not receive it as a foreign and
extraneous thing. Neither consciously
nor otherwise will the Influences of the
Eugene school be contemptuous in their
attitude toward even the whimsical as
pects of Oregon life. And If this fact
involves some change, so much more
fortunate is the circumstance which
gives us an Oregonlan at the head of
our foremost Oregon school. Further
more, there is a reasonable motive of
pride in the fact that Oregon is able to
supply her own need, even in so im
portant a place as the headship of her
State University.
ASPECTS OP THE RACE PROBLEM.
The arrest of Miss Mary Custls Lee
at Alexandria, Va., yesterday for vio
lation of a local ordinance, which for
bids a white man or woman to ride
in that part of a street-car reserved
for negroes, Is interesting on several
accounts. Personally, it appears, Miss
Liee felt no repugnance to such contact
with the blacks as was Involved la sit
ting among them; at least, she did not
care enough about it to change her seat.
No doubt, in her Infancy, she was
nursed by a black "mammy"; no doubt
the closest personal intimacies of her
life have been with black servants.
Miss Lee's attitude is significant be
cause it is characteristic of the South.
Strong as the race feeling is there, it
does not rest upon physical antipathy,
for the Southern people have no such
instinctive aversion to personal contact
with the negro as Northerners very
commonly have. This is demonstrated
in a thousand ways by the universal
employment of black nurses, by the un
restrained mutual play of white and
black children, by the presence in near
ly every white household of negro serv
ants, and by no means least signifi
cant the existence everywhere in the
South of unnumbered mulattoes.
The protest of the .Southern people
against anything suggestive of social
contact with the negro does not rest
upon repugnance. They are willing to
sit next to a negro If there be in the
situation some distinct mark of his so
cial Inferiority and subordination. No
Southerner objects to rfdlng in the same
seat with his black driver, but wild
horses could not drag him to a seat
beside the same man at dinner. The
physical difference is not much; the
moral and social distinction is over
whelming and absolute. There are in
the North those who affect not to un
derstand It; but they are persons either
wanting in candor or without the sensi
bilities which enable men to Judge in
telligently and fairly of the conduct
and motives of other .men.
There is, of course, a profound mo
tive back of this universal Southern
determination to "hold the negro to his
place." To some extent it rests upon
the old slavery tradition; but this is
only part of it. In many parts of the
South the negroes outnumber the
whites, and if they were allowed to
vote, they would everywhere in alliance
with white scallawag associates, rule
In the local politics. Permit them full
enjoyment of the political privilege, and
add to it general equality of social priv
ilege, and they would, it is universally
believed, overwhelm the country and
practically make It uninhabitable for
white men. Social and political subor
dination of the blacks is, In the uni
versal Southern view, essential to the
domination of intelligence and property
in other words, to white supremacy.
This explains the bitterness of the
South in connection with the Booker
"Washington incident, and In respect to
every other circumstance whereinNorth
ern kindness or stupidity gives social
recognition to the black man. There
can be no doubt that every such inci
dent stimulates the pretensions of large
classes of Southern negroes; and it Is
easy to see how this offends the South
ern whites. In their view of the matter,
it Increases the difficulties of the situ
ation and adds weight to the burden
which has come to them by Inheritance.
They feel that the North should respect
their opinions and their sentiments;
that it should not mix in matters of
which it has no practical knowledge.
They take it unkindly and bitterly
that communities which have no con
tact with the negro problem and no
share in the burdens which It makes
should presume to enforce rules of con
duct and privilege which make for the
South new difficulties and embarrass
ments. This much is certain, namely, that it
is in the South and not in the North
that the negro problem is to be worked
out; and nobody will deny that the
Southerner understands the negro bet
ter than the Northerner. It is further
certain that at every point where the
North has Interfered with Southern
policy since the war, it has only been
to make a mess of things, to multiply
difficulties, and postpone adjustments.
The first and surest effect of North
ern interference at this time is to
deepen the animosity between the two
races in the South, as the Booker Wash
ington case has made plain. Common
sense, we think, suggests that the
North keep hands off; that it leave the
South to deal unembarrassed with its
qwn conditions.
The incident at Alexandria is a curi
ous one In that It involves a white
woman and one of singular distinc
tion In a penalty designed for blacks.
To give the street-car rules, which are
enforced In nearly all Southern cities
the look of equity, the whites are pro
hibited from occupying seats reserved
for blacks, just as blacks are prohibited
from occupying seats reserved for
whiles. It is at least very remarkable
that the first personal protest against
this rule that has been recorded should
be made by a very princess of South
ern blue-blood.
"Willamette University, In celebrating
Its fifty-eighth annual commencement,
has done a gracious act in according
special honor to the memory of its
founder, Rev. Alvln F. "Waller. Thirty
two years in missionary and educa
tional work a the Oregon Country, be
ginning in 180, represents a season of
heroic endeavor and self-sacrifice that
at this stage of our clvillzatlbn can
scarcely be understood. The labors of
Father "Waller in behalf of "Willamette
University began with his arrival In
Salem in the year mentioned, and only
ended with his life In 1S72. These la
bors are fitly epitomized In the inscrip
tion on the tablet that has been placed
to his memory in the university; "In
the Master's name he gave to this uni
versity the best years of his honor
able and useful life." Loyalty to his
memory and Justice to his endeavor de
mand this much; words could not ex
press more.
THE LAW MORE HU2IAXB THAN
THE CHURCH.
The Presbyterian General Assembly at
Its' recent session adopted a resolution
approving of the appointment of a com
mittee of the Episcopal Church, "with
a view of securing some concerted opin
ion and action by the churches of Amer
ica relative to divorce and remarriage."
Out of this movement It is safe to pre
dict nothing will come, because the
people will continue for the future as
they have in the past, t6 prefer the
humanity of the law on the subject of
divorce and remarriage to the ecclesias
tical limitations which have deservedly
become obsolete in practice In our mod
ern life.
The Roman Catholic Church holds
that marriage Is a sacrament, and
therefore indissoluble for any cause ex
cept death. Protestantism, from the time
of the Reformation, rejected that doc
trine. The "Westminster Confession al
lows divorce for both adultery and
desertion, and John Milton, In a tract
on divorce addressed to Parliament, ar
gued that inherent incompatibility was
a Just ground for divorce. The Epis
copal Church In this country allows di
vorce for adultery to either party to a
marriage, but the legislation of our
states, with, the sole exception of New
York and South Carolina, adds deser
tion and other causes Involving "Intol
erable severity" or hardship, which In
cludes habitual drunkenness, cruelty,
failure to support, felony. This hu
mane latitude of the law as contrasted
with the narrowness of the church, Is
due to the fact that the humanity of
the law is expressed by a statute which
represents modern public opinion, while
the rule of the church does not repre
sent modern life and public opinion at
all, but stands for ancient ecclesiastical
practice and tradition.
The enlargement of the causes of
divorce that has been wrought by our
Legislatures has been created chiefly
for the protection of wives, and the
statistics show that to wives the great
majority of divorces are granted for
other causes than adultery; that Is,
modern jurisprudence has risen to the
level of John Milton. The attempt of
the churches to Influence public opin
ion in favor of divorce only for Scrip
tural causes, has been a failure, for
the common sense and humanity of the
courts has fairly said that there are
many acts, outside of adultery, by
which a man may make his home a hell
to his wife, or make it a situation of
physical and moral degradation, from
which there should be legal opportunity
for escape.
The law in modern life has always
been a better friend to woman than the
church, because a statute deals with
the living present, while a sermon deals
not seldom with matters pf outworn
creed, with ancient good that has be
come uncouth. The high-water mark
of a free civilization is fixed by the
laws it enacts in behalf of Its women
and measured in this way, our Ameri
can civilization completely outran that
of England, where up to 1S58, no divorce
could be obtained, save at great cost
through act of Parliament. Even to
day, under the English act of divorce,
man has the best of it, for while the
husband may secure a divorce for adult
ery simply, the wife cannot get it with
out proving that the husband has add
ed to adultery very odious crimes. That
Is, the English law makes on physio
logical grounds an Immoral distinction
between husband and wife.
The present -drift of the Episcopal
Church In America seems to be toward
the Catholic or sacramental view of
matrimony. Its general convention has
not yet taken this position, but that Is
the view held by the "High Church"
party, and especially by the Ritualist
division of it. There Is a disposition
manifested in the Presbyterian Church
to exclude willful desertion a's a cause
for divorce, and the presbyteries of
Baltimore and "Washington are in
clined to forbid remarriage to the di
vorced, if not divorce altogether. This
sentiment on part of the churches will
surely weaken their Influence with the
people, for the tendency of American
divorce legislation is steadily In the
direction of liberal or so-called "free
divorce."
The experience of the Episcopal
Church in the past is convincing proof
that the governing forces of American
social life do not consider the views of
the churches upon the subject of di
vorce and marriage laws of any partic
ular consequence, because they are al
ways subordinate to obsolete ecclesias
tical practice or an extinct social state.
In 1SG0 the Episcopal Church adopted
its present canon, limiting allowable
divorce to adulter!'. That is the theory
of the church, but in practice the power
of dispensation under the canon was
practically left in the Bishop's hands,
and was so exercised that times with
out number, remarried people who were
divorced for causes other than adult
ery, have been admitted and readmit
ted to the sacrament and ordinances of
the church by various Bishops. A "Low
Church" clergyman admitted a re-
marrieu person aivorcea for causes
other than adultery to the sacraments,
while a "High Church" clergyman
would slam the door in his face. If
the rejected person appealed to the
Bishop, his fate would depend alto
gether on whether the Bishop was or
was not in sympathy with the clergy
man who had repelled the remarried
person who had been uncanonlcally
divorced. The Episcopal Church has
failed in Its attempt to Influence this
matter of divorce and remarriage, for
the very good reason that It is none of
the church's business; marriage and
divorce concern the state, and when
the civil law is satisfied, the effort of
the church to impose conditions that
are utterely foreign to modern life will
fail.
Suppose a wife is deserted by her
husband and left with children, with
little or no means for helr support.
She Is divorced, remark es happily, and
establishes an excellent home for her
self and her children. The state and
society fully recognize the second mar
riage and approve it, but if the man
or woman, or both, are. of the Episcopal
faith, some of the clergy and bishops
would repel them from communion on
the ground that under the canon they j
were living in adultery, and their chil
dren not born in lawful wedlock.
The folly of all this attempt of the
churches to limit divorce to adultery
lies In the fact that the clergy forget
that the world has moved since theJ
Middle Ages and that when modern
public opinion concerning marriage and
divorce is reflected la the civil law, it
is worse than useless to frame church
canons against It, because not only the
canon will be treated with popular
contempt, but the churches that kcon
trlve such obsolete ordinances will suf
fer greatly In public respect and es
teem. The waves of free "thought's In
surgent sea" beat ceaselessly against
ecclesiastical inhumanity.
HAVE WE HEATHEN AMONG UST
A writer In the Methodist Magazine
has discovered, literally speaking, a
type of people not very numerous, but
still enough to form with their char
acteristics a distinct type In the Ozark
Mountains in Southwest Missouri and
Northwest Arkansas, that represents
human happiness unalloyed and con
tentment that never suffers lapse or
abatement. These people are described
as "destitute and ignorant, almost be
yond belief, yet careless, happy, and
perfectly contented." The adjuncts to
this contentment are "rude huts to
shelter them, game in the mountains
to hunt, fish in the rivers to catch, a
few razor-backed hogs to climb the
hlll3 and feed upon nature's acorns
and combined energy enough In a large
family to 'tend a large enough patch
of tobacco, sorghum and corn to fur
nish them all the 'long green' they
need for smoking and sufficient 'lasses
and corn bread for their dally food."
Thus equipped, these mountaineers
"drone out the years of their lives in
contentment, and when they die they
are laid away in cheap co'ffins, covered
with tabby velvet In a brush-overgrown
graveyard, on some lonesome
hillside."
This picture, unattractive as It Is, Is
In a sense restful to the strenuous
struggler In the battle of life beyond
the sheltering Ozarks. It -is difficult
to conceive that such stagnation In hu
man affairs exists anywhere on earth.
The mountaineers of Kentucky and
"West Virginia are densely Ignorant, but
they are restless, energetic and vindic
tive, almost past belief. The pursuit
of feuds, rifle in harifc; Is their pastime;
though uncivilized, they are not slug
gish; though lacking in ambition, they
are by no means stolidly contented.
"Whether the one type or the other of
these mountaineers Is considered. It Is
evident and must be conceded that the
American missionary need not go to
foreign lands to find exercise for his
talents as a "fisher of men." True,
these people do not require spiritual
advice as much as they need bodily
uplifting; not so much to be brought
to a state of concern about the future
life as to be given a knowledge of some
of the possibilities of the life that now
is.
These Ozark hill people are "white"
in the sense that they belong to th
Caucasian race, but stamped with that
which they feed upon, they have a pe
culiar type of physiognomy and com
plexions of a pasty, sallow order, the
result of a steady diet of bacon and
corn bread. The men are long, lanky
and lean from the over-use of strong,
home-cured tobacco. The women age
rapidly. Marrying at thirteen to sev
enteen, they settle down to a hum
drum life utterly devoid of Intellectual
pleasures. "Whether they become shape
lees masses of flesh or gaunt, flat-chested,
long-walsted creatures at twenty
five, their comeliness is gone. A woman
who appears to be fifty or sixty Is often
no more than thirty-five or forty. They
teach their children to use tobacco at
an early age, because "it is good for
their stummlcks," and let them go
practically without clothes until they
are seven or eight years old, to "usen
them to the climate."
The writer, who has given these facts
concerning this type of Ozark hill folk
to the world says: "As a whole, our
mountain people are quick and keen of
wit, while this lower stratum, dc-less
and shiftless, have shriveled In brain
and muscle." Yet withal they live in
peace with their neighbors, and con
tentment with themselves. Perhaps af
ter all It would be a species of cruelty
to animals to introduce among them
the leaven of unrest the virus of aspi
ration, the working or "taking" of
which would forever dispel the content
ment that possesses them, which Is the
only admirable feature of their charac
ter.
"A NEW HOMESTEAD LAW."
The friends of the Irrigation law, now
before Congress, are Jubilant. The bill
has passed the House by a large major
ity; its provisions, as is well known,
meet the warm approbation of the
President, who has long been outspoken
In advocacy of systematic, intelligent
reclamation of the country's arid areas.
This .measure Is held to embody these
Ideas, and Is regarded by many as only
second In Importance to the homestead
law as, In fact, "a new homestead
law," mado applicable to arid landa
Simply stated, it provides that the
Government shall create new rivers
through the bulldlrrg of reservoirs and
main-line canals, and so regulate the
flow of streams already in existent
that their waters 'will be available lor
irrigation during a season of drouth.
Only bona fide settlers will be entitled
to secure land contiguous to, or depend
ent upon this newly created water sup
ply; settlers who are In truth as well
as In declaration of Intent, home-seekers
and homebullders. These are not only
to reside upon and cultivate the land
thus secured, but are to return to the
Government In due process of time, by
a system or deferred payments, the en
tire cost of creating the water supply
which rendered the lands arable.
It Is recalled in this connectlod that It
was under a Republican Administra
tion, after ten years of bitter contro
versy, that the homestead act became
a law. The bill introduced by the vet
eran Representative from Pennsylvania,
Galusha Grow, was passed after stormy
debate, and received the signature of
Abraham Lincoln. Friends of the "new
homestead law," so-called, and these
comprise the population of the states
of the great plateau, and their name is
legion, declared that the- speeches made
In Congress In opposition ,to the irriga
tion blU bear a striking similarity to
those made in opposition to the home
stead law, prior to its enactment in
1862. They see in the proposed Irriga
tion law, merely a modification of the
homestead act to suit conditions In the
arid portions of the public lands yet
to be devised to settlers, and which
cannot bcinade available without such
assistance as this land is intended to
give.
The voters of the First Congressional
district, who by a, substantial majority
have extended his term of membership
in the House of Representatives, feel a
Just and loyal pride In the position of
Hon. T. H. Tongue upon this Import
ant measure. Though not reckoned
among the arid states, Oregon has a
very considerable area of arid and
semi-arid lands, the reclamation of
which will add greatly to Its wealth
producing capacity. A law which will
put up the bars against corporation
ownership of Irrigable lands, and open
the way for settlers to come In and
occupy them as homebullders, founders
of schools, patrons of churches and
factors In community life, cannot fall
to prove a vast and Increasing benefit
to the state and the nation. This It Is
declared the "new homestead law" will
accomplish as the years go on, and In
this interest Its enactment is urged.
Governor Goer has announced his
purpose to grant a full pardon to Frank
Ingram, the life convict whose bravery
at the time of the escape of Tracy and
Merrill saved the life of one of the
prison guards, and whose Interference
with the purpose of the desperate men
caused him the loss of a leg. It Is but
Just and proper that this man should
be given his liberty, if he wants it.
He has already served ten years In. the
penitentiary for his crime that of mur
der in the second degree, which Is
longer than the average "life-timer"
remains In prison, and his Interference
In behalf of the guard In a moment of
wild excitement and great danger of
a general outbreak of lawless men de
serves substantial reward. "Whether
liberty will be a boon to him under the
circumstances crippled for life, and
with a convict's stigma upon his name
may be doubted. However, this will,
of course, depend upon conditions
upon which the act of pardon ha3 no
'bearing. That Is an abstract proposi
tion, and If he has friends who will
receive him kindly and relatives who
will give him asylum he will probably
bless the opportunity that- returned
him to freedom, though in a crippled
condition.
Residents of Portland of a quarter of
a century and more ago remember
kindly, and many of them with affec
tion, Dr. Isaac Dillon, whose home was
for many years In this city. Never a
forceful man In an aggressive sense, he
was yet a power In the community
through his gentle, Inspiring presence
and simple, unaffected piety. The news
of his sad death by drowning in Puget
Sound a few days ago was heard here
with genuine regret that he who
throughout his long life had ever been
so ready to help others perished so piti
fully In his age and weakness.
A. E. House concludes a brief com
munication published yesterday, on the
subject of kindergarten as an adjunct
to the public school system, as follows:
"Some judicious trimming at both ends
of our extensive course- of study, and
the employment of more and better
paid teachers In the common and mid
dle grades, would, in the opinion of
many observant parents, be the change
most needed." Herein is a plain state
mentthat deserves the consideration
of voters at the school election to be
held tomorrow In this city.
Kansas comes to the front with re
port of excellent crops, and promise
that Its wheat will yield 20 bushels to
the acre. This is gratifying to the
business world. Good crops generally
are much needed this year to support
the high pitch the business of this
country has attained, for without such
support there will be grave danger of
disaster. "We need to steady ourselves
at this high point awhile before we can
proceed safely, and crop failure at this
time would be likely to bring distress
ing results.
Mr. Dosch, special Commissioner for
Oregon at the Buffalo and Charleston
expositions, has developed an entirely
new principle in political economy by
returning to the state treasury unex
pended balances to the tune of nearly
four thousand dollars. The act Is an
almost scandalous reflection upon the
customary policy of public officials.
Only creatures utterly depraved could
commit such a crime as that confessed
by Underwood, the Ballard child-murderer.
Society will be distinctly the
gainer by the sequestration of this
beast and his shameless wife, and If
the evil in them can be limited to the
term of their own lives it will be for
tunate for the world.
Tracy and Merrill have one great
advantage over their pursuers they
don't have to stop every few minutes to
have their pictures taken.
REVIEW AND FORECAST.
Worlc of th.e "Tarir Wreckers' and
After.
Salem Sentinel.
These Republicans in name only theso
Chamberlain Republicans say in excuse
for their party disloyalty that they were
too tried and true and' blue Republicans
to suffer themselves to vote for what
they termed a renegade Democrat. In
stead they turn renegade Republicans and
become party wreckers. While wearing
Furnish buttons they were secretly fight
ing the head of the ticket, and while pre
tending to vote for Furnish they were
connublating with Democrats and deliver
ing to them votes for Chamberlain In ex
change for complimentary votes from the
Democrats for Gcer for United States
Senator. The extent to which this trade
was carried on Is read In the returns
from Macleay and Salem No. 2, Geers
homo precincts.
If one were asked to place the responsi
bility for this action of renegade Republi
cans, one word would answer Goer. The
Slmon-Geer combination explains it all.
That there can be no doubt ofthis is
found In the mutual congratulations of
tho party wreckers when It became known
for a certainty that Chamberlain was
elected. There was great rejoicing over
the returns at the Statehouse, from the
land ofllce to the executive department.
There was likewise a gloomy aspect when
the later returns showed that Mr. Fur
nish was leading.
The Democrats assert that there Is no
foundation in fact for tho Imputation that
any number of their members of the Leg
islature will vote for Geer for United
States Senator. Republican members so
far as heard from also disavow any
thought of being or feeling obliged to
vote for Geer. They look upon the Mays
act as a farce, and in the light of recent
developments will not permit It to guide
or influence them inthelr selection of a
successor to Joseph Simon, who has left
his post at Washington to resume his
task- as a party wrecker In-Orcgon.
THINGS LOCAL AXD OTHERWISE
If you have the courage of 4 o'clock In
the morning. It may be worth while wast
ing a few minutes on what follows. If
you haven't, just skip. An attempt will
be made to tell of not describe a June
sunrise at Portland. Two citizens are
v known to have seen this wondrous spec
tacle. I was one of them. Perhaps there
are others. Right now, tomorrow morn
ing. If It Is clear, or.any cloudless morning
before the Fourth of July, Is the time to
seo It. Don't look for It In the East. At
this season of the year in this latitude the
sun does -not rise where the geography
cays it does. It begins its climb about 15
degrees east of north, just to the right
of Mount St. Helens. If there happen to
be no clouds or mist, you will eee what
seema to be a lake of luminous burning
gold about 30 miles In diameter. "Lake"
does not well express the Illusion. Bowl
Is nearer the- idea a gigantic bowl, whose
sides are formed from the mountains.
When the sun Is half an hour high the
bowl fills half the space between St. Hel
ens and Hood. It Is a soft light that'you
can look at for five minutes or more al
most, with a feeling of restfulness. A
quarter of anhour later your eyes will
blink If you look steadily. Let no one
who Is familiar only with the sunset on
the Cascades think he has beheld our
Eastern walls at their highest beauty.
You must be on high ground to get the
view. The very best place is one of the
western hilltops. If you don't hanker
after a climb so early in the morning,
you can do very well on King street,
standing in front of the Honeyman resi
dence A good situation Is the last "turn
In the .upper road of the City Park. The
end of Park avenue Is commanding, and I
Imagine the plateau In ront of St. Vin
cent's Hospital Is high enough. You may
try it there, and you will be tempted to
get to the top of tho hill behind the hos
pital. All of us are familiar with the sun
set on our mountains, but no one knows
the mountains until he has seen them
lighted from the opposite side by the
sun's first rays. They are different peaks
then. What you see of sky and color at
4 o'clock undergoes transformation In the
succeeding half hour, while at 5 your
eyes behold the full awakening. Kipling
might be able to paint the picture. He
did wonders with his pen over Yellow
stone Park. But see It for yourself. Y&u
can never forget it. Ot course, you can't
get a guarantee of weather; however,
choose a morning after a rosy sundown,
and when the evening breeze was not from
the south. Two chances In three It will
be clear In the east when you get up and
light the gas under the coffee-pot.
I wish It were possible without loss of
sleep for other folk besides milkmen and
newspaper carriers to enjoy our morning
twilight. It Is of equal duration with the
crepuscular period after the sun has gone
down, and ,1s far more beautiful. Get up
at 3 any day the next two weeks, and
from some high point look over the 50
miles of landscape between Portland and
the summit of the Cascades and watch
the awakening. If no clouds are present,
try It Thursday of this week. According
to the almanac the moon will set at 3:L'S
end the sun will rise t 4:22; but the dawn
begins before the moon fades, and unless
you look at the sky you will not be able
to tell whether the light strong enough
for reading emanates from the east or
the west. You cannot know when the
moonlight quits and daylight begins. This
hour before sunrise will give you new ac
quaintance with the most charming scene
in the world. Lest any alien should pro
test against the use of the superlative
in this connection. I wish to quote ample
authority. With the delegation from the
Chicago Commercial Club, who visited
Portland last year and rode down from
Bonneville by boat, there was a gentle
man connected with the great pork In
dustry of tho corn belt's metropolis. He
declared to Mayor Rowe that Oregon had
Switzerland eklnned to death In scenery.
In 1SS4 the assistant secretary of the Iowa
Pre6s Association, tho first Important
body to take advantage of rail communi
cation with Portland, said publicly that
our skies beat Italy's a mile any mark
In tho road.
If you should be tempted to rob yourself
of sleep, as suggested, you may learn
something of Portland's position with
reference to the points of tho compass.
Many residents have the erroneous notion
that Morrison street runs duo cost and
west. They are about 20 degrees away
from the fact. Sixth street, from Jackson
to Ankeny, does not run north, but nearly
20 degrees east of north. Burnside and
the streets north of It run east and west;
likewise Lincoln street and Its parallels
on the south. On the east side
of tho river the numbered streets
run due north and south. Should
you view the early morning scene
from tho City Park, -vlth tho Impression
that Morrison street Is an cast and west
line, tho sun will appear to rise due north
from you. This error will not detract
from your pleasure, though I confess I
was "Jarred" when 22 years ago I first
saw tho sun rise Jn tho north. It Is told
that men travel halt way around the
world to Norway ln order to see the mid
night sun this week. I venture to say
that the hour's twilight and the sunrise
as viewed from Portland will better repay
such a journey. We can havo it without
expense, loss of time or travel stains.
Having finished this advertisement, I
wish to add to -all of It, "weather permit
ting." Twice out of the five times I have
climbed the western hills In widely separ
ated mid-Junes I was disappointed. The
sun was not strong enough to dissipate
the low-lying mists, and the lake of lumi
nous gold did not materialize. Therefore
tho view was commonplace by comparison.
But one morning some 15 years ago a
narrow, black cloud lay at tho base of St.
Helens, directly In the sun's path. I was
about to abandon hope when I saw a
faint line of light struggling to pierce the
Ink. Soon there was another and another,
and as I stood watching, there opened be
fore me a fan of sun's rays arching from
St. Helens' smooth cone to Hood's rug
ged summit, and for the first and only
time In "my life I saw the Cascade moun
tains In all their glory and magnificence.
The Brave at Home.
Thomas Buchanan Reld.
The maid who binds her warrior's sash
With smile that well h'er pala dissembles,
The while beneath her drooping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records the tear.
And Fame shall never know ber'story.
Her heart has shed a drop as dear
As e'er bedewed the field of glory I
The wife who girds her husband's sword.
Mid little ones who weep or wonder.
And bravely speaks the cheering word.
What though her heart be rent asunder.
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bdlts of death around him rattle.
Hath shed a sacred blood as e'er
Was poured upon the field of battlel
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she presses.
Then breathes a few brave words and brief.
Kissing the patriot brow she blesses.
With no one but her secret God
Toknqw the pain that weighs upon her,
ShTds holy blood as e'er the sod
Received on Freedom's field of honor!
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
Side Talks With Little Roys.
Come hither, little chlldroiTwbo would wealth
accumulato
Without the stern necessity ot working while
you wait.
First, geta high-school history of fifty years
ago.
Whose author for his copy used the things he
didn't know.
Then get some stock expressions like "the wild,
alarming' drum."
"Have done." "Enough." "Unhand me, sir!"
and "By my halldom,"
Mix all together in a hat and take them out by
chance
And weave them firmly la a strong historical
romance.
Tou'H need a King or two, perhaps, and make
them base and bad.
Tour Knight must be full panoplied, a. valiant, t
dashing lad:
A gentle Princess, shrinking from a wedding
with a King,
You'll have to have to give the tale the true
romantic ring:
Then put a witty Jester in who's handy with a
rhyme.
And in a minstrel show you'll find the Jests bf
his own time.
Give all these persons all they need of uncles
and of aunts.
And call them characters In your historical
romance.
But think not, little children, though the talai
you thus have made, '
Be strong enough to put both Scott and Dick"-'
ens In the shade.
The labor you hae started on so bravely now
Is done.
Without the mo3t Important thing It Is not half
begun.
For you will need to advertise no. not your
story book.
But iou yourself, tell what you do, and wear.
and how you look
If yotare of the common folk, and call your
trousers pants.
These things must all be known ere men will
purchase jour romance.
Send photographs of your pet cat to every
magazine.
Get half tones of your Sunday clothes, and of
your soup tureen.
And have them published every week la papers
far and wide.
Write stories of your awful grief when Fat.
your bulldog, died.
And la the publications that the women only
read.
Write essays on "My First Great Book." on
"How One May Succeed."
And then you'll find that people all will gladly
take a chance
And give up their one-fifty for your popular
romance.
Latest From the Fieldl
With the Posse. Graves' Ranch. Juno
11 Tho convicts called at this farmhouse
today and asked to seo the bloodhounds.
As the animals had Just struck a fresh
scent, it was deemed Inadvisable to call
themback, and the disappointed 'convicts
have to content themselves with a sight
of a militia company.
With the Militia. Yoderis Mill. June 14.
The convicts put In an appearance to
day and took a couple of hundred feet of
lumber and their departure. They are
going to build a Summer residence near
here and wait for the militia to catch
up with them.
With the Convicts. Near Needy, June 14.
The convicts are enjoying good health
and hope the militia are enjoying the
same. They are very anxious to get hold
of the bloodhounds and domesticate them,
but the dogs are busy with a fresh scent.
With the Governor, Salem, June 14.
Tho convicts called at 6 o'clock this even
ing and sent up their cards, but the Gov
ernor was out on the firing lino, and was
too busy looking for the fugitives to re
turn. They went away, expressing keen
disappointment.
With the BIoodhounds.rBarlow, Juno 14.
The dogs have struck 75 fresh scents,
and hope to make It a dollar before even
ing. The convicts were last seen 10 miles
from here, drinking at one of the bars In
the Pudding River. They are bad men.
With the City Marshal, Woodburn, Juno
14. The convicts came Into town today
and asked for a glass of beer. They wero
promptly arrested for violating the local
option ordinance, but, on learning that
they were convicts and not cltltzens, they
were promptly released.
With the Surgeon-General, Butte Creek
Bridge, June 14. The convicts stopped In
Kunz's place, near here, this afternoon,
long enough to change their stripes.
They left In the direction of Mount Pelee.
where they arc going to attend the next
outbreak, affairs of that kind being right
In their line.
With the Buzz-Saw, Scott's Mills. Juno
14. The convicts camo Into the mill to
day and called for a Scotch high, but the
stock was exhausted, and they were given
a Job, which they didn't want. They
look very tired, and say that they cannot
hold but without food more than a couplo
of months longer.
With the National Guard, Monitor, Juno
14. The convicts passed through here to
day In full cry after tho bloodhounds
which will havo to hurry if they expect
to get out of the way. It has been de
cided to wait here until February, when
the prisoners can bo tracked through tho
snow. No more dispatches will be sent
out until that time.
Strawberry Shortcalce.
BEFORE TAKING.
O pie, thou art a goodly thing,
la proper time and place.
But In these days of later Spring.
Show not thy pasty face;
For what art thou, however filled
With apple, peach or mince,
However fanciful tby build,
Or rich thy many tints.
Compared with that ambrosial dish
With layers made of dough.
Which gratifies the wildest wish
Of mortals htre below 2
Whose pasty strata drink up cream
Until they look like foam.
Whose bruised, delicious berries seem
To taste of youth and home.
Substantial with Its biscuit base,
Dollclous with Its fruit. r
'Ko pie can such a dish replace,
With all the world to boot.
AFTER TAKING.
When Satan sought to torment man,
And spur hlm.on to crimes.
He did not have to scheme and plan
A multitude of times.
For early sprang there In his mind
A recipe for pain.
Which was full cunningly designed
To drive a man insane.
He built a yellow biscuit dough.
Both sticky, hard and thick.
Put berries over and below.
And lo, he had the tricky
jfe:
For let but sage or fool partako
Of that alluring food.
He'll fold himself up close and make
His peace for wejl and good.
With such a mixture once within
The stomach of a man,
Let him renounce a life of sin
And evil If ho can! .
The Toilers Vacation.
Now June Is dressed her loveliest.
Soft odors fill the air.
The woodbirds sing, the flowers spring.
And green is everywhere.
Beneath the trees the buzzing bees
Are blithely Journeying,
And In the shade of every glade
The butterfly's a-wlng,
A long good-bye to toll, say I,
And leave my weary desk.
And take my way where birds are gay.
And earth Is picturesque.
Vacation time Is In Its prims.
The deer Is In the dell.
And so to care, with Joyous air,
I'll bid a last farewell
At Ink aa pen. and plans of men.
Full scornfully I'll scoff.
And for health's sake proceed to talcs
A half an hour off.
J. J. MONTAGUE.