The Sunday Oregonian., August 21, 1904, PART FOUR, Page 40, Image 40

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 21, 1904.
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The Orient Awakening From a Sleep of Ages
WHAT THE AWAKENING MEANS FOR
THE CITIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST
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SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 15. I never
can or shall forget the rapt wonder
and ecstacy of John Boyle O'Reilly,
as he gazed from the heights of Seattle
out upon the deep blue waters of Puget
Sound and Its wooded shores, and the
wondrous mountains that towered aloft in
the distance. Sixteen Summers have
gladdened the world since then. Summers
that O'Reilly saw not, for he died, like
leaves, in his prime, but I can see him
still standing on the deck of a steamer
as we sailed o'er the lovely waters of
Puget Sound, lost in thought and reverie.
I can see him even today, with head un
covered and reverent air, beholding Mount
Rainier in all Its sublime grandeur as it
soared 10,000 feet beyond the lesser peaks
and primeval forests around it.
And from Rainier his gaze would wander
across the sound to the snowy peaks of
the Olympic Mountains to those dazzling
heights untrodden by man, where sits at
eve the golden god of day, bidding the
darkening world farewell. "Oh!" he cried
at last, "what would I not give for a
home In this wondrous land, where I
could gaze upon their inland sea and hold
converse forevermore with these glorious
mountains." It was the cry of the
dreamer, the rapture of the poet.
That night he attended a St Patrick's
day banquet at the Tacoma Hotel, and in
the course of the most eloquent speech
I ever heard him deliver, he prophesied a
future of unparalleled glory and prosper
ity for this enchanted land. Its future
was to be "as gorgeous and as grand as
the creations, wherewith teems the poet's
haunted brain amid his noonday dreams."
When the next St. Patrick's day came
round the poet's voice was hushed, and
hushed forever. And, perhaps it was well,
for had he lived longer he might have ex
claimed: "All my Ideals have died of
grief and left me wedded to the rude
and real."
The world in which Reilly worked and
dreamed no longer exists. He had suf
fered almost the torments of the damned
because he loved his native land, not
wisely, but too well. "Oh!" he said to
me more than once; "you can never real
ize the tortures Inflicted on us our
English jailers in the convict prisons of
England. Irish rebels were as wild beasts
to them. The very murderers and felons
that they herded us with had some
show for pity; we had none. And then
the horror of the convict ship, its appal
ling brutality and beastlallty, are beyond
the power of words. The burning sands
of West Australia and the stifling prison
cells, were as Heaven compared to the
torture we suffered on the high seas. Sev
eral were driven stark mad. Indeed, the
poor, wretched criminals were mostly mad
already."
Later on came his escape, so full of ro
mance, and, I might add, of unspeakable
pathos.- And then we saw him,
outlawed, banished and branded, land
ing on American soli, and re
ceived with op'en arms by the people
of the great Republic I might ask, Would
his reception be equally enthusiastic to
day? He was friendless, penniless and
alone. But in 20 years he won the love
and admiration of America, and he en
riched the world forever with his genius
and his song. How truly did he sing:
Great men grow greater with the lapse of time.
We know those least whom we have eecn the
latest.
And they 'mongst those whose names have
grown sublime,
"Who worked for human liberty are greatest.
I have said O'Reilly's world has gone
forever. It Is a pity that it is so, but it
is. The world has changed. Its ideals
are changed. The gospel of Lincoln is
no longer in vogue, and the political phi
losophy of Thomas Jefferson is laughed
at by men calling themselves Jeffersonlan
Democrats.
And nowhere is the change more appar
ent than here in Seattle, where its people
call it the Queen City of the West. I saw
this city in ashes once, and Its people
living in tents, and I know the men that
laid its foundation deep and broad. And I
saw them suffer adversity such as try
men's souls. But they triumphed over it,
and turned disaster into victory till even
in one generation Seattle has taken Its
place among the commercial centers of
the world.
This is the gateway of. the .commerce of
Alaska. That commerce, whfch is still
in its Infancy, but which will expand to
fabulous proportions as the boundless re
sources of .that territory in oil and coal
and gold and copper are exploited. It is
the gateway, too, of the commerce of the
Orient. Seattle is 700 mles nearer to
Manila than San Francisco. That one
cold, hard fact tells how and why Seattle
shall attain the commercial supremacy
of the Pacific Ocean. President J. J. Hill
has built the greatest"shlps ever floated
In American waters for the Seattle and
Asiatic trade. Each of these ships can
carry 23,000 tons of flour to feed the Japs
and Chinamen. These ships can make
money transporting that flour across the
Pacific for y cent a pound.
There are 100 rooms for first-class
travel on these ships with a telephone in
each room. They are in fact the larg
est freight carriers in the world, savo
the Baltic, and they are floating hotel
palaces at the same time.
And the Orient is awakening from the
sleep of ages. The crash and thunder of
conflicting battleships in Oriental waters
reveal the new order of things. The
frightful slaughter and the succession
of disaster and humiliation that has be
fallen Russian armies tell us more elo
quently than words that wei live in a
world entirely different from that of
our fathers. It were hard to tell
whether it were a better world or not.
Russia deserves, and is receiving pun
ishment for crimes against liberty and
humanity, but the man that believes
that the ultimate triumph of Japan is
either desirable or possible is, in my
judgment, past praying for.
John Dryden, England's greatest lyric
poet, wrote a prose classic, "The Life
of St, Francis Xavler." A brother of the
late Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of Eng
land, compiled "The Life and Letters of
St. Francis Xavler." I recommend both
books to Oriental students.
Francis Xavler was the Apostle of
Japan. From his letters we get vivid
pictures of what the Japanese were
three and a half centuries ago. There are
Philistines who will say, "Why go to
such a source?" But let them go and read
the letters of Francis Xavler, and If
they have not feelings akin to those
which the poor Bishop Boniface felt
when he parted from the dying regicide,
I do not know human nature.
in his youth Francis Xavler was the
very flower and embodiment of the
chivalry of Castile. It was that chlvalrv
which saved Europe from the yoke of
Mahomet, for it was the bulwark of the
cross against the crescent for 500 years
An athlete, proficient in all the acts and
sciences, Francis Xavler was the idol
and the glory of the 20,000 students that
thronged the University of Paris, in the
early years of the 16th century. It was
at Paris, that Francis Xavler formed the
friendships and acquired the knowledge
that shaped his life. It was there that
the inspiration came to him to renounce
all hlngs and live for God alone. It was
there he fitted himself to become the
apostle of the mucs as truly as St.
Paul was the Apostle of the Gentiles.
Francis Xavler stands alone In the mod
ern world. He is to his age what the
great Abbot of the Clalrvaux was to the
age of the Crusades, and what St. Paul
was to the early church.
And this was the man who first bore to
the Japanese the great truths of Chris
tian revelation. No other Oriental na
tion received the light of the gospel so
gladly as did the Japanese from the
hands of Francis Xavler.. They were
intelligent, quick and faithful, and the
whole Japanese people might have em
braced the religion of the crucified had
European statecraft blasted and blight
ed the flowers and the fruits of the zeal,
the piety and the labors of Francis
Xavler. Persecution followed, and blood
of Japanese martyrs proved the' con
stancy of the Christian people of Japan.
They showed themselves then a rare
people. They showed that they could
suffer and die for a principle in a cause.
They showed themselves different in
thought, in character and in conduct
from the races of China. They were as
far apart even then as the poles in
their Ideals and pursuits. And now this
people have wakened up and amazed
the world by an exhibition of skill,
bravery and perseverance without a par
allel since the days when Wellington and
the Spaniards rolled back the tide of
French Invaders.
And farther to the south are other Isl
ands of far greater Interest to. Americans
than ever the islands of Japan. I mean,
of course, the Philippines. The Philip
pines are capable of supporting a larger
population than the islands of Japan.
The Philippine soil will grow coffee,
sugar, and tobacco more luxuriantly than
any other soil In the world. It excels
in the quality and quantity of these
products. It will grow hemp for the
world, and of so superior a quality that
it i3 vain to try and compete with it in
any other soil. In those islands grow
the choicest fruits and flowers, and its
forests of mahogany, of Hgnum-vltae and
of black ebony are the most extensive
and valuable in the world.
The coast line of the Philippines equals
that of Continental Europe, and its fish
eries are Infinitely the best of tropical
countries. Its climate Is the climate of
the lotus-eater, healthy, not deadly. In
fact, nature never gave to the sons of
men lovelier or more prolific lands .than
the islands of the Philippines. This is
what yon hear at Seattle from the mer
chants and sea-captains and sailors who
have been there. This Is what you hear
from the Filipino sailors who frequent
this port, and who serve the ships of
this Republic.
Seattle, and Tacoma. and San Francisco
prophesy great things from the acquisi
tion of the Philippines by the United
States, and any man who advocates the
independence of the islands has a thou
sand maledictions hurled at his devoted
head. Seattleites are for a colonial policy
and trade expansion and imperialistic
ideas. They are for ship-subsidies, and
high tariffs, and a navy equal to Eng
land's, and an army sufficient to overawe
the Jap. And the same talk that you
hear in Seattle you hear in Tacoma, in
Portland and in San Francisco.
It never occurs to these people to take
into consideration the views of the Fili
pinos themselves. A little while ago
every American believed that "No man
or no people was good enough or
great enough to govern another man
or another people without that
other's consent." That used to be a
truism enunciated by Jefferson, and
again and again concurred in by Lincoln
and all the great men that have en
rolled their names on the scroll of honor
TheBostonian Opera Company
Career of Famed Organization, Now in Eclipse,
wnich was rormed
Piipv lrJ news Will me jDuai.ujiia.iiB nci c
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in serious nnanciai straits ana
likely to disband, not merely for the
time being, but permanently, came as a
surprise and a shock to most of the ad
mirers of this famous comic opera com
pany. A few of those on the inside. It
Is true, were, aware that the season was
proving disastrous and had come, as the
culmination of a series of bad years. But
for the past 25 years the Bostonlans, or
the Boston Ideals, as the earlier com
pany was called, had been so stable and
Important an element In the operatic
world that It Is hard to realize the col
lapse. Nor does it seem likely, on the
face of things, that the Bostonlans will
disappear entirely. It would seem that
the name Is too valuable an asset to bo
surrendered. It Is, indeed, the only name
that counts for much In the field of light
opera, and even though the company has
been losing money, there is without ques
tion a large public scattered over. the
country which recalls the good old day3
with sympathy and affection, and would
be very sorry to have the Bostonlans dis
band permanently.
For unquestionably Mr. Barnabee and
his associates stood for the higher ideals
in comic opera. When the stage was
given over to empty and vulgar"' "shows"
In which the staple was the profuse and
Immodest display of feminine charms, the
Bostonlans held ,flrmly to the older and
better traditions. They did their best to
raise the public taste, and offered the
best light operas that they could get. As
every one knows, for ten years or so
they have been trying to' find a successor
to "Robin Hood," a work so pretty and
pleasing that it has been both the mak
ing and the undoing of the company.
Frank Stockson In his ingenious story,
"My Deceased Wife's Sister," tells how
he once wrote a tale so much better than
anything else of his that it brought him
to the verge of ruin. Editors would re
turn his manuscripts with the remark
that it was very nice, but not so good as
"My Deceased Wife's Sister." After ten
years work he wrote another story
equally good. His wife read it and
thought so too. Then after careful delib
eration they weighted the fatal docu
ment and sank it In the river. That time
disaster was averted. It might have saved
trouble if Mr. De Koven's charming score
had been treated in this fashion. "Robin
Hood" was always received with delight,
but a company cannot go forever giving
one opera, and the mischief began when
experiments were made. "No. -so good as
'Robin Hood, " was the maddening ver
dict, and great sums were thrown away
in experiments. Mr. Herbert came near
est to filling the chasm with "The Sere
nade," a delightful work and musically of
a high order, but lacking something of the
freshness anl romantic charm of "Robin
Hood," which was exceptionally fortu
nate In its theme. If a musical hit could
have been found four or five years ago,
it is likely that the company could have
survived the present, and it is to be hoped
temporary eclipse of legitimate light op
era, an eclipse which already shows some
signs of lightening around the perimeter.
Of the origin of the Bostonlans and the
Important singers who have shared the
fortunes of the company, the Chicago
Chronicle has some interesting things to
say:
The Bostonlan Opera Company is the
outgrowth of the Ideal Opera Company,
formed in Boston In 1879 for the purpose
of singing "Pinafore." In 18S7, in con
nection with William H. MacDonald and
"Tom" Karl, Henry Clay Barnabeo
formed the company known as the Bos
tonlans. In the early days the company
was like a family. There was the ut
most harmony among the members of
the company and it was In reality, an
in American history. But It is an obso
lete doctrine today at least on the. Pa
cific Coast. Roosevelt will carry the Pa
cific Slope because he is supposed to be
lieve In the colonial policy of governing
the Philippines from Washington, and
administering their affairs through car
petbaggers from Ohio and Indiana. That
is why I say that the world to which
John- Boyle O'Reilly appealed is gone
forever. His song to the Pilgrim Fath
ers is strangely out of place today.
To be sure, thclmperlallst will tell you
that the Filipino is not fit for self-government.
That if left to himseir he
would perish of internlclne strife, or be
come the prey of the greedy colonial pol
icy of England, or Germany, or Japan.
Since the world began man has been
Inventing excuses for sin. There never
lived a despot, from Pericles to George
III, who did not declare the victims of
his tyranny unfit for self-government. It
took rivers of blood and countless treas
ures to free the negro slave, and give
him the same rights and privileges in
the eyes of the law that the white man
already possessed. They tell us that you
cannot make the black man equal to the
white man. But God gave the black man
the same right to liberty and to the pur
suit of happiness that he gave the white,
and he who takes that away from him Is
a usurper and per se a tyrant.
And now let us look at the Philippines,
not through the glasses of the pro-con7
suls and satraps whom the United States
Government has imposed upon the
islands, but In the light of history and
of absolute and Incontrovertible facts.
Long before this Republic began, the Fil
ipinos had reached a degree of civiliza
tion and even culture attained by no
other nonmilitary people since the dawn
of authentic history. To call him bar
barian or semi-savage is the very per
version of language. Sail from island
to island and visit towns and villages and
cities, and you will find everywhere edu
cated and refined men and women. Go
Into the country and you will see every
where plantations and farms and gardens
and orchards and houses that have shel
tered a kindly and religious people for
centuries. You will find the convent, the
school, the college and the church on
every hand. Tou will find the churches
crowded on festival days and Sundays
and you will hear magnificent Gregorian
music chanted by the little brown man
of the Pacific To be sure, away in the
backwoods and in the jungle of lonely
Islands there still lurk tribes that have
not yet been brought under the influence
of education and Christianity. 'Tis ever
thus. There are parts of Tennessee and
Kentucky as obdurate to civilization. But
under the. despotism of Spain the Fili
pinos attained to a civilization that is
perfectly marvelous. It was a civilization
born of the Indefatigable labors of friar
and nun and priest and Jesuit. It was
not the Spanish hidalgo nor the army
or navy officer, nor the customs or reve
nue collectors nor the administrators sent
out from Spain 'that won the Filipinos
from savagery and taught them how to
clear and cultivate the land, and how to
build towns and cities and comfortable
homes. It was not the brood of adminis
trators that taught the Filipinos lan
guages and arts and sciences. The
colonial administrator was there for loot,
the Jesuit and nun were there to uplift
and regenerate the Filipino, and they
did it The Spanish official was mostly a
pirate, and the friar stood between the
pirate and his victim, and yet it was
under these conditions that the Filipino
took his place among the civilized peoples
oi the worm. p. A. o'FARkbll.
iwenty - rive Years Ago.
"Ideal" organization. Marie Stone was
the first prima donna of the company
and, some of the earlier singers were
"Tom" Karl, Henry Clay Barnabee, Will
iam H. MacDonald, Camllle d'Arville, Jes
sie Bartlett Davis, 3Ir. Frothlngham and
Miss Flnlayson. Later, Eugene . Cowles
and Edwin Hoff were added to the force,
and several well-known sopranos have
sung for a season or more with the com
pany. By far the most notable figure
in the company has been Henry Clay
Barnabee, who is still connected with the
company, and has been from the very
beginning.
Mr. Barnabee was born In 1S33 at Ports
mouth, N. H., where his father kept the
leading noteL xoung Henry went to
school until his father thought he had
learned enough to help him out in life,
and then apprenticed him to the proprie
tor of a dry gopds store in his native
city, and In that capacity he acted until,
the year 1S54. Another dry goods store
then claimed his services, and during
that time he became connected with the
Mercantile Library Association of Bos
ton. This was an organization in which
many actors and actresses of that day
received their early training for the stage,
and it was at the entertainments of this
association, formerly so popular with
the Bostonlans, that he developed mimic
powers. He assumed the duties of a
church singer soon after coming to Bos
ton, joining first the choir of Rev. Baron
Stowe's church on Chauncey street, and
a year or two later taking a position in
a quartet in a Jamaica Plain church. Af
ter two years' service in the latter con
nection he. became a member of the
Unity quartet, of Boston, with which he
continued his engagement for 19 years.
His formal debut on the concert stage,
in 3S65, was marked by a benefit concert
at Music Hall, in which Anna Louise
Car'. Mrs. H. M. Smith, Miss Sarah W.
Barton and other well-known artists par
ticipated. In 1866 Mr. Barnabee appeared
at the Museum for Robert McClannln's
benefit, playing Toby Twinkle In "All
That Glitters Is Not Gold," and Cox to
William Warren's Box in Morton's fa
mous farce, "Box and Cqx." This was
his first attempt on the regular stage. In
186S Julius Elchbergs operetta, "The Two
Cadis," was brought out at Qhlckering
Hall, with Mr. Barnabee, Miss Julia Gay
lord, Allen A. Brown and Warren Daven
port as dramatis personae. He was es
pecially successful at this time in- "Sir
Marmaduke," a musical version of the
old farce, "Betsey Baker," the words of
the songs having been written by Ben
jamin E. Wolf and the music by Julius
Elchberg. This latter work was a happy
conception of Mr. Barnabee's and was
given for several seasons to good busi
ness by the Barnebee Opera Company. In
1870 Mr. Barnabee organized a regular
concert company, which Included Ar
buckle, the famous cornet soloist
Many of Mr. Barnabee's engagements
were made through the Roberts Lyceum
Bureau, an agency at that time man
aged by Miss E. H. Ober, who also con
trolled the professional business of many
prominent concert artists. In May, 1879,
Miss Ober bethought herself of the im
mense possibilities of a "Pinafore" per
formance with an ideal cast, and the
thought resulted In the Ideal Pinafore
Opera Company, with such artists as
Mary Beebe, Miss Phillips, Myron Whit
ney, "Tom" Karl and Mr. Barnabee as
the leading members of the cast. Mr.
Barnabee's Sir Joseph, K. C. B., settled
his future career. He followed up his
Sir Joseph with the role of the Pasha,
In the adaptation of Suppe's "Fatlnitza,"
made for the Boston Ideals, as the com
pany was called after the "Pinafore"
identification was dropped. At the close
of the operatic tour of 1SS6-1SS7 it be
came desirable for the leading artists
of the company to withdraw from that
organization and to organize into a new
onsnoot, called the Bostonlans. i or a
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he Is remarkably spry as the Sheriff of
Nottingham and the Duke in "The Sere
nade." One misses, perhaps, that nlm
bleness of foot -which characterized his
Pasha in "Fatlnitza," but f when one
takes into consideration that 20 years
have elapsed since we first saw him
dancing that weird controtempt In his
harem, the Sheriff and the Duke are
still two wonderful creations in point of
quick movement and spryness of limb.
Altogether surprising is Barnabee's
adaptability at his hale old age to travel
about the country and make one-night
stands for three and one-half months at
a time.
Jessie Bartlett Davis, who left the com
pany a nuidber of years ago, was for a
long time one of the most noted con
traltos In America. Before she was mar
ried Mrs. Davis bore the name of Jessie
Bartlett, so it will be seen that she has
never, in accordance with the common
custom, assumed a nom de staged Jessie
Bartlett was a country girl, robust and
rosy-cheeked and full of life and vigor.
Her early years she passed on a farm
near Morris, III. Her musical education
was received under Frederick Root in
Chicago, and it was in this city that she
achieved her first vocal success. As con
tralto In the choir of the Church of the
Messiah her voice charmed thousands.
In July, 1879, she joined the Chicago
Church Choir Pinafore Company and
gained fresh laurels as Iilttle Buttercup
in the production of the - opera. She
made her debut as Slebel to Patti's Mar
guerite In "Faust" In New York City,
then joined the Carleton Opera Company,
and later the American Opera Company,
touring America in both. Mrs. Davis
studied one season in Paris before enter
ing Into a contract with the Bostonlans,
with which company she was long asso
ciated. , '
About a dozen years ago Eugene Cowles
was adding up long columns "of figures
at the First National Bank of Chicago
and adding to his wage by singing Sun
days In a church. At that time he was
noted for his, bass voice, and it was
almost a foregone conclusion that he
would succeed in opera when he wa3 onco
Induced to desert his desk for the stage.
He entered the dramatic profession with
some misgiving, and it Is now one of his
pardonable bits of pride that he can
draw a check for a good-sized figure on
the bank that once numbered him among
its employes. His rise on the stage was
phenomenal. Appearing with the Bostonlans-
In "Fatlnitza," he at once became
prominent, and when "Robin Hood" was
produced he won fame all over the coun
try by his singing of the rollicking
armorer's song. Next he was successful
in "The Serenade," making an especially
splendid appearance in the gray gown of
the monk. After that he cast his for
tune with Alice Neilsen when she" was
starred, and he was with her until the
company closed In London some three or
four weeks ago.
BARNABEE IN VAUDEVILLE.
He Will Make His First Appearance
the Middle of Septembers
Various rumors concerning the plans of
Henry Clay Barnbee have been set at
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his manager, Lawrence J. Anhalt, that the
veteran comedian will make a short in
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York appearance will be about the middle
of September. This decision to enter the
ranks of vaudeville was reached after a
conference with Loudon G. Charlton,
managing director of the Bostonlans, with
whom a compromise was effected. It was
the plan of the Bostonlans management
to restore the organization to its old
plane of excellence by making a revival
of "Robin Hood" with an all-star cast,
embracing many of the old favorites who
won their fame with The Bostonlans. It
was proposed to make Mr. Barnabee the
principal star, but he had already cast his
eye upon the easier lot of vaudeville, and,
alluring as the Charlton proposition was,
he did not want to forego the pleasure of
indulging in the novelty. By the com
promise made yesterday between1 Mr.
Charlton and Mr. Anhalt both propositions
are now possible. Mr. Barnabee will do
vaudeville the earlier part of the season
and later head the rejuvenated Boston
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of the crafty Sheriff of Nottingham.
Mr. Barnabee, in his sketch, will be
supported by Miss Agnes. Cain Brown,
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J. Austin Fynes, manager of the Proctor
Theaters, and Percy "Williams, say it will
be the highest-salaried attraction that has
ever played at their houses. Campbell
Donald, late character tenor of the Bos
tonlans, and Meta Carson will also be In
Mr. Barnabee's supDort. '
!'n Vacation
Time
"Well, we've decided at last to climb
the butte. "We put aslce pads ,and pen
cils, although Llschen has been try
ing for more than an hour to get the
fair lady off the Island without being
seen by her angry father, and I have
just succeeded In getting my hero to
a place of safety and he is getting down
the gun to protect his best girl from
the Indians.
Then, turning down collars and roll
ing up sleeves, like Portland girls go
ing to golf, and telling the men folk
of our plans, as we pass out of the
rustic gate, past "Cabin Content" with
a sigh as we think of its fair owner
sweltering In New York this perfect
Oregon evening.
Some one asks boldly if we are go
ing "where every prospect pleases and
only man is vile." No, no, we protest;
none of that, when you're all so good
as to sharpen so many pencils, carry
all our mail to town and other things
back and forth every day for us.
Hand in hand well we're only, girls
grown tall, and we have shared many
joys and sorrows in the past.
Up there on the butte all thought of
the sorrows shall be blown away by
the refreshing- breeze which brings to
us thoughts of old ocean, and our
Joys shall be mirrored in the beautiful
"Willamette, which winds below at its
base.
Once at the top, we look down upon
beautiful Eugene, nestling so peace
fully in the twilight, and soon find
and point out to each other -many
places of Interest. Yes, over there be
yond the State University, amid the
green grass of tho park, stands the
beautiful fountain erected by the citi
zeris in memory of the men of Lane
County who gave their lives as targets
of bullets and disease in the Philip
pines. Southwest of the fountain in
another green spot, is "Rest Cottage."
Rest, indeed, for weary, dusty farmers'
wives and daughters, after their long
drives In the early day. Here is every
thing for their convenience, before and
after their shopping jaunts. Thought
ful women of Eugene, say we who have
not heard of such a haven for weary
women in- larger cities.
Over there to the north, tradition
tells us. Chief Whit Eagle, of the
Callpooia tribe, with 300 of his war
riors, were encamped, when there was
a great earthquake which shook all
Oregon, and the side of the mountain
came down upon them.
"When, with climbing-stick, I loosen
a piece of rock with a handsome sea
shell embedded In it, I think of the
mighty Pacific, which once flowed
where we now stand.
JUNE M'MILLBN ORDWAY.
Eugene, Or., August, 1904.
Compensation.
Atchison Globe.
Living in a country town has its sat
isfactions. The street-cars did not stop
for a citizen at Fifth and Main streets
yesterday evening. The street-car con
ductor, meeting the citizen this morning,
apologized and explained why he could
not s.top.
Extra
Bed
Bed
a Sons
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FIR OM TOM LONGSOW
The Hard-Lock; Man His Fortunes Have Taken a Torn
for the Better A Rich Uncle Appears By "Wexford. Jones
(Telegram from G. Vv'hlllllclns, of Seattle, to
Tom Longbow at Long Beach, August f.)
Your uncle is looking for you.
(Telegram from Tom Longbow at Long Beach
to G. "Whllllklns. of Seattle. August 8.)
Tell him I don't want to redeem the
watch.
(Telegram from G. Whllllklna, of Seattle, to
Tom Longbow at Long Beach, August S.)
Not that uncle. One from Northampton,
Mass. Has money for you.
(Telegram from Tom Longbow at Long Beach
to G. Whllllklns, of Seattle, August S.)
"Why didn't you say so before? Ship
him here next train.
(From Tom Longbow, at Long Beach to G.
"Whllllklna. of Seattle, August 12.)
Dear George Uncle William arrived
here O. K having met none of the In
dians he half expected to waylay the
train through the wilds of "Washington.
He Is not a bad sort of old Puritan, an
cestor or relative he looks now like an
ancestor. "When he landed here he gave
me a. serious talk.. Said he felt kind of
lonely In his old age and he wanted to
take his brother's boy into partnership
In the shoe factory he runsback East
you've heard of the "$3.50 Longbow Last
Lasts to the Last." I thought this pretty
fine, until he went on to tell me about a
Massachusetts girl he had selected for me
to marry. I hinted to him that this
marrying business was some different
from the famous Longbow Last which is
made by rule, but he was Inclined to
think a wife should be picked out like he
would a piece of leather.
At last I got him to say he would see
Mrs. Dingbat and Ethel before he made
UP his mind that I was to marry the lass
from Mass. or be cut off without a shilling
or a piece of ehoe-leather. I thought may
be it would be best to humor the old fel
low and that if I" went back East with
him I could in time 'persuade him into
consenting, so I sneaked out and found
.Ethel getting away with her fourth
"peach Wednesdae." I told her how
things were first time she heard I had
an uncle, and as far as that goes I had
nearly forgotten It myself and she said
she wouldn't do anything to spoil our
chances, so we went up to Mrs. Dingbat's
room.
Uncle Bill had just come in and was In
troducing himself to the old dragon when
we got there. He looked surprised at
seeing Ethel and I thought she'd soon
have him going when she could get a
chance to hand him the honey talk.
"I want "this nephew of mine to come
back East and go to work," says Uncle
Bill to Mrs. Dingbat. "I understand hie
has been on friendly terms, very friendly
terms, I might say, with your family."
"If you mean that he's had the Im
pudence to follow my daughter around the
Coast and make her ridiculous with his
sea-serpent tomfoolery, he has," says.
Mrs. Dingbat.
Old Uncle Bill sorter stiffens up at this.
"That Is not precisely what I meant,"
says he.
"Well, there's more," say? Mrs. Ding-1
bat "Not content with making a puOlIc
exhibition "of my daughter, he has had the
nerve to ask her to marry him a Ding
bat marry a penniless unknown."
This touches Uncle Bill up for fair. It
seems a Longbow was the first Knight to
land when old William the Conqueror
after whom all the Longbows call their
first boys William Invaded England. Also
William Longbow was the first man to
stub his toe against Plymouth Rock, and
there has been a William Longbow around
there ever since. Unc gets up on his hind
legs.
"Madam," he says, "no Longbow can be
called unknown ('to the police?' whispers
Ethel to me) nor can this Longbow be
properly called penniless, as I have given
him a share in ,the Longbow Last that
Lasts and have made him my heir."
This was Mrs. Dingbat's turn to get lt:
, Brighter, Richer
To
Extra fancy, three-colored Iron Bed; an extra
good value during this sale $9.00
One of the handsomest Iron Beds in our stock,
just like cut, heavy brass rails; a real bar
gain at $16.00
$200 WILL FURNISH
FOUR ROOMS
$20 DOWN AND $3
A WEEK
Less"
in the neck. Although she has some
dough she has no strings on the May
flowerthe Baltic hep folks came over In,
and steerage at that, which doesn't mat
ter a cent to anyone, but she worries
over it.
"Of course," she says, "If the young
people "
"Young people are foolish," says Uncle
Bill, but he smiles in Ethel's direction,
for he Isn't as hard-hearted an old philan
thropist as he looks. So he gets Ethel and
me out while he chins with Mrs. Dingbat.
When It Is over, he comes out and tells
me it's all fixed up.
I'm to go with him to get next the
Last that Lasts factory, and if Ethel D.
and T. L. still want to be married In six
months why, they are to be.
If
Well, I'll see you soon. I'm going to get
the old boy to go home by a Northern
road so we'll go through Seattle. Look
out for me In about a week. TOM.
HARTYRS TO SOCIETY.
Some Women Deserve Crown of Honor
for Sacrifices They Make.
Chicago Chronicle.
Mrs. Browning- writes of poets who
died for beauty as- martyrs died for
truth. She might have gone farther
and written of numberless women who
have sacrificed themselves to the inor
dinate demands of society and who de
served for It a crown of honor which
none of them ever received.
It is easy to talk lightly of the fri
volities of the "smart set" and of the
waste of time which fashionable peo
ple give to dress, to social functions
and to mere etiquette In which there Is
no heart, but not unfrequently these
so-called duties are more exacting than
the tasks of day laborers and the mis
tress might well envy her maid the
time allowed for rest. Even the Summer
season does not always bring the need
ed vacation. If a lady has a country
house she must entertain, must hold
herself perpetually agreeable and be
ever mindful of her guests rather than
of herself.
. She may attempt escape by going
abroad, but where Is there any rest for
her there? At the fashionable baths
and various health resorts In .the Old
Wjorld she is still under a certain ten
sion thai is far from restful. She
must appear in fine gowns, wear a
happy expression and be genial, If not
jovial. She must never look weary and
worn, for that look is tabooed in polite
society. Massage, tonic and beautiflers
of various kinds must eradicate every
trace of it before she appears in the
fashionable throng.
Plain people see nothing: but nonsense
in all this. They little realize the iull
situation. What woman who sympa
thizes with her husband's aspirations
for political honors would not exert
every nerve to second his purposes?
She must work for him socially, use
diplomacy and become as popular along
her own lines as he Is active in his.
What have, the leaders in Washington
society not done for the sake of their
husbands' promotion, and what expense
of time and strength have not English
women been to for the honors worn by
their husbands?
Or the lady may seek for herself the
coveted high position. Social honors
are not more easily won than literary
fame or brilliant -success in any direc
tion. She must pay the price in tire
less effort day and night. To many the
game may not seem worth the candle,
but that depends on ones amoltlon.
The athlete' does not scorn any denial
If he may win the prize, small a3 It
seems to those who do not care for it;
the poet is willing to eat his crust with
tears, and the scientist will spend a
lifetime In the laboratory trying to
solve some haunting problem.
. Like these, the social leader has her
piuce in tne oraer of the universe, and,
whether appreciated or not, she really
performs for. the world good service.