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THE rjIPEES ON All IN AUTHORSHIP. Greatest of all literature Is In dra matic form. It hasteen so In all coun tries and in all ages. In our time the drama is not great; so literature Is not. But it -would be unwise to conclude that the dramatic form had exhausted ite power. Under new conditions It has been renewing itself during thousands of years, though at long Intervals. And, Judging from this long experience, it will again. Even in forms of literature not purely dramatic, nor -written -with any refer ence to the stage, but only for the reader, the dramatic parts, -wherein the author makes the speaker or the person represented do the -work, carry the In terest and passion over the descriptive and narrative parts, which indeed but onstltute the framework, to be filled up through dramatic recital -with things of human interest So the chief inter est of the great epic poems and of the great novels, and even of the great his torical works of all ages lies In the play of feeling through the dramatic parts. The actors speak from nature. So, as Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist the world has known, he is, consequently, the greatest writer; and the greatest thinker, also. But great work of this kind Is purely impersonal. The reader, the hearer, the spectator, must be on his guard against the sup position that he is getting the author's own opinions. Immense labor has been devoted to the effort to develop Shakespeare's re ligious opinions from passages in his dramas; but the labor comes to little or nothing, because this writer is so en tirely impersonal. He had Intuitive knowledge of the dramatic art and spirit, above all persons -who ever lived; and therefore he stands as the world's greatest -writer. He is the mirror, through -which Is reflected the natural spirit of his own creations. You are not reading such a writer's opinions when you read his -works. Greatest literature takes the dramatic form, because that is the form through -which the human spirit naturally dis plays itself. In the hands of a master each person speaks according to his own nature; and the ordinary character is enlivened -with all the wit and "wis dom or again is represented -with all the stupidities or other limitations naturally belonging to its condition. The author "who attempts to interject his own personality or character, fails. Tou get prosy tragedies or dull come dies, instead, of the masterpieces. The author, dealing entirely "with a situa tion in "which others act, but in "which ho is not at all an actor, must be un conscious of himself. Herein is the Tea son "why great -writers, like Johnson and Dryden and Young and Tennyson, all of -whom tried the drama, never could do anything -with it. In their efforts "we have the writer only, and his own feelings and opinions; not the creations of a boundless sympathy and imagination, supported by an observant mind. Therefore it is impossible to get a knowledge from his -works of the per sonal opinions of a great writer. Shakespeare is the most difficult or im possible of all in this direction, because he is greatest. "We have spoken above as to discussion of his religious opin ions. The question Is perhaps one of no great importance. Tet everything connected -with the life and thought of this greatest of writers and thinkers has some Interest. A man who was either a narrow skeptic or a bitter sec tarian could not have achieved the large-hearted humanity shown in the plays of Shakespeare, nor the psycho logic power, dominated by morality, shown in his sonnets; and though It Is not probaole that he was in the least fanatical In his views, his nature as revealed through his works -was essen 'lally religious. There is a tolerance everywhere in his works that Is re markable, and it has been shown by one and another to their own satisfac tionthat he was a Catholic, an Angli can and an Agnostic. Here and there we find a little satire directed against the Puritan, but it is mild, never mor dant. No one oan say that Shakespeare was either Catholic or Protestant; and although a passage of "unquestioned Protestantism" has been pointed out Sn King Henry VHI, the lines undoubt edly belong to Fletcher, who collab orated with Shakespeare in this as in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and other plays. If any character is drawn by the dramatist with a loving hand, it is "Henry V"; and he is well-nigh a per fect type of a Catholic hero. Henry In Shakespeare's pages Is profoundly re ligious, in a Catholic sense. Elsewhere Shakespeare constantly makes refer ence to distinctly Catholic doctrines and practices prayers for the dead, fasting, penanoe, pious foundations and the religious life. Again, In "Hamlet," heas produced one of the great skep tical dramas of the world greatest of all, though its competitors are the Book of Job, the Prometheus of Aeschy lus and the Faust of Goethe. All his work Is full of an Immense-religious folk-lore, as vof all other folk-lore, which Is used universally for illustra tion, or as framework or support of statement, argument or feeling, but without slightest touch of prejudice, intolerance or sneer. Shakespeare is the only writer, save Homer, who has spoken with absolute impersonality through the characters he has created. He who has come next to these strange to say is the author of that Immortal burlesque and satire "Don Quixote." LOCAL OPTION EASY TO GET. "Local option" has an clastic mean ing, for by it liquor interests designate one kind of prohibition choice and anti saloon workers another. In the opinion of the one element the proper "local" unit for expression of the "option" is the precinct only; In the judgment of the other the proper unit Is any area in which prohibition can be enforced by a vigorous public sentiment. Consequently, members of the Antl Saloon League and temperance workers In general are not willing to give up "local option" by counties. They agree with liquor interests that in Multnomah Couiyty the "option" should be confined to precincts, but they Insist that Ore gon has counties in all of whose pre cincts prohibition can be enforced. They may be right or wrong; very probably they are too optimistic Time will tell, for three counties Benton, Tillamook and Curry will be "dry" af ter January L However, the question now uppermost is of another kind, and the Legislature will be called on to deal with it this "Winter. It is this; Are electors to have the privilege of voting their home precinct "dry" and their county "wet"? Or must they vote their home precinct "wet" In order to save their county from prohibition, as thousands of precinct local optionists were constrained to do November 8 in Multnomah and twenty-two other counties? This privilege was demanded by the electors of Oregon when they enacted the so-called "local option" law at the polls last June. They thought they were getting the kind of "local option" they desired, but were mistaken. In the Legislature this "Winter an amend ment to the law will be offered to se cure voters the privilege of marking their ballots so as to exclude saloons from their home precinct, yet not from their county. Enactment of that amendment is the change most needed at this time. The amendment will be simple. It will be approved not only by temperance Inter ests, but by party prohibitionists. The legislators can support It without mis givings. And the people will accept it without a referendum. If thus amended, the law will still not be as It should In all details, but will be a workable act and will satisfy the local option sentiment. THE REAL STORY OF PORT ARTHUR. To the newspaper reader the brief dispatches telling of the loss or capture of a position at Port Arthur convey lithe idea of what the feat means to the man at the front. After reading the vivid narrative written for The Sunday Oregonian by Richard Barry, some conception may be formed of the conditions under which besiegers and besieged do their work. The photo graphs taken at the front under fire will aid in bringing home the magni tude of the operations necessitated by the attack, and the maps, drawn by Mr. Barry at the scene of the fighting, will further serve to bring home the meaning of a modern siege. After months of desperate fighting and patient sapping, General Nog! has succeeded in breaching the Russian line of defense in two places, at Keekwan, on the northeast, and at 203-Meter Hill, on the west. In four places his lines of trenches are within reach of the Rus sian parapets, and Mr. Barry's photo graphs and maps give a clear idea of how the zigzags and' parallels are planned and constructed. In short, the article In The- Oregonian today is not only the first complete story of the greatest assault made on Port Arthur, but presents the first authentic maps of the fortifications and the first pub lished photographB of actual scenes In the Japanese lines. PREVENTION RATHER THAN CURE. It is evident to all who have ob served the effect of the cigarette bablt upon young boys, and the difficulty, not to say the practical Impossibility, of causing lads to abandon the habit after It has once been formed, that reform in this direction lies In prevention rather than in hope of" cure. Superintendent Looney, of the State Reform School at Salem, corroborates the testimony of philanthropists and criminologists In regard to the effect of cigarette smok ing, saying that more than three fourths of the boys who are committed to the Reform School are addicted to the use of cigarettes, and that it is almost impossible to cure their longing for tobacco. Mr. Looney urges stronger legislation of a prohibitive nature In order that young boj-6 may not be able to procure this means of their early undoing. There are those who still believe that strict enforcement of the. anti-cigarette law that we have should be insisted upon before a stronger one is passed. Respect for law is weakened by an ac cumulation of laws that are not en forced. It is either possible or impossi ble to enforce our present anti-cigarette law. If the former its enforcement should be insisted upon; if the latter, there Is no reason to suppose that a more stringent measure would be more easily enforced. Parental vigilance Is the price of pre vention in this case. But since It has failed, and continues to fall, of success, there seem to be but two courses open. The one is to make conscienceless deal ers afraid to sell cigarettes to boys by the prompt enforcement of the law that forbids this act; the other is to shut our eyes to the baleful effects of the cigar ette and abandon all hope of a vigor ous, intelligent, forceful American man hood a few generations hence. The boys who have been In the habit of using cigarettes, says Superintend ent Looney, can easily be selected, as they show a listless, aimless manner and are dull and lacking in ambition. This statement is verified by the experi ence of every observant teacher in the schools of the state public and private. The men of the state should be able to control the boys. Or, more specific ally, the fathers should be able to con trol their young sons. That they are either not able to do so or are too care less to demonstrate their ability. In this direction, is painfully and alarmingly manifest In the large number of boys who, to quote Superintendent Looney again, have fallen under the dominion of the cigarette habit "before Teason and. judgment have developed." This voice from the State Reform School should contain a note of warn ing. It is the small boy who needs looking- after, lest he become "an irre sponsible cigarette fiend" before he has reached the age of accountability, since all evidence goes to show that once the habit is acquired it is almost im possible to break it. GOOD WORK FOR IRRIGATION. The work being done by the Govern ment through the Geological Survey looking to Irrigation Is progressing quietly and without ostentation. This is characteristic of Government work, and is only out of the ordinary because that which Is being done by the Geo logical Survey is closely connected with the interest of the people in the sense that it looks to. homebulldlng and there fore comes close to the individual while looking farther to the general advance ment of the Nation. The men of the-Geological Survey are abroad in Montana, Wyoming. North and South Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and "Washington, and It is not too much to say that they are ! laying1 the foundation of a great Inland empire in the areas covered by their ob servations. The aspect of Nature is forbidding in many of these sections. Agriculture Is Impossible without suffi cient moisture to start crops and bring them to perfection. Lavish of moisture In some places and at some seasons, niggardly In its bestowal In inany oth ers, the purpose of the geological sur veys now afield is to determine Where these conditions of Nature can be changed and how arranged so that the moisture may be conserved through storing the surplus that annually runs to waste, to be distributed as the Inter ests of agriculture require. The work that Is being done, though vast, is pre liminary to a comprehensive system of irrigation that must be inaugurated if the arid or semi-arid lands now under observation by the Government are to be brought under cultivation by an in dustrious, prosperous people. The obstacles that Nature set up against civilization in these wilds when the earth was in Its birth throes are being contended against in this effort. Or rather, we should say, they are showing how they may be circumvented by the patience, the intelligence and the skill of man. The work is neces sarily slow. In matters of such mag nitude. Involving such enormous cost, neither the Government nor the people who will follow the irrigation scheme can afford to make mistakes. Looking with personal interest over these lands, with the hardships, the drawbacks and the wild beauty of which President Roosevelt was famil iar in his young manhood, he says: "They should be irrigated Just as fast as people can be found to occupy them." That occupancy will Bpeedily follow irrigation there is no reason to doubt. That it cannot, to any extent, . precede irrigation Is certain. The prob lem will be worked to a finish In due time. No hasty conclusions will be worked out by the Government, nor Is it the purpose to assume entirely pa ternal functions in the matter. States must lend assistance, the people them selves must see their own Interest and work to It cheerfully and patiently. They must comply with conditions which the Government sees fit to im pose in furtherance of the grand scheme to make what was known half a century ago as the "Great American Desert" the seat of a mighty inland, empire the center of a great Republic from which and through which, com merce will radiate over lines of steel to the Atlantic and the Pacific Coasts ajnd on beyond to the islands of the and the nations of the earth. j The National irrigation policy Is set tled. As stated recently by the San Francisco Chronicle, there are no fur ther campaigns of education to be waged unless there are enthusiasts who hope to Induce Congress to appropriate for irrigation works money In excess of -the revenues of the National domain, or still others who expect settlers to be released from the obligation to repay anythlrig whatever toward the cost of the reservoirs or works built by the Government. Manifestly neither of these propositions can obtain standing in Congress. A wise governmental pol icy helps settlers; it does not carry them. JANAUSCHEK AND MRS GILBERT. "Within the brief period of one week death has rung down the curtain on two notable actresses. In the passing of Mrs. Gilbert and Mad ame Janauschek departed two grand characters whose presence on the stage was ever a refutation of the oft-repeated slander that all stage Influences are detrimental to the morals of a people. More than a dozen years past the al lotted three-score and ten, Mrs. Gil bert's long life from childhood had been Bpent In the glare of the footlights. It was a life of patient, modest endeavor, and it had rounded into an old age so beautiful and so worthy that on her first and final tour as a star the dear old lady received ovations 3uch as are granted but few actresses who have youth, beauty and all it implies, to lift them to the zenith of their fame. For more than a generation American playgoers have felt a kindly Interest In the career of Mrs. Gilbert and the re markable enthusiasm with which she has been received wherever she has ap peared as a star was less of a tribute to the art of the woman than to her altogether lovable personality. It is not alone the playgoers who will realize that this world Is all the better for Mrs. Gilbert having lived in it so long, but the example of her life will not be lost on the children of the stage. The con templation of this beautiful life and Its triumphant climax will awaken a spirit of emulation wherever the footlights shine. In strange contrast to the career of Mrs. Gilbert was that of Madame Jan auschek, who passed on to the Great Beyond a few days before the death of the elder actress. Not until the closing days of Mrs. Gilbert's long life did she reach the height of her fame, and so quick was the transition from life to death that the spontaneous tributes of thousands whose hearts she had touched stil rang in her ears when the final summons came. And yet never in her long career until a short time be fore her death did Mrs. Gilbert ap proach the heights of fame which the Bohemian actress had stormed and captured nearly a generation ago. More than forty years ago, while Sirs. Gilbert, modest, painstaking and sin cere, was playing her minor part in the drama of life as well as in that of the stage. Emperors, Kings and nobles in all of the prominent capitals of the Old "World were at the feet of the Bohemian girL The triumphs of the Old "World were repeated "when she came to Amer ica. The great artiste played Brunhilde, Deborah and Mary Stuart as no one else could play them and the world paid due homage for the entertain ment, but the limit of success which was withheld until late In life for Mrs. Gilbert came earlier for Madame Jan auschek, and poverty, distress and obscurity embittered the closing years of a life that was tragic In other than a theatrical sense. There was deep meaning in the words of Milton Nobles, himself a victim of fame that has fled, when, speaking over the bier of the. dead actress, he said: If another object lesson were needed to Im press upon us tho ephemereal quality o that substancetess something which we call fame, here It lies. If th! onco great woman had been summoned 20 years ago. In tho zenith of her powers, great ones of the earth would have been glad to do her homage. Now the only ones to do her reverence Is this group of her fell ow -craftsmen In a strange, or at least a foreign land, who knew and loved her for herself alone. "All the world's a stage," and in cast ing these two notable actresses, the Al mighty seems to have placed in their hands parts which in real life were In a sense not dissimilar from those with which they proved so successful on the stage. All of the later years of Janau itehek's life were filled with tragedy, vhile good, old Mrs. Gilbert, never rising to heights of greatness, lived out er long life of patient endeavor and onest effort with no haunting memory of departed greatness or Ingratitude from a world which might have forgot ten her. "Why," said Janauschek in her bitterness, when asked to appear Iii public a few years ago, "shall I come ajjaln to what has forgotten me?" "Death is kind," we are told, and cer tain It Is the Grim Specter" was kind to both of these grand old actresses. Kind In relieving poor, old Janauschek, haunted by dreams of a glorious past and realizing to the fullest extent that "memory Is the only friend that grief can call its own," and kind to dear, old Mrs. Gilbert by taking her so quickly to her final rest, while the luster of fame was still bright around her. "THE WONDER OF THE AGES." A strange story so old that it Is new pulsing with mystery, glowing with heroism, intense with religious fer vor and withal abounding In romance, is that of "Saint Joan of Arc," told. in the current number of Harper'6 Maga zine by Mark Twain. As painted by his hand culled rather, and presented In his own Inimitable style by this author the presentment of the strange and beautiful history of this strange and beautiful young girl gives ub a vivid picture Qf a career and personal ity of so extraordinary a character that we are helped to accept the statements as actualities .by the very" fact that- they arc beyond the .Inventive reach of fic tion. ; The story as presented finds, the Offi cial Record of the Trials and Rehabili tation of Joan of Arc, that was buried lb. the archives of France from 1456 uptll Qulcherat dug it out and gave it to; the world two generations ago. At the age of 16 this wonderful figure in history lived In a dull little village Sn the frontier of civilization, a child f no promise. Her entire stock of larning consisted in a knowledge of ?ier catechism and her prayers, and the abulous histories of the saints, all of Which was acquired without the ability -to read. At 17, having "heard the heavenly voices" and -overcoming all obstacles in obeying them, she was made Commander-in-Chief of the first army she had ever seen, with a Prince of the royal house and the veteran Gen erals of France as subordinates. Thus equipped, she marched to Orleans, car ried the commanding fortresses by storm in three desperate assaults, and In ten days raised a siege which had defied the might of France for seven months. Then followed the remarkable cam paign of seven weeks, with the mighty events of which history has dealt In detail. The great campaign of the Loire again followed; and at its close Joan put the crown upon the head of the King at Rheims. She asked for herself nothing as a reward, but begged that as recompense for the service she had rendered the taxes of her native village might be forever remitted. The request was granted, and for 360 years the promise was kept. She asked one other boon, the privilege of going back to Tier native village and again taking up her humble life with her mother" and the friends of her childhood. This prayer was not granted. Hampered and controlled by a feeble King, she was not allowed to follow her own Inspira tion. Defeat and disaster followed. History gives the events In cold and cruel detail. Her dreary and hideous captivity, covering in all a period of about one year; her trial, occupying the last three months of the time, before a formidable array of ecclesiastical Judges; with whom, friendless and alone, she disputed the ground Inch by inch, without the help or guidance of a copy of the charges 'brought against her or a rescript of the complex and voluminous dally proceedings; fighting that long battle serene and undismayed against the colossal odds against her, she presents a spectacle not dim and indistinct through the mist of the cen turies, but strong and clear In the white light of Its pathos and Its sub limity. Truly, as said by this clear sighted chronicler. "It has nowhere Its mate either in the annals of fact or in the Inventions of fiction." Finally con victed through priestly treachery, she went to her martyrdom with the peace of God In her tired heart, and on her Hps kind words and loving prayers for the craven King she had crowned and the nation of lngrates she had saved. Twenty-five years later the process of rehabilitation was instituted In obedi ence to. a growing doubt of the validity of a sovereignty that had been rescued by a person who had been proven by the church to be a witch and a familiar of evil spirits. In the testimony thus adduced the moving and beautiful his tory of Joan of Arc Is laid bare from her childhood to her martyrdom, and from the verdict, of persecution she rises "stainlessly pure, in mind, body and heart, in speech and deed and spirit, and will so endure to the end of time." Scanning this testimony and linking it with the events of the two brief years in which she is known to history, we can well coincide with the state ment that Joan of Arc is the "Wonder of the Ages." And when we tnslder that she did all of the things upon which her renown rests while she was still a young girl, we recognize that while our race continues she will be the "Riddle of the Ages." This is Mark Twain's estimate of Joan of Arc. It is an estimate with. which all students of history must in the main agree. Before, the record of her life the ordinary statements of cause and effect fall to the ground un proven. Labor as we may, we cannot read the; riddle of her strange, forceful equipment, of her phenomenal wisdom. Her career is amazing. Its moving forces are beyond our comprehension. Deeply religious, she believed that she held dally speech with the angels; that she saw them face to face; that they counseled her, comforted her and brought commands to her direct from God. All of our philosophy has not been able to give a better or more plausible reason for the marvelous and sudden development of the tremendous and subtle powers of Joan of Arc than she herself gave In her unwavering and child-like faith in the heavenly origin of the voices that she followed a faith that no threat of death or torture not even death itself, compassed by the flames could drive from her conscious ness. Taking all of this and much more Into account her origin, youth, sex, il literacy, early environment and the ob structing conditions under which she exploited her high gifts and made her conquests in the field and before the courts, Mark Twain concludes hl3 ab sorbingly Interesting presentment of : Joan of Arc with the unqualified dec laration that she Is "easily and by far the most extraordinary person the hu man race has ever produced." David P. Barrows, general superin tendent of education for the Philippine Islands, makes a highly Interesting- and hopeful report on the progress of edu cational work there. By his statement It appears that there were, In March and April of this year, 227,600 children In the public schools of the Islands. Of these', 220,000 were in some one of the three years of the primary course. Mr. Barrows says that the number of puplis In the primary schools must be about doubled before the Instruction Is placed within the reach of every Filipino child between the ages of G and 14 years. That is, enough schoolhouses and teachers, school furniture and books to give continuous schooling to 400,000 chil dren will be required. "If this stand ard can be reached and maintained for a period of ten years," continues Mr. Barrows, "we will, broadly speaking, have no illiterate youth among the Fili pino people." The appearance of Father De Smet's Memoirs, in four volumes, makes a highly important contribution to the history of the Northwest. Pierre-Jean De Smet was a native of Belgium, and came to the United States in 1821 then in. his 21st year. As a leader of Catholic missionaries he came out to the Oregon Country in 1841, and spent in work in this region a large portion of the remainder of his life. By all the early residents he was known, and he is remembered by all who survive. He died at St. Louis in 1873. He rendered much service to the Americans In the Oregon Country, and helped so far as he was able to confirm this region to the United States. These elaborate memoirs will fill an important place In our pioneer history. . There is spmethlng really magnificent in the way the Young Men's Demo cratic Club comes to the front with a resolution indorsing the "heroic efforts of our Democratic Sheriff and Prosecut ing Attorney in the support of law and order in this community." If the he roic Prosecuting Attorney has hereto fore seemed to falter In his unselfish and disinterested purpose to procure the indictment and punishment of Bla zler et al. for gambling, the incentive for him now to do his . duty without fear or favor is Turnished. He is backed up by the Young Men's Democratic Club, fifteen strong. If Senator Piatt is politically dead he doesn't know it. He had a candidate for postmaster of New York City. Gov ernor Odeli had another. The President yesterday selected the man favored by the Senator. Now Piatt Is encouraged to push his fight for the re-election of Depew, and proposes, If he does not succeed, to "hang up his fiddle." It looks as If Senator Depew would go to "Washington for another six years, and the great danger that the Senate will otherwise relapse Into undeserved som berness and undisturbed gloom will be averted. Secretary Hitchcock comes from Re publican Missouri, and yet he appears to be about the only member of the present Cabinet who will probably not be In the new Cabinet. Perhaps the President feels that he squared ac counts with Missouri by making that record-breaking excursion to the expo sition; or perhaps Missouri doesn't care whether Hitchcock stays or goes. Or perhaps again there was sufficient glory In the mere fact that Missouri went Republican. If Missouri is satisfied, the country at large will endeavor to be content "Gentlemen America," said Burke in one of his great speeches, when he was dealing In the House of Commons with the problems that led the colonies to the Revolution. "Taxation No Tyr anny" was Johnson's theme, when deal ing with the problem of "America's rebellion." The point Is in the fact that the English colonies In America were called "America" by England's great est writers. So when we call our country America we are but following the English example; and the protest of Sir Edward Clark, M. P., is a little late. The German press, we are told, was not especially pleased with President Roosevelt's recent address on Frederick the Great; but the Emperor takes pains to declare his satisfaction. As things stand In Germany, the President will doubtless be willing to let It go at that. Tom "Watson has originality, and piquancy with it. Bryan has frequent ly referred to the crime of 1873; and now "Watson characterizes the perform ance of Democracy at St. Louis, which Bryan condoned, as "the crime of 1904." Before Mr. Bryan starts in upon his chosen task of reorganizing the Demo cratic party, it will be well for him to Institute a few Inquiries as to what there is to reorganize. Seventeen entire minutes were con sumed by the defense In its testimony in the land-fraud cases. "Walgamot ap pears to have looked upon It as sheer waste of time. After thirty years In the United States Senate, Senator Cockrell now has his choice of two jobs. It is worth, while, after all, to be a Senator. NOTE AND COMMENT. Magazine Stories a la Mode. As Algy jogged along to the meet, he was In a vile temper. It was really too bad of Aunt Sarah to saddle him with the care of this clumsy Irish cousin. He stole a glance at the cousin as she bumped awkwardly on the back of Harkaway, his best hunter. She the cousin wore a pic ture hat, an old jacket, guiltless of style, a skirt absolutely unfit for a trolley-car, and slippers! Algy shuddered. He, the pride of the Long Island Thrusters, the most punctil ious New Ycrker that ever wore pink, to be doomed to no better fate than to look after a dowdy girl, who evidently had never seen a horse outside the shafts of a Jaunting-car. Algy fumed, and the glances of some of the other Thrustera didn't tend to lessen his rage. "Will the dogs wait for us when we come to a fence?" asked the Irish cousin. Algy shuddered. Dogs! Will they wait for us! With an effort he controlled his horror, and secretly hoped that Nora for his Cousin, like all other Irish girls, bore that name would stay Inconspicuously behind. The experienced reader has already guessed that, as Algy was hesitating about taking a ten-foot wall, topped with barbed wire, with a bad take-off and a drop of 35 feet on landing, Nora went past him and "cleared tho obstruction like a bird." That was the last Algy saw of her, for, with all the rest of tho field, he was hopelessly pounded. From Jack "Vander payne, tho master, he learned that Nora was the pride of the West Meath, and had Jumped the River Boyne on a bet. Algy married his cousin, and they have hunted happily ever since. Upton might like to have it changed to tho TJsonia's Cup. A two-faced baby has been born in Mas sachusetts. Yes. It's a girl. "The Seattle Times boasts that that paper goes to India," says the 'Argus, adding that "unfortunately only a few copies are meant." Thomas P. Wood, a Chicago carpenter, has asked the courts for an Injunction re straining his wife from talking. Does be want the woman to buret? A new college game Is described by the Topeka State Journal, which says: "A Jamestown school is having a two weeks' vacation. The girls are practicing basket ball, and the boys are In the cornfield with the basket." General Nozl shows his utter unfit ness to rank with the great modern , commanders. Here it is getting along in December and he hasn't yet declared his intention of eating his Christmas dinner in Port Arthur. Parisian -telephone subscribers maintain a paper for the purpose of expressing their opinions of the hello girls, and on other matters. To obtain perfectly unbiased ar ticles, we hope the editor refrains from having a phone in his office. It may seem rather late in the day to express our sympathy for Adam, but we can't help being sorry as we think how hard it was for him to sneak home quietly at this time of year when the leaves are dry and rustling. In a description of Rosemary Hall, a girl's boarding-school at Greenwich, Conn., we note that " a staff of liveried men servants wait upon the smart maidens, and an effort is made to make the school as homelike as possible." It has been decided by District Judge Hazel, of New York, that Maraschino cherries are subject to a duty of 20 per cent Instead of 30 per cent as contend ed by the Collector of Customs at New York. Now you can have 'em in your cocktails. Among the scraps of foreign news col lected by the New York Evening Sun this gem shines serene: "A dairy maid has been arrested at Cologne for bathing her self daily In the milk before It was sold, because she had read that milk baths were godd for the complexion." Boil your dairy maids! The inventor of tho name "Near Silk" was a benefactor to tho world. Already we are having neardiamonds and near leather, and the expression is likely to spread Into all fields. Soon we may be having games of near-ball, and in church we may be listening to near-sermons. (We have these things already, of course, but not the name.) Edith M. Thomas addresses Christen dom through the columns of the New York Evening Post, taunting It or them with cowardice In not emulat ing the Crusaders and streaming forth to hurl the foe from tho "Christian fortress' of Port Arthur. Whoa, Pe ! gasus; the ikons are supposed to be looking after the Christian fortress. One of those stories that can only be In vented by a genius is told by the London Chronicle about the composers Sir Alex ander Mackenzie and the late Sir Arthur Sullivan. Sir Arthur wanted to direct his fellow-musician to a house of which he had forgotten the number, so he told Sir Alexander that the doorscraper was in E-flat, and that worthy kicked every scraper In the street until he came to the right one. London Is excited over the new "Si amese" twins from Austria. As these twins are both girls, a certain amount of wonder is to be expected. How In the world do they agree on questions of dress? Suppose JosefaMhinks that pink becomes her, while Rosa Insists upon blue who la to arbitrate the dispute? What domestic Hague dare intervene? And since Josef a is tall, while Rosa is short, there must be twoIfferent 3tyles of dressing. But so many avenues of speculation open up that it is useless to think of the sisters any longer. We cannot sympathize with the young man who followed an American chorus girl around London and Paris until he saw her buy a pound of sausage in a butcher's shop, and was then choked off. A man with a particle of sense would have had his desire to wed the girl infinitely in creased by seeing her make such, a pur chase. Is not the sausage the symbol, un official perhaps, but none the less, the true Bymbbl of home 'life? One cannot fry sausages in housekeeping rooms; the neighbors would kick. It is only In tho privacy of the home that the sausage can be cooked and enjoyed as its merits de serve. The young man should have seen that by this one purchase the chorus girl displayed traits of economy, simplicity and housewlfeliness, as well as evidences of a good digestion, which means a good temper. And she was already beautiful in his eyes. What a pearl of a girl! And he abandoned the chase because she didn't live on lobsters. Folly, thy name is Man--In-search-of-a-wife! WEXFORD JONES. CALIFORNIA. AT THE '05 F'Am Rufus P. "Jennings in Chamber of Com merco Bulletin. The Interest which California is tak ing in the Lewis and Clark Exposition is largely, In my opinion, an evidence of the spirit of co-operation which pre vails between Oregon and California. I do not think it is founded upon the purely commercial desire to exploit our goods, but rather to pay a tribute to our great sister state, and give an earnest expression of our -regard. The time was when there were many who asserted that tho interests of Califor nia. Oregon and Washington were in a measure rival Interests. Now a broad er, mere liberal view has happily come to pass, and almost any fair-minded citizen of these states will be dispo3eJ to admit that what is of benefit to one portion of the Pacific Coast is of ben efit to all, and that should misfortune overtake any part of the Coast It would inevitably be shared in by tho entire Coast. . There's room for every one. What we want is to get the population rolling westward. We want more manufac tories and more people. We want morn men to cultivate the -soil, and mora wealth to develop our natural ra sources. It is almost two years ago since President Roosevelt, appreciating our vast wealth in "natural resources, said that the Pacific Ocean was des tined to lead In carrying the world's commerce. It was not a prophecy; It was a statement of fact. We of Califor nia realize how greatly the Lewis and Clark Centennial will hasten our des? tiny, and the plans now laid bespeak an enthusiastic co-operation on the part of California in your great Cen tennial, which, in a way, belongs in part to us, becauso it is of the Pacific Coast. We-jnust all pull together to rapidly Increase. Arf yet the total Im ports of the Pacific Coast for the year ending June 30, 1004, were $57,497,635. as again3t $779,237,182 for the At lantic Coast ports, and that our ex ports were 5C5.752.816, as against $597. 124,803 on the other sido of the Conti nents That is. the Atlantic Coast sends out and brings In about $12 worth of goods for every dollar on the Pacific. Yet there are those who confidcntly state that at no distant time the Pacinc Coast will lead. California will be present on the opening of the Exposition. President Goode has tendered the California Pro motion Committee, which represents the commercial bodies of California, an Invitation to be present on this occa sion. The committee, on behalf of the State of California, has accepted tho Invitation, and Is most deeply appre ciative of the courtesy. The leading or ganizations throughout California have Indorsed this excursion to be given un der the auspices of the committee. Sev eral special trains will take represen tative business men of all parts of Cal ifornia to the Exposition. Our orators, the Governor of California, the presi dents of cur two leading universities, will be among those who take part. President David R. Francis, of the Lou isiana Purchase Exposition, will also be with us, as well as editors of lead ing1 Eastern magazines, newspaper cor respondents and others. In fact, this excursion will be California's official call upon the Exposition. It will be the largest and most representative excur sion which has ever gone out of Cali fornia, and, needless to say will be conducted with that observance of eti quette requisit upon an occasion of such importance; yet it will not be lacking in that friendly warmth be tween those who have mutual respect and hold their aims in common. I have been very pleased to note that the exhibit which will be made by.Cal ifornia will be fresh and original, ao that those who have this year visited the St.- Louis Fair will sec California, differently exhibited in general at Portland. Most liberal sums . have al ready been appropriated in "further ance o special exhibits at the Expo sition. Many have taken very early ac tion in this matter, and the work of the Lewis and Clark representatives, who have been In California calling their further attention to the Exposition has been most fruitful In Its results. The press throughout California is very generous in Its notice toward the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and has urged ur citizens generally to take a part. The State of California, it is believed, will make a good appropriation. Gov ernor Pardee, who has already visited Portland and conferred with President Goode, is heartily In favor of every possible co-operation by California. The California Promotion Committee and its affiliated organizations through out the state will be active on behalf of the Lewis and Clark Centennial, and while space in this article does not permit me to enumerate all tho details, I am clad to assure the men of Port land and Oregon that California will bo represented at their Exposition in a manner in accordance with her traditions. Matrimonial "Ad" in Japan. New York Tribune. "I am a very pretty girl. My hair Is as wavy as a cloud. My complexion has the brilliancy and softness of a flower. My expression is as mobile as the leaf of tne weeping willow. r My brown eyes are like two crescents of the moon. I have enough worldly goods to pass happily through life with my husband, hand in hand, gazing at the flowers by day and the moon by night. If this should meet the eye of a man who is intelligent, amiable and of good address, I will be his for life, and repose with him later In a tomb of red -marble." There were 346,000 marriages in Japan last year, but for all that such advertisements as the above appear every day in the Japanese papers. When the Canal Is Completed. Minneapolis Tribune. The Portland Exposition has stimu lated the people of San Francisco to plan for a World's Fair on a very large scale in 1913. That will be the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Pacific Ocean by "Vasco Nunez de Bal boa on the 25th of September. It will be called the Balboan Exposition and will be made broadly international, like those of St. Louis and Chicago. The thrifty San Francisco people have another string to their bow. They expect the Panama Canal to be com pleted about 1913, and they Intend to make their fair a celebration of that event also. There is a good deal in this. By Any Other Name Would Smell as Rank. Albany Democrat. What's In a name? The full names of two gentlemen attracting a great deal of attention in Portland just now are: Stephen A. Douglas Puter. Horace Greeley McKInley. Some Jamaican Negro Sayings. . No ebery t'ing you say good fe talk. No trow away dirty water befo you hab clean. One fief no like fo see 'nodder t'ief carry big bag. Shoe alone know If stocking hab hole Sleep h'ab no massa. Why Is It? Boston Christian Register. Why Is it that popular orators, whether lay or clerical, are commonly men of large girth and good digestion, while great philosophers are often of diminu tive size and small vitality? Bread Tickets and White Chips, r Atchison Globe. A dollar is a large amount to pay for bread, but Is mighty Insignificant la a poker game.