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THE SUNDAY OBEGOXIAJJ, EOETJAND, DECEMBER 25, 1904. Entered .t the Pottoffice at Portland. Or., u soeond-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By ram (postage prepaid In advance) Dolly, trttii Sunday, per month. ......; -S5 Tn(it- with Kiinrtov excented. Dcr rear.. T.-O Sally, ulth Sunday, per year Eoscay. per year The Wwtfuy.' per year.- The "Weekly. 'S months Dally per -week, delivered. Sunday tod per -creek, delivered. Sunday ta- 0.00 2.00 1 SO .50 .13 J20 cPt Sally, pi clndcd POSTAGE RATES. United State. Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper - 16 to SO-page paper........... - 2 to 44-page paper aB Foreign rates, double. EASTEBN BUSINESS OFFICE. Tho S. d Beck with Special Agency New Xorkx rooms 43-50. Tribune building. Chi cago: rooms 510-512 Tribune building. The Oregonlan does not buy poems or sto ries rom Individuals and cannot undertake to return any manuscript sent to It Without solicitation. No stamps should be Inclosed tcr this purpose. KEPT ON SATE. depth varies greatly: but where Snake River has excavated its channel In these outpourings of basalt, a thickness of 4000 feet Is revealedalthough" " the stream has not yet cut through the foundation. In -the Stein Mountain country. In Southeastern Oregon, a similar series of lava sheets 5000 feet thick has -been measured. The Colum bia River lava was spread over the sur face of a deeply eroded land in a series of vast overflows of molten material. "The liquid rock." says our author,, "covered the broad plains and extended into the valleys in the adjacent moun- tains, giving them floors of basalt. Mountain spurs became capes and headlands, and outstanding buttes were clal, financial and social interests of the state were more closely blended, than they will ever be again. When this palatial steamer and her companion, the elegant Wide West, began churning the waters of the Columbia, their own ers were piling up fortunes at a rate thai made their 'operations the wonder of the financial world. Even then the old Oregon policy remained' in force and no" man was1 ever refused passage or meals "because he lacked the price. But the Thompson was the last of her race. Her individuality, ana in a meas ure that of the men who handled her, practically disappeared when the O. S. N. Co. foe came part of a railroad sys tem. Oregonians were unfamiliar with transformed into islands in the molten railroads and their red-tape methods. sea. The lava, since cooled and crys tallized, has in places been folded and tilted; streams N like the Columbia, Snake, Spokane' and Kootenai Rivera have carved great canyons in it, and the surface, especially where it is still nearly horizontal, has decayed and yielded e wonderfully rich soil. It is the fine, rich, residual material of these lava -plains, redistributed in part by It mattered not that the.change was. a signal for lower rates and in some re spects better service. The old friendly, neighborly feeling was missing,, and it will never again appear. Modern civ ilization and its attendant comforts and luxuries, which came with the railroad, are fully; appreciated, and none of us perhaps wish to return to the old days. Ast the same time, whenever we feel the on carfare, and in so doing . perhaps live in quarters the chief virtue of which beyond the mere, fact of shelter is that they are near the sthool build ing in which she .works; who must shamefacedly excuse herself when asked to contribute her mfte to some worthy charity and is -panic-stricken when a sudden toothache admonishes her that a visit to the dentist is neces sary. How can any one so beset with the annoying and futile effort to make her income meet Jier outgo give cheer ful service in a high-grade vocation when "she feels that she earns jnore than she receives? These and similar petty economies so incompatible with her position narrow and chafe a worker in a profession that requires for the successful performance of Its duties and obligations serenity of spirt and oppor tunity and purpose to grow with its growth. Meeting a . tired schoolteacher on a recent Saturday, the writer remarked: "You are suffering from brain fag." "Not at'all," was the response. "It is plowman's fag from which 1 am suffer ing," adding: 'T am tired almost to the CWcaro Auditorium Annex: Poatofflce t the wind, which furnishes the basis for I shock of the passing of those friends of point of exhaustion from doing work Ctews Co.. ITS Dearborn street. Denver Julius Black. Hamilton & Kend rick. B0 5-9 12 Seventeenth St.. and ITueauff Sros 605 16th rt gtnni City. Mo. Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut. Los Ancelcs B. T. Gardner. 259 South Sprint, and Harry Drapkln. Oakland, CaL W. H. Johnston. Four teenth and Franklin st. illnncsujolls M. J. Kavanaugh, 50 South Third: I Begclsburger. 217 First , avenue MBonth. New Xcrk Cltr I. Jonen & Co.. Astor Bouse. Ocdea F. R. Godard and Myers and Har den. Omaha BarkoJow Bros.. 1012 Farnam: ifclareath Stationery Co . 130S Farnam. Bait Xalce Salt Xake News Co.. 77 West Second South street. . San Francisco J. K. Cooper Co.. 78 Mar fStet street: Foster & Orear. Ferry News HBtahd: Goldsmith Bros.. 230 Sutter: I. E. tc Palace Hotel News Stand: F. "W. Pitts, .1008 Market: Frank Scott. 80 Ellis: N. hVThe&tley. 83 SteTenson: Hotel St. Francis News Stand. . Washington. D. C Ebbltt House News ICtand. the immense wheat industry of the Northwestern portion of the united States." Yet the process- is but begun. It will go on through the ages, but faster; for it will be accelerated more and more by the energy of man. To future former days, there corns trooping back tinged with regret memories or mat golden age when Dan O'Nell, John Gates, Captains John Wolf, Richard Hoyt and a host of others who have passed on. to the unknown stood equally high In public esteem and confidence in addition to the exacting duties of , my grade work that my salary rwlll not-permit me to hire a washerwoman, a charwoman or a seamstress to do." And this is one of our conscientious, energetic teachers, who would be glad to reserve her forces and apply them expense and Inhumanity of the present intolerable system of conveying Insane to the asylum? What honest watch dog thinks" the Fish Warden Is of any public use whatever? What honest watchdog can shut his eyes and muzzle hl3 eloquence to the Secretary of State's graft and decline to support a bill -to make him -pay his own clerks, or abol ish the present fee system? What hon est watchdog will turn tall when the State printing graft is attacked? What honest watchdog but never mind. We guess the holiest watchdog will be on deck at Salem this Winter, and he will be heard from. The wise honest watch dog always knows when to howl with out baiting, while some wise honest watchdogs will He still without chaining. Admiral Walker, who know,s as much- about isthmian canal problems as any other man, if not as much as others put together, does not encourage the Idea of a sea-level canal at Panama. Asked if the Idea were not growing in popular favor, he replied: "It seems to be growing in the minds of a few Con gressmen." Then he went on to point out that such, a canal would not only cost more, bift would take more than double the time to build. Even the sec ond objection, however, might not be insdperuble were It not for the fact that after a sea-level canal was built the Qhagres River would still have to be NOTE AND COMMENT. The Christmas Toast. Now that Christmas day Is here And has brought us all good cheer, Underneath the shining holly. .Banish care and welcome Tolly: Fill the glass and drain the wins To ruddy Hps -and eye that shine Yet before the frollo ends Let us drink to Absent Friends. What do we on Christmas day Care if ekies be blue or gray. Here where every eye Is bright. Here where every heart Is light; All the Joyance of the year Centers In our meeting here. Take the joy that heaven eenda. Yet drink a health to Absent Friends. Here- are friends around the board. Hearts with true Vffectlon stored; Here are trusty hands we've gripped; Glances that Dan Cupid's tipped: Here Is Jove to crown the cheer Oh. but Christmas day is dear Yet this :ove a meaning lends To our toast to Absent Friends. Here beneath the Christmas holly Cannot enter melancholy; Happy, and as children gay. Are we all this Christmas day But the friends we used to know. Boys and girls of long ago "What wonder if a teardrop blends With our toast to Absent Friends. history new Instances and proofs will with Alnaworth, Ladd, Reed, Thompson 1o her' school work. If this '"story is dealt with; for in times of freshet it bp shown here of the modification of physical conditions by human agency. We live only our own little day, yet we may forecast what will be after we have been long.ages prey to dumb for- getfulness. Possibly herein lies the strongest, the most convincing, of all arguments for man's Immortality. and other of their wealthy employers. who In life made no more claim to su periority over their men than they are now allotted in death. by teOBTXAND. SUNDAY, DEC. )t 25, 1004. MAN AND NATURE. A. now book on the geography, geol- scgy. orography and topography of orth America, by Israel C. Russell, 'professor of geology In the University taf Michigan (D. Appleton & Co., New York), presents a classification and de scription of the physical features of this continent, on a plan worked out with originality and care. In the fullness of the matter, and yet In conciseness of the treatment, it is almost a marvel of bookmaking; for the subject is one that in most hands would lead to dis cursive disquisition, overloaded with detail. Here, on the contrary, tve have a plan under which leading features are grouped in such way that nothing is in excess on the one hand nor "sacrificed to brevity on the other. The Oregonlan's main object in writ ing of this book Is to call attention to two leading topics in it, of especial interest to our people of Western North America. One of them is the treatment of the Great Basin, which includes much of Middle Oregon, nearly the whole of Nevada, large part i Cali fornia, one-half of Utah, and consider able parts of Idaho and Wyoming. This region, whose area is about 210,000 square miles, sends no stream to the ocean. The annual precipitation is small and evaporation active. All the water reaching the land is returned to the air by evaporation, either directly or from the streams and lakes. The fresh-water lakes are few and small, and all of them are discharged -into lakes more or less alkaline and saline, which have no out let. The principal uool. Great Salt Lake, is dense with mineral matter in solution. Much of this basin undoubtedly was once below the sea-level as a small portion of it lying towards the Gulf of California still is today. By upheaval the primordial conditions were changed, THE CHRISTMAS IXGEND. While shepherds watched their flocks night. All seated on the ground. The angel of the Lord came down And glory shone around. Thus voiced, the sweet Christmas legend comes floating down the ages, its listeners all unmindful for the time being of the disproved miracle that is the essence of the story. It is easy at this time of giving and receiving, of expectation and cunningly devised sur prise, of eager anticipation and un bounded pleasure, to accept the Christ mas legend as a fact and respond to its demands unquestloningly. It is no time when the merry Christ mas bells are ringing and hearts are beating high with the realization of long-anticipated pleasure, to set the facts of history, of science and of hu man experience against the tender beauty of the Christmas legend. This is not the time for discussion of the subject, since to prove the story tb be but a dream of the ages that had birth in the imagination of a simple, pas toral people, would ie to drain the sea son of peace and good-will of the subtle essence which keeps it a living, vital thing to thousands of men and women and tens of thousands of chil dren. The story of Christmas is a familiar one. it has lost notnmg in tne tening through the centuries that have passed since Its first simple recital. And Mary brought forth her first-born ron and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger. And there were in the same country shep herds abiding In the fields keeping watch of their flocks by night. And lo. the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were sore afraid. And the angel said, fear not. for heboid I bring -you good tidings and great -Joy, which shall- be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ, the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Thus runs the story that has touched with simple magic the heart of Christ- the great mountain range on the west side of it cut the basin oft from the en,jom throughout the centuries. Thus ocean winds, producing aridity, whicW lt stands today, the foundation which gives the country tne cnaracier into which it has developed. It is still dry ing -up though the progress of aridity in many parts of it may be checked by the agency of man, as human settle ments are extended, trees planted and nourished and the soil stirred by the plow. The Great Basin is not a single level-floored depression, but is trav ersed In various directions by lofty mountain ranges, with high Isolated mountains here and there. The up heaval left td the whole region a most Irregular topography. At one time Great Salt Lake may have been a sep arate fresh-water basin, discharging into Snake River; for the elevation be tween Bear River and Snake River "Val ley today is but slight. But evapora tion so reduced the lake as to cut off the outlet, and the mineral matter In solution, carried down by the streams, rapidly converted the waters of all the basins ihat had no outlet into saline pools. Yet the streams discharging into them have the usual purity of river waters, and carry but a -small fraction of one per cent of saline matter in solution. It has taken, therefore, im mense ages to convert the great lake of the basin into the saltest of seas. We should have another salt lake where the Klamath Lakes are, but extending over a much larger area than they cover, had not precipitation in that re glen remained considerable enough to maintain an outlet to the ocean, Similar to Jthls great closed basin, but incomparably greater. Is that in Asia, In the hollow of which stands the Cas pian Sea and near to it the Sea of Aral These are almost certainly the remains of a great water highway which extend ed from the Atlantic through the Med iterranean, Euxine and Caspian Seas eastward to the Gobi Desert and north to the Frozen Ocean. Evaporation has reduced the Caspian to a level of nearly 100 feet below the general ocean level. while the Aral Sea Is but a little above it, A great sea once existed there, which was cut off by upheavals from the main ocean, and evaporation, in excess of precipitation, has done the rest; and this though some of the great rivers of the world pour Into the basin The Caspian and Aral Seas, however. are not very salt, since the main streams that pour into them flow from districts in which saline matter does not so greatly abound as 'In the basin of America. The other interesting feature we have wished to notice in this book is an ac count of the Columbia River lava re don. which covers perhaps 200,000 souare miles in Oregon, Washington and neighboring states. In this region eruptions of highly liquid rock came form fissures and spread widely over the surface as veritable inundations, which on cooling became black basaltic rock. It spread over nearly the whole of the Columbia Basin, but without fonniDc saovaHAiBM as oratsrx ltd underlies all of the bustle and excite ment, the pleasure and the anticipation, the revelry and exchange of gifts and compliments and good wishes that find expression upon the day which has been accepted as the anniversary of the event recorded In this story. LEAVES FROM THE PAST. Two news items that appeared in the daily papers last week were of more than orlnary interest to the elder gen eration of Portlanders. One announced the death at Oregon City of Dan O'Nell, the veteran purser, and the other told of the retirement and dismantling of the steamer R, R. Thompson, a craft on which the dead purser had spent many years of service. There Is not much that savors of romance in -the rapid life we now lead. All except the practical side of life has been eliminated as the ferocity of the struggle for the al mighty dollar has Intensified with the passing years. There was a "golden age" in Oregon's history, however, when the rapid accumulation of for tunes did not dispel all of the glamor of romance and brotherly love that hung over the new regime, whose wealth of undeveloped resources made It a veritable land of mystery. To that golden age belonged Dan O'Nell and the R. R. Thompson. Rail roads, telegraph and telephone had-not yet found a place among our Industrial equipment when Dan O'Nell began work as purser on the steamer Colum bia, running between Oregon City and Astoria, and the steamboat men were thus depended on to carry news as well as freight -and passengers between the scantily populated settlements. Every resident, of Oregon City, Portland and Astoria was personally acquainted with the purser, and it was through hirn that the latest financial, political and, of course, social news was spread through the country. Rogues -were scarce In Oregon in those days, and each man had implicit confidence in his neighbor. The traveler was not forced to show his ticket at the gangplank, and If he had neither ticket nor money, he traveled just the same. Life, in Oregon in that era was more on the co-operative plan, and the universal inclination to help each other was so pronounced that the social side presented was not unlike that of one large family, each eager to learn of the welfare of the other and all willing to aid where aid was required. FALSE VIEW "OF SANTA CLAUS. -Jacob A. Rlls,- distinguished private citizen, rational reformer, lover of his fellow-man, good fellow and. intimate friend of the President, has published In book form his answer to "a little chap on the Western frontier" who asked this questlonc "Will you please tell me if there is a Santa Claus? Papa says not." Mr. Rlls Insists that there Is a real Santa Claus a very real Santa Claus and that in -the course of a personal in quiry Into the matter he found some thing like Santa Claus In the White House. Here Isr a part of his testimony: As I was saying', I wont through the door Into a beautiful white hall with lofty pil lar, between which ihere were regular banks of holly with the red berries shining through. Just as if It were out in the woods: And from behind one of them there came the merriest laugh you could ever think of. Do you think, now, lt was that letter In my pocket hat gave that guilty little throb against my heart wnen j. rcaa , or wuai could It have been? X hadn't oven timo to ask myself the question, for thero stood my host, all framed In holly, and with the heartiest handclasp. For, you see. the house with the holly In the hall wasvthe "White House, and my host was the President of the United States. I have to tell It to you, or you might easily fall Into the same error I cams near falling into. I had to pinch myself to make sure the President was not Santa Claus himself. After the coffee wc sat together In the President's office for a little while. Ho signed commissions, each and every one of which was Just Santa Claus' gift to a grown up boy -who had been good In the year that was going; and before we parted the Presi dent had lifted with so many strokes of his pen clouds of sorrow and want that weighed heavily on homes I know of to which Santa Claus had had hard work finding his way that Christmas. While Mr. Riis admits to the youth ful Inquirer that the President Is not the real Santa Claus, he represents Santa Claus better than anybody else Mr. Rlls can think of, not only on ac count of his genial way, but also be cause he can and does give so many enjoyable things to grown-up boys. With a stroke of his pen he gives a man an Ambassadorship, or a post- office, or makes him a Judge for life, or Collector of Customs, or Lleutenant- General. Mr. Rlls Is wrong. He talks like a lawyer for the defense. And he must have the consciousness that he will not be believed, for every grown boy knows that the real Santa Claus plays no fa vorites. The President does. Only the other day The Oregonlan published sta tistics showing that 5.8S0.864 grown-up boys in this land of liberty expect noth ing from the White -House-Santa Claus this Christmas and will get nothing. The real Santa Claus doesn't dlscrlml-. nate. Nor does this great saint whom all Christendom worships ithls .day take away a present, from one boy to give to another. Mr. Riis Santa Claus does. For every jubilant Jack MattKews In the country there is a disappointed Zoeth Hauser; for every Mlnto in clo ver, a Bancroft pasturing on sage brush. All boys have like good opinion of the real Santa Claus. . Nelson A. Miles and Leonard Wood differ In their estimates of the White House St. Nich olas. Perhaps this "little chap on the West, era frontier" lives In Oregon. Maybe he will accept Mr. Rlls view of the all powerful, gracious deity. It Is just pos sible that he and his associates have been figuring In the grand jury-room and the courtroom at the Feedral build ing the past month, if so,, their dear est wish to Mr. Rlls' Santa Claus will be his signature at the bottom of a paper" concluding: "Go, and steal no more " simple, the moral is plain." As The Oregonlan understands the matter, the teachers of the grammar and primary schools of this city ask an Increase In wages that would be equal to twelve months' pay at the present rate that they receive for ten months. That Is to say, they ask practically that their wages go on during' vacation, or that their monthly pay be increased to cover, the amount that they .would re ceive were they In school during the entire year, Instead of, as now, being left without pay for two months, dur ing which they are expected to gather strength and otherwise improve the time to recuperate their energies for the active duties of the schoolroom. It will be remembered that the wages of the teachers were reduced not once, but twice or three times during the financial depression of the early '90s. The cost of living-fell to the minimum and they were able to stand the reduc tion without more hardship than wage earners generally suffered at that time. But with the coming of prosperity and the advance all along the line In the cost of living they have found It Im possible to live within their Income without the most harassing economies. This, they contend, and with good rea son, is unjust and unnecessary, and they ask relief to the amount above stated. It may be aid that their plea is worthy of favorable consideration. It Is neither just nor wise to require any one to toil in a responsible voca tion for a pittance that barely,, covers the worker's daily needs. For school teachers, like every one else, a period of life Is coming In which no one can work. would work great destruction unless a second canal for diverting its waters were provided. Such considerations Beem to make the carrying out of the original plans desirable. These were adopted after long consideration by ex perts; and the advantages of doing away with all but tide locks do not appear to be sufficient to justify any radical change. Undoubtedly a canal cut to the sea level would be better; but the first necessary condition would be a great tunnel for the Chagres River. This will require many years. and can be undertaken later. Then the canal may be cut by sections down to the sea level. Carnegie refuses to give anything more to Spokane for Its library; but he shows judgment in one of his recent gifts, since thereby he Is .able to associ ate his name with that of Benjamin Franklin. The sum of five thousand dollars was left by Franklin to the City of Boston, to be used, with Its accre tions, at the end of one hundred years, for the benefit of persons learning me chanical trades; It amounted when the trust terminated to 5270,000, but Boston has been at a loss to know what to do with It. Now comes Andrew Carnegie with an offer of $570,000 more which would make a sum sufficient to found and maintain an Institute modeled after the Cooper Institute of Ner York. Thus Carnegie will link his name with that of a person of vast historical fame. It is very well; but who wouldn't rather possess the fame of Franklin than the whole of Carnegie's millions? THE HONEST "WATCHDOG. A few years ago a reformer came out of Lane County to preach to a surprised and disconcerted Legislature the time- worn doctrine of retrenchment. The peculiar ability of this reformer did not, however, lie in the pronouncement of Portland bank clearings last week were well In excess of 54,000,000, an in crease of something more than 20 per cent over the corresponding week last year. These figures would Indicate that the holiday trade in the aggregate reached greater proportions than ever. Some complaint has been made in cer tain lines, but the trouble, if lt actually existed, wa3 apparently In Individual cases, due perhaps to' new competition. respectable platitudes, but ?e meant hnsln- Hp wns lireil nt nnfi sneered at and variously derided, buff It made 11 ls a well-known fact that there are. ,tlt v. mure ueupie wiKaKeu in uiu&uh in TEACHERS' SALARIES AGAIN. The demand for an Increase in the wages of teachers, though more per sistent in the city than in the country districts, is general throughout the state. That lt is founded in justice to a conscientious class of workers Is ap- tenor of his way, clipping a dollar or two from this appropriation and knock ing that petty graft in the head until It came to be understood that he could not be dissuaded from his great pur pose by Jeers, jokes, jests or jollity of any sort; and the Legislature finally accepted his project for correction of the great clerkship abuse. It was sim ply to make It unlawful for any Legis lature to employ more than a specified number of clerks at specified salaries. All went well until It occurred to some body that one Legislature has no right to tie the hands of another In the con duct of Its business, and a hole was promptly kicked through the well meant Kuykendall law large enough to drive a coach and four Into. It is esti mated that if the last Legislature had seen fit to observe the provisions of the law, several thousand dollars would have been saved to the taxpayers. .But, as we have Intimated, the Senate, to the great consternation of the worthy member from Lane, broke Into a wild excess of extravagance and employed for each Senator or for as many as de sired one clerk at 53 each per day, with no limit on age, sex or previous condi tion of servitude. Senator Kuykendall in an Oregonlan interview yesterday stood by his guns and Insisted that the Kuykendall act. Is all right, but alas! to err Is human, and, much as te regret to admit it, it seems unlikely that the approaching Legisla ture will be able to pursue the puritan course set out for it by the ascetic gen tleman from Eugene. The way the av erage legislator resigns himself to fate and the forgiving consideration of an Indulgent constituency when he has ap plication for a clerkship from the gen tleman who carries Soap Creek Pre clnct in the hollow of his unsoaped hand, or from the young lady who has a father or a brother or a friend with a pull, Is one of the familiar phenomena of our legislative history. He may have high regard for the law, even an in valid law, and may give thoughtful and respectful consideration to the resolu tions favoring retrenchment hi clerks Portland this year than were nere a year ago. This, of course, calls for a redistribution of trade, and according to the figures, a gain and not a loss has resulted from this competition. Mr. Fritz is undoubtedly glad to be rid of an exacting and officious wife. Mrs. Fritz says that though she pre pared a bath for him twice in nineteen months, Mr. Fritz found time just once to enjoy that luxury. Mrs. Fritz com plained, too, that It was difficult to sit in the same room with Mr. Fritz, though she admits that he tried to lighten the domestic .gloom by turning on the phonograph and reciting to her the story of his various conquests with other women. It would seem that Mrs. Fritz was unreasonable. A dutiful wife would have been able to hold her nose and live with a man of so varied ac complishments. The Chadwick affair, says Harper's Weekly, ha6 proved two things first. that hardheaded bankers are . soft in spots, and that Mr. Andrew Carnegie'3 Is a name to conjure with financially as well as Industrially. Since both of these points -were undisputed before, it would seem that the fuss' and flurry and sensation caused by the Chadwick ex posure not to mention the financial cost of the trial, represent wasted force. Unmentioned in Dispatches. I try to recall tbe General's name "Who swept Corea as If with name; Could I remember my mind wore calmer. For I'm sure there was one with Frederick Palmer. And whom should in noble verse be sung "When we hymn the battles of Liao-tung? As the Ituss retreated elow and surly. I "Was no General there with Bennett Burleigh? Of course, there was none to run the show, To te brains for the army In ToKlo. For Td like to know where the saucy knave is Would proffer aid to Harding Davis. Yet thero must be Generals out In the field. Now, who are these men with tneir names concealed T Won't somebody give us a word of the lighters "Who execute orders received from the writers. The Arlington Appeal remarks that sep arating and becoming reconciled isn't a patch on the problem, of not separating and becoming reconciled. An advertisement is run by the Wood- burn Independent asking for "the names and addresses of a lot of baseball playersT also salary expected, for 1905. No scrubs need apply, nor any professionals, but good baseball players." Presumably a professional draws wages and an ama teur salary. As the vaudeville joke has it, married men don't live any longer than bachelors- It only seems longer. Leap year is only 24 hours longer than the ordinary year, but it seems much longer" to the nervous bachelor. In the Silvertonian" appears the press notice of a theatrical company wnicn 'carries six people and the only real billy goat actor now on the American stage, which will appear in every performance." And wo wouldn't mind betting that Hi3 Only Real Whiskers Is butting his way to the front of the profession. Croscut Saws. Once bitten, twice shy. Once kissed, twice fly. John Barrott, Minister to Panama, sent an impassioned wail to Congress when he was Minister to Argentina, saying that shirts cost him $13 apiece down there, and using that fact as an argument for an Increase in salary. Barrett is a me dium-slzed man. When the story of the far cry about the shirts came to tho President he looked at the huge bulk of Secretary Taft and said: "Taft, how much do you suppose a shirt for you would cost on the Barrett basis?" Thus tho New York World. Luckily tho Arcentlne climate Is such that a man doesn't have to wear a shirt all the year round. Because she was discharged on the ground that she was nofpretty enough, a New York chorus girl has sued a theat rical manager. This is the first indication noted by the public that managers esteem tnelr chorus girl pretty, and throws a lurid light upon their taste In such mat ters. It Is pleasant tpnote that the sophomores of Columbia University did not punish the faculty too severely for Its Impertinent intrusion into college-affairs. Some say that ever 'gainst that season oomes Wherein our Savior's birth Is celebrated. The bird of dawning slngoth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad, Christmas is the very time of ghosts such as no cockcrow can drive away ghosts of the dead and of the Ifvlng. Tacoma's Y. M. C. A. basket-ball team beat Everett's by a score of 103 to 10. The Tacoma lads must have thought they were playing cricket. Dean Hutton, of the Columbia College of Mines, having made proper conces sions to the. sophomores, the latter will consent to remain, haze freshmen when so inclined, and graduate with the hon ors of the institution.' The injunction to freshmen is "Obey your masters,." and thus avoid trouble that calls for pistol play In the future. f.fk.A noatinnai effort and therefor adopted by the First Methodist Sunday in me ena ne The Minnesota is a very large vessel, an honor to Seattle, and a credit to her makers, and not, wc hope, an elephant to her owners. But what Seattle wants to know Is why they named-her the Minnesota? There are other names nearer home, etc. An Oregon City man became seriously ill from eating glass that had been packed up in cartons of mush. Land sakes! Aren't they used to breakfast food up there? The Waits. "Come and be morry," Sing Tom and Jerry. "He hadn't money enough," said an old Irishman the other day, "to buy a jockey- coat for the ace of diamonds." To condemn a Christmas story in tho strongest possible manner a Boston paper . THE WORK OF WOMAUr A Great Deal of Sense In This Answer to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt grapples with all sorts of questions. But "just why he should ave confided to Congress his per sonal oplnlqn that married women .should not be permitted to work in factories it fs Impossible to say," says the Chavleston News and Courier. There are some who arc unable to see or believe that lt Is any of President Roosevelt's business. Tlie News and Courier Is one of these. A man with a fortune and a salary of 550,000 a year is hardly a fit judge to declare that an industrious woman, without anything but her health and willingness to earn her living, shall bo barred out of any respect able line of employment. She has as knuch right to work in a factory as Mr. Roose velt has to be President of the United .States. It would be .much better, perhaps, to provide a husband of tho right sort and a better place for her; but until these "academics," of whom Mr. Roosevelt himself has so often complained, can pro vide, or at least point to something bet ter than factory work, they should cer tainly be denied the right to regulate unfortunate tollers, male or female, who must toll, out of their only opportunity to make their way in a very selfish world. As the-. News and Courier adds, the President doubtless had in mind bis well known opposition to race suicide. It would, too, be a glorious thing if every mother, or possible mother. In the land could be relieved of the necessity of making a living for herself or for any body else. But the obstacles In the way of bringing this millennial condition of affairs to pass arc numerous and obvious. In the first place, tho married women themselves might object. Their "sex is just now making a gallant struggle for emancipation from the industrial tyran ny to which it has- long been subjected. Freedom of endeavor it alleges to be requisite to success In the pursuit of happiness. "If matrimony is to be made a bar to a woman's employment in a factory, "why should it not still further curtail the op portunities open to her energy and enter prise? Who may wisely draw the line between the labor that a married woman may and may not do without hindrance or detriment? The present Congress as sembled at Washington gives evidence of numbering among its members many wil ling workors. Some of these gentlemen have shown a disposition to couch a ver bal lance In behalf of decidedly queer legislative vagaries, but it is questionable whether the President has not at last discovered one that will daunt even them. In any" event, we shall wait with impa tience to sec what the married women of the country will have to say about it should serious effort be made to limit by statute the avocations that aro open to them." Woman was for many dark ages man's slave. As far as the masculine tyrant was able to go ho went, woman's charms leading at last to a rivalry among tho men, of which sne was not siow to take advantage. In some countries the Iong- bearded and polygamous tyrant was ac tually worshiped by his scores of concu bines. The native American enjoyed him self hunting and fighting, while his squaw tilled the corn, ground It Into meal and made it into cakes for her brave, who lorded lt over her. The enlargement of woman's sphere has been gradual until recent years, during which she has proved herself man s formidable rival In many new lines. The News is inclined to sus pect that women have invaded certain lines which lt might have been better to leave alone, but, speaking generally, lib erty is woman's means of avoiding slav ery just as It is man s means of avoiding , it, and tho change by which woman's sphere has been greatly enlarged is- one1 of the most important and satisfactory results that the civilization of tho race has worked out up to this time. Aside, however, from all differences of opinion as to whether woman should en joy just as many rights and chances as her former lord and master enjoys, as to whether sho is not really entitled to more rights rather than fewer rights on ac count of her sex, we aro confronted by a condition rather than by a mere theory. The " condition Is known of all men to exist. There are thousands of good women in Washington and in every other city, some of them with worthless hus bands, who must toll in exacting and disagreeable lines of labor in order to secure for themselves and those depend ent upon them the necessaries of 'life. "Academics" may spin fine theories, re formers may wall over statistics and proud daddies In their prime, with plenty of money and power, may propose airy schemes, but these do not meet the con ditions -or change the facts. Seeing that the women are on earth, that they must work and even drudge, the obvious duty of those who would help rather than hin der them Is to provide easier and better opportunities for them before taking away the poor opportunities these unfor tunates are now barely able to find. If It Is impossible to provide better opportuni ties, then it is both foolish and cruel to talk about turning women out of factories and mills. If there are those who would do this they should at least be requfrcd to produce a good-husband or some bet ter employment for every voteless unfor tunate whom lt is proposed to rob of c'en the one poor opportunity she now enjoy8- i JAMESTOWN. It may be feared that the Jamestown Exposition 1207 will not obtain the rec ognition and support of the Congress of the United States. Yet it ought. The Washington Post puts its nature and sig nificance well, to' wit: The English colonists who landed at James town In 1607 may be said to have laid the cor- a few days ago declared thai It was full nerstone of the eplendld political edifice wa in the interest of true. economy, is more than probable. Personal claims aside, there is every reason Xo believe that an educational system, or, more specifically, our public school' system, would be the gainer by meeting the demand for an Increase In teachers salaries. Arguments in sup port of this, belief or assumption are familiar. Not only in the teacher's vo cation, but in all others, the insuffi cient wage -produces halfhearted ser vice. We have need to go no deeper into the relation of cause and effect than the common impulses of human nature disclose to find the reason for this. The underpaid worker is the one Who gives grudgingly of his or her time and effort; the laborer who is fully paid is exempt from the petty economies that absorb the energies and make the school of Eugene, but succumbs. He succumbs because he must. But there are methods by which a Legislature may. if It tries, balance ne sted girders come high when finanqed by a construction company looking out for enormous profits on one hand and a City Engineer that does not know or take the troubre to Inform himself con- counts with a sensitive conscience. For cernIng tne market price of steel on the example, here are a few appropriations nth.r rest period so necessary to keep the The development of our wonderful re- human machine In smooth running dr- sources -brought fame and fortune for the steamboatmen, and with this devel opment the "simple life" of our early days fled and all of the fine veneering of modern olvllization has -failed to re store the wild beauty of the original social structure of the state. The steamer R. R. Thompson, the finest craft of her type that ever floated. marked the climax of that period of good-fellowship in .which the commer- der a thing dreamed of but never re alized. . Take the teacher, for example, who must eke out her insufficient salary by rising early Saturday morning to wash her 'flannels and handkerchiefs; who spendB any hour that she might other wise have for self-Improvement at the sewing machine to save .the cost of having a waist or other" simple article of apparel made; who must economize that the Legislature of 1905 will be asked to make and that are needless In whole or in part: Coyote bounties (deficiency) $ 35.SS1.31 Drain Normal School 12.000.00 "Weston Normal School 10.000.00 Ashland Normal School rt. 13.C30.00 Monmouth Normal School 25,000.00 Transportation of insane 32.500.00 Fish "Warden, deputies, etc. 11.400.00 Transportation of convicts 17,000.00 Public Printing O3.000.00 Public Drinting (deficiency) 10.000.00 Secretary of Stato (clerks) 21.000.00 Game Warden and deputy S.-IO0.0O Total $278,817.31 We do not expect to hear the treas ury watchdog's honest bark raised against all these items; but a long and prolonged howl might with effect be made to cut out entirely -some of them and to scale down others. What honest watchdog, unless he' happens 'to have his abode in one of the counties con cerned, will keep silent on a project to consolidate the normal schools and re- "ducc the expense? What honest watch dog, unless he happens to Have a cow- eringfear of his -master's (the Sheriff's) voice, can fail to protest against the Councilman SIgler's new way to col lect old, debts may have been effica cious, but somehow it did not make a hit with the grand jury. Nothing could be more unpopular than methods of any sort to enforce payment of debts. After all, the ateel-glrders In the steel bridge cost only about twice what they were worth. From some recent revela tions as to municipal jobs, we should say tnat is aomg very wen lor-x-ori-land. ' Admiral Togo again announces the sinking of the Russian Port Arthur fleet. We believe it. We believe it every time he tells us about it. The Federal grand jury has adjourned till Tuesday, and-we can nil forget the past and enjoy our Christmas In peace and security. of the crude sentimentality of "Latue Tim." Dickens is dead anil the living dogs can bark at him undisturbed. Hl3 sentiment is crude, undoubtedly, but it Beems to go with the Christmas feelinj which is, after all, the possession of crude minds. Why should one regard Christ mas as different from -any other day? There's no reason in tho world for it, yet most of us do. and Tiny Tim's "God bless us all" seems a very satisfactory motto for the season. The 0-year-old boy who kissed his teacher seems to be ahead of his class. V. F. Grazucsky, a Russian spy, made a tripHhrough Japan as Percy Palmer, an American newspaper man. He will be a true patriot if he gives up his new name for the old. No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around; The idle spear and shield were high uphung; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood: The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sftt stilt with awful eye. As if they surely know their sovereign Lord was by. Mankind Is doing Its best this Christmas to mako up for the peace that f.l upon the world at the first. WEX. J. Merry Christmas I And Four-Fourths of Best Show Ever. Chicago Tribune. If yon didn't have time to see lt at St. Louis, you can see nearly three-fourths of It at Portland next year. now call the United Statea of America. Those men were the pioneers -of human liberty and free institutions of government. Their cour age, devotion and energy made It possible for the Puritans to rescue New England from the wilderness. Their example attracted to these shores the Huguenots, the Catholic cavaliers of Lord Baltimore's following, tho Scotch. Irish and English emigrants sent out by Ogle thorpe and Raleigh. Jamestown was the birth place of the Kepubllc It Is to Americans what Bethlehem is to tho Christian peoples of the world. The landing there Is the most im portant event In the history of tho Western Hemisphere. It means more than the Declara tion of Independence, or the French purchase of 1803. or any other chapter in our as tounding history. And If wc have celebrated the events that grew out of it mere fruit and consequences with how much more propriety can we celebrate the first cause, tho Initial seed, which has produced this immeasurable, this stuponaous nanrai; New Orleans and Panama. New Orleans Times-Democrat. One of our great hopes and expecta tions is that the Panama Canal will raise New Orleans to its proper commercial status and Importance. Norte the ex pectation limited to the people of this city. The world believes that New Orleans will bo the greatest beneficiary from the con struction of the canal. It Is two days nearer the Isthmus than New York and the Atlantic ports; and. standing at the mouth of the great river, it Is the natural port and entrepot for the entire Missis sippi Valley, the producing section of the country. All Interchange of goods should be through- this port. In this one item we have an opportunity of more than .doubling" our trade