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NOTES OF MIGHTY CHANGE.
Progress of hlptory presents si contin
uous picture. Philosophy of history
consists In apprehension of the se
quences of events. .Cause and effect
are here. In their. sources and flow and
consequences. Whatever occurs de
pends on something or flows out of
something that has preceded it. His
tory is not a series of marvelous or
miraculous or unconnected events, like
the scenes of a badly constructed tra
gedy. The law of cau?e and of conse
quence rules over all.
The great conception of Comte. that
human affairs, like physical facts, are
ordered by law by a law working with
it; them and directing their course and
therefore may be subjected to scientific
analysis, has been so fully worked out
by Mill. Spencer, Buckle and an army
of competent sociologists, that It would
be useless in these days to argue it fur
ther with the theologians and metaphy
sicians who deny it. The unity of his
tory, after all. is j.he great fact of his
tory. Wben we go into the analysis we
find causes and effects, or trace effects
back to causes. Astonishing things
have occurred and will yet occur in hu
xpan history. But there- are no mira
cles, no "breaks" in history. All events
pursue a regular, orderly, consistent
and inevitable course. But often it
tkes a while to see it. You cannot ap
preciate the height or magnitude of our
jnoulitaln peaks when you are imme
diately under- them. You must draw
back a little; you must mount some eec-
-vOrtdary height at a distance. Then you
can see the whole clearly.
One may take any important era of
history as a starting point or point of
view and from it look backward or
forward. Take Venice, in the 'days of
her greatness. How she rose, in the
conditions of the time, out of ber situa
tion, to which the genius of her people
adjusted Itself the art and force of a
people using the conditions of Nature
and of commerce to give strength to the
position and to exalt the slat becomes
clear from study of the times. Scarcely
could there be a more impressive ex
ample of the paramount Influence of
geographical position upon the destiny
of human communities than that af
forded by the rise and fall of the Vene
tian Republic. Her island position al
lowed her early to assert her inde
pendence of the universal Eastern Em
plre, just as the island position of Great
Britain has established and maintained
ber independence and place, against the
far more powerful forces of the Euro
pean ContinenL Thus, the Influence of
lice spread widely over the Eastern
Id; as that of the British Islands
has spread over the Western world
and indeed all round the world.
Man. in every situation, is dependent
largely on Nature. The position of
Venice in the movements of the active
world, ten centuries ago, illustrates the
law. During the early centuries of the
Middle Ages the countries of Northern
Europe had been growing rapidly In
importance. There was a constant flow
of trade between those lands and the
Mediterranean Basin, and this stream
of trade was forced to find its way for
the most part through the passes of the
Carpathian Alps and to the vea. The
astonishing energy of Northern and
Western Europe, displayed through the
Crusades, threw everything Into her lap.
Of the Mediterranean Basin, and of the
European commercial world, Venice
became the chief city; and It was cen
turies before the operation of forces In
other directions brought about actual
change In the course of affairs.
Our purpose in recalling all this Is
merely for illustration, which may have
bearing on present and future condi
tions in our Pacific States of America.
Through our Western ports a new way
of communication has been opened with
the Eastern Hemisphere. The results
begin to appear; the ultimates may be
left to the imagination.
Recurring, however, to the first
, thought, the original Idea of the theme.
: us say again that we must cast
ray, as Freeman said, all distinctions
id "modern" and "dead"
and "living." and boldly grapple with
the great fact of the unity of history
For history, as Freeman says, "from its
first glimmerings to our own day. Is
one unbroken drama, no part of which
can be rightly understood without ref
erence to other parts which come before
and after It." It should be said, how
ever, that, as relating to ourselves, to
the races of which we are a part, this
statement belongs to the movement of
Aryan men, between whom and Tura
nian and Mongolian man there hither
to has been little contact. But that
contact is now at hand. The movement
toward the West has proceeded so far
that it now has reached the East from the
opposite side. Within a century the contact
will change greatly the whole face of
human affairs. Uoon our Pacific States
of America the Influences will be Im
mense. To almost any extent the im
agination may revel in It without ex
ceeding the bounds of possibility.
TAFT AND WALLACE.
Marc Antony threw away half the
world to follow Cleopatra; Engineer
Wallace turned his back on immortal
fame for "opportunities to make money
through investments." Were both of
them wise? Antony had a moment, one
at least, of surcease of regret:
Fall not a tar. I say; one of them rate
All that is won and lost; give me a kls;
Even this repays me.
Has Mr. Wallace felt regret at all for
"the splendid opportunities of that po- i
sition which would have made him fa- !
mous the world over"? Or was be
really, as he seemed to Secretary Tdft.
"utterly insensible of the significance of
his conduct"? In the time to come, when
some great and worthier genius shall
have actually built the canal and Wal
lace shall hear spoken the deathless
name of the man who wears the wild
olive crown he put aside for a purse of
gold will he hear it as Esau heard of
his bartered birthright? Wallace might
have walked with the Immortals; he
chose to walk with millionaires. He '
might have seen his name spurn the
dull earth. "And like a fiery planet
mount and burn."
He chose instead.
Like a dull worm to rot.
Thrust foully into earth to be forgot.
Mankind deals leniently with the sin
of Marc Antony. If we do not pardon,
we condemn with pity. "AH for love
and the world well lost" Is folly, per
haps, but it is the folly of heroes. "All
for money and fame well lost," may
not be folly, though Secretary Taft
thinks it is; and if it is wisdom, then
Benedict Arnold was wise. Next to
death, history admits love to excuse
failure or crime. The poets account it
nobler than glory:
What care though striding Alexander part
The Indus with his Macedonians numbers?
Sings Keats. "Juliet, leaning ajnld her
window flowers, doth more avail."-
But what historian or what poet has
admitted "the opportunity to make
money through investments" as an ex
cuse for a man's quitting his country's
service at a critical moment ana
"forgetting the high obligation of a pub
lic servant"? Suppose when the War
of the Rebellion was half fought out
New York business men had offered to
make Lincoln president of a big hold
ing company at a salary of half a mil
lion. What a chance for Lincoln to
have escaped a "lonely life" and one
rather more dangerous than Mr. Wal
lace's in Panama! What a vitance for
him to have traded immortality for
cash! .Would he have done well to ac
cept the offer? He would if Mr. Wal
lace has done well.
In his extraordinary remarks when he
dismissed Mr. Wallace from the public
service. Secretary Taft twice used the"
word fame, or famous. This word ha?
not been common In public utterances
of late, nor has the thing It signifies
been much sought for.
Fame Is no plant that growe on mortal roll.
It Is a word belonging to great lit
erature and great men. Secretary Taft
uses it as if it were part of his daily
thinking. Perhaps it belongs to him.
He has scorned "delights" and lived the
"laborious days" which should earn
fame. His achievements ao far -rank
him with the foremost administrators of
history. His public utterances wing
high. His eloquence is sane and manly.
His thought is noble. His comprehen
sion is wide. No man in public life
has spoken so understanding of the
significance of the Panama Canal as
Taft. As a thinker, as a statesman, no
American outranks him. The palm Is
not beyond his reach. He Is "avail
able." not because he is all things to
an men. but because he Is one thing to
all men. and that one genuine.
AN EXCESSIVE BIRTH RATE.
During the hottest week of June a
June that broke all records for heat In
the great metropolis a child was born
every' Ave minutes of the day and night
In New York City. In aggregate, 2011
lives, most of which dawned upon
wretchedness and many of which went
or will mercifully pass into early
eclipse, were added to the Infantile
population of the great city that before
this accession had its full share of chil
dren clad in unchlldly rags, breathing
fetid air and sustaining life on such
nourishment as Ignorance and unthrlft
provided. "Race suicide?" Is not this
better than race murder? If not, then
must we discard the wisdom that pro
claims the prevention of evil and suf
fering to be the prerogative of Intelli
gence, the trusty handmaiden of pru
dence? It is doubtful whether. In any spe
cific sense, an utterance of any public
man In this country has ever been more
perverted In meaning than was that
which arrayed President Roosevelt on
the side of an unreasoning multiplicity
of population. The President, a sturdy
man. a father able to give physical
vigor, mental activity, proper care and
ample maintenance to his family ot six
children, has a mental and moral equip
ment tod keen to assume that, because
he' Is thus equipped for parentage, all
men. without regard to mental and
moral qualities or material conditions,
should be each the father of from six
to fifteen children. More than this, he
knows that there are thousands of men
in our country who are not fit to be
fathers at all. hundreds of women to
whom motherhood, because of adverse
conditions of health, of home, of main
tenance, is not a blessing; and count
less numbers of children who for their
own sakes. the sake of the race and of
society, would better never have been
born.
To encourage race production, re
gardless of conditions of physical, men
tal and moral endowment. Is most un
wise and short-sighted. The birth rate
of New York for the mid-week In June
was anything but a cause for congratu
lation to the parents, the municipality
or the Nation. It represented procrea
tion without purpose. Ignorance without
iope of enlightenment, the triumph of
the animal propensities over prudence
and humanity.
The Prefldent's warning against race
suicide was to reasoning, capable men
and women. The 'misfortune of It -is
that the unreasoning. Incompetent, even
dissolute, accepted It as an Indorsement
of the heavy birth rate among them,
and an encouragement to further ef
forts to add to the already overcrowded
tenements of poverty and squalor, a
yet greater number of suffering, de
frauded children.
Benedick discovered, or proclaimed,
three centuries ago. that the world must
be peopled. Nature had been proceed
ing upon this hypothesis for no one
knows how many centuries before that.
The idea Is not a new one. It has mere
ly been revived and somewhat over
exploited by a man who obtains ready
hearlng-nhroughout the Nation today.
Its expression was exaggerated, not by
President Roosevelt, but through misin
terpretation by a large class, who eag
erly proclaimed him sponsor for the
multitude of children that they had,
without any thought of the welfare or
even the perpetuation of th race called
Into existence.
Common Intelligence has not, how
ever,' gone astray upon this matter. On
the contrary, it calmly Insists that the
perpetuation of the race depends not
upon an abnormal or expensive birth
rate. 'not upon the number of children
that are . born, but upon the number
that live and -thrive and become useful
In their day-and generation.
- . OREGON NO LONGER UNKNOWN.
The Pacific Northwest, the country
'where flows the Oregon," was for
nearly a century after it was penetrated
by the great explorers, Lewis and
Clark, but a dreamland to the people of
the Atlantic States. Except as they
were brought in distant touch with It
through settlers who had gone out from
it and sent occasional letters back, U
was a land of far-away. Impalpable
shadows even to the people of the Mis
sissippi Valley. The feeling of kinship
existed between the widely separated
sections, but the touch of associated
Interests was lost in -the magnificent
distances of a mighty continent. It
was the interest, the undefined yearn
ing, felt in the family for the adventur
ous youth whef. shaking off restraint,
had gone out Into the wide world to
see what he could see. find what he
cbuld find, and set up life for himself
under new conditions and surroundings.
The first settlers of the Oregon Coun
try were runaways from civilization.
The Far West opened and swallowed
them up. Such accounts of their find
ings and of their attempts to plant a
new civilization in the wilderness as
were carried back by way of the Isth
mus or Cape Horn, or later by the pony
express, were little more than fiction.
And so It was that, when the railroad
era dawned for the Pacific Coast, the
habit of Considering Oregon out of the
.world had "become fixed In the older
sections of the country, and, like all
habits. It was hard to break.
Even within the two years that the
Lewis and Clark Exposition has been
in course of preparation we have been
told repeatedly that to a large majority
of the people of the Atlantic States
Oregon was unknown. So far as It was
known, exaggerated Ideas in regard to
conditions here prevailing were enter
tained. But that. In view of the rapid
movement of events in the past few
months, was long ago. It was before
the Summer convention dates were
fixed and Summer transportation
schedules were made out. It was be
fore the commercial spirit of the coun
try Was fully aroused to the grand pos
sibilities of trade in the great Pacific
Northwest and Its emissaries came
higher to spy out the land. It was be
fore keen-eyed Intelligence, being sent,
came hither and took in the situation
and proclaimed through the press the
existence here of a great etate that ex
tends cordial Invitation to progressive,
enterprising people to come in and add
to Its greatness.
Penetrated by the Intelligence of the
Ean and by the commercial thrift that
Ik ever abroad seeking. Oregon will no
longer be unknown. Her delightful cli
mate, her abounding resources, her
large business and Induntrlal oppor
tunities, the grandeur of her scenery,
the magic of her fruits, the beauty and
profusion of her flowers, and, crown
ing all. the friendliness and hospitality
of her people, will be known and appre
ciated. A PERTINENT SUBJECT.
The figurehead that a municipal ad
ministration may become in a sudden
emergency, when organized upon polit
ical and personal lineB through the ap
pointment of subordinate officers, was
shown a short time ago In New York
City, when a water main burst and
flooded a portion of the new subway.
Great torrents- of water gushed out,
and. seeking its lower level, flooded the
tracks, "short-circuited" the electric
currents which moved the trains, and a
large number of passengers caught in
transit were compelled to wade out. In
the stress and menace, search was
made for some one who knew how to
turn the water off. It was Sunday.
The head of the water department.
Commissioner Oakley, was out of town,
and there was no one about his office
who had access to the proper valve for
cutting off the water, and. Indeed, no
one who knew where or how to locate
It. The great stream of water contin
ued to gush out. and the subway for
several blocks became a subterranean
reservoir. Traffic was blocked for
hours, and the seriously Inconvenienced
public was exasperated. At last a
man without authority from the de
partment and who had no connection
with it found the valve, turned off the
water arid the process of pumping out
the subway began. After about two
days from the time of Its Interruption
traffic was resumed.
The Incident would have been a
trifling one If a competent man with a
key to the water valve, and knowing
where It was located, had Issued
promptly from the office of the depart
ment and closed the valve above the
break.. Practically, there waB no such
employe about the office or In the city.
Here is where the methods of the polit
ical machine were demonstrated. Mayor
McClellan. at the head of the govern
ment of Greater New York, is conceded
to be an able man. But. for service In
the campaign that resulted In his elec
tion, he was practically forced to place
John T. Oakley at the head of the water
department. The unfitness of this ap
pointment was demonstrated by the
occurrence above narrated. Upon be
ing called to account for the delay in
applying a simple device to prevent the
flooding of the subway and the conse
quent Inconvenience to the public, this
engineer of the political machine at
tributed It to "lack of funds," and even
warned the public that It more funds
for the department "were not furnished,
similar occurrences might be expected.
Impudence and Inefficiency ..could
scarcely go farther than this. Not
monkey, but simple intelligence in the
line of the business for which his em
ployment stands In the department.. or
chould stand, was required' to close a
Water-gate above a breach In a main
and stop the riotous flow of the water.
The expert campaign wirepuller Is not
likely to possess these simple and
necessary qualifications. But he gets
the office just the same, and the people
who contributed their votes or their in
difference to the success of his schemes
only waste their breath In complaint at
his inefficiency, when an emergency
calling for prompt and Intelligent exer
cise of official duty arises.
It Is not necessary to place a states
man, an orator or a reformer at the
head of any of the several departments
of the clty,overnraent. It should not
be necessary to so place a wardheeler
or a campaign manager In any position
which calls for special knowledge of a
type that he does not possess. As long
as this is done, the public has no right
to complain, still less to be surprised
when such an official, being weighed In
the balance, is found wanting. The
subject Is pertinent at this time, when
our citizens, their eyes turned Inquir
ingly toward the City Hall, are waiting
to see what they ahall see.
JOHN HAY'S MONUMENT.
Few are the men who. ere they die,
earn the title "grat." Catalogue them,
and It will be seen that if on one side
of their nature they have made good
the claim, flaws In the diamond have
robbed it of the all-round brilliancy de
manded of the' perfect gem. .Tests dif
fer, according to the standard that each
man sets up. consciously tor uncon
sciously, for the Ideal to which his hom
age Ls given. The soldier bows to the
great General, the lawyer to the wisest
and ablest Judge, the artist to the mas
ter painter, the doctor to the physician
who has solved some mystery In health
or sickness, the writer to him whose
writings have passed from ephemeral to
standard literature, and the business
man. perhaps, to the "magnate" whose
uncounted wealth has made him In
some sort a power In the land.
Yet a chosen few there are to whom
all render Justice, since they answer to
the best there Is In man. How shall we
know them? Nationality .Is no guide,
birth gives no title, wealth as we know
It today bars out most, nearly all, who
have amassed It in the mad race which
entangles so great a proportion of the
manhood of America. Ambition, per
sonal and engrossing, has struck out
crowds from this list of honor. Who
are the great men. then, left In the
race? CThe ancient proverb has it.
"Call no man happy until dead."
Great careers are marred by an Incau
tious act. Hidden Dasslons suddenly
sprlnc Into burnlnc and spoil the life.
Until the days of action are over, and
history Is made, the decision Is not due.
But one happy- man Is he to whom time
has been given to develop all hl3 best,
to convert great-plans Into completed
work, to expand the-influence oChls life
until his countrymen, possibly a wider
world, listen to his. words, but., far bet
ter, are raised, to Jilgher thought: and
cleaner, purer .action, by the Influence
of -noble character: To such a one. If
the best Is laid up for hlm,,t may be
given to show that public service is 3
own rewardl that not for .money.'-' not
even for personal repute, not for the
admiration of high or low, toilsome nnd
exhausting years may be given to his
country, that a death in harness may
crown a vivid, active, self-forgetting
life.
The Romans bad It. "Seemly and hon
orable It Is for the fatherland to die."
To die Is easy, sometimes. Crowds may
willingly face the guns, and take the
chances of the mine, and give no back
look to home and friends. HaYder, It
mav be. for the fatherland to live. To
bear the heavy load of Washington nnd
Lincoln, the stress of the- responsibill
ties of a people's war with Grant nnd
Lee. with Oyama and Togo. No less a
servant of his people was the man whom
America now mourns. There ls In mod
ern surgery a device which counts a'nd
measures the pulsations and labor of
nerve and heart, which records the ef
forts of the functions of the physical
man. No count can be .taken of the
statesman's tolls, of the crushing bur
den of his nation's Interests, the Inner
life of him who sits behind the scenes
while actors in front till the Btage and
gain the plaudits of the house, who
knows that, plan as he may, labor to
the very top of his power, the wills and
passions of unruly men may ruin all. It
Is not only on open fields that battles
must be won. The American people
recognize, and the world knows, that If
for the past five years of stress and
plot, while peace and war trembled In
the balance for many nations, and ours
among them; that If a danger line was
drawn nnd held to which all respected;
that If the voice of his country was po
tent In council and her rights admitted
by both peaceful and warring peoples.
It was no less the character than the
official acta of John Hay which carried
the decisive weight. Living, his people
honored him; dead, they mourn him.
not only for what he did for them, but
In that he showed to them and to the
wide world one of the noblest types of
the manhood of America.
The heart and conscience of the Na
tion work truly yet. In the eye of the
world the prominent man Is too often
he who has. In the' sight of many of
us. millions of money make the man.
No matter how gained and multiplied.
It Is there this golden calf. Polluted
in Its acquisition, stained In its invest
ment, unwholesome to the body politic
in Its- reproduction, olet It stinks.
Talked of. written of, photographed. In
terviewed, followed, fawned on, the
man of millions Is held up as the great,
the marking and ranking product of
commercial life. The air ls not good lu
that nelghborhoqd. We know It, we
feel It. John Hay living, much more
than John Hay dead, marks the. abiding
contrast. History will write, genera
tions of Americans unborn will study
and be raised by the life and works of
this poet. Journalist, author, diplomatist
and leading statesman of the opening
years of this young century.
Tacoma came with bells, banners,
bands and boosters. They made every
body know they were here, and glad,
too. to see and hear them. It may be
that great cities are not built by noise,
but they have been saved by It, If we
are to believe the old legend about the
wise geese and Rome. Anyway, noise
keeps things moving. It compels at
tention. The sideshows at the Fair
would "not get the crowds but for the
spielers, and to a certain extent circus
methods may be and are good for a
town. Here In Portland, for lonx .years
We' Went on the theory that merle needs',
no advertising; and hid our light under
a. bushel, expecting capital arid popula
tion to make diligent search for it and
us. We know better now. Taco'ma has
shown that the way to do things is to
do them, and then to talk about them.
On his return to Berkeley, F. W. Rich
ardson, president of the California Preps
Association, which visited Portland two
weeks ago. said through the columns 6f
the Berkeley Dally Gazette: "Every
Callfornlan should visit the Exposition
at rurudnu. not oniy on aiL-oum ol mt-
worth of the Exposition itself, but be- 1
cause of the beauties of Oregon and-.
particularly of Portland.and Its superb i
environments, wniie not as Dig as tne
St. Louis- Fair last year, It Is much
more enjoyable and can bewlewed with
much more ease and comfort. The
Trail has a number of first-class at
tractions. 'Expenses In every way are
about half what they were at St. Louis.
If you have never seen Oregon, you
cannot afford to miss this opportunity."
And this is a fair sample of what visit
ors are saying about! 'the Fair when
they get home.
The Russian censorship Is enforced
with old-time" vigor and completeness
everywhere except at St. Petersburg.
From that place we get discussion of
the empire's affairs with satisfying
freedom and lucidity; but we get nothing-
from Odessa, except contradictory
and confusing statements as to what
has actually occurred. We know only
that there has been a bloody mutiny.
and that a most terrible situation exists.
and probably will continue to exist.
What we do not fully understand Is
that the American Consul should wire
one day that the mutineers had'-stuck,
their flag without firing a shot, arid the
next day that the whole .fleet ls re
ported In mutiny." When we get the
truth out of Odessa. If ever, we .'shall
probably find that the Russian govern
ment has mutilated alt messages to suit
Itself. . .
Judge ;Warren.B.. Hooker, of New
York, puts' up the remarkable defense
that- he should not be removed from the
bench for offenses not committed on
the bench. Judge Hooker 'was engaged
In various transactions of a question
able nature, such as receiving benefits
from the political graft; but his Judi
cial conduct has not been directly, at
tacked. Character, then, la not a pre
requisite in a Judge? A Judge may
speculate, gamble, 'or Indulge' In disso
lute habits without his usefulness or In
tegrity as a judicial officer being Im
paired? The statement Is preposterous.
Some kind of a defense must be -put up
for Hooker by the Interests that want
to keep him on the bench; and the Leg
islature will be asked to listen to this
All the great Chicago beefpackers have
been Indicted. There will be a crimi
nal trial, or trials, at w;hlch the facts
as to the alleged conspiracy between
them to maintain prices and divide ter
ritory will doubtless be brought to light.
The report of Commissioner -Garfield
was a practlcalwhltewash for'the pack
ers, inasmuch as It showed that their
profits were very small on the. capital
Invested. Garfield knew, for he"aaw
the books: and the books must be right,
for- the packers, who kept them! showed
them to him. "The Government, how
ever, has not had much confidence' In"
the report of Its own Commissioner of
Labor, for It has pursued the Criminal
Investigation with great vigor and de
termination.
The Chinese government has had
abundant evidence of the high esteem
In which the Chinese trade Is held by
the United States.. We think a lot of
the Chinese, too. Just now. but we won't
let them come Into our country. What
we purpose now to do, because we must,
is to let aN few students, merchants.
diplomatic agents and travelers come
In without .Insult or humiliation, which
Is a great' concession on our part, and
shows to the world that we are a most
generous and considerate people. We
will be polite even to a Chlnamnn when
be threatens to trade somewhere else.
A venerable and historical figure Is
that of Henry B. Blackwell, of Boston,
who. In company with his daughter,
Alice Stone Blackwell. Is- In attendance
upon the National Woman Suffrage As
sociation now In convention In this city.
This snowy-haired, white-bearded pa
trlarch embodies In his voice, his pres
ence, his Interest In every passln
event. In his appreciation of every beau
ty of earth and sky. in the. shifting
panorama of Nature, the loyal spirit of
freedom, the true spirit of manhood
that has dominated his passing years
Paul Morton gets 5100,000 a year, and
Admiral Togo 43000. That's about
right. Morton has 600.000 dissatisfied
policy-holders to placate, and Togo has
bad only a few thousand Russians to
show how to lead a different life. Be
sides. Togo's labors are over, and Mor
ton's have Just begun and may never
end. All Togo has got to do to keep his
Job and the esteem of the public is to
stay afloat, where he cannot spend all
his money, and to ayoid home-comings
What Morton must do could not be told
in a day.
Women ministers noted for eloquence
and power will appear In several of the
pulpits of the city today. This can
scarcely be called an Innovation, since
women have appeared In the pulpits of
Portland occasionally in past years, but
the announcement suggests enough of
novelty to be of general interest.
Mrs. Vanderbilt et al. having been
entertained at a garden party by Mr.
and Mrs. Prince Henry of Prussia, one
can imagine blonde Helnrlch exclaim
ing. "Thank Heaven. I've got that New
York debt paid In full!"
The son of Joseph Smith comes out
In a vehement public address declaring
that the original prophet was not
polygamlst. Evidently Joseph was not
much of a Mormon.
Has any one noticed that the horde of
thugs, .burglars, "sure-thing" men, pick
pockets .and other criminals who were
coming to Portland for the Fair, have
failed to- materialize?
Now that we have heard Secretary
Taffs criticism and Chief Engineer
Wallace's retort, let's go ahead and
build the canal, the same as If nothing
had happened.
And note that Portland's bank clear
ances last week showed u gain of over
70 per cent.
Next Tuesday will be everybody's day
af the Fair.
-1)REG0N OZONE -
Hiram Haylicld's Views. .
Grass Valley. Or., July 1. 1905.
Deer Ozone:
Im powerful, glad thet I wuzn't bom
a swivel Ingineer. Ef I hed bin, I
mought hev bin indooced to except the
poslshun of Cheef Ingineer fur the
Panamer Kannal. Then I wud hev
found myself in a peck of trubble.
Jest look at thet thare .pore Mister
Wallus. He has got a large fambly and
a wife to support, and he wus a-glttln'
.m, . j25.000 a yere. Moreover and
h h(Ml to nv tb, nTnoncr
th. th nii fpvr
d mavlar.. nn1 th MMnva anA th
Greasers, and it shorely wuz a tuff job.
How. cud he support his fambly and
wife on sich a sallery- as thet? It't a
plumb shatriv to expect a man to work
hard ten hours 'a day at funnln a In-
jlne fur utify 523,000 a yere and find
hlsself. What duz this grate and glo-ryus-
Guvment mean by saddlln sich
hardships onto a pore man with a
growinxfambly and a wife with seven
or ate mouths to feed?
Shalm on Unkel Sam. nohow, b'gosh!
Ef I bed ben expected to run thet
Injlne fu sich a measly pltyance, I
wud hev excepted enny orfer thet kum
my way. I wud hev tuck thet Noo
York Scrubway Job and Jumped at it
with both fete. That's me!
I don't blalm- Mister Wallus a-tall.
Ruther than run thet Panamer Kannal
Injlne and git bit with maylaryal- mus
ketters, and maybe tuck down -with
swamp ager. I wud hev axed the Presi
dent to gimme, a Job In the Cabbynlt as
a cabdrlyer. Jess so my ilvln .expenses
wuz pade and I cud live In, peice. and
kumfurt.
You don't find your Unkel Hi Hay-
field beln Imposishuned onto like thet
not him!
Wal. I must klose fur this time, but
more In my necks.
HIRAM HAYFIELD.
At the Instance of Mrs. Bradley Mar
tin. -Jr., a duck has been elected to full
membership In the Paris Polo Club, the
other members being swell society peo
pie. While this may be the first duck
to enter society, the exclusive sets have
known the cackling of many geese, to
say nothing of the hens.
I sav. the navie of the allied world
Rldlnr at ease within a sheltered bay
Sings a New York Sun poet. The bard
must have eaten a dozen crawfish at 11
P. M. and imagined that all the sailors of
all the- navies of the world had mu
tinted and formed a union.
Thirty-five ycara ago a dentist who
now lives at La Grande. Or., made
set of teeth for a young woman, who
married and moved away without set
tling the bill, which was $30, Last
week the dentist received a remittance
of $30 In payment of the account, which
he had forgotten. The lady with the
store teeth, however, had not forgottcn-
For 35 long years her conscience had
pursued her like an avenging Nemesis
or some other prehistoric monster, and
she could not rest. Fain would she
have suffered with the toothache or the
seven-year itch, or unrequited love.
rather than with such a burden upon
her soul. Ever since the year 1870 that
unfortunate woman has used that un-settled-for
set of teeth. bltlng"rt her
tongue In remorse every time she, re
membered that $30. With walling: a.nd
gnashing of teeth she thought to com
fort herself, but"in vain. Whenever her
bicuspids bit into a beefsteak she felt
that she was biting a hole through one
of those silver dollars. Truly It was
tough! Whenever her molars munched
a ladyflnger or crunched a crawfish, she
felt that the plnmoney she was spend
ing for such dainties should ba applied
to the fund for the relief of her con
science. She could stand it no longer.
She had false' teethr to ' be sure, but
could she forever endure the Ignominy
of being false to a trust? Nay, verily;
so at last she gritted her teeth and paid
up like a lady. It ls a touching tale.
The American Eagle, which soars
once a week at Murray, Utah, is one
newspaper that will not take a holiday
on the Fourth of Juiy.
"As between the reception line and
the firing line," remarked the old sol
dier, after attending a society function,
"give me the firing line every time. On
the firing line your chances of escape
are a hundred to one better."
A Musical Tragedy.
Alas for Master Warner!
The barber cut his hair:
Now sits he In the corner.
A picture of despair!
With lock3 like Paderewski,
He was a genius true;
But now he Is no useky m
He cannot earn a squ!
It is a story full of walls and woe
that comes from Gotham City, don't
.
you know."
A lad. named Warner, otherwise
Maurice, was mu.ical. and wore a curly
fleece of golden hair that rippled, down
his back enough to fill
sack.
a- baskefora
He scraped the violin, and was ac- j
claimed a prodigy predestined to be,
famed amongst the mighty, and a man-
agalre was handling Master Warner
(and his hair).
With concert dates at several hun
dred per, the boy was bound the listen
ing world to stir: but, lack-a-day he
In an evil hour was by a barber's clip
pers shorn of power; by vulgar arts
tonsorlal bereft of all his locks yea.
not a lockle-t left!
Now -all his contracts have been can
celed, since no hairless violinist may
convince the public that he Is a genius
bright; like Samson he Is shorn of all
his might; he must retire and sit in
dull repose a. year or so, until his wool
sack grows!
, Alas! alack! that ever such were so!
But 'tis a fact, the fiddle and the bow
are not enough to charm the ladies fair.
The secrct3 out at last It Is the hair!
ROBERTUS LOVE
Sayings of Disraeli.
The English papers print- some good
sayings from Disraeli: "One thing Is
clear, that a man may speak very well
In the House of Comraorw and fall v cry
completely In the House of Lords. There
are two distinct styles, requisite. In the
lower house 'Don Juan may perhaps
be our modl: In the upper bouse. 'Par
adise Lost." "To be harassed about
money Is one "of the most disagreeable
Mncldcnts of life. It ruffles the temper.
lowers the spirits, disturbs the rest,
and finally breaks up. health." "My Idea
of an agreeable person Is a person who
agrees with me." "Sympathy Is the so
lace of the poor; but for the rich there
is compensation." ."There- Is a great
deal of vice which really Is sheer inadvertence.
HAY'S' PIKE COUNTY BALLADS
Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle.
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives,
Becase h .don't live, you see;
Leastways. he" sot out ot th habit
Of llvln" like you and me.
Whar have you been for the la.t three year,
' That you haven't heard folks tell ' t
How Jimmy Bludso passed In his- checks
The nisht of the Prairie Belle?- .
He weren't no-enlnt them engineers - -
la all pretty much alike.
One wife In Natchez-under-the-Hl!l
And nthr on hr In PHi-
A keerlcjM man In his 'talk was Jim. - 4
And an awkward hand In & row.
But he never flunked, and he never Hed v
I reckon he never knowed how. ' '
And this wen all the rellsion he had '"
To treat his engine well;
Never be passed on the river.
To mind the pilot. bell: -
And If ever the Prairie Belle. took fire,,.-
a tnousand times n swore
He'd hold her nozzle au'ln the bank
Till the last soul sot ashore.
All boats has their day on the Mlesisslp.
And ner day come at last
The Movastar was a better .boat,
nut tee Belle, she wouldn't be pas-ied- -
And so ahe come, tearin along that night,
rne oldest craft on the line.
With a nigger squat, on her safety-valve.
Ana ner. furnace crammed, rosin and pin.
The fife bust out as she el'ared the' bar.
ud burnt a hole. In the nUht.
And quick as a flaeh .she turned and made
For the wlller-bank on the rluhu- . - - .
There was runnln and cursin', but -Jim yelled
out
Over nil the infernal roar,
' I'll hold her nozzle ag'ln th bank
Till the last galoot's ashore."
Through the hot, black breath of the burnln
boat
Jim Bludso's voice was heard.
And ther all had trust In his 'cussedr.esv
And knowed he would keep his word."
And. eure's you're born, they all got off' r
Afore the smokestacks fell '
And Bludso's ghost went up alone ,
In the smoke, of the Prairie Belle.
He weren't no saint but at Jedsrraent
I'd run my chance with Jim
'Long-side of some ptouA gentlemen . " -
That wouldn't shook hands with him. ; "
He seen his dutr. a dead-sure thing. .
And went fpr it thar and then: .
And Christ ain't a golns-to be too hard r'
On a man that died for men!
Iilttle Breeches. ...,
I don't co much on religion.
I never ain't had no show;
But I've got a. mlddlin tight grip', sir,
. Oh the handful o" things I know. , - .
I don't pan out on the prophets .
Arid free-will, and that srt of thine ,"
But I b'Heve In God and the angels. " -
Even sence one night last Spring.' ,"
I come Into town with some turnips
And my lltrie Gabe come hIock - -
No four-year-old In the county ,,.
Could beat him for pretty and etron'c. '- '
Pert and chipper and saray;
Always ready to swear and fight
And I'd I'arnt him to chaw terbacker
Jest to keep his milk-teeth white. . ..
The snow come down like a blanket ;.
As I paseed by. Taggart's store;
I went In for a jug of mohtssr " . '
And left the team at the door.
They .scared at somethlnc and etarted.
I heard., one little squall.
And hell-to-apllt over the prairie
Went team. Little Breeches and all.
Hell-to-spllt over the rralrler
I was almost froze with skeer:
But we rouated up some torches .
And 9arched for "em far and near.
At last we tt ruck honses and wagon.
Snowed under a eoft white mound.
Upset.' dead beat but of little Gabe ' - "
No hide nor hair was found.
And here all hope soured on me. -
Of my fellow-critter's aid
I Jest flopped down on my marrow bonei.
Crotch-deep In the snow, and prayed.
By this, the -aorche? was played out ' r
And. me .and Irul Parr
Went off foe some wood to a siieepfold--.
That he said, was sume whar -thar. , . . .
We found "it at last, and a little hed
Where they ohut up the Iambs at'nlgfiu
We looked In and Mtt them' huddled thar.1?
So warm and sleepy and -wirit;. . -And
thar sot Little Breeches and chirped. . "
As peart as ever you see. !
"I want a chaw of terbacker. "
And that'a what's the matter of me." -
How did he git thar? Ansel.
He could never have walked In that storm.
They Just ncooptd down and toted him
To whar It was safe and warm.
And I think- that raving a little child.
And bringing him to his own
In a demtd sight better buInes
Than loafing around thp- throne. '
3'inty Tim.
(Remarks of Sergeant Tllmors joy to. the
White Man's Committee of Spunky Point.
Illinois.) ' - '
I reckon I git your drift, gents
You Mow the boy shan't stay; -:. -
This ls a white man's country; -
Tou're Democrat.1, you say;
And whereas, and secln. and wherefore.
The tlm beln nil out t j'int.
The nigger has got to "mesey
From the limits o Spunky Pnt: " " - '
LeV reason the thing a minute:
I'm an old-fashioned DImocrat tco.
Though I laid my politics out o" the way
For to keep till the war wnjf through.
But I come back here, allowln"
To vote as I used tt do. -Though
it gravels me like the devil to train
Along o" s!ch fools as you.
Now, dog my cat. ef I kin see.
In all the light of the day.
What you've got to do with the question
Ef Tim shlll go or staj.
And furder than that. I give notice, . .
Ef one of you tetci.rs the boy, . . . .
He kin check his trunks to a warmer clime
Than he'll find In Illanoy.
Why. blame your hearts. Jeet hear me!
Tou know that ungodly lay
When our left struck Vlcksburg Heights, how
rlnned
'And torn and tattered we lay.
j When the rest retreated I stayed behind.
K9S r"a',"n "wIelnt to me.
j Wtth a rib caved In and a leg pn a strike,
i rprawlcd on that damned glacee. .
:
j M and turned
j How the rebel bullets whizzed round us.
When a cuss In his- death-grip turned!
Till along toward dusk I seen a thing
I coulcn t believe for a spell-
That nigger that Tim was a-crawlln to,tn
Through that fire-proof, gilt-edged hell!'
The rebels seen him as quick as me.
And the bullets buzzed like bees;
But he Jumped for me. and shouldered- me.
Though a shot brought him once to hi
knees:
But he staggered up. and packed me off.
With a dozen stumble and' falls.
Tilt safe In our lines he drapped us both,
Hla black hide riddled with hsills.
vB ;mVnl,3V'I " ,' ar,9 my aw.
He trumped Death's Ace for me that day -And
I'm not goln' back on him!
You may rezoloot till the cows come home.
But ef one of you tetches the boy. - - .
He'll' wrastle hist hash tonight In hell.
Or. my name's not Tllmon Joy!
Civics In Ohio. . .
McClure's Magazine.
'. Ohio is the story of the whole United
States. The citizens of Cleveland know
how to vote. They have a public opin
ion and they make it count. It has got
for Cleveland representative, government
and in Tom Johnson the best Mayor of
the best-governed city In the. United
State?. Johnson has given Cleveland a
good business administration of a city
J government, hut at the same time rea-
resentatlve government. There is no low
down political graft in his administration,
bur neither Is there big. respeetablc'-bus!-.
ness graft, therefore big business Is down
on him. and defeated In Cleveland has
carried the fight against this Sociallst
AnarchlstNihillst (as Hanna named John
son) into the state, and through the Leg
islature has nullified his power. The fight
ls still on. The people are beginning tp
see things even in Cincinnati. The forces
of evil, beaten in the city, hold the state.
The forces of good, winning In Cleveland,
fighting in Toledo, hopeful In Cincinnati,
to hold their own, must' carry "Ohio. Ohio
the whole state has to make the choice,
the choice We all have to make: Cleve-
land or Cincinnati.-