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TORTLAND, SUNDAY. AUGUST ?3, 1D05.
by the people. The question now is
shall It be wholly by and wholly for the
people? Is the world for the many or
the few?
To assert that the party names Re
publican and Democrat are likely to go
out of use would be folly. Both parties
will persist, and the struggle for control
will continue between them in the fu
ture as In the past; but ultimately one
will represent oligarchic, or possiniy
monarchic, tendencies; -while the other
will move toward pure democracy. And
to this one belongs the future. The one
will embody that distrust of the people
which was abundantly displayed In the
structure of the constitution of the
United States, and which all history up
to that time seemed to Justify. The
other will embody a complete confidence
in the people, which will lead It .to ad
vocate the removal of constitutional
restraints, the extension of the prin
ciple of direct legislation, and,' the abol
ishment of party machinery; with an
Increasing control by the government
over those modes of employing capital
which offset the welfare of great masses
of people.
Upon this issue neither party has yet
chosen Its position. In both of them
a struggle is going on, not unlike a
civil war. between the oligarchic and
the popular elements. From both par
ties there will be great secessions when
either element shall have triumphed;
and finally all men of like ways of
thinking will group themselves under
the same banner. There is good reason
to believe that the Republican party
will not. in the long run, be controlled
by Its oligarchic faction. The leader of
the oDooslnK sentiment Is a man of
transcendent ability and dauntless
courage, who seems likely to draw to
himself not only the majority of his
own narty. but also all those Demo
crats who believe in the political phllo
ophy which Lincoln taught and which
Roosevelt is endeavoring to embody in
the institutions of the nation
Is.eminently fitting that this, the largest
and most important meeting that has
been held, should be presided over by
Mr. T. B. "Wilcox, a man whose in
dividual efforts in building up the Ori
ental trade have brought forth aston
ishing results. It is through his efforts
that American flour has been Introduced
into hundreds of ports and settlements
throughout the Far East, from Ceylon
to Vladivostok.' and a large number of
other American products have followed
flour Into those new markets. Second
only to his efforts in pushing the trans
Pacific trade has been his work for un
obstructed water highways from the
most remQte points inland to the high
seas.
The work of such a powerful and In
fluential organization as the Trans
Misslsslppl Congress cannot fail to be
effective, and Portland and the entire
Northwest are to be congratulated on
having the meeting In this city, where
the needs of the West can be under
stood to the best advantage, and where
a thoroughly western -business man can
preside over the deliberations.
THE NEW ISSUE.
Evolution, Herbert Spencer tells us.
Is a process of redistribution of matter
and motion. Given an aggregate of
any sort of units, If new energy flows
Into it from any source, the constit
uents will be torn with more or less vio
lence from their old relations to each
other and. after a time of disturbance
and uncertainty, will finally settle Into
new ones. Every schoolboy could Il
lustrate this law from his chemistry.
He knows that a mixture of 'oxygen
and hydrogen, cold nd inert, suddenly,
when heat is. added, changes its nature
and appears as water. Heat is one
form of energy. Visible motion Is an
other. A box of pebbles gently shaken
arranges itself in layers; or, if the
stones are placed In 'strata In the first
instance, the disturbance will leave
them In new relative positions. Fol
lowing out this thought. Kaut and La l
Place, who had it in mind long before j
Spencer, found that It would account j
1 ort the orderly existence of the physi
cal universe.
The evolution of political parties gen
erally, perhaps always, begins with the
influx of new energy Into masses .of
men already .distributed under estab
lished names and holding, or fancying
they hold, well-defined principles. The
new energy Is neither heat nor visible
motion. It is that disturbance of the
mind, subtle but all-powerful In human
affairs, which we call passion. Any
passion will do. .The desire for human
slavery will tear men from their old al
legiance, political and religious, and
unite them in a new loyalty quite as
effectually as "the hatred of tyranny
and wrong. Self-Jnterest and cruel
greed may weld men together to form
a political party; but so, also, may lofty
devotion to exalted principle.
American parties have begun invar
iably in passionate devotion to some
cause, good or bad, wise or unwise.
They have failed of ten, succeeded sel
dom. And In the rare instances where
their success has been long continued.
It has always come to pass ultimately
that they have found the original ques
tions which occasioned their origin
cither completely solved and laid at
rest, or reduced to vain logomachies by
the changes of time and circumstances.
The Republican party arose from the
ruins of older organizations shattered
hy the passionate clash of Interests and
opinions concerning slavery. It began.
not as, an anti-slavery party, but. as
one -opposing. Its extension. The Innate
tendencies of the party, worked out by
the march of events, have made It the
champion of abolition, protective tariff.
sound money and nationalism. All these
questions, as political issues, are now
dead or dying. Slavery has been abol
lshed; the verdict of civil war and of
tne supreme court ib mat we are a
nation, not a ' mere aggregate of sov
erelgn states; the gold Vtandard Is es
tabllshed once and for all; while the
tariff question has merged Itself Into
the broader ethical and economic issue
of the trusts. Nobody now believes.
whatever he may pretend, that there is
anything .eternally right or wrotig
about a high or a low tariff. It Is all
a matter of varying conditions. Somfi
times one is better, sometimes' the other.
The American people will never again
divide over protection and free trade.
except as that Issue intertwines itself
with others which underlie and Include
it. It is .equally commonplace to say
that the historic contentions of the
Democratic party have for the most
part been granted, denied or nullified
by time.
All thlngi are fleeing from us, and, become
Portions and parcels of the, dreadful past.
And the sentiment of the party lead
ers adds, with the satisfied lotus eat
us alone. "what is it that can last?
-Let us alone.
They shy .away from new issues. All
political parlies -in the past have been
oligarchies t from sheer . necessity, and
a new Issue to the leaders. is like a new
play to a theater manager something
more than likely to portend disaster.
But the inevitable hastens upon them.
SUNDAY SERVICES AT THE FAIB,
Rev. Joslah Strong concludes that the
Exposition is not a proper place for
him to speak on Sunday. Dr. C. M,
Sheldon, of Kansas, had the same Idea
about his dut3 and has returned to
Kansas. The Fair will be obliged
doubtless to abandon a very worthy
plan to hold a series of religious serv
ices each Sunday, because the pro
posed speakers balk. They balk be
cause the Trail Is open on Sunday. It
appears to make no difference to the
reverend, gentlemen that the Trail was
opened by court order and not by any
act. positive or negative, " of the Fair
management. The Trail is running on
Sunday ajid that is enough too much
for them.
. The Oregonian Will not criticize Dr.
Strong and Dr. Sheldon for their action.
It will not Inquire what Christ would
have done, nor suggest that he might
have gone to preach the Word where
he jcould have attracted the. greatest
crowds. Undoubtedly Dr. Strong Is
guided in this matter by his conscience,
and so was Dr. Sheldon. But .so, we
are sure, is the Fair management. The
Exposition is a "show." The Trail is
part of the show. So was to be the
Religious Congress. The speakers were
arranged for, and were to be palds-o.
come here and talk at the Fair on
Sunday. In order to attract gate money
on Sunday. It was in this sens on ex
actly the same basis as the Trail.
If there was an agreement that, If the
Congress was to run on Sunday as a
gate-money attraction, the Trail was
to close and we suppose there was
the Fair management never vlolatedlt.
The Circuit Court broke It. The Fair
was powerless. Now. It would seem
that the Exposition, having arranged
to bring "these reverend gentlemen
across the continent, and having no
doubt paid them handsomely, is en
titled to great consideration at their
hands. The result of the Fair's enter
prise, however, appears to be that In
stead of haying a notable religious ex
ercise within the Fair grounds, as it
planned, an opposition attraction is set
up by them outside the gates. Which
Is unfortunate.-
TRANS-MISSlSSirPI CONGRESS.
The Trans-MlsslsslppI Congress
which assembles In this city next
Wednesday. haB In the iew years since
its Inception developed Into one of the
greatest factors In the Industrial de
velopment of our country. It has been
the means of uniting and solidifying in
terests which in the past had, by rea
son of geographical location, not infre
quently been lined up in opposition to
each other. Through the united efforts
of this organization, It 1s now possible
for any worthy project In any part of
the United States to command the In
fiuence and assistance of powerful husl
ness Interests from all other parts of
this great country. This aggregation
of Influence "has perhaps scored Us most
notable achievement In the placing on
the statute books laws for the reclama
tion of arid lands.
Although the reclamation projects are
now looited after by a separate . or
ganizatlon. it waB directly through the
efforts of the Trans-Mlsslsslppl - Con
gress that this great work received the
Impetus which it has gained, and to
that body must be given a large share
of the credit for the appropriations of
$30,000,000 now available for reclamation
of arid lands In the West. The meet
ing to be held here during the coming
week will be attended by. a large num
ber of men of national reputation. Sen
ators, Congressmen and government of
ficials of high degree will be with -us.
in .addition to over a thousand dele
gates, who are typical representatives
of the Industrial strength of the nation
The baneful influence of politics.
which "has killed so many good projects,
lias not been Injected Into re
cent meetings of the. Trans
Mississippi Congress and any worthy
demand that has "been made on the
government for -assistance has had the
unanimous support of the Texas Dem
ocrats, Utah Mormons, Oregon Rppubll
cans and all other members, Irrespec
tlve of politics or religious belief. Next
to the Irrigation -work, and the lm
prgvement of waterways, no more im
portant question Is before" the body
than the expansion our trans-Pacific
trade.
AMERICA'S LAST WOODEN SHir.
Yesterday's dispatches note the de
struction by fire of the American ship
Roanoke while loading a cargo of ore
at New Caledonia for New York. The
Roanoke was not exactly the last of her
race, for there are still a few older
American wooden ships In existence.
but she will long be remembered as
the most perfect type of the American
wooden ship that was ever built, and
also as the last of these marvelous cre
ations of wood to leave the stocks and
make way for the metal ships that fol
lowed. The truth of the old axiom that
there Is no sentiment In business Is
seldom questioned or disproved, and
shlpownlng and shipbuilding are strictly
business propositions. Nevertheless
there were sentiment, romance and glory
hovering. over the' American ship of the
old days, as well as over the "breed.
of the oaken heart" that- manned and
navigated It
The Roanoke, bowling along at
steamship speed with a 5000-ton cargo
aboard, was a veritable triumph of the
wooden shipbuilder's art, but In her per
fection It was easy to trace back
through the various stages of evolu
tion to the Indian dugout which was
the pioneer wooden water craft. Senti
ment is nurtured and Increases as one
draws near to nature, and the wooden
ship or the craft which preceded It was
In a sense a gift from nature to man
Place a man on any Isolated Island
on the globe where trees are growing.
and In due time he will produce a craft
that can float and carry a sail. All
of the raw material (or an iron. or steel
ship may be there in equal abundance
with the wood, but it Is useless to the
marooned man for boatbuilding pur
poses.
It required centuries of experiment
and scientific research and costly roll
lng mills, furnaces and factories to pro
duce the first metal craft that would
float and carry passengers and freight
but from the beginning of history the
wooden ship or the various types of
marine architecture which preceded it.
have been available for the use of man.
The dugout of the Indian carried him
across the lake" or up and down the
river with less effort than was needed
in maklnsr.the detour of the lake by
land or In threading the forests along
the river bank. Nature had always
provided the material for the canoe of
the American Indian, and centuries be
fore, had by instinct taught the old
world "Indians" Its use.. The metal
ship was more than 400 years In the
future when Columbus set sail for
America In the Santa Maria, and that
diminutive craft had not advanced very
far from the dugout. Metal ships were
out of the question when Joseph Gale
In 1840 began building the schooner
Star of Oregon at Swn Island, Just
below where the city of Portland now
stands, but the vessel was built right
there In the forest which supplied the
raw material for construction.
The coming of the metal ships, of
course, pronounced the doom of the
wooden vessel, and the world will never
again see such magnificent sailing craft
as the Roanoke. Rappahannock. Sus-
quehunna and Shenandoah, the last
productions of the Sewall yards at
Bath. Me. Out here on the Pacific
Coast, builders will continue for sev
eral years to launch wooden lumber
carriers, suitable for .the coasting trade
or fpr short off-rshore voyages, but al
ready the metal schooner has appeared.
and -In time even these wooden schoon
ers ,wlll be replaced by the more mod
ern type of steel craft. The change
Js in the line of progress, but no one
at all Interested In the "beauty and
mystery of the ships, and the. magic
of the sea" will note, the pass!n-.of
these splendid structures of wood and
canvas without a 'pang of regret.
presslon In renewed energy in business
and In the pure delight of getting home
again and settling down to the orderly
habits of every-day life.
A RASCAL UNPUNISHED.
The readiness with which the respec
table people of a community frequently
extend confidence and favor to an Ir
responsible stranger Is illustrated by
the career of. E. J. Dawne at Salem
In the 70's and early SO's. Seldom In
the history of this state have people
displayed such density of perception
and such disregard of merit and pro
priety as when they took up with that
man. who came to Oregon without a
record, yet found no difficulty In prac
ticing his frauds openly. The magni
tude of his "nerve" may be Imagined
when It Is announced that with his past
record in public view, he now proposes
to return to Oregon and claim a share
in the estate of the woman formerly his
wife, to whom he did-not claim the re
lations of a husband for more - than
twenty years.
The circumstances will bear a mo
ment's thought at this time for the
lessons they teach. As one of those
smooth, affable, warm-hearted men,
who are always willing to do a favor
for a friend, he easily made himself
popular with those who.do not look deep
for true worth. Falsely pretending to
be doctor, lawyer preacher and money
broker, he duped the people at every
effort and flndlly accomplished the
greatest of his frauds when he secured
the signatures of men of wealth and In
fluence upon his recommendation for
appointment to an Alaska Judgeship.
By means of this recommendation the
prominent citizens of Oregon foisted
upon the administration at Washing
ton a man whose only service to the
state had been such as was necessary
in winning popular favor.
His long, flowing beard and stately
mien might easily have deceived men
not accustomed to affairs of the active
world, but should not have misled men
of careful Judgment, It was fitting that
President Cleveland should hold the
people of Oregon responsible for the
appointment and severely censured
those who secured an unworthy man's
preferment
The harm that is done by seemingly
successful deception of this kind is too
great to be measured within the bounds
of time. What Incentive does such
success offer to young men to lead lives
of uprightness, industry and useful
ness? If an entire stranger can come
to Oregon and secure public favor by
the mere announcement of his name
and the exercise of suavemanners, if
he can continue for years to practice
fraud tor his own financial gain and go
unwhlpped of Justice. If he may oc
cupy a place of the greatest public
trust although basely corrupt at heart,
as repeatedly evidenced by his deeds,
what must the young native of Oregon
conclude Is the proper course to pur
sue in order to attain the desirable
things of this world?
The people of Oregon sinned when
they let E. J. Dawne achieve the de
gree of success which ,was his, and if
that man be still ,allve and can be
found, he should be brought to the bar
of justice to demonstrate that the way
of the transgressor Is hard. Left In
peace and freedom to enjoy his Ill
gotten gains, he -stands as a perpetual
Inducement for young men to leave the
paths of rectitude and honor and tp
follow the apparently easier paths of
deceit and fraud.
publish certain alleged Information fur
nished by them relative to the un
favorable condition of the English hop
crop. The Oregonian declined because
It Is not wining to have Its columns
used by PIncus & Sons or any other
professional bop bears for the purpose
of influencing the market In their In
terest It regards all Information from
this source with suspicion. It knows
that this firm of PIncus & Sons are
bulls when they have hops to sell and
bears when they wish to buy. The wel
fare of the grower Is of no concern to
them whatever. If any producer pays
the slightest attention to the circulars
with which the Northwest has been
flooded by PIncus & Sons, he makes a
great error. The Oregonian has a
natural and laudable desire to see the
hopgrower get a fair price for his
product: but it Is neither the organ of
the bulls nor the bears., It prints all
available information on hop condi
tions at home and abroad from what
it considers reliable sources. It prints
nothing from PIncus & Sons.
The speculators and manipulators,
who prevent the Chicago wheat market
from suffering with ennui, seem to
have temporarily abandoned the chinch
bug, the Hessian fly, rust and other
old standbys. which have been doing
duty for so many years. In lieu there
of, they have been working the Rus
sian crop situation to the limit For
several days It has been rumored that
the Russian crop was not as good as
it should be. but yesterday a comfort
ing report came to hand, and the Chi
cago market slumped over a cent per
bushel. In spite of a decline of more
than 10 cents per bushel In the past
month, the American markets are still
above an export basis and unless there
Is a sufficient demand at home for all
wheat offering, still lower prices .are
probable.
Oregon breeders, years before the
"bookies" gave the racing game a black
eye. trained and developed some of the
fastest horses that ever went down the
grand circuit These trotters and pa
cers were useful for other purposes
than racing, and were not so well adap
ted for gambling machines as the run
ners that have since brought discredit
on the sport. Syndicate books, doped
horses, crooked racing and the riffraff
of outlawry which follows the runners
from place to place, have tarnished
the sport of horse-racing to such an
extent that It Is difficult to understand
where the business of legitimate breed
ing is to be Injured if all gambling on
racetracks Is prohibited.
The Corvallls Social and Athletic Club
seems to be filling the long-felt want
which has existed since local option de-
prxvea uie city or saioons. it is stated.
that the club already has a member
ship of more than 200. and from the
tandpolnt of economy Is proving much
more satisfactory than the former
method of securing spirituous liquor.
The system has not yet been tested by
law. but Its advocates are sanguine that
it will stand the test. Jf the Corvallls
Club, which was formed for the purpose
of dispensing liquor, does no more harm
than the "canteen." which Is an adjunct
of the soldiers' cltfb. Benton County
wlll not suffer greatly by its presence.
THE VACATION STORY.
The annual vacation heglra from
home to mountain, seashore or coun
tryside somewhere, so it Is only away
from home Is one of the social phe
nomena of modern American life. It
has its roots In the industrial and busi
ness prosperity which gives the multi
tude money to spend, in pleasurerseek-
ing. the accepted Summer type of wh!ch
is Jousting about here, there, anywhere.
eo as to be away from home.
The myriads of persons who throng
the boardwalks and benches of New
Jersey coast resorts, the Summer set
tlements that doc New England, the
crowded caravansaries on mountain,
lake and countryside, as the Philadel
phia Press "says, have a tale to tell
concerning our land and our times that
is worth" hearing.
The first signification of the wide
spread vacation habit Is -that the Amer
ican, people are restless, representing in
aggregate a, moving-picture show. The
next is that they are- prosperous and
thus amply able to dress and act their
part In the show'. Again, they are tired
tired from the eeaseless activity In
industrial, social and educational lines
that they have come to regard as life,
and. they seek rest .by getting tired In
another direction.
. The spectacle of a people at pTay is
Interesting as a National financial
statement Vacations as a rule are ex
pensive and not Infrequently entail the
cos o( 'sickness Induced' by a radical
change In the manner of living, or of
death due to accident That such large
numbers of -people can afford the cost
Is proof that accumulation has followed
Industry. Not only are Americans,
rank and file, making a living; they are
well-to-do and disposed to be generous
to thempelves. Having earned their va
cation they spend upon It ungrudgingly
and th.ere is every evidence that they
get -pleasure and profit of a vital kind
out of the expenditure. The pleasure
BIGAMY AND DIVORCE.
We read with something of surprise
the statement of Dr. Samuel W. Dllk
that there are more cases of bigamy
than of divorce In the United States
This statement Is the more astonishing
because Dr. Dllk Is the most careful stu
dent of marriage and divorce in the
country, and Is not given to random
or unproven assertions. Following the
line of Inquiry that he has for some
years pursued with the purpose of dis
covering the truth, he has become con
vinced that in any city or manufactur
lng community there are more cases of
marriage without divorce than there are
of divorces.
This Is a state of affairs more truly
deplorable than frequent and open di
vorce. In looking about us astonish
ment at the statement of Dr. Dllk gives
place to conviction of Its truth. Port
land is not a great city, but the fact,
as disclosed by the records of our char
itable institutions, is that very many
of the beneficiaries of these are de
serted wives and children. Deserted
wives abound here, and for every one
of them there is a man who not un
likely is enjoying the comforts of
home made and kept for him by another
woman who believes herself to be his
wife and In her turn will be abandoned
Domestic tragedies thus based are of
daily unfoldment Now and then they
are disclosed by an arrest for bigamy
and a trial In the courts, the details of
which are more or less sensational, ac
cording to the prominence or obscurity
of the bigamous husband. But In the
large majority of cases the deserted
wife struggles on In silence, maintain
Inc herself and her children, if she can
and, failing In this, appeals to the man
agero of the Children's Home, the Baby
Home or the City Board of Charities
for help to carry her heavy burden.
She has under our law and customs ab
solutely no vrecourse. and society a
patient burden-bearer puts Its shoul
der to the wheel and the recreant hus
band and father moves on unpunished
to repeat his matrimonial experience In
another community. In Germany, big
amy Is made difficult by a law which
requires a man who has but recently
come Into a community to advertise
his marriage where he formerly resided.
The record of the marriage in a new
residence Is returned to the old and
there recorded, thus malting the law
against bigamy In a sense self-oper
ative. With us a man of vagrant nab
Its can marry practically unquestioned
wherever he takes up his abode. The
woman In the case is a fool. In that
she puts her trust in a stranger, but
she Is not Infrequently a simple minded
hard-working creature who thinks she
sees In the proposed marriage a chance
to better her condition. Too often she
finds out her mistake after one or two
children have been added to her load
and she is left to carry It unaided.
Interstate registration of marriage
would offer some safeguard against
bigamy. A provision like that In Ger
many would be of some benefit, but per
sonal vigilance, based upon wholesome
suspicion, on the part of friends, family
and. above all, of women themselves,
is the only reliable safeguard against
this most vital of social frauds.
Is fleeting, to be sure, but the profit Is
J For this reason, 14 Xgr no -.other, Itjjol the substantial kind) .that finds ex
The Oregonian observes that certain
Tacoma hopdealers. Isaac PIncus
Sons, have rushed Into print with com
pjAlDi jJiat .thfr. sipex iAs .declined toJ
The death of Mrs. Mary Cooper Rob
Inson. which occurred yesterday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Howard
Crofts. In this city, was the passing of
woman closely Identified with the
pioneer life of'Oregon. Mrs. Robinson
was a daughter of Rev. Jesse and Su
san Moreland. Born In Tennessee In
JS32. married in Illinois In 1851. coming
to Oregon In 1852, Mrs. Robinson was
a pioneer, practically speaking, in-three
states widely separated. Faithful to
the simple duties of life, she lived and
worked and passed on, leaving behind
her a record of womanly fortitude -and
of devotion to family and friends.
0REG0JT0Z0NE
"It has occurred to me many times."
says the Unofficial Autocrat, "that If
women really looked like the female
figures we see In the. fashion Journals,
we men would walk around a ten-
acre lot to keep from meeting them;
we would' take to the woods every
tlmo we sighted one of the freaks, or
if wo really couldn't get away In .time
we would feign Insanity and froth at
tho mouth to keep from recognizing
thorn. I never could see Just why It 13
that the fellows who draw those female
figures for fashion plates Insist upon
putting the waist of a wasp in the
middle, to divide lovej.- women into
two parts, like a sack of meal tied in
the center with a string, .ready to
throw over the back of a mule and. tote
to the mill. I never could, really. Aid
don't believe the women can, either.
I hereby call upon the women to arise
and cry down this bnse llbeler of their
henutv. There never was and never
will be, while God reigns and the re
public at Washington still lives, a
woman with a shape like that which
the fashion plates assign to her. No
woman with a waist liKe mac coum
get breath enough to live ten minutes;
and if she could live no man on earth
ever could so far-forget his-Inborn no
Hons of physical beauty as to fall In
love with her. In the words of the late.
lamented Bret Harte: 'Is civilization
failure, and has the Caucasian played
out?' I refuse to believe It."
According to Drake Watson, in the
Kansas City Journal:
I have been hearing or the busy bee until
am tired ot It. A bee works during, the
Summer and then reata all Winter, like
nlitrr- And a. bee has bad habits. Go
Into a vineyard and you will find bee drunk
ards around bursted grapes. The drunkard bees
alp the Juice until they become full and thn
fall to the ground and sleep oft tfcetr ae
bauch; a drunkard bee know' enough not to
go home with .a Jag-.
Which prompts us to say to certain
bipeds wno do not know "as much as
tho bee. Go to the bee. thou drunkard
consider his ways, and be wise.
"In the United States we are prone
to talk too much," says one of the pop
ular newspaper, essayists. That Is just
what Polly the parrot said, after she
had called a passing pedestrian
blankoty old fool and had been beaten
over the head with an umbrella-
Whatever tho .plenipotentiaries at
Portsmouth may do regarding peace" or
war, there Is lasting peace down- at
Grass Valley, and' the alfalfa crop is
a three-bagger, while the nop crop Is
going ahead at a hop. step and Jump
stride.
The Houston Post tells about a negro
revival meeting In Tetfas. where the
preacher, after a fervent prayer, "gave
out" the following hymn. Including many
othcr stanzas like It:
I went down to de river
And baptized a nigger.
But dc nigger told a lie
Before his head got dry.
Wo are - not disposed to criticize the
rhyme In this verse. What's thV Use?
It may be all right to publish stories
about "descendants of Explorer Lewis,"
but the generality of us have been taught
to suppose that' a man who never marrjad
Is not supposed' to have left' any descendants.
k CQLUMN OF VERSE
Kusslu 1ST05.
J. V. Foley, in New Tork Times.
A red hazb- hung over the mountain.
The flail In the valley was still.
A lone woman wept o'er a baby that stent -
And the grain lay ungrcund at tke mill.
A. plow In the half-cloven furrow.
A forge that was amokelew and dead.
While over It all hung the snlllRra?. a paH. -
And the haze o'er the mountain, blood red:
And over and over and over.
By village and farmhouse and hln.
A haze, bloody red, all the landscape o'er-
sprcad
And the valleys deserted and still.
The earth at the seedtime unbroken.
The fields at the harvest ungleaned.
And lone vigil kept by a woman who wept
Ith a babe at her borora unwfar.ed.
Then down from the mountain a horseman
Dahetl. plumed and ewerded and mattdi
Nor hrard he the moan of the woman alen.
Nor saw he the grain all unflalled;
"To arnwl" for the battle was bloody:
'To arroa!" for the columns were thinned;
And over the land rang hi brazen command.
For his horse wore the wings of the wind.
Then fathrle?s !nd from their hovels
Went shouldering ponderous gunp.
And old men and gray tottered weakly away
To And the rude craves of their eons;
For Country I? higher than kindred.
And what Is the glory of od
Unwet by the flood of Its yeomen's red btooJB
And war 1 It not more than God?
So women with babes at their besaras.
rZflZf.il mit ner th fitrmn!! iintllld
Through the haze resting red like tne blood
that was sned
In a far-away struggle unwilled.
And eyes that are swollen and anguished
Uplifted In silent appeal:
"O God of the Poor, doe thy mercy endure
When thy monarchs Know naught but oC
uteel?"
And over and over and over
By village and hamlet and hill
The haze resting red like the blood that la
sbed.
But the flail In the valley Is still.
The earth at the seedtime unbroken.
The fields at the harvest ungleaned.
And a lone vlglf kept by a woman who wept
With a babe at her bosom unweaned.
The Obituary Poet Laureate.
College Farnjlng.
(A Kansas newspaper Is authority for the
statement that some of tho young men who aro
arriving at the harvest fields come In patent
leather shoes, .nhlrtwalsta and pegtop trouwrsi)
Mine eyes have seen the glory of th coMega
harvest hand.
He's working down In Kansas with a dress
suit, understand.
Arid his 'patent leather danelng pumps and peg-
top panta are grand;
The hands are marching en.
I have seen blm In the college, with ate
bulging high, white brow;
I have heard him give the college oheer, SI
boom!" and llkewke "WowT
But he's sot another Job, you see. and he Is
worklnc now;
The hands are marching on;
He baa left his Greek and Latin far the har
vest fields of tell.
And he'll stand out In the sunlight and hettl
roast and fry and boil
And hln face will set streaked and striped .wh
grimy Kansas soil;
The bands are marching en.
And Cholty carries with him In his suiteajo. t
they say, '
A shirt with t!ffened bosom and seme stkis
both rich and gay.
And a let of ether togs and things to make a
great array;
The band are march-lag oc
And likely he has with him In hts handsome
drew suit case
Soma fine complexion lotions for s-: tn
his face.
And doubt lesd on his nlghtroben there are rat
tles trimmed with htce;
The hands are marching on.
They fear the yellow frockle and the tfctok.
plebeian .tan.
And wunt a llk umbrella over evory tomes
man.
And by and by each one . will want a ei
electric fan;
The hands are marching on.
' Chicago Ctronkele.
Ala.,
poem
If semi-official report is to be cred
ited. Rockefeller proposes with $50,
000,000 to fulfill the desire to makeChi
cago University the greatest seat of
learning In the world. Mere money
can't do it. There must be- also char
acter, brains and age. Mr. Rockefeller
may be assured, however, after he Is
gone, that Chicago will not let the uni
versity suffer from lack of exploita
tion.
August is- an appropriate month for
holding the National Irrigation Con
gress In Portland. President Roose
velt's visit two years ago happened to
be earlier in the season and his flrst
public utterance, voiced In a drench
ing storm, was; "While I am Inthis
part of Oregon I shall not refer to" the
subject of Irrigation."
The City Council is soon to wrestle
witn a z&-year gamage contract.' ir a
clause can be . Inserted requiring, the
contracting company .to remove the
thieves, bunco men, pickpockets and
burglars that infest the streets, tax
payers won't object to compensation
that will pay a good profit.
Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, who has been
appointed market Inspector In this city.
is an active member of the Woman's
Club and a woman of much energy and
public spirit. It Is hoped that she will
bring to her work zeal tempered with
Judgment
A Chicago man came home Intoxl
cated Friday and his wife suggested to
him that he should go and drown him
self. He did. But he left a letter
reproaching her. She 'oughtn't to
worry. It was good advice.
Orderly state Is Missouri when the
Governor Is afraid to leave home for
two weeks. Can't he put his constlt
uency on their good behavior for this
brief period, or must he flourish the
big stick all the time?
Under ordinary circumstances, the
detective Is on the side of the prosecu
tion. In Portland, Just now, he Is lined
up with the defense.
The battleship Kansas was christ
ened with water because Governor
Hoch would have it so. You wouldn't
think that of Hoch.
Need of about two days of Oregon's
reputed weather Is apparent; not for
agricultural purposes but for comfort.
No one can complain of secrecy In
the proceedings at Portsmouth.
It looks now as if there must be more
war before there is peace.
A suggestion to the plenipotentiaries
Why not leave it to T. R.I .
The poet of the Enterprise, at Adams,
has written the model owtuarj
Here It is let It speak for'ltsolf:
Do not grieve for him
In sorrow to bow;
If he'd lived any longer
H'd have, died anyhow t
He- went In hbi youth
Cut down- like the Illy; .
He will never grow old
And be crabbed and chilly.
Let us all learn the lessee
Before Life's December:
Folks have been dying
Since I can remember!
"Suffer tho Idttle Children."
Rev. E. F. Hill, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, of Portland, refused to ais-
trlbute badges to the cmjaren o: nis aunoaj
school entitling them to -admission to tho Im
position on' Presbyterian Sunday School day at
greatly reduced rate. Decause tne iron- nun
been opened on Sundays.)
Three hundred little children of the Sun
day, school were gay.
Because the Exposition had assigned to'
them a day.
That Mr. Goodejs vcry.goodt' the. happy
children cried; .
'We'll go and "have a Jolly time hurrah
for our side!"
Their, bestes bib. and tucker thay, got
ready every one
And scarce could they await the day, to
be so full of fun.
So fraught with wondrous sights to see.
with things of beauty rife;
'Twould be- a day to recollect for all the
rest of life.
Ah, don't you know It, .bearded man tho
thrill those children felt.
Though many years have-gono slnoe you
at mothers knee have knelt?
And don't yon know It. matron grav
the Joy of little girls?
Eor you were once a child yourself, with
saucy, sunny curls.
The little children ah, the dear good God
above us knows.
They have their share of sorrows, of the
weight of human woes;
And Christ, you know, hath told us, "Ye
have done It unto Mc,
Tf even to the least- of these. Then suffer
-ahem," said. He.
But when the day came "round at last,
the children of -the poor
Thev sat and sobbed their hearts out
(their election wasn't sure:
They weren't called to pass within); their
-pleasure had to fall.
Because of Sunday antics on a place they
call the Trail.
Now, as' a fiumble layman, and a follow
er- of Him
Who loved the little children, I, with all
my might and vim.
Demand the privilege to rise right here
and ask, "Would He
Deprive 'the least of these' of joy?" Yo
preachers, answer me!
ROBERTUS LOVE.
Busy Day for a Kentucky Groom
Henry County (Ky.) Local.
Mr. Shirley Craig and Miss Rosa Scott
eloped to Bedford and were married Wed
nesday of last-week at an early morning
hour, after which the groom did a hard
day's work on the .farm.
Hallway Accident.
" Chicago Tribune,
arm on the back of the c-fat
Beemed to grow bolder
And presently a misplaced switch --
Lay-on hU ahoulder"
Tho Impossible.
W. J. Lampton In St. Paul (Minn.) Desrateh.
We tried a moral nos race
La.it season at our Fair,
With Deacon Jones presldln.
To open It with prayer.
We offered purses plenty
To have a lively raee.
But not a bit of bottln'
Was 'lowed around the place.
The Methodists and Baptists.
The Presbyterians.
Episcopal and so forth '
Fell right in with our plans.
And come out to th,e meetln
To show a boss race could
Be- Jlst as good a hoes race
And likewise moral good.
The air was full of Sunday.
And though we seemed to feel
All right. It sorter -wasn't
As If the thing was real.
And when we got tho hossea
All lined up at the flag.
The starter tried to start 'em.
But every golderned nag
Jlst balked and stood there solid;
They wouldn't move a foot.
And splto of all Inducements
They staid where they was put.
At last Aunt Sallie Hasklns,
The elder's second wife.
From Old Kalntuck. and 'qualnted
With hosses all her life.
Got up and shouted: "Brethren.
I hate like sin to bolt.
But I'll bet fifty dollars
On that Kentucky colt."
Then Deacon Jones uplifted
And hustled 'cross the way
A-yellln: "Here gees fifty
On that St. LouU bay."-
Tou ought to seen them hosses t
Gee whiz, .before the slack.
,. Was took up ln-the bettln . ,
They run twlco 'round the track.
The Traveler's Dream.
Tit Bits.
A. little room In a little hotel.
In a. little country town.
On a little bed, with musty smell.
A man was lying down.
A great big man with a great big snore
For he lay on his back, you see
And a peaceful look on his face he wore.
For sound asleep was ne.
In his dreams what marvelous trips he made.
Vht hcatu of stuff he sold!
And nobody failed, and every one paid.
And his orders were good as goiu.
He smiled, and smothered a scornrui lauga
Whpn his fellow commercials crowea. .
For he knew no other had sold the half
Of what his order book snewea.
He got this letter from home one dny
"Dear Sir We've no fitter term
To use In your case, but simpiy to say
Henceforth you are one 01 tne nrm.
And a glorious change this made 4n -his lift
He now from the road withdrew;
And. really, soon got to know-hts wife.
His son. and his daughter, too.
But with a thump bang-whang thump
bang! again.
The "boots" had knocked at the door;
"It's very near time for that C:10 tralnl"
The commercial's dream was cer.
hal
The Music That Carries.
S. W. Glllllan In Succeas Magazine.
Tvn tolled with the men the world
blessed.
And I've tolled with the men who failed:
I've tolled with the men who strove with
And I've tolled with the men who walled.
And this le the tale my oul weuld tell.
Aa It drifts o'er the harbor bar:
The. sounds of a sigh don't carry well.
But the lilt of a laugh rings far.
The men who were near the grumbler's sldo.
Oh they heard not a word he said:
The sound of a eong rang far and wide.
And they barkened to that Instead.
Its tones were sweet as the tales they tell
Of the rise of the Christmas- atar
The sounds of a sigh don't carry well, ,
But tho lilt of a laugh rings far