THIS SUNDAY OREGOyTAy, PORTLAND, AUGUST 20, 1905.
The Runner and the Landlady and the Ten Guests
EPISODE IN PORTLAND AMATEUR HOTEL-KEEPING INCIDENTAL
TO THE LEWIS AND CLARK CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION d$
(HAD occasion to moot two friends at
the station the other evening, and
while waiting in line for them to ar
rive had time to notice others also In the
waiting procession. As soon as the puff
of the engine was hoard there was bustle
End commotion, the faces of the watchers
lighted up with thoughts of the loved ones
they expected to meet and a few built
castles in the air in rogard to the amount
of money they would amass by having go
many of these prospective Fair visitors in
room No. 1 at $1 a night per head and 5LS0
for the lovely front room with the divan
in the corner.
Suddenly, as if to arouse these people
from their wool-gathering, the gates
licked, flew open and the crowd of
wr-ary. be sooted passengers filed forth.
Ju.-t then a tall woman with a distinctly
masculine face of scarlet hue, clothed in
a tight-fitting purple dreas, a hat cocked
-p on one side and a general demeanor of
' I'll get there who from the time the
gates clleked had been nervously fingering
the cards In her hand, stepped forth, de
spite the presence of a severe-looking po
Locman, approached a lady and gentle
man coming down the line, authoritative
ly tapped the lady on the shoulder,
pushed her card under the lady's nots
and in a shrill voice exclaimed: "Do you
wish accommodations? I have fine rooms;
come, and I will make you cheap rates."
etc., etc. y
The demure little woman, with a hus
band to lean upon (did you ever notice
how retiring and twining a woman with a
man fieems. especially to a ioor female
tvho hasn't a mighty oak upon which she
run try the Ivy act?) shook her head as If
o say she had a place upon which to rest
tier weary head, and passed on.
Unfazed. my purple lady stepped forth
igain and again, repeated the tap and
presentation of cards, just how long ahe
stood in line, or whether successful at
that exact point, I know not, bocause in
the meantime we had met our friends,
nnd after assisting them In finding the
tggage-room, where they checked their
trunks, were about to depart for home,
when walking through the waiting-room
cn route to the car. 1 once more saw my
lady in purple standing with quite a
crowd about her. My curiosity was
aroused, and becoming interested I made
E me excuse to my sister about having
c'aer business to attend to. and advlded
her to take her friends on up to the
1 ouse. As soon as they left 1 strolled
aLout the station close to the lady in
1 urple, her compatriot, who was dressed
in white shirtwaist and skirt, and the by
this time party of ten that she haQ
caught with her bait, the cards and her
fluent tongue. There were all sorts of
satchels set about, from the Wack pasteboard-looking
affair, with its shawl strap
holding the bulging sides In place, to the
leather suitcase; even the lunch-Dox, with
its remaining stale bread and dry piece
of ham, was in evidence. They were pas
scngors from the tourist oars who had
been beguiled by my masculine looking
friend and her shirtwaist cousin.
As 1 stood watching and wondering by
what magnotlc power she had succeeded
In gathering this goodly crowd undor her
wing, the party gathered up their belong
ings and started forth processlon-ilke be
hind their loaders. They walked two by
two as orderly as any girls of a boarding
c-hool. As they passed the various li
censed runners, there was a stir and the
puor runners wore an envious look, as
much as to say: "There's my quarter-ahead
gone up jo flume," and "I wonder
where that purple damsel got 'cm." Sev
eral cf ti.t more pugnacious runners
I jshefi forward and tried by wiles and
promises of low rates to secure some of
tl.e little party, but it was "no go." On
they proceeded with their heavy satchels,
ani even the tempting illuminated sign of
a tertaln hotel on Sixth street held no
charms for them. One enterprising spiel
er for a house In the vicinity of Burnslde
street thought he surely would captivate
6cme of the fair sex of the procession, and
Bhouted ag they pasod: "My, for a
rrowd like you all I'd give wholesale
prices: and for the Indies an extra 1 per
cent discount." As if in a trance or un
der a hypnotic spell, the 10 followers
plodded along.
As they neared Sixth and Washington
Greets, I wondered how much further
they were to be taken before they reached
this boarding-house, and if they weren't
t'red carrying those heavy satchels after
their long, tiresome, dusty train Journey,
and why the woman in purple and her
friend didn't take a street-car. or if they
were the enterprising business women
they seemed to be, why didn't thoy hire a
bus. Washington street was eventually
reached, and even then there was no sign
of thm boarding a car.
If I was tired of my tramp without any
load, what must these poor wayfarers be?
I was tempted to go on my way rejoicing
and not to try to fathom the depth of
this w-eb, then I said, "No. I will see to
Some
BY PAUL DANBY.
i(nrIIE railroad engineer and train
f dispatcher are all right," said the
tired city ticket agent the other
day, "but they are not the whole thing
when it comes to hard work, and they
don't see all the romance thore Is Jn the
railroad business. Yet to read some of the
newspaper articles about the engineers
and the dlspatchors you'd think the
men who come In personal contact with
the passengers have nothing whatever
to do with the operation of the rail
roads. "But I want to tell you that the ticket
agents, the train conductors, the Pullman
conductors, the trainmen, the porters,
even the waltors. the stewards and the
chef on the dining cars, are all entitled
to some degree of sympathy and recog
nition from the public. Oh, yes, I suppose
there are some black sheep among them.
There are a few lawyers, doctors, mer
chants, policemen, labor leaders thore are
even some offlce-holders who are not alto
gether what they should foe. But the ma
jority of men in all walks of life ore good
fellows, hard workers, and onger to play
their parts in the game of life squarely.
It Is so with the men In every grade of
railroad passenger service, too.
"I suppose you think It's a cinch to
sell tickets all day over the counter of
a railroad ticket office. Well, let me
tPll you differently.
In fact the ticket agent's lot never
was an exceptionally happy one. Twenty
jcars ago, though, he had much easier
time than now. Then about all he had to
do was to hand out one little parallelo
gram of pasteboard alter another, with
tl.e names of the stations at the begin
r ng and ending of the passenger's Jour
ney printed on it, take In tho price in
each case and keep his cash straight.
11 Isn't so now.
Then most ticket . had to sell
tifkets only over the lines by which they
were employed. Now, In most offices it
Is so in the one I am lucky enough to
have a Job In tickets are on sale on
20 or SO or more lines, to say nothing of
THE
what limit women's vocation extends, and
how far it leads them." Gazing abstract
edly in the distance, and wondering what
course I should pursue. I suddenly saw
my lady in purple leave her party and
make a B-line north all by her lonely.
Now, here was a, conundrum, why did he
cast aside her iteh. after having taken
such pains to catch them? While I was
' trying to decide whom I should follow, my
i purple lady or the shirtwaist cousin, who
I had the 10 fish trailing behind. I noted th
, fish were making headway and I fol
lowed them with one eye n-squlntln' after
I my purple friend. But she escaped my
' vigilant glance, and my little crowd
passed on up the hill while the city folk
and downtown paraders cast an interested
look after them, and no doubt wondered
where they wero going, how far they car
Tied those heavy satchels, and whether
I they wouldn't enjoy a good bracer.
On and on proceeded my party of ten and
their leader, and as they neared the Pert
land Hotel, the sweet strains of music
floating in the air from the orchestra of
that famous hostelry seemed to fascinate
the wee procession of tourists, and when
they reached the front entrance to that
famous establishment they loitered awhile
and listened to Its lulling sound. But the
pause In their march only lasted a few
' .v X .1 , """"'-""' ". in ana tney retired In disgust. Then, as noted It was my purple lady, now
interesting Romances of the Traveler's Guide
vNBY. the tickets to various destinations in t to get the run of the time-tables of one to tell the man who sells them t
glneer and train f?rclsn landB- " can buy a ticket at line, though some lines have enough , tickets all about It. and so do the f
ii Hrht dm the office I work in to almost any place branches to make vour hw im nt v '
minutes, a? time wag fleeting, and they
In the whole world to which railroads or
steamships run.
"When I began there as office-boy Si
years ago. you could buy tickets to only
a few prominent places not on our lines,
and as the price of every ticket we had
to sell was plainly indicated by printed
schedules I could sell tickets about as
well as the boss, only I couldn't make the
change quite as rapidly and surely.
"Unless you have been a ticketseller
yourself, you can't understand what a dif
ference the new way makes. From my
office I can sell tickets to San Francisco,
for instance, over several different routes.
Thore are excursion tickets, limited tick
ets (as to time), and unlimited tickets.
We sell sleeping-car tickets also, and they
are now of two varieties 'standard and
'tourist. 'Tourist cars are not much
used in tho East as yet, tout you will find
them on many of the Western lines, whore
the distances are greater, and there thoy
are a great boon to those travolers who
do not have any more money to spend
than they actually need.
"It is these 'through or long distance
ticKets that make tis work yes, and
study too. Many of them are several feet
in length, with sections to bo torn off
and turned In by the conductors of the
various divisions over which the passen
ger passes. And of course the computa
tion of the prices is sometlmos an intri
cate arithmetical operation. It has taken
me a full half-hour, many a time, to
figure out just how much to charge a
passenger and just how to send him
through with the least loss of time and
without charging him more than he want
ed to pay.
"This brings to my mind the study of
time-tables.
"It makes a passenger godd-natured and
inclined to travel more freely if he Is
able to make connections just as he ex
pects to, and It makes him a sore-headed
stay-at-home to spend n lot of money and
find himself hundred or thousands of
miles away from home with a ticket that
won't carry him Just where and as he
expected to go.
"So we have to make the most elab
orate studies imaginable of tho railroad
guides It is a comparatively easy thing
PROCESSION SLOWLY MOVED DP SIXTH
explained to them that her place was
only a few blocks distant and that thev
could oorne down any evening, seat them
selves on camp tools In the little yard
or court and enjoy the music quite as
well as the swells who were coated on
the porches in their fancy and costly
robes. So with this pleasure in prospect,
they wore satisfied to tear themselves
away for this evening.
Whon they roachod Morrison-street
corner they stood again to lay .down
their satchels and change arms. Those
few blocks, as at first represented by
the boguilers. had lengthened terribly
and the poor wayfarers felt as If they
would never reach their destination.
As they stood resting:. I noticed three
men walked up to them, but before
doing so they conferred among them
selves and said. "It Isn't fair; sh has
no license." and the youngost man of
the party remarked. "Well, maybe
they're her friends." at which the third
derisively added, "Not on your tin
type; she Just hauled 'cm in. I'll wagor.
I'll brace thorn and see," which he ac
cordingly did. holding forth a much be
lcttercd card. The other two men
marched up and stood beside him. but
the two ladles thus accosted absolute
ly refused to even glance their way.
and they retired In disgust. Then as
line, though some lines have enough
branches to make your head swim. But
It's a really difficult Job to familiarize
yourself with a vast network of lines
stretching from ocean to ocean. North
across the boundary Into Oftnada, South
across the boundary into Mexico, and
out upon the seas over the 6teamshlp
lines. Why. the flrrt few weeks of a
green tlcketscllers llfo are positively
miserable If he really tries to master
the situation In a short time. Even the
most experienced of us have to study
nights, sometimes in the Spring and Fall,
just after the seasonal changes of sched
ules are made.
"The making out of our reports is an
other thing which has become1 extremely
complicated and that often calls ror
night work. We tickot-agents arc by no
means sticklers for Just so many hours a
day. nor are wo able to get clear of work
altogether on Sundays' and holidays, as
you might suppose.
"City ticket agents have an easy
time of it In one way, as compared
with the station ticket ugent, however.
"They are afflicted a good deal more
than we are with the last-minute pas
sengers; people who rush up to the
window five minutes before train time
to buy tickets half or all the way
across the continent, or to some remote
Mexican or Canadian point, and with
impossible ideas as to stop-overs and
time and expense. Were It not for the
bureaus of information that are now
a feature of nearly every big railroad
station, I don't know how the station
tickot sellers would get along at alL
The Travelers Joys and Sorrows.
"Do you never pet In touch with the
romanco of roal life? Why. my friend,
I haw heard It so many times that of
all people in the world the lawyer and
the doctor know most about the trou
bles of their follows, their hopes and
their foars, but I don't believe either
of them hoars many more hard luck
stories than the ticket seller or good
luck stories, either, for the matter of
that.
"When folks are coins: on a Journey
to attend a funeral they always have
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STREET.
their luggage and once more set forth.
My party turned a couple of corners
and at last entered an humble-looking
frame house, stalked into the small
parlor, sank on the horsehair chains
and sighed a contented sigh. The llttlo
old coal-oil lamps cast forth their sick
ly light, but what mattered that? Peace
was not for long, however, for Just as
they were parleying as to rates along
came two husky men and started re
moving the furniture from the house.
It was a case of eviction, the rent had
not been paid, and at this hour 10:3)
the tenants were bcinfr put out. The
shirtwaist lady begged for more time
but to no avail. The unappcased land
lord would not listen, so the tired party
disgustedly pocked their luggage,
meandered forth and Inter all ten piled
into one room somewhere In the neigh
borhood. They said that would do un
til morning; when they would o out
and hunt a place for themselves and
trust no one.
As I was returning to my home along
Washington street, I hoard the plain
tive notes of a hand-organ. A woman
was grinding" It. and as I dropped a
coin" In the outstretched hand I scru
tinized tho countenance beneath the
black sunbonnet. and to my surprise.
noted It was my purple lady, now at
tired In black, and pljlng another
trade. F. F. F. "
to tell the man who sells them their
tickets all about It. and so do the folks
who are cailod home, suddenly, or
summoned peremptorily from home be
cause of the mortal illness of some one
near or dear. la the Journey under
taken Teluctantly, because there's a
disagreeable lawsuit at the other end,
or because a lot of money has been
lost? Into the ticket seller's car the
story Is ruthlessly poured, with never
a thought that perhaps ho mny have
troubles of his own that are about all
ho wants to know the details of Just
then.
"But there are compensations, for. of
course.-tho ticket seller hears all about
It whon the prospective traveler is go
Ingto be married or to get the money
that has been left by an aunt he never
heard of. or has unexpectedly made a
strike, and for the first time In his life
Is able to make a Journey because he
wants to see the country. On the
whole, there's more pleasure and prof
It than the reverse In listening to the
unsolicited passengers stories of love
and grier. of Joy and misfortune, and
the business will be a pretty tame one
when the passengers stop talking to
the ticket sellers about themselves."
Idle as the Pullman Man Sees It.
"Do I seo much of the romance of
real llfo in ray trips back and forth?"
repeated a gray-haired Pullman con
ductor on a transcontinental train.
"Well. It's this way: I'm so busy
holding down my Job most of the time
that I don't take much notice, general
ly, to tell tho truth. Yet. on the whole.
I guess the Pullman conductor sees
about ns much of real life as anybody
going.
"Only yesterday we had a little ex
ample of what you might call the pa
thetic side, I guess. When we pulled
up at a station somewhere In Kansas,
there were four farmers with a
stretcher. Standing beside the stretch
er was the most woe-begone looking
woman, all In black. I ever set eyes
on. On the stretcher lay a tall young
fellow, with a -face the color of baked
clay and wide, staring, rolling cye3
that seemed to take In everything In
sight. The expression in the poor'
chap's face told of an awful story of
horror, of amazement, of despair. The
poor woman almost broke down when
she lenrned that we never received the
message she supposed had been sent
to us to have a berth made up for the
sick man.
I hud the porter hustle around right
lively. I tell you. and we got the un
fortunate man In as quickly as we
could and made him as comfortable as
possible. After the train 'was started
the story came out. The man was the
woman's brother. She had been down
in New Mexico with her tfusband. who
had struck a mine or something else
that both felt sure was at last going
to bring them the wealth they had
worked for tog6ther for 20 or 20 years.
He had unexpectedly sickened nnd
died, though not till the strike had
materialize to the tune of some thou
sands of dollars, with a prospect of
considerable more.
Story of a Plucky "Woman.
"She had brought the body back to
Kansas, the funeral had been held, and
she had gone to make her unmarried
brother a visit on his ranch In tho
western part of the state. Two or three
days after her arrival as If she
hadn't had enough to bear he had
been stricken with paralysis, and she
was taking him to Tbpeka. to see If he
couldn't get some help In the hospital
there, it being Impossible, of 'course,
to get proper troatment out on the
ranch. The country doctor, who had
been called, had told her there wasn't
much chance, at the best, for the par
alysis was complete, except as to the
eyes, lie couldn't speak, he couldn't
so much as move a finger, he couldn't
even swallow; but It "was probable,
from the look of his wife, staring
eyes, that he was conscious, at least,
partially.
"I must say that his sister took it
like a thoroughbred. It was plain enough
that the double blow was about all she
could boar, but she didn't complain,! and
she sat "by her brother's side all the way
to Topeka. changing wet cloths on his
head every few minutes. Before she
had been on the train very long a moth
erly woman, somewhat older than she. sat
down by her side, asked If she couldn't
help and talked with her as soothingly as
If talking to a little baby.
"After a while the face of the woman
whose husband was dead and whose
brother was stricken began to lose Its
set look and pretty soon I saw that she
was crying, not sobbing and boo-hooing,
you know, but Just quietly. I thought it
was all up then, and I wondered why
some women couldn't let well enough
alone, but 1 guess it was all right after
all. for I heard two other women passen
gers talking about the' case and one said
to the other.
" 'She's crying now, poor thing; it'll do
her good.'
"Well, you know. I think It did. All
the women in the car gathered 'round
her presently and. when we reached To
peka. she looked a good deal better, in
spite of her crying spell more hopeful.
I should say. She was not at all the
forlorn creature she was when she got
on the train, and she almost smiled
when she bade her friends of a couple
of hours good-by. as her brother was
put Into the ambulance that was waiting
for him.
The Brides nnd Bridegrooms.
"Yes, there are plenty of funny things
happen, too. You've heard the story about
the man by whose side on the seat sat a
big traveling bag. and the car being full,
with passengers standing, he was asked
by the conductor to put it down and re
fused. Also. how. after awhile, the con
ductor hlmsolf put it down only to find
that It didn't belong to the man in the
seat at all?
"Yes? Well. I'll bet that's happened
a good many times. I saw it happen
some years ago. before I was in the
sleeping-car service, and wa3 working
out of Chicago as a news butcher. The
joke was on the train conductor, and
everybody laughed right hearty, of
course, and the conductor he had a fit of
the sulks which you wouldn't expect from
a railroad man. now would you?
"The new married couples are some
fun. but they don't interest me ajiy more;
they are all so much alike. So are their
friends who play smart and tell everybody
on the train that a bride and bridegroom
have Just gone aboard. I can't say that I
'think much of that sort of thing myself,
especially the rice throwing. They don't
allow anybody to get on trains any more
-with rice if they can help it.
" 'Cause why? Well, some fool young
ster threw about a quart of rice through
a window of a train one day. and It got
Into the aisle. The road was full of twists
and turns, and the train was a fast one. A
passenger, an old man nice old chap he
looked, too started to go down the aisle
to get a drink of watr. Just as he reached
the rice the train took a sharp curve.
Now. he might have stood the rice, and
he might have stood the sharp curve, but
together they were too many for hlm.vSo
he slipped and fell and broke his arm In
two places, 'suffered a compound frac
ture.' a doctor said who was In the train
and set the old gentleman's arm' In the
baggage car. The old man was like the
woman I told you about In one thing he
was game.
"He made no holler, and he wouldn't
ston over and go to a hospital as tho
J doctor said he ought to. He was hurry
ing East from California to some place
In Pennsylvania, where his "only daughter
was going to get married. Ho had lost a
day already; another day's delay, he said,
would make him late to the wedding, and
he didn't mean to let a little thing like a
broken arm interfere. All the railroad
men are down on rice-throwing, you can
bet on that."
Graft on tho Railroads.
"Making the passengers show their
tickets at the gate has Just about done
away with any pickups by the train con
ductors," chimed in the train conductor,
"because it has shut otf the cash fare,
but ever once in a while some sharp
passenger gets the better of one of us.
Maybe you have heard of the fellow who
wanted to go to Omaha from Chicago,
nnd had only enough money to buy a
ticket to the third or fourth' station out?
Well' I've seen It In print, and I've heard
It told, but I don't know whether it Is so.
"This chap waited till he saw a man
buy a ticket to Omaha; then he bought
his short single trip ticket. Then he man
aged to sit in the some seat with the
Omaha man. Taking out his pencil he
asked the Omaha man to lend him his
ticket for a minute ne didn't have a
scrap of paper himself, and he wanted to
make a few figures. The ticket wa3 lent
and the figures were made on the back
of IL Then the conductor took up both
tickets and then the man without a cent
went forward to the smoking car.
"The conductor remembered him and
later charged him with trying to go away
West on a short-trip ticket. .
"But. said, the man without a cent.
1 gave you a ticket to Omaha, and you
gave me a check. If you'll look through
your tickets you'll find mine with some
figures on the back of It.'
"Sure enough, the conductor found tho
ticket, and he had to carry the man
through to the end of his run, but he was
short one ticket, and he felt sure he'd
been done.
"You probably have never heard that
a year or two later the man without a
cent, having made money meanwhile,
hunted up that same conductor and made
good to him? No? Neither have I, and
I wouldn't believe it If I had."
(Copyright. 1905. by E. S. McClure.)
In Joyous Jersey. 1
A little girl Hvlnit In Jersey
Used to pat en her clothes topsy-turvey.
Till her ma. In despair.
Cried out: "I declare
This child ought to be dressed in kersey."
Secret Explosive of Japanese
Dr. Shimose Worked
.Powder That Bears
Correspondence Chicago Chronicle.
TOKIO, July 20. While the whole
world is filled with amazement and
even consternation at the victorious
arms of Japan alike on land and sea, few
people give a thought to the wonderful
powder known .as "shimose" after its
ingenious and expert chemist-inventor,
which has wrought such terrific havoc
among the hosts of imperial Russia.
As all the world knows, every nation
has Its own pet rifle for the army, and
Its peculiar theories about naval ordnance
also. Germany swears by her Mauser.
England has Lee-Enfield, and so on. Sim
ilarly everj nation has Its own "high ex
plosive,'' the British cordite, the French
melinite, etc. In all cases the various
government chemists pursue their inves
tigations and experiments in absolute
secrecy.
An Unknown Power.
As in all other departments of Japan's
wonderful work, an all but Impenetrable
veil of secrecy has been drawn over the
investigations and even the personallty
of her chemist In explosives, Dr. Glan
Shimose. He was born In the very hum
blest circumstances In the province of
Hiroshima some 4T years ago. when rail
ways and regular steamers were practic
ally unknown In the Island empire. And
yet as a youth Shimose determined to
make his way to the capital, although
It is over 4S0 miles from his native vil
lage in Hiroshima to Tokio.
That his plans were already full devel
oped in his mind will be seen from the
fact that on reaching the Japanese capi
tal he was able to pass a fairly stiff
examination at once and forthwith gained
the first round In the battle of his life
by entering the Imperial university -surely
one of the most go-ahead academical in
stitutions in the world, not even except
ing Yale, JIarvard and Columbia.
But his studies In the home village were
necessarily limited for want of books,
and now on arrival In th great, ram
bling, teeming City of Tokio we find
Shimose compelled to bg and borrow
textbooks from ex-students, who took pity
on him and he has been known to stay
up whole nights copying some of these
by hand in order tlmt the books them
selves might be faithfully returned to
their owners In the shortest possible tlnw.
His Indomitable Spirit.
It is no exaggeration to say that yottng
Shimose qnite commonly felt the pinch of
actual starvation. Certain It Is he who
ordinarily without the few coppers neces
sary for the barber or the bath man!
It need hardly be said that the future
hero of his country passed every exam
ination with perfect precision: yet.
strange to say. after graduating with tbn
highest honors, ho could find no better
employment than assistant in a humble
printing office at wages which appear
to us simply laughable something under
ten shillings a week!
But even in those days of obrcurity
Shimose's restless spirit was casting
about for openings for his ability. He was
wondering what destiny had mapped out
for him. and had, moreover, a craze for
"bettering himself" that would have dono
credit to a conscientious city clerk. H
became so skillful in the printing office
that It suddenly occurred to him h
might get employment from the govern
ment In this way, and at length, after
many demonstrations of his ability, h
was given, on trial, a somewhat respon
American Scenery and Its Influence
Continued From
tect has flung universal castles, domes
and turrets of palace and tower In In
finite disorder, and then throw the
radiant prlsmatlcs of the spectroscope
over it all .
Do not say you have seen-scenery unless
you have seen American scenery. Here
It rises to Its loftiest perfection In moods
of solemn vastness or quiet grace. Comr
up along this Western coast as a climax
of all. Here by the Pacific, nature revels
all its glory, here every wild antic of na
ture has found full vent. This Is indeed
the end of the world the last show on
earth.
The Southern Coast.
Think of that charming Stimmerland of
Southern California, that land where the
sun-kissed hills and valleys arc ever
changing Into the commerce of beauty.
There where paradise Is being restored
among the palms "and pomegranates,
where a scorJated Campagna vaster than
many Itlays Ik blooming like the
rose. There the trees of life bear their
fruit literally even month, and the trav
eling nations have found healing In the
leaves thnt shade this orange-groved
Eden. There, too. have the endless pro
cessions brought the glory and honor and
wealth of nations.
Again These Cascades.
This whole Western rango with Its
mighty sentinel peaks containeth glories
and wonders undreamed of by the world.
Let me tell again of the silent hall of
Mount Mazama. Just below us here. Here
Is that old volcano Into whose open crater
you can fling Vesuvius out of sight. To
have once looked into this almighty vor
tex where blue heavens are repeated a
mile below your feet, la worth several
Journeys around the globe. From this
terrible sanctuary of silence, this shrine
of the gods, even the redman stands aloof
In dreadful awe. Sometime millions will
have seen It and been hushed. I am glad
I saw It and slept upon Its brink many
moons before the trail grew wide enough
for two. Floating there In the deep night
shadows of Wizard Island one hears the
voice of God. But let no reckless foot
venture the Inner sanctuary, lest he be
hurled into the unknown forever that
reigns down there in the lower blue,
which looks the upturned dome of the
universe.
My Cathedral Vision.
Come again and stand yonder at the
meotlng of tnese great waters; look up at
these five enormous fiolds of snow, held
miles toward heaven, and somehow, divin
ity Is enshrined about you. Thank God
these awful scenes cannot be marred by
man's folly. Man is Insignificant here,
and so vast are these, man can only wor
ship in silence, and that silence Is so In
tense It cannot be broken. Like St. Pe
ter's in Rome, which is so vast no audi
ence can perceptibly fill it. so standing
there man seems but a moment in eter
nity. The coming of the millions of earth to
worship hero in all the years hence can
never crowd the corridors and aisles of
this universal cathedral. This old Co
lumbia Cathedral, whose ether blue vault
is supported by these spiritual snow-white
columns. These manifestations of divine
purity.
Behold a never ceasing processional and
recessional that shall Jn all the coming
years move up and down that enchanted
transept that cuts its way through this
range. In the Columbia gorge can be seen
and felt all varieties of the Divine Archi
tecture. Behold unmeasured architraves
and terminating cornices, towering spires,
or lofty vaults and domes with arches and
flying buttresses in endless array. Vast
and impenetrable niches where stand mil
lions of unapproachable forms and spir
its chiselled and painted here by the
God ot Ages. To complete the cathedral
effect, unnumbered hexagonal organ pipes
are full of the music of silence, blending
Eleven Years on the
His Name. d
sible position In the government prlntlntc
works at Tokio.
It was at this stage of his career
that Shimose turned his thoughts to
invention, and. naturally enough, ho
began operations In connection with
his own employment. After many ex
periments he succeeded In producing
the curious ink which is now used tn
Japan for bank notes and paper monov
generally, and which renders forgery
and alteration practically Impossible.
The secret, like all Japanese secrets,
was so well kept that the production
of the very ablest counterfeiters wer
Instantly detected.
It was while employed in the gov
ernment printing works that Shlmosn
turned his attention to naval and mili
tary Implements of all kinds, offensive
and defensive. He was brought into
contact with the naval and military
officers, both foreign and native, and
began to discuss eagerly with thorn th
components of the various high explo
sives used throughout the world.
Best Not Good Enough
He soon saw that most of the smoke
less powder of the world ami. indeed,
also the Japanese service powder in us
at that time, and known as "men kavp
ku" had very serious defect?. The "men
kayaku" had been adopted by the Japan
ese government as a kind of compromise,
and It certainly possessed the best quali
ties and fewest defects of all the service
powders of Great Britain. France. Ger
many and Russia. Unfortunately, when
dry the slightest concussion was apt to
set it off. and it was found absolutely
necessary by the then war chemist of
Japan to add at least 2i per cent of mois
ture to it if it were to be considered at
all safe.
But. like all hish explosives, the stuff
was extremely capricious ami delicate,
and the slightest excess of moisturo
caused It to become entirely nonexplofive.
It was also very delicate to keep, and
in a year would dry up completely. In
some respects the "men kayaku" resem
bled the American "geraltine." which Is
tremendous In power but is apt to get
frozen in very cold weather, and this
fact has brought about very terrible trag
edies In mines and elsewhere.
After a time Japan grew extremely dis
satisfied with her service powder, and
bgan to make inquiries about American
"moshlite." French "melinite" and the
"lopllt" of Germany. Dr. Shimose one
day resolved to devote himself entirely to
the production of a new powder which
should be as perfect as It was humaniv
possible to make it. He would, he said
to himself, devote years to the work if
necesary.
To the writer, who met him recently in
Sasebo. the great naval arsenal of Japan,
the doctor declared modestly that he had
spent "a little over 11 years" In produc
ing the terrible explosive which now bears
his name. He Is an exceedingly modest
little man. this war chemist of Japan; and
not for himself, but from high government
officials, was I able to learn that he was
in the habit ot spending entire days and
nights In his laboratory working year
after year upon his powder.
On one occasion he was nearly blinded
for life by a premature explosion during
one of his experiments. Very frequentlv
his hands and lingers were dreadfui'
burned. but nothing ever seemed to turn
him from his purpose, and at length. whtl
the now famous "shimose powder" was a
perfect chemical compound, he took It
modestly to his government, with results
now known to all the world.
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ever with the vox-angelic of a thousand
vapory waterfalls.
Standing there at tho eastern portal of
our continent wait the multitude audleno
whom no man can number, to be guided
through this cathedral aisle. Here where
the dusky race are vanishing toward th
sunset, will come the paleface In his
turn to worship In stillness and pass out
into the unknown sea beyond.
Desecrations.
The advertising fiend Is abroad In the
land. Let every true American that loves
Nature refuse to purchase anything whose
God-defying advertisements now ruin
hundreds of miles of lovely fen awl moor.
These beauty-hating men of board and
brush, would daub the white throne with
some brand of whisky and tobacco and
drive the angels out of heaven with dis
traction. Let railroads use their great power to
save us from this unmitigated prostitu
tion. I Insist the eye Is more sensitive
than throat or nostril, and if our boards
of health prosecute when food is polluted,
then why pure scenery be polluted, and
none protest, nor find redress. Must the
vast army who pay to view and adore the
landscapes be forced to ride In wrath be
tween sky-high boards on either side of
your train, and read and reread, for a
thousand miles, of some brand of emetic
nlcontlne. until he turns pale and pulls
the curtain down to prevent sickness.
Any man who allows these advestlse
ments on his buildings or fields. Is only
thereby advertising himself as very
cheap. Wanting In all the refinements ot
Nature.
Value to Scenery Merchants.
Let us keep American scenery as tho
greatest asset the country has. If it has
been worth JSO.00O.COO to New Hampshire
alone In ten years, then calculate its
value from a continental basis. (
Above 14,00 people visited the wilder
ness of Yellowstone Park last year, while
some days 50.ACO people walk the streets
of Southern California, all of whom aro
guests of travel, and the mountains of
Colorado are ever filled with hanpy pil
grims. The number that visited the Colo
rado Canyon reveal the following remark
able Increase:
1800 8131 X90R 12.704
1801 2,0SjlU04 15.0S3
1902 .0S
This amazing increase illustrates in one
concrete case what I have found all over
the continent, but have not time to tell.
These are only characteristic of the pres
ent Interest In our unique scenery, and.
ten years hence It will bother the rail
roads to transport the scenery lover.
The whole world Is coming to see this
continent. The whole East Is coming to
see the wonderful West. If the old Balti
more & Ohio could advertise its crooks
and turns as worth the time of travelers
to come and see. then this continent has
an inexhaustible world of wildest beauty
in crooks and turns of hill and vale, in
creasing ever as you come westward.
Westward the course of empire takes its
way, and let me dedicate my verso to this
Columbia River region, down whoso gor
geous gorge came Lewis and Clark 1C0
years ago, in whose honor we are cele
brating In this Exhibition City.
His Only Opportunity.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"Little boy." said a gentleman, "why
do you carry that umbrella over your
head? It's not raining."
"No."
"And the sun Is not shining."
"No."
"Then why do you carry lt2"
" 'Cause when It rains pa wants it, and
when the sun shines ma uses it. and It's
only this kind of weather that I can get
to use it at all."