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PORTLAND. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 24.
A CLASS OF DUTIES.
The need ot schools in every state for
defective children, as those are com
monly called -who have not the faculties
of speech, or of sight or hearing, is ev
erywhere admitted. It is pitiful to see
ewh as, through some congenital condi
tion or later disease, have not the ordl
narymeansof Intercourse with the outer
world. Almost all such can be helped
by skillful instruction through senses
that yet remain or may still be devel
oped. It is one of the most sacred du
ties of society. Best results never can
be had (through isolated effort or pri
ate instruction, but at schools where
systematic -work is carried on. It takes
children from their parents, for the
time: but this is necessary. The work
requires in teachers and guardians
special fitness, a high degree of sym
pathy and deepest possible sense of
moral responsibility. It is dreadful "tb
think of, if unsuitable persons are to
"work" such institutions as adjuncts
of politics.
So, from this point of view, as to
schools for young delinquents, or "re
form schools," as we usually call them.
Here is work that requires In teachers,
guardians and Instructors special qual
ifies of another kind. It is not often
that persons entirely fit can be found
for either of these qlasses of work.
Such, when found, ought not to be dis
turbed by any change of general ad
ministration In a state.
But it ought not to be necessary, or
seldom necessary, to send children to
reform schools. In most cases parental
delinquency is at the bottom of it. This
can be helped, slowly, or but to an ex
tent, if at all. The best place for a boy
to be is in his home, even if It be
humble, or at worst a squalid home,
wlh scanty support. Blood is thicker
tnan water, and the unnatural parent
is the exception. That family must be
outlaw whose boy is not safer under
its roof than in any public institution,
be it never so wisely conducted.
There are homeless children for whom
homes must be provided. There are
homes unfit to shield a child. For
such cases state shelter must be pro
vided. There are children, uncontrol
lable at home, who "become pests to
society. As the state cannot deal with
the parents, who may always be re
garded as in fault, for the delinquency
of the children, it must take the chil
dren and try to do something with
them and for them. The tendency of
society, however, is to excuse too read
ily the irresponsibility of parents, who
may in fact wish to get rid of their
children. Society has a great work to
do in encouraging parents to keap
their children in the public schools toy
day and At home by night. On this
s!de society lacks the sympathetic
organization necessary to Its own peace
and welfare. Kindly co-operation, by
way of employment, opens the door to
a true helpfulness. "What Mr. Thomas
X. Strong opposes, under the name of
"the old potlatch system," does more
harm than good.
The duties of society, as of individ
uals, in some of -these directions, have
as yet been tout poorly developed among
us. "We make progress, undoubtedly:
but the material that must be dealt
with Increases and multiplies at a rate
that would be disheartening, but for
the absolute necessity of having faith
in the progress and destiny of the
human race.
THE TAX LEVY AGAIN.
Fifteen mills on the valuation of the
property of Multnomah this year would
be equivalent to forty-five mills on the
"valuation of last year. Last year's
levy was forty mills on one-third of
the present valuation. Hence fifteen
mills this year will produce a great deal
more revenue than forty did last.
Heavy charges, moreover, existed
last year which do not exist this year.
Among them were county debt and in
terest, amounting to a very large sum,
and heavier state taxes, on account
of the Lewis and Clark Exposition,
Portage Railway and payment of In
dian War Veterans.
On the other hand, this year the city
needs and must have more money than
it had last year; for the gulch bridges
are to be paid for, and increased appar
atus and service for the FJre Depart
ment. There are other small items of
necessary increase, but the total is not
Jarre.
Fifteen mills on the present valua
tion will produce some $200,000 more
than forty mills produced on the valu
ation of last year. And In many direc
tions there will be much less to pay.
By conference together the authori
ties of the city and county ought to
be able to keep the total levy down to
fifteen mills. The whole people will be
glad, if they do it.
LETTING TOIJCIES LA1"SE.
It Is an ugly word, to "lapse." It In
volves, not a change of circumstances
which come to a man without his fault,
but a distinct act of will on his part, a
letting go, a letting slip backwards.
Generally, it is a cowardly word. It Is
worse than retreating, for that may be
of temporary effect, and be regained,
but to lapse is to let go for good and
all.
"Why policy-holders in any one of the
great Insurance companies, now under
fire, should let their policies lapse
passes any sober-minded man's calcu
lation. It is a safe proposition that
what there was to bring out as to their
past history Mr. Hughes has brought
out. into the full glare of day. The
dirty linen has been all washed. In the
eyes of the newspapers and the public.
The upshot of all may be that some of
the profits the companies should have
Tecelved went Into the pockets' of the
directors or officers; and that money
was wasted by thousands in salaries
and expenses of presidents, and -agents,
and their nephews, nieces, cousins and
aunts. Furthermore, unholy dollars
went to pollute legislation. This said,
all is said.
First, as to the diverted profits. It
looks as If every cent would have to
come back to the companies' treasuries
before Mr. Hughes and his associates
and Mr. Jerome and his aids will let go.
As to the extravagances of the past:
The assets of the companies are so
enormous, in spite of all that, their ex
cess of possessions over liabilities so
gigantic, that the only serious question
for policy-holders is not whether their
policies are safe? but How much is
their share of this mountain of money
in sight, and how shall they get it?
But how shall they get either policy,
money, or share of profits without a
policy to base the claim on?
For a policy-holder to allow his pol
icy to lapse Is noL only to forego, with
open eyes, the protection for himself
and his family, won by so much saving,
so much self-denial, but It Is a volun
tary breach on his part of his contract
with the company. The policy-holder
came into relations with the company
at a certain age, and his premiums were
fixed on that age basis. fSo long as his
life endures, or the term of his pay
ments continues, so long he has the
benefit of kite age on which he entered.
If he lets his policy lapse, not only does
he let go with It all future rights In
that company, but. whenever he tries
to get in Avith such other Insurance
company as he deems safe and well
managed, he finds the shoe pinch.
Rotes have gone up with every year.
Injured he Is, by his own act, and no
power on earth C3n prevent It. His
new policy costs more by every year
In which he paid in on the old one.
For life insurance In an cxnot science,
tried and found true for a century and
more. This fuss and flurry will be over
soon. Business methods will be cleansed
and purified. Whatever the big com
panies lose in future by cutting off
their promoting and stockjobbtng
profits will he made up by having to
pay only for decent, reasonable and
falrly-pald management. Whoever
thought It his duty to take out and
keep up life Insurance in the past Is
under the same obligation still. But
to let his old policy lapse? He would
be as sensible as some of the hopgrow
ers in tile Willamette Valley fifteen
years or so ago. The price of hops
went down to 7 cents and stayed there
for one year and the next. These
growers plowed up their hopyards and
planted potatoes. Then the price of
hops went -up to 2"i cents or more, and
stayed there, .or thereabouts. So the
men that plowed their hopyards and
planted potatoes kicked themselves and
kept that action up.
HIS SIN TIAS FOUND HIM OUT.
Miss Myrtle Reed, a novelist, lam
poons with woman's wit the blunders
of men who write novels when de
scribing the attire of their heroines.
She gives some startling examples of
these blunders, and Implies that even
Carlyle suffers In authority when he
ventures upon this dangerous ground,
declaring that his attempt in this realm
"reminds one of the language of flowers
and of directions given for postage
stamp flirtation." She gives man the
credit of knowing silk by the "sound"
and diamonds by the "shine." and notes
that he invariably describes & woman
as "richly dressed in silk," knowing
not that a white cotton shirtwaist rep
resents luxury, and a silk waist of fes
tive coloring abject poverty, since It
takes but two days to "do up" a white
shirtwaist in one sense, and thirty or
forty cents can lo it up In the other.
Continuing what the Literary Digest
calls her "gleeful indictment." showing
that men who write books are at their
wits' end regarding women's clothes.
Miss Reed says:
They arc hampered lir n rtrirtlnsp.
thought of Ptyle or purled enters lata thtr
calculations, and unless they linve a whole
some tear of the unknown theme. they pro
duce results which accentuate International
gaiety. Many an outrageous garment hen
been embalmed in a roan'i book, rtmpJy be
cause an attractive woman once were some
thing like It when h fed th novelist. Un
balanced by the Joy of the J it ua lien, he did
not accurately observe the garb ef the minis
tering angel, and hence -we read f a "cling
ing -white pawn" In the day of stiff etlka
and rampant crinolines: of tlx? curve of the
upper arm when H took nve yards far a pair
of sleeves, and short walking skirts during the
reign of hurtles and trains.
Miss Reed goes on further and ar
raigns Mr. Thomas Dixon, of "The
Leopard's Spots," who, she declares.
has outdone In stupidity every other
knight of the pen who has entered the
list to portray woman's clothes. Wit
ness the fact that he dressed his hero
ine, "Miss Sallle." Jn a morning gown
of soft red material trimmed with old
cream lace, the bodice cut low, showing
her beautiful white shoulders, etc, etc
"A red morning gown trimmed with
cream lace, cut low ye gods and little
fishes!" . exclaims Miss Reed, adding:
"Where were the authorities and why
was not 'Miss Sallie taken to the de
tention hospital pending an inquiry into
her sanity?"
This vivacious, observing young
woman has followed up her indictment
of stupidity against men who venture
upon this dangerous ground with testi
mony that would certainly convict them
before a jury of women. That the mis
demeanor may not be repeated every
time Mr. Richard Hardly Davis. Mr.
Thomas Dixon, Mr. Stewart Edward
White and all the rest of the masculine
host who essay to dress their heroines
"ravish I ngly" or "becomingly" Mis
Reed suggests the addition of a supple
mentary coarse In millinery and dressmaking-
to the courses already planned
in the new Echool of Journalism which
is to be attached to Columbia Univer
sity. The fact that the school days of
the culprits who have been thus pub
licly arraigned at the bar of woman's
wit are over precludes the possibility of
Instructing them in this subtle domain
of knowledge by means of the course
suggested. But the next generation of
writers might profit by the instruction
and thus save themselves from becom
ing the laughing-stock of women who
understand the art of dressing in a
manner suited to the time of year and
day. the prevailing fashion and the
occupation in which the subject was
engaged at the time of the portrayal.
ITtOM" A WELL-KNOWN TEXT.
In this most prosperous Christmas
season Portland has known there are
yet many places where Santa Claus
will be expected Monday and where he
may not go. Grownups get over the
disappointment, but children never,
though they live fifty years after.
There be degrees of misfortune and
qualities of hardship, and perhaps the
greatest is that which embraces child
hood. Children suffer for the sins of
their fathers, to be sure, yet how much
more do they sutfer for the misfor
tunes of parents.
Up at 314 Third street there Is a fam
ily of mother and three little ones, the
father of whom lies In Good Samari
tan with a broken arm. They are
strangers within our gates. Ten days
ago he dropped In the lounglng-room
of a hotel near the North End mills
for a smoke after supper that the mill
rules prohibited. He is not a drink
ing man. Before it was time to go to
work for the night run, bandits had
shot him In the arm, and it will be
well along toward Spring before he Is
again at work. The dally papers had
the story.
This Is no City Board case, nor for
other organized charity. It Is for peo
ple with warm, red blood to lend a
helping hand. The place Is easy to
find this afternoon or tomorrow
morning. Ask for Mrs. Rousch.
Further remarks will be found in
II Cor. lx:7.
CHRISTMAS.
The time draws near the birth of
Jesus, the Christ. Over the world
comes a change, momentary but won
derful. For one day the principal mo
tives for human effort cease to act
and give way to their opposltes. Char
ity replaces greed; kindliness replaces
Jealousy and hate: brotherhood re
places competition. Rlx'alry In acquisi
tion yields to rivalry in giving. For
one day In the year the conduct of the
Christian world conforms, not merely
In hollow pretense, but In reality, to
the precepts of Jesus. There Is on
earth. If not peace, at least the will
ingness to cease from strife; and if
one day is a little too brief to perfect
the feeling and practice of good will
toward men, still, considering how
great the change Is from our ordinary
habitudes, we contrive a fair Imitation
of II Considering, too. that the Christ
mas spirit is expected to last for one
day only, the world shows, it must be
admitted, great respect to the Gallllean
shepherd by taking so much pains to
give an air of verisimilitude to its brief
submission to this rule. For one whole
day in the year we are Christians In
deed as well as name.
The result Is said to be universal Joy.
The pirate of commerce experiences
In playing the part of benefactor a
pleasure surpassing that of successful
robbery. To their amazement mankind
discover that .charity Is better than
greed, love more satisfying than hate
and mutual aid more blessed than
mutual destruction. The Joy is uni
versal, exuberant and loudly pro
claimed; but it Is indulged In for one
day only. Mankind partakes temper
ately of the delights of the Christmas
spirit. Remembering our love of pleas
ure. It Is wonderful how we restrain
ourselves In this particular. We might
have two Chrlstmases In the year, or
three, or haif a dozen. But no;
"Enough Js better than a feast" Is our
motto. We might be Christians all
the year as well as on the 35th day of
December, but we are not Inclined to
indulge to satiety even in brotherly
love. The world Is frugal of Its high
est pleasures.
Brotherls love was the chic original
concent of the man whose birthdav we i
celebrate at the Winter solstice. He
discovered no new law of nature; he
formulated no new principle of philos
ophy. He added nothing to science, nor
did he reveal the least mystery of the
unseen world. When In the bitterness
of his cruel death he reproached the
Almighty with deserting him. science,
philosophy and theology stood exactly
where they were on that starry mid
night thirty-three years before, when
heaven opened before the eyes of the
wondering shepherds and shining an
gels proclaimed his birth. But one
thing was not the same, and that thing
was enough to make all the difference
between the ancient world and the
modern. No Confucius with all his
golden rule had ever dreamed of it. No
Socrates had dragged It from the deeps
In the net of hi dialectic No stole
pondering on the secret of the highest
good had conceived it. Of all the cru
cified saviors of the world not one had
revealed It. The shepherd of Gallllee
alone of all the human race perceived
that men are brothers. In the solitudes
of the Syrian desert with struggles
which the imagination can only typify
as fought soul against soul with the
living principle of incarnate evil, he
wrested the truth from the secret
archives of the Almighty. Despised
and rejected by the men he loved,
hungry and unfed, sick and unvisltcd,
he taught the truth by word and deed.
Nailed to the cross, and In his extreme
agony forsaken by God, .he proved it by
his death.
The brotherhood of man is the most
fertile o all truths, and the roost pro
found. Whatever Is good in modern
civilization comes by accepting tt;
whatever Is bad, by denying It. Old
lQgenda believed by whole nations for J tage and private gain. At the bar con
hundreds of years traced the descent of ' sldcratlons of personal honor do not al-
particular famines from superhuman
sires. Such families were above the
common lot, made of a finer clay and
divinely appointed to rule, while the
rest were made to serve. No such
legends could stand against the belief
in the brotherhood of man with God as
the father of all. They weakened and
died, though slowly, and the practices
they Imposed died slower still. Like
the genii in the tale, the doctrine of
divine descent took multitudinous
shapes before it perished. It became
the divine right of Kings, the divine
status of feudal nobles, the divine re
lation of master and slave, the divine
classification of rich and poor; but.
whatever Its shape, the Nemesis of the
principle of Jesus hw followed and will
ever follow It down to the uttermost
death. Science confirms the validity of
his all-conquering dogma. The lineage
of King and serf, of millionaire and
pauper, .runs back alike to the same
ancestral monkey. In the brute we all
began. From the brute we all have
risen. Philosophy corroborates the In
ference of science and demonstrates the
unity of soul as well as body in man.
Mechanical inventions tend to unite the
family which envy. Ignorance, greed
and the Intervention of space have sev
ered. By virtue of the printing press
all men may know the truth and think
to the same purpose. By the telegraph
they may act In concert. Machinery,
when they learn how to .use It. wilt free
the brain and hands of -all men alike
for higher- uses. Democracy .is the
teaching of Jesus expressed in govern
ment, but thus far the expression has
been timid, tentative and Inadequate.
Inventions will make It possible to ex
press his teachings In Industry and
commerce. Some wholesale softening
of the heart will make us apply his
teaching In conduct. There are psychic
waves now permeating the world which
seem to indicate that some such trans
formation of civilization may not be far
away. Perhaps the kingdom of heaven
is nearer than we think, with brotherly
love for Its constitution and Justice to
all men for Its practice. Then Geth
semanc and the crown of th'orns will
become symbols, not of tragic failure,
but of triumph, and the Christmas
spirit will be the spirit or everyday in
the year.
BENCH AND BAH.
Such an event as Abraham H. Hum
mel's conviction of an Infamous crime
and his sentence to a year's Imprison
ment startles the reader Into a train of
thought neither soothing to himself nor
entirely flattering to the administra
tion of what we call Justice. To be
sure, retribution Anally overtook Hum
mel, but not until he had Inflicted Im
measurable suffering upon his last vic
tims, the Morse family; and of his sim
ilar misdeeds In the past no record re
mains but the ruined lives which he
used the forms 6f law and the machin
ery of the courts to destroy. Hummel
Is a lawyer of eminence." Up to the
time of his conviction he had a lucra
tive practice and was so "much In the
confidence of the courts that a Supreme
Judge upon little more than his bare
statement signed an oider which broke
up a family and reduced a man and his
wife to misery.
Although Hummel's praotlce was
shady and the Judge must have known
that his character was nuestlonable.
nevertheless the order was signed as aJ
matter of course upon bis request.
Probably the judge neither reflected
upon the consequences of his act nor
cared what they might be. Hummel
dropped his nickel In the riot, turned
the crank of the legal machine and the
machine worked. He experienced not
the least difficulty In using the appa
ratus of the law to wreck an Innocent
family. As It turned out .the apparatus
was admirably adapted to that purpose
and worked with all the smoothness
and facility of frequent use. Not a
Joint creaked, not a cog slipped. How
many times had Hummel used the same
machinery for similar ends before the
Morse case happened? How many
other eminent attorneys In Xew York
and elsewhere are using the forms of
law and the processes of Justice to line
their pocketbooks with the spoils of hu
man happiness? When the thing Is so
easy to do. why should it not be done
often? The practice is so profitable
that It must be very alluring to able
Intellects of the Hummel variety, while
It is so safe that they have little to
fear. But for the accident of Jerome In
the District Attorney's ofTice. Hummel's
career never would have been molested,
and Jeromes are exceedingly rare.
To such suggestions as these there Is,
of course, an obvious reply. The high
character of lawyers as a class Is a suf
ficient guaranty that practices like
Hummel's cannot be common: while the
Integrity of the courts assures us that
they could succeed only rarely, however
often they might be attempted: but In
a statement like this how much Is fact,
how much Is mere words which try to
supply the place of fact with deceptive
sound? There are many lawyers of In
dependent character and unbending in
tegrity; that is easy to admit; but
whether or not such men form a ma
jority of the profession, or any large
nronortion of It. Is more difficult to de-
I clde. There Is a common belief that,
i numerous as he Is. the higher type of
lawyer Is being forced out of existence
by processes of natural selection, and
that a lower and much less admirable
type Is taking his place.
The old-fashioned lawyer, even when
not conspicuously eminent, was a social
power, and. with all his fallings, a
power for good. He was often bibu
lous, not too particular Rbout money
matters, and possibly over-fond of Imi
tating the eloquence of Patrick Henry;
but he was a political leader, not a
boss. He believed thoroughly in Amer
ican institutions, and labored honestly,
though sometimes mistakenly, to per
petuate them. He looked upon public
office as a trust of honor. He despised
chicaner. At the bar his personal In
tegrity set limits to his zeal for a
client's InteresL He would fight to the
end for the right, but not for the
wrong: Upon the bench he was careful
of precedent and form, but he was not
oblivious of Justice. He would not be
a mere machine to grind out Indiffer
ently good and evil, happiness and mis
ery. He would not lend his power to
one social class In their warfare against
another.
It was this type of lawyers which
brought the profession Into honor with
the American people and made them
our guides In civic enterprise and In
legislation. It was on their account
that we endowed our judiciary with
despotic powers and hedged It with the
divinity that other nations have re
served for sceptered monarchs. The
type Is vanishing from bar and bench.
The lawyer in politics has become a
boss. In public office he forgets the
welfare of the people for party advan-
j ways restrain him from exercising the
last resource of falsehood and trickery
to serve an unworthy client; upon the
bench how often does he forget, his ob
ligation to arbitrate Justly, and lend
those powers which admit of no redress
or appeal to strengthen the oppressor
and wrong the helpless? "Govern
ments. a cynic has said, "govern only
those who cannot resist; courts punish
only the weak."
It Is for historians to decide whether
the bench in our day surpasses In es
sential Integrity Bacon and his prede
cessors, who took gifts without much
scruple. The gifts are different In form
and more decent. jus as modem meth
ods of robbery have become suave, al
most benevolent sotaelM. X railroad
pass Is less shocking than a. bag of
guineas, though not necessarily less ef
fective; a champagne dinner Is not so
rude as a threat backed up by an army,
but may accomplish as much In open
ing the eyes of Justice Unless a Judge
Is more than human, he will lean to his
own class; he will favor those who do
him favors. Sins against the men
whom he dines with will Inevitably ac
quire the aspect of crimes In his eyes,
and judges do not dine wlth the poor.
Possibly the nature of things Is such
that the helpless members of soclety
ought not to expect habitual justice
from those In power. If they receive
an occasional taste of It. like Hummel's
conviction, very likely It Is all they
can reasonably expect.
Mr. 31artln Winch, knowing what
Mrs. Amanda W. Reed Intended by her
will: knowlntr. too. that she never re
garded any place other than Portland
as her actual home; and desiring, more
over, earnestly and loyally to carry out
the provisions of the will. Is entitled
to congratulation on his success in the
courts against persons residing In an
other state, who attacked the will on
grounds without other merit than their
desire to convert to their own private
use a great property which Mr. and
Mrs. Reed had accumulated In Oregon,
and which they Intended should be de
voted to promotion and support of an
lmnortant Dublic Institution here. It Js
justice also to Portland and to Oregon.
as well as to the memory of Mr. and
Mrs. Reed and to the zeal and fidelity
of Mr. Winch. Relatives of the Reeds,
nearest to them, had already been re
membered by the testators. It was one
of the purposes of the Reeds, through
all the later years of their lives, to ren
der to the city and state which was so
long their home this public benefaction:
and It Is gratifying that their Intention
is not to be defeated by the Interested
assumption of other parties that they
were not residents of Oregon.
An eyewitness describes the awful
scenes of the late riot at Vladivostok.
The details are not different from those
of similar events In the past, of which
Longfellow wrote:
1 hear even the Infinite fierce ebarus.
The cry af Enr. the endlej groan.
Wall through the ages that have gone be
fare us
la lone; revrrfceratWea reach our ewn.
The savage In man makes record In
cruelty and fire and murder, writing It
In blood, when the leash of civilization
Is slipped. Atrocities are the same
whether the victims of mob violence
are Jews, negroes. Armenians or Anglo
Saxons. The warning to the Czar to
get his family out of harm's way at
tests the fact, which runs through all
history, that leaders, however humane
themselves, cannot control the savage
spirit that they have evoked In their
followers.
The purpose of Columbia University,
as outlined by President Butler. Is to
encourage the widest possible partici
pation of students in athletics. That Is
to say. athletics will become a part of
the. course of college training In the
creat university Instead of the exces
slve strain upon the few. If there is
anything In athletic training In connec
tion with college work, this Is Its proper
rating. Physical development should
run parallel with mental development,
not only in the case of a picked, trained
and coached few. but in the case of the
many who go to college for prepara
tion for the work of life and leave It to
begin life's battle. The time Is speed
ily coming when college athletics must
be placed upon this broad basis or
abolished.
The Washlngon Secretary or State
will not attend the volunteer insurance
meeting of Governors and Insurance
commissioners at Chicago, because of
his "Inability to leave his duties here."
Mr. Nichols also say3 that state Insur
ance departments are "competent." No
doubt. But there are a great many
thousand policy-holders In Washington
who would be glad to have full details
of the Justly celebrated trips to New
York of the Washington Insurance
Commissioner, and what they accom
plished for the Commissioner and for
the policy-holder.
It is probably a mistake to believe
that hunger and cold will fight on the
side of the autocracy in Russiu. That
has never been the case in any previous
revolution, and will not in this. Hard
ship Is the enemy of constituted author
ity. In the most peaceful nations It
overthrows political parties regardless
of reason. In times of revolution It
Is the ally of the forces of destruction.
Governor Toole, of Montana, declines
to call an extra session of the Legis
lature, as requested by a committee of
the Montana Rate Association, for the
enactment of a railway commission bill.
He, perhaps, fears that the remedy
prayed for would be worse than the
disease, of which Montana shippers
Justly complain as grievous.
Mrs. Simmons has failed In her laud
able and disinterested effort to show
that she was Insane when she sold a
valuable piece of property too cheaply.
The court knew better than to establish
a precedent of that kind. There would
have been a violent outbreak forthwith
In Portland of ex-post facto Insanity.
There are a few people, in Oregon and
elsewhere, who can give ex-Governor
Odell a few -pointers on what happens
to a political boss -when he gets Into a
quarrel with the President of the
United States.
If Professor Marshall shall go In as
superintendent of the Vancouver School
for Defective Youth, he will at least
labor under no illusions as to his popu
larity with teachers and pupils.
The newspapers talk of a "quiet
Christmas at the White House." With
six children In the family, and a pros
pective brother-in-law In Sister Alice's
stocking!
The Czar blames his ministers for the
disorder In Russia. The ministers
blame the people. The people blame
the Czar- The result is revolution, of
course..
President Corey, of the steel trust,
has at least demonstrated by his little
domestic diversion that he has a. most
Interesting lot of relatives.
The decision In the Reed will case
will do much to dispel a common Illu
sion In California that nobody lives In
Oregon.
The PInkertons say they didn't dis
cover Bruin. Well, somebody did.
This Is a good day for you to re
, member that there are ethers.
CAVIL
Ve Judge a man's company by the con
versation he keeps.
Clean politics Is a contradiction in
terras.
Why do you afflict others with a recita
tion of your personal concerns? You know-
how obnoxious such conversation la from
them.
If you have a grudge against humanity,
tell some fellow that he Is a wit and sick
him on the world.
The antonym of honest man Is politi
cian. a .
A good lawyer Is one who defends your
cause as though he thought you were
really right.
-
In conversation, when they are not talk
ing themselves, people pay no manner of
attention to what Is being said they are
too deeply engrossed In what they are
going to say when the speaker has
finished.
Life Is usually greeted and bade good
bye with a groan.
'
Courtship Is where you get your affinity;
marriage where you get wise.
Presiding over, an Insurance company Is
like taking taffy from a tot.
To Insult a man who respects himself Is
Impossible; mean-spirited persons are al
ways being agonized by the opfnlons of
others.
Some people affect to despise servants;
their views on this point would be modi
fled by reflection were they capable of It.
In society we are all servants: some
serve us and we serve others. We must
serve to live It Is the price of existence.
m m
However narrow and partial we may be
In most things, we are catholic enough
in our condemnation.
Too bad that Corey and Miss Gilman
are not to marry; fools and actresses
make such Ideal matches.
About the only thing many persons
ever attain facility at Is the use of a
knife and fork.
Selfishness is a detestable trait In others
that prevents us owning the earth.
Cheer up: think how much worse your
troubles might and no doubt will be.
Nothing Is new under the sun not even
this observation.
Deprecation of others Is agreeable to
us because by Inference we endow our
selves with the virtues we deny them.
Immorality is getting caught.
Comparison is a fundamental law of
thought observe how a beautiful woman
always accompanies herself with a plain
one.
When called on to speak at public gath
erings, men usually tell stories because
that course Is easier than generating
thought In a mental vacuum.
The people rule this country, and the
bosses rule the people.
The clink of coin is the music that lulls
virtue to slumber.
HARRY MURPHY.
HISTORY BY JUDGE WILLIAMS
Suggestion That Recollections Re
Preserved in Book Form.
ATHEXA. Or., Dec 22.-(To the Editor.)
I have been reading with a great deal
or pleasure and profit Judge George H.
Williams' "Six Years in the United States
Senate." or his personal recollections, as
published In the Sunday Oregonian. These
articles are well written, ably gotten up
and. it seems to me, they should be read
with considerable Interest and profit by
the reading public. It cannot be denied
that Judge Williams is one of our great
and good men. an eminent lawyer and
statesman, a scholarly and learned man,
and one of the noblest In the history of
Oregon.
The Idea has forcibly Impressed Itself
upon me that if many more of these
articles are written It would be well to
have them published In book form and
put upon the market. So far. I know of
no rending matter that is so lucid and so
full of the constitutional and political his
tory of America, relative to the period of
time about which Judge Williams writes,
as these articles. It seems that hereto
fore those who have written our history
about the days of reconstruction, the Civil
War, negro suffrage, etc., have lacked
essential knowledge of the exact condi
tions of affairs, or have been too decply
prejudlced to write learnedly and enter
tainingly of them. Hence, the sons and
daughters of the Union and Confederate
soldiers, and others who were not living
in those days, have been left to grope In
the dark as to the true history of our
country during that, period.
Now that an able man, unbiased and un
prejudiced, who knows our true history In
that period, sees fit to write and make
known the truo. history. It should be ap
preciated and his writings properly pre
served. WILL M. PETERSON".
On Senator Mitchell's Death.
Ellensburg Capital.
Xothlng In the long history of The
Oregonian ever became It more than
Its editorial on J. H. Mitchell's death.
Those who know the moat could best
appreciate the admirable good taste
and dignity that dictated those re
markable ten lines.
Come Home, Come Home.
Arthur II. Cloagh.
Comet home, come home; and where to home
for me.
Whose ship Is driving o'er the trackless a?
To "the frail bark here plunging on Its way.
To the wild waters, shall I turn and say
To the plunging bark, or to the salt sea foam.
Ton are my home?
Fields once I walked In. faces once I knew.
Familiar things so old my heart believed them
true.
These far, far back behind roe lie; before
The dark clonus mutter, and the deep neas
roar.
And speak to them that 'ceath and o'er them
roam
No words oX home.
Beyond the clouds, beyond the waves that roar.
There may. Indeed, or may not be. a shore
Where fields as green and hands and hearts
as true
The old forgotten semblance may renew.
And offer exiles driven far o'er the salt sea
foam
Another hoasr.
But toll and pain must, wear out many a day.
And days bear weeks, and weeks bear months
away.
Ere. If at all. the weary traveler bear.
With accents whispered in bis wayworn car,
A voice he glares to listen to, say, "Come
To thy true home."
Come home, come home! And where a home
bath he
Whose ship Is driving o'er the driving sea?
Throat h ctosda that mutter and o'er waves
that roar.
Say, shall we tad, or shall we not. a abore
That te; w Is not ship or ocean foam,
ONE COLUMN OF VERSE.
Winter.
"What though thy Visa bo cold. O "VVlnter
drear?
Thou brlnacst much the heart ot man - to
cheer!
The rich red holly berry 'midst the trreen;
The xrackllnir of th slowlns lops at e'en;
The hills and dales In purest jrarb of snow;
The tlnkllnir of the slelghhells as they ko
Adown the- road, with maids of merry mood.
"With rosulsh- glances peeplne from their
hood.
The gallant swains to tease, set up behind
Th frisking steeds that speed them like the
wind!
The clear, clean sweep of skaters on the Ice;
The crystal fiakea so wondrous In device;
The cold, calm heavens brilliantly alight
With friendly stars than on a Summer night
In that they closer come, and seem to b
Just twlnkllnjr nelchbora unto you and mr!
And in the wood what lovely scenes ara
thr
TVhen. clad by fahry hands and frosty air.
iiiuui ana orancnes ot ine sleeping
trees
Are woven Into silvery filagrees!
"ual music in the chimes that ring out
clear
Across the crisp of Winter's atmosphere!
KTandeur ,a the swelling harmonies
Of Winter winds, and what tranaulllltles
In Winter's silences!
And for the soul of man. what -sweeter thrill
Is there than In ).. r . vi.n.
That In the darkest hours of Winter's day
"lu 'np neart as with a splendid ray
i-rom out the sran. east, west and south and
north
When Christmas morn from frosty night
John Kendrick Bangs;
Carloitu's Indecision.
Catholic Standard and Times.
I would Ilka mooch to know
Why Carlotta treat me j.
Kvra time I ask eef sh
Kc-s goln' marry wectha me
First she smila. den she frown.
Don she look me up an down.
Den she shak" her head an iyj
"I gun tal you phrees'mas day.
Onee. w'en we are out for walk
An I am begin to talk
She say: "Don'ta speak no more.
Oh, com", see dees Jew'ler store.
My! Ju look dat dl'mon reeng!
Eet ees Justa sweetes theengl
Only seexa-feefty, seer
Data da way she teaaa me.
Flndln theengs for talka. 'bout
Jus for mak me shut my mout.
Blmeby, w'en she turn for go.
I say: "Com. I must a know '
"Oht" she stamp her foot an ay:
"I gon tal you Chrees'mas day."
I would Ilka mooch to know -Why
Carlotta treat me- so.
AVata for she always say:
"I gen tal you Chrees'mas day"?
A Matter or Taste.
Some men like the stately maiden with nna
statuesque charms laden.
A Juno in her majesty of mien, and man
ner, too;
With the head of a Greek statue, calm
browed, or eyed, looking at you.
Marble fairness In her beauty but she
chills me through and through.
Same adore a lovely Venus, who has con
quered soon as seen us.
lounging In her languorous beauty with a
rare and thrilling grace:
With a soft, entrancing, willing, luring, daz
zling, -winning, smiling
But I never could live up to the perfection
of her face.
Others love a tender creature, shy of glance
and fair of feature.
Whose soft mouth it looks as never harsh
or angry word it spoke:
With a gentle, blue-eyed beauty, with whom
love would be a duty
Let others choose the clinging vine, but
I'm no grandstand oak.
Give me that half girl, half woman, that
sweet maid who's wholly human.
Who can pout and flirt and quarrel who
can laugh and who can sigh;
Who with mischief fairly prances with tha
Joy of life Just dances
The demure little damsel with a twinkle
In her eye.
Baltimore American-
A Statesman's Problem.
From far and nea
Once more they come!
Of intellect
A mighty sum
Is gathered In
The classic halls. "
Where many a stately A
Echo falls.
That silent man
With furrowed brow
O'er some grave task
He ponders now.
Is it the tarlnT
Frets his soul.
Or sohemes for railway
Bate control?
Does he Imagine
Isthmian semes.
Or view the distant
Philippines- J .
Nay. nay. He figures
With great glee
On what his mileage
Ought to be.
Washington Star
The Holiday Children.
Atlanta Constitution.
Dey's de holiday chillun.
Dey knows what tcr do
W'en de holidays comln";
Dey layln fcr you!
Dey knows all de tricks
What you don't understan
Dey's sweet 111 schemers
In 1.11' Folks Lan'I
Dey's de holiday chillun.
Up airly en late:
Dey knows whar yo" heart Is.?
En climb ter It straight!
So. keep yo hjeart open, "
En free be yo han
WW de sweet Il'l schemers
Fum Ll'l Folks Ian!
The Seven Ages; '
A little laugh. .
A little fun;
A blossom bordered ,
Way to run.
A getting tall.
And serious, too:
And then the school
To labor through.
Then blossom bordered.
Ways ot love
Just two on earth
And stars above.
Then to the altar,
-Then away
To homely cares
Of every day.
Then joys untold.
Then new delight!
A baby crying
In the night.
Then something more
Than parent's glee
A gran'chlld
Climbing on your knee.
And then to sleep;
Green sod above; .
But life's worth living.
For the love. .
Houston Post.
Hopeless.
"Why won't you marry me?" I asked- j
Imperiously, as tf right,
"You'll own you have encouraged ..me.
Tes! Test Up to this very nlghC
It Is not fair to make me so
The laughing stock of all the town.
If you refuse, at least be Just.
And tell me WHT you 'turn me down!'
She listened with her eyes downcast.
Nor ever raised them to my gaze.
Her shy. sweet attitude enhanced
Her loveliness beyond all praise.
The momenta passed. No word she spoke.
There was a long and trying pause.
Then softly, but so firmly that
I lost all hope, she said: "Because!"
Somervllle Journal.
As to Fairies.
John Ivcndrlck Hangs In. St. Nicholas.
I wonder If the fairies St - .
On toadstools when they rest
And If, when they would sleep a 'bit.
They like a reuefc-rooM b3V'