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FORTI.AXD. SUNDAY", DEC. IS, 1907.
OUR CITIES, HRRE AND THERE,
That Oregon, has . only one large
town Is due wholly to slowness of rall-
road development In the state. There
should be by this time a city of 75,000
inhabitants on Coos Bay. It Is useless
to expect In these days that cities will
build In places where there are no
means of rapid and effective com
.munlcatlon. Every modern city is a
product of the. j;aJlroad. It Is the su
perior energy of 'railroad effort In the
State of Washington that has carried
the development of that state far be
yond the development and growth of
Oregon. The railroads have built
Washington's towns and cities and
have built up the country by afford
ing facilities for the movement of the
people and the transportation of its
products. Washington, with an area
considerably less than that of Oregon,
has three times ' Oregon's railway
mileage. This tells the whole story.
The railroad combination that controls
Oregon has neglected the state, except
for the purpose of shutting other rail
road builders out of it.
The eafly cities of the West were
created by the facilities of transporta
tion afforded by the rivers. The most
conspicuous examples were Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and St. Louis. More slow
ly the cities on the Great Lakes rose
to prominence. Milwaukee long time
was larger than Chicago. Though
both these cities owed their beginnings
to lake transportation, the new energy
or the railroad era, beginning in the
early fifties, rapidly carried Chicago
to the front, and within a few years
gave it immense ascendency over all
cities of the West. St. Paul had its
start from the river, but that city, and
its greater neighbor, Minneapolis, are
in fact almost wholly a product of
railroad energy. The rivers also built
St. Louis, and smaller citler- like Lou
isville, Evansville, Quincy a-gd Peoria;
most of which have still continued to
gro.w since the railroad period began,
but have been eclipsed by greater ri
vals. It was the river also that start
ed Kansas City, but It owes its great
ness to the railroads.
Pennsylvania is the only state which
can boast two cities exceeding 500.000
inhabitants each. Pittsburg, since her
union with Allegheny City and an
nexation of other suburbs, must now
have nearly or quite 600,000 people.
Its population now is probably larger
than that of Baltimore, and may ex
ceed even that of Boston. Pittsburg,
therefore, is now the fifth or sixth city
of the United States. While Pennsyl
vania is the only state that now has
two cities of more than 500,000 each,
the New York Tribune seems to be
lieve that the State of New York will
soon have in Buffalo a second city that
will surpass Pittsburg; but it is hard
ly probable. Ohio has, in Cleveland,
one city of nearly 500,000, and anoth
er. Cincinnati, of about 400,000'. while
Missouri has St. Louis, with 660.000
and. Kansas City of 275,000. New
Jersey has Newark, of 300,000, and
Jersey City, nearly as populous; but
these are virtually suburbs of New
York. .
Should consolidation of the cities
about San Francisco Bay be effected,
the result will be a municipality ex
ceeded in population only by New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and per
haps St. Louis. We should expect the
census of Greater San . Francisco to
show nearly 700.000. . Undoubtedly
the population of Los Angeles now
reaches 250,000; so .that California is
coming Into the list of states' having
two large cities. Massachusetts has at
least ten. perhaps ; twelve, cities of
more than 60.000 each a distinction
that no other state can claim. Mary
land. has only one. , city of rank; for
after Baltimore, with her 600.000, her
next town is Cumberland." with a pop
ulation of less than 20,000.
South of the Potomac and Ohio Riv
ers there is but one city of 300,000 in
habitants New Orleans. Yet in those
great states of the South there yet
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Alabama one, in Georgia one or more.
Concentration is beginning at such
points, as Atlanta. Bermingham and
Galveston. The South yet will have
, numerous large cities, for so great a
region, with resources so vast, must
fulfill its destiny. But it will be slow
er, because the negro population is
very large, and Industrial lire the
manual labor is too much restricted
to the negro race. Field labor, heavy
labor, is considered its portion, and
white men avoid it. This it is that
holds back the Industrial and com
mercial development or the South.
This is the main reason why the cities
of the South do not rapidly grow and
become great, like those of the North.
Great cities never can be the product
of labor in its lower forms. But per
haps we ought to have no great cities.
THE REVOLVER.
One of the great problems of Ameri
can life Is to disjoin the fool from the
revolver. There will be revolvers, of
course, so long as there are fools and
Irresponsible persons to buy them and
to carry them and to use them; and
there will be fools and Irresponsible
person's to buy and to carry and to
use them till public opinion shall en
force rigid measures against sale and
possession of revolvers.
Our shop windows throughout
America are stocked with revolvers.
You will not see the like in any other
country that pretends to a civilization.
Every worthless and irresponsible per
son among us buys and carries a re
volver. It is whipped out and fired
upon every provocation, or without
provocation. The ordinary American
fool conceives that the revolver is
made to shoot with, whenever he
wants to shoot. Now since these are
utterly irresponsible in other ways,
they should be made responsible to
rigorous preventive and' punitive laws,
rigorously executed.
At this moment ten thousand re
volvers are in the pockets of irrespon
sible and worthless persons in this
town; and tens of thousands more are
offered for sale, many of them at open
windows. The buyers are invariably
of the Irresponsible class, who pre
tend they want to "protect" them
selves. But no decent, honest, sen
sible citizen expects to protect himself
with a revolver. It is of no use even
against the footpad.
Search of any . crowd of persons
drinking in a saloon would discover
revolvers in the pockets of a great
number of them. At theaters or
dances, on the street, in the sleeping
room always the revolver. But.
wherever It is seen it betrays a moral
Irresponsibility. It is one or the most
pregnant signs of the weakness of the
American character.
The fool has a trifling grievance,
or thinks he has. He shoots. He has
a fit of Jealously over a wanton
woman, and he shoots. He feels him
Belf "insulted" in one way or another,
and he shoots. He hears the newsboy
delivering the morning paper, and he
shoots. In a thousand other situations
he shoots. If juries would march off
a lot of these shooters to the peniten
tiary there soon would be less shoot
ing. No honest man ever is in a situation
where he can defend himseir with a
revolver. The irresponsible fool, in
possession of a revolver, always fires
when It isn't necessary. We never
shall be a civilized people till we can
disjoin the irresponsible fool from the
revolver. Honest, quiet and decent
people never encumber themselves
with It.
GERMAN TARIFF AGREEMENT.
The mild concession shown the Ger
mans by the preferential tariff which
became effective July 1 brought forth
a lugubrious wail from the American
Protective Tariff League. That rock
ribbed organization, standing as a fen
der between our poor, weak trusts and
foreign competition, could see in this
,extension or decent treatment to our
German customers, naught but an
assault on the : most sacred tra
ditions of the tariff creed. Ac
cording to the views of the league,
nothing but ruin, complete and
far-reaching, could follow such a vio
lent departure from our time-honored
policy of permitting our trusts to do
as they please, regardless of the rights
of American producers or foreign
traders. The new law has now been
in operation five months, and the De
partment of Commerce and Labor has
just issued a comparative statement
showing In figures what the effect has
been. The figures for the first four
months for which compilations are
complete show exports of $78,071,690
and imports of $56,983,389. For the
corresponding months in 1906 the fig
ures were: Exports, $74,055,025; im
ports, $52,664,498.
From these figures it is clear that
our imports have increased $4,318,891.
and our exports have increased
$4,016,665. Inasmuch as the new
tariff agreement was wrangled over
for several years before it rinally be
came errective, and the date on which
it would take effect was known sev
eral months in advance, it is not at all
surprising . that imports should regis
ter a slight gain by reason or the in
rush or goods which had been held
back to take advantage of. the new
tariff. It is surprising, In fact, in such
circumstances, that the gain in im
ports over exports was only an insig
nificant $300,000 for the four months.
The weakness of the high tariff pro
tectionist plea that the country would
be flooded with German goods is strik
ingly shown in the details which ac
company these figures, for a. loss, in
the single Item of cotton exports alone,
of more than $900,000, as compared
with the exports for the correspond
ing four months last year is respon
sible for the improved rhowing in ex
ports. This of course is an item that
is In no possible manner affected by
the new tarifr arrangement, the
decrease being due wholly to the
higher prices which have curtailed the
demand.
There is a material increase in the
value or toys imported from Germany,
but all of this increase has been offset
by increased exports of -clocks,
watches, automobiles and machinery.
We Imported more hides, crude rub
ber, dyes, wood pulp and other ar
ticles used in our manufactures than
we did on the corresponding four
months last year, but It would be roily
to regard this as other t'.ii benericlal
to our manufacturing industries, a.s
they were undoubtedly imported ror
our own advantage rather than for the
purpose of making a market for the
surplus in Germany. Four months is
of course a brief period on which to
base estimates as to the ultimate re
sults of this new tariff arrangement,
but there is certainly nothing In the
showing now being made that offers
the slightest excuse for anything but
congratulations to the statesmen who
succeeded In perfecting the moderate
ly reciprocal arrangement. More of
this kind of tariff reform will be of
great benefit to the United States.
ADVICE TO H. HAMILTON.
The Oregonian has received from .a
man named Hamilton one of those let
ters which excite mingled sympathy
and contempt. He says he is a stran
ger in Portland, that he has less than
a dollar in his pocket, that he has
diligently sought work and failed to
find it. .What shall he do? Three al
ternatives present themselves to him.
He pan steal, beg or commit suicide.
He asks The Oregonian to advise him
which to choose. .
The Oregonian advises him to'
choose neither one. Unless Mr. Ham
ilton is sick he can find work before
the necessity befalls him to steal. It
may be at the cost of some suffering
and he may not find it in the city,
though we think he may. But there
Is work waiting to be done somewhere,
and this young man can find it if he
will persevere. It is a point against
his chances of victory that he has not
suitable clothing to protect him from
the weather, but there are worse evils
than being wet and cold. Being a
thief is one of them and being dead Is
another.
If The Oregonian were favored with
the personal acquaintance of Mr.
Hamilton it could tell him of one or
two jobs waiting to be done; but they
are not in town and they involve
pretty vigorous exercise of the muscles.
Nor would the remuneration make
him a millionaire for many days to
come. But the work would provide
him with the primal necessities of life
and the pay would put him where he
could do something better.
Mr. Hamilton's handwriting indi
cates that he is not without education,
and his power of expression is far
above his unkindly fortunes. But he
Is nor" the first man who has seen hard
luck and he will not be the last one.
It rests with himself to decide
whether iron adversity shall conquer,
or his own will. Be bold, Mr. Hamil
ton, be bold and evermore be bold.
Don't give up the fight, and don't
whine. Who' knows what waves of
Happiness are breaking for you on em
erald shores whither you yet shall voy
age? If you must die. die fighting,
and not as one of the ' conquered.
Keep a. stiff upper lip, tighten your
belt, and try again. Somewhere there
is a victory for you, and. if you strive
hard enough, by and by God will take
notice and show you where It fs.
' MIDWINTER HOSE-PLAY.
If there is any virtue in retaliation
in kind, the cowardly custom of hazing
first-year pupils by upper-class men
will be broken up in the Rltzville
Wash.) high school. Having learned
that three freshmen had been over
powered by four times three upper
classmen, taken to the basement,
stripped, drenched with'- icy water
rrom the hose and forced to put their
clothes on wrong side out, the faculty
of the school decided to give the hu
morous twelve a lively turn at their
own game. This decision was carried
out and the twelve husky lads Were
given a cold-water douche thqlt the
will long remember. They were- then
graciously permitted to robe their
shivering bodies in their clothing thatl
had been turned wrong side out for
the occasion and allowed to go their
way;
There is some risk of pneumonia in
this sort of by-play, to be sure, but
not more than is frequently taken in
baptising converts in. a stream in
which a hole in the ice has been bro
ken for the process. The doubting
public has been assured over and over
again, upon ecclesiastical honor, that
no subject of immersion ever took cold
under these chilly conditions, the re
generation thus typified presumably
rendering them immune from ill con
sequences. - .
The same argument can be applied
to the atonement (not vicarious) ef
fected' in the case of the overzealous
high school classmen. To be sure, the
presumption in the first case is with
out logical foundation, and is not fully
sustained by evidence. Quite the con
trary in fact, since in every rdral com
munity where these unseasonable bap
tisms have taken place, at least one
witness can be found who is ready
with the solemn asseveration that
"quicks consumption" has not infre
quently followed the frigid douche in
the Ice hole Improvised as a baptistry.
Be this as It may, the authorities of
the Rltzville high school took what
ever chance there was or serious re
sults rrom the midwinter hoseplay
inaugurated by the victims themselves,
and the latter will probably not again
essay this form or hazing. The end
justifies the hazard, which, after all,
is not very great in the case or full
blooded, husky lads, th? evidence of
whose teeming vitality is found in
their own initiative of the game at
which they were beaten in turn by
their superiors in educational ranks.
( THE DAIRYMEN.
The Oregon State Dairy Association
has just closed a most satisfactory two
days' session in Portland. The attend
ance was at least three times as large
as upon . any preceding occasion,
though the association has held an
nual meetings for the - past sixteen
years. The pioneers in the manufac
ture of butter and cheese had a diffi
cult time in establishing their indus
try upon a commercial basis, and for
many years their gatherings were but
poorly attended, and the products of
the dairy were not in good repute.
There are .no figures available as to
the production of butter and cheese
in this state ten years ago, but when
it had reached a value of $5,000,000
in 1902 many felt that overproduction
was threatened and that oleomar
garine and similar products would
bankrupt ' the dairymen. Favorable
National and state legislation, how
ever .changed all this, with the result
that during the present year the prod
uct is conservatively estimated at $17,
000.000. The convention was recognized by
the United States Department of Ag
riculture, in having. Professor B. . D.
White present. Mr. White is con
nected with the Bureau of Animal In
dustry and acted as judge. His com
pliments to the convention were gen
erous and appreciative. He went on
record as saying that it was one of
the best meetings of its kind that he
had ever attended, and it is his busi
ness to be present at such meetings
all ovar the country. Hundreds of
business men, citizens of Portland, and
the pupils in the higher grades of the
schools were among the visitors who
enjoyed the exhibit of dairy products '
and viewed . with interest the various
kinds o? machinery used in the man
ufacture of butter and cheese.
The. business men .of Portland
showed their interest in the conven
tion and its work by subscribing lib- !
erally to the rund for entertainment. J
the printing of theiproceedings (which 1
will be sent broadcast over the United
States and Canada) and the prizes of
fered to insure excellence In both pro
duction and display.
.This .convention .proved that by
combining the commercial interests
with those of the producer most sat
isfactory results can be obtained. Cer
tainly the business men of Portland
are not only willing but anxious to use
every possible effort and encourage
ment in the further development of
a branch of the state's growth that can
easily be increased within a rew years
to $100,000,000 annually, for our own
people and those from all sections of
the country in a position to know are
agreed upon one point, and that is
that Oregon will, eventually Ifecome
very decidedly the greatest dairy state
in the Union.
VI HITTIER.
Next Tuesday will be the hundredth
anniversary of the birth of the poet
Whittier. He was born on December
17, 1807, almost two years earlier than
Tennyson. He belongs, therefore, to
a world 'that for us has vanished, the
world of Italian liberty, of the alliance
between the Pope and Austria, of slav
ery, and the war, of the Greeks for
independence. To Whittier all these
matters were alive, and his mind
burned with partisan and prophetic
ardor for the patriot, the slave and the
right, wherever on the wide earth they
were to be found. He was a man of
his generation, tingling with life and
passion, virile, vituperative, pouring
out on every occasion songs whose en
ergy never slackened and whose lyric
tones swell sometimes to symphonic
grandeur and seize upon the soul with
conquering power. Not to be. num
bered among the demigods of song,
Whittier has none the less a place se
cure in the ranks of the immortals and
his hold upon the American people
grows stronger from year to year. The
thoughts we are thinking today about
right and wrong, rich and poor, tyrant
and slave, labor and capital, Whittier
thought long ago, and expressed with
a potent vigor which most of us must
envy in vain.
Whittler's appeal is to America. His
sympathies are universal, but still they
are so interlinked with local allusion
and wed-ded to our peculiar conditions
of life triat they must be hard for
Europeans to understand. Foreigners
are fonder of Poe, a great master of
mystic expression whose vague figures
roam in a cloudland common to
dreamers everywhere. When a man
does not mean much by his poems
everybody is at liberty to make them
mean whatever he likes; hence Poe
will always have a wider reading in
Europe than Whittier, and so will
Longrellow. The tender insipidities of
that gentle imitator necessarily touch
a thousand sort hearts which find lit
tle charm In the virile measures of
Whittier. who is never-flatulent, sel
dom silly and consistently robust. If
the -majority "of "mankind were rather
wieak Sn their- intellects and given to
saritimentallty rather than genuine
emotion they would prefer Longfellow
to .Wliittier, and as a matter, of fact
they .'. have ; hitherto preferred1 him,
though ' there la now some indication
of a change.
In his religion Whittier was an ag
nostic. This does not mean that he
had no faith. He overflowed with
faith, but it was critical, questioning,
unawed by tradition, undaunted by au
thority. . He believed in the ultimate
triumph of justice on earth; he was
assured of the future well-being of
men in another world. But where and
when and how he did not pretend to
say. "I know not where thy islands
lift their fronded palms in air; I only
know I cannot lose Thy constant love
and care." This is the keynote of
Whittler's religion, which was rich,
aggressive and victorious. "Yet love
will dream and faith will trust, since
he who knows our need is just; that
somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Alas, for him who never sees the stars
shine through his cypress trees; 'who
hath not learned in hours of faith the
truth to flesh and sense unknown, that
Life is ever Lord of Death, and Love
can never lose its own." Tennyson
wrote nothing of a finer savor than
this passionate lyric outburst in
"Snowbound." Read it along with that
Divine hymn, "Strong Son of God,
Immortal Love," and it holds its own.
Both poets walk among the stars
Tennyson almost habitually, Whittier
only in his moments of exaltation. His
religion was that of a man. It does
not appeal to schoolgirls or sentimen
talists of any age; but it Is the relig
ion that we all have to live and die
by. It is brave, plain-spoken, sane and
hospitable to the truth.
"Whatever political party Whittier
may have given outward allegiance to,
in his soul he was a blazing radical.
His thought is iconoclastic; his lan
guage is unsparing. His lyrics of re
form are battle cries. This may seem
strange, seeing tha't he was a Quaker,
but some of the best -fighters the
world has seen have belonged to that
peace-loving sect. "In God's own
might," he cries, "we gird us for the
coming fight" with slave'ry. He hates
"the languorous, sin-sick air" of the
Nation which made it, supine under
the heels of the slave-holding aristo
crats for so. many years. He longs
for the "large-brained, clear-eyed"
statesman who shall "assail every lin
gering wrong, strike all chains from
limb and spirit, rerute the cruel lie or
caste, remold old forms and substi
tute for slavery's lash the rreeman's
will." Of course the meaning of such
lines as these 13 thoroughly '-pragmatic";
it -grows' and broadens with
the ages.
His language is unsparing. In that
tremendous lyric, The Reformer, he
sees the "Strong One smiting the god
less shrines of men along his path."
When the Pope allied himseir with
Austria and Louis Napoleon against
Italy, Whittier called him "the
Nero of our time." He "sat upon
a throne of ,lies. a poor, mean
Idol, blopd-besmeared." He was
"the scandal of the world." In
fact, to the poet in his wrath over that
unpardonable betrayal of the highest
hopes of all the 'true and good of the
world, kings and priests became ac
cursed. They were "false to liberty
and God. Earth wearied of them,"
and he hoped to see the world roused
by the hearts' that had bled "to feed
the-crosier and the crown" until in its
righteous wrath it trampled down
"the twin vampires."
But Whittier's genius was not anar
chistic In its depths. He was progres
sive and constructive. His statesman
in "Snowbound" is to "plant a school
house on every hill" and "stretch
thence the quick wires of intelligence
throughout the land." By the way,
Kipling, with all his lauded subjection
of Science to poetry, has made no fig
ure quite equal in power and beauty to
this one. In "The Reformer" his
"Master is a builder, too,',' and he sees
"the new upspringlng fron the old."
His hope never flags, and his song is
evermore a song of raith
That trusts the end
To match the good begun.
Nor doubts the power of love to blend
The hearts of men as one.
We see, therefore, in Whittier a
poet whose power over mankind is not
exhausted. In fact, there is much rea
son to think that his real reign over
our hearts and brains has hardly be
gun as yet. and that to him in a lesser
realm, as to the all-potent Shelley in
the wide world, belongs the limitless
future.
- The Washington grain commission
is endeavoring to force exporters to
handle wheat in bulk. s The exporters
are opposed to the system, as it has
never proved successful for the long
voyage between the Pacific Northwest
and Europe. The opening of the Pan
ama Canal, offering a short route to
Europe, will undoubtedly admit of
wheat being shipped In bulk, but
pending its completion, there is not
much likelihood of a' change. The
present method of shipping in bags
brings ho additional profits for the ex
porters over a,nd above what would be
received from shipping in bulk. In
fact, with the entire bag output in the
hands of 'a Cajcutta trust, most of the
bags for the past two years' have been
distributed at a loss to the exporters,
but the cost of the bag is one of the
expenses which our remote position
from the markets makes necessary.
The attempt to revive the calamity
howl that, erstwhile resounded over
the plains of Kansas will be rutile.
Kansas has a huge crop of corn, but
"none to burn" this year. Its enor
mous holdings of livestock indicate the
use to which it will be put. Not. for
25 years, excepting 1901. says P. D.
Coburn, secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture, has Kansas corn been
worth so much a bushel as now, add
ing: "Thte year's farm products and
livestock reach' the unprecedented
value or $463,648,606, being $39,313,
739 in excess or the best prior year in
the history of the state, which was
1906." Talk of hard times in the pres
ence of these facts and figures makes
Kansas farmers smile. Even the
ghost of Jerry Simpson could not pro
duce a "scare" under conditions of
plenty such as fhese figures indicate.
The old stage route, known for
forty years as the Pendleton-Pilot
Rock line, has been relegated to the
past. Useful during Its long day and
indispensable to the stinted commerce
of a wide region, this stage line has at
length been superseded by a railroad
spur the last section' to go out of
business of the old overland stage
route between The Dalles and Ogden.
Its withdrawal marks the close of a
storied' era in the annals of early
transportation facilities and methods
in the great Inland Empire. Its his
tory is but a "traveler's tale," abound
ing in ' incidents that enter into the
story of the settlement of a wild and
vast wonderland tire passing from
savagery to civilization of a wide do
main. Provision has been made for the Im
provement, as far as $11,000 will pro
vide' therefor, of Crater Lake Paik, by
the General Government. If the wonder-places
of the Nation are to be pre
served and rendered accessible, this
appropriation is well placed and time
ly. In its way Crater Lake Park Is
not surpassed, in grandeur by any spot
in the country. Anfl since the Gov
ernment has "taken it over," it de
volves upon the same power to make it
accessible and preserve the wild beauty
that is its Infinite charm. The Items
in the appropriation provide for these
things not lavlshl- but conservative
ly, being confined to making roads,
trails and bridges and to the reason
able salaries of caretakers.
The heavy. rains' of the past week
have extended throughout the "Willam
ette Valley. .The soil having absorbed
all that it could hold, the surplus
waters are being drained orf by the
Willamette River and its tributaries,
but without damage save in the usual
washings of field and orchard lands
that lie along the streams. The river
at this fity has an" ugly look, as it
carries this levy from the soiK wIih
a strong current into the Columbia
and thence to the sea.
"President Washington," says the
Corvallis Times, ' "declined a third
term, holding that longer continuation
of onesman in the presidential office
was unwise." President Washington
gave no such reason. He declined a
third term because he sought retire
ment and repose; He was growing
old, and had served his country over
forty years. '
It is the conclusion of sage observers
that there is no Republican party In
Oregon. Faction and the primary law
have destroyed it. But don't worry.
Here is the Democratic party, ever
virtpous, whose candidates Repubii
can.have been electing to our chief
office, this long time.
Couldn't that man Matthews, who.
in a fright, shot a poor little newsboy,
be Induced in some way to turn his
revolver on himself? The combin
ation of-the fool and the revolver is a
menace to everybody but the man who
works the combination.
If we are not to have continuous
baseball in Portland, next season, we
can at least have continuous talk of
the game which will answer all pur
poses and save gate money besides.
In the gizzard of a hen residing at
Freewater there was found a small
quantity of gold. This puts her into
the same class as the Title Guarantee
& Trust Company.
Several prominent Republicans who
think themselves possibilities should
remember that Roosevelt's latest mes
sage hasn't changed the discard.
Merely as a reminder, for your own
as well as Tor the salesgirl's sake, do
your shopping In the morning.
Roosevelt has given the country
something else to talk about. Which
Is just what the country needs.
Poems by Whittier
Born December 17. ISOTj Died Sep
tember 7, lUl'S.
Maud Muller.
Maud Muller on a Summer's day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay.
Bennth her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.
Pinging. he wrought, and her merry glee
The mock-bird echoed trom hl tree.
But when sh glanced to the far-otf town
White from its hilt-slope looking down.
The weet song difd. and a vague unrest
And a nameless longing filled her breast
A wish that she hardly dared to own.
For something better than she had Known.
The Judge mde lnwly down the lane.
Smoothing his horde's chestnut mane. .
He drew his bridle In the shade
Of the apple-treeV, to greet the maid.
And aked a draught from the spring that
flowed
Through the meadow across the road.
She stooped where the cool spring bubbled
up.
And flHed for him ht-r small tin cup.
And blushed as she gave it. looking down
On her feet so bare, and her tattered gown.
Thanks!" said the Judg; 'a sweeter
draught
From a fairer hand was never quaffed."
He spoke of the grass and flowers and tree.
Of the alngtng birds and the humming bees;
Then talked of the haying, and wondered
whether
The cloud in the west would briny foul
weather.
And Maud forcot her hrler-torn gown.
And her graceful ankles bare and brown;
And listened, while a pleased surprise
Looked from .her long-lashed hazel eyes.
At last, like one who for delay
Seeks a vain excuse, he rude away.
Maud Muller looked and sighed: "Ah me!
That I the Judge's bride might be!
"He would dress me up in silk so fine
And praise and toast me at his wine.
"My father should wear a broadcloth coat;
My brother should sail a painted boat.
"I'd dress my mother so grand and gay.
And the baby should have a new toy each
day.
"And I'd feed the hungry and clothe th
poor. And all should bless me who left our door."
The Judge looked back as he climbed the
hill.
And saw Maud Muller standing still.
"A form more fnir. a face more sweet.
Ne'er heth it been my lot to meet.
"And her modest answer and graceful air
Show her wise and good as she is fair.
"Would she were mine, .wi I today,
I.lke her, a harvester of hay;
"No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs.
Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues, .
"But low of cattle and song of birds.
And health and quiet and loving words."
But he thought of his slaters, proud and
cold.
And his mother, vain of her rank and gold.
So. closing his hart, the Judge rode on.
And Maud was left in the field alone.
But the lawyers smOed that afternoon
When he hummed in court an old love-tune;
And the young giri mused beside the well
Till the rain on the unraked clover fell.
He wedded ,a wife of richest dower.
Who lived for fashion, as he for power.
Yet oft. In his marble hearth's bright glow.
He watched a picture come and go;
And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes
Looked out In their innocent surprise. .
Ort, when the wine in his glass was red,
He longed for the wayside well instead;
And closed his eyes en his garnished rooms
To dream of meadows and clover-blooms.
And the proud -man sighed, with a secret
pain.
"Ah, that I were free again!
"Free as when T rode that day.
Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay."
Ph wedded a man unlearned and poor,
And many children played round her door.
But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain,
Left their traces on heart and brain.
And oft, when the Summer sun shone hot
On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot.
And she heard the little spring brook fall
Over the roadside, through the wall,
Tn the shade' of the apple-tree again
She saw a rider draw his rein;
And, gazing down with timid grace.
She felt his pleased eyes rend her face.
Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls
Stretched away into stately halls:
The weary wheel to a sptnnet turned.
The tallowf candle an astral burned.
And for him who sat by the chimney lug.
Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug,
A manly form at her side she saw.
And 4oy was duty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again.
Saying only, "It, might have been."
Alas for maiden, alas for Judge.
For rich repiner and household drudge!
God pity them both! and pity us alj.
Who vainly the dreams of .youth recall.
For of all sad. words of tongue or pen.
The saddest are these: "It might have
been!"
Ah, well; for us all some sweet hope lies
Deeply burled from human eyes; .
And, in the hereafter, angels may
Roll the stone from Its grave away!
Spow-OBountl.
O Time and Change! with hair as gray
as was my sire's that Winter day.
How strange it seems, with so much gon
Of life and love, to still live on!
Ah. brother! only I and thou
Are left of all that circle now.
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful firelight paled and shone.
Henceforward, listen as we will.
The voices of that hearth are still:
tjook where we may, the w!de earth o'er,
Those lighted faces smile no more.
We "tread the paths their feet have worn.
We sit beneath their orchard trees.
We hear, like them, the hum of bees
And rustle of the bladed corn;
We turn the pages that they read.
Their written words we linger o'er.
But in the sun they cast no shade.
No voice is heard, no sign Is made.
No step is on the conscious floor!
Tet Love will dream, and Faith will trust
(Since He wio knows our need Is just.
That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Alas for him, who never sees
The stars shine through his cypre-s-trees?
Who, hopeless, lays his dad away.
Nor looks to .see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play!
Wo hath not learned, in hours of faith.
The truth to flesh and sense unknown.
That Life is ever lord of Death.
And Love can never lose its own!
The Revolver Kulannce.
Pendleton East Oregronian.
The revolvers taken away from thugs
by Portland police are to be melted
into a stove at the Salem Stove Foun
dry. If all the concealed weapons
carried in Pendleton were melted into
a stove, they would make a ljotel range
of the largest nlze and then leave
some old Iron over for a good-sized
heater for the parlor.'
SILHOUETTES
Hy Arthur A. Greene.
Santa Glaus gets a whole lot of credit
that really belongs to the mail .carrier.
...
One pinch of panic makes the' whole
world akin.
Only children and shopkeepers really
enjoy Christmas.
If women devoted as much time and
effort trying to be good as they do try
ing to b? beautiful, the world would be
much happier.
A man died In a Connecticut vlllHge
the other day at the age of lift. He at
tributed his remarkable longevily to life
long moderation. He seems 10 have been
moderate in everything except longevity.
A member of Congress has introduced
a bill to prevent the adulteration of paint.
This leads one to wonder where this pure
food agitation will end.
...
In Virtue's presence Vice may doff lt
hat, but it always keeps its cloak on.
.
Senator Fulton is loyal to his constitu
ents. In Washington he lives at a hotel
called the Portland.
Since her acquittal Mrs. IJradley ha
decided X engage In newspaper work In
Goldfielo How can such women expect
the stage ever to be elevated when they
shirk their responsibilities n this man
ner? A GeorRia bridegroom recently fainted
at the altar just as the minister pro
nounced the fatal words. He must have
seen his bride's face in repose for the
first time and remembered that she
couldn't sing. (Acknowledgment to a fa
mous old joke.)
Since the Sunday laws are being so
strictly enforced in Nrw York, it r.v'cht
be appropriate t- refer to Broadway as
"The Great Elite Way."
J'.x-o fills.
(The press dispatches announce ri..;t
the tide of immigration has turned and
that thousands of forelKn-born ro3idenis
of this country are returning to their
former homes.)
What 'r we going to do for policemen.
Who's going to make our beer;
What '11 be our chance for music.
When the foreign folks disappear?
How 'r we going to pet spaghetti.
Who's going to do the wash;
Who'll sell the millionaires Turkish ru(r1
That'll be tougli' b' gosh.
Wb.ere'll we get. opera singers,
What'll the Socialism do;
Who's going to work on the railroad?
Well, I'll put it up to you.
Irife won't be Worth the living.
Things will be dull all day.
When Marluccia taka da steamboat
And the foreigners sail away.
A Kargaln-Tny Incident.
Adam was taking a morning stroll
through the Garden of Eden. "Unexpect
edly he came upon Eve throwing clubs
into a fig tree.
"What are you doing that for?" asked
the Father of Men.
"I'm doing ray Christmas shopping," re
plied the Mother of Women, as she shied
another stick V the topmost branch and
gathered up the leaves that fell.
The Minstrel Band.
Down the street comes the minstrel band.
Marching In step to the music grand.
And the folks all look and spellbound
stand
At the boom-to-ra-ra of the minstrel
band.
While the kids all run to follow the way
That the minstrels take in their uniforr.-v
gar.
And i cease to wonder that in Hamelin
town
The piper and his pipe did the thing up
brown. ''
A Lay Sermon.
Brethren, on this beanfiful Sunday
morning I desire to invite your attention
to a text which I found in the paper
which runneth in this wise:
"Du Puis, though not a heavy drinker,
seems to have been a wild youth and
whenever out with bad companions drank
freely. His body is now at Flnley'a
morgue." -
Booze is not a pretty word, but it is an
expressive American colloquialism. It coi
ers the. case from "forty-rod" that the
North rind saloons sell to Mumm's, at
the highest priced grill In town.
"Wine is a mocker and strong drink is
raging."
Those of us who occasionally take a
drink for our stomach's sake, for old :
sake's sake, or for the sake of the pretty
woman across the table, are playing tag
with the devil. Not the traditional devil
in red tighu with a pitchfork in his hand
Rnd a lake of brimstone down home, but
the devi. who ' acts as sexton in the
cemetery of dead hopes; the devil of
debt, of lost self-respect, of competency
become Incompetency, of broken homes,
of blasted lives. The hang-dog, shabbily
clad devil of dishonorable poverty; the
devil of the divorce court and criminal
Jurisprudence; the devil of bar-room
brawls; the devil that leads his victims to
the river and the poison vial. Don't ..o
It, brethren. Bnze wherever it may
come from is a hollow mockery, a de
lusion and a snare. "Wine is a mocker
and strong drink is raging. Its laughter
Is the gibbering of specters and in the
end it writes this epitaph for Its devotees:
"Du Puis, though not a heavy -drinker,
seems to have been a wild youth an.
whenever out with bad companions drank
freely. His body is now at Finley
morgue."
Protect Bull Itun Reserve.
Application by the Mount Hood Railway
& Power Cofnpany at the office of the
United States Forest jiureau at Washing
ton. D. C, for permission to construct
flumes and rights of way across the city's
reserve of Bull Run River has causod the
Portland Water Board to send a protest,
through Superintendent Dodge. It as
feared that to permit the railroad cor
poration to encroach might infringe upon
the city's water supply. Every effort is
to "be made to stop this move.
Judice Never Mlssm Day'si Sitting'
Bostbn DiRpatch.
Judge Field, aged A4, of Athol, Mass.,
30 years on the bench, has never missed
a day's sitting. Eelng indisposed re..
cently. he heard a murder case lying In
bed on his back.