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TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 21, 190!
livery. She embraced Mr. ScotU. who
kissed her hand and . there was obvious
grief at the thought that this was their
last appearance together. The next act
was the second from "The Barber of
Seville," with Bond as Aim a via, a come
dy role which he heightened greatly on
account of the tears which hung in the
atmosphere. In this, the famous lesson
scene, she rang , the old Strauss waltz
"Voce di Primavera," after which she
dragged Bond from his seat at tho piano
and with him sang a duet from "Don
Pasquale." The audience was not yet
satisfied and she added an aria from
"La Sonnamhula," after which she was
still compelled to seat herself at the pi
ano and play her own accompaniment
for the little Polish song "The Maiden's
Wish," by Chopin.
The final number was the first act from
"Traviata" in which the parts usually
taken by the chorus were the stars of
the. company. Geraldlno Farrar singing
tne small part of "Flora Bervolse," Ca
ruso was the Alfredo and at the close
of the act Mine. Sombrich Insisted upon
his shaaing the curtain calls and finally
MUSICAL FESTIVAL OF FIVE SYMPHONY
CONCERTS TO BE GIVEN HERE IN APRIL
Orchestra Will Number Sixty Pieces, While Three Hundred Well-Trained Voices Are to Be Heard in Chorus Choir.
Professor Boyer Will Be Director.
sne tnrew an arm arouna ms necu ana
the desolate look upon her face said
more plainly than words: "Think of re
nouncing such companions In art!"
After the performance at the opera
house a large number of people most
prominent in social and in musical circles
were invited by M. and Mme. Stengel
Sembrieh to the Stivoy, where they hold
one of the most brilliant receptions ever
assembled In New York. Xo less an or
chestra than that of the Metropolitan
Opera House under direction of the sec
ond violin leader, Herr Rothmeyer, played
during tho lunch and after there were
a few dances In the charming ball
room. Mme. Sembrich was a glorious
hostess, and her spirits and energy
were the topic of ftiarvel by all pres
ent. AVlth her husband she danced
a Polish dance, and with Caruso a
cake-walk, after which Ernest Schel
ling presented her with an enormous
cake decorated with a silver-stringed
lyre. EMI LIE FRANCES BAUER.
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AX oM songr Fays that with the ap
proach of Spring, "young man's
fancies lightly turn to thoughts of
love." but there are many Portland peo
ple -who will associate this comlns Spring
with the musical treat which the Port
land Festival Chorus, In conjunction with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Is to
lve at the Armor-, about the end of
April or beginning of May. The orches
tra will number about 60 pieces, and a
chorus choir of 300 voices will sing, un
der the direction of William II. Boyer,
the music festival director, with orches
tral accompaniment.
There are-to be five concerts at the
approaching music festival, and the chor
us will sing at each concert, the entire
event being under tho direction of the
Heillg Theater management. Last sea
son, five concerts were given at which
the chorus sang at only three, to the
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great disappointment of people- who at
tended tho purely orchestral concerts
and enjoyed them, but found the chorus
scats empty. This year, although the
exact dates for the concerts have not
yet been definitely arranged, it has been
practically settled that the first concert
will be on a Friday night, and be con
tinued by similar events on a Saturday
afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday after
noon and concluding Sunday night. The
oratorios to be rendered are:
Sullivan's "Golden Legend."
Gauls "Holy City."
Rossini's "Stabat Mater."
In" addition, the chorus will sing at
the Friday night concert the "Sanctus"
from Gounod's "St. Cecilia" mass, and
at the Saturday afternoon concert, "Hail,
Bright Abode." from Wagner's "Tann
hauser.'" this latter programme being spe
cially arranged for children and family
parties. Critical descriptions of the mu
sic selected will be given later.
The Portland Festival Chorus has been
specially organized for the annual Spring
music festival, and Its officers are:
President. Frederick W. Goodrich; first
vice-president, Mrs. E. S. Miller: second
vice-president, Kdward L. Bayly; sec
retary. Miss Eva L. Wells; treasurer,
E. 8. Miller, and conductor, William H.
Boyer. The chorus numbers about 300
voices, and Is largely recruited from the
excellent chorus that made last year's fes
tival such a great artistic success. This
season, the chorus has worked assldu-J
ously at all the rehearsals, which Degan
last December, and which will continue
every Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, at
Eilers Hall, Park and Washington
streets. Those wishing to join, the
chorus- should apply at once to Mr.
Boyer. as the membership list has about
closed.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will
again be under the direction of Adolph
Rosenbecker, and can be depended upon
to fulfill its part of this more than or
dinarily interesting musical occasion.
SEMBRICHS TRIUMPHANT FAREWELL
STIRS ALL HEARTS AND BRINGS TEARS
Deluged With Costly Gifts of Love and Appreciation, Her Last Appearance at Metropolitan Opera-House Is Event
of First Importance in Musical History of Generation.
DEW YORK. Feb, 15. (Special Cor
respondence.) There has never been
a more Impressive occurrence In the
professional life of America than that
which occurred Saturday night at the
Metropolitan, when Mme. Sembrich
played her last performance as a regular
member of the Metropolitan opera com
pany. Mme. Sembrich retires from the
operatir stage after a career unusual in
almost every detail.
Her loss to the stage is very great,
fjreater indeed than we realize at the
present moment. Mme. Sembrich's in
fluence upon the stage not only ae an
artist, but as a woman as well, has been
unique. Her art is the greatest and the
purest, scientifically speaking, because
the present demands upon the ninper are
such as to destroy the pure singing
beauty of a voice. Semonch has never
departed from the purity of her sing
ing to produce effects, and she has thus
preserved an organ which even now is
capable of giving more pleasure to the
lover of good einging than are most of
the voices even more dramatic or more
fresh In color.
People have been able to point to
her as a woman whose exemplary de
votion to her husband has proved that
women can follow a stage career, and
remain good and true and beautiful In
spirit and faithful to tne highest ideals
of womanhood. In this, perhaps, more
than In anything else, her relation to the
stage has been of incalculable value is
art lets and to students, because she has
been very close to her public. There has
been none of tlm mystery that distance
lends. Every one who follows operatic
life in this country knows her closely as
a personal acquaintance; in the first place
because she is naturally simple and sweet
on the stage, just as she is in her draw
ing-room, and then because on the con
cert platform as in a role and In a song
recital every sido of her personality be
comes famiiiar tocher audiences.
Mme. Sembrich, the daughter of Cael-
mir Kokhansky, was bnrn at V isnaszyk,
Galacla. Her father, who was a vio
linist and a self-taught pianist, began to
teach her piano playing when she was
4 years old. and at the age of 8 she be
gan to study tiie violin. Kokhansky was
very poor, and little Marcclla hadi to
begin to earn her own livir; at the age
of 13. An old Polo named Lanowltoh
took a great interest In all young talent,
and he set himself to nurture mat of the
young Marcella. He sent her to the
conservatory at Lemberg, whose principal
Is said to have, been a pupil of Chopin.
There she began her advanced studies
undr a young teacher named-Guillaume
Stengel, who for four years tanirlit her
the works of Bach. Beethoven. .Mozart.
Chopin and Mendelssohn, and was then
convinced that he knew all he could
teach her.
Stengel was so much Interested In his
pupil that he snt her to Vienna to study
under Epstein. This master discovered
the beauty of her voice, and advised her
to put aside piano work for a time in
order to dnvote herself to the study of
singing. Actio upon tlii advice she
went to Milan and studied with the
greatest . vigor under Lampertl, the
younger, for two years. She made her
debut as Lucia at the Royal Opera, Dres
den, under her mother's maiden name of
Smbrich. Her success was gTeat, but
he felt that her voice and style were
lst suited to the Italian stag, and sh
returned to Milan, where she sang Lucia
In Italian.
Later she railed upon Ernest Ore,
then manager of Covent Garden Thea
ter. London, and asked for an engage
ment. Mr. Gye gave her a hearing and
at once engaged1 her for five years. Her
success in London was enormous. She ,
left London to travel, Binging always
with immense favor in Warsaw, St.
Petersburg. Moscow and Madrid. She
was engaged by Henry E. Abbey as a
member of the company with which he
opened his Metropolitan Opera-House.
Her success here at. that time was not
commensurate with her talent. At the
close of the season at Mr. Abbey's bene
fit she played .admirably a concerto by
De r.eriot for violin. After several en
thusiastic recalls she played Chopin's A
flat Ballad on the piano. Again recalled
many times, she sang most brilliantly
"Ah. non glunge" from "La Sonnam
bula." Such an exhibition of musical
ability set the house beside itself, and
people then for the first time realized
that Mme. Sembrich was a genius. On
the same evening she played the violin
obligato in Gounod's "Ave Maria," Chris
tine Nillson singing the vocal part.
Mme Sembrich, now the wife of her
early teacher and friend. Professor
Stengel, returned to Europe and resumed
her - successful career there. She has
sung all over the continent. Her suc
cess in Berlin and Vienna has been im
mense, and all the famous critics, from
Edouard Hanslick down, have united In
one grand chorus of praise.
Mme. Sembrich gave her first song re
cital in Carnegie Hall In 1000 and since
she has established an enormous follow
ing for herself in this form of art and in
recitals Mme. Sembrich will return to
this country for many years, it Is to be
hoped.
At the Metropolitan the house was
packed to the doors with an audience
more disposed to tears than to smiles,
but there were smiles and, cheers, flow
ers and gifts of rare value, and tributes
of ail sorts and descriptions. There were
kisses and hand-shakings, there were
silver loving cups presented not only
from the fellow artists but also from the
stage hands and there was no more
touching moment than the one during
which an enormous laurel wreath, into
which hundreds of small silken flags
were stuck, was brought on the stage by
two of the stage hands In working livery.
The man who had the honor of making
the presentation speech was In street
suit, but the others were In overalls.
These were In tears and when the diva
realized the nature, of the gift she em
braced them. This was followed by a
loving cup from the orchestra, who. In
giving it. referred to her nobility and
thoughtfulness In giving the song recital
which provided them with instruments
after the San Francisco earthquake. A
string of superb pearls was presented
to her on behalf of the board of directors
of the Metropolitan, and for several
months her friends and people who
wished to contribute to a fund for a
gift have been sending In contributions,
which resulted in the presentation of
another pearl necklace, at the end of
which was suspended a watch of enamel
and diamonds, superb in workmanship.
In addition to the public gifts. Mme.
Sembrich received many of a more per
sonal na'ure and among the loving cups
and silver were personal gifts from Mr.
and Mrs. Pippel. from Caruso and from
others of the opera. The presentations
were made at the close of the regular
performance when the stage was set as
a perfect bower, decorated by the flow
ers which had been showered upon her
during th evening. When the curtain
went up upon the setting all the principal
artists of the opera were grouped about
and from behind the great prima donna
came forward on the arm of Mr. Gatti-Ca-
sazza. who led her to a throne in the
center of the stage; but to Mr. Dippel.
fell the privilege of making the presen
tation speeches, owing to Mr. Gattl-Ca-
sazza a handicap as tar as tne t-ncllsn
language was concerned. Seth Imw made
the presentation on behalf of the Metro
politan directors and his accompanying
speech must have touched the retiring
diva more than the gift for which he
asked that she should "remember the
love of the givers .rather than the gift
of the lovers."
At the close of ceremonials, to the sound
of chimes cut roses were let down from
above in a regular Oregon torrent and
formed a carpet under, her feet. Per
haps the most impressive moment was
when after Max Hirsch, who had been
associated with Mme. Sembrich as mem
ber of the Metropolitan forces also for 23
years, presented her with the original
program of her first appearance at that
house, the orchestra played the "Star
Spangled Banner," and the entire audi
ence as well as the artists on the -stage
sang it with such fervor as carr scarcely
be imagined. Mme. Sembrich did not sing.
The tears she had been choking back all
evening had their vent. As the audience
poured out of the house there were few
eyes that were dry.-
.
The evening's performance had been
devoted to three operas In which Mme.
eembrlch is Inimitable. The first was the
second scene from the opening act of
"Don Pasquale," sung with Scotti, after
which the first consignment of flowers
was brought upon the stage by men in
BY CASPER S. TOST.
C COLONEL JOHN SXEED, having
dined with satisfaction to himself
and pleasure to his wife, lighted a
cigar and strolled around the corner to
the modeBt cottage In which his son-in-law
had recently established himself.
"Where's William?" he inquired, after
he had paternally pecked at the pretty
lips presented- to him and accepted the
comfortable seat In the living-room.
"Hope he's at home."
"Yes, he's at home, papa." the daugh
ter replied, and a rosier flush came into
her -cheeks as she added: "He's just gone
to the woodshed for a moment."
Colonel Sneed noticed the heightened
color, and his curiosity was aroused.
"It's a pretty warm day," he remarked,
with a twinkle in his eye. "I don't reckon
he's goin' to build a Are, is he?"
"No, papa, it isn't that. I told he
thought I I he went out there to
smoke."
"What!" exclaimed the Colonel. "Gone
to the woodshed to smoke! What in the
world! Why don't he get on the roof or
sit on the gatepost? Why don't he come
into the house or say, little girl, is this
some of your doin's?" And he looked at
his daughter sternly through the incense
that arose from his cigar.
"Well, well, papa," she replied falter
ingly, "I don't want him to smoke In the
house, and I thought we ought to begin
right and"
"Huh!" grunted the. Colonel, "that's a
fine way to begin. Turn your husband
out of doors Just because he wanted an
after-dinner smoke. Force him to roost
with the chickens while he contemplates
the variety of life in general and of mat
rimony in particular. Go and tell him to
come here no, wait a minute, little girl.
Just let him keep, on roostin' for a little
bit while I tell you something.
"This world, honey, wasn't fitted up as
a habitation for cherubims and things of
that sort. It was made for mortal men
and women, and you can't turn a man
Into an angel without callin" in the un
dertaker. I believe everybody ought to
be good, but there's such a thing as beln'
too good to be interesting. It s the little
faults I'm talkln' about, you understand,
the Tallin's that all of ue have, more or
less of and wouldn't be exactly human
without. I don't know whether it's ex
actly right to call 'em blessings, but it
seems to me that they act kinda like
safety valves an' keep us from doin'
worse things. Anyhow, it's been my ex
perience, an' I've been here a long time,
honey, an' itept my eyes open it's been
my experience that a man who don't ap
pear to have any faults had better be
watched. The natural-born cussedness 11
pile up inside o' him until come day he'll
bust out an" "stonish the natives. That's
why I say, honey, that it won't do to bot
tle a man up too tight. Unless you have
an outlet for the meanness that's in him
you're likely to have trouble, an" I don't
know of any better outlet for masculine
depravity than a good cigar.
. "iow. little girl, you've married a
man. I've been watchin' William pretty
close since I came home, an' I'm toler
ably well satisfied that he's the real
thing. He's got some rough edges that
might be sandpapered down with bene
fit to himself and to you, but I want to
give you a straight tip. little girl, and
that Is, that th esmoothin' out process
will go a whole lot easier when he's got
a good cigar between his teeth. There's
somethin' about burnin' tobacco that
makes a man more susceptible to impres
sions from without and more readily in
fluenced by reflections from within. Let
him have a mild Havana, fix him up
comfortable in an easy chair, and he's in
shape to submit to most any kind of a
domestic operation that is prompted by
love and reason. He ain't doped. Smoke
don't steal -away a man's brains. On
the contrary, it stimulates his intelli
gence and opens his eyes to a better ap
preciation of the beauty and goodness
around him, while at the same time It
softens his heart and soothes his nerves.
It has a tendency to make a man more
amiable and more amenable, and after
a good many years of observation, lny
dear, I am pretty well satisfied that
there's nothin' that'll promote matrimon
ial harmony- like a good cigar smoked at
home. You never heard of a man with
a cigar in his mouth breakln' up the
furniture or draggin' his wife around
the room by the hair of her head, did
you? . No, I" guess not! Nor It don't In
duce him to sneak out Into the kitchen
and kiss the cook, either. It's influence
is always in the direction of virtue.
Many a crisis, domestic and otherwise,
has been prevented by the contempla
tive restrain of a good cigar. You -needn't
smile, little girl. That's no joke. Of
course, you can always get too much of
a good thing. Too much tobacco will
work harm in time, but so will too much
ham and eggs; and the man who smokes
at home isn't half as likely to overdo it
as the man who has to go out In the
woodshed, or to the corner saloon or to
the club.
"And that brings me around to the main
point that I want to press into your pretty
little head. You've got your hair fixed
mighty nice, this evenin", honey. New
style, ain't i? Uh, huh! Looks fine! But,
as I was about o say, the best place for
a man to smoke his cigar Is. at home.
Now, you've got Bill out there in the back
yard tryin' to get eome satisfaction out
of his smoke, and he isn't gettin' it.
Smoke, for the most part, is a mental
process, and its enjoyment is measured
a good deal by the surroundings. Bill's
puffin' away out there an' woivlerin' why
it burns so slow. All the time he's think
in', an' you oughtn't to blame him if his
thinks ain't the kind you'd like to have
workin' aroun' in his brain. He ought to
be sittin' here an' lookin' at you just as
I am, an' wonderin' to himself how in
the world he was lucy enough to get such
a dear, delightful little wife. Instead o'
that, he's probably thinkin' that it's
mighty tough that a man can't smoke in
his own house. If he has to go away from
the house to do his sniokin' he'll- grad
ually go farther an' stay longer, an' the
first thing you know you'll find yourself
sittin' up at the front window at 2 o'clock
in the mornin' tryin' to figure out what's
happened to Bill an 'wonderin' whether
you ought to get out a rollin'-pin or a
mustard plaster.
"No, little girl, mind what your old
daddy says. Don't try to make a seraphim
out o' Bill. Ifeep him at home, make him
think that home Is the sweetest and
pleasantest place on the face o' this green
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doggone pleases. Now, call Bill in and I (Copyright, lfW9, by C. S. Yost.)
FUTURE COUNTESS OF DROGHEDA.
APOTHEOSIS OF THE MIND OF THE HUMAN SOUL
Most Remarkable Age of Psychical and Physical Progress and Enlightenment.
v.V"'r';;?;V'Siv?ss
MISS KATHERIXE PELHAM Bt'RXS.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20. (Special.) This is the beautiful future
Countesq of Drogheda. who Is Miss Katherlne Felham Burns, daugh
ter of Charles Pelham Burns, of Edinburgh. Her mother is one of the
leaders of the smart set of the Scottish clfy. The Karl of nrogheda Is
young, handsome and rich, so the match is, from many points of view,
most admirable.
BY R. M. BRERETOX, C. E.
IN the story of Enoch, the seventh gen
eration from Adam, the Hebrew and
the Christian are told that he "walked"
on earth with his Spirit-Father during 300
years, and then, not by death, but by
refined translation or transubstantiatlon
of the physically etheric body, he was
enabled to continue his "walk" in the
next higher stage of eternal existence.
This meaning of the verb "to walk"
has a very remarkable and extensive
application to the psychical mind and
soul of man throughout the Bible. It
is most significant of the unique atti
tude of man In the animal kingdom of
Nature: he aione walks upriglltly and
looks upward.
What a beautiful and powerful illus
tration is this of the continued apotheo
sis of the human mind in earth life:
this progressive psychical growth must
continue as long as earth shall last and
be the dwelling abode of man.
Surely the Master of Christianity was
well warranted In his theistic idealism
of the fatherhood of 1 spirit and the
brotherhood of man from this funda
mental principle of theistic belief, so
prominent in the Hebrew and In the
Christian mind. He could well empha
size the truth of these remarkable words
of the Hebrew philosopher and Psalmist:
"I said ye are gods."
In the human language on earth there
can be found no nobler, no more sacred
and no more intimate term of relation
ship than that of Father. Its divinely
supreme origin has ever been, and still
is, the corner-stone of the very best
form of revealed Theism in the mind of
man on earth.
For 6000 years Theism has endured
deep-rooted in the Hebrew mind: fully
as long it has been the essence of the
mind of Brahmanism In India: for 2000
years it has been the tap-root of Chris
tianity, and for 1400 years that of Is
laism. Buddhism. Confucianism and Zo
roastrianism in India, China and Persia
have represented the apotheosis of the
psychical and physical attributes of man
during 6000 years.
The apotheosis (nobler evolution) of
mind in the English-speaking race is
clearly and remarkably Illustrated in this
dawn of the 20th century. Two thou
sand years ago, when the Romans con
quered Britain, our ancestors were a
savage race, clothed in the skins of ani
mals, and living under the influence and
thraldom of the Druid magicians. On
the stone altar of the open-air temple at
Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plains, in
AViltshire. they offered up human sacri
fices to their deity. In physical consti
tution of body it was the same as we
now have, but what a marvelous transla
tion has been evolved in the mind of the
English soul during this period of 66 his
torical generations. Physical heredity in
flesh and blood has held its unaltered
sequence all through these centuries, but
the psychical heredity of the mind of the
English soul has emerged from the gross
darkness of savage ignorance and super
stition Into the marvelous light of the
present day. Surely this affords suffi
cient confidence of belief in the more
rapid progress of apotheosis in the mind
of future generations. The savage form
of human spirit-mind that haunted the
open-air temple of Stonehenge has been
translated to a far higher stage of hu
manism, and this has produced a nobler
apotheosis in the present mind and out
come of our race. The stone altar at
Stonehenge was comparable to that old
altar at Athens which was dedicated to
"The Unknown God," and which formed
the text for that splendid sermon of St.
Paul on Theism and the spiritual apoth
eosis of man. This sermon Is good for us
to read and to think on In connection
with the remarkable psychical and physi
cal apotheosis of JesuB as related in the
fourth chapter of Luke.
Man must learn to know more fully
and correctly his true psychical being
and soul-mind before he can know and
rightly worship his true Father "in spirit
and in .truth."
The Christian churches of every de
nomination must in these more enlight
ened psychical das-s follow the example
of the Master In teaching and preaching
the gospel of the human soul's origin
and mind far more than the past and
present gospel of its objective mind and
body, if they are to be refilled by euu
cated and highly civilized humanity of
both sexes.
The existing purely physical dogmas
of hell and damnation, and the doc
trine of resurrection of the coarse
grained etheric body of flesh and blood
and of vicarious sacrifice and atone
ment, that are now based, as they
were during the Dark Ages, upon a
purely physical hypothesis and hypos
tasis, can no longer scare the mind
and conscience of educated and civil
ized man into a life of righteousness.
The brutisii mind of the human sav
age needed those physical dogmas and
doctrines and discipline in order to
rise- to a higher standard; there are
still millions of brutish and uncivil
ized humanity on earth who need the
same.
The true soul-miiid and conscience
of both the savage and the highly
civilized man must be awakened, edu
cated and fed by the teachers and
preachers with true knowledge, and
with the language of truth In accord
ance with the quality of their under
standing capacity.
Nature In every form of psychical
and physical life on earth affords a
multiplicity of object lessons which
enable man the master in her mate
rialized kingdom to rise from the low
level of the mind of the brute to the
highest possible horizon of morality,
refinement and beneficent usefulness
In his earth life. There is no better
illustration of nature on earth than
that given in the 104th Psalm. This
is full of "words of delight" for the
use of the Christian preacher.
The supreme object of highly edu
cated and civilized man on earth
should be to make this temporary con
dition of physical existence on earth
as pleasant, enjoyable and as full of
refinement of psychical and physical
thoughts as possible, because viewed
from the psychical side our earth Is
so full of soul and life in all their
phases.
The etheric substance and atmos
phere of earth make it available at
all time3 for the all-pervading pres.
ence of our spirit-father, and of his
ministering spirits, and of our de
parted spirit-relatives and friends, by
whom, as St. Paul tells us, "we are
compassed about." botli by day and
by night, in their translated forms of
finer etheric substance.
From this psychological view of earth
and realization of the multiplicity of all
the forms- of soul, life and mind exist
ent on it, we should try to think more
of it as a planet best adapted for human
abode both now and hereafter. If it is
good enough for the presence of the
spirit-father and his angels It surely
should be good enough for us, if we
only try to make it so. For the present
life Oregonians If they could but realize
the true psychical conditions around
them as well as they do the material
should be well content with Oregon and
the City of Roses. There is no better
protion of North America to be found.
This is a most remarkable age of psychi
cal and physical progress and enlighten
ment, and for these there is no better
field on earth for the manifestation and
apotheosis of the educated and civilized
man than Oregon, as Nature has made
and furnished it. in field, forest and
mine, with beautiful conditions for hu
man life and mind.
May the rising generation of Orego
nians have their spiritual mind so well
educated and Inspired In their schools
and churches that they will learn to re
spond in the words and emotional spirit
of the old Hebrew philosopher and
Psalmist: "O Lord, how manifold are
thy works! In wisdom hastlthou made
them all: Oregon is full of thy riches."
Woodstock. Feb. 16.
Russian Railways Lose
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20. (Spe
cial.) The Russian railways with few
exceptions are sources of loss, not prof
It, to their owners. In some striking
cases it has been proved that the great
er the traffic the smaller the returns.
Passenger traffic, for instance, is es
pecially unprofitable, because thous
ands of travelers contrive to journey
gratuitously. The police have just dis
covered In Blcklostok the headquarters
of a gang of criminals who for years
have been printing and selling railway
tickets for small sums.
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