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CXOTTM CLtARtXO AWAT IX MEXICO.
"Whffthrr tha resignation of the axed
and reactionary Mexican Cabinet and
the declared purpose of the adminis
tration to give direction of affairs to
younger and more progressive Minis
ters will restore peace in Mexico, re
mains to be seen; but probably It will
have that effect. It Is undoubtedly
Intended that It should calm the coun
try and appease the revolutionists.
The Immediate object of Finance
Minister Llmantour's hasty and sensa
tional return to Mexico Is now obvi
ous. Limantour gave out an elaborate
Interview. In which he commended the
purposes and approved the policies of
President Diaz, and therefore sur
prised and greatly disconcerted the
progressive element In Mexico and
elsewhere who had hoped that
through his mediation he might bring
about harmony between the warring
Mexican elements. Tet It Is now evi
dent that Limantour was moved by a
profound strategy In publicly allying
himself to President Diaz so as to re
tain the confidence of the venerable
ruler and to achieve through htm a
radical change In plans and condi
tions. Quite plainly Minister Uman
tour. realising that he was the man
of the hour, perceived that his first
and hlghrst duty was to restore or
der and keep the peace In Mexico. He
could have accomplished nothing by
encouraging and fomenting rebellion
and antagonizing President Diaz. Hut
by giving new- direction to the Diaz
policies he would support law. disarm
the opposition, and above all keep for
Mexico the confidence and good will
of the great American and Kuropean
Investors. These were the things that
Umantour set out for Mexico to ac
complish, possibly after a definite un
derstanding with President Taft.
It Is beginning to be known that
- conditions In Mexico have been far
more serious than the American peo
ple as a whole have understood. There
has been no organized revolution. The
outbreaks have been sporadic and un
related, though they have had a com
mon Inspiration In the Insurgency that
t has everywhere pervaded the Mex
ican people as It has elsewhere seized
other peoples. The uprisings for the
most part have taken the form of re
sistance of constituted authority, but
In fact they have been accompanied
by many circumstances of lawlessness,
spoliation and devastation, making It
obvious that desperadoes and adven
turers from all quarters have taken
advantage of the situation In Mexico
to pursue their own desperate alms.
Mexico has been In a foment of po
litical eruption and dissension, but
actual revolution has manifested Itself
only In scattered rlaces. ProbUbly the
Piaz government would have had llt
tla trouble In supproslng the Insur
rection If Its only difficulties had been
with the men In arms. The real men
ace to Diaz and his administration has
been undoubtedly the determined
otrtt of the Mexican people to bring
about other conditions by peaceful
means. If possible, and by violent
methods. If necessary. The eager fili
bustered and outlaws who rushed to
Mexico from the United States and
elsewhere merely precipitated the Im
pending crisis.
In due time we shall have from
President Taft a full statement as to
the reasons which Impelled him to
end troops with such haste and other
evidences of apprehension to the In
ternational boundary- That It was
done upon representations as to the
disordered conditions of Mexico and
upon appeals to the United States
Government to Intercede so far as It
could to restore order. Is more than
ever apparent. It mar he that the
otaters were mobilized upon direct
tnvttat'on of President Piax. But
whether or not Disx solicited precip
itate action by the President, or
merely assented. It Is clear that he
' baa never permitted himself to be at
! all alarmed by the apparently bellig
erent movement of the American
troops. The spectacle of sol
diers rushing to the border has been
viewed by the American people, too.
with a good deal of calmness, though.
Indeed, the Japanese bogle has been
trotted out by sensation-monger and
used for all it Is worth, and more.
' The result has been not a little nerv
. ousnees along the Pacific Coast and
throughout the country. Put there
. evervwhere has oeen confidence that
President Taft knew what he was do
ing and took measures so radical and
surprising only for the soundest rea
sons. The President Is no tail-twlst-Ir.g
Jingo. He detests war: he loves
peace. He will precipitate conflict
with any nation on!v as a last resort.
We shall probably find as a result of
this Mexican enterprise that we shall
have matte of Mexico a better friend
than ever.
orcMc the mrLtw.
The Jetty work at the mouth of the
Sluslaw River hag deepened the bar
te such as extent that it is now pos
Bible for laxge-gtzed coasting vessels
' to cross In and out. On the strength
of this Improvement It Is reported that
a camber ef large mills will be built
at tidewater to cut the timber which
was burned over by the forest fires
last Summer. This timber can be used
to advantage ary time within the next
three years, but beyond that time the
deterioration will become quite pro
nounced. Until quite recently It was
reported that the Southern Pacific,
which Is the heaviest owner of the
land which was burned over, would
but:d a line from Junction City or
Eugene and haul the lumber out bv
rail, lie porta from Eugene state that
this project has been abandoned and
t that the water route alone will be de
i pended on to take caxe of the lumber
that will be manufactured from this
burned Umber.
While It Is quit pleasing to note
that there has been such a decided
Improvement In the condition of the
bar at the mouth of the Sluslaw. it Is
unfortunate that the railroad project
should be abandoned. The cargo mar
ket for lumber, either coastwise or
foreign, is a low-grade proposition. It
Is only where mills have the advan
tage of both rail and water transpor
tation that the most satisfactory prof
its are nosslble. There is an Immense
amount of Tery valuable timber In the
Sluslaw country In addition to that
which will be taken from this burned- j
over land, and for the better grades
of lumber that will be manuracturea
from this timber the Eastern rail mar
kets are needed. A railroad from the
Willamette Valley to the Sluslaw
would also open up a country which
can be only but slightly benefited or
developed by the improvement at the
mouth of the river.
This country will supply a perma
nent and steadily-Increasing traffic
long after the timber Industry has
been forgotten, for It Is rich In agri
cultural, horticultural and dairy Pos
sibilities. The lumber business at
Tillamook and Nchalem la no greater
today than It was twenty years ago,
but with the completion of the rail
road it will increase so rapidly that
the entire surrounding region will ex
perience a phenomenal growth. The
Sluslaw district is less prominent than
Tillamook and Nehalem. but it has
resources that warrant the building
of a railroad. This would Increase the
development of the country In a man
ner that could not be accomplished
by improving the waterways alone.
RETOR.M1NG THE 1JBKI. LAW.
It is entertaining and not uninstruc
tlve to behold the efforts which law
breakers of a certain eminence make
to modify the law so that It will ap
prove of their wily ways. When the
big New York insurance companies
had definitely decided to take a plunge
Into frenzied finance they Induced the
Legislature to pass a law forbidding
anybody but the Attorney-General of
the state to sue them. The only re
maining point was to obtain a suitable
Attorney-General and they had things
in their own hands. The Intrusion of
Mr. Hughes was an episode which no
human forethought could have guard
ed against.
The Illinois legislators who have
been tarred from the Lorlmer pot
are now trying the sume game. Since
the campaign against them has been
one of exposure In the press they nat
urally turn for refuge to a libel law.
What a blessing to our shady states
men would be a libel law which for
bade the accused to offer the truth In
defense. As long as the truth Is ad
mitted to the witness stand they may
make big threats, but they will never
go any farther. On the other hand. If
they could obtain a law which would
punish the llbeler for his malice or his
Intent to defame, or his evil purpose,
without regard to the truth of what he
said, they would be In clover.
Under the unmodified common law.
that sum and pinnacle of human wis
dom, the maxim was. "The greater the
truth the greiiter the libel." This Is
the doctrine which the Illinois states
men of the Lorlmer persuasion wish
to restore to its ancient prestige. It
would then be a crime to announce
that Lorlmer had bribed a solon even
if It could be proved, and naturally
conditions at the various state capitals
would assume an aspect of harmony
which In these troublous times Is too
often missed. Under an Ideal libel law
It would be criminal to report the pro
ceedings of the Federal Senate when
future Lorlmer are undergoing their
whitewashing. In Johnson' time It
was forbidden to report the ordinary
debates of Parliament. He had to give
their substance under a literary sub
terfuge. Those were the days when
the British government was avowedly
carried on by bribery.
THE PEIUWCAIJTT or coo.
Sir Oliver Lodge- Idea of God does
not ttnd unanimous acceptance among
Christian scholars. Addressing the
conference of the Evangelical Free
Churches of England. Sir Oliver said
that In his opinion God can be depict
ed as a loving friend, "with whom spir
its can commune every hour In the
day. One whose patience, wisdom,
long suffering and beneficence are
never exhausted." This, according to
the speaker. Is the genuine Christian
view of the nature of the deity, and
he went on to say that It was "hu
manly simple."
Other scholar -wnose capacity iui
sound reasoning is at least as great as
Sir Oliver Lodge's do not think as ho
does on this subject. The personality
of God Is a doctrine which Is. In fact,
beset with difficulties. When a man
does not appear to see them, the ditfl
...i,i. to not vanish on arcount of his
blindness. It would hardly be possible,
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today to nna a man i v-m ..-
scholarship who accepts the personal
ity of God under the sharply defined
aspect In which It presented Itself to
Milton and John Bnnyan. To the au
thor of "Paradise Lost" the Almighty
was merely a magnified man. His fac
ulties were more capacious than those
of ordinary persons and his power
more extensive. But his passions and
habits of mind were essentially human.
Milton's God file Into a passion
when his will Is thwarted, precisely as
one expects a rather badly disciplined
man to do. He reasons on theological
subjects with all the acuteness and all
the narrowness of a Presbyterian dea-
ti. .lino hu a-oorf intentions to
be nullified by a foolish little quibble
exactly as a superstitious Oriental
monarch would. In fact. Milton's God.
gazed at through the wrong end of a
telescope, would look very much like a
fanatical Puritan preacher with a dis
position to lord it over his neighbors.
Bunyan scarcely Improved upon th
presentment.
The notion that God Is a person, a
superman, as It were. Involves us In all
sorts of needless difficulties. Person
ality Is a concept Inextricably Inter
woven with time and space. It Im
plies memory for one thing and mem-
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It Involves aeparatenesa from other
persons, and that require space. But
the deity must be independent of time
and space, which are purely human
limitations, and therefore It seems Im
possible for him to be a person. At
least, his personality must be some
thing so different from our that it
means nothing to us. The great Chris
tian thinker of our day are substan
tially in unison upon the point that
God must be something far more
nearly universal than personality could
admit of.
The idea that he is Immanent In all
things appears from the oldest Chris
tian times under one form or another.
Spinoza Intensified th thought of im
manence into- pantheism. Goethe
transformed It into the representation
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deity weave from moment to moment.
Thla was very attractive to Carlyle.
who worked It out In "Sartor Resar
tus." Wordsworth speaks of God as a
presence "far more deeply interfused
whose dwelling Is the light of Betting
suns." Tennyson expressed the con
cept of God's universality as contrast
ed with his personality with telling
beauty In "The Higher Pantheism."
No doubt the doctrine of the divine
personality becomes more and more
difficult to accept as knowledge accu
mulates. The nature which "ravens
with beak and claw" cannot be the
deliberate work of an Individual whose
thoughts are entirely benevolent. We
must reject either the individuality or
K.i,vnin and Christian thought
has decided to let the former go. It j
would drive us all insane to Deiieve
that God Is evil, but we can abandon
the notion of his personality without
much trouble. To many he becomes
even closer and more precious as the
thought of his personality fades and
belief in his immanence grows.
And with the fading of the doctrine
of a personal deity the hope of Indi
vidually distinct immortality seems to
lose its outlines. Shelley says of
Keats In the -Adonals" that "he has
become a part of Nature." We dare
say there are many Christians fully as
devout as Sir Oliver Lodge who do not
expect to retain their Individuality af
ter death. To his mind the future
world will be inhabited by persons not
much different from human beings as
they appear on earth. A more ra
tional faith looks for a larger life In
more intimate unison with the Creator.
To many the prospect of returning to
the universal fount of being from
which we flowed would present the
most attractive of all destinies.
MCKENS. THE SATIRIST.
a. inn, o ir ci K Cbesterton con
tinues to occupy his lively and versa-
.-irh rik'na the memory of
the great novelist Is in safe hands.
Nobody can possibly pe lorgoiien or
Ignored when Mr. Chesterton has un
dertaken to advertise him. Not that
Dickens ever was in any particular
danger of being forgotten. He has al
ways been popular since he published
fpifVatfitb Pan!" and the chances
are that he always will be. To be sure.
the more rarefied scnooi oi r.ngiisu
stylists regard Dickens with more or
less scorn. To their exacting eyes his
language lacks dignity. His manner
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rasionally halts. The same may be
said of Sir Walter Scott. Thackeray Is
the only man among tne eariy uniun
novelists who paid much attention to
what is technically canea siyie. no
V. a . UaA m nrthl reward for doing SO.
but there are readers who cannot dis
tinguish his nicety rrom ancciauon.
iiiii.iii oeema to have fixed his atten
tion on better things than mere lin
guistic delicacy, tie was ono oi wiuoc
ino-niar llterarv Dersons who are In
terested In human beings.
It Is common enougn to nna umuu
who are Interested In Man. States
men, poets, philosophers and politi
cians all share the same exalted feel
ings toward Man, the abstract entity.
Hut when It comes to men the case Is
far different. To most literary char
acters the Individual man Is repulsive.
He has offensive habits. He is apt to
be dirty In body and language. He
gets In the way. He wants to smoke.
Dickens' peculiarity was that In spite
of all the exasperating traits which
cling to the human creature as a
neighbor nnd companion, he still loved
him. To Dickens a man was not some
thing to be educated, reformed and
finally landed in heaven, but a fellow
mortal to be lived with on brotherly
terms. Sometimes he found his nelch
bor amusing, sometimes pitiful. Now
a u.n their needless sufferings
moved him to Indignation, but he never
tried to reduce tnem to miiipiuuii
formulas. He rejoiced in their singu
larities. To Dickens every creature on earth
was an exception worth observing, ap
preciating and writing about for its
own sake. In this he resembled
Shakespeare, who felt In the same
way. Shakespeare stops in the frenzy
of Lear' passion to depict the whim
sies of a fool. The old nurse In "Ro
meo and Juliet" interests him as much
as the hero. Neither Dickens nor
Shakespeare has much to say explicitly
about the divinity Inclosed within the
ugly shell of the human body, but
clearly they recognize something god
like there or they would not linger
over It as they do In simpletons and
rascals.
It is common to speak of Dickens as
a humorist, but Mr. Chesterton re
minds us that he had also the gift of
satire. Thackeray's satirical genius
loved to dwell on the foibles of the
humble In relation to the great. The
snob excited his wrathful mirth. The
kotowlngs of the climber to those
higher up the social ladder moved him
to derisive smiles. All this was amus
ing and not unwholesome, but it was
not Important. The snob plays a great
part in that minute world which is
called society. His gyrations there
look as If they disturbed the universe.
But In truth they do not. The sea of
humanity scarcely shows a wavelet on
the surface from all the Influence of
all the snobs there are. Still, these
creatures Interested Thackeray Im
mensely. Just as an occasional scientist
Is moved by some mysterious affinity
to study malodorous accretions.
Dickens has little to say about
snobbery. He was concerned with
that deeper human failing which goes
hv the name of conformity. This he
hated when it led to oppression and
Injustice. The conformity of the
beadle In whom tyrannical custom
often came nearest to the poor ap
pealed especially to his satiric Imag
ination. Thackeray would have
scorned to write about beadles. He
could depict Becky Sharp the climber,
but the Incomparably more universal
and human character of Sarah Gamp
was beyond him. Sarah haa the am
plitude of Rabelais. She has the gen
ial wealth of FalstafTs nature, while at
the same time she la gross and mean.
Nobody but Dickens or Shakespeare
could have made such a detestable
person funny. Falstaff la mean. too.
He 1 a liar, a coward and a thief, but
hi creator make u forget all that
w hen he waves his wand. So Dickens
makes us forget that Mr. Gamp la a
cruel, old, sottish nurse.
The question has been raised why
Dickens' satire became so shrewish
when he "wrote of the United States.
When he deal with our fault he
seems to lose the genial warmth that
glows around hi British types, even
the most abominable of them. He
write about America with angry
venom, and there are some who cannot
understand why he did It: but the rea
son doe not appear to be very mys
terious. Dickens resented the dispar
ity between our vast pretensions and
our sorry performance. Whatever the
case may be now. in his time the dis
parity was real and disgraceful. After
all the great noise we had made over
human freedom, we bred slaves and
sold them in the open market. The
newspaper press of that time waa fully
as malignant and mendacious as Dick
ens describes It. Our politics was in
credibly corrupt and the personal hab
its of people in general were some
thing frightful.
To visit a Nation which had set It
self on a pinnacle with noisy pomp as
the last and best hope of the world and
find it in this condition was enough to
enrage anybody. No wonder Dickens
boiled over with wrath. What he
wrote about tho United States in "Mar
tin Chuzzlewit," for example, was in
the main true. We have corrected
many of the faults ror wnicn ne De
rated us, but our present state of gTace
should not blind us to the sins which
we have happily forsaken.
THE CIMEXMAl OF MRS. STOWE.
The centennial of Harrlet-Beecher
Stowe will be celebrated in June of
this year. She was born June 14. 1811,
in the old parsonage at Litchfield,
wnere lived and toiled her strong,
. t i nari. t? ,tt T.vman Beech-
er and his vigorous wife. Many broth-
era and sisters shared wun ner im
Puritanical home, and out of it most
or them went into the great world, re
nouncing the creeds of old New Eng
land for a more humane and satis
factory belief.
Many years of patient toiling as a
minister's wife, and the motherhood
of many children preceeded the era
In which "Uncle, Tom's Cabin" was
written. Unconsciously to herself,
even, the simple tale which depicted
the wrongs of a race In slavery was
being wrought out in her mind and
finally its writing was begun, almost
as it seemed, by chance and without
definite plan or plot. The sudden
fame that came to her through this
work, her subsequent literary efforts,
her slow decline physically and ment
ally, which ended In her peaceful,
painless death in 1896, at the age of
85 years, have often been told.
The life of Mrs. Stowe Is a prose
poem, the events of which are mostly
of the commonplace order, but which,
as a whole, yet furnish a presentment
now of tragedy, now of comedy, now
of pathos; shadowed by failure at
times and again aglow with triumph,
and dominated throughout by invinci
ble purpose and principle. It is illus
trated by the picture of her own face
now the plain face, lined with phys
ical suffering and the financial anxiety
of the overtaxed wife, mother and
housekeeper; now tne lace snaaeu
with surprise at the unhoped fruition
of her endeavor; now the face with
the stamp of age and tne rennquisn
ment of endeavor upon it. and at last
the serene face from which the light
of intelligence has slowly died out.
These Illustrations are pleasing, strong,
weak or pathetic, according to the
period of life typified. Pencilled by
the hand of time, they represent bet
ter than the words of any biographer
the various stages of gentle, yet force
ful, life that will be best and longest
remembered through "Uncle Tom's
.Cabin."
THE TRUTH ABOIT VOUXTEEB TROOPS
Dependence upon .volunteer forces
in sudden and desperate warfare is
only verified after a large percentage
of the citizen soldiers have been lost
through causes induced by the unac
customed fatigue of forced marches,
by unaccustomed food, wretchedly
cooked and irregularly served, and by
enteric diseases due to a combination
of these causes. The spectacle present
ed by the volunteer troops that were
mobilized in Southern camps during
the early weeks of the Spanish-American
war will never be forgotten by
those who witnessed it. Eager, ear
nest, brave, the volunteers who
swarmed the recruiting offices and
were marched to rendezvous fell a
prey even to tho flies that blackened
the food, and which the men ate only
under the sharpest stress of hunger.
Tvphold found in these conditions
ready lodgment. The usual delays in
moving a quickly mobilized army
without an organized commissary de
partment followed, and soft-muscled
men, fresh from the vocations of
peace, went down to death by scores,
I.M.. tvio nnUA of battle was un
heard. This Is not an Impeachment
of the patriotism of the volunteer
troops; that had already been proved
In the eagerness of their enlistment.
It la not an Impeachment of their
courage; that was put to a severer test
by facing. In idleness, the manifold
foes of a fetid and foul camp, than it
would have been by a clash of arms.
It is not an Impeachment of any sol
dierly quality except physical endur
ance. It 1 merely to say that raw,
unseasoned men will not. because they
cannot, bear the heavy brunt of war,
even before the shock of battle with
the Immunity from Its inseparable ills
that Is possible to well-disciplined
troops, accustomed to the army ration
and the fatigue of the drill and the
march.
The story Is simple, the moral is
plain. The nation that Is prepared for
w ar Is the nation that supports a well
disciplined army, large enough to meet
a sudden emergency. The nation not
thus prepared should look well to its
diplomacy that tho quality thereof he
not easily strained.
KIXiniOClTVS ENEMIES WARNED.
"If no tariff wall ever had been
thrown up between us and our neigh
bor and brothers on the north," says
Senator Beveridge in discussing Cana
dian reciprocity In the current num
ber of the Saturday Evening Post, "the
proposition to construct one now
would appear to all of our people ex
actly like proposing to divide our own
country lnt hostile tariff sections."
The Indiana Senator, who some time
ago broke away from the ranks of the
standpat element in his party, warns
the.people against rejecting reciprocity
and quite pertinently asks: "If those
special interests and politicians defeat
the policy of Canadian reciprocity. Is
it not natural and possible that our
people. In their disgust, may swing to
tho other extreme and directly attack
our system of protection altogether?"
The answer may be found In the
steadily rising murmur of discontent
that finds its cause in the great In
crease in the cost of living and in the
spectacle of our protected, trust-made
millionaires Increasing In number and
wealth simultaneously with a decrease
In the savings of the consumers. Sen
ator Beveridge makes his plea for Ca
nadian reciprocity on the ground that
we have now reached a stage of devel
opment where the interests of the con
sumers as well as the producer are en
titled to consideration. The Indiana
Senator experiences some difficulty In
explaining that both consumer and
producers would profit by the change
and his argument might have been
strengthened had he statea mat uei
ther consumer nor producer wouia
init.Mti tiv tha measure. Except
be
in
i 1 ... .eoi tvio free interchange
of
products, provided for in the reci
procity bill would have but little more
effect than the present free inter
change of the same products between
Oregon and Washington. With no
tariff barrier between the two coun
tries, trade would be greatly facili
tated and the establishment of cordial
business and social relations would be
much easier than at present.
The complaint of the agriculturists
that the reciprocal agreement provides
for the free interchange of cattle and
other livestock and grain, while it re
tains a duty on fresh meats and other
food products and on flour, is answered
by Senator Beveridge with the state
ment that the Canadians refused to
agree to such interchange. "Special
interests have developed there Just as
.-. c,vu the Senator, and
the fact that the Canadian protection
it smtiil not arree on free trad
i..t....ititi tha list naturally would
not warrant the United States in refus
ing to take advantage of the situation
and secure free interchange of all tho
commodities with which reciprocity
It was Canadian insistence more
than American willingness that re
sulted In barley being placed on the
free list, although free admission of
this commodity has raised a greater
storm of objection than has been en
tered against any other agricultural
product. Mr. Beveridge admits that
there is merit in the argument that
barley should pay a duty, but that so
long as the United States produces a
surplus for export and that surplus is
sold abroad In the same markets that
take the Canadian barley. It Is not
clear that the American farmer will be
seriously affected. The barley crop of
the United States last year was 162,
000,000 bushels. That of Canada was
oa AAA aaa vtiteheio Tf we dulv consider
the fact that tho reciprocal agreement
was a "glve-ana-taise- measure, mm
that we could not get everything we
asked for, the real merits of the ques
tion are more easily discerned.
THE FOOL AND THE AUTOMOBILE.
Tnlleo .Ttine-A Tazwell yesterday sen
tenced to 15 days on the rockpile a
reckless automobilist, who drove his
car at breakneck speed through
crowds at a busy Btreet corner; and a
Jury in the State Circuit Court found
a $4000 verdict against another auto
mobile driver, who ran down and
caused the death of an old man. It
i. o ittHHani-a that the scene of these
two incidents, in which speed mania
figured so disastrously, was at or near
Sixth and Washington streets, the
heart of Portland.
Last Sunday, a small army of last
j.tt.r, i-nw nrrested on Belmont
street. They could not resist tne
temptation to fly along where the go-
irnori Each later paid $25
for his disregard of the rules of the
road.
w.,, thn real criminals of the flying
mntnpar are the men and boys
women sometimes who rush along
streets, snln around corners
hiin-ir nvpr crossincs at high
speed. There is danger enough in the
suburbs; but much allowance may oe
made for the chauffeur who yields to
, v, immiUn to "hit her u n" on a
straight course: but none can be made
fnr the ontomobilLst who win not Bu
..i h r-rnivrferi thoroughfares.
,... v... w...
The automobile, in rigni nanus, to
a vehicle of convenience, pleasure, ana
....lt. In tha hands of the SDeed
maniac it is an engine of death and
destruction. There are only a iew oi
the latter. They belong on the rock-
pile. They should all be sent mere.
Trhn TTeeves. thoutrht to be the old
est locomotive engineer in the United
States, died at his home In Tacoma a
few days ago at the great age of 100
,oor, rv.nriiidln: a notice of his life
ttnA Heath WfLS a statement familiar.
proportionally speaKing, in oia j.-.ew
England, and Indeed In pioneer annals
from the Atlantic to tne x-acinc kit
board: "He was the father of sixteen
.kiu..n nt u-hnm four survive." This
record is illustrated by thousands of
little graves in pioneer churchyards
showing the blight which maternal
hardship and privation placed on In
fant life in tnose eariy yeara.
oninttkia from Oklahoma find "old
v.mwn" in tho vlcinltv of Sheridan
suited to their purpose of home-mak
ing, agriculture, dairying ana mo into.
A number of families, we are told, ex
pect to take up land In that vicinity.
A sensible determination truly, and
ono that disproves the popular Idea
that In order to find public land for
entry the seeker must go to Oklahoma
or some other section or wnicn tne cli
mate, by contrast with that of Oregon,
makes undesirable for tarming pur
poses. Lucky colonists!
Decent people, who own automo
biles and have a pride in their con
nuet. will sustain the Municipal
Court In an endeavor to preserve the
rights of pedestrians on downtown
streets. The rockpile Is the place for
tho speeder.
ti.. Hiffoi-enen between the colored
man and the nigger Is seen in Booker
Washington and Pugilist Johnson. The
whole world sustains tne iormer ana
applauds the Judge who sent tne iat
ter to JaiU - -
A Japanese servant who Is handy
with a gun has been banished from
Stevenson. Wash. Another serious
e th wAr for which the
JI 1 1 1 1 tl t.. C v - .
Mikado is accredited by tho Jingoes for
being eager.
Thhvlnir In the Legislature, accord
ing to ex-Governor Folk, has been
stamped out completely in raissuun.
Oregon unhappily still awaits to be
shown the way.
The frogs are tuning up, the robins
are busy with domestic affairs, the
buds are swelling, the leaves are out,
and Oregon Spring Is here.
tv -Pnetfln Coast League will oc
cupy the center of the world's baseball
stage next Tuesday. No other league
season opens prior to April.
It Is the "white man's hope" that
Jack Johnson will have to serve his
Jail sentence for speeding.
rrtL. ..mint nrnetleea IflW la COndlte
A. IIO "
lve to lying and deception, as the
Spring campaign opens.
No doubt that Albany "House With
the Eye" blinked when its 63-year-old
owner married again.
The lesson of the day" disasters is
to be ready.
Scraps and Jingles
Leone Caaa Baer.
O.W- 1 nmnllmenta A WOman COn-
siders bad form are the ones paid some
other woman.
Of two evils always choose the most
pleasant.
The catch of this season is a ripe.
Juicy cold.
O o
a rnnii renutation may be a fair
estate If there's no cloud on the title.
Either way you can't mortgage it.
OOO
-vfoflol Vtsia lust been conferred on a
man who has found an actual river
within 600 miles of the position anoiiea
it on a war map.
oaa
"H e-ives twice who gives quick
ly." Sure thing. They always come
around for a second donation.
ooo
Tnttne man writes to ask what sort
of a tie to wear at his wedding. Could
suggest several, but marriage tie seems
most appropriate. ,
OOO
Astoria naoer advertises under fish
trade f6r a "girl accustomed to smok
ing." which is one way of solving the
problem of what to do witn our aausn-
ters.
' ' .
Why.
T lnvA vou for vour ratted hair.
Your painted eyes and straight-front
waist.
Tour well-rouged mouth Just suits my
tnste.
Your simpering smile and baby-stare
I love even your lack or pen.
But most of all I love you so
cnnae vou'ra the only one I know
Who lets me chat about myself.
ooo
The magic of first love is in its- quick
death and long memory.
OOO
Girl writes to ask if Bacillus is
Latin for bachelor.
ooo
Miss Calamltv Step-and-fetch-it, 'the
sweet and cultured authoress, etc., of
Kalama, undismayed by adverse criti
cism, of what she calls her llfry ef
forts, has sent in a thrilling poem
about an automobile. She calls it "An
eye for an eye and a toot for a toot.
ooo
"Happy is the man who findeth wis
dom," but his glee usually ends with
the finding.
ooo
An equivocal note is sounded In a
streetcar advertisement which reads,
"Mrs. Somebody's Pies, none like
them."
ooo
That oernetration. "What's under
done can't be digested," published In
this column several Sundays ago. has
hrnuirlit a better ono from a woman
signing herself '"Housekeeper," who
says, "What's underdone cannot be
helped."
ooo
In Oklahoma the Young Abstainers'
League has just celebrated its 13th
anniversary. It is certainly interest
ing to note that the percentage of
heavy drinkers under 10 years of age
Is steadily decreasing'.
ooo
Just as if times are not already bad
enough for artists Jack London, so re
port says, is going to illustrate his own
books. The artists' union Is naturally
up in arms about it and by way of re
taliation some of them intend to take
lessons in spelling with a view to
writing the text for their own draw
ings in the future.
ooo
It's mighty strange that civilization
should add to Instead of detract from
the horrors of war. I've Just read 999
"contributions" on the subject.
ooo
In Seattle a woman vagrant clad In
two gunny sacks and with her hair
flowing loose was asked by the judge
if she were an art student or a disciple
of Raymond Duncan.
a o o
Sensational confession has just been
made by a woman who, racked by the
torments of a wicked conscience, 'says
she is the original instigator of the
"cosy corner"; drapery, over-stuffed
cushions, bric-a-brac and all. Dispassion
ately speaking, she should be given not
less than seven years at hard labor.
ooo
Some men may be judged by the
company they keep, but a greater num
ber are sized up by the company they
promote.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian, March 26, 1861.
We are credibly Informed that near
ly 2000 miners may be expected
through Portland in the next month
from the Willamette Valley and Jack
sonville. A great many go by way of
Sandy and the Cascades by land, but
still more will go by water. The Nez
Perce mines seem to be the principal
attraction ,
WALLA WALLA. March 17, 1861.
An express from Fort Benton reports
250 lodges of Snake Indians, amongst
whom there were three of the chil
dren taken from the emigrant train
which was cut off last Fall. "Win
ship Blake" (the original L. L. Blake)
has started out with 40 men and sev
eral packs of goods to ransom them.
A reward of J2000 is offered for their
recovery.
The Victoria Colonist complains that
Oregonians come over to Victoria and
sell their produce without paying li
cense, and thus have the advantage of
their own people.
The Democracy are called on to par
ticipate in a general pow-wow on the
subject of the coming city election at
the courthouse on Wednesday even
ing next. At that time it is antici
pated that the duty of the party In the
coming election will be made appar
ent. Kew Lease of Life tor Foraker.
Washington (D. C.) Post.
"Former Senator J. B. Foraker, of
Ohio, is bound to come back into poli
tics In the Buckeye State," said Ed
ward Benton, of Toledo.
"Senator Foraker during his Con
gressional career occupied a most con-
In tha hallo rtf ntir
SPICUOUS JtUBtl"" - ---
National Legislature. If he had not
been oeieaiea iur t Lui
Foraker would undoubtedly be the
leader of his party in the upper branch
of Congress today.
"He has all the qualities which go to
make up one who is called upon to
lead. senator Foraker is aggressive,
versatile and a man who expresses his
opinions in the most vigorous terms
possible. Such a man as Senator For
aker is bound to be heard from."
TOPICAL VERSE
Is It Any Wonder?
Him wuzza tootest ltsie-bitsle pecious
lovle lamb.
And him dea a sweetest pittie-lttie sin
gle, yes. him am.
Wis Mm tunnin' itsle footsie, an' him
sayin" 'Goo-sroo-goo !'
Him was hlra muzzer's ownest lamble
boysie cootsie-coo ! ! !"
To this the baby listens by the hour
and day and week
And yet his mother wonders why be
doesn t learn to speaK!
Ladies' Home Journal.
He Said Good-hy.
He said good-by forever
With great disdain.
And vowed that he would never
See her again.
The girl made no endeavor
To have him stay.
He said good-by forever,
And went away.
Life's path is full of dangers.
Of places bleak.
And they were utter strangers
For 'most a week.
Louisville Courner-Journal.
In a Ballroom.
Behind the tall pillars half hiding.
He heard the soft strains of tha
strings.
And he looked at the gay dancers glid
ing As If they found joy in such things:
But he felt no delight in the measures.
And he wondered how others could
care
To indulge In such profitless pleasures
Or deem this a gala affair.
He heard the soft strains and the laugh-
ter.
But his fancies weftt winging away.
And he thought of a dismal hereafter
That .might have been golden and
gay;
He saw in red cheeks and glad glances
The love that may turn to despair
"Ah, fools and their foolish romances!"
He said with a desolate air.
He longed for untroubled seclusion
And. watching the gay dancers
thought
Of love as a foolish delusion
With sorrow and suffering fraught:
He scoffed at the maidens for flirting
And wondered how men could still
care
For the shoes he was wearing were
hurting
And he couldn't be barefooted there.
Chicago Record-Herald.
L'Envoi of Love Letters.
When earth's last love note is written
and the Ink Is blotted and dried.
When the oldest lover has vanished and
the youngest sweetheart has died.
We shall rest, and, faith! we shall need
it lie down for an eon or two
Till the master of loving missives shall
set us to work anew.
And those who wrote well shall be hap
py: they shall sit in a satin chair.
They shall write a de luxe edition of
odes to an angel's hair.
They shall find real loves to write to
Rebecca, and Dorcas, and Ruth
They shall work for an age at a sitting,
and never say more than the
truth.
And only the master shall praise us, and
only the master shall blame:
And none shall propose for money, and
none shall make love for fame.
But each for the joy of loving, and each
in his separate star,
Shall write to the girl he loves truly.
his thoughts as iney reaiiy .
Exchange.
And Then It Happened.
I pressed a coin in a waiter's grip,
. j, ti a nT,A ,ha tin
But he up ana aecmitrii w tone t... -
. , MnA ... c irtnri atiH Vtenminer.
Ana ins eiimc " '
The thought of it stuck in my puzzled
head
Till somebody shook me hard and said:
"WaKe up, oia mam xuu ic u,..
ingt" Exchange.
The Able Complicator.
When public questions first arise
As seasons come and go. '
The only answer that applies
Seems either "yes" or "no."
The issue seems so well defined.
The right so clear and plain.
That no one ought to be inclined
To take it up again.
But when my Uncle Jim takes hold
Of questions old and new
The variations he'll unfold
Consume a day or two;
And we are all disposed to shirk
A task so full of doubt.
And leave posterity to work
The fearful problem out.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
A Successful Dad.
Others may laugh at my feeble endeavor
To capture life's prizes and others may
sneer;
The whole world may loudly declare I
ehall never
Be worth the gunpowder to blow me
from here.
It may be I'm punk as a parlor reciter
And when I begin grown-ups take to
the woods;
But that baby of mine! I can always de
light her.
She vows I'm a wonder, she swears I m
the goods.
It may be I can't keep a tune for a
minute. .
It may be my voice wanders far from
the key: ... j t
It may be the nightingale, lark and the
linnet
As songsters have quite a wide margin
on me.
Caruso and others may take down the
money
For singing their ditties to highbrowa,
hut I ,
Have one little audlenoe, cheerful and
sunny, .. .. ,
Who'd rather hear me than the music
you buy.
She thinks I'm a corker, a lalapaloosa.
She nightly applauds every stunt that
- I do;
She'jl rather hear me than your John
.Philip Sousa.
To her the old nonsense forever is new.
That baby of mine thinks I'm great in
whatever
I tackle the moment we've finished
our tea.
And though others may laugh at my fee
ble endeavor,
The praise of my little one satisfies me.
And eo though the big world goes by
me unheeding.
And never a grown-up takes notice of
me;
Though Into my work failure others are
reading,
I'm still a success to the babe on my
knee.
When worn out snd weary, my long day
Is-ended,
And homeward I turn, I forget my dis
tress; For I know that my baby still thinks
I am splendid.
To her, anyhow, I'm a corking success!
Detroit Free Press.
W'hy He Lost Her.
The count, in truth, was very poor
And something of a clown;
Although he whispered. "Je f adore"
Miss Voney turned him down.
Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.' .
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