1 I'M URGOLM COUMTT LEIBEB. CHAI. T. ADA K. SOULS, PaW TOLEDO .OREGON. A luxury becomes a necessity" just 08 soon as we can afford to nave It. . The operators are already beginning to raise the prices of coal. Save your corn cobs. Enthusiasm for good civic govern ment always runs mountain high the day after election. If you get hurt when you ore playing the races, however, don't keep on play ing. That is different. It Is in accord with the eternal fit ness of things when a millionaire works harder than his employes; he gets more pay. Russell Snge has lost $40,000 recently In bad loans. This tends to show that a man is never too old to make blun ders. In 1870 there were 2,500 Pawnees. To-day there are only COO. , There are no reservations In the happy bunting grounds. John D. Rockefeller finds that golf makes his hair grow. He doesn't ex plain whether It Is to be rubbed on with the lingers or applied with a syringe. A Boston judge has decided that a person who has paid to hear a play may hiss It If he wishes. And why not? Surely the right to hiss is as clear as the right to applaud. A man thrashed another who per sisted in praying for him in public. Correct! Why should one man be sin gled out where so many stand in need of divine Interposition? A Bayenne, N. J., man who has Reven children is unable to rent a house In that town because of the size of bis family. It will evidently be a difficult matter for Roosevelt to carry Bayonne next time. In upholding the traditions of the Ger man army a young cadet ran his sword through the body of a friend who, as a private, had failed to solute him. How strange It is that with all Germany's progress and intelligence such a cow ardly crime is not considered murder. The old maids of New York In con vention assembled, have pointed out that President Roosevelt Is not the mother of a large family, and that until he Is ho is not the proper person to advocate a numerous progeny. Come to think of It. how many women are complaining about the smallness.. of American families? There Is no excuse for tipping in the United States and workmen who accept tips do Injury to themselves. Pullman car porters and some others are said to receive small wages, as they are ex pected to mnke up the remainder in fees. It Is a reproach on any corpor ation, firm or Individual to pay low wages with the expectation that em ployes will make money from tips. They should be absolutely prohibited. A woman attorney recently told a New York professional club that In every law case woman Is either the motive, the Instrument or the victim. The author of this Interesting theory declares that "the field for the woman lawyer Is the finding of the woman In the case." But mere men sometimes succeed in doing that. The thing that really bothers them and here, perhaps, women lawyers could help In to know what to do with her after they have found her. General Baldwin has denied that he ever Intended to say anything to dis parage the negro or Filipino soldier. He meant to say that the negro and the Filipino are such good soldiers that It makes no difference to them whether they get killed or not. This sounds much better, and It Is more In keep ing with the general's record. And the Incident may make him more careful In the future when ho says anything that Is likely to get into print. He could have said exactly what he meant and saved himself much trouble and annoyance. There Is n belief among certain per sousthat children can be reared without labor. This Is not so und can never be so. Women cannot successfully ren fumllles by proxy. They cannot turn over their children to nurses, governes ses and school teachers. Many women do this, however, and society here and there gathers the dragon teeth In the harvest of crimes against society and moral laws. Work Is the greatest moral force In the world. Mothers who de sire to see their chlldreu happy, to see them useful, to see them worthy members of society hold fast to the doc trine of labor. A wise and upright Judge In Boston has decreed that hissing at a place of auuueuient la at lawful aa applauding, and that as an expression of honest opinion one is as permissible as the oth er. We have been a long-suffering peo ple. We have 6at and groaned under a weary encore because two or three Ig noramuses have decided that a bad song must be repeated. Fifteen hun dred people have often suffered because they were too polite or too afraid to contradict the Impertinence and bad taste of a baker's dozen. Admitting the practice of hissing, there is no fear that an audience will be disturbed In any thing like the degree of torment afford ed by the foolish applause of a claque or the few Idiots whose 'abandoned tastes must be consulted. The man to be squelched Is not the hisser, but the fellow who has a horribly offensive way of getting his money's worth. It has been said that If you would know a man thoroughly you must ex amine his air-castles. The saying is true also of nations. The Moors, for instance, have always had their vision of a reconquest of Spain. The issue of the war between the United States and Spain Is said to have quickened the hope. The disposition of the Sultan of Morocco to favor European Inventions is said to be due to the desire to qual ify his people for the recovery of the territory lost long ago. The title-deeds of lands and the keys to dwellings from which their forefathers were expelled are cherished, as If their renewed use were only a question of time. Only an air-castle, It may be, but an alluring structure of the Imagination. Not infrequently one hears remarks upon the growing lack of Interest In churches and in religion, and upon the decreasing number of men who attend religious meetings. Two Incidents, widely separated geographically, show how Inadequate and unjust such gen eralization may be. The Convention for Religious and Moral Education met lately In Chicago. Not only In num bers and In the representative character of the attendance did the convention surprise even those most Interested, but also In the number of men who attend ed and listened and took an active part. Three thousand people were present when the convention opened, and eight out ten of them were men. Some, naturally, were ministers, but more were laymen men engaged In business, in teaching, in the practice of the professions. Many of them had come many miles to tell what was In their hearts, and to learn more about the spiritual and moral life. While this convention was in session a course of lectures was In progress in Boston. The subject was the great religious lead ers of America. Men of widely differ ing beliefs set forth the story of such diverse personalities as Edwards, Channing, Bushnell, Beecher, William Tenii. The time of these lectures was at half past four, of an afternoon in the middle of the week. Some one asked one of the sponsors for the course why so unusual an hour had been chos en. "Because," he said, "a great many business men expressed a desire to hear the lectures, and that time was convenient for them." One of the good things that; has come out of England Is a bunch of pictures of titled women. There are portraits of Countesses, Duchesses and ladles of various degrees of blue-bloodedness, and all of them are surrouiftled by chil dren their own children and it Is stated that motherhood Is regarded as a badge of honor by the so-called "up per classes" of Englnnd. Under ordi nary circumstances these women would not be entitled to credit. There was a time when marriage and a family of bouncing children were matters of course. Then came the strenuous so cial period, and a great many women discovered thnt they could not care for large families and meet their so cial demands. Some chose the wiser course and played the part that na ture had allotted to them. They reared their children as, only good mothers can, and found great happiness In the circles In which they were queens by right divine. And others sacrificed maternity for receptions, balls, theater parties and a good deal of pleasure that was selfish. Result: A New York newspaper man, after Investigating an entire block of mansions on Fifth av enue, found but four children. Cause and effect are as plain as the nose on your face. The United States Isn't go ing to ruin because a few society folks raise dogs instead of children. In the country and in the homes of the com paratively poor families grow up about as they did In the early years of the century Just closed. Children orp wl. coined. Every new face Is a loved one. Every baby Is Just a little more pre clous than the one thnt nrecedwl it The brain and the brawn of the countrv ore drawn from these homes, oud the supply Is seemingly Inexhaustible. The rich who stltle maternity are losing an opportunity to tako port In the affairs of the nation. There may be an occa sional Congressman, savant or nhllnn. throplst of tho future In tho core of his nurse in some glided palace In New York City. There are hundreds of them In the humble homes, and they win te neara rrom when age shall hove matured them and destiny calls. Some men wairte a lot of time In ex plaining that it wasn't their fault CABINET OFFICERS EARN OF THE THE position of cabinet officer must be a snap in Washington," re marked a visitor to a resident official friend In the office of an uptown hotel this morning. "I would like to have the office 'tendered' to me. The alacrity with which I would 'accept the portfolio' would be aston ishing." 'But. there might be reasons why you . would not accept." replied the official. "The position Is very far from a snap, as you say. and I. being a poor man, would, for one man in the capital, decline the honor, no. matter how much I might secretly desire the office "There is not a member of a cabinet,, with possibly an exception here and there, who gets out of the game for less than $20,000 a year and no one under $10,000 or $12,000. To properly maintain the position of cabinet offi cer, and to live upon the salary would entail the practice of economy which would be quite unusual. A member of the house can live and many practically do upon his mileage, but not a member of the cabinet upon his salary. I have known of many members of different cabiuets who have spent from $30,000 to $150,000 a year. In the Senate and House combined there are scores of men who have practically no incomes other than their salary of $5,000 a year. These men work for what may be properly termed their wages. "Cabinet officers do not work for their salaries; they merely accept what the Congress decided a century or two ago, in stage coach days, to be adequate compensation. The salary of the office did not enter into their calculations in ninety-nine cases out of 100 when their portfolio was ten dered them. "When a cabinet officer Is a wealthy man, as most of them usually are, they work for a variety of reasons. Some have wives who have social ambitions and tastes which cannot be gratified in their former environments. Others work for the personal pleasures, the privileges and the honors the position bestows, the last being more or less passed down to their posterity. Others give up $100,000 a year income, toll like messengers over their desks by day and eat official dinners at night for reasons past, finding out. Some believe, usually erroneously, however, and occasionally correctly, that ser vice In the cabinet may prove of future use to them In presidential conven tions or iu senatorial elections. Dozens of members of the cabinet have resigned before the end of the first two years. "The pay Is Incommensurate with the responsibilities and the work. A cabinet officer once 6ald to me: 'My salary pays my house rent and gas bills. My work is performed solely for love; It Is uncompensated, and, upon the theory that the laborer Is worthy of Ids hire, 1 am going back home and gather up the stray strings to my scattered income," and home ho went shortly afterward. "To the feminine members of a cabinet officer's family the rule Is re versed. They get about $1,000,000 a year each out of It In the gratification of their personal ambitions and desires and the fun they have. 4 "You often hear men say: 'I would go Into the cabinet for $8,000 a year.' These men can't get In. Ninety-live per cent of the cabinet officers of the United States, who are not multimillionaires, serve their country at a sacrifice, and the latter do. too, to a certain extent Upon a single meeting of the cabinet may hang the fate of hundreds of thousands of lives and the expenditure of billions of money, yet the men who thus are to pass judg ment are paid salaries on a par with the cashier In a New York bank of small size." "I should think that Congress would properly Increase the pay of cabinet officers." "My friend, you do not understand Washington life. For over a century there has been a deadly social feud between the members of the Senate and the members of the cabinet. Up to the time of the passage of the presidential succession act, placing the cabinet In line for succession to the presidency lu the event of death, the Senators had the best of it. but to-day the wives of the cabinet members carry the trophy flag. There is no Immediate pros pect of the passage of the bill you suggesf-Washington Star. ENGLAND'S NAVY TO BE INCREASED BY ADDITION OF THIRTY-ONE NEW VESSELS, THE naval program of the British government for the coming financial year Is bold and comprehensive, says the London correspondent of the Washington Star. Although the details of the ships to be ordered are not yet drawn up. it has been decided to order thirty-one new fighting vessels, exclusive of a river gunboat, a new admiralty yacht and a surveying ship. The new program includes three battleships, three armored cruisers, four scouts, fifteen destroyers, ten submarines and two coast guard cruisers. Even the "forward group." who desire the navy to be ncreased at the expense of the army, will be satisfied at the estimates which propose a net increase of the naval expenditure of 3.250.000. com pared with the last year. , ?oX.CJ"f 1'230'000 met by appropriations, the total expenditure will be 34,500,000. The personnel will be 127.000, a net Increase of 4 til which 019.000 increase Is taken. The biggest Increas however IsO 000 for new construction, principally In contract work. The Item for arm rrrmwo m300 t0 bUt t to -p- the dolng8 of their submarines will be Partlcu arly P leTse . with fiVT meat explaining the navy estimates. Tho admiralty Xvl V th,8tate the matter of submarines and before long EnehTnd I h.?M f aCt,Ve la fleet of these queer craft. A year ago flve ' r M-- ? construction and they have been delivered Wer" under Trials will shortly commence to test their DracHi m, defense and attack, and one may expect to hLr Ut"'ty botU for Meanwhile four vessels of an Improved tvoe h. T Interesting details. It la hoped they will be completed before the end f .ta!d down' and the four ha. so far advanced thnt preliminary tria s hn De of crecy Is maintained as to the results. Evldentlv thl u PgUn' but 8e tory. for it Is proposed to build ten more. ve 'been "atlsfae- DON'T DROP BEHIND. No Woman Should Lose Her Hold Upon Progress and Growth. Oftentimes one hear a woman com plain that she Is losing her hold on progress that she hasn't time to read and to keep up generally. Why hos she dropped behind? Some women do not. Under any circum stances, amid any surroundings, they develop. Take them Into a log cabin In the wilderness and they return to civilization and talk so delightfully about tbelr experiences that everyone envies them the chance of the wilder ness and the Joys of the log cabin. la their success one finds a hint of the possibility of catching up with the procession, and keeping up with It, too. What Is their secret of progress, where other women fall out of the line of advance? One woman, relates Harper's Bazar, who lived In the most out-of-the-way place In all Texas for some ten years, and come back more charming than she went, explained It thus: "I never let either my dress or my mind get careless. There is a great deal In girding op one'a loins, as the Bible advises, and keeping them girded. Once loosen everything and jon dis solve In sloth, and lose ground before you know It" She waa determined not to drop behind, and, baring the EVERY DOLLAR SALARIES THEY RECEIVE. will, she found the way. She kept up her correspondence with many friends subscribed for a New York ueVspaper' and read It regularly, even if a trifle" late, and studied with so much Inter. she lived. Its people, Its animals, Its plants. Its customs and Incidents, that when she came back to her Eastern borne and talked to her friends about a.d'huTV' thm 8lghed and ho'i ? ,' bat an opportunity you had in being there!" Instead of com nilserntlng her for having been a thou and miles from a woman's club A 8acpel Tree. hlS..0?. ri'e 00 eurth wlth aD n thentlc history Is the great bo-tree of Burma. For twenty eenturle. It has i n" t0 Buddha' and no way as relics by pilgrims. Undressed kid Is the favorite mate rial for slippers, but slipper, are not the favorite material with the un dressed kid. The man. who laughs last fails to e the Joke first A woman's bravery always crops out when the baa a mouse la a trao. ONE OF THE FAMILY. Pis: that Really Won the Regard of a Traveler. Among the curious ideas of the Per sians is the belief that the presence -of a pig in the stable Is good for the horses' health. Doctor Wills, the au thor of the book entitled "In the Land of the Lion and Sun," writes that as xoon as he arrived at Shiraz his groom asked permission to buy a little pig. These wild pigs are strangely thin, and as active as a terrier. They are very affectionate, and show their affec tion strongly to the horse or groom. They all answer to the name of "Mar John." When the horses leave the yard they are accompanied by tho pig,, which Is Inconsolable if left alone in. the stablf, and shows his grief by piercing squeals, and by attempting to scratch his way out. As long as even one horse Is In the stable piggy Is perfectly happy. When we all camped out on account of cholera, I marched some twenty eight miles. Marjahn never left the heels of my horse, and was able to keep up when I galloped, but any thing over half a mile was too much for him; he was not, of course, In, such high training as his wild rela tives, and when distressed be would commence to squeal, and would look up in a most appealing manner. He remained with us in camp, never leaving my horses, with which he was on the best of terms. I used often to put the horse to speed when out for rides, and on Marjahn's beginning to squeal, the horse would look round to slacken his pace, and shrdl shrd s and attempt to slacken his pace, and Marjahn, If really left behind, would show great distress. The pig would bathe in the liver and show delight In wallowing and swim ming. As he got bigger he used to charge strange dogs that chased him, and was always more than a match for them, generally turning aggressor,, and obstinately pursuing them with many grunts and shrieks. Marjahn, when a fine young boar of three years, was following my horse one day as I raced him against a friend, forgetting in the excitement the distress of the pig. Our gallop being over, I saw a black spot far away on the plain. It was poor Marjahn. who had burst a blood-vessel In his attempt to keep up with us. When we reach ed him he was quite dead. I never cared to keep another pig, and the groom's grief was very great. GIRL AN ADEPT LASSO THROWER. One of the prettiest girls in the Ok lahoma Territory is Miss Agnes Mul hall, 21, daughter of Zack Muihall, general live stock agent of the Frisco, and leading cattle man. She and her sister Jessie lead the society of the town of Muihall, which was named after their father. Both girls are typl- MISS AGNES Ml'LH ALL. cal products of the West, and can ride- and throw the lasso In expert style. Miss Agnes Is the recognized champion horsewoman of the Territory, and won first prizes at tournaments at Oklaho ma City and Memphis, Tenn. Although; her father hns a palatial home at St. Louis, Mo., Miss Muihall spends much. or her time on the ranch. The beasnn Openn. Employer No, you can't go to your grandmother's funeral, but about 4 o'clock you can go out and look nt tho baseball scores and come back and tell me who won. The Use of Cufloc. The 1.000,000.000 pounds of coffee Imported, which gives each ndult per son In the United States two pounds a month. Is 80 per cent Brazlllau and but 2 1-5 per cent Java. h 7v