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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.
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