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The Eastern representative of this paper Is Albert B. Hassbrook, (1 Times Building, New York, and Hartford Building. Chicago., Wsea yea leave the city or changs year ad grass evea lores weak, don't fail t all at bttilness offloa and leave your order tor The vngva vauy jeaarsl. Harry Alberts, of St. Xouta, was kissed fcy pretty tirt,, who Just nailed on to Mm wlthput bis consent, and HobsonUed hint wtth a. merry smack. Alberts struck the fair kisser ana gave her a black eye. was arrested and fined 120. : Judge Side- ; aver, who tried the Case. - held . tht ;s woman had a right to Use a man if ahe wanteil to, and the better looking ht woman, the mora ' rlbt , abe: ,has.. The fine wasn't bait punishment, enough. He . should have been sent to tha asylum for weak-minded.' " . 1 1 1 . A minister at Passaic, N. J., became o , enthuaiasUo la his gestures wn la;ac ing that he broke avlne vasa containing cut flowers, knockea a heavy Bible off the pulpit, 'knocked a tumbler of ice water half way across tha room, and h finally broke down the .etacd on" which tba- vasa" and other things were placed. He evidently beldngs to the church mili tant. I tk , K t . . i The .Kaiser has sent several, raossejv - gers, some of them of high rsink, to Bar suade little Cladys .Paacan, that ;:MU- waukea girl, to glv : nj1.? tn:7Crowi Prince's ring, which she wears (metophori fcally at her belt,, It Is saljl ab finally threw, tha rltur In the face vof the laat messanger. Thus td the American Pea con pass It no to the German elders. Of the marriage of Mary McCalla, daughter Of Captain P. H. McCallaTto lieutenant Arthur MacArthur, Jr., an exchange aaysi rrhere were .united a daughter of .the ' navy and aon of the army," It atrikee'ua from tha description that aha was a; daughter of Pa's and he ta.son'ot Hars. ' . Five-men want to be Governor of Cal , lfornla. and each might be a little worse than the others. At , the same time there Is no good reason why the conven tions should confine themselves to just these lira In making' their- selections. There are there. , A dying stabllsbment not far from the postofflce has a card In the window with this legend; 'Xady pressor want ed." And yet statisticians tell us there are more men than women. Tha president invaded New England ranch easier than the white squadron could, and certainly at much less ex pens jHe took that neck-of-thewoods by etornu. ' ,-;: .' Peter Powers didn't dodge the jail half as successfully as -lis . namesake Pat rick, The lawyer' caught Peter . nap ping, while Pat caught the kid-naping. American pork is said to be so high tit Germany that few can purchase It Well the American hog is well on top for starter over In this country. Those who put their money Into Trifler liquid alf should get along without worry. Tha stock la cold enough to keep with out the ne of a refrigerator. Now, that tha big naval cotrilo opera la over, the engineers detailed aomeUme go can get to work on the Columbia River and bar. ' lloct Pelee Isn't the whole show.' The KIcarsgua blow ants oontlnua to, shake Hie canai route. - . ' v. "When the critic spoke of drinking In tnuslo,. he probably alluded to tha high Iwwl furnished by tha ,tenor.. .-- TURN ON THE LIGHTS. . Some real or pretended reformer once proclaimed as hia motto: "turn on the ZJgbtsI" ' ri v w muni ta demand it tfiat there be pubiclty of mtels"pertalning to govern. menL and that the beoole be riven Infor- matlon'of what their servants were do- It Is sound civic philosophy. " Jt is good counsel for Oregon just now. whan meas ures are hatching In the nests of self ish politicians, a Legislative session Be ing close at hand. The dangers to the state are not when troubles arise that alarm the" people and place them upon their guard. Then men watch the fortifications f liberty, and repulse those Who would batter down the works that have been erected to safe guard the country. When the people are prosperous is the time when men of selfish desires plan their attacks, and, too, when they sue. cted in outwitting the common people. Oregon la just now engaged in for warding a movement that is to place this state foremost of all Pacific Coast com monwealths. We are busy planning com mercial enterprises, formulating schemes for the material" advancement of the country, building ships, constructing water-way," laying steel rails, opening up areas that have "heretofore been un- productive. All thio ls good. . Yet,, as we attend to these matters, let us not forget , that eternal vigilance Is the ' price -of lib- ertyt that yery day the patriot devotee some thought to the good of the' state. In some quarters whence commonly is sue ponderous discourses upon projected legislation la' silence mora absolute than that of tha tpmk -Ko voicing of current opinion, No argument: for or against this or that measure. r No warnings, tn pre vent Improper enactments. No perform ances of the duty of guarding the pro gress of the state towards better condl- tlons. ' : V ' . Doubtless, there are right . now im portant bills forming, or slgnlfloant can- dldaciee, pt wjhlch the people will not learn prior, to their introduction Into the Legislature, permitting little time fot Investigation, no opportunity for the reg. IfttArlna nf ffMtlvii virotiMt In oatum wsliJ rantlnf such J protest "' 4.0 warn Ui turn on me ugnis is oerore conditions become ad Inough to need correction. And the adoption 'of., the in itiative and i referendum amendment in- uicim' uisaniy1' mi wie: people oi m Ut desire', to' prevent 'railroading - o bills through their Legislature. 'jaood''la'waprapseoT,AwIll not suf?e from discussion. And any measure that needs secrecy If It- be adopted would bet. tei hot be adopted, - . Turn on- the lights light now, and let prospective legislation be told to.the people. They have the right to know what their representatives will offer' as con tributtona towards the statutory enact ments of the state. ' ; 1 H. 8t John Dlx,r the - Whatcom .bank wreokern gof ten years in the pen yes terday, 'the Tan limit of the law. it looks' as though Judge Netever, who sen tenoed him, is trying to discourage that branch of amateur work.,i- DISTRIBUTING 'OF, POLITICAL FAVORS. Two kinds ,of publle officials are to be despised: I . , '''v, ; , fThe men With no Gratitude for the as slftanoe of fflShds; i i" ;! The man who forgets his duty to the public and rewards plvate frlende without regard for their fitness to serve In official capaolty, ' ',i:".",'" '-"',' Every one loathes the man who does not apprelcate the loyalty of those who made possible his elevation to high hon ors. Tha disposition to forget such things Is worse than savagery, for 'even the savage shows gratitude for kind nesses. - Ji ' ' , . . . : 4 It is traditional that the Indian renfem: bers the one who lends a helping hand In time of danger. J. Fennimore Cooper, In his great tales of early times when whiles and aborigines were In juat ip?- sltlon at th eastern border of the conti-1 nent portrays what Is undoubtedly char acteristic of -the Indians and has them exhibiting Intenae devotion to white nrai who befriended them. ' Cooper has been a faithful writer In this respect as well as teacher of lessons of proper appreci ation of acta of generosity by others. However, this may be .carried too far. by the public officer, to the detriment of the publjp service, and the destruction of good4' government. For Instance, no man has a right to expect an appoint ment to a position for which he is not fitted.' It is putting too great a strain upon the bonds of friendship: It is cap italising gratitude: ';. -v The ideal official Is he who attains a proper, harmony of the two ' considera tionsdue regard . tor the claims of frlendsknd the highest conception of the claims of the public service. To hold high office: Is to carry grate re sponsibility for; the Interests of alt of the people. No office la private property. Of all of the good things said and done by Graver Cleveland,' thai was not less illutf trlous than any other when he proclaimed that "Public office la public trust" and that ."Public office shall not he a private snap'.. WerV there morepnen In exalted position who war loyal to -this lofty con ception, government would he more bear J ly an spproximation. of the Ideals laid I down by the founders of a nation. S I Jut now many are applying for poei I tlons under the Incoming administration. I The remarka herein made are In meas- ra platltudinoua yet often we jnust re- Iterate plaUttfdes, and certainly at this time these particular platitudes are per tinent v ;. ... . VOTE-124 TO IT. A Olympta dispatch under date of An gust U, said: 'The Thurston Couaty IiepubU&an con vention today endorsed A. J. Paulknor for Congress and defeated a railroad pom . mislon resolution by a vote of 124 to 17," This Is constructively .4he' rwutering of the will of the people of that county that there shall be no legislation of the character demanded by Oovernor Mc- Pride and his coadjutors In the State jof Washington. To the man who. knows ;bo devious ways of politicians, this vote will wan nothing else than that the antl-McllvlJe forces, succeeded In organUing a more' ef fective machine In that county than did tha jtrlends of the Governor. ' He will know that it may easily u tf&a that In Thurston Couijty there la almost . a ma jority of voters who desire such enact ments as the Governor advocates. The fact is, that politics has become too much a creature of the machine" poli tician, who secures the advantage oyer his opponent through the exercls? of In genuity and guile. ' Here Is an hypothetical ease: ' In every precinct Of Thurtton Cottnty the ntI-McBride forces wo.t tlid; fight by a margin of one vote in the primaries. There were) 26 precincts in the ctuity. There weti, therefore, only 25- mure voters who; opposed McBriC than favor ed him. Yet, the county convention ap parently InUIcatea that iho proportlou be tween his friends and enemies is 131 to 17. ,' v; Of course, 'in a gdr.nnmeiit such, as ours, these things will to, yet thit thry are as they are', and that inch sxasjior ated Instance ocur. may. be referred to machine methods, and to tho. tot ool organizations that are ou-lt up by prac tical politicians. " Nowadays, when conventions assemi.V, the result is usually susceptible cf p e- diction by Instructed tolltio'ana Con-t ventlotis have degenerated Into mere meetings to ratify acts of previ7u B nt conclaves. And the McBrlde defsaf in Thurston County by such an overwhelm ing ("vote la -excellent food for reflection upon the tendencies of modern politics. AN EAGLE'S EYE. "The eye of the American eagle has not come In for its share of attention, said a patriot who has an ardent love for 'the national bird, "and It seems to me that some man who ! capable of de veloping to the fullest the grandeus and almost limitless possibilities of. this fin Ished work of nature should take the subject up. The eagle has been conspic uous in literature and in art generally, Poets, have sung their little songs about the aerial wonder. They have , allowed their" imaginations to soar out into the upper- tar. and aU that sort Of thing. have read somewhere; of a little sketch about the rare delicacy and skill natur has displayed In carviixr the eagle's beak. The tribute is amply deserved, The eagle's beak, his pinions, bis claws, and in fact everything about tho eagle. appeals to me. But I was speaking of the eagle'a eye. Did you ever look into the eye of an eagle T If bo, have you not been Im pressed with the unnpeakable earnest ness, the frankness and honesty to be found thereT HaV you thought or how mueh of the eagle s nature you couia ifindjn an . eagle's eyes bow much' of that wild, passionate love of freedom T How much of that splendid, craving to soar forever above and beyond the cal lous nothings of a too restricted life nearer the ground? Could you not reaa somewhere of the eagle'a vlrtuousove of mate, and the love of hornet There is a worldm the eagle' eye, a world Of tohlllsonhic reflection, and .the pity is that the colors cannot be preserved. At any rate it Is an interesting subject, and one which might be developed If some person , would but take the time In this rushing age to pay a passing tribute to this wonderful pleoe of mechanism." POEMS WORTS READING. AT THE CHURCH GATE ' - BY W. M. THACKERAY. William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta In 1811, ; He was brought un In Rne-land. where he went to the Charterhouse School and later to Trinity College. Cambridge. He left college after one year's study and went to Paris where he studied with the hope of becoming an artist His first contribution In the way Of writing were to Fraser's MagaalneV and among them were the famous "Yellow-, plush Papers." , ,He wrote other satires and humorous ballads for Punch. Thack eray was the first editor of the Qornhill Magasine, which la still in publication. He died in London in 1868. , ,..,-.'-rr; Although I enter not Yet round about the spot Ofttlmes-J- hover! ' And near the sacred gate, With longing eyea I watt, ., 4L Expectant of her. .,': , ,-. Sly lady comes at last, . V.;. Timid and stepping fast. And hastening hither With modest eyes downcast; She comes she's here, she's pastl ' May heaven go with, her!, . . Kneel undisturbed, fair saint I Pour out vour crelne or Dlalnt I Meekly and duly: , j will not enter tnere, -To sully your pure prayer, . . . ,. With thoughts unruly. - - ' But suffer'fwo pace f . Hquna tne lamiaaen place. Lingering a minute, r ' Like outoaet sptrlw who wait And see, -through heaven's gatSL. r : Anaels wUhin It - , , i . , 1 1 V t Ji lit). WW. . 'Crfffl Mhr UNCLE CYPRUS Msndy, I'd like to Portland dldnt have any show. The most important recent addition to the Shakespeare-alsed octavo by Edwin Ticed Bacon controversy is a good netured one. ' The author is al ready well known for various divaga tions Into this field, which bears the title "Bacon and Shake-speare Parallel. Isms" (Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston). Observe the hyphen In Shake-spear. Tis a little thing to the eye. It hath por tentous uses. ' For, In Mr. Beed's opinion, Shake- Fpeare with the hyphen, mark ye again la fhe pseudonym ' Baiori ; ehose to as sume when he published 'fhe plays and poems that we now attribute to one Will Shaxspur, Shakspear or Shakespear. The title page of the folio and of many of the quartos reads Shakes-peare. Th hyphenated pseudonym, it would seem, was simply a tribute to Pallas, goddes of wisdom, poetry and the fine arts, who derived her name from the Greek worn to shake, evidently In reference to the spear she held In her right hand. She was thus the ' Spear-shaker, or Shake-spear, of the Greek drama.'' The object of Mr. Reed'g present boon is to point out lndentltles in word and thought, between "Shake-speare" and Bncon, as the latter appears in his pub lished works, and especially in the "Promns," a sort of a commonplace book. It will be remembered, wherein, during ' tne years 1594-96, Paeon jotted down notes for future elaboration. Th Baconltes emphasize the fact that thin was not given to the public until two centuries aftar his death. Mr. Reed evidently conceives that his most important finds In tf ""Promua"-. inasmuch as he draws special attention to them In his preface are the two fol lowing: .1: An "entry In the "Promua" reads: "Bellerophon's Lettera (producing let ters or evidence against oneself).." in classic myth, Bellerophon. having com mitted an offense at the court at Argos. and being;, protected there by the rites of hospitality, was seat - away to tho' King of Lycia with a sealed letter, re questing that king to put the bearer t death. Hence letters of this sort were called Bellerophon's letters.. Bacon un doubtedly made the entry to remind him of. this device In case of literary need. But he never utilised the hint la any of hie acknowledged writings. Now the letter which Hamlet carried with him from the King of Denmark, his uncle, t the King of England, was precisely such a Bellerophon's letter. , . 2. Bacon devoted a port of one of the folios In his "Promua" . to. the subject o salutations. .Among thero appear ''Good morrow ' and "areada.';,' Mr. Reed som. what arbitrarily glosses the latter as "good dawning," from the Spanish ftlbo. rada, dawning. Then he goes on to sa that this, salutation, entered as an exper iment in Bacon's private commonplace book, circa 159$, hes since appeared but once, in English print, vis; in "King Lear," first published In 160S. ' As to "good morrow," he believes that had been used In English only once before the date of the "Promus." ' Yet it occurs one hundred and fifteen times in tne Shakes pearean plays that postdated the "Pro mtis." I confess that these coincidences leave me unmoved. The, device usea ny Bel lerophon might have occurred to a dram atist who had never heard of Bellero phon. and in any event Shakespeare as well as Bacon might have heard of Bel. lerophon. The identity of "albada" with good dawning is . not proved, and, it proved. It would prove nothing In favor of Bacon or against Shakespeare. "Qpoci morrow'" was probabjy a popular locu tion lopg before it crept into literature, and itaf appearance there before Bacon'e Promus" Is acknowledged. ' , Let us take a few of- the i "parallel isms" between Shakespeare's plays ana the other works of Bacon. That pursuit Is better than attainment was a common place with -fhe philosophers long before Shakespeare or Bacon came Into being. Pling the younger, for example, says: An obpect rarely ettaine'in possession the charm that It had in pursuit" (Let ters Book 11, 15. i). There is nothing sin gular In th fact that both the great Ellsahethans repeated the Pcommonplace.' Nor -Was. the repetition put Into' words that bear any singular likeness 1 to on another. Shakespeare makes the reflec tion at least twice: ' v ! All thlnm There are ",-! Are with more epTrif - chased - than en Joyed. "Merchant , of Venice.". Act ti, scene Ik ,-v-. ..... - Things won are done,' joy's soul lies In "Trollus and pressida. Act U secene 1. - Mr. Beed Quotes three parallels if row Bacon. The nearest approaok to any real SAKESPEARE-BACON PARALLELS I see that fellow from Astoria who said likeness is in this sentence from the "D Augmentls:' w ', So much pleasanter Is It to be doing than to he enjoying. . But at best this is only ah approach to a likeness. Again, both Shakespeare and Bacon mistakeably affirm that the feees have a king. But, as Mr. Reed him. self ackpawledgea, the blunder was or iginally Ylrgli's in his Fourth Georgic; The bees of a hive are very obsequi ous, to their, king. They attend him In crowds, often raising him on .their shoul ders and exposing their own bodies in his defense. In fact' both . Bacon and Shakespeare drew their knowledge of bees from books and not from nature., a common fault among the writers of that perold. All which leads up to a' genera! ex planation of many of these parallels, especially, such as seem to indicate that Bacon and Shakespeare had gone to seme common fount of clagslc lore, Shakespeare's Latin was "small." His Greek was "less." Many of the authors to whom he was apparently Indebted had not been translated into .English In hl day. The difficulty Is easily solved II you remember that in Elisabethan and Jacobean days the actor's profession was in ' itself a liberal education. Not enly was he thrown In contact with the great in rank, but with th? great in mind. His constant '. associates wits and thiei most learned schoiarit of th day Vs.; the dramatists. Nearly all ot tnese were college brod. At the "wit combats" in the Mermaid and elsewhere one may well imagine that a keen intel ligence, an' intelligence far Inferior to Shakespeare, might have picked up wealth of Information and stores oi classic allusions. Lastly, knowledge was not specialized then as now. It did not present the vast and bewildering array of facts that It does now.' It lay on the surface. Its sources were comparatively few. No one now could say with the sixteenth century Bacon, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." A learned man of thai age might be described as one who had accumulated a thorough knowledge oij the various sorts of ljrnorance that had afflicted hl forbears,. Now this could be done through conversation us well us through books. W'M. S WALSH. ; SOME SUMMER LAUGHS. "I've Just been reading mim statistics of births and deaths, Extraordinary thing! Every flrae 1 breathe a man dies." "Great Scott!, Why don't you chew cloves?" London Judy. One of the worst things that can be said about woman Is that she is almost as unreasonable as a man. Baltimore News. ., j...-.,. Freddie What did mamma spank' you for Just, now T Reginald She spanked me for notninV Did you think I pay her for doing that? Chicago Daily News. "What can I do for my little boy," asked mamma, "so that he won't want to eat between meals?" "Have the meals ficker together," replied the young hope ful. Tit-Bits." .The outing season has arrived. The days are iongv.and. sunny ; His famuy is out o,!town, ' . ' And he is out of "nwriey. . Washington Star. ialL'g to Practical. iTThe Ifalser is afiffig to dec orate 800 Americans who talddfl in enter talnlng his wandering brother." . "How useless? Why doesn't he do something of a practical character, and give each of them a ton of hard coaL" Cleveland Plain Dealer. ( A Working , Him. Borough Say, old man, 1 can you, break a twenty, so I can get a $5 bill out of it? Markley Sure: here you are. Where's." your twenty? Borroughs Oh, you misunderstood me! 1 thought you had a twenty. Thankst One Ave will do. Philadelphia Press. "My young friend," said Senator Sor ghum', ."you have an exceptional talent for speech-making." .. . Yea," replied the statesman; who gets great deal of applause from the gal leries, "I feel Justified in saying that oratory-is a gift': : ,: . ,. -f,-:. ". , '.That's what it Is! There are mighty few people who can get paid for it now- adayf."- Washington Star. , . LEARNED' SLANG. Aaklt "Who' Warn, that srirlW vnil Intm. ruced me to Who usek so much slang?" Telllt "Oh. she's a friend Of mine who Is Uking post-graduate-course in Eng Isk at a female seminary.' Ohio Bute JouraaL-, -j j EDITOFIAt OPINION. " ! I ) , ,l, ,. 1, H.,,. TO GET A -FOOTHOLD. , ' "We hope our American statesmen wfll? meet' Sir Robert Bond," premier ef New Foundland. half Way, in his effort to ar range a reciprocity treaty f Her is a rood chance to get ' a foothold in New Foundland, and 'strengthen the very friendly feeling of the -people of that Island towards ua- Sir 'Cohort -prefers ireo trade with the United States as against a union of tha colony wtth the Dominion i Canada, and w Know, of no valid reason why We shouldn't bars' free trade with New Foundland Lot us not inake the same mistake with New Found. land that we have made with Canada.- Mlnneapolia Journal. ' " . , TOM JOHNSON'S TURN. This U Tom Johnson's year to tackle the Republicans in. Ohio. The : Buckeye Democrats are rich in leaders, but unfor tunately for the party tbey do not dwell together in unity. They tight each other quite as energetically as ever they do the common enemy. 'The result of course la greatly to the liking of the enemy. When John H. McLean is in control of- the or- ganlaatlonj, Tom Johnson' interest 1 far from lntensa. When Tom Johnson eon troli, Mr. McLean's interest is not at all riotous. And when Colonel Kilbourno controls,, neither Mr. ( McLean nor Mr. Johnson loses a wink of sleep from oveisc anxiety., Both Mr. McLean and Colonel Kll bourne have taken a sound heating at tho polls. Will Mr, Johnson as command er-in-chief meet with a similar fate! : -Mr. Johnson this year, will not as his two rivals did when they challenged the enemy, head a state ticket. But he will control the stats convention next month and wrlta the platform. That will .make him the leader for the campaign and put the responsibility on - him. Will he suc ceed in Mttlng more voters to the polls than hi rivals did, when, they were In charge?! The returns will be Interesting from ttfat viewpoint. If he does. It is scarccbr necessary to say that there will be some exause for crowing on his part, and thjat hewJH be likely to Improve the occasion. He ha a strong voice, and he believes in,, himself,,'!?., .A,,,..v .' As was pointed out in the Star's Cleve land letter yesterday, interest attaches to the platform which Mr. Johnson will pre sent. A very rich man himself, he takes the ground thai Vealth .does not pay its share of taxeaj He ,ha the great railroad corporations particularly In view. He wants to "go after them," and first' and last to set things in 'general right He was at one time a follower of Henry George, He has since been a follower of Mr. Bryan. .:!He w&s When In Congress a pronouncedfree trader.'- Shall we find in thei coming deliverance as much of his well known principles ' as may be availa ble for use,' In a local campaign? Will he glYjndlcaJtt( expect If fortune in the next two year should bring hint forward for National honors? lie has high ambition; and -money to, sup port It. And, not to, apeak- of the Re-, publicans of the state, how will such platform If forthcoming strike the Mo-' Lian and Kilbourne forces? Wtll it gi'e them an additional excuse for indiffer ence? Washington Star. REVISION NEEDED. , One of tha beauties of" the steel trus resta In the fact that it not only seek to and probably does control the out put In the United States, but It also de mands to know first what interests are behind Its customers before it will even sell the goods demanded. A case In point in that of the Omaha Northern Railway Company, a Nebraska corporation which Is preparing, to independently construct a few hundred miles of road. This com. puny wrote to the several steel rail manufacturers asking the cash price per (an ; for rails delivered ' in Chicago, Se- i-ral companies retponded, aU hut one to the effect that the rules required that, the bidder state who was behind the red way project- One company' made a bid. but quickly withdrew it the follow ing day, after making the same request for information. . r-t,-. -j It so happened that .the new railway company was ' prepared : to pay cash for Its rails and did not. feel called upon to give the desired Information to the man ufacturers. f ,, Therefore, It Is arranging to buy Its rails In Belgium, .where as a matter of fact they can b bought and delivered In Chicago at about the same cojit as the, Pittsburg product owing to the' fact that the price is kept up by the trust to the tariff arid transportation charges. . This is but an example which points to the requirement of ' a ' revision of the tariff. The railway magnates of the East are also In control of the steel plants and they are not going to make rails for any competitor- If they can' help It. At the same time they manage to keep their price up to the actual cost of securing and transporting; rails abroad. The neces sity of revision should be apparent wlen it cornea to a pass that a cash purchase must make" a statement of its Interests before It can even secure a price. That U a holdup, pure and simple, and it re quires legislation and competition to rec tify the' matter. Competition is right fully said to be the life Of trade. It servea to equalise prices, to' protect the consumer against unreasonable and ex tortionate charges and doea not In any way operate to the detriment of the manufacturer. If rails 'can be sent alt the way from Belgium to Chicago and be sold at the same price as from Pitts burg there must e something wrong In this country. It is a question Which re quires Investigation, and It Is not at aU neceaary to tear down aU the tariff wall in revision.-Walla Walla Union. 'pSHAWf- SAYS SHAW. Secretary of . the Treasury Shaw -does not believe that the tariff has anything to do with fostering the meat trust Sec retary Shaw will not claim, however, that the tariff on meats fosters the health and strength.: of our peopled He would not deny that working men in cities (aa well a on f arms), working women and growing children, should have meat to eat He can scarcely deny that a duty of 27 per cent on live cattle, cents a paund-on beef,, mutton, pork and lard;. B oents.on poultry, eggs by the dosenJbam and bacon,, has - something to , do with keeping the price of these strength' foods beyond, the reach of the people i ho need them most ' In considering the question of the tariff, why not regard the greatest hand to the gratest numbers-Chicago Times, .. , ' - - TONIGHT' ATTRACTIONS, v -Marquam-,?The Toy iMaker," '.TlToli Opera Company. Cordray's-n-Tide of Life," Melodrama. . Shield's ParkVaudeville. f COMINO "ATTRACTION. .Jlarquam '.Toy Maker," Saturday night -ma tine Saturday; with' toy souvenir presentaUon. . : Pollard Juvenile Opars, Co, for Carnival weeks : Baker-s-Neill Stock Company. Social Highwaymen, Weak beginning Sunday, August XX. Cordrairs-Tha Tide of Life" Saturday. Juvenile Specialty Company beginning Sunday night - Shields' ParkVaudeville coming weekv The advance sale of seats opened this morning: tar the Pollard Juvenile Opera Company, which Manager Cajvan Helllg, JhaMajvinni Grand Theatre, offers as his , attraoOon next Week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Sat urday matinee, the beauUful nautical opera? 'of pianquette," "Paul Jones," win , ,nuly ,BI1 M. urday iHghta, "A Gaiety Girl" It will not take an extraordinary strain on the memory to recall the wonderful success of these youngsters on their former visit and they certainly were heartily received Popular prices will prevail "during thlg engagement ' 5 : 1 J 'y, ; 1 Tonight the TIvol Opera Company wtll present their former success "The Toy Maker,", one of the best In point of fun in their extensive repertoire. The musle Is bright and catchy, and a good laugh- ' able opera. ', ' Mr. Hartman. together with the,cleve principals of the company; are most hap pily suited to their respective characters! xne xoy Maker" will be the ottering at the matinee tomorrow,, when each child attending will be presented with a beau- tlful toy. The company will close thele engagement with the above oper on Saturday night SHIELDS' PARK - AMATEURS TO- NIGHT. . Amateurs win shine again tonight at Shields' Park. Several new acts will at-. pear and Julius Caesar will be the star feature. Julius did a great stunt last Friday night, and made the hit of the show. He promises a new specialty to night A pie-eating contest will be an otfier'big feature. WHY THEY TOOK IT OUT. About a year ago," said a Chicago patent la wye "I secured a patent on ' a. smoke consumer for -a client of mine. " Jie came into.; the toffloe tha other dav. nnd l aaked hint, what he was doing with - his, invention. "j w-i;t-u m- - r "'Wel, he said, 1' haven't had much success with )U It'm hard work to get a thing like that Introduced. Last spring, after a lot of arguing. I got a West Side laundry firm to try it with the under standing that I was to take It out at my oun expense If it didn't give satisfac tion. After if had been In use a month or so I thought I'd go "over and see how It was working, - "As I approached the laundry I saw that there wasn't a bit of smoke rolling out of the stack. In fact it was almost Impossible to see from the outside that there was a fire In the boiler. It made me feel mlghtly good to see that the thing was working so well, and I went Into the office full of confidence. , "Well, I -said to the senior partner, how do yoU' like your amok consumer?" - "TV been going to write to you about that," hevreplied. ' '"We want It taken oat"'.-. "'"What's the trouble?" I asked him. "'"You agreed to take It out at, your own expense If It wasn't satisfactory, you know. ' We have the contract in writing." ' .' ' ' "That's all right I'm not denying that I smtd to nk It nut--, hut TM tike to know what's Nh matter with it I loked at it Just now, and . it seemed to be consuming the smoke all right" " ' "Oh, it consumes, as far as that I concerned, but since the smoke has quit . rolling but of tha stack a lot of our cus- . tomers seem to think we've shut down here, and they're . taking their laundry somewhere else." ... . ih,r.- - - ' "Yes," , the junior partner added. , . "and I can't imagine where we ever got the fool idea that we ought to help stop , the smoke, anyway. It would be Just as sensible for a saloonkeeper to go around preaching temperance." ; , , 'So I had to take the consumer out, and I've decided to give Up trying to In troduce It among the laundries.' " 1 1 ; 1 i i " LETTER WRITING. . Max O'Rell make the following pointed critiolsma on letter writing? , When you inclose a hill or a check in a . 'citer, pin it -to the letter, that It may not drop when the envelop Is opened. If you write a letter of a private nature . words of love that you would be sorry far every one to read, except the lady, jyoi are addressing, put a, blank sheet of notN paper around the letter. Most envelopes ara transparent ; and may disclose your -. secrets.-'il.;;-.:r.r. ..vtV.-'H Always read twice the address you have written on your envelopes. Apply th same process to your letters, your time , will not be wasted,'. ;;::' When you write to a friend do not in quire ibout his health and that of hit, family after your.: signature. . It would look like ah afterthought ,'",.' Ladies, whose minds are full of after. thoughts, generally wrl'te the most Impor- tant part of their letters In the post script I once received a letter, in a wo men's handwriting, the ", signature 1 ol which was unknown to me. At the end W sixteen pages of pretty prattle then was a postscript: v "You will see by m) - new signature that I am married." .-. ' SHE PREFERRED If NOW. .vposterttr will discover me," said th ; poet jC-.-'-vf t?ijf:'''-!,iS:r'tbh'': '-.f If It does," replied his wife, who was aJ tired out because they echrhln't afford to keep a girl, "It will probably regret any time It wasted la doing ," Cbieag Reoord-Hafald. ' ,. ,A . 1 r
