TIIE OKEGOy DAlLT JOURNAL. PORTLAND, VepSPAY ETENtyQ.. ybVEMBER 2(T, i902.
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.-.-JGOOD ROAPS. CAMPAIGN.
: The Journal would like to encourage
the rood roads campaign, and to urge
: everyone to lend aid in forwarding the
-xnovment. At present, the matter is
Indefinite and hazy, plana being un
formed and ideas yet to be evolved for
the exact manner in which the much
Heeded . work shall be performed.
However, that Oregon should have
better roads Is a proposition appealing
t every ' observant person. If there
be need to argue the point, let the rail
"read policies be cited In support of the
contention, the rallr6ad management
Is In. the hands of some of the most
"""-BclentSflc'rnenp ,etfcemtrrv-"33i
brain 'controlling the management of
-t&Cfversi lines is of the very ijgst.
Atid these men, ' with precedent and
Classified knowledge upon which to
spent In Improving roadways over
which" steam cars are hauled. Mil
lions are expended In eliminating
:-. curves, reducing; grades and . placing
ballast. Ralls are made heavier and
everything is done to make the hauling
. of passengers and freight, easy and
- cheap. '
The same principles apply to country
roads;. Good highways lessen expense
of transporting farm products, and les-
7 ajenlng of expense of hauling is the
reason for the railroads spending so
- -mtteh money on betterment of way. If
two horses may haul so much as four
. horses have been hauling, there is an
economic saving to the farmer. If cuts
be made to reduce grades, greater loads
may be hauled, and greater speed at
tained. The 'fanners are vitally interested in
the making of better roads. The good
- roads movement is primarily for them,
with incidental benefits to every mem
ber of .the community.
I Oregon needs, first, intelligently
drawn road laws, laws that are drawn
.- In the understanding that what sup
plies the. needs "of K6imngm-m
. not meet the requirements of Western
Oregon. Differences in soil and climate
Impose the necessity of providing in
the state laws for handling the matter
' according to the locality in which the
. JVrbrk is to be done.
But,, also, and always, is needed the
creation of a sentiment favorable to
the expenditure of ' sufficient sums
everywhere to make permanent roads.
. There is sometimes parsimony by
county courts, members of which feel
' the lack of public belief in good roads
and their accompanying expenditure of
public . funds, and frequently regulate
action to suit the exigences of polit
ical considerations. To make a record
for email expense seems to be the
. , prime desideratum In the rnlnds of 'the""
averag board of cofn'mfsslorif s.-
The custom has been in Oregon, as,
Indeed, elsewhere in most Instances,
to 'keep roads merely passable without
remembering that to be under the con
stant necessity of making repairs is
most expensive, Permanent roads that
require a minimum of repair work
should be the aim. That is, how the
.uJrsaitoaaVmanaeer operatesv
Exper-knoxledge of road-making,
toe-, .Is essential. The absurd custom
obtains in many places of appointing
road supervisors who know less of
road-making than Satan knows of the
.' Joys of Heaven. They are men as a
ruje who do not understand their busi
ness, and they secure deplorable re-
" trits-fom- 4b- spending - .of public
. money.
The cash assessment instead of the
living of a certain number of days' la-
bor Is an idea that must remain tncor
Torated to the .road laws, if there Is to
be . the attainment of desirable results.
The provision) fpr a county road su
perintendent Is excellent and should be
T retained"' Again, cite the railroad pol-
ley. Therein. Is room only for a man
f at the bead of The maintenance of -way
i n how k
roadways. " ISO u,.iiv -cd'ex-
tepting by "one who has experience.
Our Oregon countier t could' afford to
employ road superintendents com
petent to handle the, . road appropria
tions In a manner-to secure- good re
sults, even If they 'must be imported
from other counties or even from
other states.
THE UStS.Ur cArtuASM.
Regarding "the uses oi clubwomen,"
the Takoma Washlngtoniah says:
The Daughters of the Confederacy have
barred L'ncle Tom ahows in' Kentucky.
The Federated Women's Clubs in Seattle
are taking steps to suppress the Kir)
messenger. System. Sweet are the uses
of the clubwoman..
This is a very cheap use of sarcasm,
and. as so often is the case, is an in
stance of the use by an unfair infer
ence. There are phases of the club move
ment that appear often to be of little
value. Tet, in the main, the club
movementTuis been a wonderful benefit
to the nation. It has organized women
to work systematically to accomplish
ends. It has encouraged women
burdened with cares of home to find
relief in extending the scope of vision
and has brought them Into broader
sympathy with the great outside world
There are women who run the club
into the ground. They go club-mad,
as It were, and neglect duty to family
and home In the running about to per
form too great portion of the work of
the public.
But. these are mere defects In a sys
tem that has marvelous possibilities,
and that has already accomplished
wonders for the women of the United
States.
The ideal club .woman is she who has
a model home life and yet who devotes
her leisure tlme-to forwarding the
commendable enterprises so often es
poused by the clubs. - It cannot be ad
mitted that the club ever should come
before the home. No more should the
man's club ever come before his home
In bis estimation, nor absorb his at
tention to an extent that renders his
home secondary.
The women's club movement has ad
vanced the .average member to a posi
tion ahead of the average business
man. In mental culture. It Is rapidly
making the American woman the su
perior of the American man In literary
learning and it is also making her the
equal of the man in practical affairs.
FOOTBALL fcTHICS.
Football will be an attraction tomor
row In Portland, when the Multnomah
Club eleven goes against the team
from the University of Oregon. This,
to Portland, Is what the Harvard-Yale
game is to th; -t, the great athletic
event.
"Thre' ts- ""-ltepeaitlj'.v to inveigh
against foothnll. There are timid per
Bonsjivho wish to cancel the game from
the list 6f accredited sports.
Much of this talk is bosh. It is
?Witj. Jm'siii;-;-'tas jciw'!9a&
the game. Those who know most of
the game most heartily defend it.
In this connection, let It be said that
the majority .of persons who vote
against football do so in the mistaken
Idea that mere muscle and brutality
constitute the requisites of the good
football player. This is erroneous.
Subtlety, skill, quickness of perception,
ability to understand the tactics of an
opponent, generalship on the field,
knowledge of the rules, all of these are
demanded in the good player of the
great game that will be witnessed to
morrow on the Multnomah Club field.
There have been abuses, and lovers
of the game desire to see them cor
rected. But it is senseless timidity to
advocate banishment of the game from
the field of athletics.
Let the young fellows play football.
Let them develop the essentials that
go to make up excellence upon the field
where the game is played. These es
sentials are essentials in any walk in
life. And the desirable football player
is more desirable elsewhere for that
he has learned to ge Into honorable
patjfjlqt .and, jnaintain the attitude of
good fellow-Bhlp and manly bearing to
wards an opponent.
George Gould and E. H. Harriman
are going to fight for the 'control of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a con
cern valued at $50,000,000. Other mag
nates are In the campaign, and It will
be a battle of giants, a phrase that has
become quite accurate in describing
latter-day conflicts upon the street.
This contest has all sorts of possibil
ities, and might involve the. principals
in war upon a larger scale. Presume it
to have been correct to claim that
Gould is behind the Great Central
Railway Company, now being surveyed
from Coos Bay east to connect at Salt
Lake with Gould's Rio Grande. Western
and ftenver' Wo Gra'nde lines. " See;
that roijd built, and witness a conflict
for traffic in this part of the world that
will engross attention throughout the
world. Gotild has been perfecting his
system of roads until he controls traf
fic in the southwest through which his
Missouri Paclflq runs, with its af
filiated lines, and he is a larger factor
in the railroad world than, most people
realize, because be has been keeping
quiet and has been free from many en
tanglements of recent years.
Salem has nominated, a non-partisan
ticket of candidates for city offices.
Viewed from this distance, and with
out particular knowledge of local conditions-
the - situation -there. la to be
commended. Non-partisanship In
municipal affairs is desirable. It Is
the modern Idea, the fruitage of all of
the years of debate arid deplorable ex
perience. From general considerations,
there should be non-partisanship In'afl
municipal elections. -Other than that
is not desirable. From city party poll
tics grow innumerable abuses. Bryce,
author of the American Common
wealth, properly said that the Amer
ican people have not yet ' learned the
manner in which to govern their cities.
Bryce is right. American "cities are, as
a rule, miserably, governed. And poll
tics la responsible, for much of the
misery of bad government therein.
There is some reason in the claim of
the party man w;ho rotes his party
ticket on national isues. Put, In de1
termlnlng position on muuicipal issues
the party plea Is about as sensible as it
would be to plead to elect a party candi
date to drjve your milk wagon.
The local board of charities offers a
record of more than 17.000 cases oared
for during the dozen years of its ex
istence. This chaiity organization
gives Its best reason for being In prov
ing that it has wrought to eliminate
fraudulent beggary, and to encourage
men and women who have been unfor
tunate to help themselves. Self-help is
the highest sort of good to the person
who ha" come into hard places In
travulftiK. life's roadway. Intelligent
charitable associations worlPto (ffduce
the unfortunate to help themselves.
Giving of opportunity Is better than
the giving of food and clothing. At
times, there must be the giving of
these. But it should be only in cases
of emergency. The Portland board has
done well in working along these lines,
and Its existence is a blessing to man
kind. The broad-minded men and
women who compose it are deserving
of commendation and support from all
citizens. The doing of their mission is
an oasis In what is sometimes a desert
of human selfishness.
At the St. Louis exposition the Mid
way is to be called Concession street.
However, a rash by any other name
is Bal l by expms to emit tho fanv
kind oi odor.
AT THE COOKING SCHOOL.
MiBs Voorhees began her lecture on bis
cuits and pustry yesterday with an "if."
"If we attempt to hnve pastry in the
home, let us have It good, as a light,
Huffy paste is less harmful than any
other. To accomplish this we must use
good nsfltettols.', ...." . . .,.
While wavering herself between a
preference for pastry or for bread flour
in. plo making, M.laa . Voorhees explained
the difference, and left It To the Judg
ment of the baker. When there is no
enco Is that way. It can be easily made
by adding one fourth as much corn starch
as ordinary flour. One thing Is sure.
Whichever Is used, It must be sifted be
fore measuring. There are from one
to two more tablespoons in a cup of un
sifted flour.
All materials used must be as cold as
possible; use the hands only when ab
solutely necessary; add the welting grad
ually are some of the "does."
WHEN WORKING.
In rolling out the paste. Miss Voorhees
was careful to keep It In a circular shape.
She ipoved it about over the board, but
never from side to side. When the paste
was in the pan she. added a second nar
row rim to act -as a bulwark against the
Juices of a fruit pie. The pumpkin fill
ing was poured into the shell and slipped
into a piping hot oven.
THEN THE BISCUIT.
Miss Voorhees gave tht proportions for
sour milk biscuits, but confined her dem
onstration to baking powder rules. Her
shortening was butter, although lard, or,
better still, fryings of beef fat, do as
well. When the tiny circles were cut
out and touched with milk they were
popped Into an extra hot oven for ten
minutes.
Every one tasting after the demonstra
tion, sad both pie and biscuits were ex
cellent. The leson next week Is to be
salads and salad dressings.
FOURTH CHURCH CONTEST.
When young ladles will to do a "thing
It must go through; at least so says the
choir of the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
The young Indies up there have been
patiently working to raise money for a
plane,, and they have quite a little nest
epg saved. This evening the choir is to
give a concert of 12 numbers to swell
the sum. They have planned no stated
admission fee Just a free-will offering
for value received. These are among the
many promising numbers. ' ,
Cornet solo Mr. J. P. Caldwell
Soprano solo Mi3S Grace Shaw
Quartet The Choir
Duet Mandolin and guitar
Mrs. Thomas Moodv and Miss Dilly
Vocal duet. Mrs. Cowgill and Mrs. Werleln
Violin solo .Mrs. George Anderson
The members of thr choir are Mrs.
Cowgill, soprano; Mrs Werlein, alto; Mr.
Opden, tenor; Mr. Bestow, bass.
THE AID SOCIETY.
The spirit of Thanksgiving time was
Abcoed at the Vst PrjesbyierJac Chuxcli
yt-sterday afternoon. The ladies were
packing boxes for missionaries in the
field, and assorting out clothing for some
unfortunate ones at home. One of their
most enthusiastip helpers, Mrs. Coman.
is in New York Just now, and it seemed
appropriate to read a letter from her,
remembering them in the midst of her
pleasant vlslu Another good work Is
to be taken up soon in connection with
the Y. W. C. A. new quarters. The
board are asking the lacftes -of the dif
ferent churches to help in furnishing the
sleeping rooms they are about to open.
The First Church ladies are most willing
to do their share.
TTHS AND THAT.
Mrs. T. T. Geer attended the demon
stration at the cooking school yesterday
afternoon. As first lady of Oregon, the
pumpkin pie was cut in her honor and
she pronounced it excellent.
. Miss . Christine Troebstel. from Weston.
Orepon. is visiting her aunt. Mrs. Jacob
Proebstel. at 53 East Seventh street.
Miss Daisy Mansfield has gone to Ma
rion County, where she has accepted a
school for the rest of the winter.
Announcements nave just reached Port
land of. the.marrlage of Herbert R. Har
ris and Ella Leletra Harris Iff Birming
ham, England. Their home Is to be 728
Shotwell street. San Francisco, Cal. It
will Interest Mr. Harris many school
friends here, to know that "Herbert" is
married:
j JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES. ;;
BY K. K. K.
RAILROAD WAGE-RAISING.
. Nobody seems to teel bad over the re
cent 10 per cent advance In wages mads
oy tee f ennsylvaaia, Reading Northern
Central, and trther railroads, except the
maa who "pays the freight.' ' As for him,
the railroads "may be expected to try to
gei some or ipe expenditure for lncreeseo.
wages back out of the higher rates to
shippers," remarks Sraastreet's, so "the
ultimate result must be In another addi
tion to the Item of cost ultimately to be
borne sy the consumer," If the consumer
Is a wage-worker; however, as most peo
ple are. he may find consolation in the
statement made by President Cassatt of
tne fenneylvaola Railroad, that "all the
railroads in the United States and all em
ployers of labor are contemplating an ad
vance in wage," One editorial writer,
who is probably a wage-worker, throws
out a gentle hint that It would be a nice
thing If the advance could conw before
Christmas. Some of the employers may
be a little obdurate, but as a despatch
from Philadelphia says that "President
Baer was the leader in the movement to
raise' wages" on the Philadelphia & Read
ing, another writer concludes that there
is hope for all.
President Cassatf a statement to the
board of directors of the Pennsylvania
road was about as follows:
"The country Is passing through an un
exampled period of prosperity, and, as far
as the Pennsylvania Is concerned, this
prosperity is bound to continue at least
two years If contracts are kept. It is time
that our employes he given a share In this
prosperity. All the railroads in the United
States and all employers of labor are con
templating an advance In wages. The
cost of living has increased -0 to 25 per
cent, but wages have not increased ac
cordingly. This tnovtment is bound to
come, and the Pennsylvania may as well
lead as follow. We have more business
offered than we can handle, and can't see
our way out of the trouole unless we keep
our men loyal to the company and help
them while they help us. I, therefore,
recommend a fiat increase of 10 per cent
in wages and advise that this announce
ment be made to the employes first and to
the public later."
The advance has probably averted a
threatened strike, think Dun's Review and
the New Tork Journal of Commerce, and
thus averted a blow to our prosperity.
The latter paper observes:
it is a circumstance of considerable
Importance to the financial world that the
Western railways have averted the
threatened strike of their employes by
making advances In wages. A prolonged
railway strike, coming upon the heels of
the long tie-up ot the coal mines, would
have produced a very disquieting effect
upon the money market. We do not pro
pose to discuss here the question whether
the' demand for higher , wanes is Justified
by the Increase In the Cost of living and
in the net earnings of the railways, but
simply to refer to the serious derange
ment which extensive strikes would cause
In the entire economic system of the
country In its present state. It is doubt
less true that the earnings of the rail
ways have increased In a large propor
tion during the past five years. The rail
way hands have shared in the prosperity
to some extent, and the owners of se
curities have shared In the benefits of an
advaiK-e in thetr price, but have shared
rather less In the possible benefits of in
creased dividends, because so large a part
of the earnings has been applied to Im
provements, giving active employment to
Inbor. If at the present time the capital
vulue or some railway si-curitles should
be seriously Im paired by strikes which
should check traffic and reduce earnings,
then "life" investing; puWfe v-euhi-- strffer-j
louses which would react upon tneir con
sumption of goods In all branches of In
dustry. The entire eonimunlty also would
suffer In the same way if sudden derange
ment were caused in the supply of goods
fn 'relation to demand eailsed ' toy ths
paralysis of freight traffic." .
TOPICS IN BRIEF.
Fashion Item. ioal pockets are not be
ing made full this season. The Yonkers
Statesman.
The man with "untold wealth" Is the
one who dodges the tax assessor. The
Philadelphia Record.
Plff-Puff Is a new game, and Its name
sounds like a Republican editorial on
prosperity. The Commoner.
Chauncey Depew was j at. a dinner the
other night and rcmaiaed silent. It was
the hit of the evening. Life.
"Truth loses some battles, but no
warp." says Tom Johnson. But the gen
erals are sometimes changed. The St.
Louis ilobe-"Upmocr.!t.
The fate of Gen. I'rlbe-Uribe has not
yet been decided, but. in all probability,
be will at least be tried for repeating.
The Atlanta Journal.
President Roosevelt cou'd get more peo
ple to read his message If he would In
corporate In It a column or so about his
bear hunt. The Chicago News.
A record-breaklnu corn crop for the
country ought to be satisfactory, con
sidering that it was President Roose
velt's first attempt -The Chicago News.
86 far as heard from, no member of
the coal strlke'c'ommlssibh"bas yet de
clared that tie would like the' life of a
miner as a permanent Job. The Balti
more American.
After all. knowing so little of Mm, the
papers should not speak too harshly of
Smeed Root, or Mrpd Root, or Seed Root,
or whatever his name Is. The St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Those who have figured out to their
own satisfaction that David .;B. Hill can
not b elected to tlie presidency neglect
to mention the name of some Democrat
who can. The Kar.s.-is City Journal.
Mr Color now wii not be under the
painful necessity of poingover into Penn
sylvania and takintr the coal mines away
frhrry Mr Pie- n v 'tns pledged to do
If elected. The Chicago News.
There Is pometlrnc about the name of
that boy hnrijlur Pawpayllckl Just
taken In rharcr by the police, which sug
gests a paternal cjuty that may have
Iwn neglected at home. Tho Chicago
Everririie.FuSt'. - - : .--
The Kansas Judge who held that a
man had a rlpht to bury his own wife,
has been found.
- THE LOyiS STYLES.
It M the French King Louis XL who
Invented gold lace, and it was Louis XIV.
who ordered all the silk upholsteries of
the pa-ace done In white with figures of
gold and blue and a touch of red. The
Loulsine silks are named after him, and
allthe Freneh kirtps -of the-iMHe-ef --Louts
have had their names brought down to
posterity through the tnvention of some
article of dress, whether it- be a Louis
Quinze heel or a IyouIs Seize coat, while
to Louis Quatorze belongs the honor of a
cuff and a hat
. .ess sees .,,.,.,,,.,.
:: i BT THE way.:; ' '
' .y , ;-...
eeee.eeea.ft
"Up the valley 'it struck ; town. I
won' r give the tfineof It; because I
don't want te be mobbea If I ever go
back there, where they were f having an
institute." said the traveling man to his
chance acquaintance on the train. 'There
was not a room te be had in the one de
cent hotel In the place, and I tried to be
comfortable on the sofa by the ;arlor
nrw. in. nouse u chock-full of teachers,'
the chambermaid confided to me when
she came In to sweep and dust They're
a nuisance.' she continued. The way
they order a person about at meal time
Is enough to sicken you. sending things
back to be cooked over, and asking for
what they, know they can't get. I de
clare to goodness, I don't believe halt of
mem gei a mucn as they want to eat at
i.-ome. i suggested that moat iikaly
they taught in the country and boarded
around. She said she hadn't thoujht of
niai, ana sne wouia try to be patient.
"Later in the day I bad the good for
tune to encounter a sample or two of
mese gay young things who teach dis
trict school in. that unnamed county up
the valley. A pretty girl with dark eyes
and a pompadour to match came In and
took a rocking chair on the other, aide of
the airtight stove. I had not finished ad
miring the shapely foot revealed with
every backward sweep of the chair when
two vivacious maidens of the fluff v blonds
ype -entered with the rush and energy
oi an incipient tornado.
" 'Why, hello, Jen. how do you do?
haven't saw you for a coon's age.'
'Hello, Nell, I'm fine. How're you?
Say. 'd you hear that guy tryjn' to bluff
us teacners on Jogoraphy this mornlngr
"Didn't I? What 'd you s'pose he's
a drlvin' at. anyhow? ,
"'You can search me. Bet he. didn't
know himself. And them questions 'bout
examinations say, wouldn't It Jar you?
Wouldn't It Just about kill you?'
" 'Oh, say. 'd you hear whether Kit
passed or notf J
" 'No, I ain't heard.'
" 'Well, I hope she did, but I ain't sure.
She's awful easy rattled, and I know she
bawled all night the. night before.'
" 'Poor kid! The examinations Is awful.
I guess we all know how 'tis ourselves.
Didn't I fairly howl over mine?'
" 'That's so; we teachers don't travel
on greased axels, you bet your life. Say,
d you hear about the show? They say
the minstrelsil be here tonight. I guess
we won't do a thing but prance right
over there to the opery house'
'I lost the rest of the conversation,
to my lnflinlte regret, having to tear
myself away to catch my train. But I
have been devoting a deal of thought to
Jen and- Nell and Kit. sweet, gushing in
nocence, and Incidentally wondering about
the standards set by county boards of
examiners, or superintendents, or who
ever R Is who gives teachers' certificates
to aspiring applicants. Youth and beauty
and vivacity go a long way with most
of us. They have evidently gone all the
way with the superintendent of schools
In that county up the valley. Jen mid
Nell were certainly pretty enough to
make up for the lack of about every
thing else, but it's rather rough en the
rising rural generation."
There Is a certain party line In this
town over which half a dozen different
people Invariably try to talk at the same
time. The following conversation was
overheard Saturday:
FeBaiBin volcsn-Xetk.l.'U ftP"?.ome fljw-
ers. Just a few.
Masculine voice In a bouquet.
Feminine, voiced-Yea. Shall I tie them
up with something?
Masculine volce-Somethlngin the form
Feminine voice Yes." I had thought of
something In the form of a ribbon.
Masculine voice Something In the form
of a ribbon will do, I think.
Feminine voice I want Bert to go. He'3
never been to a large funeral. I am sjre
It will Interest him. To .tell you tho
truth, I've never been to a large funeral
myself, You "think the ribbon will di?
Masculine voice Yes, oh, yes. I hope
you won t mtss it. it s going to ue :i
big affair. All the fraternal societies will
be out.. You'll enjoy It, I know. And
then Central yelled at them to ring off.
'!Say, Pa, look here." exclaimed the
young woman on the S. P. train the other
morning. "This here ticket ain't good
for more'n today. - I don't understand it.
We used to get tickets good for 3 days."
"Well," explained Pa, after mature de
liberation, "you see, we Used to pay 4
cents a mile for rldln' over this here
road, an' now we only pay 3 cents a mile.
It standB to reason we can't ride as
long for 3 cents as we used to for 4 cents.
Ain't that correct?"
"Why, yes, of course: I never thought
of It though. It don't take as much
money to buy a ticket now as it used to,
does it?"
Joggy Is three, and a hunter bold, .
With a broken bolt for a Run '
And the way he protected us alj from the
henrs
Was the bravest thing under the sub.
- .
The fiercest bruin that roamed the woods
Twixt the lounge ana Dearoom aoor.
He faced and fought like a president,
And slew him a dozen times oer
COMPOSITES.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
PORTLAND. Nov. 25. 1902.
The Oregon Dally Journal oentlamen:
I desire to express my appreciation for
your words of practical advice and wis
dom expressed in your editorial of the
24th. "W6 must do it ourselves." Plain
talk should be the order of the day. We
have been and are drifting God only
knows where. We all know Oregon, with
her vast resources, is now occupying third
place Justly entitled to first. We must
get a different, modern business move on
oursetves, or be lost in rae snuffle. Please,
republish the aijtlcte.. in. .the. .center .ot .a
page with frame, so") the ' busy man. may
not overlook it. Your truly.
WILL KILLINGSWORTIL
-i-
THE NECKTIE RULES.
Chicago Journal: Henceforward you
must not Judge a man by his bat or his
coat or the way In which he carries his
handkerchief, but by his necktie This is
the dictum of a ladles' paper. It works
rather curiously. A well-tied tie, it
seems, argues an absence , of . intellect.
Mr. Gladstone's tie might have been
quoted hi support of this propestltion or
of its converse. They were always abom
inably tied and never stayed in their
proper place. But this new authority goes
outside the sphere of geniuses. "The
average man. with an ordinary share of
Intellect," she says, "seldom knows how
to tie a .tie as it can be tied, and is tied,
by men with no intellect at all. I defy a
man of real brains to keep his tie at the
exact" angle "Tor any 0Ti9taeTabte ttmer
Directly you, see a really beautifully tied
tie which never 'moves out of place you
may be fairly certain you are not face to
face' with an undiscovered Shakespeare
or an embryonic Ooethe." -
7" 1KlNEjiV ENGLAND.
Visitor Your father cleared this farm,
did be not?
Haggard Agriculturist Yes: of every
thing but" the mortgage.-Chlcago Trib
une. '
THE JOURNAL'S P0ET$. , j
. A Couple of Frauds J
I took her to te opera -. A - . .
She s dear to me - . - -I
made believe that I knew French ; ;
And so did she. V '
We, sat there and. .we, hearft then ling.
But neither stirred. ' ,
Because we didn't understand ' v
A single word.- .. '
We didn't dare to clap our hands.
Or smile or frown, -for
fear wed be the- laughing- stock
Of all the town.
So there we sat upright and prim
Through all the show: '
I knew her mind audi would give
A lot to know
If while I inward laughed, 'la glee,
1 ne maiden, she
Who looked ao. sweet, so Inn&cent,
Laughed back lit me. -
- TVN. JatOSXSSOSN,
By the Umatilla.
Yon snowy peaks, that stand like Jewelled
throne;
Wrapped in the mystery , of sublime
Cloud-crowned, purple ridges .that
fore'er a
Stand guard beside the gateways of
the night! ,
You are the masters of tbe kneeling
nuis.
The watchmen o'er the teeming fields
below ;
You hold the chalice from whose rim dis
tills
The limpid Umatilla's westward flow!
Upon her waves the moonbeams' Angers
pmyv - -
Soft as a maid would touch the an
swerinar itrinin:
Veiled, like a nun, she-softly seeks her
way.
Among the shadows that the alder
nings:
Down from your stairway 'ima the mists
oi arrey,
Down by the echoing fields, all- harvest
bent! ,
Down, down, toward the westward cates
of day
Bear ye the message that the moun
tain sent!
Oo, winged messenger! At ocean's feet
The tribute of her loval landsmen lav!
We feel the promptings as her pulses
oeat,
And hear her voice a hundred leagues
away!
BERT HUFFMAN, in East Oregoniun.
t The Education of An Editor.
It's nice to be an editor, it really is, in
deed; '
The edit man gets such a lot of jolly
things to read.
He never has to wOrk at all Just alts
from morn to nlsht
And spends his time - perusing what the
otner people write.
A thousand writers 'round the globe con
tribute to his mail; i' . .
They send' him postal pouches filled with
. every kind of tale.
With all that knowledge coming in; no
vollege course he needs
There's liberal education in the raft of
stuff he reads.
He reads a bulky screed about "Queen
Wilhelmlna's Gown."
Another on the question. "Why Don't
Trees Grow Upside Down."
He ponders o'er "The Future of the
Turkish Sultan's Crescent"
And turns to scan a "History of Hat
pins, Past and Present."
A weighty manuscript attracts his edi
torial eye,
Entitled, "Speculations on the Origin of
Pie."
He reads a dissertation, then, called
"How to Find the Pole."
And Lingers long and eager o'er "A Sub- ;
stitute tor Coal.
A chap In Cape Town gives him points
about the fierce Ashantis,
A man. In Russia .wants to tell. "How
Cossacks Build Their Shanties," ' .
A woman sends a poem, named "The
ClAudaotJJife Are Lifungj' , .,.
And Several hundred people write on
"Whither Are We Drifting?"
It's nice to be an editor, it really is, in
deed; The edit man gets such a lot of jolly
stuff to read.
So easy is his dally work, the wonder Is
to me
They put him on the payroll for to draw
a salarie!"
Newark Evening News.
THE SAME A3 HERE.
(Chicago News.)
Nothing is more difficult to endure than
the downfall of one's pride, even In a
friendly game of cards.
Joseph Goodfast, 244 West Congress
street, has long been impressed with the
Idea that he was about the smoothest
pinochle artist on the West Side but he
has learned his mistake:
Goodfast dropped Into the saloon of
John and Lena Newman, and challenged
the latter to a go at the German national
game, and to make It worth while a little
wager was made on the result of each
round.
Mrs. Newman soon demonstrated, ac
cording to Joseph's story, that as a paste
board prestldigitateur she has the average
faro dealer going south. Goodfast discov
ered that the only things he could melt
was his .money and his temper, and no ar
rangement had been made for the scoring
of either.
After about $3.66 had passed Into the
infinite.. beyond. 4"o"At, cw!de4 .... be
iaa beln-Jotld,..anJ bis ,amour jproDre,
was disturbed. Under the stress of feel
Ing he hied him to the Desplalnes street
station and related his troubles to a po
liceman. A few minutes later the Newmans were
arrested on a warrant charging them
wtttY betng gamblers and the keepers of a
gambling house..
ESKIMOS GOING.
Chicago Journal: All through the Arctic
region the Inhabitants are fast disappear
ing. The Alaskan Eskimos have been
greatly reduced In numbers. When ex
plorers first went among them their num
ber was believed to be rrom 2.000 to 3,000.
Now it is thought that hardly more than
500 people can be counted from Point Bar
row to the Aleutian Islands. The lot of
these unfortunate natives has been made
harder to bear by reason of the destruc
tion of sea life by the whalers who har
ried the Alaskan coast. The extermina
tion of the seai, walrusand polar bear
has. likewise ,doc its mtms.jQ. embitter
the cup of the northern races. In south
west Greenland a similar "condition of af
fairs exists. The 10,000 natives are barely
holding their own, although largely aided
by the Danes. Labrador natives are like
wise decreasing. Twenty years ago they
numbered 30,000; now they number barely
15.000 souls. Two decades ago the entire
population of the north was estimated at
30.000. It Is probable today that the num
ber has been cut almost in two.
iZ -.r, ..,:
WOMAN'S REASONING.
"George, deart"-said Mrs.-Darley to her
husband, as she poured out the tea the
other evening, "I drew all my money out
of the savings bank today and went shop
ping with It. I spent every penny."
"But, my dear," protested George, "the
understanding was that our savings were
put by for a rainy day,-
"Precisely; and my dear boy will re
member that today was one of the rainiest
dayi we'Tiayrhaa fOT-severatmtmths.-.
The New Yorker. .
TOO EXPENSIVE,
Two printed forme valued at one far
thing were lost recently at Baku, on the
TransC&Hcasian railway, and the station
master had telegrams "sent to every "sta
tion in the Russian Empire to ask if they
had been seen anywhere. The company
has since had to pay telegraph charges
amounting to nearly 10,00 ftnM hoover
sea lous official is now out of employment
r TONIGHT 'ATTRACTIONS,
The Marquam - Grand "A Comedy of
Errors," by Stuart Bobson as Dromio of
Syracuse. '
The Baker "A Oald-Mtaa.1 ..."
Coxdray'e "Lost JtUver. " .
COMING ATTRACTIONS. e -Ths
Marquam Grand "A Comedy of
Errors," Thursday matinee; '-The Hen
rietta," Thursday night
Tho Baltkr Av,tijid Mine" far the "
week, with Thursday matinee.
Cordray s "Lost RJver" for the week,
and Thursday matinee.
MANAGERS' ANNOUNCEMENTS.
"The -Matqueradera"
-Next week the Nell! Stock Company
will produce "Ths Maaqueraders" at the
Baker Theater. The Masqueraders'" is.
a , drama of .tb;-JdC..-9ni7-iit''.tti ;
story of the play Is one of intensity most
beautifully told. .The author or 'The
-Masqueraders." Henry Arthur Jones, Is
conceded to be one of the best of Eng
lish playwrights, and his dramas are al
ways in demand. It was in this play that
Henry Miller. Viola Allen and William
Faverehara made such a tremendous sue. .
cess in New York. it having had the dis-
tlnctlon of running foi 40 nights t t tha
Empire Theater. '
Starting with Sunday matinee "The '
Masqueraders" Will run all next week.
At Cordray's.
"Rudolph and Adoipn," the musical
comedy hit at Cordny s one week, be
ginning November 10. '
Mason and Mason, thoe two Oerinan
comedians who hive many hits to their
credit individually, as a tem ure fully
realising ths many predictions of suc
cess made earl In the season, whou the
announcement was made that they would
star Jointly under the management of
Broadhurst & Curiie.
.There are probably no funnier German
comedians on the stage than either Dan
or Charles A. Mason, and heretofore
either one of them by his Individual ef
forts was enabled to-keep an audience In
roars of laughter. There has always been
a strong rivalry betweea them as to which
could provoke the most -laughter, and it
still Continues.
Weber-Fields Burlesque.
Paris and Vienna have held precedence
as the homes of burlesque for' more than
20 years; Tho travesty on firamatio etao
cesses was not attempted in this country
until three years ago, when Weber and
Fields, two variety show German
comedians, made burlesque and extrava
ganza of an extremely local type the
mainstay of their new music hall in New
York. Before that the two were prac
tically unknown. In becoming actor-man
agers they had the sense, rare in vaude
ville performers, to subordinate their per
sonalities to an ensemble which was as
gorgeous as money well spent with a
clearly defined object In view, could pro
cure. In the same company were to be
seen Lillian Russell, Fay Templeton, De
Wolf Hopper, Pete Dailey, Charlie Ross,
Mabel Fenton, Sam Bernard and Bessie
Clayton, to say nothing of Frank le Bailey
and Bennie Magtnn, who led the chorus
with an Amazonian swing.
Jobs , JK.Mabar&; a Viennese composer
of much merit was hired to write the
scores, and Harry . B. SmKn and Edgar
Smith were secured to -furnish the libret
tos and lyrics. Of such talent came the
musical skits offered the New York pub
tie. Vh'P-ceHsea-u'- was- Uisii"- Wbep-
and Fields, or "Weberftetds," as whimsical
Gotham terms phrases It, succeeded from
the first. The burlettas were witty, and
adequately illustrated in a musical way.
Besides, they were beautifully costumed,
exquisitely framed scenlcally and cast te
Include that array of names.
"Fiddle-Dee-Dee," which is to be pre
sented here for one entire week at the
Marquam Grand Theater, beginning Mon
day, December 1, was one of .the first
great successes of the Weberflelds and
helped them materially to their present
career of world-wide fame. The advance
sale of seats will open next Friday morn
ing at 10 o'clock for the entire engage
ment "Comedy of Errors."
Btuart Robson's revival of Shakes
peare's "Comedy of Errors," which comes
to the Marquam Grand Theater tonight
and tomorrow matinee, recalls to the
critics several historical anecdotes con-
nected with the great play.
Charles Dickens wrote: "Sarah SlddotiS
was the first actress of Importance to Im
personate Adriana, the Jealous wife. The
character had been belittled by actresses
of distinction up to her time. In fact the
boy-actors to whom the part was as
signed before Shakespeare's heroines
were played by women notably Master
Kennison had burlesqued Adriana, just '
as the 'buffoon .comedians' had mon
keyed with Shylock before Macklln gave
bias, th . flofiac 4!cnMy. ,aAsop aa. .
Jtnowleuged that this was
'The Jew that Shakespeare drew.'
"Mrs. Slddons, in her Impersonations of
Adriana, did not please Maoready, who '
objected to her retaining the speech be
ginning with 'I am possessed of an adul
terate blot' claiming that Its retentloa
was unworthy a woman of her splendid
genius and purity of character. The great
Sarah was deeply offended and replied;
" 'As Shakespeare is always right yov
must be wrong. The speech you object
to is powerful, true and beautiful. Strange .
that a man of your intelligence should be
so narrow-minded in respect to the re
ligion of the stage. Shakespeare is my ,
bible it Bhould be yours.'
"Macready, who was a pious man, did
not like this rebuke and still contended
that the speech was 'indelicate and
against the laws of purity.'. " -
Mr. Robson evidently aides" with Mrs,
Slddons, for in his present production of '
'The Comedy of Errors" he adheres strict
ly to the original text The lines are "per '
fecJt.in their II mbs,. and absolute inthels
numbers;" even as be Conceived "trlftm'-.
Vide Hemingo and Condell first folio-
1623, Shakespeare. v '
Tomorrow night (Thursday) Mr. Robson;
will present hia great success, "The Hen '
rietta."
Oiled roads.
ninf llffl JWUiuiv Iton uv.w,
wonderful contrast between the oHed
highways and the roads which have not .
been treated - with -a coating of crude .
petroleum, during the prevalence of the
rainy weather..- In every case ythe oiled
road is in better condition during and
after the rain than the one not oiled. The
moisture does not penetrate as deeply,
consequently the roadbed- is not rutted
and the surface dries quickly after ths
rain has ceased to fall. Oiled roadbeds,
when much traveled, pack smooth and
solid and the rain seems to benefit them .
afterward. The Press pronounces the
IUd AaA-mav a qjinnamm .In. VATV reSDOCt
HOW MARK TWAIN WAS FAVORED.
(New York Times.)
Mark Twain was recently standing In s
crowded street car, hanging to a strap.
As the car swung around a corner the
strap r hrokff, dumptni- irim irtUy tne-tep ot
a well dressed woman. The humorist
arose and bowed.
"Madam," said he, "this Ts the first
time-- the street car - company ever cm -
f erned a favor on me," , .
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