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;.i:.;;:'...;.;.v.;.yK I: .M TT tr r' ti t LiT-DAI JACKSOtf THE OREGON UAILY JOURNAL, rOItTLAyD, TIIPKSDAY EVENING. JUNE 18, 103. I') y. journal HOW TO GET RICH (By a Poor Man T. W. Davensert.) Address: JOURNAL PUBLISHING 0 COMPANY, Proprietors. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill W4 Portland, Or. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. a. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Entered at the Postofflce of ortland. Oregon, for transmission through the malla at , second-clais matter. Postage for single copies l'or an 8. 10, or 12-page paper, 1 cent; 16 to 21 pages, J cents; over 28 pages, 3 cent. TULCPHONOSi Business Office Oi gon. Main 600; Columbia. 70S. Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 2 E0. SUBSCRIPTION RATES I Torma by Carrier. The Pally Journal, one year The pally Journul six months ... The Dally Journal, three months The Dally Journal, by the week .. .15.00 . 2.C0 ".10 Terma by Mail. The Dally Journal, by mall, one year.. 1 4.00 The Dally Journal, by mail, six montha. 2.JS The Daily Journal, by mall, three montha 1.25 The Dally Journal, by mall, one month. .80 The Veekly Journal The Weekly Journal, 100 columns of read ing each Issue, Illustrated, full market, re ports, one year, 11.00. j ' 'Remittances should "be made by drafts, postal notes, express orders and amall amounts are acceptable In one and two-cent postage stamp ',; THE JOURNAL, P. O. Box 121. Portland, Oregon. The Semi-Weekly Journal. y The Beml-Weekly Journal eight to twelve page each Issue, all the news and full ' market reports, one year 1.E0. One of the first and greatest diplomats graduated from the printer's case. One president wielded the ax and split 'rails; another worked In a tanyard and developed, talent with opportunity that made him one of the first military leaders of the world. One vice-president and diplomat had a practical knowledge of the tailor's trade, yet he represented his country with dignity and credit during the years he spent In France. Scores of men In every profession, in the highest positions that could be attained under a democracy, have been self-made. Few have come from the so colled leisure classes or were the product of colleges or universities. A NA TIONAL SCANDAL. i It Is no: longer possible for the Republican press to Ignore the amaxlng revelations of dishonesty and corruption In the Postofflce Department, pacta day that passes brings to light new evidences of rottenness, and the most conspicuous feature of the dlscloeurea la the almost daily removal or arrest of some Official high In the department whose po sition would" in Uaelf seem a guaranty M against -rascality. The taint of fraud per , meates the whole department. . ' Bribery and grafting of the most flagrant description have been practised on a scale which la almost incredible. Positions have , been openly bought and sold, supplies have been purchased at greatly Inflated prices In order to, allow a liberal rake-off for the con---'aplratorsrth r payrolls 4avi.- been stuffed. men have received double appointments and double salaries, others have been paid sal arie's Without being required to do a stroke of work, thousands of appointments have been made merely for political reasons with ' out the slightest regard to the civil service rules which are supposed to govern $he de partment, and high officials have been placed under arrest charged with embeule ment and even with forgery. . Such Is the indictment. . , ... Never in the history of our country hks euch wholesale official dishonesty been uh earthed.. It has been so systematic and so far-reaching that there la no escape from the conclusion that men In the highest authority must have secretly connived at the frauds that were being perpetrated. Indeed the as sertion is now being made that the Presi dent was warned of the conditions that existed, more than a year ago, but that he re ceived such assurances from the heads of the department as to persuade him that the charges were unfounded. , There can be no doubt that men high in the national government were fully -cognizant of the evils that existed and that they tolerated them at the instance of prominent Republican leaders, who sought to make of the Postofflce Department a mere adjunct to their party machine. The rural free delivery system appears to have beu .maintained chiefly, fori the purpose of providing patronage for these bltlonB. for the power of the machine which has been created may be turned against him In the coming campaign. Has-he the cour age to face this Issue? Republican leaders and for Republican Sen. ntors and Representatives. In this bureau 15,200 men are employed who receive $600 a year from the public funds for performing a class of unskilled labor. The enormous pos sibilities of graft and political patronage in this departmenay be judged by the ap propriations made for it. In 1S97. the amount appropriated for rural free delivery was J40.000;. in 1898 it was $50,000; in 1899, $150,000; in 1900, $450,000; in 1901, $1,750, 000: in 1902, $3,993,740; in 1903. $7.000-,000. With a deficiency appropriation of $500,000 added: in 1904. $12,000,000. The estimated cost of the rural free delivery service, if it . Is completed as now planned will be $24,000, 000 a year. While this bureau found its origin In a le gitimate demand from the farmers for a better delivery service, it has become a com pact political machine, which is said to rep resent today upwards of 100,000 votes and Which is being used to carry forward the po litical purposes of the Republican leaders. It is not strange that the rriost powerful Influences are being exerted to stifle the in . veetlgatloH now "in progress. Fostmnster General Payne himself has shown the most remarkable reluctance to allow the inquiry to go forward, and he yielded at last only, to demand too - insistent to be Ignortd. "If the whole truth is to become known many men high in the councils Of their party and In the. affairs of the go- ernment will become involved. The people demand that no guilty. man shall escape, and 'it remains to be seen how far this demand will be respected. The Investigation ordered by President - Roosevelt baa thus far been conducted, to all . r appearances, fearlessly and thoroughly. The question now 1s whether It will be pressed to a conclusion 4n the same spirit. To carry It HINT FOR REJECTED LOVERS. Lovelorn Romeos whose Juliets have turned a deaf ear to their wooing may do well to follow the example of ten young men of Derby, Conn., who have recently organ ized the Rejected Lovers' Association. The rules and requirements of the society are set, forth In its bylaws as follows: ''No member shall propose marriage to, any woman. . "No member shall attend a dance or re ception unless chaperoned by a' married man. . - : v.. . f "No member shall smile, smirk at or Ogle! any woman not a relative, nor converse with such woman over Ave minutes at any one time on any, topic but business. "No member shall converse with operators at the central telephone exchange further than, to give 'number of call desired. "No member shall attend any wedding or wedding receptions whatsoever, or eat wed ding cake. , , "The penalty for a breach of any of these rules shall be summary expulsion." No one is eligible for membership who has not been rejected at least twice, and his ap plication must set forth full particulars of each unsuccessful attempt he has 'made to marry, together with the reasons, so far as he knows them, which led his inamorata Ao repulse his suit. In a club room shrouded In black and strewn With withered bride roses, the mem bers are required to recount at each meeting the tales of their unrequited love. Returned wedding rings, unused theatre tickets, a suit of evening clothes ordered for a wedding which never took place, returned love-letters and many other mementoes of woman's fickleness are scattered about the club quarters. One member of the club relates that he has been rejected 11 times. The president has a record of three unsuccessful attempts to lo,c.a members have sustained as many as four fractures of their susceptible hearts. Strange to say, the club deems It necessary to hire a detective to patrol the streets at night in order to keep an eye on the members. It is a reluctant tribute' to the fascinations which they seek to shun. The New York Journal ha been gUlng, from time to time, articles assaying to answer the question. "How. to get rich," or how to obtatln much wealth, and, m It Is generally supposed that men who have succeeded In any department of human endeavor are the most likely to know the means to success, the Journal managers have procured contributions from well-known millionaires, telling young people how to succeed In getting a fortune. ' - . , And those noted rich men lay great stress ' upon the personal virtues that will make human beings effective workers, such as temperance, Industry perseverenee, economy, etc., and they assure young men that wealth-getting Is not a mat ten of luck. at all, but of work, continuous work, and that Just as many chances exist nefcr to be come wealthy as ever there were.' Now, while the aforesaid qualifications are, com: mendable in human beings, whatever the purposes In life may be, It Is quite evident, Judging from a comprehensive survey oT human experience, that tha millionaires have not given the essential conditions to their success. v ' The personal habits which render alman competent to exhibit the best, there Is in him, may lead to wealth, to competence or to poverty, as every one knows. Ten thousand times the number of those who possess much wealth, labor Incessantly and Intelligently, practice frugality and temperance and yet live from hand to mouth, from the cradle to the grave. As all human beings prefer to prosper, Indeed to become wealthy, they would like to be led Into the true Inwardness of wealth-getting and have the chances pointed put to them, but likely they will be no wiser after "reading the millionaire's symposium. ' " . , Mr, Carnegie, however, Is an exception. He gave the key to his success to Car toonist Davenport, who waa sent by the Examiner of Ban Francisco to sketch arid inter ,vtew the great head of the steel and Iron combine; He said, "Young man, you must not; think that I made my wealth by my own labor; I made it by the labor of others, And that is the only way, in the last analysis, that men get possession of. great wealth; of rtiore than they Individually produce, and as there Is an Instinctive feeling, In all of us, that every man is entitled to all that he earns, there comes an impulsive, conviction without thought, that ,uch accumulations of the difference between what laborers earn or produce and what they get, are Illegitimate gains, in fact a sort of robbery. But this may not necessarily follow either as an intention on the, part of the accumulator or in the practical application of the maxims of natural justice. as at present understood. When a person works for himself, supplied with his own tools and raw material, the labor product is all his own; but when employed by another who supplies the tools and raw material and directs the effort, there Is no discovered, well demonstrated law to govern the distribution of The joint product. And until such a law is formulated, the assumption of robbery, even though an employer may become rich, Is an open and debatable question. Without an exhaustive examination of the subject we cannot take Judgment against the captains of industry. """"" And we shall find, upon slight inquiry, that the wealth-producing business is a separate question, and that there Is much in it to complicate, and obscure the (ngulry. as to how much. the laborer Is entitled, as well also to ascertain the reasons why he i Impotent to assert his claim to more than the market rate of wages, though confessedly only a small part of what he has produced. A doubt might arise as to the soundness of the assertion--that the Carnegie key, the exploitation of labor, Is the only one that opens the door to boundless wealth, but a little reflection should convince any one of Its truth. On the spur of the moment one would exclaim, "give me land, make me the ownes In fee simple of the earth's surface and I will outrival the Carnegie millions obtained from labor." True, the earth is man's only resource; he must have access to it or perish, and the person who controls It can command the services of its human inhabitants, even if they desire nothing more than standing room and permission to gather from It's spontaneous fruits. i But they do require more. The teeming millions cannot subsist upon nature's unassisted bounties. They must delve In mines, plow, sow, cultivate, manufacture, transport, and all the while, human wants increase in number and Intensity, and the earth-owners exact more, and more for permission to uae nature's store-bouse of matter and force. ,But while land and labor are the two rectors In the production of wealth, labor is the active human factor with which Mr. Carnegie proposes to deal. And he is right. Has, he not proved that labor is the enchanter's wand that turns everything it touches into-gold? As a captain of industry he directs, controls, and taxes laborers and great is his reward. How to do this is the problem for the wealth-seeker to solve, and there are many ways of doing it, most of them by the assistance of government in the bestowment of privileges and the enactment of partial and unjust laws. Mr. Carnegie could never have held the key to the earnings of the tens of thousands of laborers without the ownership of mines of coal and iron, and land whereon to place his fac tories; and possibly with all that be .would have fallen far short of his present ac cumulations unless he had been aided by tariff laws protecting his from competition, and the munificent contracts awarded by government officers not over sealous in pro tecting the public interests. : THE JOHN DAY COUNTRY ' A (By, Paul De Lansy.) ""Vr. : ,. ' L -------- - - 1 The John Day, country, -, now, a garden spot throughout ' Its valleys and the best stock range in the state among its moun tain ranges, is one of the largest -and most Interestlngj sections' of . Oregon. . Its great resources In the way of water, grass, game, minerals and beautiful scenery made it an attractive' section, also, in early days, i and with Us early, history a thousand stories, ro mantic, tragedlc and pathetic cling, i ' It had been, the happy earthly , hunting ground of the Indian so well prepared for such a place by nature and Its wonderful resources made It the objective point of. the early-day adventurer, trapper, hunter, miner and pioneer. Here civilisation and savagery met and combatted for supremacy' and civ ilization ' grew more savage arid savagery grew more civilised. But civilisation won and its effects may be seen upon every hand. The country covers a large field. When the John Day country is "mentioned, to the uninformed, It might appear ; as a small area, a neighborhood which could be crossed and examined -In a few hours, But the" truth Is, the John Day country proper, covers a territory as large as some of , the - smaller Eastern states. From Its "source; above Prairie City, In Grant County, to Its mouth, where It flows into the Columbia at . the corner of Morrow and Sherman Counties, It passes through a series of valleys, along a route of hundreds of . .nlles populated by wealthy stockmen and ranchers, though the John Day country proper may be confined In the strictest sense to the pper John Day River country. " Along the river from Jts mouth to Its source the traveler. It matters not how dull he may be to the beauty of nature and the handiwork of man, will find one grand line of scenery that will force him to exclaim, day after day, "How grand, how beautiful, how enchanting!" Oreal' walls of rock, reaching skyward, grand old mountains ly Ing snow-capped In the back-ground, rolling hills covered with waving grr.ss, where stock of all kinds feed and scamper like the wild game of olden times, narrow long valleys dotted with beautiful homes, surrounded by native meadows and fields of alfalfa, lawns of green overshadowed by tall trees beneath which gurgling streams flow through ditches from the great clear artery of the country the John Day Rarer upon whose banks children and pet animals play everything that goes to make up a figurative earthly paradise greets the eye of the traveler throughout this wonderful country. This section, commonly called a desert by those who have never seen It, in addition to all of the things mentioned in the foregoing, Is decorated with roses and tame .and wild flowers of all kinds, and vegetables and fruits thrive in variety and with an abund ance scarcely surpassed elsewhere. The legislative Job by which Jack Mat thews and his associates sought to gain con trol of the Port of Portland Commission has proved abortive. With the clumsiness which has usually characterized their op erations they did their work so bungllngly as to lose the very thing at which they aimed. Unfortunately hn element has been introduced into the commission which may prove fruitful of trouble in the future, for some at least of the new members are much more zealous in the service of the machine than in that of the public. However, they are apparently in the minority and the re sult of the struggle over the election of president of the commission gives ground for hope that they may continue to be so. And of what do his enormous gifts for public libraries and educational Insti tutions consist? The amounts are stated in money, but really they are stocks and bonds the value of which depend not upon present wealth but upon the continuous power to tax the labor employed In the great business. Abolish the power and his gifts would be as baseless as a midsummer night's dream. The American people, however, have no present intention of abolishing the privilege, and so young men can get rich If they" know how. There are still some chances, for the tolling millions have not reached the limit of their endurance. But the millionaire's exhortation to Industry, perseverence and economy, is too general. These qualifications are very good and the advisers should have told where to apply them. There are tens of thonsands of young people of both sexes having. them ae fixed habits, along with Intellectual ability equal to Mr. Carnegie or the Rockefellers, who find it increasingly difficult from year to year, to make a passable living. Notwith standing the fact that the career of the millionaires is an open book to all who care to read, evidently their achievements are harder to duplicate. The great Mammonltes have misstated the case. The chances for accumulating great wealth are growing less and less as the exactions of privilege Increase. A few millionaires may become billionaires, but such a change will not enable the many to bear heavier or Increase the chances forthe-wealth-seekers. - --v.-... . - Still, while there Is life there Is hope, and those who are determined to try their hands at the depraving game, I would rather refer to Tom L. Johnson for instruction. He knows and will tell. In fact, he has told. Here it Is: Get a monopoly, if It is nothing more than an exclusive right to sell candy and peanuts on a railroad. Then with your earnings, get a bigger monopoly and keep on in. that way. Boodle some Alderman and get a streetcar franchise, running 09 years, with 5-cent fares. Then be come a railroad president, without a' conscience; saw the stocks down and buy them In; saw the stocks up and sell. Play see-saw. Water the stock 100 per cent and merge It in a big comblne'that can raise prices and declare 15 per cent dividends every quarter, and in the language of Mr. Dooley "there you are." v .' If the dear people get restive under such management, elect a Rooseveltlan President who will amuse them with his favorite game called "shackling cunning." If, on the other hand, young men are willing to fall In and work for 'the" general welfare, let them take pattern from the work of Tom L. Johnson and William Randolph Hearst, for they are showing how. - , ..... "Desert!" said the Hon. C. W. Parrlsh. who now lives lit Burns, but who has lived In the John Day country throughout the greater portion of his life, "I am sick and tired of hearing this country called a desert. It is time the people were enlightened about it. A desert vis a barren, waterless region where nothing will grow where rocks and dry, productless sands abound. There is no such place in Oregon. There is scarcely a foot of her soil that will not. produce, where water can be obtained, and there Is scarcely a foot of her soil that is not near enough some flowing stream or some basin In the mountains where water can be stored and. drawn upon for its use. The people of Ore gon should discard the word 'desert' In, speaking pf this section of country, for It does not posses a single element that con stitutes a desert. Grain and hay and veg etables, and fruits do not (row in a desert. The 'desert' of ' Oregon, so-called by many who know nothing abdut the country, will grow, all of these and that, too, in abundance and in variety and with a, ' flavor and strength seldom equaled In ' the so-called 'garden spots' at other points In the country. 'Desertl'" he said again, with a spirit of disgust, "the. word does not apply to any point In Oregon." . . ' .This Is not only true of, the John d country, but true .of the entire Eastern Ore gon territory.' There are small Ureas that are not productive, It Is true, but what coun try does not possess such sections? It Is safe to state that Eastern Oregon possesses as small a per cent of non-productive lands as any section of like else in the United 8tates. There is not one foot here, however, that does not produce something. There Is. not a foot that the resident rancher or stock-' man would not like to possess, A given lec tion, It In true, may not produce fruit, or vegetables, or grain, but that same soil will produce; trass of;ioine;3tlndt'I:I.t::may;t; bunch-grass only, but It Is Valuable'. It helps out the stockman and rancher. While they are growing the, better products their Stock range upon the lands where only the poorer products jrrow,, , And the soil of Eastern Oregon does not produce vegetation alone. That Is, this is not the only element of her wealth. Ming) With the soil at many points are minera that equal In value the richest in the coun try. These extend deep Into the earth, too. How deep has been only ascertained at a few points. Prospecting is In it Infancy at the best developed -points In the country. - The John Day country may especially be men tioned under this head. Although gold Was discovered along the river more that! a quarter of a century ago, and millions of dol lars have been taken from Its sands, mining is still going on at many points, both placer and hydraulic, and also quarts, the begin ning has not yet been made. . Every day brings forth a new discovery. One may ride along the road that parallels Canyon Creek and see the strong streams pouring from the nosxle of the giants, forced out by hydraulic pressure from the fountain- heads above. Then the man with his pan Is busy, taking out the gold as of old. And -the prospector is scanning the ground for an outcropping either of pocket or ledge; and none of the work is without results. From the smallest tq the largest process the .yield ' is commensurate with the effort . Not only are new and rich discoveries be Ing made in the Canyon Creek couritry, but at Prairie City and Spanish Gulch, dis coveries that are startling are reported every week. Old Spanlsn Gulch, it was claimed, had exhausted her yield years ago, but men wfco knew better kept on the alert and today she Is showing better results than ever before. From a mining standpoint the dawn of a great future throughout the John Day district Is at hand. . e Thus where civilised men and savages met and struggled for supremacy many years ago on the very field where they met In mortal combat, where Indian treachery laid waste the settler's home, and where they at tacked the Immigrant trains and the stage coaches now lies the jnost beautiful and most prosperous countries so far from modern transportation facilities In the great Pacific Northwest. ft or A Denver man has issued a call for a na tional conference of political reformers, ex plaining that the call Is not an official one, but that he hopes to get together, and har monize the reform elements of the country. This rather ambitious individual would do much better to lend hln Annrrlm n Ih. o,.. C"1 l.'V l,aUD6 Of the" Democratic partv. which' in tha ninm efficient means of national reform that (the country now possesses. Only under the Democratic banner can the forces of reform hope to achieve victory.'. There is Increasing reason to believe that the, Panama treaty will' be rejected by the J Lnited btates of Colombia. In that evetft it will be the duty of President Roosevelt to Often necntlatlfln-: uifth Vlnr.ivii,, n .a r. the President s most cherished political am- the front. r WATER DRINKING. A recent report to the London County Council asserts that water drinking Is de creasing In that city, The expert who makes the report says that the common practice of providing water bottles in offices, board, rooms and at public meetings must be regarded rather as throwing light upon the babits of a past generation of Londoners than as indicating that cold water is largely consumed. He might have added, says a uonaon newspaper, mat in xne House or commons a glass of water as an aid to eloquence has largely fallen into disuse. But the most illuminating observation Is that by a municipal pilgrimage to the fountain-head on Dartmoor. The Mayor fills an ancient goblet with the clear water and it is drunk "to the pious memory Of Sir among common lodging-house inmates cold water Is looked upon as a medicine and in only exceptional instances is it resorted to as a means of quenching thirst. Until comparatively recent times there was a medical prejudice against drinking water. Sir William Vaughan in his "Natural and Artificial Directions for Health: declares tljat water "ought seldom to be' drunk." Another docton admitted , that It might be healthful, for children, but not for men "except some odd abstemious one among a thousand, perchance, degenerate and of a doggish nature, for dogs of nature do -abhor wine." Indeed, the recommendation of water as a beverage was supposed to be the sign of the'quack. Even Wesley, in ills "Primitive Physic," wrote of It with caution: "DrlnkonIy water if it agrees with your stomach; if not, good, clear small beer." ..... , j 7 , . ' - Sir Francis Drake of Queen Elisabeth's day took peculiar pride in the fact that he gave a splendid supply of water "to Plymouth by building a condujt from Burrator, 20 miles away. And every year Plymouth celebrates the old sea dog's work of beneficence Francis Drake." Then the goblets are' refilled with wine and: emptied to the time- nonored toast, "May the descendants of him who gave us water, never want wine." . '.' CIRCLED BY NINE WATERS POUT8. Becalmed at sea while 15 waterspouts roared and hissed about her, was the expe rlence of the Spanish Main schooner John A. Matheson, Capt. Vaux, which arrived in port yesterday from San Andreas. The Matheson was in the latitude of Savannah last Thurs day, the sea smooth as glass and not breath of air stirring. Off at a distance the collision of currents of air from different directions-began sucking up the sea In re volving cones until the volumes of water reached to the clouds end were formed like a sand hour-glass. The masses of water were hundreds of feet high and about 30 feet thick at their nar rowest point, in the middle. They whistled around with a terrifying roar, shooting off showers of spray. The spouts formed ahead arid astern of the schooner, off to starboard and to port, completely surrounding and dancing about the becalmed vessel. The vessel had no steerage way, while no less than nine of these "maniacs of the sea" raced to and fro across the waters. It was expected that the Matheson would be hit every- moment by one of the spouts that cavorted about her, which meant a dismast- I ing of the vessel, to say the least of it Three of the immense whirling bodies broke and fell Into the sea only a few ship's lengths astern of the Matheson. In all, fifteen wat erspouts roared past the schooner. The Matheson , was 17 days !On tlje passage, and during part of the run made CSS miles In 69 hours. Baltimore American. "J QUEEN VICTORIA'S ONE JOKE. The late Queen Victoria, though she had literary ambitions and was as talented as be came a queen, was not. known as a wit. Her one recorded Joke, .however, is a good one and should be preserved. The story goes that the aged puke of Wel lington, having paid his sovereign a visit on a very wet day; she anxiously Inquired what boots he was wearing. "The people call, them Wellingtons," said the Duke. . .k . ;' ' "What nonsense," exclaimed ite Queen. "Where, I should like to Icnow; could you find a pair of Wellingtons?" Philadelphia Ledger. , " . If a fellow Js a natural Jay a" college "eduJ cation .won't save him. Hartford Post. , THE GAELIC REVIVAL. The Walsh language is now more firmly established than it has been for centuries. It is spoken and written by a young genera tion in a purity which has been unknown since the days of Goronwy and Lewis Morris in the eighteenth century. It is taught i the schools, recognised by the Nation University as ranking by the side of Greek and Latin; papers and periodicals abound; a national press Is Issuing the classics of the nation. in splendid editions; e national li brary has been founded; the Eisteddfod the Welsh Olreachtas flourishes. A similar development seems to be taking place In Ireland under our eyes. Wherever one goes now one finds men and women. young and old, able to speak and read and write Gaelic; It is taught In the schools: an cient ; customs are revived: Daners are springing up; Irish literature is being printed; the interest in the history and tra ditions of the country and the race Is widen ing and deepening; scholars are encouraged In their work. And, over and above this, the lives' of thousands have been transfigured, and a new sest and spirit has entered into a nation whose despondency, whose listless. hopeless attitude toward itself arid Its Intilv I cbiu uscu io oe un Baaaesi xeature in lta. I character. The Gael. ... ON THE 8PEEDWAY. ' ?: The way to a certain place being pave hwlth good resolutions, Iwas not without curiosity as to how the roadway bore the rafflc. .. ', ,j .. ''Bear it!" replied the gentleman with tha Lred clothes .and peculiarly shaped shoes. "Why, you ought to know that" pneumatje tlred automobiles: don't cause any wear and" tear on a road." ; . Then I recalled at once the admirable and never-falling economy of nature. Indian apolis News, j '' .v'. - " William JPIckens. the negro student who has been awarded , the Ten Eyck trise at Yale for excellence In public speaking, was one of. 37 Juniors who entered the contest The oration which won him such honors was a. masterly effort on political and economic conditions In Haiti and the lessons whlca the colors race should draw . therefmm PlckenV home Is Little Rock. Ark- h. ; hit father is a storekeeper, r j k ' ,..V... .- (- ,. ;.'