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OFFICIAL, CITY PAPBR
GOOD EVENING.
I hardly know anything more strange
than that you recognised honesty In
play, and you do not In work. In
your lightest games, you have always
iom one to see what you call "fair
play." In boxing, you must hit fair;
In racing, start fair. Tour English
watchword is fair play, your English
hatred "foul play." Did It ever strike
you that you wanted another watch- t
word also, "fair work." and another :
and bitterer hatred, "foul work.'Wohn
Ruakln.
GIVE, THE CHILDREN A CHANCE
i
r
FOOTBALL la generally conceded to be
a rather strenuous game in which
those who participate are likely to
receive broken heads or broken limbs. Bo
strenuous Indeed is it considered to be that
jnsny prudent parents will not allow their
children to take part In the games. Tet
' there are football clubs In the various schools
nd while the practice games have been in
progress for weeks, we have not yet heard
of any accidents to the players.
We are moyed to make this remark by the
rather ludicrous objection advanced by prin
cipal Downs of the Sellwood school to open
air recesses. Turn a large crowd. of children
loose on a playground, he says, and you have
nothing but a howling mob, every one of
which Is In imminent danger of serious in
"Jury. Open air recesses, he solemnly con
tinues, lead inevitably to broken limbs, so
strenuous In their play would be these child
ren of favored Portland were It not for the
fact that a teacher stands In their midst and
when they become too - boisterous, brings
them back to an appreciation of watchful
' discipline by a tap of the bell which she
. holds In her hand. .
; It would be Interesting to Inquire whether
the school children of Portland are more ,
strenuous In their methods than the school
i children of other large cities In the country
and furthermore whether their limbs art
more prone to fractures. We do not' recall
, that any serious accidents have thus resulted
In any part of the country. Indeed, if we
may be permitted to say so about a matter
' which is held so sacred, the chief mistake In
the Portland educational system is that
tends to repress rather than to develop the
children along' physical, and therefore to a
degree along.mental lines. The superintend
ents shrink back in-real aJarra when It is
proposed to give the children any degree of
freedom even during the time of recess. They
seem to forget that they themselves were
once children and entirely overlook the
. value of the complete relaxation which comes
from an unrestrained open air recess.
' Is It a crime that the chlldjsftNsbould run
and laugh -.or even grow boisterous during
the recess time? It seems to be so peld by
, the school principals. The hope of the ris
ing generation is in the healthy bodies of
the children. Without health no great things
may be expected from the generation which
must assume even greater responsibilities
than their parents have been called upon to
assume. Suppose they do grow boisterous at
their recesses, what would the school super
intendents have? Do they want a pallid, an
emic, listless lot of children, or should; they
desire robust, redblooded and energetic little
people whose abounding health and sound
education will do so much for their country
' in the next generation?
This is a matter of such supreme conse
quence not alone to parents but to all pa
triotic citizens that now that the agitation
has been seriously started no one should be
contented to rest until the question is set
tled and settled right. We should not wait
for one or two years until proper recreation
grounds are provided for the children, but i
the open air recesses should be Instituted at
nee as an Inviolate part of the public school I
system of Portland.
tlon of the land office was not satisfactory
and that he went out under a cloud that has
never lifted. Nevertheless they stood by
him and of course stood against the president
In the controversy. They adopted Mr. Her
mann and along with him his methods, and
they must take the consequences. There
was no mistake about the facts.
That the land business has been loosely
conducted, and that, as a consequence, large
parts of the public domain have been di
verted from the hands it was Intended for to
the hands of the syndicates Is notorious.
That Mr. Hermann was responsible for that
policy Is also undisputed. The result of this
policy is now felt by honest settlers who are
delayed In making their proofs and getting 1
their tltlps by being Involved in the dlfflcul
ties of the department. They are besought
now by the Hermann adherents to throw the
blame for their troubles upon Mr. Hitchcock,
when the real cause thereof is Mr. Hermann,
If the law had been followed no honest claim
ant would now be suffering delay and vexa
Ion. It would not speak well for the Intel
llgence of Mr. Hermann's constituents If he
be allowed to make political capital out of
the results of his own default.
BETTER PAY FOR RURAL
CARRIERS.
A
, N EFFORT will be made at the com
ing session of congress to secure in
creased wages for the rural mall de
livery carriers, . Taking everything into con
sideration they are among the poorest paid
of all Uncle Sam's employes. A few years
ago when rural free delivery was In Its ex
perimental stage, and there were many who
not only doubted its utility, but begrudged
the- money that was being spent In this di
rection, It was a different "matter. Like all
experiments it was forced to fight Its way
upon its merits. Its value was soon dem
onstrated to the satisfaction of everyone,
and it has now become the finishing touch to
a really magnificent postal service.
The rural mall carrier meets the wants of
thousands of people who previous to his ad
vent were very indifferently served. It has
been said that the telegraph and newspapers
bring all parts of the country Into close touch
but before the rural mall delivery was intro
duced this was true only as a general state
ment. There were thousands upon thous
ands of people on the mainland of Uncle
Sam's domain who were absolutely out of
touch with the world for weeks at a stretchy
It is this chasm which the rural mail ser
vice seeks to bridge over and Its success In
this respect has been a revelation to the
public. Not only should the system be main
tained and the compensation of the carriers
raised to decent figures, but it should be ex
tended so as to include every reachable part
of the country. It has proved of Inestim
able value to those brought within its reach
and It is safe to say that what was yesterday .
regarded as a luxury is today considered of
the profoundest practical utility.
KING CHRISTIAN'S JUBILEE. ..
Fortieth Anniversary of the Reign of the
Pstrlaroh of Europe. - "", ,
From the New Tork Tribune.
The fortieth anniversary of King Chris
tian's accession to the throne of Denmark,
which Is to be celebrated, on November 16,
Is to be signalised by the submission to the
national legislature by the government of a
bill providing for the rebuilding of Chrls-
tlansborg Castle, the old residence of the
rulers -of Denmark, at Copenhagen, which
was burned down in 1834. On several occas
ions steps were taken by the government to
reconstruct the palace, but, owing to the
constitutional conflict in Denmark, until a
year or two ago, arising from the refusal of
the king to select his ministerial advisers
from the political party which had a ma
jority in parliament, It was. Impossible to
secure the necessary funds for the purpose.
Now, however, that the king has given way,
and no longer Insists on choosing his cabinet
ministers from the Conservative minority In
the national legislature, there Is no doubt
that the funds necessary to rebuild the old
Chrlstlansborg palace will' be voted unani
mously, even the Socialists agreeing thereto,
The old king Is exceedingly popular with all
who profess to be opposed to monarchical
institutions. Since the destruction of Chrls
tlansborg by fire nearly 20 years ago, the
king has made his home in the relatively
small palace of Amallenborg, where he lived
until his accession to the throne, and where
Queen Alexandra, the empress dowager of
Russia, the Duchess of Cumberland, the King
of Greece and the other children of King
Christian spent the greater portion of their
youth. Strictly speaking, the king occupies
merely one wing of this palace, which forms
the four sides of a quadrangle. The other
wing Is occupied by the crown prince, th
third contains the state apartments, and the
fourth Is used as the department of foreign
affairs. It Is high time that the Chrlstlans
borg should be rebuilt, for' the Amallenborg
palace, wnicn is zoo years old, is sadly in
need of repair. In front of each facade are
you be sensible and marry? Of course Mrs.
Jones will straighten things out when she
returns, but you don't know thst she won't
leave you for good soma of these' days.
There's nothing to prevent her from marry
ing."
Balkln looked thoughtful at this and his
sister smiled in her sleeve. "Are you going
to take Grace and me to the concert tomor
row night?"
"I'm afraid not," said Balkln after some
further-reflection. "I've some business call
ing me out of town and I may be gone a
week or two. Tes. it's unexpected, but I'll
have to go."
'The
Balkln was gone for over two weeks and
when he returned he told his sister that he
had at last taken her advice.'
"What!" gasped Mrs. Jephson.
"Tes," said Balkln. "I want you to com
and see us. I'd never have thought of It if
it hadn't been for your suggestion. You're
entitled to all the credit. Tou know the
lady. She was Mrs. Jones."
SOCIETY TAKE8 TO CLOGS.
the
Chicago Leaders Will Make the Danes
Latest Fad.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Chicago society will have a real fad this
winter. It is going to" take up "clogging"
and elevate the dance from a cheap stage
feature to a part of the dally routine in the
best homes. The , reason Is not that the
dance, as a dance, Is worthy of attention, but
society has found that it Is an excellent form
of exercise, strengthening the muscles and
making one graceful.
The fad is bound to be a success. It has
been taken up as one of the features of the
Woman's Athletic club for its new season
and while all the members are not going to
join the clogging class they all approve of
the 'dance as an exercise and many have
prepared to take instruction. Miss Alice
Gammons, Instructor in athletics at the club
and recently from the Boston normal school
of gymnastics, will teach the clog to the
four great land-stone columns, and they members of the smart s. Almost every
have begun to deviate from the perpendlc- hour of her time has been engaged by well-
ular, which Is held by experts to indicate
that the building is settling, and that the
foundations are no longer secure,
HOW HIS SISTER MARRIED HIM OFF.
AN ASPIRANT FOR MISS GOULD'S
r - HAND.
T
THE HERMANN POLICY.
MR. HERMANN destroyed 86 letter
press copy books containing his
correspondence with his relatives
" and friends. This shows how many relatives
' and dear friends Mr. Hermann had with
whom to while away his unsalaried hours
' in the land department. It Is not necessary,
of course, to suppose that any reference to
land matters crept Into these purely personal
pages. There were many matters that nat
' urally formed the subject of this epistolary
activity. There were many offices to be
filled, a'nd many Hermanns to All them, each
doubtless requiring many friends to prop
" erly present the merits of the Hermann fam-
: ily on the one side, and their recognition by
. their chief on the other. There were also
many fences of Mr. Hermann In Oregon
. purely private property, that must be kept In
repair by his friends, and reports concerning
these would necessarily require voluminous
correspondence.
i ' If the books marked "personal," were- in
fact personal, they could throw no light on
the land frauds. But whether they were
personal Is a question which their destruc
tion makes It impossible for anybody but
Mr. Hermann and his correspondents to
know. It la unfortunate that Mr. Hermann
ordered their destruction. They would have
: been Incontrovertible evidence in his favor. .
But It is heedless to speculate about the
books. The department! did not- base upon
them Its action in discharging Mr. Hermann.
' He was discharged. That fact has gone into
history. He was also, thttreafterj- returned
to congress. That also is historical. The
people who supported him knew then as
wtll as they know now that his admlnlstra-
HE BUST EUROPEAN correspond
ents have picked out a husband for
Miss Helea Gould. He is a duke and
connected by marriage with King Edward
and other royalties. The duke is not ' per
sonally acquainted with Miss Gould, nor has
he ever seen her, nevertheless he is willing
to ask her hand through his attorneys. He
is willing to enter into what is called "a mar
rlage of separation," according to the terms
of which he agrees to separate from his wife
forever the moment the marriage ceremony
concludes. In consideration of his name and
the position it will carry w!h it and the
transfer of one of his castles, all he asks Is
that he be given the modest sum of $8,000,-
000.
Miss Gould, as was to be expected,
promptly disposes of the story by saying that
she never saw or heard of the man -In the
case and the story itself so far as she is con
cerned is absolutely without foundation. As
a matter of fact few women in the country
occupy a more enviable position than Miss
X3ould. Mistress of great wealth she has
followed her natural bent and turned her
attention to work -of practical phllanthrophy,
In" pursuance of her high alms she has gained
the respect and even the affection of her
fellow countrymen who have regarded her as
a model of her sex and who would be cha
grined to find her now selling herself for
the bauble of an, European title. It is quite
apparent that the public estimate of Miss
Gould, high as it is, has done her no more
than scant Justice.
HEALTH'S DECALOGUE.
From the French Medical Review.
First Rise early, retire early and fill your
duv with work.
Second Water and bread maintain life;
pure ulr and sunshine are indispensable tc
health.
Third Frugality- and sobriety, form the
best elixir of longevity.
Fourth Cleanliness prevents rust; the
best cared for machines last the longest.
Fifth Enough sleep repairs waste and
strengthens; too much sleep eoftens nd en
fceblfc. r .,, :-- ..
Sixth To be sensibly dressed is to give
freedom to one's movements and enough
wfirinth to be protected from sudden changes
of temperature. .
Seventh-rA clean and cheerful house
makes a happy home.
Eighth The mind is refreshed and invig
orated by distractions and amusement, but
abuse of them leads to dissipation and dis
sipation to vice.
NinthCheerfulness makes love of life,
and love' of life is half of health. On the
contrary, sadness and discouragement hasten
old' age.,
', Tenth Do you gain your living by your
Intellect? Then do not allow your arms and
legs to grow stiff. Do you 'earn your bread
by your pickaxe? Do not forget to culti
vate your mind and to enlarge your thought.
One Way Out of It.
"From the Milwaukee News. ,
If Canada doesn't like the decision, it can
annex itself to the United States and get
the whole of Alaska.
A Long-Headed Youth.
' From the Atchlsof Globe.
They are telllnsr of an Atchison, young
man who sent a ton of hard coal to bis girl's
house, thus barring any objections her father
might make to his calls this winter, ' .
From the Chicago News.
Lemuel Balkln was not spoken of by his
friends as a "hopeless" or a "confirmed"
bachelor, for it is generally understood that
there Is always hope for the hopeless va
riety and confirmed celibates have a way of
succumbing to the tender Influences of love
in the most sudden and unexpected manner.
He was Just "an old bachelor" and people
had long given him up as a bad Job. Only
his sister, Mrs. Jephson, did not quite de
spair of him. She had' arranged scores of
suitable matches for him, nevertheless, and
each selection that she made was more
eligible than the last, but somehow no one
of them ever came to anything.
There was really no excuse for Balkln's
unmarried state.
'Tou ought to have somebody to take care
of you in your old age," said Mrs. Jephson.
'Thank you," said, the old bachelor, dryly.
"When I get to that time of life I'll think
about it. In the meantime I'm pretty com
fortable as I am."
"I want you to come over and dine with us
tomorrow night, Lemuel," said the lady with
an air of giving up the argument. Then she
added: "Oh, by the way, Grace Tarrant is
to' be .there. You remember Grace, don't
your
"I don't know that I do," said Balkln.
'"Your memory's failing, as well as your
eyesight," said his sister, cruelly. "Grace
Tarrant was at the academy 'with me when
I was a girl. She married Tarrant, the soap
man, and he died four years ago and left
her close on to a quarter of a million dollars.
They never had any children and I wouldn't
be surprised If she married again. I know
you'll like her. Well, be sure to come.
Good-bye."
"There's another of 'em," growled Balkln
when his sister had left. "I wish she'd let
me alone. Marry! Well, I guess not. I
know when I'm well off."
As a matter of fact, there were few mar
ried men more comfortable than Balkln. His
housekeeper, Mrs. Jones, who had been with
him for years, was a treasure. His house
hold ran like clockwork.
Balkln dined with his sister and her col
lege school chum, however, and made a good
Impression on the latter. She Informed Mrs.
Jephson that she thought her brother was a
most delightful man and really handsome
and distinguished-looking. Mrs. Jephson
told Balkiti this and Balkln said he consid
ered Mrs.' Tarrant a woman of remarkable
ntelllgence and an entertaining conversa
tionalist
Don't you ' think she's 'good looking?"
asked his sister.
"Ye-es," said Balkln. "She'd pass in a
crowd."
Mrs. Jephson went back and told Mrs.
Tarrant that her brother .was raving over her.
Altogether it looked promising. Still, in
spite of all the opportunities to be together
that Mrs. Jephson contrived for her brother
and her friend, the affair did not seem to
progress at a satisfactory rate. Once she
became impatient and- asked Balkln outright
why he did not propose. "I knqrw she'd take
you," she said. "I've sounded her and she
thinks everything in the world of you. She
told me as much."
"Don't you encourage her, Eliza," said Bal
kln. I've told you a hundred times that I
don't want to marry. I'm perfectly comfort
able as I am."
"That's Just it," thought Mrs. Jephson.
He's too comfortable. As long as that
woman is his housekeeper he never will
marry. I wish she'd leave him. I'd get her
good place somewhere else if I thought
she would. I wonder If she wouldn't? I be
lieve I'll sound hex."
Accordingly she chose a time when she
knew her brother ' would be out to call on
him. Mrs. Jones opened the door for her.
Mrs. Jones was a stout, comfortable-looking
person about 45 years of age. She wel
comed Mrs. Jephson with a pleasant smile.
Mrs. Jephson began to "sound" her. Half
an hour later she went away satisfied. She
had not been able to tempt the housekeeper
away from her brother's service, but she had
prevailed on her to say that she would ask
Mr. Balkln's consent to visit her friends in
Iowa. , .
Of course Balkln consented. He knew
that Mrs. Jones deserved a- vacation and he
was a fair-minded man. So Mrs. Jones went
and then it seemed that Mrs. Jephson's little
plot . was bound' to succeed. Inside of a week
Balkln began to look careworn. Mrs. Jones'
substitute inaugurated chaos in his house.
His meals were badly Cooked and irregularly:
served. His wants 'were neglected and dust
and disorder were supreme. He, discharged
the substitute and hired another who was
even more incompetent. He complained to
Mrs. Jephson. ' . ;
J1 told yptt so," said the tadjr. . 'TYby dotfU
known society women.
"Clogging" Is very much approved by the
cliib," said Mrs. Pauline Harrlette Lyon, sec
retary of the Woman's Athletic club. "Some
of Its members have wanted to take it up in
former years, but there were reasons why
the plan was not feasible then. This year,
however, there were no reasons why a class
should not be formed. A great many women
have signified their intention- of taking in
struction in clogging, as it is an excellent ex
ercise for the development of the muscles and
the acquirement of grace. Very many of
our people are not back yet and the extent
to which clogging will be indulged cannot
be determined until they return. There are
enough here now, however, to Insure its suc
cess this winter."
From the New Tork World.
. The success of the German 'experimental
railway at Zossen In making 125 4-8 miles an
hour yesterday is a dramatic event in the
history of an invention not nearly a century
old. - ;:
American railroads have not rivaled this
record because they are not run by the gov
ernment, and such high speed does not Py.
It means an expense that seems to preclude
practical use. But In vaatness and In rapid
ity of development our railways ' lead the
world. Some of the facts concerning them
that follow are condensed from Prof. Emory
R. Johnson's newly issued "American Rail
way Transportation."
In 1850 there was not one mile of railway
in Wisconsin, Tennessee or Florida or any
where west of the Mississippi river. Even
In 1870 half the area of the country was still
without railroads. f
In 100 the United States had 191,146 miles
of railway lines, two-fifths of the mileage of
the world. In round numbers there are now
200,000 miles.
A single American system, the Pennsyl
vania, carries more freight than all the-lines
combined In any other nation of the world.
The first American railway- not built for
steam cars, however was made to haul
Qulncy granite tor the Bunker Hill monu
ment. That was In 1828. It was three miles
long. .
The first railway built for steam cars was
the Charleston and New Hamburg line In
South Carolina. This was for some time
the longest line in the world, 137 miles.
When the war closed in 1(65 no American
railroad had 1,000 miles of tracks. Now
there are eight great systems with over 10,
000 miles each.
The Erie canal made New Tork City the
metropolis. When railroads came Penn
sylvania went into them more energetically
than New York to combat this advantage.
To get from Philadelphia to Pittsburg in
three and one half days the traveler went
by rail to Columbia, by river and canal to
Hollldaysburg, by rail to Johnstown, by river
and canal to Pittsburg. The line to Colum
bia was partly wooden rails with Iron straps
on top, partly short cast-iron rails laid on
stone blocks, partly granite sills supporting
flat Iron straps.
A single modern rail, 60 feet, 100 pounds to
the yard, weighs just one ton.
In 1850 there were seven different com
panies between Albany and Buffalo. Pas
sengers changed cars, freight was handled
at .every terminus.
Roughly, our railroad systems are capital
ized at $12,000,000,000, divided half and half
between stocks and bonds. "A little over half
the stocks pay dividends,
The capital of the railroads Is more than -12
times as great as that of all the banks. '
uimi luvuinvuroi ' rrcmuau Ultra lu
five tons. An Imported English locomotive
weighing 10 tons was too heavy. Twenty-'
five engines of that day would make one of
today....'..- , - i ' '
Fifty years ago a train load of 200 tons
was heavy. Now loads of 2,000 to 2,500 tons
are handled. :"
increase of speed has been less remarkablo c
than InfirABM tit rtiwf' 3tfVinaAn'a Im .
locomotive made 29 miles an hour in 1830.
Palace and sleeping cars go back only to
the close of the civil war, the airbrake to
1868, and vestibuled trains to 1886. '
Railroad mileage is not greatest in the
Eastern states, but in the "trunkilne" ter
ritory between New York, Chicago and St.
Louis, New Jersey has most railways In pro
portion, with Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana snd Iowa
following.
Europe has . miles of railway for 10,000 .
people; the United States 26 miles. .
The earliest railroads were designed to
be toll-ways on which any man could run his
own cars on his own schedule. That didn't
last J T i
There are exceptions, but most of our rail .
roads are more conservatively managed than
Great Britain's. The capitalisation per mile
is In this country 261,628, In Great Britain,
over $260,000.) British railroads have added
the cost of Improvements to capital until It
Is hard to pay less than they did 16 years
ago. Ours pay more, yet there Is a good deal
of "water" in the American lines also. v
Freight pays the bills. This is more true
of this country than of any other. Freight
revenues ib uvcr a uimyii aouarB a year, pas
senger receipts about $35.0,000,000. Our average
passenger car carries only 42 people. Eng
lish people take railroad trips four times as
often in proportion as Americans, but shorter
ones.
The "ton-mileage" of freight in 1901 was
147,077,136,040 a number too vast to be con
ceived. The average journey of a ton of
freight is 128 miles.
There is much talk every year about
"moving the' crops" and freight-car famines
in the "granger" region. Yet farm products
are only one ninth of the country's freight.
Mines furnish more than half, forests one
eighth, factories one seventh.
There are 183,000 miles of railway mall
routes. Strange as It may seem, this mile
age is considerably surpassed by the dis
tance over which, mails are carried on horse
back or by wagons. The quantity of mall so
carried, however, is comparatively trifling.
PATTI'S VOICE TODAY.
THE MAN FROM THE CROWD.
Sam Walter Foss, In Success.
Men seem as alike as the leaves on the trees.
As like as the bees in a swarming of bees;
And we look at the millions that make up
the state.
All equally little and equally great.
And the pride of our courage la crowned.
Then Fate calls for a man who Is larger
than men
There's a surge in the crowd there's' a
movement and then
There arises the man who is larger than
men
And the man comes up from the crowd.
The chasers of trifles run hither and yon.
And the little small days of amail things still
go on.
And the world seems no better at sunset than
dawn,
And the race still Increases its plentiful
spawn,
And the voice of our walling is loud.
Then the Great Deed calls out for the Great
Man to come.
And the crowd, unbelieving, sits sullen and
dumb
And the Great Deed is done, for the Great
Man is come
Aye, the Man comes up from the crowd.
There's a dead hum of voices, all say the
same thing,
And our forefathers' songs are the songs that
we sing,
And the deeds by our fathers and grand
fathers done
Are done by the son of the son of the son,
And our heads in contrition are bowed,
Lo, a call for a man who shall make all
things new
Goes down through the throng! See! he
rises in view!
Make room for the man who shall make all
things new
For the man who comes up from the
crowd.
From Collier's Weekly.
What other woman ever enjoyed for so
many years greater triumphs than any of
her contemporaries? Mme. Pattl is 60
Christine Nllsson, who is the same age, re
tired nearly a score of years ago. Wonder
ful stories are told of the way singers of old
preserved their powers. Farlnelll, who cured
the melancholy of the fifth Philip of Spain
by singing the same songs to him every
night for 10 years, kept his voice unimpaired
In spite of this ordeal until he vsas nearly
60. Seneslno sang his way into the sunset of
life, and Marietta Alboni's voice retained its
power and sweetness long after she had re
tired from the stage. In our own time, Sims
Reeves and Helnrich Vogl have been strik
ing Instances of vocal longevity.
But Adelina Patti remains the marvel of
her century. Twenty years are accounted
nowadays a long career for a woman singer.
Yet she has held her undisputed supremacy
for more than 60. The prima donna's later
visits to this country have evoked the com
ment that the beauty and warmth acquired
by her lower tones compensated for the loss
-of brilliance and accuracy in her upper
notes. Probably this criticism will be re
peated. Mme. Pattl would not return here
If she were voiceless. The programs she
has arranged are not exacting.
So, whether or not she sings them as she
did once, it will still be possible for her aud
iences this season to say in future years that
they have heard the great Pattl. That will
be true, although it will be equally true that
they have not heard the greater. Patti of
former generations, who, as a slip Of a girl,
conquered the world and held it for years In
a happy thraldom.
MONUMENT FOR SACAJAWEA.
And where is the man who comes up from
the throng,
Who does the new deed and who sings the
new- song,
And who makes the old world as a world that
Is new?
And who is the man? Is it you! It is you I
And our praise is exultant and proud.
We are waiting for you there for you are
the man!
Come Up from the Jostle as soon as you can;
Come up from the crowd there, for you are
the man
The man who comes up from the crowd.
THE PUBLIC DOUBTFUL.
From the Pendleton East Oregonlan.
It will require something more than bare
accusation to convince the people of Eastern
Oregon that either Asa B. Thompson, or Mal
colm A.. Moody are guilty of the crime now
charged against them. There is a deep and
revengeful political plot now being enacted
In Oregon, and these Indictments are thought
to be a part of .the play. It would be a bless
ing for the state and the young men In re
sponsible positions in the state if a few of
the old factional leaders fn Oregon politics
could be brought to justice for the indirect
crimes they have Committed In making the
state and federal institutions their toys and
playthings, to the exclusion of ail public
good or political honesty. The spoilsman is
no Whit better than, any other criminal, and
to the activity of this class in Oregon, for
the past quarter of a century, is due the
present rotten conditions found in the state.
From the Pendleton East Oregonlan.
No feature of the Lewis and Clark fair is
more Intensely Interesting to the Btudent,
thinker and true Westerner than the laud
able movement to build a monument to Sac
ajawea, the Shoshone Indian girl who guided
the explorers safely through the hostile
country of the Blackfeet, warned them of
dangers they could not have discovered
without her peculiar knowledge of the Wil
derness, and led them through the puzzling
and tortuous passes of the Montana and
Idaho mountains. Without her vital t
a critical time in the expedition, who can
say what the outcome of Jefferson's magnif
icent plan would have been? Without that
very leadership and familiarity with the un
known country, found in Sacajawea, who can
guess at the probable result of that explora
tion? She pointed them through-the passes
that led to the Western ocean,' when the cap
tains were debating a possible retreat. She
told them the history of their enemies, the
Blackfeet, that swarmed through the cotintcy
waiting to destroy them. She gave them
courage by the knowledge of the paths and
route and inspired them to higher effort
through her descriptions of the magnificent
empire which they had come to explore. It
would be a misfortune to leave the Sacaja
wea, monument out of the exposition, for if
Sacajawea and her services were left out of
Western history, its' story might be vastly
different. If the Lewis and Clark expedi
tion had failed, and they had turned back
from the threatening mountains and savages
that seemed to block the way, it would have
left the "Oregon country" In the hands of
the savage, and to this, Indian girl and her
leadership the Northwest owes the expo
sition of 19QJ perhaps.
FAMOUS SERMON FROM THE BIBLE.
For what end Titus was left In Crete. How
they that are to be chosen ministers ought
to be qualified. The mouths of evil teach
ers to be stopped: and what manner of
men they be.
The Letter of Paul to Titus. 1:1-16.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of the truth
which is after godliness;
In hope of eternal life,
Which God, that cannot lie,
Promised before the world began;
But hath in due times manifested His word
through preaching, which la committed unto
me according to the commandment of God
our Saviour;
To Titus, mine own son after the common
faith:
Grace, mercy, and peace,
From God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ our Savior.
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that
thou shouldest set In order the things that
are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, '
as I had appointed thee:
If any be blameless, the husband of one
wife, having faithful children not accused of
riot or unruly.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the
steward of God;
Not selfwllled,
Not soon angry.
Not given to wine,
No striker.
Not given to filthy lucre;
But a lover of hospitality,
A lover of good men,
Sober, - .
Just,
Holy,
Temperate;
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath
been taught, that he may be able by sound
doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers.
For there are many unruly and vain talk
ers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Whose mouths must be stopped,
Who subvert whole houses, -1
Teaching things which they ought not.
For filthy lucre's sake.
- One of themselves,
Even a prophet of their own,
Said, ,
The Crelians are always liars, evil beasts,
slow bellies.
This witness is true.
Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they
may be sound in the faith;
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and "com
mandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Unto the pure all things are' pure:
But unto them that are defiled and unbe
lieving is nothing pure; , ,
But even their mind and conscience is de
filed. -
They profess that they know God; I
: But in works they deny him,
Being abominable, r
And disobedient, . t
Andjmtp every good. work reprobate. -
He Got Even.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The son of a .well-known Philadelphia
minister had misbehaved, and to punish, him
he was hot allowed to eat at the family
table, A small table was set for him in the
corner of the dining room. When his din
ner .was placed before' him the litths. fellow
said very solemnly; :
"Lord, I thank thee that thou bast spread a
table before me in the presence of mine
He Was Not Surprised.
From the Chicago News. ;
Glen MacDonough, who .wrote the libretto
for the comic opera "Babes in Tbyland," was
sitting in a New York cafe recently with
Victor Herbert, the composer, when a waiter
approached to take ' his order. - The Walter
smiled at Mr; MacDonough and said:, '"You
don't remember me,' do you? I used to sing
in one of 'your corrTpanies." "I remember you
very well," said Mr. MacDonough. -"Are you'
surprised to see me .here as a waiter?"; asked
the.;other. "Not a bit,"replled the librettist
cheerfully; "you knowy. I s have heard you
Bipg:.
'V.
Where Kentucky Comes In,
From the Washington Star. .
Uncle Sam will produce 2T000.000.000 bush
els of corn,-and Kentucky will see that it
doesn't all go Into patent' foods. -
The Bad Oie Old. .
From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
In South Carolina the other day a
die 4 a natural death at the age of 101.
must have been a murderer.
man
He
No Great Disproportion.
1 " From the .: Topeka . State Journal..
Irt some communities it is coming to-be
regarded as worthy of mention that the dl
vorces do not exceed the number of .mar
T"
"Sam Park's' collection of ; Indictments
will soon rival the Sultan's world-famous TU-
Jlay o ulUmatuma. ' ' t--,i-
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