The Oregon daily journal., November 21, 1903, Page 4, Image 4

PORTLAND, OREGON
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1S03
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' , " " ' '
C $. Jackson
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
JNO. r. CARROLL
AN INTIMATE PEN PICTURE OP SPEAKER JOSEPH
' G. CANNON' :.v
Publlshed every evening (except Sunday) at The Journal Building, Fifth end Tamhlll afreets. Portland. Oregoa.
OFFICIAL. PAPHR OP THIS CITV OP PORTLAND
A REMARKABLE- REVELATION IN NEWS
- PAPER CIRCULATION.
T
HE JOURNAL, has devoted very little time to
blowing- Its own trumpet. As a ompnrntlvely
Aew comer In the field, Ju!t 21 months old, one
V year anl nine months. It would have been perfectly ullow
.able to have tooted Its horn Just a little bit, all tho more
because Its growth had been so great as to abundantly
justify It. Hut The Journal has been rather Inclined to
let the facta talk for themselves.
4 The other day a Jury was being selected In the federal
court. The panel included men from nil over tlie state.
It waa a case which aroused a great deal of Interest and
It attracted larae audiences of intelligent spectators. Of
V the 17 men who were examined under oath 14 only hud
read of the case In the Portland papers, the other three
having read of it in their county papers, (if these 14
JO had rend of It In The Journal, live In the Telegram and
lx In the Oregonlan. Many of the i-ople In, the audience
wert much surprised that a paper 25 years old. which has
always ' put forth the most strenuous claims to a great
: general circulation should, under such circumstances, have
ma.de auch a small proportionate allowing, while another
11 .paper half a hundred years old, should have been able to
juake no better exhibit than practically half the circula
tion of a paper which has been in existence less than two
years. And yet It Is not at all surprising.
When The Journal entered the field. It enme In response
'to a want which could no longer be denied. Both dally
: 'papers then In existence were owned by the same people.
. They had monopollted the field, beaten down auch feeble
opposition as had been attempted and. In the natural
"course, of things, having full control In the domain of
publicity, they developed Into dictators from whose de
cisions there was no appeal. For this reason two sides
'of no question were ever presented to the public. What
'ever the newspaper monopolists thought good to give, that
they gave. Any one who Incurred their enmity was de
cidedly out of luck. He knew what he was to expect and
'be got It In copious doses which made him writhe.
As time went on the conditions grew worse and the
newspaper autocrats became more unbearable. They ar-
rogated to themselves omniscience. There being no ap--,
peal from their Judgment, everybody was obliged td swal
ilow It whole and look pleasant. The abuses which thus
.'prang', up, the Injustices that were done, the sandbag
ging which went on day after day, above all the blight
that fell upon the city Itself from a dictatorship so viru
lent, so bigoted and so self-sufficient, speedily passed
all' bounds. The outcome of it all was The Journal. All
S the other attempts to start opposition newspapers had
dismally failed and even this was at first not looked
on with too much confidence that It would succeed, al
though the public good will back of the enterprise has
', f never been equaled at any time in any city in the United
- .States. Started originally as a simple campaign sheet,
.it soon became apparent that a combination of money,
.brains and experience, might make a great success of the
enterprise. The money was speedily forthcoming and ex
;pertenced men were placed In charge. In the enterprise
.there has already been spent $125,000. Independent of the
'earnings of the paper. Within its limits there is no better
newspaper plant in the country. . Its great Hoe press is
the only color press in Oregon or Washington. What it
,'cn do is plainly shown by the edition which is sent out
-today. In the past year the growth of the paper in all
' "directions has been phenomenal. This Is true not only
In the matter of circulation, but in the matter of advertis
ing. The paper has already safely passed the experi
mental stage. It Is not only here to stay, but to set a
standard for itself of which all the people of Portland and
Oregon will have every reason to be proud. It has shown
vast improvement in the past year, but the Improve
, ment in the next year will be even more marked. Noth
ing that money and experience can do or suggest will be
left undone to make the paper the most widely circulated,
the fairest and most influential paper that has ever been
printed in Oregon. Tied by no strings, a bond servant to
no clique, faction or party, a kite to no man's ambition
and concerned only in the welfare of the people of Port
land and its great tributary region, which have never yet
'received the consideration they deserve, it has carved
.out for itself a place which no other newspaper has ever
before attempted to fill.
, While those employed about The Journal have realized
with pride and satisfaction the great and continued growth
of the paper, and while a realization of these facts is
rapidly gaining ground with the public, it Is nevertheless
pleasing, and The Journal makes no attempt to conceal its
satisfaction over the truthful if, to many, amazing show
ing made during the trial of Malcolm Moody, when the
relative circulation of The Journal nnd Its rivals In this
great Oregon region was made clear to 'every one who
had enrs to hear. That same relative showing will, too,
strange to relate, be maintained In Portland where Th
Journal has become far and away the most popular paper
ever printed In the city.
And ns we said before the growth, though large nnd
gratifying, Is only well begun and the management of thisl
paper will never rest content until It has attained a
greater circulation than the managers of Its fogy con
temporary have ever dreamt of In their philosophy.
COLOMBIA'S LAST CHANCE.
E
VEN THOSE who deep down In their hearts cannot
wholly approve the species of snap Judgment
which has characterized our recent policy on the
Isthmus will lose no sleep In worrying over the ridiculous man questions.
. A. Maurice Low in Harper's Weekly.
Cunnon Is by- no nutans a great man,
as greatness is measured by Intelleot.
fores of character, or -n imagination
which 1a tha mother of genius; but he Is
several degrees above mediocrity and has
many remarkable qualities he is a com
bination of seemingly opposite and an
tagonists elements, lio . Is th last of
that school of publlo men who loarnod
their lesson of politics some 40 years ago
and who graduated In the storm and
tres, of a nation's sorrow, when Titans
battled, and puny men went down be
neath their savage onslaught. It was a
rough, almost a coarse, school; teachers
and scholars were endowed with tha ele
mental virtues, but not with tha retina
meats or niceties of speech or manner;
It was an age of savage thrust, when
quarter was neither asked nor given, and
when the pioneer, who hud conquered
the wlldernrsa. who waa living on the
edge of primitive civilisation, was clone
to the soli, and he atlll reminds on
of the frontier lawyer of nearly half a
century ago, he Is still one of the "plain
people," he it "I'ncl Joe" to all men as
he has been for more than n quarter of
a century, and with that strain. Inher
ited from his God-fearing parents, his
honor has remained untarnished, his In
tegrity no man assails, his motives no
troubles of Colombia. When that petty republic believed
It had the whlphand, It acted with unconscionable swagger
and Insolence. Not satisfied with an offered remuneration
far beyond its wildest dreams of a few months before, und
which would have almost wholly gone to the benefit of
Its own boodlers and very little to Panama which then.
as now, formed the rerrl element In the whole transaction,
It acted on the bandit's presumption that having a rich
victim at Its mercy, it should bleed him to death.
From this standpoint, if no other, the sudden flank
movement of the United States government must cause
much satisfaction In the breast of every man who likes to
see the biter bitten. The shrieks of indignation which
are now issuing from the frenxied throats of the Colom
bians, their clamorous demands for rich, warm blood,
their threats to annihilate everybody who stands In th
way of their devastating vengeance, can evoke no sympathy
In 'any quarter, though they are calculated to arouse
sundry shrieks of sarcastic laughter.
The Colombians are harmless and helpless to save them
selves. They can do nothing which will Interfere with the
program already mapped out. They are suppliants pure
and simple, no matter what high airs they may assume
and whntever their outward expression of Inward indigna
tion. Therefore, If they alone were to be considered, there
would be no need to waste time on them. But the face of
the record must be kept strnlght and nppoarnnces In the
eyes of the world must be maintained. It is for this rea
son that the Colombian ambassador. If he la a man of
gumption and knows how to play his cards, will be re
ceived with due consideration at Washington and may
ultimately be allowed to depart perfectly mollified by a
poultice of greenbacks, not directly placed In his covetous
fist, but handed to his country through a private under
standing with thenew republic of PnnnrrttrTTnich will thus
be In a position to negotiate Itself into security on a basis
that is none the less alluring because It is commercial.
But much depends upon whether the ambassador with
plenary power has sense enough to come In out of the
wet. If his wild hullabaloo which has come in shrieking
reverberations from Bogota and Panama la a bluft pure
and simple, and Colombia In his person really proposes to
content Itself with the best bargain It can make, then
well and good, for he will return to his distracted country
perfectly satisfied. But on the other hand, should he
really be in earnest or should he happen to carry his bluff
too far, then lookj out for squalls, in which, Colombia may
De expectea to ao most or me squainng.
GIVE THEM THE LIMIT.
A
SUMMARY EXAMPLE should be made of the
man who chased the Couch school girls yester
day afternoon. His act caused a sort of hyster
leal panic to permeate the whole school and this, in th
very nature of things, will extend to other schools unless
an example is made of the youth who was so fortunately
captured.
We have heard rather frequent reports that intoxicated
men were to be seen almost any day in the neighborhood
of the schools at the hours of dismissal. Some of them
have obstructed the passage of the children and in in
stances almost, scared them into hysterics. The police
should make a point of watching for such fellows and
when they are found they should get the very limit of
punishment that the courts can extend. Such offenses
should not be regarded as of ordinary character. When
they are punished with rigor there will be fewer such In
fractions of the peace and the school children will be a
good deal freer from molestation than now appears to be
the case.
You may picture a little man, aome five
and a half feet tall, short, wiry, muscu
lar, spare; as quick on his feet as a
dancing-master or as one about whose
youth marvelous tales are told of his
skill and grace on what served as tha
ballroom floor of Weatern civilisation;
whme clothes might be made by the
most fashionable tailor or might have
been picked up at a marked-down Rule,
because they tiang on him rather than
are consciously worn; who covers his few
remaining hairs with a black slouch hat,
and only twice haa tradition decked him
in the badge of slavish fashion's, silk
hat. The first time waa when aa a
member of the congressional committee
he drove with l"resldent McKInley to the
capltol to see him tor the second time
tuke the oath; once more he wore it
when he stood by the bier of the man
who, crossing the path of fate, fell a
victim to an assassin's murderous frenxy.
Thus you may see the new speaker on
the streets of Washington or In the de
partments, interviewing members of tho
cabinet about their appropriations or
forwarding the Interests of his constitu
ents, because every member of congress
is an office broker and a patronage
monger. Hut you shall see him In the
house, explaining with all Its tedioua
tiesa of detail a great appropriation hill
carrying millions for the support of tho
government, or fighting with all the
Hthe fury of a panther what he believes
to bo a steal, or beating down the oppo
sition of malice or ignorance, and you
shall see that more than one facet can
be polished, and from each flashes a fire
of different hue.
In the house, when snok.Jng, he Is
singularly ungraceful- Jle Is left-
handfffl. rfnil neither hand can be still
for a moment; his hands are perpetually
going up and down, cutting the air in a
hundred geometrical patterns, pounding
the desk In front of him or smashing his
clenched fist Into his open palm with a
report like a pistol to emphasize a point
that needs to be driven homo into the
obstinate heads of his opponents. It Is
Impossible for Cannon to talk without
this wealth of gesticulation and gesture,
ih the house discovered many years
ago. It was 1n the day when there was
still giants In Washington, when Ran
dall and Garfield and "Sunset" Cox
made history. Cox was In charge of a
bill, and Cannon begged for time, which
Cox waa not inclined to grant. Finally
yielding to Cannon's entreaties, he
nsked the ususl parliamentary formula,
"How much time does the gentleman
want?" Cannon was not quite certain
how much time his speech would con
sume, and Cox cut the matter short by
saying: "I will give the gentleman
from Ifllnols all the Urns hs wants, pro
vided he keeps his hands In his pockets
while he i It speaking." Ths houst
laughed, and Cannon started In bravely,
hands In pockets, and held .himself
tinder magnificent restraint for fully 00
seconds; then, in. an Impassioned flight
or eloquence, out cam his left hand,
followed Immediately afterward by his
right. Cox called "Timet" and tha
house roared. H has a trick of pulling
his rty sleeves nearly up to his shoul
ders, Vs If hs were stripping for a fray,
and his waistcoat Is generally open oi
only closed by the two lower buttons.
Ills voice is raucous. He has no gift
of eloquence, no wealth of classical
allusion, no power to make phrases,
none of that mordant snrcasm that made
Heed famous and feared. But, although
he has no eloquence, hs Is not without
the power of oratory. Tha power of
direct speech, the use of simple words,
homely similes and a certain quaint
philosophy convey what hs has to say
In such a way that no man mlsunder
!-tund him. His speeches, which are
never prepared (but his facts always
are), do not stand the stenographer
very well; and there Is so little of
vanity In him that, unlike mtst of his
colleagues, he does not revise and polish
lils manuscript before It goes to the
printer; but, although hla speeches
make little Impression when read, they
produce their effect at delivery. That
effect is due to tho fact that when he
talks ho la more anxious o accomplish
results than he ia t embellish literature
with copy-book phrasea; and also to the
fact that his words carry conviction
men believe In hla sincerity and are
assured of hla honesty.
DON QUIXOTE AND THE CID IN THE' HOME OF
' 5 SPANISH ROMANCE. . .' -
Cannon Is self-msde. ss he says. At
14 his father died, and he had to leave
ichool and go to work. Ha was a clerk
in n grocery store for five years, work
Ing like s Trojan and saving money,
men ne studied law and became a prac
tlclng lawyer. He went Into politics
early, and won his wife and hla first
election, for state's attorney, by the
same coup. Cannon comes of Quaker
parents, to whom dancing and other
amusements were anathema For some
reason, which no ono has ever yet been
able to explain perhaps it was in the
oiooa derived from a long-forggtten an
cestor and had to come out young
joe was passionately fond of danclna.
and many a night after the old folk had
gone to bed the lad. togged out In his
best , and mftst un-Quaker-llke garments
stole off to village dances, where he al
ways hl the. prettiest girls for his
partner, as his terpsichorean skill was
acknowledged even by hla rivals.
And then the young fellow fell head
over heels in love with Mary Reed, a
girl of unusual beauty, and of still more
unusual character and Intellect. But.
while she smiled on him. she wanted
something more for a husband than a
mere dancer. When Joe discovered the
state of affairs he did some serious
thinking. Mary Reed's brother was the
opposition candidate for state s attorney,
and the problem Joe had to face was
this: If ho ran and was beaten. Mary
would have only contempt for him, for
he knew enough of women to know that
they, even more than men, worship suc
cess; and, on the other hand. If he won,
Mary would be bitter agnlnst him for
having defeated her brother. Cannon
wrestled with that problem for reveral
nights, endeavoring to find a way eut of
the male, und finally enmo to the con
clusion that success would atone for
everything. He went Into the campaign
and won. and his reward was tho hand ot
tho girl he loved nnd the friendship of
the man he defeated To Mrs. Cannon.
" u'e many years ago, Mr. Cannon
owes much. For years they studied to
gether; and if today Mr. Cannon knowj
more about more things of practical
vaiue man any other man In congress.
It Is because of those early years of his
married life when the woman of his
neart was his teacher.
William J& Curtis In ths Chicago Bsc.
ord-Harald.
Burgos, Spain. Oct. JJ. After leaving
ins mountains that Its south of Sun
Sebastian ths railway enters a high,
areary plateau that la almost treeless,
It is asserted that there are extensive
districts in Spain In which ; nothing
exists that can bs called a tree, and
whers thousands of natives livs and die
Ithout sver aeelna- out. a. inrai
proverb says that a lark has to bring
his provisions with him when hs- visits
L Juaticna. the d strict lmmnrtallmH
by Cervantes In "Don Quixote." La
Mancha is the Arab ward tar 'nurl
There is plenty of water underneath the
sou anu me windmills are as thick as
they are lu Holland, numnlna- u n tar
i...nuun purposes. Ths landscape and
the towns are accurately described In
uiai mom popular of all Spanish novels,
and ths hero, who lived at Argamasllla,
Is supposed to have been a caricature
11 a lamous local knight Of those day
ion Kiurigo de rachecho, of whom
there la a portrait In ths church.
Tners has been little change In the
customs or tns costumes of the people
since his time. In fact, nothing sver
manges in mat part of the country.
From the car windows on, tha road mil
. . I. (I ..... '
" muwajr aiaiions you can see fat
prints In long black robes and shovel
hats, riding astride of donkeys,, with
their toes touohlug the ground. Just as
they did at the period of whloh Car-
vantea wrote. The same methods and
Implements havs been used bv tha
larmers since tha beginning of agrlcul
iuic. iuijt turn up uie son wita a
plow called "alamo negro," homemade
from the crotch of a tree, and their
grain is thrashed by the feet of oxen.
The hidalgo still wears the old-fashioned
cloak and broad-brimmed hat, and. con
scious of the dignity which lils race and
ancestry have conferred upon him, he
considers himself the superior of all
mankind. It ia eaay In any of the vil
lages to find prototypes' of the people
Cervantes introduces to you In his
stories,
The peasants are industrious, hnnnv
and independent. They are loysl to theii
masters and will tight for the ownerk
of the estates upon which thoy live as
promptly and bravely as they did hi
reucial times. They are a hardy race
quered them. . He Is ths national hero
of Spain, and appears even mors f re-
quently in romance and poetry than in
history.' His real name was . Ilodrlgo
Ulas ds Vlvar; he belonged to a family
of large land owners, hs lived from 10J
to 10j), and his exploits wars performed
In Germany, and France, as well as in
his own country. Southey'a "Chronicle
of ths Cld" tells his story. His sword
and armor hang In ths old cathedral at
Burgos; his dust Is preserved In a funny
wooden box In the town hall, and his
mare, Bavleca, which waa quits as fa
mous as her master. Is burled In the
patio of a monstrous monastery sreoted
upon the site of Ths Cld's birthplace.
The horse outlived him and In his will hs
wrote: "When ye bury Bavleoa. dig
deep for a shameful thing It were that
she should be eaten by curs who havs
trampled down so much currish flesh of
Moors."
This famous charger was gifted with
unusual Intelligence. At Toledo they
will show you a church called El Chrlsto
ds la Lux (ths Christ of ths Light)'
where over ths altar hangs a ghastly
figure of the Savior, with real hair and
beard, long and straight like a woman's
switch. The. story goes that when Ths
Cld rode - into Toledo one day after
slaughtering many thousand unbelievers,
his faithful, steed dropped upon Hs knees
before a Moorish mosque and would not -stir
from the place. The Cld knew that
ths mar never did silly thlnra. hence
hs Inferred that some sacred relic muat
be near the spot. Laborers were called
for, an excavation was made, and, be
hold! a stream of light poured out of tha '
earth. Digging a little farther down,
this extraordinary image was revealed,
with a lantern beside It, Which had been
burning wltbout oil or wick no on
knows how long. And It was called tha
Christ of the Light and ths Moorish
mosque was remodeled Into a Christian
cbuch In Us honor.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Advertise Oregon la Oregon.
Condon, Or.. Nov. 17. To th Editor
of The Journal Muoh Is being said and
written these days about the need of ad
vertising Oregon in the East, and al
most every returning traveler from the
land lying Oothamward has wonderful
tales to relate of the dense, ignorance
discovered among eastern people con
cerning the Oregon country. Some peo
ple back there are said to ask all kinds
of questions ab.nt the Indian und buf
falo crop in Oregon; others believe tnat
our only Industry is the spearing nnd
writer. "I live in Eastern Oregon."
"Eastern Oregon?" responded the elder
ly gentleman. "Iefs see h rn; some
where up near Idaho, is it not?" "Well,
yes," replied the somewhat astonished
bunchgrasser, "Oregon joins Idaho for
a considerable distance, but I do not
live so far up tm that. I live at Condon,
in the north central part of the state."
"Oh, yes certainly, certainly." replfed
the elderly gentleman, his face brighten
ing, "I understand. You live up there
next to the Montana line."
The bunchgrasser grasped the ehnir
In front nnd steadied himself. 'Sine,
ly," he thought, "this man Is jok'ng.
He Is playing me for a corntop." lint
a glance at the others fare showed
plainly that there was no Joke ab'iut It.
until the old provincial spirit is stamped
out and a unity of feeling and interests
between the different sections of the
state takes Its place. Oregon cannot be
come the truly glorious commonwealth
which a bounteous nature intended.
S. A. PATT1SON,
Publisher of tho Condon Qlobo.
canning r,i salmon, while others insist The elderly gentleman evidently felt
in locating the great country "where that he had suddenly found a rather
rolls the Oregon" as a precinct In West- I hard nut to crack, but he had cracked it
ern Missouri. While we can only com- Hi.llsfaetorilv. He had located Eastern
iK- h i gor
mlserate the somewhat pardonabh
norance of imr eat" tern friends, and as
cribe it to distance and lack of opportu
nity to make themsefves familiar with
the resoui cea and general condition of
the best state in th.- uni-.n. it is bard .
to believe, and harder y t clour 1
the fact that otherwise w Ji-ti.f i u,--
people may he found in the m tropolm I
of Oregon who will almost, if ii'.' .;i;te, I
discount the New Englai.ii i. ,.:-!. ,ti.r ,
Who Is said to have i, ?t ribed 1 hi vf ri as
a fishing town neat tla- niouti. -t the,
Columbia river. f.t h. l:owev t, is :ii.
case, as the following tine story wii
show: I
Not long since, while in Portland, the,
writer spent an evening at the theatre. !
Occupying the seat next to him was ., !
elderly gentleman whose apiear;:ia.e in-!
dicated him to be a man of more than
ordinary Intelligence. As is usual with
western men when thus thrown togeth- i
er, a between-the-act acquaintance was ,
struck up and" the elderly gentleman j
showed by his conversation that he ;
waa a man of considerable culture and !
education. He talked interestingly of
plays and players, new books and gen
eral topics, and did not forget to ex
press an opinion or two in regard to
local municipal affairs. Altogether he
was an Interesting companion, and the
"country newspaper man could hardly re
press a feeling of envy at the superior
advantages the city man enjoys over his
country coustn in the way of keeping
himself Informed on up-to-date subjects.
t"resently came the ouestlon. "Do s-ou
II vs in Portland r
Then the bunchgrasser knew
that In spite of his new friend's pro
nounced western air he was surely a
recent arrival from the effete East, so
he observed. "Vou are a stranger here?"
"ih. no," the other replied; "I have lived
right bete in Portland for 22 years."
What business are you engaged In?"
gasped the now thoroughly bewildered
liuncbgrnsser. "The insurance busi
ness." v, as the reply. "You do not ap
l;:r to be eiy familiar with the cast
era por':-. ii of our state," ventured the
leu-ug'as.-ter "Well, perhaps not," as-si-,t.d
the other. "As 1 said, I have
p. . n "1' s ears in Portland, and have
)e er in all that time been as far out
of I own as Alhina."
Just then the curtain went up, but
the next act was lost on tho man from
the biiiiebgr .s; land. He sat ns one in
a trance u:i,t the curtain fell again, and
th.-n. groping bis way to the fresh air
ouishl.. he made his way to a near-by
cafe and - sm -k-d a strong cigar.
The lin-ra! to this story is this. While
it is all right to send missionaries and
literature t,j the East to enlighten the
darkened minds of the denizens of that
country to the glories of Oregon's soil
and climate, it is well to remember that
charity should sometimes begin at home,
and that a study of the rudiments of the
geography of the Pacific Northwest
would not perhaps he mniss as a startet.
Oregonlans above all other people should
know Oregon. Portland should know
Eastern Oregon, and the bunchbrassers
should know Portland r,n,i ...
No," replied the fand the southern counties as well. And
What Is the Blatter?
Portland, Nov. 18 To the Editor of
The Journal What In the world has
got into old mussback Oregon, that all
her prominent officials are charged with
crookedness? I see by the papers that
a congressman Is being tried for rob
bing a poor widow, your attorney-general
for perjury, several United States
senators and congressmen alleged to be
implicated In land and timber steals, and
several subordinate officials being tried
tor the same offense, your county offl
rials (of the past, at least) under bus
plcion. your mayor accused of violating
ms oiitn or omce, the chief of police
uuooea a grarter, etc.
This is all taken from reading tho
Oregoniiin. and If it is a fact, how do
you account for it? What old Webfoot
needs l an Elijah in the shape of At
torney Falk and -weed out those para
sites. A ne-man rule Is poor medicine
for any state, and Oregon has suffered
under it long enough. If things keep
on at this rate, a stranger will have to
throw up his hands as soon as he enters
the state, and the grafter will do the
rest. This is certainly encouraging for
the Lewis and Clark fair.
A NATIVE SON.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
From the Xew York Press.
The spring bride of autumn Is the
summer nurse of -winter.
- Mormons exist to prove that men
never learn anthylng from experience.
A woman always has an idea that the
reason sho doesn't understand business
is because she knows how to sew so
well. v .
To the last day she lives a woman
can never understand how a man can
worry about money matters when the
children are doing so well at school.
SERMONS XV SONGS.
From the Chicago Tribune.
"And I have given you a land fot
which ye did not labor; and cities which
ye built not, and ye dwell In them."
Joshua xxlv., 13.
We quarrel of land and line;
We bicker of work and wage;
We trouble our. souls with a doleful sign.
Forgetting ouf heritage
Forgetting the tireless hands;
Forgetting the restless feet
That fared undaunted through unknown
landa .
Till the path was made complete.
The fathers the men who dreamed,
And, dreaming, were strong to dare.
To struggle ahqad to the goal that
gleamed,
A prize that was rich and fair.
The fathers the men who thought
Of all that the future held.
And, hearts uplifted, essayed and
wrought
All the work their dreams compelled.
We pluck from the vines they set;
We walk in the ways they made;
Wo harvest their fields; and their for
ests yet
Are giving us rest and shade.
The fathers tho men of old
Who bullded a 'place for us,
A country magnificent; brave and bold
In their faith all glorloua.
We quarrel and dread and doubt.
Forgetting we only hold ,
The comfort within and the peace with
out
By grace of the men of old;
Forgetting the toll and stress.
Forgetting the bygone age
When cities were planned in their come
liness
For a future heritage.
the soil Is Just as prolific. Here irriga
tion must supply the needed moisture.
Fortunately there is an abundance of
water for most of this area, and already
It is being diverted from its natural
channels by private companies, and car
ried to the lands most easy of access.
The government haa withdrawn large
tracts from settlement, and, though it
will move slowly, will eventually supply
w.iier 10 minions or acres now unproductive.
oorn wnnout blessings, living without
comforts and dying with nothing to
leave. Their homos are built of adobe
bricks, made on the ground, and are
nontly whitewashed. The floors are of
mua, the beds are piled with sheeDskins
tho household utensils are llmltod in
numbers jtnd are of the cheapest ma
terlals, often wood and home made. Few
peoplo exist upon less money, with
fewer comforts, and yet they are hatmv
and contented. Schools are scarce and
nstructlon is- limited to a few months
i year at the parish church. Ninety
per cent of the people are entirely
Illiterate. Few have ever heard of any
country but their owa ' They never see
oook or a newspaper, yet thev are
fully posted In Spanish politics, and take
as mucn interest In the affairs of the
government aa If they held offices In the
palace. From this class come the con-
nulstadores, who explored and con
quered Spanish America. Cortex was
the son of a peasant farmer; Plzarro
was a swinenerd
You can get a pretty good idea of the
country from the car window, because
the train moves very srbwly, stops a
una iime. ai every station, and there Is
little variety You always see about
me same miner whichever way you look.
Cpon nearly Ivery prominent hilltop
are ruins of castles erected as defenses
against the Moors. From them Castile
the land of the caatles received Its
name. L.eon waa named after the
seventh Roman legion which occupied
me country Derore tlie Christian era and
drove out the original owners of tha
boJM. Uy the marriage of Ferdinand and
Isabella the independent kingdoms of
uustlle, Leon, Aragon and Navarre were
united under the scepter of "the Catho
lic kings," but before their time a great
deal of history waa enacted, for this is
one of the oldest lands known to men.
Burgos was tho home of "The Cld," a
sort of a Spanish Saladln or St. Oeorge.
who seems to have been always fighting
the heathen and always to have con-
The Cld was a terrible fellow! His
thirst for blood was never quenched.
He killed and killed until his etrengtn
was gone, and then gave up the ghost.
regretting that lie could not kill more.
A convent was built over his home, and
there they burled Alonso, the brother of
Isabella, from whom she Inherited ths
crown. It is deserted today, with only
two or three feeble old monks to kecD
things In order. They g( their living
by raising pigs In the patios of the mon
astery. The Cld was originally burled
there with his faithful Xlmens, but for
some reason or another, perhaps for the
convenience of tourists, his body waa
removed to the town hall 40 years ago.
Curiously enough the legend on bis tomb
In Latin ia simply:
"Ood has promised."
Beside his wife rest his two daughters.
Elvira, who was Queen of Navarre, and
Maria Sol, who waa Queen of Aragon,
with their husbands.
People generally come to Burgos to
see the cathedral, and It la one of the
marvels of mediaeval architecture, built
of white limestone In the twelfth cen
tury, although It was not finished for
S00 years. Its founder was an English
man, Bishop Maurice, and the most of
the money is said to have been furnished
by an English princess. It is reckoned
one of the finest examples of ecclesias
tical Oothic In existence, and ia lavishly
decorated with carvings and mural
paintings. Among other queer things
to be found is the tomb Of the cook of
Henry III, who was burled within Its
walls besides kings, princes and arch
bishops because "El Dollente," aa the
king was called, said that he was entitled
to an honorable place because he had
given him so much more comfort and
Joy In life than any of the great men
who were lying around him. Alexander
Borgia, afterward the notorious Pope
Alexander vi, was connected with the
Burgos cathedral as a priest while he
was a young man.
There la another famous church In
town called Santa Agueda's. where The
Cld compelled Alphonso VI to take three
oaths before he would allow him to as
cend the throne. The first oath was
taken upon a cross at the entrance, the
next upon a bolt of the big door and the
third upon the gospels at the high altar.
he gossip's of that day say that Al
phonso hesitated until one of his knights
exclaimed: "Swear well and fear not:
never was a king convicted of perjury
or a pope excommunicated."
SENTENCE SERMONS.
You cannot win souls In your sleep.
Back-seaters soon become backsliders.
He who entertains envy Invites enmity.
The Bible Is a time card and not a
ticket.
Our habits here determine our habit
there.
Famous Sermon From the Bible
Christ ending his sermon In the mount,
reproveth rash Judgment, forblddeth to
cast holy things to dogs, exhorteth to
prayer, to enter In at the strait gate,
to beware of false prophets, not to be
hearers, but doers of the word: like
houses bullded on a rock, and not on the
sand. St. Matthew 7:1-29.
DON'T KNOW OREOON.
And They're Rare Birds Hers.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel
A Denver man eloped with his hired
girl, and his wife now has a warrant
out for him. Good hired lrls are
scarce in Colorado.
From the Tendleton East Oregonlan.
Here In Oregon we are apt to smile at
the ignorance of Eastern people concern
ing our great state. This privilege kwe
naturally suppose belongs to us, on ac
count of our superior wisdom. Yet how
many of us have even a faint concep
tion of Oregon, Its geography, climate,
soil, products or resources? How many
f those living west of the Cascades
ave anything like a true conception of
the vast area across the range? It is
safe to Bay not one in 60. To- most, the
ascade rango shuts off the knowledge
f the things beyond as thoroughly as it
huts off the vision. If it Is thought of
at all, it is in an indistinct way, as a
great area of desert country, covered
with sage brush, and good for nothing
except stock range. There never was a
greater mistake. There are vast areas
of high rolling plateaus, the very richest
kind of soil, and capable of producing
nythlng grown in the temperate zone.
For a distance of 60 miles south from
the Columbia river, the rainfall Is suf
ficient to produce good crops as is evi
denced by Wasco county, with 800,000
bushels of grain annually. Sherman,
one of the smallest counties, with from
2.000,000 to 3.000.000 bushels: Gilliam
with a million and Umatilla with Ave.
These same areas produce splendid fruit,
and lots of It besides furnishing pas
ture for vast herds of sheep and cattle,
Wishes and not words are the true
prayers.
Silent sermons are often the most sue
cessrui.
Temptation Is the devil's form of In
junction.
" That which is affected can never be
ertective.
The fever of fanaticism is not the fevr
or laitn.
A negligent love can easily become a
uiugeni nate.
What you pray for you ought to be
wuung 10 pay tor.
One saint on a street car is worth a
cozen in a cnariot
A. friend Is a man with whom you
can go camping iwice.
G6d does not cease to be because he
stands behind the scenes.
You cannot drive a tenpenny precept
wim a lacKnammer practice.
The world needs a religion that Is
passion rather than a 'pastime.
He cannot be fitted spiritually who Is
too lazy to nt nimseir mentally.
Licking a boy to make him go to Sun
day-school la a first-class way of lead
ing him to the devil.
Ths Best.
, From the Washington Evening Star.
"You claim to have invented the best
airship before the public T"
"I do," was the emphatic answer.
"But your machine didn't even leave
the ground."
"That's the point. It never gets far
enough from terra flrma to risk any
body's life." '
- Her. X.nck.
From the Chicago Kecord-Herald.
They say Miss Scaddslelgh duke Is
young, handsome and clever,
"Dear me! That vlrl alvio aiA ,-,
The country south, still of the section I such luck. We'll be hearing that ha
.Jjuuasd, la deficient In rainfall, though loves her next."
Judge not, that ye be not Judged.
For with what Judgment ye ludae. ve
shall be Judged: and with what measure
ye mote, it shall be measured to you
again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that
Is in thy brother's eye, but conslderest
not tho beam that is in thine own eye?
Oh how wilt thou say to thy brother.
Let me pull out the mote out of thine
eye: and, behold, a beam Is In thine own
eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam
cut of thino own eye; and then shalt thou
see clearly to cast out the mote out
of thy brother s eye.
Give not that which Is holy -unto the
dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before
swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Ask, and It shall be given you; seek.
and ye shall find; knock, and It shall be
opened unto you:
For every one that askethv recelveth:
and he that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh It shall be opened.
Or what man Is there of you. whom
if his son ask bread, will he give him
a stone?
Or if, he ask a Ash. will he E-ive
him a serpent?
If ye then being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your Father which Is in
heaven give good things to them that ask
him?
Therefore1 all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to tnem: for this is. the law
and the prophets, v
Enter ye In at the strait gate: for wide
is the gate, and broad Is the way, that
leadeth to destruction, and many there
oe wnicn go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and nar
row is the way, which leadeth unto life,
and few there; be that find it
Beware of false prophets, which come
to you in sheep's clothing, but Inwardly
hey are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of
tnisties?
Even so, ' .
Every good tree bringeth forth good
fruit; "
But a corrupt tre bringeth forth evil
fruit. i -
A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit. ! -r
Every tree that bringeth not forth good
fruit is hewn down.
And cast Into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know
them.
Not every one that saltH unto me,
Lord, Lord,
Shall enter Into the kingdom of heaven;
But he that doetii the will of my Father
which is In heaven.
Many will say to me in that day.
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name?
And In thy name have cast out devils?
And In thy name done many wonderful
works?
And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you:
Depart from me.
Ye that work Iniquity.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sar
ins of mine, and doeth them, I will
liken, him unto a wise man, which built
his house upon a rock:
And the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house; and it fell not: for It
was founded upon a rock.
And every one that heareth these say
ings of mine, and doeth them not, shall
be likened unto a foolish man, which
built his house upon the sand:
And the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the wind blew, and beat upon
that house; and it fell: and great was
the fall of It.
And It came to pass, when Jesus had
ended these sayings, the people were
astonished at his doctrine.
For he taught them as one having au
thority, and not as the scribes.
HELPED THE CHAPLAIN OUT.
From the New York Press.
An army chaplain In the PhllinDlnes
who chanced to be intrusted with the
distribution of the mall of one of the
regiments first sent out was much nes-
tered on one occasion by anxious sold
iers. The mail had been delayed, and
the questions the chaplain had to answer
became Irksome to him. So he placed a
sign over the door of his tent reading:
"The chaplain does not know when
the mail will arrive."
General Fred Grant, paaslng.the chap
lain's tent later in the day, observed to
his great amusement that some soldier
disposed to be facetious had added to
the sign these words:.
"Nor does he care a damn."
Only Eer tooks Are Pierce,
From the Chicago Tribune.
H. B. Marriott-Watson again asserts
that American women" are anarchists.
We begin to believe he never saw anv
American women except the bearded
lady in Earuum's sldeshW, and we are
assured that she has only the whiskers,
not the disposition, of a bomb-thrower.
A Hint to Olerslaad. .
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Perhaps it would be Just as well for
Mr. Cleveland to hunt no more ducks
In Maryland until the Democratic Dreai-
dentlal nomination is -settled,