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Editorial ' e .o'f ' iiha PORTLAND, OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1903 THE OREGOiN DAILY' JOURNAL K , 1 AN- INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' ' " Senator Allison Says There Will Be No Radical Changes ' f - in the Banking Laws ' f The Pope and His Family Viewed Through American Eyes at Close Range . ; C. S.' JACKSON Publish evsry evening (except Sunday) OFFICIAL. PAPER OP TMB CITY OF 'THE JOURNAL'S PLATFORM . ATrlnlty Events Which Would Make or Portland . i t the Mightiest City ct the Pacific Coast. ; First Deepen the Columbia river bar. SecondOpen the Columbia river to unirri . v peded navigation at.and 'above The Dalles. ; : Third Dig an Isthmian canal" ', . ; . THE SEASON'S GREETING. IT: 13 with a feeling of deep , appreciation that Th Journal wishes each and every one of its readers a - merry Christmas. Not a few: of them have been 'V patrons and well wishers of th paper from the very start. They were Us friends when It was a struggling bantling and traveled the rooky road of uncertainty; they vers Its friends when.it shouldered Its way oh to sure ground and began Its steady 'upward fight toward Buccess, and they are still its friends and well wishers ' when they -find t now securely placed as' one of the established In stitutfons of this' great city and a factor to be reckoned with In all affairs of public moment : . . For all of these friends The Journal confesses a peculiar affection, for they are men and women to ba. reckoned on In days of adversity, fair and foul weather friends who are not to be shaken from their allegiance and whose pride in the success achieved la as deep and abiding as though they themselves were the direct beneficiaries. V The Journal numbers many hundreds such as these In all parts of the state and will always hold them in grateful remem brance. " ' ' " : ' : . ., . This' is The Journal's second Christmas. Through the ' public appreciation and a generous belief that It was adequatelyfilllng a long unoccupied field. It has pros pered, beyond the fondest expectations of; those who pro jected it Its receipts for one day's advertising this month almost equaled its receipts from all sources during the month of August of last year. Every month has shown a striking, and steady increase in circulation and adver " tising over the previous month and this record has been maintained even In those months when the newspaper business is ordinarily the dullest. This tells the whole story, ',", ," y - - -."',', ' - - . , ..' It is only meet and proper,. theretorCr or' The Journal to gratefully express Its appreciation to all its patrons, new and old, on this occasion and to wish them all the very I) est the season affords. ; t THE FAIR APPROPRIATION. IN THE MIDST of our jubilations let us not overlook the fact that much work yet remains to be done be - fore-we an-hope'to secure'-the approprlatloti-asked for the Lewis and Clark exposition. ' On the ground of bare justice and because of the historical significance of the events which it commemorates we are entitled to the consideration which, we ask at the hands of congress, but appropriations will be scanned with particular keen neaw at this session and we may as well realise now, as to regret It later, that whatever we get we will have to fight for and that hard and pertinaciously. We should not permit ourselves to be deluded by roseate repdrts sent out from Washington, which too often rep resent the hopes of our welt wjshers rather than express the sober judgment of those who can afford to take nothing for granted. As It Is. never safe to consider an election won until tlfe last ballot has found Us way Into the box. so It Is never safe to bank on any consummation until It actually has been realised. , . If The Journal were to offer a, word of advice at this time It would be to take nothing for granted in the effort to secure the appropriation which is essential to the fair. Surface Indications seldom count for much unless they are shrewdly gauged In all their bearings. Victory is not yet accomplished, even In the senate, and it ""behooves every TWO -TOW STATES UKXLT. Oklahoma Oae; Axisona and Hew Mix - too the Other. Washington Correspondence New York Tribune. That legislation looking to the "forma tion of two new Wtates for admission to , the Union may be expected at a com paratively early date now seems as sured, and the measure to be introduced will doubtless conform in all Important particulars to the provisions of the com pomlse statehood bill drafted by Senator Hpooner at the close of the last session 'of. the Fifty-seventh congress. This substitute for the omnibus statehood bill, .which passed the house, but failed in the senate, though supported by the solid Democratio strength and a number of .Republicans under the leadership of pen at or Quay, proposed to give state hood to New Mexico and Arizona as on state,; and to admit Oklahoma as another, with the probability of Incorporating with the latter such part of the Indian Territory- as the congress might deem wJse when conditions in the territory warranted such action. : Although It Is considered very doubt ful whether a bill granting statehood to Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona -could be favorably reported by the house committee on territories as it is now Constituted, there Is known to be a strong sentiment favorable to statehood for Oklahoma, and also for the consoli dation of New Mexico and Arizona, and It is believed that a nu-asur carrying those provisions eventually will be framed and reported favorably by Jhat committee. ; a yet me committee, be yond two unimportant hearings, has not considered the statehood propositions. but at today's session of the house, the committee, requested and received per mission to sit in the recess, which is taken as an indication that preparations ere under way to give the subject atten tion at an early date. Bills have already been Introduced by Delegates Wilson, Rodey and McOulre granting statehood renpectlvely to Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, ana these, witn other meas ures of a similar nature, will receive the attention of the committee when it Is ready to-begin consideration of them. Representative Hamilton of Michigan Is the chairman of the house committee on territories, which has a membership of nine Republicans and eight Demo crat. :' The latter would vote solidly -in committee for any measure looking to the admission of- all throe territories, tun!, it li understood, would support an' rtoi-t .to creates, separate state of the Indian Territory" The Republican meW bershtp, perhaps designedly, Is so made . up. It la understood, , as to prevent any bam? and lll-aavtsed set loir hkingto tue admission of , territories when the conditions are hot such ss to Justify it. It Is understood that Senator -uay and ' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. V , at Tha Journal Building. Fifth and man who has an atom of. influence at Washington to exert It to the utmost. A few days ago a gentleman In , distant part of the state wrote The Journal that he had written to congressional friends and from each of them received assurances that they would help along the good cause. Others should follow the "good Example. With every shoulder to the wheel much may' yet be done. We should not delude, ourselves; 1 much miist yet be done before the appropriation has' been secured, and each one who can should do promptly his part. : , : , v . :. .; :. everyone, the most gratifying feature of all was the evi dence which It afforded that all section,. the 'state are now a . unit in the prosecution of any work which is cal culated to benefit any portion of the state. As In this city there is evidence of a robust feeling in favor of a Greater Portland and a willingness to pay the cost," what ever it may be, the , sentiment favorable to a Greater Oregon Is developing with surprising rapidity everywhere within our borders. There has lately been no more sig nificant sign of the times than this. The day of the little Oregonian and the little Oregon Is .rapidly passing away. There Is a rapidly growing union of sentiment favorable to all enterprises calculated to benefit the state, whether particular sections are directly benefited or not. This makes of the state for the first time a homogeneous whole. With relatively : few railroads In , the vast state the various sections were so widely, separated that' it ' waj difficult to bring them to a realization that the interest of one section was the interest of all. There was provin cialism for the reason that owing 'to the lack of railroad facilities community interests exceeded in Importance all other' interests. - , ' ZIZl-lJ'lZ'Z'l But now, fortunately - for ourselves, it is generally re alised that nothing can be done for one section that does not directly or indirectly benefit every other section. While our interests are diversified, and -certain sections are still wisely jealous of the reputations which they have laboriously built up, there ara certain general steps which the state must take Ao exploit these! interests to the best advantage. A critical case in point v was the. ap propriation for the purchase of a right of way for the Celllo canul. On that question the members of the leg islature came together with remarkable unanimity. Mitnv. sections of the state could hot hope for direct benefits from that appropriation but. their representatives cheer fully voted for the tax, on the broad ground of the great benefits that would flow to other parts of the state, and this fact should be gratefully remembered when they In turn come before . the legislature for legitimate aid for their sectidns.V' "- s It Is not easy to overestimate the benefits Which will flow from this single act of the legislature. What the state jias struggled for during the past quarter century is now measurably within realisation', .if all things go weir within the mext half doaen years the state should begin to feel the quickening influence of that great enter prise which will open the Columbia to unobstructed navi gation for 600 miles. This work finished the work of completing navigation clear to Lewiston will follow as a matter of course and then the state will for the first time be in a position to fully realize the destiny which nature Indicated for it, provided . The-Columbia bar is removed and the channel so deepened as to admit the easy and safe ingress and egress of the ocean liners. Once again The Journal wishes to point with pride to the declaration of principles which it carries at the head of its editorial page and to say that we are moving even more swiftly than could have been., anticipated to ward a realization of the trinity of events which spell a Greater Portland and a Greater Oregon than was ever dreamed of in our philosophy; y a , First Deepen the Columbia river bar. Second Open the Columbia river to unimpeded naviga tion at and above The Dalles. , - . Third Dig an Isthmian canal.. , his Republican supporters would not an- taaonisa ai meaaurn nrnvMIni for h admission of the three territories as twti states, and such a bill could be passed by the house with comparatively little opposition. It is the consensus of opin ions among the leaders of both houses that a statehood bill, wise and equitable in Its provisions, based solely on the qualifications of the territories for ad- mlHKton to lh t'nlnn ril-U'l-lmlnnttmr aKalnst none, but doing full justice to all, will be drawn, reported favorably and passed in the Fifty-eighth congress, THOUOXTI ABOUT XAXKXVD. By Elbert Hubbard. The author who has not made warm friends and then lost them in an hour by writing things that did not agree with the preconceived ideas of these friends, either has not written well or has not been read. If I were a woman I would cultivate the fine art of listening,- Few ; women can talk as interestingly as they can look. Things strongly condemned must have merit, for why .should the park bay so loudly if there be no quarry T,- There are no such things as reward and punishment, ss these terms at o ordinarily used. There are only good results and bad results. We sow, and we reap what we have sown, , Do not dump your woes upon people keep, the sad story of your life to your self. Troubles grow by recounting mem. There Is always a grave doubt about the value of the' service rendered by warriors and rulers..' How-often states men and soldiers have been a menace and a positive curse! ; The three great est men In the world today ore Marconi Edison and Carnegie. The thinkers and th peaceful doers are the men who ben efit and bless mankind. , - Most of the really" grest man In Amer ica have warmed their bars feet' frosty mornings on the spot where the cows naye lain down: .-. The great man is poised and satisfied no matter what happens. The little man t aiWHy full of trouble: and this trouble he always lays to the fault of ovtiere. . , ;, And remember this: Yesterday's Sue cesses belong to yesterday, with all of yesterday's defeats and sorrows. The eagle, molts a feather because he is growing a better one. ' Truth is in the air: It bclones to all who can appreciate It, and the dlffrrencu Between TnrTnftn who gives a truth ex pression snd the listened' who at once comprehends and repeats it Is very sugnu . J.NO. F. CARROLL Yamhill ,F streeU, , Portland. , Oregon. PORTLAND . A GREAT DAY FOR OREGON. HIL.E the prompt passage by the legislature of the . appropriation to secure the .' Celllo canal right of way' was exceedingly gratifying to THE COLOVBIAH AJUtY. On Section Was a Begular rsJstafflsa Aggregation..,: - . From the Brooklyn Eagle. An army man visiting Colombia and a small party or resident Americans had been roystering at an inn a little way outside of one of the cities and were returning to town at a we hour of the night In two carriages The country at that time was Involved in one of those everlasting broils which they dignify down there by the name of war, and the streets of the city were pe troled by What passed for provost guards. ". As tile two carriages entered the town they were stopped by a lieutenant dressed In a suit of calico .pajamas slathered over with tinsel trimmings until he looked like a comic opera char acter. Behind the lieutenant stood five soldiers in all degrees of undress from a pair of overalls (and nothing else), which one of them wore, . to a long tailed shirt, which constituted the en tire apparel of another. Every soldier was barefoot, and all but one a very eld man were boys. One of them could not have been more than ten years old. These soldiers, who stood hlggledy blggledy, without even an attempt at formation, were variously armed. The old man carried a long-handled pike, or rather it carried him, since he used it as a staff to leanupon; ' two of the boys carried swords of more or less ancient pattern; another, a heavy clubi and the little fellow, an old-fashioned musket, so long and so heavy that the wildest imagination could not picture him holding It to his shoulder while he could take aim. . ' The lieutenant In command of this comic valentine squad was so swollen with the dignity of his position that for some lime he would not listen to a word of explanation, but insisted on marching the 'occupants of the carriage off to the commander of the city. Thereupon one of -the resident Amer icans leaped to the ground, snatched the lieutenant's sword from him and threat ened to run htm through If he did not shut up and let them do a little of the talking. The American then drew an old letter - any old .letter from his pocket, saying: -. - "Read that, you. Infernal numbskull, and you'll see It .Is a pass from the com manding general, permitting us to go where we please." , .,; ; , - The lieutenant made a bluff at read hvgtha letter and then, with! 'profound bow, apologized for'stopplng the party. "I think," said the American, "I will march you to headquarters - and have you reduced to the ranks." But the lieutenant begged so humbly that he and his squad were permitted to go their way. -The men 'who do things, and not the men who merely talk things, are those who blest u world. ' From' the Chicago Tribune. "The national banking ' system, as It stands today, provides absolute security for our national bank circulation and for all the circulation issued more directly by the government,1 So all our money, paper and coin, is absolutely safe in' the hands of the people and is absolutely con vertible at the will of the holder Into gold coin, the, money In which all the world's exchanges are made." : United States Senator William B. Al lison of Iowa, speaking from the view point of one who since 1863 has'partici pated in the making and unmaking. of th laws under which the present financial system developed, made this declaration before the Bankers' club at Kinsley's last evening? --.v ..- y.;. - ',. . "My connection with ' the subject has been - legislative rather than, administra tive," said Senator Allison. In opening an address on "Our Currency System and Our National :.' Finances,' - which while argumentative, was a defense , of our present system and a warning against applied to the much discussed system of asset currency. . The want of elasticity In the present system., he 'declared, was "greatly exag gerated,": and maintained' that few now assert that the money volume Is insuffi cient for alt purposes,; of domestic trade and foreign exchange. The , per capita circulation of 130.21 - which obtained on December 1 last, he said, is "more than that of ' any. other 'Country, unless it be Franc."-,, '?,.; K--;,';' '-,'.';'':..' The Canadian system was reviewed. and, while found to be an excellent adap tation to the financial conditions of the dominion., w'ould be impracticable here. Except' for slight modifications In exist ing laws the senator' would- leave the present financial system alone, confident that it is sufficiently sound and suffi ciently, adaptable to, meet all the require ments of trade conditions, and yet remain within the control .of the. government That he Is confident his views are shared by a majority in congress was apparent from his discussion of probable congres sional action. 'You ' will naturally inquire what is likely, to be done on- this subject during the present congress,' he said, . "I should say., nothing, that.will change our present monetary system. That , . some things ought to be done, and it is possible may be done,, to ameliorate in some; respects our present system. I do not deny. There ,1s no reason why our customs revenues should not be placed on an equality with eur pther receipts as respects deposits In national banks. There Is no reason why LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE - y y Bsal ice. Portland, Or., Dec' 18. To the Editor of The Journal Having noticed in the columns of your paper several articles with reference to an increase in the sa loon license of , this city. I would re quest that you give space to this com munication. In which I will try to point out to'tlje members of our city admin istration some points which should not bo overlooked In rearranging the schedr ule 'as referred to. In the flrst.place, It seems io me that the numerous saloons In the 'north end I mean the. low dives and dlsrpputable rsorts should be taxed such a license as will compel quite a reduction in their number. These places, where young girls, some ef them not over 14 years of age, are taken In, gotten drunk and debauched, and where the lowest ele ments of society revel in their midnight assignation. These Indecent . hovels of vice, where, even little children are en ticed to enter, and from which they emerge reeking with, the fumes of liquor and their characteryand person forever besmirched snd polluted by the sur-: roundlngs. These are Nthe people that the city government should go after. and go after- good and hard. They are the dangerous opponents of good morals.. While gambling may have slain Its thou sands, these unprincipled villains who conduct and abet the maintenance- of such places as. xlst by the hun dred down .. in " - the north end have ruined and blighted forever the lives and characters of young. Innocent girls and boys, who were hardly old enough to be away from their mothers' apron-strings. ; Talk about suppressing gambling! My God! and still let these dens of iniquity run on and on forever like the brook which Tennyson immor talized. And I want to also say that down In the north end is not the only place where vice holds full sway, but right, here on Washington street and under the spires of our churches there are places where Blmilar doings can be found at all times of day or night - Only about one-fifth of the saloons In the city observe the 1 o'clock closing, and Chief Hunt and his efficient police force know It, too. If the bunch of pinheads who are trying to run this city would pay a little more attention to the weeding out of vice In conneclton with young girls and women (who ought to know better), and worry less about the gamblers,- it would inure to the wholesome advantage of our fair city and Its demoralized In habitants, Yours truly. INTERESTED. CAPTAINS ASK FBOMOTXOSV Washington special In Detroit Journal. Six captains In the United States army have violated all precedents and shocked the military establishment by tiling applications to be appointed brigad ler-generals. - They got their cue front Roosevelt's message to congress. In whlcn he tfaid that the army would be strengthened by having among its gen eral -ofiicers some young men of wide experience In active service. These six captains have challenged the president to make good his theories. The men who have applied are: Clar ence R. Edwards, Tenth Infantry, chief of the Insular bureau, formerly on Gen eral Lawton's staff and with him when he fell; A. I Mills, First cavalry, super intendent of the military academy, who was shot In the head and lost his eye at Santiago; Joseph T. Plckman,. Eighth cavalry, at, Santiago, In the Philippines and-at-Pekin and now on the . general staff; Robert L. Howse, Sixth cavalry, at Santiago and In the Philippines; John K. Pershing, mentioned by Roosevelt in bis. message as an illustration of. an ex traordinary capable man bound down by system, to wait for death or retirement of ranking Officers, and John M'.; McDon- aid, who refused a plane in the adju tant's office, to stay In the Una and fight, which be did -with distinction, i Now it is up to President Roosevelt to get young blood among brigadier generals, i ' But it means not -only the turning down of ranking colonels, but to refuse the advancement of many colonels, lieutqnant-colonels and majors of the army., ' , , Colonel Watteraon'a Tip. From Louisville Courier-Journal. A Pennsylvania minister proposes to add a bar to his church. Here Would seem to be a chance 'for a barkeeper's job for that New Jersey Its who has been telling us lately how gloriously he mixes a mint Julep without-whisky. security other than bonds of the United States should not be used by the secrer tary of the treasury, partly at least,, as security for government deposits. . "I see , no objections ;to. allowing the secretary of the treasury to hold' in the treasury national bank notes temporarily as a part of the assets of the treasury, without presenting them for redemption, whenever and so long only as' the public Interest may require this to be done. Nor do I sfie any reason why discrimination in taxation should now be made in favor.of the circulation secured by one class of government bonds more than another. This provision inserted in the. act of 1900 to encourage national ; .: banks ; holding bonds bearing a higher rate of" Interest to convert them into the new J per cents." , Referring to the socalled system of as sets currencySenator Allison said : y i "I do not see "that this proposed radical change of .our laws In respect, to our circulation Is possible as long as - our present system of direct goverhment Is sues prevails, as it would result in a large expansion o.f the total volume of the currency, and, as I have already. said, this expansion cannot; be checked by means' of rapid redemption,' Nor can rapid re demption be secured under any asset sys tem by requiring redemption in gold, be cause as Jong as these government Is sues continue in so- large volume the gov eminent would be called upon to provide the gold for the' banks, through redemp tion of its own issues and would be the storehouse from which the banks w,ould draw the gold to redeem their Issues, Thus would be created a needless end less chain, which might result in em barrassment to the government,-:.; "The chief criticisms on our -present system are that it Is not elastic in Its character, that, the ' volume does not vary with the varying conditions of trade and business, and that the system Is not economic in its .methods as compared with the money systems of other coun tries.",, said the senator . ln: laying the foundation for a discussion of the suf ficiency of the present volume and the elasticity of the system. ; ., y . "Our national banking system, lacks elasticity in one respect that is, that national- banks cannot curtail' their- cir culation at will, although they oan in crease it at .wllV -sald the .senator,---- "This conservatism of the present and of the past," -said the speaker, "gives promise that in the future, when mone tary -disturbances arise in other portions of our country, these disturbances will be felt less in our region than they wlli be elsewhere, : because of this con---servatlBm.", : ',- . , ' Advice to the Lovelorn BY BIATKICE Ikl2.Il Dear Miss Fairfax I am a young girl, who is quite Interested In a nice jroung man.- I presume I know htm for uooui inree montns. ;.'. Now, to my astonishment, this young man has disappeared from my sight for about two and a, half weeks. I always thought that he had taken a great Inter est In me also. , Would you kindly give me your advice as to what I should do, as I would like to see him once again. Do yot think I-should go to the house where he resides, or to drop the case? , .y .' .; :.:' . ., H. A. F. The young man , Is evidently , rather fickle and I do not think that I would bother about, him if I were you. ,' Of course there may be some good reason for his absence. On no account go to his house, that would be a very unwise step to take,' " y ' Dear Miss Fairfax Last summer, while on my vacation, I met a girl with whom I at once fell in love, and she also loves me. Business sends me to St. Louis for an indefinite period, and I would thank you to let me know whether It is proper for me to ask her to accom-J pany me, as we have been engaged since September. As regards salary, I wtll earn enough to keep both of us comfort ably, and If I stay there, I intend to mar ry her. HAPAO. It certainly would not do for you to ask her to go with you to St. Louis, un less her mother or chaperons went along also. If you make enough' to support her, why not marry her at onceT ' Dear Miss Fairfax About a year ago I became acquainted wtth a young lady, whom I think of very much' and lova dearly. I have always taken her to many evening affairs since and she hss always accepted my invitations. Re cently I told her that I loved her and asked her if -she cared any for me, as I did not wish to bother her or force my attentions on her if she did not really care for my company, and the only an swer I could get from her was that she did not know. As I heard that she Is keeping com pany with another young man out of the city, I asked her if she was and her an swer was ' that although - she was on friendly terms with him- they had not come to any agreement. , I then asked her if she cared for me as much 'as she did for him, and still she says she did not know, , . Now. as I love her. I would not wish to stop going with her snd still I know she can't be true to two, therefore, will you ktndly let me know what you think of this case and what would be best for me to do? - A. W. It is time the young woman made up her mind one way or another. - Ask her once more ana let ner see tnst n will be the last time and that you must' have a .det'lded answer. That may stir her up and help her to make up her mind. BTVSISS or TXB yexvactoab. From the Chicago Tribune, i Conversation . between the - ribbon counter girl, and the girl at the candy counter: ' - . "Onnust?" " 'Bright !"' - ' "Sure zima stanninear." , "Juh meenltr "Ubetcha." "Ooseddy did?" "Gurlova there." , ; "Wah sheno boutlt?" "D'no. Swatshesadd.'' 1 ' i "Oakum off! Yercoddln." "Thlnkso fu wanta. Bawcher Chrls- musglfs?" i , "Nolehett. Bawchoors?". , "Naw. Saylookeer!" ' ; "WatchasayT" . .' "Jeer how , Tomman Lll "Notsloud! Somebody learus.V , ' "Lettum. Nuthlnmuchno how," r "QuUchereoddln." - "Oakum off 1 I .aintacoddln." "Gracious Imus begittlnalong!" "Somus I." , ' . "Slong!" . : "Slong!" Vi ".f; ;-;-i A Prtoednt. : ::yi'y:y,xl From the Washington Post. Scientists have discovered that ra dium, valued i at $900,000 a pound, changes into a less valuable substance when exposed to the llrfht Acts Just like watered stock. -. v v ', ' ii - i - " v '' XI Advantage. '''''r"-;--':; w " From the Detroit News. In forming his opinion of' America, Max Nordau 'enjoys the happy advan tage, of. never having lived hera W. E. Curtis' Rome Letter id Chicago ' Record-Herald. y v One cannot hefp admiring the man ner in which the pope's -family are be having. ; They have shown no1-elation over his election; they have Bald nothing foolish, but have remained in the back ground and kept .their heads in a re markable manner. Pope Plus X. comes from the same class as President Lou bet of. Francs and Abraham Lincoln, "the plain people." as Mr. Lincoln need to call them.. He has ' never -ben ashamed of his origin nor 'has he become dizzy because of the eminence to which he has been elevated, and there is admir able dignity In the refusal of his broth ers and -sisters, to come to Rome until they were asked." Thousands f roni their neighborhood have already been here to see'DoiL -GJuseppe!lAstheyaff ectlom ally call him, have received his blessing, have heard his "voice, and have returned to their homes in Venice to tell the won derful : story, but the-. Sarto family have' not yet appeared in public. ' : Pope Plus In one of eight-children, three sons and five daughters. 'One of his brothers Is a . letter carrier, and his wife keeps a little tobacco and station ery store In a village, called Le Oraste, near the city of Mantua; his name Is Angelo and his ' salary is $80 a .year. Another brother is. a member . of. ithe carbineers, a ; splendid . corps of civil guards to which the political peace of Italy- Is intrusted. One of his sisters la married to the, keeper' oft a .wineshop, who also , sells cheese, eggs and other farm produce at the town oft Rlese. where the pope was born.'. It is a vil lage .of 'about-1.000 Inhabitants, two hours from. Padua. You take the rail road as far as the station of Cartel- Franco and then ride six miles in a carriage. Another sister is married to the sacristan of . the church at RleBe, and the three unmarried ones have for many years kept house for their brother. Their mother, now dead, refused to live with her son, the cardinal, in Venice, al though during -her widowhood she was frequently urged to -do so. She pre ferred to remain in Rlese because, as she often explained to her neighbors,, she was more accustomed to a cottage than to .a .palace, .yij...;. j,;. ..;, ,.; . , ' . . A gentleman now -In Rome had the sisters of Cardinal Sarto pointed out to him when he went $o Venloe last year to "witness the laying of the Corner intone of the new capinile. - Thfy sat on fold ing sioois in tne square or ou juaras during sthe dedication ceremonies, mak ing laco In their laps and chatting with the wives of gondoliers and other peas ants who sat around them, dressed ex actly as their companions. At that time no one dreamed that Joseph Sarto would ever be pope, but his splendid figure, clad In the scarlet robes of a cardinal. was the .mostTmposlng of air those that appeared upon the platform, and, when he came forward to pronounce the bene diction,' a Venetian called the attention of my friend to his nonappearance and benevolent face, observed that he was as good as he looked,, and then pointed out his. sisters. I saw those sisters yesterday. They are typical peasant women with ruddy faces, large waists, pig red hands un used to' gloves and feet shod like a mountaineer's; muactiU'rT.'TTigonnni women, accustomed' to labor, trained to frugal habits and familiar with all the household arts. 'They are old-maids, be twen60 and 60-years, of ge,;and their names are Maria, Rosa and Anna. They have with them a niece, Ghllda Sarto, about 25 years bid, a buxom young woman who like them is seeing Rome for the first time. Indeed, none of the brothers has ever been. here, "nor have any other members of the family; not had the pope himself before his election made more than a dozen brief visits to the capital.- He Is not a traveler. He has never passed beyond the boundaries of Italy; his life has been spent In prac tical, earnest labor within a single dio cese, the province of Venice, where he was born, raised, educated and served as priest, btshopr cardinal and patriarch. His life has been a busy one and most of it has been spent in the open air; He is not a scholar like Leo XIII; his learn ing la limited; he has never been a man of books; he has no library, while Leo XIII Inherited a collection of 19,000 volumes from his s father ' and grand father, who were classical scholars. . Plus X was not brought up with books. but among the practical affairs of UfeJ He could not live in a cloister; he is unaccustomed to sitting at a desk, and his only accomplishment Is In music. He Is a fair performer upon the organ and -the piano, a natural gift that has not been much cultivated, and his most congenial friend at - Venice was the .Abbe Lorenzo Perosi; director of the choir at St. Mark ! Cathedral at' Venice for several years, and since 1896 rector of the choir of the Sistlne Chapel at the Vatican. He is indebted to Plux X for his muBlcal education and his -present post, to which he was appointed by Leo XIII. -.; v , -'':: ",':- The pope has composed the muslo to several hymns and a portion of at least one mass, : which have been sung In the churches of his former diocese, but are not known in Rome, Abbe. Perosi, who revised them for him, does not boast of their merits, so that we may assume that they are not of a very high order, You have perhaps read In the news papers a story of the manner, in which the new pope shocked Mgr. Delia Chlse, his major domo, and other officials of the papal household shortly after his coronation by instructing them to pre pare dinner for three persons. ' The major domo - recovered , himself suf ficiently to explain that such an arrange ment was not possible, because no hu man being was of sufficient rank to dine with the pope of Rome. Plus X looked at him' with curiosity for a moment. and remarked quietly; : ' "Always set the table for three." Abbe Perosi was the guest, for whom this-extraordinary innovation was made, and the third place at the table was oc cupied by Father Brassano, an old friend and fellow student in tne seminary, whom the pope has brought from a little village near Venice to become his chap lain and confessor. . . ' - But I started to tell you of the pope's sisters, who have always been his house keepers. Three of them have generally lived with him, have cooked his simple maccaroni and potent!, have washed his clothing and have kept his house in or der. He has never had a. servant; he has never owned a carriage; his paroch ial work has been done on foot or on UheAack of some steady mule borrowed ffctm a parishioner. His sisters are good cooks, but his niece, Ghllda, makes his favorite dishes, and Only the other day bis-, holiness -. remarked to an old Venetian neighbor that he wished Ghllda could come to the Vatican and cook for him. . These women wore the ordinary peas ant costumes of Northern Italy when they came ' to, Rome, with - ribbons m their hair, full short skirts' gathered at the waist;, handkerchiefs tied over their shoulders; large coarse shoes without heels, but with heavy-soles, and stock ings knit by their-own needles. They never - wore- hat or a bonnet in their liven, and ' are accustomed to carrying bundles upon their heads. : They are simple, wensible women, and the ad-' vancement of their brother to the head of the ' church f has not affected their pride .their manners or their habits any mors than his advancement from parish priest to cardinal., - - After he was elected pope he sent for them to Join him at Rome. - They bought third-class tickets as usual when they' made :thelry,llttle 'journeys, and were quite overcome when the officials of the railway attached ' a ;' saloon -car - to ; the train for their exclusive, use. They had never ridden in one before. .The pope . intended that they' should occupy, a villa In the Vatican park, which : was 'erected about 20 years ago foe the comfort of Leo XIII.' who was accustomed to oc cupy it ' during the summer - months, . when they walls of theyVatlcanbecflme so saturated with the summer heat, but the sisters did not like the arrangement. The: Villa Was too much' like a alidad prison:' they would be compelled to ob serve formalities ' to which, they were unaccustomed; -they could not enter or ' leave the Vatican park without attract ing a great deal of attention; they would be shut away from all the world, and , In their -solitude could make1 no friends and, would have nobody to gossip with. They wanted to live with their brother in the Vatican, and take care of him and do his cooking, as they have done for 25 years, and he would have been siad If such an arrangement could have been made, but the officials persuaded him that such a thing could not be. : So he. had his' secretary secure them a com fortable but ' modesty-flat lit'" the - third story of a new apartment house on the CorsO Victor Emmanuel, - one - of the busiest streets of new Rome, where they can live as quietly as they like, can go and come without attracting observation and can see what Is going on around them. : . ' , : '. ;':. 1 This street leads to the Tiber and the old castle Of St. Anrelo: which wna originally built by the Emeperor Had rian for his tomb, but has been a fort ress for 16 centuries and is one of the first sights of the city. It Is only four blocks from the Vatican, with which It was formerly connected . by an under ground passage. yThus the .sisters are within' I0,mln utes' walk of the papal palace, but they find it very difficult to see their brother as often as they would like, and com plain of the formalities by which he is surrounded. Ho has done away with much ceremony and the restrictions that surrounded his predecessor, but, the pope of Rome is a very busy man, and has little time to spare for visiting with his family. His sisters and nieces have been in the habit of going to his apart ments about twice a week in the early evening hours when his receptions are over, jind have dined with him several times. . ' - Nobody knows what they think of all the grandeur and glory by which he is surrounded, and the magnificence and magnitude of the palace In-which he lives. : They are sensible enough to keep their thoughts to 'themselves, and . no newspaper reporter has ever been able to coax them or entrap them Into an interview, y They are as . wise as ser pents. Remarks that they have made, to friends are frequently quoted, y Many of their former neighbors have been here. Almost every -Catholic in Venice has come : to Rome to see how "Don Giuseppe" looks on the pontifical throne, and the Misses Sarto - have naturally ' received a great deal of at tention, and their rooms have been be sieged ' by friends, to whom they have talked freely. Portions . of their con versation have been repeated at home and printed in the Venetian papers, but thus far they have said nothing foolish and have spoken like the sensible, prac tical women that they are. . A question agitating Vie-' ' mind of many silly people concerns their 'recep tion by Roman society, which Is not yet back from Its summer vacation. Rome is divided Into two great sets, between which an' impassible gulf is fixed. One set, which adheres to the civil authority, -and I worships at the palace of the king. Is called "the whites"; the other set, or "blacks," as they are called, regard the king and the royal court as wicked In truders, and will not recognize them in any way. They adhere to all the bid precedents and traditions, and regard the pope as their temporal as well as spiritual sovereign. Many of them are so rigid in their notions that they will not even vote at a civil election, for that would be a recognition of the au thority of the king. To this class be-' long most of the famous . old Roman families, those who trace their ancestry back beyond the middle ages and occupy the cold, gloomy and musty smelling old palaces along the banks of the Tiber and in the ancient parts of the city. They are not very lively or cheerful companions, and their Uvea and habits are restricted by tlfelr piety, their poverty and their pride. They are ex ceedingly formal and ceremonious, and the red-handed peasant women who have come down from Venice have no place or part wlth them, and would be miser able In their company. Therefore it is to be. hopedTliat the leaders of the black society will let them alone in thg enjoy ment of, their simple, pleasures. y, t ..;,-."-'-;- ... - '- 7 . . .;;-: -j i"?'V". . In order that his sisteM may be-well looked after the pope has provided them a capable chaperons in the person of 'an experienced Roman woman of 'the mid- dlo cluss who- la wise lit the ways of the world and can look out for tbelr. happi ness , and : protect them ; from the ; ad venturers who swarm in Rome as m the other -European capitals,' .its holiness has purchased two new carriages for them, a brougham and a landau, so that they need pot he riding In the street cars . and - expose , themselves to the notoriety that their relationship will at tract. The purchase Of these carriages cauled considerable excitement and fur nished foundation for a widely published story .hat the pope himself was going to violate the policy of his predecessors and leave the Vatican. The papal coat of arms was painted , upon the panels of the doors in quite jk - conspicuous manner,' so that, the carriages will soon become familiar and can be easily Iden tified. No coachman ha appeared ns yet and thtu'o Is considerable curiosity to see whether he will wear the papal livery when he does come. : "The Roman lady who has 'taken the pope's staters in charge has already per suaded them to 'make some modifications in their costumes which ' will render (hem less conspicuous, and before many weeks r suppose they will be dressing and looking like the ordinary Romans of the middle class.; But it is evident that -they are too sensible to be spoiled and " thai Plus X will not follow the example of the famous Cardinal An tonem,; who , brought ; his father and mother from their peasant home In the country, set them up In a Roman' palace and made them ridiculous. , , Sistanoe ' Xods Enchantment. . 'From; the-Washington Times.. ' ' Mr, Carnegie says that .he pities the ' son of a rich man.'. One is Inclined to feel 'sometimes that Mr. Carnegie ex-'' aggeraUs the Joys of poverty. : ' - There are two qualities, that are the property of only strong men -confidence, and real gnat lou. ; r v.