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; "" PORTLAND, OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1904 THE ORE O ...'" ' AN C S. JACKSON Fs Wished every evening (exempt Bandar) at The Journal Bunding. FKth ana 1 : : " OFFICIAL, PAPER OF THE- CITY, OF THE JOURNAL'S PLATFORM A Trinity ol Events Which Would Males of Portland ths Mightiest City of the Pacific Coast f First Deepen the Columbia river bar. ... Second Open the Columbia river to unim peded navigation at and above The Dalles. Third Dig an Isthmian canal ; -;-. A COWARDLY-OUTRAGEr- I HERE IS NOT a self-respecting, self-supporting young woman In the city of Portland whose feel lngs were not scandalized and outraged by a cold- blooded, unwarranted and shocking editorial utterance in the Oregonlan thia morning. "It la. said." to "quote the Oregonlan's exact language, "that 10,000 men in the city of New York go to dinner every evening with mistresses. At this rate there would be In Portland some l,t00 men similarly situated.' Whatever the cause the results are here. The woman In Sapho who said ':'; she ; would rather be a man's mistress than his wife was the proto type f , an increasing number Of American girls. Her followers dwell In furnished apartments, whose generous allowance for rents Is transforming half the halls In fort land Into rooming: places and ' sprinkling apartment houses over town thicker than saloons." : , ' Here is a raw, unqualified and brutally specific statement Svhich carries with It a reflection upon every young; woman of Portland who lives outside the precincts of her own home. It Is calculated to make each and every one1 of them an object of Suspicion and to throw an odor of open Immorality about every .apartment house, new and old. Upon what facts are based the dreadful charge therein so glibly uttered? Is it a case of reasoning by analogy ? Is it an application of the alleged conditions In New Tork and an averaging of them proportionately down to Port land on the basis of relative population? Or is it simply and solely an exhibition ' of mental depravity, brutally heedless of facts and conditions, and eageV alone to cut to the' raw the young women of the city who are help less to defend themselves? Pn any score or on any ground the statement is cowardly and Indefensible. It gives forth an utterly un warranted impression of the moral conditions which pre vail here. It casts' a reflection upon a whole class of self respecting and self supporting young women who are bravely trying to honorably meet the hard conditions which life imposes upon them, i It tends to make those trying conditions even more difficult With It all' it is so untrue and so little justified that for, the good name of Portland ' the statement should be publicly denounced from every pulpit and in every newspaper in the city. THE SCHOOL BASEMENTS A LITTLE WHILE BACK there the question of open air recesses for, the public schools. A .very competent committee was se- Jetted to consider this with other questions with reference to the public schools and finally formulated a lucid and practical report which has since been allowed peacefully to slumber in the files. The section of the report which dealt with the sanitary conditions of the schools :w sufficiently startling to have aroused the public and suf ficiently specific to have called for immediate action. Thlfc1 report made it clearly evident that the basements of none of the schools were of a character to warrant them being used as recreation grounds for the Nchlldren. They were ill ventilated and some of them so evil smelling as to in duce nausea. The very best of them were cold and cheer- j less and under the most satisfactory conditions were cal culated to do more harm than good to the children who were forced under the regulations, regardless of their physical conditions, to take automatic exercise there under Official supervision. In the Judgment of The Journal no greater outrage could be- perpetrated upon- growing children than to -force them into such uncongenial, unsanitary and unhealthful - surroundings. No medical man or woman, no. sanitary expert, ' no person with humanitarian instincts who has ' ever seriously .considered the question from the stand point of the child, could possibly come to any conclusion other than that . an outrage was being put upon every child who is forced to comply with this criminally short sighted school regulation.; There is no standpoint from ' which to consider this question but the standpoint of the child and that apparently is the only point of view from .which it has not been considered. " To solemnly march a body of children into an ill lighted, cold, ill ventilated and evil smelling basement, to solemnly inarch them about as though they were on dress parade and all this under the false pretense of a period of recess and recreation Is too utterly absurd to talk about. ' This whole question Is one to arouse the heated indigna tion of the fathers and mothers of Portland. Many of them have heretofore been aroused over this question, but after' entering protests' in their individual capacities, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE - England la the Controversy. . Portland, Or., Jan, 5. To the Editor of The Journal. It would seem that about the most regrettable thing that could Jikcly occur In the far eastern crisis, ould be for England, the cause of It all. - te scape a good trouncing at the hands of Russia, After forming an. alliance . with, and urging Japan Into an unwar ranted, aggravating attitude toward Rus sia, England at the first sign of Russian anger, readily lays flown and proceeds to wash her hands of the whole batch of trouble which she industriously worked . up and handed to the Japs. It will be remembered that in a series of letters from the Orient some time ago, " Frank G. Carpenter told how British capital had made a veritable slave work shop out of Japan, using even the thou sands of little children in the weaving and other establishment, at wages aver aging about six cents per day of 12 and 14 hours. He explained that the flooding ft China with the output of these Brit ish concerns' was completely, demoralis ing the already pauperised Chinese work men, and was the primary cause of the boxer uprising, or crusada against the foreign devils." ; . AS might be. expected, Britain's "inter VMs'I are overwhelmingly' predominant in the Orient, and have for long been menaced from Russia's upllfJing-pres- t we. or "aggression" In jhat part of the world. Yet England has not had the murage to offer the least ' resistance ether than to put her pen and Ink war- Krs to work slandering Russia, inflam vk (he Japs and trying to induce the VlmlnVM ration si Washington to enforce the open door policy for her. In China tf vourse England will carefully avoid ON DA I LY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. they have finally and submit with which they knew long to them. It is anything which tends brushed aside. ; Every expert who has studied the ques tion has madq the. same report. People who have eyes to see and organs pa smell can-get all the evidence which they require at first hand. '-'...-' vv';;. .':.'V''- ; The time has gone temptuously ignored.' There is entirely too much at stake. The evil smelling basements as1 recreation grounds for tender children must be absolutely banished from Port land. The Journal Invites the fathers and mothers of Portland to Jolnjwith it(ln this humanitarian movement which will find no rest or end until these destroyers of the youth of the cltyt are banished forever from the public schools of Portland. - , - HOW ABOUT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS? EVER' SINCE the Iroquois theatre fire there has been much thought given to a consideration of the safety of theatre patrons, but there has been little or no talk of the safety of the public school children, r, v .... In Portland where the schools, with rare exceptions, are built of wood, every school building should receive an expert examination from this point of view. It is barely possible that most of them are in good condition and well safeguarded in case of fire, but, on the other hand, it is not unlikely that some of them may be seriously defective and the expenditure of a few dollars now mighf result In the prevention of a calamity at some time in the future. ' In any case the matter should be given immediate con sideration and a public report should be made of the con dition of the public schools with whatever suggestions the situation calls for to bring them up to a reasonable standard of safety. ' M the 'streets cleaned and Improved and the surrounding lawns placed iii an attractive condition; , No more practical suggestion could be made, not only because of the fair, but on the general ground that every thing should be done to raise the standard of the city as high as possible. The beauty of Portland impresses every visitor.. He is amased by the variety and wealth of fol iage and Is carried away by the surroundings of many of the fine residences of the city. But at the same time he is surprised to discover that here, where it Is so easy to at tain beauty of surroundings, where nature calls for so lit tle encouragement, that in so many directions there is ab solute neglect and in so many others an apathy and in difference altogether unaccountable. If this applied alone to vacant property It might not be so noticeable or so bad, but the same indifference finds Its way into the surroundings of what might otherwise be attractive homes. Few cities in the country lend them selves so readily to beautifying plans, and few show bet ter results where any cafe has been exercised. ..But this work has been left to the comparatively few and wealthy. The feeling of clvio pride has not descended down and through all classes. Every property owner does not yet feel the responsibility which rests upon him individually to improve and beautify the surroundings of his home. The lawns too often are neglected and unkempt and in the summer season when the rains are over too few people turn to sprinkling to give that appearance of freshness to the scene which is so delightful to the eye and adds, so much, to the sum total-of the beauty and attractiveness of the city. . .,.,:. :.ir:..ritiT-:4;.::r....:.,-. There is still much to be done in improving the side walks in the residential sections. This applies with special force to the sidewalks abutting unimproved lots where, above all others, no excuse should be accepted. There is one lesson that Portland needs to learn and that is that the reputation of the City for attractiveness should not be allowed to rest entirely upon the shoulders of those wealthy enough and public spirited enough to maintain show places about their private residences. The quality of the city is Judged by the impression of it in the mass. It should therefore be a source of pride to every resident to t contribute everything within the limits of his own property, or that which he occupies, to raise the general standard. Once this resolve is made Portland will speedily take its place as one of the most beautiful resi dential cities on the continent Where nature has done so much, and is ready to do so much more at such slight expenditure of human effort, the people of Portland should be ready and willing to do their smalt share. MUST GO, was much interest in becoming directly Involved, but will re- maln-the evil genius behind Japan, and continue lending all the underhand assist ance she can in slandering Russia and helping Japan. But after the Japs are dealt with, England can be depended upon to be the first to congratulate Rus sia and to assure her that dear old Brit ain was her only friend all tyie time, and that but for the mysterious movements of the British hulks the Powerfuls, the Terrlbles, the Horribles and the Awfuls. the United States and other designing powers would have gone to the aid of Japan and destroyed Russia. -,' , : . This is the role she always assumes, and exactly the one she adopted toward this ' rcpublio before, during, and after the Spanish : war. At the outset she sought to bring about a coalition against us, and failing .In this, launched her "friendly attitude" with a vengeance. i But while British statesmanship Is despicable enough. It is nevertheless to be feared. To illustrate how resourceful and unscrupulous Is British diplomacy,) we have only to recall how the crime against the Boers was arranged and car ried out. As the avowed champion of monarchal institutions ; she easily ob tained a free hand from the empires of Europe, since nothing more' than the wiping out of a little republic was In volved. .She established military supply camps In this country, and otherwise had the active assistance of our Washington administration on the strength of her "friendly attitude" during the Spanish war, an attitude which the Washington Post afterward proved (was unfriendly and treacherous. She neutralised the sympathy of the Catholic portion of the WorW by sending the Duke of Norfolk and a delegation of English Catholics to the pope. Informing him-that -tCngland ril on th vrg of turning Catholic again, and requesting him eemi-ofnclally te order the Catholics throughout the J O U RNA'L JNO. P. CARROLL. Yamhill street, Portland, Orsgen. . . . , 1 1 t v PORTLAND been compelled to give it up as hopeless what patience they might to an outrage was having a disastrous effect on thelr children. But the matter has how gone beyond the stage of individual effort. The public, while slow to move, is deeply Interested. The, taxpayers are beginning to appre ciate that it is they who foot the bills and the schools be their children who attend them and to stunt the growth of the child, ar rest its physical development , and thus react upon Its mentality, is a matter which can no longer be lightly by when this 'question can be con BEAUTIFY THE CITY. AYOR WILLIAMS strongly recommends a clean and beautiful city with which to greet the visitors to the fair. He wants the houses furbished up. world to pray for the conversion of Eng land, ' .- , r It Is significant in view of England's known sympathy and alliance with Ja pan, that a delegation of England's bish ops has been for sometime, and are at this moment lif Russia, endeavoring to bring about a "closer attitude" and "com munity of Interests" between the Rus sian and English churches. And King Edward, we learn. Is exhibiting a regular lady's maid felicity, and is "exercising all the weight of his influence with the czar to maintain peace." It is also worth noting that England has also got un der the cover of an arbitration treaty wun trance nussia s any. r, . The , late 8enator John J." Ingalls sited Up England correctly and for all time when he aaidi "England is the coward, the ruffian and the bully among nations. - She never fought her equals or on equal terms. She never tenders an ultimatum to the strong. With them She negotiates, and dickers, and squirms. and yields. ' But give her a cripple of a baby nation for an antagonist, and she Is arrogant and undeniable.". . On the whole It would seem 'a very beneficial thing if England and her dl plomacy were forever placed where she will cease to be a menace to civilisation.'-. . V.iv v-; :- . ' Statesmen may yet realties the fact that the British government and all the organised forces of British society have ever been and will ever be inimical to the best Interests Of humane, civilised gov ernment and the progress of the world at Urge. !.Very respectfully. K '.''-. V.J. W. O'SHEA. rraetioal Discovery. v. From 4he Newark News. " A French savant observes that radium paralyses mle. We thought "that sci ence would dircover a practical Value In the new mineral sooner or later. The j!odernization of China Is a Revelation to Diplomatic Eyes ' ' ; Elsa R. Scidmore in Chicago Tribune. Pekin, Nov. 20. A figure missed In this new. Pekin is Mr. W. N, Pethick, the best known American in China up : to his death two years ago. ; Twenty-five years ago he was head of one of the great hongs or trading concerns; then he entered the American consular service; and about the time of the French war, H-6, became confidential adviser snd foreign secretary to Li Hung Chang. None knew the Mongol statesman better than his secretary. But the friendshlo between the two was ended when Pethick was caught In the legation compound br ine nesiegmg boxers. He fought bravely mrougn the siege and after tt was over refused to return, to. LI Hung Chang's service. -J -::;. It was known that Mr. Pethick. while still in the service of Li Huna- Chans. had intended to write his biography, and it was judged that the sieve and the disillusionment his- official friendship had encountered would add much piquancy -and many revelations to theTiarratlve. Mr. Joseph Gilder 6f the Century com pany said to me at the time of the siege, when I passed through New Torkt 'wow for the Li Hung Chans biog raphy. If you see Mr. Pethick out there tea him to go to work at once and con sider us first. The manuscript ought to be here in New York, safe in the vault, ready to rush upon the presses the day Li Hung Chang dies," ; ; The message was delivered the next May in the course of a visit made to see the palaces and temples, which were then wiae opert From that casual publisher's message grew the fairy tale now current In Pekin that the Century comoanr had tffered Mr. Pethick 150,000 for his bi ography of Li Hung Chang. 4 He showed me the pile f manuscript, which represented a printed volume of 800 pages and brought events down to the close of the French war, to the year 1885. .He intended to write two more volumes of the same length and pointed to a steel trunk. that contained the note books and papers from which he should evolve it My advice was to condense It all into one volume and be quick about it., since Ll Hung Chang might die at any moment and would want to die if the court ever came back to Pekin. . Mr.,Pethick promised to get to work at once, to go to Chefoo for the summer, and finish writing down all he knew of the exclUng times in the life of Li Huns Chang.:- . ,. His malady,-an affection of the heart progressed so rapidly that he did no work upon the biography at Chefoo, and he returned to Pekin to linger a few weeks and die. Then came the mystery. Not a trace of the completed manuscript not a jour nal, or notebook, or scrap of material could be found. .All had vanished utter ly, the steel trunk and its contents were entirely missing. ; , - Suspicion pointed to one foreigner as having stolen the manuscript and mate rial, later to project it upon the world as his own. The adopted son of Li Hung unang visitea Mr. Fethtck several times in bis last weeks of extreme suffering and weakness,' and he is suspected of having stolen, bought or forcibly taken the Incriminating papers from the dying man. a. great litter of burned paper in a fireplace suggested, too, that Mr. Pe thick may have put the match to the whole thing himself in some whim or delirium of the sickroom. ;., The "boy," or Chinese servant , who was with him at his death afterwards went to Tien ,Tsln, and, being "plenty rich," "more than 80,000 taels rich." opened two cash shops money chang ing and lending and note shaving shops of the Chinese, He had valuable curios and big pearls beside, but nothing could be proved against this last servitor of one of. the most curious and eccentric characters In China, of the man who knew many of Li Hung Chang's secrets, his villainous compacts, treaties and se cret understandings, and who had the whole, inside history of China for more than IS years at his pen's end. That steel trunk and its bundle of manu scripts were ut so much dynamite, whose explosion would have given the reading world the - most striking me moirs ever read. Mr. Pethick was. a mysterious, ' inscrutable, unfathomable person In life, and in death the mystery of him continues. , The empress dowager is having her portrait painted . by Miss Carl, an American artist' long resident In Paris, who studied In Julien studios and regu larly exhibited at the salon. Her brother Is a member of the maritime customs service In China. Mrs. Conger brought the subject to the empress dowager's attention, and with great tact secured her consent to sit to the por trait painter and to permit the portrait to be sent to the St. Louis exhibition. Miss Carl has - been ; In attendance - at court for more' than two months, has completed two paintings, and is at work upon a third. - ' - -.;.' The Pekin diplomats are much exer cised' at this latest American Invasion of sacred preserves, and discuss eagerly the details and progress of the imperial portraits. Nobody outside of the palace has leen the first portrait in severe. WEBSTXB 9AYI8. Xs is About to Take Up XI Home la Xew York City. From the New York Sun. s ', Webster Davis is going to live in New York. ' They are singing songs in Kansas City, but it is impossible to tell whether the songs are of grief or rejoicing. But Webster has shaken the dust of the Kaw valley from his footsies. - Webster Pa vis has sold his farm south of Kansas City for $37,600. Once he hated the rich. He was a plutocrat hunter and the mention of any sum greater than (3.80 caused him to go into spasms of Indignation, But just be fore he ceased to be assistant secretary of the interior he went out to South Af rica on his own account and saw Oom Paul Kruger. He reached Pretoria, Just about he the time war was declared. Ha was received with all the cordiality due to one who had held high office un der the only government whose friend ship was ilikely to be valuable to the Boers. , He was photographed in the Boer trenches with a rifle in one hand, a Boer flag In the other. When he came back h wrote a. book, "John Bull's Crime." , It must hBve circulated pro fusely somewhere, because , soon after Web came back he developed a bank ac count of 1180,000, which he aald he had received for the right to print publish and sell the. book. - " .' Then It was that he" bought the $3?. 800 farm and began building apartmrfnt houses, which Kansas City at .once dubbed , "the Oom Paul- fiats." he Kan sas City Journal tries to assauge the grief of the bereaved city by,announcing, "Mr. Davis' fiats will remain in Kansas City." .;-: i- '.".,---r - It is Mr. Davis' ' intention to enter freety Into the social divlgations of New York. He is not to go there at once, fa will merely pass through the city. on his way to' Cuba and Europe.. He Is having a steam yacht built in Liverpool, so his Kansas City friends believe, and will, upon Its completion, make his tri umphal entry Into the New York narrows on its decks., Mr. Levis has led a tem conventional Chinese style, ths empress sitting erect In her great arm chair, full face to the spectator. V . ; The second, where the artist exercised her own Ideas and western methods and pose, has progressed slowly, as the em press Is a difficult sitter, granting only 10 minutes at a time on some days, and insisting on having the dress trimmings or some detail repainted entirely. ; Per? spective end foreshortening had all to be explained to her, the Misses Yu act ing as Interpreters at all these sittings for the v portrait . The empress was satirical - and critical of - western ' art methods when' she discovered that in a three-quarter face view one side of the face was smaller than the other, and that the hand In the foreground was larger than the other.,' , , - Court painters were in attendance on the Emperors Kangshl and Klenlung in these summer; palace "grounds In ' cen turies gone by but no one of them was brought into such intimate relations with thsoverelgnjbjrhadallthej)lo turesque court life at her command so entirely as this American artist. Miss Carl is lodged .In a villa close beside the E-ho palace gates, and every day la la attendance upon the sovereign. , So re markable an opportunity has. never be fallen any modern portrait painter, and Lenbach's experiences , with' the pope and crowned heads are commonplace In cidents beside Miss Carl's three, months In the Intimate circle of the empress dowager of China. ; ; ;. i:. ' - Since last winter the most interesting figures at court have been Lady Yu Keng, wife of Vithe laBt minister to France,, and her two daughters. ' iay Yu's father was an American resident of Shanghai, and she was given a for eign education and passed some years in Americavdurlng her childhood. Her children had French and English gov ernesses and attended schools with Eng lish children in "China, and 'when Yu Keng went as minister to Japan at the close of the China-Japan war they in a measure cwnpletod their foreign studies in Tokio. After a brief term on -the board of foreign affairs Yu Keng went as minister to France. In Paris the family had great vogue and popularity, There was open house and generous Hos pitality at the Chinese legation in the Avenue Hoche, and the family were out spoken in : their - attachment to 'and preference for everything American. Idr yu ana ner aaugnters wore European dress and were fortunate in their Parisian couturiere, who presented them always as the best dressed women in the diplomatic circle. The-minister and his sons adhered to -their national eostume, wearing the brilliant slk and satin clothes, the Dutton topped nai, queue and satin boots. A three years' stay in Paris equipped the young people to the finger tips, and now that they are returned and attached to the court, their modern and progressive ways and ideas are setting palace circles in a fer ment , The dowsgef keeps them isj close and constant attendance, and the elder Miss Yu, who ris extremely clever, with a statesman's brain and . great force of character, is always at ths empress dowager's right hand on state occasions to present and interpret for the foreign women.: The younger Miss Yu is decid edly the court beauty, and in Paris was constantly mistaken for a Greek or a Spanish' girl.?' She has American inde pendence and vivacity, a keen. and lively wit, and these two' sisters, the only Manchu girls of high . rank who have had - foreign education and -the ; advan tages of , foreign society, are a revela tion and a promise of what their coun try women' are capable of when given opportunities. ' - At the last garden party Miss Yu made the presentations on. ladles' day, stand ing at the right of the empress dowager. arrayed in a last Paris creation, of car dinal red stamped velvet, with a great red picture hat, her. brilliant toilet hold ing its own and toning in well with the gorgeous array of the Manchu princesses near her.;' H- . The Misses . Yu are graceful dancers, and the dowager empress was so de lighted" wllh the fancy dances which they had learned In Paris that she had the French and Spanish dances repeated many times, and then commanded the young Manchu , princesses ,. to practice them, too. All the cdurt was posing on. tiptoes, pointing the steps of . the minuet and whirling in tarantellas, . The Chinese women, with their poor broken feet can 'only look on and envy the for tunate Manchus. These innovations of the Yu Keng daughters will do most to bring great adherents to the anti-foot binding league, '1( . The court women can dance lancers and quadrilles, and It is even rumored that one of the princesses will give a ball to the diplomatic and court circle. Already the princesses have given after noon teas to the foreign women in their city palaces, arid greatly enjoyed . the teas at legations. It is even possible that entertainments to mixed companies are not far oft After that the deluge, for to those diplomats who served in Pekin even 10 years ago the present so cial situation seems Incredible." - pestuous life, and he feels that he has earned all the luxuries his income will pay for. 1 ' :' . . ' - It is now many years since, as orator for the A. P. A. candidate for mayor of Kansas City that he came 'galloping out of a dark and unfrequented alley Into a crowded political meetflng, holding in his hand a hat through which there was a bullet hole, and yelling! -n "See! See what me dastard ' enemies have done to me!" v : . - He has never explained yet why he went Into the alley hunting for his ene mies.. But that he must have had ene mies there Is eminent proof in. the fact that he failed to get the Republican nomination for governor , soon after ward. "'"? v -, O Mr. .pavls' most famous speech was made at the Democratic national " con vention of 1800, when he celebrated the glories of "that peerless leader of the Democracy, William J. Brennings." The Kansas City Journal Is authority for the statement that ehoufd the cltliens of New York Come forward and demand of Mr. Davis that he represent them in the halls of congress. Mrs Davis will incline a gracious and a kindly ear. He lives not for ease, his admirers say, but for the public good. ' ' t . SSITATOB CLARK AS A SIHGEIL From the Baltimore Herald. V Senator William A. Clark ef Montana thinks nature Intended him for a singer. He hash teW voice of high register, snd has mastered most of the tenor parts of nearly all. of the most difficult grand operas.. During the sessions. of congress he gives expensive "stag" din ners In his Massachusetts avenue resi dence, and while his guests are enjoy ing his costly, cigars at the end of the feast he regales them with choice selec tions from Wagner, Verdi, Mascagnt and other of the masters. He even imi tates the gestures and ntuge'mnnnerlsms of the most famous tenors of the day, ell of '-whom- he hus ' heard, v Senator Clark really takfs his - vocal efforts ucrlously. Bo do Ms guests. . Senator Beveridge's Trip With- the , war clouds darkening hourly 'overTjapan there la peculiar timeliness in the new book by Senator BevertdgjB of Indiana entitled "The Russian Advance," published by Har per A Brothers. The volume consists mainly of the . articles contributed by the senator to the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia after his return from a Journey through Manchuria, and the far East In 1901, but the conditions portrayed have not changed since then, except to become more critical." Sen ator Beverldge has supplemented . his original . chapters with others describ ing Siberia and certain tendencies of Russia bearing Upon the . approaching crisis. Though his book is more or less superficial and hasty, as all such books must be, it is conservative and accurate. It is more laudatory of .Russian policy and ' achievement than necessary, but that la an inevitable result of its hasty survey. As a summary of the chief causes that are, impelling Russia and Japan to deadly conflict the volume is admirable and convincing. -Senator Beverldge does ' not believe for an instant that Russia will ever evacuate Manchuria, as It has. promised by treaty and by official . utterance to do. "Forever is a long .time," he says, "but it is not extravagant to use the word with reference to Russia in Man churia. . Destiny seems to be drlwing the Slav race forward Into China with a force which even, the cxar cannot re sist. This peculiar phase of the situa tion is seen In the fact that most of the Russians , ln Manchuria v argue against holding the province, while at the same time every one of them Is wIL ling to fight to hold it Appetite for power has caused the Russians to dream of ruling the whole of China. "Do you want another name for Russia?" asked a young subaltern. "Very 1 well, then, can her, VThe Inevitable.' " 'The Russian peasant is y already planted permanently on the soil of Manchuria. His wife, his children and his graves are there, . Chinamen are helping him to build his churches snl houses, and are doing it right merrily, for there is no denying that the Russian knows how to subdue and win the Ori ental aa no other European does. Rus sian rule, after the first savage blows of conquest has brought peace, .security and wealth to regions formerly in choaa and poverty. ' Some of the ablest states men and generals of Russia are on the Chinese frontier, and are devoting their lives to building an empire-that shall be theirs and their czar's forever, "The Russian soldier never turns back." You hear the words on the Hps of beardless boys and shaggy veterans. 'This is; the nation which little Japan la preparing to drive back. ; -y v ,-v . Now look at the Japanese side. Ten years, ago Japan conquered China single-handed and - won - the southern- part of Manchuria as its own. For two days it possessed its new territory, and then Russia, backed by France and Germany, snatched away, the prise by threat of war and took it 'for itself. For that act bf injustice the Japanese hate the Russians with a bitter hatred. ? r But it" is: not only a case of unjust spoliation and injured pride with Japan.' It is a xascy of Jife and death for the nation. Japan must have an' outlet for colonization on the mainland or' suffo cate. Since the advent of modern. San itary science in the Island empire the birth rate has exceeded the death rate, and the country is becoming too crowd ed for its active and ambitious inhabl tanta v.- :; :-. . v;.. ., y '. The peninsula of Korea and the Port Arthur country back of it form the nat ural , outlet for, Japanese , colonization. The time has come when Japan must have this territory or begin to suffer from internal dry rot. The nation looks upon such expansion as Its manifest destiny, andt ts ambitious ones dream of organising the inert empire of China Itself Indeed they are already at work on the task. . Thus Russia and Japan seem about to come into irreconcilable conflict with Korea as the ostensible bone of contention. "And If war does come," says Senator Beverldge, "there are more contradictory elements of strength, more contradictory WAJTTS A BOXJ COVBSS. Ex-Senator Cannon Speaks About the Senator Imoot Case. Frank J. Cannon, ex-United States senator, and . a Mormon' apostle, . urges Senator- Reed Smoot to make t firm stand, announce his belief in polygamy and his superiority as an apostle, and then challenge the United States senate to unseat him. Cannon says in a Salt Lake City -Interview; ?::''. 5- ."'::: y. "The bold way Is the best, Senator Smoot Is one of the apostles of. a church which, claims direct revelation from heaven. The voice of God Is su perior to any earthly voice. ' As an apostle, Senator Smoot would obey the will of God against the will Of man. Why not come out and say so, and chal lenge the senate of the United States to the issue?: What possible object can be gained by equivocation? "There te'not a child 18 years of age In Utah belonging to the church of which Senator Smoot is a leader, who does not know the claims set up for divine guidance by prophets, seers and revelators, of which Senator Smoot la also one. What object can be gained by evading the issue? ' If Senator Smoot will take a bold stand, avow as a truth that the authority of the Almighty is upon him and that he and his associates and his superiors In the church are the living oracles of a living God, -then he will meet the United States in a con troversy worthy of inspired prophets, of whom he claims to be one. v ("If -he shall fall to avow the sanctity of plural marriages,', if he shall deny the Inspiration which he 'Claims for apostolic utterances, he may lose his seat, while at the same time losing an opportunity to show: to the world that he and his compeers have the courage of faith which they profess and which they have taught hundreds and thous and of their followers to believe." . BOW SCXEWOB BATES CATtlB. ' From the,itevlew of Reviews. The mortality from Texas fever has been reduced from 78 per cent to less than m per cent, By a conservative es ,,. tttymiffi. . eViN, rnr!r ttt thn Texas hUIIOlx ..." - ' .. - - - -. and-Missourl experiment stations alone, there has been saved to the cattle inter ests of Texas not less than 1350,000, and the work is now only well started. But more important than any direct saving are the new possibilities of Texas as a eattlu country. The open-range and the ir,t...hnrn.fl ttfr are ranldlv Oassittff: and in their wake are coming the smull stock farm, tne jiererora ana mo snori-, horn. With Improved breeds, favorable niimait winter nnsturflae. nractlcally no expense for housing, and the cheapest and best nesn-pronucmg reeus; wun a home market capable of absorbing the tifj Immn morliirt. and n sreat city of export near the future highway of th world 8 commerce., me siock miereaiB 01 Texas are certainly entering upon a new era okgrowth and develppment, and All of this serves to Illustrate once more the Important truth that the scientific man is also the practical man. Through Russia and. Japan conditions, more premises upon which wagers for either -side might reasona bly be made than in any war of mod ern times the 'Japanese navy, the Rus sian navy; Japanese preparedness, Rus sian preparedness: the Japanese soldier, the Russian soldier; the skill, the valor. ' the staying powers of the flower of the people of the Orient, against the slow est, the most undeveloped, but yet the most tenacious, and most unexhausted ' race of the Occident It will be a great drama, and when? the curtain falls on its last desperate act of destiny of the , East, and in a certain sense the future of the world, a will be forecast by the flag which flies in triumph ' over the carnage of that final conflict..." Cme is impressed with the almost in-' stinctlve hatred that animates both na tions. Senator' Beverldge cites signifi cant episodes that came' under his own ' notice. On the Russian side the hatred is mingled wih contempt. When Gen eral Clerpltsky; the Kitchener of Rue-' s, dismissed his soldiers after a Man churlan campaign the ' following dia- loguc was overheard: An officer leaning out of a window, said to the assembled .soldiers: - "Well, boys, are you glad this cam paign is over?" v---- . -"':-, ' . : The . soldiers answered ' ln' their cus- -tomary chorus: "Yes, our colonel, but we are willing to fight again." ' Colonel--If the Japanese come,' will1' you let them wh lp you, or will you whip, them? .:;' . r Soldiers, in chorus What those moni keys whip us? - Never, our colonel. On the Japanese side the prevailing sentiment among all classes is fairly voiced by "the following utterance of a leading diplomat: Korea must be Russian or Japanese, It is said. Yes. Well, In that case It will become Japanese, - Every one of Japan's 250,000 soldiers will die, if. need be, to achieve this victory for his em peror this act of international justice, this guarantee of the safety of the Jap anese - nation. . And after our soldiers are gone, the nation itself, man, woman and child, will battle, forty millions of us, till the last yen is gone and the last life yielded. I mean what I - say. It ' Is with us no statesman's policy; It Is with, us the settled purpose and the . burning passion of the people. Senator Beverldge-says that his talks with merchants, guides and common peo ple In Japan convinced him that, this fervid language is "quite within, the limits of the truth.", '.:::' rFor Americans one of the most in teresting phases of . the sltur'lon is the confidence with which both sides are -counting upon the support of the United States. "There is only one nation upou whose ' abiding friendship , Russia counts," says the Russian, "and that na tion is America. Our friendship is tra ditional, and has never been broken, etc. On the other hand: "We shall de pend upon you in our conflict for our existence and for the integrity of the East" says the Japanese. ' "The door through which the world enters Asla was first unlocked by an American. We are' neighbors, and nature has made us partners to resist the aggression of the Slav in the Orient We are more like ; you than we are like, any other people, and your William E. Curtis in his line book has even called us the Yankees of the Easts And, aside from senti ment, the sheer question of commerce la enough to keep you with us."; ' , Thus America stands between the two hostile nations, friendly to both, the ally of 'neither,. It win be a, hard position to . maintain when the , conflict comes. -Senator Beverldge says in a foot note that host Hies "are not probable at the present time.' and because the action of other nations, and particularly of Eng land. Is not yet known." He thinks (or thought in October, when his note was written), that a temporary peace may be patched up, Japan agreeing not to Interfere with Russia in Manchuria and Russia agreeing not to interfere with Japan In Korea, but any settlement of this kind must be but temporary. All the elements of an irrepressible con flict seem to be present and appar ently nothing but an appeal to -battle can satisfy either side. ., Such ts the author's view, and It is hard to see any other conclusion after reading his book. Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATXICZ FAIBTAX -- Dear Miss Fairfax I am a young glrl, 16 years old, and have recently become acquainted with a- young man about 10. . Llike the young man very much, as he hasn't bad habits to speak of. , The last time he Called he asked me to go driving with him, but I refused be cause it was : after 7 when he called. He called last evening and asked me would I go driving some afternoon, but I told him I would let him know. -; Now my mother likes the young man, but she says a young girl like me can not go out, driving alone with a young man. - '-v -;-.; '.'.-.-,-, . . I would like you to let me know what you think about it. Do you see any harm in such- a friendship and a few drives? ', - A. L. X- I think . your mother quite in the right; you are too young to be run ning 'about with men. If he wants to see you he should call at your own house. , Your mother la a wise woman. Take her advice, my dear. Mothers al ways know what is best for little girls. Dear Miss Fairfax I 'am a young; girl, 19 years of age, and last summer I chanced to make the acquaintance of a young man with , whom I at once fell ' in love. -.- He seemed very Interested In me, but he believed L cared nothing for him and that I was keeping company with other young men and therefore he quit coming to see me and now he la keeping company with another 'young lady. Now, Miss Fairfax, .would you kindly advise me what to do. Must I go and see him as I. would like. to alk with him again, as I love him dearly? A BROKEN-HEARTED JANE. -: You have not arranged it very well, , When .'With' all the cards in your own hand you let the game slip through your fingers. It will not do to let It appear that you are now throwing yourself at the young man's head, but if you can cleverly bring about such a meeting as you suggest, without appearing' to do It, you may be able to accomplish' your purpose. ..:; . i- '., - " VV' "' '.,.:. Dear Miss Fairfax: I want to ask your opinion about a matter of eti quette. Can a Young lady who is earn ing her living by honest work-who Is . alone in a boarding house go to the theatre alone, with a young gentleman' whom she has known a little While? He la a nice young man.. A STRANGER. , , I can see no objection to your going to the. theatre, with the young man if you are sure he is nice. . . '..;;,. -I ...:.... ? 'I " Dear MIss'Falrfaxj Will you give an other anxious heart advice? I am en gaged to be married, and the gentleman has two brothers and both of their wives died. I wan iold I would surely be the third. This has made me very ner vous. '--.; v.,,'.--, ... ., -That Is nothing but a silly supersti tion, snd whoever. told ynu such foolish thing should be asbamesV - .