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Ediftprial'. Page f Ub: :JEiraaIl t PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1904 THE OREGON DAILY ; . , AN C i. JACKSON Published avery evening ept OFFICIAL. . MR. BOOTH'S "RESIGNATION." IT 18 ANNOUNCED from Washington that Receiver J. JI. Booth, of the Roseburg land office,' has "resigned" t the Important .and responsible position he held tn the Booth-Kelly corporation, and It is further stated that he has even "disposed of" his Interests" in that corporation; and a verdant and confiding; public informejjuhat this ac . tion was necessary , before the president would agree o reappoint Booth, to his present office." The president Is . reported to haVe'said further to the Oregon senators that "he djd not like the appearance of having a land officer at ', Roseburg Who was generally known to be an official in a lumber company that did considerable business before :. that official." How far and how easily this mixture of excuse and ex , planaiion the public w.M accept depends upon the degree of its verdancy, credulity and gullibility. The president ;" must know, nobody better knows, that Mr. Booth has for ' years hel'd both positions, one requiring him to serve the - government, the whole people, faithfully, and the other calling upon him to serve to the full extent of his oppor , tunity and ability the corporation that was in the busU ness of "gobbling up" timber lands by the wholesale; and . that It was Impossible for Mr. Booth to serve both these masters conscientiously and sealouBly. The president 1 recognised this fact, and refused , to reappoint Booth, land later decided not to reappoint Register Bridges, who Is understood to be only a second fiddle in the, Booth-Kelly Orchestra at Roseburg. But such "pressure" was brought to bear upon the president that he concluded to reappoint these men. If Booth would "resign" his corporate connec- tion, would sever his official relations with tha Booth . Kelly company; and Booth, it is announced, has done this. . , Green be thy expansive countenance, O Oregon Public, as befits the leafing and budding season. Large and smooth and well -lubricated with partisan gastric juice : thy gullet All is now "right." The ostrich has hidden ta head in the sand. . v But will or can anybody swallow such an evidently doc tored dose as this? The salary tattached to the federal office at Roseburg is perhaps $2,000; the maximum salary that can be paid for such services as Mr. Booth performs Is $3,000. To retain this job, which Is well enough in Its way, and which Is a decent little plum to such as have no better, Mr. Booth is alleged to have sacrificed his stock ' and interest in the Booth-Kelly Lumber company and to have given up his official position as secretary of this great corporation.. The federal position Is one whose emoluments are no greater than hundreds of people an- nuaHy-eanr1rr)regoni.eganyt-caTTtewntrltTja other perquisites, no peculiar distinctions, social recognitions or political plums. On thli other hand, considered purely from a commercial standpoint and judging solely by the swath cut .In so many directions by the lumber corpora tion and its almost .miraculous faculty for acquiring val- uabla timber lands -tor-41ttla-jmon4iyr-stock ln-4hft-eompany must be worth something and, if the present good luck continues, promises to be worth a great " deal more. Be dsides Mr. Booth while secretary of the corporation had the further felicity of being own brother to the president and t head, of the corporation. To think for a moment that .he should resign all of this to immolate himself on the 'altar of his country for the relatively 12,000 a year, that he should make . pomicai joo wnicn lasts only rour years and that he may much sooner lose, thus leaving him out in the cold, cold world relying entirely upon his own resources, is too ut terly preposterous for any one with gumption to- believe. The explanation which goes with the story makes it even worse than it was lu the first, place for it -Insults the pub lic intelligence by offering an explanation so ludicrously " inadequate, so inept, that we are surprised at the hardi ' hood of any one who "should openly ascribe it to a man holding the exalted position of president of the United States and the high moral standards which have been so generously attributed to Theodore Roosevelt. MR. MITCHELL'S WISE WORDS. A RECENT TALK made by President John Mitchell AA before the' federation of Illinois miners embodied .:. '. la its essence a confession which, owing to the hinted probability that he would soon sever his relations with the national organization, attracted unusual atten tion and aroused unusual interest. "When I was younger I used to view the labor question differently," Mr. Mitchell said, "My notion of what is the proper conduct for union men and what is the proper attitude towards employers has under gone a radical change. "I remember the time when I regarded my employer as my natural enemy. I thought It was my business to fight him continually, and I felt It was the sphere of the unions to antagonize the bosses at every point. . "A fght is sometimes necessary, I still recognise. But the best interests of both parties are best served, I now appreciate, by establishing harmonious relations , between them. I believe there Is no irreconcilable conflict between capital and labor. - "I have faith in the members and officers of the .,. mlneworkers, and I have faith in a large number of the , employers. Men are not much different whether they work with their heads or their hands. Our organiasa . tion exists to protect the miners by maintaining fair relations with the operators." The moment this lesson is learned, not alone by the em- ployee but by the employers as well, the country is within hailing distance of the time when their relations will be placed upon a juster, more equitable and more humane basis. The Initial point of trouble in the too wide spread belief that from the very nature of. the case the employers and employes are irreconcilable enemies. In the abstract this is not true at all. Each one in essential .to the success or the other. If they work In accord both Wl accomplish more than if they fight. The more har Wilt HABTCXVBXA ZS. Contains All Jfatural Blements for t Sick sad Prosperous Nation. What the possession of Manchuria means to Russia, or what Hs possea .. sion would mean to any nation, probably In not particularly clear to the average person in this part of the world. Man churia Is a long ways off and one is apt to look upon it more In the light of a wild, desolate. Impossible country than as a land worth struggling over. lift ui Imagine, for the Hake of get ting some Idea of what Manchuria really 1?, that we are suddenly transported to the. Russian city of Harbin, in the heart of Manchuria. Harbin is located on the Jungarl river, where the great Siberian ' railroad crosses, To the sbuthward from Harbin runs the Chinese Eastern railway to Dalny and fort Arthur, the Jailor 600 mites away. To Vladivostok the. distance is 00 miles. For hundreds of miles about Harbin extend rich agricultural lands, as well 'mineral and timber lands. Corn, wheat, oats, barley, beans, millet, hemp, atobarfo, vegetables.. an certain fruits may grown in productive crops. AH ths natural elements for a rich INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.. Sunday) at The Journal Building, PJfth PAPER OP TH8 CITY OP. Insignificant sum of these sacrifices for a recognition' which and prosperous nation abound in Man churia. Russia already has expended on Manohurluii railroads 8139.050.000,,, and It la estimated that the total invest ment of Rimeta in permanent proper ties In Manchuria has been 1257,600,000. The Kuaslan government lias put vast sums into the cities of Port Arthur, Dalny, and other towns and In fortifica tions. Harbin Is distinctly a Russian city. For miles in all directions the govern ment has secured the land to prevent foreigners from getting an Influence. Foreigners' rights are not recognised, Harbin now has a population of over 60,000. It Is the center of the Man churlan railroad management, and will be the center of Manchurlan commercial- and Industrial development. The Bungarl river is navigable for 200 miles aobve Harbin and, on the other side, to the Amur, river. The railroad traffic passing through the city is sur prising. Thirty through trains a day are dispatched and half as many local train. There are flour mills, brick manufactories, plants for producing the Russian liquor, vodka, breweries, pack ing houses, a bean-oil plant, a confec tionery factory, sawmills, etc . V JOURNAL JNO. P. CARROLL and Yamhill streets. Portland, Of mm. PORTLAND monious the relations the better both are off. But hot heads have too often ruled on both sides. Each wants to be master .and each wants to rule with an iron hand. When the matter of differences is fairly approached on each side they usually fade away, -It Is only when one or both sides are unreasonable that the danger line Is reached and we have-strikes and lockouts. The simple words of Mr. Mitchell are well worthy of careful consideration. Tbey point In precisely the right direction for the men but Just as well for the employers. If each aide is wilting to recognise the Just claim of the other and- consider it in a spirit of fairness, if they fully appreciate the mutuality of the Interests involved, we shall hear less of labor struggles and a good deal more of prosperoua conditions. But it does not lie with one side to accomplish all this. If only one side is reasonable, If only one side can see the view point of both Interests in volved, the conditions are very little improved and the results will never be quite satisfactory. Both sides must meet fairly and squarely and both must be ready and wil ling to see and acknowledge the Justness of the claims put forward by the other. When this fundamental basis is reached the outlook for amicable relations between labor and capital will be better than it ever has been in its wh'ole history and the country will move faster In its in dustrial enterprises than it has ever done. THE MEASURE METED BACK TO RUSSIA RUSSIAN conquest means everywhere the sating of the Cossack and Russian brutal lust for blood. The unenviable record of the Russian soldiery in Manchuria during the first attempts to colonise that coun try Is remembered to good purpose now by the Chinese., The massacre of the Jews Justly called down upon Russia the horror and opprobrium of the entire civilised world, but very little is ever said or known about the continual, never halting, merciless persecution of her own people, which has made the Internal conditions which are crip pling Russia in her foreign war. The revolutionists in Russia are not the peasantry, or even the middle classes, but largely composed of the sons and daughters of the nobility and members of the autocracy: The Universities of Russia are not open to any save the sons and daughters of the well born, and only to these under great restrictions. The universities are considered to be the hot beds of revolution and the students have always been considered as enemies of the existing order of things. Everything possible to harass and suppress them has been done, with the usual result of persecuXIon-am6THgm6der"atetyTntenigenrTeople, thatf making them more revolutionary than ever. The massacre of students and working people, the lat ter merely spectators who chanced to be In the way of the Cossack police, in front of the Kasan cathedral in St Petersburg r,Jp 1901, was so horrible that the descriptions efn-ye-wlines -makes -t he-reader -feet-nauseated:; -The faces of girl students were slashed with leathern thongs with pieces of lead In the end until they were beaten out of air semblance to humanity. Tlwlr heads were knocked agamet the sforie walls and their bodies trampled upon until they were shapeless masses. So hideous was the butchery that several bystanders went Insane. This "punishment" was given for the writing of a petition by the students which requested that certain changes be made in the methods of teaching. .. , In 1879 the students of the university of Kharkoff were brutally attacked by a detachment of Cossacks by order of Prince Kropotkln, a cousin of the well-known lecturer and scientist, who recently visited this country. This Kropotkln was governor of the province and he was shortly afterward shot dead by one of the revolutionists In a theatre. Any meetings of the students, no matter how innocent, are frowned upon and discouraged, if dis covered, by expulsion for the participants, banishment to Siberia and condemnation to service in the army, which Is worse than being condemned to penal servitude In this country.' Two well-known Russian exiles have stated that there were enough Intelligent galley slaves on board every Russian ship to frustrate Russian triumphs by sinking and disabling ships. Their own lives being nothing in the bal ance. The courage of the Russian revolutionist needs no confirmation. The sufferings of their people have driven them to a pitch of desperation which makes death a little thing in comparison with the happiness of having helped ever so little In the grand cause of Russian liberty. CLEAN CURRENCY FOR THE COAST. OVE IS surprised and delighted when visiting the Atlantic seaboard to be given those new, crisp and clean bills in exchange for his gold coin. They are a delight to look upon and so free from stains and mutila tion that one is led to inquire how It Is possible for the people of those sections to be so steadily and constantly supplied with such beautiful paper money when he -rarely, if ever, sees anything but the most ragged and disrepu table paper bills out in this section of the country, and very few of them. He Is surprised to learn that all such currency is fur nished in exchange free of cost to the banks in that sec tion of the country while here the banks are obliged to pay expressage for precisely the same service. ' This largely accounts for the fact that the people here are forced to use the bulky goid and silver Instead of the much more handy currency. There is a bill, now before con gress which seeks to right this injustice and which places the banks In all parts of the country upon precisely the same plane. Under that bill all mutilated currency will be, replaced by the government without cost, whether the bank asking for It has its headquarters on the Pacific or the Atlantic coast, or in the interior of the country. Every encouragement should be lent to the passage of the bill -and Oregon's congressional representatives should Join hands with those from other sections In giving it the it so well deserves. Henry B. Miller, United Ststes Consul at Nlu Chwsng, Manchuria, has furnished the government at Washington with this information, and he adds that a study of conditions in Vladivostok, Harbin and other districts is not particularly en couraging to. the Idea, of American ex tension of trade In Manchuria, at least in any line that Russia is prepared to supply. Mr. Miller believes that Russia, with millions of cheap Chinese laborers at hand, with vast coal fields, great forests. copper deposits, and enormous areas of agricultural land, will be the mighty factor In dominating and developing the far east. Even with this brief glimpse of Man churls, one may understand something of Russia's Interest in that great stretch of country that figures so prominently in the present war. Providential Proof. . . Frem the Washington Star. President Baer psobubly regards the severity .of this, winter, which ' makes coal bills' hesvy despite the reduction of price, ss another evidence that,, he Is an object .of especial providential solici tude. , Oregon Sidelights ' Tillamook's three newspapers sre all "home prints.". Rev. John Looser of Tillamook has started for Portland to meet his wife. He doesn't want to Looser. The Vale vicinity has been visited by too. much water, for once. ',. usually more water is its chief desire. ; Young women in some Oregon towns are getting up leap year dances. Be ware, boys; or, no, perhaps you'd better not. Experts have found but a few small errors In the books .of Astoria city of ficials,, proving them to have been com petent and tionest. which result is dis appointing to some people. Three Wallowa county; bachelors have recently gone east to marry, an act for which they are properly congratulated', yet some Wallowa county marriageable women may not feel in a congratulatory mood. ; The Eugene Register declares that "there are men in Oregon who are sev eral times wealthier than Mark. Hannah Who died possessed of f 3. 000,000; Who are they T Put the assessors 'onto them." Astoria clttsens are generally awake and enthusiastic with regard to the pro posed seawall along its waterfront. This rs the sort of spirit tnat is going to make Astoria a bigger and better town at a more rapid rate In the future than in the past. ' The "Knights of Columbus" Is a com paratively new Catholic order that started out strong last Sunday with a large council In Baker City. Bishop O'Reilly assisted In the ceremonies, and over 100 prominent Catholics from other cities, including many from Portland, ware present. ; Marlon county will contribute 10 for every f 100 raised by a road district for road. work. Hubbard will spend si.uuv this year on streets and roads, and the surrounding district will raise more. Properly expended, money can be put to no better use. Irrlgon. Or., now has a second paper, the Irrlgon, Oregon, Irrigator, which will help cause water to flow through and over the sands adjacent to the Columbia river below old Umatilla Landing, and make that patch of the desert to blos som with alfalfa and other green, grow ing things. According to the Silver Lake Ore- gonian the people of that remote in terior" community are moder cltliena in ac least one respect, for it says: "The amount of taxes this year is higher than usual, but we have not heard any kicking. In fact, Silver Lake is free of kickers.". Thesum nfi lU Q 0-Jsnotmuch.lQ. pay for a bank, but this is the considera tion mentioned in the conveyance of the late Bank of Sumpter to R. M. Miller, cashier of the First National bank of the same town. But figures expressed In recited considerations do not always tell the whole truth. North Yamhill Record: "In our salutatory last week the proof reader failed to correct typographical errors, We are so rushed in our work. It be ing our first Issue, and having to ar range all matter from beginning to end In a short time, affords a reasonable excuse for the oversight. But, to err is human." In Baker City, too, as well ss In Port land, men who have been arrested for crime, and who were known to be guilty, have been released, one young man being discharged ' on the repayment of MS which he had stolen; but Justice Messlck doesn't like these performances, and aaya ha will not conduct his court as a collection agency. . Lostlne Review; Some disgruntled Church members try to keep others from attending the meetings of the Rev, Mr. Van Zant. held In the church house last week. The reverend gentleman said something in the course of his remarks thst wss not approved of, and the con sequence wss an effort on the part of some good church members to keep others away from the meetings. "Alas! for the rarity of true Christianity." The waters of the John Day river, that for an uncountable number of years have glided and rushed and rippled and roared down through the Blue mountain canyons and the high hills and plains between them and the Columbia, are at last to be made to serve uttlltarlan purposes, beside hydraulic mining, chief among which is the generation of power for electric lighting purposes in Prairie City and other towns, and for running machinery of mills. Three companies having these objects in view have al ready been formed, ptjtbt nr uii ooxnrTT. Over In Lak county rabbit "drives" are a popular method of combining busi ness with pleasure. On a recent Sun day a rabbit hunt, according to tho Lakevlew Examiner, "was not ss suc cessful as was anticipated," yet 1,071 rabbits were killed. On the west sldo of Goose lake a prolonged hunt resulted in the slaughter of 3,1190 rabbits, the two sides scoring exactly the same, after which "a big dance was given at the Union school house to celebrate the event, end a general good time was had," one feature of which was a bssket sup per at midnight. coHTUOxnro iooorata The Baker City Herald has received Information from Canyon City that Z, K. Martin, the treasurer of Grant county, who recently committed suicide by shooting himself, was' probably not short in Ms accounts after all, but was wor ried by some clerical errors which ha thought showed a shortage. This, how ever, scarcely agrees with the statement left in writing by Martin, in which ha said that he had taken some warrants. He was a cripple, had considerable prop erty, and was well liked, and if he had made his troubles, - real or Imaginary, known to friends, they would no doubt have helped him out of them: A STOTABXiB BOAS. One of the most notable roads In Ore gon is that down a bluff of the north fork of the John Day river, In the south ern end of Umatilla county, .costing $9,000, and built partly at state expense. On top of the bluff one looks down what appears to be almost a sheer precipice, a distance of 5,000 feet, nesrly a mile, end st a cssual Investigation a road along. the side of the precipice seems sn impossibility. But it was constructed, Its length being four or five miles., end the grade Is easy, so that a single team ran ascend with quite a heavy load. But if a team were to get off the grade near the top. the "remains" at the bot tom would be unrecognizable. HOW TO TREAT THE BOYS Charles R. Bradley In the Chicago News, v Considering his possible position and lufluence In the world, there Is no deny ing the fact that a boy Is a great insti tution, yet he often suffers neglect com mon to the animal kingdom. Regardless of the amountr character of his train log. he is responsible to society, and yet he is often obliged to shift for himself, His training should make him Intelli gent, respectable, courageous, faithful, honest and industrious. His develop ment and usefulness, depend almost en tirely upon Influence and opportunities. The boys of this generation are to be the men of the neat generation. This being the case, it is Impossible to esti mate the Importance of their training for the responsibilities they are to as sume. There Is nothing in so-called "blood." Greatness does not,- -spring.' from .the blood of ancestry. Had Washington, a son, without training and opportunities he would have had to join the common herd of men. In great men we rarely find like qualities in their ancestry. or in their posterity. This fact' is verified by nearly every character in human his-, tory. Percentage has little to do with the possible ; greatness of the child, Greatness is largely the, result of the influence of environment and associa tion, training a and opportunity. - It would be wrong to have a boy believe that he cannot go beyond the mentality and prospects of his father. If it were true thousands of boys would have rea son to' curse their aprentage. On the contrary, lowly homes ' and lowly par entage, with few exceptions, have pro duced the boys who became the men wnose names and deeds illumine history. The boy is entitled to respect, con siderations help and advice; but he is often permitted to grow up by chance, as though his physical development was the only thing, of Importance during the years of his minority. He likes atten tion and ts entitled to It. He is often so bluffed and cuffed, scdlded, disre garded and neglected that he is ever discourteous, untruthful and lasy and becomes bad and ' dangerous. He is made good by good influence and bad by bad , influence toward right-deing, good habits and respectful bearing. He likes responsibility. He likes his friends. He needs more of them. He likes superiors, if they are in a full sense superiors- He detests and guys a humbug. He likes counsel and the as sociation of men whose practice is true to their teaching. The greatest benefit that can come to a boy Is the associa tion of men of good habits, good bearing and who occupy a merited place in the world. It does not matter whether the qualities the boy is to acquire are those of a father, a brother or a friend. . It -is our duty to recognize and help the boy, no matter whose boy he is. He ti"to become' a member of society and the world Is. to be helped or injured by his Influence in it. Make him feel manly and he will act manly. If you respect him, he will respect you. A good boy can be spoiled: a bad boy can be saved. Nobody should dislike the eneraJaraeterlatics of a boy. All he acks is the training that develops and turns his qualities into useful channels. If the world will take care of the boys, they will become such men as will take care of the women. This is especially the kind of men we heed. The boy be longs to first principles. If he is neglected, the foundation of his man hood Will be faulty, and the man a cor JAPANESE WOMEN HEROIC IN WAR From the Chicago Journal. No nation has a better right to be proud of what its women have done in wartime than Japan. Even the mothers and wives of ancient Sparta have been rivaled in deeds of patriotism and self sacrifice by the women of Japan. In the feudal times, which came to an end in Japan only 30 years ago, all gentlewomen were trained in the use of the sword and lance,- The women of the samurai class received a regular mil itary education and if the castle of a dalmlo was besieged, they were capable of assisting la the defense if necessary. A noted Instance of, the martial prowess of the Jspanese women occurred during the siege of the castle of Waka- matsu in i860, where the shogun made his final stand against the forces of the mikado. Nearly 1,000 women and girls belonging to the families of samurai at tached to the shogun fought behind the barricades and on the castle walls. Many of them were killed in battle, while not a few committed suicide rather than undergo the humiliation of defeat. Yet the Amazonian qualities of the women of old Japan did not detract from their womanliness. They were tender mothers and loving wives. The nursing of the wounded and sick was part of the education of every samursi woman. . With the passing away of the age of chtvalry in Japan, upon the downfall of the shogunate, (the Japanese women was called upon to face new conditions, and how she met these conditions Is shown in the history of the Chinese war Of 1896. It is a matter of record that some 10,000 Japanese women volunteered to go to the front as nurses' in the field hos pitals at the outbreak of the Chinese war, and advices from Japan state that the number of women volunteering to go to the front as nurses today Is greater than In 1895. But the women who stay at home are not lacking in patrlotto de votion. There Is an anecdote concerning the mother of the heroio Commander Saka moto, who was killed on the bridge- of his ship, the Akagi, at the battle of Yalu, which shows how the spirit of patriotism flames in the hearts of Jap anese women. An official of the navy department called on the family of the naval officer to convey, ss delicately as possible, the news of his death. Haying communi cated his tidings to a member of the family, be was about to depart, when the shojl slid open softly and the aged mother of the dead commander stag gered into the room. . , . She had been an accidental eavesdrop per and had heard all. Trembling with emotion she bowed low to the visiting officer and said: "Tell the emperor I rejoice that a son of mine has been able to be of some service to him," ' , s Some Japanese women refused to weep over their dead, because it was consid ered dlsloysl to the mikado to weep for those who had had the honer to die fighting for him. When a wife or a mother heard that a husband or a son a mxos pns. Manohurla, that great province of the Chinese empire, over which Russia and Japan are contending, is one of the rich est areas on the earth. This vast do main, bordering Siberia and alluring to Russia because It would give the latter country desirable Pacific seaports, is the prise of all the districts in the Orient. In point of position It is the key to a great stretch of country now practically unknown to the world. , As showing the else of this magnificent region, it may responding menace to society. The boy should' receive more, consideration than he does from his parents, teachers and the public. - He is to be appealed to rather than forced. " His disposition muso be rec Ognised and his rights observed, which will insure his obedience. He is entitled to his rights and pleasures. He is gen erally disposed to be free from care and responsibility and its proper discharge, but -he is not to be suddenly deprived of che pleasures common to his boyhood life. He Is to outgrow them. "As thd twig is bent the tree's inclined," The qualities of the boy are to become, in a larger sense, the qualities of the man. The deelopment of a manly character in a boy is the combined work and in fluence of the home, the school snd so ciety, Be respectful to hjm snd he will respond to it. Address a boy In a re spectful manner and note how pleased he is to give attention' or information. There is. a great difference' between say ing, "Say, bub, Where's the Board tf Trade building?" and "My boy, can you direct me to the Board of Trade build ing? Thank j-ou." Don't abuse him, yet let him suffer the consequences of his carelessness. Expect him to make mistakes and to profit ty them. They count es experience and become his guide posts In later life. Interest your self in his work, In his pleasures and In his "troubles. Advise him. ; Consider his Judgment and his aspirations. Bvsry man has this opportunity front time to time. The boy's life must touch the man's life stoms time, somewhere. When we recognize his intelligence, his honesty, his courtesy, his good habits, his industry, we encourage 'him in the acquirement of the qualities we admire in boys and that make men. Don't holler at him as though he were a dog, Don't intimidate him. Correct him with reason and mildness. Don't belittle him. Don'e threaten him.. Be pleasant, Just and firm. Let your treat ment of him be such as will hold him above resentment, hate and spite. This Is ths treatment and influence the. boy needs. Good, sensible 'treatment has yet never spoiled a boy. Boys can be "babied" .to their ruin, neglected to their ruin, abused to their ruin. Our duty is to enable them to reach the station of intelligent and useful manhood. If in the training of boys we would go back to nrs principles and study their natures, learn and apply the influence that . shapes their lives to good ends, recognise the value of environment and association, we should have no need of Jails and bridewells and reformatories and penitentiaries.. i .,, Parents and teachers are not alone responsible for the training of the boy. Society the whole world is respon sible for the character and conduct of the members composing it. If w, as a society, take the credit for the pro duction of a Lincoln, we must take the blame for the production of a Booth. If we are glorified by the qualities of a Lincoln, we are disgraced by the quali ties of a Booth. We must not claim the good in one and renounce the bad in the other. The average of the good: and the bad, ss found in our national life, is the measure of our citizenship. Posterity, has the right to demand that the shifting of responsibility from generation to generation shall be from and to the shoulders of capable and worthy men. Upon the responsibility being thus shifted depend the perpetuity and advancement of our civilised life. had been killed In battle, the first ex pression uttered was an acknowledgment of the honor conferred upon her by the gods In blng bereaved for the causs of the emperor. , To the western mind such patriotism appears to be fantastlo and hard to un derstand. In the light of Japanese his tory it does not seem so strange. , The spirit of patriotism in the Jap anese women of the present generation la the outgrowth of ages of feudalism. The loyalty and devotion which the women of past generations gave to their feudal family head are in the present generation given to the mikado. In time of war the empress of Japan sets an example for all the women of the country in her activities 'in. behalf of all those who sre suffering or in distress. She may be seen frequently visiting the great military hospitals, ac companied by a party of court ladies and noblemen's wives. Following the example of the empress, all the great ladles of Tokyo society do what they can to relieve the distress and suffering that inevitably follow war. There is no class of women that does not contribute something to this cause; even those butterflies, the geishas, and the unhappy creatures in the Yoshtwaras give their share. " It is not only the women of the samu rai class who show Passionate patriotism In wartime. All classes of society are represented In the modern Japanese army, and the peasant woman has given proof that she is quite as devoted to the mikado as the samurai lady. A . story is told of an old peasant woman who sent her only son to light for the emperor In the Chinese war. By depriving herself of everything but the barest necessaries of life, and tolling early and late; In the fields, she had been able to give her son a superior education, and she had the satisfaction of seeing him fairly started on" a busi ness career, which promised to be suc cessful, when the call to arms sounded. The little peasant mother bade her son give up his business and enter the ranks of the army. The bOy did as his mother wished, and his regiment was one of the first to set foot on Chinese soil. . ' , ' Kvery morning Just before daybreak the little peasant woman rose and, after making a careful toilet, as an orthodox Buddhist she went to a little shrine near by and prayed to OJIn, the god of war, She did not pray for her son to come home safe and sound, but she prayed that he might prove worthy of the honor of "wearing the mikado's uniform. . One day, when the ol woman was re turning to -her home from the temple, she met a messenger who told her that her son had been Killed in the attack on Port Arthur, The mother's eyes' grew dim with tears, and she swayed unstead ily for a moment. Then she turned and started to go back to the temple. '.'Where are you going?" cried the mes senger. "Don't you understand what I say? Your son has been killed.' "Yes, I understand," said- the old woman,' calmly, "and I am going to thank OJIn for the honor he has con ferred upon me." , , be said that England. Scotland, Ireland and the states of New York. Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, Maine; New Hamp shire, Vermont, Massachusetts; Connec ticut and Rhode Island might be placed within Us boundaries and there would be more than 100,000 square miles to spare, - The products are diversified, the soil is fertile snd there Is much mineral wealth. s . Sympathise with the smaller man in a fight, if you like, but think twice before you place your slmolsons on him., ) Small Change I 1 .... , Some people persist in hunting for the North Pole as if they believed it is pure radium. That Pulitser School of JoiifnaJlsm eeems to have been subjected to a pro tracted eclipse . , -. -- The Democrats were harmonious, after all. Isn't this suspicious? Csn they be "true Democrats" and act thus? Now, there are v Girls' elubsl. shall we not have Little Misses' clubs, and Female Kindergarten clubs, soon? , It will not be a long campaign in Ori gon this spring, but quite long enough, A month of it is as good as more. The Republicans can And-no oha jn-ho will fill the late Senator. Banna's shoes as chairman of the national committee. Professor Trlggs has been discharged from Chicago university, but the smU of Standard oil pervades it, just the Same. . ? ' , China probably has a lot of ances tors' graves in numerous places along the Russian railroad ' through. Man-' churia. , . - - . ,-,, Spring laughs in bud, of bush and muBlo of mating birds at February's attempt to hold winter . back by his coat-tails. , ., As Japs approached Posslet bay The Russians rushed In fear away But this may have been .only a Mus covite ruse, Now. President Roosevelt, If you mesn business, proceed to dig. . The people preferred Nicaragua,' but Panama let it be, Dig! Even the women can't agree on wo man suffrage. If they could, and would all work for it. whv. ther would annn get.lt, sura .. . ".v..'' The Chicago Journal heads an edi torial; "More Work for Policemen,'' And yet perhaps the patient policemen Will not strike. If you are determined to walk across the Morrison street bridge, do so; but don't complain if you get hurt, and no damages therefor. A woman named SoDhia Cab has died. aged 129 years. Perhaps her longevity was due to non-interference with her living up to her name. ; The rural mall carriers well, deserve the proposed increase of pay. Many a government employe who doesn't earn half as much gets a good deal more. There is nothing strange In the news that ths Retslvan, the banner Russian battleship in the recent encounter, was built in America. The best going is the American style. Republican clubs are sll "Roosevelt cIubs'Tfobody dares, of" else nobody desires, to suggest any other name. As to Democratic clubs well, there's Jef ferson snd Jackson. He who helps to stir up the people to activity In building good roads is a far more useful man in the state than the man who persuades them that he ought to have an office. About the only man in the country rich enough to use radium as a remedy is Rockefeller, and he needs it. But probably he Is waiting until he owns all there la In the world himself, , It Is" thought , the Booth-Kelly com pany intend to nominate Harris in place of Hermann, not because of any unap proachablllty on Hermann's part, but because they fear he might be defeated. . . t i. mi . . . v . The republio of -Panama has three vice-presidents. 'If Uncle Sam would get out of that eountry entirely,, there would be three separate revolutions, each as big as a man's fist, within 34 hours thereafter, - ' -r '-- - This Is the one year in nineteen In which there Is no full moon in Feb ruary, notwithstanding the month's 39 days. But under present meteorolog ical conditions the moon's phases sre not a matter of much interest, " The papers of The Dalles diametri cally disagree as to Representative Wil liamson's efficiency and "record," but there Is some "politics" at The Dsllen, as well as elsewhere, and partissn por traitures are Invariably unlnstructlve, POLITICAL POINTERS Forest Grove Times - It seem? ed a few. weeks- ago that Binger Hermann would have little or no oppo sition in seeking renomlnation to con gress, but developments now are that he will not win without an active effort, Hon, I T. Harris, speaker of the house, who was kept out of the contest a year ago by previous pledges is now actively In the race, ana win nave tne aeiegates from several counties.' Dr. James Withy combe, formerly of this county but now of the State Agricultural college, is also being urged and can have the delega tions from ope or two counties, while Hon. 8. B. Houston Of Hlllsboro Is be ing urged to become a candidate and has beeq tendered the support Of many of the most influential men In the states These are all good men and-the party will make no mistake whichever may be chosen. - ' La Grande Chronicle At the recent meeting of the La Grande Republican club the main idea and interest outsldct of the election of officers was that of professions of harmony In the party, While everybody knows that these pro fessions are as mock pretensions at the shrine of Republicanism, the people in general would be mighty glad if it were a possibility for the two faction to get together. The Republican fight lu La Grande is more, of an injury to the public Interests than the success or de feat of either side would amount to- If the fight were confined to a mere ques tion of political success 1t would not be so bad. JtJut it isn't, and everybody knows it It extends to business and even to the social relationship of the people. What some . of the leaders of one side want the leaders Of the other side do not want, and vice verss. If there ever Was a time when the people of La Grande should be on a basis for harmonious action, It is right now; but it will not be accomplished; by ' the damn-you-come-over-to-my-side whoops or the La. uranae nepuniicHii club,. The Socialists have placed a cltv ticket In the. field. This is good. It Is a better ticket than either side of the Republicans could put up under the ex isting circumstances. i But the most direct way of eleanlng up the whole mess is for tho Democrn-iw to place a straight-out ticket In tlv fleld. It there must be a continual tight, let everybody have a chance at it. ., . t - i.