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Ediiorlal . Page; .of .'.Tie -Snjiaday JowEa JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. -. c. a. mckson, jo. r. cabkoxx PORTLAND, OREGON, . Sunday, March 20, 1904.' AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER TH& SUNDAY JOURNALS GREETING TO ITS READERS. ' ( -v , "T TT T"E "ASK NOTHING from those into -whose hamjs W t'1!S Wlt -i0" of.- The,-Suniay .Journal msy fall except a carefiil reading and a decision on it downright merits. We have pledged ourselves to present a newspaper which jwpuld. leave the beaten track of routine journalism, which would cover matters of worldwide con cern in crisp and attractive jniise,' which would not be impervious to modern ideas and methods and which above all would come in close contact with the highest, best and dearest interests of the plain people of the, newspaper field which we are attempting to cover. This pledge we have endeavored to redeem ; how well we have done so we leave to the judgment,, of our readers who,' whatever else may be said of them',' have never been lacking in appreciation of the efforts which have been out forth to serve them in the week da)' issues of The Journal. ' - ' ' newspaper as this proposes to be, to fully meet every, re quirement in all its varied lines to expand, its mechanical equipment and organize the various departments is a task which those who attempt it will best appreciate. This is , all we wish to say in extenuation. This issue, however, is only the starting point of what we propose to do.. The first issue will show us how far. short it may fall, of the , ideals which have been set up for it and the public may rest assured that there will be no critics, however fault finding, who will scan its columns with keener eyes or more : unbiased judgment than the men who have helped to make it and who propose to. raise' each succeeding issue to a higher standard than the-one. which preceded it. It is a . rare and pleasing .experience to find a newspaper which; like The Sunday Journal, is self sustaining, through perfectly legitimate business sources, from the very start. To print daily newspapers costs money,but to print a Sunday newspaper that is fully alive to all its responsibilities and fully determined to take rank with the most .progressive ri - . . --j & - jrf - tions of the country, costs even more money. .To have fully met every legitimate demand in this direction, to have spent even more than the situation seemed to have called for and yet to be able truthfully to say in the very first issue that the paper is self sustaining is an evidence of appreciation and a confession of existing need, which require no further verification. . , "'"'". The Journal has just passed its second birthday. It is the first1 to break a monopoly that has lasted quite half a century. Throwing aside the precedents established by long usage and striking out on lines that were novel to this community, whateyer success it has gained has been achieved entirely on its own merits as a newspaper. What has served from the very first to sharply differentiate it from its competitors is the fact that it had no axes of its m-n tn rrrinri that ir wa rnntm en nv nn r itmie or larrinn that- 5t attacked nnlilir ahiisps whprfver and wlionever if- found them, that it recognized no distinction of creed or politics when the public interests were involved, that it published the news and that it provided a public forum, wherein those who differed with it had the chance to air their views on an even basis.' In a new paper the public takes nothing for granted ; it must constantly prove itself not by its professions but by its acts. Before it can hope to achieve influence it must establish character, . But the moment the public is satisfied oTlts sincerity the way is smoothed for it and its influence, grows apace. Measured oy tins test ine journal nas noinmg 01 wnicn to compiain and what is true of its weekday issue is still more strikingly true of its-Sunday issue. which so many of its readers and wideawake advertisers have accepted on faith. Measured by the test of time The Journal is still ' a youngster, but measured by the test of growth it has already reached robust. proportions. ' It. realizes that whatever it has been able to do hds been done through the good will of , the public, without which it could. not exist; It there fore' again, in "its newest and latest venture, reasserts its appreciation ,of the public gobcL.will which has followed it in its whole career and pledges itself to leave nothing undone to win Continued support and appreciation by de serving it . . t IS SUICIDE EVER JUSTIFIABLE? A RECENT NUMBER of a Washington newspaper , l contained the statement that all suicides were either the result of insanity or the acts of cowardly de; generates, and that under no circumstances was suicide justifiable1. , -, So sweeping a condemnation should not go unchallenged. It is both unjust and untrue. There have been many cases of suicide where the act was one of supreme self-sacrifice and proof of the highest courage. The recent suicide of a Japanese woman who killed herself in order, that rier son might be free to fight for her country' is a case in point. The act was worthy the highest commendation, judged by our standards of human conduct. If no man hath greater love than that -he lay down his life for his friend, surely no man, could have a greater love for his country or offer a higher proof of his patriotism than did this woman who offers the life of her son to his country by first giving up her own. ' ' ; r , An aged and greatly respected, but poor woman, com mitted suicide in this town a few years ago. She took the greatest care that none but her nearest friend outside her immediate family, whose sympathy and approval she was sure of, should ever, know how she died. To this friend she wrote: ."My life' is agony to me, the. nights worse than the days and the physical agony is not the worst. To see my girls wearing out their youth and risking their lives by constant contact with the loathsome disease (cancer), 'is becoming more and more unbearable. I cannot afford a private room at the hospital and they will not hear of my going into a public ward, and indeed I feel that it would be more than 1 could endure. . Our little income is steadily being encroached upon by the doctor's visits and neither of the girls will leave me to try and add something to it by outside work. What then is left to me.'dear friend? Shall , I drag on this miserable existence whicn is a misery both to me and to the girls who witness my sufferings, for I cannot always control my eyes as I can my lips, or shall I end it at once, my. pain and their daily risking of their lives? We take every precaution but our means are too small to permit of doing all that could be done to prevent infection." Was this woman cowardly or insane ? Was her act the act of a. moral degenerate? Is there not some justification for the overdose of chloral which ended a few months earlier a hopeless existence? Yet there are churches which would have refused the last rites to her body, and would not allow her to be buried in consecrated ground. We have not progressed, very far sincethesuicide . was "punished'L by having his body buried at midnight at the cross roads with a wooden stake through the heart. Society does no good but much harm by keeping in life by force the mentally or physically diseased. . We nurse back to health the condemned felon in order, to hang him when he is strong enough to stand, which is an absurdity as well as a refinement of cruelty worthy the. barbarous. ...Turk or Tartar. . Hunum life that is not merely worthless but is also terrible to its possessor and a menace to society is carefully preserved. Which is the greater crime against society, the death of a physically or mentally degenerate suicide or the perpetuation of his degeneracy through his children? ' Can there be any question? Yet the law steps in. to prevent the suicide and looks carelessly on whilst the perpetuation is legalized; frowns upon the man.who would remove a curse from existence and complacently or indifferently looks upon his marriage and the continijation of the curse in his children.. If the children are degenerate, imbecile, idiotic deaf, blind, foully diseased, they are much better cared for by society than the mentally and physically strong and healthy .child who is allowed to die through the poverty of his parents or the neglect of society A tithe of the money and care lavished upon the hopeless, useless cretin would make of the bright street arab a useful,' hon orable citizen; yet the same municipality which refuses a warm midday meal to the children of decent, but unfortunate parents, the same,, taxpayers who regard the fitting of healthy, sane children for the battle of life by means of a rational, wholesome education - in the manual training schools and kindergartens as an' extravagance, cheerfully and willingly spend money to support th utterly useless, and to prolong the liyes of the defectives, who if" they progress far enough by means of expensive care and teach ing, will be turned loose upon society1 to perpetuate their kind. - 1 . I , i- I , ; . THE SUNDAY OPENING QUESTION REV. S.!W. GAMBLE, described as secretary, of the National Sabbath Observance association, is re ported as saying that unless it is : decided to close the gates of the Lewis and Clark exposition tightly on Sun day, he will use all his influence, which he intimates is extensive and powerful, to prevent eastern people from com ing to the fair. It is improbable that the directors, of the exposition will be much alarmed at Mr. Gamble's threat. .The views of such people as favor Sunday opening may be briefly summarized as follows : , v 1. Though the gates are opened Sunday,' or perhaps only Sunday afternoons and evenings, it does not follow that any vicious, immoral or reasonably objectionable amusements or features wilf be permitted to operate. On the contrary, it is "agreed on all hands that nothing of this sort shall be allowed. .3. The fair ground is not in any , sense an ' immoral place, or one that may not be properly visited even by those who observe Sunday, but is as proper a place to visit as a city park, a country meadow or a forest glade. True, art as well as nature will be on display there, but both are equally innocent, and one may be reverent and worship in their presence quite as sincerely as in a city church. 3. An open fair will not keep people out of the churches. Even if it were open Sunday forenoon, everybody inclined to go to church would do so. On the other hand, a closed fair would tend to fill the saloons, gambling houses and other places where the influences are bad. It is strange that men who take Mr.' Gamble's stand cannot perceive that they are in effect aligned with , the, proprietors of bad places, and working, without designing to do so, in their interest, rather than in that of the churches." - . -.,' . .. .4. A great many people of this city and vicinity, mostly workingmen and their families, cannot well afford to attend the fair on any other day than Sunday. These people ought to be accommodated- They-help to pay tor the fair. J Does Brother Gamble? 5. Sunday is a day for rest and reasonable, moral recre ation, as well as "for religious observance. "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." 6. Nobody objects, or should object, to Mr. Gamble thinking as he pleases about "the Sabbath," or doing as he chooses on Sunday; neither should he, nor his association, nor any society or combination thereof, or minority of peo pie, assume to dictate to other people how they should regard or spend the weekly, holiday, so .long as the rights, privileges and liberties of the strict Sabbath observers are respected and not unnecessarily interfered with. Under proper restrictions the fair should be opened on Sunday. It will be a good and not an evil place. People will be better, not worse, for visiting it, as. well as for attending church on Sunday. THE LOCAL OPTION LAW. TMIE TOUR.NAL fs'unaualifiedlv and heartilv in favnr of the aooroval and adontion. at the general rWtinn - ,..next June, of the proposed local option 'law. - There - are two good, large reasons why;this law should be passed: First, it rives the neoole. on an imnortant and consrantlv agitated question, the opportunity for local home rule; and . " second, such a law would be conducive to morality, health and prosperity in many communities and therefore in the state as a whole. - - , .. Section 1 of the law provides "that whenever 10 per cent of the registered voters of , any county, precinct or subdivision of a county petition the county court, said court shall order an election to be held at the time mentioned in such petition, to determine whether the sale of intoxi cating, liquors shall be prohibited in such territory." A', subdivision of a countv mean9 anv nrecinct or two or mnr contiguous precincts desiring to join together for this pur- 1 pose. No subdivision less than a . precinct can hold this election, but a subdivision may embrace the whole or a , part of any incorporated city or town. ' , Section 10 provides that if a majority of the people of , any subdivision nave voted tor prohibition, the court, r . j... i' t j j. ' i.; f j.l ' tunM&ung ul uic cuuniy cicjk anu iwo juuces ui uic peace, shall immediately make an 'order absolutely . pro- ' hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the pre scribed limits. It prohibition carries, no subsequent elec- , tion can he had before the first Mnndav in Tune of the ..,.. , TjT r , --- - - . V V'"T.tr -7"--, --..'::..r . - ,:'.;. second calendar year following. . ,, V-. - Section 14 provides that when prohibition has been car ried at an election held for the entire county, no election . on the question of prohibition shall be thereafter held in f'r any subdivision or precinct thereof until after prohibition nas Deen aeieateu at a suusequeni election ior ine same purpose, held for the entire county; nor in, any case where ; prohibition has carried in any subdivision of any county 'shall' an election on this, question of prohibition be held thereafter.in any precinct of such subdivision until prohibi tion has been defeated at a subsequent election held for ' sucu enure Buuuivisiun. ... ' Thus the petition may be for a whole County or for any subdivision,' one or more contiguous precincts, at the option of those desiring prohibition. Under this law doubtless severa counties, perhaps half, of them, would, go "dry." Astoria, Baker City and Pendleton, for instance -the Prohibitionistsnight have to confine their efforts, in order, to succeed, to-outlying or residential precincts, '.The law thus gives the Prohibitionists a very fair, chance and liberal terms. National or state prohibition caifnot be made effective, because too many and too great business interests are bound up with the liquor traffic, - The Prohibition party has worked on its all-or-nothing theory for many years and has gained nor accomplished prac tically nothing. But under this law they can accomplish much, and do it in accordance with the broad democratic principle of local self-governmentr In some- southern states more than half tfie counties are completely "dry" under such a law, t ( If a county or a precinct or two or more contiguous:" precincts acting together, does not desire any . saloon, any liquor selling therein, the people, by a majority vote, ought to have, as under this law they will vhave a right to be free from thi3 evil. If people want to live near saloons and liquor stores let them move into such precincts as retain these institutions, , In a few years we will be able to judge pretty accurately which communities are mere prosperous and contented. . ' '. The advocates of local option will not have so much money to carry on their campaign as the liquor.. men will haye, but money is not always, nor indeed generally, used in elections on the side of right; and The Journal's voice is plain and clear in favor of this law. EDUCATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL ONLY CAN ABOLISH WARS By MARCEL PREVOST A GREAT WAR has broken out JuBt at the time when the lovers of peace were congratulating themselves that all International differences were soon to be settled by arbitration, ; ' Of course the militarists are jubilant and are trying to ridicule the lovers of the olive . branch. And still this Is Very unjust to these .modern Abbe Saint Pierres. They have not :. isald: "The war in the future will be impos sible," but simply "let us make war in the future as difficult as possible," and they ,have really succeeded In putting obstacles In ' the way of war at least in Europe. . These obstacles are treaties and agree ments between nations. Certain gentlemen of a certain age and of a certain education have- signed international papers, whereby they pledge themselves not to use melinite and powder as the first arguments. -The militarists laugh at this and doubt the sincerity of the men who have signed these agreements. ' The militarists laugh at this and doubt ; the sincerity of the men who have signed ' tbee agreements. In this they are wrong. ; I am Inclined to believe that the diplomats and governments of today have more and more learned to fear war. " War has ceased to be considered a ; game .of checkers played for the benefit or' pleasure of a few, It has more and more be come restricted to cases when a whole na tion, a people want It. The war of today Is the direct work of the Japanese people. .The Japanese, head strong and conceited by nature, are thirsting for new empires, thirsting to become a world, power and they have .worked with this .:: purpose In view for the last 40 years. ; And this is not the only reason, Japan is overpopulated and during the last 10 years' the price of rice has nearly doubled. The Japanese want a place to settle down and they want sufficient food, and 'denied this within the narrow limits of their island em pire, their natural ferocity, which still slumbers within the heart of every human being under the thin cover of civilization, comes to the surface. And as the veneer of civilization ,1s thin ner in Japan than It Is here, they have been driven to use the arguments of brute force more quickly than we would do under sirnUar circumstances. Their example illustrates the truth which I am sure all well-wishers of universal peace have recognized long ago: : "If one wants to put an end to war, it is not enough to try to influence the governments, but the Individ uals of which the nations consist must also be reached. :. If the individual reaches the sincere cone viction that it is just- and' right to respect the welfare, property and lives of others. If everything goes well If the price of rice or grain does not go up too high, then there is no reason for fear, but If the individual Is In the habit of thinking that he has a right to try to annihilate all who place obstruc tions in his path, or who disagree with him, treaties and signed agreements between governments are of no yalue, Unhappily, there are still plenty of proofs to show that even among old civilized na -ttons itheoiW ferocity of the savage still re mains, and that there are even those who glorify the fact that it has, not become en tirely extinct. . Ferocity has not yet disappeared from the character of the Individual. There are many people who cause their neighbors to suffer, not only to save themselves from suf fering, but simply because they take pleasure In doing so. The newspapers are full of tales of chil dren who have been tortured by cruel parents. These parents may be perfectly re- ' spectable otherwise, the mother may be a hard working washwoman and the father an honest mechanic. They may pet and pam per their other children, but have selected one child for suffering, taking delight In pulling its hair out, .In scorching its back with a red hot poker or in starving It, Who does not know the man posing as a philanthropist to whom the care of an orphan child has been confided, and who lets the poor starving child look at him while. he gorges . himself with food, who makes the child walk around half naked exposed to the Icy blasts of winter under, the pretext of wanting to harden .lt. 'f might go on and cite Innumerable cases of the most defined . cruelty committed by educated and enlightened people, but I con sider this unnecessary, as everybody who happens to' read these lines .will know of cases which have come to his knowledge, f The old ferocity Is only dormant in all of us, and those who are always praising the brute force, the bloody deeds committed In the disguise of patroitlsm, are largely re sponsible for this. A whole literature has grown up around this subject and is gaining territory as the taste for classical literature disappears, and one can only feel sincerely sad for this. 1 It la true that classic writers praised deeds of valor and courage, but they did not openly show admiratl6n fof 'the brute force. Rudyard Kipling has written a book with the Intention of arousing In college men a bloody Intoxication. In placing before them as ideals three heroes of different kinds of hunting. Including man hunting. - How far superior to Kipling Is Plutarch, who says that one should only admire force when It Is master of .Itself, when It Is con trolled by reason and amenable to pity, , As long as the savage in us Is only dor mant, as. long as we consider the application of force permissible and justifiable, the ef forts of the lovers of peace In causing sov ereigns of countries to visit one another or to call congresses of peacethe day when something happens to deprive a people of its usual .ration of wheat or rice, that people will Immediately want war and have It. The way to pave the way for universal peace is through the education and building up of characters of the Individuals, and the governments will be . only too . willing to abolish war, , Under present conditions, when the old ferocity of the savage is slumbering in the :- heart of all its subjects, no government has yet dared to say: ,rWe will submit all our quarrels "with any other government ? to a court of arbitration." : But even now; most governments have acknowledged, their wil lingness to submit certain questions to arbi tration. What prevents them from going further Is that they are not sure of the co operation of their subjects. The nations, who do not sign agreements to submit to ar bitration, wilt break the agreement made by their governments the moment their animal . passions are aroused. We have, therefore, arrived at a point where the sheperd? are only too willing to come to an understanding, if it were not that t their herds at times become enraged and un- 'controllable. ' What Is Wanted, Is a serum which will make the sheep Immune from these attacks. - , How Trusts Create Sweatshops By Philip Davis. Philip Davis Is the organizer of the International Ladles' Oarmant Work ers. He Is a graduate of Harvard Unl vrnlty, having supported himself while Ktudylng by money earned in the cloth ing . factory.' After graduation he re turned to his trade, and stm continues to be a factory worker and actlvs trade unionist. - Th evil effect of the trusts on the garment induutries. especially in their support of the sweating system, may he best shown by an Analysis of Jutt what takes plare every Season. Imagine yourself a clowk manufac turer. As the cloak peavon approaches you eend out your- drummer-Mhe modem tscout to' find out the Condition of the ftwki-t -and the wants of ihe people. Wherever he goes he fmda thiit the prtrea Ttf the nerexsitien of life, feuch as lends, rent and coal, are SO" high that tliey. nhHOrb nearly nil the wanes, leav ing little tut so iudiftpriisabte a comfort a warm Jarkt-t lot the winter. ! O'uJ is sold at. a prohibitory . prie Versuse nf the coal trust, meat heaiiK of the biff trunt, tuxar benause of the nijtir trust, keififteua hecause of the oil lrit. fit;., etc. Trelty snort ti'ieRrams bcxln pouring into-your 'office tn the fftVct that the wsion Is "dull" and tiie money "tight;" I hut if )ou are to have Iradu you must j.nl tip an V-ntieli.Kly hii Biirment at an Ioii))y lfiw.prl'.'. - , , ; -, V"u Vke privll anil' papor and beffin Acurlnsr.' What with Mtuut hiivlnv. rr1u ' 4 .... .1... .i.... m. ... ....,.. A ... tnp tun rwni mi tiM'ur tt ((iijwmuHl, emu hslvtixf; iur profits, you eonciuda to bring out a "lva,dur'' on the market,, at l we will say.- You rush your sample out, and send it post haste to the drum mer. Before the day is over tne newspapers announce, in glaring headlines, "A fran tic Jump" in the price1 of cotton and wool. And presently' a telegram from the trust commissioner Informs you that your goods have gone up 13 per cent. To argue with the commissioners, rep resenting "a body without souiv trust is like arguing with a Chicago side walk through which you fell. -; In despair you announce a cut in wages of JO twr cent. But your men are already working for starvation wages. They cannot accept the cut, and go on a strike. k Time passes.' ITou fear losing hold of your e(K ion's trade. You hasten to com promise on a cut of 5 per cent, and tele graph your drummer, that your ''leader" must he Mold at 115 Instead of 118. ' But your drummer is Having hls.own troubles. He telegraphs' you that 'th '"leader" may go for til. GO, but will not go tut $13. Your telegrams very likely cross,. Hut you accept, your drummer's ultimatum. . Pci;k'!1 and paper again; there are three elements in evfti-y garment outMde of your o-nn i cnplial rent, raw material and labor.,' Your rent you cutinot pos sibly reduce one lota, ...because of the j lentiess lavfd monopoly. The price' on your law material you, cannot possibly touch, because of the cotton and woof trust, ' - The gas bill is outrageous, but you are 'at the mercy-of thrf gas trust. The freight charges pre riilnous, but there is the "rn,jlriml combine," In 'a i word, whetlior - U be the ground you stand on, the cloth you handle, the machines you sew with, the electricity to run the machines, etc., there is a trust that controls all these things whose prices you must pay or get out of business. .' The only remaining; element over which you have some control is the la bor cost. . You now ally yourself with the con tractor or sweater, who alone can, for some mysterious reason, bargain for the garment at even less than starvation prices. In his system rent Is dodged, freight foregone. .The sweater is the only man who can steal a move on tne trust. , . i In his system, the wage earning unit Is not the father, but the entire family, children included. The little ones run errands, pull bastings and do other odd jobs. The elder ones do the operating and sewing. The mother does the fin ishing. The father presses and delivers. Bven though conditions have changed end. the manufacturer who has once plunged into It gradually returns to the factory: system, he still keeps the sweater a a whip over the people in his factories. ,- ,. Society may, therefore, Inaugurate many remedial measures to counteract the destructive forces or tne. sweating system and child : labor. ' But' It can never hope to free itself from this and similar evils until the mother source of all evil, the trust, is abolished, WILL TBS WAX BPBEADf From the Chicago Tribune. " Will the Russo-Japanese war spread t If conclusions ran safely be drawn from the wars of the last half century It probably will not, . The Crimean war did not spread after it staeted; neither k-dld tho Franeo-Auetrian war of 1868-59; nor our civil war; nor the Austro-Prus-.slan war of 1866; jior the 'ranco:Prus- slas war of 1870-71; nor the Turko-Bus-sian war of 1877-78; nor the Chinese Japanese war of 1894-95; nor the Greek Turkish war of 1898; nor the .Spanish American war of 1898. At the outbreak and during the con tinuatlon of many of these wars great fears were entertained that the conflict would spread and involve neutral pow ers. These fears, especially at the time of the Franco-Prussian , and , Turkish Kusslan wars, were far greater than any now felt with regard to the Russo-Japanese struggle, The history of recent wars Indicate that other nations, view ing the horrors and expenses of war, are disinclined to plunge in for whatever reasons, but prefer to safeguard their interests .by taking a hand in the peace treaty. Although reasoning from an analogy Is an imperfect method of arriving at the truth, unless thousands of cases may be examined.- yet it- is. an encouraging thought that none of th wars betweon the powers during the last 60 years has spread beyond its original limits. , WOMEV TO KELP UVXOJTS. From the --Lincoln, Neb., gtar. t. Five hundred women of Lincoln soon will besiege the dry goods store and the butcher shop for goods with the union labcL ' , "Our husbands need our help," said one, "Their Interests are ours. Their efforts are to exalt the product of union men, Wi ere in ,a position to demand union goods wherever we trade. When we buy dress material, we should see that it is manufactured by union men. When we buy brooms, let them bear the label. When we buy meat let us give the preference to union cutters, or at least to those shops whose managers sympathize with union principles: Our husbands want the work of union men recognised, s We can perform an im portant duty in the city by insisting on the label and in' urging other women to do likewise." - AH women are eligible to membership who are In any direct way related to union men. Wives, mothers, sisters and daughters who are not . too young to understand the obligations of member ship, may . be admitted. The fee is small and dues amount to little. Every member of six months standing is en titled to a funeral benefit of 850. To collect this a B-oent assessment is. made. The international membership Is large and growing.. . , , Christianity la Japan. From the Boston Transcript. Japan has not adopted our civilization because it was Christian, Jaut because she saw it was the - ust and most ad vanced. But that civilisation ' carries with it the forces that produced it. It acts- and reacts not only upon the ma terial affairs but upon moral and spirit ual sensibilities.. Among other things, It has produced a larger measure of re ligious freedom than is granted In Rus sia, and only under conditions of free dom can Christianity become a domin ating, progressive influence. We believe that the most hopeful gateway in the far east for the entrance of Christianity into Asia is Japan, There Is an open mlndodness about these little brown, men that promlsns'hospltallty to the mission aries of a faith that they cannot' but see has in a thousand ways made thenji Its beneficiaries. . . , Dinkelspiel Eppy Grams . The Happy Candidate. ' ' From the Atlanta Journal. ' This. Is the season of the year when the shrewd candidate takes some kind of a .spring tonio and gets cured of something. ,Thon. he gets, his picture In the paper for nothing, gets called a statesman and gets enough cash to pay for his announcement card. . i By George V. Hobart (Copyright, 1904, by W. ft. tleant.) Many a true vord vas spoken in dia lect. : Dare vas much liberty in dls country, but dare vas also a cubble of bald spots vare it Is missing. ' , " . Efery man has a 'neck und sooner pr later he gets it dare. t - ' '-'. j'. , A horseless dog-cart in der hands of a stopless chuffer is a chokeless choke. ,;::.,,;:;,i.. , , ;,r,,r,!: M Der vise gonzabo is dor vun dot gets cold f sets before der game, begins. ' .',... '.':; 'i.jKj,,;!:.:;'!.'- a ',;. -'t..t) .y-J?i.'-; , Der man dot rises mlt der lark und stays . dare should go in der'. airship pltsness, r . i ', ., . , A .!,', . It vas a poor automobubble dot doan't vork both vays, . . Eferydtng comes to him dot valts if he knows yust vare to vait for it, s . , Der man dot goes through der vorld handing ould a short laugh here und a slight snicker dare vas alvays makes dls life less like a long trip to der ceme tery. ) ,,' ( , ' '' ' Anyvay it vas pleasant to realisation dot ve can go to sleep at night mlt der satisfaction of knowing dot In abould five hundred' years ve vlU not'hsf to va.it for a' street car because der flying machine vlll be dare ven ve vlsule for It, '',,-.;;: '' '', ,1.1"' -. '.''vv- Der Chapaneso haf a proverb vlch says it dot a var in der hand is vorth two in 4er bush, . , , .... '' At best a hero only lives in der minds of der people, und der people change deir minds efery day, - i , ' Ven a man has much money he vlll get more, und ven a man has none he vlll get less py vorrylng how dor udder fellow got der tnopt. . , . ;.. As der hen opserved to der rooster, "Ven a egg is goot it is fery, fery goot, but ven it is bad it vas hopeless! t 1 D, DIXKELSPIEli ' ( per George V, Hobart. ' . A Great Americas Hero, From the Atlanta Journal. The Moros made the mlstaks of sup posing that a surveying party was a hostile army and sent off a few fire works. General Wood, according to his own cabled report, slaughtered 2,885. Wood seems anxious to shine as a Span-j lah Weyler rather than as an Ameri can soldier, ; - . i , Joined to Its Idols. . From the St. Paul Diipatch. . St Louis' Democrats continue to pre fer the wallow 'to cleanliness.. Ha wes, representing the iboodlers, carries the primaries and the delegation from that county to the state convention which is to nominate a candidate for governor. The city repudiates Folk,,- who would cleanse it .of corruption. A MitohclUto's Query, . . - From the Portland New Age, : When did Mr. : Simon ever do any thing for anybody, unless it somehow turned' water on his wheel T -