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PORTLAND, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1904
THE OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL,
, , AN 1NDBPENDSNT NEWSPAPER . V
C ft, JACKSON
Published every evening , (except Sunday) at The Journal Building, fifth and Yamhill streets, Portland. Oregon.
OFFICIAL, PAPER OF THB CITV OP PORTLAND
; " ' PARIS ISN'T PORTLAND. '. '". ' '
EARIS seems to be the nearest Hof all cttlea to the
municipal reformer's heaven as far aa relates to
the police force anyway. According to the Lon
don Bally Telegraph there Is at least one policeman who
Is . thoroughly qualified by education and character to
make the model policeman for the world. ...
Constable Roult of the fifteenth ward of Paris and of
the special bicycle brigade Is the model man. As one of
the Instruments of the law he determined to know all
ab&ut the working" of the machinery of the laws he has
to assist In upholding. He has matriculated as a student
for the study of the law and has pursued his legal studies
with great diligence. Together with a colleague, M. PhelN
pot, another light In police circles, he has published - a
technical guide for the use of the police force, entitled
"Police Handbook for Agents of the Municipal Police,?,
and Is now engaged upon a code of laws for family use,
which will be a translation from the legal tongue Into
ordinary dally life, and aimed to teach the public what
they must not do In order, to avoid falling Into the hands
of the police. .. ; .' , "
What a wonderful place Paris must be. The Portland
citizen even more than all other good Americans may look
with longing eyes toward such a paradise. We thought
the tenderest touch of paternal kindness had been reached
by our chief of police In turning loose such prisoners as
especially appealed to his " heart, softened- and made so
humane by the near approach of election day; but to go
to the trouble of teaching the people how not to getjnto
his clutches Is beyond even his generous nature. Perhaps
the poor" policemen of Paris have to depend solely jipon
their salaries for a living and are thus encouraged to enter
the literary field in order to add to their otherwise meagre
means f support" Evidently they are restrained by fool
ish laws which are enforced with severity unknown to the
liberty loving policemen of Portland, from extracting as
much coin as they possibly can from the gambling and
other Industries of the red light districts. ;
While discussing this subject, we would like to inquire
If the season for turning loose prisoners without the for
malltlesjjof the police court and the addition of unneces
sary expense for bed. and board to the city, Is now over?
BEFORE GETTING RICH AND AFTER.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Buffalo News asks the
Av: question, ; "Why Is It tHat women who were ex-
emplary wives, faithful, hardworking, self-sacrificing,
when their husbands were laboring men, make the
very worst of the Idle, vicious crowd of women assembled
at watering places, hotels, 'etc., when their husbands be
come enabled to support them In luxury?" The News Is
unable to answer ' this question, and yet It seems plain
enough. ' ,. 1 t . - ;
There is a continual exchange of confidences, a close
rnmnanionahln. strona mutual interests between the hus
band and Wife when both are laboring for one end, to
make the best of a small Income, and give their children
all. the advantages possible to compass with it. The man
; ls wage earner and the woman the wage holder and dis
penser. Nearly every mechanic, who
steady man, hands over his wages to his wife when he is
paid oft. She adds to it, If possible, by her own labor,
taking In a bit of sewing, or doing work for a Yew hours a
day for some one a little better off than
'time for it. If not her days are full of housework and her
rights of planning how tcj make both ends meet. . If there
be anyone so foolish as to thlnktbe life of a busy woman
under these conditions Is a hard or unpleasant1 one, unless
caused by 111 health, or some other abnormal condition,
he Is sadly mistaken. The happiest,
ence Is the one in which body and
ployed as constantly as health and strength will permit
xne wiie oi a laoorer is compeuea
Ms financial and his working partner,
Important part In the committee of
means. Her interest In life is strong
busy, stirring part In the drama, '
. But let the husband of one of these" women rise grad
ually or suddenly into large means or wide ' business In
terests and he Immediately, in nearly all cases, makes of
his wife, with her full approval, a doll upon which to hang
fine clothes; she becomes, nine times out of ten, spoiled by
coddling and luxury. She drifts away from, her husband,
because her interests are no longer his. She does the so
ciety and he the business for the household. She 'will
probably take more kindly to the better advantages In her
reach for culture , and ,.. enllgh tenement intellectually,
.whilst he takes no interests in such matters, unless they
have a direct bearing upon his business. It Is not long
before each begins to have a feeling of antagonism for
the other, or at least of indifference, and the steps down
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
lorn Queries.
Portland, Or., March 22. -To the Edi
tor of The Journal In yesterday's Ore
gonlan we have an editorial criticising
and generally finding fault with the In
competent office-holders of the city of
Portland. What a fine thing it would
have been to have called the attention
Hot only to the Women's club and civic
improvement societies, but the attention
of all good citizen with a vote to cast
st the , primaries to the necessity of
electing delegates to the convention who
would be pledged to vote for some hon
est, moral men, with good, practical
business . sense, to - manage the city's
Affairs, in place of these "shiftless, cor
rupt, slackrule" officials now In office.
We had supposed .the Oregonlan waa
satisfied with the city's affairs as at
present managed. It gives one a shock
to think that Grandma In her tall, ele
gant tower, should have seen all this
Incompetency, not to say hldeousnessv
and allowed it to go on without protest.
Can it be she is getting cowardly In her
old age and spoiling the honorable rec
ord made in years gone by? Or U
somebody taking advantage of the ab
sence of the venerable editor and pro
prietor to sit on the fence writing
schoolboy political articles, instead of
lining up and leading the Way for all
good citizens to follow. It is rather
late now to call for remedies. What
say you? A CLUB WOMAN.
jy'T':'-': Barnard Case.'"
Frlnevllle, Or., March 21. To the Edi
tor of The Journal In your issue of
March 1 is sn account of the rescue of
one Louise Barnard, and in the Issue of
the 20th we find that she had been sent
to the insane asylum. In both articles
she Is reported to be If years old and
very recently from Piinevllie.
The facts are. she is about 22 years
old,: and was sent to the" "Crlttsndon
Home" in September, 1902. ; In the
spring or early , summer of 4 that year
h. alone and unattended, as far as
evidence was adduced, gave birth , to a
child, the corpse of which was found
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
ward for a woman
of masculine companionship and love are not far to seek.
It is small wonder that there are "more unfaithful wives
among the newly rich than any other class of people."
Money unless wisely used brings far more pain than pleas
ure and many a man who expected to be happier when he
became independently rich finds happiness fled forever
when he attains his ambition.
r I SHE CRITICISM made by Mr. Pipes and others upon
I the action of the late Republican county conven
tlon In Instructing the 71 delegates to the congres
sional convention to
a just one. The county convention of course had the right
to do this, and such
ent clreumstances
unwise. " :
In . the first place,
for representative should be an eastern Oregon man; this
being the case eastern Oregon delegates, rather than those
from Portland, should select him, or at least should have a
freer and better chance to decide between two or more
aspirants than they will have after the Mitchell machine
lnHfeis county has Instructed Its delegates. Wlthout. hav-
ing been thus, overborne, it Is quite probable that the ma
jority of eastern Oregon delegates would have preferred
Moody to Williamson.
In the second place,
son Is the best man, by many, that could be nominated for
that position. True, he now has one term's experience,
which is of some advantage; but Moody has two terms'
experience, and that he did remarkably good work for
Oregon is admitted by all who are familiar with the facts.
He should have been returned two years ago, for while he
has been aligned in popular estimation with the Simon fac
tion, now reduced to
circumstances into that attitude, and was never in fact
a radical or offensive factlonlst, and there was no reason
able excuse for the Matthews machine to throw him out
two years ago. The interests of the district, of the state,
demanded his retention but of course the Matthews ma
chine cared nothing about that
Mr. Williamson may grow in influence and usefulness,
but most people will agree that he Is not the kind of a
man who is likely
there term after
might be mentioned.
have been left free to consider the situation, study the
merits of all aspirants, and act on their own judgment
when the time' came, dividing their votes If they so chose.
As it is, the district will not have a candidate for repre
sentative nominated by the delegates' at all,, but one, prac
tically, nominated In a back room, in Portland by a fac
tional machine, run principally, it Is supposed, by "Jack"
Matthews. ......
HE PUBLIC
is considered a
man of warm blood,
T
working emotions,' and he should not ' be too severely
ridiculed . for ills spectacular performances. It must be
remembered that
that may appear
herself. If she has
aspect of a tragedy. The rule here has been to keep a
sheriff m office two or three terms, and if Sheriff Storey
was not to be given a second nomination, there should
have been good reasons therefor, and in any event the
machine should not have taken . his good hard-earned
money. Having taken It, and then refused to give him
healthiest exist
mind are both em
value received, the
' But the turning out by the Justly indignant sheriff of a
score or so of deputies who will not help him to work for
oy necessity to oe
as well as to take an
two upon ways and
revenge would be altogether comical If It did not suggest
the serious question: What are deputies and clerks in
because she takes a
the sheriffs office, and in other offices, employed for?
What is the purpose in an official's, or in some officials',
view of the subjeot, of their employment? Manifestly not
so much to do the work of the people who pay them as
the political work of their superior official. Men are hired
'
or discharged not
nor because they can
but according as they
politics.
this regard; only,
the life behind the
would.1 The sheriff
He Is an Interested
he is the star performer. - ,
burled in a deserted vault She was
arrested and held for a long time in care
of a private family. The authorities
considered her mentally irresponsible,
hence they sent her to the "home,"
The query is, where has she been from
September, 1902, until she was found in
the Occidental hotel?
That she was and is weak-minded
there is no doubt H.
A Dairy Has Kits Book.
Portland, Or., March 21. To the Ed
itor of The Journal I will says that it
would be very satisfactory to every
beer drinker of this state that what is
said of the milk and analyser should be
done of the beer also.
I know a good many brewery mil
lionaires, but have heard of ho dairy
millionaires.
O. K. BOBBER. .
8X0 OZ.OBXA TBAKBXT MtrWDL
8. E. Klser, In Chicago Record-Herald.
Oh. where is mighty Kitchener,
The man of grit and gore?
And Ellen Stone, ah, what of her?
.We hear her name no more. .
And, what's Coin Harvey doing now,
And Bookless Jerry, sayT
Where's Captain Lemly,, anyhow?
Has Funs ton passed away?
Where's Baden-Powell, now, and who
Is watching Simon BamT
Oh, what's become of Paty.du '
Whose other name was Clam?
Oh, fame's a fleeting thing, alas!
The heroes come and go, '
So many things are brought to pass
Within a year or so. f
Who, when the snowflskes fly next fall.
May name one Russian chap.
Or still be able to recall ,
The name of any Jap? J
Water Colors? "
- -From the Washington Star," :
J.- Plerpont Morgan's interest in art
and Mr. Carnegie's liking for libraries
might tempt them to collaborate. Mr.
Carnegie could provide the books and
Mr. Morgan the illustration
JNO. P. CARROLL
accustomed to and craving the stimulus
A MACHINE NOMINATION
vete as a unit for Mr. Williamson is
action is hot unusual; yet under pres
In this district such instruction was
'.
It is conceded that the nominee
'
nobody supposes that Mr. William
small proportions, he was forced by
to be of as much service, even if kept
term, aa any one of several men that
At any rate, the delegates should
OUR TRAGI-COMICAL SHERIFF.
Is fain to sympathize to some extent
,.wltb Sheriff Storey Iri the dlre disaster, as it
, seems to him, that has overtaken him. He is a
and a good deal of it, and of easily
his turning down by the convention,
as a comedy to others,, to him has the
bosses ought in equity to return it
because they are needed or not needed,
or cannot do the public's work well,
work for or against their superior in
This is the open confession made by the sheriffs wrath
ful antics, but It need not be supposed that he Is singular In
being emotional, he discloses more of
scenes of officialdom than most men
has the stage, however, and the nub
spectator of the tragl-comedy in which
nssnro settxxxehts is bxbebia
lom Report of Commercial Agent
ureener, Vladivostok.
The government haa mail a
trials tO Indue flahartnan frnm
pean Russia to settle on the rivers and
aiong me sea coast or the UsbutI, dls-
wivi, uui bu iar no success nas been
- t v ' , laud
men came from European Russia to ac
quaint tnemseives with the fishing pos
sibilities here. A special government
.vu w v utcu uiayunui
m order to visit the several locations.
j ne trips along the coast lasted 25 days.
Many places, in their opinion, offered
fine fishing grounds. In the Bay of
Vladimir thv monnnd n nkt.l.
- ' wi4wm a. v
one nam z,tz pounds of fish, among
mem on aaimon. tsiiii, on returning
home to Russia, they could not induce
ineir comraaes to emigrate to the Us
auri district, nntwtthatanina- ,h.
fer of the government of $500 to each
j . - . a . uujctuun
10 do mat ,uie government wants
the setlers to live separately and not
form themselves into village commu
nities. That the fishing grounds are
juuu tney uo noi deny.
TO CXIiEBBATB JTJXY 4 ZB BXBEBXA,
, Promth New Tork Tribune.
( A psrty of wealthy New york men
yesterday received from the Russian
aovernment at fit Pnternhnr
slon to land at East Cape, Bering sea,
on j my , ne 10 ceieorate trie national
nouaay. Fireworks and "crackers" are
to be 4aken along for the purpose. They
will make a tour of America, including
46 days in Alaska. Leaving St. Louis,
after a few days at the exposition, they
will cross the continent by special train,
visit a number of the interesting points
of California, Oregon ana' Washington,
snd then "tart on a special steamer for
the Klondike, sailing from Seattle At
old Fort Yukon, within the Arctic circle,
they will arrive on June 11, the period
of the summer solstice and affording the
best possible view of the midnight sun.
After a visit to Nome' the ship will make
Cape Prince of Wales and go far enough
into the -Arctic ocean' to see the great
ioe pack. The party will then cross to
ast Cape, Siberia,
Oregon Sidelights
Caleb is dead Caleb postofflce. -
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The mysterious disappearance of J.
C. Conn, a Silver Lake .merchant. Is
yet unexplained. -: t,
. Grants Pass housekeepers . are an
noyed by tramps who steal milk, free
beer being scarce Up there.
A female tramp arrived per brake
beam, along with male hoboes, in Ash
land recently. She must be a tough 'un.
Once in a great while an official does
resign; it is reported that Dr. W. W.
Oglesby,, health officer-at Gardner, will
soon do so, .: .
Thu RmmMa Sentinel sava there is not
so much illegal fishing as last year, but
that half a dozen nets are catching fish
below Unlontown.
Tha nrlca of Knatern Oreeon cattle
IS a little hlaher. but the discrepancy
between the cost of beef on foot and beef
in the pot Js yet very wide.
Coquille Cltyt Herald: D. H. Johnson
and A. A. Leach went to Coos Bay
Wednesday. We advise the people over
that way to look out for their aogs ana
cats; Dud is a sausage-maker, and
Fat" scrapes the catgut
Foot's Creek Cor. Oold Hill News:
Rain! Rain! Rain! Don't It drop easy?
Just lets loose and falls; in any quan
tity you want. Let it come; Just what
we want: it brings the yellow metal to
the surface and that is what We are
after. So let us whoop 'er up, I say.
Soring is peeping in on Southern Ore
gon, at least, according to this from the
Rogue River Courier: All the earlier
varieties of spring wild flowers are now
blooming in abundance. The almond
trees are almost in bloom and the peach
buds are developing rapidly. The ground
dries rapidly on the least bit of oppor
tunity and "all signs Bhow that spring
has been waiting winter s exit with con
siderable Impatience.
Oold Hill News: The political fellers
are dropping around on 'professional
business" these days. Come right in,
boys. Why. yes,1 sure, if we see you
coming,: we'll run and open the door.
Who'll be the first man to put his card
in The News? We're open to all, seven
days in the week. Show your colors,
anj let the editor live.
m , ; .
PBESXSEBT AT.AKM"fiP.
Bew Tort Bepuhlloaa Politicians Have
Knives Out for One Another.
From the New York Herald, March 15.
Not since the famous fight between the
stalwarts" and the "half breeds" fol
lowing the inauguration of James A.
Garfield as president or the united
States, on March 4, 1881. wltn Senators
Conkling and Piatt on the one side and
the supporters in New . York state of
President Garfield and James O. Blaine,
on the other, has the Republican situa
tion in New York state been so mud
dled as it Is today.
Senator Piatt himself Indicated clearly
last night that he was not decided as to
what should be done to straighten things
oyt and bring about a united front to be
presented tor the campaign this - fall.
Col. George W. Dunn, who hurried to the
city yesterday rrora his nome in mng-
bampton to see - the veteran leader of
the party was equally reticent.
Colonel Dunn paused at state head
quarters only long enough to lay aside
his overcoat and storm overshoes, and
then hastened to Senator Piatt's rooms.
on the floor above, . Lieutenant Governor
Hlggtns and others of Senator Piatt's
friends were waiting, and these men took
up the situation and discussed it for
more than an hour. No definite con
elusion as to what was to be done was
reached, however, and after dinner
Colonel Dunn had another long talk
with Senator Piatt He will see him
again before Senator Piatt leaves the
city for Washington this afternoon.
Both Senator Piatt and Colonel Dunn
are aroused, not so much over the at
tack of Governor Odell on them and
their friends as the sudden development
of a bitter animosity for President
Roosevelt No attempt is made to con
ceal that the governor is angry over
the fact that the president allowed a re
port on the postofflce scandals, ln which
his name was mentioned, to become pub
lic. In fact their chief concern seemed
to be in finding some method In placet
Ing the governor and keeping him from
allowing his anger toward the president
to carry him to a point where all hope
of carrying the state for the Republican
ticket this fall would be lost. .
Senator Piatt contrary to his usual
custom, spent the entire afternoon, and
evening yesterday in receiving his old
friends and former lieutenants and In
giving them advice as to the best course
to pursue In case "certain developments
followed during the next few days."
He told them his only concern was to
carry the state for President Roosevelt
this fall, and that he was willing to con'
cede everything as far jls the questions
of leadership and appointments were
concerned, in order to keep the state In
the Republican column.
He pointed out further that he had al
ready conceded everything to Governor
Odell and had practically surrendered
the reins of leadership to him in order
to sppease htm, but now that he had
turned on the president and had declared
war openly, it was time that his friends
stood together and prevented him from
endangering Republican success further.
What Senator Piatt learned during his
visit will be taken to the president to
morrow. He came to no conclusion him
self and will not decide until be has
laid the entire situation before Presi
dent Roosevelt ''-'-
"Don't write anything positive. Be
sure you have things definite, so that
there will be a clear avenue of escape in
either direction,'? was the way a close
friend of Senator Piatt put It last night
"Everybody is groping about in the
densest fog which has struck the state
organization in years, and there is no
telling .when or where a safe landing
will be discovered."
Many of Senator Piatt's callers en
tered the Fifth Avenue hotel by the
side door and went direotl to his quar
ters, in ordor to escape notice. Lieutenant-Governor
Hlggtns himself took
pains to conceal tne xaci mat ne was
With the former leader. George R. Shel
don had a long talk with Senator Piatt
yesterday afternoon. Postmaster Van
Cott, whom Governor Odell has marked
for removal as a member .of tha state
committee at the state convention in
April, was another callert .
Governor Odell had a talk with Sena
tor Piatt 'over the long-distance : tele
phone twice during the day. He made it
clear that be thought President Boose
velt had gone out of his way to attack
him , and that he had no Idea of having
anything further to do with him for the
present at least, no matter hat the out
come might be. ' -
As for the talk of Colonel Dunn ac
cepting an appointment as secretary of
Arizona, and thus removing him from
the situation, Colonel Dunn said after his
conference with Senator Piatt "Nothing
doing on that office lor me, boys,"
THE BIG PENSION GRAFT.
From the Baltimore News.
The ruling just issued by the commis
sioner of pensions, with the approval of
the secretary of the interior, not only
Involves the prospective annual expendi
ture of a vast sum of money on pensions
by a mere executive order, bat" Is
avowedly based on reasoning of the most
amaslng character, and of a vcharacter
entirely inconsistent with fundamental
ideas of administrative subordination to
the law-making power. The order di
rects that beglnnlg April IS, next, If there
is no contrary evidence ana ui oiner
legal requirements have ' been . met,
claimants for pension under the gen
eral act of June 27, 1890, who are over
62 years old shall be considered as dis
abled one half in ability to perform
manual labor and shall be entitled to
$6 a month; over 65 years, to $8; over
68 years, to $10, and over 70 to f 12, the
usual allowances at higher rates con
tinuing for disabilities other than age.
In other words,, practically this order
makes arrival at the age of 6 years
sufficient to Itself to give an ex-soldler
the right to' a pension, and. if carried
out makes, unnecessary the - proposed
congressional legislation to that effect,
against which very emphatlo protest
had been raised in a large and ex
tremely important portion of the press
of the country. To cut the Oordlan
knot in this way Is of Itself a suf
ficiently startling performance, but the
Justification assigned . for taking this
action is still more astonishing,
The preamble preceding the other
states that the pension bureau has es
tablished with reasonable certainty the
average nature and. extent of the in
firmity of old age, and that 89 years
after the. Mexican war congress, in 1887,
placed on the pension roll all Mexican
war soldiers who were 'over 62 years
old. Commissioner Ware amplifies this
statement of the preamble In an inter
view in which he says:
The act of congress which was
passed in the latter part of January,
1887, and approved by President Cleve
land, put all the 'Mexican war veterans
who had reached the age of 62 years on
the pension roll 89 years exactly after
the end of the Mexican war. The Mexi
can war ended officially by the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on February 2,
1818, although hostilities had ceased
before that time by the capture of the
City of Mexico. It would seem that if
89 years after the expiration of service
a Mexican war soldier was entitled to a
pension at 62 years, and no other
requisite for drawing a pension should
exist except age, that to soldiers of the
Civil war, who fought vastly more and
longer, at least aa good a rule ought to
apply."
If a more amaslng confusion of Ideas
A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE.
(By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.)
The following communication has all
the ear-marks of perfect sincerity, and
on that account if for no other, It would
seem to call for such answer as we
may be able to give:
I am a young woman, . 22 years old,
in perfect health, fairly Intelligent and
witn a nigh school education. I have
always lived a good life and am happy
But this is merely Introductory to the
main faot that I wish to speak of my
marriage. I am to be married in about
two months, and, naturally. I am do
ing a great deal of thinking about it
wondering whether It is going to prove
to be a happy marriage or one full of
trouble.
It will be perfectly proper for me to
ask you a question, which I hope you
will answer as frankly and truly as you
know how. The question Is this. What
are the essentials of a happy married
life? Some married people, you know.
have homes that are anything but
lovely; while others get along beauti
fully. What makes the unhappy homes?
and what makes the happy ones?
Tou will do me a great favor by an
swering my question through' the col
umns of the "American," the paper
that so many look to for advice.
Speaking broadly, it may be said that
the chief essentials of a happy married
life are true love and sound sense.
The chances are that the husband and
wife who really love each- other and
have good ' judgment will get along to-
getner rainy wen.
If they have good sense they will un.
dersfand the folly of looking for abso
lute perfection in each other, and if
they have the love they will be very pa
tient with the little faults which they
know are bound to exist even in the
best human beings.
But it might be well to be a trifle
more specific, ' and, therefore, It may
be said that there are certain things
which the husband who loves bis wife
and has good sense will not do.
He will not go home the worse for
drink, disgusting his wife and heavily
taxing her respect for him.
He will not squander his means on
games of chance, thus jeopardizing his
family's comfort and possibly Its very
necessaries of life.
He will not spend his evenings at the
"club." or the "lodge,"' Or somewhere
else away from home, thus rendering
THE BTBBIAH FEABABT,
" From Hamper's Weekly.
The truth is that the Russian peasant,
100.000,000 of him. Is under present con
ditions slowly starving to death. His
average earnings In the central prov
inces are 17 and 18 copecks (S or 9
cents) per day throughout the year; dur
ing the busiest harvest time they rise to
an average. ot 27 to t6 copecks (It to 16
cents) a day: during the whole winter
he and his family earn nothing. His
diet consists of meal, flour and grits,
cabbage and potatoes; no meat, except
ing three times a year. , His diet is in
sufficient and less than in any civilised
country. The hovel He lives in Is two
and a half yards long- and one and one
half yards, high, harboring the whole
family and whatever cattle he possesses.
These data are taken from official
sources, .
Is It a wonder1 that tha Russian peas
ant has morally and physically degener
ated? That the women are immoral,
dreading, maternity, and given to a
frightful extent to Infanticide?' That
the men are nomads, leaving wives and
children for months, often years, try
ing to earn something in town or la
far-away districts? That the recruiting
in these central provinces shows pro
gressively physical unfitness for the
army? That the health' of the women is
bad, and that the rate of increase in the
population in this"blaek-earth belt"
has dropped to' 0.26, against 1V in the
whole empire?
:, 4 ' " One Season. -"Also,"
continued the nortly lady who
was delivering a lecture on "The Duties
of the Model Wife" before the Women's
club, "we should always greet our bus
bands with a kiss when they come home.
Now, will one of my auditors tell the un
derlying principle of this?". ,
A stern, cold woman arises in the rear
of the audience. . v
'"It's the surest way to catch 'em if
they've been drinking." .she says, with
a a knowing nod. ,
as to a fundamental- question of legal
rights and powers has ever ,- been ex
hibited by an Important, executive of
ficer than Is here displayed, we confess
it has escaped our notice. Because a
certain congress, 89 years after -the Mex
ican war, thought fit to pass an act pen
sioning all veterans of the Mexican war
at the age of 62, therefore it is com
petent for Mi. Ware and Mr. Hitchcock.
89 years after the Civil war, to do the
same thing for the veterans of the Civil
warl .The thing Is really too Innocently
absurd for comment If laws are. to be
made in this easy-going manner, and
we are to have what may be called gov
ernment by analogy, congress had bet
ter be extremely careful about the laws
It passes. Who can say what sort of
rights, priviloges and Immunities it may
be conferring, quite unbeknownst, upon
persons yet unborn. If anything that it
declares shall be done In a particular
case is capable of being , applied, by
mere executive flat to any other case,
which, to the taste and fancy of tthe
executive officer, seems to be of the
same kind, or, as Mr. Ware puts it "at
least as good"? - -.v.". r.y-
In this particular matter of pensions,
the preposterousness of the position
taken by the department is peculiarly
evident . If, In point of fact the special
act of congress passed 17 years ago la
to be understood as establishing a gen
eral principle, there Is absolutely no
sense in drawing-the line at the point
where Mr, Ware, with the approval of
Secretary Hitchcock, draws it If the
ex-soldler is entitled to a pension on
reaching the age of 62, without any new4
legislation by congress, he has been !so
entitled ever' since 1887. "What dif
ference does it make to an individual
who Is 62 years of age whether the war
ended 89 years ago or 49 years ago?
If the thing la to be looked upon a an
intrinsic claim, and not as the result of
a special act of congress applying to his
case, every Civil war veteran who
reached the age of 62 years at any time
since the passage of the Mexican war
pension act o'f 1887 was at once entitled
to a pension,' and is now entitled tq ar
rears of pension. The passage of time
since the close of the war has nothing
whatever to do with the disability; It 1(
his own age, and not the antiquity of
the war,th determines that ' If we arc
to have laws" administered by kinder
garten methods, and Interpreted by
shirt-sleeve logic, let us go the whole
hog. Arrears of pensions for all Civil
War veterans who have reached the age
of 62 since 1887 are clearly called for.
Ana, If Mr. Ware will only bend bis
mind to the real ethics of the case, we
are confident he will find that the same
rule ought to go back In Its application
all the way to the close of the war.
T
himself almost a stranger to the mem
bers of his family. ,
He will not attempt to be a "boss"
that most despicable of all the offices to
which a husband ever thought of applying-himself.
He will share with his
wife in the wise and loving administra
tion of the affairs of tha home, and
stop right there. , .
He will not be a bear when he enters
his home, cross, surly, brutal, or,
which Is almost as bad. cold and indif
ferent; on the other hand, he will be a
numan being, gentle, considerate, bland
like a day in June, not ch..llng like old
December;
And the wife? Will the. wife who
loves her husband and Is fortunate
enough . to have the good sense we are
talking of also refrain from certain
things?
She will not get into the wretched
habit of-nagging her husband at everv
turn and worrying the very life out -of
mm about nothing. .
She will not call her husband a
"brute" or a "cruel, heartless wretch"
should be, seml-occaslonally, feel like
wheeling his easy chair oft Into a cor
ner to do a little bit of quiet dreaming
over ms cigar.; ,
She will not forget that trousers, and
coats, and vests and shirts are sup
posed to have buttons on them, snd
that, to the average husband, a missing
Dutton is a source 01 great inconven
ience and unrest
She will not neglect . her personal
appearance, remembering that in the
sight of every husband who is worth
talking about a slouchy wife is an eye
sore ratner than an attraction.
She will not insist upon having a hun
dred-dollar dress and a thirty-dollar
hat 'when she knows that generous as
her husband may be at heart those fig,
urea are beyond the reach of his nurse.
She will not be Insanely Jealous. If
her husband happens to look at or
speak to, a woman on the street she
win not fly up into a passion or acouse
him bf wanting to run away with her.
These are some of the more danger
ous foes of marital happiness that are
obviated by the two great essentials
love and sense.
Of course, if thess two things are
lacking if the husband and wife care
nothing for each other and are de
ficient in good sense a happy married
life is out of the question.. -
WEW KXBS Or WHEAT.
From the Pendleton Tribune.
Four years ago, while looking through
his wheat field Just before harvest Mr.
Dale of Helix discovered a stool of
wheat with eight heads, which he care
fully reaped and took home. The next
year he sowed them in his garden and
harvested several pounds. Each year
ne sowed mis wneat nimseir, saving all
the seed. Last year the Increase from
the heads had grown sufficient to seed
several acres,' which he did, sowing the
new wheat by the side of a field of
r?Q cnaii. wnen narvest came ne gath
ered about IS bushels more per acre
from his new wheat than from the red
chaff.. It also rfpened about (three
weeks earlier than the ' other wheat.
This year he has sown 98 acres to this
new brand of wheat and says that if it
comes out as good this year as It has
during the past four years it will be
the biggest , wheat In the county. He
believes he has accidentally stumbled
onto a new brand of , wheat which is
adapted to Umatilla county. It ripens
three weeks earlier, which Is a great
point in Its favor. It also yields more
to the acre. Mr. Dale is of the opinion
that the new wheat is a cross between
the Salt Lake, club and red chaff. .
Short Skirts to Drive Out Big Kata.
From the Draper's Record,
' The big hat erase is at present much
discussed among millinery people. The
streets 1 abound In "shocking examples"
of the "right" hat on the wrong people,
and the question may well be asked,
how long will it last? I believe that
the present season will see some re
action against very large hats, and the
year .will see them at least confined to
their proper province as tbs prescriptive
right of the tall woman. But I shall
expect to see the' big hat tide , ebb
further than thati xBy ail that is res'
sonable and tasteful, the short skirt
should do , much to drive out the. big
Small Change
Is that ground hog gone dead? " .
x)ui we 11 do ait smiles some day. .
Even the bullfrogs are disgusted. '
March has been trvtna tn nnMn iTah. '
ruary In damp meanness. , , -
The Rnllara dm anvtlilno- hf t.nW
but they roll out of slsrht Of tha r.n.
lice. ' " . . . v " . 1
Anv OnawMfrhn aivna tn tha Ttnhv trni.
helps a very worthy and well-Rianaetwl '
work.
Yea, it is on the whole a good tlckol.
Now let the Democrats do as well, or
better, 1 if they can.
When a man as big Dhyslcallv aa
Sheriff Storey "gets mad all over," he s
naturally makes some commotion and '
noise. v ,'
flnma nt tha mala Tnaa4a n famUUa
meanly hope it won't clear up till after
Easter but they wouldn'f gain much.
me nruies. ,
There is too much work for heathens
on the other side of the globe in pro
portion to that done among moral heath
ens at home. , "
Ye weather gods, won't a look In the
store windows thaw your wintry
hearts? Don't you know that Easter is
nearly here?
Governor McBrlde's chances were '
slim enough before he neglected to at
tend a 8C Patrick day's banquet to
which he was invited.
Now that the Journeyman bakers are
on a strike, perhaps people will not be -wearied
carrying home so large loaves
and heavy cakes and buns.
The ' Chicago News - says President
Roosevelt could not help receiving the
support of "Gas" Addicks, No. but he
could have helned aunnnrtlnar Artrtlrlra
know it was loaded for congressmen,
and that he didn't personally load it
The old story of "somebody blundered.'
Atchison Globe: An Atchison woman
discharged her girl as her Lenten sac
rifice, and her husband finds that every
thing she puts before him to eat is a
burnt offering.
Old Chief Joseph must know that he
will never recover his old home In the '
Wallowa valley, but he makes his de
sire to do so an excuse for a prolonged
visit to Washington every year.
Howe of the Atchison Globe says
that outside of books and plays be
never knew a man who wanted to steal
a woman. Which shows how little a '
woman hater like Howe knows about it.
The Butte City News is mistaken In
supposing that Oregon convicts cannot
be sentenced to hard labor. The su
preme court's recent decision referred
only to persons sentenced to the county
Jail.
The coroner's Jury that Inquired Into
the death of the Astoria girl shot by a
fool boy did right to report that, though
the shooting was unintentional, It was
criminal. A criminal intent , in such a
case should be presumed; or. If 1 not,
such gross carelessness should be a
crime. - ..... .,, , , , .
Senator Dubois . thinks : ex-Senator
Turner, .nominated for vice-president,
on a ticket with Parker, would "sweep
the west" This is too roseate a view;
the nominee for vice-president does not
cut much figure in gaining electoral
votes. Turner is a very capable, strong,
popular man, however; if he lived back
east , he would make a good candidate
for president ,
If Sheriff Storey, had been renomi
nated, would-not the services of the dis
charged deputies and clerks, now no
longer needed, have been requisite? ' It
would be Interesting if the people eould
find out how much-of their taxes go ev
ery two years to pay the salaries of
deputies and clerks whose ' principal
work Is for office-holders and office
seekers, and not for the public. .
WHT JAVA WZBS.
(By Yae Klchi Yabe of The Journal.
. Staff.)
The memory remains fresh in men
still living of the time when Japan was
a semi-clvlllsed, secluded land far from
the reach Of Western enlightenment
country of Junks and bows and arrows.
She is now one of the"" most advanced
nations and a world power.
If you should ask a Japanese what
has made his country as it is today,
his answer would be it is the unan
imity of the people.
The Japanese have frequently had
quarrels over their internal affairs: .
the opinions of their statesmen were at
variance on several occasions, which
even led at one time to a short civil
war. .
But whenever they are confronted
with a danger that threatens their na
tional existence or honor they at once
firmly unite themselves for one com
mon object
The opposition of , the representa
tives to the cabinet was the cause of
the repeated dissolutions of the Jap
anese diet and the apparent lack of
harmony in the Japanese government
led China, in 1894, to infer that Japan J
a v a j aa iihviv v SaVUV IW iQr
external affairs.
She therefore hastened to take the
bportunity to claim control .over
Korea, as . she had done in old times,
on the plea of aiding that country to
suppress any insurrection.
China dispatched , her troops into
Itorea, which was a violation of the
Tlen-Tsin treaty entered into between
Japan and China , with respect to
Korean neutrality. - . v, '
But the Japanese were on the alert
They Immediately regained one har
monious stand, forgetting all Internal
feuds, political frictions and opposi
tions.:.. v,. V ..,'. ,
. The diet assembled at Hiroshima,
the centre of the Japanese military
operations, and after its sitting of
only three minutes sanctioned without
any opposition the issuance of a $75,
000,000 war fund. , . -
li was unanimity that enabled the
Japanese government to act promptly.
The Japanese forces encountered the
Korean Insurgents before the Chinese
oould have concentrated enough troops
to aid the Korean government
. The Japan-Korea war that followed
the incident because of China's refusal
to evacuate Korean soli ended in a de
cided victory for Japan; due to , the
unanimous sunnort of her neonle.
The Japanese cabinet has never been
opposed in Its naval expansion plan.- Ev
ery Japanese upholds this plan, even
if it might deprive him of his last cent,
for the preservation of his nation's
honor and dignity, he knows, depends on
an efficient navy.
- Allaying His Fears.
I From Town Topics.
Tenaweek It Is a secret, sir, but I
am engaged to your daughter, and
Old Gotrox Have no .uneasiness, slrj,
ilt will go no further.