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OFFICIAL. PAPER OF THE CITY , OF PORTLAND
This weather mum boya Vi look at
bill board for, clrous .posters. A ,
Burton' conviction may cause other
senators to look a leetle oudt."
A
.THE REAWAKENING OF OREGON.
'GENTLEMAN who haa Just returned from a trip
! which embraced a rood part of the iitate says that
Mvsr mnr aurrtriaed and gratified by
-' what he saw. The conditions with which he la familiar
' here in Portland, where bouses are being- rented from the
'.-' moment tha foundations are dug and where the supply
' does not begin to meet the demand, ha found duplicated in
nearly every place which he visited. He says he witnessed
f '"' general waking up along the whole line. New peppl
' axe flocking In everywhere, men with enough money to
;'Wb they aeek, and the effect Is apparent in the
: signs of business activity which greeted and cneerea mm
' everywhere.
'AH of this is gratifying, yet it la after all only as it
should be. The people of Oregon are blessed in many
'.'-.ways, la climate. In soli, in ready markets. In certainty
r of crops and in the variety of ita products. It ia an "old'
country and yet It la "new." Until within tha" last few
years tha tlds of travel has not been attracted In this 'di-
" Taction. It has swept elsewhere to less favored reglona.
At last it Is being "discovered- by a vast army of home
seekers, nwhp find themselves cramped elsewhere, whether
by conditions or through lack of opportunities. Tha mo
ment tha advance guard of prospective settlers started
this way there was a beginning of tha solution of the prob
lem. They met' conditions "hers .which spoke for them
selves, which needed no eloquent panegyric front Interested
boomers. Indeed all that the country needed was that
these intelligent people should come here and See" for
themselves; the country would do tha rest -And It. has
. dons .the resUf' : f , It '
Tha first comers want back with glowing reports of
-; wnat - tney -saw ana in opponumuea - wnics m. country
afforded. They, influenced ihelr friends; tha tide began
to set in this direction. Many, who were looking for an
outlet through fhe Brftikh 'northwest were amaxed to find
a section ' within' their own land which afforded them
greater opportunities without any of the inconveniences
- which would have beset : them farther' north. Naturally
they wars mora inclined to coma hers than to undertake
tha pioneer work In thoae reglona And so the movement
Is now well inaugurated and, several years will pass be
fore it reaches floodtide. j In tha meantime men who will
mak the most desirable kind of cltliens are flocking in.
They come provided with the money to make a modest
start In. their new homes. They coma, too, with' new ideas,
new methods, and backed by a hearty determination to
win. Tha expected effect Is already apparent. It has
stimulated! many sections of tha state which heretofore
have been, rather! too' content to leave things as they were.
In the .course of time it will arouse a generous rivalry
' which will mean development and progress.
. Oregon, always rich and inviting, Is new in a fair way
to utilise and maker the most and best of everything with
. which, nature has blessed It. In the achievement of these
, results the newcomer will be" entitled to his sDare of
' credit ' He should'.be warmly welcomed on his ' merits
; everywhere and given the right hand" of fellowship by all
" who hope (hat the state will realise ail that Its nest friends
. -opa.XOH,Jl. t w
Portland floral nurserymen ought to
do a rushing business these days.
tacked, his' tentacles severed, his gorgon head apllt
asunder, his gigantic carcase leashed If not destroyed.
Great fortunes are all right. In auch a great country,
surely; but not one like this. That It feeda on the people
,n .h.i. mnAvrikmr a rA hurt la unauestionaDi.
When the hurt becomes painful, when the plnch becomes
severe, this monster, now so aii-migniv, win pecoim i nrat we had X-rays; now we nave y y." .Bi,,wt"i1'
N-rava: 'after awhile nerhana we wmi"'"'7 u'i'u.
It la about time to hear that Mra
Alaybrlck haa been aet at liberty agala
Mr. ; Baer la astounded that tha su-
Ipreme court overruled his claim of dl-
(By Ella Wheeler WUoox.) .
(Cwprrlfht. JOOi, by W. a. Ueant
Thslf J ' A stnakslitaiMSi as - litMiotniilaa
' aauii iusmisj a sasss ' uaaasvfMaena-
Cuba, Be who runs mar read. : i . f
in Hotels. i la : DUbllo convevanoea. In
tha shops, one mar see It and hear it
ana ai- it Illustrated daily, f
ir,The tndrjj' educated and cultivated the
Cuban, tha more refined and subtle his
methods of showing his disapproval
the more Ignorant, the - mora unveiled
and outspoken-' his dislike.
in public places the Cuban man re
gards the American woman with a car
tain Insolent familiarity of alanoe: the
m . . . w. .
ludu woman a expression ia critical
and often contemptuous, and the child
Oregon Sidelights
a:
be able to make A raise.
thing of shreds and patches.
Even ao vast an accumulation of wealth would not be
so objectionable, eo eloquent or unjust laws, ana systems i There Is said to be more boodle afloat
of distributing wealth, If It would of could attend strictly! In the New York legislature this spring
to Its own business of natural and legitimate accumula
tlon, but, it neither will nor can do so. It gained its great
start by robbing many; it grew by plundering more;
lta chief business now la robbing all. It corrodes and cor
rupts wherever It reachea and that la almost every
where; and whatever It touches and that la almoat every
thing.
The political party that makes an open, aquare, honest,
valiant fight against Rockefeller not Rockefeller the man
especially, but the genus Rockefeller, the gang Rocke
feller, the monstrous Rockefellerlan Thing, may be
beaten now, this year; It may be Impossible to wake the
people up yet; but In the near future the people will be
with that party and Its true leaders a mighty, irresistible,
conquering host a modern host fighting a new battle for
freedom,
than Missouri, ever dreamed of.
A very strange thing happened in the
national capital Monday; . the supreme
court rendered a unanimous decision.
If ' the Democrats of Multnomah
county have any machine It la In several
hundred different pieces, that won't fit
together.
MISDIRECTED ECONOMY.
nrs
i
walk on. Being
la a very sudden
HE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES la deter-
7. mined to let "the rivers and harbors go. In order
, to keep the total of expenditures aown. so as noi a railroad track to
to scare voters with too big figures next fall, the whole run, over by a train
country must wait for urgently needed Improvements, and aeain.
. . . a.. mm a i I
suffer the loss or an unanowame amount, in. uroim.- Benevolent - aaslmlllatlon betna-
tratlon can by a mere order take an indefinite nomDer oi fashion Great Britain is trying It
millions out of' the treasury for pensions, beyond the
1140,000,000 or thereabouts already appropriated by con
gress, but the great rivers. and harbors of the country
must remain unimproved so that g. . p. spellbinders
can say to voters, "Behold, how economical we have been."
Representative Ransdell was right in saying that the
American people are not afraid of large sums for this pur
pose, and in charging the Republican party with 'lavish
and even reckless expense in all matters except river and
harbor improvements. Representative Champ Clark was
There Is a certain condescension of
manner in the hotel and shop attend
ants toward the Americans that is hard
to bear and Impossible to resent -par
ticularly so, as not one native bom and
bred Cuban In ten speaks one-word of
jungusn,
Sojourning In a hotel which has been
packed all winter with Americans. I And
not one waiter who knows what the
word orange means and not one cham
berman (for there are no chambermaids)
wno understands the word bath, or
laundry. An Interpreter ia sent for reg
ularly each- time theae worda are em
ployed. . . v
Jn the shops It la the same. Uallke
the native French, the Spaniard or
Cuban does not seem able to translate
gesticulations. He la absolutely In
Peking, and Pekin; Toklo, and Tokyo; capable of grasping your meaning un-
Thlbet. and Tibet Shouldn't there be I 'ess you speak the Spanish tongue.
an arbitration conaress to settle tha -a gentleman woo speaks . six lan
spelling of foreign namesT guagea fluently told me this morning
tnat na waa in absolute desMlr reaard-
Strong ticket;" "best ticket ever "g tne Dusines projecta which brought
nominated In county," are ex-1 nim here from Europe. 'It in necessary
pressiona that can be read many times for me to visit many 'places and see
over these days In local organs. many business men," he aald. "and in
t ; vnoiy i must aeea an interpreter.
Advice to all deaf men: Whenever Barely do I find an establishment where
you want to take a long walk, choose any language aave Spanish la under
Grosvenor ia - one of that . aort of
statesmen who would defend and ap
plaud their party If It declared for a
king, or for anarchy. . .
after, the Spanish war. . One batalllon
particularly, vviiipvvvu v v ...- . v , . , .
the tat.s.'in its rank, and tile. Insulted iL 2?$ ' 5 i'i
Cuban women, and waa so continuously j w CprvsUl. nrtf .1
and .persistently . obnoxious to the clt-1 ; AiK-r K-i" 1 7 . r-' : i. I
i.-i . .... I Albany hotels are more crowded that
an impression 'Of - . American ' manners "J"" .th.. ""'00 ot &r'i:
wu umuv laarvaet ( ? sr m w. m . M m m a
. a..a a .ri. I . ' aoau noraas are saia to
cVte. .." -"r", 5 u'f on pf northern Grant
Naturally, the more y Intelligent and f - ,- ' .' ' ' -i ..;V,,i
pultfvated the Cuban man or woman. I Nearly ll.aoo haa bn t i..
the broader the view and the better tha prove the road between Jacksonville and
underatandlng of the situation. I have MedfordA ... , " a
encountered a few residents of Havana, :, - - - . .i,
who realise and appreciate the debt all -vThe archiM ' ;
Cuba owes to America, and who know I Ronde - valley will ba , mnoh n.... I
how unluat It la to judge an entire thla year. "
nounfrr hv a realment or batalllon of lta I .w., i " " r' A i'.'t. N T Csl
soldiers. v r r v ; : j Sam whlia and JS. B. Messlck' of Baker ?
Sut tha tourist here la. neverthetesa I City each clalma that ha win ha no.ni- '
made to auffer. dally and hourly, annoy.jnatea aistrict attorney. ,i4;.'vi.; -.,";
ancea from tha depradatlona and mlsde-l - ,.-.4 , ..i-jm,,:; v 7, .', (
meanora of that ; much-glorifled and! -Long Creek butchers say It is nest to
vaunted being the" American soldier! ; I impoaeibla te procure any cattle at pree-
X 1VI V fj sifssaa, iibbu VI S sairvv wra.swa - a - - w vutvusit .r.
lean hotel here In Havana. It would be I iJ' : ' " V-.M:
filled during four montha of tha year I rj. A man named Wiggle Uvea on Crooked
l.h -v,A a,nil4 MnntMtlnnaM4inver. IX US BhOUld fall in. thauah tha.
prove a paying, Jnveataient the yearr'vp' 'crooked, he believes be eould
around. -.- v' ; ,- r. , .;,,JiwWww;7,;:
Meanwhile, It would stimulate the I Vv . -r-, " ' '' ;
Havana hotel proprietors to new r- n.?V,. ' " traveling agent for a '
tlons toward making gueata comfort f had Juat mailed a
able. 1 --. ,; - mwr.w wur wnen ne received a
ii..,IMf..t ih. i .vimihui . uiHiuuuinK . nar.. aaarn. i . .1.. . .
uina pajrv unai 1 iui uimuuivi 1 uii .
although there la a marked improve-1 ,; ; r
ment In every way alnca the hand of Kfc:iB.lJl,t' V Th'"te
Spain was loosed from the throat of "OT5W"?" winterea weu
n,,hM 1 without any feed, and now that grass
uum I 1 wnrin. A IJI .,1. .
The death rate is lower this year than 1 1 V. . oa norsea
va hafnM and tha n n of hlrtha ovarl- -"
in
on
Thibetans. Powder and ball are great
aaelmllatore. and the ahootera' benevo
lence who can doubt?
stood.
The unpopularity of Americana. I am
told, is largely due to the conduct of
our aoldters stationed here during and
deatha is surprising to tha realdenta.
Major Gorgea Instituted a moat sue
oessful mosquito war here, which has
been maintained, by hla followere, and
thla has ; noticeably lessened malarial
dlaeaaea. . ' ''
It would ba well for the aanttary de-
partmenta along the Jersey and New
Junction. City' Times: Farmers report
the death of numerous bows and calves,
but are unable to account for their sick-'
ness and death. . B. & Hyland haa loat
atx or seven head and also has W. M.
Blsney. . ' . , , " " .. ,
Ed Campbell had a line team drowned
England coaata to Inveetlgete Major inthahMO .Ji. Tin. li.
Oorres'a antl-malartal work here, and L J.t,00 .?u?4.r morning. He
introduce hi. method, a. affectively hiw:, "
- fl ..tv.. nuiwi imu WHUTO
away the under support of the bank on
which he . was at the time.
there. V
Havana, Cuba.
MYSTERY OF WOMEN'S AGES
One might judge from the alaa of that
Democratic county convention, and the
noise It makea, that tha Democrats
were not ao much In the minority, or
elae did not know It.
1THE IRREPRESSIBLE-CONFtlCT.
Ia,.!? ' -Vr: ?2 '.- W-H? . tm i-,:ii-v:- I
TT MIGHT be a .good thing If Rockefeller should, as it
: is reported he may, secure control of all the northern
transcontinental railroads. It might be a grand thing
If Rockefeller's Incomprehensibly, vast holdings should
continue to crow' very rapidly,'' if he should continue faster
than ever to grasp, absorb And assimilate property; if his
tentacles should reach out with Increaslpg speed and greed
In all directions. The sooner the people of this' country
find cut that Rockefeller practlqally owns it, the better,
"Rockefeller" is not used here in a strictly literal sense,
though the. name might of Itself stand as the text What
is meantls Rockefeller et al. There Is, as yet some sue
ceaaful show of opposition to him -by ther and smaller
octopl; but th Rockefeller group, or gang, he . being In
comparably the' big figure amoig 'them, is' already as "a
giant beside pygmies when compared with. Hill and Jdor-
: gan,' and their groups or gangs. Indeed, they usually work
jJi. In harmony, but. sometimes" fall utj over somelmrnense
carcase, iome great piece pt ppoH, f fZ'-i
' - If, as is currently supposed. Rockefeller is individually
worth av billion, what wfll he' be worth in 20 or even 10
J years?. And If he dies in the meantime it will make no
. difference; he haa a pious son to carry "on the conqueat of
the earth. i(. v, 'V" I'
T"lTt. power of sucll B, fortune m 'meinas?i ns-nds is in
calculable, c It -reaches sversn.. & It'V Is. Jrnsi$ibif.
Before it legislatures fall In adoration. At its beck con-
gressmen bow in auplne obedience. tony courts are
blinded by it so that the figure' of justice becomes obscure
', or .invisible; and a national administration considers it
J awesomely, forgetting the people, Churches fawn upon It,
and colleges are warped by It.
-- It needs no seer to predict that such a fortune, th' lm-
mensity of which is Inconceivable by' the common bind,
. thua used In all directions to further and fatten and ex -"t
pand Itself, has somehow ere long, got, to be halted, cir-
1 cumscribe4, shattered. , , ftr ; , S-
We may not adopt socialism as a whole, or even In large
part, as a national policy, but, the time must come, and
that at no far distant day, when this octopus will be at-1
If Mr. Carnegie la anxloua to get rid
of hla money aa fast as possible, he
Republican campaign committee will
justified in taunting the majority party with spending I eocept more than a million, aa many
great sums on the Philippines and keeping their people millions as ne uxes to give. Tnere is
- I ntttifna. .mail a Kr. , . I,
ID ' VUOJCVMUn, will IV vm I J uimiim m. uuiwiwiii .v
the cannibals of the Fiji Islands," instead of taking care . if Senator Burton has to go to jail
of tha land at home. those people who are always complain-
No portion of th. country will suffer more In con.e- J thU the matter oTr!
quence of this decision not to pass a river ana naroor mil Chicago News. But Burton plead
than-Oregon, and the1 portions or adjacent states tributary his poverty as bis excuse.
tn ttia fnltimWa river. Tans of thousands of farmers, and
. , ' , ,v, J Robert C. Wright, a, thoughtful citl-
DUBiness men aa wbu inuo au hi- y- vi ., b. f,n Uwyeri mrXng mAnea tO the
region-rare isus nanaicappea, injured, causcu a ioe pom i oreronian a sensible, timely and well-
in selling ana buying, mereiy oecause tne aominant po rairamuniaiuon m uuuon
lltiear party want, to make a numerical showing of econ- -VnrW
a lunatic. But this is an old custom of
the trust organ.
omy next fall,
.' .The Atlantic seaboard and the gulf representatives have
never overlooked an opportunity n this direction. On the
Paciflo coast there has been: Indifference. In this section
it- hss been almost unaccountable. - The- Importance of the
Columbia river to its whole basin has long been realised
but the work that has been done in the direction of im
provements has been very little. We are just now begin
ning to wake up to its Importance and if we have learned
the lesson that whatever else is done our delegation in
congress must , secure appropriations, to accomplish that
work the lessons of the past will not be in vain.
Whether or not it is possible to do anything this year
in j the face of political conditions, there is no good reason
why the public bodies of the city should not, go stren
uously' on record as favoring them. There should be no
doubt on this question and there should be no doubt in the
minds of anybody that they regard this as the overwhelm
ing question before the people' of Oregon and that they
wlirnot rot 'uhtU It li settled as U should be settled. '
DESTROYING THEMSELVES.
HERB IS NO DOUBT that the mines which the
" Russians 7have"plAnted ln arid" "about the narbojrs
Which they hold In the east are both dangerous
and. effective,, ,f the Japaneae , could only be Induced to
plant their ships over them the question of supremacy on
the high seas would soon be settled in favor of the Rue
stans. -r ' ' .-"
But, v unfortunately ' for them, the mines are no re.
specter. Of persons ; or thihga.1; They worlj "bladiy and
when set- off do precisely the same' harm to a Russian
ship as they would have done to a Japanese had it been
in the same -place. The fact that they are Russian mines
does not render the Russian, ships Immune, s
And this fact was unfortunately discovered by the Rus
ians themselves after chasing away the Irritating Japs
who appeared on p he. horjon. Returning la triumph to
the port, one great ship landed over a' mine, there was an
explosion, the ship ?as blown, up and apparently nearly
everyone .on board was blown to eternity;,,
And there is .little consolation In the. reflection that It
Is barely possible the cunning Jap was playing his cards
to bring about the very contingency that arose, and which
Is such an effective, while at the same time sugh an n
expensive method of conducting naval warfare. ,
The story that a strip of the recently
executed convict Egbert's skin was
taken from his body, cut Into bits and
distributed as "souvenirs has been de
nied by officers of the medical faculty
of Willamette university, but It Is gen
erally believed to be true. The Salem
Journal corroborates the correspondent
of The Portland Journal, and says there
is no chance of a. mistake. Dr. Smith,
one of the faculty, makea light of th
affair, and said It waa not of sufficient
Importance to demand much attention.
The anawer to this is that auch an act
ia unlawful, and the faculty of a state
institution should be the last men to
excuse lawbreaking. Aa for the people
who wanted such a hideous souvenir,
they are incomparably more tov b rap
rehendeff and despised than the de
praved vandals i who -secured . the
"souvenirs" In bulk. A' person who
would accept such a thins, even aa
gift, ought to emigrate to the cannibal
islands; he must have a mind so de
based that he la not flt to live among
civilised and decent people.
CXOTKXS AS STAKES.
' Slew Fad is Poker Flaying Among Tale
7 Cottage Students.
New Haven dispatch to New York
World.
' r" A Tale" "freshle" dashing home, across
- Tork street to Plerson hall, with an
. ' electric light burning bright on a cor
t nar two roda away, a policeman starid-
Ing under the' light and men and women
',. pedestrlana passing to and fro from
the theatre, led to an Investigation by
- the policeman, ana the discovery of the
4 most remarkable game of poker ever
i played at Yale. - .
,; According to the "freshle," who told
the story only on threat of arrest, half
a dozen of tola -fellow classmen gath
red la a room across the street from
the dormitory. As is usual this sea
- son. pf ; the year, none of them could
J raise a "sou." not having heard from
' home In a long period. A game of poker
waa proposed, but how to make it Inter
eating without some cash was a ques
tlon.'v:;'..'.;':'"-- --''J ' l:' ""' -"
One - freshman proposed that they
play1 for their clothing. , The Idea was
i. aaiaed upon at . once. It .was decided
- to set a price on each piece of clothing
iwornbvjUie vartoua southa and use them
by removal Se seeded In the game and
depositing the same in the chair ot tha
; winner, , Itwaa. agreed that if any ene
loat his clothing ha nust seer hla abid
ing place in rugnt attire . oray. to oe
; loaned by - the- maa whoi occupied the
room, the clothes to pa, returned rte .the
owner next day.
' The game grew -exciting. - Seme of
"thoae scgagrd lost so heavily, that at
times but one sock remained In their
possession. Then luck changed and they
won back portiona of their attire which
they donned again. It waa near mid
night when the unlucky freahman
"went broke."
A freahman yell rent the amoky at
mosphere of the apartment and, dressed
only In pajamas "Freshle" waa turned
out Into the cold.
"For excitement it's the greatest poker
game I ever Sat In" said he to tha
policeman.
It Is thought the ' fad i likely te
FAOBABXiT WU BOX AZB.
WHEW TKX BZTXB XXT TKH SUA.
.From the TiUamook Headlight ; ;
The editor has been asked, since h
returned from Portland, what if. thinks
of William Reld'a fresh move to con
struct a railroad Into Tillamook. We
have read the .published accounts care
fully, and also tried to read between
the lines, but .thus far It seems to us
that Mr. Raid is giving us the same' old
song and dance, with no assurance what
ever that he has obtained the money to
construct the road. It Is a little 'sur
prising to us that the Oregonlan and the
Telegram should devote so much space
to Reld'a hot air railroad project every
once In a while,. hashing and rehashing
It over and ovar again.' Let Mr. ,Rald
convince the , people : of Tillamook that
he ,can secure -the money to' build the
railroad into this county - then he will
have no trouble; In t securing the right
of way'? It' is all poppycock for Mr,
Held to Infer that the peopje of Tilla
mook City are putting obaUcles in hl
way. . . , , i . '
E. A Lente In Four-Track Nawa.
Far away among the Highlands lay a
odol and limpid spring;
Ana it overnowed its borders, and a
little wanderllng . ',
Of a rill went trickling downward, sing
ing on its reokless way
Through the gloamings of the forest
till It reached the clearer day.
Then It broadened In the meadows, and
It glinted In the light.
And it hurried down the rapids, and
It Journeyed day and night;
And the leaser atreamleta Joined it and
, : " increased Its swelling tide;
Till at laat It was a river, beautiful
' and deep and, wide.
Yet It could hot rest nor tarry, for "be
neath tne-southern say 4
There was something wooing, calling,
witn a strange insistent cry. 1
And the river sweetly troubled with the
unknown -mystery, . . 4
Slowly followed, ever onward, till It
mingled with the sea. i
STRAWS IN THE STREAM
(By H. R. R. Hertaberg
Do not wrong the mule by comparing
It to the professional kicker. The mule
kicks for some real, definite reason.
Alwaya ask the world for a water
melon, even tho' your appetite calls for
nothing bigger than a plum.
The trouble with woman's vanity as
a result .of her beauty Is that It lasts
longer than Its causa
Tho' we may possess a fortune In
charity, the chancea are that we'll apend
It all on ouraelvea.
It would be pleaaant to aee all man
kind In mourning for lta dead faults
and weaknesses.
i
AV AICFZiB AFOLOOY.
V.'p .- ' Old Doe Monroe, p. . '
From the JJew YorkTribune. ,
The aueetion, ''What is the Monroe
doctrine? was asked at a recent exam
ination ra England, and three ofth,
anawers were: Th religion of America
taught-by Sr. Monroe on the transml
gratlon of souls." f "The doctrine that
people may be: married Several times.1:
"Una that Has to do with vaccination
and smallpox), it was brought out by
Professor Monroe," - . ,
From the Paisley Post
The editor of the Post owes an apol
ogy to the Ladles of the Circle- who
gave the pleaaant and entertaining party
on the 17th, and of which no mention
was made In our columns last week.
We left the matter of writing and Bet
ting It up to other parties, who by tha
way we supposed were heart whole and
fancy free, but now are fully of the
mind that the attractions of aome fair
damea ao turned their heads that they
were- hardly responsible for their acts.
We can forgive but not forget This
ball was one of the beat given this win
ter at this place, and in saying it was
the best, is saying a great deal, as all
the others were far superior to anything
ever held In this place during previous
years. And the supper; It was some
thing that our thoughts yet delights to
linger upon, as the tables were spread
with everything to tickle the palate of
man, or woman either. The Lady man-
agera deserves more than a passing
notice, as the aucceaa .of tha entire af
fair was due to their untiring efforts.
Mow te Be O. SVA By Quay.
:'T.:... . From the Lincoln Star,
i It Is worth while to be chief jus
tice of the - supreme . court of Penn
sylvania The term Is 21 years, snd the
salary is 110,000-a year The tenure Is
virtually for life,, as a lawyer baa to
demonstrate his fitness before he la
trusted with such an honor.
(By H. R. RHartaberg.) ,
Woman's reluctance to let her age be
known has been the theme of ten thous
and jests in prose and rhyme. The rea
son for the questionable literary popu
larity of this trait is that the trait
exists today as It existed a, hundred
yeara ago.
However averse a woman may ba to
keeping a secret In a general way. she
ia perfectly able to keep her age a ae-
cret tne minute she haa graduated from
ner teens.
When men have written on the sub
ject they have come to the concluelon
that woman a vanity stood responsible
for her unwilllngneaa to dlaclose the
number of her yeara.
Thla explanation haa become there
fore, the accepted solution of the ques
tion. We've taken It to ba true aa we
take it to be true that two and two
equal four rather than 17.
But It appeara to me we've been at
faultr - -'' -
The cause lies deeper down than the
snauow surface eoll.of vanity.
It may be found, I think. In leaa ex
plored and leaa exploited ground.
. Is not woman'a aecretlveness regard
ing her age one of the varioua mani
festations of her great ambition and de
sire In' Mfe-to remain a charmingmya.
tery In the eyea of man?
There la no doubt that auch la hei
ambition. There ia no doubt either that
thla ambition la based on reaaonable
grounds.
Familiarity will breed contempt No
aaylng waa
rect You can'
ner, day after day,
Oophar corraapondanos- 'McMlnnvllla
Telephone-Register: Goat ahearlng Ia In
full force this week. Caaey'a are tak
ing the lead with their machine and mak
ever more f.ultlea.ly cor- " -
in't eat breakfast and din- M vem,lnsj about 10,
1th an ethereall vniAn t,- t ... ui.. ....
poet without .losing faith eventually in veywl thibrua cut away te bet.
TSr-tTmuIrtS ter protect properties from treapaeeere
iifiw Xr. t l.Biau m th wtM nuetry. It la ateallng
m depreciate and the thlevea are not careful, but gen-
h.- L? thnna-h .nlorahl. truth '"3r ,tr,P " t",n brk ny, thus
Thla great though deplorable trntn waatlna tone of bark avarv vr
the average woman thoroughly under- ton 01 prK evry w-
"trt"' .. .h. nnKrataniia aha acta "h'rtdan eorfespondenee , McMlnttvllls
or uwh.r!, ft u 7lbU 'tZ Zct Telephone-Register: Not an idle man In
wi.Mnr? i7 town- Everybody Is in a hurry to get
.W,"h-,nf i1" !f.ta m"....'!l.0n: his job done to take another that is
work into sometime:., nearly like the Ji'fM""
RnhMT u flxan and Binna ana 1 in nuns 7. ..
.n- . ! . tnem; couldn't run without them,
vr j SMtvni , 1
By clever little maneuvera, tiny
tricks whose purport maa does jiot. real
Ice, although he. may laugh
W. A. B. Campbell, a taxidermist, left
atupiaiy 1 v,.. , , ut .1 . u. 1
.v.l .k. vu. i ttmm 111 ."
Therein she knows that wisdom is I
five weeks on the- trip. Most of the
remmTnT mad. on ski. or.Norwe.lan
thereby she achieves her nurpoawr
. One of thaaa tricks, and not the least
effective. Is the obliteration of her
age.
A Sphynx ahould have no age.
A mvstery would lose Its indistinct
Impresstveness did It carry one of tlme'a
taga.
anowahoes.
' ixme Pine . correspondence Klamath, J
Falls Express: Spring haa come at laat,
the suckers are running snd where fam
ine and starvation stared us In the
face there la how peace and plenty. The
land Is overflowing with water and auck-
'r.r.hn i rimi to consider the era -everyone wears a happy,-contented
matter, we men. we may discover in the expreaaion.
end that the ten thouaand jokea at the .
expense of woman'a reluctance to let Klamath Falls Expresa: Trappera who
her age be known were truly Jokea on returned laat week from the vicinity of
u, Crater lake report IB feet of anow at
tne nean or Annie creex ana 1 reet at tne
HATI02TAX, CAPITA YAJurS.
From the New York World.
John Philip Sousa lived, In Washing
ton for years and haa - many gfrlehds
nere. Tiie laat time he was nere with
his band he had .a musician named
Frans Hell.
"Curious name that fellow haa." said
Frank Bennett of the Arllngton'hotel
to Sousa.
"Yea," aald Sousa. "I am trying to
get him to name hla children "What-the
and 'Qo-to.' "
"The cold-blooded way In which these
Republicans look at public questions re
minds me of the story they tell about
an unfortunate drummer ror a New
York firm who died in a hotel in At
lanta not long ago," said Repreaentatlve
Xon" Livingston of Georgia
"The coroner telegraphed to hla firm
saying: 'Your representative died here
today. I await your lnatructiona.'
"In a few hours this anawer came
backf 'Search hla pocketa for orders
Exnreaa his samples to New York. Give
the body to a medical college. "
Speaker Cannon came breezily to the
speaker's desk at noon today. lie took
out hla watch and looked at the big
clock on the wall opposite him.
"Well, I'll be darned!" he said, "that
old clock is right again. Go ahead, Mr.
Chaplain."
And the chaplain prayed ror & sec
onds by both watch and clock.
"It aeems to me." said General Groa-
venor to Repreaentatlve Clayton of Ala
bama, '.that the courts are growing
Popullatie. The way they are getting
after trusts and all that sort of thing
Is unprecedented."
Oh, well,-Charley," ciayton repiiea.
don't worry. If you Republicans will
restrain your natural criminal instincts
you will have nothing to fear." .
Me Assistance Beqalrad, ,
From the Memphla Nawa ' . '
President Roosevelt wants congress to
Understand that It cannot adjourn any
too early to suit him. If there are any
laws that need passing be know! how to
do it." , - -.
F. H. Whitney, father of V. C. Whit
ney, clerk of the house committee on
naval affaira, came to Waahlngton a day
or, two aao to Sea hla son, and went
on Monday afternoon to aee the egg-rpn-
lng in the White Houae lot as ne
came to the gate a little negro accosted
him with:
Say, mister, they won't let you go in
there unless you have a child with you."
is .tnai sor asxea-wr, wnuney.
But where can I get a child f
"Say. miater." the little boy said.
I'll let them think you are my father
If you will give me a quarter."-
Repreaentatlve Wynn of California la
near-sighted. A day or two ago he was
looking for Repreaentatlve Grlgga of ,
Georgia, He met a atout amoothfaoed
man in the corridor near the main en
trance to the house of representatives,
who he thought was Griggs, and stopped
him, Baytngr t41s your name Griggs?"
no, air," aald tne man, brusquely,
"my name is not Griggs."
TvVen. then," said Wynn, "I "should
like o know why it isn't", , n, ,
.. .mr.,, I Vaughn ranch, two or three miles north
and aaia meexiy to tne nartena.r: M0f Fort Klamath. This amount of snow
yo.kind.1'; g1VlI?' mS1? 7. Lr. Probably means that the excursion sea
"Certainly. Mr. Maddy. the oar-1 , v.
tender replied I and he pwaed o t the I'
WBirr. iiibi,uivu mi . ,.i .... . -
down into hla coat pocket took out one
of the little bottles for individual
aon to Crater lake will be later and
Eden correspondence Jacksonville Sen-
Srlnis uaed on --S f,!
the cork and poured out the contents of
the bottle," while- the bartender atooo.
speechless
click of the pruning shears are familiar
aounds In this neck of the woods; the
farmers are Improving every minute Of '
Much obliged," said Maddy. after he fcw,?lbL Ji1!,!'!. ?'
had sipped, hla drink.
clearing their orchards of brush and get
ting ready for apraying. This section
of the valley Is fast becoming one great
orchard. : . ' -
Advice to the Lovelorn
st BZAYuoz rixtrix
BVaBVB nQTLM UP XV AVXS.
From the Eugene Guard.
The meeting of cltlsena of Eugene
at the Commercial -club - rooms laat
night for the purpose of discussing the
exorbitant freight rates placed on the
producta of Lane county and the state j
of Oregon by the Southern Pacific com-1
pany was largely attended and was - Dear Miss Fairfax I wish ta ask your
productive of much good. - The crowd In advice about several little thlnga which
attendance at the meeting was a rep have troubled mev I am 18 years old. A
resentatlve one, presidents of two young man of my acquaintance haa the
banks, prominent business men i and habit of calling me by my given name,
leading merchanta being- present - Now, what can I do to break him of the
The meeting brought out the - fact I habit, Thla same person asked my aiater
that the question of railroad freight and I to go out one evening with him
rates is going to be a great factor Inland he promised to call us up by phone
the politics of the state 'hereafter. The! to see If we could go. He did not.call
consensus of the meeting was that 1 us up, nor cid ne can ror ua tnat even-
freight rates should be regulated by I Ing, nor explain why, until a few days
legislation, and men elected to the leg-1 after, when we happened to meet him.
He said he couldn't go, so he didn't
bother to call us up. Now, did he do
right or net and what would - you do
about It If you were us? . FLO.
1 would treat that young man as If I
had no intereat In him. ' If he Is so in
dolent and selfish how toward you there
Is ne hope of Improvement in your fur
ther association. -
islature who will aee that proper lawa
are enacted fixing a maximum rate to
ba charged by railroad oompanleS In the
atate. .
The matter was enthusiastically and
earnestly discussed,, From the tone of
the address it was plain to. see that
the people are thoroughly ' aroused 1 to
the seriousness of the action of - tha
railroad comnany in niacin Its rates
so as to maka tWn almoat prohibitive. ' Portland, Oregon, April 7. Dear Misa
There were preeent at the meeting, rainax. -jl am a young man 01 a ana
about 100 leading cltlsena f 1 Eu- m ueepiy - in love ; witn - a may
gene. All the speeches were , to, the of years. My paranta obJeCVbut I feel
point mni, showed a blttef . feeling " though it Is my last 'chanoe. , Please
toward the railroad company. ' All were 6UHT Vhat to do as I am in earnest.
-.....i.,i v- -t.i.: "-.."-.,-": '. t' ,V . V. Y. Z.
Ill laivr ul irHuuiuiiR in,cn vjr iqbih,- . . . -
tion. It waa brought out by several VJ rop ma roea oanian k irom your
speakers' that' while the company Is try
ing to rob the people of western Ore
gon, its roadbed and rolling stock on
this division are the worat on the en
tire ayatem. and, the train service is
about as bad as it could be. It was
stated that the company used its Ore
gon Mines as a dumping ground for all
the old locomotives - and 1 cars on the
whole system and that the tracka are a
disgrace to any railroad company,'
Some of the hotels in , Washington
have schedules of restaurant and cafe
charges that would make a Broadway
hoat ashamed ot v his amateurish at
tempts, to; get money from his patrona.
J.TH. Maddy. of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, . had an experience a night or
tWQiago, when the -check became monu
mental with little reason. Next morn
ing he walked Into-the bar at that hotel'
And Sllenoe PelL .'.
The little girl waa taking a drive with
her father behind, the family horae,, a
apirtted 1 and hlgfi-Stepplng -.nayfe. .r
fi "Papa," she aald, "does nature ever
make any mistakes?"
"No, dear.'
'.Si':
Then ; what made ; you ;eut nT poor
prince's tall?" . ' 'v w
; Papa, being a man of affairs, became
St once too much absorbed In them to.
pay any further attention to her childish
1
JTaVlvtSB awMsmsi
r S ' v-am tha rntiAosvA w i.-V?. ft
. Old Father Time was in a merry mood.
f -"Isn't it, funny?, chuckled 1 the,old J
Plan. rt'-rZr--:r : jrj. vlfi
"isn't what funnyT ssked the' friend,
y "Why, after the crooks get through
doing other people tbey Just start- to do
me.' , - , . ,
mind; as to ?'aow" any such a "seed" Is
to reap a whirlwind of disappointment
and misery.-,-, .y
Welser, , Idaho, April 7. --. Dear
Miss Fairfax I am deeply Inter
ested In a young lady,' whom 1 have met
but onoe, havinginply. been Introduced
to her, and never having the opportunity
of a conversation, and would like to In
quire if there would be' any impropriety
In my writing her and asking if I may
have the pleasure of calling on her, if
agweble-,'','vV''V--f-:'.-' ,-.'(" E.
Await some more favorable opportunity T
of addressing her in person, your intro
duction being the' sesame te better e-' '
qualhtaiice. However, there would be lit
tle, harm in addressing her a , courteous .
note. In referehce to ome social event '
that you would like to attend lu her?
bvuyeMii -!i- I.- . .,. fj.. .. -f fj -
"Dear Mlaa Fairfax I am in love with" -a
young man aged 11, and I am a Widow f
aged 18, having three children.-" I have
some money, but money does not seem ?
to , bother him. He pretends - he loves - '
ine and .wants to get married. A
1-. t : a ?C HEARTBROKEN OLdA, t
You are a great many years too old 1
for 'him. He-might be your son. Do not . -be
so foolish as to marry him. He would ,
hot make you happy and you would not
make him happy , either. -Peeple will
make fun of you, and that kUls love T
very quickly, - ? 4 ,