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THE NOMINATION OF
KERB HAS, BEEN tremendous' growth irf the
sentiment against silver wlthln-the ranks of tha
Democratlo party east and aouthi to4ha,paat four
years. There baa been a lets radical
mphatlo growth In tha aama direction
and ven tha "far Sreet Itself. , Thia
;Tariety of causes. In tbe south the
heartily In accord with the sentiment tour years ago.
! With favoring commercial conditions
Realising that tha bulk; of tha Democratic vote waa there
they wera determined to look to New
the west for leadership this yean.. Many Democrats -wera
'from the first 'opposed to the financial -principle of the
Democratlo platform. ; pthers became tired of following: a
lost cause " But last and most appealing was the fact that
'natural conditions bad settled this
as they had wished, though not according to the methods
.which they had advocated.' There was
duction of gold, and the per capita
much, that nature accomplished,. what
VO wj cvg iDte.uyu.
With this weakened sentiment all
the preponderating sentiment In tha east and south that
this feature of tha financial question was permanently
settled, the two wings of the. party laced each other at St
Louis. - The chief aentlment there,
convention land was first definitely realised, was to secure
common ground upon which Wli could stand, without
loss of self respect. - In tha opinion of
form" aa finally adopted met the' contemporaneous Issues
fairly and squarely, while utterly Ignoring the silver ques
tion. The west was entirely satisfied with the result and
therefore entirely suited with the candidate. But the mo
ment the telegram arrived ; from Judge Parker stating
'that If he were to run tha convention roust consider the
saver question Irrevocably settled, the house of cards so
laboriously, raised tumbled about-tbe
.wrought framers. On this one question they, bad sought
to' temporise, to conciliate, and It w'as upon this one ques
tion that the candidate would neitner
clliate. The result was unique and perhaps tha most
extraordinary -ever witnessed In a national convention.
That there should be anger, beat and Indignation was to
be expected.' It was a case where
xnendous toll and deep travail the man
accorded xne mgnesi nonors wiunn
yention, deliberately kicked the fat
dined to stand upon the platform as
the bombshell bad been exploded earlier, If .It bad been
absolutely known from the start that
have demanded a gold platform and
nothing less, the final outcome might
hMn nttwnrlM.-'u far aa it related to
the party Itself would have been rent
late now. It was too late then, to discuss
boen. .The delegates were facer to face
- and perforce they accepted It with
'could muster. ?'':""'.;':'.
Wheat hot blood has cooled and the
Irritation baa abated, first Impressions will be much
modified. To' begin with If a majority of the party has
"reached Judge Parker's conclusions It should frankly stand
'there. It should, as Mr, Bryan Bald, be perfectly honest
with the people-. If this Is Us stand and Judge Parker
. la Its candidate, then certain questions of practical poli
tics naturally obtrude themselves. . . The platform will
'make no difference with .the south. . Judge Parker's ul
timatum will , actually strengthen It
portant respects .there, . The sentiment In his own state Is
profound and unmistakable. '- Where he stands, stand an
.overwhelming majority of the New, York people. Where
. .'they, stand, stand a. great, majority of 'the people of the
'surrounding states' wherein, there would be a possibility
f - Democratic - success . under - right -
States which would be adversely affected there Is little or
no hope of Democratlo success this year. The number of
their electoral votes Is small In any
to gain them," New York and' the
after the campaign waa over the- Democratlo party would
be left In -worse, position than It waa
- nihility -of ita being bronghj r together
amity! would be -mightily lessened.
Parker, while It was resented by tha
. It provoked some bitter spontaneous
Will arouse great enthusiasm in those
-country where be has the best hope of
lonu votes, -wunout tnem Roosevelt would win in a
walk this year; with-them In the doubtful column there
.will be a much harder fight than was
' .The battle this year will be In the east and a few of
the Important atates of the middle west. There Is some
hope now of success; titers was none before the conven
tion met. Many things may happen between now and
the 8th day of next November. Much will depend upon
fwhat Judge Parker has to say In his speech f acceptance
'and the letter which he will later formally give
forth. f Much will depend upon the campaign made
In his behalf, much upon his capacity for growth
In the - sections 'where he most needs strength.
. With the powerful sentiment In . his behalf in
the convention, representing so many Important sections
ct the -country, with the boldness and courage- which he
undoubtedly possesses, it Is Idle to think that he will not
make a powerful campaign and have back, of him In.
fluences whjeh. profoundly -affect every presidential elec
tion. If be- possesses the genius for leadership with which
he Is credited In New York be will allow no grass to grow
under his feet between now and next November, and he
will say such things and do such things aa will make him
a genuine factor .in the enterprise before the campaign
- has far, advanced, - 1
V stusut ou noim
Thomas 9, ' Jaeksom to Years Of Age
''.and. aHin Toasg. ;
From the Heppner Qeiette:
Thomas P. Jackson of Hamilton, Grant
county. . was a distinguished , guest at
the. Palace hotel laafThursday evening.
On the lapel of his coat hung a long
badge, and on this badge stood out in
- large black 'figures. "1S4&," and below
athe large figures were the words, "Or
go Pioneer Association." - The venera
ble old gentleman had been to Portland
attending the Pioneer association and
was on his way home,, and aa he sat
,Jn the office of the aotel fingering and
smoking a olgar, hardly' with the grace
tf some of the later dudes,, but with
certainly as much solid comfort, he was
surrounded by a gond-slsed auJlenoe of
Interested and amused listeners as he
told afwut how be was entertained by
the "nighty fine brass band, the speak
la'," eto la the now large city where
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PARKER.
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AVID B.
though nevertheless
in tha middle west
has been due to
leaders were not
they became less so,
York rather than to
States senate, and
phase of tha Question
such a great pro.
circulation- grew so
JK wm Proposed to
nomination. "';..
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along tha line,' with
when the lay of the
though there Is
the west the plat'
game, and plays It
But did he not
parently acquiescing
judgment, the best
eare 4f its over
temporise nor con'
ject was to secure
the convention,
yield to Parker's
doubtedly was a.
after days of tre
Altogether. It was
to whom had been
convention, of which
wo gui ui me co'-H?nyTJomlnfttlng spirit.
In the fire and de
It was written. If
Judge Parker would
would have accepted
possibly not bays
his candld&CV. but
were killefi
In twain. It la too
Jersey between a
what might have
train. The excuse
with the Inevitable
the best grace they
'v'-. ;'
trains are running."
feeling of natural
loss of life, .must
will greatly decrease In number and destructlvenesa.
It may be - said
The fact is that
In some- very im
trusted to i their I care.
fact and cause;
conditions. In - the
better enforcement
event and If, In order
crowds of, people-
east were lost, then
Such accidents
alarmingly and
whatever Is best,
before and the pos
ln-fult-mccova-and
,-to prevent them. ,
The action of Judge
convention and while
GOOD
criticism In the west,
.sections of the
T
HE United
winning the elec
anticipated. -
lish 'and maintain
casion for adverse
The remarkable
there had not been
Santiago de- Cuba
Cuba bids fair to
public In freeing
govern themselves and work out their own destiny, the
United States did a splendid piece of work. Whether the
Philippines shall be treated In like manner remains to be
seen. There ls-sufficltnt ground for pointing with pride
to Cuba, but not so
he once traveled when the site of Port
land was a wild wilderness. His an
ecdotes were well sandwiched with witty
sayings and jokes that kept the crowd
In a roar. of laughter.
A Oasette representative wbo saun
tered into the hotel was attracted by
the Crowd, and the center of attraction
wat a hale and hearty man who did not
look to be a day over t years Of age.
After listening a short time the Inquis
itive reporter oOuld not keep his fingers
from the badge and asked the sturdy old
pioneer if be crossed the plains in '4S.
-Well, can't ye read? Do ye think I
would be. weartn It if I- hadn't crossed
In '4tr waa the ready response.
' The newspaper man said that he must
have been very young when be creased
the plains, and at this the man with the
penoil waa nadged in the rlbe by - e
traveling man who said that the pioneer
was years of age. ,. ,
Uncle Thomas Jackson certainly has
the appearance of being able to pass the
century mark..- .. , . ,
mo. r. carrou.
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AN INTERESTING POLITICAL FIGURE.
HILL, the "active manager of Judge
.Parker at the fit. Louis convention, was an. Inter
esting and a potential figure, and doubtless was
reasonably proud of the position he occupied ahd the part
he played,, especially as. contrasted, with that which he
played four years ago at Kansas City, and eight years
ago at Chicago. : Mr. Jim hag'tAken mpromlnent part
In all Democratlo national conventions since 1S7, though
he did' not become a figure of national Importance until
1884. when he succeeded to the governorship of New
York,' when Cleveland waa elevated to the presidency. He
was" twice 'elected; to that office ' and later "was over
whelmlngly; defeated. He served one term In the United
selected as his colleague Edward Mur
phy, a, man. 'with few .Qualifications for .that position.
While on these occasions supported more or Urns heartily
by Tammany, he has recently been In opposition to and
defiance of that organisation, and entirely dominated the
late New York state Democratlo convention. It waa HUI,
alone, It might be said. Who brought out Judge Parker,
and who, more than all' other men combined effected his
Whether one admires or respects Hill as a politician, he
has again, become 'an Interesting figure, ' or at least was
so at Bt, Louis. In the event of Parker's defeat, and, of
Republican success In New York, Hill would again shrink
Into comparatively small proportions, yet he Is likely to
retain his mastery of the New York Democratic organ
isation, and use "It for .. whatever ' purposes he desires,
slight present . prospect of his accom
plishing anything of great consequence. But he Is a
persistent politician, who .' thoroughly., .understands the
with sardonlo shrewdness.
make a badmov at St. Louis, In ap
In a platform that ignored the- money
question, while he presumably knew that Judge Parker
would require a -gold standard declaration? Or was this
action, and the resultant turmoil and turbulence. In his
escape from the dilemma? Did Hill
not know that Parker would Insist on money plank?
And If so, why did he not say so, and Insist upon It In the
committee and the ' convention ? But the straight, open,
outspoken frank way Is not ordinarily Mr. Hill's way.
He probably planned Just what happened. nis first ob
Parker's nomination; then, he reasoned.
weary and becoming Indifferent, would
demand. But the trick,' for it un
trick on his part, nearly failed.
a Strang- winding no of a -curious
Hill, mora than inr othep Tnan. m
RECKLESSNESS IN RAILROADING.
HB fatal carelessness of .corporation servants wss
again exemplified ;, yesterday, ' when IT persons
and SO Injured In a collision In New-1
regular passenger train and an excursion
made Is that the tower operator low
ered hJ flag too soon. . But such carelessness, rendering
travel by rail, and especially on Sunday, when excursion
dangerous, and resulting In fearful
be held Inexcusable, and those owning
and operating railroads must be held' accountable and
punished or mulcted' to such an' extent that such accidents
that accidents will . happen; . ' that no
amount of precaution will entirely prevent them and this
may be to some extent true; but .there are certainly far
more of such accidents than are necessarv. or excusable.
men engaged In one capacity or another
In carrying passengers become careless of the lives en
1 Most such accidents are due ta this
somebodrf carelessly or . negligently
blundered. The annual death-list from railway accidents
makes an appalling total, and severe punishment of , the
most responsible parties should result In Its . decrease.
Very, likely, also, there- should be -Stricter la ws, or -the
of present' laws, regulating the opera
tion of trains, especially In tha case of excursions, when
are being carried on special trains.
are very rare In Europe, but they are
terribly frequent here. pmethlng,
and all that la possible, should be done
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RESULTS IN CUBA.
States government has occasion to be
satisfied with and proud of what It has accom
plished in Cuba. - If It can make an equally good
record In the Philippines, helping their people to estab
self - government there, It will be no oc
criticism. , , - r
statement was recently made that
a case of yellow fever In Havana or
for the past four years. When we
remember how yellowjack Waa an annual scourge In
those cities, spreading thence over to the southern states,
the character and value of the work done by the United
States in Cuba may be somewhat appreciated.. Governor
General Wood may have had his faults; very likely he
wasi extravagant, and In some cases abused his power;
but In cleansing Cuba and making Its cities healthful In
stead of plague. s-pofs, he. and those associated with him
did a splendid service fof not only Cuba, but for humanity.
become a prosperous,, respectable re
that gem of the Antilles from Spain,
and setting Its people on their feet,' and giving them, aa
promised, their liberty, and allowing them In the main to
much so, aa yet, to the Philippines.
AIOIIOAI" VATZOS.
' From the New York World. ;
' Secretary Hays order that 'our em
bassies, abroad, shall be ofaclatly desig
nated as "American" will be criticised
by our Canadian cousins, yet It is a sen
sible arrangement
'.Hitherto the official designation has
been "the embassy of the United
States," which was Inaccurate, elnce
severs! other countries are called "the
United States" of Venesuela, . ef prazll,
and so on. aoh is known abroad by Its
last name. "The Braslllan minister,"
"the Venesu elan 'envoy," are terms
everywhere in common bse, - 80 "the
Amecloaa ambassador" has always had
one meaning, even before' Mr. Hy's
order was Issued. , -
Undoubtedly we are sll "American"
together, but no nation save "the United
States of America" has put the name
Into Its' official title.- The new nomen
clature Is short, convenient and will be
universally understood.
. Nowno mud-sllnglng. (
I Esepus vs. Oyster Bay
. Cortelyou's pompadour Is sttffer than
ever. . ; .-. ..
Isn't King Coward, as a peacemaker,
working overtime! -
Now Judge, "write it "out carefully
the people are listening.
' Even the few people left la Colorado
wui oe allowed to, vote.-
Dowie Is for Roosevelt.
And
yet
Roosevelt may be elected. ,
Kuropatkln had rather be a Demo
cratic candidate : for president.
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The water wagon will not get Into the
White House grounds this year.
Watson, too: -we forgot to . mention
him. Qood man: will get over a dosen
votes.' .. . ...
Chicago Tribune; Luck sometimes
makes a president and . sometimes un
makes one. ' . . , -
Pretty soon people -will , be kicking
about the red -ants that are. eating up
the hou weevil . i " . ; '
Polities Is continually becoming more
gentlemanly, and' possibly more re-
speotable.-Jet us nop so. rrr -i
Chics goNews: St. Louis will be too
busy trying to keep Its thermometer
from blowing up to pay much attention
to the cannon-cracker problem. '
The correspondents are nearly aa Ig
norant about the conferences of King"
Edward and Emperor WUllam as about
the difficulty between Kurokl and Kuro
patkln. Bat they will, find out later,
and as soon as possible. -, .
Atlanta Journal: David Bennett HUI
Is planning to beat ' Tammany. , David
Bennett owes bis failure in life largely
to the fact that he is always planning
to beat some other Democrats, when he
should be planning to beat the Republl-
Twelve different klnde of bugs, ac
cording to official statistics, do an esti
mated damage to American farm prod
ucts of t3tt.000,000 per annum-i-ebout
a mullqn dollars a day. The chinch
bug heads the list, with $100,000,000;
grasshopper, $80,000,000; Hessian fly (a
reminder ox the revolution, since the
mercenaries hired by King Oeorge
brought Its eggs in the straw for their
a)' $60,000,000: ootton boll weevil.
$60,000,000. But who knows how many
pests these pests destroy! . -
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When the roll Is called down yonder
He ll be there:
When the roll is called 'down yonder
ge-ii De tnere;
Mr. Bryan and his troupe, '
Once a day will loop the loop
When the roll is called down yonder
ne n be there. .
... Chicago News.
When the roll was called down yonder
he was there: - -
When the roll was called down yonder.
mia not air;
Mr. Bryan and the rest
' Will all do their very beet .
TO elect Judge Parker next 'November,
storm or rair. . . . r v
nun noBLSK at fastaiu.
slow American Sanitary Officials riaa
to Hake the Xathmas Habitable.
(Col. William C. Oorgaa, Medical Corps,
" U. 8. A., In Review of Reviews.)
- We shall have at Panama, compact
little territory of (00 square miles,
under a government with ample au
thority, approaching the military In Its
powers . and 1 liberally supplied with
funds. . '
The canal strip will be practically an
Independent state, as far aa sanitation
Is concerned. To protect ourselves from
Infectious diseases being . Introduced
from "the outside we shall have quaran
tine establishments at Colon and Pan
ama similar to those at New York City,
where ships can be examined, and. In
oase any infectious disease is found, the
sick can be isolated and eared for.
The part of the sanitary organisation
that will involve by far tha greater par)
of the expense will be the hospital sys
tem for the care of the sick. With the
view of keeping ' In close touch with
malaria,- y silo w - f everaftd " other- infec
tious diseases, It will be our endeavor
to get all the sick fromtbe whole popu
lation to eome to the' sanitary depart
ment for treatment. - With this object
in view, we expect to equip our hos
pitals with the best modern appliances
of every kind and with the most skilful
personnel In the way of physicians and
nurses. We hope in this way to .do
away with the general prejudice against
hospital treatment which exists svery-
where among the poor and Ignorant.
Taking the towns of Colon snd
Panama, X do not think that It would be
a large estimate to say. that when work
Is ' la full swing, two or three years
from now, we shall have a population on
the strip of 100.000. It Is not a large
estimate, particularly In the tropics, to
say that 10 per eent of this 100,900 will
be constantly sick from one cause or
another. If our efforts are crowned with
suooess we ought to be able to get half
of this IS per cent under hospital con
trol. This would give us a hospital
population ef 8.000 to look after.
We hope that a year from now, when
our unaccUmated population cornea, it
will be to clean, uninfected - villages,
with all the present native population
free from malarial infection, and that
there' will be left very few rnalarial mos
quitoes, and that, these few, not being
able to bite any human being previously
inrectea with malaria, will be harmless.
This is not an- entirely theoretical
sohome. In Havana yellow fever was
earedfor Injuat the way we propose
for malaria. The Infected human being
was taken and placed under screening
and treated until he was free from In
fection, and thus no yellow-fever mos
quito was allowed to bite him during
the Infected period and beoome herself
Infected. At the same time wholesale
mosquito destruction waa carried on,
At the end of about eight months of
this work It waa. found that the num
ber of yellow-fever mosquitoes had been
greatly decreased, and that those that
were left could find no human being in
fected with yellow fever whereby they,
the yellow-fever mosquitoes, might be
come Infected ahd thus oonvejr It to
other human beings. ' For the past three
years Havana has been free from yellow
fever. An unaccUmated man can go to
Havana now, and though he may prob
ably be bitten a good many times by
yellow-fever mosquitoes,, -these mos
quitoes hare had no opportunity In the
past three yeass of biting a human being
Infected with ' yellow fever, and there
fore are themselves entirely, harmless.,
This condition we hope to bring about
In the villages along the canal route by
means similar to those adopted at Ha
vana,
July. 10 We proceeded by a prairie
on . the upper side of .Wolf river, and
at about four miles passed a creek 'II
yards wide, on the south, called" Papa's
ereek after a Spaniard of that name who
killed . himself there. At six miles we
dined on an Island called by the French.
Isle de Salomon, or Solomon's Island,
opposite which on the south is a beauti
ful plain covered with grass. Intermixed
THE CONQUEST OF THE SUN
By Garrett P. ServlssJ V -,
(Ooorrixht. laoi. by W. B HeareM J
Dlatano Is a .matter of small Conse
quence to the astronomer. Across the
vast Siberia ot apace his comunlcaflona
are swift, sure and unlnterupted. The
beams of light are his express train's.
his troop ships And his bearers of dls-
patches-i-aU in one. The track that
light pursues Is safe from raids ' and
secure against all Interference. As far
as -light speeds the empire of astronomy
extends, and stands firm. .'
One of the grandest attempts of as
tronomy, 'inspired by recent discoveries
ot the infinite possibilities .of knowledge
locked up in light. Is the expedition
which has lust aet out from the Terkes
observatory to go to the top of Mount
Wilson, in California. It is a new and
magnificent attack-on the citadel of
the solar mysteries.
On that mountain. In that . pellucid
air which barns blue above the . golden
coast of the Pacific, there is to be placed
a telescope,-lying borlsontally on the
ground, 146 feet in length, with a mir
ror In whose foous will glow an image
of the eun 1 inches in diameter.
An instrument with a name as long
ahd as strange , to look at as those of
some of the vanished monsters of the
Jurassic and . Cretaceous ages a speo
troheliograph will be employed ' to
study the Inner solar image formed by
the telescope. The speotrohellograph it
self bes a focus length of ne less than
SO feet .- -
These dimensions are named simply
to show the ambitious scale of this en
terprise and to prove that the astrono
mers also can build mighty engines, im
posing for slse alone, when they have
an important conquest in mind.
But the points of interest Is the re
sults that it is expected will be achieved.
It will 'go hard if the sun doee . not
yield up some of his seccataubefere this
year closes. .'.'...- , . , .
A spectrohellograph is an Instrument:
whioh cannot be described In a para
graph.. For some persons It could not
be. described at all. . Nevertheless it Is
a machine of amazing power, and what
it does can be told in a sentence.
It enables the astronomer to view the
sun In light of his own choosing.
HOW TO USE
, - By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.) ' -; '
' (Copyright, 1904, by W. K. Bearst.)
A man who lays no claims to any Ism,
creed or ' ad to me today; "It Is
not what we Inherit, but what we ao-
cept of our Inheritance, and what we do,
which counts,"
That Is the whole of a great phil
osophy' In a nutshell. No more absurd
statement ever emanated from the lips
of man than the one which declares
there is no inheritance." ,
As well say that no man over left
a sod a fortune, aa 10 say mai no man
ever transmitted bis virtues snd vices
to his children. But when a son in
herits a fortune it is not that fact, but
the --use he makes of it, which counts
to Ms credit or discredit.
If your father left you a gambling
house and a dive, and you continue to
draw revenue from them, you are slay
ing your own. soul and helping to slay
others. ' If you turn them into model
tenement houses and establish kinder
gartens and other moral Institutions in
their places, you are building up your
own character at the same time you
benefit others. If you Inherit a violent
temper and indolence -And -loth -from
your parents and mane that an.excuse
for your - dlsagreeableness - snd ' your
depravity," you are merely allowing tha
gambling den and dive to cumber Jthe
ground of your mind domain. If you
control those tendencies with your God-
given .will, you can .clear .out the un
wholesome territory and make It a
garden spot of beauty. '
Whatever' your tendencies may be.
you have the will and .the power to rise
above them, to oonquer yourself snd to
rebuild your character.
No man la In fault for being like an
unworthy parent in early youth. He is
shamefully in fault for remaining like
him at middle life. '
Willi WAS TO FAJLTY SOXJTf
Xa Maine, Say the Bepublloans of That
,'. .' State. . - ' '.. -'
Bangor, Ma, Special in New York Sun.
The Republicans of this state believe
that the birth of the Republican party
took place ta Strong, Me., and not In
Jackson, Mich., as Republicans in the
west, assert '
The assertion of the Maine Republi
cans is based on ths fact that the Strong
Convention, which waa held on August
1864, waa the first regular assemblage
of delegates to any convention ' whioh
recognised the word Republican as the
title of the; party. According to the
assertions of the Maine Republicans, the
mvetjng ,heidla jackson..ien.ir July. f.
1B&4. wea no nor. then. a. nthrine- of
the anti-slavery . ailments of the state
In response to a call for a mass meet
ing to take counsel regarding future
action. . The Michigan mass meeting
passed resolutions, declaring those pres
ent as members of the Republican
party, a . name aumgeeted by Horace
Greeley in the prevloua winter.
The argument presented by the Maine
Republicans Is that when the prohlbl-tlon-and
anti-slavery wings of the Demo
cratlo party met In Portland June 7,
864, and nominated Anson P. Morrill
for governor, the presiding officer, C J.
Talbot of Oxford county spoke of form
ing a coalition with the old Whigs and
organising the Republican party, dwell
ing .upon the name at soma length. At
the close of his address the convention
arose and gave three cheer's for the Re
publican, party. .
Maine's claim. , to having been the
birthplace of. the Republican party has
been held by leading Republicans for
years.- On August,?, '184,-when-James
CK Blaine was a candidate for president
and Maine waa mil on fire with enthusi
asm, the thirtieth birthday of the Re
publican party was celebrated at Strong
with wild rve and a kind of wild potato.
After making 10 miles" we -stopped fer
the night on the northern side, opposite
a cliff of vallow day. The river nas
neither risen nor fallen today. On the
north the lowland is very extensive,
and. covered with vines; on the south
the hills approach nearer the river, and
back of them commence the plains.
There are a great many goslings .along
the banks.--'---"-''',--;;. ,-. .
The sun shines with light of many
different wave lengths. These waves of
light are all mingled In our eyes. ' But
the spectrohaliograph. can look at the
sun in light ' of . any particular wave
length, disregarding, or not seeing, all
the others. " ,
' Thus, there Is In the solar, atmosphere
a vast , quantity of glowing hydrogen,
which gives forth' light of certain wave
lengths and no -other. . The spectrohello
graph Is capable of showing the astro
nomer an image of ttMTsun In the light
of' hvdrocen alone. It can nhotoaraoh
that Image, and- a strangs thing. In
deed, the great orb of day appears when
only his clouds of hydrogen are showing.
80, too , the solar atmosphere and the
solar surfeTca," called the photosphere,
contain -great, quantities of vaporised,
biasing bright calcium, and the .other
elementary substances. Each of these
shines by light of Its own peculiar
choice, having Its own wave lengths,
and each of these can likewise be picked
-out by the spectrohellograph. - The sun
eaa be shown, for instance, in calcium
light, and thue seen It looks more un
recognisable than In hydrogen light.
Owing to difference of pressure chang
ing the aspect of the light waves, the
same substance,- - floating at different
elevations In the sun, presents different
pictures of the solar disk, and the speo
trohellograph shows all these pictures.
In turn, according as It la set for one
level or another.
Thus, with the aid of this singular
instrument this eye of science, which
can render Itself blind to what . it
chooses rot to see,-and astoundlngly
persplctent for what It wills to behold
mask after mask mSy be stripped off the
face of the sun, revealing him In more
yarlous aspects than a trust promoter.
it is applying this penetrating method
of solar research on a larger scale and
with more precision ' than ever before
that Professor Hale, with the huge in
strument already described, has started
for Mount Wilson. There, a mile above
the level of the .Pacific in an atmos
phere famous for its purity snd seren
ity, he may go far to answer for us that
question, ss old as Adam's first day In
raraaiae. -wnai is tne sunrv
A HERITAGE
A great Trench philosopher said: "No
woman is in fault for not being beautl
ful at Is, but every woman la at (fault
If she is not beautiful at 40.", It is the
same with our characters. We are
given - rough materials , in early youth
and life is a tool with which to shape
them Into beauty. ...
Moral worth, suooess and beauty can
be - fashioned ' from - the ' roughest
materials. If. we choose to . set about
the work understanding and keep at
ine tasg.
Whatever is ugly snd useless and un
worthy must be slowly chinned awav.
Selfishness. Jealousy of others who have
started with seemingly better-materials;
mooience, doubt of our own abilities
greed, which wants sll the advantages
and rewards: immorality, which wants
to trespass upon the rights of others
sll these things must be chiseled away
and beauty and harmony produoed in
place of them. Do not plead the poor
material put In your hands by your an
cestors; remember, 'It is not -what we
Inherit, but what we accept of that
inheritance," and the use ws.maks of it,
wnicn counts. . -
I care not who were vicious back of iHe,
No shadow of their sins on me Is shed;
ny win is greater man Heredity,--- -
I am n worm to feed upon the dead.
My face, my form, my gestures and my
voice .
May be reflections from a raoe that was:
But this I know, and knowing It rejoice,
. I am myself, a part of the Great
Cause..
I am a spirit! Spirit would suffice.'
If rightly used, to set a chained world
. free: -
Am I not stronger thin a mortal vice
That crawls the length of some ances
tral treeT ,
with a great - barbecue. ' Among the
speakers were Mr. Blaine, Nelson Ding
ley, William P. Frye snd Hannibal Ham
lin of Maine and Julius. G. Burrows of
Micnigan. - , . ' ,
It was then that Mr. Hamlin said that
If a mass meeting which had passed
resolutions waa all that Michigan could
present he would see the meeting of
July I. 1864, held at Jackson, and go it
a month better,-by itlng the Portland
convention of June-ty. the same year, at
whioh Chairman ..Talbot had recognised
the .existence pf .the Republican party
in a moving address,- whioh had been
loudly cheered. In conclusion, he said
that as the Strong convention of August
7 was the first official party action to
g1veapproval to the name of Republi
can, be " shoulrcIalm strong as the
birthplace, snd August 7. 1864, as the
birthday of the Republican party.
Mr. Burrows, who was then a repre
sentative in congress from Michigan,
approved of the decision and said that
he believed that Maine's claim . was
valid. .. - A .
' Fro of of Woman's Amiability.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
' One thing stands ss a sure proof that
woman Is sn amiable creature, easily
pleased and satisfied with her lot And
that Is, that when she buys a drees
ready msde she rejoices because It la
much better and cheaper than fussing to
have it marie. And when she has it
made hersnlf she wonders why people
ever, get things ready made when one
can have clothes made "Just as one
wants them and cheaper!" . '
Wedding la' Taasas.-
From ths Colby Trlbuns.'
The bride. Miss Alfaretta Trembler,
appeared ' smiling and winsome. . Mr.
George Brlnton McClellan Brown, the
groom, was more sober, but cerfectlr
composed. ..
, Oregon la all right, anyway. r -
, Greatest crops ever, after all. ' j
Thanksgiving day, will . be . properly
celebrated. . -1 . ,.
' Sheridan has a new (newspaper) Sun,
It shines brightly,
'Tillamook Headlight) Good roads.'
Yes; that la what this county requires.
Frineville Is to have a new Presby
terian church, Prlnevllle - is . becoming
civilised. - - ... . .
- ,-':, , ' ' - . .' t
Heppner Gasette: There will . be
plenty of work for all who want to work
In Morrow county until late in the tali.
One Polk county farmer had $00 tone
of hay, most of which he has shipped to
Portland, receiving from $lt to $11 '41
What In the world people want to
have measles for. At this -time of . year,.
aa some have over la Tillamook county. ,
la more than can be easily Imagined.
Within the' past few months' W. O,
Minor of Heppner has, sold : 68 bead of -Shorthorn
cattle, . at an average price
Of $186.66. He stlU has 0 bead ot full
blooded Shorthorns.. ( , '. '.:' S ''
'The farmers of eastern Oregon and '
Washington -care ' little - about . - either
Roosevelt or Parker, or any other poll-
tlotan. These farmers have good busl- -noss
of their own to attend to. . - ,
A big Irrigation meeting will b held
14 Vale on July It for the purpose-of -organising
a Water User's association, .
to co-operate with the government in '
carrying its supposed project Into ef
fect .
Hon. 8. B. Huston has written some
very Interesting articles from 8t Louis
for the HUleboro Independent In do
ing so, he not only did that paper a.
great favor, but Interested and In
structed many people all Us readers. ;
Dayton Herald: Dayton anoear a to "
be somewhat puglllatlo. at this time.
.two young men, Aioert rarrlsn and
Ray Krelts had a little set-to Saturday .
night John .Crawford and Joe Baxter -on
Wedneaday evening; Baxter reoaiv- -
mg severe Injuries. The -same evening '
I there came near being another tueseT
between two other Dart lee. -.-
Grant County . News: Fine farm a '.
prollflo orchards, rloh metal mines.
promising eoal measures, snd the whole
overspread with bountiful grass snd :
belted with choice -timber such, - In
brief. Is Grant county. ; And when It is
understood that its resources have been
but juat touched upon, capitalists will ' .
enter it as an attractive field,
With a large sum In' the treasury to
the credit of the ' road fund Harney
county should make a moat decided
change for the betterment of her roads . ' -this
season. There is considerable work
needed in this respect which no doubt
will be looked after by our county su
pervisors. Burns, Times-Herald. This
Is the right sort of talk. Good roads T
are the most Important thing now for -the
country. . ,,. , . - .,.-,
Wasco News: . Now la tha
time of the season for land Owners and
farmers to bunt up all the Russian this
tle on their land and dig it up and burn -.-
iu inn imsue, wften allowed to get a
start is ons of the worst things a :
farmer has to contend with, and avarv -
sprig of ths nuisance should be burned.
It will soon blossom, and tha win wilt
scatter ths seed all over creation If it Is
snowed to ripen. Go after It with nick i
and shovel, if necessary, and don't let It '
get started on your farm, or you will
regret lt; .....
Albany Herald: Linn eount will nm i
duce enough for a harvest festival even
if no more rain falls this season. Fall
grain looks welL sprinc araln holds Ita
healthy color, and will be greatly lm- ' "
proved by the showers even this late.
There are prunes enoua-h left over to
laat a reasonable people another vear.
Berries are in sufficient suonlv to so
around. Cherries are so plentiful as to
be no temptation to tha dlshoneet It is
worth while occasionally to count up
what nature haa done for dwellers here- .
about . '
Advice to the Lovelorn -
Y BXATMC1 rArXTAX. -
Dear , Miss Fairfax: About three ,
weeks ago Z met a young lady of whom ,
1 learned to think quite a great daaL
In the course of little more than three
weeks she' became actually Infatuated
with me (pardon the egotism), and after
an ebsenoe of a few days I received a
letter from her. This was followed by
a second and a third, each one express
ing ner love more than the first one,-the -third
one saying that aha could live
with me forever. . I met her, as she
asked me to. and chlded her for what I
called indiscretion." She became offend--"'
ed at this and elalmed that she only
wrote them in fun. I think It too serl-
ous a matter to fool about and would
like to know whether you think aha
acted rightly In writing such letters, and .
wneiaer 1 ougm to return them, aa she
haa asked me to. ,
PERPLEXED LOVER. "
Return the letters snd nrotact he -
against, every one. Including yourself.
You are right; she should not Joke on
such a serious subject But if she Is'
sorry and did not mean anything, for- '
give her and help her by dolns what aha
asks.
Portland, July 1 Dear Miss Fairfax:
have been keeping comnanr with a
young man for eome few1 months .
whom I have known since I was 1$ years
old. I am now 10. and he la tt. Ha la
goiitg to England, and wishes to marrv
me and take me with him. Aa much as .'
care for him. I cannot make tin mv -
mind to go, consequently he thlnica t
do not love him. I have a brother aev. - -
era! years younger than myself, and It
seems to me a duty to stay and give htm
a mother's .care, which he would not
have should 1 go away. Advise me as
to whether I shall give up the young .
man. ; TESflllt
If your brother Is .11 he -ahnuM t
able to take care of himself and leave
you free from responsibility for him.
If you care for the young men. I would
not aiiow tne care of the brother who,
I take it Is paat 17 to stand In the
way. The brother would not be so self-,
sacrificing for your sake, and h
should you make great sacrifices for
htm? Doubtless. he would be better ntt
t he bad to rely upon himself, . When '
i youth passes IS it Is well tn for ,
him to be self-reliant, self-supporting,
self-governing.. Bo, If you respect and
love this man. marrji, him and- go with
him to the veriest corners of tha earth.
and let the brother demonstrate hie
worth ahd right to existence.
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