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.V , ' , I Eflitoriall Page of Ife Jowrnfll I ; PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY, . JULY 25, 1804. TH E O REGON DAI LY JOURNAL. 1 Oregon Sidelights Small Change AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C. ft. JACKSON . Published every evening except Sunday) and every Sunday morning at The .; ; .i. . ' - .,.. . streets,' Portland, Oregon. AND STILL, THEY ARK CLOSED. PUBLIC GAMBLING has now been -clossd In Portland for two days and two nights and strange to relate no great calamity ha happened. Indeed things seem to move along In the even, tenor of their way: Just though nothing extraordinary had occurred. Perhaps the most surprising thing In the whole affair Is the ease with which It was accomplished. One moment they wars and tho next they were not. and that tells the whole stoty. A few days ago the gambling houses presented the most glaring and spectacular elements in the city's municipal life. The proprietors of the gambling establishments were men 'of force and-Influence . whose wishes many were forced to consult and before whom others were forced to.i bow. Politically tty . were powers to be reckoned with. In their behalf the city administration had set aside a whole body of laws, had been -proud to call them partners, to give them" the aid, of the' police force to guard them, "while keeping out Interlopers. And then they disappeared as though, before a gust of wind. .....'. As a matter of fact, as Is. now apparent to everybody. It was an unnatural condition of things. .These Institutions were maintained not only contrary to but despite the law. The moment an official movement of. genuine sincerity , Was started against them that moment marked th'e begin- nlng of the end." It Is positive proof "that If they were pef .ihi mm it ! Wait., thai nubile nfflrlala wished them to run, for It Is now demonstrated that would, at any. time have closed them. " "7 The Oregonlan' draws a sorrowful picture Of thin fortunate workingman with his week's wages In his pocket and utterly unable' to .find a place to gamble It away. And yet if It searched carefully It might have found some sadder pictures yesterday. Jf the sportive son of toll gbnght ways of ridding himself of his money, surely be could. have found them, for doubtless, even tnougn ne Is unmarried. It costs him something to live and it is a good deal easier to. meet his obligations with his money In his pocket than though, It were In-the gamblers' till. .;-,, . ' " l'."!' "1 'Vv THE AWAKENING OF 3ALEM. , ' WBe-SBSSBSSSe-a ( '.'.' PEOPLE all over Oregon, when their attention fc ' called to tho matter, are pleased to see Salem wak . ing up. and planning and working for notable and Important Improvements, and ther development of Itself and tho surrounding country. Salem people-have at last learned, and begun to appreciate, the fact that the way to build up a city is to develop the surrounding. and in com mon parlance the tributary country. This development Is accomplished by getting more people Into that country, people , who Improve,- and produce, and consume; "who, j while producing, something more than they consume,' and so becoming fore-handed, in doing so necessarily swell and enliven' the business of the nearest principal town. A city lives largely off th surrounding country, yet it dons 'not follow that the city takes from the country wit h- out rendering an equivalent. In many ways It helps the country as much as the country helps It. They should . work together In cordial alliance for their 'mutual benefit Now tho way to develop the country around Salem la to indue more people who are producers to live In that country. -- This can'only be done by decreasing the average Individual land-holding. Instead of one' man owning 640 acres of land, ,8, I or SI men ought to own this land; and each of these. In the case of many sections of Oregon's rich sol), can make as much off his SO, 40 or, SO acres, as the original owner does off his section of land. Now, on way to induce people to buy the land, and the . ..11 I. . A M .1-.-- . . . --J-.-. - v T. irai w mr-nr ir nrjLivn line, jjuv liict .uimuuii" ing region. Railway lines are usually built In advance of the country they traverse; that is, before the business of that region will make the road a profitable Investment; but Investors truly conceive and clearly perceive that the building of tho road will greatly develop the region, will attract land buyers, will Increase production and travel: and that In a few years the road will pay, and will even tually, and at no very far distant day, "pay big." This Is what Salem people are going, or trying, to do to build a line, or get It built, some five or six miles out In one direction, through a very rich agricultural country, where 10 or 20 times as many people might easily live and produce and prosper as live ther now. Salem peo ' pie are also working for a line to Dallas, In Polk county, IS miles away, and this will surely be built in the- near future-, for such a road would undoubtedly pay almost from the beginning. Indeed, there Is no doubt that In the near future ther will be a continuous line all the way from - Salem to Portland, and later this will extend southward also to Albany and Eugene, with lateral branches to va rious other towns, and through, well-peopled localities. . . . Such roads will aid Immensely In the development of the Willamette valley, and In increasing its producing pop BUTOra SsVBZZB XM BtJBSfA. Oripa and Sign Used in Bargaining for Precious Stones. From . the Jewelers' Circular-Weekly. The peculiar business methods of ori ental merchants are Illustrated by the manner- of buying rubles In Burma In the examination of rubies artificial light Is not used, the merchants holding that full sunlight alone can. bring' out the color and brilliancy of tbe gems. Sales must, therefore, 1 take place between a. m. and S p. m.. and the sky must be clear. t Tb purchaser, placed hear ml window, has before him a large copper plate. The sellers come to -him one by one; and each empties upon this plate his little bag of rubles. The purchaser proceeds te arrange them for valuation In a number of small heaps. The first division Is Into three grades, accord ing to sice; each of these plies in turn la sgaln divided into three piles, accord ing to color, and each of these plies in turn la again divided Into three groups, according to shape. The bright copper plate has a carious use. The sunlight reflected from' it through the stones brings out. with true rubies, a color ef fect different from that with red spin els and tourmalines, which are thus easily separated. ; Tbe buyer and seller then go through a very peculiar method of bargaining by signs, or rather grips. In perfect Silence, After sgreelng upon the fair ness of the classification, they Join their right hands, covered with a handker chief or the flap of a garment and by grips and pressures mutually under stood among all ' these dealers they make, modify and accept proposals of purchase and sale. The hands are then uncovered and the price are recorded. . . CX9XB XM XBOLAJTD. from the London Dally Mail. .Every summer that arrives brings with tt. a fashionable beverage, though bow the fad is started no one ever knows. One summer . every one was drinking barley-water and extolling Its merits; this year -elder la the smart drink, amt much discussion Is rife oon- published by JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. OFFICIAL. IAPE OP iTHP CITY' OP, ulation. The time ment.- Salem is not and already a city demonstrated to us, . was the spirit of 'generous rivalry which It evoked without at any time degenerating Into what might be called the 'coarse stVenuoslty of the football scrimmage with its slaughterhouse attachments.1 . Not withstanding the list of mauled, . battered and broken limbed participants in yesterday's game we are stiH In clined to -think that while It might not be a safe gam to Introduce Into a female seminary curriculum It Is rea sonably safe and exhlliratlng if played anywhere but In Seattle.-" .:''' - y ,'- The Seattle' brand of game, however, Is not lacrosse pure and simple, but seems to Involve new features in cluding mayhem; assault and battery, thuggery, hobnailed shoes and other appurtenances which( doubtless have a proper place in the scheme of .American civilisation, but which ordinarily are not regarded either 'as an essential or desirable part 'of every-day lacrosse. Ordinarily, It is understood, these extraneous features are not introduced Into the game even In Seattle; they only become the most important part of It' when there Is danger, or as in the case, of the Portlandera! absolute certainty, of winning. The Seattleltes are not good losers, It is particularly Irk some to them to lose to Portland which is a new club,. Jus organised this year, and which comes from a rival city. a word from them In order to win yesterday's gam, brawny two-fisted men from the bleachers, utterly beside themselves with rage, took a hand In the contest which was brutal, cowardly and unsportsmanlike to the last degree. Arms were' broken, heads were smashed, some men narrowly escaped being choked to death. Altogether It was a' lively and deadly. game, though we are still. consoled by the' ..belief that It wasn't lacrosse as lacrosse is elsewhere played on the face of the earth; ' Its culmination was s brutal, almost mur derous, exhibition of which none should be so much ashamed as the good people of Seattle. , , - i - i ..4 ..... .f.: ADVICE-FOR WARM WEATHER. MANY eastern papers are now telling their readers how to keep cool when "It" is hot. In substance, "" and W several Instances almost in haeo .verba, they repeat the advice given not long ago In The Journal. Not that these contemporaries are guilty of plagiarism; -J AlP-l.Een5,b-!-iu,e9 .occur Jto. all observant, cool men. '" ' ; - But the subject Is called up again her not to repeat the advice for The Journal then advised Its. readers to re member It or clip It out for reference. In case of another warm spell but to remark that while such advice is timely for weeks together. In eastern cities, it needs to be given 'her only on rare and brief occasions; -f It was rather warm during two or three days last week, but scarcely uncomfortably so, for anybody who simply and sensibly kept cool. J But even if tome people were un comfortably warm for a few hours, consider and be thank ful for the delightful temperature and refreshing breezes, before and since, and nearly all the summer time. In this favored state and city. 1.- Take a day like yesterday, a sample of many of our sum mer days what weather sharp on earth could devise or imagine a trior , delightful 'day, climatically T Itwould7Te hard work to make to order a more perfect day.! And such days are so numerous that w scarcely notice them.. We only wake up to the weather subject when it, rains, or Is "hot-enough-for-you." 1 Th eastern papers' advice Is good; as far. as It goes, but it falls short; The addenda should be: Dear readers, go to Oregon. . earning its climax of excellence, and whether It should be spelled elder or cyder. ' It is a most refreshing and healthy beverage, according to some - connois seurs, taken neat; others extol It in the form of eup, and a third ' enjoy it diluted with soda-water, but without ice. which is said to cloak Its sest and destroy tha "snap" of the apples. In one form or another it 1a everywhere, at the restaurants, in the clubs, and even at big dinners, a fact upon which cider makers are congratulating them selves excessively. A beverage that Improves the com plexion and brightens the eyes Is cer tain to be a favorite one among women, and cider is said to perform both salu tary offices. It is not fattening In Its Influence, a fact that endears It to those who live In terror of adding to thetr avoirdupois, and It suits rbeumatl per sona. Altogether, it looks as if It would take lta proper place as a .national beverage, until some new fad rises to usurp Its place. . TtrBsmro tkb tabz.bs. From Success. . Many years ego. before the production Of grain was equal to the demand, wages of farm hands were high, but as production Increased the prices lowered faster than the rate of wages. A farmer employed an industrious Irishman for five years, at the rate of tlO a month "and found" board, lodg ing, washing and mending. At the end of the term, he said to his man: -' "I cant afford to pay you the wages I have been paying. Tou have saved money, and I have saved nothing. At this rate you wUl soon own my farm." . 1 Then I'll hire you to work for me,. Said the other, "and you can get your farm back again!" . Information Shree. - . . From the Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune. . Backe A man Is never too old to learn. Benn No. he can always And some body to marry him. j no. p. CARROU, Journal: Building, Fifth and .Yamhill i- PORTLAND Is rip for such enterprises. Where one family Uvea, In the Willamette valley, two, three, five, ten, twenty can and should live, In years to come, end wUU -. - .. V ' , It Is proper for Salem to take the lead in this species of enterprise, this reasonable and right schemer of develop only in the heart, almost In the ceiter of the great Willamette valley, but it ,1s the state capital. of importance, perhaps the third or fourth in Importance hi the state. It doubtless claims second place, bu that claim would at present be disputed by Baker City and perhaps by Astoria. .' But thlsjs not Important; Salem ran very likely gt Into second place, or make the world know that It Is thtre, by carrying out these proj-cted enterprises and following the pc)lcies which It is now laying down. , SEATTLE TRIMMINGS TO A LACROSSE ..' . .. .,'' .".GAME.. :- Jl-.J- THH JOURNAL ha. been a rather warm advocate ' of lacrosse. . It has accepted the game very largely on faith, having been, touched by the 'Infectious enthusiasm of' somer of Its local devotees' who received their sporting education on the other side of the line. What we particularly-admired about the game, a-it--was mvxxa tob WBATXBB From the Chicago Tribune, ' Now that real hot weather is here for a short term It Js proper to call at tention to a few well approved rulea, for the regulation of men's conduct during the heated spell. , Don't hurry. . Don't become excited. Keep cool. Remember the hot weather Is harder on the year-old baby than on the adult Don't take politics too seriously. Don't start in and do al the odd Jobs around the house which you have put off for the 'last six weeka If you at tend the ball game don't get worked up over the close decisions of the umpire. The heat has doubtless affected his brain. Don't carry fan with you. Take plenty of time to eat, and do not eat while overheated. Don't ' worry over the tailor's bill. Nobody pays the tailor In hot west her. He doesn't ex pect it Do not think that cold baths and cold drinks are palliatives of heat They act In the opposite way. Take a warm bath dally, or twice a day. Leave Ice out of your drinks. 'Better also cur tall, the cocktails and eliminate drinks too alcohol la ,. Take things easy. Let business go hang rather than worry over it Don't run for th car. Don't brood on tha lack of activity In the stork market. Don't worry over the high price of meat Vegetables are far better in hot weather. Don't go visiting where you do r.ot feel free to take off your coat Above all things, do not complain about this climate. You . might go around the world without finding lta equal. So far this1 has been sn excep tional Bummer in the mildness of Its dis position. Blnce the first of Juns there have been 102 degreea of heat less than the normal temperature. Last summer hot weather was practically unknown. Day after day the maximum tempera ture was less than 70 degreea If a person observe a few precau tions he need not suffer from the tor rid weather. The beat plan Is to go about work the sams as usual. When the mind is engrossed It Is suprislng how 111U on notice th weather. ' If you don't like Chief Hunt's menu don't stop at his hotel. Frequently the man who Is overcome by heat has swallowed It Emperor William Isn't saying a word, But he Js doing a lot of thinking. By th way, th state fair should be mads a greater success every year, ' Speaking of the weather .well, where would you go to find the beat of it? - - It .will be a friendly contest between Oregon counties at the Lewis and Clark fair, : : . , . . .., Bryan ami Cleveland are still both Democrats, but no Democrats that are still. " , . , : . . ;.; . , No, Candidate Davis Ola not vote for Andrew Jackson.. , He was not old enough. . ; . . ' ' , Candidate Parker IsliTthe iwlm every morning. And he get -along swim-) mlngly. . ; . ,, .. .':'' ' Nobody ever accused' Dava Hill of passing the plate In fhurctv as Judge Parker does. ' ' Evanaton, 111., has- many more women than men. Its name should be changed to Heavens ton. Some people think President Roose velt la too hot-blooded, but Jf. elected he will. have Fairbanks always, within Senator Clark haa owned up to being married, but when he Is dead how many women will bob up claiming to be his widow f r. ' - Judge Parker and' th Democrat man learned to swim In ths same river..-Albany Democrat . What a proud river It must be! . , ' Th two prineipsl candidates are very healthy men physically affd mentally, partly because of plenty of exercise in the open air. . ., . - . ,. - . Addtrks may carry Delaware for the president but how much harm will his alliance with Addlcka there do the pres ident elsewhere t Build up the stated and Portland will grow great as naturally and Inevitably as - a well-nourished child expands into a full-sised sdult ' ' The Roseburg candidate for president Is writing his platform. He has already notified himself of his nomination by, himself, ' snd sccepted. ; The law reoulrea people to cut all burdocks and thistles on their premises. but few do so. A few hints from the proper officer might have good results. - The Republican managers . intimate that the Hudaon river In the vicinity of Rsouus will be salty when Judge-Parker takes his bath the morning after elec tion. Now It la Judge JParker and his chief advisera, Instead of President Roose velt and his, who have their lanterns lit and their ; specs on. looking for a chairman. Up goes beef again In the east at: least never down. Strikes may come and strikes may go. but the price of beef, according to eastern pacers, goes on rising forever. - The-royal famlllea of Europe-are so Intimately connected by marriage all coualns of-aoroe-degrea, st least thaH it is a wonder they do not fall out. and fight more than. they do. A Kentucky saloonkeeper knocked Carrie Nation, who was pestering him. down with a chair. He oughtn't to have done it. and should be punished; but the provocation Is to be considered. No man at' SO or 0 should be dis couraged and think, he. Is getting old. If he Is good, snd can get very ricn. which they say is. Very easy these days that Is, the getting rich part he may in the course of 10, 10 or o years oe-come- a candidate for vice-president. Some women are complaining because the Women's Lewis and Clark Fair clubs have not been sufficiently recog nised by the management. There may he some merit irr their complaints.- but they seem to be rather premature. These women, howevef will help greany to make the fair a success, and should be given all the "recognition" prac ticable. TBI OZOBOB SAID OXBTBBBXai. From the London World. The George Sand centennial is full on. War has been waged agalnat romanti cism for ever so long, but here w now have a revival of George Sandlsm with new books about her and an ocean of reminiscences in newspapers and re vlewa. Tou have to face every day long articles about Sand and her lov ers. -Alfred de Muaset, Jules Bandeau, Chopin and Dr. Pagello of Venice, like wise concerning Maurice Band's puppets at Nohant and his mother's pet animals, favorite dishes and viewa on politics. It would have been quite enough to revive George Sand's memory by th performance at the Comedle Francalse which took place- on Friday, when "Claudia," her second play, waa brought out there for the first time. It first saw the light at the Porte, Saint-Martin In January, 1161, and was very successful. She had received good help from Bo cage, the comedian, and acknowledged It for Sand waa not a vain, greedy and ungrateful creature. Claudia Is the' granddaughter of a berry harvester and haa a fearful secret She has been betrayed by a young farmer, Daniel Ronclat The secret is disclosed at a harvest festival, where she meets an other admirer, Sylvain, who la reWdy to marry her. After some trouble Claudle consents to wed Sylvain, and she Is to be reinstated In village society, which has condemned her sin. Ths, rehabili tation,, which would pass easily nowa days, waa attacked In 1861, although Sand had tried to give eatiafactlon ; to publio opinion by environing her theory with rhetorical srguments. We are Hext to have a Musset revival, which will be fairly Interesting. te Muaset although once denounced as a feebler Byron, Is Still read and appreciated. . TBAOKXB'S Bid TXT FIX. From the Chapel Hill Newa M. B. Forbes of Camden county, who is attending the summer school, boasts of teaching the. most ponderous pupil this country has sver produoed. His name la Lewis Lswark, son -of John Lswark, a fisherman on Albemarle sound, lis Is tl years old and weighs 71 pounds. When he went lal school to Mr. Forbes he weighed over S00 pounds, and his mother told Mr. Forbes that Lewis weighed ISO pounds before he was weaned. -July S4-M. Our camp is by observation In latitude 41 degrees S minutes 11 seconds. Immediately t behind; It Is 'a plain - about Ave 1 miles wide, one half covered with wood, the other dry and elevated. The low grqund on the south near the Junction of the two rivers are rich, but subject to be overflowed. Further uiJ the banks are higher and opposite our camp the first bills approach tbe river and are covered with timber such as oak, walnut and elm. The Intermediate country Is wat ered . by . Paplllon or Butterfly creek, about IS yards ' wide, ' and- three miles from the Platte; on the north are high, open plains and prairies; at nine miles from the- Platte are Mosquito creek and two. or three small willow Islands. : r: We stayed here several days, during which we dried bur provisions, made new oars and prepared our dispatches and maps of the country, we had passed. for the president of the United States, to whom . w Intend to send them- by a periogue from this place. The. hunters have found game scarce In this neighbor hood; they have seen deer, turkeys and grouse: we have also had an abundance of ripe grapes, and . on of our men caught a white catfish, the eyes of which were small and Its tail resembling that of a dolphin. The present season Is that In which tbe Indians go out Into tha fields to hunt the buffalo;-but as we dis covered some hunters' tracks snd ob served the plains on fire In the direction of their villages, we hoped that they might have returned to gather the green Indian corn. W therefore dispatched two men to the Ottoe or Pawnee villages With the present of tobacco, 'and an in vitation to the chiefs to visit us. They tetumed after two days absence. Their first course was through an open prairie to the south, on which they crossed But terfly creek. They then reached a enu II, beautiful riw, called Coma de Cerf. or Elkhorn river, about 100 yards wide, with clear water and a gravelly channel.. It empties a little below.the Ottoe village Into the Platte, whleh they crossed, ahd arrived at the town about 46 miles from our camp. They found-no Indiana there, although they saw some fresh tracks Of a small party.-. ; The Ottoes were once a powerful na- tlon and lived about SO miles above the Platte on tne southern bank of the Mis-' sourL Being reduoed they migrated to the neighborhood of the Pawnees, tinder whose protection they now live. Their vllla-e Is on ths south side of the Platte, about SO miles from its mouth, and their number' la. SO families of Missouri Indiana who are Incorporated with them. rive leagues -above-them, on the same side of the river, resides -the nation of A JVORD TO (By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.) Certain things have haDnened of lata which would seem to make It necessary that some oYie having the cause of re. llglon at heart should speak a few plain words to the ministers. It Is thoroughly realised that many ministers do not need these words, but it is very evident, if reports are true. that there are clergymen who do need them, and need them badly. St. Paul. In his letter to the Romans, speaking of his calling as a preacher, said, "I magnify mine off ice." If the half that we hear la In lieved, fTnere are certain preachers in ths land who, Instead of magnifying their office, are doing their level beat to belittle and degrade It. For instance, it la said that not long ago a Newark clergyman invited the men of his congregation to attend the church services in their shirt sleeves, aasuring them that he himself should go Into- his pulpit and preach in the same easy, costume. And there is ths case of the other New Jersey pastor who notified his flock that he intended to hold In his church on Sunday mornings during' the hot weath er special services at which smoking waa to be allowed during the sermon. Finally we have the case of the Wis consin minister who has made arrange ments with the business men Of his town whereby in return for donations they, are to have advertising privileges in his church so much space on the walls of tbe church in return for. so much cash, . If what is said of these ministers Is true. It is quits apparent that they have a very Inadequate conception- of the value, dignity and sacredness of their office. If they are guilty of the alleged indis cretions, they are manifestly out of place in the pulpit At heart they may be good men, but they don't know what it means to be a minister of the gospel. They havs missed their calling. . . Of course, a man sitting in church In his shirt sleeves, with a pipe or cigar in his mouth, looking through clouds of tobacco smoke now at the business ads on ths walls and now at the coatless minister at the desk, can hear what the preacher may have to say as well as though he were differently attired and SOW FOBOXBT XM BZSOOTBBBB. By Study of Ulnnt Details of th Writing. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat . "I am not an expert In ehlroaraphy.' but I have at least made enough of a study of handwriting to tell why It is Often easy to detect the forgery of a name, though even the man whose name has been forged msy declare the hand writing a perfect replica of his own," Mr. Arnold Keating says, "Of. course, 'you know everybody knows, for . tihtt matter that ' - a man , or, woman never writes his nams twice exactly' In the same way. There la always a slight difference, snd where two signatures of the same name appear Identically alike It Is safe to assume that one or both Is a forgery. But suppose the signature has been forged but once, suppose the handwriting of which it is an exact copy haa been destroyed or Is not obtainable, of what avail Is the comparative method then? The exact comparison cannot be employed, but other almost Infallible comparisons are still available. - "When a child le taught how to writs at first its penmanship Is severely stiff snd cramped; then It becomes very much like that in the copybook, but after this Is discarded ths. child's char acter begins to creep Into Its handwrit ing. There are little Idiosyncrasies ap parent that are not to be found In the chlrography of other children, and this manifestation of character In writing continues to chsnge It with development until about the sgs of SS, when a per- -son's character la fixed; and the hand writing from that time on continues about the same. The forger's copy of the signature er writing will appear to the Pawnees.1 Thjs people were among the most nunrerona of the Missouri In diana but hairs gradually been dispersed and brokenand eVen sine th year I7W have undergone some sensible changes. Tbey now consist of four bands: ths first Is tbe Grand Pawnee, the one Just men-t tioned. of about 600 men, $p wnom oi lata years have been added the second band, who are called the Republican Pawneea, from their having lived on tbe Republican branch of ,he Kansas river, whence tbey emigrated to Join the principal band of Pawnees; . the Republican Pawnees amount to about S50 men. . The third are the Pawnee Loups, or Wolf Pawnees, who reside on tbe Wolf fork of the Platte, about SO miles from the principal Paw nees and number about SS0 men. , Tbe fourth, band ' originally resided on the Kansas and Arkansas, but lo their wars with ' the usages were so often defeated that they at last retired to their present position . on' the Red river, where they form a tribe of 400 men. All theae tribes live In Villages and raise corn; but during ths intervals of culture rove In the plains In quest of Buffalo.1 - Beyond them on the rlvef. ahd west ward of the Black mountains., are tbe Kanlnavelsch, consisting of about 400 men.' They are supposed to have emi grated originally from the Pawnee sta tion; but they have degenerated from the Improvements of the parent tribe, and o longer lv In villages but rove on th plains. i, - . - Still further to th westward are seve ral tribes, whd wander and hunt on the sources of th Piatt river, and thence to Rock mountain, ,the Rocky moun tain ,Tb tribe, of which little Is rnown beyond the name and population, ere first, the EtaiiAn or Kite- Indians, a tribe of 100 men. They have-acquired the name ef Kites from their flying-, that Is. their alwaya being on horseback, and the smallnesa of their numbers is at tributed to their extreme ferocity; they are the most warlike of all western In dians; they never yield In battle; they never spare thetr enemies, and the re taliation of this barbarity haa almost extinguished the nation. Then come the Wetapahato and Klawa tribes, as sociated together, and amounting to SOS men; the Casahana, of S00 nen, to which are added .the Cataka of 75 men. and the Dotaml. These wandering . trlbds ars conjectured to be the remnants of the great-Padouoa nation, who occupied the -country between th upper parts of the Platte-and the Kansaa Tbey were Visited by Bourgemont In 17S4, and then lived on the Kansas river. The site which he describes as their residence are now occupied by the Kansas nation, and of the Padoucas there does not now exist even the name. , " ., . MINISTERS In the midst of a different environment But there are very few sensible peo ple who, if questioned upon the subject would not give it ss their candid opin ion that the conditions referred to are not those under which the gospel should be preached or heard. V Down at the bottom religion is an ap peal to ths hearer's reverence, and the conditions that are the most favorable to the promotion of that sentiment are those, above all others, .which the minis try Is In duty bound to encourage. - If he lowers the standard of the serv Ice, If he-permit any ether idea-than the one of reverence to dominate, or even perceptibly to color, the hour of wor ship, - he ., may as well' shut up his church. ' There is an atmosphere of worship, snd with that atmosphere shirt sleeves and tobacco smoke, billboards and bust, ness advertisements cannot be mad to harmonise. , . - There is a place in this great big world for the. man who wants' to sit in his shirt sleeves and smoke, and a plans there Is, too, for the bulletin boards of trade; but that place Is not tb house of God. . ' The minister who Imagines that he Is going to make men better by lowering his office to the level of their weaknesses Is laboring under a tremen dous mlstaka For the clergyman who ahould attempt to lure me Into going to his church with the assurance that while In the sacred edifice I might sit in my church Sleeves and smoke, I could have no particle of respect . And the overwhelming majority of men would, I have no doubt express themselves to ths same effect It is about time that this belittling and degrading of religion by Its own ministers had ceased. It is about time that right-minded clergymen and these are overwhelm ingly In tbe majority put ' a . quietus upon the type of minister I am speak ing of the minister who, sadly misun derstanding the nature of his calling. Is in the name of religion doing all he rtm tomake religion the butt of rldloule and contempt -' - Back to St Paul I And let the word of every minister be, "I magnify mine of flea . be exactly like that of the man, but when examined Under a powerful micro scope the tiny evidences of character that appear In every loop and line will be found to be latgely missing, for the same character Is not behind the pen. It is in the minute details that the forgery Is discovered. --"Then sgaln, a man's mental condition will impress'ltself upon his writing. If he Is nervous, bubbling over with Joy or depressed, the fact will be apparent to the expert In writing. If the alleged handwriting doesn't show traces of ths mental condition the man Was really In at the time he was supposed to have written or signed a certain letter, the signature or the writing la a forgery These are some ef the ways by which an expert detects even the .most suc cessful forgery." "siow-now" nr. Species of flies, hitherto unknown In Vermont havo made their appearance in the woods about: Chltjenden and are likely to become a.jworse pest than ths sand tleae. .. Even tha est . versed entomologists have tip to the ' present been unable to determine Juat what kind of fly It Is. but they all agree that it Is a most pestiferous Insect, snd that Its bite Is poisonous. " " '. For wsnt of a better name the new comers have been called "snow-plow fllea." When first seen by a guide named Hugh' Drake the Insects were, flying through the woods in a wedge shaped mass, constructed like sn ordi nary snow-ply. The point and aides of this bussing, animated "plow" were well defined, and the Insects In rising snd falling among the trees and under growth kept i..elr formation wlthouC-as much aa on fly straying outside. . Country phone line arc still spread- Wild blackberries put Up now will tast very good next winter, , a Cherries come but one a year. But they can be made to last a good whll'e. -. - - Wet weather later may Injure the bop crop, but don't worryat least not yet. The Astoria' regatta people are deter mined to beat the success record-this' ye ' ' ' ' A North Yamhill sawmill Is doing a good business over 100,000 feet sold last week. . . '. . .. . Hubbard Is to have a vinegar factory, 1 the new tulldlng for which la noarly com pleted. ' ; . ; If you couldn't take any other outing,' perhaps you can go hop picking la Sep-. Umber, , . v , "' ' A Forest Grove man'has- embalmed 'a big limb of .Royal Ann cherries tb show at the fair next, yean.- ' - .' : . Linn county's new big steam road roller has proved' a failure, at least for the ' present ground too soft Lane county has a number of summer resorts, a favorite one being London, where are mineral springs. ' Removal of a dam across Pudding river will allow 600 acres, hitherto useless, be cause flooded, to be farmed. A lS-peund girl made her appearance In the home of the Greenville postmaster. -It did not arrive by mall waa too big. Th North Tamhlll council la talking -of erecting tanks and pumping water from a neighboring ranch, aa some meas ure of protection sgalnat fire. ' , Within a year two of the girls employed in the Forest Grove milk condensory have married,- and the superintendent Is won dering If he is also running a matrimonial shop. . . ;, -,.; t. ;yi, v Th machines used to harvest, the big wheat fielda east of the mountains are called combines. But they are no re lation, to other combine. that we bave read about , , . Six out of the seven officials in the Linn county courthouse live in one pre cinct and the other one Just outside the precinct Una Weat Albany precinct must be the Ohio of Linn county. ' ': .. Albany DemoortU: - Botne time-wgoihe hay crop waa about to be ruined for want of rein, but the harvest Is nearly over, and the crop Is a good ona It Is a poor' plan to borrow trouble. -- .- ' i -ft. There has been Invented by Grants Psss , tren two machines, one for the crushing -of ore and the other for separating ths values from the pulp. They may revolu tionise the gold reduction business. A Wheeler county man Is having a freight automobile built in Portland to haul wheat from Mayvllla to hta mill at Mitchell. 61 . miles. This will perhaps; be. th first machine of this kind to be operated In Oregon, . '' Sheepmen and cattlemen of Crook and adjacent counties .who emet last week came to an agreement ns to the use of the range, mutual concessions being made, and It Is now believed that they will get along more amicably. Gardiner Is situated near the mouth' of the Umpqua river, 85 miles west of he Ooutlieiu rat-lflu rgtlroadrahns" the metropolis of a large and prosperous ranching, dairying, lumbering and fish ing district It Is Douglas count)-' only seaport town, and has a populat tlon of 400. During the past fortnight the Des chutes Irrigation company has selected ' under the Carey act 74,000 acres- more land, making the total holdings of the company 114,000 acres, all of which, it is expected, will be reclaimed to agri culture by water taken from the Des chutes river. Tillamook Headlight: Tillamook will always be a prosperous section of Ore gon, because of the feed question, which Is ef vast Importance to sucesaful sn I profitable dairying. Is the strong point which makes this county pre-eminently the dairyman's paradise. To be able to ' raise-cheap feed . is on of th great feature in favor of th county. Miss Nellie Tyler and - her cousin, David Mahan, while out riding on Hurri cane creek, came very near losing their lives by a bolt of lightning which struck a tree near where they were riding. Mlaa Tyler waa knocked from her hrse snd rendered unconscious, In which condition she remained for 10 or IS hours. Toting Mahan was also rendered unconscious. Advice to the. Lovelorn BY SZATBXCg tint IX. Dear Miss Fairfax. I am a young lady SO ysars of age and deeply In love with a young man several years older. - Whenever w are In each other's com- . pany'I .never show that I love him. He always set as a gentlemen to- - -ward ma His people have known me from childhood. They seem to think a great deal, of ma I could ses htm every day, but try not to. Ha has been out with girls; they even ' wrote letters to him, but lately he. has changed terribly and is very independ- ent towards ths girls. Now, what I would Ilk to know Is, If hs cares any- thing for ma How could I find out? ' VIOLA. Can you not tell by his. manner toward ' you if he loves you? A girl generally -knows when a man likes her. Try being . friends with some other man . and that may stir your friend up a bit Dear Miss Fairfax. I am a 'young lady of St and have been keeping com pany with a young man .for the last six months. About four- weeks ago I left the town, where he lived and I had been working, snd came home. He asked ' m to write, which I did, bat he did not answer as soon as expected. I wrote again, which he answered, but as he has -not answered my last letter, would you advls me to write again, as I love him dearly? He said someone had told him -something I had said and that he had loat all hope and confidence. Could you please write and let me know how I could have him continue writing to me ' while out of townt , . . H. C. O. If you have already told him that you said nothing against him, do not wrlte again, but if you have not an swered the letter in which he accused . you, you might write and tell him he is mistaken. . If he does not answer your letter do not worry over him any longest .''