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EdlfeoriflE Page of JopriMl SATURDAY, ; JULY 80. 1804. PORTLAND. OREGON.' THE, O RE dO N DA I L.Y v: ". ' AN 4.. ft. JACKSON , PttblUhd vry renin, (nc.pt Sunday) LxOt. rh OFFICIAL, . PAPGR OP THB CITY OP ' OPENING THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN. Hs HE Democratic national campaign In Oregon wm I v opened last evening In ftrst-clas style. The speaker of the evening waa Franklin K. Lane, for' whom the people of Portland have a great fondness and who since hie residence In California haa made, him self a,', political fhrure of the flret magnitude. Governor ' Chamberlain made the Introductory addres In par ticularly pleasing ve.ii.Th predominant , note In both speeches wae that of optimum, not merely as the expres sion of the speaker ; own Individual conviction, but baaed upon what they saw and heard at the convention 'and have gubsequently discovered m the various ctlon of the country they have visited. ;a Not alone froni these' speeches but from Intimate In formation that hai begun to flow In from the aaet it la apparent that the Democrats Have done wisely la choosing Judge Parker a their presidential nominee. He la par ticularly strong in, those, sections of the country whose electoral vote la essential to his success and without which a Democratic candidate would be defeated ' before the campaign opened. Conditions produced Parker. , Geo graphically he entirely fills the bill and In this respect to strongly supplemented by the candidate for vice-president whose nomination undoubtedly assures two uncertain ! states to the Democrats, Many of the reason which will operate In his favor In, New Tork will strongly affect the result In neighboring states, leaving tha crucial battle for I the middle west In the matter of character nndbtllty 'the- candidate leaves 'nothing to be desired. It waa real ised that conditions had settled the dominant issue of the jpaat two campaigns and that It hdped to achieve suo !cess It must strike out on lines that met the situation aa 'it now confronts us.' While it may be true that In the iwest many. Democrats ar looking with some anxiety to 'Judge Parker's letter of acceptance,. .ki. u.n ( ,. aaaanttal In the jnow on. It Is believed, however, that this letter will leave .'the candidate stronger than ha ever. was even In the western sections and as the conditions scarcely could be Improved In the east and south If he meets the emergency a he- is confidently expected to meet It he wUl have back of him a thoroughly reunited, party to face the exigencies of the campaign with tha probability of being able to wrest a hard, won victory In the' face of what a month ago was conceded to be Insuperable obstacle. DISAPPEARANCE OF GREAT SALT LAKE.. DIMINUTION of the waters of the? Great Bait lake has recently caused noticeable comment, though it has Jong been the belief of scientist who have considered the matter that this lake would eventually dis appear from the map. But It I now thought by some whose judgment la supposed to be trustworthy that Its disappearance will occur even much sooner than was x ; pected. poeslbly within a Quarter of a century. , In a recent article In the Bclentlf lo American, an account la given of the Investigation which led to this conclusion, and the calculations made are herein briefly summarised: . .For thirty years the- level of the lake haa been steadily lowering, with only one brief period of rising tendency. In the last It year the net fall haa been 11 H feet, and In the last three year three feet. .The cublo content of the lake now, aa compared with 1880, Indicate that the lake will be dry within 40 years, at tha farthest, unless some un expected reaction sets In. Indeed, If the decrease of the water continues In the same ratio aa In the past 20 years, the water will be gone In about JO years more. , 'Three explanatory theories have been suggested: one, evaporation; . a second, Irrigation; the third, a subter ranean outlet. That the first I true tbp) 1s no doubt but why mora evaporation In proportion to supply lately than formerly T ; The second theory falls In here, and Is plaus ible. Brlghara Young began Irrigation In the forties, but It was not .111 after 1880 that It was practiced on a very large scale; and the amount of liver, source water used for Irrigation 1 constantly Increasing. There ar- Indication on tha surrounding mountain sides and on the inter-lake mountains, that the depth of the water, now1 only about 40 feet, waa once over (00 feet. Bo it 1 probable1 that the lake bad been disappearing long before Its subsidence waa scientifically noticed. It has always been supposed that tb lake had a 'Subterranean outlet, hut this has never been definitely ascertained, and If so, and If that outlet haa been somehow enlarged, or haa acquired greater power to draw off the lake's water, there Is a yet no proof of these theories. " " y . " ,' ,' '; : At any rate, the people of that locality arc witnessing an Interesting, though not, a very agreeable physical transformation, operating mora rapidly than moat such roui aura to SUXOsT. John Vandercook, In Chicago Journal. When I was in Warsaw recently I had a three-hour talk with one of the most intelligent poles in that city,. With the utmost ' frankness he discussed the shortcomings of the Russian govern ment and the possibilities of Poland ever regaining her freedom. On the whole, he waa pessimistic. . Poland, be said, had had Its oppor tunity, but by disagreement .among lta leaders and the . refusal Of the aris tocracy to give liberty to the Polish serfs, it failed te withstand- Bussla. The vaunted Polish - freedom -never In cluded liberty to the peasants, and per haps, for this reason, did not deserve to succeed. Now, he said. Poland waa the moat heavily polioed and the moat heavily ' garrisoned province in Russia, A constant garrison of ISO. 009 Rus sians, 10 miles from Warsaw, of Itself, waa aufflclent to choke any ordinary revolutionary movement. But when thla conversation was held, the Poles, like most of the ether peo ple of the world exoept the Japanese, were hypnotised by the bogey of Rus sian omnipotence. Thla bogey la now the moat exploded humbug of the 80th century and the Poles have been among the first to notice the change and to hope to better by 'It. -. Now. young conscripts of Polish na tionality are being hurried to Siberian garrison towns and Rueetaa recruits from south and central Russia, Instead of going to Harbin and Vladivostok, are being sent into Poland and being dis tributed among the garrison towns. A big order of new-quick-firing guns oa the French model IS also being sent by the Russian general staff Into Poland. The Russlana ara Informed of the true conditions In Poland and are preparing to meet them. t . , Other Russian energies are directed to making more bared ' many special and arbitrary lews, which bear heavily en tha Poles. ' Even the Polish national dance Is made a treasonable offense, polish . newspapers are subject to an even stricter censorship than thoae la Russia. One editor publishing -the raar's proc lamation of war, omitted to Include among hia titlea that of king of Poland. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. changes occur. The "shows" of western celve that Its dry In a practical sense camrjalan which Is yonder. - How to sible way ara necessary. creek and lake .The money, and For this his paper waa ' suppressed. Since then the, government censors themselves have written nearly all the political articles and those on Interna tional subjects, snd ordered them to be printed as the newspaper's own expres sion of opinion. The censors have also compelled the papera to open subscrip tions for Russian war funda, and have dragooned Pollah bankers and others Into subscribing to them. . . ; - Recently, in the German reichstagi Baron Hammersteln made a apeech In which he discussed with all seriousness the reported organisation of a commit tee of Polea In Chicago with the object of 1 liberating their countrymen. It Is now reported that thla and other com mittees are. sending arms into Poland over the Auatrian frontier. But . even the most enthualaatlo .Pole knowa an uprising would have no chance at pres ent He realises that the war will have to go much more badly for Russia, than It haa yet gone, and that Polish prepa rations must be In a much more, ad vanced etate. The last Pollah revolu tion in 1880 held out through one win- ter, and waa finally crushed by aheer numbers. Since then there have been innumerable - conspiracies, but moat : of them have been discovered and ohecked by the police la their preliminary stagea ' . . i There are' ' approximately " T.000,000 Poles. Perhapa bf the 7.OOO.O00, 800,000 fighting men might be raised, but the arming of - them - sufficiently - Is an al most Insurmountable problem, and to supply them with high-power artillery Is practically out of the question, unleae aome foreign power abould intervene. Foreign Intervention Is highly Im probable, In fact the kaiser la ao hos tile to the Polish population In hia own country that he might even go to Rus sia's assistance to put down any at tempt to revive the Polish kingdom. The chance Is a desperate one, but the Poles have taken dee Derate rhanoee be fore, and have Set Europe ablase,. even without being able . t achieve their own purpoeea. BnurUo Cora. ; "Some of the"neceaaltlea of life ar exorbitantly hlgh these daya. "Tea; I wish they'd get high- enough to Scare me, so I'd quit needing them." J OURNAL JNO. P. CARROLL 3o B" J" PORfLANLV e his ildt Great Salt lake been one of the difficult to con equally so. America; and and salty bed would . AN AROUSED PUBLIC CONSCIENCE. IT IS NOT o very long ago that a representative of those who Were working for better government In ,thla city. wa told by the organ of th "ring" In thla city, to "ahut up," and waa advised In language more strenuous than polite, to 'nov on" and "keep a-movlng." Bine then several things have happened. A badly dis figured "ring" atlH does business at .the old stand; others have "shut up," and others have "moved on." . . i But the fight for decent government baa only begun. It will spread from city to, city until the whole state responds to Its quickening spirit In this city, nextyear' munic ipal election will not go by default. Thpaawho have made tha city and those who ar developing It will not permit Its deatjnies to be controlled or, Its development retarded by a combination Of politicians, and gamblers. Portland Is not a mining camp. nor. a. back wood village. It 1 a great and growing city. , It cltlien com from a tock who know what Is right-end will stand for it. There may be fewer gambler drawing rich return (from the money filched from working people, but there wilL.be lea crime and more happy homes. Next year the city's balance will be struck and its record laid bare. No man, we venture to predict, will be elected mayor who admits his inability to enforce the law or who, to excuse It violation, con fesses that the "graft" must be "public" in order to pre vent it being "private." Platforms and promise will not go at face value; It will be the man that will eount It take time to rouse a city to action, but when awakened the action la Irresistible. At no time Is th pro fessional politician so weak aa when he 'faces an out raged public." At no time are the. people so strong as when they realize that their votes and power have been and are being used to defraud them. Thla great and beautiful city stand for something else than the grossest materiality, and It will take more than the gamblers monthly bribe of a few thousand dollar to purchase its birthright and for It citlsens to turn over to them its control and government. A city which even now, through the munificence of its citlsens, is the great religious, in dustrial, educational, art. and financial center of the north west, will not hold Itself so cheaply as aome imagine; and those who teach higher Ideals and strive for better things' will be welcomed, not driven out. ' WORK OF THE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE. THE Development association, hundreds strong, will meet In Portland next week. What for? . To devise ways and means for building up or developing Ore gon,' as the expressions are. HowT By getting more peo ple, ' the right kind of people. These are of two classes only capitalist with money lo Invest in mines, mills, factories, and other developing industrial enterprises; and men with -less means seeking new homes, who', will be comeproducers and taxpayers. . . -'.'. We want no gamblers, or dudes, or dawdlers, or idlers, or crank. W hav already quite enough of preachers, lawyers and doctors though no doubt some new-comers, especially able and worthy, will do well In these profes sions. But we want workers and investors, men who with brawn and brain and capital will help make Oregon a ten-times greater state than it is. . This is the need. The field is ; here; '. the men are get the r workers Into the field, the laborer lflto tha rich and aa yet all but virgin vineyard, Is the problem. ' , ' . r ' Long rhetorical apeeches tickle the ear for the mo ment, but count for nothing in the end. What Is wanted Is a practical solution of this problem. To this end money will be necessary; nothing is done these days without money. And .then men to use the money In the best pos the men, the men and the money to carry, on this work these will be the first practical con siderations of this notable convention. Then, of course, details a to the use of the money must be considered, the main on being, stated broadly; how best to acquaint eastern people with and interest them In Oregon. This la the work to be done. But while this is the chief general problem,1 It will be well to .consider, aa no doubt will be doner, mooted local enterprises, such as the building of local electrio railways. We already hav in Oregon a good many men with much money in the aggregate. .. This convention should have the effect of arousing and enthusing them. , ' , Let everybody from this on pull for a far greater, more populous, better developed, richer Oregon. ; CAM or m cotottbt wnrs. Over the scorching roofs of tin, ' Down through the blistered street. The country wind sweeps gently In To this throbbing desert of heat. And It seems to eall through the toll and hum Of the parched-up town: "Comal Cornel Cornel" . "O follow me to the spring-fed rills ' Where dreamllghts dance all day, To the aspen groves and tha mlaty hllla And the fields all sweet with hay. Away to the orchards of peer and plum" 'TIs the woodland's call: "Cornel Cornel Cornel" . . Then on and on apeeda the country wind Though the heart of the heat-rid town; Through ahopa and mllla, 'mid the roar and grind ' 'Croaa roofs of blistered brown. In thejiulet wards where the sick suc cumb The mocking wind calls: "Comet Comet . - v Cornel". 1 1 . v . - ; " The heart-stck mother grieves more. her ' lOt, . ! : - . . ' The child cries out in pain; The pallid face on the snow-white cot Sighs for relief. In vain. Oh, mocking, merolleaa, cruel to eomaj Is the country wind with Its "Cornel .Comet Coma!" . .. . , .'.. . Victor A. ' Hermann In the New Tork Times, .f . f . roln of View. From the Chicago News. "And to think,'' said the young man, with a large open-faced sigh, "my beat friend eloped with the girl I was en gaged to." "All of which goes to show that he Is still your best friend." rejoined , the hard-hearted old bachelor. From the Superior (Wis.) Telegram. Tom So ' Mtaa. 'Tomer vref used you, eh? "Did shs give you any reaaons for doing aoT . ' Jack Tea, lnWed; two of them. ' Tom What ware they T ' Jack Uracil and another fallow. ' SmalkChangc Cortelyou ia still Hlooklpg for Fair- oanaa. Parker 1s surely Jeff arsoniaa; he Is rea-neadea. t . . ' 1 mmmmmm ' After all,- some men old In year ar quite young yet . " Cloae up the opium den toe. " That, also, can be dona Bryan's refusal to bolt worries' om Republican organs. BomaUmea truats burst In consequence of Internal friction. ..... Advloe to gambler out Of a Job: Chang your oooupatlon. Strikers who riot or commit aaaaulta rightly lose pablle sympathy.- - If unoomf ortable elsewhere, come to Portland, the great summer reaort. The cereal food makers are not wor rying about the meatmakers' strike. If Oregon wheat la contraband, we want to be shown, like Hlssouriana. - If1 President Roosevelt - has faults. falae or affected modeaty Is not on of them. . Holy rollertem finds' its suitable apotheosis In llurderer Norman Wil liams. ; ; . " It la feared that as an enbeer T. W. Lawson will not quit slse up to Ida TarbelL . " . Neither Astoria, Baker City nor Salam elalma to be the' biggest town In the state yet. Folk will be eleoted, notwithstand ing Gumshoe Bill Stone's lack of en thusiasm. -The district aaaeaament policy Is a good one. whether the law la constitu tional or not. , -- The poor puhllo has ho lights that either the etrlkers or the, employers are bound to. respect , The country await with considerable interest the remarka of the sage of Esopua whan he accepts. . Our good and great friend the Salem Statesman la worrying overmuch theee days about the Democratic party. The only trouble with the St Louts exposition Is that tha gate receipts do not correspond in slse with the show. . It Is a good thing, for a city, county. state or nation to have officials who keep their promises and do their duty. Can a belligerent nation decide and declare what la contraband, and all the rest of the world have nothing to say? ' Is the Dlngley tariff alao a sacred thing, eafabllahed for all time, and never under any clroumatances to be touched T The Finn who dynamited von Plehve was criminally unwise, but he showed In an emphatic way what Finn think of Russia's rape of their oountry, ' A Sycamore. Clacks ma a oountv. hov. It waa announced In tha newa columns a day or two ago, died from lockjaw aa me result of a wound Inflicted on July 4 by a toy platoL He la only one of scores of such victims throughout the country, and yet people are allowed to manufacture and sell, and boys to buy. wm muraerous tntngs. . , After reprinting In full The Journal's recent editorial on "The. Awakening of Salem," the Astorlan Imagines that it contained a slur upon Astoria, which It aays is "the undisputed second city of Oregon, with fully 8,000 more people than Salem and 4.000 more than Baker City." The Journal never "slurs" any Oregon city. It is Just as friendly to one ss to another. As to their re spective population, we shall know bet ter next year. . . .. n tawt Yotrnrs sraooxsnoaT. The story -about how Charles Schwab, the ex-president of the steel trust, took 82.000.000 In cash out of hia own pocket and handed it to friends of his who had been bitten by the Bag fn th affairs of the united Shipbuilding company, recalls a story that was told around about" a well known ana wealthy family at the time the shipbuilding company virtually went up In- the air.' The father of the family was hit hard when the shipbuilding company began to ran apart Ha bad gone into the thing heavily, and when the aklds were pulled from beneath the outfit bis fine fortune waa all but cut In two. . He waa, and la, ths father of four pretty high-flying sons, to whom he mada ex tremely liberal allowancea. One of the aona was particularly extravagant He waa always getting Into debt to tha tune of thousands, and his father waa con stantly coming to the front and squaring the boy's accounts with the curbstonars and eettlng-hlm going again.. When the rraah came In the affairs of the United States Shipbuilding company, the father of the boys summoned them to him library for a little talk. "Boys," he said . to them, "this ship building thing haa put a right deep dent In me. It will take me a long time to recover from the blow. I don't want to be hard on you youngsters, but you'll have to cut down your expenses, and get along on a considerably sliced allowance until I see my way clear to return to the allowance I am now making you. "And you, particularly, aon," continued tha father, addressing the boy with th scute phase 'of tha money-blowing mania. "Tou've got to take a few bottles of that get-onto-yourself mixture, and give your old dad a chance for his white marble. I don't want you to take advantage of ma any more. Tou have a pretty eaay time of It, and there'a no reason In life why you should spend nearly twice as much money .as- yonr brothers. Tou spend nearly three times as much every year for your personal expenses as I do my self, and I want you to know that I hav to work and alave long hours every day to provide you with this money and to get you right again when you Impose on my good nature. ow what am I going to do If you keep oa with your extrava gant waysT".. "Too deep for me, dad," he replied. after a pause. "The only thing that I can suggest is that you work nights, toot" ' . - , The Zaad of Make Believe. New Tork Sua Within the land of Make Believe I lived in day of old, " And by Its wondrous alchemy Turned all the dross to gold. A wider land of Maka Believe Now claims attention cloae; . The grown-up children in It count . The fairy gold aa dross. Jf&jurnal July 80th. W went early In, the morning 8 44 miles, and camped on the south. In order to wait for the Ottoea. The land here consists of a plain above the high water level, the soil of which Is fertile and covered with a grass from, five to eight feet high. Inter spersed with copses of large plums, and a current like those of the United States. - It also furnishes two species of honeysuckle; one growing to a kind of shrub, common .about Harrodsburg, Ky., the other ia not. so high; the flowers grow . in clusters, are short and of a light pink color; the leaves, too, are dlatlnot not, perfoliate, and do not sur round the stock, as do those of the com mon honeysuckle of the United State. Back of this plain is a woody ridge about TO feet above it. at the end of NEW SAYINGS OF JESUS By Rev. Charles A.'' Eaton of Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, O. A recent writer, quoting the worda of John Stuart Mill, that the world can not be too often reminded that there once lived a man named Socrates, adds the remark that there once lived a man named Jesus. The keen Interest mani fested among all classes in any new dis covery concerning th life and times of Jesus of Nazareth Is striking evldehoe of that hunger for goodness which is ons of the, moat hopeful characteristic of human nature, Th Oxford univeralty press ha lately publlahed a pamphlet entitled "New Baying of Jeaua" Last year Profa Hunt and Orenf ell. working for the Egypt exploration fund, dlacovered amidat ruins of the anolent Egypt city of . Oxyrhynchus a papyrus fragment containing an Introduction and parta of Ave separate "sayings," .whloh are ascribed to Jeaua The value of the find is discounted by the mutilated con dition of many of the phrases, which, with their own suggested restorations In parentheses are given as follows by th editors: , -"These are Ithe (wonderful) words which Jesus the living (Lord) spake to and Thomas and he said unto (them), Every one that hearkens to these words shall never taste of death." -- "Jesus salth. let not him who seeks cease until he finds, and when he finds hs shall be astonished; astonished he shall reach the kingdom, and having reached the kingdom he shall rest" . "Jesus salth. (Ts aakT Who are those) that draw us (to the kingdom, If) 'the kingdom Is In heavenT the fowls of the air, and all .beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea, (these are they which draw) you, and the . kingdom of heaven Is within you; and whoever shall know hlmaelf shall Snd It (Strive therefore) to know yourselves, and ye shall be aware that ye are the sons of the (almighty) Father; (and?) ye shall know that ye are In (the city of OodT), and ye are (the cltyT)." "Jesus salth. A man shall not hesi tate to ask concerning thla place (In the kingdom. - Te shall know) that many that are first shall be last and the laat first and - (thay shall hav eternal life?)." "Jeaua salth. Everything that I not before thy face and that which la hid den from thee shall be revealed to thee. For there Is nothing hidden which shall not be made manlfeat, nor burled which ahall not be raised." "His disciples question him and say: How shall We f aat and how shall be (pray?) Jesus salth do not of truth blessed be he w" ' In 188T Profa Hunt and Orenfen dis covered fragment of tha "Word's of THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM From Harper's Weekly. '. It 1 not difficult for th present sec retary of war to show that at the time when our treaty of peace with Spain was negotiated, there waa really nothing for us to do but to take over the sovereignty of ths Phillpplnea From a humanitari an viewpoint that had come to be rec ognised as no lees clearly our duty than was th demand for th evacuation of Cuba. Nor will many fair1 minded person deny that to have surrendered the Phil ippine forthwith to th undlacipllned and predatory leviea under Agulnaldo would, in the interest of the Islanders themselves, have been an act no leas foolish and hurtful than would have jeofail I 1J VUIItatUJViaiiwvuai ajuwasuvaasum.aa of Cuba to tha nondescript and lawless Aa 4V fuuHi aaan artannAnmant bands under Gomes. s It may make all the difference in the world, however, not only to. the Fili pinos themselves, but also to those American citlsens who desire to main tain Intact their old political Ideals, whether or no we shall proclaim, dis tinctly and Irrevocably, In the case of the Philippines as in that or Cuba, our determination to grant absolute Inde pendence to the islanders, from the mo ment that they' should appear reason ably 'well qualified to exercise the fu no tions ef self-government under the same aegis of protection against foreign ag gression that we have stretched over the Pearl of the Antilles. We need not say that such a declara tion. In the one caae as in the other, would be tidings of great Joy; that henceforth dlatruat ' and rancor would give place to confidence and gratitude; and that all the encouragement and aid with which we should try to speed the Filipinos In the path of self-education would be turned to sccount by -them with the fervor born of a splendid hope, and Inspired by an act of high benefl cenoe that would set as we set Cuba, an example to mankind. Will It be eald that this is a counsel of perfection, which it would overtax weak human nature to follow A a matter of faot the value of the Philip pine, which, for th preaent at least 1 Indisputable, would, under any circum stances be insignificant compared with that which bad attached to Cuba In the eyes of American statesmen for more than half a eentury before that memor able night of April 18-18. 1888. when eongreaa, by a self-denying ordinance, proclaimed our determination to liber ate the latter Island, not for our own benefit, but In the exclusive Interests of the Cubans themselves. "From that majeatlo precedent we are bound by self-respeot and by our pas sionate desire to uphold the nation's dig nity and honor, never to recede or dero gate. To those, however, who would brush aside such considerations aa senti mental, snd who Insist upon transfer ring the discussion from moral to ma terial grounds, may be -commended Mr. 01nys warning that in ths Interests of which we formed our camp.- This ridge separates the lower ' from the higher prairie, or a good quality, witn graaa of 10 or 18 inchea in height, and extend ing back about a mile, to another lei" vatlon of 80 or 80 feet, beyond whtch la one continued plain. Near our camp we enjoy, from the bluffs, a. most beauti ful view of the river and the adjoining oountry. At a distance, varying from four to 10 mllea. and or a height be tween TO and . 800 feet two parallel rangea of high land afford a paaaage to the Missouri, whloh enrtchea the low grounda between them. In Us winding course It nourishes the willow lands. the scattered Cottonwood, elm, ayca more, lynn and ash; and tb groves are Interspersed with hickory, walnut, coffee nut and oak.. ' . v Jeaua," and In their opinion the dat of both sets of. sayings is tb third cen tury. . In the gospel of John it la said that there ar many other thing which Jeau did, th which, if thay should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.. It seems a reasonable ' supposition that outside the canonical records, large numbers ef supposed sayings of Jesus were cir culated in the first three or four cen turies of the Christian era. "... A number of questions very naturally are suggested by these discoveries. The first one Is, do. they throw any light on th teaching of Jesus T A fair answer Is, no. They go to show, however, that the writings-of Joha are not peculiar to that author; but thai a almllar point of view and (method of expreaalon ap pear in many of these recovered say. Inga This will add Best to the eonfllot which has raged so long -over the authenticity and genuineness or the fourth gospel. If it can be shown that these sayings, which ar so muoh like ths Johanlne writings, had their origin In- soma -member . or.- member of . the apoatolle circle, it will follow that John's report of the teachings of Jesus Is not peculiar to hlmaelf, and there fore must be referred to Jesus, rather than to some apoetle or disciple of an apostle who wtahed to produce a gospel in accord with the philosophical ideas of hi tlm. Th editor of the collection In hi In troduction claims St Thomas and per haps another dlaclple as it source; so that if this Is proven to be a fact Prof. Hunt's suggestion is well founded, that "the mystical and speculative element in the early records of Christ's sayings, which found its highest and moat widely accepted expreaalon in St John' gospel, may well have been much more general and less peculiarly Johanlne than has hitherto been taken for -granted." These disooveries raise another ques tion of prime interest - Upon . what grounds was the selection of our pres ent new testament books made? Or, to put it another way. . why were thess numerous other volumes of Christian literature rejected, or, at best, classed amfng apocryphal writings. While etudents of theee critical questions and historian of th age must furnish us with th facta, the common - man may not be far wrong when he asserts that the present new testament books ar worthy of their place a a bible becauae their teaching ar in accord with th changelea elements in human nature, with the universal needs and experiences of man, and with the htgheat conception of a spiritual, personal and good God that the world ha ever known. Whether the choice of these books to form a canon of ' scripture was .inspired need not be discussed. ; ' ' j American cltsen themselV the maa of whom will always be poor, absorbed In the daly struggle for existence, and therefore relatively inapt fof self-defenseit behooves .us to scan sharply and anxiously th possible effect upon ourselves of subscribing to the principle which waa pronounced by th United State supreme court In - the insular eases, and by virtus of which we keep the Philippines In their present position the principle, namely, that the strong have a moral right to rule the weak, either In the name of "collective civilisa tion" or under some othsr specious-plea or pretext Is not asked ex-Secretary Olney, a rule, which ia pronounced good for na tion a. good alao for individuals and may not tha lives and property of feebler and Inferior citlsens within any given community be rightfully appropriated for the benefit , of the superior and stronger T ' . ' It it be true that ia our constitution, r in the ultra-constitutional, rights al leged to be Inherent In every nation, there exists any authority for the sac rifice of American lives and American treasure to purely philanthropic enter prises any warrant for the conversion of our government Into a missionary to benighted Islands . In - the South seas thousands of mile away any power to tax . the tolling masses of this country for the benefit of the motley brown peo ple of the, tropics, between whom and our taxpayer there 1 no community of Interests or sympathy then, at all events, let us embrace our new role without eyes wide bpen, and recognise that the political ldeale. which to our fathers seemed august and precious, are outworn, homely and unsutted to the su perb expansion of an empire. : OOltntBIA OOtTaTTT XB08T OMM. From th St. Helens Mist. Mr. James Muckle was In this city laat Saturday on his ' way to Bunker Hill to prospect for Iron ore. He will get out and ship 10 tons of this ore to Portland for smelting purposea A small sample recently teeted gave very satisfactory results, . showing 40 per cent pure Iron. The smelter In which this ore will be tested is a recent in ventlon, and if the Columbia county ere I as good as it ia believed to be, pig iron can be placed on the market at a very muoh lower -price than It is at present The importance of this proj ect, not only to Columbia county, but to the whole state of Oregon, can not be overestimated. . . , r "i ' reeling XI Way. -From the Boston Transcript. Maa In Striped Trousers Let me sea your name' Ham, isn't it T Man in Checked . Coat My nama la Bacon. If you please. Man In Striped Trousers O. yes: I knew It' waa something that reminded me of the end seat hog. Oregon Sidelights Amity is to hav a bank. . .-. Long Creek-ha a Bible sohooL ' Oypsia ar numerous la Coburg. . Th raln, though belated, waa vary, welcome. n. a The peach crop will be large In Wash- - Ington oountyv i ., - ; Borax deposits have bee found in' Harney county, ... . ,. Irrlgon want contribution to finish Its new church. t A Lancaster nian makes a business of catching mudtartiea , , Forecaater Beals won at last,' after a long, hard struggle. ... Hubbard has been using oil on its treats,, with igood results. That hatchery run bf. salmon la anx iously awaited down the river. . : Some hopyard arqund North Yakima' ar turning red and not filling. , Sheriff Connell of Waahlogton county haa barveated 800 ton of hay. There i no occasion for a keepVeool ' club In Oregon; the .hot spells are too. brief, i A party of Chicago ' capitalist are looking over Harney county with a view to investing. ' - - ' ' ' ! . Except for eold rslns, hop picking will ' begin about September 1, conalderably earlier than usual. The wheat crop In 'Wasco county is the best ever raised there, some field yielding 80 buahela an aore. usrarair nae a new marine ana county hospital, which will be In charge bf a graduate of St Vincent' hoapltal. Morrow county will be able to pay her debt, buy a year" supplies and hav money to lend after harvest. A tils factory may be started soon ' in form urove. iay near mm is aid to be the right kind for thla pur-, pose. . i ;. t . x - The town or locality or Oregon not reoreeented at the- DeveloDment leaaue meeting next week will be -behind the time. .'-.''. .r . " Hundred of th beat people of Ore gon are coming to Portland next week to attend the meeting of tha Develop ment association. : M. D. Clifford, who for many year , tiea tteen cimult 1uAr eif the ivtith 4ilolal Alatptrt Kn !, vaa Afmtm.A . laat June for re-election, will remove rrom canyon wry to tfaaer city. , The plate glasa panes In the' new, front of a Pendleton store are 110x118 Inches in slse. and ara said to ba the largest ever shipped east of the moun- tains, halne1 carried on a aneclal flat. car. , '..., -. . .. TJp about Irrlgon grapevines, peach trees, etc.. are growing lustily on land , that laat March waa a patch of sage-, brush, sand desert, and big watermelons " are ripening between the rows of tree . : While riding along the trail, at Wolf creek, Mra Weyer had a narrow escape. Her horse lost Its footing and fell 160 feet down the embankment Mra Weyer Jumped In time to aave herself from going over th cliff.- Th horse was killed. ' ' : Tillamook Herald: Fishermen report an extra good catch of salmon, but the bay being full of sea kelp and refuse. It Is very difficult to handle the nets. The run of fish Is reported aa exceptionally good but there Is no price for the fish, and the only sale for the catch at this time is to the local trade. It would pay. outalde dealers well to get In and com pete hero hla seaaon for the catch, aa the outlook on the. Columbia ha been anything but favorable. Advice to the Lovelorn rr sxATkioi VAnrax. Dear Mis Fairfax: While on a viatt I chanced to make th acquaintance of a young girl who In a spirit of fun placed my ring upon her finger, where, much to my displeasure. It la today. Not un til I left for home did I recollect the rlnsr. . I corraaoondad with tha vouna - woman, but never mentioned the ring. Then I allowed some time to elapse be- ' fore I again wrota When I did write I requested that she be kind enough to for ward the ring, and enclosed postage for the same, ' I received no answer, so I -wrote again and referred to the ring, but . at present writing have beard norhlng about it j ARTIST. Tou made a mistake in not asking her -to give It back at once. - As you let some time elapse before asking for it' she took it for granted that you did not '' care . very much. Some girls are like that They borrow Jewelry, etc., and mm tu uiins invr vmn rtcp iu long as they want to. It shows great indeli cacy on their, part' I don't know what you can do except write a severe letter saying you want the ring back at once, -After this keep your rlnge safely on . your own fingers until you meet th " Dear' Mis Fairfax: X am a young man IB veers Of tea Three mnntha . ago I met a young lady four years my, senior. . It was love at first sight- I , nrnnniM - to h.r and aha .Ai.nt1 ma Her parents also .treated me very well. ' About a month ago my lady friend fell Hi and she le still in bed. Two weeks ago one Sunday when I called to see her her parents told me that the doe- tor's order was not to let anybody see her. and in the. middle of the week I received a letter from her father, who wrote that he oid not - think his daughter and myself were suited to each other, and that I had better look for somebody else. : I called on them last Sunday again, hoping to see my frlehd, but unfortunately aha was still in bed. They treated me very coldlr'. and did not glvs sny satisfactory rea son for writing me the letter. She will be out of bed probably In a month, and ' I am positive she has not any knowl edge of her father letter. . I ara greatly worried about what to" do. I don't want to go to her houae again after the way her parenta treated me the laat time. I love her dearly aid v u - .1.. i . ..in . - r . WORRIES? ii a v. you a wtmia go to the father and demand the reaaon of the change. - If he give no .satlaf action' wait until ths girl is well and then sak her. "Id Justice to you they should give some reason. I think the alii win h T - luMwuilll will a patiently a you can, - v