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UIE MAN of H others wlio nas reason to dc most
profoundly indignant over the Kummehn burglary
-fr-ir ;a in,lrr Cirircrp. I'lacine reliance unori what
is officially told him, as he necessarily must in many cases,
he finds that his confidence has been abused and that the
power and dignity of the court have, unknown to him, been
employed, not in furthering, but-in prostituting the cause
, of justice: The conspiracy was a deep and far-reaching
one; its purpose was to extract money from a business
man whose property had been stolen" and who wa to be
held up for having it returned to him. One man was
under arrest charged with the offense; he had pleaded
guilty two and a half months ago.. It is probably true,
while he is an ex-conviqt, that he knew nothing about the
burglary until it was over. On the ground that he had
pleaded guilty, and thus saved the county the expense of
a trial, it was understood that he was. to receive a short
sentence. While this view of the case was being kept
before the court, the prisoner, through threats of getting
the limit of the , law. because of his penitentiary record, was
being cleverly used as a: medium through which to extract
mote money from the owner of the stolen property. .
. Thus was Judge George's confidence abused at every
step. He was used as an unconscious instrument to further
what manifestly was a dirty conspiracy and he has already
-discovered enough facts to warrant' him "in reasonably en
tertaining that belief.. The dignity of his court has been
Outraged, and if the. investigation which he has .startexl
clearly demonstrate this, as wertis entirely probable, some
thing sudden and decisive is likely to be heard from Judge
George, even though the police board should, decline;1 to
make any move in the direction of an investigation.
THE BISHOP'S BAR AND OTHER THINGS. :
HERE is no man in the United States today .who
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abused and criticised as the Right Rev. Henry
Codman Potter, Episcopal bishop of Nw York. Under
ordinary conditions Bishop Totter has enjoyed a great,
degree of popularity and could have boasted a range of
friendships that would have satisfied the most exacting
man. But he has fallen from grace, so to speak, on the sa
loon question. He accepts the saloon as a present fixed fact.
He reasons that the poor man, who after a hard day's work
finds himself cooped up. in a sttrffy room or two in a tenement-house
is apt to go abroad to. seek diversion. As a
matter of fact he does go abroad. His natural abiding
place is the saloon. There he finds light,' cheerfulness,
companionship and liquid refreshments. Proceeding on the
theory that this was so, and for the present could not be
altered, .the bishop evolved the theory that the next best
thing was to attempt to raise the standard of the saloon.
.This could be done by selling liquors to those who desired
them which at. least possessed the merit of being unadul
terated, of selling' them at a fair price, of trying to elimi-,
nate the custom of treating, and encouraging the sale of
soft drinks. A starting-point in thisjine was made in the
case of a saloon opened in one of the underground stations.'
. The occasion drew forth a speech from the bishop in which
he boldly exploited his theories, whereupon the ribald news
papers began to devote columns qf Valuable space to what
they were pleased to call the consecrated saloon, thus enor
mously swelling its receipts. ' v
Since that happy or unhappy day the busy letter
writers have been hard at work. They have fairly deluged
the bishop With their epistolary protests. Hundreds, per
haps thousands, adopted the much more' expeditious method
of reaching him by telegraph. -Meantime the bishop is dis
tinctly holding his peace while his ears ring with denun
ciations, and even .'many Of his friends seem inclined to
believe that his enthusiasm over a pretty theory has run
away with his judgment , '
- Experiments along this same line have" been tried in
several coal-mining camps in the country.'- This is true of
several isolated coal camps in Colorado where a big cor
poration owns the land upon which they have been built. In
order to make the places attractive to the miners and re
tain them In their employ they have built model cottages,
they have put in schools and kindergartens, and they have
established saloons which they call clubs. Its managers
know that the men they employ will drink, and to retain
them the club is made one of the attractions., A nominal
fee is charged every month for the privileges of the club,
which embraces baths, poolroom and cardroom. -Ho one is
allowed to play for money, and no one is allowed to treat
another., The liquors furnished are as nearly chemically
pure as they can be'boughf. : A generous price is paid for
them. They are retailed at a very slight margin above
cost- Nothing is 'charged; 'every one pays as he goes.'and,
ho Hquorjs sold to any one after he begins; to show the
least sign of intoxication. As many of , the men' thus em
ployed are. foreign-born; the plan works exceedingly well
and is worth very much more than it costs the corpora
tion. The men for stretches of time, at least remain
perfectly satisfied, they work regularly, thus, avoiding the
josses incurred because 'of enforced shutdowns through
the drunkenness of the men after paydays. It does not
follow, of course, that the momerft the men remove else
where they do not fall into their old-time habits. Imme
diate results are all that are sought, and practically all
that are cared for. These' are secured, and so the-ecc
nomical purposes of the corporation are" attained.
Those whose memories carry them back a scofe of years
and the further back, they remember the more, striking
is the comparison-know that a great change has come in
public sentiment over the question of drinking. They know
there has been a steady if very gradual movement in the,
.right direction. They have, seen that while precept and
example have done something, the exigencies of everjr-day
business have done a great deal more. The great railroad
and other corporate enterprises have discovered 'that thev
can get better and safer service from men who do not drink
than from men who do," and so they insist on temperance.
This same sentiment is extending to other branches of
business, not because of the moral aspects of the case, but
simply and solely because of its commercial aspects. The
changes thus wrought in some, of the trades in a score of
.years are simply marvelous. They have been brought about
by more exacting requirements and-more definite responsi
bilities. These changes have come,, and in" the very na
ture of the case they have come to stav. . The prohibition
propaganda has done something " and has exercised its in
fluence in some directions, for whicX it will get no ac
knowledgment Local option, when it has' not gone too
far ahead of public opinion, has also done something. . High
license has worked along.the-line which Bishop Potter is
now proceeding in a single specific case. It has raised the
standard of the, saloons themselves, a in Iowa, and in some
places has tended to uproot the dives, and with them the
criminal hang-outs which Tcost the taxpayers o much in
maintaining police, xourts and jails. . ..;, ' , -
No movement which promises to tier any good in this
direction should be sneered down. .Doubtless the "Bishop's
Bar" will fall verv far 6hort of. creating a revolution in the
saloon business of New York; perhaps it may do no gcod
whatever. But so long as it has been undertaken it should
be given a fair trial, and before very long it will demon
strate how a pet theory operates when practically applied.
OREGON'S SUMMER PLAYGROUNDS.
A GREAT many people of Oregon are at work these
fructuous ' summer days, but there : are many also
who are; not at ; work, but are at play though
in many cases the play may really be, harder work than
moderately hard work itself. ' . V
An item published in a coast paper last week stated that
about five -thousand people were camping along the Til
lamook "beaches alone, extending from Nehalem on the
north to Ocean Park on the south, Then there are many
thousands at the better known and more accessible Clat
sop beaches, and those-north of Ilwaco, and thousands
more over at Yaquina Bay, Seal, Rocks and Alsea.
The people at Seaside and Long Beach and adjacent
points are mostly from Portland, but those of other beaches
mentkmed.are largely from smaller towns up the valley or
from the country. ' Many families even from the' country ;
get their work along so that they can spend a month or
so at the sea coast, thus taking life much easier than do
most .farmers, in, eastern states. ,. : ,
' Oregon is rich in summer resorts, not of the . Long
Branch and Bar Harbor type, but , of types even better,
if a. person wants to have nature rather than art in the
shape of fashionable society around him; ; There art not
only thse extensive stretches of beaches, but many moun
tain springs, both in western and eastern Oregon. ; There
is also .in many streams and . lakes at this time of year
abundance of fish, and in the mountains d,er and other
game, if one is inclined to play that way. "
With probably twenty thousand people at 4he Oregon
and Washington beaches, and perhaps half as many more
at the various springs, one may be assured that not all of
Oregon s people are at worK m the regular' workaday way
escape without at least making a struggle to sink, disable
or send it whirling back into the harbor. Anybody vith
half an eye, even at this distaqce, could see the importance ,
of keeping the fleet bottled up untR the fortress surrendered, ' ,
when it would fay an easy prey to the enemy. Everybody
believed that Admiral Togo, would have seen it even sooner
than jpeople in the United States, and would have appre
ciated to the full his responsibility. y Great was their disap
pointment to find quite the contrary from Russian sources,
of course. ' ', . , v
Since the real news has begun to trickle forth it is found ,
that Togo was wide awake, that he sent most of the fleet
limping back to the harbor, and that most of the smaller, ,.
boats which got out are so badly punished that they will
not forget their drubbing for quite a while tb come.
And so everything continues to come about according to ,'
calculationthat is, Japanese calculation the Russians win
ning paper victories, the Japs contenting themselves with
the victories in the field and on the water, an arrangement
with which they seem perfectly satisfied, v :
ATTENDANCE At EXPOSITIONS.
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as well .as of workgrounds ; but eventually, we are inclined
to think, the mountains, which give us the ..'stimulating
aUIfniLi ra npr ri 11 K much mnw rnera11v natrntS-
ized than they have been in the past, and will fully 6hare
in me popularity vi me ucawiics.
VICTORIES WHICH DO NOT MATERIALIZE.
THE USUAL AVERAGES seem to be pretty well
maintained in the Russian-Japanese ' war- At the
.outset there is an announcement of a great victory
or a successful coup from St -Petersburg, followed a little
later by the facts from Tokio, and still later by a grudging
series of telegrams from Russian sources in which the main
facts are finally allowed to trickle forth to the public. ... '.'
, Things are getting entirely too hot. for the fleet in Port
Arthur harbor; so hot, indeed that it was obliged' to take
any desperate chance that presented to get away. It did
attempt to get away. Then came the reassuring news that
the Port Arthur fleet was expected at .Vladivostok and the
fleet there would undoubtedly give it a pleasant reception.
All the ships, it appeared, had escaped the Japanese without
being, discovered. In the next day's dispatches it appeared
that the Russian ships had not escaped entirely without dis
covery, but, Jhe encounter that ensued could scarcely be
called such. except for the damage that was done the Jap
anese fleet Everybody was surprised that Admiral Togo,
who seems to be always up and coming and . was never
caught napping, should have permitted the whole, fleet to
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VERY ONE who has visited the St. Louis fair says
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n 13 wic must marvelous exposition inai win ever ,
be gathered together again. It is monstrously larire.
but for this very reason the. man or woman who is pursu
ing some specialty can find thereprecisely what is wanted ;
and in all its variety. Except under" the same circumstances
it would be utterly impossible to find without extended
travel and at great expense, and perhaps not then, the be
wildering collection which represents the very acme of
human endeavor. For this reason no' one who can so ar
range it should .miss the exposition. ; .J -"
We regret to say although the reason is largely due to
the reputation which St. Louis bears as a seething caldron
of heat in summer the attendance so far has not been as .'
large as it should-have-been, President Francis has ap
pealed to the railroads to help it out by offering induce
ments in the' shape of , low rates. These will undoubtedly
help to increase the attendance; which, we are inclined 'to ,
believe, will reach enormous proportions in the latter endv
qf this month, in September, October, and perhaps in .No
vember . '. .,,,'; .,
There are six weeks of the year when St. Louis may
boast almost ideal weather, and that is during its Indian
summer. Nothing more delightful and languoroUs-, could
well be imagined, and the visitor who goes there then will
carry with him the assurance of delicious weather, an im
portant feature in sightseeing. It is instructive to considct
how enormous must be the attendance to give promise of
success to a great exposition such as that now eing held
at St Louis. . ' v ' : ' : .' '
In May the attendance numbered 1,531,981; in June it
exceeded 3,000,000, and in July rose, to nearly 4,000,000.
But this is a less .number than attended the Columbian .ex
position at Chicago' in 1893," the admissions there in Au
gust being 4,687,708, in September 5,808,942, and in Octo
ber 7,945,430, the entire admissions for the, six months ag
gregating 27,539,521. It St. Louis equals thi record the
attendance must grow greatly during the n'ext two and a
half months. . ' . , ' ' :' ' ''.'
The total attendance at previous ' world's fairs ; was as
follows: Vienna, 1873, ; 7,254,687; Philadelphia, 1876,.'
9,910,996 ; Paris., 1878, 16,032,725 ; Paris; 1889, 28,149,353.
But in Paris the exposition was open seven days in the
week, while American expositions have been handicapped
somewhat by Sunday closing". v ,';; :",
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' RUSSIA'S CHANCES OF SUCCESS & By ERNEST VON LIGNITZ, General of Infantry in tne German Army ;
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BT THEIR occupation of Korea th
Japanew hara uccee)el'1n- es
tablishing 4 military baa on tha
continent ot Aala, a baaa tWo-thi-da tha alia
of their own country, with vaeveral ood
porta, with meana of communication which,
though primitive compared to those of
Japan, at least enable them to transport
their guns and supplies without too many
difficulties, With thtlr characteristic energy
the Japanese have already begun to develop
these means of communication by the build
ing of railroads and telegraph lines.
The nature of the country, with Its steep
Mils, also enables the Japanese- to fortify
many positions which may be successfully
defended when they later may have to fall
back before an overwhelming Russian force.
Even should Russia In time succeed in
sending sufficient troops to Manchuria to
drive the Japanese out she would find her-.
self In an exceedingly . difficult position In
Korea. ; Without Jselng absolutely masters
of the sea,' a rttpid' Russian advanoer to the
fortified ports, Fusan and Masampo, Is im
possible, aa the Japanese will undoubtedly
fortify the harbors, of Chemulpo and Geriaan,
In the flank" of an advancing Russian army,
which would make It necessary for the Rus
sian commander-in-chief to leave consider
able forces at these places. .A apeedy end
of the war la therefore not to be hoped for.
Bo far the advantages are all with Japan.
Their country ia nearer the seat of , war,
they are more modernly equipped, they rule
the sea, and their generals and soldiers are
at least the equals of thoae of Russia. On
the other side, one must not judge by the
battle of the Talu, as the Japanese were
three times as strong as the Russians there,
and their victory was a foregone conclusion.
The. feeling of solidarity is very strong
among the Russians and they never worry
about their losses. They are stubborn and
dogged fighters, though the Intelligence of
the average soldier Is rather, lower than
that of the Japanese.
The Japanese to a man fully realise that
they are fighting for the existence of their
country,' while not one Russian private sol-
dier In a hundred knows why he Is fighting.
: While 'Japan has adopted all the latest
modern military Improvement. Russia has
been guilty of underestimating her enemy,
and has up to very lately kept her best sol
diers and arms at home, thinking that the
"little yellow monkeys were easily beaten,,
and not believing that they would know
hdw to use modern arms against a, modern
army. '
But in spite of all defeats most of which
have been greatly exaggerated Russia la
confident of ultimate victory, and this con-'
vlctlon has spread to every officer and aol
dler In the cear's armies since General
Kuropatkln was placed in 'command. Never
has an army had stronger or more Just con
fidence In Its chief than has every Russian
In General Kuropatkln, who Is In every
sense of the word a self-made man 'and an
experienced general, familiar with' every
detail of modern warfare.
He began his career lnvan Infantry regi
ment from Turkestan and, knowing this,
officers and men from eastern parts of the
empire have the' feeling that he la one of
them and knows their character and ability.
During the Russo-Turklsh war her covered,
himself with glory as chief of staff under
General Bkobeleff, who greatly admired him
tor his unusual military genius and absolute
fearlessness, and who often told the late
csar to promote him" as quickly as possible.
The most peculiar trait In the character
of General Kuropatkln Is his absolute truth
fulness. His several books on military sub
jects. In which he often criticises the gov
ernment In a manner unheard of In Russia,
because he feels convinced that honest crit
icism Is needed, bears witness of this,' and
the fact that he, In spite of a criticism of
this kind, which would never be allowed in
Germany, has been abler to reach the high
est position, speaks well for -the fairness of
the Russian authorities.'
It Is not possible at this time to pro-
nounce an opinion of the Japanese ' higher
officers. The war. with China gave them an
opportunity to test In practice what they
had learned In theory, principally from Oer-
man officers.' General Kurokt was In com-
,mand of a division during that war and
made a glorious reputation for himself. :
Among thevJapanese soldiers there are a'
very large number of weak and sickly men,
whose meagre diet of fish and rice makes '
them unfit for any exertion. ' During the
war with China the Japanese lost 4,000 'men
In battle,. 12,000 from sickness. . The Rus
sians, on the other' side, are nearly all' tall,
powerful and well built, able to stand all the
discomfort and hardahlps of t a campaign
' without any effort. : , , , s
; The Russian cavalry IS far superior to the
Japanese, and . their artillery horses Infln-
Italy much better than those of the Japan
ese, who often have. to make their soldiers
take the place of horses when heavy guns
are to be moved.- - ;
General Kuropatkln has so far made no
mistakes, but has .done .wonderful service)
with a force which at the present Is not
half as strong as the enemy's, and those who
know as I do, expeel wonderful things from
htm during the next month, and we shall;
not be disappointed , and every day which
passes without loss to Russia strengthens
his force and counts In his favor. A new
division to reinforte him arrives from Rus
sia every two weeks, and this may be kept
up for months, while Japan at best can send
only four more. . . '. .'.-,..
8orit Is, after all, still possible that the
Japanese may be driven back Into the sea,
but far more likely is It that when the
terrible- expenses of a modern war have
drained the two countries of all the millions
they can spare they will find out that the
Japanese cannot Invade .Siberia,- and the
Russians not Japan, and proceed to arrange
for peace, makjng China pay all the costs
of the1 warpWhlle Japan keeps Korea and
Russia Manchuria. - ' '.,'..'
Ball Game Witt a Religious Moral
(By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.)
The game of baseBall that cama oft
Saturday last In West Paterson, X' J-,
was one of the most remarkable ever
played. '
The remarkable feature of the game
lay neither in the skill of the players
nor In the site of the crowd that' wit
nessed It. but In the fact that It was
played between the local nine and a
team of minister. .
Swift aa mountain deer earns tha
young men . of Paterson to meet them,
and on the diamond, for more than two
hours, victory swayed back and forth
between the enthusiastic contestants!
It matters not which side won al
though that honor, I believe, fell to the
local team the main thing Is tha fact
that the ministers played, and played
well, and played with tremendous en
thusiasm. . The 1,000 spectators enioyed . them
selves; the playera enjoyed themselves,
the ministers aa much so ss the others',
snd sil the world, with the eiceptlon
of a few old fossils. Is glad that tha
game was played.
That game of ball means vary much
more than appears on the surface, it
was more than a game of ball It waa
a came of bsll with a moral, and the
moral Is nothing lees than this: That
tha ministers are at last becoming rea
sonable. -
There was a time and that time was
not very long ago, either when rellaion
was the gloomiest thing In the world.
. "Hun be tha heavens wllh blackr
seemed to be tha motto of every clergy
man and every church member. '
Sutidave the ministers preached main
ly on Tath and the Judgment," and
en ths aame doleful themes the people
thought ell the week days through. -
The Idea prevailed that the world
was mort fused to the devil, aad that
thoae who took any Interest ia Its
pleasures were sure to be damned.
It was given out from fhe pulpit that
it was a sin to be happy, and nretty
nearly everybody felt that tha pulpit
waa right" '
There was little Joy In the world. In
the presence of the terror that every
where reared its awful crest there was
but little disposition to laugh, but a
llicht lncllnatlon.Jo" be merry.
Man's business In this world was to
make Sure of his "calling and election"
for the world to come; and It was at
his everlasting peril that he permitted
himself to dally with the pleasures that
met him by the way.
I am still many decades younger than
Methuselah Is reoorted to have been
at the time of his death, and yet I can.
well remember the time when the few
of my acquaintances who persisted In
enjoying themselves as they went along
were looked upon as being mighty risky,
and as "tempting providence" to a de
gree that was exceedingly dangerous.
It wasn't "safe" to allow oneself to
fall In love with the pleasures of this
world a world that waa soon to be
licked up In (lames and crumpled in the
fervent heat of Ood's wrath like a leaf
In a redhot furnace.
As a Joy-killer the old time religion
was perfect. The Incense of Its pessi
mism hung like a pall over the beauty
of tho world. The life that now is was
a curse and the one to come was
dreadfully uncertain.
But it Is . evident that a change Is
coming over the spirit of our dream.
When ministers play baseball, and en
joy It we need no extra argument to
prove to us that religion la experiencing
a "new birth." ' t
When ministers play baseball, and en
Joy it, wa may be sure that. In. their
opinion at least there are aome pleas
urea of .this world that are not to be
despised.
In a word, sfter a long, hard fight
human naturs Is beginning to win its
rights. Long scouted and scorned. It is
now beginning to be recognised. Its
claims are being allowed. It la entering
Into Its patrimony.
Upon the world, long" cursed by the
ology, la falling the light of reason; and
It la beginning to be perceived, on all
hands, that human gladness Is no sin,
and that tt ia contrary to no law, human
or' divine, for men and women o get
what pleasure they ean out of tha life
that has been given to them.
It la only wrong to do wrong." It la
not wrong to be happy.
It is wrong to be selfish, to be cruel,
to be dishonest to be 'untruthful, to be
less than a . manly man or a womanly
woman but It ia not wrong to enter
with sest into the enjoyment that the
passing day may offer.
And so it was a grand thing when
thoae clergymen played1 baseball. It Is
true they were beaten, but they played
well, and, incidentally, did a mighty
good day's work for humanity In gen
TXa.BXTVATXOsT ZST XXU1TOIS.
From tha New Tork Sun. ?
' 1When Illinois gave 26.900 plurality
for Mir. Cleveland in 1891, the Prohi
bition vote of the atate was 25,870. In
189 it .declined 0.800. In 1900 It Wa
17,800. and In 1901 (election of stace
treasurer), 18.000, equivalent on a full
vote of 88,000 the flguree of 1891.
The Illinois legislature haS IT mem
bers in the senate and 151 representa
tives, the latter being choeen under
what la called the "cumulative system,"
by .which three representatives are
sleeted' from each of the (1 districts,
each elector voting for only two. Under
this .arrangement, peculiar to Illinois,
there was Isst year one "Prohibition
member of the Springfield legislature.
Thus the Prohibition party has in Illi
nois whs It lacks In all other states
a veritable foothold In matters of leg
islation. , i .
Illinois Is one of the close states trrts
year. The Prohibitionists, who now
conduct their nstlonal campaign from
Chicago, are organising sctively tor the
fight Some, of them declare tha they
will put up a hard battle to elect mem
bers of the legislature. They hope to
have enough members to hold the bal
ance of power between the two parties
If the election la close. They have a
fund for campaign uses, and aha chair
man of the Prohibition national commit-?
tee, a realdent of Chicago, makes many
sanguine claims as to the Illinois vote
for Swallow.
Demoorats are encouraged by the re
newed aotlvlty and revived hopes of
the Prohibitionists of Illinois. That
atate has 17 electoral votes as many
as have Indiana and New Jersey com
bined. .
IOW XT WAS BOmsT AsT9 OBXW.
From the Prinevllle Review.
With this issue, begins Vol. XI of the
Review.. Eleven years are not many,
when applied to the age of a man; but
to a chicken or a country newspaper
they mean an added toughness that is
aa derogatory to the one aa It Is essen
tial to success in the other. '
But the Review la much .more than
eleven years old. Somewhere about the
yesr 1880 a printer appeared In Prlne
villa, at that time even a good tradjng
point Seeing there waa no paper here,
he enlisted the services and opened the
purses of the few business men, end in
a short time the Prinevllle News was
born. "That waa a modest little' sheet,
but It filled the bill and made ,hlstory
and votes for several years. In the
course of time, however, the first owner
went out of business and the next man
to get poasesslon decided, to also change
the name of the paper. Bo It was en
larged and appeared under the heading,
"Ochooo Review." Thia continued until
11 yesrs ago, when a Jhlrd .or fourth
change of ownership brought with It the
change of name to Ita present one.
So the paper really covers 14 years of
existence. . It has witnessed several
transformations during Its life, among
which was the change from Wasco to
Crook county, the gradual development
of Crooked river valley from a shunned,
arid desert to what it Is today, and the
upbuilding of Prinevllle from a hamlet
to a falr-alsed city, and one that keeps
on growing right along.
lILr OOBTTBOX. ZS TZBT nUTTO.
Life Is generously punctuated with
serloua propositions that often depress
and discourage us until we wonder if,
after all, life is worth living.
Ther are preclbua few of us who
wouldwllllngly live over again the past
The echoes of memory are not harmon
ious, and tha bitter experience has left
a scar that even time has failed to heaL
Making the best of life is one of its
cardinal virtues;, and helpa us to bear
WhaV otherwlae would prove unbearable.
The test of moral force la the courage
with which we meet circumstance and
conquer it - The whole world admlrea
pluck, and the man or woman who will
let nothing daunt him or her wins ad
miration and. success.
The trifles "of everyday life are harder
to endure than tha paralysing blow that
stuns through Its suddenness, leaving
one nerveless, pulseless and unequal to
reaction. ,.
There Is an art in making the beat of
everything, and very often the most dis
tressing series of events will eventually
turn to one'e good.
The grestest lesson In life Is thst of
self-control, and to acquire tt should be
the aim of every Individual.
It is a strenuous effort snd a bitter
lesson but no matter how terrible suf
fering may be, it ia augmented or al
layed by the exercise of wilt
Oregon Fortunate.
From the La Orande Chronicle.
Oregon has the best of her adjacent
neighbors In one' way, and tnatril the
general state and county election ia over
and forgotten, while the people of Wash
ington and Idaho are Just beginning to
get cleverly mixed in the political strife.
There are aome compensating advan
tages in having the general election In
June, after all. This cuts nut the po
litical turmoil for a part of the year,
at least , . "
; The Cynic's Dictionary v
, .fly Ambrose Bleree.)
(Copyright 1004, by W. B. Hearst)
- MACHINATION, n. The method em
ployed by one's opponents In baffling
one's open and honorable efforts to do
the right thing. ' , ,
So, plain the advantages of machination
It constitutes moral- obligation.
And, honest wolves who thing upon "t
with loathing
Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive
clothing. i.
Bo prospers still the dlploraatlo art, t
And Satan bows with hand upon his
heart . ' -
MAD. adj. Affected with a high de
gree of Intellectual Independence; not
conforming to standards of thought
speech and action derived from their pro
ponents from study of themselves; at
odda with the majority; In short un
usual. It Is noteworthy that persons
are pronounced mad by officials desti
tute Of evidence that they themselves
are sane. For Illustration, this prea'
ent (and Illustrious) lexicographer Is
no firmer In the faith of his own san
ity than la any inmate of any madhouse
In the land; and for aught he knows to
the contrary, instead of the lofty occu
pation that aeems to htm to be engag
ing his powers he may really be beat
ing his hands against the window-bars
of ' an asylum and declaring himself
Noah Webster's successor, to the Inno
cent delight of many thoughtless spec
tators. '
MAODALF.NR. n. An Inhabitant of
Magdala. Popularly, a woman found
out This definition of the word has au
thority of Ignorance. Mary of Magdala
being another person than the penitent
woman mentioned by St Lake. It has
also the official sanction of tha govern
ments of Great Britain and the United
Statea. In England the word Is pro
nounced Maudlin, whenoe Maudlin, adj.,
unpleasantly affectionate. With their
Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bed'
lam, for. Bethlehem. ' the English may
Justly boast themselves the greatest of
revisers. ''.'.. ..
MAGIC, n. An art of converting su
perstition into coin. There are other
arts serving the same high purpose, but
the discreet lexicographer does not name
them.' .
. MAGISTRATE, n. A Judlelal officer
of unlimited Jurisdiction and unbounded
incapacity.
MAGNET, n. Something acted upon,
by mAgnetlsm. . . v , . ..
. MAGNETISM, n. Something . acting '
upon a magnet.
The two definitions Immediately fore
going are condensed from the works of
one thousand eminent scientists, who
have illuminated the subject with a
great white light' to the-4nxpreBBible
advancement? of human knowledge.
- MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a gran
deur or aplendor superior to that to
which the spectator is accustomed, as
the ears of an aaa, to a rabbit or the
glory of a glow worm to a maggot
MAGNITUDE, n. . Slxe. Magnitude
being purely relative, nothing la large
and nothing smalt If everything In the '
universe were Increased In - bulk one
thousand diameters nothing .would-be.,
any larger than it was before, but If '
one thing remained unchanged all the -others
would be lnrger than they had
been. - To an understanding familiar ,
with the relativity of magnitude and
distance the spaces and 'masses of the
astronomer would be no mora impres
sive than those . of the mlscroscoplst X
For anything we know to the "contrary f
the visible universe may be a amall part'
of an atom with its component float
ing in the Ufe-fluld (lumlntferous :
ether) of some anlmnl. -Possibly the
wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of
our own blood are overcome with the
proper emotion when contemplating the
unthinkable distance from one of these
0 another
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