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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1; 1901
PORTLAND, OREOON. -fv
THH OREOON DAI LTV JOU RNAL.
Oregon Sidelights
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Published my evening (except Sunday) and every erojidey morning at Tho
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SECRETARY SHAW- .
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NICE, clean, unctuous cornfeeV
Bbw. He has a splendid, we
t unooatrMlabMf gin o itiumw.
ht"OWB aatiSEacuou mu vm fiw
With aa air of transparent candor ha can Junta wtta a
bunch of figures or toy with a handful, of half-stated facta
-aa as to thrlU with enthusiasm aa audierice which la in
sympathy with him and aotually befuddle and eonfuM
many of hi Mtenere wha ara not. - Ha cafe roll trippingly
from nt tcfigue and with Ilia aaranaat naif confidence a
'? string of stunning nnmerela that would strangle pro
i reastonal accountant and ha can turn thalr facets, ao to
peak, at ao many bewildering angles that ana la apt to ha
i overwhelmed with them aa though -they, were a aeries of
f rwalatlona.. And until one seta them , m eold,-unaym-
path type many things which ha asserts -ere quite apt
to be accepted aa demonetratlona and
and friandUneaa with whloh he professedly regards hta
f 'opponents M accepted at it face vroe" until one finds the
- jeweled tor aUtetto sticking out from under- the abort
ylbaV. ; ' . : .. . . , -" , ! '
In other words the gentleman from Iowa 1a ana of the
race of spellbinders Who ara selected to pot a thrill Into
political campaigns, to arouse the- enthusiasm of the par-
tlsana and perhaps to carry hie opponents off their feet.
He comes under happy auspices. He la memWr of the
president's official family. He comes from the heart of
the political sanctum .. sanctorum. What ha has to' say
carries with It the hall mark of the headquarters. He
' speaks with a certain 'air of authority which oouldj be
V ns; alone to those who ara closest to the throne. JXa a
? man hoi dins; aa eminent publlo position be receives special
consideration becauee of that position. Actually, thouffh'
f 'not nominally, a campaign orator who In his capacity of
t partisan, 1 dowa? what he- aan to elect hie chief and there
' fore Ulka aa a politician rather than the head of the treas
ury department, be cose before the
- then political profesatons. under" the
1 unique ausplosa. He comas to them
t but In reality as pottttcias who la
fat this particular moment by considerations of statoa-
manahlp and the hishar buslnem aspects of the country
r flnancea than he. la in aidlna; m the electloa of Mr. Roose
' T TeK. Therefere hie adrantaaa la enormous orer the or-
-dlnary political spellbinder who sjosa out aa a oelt-cea--
-feaaed- partisan, who la everywhere received an a partisan
.... r basis, and whose receptions coma from hi political asSo
- dates and not from the body of the people. Irrespective of
$ their polltica.
V 2 gecrstary Shaw waa fortunate im thla res pact In Portland
as he has been everywhere throuahout the ttorthweaV, He
. adopts a tone of studied friendllneea lh ooaeequence and aa
umea aa air of delia-htful candor that
" and lenda weln4nd dlcnlty to utterances which other-
wise' might be closely, aitlcaliy, even Jealously-seanneaV
. The burden of his speech to a specious defense of the at
, J tltuda of he Republican party with reference to the tariff
cjueatlen, j He does not come out In a bold, aaw and defiant
V way to defend the" Republican sjoalUont ssather dbaa be
iaeak to throw doubt and discredU an Uw stettude of the
I Democratic party, attempt Ins: to convict It of being In
. reality a free trade party which-would throw opes our
, , markets to the whole world, making no account of the
' tremendous aevenue which under the Republican regime
the pemocraUo party, f returned to power; would be
t- forced to raise through tariff soarcea. Ha talks largely,
genaraily, we might almost aay loosely, on the question of
Improved conditions of living, atft he baa nothing to aay
- eboat the pportunltles which the XHngley tariff affords
f the trusts to rob the people of our own country, to force
them to pay a much higher price for the very same goods
.than they sek the fareign aowsumer to say, to throttle com
' 4 petltlvo Industries and standing between the producer
vand consumer Indiacrlmlnatel y to rob both. Ha says noth-
lng ef the menace which they bate become to the very
government ItseK, b the bead of the Republican party
r v who has felt and bowed to the lash, to the men who work
v- and who are speedily oomlng under their complete domlna
tloo with the aid of the courts, the civil and military au
. tborKles. , t
Aa a merely academic effort the speech was a success.
It reads smoothly and waa garnished with many entertaln
" ) lng stories that adorned a tale If they did not always point
-''., moral. But no attempt was made to lay- hojd of the
throbbing heart of the question, to Justify the stand pat
policy Which is tearing the YTtOs out of Industry and
.rapidly transferring to thr pockets af a few the jiweat-
mole ten ed earnings of the many.
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(By Ambrose Bleroal , 1
i oMrrlfbi, leoi. by W. B. nteteLV:
V MAYOMNAIBK. a. One of the sauces
Whieh serve the French ta place of re-
-Uglon. ,
; MB. pro. The oblectlonable ease of
X. The personal pronoun la English has
' three cases the domi native, the objec
tionable and the oppressive- Sach IS ail
.three.
i MRANDCR. n. To proceed slnuous
7'Jr and aunleaaly. The word Is the an
cient name of a river near Troy, which
VV, turned and twisted In the effort to get
'- out of hearlac wha the Greeks and Tro
jans boasted of their prowees,
4. . Oooeev, goosey gander,
,i Where do you meander?
Susan B. Anthony.
, y MKDAl n. A small metaltlo disk
V gives aa a reward for vlrtuea. attaln
mente or aervlcea mora or leaa authen
' tie. It le related of Blsmarrk. woo had
1 been awarded e medal for gallantly res
cuing a drowning person, that, being
i 'A aakd the meaning of the medal, replied.
.Indifferently, '1 save lives sometimes,"
And aomettmes he didn't
" JHKDIATK. v.t To butt in.-
MKDIC1NS. n. - stone flung down
t the Bowery to kill a dog In Broadway.
j M KRKNE8U. n. t'oeommon patience
. in plaaalag a revenge that le worth
while. .
,- , M is fdr Moees,
' v 1 Who eiew the Bgyptlsn.
' " As sweet es the roee le
'J The saaekneae ef Mosee;
. vl . fo mocuinient shews hie
w--- Pest-mortem InaeripUOft. ...
But M im for Moses,
wm eew uw aHiypBaa
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J THE CYNIC'S DICTIONARY
In Ootllerw Weekly H IS stated that
' a assail minority ef oar mrtst august
body, the senate of our country. Is free
t from earperatlen rule leonr. Many a
tate Is rul'd by railroad. New Hemp
ahlre. for Instance. IS r4 by the Bom
ton and -Maine, which le as much a pert
f the commonwealth aa the Jury sys
tem er the pnatofflee. Wisconsin has
tares ruling raBreaaa. We are act yet
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PAPBR OP'THO GTTY OF
A
men " secretary
had aJmoat said en
"'" w
Thia mv be
blem of Old age,"
August waa a lusty
the engaging
the Summer Olrl
Is a matron, and
ias, that shall help
people, yyij; that WU1 cause
bapplast and moat
very spirit of Him
under official ffulse
much leas oonoemed
hi quite impressive
MEERSCHAUM, n. (Lrte rally, ' eea-
foaaa, and by saany erroneously sup
posed te be made of It.) a fine white
clay, -which for convenience In ooeoetng
It brown Is made into tobacco-pipes and
smoked by the workmen engaged in that
Industry. The purpose of oolorlng It has
not been dlsolosed by the manufacture ra
There was a youth (you've 'heard before
This woeful tale, maybe).
Who bought moorsnheuiu pips and
swore
That color it would hel . , .
He shut himself from the world away,!
Nor any soul he saw;
He smoked by night, he smoked by day,
Ashard ss he coajd.draw,"
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His dog died moaning In the wrath
Of winds that blew aloof;
The weeds were In the era vet pa
The owl was on the roof.
"He's gone afar he'll come no more,'
The neighbors sadly say. ' ' '1
And eo they' battered In the door
To take hie goods away. -
Them pips In mouth, they found htm
dead, . ' - - .
' Nut-brown In face and limb.
"That pipe's a lovely white," they said.
But It had colored him. , , . ,
Tha moral there's no need to sing;
'Tla plain aa day to. you
Don't play your gaais upon a thing ;
That Is a gameeter, too. ju - -7 ,- .
MRNBACtOUS. sdj. Having a man'
nrism ' which eonetete In addiction to
the rhetorical figure known aa the lie.
coiMhcag that govern Mnt or Mats
ownership Is aeoeseary, for w hope rag
alatloa may some day suffice. The ob
jection, however, that owning the rail
roads Would tnrrease aavernment patron
ae Is ebaura, tor the government and
tha rail road a have ene grand clearing
house of patronage already. . Nothing ta
so Important, in paaatng upon a can
didate for - governor, Senator, or presi
dent, ss to discover whether he stands
with this system er agaiast tt.
JNO. P. CAR ROIL
Journal Building. Fifth and TembHl
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PORTlAMP
MISTAKEN POETESS.
THB Outlook publishes -a -poem on August by Bdit
Smith beginning aa follows:
The summer folds Its bands with sense of rest
An emblem of old age that sits' In peace " .
Cershadowed by 4te noonday warmth ahdr bioom '
That AMria nvn earlv reADed in rich Increase.
DoetrT. but ltTTnot sense. Apparency"
nelthar Edith not the editor of the Outlook la acquainted
with Mis trees August. She 'never "-folded her hands" at
aU. August a hands were mightily" busy -up till her last
minute. She waa no old maid, anting "with folded hands,
but she had her alcoves rolled up, and her plump arms
were red with sunshine and exercise and the harvest work,
rf v Aiti. ttmA oid Aiurust to her face that she waa "an em
Kdtth might have got ths . worst : Of It.
matron, rejoicing In her big tarouj
Ul.i mavjid last night off the aphare of actioiu anfl riioi
ber scepter to an elder sister, whose hair is Just beginning
to be tinged with gray but even September doesn't -fod
her hands," nor la she an "emblem"-of old ege. ';
"Why, Edith, every month la busy, and baa bloom of
youth or ripe matronbobd'ln It. August was a great,
blooming housewife, busy churning. "putting up fruit, teach
ing the children and singing to them; garnering rich stores
or fruits and Oowera, Ho -folded handa" for her.
And today we ara entertained by another delightful mis
tress, middle-aged, perhaps; not quite so smiling aa May.
not quite ao roseate with blushes aa June: but healthy and
happy and rich, rejoicing exceedingly in the strong men
and. fair girts that aha claims as her progeny. - The heathen
named ber September,' The babe of the springtime Is not
a baby any kmger, i la true; the- maiden fair whom wo Mil
has grown waer ana stouter; rupwrnwu QfnAxm pavte le mt as eld
will ba busy providing .for the multltud-laa one of Uncle Chaunoey Depew'a Jokes.
Inous children-of the earth. Tea, she is preparing gifts,
and food, and storing up Joy and love and grace- and glor
to make Thanksgiving a proper hoIU
mankind to obeerre Christmas liv the
who wrote, Peece on earth, good will
to men; that will make us Ui the winter tmw serene and
secure.-'' . ' " " '
- No, Edith, summer never folded her hands, nor rested at
alL- Sha worked light alon and gloried in It, August
never Joined a anion nor went on a striks.. Neither will
our aoberer.and terker-oomplesJoned friend who arrived
last night September, v
August waa breathing, blooming, blushing, bearing
richness and beauty, and now Jo gone, but will come again.
Qood bye. August; welcome, September!
OFFICIAL CONTEMPT F0r1-AW.
fTHW Airt-rlan irfc-ia h rtfr1, seems te us.
I rather a buna apology for the evident and ac-
fc - knowledged violation of taw not only by the fisher
men, who are not much to blame, but by the flab warden,
who le hired and paid to -execute the law. " '
It la true that the temptation- im violate the law. waa
very great. The fish began to come In great numbers Just
as the legal open saasan waa closing; laxge and varied
interests urge and conspired together for the violation of
the law; yet The Journal thinks that 'this violation waa In
excusable) and ought 'to be -condemned. We cannot afford
ta make a law and hire or elect off leers to enforce It, and
excuse them fOT nrt doing, Jl9-,w; ,-..Tr
It may be beat to bnge the open cummer fishing sea
eon, making it two weeks later. Thla may . be done by
the next legislature But the Uw that la on the statute
book today should have been enforced by Fish Warden
Van Dusen. -He took an oath to support the constitution
and the laws of the United States and of the state of
Oregon. He baa bee falsa to that oath. - He h) therefore
ao unfaithful public servant.- Ha waa not to blame, for the
law, if It Is wrong. He waa not to blame for the curioua
change m the habits of the salmon. But he- la to slams
for having a duty to perform and not doing It.
. We cannot afford to have such officials who set aside
or Ignore lairs. An official's first,' last and only duty, la
to enforce and execute the lews whether those laws ara
good or bad, right or wring, la not for him to say. If bad,
and wrong; the people can change them.
There Is entirely too much defiance of laws, overriding
of laws, contempt of laws, by publlo officials; and this Is
a conspicuous Instance of this vice. .....
How will a court have the hardihood to fine a boy, for
instance, for catching salmon In the Clackamas river out
of season, when It allows the big master fish warden of
Oregon to violate In a wholesale way the very law that ha
Is paid to enforce. , . ...
(By George V. Hobart.)
(Cbpyristat ISO, by W. k. Usust.)
Der kicker nefer gets a sprained enkla.
A pesslmtatlcal Is a man dot alvare
egewseets to get H m der neck, and den
yelie veu he gets It . ... A
Bfery time you do seme peoplee a
favor dey get each q aiiacki of bad
memory. 1
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Some mens vork awful hart to keep a
easy chob. , .
A vemaa may not be shie-to throw n
ball, but I hnow some dot can throw der
hammer all right sure.
ghookspeare ears.. "Sveet vaa der
usagea of adversity,1' hut 1 vltl bet he
yust sold anuddar play before he thought
of 14. ' - ; - t -,
Two heads vas better den von eggs-
your vi fa needs a new hat ,
Overwork tt a fashionable disease mlt
lasy peoplee.
flowing nid eats vould not be so bad
if sfery men dlt net hat to do his own
reaping. t
Der man dot boasts abould- hla ances
tors ain't chewsrally got nuddlng else to
crow ofer. , -
Bfery man is der srchltsct ef his own
fortune, but jo many af us vas alvaya
ouid oa a scrlka. - ( -.
'" Tun half der vorid doan'd know vy
udder half ain't looking ad dem all der
vjle and wieey werea.
Necessity var der mudder ef many a
hungry child., . y .
' a hot argumeht puts lea on many a
frtendahlp.
fAV
From the Chicago. Reoord-Herald. -Tom
Watson says ths devil is gnlng
to be in the saddle no matter whether
Bnneevelt or Parker wine. Tom has not
hew ever, become so utterly hopeleae ss
te feel that he owes It to himself to
move out, t. v . , , 4 t, ..
WlU the Browns please rare russetT
Help make the state fair a big aaa,
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What day will be the Jape Fourth of
JulyT , '
Cant any reformers reform tha moa-
qultosf - .y. ,. ,
'vThat Fort Arthur eoor will be opened
aome day. -
Thoee Ohlneas Junks bring a lot wf
)unk newa $ .
The Bl ark Hand eught'to go and see
a manicurist , ... t ' '
Cant some soientist discover the di
vorce microbe? " .-viv - '
. The microbes have a bard Stunt these
glorious days,
Many peopte are arriving In Foriland
how; notloe them. :. .
The poor Japs Imagine they wUrbe
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he great' Inland -Kmplra must
free and Indepeodant.
Can Kuropatkln make a
worthy rmaatarly retreatT
history
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The cheaper hotels are thronged with
people come to see Oregon. ,
The worklngman who raises and edu
cates a family la our beet eltissn. f
Portland maintains Its reputation aa
ths beat aummer resort en earth. ,
'With wheat at a dollar, more or leas,
the Populleta whiskers Wag la vain.
Ooneral "gtoeeeel mar leent that tn hie
dictionary there Is such a word aa fait
' Deportation of rorfclngmen from- a
etate where they belong may also be an
"Issue.". , - r
t'The Boas tana thHSk the new spot on
the moon was caused by the. birth of
the boy. -
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If that - baby -were at the f rnf per
haps the Jape would quit They can't
hurt i baby. - -. :.
Still, a persoir baa s7 right to be
lieve that Hoke Smith doesn't know ev
erything. It la a free country.
General ttoeeeel can't make 'any mas
terly retreat; can't even get to second
base; so hs waxes his fierce muatacbe
and. hurls de nance. .- ,
Neither Bryan nor Debs loves Qrover
Cleveland. Yet all these eeteemed em
sens are too patriotic ta vote for the
awfut Republloaa party," ;
"Atlanta Journal: The White House
Is reported to be full ef mosqultoe. But
there are some heads that could not be
swelled eny mere by any number of
Insect bttes.
Chicago Hewst.-in Tha Hyda' PrV
court It post a man f U for beatmg bis
wife. Those tl.M. ratee aonouooed a few
days ago freav a west side court were
too cheap to last and aea who did not
take advantage of the bargains missed
what waa pBobably the opportunity of a
lifetime. . , - ,
The Wood bum Independent remarks:
"Brownell would probably be willing to
Step aside aa a candidate for the presi
dency ef the state senate If he were
promised the nomination for governor.
Oeorge B. would doubtless be pleased
to have Oeorge O. the Republloaa guber
natorial .nominee.". ,
'ATOM BOAJVg
1 From the Fsttahwrg Dispatch.- -loved
and respected by his aelghbom
at hornet feared and disliked by a lerge
proportion of Bis neighbors in the sen
atethat Is the lot of Senator Oeerge
Friable Hoar. For Mr. Hoar ta Worces
ter, Mass., was a much more genial per
sonam r than Senator Hoar In the oap-
ItoL The latter lnoametlon of the man
had a sharp congue in his head. -His
wit, harmlaos as a dove among his pri
vets friends, was aa keen as a stiletto
when wielded in the legislative chamber.
1 mlaht mention h few Instaaeso hi
point
Senator Ben Tillman In spite ef hla
pleblan pitchfork, can be a bit prudish
on occasions In the use of good English.
Bs-senator Allen ef Nebraska, leas oare-
ful la the niceties ef the language, waa
noted aa she IoosiWuiom debater in
the senate, a fact which tends point to
thla instance.
In the course of a senate colloquy
Tillman and Allen disputed over the
pronunciation of the word "altus." the
South Carol tan contending that the 'T
should be long, while his opponent stuck
to the short sound. Ths question was
referred to Hoar aa authority g good
sngiisn.
"The Senator from South Carolina Im
technically correct" decided the oraole.
"but I suppose ths Senator from Ne
braska desired to save time by using
the short sound.'
MAYA& SBCmJfTABT.
Paul Morton, ths new secretary of the
navy, has always been a glutton for
work, aay ao article In Leslie's Monthly
Magaslne for September. Put a pile of
Important Pavers on Bis desk and his de-
olslons corns almost as fast as shots
from a raplet-flre gun. Hs does not
drink or smoks, and his head is alwaye
olear.
"in eur trips nverha mad." ears one
of hla subordinates, "hs eats less in a
day-than I do at a a In ale meal. Work
never worriee htm. He throws it off too
rapidly. Consequently he never worries
or gets tired out He hates details, but
he has thoroughly mastered them. He
llkea to handle big things matters of
general poller. He la ebrupt and Short
In his manner. Foe that reason X and
a lot of the men who work under him
used to be afraid of him. But that was
before we -realised how kindly he le at
heart He doesn't make a great many
intimate friends, been use when he does
he feel a bound te stick by them to the
bitter end. 1 know one man whose only
claim on Paul Morton la that they were
railroad clerks together back In the '70s.
He has lost flvo or at positions which
Morton got for htm, but Morton still
keeps en finding him new Jobs and try
ing to brace him up. ' He la taking to
Washington as bis prlyata secretary the
same young man who served his father
la that capacity Ja Cleveland s cabinet."
Art Be
. From She New Torh Amarbttib
When two er three financiers can
"make" ll.0,ft in a dy, the aft of
transmitting silver Into geld would look
4 Ilka M cents, even if eerreetetv
Saturday, .September 1 We pro
caeded this morning under a light
southern breese, and passed Calumet
bluffs. These are composed of a yellowish-red'
and 1 brown clay, as hard as
chalk. Which It sauoh resembles, and are
170 or 10 feet blah. At this place the
hills on each side come to the verge of
the river, thoee on the south being
highef than those on the north. Oppo
site the bluffs la a Urge island cov
ered with timber, above which the high
lands form a cliff over the river on, the
north aide, called Whits Bear cliff, an
animal of that kind having been killed
Savoyard la the Cincinnati Enquirer.
This snaa was the leader of the Amer
ican bar, the position that - Flnkoey
gained and "made fllustrtous. Taney.
Chase end Waits ell leaned on jeremian
Black, and he was a splendid, a mas
sive nlllar f luatlce. Hs mastered the
ectenoe 'of the law and -contributed im
menseiy to the growth sf that science.
He underetood the art of the prof eaeton
also, and, penetrated It with a keener
paroeptioa than Aaron Burr or Ben But
ler who were Incapable of compre
hending the science of It The phlloe
ophy of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence was
a almple problem to hie gigantic under
standing, and he traced It back to Its
source, which Is a proper conception of
the difference between meum and tuum.
might and right. -: No man 1 bora of
woman net even Socrates -bad a pro
founder veneration for the . law. . He
looked on It as austalnlng to the -etate
the relation air. blood and food bear to
the phyaioal man. and In . his esteem
obedience to the lew la ths highest duty
of the etttaen. and the enforcement of
the law the eupremest duty of the gov
ernment He was fond of expounding that the
government of the United States is the
constitution and the laws, and notnmg
else, and he had only the bitterest scorn
and Implacable hatred for what was
known as the "higher law, which be
held, to be both treason and anarchy.
One of the fineet productions of the
Hmeitsh tongas Is his open -letter ta criti-
ciam and denuncmtlqn of Charles Fran
cis Adams' paper on WUlfam H. Seward.
It Is a classic, and even Henry Cabot
Lodgs, who admires Seward so extrava
gantly, might read it with profit for Its
excellent principles. And with delight
for Hs splendid style. There Is nothing
left of Seward but the ruins of what
was error and evil when Block is dene
with hlnw - - j
Plnkney and Carpenter were magninvl
cent popular orators, ss well as' pro
found lawyers. They charmed as-wen
aa instructed, persuaded as well as con
vinced. It Is doubtful tf. In the capacity
and the art to rivet the attention, and
cemmand the admiration e hla audi
ence, the American senate ever knew
Carpenter'e superior; and, for years,
It has not seen his equal. Black eras
not a popular orator that Is. he had
not ths voice, the graces, the - arte
of the stump speaker. Black was a great
orator, for the weight of what he said,
and the splendid fashion he bad of giv
ing expression to his profound thought
When he got through with a sentence
of the English languags It was finished,
and even hie exclusively legal argu
ments are a perpetual delight to ths lay
man. Not so with Bverts. Ths writer
of this frequently beard him In the sen
ate and In the eupreme court, and was
never quite certain that he waa talking
Emglteh. Take one ef hie speeches and
compare It with one of John O. Carlisle's
and you will have the difference between
ornament and simplicity; between oa
ten tst ion and strength; but- the Judges
underetood Mr. Svarta, whatever tongue
he spoke. -
Jeremiah Bull t van Black was bom
January 3. 1110. in Somsrset county,
Pennsylvania. He was Irish and Scotch -
Irish, and even when he bad come to be
e sage he was yet a pdet Jlke the man
he loved so abundantly. Matt Cerpentar.
he wsa a lasy boy" so colled by their
fellows, blind to genlue and loved a
book and his own thoughts better than
he loved work and the conversation of
the vulgar herd. There wsa another
similarity In their history each mar
ried his first sweetheart, snd In the case
of each she wes the daughter of her
huaband'e preceptor tn the law. Black
had had no confidence In his own ca
pacity, and never was there a more
astonished youth In aU Pennsylvania
then he when his fatnrs father-in-law.
whor had been once elected to congress,
hastened his admission to ths bar and
Intrusted to this boy all the legal busi
ness of hla office. Thst was la Itto,
and now this youth Of to was la charge
of an est en si re practice, and contended
at the bar With noma of the giants of the
profession In a state then and .ever fa
mous for great lawyers.'
Ths father of Judas Black waa- a
Whig, and hie party nominated the old
aentlemaa for eon area a when the Dem
ocracy of that electorate had resolved to
nominate the son for that office. Of
course, ths young man declined, and It Is
posatblt that the nomination of - me
father was the means of depriving him
of a great political -career. He Was never
a member of either house or congress.
and wsa tn no sense a politician. The
late Donn Flatt extravagantly aomirea
him, and used to advise ths Democrats
to bring Judge Black Into the national
house of repreeentatlvee for the ens end
of setting rid of old Bea Butler, for it
was Platt e opinion that Butler would
reaian ths dsy he heard of Black's elec
tion, and he-related with much glee how
Black sometimes overwhelmed Butler In
arguments before the eupreme court
Though he Was unequeled as s political
disputant a greater Junius the only
political office be ever held was aa a
member of Buchanan a cabinet
When a HtUe over 10 Judge Black was
appointed to the eonrmon pleas bench,
and afterward he was a member of the
sew rxorf moomss) m. s. satis.
A grand old man Henry O. Davis IS In
very truth. But speak ef him aa "old"
to a West VI rain Ian. says an article In
Leslie's - Monthly Magaslne for Sep
tember, and your age su sweat Ion will
be promptly resented. When National
Committeemen McQraW, who waa the
moat active sponsor ef the Davie boom
at St Leuta, began hla crusade, he found
the age objection the hardest te over
coma -"He's too old," said Colonel Ouf
fey of Pennsylvania, whose at. votes
were much deetred. ."My deer colonel,"
promptly responded MrOrew, "If your
oMeoUen: Is physical. Just you qpm and
take a day's horseback ride with him
Aever tha West Virginia sills and maun.
SKETCH OF' JEREMIAH S. BLACftl
tn one of the holes in It, which are
numeroua and apparently deep. At six
mil n eama ta a la re sand Island
covered with cotton wood; the wind was
high, ths weather rainy and cloudy dur
ing the day. We made it mlle to a
niaAs on tha Brftrtk aide, at tba lower
nnlnt nt a. larsre . Island ' called Bon
Homme or Good Man Island. . The ooun,
try on both sides hae the aame character
of prairies with no timber, but with ao
casloaal lowlands covered with cotton
wnrML aim and oak. Our hunters had
killed an elk and a beaver: catfish are
In great abundance. - J
Mm
a tate supreme court Hs wsa a great
judge learned, fearless and -Just aad
when he retired from toe nencn oaoe
It farewell ta the words Of Samuel whan
hs left off ludetne Israel: "Whose ox
have I takenT Whose ass have I taken?
Whom have oppressed, or ef whose
hand have I received any bribe to blind
mine eyes therewith? and I Will restore
It Unto you. Aad they said, Thau hast
not defrauded'nor oppressed as; neither
bast thou taken augh of any nun s
hand.'..-.
Jsraee Buchanan had followed Black's
career on the bench and discerned the
rest lurtet in the rounc Judas from the
backwoods of Pennarivama, and In IliT
President Buchanan, without consulting
Black, nominated him for the cabinet aa
attorney-general.- It was with many
misgivings that Black accepted, anq ne.
made hla debut in the supreme. court
soon after. He appeared with fear and
trembling, for he was always uncoav
acleua of hla genius. He wsa a stranger
at that bar and, t that bench.- aad.
though there was curios ' te kear the
new attorney-general, "h tie - waa ex
pected of him. It was a land claim from
California, end Black had, mastered the
issue at a'gUace. He had not- been
speaking five minutes before bench and
bar were all attention. - Hls was a new
style, aa brilHant aa it waa logical, and
for a quarter of a century after that
ooeaalon Jeremiah g. Black was. without
a superior end almost without an equal
or a rival la that presence. .
Soon there were stormy ttmeevA gen
eration that knew net -Joseph peopled
the land. An- exclusively sectional polit
ical party promised te dominate and es
tablish the "hiaher. law-? , Never had an
American cabinet been confronted with
such grave problems, and ths dominant
personalities . of that administration
were James Buchanan and Jeremiah S.
Black. That administration has boon
the victim of more slander than all
tbs ethera of our history. More lies
were told- about It than would suffice
to sink Nelson's fleet Its -dey has about
00 me and lw vlndleatiea. It stood for
the constitution, snd the law. Has it
ever struck you that Unoofn's adminis
tration did not change Buehanaa'e pol
icy one lota, except to grab ths eehcee.
L on til Port Summer waa fired ont-Juef4
think about that How la that for vin
dication? f do not believe that five-score Re
publicans could be mustered la the
whole union who ever reed Jerry Black's
open letters to Charles Francis Adams
on Seward and to Henry Wilson on
Stanton.
There Wee nothing tn Junloe to com
pare with these letters In style, ta learn
ing. In rhetoric, la force, or even la sar
casm and Invective. As arguments, they
are simply overwhelming; as Kngllsh
compositions, they are priceless classics.
No young man, whatever hie polities,
who expects to edit a newspaper or go to
congress can afford to neglect the read
tag of these papers.
Black loved Oarfleld like a eon. They
had been associated la the argument of
ths MUligan case They were members
of the same church. Their literary
tastes were ths same. Both were ad
mirable conversationalists, but political
ly they were aa far apart as ths poles.
Oarfleld mads a speech on the two po
litical parties. In whloh he was foolish
enough to trace all American liberty
back to Plymouth Bock, where, he eon-
tended, political end religious liberty
waa born. He waa unfortunate enough
te send the speech to Black, who made
a reply. In which he undertook te teasli
the future president some American his
tory. The Pequod wars, the attempt
to enslave that tribe, the African slave
trade. th persecution of Quakers, tha
banishment of Baptists, and all that
were dwelt on by Black In characterlathj
vein, but the author wrote ss though
it was more a duty thsn a love he did
not revel la It as he did In his letters to
Adams, Wilson snd Stoughtoa,
But Black waa a eon of the soil, and
he passlonatsly loved agriculture. When
he got the means he bought a farm In
the beautiful Codorus vslley, and he was
little concerned about the price, but was
aolieltous that aome of the land should
be poor In order that .he might Improve
it
Here at "Brockle" the great lawyer
lived his most contented days. Here in
the company of his wife, children and
grandchildren he was a happy man. - It
is delightful to read how-he would draw 1
up a lease of a plat which his little
grandson was es cultivate, and we are
told that his conversation and merri
ment on the porch at "Brockle" waa
"sometimes Interrupted by .ths arrival
of a small wheelbarrow load of very
shabby yege tables, brouclit by a young
gardener of four or five to sell to
'Poddy.' who had generally, after feel
ing in large but -empty pneketa, to bor
row the money to pay the exorbitant
price asked for them; a great deal of
delightful sham barter going on the
while the whole business generally ter
minating with hugs and kisses between
buyer snd seller."
He lived the life and died the death of
a Christian. The snd came to - him In
1RSJ. when he was past three Score and
full of honors. He was the head of the
bar. ss Napoleon was the head of the
army. ....
fAins; tf you have doubt of, Ms mental
strength, come dowa and made a trade
with him." The silver-haired leader of
Pennsylvania's untsrlfled Democracy,
having had business experience with
nenator Davis, had nothing mors to say.
SOMM MATOaTAS. PsM
' A fool h) always hsim4ng.-Freneh
proverb.
One ass ealla another long eare."-
Oerman proverb.
The liar le sooner ought than ths
cripple. Spanish proverb.
Change yoursslf and fortune will
change with you. Port ugu see proverb.
When two quarrel both are la the
wrong. Dutch prayer
The harvest is what sounta,
Columbia county needs a JelL ' ,
Tba pressing issue- pick hops. ; v
But Oregon boys don't freese Bngera
husking eorsv. . 6 , . .
Sunday school picnics, up the ponn -' ,
ry, ia every aireeuon. j - , ; ;
Keep thinking about those reads or,
better, work at them. . ,r . . - .
. We will have that portage railroad. '
Talk la cheap; but money ounta , ;
' Crook County Journal! The aummer ,
rest seeker lb wandering back home, and
tan la ths fashionable color. - ,.
Albany Democrat: The editor of a'-.
Tillamook paper, who has been drinking
for 40 years, says it is bad business.
Clarence Goodwill! of Chicago' has
been spending hie vacation In Crook
county, and 10 still a good Willie ;
Rock Creek correspondence of Rainier
Oesettet The forest fires, which were
started by campers on the Troxal place, , -
are still burning, and much damage la
being dona. , - - - . -
Santlam News: BUI Savage has be- .
come a professional horse trader. Hla -
last deal waa with Al. Pomoroy, la
which BUI became the oWnsr of an Old
timer. 20 years old, called "Old Bate,"
Houltoa Register; The fish Wheels Oav
ths upper river ere bringing a nice bar- -
vest for their owners. . And It is said
the tip to the Oregon and Washington .
commissioners was not small one.
Bend Bulletin: - If ' western Oregon '
would really like to sea some good crops
this year-let it come over to the Dee
chutss valley. Our fields- are not yet
numerous, it is true, but that will ba
cured la time. . . . -v
Taqulna Bay "News: John Stewlham- .
mer was out deep sea-fishing Sunday and
was having a ga time until his Innarda
became dlsoombobolated and he had.
serious trouble to prevent himself from 4
turning Inside out -v " . L ,
Miss Ruth L. Held of Centervllla If.
B.. has been selected to teach the Bend
chanl tha fiomlnr vaar. Hen em not In
K, even in the wild and woolly west, aa ;
teacher .any more. Tneya oejuar go
back and cut oord wood. ..'
Volume I. No, 1, the Madras, Crook
count ft Pioneer. Madras Is on Willow
creek, a small tributary of ths Dee-
chutes ' river, and lev 40 miiee soyta or
SheaHrav and - SS miles northwest of -PrlnevilleV
- Madras if . likely, to' become
an Interesting town, , r
A Ma'rshfWld'man hae a contract fo get.
out the telephone poles for the new sys
tem that la to be Installed at North
Bend. There are over 100 subscribers in
the new exchange, which the superin
tsndant will Install aa soon aa . the
switchboard now ordered arrives. . T
Mis ,l1a Hoggins of Pendleton la
visiting with her father. J. D. Huggtns, "
and her friend. Miss Iena White, of this
city. Athena .Press- H there are aot j
some nice young men who ere Interacted .
In Mice Hugglns and Mtaa White, we are ;
the worst mistaken psragrapher .who
ever, lived. , .
' A few down-the-river items from the
Houlton Register: The Clatskanie boya
aay there was something doing at
Rainier last Sunday Say boys, hew
about the deer hunt, am Mayer's neldf
Suckers bite fine tnie time of year.
There le not such thing ss dosed season
for' fishing on thq Columbia river or for
hunting same la Oregoa this year. ; -
Bend Bulletin:" Twenty' armed men
bound ths shepherd and shot to death
hla whole band' of 1,000 thoroughbred
sheep at Little Summit prairie, 40 mllea
nt aviMvilla. iMat Fridav nlaht
The cheep belonged to Morrow A Keenan
of Willow creek, cattlemen are sup
posed to be reeponetMa.for the slaugh-
. Mrs. T. P. Soulas of Woodbura r-
oently took pity on a young tramp and
set him down to a fine meal. The itiner
ant showed his appreciation of . such
kindess by walking off with Mrs. Seuleo -pocketbook
Fortunately her money was
not In It Her keys that were In it were
found at the station. The stranger got
due bills on Bomhoff cashed, amounting
to 10 cents, ... ' . ,
The Brownsville Times' announces
that It Is now unlawful for hogs to
run at large In the following parts of
Linn county: Foa valley, Jordan, Ia
eomb. Rook Creek, north and south Sclo
and 8 hel bourn precincts, and parts of
ths precincts of Foster. Santlam, Sweet
Home, Waterloo- and. north aad south
Lebanon. "
xCooe Bay News: A eoupls of bexea
ef strawberries, left at thla office yes
terday, were equal to the beet we ever
tasted. The berries are the second crop
from e Ists variety. They were raised
by Peter Scott, .of the Glen Gardens,
South Marsh field, and he says he will
pick ripe berrlee from the plants up to
the time the first heavy frost appears.
Corvallla Oesstte: W. O. Trine and
family returned last week from a two
week's vacation onTaqulnsv bay and Nye
creek
Sea oh, In company wttn nee otner
gentlemen, smong whom were Dra.
Schmidt and Woodwortb of Albany Mr.
Trina wnt as a nuntlns trio to Ten-
Mile, during which four deer were killed
and large quantities of mountain trout
were caught ' . '
Paisley Post:- After much. correspond
ence the Instrument shelter and rains-ate
for the Paisley weather elation
have at laet been located. -They are now
at Pokegamo. Or., .where they are being
held, aa none of the freighters will take
them for transports Hon to Paisley. The
department at Washington hna ben noti
fied and the Instruments will probably
be forwarded before long.
Florence West! The amount ef build
ing now going on In Plnrence Indicates
that our town Is progresetng rapidly. At
present there Is under construction a fins
school house, a business house end four
dwellings.' Several mors buildings are
contemplated to be erected thle fall.
With the coming of the electrlo railroad
and the development of the natural re
sources of the country Florence Is
bound to come rapidly to, ths front. In
a ehort time, . J- - v ,
Dairy Dot tn Ktsmsth Falls rhrpreei
Did you notice that there are no fleas
In this part of. the world t Fact. While
California Is eursed with this peet. -eastern
Oresoa hasn't a flea to make life
miserable. But ene can find a bedbug
now and then as a substitute. However
plentiful these pests may be, they are
preferable to the festive flea, for the
bug .-does fkht disturb one, during the
day time, while the flea annoys one
night and day, j, '-e----