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Editorial Page of TE Journal 'XHUASDAY, SEPTEMBER BsV 104. PORTLAND OREGON. . r - 1 i 4, Si i THE O RE GO N DAI LY AM 4 g. eUCKSQa) Bb0jbn4 vr OFFICIAL -LAFCADK HBARM; THK ANNOUNCEMENT of the death of Lafcadlo Hearn wndi a shock of surprise and sorrow ' throughout ths civilised world. meager to looks m a devote, physically imperfecj, with a stngls srs that ae pext to useless, a wanderer aver on tha aoa of tha trth until the happy day that ha landad In Japan, ha haa aft a genuine impress upon occidental literature- and laid , m tht vary Innermost haart of Japan aa no foreign vm ttefora aucceeded In doing. Ha has mad tor himself a placa of hla own In literature, and ha haa won It by tha ahaar merit, not alon bacanaa of tha eub Mt mattar, but bacauaa of a etyle daar aa cryatai yat M delicate and charming that ft seamed radolant of tha f lowers and fiilsd with a spiritualised aroma that utterly mffled end escaped grosser minds, Japan did much for lira but ha did avan mora for, Japan, and if tha world -moot hla memory in hla work Japan ahottld give royal moots to tha most girted and helpful of fts adopted eons. i It was an odd figure that used to enter Hunt'a betel si Vine street opposite tha Arcade In Cincinnati, Ohio, ihout I o'clock of morning t lunch and to talk If be had It companion Ha would tilt up the bill of fare, holding t almost on a hrrsl with his syes, and aa ha read, running Us noes along tha card. It looked aa If ha- wars trylng'to fee the odor of the dlahea from their printed names, Half ittnd. eccentric, the butt of tha mild Jokes of waiters end Ul-nlght cabmen and. an expert on literature even then ras Lafcadlo Hearn. reporter on tha Cincinnati Enquirer, raat was In aha seventies. Hunt and hla hotel alnca than tare gone tha way of all mankind. A La at Monday there died In TokJo Mr. T. XolsuraL a i Mturallacd subject or the Mikado, who a year before had . -eatrned tha chair of Bngllah literature iMit hta hm hd held for nine Tears, That also was lafcadlo Hearn, reoogntxed the world over as tha on Eng Ish author who had plucked out the haart of Japan's mys- s sry, who living tba Ufa of the Japanese, amnios, had so filled himself with " noughts that be was able to tell of at view, yet so that any foreigner might His, father was an Irishman, hla mother a Greek and ' is was bora In Leocadia, in tha island of Banta Maura tfc imtlan rraaa. June 17. 1944. ' rears in an the lands of Europe, and -mrrmea failed he was sent at It to t There ho was apprentice m the little shop m Longworth ' ear Jtaea street, over which for many, years hang the dgn "Watkin the printer.- That flno old Mr. Watkln, dean of Ufa, high of taste, had soma Influence on the nana erenlus can hardly bo doubted, and Ream's affee- . Ion for his old employer was undoubted for onoe a year t hast, for many years there came a letter a Watkln . ran New Orleans or Martinique or Toklo signed attec ienatelr. Laicadto Hearn. " ' ThM ia a. tradition fat ClnclhnatT ervlr was In Hunt's hotel, before - vent to work as a dish washer. He -ten ouletlr made bis exit out of tha may leaving sis wagen and a -few liehea behind. , - r rr( His Mterary bent was always apparent He spent -his aUarr In book stores and wore out his feeble sight poring rrer out-of-the-way books. Tha trend . ie guessed from the curious collection ' -.VM avrvn ntvanaw Utaratnra." in lustiest corners of old libraries are made to furnlih forth t quaiaUy spiced feast. ? John A. CockerUl was managing editor of tha Enquirer won Hearn. went to work thenar Almost at onoe Hearn's ' ironderful power of weaving-with words mads him a lotable figure la that staff that produced many notablo dm. One of the first of his stories that attracted atten ' ion outatda bM own little homo drear was a description ft the city at sunrise aa seen from tba spire of tha Pras ; tytcriaa church- la Beat Fourth street. A steeple-Jack 1 lulded him to the top of the gilded, pointing hand that mines as high above Fourth street as tha top of Trinity iplre does above Broadway In Mew York. Hearn made the eteepta-jack tell what he saw. What he d sea was i swatly fog and Hearn saw nothing a foot beyond hla nose. tut hla Imagination supplied hta facts and ho wrote a ' leecrtpUon that brought him into notice at once. , His snoot notable work In Cincinnati was his account sf tha tan-yard murders In the west and. Murderers &rw the body of a man they had killed into tha tan ' rard furnace and burned tt. Bits of bono In tha ashes Mtrayed them. Hearn reveled In that grew smite mystery. j many respects his fancy was like that of Kdgar Allan pee and horrors attracted him. - 'f--: Leaving Cincinnati Hearn went to New Orleans and m UT from there to the West Indlea.- Two years later, srofoundly Interested In tha religions of tha far east, ha Mcama Imbued with the idea that only by peraonnally mtertng Into the life ha sought to study eould he describe ft properly. He went U Japan Intending to become a Buddhist priest. Ha obtained work as a teacher, became i naturalised citlaen and died a Japanesa Ha married ; a negro woman early In life and on going to Japan married "4 Japan ran, .. .-'..--'".' y Hla first long story, -"Chits, a Memory of Last Wand," in account of tha destruction by the aaa of L'He Dernier si Louisiana, went over the world,' and his books since '; lien have come rapidly and have bean read in moot of tha jtviliaed tongues. ; ' : , '- ,, A ORIENTAL TRAFFIC WILL INCREASE 4 NOTWITHSTANDINO the Ruaao-Japaneea war, th traffla between Portland and oriental ports '' steadily and rapidly increasing. Railroad lines, k? which tba Oregon Railroad A Navigation company la fta western division, have succeeded In getting a large iharo of this traffic, and will gat mors. The deepetilng tt the Columbia river bar channel wiH make Portland a !avorite port, partly because It has a fresh water harbor. Besides, the productions of the vast region tributary to Portland will rapidly increase, and a large proportion of Jtem will be aurptue products for export, and an increaa jtg proportion of this eurpla will be m demand across .3ie Pacific, ..Our growing population will also require a A MAX? ZB POOft. . Oriesa Swett Mardea ta - Much af what 1 called sueeees Is bat e stoat vulvar kind af SToeperHr; It Is .he auereaa ef the brute faculties, at :be expense of the divlna la develop t few at ene'a brala calls, and these the mweet, ay everlaetlac digging and trlndlng far at oner, to cultivate one ua gland which secretes nothlna but tniura, aed the exeluelve cultivation ef whir-h (-mattes eat af life all the Oner entlenenta. all that Is sweet sad beau tiful and worth while, mskee a man aa irr and barren as the great Sahara feaerl He who follows this coursa can sot be HclL ao matter noW siuch money as may ham A ssaa la neb. when sv- - - 1-. ' . ... sj-,.. - . ..I: 1NDIPINDINT NlWIf PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHINO Ca luda; ) mA ovary Sunday mettdng at sweets, Portland, Oregon. . PAPiR OF TMR CITY OF PORTLAND nan st sarla-moTsasI tt we aell much wo A vary high tariff and consumers, Orientals. . i Korea, though than North China t.aMQS. aamlnet time have risen This Is only a orient; with those In the Imperial unt- worshipping la their the spirit of their them from their point understand. not so' to vote, or Democrats: but not be seerra sated, Ha lived hla early When the family Cincinnati, Ohio. that Meam's first . But if- Senator mentlonsd. where he Into Indiana, why stood It one night. ttona, the national window Into lxdge retslitory meaaurea. httadred'wnwasbad when bard pressed V of hla reading may of stories In ?fttray which soma of the Tn 100, according I a population semi-decade periods la 191ft, 140,000; in 69.000, We etoo at 1120 franchise would a circumstance to 190,000 to over half be like buying tha rTHE CEAR Is tha deplorable and cause young Alexis attack of colic, for Infanta.' "Tha war with sense Is ths formal palace habitues and and tltleaT - The caar perhaps capacity to rule. of his wife to bear foolish sxcesses of , Poor caar! 'Poor err faculty wit hla blm has been devel oped to the utmost a Ion a normal lines, when he baa followed 'his blchest Idaala. when he has pushed hla horlsoa to fts farthermost iisnic A man Is poor when he has lent the confidence of his friends, when people who are nearest to hla do sot believe in him; when bis character Is honey combed by deceit, punctured by aishoa estr. He Is poor when he makes money at the axpense af his character, when principle Ooes not stand clear-cut. su preme la hie Mae, When this la clouded, he la Is dancer of the worst king of poverty. - Ta be ia the peorbeuee Is not necessarily to be poor. If you ! have SMintalned your latecrlty, if your ohar aetaa staada fsarsquara la. tha world, at ..... JOURNAL II Tha Jeexnel Beak1mg and Ysmhffl na rsmaaait of OS els Aeistlas must buy In considers we Quantities. la injurious to almost au our prooucan and la also disadvantageous to tha " ' " " leas Important In respect of commerce or Japan, i t country of no small Importance commercially, or will bo whan tha war la ended. Its business expansion In the Isat J years Has been remarkable. Tha Imports last year amounted to ll.7l7.4W m lt. E porta in tno same from 11,187,114 to iVlU.OI. This busi ness was all dona through treaty porta, but Japan, If sus ceesful, haa promlaed open porta. , . v: - r straw. With peace restored in cue hundreds of millions seeking to rehabili tate, to break through the cruet of ages, to progress and llvo on a higher plane, the commerce between them and this country will aeeum gigantic and magnificent pro portions. . . v , ' ';' . v THE WICKEDNESS OP DEMOCRATS, TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS reporte that the aaatem ' managers of ths Republican campaign are alarmed ever the prospect that the wicked Democrats will spend a largo oorruprtdnfund In Indiana just before elec tion. Ths surprising nature of this alleged or suspected Intent Ion. tt being something that tha virtuous Republi can managers would never have even dreamed of 'doing themselves, haa almost paralysed them with astonishment. Neither they, nor their predecessors, ever used, or thought of using, any money In elections except for the most strictly legitimate purpoaea, fas Indiana as else where. Dudley's nloc4uvof-ftvoM order in Indiana soma yearn ago was merely for the purpose of making sura that no Re publican voted who was not entitled to vote, and to pre vent the unscrupulous Democrats from seducing any of them with IS or IS bllla. Tha tans of thousands of Illegal votes oast for Republican candidates, osanly and safely. In every election, are not corrupted votes at all; ' In fact, tha Republicans have plead with them, e'en with tears. if they must vote, to vote for the vile the votes having been cast they could and so had to be counted. True,, tha Republican managers In 17 swindled the country out of a duly sleeted president, but they were raltgiously confident that tha and justified the means. True,, In 19 they terrorised hundreds of thousands of worklngmen Into voting against their wish and will, by threatening them with starvation, and then, ft is strongly suspectsd. had to "count out" tha Democratic electoral votes of several eta tea In order to beat Bryant but again they had to do this to save the country and gat the trusts flrmiv aatabiiahed In no war. But except for good and sufficient reasons, In their estimation, they never did any thing crooked or corrupt politically. " Clark la going to throw a lot Of money tha safety of tha trusts, tha carpora- banks and tha office-holders will justify Bveav tha moat ptoua of Christians, by the devil, will fight him with fire. -V MILLIONS IN JT: to tha federal census, Portland had of 90.41. Now, loss than four and a A half years later, it certainly baa a population of over 1X0,000. Soma would placa It at 12S.0OO or mora. But there Is' no doubt that tt has gained about M.000 in laaa than five years say five years for convenience or IS 1-1 per cent. If this ratio of gain hi maintained during the next IS years, ths population of Portland for the several wiu be aa follows: In It 10, 100,000; 1910, I10.W0; in 1920, 497,000; In low, ' ' because than tha proposed srnags expire. What A mine that would be! Neither tha TreadweU gold mine, nor any other, would Jm It. Think of a garbage monopoly authorised to charge exorbitant rates, and to compel universal patronage, to a etty . steadily growing, from a million people 1 Why. tha IftO.OOO that some one mentions as a proper consideration would Ladd farm for 110 an acre, - . Portland may not keep np this percentage of gala In population for tha next quarter of a century, but It Is cer tain that its population will increase steadily and rapidly, and that there would be literally "millions In It" for a person or company who could secure such a preposterous bargain as has been proposed. - 1 .' aegga. i in. .na -- :' CZAR AND CZAREVITCH. ' ; ' a busy man theea days, and nights. I He personally has to supervise the baby caare- m vltchs education. Tha royal Infant Is now sev eral weeks old, and his "education" has begun pity the innocent little fellow. The osar can't go to tha front. because he must be tn the nursery most of the time. He cannot give much attention to a council of mlnlatera on discouraging affairs of tha nation, be shows indlea t tons of having a alight colic. Ilka files. Is no respecter of ',.; ;-- -r -. -y . ," Japaa this semi -Insane ruler of mil lions of people la reported as saying. "Is but an Incident of my reign, hut the whole future policy of 'Russia depends on my son. Nicholas is a comparatively young man yet; If he lives to be an old man why ahould he not decide to a large extent tha future policy of Russia? -And what can mat mewling infant be taught yet? And of what use or laoognltlon, In the deportment of all capital officials, of the baby's rank realises hi own weakness and In For years he has brooded on tha failure him a son, until his weak mind be came corroded with disappointment and now that ths son and hah haa arrived, the mental weakness Is betrayed In baby worship. little caarevltcht ' V you have never bent the knee of prin ciple te avarice, you are not poor, though yen may be compelled to beg bread. wslasay -; Prom Bpa re Momenta A gentleman who had been dinliig at a restaurant, and whs often ordered a sosea oysters, counted them ens day. and found but 11. a gtlll another day hs counted them. with the same result. Then be said to the WaHeri Why do you only glvo ma ll oysters when I order a do sen f "Oh, sir." answered tha waiter, T didn't tains you'd wast to be situs: 19 at table, gtf -if. o rrr. Change Hops have hopped sp high. , Look eat for email bear glasses seas, - Not a motion against ths plundering trusts. The chrysanthemums are beginning ta Street sprinklers are likely ta hare a long rest . Policeman .Tom Taylor seems to be fit for promotion. Win the boxes go aaxw Saturday? If not, why nott The 'vertical writing fad has had a longer day than It deserved. But Parker deea net agree that tha robber tariff la "h-revocablr fixed.'' , The aamMlnaT poker games should be suppressed as effectually aa any other. - The farmer who has a big crop of po tatoes, If any one has, Is also la lack. Of course Brother Palrtanks dees not have te express why he has not resigned. Couldn't Kuropatkla and Xurokl arbi trate the question of tba next battle sround T ,. , -, The Ehifur tXepatch says It Is a Re publican harvest, i Then the potato raisers ahould be Democrats. . Hany mora eastern people than were originally counted on are likely ta come to the Lewis and Clark fair. Judge Parker has bought a new "plus" hat, which ahould be sufficient far a great outcry by ths New York Tri bune, i , . Tha name of the next governor of New Tork will beain with an H and will sea- tain seven letters. Beyond this ths re sult Is In doubt. If ths council grant that yarbace fren chlse they must expect the public te en tertain a unanimous opinion ss to their reason for doing' so. Wouldn't tt be a good investment to give Peary the money he wants and start him off, so that he would be out of sight and hearing a few yearet , . Pension Conunlealoner Ware posted up In the pension bureau this leaandi "The Lord bates a liar." And every subsrdi nats Is wosdermg If he was meant ----- Flour high, meat high, potatoee high what great scientific philanthropist will Invent foodstuffs with whloh the work-ins-men's dlnnsr-palls eaa be satisfactor ily tlUedT , ... LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Isl the Editor of The Journal X aaa by your Issue of the Xtth Inst, that you take atrofUT grounds m favor of the people va the sarbage monopoly. The oitlsens are well satisfied with the pn ant method. There la ao reason for the crematory for consuming; yarbape being out of order. - It should be kept in order, and If It Is out of order, tt should be repaired; It eould be rellneg at a very small expense to the taxpayer. - if the pert tea -havtnar It in charge understood their business they would not allow It to get out ef order for a single day. If It la In the condition with the mayor de scribes, it shows arose oareteaeneas on ths part of the mayor and those having it in charge. It looks questionable, to say the least, and as though It were dons la ths Interest of ths eompejiy who are so anxious to get the fren chlse of carina for the garbaga. ' It Is far better that ths handling of the garb age should remain as tt st present, as tt furnishes employment to a number of men and supports a number of fam ilies; whereas, if a company controlled It they would merely allow thel em ployea sufficient wages to afford a hare The new company plaeee great stress on the fact that they will furnnlsh two cans to each householder for nrbage. These cans can be bought at any de partment er hardware store from 91.90 m aa The garbage question ahould not be a dimoult one for the city authorities. ss say ordinary engineer and foreman Is capable of taking- hold of the crema tory and running- it properly, and when one la out of order it should at once be shut down and the ether need. There are too many men ready ta make grafts oa the taxpayers of the city, and will do anything and everything so long ss ther are assured of a "dead elnea." The garbage of the city should net be civ en to any particular company or corporation. There le now plenty of competition, and ths business la well eared for and satisfactorily dona The householders of the city should be si lowed to aire whom they please for re- movlaa their garbage. Two-thirds Of the property-holders do not want It re moved at all, as It can be burnt and the ashes uaed aa a fertiliser, THOMAS OUINRAIC Portland. Or.. Sept. II. To ths Bdrtor of The Journal 1 am a married woman. with three children two girls and a boy. At ens time I taught school and saved a little money. After I married mv father died and left me a few thdu sand dollar Mr husband la afflicted with what the doctor sells paralysis of the working muncles, and that in his fleea it la Incurable. X really do not understand It myself, for my afflicted husband Bleeps well ana has a gooo ap petite, but says he cannot do anything because he is muscie oouns ana na a laaa arm from piaylna baseball too much when he was young. With my none I bousht and furnished s little house and built two small oottaeae. am not very strong, but what with sew ing, raising a few chickens and making hutter from a cow we keen ws have, got ten along. X am naturally anxious for ths future of my children. A neighbor of mine said If 1 was to die without making a will my husband would get all mv aereonal property, ana wouia have the income from the houses as long a ha lived and my children wouia net nothing until he died, and that even If I made a will my husband would have ll the Income from the houses. How is thia? Ton know everything, so please tell ma what 1 can so to protect my children should I die. X forgot, to say my poor husband does work soma He oannot milk or ehurn because ef his muscular troubles, but he hunts eggs every other day. ON 91 OP MANX. Our Isw . department says, by all means make a will and leave your per sonal property to your children. . The Income from your real aetata will go to your husband during hta Ufa, as this cannot ha willed away from him. so ths i mm ta meat thia eonttneenoy le te ao arrange It that you will attend bis tuners. . Small 1 drees up. . . , , - .;,4 paadwrts 1 m.w. mV or -sells ves Osusisl Blums n waa right. ..t : t , THINGS or INTEREST TO WOMEN (By Bfla Wheeler Wtteox.) v Ktteyrtgkt. ISM. W. k HearM.) TJntll reoeatlv tha Amerleaa mothers In orthodox society of Whatever class have thought of the Japanese woman as heathena." needing our missionary attention and bur pity. I doubt If one American woman in on, thousand baa considered tha Japan ese mother as her equal In any least particular. The present achievements of ths Jaeaaesa men as warriors have sur prised Americans and aroused a cer tain respect sod admiration for the nation. , But tt would be well for American mothers to know of ens admirable trait ef tha Japanese and to try to emulate It by teaching their children along ths lines of good saannera and delicate oonsideaaUon for the unfortu nate. An American businesa man. was af flicted with aa enormous goitre. Xt as sumed such proportions that he was unable to conceal it, sad his life be came a misery to him through ths rude curiosity and vulgar attention bestowed upon blm whenever he appeared in public conveyances or on the street. or even In church or places of businesa Having business interests which made it Bsoeesery ta send an agent to Japan, ths gentleman took ths Journey himself. After a few weeks m that "heathen land" ha wrote home ta his businesa house that he desired to re main there, aa not by word or look had he enoa been reminded of hla dlsAgur lag malady since bis arrival. Men. women and ehHdren Showed such absolute delicacy of breeding and such Innate refinement of manner that he waa never embarrassed er mads un ootnfor table. Still another man, born with a de formity, left American shores and took up his abode In Japan for the same reason. And today he hates his own land bscauss of what hs suffered here. Now let avery American mother blush aa she realises this fact, univer sally conceded by all people who have -widely traveled: ' American children and young people are ths rudest and most Indelicate of any and all la ths en tire civilised world tn their deportment toward ths notloeably afflicted or de formed. -L Bven an unusual attrra, however gro- teaqus It may be, calls forth loud rid icule, and oftentimes persseutlon and abuse from well-dressed children la suing from American Institutions of education. " - Here is a great work for you to do. madam, however humble or exalted be your station. Teach your children to no respect ful, polite, unobtrusive and Chrtst 1 Ike otherwise kind In, their attitude to human beings who may chance to differ from the multitude la appear ance or dress. Teach them that no creed er form of rellsion. no education and no social po sition can save them from being vul garians and "heathens" if they obtrude themselves unpleasantly upon the peo GUARDING (Prom ths New York Times.) toes the New Tork rapid transit suh wsv waa be run. four years ago, there have been hundreds of suggestions from outsiders as to what ths builders ought to do in the way of providing safeguards for patrons of New York's first under ground railroad. "Now that we are nearly ready to open." said sa engineer, "I believe we have satisfied all of them except 'those whs Insisted thst It waa essential to have ears built entirely of steel."- Ths officials sf the opera tins; company say they would have sll-steel oars If It were . necessary. They explain that tha cars now, on hand are as nearly fire proof as they need te bs; that other precau tions render the spreading of a fire Im possible In tha tunnel: that the stg-nal system is so perfect ss to preclude col lisions: that axrangementa to protect passengers st the stations are as com plete aa human aklll can make them, and that the eovermg ef the third mil renders It Improbable, if not Impossible, for em ployes of the company, to be lajured long the line. Granting that human Judgment and skill are fallible, the tunnel operators have added to their anti-accident equip ment all possible devices te minimise the effects of a mishap duo to faults la their protective Inventions. If there la aa ac cident. It ia promlaed, there will be every facility for preventing the spread of the damage. For instance. If misfortune be falls one train, all the rest will bs pro tected by a system that causes the oper ation of the entire tunnel to cease in Btanmneouely and ta remain so until the first mishap Is a thing of the past. To begin with, the trains themselves are fitted out with every safety appli ance known to modern railway engineers. The vestibuled doors, suocessors to the old gates seen on the elevated railway tralna, are designed te prevent accidents from crowding: en station platforms and to shut out the possibility ef a passenger falling oft while the train Is la motion. The electric motor of each ear and all tha cars are fitted with the apparatus necessary for leading a train ts so ar ranged that It ceases to move when the pressure of the motonnan'e hand is re laxed en the oon trailer. Thia Is sot new ths elevated traia motors are ths same but the tunnel train baa a supplemen tary mechanism that shuts ths brakes automatically In case ths train tries to rush past a danger signal, if the mo torman should die or fall 111 In his box, the current would eeass to turn the wheels at once. If the grade were Up ward, the traia would atop without tha help of the air brakes, but If It were a dows grade the air brakes would fores It to stop ss soon as ths aext danger signal had been paseea, The signals srs set automatically by the paaalng trains, and the arrangement by which ao two tralna can run In ad joining blocks simultaneously was de signed te prevent a collision due to a failure of the automatic brakes, ghould the brakes refuse to work altogether, al lowing tha train to rush Into the block ahead of ths danger signal, tt could Dot Vance Thompson In October Success. Skilled In all languages, able to enter any society, ths agents of the brigade dea recherchea ths secret police) have their Angara oa the pulse of public life and know tha men of high place a well as If they had gone through with lighted eandlea In a large measure It Is through them that Prance la governed II k i mtataka, though not an unnat ural one, to assume that, because Francs is a republic, ths people have much to say In matters of government The word of the people is of little weight The republic Is parliamentary. Xt Is Intrenched behind privileges and but tressed by an Irremovable senate, which selects ths prealdenta In later yeare tt haa become largely S government of financiers. It has abrogated the right of trial by Jury and dented to the people tha right af glebloeliai suffrage, Tha ple afflicted with psrsoaal blemishes, or unoa atranacra In our land waa are unusual in appearance. In fact, it la your worn o inwn r children to be decently-behaved Christiana. . This is setter work far you than col lecting money to sand sateelonarlss to Japan to convert people to your oread. Bears Marry BSea was fM sTe Sara , , K aaaxa Using (By Beatrice Fairfax.) atria, never fall In love with a man who Is not earning bts own living. When you meet a maa who baa unlimited leisure you may be euro that there is something wren about him. . van though hs may have Inherited money ths right kind of man is not eon tent te spend his days la Idleness. However, most of the men w anow have to msks their own way , in the world, and tha Idle maa la a pretty poor ep eel man. . Don't allow yourself to be Impressed by bis grand talk of what be could do If he only had the chance. If ha were ahy good he'd make a chance Inatead of sitting down and waiting for It It sometimes he poena that a girt has . .kniA. k.ia.n flaahe. boastful, fine appearing ne'er-do-well and aa honest. hard-working, plain sveryoay ssan. 1 aw. urr ttt aa that She la VOtT apt to choose the former, sad than her- eelf is sorry la ths long run. 1 get many letters from girls complaining- that their men friends call only once or twice a weak. Olrla should bear la mhtd that ths averaye 'young- man Is working for aa employer, and to that employer h owes his tlms and toe best work be can give htm. if he goes out night after alght ha ia not fit for tha day's work. A man's chosen occupation la the sboet Important thing ta his career. On It and hla ability to fill It depends his entire lire, no matter now mucn in inu. a mav he. ha cannot marry until ha haa hla feet planted an the ladder af success. Bo eont urge him to spend mora time than he feels hs should with you, It la not fair to him x There la one thing yon eaa do, how ever, and that Is to be ss pleasant and interesting as possible - when he. doss come. If bs really cares for you and you for htm. show an interest In his businesa Tou should, you know, for It will be yours ss well ss his later on, . Don't allow htm to spend toe mush money on you. Help htm to save H to ward ths day when you will be working together to make, and keep a happy home. A young man who la not saving a little all the time WiH not make a good provider. Xf hard- times comes hs has nothing to fsll back upon. It Is not the brilliant talker and social success who makes a good husband. Xt la tha eteady, reliable one. Doa't tumble into love aa though tt were all a bed of rosea. There are plenty of thorna, but If you rook out for them they may be avoided, and. as I said be fore, above all things don't be sarrted 'away by appearances, A SUBWAY strike ths forward traia before running a considerable distance unchecked; In the interval there would be a seeofad chanoa for the automatle apparatus to get la Its fine work, aa well ss almost a certainty that the platform guards on the rear ears would discover "something wrong." Any guard through the entire length of the tram la enabled to stop the train from hla platform, and any switch man or other employe along the tracks can atop It by pressing- aa electric but ton that shuts. Off all power on every track. The electric button la an atl-tmportant feature of the subway. It la bandy at stations and In little boxes placed at frequent Intervals along- the tracks. There Is no point from which a button cannot be reached la a few seeonda, and one press of the button brings every thing to a standstill. At frequent Intervals ' throughout the tunnel are hydranta and long- Unas of hose, which can be brought Into use on the Instant. Thsse are for a last resort. The Tunnel company does not expect a fire to get started. Ths only way a dan gerous Are can originate la aa electric train, It la asserted, la through scene ac cident ta ths machinery beneath the ear. where the eieetrtoity m as a verted bate power. Tha subway care are built to make this Impassible. Every ear floor le a multiple affair practically five floors laid on top of each other. The lowest one la made of asbestos a quarter of an Inoh thick. Next to this oomeo a layer of wood, replaced over tha motors by plates of steal. Than there Is a layer of fireproof felt, above which Is a maple floor with an asbestos llnlnc. Tha tea floor, on which the passengers walk, br a stratum of wood seven-eighths of sn Inch In thickness, BesMee the fivefold protecting floor, the ear is shielded from flames by a covering of lacquered cop per extending from ths bottom up to ths window el lis. - -One mature of tha tunnel's safe-guard Ing Is the separation of ths electric power. The current that operates tralna Is entirely different from that which regulates the elgnak. Both are different from the current for ths thousands of lights strung along the walls. Though an accident should render useless the third rail and ths signals, ths lights would remain as brilliant ss aver. It would be next to Imposstbis to meat such a catastrophe In New York's tunnel ss wss suffered In Paris last year. When the Paris subway train was destroyed by fire all the lights went out, and probably scores who might have escaped were con sumed because of-the sudden darkness. There srs those who still believe the subway's ventilation Is faulty, but Chief Engineer Parsons maintains that the faat traveling trains will circulate tha necessary air In ths downtown sections, where ths stations are closer together. Under Washington Heights, where the tunnel ts deepest, there are to be arti ficial ventilators. In eass M Is found that mechanical aid la needed to fur ntsh air In any other portions of the read tha company says It will make ths fe stal latloa at ones. . preach republic ts ruled from the top down. The prefect of polios Is tbs agent of this oligarchy, as he was In ths tlms of Louis XVI. Ths secret pel lee la its obedient servant Prealdenta eorae and pe; liberal mlnistrtea are succeeded by radical ministries, and eoeielieta follow tha radieala, bat always the secret po lice remain, and always the oligarchy governs. Ths very man whs la chief sf guts may be ranked among the ene mies at lesst ths adversariesof this oooult ruling power. Bin sf eg is at aa agaot Work, Prom ths Brooklyn Bagia . Mr. Harden of Success says that "many Journal lata give only 4 per cent of their energy to their work and 94 per cent to dissipation and Idttnasu." Journalists may give energy to Idleness, but newspaper men realise that they cannot hold their jobs oa those terms. Orc-on Sidelights Considerable building Is going Oa la : Gardiner. , , : v - - Keep your ores next rear aa Mai hour ceuaty. ... , , Union whl ship 94 or 41 aajioads of ' prunes this fall. T, , A f . Ths Pendleton high school opened with 119 pupils; 194 sre-wxpeetsd. ' 7TT The Grand Rondo Xrmber company has six logging camps at workl will saw lt.000,994 fast, f The Union woolen mill received aa or der last week from Chicago for T.409 pairs of "pentad i- ". - Ths Salem gtateaman ssys tt w "fmV ; to srstch ths sprightly Journal grow. BnJoy yourself, Oov. '-'- " v; A Myrtle Creak young woman's asms u Is Miss Temperance Brewer. Ut par eata meant to have It balance. t . ;.; ' Mr. Lady hi a southern Oregon stage driver. But he might resent aa sassr K tloa that ha waa no gentlemaa, A Union man who has erected a dryer f ex pacta to dry 40,000 pounds of prunes, , raised oa his owa pleas, this fall, ' A ehOd iteently born ta Union county la said to have three giaadfathers, three grandmothers .and two great grand- -fathers, j '.. ? If beef cattle ahould go up to suit tha eattle raisers, and beef In proportion, tha working man's dinner pail would be beafless. , . . Aa eastern Washington man 91 years old is the father ef twin alfl oSbles. InSreightng li sounds. 1 Great Climate up there. - . . ; r, tl ; Arlington is 17, SOS la debt and wants the a R. A N. Co. to pay 94.e9 for a right of way through tha tews for- Its Condon branch. - - . -t; Albany Democrat: Two Salem 41 men shot st each other at the same time. ' Neither was hit They now are entitled , to 90 more shots apises. , :- - A gumpter chicken dealer etatmo to have found 9114 worth of sold in a chicken's craw, which Is mors tha, he could seU ths chicken for. ", A Lincoln county young man who waa run over by a train and killed while drunk leavea a wife only IT years old . and a baby bin montha old, . ; The Lincoln' county Leader urges farmers to "get busy" In preparing an exhibit for ths Lewis and Clark fair. So far they have done nothing.' t V, . A Jehu Day man raised a tomato that measured lit inchee m etrcura- ference. weighed two pounds end whose ' slices were larger than a dinner Plata A bolt of lightning struck a ires on a farm near Albany and killed seven bogs thst had taken shelter under tt, Ths farmer Aad mors roast pork t than he wanted.' - - r . w. r Mr. Rhodes, the Benton county man whs waa arrested . for threatening to ; shoot hla new and undaalred son-in-law, ' thought better of It.. shook bands and now .the honeymoon ia running smoothly. . La Grande la making a rapid growth this season. New homes are being oon- ' struct ed. In every portion of the city . end ths great majority are of An, un usually better elaas than has hereto- , fore been coectrueted. . . ., ; Three serious accidents happened to employes of ths Oregon Stags company at Klsmath Falls wlthls a few days. One had an arm broken, another a leg broken and the third waa badly Injured by being kicked in the face by a.horaa. OftAjrtrs BOMAsrwio (By Julius Cbambera.) The return of Henry U Clapp t New Tork after an abeence sf about 40 years is noteworthy. His recant career ia like a pace from the "Arabian Nlghta" Mr. Clapp waa the manager of a large . earpofaUoa oa Broadway. Hs had seade many millions for other people. One day be went to a steamer to see some friends off to Europe, These friends, as a prac tical Joke, detained him aboard until tba ship sailed. Hs was carried s -Europe, because tha sea was so rough outside that ths pilot couldn't be taken eft. Mr. Oiapp la a phlloaopher: ha waa an expe rienced traveler, a widower, and he saado the bast of the situation. Not expecting to be sbsent fvuavhts business more than sn hour, Mr. Clapp had not acquainted anybody with his destination. His "dlsappsarsnos" be came the talk of the town. The corpo ration made a perfuactory statement that hla scoounts were In perfect shape. But when hs cabled from the other side . some friction arose. Mr. Clapp returned. settled on his affairs and went sbroad for good. This Is tha point at which ths romance of his life begins. Mr. Clapp leased a villa In Florence. city that teems with treasures of art- There hs met the Countess Xamulta. a member of one of the oldeat families of Spain. She wag a widow. Immensely rich, and It was a case of love st first sight Ther were married In Roma end traveled la Egypt. They then went to Malta snd took posaesslen of a palace that occupies ths moot commanding aits al Vtletta. Havs you ever been st VUetthT Tbe city stands on ths crest of a rocky ter race, and from tha sea the stately pal aces look as ths Acropolis must have appeared to the Athenians In ths Valley When It wss spick and span with new ness. Tba harbor is ths only cove In the rock-bound coast of Malta, and tha houses rise tier upon tier, very much like thoss of Genoa, snd are made as oeeelble by countless steps. At no plaoe In ths Mediterranean ts ths wster so Slue as in front of Vlletts. The harbor Is too deep for good anchor age, and tha big British warahlps that are constant visitors don't stay long. But the brilliantly colored eat Is of the orient are here. The bet-winged, craft from ths DamletU -mouth of ths Nils, the yellow ennvne-oovered euttern from the Adriatic, and the Junk-llke tuba from the Bospherua. Xt la the weirdest port In the sea ef all antiquity. . With thia eplondid panorama always before their eyea our fellow-cltlsen and hie wife have gathered a store ef art that has no rival outside of Italy. The grand marble stairway that leads to their palace Is such a one ss Mr. Haggard's bravo Rulu, tTmaiopagua, gladly would have given up hla Ufa to defend. ' It is a glorious prospect Existence at tha top of ouch a pathway must bs a dream of heaven compared with the tedium of selling scales oa Broadway. With what sympathy muet the former merchant coa template hla oompanloas la "tba shop"! fMtS Of BIS Bf ftthS Page . v pism "Awakiis sTlglrtu." Mr a
