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PORTLAND. OREGON,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11. ISH.
THE OREGON DAILY
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JOBBERS AND ROBBERS OF
TORS, JOBS, JOBS! Jobs and
J "job," in the sense herein meant, is defined in
Webster's dictionary as "a public transaction done
, tor private profit; something performed ostensibly as a
part of official duty, but really tor
ruot official business."
So the Riners could not "job" the city. They are not
officials. They may have intended and sought to
swindle the property owners by slighting their job
the word "job can be used in several
they did a very dishonest, reprehensible
they should suffer due penalties in loss
dishonest work.
But the job was worked otherwise.
did the work under official supervision
The citv engineer had no business
tractors to do a good job. He knew
pointed an inspector. That inspector was his represent
ative, and as such was charged with an official duty, and
a very important one, namely, to protect the property
owners, who were to pay $35. for the repair of a
sewer. He was to stand between them and the con
tractors, assuring himself and the public, particularly
the assessed property owners, that
well and fully according to specifications.
But it turns out what you have read a "job." The
property owners, according to experts' reports, have
been shamefully jobbed. ,
Now a dishonest, job-slighting contractor is not one
tenth as blamable as the official who stands in with the
job, who presumably no other conclusion is reasonable
profits by it Thousands of people
ficial have to. They elect him, put him under oath, pay
him a large salary, honor him as a prominent man, one
fit to select from thousands for important public service,
and he permits them to be shamefully swindled. There
is the man to be punished, to suffer, and the limit of the
law's penalty is not punishment enough for such a base
betrayer of the people's "confidence,
lator of his oath of office.
We are not now declaring just how
rection the pending investigation will
going remarks are general rather
whomsoever may be in heir way, let
them. The peoples wrath, while tossing out the offend
ing contractor and refusing to pay him for his job,
should, move right onward to the job's official source,
and there strike, and strike hard.
It has become a burning public
public work be done except there be
the people are swindled in its performance i It some
times seems that an honest, thorough, first-class con
scientious piece of public work is an impossibility. But
it, must be made not only a possibility,
This is about the most important business for the people
to attend to. Let them attend more
fairs, and refuse to be "jobbed ' and
And one means of preventing such jobbery is surely
to discover and as . surely to punish the offending, the
dishonest or incapable, the shamefully incompetent or
dastardly perjured official This,
along the line, now and hereafter,
know.
The people should insist on following this one Job,
first, to its basis, to its source, through all its dark and
dirty ramifications and sinuosities. Turn oh the search
lights, and fore out the whole truth not so much on
account of the malodorous Tanner creek sewers, as to
prevent similar jobs in future.
BBNBPITS PROM THE FAIR.
THE CROAKERS have ceased to croak 'in Port
land and they have been brought to confusion
by the rich, shrewd and hardheaded men from
ether sections who are coming here and making invest-
what would happen after the fair was
warranted that it has died out of its
fot ajtnr.tr
OT ASIA.
From Collier's for November If.
The story of Port Arthur, distressing
as it la has -at least the merit of show
ing what a cargo- of heroic virtues the
old world etlll carries. Slaughter has
never been more shocking, but' bravery
has never been more abundant Never
in all history have men shown greater
defiance of death than has been ahown
In the terrible months of struggle for
the citadel which has been for years
the key to the eastern situation. We
can not wonder at the price Japan would
pay for the fortress, since as long as
Rusaia owns that fort the purpose for
which this war is fought will not have
been accomplished by Japan. If the
war ahould bo settled without depriving
Russia permanently of the fortress, a
dac iter would still be pointed at Japan's
heart. The control of Korea by Japan
would be an insecure defense aa long
- as .the atrongest position In Manchuria
was held by her enemy. Russia needed
to hold thn fortress for the same rea
sons that Japan needed to take It Ad
ditional motives for both sides were
furnished by considerations of preetlge
and by the beating of the Port Arthur
situation on the lmmenee struggle fur
ther north. The talk about whether
all this desperate courage and destruc
tion about Port Arthur has been well
Invested, therefore, seems to us beside
the mark. If the war was to be at alt
Port Arthur was a necessity to each of
the combatants, and time was an es
sential consideration to both, especially
to Japan- It being eomethlng vital,
therefore, to their countries' welfare,
Russians and Japanese alike have fought
for the stronghold in a manner to prove
that man still retains the virtues of
the bulldog. Effeminacy, for the great
modern nations, is an Imaginary bogy.
Let a danger, as vital as has confronted
Japan, threaten Germany. France, Eng
land, or the TTnlted States, and we Im
agine that they also would still be found
capable of fighting desperately in the
last ditch.
OP SOCIALISTS.
From the Chicago News.
Party managers who may be embar
rasaed in future elections by charges re
lating to campaign funds may derive a
helpful suggestion from the effective
bit of repartee with which the New
Tork state branch of the Socialist party
has met a similar accusation. Judge
Parker having hinted In a recent speeca
that Republican funds were being used
In support of the Socialist campaign,
th urrttxrv of the state Socialist com
mittee called for explanations. "We
point to the fact" said the secretary.
that each donation to the national and
state campaign funds of tho Socialist
party, whether It be I mats or 1100. Is
published In the Socialist papers and en
Itemised statement of our receipts and
expenditure Is usually published after
election.'' Judge Parker was then in-
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
at
Portias!,
OFFICIAL PAPER OP THt CITY OP PORTLAND
THE PUBLIC.
rumors of jobs! A
private gam; a cor
or calculation in
ways and if so
thing, for which
of pay for their
The contractors
and surveillance.
to trust the con
this, because he ap
fore that each can
the work was done
trust to this ot
T
such a perjured vio
far or in what di
react; the fore
than special; but
him be smitten by
question: Can no
V job in it unless
but a certainty.
closely to these af
swindled.
so that officials fl
may remember and
THE OPENING of the fine new Men's Resort tm
Fourth and Burnside streets Saturday evening
was an event of no small importance or slight
significance in our rapidly growing city. It will be an
increasingly beneficial agency in our municipal life. It
will be a means
good, directly and
even approximately estimate. The men and women
chiefly members of the First Presbyterian church who
gave the land, who raised the fund for the building and
furnitnre, who pay the superintendent and his assist
ants, who are carrying on this good work, are entitled to
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over, talk so un- the sincere) gratitude of the public which should en
own accord, wnen courage nu .u Mi...
vlted to Inspect the party's books and
either verify his charges or retract
them.
Unless Judge Parker earea to charge
that the Socialists' established rule of
publishing 'their accounts la not ob
served In good faith a charge which
he might have come difficulty In sub
stantiating he must concede the force
of the reply. Were it the custom of all
political parties to make their financial
operations matters of public record,
this Issue would soon cease to have a
shameful prominence in American poll
tics. FBITATB PiT.STWT.IiTi JVBEbaB.
From the New Tork Sun.
In 166 4 there lived down on the farm
In the hills of Noble county, Ohio, a fair
haired, blue-eyed boy of IT summers,
whose father was first a Whig, then an
Abolitionist. The boy had Imbibed a
hatred of slavery and secession from
that source, and had a wide and varied
reading of literature bearing on those
themes.
The opposition to the pro-slavery
party had met at Columbus In February
and nominated a ticket which was elect,
ed that year, with not one Democrat suc
cessful on either state or congressional
ticket. There was a solid delegation of
Republicans in congress for the only
time that such a thing ever happened In
Ohio.
The boy and his father belonged to
that opposition snd shared In Uie labors
ending so gloriously at the October elec
tion, 1854; the boy stumping the school
districts for the new party, aa yet with
out a name the Republican party. He
haa kept up that record for 60 consecu
tive years, and Is now on the stump for
Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
That boy was James M. Dalsell, better
known as Private Dalsell. He Is to close
his 60th year of service to the party he
helped to organise at Zanesvllle the'
night before the election, and the same
night sn hour before at Cambridge.
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From the Chicago Newa.
Here la a typical Japanese humorous
story: A quack doctor had prescribed
the wrong medicine for the only eon of
a certain family, with the result that
the boy had died. The parents deter
mined to hare revenge. So they sued
the doctor in a court of law.
The affair was eventually patched up,
the quack giving the bereaved parents
his own son In return for the one he
had killed. Not long after thin doctor
heard a loud knocking at hla door one
night. On going to the door he was In
formed that the wife of one of his
neighbors wss dangerously 111 and that
hla presence was required at once. Turn
ing to hla wife, he ssld: "This requires
conalderstton, my dear. There fs no
knowing but thst It may end in their
taking you from me."
JOURNAL
JNO. P. OMWMI
Th Journal
Ftftb
the world's fair was first undertaken it was generally
believed even by our own people that a heavy contract
was being undertaken. But as time went on and the
matter began to be considered in all its bearings, it was
realized that the fair had in it infinite possibilities of
good not alone for Portland and Oregon, but for the
whole Pacific coast. Realizing this, every one has put
his shoulder to the wheel with a result that there is al
ready promised a fair far beyond original expectation
its scope and magnitude.
What this section of the country needs above all else
is to be known; once it is known, it will stand upon its
own merits. No agency that could be conceived will go
so far toward accomplishing this purpose as the Lewis
and Clark fair. Whatever money is spent in this direc
tion will be wall spent for the good will flow from it for
many years to come.
Everv resident of Portland now realizes as never be
within his or her own sphere do
something to make a success of the fair. If there is
nothing elae it can at least be advertised and spoken
about within the circle of one's own correspondents.
The wider the publicity given it the more likely there
will be a large number of visitors. Every visitor drawn
from within the confines of the state is a positive in
vestment, in'good w.ill if nothing else. This is Oregon's
opportunity if it wants to make 'itself known. If the
fair accomplishes this much it will be a success, for it
will mean that in five years there will be a1 greater ac
cession to our population-than has marked the previous
20 years. Indeed Oregon is on the very verge of a great
growth, but that growth will be vastly stimulated by the
work done this year and by what we have to show to
the visitors' who will come here next year.
THE PRESIDENT AND SENATOR COCKRELL.
HE PRESIDENT honors himself in honoring
Senator Francis Marion Cockrell of Missouri.
For eighteen vears Cockrell, now over 70 years
of age, has served his state in the senate. Ever and
always he has been a Democrat,., man absolutely above
suspicion for party loyalty, but "at the same time he has
been something more than that he has been an honest
man. To him has gone the tribute which goes to honest
men, that of the respect and confidence of his associates
regardless of party.
Senator Cockrell is a man of the old school, a plain,
simple, straightforward American. m He lacks some of
the brilliancy that used to characterize his former as
sociate Vest, but he loses nothing when measured with
any of his associates on the basis of his manhood. It is
therefore a pleasing thing in politics to have the recog
nition of that manhood come from the head of party
which Cockrell has always antagonized.
Whether or not the senator will accept the proffered
place still remains to be seen; the chances are that he
will, for Cockrell is a man with few strings to his bow
and once his salary as senator is lost, his last source of
income is gone But whether he accepts or refuses the
proffer does credit to the heart and head of the presi
dent and is a notable step in the direction of making
him the chief executive of all the people.
THE NEW MEN'S RB8ORT.
of doing good constantly, how much
indirectly, no one can accurately or
a IIT KOUOW COTTHTT.
From the lone Proclaimed ,
A few years ago the farmers all hauled
their wheat to market with a single
span of horses. Then as they got to
faming on a larger scale they hauled
with four horses Instead of two. Now,
a four-horae team on the Oooseberry
road Is an exception, nearly all driving
six horses with two wagons, while some
drive eight pulling three wagons. It Is
the sains way with farming Implements
and everything else. When the writer
first came to this country, II years ago.
he stumbled along, kicking himself In
the ankles, behind a walking plow for
several years. Now, a man does not
think of farming without a three-bottom
gang requiring six or eight horses to
pull it while the driver sits comforta
bly on the seat with the lines tied up
snapping his whip at the birds that fol
low behind. Farmers used to trudge
along on foot behind their harrow; since
then they have become wise to the fact
that they can ride a saddle horse be
hind the harrow and do better work and
easier. In our country a 10-year-old
boy does the work of a man the year
round; for with Improved facilities
wheat raising has become merely a mat
ter of sitting on the aeat or In the sad
dle and guiding the horses around the
field.
There Is a very persistent hoary old
superstition to the effect that 05 per oent
of all the persons who embark In busi
ness eventually fail. This may have
been true before the age of advertising,
but It Is no longer founded In fact The
Mercantile Review says: "Other mis
statements are corrected, other myths
die out. but this one persists. Recently
the old humbug reoelved a bed whack,
a solar plexus blow, thst should send it
down for the count. The stroke wss
dealt by Dun's weekly clrculsr in re
sponse to the query of a correspondent
whether it Is true that 9fr per cent of
business men fall. The Dun agency peo
ple looked Into the matter. They studied
the statistics of failures since 1887, snd
they found that the records show that
the ratio of failures In buslnees between
1M and 101, Inclusive, averaged only
a little over 1 per cent each year, that
Is one out of every hundred firms In
business felled. The ratio exceeded 1
per cent during the years of hard times,
from 1171 to 178. Inclusive, and again
from TtM to 18; but of the 18 years
between ISM and 101 there were 1
years when the ratio slightly exceeded
1 per cent and 1 years In which It was
slightly less than 1 per cent"
The Surprise of It.
From the Washington Star.
"What do you think of my speech T"
said the orator for the Prohibition party.
"I was astonished," answered Colonel
Stllwetl of Kentucky. "I never knew
that water could produce so much
eocjuaoity,"
j Small Change
The war on Turkey will begin this
week in earnest
Most people have much to be thankful
for all the time. .
Fortunately the vice-presidency doesn't
amount to much.
No rest for the wicked, even If they
cannot be convicted.
Moat of the news from Manchuria la
Indefinitely unconfirmed.
The trusts are raising prices to try
to match that big majority.
Oregon's governor Is thankful if he
Ukes hla job that he didn't have to run
this year.
What more appropriate place for a
dark and dirty job than . the Tanner
creek sewer T
Now that Thanksgiving is near, dont
overlook the Boys' and Olrls' Aid society
or baby home.
The days of star chamber proceeding
In matters In which the people are In
terested are paused.
Perhaps we can point with pride to
the smallest police force In the country
In proportion to population.
A military office and title Is considered
something tremendous down in the lit
tle slx-blt republic of Panama.
What a great loss to New Tork and
the country It would be If the Vander
bllts should lose their senator.
It might be well for Socialists to re
member that a good many men who are
not Socialists voted tbelr ticket this
year.
Mrs. Maybtick declares In a letter
addressed to the public that she posi
tively will not go on the stag. Thanks,
awfully.
HI oka predicts a great Thanksgiving
storm. But Hicks Is a Mlssourian, and
probably didn't know that his state was
going Republican.
Shaw may leave the cabinet but his
neighbor Iowans are not likely to be
kept awake by his hurrahing for Fair
banks for president In 1908.
The government may have to borrow
money soon, it Isn't like a government
that cant. But perhaps the tariff
should be raised, so as to produce more
revenue (T).
Publicity, about everything that In
terests the public, la a modern and
growing demand, that even such great
men as members of a city council com
mittee cannot resist.
If President Roosevelt forces or in
duces congress to enact real tariff re
form, the Democrats might make him
their candidate In 1908. if he had not
declared that he- weuld not accept an
other term.
If ex-Clove rnor Frank S. Black can
be coaxed Into the cabinet aa attorney
general Goyernor Odell will be relieved
from hla promise to make Black sena
tor, and can make himself senator as
be probably will anyway.
Oregon Sidelights
Condon haa aa athletlo club.
The Clatskanie school has 11 pupils.
Mosler thr
celebrity.
-tier apples are attaining
Oood progress being made on the Baa
don woolen mills. 1
All sorts of opportunities for good
workers In Oregon.
Very few voters registering for the
Astoria city election.
Real estate sales art. quite frequent In
Newberg and vicinity.
Gradually Oregon Is working itself up
into a great dairy state.
Madras Pioneer prospering
expectation; will enlarge.
beyond
Silver Lake people are talking of build
ing a $5,000 schoolhouse.
At a social In Mayger 1106 was raised
to pay the balance of a church debt
The Newburg Graphic. Is 1 years old
and Is growing up with that good town.
Some farmer telephone lines will be
established In the vicinity of Harrlaburg
soon.
There were 170 votes east In North
Bend November t, a gain of 61 since
June.
The Cottage Grove Nugget suggests
more mud scraping and less mud-sllng-lng
there.
The Pendleton East Oregonlan asserts
that the climate up there la a positive
cure for asthma
A milling and mercantile company
with a capital stock of 110,000 has been
organised at Madras.
The Condon Globe gives the special
eastern Oregon Issue of the Pacific
Homeetead a brown roast.
The Salem Journal Is dally booming
Tom Kay for speaker. Marion county
always wants this office.
Three business establishments In Free
water have closed since the election,
when that town went dry.
Big money In raising turkeys In
southern Oregon and the upper Willam
ette valley. If one knows how.
The Grants Psss Herald Is still prod
ding Josephine county people with a
Lewie and Clsrk exhibit sharp stick.
The constable of Arlington precinct Is
named Dora Sweeten. He ought to trade
off his name to a girl or his occupation
to an Irishman.
Albany Democrat: November Is a
splendid time to see the raging billows
of the Pacific, and one can do it at sum
mer cost, snd have ducks and salmon
thrown In.
Fruit Commissioner Carson of Grants
Paas estimates the a'pple crop In the
Rogue river district at 400.000 boxes for
1(04. Other fruits he estimates as fol
lows: Pears, 100,000 .boxes; prunee, 1,
000,000 pounds: peaches, 71.000 boxes;
small fruits, 76,000 crates; gross value
Afl.190,000.
Self-G overnmcnt
Not a riction
By Rev. T. n. Gregory. ,
Dr. Parkhuret is a Christian, a scholar
and a gentleman, but In spite of all
these fine qualities the doctor Is human,
and then, like the rest of us, he makes
a mistake.
In my humble opinion the doctor made
a very great mistake when. In the course
of a sermon, be pitched Into the declara
tion of Independence on account of Its
teachings about self-government
ays the good doctor: It is a blem
ish upon the fair face of that document,
eo dear to the heart of every true Amer
ican, that It asserts that governments
derive their just powers from the con
sent of ths governed." .
The doctor and myself are no longer
"spring chickens." We have lived long
enough to have gone pretty well over
the field of history, and we both know
that the principle contended for In the
declaration of Independence, and ob
jected to by himself, constituted the
sola ground of our contention with the
mother country.
Knglund wanted us to live under a
government that derived Its powers from
the British ministry, 1,000 miles away.
To that proposition we objected, and
proclaimed to the world the idea that
"Governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed."
We wanted, not a despotic govern
ment, but a free one; a government
that should represent the will, not of a
people across the seas, but the will of
the American people themselvee.
The man who Is governed by another
Is a slave; the man who governs himself
Is free.
Our forefathers desired to be not
slaves, but freemen. Hence the procla
mation In the great declaration which
Dr. Parkhurst mj'ter bold to call "a
blemish upon the fair face of that docu
ment." Is It a "blemish ?" Is tt not rather, a
crowning glory something to be proud
of forever?
If the government does not derive Its
just powers from the consent of the
governed, from whom. In ths name of
reason, doea It derive them?
It the laws of a land should not repre
sent the will of the people living In the
land, whose will, pray, should they rep
resent? The Declaration of Independence Is all
right The man who wrote It, and those
who signed It and published It to the
"world and to the Inhabitants thereof."
knew what they were about; and steadily
since the old Liberty bell pealed forth
the glad tidings the nations have been
coming around to the principle for which
our forefathers contended.
It Is a mistake again to call self-government
a "fiction." The United States
of America" Is anything but a fiction.
If there Is anywhere on this earth a
reality, a fact a stupendous reality, a
rock-ribbed fact It Is the American
people.
And It Is strictly within the bounds
of truth to say that, for more than a
century now, Americans have been a
self-governing people. The constitution
under which they have lived Is a docu
ment of their own designing. The laws
under which they have gone forward
along the way of their marvellous prog
ress are laws of their own making.
Ours Is a government that "derives"
Its powers from the consent of the gov
erned." There la no "fiction" about It It is a
fact, solid aa the Rock of Ages, known
of all men, the woader and admiration
of the world!
And It haa been a pretty good gov
ernment, too, as governments go in this
world. Mistakes have been made, as
was to have been expected, since we
started out without experience and had
to learn our lessons as we went along
our new and untried way.
Mistakes there certainly have been,
but upon the whole we have done re
markably well marvellously wall.
And we are going to do better In the
future. So far we have had but a single
lifetime In which to test the hitherto
strange experiment with "government
of the people, for the people and by the
people," and Instead of threatening to
"perish from the earth." the outlook for
the experiment Is rosier than aver.
I am sure that what I have said Is
"true as holy writ," and therefore I am
all the more Inclined to ask. What on
earth doea good Dr. Parkhurst mean?
OAJUTATXOjrS BAT T.
Attacked It aad prices Are
From the New Tork Sun.
The passing of the carnation, florists
say, is only a question of time, and a
short time at that Already it has be
come unprofitable as a specialty, and the
specialists are dropping It and going Into
other branches of flower-raising.
Among all the flower that- grow, the
carnation enjoyed for a time the greatest
popularity, perhaps. , Florists will tell
you that for every one order received
for roses, vlciets or sweet peas, ten were,
rvueivw iur uiriutuuna. u in m ilmii -
hardy flower. It Is beautiful in form
and color, possesses a rare, spicy fra
grance, and is moderate In price all
of which qualities plgce it at the head
of the list of popular blooms.
Who first discovered the possibilities
ot the pink and started the development
of the carnation Is not known to the
latty, and probably not to many profes
sional florists, for an inquiry among SI
of them brought forth no light on the
subject. The pink has been known as a
carnation for at least 40 years, say
growers.
Many a grower haa made a fortune out
of the carnation, but lt'a a long lane
that haa no turning, and the florists say
that the turning In the carnation lane
la in sight. For a disease has stricken
the carnation, and unless a curs cab
speedily be found the time Is near when
the flower will be rare.
It has already progressed so far that
the demand exceeds the supply, snd the
price has consequently risen. Last year
was an especially bad aeaaon for carna
tions, and the growers lost heavily. As
a consequence many who formerly made
carnations a spaclsly have abandoned
them for a more profitable product.
This season is backward, and an esti
mate of the crop cannot be given.
"This disease is a recent thing," said
a large carnation-grower on Iong island
"Bight yeara ago It waa unknown. Ws
grew thousands of carnations In the open
field and they produced abundantly.
"We sold them at wholesale at 60
cents a hundred. Now we sell them at
from tl to (4 a hundred, and the car
nations are no better. We have aban
doned outdoor cultivation and keep them
in the benches. Ws formerly grew car
nations almost exclusively, but have now
practically given them up.
"This disease is ruining the business.
Nobody has so fsr found s cure, snd we
are all experimenting with remedies. It
attacks the stem of the plant and fol
lows It upward, destroying it eell by
cell."
He opened the door of a greenhouse.
The benches were flt'ed with carnations
In full bud, and every plant was stricken
with the bltgh't From the earth-line up
each plant wss withered. Some were
still green snd healthy st the tops, but
all were afflicted. The house next to It
also filled with carnatlona, waa still un
touched by disease.
He Play
A careless husband la arguing that
hla wife haa "all" she wants and . Is
unreasonable In complaining that ha la
neglectful.
"I have opened unlimited credit for
ner with her dress-maker." he ex
"But," asks the true young friend,
"have you opened unlimited credit for
her with your heartr"
And her we have the key to Dion
Bouclcault's vary Interesting drama.
"Lad Astray." The Count Chandooe
bestows most of his attention upon
dogs, horses and clubs. His wife
smsrts keenly under the Injustice and
evident neglect. A literary genius falls
In love with her. She Is Inclined to
the temptation but fights It back. The
husband discovers the author proclaim
ing his love and proposing elopement.
Ths Inevitable duel the scene Is
Franca ensues. It doea no more harm
than to bring husband and wife to
gether, with a better, fuller understand
ing of each other, and the curtain drops
upon a happy stage.
The Columbia stock company scored
still another success In the presentation
of the old play yesterday. The audiences
both afternoon and evening were limited
by the slse of the building and ware
aa cordial as ever In their recognition
of Portland's favorite organisation.
Mr. Baume this week plays ths hus
band, a dissipated man of middle age.
and he does It with the thoroughness
and grace that Is characteristic of all
his work. Hla parting from Armando,
his wife, just before the duel. Is per
haps the most artistic effort of thla
actor since he first appeared In Port
land. He Is always natural and sincere,
but In this particular scene strikes a
quiet note that deserves and receives
distinct praise. It was In this act. also,
that Miss Countiss displayed her
emotional talent to a striking degree.
She, of course. Is the wife neglected and
at the same time beloved. When the
husband thrusts his will Into her hands'
and starts for the dueling field, the
terror of anticipation reflected in the
young actress is strongly sympathetic.
Cathrlne Counties' talent Is readily con
ceded, but she could improve her work
by reading without a certain affecta
tion of tone which Is sometimes dis
tressingly noticeable, as., wsll as un
expected in a woman of her ability.
Mr. Bowles' George De Lesparra Is
not by any means the bast thing hs has
done, but the part la played with the
same skill we are accustomed to ob
serving In this well-known actor. Per
sonally. I should like to see Mr. Bowles
part with that peculiar hesitancy In the
middle of his speeches In straight roles,
even as he doea In character. To others
It may add a charm to his work, Mr.
Bloomquest Is en remarkably good Hec
tor PI acid e and haa an artistic working
companion In Miss Brandt who is al
ways dainty In Ingenue roles. Scott
Beaton scored emphatically as the Baron
Gosllne he of the "Happy thought
I'll book It" Without overdrawing the
character he affected enough of the
broad snobbish nobleman to make It
Indescribably funny.
Fred Esmelton was a satisfactory
Major O'Hara and George BerreU did
the old servant easily. Lorette Allen
made her first appearance with the com
pany aa the dowager countess. She
seemed perfectly at home and even In
this brief role demonstrated unques
tionably that she la a valuable acquisi
tion. Mary Bank son as the baroness
and Marlon Barhyte as Miss O'Hara
were bits well done.
The Grand theatre (formerly Cord
fay's) waa formally opened yesterday
afternoon as Portland's sixth home of
dims vaudeville.
The mere conversion of this house
from one policy to another was not re
garded as an excuse for a pretentious
display, but If it had been the opening
of a new half-million-dollar play-shop,
more careful attention could not have
been bestowed upon the patrons and
their comfort. During the night the lob
by had been remodeled. An arched win
dow of heavy plate glass and seversl
big French mirrors stared you In the
face.
"On the door stood the genial Maurice
Smith, for alxteen yeara a ticket-seller
now a ticket-taker. He waa clad In
a dress suit Inside the door Melvln
O. Winstook's best smile waa a greeting.
Ha wore a dress suit The boy who
handed out the programs had on a dreas
ault. Tou were shown to your seats
by young men In dress suits. On the
stage a great horse-shoe of flowers sug
gested still further that somethtng was
happening. And in the manager's loge,
contemplating with radiant smiles the
mass of humanity struggling to get In,
sat John Considlne, one of the new own
ers, and Fred Lincoln, the new local
manager. They wore dress suits.
"If looks good." said Considlne.
I'lt's great" agreed Lincoln.
"But wait till you see the bill:"
Meaning, of course, the program not
the expense.
Mr. Wlnstock addressed the audience,
saying in effect that as Considlne bad
a long chain of such houses and extra
ordinary seating capacity In each, they
would be able to present unusually high
class vaudeville acts at a dime a head,
and that no vulgarity would be tolerated
In any of them.
An orchestra, of seven pieces, which
Mr. Considlne declares will be retained,
opened the bill with an ambitious over
ture. This Waa followed by Arthur O.
Folkert, perhaps the most wonderful
whistler ever heard here. In some se
lections this genius actually whistles
the melody and alto simultaneously. Hla
imitations are likewise great Sam and
Ida Kelly followed In a rural sketch,
"SI and Mandy," and barring one sug
gestive line, which came near endanger
ing the promts of the management,
they were quite agreeable. Frank Melton
eang the Illustrated song, "He's Only
a Private, Thai a All. his voice is
clear and sympathetic. Musllner's sheep
and pigs, an act which was brought di
rect from Chicago and which approaches
the acme of animal "training, was fol
lowed by William Gross, the German
comedian. Ten funny minutes with
him. and thn musical act of the Elliotts
provided a new sensation. The four Oil-
fans, a novelty act imported rrom rnew
Tork, made a tremendous hit and the
program closed with the moving ploture
machine.
Eight big acts! If the management
preserves this standard there is no ques
tion as to the success or the new house,
which waa packed to the doors through
out the day and night.
RACK WHITNEY.
SXDSBTT r EE 1.8 OOOD.'
From the Washington Post
The president was talking with Secre
tary of War Taft and Postmaster-Gen
eral Wynne today about the election re
turns. Mr. Roosevelt was in fine spirits
and remarked:
"I feel eo good about this that I al
most wish I had made a bet to wheel a
man around the block In a wheelbar
row." "Well, there's Taft." remarked Mr.
Wynne. "Why not wheel him around V
Secretary Taft weighs In round num
bers 100 pounds. The president laughed
and eald he didn't feel quite ao good ai
7
that
Diary of
Lewis and Clark
Following Is the record in the diary
of th Lewis and Clark expedition for
November 21. 1104:
November 21 Ths weather was this
day fins, the river clear of Ice and ris
ing a little. We are now settled In our
new winter habitation and shall wait
with much anxiety th return of spring
to continue our journey.
The villages near which we are es
tablished are five In number and the
residence of three distinct nations the
Mandans, th Ahnahaways and the
Mlnnetareea. Th history Of the Mun
dane, as we received It from our in
terpreters and from the chiefs them
selves, and as It la attested by exist
ing monuments, Illustrates mere than
that of any other nation the unsteady
movements and the tottering fortunes
of American nations. Within the recol
lection ot living witnesses the Mandana
were aettled 40 years ago in nine vil
lages, th ruins of which wo passed
about 10 miles below, and situated sevui
on the west and two on the east side or
the Missouri. The two finding them
selves wasting before the smallpox and
the Sioux united Into one village and
moved up the rivar opposits the Klcarae.
The same causes reduced the remaining
seven villages till at lehgth they emi
grated In a body to the Rlcara nation,
where they formed themselves Into two
villages and joined those of their coun
trymen who had gone before them, in
their new residence they were still inse
cure and at length the three villages
ascended the Missouri to their present
position. The two who had emigrated
together still settled In th two villages
n th northwest side of the Missouri,
while the single village took a position
on the west side southeast side. In
this situation they were found by those
who visited them In 176, since which
th two villages havs united Into oue.
They are now In two villages, one on th.
southeast, the Other on the oppostte
aide, aond at the distance of three miles
acroaa. The first in an open plain con
tains about 40 or 60 lodges, built In the
same way as those of the Rlcaras; that
second, the same number, and both may
raise sbout 160 men.
On the same side of the river and
at th distance of four miles from the
lower Mandan village Is another called
Mahaha. It la altuated on a high plain
at the mouth of Knife river, and Is the
residence of the Ahnahawaya This na
tion, who nante indicates that they
were "people whose village Is on a hill. '
formerly resided on the- Missouri about
16 miles below where they now live.
The Asslnlbolns and Sioux forced them
to a spot five miles higher, where the
greatest part of them were put to death
and th rest emigrated to their present
situation In order to obtain an asylum
near the Mlnnetareea They are called
by the French Soulier noir, o "shod In
dians; by the Mandans. Wattasuous,
and their whole force is about 60 men.
On tho south side of the same Knife
river, half a mile above the Mahaha and
In the same open plain with tt, Is a vil
las of Mlnnetareea surnamed Meta
harta, who are about 160 men In num
ber. On th opposite aid of the Knife
river and one and a' half miles above
this village, is a second of Mlnnetareea,
who may be considered as the proper
Mlnnetare nation. It Is situated In a
beautiful low plain, and contalna 430
warriors.
The accounts which we fecilved of
the Mlnnetarees were contradtctory. The
Mandans say that this people came out
of th water to the east and Settled
near them In their former establish
ment In nine villages; that they were
very numerous and fixed themselves In
on village on the southern side of the
Missouri. A quarrel about a buffalo di
vided the nation, of which two bands
went Into the plain and were known by
the name of Crow and Paunch Indiana,
and th rest moved to their present es
tablishment The Mlnnetareea proper aasert, on the
contrary, that they grew where they
now live and will never emigrate from
the spot, the Great 8plrtt having de
clared that If they moved south they
would all die. They slso say that the
Mlnnetareea. Metahanta, that Is Mln
netarees of the willows; whose language
with very little variation Is their own,
came many years ago from the plalna
and aettled nesr them, and perhaps the
two traditions may be reconciled by the
natural presumption that theee Mlnne
tareea were the tribe known to the
Mandana below and that they ascended
th river for th purpoa of rejoining
the Mlnnetareea proper.
Th Mlnnetarees are part of ths gre-it
nation called Fall Indians, who occupy
the Intermediate country between the
Missouri snd ths Saskaskawan, and who
are known by the names of Mlnnetarees
of the Missouri and Mlnnetarees of Fort
d Prairie; that Is. residing near of
rather frequenting the establishment in
the prairie on the Saskaskawan. These
Mlnnetareea, indeed, told us thst they
hsd relations on the Baakaakuwan whom
they had never known till they met
them In war and, having engaged In the
night were astonished at discovering
that thy wer fighting with men who
spoke their own language. The name
of Groa Ventres, or big bellies, is given
to these Mlnnetarees, as well aa to all
the Fall Indians.
The Inhabitants of these five villages,
all of which are within the distance of
six miles, live In harmony with each
other. The Ahnahaways understand In
part the language of the Mlnnetarees;
th dialect of th Mandans differ
widely from both, but their long resi
dence together has Insensibly blended
their manners and occasioned some ap
proximation In language, particularly as
to objects of dailyaoccurrence snd ob
vious to the senses.
XOBJUM r&4.
ti,. Vnmii analeVi and merchant flag
Is a whit flsg beartnr the grat monad
In blue and red. Tnie ia a eynmo,
great antiquity. It la to the Mongolians
- - - .... i. to the Christian. To
them It is the sign of deity snd eter
nity, while the two parts into which the
circle la divided are eaiiea me !
the Tan the male and female forces
of nature. Some 1.000 yeara ago one
of the writers, speaking in reference
to It said: "The Illimitable produces
the extreme. The great extreme prod
uces the two principles. The two prin
ciples produce tho four quarters, snd
from the four qusrters we develop the
quadrature of the Sight dlagrama of
Feuhhl." Thla roeana little to ua.
though the wrltr may have explained
the matter to hie entire satisfaction.
But so much we know that th sym
bol had a mathematical aa well aa an
occult meaning. There Is a little pussla
oonnected with the Korean flag which
may or may not be perplexing to th
novice. Divide the great monad by a
straight cut Into two places so that
each half of the circle snail contain an
exactly equal ahar of th Tin and the
Tan.
An Impossibility.
Softlelgn When I aw awsked foh
her hand In mawrlag her bwutal fa
thah thweatened to aw bwaln me,
doncher know.
Mlas Cutting That's just Ilk her
father. He always was fond of a Jots."