SSVJJSSBSSisBsssljsBJSV Editorial Page of Tft Jo -V PORTLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11. ISH. THE OREGON DAILY AN cs. 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 . . ... m . ft- ft 1. .1 !J 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. gATJ 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."