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IT JKUK 1 LAN U, UMUUH, 1 1 11 w THE OREGON DAILY C S. JACKSON Published every evening (except THANKSGIVING v"lHE YEAR 1621 had been en Iof the band of Pilgrim fathers who had settled on the not always smiling and friendly shores oi Massachusetts. Many dangers had been encountered, 1 many pinching privations endured, and not unfre ! mientlv death had visited them, since their landing the previous Decenyber on Plymouth thing had gone entirely wrong, mere were rms in the clouds. The heart of hope yet beat strongly. They had found that the soil was productive, and their little harvest, mouth, with strict economy to tide them over the ensuing long1 winter, had been successfully garnered, and meat in plenty walked in or flew over the adjacent -forests. So, realizing that matters might be worse, and that they had much in spite of all their trials, depriva tions, difficulties and dangers, to be thankful for, the leading elders of the colony set apart a day of Thanks giving and prayer thanksgiving for mercies and bless ings, for life, liberty, hope and faith, and prayer for guidance, strength and mercy from on high. It was largely religious ceremonial, yet even those Puritanical elders did not discountenance the festival feature of the occasion, the governor himself sending fowling pieces to four of the best huntsmen of the colony, "that there miffht be wherewithal for a feast of rejoicing." And a laree oart of their captured "wherewithal" were wild turkeys. The first Thanksgiving celebration probably occurred in October, as it was held out of doors, and continued to a K1 cuici or cxicui mi one of more days were thus annually 1 I A . I, ,- fliAiifrh tint rn JL.IIglclllu Liiv i ....... . . -- - -- whenever it seemed most appropriate and the custom gradually spread to the middle states, and then south - and west with migrating New Knglanders. -Oiir set and formal Thanksgiving day dates back only o 1863, when President Lincoln recommended that the last Thursday in November be set apart and observed by the people as a day of contrition, prayer and thanks giving. The nation was passing through an awful or deal. It was a dark arid bloody time. Ths great, sor rowing, tender but courageous heart of the president felt that the nation should be humble on account of the faults and sins of the people, and yet should give j .thanks, for though not a religious man, in a technical sense of that .term, he was truly and deeply religious, relying on God and believing that He doeth all things well. . The greater people of the far greater nation look out now upon a far different prospect. As a nation it surely has very much to be thankful for; as a religious people we should be the most thankful of any on earth. But while religious observances continue, properly, t6 be a feature of Thanksgiving day, it has become for the most part a day of recreation, feasting, amusement, mostly, let us hope, innocent and cm the whole bene - f icial; but nevertheless, we must confess, . with much folly therewith intermixed. But thus are humanity constituted. - Few there be who cannot find something to be thank ful for: most of us may be thankful for much. Few there be who cannot say, "It might be worse with me, therefore I can be thankful f most can say, all things consideredr "It is really well with me; therefore I can be very heartily thankful." But let those who have most occasion to be thankful not only be truly so, on their own account, but see to it that they cause some others who have, as they think and as it seems, comparatively little to be thankful for, also to give thanks and rejoice tomorrow. 1 LOOK OUT FOR SCHOOLHOUSES. NOT ONLY another high school building is needed, and should be provided in time for the opening of the next school year, but at the pres ent rate of increase of population, other school buildings will soon be needed also. Those in use are well filled, if not crowded, and will not accommodate the chiWren that must be educated in 1005-6. It is none too early for the "school directors to be considering this matter, so that they will be BreparecT at the next annual meeting of taxpayers to tell them just what will be required, and the cost, and to be sure that children will not be de prived of school privileges again next falL We arc constantly reading of the lack of school fa cilities in New York, Chicago and other large cities, but instead of coqsidering these cases a precedent that may be followed, they should prompt greater care and ef forts, so that no such news will ever go forth from Portland. Let it be seen to that sufficient accommo dations for' all the city's children of school age are pro vided, and that all such children are required to attend school somewhere, as required by law. Education not always, but quite generally, serves to eliminate naturally vicious propensirresind still more to keep children from acquiring vicious habits. CANADIAN TARIFF REVISION. THERE IS TO BE a general revision of the Can adian tariff, for this was promised by the Laurier administration if it won in the recent election, as it did, but as this revision will not take place for a year or two, the American congress has an opportunity to forestall much of the proposed retalia tion program by lowering duties on Canadian imports. Our customs duties are generally far higher than those of Canada, in some cases twice as high, and Canada will not much longer submit to this state of affairs, but will raise its duties on both raw materials and manu factures, to the injury of the people of both countries, or at least of ours. Our high duties on agricultural products have been From the New York Bun. "as an Irishman. I might be ex pected to tell this story in dialect I beg to call your attention to the fact that even an Irishman does not write dialect, especially the kind I often see In the newspapers nnd hear on the vaudeville stage. t am from County Kilkenny, which, according to the Sassenach, who, In vented most of the Iriah bulls, bad e pair ef cats that chewed each other up. I need not tell ybu that thla la merely a tradition. Kilkenny men are notoriously peaceful. "It was It stories from the elder walk to the place where Cassldy de livered' his peroration with a hammer, after I had answered hie previous argu ment with a fine flow of brick Just off the hod. "As I was passing the fifteenth story I aaw the firemen, who fortunately had nuartare Just across the street from the skv-screper. run out with their net. They were Just In the nlek of time, otherwise I fear the I might not have been able to write fsese lines. After I disentangles myself roas the net I started upstairs to resume AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. Sunday; and every Sunday morning- at streets, Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OF TH CITY OF PORTLAND DAY. ground that they that tried the souls icsn. instead of eggs, or anything Rofc. Yet not every-j one. Canada looks 1. in"s scheme of with preferential inc . because the LIBERAL I I T IS NOT v. mwmf celebrated in New tflv fixerl flafr sion of the hone nation could live dlsausston with Cassldy. I met him coming down. He looked somewhat surprised. I asked him where he was going, end he said to bay a tall hat to wear at my wake. The coolness of the man took my breath away, and I offered him my hand. We went down to the saloon on the cor ner, and I paid for the drinks Cassldy remarking that he regarded the money as net profits and that I ought to be glad that it did not come out of my life Insurance, thus showing himself to be a true irishmas, although from Tlpperary." From Town and Country. Perhaps the most perfectly gowned royal lady. In Europe Is Queen Alexan dra. Her majesty Inherited the talent from her mother, the late queen of Den mark, and her early training taught her to understand what Is becoming Nat only la her majesty unerring In ber good taste when choosing what la suitable, but ahe Is also able to trim her own hats and bonnets, and often makse some sub tle change in the headgear sent to her. This elves it an originality not seen in my the work of a paid milliner. JOURNAL J NO. f. CARROLL The Journal Building, Filth and Yamhill defended by party organs and speechmakers on the protected our farmers, but as long as we have a surplus of such products, the prjee ot which is usually fjxed abroad, there is no merit in the pre tended argument. What harm would it do our farmers if Canadian wheat were shipped abroad from Araer Canadian ports? And in the case of of which our people do not produce a surplus for export, a lower duty, if it had any appre ciable effect, would benefit ten people where it injured with increasing favor upon Mr. Chamber commercial imperialism, and is turning discriminations to British manufac United States has foolishly persisted in maintaining so high a tariff wall between the two countries, where there should be but a slight one if any. "A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals," said the late President McKinley, in his last speech, and the Republican party would do well to quit standing pat on an outrageous tariff system, and act on Mr. McKinley's advice. MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA. CONCEIVABLE that the movement which led to the convening of the Russian xemstvos was grounded in good faith. The very speech of the present czar delivered from the throne on his accession made clear that he was unalterably opposed to any popular movement which would in the slightest degree infringe upon his autocratic powers. Apparent con cessions to the populace are never real in Russia; they are pretended, and for foreign consumption. There are reasons why the Russian autocracy should now desire to stand well with the public opinion of the world. It has before it a task of the gravest moment in the Jap anese war. Whatever its resources in men, its re sources in money must keep pace with them. France has hitherto stood financial sponsor for Russia but even France has almost reached the limit of its powers. More money, very much more money, will be needed to Drosecute the war and however devious the way to it the ruling classes of Russia will pursue it. Hence the stories thst have been coming out of Rus sia about popular concessions, amelioration of intol erable conditions and suggestions of better things. The meeting of the semstvos is in the same line, but it ap parently has gone far and away beyond the original cal culations. Things are undoubtedly in a ferment in Rus sia. Powerful as is the autocracy, sustained as it is by a military arm which is almost invincible in ls relation to the populace, the very false pretense of encouragement afforded has been seised to give expression to the pop ular longing, not for liberty but for small concessions, so that life may be made' bearable. All popular move ments Start from apparently trivial causes; conditions are ripe for them but it requires some incident, trifling enough in itself, to give them j-iutward expression and vital force. It is possible that fruition is now in sight, that the feeling blindly groping toward the light for many generations, is ready to burst forth. Will some concession be made to it? It is not likely. But great things have been accomplished even in the mere expres and desires of the real Russians. Once that expression has found voice the beginning of the end is marked no matter what dreadful repressive meas ures are resorted to. It was said of this country that no half slave and half free; it is equally true that no nation can live wholly slave in the en lightened century now upon- us with constitutional gov ernment a fixed fact in every civilized land but Russia!, with the very hereditary rulers themselves mere instru ments to execute the public will. Autocracy in Russia is doomed; the time may be de ferred but its desthknell has been sounded. Liberty may be brought forth in blood, anguish arid destruction, or it msy come about in comparative peace; that is for the czar and ruling classes to say; but the expressions which have been voiced by the semstvos from all parts of Russia is the beginning of the end, however far off that end may prove to be. The gifted night foreman of the Tanner creek sewer admits that he was cunning enough to work both sides of the street and the middle of the road all at the same time. According to his own story he took his pay from his employer and subsidies from whstever other source he could. He arranged for defects in the sewer and then he rushed frantically to the witness stand to save the employer whose confidence he confesses to have outraged. Thomas, according to his ow story, is queer, devilish queer, but his funny little story, no matter whom it is aimed to harm or help, should get just as little consideration as he himself has shown it is entitled to. Judge Fraser's prompt and drastic action in the Blszier case will go far to prove that the time has come when it is no longer safe to play with the courts. That is what was done in the gambling cases previously tried. A subterfuge was sbught and it was found. Nobody could have any doubt that it was a subterfuge, and noth ing less, but it served its purpose end befuddled poor blind justice. But the pitcher that goes too often to the well is at length broken and subterfuges too often tried are at last exposed. The insolence bsck of such out rageous efforts to hoodwink justice still remains to be properly rebuked but that, too, will come in due time. If the district attorney rejects valuable aid in the prosecution of gambling cases it is doubtless because he feels certain of obtaining convictions without that aid. To this degree he himself, therefore, is now on trial with the defendant and by the result in the case will he properly be judged. a vomaotous xmw From the Glasgow Herald. At a meeting In connection with the Boltngbroke hospital In London. Dr. M'Manus emphasised the value of X-rays by an amusing Illustration. A week ago. ha aald, a child waa brought to the hospital by his mother, who said he had swallowed a small pen knife. The Infant waa placed under the X-rays, and what wss. believed to be a penknife was located, not tn the stom ach, but In the left lung. The child waa admitted as an In patient, but whan the mother called next day she aald the child could not have swallowed the knife, as when she get home ehe found It on the floor. A sec ond examination under the X-rays still gave the same result, however, end an operation was decided upon. Thla resulted In . the discovery of a metal pencil protector,, about 1 Inches long, in ths Jung. The lnfsnt msde good progress from ths operation, and waa so voracious that Jie afterwards ate pert of an India-rubber doll. and. added the doctor, amid laughter, sine then nearly a whole regiment of tin soldiers and the hind wheel of a toy engine had been missed. 1 1 I M Small Change J Cot your turket yet? Remember the poor and the afflicted. Still November docs not behave badly. But there are other good things be sides turkey. Don't give more than you can afford merely to be fashionable. Turkeys wtU be within the reach of all who have a lone purse. The falth-and-preyer cure ie all right -when the person aets well. Btnger Hermann la suggested as a candidate for governor by some joker. The. good juror. In lawyers' eyes. Is the one who doesn't know nothln' about nothln'. . Nobody knows whether General Ku rokl is dead or not. He hasn't publicly "denlghad Of it." The city engineer lays the blame oe the Inspector. But he was the city engineer's Inspector. Before attempting to reform the race or the nation, we had better attend to flagrant Jobbery at home. Puget sound porta will make quite a showing, by shipping wheat and flour sent by rail from Portland. Isn't this city big enough and smart enough somehow to avoid being held up by a combination of contractors? If Nan Patterson would agree to keep off the stage in future, we would not be so much Inclined to think she ought to be convicted. John Bharp Williams will have only 114 followers to do his bidding' tn the next house, and some of them may be cantankerous. If the president should really tackle the Standard Oil company, Ida Tar bell and Tom Lawson will both claim the credit for putting him up to It. Both the Prohibitionists and the So cialists are having hot and wordy quar rels among themselves. The smaller a party is, the fiercer It oaa fight within itself. The morning paper predicts that Mr. Alton B. Parker will rail as a New York city lawyer. But poaetbly thla distant opinion will not deter the ex-Judge from trying. Near York society men ate wearing what are supposed to be skin-tight trousers, but an X-ray to reach a muscle might have to penetrate some padding. Seattle la thinking of holding a world's fair tn 11I. This Is a perfectly laudable ambition, but our understand ing is that Three Oaks. Mich., has pre empted thet particular year. Chicago Tribune. This le what. Seattle gets for trying to steal San Francisco's powder. Inspector Caywood Is not officially responsible to the public, but to City Engineer Elliott, who is responsible to the public Hence the city engineer's plea that Caywood is to blame can net be accepted. The public must depend oil its elected and sworn officer. They must be responsible for the seta of their sub ordinates. Oregon Sidelights Junction City la steadily Improving. Lumber prtoss Improving In Douglas county. Over t. 000,000 pounds of prunes sold around Myrtle creek last week. A Medford man one day last week re ceived a carload of trees, 100,000 In num ber, from the Woodburn nursery, enough to set out 1,600 acree of ground. Jack son county is going to he a world's wonder ss a fruit producer. A business men's and citizens' associa tion designed to promote not only the material welfare and push the growth of Ashland, but also for the mental and social improvement of Its membership, will soon be organised. Astoria Budget: The Standard oil company has purchased a piece of land 60 by 100 immediately west of its pres ent plant In thla city and will erect on It an Immenee tank to hold crude oil. the steel plates now being on their way out from Pittsburg. A Lane county school district's di rectors have purchased a considerable library for the use of the pupils. Good Idea; good Investment Beading good books will help to keep not only the children but the men and women that they will soon become out of mischief. Union correspondent Aurora BoreaJta: Julius Snyder thinks hs has found the precious Pearl that we -read about In scripture. Lefe nee and sing: " une of our promising young men nearly had the blues one of these rainy days. He was seen going In the direction of Smldt's In the evening. He returned home greatly Ameliarated. The Toledo city council has set a pre cedent worthy of observation if not of Imitation. On the petition of a few ettl sene of that town, the council aet aside and abrogated, for one day, an ordinance forbidding the shooting of firearms within the city limits Somebody aeld they couldn't do it, but he waa mani festly wrong, for they did. What's an ordinance among friends, anyway T Jackson Sentinel: Masters Chester and Harold Kubll were gathering cattle Saturday when their dogs Jumped up a large .buck. In making a lunge at the dogs, the deer cut a gash around lta horns on the wire fence then Jumped into the river and started to float down stream, but with great coolness. Cheater untied his larlet and lassoed him. Allowing the animal to stay In the wattr. It soon drowned, thus Chester hss not violated the game law. Shouldn't there be a law against the deadly hatpin. The women can't vote, so why should not the men declare by statute the hatpin a dangerous, deadly and unlawful thing? The Ashland Tid ings narrates this incident: "A young man traveling north on the overland train form Ashland as a passenger, sat In a neat with a young lady who had her hat In her lap. Playfully, to em phasise some conversation, ahe pointed the hatpin towards him. moving It in car caused the point to Inflict a woundl In his left aide under the arm. The young man a arm la now In a serlouV condition, being badly swollen and dis abled In ceneequence," Lawson 0 Latest Frenzied Finance Owing to the fact that thousands of people now reading "Frensied Finance" In Everybody's Magaslne, did not see the Julv "foreword-," In which Mr. Law eon explains his reasons for writing the articles, the publishers have reprinted In their department, "With the Publish ers," in the December Issue, the follow ing paragraphs from the July -number: "My motives for writing 'Frensied Fi nance' are manifold: 1 have unwittingly been made the Instrument by which thousands upon thousands of investors have been plundered. I wish them to know my position as to the past that they may acquit me of intentional wrong-doing; as to the-present, that they may know that I am using all my powers to right the wrongs thst have been committed, and as to the future that they may see-ihow I propose to compel restitution. "My desire In writing 'Frensied Fi nance,' while tinged perhsps with hatred for and revenge against the 'system' aa a whole and come of Its votaries. Is mora truly vpervaded with a strong conviction that the most effective way to educate the public to realise the evils of which such affairs as the Amalgamated are the direct result, is to expose before them the brutal facts as to the concep tion, birth, and nursery breeding of thla the foremost of all unsavory offspring of the ayetem.' Thus they may learn that It Is within their power to destroy the brood already In existence and ren der impossible the creation of their like." "As a result of studying at dose range the Massachusetts legislature, its work ings and those who worked it," says Mr. Lawson In Frensied Finance, Every body's Magaslne for December, "I do not hesitate to. say that: "The Massachusetts legislature Is bought and sold aa are sausages and fish at the markets and wharves. That the largest, wealthiest and most prominent corporations In New England, whose af fairs are conducted by our ssost repre sentative cltixena, habitually corrupt the Massachusetts legislature, and the man of wealth among them who would enter protest against ths Iniquity would be looked on aa a 'class anarchist.' 1 will go further end say that if In New Eng land a man of ths type of Folk of Mis souri can be found who will give over six months to turning up the legislative and Boaton munlctpal sod of the- past IS years, who doee not expose to the world a condition of rottenness more rot tea than waa ever before exhibited In sny community In the civilised world, it will be because he has been suffocated by the stench of what he exhumes. Tn January, ISM, Henry M. Whitney, who had the reputation of carrying the Massachusetts legislature In hie waist coat pocket, came' before thla legislature with a proposition for a charter for a new and independent gae company. Tho basis of his claim was that he had come into possession of a patsnted device through which It became possible to turn the low grade sulphurio coal of Nova Scotia Into coke without sacrific ing ' either the valuable by-products, euch as ammonia, tar, etc or illuminat ing gae. Whltney'e petition set forth further, that because of the exceedingly low price of this province coal and its richness In by-products he could afford to sell gas to consumers at ro esnts per thousand feet (the legal charge waa then f 1 per thousand feet). "Understanding the danger to Bay State Oaa from such a competitor, I re turned his bomb with another, whjph. exploding tn hie breastworks, created as much of a sensation as his own. The next day I went personally before the legislature end agreed to pay the state of Massachusetts $1,000,000 for the char ter Whitney had. applied for, end offered to give bonds to do all the things Whit ney would give bonds to do on receipt of It. "This proposition made a pause. It startled the public and set the Whitney foroes agape. My proposition was d cldedly novel, and on its face absurd. The state could not under the law ac cept a million dollars of any other sum for Its charter, but. on the other hand, it was ths quickest-acting, horse-sense producer thst could possibly have been brought to bear. It was discussed every where. Men said: 'Why not? If ths stste haa a valuable thing to give away, why should It not go to the one who will pay the people the most money for Itr Above all. It was a check. I had outflanked the enemy, and If he gave battle It would have to be on my con ditions. "If an outsider could poeelbly have obtained the entry, to the headquarters of the Whitney Massachusetts Pipe Line St Young's hotel, Boaton," says Mr. Lawson tn the December installment of "Frensied Finance," In Everybody's Mag aslne, "say at o'clock any evening during the session, this le what he would see: In parlor 10, seated, at a long table a dozen of Mr. Towle's chiefs, all in their shirt sleevee, smoking volumin ously; before each a aheet of paper on which waa printed a list of the members of the legislature; against every name a blank space for memoranda: at the head of the table Towle himself, Mr. Whit ney's lawyer, frowning severely over a similar sheet having broader memoranda spacea. One after another the chiefs would call off the names of the legis lator, reporting as they went along. The outsider would hear droned monot onously: ' from.,..'. ...not my man; from my men and 's man; seen today, stood same, as yesterday ; from raised price 12.0, making It tl60; agreed:' 110 paid on account, total of $10 due: raised because told htm that he had got 120 more from "All reports In at last, Towle retired to room 11 and speedily returned with the 'stuff.' consisting of cash, stock,, puts, calls, or transportation tickets, which he dealt out to the chiefs to ful fill the promisee .they had made for the day. It would be obvious to the out sider, as eoon as he had learned what was being dealt In. that a large proportion of the members of the great and general court of Massachusetts had bargained with the different member of 'the ma chine' to eell their votes, not only In committee, but In full session of the legislature. "On the morning of the cloalng day of the session of the Massachusetts leg islature of IStt, the one selected for the Whitney coup; the passing of ths Whit ney Pipe Line bill over the governor's veto there slipped in and out among the Whttasy legislative ranks a man with a story. As eech legislator lis tened, his brow knitted end he nodded assent The story was a simple one: In one of Whitney's former campelgns, desperate like thla one, on payment day Towle went back on his promises and forced the ecceptance of a 60-eents-on-the-dollar settlement: and, no the story now went, he, Towle, had put the saved fo eents, a matter altogether of some 176,000, In his own pocket. Probably he was now going to repeat tbe operation on a larger scale In en hour there came to Young's hotel a trusty messenger who delivered to Towle himself the ultima tum of the great and general court Of IBS deer old commonweaim; aauuvr la sdvanos- or no bill!' "Consternation reigned; the amounts promised bad run up to such an enor mous aggregate that it waa impossible to pay all In ao short a ttms, even If such had been Whitney end Towle's In tention. Yet to pay one or a few of the dangerous malcontents meant to pay every one, as they had firmly banded themselves together. Even Whitney and Towle were at their ante' end. Finally In desperation, as a last resort, Whitney rushed to the governor and threw up hie hande and asked for mercy. 'What would the governor sign 7" Massachusetts' able and fearless Governor Wolcott gave his answer dear as an anvil-blow: "You have told the eople your com pany would give them cheap gas. Bind yourself to do 1 by amending the char ter go that the highest price your gas oan be cold st will be 0 ceitfs. Then I will slen." There was nothing slse to do. At the last minute the amendment was Insert ed. The governor's representative gave the word, that It was satisfactory, and It passed. I was tn my office taking cars of ths market. Of ths stampede I knew noth ing. Suddenly came the word: "The Whitney bill haa passed on the gov ernor's recommendation " Both stocks Old Dominion Coal and Oaa started to Jump; then a halt, then I didn't try to atop the decline, for I saw something terrible 'had happened. Is a few min utes ths news was on ths street: "The charter was not worth the parchment upon which It was engrossed. " The biter had been fatally bitten. It Is a Beacon Hilt tradition that ,for years Towle, head of the Henry M. Whitney machine, on final payment day would have tbe members of ths Massa chusetts legislature march through his private offices one at a time, and, mulct ing each of them their loot, would pro claim: 'Well, you're eettled with in full, aren't youT That represents you vote on and on' ." Then he would loudly Identify the bill and the particulars of the service, while behind a partition wita a stenographer would be Mr. Pateh, who after tbe notes had been written out would wltneee the ac curacy of thS stenographer's report When the legislature assembled again old' members, the same story goes, wouli be requested to call on xowle to renew acquaintanceship. Then he would allow them to look over his memoranda "Just to keep 'em from being too proud," as hs gently phrased It m While Mr. Lew son waa seriously 111 with appendicitis, his associates In the alliance between Whitney and the Bos ton gas companies changed the plane In a way that would have resulted Jn Mr. Lear eon's ruin. "When I regained consciousness there was but one thing for me to do," says Mr. Lawson, "and I lost not a moment. I ssnt for my doctors and said: 1 will absolutely give up today, tomorrow and next day to getting well; but on tbe fourth day I will be moved Into a spe cial car to Boston and than to tbe Al gonquin club.' I explained the situa tion and showed them that regardless ef all consequences this must be done. "I shall never forget the expression on the faces of these loyal aaaociatee of mine Addlcks, Whitney- and ties others when I dropped in upon their deliberations Saturday morning, four day's later. My. doctor, a nurse, and my lawyer accompanied me, and I waa swathed in flannels and ahawla. I got to a chair, dismissed my attendants -and launched In. What little I bad to say would be 'edgy I, told them, but brief. It was all that I InaUted thst we go right back to our old bargain exactly at the place we left It the night I was stricken. If they did not comply, I would make application for a receiver for the Bay State companies and give to the afternoon papers the Inside fscts of the affair from beginning to end.' No One doubted either my ability or my determination to carry out my threat. We eent for the documents thet had been prepared at Parker Cbandler'e. and inside of three hours theee had been substituted for the several agreements entered Into with Rogers during my ill ness. I retired to beu thst night with a chuckle of eelf-satlsfactlon." "In IS 96 I made a round of Investiga tion In regard to the relations of tor poratlons and the legislature, among men who would talk frankly to me. and discovered that a moat Iniquitous condition existed. Massachusetts sena tors and representatives were ndt only bought end sold ss saussgee or fish are in the markets, but there existed a regu lar quotation schedule for their votes. Many of the prominent lawyers of the state were traffickers in legislation, and earned large feee engineering the repeal of old ' laws and the passage of nsw ones. Agents of corporations nominated candidates for office, and paid tbe ex penses of their election In return for votes for a favorite measure and prom ises to 'do business.' The legislature was organised on the ssme basis. Its executive of leers were chosen because of their subservience to certain coppora tloa leaders; committees were rigged to do a given thing and prevent other things from being done. Above all, I learned that the chance of a eltiaen of Massachusetts obtaining a charter from the legislature of bis state, unices he had money to put up for It, Waa about as good as a hobo's of securing a diamond and ruby etudded crown at Tiffany's by explaining that hs wanted it. In fact, the oltlsen's request would be regarded by senators and represen tatives very much as Tiffany's would take the hobo's ss a Joke, then as an Impertinence.'' In the December Instalment of "Fren sied Flssnce," la Everybody's Maftaslne, Mr TaWsln describes a painful inter view with Mr. Rogers, in which he had to confess to the Standard Oil master that Mr. Addlcks had tricked them both. "In after years," esys Mr. Lawson, "I became on rather playful terms with the extraordinary bursts of wrath to which Henry H. Rogers occasionally gives way, and whloh sweep through the 'System's' shrine like a tornado; but this wes my first experience, end It was a shock and a revelation. Just what waa going to happen I could not Imagine. I remembered afterward that the preponderance of the' Impressions that chased each other through my mind waa mat Henry H. Bogere would surSly have a stroke of apoplexy. Then that he would bust.' However, I pulled my self together and began: ' 'Mr. Bogers, what's ths use of get ting excited?' ' "I got no further. He Jumped back ward. The next second I wss In the storm center. The room wss small. Suddenly it became full of arma and legs and hands waving and gesticulating, and fists banging and brandished; gnashing teeth and a convulsed face n which the eyes actually burned and rained fire; and the language such a torrent of vindication and denunciation I had never heard, mingled with oeths so intense, ao plctureeque, so verted that the assortment would have driven an old-time Best Indlaman skipper green with Jealousy. I wss horrified for an Instant, then surprised, and after that if it were not for my part ae the oause of it all, I should have been Intereeted in the exhibition as a performance.'' ieaB"we Kuropatklk ant tne Mikado From the Nsw Tor Herald, General Aiexel NlohoJaerttsb JCuropet kla and a ateff of Wnsslsn officers en joyed the hosnltsltty of ths emperor of Japan a little over one year ago. It was in June, 1S0I, that the Bnsaian minister of war, tbe now world famous general. Journeyed ts China sad Japan to attend the Important conference held at Port Arthur to talk over the Russian position In ths far east AH the Russian high officials then stationed la north China and Manchuria, including the Russian minister to China, were present, and to. ahow this distinguished gathering honor the mikado extended a Special invitation to General Kuropatkln and hie staff to crose to Tokio sad enjoy an entertain ment, however brief, at the beads of bis imperial representatives. Though the time of the Russian mam- , here of the conference waa somewhat limited, they decided to avail themselves of the invitation ao courteously ex tended, and this is how it happened about 11 mow the ago that Ruastan and Japansse sollders of ths highest rank, who are now using every effort to annihilate each other, drank tea together in tbe friendliest manner on new hostile sell. ' , . According to the oriental custom, when this noble office!-, representing the Csar of All, the Russia, called, upon the mikado In response to the letter's polite and official summons cps of fragrant pale oolored Japanese tea were passed to the gueets assembled In the royal tea garden. The occasion wss an Important ons from a political standpoint, so ths of ficers of .each country wore their hand somest uniforms and all the medals they could boaat collectively. A picture was taken of tbe group of men as they eat under the cherry bloe eom trees and In the ehadows of the im perial palace To General Kuropatkln was glvsn the seat of honor in the cen tre end on one side sat ths Jspaneee minister of war, TeraucM, and on tbe other sat Major-Oeneral Murata. also of the mtkado'e army. The Russian general and his distin guished staff presented a striking con trast In appearance to the smaller Jap-, aneee offlcera Kuropatkln himself Is a striking. fine-looklrig man of purely Rueelan type. In full uniform he is the ideal war god, and even as He sipped hie tea his hoeta must have f sit a conscious appreciation of tbe Vigor, strength and, might of this great man's mind and body, though occasion placed him. from the western point ot vte. In rather ef feminate surroundings. General Kuropatkln comes from tbs ancient Russian nobility. Hs was born at Psoff In 1111. Journal of Lewis and Clark November II Again we had a fair and warm day. with the wind from ths southeast The river is now st s stand, having risen fur inchss in the whole. Tmtnrr n mi From the St. James' Oasette. A fsw years ago I was taking a country walk lb Kovno. The road lay through a dense forest and ths day waa oppressively hot. I arrived, at last, at a crossroad, and sat down under the shade of the trees to rest A sign poet pointed Its two arms down the con verging roads. . On one of them waa inscribed "14 versts to Janova," on the other. "17 versts to Shadowa." Pres ently the creaking of wheels and the slow "clop, clop" ot a horse's hoofs on the road behind roused me . A oart piled high with tinware was coming, 1 down the road, with ths driver percnea on the top of tbs toad. "Good day, brother!" I called out as ths oart with lta sorry boras came abreast of ma The man returned tbe salute, and the horse, glad of any ex cuse to rest hie weary legs, cams to a standstill In the middle of the road. "Whloh way are you going" I asked. "To Janova. There la a market there tomorrew." "But there is also a market in Shadowa." I answered, land It ts a more Important place than Janova." ' "'So It Is: so it Is." ths driver replied with perfect Indifference. 'What have you for sale?" "Plenty of good tinware, aa you can see, brother. I have worked for six weeks to make this cartload." "Well, good luck to you and your tin ware." I said, pulling and eating tbs berries within reech. 'Will you take it to Janova or Shadowa?" Tbs man picked up the bit of cord which served ss reins, and prsparsd to go on. "I shall leavs that to my horse," he answered callously. Ths lumbering wagon moved off and finally passed out of sight down ths Janova road, whloh tbe horse had sleeted to take. OF A From th North Bend Cltlsen. The Arctic whsler Bsylee entered Cooe bay Isst Saturday, on hsr way from the Arctic, sess to San Franclaco, to take on supplies and provisions, of which she had run short, but some of the! crew, sailor fashion, took ofe also an extra supply of boose before leaving. This whaling vessel was sent out fron Sen Francisco about sight months ago and Is under the command ot Captain Cottle. She has on board a erew of about 46 men. who have eecured 16.400 nounds of whalebone and 400 barrels' of oil during their Journey. It is eeti mated that thia cargo is worth about 1100,000, and Is one of the rlohast hauls ever -made by a vessel along this coast. Ths occasion attracted quite a crowd of Marshfleld cltlsens who sppeared to be delightfully entertained. The sailors offered the Marshfleld cltlsens some rare bargains in order to get thla boose money, selling skins of the moat valuable kind very cheap. Among the skins wsr those of the seal, wolf, polar bear and many ether Aretle animals, which will be kept aa treesuree by the purchasers. From the Fofeet Grove Tlmea. f Joe Lennevllle and J. F. Ballard have more then a general Interest in the president of the United Statee. They come from the place In North Dakota where hie cattle ranch Is and both knew him when he was out there In charge of It himself. Joe made the branding Iron, s Maltese cross: used on bis cattle end haa rod ths range with him. He ssvs the future president had all the nerve then thatahe has shown so con spicuously since. Hs saw him once when some cowboys got hhto a controversy and had drawn their guns and were about to begin shooting, walk right into' their midst end put a stop to it i t:"" -- ,- '