Editorial Page of TR Journal n .-?r f PORTLAND. OREGON. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C f . JACKSON PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. J NO. F. CARROLL Published every evening ( except Sunday ) and every Sunday morning at The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill streets, Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND LEGISLATORS AND CHARTER BOARDS. IT IS ENTIRELY TRUE that a period has been put to the official existence of the charter board. The body of men who drew the charter, who unselfishly gave of their time during long months in perfecting it, and who had good reason to believe from the over whelming expression of popular approval which ratified it that their work was well and honestly done, immed iately that work was done passed out of official ex istence. All this is true and the members-elect of the legislature from Multnomah county have made no mis take in this assumption. But the fact remains that they are still men of substance and character in this com munity, that they have a heavy stake in its present and future and what they have done, as well as what they stand for, entitles them to some little degree of consid eration even at the hands of those who have been chosen to represent the county in the coming session of the legislature. It should not be forgotten that so far as this city is concerned, the charter is the organic few. It has been drawn with great care and as a whole represents the highest type of its class yet achieved by an American community. Experience and trial may show, perhaps have already shown, some minor defects which require remedy. These should come but extreme care should be taken that under the guise of remedying minor de fects some change should not be surreptitiously made which will fatally affect the value of the whole charter. All students are agreed that the greatest danger to our institutions, particularly our municipalities, is the Jack of unselfish interest shown in their affairs by the citizens. For selfish reasons the political machines are always on the alert to maintain themselves and for the same reason those who exploit the public are always keenly alive to what is going on and sharply determined to maintain rn undue advantage. Fortunately, therefore, is the community in which a body of influential citizens strives to uphold the general good. In their work we find one of our surest safeguards, a possible barrier to he incursions, insidious and otherwise, of those who seek special privileges at the expense of the mass of the community. The members-elect of the legislature, wc regret to see, have put themselves on record as de clining advice o'rsuggestions. They "may be determined to do no more than the people would ask them to do and to safeguard the charter as the charter board itself would do, but unfortunately this is not the impression which the public will get from their conduct. If sus picion 'has been aroused, if body has been given to the rumors' that a conspiracy is on foot to nullify the vital features of the charter, surely the members-elect of the legislatures are themselves to blame for it. All of this makes doubly important the suggestion that whatever amendments may be proposed by the legislature should and must be submitted to the 'people of Portland for ratification. There is no amendment, however simple on its face, which should not be discussed in all its bear ings in open day; that is the public's only protection and the members .of the legislature from this county are to be thanked for having taught it that lesson. The most serious amendment now proposed to the charter is one which would thrust the fire denartraent into politics. Is that something which the people of Portland desire? There will be a final meeting of the charter board next Thursday evening. That meeting should be largely attended by voters whether or not they were members of the original charter board. A strong and representative body of citizens should go on record s opposed to any such crooked changes and the meeting which gives forth that expression, should be a rousing one from every point of view. Good government now means more to Portland than ever before and we are much closer to attaining it. In one way only can it be assured and that is by the people themselves taking a lively interest in the subject and making it plain that they are not to be hoodwinked or bamboozled with any thing short of it. Some little work at road building was done, just enough to make a showing, and an excuse for the officials who were giving away the people's domain by millions of arres, but as everybody knows the people got almost nothing for that great body of land. This tract was not all desert land; much of it was covered with fine timber, much of it was excellent bttnehgrass range; it crossed many streams with val uable water privileges; it was a magnificent gift of a reckless and corrupt government to people who had done nothing for the people to earn such a grant, and who have done very little since to compensate the peo pie for the gift of that territory. But, as might have been expected, it is not poor John Smith, with his little 160 acres of arid land over in the valley of the Malheur; it is not Jim Jones, who can barely make a living off his too-dry land, and hopes with water to be able to make a living for his family; it is not these worthy, toiling, home-building, state Luilding settlers who object to paying the cost of this great work, that shall turn a desert into meadows, or chards and gardens no, it is the W. V. & C. Mr Wagon Road company, to which our gracious and beneficent government many years ago made a present of a few million acres of land. But, like the horse-leech, its cry is, give. And yet there are apparently intelligent people who know about these great land grabs and landgrabbing grafts, and who read of the insolence of such corporate beneficiaries of official rascality, and yet who wander at the growth of socialism at the growing demand that the whole people shall take back their own, the land. 1 SmallC, Beef, pork, mutton, vm! no turkey. It, looka Ilka rather a hard winter for the gamblers. Seven 'leven township la getting a o.ui reputation. 80 Ions aa Judge Parker keepa out of the mag-aaines. we wish him success. The American Federation ' of Labor has learned something- by recent events. THE PRESIDENTS OPPORTUNITY. AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED. I T IS REPORTED that the Malheur irrigation proj ect may be defeated by the refusal of the Wil lamette Valley & Cascades Mountains Wagon Road company to accept the government's proposition and pay its due proportion of the cost of the necessary res ervoirs, ditches, etc., amounting, it is stated, to about $30 an acre. This would mean a large contribution by this cor poration, but when it is certain that lands now worth less would by irrigation become worth from $75 to $joo an acre, the reason of this company's refusal is not clear. It perhaps thinks the work will be done anyway, and it will come in for its big share of the benefits, while the small land holders will pay all of the cost. This is the usual and expected course of such a con cern as the W. V. & C. M. Wagon Road company. Hav ing grafted the government out of an immense area of land, much of it very valuable, it is quite in line with its nature to refuse to expend anything to help improve and build up the country, even though it will itself be the chief beneficiary, so long as there is the least chance that other people, co-operating with the government, will do the work. This corporation is in a poor position to make such a refusal, with even a surface show of grace. It secured a vast tract of the people's land, alternate sections in a wide strip clear from the Willamette valley to the east ern state line, in consideration of which it was to build and maintain a fine wagon road through that region. It got the land; the department and the courts have held that it was entitled to the land; but the road well, per haps that will be built some time by the state convicts. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT is now master"pf the situation and to a great degree of his own destiny. No man was ever .mote fortunately placed to dominate a condition. He was elected not be cause but in spite of the support of the protected classes; he gets his commission directly from the people. He is fae to face with one overshadowing demand; it is for relief. The tariff robbery will not be thrust into the background; that is the greatest of all questions which confront the American people. It is not expected of the president that he will do anything during the term of office for which President McKinley was elected. Congress is ready to begin its short session now and there is a vast amount of routine work to be done. From no point of view would it be wise to complicate the ordinary program. But before that session closes he should make it clear to the coun try that he proposes to call a special session immediately upon adjournment for the exclusive consideration of the tariff question. His own attitude with relation to the matter should be made perfectly clear; a ringing address from him would electrify the country. That special session should then give genuine relief, not the false pretense of it. If the. relief comes there will be no doubt of the place which the president will secure in history and even less of the unchallenged place which will be his in the affections of the people. But 'it-is by his action on the tariff question that he will be judged. If he is brave, coufageotti" and intelligent in that direction, most other things will be forgiven him. If there is no special session, if there is no genuine movement in the direction of tariff reform, if the presi dent falls short of the high estimate which the people have manifestly placed upon him, then the matter will be taken out of his hands. While it will be impossible two years hence to reach the senate the opposition will carry the house and there will be such a revulsion of feeling that salt will riot save the presidency or the senate to the Republican party at the election which follows. i-jn President Roosevelt has before him the opportunity. It is for him to say not only what he will do, but to fix his own rating with the people who have so signally honored him. Chairman Taggart says It la too early 10 lalK pontics, and probably he la riant Most people do not live by politics alone. Next week Unci Joe Cannon will begin bossing things and using language tnai can 1 ne printed in the congres sional record. Howie orders Die male followers to go unshaven. If he la so all-powerful, wny not nave nis women rollowers we whiskers alsoT The president says he aa a friend of tne south, but Charleston won't believe It so long as he keepa that big dark e rum In his sho. Several fire at the St. Louis fair give tne I--W1H and ("lark fair managers hint to take every possible precaution against like disasters. ft ill. It la to be feared that the pro posed re-reorganlsatton of the Demo cratic party will not be acceptable to Mr. Grover Cleveland. Rockefeller's1 Standard Oil dividends will bo only fourteen and a Itulf million dollars this year three rrtllllons less than last year. How the poor man must suffer. I The personnel of the present Massa chusetts legislature Is largely the same as the last, the one that Lawson so scathingly scored as an aggregation of boodlers. Evidently Douglas will earn his salary. An election In Denver without a pro longed rumpus over election frauds by both parties would be something new and surprising. Woman suffrage does not seem to have purified politics Jn that city, or In the res't of Colorado to any appreciable extent. Belllngham citizens are ahowlna the right spirit in determining to have an exhibit at the Portland fair. Puget Bound American. When communities away over In northwestern Washington are going to make a fine exhibit, surely no county of Oregon can afford to be shy. , SALARY OF CITY ENGINEER. THE JOURNAL is inclined to look with leniency on the proposition to increase the salary of the city engineer. A man fit for that position is ane who can earn in private life more than the pres ent salary, and the city needs a first-rate man. A great deal of important work, for which he is responsible, for which no one else can be responsible, to the people, is being done; a great deal more such work is to be done right along. We want no cheap man in that place, no political wire-worker, no crumb-picker, but a first class, thoroughly conscientious inflexibly honest, non-political expert. Such men come high. They don't dirty their fingers shaking hands with political Toms, Dicks and Harrys. They wouldn't cross the street to speak to a professional politician for the purpose of getting an of fice. The men- fit for this position are rather rare, but they are to be found. And they must be well paid, or they will not take the office. A multitude of cheap-John men will jump at any office, at any salary, but the city can't afford to elect or employ such men in such po sitions. It is probably a good idea to increase the engineer's salary, provided we are going to see to it that we get the right kind of a man to fill the office. But if we are going to elect a catspaw thrust upon the people by a political machine, then the salary had better be cut down to a common laborer's wages. Sixty dollars a month would be very liberal pay for some men whom the politicians might give us. The president has the I-want-to-sar habit, all the same as a great many empty-headed spouters, and he ought to get rid of It. What Is the use of a speaker repeating "I want to say" at the beginning of about every third sentence? He has the floor; If he says anything, hearers will understand with out his telling them so beforehand that be wants to say IL Oregon Sideli gnts 9 A. '"'"Vg Oakland baa an amusement club. Cornelius Is anticipating a now hotel ana a Dank. lennie Clafl.n Crusading From the New York Sun. Lady Cook, who reached this country the last of October from England, and who Is best known here under her mai den name. Tennessee Claflln, leaves this week with a party of delegates In a pri vate car for Washington, where she wants to Interview President Roose velt. Trusts. Russian-Japanese war. Imper ialism, all questions of Mate. It la said, will pale before the surprise! party Lady Cook has up her sleeve the latest cut. t y the way to spring upon Pres ident Roosevelt. Hlet Lincoln did for the negro, to his lm.r- -tal fame. It Is up to Teddy to do for the women of the foiled States give them the ballot," said Lady Cook on Saturday. 1 know what I'm talking about. It's no Idle fancy. It will be an accom plished fact within four years, and President Roosevelt la the man to do it. and he will do It. I know no such word aa fall, and Roosevelt knows no such thing as fear." Lady Cook Is a bundle of nerves a onderfully graceful bundle, to be sure, With a crown of fluffy white hair that emphasises the delicacy of feature and coloring which some 26 years of King llsh climate has beautifully preserved. Bhe wore a soft, clinging house gown of dark royal blue stuff, with deep sailor collar and wide turned-back cuffs of embroidered white silk. The low cut collar coqusttlshly revealed a blouse underveat of rich creamy lace finished with a stock of turquoise velvet In which was faatened a diamond brooch. English fashion, she wore white glace kid gloves throughout the Interview, caressingly nervously the finger tips, as ohm the Oreek his conversation rosary. Worn the top of her fine head to the Up of her Trilby slipper. Lady Cook. In her mellow widowhood, bespeaks the eternal feminine, rather than the aggres sive Innovator, the derided reformer who aet wagging the tongues of two hemi spheres to round out her stormy and unique career In marriage in 1885 to a rich English commoner. Sir Francis Cook, Bart. to down Senator Smoot or force munici pal authority to protect life and Urns In publlo thoroughfares, and subse quently regaled with a lunch at IS "a plate," the 30,000 club women of Greater New York have little conception of the trials- and ostracitma through which passed Lady Cook and her contemporar ies In the hot old days between 1870 1877. "Happily, modern club women." said Lady Cook, "will never know as I have. the humiliation of entering a street car to have everv one leave It: to be hooted at In the streets: to be ejected bag and baggage as I was from the Ollsey house for organising and addressing a coiorea troop; to be denied aervloe at public restaurants unless accompanied by man: to ha debarred from entering Wall street cafe; to drop my eyes when I meet mv sister, lest she should be dispossessed If seen talking to ma Thank Ood. all that belongs to the dark ages of women In America. Every ava- nue of Industry la open to the Amen can women, every profession. With the ballot, all her wrongs will be even tually righted, and President Roosevelt Is the man to do it. and. mark my word, he will do It." Tne Increase in Suicides "I am rich, very rich," said Lady Cook, "and I have come back to America1 to spend my money In completing the work I began for women more than 30 years ago. I do not stand alone In this movement to make President Roosevelt Immortal by giving women the fran chise; making the superior part of the human race, in the eyes of the law, at least, equal to the black man," Lady Cook's shrewd eyes twinkled challenglngly. "There s to be a new political party," she continued. "Money and Influence of the hlgheat, both In England and America, are back of me. Hitherto the cause of woman's suffrage, all efforts of her emancipation, have been handi capped for want of money. The finan cial power is now at hand. Model hus band, model father, on record as sn enemy of race suicide, President Roose velt Is the man to give women the bal lot. He Is the president to go down In history as the second Lincoln Ameri ca's 20th century emancipator," cried Mrs. Cook, with the tragic sweep of a Mrs. Blddons. 'How do you propose to organise the pew party open the campaign?" was Tne Play Young women of Coqullle are to or ganise a club. The Alaea cannery packed 1,600 of fine salmon. A turkey one year old. shipped from Solo, weighed 38 pounds. In a week the country will hare con gress on Its hands again. Some Coos county people are agitating a county division project. It will do boys no harm to believe all they hear agalnat cigarettes. Two Myrtle Point residents are and 90 yeara old respectively. 93 A basket social at Tualatin netted 148, which will be used In buying books. The late Abraham Hackleman of Al bany owned his home piece of ground 87 yeara. 'I have had an agent looking since my arrival for suitable quarter," aald Lady Cook. "I want a large 'room in the central business part of the city a room to accommodate between 600 and 1 800 people. It must have the simplicity and dignity of a court chamber a place for business, not a lounging room for women to run Into to put high light on their noses or readjust hats to . the latest tilt. None of that! I find Amer ican women behind English women In many respects. In politics, for Instance, they have neither the intelligence nor the Influence of English women.. Then, they are more given to trie frivolities of dress and society. On the other hand. 1 find less tippling and smoking among American women than among English women of the higher classes." "With headquarters secured, what thenT" This was a question not to be handled with gloves. From a background of silk pillows, Lady Cook rose. Off came the white glace gloves. "The banner of the new party will be flung across the high wry,", she cried. "emblasoned with the name of whatever woman may be chosen for candidate for president of the United States." An Ashland spinsters' entertainment cleared over $100 for the Chautauqua Park Improvement fund. The population of Port Orford grew at a two-Forty gait one night recently. Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge Forty. Twenty lots In Cornelius were sold to different parties last week. Indicating that considerable building will be done there next year. 1 MOW TO ITOU KNOWLEDGE (By Dr. H. Pye-Smlth.) From the New York Herald. Learn to use your senses, be quick to notice any changes In the house you live In. or In the clouds and sky, open your eyes to eights of birds and Insects as you walk, your ears to their songs, snd your heart and Intellect to the Impressions of nature. Look as wall aa see, listen as well as hear, toucb as well aa feel. Prac tice judging distances and making allow ance for different kinds of Illumination, learn to detect the optical and sensory fallacies of which you read In books on mental physiology. Exercise not onlj muscles, but your power of dis criminating weights. Cultivate walking and make It a pleasure as well aa a con venience. Take every opportunity of learning any bodily exercise, whether riding or swimming, rowing or sailing, and whatever you do do It, as Fox said 'he did. "with all your resources .at the alma" Learn, as you may very well without being artists, to draw suf of your country. Remember that all that you think of England, and which you rightly ought to think. Is also thought by French and Germans and Americans and Hungarians and Chinese concerning their own country; the strength of its Inhabitants, the beauty of Its women, the courage of Its soldiers, and its excellence In all the arts and re finements of life. VMS LOHOI TALI. by Russell From "Stories of Inventor, Doubleday. In Omaha, Neb., half way across the continent, and about 40 hours from Bos ton by fast train, a man alts comfortably In his office chair, and with no more exertion than Is required to lift a porta ble receiver off his desk talks every day to his representative In the chief New England city. The man In Boston hears his chief's voice and ran recog nise the peculiarities In It Just as if he flood in the same room with him. The f Irlently to explain your meaning Never man In Nebraska, speaking In an ordl waste tlaae over worthless literature, and lb order to be sure of what Is good read chiefly that which has withstood de- osjrtng time and remains to us as the rarafuUy winnowed and approved result of the Imagination, the wisdom and the wit of past centuries. Beware of preju dices, prejudtrles of your profession, prejudices ef your education, prejudices nary conversational tone, can be heard perfectly well In Boston, 1,400 miles away. This Is the longest talk on record that Is, It Is the longest continuous tele phone line In steady and constant use, though the human voice has been car ried even greater distances with the aid of this wonderful instrument OAS" ADDIOKS. From the Chicago Tribune. The tidal wave of Tuesday which swept so many good men Into office may have been the means of lifting lntjj the United Statea senate that noxloua creature. "Oas" Addlcks J. Edward O'SuIllvan Addlcks of Delaware. It will be a bitter drop In the cup of victory If that man, who fot about ten yeara has been systematically debauching the cltlsens of Delaware and transforming them into a herd of voting cattle, abould at last succeed in buying his way Into the senate. If he can do that after be ing fought off so many times by those Republicans who could not bear to see their state dishonored, It will be a proof that perseverance and a pocket hook can do almost anything. if Addlcks Anally has forced his way Into the senate over the dead body of Delaware'a honesty, he should be greeted In Washington with such political and social ostracism as to make the day of his triumph far bitterer than the day of his greatest defeat ever was. The cause of honesty and good gov ernment gained ground In the middle west last Tuesday and lost In Dels ware. Roosevelt has so many electoral votes to apare that It Is a pity he didn't lose those of Delaware, so that Addlcks A might have been baffled again. We forget whether this Is the day for Port Arthur to be In a toppling condition or standing Arm and proof agalnat all assaults. It's one or the other. A Coos bay visitor to an Oakland. Or., hotel could not blow out the electric light and so enclosed It In his valise, and thus shut off enough light so he sould sleep. North Bend Post: Coos bay Is fsst gaining fayor with ahlp owners as a safe harbor and one where there Is something worth coming after and plenty of It. Next' summer the ships will be so thick In our harbor that they can, scarcely turn around In safety, and they will be carrying our produce to all ports of the world and rushing back laden with passengers seeking good homes and safe Investments. While the acreage of Grand Ronde sugar beets was not so large this year as last, the total yield was 20.700 tons, against 11,000 tone last year. The factory controlled 18,000 of 16,000 acres, and next year Its acreage will be Increased by several hundred acres. The cost of the beets is computed at 833.50 per acre, the factory paying $6 per ton for them. It paid out 8103.600 for beets, and 818,000 for labor In the factory. The output will be 66,000 bags of first-class granulated eugar. Moro Observer: A lady requesta ua to reproduce the recipe which cooked bed buga In this shack II yeara ago: One ounce kerosene oil, two ounce liquid ammonia, one and one-half ounce turpentine. Put Into a aprlng otl can I and Inject Into every crack and olace that a bed bug Is likely to hide. Three application will entirely rid a room of the pel, When we bought thl hack. In preference to a woodshed for the Ob server home, we ran Into millions of bug. Sawing off a partition left a peck of bug on the floor. We tried' everything fought the peats two year. Finally the above preparation cooked A em. It la 33 years since Victoria C. Wood hull figured as the presidential candi date of the Equal Right party. Ten nessee Claflln followed her slater Into the political whirlpool aa candidate for congress In the Eighth district of this city, crossing oratorical swords with her oponent. "Sunset" Cox. The polit ical almanacs have not deemed It nec essary to record- th number of vote cast for the sisters. Lady Cook has s vivid recollection sa well as a pictorial record of those stormy day, when the mob unharnessed her horse, after an Irving Place meeting, and drove her home to the famous Thirty-eighth street residence. She has no ambition to be the new party's candidate. Indeed, she would not accept It, If like Caesar' crown. It were thrice offered to her offered on a silver salver or roll of Standard OU securities' Tennle ha her own barrel, thank, and ahe meana to empty It In the cauae. "If only I were stronger." sighed Lady Cook. "I must husband my strength to peak In the campaign. I shall apeak her and at Chicago on the floor of the took exchange. Arrangements are now being made." "Will you open a banking house In Wall street?" Lady Cook was asked. "No, never again, aa In the old days," was the reply. "I shall, of course. Invest and specu late In a private way. When I left England the Bank of England refused for some time to give me a bank book. "You will come back," they aald. "But I will never go back to live or spend my money in England." continued Lady Conk. "T am an American I mean to visit my birthplace In Licking county. Ohio. Much as I love England, and good a It ha been to me, should war break out Inviting division of alleglanoe, I would be heart and oul with America. I would have come back here Immedi ately after my huaband'a death, but my health was broken. Relatives and friends urged me as they do now to retire to private life, enjoy my fortune In the social pleasures that were so richly mine during the lifetime of that good man, Lord Cook. But I cannot, I must be up and doing. Women must have their political and financial emancipation. "In Chicago." concluded Lady Cook, "I will open headquarters as In New York. The work of organisation will cross the country to . San Franelswo. The New York quarters will be leased for on year at my expense." Women are no Lady Cook' day In Delmonlco' red velvet-hung parlors or Hotel Ator college hail, swathed In squirrel and roped In pearl, resolving w organised TU.sever In r. Seated" onl4y)latrs "There la always something mighty good about a man who love flower And there was something mighty good at the Columbia theatre laat even ing, when the stock company presented "The New Dominion," a charming com edy, which Clay Clement wrote for him self, with the lovable botanist. Baron Hohenstauffen, aa the central character Here wa have a perfect love affair. The atudent of th green aide of Na ture, with a misunderstanding of Eng lish which he strive hopelessly to over come, enters the fields of Virginia to pursue his favorite occupation. Ha falls head over heals or head under heels In love when he sees the city bred daughter of his country landlord. In hla delightfully awkward way he makes known this broiling affection and incidentally save the old homestead from the grasp of a despicable young neighbor, who ha tried to win the girl's hand by virtus of an Inherited mortgage. In the end, of course, the baron wins the object of his love The compsny, as a whole, Is mora at home In 'The New Dominion" than It has been in any play presented for some time. Mr. Baume give the Im pression that he lovss the role of Ho henstauffen as much aa the character love the maid "ltke a newsboy loves 'a nle." He has mastered the difficult German dialect, and the lines that are actually German, so some on told me, were perfect. With little effort Mr. Baume could Improve his make-up. Al though the baron has lived In America for a long period, n 1 100 distinctly American In appearance he doesn't get far enough away from Edgar Baume, If you'll have It that way. At the same time he gives a performance of - th part that Clay Clement would applaud from a atage box, even If he were not the author. A new etar appeared EthBl Fuller. With that magnificent, musical, thrill ing, captivating vote of hr she read Martha, the victim or a soounarei. ana with hr unquestioned strength In emo tional roles she enacted it. Miss Fuller was positively Inspiring laat night. More than one ahe had the audience on the verge of tears. I wish to th tr nal skies there war mors actresses Ilk And William Dfll cam Into the cast again. fter his Illness, sa 'TJncl Poly." th philosophical, old colored servant. HI performance was the nearest ap proach to greatness we have seen him make and that la saying a good deal. A veritable ovation eras tendered the young man aa he stepped onto th stage, and that 1 th beat proof of an actor's ability, it will shock soma of you matinee girl, perhaps, to know that Donald Bowles plays the villain, and a very bad villain. -too, I Marshall Boner. But console yourselves with the knowledge that he doea It capitally. Miss counties 1 'way out of Una In a part that rightly belong to th In genue. She neither looks, act nor even suggests the winsome Flora May. Short - skirted, suburban sweetheart part are not for thl actreaa, and doubt less she realised It last night aa fully as the audience. Mr. Bloomqueat and Miss Brandt are one mora delightful as young lover. La u ret te Allen gives Mrs. Randolph very artistically, and Oeorge Berrell was satisfactory la hla denunciation scene. RACE WHITNEY. or Dr. Charles W. Dabney. one of the leading educators of the south snd west believes In the public school. Free school, he says. I necessary for a free government. In his Inaugural address as president of th University of Cin cinnati. Dr. Dabney said: "Let us cast out of our minds sit half-hearted arguments for the free ed ucation of all the people. It 1 true that It paya a community to educate all lta youth, but the public achool 1 not a charity Institution. Schoolhousea and schoolmasters sre cheaper than Jail and soldiers; but we do not found the public school upon any auch ground aa thl. Such argument for free achool are little less than an Insult to a free peo ple. The true democracy 1 something nobler than a policeman guarding and protecting our property and our rights. Th democracy establishes It public school to train new . cltlsens and to fit them for self-government, and when It shall have done Its full duty In this re spect there will be no need of policemen and soldiers. "A democracy spending hundreds of millions for warships and forta, for armies and navies, la enough to give devils joy. If we spent one fourth of this treasure in schools and missions, the whole world would soon be our in bond of love, and there would b no need of these engines of death and de struction. "Men have, Indeed, a right to govern themselves, but without education man have not the capacity. Suffrage la not a natural right, but a privilege assigned to those who qualify themselves for lta proper exercise In accordance with a standard fixed by the state. Democracy mean self-government; self-government necessitates universal education, and universal education can only be accom plished by free publlo schools under the control of all the people." TITOOED DX3M AT By Mr. Joha A. Logan. (Oapyrlght. 1904, by the Amerlc.n-Joorn.l-aTeaaUaer.) It would be difficult to explain the In- creae In th number of suicides and murders that have occurred In th laat year. Both are so ghoulish that on thinks of them with horror. Th most reasonable excuse for sui cide 1 that persons who destroy them elve are insane and Irresponsible for their deeds. It can hardly be supposed that persons clothed In their right mind would take their own lives. Bereft of reason, their thoughts are gloomy. They aee everything from the darkest aide. They are so depressed that they mag nify everything and generally Imagine that all th world la against them. Nothing Impresses them favorably or makes them contented and happy. They brood over Imaginary Injuria until they become a verity, suggesting revenge and the darkest deeds. Their love turns to hate. Th objects of their sane devo tion become th victim of their insane venom. Wa hear that auch and such insane persons are harmless. Follow ' up ' the casea. and It ta found nine times oat of ten that In fits of "temporary aberra tion of th mind" th harmless lunatics have committsd murder and have multi plied the horror by killing themselves. Innocent children often being among th victims whose lives have been' sac rificed through the criminal carelessness of allowing auch persona to be at large. Insanity and suicide are vary closely allied. The latter does not occur un less It Is preceded by th former. Some of th crimes committed by persons whose minds are unbalanced are so hei nous that they seem Incredible and could scarcely be conceived by minds that war sound. It would be mora profitable If greater attention waa paid to the causes of such rapid increase in the number of cases of Insanity In thla country. It would be found that there are two causes, al cohol and tobacco, to which could ho traced almost directly or Indirectly th majority Of cases. Dr. Keely of Keely cure fame, and cer tainly one of the moat conscientious man that ever lived, once told me that alco hol and tobacco were responsible for the crowded asylums for th insane and the overflowing prisons and penitentiaries. He thought cigarettes th mors harmful, as not on waa ever mad without being adulterated with some deadly drug, In cluding the paper and tobacco prepared for person to roll their own cigarettes. He said they ware treated with a drug In their manufacture, and that therefore all clgarettea were more deleterious to mind and body than even alcohol In its various forms. He apent much of hla life studying th two poisons and their effect upon the human mind and body. He further Insisted that clgarettea were more Injurious than alcohol; that the poison In them created an Insatiable appetite for alcohol and would eventual ly destroy th mental power and moral principle of every person who was ad dicted to their use. He said he could demonstrate to any one that cigarettes were worse than alcohol because of the deadly drug with which they were sat urated in their manufacture. He would not treat any on for al coholism unless they would agree to give up cigarettes. Bom of tha saddest cases of insanity and incurable jnaladlea have had . their beginning in ta axoes- ilve use of tobacco which begat thirst or alcohol, a thralldom from which there Is no escape except through total ab stinence. These enemies to mind and body are responsible for the appalling tragedies which are dally recorded. They bring a long line of wretchedness to counties innocent person wno are aiuea ny ins ties of nature to th Criminal who are constantly before tha bars of Justice. Th larger number are men and boy, but far too of tan women and girls hav tp - bo arraigned for misdemeanors and crimes perpetrated because of their de generacy from the use of tobacco and alcohol. It matters little whether habit of dis sipation are contracted ta glided pal ace or hovels, thay are alike destructive to body and soul. In the list of bridal and anniversary presents on often no tice that Mr. or Ml So-and-So gave beautiful cigarette cases, decanters and liquor sets to the bride, bridegroom, or to husband, brother, parent or friend strange selections if ons desire to exert Influence In favor of sobriety and morality. One who desires to b healthy. wealthy and wise should adopt th motto touch not, handle not, taste not to bacco or alcoholic liquors. Journal of Lewis ana Clark November 38 About 8 o'clock last ev ening It commenced to aaow and con tinued till daybreak, after which It ceased till 7 o'clock, but then' resumed and continued during the day, th weather being cold and th river full of floating lea About 8 o'clock Fo scoprahe came down to visit ua with some warriors. We gave them present and entertained them with all that might amus their curiosity, and at parting we told them that we had heard of th British trader. Mr. Laroche, having attempted to distribute medals snd flag among them, but that those emblema could not be received from any other than the American nation with out Incurring the displeasure of their great father, th president. They left us much pleased with their treatment Th river fell on Inch today. From the Blason Headlight. Moses Chanjyou, known a th tatooed man, and a French Canadian by birth, died alone In a little cabin In the out skirts of Slsson laat week. Th body waa tatooed In vari-colored Ink from th neck to the toe. Th boat pictures of no lea than eight women war te be seen on different part of th body, besides blrda of beautiful plumage, butterflies, frogs, fish, flag, anchors, wreaths of flower, chain and many Ingenious dev ice known only to sailors, hla name, date of his birth snd that of hi wife, It I supposed, date of hla marriage and hla horn. The date of hi birth waa Sep tember 18, 1848, and that of hla marriage September It, 1883, St. Mara, Canada. Annie Payson Call, In Leslie' Monthly Magazine for December. If we ourselves loved a truthful, quiet way of living better than any other way, how would we feal to aea our friend preparing to calebrat our birthday with strain, anxiety and con fusion? If wa valued a loving consid eration for others mor than anything else in th world, how would it affect us to see our friend preparing for the festival with a forced aenae of the con ventional necessity for giving "Who glvea htmaelf with hla gift feed thr Himself, hi hungry neighbor and Ma." That spirit should be In every Christ mas gift throughout Christendom. Tha moat thoughtless man or woman would recognise th truth. If thay could look at It quietly, with du regard for th real meaning of th day. But, after having hoard acid assented to the truth, th thoughtless people would, from fore of habit, go on with th asms rueh and strain. A 3Mffs From tha New York Sun. A young girl friend of mine rushed to a ator to order aome rice, and tha grocer aald, "Wedding or puddingy