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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