Editorial Page of TEe Journal 1 PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1104. THE OREGON DAILY AN C. 8. JACKSON Published every evening ( except Sunday ) and very 8unday morning at SIGNS OF A NEW ERA IN THE INVESTIGATIONS and discussions, the ac cusations, insinuations and suspicions, now prevalent in regard to various pieces of work done under city supervision but paid for, or to be paid fui, if at all, by property owners, are from any point of View disagreeable to most people, and some may re gard them as needless. But there is another point of view: Only by going to the bottom of things now, turning on the light everywhere, wading in and out and round about, inquiring, observing, discussing, probing, kreping these matters well stirred up, whatever the odor and whichever the .wind wafts it only thus will the tax payers become sufficiently interested and enlightened to become able to protect themselves in future. -They may Hot in any event, but after all these jobs are looked into, and public attention has been thus directed to the manner of doing such things here, it may reasonably be expected that the people will get better work at less cost for a considerable time to come. Don't suppose, because there is vestigation now than heretofore, because people are be coming more inquisitive if not suspicious, that all this jobbery complained of, even if all the complaints are well founded, is anything new in Portland. The job bery and bleeding of the taxpayers have been going on more or less, generally more, all the time. One faction succeeded the other time and again, and each one tried to outdo the other in making the taxpayers foot their oolitical bills and succeeded. The only difference to the taxpayers between the machines operation beat the one it had disabled in looting the taxpayers' pockets. And usually ments of the so-called Democrats were nd fiddle to one faction or the other, in with the winners, in order to pick from the loaf. Well then, why were not these matters aired before? Why didn't people find out about the jobs and in vestigate them? Why all this furore now, for the first time? Partly, because Portland has wakened up a good deal in many ways lately, due in some measure to the ingress oi many men who have had their eyes opened in other cities. But principally because until lately Portland had no newspaper that had both the inclination and the courage to declare the truth, to tell the people what was going on, to awaken them at once to the situation and to a realization of their power. If the people of this city are going to have anything like an honest government, and honest work done, they have?got to fight for it. It will be a long if not a per petual war. This is the first general engagement. But the object of the campaign is not to find out about Tan ner creek sewer and the jobbery connected therewith; this is only one battle; the thing that must be done is to smash any political machine of whatever name or fac tion that attemps to do business. One of them is ex actly like another, except that it is worse. SENATOR MITCHELL AND THE IT IS TRUE that Senator Mitchell cannot be forced to submit to a subpoena issued by the United States court at lVrtland requiring him to testify in the land fraud cases. He may, if he so desires, plead his senatorial privilege during the session of congress and the same is true of Congressman Binger Hermann. But Congress will be in recess during most of the time he will be required here and as it will be next to impossible to do much with the public business during the holiday season there will be little loss in this respect should he decide to come to Oregon. , "As to what he should do under the circumstances Sen ator Mitchell is doubtless better qualified than most men to determine. He has had long experience in pub lic affairs and no man should be better acquainted with the ethics governing all such matters. In one respect, however, it seems to us his friends are making a mistake ahd that is in supposing that the suspicion that any steps so far taken by the government will be construed into a covert attempt to link Senator Mitchell's name with the land fraud cases, will justify his refusal to re spond to the subpoena. Public sentiment, we believe, has recently undergone a radical change with reference to these land fraud cases. The evidence recently sub mitted showed clearly two things, first, that there was -t Letters The lev. Kr. Small and Mis Funeral. Portland, Deo. 10. To the Editor of The Journal The episode of one of the minister of our city wanting remunera tion for aervlces rendered at a funeral should not be considered a closed Inci dent till the public has had a little more light A ministry of more than IK yeara leads the writer to think that thla mat ter la not properly understood by the public. Nor ran all the light there Is be shed by two or three gentlemen occupy ing pulplta at a salary of 18.000 to 15.000 year. They do not know what It la to be sorely presaed often for means to pay water rent nr buy a beefsbsgk. But. aalde from that. If a minister la encased to attend a funeral, particularly where those soliciting hla aervlcea are not poor nor contributors tn his aupport, why should he not receive reaaonable com pensation? If an undertaker la em ployed, nr a carriage engaged, considera tion 1a forthcoming nothing else la ex pected. Why, then, ahould not the cler gyman, wholly dependent upon hla call ing for the maintenance of his house bold, be entitled to something? The Lutheran and Catholic people, be It said to their credit, remember Invariably and promptly the mlntater who aervea them on auch occasions. Thla writer had personal knowledge of a minister who drove It miles in the (are of a cold storm to conduct a fu neral, standing three quartera of an hour in mud and slush up to bis shoe-tops at the open grave, drove back home, paying out of his own pocket It for the livery team, bee Idea going all day without a morsel of food and all this for well-to-do farmers who have not from that day to this even mentioned the matter. Met ik thla the worst of it. The mlnta ter dare not mention It, leet such a hue snd ory be raised as ws hear now raging bout Mr. Hmall. Again, the same minister waa request ed to attend a funeral where the family rarely. If ever, attended any ohurch. Nor were they Ignorant and unaccustomed to the world. In arranging for the service two or three trips wsrs mad by the minister to the house, walking nearly a mile and a hair ror the need of money to pay car far. At the funeral was an ex pensive casket, a long lln of hired car riages, flowers in profusion, sll led to the cemetery through the city by s brsss band plsylng The minister with fldel-4 Hy performed bis part throughout; and INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. streets, Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND PORTLAND. - more talk and in was that the one in the controlling ele only playing sec and trying to get up a few crumbs several of those already convicted had been in Oregon a gcod whfle. We can't consider them "importations." MORE 8UBPOENA. EVEN AS MINIMIZED in the report of Mayor Williams' engineers it is still quite evident that there was full warrant for the scandalous charges which have arisen over the Tanner creek sewer. On the other hand the report of the practical men leaves the whole affair in worse shape than it was in after the orig inal report was presented. It shows up a really dread ful condition of affairs which once again brings the pub lic face to face with the proposition of the responsibility of the city "engineer's office as distinct from the penalty which should be imposed upon a defaulting contractor. These last reports will vastly strengthen the case against the contractors and will make the call more and more insistent upon the proper officials to take all the steps which the case calls for. No one can longer be in doubt as to the facts in the case. They are made quite evident. Being apparent it should be demonstrated to the public that recreant contractors will get their just due while at the same time connivance or indifference to the rights of property owners who are called upon to foot thebllls should receive all the attention they so richly merit. The executive board has rescinded its acceptance of the contract. That is a step in the right direction but there are other steps td be taken and the officials di rectly concerned should not hesitate to take them. when a month later an insurance policy was paid to the estste of the deceased a friend of the dominie suggested a re membrance of the mtnlstsr for his work. In answer he waa told that "it's a preacher's business to attend funerals; that's what he's for." These cases sre not wholly exceptlon sl. It is true thst a minister Is ex pected to do much work without a money consideration. Upon this hypothesis railroads allow him to travel at half fare, and, to the honor of our merchants, they make to him a discount of 10 per cent on purchases; but why should a man, poor In this world's goods snd use ful as ths pastor of a small company of poor people, be held up to public con tempt by thoas who sought hla services, without So much ss a word of thanks even? Doubtless some better plan might have been found than the format presentation of a blh: but even this. It may be Inferred, would not have taken place had a alngle word of appreciation for the services rendered by the minis ter under fire been forthcoming. It may be added in conclusion thst the writer does not know Mr. Small when he ssss him, but under all the clrcumatsncea Mr. Small Is beyond question more sinned sgslnst than sinning. AN OLD PA8TOR. Possible "Suicides." To the Editor of The Journal. Quite frequently we read of some one being asphyxiated by gas. guch casea are us uslly labeled "Suicide." Now, I wish to relste a little incident which occurred not long ago In connection with myself to prove that many of these occurrences, which are cnnaldered suicide, are noth ing of the kind. I came Into my room one evening about o'clock. After lighting the gas and starting a fire, I took off my shoes and coat and lay down to read The Jour nsl. After a tlms I became drowsy snd hsd slraost fallen asleep when the light went slowly out. Realising the danger of the situation. I quickly arose sad tried to relight the gas. but not until the third match whs almost burned up waa It turned on again. Now. if I had been asleep when this occurred, I suppose I would have been found ths next dsy In the usual condi tion, and the clrcumstsnoes, no doubt, would hsve been chronicled under glar ing headlines. "Suicide." or "Blew Out the Oas." S. Ths Tolas of the Worldly. "Poverty Is no disgrace." ssld the ro mantic young woman. No." anawered Miss Cayenne, "and It Is no great recommendation, either." JOURNAL JNO. P. CARROLL The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill abundant ground for the charges so frequently made of jobbery in connection with the public lands, and sec ondly, an apparently honest determination upon the part of the government to prosecute those immediately within its reach and to strive to get to those, 'whoever they might be, who were for one cause or another temporarily beyond their reach. This is a program with which no honest man can find fault. It is what many honest men long have called for. It is a program to which Senator Mitchell himself can reasonably interpose no objection. Even if he is satis fied that there is a personal motive back of the subpoena the wise course for him to pursue nevertheless is to come here and frankly testify to what the government asks. In this. way he will effectually destroy the force of the whatever unfriendly campaign may have been under taken against him and bring to confusion those who lather it " ' . NOW, HERE'S A PLEA. ' Puter, McKinley, Wolgamot, Emma Watson and Tarpley have all been found guilty of land frauds in Oregon. Puter, McKinley and Watson are the prin cipals, while Wolgamot and Tarpley were tools. These principals are self-styled importations from eastern states, and are not Oregon products. If we sift Oregon land frauds to the bottom we will find the skirts of the natives are clear of the charge of being conspirators against the government. The characters who have given to Oregon a bad name and a black eye in this regard belong to a scheming, speculative riff-raff from other states that would have been a credit ,4o Oregon had they stayed at home. Eugene Register. WE ARE NOT quite so sure of all this. Some of these people came to Oregon to do busi ness because the timber lands were here. A great amount of these lands are in Lane county, where the Register is published, and two of its very good friends have been on guard in the Roseburg land office. In whose possession are those lands now, and how did they get there it The "11-7" base so far considered would cover only an insignificant patch. Another great and good friend of the Register, an Oregon man for many years, was officially on guard in the national capital, was at the very head of the public land department, the man on whom the government had a right to rely, on whom it must rely. And yet all these fiauds, proved, known or suspected, went through under his nose or rather behind and above it. And doubtless there are others. Oregon people as a whole are very good people, as humanity goes, but we imagine very much like the people of "eastern states." Oregon will be a better state if the rascals are exposed and punished than if they are shielded. And as to that, SEWER REPORTS. Lin WITHOUT LOTTOS. The common snail has lungs, heart and a general circulation, and Is in every respect sn sir bresthlng creature. This notwithstanding, he csn live on Indefin itely without inhaling ths least stom of air, that which la usually considered ths essential to existence in sll crea tures supplied with lungs. Leppert says: "To sll organized crss tures ths rsmovsl of oxygen, wster. nourishment snd hest cauaes death to ensue." When that statement waa made he did not appear to consider ths snail as one among ths greet host of 'organ ised beings," for the experiments made by Professor Spallansanl prove that any or all the uaual life conditions can be removed In its esse without terminating Its existence or in any way impslrlng its functions. It is s fact well known thst the com mon land snail retreats into his shell on the approach of frosty weather In ths fall, and that the opening or mouth of the shell Is hermetically sealed by a secretion which is of a silky texturs and absolutely Impervious to sir snd wster. In this condition it Is plain that he Is deprived of three out of the (our elements of life mentioned by Leppert, via, sir, wster and nourishment. ASOI Prom the Houston Post Alexander Sutherland, said to have been the last survivor of ths famous Balaklsva "six hundred," Is desd at his home In Denver. Fully six hundred they That have been laid away Since that wild charge that day Of the six hundred! Of those who backward rolled When death's laat ball was tolled Six thousand have grown cold Since some one blundersdl Oh! ths wild charge they made) When will their glory fade? When will the laat ba lsld Of the six hundred? Each month that onward flies The laat Survivor diss (Unless somebody lies), Deathless six hundred! Six hundred fought thst day! Six thouaand laid away Bring back that awful fray Till we have wondered, At ev'ry one's deresse, At the brigade's Increase! When will their dying cease? Deathless six hundred! m 1 . Small Change m- n Still the gamblers' road Is rocky. Fair prospects crow brlshter dally. Talk about holdup man think of Bants Claua. Keepers of ths viler dsns ought to be frozen out of business. ' What's ths use of Hermann coming? His memory is defective. This Is especially the season of the year to remember the poor. Tom Lawson Is having mora fun lately than a osgs of monkeys. Lawson has taught the big gerWblere and lamb-ahearers a new trick. Nnd aeema to be trvlne- to make a wide-open town of Port Arthur. "Amalgamated" has discovered that Lawson can do something beside writs frenzied articles. Governor-elect Douglas to President Roosevelt: Tou attend to your busi ness, snd I will attend to mine. Nobody has a better right to cackle than the American hen. But the roosters do altogether too much crow ing. Mrs. Chadwlok weeps. But let her think whst a high old tlms she had lor many years. Few women hsve so much fun If thsy live ever so long. Johnny Wslker Is an Interesting and not an aaay problsm. Couldn't a horns be found for him witn some mountain family who have no neighbor within SO mi lea? . Now that a lot of Denver Democrats havs been sent to jail for election frauds, the next step for reform should bs to ssnd a lot of Republicans squally guilty also to jail. Bmoot Is sn officer in a certain church which other churches don't like, but he hasn't been accused nor so far aa ws have heard suspected of engaging in stealing the people's land. fltesmera on the tinner Columbia next .... ,r will .m rm1tuter tn mnnv of old times In Oregon. They wera pretty good, happy old times, too; but these new times ars different, and also good. A Portlsnd lawyer who acted aa at torney for both parties in a divorce suit can collect no fee at all. If he had done only half the work he might have collected 140 or more. What aort of Justice Is this? As adjutant-general of Massachusetts General Miles will not be quite ss big a military man as he was aa ranking major-general of the United States, but Massachusetts can furnish him aa fine a uniform aa Uncls Sam ever did. Standard Oil magnates cared nothing about Lawson's talking and writing; but when he bears Amalgamated at the cost of a few milllona they are likely to give him a little serious attsntlon. They were not afraid of bis hard words or his tufts of grass, but rocks are another matter. Hon. Napoleon Davis haa for several years bean a homy-handed farmer of Falrvlew. and is now master or me local grange there. Toung men. look at thla as an example of opportunities to rise In the world. A few yeara ago that man was boss of the Portland police de partment, and aspired to ba the Demo cratic boas of ths at ate. Oregon Sidelights j Salem Is cheering up In anticipation. Cooa will make a fine showing at the fair. Harrlsburg is badly in need of a lum ber yard. The good roada subject should be kept to 'the fore. Nearly time for coyote hunts In east ern Oregon. A bear la living high on fat goats nsar Sodavllle. The only three-story building In Crook county Is under construction at Band. A Warm Springs Indian fell ovsr a bluff, (0 feet down on a bed of rock, and was hurt a little. 8clo young men have organised a baa ket ball team. Isn't this encroaching on the girls' domain? Women of the Albany have begun the practice their bats during service. M. of EL church removing Considering quality and varlsty, aa wall as quantity, Oregon can be made the best fruit state in the union. Salem Is said to have It. 000 people and considers it such sn unlucky number that It intends to mske it 14,000 soon. There is not much time to spare for count lea that have not yet made arrange ments to have an exhibit at the fair. An Albany little girl drank over half a bottle of cologne. A promptly admin istered emetic saved her life snd left her sweet scented. Elgin Is ths latest town to organise a commercial association. Before long every town of any Importance in Oregon will have one. Two Bhigene men. drifting down- the river 14 miles, killed 76 geese and 14 ducks so says a nswspsper msn up there, who probsbly got some of them. A "double winter" Is predicted In eastern Oregon. Some people will look six months ahead to borrow trouble. But a "hard winter" In Oregon Is a good "no makes a batter summer and tall. An Islsnd City man has purchased a Poland China hog weighing 912 pounds, which he has commenced fattening for the Lewie and Clark fair, which by that time thsy ars confident will tip the scales between 1.200 snd 1.300 pounds snd best the St. Louis fair record of 1,12,0 pounds. A campaign agsinst cruelty to animals has been started In LaOrsnde. Farmers and ranch hands are in the habit of hitching tesma and saddle horses to the racks and allowing them to stsnd until lsts In ths night. Her. after an official will look out for cases of this kind snd feed such animals at ths owners' expense. Dinkelspiel on Financiers (By Oeorge V. Hobart.) My vlfe put down der efenlng paper uud sighed pat'etlcally. "We need a leedle money for far Christmas hololldays." she vlspered. "Sure," I sat, "now Is camelng dor happy sssson ven der vtmmen folks rush madly from store to store und get nervous hesitation, und der men folks rush msdly from egg-nogg to egg-nogg und get a Yule tide. I vlspered. "Ve muat glf at least t'lrty-siga pres enta, lncluslonlna der fur-llnde coat I vin buy for you to glf me," my vlfe went on. I looked ofer at my bank book und it fell oft der bureau und played dead. "I see It here in der nulasuncepaper vara It says dot s new women financier has chumped on der horizon und der horizon la now lnkvlrlng der vay to aer bsnkruptcy court," my vlfe contlnua tioned. Many a fool und his money vas parted by a voman," I vlspered care lessly. Vot vun voman can do so can an- nuder voman also, too," my vlfe set, . humping to her feets. "Dls household needs a up-to-date financier, und l vui response to der call of duty doan'd vsit lunch for me, but doan'd eat it aa in case I should bring back a leedle hunger mlt me. , Den my vlfe vent ould from our home, vlch Is called "Dinky Hall," on Chestnut Hill, to der Pickla und Ssu- sage Falrst National bank und aho asked for der president. "Wis gehts, president!", my vire set, 1 vlsh to become a voman financier und I vould like to borrow free hunnerd t'ouasnd dollars, mostly en cash und der balance In fifty-dollar bills, please!" Der nresldent pointed a chair at ner und Inkvlred polttefully. "Vot Is your security for such a slight ravor, rileAse?" Wall, set my vire, 1 navi rwmu ui 'Simple Life,' und I vaa now a simple ton." - m Der nresldent smiled una set aoi vould be goot for only should ten cents vorth of dsr loan. Vunce " set mv vlfe. I met Anarew Carnegie on der street in Pittsburg und he spoke to me." Dlt he speak Ananelally or aociany: inkvlred der bank president. "Veil." my vlfe set, "der street vss much occupied at der time und ha eggs cldentally bumped into me und he set, 'Beg pardon" " "T vould not loan money on snydtng Csmegle spolglses for," est der bank prealdent. "Mv. my. set my vire, vox a 101 01 talklnar a voman has to dlt before she becomes a financier. Perhaps free hun nerd t'ousand is not my lucky number. Should ve better say two hunnerd t'ou sand, mostly in ten-dollar bills, yes!" But der security, madam, visperea der nresldent. smiling at der cuckoo in der clock vtcbcame ould and struck him for two. In Chermany." my vire set, 1 couia a-lf vou a fine security. He Is my Uncle Uustave, mlt a large bunch" of money vlch has nefer been translated from der Cherman. To know In Chermany dare is a law vlch forbids sny msn to take hla money to heafen mlt him ven he diss, so I vill be Uncle Oustave'a helr esser. I guesa dot Is a fine security und I vlsh dsr money ln'tventy dollar bills. nlnset' " "Oxcoos me. madam." set der bank president, "but vy not get your rich Un cle Oustava to go on your note?" "Vot!" set my vlfe; "vy Uncle Ous tava vouldn't eferr go on h- street car vlch only costs a cubble of pfennigs. Der only time he ever went on snydtng vas vunce ven he lost four dollars, den he vent on bread und vater for a veek to get It back. I could glf you his pho to graph, vlch vould be der safest kind of security, because it Is so ugly nobody vould vlsh to took It. Efen der pho tographer hated to take It!" "I vaa afraid, madam." aet der presl-dent.-"dot you vas not familiar mlt der financial system in dls country." "Not aa familisr aa some vimmen I haf read abould." set my vlfe. "but after I know you better I could get more familiar." "Tou mlsunder stoot me. msdsm, set der president, reaching, for der fire alarm ball; "vot I mean Is dot dls in stitution loans money only on gilt edged securities." "Ve haf nuddlng silt-edged at home eggscept a book of wersea vlch my hue pand gate me for a Christmas present last year, und vlch he uses to keep his Ashing hooks in!" set my vlfe. "Tou haf moat peculiar ideas on der supjeckt of finance," aet der president, moving his chair avsy. "80 haf udder vimmen," set my vlfe, "und dey made goot mlt der.. Perhapa I should hsf ' started dls merger mlt flfty t'ousand dollars, mostly in flve dollsr bills, plesse!" "1 regret eggsceedlngly dot It vill be quite' imposslbls to comply," set der prealdent, glAng der signal for his sec retary to come In und say dot Plerpont vlshed to see him on der tellyfone. "80 you refuse to make me a flnan ceer." set my wife mlt dignity. "Very goot, but remembrance, dare vaa udder banks! und vsn I vas spending moriey llke vater you vill not be der vun to enchoy der vorry!" Den she vent ould und tried der sim ple life Idea on all der udder bank presi dents, but dsy only gate her der simple ha, hat After fretting around der house a cub ble of dsys she tolt me all abould It und vanted me to promlaa dot If I efer met a bank prealdent face alongalde of face I vould spurn him to der earth. "Dinky," she vlspered, "vy Is It I could not become a flnanceer like der voman in. der nulsancepaper? Vy Is It dot I haf failed mlt my securities vare anudder has suceessfuled wltould hers?" . "Veil." I set, "perhaps der climate of Ohio makes der bsnk presidents more touchable." ' WORLD'S MOOS. From the Chicago Tribune. Swine and cattle are associated In the farming Industry all over the union. The Interest In the better grade of the animals may be shown in the dates of organizing the different swine breeders' associations. These are the American Berkshire association. 1.175, Standard Poland China, 1877: Central Poland China. 1879; American Chester White, 1184; American Eaaex, 1M7; American Duroc-Jersey. 1890. and Standard Chea ter White, 1890. Horses were on more farms and ranges and In more Incloeures In 1900 tjian held hogs, but at the aame tlnte the hogs In these planes listed by the csnaus outnumbered the horses nearly three to one. There were 62.87(1,108 hogs of sll ages In the states and terri tories, valued st $282,027,707, sn average of 88.89 a head. The highest per capita valuation was In Rhode Island, where the figures were $7.87, while all over the New England states the average waa 88.(0. In Florida the average -waa only 81.51 a head. Iowa Is credited with' producing the perfect hog. and In the census year had t.721.781 head, lead ing in numbers. though the average price waa under that of three other ststes In the north central section. I Tne Play "This mo rail men mar have tn mynde Te hearera. take It of worth, olds and young. And forsake Pryde, for ha deceyveth you In the ends. And remembre Beaute. Fyre-wyttea, Strength and Dyscrecyon. They all at the laat do Everyman for sake. Save his Oood-dedes. there doth ha take; But ba ware, and they be small. Before Ood be hath no helps at all! And ha that hath his aocounts hole and sounds. Hya In hsvsn shall ha be croundo!" In other words, "Do good." Unabridged, and In plain, simple Eng lish, which sounds like Bserllege today, the moral of "Everyman" is this: la the end you will be deserted by beauty, strength, kinsman, fellowship, wits, dis cretion and knowledge, but good deeds. unterriAed by the hereafter, will stand by you even to ths grava Therefore, hoard as many of thsm ss possible. This marvelous old morality play held several' hundred persons spell-bound for 90 minutes yesterday afternoon at the Marquam Grand. It was presented by Ben Oreet's English players and much had been expected. But In all falrnesa it muat be admitted that no purson in the audience, in his happiest . anticipation, had even approached the real strength of "Everyman." It waa so wonderfully and completely magnificent that at no period of Its unfolding did ths sudlenoe dare to Interrupt with applause, out of fear that auch an aot would rend the sombre atmosphere into which they had suddsnly been transported by the purity of this fifteenth century allegorical drama- There were many striking features of the performance. First of all, the Action and the study. Thsn the manner of presentation the players making their exits and their entrances through the auditorium and over the footlights. and the absence of a curtain; both true to medieval tlmea. After which, one muat speak of the general excellence of Oreet's playsrs. Voles Is a tremendous element In acting and never on any stage were more beautiful volcea beard: nor le there an exlatlng organisation, so far aa my knowledge goes, which could havs read the poem more Intelligently. The audience first saw the stage est after the faahlon of an ancient mon astery An organ waa discoursing and an angelic voloa was singing. A messenger made hla way aown tne aisle snd read the prologue. Without, the voice of Deity spoke in wonderful tones. Ood haa perceived the wickedness of man and to Him they all must make a reckoning. The voice summons Death, who appears as a skele ton spectre, carrying trumpet and drum. Ha speaks In a metallic piercing mono tone, which Is art itself, and asks uoa s will. The voice bids him: Go thou to Everyman. And shewe hym in my name, A pllgrymage he must on him take. Which he Is in no wyaa may escape, Everyman here enters, a merry youth. laughing, singing, plsylng upon a luta Death baits him and tells htm or tne painful pilgrimage he must endure. By bribes snd pitiful pleading Everyman seeks to eacape the decree, but to no avail. Death varus him to begin hla doleful journey when hla next trumpet sounds, and departs. Left slone, Everyman seeks a com- 5 anion for the journey. He calls on elawshlp.. who enters aa a bluff, blus tering mass or mirth ana assures Everyman that ha will stay by him In any emergency. But wnen ne teams or the grave. Felawship leavea quicxiy. even taking away the luta from Bvery- n. The youth then calls upon his Kin dreds and Cosln snd they alike desert him. In despair he turns to Ooodes (riches) who haa forever been his friends. Ooodes, in ths form or a shrlvsled old man. laughs at Everyman when asked to accompany htm. 'What, thinnest tnou mat mm thine?" he asks. Nayo. Everyman, I saye no: Aa for a while I waa lent thee; A season thou hast had ms in prosperity; My condycyon Is manne s soul to kyu If 1 save one a thousanae i ao spy it. Everyman thinks of his good deeds; Hut. alas! she Is so weke That She can neither go nor apeks." et he calls for her, and she is re vealed as a prostrate, fainting woman. Oood-Dedes tells him she Is too weak to either go or hold htm back, but advises him that she hss s sistsr. K-noiege. who will ao. Knolege appears, and In one of the most beautiful paasagas of the whole advises hlra: Everyman, I wyU go with tnea ana oe thv ervds. In thy most nede to go by thy syde. In the house of Salvacyon. We shall fvnde hym in that place. That ahall us comforts by Oodde's grace. Lo! this in Confsssyon; knels downs and aske for mercy; For he Is In good conceyte with Ood Al mighty." Rvervman makea his confession, calls humbly upon Ood and receives absolu tion. This strengthsns Oood-Dedes, who rlaea from her bed, "hole and sounae. ready to accompany Everyman to the end. Knolege promises to go as rar aa the grava, but there she must lssve him. In the passages next following, Beaute, Dyscrecyon. Strengthe and Fyve- Wyttee. one by one, reruse to go upon the nllarlmaae. Everyman next re ceives the sscrsment snd dons ths Oer- ment of Sorrow that frees from all pain. The recording angel receives from the hands of Knolege the book of Every man's good deeds, while Everyman stsnds upon the brink of the grave and again commending himself to Ood, de scends. Both Knolege sna uoou-Leaes depart. The sepulchre Is closed sna there appenrs sn angel, wno cries. 'Come, excellente electe, spouse to jssu. Here above thou shslt go. Because of thy singular virtue; Now the soul la taken from the body, Thy reckoning la clear; Now shalt thou In to ths hevenly sphere. Unto the whlche all ye shsll come That llveth well before the day or dome! The action ceaaes when the moral first quoted la this futile description Is read by the Doctor. As already stated, the people in tne caat are wonderfully capable, first among them being Miss Constance Craw ley, who Impersonates Everyman. Her exquisite, resonant voice Is almost In- continuous use, but It never Is anything but pleasant. She depicts ths emotions of the suffering figure with the Intelli gence of the true artist, and it Is no lit tle task this strain upon her powers Only once, for about five minutes, shs leaves the stage throughout Abe reading. Many of the others are no IMS deserv ing, only they havs not one half as much work to do. BACK WHITNEI. Woodburn Independent: While re moving a fenon that had been up 40 yeara, on the old Ben Brown place, a few days ago, Frank Wright found a silver coin two feat below the surfscs hearing data of 1848 and waa bright. One side contains the statue of "Llber tad" and the words "Firms y Fells par a I'nlon." The other side has the Peru vian coat of arms and ths words, "Rep. Peruana MA 2 R. 10 Da. 18 Ge. M. B." It is, doubtless, a valuable coin. imm., v...... 4 Friends Rally to Santa Claus e - ..... ........ .mm...- By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. The question of retiring Bants Claus la a monstrous one! As soon talk of retiring the sunshine and flowera, and the singing -birds. Gloomy would thla world ba without ths red-faced, jolly-hearted old fellow who, for generations upon .generations, has been coming once a year to make tha children glad I And yet they call him a "myth." - It is true that but taw have ever laid eyes on Santa Claua. There are thosa who claim that ba has nsvsr been seen. But what of it? All the great things are Invisible love, and joy, and hope, and courage, and life itself. A fact la not necessarily something that ws oan see and take hold of and measure with ths foot rule, or put on the scales and wslgh like a bale of hay or load of coal. Santa Claua la real In ths same sense that ws are ha la a spirit, a prssence, a power, an Influence, which ia all -that the reat or us are. Tha only trouble- la, too many of ua ara getting to ba so materialized and mercenary we cannot appreciate tha nobis old fellow. A nobis old fallow ha certainly la! Good natured ha is, to a fault No one of tha privileged few who have been . fortunate enough to lay eyea upon him ever saw a scowl upon his brow. He la always happy because ha la always thinking of making others happy. Hla unselfishness la absolute, hla gen erosity la unbounded, and to make even one little child glad be would go to the ends of the earth! Ha believes that happiness la tha graateat 'thing In tha world, and when he starts out on Christmas eve to scat ter this blessing around among tha chil dren nothing oan daunt or dlsoourage him. Tha disappearance of tha big, wide chimneys and ample fireplaces makea lota of trouble for him, but ha always managss somehow to be on hand with tha presents thst shall make ths little folks happy. If ba oannot slip down ths ehlmnsy he will climb off ths fire escape anyway to make the children glad. And Is It not monstrous, nay. Infa mous, thst as his reward for auch un selfish generosity, Santa Claua should receive such contumely and reproach ss Is being poured upon him In certain quartsrs? He haa heard of the dlspoettlon. felt In some minds, to speak of him with flippant credulity and disrespect, snd. jolly aa he la by nature, it makea him feci anything but happy.. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves I We owe the grand old fellow an Imme diate apology. Santa Claus Is ths best friend that the children have on earth. Let us not poison their minds agsinst him with, ugly insinuations as to bis mythical character. They know nothing about "mytha" but they do know Santa Claua. Later on they will become "wise" for ths present permit them to be happy. Hurrah for Santa Claua! Bo say I, and some othara say ths same. f Lewis and Clark j December 10. Captain Clark, who bad gone out yesterday with 18 men to bring in the meat wa had killed the day before and to continue the hunt, came tn at It o'clock. After killing nine buffaloea and preparing that already dead, he bad spent a cold disagreeable night on tha anow. with no covering but a small blsnket. sheltered by ths hides of tha buffaloea they had killed. Wa observed large herds of buffaloes crossing tha river on tha Ice. The men who wera frostbitten are recovering, but tha weather la atlll exceedingly cold, the wind being from the north and tha thermometer at 10 degreea and 11 de gree a below saro; the rise of ths river is ons inch and a half. ahd CJB.ES SHOW. At various tlmea it Is recorded thst there haa been "blood on the face of the moon." Some old chronicles tell of showers of blood, which, howsvsr, ara not wsll authenticated. Tha "bloody snow," on ths other hand, is an actual thing. Snow Is sometimes found In polar and Alpine regions, where It Ilea unmelted from year to year, and tha annual fall la small, colored red by tha presence of Innumerable red plants In its native state the plant consists of brilliant red globules on a gelatinous mass. Red snow was observed by the ancients, a passage In Aristotle refer ring to It; but It attracted little or no attention until 1788, whan Bauaaure ob served It- in the Alps and concluded that it waa due to the pollen of a plant. It was also noticed by the Arctic ex pedition under Captain Ross on Baffin's Bsy shors on s range of cllffa, the red color penetrating to tha depth of 12 feat. Leas frequent la a green growth of snow. Just Imagine these rich colors deoo ratlng the landscape near our large cities' Country houss parties would have a new attraction which would ap peal to the artistic and aesthetic sense. iumbu or w. A statistician has learned that the annual aggregation of tha circulation of the papers of ths world Is sstlmated to bn 12,000,000,000 copies. To grasp ths Idea of this msgnltude ws msy stste that It would cover no fewer than 10,460 square miles of surface; that- It Is printed on 781, 250 tons of papsr; and. further, that if ths number (12,000,000. 000) represented, Instead of copies, sec onds, It would take mora than 888 years for thsm to slapss. In lieu of this ar rangement, we might press snd plls them vertically upward to gradually reach our highest mountalna T.nnitt, aii these and Bvcn the high est Alps, the pile would reach ths mag nificent altitude or . or in ruunu numbers, S00 miles. Cslculatlng that I... ' man attends Ave minutes In the day reading his paper tthls is a very low estimate), we And that the people of the world altogether annually occupy time equivalent to 100,000 years reauing the papers. XT I B. S. Martin In the Metropolitan Maga slne. If I were Henry James. I tell you what I'd write a tale that hadn't any plot. And none should know If In It aught befell, For. being Henry James. I wouldn't tall. The worklnga of my mind It should re cord As on a big, tsrrestlal ehecker-board, I'd move the pieces with abundant care, And sse that none of them got anywhere. I'd work by Indirection all ths while. And ladle in peychology and styls. Till every rlvsl cried with envy frank: "Oh, would thst I could sling the Ink like Hank!" v