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Editorial Page of TSe Journal PORTLAND. OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1904. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C S. JACKSON PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. JNO. P. CARROLL Published every evening ( except Sunday ) and every Sunday morning at The Journal Building, Filth and Yamhill tracts, Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OP THE CITY OP PORTLAND Small Change i Did you have any Amalgamated? The csar wants peace after he gets what lie wants. Couldn't some magailn get Addlcks to tell what he knows about LawsonT A PICKWICKIAN DISCLAIMER. THERE was an interesting little telegram, one of many, in last evening's edition of The Journal. It mav have been overlooked by sonic, but not In the presiding genius of the Tall Tower. And this is what he has to say of it in the Morning Oregonian.' Pretended dispatches from Washington City say that H. W. Scott wishes to be secretary of the in terior, and has been trying to "undermine" Secre tary Hitchcock and to succeed him. These "dis patches" were written in Portland; they did not come from Washington. H. W. Scott does not desire to be secretary of the interior, nor to hold any other office. He never before heard of any mention of his name in connection with the office of secretary of the interior, never thought of it, never asked any person to do o, and doesn't imagine the president ever thought of it. Mark the unkindness, not to mention journalistic dis courtesy, of the adjective "pretended," "pretended dis patches," when as a matter of fact no one ever claimed that there was more than one. But this by the way. On a bright February morning in 1903, to-wit: the 31st, there appeared in the Morning Oregonian, penned .v the same hand, a long and learned editorial article of which, for the moment, nothing concerns us but these excerpts which are not only interesting in them selves, but have a most delicious not to say juicy remi niscent flavor: "Since the name of the editor of this jourfla! appeared yesterday in the balloting of the joint as sembly, he conceives that the present is a suitable time, and here a proper place, to make a brief state ment. Mr. Scott has not been a candidate for the position; he has not sought it, expected it, nor even desired it He has asked no member of the legis lature to vote for him, nor any one else to support him. He has done absolutely nothing to bring 'in fluence' in his behalf, in any quarter. He is en gaged in a business of some importance, is under necessity of attending to it, and could ill afford to neglect it, or to sacrifice it to politics and public duties. And not to esteem too lightly the honor . and dignity of a seat in the United States senate he cannot suppose that his position here, as a factor in the affairs of Oregon, is less important or in fluential than such position as he might gain in thst body would be. Had he desired to sit in the senate he would have employed all proper means in his power to gain the seat. Months ago he would have put himself in communication with the mem bers of the legislature, and with others influential in various parts of the state. In a word, had he wanted the position he would have made effort to get it; since he is not weak enough to suppose that a result could be had in the absence of the effort necessary to reach it. ... He solicited nothing.'' That article appeared on the day after the adjourn ment of the legislature, which had thrust senatorial honors upon the agile gentleman from Astoria, Mr. Fulton. On the previous evening, when the article was pruned. George C. Brownell received a telegram from Portland signed H. W. Scott, which read thus: "Now the time. If you can help me it will be appreciated." The telegram referred to Mr. Scott's desire to haul down the senatorial plum and clearly manifested no intention thrice to refuse the kingly crown." In the light of that event it is not unreasonable for the public to accept present protestations in a Pick wickian sense. In that sense Mr. Scott was not then a candidate; in the same sense he is not' now a candidate. Yet if he should telegraph his great and good friend, Dinger Hermann, for instance, a "Cassius-save-me-or-I-sink" message and that message should subsequently de velop in the archives it would only be another case of history repeating itself. Our alert pipe line Washington correspondent today discloses to the interested people of Oregon thst Mr. Scott has more than one string to his bow." In the event that he should strike the banana peel route in his race for the secretaryship of the interior there is either Switzerland or Japan waiting to receive him with open arms, overjoyed to accept him even though they be his conceded second choice. It is with pleasure and satisfaction that the public contemplate the determination of the president to thrust honors upon our distinguished fellow-citizen when so many other fellow-citizens, somewhat less distinguished, perhaps, are compelled to leg like good fellows for what they get and even then, too often alas, fail to get it, as they would say in Ireland. Happy, thrice happy, Harvey I war debts, though the French people are marvelously thrifty, and hold most of their nation's debts ahioiig themselves. The people of ytis country could pay the cost of a big war with no great difficulty or appreciation oi the burden, because their earning capacity is bound less, and we can raise and produce everything needed. But how about Russia and Japan? Their earning capacity and their ability to'pay, though' large, is small as compared with ours. The war taxes must for many years be a very heavy burden upon them. The present rate of expenses is said to be about a thousand million, or according to the American computation a billion dollars a year. In two or three years their aggregate debt at this rate will equal ours at the end of the civil war, a debt not yet paid off. Japan is borrowing at 6 per cent on terms that make the rate about 8. Russia can do no better. Money can only be obtained as long as the lenders believe the security is good. The security is the people's ability to pay taxes, for years, for generations, to come. This country made its own money, or in effect paper promises tjt pay money a forced loan from its own people to carry on the civil war; but this is the most expensive system of any of borrowing. The war goes on, but the cost must be paid by those peoples -and their descendants. Money shot away is money lost; only taxation wrung from toil will replace it. War does not pay. The loss out weighs the gain as a brick outweighs a feather. "But wars are unavoidable, inevitable," they say. We don't believe it. PRODUCTS OF AMERICAN FARMS. RESULTANT BURDEN OF WAR. A WAR may result in ultimate gains or advantages to one or even to both the contending nations. A war may be to all seeming unavoidable to one or both parties. But the tremendous cost of war, entailing heavy burdens through generations upon the peoples engaging in it, will render wars less and less frequent, until a war between any nations of consequence will become a very rare if not an impossible event. There are compensating profits to some in a war. The warring nations' necessities provide many individual opportunities. But to the masses of decimated peoples who finally through taxation have to pay the cost, a war is almost wholly loss. Its chief results are suffering, sorrow, death and an inescapable lifelong burden. The time may come when the -people of a nation will refuse to be led or driven to war, but will direct their rulers to stttle their contention otherwise. The Russo-Japanese war will severely hurt the people ot those nations long after the war is somehow ended, and their children and children's children after them. The weight of the after-burden is according to the peo ple's ability to pay the cost. The British people are very appreciably poorer on account of the Boer war. Taxes pinch. France is still burdened, indirectly, with SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WILSON in his annual report impressively illustrates 'the vast value of American farm products thus: "The farmers of this country have in two years pro duced wealth exceeding the output of all the gold mines ot the entire world since Columbus discovered America. "This year's product of. farms is over six times the amount of the capital stock of all the national banks. It is three times the gross earnings of all the railways." The corn crop alone of this year would have paid the national debt and left a large surplus in the treasury. The hens this year will have produced one and two thirds billion dozen eggs at 15 cents a dozen amounting to $a50,ooo,ooo. The increase in capital invested in agriculture since 1000 is estimated at $2,000,000,000. The total value of- farm products this year is estimated at nearly $5,000,000,000. The farmers are the hope as well as the sustenance of the nation. So long as they are thus producing and prospering the Rockefellers cannot get their long vulture claws into the vitals of the republic. The farmers are producing billions and saving and investing hundreds of millions, not because of a tariff law, not because of the dominance of a political party, but because This is the greatest and best country on earth in natural advantages, and its farmers are as a rule intelli gent and progressive men. So long as the farmers' are doing well, therest of ns will get along. The prosperity of farmers makes busi ness, work, opportunities, for all other classes of people. This wide, beautiful brilliant robe has its seamy side nevertheless. There is a point of view whence the land scape lies in the shadow of clouds larger than a man's hand. While the farmers are thus prospering they are not as alert as they otherwise would be to political and economical wrongs. If they are doing well they are careless about a percentage filched from them for the benefit of enemies of the republic. But let us not al ways be looking for the seams on the other side, -the storm-cloud and shadow behind the beautiful sunlit slopes, but appreciate and enjoy the fair picture of pros perity, plenty and peace. Then ho, the merry farmer! He can and should en joy the holiday time of the year. He is the most in dependent and has a right to be the happiest man in the land. The dear, sacred old ntneiey tariff la sare ror another year prohaoiy rour The man who stole tit, 000 In double eagles In San Francisco ought to be able to fly high for a while. Uncle Ira Reynolds was another trust Ing old soul who believed anything Cas sis told him. up to millions. Vardaman has broken out again, Juat to remind the country that the fodl- klller Is needed In Mississippi. Now a lot of Chicago aldermen are accused of hoodllng. Chicago refuses to be behind the times In anything. That T. M. C. A. auditorium Is not suitable for a large audience. In of fire there would be a tragedy. We may now expect a thousand and one Imitators of Mrs Chadwlck. But they will have to pick their bankers carefully. Carnegie was angry when subpoenaed to go to Cleveland; but he wain t nearly as mad as If he had been obliged to pay all those notes. The city marshal of St. Johns Is eerv lna without any salary for the present Chief Hunt continues to draw his sal ary In this burg. If Mr. Richardson, alleged proprietor of the Portland club, will put in an ap pearance he may hear of. something to his disadvantage. The anti-war demonstrations in Rus sia are significant and presage, much trouble for the csar beside that which the Japs are making for him. A dispatch says that Mrs. Chadwlck arose "chipper and happy" and ate a good breakfast the morning after the day she had fainted away about IT times. Great woman! No. congress wilt do nothing to In crease the power of the Interstate com merce commission or reform the rreignt abuses. The railroads are evidently yet running congress. MRS. CHADWICK'S BOLD PROMISES. MRS. CHADWICK said she was going home to Cleveland to settle up all claims against her, that she will soon pay all her debts, and that then she will have something to say, will make some very interesting disclosures, not forgetting to mention names of certain individuals. The public in general and her creditors in particular, especially old Banker Beckwith, who had only six-bits or so left, will be pleased when she does this. If she can square up all these debts she will certainly be en titled to the floor, and will have a large and deeply in terested audience. She could earn the price of a hat or two and perhaps a gown or two by selling the "copy" of her story to a magazine or newspaper. Mrs. Chadwick says she will do all this, and we can not dispute her, for she is a wonderful specimen of a wonderful sex, and nobody can safely say just what the limit of her resources may be. Yet for the present it must be permitted to the public to entertain some doubts of her ability to keep her word. Some will suspect that she is a victim of an inbred hallucination, that her hyp, notic power has become back-acting; and others that in vulgar parlance she is running a bluff; but we can't be sure. One can never tell what such a woman is or is not capable of. Suspicion that she will not be able to make per formance square with promise is increased by the woman's physical weakness, if it be not altogether feigned. One hour she is calm, resolute, confident, eat ing heartily and reading the newspapers with critical interest; the next hour she is hysterical, flighty, faint ing, fearing to die.. Or is this all acting? At all events Mrs. Chadwick will be kept on the f.rst page for at least some days to come. COXiOUD COLOSIES From the New York World. efforts to establish colonies of ne groes in the northwest are met with pro. tests from . the white neighbors. it would seem that the rare question he eVtmes an active Issue wherever the whites and the blacks are brought to gether In 'anything like equal numbers. There Is little occWsJon for the whit farmers in Minnesota and the Dakota to trouble themselves over the proposed colored settlement. The climate is not congenial to colored outdoor labor, nnd northwestern farming methods, with their extensive us of valuable machin ery, are not adaptable to southern farm hur.lh Almost all attempts to eolonlse ne groes have failed Recent real estate litigation In Madison county. Ttew York, recall th failure of one of th rllt colored colonisation experiments, at tempted year ago, when Oerrft Smith and hi feltow-abolltlonlsts tough) that partial solution of the slavery problem. fjesisjood at OUT Portland, Dc 15 To the" Editor of The Journal I beg to call your atten tion, and also that of the public, to the article on pnge 8 In your lue of De cember 10, under the heading of "County Kxpenses for the Month." Evidently some person ha given you erroneous figure regarding the cot of the fuel used for heating purpose, and when a statement I made that the cost of wood fuel averaged about flSO per month. I will go on record as Baying that this I a statement which heed retraction. The fuel company of which I am manager supplied slsbwood to the courthouse from May 1. l03. to Novem ber 1, 1D04, a period of 18 months, the total coet of this being fl.z4t.1I. s our hooks will show, or sn average of fft.tt per month, which I t80.fi le between actual cost and figure thl person ha given you. The cost of fuel oil for two months wss fltl. or ftt.to per month, or fz more than slabwood, to y nothing of ff7S cost of Instslllng th oil plant. Then, again, the assort I m s mad thst. two men operated the wood fur naces and one man tPokcre of the oil burner. Ho It took 'two men to handle about a cord of wood per day and two men can handle 10 cord of wood a day and have time to apare. Thl statement I a unreasonable a the pretense' of refusing to dsl with the so-called Ban-flla-Veyy Fuel monopoly to take oil from the Standard Oil company. I will put up tl.000 that It will cost the county commissioner, or any other firm In the city, If per cent more to burn oil at the present price than slab wood, to say nothing of the cost of In stalling the oil plant, let the commis sioners have seen fit to cease burning the cheap fuel supplied by the Banfleld Veysey Fuel company, a home industry. We have no control over trie supply of fuel received from the mill. The better the lumber bulnes, th more wood we receive, and the more bualnes don In our city, the more taxes are paid Into the courthouse; but to per cent of the money paid out for ell leave our city and never come bark. It eem to us thai this Is a matter thst all users of fuel should think of, especially th county commissioner, when they can get fuel cheaper at home than they are paying for oil. BANFIELD-VEYSBY FUEL COMPANY, M C. Hanfleld. Manager. Dr. Chadwlck was greatly surprised to hear of his wife's performances and pre dlcament. How did he suppose she got all her money? But perhaps he was not very well acquainted with her. The Hi Johns Review graciously al lude to Portland as "our neighbor on the south." Yea, and we're not going to be annexed to St. John, either, though that 1 a good town to get next to. It Is reported that Frank Jajnea I chronically afflicted with stage-fright whenever he tries, to act a part in a play. Would that the same sensations would attack the sluggers' and soma others. Th Oregonian says that "power In wholesale quantltlea has been running to wast at Celllo, The Dalles and the Cascades since the, world began." Until this statement was mada we had sup posed that there had been some physical transformations sines the earth' form appeared out of chaos, and that the Co lumbia river Itself la a relatively modern product of the force of nature. Oregon Sidelights Arago want a good school teacher. Don't worry about drouths In Oregon. No more hoboes allowed in Coqullle City. At last Albany has organised a com mercial club. Bad time to get under the weather, but better here than back east Recent rains were worth f 1,000,000 to the farmers of Umatilla county. Two beets raised near Shedd station weigh 47 and 40 pounds respectively. The third lodge of the Knights of Columbus has been organised at La Grand. That Eugene-Salem-eto. system of electric railroads seema to have gone to sleep also. Many sections of Oregon hold out natural invitations to thousanda of homeseekera. A Rothschild Visitfl New York ( By Darlo Mccodeml of the Parla Figaro.) Watch In hand, I said to M. de Roth schild: "Believe me, my dear sir. In these days one can defend one's self against the gravest disease, against women. even against the photographer. If one have sufficient strength of mind, but against the Journalist no defense is pus stole It IS useless to struggle. " With a smile full of delicacy and -philosophic resignation M. da Rothschild begged me to sit down, and did so him self. It was neceasary to bring myself to pester him with the everlasting ques tion of the eternal Interview. I began to do It, but M. d Rothachlld interrupt ed me, saying: "In spit of my desire to see no lour nallst, in spite of th orders I have given to that end. in spit of all, in spite of myself, you are here, ready to submit me to the Interrogatory which I hold in horror. Mousleur, I admire you!" "That does not aatonlsh me," I replied, laughing. "I represent the Figaro, and when one has such visiting-cards one haa the right to the admiration or mankind." "But, now, what Is it you would like to know?" "All that you desire to tell me, mon sieur; not a word more." 'Well, my dear sir, the only Interest ing thing I can tell you I that I am ab solutely not an lntereatlng person." The Play MOh, that la not poaalble!" ''But It Is. Sine I have Every county ought to be her next summer with samples of the best It can produce. Ashland wets and dry will have an other battle next week In the ahape of a city election. How best to get good road is a big question thst ought to be kept to the front until It Is solved. The Brandon broom handle factory turned out 20,000 tent pegs Tor the Japanese army last week. By June 15 Hill Brother expect to have 8.000,000 feet of logs ready to put Into the Willamette above Eugene. A Christina never approached In Ore gon when It people were more dis posed or better able to observe It. Few countle, If any, can make a better showing at the exposition than I. Inn. which Is now preparing to send a big exhibit. The Ashland Christian ohurch received a a Chrlatma present 6 yard of car pet from Mr. Oanlard, a member living In California. Experiment carried on at th Oregon Agricultural college show that alfalfa ean be raised In western Oregon as easily and successfully as clover. Two farmer near Lexington .have purchased a It horse power traction en gine and plow coating ft.000. The plow consist or eigm it-incn piuws sets. two A Pendleton couple was re-marrled within six month after being divorced, concluding that the separation was a mistake and that they would try pulllng In double harne again. A complaint haa been filed asking for a receiver for '4m North Bend woolen mills company and alleging It Insol vency. It I said to owe th Simpson Lumbar company over f32,000. been here I have been th victim of a mlsunder tandlng. , I have been confounded with my grandfather, M. le Baron Alphon de Rothschild. ' That Is without doubt a quid pro quo which doe me honor; but, truly, I do not know how to reply to the question which th newspaper of New York do me th honor to ask, in the belief that they are putting them to my Illustrious grandfather. Surely, even you have come prepared to ask me about the greatest problems of the uni versal world of finance 1 not that ao?" "Oh. yea. I have spent hours asking myself what I should ask you About the economic condition of Russia, about the ever-expanding crescent of the house of Rothschild, about French bonds" Well, you have wasted your time, for I cannot reply to any of these transcen dental questions. Have I not the right to walk about the world as an the world doeaT" I de not think so," I replied. Why notr I hold that when a man Is the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild he has not the right to travel simply ror tne pleasure of traveling." M. ds Rothschild looked at me, nettled hi gold eyeglasses- upon his nose, and after a brief hesitation said to me: Well. I am very happy to be an ex ception to the rule which you hay just formulated. Ye. I am th Rothschild exception. I did not know New York, where I hav numerous and very dear friends: I hsd an extreme desire to ap proach near to thl marveloua capital of human activity, to see It cloae. to reel the formidable vibration of this Amer ica, which surpasses all, which crushes all, which produces everything, and which buvs everything It cannot pro duce; I desired to experience myself th nervous, multiplex, infinite lire wntcn on would say I Impelled by some In vincible and mysterious force. TM word of faith of th antique cruaader was "God wllla If Eh bln! The fate ful word of America 1 th same. Ood wllla that th world shall b trans formed, shall be enlarged, in order to make place for future generations which will be mor and more exacting, ana young, vigorous, powerful America 1 thai standard-bearer of thl broadening and of thl transformation of old for mula's. God wills It." M. de Rothschild w(i completely transformed. HI eye. In which I had found at flrat all the steel of a trust, had softened and shone, lighted up by a beautiful flame of enthulam. What imprelon have you, or New York?" I asked at once, In order that the Steal. might not resume It coldness. An admirable impression ; mat i to Bajrt a thouaand admirable impression. It IS a great City Wltn a great aiiraci- lvene. What truck me flrat was It family llkenos to London; but here there la more light, more movement, more gayty: her spleen Is useless. London Is a beautiful woman clothed In fog: New York Is a beautiful woman clothed In unhln. In a word. It la a country I Ilk very much, and the proof of thl la that I hall pend all the win ter here Instead of a rw aya. a nan been my original intention. What can one dot Man proposes, America ai- ! o Ana I must repeat 10 you, my una air." continued the Baron de Rothachlld, that I am a lmple tourist, a good call er Jut a roan traveling ror pleasure I want the right to e New York as one see Rome. New York l tne aninnei of Rome, and I love antlthea." I beg you to excuse me, m. ae itotn- schlld, but I wanted to aek you on oneatlon. the lat. but I fear to be too inqulltiv." "A Journalist I always Inquisitive, but without Inqulsltlvenea h would not be a Journalist. Inqulsltlvenesa is the talent of modern Journalism." "Well, then, I wanted to ak you If It I true that you came to New York to get married." "Oh, that I a little too much!" "I have been told that It was o." "You hav been told a canrd" "However, I think It might not be uch an Impossible thing." "Very Wll, then find me the wom an," replied M. de Rothschild, laughing. "But I believe th choice will be very difficult, for I find all the women In New York ara pretty." i "And do you also like their style, their manner. thlr way of dressing?" "Yes, I find them very Interesting. I observe that the American woman not only love independence, but loves to display thla Independence, and he Is right. What good would liberty do her If he could not abuse It 7" "What do you think of the American stage?" "I find, above all. that they dance very well there." One started upon thla subject, my conversation with M. de Rothachlld wss agreeably prolonged. It was a delight to me to have Baron Alphonse de Roth schild chat upon art, literature, the stage chat. In fine, about useless thing and M. d Rothschild did It with the greatest pleasure. He poke to me In pur Italian about Mm. Du. In French about Mm. Rejnne, and In Spnn lah about Mm. Guerrero. M. de Roth nchlld know vry comer of Europe. He love Italy lmmnely and passes several month of every year there. "Oh. yes." he ld, "Italy J a lovely country, and. In truth. If millionaire had not time to go there often their mil lion Would really be their worst ene ml." "Listen. M. d Rothschild." I replied; "you must not worry. I am willing to give you a dosen of my best friend for a single on of the enemies of yours that will comfort you!" Florence Roberta and her excellent company reappeared In "Teas of the "D-UrbenilUa" last evening, at the Marquam, and aa on former occasions cored very effectively. Among th regular flrat-nlghter. In tereet centered In Melbourne McDowell, who mad hie flrat appearance with miss Roberta In thla city aa Alec DUr bervllle. Mr. McDowell's conception of the rascally aristocrat la clean-cut and lntereatlng throughout, and be enact the rolo with all th vigor of hi Bar douesque personality. Of Mlaa Roberta performance It la unnecessary to aay much at thin tyne, she having appeared her o recently in the aame role. Tonight the bill la "Th Adventure of Lady Ursula." tomorrow night and Sat urday afternoon "A Doll's House," and Saturday night "Marta " RACE WHITNEY. CMAOWICX-B VAOABIB8. The Journal nwa Ita reader an apol ogy for printing Ita editor' nam In several place In thl paper It will not oon occur again If It can be prevented. Salem Journal. Good resolution. Xssvtah Bxpanulvax for Toys for Foor Children at Chrlatma. From a Cleveland Letter. On a recent Chrlatmua eve Mrs. Chad wlck Invited her husband to .go to th theatre. Before they left their home on Euclid avenue ahe called up a firm of tu use -decorators and gave them In structions. When the theatrical per formance and th aupper which followed were over they returned to their home, but nobody would have recognised it If som fairy godmother had waved hr magic wand over th establishment It could not have been any more trans formed. Not a pieco of furniture, not a hanging,' not a rug, picture or piece of bric-a-brac that had formerly been there remained everything was changed. 'Thla la my Chrlatmaa present to you," was all ah said when ah re turned. A woman dark in one of the large de partment stores of Cleveland haa the following to aay of Mrs. Chadwlck aa a customer: "Mrs. Chadwlck was eccentric whan It cam to chopping, but ah bought, and bought ao liberally that every last on of th girls waa only too glad to wait on her if he was buying dreaa good and velveta and th finest kind of imported good were her partloulur cholc she would aay: 'Never mind measuring it; send the whole piece.' Sometime part of the place would b returned, but mor often th whole of It would be kept. What ah did with all the tuff ahe bought 1 beyond me. We found It hard to please hr Taney, but anything ah liked aha bought frly." Florists tall how Mra. Chadwick would pick up a little child on the street and lavish flower of th moat costly kind on th youngater. Often, they aay, children would go out on the atreet laden with the costliest of roses, orchid, violet or whatever flower happened -to be In sea son at the time. Just before Christmas several year ago Mrs. Chadwlck walked Into a Cleve land toy store and pulled out a written list that, according to the atore officials, waa two yarda long. Nothing but toya waa on th Hat. and whan Mrs. Chad wlek had finished buying, her bill waa In th neighborhood of f800. Doll ga lore were bought, Mrs Chadwlck aaylng that ahe wanted something Ilk 100, th price to rang from f 1 to ft each. Per sonally ahe made no aelectUma. leaving that to th dark who had waited on her. but when th bill was presented It waa paid at one. Th toya war dis tributed among orphan aayluma and the different children' warda In the hospi tals, and many a heart was gladdened that Chrlatmaa by th benevolence of an unknown person, aa Mra. Chadwlck expressly stipulated In buying the goods that th. recipients must not know where they cam from. A year ago, it la said, th same plan w is followed, but in a different way, the good last year being purchased at a number of different placea. Many stories are related of the doings of Mr. Chadwick in her dealing with tradesmen in the grocer and butcher line. Once, It Is said, ah took a liking to th little son of a butcher near her home. She took the lad down town. It Is said, and clothed him from head to foot with the mot xpnlv clothe, buying not only on outfit, but several. Then the Jewelry stores ware visited, and It I (aid the boy waa given a watch and chain and everything XI little heart desired, taken homo In Mra. Chad wlck' carriage and landed at hla own home, the happiest boy In Cleveland. From the Kansaa City Star. A traveler went Into a Union avenue barber shop yeaterday morning to get a ahlne, and decided to Inquire about hla train. "Bay," he laid, addreaalng the negro bootblack, "what time doea the Missouri Pacific leave for St Louie thl morning V "Yoh mean th on that make th daylight run?" queried the negro. "Yea, that' the one" said the man. "It ah the train that connec'a wlf the one frum Leavenswuth, ain't it?" asked the boot black aa he brushed away. "Yea," "Run fru Wahnsbu'gh?" "Yes." "An Jeffahaon City?" "Yea." "Ah knows 'the train yoh means, all light Stan' on the seccn' or thud track, doan it?" "I think It doea." "Changea lnglnea La's see. Wha' do that train change lnglnea?" "I don't know," came from the man. "What I want to know la Ita leavlnar time." "Ah know Je' what yoh wants, an' Ah know Je' xactly1 what train you means " "Well, when doea it leavoT" "Oh, yea, when do It leave? Ah' uah Ah doan' know' bout that, boss," waa th negro' reply. t J - -N H Americans in Europe i . 1 Nlchola Munster In Chicago Tribune. America la the place for Americana. The young man of thla country who hopea for even moderate uccaa In llf muat devote himself to finding it right here In hla own country. There la no place iff the world where h may go and find the asm openings, th same oppor tunities that exist bar. Europe sends annually thousand of young people to thl country to seek home atnd fortune. Most of them attain to the flrat of these, many of them reach th latter. But the young man of America with little or no capital who should go to the old world on the am queat would soon bo "starved out." The representatives of foreign gov ernment in Chicago agree that their countrlea hold open little inducement to th man of this land. The condi tions in Europe are such aa th Amer ican workman would call actually harsh. Wages are ao much lower that there can be no adequate comparison made The common laborer In moat European countries receive barely enough to keep him alive. Th skilled workmen are paid better, but even they receive scarcely so much a 1 paid to the av erage laborer In thla country. While the coat of living for the work ing claaaea la considerably lower than here, It la doubtful if the well-fed and housed Amelcan of even th poorer classes would content himself with the. fare of the worker In Europe. Th home of the workman in the United State 1 a house ot luxury compared to th domicile of the aame man In the old oountry. Besldea these conditions, the laboring class of Europe greatly ex ceed the demand. The young man with American enter prise and energy who haa Bom capital, however, may win success and fortune In certain parts of Europe. It is de clared there 1 an opening, and a good one, for the young American who la able to secure or establish an agsncy or Jobbing house for American good in Franc. England, Russia and com of th countries of southern Europe. The profits on the handling of goods. ' are much larger there than her. Agricul tural machinery 1 a lln which holds open a promise to th young man from America. Francsln particular la a a-mwlna- field for euch good, and aav- aral Americans have earned wealth by going into the business mere. nut after all. It la right her at home where th golden opportunity Ilea. cww an d Clark In winter quarters In what la now North Dakota. December If. Captain Lewi, finding no game, returned to th fort hunting on both aldea of tba river, but with no ucces. Th wind Deing irom tne norvu the mercury t sunrise waa 8 degree below aero, and the snow of last night inch and a half in depth. Tn In dian chief continue to visit us today with presents of meat too an to mmm. mramwL. Aa th Father Understood th Troubl. From the Baltimore Herald. In the achool of a Connecticut tbwn measure wcr recently taken to teat th children' eyesight. Aa the doctor fin ished each school he gave the principal a list of the pupils whose eyes needed attention, and requested him to notify the children' parents to that effect One night, aoon after the opening of the fall term, a little boy came home and gave hla father the following note, duly Igned by the principal: "Mr. . Dear Sir: It becomea my duty, to Inform you that your son shows decided Indications of astigmatism, and his case Is, one that ahould be attended to without delay." The next day th father sent the fol lowing answer: "Dear Sir: Whip It out of him. Toura Marked Aooordlng to Order. From the Philadelphia Record. A atory of British stolidity I going th round. A certain wealthy American In London dropped Into a shop to pur chase a set of dcojsntera. As the purchase represented more money then he had on hi person at the time, h gave hi address at th hotal and instructed the assistant to mark thm C. O. D. Th assistant mad a not of the requeat but th purchaser was surprised to find th goods left at th hotel without demand for payment When the parcel was unpacked, however, It developed that each decanter had been beautifully engraved !n twining let ter. "C O. D." From th Waahlngton Post. InnllMnta tiw .nv.rnmrnt nOSlttOnB under the civil service have a mor or leaa discouraging ' time of it. it waa not ao In the olden days, when positions were first thrown open to women during the civil war. Here la the story of the appointment under General Spinney of one who 1b still a clerk in the treasury department. "It waa In 1814," ahe sain, two yea re rtev the annolntment of women had be come a permanent thing, I waa in Wash ington visiting a lter. I maoe up my mind that I wanted a position, and ao, without saying a word to any on. I wnt to th treasury and mad my own application. I simply wslked Into General Spinner's office, and aald: " 'General BDlnner. I would use a po sition in the treasury.' The general looked up carlely. and than went on tth hi work. " 'How long hav you bn In Washing ton 7" h akd. " Three year.' " What Influence hav your h aaked What Influence?' I tammrd. 'I don't know what vou mean." I waa be ginning to get embarrassed. " 'Ye, influence,' ne said, -wnai cou- gressmsn do you know?" .!.., i. . T faltered. This time the general threw down hi pen. leaned back: in his cnair, ana I. Tnn'v, Koen In Waahtne-tnn three years and don't know any oongreaamanr he queried. -Good! That' recommenda tion enough. The poeltlon is yours.' " CHADWICK. If I war Mrs. Chadwlck. And Mra. Chadwlck I, Soma folks of my acquaintance Would lay them down ana urn. I know some wealthy people With stocks and bonds and auch On whom I'd make tomorrow A million-dollar toucn. I'd open wine in magnum And live extremely high. If I were Mrs. Chadwlck, And Mr. Chadwlck 1. If I wr Mra. Chadwlck, And Mra. Chadwlck I, I'd play cm to th limit If th limit wSre th ky. My ft lends would din at Sherry' And I would pay the checks; And millionaire who knew me Would gt It in their necka. I'd keep th waiter Jumping And buy and buy and buy If I wcr Mr. Chadwlck, And Mra. Chadwlck I. If I wr Mr. Chadwlck. With Mr. Chadwick' a eye, Dave Rose' lovly city Would float In extra dry. Juat now I'm not high-rolling, The which I do deplore; I spend It when I hav It A horse could do no more. Aril, hi miner Just Imagine Th Chrlatmaa glfta I'd buy If I war Mra. Chadwlck, And Mra. Chadwlck II Milwaukee Hentlnel. story of BoMaa That Want T umiog. From th London Dally Mall. An extraordinary Incident was wit nessed recently by a sportsman at Bi cester. Noting a party of flv robin forag ing about among th pebbles In the bed of a small atream. from which they constantly flaw un to a neighboring wall carrylngoma live object In their beake. he followed a bird to Ha perch. Kicking about on th top of the wall he found a small stickleback. Retiring a few yarda he then kept watch, and found that th bird cap tured their pray and held It crosswise, after the fashion of a kingfisher. But they made no attempt to kill their ic tlma before eating them, as th king flhr doeav