TUB8DAY, DECEMBER M 1901 PORTLAND. OREGON, Editorial Page of TEe Journal THE OREGON DAILY AN C . JACKSON AN OPINION LE8S STATESMAN. A WASHINGTON DISPATCH LX Evening Post, ay: "The A lison, one of the recogniied leaden of the sen ate, on the tariff revision project, ha been the subject I "of much speculation, unrelieved by thrr nublic exoressions of his opinion. Mr. Allisons nosition. it mav be stated on excellent He has not readied a definite conclusion as to whether the tariff should be revised or not, but does feel certain that no matter how desirable revision may be, it ia not .worth the price of party disunion, and that whatever is done must be accompanied by absolute harmony within Republican ranks. Any changes of the tariff, whenever they are reached, must proceed conservatively and intel ligently. These requirements, he feels sure, preclude the tmssibilitv of action at a special session in the spring since this would leave insufficient preparation." What a serious view to take of the walker. He never had any positive thing. He turns with every tide as as a cork. He is for whatever the party ever it can do without too much trouble. He will stand pat, on any old sort of a tariff if that will be easy and pleasant, but if it is decided that the tariff must be re vised, why, certainly, he agrees that He is for whatever is sroinsr to happen. vane could turn eaaier than Uncle Allison at a change of nolitical wind. He has not so much terest in standing pat as Aldrich, Piatt, and some other senators have, but he would like to accommodate them, and will unless tariff revisionists bring a stronger pres sure to bear. If the Dingley tariff is a good thing, why of course he is in favor of it. If revision is desirable, certainly he is in favor of rtvision. He hat not yet made up his mind. He has no notion of when he will make up bis mind. He has not very much of a mind to make up, but what there ia of it he can adjust to afty wave that blows and any wind that blows, so long as it is a strictly party wind or wave. What is best or good for the people never troubles serene Uncle Billy B. His life-job is to be easy in his mind, and to approve of the things that are, yet always to be ready to ride smoothly along the track of any change. What he lacks in initiative he makes up in equanimity. His seat being secure for life, nothing wor- ries him. While he is entirely satisfied with the tariff as it is, he will never be heard to protest against a change decided on by a majority of his party, and it is entirely immaterial to him what the changes are, or what hap pens about anything so long as Iowa remains solidly Re publican, and he enjoys a green, old age. Uncle Al lison is not a very high type of a statesman, but there pre worse types. - FROM SOCIETY BELLES TO LAUNDRESSES. w ASHINGTON, D. C, society, patch from that city, is shocked arm staggered Kj-itaji turn vrtnnff women, daughters of Cap tain Mullan, who have been society belles In the capital city for years, have made arrangements to start a laun dry Their father, formerly wealthy and able to sup port them in expensive style, fell upon evil financial times and became comparatively poor. His daughters were able to retain their elegant home, but were not able to keep it up and live in it in the style to which they had been accustomed. No wealthy men proposed mar riage to them in their emergency, or if so they did not accept the proposals. So something must be done; what were they to do? , , They decided to rent their house furnished, to live themselves in less pretentious and cheaper apartments, and to go into business, to-wit, the laundry business; and it is stated that they have already been promised a great deal of custom, enough to assure the success of their un dertaking. And for coming to this very sensible, praiseworthy de cision, instead of dawdling along in the outer rim of capitolian society, living beyond their means, and anx iously Watching for a chance to marry men just for their money and what it would procure them, they are objects of Washington society's shocked astonishment. That girls who have been brought up and accustomed to do nothing and be nothing useful or commendable, but merely to shine with a false surface glitter in fash ionable society, than which nothing on earth is more mOBSTABT atTTCMCOCat. From ths Contains Times. It ought to make no difference to any man in Oregon what Secretary Hitch cock's motive may be In pushing the prosecution of ths land fraud cases. The question of his motive Is not for a mo ment to be considered. Ths only mat ter to bs considered Is, have there been land fraud, and If so, who are the guilty parties A Jury In the federal court has effectually answered one por tion of the question, and ths govern ment's sttomeys and investigators are fast unraveling the rest It Is Just as Important to the people of Oregon that the thief who robe them of thousands of acres of the public lands shall be made to suffer for his perfidy, as that th smaller offender who steals bread for his family shall be punished. In probing the frauds to the bottom and In sparing no man who is guilty. Secretary Hitchcock, like Folk of Missouri, is per forming a service that is delightfully refreshing snd reassuring to his coun trymen, snd signally commendatory of his fidelity ss a public servsnt. It Is his duty to do Just what he Is doing, and any question. as to his motive is neither material nor apropos. Let Mr. Hitch cock purge th Und systsm of its sbuses and frauds which have been notorious end neglected for a long, long period. Otve to Mr. Hitchcock the credit and honor du an honest discharge of a pub lic duty, and b that token set up reason for othsr men in high official position to purge ths public service of dishonest salary drawers or outside parasites who fatten off of other than ths honest in dustry that the commonality of mankind must resort to for a living. Politicians may not like Mr. Hitchcock; the people ought to. A MOST OF job un From the bunsmulr News. Hers Is a little bit .of mining news of over half a century ago. It was told to the writer on a recent visit to Oregon by Simon R. Lane ss sjf incident of hla father s early mining days In Sis kiyou county. California. "It was dur ing the winter of lsSS-ll thst Oeneral Joe I-ans was mining in a district near Treks. Thar .was a knot hols in the side of ths shin near his bunk through which he could look out osito a pises of ground hard by; and the general had often amused himself while reclining on his bed peering through said open ing once he had a most impressive diessi that in ihis particular spot on which ths ys rsstsd la looking from INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. Sunday) and every 8undy morning at Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND to the New York and do something selves, so shocks attitude of Mr. Al and suffers a qualm any interviews or authority, is this time for study and venerable Iowa egg- opinion about any easily and naturally is for, and what it snouia oe aone. Never a weather- of a busmess in perous, if so much - men and workingwomen, at least in portions ui saw country, are not getting their share of it TV,.,. mitmm tht a rlnv nf sneculative bubble-burst ing is coming. Then, we suppose, the working people will be told that their wages must oe reaucca, ocmuk i,.r.i - - tnr mnlnvrre Genuine orosoeritv oueht to go all around, prohibitive of such conditions as are constantly reported ftom various industrial centers. YAKIMA IN A YEAR or so, pretty certainly within two years, a portion of the Yakima Indian reservation, compris . , vara! hundred thousand acres, will be thrown open to settlement, nto that already : - ; annual nroducts. The Yakima vauey is reports a dis already a very productive region, largely in consequence of extensive irrigation, and is destined to be one of the choicest garden spots on the Pacific coast. Tk. .i.,t,,r-,i innnri destination for those products, the natural trading place of the people of the Yakima valley, is Portland. All that is needed is a comparatively short railroad, from Vancouver or some point on the Columbia ..... ft.;, la nf the enterprises that have been talked about a great they begun, in talk. The great Yakima valley is Northern Pacific territory. Year after year, decade after decade, that valley's pro ducts must be lifted half a mile high over the Cascade mountains and dumped at that railroad's Puget Sound terminus. Some day the Northern Pacific will build a line down the north side of the Columbia river, and a branch therefrom into the Yakima valley, but until it chooses to do so we must simply fold our hands and wait. Even then it may take a notion to carry the products of central Washington around by the river-rail route to Tacoma; and if so of course Portland will have nothing to say or do by way of protest. We have been accus tomed to utter submission and subservience to the rail roads so long that we seem powerless to protect our own interests as against their schemes and policies. But Portland is becoming not only larger but more alert and aggressive, and there should be ground for hope that during the next year it will take such measures as will insure speedy and direct rail or rail-and-river con nection between this city and the Yakima valley. ssld position a great quantity of gold could bs found In a natural condition. The dtvulgement ding-donged in his ears for daya, and even nights, but hs fought It off as a mars fancy, or superstition, snd would not even search the spot with mining tool. Ttme went on for a few months, and one day he saw a prospec tor delving Into earth In his neighbor hood, but thought nothing strange thereat, until ths miner began to find pay dirt, when General Lane'e attention was called thereto. Within a few weeks between 110.000 snd 110.000 In gold val ues were abstracted from the pocket. The general wss not deceived when he bethought himself of the 'hunch' hs had had; went and lay on hla cot, opened out the knot hole snd peeped In the direction of where the poor deluded prospector was fairly coining" gold; when lo! Oeneral Lane's optics dilated and expanded, for the spot was ths iden tical one seen In his 'vision.' Oeneral Lane never spoks about this only In his immediate family." From the New York World. One of ths Republicans swept Into ths Fifty-ninth congress by the landslide in Missouri Is William T. Tlndall of Sparta. The congressional convention for the Fourteenth dlatrlct nominated Mr. Tlndall without his knowlsdge or consent. When ths notlcs of his nomi nation wss reoelved hs said: "Pshaw I I'd decline It, only I hat to waate a 2-cent stamp on It." One of the wags In the Republican cloak room Is responilbls for this story about Representative Ketcham of Nsw York, who is qutt deaf. "Ketcham went to a dinner ons night." the tale runs, "and sat next tS a lady who tried to make him as com fortable as possible. There wss some fruit on the table, snd she ssked him; 'Do you like bananas Y '"What's thatr returned Ketcham. " "Do you like bananas T " 'No.' Ketcham replied. 'I never wesr them I stick to ths old-fsshloned night shirt .' - "There is sn old negro down la my town," ssld John Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader of the house, "who did me s service. I wanted to reward him, so I said: " Uncle, which shall I give you a ton of coal or a bottle of whisky Y " 'Foh de Iawd! Massa John.' hs re plied. you-aU sborsly knows 1 buhn wood'" JOURNAL JNO. P. GARMU. The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill hollow and deceptive, should when confronted with a condition of emergency decide to become independent useful and laudable to maintain them and ataggers society that it feebly gasps of fatntness. These young women will be cut by society, of course, but since they have had the good sense to dety artificial society this far by becoming useful members of the larger society composed of the whole people, we may assume that they will smile while fashionable society gaspingly wrinkles its insincere brows, and pursue firmly their course while society staggers, and sinking languidly into a graceful attitude rings the bell for its smelling bottle. PROSPERITY THAT FALLS SHORT. THERE ARE ALWAYS two sides, if not more. We hear and read a great deal about prosperity, and it seems to be a reality. With a great ma jority of the people of this country it certainly is a reality. Farmers are almost all prosperous, and when that is so most other people must be getting along fairly well. There is more money per capita in circulation than ever before. There is great activity in all kinds of in dustrial enterprises. Doubtless far more holiday money will be spent this year than ever before. And yet curious and ominous reports keep coming from eastern cities. Dispatches from New York say that the number of unemployed men there is greater by 40,000 than it was a year ago, and that never before have appli cations for sid from charitable societies been so numer ous. Not only in that city but in others the supply of labor greatly exceeds the demand. Employers in many industrial lines are contracting operations and reducing their payrolls. Wages have not risen with the rise in the cost of life's necessaries. How much ofthis situation is due to a systematic at tempt to break up labor organizations it is impossible to . n,,t U is rrrinn that if the country is so very pros money is being made, the working- - - a .! L l be divided among all classes, and be VALLEY AND PORTLAND. bringing thousands of new people rich and prosperous vaney, ana greany deal, but that have ended where roiTuirsi From the Saturday Evening Post. It ts one of the commonest remarks of ths day that great success Is not worth ths penalties that attend It. Ths timid clttsen looks st the front-page cartoon picturing ths statesman as a monkey, or reada ths morning editorial calling ths financier a wrecker, or solemnly peruses the letter from Old Subscriber condemn ing ths vigorous preacher as a moun tebank, and then concludes thst It Is fsr better to shun these dangers by never doing anything that calls for crit icism. There sre even faint-hearted wives who would prefer thst thslr husbands and sons keep out of ths strenuous ac tivities of lifs for fsar that thsy msy be ridiculed or caricatured. It Is uss less to quots to them old Dr. Johnson's remark that hla book would not be a success because It was not being abused enough, or sdd the very fsmlllar meta phor of the kits and the wind, for auch truths have little effect upon the go essles who would measure ths span of years by creature comforts and mild mental satisfactions. It is a question ss to whether or not ths timid people do not really suffer more than those who gat the hard knocks. They have thslr swarms of little worrls and strong men would rather be stung occasionally by a hornet than harassed continually by mosquitoes. Indeed, to the big workers ths great difficulties are the best encourage ments All men come to the point of choosing between the little obstacles with the little Ufa or the big obstacles with ths big possibilities After that thoss who make ths larger choice pre fer mountains to ant-hills, good stout blows to Insect bites. i 'Israeli called success ths child of audacity. The man who seeks the prises becomes by his boldness sudaclous, snd when he gets well Into the game the very perils he runs snd ths rebuffs thst hit htm hsmmer Into his consciousness ths necessity of striving further, doing better and reaching a higher mark Hs cannot climb down without failure, or stand still ' with crsdlt, for audacity needs a MSw and better climax to each act of the play 8o the slings and arrows of fortuns are In their way good and ussful. They may hurt, but they stimulate; they msy goad, but they drive drive onward and upward. And each nsw elevation bss a Joy that is worth ths pains. Small Change That strand Jury doesn't look good to some people. Only four mora days to get ready for the year a area teat holiday. Mrs. Chadwlck Is undoubtedly the champion fain tress of the country. That bin Republican majority In Con gress la liable yet to make Teddy trou ble. Mrs. Chadwlck ought to play the In aane dodge well; she has had experl- ence. By the time the .Sevastopol Is de stroyed a few more times It may get mad and Are back. With so much water squeezed out of stocks lately, It Is a wonder that wall street was not flooded. The republic of Panama now has an armv of only 26 men. which la SB more than Is necessary. Ths slump in Amalgamated Copper has no appreciable effect on the average town copper In uniform. Of course, congress failed to reform the currency so as to give everybody enough money for Christmas. A party machine will have a hard Job grinding out the usual, or Indeed, any grist In Portland hereafter. The western boy, unlike the boy back east, doesn't expect or hope that Santa Claus will bring him a new sled. There are still a few Republican state senators who have not come out as can didates for president of ths senate. The Igorrotss at fit. Louis mads enough money to keep them in first class dog meat the rest of their lives. Whether Mrs. Chadwlck Is insane or not, there seems to bs no doubt that with all her smartness she was and Is a fool. i The Punishment of one big thief la more to bs desired and will have a bat ter effect than the punishment of half a dosen little ones. If the birth of the csarewltch was a niece of good luck for the Russian mon arch, where would he have been at if twin boys had been born? An English court has decided that a man who earns his living by a profes sion, trad or other occupation la not a gentleman." Per contra, a hobo la a gentleman. In deference to a large portion of the community, the sportive features of Christmas should be confined to Satur day and Monday, and not mads promi nent on Sunday. With an income of over $14,000, end an opportunity to show off hla uni forms occasionally, General Miles will not grieve much because be did not get a nomination for president. If there has been Jobbery In the construction of the Morrison street bridge, search It out, run It down, ex pose It. and If possible punish thoss guilty of swindling ths people. It Is quits time to undertake this work One thing ths people wsnt to know Is, why those fraudulent caaes were ad vanced and made special by a land com missioner who in all probability know ths nature of them? People also havo a pardonable curiosity to know why thoss letter books, or portions of them, were destroyed. Ashland ia In ths "throes" of sn ex citing city election campaign. Ths "cltl ssns" ars pitted against ths "people," as usual. Two applicants for ths position of postmaster of Forest Orove each aent In a petition signed by nearly all ths pa trons of the office, who wished to show no partiality. A curtoua thing happened In Foreat OroVe the other day; a man advertised an umbrella he had found. Five people claimed It, but the first ons to do so got it for ths present. Thoss who hsvs been testing the Eng lish walnut in Waahtngton county find that It can be grown very successfully, but it Is said that ths French walnut is svsn better and more hardy. A Klickitat farmer aent hla hired man to Arlington with a load of potatoes to sell, snd a neighbor sant soma buttsr, both of which products ho sold all right, but put the team In a livery stable and the money In his pocket snd skipped. Ths arrival of men from both the north and south, who havs been long out of work and are eager for any sort of Job, has about filled up the big gap made by the recent walkout of the steel and construction ganga on ths Southern Pacific lines In Josephine snd Douglas counties. Sherwood correspondence of Hlllsboro Independent; When farmers ars under the necessity of coming to town to buy bsled hay for their stock, then Indeed there muat be famine In stock feed. One of our merchants Is selling them baled straw st 17 per ton which Is thankfully picked up and no questions asked. Ashland Tribune: Proper advertising will make the name of Ashland synony mous with "perfect pesches" the state over. Ashland cannot afford to rest on laurels already won; ahe must Increase her orchards. "Peach blow" Is good, but we must have more "pesch" snd lsss "blow" If ws would maintain our lead. Lebanon Kx press -Advance: The North ern Pacific owea Linn county f (.2(0.07 on taxes now dellnqusnt, due on their timber clstms which they gobbled up by aid of the government In lieu of aome worthless dirt up pn Mt. Tacoma. Un less paid, ths property will be sold for taxes In a month or two. Several Sclo dogs have been poisoned, causing the News to say: Sclo hss too many dogs; but ths poison routs Is a too cruel method. Besides, he who will put out poison, does not care whether hs kills the worthless curs or ths most val uable dogs we have. We have no uss for cltlsens who are guilty of such cruel snd cowardly work. The house of a rsnchsr living In ths Lsmunta neighborhood. Crook county, burned one night last week, and one of his children, 4 years old. was horned to death. Ths children had gone up stairs to bed with a candle, and set Are to the bedclothes, whan they ran down, and the parents thought all of them were safe until too lsts to save ths little ons thst remained behind. a . -j- - II Oregon Sidelights ii . ..,XSJ Bryan on Democracy t ii William Jennings Bryan contributes to ths current Issue of ths Saturday Evening Post an articls on "The Re organisation of ths Reorganized De mocracy," in which he discusses ths causes of ths overwhelming victory of ths Republicans and polnta out soms of ths problems confronting ths Demo cratio party. He says In parr: "Whether ths overwhelming victory won by the Republican party in ths re csrlt national campaign Is to bs con sldered ss an Indorsement of ths presi dent and his policies, or ss a rebuke to the Democratic party. Is a question which cannot bs fully determined until the' returns are oomplete. It la evi dent, however, at this, writing that ths falling off in ths Democratic vots was much greater than the gain In the Be publican vote, and In soms places ths Democratic loaa was even greater than ths gain shown by all other parties combined. This would indicate a con siderable stsy-st-homs vote, snd the man who stays at home usually doea as because neither his own party nor any other party arouses his interest Ths great majority of the members of ths Democratic party voted tnelr ttcxet. although a very considerable number of those who voted did so with much lsss snthuslaam than thsy manifested In former years; but voted because thsy felt that Judge Parker's election would bring certain much-nesdsd reforms, wheress President Roosevelt's promised nothing of ths sort. "But In spits of ths advantages prom ised by Judge Parker's election it Is svldent thst a great many Democrats were so devoted to economic reform and so disappointed at ths party's failure to maks a vigorous attack upon ths Re publican policies all along ths line that they refused to support the Democratic ticket. This disaffection waa far greater than ths Republicans themselves expected, for In slmost every Instance the Republican plurality waa consider ably larger than the Republican com mltleea claimed ths day before election. It Is only fair to Bay that Mr. Roose velt's personality contributed to aome extent to ths magnitude of his victory, for opposition to him was Isssensd by the fact that eon thought him a re former In disguise. There Is nothing in bis official career to encourage the be lief that he will propose any reforms, and yet It Is unquestionably true that many voters In his own party and out side of it srs expecting that hs will 'turn loose" ss soon as he Is Inaugu rated aa president In his own right. a Though It will require four years for the country to form an satlmats of ths value (or cost) of ths recent vic tory, it Is already evident that ths over whelming character of the defeat has put an end to the attempts of ths so- called 'conservative Democrats' to emasculate the Democratic creed. The fact that the party, notwithstanding Judge Parker's 'gold telegram.' was de feated by a larger plurality than even when ths platform contained a 16-to-l plank, has made It impossible for the eastern wing to tempt again by a promlae of victory. In the beginning of the campaign some of the literature aent out con tained editorials from New Tork papers declaring that ths party had repudiated Populism' and waa again 'safe and aane.' It waa not long before it was discovered that such literature was harmful, and during the' latter days of ths campaign the real danger became apparent, and earnest appeals were made to thoss who wers fighting ror economic and Industrial reforms. That there is need of reform la al ready apparent to millions, and It will become spparsnt to Increasing num bers aa ths years advance. The extent to whloh ths public is being exploited today Is not fully realized by sny large proportion of the people. If It wsrs the Republican party would be turned out of power by a vote largely In excess of that by which It won In ths recent campaign. It Is ths duty of ths Demo cratic party and a duty which It la now free to perform to present to the public ths reasons for refusing longer to trust ths government to Republican leaders. "Take, for Instanes, ths railroads. They are atocked and bonded for ap proximately twlcs what they are worth. "Ths trust question prsssnts some of ths same phases ss ths railroad prob lem. Nearly all the trusts ars over capitalized and rely upon their control of ths market to collect dividends, and besides this thsy ars constantly narrow ing ths field of Independent enterprise. "The Democratic party has declared In two platforms that a private mo nopoly Is indefensible snd intolerable. It has demanded the enforcement of the criminal law and It has also demanded that ths privileges of interstate com merce bs withdrawn from ths trusts. It has a chance to bring this question before the public with increasing em phasis, and It will profit by the public sentiment which must ultlmstely con demn private monopolies of svery kind. "If the Republican party Is afraid to promtss tsrlff revision during ths cam paign It la not likely to maks sny ma terial revision after a grsat victory. " "Ths labor queatlon Is growing in im portance. The manufacturers ars or ganising to fight the legislation asked for by the wage-earners. Ths tendency of this Is necessarily to widen the gulf between labor and capital, and the sit uation cannot help being aggravated If. for any reason, there Is a falling off In production and a decrease In the num ber employed. Ths Republican admin istration must meet this problem. "Though the production of gold has for ths time being made less scuts the demand for ths restoration of bimetal lism, still there sre other phases of ths subject that are likely to present Issues which will embarrass the Republicans. 'The growth of municipal ownership In the cities has been accompanied by a growth In public aentlmsnt favorable to the extension of governmental ac tivity. "There Is an increasing demand for an enlargement of the money-order aystsm to most the nssds of rural delivery, and this, of course, mssts with the opposi tion of ths banks. "The consolidation of ths trunk lines of railway, ths raising of ths freight rates and ths political influence exerted by the railways these, taken together, ars Increasing the number of thoss who bellsvs that railroads should bs classed among natural monopolies and taken out of the hands of private individuals and corporations. "The demand for the election of Sen ators by ths people Is strong among ths masses, but this too Is opposed by the corporations. "As ths expensss of ths nsvy con tinue to increase that subject Is likely to become mors snd mors an Issue. "Attention has been called to some of ths problems (and there are others) which the Republican party must meet; they are problems Intimately connected with ths welfare of the country, snd the Republican party la not In position to offer a permansnt solution of any of (1 them. It Is too much undsr ths In fluence of ths great corporations to settle these questions upon ths peo ple's slds, and thsy can never bs settled until they ars settled upon the people's slds. There ts every Indication that ths Democratic party will now address itself to these reforms, and trsas, by deserving success, lay ths foundation for a real victory." Tne Play A queen In America's operatic court Is Johanna Oadskl, In whoss honor musical Portland turned out in magnificent ar ray at ths Marquam last night. Nsver In ths history of that auditorium was thsrs an audience more reluctant to leave It, and rarely haa a musical recital been so largely attended, ths advanced prioas considered. Ths management was sensible In set ting the stage to lass than one-third Its depth, thus allowing none of the mar velous tones of the singer to die be hind the footlights. Madams Oadskl rendsrsd a program that all but trans ported the listeners to a realm divine. There were so many favorltss among her selections last svenlng that one ex perienced considerable difficulty In making a choice, but to my notion the artiste wss at bar vsry best In the aria. "My Heart St Thy Dear Voice." from Saint Saens' "Samson and Delilah,' which opened the second part of her program. The aria rsprsssnts ths woo Ing of Ssmson before the departure of his strength, and the dramatic rendition given by Oadskl mads it almoat possible to see ths conspiring Philistine ready to take away that strength. Ths soft ef fect of the final "1 love you" was a su perb example of Oadskl's technical qual ities. It wss thrilling in Its tsnderness. Her dramatic firs developed first In "Brlklng," snd "the art patetlque" was exhibited In Franz' "Aus Melnen Orossen Schmerzen." These were all sung In the language of the composers, and until, as an en core, ths madams gavs "To Love," it wss not a certainty in ths audience that she spoks English. The encores, by ths way, wsrs numerous and Oadskl re sponded alwaya with a smile. At the conclusion of her concert, after her ren dttlon of the aria from "Tannhauser," the crowd tat for a moment, aa if under a hypnotic Influence. Then it arose and demanded ons mors song, and than one mors. Aftsr which, shs was tendered the greatest ovation of her triumphal evening. Madame Oadskl Is assisted by H. Bel- mar Meyrowlts st ths piano. Hs la skill ful and temperamental to an astonish ing degree, but In each of hla solos dis played uneaalneaa, which led to the thought that hs hss not long been be fore ths public as a virtuoso. Ws ought to shake hands with Oadskl for the beautiful manner In which shs rebuked late comers. Whensvsr shs saw an uaher aeatlng people aftsr ths ac companist had begun ths Introduction of a song, shs frowned her disapproval, and ths concert cams to an abrupt halt until ths tardy ones, thoroughly abashed, wars in their chairs. RACE WHITNEY. The Musln Concert company was well received lsst evening at ths White Temple, notwithstanding ths heavy counter-attraction. Oadskl. The organisation la headed by Oylde Musln, an able violinist. Who waa re peatedly encored, and Includes Oulllaume Koentgh. pianist; Madams Grace Whist ler Mustek and Marlon Oresn, vocalists. The program was selected with good Judgment, snd gave great satisfaction. In winter quarters In what la now North Dakota. December 10. The wind waa from the northwest, ths weather moderate, the thermometer 24 degrees above aero at sunrise. We availed ourselves of this Changs to picket ths fort near ths river. TO BtTMAWX. From the San Francisco Chronicle. It Is learned that ths sum allotted to Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa by ths Carnegie institution for the purpose of enabling him to instigate researches in the development of fruits, vegetables and grasses is 1100,000. This magnifi cent allowance will bs paid to ths wizard of horticulture in 10 annual Installments of f 10,000 year. The appropriation was made In conse quence of the representations of Judgu W, W. Morrow, ons of ths trustees of the Institution, who Is now In Washing ton. Hs succeeded in Impressing his co trustses by relating some of ths won derful achievements of Burbank In originating and hybridising frulta flowers and vegetables. Ths trus tees vsry willingly granted ths ap propriation. Burbank will remain In California, but will now be able to carry on hla work on a larger seals than here tofore, and with the added advantage of being freed from bualness cares. In all probability he will continue his experi ments and Investigations at hla Santa Rosa home. Burbank has bsen working on the improvement snd development of fruits and flowers for it years, and In that time hss attained world-wide fame as a wlsard in hybridisation. Aided by the splendid allowancs from ths Car negte institution, hs will probably make discoveries In the next 10 yeara that will Immensely enhance hla already great reputation. AjnrtJAX, f AkCE Of COBTOl From the Chicago Evening. Post. Every year, shortly aftsr ths opening of congress, the stage is prepared for the revival of that ancient farce, "Why I'm Agin Civil Service." Ths passing of time my Changs ths cast, the ssme farce players may not appear, but tbsrs Is no change In ths lines, not a varia tion In the "business." It's the asms old farce, no mstter who playa it. Yesterday Messrs. Hepburn of Iowa, Bartlett of Qeorgla and Orosvenor of Ohio wsrs ths funmskers. Their humor consisted chiefly of an attempt to appear serious, and the houss was convulsed with laughter at thslr lugubrious t hrusts at ths msrlt law and ths civil service commission. Mr. Hepburn had tsars In hla eyes when he repeated the well known line, "I denounce ths present merit Systsm ss un-American snd until for our uses." Mr. Orosvenor with mov ing pathos told how ths civil service commission had hounded a poor rural msll csrrler In Ohio. Never hss ths old fares been presented with such spirit; nsvsr was the merit system attacked with such sidesplitting buffoonery, and nsver was it mors proof against thess sssaults than It Is today. It might be mentioned that this farce Is alwaya presented In two acta. Ths first, as plsysd yesterday, attacks ths merit system, usually through an appro priation. Ths second discovers farceurs voting "Yea" with a loud voles when the appropriation In question comes to a final issue. It Is aU vsry funny sad vsry foolish. bewis and Clark m- rVoman Sculptor Honored From ths Dsnvsr Post. To a Denver young woman. Miss Alios Cooper, haa fallen ths pleasant task of immortalising In clay ths memory of ths Pocahontas of ths west. Sacajawea. ths "Bird Woman." who with hsr baby strappsd to hsr back tramped to the 1'aulflo with Lewis and Clark, and aa thslr guide shared all ths hardships of ths Immortal expedition. But though shs shared their hard ships shs mlssss ths glory of any public acknowledgment for many yeara. Not until the St. Louis and the Portland ex positions did this heroine of ths north west begin to win the appreciation that is her due. A million dollars was appropriated by Oregon to honor the heroes of ths Lewis and Clark expedition by a great expo sition, but thla heroin of the Journey, who more than once saved the little party from annihilation, was completely forgotten by the men of Oregon. Ths women of the northwest came promptly to the rescue of their neglected sister. Mrs. Eva Emery Dye headed a movement of ths women's clubs to srsct a status of Sacajawea. It was to cose $7,000, and was to be designed by a west ern woman. Ths honor of executing It fell to Miss Alice Cooper of this city. Ths story of ths Lewis and Clark ex pedition is ons of ths spies of American achievement. It Is a tale of pluck and of perseverance against odds of which Americana are proud and no member of the expedition la entitled to more honor than Sacajawea, the Indian wife of Ton lssalnt Chabonneau, a ne'er-do-well French voyageur. She was a Shoshone ths daughtsr of a chief but had been captured by another tribe and sold to Chabonneau as a Slav Tha Isadora of ths expedition took hsr and her husband along with thsm be cause they thought shs might bs useful among the Bhoshones as an Interpreter. So Sacajawea. tha girl-wife, who was soon to bs a mother, wintered with the party st Fort Mandan, entered Into ths mystery of motherhood there, and when spring cams bound hsr pappoose to a flat board and tramped acroaa t.he conti nent with ths stoicism of an Indian. Shs helped ths msn msnd thslr clothes. She hslped cook thslr dinners. Shs tend ed ths little fellow, who was Just be ginning the Journey of his life, aa well ss ths Journey across ths untrodden con tinent. But though Sacajawea, was a woman, shs waa also a heroine. Shs savsd a capsized canoe that her husband had de serted In a windstorm, because ahe knew it contained valuable charts prlssd by ths Issdsrs of ths expedition. Ths Indian princess cheered ths party by hsr good humor and was an inspiration to them by reason of hsr pluck Here comes In ths romance of ths ex pedition. Horses muat bs got from ths Shoshonss to contlnus thslr Journey across ths Rockies. Could Sacajawea win them over to help the white men Sacajawea, who had been stolen from ths trtbs when she was a little glrlT With much difficulty a eonferencs was arranged. Lewis mst Cameahwalt. thslr chief, snd Induced the Indians, who wsrs still very suspicious, to accom pany him to camp. They eat down and smoked ths pipe of peace, still watching each other Jeal ously. Then Cameahwalt began to speak Just ss Sacajawea entered. She ran forward and nung ner arms snout him, bursting Into tears. The two splen did Indiana stood before the assembled crowd In a stress of emotion. Sacajawea had won ths day for ths whites. On the return Journey from the coast the "Bird-Woman" saved the party again several times. The sight of her and the smiling little pappoose charmed away the fear of the suspicious tribes that were met. She discovered the "proper way to follow when ths party waa lost. In a tlms of famine sbs gavs nsr last piece of bread to Captain Clark. These were the glorious yeara in tne life of Sacajawea. and It la something of this glory that Miss Cooper haa carried Into her strong status of the "Bird- Woman." The sturdy nobility snd simplicity of ths status ars Its distinguishing quali ties. Just ss they are of moat of Miss Cooper's work The young Indian prin cess stands lithe and straight like a young pine. You see In every line her sturdy strength, hsr nobility, hsr rather heavy grace, and her vision of ths great ness of her task. She la the guide of greatness and the artist makes her real- Is it in ths upllftsd back-thrown head, the rapt look of leadership with which she looks Into ths unknown f ut urn. Even her chubby pappoose haa bean for the moment forgotten. Alice Cooper studied first at ths Den ver university under Preston Powers. From there shs wsnt to ths Chicago Art institute and Joined the class of Lorado Taft, ths famous sculptor. Evsn from hsr childhood, when shs lived on Cham pa street with her parents, sbs dabbled In clay and pinched It Into smiling fscss. But under competent training ahe came to the front rapidly. Mlas Cooper haa done soms modeling that has attracted ths favorable notlcs of ths Chicago critics. A mounted cow boy Is perhaps the best, thing shs hss dons. It waa taken from' life on a Colo rado ranch and la an excellent piece of work In Its strong simplicity. Ths cow boy sits listlessly on his little broncho, which stands patiently aa it haa stood for hours apparently. "The Frog," a piece in arrested motion. Is also a atrong piece of work Bo, too, is "A Summer Breeze," which shows a happy, lithe, nude figure of a girl atretched on the turf,-her locks blowing In front of hsr aa shs puffs the down from the dande lion. The lines of the youthful figure are excellently modeled. jm , In Miss Cooper's work, whether It be of the ideal or the "native born," there is a refreshing absence of mero clever ness. Honesty, directness, virility thesn are the promising points sbout this young; srtlst's work The women of the entire west were invited to compete for the Sacajawea statue. From them all Miss Cooper bore away the palm of victory. This will be the first status svar erected in honor of an Indian woman. After ths exposition Is over It will be preserved In ons of Portland's parks. Thst a Denver woman has been selscted for ths Important task of preserving in permanent form a me morial of ths heroic wofk of Sacajawea la cause for congratulation to art lovers in this city. Learn From ths Heathen. From the New York Independent. Here ts a lesson from the heathen. In the district of Wsh-heln, the province of Sz-chuen, Chins, thsrs was a terrible drought. No rain fell for 11 days, at Just ths tlms when rice was to bs trans planted. Famine stared the people In the face. They prayed, thsy fastsd from meat, fowl", eggs; they made vows, but still no rsln. At last they derided thst the snger of the gods was for some sin. snd concluded that It was for the sin of growing opium. Thereupon thsy sU greed to grow no mors opium. They gathered snd burnt berore tne inoie all their poppy seed. Thsy signed their words each with bis own blood. Then ths rain cam.