Editorial Page of TEe Journal PORTLAND. ORKOON, SATURDAY. HWMBI St, MM. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C 0. JACKSON Published every BIASED AND PREJUDICED AFTKR WHAT mutt have been a straining scrutiny of the situation, the Salem Journal has dis covered precisely the cause of the present and prospective proceedings by the government against cer tain prominent citizens of Oregon, perhaps including one ur mere members of congress. Not only hat the Salem paper ascertained that all these proceedings are purely spitework, but that they were undertaken at the prompt ing and instigation of a single Oregon man, now a pri vate' citizen, to wit. Malcolm A. Moody. That paper rin Hints the history of the business rivalry between the Moody and the Mays families at The Dalles which developed into a political feud, one consequence of which was the indictment last year of Mr. Moody, who, accord ing to this theory, is the principal if not the sole person age behind the indictment of Mr. F. P. Mays, and the at tacks npon Hermann and others. To give some show of p'autibiltty to this explanation the capital paper says that Moody has had a good deal of influence at Wash ington since his retirement from congress, and intimates that his word there "goes" at against that of all the Ore gon delegation. This is surely claiming more for Mr. Moody, or laying more upon hit thouldert, than the circumstances war rant. It may very likely be true that Mr. Moody's counsel is favorably considered in Washington, and it ii. ay be that he is not extremely grieved at the discomfit tire of his enemies; but that the government should un dertake this extensive, notable and costly crusade merely to gratify the spite of Mr. Moody it too absurd to be more than momentarily considered. But that is not the main point, nor a point at all: the only question is: Are the government's accusations and suspicions true? This is something to be determined, and if that should be proven true it it not the tlightett defente or excute, as the Salem Journal seems to think it would be, if Mr. 'Moody had a hand in bringing about the exposures though the assumption that he had it to far entirely gratuitous. The Roseburg Plaindealer, not having yet thought of Moody, continues to tay the whole blame of the persecu tion of some of Oregon's most eminent citixent upon Secretary Hitchcock, who it claims hat a bitter grudge againtt them, and upon Mr. Heney, who it argues holdt a malevolent tpite againtt Senator Mitchell for criticis ing hit appointment as tpecial attittant attorney-general. The Plaindealer laments these groundlest spite work attacks upon distinguished and honored cititent widrlrif office-holders,-all crf ivlrom tt'tyi ire persons of the most unblemithed reputation, and of whote of ficial record there hat never been any complaint or crit icism. At to one of the persons alluded to and fre quently mentioned, the Roseburg paper of course knowt and to mutt its readers, that it is not telling the truth, but farther than this The Journal at this, time will not go, because it is due to both sides to await' the processes and conclusions of the federal court. While the papers named and tome others are aeeking to intimidate the prosecution, The Journal would not if it could tay any thing either to embarrass the government or to pre judice the defendant!. But the tame remark applies in this at in the other instance, that whether the government is mistaken or not, whether it is using good judgment and building on a sufficient basis of facts or not, it it not only improbable but incredible that with President Roosevelt behind these movements, it it acting on the prompting of a petty personal tpite againtt the pertons rumored to b im plicated. The government mutt have had far other and entirely different reasons, whether well founded or not, . for its actions, paat or prospective! The papers mentioned and a few othert exhibit to strong a bias that they o'erleap themselves They have already tried certain partiea and acquitted them before they have heard a word of evidence. But while with holding judgment, the people want to know the truth, and the whole truth. If it leavet these men unscathed, The Journal will rejoice aa sincerely at anybody. CHRISTMAS AND THE CHILDREN. CHRISTMAS is especially the children'! day. The smaller ones yet believe in Santa Claus, or if they have their doubts, they are not worried by them. A large part of the pleature Chrittmaa confen upon adultt springs from teeing the happinett of the children. They are little men and women, much like grown-up folk after all. They expect presents on Chritt maa, and within reasonable bounds their childith detiret thould be gratified. All of them cannot have all they would like, which might not be, good for them, but to make them happy on this occasion is not only the priv ilege of parents but almost a duty. Christmas also furnishes an opportunity for teaching the little onet an important lesson that of unselfish- hit TlaBl Biroimoi. Prom the Boston Transcript, Decem ber 14, 104. The United States seems to be a country of almost continuous national or International expositions, so, now that the St Louis fair is a thing of the past. Interest develops In Its Immediate suc cessor, which, aa the world knows. Is to be beld at Portland, Or., from the first of next June to the middle of the following October; and Is to commemo rate the explolte and services to this country f those now familiar pioneers and heroes. Lewis and Clark. A corre spondent of the Brooklyn Eagle gives some particulars of the attractive pros pects that await the patrons of this enterprise. The people of the eaat have become somewhat weary of expositions, hut the one Immediately In view la un der different conditions than those that have appealed to them In the past. They do not oare particularly what it Is or what It commemorates, but the place in which It la located will doubtless prove a magnet of drawing power. " Everybody this side the Mississippi would Ilka to visit the Pacific slope,-and many will be grateful for a reasonable excuse for making tbe trip. Then Port land has developed a new and wonderful reputation aa a health resort for over wrought and nervous people and some wonderful recoveries are recorded. Many were afraid of the St. Louis climate but thai of Portland Is one of the strong inducements to pay It a visit. It Is soothing and soporific, practically free from rata In the summer time and neither too hot nor too cold. Thus the conditions are right for the maintenance of a tranquil mind and an equable tem per. Portland sent Henry Doech. one of the shrewdest and most prominent of bar retired business men, to Japan last year to show the people nfthat country how to run the fair that' they were holding at Osaka. So pleaded were they with ia set vires and the benefit de rived from hie counsel that the mikado eonf erred ut on him the decoration of the third order of the sacred treasure, and Portland baa saade him director of PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. ( except Sunday ) and ovary Sunday morning at street, Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND STATEMENTS. VERY two robberies by "Bob" council must have ptession, if not to vicious wretches properly belong. CURIOUS HE Brooklyn Democratic mont stripe, the New York porters of Senator New York state is exhibits. Hla draft upon Japan will bs cheerfully honored to the extant of a $2,000,000 exhibit which will be twice as great as that at St. Louis. In fact, the Japanese will occupy one third of the foreign exhibit building. Mr. Dosch Is also making an effort to secure an ethnological exhibit that will take In all the tribes and races from Kamchatka and the Aleutian lalands, to Borneo, Samoa, the FIJI Islands and ths Bush men of Australia. In Tact, the exposi tion will be quite as much oriental as occidental In character, and thoas who would like to visit Asia but cannot, will find Asia meeting them more than half way at this city on the Columhls. Chicago had the "Midway" and St. Louis the "Pike," but Portland will have the "Trait." a very happy differentiation and very appropriate to the particular service that -da to be commemorated. It will be built on plies along a bridge, nearly a quarter of a mile long across the lake, to the Island on which the government buildings are located. More over, tb lake will be a real one, not made to order by the contractor, but prepared by nature, which In auch mat ters Is much the more satisfactory workman. So we may expect the com ing year to be one of Immense trans continental travel and Europe to see fewer Americans than usual. From the Woodburn Independent. Puter and his gsng are guilty of fraud There era others, but that alt will he caught Is doubled. It Is a pretty bad mess and It does not look well In any paper endeavoring to excuae the actions of these conspirators. Tie true that they ere small Ash. but the government, with Roosevelt at the helm, may auc eaed In landing bigger specimens. There are certain southern Oregon newspapers, who have been hand In hand with Her mann. Including big lumber companlee, who do not Ilka the way things are go ing, hut they accomplish nothing, and merely attract attention and further sus picion, by being loud mouthed about it. JNO. f. CARROLL The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill nets. There are 'little girls and boys, even in this city where very poor people are scarce, who will receive no Christmas gifts, who will not hang up their stockings tonight, or if they do will find them empty in the morn ing. Older people are too prone to forget two things: how they felt when they were children, and that the children of the poor long for Christmas giftt aa much as those of parents who are able to make their little ones happy. It is a beautiful thing for children who get all their hearts' desire on Christmas to divide with those whose little hearts are poignantly grieved because they have no gifts at all. There are but very few such in Portland, we hope; if there are any, they thould be hunted out and made happy. Rut most of the little ones will have a happy, merry Christmat, we -drnrbt not,- wnr there-it ivo more? ynHaerme tight or sound on earth than their innocent joy makes. SUPPRESS THE CRIMINAL DIVES. or three days or so, reports are made of and vicious assaults in the dive kept Patterson and J. B. Moore and by "Jed" Hart, and yet they are allowed to keep their dis orderly and criminal dens open, and to pursue their trade of thuggery and thievery with but occasional and com paratively slight molestation. It is long past the proper time when these vile resorts and their proprietors should have been suppressed. There may be others equally bad, but none seem to be quite to openly lawless and detestably wicked in their nefarious occupation. If only a tmall proportion of frequent reports are true, these men are far more deserving of penal servitude than -many who are suffering this penalty. That they are vicious thugs is not be doubted, and that they harbor people whose main business is robbery is equally cer tain; and yet they are authorized to continue in the pur suit of their "business," to the disgust of all decent peo ple and the injury and shame of the city. There ought to be a weeding out of such vile creatures from the saloon business, which under the law is a le gitimate occupation. There ought to be closer scrutiny of applicants for license, and discrimination in granting them. The men mentioned and the resorts they conduct, and all like them, ought to be put under, the ban. Such men and places have no right to a business existence here. The law does not contemplate their existence. Vices will be practiced, and all taloont cannot be made equally obedient to law and conformable to decency; but tuch hotbeds of the grossest iniquities and audacious crimes as these, and their known proprietors, can and must be suppressed. The police department and the evidence enough to justify their sup send these and other such vile and into penal retirement, where they ADVICE TO DEMOCRATS. Eagle and the New York Times, newspapers of the Cleveland-Bel advise the Democratic members of legislature to join forces with the sup Depew and help elect him, if such a result be possible, and so beat Governor Odell and his machine, who it is supposed will dictate the election of ex-Governor Black, unless Odell concludes to take the office himself Thit is bad advice," from a Democratic point of view. so gerrymandered in the interest of the Republican party that a Democratic legislature can not be elected again until there is a great popular up heaval in -protest against Republican rule, and that is likelyto happen before many years, when the Democrats should be able to present a clean, united front, without being the victims of such disorganization and suspicion as alwayt follows moves of this kind. If Depew were an exceptionally able, broad, fit man, if he were in a large degree an independent man, if he were greatly the superior as a public servant in the sen ate to Udell's candidate, there might be some excuse for the advised action; but he is none of these. Depew is an urbane, polished, ready-tongued, high-salaried em ploye of the Vanderbilts, who desires to be tenator chiefly for the tocial dittinction which the potition con fers, and to protect the interettt of the people he serves; and there is nothing in his career, attitude or attainments that invites the votes of true Democrats. But he might suit the recent reorganizers, who if in power in New York would be likely to send Belmont, Sheehan, McCarren or Hill to the senate. The advice to Democrats to vote for Depew is evidently based on the theory that there is no difference between the two par ties, and that the only thing for the Democratic patty to do is to out-Herod the Republican Herod. DBV OOU 8 LOKfO) x.m From the New Tork World. The snow was blowing In great wet drifts, melting on the sidewalks and soaking through overcoats snd rubbers when a representative of the Sunday World called on the Rev. Itobert Coll yar, pastor emeritus of the Church of the Messiah, who celebrated his list birthday a few days ago. Dr. Collyer was out, his son said, but was expected home to lunch In about 10 minutes, so the World man waited in the library, with Its big cases full of morocco-bound books, and watched ths driving snow that obscured the other side of Fifty fifth streak Soon Dr. Collyer arrived, stamped the snow from his overshoes, brushed It from his overcoat, and entered the room. "How is It that a man of your age daree to face suoh a storm aa this?" axked the World man. Dr. Collyer laughed a merry, whole some laugh that shook his long white haar and wrinkled his rosk cheeks and bright eyes Into a mask that a Greek sculptor might have oopled as a symbol of Comedy. "There Is no secret about It. I llvs rightly and never worry," he replied. "Did you never worryt" "Only once. When we were burned out along with the whole city of Chi cago I began to worry. Then my wife said, 'Don t worry, and I stopped. What la your receipt for attaining old age with perfect health T" "Take eight hours' sleep and do the work that comes your way as wsll as you can. Men should not overtax their own powers; they should live simply and sanely and not let tomorrow's possible troubles worry them today. By sleep ing regularly eight hours out of the 14, by putting all my efforts Into the Im mediate work of the day and by liv ing tightly 1 have managed never to have a day's sickness la my life. I have never even had to have my break fast in bed that I can remember. "My father was never 111, either, and ha died suddenly at a great age while at work at hla force. And my mother never worried either." Small Change Last eall for Christmas bargains. 'Here's hoping no stockings will be found empty. The Sevastopol hasn't been destroyed for over 14 hours. The Sunday .Christinas Journal will repay examination. When fleet meets fleet, there will be another tug; of war. Now la the time when the little ones have dreams o' nights. The fowls on show are rejoicing that they are not fat turkeys. The merchants and their clerks will be glad to rest tomorrow. The Russian squadron Is not making anything like record speed. ' ' The Republican machine Is being sub Jetted to a vary severe strain. Whenever she Isn't In a faint, Mrs. Chadwiok is very lively and busy. , What is needed Is somebody to lw son the beef trust and the steel trust. With cackle, cackle and crow, crow. The hens and cocks say, "We' re on show.' Smoot is occasionally and Incidentally alluded to in the Investigation, after all. Lovers of mualo oan be pleased aa well aa instructed by going to church tomor row. If anybody waa missed a gift next week will not be amiss. Better lata than never. "Will votrTnu an officer- asked the mayor. "I don't care If I take Wan is r." he replied. The thick hide of the Standard Oil oc topus appears to have been punctured at last. It squirms. The east beats us on snow, but It can't out-of-door Christmaa roses In by thousands. show bloom We are worried about Mr. Qrover Cleveland haven't heard of his going duck snooting once this winter. Considerable Interest will center in the arrival tomorrow of two distinguished Oregon statesmen from Washington. Only a week more of '04; then begins the fair year during which Portland will loom up largely in the American public eye. The trade af the Philippine Islands with this country has fallen off $5,000. 000 during the paat year. Shouldn't the tariff be raised? The proper committee of the council will perform a plain duty by refusing a number of dive keepers, or their part ners or associates, saloon licensee. Another high achool building is a man ifest necessity, and the eaat side Is tbe piece for It. Half Portland's population will live on the eaat aide in tbe near fu ture. This is the time of year whan a great many people agree with some of our statesmen that an elastic currency is needed so that a IS bill will buy 20 worth of stuff. Oregon Sidelights Weston haa a good- prospect of flourishing mill. Most Oregon oountles, perhaps all wUl show up at the fair. Shale, good for making bricks, 1 been found on Traak river. Many visitors are showing up Irrlgon, looking over the prospects. at Tramps having been driven out of Albany now Infest Corvallls and vicinity. A new telephone line la bln mm. tabltshed between Halsey and Browns- vine. La Grande la growing perhaps more rapidly than any Oregon city except Portland. , A male realdent of Sand Lake. Tilla mook county, la a professions! button hole maker. Turkey raisers of Lane county formed a poo and secured a larger pries than they otherwiae could. Ashland elected a dry mayor and two wet to one dry councilman, and so is still on the ragged edge. rfiardiner. Douglss county, la a very prosperous town of 400. which haa a weekly paper published by the only wo men newspaper proprietor, publisher and editor In the state, Miss Dolly Hefty. Three MedTord men have received a shipment of S.500 pear trees from Salt Lake. So much pear planting haa been going on that the varieties shipped Beurre Boec and Howell have been ex hausted in the local nurseries, hence must be brought In from outside. Mayor Taylor has notified the olty msrshal of Athena to arrest and proae cute all business houses which sell cig arettes or tobacco to boys under II years of ags. Likewise ha has stopped gambling, selling liquor to minora and prohibited shaking dice In drug stores snd saloons Lincoln county clttsens agreed to raise 1100 If tho county court would appropri ate 1400 more for an exhibit , at the Lewis and Clark fair, bat the court made no appropriation, and It looka now as If Lincoln county would be unrepresented, which will make Its good people sshamed when they visit ths fair. Medford Southern Orsgonlan: A print ing office la regarded aa a bureau of In formation, but the climax waa reached si mis omce one nay last week by a woman calling us up and asking to know wnen the sign would he right to wean her baby. An almanac was at once con salted and the desired Information 'phoned back. pringfiald News: Springfield will bo a second Zlon City. After January 1 sll smoking, chewing, drinking, gambling snd dancing will be nut out. Some of the hoys have pledged themeelvse to quit making "goo-goo" eyea at the fslrer sax and have even circulated a pledge that prohibits the signers the right to epedk to a lady that haa paaaed the ags of 14. This is signed by nearly all the boys CoL Vjrccne Wall Street Angel (From the New Tork World. William Cornell Greene, who saade a flying leap to fame by spending 142.000 on newspaper advertisements last Tues day, simply to publlaly dsnounoe .Thomas W. Laweon aa a liar, faker' and' charla tan, la a curious jumble of Bat Master son and J. Plerpont Morgan. He cam to New York four years ago, the sole owner of a property which In liol had an actual market value of III, 011,000. Today hla real frlenda hats to .think of how much he baa got left. Wall street haa been a terribly costly venture with him. His money has been taken away from him In wada that would stagger half a doaen national hanks. He boaated on Tuesday that he had 111,000.000 left to tight Laweon. On Thursday he admitted that the two days of ths Laweon alump In Greene Consolidated Copper had coat him ex actly 14.141,321.17. At that time ha de clared he had 11,000,000 left to fight Laweon. Where all his millions have gone la no secret to the man who have followed hla Walt street career olosely Many of them regard htm aa the most colossal "angel" that ever got south of Pine street. Tbe estimates that theao men place upon the remnant of hla wealth do not tally with the most recent of his own figures. They are lower toy a wide margin. Hla title of colonel Is purely a cour tesy. It wss given him when with his sudden and atupendous bound to enor mous riches he abandoned the leas con ventional sobriquet of "Bronco Bill," by which he waa known in Southern Ari sona for over a quarter of a century. Colonel Greene is 41 years old. He waa born in Weatcheater county, a few mtlee above the present New Tork City Una, his family being very nice people, but not distinguished In any .way. He got the western fever before he reached the age of manhood and finally drifted to Southern Arizona, not far from the Mexican line Blsbea. a little town 40 miles from ths line, was the metropolis which knew him best until ho became a 10-tlme millionaire. People who thought ths colonel Buf fered with "cold feet" when he failed to go to Lawson'a Boston offlos on schedule time, and characterised him a a "four-flushing bad man," mad a mistake. Ha haa a number of absurd hangers- on and they tell absurd stories about hi ability aa a gun-fighter; his courage, nerve, eta Conservative men who knew him In the Old days In Arizona declare that while thee stories are ridiculous ths colonel wsa aa good an all around man aa the average expert plainsman. He could shoot with the best of them, ride with the nerviest of them, and never showed ths white feather In times of stress He herded cattle In a dangerous Indian country, and 10 years ago shot at Indiana, and waa ahot at by Indiana tlmoa Innumerable. Unlike Mr. Lawaon. his friends, do not undertake to say how many. If any, notchea he la entitled to wear on his gun. Lawaon says of four man that he killed two were ahot In the back. If he shot anybody In the back, and his friends don't admit that he did, they amy the colonel waa justified, that he was up against men who would have shot him in ths back if they could have got him first. One of the absurd stories told about the colonel Is this. Ths end of the sec ond finger of his left hand Is missing A bullet took It off. In one of hla In dian fight 20 odd years ago he waa surrounded by a small band. The firing brought his cowboy friends up on ths gallop. They found htm lying dssed In the grass behind hla dead horse. He waa wounded In two or three places, one of the wounds being on the finger. A count of dead Indiana was mads on the line of the circle which the attacking party made. Thirteen oorpses was the total. Colonel Greene la anything but the plainsman In appearance today High living, rich food and tbe luxurious life of a multt-mllllonalr in thia city during the paat four year haa piled mountains of fat on him. He Is about 5 feet 10 Inches tall and wslghs 110 pounds or more. He la not only fat, he la flabby. Any exertion makea him puff. Rheuma tism assails him at times He haa a rich, florid color, not ths kind du to outdoor life, but to a liberal patronage of a generously equipped table Ths colonel Is good-natured but ex plosive. In the company of millionaires he affects the manners of the plains man. In the company of ordinary mor tals hs affects the manner of the mil lionaire; the solid, substantial men of weighty business affairs; the financier whose utterances are of deep Import to the Wall strset world. Here is the way the colonel eame to be the owner of property that had a value of 111,000,000 and more: Just serosa tbe Mexican line from Southern Arizona waa a great tract of pasture land which waa purchased In lit! by a syndicate of Callfornlans headed by United States Senator George C. Par kins. There were a number of rsnches on the property. One oi them waa called the Cananaa. Ths land was In the state of So nor. Tear after year the land afforded fair grating for the cattle kept upon it. In the latter part of the 90s "Broncho Bill" Greene had amassed enough money to give up cattle herding and to purchase a small ranch of his own In Southern Arisona cloae to the Mexican line. His ranch prospered and he began to pile up money. In his vsrlegated life he had picked up a practical knowledge of mining and the value of ore. Tbere la a peculiar law In Mexico. Grants to pasture is mis. such aa the Perkins syndicate had obtained, do not carry with them title to certain mln erals which may be found on the land. such as copper, gold or silver. Any. person oan go oft to private landa and locate for gold, stiver and copper. If he finds It he csn put In a claim for ths land. All that he has to do la to pay a fair price based upon Its value ae a pasture. Should the owner refuse to sell he can get possession by condemns tlon proceedings after paying a nominal price. Greene's little ranch waa on the Arl zona aids of the line, the pasture lend of the Perkins syndicate was on ths Mexlcsn stds. Greens frequently rode over the property of his neighbors In till he get an Idea from his mining knowledge that tbere might bs copper deposits oa the Cananea ranch. Ha prospected quietly and ' in the end lo nated eight mlnee. He put In his claims fr the property snd the Perkins syn dicate, n it knowing anything, about the extent of the mineral deposits, sold out rather than fight condemnation pro ceedings and be beaten In the end. Boon after Colonel Greene got the property by paying a nominal sum Sen ator Parkins, who had caused an Inveati- gstlog of the mineral deposits to be msde, said: "I believe that ths greatest copper mines In the world have been located there, and that there is enough copper now in sight to reduce price the world ever." Colonel Greene haa a rough kind of business astuteness. He eame seat la 1100 and met various men akUlad In the promotion of ooaopanlss, Hs made a stock company of hat tame and then extern the task of getting the oaau to build smelters, pure base machinery and the equipment neeaaary to get their rlehea Into marketable shape. He waa the owner of every one of the 114,000 share of the company ex cept the fsw that ha gave away to qual ify other men to act a directors. Hs was prodigal la hla efforts to ralae ths necessary cash. This prodigality later on caused htm a vast amount of troubls and Innumerable lawsuits which, took away hundreds of thousands. One Of the men hs approached waa Thomas W Lawaon The man who introduced him to Lawson subsequently aued him for 11.000.000. and effected a compromise. It was said, based on ths payment of I 111, 000. That waa a mere bagatelle to the colonel. A young woman who did his typewriting when he first came hare, and proved to he of valuable service to nim he rewarded, according to common re port, with 10.001 shares of stock. Had the young woman held on to uiem she could have sold them for 1410,000, the stock going to 41 In 102. but she sold "when It reached 28, realising 1110,000. When tho colonel got the company under way Anally he settled in thli city, making his home In ths Waldorf Astoria where he hired a 111.000 suite. He became the chum of John W. Gates. James A. Drake and other plungers who frequent the Wsldorf. and aome of the poker games that followed 'all but lifted the roof from that hostelry. In hla youger days the oolonel had married and had one daughter. Hla wife died long before he ever dreamed of being a millionaire When his riches first cams to him he went to Blsbee, Aria., and married Mies Mary Proctor, who la related to the Proctor family of Vermont. Ha brought bis bride to the Astoria. There a baby was born, the first to come into the world in the hotel. Then tbe colonel moved hla family to the Ansonla, where th colonel leased the finest suite In that hotel. Hs still makes his home there. When ths fain of th Green Con aolldatad spread and the prloe of Ita shares made the former cowboy a verlt able Mont . Crlsto. lawsuits were brought against th colonel with a free hand. They were the price of his for mer prodigality. Most of them were based upon alleged promises of enor mous rewards he had made whea he needed cash to start up hla mines. Oeorg A. Treadwell sued for 2.ooo. 000. James Shirley sued for 11,000,000 George Mitchell sued for 11,000.000 and a number of suits for lesser amounts were brought. Several of these were settled. Some are stlU pending. Th former cowboy, by hi great wealth, got on terms of Intimacy with the real financial kings of th city. H. H. Rogers sees htm whenever h calls at II Broadway. E. H. Harrltnan la ths second largest Individual stockholder In his company. John w. Gates waa a di rector of th company for a time Then they had a disagreement and Gatee got out. In the first flush of his great wealth tha oolonel spent fabulous sum. On Of hla closest associates said: "He bought hundreds of thousands of sores of timber land with no timber on it. He bought hundreds of thousands of acres of graaing land with no grass on it. He bought little railroads which began nowhere and ended nowhere, touching nothing on the rout." In 1102 he headed a syndicate of four men, which purchssed a T.IOO.OOO-acre ranch In Sonora. Mexico, th greatest cattle ranch In th world. Th tract la 111 miles long and 100 miles wide and Is surrounded with a four-strand barb-wirs fence. He planned to put 10,000 head of cattle on th ranch. Hla stock market operations have been the most costly of ail his ventures, particularly hla speculations In his own stock, tha Green Consolidated. Several times he has bought Immsase blocks on margin, borrowing huge sums from bank and trust companies. With a peculiar fatality every time he has loaded up with ths stock on borrowed money something has hap pened, the lending Institutions demanded heavy additional collateral and bundle of the stock are thrown on the curb. In January last he waa caught in thla way. and It was reported that he would lose th presidency of the com pany. The stock he had to part with, 41,000 shsres, was taken by Standard Oil men at 10. On Monday 'last tha stock aold at 14. Ths colonel had loaded up with 110,000 shares of It on margin. He had to part with a big chunk of thla In the perpendicular drop to II. The. colonel appears to be the only man In Wall street who doesn't know that the Standard Oil group la after his company, or that there may be under lying reasons for th radical actions of the big lending Institutions every time he loads up with the stock on bor rowed money. d Clark ewis an In winter quarter In what is now North Dakota. - December 24. Ths day continued warm and pleasant and the number of visitors became troublesome. As a present to thro of the chiefs, we divided a fillet of Sheepskin which we, brought for spong ing, Into three pieces, each of two Inches In width: they were delighted at th gift, which they deemed of equal value with a fine horse. We this day completed our fort, and ths next morning being Christ mas. Tcanr CrOzxf' i From the Baltimore American. "Whatehy goln' t' gimme, " says the youngest boy lo pa; "Whatehy going t' g.mmef" ssvs the youngest girl to ma; "Whatehy goln' f gimme?" says ths nin i ilen to her beau; Everywhere the answer Is, "O, sumpln. I dunno.'' "Whatehy goln' r gimme saka ths little boy at school His Just fore-Christmas goodness makes him mindful of each rule; "Whatehy goln' t gimme?" sings the gamin in ths street; "Whatehy goin' t gimme? on our every hand we meet. "Whatehy goln' f gimme?" asks our town of Uncle Sam; "Bigger, batter waterways, or leave me aa I in? Whatehy goln' V gimme?" asks ths World of Baltimore; "Greater town, or Just the kind you used to be before?" "Whatehy goln' V simmer' asks ths yawning money box. Meant to catch the coin to feed the hun gry folks In flock; "Whatehy goln' t' gtmm?" asks the wretched and ths poor. Living In their penury a stone's throw from your uoor. "Whatehy goln' t gimme"' ssk sthe great big world of you; 'Lifetime full of usefulness, heart sin cere and true?" 'Whatehy goln' t' gimme?" Hsar It everywhere you go Always comes the snswer, "O, Just sumpln. I dunno." Have You Reached Middle Age "It's only during the last yea or ao that I've been finding out what alia me; I'm hiking along toward middle age." remarked the rotund man of 41, who accompllahed a deal of roaming before he dropped anchor, and berthed In this port. "I hats to believe It. but it's a fact 'Th othsr afternoon I want Into a store to buy a hat " 'Show me tha derbys.' I said to the salesman. "Ha brought ut a lot of old-oodger shape, what th hat people call mature pattern. '"Not that kind.' I said rather im patiently. I didn't relish being shown mature pattern. 'Let me a the new blocks ths up-to-the-minute blocks.' "The salesman looked at me rather doubtfully. '"Vary well, air,' ha replied otvlUy enough, tout tha kind I've shown you are the kind that are mostly worn by settled man.' "Settled men! Me a settled man I That cam as a sort of shock to me I am bound to admit. " 'Ssy, how old d'ye think I am a hundred and fourteen?' I asked th sales- Oh. no,' he replied smiling, tout, you know, these daahy, ultra, blocks are generally worn by they're more suit able for the young fallowa, y'know.' "I hadn't entirely got into the habit of classing myself a anything else but one of tha young fellows, but of course, I had to accept, the polite salesman's verdict that I waa in tha fogy class. I csn't sax that I enjoyed it "But that hat salesman's opinion wasn't tha first to nudge me along to the unpleasant realisation that I'm really not on of th young fellows any more. "Last winter I went into a shoe store and said, sort of offhand, to tha sales man, "Show me aome shoes, sis ft." and blamed If 0a didn't look me over and then fetch out four or five pain of square-toed, very soft leather congress gaiters those ahoea with th elsatto taaa) at tha sides, you know, that old codgers wear so that thsy oan slip 'em on and off easily. "I was foolish enough to depart from that shoe store In a sort of huff, but when I thought It over and cooled out I perceived that tha shoe salesman wsan't really to blame. It waa myself that waa to blame for getting into th middle-aged class and taking on tha eon-gress-galtery look. "So I went back to that shoe store and bought my ahoaa there. Congress gaiters? Not much I I bought pair of buttoned patent leathers! D'ye think I'm going to permit them to Just naturally force ma to be middle-aged by their Implications that I have reached that stags? "I began to notice, too, a while back that a great many of tha young fellows with whom I came Into business or social contact chape of from 10 to 10 were falling Into th habit of calling 'sir.' I hat to own up how much that distress sd me when I noticed It knew that I held no exalted station that would entitle me to ths toll address from anybody, and than I waa reluc tantly great Scott! how reluctantly forced to th conclusion, beyond doubt th correct conclusion, that ths only reason why these young fellows were addressing me aa 'sir' waa that . they wanted to evince proper respect toward ms aa a middle aged man. 'After 'sirring me the same fel lows, right la my presence, would rolllckingly address fellow of their own age by their first names. It made me feel sort of out of tha picture. I had passed that queerly indefinable line of demarcation between th 'young fel lows' and ths 'settled man. without knowing It or appreciating th algnlfl- canoe of the unfelt change, and then when I was forced to think It over the knowledge of It came awooptng upon like an avalanche. I had reached middle age and joined the 'settled' crowd all unawares! I'll get used to it In time, no doubt TH have to. But It's an uncanny, measly sort Of feeling at first. . "I fell to wondering whether in my utter lack of appreciation of th fact that I had attained or waa verging upon middle age i had gone on acting too much ths part of the young fallow, thus giving people the chance to criticise me for trying to keep up the bluff that I atlll possessed th youth, that hsd slipped away from me without my know ing It. The thought of that chagrined ms. I hate to see middle-aged man msking ths foolish effort to trot along in the young fallow class. There's some thing humiliating In auch a speotaola "This forced realisation of th fact that your youth haa gone and that you've been thrust Into the middle-aged class willy nUly takes a good many wistful little ambitions out of a fellow's life. I waa a great wanderer over tha face of the earth In my young manhood did a lot Of sailing before th mast to out of th way corners of tha world when there was no necessity for it ex cept that I longed to have a good square look at the globe and all parts of it. "Well, since I've settled down here in New Tork the thing that the 2r mans call wanderlust has often seised me, and I have often hankered to be on- th move up and down the world again. The fact that I have a wife and a family of children of course rendered any such thing aa yielding to these Im pulses out of the question. But I al ways had a sort of hold-out In thla "When I'd take my clothes off I'd fall to looking at th tattooed figures on my arms, and get to dreaming of th Strang little corner of th far seat that I wss running Into when I had those tattooed mark made with the boy's pride in auch foolish things. And then th old longing to up-anchor and away again would seize ma right by the throat. Whereupon, of course. I'd be brought up with a round turn with the thought of my settled down condi tion and my wife and children. "But, even then, I'd ssy to myself: 'Oh, well. I'll see all of those old places again one of these day. I'll have one more good old rattling cruise in ths south seas, anyway, before I'm piped out; plenty of time, I'm young yet. "And I was still giving entertainment to these vague dreams when the realisa tion was forced upon me that I waa s middle-aged man; that middle-aged men are not for the wandering game; that the old reckless years had long fled and were worae than hull down upon tha hortson and then It waa borne in upon me that that little wistful hold-out of mlns wss the merest fantasy that as s matter of fact, there Just wasn't plenty, of time,' as I had been so fondly Imagining; no ttms for anything ex cept to make up my mind that? waa a fogy and aa a fogy, shelved and settled down for good aad alL 'Middle age haa lta compensations, you say? I'h-huh. So I've, heard. But give me just six months out of one of those old, wild, untrammelled years, and I'd give you five years of the middle age that's upon me In exchange Congress Is to be congratulated, it haa done nothing yet