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Editorial Page of TSe Journal PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY. DECEMBER SS, 18M. THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C. S. JACKSON PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. JNO. P. CARROLL VOICES OP THE CHRISTMAS. VOICES OF PRAYER Ere the daylight fully comes the cathedral bells in all lands call the people to worship and to pray Bowing, kneeling, they are vocally r in spirit thankful for all that is good, and sorrowful on account of evil. They petition for ab solution and forgiveness for sins and faults and follies, and for light and strength to walk more uprightly in straight, clean paths. The religious mother's first wak ing thought is a prayer, winged with hope and love. The little children, ere they become fully absorbed in the generous gifts of Santa Claus, prattle a prayer. The winter birds' earliest twitterings may be construed as orisons. The earth is hushed in prayer to her god, the sun, who never fails to answer her plea. Later, multi- j t ...1,.. I,.,,-. r-MaA nnA h,:irrl the stnrv of nigra Ul uiui un wnu jimtv ,... .. - j - the God-man meet for prayer and other religious cere monies. The thoughts of the God-seeking world turn toward Judea. Bethlehem, Calvary, in prayer today. VOICES OF PRAISE Mingled with the prayers are songs, with the chants are carols. The World's beauty and bounties and blessings cause the children of men to break forth in joyful sounds of praise. Worship calls on music to become its Christmas handmaiden. The cathedral organ gives forth deep and resounding tones of melodious praise, of which the burden is: "Glory to God in the highest; on earth peace; good will to men." The parents' smiles are praise; the childrens' joy and laughter are praise; the Christmas giving and receiving are praise; the quick response of the earth and of all animal and vegetable life to the light and warmth of the day is praise; the thrilling muscles and springing steps and roseate cheeks and hope and faith and fearlessness of youth are praise. Christendom shows forth volubly and actively its joy in. life and its thankfulness that life can be so much enjoyed. The world not only prays but praises. VOICES OF AMUSEMENT It is "merry" Christ mas. It is a holiday, the merriest of the year. Only those who must, work, and these no more than is neces ' sary. The year's toil is practically over. The crops are alt garnered, the year's profits realized. Nature in this latitude rests or takes it easy, inviting mankind to recrea tion. The evenings, the chief amusement time, are long. Neither young people, nor,aJl older ones can be alto gether solemn. What is a holiday good for without fun? Today being Sunday will make a difference, but the Christmas voices of amusement, of pleasure, will not be restrained; they broke out yesterday, and will be re sumed tomorrow. Children must romp and youth must dance, and the Christmas air is resonant with the voices of gladness and gayety. VOICES OF MEMORY Still, small voices these, whispering mostly to those on the downhill slope of life, of other Christmas days, of budding hopes that bloomed into fruition or were frost-killed or crushed, of joys and sorrows, pains and pleasures of the fleeting years agone, of other Christmas days when joy bounded at a beckon to the side of youth and merriment was the heart's natural Christmas-tide speech, when snow was as beautiful as flowers and an encounter with Jack Frost as welcome as one with Maiden May. Of how many places, how many scenes, how many people, how many projects, plans and purposes, desires and intentions, ac complishments and failures, enjoyments and disappoint ments these voices of memory speak. They take us to what now sesm Eden's gardens; anon they carry us to newmade graves. If we muse an hour alone they re count to us the scenes and incidents of life thus far spent, then whispering a final word to conscience, cease. VOICES OF CHEER It is a day for giving gifts, for charity, for fraternalism, friendliness and kindliness, for a well-disposed heart and a cheerful countenance, for aid to the poor and needy, the distressed and sorrowing, for doing good and being pleasant to others, for peace be tween enemies, love among friends, and good will toward all mankind. These voices do not all speak audibly, but they are many-tongued. They speak in the cordial greeting, in the cheerful countenance, in the hearty hand clasp, in the word or deed of help or appreciation, in the needed or welcomed gift, in saying and thinking as much of good and as little of evil of others as is possible To day let us be of good cheer and help others to be so too, putting out of sight and mind much as may be the things that are evil, and brightening our own and others lives by thoughts and speech of those things that are true and clean and lovely and of good report. The world would be none the wickeder if it were more cheerful, would be none the worse if it were e'en merrier, none the poorer if it gave away more. So welcome, and join in with the Christmas voices of good cheer. VOICES OF PAIN Yes, you must hear them too. They tell of sickbeds, of newly-made graves, of misery and suffering, of want and woe, of casualties and crimes, of pesthouses and prisons, of privation and poverty, of fsces that do not smile, of heavy hearts, of burdened souls. Toward them duty calls, if Christ be remembered today, if the teaching of Him and His followers be heeded. Not that we need be gloomy or remain sad on that ac count; that would do no good; but their voices must not b drowned out by carols of joy and shouts of merri ment and the clattering of feasts. To ease pain, to change tears to smiles, to confer comfort, strength and courage, is a blessed thing to do for all concerned. VOICES OF HOPE The voice of hope is the last one to become silent. It becomes dumb only with the breaking of the fountain at the cistern. Hope is a pro motor, an optimist, a mind healer, a necromancer. He confides to youth that youth is best, to age that age is Detter; ne promises weaun to me poor, iicami iu mm sick, wisdom to the ignorant, happiness to the sorrow ing, long life and prosperity here and eternal bliss here after. And we never blame him or complain if his prom ises fail. H helps us to the attainment of all we wish, in anticipation if not in realization. Merry, strong and clear rings out the voice of hope, the eternal youth, today. VOICES OK LOVE Bubbling, cooing, crooning, chanting, caroling voices, tender, earnest, thrilling voices - of mother, wife, child, sweetheart, sister; voices, too, to ears delicately attuned, from the spheres, from the eternities, from the source and sum of human life. CHRISTMAS VOICES We cannot name or count or distinguish them all. Most of them are audible only tr the mental ear, but these are none the less real. Im perative, potential, decisive of destiny. Let this Sunday Christmas be a modestly merry one. a sincerely thankful one, in part a thoughtful one, a day when we shall give ear to many tongues, and from their language learn the higher law of life. A VERY VALUABLE INVENTION. A PROFESSOR in the University of California claims to have perfected a machine that will solve all problems in logic. This is certainly a very valuable invention and should find a ready and ex tensive sale, though it is to be feared that those most in need of it will be the last to perceive or acknowledge their need, owing to the common inability of an individ ual to see his. own faults and recognize his own errors. J)ut much may be hoped from this machine if, as as serted, it will automatically answer all syllogistic propo rtions as fast as thry ase presented to it, and as easily and correctly as a voting machine counts votc Perhaps services will be required should he de sired by none more than by the professos of logic them selves, and psychological philosophers, and learned rca soners, searching for logical support for preconceived theories. What a reform could be brought about if all the lawyers who seek to make black while or to over balance the better reasons by the worse were obliged to use .these machines. The California professor's invention would also place in tather a ridiculous light most of our oratorical poli ticians and statesmen, as when, for instance, they sub mitted to this impartial arbiter the conclusion that high taxes make prosperity, or that the Philippines are and are not at the same time a portion f the United States. It would be a joke to let one of these machines grind out copy for an editor who denounces the high tariff and extravagant expenditures three years out of four, when no change can be effected, and approves and applauds them when a national campaign is on; or who talks inde pendence sis municipal politics when such talk is not es pecially pertinent, and in a local campaign urges all Republican voters to vote the ticket straight, regardless of whether the candidates are good, bad or indifferent. The uses to which this timely invention, with possible inprovements and elaborations of it, can be put are qum? berless. In a home it might be made to do the family worrying, and settle conjugal disputations. For ex ample: Major premise, we have no wood;' minor premise, being broke we can't get any; problem, what are we going to do? Turn the problem over to the ma chine and get a solution while you wait. All bashful lovers would want a machine to which they could submit such a problem as this: I love Gladys; I am afraid to pop; what shall I do? The machine will tell him at once. These are only instances of thousands, that could be imagined. . . After awhile it may be hoped that these machines will become so cheap and plentiful that they will be in com mon use, like the. telephone, so that everybody with a syllogistic problem can have it answered by paying a dime or a nickel, and that even the poor, if not owning machines themselves, can take home an assortment of solved problems every Saturday night, at least. DEVELOPMENT COMES THROUGH CONFLICT. T HIS ISSUE of The Journal is itself an illustrative part of what its pages portray of the develop ment and prospects of Oregon and of Portland. It is at on'ce a record, in summary, and an example, of what has recently happened here and hereabouts, of what is happening, and affords luminous indicia of things that are to occur. The Journal is a young business institution, but al ready quite a large one. It belongs to the new, progres sive era now beginning, of which it was and is in fact the loudest and clearest herald, and in the bringing on of which it claims some share. This state, this city, are going to grow more rapidly, and in many ways more satisfactorily and gratifyingly, in the future than in the past, and The Journal will keep in the very forefroht of that grand forward and upward march. Its call will not only be "go," but "come." Many things are to be accomplished, many things over come. If there were no struggle, no strife, no battle, no efforts necessary to overcome difficulties, to subdue evils, to improve and climb, what we now count good and valuable results' thereof would be worthless, or unappre ciated. Nature is kind and generous, but she opposes obstacles to the attainment of our desires, because mankind needs the battle cultus. This is why the poor farm boy usually far outruns and outclasses the one who inherits a for tune and is not taught the value, the necessity, of hard work. Evil and ignorant people oppose obstacles to social and moral advancement. On this field the war is as old as human existence, and will last till the race is extin guished, but each generation can win some little section or segment of the disputed field from the devil's legions, and so will not have lived in vain. There never was a better vantage ground for good, steady, earnest warfare, for the accomplishment of all kinds of good results, than Oregon, than Portland. There never was a better day, while resting from our ordinary labors and enjoying the bounties and blessings of this holiday, to think on these things, to rejoice as a young man in his strength, and while happy and thank ful that things are so well with us, to regard it as a mat ter of course that they must be made better still by the next Christmas day. To this end The Journal will work. Its face will al ways be toward the light. Its'voice will always be for the right, according to its best understanding. It hopes all its many thousands of readers will have fully as happy a holiday time as they deserve, and that they and all others will better deserve an even happier Christmas iu the greater Oregon and Portland next year, and year after year. as . i ; a veritable Pan-god. If by some mischance you miss one opportunity today, you can scare one up that will serve as well, or tolerably well, tomorrow. ' TEACHERS' SALARIES SHOULD BE INCREASED. o N TS Christmas morning we wish to empha size what we have frequently said during the course of the year that there should be some recognition of the teachers of the public schools in the way of an increase in their salaries. The Portland teach ers are paid less than the teachers in cities of the same class throughout the country. Three times their wages have been reduced and only once raised. The figures are still below what they were in 1893. The cost of living has constantly increased and the obligations otherwise laid upon the teachers have grown heavier as the city has grown in population and importance. It is only just and reasonable that the teachers should receive proper recognition. Next to the parents them selves, and sometimes not secondary even to them, they fill a place in the community which no other class of citisens can supply. It is only just and proper that they should be decently compensated for the work which they do. It is a duty which the people ojMto the teachers and to the children, but no more tharrthey owe it to themselves. It is to be hoped that at the taxpayers' meeting to be held next Tuesday some provision will be made for a reasonable increase in the salaries now paid the teachers. Tke Old and tne New Year (Copjrrlsbt. :, l the Aiaer.cnu Juurnul-Cumiur.) HE old year ta full of victories and advancement for the United 8taUa. The new year dawns Drooltlously. There Is not a cloud In 6uTnattonal, financial or po litical skies. No dancer threatens the stability of our Institutions. We are at peace with all nations. Mo onerous debt la hanging over the country. Our Inex haustible resources of agrlculaural and mineral wealth are being developed on larger scales than ever before. Indus trial -enterDrlsee are multiplying dally. The Inventive genius of our people has freer Scope and greater encouragement than at any time In the history of the republic, on account of the capital that can be commanded. The educa tion of the whole people occupies the sealous attention of national, state and municipal bodies. Universal education Is the ambition of every loyal cltlsen. The religious tendency or the masses a unmistakable. All denominations are growing In numerical, spiritual ana financial strength. Church extension societies, philanthropists and religion ists have built churches and school- houses In almost every townsnip throughout the land. The seeds of righteousness ax being scattered every where. Intemperance anJTsavagery are melting away under the aunsnine 01 love and charity that is Deing sneu abroad. , The honor of being an American cltl sen Is Htlmplatrrrg ambitions and self- respect. To be a part or a Denencem .nmmpnt Ilka ours begets In all Intel ligent men aspirations to be worthy of so great an honor. We are among those who expect be en, the new veer. 108. to see the United States leading all nations In the onward march ot civilisation ana -nna- ttantty. .... .. The year 1004 has rjeen rrumui 01 un paralleled success and "wonderful ad vancement along many lines. It Is not too much to say that the United States has been unprecedentedly prosperous. The year has' been singularly free from catastrophes which affected the whole nation. The sad disasters that have oc curred have been local In character. The Louisiana Purchase exposition baa been a pre-eminent success and has reflected great or edit on the projectors and managers of this prodigious enter prise. The whole conception was on a scale of magnificence previously un known. The officers and commission ers are entitled to unstinted praise for their successful execution of the gi gantic scheme. They gof together a voluminous number of rare exhibits, and If one may Judge from the report of severe critics, they have never been equaled In the history of expositions. They did far more; they brought to gether the greatest minds of the world and have given the greatest Impetus to advanced thought, higher education, the religions of all peoples, and have made the deepest Impression on the whole world In favor of American institutions and progress that has eve been made. The World's Columbian exposition, held In Chicago In 189S, reached the climax of expositions up to that time. St. Louts, aided by the greater prog ress of the earlier years of the twen tieth century, has been able to excel in many things which Chicago Inaugu rated. The congresses held in Chicago under the auspices of the Columbian exposition began the noble work of bringing Christians and pagans In touch, which enabled them to reason together as friends and brethren aa they had never done before.. The work begun then Is still going on It has been the privilege of the ft. Louis management to augment the possibili ties for greater progress In bringing all nations together under the banner of peace and good will toward all man kind. Good seed has again been sowed and no doubt the harveat will be abundant. Science, art, education, religion, phil anthropy, agriculture, domestic and po litical economy have had golden oppor tunities which will be evidenced In the future. The character and type of visitors wre of the highest and Just such aa we wish to have visit our country. They have been enthusiastic over our people and their achievements, and have re turned to the old world and the orient sounding praises of the United States and her matchless Institutions and peo ple. Meeting and knowing these great thinkers and Influential men of the old world has been of wonderful importance to our people. We have learned many things of them that will be of great value to us. The action of the Interparliamentary union after Its convention at the Bt. Louie exposition In calling upon Presi dent Roosevelt and asking him to take the lead In the world-wide movement for universal peace speaks volumes of the impression made upon them by their visit to this country. The patriotic ac tion of the president In aceptlng has al ready borne abundant proof of his wis dom and the good that Is sure to follow. The United States stands at the head of the great peace movement that Is rap Idly bringing into lta folds all nations. Country after country is signing treaties agreeing to submit the differences be tween each ot arbitrators, many express ing their willingness to refer them to The Hague tribunal ef peace commissioners. . Oyr own citisens from 'the different sections of our great country nave en joyed the exposition and the opportunity to mingle together under such pleasant auspices. They have learned that preju dice la born of Ignorance, and that knowledge removes antagonism. From every standpoint we shall enter upon the new year with brilliant pros pects for the future and moat felicitous conditions as a nation. Playing to Royalty COMMONLY ACCEPTED UNTRUTHS. M OST of the familiar adages frequently quoted, and often thoughtlessly taken at their face value as truths, are at best but half truths. which Tennyson said were "ever the blackest of Ires," and many of them 'contain but a slight grain of truth. Take two of opposite import for illustration. Many people are fond of quoting: "All things come to him who waits." This is one of the kind that contains so little truth that one needs a mental microscope to discern it. . As a rule nothing worth anything comes to the man who waits. An inheritance may come to some who wait; some freak of fjckle fortune may bestow some favor on the waiting man; but ordinarily he gets nothing out of lne worth the living of it. If it be meant that the best things come to him who along with steady, intelligent persistent, confident, purposeful effort exercises serene patience in waiting for the due and full reward, then we can quite agree with the proposition, but an adage that needs this much of an explanation is better left to rust than worn with use. The other proverbial proposition in mind is that in which, in various forms, it is represented that oppor tunity comes to a man but once; that if he misses one opportunity he might as well go away back and sit down. Some very fine lines embodying this idea ap peared a few years ago, credited to the late John J. Ingalls. They made a beautiful sonnet, from a literary point of view, but were essentially false nevertheless. True, Shakespeare wrote: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune," but he did not say there was only one such tide in a man's lifetime. The same opportunity may not, probably will not re turn the second time to any man. Conditions are never just the tame twice. But an equally good or a better op portunity may return to one who both waits and works while he watches for it. Or if not lesser opportunities, not to be despised, appear. Opportunity takes many forms, wears many garbs. If one refuses or neglects to embrace or improve one opportunity, he would be a sorry weakling to sit down and say that no other opportunity well worth grasping would ever pass his way, or that he could by searching never find one. These are mischievous doctrines, if people take them literally or seriously. Good things generally don't "come." They have to be sent for, orjbxtter, gone after personally. And In a country like this, Opportunity is From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Indon. One of the actors in Tree's company In Its recent appearance before a galaxy of kings and queens at Wind sor castle thus describes the Interesting event: The stage at Ills Majesty's theatre is one of the largest In London. The stage In the Waterloo chamber In Windsor castle la exceedingly small. The re hearsals for 'A Man s Shadow were held, therefore at His Majesty's, on a part of the stage chalked out to the slse of that at Windsor. As usual, we went down to the castle early enough In the day to give time for a Tun through' there be fore the performance. 'Perhaps the most striking thing in side Windsor castle Is the Immense num ber of servants and officials. During the afternoon carpenters and electricians were busy arranging dressing rooms and helping Mr. Tree's staff. In the evening legions of red coated and black coated servants were to be seen everywhere. Most of them wore a little collection of medals of all sorts. I noticed that the men who made the fires up had four. "The Waterloo chamber Is the center room of the' state apartments. To the right are St. George's hall, the guard room, and the preaence chamber, and to the left the suite of rooms. Including the famous Charles II dining room, occu pied by the king and queen of Portugal'. "As arranged for the performance of 'A Man's Shadow,' it seated about ISO people. The -floor Is filled with gilt chairs upholstered in' crimson, and there is a small gallery with a single row of seats at the back. There is a commodious sunken orchestra, separated from the auditorium by a charming bank of pink flowers, and the proscenium curtains are of crimson cloth. The little theatre IS. both In arrangement and color, an Ideal background for splendid uniforms end jewels. "Our afternoon rehearsal caused great interest in the castle. Several ot the royal servants watched it from the gal lery and Queen Alexandra sat In front Muring the lsst act, and appeared to be not a little amused by the 'going back' and the 'take that scene again' which al ways characterise rehearsals. The Duch ess of Connaught and one of her daugh ters were also Interested spectators , for a few moments. The beginning of the evening's per formance was annoying. At five minutes to 10 the orchestra began the Portu guese national hymn, and we knew that the procession of royal persons was en tering the thestre. A few ysrds In front of us was to be seen a picture that could rarely come our way. We were only separated, from It by a red curtain, and we could see nothing. "The old artistic rule that the actor could look at the person to whom he Is speaking and not gase over the foot lights, was net strictly obeyed st Wind sor, and to tell the, truth the audience was worth looking at. At the beginning of the plsy the lights were up In the auditorium, and the shimmer of the jew els was wonderful. "In the middle of the front row King Kdwnrd sat dressed in the Windsor uni form, with the ribbons of his Portuguese order. By his side was Quean Amelia, a very regal figure In some sort of yel low material. "A synopsis of the play had been pre pared In French, but all noticed the care the king took to make everything clear to the Portuguese queen. "On the other side of Queen Amelia sat Queen Alexandra In a black dress that sparkled with Jewels. Then came King Carlos In evening dress, with the ribbon of the garter; then the Princess of Wales and the Duke of Connaught. To the right of the king eat Princess Christian and the Prince of Wales. "It was difficult to know how the per formance went, seeing that royal audi ences neither cheer nor boo.' " CKIOAOO AJTB A JtTDOI Collier's for December 17 scores Judge Orosscup by saying: Chlcsgo keepk track of Its public men with a precision remarkable In an Amer ican city of Its slse. A few years ago Judge Peter B. Orosscup of the United States circuit court of appeals was a man highly honored In Chicago, and, as far ss he was known, elsewhere. He has made some of the most excellent speeches of recent years. . He under stands what the new Issues are In poli tics and he speaks well upon them. But he has been doing certain things In Chi cago which he ought not to do, and he Is In all probability "down and out" as far as any political hopes that he may have are concerned. Chicago still falls politically at times. It failed to defeat Madden at the last election. But It has more recent victories to Its rredlt than any other American city. Public opinion now gives orders to the poli ticians. They were already on the run and Deneen's election has much acceler ated their pace. If the nominations were made today John Harland would prob ably be the candidate of the Republi cans, and he would have more than an even chance of victory. This progress in political standards is not won with out vlgllsnce. Judge Qrossnup's rapidly falling reputation Is the result of the close attention which Chicago gives to Its own affairs. We have In the past praised him highly. We believe today that his character has been debauched by political ambition. Of the Injunction In favor of the street railways, which is being so bitterly resented, we say nothing, It being a legal matter. Of the appointment of a notoriously unfit can didate to the position of master-ln-chan-cery, because ha wss the son of Benstor Hopkins, no such reserve In opinion is necessary. About his Indorsement of "Doc" Jamie son. when Mr. Roosevelt, for reasons" of his own. chose to give thst statesman an office. It would not be easy to speak too sharply Judge Orosscup hss seen his best dsys in American pub lic life. As Described by Lady Sussn Townley In Her "Chinese Note Book." She sat upon a divan covered with figured Chinese silk of a beautiful yolk of-egg color. Being lew of stature, her feet (which are of natural slse, she be ing s Manchu) barely touched the ground, and enly her head snd shoulders were visible over the tsblo placed In front of her. She wore a Chinese coat of a diaphanous pale-blue silk material covered with the moat exquisite Chinese embroidery of vine leaves and grapea Round her neck was a pale blue satin ribbon studded with large lustrous pearls, pierced and sewn to the ribbon. Her head was dressed according to the Manchu fashion, the hair being parted In front and brushed smoothly over the ears, caught up at lh. back and draped high and wide over s kind of paper-cut ter of dark sreen Jade set crosswise on the head. The ends of this paper-cutter were decorated with great bunches of artificial flowers, butterflies and hanging crimson silk tassels. Her complexion Is that of a North Italian, and being a widow, her cheeks ere unnalnted and unpowdered. Her piercing dark eyes roved curiously about among her suroundlngs. Her age Is IS, but her hslr being dyed Jet black snd most of It artificial, her appearance is that of a giuch younger woman. Her hands are long and tapering and very prettily shaped, but they sre dJs figured by the curious national custom of letting the nails grow inordinately long. The nails of the two smaller fingers of the right hsnd were protected by gold shields which fitted to the finger like a lads a thimble and gradually ta pered off to a length of three or four inches. IOVBD From the Milwaukee Sentinel. A gay and handsome traveling man Lay on a bed of pain; All hope waa past, his life ebbed fast. He ne'er would rise sgaln. "Have you no sweetheart, fair and truer' They whispered o'er his bed, "Whom you would tell a last farewell"" The young man softly said: "There's Daisy back In Burlington, And Millie up at Blair; There's Katie down In Watertown. And Mary at Kau Claire; And at Oreen Bay there's Esther, dear Whom I must surely see. And Annie, too, at Waterloo. Please bring them all to me." The Watchers stared In weld surprise And then they said once more "And tell us pray, without delay. The girl whom you adore. The girl whom you have sworn to love And bring both wealth and fame! Tour promised wife, snd hope and life, Qulok, let us know her name." "There's Susie at Berlin." be ssld, "And Msyme st Antlgo; There's Violet at Martlnette, And May at old St. Joe; There's Hattle. too. In Baraboo, And Mabel at Whitehall.'' The young man sighed: "It's time I died. I've sworn to love them all." Webster's &OS1 OpsswttiSUf The campaign of 1140 had a dramatic and unexpected sequel. Thurlow Weed, before the meeting of the Whig conven tion, sought out Webster snd urged him to tske second place on the ticket with Harrison, but the suggestion was re jected with scorn. An acceptance nf Weed's advice would hsve made Webster president In little mors than a year. (John Burroughs In December Outing.) When a bird selects a site for Its nest. It seems, on first view, as If -it must actually think, reflect, compare, aa you and I do when we decide where to place our house, I saw a little chipping spar row trying to decide between two rasp berry bushes. She kept going from one to the other, peering, inspecting, snd apparently weighing the advantages of each. I saw a robin In the woodbine on the side of the house trying to decide which particular place was the beat site for her nest. She hopped to this tangle of shoots and sat down, then to that, she turned around, she readjusted herself, she looked about, she worked her feet beneath her. she was slow In making up her mind. Did she make up her mind? Did she think, compare, weight I do not believe It. When she found the right conditions, she no doubt felt s plessure snd satisfaction, and that settled the question. An Inward, In stinctive want wss met snd satisfied by sn outward material condition. In the same way the hermit crab goes from shell to shell upon the beach, seeking one to Its liking. Sometimes two crsba fall to fighting over a shell that each wants. Can we believe that the hermit crab thinks and reasons? It selects the suitable shell Instinctively, snd not by an Individual act of Judgment. Instinct Is not always Inerrnnt. though It makes fewer mistakes than reason does. The red squirrel usually knows how to come at the meat In the butternut with the lesst gnswlng, but now and then he makes a mistake and strikes the edge of tho kernel. Instead of the flat aide. The cliff swallow will stick Its mud nest under the esves of a barn where the board sre plsned so smooth thst the nest sooner or later la bound to fall. It seems to have no judgment In the matter. Its ancestors built upon the face of high cliffs, where the mud ad hered more firmly. 1 The Hypocrisy of Peace snrm own stoit. From the National Magaslne. As early ss S o'clock Admiral Dewey walks Into his oflce In the Mills build ing, diagonally across from the navy department, sits down at his desk and geta to work with the same precision that he might use If still aboard the Olympta. In the corner opposite his desk is s cedsr chest which waa made for the admiral In Manila. He pointed to It and said: -- "In that chest will be found the real records of ths battle of Manila, never yet published. 1 hope to prepare them for publication and that they will be made public after my death." Way She Oaoat fceve gum. From the Chicago News. Mrs. de Swift I could lovs my hue- bend but for one thing. Mrs. Homer And whst la that? Mrs. da Swift The fact that I am married to hlnv "" i Cy Jonurtjerna ajorasoa.) f I I WENT Y years ago I wrote an ar- X... " .... 11 iuhu iune at sen sation in the European press on the dreams and hopes of the young Russians. Russia and the United States were to divide. the world between them, and Great Britain was to be crushed between the two. Just as ths American continent had become one great untQP, ths European continent was to become one great em pire under the run of the csar of Rus sia, who would proclaim universal psace, the new Pax Romans. It seemed to me that the politics of the three Scandinavian kingdoms ought to take these dangerous dreams Into consideration. To prevent Russia from seising part of our territory under the pretext that she must have an lee-free port, I advised that the Norwegian gov ernment in time of peace should offer the csar right of way for a railroad leading to some port which was open all winter, and whlob would serve as an outlet for Russian products, and In re turn for this we should ask Russia to recognise the neutrality of the Scan dinavian countries under all circum stances. When writing that article about the dreams of the younger generation in Russia I thought especially of the young men who had grown up under the In fluence of the csar, the young aristocrats of Russia, aa I knew that these men were dangerously ambitious. A moment came When I began to doubt the truth of my fears, but It was only a mo ment. It was when Cssr Nlchotss put himself on record ss In favor of uni versal peace and called the conference at Ths Hague, ' ' But when I saw how he st the same time continued to trample upon ths con stitutional rights of Finland snd how he got hold of Manchuria by a ruse and by violating his promise It became clear to me that Csar Nicholas himself was Imbued with these dreams of gran, deur. and that he considered that he had been given a great mission by God. Ths first disclosure of this mission waa fads by young Count Tolstoi, an In timate friend of Csar Nicholas, who wrote, very much against the will of his father, In the Novoe Vremya sn article on the present wsr; . "Since the time of Peter the Great Russia has never fought a war as - im portant as the present. As Peter fought to gain possession of Russia's western ooast line In Europe we are now fight ing to acquire an extensive coast and territory on our eastern frontier. As hsd to suffer a defeat at Nsrva by the hands of the Swedes to win the victory of Poltava so we are now suffering de feats by the hands of the Swedes of Asia. There is no doubt ss to the final outcoms of this wsr. One has only to throw a glance at ths map to see that Russia Is a power the equal of which does not exist, that Russia Is, Invincible, and that In spite of our temporary de feats, ws must and shall become the masters of the world. "The shadow of Russia covers all her neighbors, and she will bring them all under her rule. The. day wlU surely come, and In a not very distant future, when he shall drive the English out of India. Russia Is Invincible." Her Is the real peril sshluh threatens us all the Russian' peril. One may doubt Russia's power, one- may doubt -that she will succeed, but it Is a fact that, from the ossr down to the yoang est officer, every Russian hopes to real ise the prophecy of young Count Tolstoi. We hsvs seen the effect of the master ly diplomacy of Russia. Ws hsve seen great numbers of German steamers sold to Russia to be transformed Into crulsera or to set as colliers to the Baltic squad ron. We suspect the existence of a secret understanding which has enabled Russia to withdraw nearly all her troops from the frontier of Germany to send them against the Japanese in Manchu rls. But we are told that all this Is done In tne sacred interest 01 peace, iimi niBm Is fighting for us sll against the dreaded yellow peril; that she must crush Japan, that we may all enjoy the blessings of peace. Could , the billions of money saved by the working people of France by her fruit and vineyards be used In a nobler cause? It is only a short while ago that we read thst the officers of a Russian man-of-war which had been disarmed at Suigon had fled. They had been assisted in every way in reaching St. Peters burg. This was against all the laws of neutrality and honor, but can any one doubt that It was done In the Interest of peace to sld the Russian knight In slay ing the yellow dragon which endangers the peace of the world? Read the articles In ths Temps, the mouthpiece of the French minister of foreign affairs, written by Charles Pettlt. They all Incite to war; they sll call for the subjugation, the annihilation of the Japanese race, and they are all written from Toklo. What strange love of peace. Thus Germany and France, the two most cultured and civilised nations of Europe, have made themselves the slaves of Russia's ambitions, but they sre not the only guilty ones we are sll guilty. In spits of our pesce societies. In spite of the teschlngs of the Socialists of universal International brotherhood, our peace movement ta a failure. We all apeak high sounding words, we boast of our love of pesce, but we are all hypocrites, snd as soon ss any one reproves our own psrtlculsr notion of Injustice we srs all ready to draw the sword. The friends of peace In Germany prove themselves hypocrites, because, though they know thst there can be no hope of universal peace ss long as the ques tion of Alssce-Lorslne exists, they mske no efforts to solve it The friends of peace In Hungary are ready to jump at ths throat of Austrls sny dsy. snd there Is no American who would hesitate to rush Into war In, de fense of the Monroe doctrine. As long aa this hypocrisy exists, ss long ss we presch pesce only when our Interests are not threatened, there IS no hope of universal peace. ded It Sight Bask. From the Washington Post. This winter weather reminds me nf s story about Mayor McClelland." said Representative Bpauldlng or North Da kota yesterdey. "It was delightfully plessant out In my state when thst young hllnard struck New Tork early In November. Baatern people are al ways sympathising with the northwest on account of Its 'Dakota blissardsV so the msyor of Bismarck telegraphed Mayor McClelland. 1 offering his sym pathy snd aaklng If he could do any thing to help New Tork. "Tea.' wired back, Msyor McCIsllsn Come here snd take your bliss rd sway.' " TlamtMl nf Skat OBhlH Slua. From ths Medical Record, Opium smoking J not so purely oriental a vlee as Is usually supposed, for It Is estimated that there are l oan ooo devotees of ths pips In the United . . ,ai"r i .