The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, January 22, 1905, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text: ;:,,-;A. , ''T 7-,; V , yi S.N V :;..;. ( W)3 ir PORTLANTf,rORECON. SUNDAY. JANUARY : 1 V THE .OREGON. SJUNDAY JOURN.A L AN - INDEPENDENT. NEWSPAPER C S. JACKSON PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. - JNO. P. CARROLL A STRANGE CONTRAST. t TT IS BUT A. FEW'BRJEF DAYS since theQre- I - gouian. editorially -observed that the Jiquof itjet f of the state was endeavoring to secure, indeed had 'f partially succeeded in Securing, the organisation -of the - legislature and added thai this factshould be known to ' " the people of Oregon": ---.;' " - 'fv : "; . We do not recall that this statement drew forth any hysterical or robusttous-o'enialsjroin the facile ana tluent pen! of" local, gentlemen prominently identified with -the liquor interest Neither do we nbw recojlectthat any of them fell into-A fit, gave way "to a paroxysm, b,ad V'a spasm or otherwise' gave unusual Outward evidence of " f J an inward commotion which they would tam-conceai 11 - 1 they could. T "Indeed so far 'a thi .merry world hat learned they received the' announc"etfient rith becpm- "Ing degree of philosophy," proud rather than otherwise of this alleged exhibition f their strength, ana power, ioi- Wing as it did on the heels of. two-campaigns in. which "j neither had played a conspkuoat'of prominent partly - But the, moment, a- Journal reporter announced on the : authority of Republican .member of the" senate, which according to the Oregonian'a story "the liquor interest," had organized," (hat -a kfbbyist in behaM of thai interest has given forth the exhilerating tip that a juicy wad of " L wealth was held "in escrow in Portland, waiting the psy- ' etiological moment to soring it in the overjoyed legisla- ture, the dtcumambienMir fairly dialled' and -there -was- . iso much heat and indignation that one might De lea to Tbelievthat everything 4hat good men held most . high '"- fcnd sacred: had ; been toppled fromvits pedestal end --t dragged tbrough the JpireThe. capacious column of the Oregonian wereitraightway sought and seited, not i . . . ; . , - - i - (. merely to aenounce as nnmmgaica - ana unroiuicu . ; slander the foul issertion that there was such a Thing as -a slush fund in existence, but to denounce in frank and 3 fulsome language that the aforesaid reporter was a liar sayina , that .any-JRipubltcan senator had ever Said fJanything orTJTeTiindlo'him. " And the names at the bot-J itom of. the proclamation were most; thoroughly; reprfe tentative of the liquot interest.:,"- .;.Jl,::.' :....;,:'"-.,., V L Now if, as the Oi'tgoman announced without subse- I fluent denial, the liquor interest hajl organized 4he legis- Uture, why should it not, logically follow that it would d? as it listed with its own f : It it had-organized the leg . - ( Jslature Jt had doneit for jits own purposes. The main f purpose was to. emasculate the local option bill and if ; possible to prevent the people, who have lately shown i . ? none too. ready disposition. to be led, by th liquor in - Jterest, from; voting that amendment tipror down. We . 1 have, all heard of the quid. pro quo and most of us hate ' . heard of the hidebound indisposition of politicians to w giW up iumciiiiif4tur nviiiiu.'. 4Miir vi uv wcu wuu . rwoijld vote -for the new local optio 4iU put-at stake '-- their future' -career. Tbey might doJt for the love of fliquor or the liquor interest but- the chances were -not ' :mor than a -thousand to one in favor of : that view of - tthe case.'---'. " - v , ,i But why the heat and indlg'natipn in one' case and the ealm and -unruffled -philosophy : in - the other?. -T Why 'Ihpitld the casual statement of a modest reporter in The J Journal cause dignified representatives Of th"e liquor jhiterest to paw the pale "air and tear a passion to tatters vwhen the solemn utterance' .of the erudite andabbs . editor ot.tha-Ofgoniaa-evoket not avw tha tfibwe-of passing isr.ffa:''v-:.:wT;i' TWO WISE MEN'S. SUGGEST! EV. .M.lMOTv. J: SAVAGE -made .NewYli ' l suggestion to men absorbed in their profession or.otherbusinesslhil; Js good, io-consider at any time of the year. - As a preliminary to it -he said that the-trouble-withmostJnenis thC they getinto -ruts. TKey are'nafi'ow in- their interests. They; care but for a few tliings, always the same things,; and 3 these things are taken away they do not know what to'do with themselves, are discontented and in a' large .degree helpless. So he advised business mejv and work--i ers generally to( train themselves to become interested in some new thing, something outside of their business, iiao that Ihey can ?njoy life-more as" they go along, and . retire when they'have to or choose to more comfortably , and contentedly. ' ' , " ' ' ' : -, Though it mighfhfirteem ao at -the first glance, "this advice U.ii line with the simple life preaching of Pastor Wagner. - "Or. Jejix Adler," leader of the New York ' Society Jori Ethical ; Culture. , delivered an address He- - - . eently on Wagner's book, rin. which he explains that j1"simp!e'Ms not to be. construed as opposed t6 mani- - - fold.- Itis not synonymous' with" single,' fewness71ittle - v ness. The simple life" is .not. the life bf Diogenes,. Of tne Minou.ancnonte or ot the tJnriBtian recluse, it is4 "not the ascetic life. The true simple life is . no; in- the restriction ofireaLjieeds, but in the integration of thtm; aid m the differentiation of the things that benefit from needless: wants and unrestrained desires for things -not -1 only needless, but. harmful. It is the essential as con - trasted with. the superfluous things that' make life simple, i liany of the customs and regulations of fashionable society are wearing and worse -than useless burdens, "i lafe is overloaded and overcrowded with formalities and complexities, all summed up by the preacher and song writer king, whoTiad"goiie through the. mill, in the, ex pression '.vanity of vanities, all is Vanity i rrofessoT-Adler emphasizes the benxfit-iiid-xojnfxixt of simplicity in entertainments, in which the central. - thought should be; not to fflake a show but to make - quests care-free and happy , and animated jby good-will toward all; and in education, which in the case of rich ""people1chiliUen iiTparfitSiTaF iTten"aanureDecause - .of the luxuriance, effeminancy and self-indulgence ,.wTtT wnicn it is surrounded and mingled. The. young person , needs the habit of energy, application, , concentration, S .work, discipine the ability to mobilize his'forees -at , short notice'.. But a youth pampered irtd self-indulged -, i becomes ; indolent and insouciant and incapable of ac complishing in life what the boy. will who was obliged to live the "simple, tire" of. -duty and hard -work, without society's Jrills or thet gildings of mammotw " -,u . . .. . While on this phase of the subject we reprint a para i graph from the Sioux City Tribune, as followst i'Among . the moderately well-to-do --there is an army of- young , tnen growing up in idleness in this country who think it beneajh their dignity to learn a trade or even to follow '.,' profession, nd who help to. form that large class - - known as genteel idlers. They" hare been pamnrwd and petted by their parents until -they have come, to the 14- wnirlusin that tin worlj tm a in in niiliiini their having to give an equivalent in toil. They are a menace to the5 peite and welfare of the country, and those 'who encourage them . to It are as reprehensible as theyv , ;"-s - - . . i True, the simple life is not the idle life; on the' con'- upon which he can concentrate not in a narrow sense as to exclude everything else but so as to throw his main force into-some one direction.- Championing too many'good causes leads to distraction, complexity, mere dilettanteism. "-'Pastor - Wagner points out .a 'maladiust- ment in the personal life of today consisting in a false perspective, the exaltation qf the unimportant- and ,th undue depreciation of the important, and Dr. Adler adds apd ihis. brings us back to Dr. Savage a suggestion that there is a maladjustment between ourselves, and our fellow-human beings. The simple, fundamental, true life is to have regard to the rights, the teelings, the con dition of others, and Dr. Adler says that everybody, es pecially every latnily should be in personal touch with some : noor '. familv. vfsitinor and - takine an immediate interest in its members,; e-ntering into thair'life. aharing them.burdcns,:.le8sening their troubles. , "Weannot af ford to, dispense '3vith . this stimulus' and 'remlnder from without, of the great sorrow, tpelarge margin pf misery by which we- are' surrounded. fr W,- cannot" afford , to dispense yur " charities rnerelthrOugh organized . . fihan neisi giving money and not service,, and children need personal contact, with the poor as. much as adults do, When we are tempted to indulge luxurious habits, follies and vanities, the knowledge ot others needs will restrict us within tht eeds of a really1 fifle human existence. Suppose these two suggestions, the on of Dr. Savage t,o . get out of the rut and the one of . Dr.' Adler to get into ministering ; and .brpth.erly. touch with-some par ticular needy peopfe, are jpnsidered Jogether. If they were acted oa this year by a million rich or.weU-io-lo business and professional men "and their families7vvhaf a': wonderfully better tQuntryJtwo.ulLbAJhc8-anolhct " ENTHUSIASM OVER THE FAIR." rTMlERE IS A SPIRIT xf positive enthusiasm being JarouSed-IocaUyore-Iwia-and-C . . There was a time when it -Was generally con sidered a mistake that it was ever seriously undertaken. There wis a later, timdwhen the same'solid and sub-j stantial people, concluded that as the fair had been un dertaken it should be pushed through to a successful issue as a matter of local and state pride." For this rea son nhey liberally put tp- their money, 'but their interest in it after all was only negatyer-Now there has come another .time, when all the jeoplf view '.the partially finished-result : with pride and enthusiasm ;,a!hd ' when they come to appreciate, what later -will be discovered to be the fact, that the fair will be jhe most 'important of -all,agencies.-v'er- (mployed: to -exploit ' th. Pacific northwest and under conditions .the mst advantageous, their pride and enthusiasm will be abundantly justified. . ' Itifr-rrne that the fair is" to be held at an opportune rtime.'J Until; within- the. past few yearsMhere has een no systematic ; and unremitting advertising campaign conducted in behalf of Oregon. JWith "all .its vast and varied resourc,esr 'with its rrtany" products shipped over the world, the state nevertheles was perhaps the least known of any in the union. The tide of. travel was not in this direction; the great bulk'of jt-wenf south of us while a proportion of it went north. Strenuous "efforts were put; forth" elsewhere to attract immigration; "here strangers found their way without' invitation and some rimrilmmr-ffieW - But in the" last three years, and until the, past year-al- tnost entj.retyr through the -efforts of the "railroads much atteptbit-has tbeen directed" loward ''Oregon. .Those who have -come here have : usually found t what thev wanted. " They have induced others to come. 4 This work has been 'supplemented by the intelligent and unremitting-efforts of the commercial bodies untiL as it has been said, the name o,f Oregon i now in. pit 'Very air The fairla the pretextir: coming but the bjective bfcmosr of those who come will be the country itself. It there fore oehoovei us in jill directions to put our best-foot forward and to make the most 'favorable impression we caiC: lA maHfrom St PauLwhoJias pccalionjto trayej much was in Portland a tlay; or two, ago." lie had" re cently made long trips through Illinois, Minnesota,-Nebraska and -the two - Dakotas." Among the; -well-to-do farmers every whect he found the same sentiment "They; had Jheard something! of .the Pacific northwest and they were eager to ..heat a great deal more.:. They knew something of the . opportunities here . presented, they knew more of the crops that: wre being raised and they were favorably impressed with-the reports received "of the productiveness :of the soil." ,Tjie desire of all of them was to-get t a section of the country where the winters werCnsoo3djifid3h er e something more under conditions that were more fav orable than those presented in the states in which they lived. lie said he wis "much surprised to hear of the great .numbers -of-people who proposed, -to -come- here next summer and particularly so for the reason that up' to that time he himself had only" felt a faint and faraway interest in the enterprise and had no thought of coming here. Indeed,' it was as a result of these talks that he became interested and decided tojrome out here to see for himself what the country had to offer.- -"J-" '. Itr the-judgment of he-Journal.the attendance atthe fair will be much larger than any one has yet anticipated. It is evident, too, from he reports which come from so many -diverse sources that thousands of people will come here to "look around and if they find what they want they are likely lu come lieie to live. Beyond" doubt-thet'e-wilt-be-a great-inf rux-of rpopnlation and to no one element will it be so largely due as , to the Lewis and. Clark fair. -That;.exposition, therefor,-will -more than justify- expectations andmoreihaa any one ever helflf-m-the ,conrrJrwlll relatively if not absolutely pay the biggest dividend in indirect results to the whole sur routtding country. t' ' " ' . ,..: '. ' '. ' -- y . 1 t--1 .... -V , .- AMERICAN HOUSE"OFXORDS." rary. it is a-tiusy -life, a useful life, even DerTiao manifold life, one branching out in several but not too niany and always in right directions and afong feasible though not necessarily always easy routes. ;'." . Ir. Adler adds to. Pastor Wagner's advice th's'tug . gestion: "Seek not only the things which are important, a against those which are merely accessory, but seek the 'things which are Important for. you; select among the , important things those which art important forypu, and leave aside other jhinge equally important but important f.-r othrr people and not for-yetu." -A -person should, "a mun g many important things to be done, select one .', . -A ,; ' ',. :;.;".'.. : K . ... HE UNITED STATES- SENATE is'1 a notable body. It is the goal of -countless men's am bition, It Js in some respect an unique. body in the world's parliaments. In it resides great power, and it prides itself upon its dignity' and calmnessof delibera tion. Among its members have been -many of the na tion's greatest statesmen. Into it very unworthy mem bers have drifted or pushed their way. We are too prone to overrate -the great men of the past, in 'comparing them with present-day statesmen, yet after taking changed conditions and everything into consideration it difficult to helnvt thai th-es are men in th day equal to'Webstef and Clay afid Calhoun "and Benton. But these men were viewed at a distance, even by their contemporaries. ..The Common people could not know add see everything as we do. And superior individual ability counted tor more than it does now: Certain it isTnowever, that a good many trumpery fel lows have pushed. or bought, their way into the United States senate during the past ao years. ; There is a con stant succession of such men," those whom we all recog nize as somewhat lacking In what should be considered the essentials of a capable respectable, thoroughly worthy senator, and also of those who we are all sure obtained their 'office by what from an ethical point of view must be considered downright base means, by brib ery of one sort or another. This fact, or what is uni versally. considered-to be a fact, has done' much in the last generation to cheapen the senate, and make it an Object f suspicion if not of scorn rather than of admir inr confidence and resoecf." - : .-r , ' With' Theodore Roosevelt -in 'the White House, nd jt large proportion of . senators totally out "of lympathy with anything in the nature of reform that fie may pro pose or undertake, it will be very, interesting to watch his"and their." performances during the, next four years. Arid the Democrats in either bouse may .not be much considered. . The Republican majority, in both houses will be ' greater in the next congress . than, for many years. Two years more wiU make la years of unintet ,! . 1 . 1 1 . I ( . t . iiipica nepuDiicin ruie m in prancn oi inc govern; men?,' and since times are-aa'id to be tfood the old' Re publican leaders who think tbey are very wise advise no change, no reforms, no disturbance anywhere; but tht ardent young president has high ideals, and much cour age, and force withal, and is determined to do things. The standpat. standstill policy is intolerable to)him. lie piay be coaxed out of bis impulses to action for awhile, buj not for very long. . But if he tries in dead earnest to control the railroads and tlip the wings of the trusts he wilt have to do so over every adroit species of bpposition mat tne senate caa invent. .. ijtt house may be more tractable, for it members have to come back to' the peo ple" every twjo years, and they will sooa find out .that the people are with the president in his purposes and ef forts in, these directions.' ut tlje senate, will resist"-',' : ; Frederick jPjiillraer.. f correspondent of Collier's, divides senators iijto three classes: , Those who, late, ii life, have secured seats by moneyed influences those who have made- their fortunes indirectly through-their of ficial positions; and those with ad inborn love of pub- lie me wno nay.erisen step py step toJiigb. position.. He cans, tne first, class senators de, luxe, the second-high wayttten, the third statesmen.' ' The "highwayman -gets' his credentials from a legitla- ture ana take hii cue trom the trusts, v. lie. would eoree on spoils. . He would neither revise the tariff nor curb thetrusts. In- the third -class are many 'men" of great hilityjindrieat Wiotisnvjioi Jaii-aecessarily1 poo -but who would scorn. to secure their seats by bnberyBut they- have always to take the "highwaymen" into con sideration, icfr they have votes" r-'.'";- I Such, is tie senate a body largely' composed df men whpse businesses toorkJhXjpeople Jnstjtadof wrking ioxlJhemt but many of-tham are-CowardSr.whQ.4 an " be forced So do what they dislike to do. because it displeases their masters, by a strong, resolute and yet tactful presi- aent.ot tueir own party. ; A very different man front tht late .president. McKinley is jidwTiT'the Vhite . House. These de-luxe" and liigh waymeoT' senators :may coax him a little way off his base,' for, the sake of toartv harmony; they -may lure him temporarily with false pre tenses,.but "finally; jf he, persists,' they wilt have to yield, as they yielded in the matter of Cuban reefprocity, or else split the party and as good as confess that they are' the senators Of the truats and corporations and not of. the people; ; ; v ' - rr,,r;,-----T-.:xr THE DILEMMA THECZAR. -'4 "HE, GQy ,ERN,M EN T OF RUSSIA is in a perilous predicament. -f it might .rnake tolerable, terms ot peace-with Japan, submitting grimly to the areat humiliation involved in such a termination of the war,: but it has worse troubles t home; than those .which Japan has indicted upon, the colossal empire.' Tens of thous ands of workingmn are in open, revolt not only against their employers but against the government ' -Thi-in-' cipient -revolution is rpreadmg,; and promises . to- wrap roan' provinces of the vast, empire' in a aocial conflagra tjon; There' will 'b nd,.withstanding such an outbreak. liunoreas or ingminarT-nrreiir nuiaing lor justice. no the chance. to :Hve, "cannot ."'be' shoLLoclimDrisoned. 4or transported to Siberia." 'Their plaint cries to all the ends, of th arth-and to high-heavea-Even the soldiers not with the army in lanchnria cannot be depended upon; their sympathies are with the desperate workingmen. - The' apaeal of .these St. Petersburg strikers finds an echo in all human breasts, and if, as the czar professes to believe, the almighty , interferes . in conflicts1 between men, surely he wilt be on their side and not on that of their oppressorsnvTbese-wctrklngmen, their plea says, are of all classes men, women, childien and rndigtnt f parents, who isk for protection. ..They' are - burdened withr labor beyond heiejitrength; are insulted, .treated not-asTnetr.tiut.asilaves who ought to bear their cruel fate itf silence.'-. We art, being" plunged deeper rnl the mire' and deprived ;fj our. rights. - Uninstructed, st'ifjed by destitution and injustice,- we are perishingr we haVe ho strength left r We have arrived at-the extreme limits of 'endurance; we have reached' the terrible, moment when death is to be preferred; ' to V continuation of our intolerable sufferings. We have riot asked much,-only fof means of livelihood,-without' whichJifeis a continual torturc Our- masters-have refused -to jnvesttgaterour case." ..""T'; -r: ,.: '':' i --u--'" " (. -So theyppeai4oherfJ'ie!5--But.Iwhat can the poor, Dewiluereu, supcnunuui, nm-niuiwu im.uui . m cannot so easily as WilliamQLGermanyl irtterfere in -behalf of oppressed workingmen, -because, though nom inally an'absolute monarch, he has not William's power; fce'Is himself the slave of the civil and, religious oligarchy that has brought iiis.empire to the edge of the precipice named Ruin. ." '' V'V'AI Between these enslaved workingmen and the ' race robbers, who rule the czar there tan be ho truce, Ho com mon ground. If these workingmen are. to get. their rights the stuffed "and corrupt oligarchy must .be ". de stroyed. - tTbt war is between Scilla and Charybdis. Either way he turns he is confronted with forces that he cannot control or command. He cannot permanently help' these pleading people, and they are in' that, state of despeatum that knowf no tear and is reckless ot con seauences.. . 1 "' ' -.- i . - .. . , " -1 , ; Popr fcaarlJJ is too' good a .man at heart, and of too weale fiber for the place which be inherited, much like Louis XVI at the beginning of the' French revolution, The situation calls for a iron' tyrant of a great emanci pator in such a crisis: Nicholas is neither. ;,, v.',.v-: REAL" TRIBUTE;. TO THE PEOPLE. rTHE MOST PLEASING NEWS tbatrcomes to I . The Jourfial is the gratifying. frequent expression ' of its readers to! their appreciation, of its1 frank arid outspoken stand On questions affecting the public moralr-and welfare, "1 It is rather surprising that : )t should be regarded otherwise -than as a matter of course that a newspaper should stand for anything but the en fprcement of the law a high atandard of efficiency -in public official's arid V decently high atandard of morals in the city as a whole. That such a matter is considered deserving bf comment arid congratulation is perhaps the heat evidence that cquld be given. of..tbe..J5$.e,d Pf..The Journal in this community and atate. 'v --;-vL Many unhappy conditions have aurrounded the public life'pf Oregon but Ibsolutely none has been so unfor tunata as the full.-free and fair newspaper exploiUtion -which was for so many years lacking. The forces which. brought .demoralization to. our municipal jut, .wmcn jie battened the ": public morals, stifled .the public conscience and aeV-degradingly low - morel standards -was more largely dueito-this thanto any other cause- But those who feared that this represented the "tiue-laitilude'b( the people of the City "and -state to.- thesequestions and latmA ihrin mucnu-eason lor rearei ana snanio nv? fori- ancA ntnn to reioice in the oast two year when with the fresh avenue or puoiiaiy wmcn , no jyurnw afforded they for the first time got our standards Id their true .nersoective. A a matter of fact there was not only room but fy ing need for a newspaper with a' distinctly high; moral im.' one of courage and truthfulness, which without fear or favor would assail public abuses and," while-entertain ing opinions 'strong and distinctively defined, nevertne les would be willinsr to give 'every side m fait hearing ariT would do no man the injustice of ajrithholding from. him whatever measure xl justice waa due turn... in tne rather remarkable career of material success which The journal has enjoyed the" most" gratifying" feature of it after all is the evidence "which.! it affordVof , the stable character .of the beople themselves. Without them and without such ideals-that, success could not" have been achieved. It sneaks well for Oregon; it augurs welt for the future' standardsTif-irsteiHaeship and it gives unim peachable; proof. to th stranger jwtio-xontempiates com nir here to live'tRat he will here fihd auch surroundings and sucfe standards of right living and right thinking as will justifir hli coming andrwarrant Turn in making the state 'his home. ..r . -l?t --'' '-'" .. A NUISANCE THAT SHOULD, BE ABATEDJ - ROWDING the rear platforms of ;the' street-cars so that paSsejigers can scarcely force their way in while the inside: of the cat is only partially till'.it Jisae-reeable feature of Portland life that onlj needed a public rrence tosbow the degree of which ina;aTpuN to men passengera iut it is very much more annoying to woinjen and old people ho find the care the greatest con yenicncellthaa'jrrown. here into custom;, on-the pari pLthe patrons 6fetrt-r Jt n degenerated into hahit On mav see some explanation it in the iase of men who smoke, bnt it is not confined to. them.-: Men who do pbt smoke of who are not then smoking block up thejiarrow passgeway"15",he great annoyance-of U who seek t enter and it never seems to occur to them that ihv- are makina: nuisances of themselves': .. I V hrrtmthxom-whn-tiitiTt-&- thingshoutd .. - I " . .."fc'"" J5i t stop. If need be tnere snouia oe Deuer accomraoaauous fpr, smokerst on the tlosed cata in front where theYTifed nor interfere" with the coming and going of otheT pas sengers. T,he- closed cars' themselves should be betjter ventilated to that those Svho - enjoy fresh! air should neither be stifled nor sickened by breathing the vitiated air -which fills most, cars." Then on Jome lines arid i at some hours there should be more cars run so that the passengers""would hoi be forced to pack themselves Ijke sardines on the rear platforma. : , . :- ''y-.. - --The matter ahoutd be taken up by the company and alsq by the passengers. ' The latter should consider the comfort of other people, and they Should not block! the passageways; the former should aid m every way in its power ta bring about the reforrn. -,Then another step should. beF'taken. An iron gate shquld be placed on the off side of. the car, front and back, ao -that passengers can get -neither bff nor.On.from any but the proper aide. The-need of his will be even more apparent next sum mer when the fair is in progress but if it is done now every residentwill be-trained to it by that time and 1n this way some lives will be saved and many accidents prevented.:.; ' : ; ; - ' '" "r".. " '' il: jfrom. the ChlcagoJUrlbune. -,' There has always been a sense of awe some wonderment to moreaders of Ihe Bible In study the the' descriptions of the tabernacle set up in the wilderness under the direction of Moses and Aaron. - Con fusion of words e4.-Bvenln- of words In earlier translations misled many Blb llcar scholars, and as a result there has existed for centuries a curiously exac- n rated eonceptloa ot tbeieesurements of bulldinss, objects,- and even persona. mrtoned In the Old Testament. - The first tabernacle has always toon retarded as coverlna- a treat area. The giant Oollath has alwsys been looked upoq as a man at least elht or nine feet tall. The Tet bed of Qg has been re tarded as the restlne-place of a giant The tallows upon which Haman was hsnted. In the Imattnatlow of biblical readers, has reared Its trewsome height until It overlooked a city.' Hi - , All measurements in the Old Testa ment were reduced to cubits. How much was a cubltT For many years biblical scholars accepted one foot and six inches aa a cubit.. Ttlus a man six cubits high would be nine feet talL A gallows SO cubits high would be 7i feet. But with a cubit reDresenima or Inches many inexplicable measurements have been built up. - r?"'" It bee been left for the Rev. W. Shaw Caldecott an English archaeologist and lecturer upon blbllear subjects, to dis cover from tht evidence of the Bible It self, and from scholarly deductions from the famous flenkereh tablet, that there are three cubits constantly referred to in the Old Testament Instead of one. v . Accepting Caldecott's ' theory that a cubit of linear measurement la 1 1-e feet Oollathwas . by no means the mighty giant he has always been believed. - By .the side of Chang, the Chinese giant of modern days, Oollath cuts a most ordi nary Uigurs,,. The great bed ofOg.Jwln. dice t something only a little more than ordinary slse, and the tower of Solomon's magnificent t temple would be dwarfed into Insignificance by many buildings In Chicago even before the days of the sky- scraper: : -' ' - . . .' - Solomon's temple. In point "of fact must have been an insignificant structure compared even With temples of biblical days. ' The Jews in Solomon's time were much behind the Canaanltes and the Philistines in the constructive arts, and the biblical accounts show that Solo mon waa compelled to secure -tile erchl- tect, . his designers and . his artificers from Troy. .-.- -; The adytum nr outer chamber of Bolo- cubltS wide. 44 eublts long and SO cubits nigh. According to' CaUlecott's thebry that a cubit was-1 1- feet, this outer chamber of Solomon's temple wss 14 feet wide. 41 feet long and SI feet high not an Imposlng .roomby. any.maanaIor a king's temple. The temple itself was 4S cubits wldeand IS cubits long, or 49x101 ft. , .V-w . That -Solomon's iernple 1 had -towers cannot be proved, for the height of the porch is not given ln( Kings, and the US cubits referred to In Chronicles' Is be lieved to be excessive; but even accept ing the figures given In Chronicles,-the tower, - aceordlnar'to Caldecott's theory, could hat have been more than 144 feet, Much, of Pr. Caldecott's book la given over to the, History and strut tabernacle The conventional tabernacle is well known, and the tabernacle as re constructed by Ferguson Is also familiar to theological and architectural students. Applying, the cubit to the specific lions given In .the biblical accountMr. Caldecott gives a tabernacle of smaller slse and of slightly different structure. - One of the three cubits was, nine tenths ef a foot, and .was ased exclur atvely for the measurement ef work In laid or covered with gold, end for tap ektry work in which gold was used. Tha .second cubit was 1 1-4 -linear feet, and waa used for building work and for the measurement of objects and persona . The third cubit Was one foot and els s"TTtn exclusively in. tne measurement of land. Whether msthematlclana and Assyrian scholars accept the interpretations of Mr. Caldecott remain to be seen": but Dr. Sayoa, the famous professor of As- ayrlology, admlt-tht hie theory at least is most interesting. ' - NewiY aewe 101l00m car i Thoughts v , (By Couaa &m Tolrsot) MOTHER year has gone and left us without fulfilling our hopes of freedom, but bringing us 1n : stead untold horrors and mis eries. "We live at a critical timet how aver;. of thst there Is no doubt, and time for the great change draws nearer every ' day. The war produces In the minds of men. as does the storm In nature, a wholesome change in this that a move- . ment -which ordinarily exist -unnoticed become v'athla . This Is a critical time and It ,1s necessary ae-consider all .lo tions twice before carrying them out Alt the struggles of the press, not only ' of the Russian press, but also of the for- ' sign or revolutionary, against the eaist- ' tng and ruling evil, are sterile. - - ', ' It Is Just the same as to cut ths top off weeds; they will grow only still move vigorously- They should be pulled out root and branch, and this only the spirit of true religion, -which is powerful and ! Invincible, is able t da ;':' - , ' It seems to roe that you have only to ', listen, to the. vole of your own- heart-to--' find out what to do, IC you believe In : Ood and His laws, not only with your lips, but with' your heart and soul, yon -can be in no doubt as to how you should -act -. . ' f Bead the tfnthchapteir of Matthew twenty-eixtbl to thirty-fourth - verse. There It Is clearly told what , the malt., should do who believes In Ood and His laws. And If yu are afraid. If you pre-- tend to believe In the orthodoa church, then you, bud better renounce Ood,-be cause this shows that you' care only for things of tola earth.- . . v- .. - Then you will at least be honest, end neither I nor anybody alee has any right to condemn people who have no faith.- ; But 1 do condemn, and every - honest -' ' man must eondemn. , those who 11 and ,. who -pretend to have faith while they -. have none. It la th hypocrites whom -; Christ-himself denounced. - , . - .-"; On of th moat Important motives In -. :. all human actlvUxia isuggeatlon. It t a areat power for good when Used In thV, right manner; but It becomes one of the ' most terrible forces 'for- vll whea It is used to prompt wicked thoughts and evil-.- deeds, -s it la'alway used by govern- ment and church. -.; 'i - Evil persona have combined with the Idea of Ood so many lie ana falsehoods that honest, and sincere people uncon- ; " aclioealy--heon'TOd'-l(rr.deXd themselves against Ur-They are like .. traveler who, having been robbed set- ; ral times at noatelrles and Inns, and hav- . -; Ing heard of dthers to' whom the same :, thine has hatiened. dare no longer seek ... refuse and decline th hospitality offered them for fear of being: robbed, ad thus continue to travel uutn their lejgs'caa., carry them no longer,...' "- --. '."T This la what has happened to our young peopl. - . - .'-'I ' -.'..""' -During the last few months I have : -been busy reading every day selections of the' bast and most elevated thought : of pur greatest thinkers, not only Mar- cu ' AUrellus, " Eplctetes, - Xenophon, ' Socrates. Hindoo, and Chinese phlloso- , - phers, Seneca.- Plutarch and Clcer. but f also more recent authors, as Monlee- qul7"R6aseau,- Voltaire, Tossing.- " Kant, Llchtenberger, Schapenhauer. Em- Z'. ersonrChsnn!ng, - Parkercr Buskin-wnd Amiel (during th' last twb month I . have read neither 'jnewspapers-inop'saaga-.: sine ,- and as a result of -tfiese- daily-, r. studies" I have been; shocked' mer and.--more, not by th Ignoranoe, but by- th -e1vllled savagery-.', which ealsts In so piety today, 'v..' .'". -Instead. -ef studying and assimilating . - th rich herltsge left ue by those great -minds, read newapapere, Zola, Mae- -tertlnck'and Ibsen. .Oh," new I should...--Ilk to chang tola -vo wlp. put .tnl terrible condition, whlgh.1 f more hor ribl than war I ' ; .t , r - -; W should .spend our -lives here not thinking pf or fearing, but looking death; squarely In the.face. Then life becomes t ... .valuable, solemn, useful and happy, ' In, th face ot death it become impos- slbU not to work wltb all our energy. thee death may put aa end to our work .". at any moment, and to th man who "'; works thus life becomes full ef Joy and he lose that fear of death . which poW tons the Uvea of so many people, r . Th fear of death diminishes as your life become more-useful,-and whan It " becomes all it should be, that fear haa ceased to exist". '. . : ..L'-.,, Bim AJTD OX.OBT. (By ts Archbishop M Cantferbury.) ' I do -iot know whefhr tt Is true t . say, as Is sometimes sild, that the Kng Ush word "duty," Jn all that It .signifies '' In the highest sense, has ho quite oorre- ' apondlng word In. any other language on "" our earth. All t Be words that ars sup- . posed -to .correspond really commend or1 describe an' Idea -a little different My '-fr attention was called th other day to a . curious statement ourlous. If true; I " have not -been eble to verify ttbut thl statement was, rnade-we have th whol " story of European: war about it hundred year ago between Franc and England. -We have before us th proclamations pr - dlipatehes. If we may call them ao, of v. th Emperor: Napoleon., and w hav all rx th dispatches and report of Arthur, Puke-of Wellington, i' - ; U ' ; t K I am told that ther I literally not on report or proclamation of tfl Emperor - -Napoleon in which glory is not men-." tloned. and that ther Is not literally on . . - report or dispatch of-Arthur,- Duk ef ...... 1 . 1 B.LInk wA 1 occura nor CJilngle pn In which "duty" ' is not led forward a th central thing. r mean by th larger liberty which carjle ., with It- he tnougnt ot answeraDienesa, . I suddos all- prpsress is valuable Just ' in so far as it tends to moral progress. ? - A man's prtvat life may be in domes- ., tic affairs absolutely moral; in his buirt-. ; n. itxp there- may b a little lens -of .t ' thaumorallty TnTliatlffeT kenee; in hlt, civil and political life It may become a mer 'conventionality, and in his thought '' , sbout International relations may dlsap- pear altogether. t: ' OTi TOB . From the Oregon-Irrigator. In appointing -a marshal for Nome the president saw fit to nam. Cader Powell of Portland. - We understand Senstnr Fulton stsnds pensnr for him. We can, nam I.ooe cltlsans of Portland either one of whom would hav made fully as good sn officer, and any one of them would hav don greater credit to Oregon. And we are not very, well acquainted In Portland, either. ' But, then, none of hem we have In mind could be depended -upon -to "oil th ma chine." ; And oil tt must have. ' Pity th Pee Packer. . ' From the Pittsburg Dispatch. . ' One of the Chicago parkers says "the packing .Industry la subjected to the Reverent hind of competition and th profit is" less than In sny othaf busi ness." Will not some eongrMman earn undying gratitude by proposing. a sub sidy for the impoverished packers? omrxoaT ooBrrrjaaaiD. . From th OregonlrrlgatorT . Ther sr a great many people In Oregon who believe that th people of our second oongresslonal district did an unwise thing in elecllng Blnger Her man to congrees after his "retirement" from7 th gsnersS land office, ;And th action of the lata 'grand jury at Portland did not reduce that sentiment to any marked degree. . ',; W0B9 V0B HATOm. ' From thi Bt, John Review. The Review Is not In - politics, but Portland could - go. farther and far worse, than .to elect Torn . Word for mayor, Even-the grand state of Oregon would not make any mistsk should this same fearless, efficient and -capable Hherlff Tom Word be elected governor. Old Missouri has already "shown us" list she dee whew ' erlslw has Iipsii reached in It affairs, and a man arises td th oeesslon. With Word In ths c pi lot at BAlem. ther 1s a possibility that th webfooters-might be astonished at soma Of the old dusty 'skeletons - he -Ughtr hrlne-from th elwset. -eg mayor" of Portlsnd he would strike terror to ' some of the "rings" end "gangs" who hav been systematically plundering th treasury and taxpayers, The rarer Ka. V ?' : "T' From the Boston Transcript. ; . ' F,sr Tolstoi, th great peac promot ing count's military son, has been given - " th St. George's cross for bravery In nsrrylng dispatches under Are. StllL ' hi father la th braver man. He has ' been oaf ry ing messages during his whole life under such flr as trim nnl " ' merely , th bodies, but th souls of ' A men. v ;-. .. y .