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. - . . -h " . . I'. ,?ORTJ-Ain)v. OREGON, , ,i,'v WEDIirSDAY. rCHUARY 2. 18C3. rj r. 1 11 ii'ji,.: in l 11 iBKmaammssseKBammmsm: T H E O R E G jy ft. JACKSON ft X Publiabad very evnto; & WATTINQ FOfcMORE '.'THEREiIS JUST ONE of v j I 1 tempests -in progress- tljat. you eversaw.-. In the ) J i most casual way in the city council Mr, FlegeJ mentioned .that Chief of Police' Slant ha4 bjcen seen; in 'tta north end saloon alter t ociocJcin tne morning, une - 'o'clock, be it noted, it the hour' at which under the law , ;li all saloons must be closed; as a matter of tact H is law ' - much morev honored' in the ireachthan in the observ fance under the present administration. The councilman suggested his mild surprise that . nothing happened thb :'" ! scquently, the inference being' that the chief having him '...'; self been a witness to the violation of the. law in the ordinary course of things a charge should be forthcom i?inar agairi&t-the fcecper of the sakwar. ,..: '.' . - This was all, but it immediately r ; from General Beebe of, the police like all communications of General in the choicest and most graceful i for specifications, the allusion made -' being construed into a reflection upon ment. In reply Councilman Flegel said he had been ; informed that the chief of police knew saloons were kept . open after Jiours and that doubtless he couldj prove it to K, any impartial board or court. The purpose of making the original statement, he said, was not to criticise the V chief for having been there, but to .show that it was ' common knowledge that such places were sq kept Open and with the consent' of the .police department. I'Jjut ' the sting is in the tail of the latter and here it is: "I do not believe it is possible to bring information before the - police committee or the mayor which - existing order of things in regard to , ;- ing open after t o clock a. m., and if ' ' so-1 would' have , preferred 4 charges them by proofs long ere this." . t i . I , Therefore what was originally (;. has grown into something -which t Tight serious. Mr. Flegel asserts, able-to prove, that-the chief of, police and one of his men went to k saloon which he names, after I o'clock in the i morning to see whether or not it was open; they there ,' found their, worst suspicions verified, but .nothing ever came 'of it. Mr. flegel claims to know these and other ' facts and in response to the formal jnquiry of General i Beebeaysjhat he would long ago have laid these. facts before the mayor and the police board if he hadn't been t satisfied that they would nofcjiave changed the existing order of things. ..--"' ',--.-' .-'.' ; Therefore what originally was . even something less ( than an arraignment of the chief of police has now.be r-, come an arraignment of the police department, 'tTi6. ; mayor and the police board. All of which. Ishows the I matter i getting serious. As the case stands the burden i. is now. upon General Beebe and the public will wait to : receive another communication from him that is right to the point Such an interesting discussion, that prom : ites po much if it is continued, should not be .dropped al - i this' stage,, p ,. rf,,: V . . . I . . . ...-"-u. . - . -FOOD, ADULTERATIONS. H& AVERAG& OF V LIFE ' ,-- looger tnan n was wnen Die I : People nave more comforts, ' ways." Doctors' have learned, and know better how to ' treat diseases.' People generally have also learned,' and ; many diseases,, especially those among croup, diphtheria, scarlet fever and r t I a :'j . I . t Mt ' picvwcui nu nui u imai. iiic oring graauaiiy removed. - n l. I - v.i 1 1 '.as a greater variety of food, except for the adulteration of almost everything. This practice of food adulteration is nothing less than a shameful crime against humanity. ; Many of these adulterations are positively poisonous. Those who make and sell foodstuffs breeders of dreeise, ; jre.r practically wholesale man- . lnirhtirir fnr the tiV, ml aArirAnrndtm, ' How much less censurable than they are the national i lawmakers who year after year and congress after con- gress refuse to pass a pure food law? Such a law has f repeatedly passed 'the house, but is always held up in . the senate. .Why f Can any one be blamed for suppos ing that the disease-breeders and manslaughterers have a 'financial pull in the senate? ' ' J: The people need, want and demand pure foods. ' They SJOOTXAXB. : . , f , From . tha, London Dally Mall. " ' ? . r If a man living- In Otaagow or Edin-burg-h .wishes " to obtain 'aloobolfo ra , raehment attar IS a'clock at night ha . , most either purchaaa a railway ticket l i or a aaat at a theatre. Up till laa Mar tha ckwlng ttma for o ciock. ml wnc nmn m rannuy pwn act has mada It oompulaory for them 1 to snut up ax ia. The result to a visitor ara eorioua , aivl striking-. .In Edinburgh on Friday. night, batwaen tba hours of and 10.' ! ' I saw publie housea In prominent parts '.. of tha city where men stood four deep' f at Ihs counters anxious for refreshment X befora the houie closedT Thay ..stood . .at tha bars silent and" determined. -.. .At. IS up went tha stumers and pht came tha customers Into tha "street, and .-. 1 was in tha midst of a great sMy futtj ll.kt . I 1 7 -j- shops were still doing a busy trade, ' where the streets were thronged with ' people going and comm'g,' and where 'r vary publio house aad every restaurant fllh a lloensa was cloaed to -the ordl ' liary ravaler. " a ir' 1; Tha only place of -refreshment was .a .. eon feet loners' chop, where choo6lata and - ginger beer could be purchased.) -sTrnthfuily, dlnburgh did not seem to" 'mind its deprlvatlrtn. and tha jcrowds . went on their way cheerfully. . Among ; the. moving throng between IS and 11 -. I saw a few drunken men, but not many. Edinburgh, with its main 'streets filled v rwtth lively, crowds, was strikingly or 1 iderly and sober. 1 As 'to -hoboenlnr.' is the result of 100 new taw, mars 1 seems eiia oat ill- tla that did not -exlat before. Nor. Is club drinking ..largely on - the Increase. - People take away drink from the public houses and consume it either In tha - . streets or at home, bat not to anextent ' to frighten - tha reformers, u -w... -s , . ..MWben th new rule was first eelah llahed." said prominent police official, "tba regular-drinkers resented it and ' mt of ahear bravado they drank mora than ever, with tha result that we got . aa Increase humbefof chars ee. ' 'toim of them would even bring bot llie of whlekr around hero In froqt of . tha pollca offloa and drink' their con tests and then smash tha bottle on '. the pavement In defiance, Tha neutral " effeet-ef tha IS o'clock oloalng. how ever, 111. now allowing Itself, and In the last three mnntha we neva naa a staaoy dim ins 1 kmc of charsrs . cma lictnsa holder aayg ttai at long O N. D AiLYr J O UR N A L INPgjPEyONT, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. ' . enxept Sunday) ' and ever? Sunday moraine it atrecte, Portland. Oregon.. . i . i i i i .. in, i ,i OFFICIAL PAPER OF THe CItVof PORTLAND LIGHT. the' most ladylike gusted with the TARIFF to comolain of the coloniesbad drew forth a letter board, That letter, Beebe, was eoucned language, and asked the nale of the by 'the councilman the police depart would change the the saloons remain I had not thought and, substantiated a very simple matter may 'be regarded as and claims that he is has been nursed seriously affected mitted to defeat TRIAL him that the trust, had been which both cattle question of facts, show what, those begin -next month in thiscountry, ia .men .were young. live better in many children, such as typhoid fever- are . . they must and will (unci 01 ui cui are j ' i.1.1f . .1 ".I. thus adulterated are way. 'It confers companyif they possess. The valuable, t ago soma young men, on the approaeh of IS, secured a supply,r whisky and men adjourned -to an lea cream shop, whsra they drank it at their leisure, diluted with ginger beer. "There are only two Instances where one osn get drink here now after. 10, said a Scotsman at Glasgow., They are tha railway stations; if you ara a trav eler, and tha theatres where. If you have taken a 'seat, you can get served till the curtain falls. Many of us, hard driven r by necessity' after 10 o clock, have been, compelled to witness some portion of Trouf bondorPtnelodrami nwmwt. Fom tes Moines Register and lsder. '- By this Insistence' that nothing can oe a one in ma matter 01 eroirrauou e ceptlng a. a two-thirds vote of tha sea ates ta secured whenever arbitration la pToposad, artHtratlon Is kflld ss sffeot ually as reciprocity was. A two-thirds vota In tba senate can never be secured excepting after Interminable debate In Itself enough to kill any International co operation requiring prompt action and can never be secured at all in any matter in - which tha leant-bsrtlsanihlp la In jected. Tha president, 1 urging tha sen ate to lay dosm the, broad llnea along which arbitration might bo entered upon, and then leave tba arrangements la each specific case to be perfected by the sec retary of state, was proposing a method of accomplishing ; results. .The sonata, as hss often been the case befora, stands on its antiquated right to Insist upon the mist effective way of bow not to do it. --It la with pleasura-tbat ' tha Register and trader notes that senator Dolllver stood up, with a pitifully small minor, lty W be counted with the president.'. ; nuSi ' From' the Boston Transcript. ' . Tba nar lacks recognition of psycho logical 'moment. He fails to seise .op portunities whed they knock, bat tries to cair'lhem back when: they have1 passed forever., Ths response of machine guns tr a-peai-rable petition for redress of grlcvsnceson- the pert of strikers hss nww.hirrped t . consolidate dlaaf faction, and Instead of a few simple concessions they demand not only aa eight-hour day but free snd compulsory, education, rP feaeiiutlve institutions, cheap credit and-alienation of the state domains. They evidently think they will fsre na worse as ravolutionlsts than aa strlk- ara . 1 x . . .. ' i ' q, fW. F CARROLL To Journal Bnfldlng, Fifth end Yamhill ', ' v. ..' ' t , i J. punished. :, They have for years demanded .'pure food law, -They"1 cannot get it,- because with .the senate the interests. of the1 adulterators ar? paramount to those of the food consumers. ' Is it any wonder that the country is becoming dis senstef ON PHILIPPINE PRODUCTS.' ? HE CRITICISM upon the present method of governing the Filipinos, by whomsoever made, - is well taken. ; The I'lhpinos have as good a ngnt their treatment by the United 5tates as to complain of their treatment by Great Britain. , . - The Filipinos are taxed without representation. Large bands of soldiers are maintained among (Item. They are entirely in the hands of congress, and -wholly beyond constitution. . Congress,, largely intio- enced if not completely dominated by the trusts, is .the .absolute and arbitrary ruler of those people, and con gress keeps them impoverished or. incapable ot Deconv irlg prosperous by imposing a heavy tariff on their only staple articles of export to thi country, sugar, tobacco and hemp, and on oar imports to the Philippines. These products of the Philippine islands ought to be admitted to this country, and our products-to those is lands, if they are, United 'States ten jtory, absolutely free of duty, but congress balks at even a paltry 25 jper cent reduction of the ,Dii.gley rates. The president, recom mends lower duties, Governor-General and present Sec retary of War Taft urges a reduction of duties; so does every able, broad-minded man who has studied the sub ject; and yet congress is so inoculated with, the stand pat (microbe that it will do nothing in the direction of one of the very plainest of its plain duties.' ' ; 'Even the radically -fiigh protective Philadelphia Press says this should be done, and declares that the "oppo sition to the reduction of duties on sugar and tobacco by paid professional agents circulating misleading statements ;7 and the Washington Post, that is a supporter of protection, asks: "Will the greed, the niRgardly stinginess of a comparatively small number of citizens whose interests are well protected and cannot be by the 'proposed legislation be per manifest justice and sound policy?" - . OF1 THE BEEF TRUST. HE GOVERNMENT' losing.no time in going after the beef, trust The evidence submitted. ' some months ago to Judge Crosscup convinced packers, popularly known as the beef engaged ; in unlawful' practices, from raisers and meat consumers suffered, and he ordered them to desist from those practices., Of course they did not do so, but appealed, and last "month the United-States-supreme cour unanimously (!) af firmed Judge Grosscup's decision. Now it becomes a and the, government is prepared to unlawful practices are.' The trial will in Chicago, and will probably . last sev- eral weeksf and its conduct will be watched with great interest It is. rather unlikely that proper punishment wilt b meted out to the men who have so Jong been plundering the public, orthat immediate 'and adequate relief -will be afforded, but this is a beginning of a work that must be prosecuted for years, and if the people can not succeed in breaking up such trusts along thisj line, try another line of action. v PERHAPS - AN IMPORTANT LAW. HE. LAW passed by the -state legislature requiring railroads to give trackage facilities for freight cars to newly constructed and connecting lines may prove to be an important and beneficial measure. It was especially designed, it is- supposed, lo facilitate the constfuctioiT'of a Toad from Tillamook to-some-point on the Southern Pacific line in Washington country, and so that the new road could get into Portland over the Southern Pacific's tracks7""iThelaw may' do no good. The trackage sought by the bill to be secured may- not be needed. Nobody knows yet when or how the road will be built But the law is igood one, in intent, any a right' that the people, or a minor want to build ,into new territory, should Killingsw6rth law may possibly prove .-', nun or xsrozAjra. . ' From tba Kansas City Journal. Tha Indian believes when a man' la so unfortunate as to loaa an eye, ha la en titled to . two wives, and ha generally gets .them. '. . Tha wolf haa a regular name and Is never mentioned aa ; a 5 wolf, bat la ac credited with having a soul and . Is con sidered almost human. ' . T '- V'" '- An Indian never goea on a'hunt-aoon after attending a funeral, knowing that game- wtil detect his whereabouts readily . after being at a funeral. Tha medicine man always .'takes charge of all In camp when on' a hunt. Ha places his medicines In the ground with great pomp befora building hia campflra. The fire Is never removed while the .hunt is In progress. Tba Indian has not yet attained that degree ot civilisation necessary to kill, whtle. In anger,, his father, mother, brother, sister, or child. . . ' "BOCErnr nnr Totraora ' win. . From the Rainier Review. Joe" Bumsteln. sign painter, draptfr and decorator, of Portlsnd. and hia aids kicker "Society Slim." were doing busl neaa In town during tha week. While Burnstetn was busy painting 'window signs, Society 811m" busied himself painting tha town a deep dark red. "8o ctetyvsjllm" ia .a noted pestlcator rom Fonca City, Oklahoma, and his father, who Is said to ba worth -over a million dollars, - sends, him - IJBO" every thru morvthi. which Is ths rent money from an eatate'ln Marshalltown. Iowa,' which na been willed to th boy. 81 Un IS only IS years mt age and la six feat aeven In height; Hia father la seven feet and one Inch in height, built in proportion and waa born In Joplln. - " 1 1 1 ' " . we sTevsr TkoagM of Thia. , From the LoulsvlH Coarier-JournaL" ' How," asked -tha , Sunday school teacher, '"was a-small man like David able ta overoou a giant Ilka OolfathT" . "'Causa Dafld understood Jlu-JIUu." promptly vociferated up-to-date little Jlmm'ia Jones, : ., . . ',''.' ' A BoaUl Wrtakla. - r From ths New Tork Bun. . - Mrs. tlogan Ol thought yea were go In' to have yer party st nolght. -' 'Mrs. Gnrgan Ot deonided on tha nlxt mornln' becus thot the tolma- 01 al ways think av the witty retort- . . : Small Change AU ever but paying tba taxes. . , " - Tha governor') veto pan is yet at band. Tha bear crowd would Ilk3 to see uaias ajar. JLJ ' "t : Kow iriany blunder win be discovered In tha new laws t . Thera is room , for lots more rose busaea in Foruand. Only two waeka till Xent, and then no baseball for 49 daya mora. ' ''. ' ' i '.''; ,'T Portlands has many good .' men, yet Ideal candidates for mayor s eem.se rce. The Portland machine did It Calera Journal Thought tha machine waa done. People who support an institution by meir personal subscriptions pave right to run it as they plea., t ..J . . ..... . ;' If the senate wUl do nothing to fix railroad rata, tba people will, eventu ally n. th do-nothing senators. , - If those Kansas people don't behave themselves batter Rockefeller may Start a branch Sunday school out- there, . I ' ' i ' ' Everything will ' ,ba . ready for the president's. Inaugural In about Ave days; Frank C. Baker .will be In Washington then. v s. .( ' If the police I hav stopped those prolonged' screeching early morning whistles, they have dona tin good Job at least. . . 1 : A Pittsburg ' gambler left ' fortune of i $1,000,00. But think how many gamblers went broke la piling up that fortune. '..-.', A great deal of work I rolna on In Portland, but" man thinking of striking should remember that there ara plenty of mad her to do it ail. , . Now tha beef trust is being written up In Erery body's Magaslne. but it haa got to be hit with something harder than words la a ' magazine. - A clerk of tha lata lagtslarar re turned It? of tit allowed him, because h was not there to earn it Ha might be a good man to elect a member next time. . . -. . . Ohio Republicans are having another row, but there are always so many of them on election day that Democrata build no hopes on these inter-campaign quarrels. , .. ;.' . A' matador only followa the calling to which ha waa educated, but as be tween him and a tortured bull, we rather like to aea the four-footed brut come Out victorious. . ,. , -. Cold weather .on th ranges will prompt the "beef trust to raise the price of meats scarcity; next summer th price will go . up again t because the range ara overstocked. V The senate committee on privileges and elections 'wants to take a -western junketing trip next summer and ao will hold the Bmoot case -over and.inveatl- gata Mormonlam - soma more. . : Oklahoma. . Texas. ' TIllMlat -WtmtnnH ani Wisconsin may -Una up with Kan sas In ita tight against - Standard - Oil1 with Uncld. Bam -to hear. from. Evi dently there la some trouble in tor lor the octopus... ,. Oregon Sideliglits J . Salem is Jonaaonia; ..,:'.'!-.: ," 1 ;'. "cheese factory at Toledo assured. . , Building boom prospect la Gold Hill. Dayton evaporator running on pota- toe. ' , v. Yamhtll county nag soma good roads- will have more. , In a raobtt hunt near Culver over 400 raooiLS were Killed. - Fw, if any," Oregon towns are grow, ing faster than dry Newberg., - r Wasoo. Is striving to get a well drllL so as to obtain a supply of water. - A Herle of ravtral meetings In Dufur resulted in one addition to th church. New sawmill on Deschutes- river, oppo site Warm Springs agency; 1.000.000 feet of lumber contracted for. A Butter creek man 'who offered his farm a year ago for flOOO sold It last week for tt.OOO. Irrigation'proapacta. ' At a meeting at Lewisvtlle, Polk coun ty. It men present subscribed lit daya of free road work. This spirit will brlna -good roads. .... 1,; . ! A Claiakanle business man nnta nut a trap back of his store nights and catches various wild animals that ha displays In his show window. - An - old-fashioned fax ' hunt Is being worked up by outdoor sportsmen around in Polk and sVjolnlng countjr s. f The hop Industry Is on the Increase throughout the Willamette - vallev and growers of many years' experience are predicting that hop will bring, a higher price this year than they have done for several seasons past. .... V Oakland (Or.)'Owt; Twins, a boy and a girl, were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Miller Sunday lghti Evidently the command. "Be fruitful, multiply and re plenish tha earth," was .not given ' to Noah alone on Mount Ararat. There ia scarcely more than one-laird the usual amount bf snow on the high mountains around Suaanvllle. but ' loss of rang slock la far below th average, and the absence of carcasae on the hills haa driven coyotes lo b unusually nu merous and daring . In th settlements. - HEcho.' alleges ths News, ' 1 the great irrigation center., for not less than 100, 000 acres of Irrigable .lands, and haa a country tributary which. produced last year In beef cattle,, sheep, horses, wool, alfalfa, wheat, fruit, sugar beets, dairy products, honey, sorghum, eta, the enor mous total of si.38a.oro. Haystack Hems In Madras Ploneerr 'O. E. Banta h been quite poorly for th past few dax". Myrtle Banta looks wist-4 fully over toward Hay creek, but very thing In sight seems ia Parrirh. Miss Ousele Banta Is havltig quite a . hge of typhoid fever, 'but she. la reported ta be .. better today. It has been noticed, of late .that Fannie Banta la getting eolnr-hllnd. t It I said that ah lean't se nothing but- Qrten. Lib ,t' ranes awsaawsaaaws From th New Tork World. - ' Sine . Andrew 'Carnegie decided that he would ' die poor, he- haa. given more than S3l.000.00o for libraries. , there be ing no less than 1.110 of tpesa.in vari ous paYta of tha .United States, Canada and Kngtgnd.. These figures were' com piled by Mr. Bertram,. Mr. Carnegie's secretary, who spent SO days in looking up th statistics. ,' In speaking bf Mr. Carnegie's bene factions, Horace White of tbl city said at the recent dedication Of a' Carnegie library at Belolt, Wis.: , . "Mr. Carnegie has.', up to the present time, given or pledged himself to giv 1.ZS0 library buildings to tha English speaking people. Of these lit are In tha United States. Th aggregate oost of these buildings la eiS.J2S.HS, of which 2.04.0O, or practically three fourth of the whole, haa been expended ln' this country, about tt.OOO.QQO in England, about tt.000,000 In Scotland and Il.47l.iOS in Canada. Tha propor tion of tha total population which Mr. Carnegie haa supplied with library facu lties la, for tha aggregate of th English speaking race, a llttl mora , than It per cent, and that 1a tha percentage for tba United States, for England aad for Canada, taken, separately. This means that IS In each 100 persona in ail and-In each of thea countries have free and convenient access to books by reason, of jar. uurnegia s oeoencence. "Thar are no Carnegie libraries in tha state of Mississippi, while In Califor nia, which has about th same number of people, there ara IS. Aa Mr. Car negie does not discriminate between states or sections, th discrepancy here noted must be dua to tha indifference of th Mlaalselpplana ' themaelvea , to li braries, or .(which means - tba - same thing) . their unwillingness to bo taxed for th support of them. Alabama has shared Mr. Carnegle'a .bounty to tha ex tent of flv libra lies, but Arkansas haa none. Two of th small atatee in tha union, Rhode Island and Delaware, have no Carnegie libraries, whereaa Idaho, which IS still smaller, haa three; Ne vada, tha smallest of all, baa one and th District of (Columbia seven. As re gards Rhode Island. I suppose th ex planation la that she had a full supply of free libraries before Mr. Carnegie took up th work. - Moat of th New England states war early in th field wltfe .free library laws, and they had also an unusual proportion ef wealthy and publio spirited eltlsens, ' Thus Con necticut, although on of tha foremost states In th union, in th way of pub lio libraries., has only one from Mr. Carnegi. - . ..v.-.v "What may not be said of th pres ent and future blessings, to th English speaking world from xollecllone of books placed within the easy reach of nearly 10 per cant of th population thereof, who had no such, resources be fore? In providlngtthes libraries, th donor' purposes were to offer enlight enment - and stimulate thought, espe cially among tha young: to mak t'oem better, men and women and more ef nclenPworkers: to afford to people of all agea and Conditions- the 'solace of in tellectual enjoyment, th means ot em ploying . their leisure time agreeably, drawtnanthem away from liquor saloon. iia. muBAfhfita a nA rfunnvlne haltlta. I by 'Offering la superior attraction, and generally to lift society to a higher mental and moral plane. . - 41 is urfea or wmc. ena nave vi- ten heard It said -that- Mr. Carnegie might-make bettep use of blsm,ony by.lIted i,y,a number of Indiana, among bulraing hospitals. Infirmaries. rphaM whom - Sbotawborora, - a chief of asylams, homes for th aged poor and similar institutions. I am not In Mr. Carnegie' a confidence. I have never ex changed a word with him on thla sub ject. but my Idea ia this: It la the rscogtilsed duty of civilised eountiiea to provide hospitals for tha alck poor and to car for neglected .children' and tha aged and infirm and to support them by publiq funds. Many communities . fall abort of their duty in -this particular, and it is an open question whether pri vate individuals can do- most good by supplying th shortage but ef their own pockets, or by spurring th publio au thorities to a more liberal expenditure, calling for heavier rate of taxation. Ther 1 something to ba said on both sides, but all that needs to b said here la that a man who has- given, forty million dollars for publio libraries, and aa much mor for th increase and dif fusion of knowledge in other ways, may claim . th -right to Judge for himself how he can be moat useful to mankind. Very likely ha thinks, too, that tha In crease of knowledge irt the world Leads to tha Increase -and better' administra tion of charity, .both publio and private. Such, in fact, la the teaching ef history. l 1 ,s. . -"Another criticism ha been advanced fby persons who ar Inclined to lobk th gift horse in the mouth. They say tnat Mr. Carnegie give only- bnck and mortar, ha does not- supply books or running expense. It is true that he seek to co-operate .with tha people in spreading light, not fo-eupplant them In that -endeavor. Th- person who awaken dormant minds,' excltea publio spirit and nurture the self-respect of the community noes far mora than en who merely give cash. AS regards brick and mortar, surely the first step toward a public library Is to provide house room for books and book seekers. This is .th starting point and aine qua non of th whole business. - Vsry few of these I.SSO Jlbrsrles would have been In existence or under : way if the indis pensable first coat, -the library plant, bad not bevv' offered by Mr, Carnegi. After therplant la supplied everything else grow out of the soil, snd the li brary ' becomes an ever-living tree, whose goldea fruits ar for all genera tions Men- - may. come and - men may go, governments mas rise. and fall, but unless the-human Intellect (a blotted out the free library once started will go on forever. . - "If I had done this work I should be prouder that I had kindled the sacred fire in i.ttt cities and towns containing S4.000.000 of people than to pave- my name carved on 1.190 library buildings.- The buildings will go to decay, but the animating spirit which resides la good books cannot die. : ' ,v raongrrrrs ucranrn. From the New Tork Evening Post. The little town of Waycrbaa.-Ga.Tob. I jects to ine spirit in wnicn ths country . . ..... . T haa received a fugitive paragraph an nouncing th fart that the Honor llr,nu i or in year mere . next- oeen nsea - ar 130.000. There la no Joke abont It. th local officials say, nor la It freak legis lation. . For sixteen) consecuUv yefS th council haa fixed that enormous arm as th price for th ttHvllago'of pur veying liquor JWaycr' 0,000 inhab itants. No oher has ever appeared to avail himself oflUie law, but it Is ther for anyone Wlw see th chance tor profit in It, - To provide for the-want of the same number of men womety or children in Oreater New Tork ther are ta saloons, hotels or clubs-holding liquor tss certificate. Tur policemen keep Wayerosa In ardets SS per cent of tn ennaren attend acnoni.' and t out of 19 of the white population own their own homes. ' Ther 1s no peorhouad: Even u i business DroooslUon the pro hibitive 11c ana tuts worked wall, since two railroad ahopa and, a ear factory hav bee located In Wayeroas because th -employer found their , meo mor trustworthy these than In tba-neigh boring towns. The description, reads in all details like that of th ideal com unity m a prohibitive trace If it la a faithful record f actual eondttlone, we fancy Vt la tob explained partly. On psychological grounds. A prohibitory law Is fair game for anybody. People chef under th restriction of living In a" "dry" town, . Ita ordinances ex. oreasly sanction tha liquor traffic. - The toys vf forbidden frslt are all vary well. but' If the fruit dealer are not eatery Diisina enough, to open their uui, ther la rio reason for th publio to b Intercstodf on, way or th, other.; Waah ftrsi Inauguration From Everybody's Magaslne for March, Both ot Washington's inaugurations war dignified and simple. On tha first occasion. Washington's own desire .was for as litUe display, ss possible, but 'a grateful and loving people t hia wishes aside, and turned what h meant to, ba a quiet journey from Mount Vernon to New Tork Into a triumphal maren, dur ing which he waa compelled to receive the popular adoration he had won. General Washington expressed hia de sire that th oath be administered ta him la private, but he waa overruled by his counselors. At noon, accordingly, on April 10. ITS. Washington supped out upon tba balcony of tha Federal building at th corner of Broad and Wall street. We are told' that he waa dressed in a suit ot dark brown broad cloth, whit silk stockings, silver buca lea la sis shoes, a steel-hllted dress sword at his aid, his hair powdered arid gathered in a bag. It is further ef Interest that his clothing waa wovea and made on tha loom at Mount Vernon under th watchful ay Of hi wire. ' , An eye witness reports that Wash Inaton'a face was rrave almost to sad asss. and that hia voice waa aoaroely audible when, after tha oath had been administered, he bowed, kissed tn ali ble, and aald in a deeply solemn tone, "I swear, so help me God!" Chancellor Livingston, turning to th crowd, waved hia hand and cried: "Long Live George Washington, president 01 the United Stateal" Tha cry waa taken up and went rolling across tne naroor and out Into th country. The artillery roared out its saint and the bella of th city gave tongue to tha worn. . Livingston's method of announcing to the people th fact that tha. oath had been taken waa severely criticised aa being too much after tha manner ot th monarchial ahout ot "Long live th King!" nd, baa never alnc been re peated, 'but In the main feature tha preadht forms af Inauguration ara not found to nirrer wiaeiy iron uioev by Washington. la - winter quarter near North Dakota. Feb. 11. Th morning was cloudy aad a little 'now fell, but ta th afternoon tne w earner oecamo xair. We were vla- much conaldaration among th Man dans. although by birth a R tears- . - , . OVXi OF A.XATXOV. From President Roosevelt's Letter to Frederte Mistral, th French Poet. ' Ton ar teaching a lesson that non mor need to learn than w ot th west, w of thla eager, restless, wealth-seek ing nation, tha -lesson that after a cer tain not very, bigb level of material well being baa been reaebed, tha th trigs that really count in life ar things of th spirit. Factories and railroads are good up to a certain point, but courage and endurance, lov of wife and child, love of home aad country, lov of lover' fir sweetheart, lov oft beauty in man's work and in nature, love and emulation of dar ing and lofty endeavor ar the homely work- -day virtues and herolo . virtues. These ar better still, and if thsy ar lacking no plled-op ricbea. no roarlnev clanging industrials, no feverish and many-sided activity shall avail either Individual or nation. 1 do not under value these -things of a nation's body, I only desire that they shall not mak us forget that besides tn nation's body ther la also ths nation's souk - , - , V.J In i .... I .., . . ' From the- London Malt 1 '. The emperor dalled a counclj of his friends. 1 Th ministers crowd ed round the prince, - with Importunity urging him to go 'forth. HI own personal safety ,waa ths firat con sideration. t a-a-The alarm was too much for th faculties of so weak a man as he. He stood In stupid amasement Ha asked several tlmea, - "Am I am- psrofT" v " i . Tacitus, flor. 100 A. D. Deeply rankling, grows- - ' Th partial thought, a listless unconcern, Cold, and averting from our neighbor's - good; , - ' ' -Then dark disgust, and hatred, winding j' Villa," . .-! ".'. Coward deceit, and ruffian vloleqoe; ' At last extinct each social feellag, fell And Joyles Inhumsnity pervade And petrifies the heart. - y- Jaraea Thompson, 1700-1741, OarZOASrO. . ' ' , I ' From th Boston Glob.-' ' A British company,, with' a eapitat of 10,000.000 rubles, is founding a meat preserving establishment, fitted with, th most modern machinery, about IIS miles from - PatropavloVsk. district of Akmollnsk. This establishment will be Joined to the Trans-Siberian railway at Petropavlovski. by . a servloa - of motor wagon a, each with wcarrylng capacity of six hundredweight. Machinery and utensils for this- establishment- are said to be arriving daily. Petropavlovsk Is the center of the steppe cattle rearing district of western Siberia. The pre served meat; it is said, will be dls- V l"w " ppncmwu imi already been . mada ttn authorities for Jktvorabls felght rates. svautauFF wo mo. One, though hi bet Republican, can1' not help - but admire Sheriff - Word oft Multnomah, who fearlessly performs his duty snd hss duo regard fnr hia oath of office. The mayor and chief of polio of. Portland are shown In a few minute What they, could hsv accomplished. Word's activity brings out more .glar ingly th Inactivity of th nolle. . Th sheriff brave coarse must b felling to the niunicipal auuoritl. . , j 1 LmnriniT1 ' 81 r Lewis an 1 Clark .""'v.. 1 , -' Mandan, -f4i i ,: ' . . Ic-tMiitjratlcj 1 f ' " ' ' 'T"l ' ' Country m Europe From th London Mail. ;.. ( ' It Is th misfortune ot an autocracy which govern unwilling subject that i disaster .' abroad always- suggesU the fear bf a rising at Dome. Ever sine Japan war with Russia began we have heard rumora .that Poland was on the eve of rbvonr- But revolution cannot be made without the munitions bf war, -and though the. Poles have1 cherished a wild dream of freedom ever sine their cynical partition in ' the 18th century, nothing Is less likely than a triumphant Insurrection, ' ' ...-:.. r-i'..--' 'r V It i be '. true ;jthat that country Is happy whloh baa no history, then Is Poland the most - mlserablq country tn Europe. For her history- is but a long romance ef lost endeavors and- Ineffec tual heroes. In the Kth century she waa oni of the great powers. Under th house fbf Jagellon aha governed a vast territory, and Included within her bor ders much that had once been part of Russia, -and which was destined befor long to become Russian again.. But In' 1171 ah Insured her own ultimate ruin by making the crown elective, not he reditary. Henceforth: the beat energies ot th country war Vasted In th ldl ehoio of a sovereign and in tha civil wars which this choice neccsaitated. Th king, th mere puppet of the nobles, lost his power with bla Independence, while the people sacrificed whatever lib erty had once been their. - ' - - - ' All th , power waa- concentrated In th noble, who Were too busy In con trolling th uoeeton to protect their oountry against invasion. Now -and again a hero like Bobleakl rekindled tha patriotism of th Poles, but their ex istence aa a' great nation was finished." and by a aeries of partltlona their ter ritory was divided among Russia. Aus tria and Prussia. .But even after th partition Ruaslan Poland preserved -some sort of independence untl) la a If 5 th Emperor Nichols - took away bar constitutions-and alnc then she. has been but a vassal ot tha empire of th esar. " - - . ' However, loyal to her past, aha did not submit, tamely to th knout of tha conqueror. . Twice In lilt .and 1141 she mad Ineffectual attempt to regain her liberty, but the odd against her were always too strong, and too strong th odds remain today. Strike thera may be In Warsaw and other towns. The hopeleaa indignation which must, ver smoulder in th heart of a con quered people will blase out in Isolated act of -violence, or in eloquent . and helpless p rotes U against th oppression ef th bureaucracy. But two things ara necessary to a praotlcal revolution anna and unanimity.; And Poland haa neither. In aplte of the reariesa en thusiasm ' which ran through Ruaslan Poland In II J, the insurgent soon dis covered that . they eould neltner pro cur sufficient arms nor agre upon a leader. Th utmost they, could achieve waa to embarrass their ' ruier. ana though the task of embarrassment id far easier now thsn. then.' wo doubt whether th aspiration of th Pole hav any better chance Of realisation. Imagine for a moment the vast difficulty of their enterprise. " '" Poland is nl vtoti-a not of one empire,-but of three. It she attempted to make her. proud dream of unification come true. ah , would arouse the-anger of Germany and Austria- as wall a of Russia, and she would be smaehed like a nut in the nut-cracker. " Nor would theRussian Polea far much: .better It they isolated themselves from ., their compatriots and took advantage of th. war with Janan. Even if. they were able to revolt, which w believe Impos sible, they would only ichangaono harsh ruler for another. ... , Th German emperor would not per mit a free nation to axlst. so near his own bordara and to ba a perpetual men ace to th Mcurtty ofjth Poland over Wbien n nunscii rules, nor, in hiih is Prussian Poland so tranquil that William It. can .run the risk of dis affection. By forbidding - the roiin- nobles from owning land in their own , country he has completely alienated them, and less than three year ago the aL own brother publicly de nounced tba imperial policy, in i oiauu. If, then, the Ruaalan Polea . wer to throw off th yok by a happy combi nation ' of circumstances, they would., have but a mall chance of keeping' their -liberty; they would merely escape the harnh government of tha esar to fall under tha pedantic' dominion ot the Ger man emperor, t -f ''.. ' But had the esar remained true to nis earlier Impulses, he need never hav feared a rebellion In Poland. ,Ther waa a tlm some eight year ago, when be waa received In Warsaw with acclama tion, Not merely did ha dare to ride tbfOTJgh the street of th Polish capi tal, as thotlah- he were a tree man. eut he Initiated' reforms, and plainly showed ' that he was determined that his Polish subjects should live their lives aa eltl sens and net aa slave. He abolished the hated land tax. he permitted the Pol ish language to be used la the schools. and In spit of Mr. Pobledonostseff. he allowed the Roman Catholic to practice their religion untrammeled. Had thus benign system of government continued, the Poles would have had no wish to rebel. But presently the party ef thorougimidttg wayrTina tt-la-nn-- llkely that Nicholas n, win ever again drive through the streets or Warsaw, protected and acclaimed by bla faithful subjects.1 .- ' -.. Thus In Warsaw,' aa ainco in bi. f- tersburg, ha thrw away hi chance. and by fear or inaction ssorjneeq ma popularity Which Is th best safegaard to a throne. Th Poles, chested of their hopes, a re one morneger To nap tj)e t- which bind tnaai a tiussis, ui how shall they achieve success T A w ha.v" said, they hav not th munitions of wsr, which1 ara indispensable to re-. belllon. nor have they tha union, whlclr- alone could strengthen tneir enreehie . they will In all probability. continue to bow tha knee to Russia. - Nowaday tha i chance of a triumphant revolt is almost hopeless. In the first plac the effi ciency i of modern weapon ha eetab- - llohed the power ot an autocrat aa upon a rock. It is iai ror men, n angry ana - unarmed, to. run upon artillery., and the Polea of today have not even so good chance as th Polea ef ills of meeting their mailers on equal terms. Id th second place, broad streets andr open apace nave put Derru-anee, thc' Beat mvurui v im wm i . iiib kiuii.ri. out of. th quettttoa. ' Th modern rebel must work underground and rely upon explosives, and with their aid he can but remove on tyrant, .h Is Instantly replaced by another. 'There Is, then, -only on chahee 'of Poland's disgust ex- uslnjr Itself otherwise than tn strike and mlpless demonstrations: . If 'she Won the sympathy of tha army, or aa- ducd even) a few regiments from their allegiance she -might again lect herv own king. But, th army I not likely to'.tranefer its fidelity.-and 6nce"hfore the Tiapl '.Tacw -ot heroea" wilt settle, down quietly upder th yoke.ef Rnasla. and once mo'r,. dreaming of its ancient rreeoom. win near with patrent rta-rat tba inaolenM ef Ue frjd dukes. j. 4-. 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