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' SATURDAY, rZ-UARY : 3. XC3,
TH:B O R E G
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C tV JACKSON
hUUxd IW evening (except Sunday) and very Sunday morning M Tki
: . . ,:-.. etreeta, Portland, Oregon. .' . '
' NO PROSPECT, OF PEACE.
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'O PEACE, says Russia according to the mora re
liable reports of the language
nullified to iOeak. It
: tuiliating to surrender to any terms that Japan, might
- 'now propose. Kuropatkin 4f he still, be the command
:ing general has a great army, said to be nearly 300,000
strong, in Manchuria. There must be at least one great
battle before peace can be considered. . Russia must win
' one great victory. Then well, then, of course any
; teMBi Russia might propose would not be accepted by
" japan..flf Kuropatkin suffers a severe defeat, then, on
1 lc he be completely crushed, Russia's "honor" will still
, ; . more tirgently demand satisfaction; the humiliation ol
- Nsurr.enqr would be even greater than now.- v ;
' Then Rojestvensky is afloat yet,, and jfrovSna; -slowly,
somewhere. There is also the third sojrfiadron, that set
t tv sea recently. Might not the tide of fortune turn soon
. 'and give, the Russians a naval victory They cannot
' talk peace until this-chance ia,tiped. . . v ' ' '
Russia A&0 counts 'on Japan's limited financial re
sources, thinks that Japan will sopn be at the. end of
" her money means,' while Russia, with greater real ' or
assumed resources, can yet manage to borrow -money
especially if . Kuropatkin or Roestvensky can win a . vie-
tory. So .Russia will entertain no proposals for peace. .
V jfl can while Russians soldiers throughout its vast em
pire, and' especially in the industrial centers, are "kept
..busy keeping down disorders and upp'sjngs by'shooting
people, strikers, poor citizens, men, women and children.
- Under these circumstances, and particularly so1 long as
many railroad men are pn a strike, it is not easy to "rein
force Kuropatkin, anl his supplies may soon run short,
V but peace cannot hi 'discussed under such adverse cir-
cumitances. lest the great Bear be mocked by, the world.
'r . . So there is no prospect bf peace until Russia's affairs
' become ..either much better or much worse, and the
'chances are, several to one that, they will grow worse
- -with, what, under the circumstances, will be to the rest
Jot the world, gratifying ranjdity. ' '-- ,
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PRESIDENT ANET PEOPLE.
HEJUGGESTIOlrd! 'the Pendleton East Ore-
gonian that commercial bodies, outer organiza
tions and people generally, as well is. state- legis
latures in session, encourage and uphold the .hands of
the president by means of resolutions, letters and mes
sages, is a good one. ' This, says the Pendleton paper,
."will give him courage. It . will ' insure his triumph.
Give him the,fuH moral sympathy, which, his efforts
.'merit . Cast aside prejudice, .partisanism, selfishness or
jealously and be one Jroud nation of Americans long
. enough to give Theodore Roosevelt the support he de
- serves in his crusade against the enemies of the country.
He will know by your actions that you indorse good gov
ernment? - v. . V
The important point is .to make the
v . that the people not only indorse what
' attempting to do but-that they fully appreciate it, and
V his service to' them. Moreover, he likes this;, to be ap
proved and applauded, for he is a very human creature,
and encouraging and approving messages from the peo
pie will inspire him to more -independence and greater
-ellorts in theirTMbaJt-- . , , . ' '
JVihas beer a long time since the people have ha'da
'president who did or would have done ior them what
President Roosevelt gives fair promise of doing,- and
' they should openly, outspokenly and formally show their
. . appreciation of him. ' - 'i . . v
SOFT SOAP FOR OLYMPIANS.
S'
PEAKINGof the bill passed by
legislature jo remove the capital from Olympia
to Tacoma, the Tacdma Leader says that this
action, "is a great compliment to tlis city, and all the
. more so as the demand for its passage did not originate
in this city.". This remark sho wsJidw . modest and re
tiring Tacoma is, and the tenderness of fta municipal
heart is shown in this paragraph: "It is impossible not
tof eel sympathy for Olympia in this matter.,, The state
capital means far more to Olympia than it would to Ta
coma. Unfortunately for Olympia,, its out-of-the-way
location and lack of facilities have rnilitated against it
It is not Olympiad fault that the rest of the atate has
not been content to allow the capital removal question to
1
auTs.
From the London Mall.
.- Haalth la gradually returning to Mrs.
.JJolden, rounf Hapton woman who
. wa discovered to. bo 1W whlla an un
dertaker twaa mevaurlng'tier for her cot-
"" fin.
J4T. Holden's experience, which le by
no means unique, brings up the question
of the danger of burial alive. "The tear
' of premature Interment. It will-be re
; 'membered, haunted the closing days of
.-Miss Franc Power Cobb, who last
. year left Instructions for the arteries of
i her mecst to be severed before she was
burled.
Although the risks are Smaller In fcng.
.': land than la warmer climates, where
1 burial follows swiftly upon death, there
are many authenticated cases In. which
,. live bodies have been prepared for burial,
and some In which the Interment has
actually taken place.
Only last year a say or named Kelly,
a when at Port Louis, Mauritius, fell
Into state of ooraa, which waa so pro
. .longed that he was pronnnuced dead and
' taken to tha mortuary. When the coolies
' . wore preparing the body for burial they
handled It so roughly that tha head came
-.Into violent contact with a stone slnb,
. and Kelly returned to consciousness. The
. cooll im fled terror-stricken, and Kelly
had to disencumber himself of his grave
clothes. Another gruesome case wss that nf a
' woman who. after being pronounced dead
' from cholera, and, being laid out for the
Uflual collecting cart from the under
takers, waa resuscitated by a nelehbor
- rubbing her prornseiy . with mustard.
rlhe marrfed soma time after, and the
. Rev Harry Joimsj wrote to the VSder-
takers' Journal on Mart 1 J. 1SSS, sjylng.
: I christened four or five of bar ehtKrea
in the course of the aext few yeara."
Xn. H. O. S. Chew of Calcutta, writing
to the authors of "Premature . JJurtal,"
sail tnat on January is, 1174, he "died
antf waa laid out for burial, i "My eldest
. slater, who waa leaning over the bead of
1 coy coffin orytng over me, declared that
sbe saw my lip move. . Roetoratlvee
were used and I waa alowly nursed back
to life."
- , In the eaao of a young, mar) who was
' suppooed to have died suddenly at Ran-
snur. France, repnrtatf to the Under
. taker Journal On January It, HIT, tb
coffin had been placed in th grave when
"the sound ef knocking on the lid wss
,t i tj. . 4 iir mnjvr, nwwwrr rati la u,
sent for .before the coffin could be
' ormd. and aosno delay occarrod. When
O N D ATL Y
independent nkwsparbrv
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING C&
OFFICIAL PAPCR OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND
drop. Olympia has dooc ' the utmost that a public
spirited community could do to win and hold the favor
of th legislators and state officials. . There is no doubt
that the kindliest feelings' are entertained for the people
of Olympia by the most earnest advocates of removal
They reeogniae, however, that Tacoma is more centrally
located and accessible,' and possesses facilities and at
tractions which no much smaller city tould be expected
to offer." . ,"- - : ' ;V
These expression's, one cannot hchp ausjjecting may
have been partly prompted by the threatened boycott of
and tone ot tnose
wttuld - be-dOO hbjl-
Tacoma merchants
abandons its effort to . secure he. capital or, adopting
the 'Ledger's view of. the. case declines to accept it on
any terms. The Olympians may not carry out jtheir
boycott threat very long, but t present they are not in a
mood tovionsider the Ledger's soft words as a satisfying
coat of butter to their dish of bitter parsnips. '
THE
A
PROMINENT
self with the thought that he was saving the country,
while he was voting faithfully and prayerfully, early
and often, year' after year, for a party policy of
' special privilege, devised by Pennsylvania, whose
every congressional representative is controlled by
Tthe Pennsylvania and , Standard Oil; revised by.
New Jersey, the .nursery of 1 trust' incorporation, fnd ..
finally drafted into party platforms and law by New
York, where the trust managers live,. move, and have .
' their place of business. '- ; : 1
: Today the congress of the United States Js in the
'absolute control and domination of a section, and
the btheri sections sit supinely by and tolerate the.
condition. ."!'.. ..'-.,'- ;"'' -
He was thinking and speaking of Chicago as the center
of the west, jbr rather of the country, as irksome sense
it is, and the Chicago Record-Herald, which comments
on this utterance, takes a rather, narrow view of the
west. It says President 'Roosevelt- is an eastern man
with western sentiments which is true enough, but it al
ludes -to the late President McKinley as a western man,
and among western eligibles for the presidency in 100S
it mentions Fairbanks. But for all practical political
purposes Ohio is as much eastern as New Jersey or
New York, and Wall street. State street, Boston and
the corporation monster spiders could not find a man
more to their liking' than Fairbanks. And there are
others like him much farther west. ;
Let it be a western min if possible," but not a western
man with eastern ideas, or who would follow the east
ern beneficiaries of special privileges. A western man
like La FoUetter might do, or possibly Deneen, if he
makes a big record, but not a western man like Shaw, for
instance, , It is the man that is important, not the sec
tion of country he hails from. . Why, there's Douglas,
away back in Massachusetts. - But we think that one will
not strike the real west, tm "be gets out as far as Kansas,
at least though we may find men who fit the ideal in all
parts of the country.- -r. ' .1.;- ., '. , -
. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL BILL. -
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president know
he is apparently
has asked for changes in the law. He finds the present
commission nnweildly,, expensive, inert, worse than use
less. He wants more power and a small commission of
practical engineers. The house passed a bill partly at
least in line with these suggestions, but the senate com
mittee has amended it so as. to eliminate its best fea
tures, among other things retaining the present do-noth-ing-but-draw-their-salaries
commission. Nor does the
senate" bill Increase the power, of the executive aa re
gards "the -prosecution of the work. , Here again appear
results of the devious influence of the transcontinental
railroads. 'They know that with full power th president
would push the work forward, but their object is to de
lay it -as long as. possible, and finally defeat it yet if pos
sible. And naturally they ga to the senate to get the
thisig done which they want dontJSpme kind of a bill
may get through, but; it will 'not be what the president
wants, nor what the. peo pie want The railroads and the
commissioners together have to strong a pull.
r
!.f,""
the Washington
made that tb unfortunate Inmate
bad only Just died from asphyxia.
Th simplest of several ways of mak
ing sure that a person la really dead la to
get th doctor to make a careful exam
ination -for alight pulsations of th
heart, with th stethoscope. Another
good plan Is f bind a piece, of cord
round a to or a'flnirer, which, after a
short time will become livid below the
ligature If. the person Is atlll alive. Or,
If the hand be -held -up to a powerful
light, and th tips and web cf the finger
are reddish In! color, lir la not extinct
These paru become quit opaqu after
aeain. , , .
Bminn
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From the London Times.
There Is unquestionably i very general
desire that an nd should b mad to
tb existing order of things. Many In
telligent Dominicans of th commercial
class would welcome annexation to th
United States, as it appear to be th
only means of securing pc and pros
perity. ; -'... ,
Certain sections of tha -people also
are tired of the perpatual strife; th
American blacks In Bamana bay are so
dtitcouraged at the bopeleaa outlook that.
according to their leaders, they think
of returning to th United States.
Nevertheless, tha feeling against 1 an
nexation pure and almpi im exceedingly
rtrong smong the mass of Dominicans,
much stronger than American writers
on th. subject appear to realise, and It
Is extremely doubtful If It could be
carried out without bloodshed. They
bsve an underlying belief la th. ultt.
mate domination' of America over Spanish-American
countries, but they are not
yet prernred to relinquish . their own
Independence,
So far aa th writer could discover,
the latter are willing to cede Bamana
hey on terms, and would not object to
being placed In the aam position aa
Cuba. There Is a plan favored; by many
.government officials and commercial
men which propoaes that th united
States should eatabllsn a auaaralnty over
the oountry, ruarantee the Dominican
bonds and tax charge of tb customs.
giving the government th amount nee
essary for administrative purpose, tha
republic to aiv up Bamaa bay and Man
tan ilia bey as sites for naval stations.
and to recetve In return a substantial
sum th cash and an annual payment.
" Some' booh half War scheme snems
to be the only practicable on at pres
ent, and ther Is no doubt thst th Do-
muueana are read to consider u
JOURNAL
JNO, P. CARROLL
Journal Building; Fifth and" Yamhill
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by Olympia people unless Tacoma
EAST AND THE WEST.
REPUBLICAN SPEAKER
at
the Chicago Merchants club said a week ago: ,.
. The western Republican has delighted him
MONG other things that the senate will probably
; refuse -or neglect to do is the passage-of a re-
formatory Isthmian canal bill. The president
TAX1TB O BOOS) AS FOOO. ;
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From Medjfcal Talk, i ;
; Almost everybody e'ata eggs. Ther la
perhaps no article of diet that la more
commonly eaten la all countrlea than
ergs. Hens' egga are used mora than
any other kind, although some people
eat duck eggs, goose egga and the eggs
of the guinea fowl. Turkey eggs are not
ao. often eaten; they are generally kept
for hatching. , f
Bgga consist of protein and fat1-1 It
la th protein and nitrogenous matter
that. builds up and repair th tissue
of th body, while th fat supplies en
ergy. Th whit of an egg la often said
to bo pur albumen, but It also con
tains phoaphorlo acid and sodium chlo
ride or common salt Th yolk contain
th fatty part of tb egg. phosphorus.
oalctuin, magnesium, potassium and Iron.
Eggs talao -contain sulphur, and thla
probably accounts for the dark staia
left by egga on Oliver. .
Egga are Very easily digested. Raw
eggs are more easily digested than
cooked ears. Soft boiled eggs, roasted
egga and poached eggs sre more easily
digested man rrted or hard boiled eggs.
The stomach will digest a raw egg In
from one and a half to two hours. Soft
boiled and roasted egga require from
two- and a half to three hours, while
hard boiled or fried eggs must be al
lowed from three and a half to four
hours for digestion. "
F.gge furnish a good substitute for
meat, and w believe It would be far bet
ter for the average person ft egga were
more frequently used in place of meat.
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. - m YAXTJB 0 nBZsTTTT. - "'
", From tb Chicago Nwa. 11
On of th most difficult things to do
In the world sometimes Is to keep one's
temper. A calm serenity or temper and
a aelf control which keep a person un
ruffled amid th petty annoyances and
ilea of everyday Ufa Indicate tba po
session of perfect mental health. Now
adays popl are very fond of saying
ao-and-so waa "Just mad," moaning very
angry; but it would b well If temper
were more often seriously regarded aa
mad nee a. but .madness It Is 1 while It
last., and ther la seldom any one who
la mad more unhappy bv It than the
person . Who.. atvae wa it-U -In wuri
treatment of the Ill-tempered tha cultlva-
tion or th art of not hearing will be
very helpful. It U a useful art all
through (lie, 1
Small Change :
Charity co vera. a multitude of aalary
dollara. - .''".-..'..
r Th senate will block nearly all good
.legislation. ,
. Oregon members
DO extra session.
Ot congress desire
Tha people should pick rat their boat
man for councilman. .. t . ; , -,
' Tba North aea Incident commission
couldn't suit everybody. .
Ther are two aide to the Buffalo
Bill divoroa case a usual. ) ,
The President has quit a good opin
ion of th late O. Washington.
Two dollar wheat haa little Interest
for th farmer who baa Don to sell.
Th war la spread log throughout all
Polandand tha same Poland la not'
forgotten, v . , . .,. - .-
O no, tha beef trust members bar no
agreement; they all fix price and act
exactly allk Just by accident.
Boxing haa beoom a ' tad . among
French women, .and la far more danger
ous than dueling among; Frenchmen. .
Steamboat men hare rights that must
be respected, but they must reform
Sketr practice of getting through the
draw. . ,
Oregon can be proud of one thing; at
any rate; non of th members of Its
late legislature was accused of accept
ing any cash boodle.' A. , ,
W should not hastily conclude that
tha new spot oa old Sol mars bis com
plexion: It may be conrlng Into fashion
for suns to wear mora apota.
Tha rem nan ta of Grand Duke Sergius
body were "Tales sed." but tb , soul of
him may be no better off than the souls
of massacred working peoply -
Will tha senate nlensa nntwmd Its
dignity for a brief spec sufficiently' to
pass tb Iltue cheese-paring river and
harbor bill aent to it by tb houael
All ' property of churches, fraternal
orders and charitable societies, not
actually used by them for their own
purposes, should b taxed Sudt la tha
law, and It ought to be strictly oheyad.
Dr. ' Oater of ' Johns Hopkins uni
versity, aged SI, advocates chloroform
ing men at 0, claiming they are no
good ever that age, and not good for
much ' when over 40. Mpre to amend
th aga limit to IS,' and apply th rule
first to. Dr. Osier.
Olrl students In a South Dakota
academy went oo a riotous rampaga,
and were only subdued when tb boy
students attacked them with tha aloa-an.
-Kiaa 'em; Kiss 'em an. Then they
wer " aoon vanquished of . course
through dlr fear ot being kissed.
Th " NeoTaska legtsUtnr balked at
denouncing Rockefeller when 'It thourht
of Its state university accepting a large
girr rrora nun. -A, big prosperous state
would make a better appearance and
have a clearer eonscleno by neither
soliciting nor accepting gifts' rrora any
of the trust - vampires though a re
spectable argument can be mad on the
other aid.
(.Oregon SiJeliglitf
.Wool going up; sheepmen jolly. . ' .
Pendleton has a big clerks' union.
TUlamookars dreaming of a railroad.
Soma Whlr eounty wheat killed by
froat : '
wSeat
alight
damage In TJ ma tola ' eounty
.Florence sawmills expect an unusually
busy sea so n.
For th first tuna In years lc waa
harvested at Ion.
Klamath Falls win have a new tll.041
aton school housa,
' Twenty-four Pendleton houses quaran
tined scarlet fever. . .
u influx rf easterners
notloeabl In
northern Marlon county.
Tillamook haa "an expert oorsetelre,"
This is a young woman.
Th most . frequent word In country
exchangee is "la grippe."
Ontario Is steadily growing;
three
brick buildings going up now.
Corvallls A Eateru" railroad la
proving and repairing extensively.
tm-
Woodbum will have an Iron foundry
six months orders ahead already.
Oregon fruit growers are alaof- Inte
rested In tha fight against ' the beef
trust .
Lexington farmers hare purchased a
IJ.S00 Percheron horse from, a Pendle
ton, dealer. . t - -y .'. '
- Olendans Is awakening to th necessity
of good roads to tha Ooldbug an4 Oreen-
nack mines. t; - .
" Some Crook county fanners have built
cisterns and reservoirs in which to store
water for summer us. .
' Th Brownsville. Times complains of
more hoboes than vr, and of men who
sre cruel to animal. - -
Grants Pas im becoming quit a Job
bing center, and otherwise giving vl-
dence of rapid growth. -
; Salem la going to try-to have horse
races, which with many are the, main
feature of a stat fair, anyway. .
Th dog tax haa been raised In Tilla
mook to lie and lit. and th dogs are
howling against a dry town that turns
over so many of them to tb dog Killer,
A chiropodist who opened Up business
had ao much - that he . became over
whelmed and went 'after assistant to
extract th astonishing number ef Wood-
ourn soma. . . - i
X fir In a Forest Grove store started
In a wooden ouspldor. Not anough to
bacco chewing male gosslpers around
that evening or else they didn't expec
torate straight.
Tillamook Herald: There don't appear
to-fas antr--htlnit WsTrt TTllamook Cltv
as yet, but a vile lot of poison Is being
"boot legged" Just th earn, and If it is
not stopped sore en will take ; tha
trouble upon themselves to stop !.
SJ. n, , .....I.-, to .
: Sunday Sctool
' Lesson J,.''-
gWaswasss-ajsaarsjssaji -Sbes, sm fj
'':! By H. D, Jenkins. D. D.
February 11. . 1805 Topic: The Mir
acle of th Loaves and Fishes-r-Jobn vl,
J-14.' j
Golden teat 1 am the living praad
which cam down out ef heaven John
Vt St' - v
Reaponalv Reading: Psalm TS, 1-ti.
' IMxodaokloau .
-That th miracle recorded In thla lea
son made a profound impression upon all
tb disciples, and that It waa consid
ered by them a kind of keynot of all our
Lord's supernatural - manifestations,
may t inferred from the fact that it Is
th only miracle mentioned by all four
evangel lata, . John,' who sought chiefly
la recall our Lord'a discourses and con
versations, telling us of less than half a
score of wonder works, gtvea thla a
prominent place In hla narrative. -This
is not strange when we consider Its phil
osophical, moral and spiritual signifi
cance. Exhlbitng as It doe complete
power over th resources and operations
of nature, making dear tb beneficent
character ofth Messianic mission and
landing as a. material symbol of
Christ's relation to th soul,' It occupies
a unique place in tha thought of tha
vangellata. . -
Tb' Incident occurred nearly one year
later than th hee1)r,S" th Impotent
man at th pool of Betheada. with which
healing the previous lesson had to deal.
Th Intervening month had apparently
beert spent ' In- Galilee, and they are
somewhat fully narrated in ' chapters
Ivxlv cf Matthew. 1-vl of ' Mark and
Iv-lx of Luke. By comparing th story
aa recorded in tha first three gospels
with what la told us by John, w ees
lly determine tb order of events, and
it becomes th mora evident that John'a
goapcrajma to give readers a fuller ac
count of th Saviora ministry in r near
Judea omitting moat of what occurred
In th northern parts of th Holy Land,
with which Incident Matthew, Mark
and' Luke had already mad, the church
familiar. Although thla mlracl took
place in Galilee, it was upon th south
ward movement ot Jesus going; -toward,
Jerusalem.''..'- '
It was tha wish of Jesus to' find some
retired placi In which h might rest for
a brief season befor anoountering th
great crowds attending th feast at Je
rusalem (Mark vt:I; for. like all sen
sitive nature, b was aubjoct to great
xhausHioa when surrounded by masses
of men, He had, however, bcom ao
much a public -character that it was Im
possible for him to o long hid. Wher
ever he moved th crowd followed. Se
rious as were th results to on already
overwrought we never find Jesus driv
ing men from his presence with impa
tient words, even-though the real mo
tives of most may have been far below
what be could desire. Ha lost his rest,
but not like many tired workers hla
tamper, j ,i . i.:''
, .- as ; - - was sVaaooav
Versa n."Jofin'a introduction. "After
these things,-- appears to indicate th
supplemental character of hie gospel,
sine th incident occurred directly after
tha things recorded not by himself but
by Matthew, Mark and Lak in their
gospels. It .waa -after" the death of
John tha Baptlat (Matt XIV-l-S), and
after, a preaching tour among tha vll
lages -had -settles - of . GalUee - (Mark
XrV:. SI), and after th early mission of
hla chosen representative (Lak I2C:l-a.
10) that the miracle of the leaves oo
eurrsd. Bach of th evangelists note
the withdrawing of Jesus to. a "desert
place"; that is. to an an Inhabited and
uncultivated hill top in tha vicinity cf
Bethaalda Julias, tha Bethsalda which
lay upon the east bank of th Jordan
not far from wher it emptied la th Sa
of Galilee, r The nam- ea of Tiberius
had been given to th Sea of Galilee by
the flatterers, of Herod, th Herod who
bad built a etty upon -tta ahores -and
named this new capital after the em
peror Tlbertua.
Vers I. That the miracles which
Jesus performed are only. In part re
corded may be inferred from thla second
versa. In which w are told that his
healing of th aick was of such a na
ture . and such frequency that people
thronged his way wherever h turned.
Vers I. Aa "desert" in the scriptures
means only a remote and uncultivated
spot so -mountain" is used for almost
any elevation which rises considerably
above tha surrounding country. The
eastern mountains, which are really
mountains, put out a spur which cornea
close to th river at thla point; and In
the spring tha plateau upon th top of
thla hUl la covered with grass (V. IS).
Verse 4. Tha Passover season with
tha Jew was the chief holiday season of
tha year. People laid aside their ordi
nary pursuits and gave themselves up
wholly to visiting and feasting. Such
periods of. concentration often bring to
gether multitudes that caune th cautious
some uneasiness, for a Jlttl thing often
suffices to turn a crowd of pleasure
seekers Into a furious mob (Matt S(:6).
Verse (. While th feeding of a great
multitude taxea tha Ingenuity of th
wis at any time, it waa especially hard
to provide for unexpected multitude
appealing at the time of th Passover
at unexpected places. The writer of
these notes' never knew th pangs of
starvation but once, and that waa in th
prosperous capital of one of our most
affluent states, where he. waa on of
tO.OOt men brought suddenly into a new
nam p. . "We need not wonder that the
disciples looked askance at th problem
befor them, th problem of how to
feed 1,000 men far from tb overtaxed
markets of th villages of that section.
Vera S. W who have 'been parents
or teachers, or both, do not sympathise
with thoee who find a 'moral difficulty
In th assumed uncertainty of our Lord.
Wo know how needful it Is la drawing
out tha child to- fore it to contemplate
Its - own helplessness. It is not for
bidden our heavenly Father to surprise
us sweetly by his show of heretofore
un revealed resources.
Vers T. Jesus doubtless addresses
his questions to that ona of tb disciples
who bad shown th greatest anxiety
over tb situation. Tb thought of Philip
was hot to procure adequate relief but
simply to get Imperative sustenance.
Even to keep thla multitude alive and
physically fit to go back to tha towns
and hunt up food, waa far beyond any
resources which the- disciples possessed.
Verses S, S. Tb. hopelessness of
Philip waa not -more evident than th
helplessness of Andrew. He had mad
some Inquiry as to th stock of provis
ions on hand,' and tb result was' only
to confirm his fears. ' Aooordlng to
PhtUp, it would cost (in our money)
til to give every man "a bite." . That
was far mora than there waa la their
treasury. Th Oriental eats very little
compared with th Occldenlal, and so
travels , with slender store of refresh
ments. Th utmost that could be
found proved to be a eoupl of smoked
fish. Ilk our herring, and lea thaa
half a dosen plates of coarse barley
bread such as tha peasants used at their
toll. . - ' "
J Verse IS. Jesus sj-sumed command of
the' multitude ss well as of tnedisci
plea. Happily for hla followers' they
wer not accustomed to question Ma au
thority or his wisdom 6r his ability. ,
Versa IL Jesus always acknowledged
the" goodness af-God whan he partook of
food. Ther ems to have Deen some
thing peculiarly touching, reverent and
grateful In hi words at th table. Inso
much that 'after hla resurrection when
his countenance . waa greatly changed,
hla manner in asking a blessing mad
him know (Luk xxlvlt). It was not
for the disciples to understand th
method but simply to carry out tha wUI
of their Master. They did not -pretend
even at th close to discover the method,
but they did recognise th result "As
ao Often before, aad still mor often
since, . the , "impossible" had been
wrought And as always, -Jesus pro
vided abundance. ,H did net supply
to each "a little.- aa Philip had satd.
but th disciples found th multitude
satisfied befor th supply ahowed aay
Signs ef exhaustion. ' Just before sitting
down to write out thla lesson the writer
received word of health and safety from
a friend in mid-ocean. How waa It doneT
W acknowledge our ignoranoa of th
possibilities of nature. . Kxcept that we
are more familiar with tba results, we
know no mora, of th procese by which
any broad ta produced from tha Inor
ganic soil than w do of tha process
by - which Jesus could produce bread
without th wheat stalk or th milt
Verse IS. Dtvln profusion la no ex
ens for human wastefulness. It waa
thoroughly charaeterlatlo of our Lord
that ha ahould command Ms disciples
to save the remnants. He bad no inten
tion or Subetltutlng miraculous provis
ion for human fidelity. - Kvea while
making It plain that th miraculous waa
always possible with him, he caused
bis disciples to feel that their daily de
pendence must be upoa dally toil aad
constant economy. :. i
Vers It. Jesus mad no boasts ef
what he would do,, but he took palna to
have preserved th videno of what ha
had don. Th heaped up baakets re
maining after, all wants wars satisfied,
wer vistbls witness to tha reality of th
deed. Whatever could b explained
away. ' tbeaSr. overflowing ' receptee!
could not be Ignored. . Th shrewd psy
chologist has a dosen explanations for
very revival but none of tha- fruits of
a revival. - - - t ' . ,
Verse These multitudes would
aoon be In Jerusalem and play per
haps' an Important part In the scenes
of conflict so rapidly approaching. . They
might not be "converts" In any deep
meaning of th word, they might be
very low in their spiritual attainments,
but they had seen a work which aston
IshedUhem, and In any attempt to do
violence to thla Jesus ot Nssareth- they
were henceforth a factor to b reckoned
with by the authorities In Jerusalem at
the approaching crisis of affairs, ,
The Play.
L
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There Is still hop for the drama when
"The Mummy and tha Humming Bird,"
played by a young, legitimate star, can
fill the Marquam Grand as. though a big
musical comedy were on exhibition. . The
turn out for Paul Gilmore'a opening last
night waa really memorable, taking Into
consideration tha apathy that ha
marked the past month ot the theatrical
aeasoa. '
Mr. GUmora'a visits, year after year,
demonstrate among other pleasant things
that he- la a growing actor; growing
In hla art as well as is th favor of th
theatre going public He was received
laat night with genuine enthusiasm, and,
very particle of it was well earned, Id
taking "Tha Mummy and the Humming
Bird" from John Drew, the young man
not only had a- good alsad pair of -boots
to fill, but a play which hla friends told
him was -of a character in which he
would be running great risk of reputa
tion. Mr. Drew had given It up largely
because hla nephew, Lionel Barrymora,
playing th organ grinder, had captured
tha stellar ' honors aad left th adver
tised star a mere-bona to pick. "It waa
feared this would-be Ollmore'a fate
that any actor good anough to play Gui
se ppe of tha organ would hid the star's
dress suit Not so. It has been th
most satisfactory of Mr. Qilmore'a pro
ductions, personally and collectively, and
still a good actor Jamee Martin ap
pears in the dangerous role.'
. Ther are four persons of nop sequence
in the . play. . . Tha mummy, . a" society
bookworm, whoee studies minimise the
attentions his wife deserves; th hum
ming bird, aa Italian to whoa protesta
tions of-tov th neglected wife Is sus
ceptible; th4 Italian Organ grinder, whoaa
home has been wrecxea.by th humming
bird in daya gone by, and tb wlf -her-self.
Thla quartet deala with a problem
not unfamiliar la social life In a brlgnt
and interesting way. and works out a
strong moral for husbands aad wives
alike. :: . ; - - - -. . - .
Mr, Gllmore's support includes Agnes
Williams, whose portrayal of tb wlf Is
uniformly good, and Theodore Terry,
who gives an earnest study of th lion
ised Italian. -?-. -
- The engagement closes tonight
- i - RACB WHITNEY.
xxnaoMt.
From the Chicago Record-Heraldf. -'
Go to aleep, my little one, -
Cuddle down, cuddle down;
Papa's got your ticket for
' Shuteye Town, Bhuteye Town.
Don't you hear the whistle blow, Tstle
j blow, latle blow t "
Now w'reoff, bo ooddle low, 'uddle
' "low, -uddl low '--.i'
- Where' that nurse, I , wonderT Oh,
Cuddl low, 'uddl tow. 'uddle so; -
If sh doesn't come b limed soon urn
gee-wbisl wbiasl wbla, whlaal
. v whlat , '..'' .'. ' -"" '- ,.;
'I would give a lot to know ;
Where sh la, isala Is, laal Is
Say, confound you, if you don't, atop
.equalling I'll ting you down on
- i . ': that bed, where you'll hav a
- . .'. cbaao to gd it till you get tired,
i" and you can--make up your rnlnj
- right her that I mean bis, blasts
'bis, blasts bis, blasts bis.
Nowny now, we're off again, . " V 7'
Whoop a-la, whoop a-lay; . -Hear
the rumble of th train, .- .
Down th way, lovely way;
Listen to th birdies sing, 'Irdies alng,
- - 'lrdleB sing,
Wher th little leaflets swing, leaflets
-swing, leaflets swing
On. X wish I had a atrlng
On that nurse, I'll hot I'd bring
Her upon th runny run, unny 'un,
'unnyHrun; : .
" That I what I'd do, by Jlngt r
So, ao, so. my llttl on, 'unnle one,
'unnl on
There, by-Oeorge! Now yell ttll your
, . lungs get raw if you want to, and
-'. th next tlm your mother aaka
' - m to take car ef you Just a
, aalnata while sh go out tor the
' afternoon . there's going to be a
bump, for I'm all done, .'unnl
un, innle' 'un, 'unnl 'uai, don,
i dona. DONB!!!l . n .. ' . "
JKa Tha ta tha Old Ohnrch. '
' From the Atlanta Constitution. -
"Well, Buh, aald Brother. Dickey,
"my whole congregation -pulled thoo' da
bilsssrd wld ryln' colors i tn you know
whyr . . . - ...' -.. -
-Noryow tell it."-'--' .,.,
'1 got up a revival . raeetln', ': n
preached 'bout da hot hereafter twel
da anow melted, en d Icicles run In
rivers from de housetop." , -, -
Ti
:TKe Water That
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--' Villi .
- Bought as food, water is a tolerably
expensive luxury. , In several Instance
It posts something like 11.50 a glass, ac
cording to-the estimate of H. J. .Holmes,
in the February Pearson's. ' - . S
Let ua begin with breakfast ' " J
Look at that loaf of bread. v to all
appearance It la solid enough. But it
la pot When it came into th hands
of tha baker aa wheat floor it contained
water only to the extent of IT -per cent
In working up tha materials late dough,
by kneading 1 and other manipulation
and la baking a great change takea
plac and th quantity of water has
mor than doubled., :.Th whsat-flour
loaf contains nearly 40 per. cent of
water. Curiously enough. Its value as
a food la Increased thereby. The per
centage of water in th crust la about
half that in the soft inside. t
-tCured', pork does not contain a targe "
ther la a good deal of fatty, matter
there la also a scarcity of moisture. So
th man who enjoys his slic of break
fast bacon may comfort himself wtth
the reflection that h, is getting fairly
olid, value for hlsH money, because
bacoa contains only per sent of water.
Fresh eggs, on the jother hand, ara
oompoeed of no less thaa per cent of
water.'.. . . -,f ......
Th best dairy-made hut ter, no. mat
ter how carefully prepared, . contain a
comparatively large percentage ot wai
ter. Out of 1.800 aampUs of butter ex
amined . by well-known - authorities a
small number enmuined .over IS per
oent of water th larger number con
tained between It and IS per cent Care
lessly manufactured or adulterated butter-
often contains more water, .than ia
- ILI , L , . . . X . .
iKiauHinf uy aw, auia uie oressrasx
table may Include a aupply of butter
yiiiuuiDI as mwo as sv-per cu ,bi
water. - -'...v.- , i "!'''. ''
- It la only to be expected: that milk,
owing to Its origin, ahould vary consid-.
erahly-ln Its composition. - Much .de
pends on the health and, surroundings of
the animal yielding ItJi -. '
It is interesting to, know that morn-.
Ing milk aa it cornea from the cow la
by no means as nourishing aa the even
log aupply; there Is mor water la th -former.
. The dally quart of milk even '
In Ita purest stat contal ns an average
of 17.1 per cent of water.
Tha choicest fish contains th largest "
percentage of water. Thus turbot and
sole are credited with Tt par cent; sal
mon, 71 per cant; while th commoner
inhabitants of the deep blue sea ! are
content with from 40 ta 60 per oent, aa)
In the case of ths homely herring. -
"As cool as a cucumber" is a house
hold term. Th coolness Is easily sx-.
plained. Cucumbers are almost entirely
composed of water that is. SS percent
er, over T.4 per oent mor than la con
tal aad in milk, which la Itself a liquid.
Lettuce must not b forgotten. Here
la a further Instance of how llttl sub-'
stance may be In an apparent eotid, for'
tha cabbage lettuce holds per cent
of water.
It will be seen that moat of the good
thlnn of life are Urnlv eomnosed of r
water; but it Is better for us that this
la so. -Nature knows mor about our.
digestive powers than we know our-
I was tnil h hta AmmimmA hM nmH.
hUt-ta-flsh, flash, fowl and -trait with
so sunning a hand that tha water, con
tained in each Ja essential. . .
Food containing' very little -water In
Ita composition is not aa a rule good
to eat until a auttabla process of cook
ing has rendered it safe . by adding a
further sunnlv Bf water to it and boil
ing, aa is well known, la the process
tnat renders our xooa most wnoiesom
and easy of digestion. . , . ;
Lewis and ClaA j
Feb. Hj We wer occupied In drawing
up the boats on th bank; tha smallest
ona w carried there with difficulty, but
the barge was too heavy for our elk-akin
ropes, which constantly broke. We ware
vial ted by Orupaebara, or Black Mocca
sin, and ' several - other chiefs, ' who
brought us presents of meat on th
backs of their squaws, and one of the
Mtnnetarees requested and obtained per
mission for himself aqd his two wives to
remain all night In tha fort - The day
waa exceedingly pleasant
BTJT03B QimsT ZS
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(i.v -..' . "From Success. ' :
'Tls sin old story, that the kings r.f
Bavaria hav long derived a very con
siderable profit from their breweries In
Munich, and now from a neighboring cor
ner of Europe come the details of an
other Instance of royalty In business,
WUhelmlna, Queen of Holland, i mak
ing money by selling- milk and butter.
I As a child WUhelmlna "kept chick
ens." She loved them dearly, bad pea
names for most, of' them; fed them, to
tha queen e taste (literally) and, quite
incidentally, mads pocket ' money out of
them. With her accession to the throue
the barnyard was forgotten, but perhapa
the royal atate haa become a matter of
course, allowing th queenly thoughts to
travel back to the more prosaic pleasures
of other daya ; " - "'.
Whatever , the reason, ' not long age
Prince Henry bought for hla royal wife
several cows, which ar placed on the.
rich land adjoining the palae at Loo. .
Thess prospered so wall and thalr milk
end butter added ao much to the delights
of th palace table that the queen de
cided to engage In the business of dairy
Ing. Th manager of her estates baa
since visited alt the famous stock farms
of the country and baa purchased St of
ths best cows to be had In ell Holland.
Theao hav Joined their fellow who led)
th way In the' experiment and dairy
products ar now on sals under th pal
ae auspices, for the venture haa proved
far more than self-supporting. ;
ntl AJJVOOATB AJUZTBATIOir.
V"rom the Boston Globe.
A curious effect of the war In tha
far east ia th migration of sharks to
the European waters. The submarine
explosions ar supposed to hav
frightened th creatures or perhapa dis
gusted them:- " ' .
At any rst they have pasaed through
the Sues canal and been making bavoo
among tha flahea of th Adriatic. Even
an Invasion of the black aea haa been
feared. . :. , ,
If thla be SO, th petition of the resi
dents of ths cap to the government to
regulate target practice, In the nsvy in
the waters sround Busxard's bay and
adjoining waters In summer la not .uor
reaaonabl.
! Owaxparatxve Safety. IT"
" From th Chicago Journal ;
,- "It la very difficult for a man to know
what to do." .said Gen. Shoveloff ao
wltch. -
-. "What is ;the - trouble r , -
"If I had only gone to th front In
Asia, as I spoke of doing. Instead of re
maining is St Petersburg, I'd be la g,
oomjlaxatlvsly saX place."
; U lul waa opeaad the horrible diaooverjr
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