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I, ... .''-- 7 KONDAY.' Fr.UAr.Y 17; i:C3. IX33TLAND, OREGON, i 1 mTmmmTmT ' ! r . u a 2.(0. )Jt . J" 1 -UIOJ "( h 1 ' 1 V. THE O RE VAN C ft. JACKSON Pnhliahed mn evanlnr f except Sunday )' and iwnr Sunday morning it WHATVaSTOUNDKIJ i How a Thbg Mar Sometime Happen to a 'Community t . a Without the Community IIS poor old town of Portland was shaken ftp center to circumference' yesterday.. There- Was tort of creepy feeling in ' ic'thmiDh the fundamental foundation of things had T been shaken as' in an earthquake; -' 'i was outwardly calnjrrHhere was no thunderous rum Die . Ji underneath afd' no .'darting, of ' 'yirid lightning flashes Y overhead. There was nothing indeed but that undefinable ' 4 feeling of impending calamity-which no one could shake ' otL Strong men fek it and gasped; weak men floundered fj, and feebly inquired the caus1. Excited knots of people i gathered here and there, sjarne to cheW the cud of sad ' i rodrctinn. others to orate. , But ever face was sicklied '! o'er with the pale 'least 'of thfnjght :a:- c-,,;. ' r CHAPTER I. What then was the mattrf, j ones, there can be no effect without a cause. If a . ,' calamity hangs over us it must be something more sub M stantial than the fabric of a dream, What is it then? . At last the palpitating public was face to face with S the portentous truth. ' . (j The. esteemed V. F, Matthews had RESIGNED as ' I boss of the Republican political machine. Bad as was , j the anticipation surely" it did not approach in terror the f realization. It'was like piling calamity upon calamity's headTh'e"'8ense'f.ectirity' which so long has brooded . over tJie community fled affrighted. RESIGNED? Sure i ly.ihat could not' be true, surely no patriotic man. with . j a sense of the responsibility which rested upon him, . 1 wilji .an. appreciation of the. confidence teposed in him and a realization of the crying need of his services, could weaken yn "the face of a critical, emergency and basely .-desert his post of duty? These were the questions which " .1 everyone asked,, while everyone paused for an answer. ... . :-: , CHAPTER II. . . ' . . -v-v-' ' "- Fir'st,Jcould- it be true? That "frarjthe question which . '"ftfanifestly : faced a dembralued and ' Indignant" public. . .1 Obviously the thing to do was to carry the case to hetd- quarters and learn. the deadly worst fromthe. ripe red f lips of the boss hinjisclf. He was found at'his office' in 1 the federal bnatfLtwHe seemed to be at peace with f all the-wbrld. "RESIGNED?" he. repeated, "why of J course I have. RESIGNED. Hadhyou heard the news? Why,. I RESIGNED two .years ago office of United States marshal, and anything -since, in- the" political line.. Catcfi-.nefbeingJ n offensive . past.isan . under ... this administration; why, that is as much as to say I donf know which side my bread is buttered on. I had nothing to.-do.with the last campaign;. even Senator Simon.knew-.that( though I -am free lo' confess he didn't show it in the paid partisan advertisement! which 'he printed every day in-the Ore- j - gouian. cThere he seemed to have, some doubtr andnis-i;iVuigs'whlth-rwSrpsinea"tO'note, knowing the purity of my own motives and the certainty that I was .out of tioolitici. j TJaCnothihg rto Jo with (: uie wickcq, vviCKca newspapers io standfne. vi , never went there, l never and I never used the telephone between1 fiere and Salem- tht.iv--hajrdJy vefJVr "i"t''4 A , "-t ": And the great political chieftain deftly winked the other I:: eye as he solemnly" bowed out. the - v V i. CHAPTER III. . ': f!: So it appears tlist.ithe calamity had been something of long-standing, that there' had been no political boss fnt manv t.'a rir mnnthi in th Ttrmnt hail ain1 fhat ttiat IT - v" " ' J - - ... , . ...j'.public.-had been denouncing . political machine when , ij fhere was no-machine. Everything has just happened; nobody elected was under pledges to any machine,, paid - any attention to the machine and . k- dictates of his own conscience. If there was .open gamb ' '; ling it was not because the boss gamblers' helped to . ' ' j elct what was regarded as a machine ticket, tut simply " ' . foj; the pure motive of raising revenue for the city. "If J ; . there, is no boss of the machine what are we to do?" ' anxiously inquired many patriots who have hitherto dele gated their political thinking to sometMngwhich has .. - been regarded as a political machine, but which; in the ", ;;' light of better information furnished by the veracious , Mr. Matthews" doesn't exist. t -. i Whatihall we do?" responded a gifted man to -whom thf ;inquiry was addressed. "That's easy; the thing to do 'is to get up a non-partisan ticket and. put -Mayor ; 4 Williams at the head of it. Everyone knows he has, not , been dominated by the machine and that he will do ; mostly, the right thing sometimes." 1 i ' Whereupon the assembled auditors burst into a merry ';')' peal of laughter and the lowering 1 clouds vanished as if ' by magic. . - Therefore, Portland is this morning without a political ,v .fesf aniTseerningly without machine in good wojking i " order. Many of the lesser chieftains Irave been impot ; ; tuned to come to the front as. boss, but they have coyly ' defclinedf-they are -all. it appears, out of -politics.. Some might suspect , that they. see., the handwriting on sfie v ' wall and regard this as a bad year for machines and !' bosses, therefore they are taking lo the tall timber - ' searching cover. But perhaps not; perhaps there is no lv machine," never was and '.never will be a machine. In . any case it seems to be' generally understood that the ' . people have come' into their own if they only want to ' ' ' take it, and there is more than a suspicion that they will 7 do that very thing at the coming city election. ' TUBERCVLOSlS CURED. XT'. i OIGNifiCa;NT AND GRATIFYING was the story " , Ll published' in The Journal Saturday about the v - cures already effected at the tuberculosis opejwir I sanatorium near this city. Twd men who had progressed . - 'a considerable distance down ili.irn inrUn n( iK.r. eulosis 'towircTan early grae sayWnt they are cured. " . The'disease has been arrested, and'With proper care of ' themselves will probably suffer from it no more. Others ; 'of the few patients at.the sanatorium are improving. ';y...' This is only a. small beginning of , what we believe will develop into a very useful life-saving institution. Every - v ' week, almost every day, our columns report the death ' . ,' of some person from tuberculosis. Frequentiyr usually mtraaxa' dbajtb bvxii. Pari letter to London Exprea. -Th Oram Duke and Duchcafj Tl4. :' Imlr hv tMn far aoma, yaara th ra- - tar of what might- b termad the. beat j, phaaa of Frann-AtneiimA aoclaty, Tha i-Vrrncr da aaaao, the Com taaaa va . Pourtalaa. the Comtaaa da Caateilan. i tha Huchaaaa da Mourhr. tha Marqulaa 'd Brttull and lira. Arthur Pat era - amona- thaJmany heataaaaa who yaar h year have prtpared dJnonra and fta in Uiatr bonar. r . Tha Orand Duka Sarflus ta practically an unknown anantlty In Pa lis,' whera, lnd4. ha la apokan of as aamt-bar-Itaroua and wholly Vimul." Dark ato . vtw ara aaarlatad with hla sum, and .. " Vla.onlv rlalm to favorabla rarornltlon ' lies la tha fact that be La sm triad te a G ON D AIlY ;" INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING Ca r aunoav Portlatai Streeta, Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER OP THE CITY j)F PORTLAND PORTLAND v ' bdeed. the .victim Knowing it. . briefly.in plenty the very air, a, feeling open air or at least Andtfet everything a forced diet of ,'. s -. - ? V r -' v ' ' Surely, said ,the-"wise to avail himself is that scarcely when,. I toolc-tbe I have jiever done arrangement of the adoption by , in the Smoky city, the last -legislature. me wmnij noiwiiu sent anyone mere delegation '.'r".,.y simply followed the. A' DUTY S1 cause. . - j '.: -Then everyone' takinsc nobody's their own eyes. claim their honest 4 .: the course of the selves are a thing view from the ever held at any. Every citizen of once but often. comes from those which he'bwes to prlnceaa of rsra beauty and-fnrlt,.,tha nleca of. . the ever Popular Klna E ward. -I r - . Tha Grand Duka Michael Is. of coarse. owlna to his distance from the threna and - his mortmnatlo marrlar.. outalda Ruaalan politic, whOa hie pradllecUon or England has kept him out of towh with Paris Ufa. A eontemptuoua ahrug of tha ahoulders la vouchaafad to tha raport that ha.pleadad a.dalleata ll (at Inn aa a raaaon for "not drawing hla word In dafena of Ms country, and for confining hla military ardor to t(ia nalomnt of a convalaaeent hospital at Cannra. . Pptaaaura te ' the varlaat drag Coareo ay. nalur. profllnu and unpruiclplail hy habit; t has lilt aufflclcnt' rraard tur his birth to enable hiss to extract JO U RN. A L JNO. P. CAKROU. The Journal BuUdlcY. Fifth and Yamhill is a younc person, in many cases a young woman, stricken down almost at the very threshold of life with this insidious, ruthless disease, Here, appar ently, if ihe curative treatment is begun before the lungs are too far irone. is a means 'of help.' of cure, an aid to health, strength, happiness and prolonged life; ' va ' The curative process is veif 'simple. It consists, of fresh air, life day and night in the where fresh air circulates freely, and nutritious and easily digested foods, principally fresh raw' eggs and pure new milk, ine stomach and digestive organs are called upon to rally to the succor of the diseased lungs, and they are given abundance of fresh, pure air constantly. Sunshine helps, and is made use. of as much as possible, and while there is -not much sunshine during a portion of the year in this region, it seems to have been demonstrated that our climate even in winter is sufficient to aid in tire cure. It' is a very valuable truth, if it can be demonstrated to be such, that a victim of tuberculosis does not have to go far away from borne, at great expense and trouble, of a different climate. The climate of Arizona is better than this perhaps, but this, climate will do, and. being near home and friends more than counter-balances the disadvantages of our low elevation and clouded skies. r : ' k Evidently anyone afflicted with, tuberculosis can cure himself if he will; that is, he need not go even to such a sanatorium as this. lie can goout in the country, a little way and do. just what he is required to do at this institution, if he will, and if he can get the required food. Yet it will no doubt be cheaper to go to this place, wheri the needed f food is provided, and where he will be re quired to observe 'certain rules as ta eaffng, sleeping, resting and" exercising. Anyone with a liyle Tneans, "if not too far gdne, can cure himielf of tuberculosis, unless this disease be complicated, with others, but the trouble anyone will do' so, except at some SucbJ institution where he must bey the rules... . ''W: U, ' Slowly, but surely, the great seourge of linmanity, tuberculosis, is being conquered, and the weapons with which it will be vanquished are not drugs, but simply nature's doctors, air, sun, and plenty of good, pure food. vpi - . "DO IT NOW." .'''''"'v. :': ' T 0. FIND the elusive pea , beneath the - thimble rigger's walnut shell is easy compared with the task of fixing the responsibility for the recent superintendent and teachers' salaries and the school board of the now famous so-called ''Piljtsburg Merit System."; We say so-called "Pittsburg system" because it has neve?-iyet been' tried but that .is another sory Let us try, with all procurable evidence before us, to fix the respon sibility for the "merit",.system. ' , ; ;7- ' To begin with there are ma directors, and-this-i the wavthey stand according Jo. tiubUcadnouncement: , Mrs. 'Sitton opposed to it. ; v. " ; ' Mr..' Beacbopposed to it. ', ;''. CC" T!'":'''rT, K,";'. ;V ' ; Mr. Williams opposed to. itf -first.' i . "-, : ,- Mrl- Warren lor it --"- v . : ; j. . I ..- . t . Mr. Wittenberar oresumablv for "iL"J"r""Jri5 In any arithmetical calculation no one will deny that three is a majority ot; five, '( Puzzle how,; then,, did it tarry?. '. .'V-".. ''. . ;' The raise ' in the superintendent's salary from $3,600 to $4,000 out -of the appropriation voted for the grade teachers is nq less puzzling. Mr. Williams was opposed to this and all other raises during tneTife'of the contract which now exists between the teachers and -the board. Mr. Beach favored a pro rati increase. Mr. Wittenburg, who spoke freely and copiously at the! taxpayers' meet ing on this and other subjects, never suggested the possi bility of such., an .increase, and. as candor and Jrankness are amongst.hiJ cnief characteristic, we "must necessarily assume thajr he voted against the proposition. Here again we' have another case' of an apparent minority governing the.officjaj action of the board. . Everyone regrets ' the , tangle in school affairs;., none should regret it more than the men who are responsible for it, but who appear not to have done it even though it was done. There is anasy way out of thediffkulty. Let the majority which does not believe in this1 HHnerit" system rescind, at tonight's meeting, the resolution which the minority apparently adopted at a, previous meeting. Let the majority which doesn t believe in the minority s method of distribution of the money voted by; the tax payers rescind that action and do it tonight. : Then begin all over again and vote the increase where the taxpayers voted it should go. It -would have been better tq have1 done this in the first place, 'but it isrnever,too late to mend,' and in this case not too late to retrace a falser step. v OF EVERY CITIZEN. EVEN THOUSAND or more people visited the fair grounds yesterday, and tt is safe to say that what they saw there was a'revelation to all of them. Every one of--these people should write at least one letter to a friend living in some other state giving im pressions of the fair.' This would help along a good ' 1 ,.' ; - " who has been opposed to the fair and who was doubtful of the benefits which would accrue from it should visit the grounds with an open mind, "word for it, but looking at things with Then when they return let them pro convictions. Indeed no one can go there without feelinir amazed at what has been done in last few months. The grounds them of beauty and' a joy forever. The grounds is unequaled by any exposition time of anywhere. The exposition Itself realizes the wildest dreams of a year, ago. No one. ex pected it to be wbst.it is; few believed that it would be possible to achieve what has been realized. Portland should visit the grounds, not He should puj the enthusiasm which visits where it will do the most'-.good. Every citizen can render some help; if he can do nothing else he. can talk with sincerity and intelligence upon what he has seen. Thst he should assume as a duty - the citv m which he lives. - every. advantage which it can bestow, while fulfilling only as a last resource the duties which it imposes. - Bven his boon companions here were shocked to find him dallying' and ea rouetng until the outbreak, of.' the war compelled Mm te return to his .country. thoagh It cannot be said ha w. a whIU more dlaposed than tha reat 6f hia kin and kidney to "take any active part In the field. Important Planvry. f From the BaJtlmoro Amerlean. With Inveeti gallons set en foot and supervising leglalatlon propnaad. It la remarkable haw It is gradually coming ts light that the treats ara really" phlN anlhrople insiftutlbns, making bare ' pensea. and. merely in bualneas fof the 1 convenience of thi publlo, ' , 1 ; a: r Small ' Cnange Three months W clean tap. Begin now. : June land, will be a big month In' Port- Kv .day should see Portland a bet ter city. . .-. ' No paaca, aaya Russia, No peace for BlUaata. It WIU o. Clvie Improvement la in the air; gat It down to the ground. Y ,r The billboard' nulsanee . must; be abatod. In part at leant. . Only a waek before the country will have congress off its naada.- : Tha rtven maa don't own the spaoe between the rtvar and the aky. : 'Common sense also ' aaeeas to have Headquarters on tha Lawlai and Clark fair grounds. The Monroe doctrine baa degenerated Into a bad-pel collector In La.Ua Amer lea for JSurofev . A Rinda eaa support a family on So eeats a week. . But It Is difficult for pirn to get the to cants. , . . , t - Such weather 14 calculated to Inspire the bene with a revolutionary, notion to smash, the egg trust. .. The steamer M. S. Dollar ran, away from a Japanese guaboaf..' and. a soaped, A dollar baa a habit of .getting away. . Senator Toeter ta still struggling over pateojnago a spectacle to reconcile most of bis cosfitltuanU to tU defeat. A Mlaaourl poet rhymes Netdrrngbmna with !leadlng( th bone," . This equals Laureate--Austin '4 or neat meant." -The- Wiseonatn leglsUture ' la eon- lderlng a proposition to investigate the evil of tlgjit oora9ta. bera' want to bo on But all the Daem on the invesugaung commlttea. v : . : , ' The eaar orders " Btoeaael - to paaa through the Boaphorua ( without atop- pmg. pail una znmy am muj av kiuuij forethought to prevent Abdul mamid from borrowing any of the general's remaining reubiea. " A -Colorado maa declared by the doc tor and others to be dead waa brought back, to - Ufa at the command . of his Wife, who insisted that aha must have final talk with bUh about business matters, which aha did, and then.; be died for sure, and both were happy-; - The aenaU has a -dim idta. that the railroad rate question should be investi gated aome time', during the century, but not tor yeera .to come. Boya grow ing np or' to bo born can a tody into the matter and after they become rnlllloiw aires and ara elected senators will be better prepared to consider the ques tion than the present senators, who are' tired.--- ... ; An iuano paroiea connci. . wno nao commuted anoinor crime, was ronun ately arrested Jnst . before - be was to marry a pretty 17-year-old orphan-girl, although -he had a wife and four- child ren, and On hla person -were found pltl ful letters from bis wift, beggtoc him to retvra4beoausa. the. babtaa were sick and she had f rosen one foot - outtlng wood. Bhe said . abe - oould not.r write again because aha bad no money for n Lam pa. Now, ia an .official. Ushlng, or any other punishment that could be tnfliotedV'loo bard for a monster like that? . ." ' J '.-.; seaaweeaesjiss j Oregon SitleKgnts Farm work being : rushed In lane county. Gardens being planted la Douglas eounty. ; - ' . New creamery company organised In Tillamook,. -. v:. ; ' .: Ashland la ebuokllag pver the posses sion of a good band. , , I . Doss and cougars are competing in tha business of killing goats and sheep neat Sublimity. aaaMMajaawa. ' : ,- .1 A tO OOO-feet a day mill will be built on tha lte of the burned Muckle mlU at BL Helens. '-,;' ', '"'! Is the sheep Industry to become an unknown , thing In Lake county and throughout interior Oregon? aska the Lakevlew Herald, which takes a pessi mistic view of the situation. The latest thawar of dynamite la a' Tamhlll eounty farmer,, who put it in a can with hot aishes around it and left It In hla barn, which with -its contents disappeared in nemea soon afterward. " . 1 t, : ' Girls at Weston will boycott the young man who -keep company with the girls who attend the normal. The borne glrla claim the interlopara have gobbled up all . the marriageable young ' men of that city.... r. ' . Mount Hood correspondence of Hood River Uleoter: Basketball is all the rage here now. They have an old man'e team and a young meo'a teem and a la dlea' team and aome lively times are expectedV .-- , .;. ; . . . If arsbfleld Mail: Ouf ' esteemed con temporary down the creek who is wor ried over the Mall's editorials oa "Sheep. Hens, eta,': need, not feel . slighted too aoon. ,' We will get around to "Asses" after awhile. -.'' r-t.i ' HlllsborST Indepemehtr The . new iv loon ordinance, at Forest-Drove forbids a algn or even a baee keg" to mark .or give prominence. The' man looking for the morning "nip" needs ho slgiw-lie simply follows his nose, and there, you are. . ,- -... .'.' ' r. i Hood -River is not only' attaining a national reputation for apples, but nur aarymen In eastern ' cltlea have come to believe that the beat trees 'Can be grown from Hood River scions. , J&aatern ordera for apple scions have fceencf requent Of lata ' m. " . :' A Chicago man who haa a representa tive la Hood River was there lest weak and aald:- "Hood River ia not only mak ing a national reputation for her fruit, but is doing more to advertlaa Oregon among the eastern people than all the rest of the state put together.".. For several years famlllaa from Michi gan have been locating in and around Monmouth. Wonderful stories from the pens of tbeae seekers of homea . have reached the inhabitants ef the ice-bound home .of their childhood. The result la that a carload of home seekers will leave Michigan March 1, coming direct to Monmouth in search ef homea, ". '-''''. " '''''- saaviasSAaeaaataSass Lettera From ,tlic People J- i The WPPtBaT Pes, 'v.'. Portland, Feb. l.--To the Editor of The JournalThe sotoaa i have' left Hal era full . of. adf-satlafacUon, no doubt over the many benenoent lawa they have passed, not - realising they have taken a backward step ia the march of civilisation. ..... To the student of human. nature the flogging-law does not sppeat It Is a relio of barbarism and its evil effects will-be -far reaching and dangerous in ite results. Not that a wife-boater does not need te be severely punished, for hs does, but the evil effeete of thU law do' not, apply to them, but to the men who do the flogging, and to -tsa woman who are . associated , closely with, the bruisers,.. , , , It will be necessary for each , court of Justice to have aome brute ia human form to do Its flogging. No man with a spark of manhood lurking within .him would nil- tha poeltion tor an hour. If hs 'should, bold such a position for any length of time he would .become aa de graded aa tha aeoond warden of the penitentiary under the old regime. There la no man living who baa more respect for a good woman than L The greatest prise a man can win la a good wife. She . ia the brlghteat jewel In hia crown of happlbeaa; tha glory -of hla manhood, the brlghteat - star that guides bis frail craft over llfe'a stormy sea- On the other band there are many wives -who are not -good woman. They ears nothing Tor tbelr husbanda and less for themselves. Their whole desire Is to get out with other men and have a good time." Then aha comas home and nags ber husband past all endur ance. hoping thereby to atlr his angry passions until they are So aroused that be Ml strike ber. This Is all abe de sires. - A - complaint t and a flogging naturally follow,' and, the woman taunts him with bis disgrace. What can be tha outcome from, such a life aa thlat Agate, there . Is a new lew which makes t( very troublesome for a . man 10 leave 01s wue, no ainereocs wuat kind of a woman ahe may be. Why did net the) members or the leg islature paaa aome measure by which men could be protected . from scolding terra aarmnta to whom -they are legally boundp Would not the- ducklng-etool have been a lit receptacle for such women In tne east a great hue and err baa been raised over the banging of a woman. Why should a woman not take the consequence of - her wrong doing as weU aa a man! This mawklah eentimeat that "aha la a woman" Is all tommy-rot. and-no really good woman advocates It for an instant. The nut Indians inflict the death penalty en all -their aquawa who be come uncaaste and with all our boasted civilisation, we might prod tby - their example. TOM CJRAWFORDk- ': ' '- A ttbuxek Member Objects. '-' Portland. Feb. Si. To the Editor of Tha Journal la the Methodist Episcopal church becoming clannlabf . This is surely the trend here in Portland, since the able efforta of some ministers and men of note ere free only te a select - few. Tou know that every one tikes to bear a good npAajcer and will make aa extra ef fort f or-such a treat. . f, :., How- well I remember bur coming in mlina from-the country to hear a bishop or some noted speaker came , even - to hear political speakers during tha civil war, and would stand through ev lengthy speech .owing .to. the -crowd. Wei who had lived pioneera- for so many yeara without opportunities for Improvement esteemed it a great privilege. This place, haa grown from .14 log cabins in " the woods to a city, of considerable note, and we 'have availed ourselves of every op portunity possible to. bear those men of letters who have vial ted this place and were thankful, notwithstanding our strenuous efforta over bad roada or by aklff along the river to get there, Al moet every one on tbe east aide owned a boat then. r We learned nwhat we could for our pains, thus endeavoring to make up in some small measure for what we had been deprived of by the pioneer life we had lived. . ' But Just think of what a caste la growing up of late.! For Instance, when they wish to give a resident bishop a re ception, they take him off one side, with several good speakers and the few fa vored ones, and Juat have a real, good, happy time with ua, who are not- the favored ones, but who were Just aa hun gry for the "feast of reason and flow of soul" as they could possibly be, left to stay at home and bewail out lot vya are not caring for the feast for our physical being (we could eat at home)t howevar, we do care Immensely for that other feast, the Intellectual, which we cannot get in any other way than to go and hear those men of learn ing and taleTrt,-' - ' We feel that we are denied our Ameri can rights and wish to ask in rail candor, Is it Mbthodlstlewl - ,,A FORBIDDEN MEMBER. -.'A Bla fob fe the aovesmaeBt, Richmond. Wheeler County. Or, Feb. 11 To tbe Editor ef The Journal I am greatly Intereated In the R. Bmoot trial and think R. Bmoot ahould be sent boma He stands convicted out ct bis own mouth. He knows th elders or apeetlas practice polygamy and says never, a word to convict them, nor Intends to. If the Mormon women were educated, they might emancipate themselves from this monstrous evil. - Their votes, together with those of the men who despise po lygamy. I hear the Mormon women be long to the Illiterate class of Europe, who are beguiled by the Mormon elders. Not many -women willingly divide their busband'a affections with a parcel of women. Congress should reduce Utah to a territory, confiscate tbe Mormon books.! Jell the elders, lay the ax to the root of the tree and turn the en dowment house into a school, and teach about the true God or Hla Christ snd al low them to be a elate when they de serve It. By all meanS. send R. Bmoot home pollute not the halle ef congress with such violators of law. Where are the Christian men and women who with pen and voice ahould teach purity and fealty te the lawT Those who keep hot the law are not lit for offloa, AUNT NAN.' : .tattreay ttettsnea. ' Ashland. Or.. Feb. IS. To tbe Editor of The Journal jAs. I read In your pa per ef the 17th Inatl the fate and doom of tha amendments to the local option law. I cannot And worde to suitably ex preea my unbounded Joy and thankful nesa for tbe result, and as Mr. Pierce gave the eredlt for it to you, I wlah to extend te you a most hearty handehake and God bless you,, snd I shell forever be a staunch friend f your paper. The Oregontan.ia a good newspaper, but Is Invariably on tha rotten side of moral queetlons. .. Respectfully, ' .v. . C F. MO.L8. ta Vet Fee Sale. . . From tbe Kansas City Btar. , : While It la lamentably true that John ri. Rockefeller actually has money enough -to buy bodily the whole state ef Kansas, the cheering feet remains that Kansas is not, for- sale, , Heidelberg, deer' Heidelberg . Thy eona will ne'er forgetj . " ; ' The golden haae pt student days Is 'round about ua yet. 1 Those days of yore will eome' no mere. But through eur manly yearp -The thougfate of ynu-a-eb good, so true Will fill our eyea with tears. t-The Prince of JKliseo,- ' It le eaaler to understand the sent! meet of a lyrlo when the, picture that inspired It Is broucht before ua. . Bo it waa with' rrba Main With The Hoe ao It la with "Heidelberg." In thle cass a dramatist whose name does not sppeer in print has revealed a picture of etudent lire that might nave inspirea our poets ta great things. If it failed to do so, it is atlll a comfort to know that at reest ona a comlo opera linret Mat, bad been awakened to this poMif for unburdening . hla modest ononis u appreciation of. tha snlrit which le breathed at tha -old German - university. The Columbia Stock company pre sented Richard Mansfield's "Old Heidel berg' - yesterday to capacity audiepoes and scored, not a mera success, but a distinct trlumDh. When Mansfield read the- play la Portland, people paid five time tbe price for a show that was not five times aa good. No, nor four umee better. - "Old Heidelberg" ia one of those de Mclouely clean dramas, without women's woes or man's perfidy; devoid of tbe faintest syllable of Impurity. Tbe story is as slmola aa a. aheoherdTa Ufa yourig' prince, the heir apparent. ' who has been virtually a ' prisoner in - the eastle-"robbed of bla youth." as he later learns is sent to Heidelberg- There he quickly falla into tbe ways of Student life and finds the world worth while. He meets the Ctrl of bla heart, a girl of common family, and unfolds hla devotion, without reserve. the height of his happiness ia the Ufa ha did not know existed be ia eaiiea nome to prepare for the throne. Hla-grief at parting with his -new-found . Joys and bla ee-transrormatlon to tne aara .sur roundlnga of tbe castle complete tbe story, but tbe curtain does not fall until ha baa nald ona last visit to Hel del berg and. though on tha eve of. hla wedding te- a Brineeea, reasserts his love for Katble, the -unhappy trtrt. bis first and onlv lova - To be--sure, there isn't ranch in the cold statement ef .circumstances to make a great play, but great It la. And aa it la a one-man play, Mr. Gould appro priates tbe honors of the occasion.- It Is far and away tbe-best work he has dose in Portland. Hia careful drawing of tha- triangular picture flrat. tbe royal youth who. knowa not the world; then ihe etudent, newly born te life's happiness, and next . the ruler of the empire, conducting the affairs ef state amidst a -longing at the heart which neither, time nor fortune can overcome le subtlev -sympathetic, magnificent. Mia Ceuntlas, of ourse, plays the op posite part, and while she excels in tbe heavier rote"-or. more worldly women. she makes many of her aeenes aa the village maiden captivating. Thla word applies with a pedal force to her meeting with the prince, when ahe reads veraes in bis honor while presenting- him with a bouquet,. It is one of the most artistic Unoments in Katharine Counties' record. Mr.. Bowles score heavily aa tbe valet,' an eccentric character simllaft to that which he played m "An American. Clti- aen." and Mr. DUla, while, be was never Intended, - for solemn -' workw la a- very loveable old professor. . ,. v,rr: s- The play -calls for tbe entire strength of the company and a large .number, of addttmna The array of students., court attendants, - etc, practically fill . the stage. Tbe ecSnte production la extra ordinary, even for the Columbian stand ard. and Stage Director Bernard may well take unto himself hearty congratu lattons. . - RACE WHITNKT-f Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis saya In her "Bits.. of Goaalb" that Emerson, aa ahe met him in Concord. In 18(1, was a typical Tankeef in appearance 1 Tha tail, gaunt many with tha watchful, pa tient face and slightly dased eyes, hla hands clasped ' behind bis back, that came elowly down the shady village street toward the Wsyslde that Summer day waa Uncle Bam himself,- In Ul-flt ting brown clothes, I have often won dered that none of bis biographers have noticed the likeness." Emerson said to Mrs. Davis, "I wish Thoreau had not died before you eama He .waa an; .interesting ', study." Bhe asked ' why, and after a moment be re plied. "Henry often reminded me of an animal hrjiuman form. He bad the eye ef a bird, the scent ofa dog, .the moat acuta delicate intelligence nut 'no eoui, No," be repeated., shaking hla bead with decision, "Henry could not have had a human eoui.-. " ' - - -- Mrs. Davis remarka en Hawthorne's shyness, and on hla love of seclusion. which, indeed, was , a ramny trait; "Personally be was a rather Short, pow erfully built man. gentle and low voiced, with a aly. elusive humor gleaming sometimes in his watchful gray eyea The portrait with which we are all fa miliar a - curled - barber rhop head clrea no idea ef the elngular, melancholy charm of hla face. There waa at mys terious power in it which 1 have never seen elsewhere in picture, statue, or hu men being." - ' OXTT or From Leslies Monthly Magaslne for . ' March. The Irlah' Jarvey will not deign to, be enlightened on eny point. Around the base of the great atatue of Daniel O'Con- nell In O'ConneU street, Dublin, Is a circle of figures, representing different trades and professions. "What are thoae ngureeT" tbe tourist, who waa (on a rainy day, too) seeing the elghte of Dublin, inquired of his Jarvey.- "Them. Birr said the Jarvey, who had never thought upon the Subject before, but who now glanced at the figures.' "Why, them ia the twelve apostles,., of- bourse.'' The -"tourist vwee a' Scotchman,1 ao he eouated the figures 'There's nee malr than 1 In t" bald hs. In Indignation. 'Then the balance of them haa gone in out of the rain. Jump up on the car, sir, until I ahow you the Phoenix Park, the grandeet - park in Europe, or ' in Amerlky, either, for that matter." ," aVAvojtrrn ajto womxasT prroensa From the New Orteana Times-Democrat "Speaking of laughter, I have often wondered if the laughing maa and the leughlng woman really get along better In tbe world than the man and woman who do not laugh, or If they laugh at all merely grin af some amusing thing." said the observant man. 1 do not knowr I am aura Of course you will find that men and women of both types probably lit your own acquaintance-have been able tot-get along fairly well In tbe world. Laughter Ji no doubt good capital In a greet many Instancee. vlt Is equally true thst ths grim face, the sour look. I may say. has often proved a valuable an net Tbe which would seem to Indicate thst there la a time to laugh and a time not U laugh,", - . BaSeeSSaallaaSaaS lobitew Vai Be : , Ckcapcr From tha NeW Torb Bun. Boothbey Harbor, Ma The new, lob- strr .hatchery which th government has erected oa the rocky point reaching into the Atlantic ocean starts business thla year with a capacity for receiving and r hatching ZO.90O.OOO egga In a year, and ' two ateajnare ara out inAnt.'tk. along ahore collecting egga , jtimr mrvs years or sxpenraentlng with hatching lobsters at Woud'a Hole ' end Gloucester tbe 0b. commlaalon had ' learned' how not to do many thlnga In bringing up young lobsters in the way they should go. In tbelr natural eur roundlnga the female lobatafe produce ' egga once ia two years. A lobster that Is beaitny and IS inches ia length will -ld about 1 B OSS mwwr . : " field Inataaoof osatlnar thai now 1i adrlft the mother Jobater attachee them to the under aide of her armored tall. where they remain from July until the following May. As soon as the water becomes Warm the eggrf hatch, and the " lone, white, volatlnnum Hhm wki.k ..m ; . v --- . Wll. eventually turn -to lobatera, float, away : !' who me creaiurea which 1 aboond la the aea. - , For three or faui wMk. K- v -u , to have ao power to protect themselves - iuur uun, ana wnen tney ar not eaten by sea urchins, star Ashes and other predacious ereaturea, they turn -i cannlbale and live 'upon their ' own -brothers and a 1st era Bo great la the in- ' fant moptalitv amnna lnK . . 1. , - eetlmated that out of every i.eoo.000 , arwm um eggs not mora.than 708 survive tbe second moult at which ' time the vounar ernitanaana l.a,-in'k.T . sheila and begin to take an Interest in A score or more of the most expert soologists In the country have spent ' three summers experimenting with the"' lobster -f rv and Inlaa tit At , ? lobster young can be Induced to survive' HtlllM v. IM.,.1 , I .J m . ... - . wuvwa woujiuwi. . aaosi ok tne ' trials have resulted in killing from 5 to 18 per cent of tha f rv nafnm h. - ond moult,,;"-"'1 v The best deVtca yet Invented Is -teniae tna tr-r In mWk .ami ebout 1 feet long, four feet in diameter and keepthl contained salt water agl- it tans operaiea xrom a Shaft uu-imgn uio cyiuraera. tin less tbe water Is in motion all the time i7 iui 10 tne Dotcom of the cloth prisons, where they prey upon one an other until OUt Of 10.000 Irm not mn- " than a score will be left alive at the ami v of two weeks. Until last year the beat result that had haam nktalnl w .u : lobster nurseries waa to save 711 lob-.'-' aiers aner ue secona mouiung from 1,- .-. 000.000 fry., '. ,'. , , The trouble lrt" raarina tna'n l .. age when they are large enough to guard uwmm aiwin narm Ilea in .tne , . fact that the v are ao r-, r.l -ka.,- , own welfare tUat they surrender to' any living creature that comes in their vicin- ik j v.iHiiuaimu lub ami serious 0D suele to overcome. " ,.y . " When two young lobsters set "-ut f to SWlm the 10. fMt htMn a- a - A" cylinder and are moving in parallel ; 4 i. c, wttn vnanoaa au-e more man 10 to 1 that when they arrive at their deatlna- Mva in? wiu n inaiae tne ouier. K has been learned.-however, that th ara-.t ' danger, to' the fry cornea from foes that aaataM; -. ' When two davaf tnm t K 1 v .i... men will turn out to avoid a flslv that is eight, Inebes long, though it will not vary a hair's breadth from Its course to' get SWSV from ona nf Ha narn h-in Tkl. discovery baa led the scientists to put,- uHitiiua auiu wimj cunners jnu tne Clotri -tanks for the purpose of noting results. . i was jouna tnac wnue tne try would, make an effort In mmtm r .i.', death from the greed of tbe flahes. they Were nnabla to aai'lm famt destruction awaited every one aa soon eat f tai an. Kw 1, Cl.iii ' - - ' - - V J uvuiMa,, DUll, UU1- .- Ins fop IOBM uiluHnn r , .HikUm. Lwhlch had baffled them for so long, the uau specuuuits next captured amall ecul- 1 viua enu vncauiea weir moutna in nne - f aUU tne wnnlil a,m1 tka I.... exclude the lobsters, and found they bad hit upon,. a method that was full of promlae. . . , . -? , . Bv keenlns tha pantlva, auniTina gry so they would make constant efforts v "mn iuua. am young lobsters were chased about their prisons so furiously that the v had m time t r .w.i. mm rrA , k . , . . . . . - wiu . uia, eiioasn anreaaeo ' w iee upon, tney passec through- v two moults and assumed shells without " saorlOctng more then one half of their number to the accidents pecullar.p ex- - .VMS fHHin. . It k aaaertaal tha l ,ka .-.-ai ' of the new hatchery can Induce one half vutj j v- jive untu uieir sneiie grow, "iv jriow 01 loiietera in tne merketr of the bis cltlea will be rednrwit sir mm Inside of Ave yeara Feb. 17. The weather-eontinnee fifuL" All of us employed in -preparing, toola to build boats for our voyage, aa .we ' find that email perloguaa will be much more convenient than- the barge in as cending the Missouri. r - v ' ,. DUUSATZOaT taT OOVaTTT. ' From tbe Lakevlew Examiner. Lake county feela sure ef government Irrigation in the near future., in the northern pert of 'the county 260,000 are included in three echemes. There ara 70.000 acres of jrirrln- aoll. as good as the beet fn Lke county, in cluded in the Cuewauean scheme alone, now unproductive, that, by government drainage and irrigation will be made to yield crops equal te tbe very -beat farma in Lake county. - - . That Gooee lake ia te be drained at an early date seems certain. .-There is cov ered by that part of the lake situated In Lake county about JS.000 acres of land, A large part of 11 this, f when-uncovered will become very, valuable meadow and agricultural land, v;' Lake, eounty can well look with com placency and pride upon hef future. We have a surety of development by gov-, eminent Irrigation which will place us' well to the head of the column of pro- ducttvs counties la southern Oregon, OSZOZaT Oaf moVSYKOO. From tbe NewTork Presa- ' - ' The honeymoon used to last a month. Ths accepted notion is thst it must be spent away front home. In order that the happy pelr may get thoroughly, ac quainted without being victims of the rurioelty Of relatives end fiienda It ia so called from, the habit of the ancient Oenmans of drinking "hydrorael.' which . is a mixture of honey and water, for tt days after marriage. ' Hydromel, far-', mentsd. contains enough alcohol to make ' a man Intoxicated in short order, so that i ne noneymoon reauy was , a royal old (runs, - Attlla. the Hun. Indulged so -. freely at- hia wedding that ha died, Lewis and Clark L t H '4 V 11
