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CLEANING UP THE
various ways in'
be cleaned up and rendered
is by removing all the unsightly, noisome rubbish
from vacant Iota, especially m the
tricts. Hundreds of lots and in many
blocks are thickly littered over with
tin cans, -decayed weed crops of years, and refuse litter
fall sorts. It is the business of
property to attend to this matter, 'and
-weed pest the law-requires thenr-to
fuse or neglect to do this, the officers. of the law should
.compel them to do-, it,', or to pay
Owners of this kind of property ought
enough, at least 4his year, to clean it up They owe. this
much to the city in general, and to those who live hear
or daily pass such-r property' in particular. - To leave
otherwise tacant , grounds in 'such a condition is an . of
fense and an .affront to many people.
It would be weA if a Jarge number
line fences were also removed. There is no real need of
fence,. in -most cases, in this city, but if a resident da
s' sires a fence he should, have one that is of decent ap-
' searance and material. 4
.'A great many rear or side passageways are seldom
if ever scrubbed or..- even swept-.
cumulates there won trP after" month, and if such places
" mre not raicrobe- nest, ; then T,the microbes ' have been
much slandered. No owner or tenant has the. right to
. leave spaces on or leading to his premises in such a con
dition, and there ought to be a
cleaning up -of thenti-J....-.., .... ',..;,. . t. i
'' Greater care should be taken in disposing of garbage.
Some people are neglectful about (this duty, The streets
instead of the garbage carts are often -the receptacles of
various specimens of kitchen refuse. -'v... :.-.
. ,In some of these and other particulars the police de
partment is authorized and required
. to be performed, but apparently little if any effort is
ever made in this direction. But the police department
cannot do very much,vafter all; reliance must mainly be
plaeed-onhe-betteireducationofhepe6pleTnr4hese
respects, and an awakening of civic pride. , .
Not only the true progress and good name of the city
demand these reforms, but they are also demanded by
considerations of public health. - The cleaner and more
beautiful a, city is, the more healthful it is.'
SMALL FARMING PROFITABLE."
MONG Oregon's universally' " conceded principal
'. needs are more people, more, products, and more
railroads. They all goor will comer speaking
broadly,". together-'"The increase of
sarily, increase - production and consumption, and new
railroads and railroad extensions, must result ; But new
and extended lines of railroad would be and should be, a
' ' . . . . rt . i L ' 11 t
, cause asweu as a result x ney must, or snoma rcacn
out into regions and depend for ucces on those, re
gions' development the increased people, products and
' coasumptioo-that would assuredly follow. -' ; '
. . But there is another need, a double one, closely allied
with these, and that may also' be both caSS and conse
quence. This is more diversified farming, and, as a rule,
smaller farms. As a single instance of many that might
"' be cited, a man living near Athena, in the heart of the
great wheat belt, where large farms and exclusive wheat
' ' crops are the rule, owns only small tract of landj 'He
- did, not sit. down .andsay he coulL raise nothing but
wheat, but went to work along other lines. He has II
acres of dry-land alfalfa on a high knoll, which last year
furnished crops and pasture for io cows. . He says that
..." clover will also grow well on that wheatland, and that
. it is adapted to fruit raising, hog raising, dairying and
gardening Families on that land without irrigation' can
live and raake'money in these ways on tracts of 6o or
. 4P acres, or even less, whereas a wheat raiser must -let
half of his land lie fallow every year, and so needs a large
tract.' The discovery that high dry land will produce
,- ' good crops of alfalfa was an especially valuable one, and
1 ' enables men with comparatively small tracts of land to
. make more money than they could in raising wheat, even
pn the best wheat land in the world. . . ,
.It would be a good thing if 'many men in that region
would follow this man's example, and so in some meas
ure change wheat raising to more diversified agricul
... tural occupations. . . .,'.,'..;.
:, So in other parts of the state there are similar oppor
I fnnities to further diversify farming and raise a greater
variety and volume of products. In the fertile parts of
Oregon a man needs but a small tract of land, and can
Russian Fleet and
British Trawlers
v.
By Ambrose Blerce.)
gCoprtieiit, JS05, by American-Journal-.,,';.,
, . Examiner.)
'' The declclon In the matter ot the fens
i KIM fleet- and tha British trawlers im
J cbjaracteiistleaJly arbltrmtlonal; there Is
' never an arbitration without a failure of
,-.' flortic. Justice Is not what the arbl
, , fator is concerned about He seeks a
. ; decision that will be acceptable; It may
be right or not, aa Ood pleaeee. If we
might reaon from the history of arbl
, ' Station, without a knowledge of Its meth
'ids, we should be bound to believe that
. Ste claim Is eitoaether Just, none alto
. y, ather unjust, no disputant ever wise
i:' and righteous, none ever foolish and uh
fair. Indubitably, If the question wheth
r w1c tiro are four wfre submitted to
arbitration, we should have something
- WW In aiithmetlc
, .International arbitration sometimes
prevents war, doubtless, but not often;
usually Jt la Invoked by nations already
keen to avoid - war and determined to
.' keep the peace. . It Viu so in the case
trader consideration; .hardly any Injury
r insult could have driven Russia and
dreet Britain Into collision. Rarh was
like the gallant gentleman of the anec-
. dote, who, when nagged In a personal al
tercation that foreshadowed blood? noees
and cracke. crowns, shouted to the spec
taiors: "Hire r four of you hold the
fellow ' one can hold me." A nation in
the frame of mind to seek "peace with
'honor" In arbitration can find a pro
founder peace with superior honor by
Imply dropping the matter without ac
tion. If to fight Is disgraceful, to wren
ale cannot .be altogether noble.. If sl
iest endurance U Indecorous, a clamor
ua appeal to the spectator Is no leas
o. It la even more deficient In dignity
: for the reason) that the appellant knows
that he wUl have to be content with
oompmmlse decision, and Is known to
know It. Prom a people with the eour-
, aga to Ignore small wrongs on would
O N D AIL Y; JOURNAL
INDEPENDENT, NEWSPAPER . "' '..,V.
PUBLISHED v BY 'jOURNAi. PUBLISHING. CO. '
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND
CITY.
which the' city can
more attractive. One
by all possible
AN
better residence dis
cases whole or hall
J
old boards-or. sticks,
the owners of such
in the case of some
ture of selfishness,
"do so. -If they -rtx
spreading," and
tendency of state
for having it done.
to have civic pride
anarchy" r, v
This is a new
even on the part
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ofbW rotten, rickety
true Socialism is
A- - V
Dii& of all kinds ac-
which will be the
of anarchy." But
corporations, those
general and frequent
power of their
binationa pili-iin.
a few of them, by
ing masses? If
unrestrained, "the
to cause these- duties
imagination.
,, We suspect that
by H. H. .Rogers
W
on the
be entirely
people will neces
This gratifying
of tax titles and
bat the greater
carelessness, or'"
spicuous in some
, Meanwhile the
stricken basis. "A
not wgQ0xl3 roads
county poor nave
. . . -
td'the Taxpayers'
Clerk Fields, to
Donald, who appear
and faithfully. It
such officials than
in their duties. .- -
a new day has dawned. - ; . ,y ,-
sightly mess at the
position. It will
that way during
them non-residents
the street opened
naturally expect a swift and terrible
punishment of great onea, -
Senator Dryden has a bill to carry out
the president's notion about federal reg
ulation of Insurance. The regulation for
which there is the most crying need Is
education of the percentage In favor of
the man that keeps the table, when the
players have no chance to beat the game
they might almost aa well not go against
It.
This !s the frankest yet. The presi
dent of the Santa Fe road, cherishing
the conviction that the Interstate com
merce commission baa outlasted ita char
acter. explaina that hi company will ig
npre Its decisions. 11 tble candid gen
tleman should happen to do the greater
part of his ignoring in the penitentiary
It would be "something rich and strange
In the history of Inattention.
or
From Collier's, Weekly. '
Sir Henry I (-ring's fettrement for the
season may indicate an approaching end
of lila activity. The foremost actor on
tb English-speaking stage reached, hi a
senlth years ago not so much In talent
as In success. Hie powers have re
mained, but the London publlo tired of
him. It grants draraatlo leadership to
such excellent , meg bat . very moderate
artists aa Tree and Alexander and forcea
the Lyceum to close Ita doors for lack
ef patronage. Sir Henry has sometimes
wished that fate had made htm en
American. We have more great .cities
herer no one of them controls an actor's
fate aa London doee in England. Partly,
It must be confessed. . Sir Henry's de
cline in favor, is due to him. He took
his position at the head,, without a sec
ond, because be was his country s great
est actor and also the first manager to
use both the artistic and the business
possibilities Of modern lighting and
machinery.; He waned partly because of
Miss. Terry's falling powers, public
fickleness, and the rise of other mana
ger who could compete .with him In
scenery, but . partly , also because he
larked the' Instinct for current plays.
He proved his talent first In melodrama,'
and he never did anything more wonder
ful than 'The Lyons Malt." He added
prestige with Shakespeare, backed with
other UUrary adventures, as tn direct or.
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JNO. P. CARROLL
Th Joumrf Building, Fifth and YftnhlU
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put it to a far better use than the large landholder can
or will do. ' This change, . too, is coming, and while it
will be gradual it should be encouraged and hastened
means. - i . , ; ,
ALARMED EDITOR.
OHN A. SLEICHER, of Leslie's Weekly, the presi
dent of the National Editorial association, that met
this week in Washington,, said in his address that
"what we call Socialism in this country, meaning a mix
anger, hatred, jealousy and greed, i
he ""questioned whether, if the present
legislatures indiscriminately to attack
corporations were permitted to go on, this country would
be inviting the worst form of Socialism and possibly of
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or at least' an unusual view of Socialism
of those' who have no sympathy with it.
Socialists may have impractical ideaSjjncLsome of them
may entertain itorie)nThat the wealth of the multi
millionaires ought, to be diverted to the use and benefit
of the masses, but the central idea and basic principle of
the greatest good of the greatest num-
oer, me equal goo a, as nearly as possipie, aiu .. t
Mr. Sleichis perturbed - and alarmed also because
corporations, including, we suppose, what are known as
trusts, are being attacked by legislatures,. the result of
worst form of Socialism and possibly
what about the anarchistic trusts and
that violate reasonable laws, that de
feat good measures by. base . means,' that through the
great wealth and their socialistic com
hundreds of millions or billions among
plundering the producing and consum
this process is to go on indefinitely and
worst form of Socialism and possibly
anarchy" is indeed likely to follow, sporadically at least,
so it may be preventive rather than provocative of these
dire results for national and state legislatures to regulate
and control these,, corporations and combines. ' They
have not been apparently hurt much yet by the "indis
criminate atUckamadpon-thenainMrleicher's
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Mr. SIcicher is somehow subsidized
or somg of his ilk. . v , .
COUNTY OUT OF DEBT.
ULTNOMAH COUNTY is to be congratulated
fact that within a month or two it will
out of debt, having1 within two and a
half years paid obligations. amounting to nearly 5530,000.
This is a record not often excelled or even equalled in
any part of the country, ; , ; : . . '
result is in part the result of tne sales
the collection of long delinquent taxes;
part of this big debt of over half a mil
lion dollars has been paid by current taxes, expended in
a businesslike Md honest way. ' The taxes have been
high, but there seems to have been little or no waste,
inefficiency whereas these were con
former administrations, ., . r .
county has not been run on a poverty
large amount .of fair to middling if
have been built, including bridges,' the
oeen weu taxen care or, ana omer
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neeqs ot tne county nave oeen iainy wen suppuca. r-7
Credit for this result is due-to the legislature of 1903,
league, to County Judge Webster and
the ;cpmmissipnerswhoserved,itJi:him, to County
Auditor Brandes, and to Assessor Me
to have performed their duties ably
is far more pleasurable to commend
to censure those who are delinquent
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Now with a full, fair assessment this year and next,
and with the , population of the county growing at a
great pace, the county levy ought to' dwindle to delight
futty small figures which will be the complctest test that
It seems o'utrageous that under a contract the huge un
head of Alder street should be per
mitted to- disgrace the city 'until next October. It is in
one of the most' conspicuous sections of the city, in the
direct line of streetcar travel to, the Lewis and Clark ex
be in plain view of thousands who pass
the summer and fall months, many of
who will judge the people by such
evidences as that unsightly 'place" represents. There
should be some way devised to have the place filled and
before the first of June. , -
adapted expressions of Goethe, Gold
smith, Tennyson and Cervantes. He has
never taken kindly to hew plays expres
sive of our time, nor ha he found it
easy to work in harmony with success-
nil dramatists. These are aerlous mis
fortunes, but in spite of them he took
and haa long held so large a place tn
England that the competitors for his
leadership look absurdly inadequate to
take his place. He Is a big man. Sir
Henry; one to whom, in these later
trials, we take of f our hats in most pro
found respect, .
ham rwia
maOTOB.
, From a Harper's Bulletin.
Mark Twain aa a humorist la no re
spector of persons, and a story is told of
blra and Bishop Doane which is worth
repeating. It occurred when Mark
Twalojs-as living In Mart ford, while
Orr Doane was th rector of an Episco
pal church. Twain had listened to one
of the good doctor beat sermons one
Sunday morning, when he approached
him and said, politely; ,"I have enjoyed
your sermon this morning. ' I welcomed
It aa I would welcome an old friend.
I have a book in my library that con
tain every word of It"
"Impossible, - sir," replied the rector,
lndlgnsntly.
"Not at all. I assure you it Is true.
said -Twain. - '-
"Then I shall trouble you to send me
that book." rejoined the rector, with dig
nity. . - . .v i , .
The next morning Dr. Doane received,
with Mark Twain's compliments, a dic
tionary. '.' , 1
. A. Texeperaae Tale.
. From the Philadelphia Ledger.
"I guess I am rather hllarloua," the
buss saw admitted. The man who runs
me brought some whisky into the shop
this morning."
"Welir inquired the lathe, -"Well.
I took two or three fingers at
his expense."
!, j," Where Vapoleoa Died. .', .
' From the Parle Temps. "
Longwood. eoasparte'S house in St
Helena, la now a barn. The room - in
which he died is a stable. On the site
of his former grave la a machine for
grinding corn, - . , v.-
11 Ch
ange
Did you getthat rebaUt
Tot ws may hsve another summer this
year. ' : - ..:. .
But ean Russia
trlest , , .'., ,
ish!
have peace
The armies have shook tb Shakhe
river. 1 - i
Candidates for mayor are beginning
tO PlOOm. ' ,-.;', t " ':-. '! 1
We have an early spring; may also
oav a jat on.. .
In working foy good roads, keep th
aojecuv in mine. j , .' ,. .
Bom people would not
Heney never came back, ,
mourn If
Th publlo 1 prepared to confer the
d a? degree on the enate. -
. Not only "beyond the Alp.' but at th
end or th tunnel, "ilea Italy.". ,
Some of th mutli-m!ll!onaire have
apparently invested, la senators.
If the Jap have made any' mistake
they are not visible at this distance.
- Taxes to pay. and Beater bonnets to
buy soon altar. Pity th pocketbooks.
Is the coliege yell the moat Important
arid impressive part of college oratory?
Now Bryan will give up trying to get
that S&o.OOQ., Me doesn t need it Any
way. ... -r ...... -.
Perhaps Commissioner Garfield thinks
the packer' combine needs mora protec
tion. . v
A good many war expert will now
agree that Kuropetkin as a general is
a. paa actor.
Former legislatures who imposed S3
many normal schools on th stat made
a lot 01 trouble. . . . ,
One thing is very oertaln. that a lot of
saloons bav been keeping open after 1
o ciocx. contrary to law.
Rider Haggard haa come to America
to study 'the land question. He might
coma 10 uregon ana inspect 11-7,
' The Albany Democrat man says, there
is no better eating than catfish. ' Per
haps he hasn't tried many eatables.
The grin of th Standard Oil octonua
Is what is th mattsr with Kansas.
But Kansas Is a fighter from '.way back.
Secretary Hay. th big diplomatic run
of th United States, is not euthuaiaattc
over th president's' Santo Domingo
scneme. A -
Th railroad magnates and maaaa-ers
must want to .retire from business. They
are . iorcing pudiio. ownership or, rall-
roos upon ine people. t - . .
Russia is reported to be sending troona
to th Indian frontier. Involving a oro li
able conflict with England. . If so, Rus
sia is getting up to ita eyes lav war bust
A few rear aco W. J. Bnm
writer on th Omaha World-Herald un."
oer Kicnard J, Metcalf. Now Met calf
has Decoma . Bryan's employe on th.
womm,oner. . j -
Oregon Sidelignts
Few. la grippe Items now. '.
Irrlgon school has ST pupils. r'y'
Shearing goats la Polk county.
Wheat all right In Morrow county.
Heppner new hospital now open,
'stick to It that Oregon is all right
Peach trees blooming up. th Columbia.
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Many new residences this spring tn
isugene. . r
New houses going up all th time In
La uranae. - .. .
Willamette valley towns deaerva more
train service, '
Roseburg district has a school popu
lation ot 1,01.
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New people are coming to Salem' to
locate very day. . ,.
Hop yards being put In order earlier
than ever before. .r
Corral) Is Congregational church beiag
aVwiaan stl wail 4 m nrniia .... '
vatviwiivi Bsafawvw
Telephon lines continue to oom Into
Albany from all directions.
Only IS deaths. In' Albany last year.
about per 1.000 of population. ...
Vein of artesian water through! to
have been discovered at Independence .
Pendleton - Commercial '' ' association
keeps growing v-11 new members at last
meeting. ','''""' ' ".'''
Christian Science sentiment is grow
ing In Ashland. - That church has es
tablished nic reading rooms there. .:
Oregon Irrigator;1 That every, fruit
tree planted in and around Irrlgon may
grow, and flourish, and bring forth
much rare and perfect fruit let us all
spray. without ceasing. l..-
Oretown correspondence of th Tilla
mook Herald (sample of a thousand):
The sun is shining, the birds are sing
ing, the men are plowing and th boys
reputllng in. garden. ,
A Milton young couple returning home
early in th morning from, a dance went
to sleep in th buggy, and they Were
so found by the crew of a train that
cam along and nearly ran over them. .
Gervala Star: The fruit cron will not
be'lnjured by th spell ot good weather
or by. weather that may follow. W
have no feara for the coming crop. It's
going to be a bumper, and no mistake
James Powell, wss seen early this
morning in a buggy with a good looking
gin, and ne seemed to he in a hurry.
When last heard from he was earnestly
inquiring If he was on the shortest road
to the county clerk's office, and said
he was anxious to foreclose a mortgage
he held on a piece of property, of which
he was about to assume control. Oreen-
leaf correspondence of the Eugene Regis-
sr. . Jim Is likely to discover that th
ownership Is- oa th other foot,
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Sunday School
JLesson
By H. D. Jenkins. D.D.
'"'March . Joa Topic: Th Slavery
01 did gonn Vlll;ll-t9. .... ' :.
uoiuau Text- Kvery . on that com
mitteth sin is the "bondservant of sin .
John vlll:14. - . , .
Responsive Reading: " Psalm IL
';'' '-' xaarodaetloa. ')'
' Th difference between Christ's deal
ing with sin and the dealing accorded it
by th rabbis, was that Jaaua regarded
11 aa sometning vital, personal, - self-
propagating. Instead of our Lord's re
gardlng sin aa an "error of mortal
mind," he taught that men did not be-
I & to comprehend . Its reality, lnten
siiy ana- power, n anew notning, it
would seem, ef "a principle of evil1
apart from a personality that was evil,
Bin' cannot operate of .itself. It Is not
like gravitation or magnetism, but like
disease, In that It Spreads from life to
lira- , . : . . .1 y.
This teaching ot our Lord was in the
very tempi itself and In the presence
ox tn doctors of th law. ' He attacked
liuBr Tflry viiKaai, im guepvi sees in
hplety something I living; In' impiety
something living. The whole .contrary
theory is built' upon righteousness and
in aa Individual acta separately per
formed and th be accounted for Individ-
ually. Being saved was - to the Jew
what it is to many nominal Christians
still, a question of balance,' of debit and
credit ' - "If I do mora good than ill.
shall be saved. If I do more, ill. than
good. I, shall be lost" , That was the
teaching ot the schools when . Jesus
came. He revolutionised ' th - whole
theory. -Being saved was not a ques
tion of . mathematics but of vitality.
One or th other, says Jesus, spiritual
health or 1 spiritual death, , will - in . the
end possess the whole man. One or
the other force, on or th other will,
will dominate him at last- The. strug
gle may Seem for a long time, to hang
doubtful,-but-ther 1 no compromise.
Tou cannot buy up or put- off th re
sult it la bound to , come, because
back of the-phenomena Is a vital some
thing which must make the man either
the child of God or the alav of the
devil. When a man - has a cancer, the
question of life or death is not one of
area but of grip. Many a falr-eemlng
life harbora -within Ita secret channels
Its own blood . poisoning. To . get at
Christ's thought of sin is to understand
th need of a personal savior.' .
Vers II. Undoubtedly t thers : vera
among - our Lord's . hearers a certain
number, as now. there are In every con-'
gregatlon to whom the word . is
preached, who flatter themselves that
they are, after a fashion, the patrons,
the defenders, th champions of - the
gospel. - Plenty - of ' men are ready to
fight for the truth who are not ready
to live- It. - Jeeus was not- on to be
patronised. He did not greatly value
men who- wanted to defend him. He
wished men wno would lonow n-ira.
Even in Jerusalem he mad some con
verts aa well aa in Galilee. But It was
quite another thing to Identify oneself
with him her where the scribe and the
ruler and the Pharisee dominated pub
llo opinion, and. recognised or ostracised.
as they would, the . dtlsen. Kven a
beggar could not openly profeaa him In
the city without being baled before th
court (ch. . . ..v . :- .. . a
Vers 1 2i Freedom was the on pas
sion ef tb Jew. . H hated everything
which -reminded him of his subjection.
He hated the Roman soldier, the Roman
colna with the .image and- superscrip
tion of a. foreign, ruler; he hated the
guards which Rome placed at the temple
gates. And he bad Invented a thousand
subtle plea by which he sought to- de
lude himself as to his relation to the
empire. Meanwhtl he was always
batching plots .by which to regain that
which ha would deny he had ever lost
Every great gathering, such as that at
the recurrence of an annual least.
stirred anew the slumbering nres of
rebellion. It Is quit possible that.
Jesus, overheard some of these murmur-
Ings or discontent in race it la cer
tain that, his own followers more than
once purposed to make him the instru
ment of regaining their national auton
omy (ch. :16). It is quite likely that
at thia time certain . of his . half-in
formed admirers suggested that ' now
waa the time for him to strike the blow
which would restore freedom to the na
tion. It waa then that Jesus uttered
that pregnant saying recorded in this
verse, a saying rich with . th ripest
philosophy of heaven. Whatever! his
civil, estate, the man who ia not actu
ated 'by purposes of righteousness is
the Slav of a real though Invisible
ruler who use him' for purposes ot his
own. Only In the service of Ood is a
man's will free to accomplish his own
goodi ' . , - - - .
Verse IS. The people ot me city, nits
those of Florence long after, flattered
themselves with the forms Qf freedom
while having parted with As reality.
When the Romans had lost all vole in
their own government' the aenate met
to go through Ita solemn fares of pass
ing what Ita masters handed down 10
it So the slave of vice, like th victim
of strong drink, refuse to "sign away"
hla liberty while absolutely enslaved to
his appetite, He asserts his freedom
the more loudly the more I he unable
to hide from himself his chains. - "
Vers 14. probably the wickedest man
alive ha moment In which h recog
nises th truth of our Saviors words.
He Is th slav of habits which he can
not shake off. If sin benefited us. we
might freely choose It But when it
condemns us to a life of remorse and a
death of fear, It la not to be wondered
st that th dullest will sometime cry
out TV retched man that I am, who shall
deliver met" '
Vers II. On of th sspects of free
dom Is the enjoyment of horn. ' Tb
servant comes and .goes at the. will of
th master. But the son enters at will
and departs at leisure.. This is his horn.
He commands its resources and enjoys
its privilege. ;There is . a hint her
that,tha land Of which they boasted
should soon cease to be their dwelling
place. - They would b thrust out from
th country whlfch was. dearer to them
than life itself. - r-
Verse 16.' Under th Roman law a
young man, son of th home, could upon
coming of age free his slaves by a cere
mony which was prescribed to take
plac In the presence of a magistrate.
One whom the son thos freed could by
no means be returned to bondage. He
waa "free Indeed.". W should notice
how the s"ospel has freed' men from
dread .of God, fl-eed them from fear of
death, freed them from the dominion
ef sinful appetites and Impulses. Mors
than this, it has moved snd Incited na
tions everywhere to seek snd possess
and wisely eierrles civil freedom. ' Nfl
such enfranchising agency as th gospel
ver eieewnere existed.
Verse 17. It Is a dreadful thing to
claim an ancestry which we- disgrace,
Every generation ought to lift the race
Igher. A noble ancestry is npt so much
matter of boasting as-a matter of ob
ligation. . ' Jesus was not Ignorant of
their descent from Abraham. Rut that
descant ought te manifest iteeU la th
solrlt ot their creat progenitor. Abra
ham had come to Canaan to establish
a holy race. Ha had. It would seem.
bred a swarm of murderer. Jesus
could doubtless see the gathering hat
in men's eyes ss they listened to hi
reproof.-- '. '
Verse II. Parent live again In.th
acta or their children, who unconsciously
Imitate them. The boy sits down as he
haa seea his father alt a thouaand times,
although there may be nothing in their
physical form to suggest like physical
habits. The girl adopt., the mother's
walk, tone and gestures, toscaua aba is
familiar with them. W reveal, says
Jesus.- our naternltr not by our books
of genealogy but by our Imitations. Is
my life, said" Jesus, free from slnr It
Is because I have' been familiar with
such holiness ef being. - Is' your life
paaalonatv foul-mouth and false t II
is because you have compacted every day
with a father of spirits, to whom suon
a life la natural: W Judge and ar
Judged aa to our ancestry by our. eon
duct, net bit our family Bibles.
' Verse II. - When the Jew ooulat not
think of anything els to lay to th
L charge 01 an enemy, h called mm
Samaritan (v. ). In th same way
when men seem to be lacking In what
we consider the proper spirit of their
race.--.we call them "half-breeds." It
was this that the - hearers flung at
Jesus. They felt themselves to. stand
for "the' real thing." They boasred that
they were Hebrews of th Hebrews, Just
as some American never .forget' that
they-wear a Mayflowerbutton.-' Some
ot the wickedest men. la America boaat
th piety of 1 their ' mothers. Jesus
presses back th thought that after all
there is a spiritual paternity not to be
Ignored. A man. may be by adoption
the child of God. Juat as truly ha may
be bjrllf end word the child of the
uuYit.. -10 one sense ne oaa acanowi
edged ' that these . violent and quarrel
some men seeking to draw him Into de
bate, provoking him to say something
which might be construed to hi Injury,
had th spirit of . Satan. In another
aense they war no children ef Abraham.
although their carnal descent might be
proved. .- ... ;-. .
Vers to. How sorrowful It fa that
th descendants of good men have oft
times been . guilty . of dreadful crime
In the church itself hatred and. Violence
sometimes have reigned. Th true dis
dpi of Jesus must exhibit the spirit
of Jesua.-. More martyrs have been mad
by th church than by th world. Jesus
never raised bis hand against any man.
oaaiiip usoour dowx.
, Frum ihLJWahlngton PosL.
Among the inauguration viaitora may
be found some of the old Sixth army
corps, whose arrival in the nick of time
on the morning of July 13. 1814. saved
the city of Washington from capture by
uen. juoal A. . Early. If they wish to
visit the site of old Fort Stevens, where
President Lincoln, from ,lt - parapet,
watched the repulse of the enemy by a
gallant : charge, ordered by General
Wright they will no longer find It
weary five-mile march in beat and dust
but a pleasant trolley ride of about half
an hour.
'Fort Stevens was located and built In
October, lSSl, by the troops of th Bay
slate, and - by them chrtsttned Fort
Masaachusttte. ' When' th more elab
orate system of defenses for-fh city
or Washington waa planned. Fort Maa
aachusetta waa rebuilt and greatly en
larged. It was also rechrlstened Fort
Stevens, In memory of Brig. Gen. Isaac
Stevens 1 of -Massachusetts, who was
killed at thai Hattl of Chantlllw Va
Secure in th belief that the capital
waa no longer In any danger from the
confederate . forces. General, Grant had
drawn away from th Washington de
fense th better part or th veteran
troops which had been stationed there.
and had it not been for the determined
stand mad by Gen. Lew Wallace at Mo
nocacy river, by which Early lost one
day tn his plans. Fort Stevens might
hav fallen, tb capital and th presi
dent captured, with possibly a. very dif
ferent -ending to the civil war. 1
Early's ' plana war unexpected, ' but
quickly met He marched around Gen
eral SlaeL captured - Frederick - and
forced ita .cltisen. to pay $160,009 to
avoid th sacking and burning of the
town, and 1 moved on to wasningtocj.
General Wallace's force was too small
to do more than hold th enemy in
check for- a ' short time, but it was
enough. 1 General Grant when the re
port of Early's movement first reached
him. - dispatched the ntxth army corps.
under Oea Horatio Wright to Washing
ton. Never did the president Snd his
cabinet feel greater Joy than when
these veterana marched from the wharf
up Seventh street and out Brightwood
road. - President Lincoln himself was
soon at the fort, and remained with Gen
eral Wright while the decisive battle was
fought It is worthy of note that among
th attacking fore was Gen. John U.
Breckinridge, the candlat ef th south
ern states for th presidency, defeated
by Lincoln. " ,. . T
Bom eight years ago General wngnt
revisited old Fort Stevens, and said to
thos who accompanied hlmi -
Here. on. tb lop ot this parapet 1
the plac where President Lincoln stood,
witnessing the fight; there, by his side,
a surgeon was wounded by a mlnle ball.
entreated th president not to expose
his life, but he seemed oblivious to his
surroundings. - Flnallyv. I said: Mr.
President I know you are commander of
th armies f th United States, but i
am in command here, and as you ar not
safe wher you ar standing, and I am
responsible for your personal safety, I
order you to oom down.' Mr. Lincoln
looked at jna, smiled, and then, more in
consideration for my earnestness than
from Inclination, stepped down and took
position behind tb parapet icven
then h would persist in standing Up and
xpoalng hi tall form." :j. . V
1
rxaroa au cxmxtmm.
A. E. Outcrbrldg. Jr., In tb Annals of
th Amarioan Aoademy. . .
When Edison ' first mad th small
Incandescent electrio lamps, consisting
of a carbon filament! fixed by platinum
wire In a pear-shaped glaaa bulb from
which th air had been exhausted, the
coat was II each; now there ar many
mlllloh similar lamp ef better quality
made each year and sold at less than
It cants each. - , - 1
Formerly watches were mad by hand
and war coatly luxuries; now they ar
mad by machinery, in lota of a thou
sand at a time, and the cost of a new
watch that will keep fairly good time
lee than tb coat of having an ex
pensive watch cleaned. 1
Th asm principle apply. In all lines
of manufacture, and it has been found
that reduction In cost of production, due
to specialisation in manufacture, I nat
urally followed by Increased demand, for
the simple reason that each successive
reduotlon brings a new class of con
sumers or purchasers into ths market
and a commodity which was regarded aa
a luxury of th few wbe'n th ooat was
relatively high becomes a necessity of
the many when ths cost is .reduced to a
sufficiently low level. - ' ;.'.& '
Vos a atrthnuurk. " .
. - From the Chicago Journal.
"Is that a birthmark on your friend's
forehead?" . t,
"No,, that's a laundry mark."
" "A laundry mark? How odd." "
."Not so very.. A Chinaman hit him
with a fiatlron," . o . , .
Business Men 'in
Pcjlitics'
(W. D. Wheelwright nresident at the
Chamber of Commerce, in the Cham
." her of Commerce Bulletin -. .
It was one suggested, when defalca
tion after defalcation had occurred in
a manufacturing city ef New England,
that th ; atat prison be enlarged by
building , a wall , around Fall River.
Something ilk this might be uttered
aa's, melancholy truth that seems te be
foreshadow about th state of Oregon.
Tb Indictments that hav been found
against one of her two United Bute
senators,, against her twe representa
tive in th lower house, as well as
against members and ex-member pf Br
state legislature, constitute a moral in
dictment of her. voter for their acts In
putting suoh men In high places. And
on of tb remarkable features of th
present situation I th absence of 1 a
gnral sen of humiliation by reason
Of these llMnlnr.' ...
1 - a - aaiaeawBwaaw
- . v. uuig irie men a. r
tnf w end long hav been th-.t
called representatives of th people) i A
ircgon. . w, go about our dally busi
ness, w .talk of. th Increasing pros--perlty
of ur atat and eityrw tell if
!5 ylP11" of arable land that await
ths hand of the husbandman,, th teem- '
ing rivers and the growing forests, and.
W,.ln!U our Wow oltlsena of the
United States and thar enreanti..
foreign nations to com her -and su ;
what. Oregon . has doneln- 100 year ;
without , reflecting apparently that '
are now calling on them to witness a
nri-'iv-io vi puouo ano private rotten- -ness
that la almost ; without precedent
in the annals of the country. . Th --
planatlon of thia apparent Indifference
ia that publlo opinion 1 not horn i . '
day, th sense of dlagraee- to the state
haa not yet comb to tne inhabitants who "
compos the state, and this apathy ia ....
the calm before th storm, v On result
of this outburst of publlo feel In . )...
It cornea, will be a marked Improvement
In the avers ge character of the unrti.
dates for publlo office. . No man whoa
record la tainted with fraud, who ha
even the smell of Are about hla gar
ments, will put himself forward aa a .
candidate for the suffragea of th cltl
sana of Oregon for some time to com. 1
A few year sco one'of mr ImHinv '
cttlaene entered a protest with th prest- r
urni against ine appointment to oroc
of men recommended by a aenater who
was snown throughout tha stat as a -political
boss of. bad character, and..
whose recommendations . were - mail
from no motives of publlo welfare, but '
soieiy witn a view to th building up
and perpetuation of a machine to fasten
hla grip permanently upon nubile office
and political power. Th-president re-
piled that however bad. tha senator
might be, he waa presumably th kind
or man tn state wanted: "If you don't
wish bad appolntmenta to United States
offices n your atat, why do you send
her a man who recommends them?'
And in saying this the president hli
tbevnall squarely oa the head he state
a fact that all cltlaens of Oregon ahoul
tak to heart and blush for, to-wit. th
these men are and hav bean their red-.
reeentatlves, the men who are undet- :
stood to "represent the. characters ok
th cbufl or group" that elected then!. -
How has -thia com about T . Certainly
this Is not a community of criminal;
w are-nut" all glvevt over to private ;'.'
graft and publlo theft; the majority of
roters are ; honest, and ar not fairly',,
repreeented" by men who are th spe
cial -car ef grand Jurlea. , Th answer
to the , question is that thia atate of ' ,
arrairs la tne result or careieasness and -
Indifference oa the part of the business
men of the. community, who a re wMilng -
to. leav - politics- -to- professional poll -tlclans.
who make It their business, an.l -who
play It as a gain who put forward '
for office men who represent them and (
their Own personal interests, and only - -th
honest and able men who com po- .
th' community, and. who have given it .
a name for probity and honor second to
none In th country, will take up the ;
management of pnbllo affairs, snd es
pecially the care of nominations, or can
dldatea for office, as a part of their
duty to themselves, their families and
their bualneas, we shall be saved front
liability to a repetition of such experi
ence as. now afflict th stat.
Th, chamber of commerce - is com
posed of such men, and th timet Is op
portune to urge upon tnem a course 01
Individual action that ahall make perma
nent the new condition that w hav
eason - to - believe will soon prevail.
Public office is a publlo trust" and it
la a maxim that no on but an bonena
and blgh-minded man Is fit to be a .
trustee. i ; .--V--.", 1
a. - '
March 11. The weather ' was etoudy
in th morning and a little snow fell, the
wind then shifted from southeast to
northwest, and the day became fair. It
snowed again la th evening. 7
'"BOSS"
'. 'From.th Washington Poet '
A noted person who visited Washing
ton early in the administration of Pres
ident Fillmore was William M. Tweed.
of New York, who cam as foreman of,
in Amencus ji.ngine company, ' no. ,
:
a volunteer fir organisation.
Visiting th White House, th com
pany was ushered Into the East room,
wher President Fillmore soon appeared.
and Tweed, stepping out. In front of his
company, aaia; insn are Dig six ooym,
Mr. President f' He then walked along
tb Un with Mr. Fillmore, and Intro- '-
duced each member Individually. ... AS
they were leaving th room, a newspaper - '
reported asked Tweed why he had not
made a longer speech. '
'Ther was no necessity." replied th i
future pillager ot th city treasury of
New Tork, "for ths company is as much .
grander than any other fire company In
th world as Niagara falls is grander ,
than Croton dam."
Two years afterward, Tweed profiting ,
by a division In th WhigVfank in the
fifth district of New Tork, returned to
Washington ss a representative In con- '
gresa. He was a regular attendant never
participating In the debates, and always
voting with tb Democrats. Twio he
ead speeches wnicn were written for
him. and he obtained for a relative th
contract for supplying th houae with '
chair for summer use. which were
worthless and -soon disappeared. .
,. . 1 ,i ' i. . 1 i- .
' The- Jrajsny Seaaoorata. .
From the Topeka Capital.
V
If anybody la curious t know who
I th undisputed leader of th Demo- '
cratlo party today all he need do Is te '
pick up almoat any Issue of th Con
gressional .Record and env almost any
page note the Democratl tributes t
William J. Bryan. And as for Bryan,
h la putting In most of hla time whoop.
Ing 'r up for Theodor Roosevelt' Th
Democratic . party is a funny'' eld eon.
lwewis and . Clark
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earn, any way you tak It,
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