The Oregon daily journal., March 16, 1905, Image 4

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PORTLAND, " OREGON.
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THE ORE GON DAILY J O URN AL
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C S. JACK BON
Published every evening ' ( except Sunday) and every Sunday morning at
;'': '' ' .t '' x '.', s.' . attests, Portland, Oregon. ,
WHY IT GROWS.
"if 7 WILL BE NOTICED lr the figures printed on
; I the first page-every day that the circulation of The
r: Journal Is Sldwly but surely reaching the minimum
".'.base of 20,000 copies dayrr It frequently has exceeded
, that number but what The journal is, striving for is-a
minimum normal circulation of that number ot papers
and this ambition is now so close to realisation that it
'can scarcely fail soon to be attained. . .
There are two .rather striking features of The Jour
' rial's circulation when the age of the paper is remenv
bered. The first of these is that it-is permanent rather
than-shtfting in, character, and while there is necessarily
'.some floating subscriptions, thafjs, a class that change
from 'month to month from' one newspaper to another,
this class is gratifyingly small' in the case of The Journal,
i indeed .so small that it scarcely heed be taken into "ac
(count. The, other striking feature is that the circle of its
permanent readersthose who like the paper and its pol
icies and Jiot only give it their moral but their financial
support, represented by their subscriptions, -is constantly
extending and while the movement may be slow at times,
as when it was -slowly reaching the I5. mark, the ad
vance is steadily forward and permanent, in its quality
ignd character .,- 11 . 1 '
The Journal is already' essentially the local paper of
irortJknd.. It gets the news and it prints It in a way that
'"makes it-attractive to its readers., But while this iaan
element in its growtlrhe-aubstantial thing whic1t'ac
vcounts for" its steadily increasing circulation and fts pct
'imanency is the policies with which the paper has been
'identified and for which lit stands frankly, and plain
apokesily. ..Heretofore it was what the
thonght; now it is what the people tninic ana jne jour
nal is the people's paper. . Many friends throughout the
, state who heartily approve those principles for which
the paper stands have done and are doing much unsel
fish work in its behalf and for the benefit of each and
'all of them we wish at this time to record our appre
ciation.
A SAMPLE RUSSIAN BOURBON.
R
USSIAN Minister of Railroads.
quoted as saying in substance
imnossible because it "Would -
(Russia to quit thus beaten .. and - humiliated, and that
"IRussia's resources in men and money must finally pre-;
(rail. , This is the common talk among the higher classes
and officials in Russia-, but Hilkoff drifts into some1 de-j
- tails' that are half amusing, half absurd; . Kuropatkin,
Ulilkoff remarks, is calm, and is handling the railroad
'situation successfully." Hilkoff hears that Kuropatkin
: (is ."calm, Therefor, everything is all right, and the
-war must go on. " Perhaps Kuropatkin will be vCalm"
; jwhen his army is. practically all wiped out. Yet Hilkoff
."was surprised that Kuropatkin had fought. How could
he fight and remain calm? Not pnly did the; Japanese
have more soldiers, bat there were those terrible dis-
; guised Chinese bandits to contend witty Whenever any
V thing goes wrrong with the Russian armies, and nearly
everything does go wrong with them.' the Chinese' ban
dits are trotted out as one f the chicfcauses. The Jap
.a a . a ' tf A 1
anese could be jiajiaiea. migat JiaYe
ago, if irwere. not for, the Chinese bandits. ,;.'. . . 1
That, Kuropatkin. was able to get away with 50,000 men
.'.Prince Hilkoff considered a great military feat. .Ac
cording to his and "some other views, Kuropatkin has
been having a series of splendid victories. He escaped
'" .from Ltaovang with the larger part of his army,' he got
away from the Shakhe river with the greater part of the
" remainder; and he skurried out of Mukden after 10 days'
fighting with half or so of tha forces that be had brought
there. He and a portion of his . army are still alive,
', ' though most of their guns and food are gone, and the
' ' general is. calm. But there are yet the Chinese bandits. Vi
. The prince also has ideas about civil administration.
.No'remsky sobor was possible but there would be some
' aort of a council in which the aristocracy and the church
" .'would predominate. The representation of the common
.' people, we judge from his language, was norto.be
, thought of. 1 ,
j : We 'suspect' that Prince HilkoffhaspljretJbeen
."awakened by-whtJas been noisily goingoaabour1iira.
4 TROUBLE AHEAD FOR
'ILLIAM R. HEARST and
newspapers are making a good deal of trouble
th Timirnm machine, and are likely to
'make much more before the next municipal campaTkn s
tovtr. And it is scarcely necessary to' remark that Tam
many deserves all the trouble it will encounter.
; The Tammany government, while very efficient along
-.certain practical lines, is enormously
' "variably corrupt, from top to bottom, from center to cir
cumference. Within its great army of employes may be
untainted men,. but th system by which Tammany op--
a u&wov rom r
Th Tratk That Was Bag Omt of th
t UO-Day Trial of Coirs asst. Wia.
V From Hoard's Dairyman.
' Hoard's Dairyman strives to the best
ot Its ability- to teach dairy- truth. It
finds everywhere a great lack or unaer-
standing of' that truth among farmers,
'-even. among thousands upon thousands
' of farmers who hsv all tbelr live kept
-jowi But th light Is breaking In upon
the minds of men who never believed
, that they, needed any light The St.
lyiuls row demonstration was-a- great
v. light Th truth that was dug out. of
that 110-day trial of cows was of 1m-
- mense value to every man who has mind
' enough to sppreelate the truth. Her
', er a few figure to tell a great story:
- . Xa das Mm
'; .... - - . , Profits
above
' ' ' ' . Cost of
- "V.,;" . . ' - food.
Tteet Jersey ...SJl.SS
Poorest Jersey ........ . IS.SO
cost of
- food. '
1SS.S0
ZS.72
Difference 1.71 , ISI.SO
Best-Holsteln : .i...M.l3.T .ll 2
Poorest Holstein I4.CS
1S.0S
- Dlfferenr .....I LS .
Beat Shorthorn I2S.I7
Poorest Shorthorn ..,. 7.l .
1 Plffrnc '. . ......... I .IS
Best Brown Swiss. IJ3.4S
Poorest Brown Swiss.. 11.11
117
till
l.SS
110 l
$17.47
11.71
Difference t 1.21 t S.01
. Iet ua study these figure a little.
Vttr years Hoard's Dairyman has
ten trying to get farmers to so what
treraendmis difference It mad with
their profit between putting their
hard-asrned feed Into SV good eow or a
pone eow. IXMk at. thosa figures. The
difference in cost'rof feed between) the
mt Jersey and tho poorest Jersey was
It 7, rt tbar was UIferee ia the
is'1
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
OFFICIAL' PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND
as "yellow." But
Democrats to pay
THE MAYOR
AfVlE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT of the can
I didacy of Mayor Williams for re-election creates
7.T no surprise.1t-haTiong4een known-that he was
desirous of getting a ."vindication" of an administration
which has called forth many ' and varied criticisms.
Qever evidences of this determination have not been
lacking and the political cards have been shuffled with
the skill of an old-time warhorse. Through it all he has
kept a. pretty evenly balanced keeV not , allowing himself
to be putjn a josition . of .openly demanding a renomina
tion'but at the same time so-holdinn himself that no one
political machines!
would get the impression that he proposed to permit him
Prince Hilkoff, is
- that peace now is
be - shameful for
little but for the
might give the fatal impression that it was with his full
consent lhat the mayor's mantle was about to fall upon
the shoulders of his younger associate in the administra
tion. It was to avoid this unpleasant mixup that the an
announces he is
ever and if this
improbable that
canning or his
seems likely that
old man," in which
if they propose to
wren . woippcu ung
nomination. On.
I
N ANOTHER
, from Auditor
' ' candidate for
TAMMANY.
The Journal. In
his New York
ficial bas cut no
If he was doing
will and it has never
expensive, and in
to take such a .narrow view of the matter. , J
value of the product against th poorest
of 1 23.(0. - ,
Th difference fh coat of feed be
tween th best and poorest Holstelns
was only ttSS, yet the difference In
vaUl.jifJtha-retumr was 127. . 1
. Th difference In cost of feod be
tween th best and poorest Shorthorns
wss only SS cents, yet th difference in
th value of th returns was, arnaslng.
being IJO.St, ,becaus the poorest Short
horn msds a profit of only II. SI.
Th difference between the best and
poorest " Brown ' Swiss -In -cost -of -feed
was S1.2S, and the difference in value
of th return wa M.02. .
How clearly this shows th the farmer
that -his poorest cows cost him prac
tically as, much y keep aahlshest
cows, yet th difference In profit be
tween the -.two is Immense. Does this
not prov the great value It will be to
the farmer to establish some system
whereby be shall know lust what his
rows are doing? Doe It . not prov
finally th tremendous valu of our
knowing a great deal more than we do
about this business! .
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A CAKO rmOaf JLV9XTOB 9STaV.
Portland. Or., March, IS.--To th Ed
itor of Ths Jdurnal In your issue of
the 16th Inst.- under the. title of "Men
Hunting Office of Mayor," your paper
has classed m sa one "who, too, agreed
to licensing lasbreakers.' and I desire
to say that this and all-other references
t me In the same artlol are malicious
misrepresentations. 1 have never ap
proved of gambling or ths licensing of
rambling. More than threie years sgo
and under a former administration, dur
ing which the licensing of gambling hsj
been tried. I delivered an address be
fore the Koonomlc lesgu of Portland,
on th aubject "Municipal Taxstlon and
Finance,"- In which I set forth th va
rious sources of municipal revenues,
th advantages of each and also th un
desirable methods e municipal taxa
tion. I think pone of-the Intelligent
Mitmml '
JNO. . CARROLL
The Journal Bunding, Fifth gad Yamhill
', y --,- y-y tt -r.-''" ' .
crates is one in which boodle and graft are the primary
objects, which are attained by systematic plunder of the
taxpayers. Tammany under Charles F. Murphy and
Mayor McClellan is ot so rsging a beast of prey as it
was under Boss Tweed and Mayor Oakey Hall, but it is
the 'same beast; it can no more change its nature than
the leopard can change his spots. -
- Mr." Hearst's indictment of the present Tammany
government is, however, specific, not general. He has
shown how the people are being ruthlessly robbed by
the gas trust, and other corporations, and how Mayor
McClellan, a "good man,' an admirable man in many
ways, a man with ah honorable record, has yielded to the
Tammany machine, at the cost to the peopre-f many
millions, and is its -tool rather than the people's true servant.'--
'"'.'': '; :::,'' ; '. '
In this .casei Hearst's newspapers are fighting m the
common people's cause, 'against boodle, greed, graft, cor
ruption, monopoly and oppression, and in doing so they
have to ffght the Democratic machine in NewYork, al
though they are Democratic papers. This is one reason
why the monopoly organs persist in characterizing them
if fighting a corrupt, thieving, ppeket-
picking, gigantic political machine oe "yeuow journal
ism, the people like thajt kind, and call for more of it.
Th'e prospect is for, a' larger defection from Tammany
in the next election: than when Strong or Low was
elected mayor.That will be a cheap price , for. honest
for the downfall ot Tammany.
AS AN OPEN CANDIDATE.
self to be sidetracked. Qrdinartly, we suppose, the an
nouncement of his candidacy would have been delayed a
fact that Auditor Devlin's friends were
getting so active that it would be bad politics as -well as
poor sense to longer keep under cover. Further delay
nouncement was harried so that the mayor could stand
forth in his own proper person and get every atom of
strength that was coming to him.
It is probable that there will be a very lively fight in
the Republican primaries. We observe that the mayor
getting younger and more skittish than
is a true presentation of the facta it is
he has lost any of his oldtime. political
familiarity with the political ropes. It
there is stiO "one good fight left in the
case "his rivals must be up and doing.
outdistance him in the race for the
March 33, one week from today,
George Henry Williams, mayor of Portland and active
candidate for renomination, will be 83 years old.
AUDITOR DEVLIN'S DENIAL.:
COLUMN there is published card
Devlin .who is a more or less avowed
the Republican nomination for mayor.
He enters a strong denial to a statement that he was a
party .to the policy of the present administration in its
method of raising revenues through the licensing of pub
lie gambling." He is entitled to the benefit of the denial;
the discussiotv'of the point involved, as well as others,
will be much more timely when the result of the Repub
lican primaries is known and to that time The Journal is
willing to adjourn it In one respect, we think, Mr.
Devlin has. perhaps come to a too hasty conclusion and
that is that favor or retaliation is meted out to public of
ficials to the degree to which they square their conduct to
the views -of the reporters. So far as other papers are
concerned they may follow the line of policy that suits
them, but the assertion is not justified with reference to
local affairs the politics of a public of
more figure than the color of his hair.
his duty he has had this paper's good
failed to express it even in the midst
of poTirteal" fimpalgns. Auditor Devlin himself has
oftentimes and in various directions been the beneficiary
of this feeling of good will which has been based not
upon any reporter's -individual Reeling but on what was
believed by the paper itself to be a rational conception
of the obligations imposed by the public service. We
confess to some surprise that the auditor should be led
cltlsen who were ' present on that oc
casion or who read th extended notice
given the address In the public press
will -question my views aa to th proper
sources or municipal revenue.
lisbed in September, lsos, when the fin
Ing of gambling was a source Of public
revenue, I again referred to this aubject
and endeavored to show that a clean.
honest and economical government sup
ported by revenue derived by approved
and standard methods of taxation, pays
best both in dnoney and in morals.
What I havs cause to regret Is that
the Injudicious eapendltur public
money ahould make it necessary to re
sort to any questlonabl methods of tax
ation.
In these days of strenuous Journalism
a man la public office cannot hope to
maintain a reputation based upon lndl
vidua! standards of "right living and
opinions - relative to public policies;
these are mad and prom u Is: ted by a
class of reporters who maks their so
res to the public through the papers
they represent as means of favor or
retalliatlon to accord with their own
views. Tour very truly, .
. THOS. C DEVLIN,
A Temperas lecture la rigor.
From th Lincoln CNeb.) Journal.-
On distillery company In Kentucky
turns out every seven days 1.200 barrels
of sweet.' mash whisky. Ths output
for a ye would be 02,400 barrels. Th
cost of all this to1 the manufacturers
may be fairly estimated at 1374.400 and
they receive from th wholesaler a
profit of from li to 2 peV barret The
government comes in for a nice little
rakeoff. but tha fellow who has to pay
It all. including transportation charges,
government and local license fees, sal
ary of barkeepa and rent of buildings. Is
the man before the bar, and for these
12.400 barrels of- boose he lets go of
I24.7"l. and then goe horn and
beats hui wlf.. bscauss i supper Isn't
ready..;; , " . ,.'
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Pago.
Small Change
The aaloon Jiceaaca pufbt to t raised.
It euaht to be the painters' busy
time. ,, ; . . .
Portland la moving in the right di
rection. . - ' '" ' , r''
Try to eat more meaL
Tha beef trust
la hard up. .
"Did you cet that rebate? v It not bo
ready by April I. v
IV. , ,
Thera ax Rooacvelt Democrata and
Bryan Republicans. , " ;
A food many voter really d
in't
know
what their polltlea is. , ; ,
: The trade in spadea and garden rakea
ahould be looklna up. . , ; . '
' BtUI. tha Independent man will have to
be a good on to -win, , .
It Is feared that tha beef trust may
be broke before Lent la over, .
Senator fieveridae'a book, "Tha Rua-
ataa 'Advance,' la already ancient bla-
tory."' , , j
The Denver ' Republican . wanta to
know what tha acnate Is tor. Aak the
trusts. ..
Have you rot word about your heir
ship to a part of an immense KnglUh
tat yetr
Announce your polltlea It you have
any to Clerk Fields, bo aa to vote at th
primary election. ; . ; ' , '
"There ' Is slight if any danger that
Mount Hood will not show-up whit-a
usual this -summer. r
Life in. th open air In MaWburla la
not conducive to the long life of Russian
and Japanea soldiers. ?
Sine Russia has paid that IJI5.000
to Oreat Britain, probably Rojealvensky
doesn't cas to go near home. -
Now th Missouri v lcrtalsture may
elect a senator. . After yesterday tha
pay -of members dropped from tS to 11
a day. , . . : .
: That terrible panther turned put to be
a" half-lamed coyote. It often happens
no; on could moralise at length on this
Incident .- ,
public men are broader than form
erly," says Dr. HI1U& H may have
Just seen Secretary Taf t, ; ' instead of
Secretary Hay. . .; ,
Th 'Russian troops at Tie Pass are
happy singing and yarning and enjoy
ing themselves the reports say,. They're
mighty glad they are alive. - .:
80. after all th flurry snd fuss, Mrs.
Stanford probably .died a natural death,
after all. So thinks Dr. Jordan, and his
Judgment ought to be as good, aa any-'
body' a. ' , 1 1
A -Belllngham ' girl triad to commit
suicide because her two ardent lovers
quarreled over her. Now that would
have been tha .main Joy of t living for
aoma glrla. -
In th time now at hand.' old men Ilk
Mayor Williams and Chief Hunt may -b
valuable for-counsel, but for actual ser
vice younger and more alert and activ
men are needed.
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Oregon Sidelights
Ion aaloon license raised from -1400
to 1700.,
Good roads work promising In Jack
son eounty. '
Irrigation in Lake eounty might give
It a population of 20,000. ,
People of Lake and Klamath counties
never saw th like In early - March
weather. . -
A Monument maa haa poisoned over
100 coyotes during ths winter. A big
eagle that feasted on them died of the
poison. -
The Monument Enterprise apologise
for having announced that a certain
boy wS born on a certain date, when
it should have been a week later.
Eugene officer tried to arrest 81
Jones, but he kept astride of a frisky
and friendly oayuse and eluded them.
Afterward they setd-tM-y dldntwaat
him much, .anyway.
A telephone tin Is o be constructed
from Lakeview to A del. and 'thence to
Plush, which will put the Warner val
ley section In quick communication
with the rest of th world. v
- A marked impetus' Is noted In th
noultry-raialng Industry In this section
this year, say ths Ashlsnd Tidings, and
th chicken and egg output promises to
be really augmented In ltO. , -
' The Tillamook Headlight move tils
no on b allowed to occupy th aide-
walks in th business portion of the
city with chairs snd seats, to th In
convenience of pedestrians and annoy
ance of ladles who hav to walk over a
lot of tobacco-juice.
It I not often that the hum of th
thresher Is heard kt this sesson of the
year, but such Is the case In the Pilot
Rock neighborhood st present - Sheep
men have no use for their grain hay, and
th high price of wheat has induced
many of them to tbrssh their hays
- Ik la reported that- Cooe bay farmers
are out In their orchsrds with Ion; poles
knocking off the apples .left over from
last year., to alv the. buds on th trees
a chanc to com out They have to do
the -same thing over at Yonealla, some
of th apples still being good eating.
Lakeview Herald: We hav 300.000
acre of arid land, worthless In its pres
ent stat. W roust see thst It Is lr
r I gated. - This is the only basis ef
growth for Lakeview. The water Is 1n
our streams to be stored; the govern
ment has the money, held In trust for
us, to do the work. The money is ours,
if we make known that we hav prac
ticable plans upon which It may b ex
pended. . - . - ;
Albany Democrat: A farmer received
a choice 110-pound blooded animal by
express. In taking him from the. ex
press wsgon th box dropped and th
animal got out of a hole mad. v Th
farmrr jumped on top of him. but he
tipped him off and he fled under a car.
A desperate chase was In progress when
Hev. Mr. Wright of tha Methodist Epis
copal Church South, a former Arlsona
cowboy, wss given a rope, snd with a
slight twist of th wrist and a flop of
the arras th hog was In a noos and
sal.
:.'
ome Jcvus in
Disguise
By Ell Wheeler Wilcox. V J '
(Canjrrlsht, 11101, ' by the i Amerlcaa-Joana!-'.
CiaatDrr.) .
It 1 Ira curious ,thlng to not how . a
neemlngly Intelligent woman can per
vert th meaning of a simple phrase
and distort It to something which is
utterly t variance with its original pur
pose. That Js preclcely what the translators
ot tha Bible did In counties Instances,
howwer. so we need not say th liberty
Is entirely feminine. A wife of a man
who seems to be a good a husband a
th avferage, snd the mother of three
children, has read some when that we
hould follow the light of our own souls;
then she has been receiving- lessons in
"spiritual development' from some sort
of ."apostle." and the result is that she
haa decided she is not "spiritually mar-
rkd" to her husband, and- refuses - to
live aa his wife.
There is discord and unhapblneaa now
In the household, but the woman thinks
she, feels "a growing spiritual power."
She Is studying "telepathy," a meatless
diet, and seeking an understanding of her
tself; and she wants help to pursue her
airncuit patn.
What this woman needa la a little
very-day common sense and practical
religion. The religion which will enable
her to do th duty which Ilea nearest.
the duty to her family th highest duty
of this life.
The spiritual teacher who tell a woman
that she must neglect husband and chil
dren and turns harmony to discord In her
home- In order to develop her "higher
self Is 4 devil In disguise, not an apostle
from God; and the woman who listens
Is a fool, and on th road to becoming a
criminal, for It is a. crime to destroy a
bom. - f " . '." -
This woman says she tries to tell her
husband and relatives what a "spiritual
union between man and woman" Is. and
that sb does not seem able to make them
understand. ' She .wants assttance.
Th cas under discussion Is not a sol
tary Instance. Th land is full of o
called teachers of all- sorts s of science
today who disturb domestic relations by
working on the minds ' of hysterical
women without benefiting spiritual condi
tions.
A'Complet anion between a hueband
and wife means a spiritual, mental- and
physical- mating. Few such marriages
exist because, aa a rule, men nd women
are attracted upon th physical plan
alone, and And out too late that on
or both of the other elements are lack
ing in th anion. ' - 1 .
Sometimes" the- physical mating la n
complete, and that causes discord; but
When two people hav promised to live
together until death part,- and wnen
ther hav brought children Into the
world, ther la no higher religious duty
for them on ' earth than to try with
heart, mind and soul to make life peace
ful and nanny for - each other and to
make a cheerful, loving home for their
children
That la what developing one a higher
self means. To live for others la the
first steft toward such development De
velopment cornea through renunciation
of self. The .wlf who resolve to
th very best qualities In her husband.
and th husband who keeps a similar
resolve and Ignore and eondonea small
faults and' mistakes, and keeps love up
permost In the heart under all circum
stances those are the men and women
who need not worry about the laws gov
ernlng "telepathy" and "soul develop-
mnt.
Lov expressed. In act or word, and
duty cheerfully performed are th great
eat ot all soul-developer. It Is aa un
doubted fact that men Mia ve too- long
been taught to Ignore self-control and
unselfishness In marriage, and to dis
regard spiritual -and mental phases.
They have been reared by mothers who
gave them . no . understanding or tns
physical, mental and moral creature
which la Interwoven In the. composition
of a good . woman the type of woman
man wants for a wife: they have -been
allowed to gain their Ideas ot . woman
through Imagination or vice, and so they
enter the marriage relation poorly pre
pared to make a sensitive, romantic,
child-bearing woman happy,
Tet that doe not justify' soma half
developed or over-developed 1 religious
crank In working upon the minds of
nervous women and convincing them
that ths normal relations of man and
wife are opposed to spiritual develop
ment 'or that religion must necessitate
celibacy.. ,i,
Since the creator' respected the
latlon of the sexes sufficiently to Intro
duce It Into every ' kingdom, from the
lowest to the highest It Is presumptuous
for any spiritual teacher to declare It
vile. Every phase of natural lov be
tween man and woman, when sanctined
byIawand- order. Is beauti
nd holy,
Instead of straining after telepathic
communication .'with , souls at a die
tanee this woman and all like her might
better try and seek th communication
of loving hearts nearby, and Instead of
wondering whst exists on other plsnes
endeavor to mak this little earth a happy
soot for those nearest her.
While we ar In th body let ua live
the .best and most normal and natural
life possible. When we drop th body will
be th time to Ignor it
? . xoxnrs BTm.nr bbucx. '
(Baraboo Correspondence Minneapolis
Journsl.)'
In many respects Astalan. In W4scon
sin. is among the most remarkable pre
historic monuments In th northwest It
Is the only brick-walled townslte found
in this country. It is on the bottom
lsnd of the Crayfish river, about two
mile from Lake Mills. The enclosing
walls of ths townslte are about 100 feet
on its flanks and 1.500 feet long. The
river served to Vromplote the enclosure
of 17 acres of lsnd.
Within and without the ' enclosure
there are' round,-truncated and : oblong
mounds. Just beyond the enclosing
wall .the land rises abruptly over 10
fset to the rolling tablelands of the sur
rounding eountry. From the bsnk sbove
a stone could be tossed Into the town
site, within th enclosure, which would
seem to be a good reason why this en
closure, which hss been caned a ion,
could not have been Intended for a de
fense against any human enemy.
Along the brow -of the higher land
Is a row of mors than 3 round pyra
midal jnounds ranging from three-to 12
feet In height. From the top of these
mounds, or, standing on' th tableland,
an enemy could command the whole
townslte. It hss always been conceded
that Astalan was not onclosed for pur
pose of defense. -It has been supposed
thst It wss walled for protection from
wild animals, though fhe enclosure hss
never been high or abrupt enough since
Its dlscovsry to keep out the panther,
wildcat, wolf. -bear, moos or. buffalo,
which were the only dangerous animal
of th wood hereabouts.
The purpose of Its Inbsbltanta In con
structing this enclosure over a half mite
long still remslns a mystery. The most
remarkableart Of Astalan Is Its brick
walla and walks, III this It i$ singular
THURSDAY,
and alone, the only example of bricklay
ing among all th miumnis ot
mound builders. These bricks, or brick
leu. are not rectangular and regular In
form and alas, aa ar th modern brick.
They ar simply balls of plastlo clay
welded hv tha hand into small brtckleta
of irregular form about th average else
of a snowball." The material used wss
th glacial yellowish red clay or ine
vicinity, and tbe color of th bricks Is
red or light yellow. Under tb glass.
scrapings 'appear Ilk a hanarui 01
crystal sand. .
There will take place tomorrow In
Purls, .quietly and unblaaoned abroad, a
meeting which should have interest and
will almost certainly have an - Impor
tance : aa ' widespread aa the . French-
speaking world. It Is th meeting of
the commltte ' appointed by the acad
emy to consider the report of th French
government commission On . the reform
of th French language.- . .. v';
It 1 slot too -much to say that this
document which has not, yet- been pub
lished, will concern all who speak
French, for It may lead to many changes
in French grammar and spelling. Th
report, which th committee ot tn
French academy has been considering
for "criticism and modification," will
probably be found to be of great Impor
tance: in any case, it la another step
In. the1 work th Frenrh government has
undertaken or reforming the language.
It Is rather amusing to see thst the
academy has st last had to acknowl
edge th xistnc of another king in
Brentford. ' For two centuries and a
half it allowed no dissent from Its meg
isterla) pronouncements on philological
questions or, at . least when it wss
overborne- by the rush of genius, from
Mollere to Victor Hugo, It took ear to
mak th Innovator properly conscious
of tbelr sin in wishing to move raster
than th forty immortala.
""Sfahy wrltershave " regretted, with
Matthew Arnold, that we hav no such
Institution in this country to keep our
language pure; other have maintained,
with perhaps greater reason, that it Is
to the. lack of any academic dam that
our lan sua sa ewes Its wonderful rich
nesa and variety. Perhaps the- truth Is
that' the Anglo-Saxon genius doer not
take kindly to academlo restraints, but
prefers to "try all things and hold fast
to that which Is good." Th Latin races.
on .the other hand, flourish under highly
centralised system.
Tha French academy, however, has
been forced to yield to the democratic
spirit, which has been steadily-gaining
around In France of late years." lta e.
atlnate endeavor to "stand on the an
cient ways" and 'retain even th Imper
fections of the French tongue, simply
because they sr tlme-bonored, haa re
ceived a nasty Jar from the government
which has quietly utilised us complete
control of publlo education In order to
get It own way. -
A long ago as issi in rrencn minis.
ter of education issued a circular to his
insnectors and examiners, in wnicn ne
charged them not to lay undue stress
ueon minor misuses in spelling, or to
delight In tripping up students as ex
aminer are too apt or tneir nature to
do with the out-of-the-way forms.. Ir
regular verb, odd plural, anomalous
gender, and; tn short wnat tb circular
described aa ' "chlnoiserles - ortbogrs
phlques." In which the French is richer
than moat modern language, in isvv
a further circular on tn bum lines
brushed aside a number, ot th minute
difficulties due to the unsclentltle gram
marlans of the llth century. Kinsiiy
the famous decree of February 16, 11
made a sweeping reform In ths more
complicated parte 01 Franca syntax.
Among them ohe may note, however,
thst th whol chspter of .past par
ticiple was suppressed, and tbe Im
perfect subjunctive practically done
awav . with. Every schoolboy knows
what a lot of trouble, was tnus savea.
The hero of Lebtcbes witty little play.
"tv Grammalre, voiced tbe opinion ot
most student when he observed that
"one never knew where to have these
tkaetirinlaa sometimes they, agree,
sometimes they don't what unpleasant
rhanrlan!- And we have not always
his resource of making a good-slsed blot
when he came to a thorny wore, ine
seentlonat senders and plural which
vex th soul ot th schoolboy wer also
suppressed good deed which the com
mission has now rounded off by an
nntinrlns thai In-future the-plural la
always made with an "a" and never with
an "x." . - - M '
Unfortunately, th academy had not
ku. mnaulted. and.lt was up in arms
at one. Ther waa no end to the jere
miads which were heardabout the ruin
that . waa impending over tbe sacred
tnnrue of Bolleau and Racine If mr
rmtslrters- pnlltlotan at thst werajtO
k.. .unwed to worn tneir wicara win.
T,Hiie nnlnlon was divided on th sub
ject. Th minister of education. howJ
ever, found his hand atrengineneo oy
the -fact that the spirit of his circular
wss vrywhr received with npprovaL
The commission, whose report hss been
considered by th academy, was finally
appointed to arrange a compromise, and
we shall see. tomorrow whether Its rs
t twMtn accented by the academy
with onlv th Inevitable amount of
grumbling.
JAWAJTBn OOaTTBACT 1VASDB.
From the Ssn Francisco Chronicle.
' ' If a person desires to employ a Japan
se, or a thousand of them, he doe
not make contracts with the individual
men. but with a Japanese contractor.
This Is no new thing In California, for
our people . were long, accustomed to
make such contracts with Chines
bosses. Ther ia one difference, hew
eyer. When - the contract was. made
with the Chinese boss the employer
knew thst the work would be don pre
cisely a specified In tha contract which
was usually in writing. Whan w mak
a similar contract with a Japanese boss
w do not know whether the work will
be done or not If tnimn can ao Bet
ter elsewhere It must be expected that
the -contract will be repudiated and i
strike occur, so timed as to mska c
eeptanc of th revised terms unavoid
able except at great loss.
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' Fat Ttosb the KaddealaeT Crew.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
For six long weeks this coming spring
ths president Is to occupy a lodge In
; v Reform of
Frenck Language
some vastA wilderness of the Colorado
Rockies, where, in the seclusion which
a canyon grants, he can "loaf and In
vite, his soul" between hunting trips,
forgst th cares of ststs, and subsist
frugally, If bountifully, on bean and
bacon. The president will employ hi
leisure In th usual strenuous fashion.
It I hi Wsy. and on the whol a good
way, but Involve no llttl personal
risk, which might "conceivably hav -rloua
consequences. It msy be tsken
for granted that the president Will en
joy every moment of It and It is equally
plain that his absence will cause more
public anxiety than would be the cas
wer he accustomed to Spend his vscs
tlon after ths less strenuous fashion of
former president. .'. . ' ,'
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- MARCH , 16, 1903.
' V From the New York Bun. . ?
Perhaps th best known thing about
Tibet Is the usage that prevails through
out the country for a weman to marry
all her husband's brothers ss well
himself. Our author doe not attempt
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iLsrv-LruUUi .nuifi-tides' """ " ""it
, Polyandry in
A ctual Practic c j
to explain how th Tibetan type of poly 4 t '
anury -aruea, oua ne pvim out mat
population of tb country, whether a a
result of this custom alone or not Is
steadily decreasing. A large proportion
of th women hav to be consigned to
nunneries. It seemed to blat however,
that th plan worked well enough so far
aa the polyandroua family waa con
cerned, -.jrhe wives may expeot very lit
tle, but the fact remains that the many
husbanded ladles' appeared to be able to
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maintain a sumcienuy comrortsDie noroe
for their changing housemate. .... Tb
comparative infrequency of friction ia'
attributed to the fact that more than
on husband Is seldom In tb house-at a
time. If ther ar three sons in a' .fam
ily for instance, the third will become
a lama or monk,' th eldest will remain
chiefly at boms, and th second pen will
tend th flocks on the graslng grounds,
or carry their wool to the nearest mar
ket The two lay brothers,' therefore.
seldom meet and tha polyandroua wife
apparently , chooses which of the, two
she would- rather look after for th mo
ment " .'"".- ....
One notlceablo -outcome of the custom
Is that th woman have developed a dis
tinctly stronger character than -th man.
No layman nr. Jay woman, of course, ha
sny opportunity to exercise publlo Is-
riuence; that la reserved exclusively for
the lama,-. In the realm of commerce,
however, the women are usually ' su
preme. Such, at- all events, was Mr.
London's experience, both at Oyantse
and at Lhasa, It was th woman who
managed, th family trading, and If tlx
man -took-any part In it it waa only tt
help carry the goods bark-ward -and-f or
ward between the baser and th town.
Our author ha sometimes known a wo
man refer to her huaband before sh
would aelL anu n ususJQy-good-iurq
studded charm box or other jewel.- but
aa a rule she would dispose o ths house
hold possessions without consulting any
body. To any one who know Indie,
this Independence ef attitude on th part
or th Tibetan wlf exemplifies th vt
social difference -marked by the barrier
of the Himalayas. We are told that
aoma of th .Tibetan women ' belonging
to th lower classes ar not bad looking,
though beneath the dirt allowed to ac
cumulate for-years, it Is Impossible to
do more than guea at their complexion.
A lady belonging to an arlstocratlo
Lhssan family la described a "extreme-'
ly handsome." ...,:
March It Th weather Is cloudy, th
wind from th southeast. A Mr. U arrow,
a Frenchman who haa resided long
time among th Rlcaras and Mandana.
explained to us the' mod In which they '
max tneir largo beads, an art which
they are said to hav derived from som
prisoners of the Bnske Indian nation,
and the knowledge ef which la aieacret
even -etow confined to a few among th
Mandana and Rlcaras. The woosss is
fellows: Qlasa of different colors Is
first pounded line and washed tlM each
kind. 'Which, Is kept separate, cease to
stain the water thrown over-It: some
well-seasoned clay, mixed with a .suf
ficient quantity of sand to prevent Its
becoming very hard . when exposed to
heat and reduced by water to the con
sistency of dough. Is then rolled on the '
palm of the hand till It become of th
thickness wanted for the hole In the
bead: these sticks of clay ar placed up
right, each on. a llttl pedestal or ball
of the same material about an ounce In
weight and distributed aver a small
earthen plater, which i laid on the -fir
for a few minute, when they are taken ' .
off to cool; with a tittle paddle or shovel,
three or four Inches long and sharpened
at the end ef the handle, the wet pound
ed glass Is placed In the palm of the
hand; the beads are made of an oblong
form wrapped In a cylindrical .'form .
round th stick of clay, which Is Isld '
crosswise ever It, and gently rolled back
ward and forward till it become '.per
fectly smooth. If It be desired to In-
troduc any other color, tha surface
of the bead la perforated with the pointed
end of the paddle and the cavity filled
with pounded glass of thst color; th
sticks with ths string of beads are then
replaced on their pedestala, and the plat- ;
ter deposited on- burning coals or hot (
embers: ever the plstter an earthen pot
containing aboat three gallons," with a.
mouth large enough to cover the plat
ter, is reversed, being completely closed
exerpfn Small aperture at the tepi
through which are watched the bends; a
quantity of old, dried wood formed Into
a sort of dough or paste la placed around ,
the pot so as almost 'to cover It. snd
afterward set on the fire: the' manu
facturer then looks through the small ,
hols In the pot till he sees the beads
assume a deep red color, to whirh suc
ceed a paler or whitish fed, or they
become pointed at tt upper .extremity, .
on which th fir I removed . and ' the
pot suffered to cool gradually: at length -it
Is removed, the besds taken out, the,
clsy In the hollow of them picked outV
with an awl or needle, and It is then fit.
for use. Ths beads tbua formed are' In
great demand among ths Indians and
used as pendants to their ears snd hslr,
and are sometimes worn round the heck.
asyics to rsssnosTa.,
'-'From' the Boston Traveler,
Don't talk about your hard luck,
. Refuse to recognize. , It " Refuse , lr)
believe In it Scorn to whine-about -H-
Qet th whine out of your voice, or it
will stop the development and growth
of - your, body. It will narrow and.
shrink your mind. It-will drlv awsy
your friends; It wilt make yott-unpopu
Isr. Quit your whining: brace up; go
to work; be something; stand for some
thing; fill your plaoe In the universe. .
Instead' of whining around,; exciting ,
only pity and eontempt face, about and
mak something of yourself. Reach up
to th suture of a strong, ennobling
womanhood, to the btfauty and strength
of a superb womanhood. There Is
nothing the matter with you. . Just quit
your whining and go to work. V' -
If you continually talk about your bad -luck
and moan about your Ill-fortune,
you create for youraetf an atmosphere
of misfortune which .will certainly over- .
whelm you unless yoa stop In time.
The man or woman who persistently .
fears that such and such a thing fa pot
going to turn out well la enlisting pow- '
erful forces against his success.
Logleal aUaeoaiag.
From th Chlcsgo Tribune. 1 '.
- Th law Imposing, a tax on bachelor
had gone Into effect.
. On morning a lfttle bald-headed man
appeared before the tax commissioners.
. "I've Just married my fourth wife."
be said,
ain't ir
"Cm cntiUod te a bounty,
Lewis and Clark 1
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