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1 SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1803. '
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THE; OREGON DAILY . JO.UJR.NAL
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Published every evening ' ( excepi "Sunday and every 8indy mornlnf at The Journal ; Building, Fifth god.' Yamhill
, iirmi, roruano, urcgon, . ... r.
A QUES11UN WHICk THEY HAVE ANSWERED.
.i-TN A-WODEST fcttlr-pai-tg faprr-rmcernih-r "the pre's
, V l"ent campaign thcprrgonian arise to assert and
' inquire: "A Democrat is running as a Democrat
- against avRepublican. "Why should any. Republican Vote
for a Denidcrat to bemay'orof Portland?" ' '' ' .. ' .''
T't--'m""te'OriBin,a standpoint this is all there is
17, ' to the campaign. " Ignore the alleged politics of jt and
Ijletha-carnpaiKn-Test-ijpon. the" proposition6f "good gov
;.. ernmenr, where it Jelongs, and the decision has been
. 'rendered long before the verdict is teCorded.- The best
. authorty we know in this campaign to answer the "why
u .3. should any Republican vote for a Democrat to be mayor
; f Portland?" is Mayor-Williams himself. !ln' the city
t campaign of 1896 D. Solis Cohen was the regular Re-
publican nominee for mayor. Judge Williams :was the
--Txnost' prominent -mail '-h'o -bolted the nomination and
set up General Beebe as an independent candidate. In
his principal speech in support of General Heebe this is
' 7 what Judge Williams said in response to precisely the
lame question which was t h en 'propound e 4 : " T
I expect you all know: that I am a 'Repvblicati; I
respect the principles and policies of 'my party, but my
obligations to honesty,rlecenc.y and Iruth'areThigher than
V my obligation to party. This is a good year for
Unbolting and we are all bolters together and we are all
or most of us who are TJofTlirided orionnd by oar. party
'- obligations are trying to rise above' those rules and
regulations which the party bosses impose upon us and
- "do that which is good for the whole . country:
' Why don't we throw off these party ties and obligations?
"--TKey-amount to nothing- this jear. nobody ispaying any
' , attention to them.; Wlto cares for. the candidate because
he is the regular nominee; who cares for the candidate
'. because he is -said to be a Republican or a Democrat,
so far as the city officers are concerned? There is noth-"""-
ing . involved In the" city government but an honest ad
ministration, an honest disbursement of public
theadministratton of a jnan who. is free from
demflation of any party, ring, clique or faction;-
i leave it to you to say "when you go, to th
whether ortiQt yotf will stand by the reputation and best
": interests, the prosperity and goodriame of the city, or
-J!whetheT'youjllstan(rtyHl6me"than that you despise
money,
tfre Vn-
e poll
"ihcTo'lslike because, he is your party nominee.1
r 1 These words fit the- conditions . todays even -more
r closclyjhanjhey, d44,wheneyere4UtereqV-The Ore
gonian, the day after last yearVdectton.-emphastied
J the fact, that I machine nomination" was 74 positive dis-
advantage to- a -candidate- -" - -. .
-. Auditor 'Devlin in his book. "Municipal Reform in the
Jt-Unite'd States,' says: '-'Surely the-alltance-ofthe "busi
ness of 'cities with national "politicsind itscontrol by
s" the party machine, is a serious evil. It opens the way
for every form Of dishonesty and mismanagement which
'avarice' and ambition can suggest With such methods
'there can be nq good government in cities."."" "'.'.
Thus speaks the good citizen who" it .also a practical
politician.: -What higher authorities -could be quoted to
. show the patriotic citizen the right,, decent and self-in-77
terested way - in the campaign 'which, closes '"with the
' voting next Monday? , !l j, ' '
CAUSE ANT? ttgiramy
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tion, from reservoirs of stored water or artesian wells,
even theidesert-can beHSMe-4Wsoms-iliCIQ!fc
. All. this vast western portidn of' the continent needs
and call's for-imrtCmVnl-and women and children later;
It does-tiot invite. the tramp,. the'Joaf er, the idler, the
swindler nor the gambler; it will treat these with scant
courtesy, but it calls for men with capital, men of Small
means, enough to make, a start, men of energy and
strength, even if they have little or no money, honest,
decenUindusUious, home-buildingr'tate-developing men
-and wpme.r-.;-".,H-i-;'i'...r....r--ir ' :
"TJie west heeds such people, and a great number xf
such" people need thfjwest -In it there are-more and
better opportunities- for; them An litithcy would be
larger,-freer, healthier, Jiappier men - and women. , In
it their children would have a'better chance to make a
good start in life.. , , '
The west calls to such men and women. Many of
them, learning - something of this ' glorious . west, arc
yearning. for it.. Come on, come out, and .grow up with
this growing-region, the best' and to be the greatest
portion of our great country. ' '.
ELECTRICITY IN LOCAL TRAFFIC.
TTCH HAS B EEN 5AIDlu3mtLtn
about trie experimental or acnnmvc uuuu
iv the railroads of the country of electricity
as their principal motive power, at least, for suburban
and local traffic, and for runs over a route without
heavy- grades, The aubjeet is being .stndied and such
a change is at least tentatively contemplated by various
railroad presidents and managers.' President Baer said
the other day that the . Reading system had the sub
stitution of electricity for steam ; for suburbantraf fie
under Serious consideration, which, he pointed out, would
mean' more trains and better service.
A recent'issue of the Railroad Gazette " contained
quite an elaborate study of - the question of electric
railway competrtionrirr-which it tatedrihat rinTBTTast
two or threeyearsjjheincreast Jnelectric mileage,
particularly that of long-distance interurban lines, has
been very greatjand:ihaL it has become so jorrhidable
that "it has made serious inroads into short-haul pas
senger traffic on parallel steam roads." That publica-ti0JLthinkshat-wheTt:prospercHis-ommunHire7Sita
ted within a radius of from 10 to 45 miles of each other
it is practically impossible for steam to compete: with
lecUicity.aAanigtLvjO prhicipal advantage
oLelectricityUs-presieiJnne-wbrdecondm
triclty makes it possible, to. nioye, traffic Jn small ,units
economicallyr An electric road can runj.5 iarv hourly
at a cost "no greater thati that" to the steam road of
running three five-car trains -aday.2 The cost of. fuel
U " eliminated. AndDassehgers will all prefer the line
that'not only accommodates them most frequently but
iiJree.from moke,-aoot-and cinders. ."'Jt'-
,There appears to be no good reason to limit the dis
tance of" profitable "electric " railroad operation "to .45
miles." Several such roads of greater length than this
are in operation, and. at least two run over 100 mites
each,- one - of them from Indianapolis; to" Lima being
183 miles in length. Indeed, by : connecting : links a
system of electric roads that at first were purely local
may extend through maiiy . hundreds of miles and across
one state after another, 'Why not?- . , . .7' ""'
wiin.li is coming Uie
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-SMALL CHANGE
Don't f offer" to waac a, roa.
"Tha Trail ia Jl great plscii 't hit
Lt uvlnTf"fnY rirn'i" "-l
The tenura of the, straw hat ia inaa
cura as yat.,- .
rTsriT"ara6vTlfiat'"wiir carry peaca
to tha esar.. '. '-'
Rojeitvanaky -knocked out. while
trying to steal a, base. : - ' r
Picnicker should take urhbreUaa; we
ha.v. a lotof rain dua yet. v
The Salem Statesman auccaats initi
ating tha recall on the-referendum.
Keep poll t Ice out of tha exposition,
and- tha ezpoiltion out of politics. V
'- Philadelphia faeta mo happy 1t ia talk
ina of celebrating tha fourth of July. '
It will take good many vialta to
the fair to aee it all ae one ought to.
"Every." year' tha -girl 'graduatea ar
juat aa lovely aa they aver were before.
' Tha cxar ia to call an assembly. What
wilt that assembly do to or with, the
c-sar - . "
.This is also' a great day for Oregon-
the ' portage road will . be - formally
im$ Iojened,l : , , -'.
- Behind the Republican party mask la
tha Liquor Dealera' . association, that
seeka to run Portland.
In. tha matter of a navy it take a
good many years to duplicate jwbat may
ba destroyed in a day. I J.
... The .value of those-ships .will not
count as an offset in tha amount of In
demnity Japan wfil claim.
- Beara are very troublesome In old
New Hampshire. - The president may
think ha ought to take a trip to New
Enflandthls summer. . - :
Chicago Record-Herald: Tha liberty
bell is not to ba taken out to tha Port
land fafr. 'Tie well. They need it every
minute right in Philadelphia.
People in famino-atrleken districts of
Spain are demanding bread Or work. In
this country tha- people that- demand
bread will take no aubstltute jn -the
shape of work." .
Voters are asked to -blink everything
but party wfrtahey floinlnatlon. Tanner
creek sewer, contractorlal graftltla
erythlng but party, partjr, party! But
nroat of them won't. .-..i-
I. Portlandand Oregon r grestly
obliged to President Roosevelt, and
Vice-President Fairbanks, and Repre-.
senatlve Tawney and th rest, and wish
they could have th pleasure of staying
tn uregon longer. -
The Republican newspapers persist in
misrepresenting Mr. Bryan in every
way. Not long ago he bought a Jersey
mala "calf for 150, and all tha Repub
lican papera In the country accused him
of buying a 1500 heifer . adding a
cipher tor the,' amount and changing the
aez of th animal. - But he haa nailed
th lie tn'th Commoner. '- ' "
Willamette valley is an ideal region for the construe-
HERE'S more Villiams talk than there was, but
V the rmon of it is not far to seek nor hard to
find.--The Linuor Dealers' association has opened
. its money sack and the 8ubsTdiiedbarket-rKLgpielers
r are beginning to get active. They have been quiescent
pending this interesting event, which had not only been
expected, but was-soletrmly-promised.-With the liquor
men politics is simply 'and' solely a matter of business;
to them it is an investment upon which they expect
an adequate return. Hence it is that the political heelers
- and hangers-on loolf forward hopefully, to a campaign
in which j such . issues are involved,., for It means that
they will come into convivial contact with some of the
boodle that is afloat ... 7-
The happy period has now arrived in this" campaign
and the spielers are industriously at work. They are
striving the best they know how to..earn their stipend,
but this is one of the years when .what they say will
have less effect than ever before. This campaign has
not been jvaged Jorthe pasUQ ...days-Jt. Jiasbeen- going
on Tor the past three years. It is not a contest between
. political parties, for there is no issue between theJJemo
7 cratic" party as "such- and the Republican party as such,
but solely between vicious government and good 'gov
: emment Everything that has cropped to the surface
in the past10 days as so-called campaign material has I
benoreTTess thorougTiTy known"JothejpleI
iimutliS- befoft .the." campaign opened! : It forced itself
forth not as a matter of politics, bht as a matter of public
information. Much of it was drawn forth as the result
of grind jury investigations; . quite a good deal of it
came out as the result of public trials ending in con
victions. ," ' i. '
Indeed the administration has been on trial for the
past two or three years. It has been on trial hot only
because of its own promises both before and after elec
s tion. but because of the record which it has made in the
intervening time. It is-by-that record it is being tried,
and it is upon that record it must stand.
tion and operation of interurban electric lines, all the
way from Portland to the head of the valley, and on
both sides of the river. As has been remarked before
in these columns, the building of such roads and the
nf4u-fOBuldiQ.nare mutually both cause and ef
fect. . The roads if built wilf attract people; the ad"dTi"
tional people will demand and in time force the building
of such roads. ,-
It is to be expected that the big steam railway sys
tems will endeavor to -acquire these electric lines, and
in some cases will build enough of them. to head off in
dependent enterprises, but in one way or another, elec
tricity is almost certain to become the motive power
of the future for a very large proportion of suburban
and interurban traffic. '
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A TRINITY OF GREAT STATES.
THE CALL OF THE GREATLWEST.
THE WEST and the s"outhwest the great and
splendid Pacific slope, alljhe way from. British
Columbia to the northern states of Mexico in-
elusive, anl all the great southwest including Texas,
Arkansasr-Idian Territorjrand" Arizona call for men
and women. These vast regions are as yet but sparsely
populated.7 Their natural resources are sufficient to sup
port many times their present inhabitants.' A great
part of their vast aggregate area is capable ef sustaining
a' larger population per square mile than, throngs the
Atlantic coast states. , There are mountains and deserts,
it is true, but there' i enough profitably habitable land
left to make homes for tens of millions ancTthe moun--tsins
are sources 1 of great wealth and. scenes- of great
l Industrie", -and in" many-Considerable areas-with irriga-
s
PEAKING for the state of Washington, Oregon's
daughter that. Jiasoutgrown the-mother,- State
Senator Piles said:
"A trinity of great states, California, Oregon and
Washington, looks toward the orient. An ocean greater
than the Atlantic invites our ships, and yonder to our
seaward are Hawaii and the other islands of the Pacific
Japan is soon to become, if she is not already, a great
orld-powei HeT-pro-fre-s "T-atl-ifOOmr ntlhe
marvels-of Iheagc. China is awakening irom ner age
of slumber, "andln a comparatively short time railroads
will penetrate her vast interior and modernize her people,
. . . Although England. France and Germany and
other European nations are striving for the mastery of
the seas and looking with covetous eyes on the com
merce of the orient, that trade is ours if weare but
alive to our best interests. I here is only one way in
which we can lose it, and that is by allowing state lines
and States jealousies to become barriers against our com-r
mon advancement Let it be understood here that the
upbuilding of any industry or port on the Pacific coast
is to the benefit of all, and that the pulling down or
destruction of any is to the injury of all, and the child
of -today-wtlHive to see the commerce of"thc Pacific
surpass that Of the Atlantic and flow through the great
states of California, Oregon and -Washington,"
. AH this, or something to the same purport has been
said many times, though not often so felicitously, but it
ij worth republishing, and reiterating,and keeping in
mind while we work, and laboring for as we think of the
great 'things to be. The Pacific coast children of today
are born to a -.great heritage, and in the most favored
portion 'of the whole globe.' . '
Each port of the three principal ones on the'Pacific
coast counting all Puget sound cities as one may and
should strive to be foremost,' to have as 'large a share
in the coming development as possible; but this should
be done without any petty spite or jealousy, or anything
savoring of ( bitterness or enmity one towards another.
There -will be gairrand gloryenouglt for "all.
Diinr orooon xosvau.
Prom the Pendleton East Oregonlan.
The frontier tough Is doomed to pass
on and out of his position of power and
- In fluent tn municipal 4l ef th- Pa
cific coast " w..';rv-.' 7
, , Tha day diwn ' of a cleaner, more
wholesome Ufa I at hand. J!
Ti. 4ndng upright bsfor Ood and man,
,1 th hewer cltlsenshlp, th newer stand
' ard of Uf and morals la at every ante
, way kn-M-klng for admittance. Union
. emihtr. "Baker oounty. Morrow county
and laitly Vmatllla eounty have re
Juctantly admitted thl evangel of re-
' form.
heriffa tit n th surrounding coun
ties In eastern Oregon hare taken a
hint f th evnlng dawn of goM morals
and har aaid that thty would dare to
fac-th- old deroteea or vtta" ind TSrim
and drlv them under, cover. -
Cltlsena of Umatilla county, without
aid from officials, have mad th aam
demands, upon the brasen vlree In this
dtyjtlid County, and here the beginning
of a better era is at nana.
Business men and Institutions may be
jnatlgned, boycotted "and injured by th
departing devotees of vice and crime,
but the truer and hither eltUenshlp
will' rise and assert it manhood r
long and business will readjust .Itself
to the changed and better condition.
People nf scries and good morals who
have been lukewarm In Joining th
movement for- cleaner municipal Ufa
will wonder how. they could have 4.
ciined to. aasert their manhood long be
fore. 'I
. Th only weapon of the ylces la ts
fcbycott because they hav no argument
to stand upon, dome of those who stand
in tha- forefronij, of the crusade against
vlce-must'suffer at first, but er long
th people will com to their sense and
wonder how they ' eould have been
frightened at the threat of this coward
I y -cohort, as tt flings ft lant defiance
at Civilisation, before' passing into ob
livion and. utter dishonor, -
Let the friends of decency take the
blows. - Th world will understand and
appreciate their work, era long. Fling
bark to the departing forces pf evil that
hav atruek in th darkness and Ted:
"In the fell clutch of circumstance. ,
I have not winced nor cried aloud!
In all the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowsdl" j
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Oood brick clay' on Coos river.
slacaaaneed 1 mar ' eottagsar
Woodburn is proud of lta iron foun
dry. ' .
Pendleton la to bav
theatr. .
' Wasco county votes
Monday.-" -'''" "
an open-air
on prohibition
New M. E. Church South In tha Call-
poola region.
Home-raised nw potatoes plentiful
in Marahfleld.
Hubbard's-Importance jav A "trading'
polat la increasing. -
Hood River flouring mill grinding
night and day to flu orders.
' Berry and other cropa greater than
aver in Hood River valley.
wmllUn th Blue moun4lnr4
miles from Weston, employs SO men.
Only four to aeven pupils tn th Spray
school, yet a newspaper la published
there.
' Hopgrowera will pay for picking by
weight this year, SO pounds being a
legal box. '
. A Wheeler-county locality la named
Six Shooter. Everybody ia supposed to
carry one.
A Marahfleld man .while carrying an
at slipped and fell, and it cut th back
of his head open. .
Nervals Star: Th first new potatoea
of the aeason war brought in by Mrs.
Louis Sohafer. The Star waa . favored
beyond measure. ,
Many houses, business and residence,
aw contemplated in Woodburn. while
th city is Industriously engaged in lm
proving tha thoroughfares.
THMmook etty is defendant in a water
suit, and haa contracted to pay lawyer
$.100 to defend it, while another lawyer
offered to do ao ror nothing.
Pfeparatlona are being .made on
large aeale. for the spring roundup of
Horace on th Umatilla county ranges.
The Indiana will run in every horse on
this range and branding will flourish
for-a hort- ira.- i "';,.
- A Junction City bank changed a 10
bill for a hobo who had offered it in
payment for a pelr of shoe, and later
the cashier discovered that It was a
$1 bill raised to 120 by means of fig
ure from a tobacco stamp. , .
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LES
SON for TOMORROW
y M. St. Jenkins, X. B.
June j ,?--Tnrliri
4hs lluuuiier
Shn xx:ll-il.
Golden Text "But now hath Christ
beeo raised from the dead, the 'flr"t
f rulte .of them that a lepK" I Cor.
XV:20.- . .. ,
Responsive reading Psalms IS, 1.
. XateodneSloav
. Although the fourth gospel gives us
chiefly those incidents which do not ap
pear in the symrpt lets' accounta of our
Lords career. John dwells-upon th
resurrection with aa much fullness as
either of th other evangelists. In each
ax-count Mary.. Magdalen la. th promU
nent figure; and it waa with this tender,
InflexIble-frfefvaV that Jesus had th first
Interview after hla : resurrection (xv:
It, 15). Th great burden which lay
upon, the aouls-of these faithful, women
when) thus Suddenly all their passover
gladijess was turned to th shadow of j
death, was the doubt who should roll
away th door from the tomb where tha
body of Jesus had been laid (Mark xvl:
3. John .indicate their, anxiety by
noting that the first thing "which, struck
them . with astonishment waa that ' the
sepulcher waa already open. Th mas
sive rock with which it had been closed.
and which a woman'a arm could not re-
move, had been thrust aside. Matthew
tells us (ch. xxvlll:l-4) that "an angel"
bad. don this. Mark saya that when
the - woman looked Into th tomb, "a j
young man." ltlnff upn-iv-ilff M
of th ca've clothed in white, addressed
them and explained th absence of the
body (Mark xvl :6. ). Luke tellS u
that th spices which these. women
brought to plac within the tomb were
soms that they had themselves prepared
Luk-jihrtt)rLuke. also says that;
they saw "two men in dasaltng apparel"
(Luke xxlv:t). Each ' disciple "varies
slightly in his narrative ' and in detail
from the others, but not mor than in
telligent and truthful persons will do
In narrating some strange and exciting
event whose incident haa overwhelmed
them all with astonishment. What alt
wish us to understand ia that th resur
rection of J-eu nr hi own bodily form
fend true bodily appearance, waa not ex
pected by any of hla most intimate com-
panlona.. Instead of their. , "affectlottll
leading to some "hallucination, aa Re
nan says, th four writers are anxtoua to
lmpreaa upon ail readers that It wae at
first impossible for tha-women and the
twelve to bellev In the reality of th
vent". It required more than one ap
peararic of our Lord to convince those
who moat trusted, hlra. that he had In.
ded - rleen--And it waa thla resurrec
tion which, under Ood, made new men
of-them. - Without It thr would have
been no-Chrlstltn church. "
Th Xasson. .
Verse 11. There wer possibly two
groups of women who started from dif
ferent points to par the last and rltoa
to th body of their Lord, but four are
mentioned b,name. . These wer Mary
Magdalen (vfl) -and th other Mary"
(Matt, xxvlll:!), who 1 -called by Mark
'th mother of James" (Mark xvl:l).
and Salom (Mark xvl:l) and Joanna,
and other women with them, aa Luke
(ch. xxiv:l) adda. John la particularly
impressed by th presence and grief of
Mary Magdalene, who la Indeed exalted
to preeminence by th fact that Jeaua
first appeared to her after his rising
from th grave (Mark xvl:. Th dis
appearance of. th body of Jesua waa-te
her the last blow. She, ga,yi wry "
passion of weeping; . bat coming up to
Tillamook- Herald: Dairy ranchea are
to he had in 'Tillamook that ar now
growing back to brush, from which they
were reclaimed. Prospective Immigrants
should be mad aware of tha induce
ment awaiting them in this -county.; ;
Coos" "Bay News: 'Th prospect is
favorable thst the, 1,4X000 left over from
th "etty work will he diverted to dredg
ing Inside the hetbor, when congress
meet next winter." It is estimated thst
this amount will remove th ahoala be
ween Marahfleld and Empire, assuring
a depth of is feet at lew watr between
her and the bar.
th door of the apparently violated tomb
ah stooped down'and looked In.
.Vara 12. It waa fit that as angels an
nounced the birth of Jesus they should
announce hla resurrection. ' He waa not
left to aleep alon or rls unattended.
However men might turn away from
him, he waa always accompanied oy
heavenly minis tranta. They wer wit a
him in th mount of temptation (Mattl
lv:ll)-and In th garden of sorrows
(Luk xxll:41), and they kept watch'
over his sepulcher until the hour 'ar
rived when they were to break the seal.
The gospels make occasional reference
to devils, but they exhibit largely the
gracioua ministries of tha angela. ,
Verse It. The address of the angela
waa tender, gracioua, kind, It Is as
if in our modern speech one would say,
"Madam, what la the matter- Like
their own master, they desl very gently
with th lgnoranc and blindness of a
disciple, if so be lor be present in th
heart And in th reply of Mary we
see at one th dim faith but conscious
affection of a true-child of God. 8he
had no other thought than that aome
dastardly hand had violated the aacred
ness of her Lord'a rest; but her Lord
he still waa, although dead by criminal
crucifixion. .,
Vers 14. Becoming" conscious, of an
other presence, perhapa hearing a atep
behind her, Mary turned back and saw
Bomeohej dimly. through th uncertain
light of the dawn, still mor dimly
through the refraction of her tears.
Then, too, we must remember that in
the personal ' appearance of Jesua a
great change, unexplained and unde
scrlbed, had takerrplaee. Even those
who had known him intimately did not
Immediately recognise him (Luke xxlv:
II); and to the end "aome doubted"
whether this mysterious, being, coming
and going so noiselessly waa really
Jesua (Matt. xxvlil:17).
Verse IS. It ia probable that during
thl brief interview Mary had scarcely
looked up to ae who was addressing
her. Her face waa possibly hid In her
arm, or she freely indulged her grief
behind her veil. But with the quick
impulse of a great love, she said, "O
air, if you have taken hla body away,
tell ma wher it la, and I will go and
remove it to some plac wher it can
rest near to those that loved him."- Bo
strong within us all 1 thla undefined
instinct of a hereafter. . Not even to the
Old .Testament saints ' did "death end
all" (Heb. xl:J2). Th veriest pagan
doea not cast out his dead to rot. - Even
after th last spark of Uf ia extinct
lov holds to its conviction that the
story Is poj, concluded, th book la not
sealed. Mary dlq not apprehend tha
resurrection clearly." but still she Wanted
th body of her Lord wher it could
be watched over with loving solicitude.
Verso- II. There was something In
the voice of Jesus which forced Mry
to look up, and then with a glad cry,
"my master." .aha cast herself at his
feet. Overwhelmed with Joy, aha could
neither confes. nor deny. It wsa all
too ' audden to b understood but too
vldent to -fee questioned. 8h knew
the -voice, a little later than disci
ples who sat with Jesus at Emmaua
recognised him In tn blessing he asked
upon 'th bread- Luk xxlv :J0, 31).
Vers 17.' This verse Is confessedly
one whose" meaning it'la not easy to In
terpret -Jeaua told Mary she-was not
to. touch -him bacauae h had not yet
ascended, but that ah should go and
tell hla disciples that h would pres
ently rsturn to heaven" to: b with th
rather. The obscurity ilea In tha as
signment of the reason why Mary
should not cling to his Tee t (Matt
Mary waa d'sposed to.cllng tohlm a
If afraid that he would prsntly dls,
appear. Jtaua assurd "her- that thera
would be some delay and her duty waa
to notify hla disciples of what had taken
place. Varloua other explanatiOna are
auggeated but they are to our vlw far
fetched, and, fill 'prnh.hlltv seems tn ua
Tn favor of the , latter of these two x
positions. r-.'-'-A
Verse 1. Torn by conflicting amo
tions." Mary " waa "nevertheless obedient
t hf- lord. 8h became X he choaen
measenger to announce tha great event.
It la not to be wondered at that a gospel
which placed such honor upon th min
istry of women haa don mor for their
social . and civil : elevation than all
agenclee outside the direct Influences of
tn Christian cnurcn.-
Verse 1. Upon the day of "his resur
rection Jesua was seen of Mary Magda
len (v:!4)byPetsr-U Co- v:), by
the two disciples on the way to Emmaua
(Luke xxlv.l'), and then he waa seen
by the eleven who were shut In an
upper ( chamber waiting to see what
would' b the ..next , blowfrom; thlr
enemlea. - :.-z " - '.' '.
Verse 10. -Not yet-had hla body as
sumed its celestial condition. It was
heedful to exhibit It as It had been
known to them in order that they might
be convinced of the reality of tha event.
Of course, the resurrection of the body
la -a mystery, but It ts the only resur
rection thinkable. Th sou). Is never
entombed and can never "rise." -
Verses 21-XI. Jesus by a tender and
significant act reassure them. They
are not to b eaat out defenseless be
fore tbelr foes, A heavenly presence
ahall go -with them. Th on great
of ferf ng-Xflr aln , haa now been mad
and they ar to proclaim forgiveness
through their Lord. Th absolute power
to grant or to deny forgiveness never
wss conferred upon man (Mark 11:7).
Hut Jesus haa that power. -and hia dis
ciples can by their preaching and prayer
mak It personally effective-. ,
Jesua la not, dead but living -After
hla ascension Stephen saw him at the
right hand ef Ood. ' Paul met him' on
the way to Damascus.-John talked with
him in holy communion while exiled
to Patmoa. He ahall yet return to be
our Judge. Never waa religion th vital
fore tt has been . Since-th resurrection.
So deeply -.did that act lmpreaa Itself
upon th thought and feeling of .the
church that it changed th day of wor
ship. Thu every recurring Sunday-is
a Witness to the vitality ana vigor 01
our faith. - '
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LETTERS FROM - THE
PEOPLE
IS Zt'VataaUbUf
7 Portland, June I. To the Editor of
TTtrTournal. I have long.. Wondered
why the. doctrinaires and phllanthro
piata. .casting about -for-th means of
establishing universal peace, a desider
atum devoutly to b hoped for (which
th caar of Russia must - be most
anxtoua for at- present), hav not
promulgated whafaeeraa to m to bo
an easy means of lta accomplishment.
Aa ao far I have no knowledge it haa
ever been auggeated, 1 tak thla means
of doing so and want" to know If It la
patentable. If ao, how can t drlv
profit from it t It ia thla: . Suppose
the 'hero of th big atlck, who now
repenting .of. .hla misdeed - of ' having
ben "ht inrplr"'" "r ""' '""
ar with BDaln by meana, according
to Naval Secretary Long, not at all to
hla credit who finds there la juat aa
much plaaaur- in shedding the .blood
of bears, wolvea. catamounta and other
"varmints" and is quit aa exhilarating
aa th ahoddlng of human blood, ahould
say: "If I can get th consent of one
or two other powers to combine with
the United State and declare that we
will unite our strength, pledged to the
compact that whatever power on earth
from thla time forward la the aggres
sor to draw the sword oh any pretext
whatever, - against any ' other -national
autonomy, must do so with tha knowl
edge that our -united fleets and armlea
will be aet in motion agalnat that cul
prit." I believe It almost goes without say
ing that the Japanese would aay "Count
ua In." That of itself would Insure
universal peace- for all time. But per
haps France, Austria. Italy. Germany
or England, seeing that ihere I some
thing -now In- the, ''yellow peril" "that
may well giv them paua, would de
sire admission Into 4h bund. - It would
not b a month until they would all
clamor for admission. JJIaarmament
would follow clos on its heels, and
thua "th hoarse war drum would
cense to beat and man be happy yet."
What -do you thlna about ItT
APPLICANT FOR A PATENT. ;
Ti. Admlealoev "Sew TiSory.
Portland, Jun . To th Editor of
Th Journal Any on who haa traveled
in eastern states -and seea the avidity
with which eaatern cities gobble up
outatd 'territory for the purpoa of giv
ing them mor population Is astonished
that there, should be anybody in Port
land who la opposed to th admission of
th territory lying between Portland
and Mount Tabor. - Thla territory be
longs to Portland. It la eettled by th
relative and friends and business as
sociates of those who llv in th pres
ent city limits.
When on look over other cities,
both in th eaat and tha wast and sees
bow they have taken in 'thousands of
acre of land that Is by ho stretch of
Imagination called thlcaly settled, one
asks how ther canvb any objection to
taking in a- square 'mile that haa ao
larg a population as the region in ques
tion. Portland people tak a pride In
ahowtng up well In matter' of popula
tion, when compared with other western
cities struggling for supremacy. Why
should there b a, moment's hesitation
In . taking in th thouaanda of our
neighbors and friends who ar asking to
b mad on with us
, ' .TtZM. TUTTLE. ,
do.' It has
now aasumad , celestial dignity which
did not pertain to hta mission of suffer
ing. But what Jesua waa upon earth,
he la Jn a very tru aense ' today and
forever ' (Heb, xlU;IJ.. Others gay that,
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Taix Orouad Trafra. -
, Portland, May- 10. To th Editor of
Th JournalTh writer beg to offer a
auaaestlon to th street railway com
panr which h' believes will assist
greatly in handling th fair erowda,
namely, that -- tranafara " to - tfie fair
ground be-made acceptable on all fair
rounds cars. ' 1 -
The idea occurred to th undersigned
when a day-or-two- ago hewae waiting
for a Washington fair ground eas and
found them all crowded, while several
"S"' cara passed which wer not at all
crowded. ' . If his tranafer had been
punched in auch a way. ss to allow htm
to use th latter line he would 'have
been spared a delay of 20 mlnutea or
ao. If thla condition occure occaalon
aily now eurly It will be aggravated
aa the summer season approaches.
- It doea hot seem an" unreasonable re
quest that the railway company do
this, since the time punched la th prin
cipal point of interest to the conductors
LEWIS AND CLARK
xxvlll;) as she seemed dl-posed to I and alnce under, auoh , an, arrangement
1 been eald by aome that Jesua there would apparently oe
no oppor
tunity for 'looping" on a single fsr.
On the other hand It doe seem . that
less delay would h occasioned because
of a lack of car service on any one line.
- - . I a MATEA.
En rout up the Missouri river from -
Fort Mandan nmr I In ills (if III II
Hoi IH Datota, . Tha party la now neap
ing the Rocky mountains.. ,
June J.-r-At sn early hour we croased"
and fixed our camp in the point formed ,
by th Junction of th river with th
Mlsourf.;7 It.: now becam an Interest ;
ing question which of these two streams' '
Is . what th Mlnnetarees' call Ahma
teahaa, or tha: Missouri, which they
described aa approaching very near to ."
th Columbia. On the .right decision ':
much of the fat of th expedition de- '
pends; alnce If after deacendlng tha ;
Rocky mountalna or beyond them we '1
Should find that th river w wer
following did not com near th Co- .
lumbia, and b pbllged to return, w
should not only lose the traveling sea
son, two montha of which had already
elapsed.- but- probably dishearten the 7
men so much aa to either Inddc them
to abandon th enterprise or yield ua
a cold obedlenc instead of the warm
and xealous support which . they had
hitherto afforded us. ,. We determined. -therefor;
to examine well befor we.' 1
decided on our future courae;. and for
thla purpos . despatched1 two .canoes
wlth'thre men up each of th streams. -with
- Orders to aacertaln -.th width.
depth and rapidity of th -current so as .
to .Judg of their comparative bodies' of
water:- At th aam tlm parties wer
sentoui-by land to penetrate the coun- ' .
tryr and discover -- from th - rising
grounds, if possible, th distant bearings .
Of th two rivers; and all were directed,
to return toward evening.
While they were gone we ascended
together the -high grounde in th fork
of the two rivers, whence w had a
very extenalv prospect of the eur-
rounding country. On every side tt waa "
spread Into on vast plain covered: with,
verdure. In which Innumerable herda of
buffaloea wer roaming, attended by their
nemles. th wolves. Bom flock of elk -.
were seen, and th solitary antelopes
with their young Weri pattered ovrr..
the fac of the plain. To th south was
a rang ef lofty mountains.-which . ..t
supposed ltd be a continuation of the -South
mountalna, atretching themae)vea.
from southeast to northwest and ter
minating, abauptly about southwest of-;
us,. ..The.. wr partially covered -with -snow;
but at a great distance behind
therri wae a more lofty ridge completely
covered with -snow, which seemed to fol
low th earn direction aa - th first,
reaching from west to the north . of
northwest wher their anowy topa wer
blended with the horiaon. The direr-
tion-of the river'" could -ndtj however, r
be long distinguished, aa they, were aoon
lost in th extent of th plain.
On -our return w continued our ex
amination. "Th -width of the, north
branch ia 209 ysrta, ,that of the south 1
ift. Th-north, though" narrowerrand
with a gentler current, la deeper- thnn
th aouth: lta watera. too" are of ttia
earn whitish brown . eolor thickness
and turbid ness; they run in the earn -boiling
and rolling manner which has -uniformly
characterised the Mlssourt K
and lta bed is composed of aome gravel,
but principally mud. The 'south fork
la deeper, but lta watera ar perfectly
transparent; lta -current is rapid, but"
the surface smooth and unruffled; and',
It bed, too. Is composed of round and -flat
amooth atonea Ilk thoa of rlvera
issuing from, a monntainaiia nnnteri
Tli'lllf and cliaracler of th north fork
ao much rsembl thos ' of the Mis
souri that almost all the party bellev
thst to be th tru cours to' b par-
aued. We, however, although wa hav .
no decided opinion, are Inclined to think :
otherwise, becauae. although thla branch
doea glv th color and character to .
the Misaourl. yet these very clrcum
atancea Induce an -opinion that It rises
In and rune through an open plain coun
try, alnc-lf It cam from thmoun
tain It would b cleaer, unlas, - which -from
th position of th country Is
lmnrobabl. it passed through a vast
extent of low ground after leaving them.
We thouaht It.nrobabl thai it am not
ven penetrate th Rocky mountains.
but drew lta aourcea irom un "i"-"
feountry toward the lower and middle
parta of tha Saskatchewan, in a airecuon
north of thla place. What mbarraesee
ua most Is thst th Indians, who ap
peared fobweir acquainted with the
Mwnniir of the country, have not
mentioned this northern river; for -"the
river which acolda at all otnora. aa 11
Is termed, must ba, according to tha
accounts.-on of th Tlvera which we
hav passed: and if thla north fork be
the Mlasourl. why hav they' not desig
nated th aouth branch,- which they
must also hav passed in order to reach
tha great fslla which they mention on
th Missouri?
In th evening our parties returned.
gffeTTlIcendlng ine rivers in cnu ,
some distance, then continuing on foot.'
Juat leaving themselvea tlm ,to- rturn
by night Th north fork was les rapid,
and therefor afforded the easiest navi
gation; .the ahallowest water of th
north was five feet. deep, thst of "lh
aouth alx feet. At two and a half miles
up the north fork ia a small river com
ing in on the left or western side 0 -feet
wide with a bold current three feet
In depth. Th party by land had gone
n the south fork In a straight line,:
somewhat north of wen, for seven miles.
wher thy discovered tnat this nine
river csme within 100 yarde of the south
fork and. on returning down it. found It
a handsome stream, with aa much timber
aa either of th Urger rivers, conalstlng
of th narrow and wld-leafed cotton-.
wood, aom birch and box-elder and un
dergrowth Of willows, rps bushes and
currants: thT leo on this river, a
great number of elk and aon beaver.
All thea account war, however, very
far from deciding th Important ques-
tion of cur futur. route, ana w tiere-.
for determined each of ua to ascend
on of tha river during a day and a
half march, or further, if necessary
for our aatisfactlon. Our hunter killed
two buffaloes, six elk and four deer to-
day. Along the plsina near the Junction
ar to be found th prickly pear in great ,
quantities; th ehokeberry Is also very
abundant In tha rlvr low grounds, as
well aa the ravlnea along the river
bluffs; the yellow and red currants are
not yet ripe; th gooeebrry I beglnnlng--to
ripen, and th wild roe, which no
covers all th . low grounds near., the
rivers, ts In full bloom,.Th fatlguoa-of
the last few days have occasioned some ,
fallina off In" the appearance of th ..
mn, who, not having been able to wear
moccasins, had their feet much bruised
and mangled In paaslng over the atones
and rough ground,-They are, however,
perfectly cheerful, 'and have undlmln-,
lahed ardor Jer th xoedltrotur .-."r;Tt".'-
' . - A BanaarkabU" Old Woman. 1
From Leslie's Weekly.
" The Baroness Burdatt-Coutta of Eng. "
land, who at th age of 17 married Wil- . K
Ham Aahmead Bartlett 10 years,: her'
Junior, lately celebrated her ninety-fleet
birthday. Sh Is stli) quit strong phye. .
leally, and hr trrental powers appear to
be aa active a ever. Th baronesa still
directs th, affair-Of her large estate v
as capably aa ah did half a century y ,
ago, and It Is rumored thst she even
contemplates s trip t the United list,
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