The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, June 05, 1905, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text. ....... I . t, , MONDAY. ' JUNE ,5, 1005. .: Vj PORTLAND,' J OREGON, '.V T H E 0;R E G Fabashed every" evenine; ( except . Sunday and ' every Sunday morning; at 17 - , ' streets, Portland, Oregon. ,.' THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS t" il T I HE -FOLLOWING . paragraphs are the latest emission from the Oregonian i . -; they apeak tor themserrei. ;. rosing for their peculiarities, for their hyperboles and for 'their evidences f Scottonian dotage. They should not 'be taken seriouslyj but in spite ef this admonition one cannot but feel the "touch of pity" for the "grand olTed-'-' .-ilor" of the' Oregon ThuiMlerer, who has descended from ' his once- high estate: ' :. . ..'. .. ;. . V" "The newspaper that is backed up by banks is a mis-- "take, and the banks that back a newspaper make a mis take. v No newspaper yet ever was established . with ;v imoney, and banks and corporations that attempt to carry ";.their- purposes by. publishing newspapers, always miss , v jtheir object and suffer, themselves, in consequence.".-.-. ' The Ore Ionian ought to know whereof it speaks. . Not TlaferlhTiTa span of jreafa. since Tit was"Ta"ckedlip,"by a. , -.bank money and saved from the sheriff through a banker's money., , And-as for corporations, the Ore , i -, gonian has made of them a : vineyard,- from which it :j gathered not-thistly. Weighing the"Oregoniari and The ' r ' T Journal at this time in the former's own scales The Jour nal can state k owes the bank or banks less money by far . than does the Oregonian, so it is not to be accepted that " the stricture applies to this paper. . r The ' newspaper that the people trust" must be'de ivotcd to the purposes of journalism, not to those of pluto cratic and monopolistic endeaTor." ... .- . 'rx "This is true, and the people ""trust" The'Jofirnal, as witness the circulation of 21,500 to 25,000 which has come - 'to it within-a period of three yeax,-while the Oregonian Jiis been busy for-over 50 years developing about the .same circulation strength.; And it may be remarked right - .here, that the circulation of The Journal in Portland and - Oregon equals if ; it'1 does not exceed Jhat of the Ore- " ' ' gonian. - - A v;; r - : .- .---; -; "And here let it -be said that, the Oregonian is not .. Squealing because it ris-huTtJU.Jt-Un't-hurt-at-lWIts business, both in subscription and advertisements is greater, far greater, than at ariy1" former period of its -.- :- history.- It is Or Iikewi9erwith theEvening Telegram. ?' "It isn't hurt at all T . Surely not," Then why deny it? . OL course, the Substance and its Shadow are. "doing -ILljnore business;LartieUer papers. than-they were.-? when 1 iThe Journal, came to town'-but their expenditures . are more, so muen so, tnat tne onaaow proposition,? calling nppn the .Substance Jor; a " goodly ?ormert tho9e"rh .amount of "wherewithal each month nce. -This explanation nn tne part - tntphe'-nruch TheOregonian and thEvening 'Idevoted to journalism. It is the one of their proprietors. They are pushing no corporate or plutocratic schemes." Is this so? - Why then did the editor of the Oregonian embark in politic and use both his papers as organs to "boost liisgame?" Why did these papers ally them selves with the gamblens-and whiskey rings and push "H their causes -with ill-theirrvigor? Vholty devoted to -r journalism" indeed! . r- ' ' ' ' ..' 1 :rTTie3r unrtr nfnnrl 111 iT fiilrlliy To condition and requirement of continuing success But the public does not so understand the Oregonian's fidelity! to it, and there is the rub, Journal grows and grows and the Shadow mark time - while whistling courage. '. RESULTS OF TOGO'S I N THE - DESTRUCTION - of - Admiral Togo struck a great blowfor the peace of the-vorld. Rusaiar-discomfited, sorer humiliated, vanquished, still talks war and declares that it -must and will fight on. but the probabilities are that with the Rus sian populace almost unanimously against war it will soon yield and sue for peace with. Japan. , No -other .' course seems open to it, and it will be many years before Russia will be prepared for war again, and by that time the peace sentiment of the world will have made great progress.1! hThere will be wars yet, no doubt; Norway and Swedea,may fight-soon; the Balkan provinces will be in a state of semi-savage turmoil for a long' 'time; there will be eruptions in Latin America; but it is pos sible, even probable, that the last 'great war between leading and great nations is being fought, and ap- i parently is nearly ended,i J Togo struck a great blow also for commerce and the ulilinKjlxiyilizaliojUn -- . . -frtt .. , t t I . "He has dbrie more in three days in the U -the -Utesme-and-philosophers 4one for centuries, though some .of them have sown good seed that shall bear fruit in due season. He has , struck the final signal for. a healthy if bloody revolution " "in' Russia that shall be the beginning of the redemption of the. Slavic people, and for the modernization and de 'v ' velopnient of the great empire of China. He won the " "" greatest naval victory of modern times if not of all time. He gave the death blow to mediaeval and menacing i despotism in the east. He blew away the cloud of mili . tary aggression that hung over two continents. He has opened the" greatesf,oldesf" and most populous of the jJ continents to the trade of all nations on equal terms, and the United States can aeenre the lion's share. Dewey's ' obliteration of the Spanish fleet in Manila bay has brought and will bring great consequences, but this ex Tt tinciion:&f the Russian fleet by Togo is" pregnant with -'( stHl greater consequences. ,l : jT;.' But-the-JreHow-peril.''- We -don't-4elieve--there-f or - roiiii Cian adds roruuTiov. 'jFrom McMInnvIlla Telephoine-ReKlater. Father -Hoberfr wrota a poatat-card, -, and thereby hana-a a tala. The poital-r-Tcard6nla Inetf " .about" X.109" " worda - de . aerlptlVa of Yamhill county. Ittwaa ; ' aent to tt friend In England and wa . - , , there published as a curloalty. Later It waa tranalated into Oernian and pub- - - "J1hed in a German paper; The , eye of ilri. Helnrich Michaels fell thereupon. and the slow We description qiada auch an Impreaelon on her mind., that abe reatefl not'-etther -tiay --or Tihrht' mitfl : aha -taad written to Father Hoberj and - received an' answer. he aoon Induced Iter husband to set out upon a journey ,to-the pronilaed land. They came by ' way cf California but that land of adobe and areasera did 'not suit their . eath'tle taste. Last Wednesday evening " at T:S they Mached ldrMlnnvllle. On Thursday mornlna at 10:J9 they bad bourn t property. Fifteen hours of our delightful cllmata- completed- the workn .so weu commenced oy ratner llooerg . and another family or - ood--pople 4e . ... added, to our rapidly crowlna; popula- . tlon. rTTae IVaeky Tttirtsaa. -j. From tha Kansas City Journal. Number IS has no terror for Path Nation, father of Assistant But dltr James Nation. Ha waa bora on, .April It, enlisted In tha- war'on August II. waa nominated for eounty treasurer of Neosho eounty on September IS, was Insuauraied October II and has 11 cljU- arasv ,. '. . O N D A I L Y jajBLJfeHKDi BY JOURNAL" PUBLISHING CO. tower, and surely mey are worm pe- I T IS now New boodlers. Patrick H. In Philadelphia nas Decome a losing to retain its cxist government -such ot. tne aunatanee tered up courage Te!egrarnreholly4nfertPr"ly - puthemo - utrbut so long-as business of the lives Philadelphia' and thr pnhlir .is the you going to do It is so everywhere, - when and this is why Thejiwing and sway Substance and its to keep up their " ; '-''.. VICTORY. - RojestvenskyVnert election that has the advancement of vail nationally. sea of Japan than and -evangels heveIIilliams ior rOTATOsn a,iso a POTTarn. A year ago Consul Mahln reported from Nottingham, England, that a new yarlety-of 41 sease-reslstlng potato, waa seljlng at 2,10 a pound for seed. . IU 1ooni' Is over. . .v - . A contributor to the Nottingham Ouardlan announces that tha Eldorado Is now obtainable for leas than a shll ling a pound. The collapse waa not due to a lack of disease-resisting power in that tuber. According to ona de ponent JJl was the. hardiest .seed potato on the market, while anpther consid ered It "tha moat disease-resisting po tatn that has ever come - before the British public." " ' Last year's harvest was not good and potatoes fell in price, and the Eldorado waa sympathetically affected; dealers who would not pay a fancy price for It ."ran It down." to excuse their not hav-'tmr-U for Bale, and so on. , A. contributory eauaa of tha Eldora dos loss of prestige la believed to. he the extensive iraqtice of forcing It tirt flpr glasa. and taking cuttings fronrthe product a practice discountenanced by Lincolnshire) growers generally as pro ducing abnormal and untrustworthy re sults. . rwe Baperleneea. " From the flioua City Journal. ..Kansas farmera want college boys to help harvest the wheat crop. Possibly soma college boys who didn't do the harvesting-stunt last year may go out and work for Boms Kanssa farmera who 'didn't employ eollsaa labor last year. - J O U R N A L) JNO: P. CARROLL! The Journal ! Building. - Fifth ea4 . Yamhill wjll .be any wyellowerilUyUhe-4ime-!hma-;could convert itself into "a military and naval nation the world's face will be set against war between great nations. And China's development industrially, and-commercially is to be desfredr 'Why. it is just what we have been wishing and working, for, and now that it seems near a( hand some of 'us become alarmed and shout "yellow peril." The development of the far east cannot be stopped after Russia is driven out of China for good and all, and this ii what Togo's victory means.-If the Anglo-Saxon race cannot hold its own against the Chinese and Japanese in the; world's industrial and .commercial fields, then it will deserve 16 go to the wall We. inJhis 'country will keep the Chinese out,. for they are so numerous they could overrun us, but within their own sphere 6f activity, and wherever they are permitted to go freely, they must work toward a higher plane and greater light. "If there be a "peril" it is inevitable, but we think it is imaginary, -ilt has been centuries emceeo great a rictoy, not Only in itself but in its probable consequences, was won; and it probably will be centuries before it is duplicated. ', In deed, it is doubtful if any more great naval battles will be fought.' At any rate they will be few and fat. between, and finally will cease, by the common consent of a more civilized and sensible world. . WHATJ'P-ARTY'LPOES IN CITIES. York City that is irijhe grijTdf the Through a frick laid at the door , of - McCarren, a remedial measure is found to be worthless, the principal: clause intended to protect the -people having jbeen mysteriously eliminated. This is a far worse crime than highway robbery; or than hold ing up a train, the penalty for which in- some states is death, but it Is done frequently in New -York, and in Pennsylvania, and elsewherej U has even been done in Oregon.- . ' ' . . ' In New Yorle. the Republican legislature, is always for sale' and everybody; knowl it The Democratic boodlers of-New York buy what legislation "theyiwaht nd the Tammany maehinedoei the rest "doesn't do a thing" to tK nAnt ..- i-- the machine is Republican, as the state legislature always is. by an overwhelming majority and they work iri perfect harmony to rob the people. - Mayor Weaver, plead with and pestered and prodded bylthe "re- ifl8it. on, fa'r honest 'and decent people as the Oregonian lectures and LflQutt.and.bnsetjndillifiesjn thiscity finally mus to defy and do battle with the boodlers, Pennsylvania remain surely and over whelmingly Republican there will be no permanent relief. Next time the boodlers will be sure of their man. - So in New York City; so long as the Tammany ma chine is in undoubted and undisputed control,-and is wringing millions upon millions from the taxpayers, there will be no chance, for reform, for enough members of the legislature can always be bought; or if not Pat HtCt-ti -if-" rf emasculate a law, and like Boss Tweed boldly ask if accusedoFit:" "What are about it?" a party - has undisputed in municipal affairs. It has been so here, and will be again it the advice and pleading of the morning organ' of everything that is vile and corrupt and wicked and dishonest and contemptible be heeded. . . TODAY'S CONTEST. HE QUESTipN which will be decided by the toaay is oneoxjne jnostjnoraeniuous ever faced the people of the city. Upon its solution depends whether or not the movement to ward" decency wilt be maintained or whetherwe are to take, a backward step and give up much that has already been gained. So far Portland has kept step with the progress being made and (attempted in other Important municipalities of the country. The movement which has found expression here is but part of a general movement in the direction of better things which has literally been forced upon the people by corporate aggression and the combination of all those forces which constantly demand more than the law allows them. The time has come tp call a halt and the-impulse to call it is general ratner than local, for the same conditions that prevail here pre .t.rA, ,;s .;rn. vt tnr r..if.. MaVorThere wasn't a man-reachable through such influences wno wasn i in eviaence ana nara at work shouting for the present mayor. There isn't to day a man who can be brought under the same influences which isn't doing the same thing. What the administra tion has and will stand for is made plainly evident. The contest is precisely what The Journal has characterized it from the start, a contest between the friends of good government and those who for their own purposes favor vicious government . In such a contest there should be no doubt of the final result. The news which comes from every section of the city except the north end is exceedingly encouraging. The forces favoring better government are hard at work everywhere. "The - lawabiding people of Portland elected Williams three years ago and they will vote against him on his ownlrecord how." 7 That is the case in a nutshell and there should be no doubt about the out come.". ; " '- -y- AXS IOXT BXCXFT . , . , 1 ' v From the Prlnevllle Journal. Mayor Williams' campaign for the chief seat In tha munidpsl government of Portland la meeting with as strenu ous opposition as Is possible to print on sheets ot whlta paper. Tha Port land Journal, In Ha uphill struggle for clean politics, does not vary, its senti ments a great deal from-tboae of the ordinary commonwealth when If as sumes the position that a man awho served In. Grant' a cabinet -and who la now- backed by-all -tho- corrupting In fluenc'ea Inside tha city limits Is a trifle too old and too vacillating In charac ter to hold tha relna of ; power In a growing and progressive city. Tha present mayor would be alt right wer It not for the fact that he la princi pally all wrong, so far as his present position is concerned. Tlew of a Pessimist. - : From tha Boston Globe. There doean't aeem 'to be much use in working to. acquire millions, Even men bright enough to succeed at It can find nothing better to do with the millions when they have got them than to give them away again.. "Booserelt'e Freferea.ee, , From ths Chicago Tribune. There Is a general belief that Presi dent Roosevelt would like to leave the same man behind him to, hold tha lid down when ha goes away from Wash ington in jfacpn av r I iStyALL CHANGE j It la nearly all ever but the counting. Willi the licsti yrewls at- She dove X peace. ,, lie may - become- Admiral - Headto-1 eomeorr. . J Back east they are Just publishing lUae-poetry,-- .. - - , "ROJestvensky'e bead is bad, both put side and Inside. ... - ' . - No doubt if Russia keeps on the end. will be bitter enough. , . r ... -..Xoa. Angelea' ooooludei that it dldnt want to be entirely dry.f; ." ; " " - It wtlbVa beautiful alght eteamere on the uppef Columbia again, , . Products of the Clearwater ' Valley must and shall come to Portland.; . For lta length the portage road la the mqst Important one In the country.1 - - There will bo some more 'herd fight ing it Norway and Bweden go to war. . Don't crumble about the rain: we've a lot comlnav and tUe iooner. it cornea the better. , , Nobody need be alarmed about extor tionate charges in Portland; there won't be any aucb. - ' - And still the EqulUble row goes on. Can't an lhJunctlottDa nssued against the whole malodorous outfit?. 1 . A lot of beef trust people have been indicted, but con via tlon la another, mat ter and punishment still another. Togo did a bigger trick -thap Dewey, it must be acknowledged, but-there la no occasion for. Dewey to become Jeal ous. - - : - ' - - ; Whatever happens. tomorrow the people wUl put city politic aside and pursue again the more or less even tenor of their waya. . .. la "Chinaaman' head'ls chopped "off If he wears tan ahoes. -The Chlneae alwaye go at things wrong-end to;why not chop off his feetT . Now' Admiral Nebogatoff la being ao euse4 Of a cowardly aurrender and may be. shot We may expect Rojeatyensky to be hauled over the coale next. Some scapegoats must be found. - Perhaps tha best way for the csar out of his difficulties is to let the Japs emi to-Rt. Petersburg and capture him. And maybe they will whether ha.woiUdi like themto do eo or not. ' There have been severe earthquakes In-Japanf which will probably eaua the Russians to prolong the .war In the be lief that : the Almighty, In answsr to their devotions, is about to Destroy the Japanese archipelago. t ' Some one, perhaps an old bachelor, says: "The three happiest moods- In a woman's life are when she gets her first long dress, her first beau and is being led to the bridal altar. What about the time whenshe feels for -the first time her firstborn's breatfl" 1 ,,; .T It le said the csar has 11 000. 000 per sonally Invested in American securities. What- under such circumstances he wants to stay in Russia and be csar for is psst comprehension. He woutd be almost respected in Wall street and could enjoy We right well out west j Some pleasant gentlemen tronrour neighboring city, Lewlston, are In town. With the eexoeptton of eight or nine miles on a state railroad, they came down by boat They didn't pay any railroad corporation a cant . This is something new under the sun. and they and the people ef Portland have good cause to rejoice over It : : OREGON SIDELIGHTS Now yon can ride on the oars to Con don. " '''' ' . The Fossil band haa engaged and Im ported a teacher. - v Strawberries and cream can't rest all over Oregon. - till you j0 railroad track mm moon Begin. Anothsr rural telephone line In Doug las county to -the Engusn- aetuement. Toncalla is to have eeveral brick buildings, the brick being made In Oak land. "A Douglas county Cotswold lamb, 10 months old sheared 17 V pounds of wool. " . . 1 j., , Nearly aU Salem la coming on Salem day. - Same with other towns not too faraway. " t ." " - The electrio storm In eastern Oregon last week put many telephone lines out of buslnesa temporarily. A good many Oregon towns will cere brate the Fourth; thera are plenty of other daye to eome to the fair. - Wallowaeounty -sheepmen -eel-blue because aU their wool was contracted 4n advance at IS cents a pound. It was a bad. bargain, but they have to stand It Baker City Democrat: '.trade condi tions are on the Improve and with good crope.-fele prices for Stock -and -ths mines turning out a large gold yield, lively tlmee this fall are assured. . ' Some Of the members ef McMlnn vllle'e wster commission, have lately spent much I time in examining and making surveys of the several water supply sources west of town, but - as yet no definite plana have been decided upon. " A farmer near OaklanorrlseaTlne hogs, Jersey cows, chickens.' Trult and vegetables. From six cows he makes 60 pounds of butter a week and also furnlahes the city ice cream parlors with- cream. He haa cut hla nrst crop of alfalfa, which yielded two tons per acre. From etx . dosen - chickens he sella an average of II dosen eggs per week, besides furnishing ths Horns table. Thus does diversified farming K7. -, Xlg aad tittle. Thieve. "";Ffom thet$rooklyn Eegle. There are men In Sing Sing -who are serving long sentences for thefts, of a few dollars. Tet one candidate has been releaaed from . that institution . after serving three years for stealing, a quar ter of a million. Incidentally, he committed- perjury, and forgery. . By these tokens the Milwaukee bank - president who atole 12.000.000 or more will, be 4 sent to Jail Zor nearly a .week. . i TWO INSTITUTIONS JN -KAY SEE. MIZZOO- Samuel O. Blythe In . the New Tork wana ' Kay See haa two Institutions one human, one bovine. The first is Baron Nelson, the owner and editor of the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Tlmee, and the other is the 8a m. Las- arua steak. . ; r - - ,' William R. Nelson ' Is the baron's name, an Indiana cltlsea who saw ahead .. with the -thrifty r eye of the Hooater and came to Kansse City early In the game, i He started a paper. It has grown to be one of the great, after noon papers of the country. He bought another paper and. added It to the- one he-hod, and now he supplies' Kansas City and aU that territory with thirteen papers a week, seven morning and six evening, for ten cents. He haa hla own paper mills and his "own way about everything else. .The baron ia a etout not to say a fat, -oltlsen, who" growls at you with a deep bass voice and looks at you-at the same time wMh an eye twinkling with good humor. He wears the most amaslng collars ever seen outside of a minstrel first part - The baron hasn't much neck. He has to wear a collar, so he his specially constructed . sur cingles, of linen that rlae up behind bis head and stick out In front of bis plentl tude of chins. He can hide Inside of thera or can rise eupsrtor to them. They are Nelsonlan, unique.. . . . . The .baron haa Iwo precepts and a million ideas. The first precept is that it is the duty of every oltlsen of Kan sas City to help build up the town, and the second Is that money waa made til spend. Ever alnoe he got hie newspaper on lta feet he haa been fighting for the beautifying, the -upbuilding, the better, ment of Kansaa City, "Make the town great" is his motto. To be aure, ths baron, has not-lost- any money by -this policy, but nr. has been pegging away at it for yeare. He fought for parks and boulevards. He. haa advocated every sort of municipal Improvements. . He haa lambasted hla foes day after day. He went outatde the town and - bought a. gTet tract of landjand, tU.t A.oaaUe on It; Then he built a lot of fine houses around hla own estate, houses that were a credit to the city, end insisted that everybody in that neighborhood should build similar houses. He bas promoted all sorts of munlolpsl Improvements, arid had led all sorts of fights. Ha got an Me a time agethat .the- bre were were 'having too much to ssy In the affairs of Missouri, and he led off with the trumpet blasts that awakened the Sunday-closing" movement There ere those who say' ths baron , has' had a shrewd . eye to franchlsea end-things -of that aort "Be that aa it may," he is the Most powerful and the " moat ueeful cltlsea in Kanaas City, . He positively refuses to accumulate a great fortune in- money. He haa - a great fortune in hie- newspapers, of course, but the heron ( a firm believer in hie power to make money, and he spends.it like water, ' He Isn't selfish about it sither. He puts It . out . for the publio good, for the enjoyment of othere and for anything he happena to fancy. ' Tears ago, when he waa trying to get a ayatem of parks and boulevards, JUnMLaocompllshed magnificently, he cauea tne aonay-grunoers or in the Hammer and Padlock club, ."They hammer everything that means ' prog ress," said the baron, land keep a pad lock on their pocheta," .-: -. Great Is the baron and happy He has a better time than any other mil lionaire In the country, and he alwaye has something in hand that maana ad- vanceraenWfor his city.. There are plenty- of other -cities In - the country that need Baron Nelsons And that other institution! The Sam Lazarus Steak? There la something of which any city might be proud. Next to Chicago. Kansaa City Is the greatest meat market in the country. Some scpffers are fond ot telling you that all the good meat . is shipped to Nsw York and the east, and that you can't get good beef in Kansas City. Forget that "There lan't a place in the-country, not excepting Chicago where there Is exactly one small restaurant where the choicest cuts are served where the meat Is as good as it Is In Ksnsaa City, and the triumph, the Tlimax of all good meat is the Sam Lasarus steak. Sam Lasarua was a cattleman who knew all about beef. He picked out one particular out and named it after himself. . It is served in several places in Kansas City, but beat at the Baltimore hotel. Nowpllaten, you beef-eaters to the talf-Pf the Sam Lasarua steakl In the first placeTltle asTlgTta the top-of mshogany card table there never waa a steak Ilka it served on Broadway or Fifth avenue and aa thick as a popular novel. It takes three qusrters of an hour to cook It. Then it comes on gar nlahed with all aorta of things on a platter that Is as big aa a St Lawrence skiff. There are marrow bones around It, cracked and steaming hot corned fritters, pickled walnuta, slices of fine red beets, cucumbere and lettuce, and a gravy beneath It that has nothing in it but the pure Juice of the meat and some butter, pepper. and salt. ... If ax-Mayor Van Wyck or any of the other beef-eatara of New Tork ever bad a real Sam Lasarua steak real one they would . say the steaks they have been nutting away by the pound are mere papier-mache Imitatlona. There are- curloue phaaea or lira in Kanaas City. The men are all beef-eaters. They get away with more meat at luncheon than one would consider pos sible, and turn up for dinner with appe tites that are the marvel of the outland ers. The streetcars dash up and down the hills at breakneck speed. The motormen have a -way of ringing their bells that sounds uncanny. The care twist and turn about and before-you see a car .you hear a gong banging out rhythmically "A Hot Time" or that ca denoe the- base drummer playa in the country band, Rum-tl-ti-tum-tum-tum- tum, . The vrlnclpal shopping street Jn the town was. nsmed Petticoat lane by a local poet and It is so called by every body. They have amateur nights at the local vaudeville houaea where aspirants for-the stage ere put through their paces to tho great delight of the crowds present. Prices era moderate on all the commodities of life. The restaurants re very good, plentiful and not exor bitant. The men anna a gooa aeai or whiskey, but usually Walt until after business. ' Nearly everybody Uvea a good. ways out, and tnat accounts-xor tne many restaurants that do a big lunch In business. The city Is all excited be cause It la to-have a 14-storyorflce building. , r. . ' ; Tha biggest ene now is 10 stories hiah. The Kansse City club- le one of the famous clubs of the west.. It -is! hospitable and admirably -conducted.! Tha Commercial elub goes out. on ex- pedltldhi into the eurrounding territory drumming up trsde for Kansss City and Impressing on the people tne sflvan tsges xt trading with Kay See. They do things.- When the old Convention hall burned a few ' weeks before' the Demoorstio National convention was tn be bell here u 1V. toZ.turn4 u ana, built nsw and bettee -one and" "had it ready for the convention. . The Chrle tlan Science eult Is prosperous.. They have two . beautiful churches, one re cently completed.- The houses on the residence streets are . surrounded with fine lawns and are a delight to the eye. These are a few fleeting impreeslons of Kanaas City, where the men have TaTWIri" thmseteaana"1ri"Thelrt0wnr All Joking sslde, -.when the Kay Sees say they have the best city In the west they are not ao far from tnetruinv LEWIS AND CLARK En route -up the Missouri river from Fort MHndan, near the site of Bismarck. North Dakota. . The party ia now peering tne Kocky mountains. . - June i. The rain fell during the greater part of. laat night and In the morning the weather was cloudy and- cold -wltn a high northwest wind.. At sunrise Cap tarn Lewis proceeded up the river eight miles to the bluff on the left side toward which ke had been directing his course yester day. Hare he found the bed of a creek ti yards wide at the entrance, with some timber but no water, notwithstanding the rain; it la indeed astonishing to observe the vast - quantities of water . absorbed by the soil of the plains which, being opened in large erevloea. presents a fine rich loam. At the mouth of this stream, which he called Lark creek. . the bluffs are vary ateep and approach the river, so that he ascended them and. crossing the plains, reached the river; which from the last point bore north 60 degrees west; four miles from this place it extended north, two miles. Here he .discovered a lofty mountain standing alone, at the dis tance or more than SO miles tn the direc tion of-north SO degrees west, and which, from its conical figure,, he called. Tower mountain ' . ... - -. ... v - ' - ' He then proceeded on these two hills, and afterward In different courses six miles.. when he again changed for a west ern course across a deep bend along the south side"; in making this passage over the plains ha found them like those of yeaterday, level and beautiful, with great quantltes of buffaloes and eome- wolves, foxes end antelopes, and Intersected near the river by deep ravines. Here, at the distance of from one, to nine miles from the river, he met the. largest village of barklpg squirrels which we had yet seat, for he passed the skirt of their territory for aeven miles. . He alto saw near the hills a flock of mountain cocks, or a large species of heath-hen. with a long pointed tall, which the Indians below had In formed us were common among the Rocky . mountains." Hr-"- . -Having -finished -his eourse of 10-mlle west across a. bend, he continued two miles -north SO degreea west -and from that point-discovered some lofty moun tains to the northwest of Tower mountain and "bearing north S8 degrees west at 80 to J00 miles dlstancehere he encamped on the north - side in a handsome low trrounoVtm which were several old stick lodges. There had been but little tnber on the river In the fore part of the day, but now thera la a greater quantity than usual. The river itself Is about 80 yards wide and from six to 10 feet -deep, and haa a atrong, ateady current Tha party had killed' five elk and a mule-deer, and, by way of experiment roasted the bur rowing squirrels, which- they- found - to be well-flavored and tender. : -r""7 KATBX am XASCX WAS XCAtTP. ewIcrKJ5un," Previous to-the French revolution. whether officers should Jie the club of hair on the back of their heads with a blue or rose-colored ribbon was' the source of frequent quarrela. discussions and contradictory orders. A young of ficer who wore one of these rose-colored-ribbons "Waa .ordered to Santo Domingo. When he had landed there he wes met, by hie captain, who told him that an . ornament of that kind would "not be tolerated In the colony. This1 captain.-named, Dalcourt-wae a noted duelist His rebuke led to a qnarrrt and a -fight ensued. Dalcourt wes dangerously wounded. - His ad ver-. sary expresaed the liveliest regrets and generously nuraed the wounded man. Daloourt asked hla name. He discovered that - he waa bla sister's son his nephew. Daloourt vowed never to en gage in another duel. He quickly for got' thle vow. At a dinner a quarrel arose between him. and another guest ThlsJed to the-lnerKable- challenge. They went but In the middle of the night to fight - The house was eltuate.t In a large lawn, where the domeatlo animate were allowed to pasture. An hour after the two combatants hid gone but the other guests missed them and instituted a - search. Tlsey 'found Dalcourt on the ground covered wttti blood and moaning with pain. He aald that he had put himself in guard be fore his adversary, - who Instead of meeting hlnv e-he ehould havedone, had struck him on the Jaw with a stone. "But,'' he added. "I gave him a thrust with my sword and yr will -find him dead near by." The .searchers, who 'had torches, looked abtfut and saw traces of blood; they followed them up and discovered a mule with a wound in lta thigh. They saw that Dalcourt had put himself-on gusrd sgalnst the ani mal, mistaking it for his adversary and had pinked it with hie eword. The mule had responded by kicking him In the Jaw. They told Dsloourt of their discovery. He was greatly mortified, and naked what had become of his an-tagoniat- He waa found on the ground near the house sleeping soundly. . 'Tata XXSXAJT XXXW. ... " " From the New York Tribune, Colonel C. O. Bhepard, who le examin ing Indians of the Union Indian agenoy at Muskogee,- Indian -Territory, regarding their fitness to manage their own property outright asks a great many questions, some of which must seem rather elementary to the better educated Indian. Colonel Bhepard was at South McAleater. He bad before hlra an Indian of above the average tntellt gence who wented the restriction. rs moved. He was -being- aaked a lot of questions, foolish and otherwise. - The Indian waa aaktd what he would do with the money, and replied that he would Improve hie land and buy and feed stock, principally hogs. ' Oo you know anything about feeding hoaifn asked -Colonel - Bliepard;-"how would you feed themT Would- you grind the corn or feed It to them In the ear?"" . "No. I would feed IfH thm In the mouth," replied the Indian.' .. ' i 1 1 11 1111 "'"." : Origin ef the Tip. "-- --,:-; :.- From the New Tork Tribune. ' The word "tip" oH gins ted In the old coffee-houses of London. At the door was a brass box with a slit In it - En graved upon ft usually wera the lettera, "T-. I. P.," an abbreviation of the words, "To Insure promptneae." Customers es they departed dropped eolna ia the bos for-the welters. -.-v'-.-i '.' ' ate Oave tne Froof..' -j- ; ' From the New Tork Trlhune. - Ppn.r,min IJvtneatnn of Georgia tells this story of Ms boy. Oeerre. "One flay I said -to mm, mamma ssys you wm been very naughty todsy, sir; what's the n.it..r i i'ni' Kn rani lad aerlouelv. 'I think ma's, prejudiced sgalnst me. Tea. tsreay sne toia auh- nra a.wps ..r, -. ..... i ... WO .HBB0S B vifc . THE DAN GERTH At THREATEN S NATION : I'exesaajesasewssjisjwsseaiwj .Cftianrt.Mqf, Wherever we follow our spectacular rich (the newspapers force ua to follow them) we find them parading like ec centricities, taking oft shoes and stockings-in Baltimore after 'a fashionable gathering to Wade In a publio fountain; playing leap frog In Washington men and women)-arte a smart dance) wan dering off for hours' in the Bote de Boulogne (In couples with husbands and' ' wives acparated) after a brilliant Parle V dinner; watching the body to body con- . tortious of a young '.woman and a boa,' oonatrictor (thla in New Tork before a company of men) 1 -applauding tinmen tlonable features of the stupid Seeley revel; gambling, gorging, drinking, galli vanting In short challenging the devil to offer any fillip for their Jaded senses! .What wonder tt' .the unsophisticated -west la yielding to this contamination, aa appears in a , recent -Boston-pa per--which speaks editorially - of "an enter tainment In Minneapolis where too men ' gsthered to enjoy the dancing ef a nude -artists' model ; ' - All of which means, tt It means any thing, that a powerful element . in our best" that Is our rioheat .society la .. setting a profligate example in thle country, an exemple that, threatena the sanctity and atabllity of -,- countleea American homea. t Pleasure and ahow and - money I - Dross for the women! J Oems for the women"! And a rich hus band I There la the poisoned lure that terapta our maldena. : Pleasure and show.. and money : ; - . - And of these three but one Is easen- tlal; money.- for - money will "buy . the".-, bther two, - Doee any one doubt that ... thousands of our Women are practically Bailing themseivee for money- In mr rlage and than selling themselves again -for money in divorce? Does any one doubt that this pressure for riches' brought upon men by our. women (wives. ,. sweethearts and society)" Is a funda mental cause ot the dishonesty that la V more and more tainting our- business and political life? Ah, now we have t said the word, the bitter, wounding word dlshonestyl -There 1s the 'danger ' that threatena-thla republic dishonesty - among its cltisersj, . AU other evllsare less, than this, all cures for evils are vain' until -thle evil" la cured, for tha whole principle -ef representative gov ernment falls abjectly -wasn. the people atrlve only to -plunder' and betray . the peoplel - -a-:ii . - If one. of our wrltera 10 years: ago ot.J, even 10 years ago had dared to queation tha honesty of the American people- he would have, been- countd - an Impudent renegaae, - a naooier wnose aiupia in sults would have- aroused only con temptuous smiles.- But -today It Is dlf- ferent, our eyee hava-Jaen-PPnedaPjjilJ Without- surprise though with dismay. . I we aee able men eommlssloned by our great mageslnea to go. from city to city., . from state to state, from- pna business ; enterprise to another, -with - the eole . purpose of proving the existence of wholesale corruption In publio end pri vate affaire.. And month after tnontn we read these-ghastly revelations, until , It seeme as If everything le jotten. all our cities,- all - our, states, the whole world of business and finance, even our ' national government, even our courts. Ana we isks it aa a matter or course: It is notorious that the rich are often scandalously alow in paying their bUla I rscaTT one instance where the wife or a multl-mllionaire- (aha waa afterwards divorced) took Jio notice, month after month, of a bill amounting to over 120,000 for her ' daughter's , wedding trousseau, , and this bill was not paid - for -nor- than-a-year r after -the cere- mony, and only then becauae a re-' sourcsful collsctor "held up" the multl- ' mlllonalre blmself In the street one day and finally got hie check. I have been told or several ncn women in the smart set two of them -very rich, who are wont to baggie over prlcee in the ehopa aa If they were in: -genteel poverty.. One of these .ladles . whose showy Newport fetes are .widely proclaimed, tried, on a certain occasion, ' to "beat down" an estimate for candle shades, favors, etc. that she wanted In a hurry for a dinner dance, and, -hav ing failed- In her effort sne nnaiiy ex- claimed: "Why. you oughtn't to charge . me a. cent for these things! Think ot , ther-advertIsIn-you can get out.o-f it! If you trsat me right I'll see that your . place la mentioned by aU the report ers!" And another, whose husband is one , ot the richest men In the world, actual- . ly wept before a Fifth avenue dress maker In her pleadings for : a reduc tion of flS on the ..price of a certain garment that she simply had to hava . but couldn't afford, she declared, put of the email allowance made -her try her . husband. When TTwasnrWe wport Tasr summer. people were laughing at the latest petty economy of this same husband, who la certainly one of the "closest" of our idle mllllonalree.' He had heard of a -new aluminum paint, -warranted ' to keep shiny without much rubbing, and he had forthwith given orders that the , brasses on hla beautiful yacht be smeared over with this paint so that he might reduce hie pay roll by the; wages of two-sallore previously needed to clean these brasses. Thle gentle- -man's Income muet be at -least $4,- 000,000, . - ' -I happened te be In Tiffany recently . and asked one of the head men if It Is true - that people really eat oft gold plates. . t He amlied, ana turning io jv young man said: -"Bring me an arter-nmner -coffee Bet" ' ' , And presently the young man re turned! with a email tray-boldlng three small pieces.' J"hey were gracefully fashioned and looked like gold. And; -the tray looked Ilka gold. What do you tnina may arei aixea the head man. . v . Silver gilt" I euggeetea. -iJ"Hold tt"- he-eald, -and put-the-eerr let In my hands. It s heavy," said J, " DUlll can t be aolld a-oldr - "That'a what it is," he secured me, I ni nninterf to tha mark "These foul u pieces, the tray, the coffee pot, the cream ptlcher and the eugar bowl are ll-carat- gold Bona, me price is 13.000." I. . , - Not only IS it true that a number of mllllonalree In America own plates of solid gold or ; silver gilt (which latten IS considered goo enough-for European royalty), but there are rich families who boast seta or ehlna costing from 11.000 to' 15,000 a dosen, ao that the breaking of a f ingle plate means the loaa of eeveral hundred-dollars. XXOUSX XOASS. --From June Seribner'.'5-' What good roads thsy have In Enev land! Look at the piles of brokea atone for repairs, stored In little niches ail along the way; aee how promptly anil carefully every hole Is filled up anl every break mended, and you will, un derstand how a small beaat ean pull a heavy load In thta eountry, and why ' the big draught hprsee wear long and do good work, ,A country with a line system of roada ia like a man Witt ,t -good circulation of the blood: the labor of life becomes-easier, effort la reduced t ana pleasure increased.