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" , THE AMENDED BOX ORDINANCE. , v '
; ; Hp HE CITY COUNCIL .doesn't Urt in in tuck a
V I 'y a i i th public the liveliest, confidence
: ,tii i,in, ft;t prqfesions.; From theyery lirit it"; has
V j' beeibevident that what it proposed was to ferret out some
'.yi way through which the provisions ot ,.the.. .box ordinance
tcouVbe, circumvented. An amended ordinance la Intro-
' duced and jre'erred to y the liquor license committee
'yjwuich. ' promptly" reports adversely ; upon it.."' Thea
i'i' - special meeting is hetdi the report incorrectly made that
ty the.Munidpal league is .agreeable to certain proposed
v i change and this is accepted by "all but four members of
the touncilAThia change Extends "the provision for the
size ot boxes from restaurants to include saloon), fixing
V ! minimum of 160 feet square, or say 12x13 feet, fof both.
vi;. This mendment,! V apparently - insignificant in 'itself,
cpens again h whole subject Under it.ejthe the
'myt nor police would find it possible to 'aegulate the
"boxes in any saloon which now uses them nd the so
called box' ordinance would be practrcally a dea4 letter.
It is precisely this which the mayor i called upon to .face
when the amended ordinance is presented to him for his
"'.'(official actioiv:-;V v'-,v v.. -j;,. ; --'-.r'-W .'J
- The pe6ple therefore have before them the same fight
-they had prigin'ajly when they forted through 'the box
, ordinance that subsequently successfully ran the gauntlet
. of the courts.. . Mayor Lane should be left in no doubt of
the sentiment "of the public on a question which they
1 .i havaiought with such persistency for the past two years.
NOTWITHSTANDING some udtowari conditionfl
... -as -to4 climate -and soil, as indicated yesterday.
; v southern California, which has many represent-
atives in Portland visiting the exposition today, is a re
gipn of great resources and possibilities. A large por
. tion of it can be irrigated, and under irrigation the' soil
'is exceedingly prolific, especially Jn the growth of semi
' Mropical fruits., In that region are numerous oil fields,
' producing now more than a million barrels of crude oil
' annually, for. which new uses have been found and which
, the basis of a great industry. Grain'grasses, stock,
' mfnerals and other products serve to make that regionin
; the aggregate, one of great wealth. .' ii-'r-'?.
Los Angeles, the metropolis of southern California, is
. tone, of the municipal wonders of the country. Its per
". .Icentage of growth during recent years has been, we be
; Heve", the greatest of any city, of considerable' population
. Jn the country. It is a city notjonly with a summer- cli
, mate the year round, and with' the ocean near n one
band nd picturesque mountains on the other; not only
'the home of a large number of wealthy people from the
v-'east Who reside there part.or- all the year, but it has be
' - come a very .important business, commercial and finan
cial center .and railroad, terminus A- great many cap
: italists who own mines in California, Arizona and Mex
. ico, and oil wellr in southern California, and other, large
r" propertied at-ardgtance, live sridIyeheir business
headquarters there. ' It ir a city of immense aggregate
. .wealth, as well-fxeptiewaetrtyrvAnd'th6ugfi
? lying, in a semi-tropical climate "Ha people are full of ac
" tirity and enterprise. Hundreds upon: hundreds of new
business establishments of all kinds have been started in
1 Los Angeles within the past twoor three years, and yet
business is not overdone there more thanlsewhere.
" -i'Lbs Angeles ia already a Isrge town, with a world-wide
. reputation, and it is destined to' become a great city! ,
. ; (' Southern California has- many 'other lively and growing
' towns, from' which '-some representatives' are in Portland,
and all of them from that very interesting region are s
; i Iecially welcome to: Portland and the Pacific northwest
This region offers a contrast 'that, 'however highly they
. ' may esteem their home country; will doubtless-be agree-
able. VJ'!'' i .i-V:'iJ-1i...'U.'J.v
ZEMSTVOS AND CZAR.
t HE ; RUSSIAN ZEMSTVOS wiUJeani after
t..t ,1,.:. l
xi . nothings far as their having any effect' on the
czar and his' bureaucratic advisers is concerned. 'The
' iemstvoists' continued agitation and efforts may have
; "ultimate results, but it is evident that the czar does not
' mean tQ.jriell to their demands except upon dire com-
' pulsion. . .v.,
!v-The. fourth, zemstvo congress is now forming. : TjiC
' first was held in private in St Petersburg, after the gov
: -emment had at the eleventh hour -forbidden its meeting.
The secondhand third met in Moscow, also in private.
The third met in defiance of Trepoff's orders, and yet
t '; was received by the caarand given a friendly, greeting
:i und vague " assurances. - Then " the bureaucracy pre
ared the $ouligin project for a national assembly, which
would; leave everything pracU'cally where it is.- Hence
V J the acmstvos are going tojiojd another congress, bur it
v will baof little use, and of no purpose, unless to manu
;i facture revolutionary, fuel. tTh a czar is evidently joined
to his idols, but he will hot be let alone." . ; . '
" THE KAISER AGAINTO THE FRONT.
HATliVliirXtSE"may be said of Kaiset WUr
helm'and howe'er else he mar be retarded
1 . there is no public man in the world who
I chooses the opportune moment with nforV f5festgiit than
he-- He is one of the rulers that you can't lose. He is
I .always bobbing up in the most unexpected places audi
4loing spectacular, things in a spectacular war. When
i it looks as tbough he - was entirely 'on' the outside of
everything rue makes counter move that sets the world
f a-thinking and serves to make clain that he U attll a
; factor to be reckoned with.- -;;..' F x':,, . '
"His latest maneuver to meet the czar in an interview
In .Swedish waters, fcas set the diplomatic circles of Eu
rope igOg and driven France into a state bordering pn
hysterics. ; France has occupied, the place of warmest
friend- of Russia. It has not only' made , sacrifices in
Russia's behalf but it has furnished much of the money
to finance, its great, enterpriser. Now St iinds. the czar
and the kaiser in-close and confidential communication at
a moment when the echoes of Jhe, .Moroccan incident,
that almost forced war upon France, have not ceAed to
reverberate. ' t,'"'-;J' ' V'."-V' 'Av-' ,- 'r
Such a proceeding leaves France in a rather unpleasant
plight and alnfost necessarily throws itinto an offensive
and defensive alliance with England. But meantime t
there evei1 was a country which has a. right to accuse
another of .base ingratitude that country is France in its
relations with Russia. ' ' - " ' N v-- f;
J'l-,.?. BAKER COUNTY AT THE FAIR. . i '.
T" AKER is one of Oregon's richest, most progres
f" "sive and prosperous coUnties.- How rich it is in
fTT- ': mineral wealth nobody can tell, por guess.. It has
yielded many tens of millions' in gold during the last
half .century, but'the gold fn Us .rock-ribbed mountains
has as yet, been but skimmed. ; 1
'-Baker cqunty is rich also ia, timber, in stock ranges
and.the beasts that roam thereon, in farming and orchard
lands,- particularly, where irrigation is practicable, l- r.
. Baker City, the principal town of the county, is a live,
rich,' active, steadily developing city, lying in the focus of
greajumineral, stock and agricultural districts; and with
the newly awakened spirit of development forcefully astir
in Oregon will keep, in, thw front rank of Oregon towns.
When the mines tributary to that city are opened up and
developed, as some, day they. will be, Baker City may
very probably realise its dream of becoming the Denver
of the Pacific northwest... .- - - , , i - , . T
Baker county and city are rich in tbetr people active,
enterprising, liberal, wide-awake, up-to-date, men and
women,who Tealize theif opportunities and entertain ;no
imaU1 jealousies of people of other sections who in some
respects may have equal or greater advantagea., ; .
Portland and the exposition welcome the people' of
Baker county. They are ajive. They 'are breezy! They
are contented and confident. -They come from. land, of
vivid, and ean show anv Missourian rho doesn't believe it
They are, the. right sort of folkjo nelp malce a greater
Oregon. -' ..w',.-.n... v
Eastern visitors will do well to sjze.up'these people,
and their "county.- Capitalists especially; can . find things
in Baker county to interest them. . Baker is a. county that
needs the-investment ot large capital, and there it may
be safely H judiciously invested, with a practical certainty
pf large returns. . .-"".v.. ; :' ;-v A'.' tt".r
' Baker county ia enjoying itself at the fair jio county
could enjoy itself, better; and everybody else enjoys
Baker county's visit. ; ' -v7' .;'''pv;,;'i.::',.;;
- ; , . HOPES OF OHIO DEMOCRATS. ' yl
A' f A DISTANCE Ohio Democrats appear to Jiave
not even a fighting chance of victory, and yet
reports from the Buckeye stateJndicate that
Democrats Oh the .ground, are buoyed, up with hope; so
that their noses and chins are occasionally above the
pTheX)bidDerh6crats haveToecome professedly good,.
They have gone over td the side of morality and tem
perance," If eefamtHcTiewii notTbecsttae
they at JL mass liave reformed arery much,' but because
the Republican party and the governor, who is "a canz
didate for re ejectionhave joined forces with the liquor
interests. .Cox, the 'Republican' boss of the state, is . a
saloon keeper and a great many people who are hot pro
hibitionists do not like his-domination.- The liquor in
terests are strong,' but, if sufficiently aroused and in
terested the moraV forces that object to the saloon in
politics are stronger,and the -Democrats are making a
bid for the support of those forces-. ' They, nominated
John M. Pattisoti," who; though'a Democrat, is a Metho
dist' tnd it is expected that not "only most of the Metho
dists but many other church members, nearly all of whom
are ordinarily Republicans, will rote for hhn.y':
Because Governor Herrick- helped to change the' local
option-law in the ssjoons' - interests, Zion's Herald, a
Methodistorgau, ,saya:r."Nearly every- aynod,- presby
tery, conference, league and Endeavor convention jn the
State.lncluding in all seVeral "thousands of ministers and
hosts of devoted laymen of all denominations, protested
in advance, that they, could not support him," and pre
dicts his defeat , . . '. . k- X ,
.. The Foraker element of the Republican party, that
hates and despises the new sub-boss, Senator Dick, is
likely to sulk at home or quietly vote for Pattison.
Such in aubstance are the causes of Democratic hopes
in Ohio;; But it is a long time -yet till election, and jn the
absence of more convincing reports we shall expect to
find Ohio In the Republican column, as usual. ; , . r
-1 XHE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN. ' r
APAN evidently means to take and hold, or rather to
y recover, possession of the island of Sakhalin for it
was a' Japanese possession prior to 1875, when it
was ceded to Russia in exchange, for the Kurile islands,
which form a chain between the northern islands of the
Japanese archipelago proper and Kamchatka. Sakhalin
-formerly spelled Saghalien was supposed to be a part
of. the Asiatic mainland till nearly a century ago, when a
Japanese navigator' discovered, the' straits of Tartary.
Then the Japanese established settlements in the-eouth-ern
part of -the island, -and Russians fctso migrated'
thither, causing a dispute which resulted in the trade
mentioned. : .
The island Is" 670 miles long and from 20 to ISO miles
wide, its total area being about 29,000 square miles, nearly
as large as the state of Maine, or one sixth smaller
than Cuba. Its population is perhaps 30,000. It has
been used by Russia as a convict settlement ' It is Val
uable mainly for its fisheries and seaweed, but within a
few years good coal has been found, and there are also
indications of oil. The island may also be ol strategical
importance to Japan, which at any rate means to take it
and make it one of her a'ssets in the final settlement. ,-
Oklahoma's Great "Growtl
f.'",- HV. E, Curtla In Recorfl-Herald.
. The " growth ef populatloa botb In
Oklahoma.'-and Indian Terrlterv- ha
bn extraordtiuiry, By the ecneun of
J0 the ' two - combined, and It Is
natural to pak of them jointly, had
TSO.SSl tnhnbiunta, .more .than it ot
the atata of tho Union Colorado, Dl
wn KiorMa. Idaho. Main. Montana.
-LNmidt.'Nev Hamph1r. -North 1
kola. Ore iron. Rhode Inland, South Da
'. kola. UUh. Vermont. "Waahlnatoii and
'; 4 Wyginlna. The growth dnrtna tho past
I flvo yara ha been very, rapid. -The
r moat conaervativo aaumatea rive a mii
' ' Hon and Quarter pooulatloa. for the
' two terrltorlee now, while th boomers
. am rlalmlne a million and - a halt,
which would ot bo- at all Mllkoly.
. Vive yaars makes great difference in
a country like this. At least half a
minion penpie must have come In -be-tn
July 1. 1S0O. and July 1. I SOS.
The growu ia wealth baa kept pace
.with the growth In population. There
have been several successive years of
prosperity, although some of the crops
this season will not equal the average
records. Tho wheat erop lant year
amounted lo more than 15,900.000
btiphela more than that of Michigan,
Indiana, Kentucky,. Tennessee, Texas,
California, Oregon, Washington ell of
which are Urge wheat-growing state
But this year, owing to the heavy rains.
U-wlll not meet the expectations of even
' 'w weeks ago, and the total will not
(exceed 11.000,600 bushels. There Is a
towmper corn crop,, however consider
biy 'heavier than that of last year
and tho cotton crop, from present Indl
CRtlons, la likely to break the record.
Tho farmers of Oklahoma have not re
duced their acreage, notwithstanding
the appeals from the cotton planters of
the southern states. It will be a little
larger. If anything, than ever before.
.
' Loyalty to Old truths means looking
out for new, , -
. "Watch Portland Bloom."
W ve sees the fcukr anrtbrraen V .' S
Blow la tu one sbow, ' . k ,
asd in ebeerr tones we've keerd tsea (pellt '
, "Watct TsotHBS growl"- ,
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Fmn Veeeoarer, sees the swrry -erowds -
Pleemre eklnc. setblnf loath. "V'
As4 b7 eUlm It likes so weU-blag ' '-i '
Te toaare Vtiwwinri grewtb. ' , ' ,
While tWiwtWn in fran Heilfard
Hit the Trail It bee te the Pike,-' " -- ',.
tmm .thesi we beer the glad Nfrela: '. 1 .
"Watch oar Medford hikal" .
Wbat't 'tbe metter, ' frteadet with - Pnrtlaadl
It's tke time that beats Ibe beseh;
We snMtn't be se f er behind . , '
. It le tlawU take a bearh.- -;- -' .
Why aot Sport a eateby little phrase,
At it seasai te tie me raa, - .. - ...-.
aad boom ear fair Km city
As4 giTe tke Sowa ea . I r
We in - staet yen WMher
Aee aava our town trrim e.
While we ahsnt "Hnorer foe oar aldel'
d "Watch Sid rertlaad bleeal''
SMALL ; CHANGE
- TVnafe become "of goottyTmlt the
mllllonaT Isn't broke a'ready. i not -
, ... ' . .' ? h - r-
Jn Norway saloons are closed on pay
day, i' Next day tho married , working
men have only a carfare or two In their
clothes. : ,
It is an old haying that one baa to
dto to beat a life Insurance oompany.
But an Insurance eoaipany can beat a,
policy-holder as long a he Urea.
. fj-;
' Give Jones' bones a rest J . '
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' And still .the colored female thieves
abound.- ', , '.- . ,
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The kaiser keepa all. Europe on the
qui viva, , y; , .
The ' chaneea ' are ' ten to ' one tbat
Bill gave Nick some bad advice. u V
-;. '...-.- , ;."- , ; p'w. :
Joe Day never geta lost and f alia to
come back. .:' ; , - r. -'
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Nearly time, for forest fires again,
h J. 1 V. . , ' t
...Rustle up exhibits all summer.'
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Plenty of work for all willing hands.
' Such ldlotlo sport as blanket tossing
may be easily turned Into manalaughter.
. Baker City - people never - fall to -do
things up brown. -, ' ,'. , '
Great lp resources la Baker county.
-;VT'; .. e et( . ..,,-y ,: .
.A girt who Is not good to a good
mother will not make a good wife. . ,
Any kind of weather helps some and
hurts othera. - -. - v-:
Welt what about those electrlo rail
ways up the valley? . ; .i.i ,yt-
ff the people between and eneludtng
Woodburn and Bprlngfleld would paral
lel the railroad with an eleetrle road.
tho Bouthera Paclfio would put en ser.
aral tralna a day.'-. k ,
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Nobody else will enjoy the seashore
like those Juveniles. ;
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.. After ' this ' a- great -admiral ' should
think f the trouble and expense an 1
die at home-Hiniess tie wants to wait
100 years for' nla-bonaa to be brought
back, and-Jollied ever. ' , , '.. ,. -
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. Rockefeller regards Toni Lawson as
a boat rocker.' ' v-" ,-, v
' The' esar neither knowe' what to do
nor, how. to do It. , ' - , ;
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The Japanese guns will indulge in
something more than pour parlors. .
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.Of eourse,'Tom Ryan1 Of 'New Tork
ie the proper' man for United States sen
ator, since he became the greatest trust
magnate In the country, barring J.
IX B, -s ' ':' - . ;
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li Peary ta a foxy eUow; he got away
Just before the hottest weather. v :
,, .-..e;i.,.nve.-- . f..-. .. .:.-
-Try a Jrvaeatlon ta 'CWeago,"! aaya
Qii Chicago-Journal. .And this with the
Paolfle "northwest ell Jying put o doors
adTeejb everybody... . tr--.,:
' , -.! .ee , , v '' .,'''' '"
' Haa there been graft "In the navy
department toot that a battleship ean't
have safe bolleraT f :. .-i(
-OREGON SIDELIGHTS
J
The last barrel-stave Umber a Cali
fornia man can find Is In Polk county.
. . .-"-.- ,
' Dallas Itemlser; Perluvpa twice as
many people are passing between this
county and Portland as a year ago. Hun
dreds bf persona from the east are com
ing to spend a few days with their for
mer neighbors and frlenda and most
of them will takeback good jreports.
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In the-Watta district in-Waehlagton
county- a young man was on hie way to
see his best girl and frightened a. band
of sheep, when tho owner ran out gun
In hand, and fired three shots, suppos
ing It was a dog after the ebeep. .The
young man lay flat on the ground until
the firing was finished, and then went
on his way rejoicing that no damage was
don :,- ' (..'' ,
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It la rumored around Independenee
and Salem that Krebs brothers are about
to dispose of their big hopyarda. In
Polk county they have a liS-aere farm
of which 400 acres are In hops, and this.
It la said, I held at S1S0.O0O. In Marlon
county they have a toe-acre - farm of
which .126 acres are In hops, making
(26 acres of hops, If they sell. It Is
their purpose to organise a lumber and
furniture manufacturing company, with
a capital of $260,000, to operate In the
Philippine. - ' ? . , - 'ii-
; "la full blast" harvesting. ;
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Madras is digging a new town wait
eight feet In diameter and nobody knows
yet how deep. . r . -J r : J- . i
Grain better than expected 1n TamhllL
"Bumper" In many plaeee. ' ;
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Residents In and about Riddle are kept
busy part of the time putting out fires
.1 . u mIImuiI anlnM Ml ant Paal
burners go through the valley occasion
ally, scattering fire In every direction. -
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Toledo will have a tannery. "t
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A sand briok manufactory may be
established at Seaside. .
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Possibly a pulp mill on Anthony creek,
near North Powder. -t ; . , n
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Loatlne expects a mining boom next
ulu :-'. ' V'.-:ic
: l .M T-atvort A infalake waa made
In tho paper last week When we said that
I. T. Nolan was putting up i new
building on - Main street. On further
Investigation we find that It le his wjie
having the building erected. -. ' .
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Certainly there' ought te be a passen
ger train . between , Brownsville and
Springfield. . . . . . .
A 16-a.cre field of barley near Adams
yielded 7T bushels an acre. . ,
,;; . r .-e e- . .
-;A vegetable pest called yellow weed
Is troubling Tillamook county farm erf
and dairymen. ? h ' . ' . - - .
George Stead man, IT years old. died
at Sumptar suddenly- and painlessly
while kneeling alone In prayer, .
A STUDY :
OF J. D. ROCKEFELLER
From Mlse Tarbell'e Character Study ot
loon o. Rockefeller In the August
McClure's. . v,..'. ,
Study the photograph, -the last taken
of Mr. Rockefeller, study George Var
lan'a powerful sketch from life mad In
1S03. and ur if it be worth while to
be the riches man In the world at the
cost, these 'portraits show; Concentra
tion, craftlceaa, cruelty, and something
Indefinably repulsive are In tham, . The
photograph "reveals nothing more. Mr.
Varian'a sketch la vastly more interest
ing for It suggests, 'besides, both power
and pathos nd 0 'one can look long
on Mr. Rockefeller without feeling these
qualities.. The Impression he makae
on one who eees him for the nret time
Is overwhelming. .Brought taoe to face
with Mr. Rockefeller unexpectedly, and
not knowing him. the writer's Immedi
ate .thought waa, ' "This Is the oldest
man In the world a living mummy."
But . there le no aense of feebleness
with the sense of age: Indeed there Is
one of terrific power. The disease
which in the last three or four years
haa awept Mr. Rockefeller's head bare
of hair, stripped away even eyelashes
and eyebrows, haa revealed all the
strength of bla great head. Mr. Rocke
feller ta a big man, not over-tall but
large with powerful shoulders and a
neck like that, of a bull, The head la
wide and deep, and disproportionately
high, with curious bumps made more
conspicuous by the tightly drawn, dry,
naked, akin. The Interest of the big
race ties in tne eyee and mouth. Eyas
more useful for a man of Mr. Rocke
feller practices eould hardly be eon
eelved.'. They are small and Intent and
ateady, and they are aa expressionless
aa a wall. They see everything and re
veal nothing.. It la not a shifty eye
not a 'cruel On leering one. It is some
thing vastly more to be feared blank
eye, looking through ' and . through
things, and telling nothing of what they
found, entheway, .---r--"
' But If the eyee say nothing the mouth
tells much. Jts former mask, the full
mustache Mr. Rockefeller hss always
worn. Is now' completely gone. ' Indeed
the greatest loss Mr. Rockefeller sus
tained when hie hair went waa that it
revealed his mouth. It la only a silt
the lips are. quite, loot aa if by eter
nal grinding together of the teeth
teeth t set, on something : h would
havez-It - le , at once the cruelest
feature of' hls- faoe-r-thls mouth
the ' crueleet end the moot pa
thetic, for the hard, close-set line slants
downward at the eornere, .giving a look
of age and sadness. , The downward
droop, la . emphasised 1 by ' deep ver
tical "fhirrows -running from each-side
of hm nose.' Mr. Rockefemf ihay.have
made himself the richest man In the
world. ' but- he . haa paid. . Nothing but
paying ever plows euch lmes In a man's
face, ever nets hie llpa to such melan
choly angle. ;-.-(. ; . :
, But . whan one. haa' counted the cost
of making Mr. Rockefeller's fortune
the cost to the Dubllo. to hie friends fend
foes, and to himself, he has not said-
alt There Is, If-you pleaae, another
Mr. Rockefeller. Here then is
the other Mr. Rockefeller, an the world
sees him, a. quiet, ..modest church-golpg
genOeman, demoted -to -mday achool
picnic, golf and wheeling, whose even
ings are never spent In anything' more
aelflng - than a - gamer-f numeHco,
washed down by a glaae of elder, whose
chief occupation, outside of business,
ie giving away aa much money as ha
can. without Its doing more hjarm than
good, whose chief -pleasure is in fine
field and trees. In flowers and garden
ing, whose amile Is friendly for young
and old, who weloomee old-friends,, who
adores his grandchildren, and who meets
criticism and misrepresentation by quot
ing the meek doggerel: .- - '
There le ao much bad In the beet of a,
There la so much good In . the worst
, ' ' Of US, ; f -I' ;.'.
That It scarcely behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us. ,
There Is no doubt that hie charities
are many of them personal and never
known outside ot his immediate circle.
There are three or four old ladles In
Cleveland, friends of his youth, to whom'
he gives a monthly income. ' unxortun
ale. Baptist ministers, wornout teachers
and missionaries In great number are
helped by him, while the peer of all
grade receive much direct help. - Of
course, be give much to his ehurch.
but he haa never made any church the
object of affectionate and lavish giving.
He aeeme never to have been willing
to give more than what he considered
hie share. . .'. . It ha., been com
puted that Mr. Rockefeller's entire gifts,
public and private charities, . have
amounted to about t Jt.000,000. It would
be fair to call the aggregate 140,000,000,
and tbat would- probably do Mr. Rocke
feller full Justice. It la not a. great
sum considering Mr. Rockefeller's vast
Income. Probably hla dividends from
the Standard Oil oompany alone In tho
last three year would cover It.,' And
the Standard Oil company is only one
of Mr. Rockefeller's dividend earners.
It is quit probable that the man
would give more money If he eould get
it 7 without doing, from hie point of
view, more harm than good. ' He hatee
waste and ehlftlessness. He must have
seen long ago that money given freely
ie more often than not administered
carelessly. He must have' seen how
charity to Individuals often engender
dependence; ruins self-reliance. He must
have eome ' to understand that lavish
giving la a terrible social menace. In
juring the belf-respeot of recipients, fos
tering greed for more. He must have
learned that one of the moat .difficult
things In this world Is to give so that It
will not corrupt and weaken. It Is gen
erally aald by Mr. Rockefeller's friends
that It Is such consideration aa well aa
hla abhorrence of waste that ha led him
to establish the Charity Bureau at It
Broadway which Investigates before giv
ing, and which In many easee audits
annually the accounts ot Institutions
which -have taken hi money. If Mr.
Rockefeller thinks on thee things and
the care with which he scrutinises his
gift would lead one to think he does
may he not eome to .realise finally the
utter impossibility of Justifying by char
ity the injustice which euoh aa accumu
lation aa hi baa coetT. , . ,
For several years Mr. Rockefeller haa
spent practically all of the year, at one
or another of hla three home Forest
Hilt a country pace near Cleveland.
Ohio, where he lives from May until Do
toberr hla New Tork town house on
Fifty-fourth street or his great estate
at Pocantico hills, near Tarrytewn-on-the-Hudaon.
- It le fair to Judge some
thing of a man's character from his
homes particularly when .the man s
one who le freed from the necessity; of
considering cost of building. Mr. Rocke
feller's home fore several reflections
on one. Certainly they ebow hie ealt
of the unpretentious.: No -one of the
three houses Jie occupies haa any claims
to rsnk among the notabl homes, of the
country. . They are all Unpretending
even to the point ef being consplouous.
Net only, that, Jhex show nine ta nave
no pleasure . in ' noble architecture, to
appreolate nothing of the beauty of fine
linee and decoratlona Mr. Rockefeller's
favorite home, the house at Forest Hill,
le a monument ef - cheap ugliness a
great modern structure built In the first
place aa a sanitarium. It la ameSlng that
any one .not compelled to do so should
live In Its shadow. , Hla city house la
without distinction, and there haa never
been an appropriate mansion at Pocan
tloo hills. .- . . The dally life en hie
treat estate I studiously simple. Mr.
Rockefeller regulates his household as
he does his business. Family and servants
are trained to striates! economy. There
la no more gaa bunted than te needed,
no unneieaery heating, no wasteful pro
viding. There is nothing for .display,
nothing squandered in : the ' senseless
American way to prove you are rich, so
rich you need not care, On every band
there la frugality and carefulness. ' And
thla frugality certainly . la a weloom
contrast . to . the - wanton lavlsbnee
whloh on every elde of ua eorrupte taste
and destroys the sense of values. One
would be Inclined te like Mr. Rockefeller
the better, for hi plain living if some
how one did not feel that here waa
eomethmg more than frugality that
here was parsimony not only that, that
here wa parsimony made a virtue, and
that on f the. chief vanities of this
richest man in the world" 1 seeing
how little he can spend oa hla house
hold, aa that of many another rich man
la in aeelng how" much lie can-spend. .. 'J
The only pubmr place In which Mr.
Rockefeller appears with any regularity
la, at the services ot a Baptist church
In the community where he happena .to
be living. He is particularly devoted to
the services of the Euclid-Avenue Bap
tist church of Cleveland and rarely
from May to October doea ha miss
the Sunday- meetings, and he always
appears at the. annual Sunday school
picnic , . Here he seems - to be - at his
freest, bare be . even ' makes little
speeohee on occasions. And yet to one
who from a pew watches Mr. . Rocke
feller In the bosom of Ale church,, it
seems as if the Sunday service can be
nothing but an ordeal. - The writer waa
once present at - the ' annual October
gathering In Mr. Rockefeller' a. Cleveland
ehurch where he aaya -bood-by-forth
season 'to the Sunday school of which
he is the honorary auperintendent. He
sat through the session of Sunday
school, his back to the wall (they aay
In Cleveland Mr, Rockefeller always alts
with his back te the wall when it is
possible;, so many thlnga can happen
behind one's' back In an assembly'
Incessantly peering Into the faces of
those before him. da child In the as
sembly was so uneasy.- ' Throughout, tho
church serrlcosrh!ch followed; thle same
terrible, restlessness agitated, him. ' He
eat bent forward trt hla pew,' for a mo
ment, hla eye . intent oo- the epeaker,
then with a atart he looked to hla right
searching the faces he. could see, cran
ing hi neck, to look backward.- Then
hla , eyee would turn again : , to the
apeaker. But not to stay there. A few
moments later he waa searching ' the
aisle to hla left,, craning again to se
behind htm. - Those who have observed
Mr. Rockefeller In church over a long
period of years say that neha shown
thla uneasiness for years. Unconstloua
habit, -perhapa. Fear, feae. of the 'oft
repeated .threats .of the multitude of
sufferers from the wheels of the- cars
Of. progress he' has rolled aerose the
country, a -many a man'-who knew
him will say. it doe not matter -what
It la. - It ts.pltlfuVsa pitiful 'that one
cannot , watch John Rockefeller - alt
through a church service . and ever
cease to feet, that he la on ef the sad
dest objects fn -the world. ' For what
good' this -undoubted power ot schteve-menfcr-
for - what -good . thla 'v towering
wealthvlf 6ne must berever : peering
to aee what ia behind! . .. - -v. '
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in-
THE PLAY
David Belaaco'e triumphal study In
hosiery, "Naughty 'Anthony," drew a
large audience to .the Belaaco theatre
last evening on the occasion of It first
presentation In Portland, and amused
that audience to about the eame extent
that Blanche Bates used to, in the same
play, on Broadway. The play. Is Inter
estingly risque. No man will deny that.
It might have been written In the
middle of a eeason after blaee . New
Tork had declined every other dramatle
effort and " the i bushy-haired - genlua of
Forty-fourth street bad determined to
make these aeoswt -omethlng. When -ft
wa first produoed the Broadway mer
chant grasped the opportunities . of
their . Uvea Down i by the Flatiron
building there was a big department
store which exhibited, hosiery la every
window on wax limbs and labeled them
ae in the play 'Tor , the widows,"
"for the- debutante," 'for the seminary
girl" and "for th maid." -
Ahd the' strange part of It was that
one eould never find a woman -In front
of those window ' The men ' took up
all the space. This, of course, waa great
advertising for the play and for Miss
Bate. Will our - firm do likewise?
"Who wants to know f
- Beriouely, TNaugbty Anthony is the
least clever ef the pieces that bear Be
lssco'a name, but It in, aa aald before,
interesting, and It was warmly ap
plauded last night. The central" figure
le a professor "of moral culture, who is
hypocritical to a degree' and; dotea on a
stocking model and the escapades which
she, contrives. Tbat It 1 a satirical ef
fort le Indicated when first -the curtain
t raised on the professor studio.- The
place Is covered with moral. Inscription
Situations arise that take the - breath
of tho audience, but the latter holda on
and after a while geta Into the owing
of the place aad rather enjoys It.
: In one scene th aforesaid stocking
modal divests herself of several sets of
hosiery for the benefit of prospective
customer - Ordinarily this would' be
a caa for the' society for the prevention
of something or other, but Lucia Moore
handle the ettuatlon so deftly he Is
the model that em lie le forced from
the sternest prude. Her impersonation
ie delightfully naughty, but never
broad. - -. - ''-'.' . - , . ,
Mr. Ormonde, a the professor, found
a congenial light comedy role, but al
though it Is not difficult to imagine the
character as he playe him, -the actor
rather overshoots his mark In effemin
acy. Thle professor waa more wis
than womanish. . i . - ' -
Mr. Montatne aa Chllllngstsln, Mr.
Frohoff a Budd, Mr. Wallace as Che
volt, Miss McLean aa the prude of the
park board, Mia Adams as Mr,. Budd
and Miss Gordon , a Mr. Chilingstein
added greatly to the amueement at the
evening.' . .
"Naughty Anthony" will run all week,
With .the usual matinee'
...,v(;-";.- .i " RACD WHITNET.
V V .. ....
; . .ftpprecktlvs , Calif otoUng. , ;
' The California Press .association, in
an extended eerie bf resolutions after
expressing full appreciation . of many
courtesies extended while In -Portland,
continues: "Resolved. It le the sense of
this association that, the exposition Is
a great success, reflecting credit upon
the enterprise of the people of the state
of. Oregon.' and that It acta forth In
the most convincing manner the untold
resources and the brilliant -prospecta of
the creat swrtavtav r.-v v :-.m
ZNATO?v rULTON"5 ' T J
COr-TVENTION; CCIIEME V
From, the independence Enterprise,
Senator Fulton U lB off loe. If Is
enjoying both the honor and emoluments ' ',
ot a United States senator.' -Under the ,
peoultar existing pondltlone, be la the ;
whole Oregon delegation. " He la four
In one. Officially considered, he la "It." .
It la only through the senator af the
mouth of the Columbia that Oregon eJn '
b heard at Washington. - Thla panes is 7
friendly to Senator Fulton. Kxusts -the
blighting Influence of federal ,ln- -dlctraente
that haa cut short the canter
ft the rest of the delegation may never
badow hi proaaecte. v t .
Upon the lone ' senator rests much
responsibility and aa long as he ean
keep up hie end of it thle paper? le '
pleased to to hold up hi band Know- '
ing eomethlng of Senator Fulton a capa.
bUlty and attainments we will go fur
ther to ay thle paper hopee to eee him .
mark out and follow a course that will '.,
keep him , at Washington aa the repre- V.
enUtlv of .Oregon's Interests, It
would see him accept the "plain duty" '
that Ilea before him United States
senator and view with regret hla 'ef.
fort' to perpetuate machine . politics .
aa Indicated In his Interview. True the '
senator haa ' trained in the old school '
and occupies his unique and exalted po- ,
altlon through the triumph of machine
vs. people, but since his election.-th-'
people havedeoided to dieoard machine "
methods a nearly ee possible. Their v
desire la of record In . the form of law,
It la on the etatute books that th -vot-"t
ore shall choose candidates direct ; It's
the lav; of. the land. The unsatlsfae- ,
tory results of convention methods drove '
the people te take the matter . In their ; '
own hand . Now the -senator. It cor
rectly quoted, would circumvent th '
law. ' He .would evade by calling to
gether "Influential" Repubtlcana. the
law. This action of the senator can
bat have th ff ect to drive the wedge
tKitween htmsulf and the peopla It's '
not a "aquare deal.-. The law 1 en-
titled to a fair trial and whether good '
or bad, a United States senator ahould '
be the laat to endeavor to nullify or go .
contrary to Its provisions even for -the
sake of partisan advantage. Further-more,-the
senator's method of avoidance,
if adopted, which It ia not, likely to
be, will necessarily prove a. eouTce of;
party disruption,- the extent bf which i
will be governed by the number bf "in'
fluenttal" followers be may drum up for
thle -meeting. Th acheme has neither v
moral nor nolitlcal merit, and doee, not -ahow
good faith with the people. , v '
eBmjsaSssabaaJ'
t LEWIS AND S CLARK
In the .Rocky mountains, along "the ,
Mlsaouri river. , ' ;,- .-.'-.
- July 25. At the dlstanoe'ot ifew
miles Captain Clark arrived at the three
f orke of the Missouri. Here he found,
that the plains had been burnt m the
north aide, and saw the track of a horse ..
whloh seemed te have passexf about four
or fiv days since. After breakfast be
examined tke rivers. and- finding that
the-north branch; although not larger. '
contained more water than- the' middle ,
branch and bore more to the westward. ..'
he determined to ascend it. He therefore ,
left not informing Captain 'Lewis of ....
bla anient Ion And, tbew went . aiathat
stream on. the north side for about Jt
mllea. - Here Chaboneau , was unabl to
proceed any . further', and theparty ;
therefore encamped, U of them mach -fatigued,
their , feet, blistered an'.
wonded by th prickly pear. ;
In th meantime we left our eemp'and ,
proceeded on very well, though th wa . -ter
Is still rapid aad baa some oea i
atonal ripple. The country la much like
that of yesterday; there are, however,
fewer Island, for we passed only. two.
Behind one of them la a large creek SI
yards wide, to which we gave the name. ,
of Gase creek, from on of our sergeant,
Patrick Gas: it la formed by tne ubi-jr -
of live atreams, which descend from, the
mountains and join in tne plain near tne ;x
river. On thle island we saw a large
brown beer, but be retreated to the
shore and ran off before we eould ap
proach him.- Theee animate seem more v
any than tney were peiow ine woan
talna.,Th antelopea bar. agahicoICi.
looted Jn email herds, composed of sev
eral femalea with their young, attended"
by one or two males, though some of
the males are atui solitary or wanner
In parties of two over the plains, which; ,,
the antelope Invariably prefers to the .;
woodlands, and to which It always re- :
treats If by accident it la found strag- .
gllng In the hllla, conOdlng no doubt In
It wonderful fleetneaet We also killed .
a few young gees, but a thla game le ;
small and -very Incompetent to the-sub- .
atatenc of the party, we have forbidden '
the men any longer to waste their am- . '
munition on-tbem About four and a ,
half mllea above Oass creek the valley ..
in which we have been traveling ceases;....
the high craggy curre again approacn
th river, which now enter, or rather .
leaves what appear to be a . 'second
great ehain of the Rocky mountains.
About a mile after entering theee. hills,
or low mountain, we passed number : ;
of fine, bold springs, which burst, out
near the edge of the river -undea the .
cliff on the left and furalshed a fine '
freestone water; near these w met with
two of tba worst raptda we have seen en- .
tsrlng the mountain, a ridge of sharp
pointed rock stretching acresa the river. .
leaving but small ana aangerous cnan--r
nels for the navlgstion. Th cliffs ar
Of lighter color than those we have . '
already passed . and in the bed of th
river I eome limestone, whloh Is smell .
and worn smooth, and Seeme to have been ' .
brought down by the current-. We went ;
about a mile further' .and encamped -under
a high bluff on the right opposite
to a cliff of - rocks, having .' mad-, II -mllea
. "- ' " '
All these cliff e appeared to have been v
undermined by th water at eome period -end
fallen down from the htlle on tneir
sides, the stratae of rock sometime ly
ing with their edgee upwerds;' Others
not detached from ' the hllle ar de- '
pressed obliquely on the elde next the
riven ae' If they Tiad'sunk to fill up the
cavity formed by the, washing of the ,
river, --. ."-'
. In the epSn plaoee among the rocky '
cliffs ar two kinds of gooseberry, one
yellow and the other red. The former ,
epeclee waa observed for the first time
hear the falls; the latter differs from It ,
in n respect except lii color and In be
ing of a larger else; both have a aweet
flavor, and are rather Indifferent fruit .
- Hut Country Place. '
Tt:
- From the New Torksr. ' ft
."But why do you. live In town If you -don't
like itr asked Copthall. - . .
T have to live In town," aald Con
tangOi--"to mak enougn money to keep -up
my country place," , .,. . -i .
Under the VcAdob DiapensaUoai "
- r-:, ' From Pur it. '
Citisen They've eaughta"BnHk tblef ;
In a house on the next block! '
Policeman Aw, I ain't got nothln' to
do with anlt thlevts, I'm cq the. r