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1 PORTLAND. : OREGON, SATURDAY.' JULV U IZIZ. iT H.E --.OtR E J V VVir AM i ucox TubSle4 "every r wln (ixcept, Sunday T 4 very1' Sunday t uumtiag . at 1 - " VVV ' . atrccta, Portland, Oregon. . JsjBWa"sBi ,s ATP5 TUB XAWYEFS.4: rr 1 HIS ' MAN 'JEROME, district Jt -i l;i. t nnfni himcrlf fenders, big and little, he Was bearable, but now, that; Jie . "h turned hia attention to the legal profession $ ia ah ' ; entirely different affair, There ha. .grown tip a feeling ; id erv community that the legal ... front interference Its members know ' . jng it are fully aware how to avoid its " V unusual thing to find a client 'going to 1 extraordinary thing to tma nis attorney going wun mm. And yet there has been growing tip a suspicion in the ' V not too astute public mind that the most dangerous of -all elements in every community are the. lawyers of a . certain class, "those who equip themselves with a knowl- edge of the law lor the purpose oi class are included not ' alone the ' V" evervbodr knows and despises, but ' anen who make princely incomes, ;i teemed in every community ana ; public honors, thrust .upon ."them:" me era- ot trenziea i finance in the country -has 'developed, hundreds -if 'not thousands of thenv vJt Is these men who-make it pos I'l sible foT.tbe.padons corporations to exploit the pub- lie and-to. segregate from it .property of extreme lvalue. "T at 'little Ot no cost-,''I.t ;is,tJjey who find .means to cJrr filmvent every, law put pri the statute .books tor. the; pur pose or curbing these very, practices. - l ney are con tin; 'ually working against the public interest, against "the in terests of justice and equity tor the take oi money ana in 1 .the interest of the corporations by. which they are em f ployed. .All this has been long known,, yet strange' to . d . te -u- : j . w f . :.v say it nas naor no. enect upon inc tuiuiucrmuu nu .' which these men were held in the various communities. Just because man happened to-be do things that in any other man would can tortn tne s ' .sharpest rebuke, While serving in a public capacity he v might accept fees tp a'd .private enterprise that was ' Inimical to his public dutiee. f ' ... ' v But the world it beginning-to get a somewhat different v 'point of view on these things i and it doet not to highly -- . j j & .11 . ...y .u :t approve, IK inacca l pjjruy - m . 'however professional fails to square 'demand of -another -under, ditterent relations. Air. k Te'rome is on the right track and In following it he will ; be doing his profession and constituents a genuine public y service.: The fact that Justice Hooker escaped the 'peh alty of hit crimes makes the need "for Jerome's work all tne more apparent. vuui n u juogemer quin proic . sional, or. as the doctors would say, ethical, for him to r ride rough -shod over membei's, of his own profession, - much as they may deserve it, when there are to many ' oiher'chancei in so many other directions to occupy his - attention? f An evident coolness u springing up against ,i Jerome Jnvariou.s. directions. JIn professional quarters ; there teems to be a suspicion that he is beginning to - carry things too far. Apparently he doesn't mind it a g little bit and the, general public which has hitherto had good "reason to regard the legal profession as immune from the consequences of its own misdeeds will view the -crusade with interest amounting almost ; TIMS TO. WAKE 1 HEValenda and City ot ' Topeka, the -boats e - eently - pt - rt - the - Portland are about 4o be "withdrawn they.tre too small to pay. Meantime the promise is given that other and larger boats will be secured for the ' . service As the search for boats of ., been industriously maintained for the past ftw months, t according to Mr. Schwerin, and as that search hat been .unattended with fruitful results, the outlook for its sue . cess in the Immediate future it not over bright r . - Passenger from the east come here with the expecta- - tion of getting to California by sea, for that is. one,! . ' the added attractions of the trip. But they find they : ' cannot get accommodations and there are no prospects of '- betting any. :Tht is neither fair nor decent and Port land protests fori the reason that it hurts the cityby . giving the impression thit tome tor of a contract which - J I I 1 II II I w r3g3sg .'. Fro th Welser World.--; '- . 1 IT IS A GREAT EXPO- j i'l sitxon.:,1V : .... . .i . . . . i ( : A . ) - 1 iiv in mm swvo 01 jsew xora ana , .i "n the bank of the Hudson. too,but .) I must adroit that the rid up that . 1 beautiful river, cannot , be compared v .4 with a Journey along the bank ofth Columbia, 1 expected to be surprised i " i on my trip, but never did I dream f that there could, be anything grander . than th Palisade of the Hudson. But . v, 1 here 1 some thing in American scenery 1 11a l is grander infinitely more lnsplr- In... It 1. th. rAm V h.v. In m An (n..l j dewa the glortons Oregon of th poet's ' Mng the sublime, tb serene Columbia , f on It way to the western ocean." j ''The editor made a hurried buslnes J trip to Portland during th week and eon th way mad the acquaintance '-of the New . Jorker who gave . expression ite.tl ing th serv t .in aoove sentiment. lie waa writ- impression to his borne paper Yonkers Statesman, If memory serves correctly. if'' It was taking me back to the hours ( of childhood's sweet abandon that ride , 't down to . the Cascades and along the (haded bank. of the Columbia, -here f I waa happier in the days long gone , than I ever can hope to be again. 'Wht ..r t do you .think of it?" I asked, aa w , ' drew near to the exposition city. "Isn't ' It wonderful? I there a more ddlght ' t ful ride anywhere?" I . -Thta Is whet I think of it," he an t swered. and handed me the page of his i manusertpt from which I have quoted. He gave me permission to copy it end '" I know . there 1 on great big New . 1 Yorker who ia not provincial, n knowa , ... poetry, when he be'lt. - '' " To none , of hti recent ' expositions, I Chicago, Omaha.. paffalo, Chrtetor or - 8t. Ioule ha . nature been ao kind as 'he baa been to the Lewi and Clark eerttenitial.T Alt tit th other HaveHeen ? rood, and some" hava been grand, but : none aav thia on of our ha deserved , to be called beantlfut Out there 1 the " harmony of emerald mountain and the aapphtro ky; there th perfect blending -Of the bandrwork of pod and msn.". '. How essential a part of "th great expoeittaa I Idaho' building and its oxhiblt. w a thought that earn to m ' -tht was forced upon me as com pared Idaho with California and Wash- intioft. "d even grand old Oregon her ,aelf. It wae n true delight to hear th 'rtlHinterest'-d comment of etern Vis itor so tinlformly to Idaho's advantage, hut it wee rlehly- deserved, every word 'ef It" T" ' .rv ' ' . . IU4 It sot been that basin took tX .i,1 G.O N . P A ILY - INDBPEN&EHr: newspaper '. ' PUBLISHED BY JOORNAL vPUBUSHINQ CO. : r p. . camoix attorney of New tn the ordinary of mand for that tort profession i sacred Am iiwft k.wi"pl the law and know. penalties, it is no jail but it is a most this city should ; ----- .- ing the O. R. & in . Oregon being where., There - evaamg in mis pettifoggers, whom some very superior who. are highly es- has' scarcely yet the map outside wno oiteniimes-nave be .to belittle. and that the public terms as-will not.be misunderstood. V - suit that tha nils Jawyef he' could witn tne extremest off the cars. 1 When ... j- , 1 iu nun un,m . wuuui.v .wuivu with what one citizen few. On many of the those who wish forced to stand ' " the rule, -would be a chance to enjoy A PARTY of - death last the.third ired when the fire to enthusiasm. V? - ty.'jf. ' - 5aaranctsco "Ton, - on the ground that There Is again Many property-owner, have complied with the -pro this description hart approval , .'It wa and it. enforcement to innocent people. creased. 3.g. me there I would have remained away from the exposition. Three week of 8t Lou la laat summer had cured me of the exposition habit ao I thought. But the Portland fair la different o happily different that I'm going back later on going to stay a week even If I have to pay my faro, aa I. did this time, and a a newspaper man thinks he shouldn't have "o do at alt But it la. worth while worth the rail road fare and ovary thing Viae, for there 1 ..but one exposition; but on Fdrt iand with It wealth of shade and It perfume of rose; and but on beautiful Columbia to see on the Journey hOme. Building Great Railroad Station. Kar Decker In Buccess Magastne far .August Within the next five years tha Penn sylvania railroad station In New York City and its connecting tunnel will b completed and tha new Grand Central station will be ready for use a year sooner. '- j Four city .blocks have been rased by the contractor In charge Of the work on the Pennsylvania station, and- th great traveling steam shovel ar at work, each tearing away 1,000 cublo fert Of yards of earth dally, while 100 drills bore Into the exposed rock and heavy charges of dynamite rack it into frHgments. 1 - A great excavation - 60 ; feet deep In rnrts must be dug, and In all 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock will be carted away before the work of build ing; the new. station can be begun.' " " The cost of thia work will be t0, 000.000, to which muat be added the 110.000 000 spent in acquiring real es tate. Over In New Jersey the work- of boring the tunnel that is, to carry the tracks of the Pennsylvania into New York has been begun, and a abaft 71 fert deep and 3. fet in diameter ha bfen sunk. From this point two se Be rate tunnels, a mile in length, will, be bored to the waterfront, and thence under the river bottom S.000 feet to th shaft on the western shore of Manhat tan island, where the underland tunnele will strike through to th station.-On Long Island the shaft work haa also been- begun, and before long th work of tunneling th East river to meet the bores from the weet will begin. Th station Itself will occupy a site 100 feet oy i.ouo reet anuVwin -ba-.ee-feet In 1 'rf 00 ' n width. Placed ... uun win in Dunning nne on an Ides it will give the effect of being lo- taia in ine wnur or a great plasa, - ' . Satsuma Pottery becoration. " J From the Philadelphia Press. . flatsnma, adored of all pottery-loving women, has been manufactured for many hundreds of (ears In Japan. In the old feudal days the Japanese prince delighted In private Jotterl,. In which art craftsmen made all the pottery need In their lord', establishment. Th ware ...... j, , . . . vr r.--v- - i i i rngr w in u iu J O UR N A L The journal Bufldlnr, FJ and Yamhill i .- ., "- v." . - ;.' brought the people to the fair city was not carried out It has one. further ground for protest and that is that these disappotnted'people go away from Portland, which is a' seaport town where they are' unable to set accom modation, and go to Seattle where Ihfy have no trouble in getting the. "accommodations they need to reach San Francisco- by water. - It is true,' of course, that the de of accommodation io San Francisco Willi 111C UC1IM1IU 1IU1M IUl w ref ect on , nrverthr1 on Portland and the neonle of resent it. Indeed the policy of conduct - N. shipping is much the same, as that which used to actuate its railroad. 1 here, was little pre tense made xf constructing new linesi-the only purpose to draw revenue to spend else are - indications v that 'this policy has passed for good and that a new ahd better one is now in vogue on the railroads However true this may be it is certain that nothing of the jort has yet happened in, the snip service .Indeed it looks at though LMr. Schwerin discovered that there is a coast city on of San Francisco. The desire seems to cripple Portland and it it high time Bodies of the city spoke out in such .CRQ VyDINO THE CAR PLATFORMS. 0iAbbii.AK LUMrAn I .nas postea a no I . ' t!r ta the affrrt that nasaenffera must not stand - ir .... . . . . - , ; r.n th nlatfnrn4te a1 (hit thia ml tut m. forced -when possible" the conductor. , The word. "when possible" give a very wide latifcide, with the re - is verv rarely enforced. In manv in- stances noted there has been plenty of room Inside the car. yet the platform, have been crowded and it was only auiicuity mat passenger got on or in addition to the crowding most of those on both platforms are tmoking the combination . . . l jl exceeaingiy. unpleasant ioj. tne iwomen wno are lorceo inunu uuicii tiic r imcii is c- tually crowded inside no one should be permitted fosj his own selfish reasons to obstruct the entrances. This is another case .where the comfort of the majority "should be considered even at the sacrifice of the .comfort of the open cart provisions are made for to smoke. On th closed cart they are either on the front or ar nlatform Smokers should be excluded from' the rear platforms and other, should be moved inside to at not to create obstruction.;. 'If there are not enough cart for th ac commodation 6f travel they thould be provided o That - - ------- - - enforcable and everyone would have in comfort the ride for which he pay. lJJEED-OF-IR ESCAPES- Swedi.h singers narrowly, escaped night in a fire - They were lodged on floor ,of a building but had not yet reuken in commiM.,.. -ik t-Ir ZLzl broke out! nevertheless the v made I their escape wht.considerable difficulty down a -narrow hall. The buildingwas not provided With a firescane, and therein lay alt the danger. Had the fire broken out later inthenight it. ia probable that not one of nhem would Jiaveiiscaped" without serious Jnjnryi--i-T s "empfiasixetf"the need for the enforce ment of the ordinance providing . for . fire escapes. visions of the ordinance, but many others have not The aim of the ordinance meets with unqualified public put on the statute book iorbe enforced! -mean, a greater measure of safety I Its "provision, should therefore be I enforced no matter who stand, in the way and no Port land buildinhich come, within it. .cope .hould be per- mitted to go without these necessary appendage, which are ao necessary to the safety of thote who occupy such buildings. They are even more necessary in cities like Portland where to much of the oonttruction is wood and wn ere tne imminence jui ins is incrcuy consiaeraDiy in- I made on the estat of th Prtnee of Batsuma acquired a - world-wide fame. During the Internal wars of the nine teenth century, however, which resulted in the new Japan, the secret of th war would have been lost had It not been nLVilTli1 ?J,AtfVlVC i.M1,,,10, 0al la said to bo th greatest living artists, all hi own pupil. The extreme minuteness of some of Melxao's decora tion ia almost Incredible. On tb In terior of a bowl It Inches In circumfer ence and three In depth be haa painted 10,000 butterflies, indistinguishable to the naked eye but through the glass sen to be perfect In form and coloring. v;,v.--; Work... Warwick Jam Prlc In Success Ma g. y '.i i '-. a'n. in worst wnicn present no dlffloul-1 ties to be overcome soon grows nnln-1 tereeting. . , ' There are aom workers ao anxious to catch time by the forelock that they al most tear the forelock; off. - ... "If it. 1 true tht good work Implies that the workman knows himself; It la equally true that the best work shows that ne hae forgotten- himself,- - There Is only on right way to work nd it I neither In doing thing before they are started, nor in doing them all over again after they are finished. , Oo to om aucceasful workman arid ask him which of his day war hap piest, and it' long odds that hs'll say to you, "Those In which I began my career.?'. "; . ' -- :'. e It I only when at work that man ful fill hi proper place in Ood' ereature oherae. )They are Indeed rare excep tions who "also serve, who only stand nd wait." The world I altogether, too restricted In it use of th word "art.". Work of any, kind, don superlatively -well, is art dusting picture eg well paint ing them. - -'jt .-."!- A good worker l pretty much like a norse, iner aib w nen h up-nill going, I , T I' oown-nui 1 going, don't hurry him; and be sure and take good, cara of him once ho In th barn. - r : ',!- . . , . . ;, ;- . Fair All Right 'From the Condon-' Tim."' . The editor of thl paper was on the fair ground at Portlsnd this week and found a big exposition greater and grander by far than was ever hinted at or promised. It la a credit to tha state nd many people of the east consider It the best located and beat arranged fair ever held In this or any other country. Hotel, restaurant anu rooming house rates are a - reasonable aa found In any large city. - There I no dearth of lodging and eating place and any on can be accommodated both In style and prloe. Th great ahow is all right and well worth th time and money spent o a vunt t th tame ... , . , ,. w . ' . : .r 1 ' . .. . 1 : . .'.- ( ; . i .uugwwwtiin 3 SMALL CHANGE " One of Ors-0flto beut)s Is Its sum' mv clouds. , , , , , -i".,' rTh kum of th harvesters ta loyd In the land." ;Tv '.- : . ' v f . Every, county can do better yet. Good tUhlDKlf you ao after It.? May oe wet August. : a aftv 'em, put; w ar watchln j I I . IVI m V I ' t ,jrr":" - n -quuaoie cans mean vnu It uaad ta. -. v - - "A Hoseburr paper alludea to feeriator MilcheU 'M ."acapegoat" Thla la d. me insult to injury. Banatnr Mitch n did not "acap,7 . Mawaa eonvtutedf and I no roat. ., uiu.i pijr ia penalty. Bea'det, ha la It wasn't hot' after mil. ta Mora, houses ara na'rdad ' In v.n. Linn county may' b uttia v,. b win annv iiniaii aata. all - uramwr ia over. I ' ' . t a a-'l I a i. ... I -" niuiir 'n JVIDanv. wltn a I SSUX&STSt lor apiendfa ouaiitv. soma h., .hi.K 1 he picked from aJ flald. dnlnv tha in,i-. J n f)uchan xeaiunt job! .rnb. pat of thllinn Sount i aiaplay,- properly labalad. nr.t I J"una- hut efficient., miliar, aaye the is"n mo8n.:. ' J ' ... J;.. Th, Wmratu wltn,m OB f low water mark. Ralnl If you Ilk to view yary aroanaroua country don't overlook - southern Oror Hood River Glacier: Al fl Wmtti 1 0M th larora - at tha hamrina- ef ?'?"".wnitam u for friend of D."" Bntor, -two of them havtn lene, Nebraska. In ls7.' They had .not sine then until a little over a year prrott i aatind w-l! Wi V'lJlJT: 'H' , ainnraua Vita Bfuiaak M.9 " W.-V . m. W a it avta ree notaaya ha. Sunday was a closed day In Athena. every one of the saloons remaining .iucti u nunng iaa aay, uuoh to the amiiaiacuon or tnose who hava ben contending for the enforcement ef the ft""0'' fll. , ,vTh. ttnu,ual ae them' br John McCourt. ain At.tt attorney, to mo effect that they would irm pruaecuiaa aaouia ney remain open on that day. . e - Pendleton East -Oregentao:' A 'ult ovra aultthat did not autt -waa tried OUt in the lUstlce' court bar vaatarda and Juatlco FlUgeraM decided In favor oi mi aerenuant. it . waa a ease Drongnt by-- j. a. McLaughlin-. A. Co. against Cecil R. wad to recover the sum of 40 Which waa th price of a the defendant. ult of clothe ' made by that firm for When the nlt finished by the tailor it was not ax eepted by Mr. Wade because of the fact ftiii.? ;?L .f'ZHT rau,lB i,6' prmSt Vr tSTZS Were put on the stand by the defendant tne explained to the court wherein the !?VJakll,' AJ": f w" oVIh.eourl.dan come up to hlaaoner conoeptlon Of a good fit. Albany Democrat: If a boy la a liar at 7 what win he be when a man? Yea. terday a email boy who waa sitting oa tb bank of the canal atopped man and told him another boy bad fallen Into the ditch and was under the water. Th man waa interested enough to snake Inquiry and found that the youngater k.. .w. . ... . . .. ..." Lebanon paper mill ar getting a bis- reputation. . . v , 1 a e ..- , -I The Hood Hlver Glacier thl week present a alx-page wrlts-up and gen eral review of the White Salmon val. ley. The afm waa to try to ahow the great possibilities in fruit dairying and toe raising on th Washington aide. Th great progress being mad In th fruit line 1 amlng.-7j : i ,., ..n e..i ..14. i ... velopment it water ytm and sew- erage, aaye the Mof-o Observer. A flow ing well, drilled to the depth of 13 reel, discharge into a dug well 11x14, from which the water ia elevated, py a fluplex pump, driven by a li horse power gasoline engine into, a reservoir 31. feet above th city, with a capacity for 110,000 gallon, distributed through IS. 000 reet of , machine banded stave pipe make th water system. The ervoir 1 of concrete walla, covered with brick arches, which Insures cool water in hot weather. Twenty first class hy drant hav been plaoed throughout th system and Ave stream can ba placed pn a nro-at one time thus assuring good nre aarvice, - ' : : Whll assisting In blastlnr tump Tuesday at Underwood, Bert Jewett tuck hie head from behind .a nearby tree in time to receive a charge of wood nd gravel on the side of hi face Th sight of on of hi eye waa totally destroyed, and hi face badly bruised. The young man was brought to a hospi tal In Hood River, where physician re moved particles of gravel and wood fl her from the eye rocket.. It I possible that ome or the gravel wen! i gravel - went beyond the eye ball. While resting. eay. th sltnatlon 1 serious; -1 ; ; r : Hood River Glacier: In W. F. Lara way'a show rase Is an Interesting relle of bygone Haye in the shape of a hand made "brans-klrered" watch, the eon tructlon of which date back some lot years. . In those day horn waa gsed in stead of glass 'for th crystal, the lat ter commodity-not having as yet been Invented. - The watch ha an old chain and fusel style of works, just the kind Mr. Lara way learned the trade on nearly half a century ago,- and of course it was to him Ilk meeting an 'old friend. The watch belong to C. R. Orleeen ef Hood River, who brought' it In for re palre ' The .. horn -crystal- giver the face ef th wateh a aaltow complexion aa If it might be troubled twita aom dlaeaa ot .th llv. -. v- ; ORBGON' SIDELIGHTS : in SUNDAY SCHOOL LES " SON Tor TOMORROW Mr K. B. Bklaa, B. D July 10. 10S Toplo: Manaaaeh'a gin and Repentance It . Chron. xrxll:l-tl. y OoMen Tax Riahtaousneaa ..exaltath a. nation; but sin. la a reproach, to any eopia. rrov. xlv:i. , Responsive readina: psalm cvt:l-10. ..,'.'- ' ' Xatrodmetioa. 4: r,v;. ,.J ' Manassah was the bad aon of a good man, and vet we have all known It to do true that the good man may fall to be a rood father. Mo boy becomes a Int because his father has erected a hospital or built a cburch or given 1100. 000 ta forelan" missions. The father must cultlvats his son a well as Iook after the aeneral laterest of religion. No man deserves to hay a boy who la too busy to bring him up aa hi com panlon. The mother of llanasaeh waa named Hephslbah "she In. whom la my de Uaht"U the full translaUon of her name. It " may signify - nothing more than when we call a child "Daisy1 or Pearl' with Uttia understanding of the future'- HI mother la believed by the Jews to have been a daughter of Isaiah, but of this' there la no evidence. It ta so easy -to Invent uch tie and link that it la not worth whll to try to dis prove them. -..... , , Heseklab had been miraculously .re stored to , health bofore the birth of Manaaaeh. . Manasseh waa but It years of age when he earn to tha throne (v. 1) nd hi father' Illness occurred II yeara before hi decease. It waa an early ag at which to come into the possession of royal wealth and klogty power; .and a the event proved, the boy waa not very well fitted fur hlal raannnalhllltlaa. It take longer to correct a trenif( ward Indulgence in a race than to seach them the gratification of their aenae. Th people under hi grandfather. Aha. had oorrupted themselves with tb vices of the heathen. ' . The comparatively short reign of HeaekUh. th father, had sufficed to et right. certain state cere moniala, but It bad ,not sufficed to raise up a people strong to serve 00a. Despits the tern ml of Oliver Cromwell the court of Charles II was more depraved tnan that or Charles L hi father. :. Ta om. Verse 1. Manaaaeh was 13 year old when he came to the throne, but at that age an oriental aaaumea th prerogatives of a man's estate Jeaua at 13 went up with Joseph and Mary to be enrolled as a "son" of Israel (Luke 1:43). It was not customary to assume tb dutiea of ine . kingship at . bo early an age but whether a 'minor shall do so or not de pends sometimes upon the exigencies of the party in power and sometimes upon the willfulness of the prince. The length of his reign wss astonishing, even though it b subject to aom correction from other accounts, as certain scholars believe. Even if the copyist has made an error, of a few years, there is no doubt that Manasseh: ruled longer than any other sovereign of Israel or Judab after, the division. Verse I. " On of the surprising thine which the historian and traveler7 note 1 the persistence of certain forme of vice, Th.M . v Ihnu A whnni ltYim .ri.,mlni. tion of the Canaanltes seems' Impossible morally to defend, but when we see hnw deeply the small remnant that survived Infected .the people of Israel with their peculiar corruption, we can easily be lieve theser war' ot wxtormlnattoB were ' merciful as' ' the physician's deep. Cutting for th removal of a malignant oancer. Th Bible apeak vary guard edly of these "abomination," but th religion of th east war aa lustful a they . were cruel and a savage a they were Impure. Before admitting west ern visitor to Inspect their museum. archaeologists convey out of sight part or their collection which they would not expose to th common gase And the rile object were exhumed from oriental temples aa connected with the rites of oriental religions. . verse I. ' Thl waa -not a philosophical contest .between monotheism and poly theism, not simply a war about ideal nd conception of gods, but it waa a fight between chastity and sensuality. Those who. hav been called Into the political arena In our country and to our own day soon learn that the great truggl which lies down "below all party names and all theories -of government is a struggle between the church and the saloon, the 8anday school and the gam bling hell, the clean conscience and the world of "graft" There waa no attempt at disguise in Manasseh's day. ' Th heathen ' party was the party of elf- Indulgence and. that "to th limit." Tb very figure of Baal and th Aaberoth, rendered "grove" by our first trans latora, became th signs to allure th young to their ruin. These figures In many. If not in all, eases took on ob scene form which it would not be per mitted ..to nam, just frequenter of certain "gilded resorts',' In our modern cities find "work of art! which, they would hesitate to describe to those who have nsver seen them. Vera 4. . Nothing t aacred from a libertlne'a touch. Th very- house-of Jehovah,- venerable by association with all th great name of past hlatory and acred through the worship of many generation, must be defiled, during the French Revolution It did not con tent the leader, ot that "deluge" to pollute th streets and the home; they must set upon the very altar of Notre Dame the great cathedral church, a woman whose presence was itself pollu tion. ' The man who i thoroughly rotten at heart find a fiendish delight In con taminating a house of worship. Verse C. Th worship of the star waa the thin vail of decency . given to thla orgy of luat, just as today j-eadera who ravel In the literature of . th panderer and In statue ot ' drunken bacchantes try to.- disguise a little of their nastlness by talking about "art." . Verae . Borne of the sure concomi tant of apostasy ar cruelty and super stition. W hav not yet got rid of the multitude of wlsarda and clairvoyants nd .mediums "end materialised spirits who humbug the -world anon a it turns a.ld frorfl th simplicity of th gospel. -And e alnglejlluatratlon of the tortures to which" the nen-Chrlstlan world subject Its little children, think of what haa been endured 'for age by the girl children of China in th matter ef their twisted and deformed feet. ' . Vers 7. The crowning abomination Of which Manasseh wss guilty was th setting up. in th very aanctuary which had so glorious a history, of an Image III King xxl:7 euphemistically called a grove," but Which waa In fact too obscene to be named. It hurt the writer of these records even to put, down a guardedly a ho did th Indescribable pollution to which the house, of th pure Jehovah had been subjected. - ' ' Verse... The, chronicler repeat th gracious promise that had been made to David (II 8am. Vll:10) a to th con tinuance of th divine presence in Jeru salem. What could bo hoped now for a people who had auf fered the holleat spot on earth to be moat defiled? What might not have been the glory of the tat had It ruler and it priest and It m it sees been . true to these- great Ideals t-r h Verse t. There I a flare madness about th downward career of uch man. Thera muat have -been many, aa , hour when nothing but new vice could overpower the cry of hi . conscience. Nothing would satlafy him but to drag others down to hi own 1VL -Religion may be timid about seeking converts. but ln Is not. It 1 said that tlivre at In Chicago itself, not less than to.ooo parsons who live wholly by sin. promot. Ing si a and leading other men. and women '. into aln. That waa the on thing to wulch Manasseh devoted him elf.; . Vsree IS. There were hour whn conscience . waa not readily drowned. There la no time when a drinking man hears the voice of Uod so plainly a whan he is half drunk. - There are more sleepless night among the wicked than among the weary, Ood dose not let men go on In sin without apeaklng to them. - Tbey cannot get away from HI presence even by suoh a plunge as Verse 11. When his trouble cam, there seems to have been no on to fight for hi defenav E very bad y know "the good fellowship of wine" excrpt the man who has fallan into the pit. He flnda It means to be kicked out of the saloon where he ha " spent bis all Manasseh ha been "a good fellow" for perhaps 40 year. And it ended in hi Doing dragged awiy to Babylon wltn apparently no one to protest and as suredly no on to mourn hi fat. Her Manaaaeh had a fine opportunity to see what the religion he .had sought to imitate could do for its own people. Probably, like many who in our coun try praise the Innocence of heathenism. ho preferred to llv where ho could be free from seeing it at too close a range Verse It. Suoh a man ought to be thankful for any fat which brings him. to realise ni rouy ana bis wickedness. The man who cannot be taua-ht to oral In hi homo sometimes learn to pray in tb penitentiary. T t vers 11, It was a a humbled, aged man that Manaaaeh came back to hi capital. Ho had suffered undoubtedly borribl tortures, for If there waa na rth,n in vahlch a Babylonian king took delight it waa In the agony of hla con quered vassal s. It takes a divine mercy to forgive such a career a that -of Manasseh's. He waa a fool and an In. grate. He . richly deaerved halt . , But Ood spared hlro; and out of Ills poor, miserable remnant of Uf brought iortn, om or tne rrult of grace. WHElR.E A RAILROAD IS NEEDED, ' From th Grant. Pa Courier. On of th richest yet least developed section of tha ' Pacific ' coant I th country between Grant Paea and Cres cent City. . . Its vast wealth of copper, gold and other minerals, and of timber end agriculture. -Is lying practcally un disturbed, and all becauae of the lack of , transportation facilities. For "fully 30 years ha thl transportation problem been under consideration by parties In terested In the opening ef this, the rich. est yectlon of southern Oretmiyeeao rauroaa nas neon nunt, ana in pros pect Is Bone" too encouraging even now. The trouble ha been that no concerted local effort ha been made, toward hav ing thl railroad built and dependence only haa been -on outside capitalist. Railroad ar sometimes secured through this means, but It 1 seldom that local lines ar built by capitalist depending on the food alone for an In vestment. And where a oommunity hits down and wait for a railroad to corns to them . they usually have to. wait long.. um,.. , .,Ln' ..wrH' Th . Quickest and surest way ita gei a railroad that la etrietly local In It Held of operation la for. the local ,intr- at to take It p and secure it eon. tructlon. Medford. wanted a railroad to develop the upper Rogue river coun try and to bring trade to that town, ao ita cltisen secured the right, or way and put in $28,000 cash Into the stock ef the company, and through the effort largely of local eapltallata at least is mile of thl road will be completed thl year. A start will b given that will cause this railroad to be extended on to Crater laka and to eastern Oregon, to bring to Medford the tourist travel to th famous lake, and the trade of the rich country lying to the eaat or tne Cascade mountain. Kiamatn -Fan wanted railroad communication with th outaids world, o th oitlsena of that progressiva little town of but 1.M0 in habitants, together with tu land ownera of that part of Klamath county adjacent to Klamath Fall, completed last week the raising of a subsidy of $100,000 to indue Mr. Weed to extend hi railroad now In operation from Tbralt on th Southern Pacific, to Pokegama, on t Klamath Falla. Other towne have bad to help themselves to vet a railroad, and th nrobabllltlea ar that If there 1 ever a railroad built fror Uranta Pa Oat through southern Josephine county It will have to be accomplished largely through local effort. - s , A recent number of World' Work tell how th farmer of Ramsey coun ty. North Dakota, built a railroad with out th aid of out aide capital or of bor rowed money. Their manner of pro cedure and their success contains som helpful polntera to those interested In having a railroad built to open up south ern Josephine county: - These farmere hauled their grain. often a distance of 31 mile to Devil' Lake th county seat, through which th Great Northern railway passed. It kept the farmera.hauHng grain all win. ter. iney asaea ,1 sines 4. nut, presi dent of th (Ireat Northern railway, to build a branch lln rrom Devil s Lake up through their section. Mr. Hill said he could not build. Six of the largest farmer met at a achoolhouse. One of them' wa Joseph Keller, who owned .00 acre of land and who hauled hta wheat 15 mile to Devil's Lake. Mr. Kelley said, "ir tb Great Northern won't build, we Will build." And th farmer built a railroad it mllea long. - ' ' They asked every farmer who hauled grain to Devil's Lake to subscribe. Some subscribed 125; other 1500. They raised 150,000. They sent a farmer to Dulutu to buy tie, another to St Paul to buy rail. '. 1 - : , v A land promoter wa building a amall branch line out of Devil's Lake to tha south, and they got him to uvey the road. They hired section hand to lay the track. But they needed more money. They .bought land along the Un and laid I out tnree towns, soia ine tots ana usea the money to buy an old engine, a day coach, and four boxcar from th Great Northernr- -. -y - Then the road waa started. V It will top for any farmer at any place. Last year the. road made Ita " expenses 1-It hauled (0.000 buahela of wheat ' Thla year, with th railroad at hand, th farmer planted more . wheal and the road will haul 3.000,000 buahela. :t Mr. Ryan CKpplnge . 4 . ' From the Boston Herald. When Thoma F. Ryan took held of th Equitable he began to patronise a newspaper-ellpping bureau. They had to cut so many clippings for him that an increase of readers wa necessary, and Ryan was flooded with them. So he sought relief by -having only -favorable notice sent to him, and. now they cay he didn't get a single flipping for 10 day. "Good cur tot conceit," quoth Mr, Ryan, . ' " t , ' w-i- T112 ci iunar problem i OF TAINTED MONEY By er. rhontaa B. Oregory. ' " ' " Th paator of the First Baptist church" of Sycamore, Illinois, writes aa fol lower - , - ..y -"-Dear Sir and Brother: I should be very glad to learn your opinion concern- ing the inclosed questions. As you sre well aware, some considerable Interest and discussion have been arouaed. of late by the protest -of Dr. Washington Gladden against the acceptance of the . aioo.ooe offered by John D. Rockefeller " to the mission board of the Congrega tional church. The money wa accepted by the board, but the discussion of th matter ha not ceased, and some believe the question wa not rightly decided. I '' am preparing two sermons apon th " prooiem or "Tainted Money." The er . mona will not deal la invectlon, nor dl- ' late upon 'what a poor Baptist preacher - think . of a rich Baptist layman, but will constitute a fair discussion ofth subject from a acrlptural point of view, and in the light -of the growing moral conaclouaneaa of th time. , .' Now what shall w aayf I ft. right : for the church of Christ to ' accept , money for It work regardless of th character of th giver, and Irrespective ' oz tne method by which-it-haa been . madr : .-. .' ., .- Would It' not be a compromise . with - evil, to receive money earned In a post ' uveiy uieg4 manner, 11 conscious of thl fact? . ... ' ... r 1 - .... , . V f money taken ' from the neonle by ' political . graft' or ' commercial - dlshon- . ty any - less tainted1' than - plunder cured bjf! a pi rat oa th high Trusting that I may hav tb pleus- ur of reading your reply at . an- early - date I remain, very gratefully yours in ' , ik. ' awi.ga. l.aM iaj viieapiutu 5 ioiiuaiir7f p ---r HARLAN J. BALLENTINBXT.-' I am glad that my brother BaTlcntlne ha been moved to put these queetion -to me sine It gives m tb opportunity ' to aay what I hav been wanting to say for a long tint. ;. ; . In my 'opinion. Dr. Waahington Glad- 1 dan la right absolutely. ternally . .. rightl,- : sr. : ' . In my opinion . th mission board of th Congregational church 1 wrong- thoroughly and vrlaatlngly wrong!. In my opinion th Christian church - ba no business accepting the money It knowa, or baa ' reason to believe, haa been wrongfully made. - Tb church stands for principle, or it tand for nothing. . If the church ia ' no better than the world, if It has no prlnoipl to champion, no Ideal to hold. up before men' eyea, no high and holy Inspiration to breathe Into mean' souls, '. then, In the name of common sens and ' rea son, what it here fort - - If the Christian church I simply on of th many other worldly Institution, . governed by a worldly spirit.- aceom- ' pltshlng worldly-end through worldly -methods, then lt-should take the Mas- ' ters nam off Its banner' and (lop call- " tng-lf-'hrltlanv,! ' Th founder of th Chrlstlsrl religion was, first laat and all tha time' con latent - HI yea wa yea, and hla nay waa nay. H wa no hedger, ho trad-. dler, no compromiser. . . . " , . H wa always th . earn. and . to come to the pith of the 'matter, h wa -always "pure, loving, juat a lover, of the right e hater of .the. wrong, the k unchanging foe of all that smacked of meanneaa or-dlahonor. , ' -' The very heart of hi doctrine -was-; tn Idea of human brotherhood,'', and -therefore-of the equality pf- human . rights, and thsrefore finally,, of the wickedness and wrong of attempting to Interfere with thoa right. ' Now, it ahould b no eecret to any In- ,, telllgent person that th so-called "cap- ' t&lnayot Industry," or many of them, at ' anyfate hav built up their great for ' tune In total disregard of Christ's ' pint and teachlnga j. They have realised their twealth by rough , riding It ever th dearest inter ' est of their fellow men and by Ignoring th purest and holiest right of tb tml- - versal.. humanity by falsehood, and.' fraud, by organised oppression and by th heartleaa greed which recked not of th heart It crushed ao long aa it waa ; raking. In th caaht , . s - v 1 1 1 And now can th church the Chrl- tlan church th organisation whioh clalma to represent the Great Brother of u all afford to soil It hand with ' that cash? I -, It cannot! . In thunder tones 1st It ba . said again,, and again "It caifnotr. v- By th purity of th Christ it cannot t By the fairest ideal of th noble and the good of all tha ages, it cannot! By th groans and heartaebee -of the million who hav been exploited and oppressed, It cannot . :. . By the simplest principle of our ordl- nry human decency, it cannot! ',. LEWIS AND CLARK' In th Rooky mountalna ... . July 20 Thla morning th hunter brought In om. fat deer of the long- 1 tailed kind, which are quit a larg those of the United mate, and are. In- deed, the only kind we have found at thla place There are numbera of the ' sandhill eranee feeding In the meadows ;' we caught a young one of the same color . aa tne red deer, wnicn, tnougn yt naa nvany aiwnca a iuii njwin, cuuiu not flyj It la very flero and strike a. severe blow with It beak. . The king- . nsher haa become . quit common on thi aid of the falls, but ws hav seen none of the summer duck since leav- . Ing. that place. The mallard - duck, which we saw for th first time on the 30th instant, with their. young,. are now abundant, though they do .not breed on ' the Missouri, below th mountain. The . mall bird already described are also " abundant in- th plain here, too, ar great ouantltle of grasshoppers or . crickets; and. among other animals, a . larg ant with a reddish-brown .body, nd legs and a black head and abdomen. who build little conea of gravel 10 or 11 Inchea ( high, without a mixture , of ticks and bqt little earth.. In - the river we see a great abundance of fish, .. but we cannot tempt-them to bite by . anything on our hooka. The whole . party have been engaged tri - dressing : kin and making them Into moccanlna ; and legglnss.- Captain Clark' fever ha - Imoet left blm, but; he still remains very languid and has, a' general sore ness la Ms limber The latitude of our" camp, a th mean of two observations of the meridian altitude of the sun lower limb with octant by back ob ervatlon. I N. t degree 34 minutes second a - - , v .'(.;.'. " r" The Blue 8carecrow. ; - zf,. From the Philadelphia Bulletin. Th farmer' sesrecrows were all garbed In blue. ' ' -".' . k niue scarecrow, - sain the man. 'doe more good than 10 ordinary one. - for birda hate and fear blue as you and hate and rear typhoid ami tronmimn- tlon. A professor pointed out to me that blue was the thing for birds. At first waa unbelieving, -but I experimented. nd found that professor to b r!."ht" r
