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iooGOFoaii' :.L.'. TffE O RE G ON DAILY J OURNXL AN I NDKPBNDBNT - NEWSPAPER 4 - PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL - PUBLISHING CO. no. r. oa&sou PublJstwd eTr;evetfnn-( except Sunday) and) every Sunday incrntaf 'at Tlae Journal Bulk-Jug. Fifth and YamUS I -- - . ' ;'. V .'i,--y amm- Portlan d Oregon. "V . i. ---,. - ' - j 'DEGENERACY SELP, CONFESSED, J. j,'- i . a " ri ;.-.? V.. '.. A 'v.' .' A - t V t rTHE Morning .JdossbacK drops like a not potato J J l.its extraordinary contention of yesterday that in I k. order to hold its own in the competitive hew. paper race it is forced to j publish , all the lewd and , lascivious testimony' produced in the Taggart case. If ; this is 'not sufficient to drum up business then it will i continue to-rale and, scrape the purlieus of vice to get jthe very worst that V going, for this is what the people demand and are willing to pay for. - ', . ' Let the unprejudiced c reader simply: listen to this . cold-blooded paragraph: ' . . ' s , . ' There is complaint, we hear, that the Oregonian pub- lishes as news such stories as that of the "Taggart case, 1 which it would not have published in former' times. .The question is asked, "Why this degeneracy The simple answer -iethat -newspaper -competition compels -it- The ' more severe the competition the stronger necessity of . meeting, every .phase .of Jt "The Oregonian; within, its '..- own .field of circulation, cannot allow any 'newspaper to - . outdo' I &x'iH ' J This, is its statement to the whole"1 world. It .wants the, dollar, dirty or otherwise, but k'. wants it It 'has degenerated; it confejtes it..It proposes to go still lower. ; It will not allow; any newspaper ' Within its field of circulation to outdo it This is its language. It will turn ,"yellow," as it has been green with envy for some thne, and, it will do with i greater ".test many of the things which it imagined and all of which it strenuously denounced in the - columns of its enterprising con tmfiaririei. ..' - -Indeed it M.an open-secret that the Oregonian has rpldtime specials -were among the most valuable acees bett on the toboggan for a. year -past ; it is now scarcely iories toi the divekeeper but their period of usefulness more than a venerable ruin of its former self. Its busi-, ness has decreased and its circulation is fading away at a rate to give ; qualms to its owners. Many-people took the paper for years because there vwas nothing else to ' do; .obese stopped at the first 'opportunity. Hundreds of people have be-rr insulted -without recourse, vitlified and. maligned; all these stopped the Oregonian when they could get another paper to take its place. Still others Jieartily- disliked the dictatorial tone, the phar- 1 asaical .spirit and the canting hypocrisy of the sheet; ' they' too quit when their demand for news could be met elsewhere. Then all over this state are scattered people who believe in the purity of the home, who have public: - ideals Which-they, are striving . to reach and who are guided by patriotism rather than partisanship; all of these, driven away by the purely commercial principles' ;,of the Oregonian, .have. quit, taking, that. newspaper and -' , none of them is inclined to come back even though they j- are offered the Oregonian ' at bargain-counter prices . with a bunch of. premiums thrown in and ah affidavit I - made by the solicitor that Editor Scott having seen the -error of his ways has joined the church 6f which the "-Rev; Dr.: Hill is pastor, sj-'r' i -A The Oregonian is effete,-Jt is a back number. It is a ' j has beesi as well as a might" have been. The essence of s . m. i j-a, . . pmnaiiy is , Beginning 10 - permeate h.. june can reel i leaking through .the upper stories. It "has chased the i dirty dollar so-long that its moral fibre is weakened and ' it haslost the sense of proportion.' When it loses cir- "' ''culatwn and business' itFonTynfemedy Is to puDiisn iewT and lascivious stories. T Its only exedses are- that com -"petition forces it to do' what jt knows is unworthy an! -the people want it 7 "It never occurs to it that what the people really want are honesty, character and integrity ' . in its newspapers. .: Give them these things, stand for and "J' uphold them, then publish the legitimate news edited "as news ought t be edited and not with the castiron meth- a ods of a mechanic and the fortunes of the day are saved. . But it is too late, for the Oregonian . The old dog can . . not be taught new tricks. . He has bayed the moon so i Jong that he is able to do nothing else now. ' ' And so it is that he will not be outdone' in raking and ," scraping the dirty, news, of the world under the mis ..' - taken apprehension that this is what the people .of Ore gott'want ,-. :;c" ' ' - ' ','-' - - ?,: s a . ' - '-,..-; ,:y.;i, ; . PRAISE OP, THE COUNTRY , PRESS. U" , AN ENCOMIUM of the"' country "press is going the . AV rounds. ' . It is something on the Champ Clark . style of eulogy of the country press fulsome, ' Vornatei exaggerated, insincere, yet as to a. large portion ' of the country press largely true, i : V ; i - r r - ' Every city exchange editor knows, however, that there "are country papers and country papers. There are those that rustle for local news; that discriminate between new and nonsense, between sense and bosh; that watch 'for and haste to narrate occurrences of local interest; , that if they venture to write' or reprint editorials do so with good judgment and with a sincere effort to instruct and enlighten their readers. Such paper! are well wrathy ' "the encomium spoken of, even though it be verboseand vulgarly baited. - ; ,;,;..... ' K'&ti't'i-'- ' But there are others -some of them in Oregon. The r "-week through "ye editor" can find no news -worth print-: J ing, has no ideas worth presenting; month after month, . year after year. ; There are: specimens of the "country ' press in Oregon" that are' not appreciably better than they were ten, fifteen or twenty years ago; they use the 'same type, have the same makeup, don't know that the world in that time has moved faster than would a snail -.---in running a race. , There are other country papers that "start," merely . a., km a 1 . J i . r et . . . t ... , VJ c " cw ihu nuncqt ana snenii s aavenisemcnts and some little pickups of patronage, and pay no more . attention to obtaining and disseminating local news than .the sphynx docs to the movement to consolidate religious . . sects. For one, The Journal refuses to indorse this v wholesale eulogy of the "country press,". because there are these exceptions, and they are not few. k ,;.. f'..v ,', But having said-this much, and kicked out the lazy - bonea. and pretenders, we cheerfully indorse all that has been said iaudatdry of the country press. When we . get hold of a paper like the Medford Mail for instance, ' ' or the Santianv (Scio) News, or the Hood(River Glscier, or the Echo News, or the Klamath Falls papers, or the ' Grant County News (John Dsy City), or the Oregon ', City papers, or, the Dayton Herald, orif it can be classed aa' "coiintry" paper, the East Oregonian we J know., there is- work, effort, enterprise, appreciation of a M. country editor's- and; publisher's duties, behind those naners. and that they deserve to be supported snd unheld , and praised. 4, We do not mean that there are no others equally-or nearly equally-worthy, nor that all those not mentioned are . unworthy. Wjj do mean to sayt sgsin, however, that V considerable portion hi the country press tiif aamrtsiw -4T ska .laiJsh'AM 'tnantiAna u ' . w w uj ,vi iuv' asuviavava uiviuivuwi. .j . v. , As a whole the country press is worthy, admirable, influential, .deserving . of warm approbation and cordial local support; but when we come to Individualize and dif ferentiate we - must, discriminate. . There is , a acale of the country press, running from do all. up through re, mi, fa,' sol, lasiup" to do again--air the way front A to izxaro. , ' ' . "SPECIALS" ARE OUT OF LUCK. J UST WHAT' DIRE' THINGS thf special policemen can oo to tne mayor is not so apparent to otner people as it seems to be to them and their friends, As with him rests the appointing power what are they going to do about it if they happen to be outside the breastwbrkatt ' V.Jv$k". '.;'''. ' ' ' No. move made by. the mayor aince he came into office was more generally approved than that in which he asked for the commissions of all the special policemen. There are1 special policemen needed in big mercantile and finan cial institutions and they there perform special duties which redound to the public good. But there have been many special men with roving commissions employed in the north end, beyond the control of the police depart ment, who not only levied blood money but part of whose duty it was to take side against the man who had been robbed: in the dives and to see that the powers of the law were -invoked ' against him in case he made any , pro test Jt is men of tbis latter stamp against whom the mayor directed his energies. These men he proposes to keep out and the allegation that he intends to secure par tisan advantage from it wui probably not worry nun in Many of the Wilt auffer a lapse during the administration of the pres ent mayor. : " ' ' ,:v; ; ; V.J A'- ;,.. ;';' . It is -barely possible, likewise, that when those who control the council discover that the moment they de fiantly fly in the face of public opinion on the box ordi nance question they may look for reprisals and they will be very much less gay than they have been. In overrid ing the mayor s veto they were doing no harm to that official; they were simply slapping in the face the re spectable element of this community which worked so long and hard to get the ' box ordinance through the council and past the gauntlet of 'the courts.;' So long as they maintain their present, fight they are really fighting the decent sentiment of the whole city and inviting upon their backers a flank movement which wilt carry with it greater penalties than even the box ordinance imposed. " THE EMPIRE STATE. SMALL CHANGS ' Tb Oregonian, since It ralnad, has vanturod the indirect utrastton that Portland may bay U5.S90 inhabitants, instead or iio.ooo. . . . Unola Ruaaali Baae thinks a ruardlan snouia eppointad tor UAareiier, T Oh, yas; Kan was solng home, humble and rapsntant. to liar daar, broaan haartad oid Zathar and mother. That was whan Nan was In dancer ( life lm prlsonmenW which aha daaerved, - But no sooner was Nan fraa than aha turned loose nln. - It ia rather to be hopec aha will kill another of her male Inti mates and 4 hen be made to suffer the proper penalty. - Develop! . Help! . , . Force railroad building. - v t MUCH INTEREST ahould be taken in "New York - day", at the expositibn--for various reasons. , ' Ncw YorlHa-thef Empire state." - It has the greatest population of any state, between 8,000XX) and 9,000,000 people. It has the largest city in the country, and now probably the . second city-in population and wealth tiv.tbe world, having about 4,000,000 inhabitants. , t( II 1U iuw aiiu oymauy wu iu n oi iu mammoth .city where many .historic, memories- cluster. . a a . . . ' . Kt tne niann sue oi me great metrppojis ssneq xne I ja. valiant J)utchf-navigator . , Henry - Hudson, and up. the I - Doea Harrlmaa own nst Oregon ' ought- to be aa populous, as Washington. ' , ' a Pick the vary bast man for congress next year and keep them there. ' ' ' a a - . SHU "fair and northwestern winds.'" m j- But It did rain. 1 .-''..'. . k e ". a . .'.. . ' Suppose while Mr. Harrlman la hob nobbing with the mikado and Governor Oeneral Whafe-hla-name of the Phil ipplnaa, soma rich Oregon wan ahould organize and oSilid a railroad or two. Does E. IL really own usT - Oo to church. s a a i ; 1 -' . , Dan ' McAUan la "awfur tired. But ha still smilea, and declares that H is the greeteet a how ever en earth. . Ha will do hla duty by the babies this time If It kUls him, but hareaftar he will be wiser."-;- u --' "u u, .. The whole world ealla for, almost de mands, peace between Russia and Japan and baa right to do so. . .,.;. - Peace Is civilisation; war. la barbar- Ism. ''. : -;-: :.-..;. i Buasla is breaking up. ; It waa time,' ; - ".' .': .,. . y The Old Qraa-onlan la led astray. It says, by bad examplia "and ''competi tion." Who would h'ive thought such a model aa H. W. 8. would have ae eesnlr fallen? , .'.-..'. .y : Rooaavelt may demand peaee with a floUrlah of the big stick., : , v what a pity the old moaaback ad mits whlnlngly that It ne longer "con trola" a a The woman eaused It aa a rule. - There should be an aaaoclatlon formed to bar" the Targarta. tha Colltnaaa, th Nana and the Oehrs from the column of the preea. - Such cattle should be treated with supreme contempt. , . noble river that bears his name till this day. ' There the sage Wouter Vsn Twiller smoked his immense pipe, and presided with dignity if , not Owitb genius over the destinies Of the burghers from Amsterdam deciding in one case, according to the account of that interesting chronicler "Knickerbocker," that the plaintiff and de fendant ahould neither recover- anything off the other, their purses ' almost balancing, ' and that the "constable should-pay the eoata.'i-..;. ::i,A '' ?'' There came, in , time, - the aggressive ' Britons and wrested the" land from, the Dutch; there i Washington suffered a defeat that for a time seemed an irreparable misfortune of war; there for 13 years was the national capital; thither have drifted mankind of all nations and tongues and kindred, making the moat cosmopolitan city in the world, acarcely excepting London and Paris. .' New York in the last century and a quarter has fur nished some of the country's ; greateifustatesmen, pa triots and philosophers: I It gave ; to the country a Seward and a Roosevelt It has also thrown some bad and base men to the surface, but the struggle, not made in vain, there as" here,' ia fdr the preferment of better men,.the reign of higher principles. , j - t. ; f ' ; It sed'to be a "far cry" from New York to Oregon; now it ia a quick', cheap and easy trip, f A good many worthy New Yorkers are here today, and Oregon and Portland most cordially welcome them as fit repre sentatives of the wonderful Empire State. a .7 , , ' . , 1 . '.. " .', WILL IT BE PEACE? HE CHANCES for terms of peace being agreed on : at Portsmouth again seem slim, yet we cannot tell how deep a game Witte is playing In order to get the best possible terms he can. It waa not to be supposed that he would agree at once or without a pro longed struggle to the 'terms imposed by Japan. . He is a Russian though of German descent and he has to account to the czar and to the autocracy rather than to the people of Russia, who .undoubtedly are almost unanimously for peace on almost any terms. "Tt"a not hirino swift Ho blame Witte and Rosen if they reject Japan's terms for the time being and declare that Russia will not accept them. These men are en gaged in bargaining, and they owe it to their country, even td the autocracy, under .the circumstances, to make as good bargain al they can.' While the world would censure them and their country severely for. not finally agreeing on terms of peace, it cannot reasonably blame them for getting the very best terms possible, and even resorting to dissembling bluffs to do so.. , They do not have to show their hand plainly,, or tell all that is in their mind. . They have a right to play the game as skillfully and as audaciously as they choose and as they can; but we still think that before they quit and leave for home they will have agreed with Japan to end the war. - President Roosevelt, in his unique, audacious way, may be a potent factor in bringing about this result .True, it .is from one point of view none of his business; a dif ferent president perhaps' any other man as president, would have kept his hands off and made no sign; but not so Roosevelt; ,: J -..i f i v"" . . a. There will yet be peace unless Witte and Rosen are constrained and controlled by the Russian autocracy, who dread the rising reign of the People. . . LEWIS r AND : CLARK la tha Raoky mountains. ' : , Aagoat 1 S The meriting was' sold and tha gnra perfectly - whitened by the treat, w ware engaged In preparing packs n4 aaddlas to load the horses aa . aoaa aa' they ahould arrive. A beaver , was eaughtjn a trap, but we were dis appointed la trytag to catch trout In r net; we therefore made a seine of willow bruah- and by hauling It pro cured a number of flna trout, and a spaciea of mullet which we had not seen before; It la about IS tncheo long, the eealea small, tha aoaa long, obtusely pointed, aadeaoaedltkg -the- under"Jsw; the mouth openg with folda at tha sides; It has no teeth and the tongue and pal ate la smooth. The color of lt back and sides Ig a blnlah brown, while the bell? ia white; it has the faggot bones, whence we concluded :lt. to be of Jhe mullet species, . It Is by ne means so well flavored a flah ae the trout which are the same aa thoae we 11 rat saw at the falls, larger than the speckled trout of the mountains In ths Atlantic states and equally well flavored. . In the even ing the hunters returned with two deer. Captain Clark.-In the meantime, pro ceeded through a wide, level valley In which ths chief pointed out v a a pot where many of his tribe- were killed in battle a year ago. The Indians accom panied him during the day, and, as they had nothing to eat he was obliged 'to feed them from . his own stores, - ths OREGON SIDELIGHTS j .. -T- S su:;day school le tc:i foi ; tomorrow ' By ll, IX Jenkins, P. D. 'August IS. ltOC, Topic; , Jeholaklm Burns ths Word of Ood Jar. xxxvl: n-tt. - . t , -:. 'v."- Golden Text Amend your ways and your doinga, and obey the 1 voice of Jehovah your Qod Jer. xxvl-.ll. :. Responalye reading; , Psalm II., '"... ; Zntvedmettea. -. ','. It waa said of Jesus 'by . the aged prophet who was preaent whan the Lord waa brought as a child Into the temple that he would beoome a touchstone of Character. Through their bearing to ward him the haarta of maay would be revealed (Luke ll:3S). That Is in a meaeure true of everything great. Now and than a writer Informs the world that he haa "found out" Milton and. Shake speare and Johnson, and that they are all "pretty poor stuff." people uaually llaten in dlacreet alienee; thinking Only of tha exhibition the man la making of himself. Whan . a man discovers that the sky la green and the . graas blue, ws say to ouraelvea; The poor fellow. Is color bllndj" . The Bible, after centuries of ! uae, now sUnda inhere It matters little what men say about, it except as what they say reveals what IS, in themaelveav It la no longer the prisoner at the bar. but the Judge upon the bench. "There al wara have' been Joalaha and- alwaya Jehoiaklma;' and for- all that we know there alwaya will be both. The word of, Ood moves the one man to prayer and tha other t eurelng. -It inette the one to nobler-alma and the other to more paaalonata deeds. But the world docs not set great store by the Judgment of either. It simply claaaea each by his at titude toward the Word. Good man as he was, Joaiah was not without hla am bitions. 'Tha two great "World powers"! of his day, Egypt and Aaayria, met for a declalve conteat at Megiddo,' In the plain of Eadraelon, well to the north of the boundarlea of Judah. ; But for some reason not stated by the historian and perhaps not avouched by the king, Jo alah attempted to stop the advance f tne Egyptian troops upon Aaayna ana waa killed In the battle that enaued (II Kings xxili:2l-ao. 'The people, who seem to have assumed to choose among the aons of the sovereign, desired Jehoa has to rule them. ' But upon ths return of the Pharaoh from Aaayria he refUaad to confirm the election. 'On the contrary he carried Jehoahaa off to Egypt where be would be under hla eye, and left tha elder brother, Ellaklnt, aa his vasaal In charge. In token of hla ruling as sn appointee and not by hla own right, Ellaktm changed his name to Jeholaklm. He proved a tyrant Of whom Jeremiaa always ' speaka dlaapprovingly. He built by forced labor a, royal villa. thing which rankled In - the - hearts f those who were 'proud, of the ancient freedom of the people (Jer. xxiius-ii). He put to death a brave prophet who even In Egypt waa not safe from arrest (Jer. xziv:io-z). Bovereigna or tnis class have little use for any law which oondamna their lives or would rsstraln See Oragon'a fair. Oregon's fair east Beaver Correspondence of the Ttlla mook Herald: . I am under 'the tmpree- slon there Is not a farmer' or farmer's lad whs lives In T 11 lamookv county that will Indorse the Sunday Oregonlan's edi torial vilification of thalr - wlvea and mothers oooklng, . Evidently the writer has not vlatad Tillamook county homes or hs would have made exceptions In our fever. -, ,vv. -ys - ' In Bnite of a sensational laklsh article to the contrary published in a Portland sub-newspaper, the Corvallls Times says that city la "a very decant and extremely orderly town" and that, "It la doubtful If there Is a town In the state of Oregon, or In any' other State, that is aa free from disorder and the disorderly, as free from toughs and toughness aa this quiet peaceful, thrifty community." ? : e ,a ,.. . . ; ; Oo hoppicklng In about two weeks. - -.-...-..-,-' .', , e . . ;'..',; ,-'-raiackberrlee In Gervals bring S cents a pound in trade or t cents to Chlcka- : '".. ' .,'--.. - ' -i A Eueene man- who ought to know says Lane county will - produce more hope, than laet year. New priest's house In St Lpuls. Ore- fon. , Oood trout catches In Coos county streama.' ; Many eastern people looking for farms In Oregon.' ; ;: . '.:..- - Around Gaaton wheat Is yielding from 11 to to buahela per aore and oata about 10. The hot weather Juat before ripen ing time exit down the crop consider ably. .Hay la a good crop. . .-, , -v. Harvest might have been better; and then might have been worse. y Rattlesnakes ere more numerous 6r more sctlve than usual this year in east ern and aouthern Oregon , and . have eaused several deaths.; ',-'.'"',: ;.;;: The suicide of the apparently prosper ous and contented man, Albert Mc Kamay, at Hood River, la and prob ably will always rsmsin a mystery. 4 Duke's Valley Correspondence ' Hood- River Olaclen This seema to be an un- nauallv dry season., aa corn and pota toes that were not Irrigated are nearly1 all dried up. t Last year we got a pretty fair erop of potatoes and good roasting eara with no Irrigation at alL Springs of water around in the hiua are run ning less water than for several years.'. North Tamhllt Record: -William Fra- sler of Portland waa buying horses here last week. We understand he only bought one team and they coat him 1400. 'Tls a rather spotted harvest v. I' '' - ;.- . . . .. .; brain and Ashland people have "dug up" money enough to carry on the Nor mal schools in tnoae owna, nut may will have big bills for ths next legisla ture te- ease. Tha Normal school .quae- ttnn la one that eugns-o-oo .taxen up. conaldered carefully and definitely set tled. .- "" : their wickedness. , The ijeaaen. Verse II. Jeremiah. Soff of Hllkiah, a priest of Anathoth. In tha neighboring territory of Benjamin, had coma to be regarded by many aa a prophet. . Ho had In his youth eaaayed the role of a re former; but had been driven out of his native city (Jer.'-xt.tl; xl:). Even Thomas M. Lawson. writes as follows of .James R. Keene In the September In stallment of Trensied .; Finance,- ' in Everybody a afagaslne: , :'. For over a quarter of a century In deed, James R. Keene has amasad W1I street by his infinite strategy and dar ing. He haa literally played hob with Its Important Institutions and etood its eeieorities on their heads. His magic knewledare of IniMi haiMtaninra k made both his followers and hla enemies marvel. T At" Intervals It ts revealed to wall street that, some of Its great cor porations are In trouble, and that to hide deficiencies In -earnings, they nave been paying dividends, out of capital. Then the stocks of theae eonoerna drop like mercury In f reesa, and it leaks out that one man knew the deadly se cret weeaa ana months nafnra tfc aBh hunteta not being able to kill anything. Just as hs was entering the- mountains he met sn Indian With two mules and a Spanish saddle, who waa so polite as tq offer one of them to him 'to ride over the hllla. Bslng en foot Csptaln Clark accepted his offer snd gave him a waist coat aa a reward for hla civility. Ha an. camped for ths night on a email stream. t- f taken up . his abode at Jerusalem - and seems to have atfvlaed In the reforma tion under Joslah. But under the new reign he had an altogether different ex perience, k Tat, like Savonarola at Flor ence long after, Jeremiah continued to want king and pejple of coming judg ments. -He had committed to writing some of his severest --sayings, wolch were read In the temple before tha as sembled worshipers (verse 10). i This, coming to the ears of the king, he com manded that ths addraas be brought to him. , When It was thus read to him by his commend. the scene occurred which furnishes the lesson for today. .' Verso 21. It waa againat his palace- building mania that Jeremiah had first thundered. ; But the king waa In no mood to listen te anything -which' cams from ths prophet' Fire was turning In the metal brasler In ths center xf the apartment. It waa Decembar and prob ably a rainy day. 'v; ..- Verse It. . The scribe Jehu.ll had read three or four columna-f or the writing then, ss Jiowwss upon roll, whose columns were as long aa the a.-roll waa wide when the king enatahed It Iran the hands of the reader, slashed It con temptuously Into rags with a knife and threw the fragments upon the open fire. " Ths "pen-knife" was literally ' the scribe's knife, used for sharpening reeds used for pens. - i.i . . 1 ; . , Verse It. That e men should atteonpt te Oestroy what waa a message irora Almighty God filled the soul of the prophet with horror. - He marks with astonishment that whatever the aecrst feelings of ths court attendants, no one dared to show -any signs of dissatis faction ' or protest " ." Veres II. Certsln of ths prinees did. however, feebly remonstrate. It was all la vain. Men are atubborn who know themaelvea to be In the wrong. 4 . Tha wording of the twenty-third verse indi cates that there was an Insulting delib eration about ths wsy In . which:. Jsho laklm performed the act of. burning , Verse IS. The king was not content with destroying the roll.'- He was eager to seise the persons of those .who had dared utter reproof of his conduct ' It is a dangerous office to play ths chap lain to such a court Jeremiah, how ever. ws not like that preacher 'who having said In " his - sermon before Louis XIV, "All men must die." quick ly changed It to "Nearly alt men. aire," when he ssw the monarch frown. The rural priest may deliver his message with sincerity, but the court bishop does not always' find ths royal sinner as humble snd submissive ss Ptvld wss when he wss rebuked- by Nathan (It Sam. xtl:t-ll). - ,r. , Vsrsea IT, II. -There Is nothing so In destructible sa the Word of God. - The hats of hell has ever been wreaked upon It. but It has never - ceased to exist. Within the past year copies of the Bible given by Protestant mieslon sties, have been taken from the people and committed to .the flames Jn BOuth America and in ths Papuan Islsnds. No ons ever made a more determined at tempt than Diocletian to consume out of ths earth ths sacred Scriptures, but It availed him nothing. The ' translatlona Of Wyclif fe and Tyndale were again and again flung Into ths fire. Today .ths distributing of the Word Of God Is one nt th ,rt,il Industries of tha wnrM. employing thousands or persona and a psUandard-OiT. history. dowed by millions or capital. Tet no book exists against which such Immeas urable rage has been launched.;. In spite ef the haa of kings - it has eurvlved their families snd survived their .em- plree. -;-- ... Verae it. Ths Lord sent to the rebst: Mous king a yet more aarioua warning. All that had been prophesied by the servant of Ood should come to pass and more also should now bs added. The f ,.', It ,. .., .,', i ,'. .w . - 10 1 , i t -;- ... . defeat was to end In cr-tlvlty and the captivity -xLl& be, of toe most rigor ous kii.J.' netlmea a victorious sov-eroi-m .w- t to nreaerve - the native popuiati. a 11 nearly intact aa possible, snd td kep t..e Industries of the people up to their boat productivity. The king waa aomatS more eager for revenue tnan lor rev, But the fall of judan should be m a s atterlng and humbling and Imaoverwhlng than any known be fore. It waa for Judah to realise now the truth of the proverb, "He that being Often reprovel hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, sad that without remedy" (Pro v. xxlx:l). ' Verae 0. . The two things moat dreaded by an oriental are the extinction of his, race and Indignity, paid to hla corpse. - jotn .these penalties should Da mn Jeholaklm. A feeble and abortive attempt was msds to place upon the throne the 11-year-old aon of Jeholaklm, but It resulted only In his Imprisonment by Nebuchadnessar (II Klnga xxlv:s- 11). As to the other prophecy, no men-J non- ia made of Its fulfilment? but we must remember that this was a period of great confusion. , ef destruction of recorda, and of aots of violence toe common to be all-narrated. Zedeklah a brother of Jeholaklm, was then placed upon the throne to act as agent for or vasaal ef, the king of Babylon (II Kings Verse II. A monarch . aaldom sins alone. He sets tha fashion, not Infre quently . "the paoe." . cWtlers talcs their cue from him. Thar, marm iu Cavalier about Oliver Cromwell and no ruriiana m the court of Charles II. Un der a willing surrender of their ereed snd morale, the business men of Judah naa aeteriorated . perhaps . almost mucn aa tne raShionsblee and court favorites. They who aharad tha vulit nt " KiMairoue and licentious king shared verae 12. To live In such an aae 1. a. sever trial to sny servant of God. and to live In. such an age with courage and loyalty to God ia nrant at a mmt an.,l Jeremiah haa become with many a syn onym for the dolorous, the tearful, the wmuuii raiicionista. ' Hut tn vtw the eclipse of faith and tha danlin. f inorai ana the miseries which such e etate enUll muat draw, tears from any eye that is not stone. Nero fiddling while Rome-burna la not the model of a patriot. It would ahame any servant of wa any lover or his race to live amid such disintegration of the times as -did Jeremiah and not be profoundly moved. We honor him for hi lamentations and recall that b did not alt down to weep -"" "aa aiooq up (O tnundor. -v- , " f , 1. , . REENE'SMAGIC KNOWLEDGE" r ha hnlli Oaa R. Keen beglna . to cover the. "short aalea" ha had out In preparation, for the fall, and hla bank account awalls pie thorloally with his profits. If a great defalcation astounds the financial world, It cornea to light that Keen has had the new In time to take advantage ef It. Indeed, It I a tradition of Wall street that any clerk or confidential man hav ing a secret to communicate know where there I the best cash market foy ' such valuable considerations, and though ha has had In all hla long career "agent at the elbow of every oppor tunity." to quote hla own phrase, ths eources end means or hi Information have never been aUapected. and at thle hour he move aa mysteriously aa on the day he begaa operations.. So great has been Keene s power In stock affairs dur ing the lest decade and a halt that few of hi contemporaries have dared oppose mm, and at tn time or which 1 am writ ing, when hla sway was almost at Its senlth, he could de . about what , he pleaaed with price. 4 - . , , Able atudent of men and affaire, there sa on Institution of Wall street that Jamee R. Keene had never tampered with. H ranged tha jungle and ths prairie in searon or quarry, but on the great preserves of "Standard Oil" hs hsd never ventured. The tiger faara the sharp tuaks and the terrible bulky power of the elephant, and ao Keene, with all his peerlees courage, hesitated to pro voke a group of' men whoa . grim strength . ha - had fully, measured and who, he knew, exacted vengeance like ths fates. But tha tiger's blood thirst fortified by yeara of triumph, at laat led him Into the secret places of -ths ele phants' - realm, and the Titans' battle that ensued, though veiled from the syes of the world, shook the ground -aa by an earthquake and . leveled great in stitutions Ilk a cyclone. ii ' .'., , ' The story goea that Keene a depart ure from the coast was announced la an enterprising Wall street news sheet end was read to Gould aa ne eat at luncheon In a New atreet cafe with a groun of allUs anl angnmpllnaa. W W1 1 nnS of the party to find out If the tale were true, and later til the afternoon thle man reported that Keene had not only started put naa actually boasted that hs would stand Wall street on Its- head or eo broke In the attempt,: Further, he had with him In the car between four and six millions of real money, ths harvest of a brief span of yeara in San Francisco.-- I don't voueh-for this yarn, for waa not there, but the details bear truth earmarka. It proceeda ., thua: Gould and his four associates began to argue as to the division of Keene' s treasure. ' Ths wisard, declaring t hat- as he must supply the magic, the largest part or tn spoil should bs -his, de manded II per cent, The other eon tended for equal .eharea. ..Finally they compromised, Gould to have a quarter, the four others the balance. The orig inal version represented ths conspira tors as meeting th fallowing morning at Oould'a lawyers' and embodying their agreement in a legal document which carefully-recited the several contingen cies and provided an expense fund for guarding the train; but- thl la a minor detail. The group, shrewd observers alt rthsn met the visitor when his ear drew. ittto ths station at Jersey City, slsed him up carefully, and tha very next day began to-bait their traps. - Mr. Lawson describes a crisis In "Ws talked It out," he say of a certain baffling situa tion, "and I left promising to lay a trap which would aurely bring . home the guilt to the right person. Next day I sent to If r. Rogers and to Mr. Rocke feller confidential - communications In regard -te Coppers., They contained 'op- poalte information, and if ths contents- f either leaked w ahould have th culprit Sure enough, next day a trans action occurred on the floor- of the tic Li:;ci:nN of the 'fT. '":T;n-VRYv:-v7 1 From the Helena (Montana) 'Stockman l '. and Farmer. .-. , I -It Is truly wonderful how a great man or a great newspaper Will bow to pebllo sentiment Snd make sa sttsmpt ; te rids the- popular wave, whatever It may be. a striking instance of this is found -in ths attltuds of the Portland Oregonian, in Its discussion of the land frauds that have attracted the stten tion, of th people of th Paclflo coast. '' and which resulted In the conviction of , senator Mitchell.-- . .. ., f 4 ..'. , ."'-For many years the. Orea-nnUn h. ' been the mouthpiece of , the - political machine whose member' now stand be fore th public aa plunderer of th pub- r lie domain. During the time that all tha -' irauuuieni acname were being -hatched " th Oregonian waa the 'firm' friami and steadfast admirer of the men now be ing tried.- Many people of Oregon be lleve firmly that the wealth of th own- -r of th Oregonian is due la a measure v to the participation in the proflta of th transactions that are on a line with thpa now attraottnar attention, and the average eltlsen of Oregon eocapt thl vww wnnoui aeoat. r t -, . laltnhall mnA tha -Mr ... M ' ' V - .," vvw ani .( have been caught, and the Oregonian holds up it unholy hands in. astonish ment st the revlations.-t Whether tha big paper is fooling any one or not doe . pot appear rrom thla dlaUnce, but It I not likely that It doe. In -thla con. .. nectlon there ere eome rather amusing ' utterance on th part of tha paper that has for - yeara been the official organ of tha timber plunderers. -Af tar th cor poratlona and a few rich men. with the .. aaalaUnc of United States aenator and congressmen, land: commissioners end other offiolals (all of whom had th " cordial political Indorsement of the Ore- 1 : gonian) have acquired timber - land - enough te do them for a generation and ', enable them te control the lumber sltua tion of the coaat, the following from th Oregonian muat appear especially, rich ' to i nose familiar with the situation: Lt us see thing as they are. The per cent whatever it la. of tha forests and woodlands yet m the publlot domain should be at once withdrawn from sale, in targe quantities or in small. There . 1 ne need for any more timber land being opened, to provide for the business : - needs or ths nation for many .years to ooroe. Already timber apeculatore and purchasers, Urge and email, own enough, snd more thsn enough, -to- feed" the market for the next SO years- In- theas V states of the northwest end In Oregon In particular, v Let them have chance ; to work off aome of their spoils, and meanwhile what Is left In the. nation's - ownership will Increase In worth,' and ; may be handled In a more buelneaslike -way than by aelllng it for a tenth of or- fifteenth ef Ite value. --The timber and atone act waa passed while the nation " S Waa sleeping en It ownership. Presi dent Rooaavelt ha - still another chance to prove himself the true guardian that we all believe him te be of the timber lands of the United State."" " ; -r Peeign.jmjJPrjow From ths Corvallls Times. ' r -A movement waa on foot-Monday to , start another club in Corvallla. A Se- ' attl man was In to wn looking- for - a suitable building, and . for the purpose - mad examination of : the jtoreroom next door eouth -of the FlreU National. . In anawar to.- questions b stated- first K-- r -'" admitted that lx girls -were . to be a - feature,- with -dancing and drink,- th--Ilquor being aerved on the aam prlnci. pi that in vogue -at the Corvallls : ' Social and Athletlo club. -Thl plan, of couraa. Involved about aa -trornrlous m ", . place aa could be conducted. ; The party -, making ths application . was young -" man. Borne people mine tn . appiict tion Is a part of a concerted . plan-, to make Corvallla for th present aa rougn plaoa as posalbla, and - for ulterior purposes. or eouraa, Mr. wooocooa an not let his building ror any aucn pur pose and, though It Is not certain, it la believed that no otner. Duuaing wi obtained and that the plan waa aban-' doned.-. , :"': r-,-. ,j stock exchange which clearly Indicated a knowledge of the statements I had -sent William Rockefeller. I followed the due and waa astounded to find It led. direct to James R. Keene.; At first I concluded I had got twisted, but teat- .. Ing back,, link by link, there was no es caping the conclusion. It waa. Indeed, a stop-and-thlnk-tt-over place . At last, , Keen had penetrated the 'Standard Oil' citadel and was preying on Its choicest ; secrets. I reported what I had found to , Mr. Rogera, who instantly grasped the Whole Intrigue end took measures to lay It bare. The secret partner of Jamas R. Keen, th mysterious plunger of ths stock market-was none other' than William Rockefeller's confidential secretary, who knew almost ' a Much about 'Standard Oil' and Ita Inner work- ,. Inge aa did hla chief a. .But ths secre- . tary knew far too much to be dealt with aummarlly, and It waa agreed that thla " era - no - time- for- blood for- ther (4m being policy muat prevail. The seers- . tary was sent for and told pleasantly and' kindly that as he had decided to deal In stocks. It seemed much' fairer to ' his chiefs that ne snouia oo ao .irom outside M ; Broadway. There - were ; proper expressions of regret from - Mr. ' Rockefeller and Mr. Rogers, a. check for -TiT-Hrg-tiumber"nf-doilarrtr:-nr' present, a warm hand - claen and . a . fervent "Ood speed you in, your ;nw ; aphere,' and thl man was where - be would secure no more secrets ; with.', which to blackjack vWall street." .' . In hie narrative on ths conflict be-, v tween Jamea R.. Keene and the ."Stand- ard Oil'! leaders, Mr. Lawson gives th , following account. ef a,.. certain. actot retribution: v . ' ,..' -,-,'. The world did not have to wait long. for the thunderbolt was thrown. It fell like a 11-Inoh projectile loaded with - lyddite and exploded In th Third ave- nue railroad. Seeurltle tottered, value j foundered, and th boldest trembled, at th blow. Third Avenue waa tempo- ' rarity wrecked. 1 It credit were oblit- ', , rated. The new treasuref was -forced to resign. Malignant stories wer Sir-- oulated.'- The paper, howled that some one ahould be punished for the disaster. Third Avenue waa thrown into a recaiv- , y er's hands. - The receiver wae Rogers' frisnd, Hugh J. Grant Nsxt came tha ' . newe that Jamee R. Keene hsd sailed ' for Europe., Then tns smsan waa com- I plets. ' Graduslly tne anair lew ever as , far as Wsll street was concerned, but . Inaider knew Keen had been ao badly damaged by Roger thunderbolt that -he was a hard pressed as at unv mo ment In his adventurous llfs.' - Hs Was loaded down -with, lesther end. rubber , tockvland hi enemlea saw to it thstJ- ther wa no movement in either prop-" srty. Rumor had It that . he dared not venture Inte the , Jurisdiction - of the New York court. At, all event 'he stayed abroad, and Mr. Rogers said to me: 'As long as Keene Is out of the country. 'wll and good I will tarry It no further, but I will never let up on him If he come back, and hi career l Wall atrest Is ended.' " ; . , i .-i '...t'-. ' ' . i- w.-.;;t '";- ' -