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j 'DEGENERACY SELP, CONFESSED, J. j,'- i
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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" ' ' - ' ','-'
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; . 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
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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. ' ,
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Pick the vary bast man for congress
next year and keep them there. '
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SHU "fair and northwestern winds.'"
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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
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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,' ;
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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
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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
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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:
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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." ?
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Oo hoppicklng In about two weeks. -
-.-...-..-,-' .', , e . . ;'..',; ,-'-raiackberrlee
In Gervals bring S cents
a pound in trade or t cents to Chlcka-
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-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' ''
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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.
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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.' " ; . ,
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