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.nasb4 fcvery sesnlng (Mf Soaday) . and every Sunday morning at
-v ---iW .i ....rjrJ. ..: li-i j.etree ta, Portland, Owg
. 'J.THK EXPOSlTIpirS
o
CCASIONALLY we read
" nanera echoing those made
" ' tion of SS00.000 for the exposition wa proposed.
v that Portland and the immediate surrounding country
i ire getting and wilt get about all the benefit, lhaf the
j: exposition is" a detriment to interior towns because
' money that would otherwise be spent there it spent in
visiting the exposition, and that there are no appreciable
'evidences yet of the predicted and promised benefits.
, ' ' The general tone of the Oregon press, however," is dif
i ferent and more cheerful, if we may notsay more rea
' f sonable.- It is probably true that the receipts of butt-
nesa men in the smaller cities are- to some extent ae
t creased because of money spent in attending the expo
rt ition7 1ut as a rule the people are so prosperous that we
- think, this cuts but little figure with the average business
' man, and if his town and the country around are built up
t and developed a' good deal in consequence ,of the expo
I sition he.can well afford to suffer, a slight temporary
contraction in his present receipts. f ; Vi
! ' It is yet too early to expect 'any very great visible re
' suits from the exposition in regions remote from Port?
Uand these will appear later and with greater clearness
"as "time passes,' for the influence" exerted "by 'the exp6-
; aition will go on expanding and operating year after year,
people attracted to Oregon now will become immigra
. tion agents,' and two or three- immigrantJLamilieji in a
-neighborhood will bring others,' and t.hey"atill others, so
- that the beneficial results, will-appear and be susceptible
of estimation after the lapse of some years rather than
t once. .. '" . ,' -: v--"' '
. Yet it is certain that, such resulu are already apparent
in many localities. Never .before Were so many people
buying Oregon' lands. 'And' nearly all Oregon towns,
' in spite of people- coming to the txpositiotv are growing
healthily. A- news item yesterday told how, Corvallia
. was rabidly building up. , Already that town and Benton
county have felt the healthy stimulus of newcomers,
" Wh in. the country and in the towns. The same story
'cornet from McMinnville and other towns, both, in the
:, Willamette valley and in southern Oregon., The effect
'.of this- increased immigration "of desirable people' will
later be felt in the coast counties, in eastern Oregon and
"'.throughout the state.' ' "'?- -V'-
'.--'The exposition-is a splendid thing tiotonly for Port
' land but for all Oregon and the whole Pacific northwest,
and we ere pleased to see this fact so generally recog
nized and admitted in the state press.. , ; i , ' .
: GOLD PRODUCTION AND MONEY.
IN DISCUSSING the flew gold dredge ty means oi
which the old gold placer fields can be worked over
" profitably and many fields hitherto unprofitable can
be worked to advantage, a writer in the Engineering
Magazine predicts that the world's gold production,
" 'which the' cyanide process has already brought up to
, approximately a million dollars a day, will withini 10
' years have reached at least two million dollars per day.
" "i ' It his prediction should be verified, what will be the
effect on the world's -monetary -system? "Arid will not
"those interested in having -ompartivery-4imited-upply
of standard money material be clamoring for ' new
i .l.hImi.I hi IIiifiiiiwm iiilil in the dollar?" Gertainlr th
fears 4f' the advocates of "free
. .. sUndard, of a monetary famme vnd
will not be realized, and on the contrary money, , some
think, may become too cheap as measured in the prices
medium and measure of exchange,
tiful and cheaper, tne value ox uoor,
;' commodities will tend to become larger. Indeed this
orocess has to some extent already begun, for though
wages, have not increased in proportion with the cost of
: .1893, and products in general are very much higher than
' durina- the oeriod of depression succeeding that-year.
But it is improbable that the. increase in gold, even if
" , as great as this writer predicts,
moneUrv situation of the world,
11 credits, on which most of the world's business is based,
1 would shrink nroDortionatelv to the increase in the vol-
i tint of gold rather than that prices of ' commodities
would greatly increase. ' ' - -. t;-;'?. '
TL. 1 . . U . . m trrAA tia M,lw 2maaajI
. ..and is likely to increase in no wise discredits the po
'".sition taken by' Mr. Bryan and others in 1896, -unless-we
mmmnmm that tticv rni ilrt TiA chouM tliv fnTrtrm nnrh
. - an increase, as well as other then
: rather-proves the correctness-of the
- for they argued and soundly that
-jwas too email and that there; was a consequent and
ruinous depression of the value of . labor, products and
: commodities generally, ana tnc volume oi creaiu was
. 'dangerously large, They 'adhered , to the 'quantitative
x theory of money, and they were to that extent right
, They were only wrong in not t knowing beforehand
'. J what amount of gold would be produced and what the
; .harvests of the world would be.
1 No one need worry about the predicted flood of gold.
for as a surplus in a treasury is easier to manage than
deficit, so it is better to have more gold than is ab-
- solutely necessary than not enough.' - -''.I
-tXX. WHY ENGLAND IS FOR. PEACE.
TT MAY SAFELY be assumed
Britain might be forced into war. it will be so only
' Hinder , great provocation, and will more and more
i "use its' influence for peace. The most potent and prac
'tical reason for this belief lies Jnhe aetthat.England
"must have" great quantities T'of the world's foodstuffs or
its people would soon starve to death. It is a realization
of this fact that more than anything else impels England
to maintain by far the world's greatest navy, and to use
its infjunce whenever occasion offers to have the. na
tions yof the, world -agree that foodstuffs are not con
traband of war.' ' - - r-,
Food for the people of Great Britairi is "a constant
problem for its rulers. Long and continuous cultivation
has exhausted tne soil, and the yield of foodstuffs is de
clining, while the number of mouths that must be fed is
.' constantly . increasing. t ; This causes country people to
-flock to. the cities, where in-consequence the struggle of
the wage-earners for existence is by this means intensified,-and
while the islands contain vast aggregate
wealth the common run of the people are impoverished or
are ablcta pcocure only, the commonest necessaries of
-life..;- " v ' -' -i-'V; -.f jt'V.V
.'England is eompelled more and more to depend on
other nations for food. The importation of cereals has
- trebled in 30 years, and now it imports 00,000)00 hunt
- dredweigfat of wheat yearly, of which the United Statel
supplies about one fourth, and also.about 20,000,000 hun
dredweight of flour.. It gets barley and bats . from, Rus
sia and vast quantities of meat from the United States,
which supplies about 90 per cent of its meat importa
And He Sued for LibeL ;
. From the Kansas City Times. ' .
,lb lt down In Lioutsisjw grow
t t aa error' of te - telegraph. A
G O N.. D AIL Y
INDIPBNDBNT NEWIPAPIR
j PUBLISHED, BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
BENEFITS.; .
tions,' England
complaints in state
when an appropna
creases will have
gle of the British
unless great areas
South America .
tivation. Wars,
batants, make it
it wants no more
MOSTLY
T
Press, are mere
substantial than
the soldiers, who
If this be the
strait, for Japan
people had in
The Russian hot
soldiers are very
have no interest
The czar and
position of a big
i v . i 11
to save his face
aught remnant ot
PHE -
.silverlc and a- double
too dear . dpUaf.
N
a retaliatory act
becomes more pi en
Dingley tariff law.
rooastuus ana outer
dredweight and
will greitly alter the
for the volume of
future events,-but
position they took;
the monetary base
".-
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.that while Great
by the -Mountain
excursionists on
that demonstration
without solving
rorrespondent of 4 New Orleans paper
wrote cf on of the speakers t a Baton
Roue mvetlnsT "The Rev. Thomas J.
Upton is a cultured aentleman." The
dispatch earn over the wires "colored
J OUR N A L
no. . cauou
The Jotamal Building, .Fifth and Yunhffl
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is also obliged to import most of the
bufter,-egg, -.cheese,- milk, fruit, wine and other food
stuffs its people consume, m one year importing 500.UUU.
000 pounds of butter, besides 100,000,000 pounds of milk.
or which it imported none prior to 15 years ago. ' ;
So England is pretty sure to stand ior peace, and
especially fof "peace" ."'and T friendship Twith the United
States, that supplies it with a large percentage of its
food imports, though this, country as its population in
less foodstuffs to export, and the strug
for food wilt become more intense,
of new country in Canada, Siberia,
and otherwhere are brought tinder cul
even if England is not one of. the com
more difficult for it to get food, hence
wars. , ' ... ? .'"
RUMORS AND BLUFFINO.
HE CONFLICTING reports coming from Ports
mouth and St Petersburg prove-that many of
them, especially those sent out by the Associated
guesses, and based on nothing more
gossiping rumors. It is persistently re
ported that neither Japan no-Russia will yield a hair's
breadth " from" the terms of settlement they have in;
dicated, yet the conferences continue, the envoys, par;
ticularly the Russians, are said to be receiving many dis
patches from their seats of government, and President
Rookevelt is still busy with suggestions for a compromise,
so that peace; while it seems strangely enough impossible
it byo means improbable. ' ' .1". ... ;' 1
" It is repeatedly reported from St Petersburg that' the
czar, will under tio circumstances pay a kopek of in
demnity or surrender an inch of territory, and also, now,
to render this bluff if possible more .effective, that the
Russian government would not dare to do this, because
it would cause a general revolt of the people and even of
are eager to keep on fighting. ; ...
case the czar is indeed in a desperate
will shortly go ahead with its job of
mauling the bear and piling up the expense account
against Russia; but it seems to a distant observer that
the Russian people will be much more likely to rise in
revolution if the war goes on than if it be stopped. The
View in this report -are probably for the
most part the members'f "the "bureaucracy, the pre
prietors of great estates, and officers, who fear that if an
indemnity must be paid the real "people would, find
means to make these privileged classes pay a portion
of it. . V'.-":. ,'-.',;'; ,;; -v- -' t- ; ?
- air manufacturers also claim that the
anxious to fight and are confident of
victory, but Japanese advices are that on the contrary
the Russian soldiers are disaffected and discouraged and
in their government s success. '
his bureaucratic supporter are in the
but untrained and dissipated fellow who
Li i ii r i - . i.tj
ou uccb uiuj wuippcu uj maucr uui irainca, ncauny,
athletic adversary, and who, after being allowed to rest
and get nis wind a little, imagines that he could do bet
ter in further rounds, or pretends that he-Ould in order
end emerge from, the qusrrel with some
hia ,ptetig lctt-.
' i ' ''''ssjsi '
NEW - GERMAN TARI7P,
EXT MARCH, unless something in the way of
reciprocity is done, the new German maximum
and minimum tariff will go into" effect, it being
prompted by "the excessive duties of the
Germany perceiving that American
standpat statesmen were only making a false pretense
of reciprocity ; retaliates with this via w which will in
crease the German duties on our corn from 10 to 31
cents per bushel, on wheat from 23 to 49 cents, on flour
from $1.55 to, $4 per barrel, on fresh beef from $1.63 to
$4.87 per hundredweight, on cured beef from $1.84 to $6.45
per hundredweight, on bacon from $2.16 to $3.89 per hun
so on down the list of products of
American farmers. Yet they are told that the Dingley
tariff protects them. And other nations are going to
follow Germany's lead. ... " ;.:. v '. : ,
. It was stated by Republican members of congress,
notably by Senator Dolliver, then a member of the
house ways and. meant' ' committee, that the Dingley
rates were purposely made 20 per cent higher than were
needed for purposes of protection,, even from the high
protectionists' standpoint, so that reductions might be
made under the reciprocity section of the law, but the
standpatters have been in the saddle ever since, and
their sentiments were correctly expressed by a senator
whom Senator Harris quoted as saying, "Reciprocity be
damned."; :" :.: ;'' , ...,'; . ' , ,
Perhaps after while the bunkoed farmers and other
producers will bestow the frame epithet, or its equivalent
in votes, on the standpat tools of the overly-protected
interests: . , ' ' ' ' - ''."'
'J THE NEED OF RIVER BOATS.
HEN the portage railroad was completed many
people hastily concluded that the whole prob
lem of independent transportation down the
length of the river had been aolved-As a matter of fact
it hadn't.- -Withbur wharhad been done it would have
been impossible to do anything. The portage road was
the.crucialJiiiV-inlhe chainJbuLafter all jt.was only a"
link, however important it might be. There was need
of boats both above and below the falls, the first to
convey the products to' the railroad and the other to take
them from the road and bring them to the Portland
market... Although boats had been run on the tipper river
for many years before the advent of the railroad there
seemed some doubts, strangely enough,jvhether the river
was navigable front Lewiston to Celila This was tested
Gem which brought down a party of
the day of the formal opening. But
only showed- what was -possible
the problem ibf transportation. : v
In order to complete the chain and make nerfect the
work which has been so long under way boats must be
secured above and below the falls. The task hat not
proven an easy one but it is not impossible. They must
soon be secured if they are. to be used this season and
they must be used this season-if any good is to come
fom the investment iivthe road" or if .it is proposed to
get an appropriation to continue the work now. beina
done on the canal, whkh, after all, must be depended
upon to afford permanent relief. !" . .' .-.
' The Oreganiah announces with pardonable pride and
satisfaction a new addition to its staff of Sunday writers,
no less a personage indeed than the gifted Robert Fifz
simmons, who, after' a more or less prosy career as a
blacksmith in Australia, came to this country, where he
gained fame and fortune through the scientific use of
his fists. ,. Thus are the ' high levels of journalism
reached and maintained even at the dizziest altitudes.
gentleman.' An editor, with an eye to
saving .space, changed the words to
"DegTo, so that the paper next morning-
said: "The Rv. Thomas J. Upton
is negro." . .;-r:.:7; v.,
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SMALL CHANGE
tjssMisseiaais9
Apparsntly th bar will hsv to J
ltttrcd aom more. ,
' r' - . '..-'. . . -'.';
- But' thmr ; in dlvera and dlvarae
optnioos about what reciprocity ia,
should be. '' , ' v
or
Tha-nvoT : may-.thlnr-that Oenerml
Shorman'a deAnltion ot war applies also
to peace conferences. ,.t
. ' . e e
The president doea not weary In well
If we have fieard the last of the Tar-
garta. let us be thankful, ,
The ' atmoanhere notifies us that
autumn la near at hand. -,
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Onlr about 60.000 fraudulent names
have been found on the Philadelphia
registration Hat ahowhia that ther has
really been much reform In that oltjrr
Tm-rTtrett thlatledown - la - flylna
about B-racefulIy In many parts ox rorv
land. ' Burdock win be rip soon.
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The Foreatry building, at least, should
be preserveo. " ':
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Theae modern eanvaaea are difficult
to - climb under. Albany Democrat.
Which shows how he tried to see the
eircus. ,-. ;x ' .,', '.
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"test September la wetter. , ."; ;
The railroads have treated tha expo-
attlon liberally, and will do still better
next month, which should help a little
to Increase the attendance. - -
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Rain would do'bottv ood and harm.
so be happy whether it rama or aninea.
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The' dove of peace la off almost out
of sight again. , . '
Nenotlam In 'officialdom Is mentioned
about ao often, but It la an old, stale
story. " " ',',',".':
The Salem Journal becomes excited
over Ita aliased discovery that the Port
land Republican politicians are planning
to defeat . Farmer Wlthycomb and
nominate Lawyer Johns. But can't the
oeonla dlareaard the politicians In the
direct primary If they choose?
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Afchlear nrlvata -cltlaen "has 7 ad
vanced about $15,000 to par the wacea
of deputy sheriffs during the recent
strike and will take chances on being
Mlmhuraed. But nobody has yet orrereo
to make up that-federal tteeaury deficit
. . , . e . . ' ': -.
'These Taesarts, alias The Btaa-gera.
- ' e e .
TTncle John D. Rockefeller is golns
barefoot, but he never can be a noy
again. . : .. ; v ' .- - . .. -
The Japs evidently man -to have an
up-to-date- Monro doctrine.
' ' .. e e . k.
Neither Sweden nor ' Norway
semft
anxloua to go to war about it
Sine nearly all his African subjects
are In revolt Emperor William can
work off some of bis sorpTus energy In
that direction and less In .meddling with
lornf -affl
OREGON SIDFJJGHTS."
Threshing about evei1 around afilton.
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Milton Eagle: McEwea Bros, threshed
1,500 bushels of oats from IS acre a, and
they estlmat that ther were at least
li bushels per acre left on the ground
which they were unable to-save.
:. .- - e 'rr'
Mitchell Sentinel: Twenty-four people
were- In town Monday going to the
mountains to take up timber claims.
There were four women among" the
number. They war nearly all from the
stat of Michigan.- ........ v. ...
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A Coqulll valley man has' noticed
that the leaves of the myrtle trees
have a strange appearance. After ex
amining them he noticed "that they bad
a black seal on them that resembled
very much the" black orange scale. This
matter should be looked Into at once,
says tha Coquill Renal 1, and some of
the affected leares should be sent to
the agricultural college at Corrallis and
have them analysed and see for certain
what they are and what will remove
and kill them. If left alone they will
kill th trees.
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Much trouble over In Coos County over
alleged violations of th - gam law.
Some people fined allege spltework. ... -
Morrow county Is a little short on
wheat; yet Is prosperous. - , . .
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Pinkeye has destroyed many Umatilla
county horses.. ,
' :.: -. ' " fr" V? -l' .
Stxty-flv thousand dollars will be th
total eost of th new steel brldgWhlch
Is now being planned by the O. R. St
N. for -th Umatilla river at Umatilla
Junction. - ' '
An Aatorla man preaented th regatta
committee with-a tl gold piece, coined
In 18i. It will be awarded aa a prise
in on of th contests. : .
Well. If yon are going to pick bops.
get ready.
f
- An Independence man known locally as
"Tomato Bill" has been training a
tomato vine for the fair. A few. days
ago a cutworm nipped the plant near
the top, which likewise cuts "Tomato
Bill's" pridFi but he Still has tomato
plants .six feet . tslt, and has had ripe
tomatof on his table since th Attn of
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' The biggest B'enton . county bopysrd
comprises 70 acres. .
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Chlttlm bark a drug on the market
an overdone induatry. - ; ,
CorVallla Times: The Benton -county
eawmlll shut down Saturday for a week
In order to give employes sn opportunity
to sttend the fair. The mill Is rushed
with orders, but It was the only way In
which operatives could get a chance to
aee th expedition., - -
Hop crop fine In 1,tnn county, says
the reliable Albany Herald. -
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The-Raker City Dfmnowt haa joined
the small contingent of Oregon knockers.
.......
As a result of a saloon fight In Athena
ona man was ffned 111 and costs, an
other 6S and costs, another la In jail
at Pendleton and another has his cane
under-, advisement. In ' th .recorder's
court Fine thing, whiskey,
SUNDAY' SCHOOL LES
SON fo TOMORROW
.'."'' By H. D. Jenkins. D." D.
August 87, 1S0S Topic: "Jeremiah In
ther Dunaeon" Jeremiah xxxvlll:l-13.
Golden - taxt UMsced are they that
nave been peraeouted for. rlffhteouaness
sake. 'for theirs Is th - kingdom of
neaven Matt v:10. v
ReaponslVeteadlng: Psalm IxxtlL . .
' ' i . Zatroduotiom. . . -'
Israel havlns nerished. Judah -:
maltved alone upon th frontier between
th two contending empires of Egypt
and -ibtbyion. - it was aa difficult to
preserve neutrality ss It was dangerous
to xavor either. EsyDt had always been
sort of retreat for tha disaffected In
niestio. Borne of the fugitives who
iea mar .for safety, when again In
power, ware naturally disposed to form
alll&noea with the rulera of the west
Jehoiakhn himself, brother of Zedeklah.
had been made kin bv the flat at the
Pharoah and dethronecW-by the arms ot
K7-K..l . ... . . . , . -v
Hla aon Jeholachln, in this period of
conruaion,-waa called to the throne by
the-clamor of .the imodIa . but within
three months the-,Chaldean forces were
tree to glv their attention to him and
h retired. 1 Nebuchadneeaar carrvlne
.him to Babylon (II Chron. xxxvl:, 10)
juai as a rew years before he had car
ried' off his father (ch.xxxvl:5, ty.
Rut his uncle. Zedeklah. thIM son of
Joslah. brother of Jehotakln and uncle-
ot jenoiachtn. was put In his place; and
he proved to be. aa waa exDeoted. onlv
a tool and puppet responslv to every
mm rom tne King or Babylon. The
leading men of Judah had been can-led
away cantlve .before, and thm nnmlnal
king .was anxious for but on thing
to get as much out of Ufa tnr hlmair
as ne couio. To crown his folly he at-
wmpcea 10 reoei against th very power
which- - had - made - him 1 ruler '- and - so
brought upon Jerusalem all th borrors
a second siege (Jeremiah xxxll:J
). Th attempt was mad by the
lng who- had brought ' all theae Ills
Uport Judea. to lav the Aluitw mt thm
awr or tne prophet who ha foretold it
ii cnancea that at thla time the enemv
wore encamped upon certain lands be
longing 10 Jeremiah's family in the
vicinity of his birthplace. Anathoth
Jer. XXXil:S. 71: anrf t hn hi.
imenc in nia own prophecy (that while
Zedeklah should be destroyed, Judah
- ,uu' D returned to her own poasea
'?". Jeremiah bought up the land
upesi which wer spread out th Chal
aaanXcsmDS. securlnar dtnuui k
transaction and depositing th deed 1n
a aafe place (ch. xxxll:ll-14).
r During a.JuU In the fighting about
Jerusalem, when the army of Chatdea
had temporarily withdrawn from Anat
hoth, Jeremiah attempted to visit his
native place to look after hia Interests
inora. . ut this was made th occasion
of s, charge that he was- deserting
juoan. - He was arrested -and - thrown
Into prison, at first treated with great
Z xxvu, out tnis th king
" expTOieni to cnang lor a con
finement leas rigorous. -
.Ta Aeaaea. '
Vers 1. llDon.illuavtrlni th.t h.
tiiruaas or in Egyptians (Ch. xxxvll:!)
bad been arrested, th slesa was re.
newed by the Chaldeans with greater
seventy than eyer before. There, waa of
course, a court party with the king who
bad everything to los In surrender and
nothing seeurei - They had no hope for
pardon, -and their onlv role, waa that nf
patriotic- defense. Thee princes took
r woac jeremialt said In his
Imprisonment and they reported to th
sing mat n must shut tha mouth of the
prupnei or ne would be forced to sur
render his throne.
Vers IT Late volumes of reminis
cences published in our country show
that -months befor the cloae of our
Civil wsr th commander-in-chief of the
Confederate' forces advised surrender as
Inevitable. - He was overruled. . But he
Insisted that when a cause was loat
men ought to be pared.' That waa the
w,y ermlah felt. He Said thr city
waa lost Now let th people sav them
selves by giving up. lt them throw
open the gates and lay down their arms
and make th beat terms they could.
It was coming to thst anyway. Let n
com now, .before more blood should be
uselessly shed. It always takes a
braver man to propos "quitting" than
to advise the continuance of the war.
Verse I. To make the matter worse,
Jeremiah said this waa Ood's will; and
th Inference was that It was a penalty
due th king's wicked career. Jeremiah
did not simply affirm that th Judaites
would fait but he said that Ood was
fighting against them. Zedeklah knew
what that meant
Verse 4. Zedeklah , had - noticeably
weakened. , He had not put tha prophet
to death. He had even mitigated the
rigors of his Imprisonment somewhat
(Ch. xxxvll :10-). Ther was no telling-what
he might do next - The king
might be tempted to make terms with
Nebuchsdnesssr and leave his court to
get out of trouble th best way they
could. Theae princes seem to have felt
that their condition could not be made
worse. They had probably incited the
king to the course be took. If be should
"give them away," he might savs him
self, but nothing could save them. And
so long as Jeremiah was alive, talking
aa he did, ther was no telling when the
king would throw open th gates and
leave his nobles to shift for themselves.
Verse 6. Zedekiah mournfully con
fesses thst -his court, not himself, ruled.
When they for their own purposes led
him Into wsr: he wss helpless. Ha is
more .helpless wwr He does -not-con-sent
to their purpose, but. he is power
leas to prevent It How many Zedeklahs
ther are In th world who are lured to
their undoing, and who wake to find
that their companions In sin are now
their masters In misery t - . j.
Vers S. The foulest dungeons In the
old world wer those -excavated like
easterns, having, no entrance but an
opening at the top through which the
prisoner' wss lowered. ' Such is the
Mamertlme prison at. Rome, shown to
visitors still ss the supposed place of
St Psul's imprisonment- Such caverns.
of course, had no drainage, and soon
becama foul with seepage and filth, -
Vers 7. A - black alave now shows
himself possessed of more humanity
than the ulers or the land. It la not
his business to interfere.' but It Is not
his nature to sit still snd see cruel 'In
justice wrought upon a good man. - He,
at the peril of his own head, seeks Out
the king, who- was found in hla'plsc
of authority beside the principal gars
which led toward the camp. of the Chal
deans. It wss probably now a sort of
army headquarters. Here, pushing bis
wsy through the clamorous multitude,
th Ethiopian lays before the king the
fart that these princes did not put the
prophet to death st all, but.avldenly
Intended to attribute his desth to nat
ural causes for. which the. king would
be responsible. - .......
Veres , It Is probable that friends
deeply attached to th man of Ood be
ranee of his sufferings snd his piety,
hsd hitherto taken it upon themaelves
to see that hs did not actually starve.
But food wss growing scarcer and mors,
scarce. Ths little his friends could get
for him would not sufflcs to support
him long amid such horrors ss those
into which he wss now plunged. The
eunuch puts the esse clearly before the
king, Tb mon who demanded Jere
miah's death have - placed th prophet
wner- nia death win ne laiu to "
king., not to them. , '
Vers 10. There cosy be honor among
thieves, but .It so. It Is rare. Ther
may be . regard for life. aVaong -murderers.
- but Zedeklah did not find Mt
among the men who ' bad led bim on
into hia present mess of perils. With
a little of the 'ofd-tlme spirit he- Com
mands his-Informant to take a suffl.
etanft farca anrl raaj.ua th. nrAnhet Im
mediately. To set him free would now
meet th ess. He w.lU be safer and
nearer supplies In the coo it of th -royal
prlaon than In th streets of th city.
Tb king turns him ovsr to th car of
one who haa shown a personal interest
in nis weirare.
Vers 11. ,Kbed-Melech I not so anx
ious to do his task; slsgantly as to do It
quickly. It might have been more seem
ly to have sent for a rope ladder, con
structed from ' Intertwined braids ot
various -.dyes; but . his haste was not
waiting upon his taate. AnythlngAhal
would haul an imperiled man out of th
mlr waa good enough for his purpose
now. It Is a serious mistake to be more
insistent upon tne means or saivgtion
than upon th salvation Itself. Naaraaq
did not wlab tp be cured by a plunge
in a muddy river, but hla servants nag
mora' sense thsn thslr master.
Verae 13.. Except for tb caution of
the Ethiopian hla kindness would not
have availed. The prophet - was well-
nigh exhausted. - He could perbapa only
be roused wvth dlllfeulty to understand
th efforts being made, by bis friends.
Th eunuch hsd to shout down to him
directions how to proceed, and to as
sure him that he was In the car of
those who loved him.' Unless he should
put the cloths under, his. arms, the
ropes would cut bis flesh and he might
bo unable to hold on. .. W muat be pa
tient sometimes .with the weakness of
those we would save. . We must-he! d
them ns what little strength they have
to, beat advantage. Th man. is worth
saving, and so hats" worth alt it'oosts
to pluck bim from th pit In which w
Ilnd nlm. "-rrr-; i - -r.
Verse It. ; Th loving efforts of these
good men wer. successful. On man
alone could not have drawn him out of
tb cavern. Take S0.lt necessary only
sav htm. That ought to b th motto
of .svery Christian church. ., We ought
to get from this lesson not only history,
but a practical lesson bow to rescue
prisoners of am. .
Iewla and Clark having separated
each deacrlbea separately In tb Journal
th events of August II. Captain Clark
says; ;.' ' y
Th morning was fine and the men
were, dispatched ahead to hunt while th
rest wer detained until t .o'clock. In
order to retake aom horses which had
strayed away during th night They
then proceeded along th rout by th
fork of tb river, till they reached the
lower Indian camp, where they first wer
when we met them. The whole camp
immediately flocked around him ' with
great appearance of cordiality, but all
th spar food of th village did Trot
amount to more than two salmon, which
they gav to Captain Clark, who -distributed
them among hla men. Th
hunters had not been able to- kill any
thing, nor bad Captain Clark or th
greater. part of .th,,mn anyjfood durr
Ing-the 24 hours, till toward evening
on of them shot a salmon in th. river
furnished them wltirk scanty meah The
only animals they had seen wer a" few
pigeons, som very wild haras, a great
number of th large black grasahoppers
and a quantity of ground llsards.
.Lewis says: - , .
The' morning waa excessivsly cold and
th los - lit our vessels waa nearly a
quarter of an inch In thickness. - We
set out at Sunrise and soon reached th
fountain of the Missouri, where - w
halted for a few minutes, and then
crossing th dividing ridge, reaohed th
Una spring where Captain Lewis slept on
th twelfth In his drst -excursion to the
Shoshon camp. Th grass on th bill,
sides Is perfectly dry and parched -by
th sun, but near th .spring was
(In green grass; w therefor baited for
dinner and turned our horsss to grass.
To each of the -Indiana who were en
gaged in carrying our baggage was dis
tributed a pint of corn, which they
parched, then pounded, and mad a sort
of soup,
After dinner w continued our rout
and wer soon met by a party of young
men on horseback, who turned with us
and went to th village. ' As soon aa w
war within alght of It Cameahwalt -re
quested that ws discharge oar guns: th
men, therefore, ' wer drawn up In a
single rank and gave a running fir of
two rounds to the great satisfaction of
th Indians. . We then proceeded to the
encampment where we arrived about
o'clock, and war conducted to th
leathern lodge In the center of 12 others
made of brush. Th baggsg waa ar
ranged near this ' tent which Captain
bowls occupied, and , surrounded by
thoss of th men so as to secure it
from pillage. This camp waa In a beau
tiful smooth meadow near the river and
about - three miles above their camp
when w first visited th Indiana. We
here found Colter, who had been sent
by Captain Clark with a not apprising
us that there waa no hop ot a pas
ssge by watsr, and that tha most practicable-
route seemed to be . that man.
tloned by his gulde toward the south.
-U- Edison's Genius Pailed.t7"
Stroudsburg, Pa., ' Telegram In New
- Tork World. .
His eleculo light . his . phonograph.
his new storage battery--all his In
genuity and Inventive genius were use
less to-Thomas A, Edison In his dread
ful predicament yeaterdsy. ' , . ,
What he yearned for was a. needle
and thread. - - ' ',
Edlaon and a party of friends went
to pass th day at th Iaurel Inn in
th pocono morintalns.- They trsmpad
over the hills In th morning.' Edison
climbing a rock took too long a step-
He bad no others. .
The great Inventor ia sensitive, bash
ful. When he plucked up courage to
return to th Inn, th admiring women
crowded around him aa usual. . ,
! He wore a lightweight sack suit
Thers Is no shop within miles of th
Inn, ' Kdlson escaped to his room. When
two or three' intimates went to condole
with bim he did not arlss to welcome
them. He took hi dinner, supper and
breakfaat in hia bedroom, and ' he
boarded th very earliest . trsin ; for
horns this morning. . -
The Plucky "Peach,," ,
Prom th Philadelphia Record. '
Chauncey Is game. H Insists that be
subscribed for -"Fads and Ksnoles" be
caus he liked it and not because he
ws afraid a certain society psper might
ssy things about him. He may not be
entll-ely frank, but he shows pluck. ,:
, ii assseMsa-a-sassaissMsssssa-Maiasaam
-; Visitors Pp. Advertisers. -
From th Indianapolis Star. '." '
. Th million mark has been passed In
the Portland fair sttendsnre, . This
means thnt th fslr haa a million sdver
tlasrs snd th attendance from now on
should show a big Increase. . ,
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LETTirij mOM THE
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' - Xava Owaty'a Tlrsl vkit Child. '.
Elkton, Aug.- t. To -th-Editor ot -Tb
Journal I n6ttc through th ieol-
umna of your valued japr that Miss .
Skinner of JBugen is credited with bei ,
Inc.Uie flret whit child born fci Lane
county, Oregon. I wish to stat that is .
not correct Mrs. Caroline E. Hawley ..
of Wild wood. Lane county, claims that. ,
dlatlnctlon and is justly entitled to It a "
her, father and mother, Mr., and Mrs.
Ira Wells, arrived at Mr. Skinner's, .
where Eugene now stands, In December, '
1147. Mrs. Hawley. was born April ,
1841. At that time Mrs. Skinner had no
ohildren and I have the records ot her
birth and according to dates given In
your paper Mrs. Hawley. Is-. about six,
months older than Miss Skinner and . i
she haa lived for many years near. Cot
tage drove. -Lane county, and la th
mother of J4 j-hlldren, IS of whom are
living.. Mr. Wells moved to Cottage
Grove la th summer of ltS and located -on
th plac where Cottage Qrov now .
Stands and spent the winter of 1S4S In .
what is known as Scott's valley, four
miles east of.Yoncalla, Douglas county,
moving In th summer of 1S50 and locat- '
Ing nsar Elkton, wner Mr. Wells died
In 1SS2 at th sge of 71.. Mrs. Wells
died in September. "1104. at the age . of .
12 year. Judge Skinner's Was th nly
family at Eugene at that time. -;
; ; -.. ... ', . A. SUBSCRIBER. ' ; .
As Approving sTot and a Orltleisas,
Portland; Aug. II. To th Editor ot
Tb Journal la your laau Of Auguat
it appears a personal notcJteaded ..
'The Loveliest City of th Wst North
Dakota Jurist Enamored of Portland's ,
Charms and Will Settls Her." ,f , . .
T"Pleae permit" the ' -undersigned -.-to -:
stat that all of our North -Dakota peo
ple who have vlalted your very beautiful -
city are delighted with th city and Ita
magnificent surroundings and go .back ,
to North Dakota with high esteem for ' -the
good people of Portland. - i
But my dear sir, let me inform you -and
your many readers thst one Frd H. "
Whitfield, attoroeyrat-law, whom you
load on to North Dakota, never resided
In that state, also that Pennington '
county la situated in th state of South
Dakota. '' '' "
Furthermore I venture to , "butt In" .
and" state that if the Hon. Fred H.
Whltfleld Is quoted correctly in another
Portland-evening' Journal to Witt- That v
It does not taks much to be a Judge in
Pennington county. South Dakota h j
having been honored by th people of
that county with election to that post- .
tion). I fully agree with his confession.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN F. WALLACE. "
North Dakota Exhibit Lewis and
Clark Exposition. y . ; j... '
' - ". '. -The forestry BaUding.
Portland. Aug. IS. To th Editor of
Th Journal With regard to your In
qulry aa to th final deposition of our,
Forestry building at the fslr.- I ,wlah '
to ssy that It would be a disgrace to
Portland f It was ever removed. It
ought to stsnd ss a lasting memot-ial -of
Portland' -enterprise, -and by - all
mesns It ought to be turned over to tht
Historical-society, . Th fatherofvtua
fair (who. by the way. ha not ,yet been-r
honored by a apeclal day, in whlchall
ousbt--to be arranged . gave. , me his .
opinion on that matter aa we stood look- .
Ing at th uncompleted structure, no
said: "Madam, that should never, never :
be removed. It. is grand: It is the moat
unique feature of th fair, and . I am.
proud of It. And Dan McAUen was
right. It must never be removed;. It
must stand as a - living monument . of
Oregon's greatness. '
, M. I, WALUNU.
-.vvffci Police Separtxaent, "
Portland. Aug. 24. To the. Eultor of
Th Journal Have noticed - lately
great deal of unfriendly comment-being '
mad by th Morning Oregonlan agnlnaf
our city detective fore and eapeclaHy
Jo Day. Thla thing has been going on '
for years under" former Republican ad
mlnlatratlona and no -. remarks wer '
forthcoming from the Oregonlan. But
now that w have got a good, honest
Democrat as mayor the Oregonlan - la
firing broadside after broadaida Into our
police department ' While I am willing
to admit that ther is plenty or room
for reform it can't all be don In a day.
This disorder is only one of th many
legacies left for the Democrats t .
straighten out after years of mlarule by.
th Republicana.
.A. P. S-
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Portland. Or., 'Aug. 25, To the Editor
of Th Journal As a eltlsen of Port
land I would like to ask through your-.
papar why Burnaid street west of the' .
bridge, Is only swept one a wees anu
sprinkled one a day? There ar
wason loads of dsist, manure and garb-
age all th way from the brldgs west to
Fifth street with thousands of pedes-
trlans and in streetcars Inhaling this
output What ar thos wh sr sc
countabl for this doing? CITIZEN.
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;:' ';.: !'' Strange Fires.' ";,,'
, . From Fir and Water. -Ttiiaf
la a wonderful nroducer of fires.
Thf7bavs"ben lnatancea In poatof
flces where the dust of ths mallbags
suspended In th rear of a close room
exploded with terrlflo force. Dust ex
plosions ar of frequent occurrence In
flour and drug mills. Th origin, of
many fires in tailor , shops ' may b
traced to th so-called dry cleaning of -clothes.
A rsg dipped In naphtha la
frequently uaed In removing, greaa ' .
apota from -garments. . The rag1 soaked
with Inflammable fluid is thrown upon-
th floor. When the shop Is closed up 4
and ths sir Is confined. . the naphtha-
soaked material will Of Itself generate
fir. ,Bales of cotton placed In the hold
of a ship ar often the cause of disss- '
troua fires. Frequently a spark from m
cigar finds a resting plsce In a cotton
hale, where It smolders for weeks, - -l
Th dark ball In tenement houses Is th
indirect origin of fires. Greasy mattln
or small heaps of paper li about. '
match not extinguished or a cigarette
stub Is thrown down and a blase results.
i New Appendicitis Pad. ''. '
Dr. "Pond of Liverpool airs a new ap
pendicitis theory In the-London Lancet.
He say that appendicitis and other
such ailments can often be attributed
to sntlmonlal poisoning, and th source
of the antimony taken up by man ie
said to be th rubber ring whieh-svr
frequently used to doss bottles, -t -K
Dr. Pond hss proved thst such rings
constat of almost on third their weight
in antimony. .Th antimony ,ls' not only '
dissolved by mineral waters containing
alkalis and organlo acids, but these rub
ber ring soon become brittle and some -.x
of th compound falls Into the -vessels.
' 'Dr. Pond claims to hav found that -antimony
can become the source of dis
turbs nces of ths nutritive snd digestive
system, especially through continued
weakening ef the muscles ot th stoat
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