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rOHTLAND, ' OREGON.
THE O R E
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Pvblkh rvvr oinf (ttcept 'SiuxUfy and every Sunday morning u
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; ; PORTLAND' AND THE
OME of our, journalistic friends .of Oregon Juve
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complained during the. past
Lewis and Clark exposition
. towns and localities, because it drew money to Portland
that should and otherwise would' have' been'spent", at
' home, Not, only were the 'people of Smithville and
' ; vicinity, say taxed to provide funds for the fafr, but
they have had to withhold expenditures with home mer
. chants in order to attend the fair. And a-few newspa-
pers have become so worried about this alleged state
V of 'affairs that they have railed bitterly at" Portland,
; saying that1. "Portland wants everything," that . Fortiana
'" .is a leech on th'e rest of the state, that Portland i$
'.: great hog,- and so on; .; - .v" - ,
We think our newspaper friends
1 : view will change their time 'after
. It were to be held, had to be
everybody will concede that Portland is the only place
; in which it could have been, held.
: also acknowledges that" it has beeit
t ment not merely for Portland but for all Oregon. It
'- will help as nothing else could have' done, as no other
? sort and no amount of advertising could have done, to
.- iucrease the population of - Oregon and bring about its
. rapid development. . Portland could
" 'i benefits if it would. Portland will
: state and tributary region grows.
' ment and prosperity of all this region, for only by this
means can it grow and prosper.
believes that the fair will benefit
" and of the northwest. .This benefit may not be apparent
'in remote localities very soon, but will be ultimately, and
'. 'is clearly apparent even now, as far away at Douglas
: and Jackson counties. - ,
'.' It should be remembered, too, that' Portland people
.not only paid oyer one fourth of the appropriation made
' by the legislature, but themselves
amountr thus-paymg fir all at least
;J irridney raised inOregon for this
; .may get a little: of this money back, but they did not
t . . . ' . 1 ' 1 . -, A J ,
expect to ao so wnen tney coniriDiuca u. .
'- And has the fair been worth nothing to the tens of
, - thousands of Oregon people who have visited it? Was
it not really worth all the money it cost to come and
'see it? 'Even the criticising editors were here, and were
pleased' tnd benefited by it. Who would miss ' having
ieeii it if.he could get his money back? - -4
v "As to the drain of money from interior1 points to
Portland on account of the fair, we think that will work
no permanent injury to anybody. We have heard of no
business failures on that account. Probably less .money
has been spent "at home" on account of the fair, but all
this and much more will be regained in the .months and
years to come in consequence of the. increased develop
ment of all parts 'of the state. ': -
, , But at any rate the fair is over, and pur cpmplaining
y, brethren can scold Portland for drawing people here on
that account no longer. We hope all the interior city
and country people who have visited the fair are pleased
witli their investment, and that they have money left or
j ill aoon get more with which to trade at home. '
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I v We wanfappwjrpriations and there is do way we.carr
, get, tfieni so' welf as through our accredited representa
. v' jtives in cjngrsa.- We had toirj we ftaVe one. ,' The Re-
"publican peace conference favored the appropriations,iut
. it was clammily silent on the question of getting the
.'' '.representation to. which, wea're entitled , in; congress.
' This may have been one of its ways of attaining or main
taining peace. " . (-;.,,.
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' ; i IT HAS BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS. '
. ': fvT'i':. " Vi'
TkONIGHT the great exposition. will end, and Port
' land and Oregon can truthfully announce to the
. world that jt. has been a great success. The at
Indance will have been over 2,500,000, which is a million
- more than conservative estimates before the fair opened,
" and half a million more than the most sanguine friends
of the enterprise expected. ' The. result financially has
been better than any one expected, and subscribers to the
' -corporation stock will be refunded a percentage of their
contributions. - '. 1 ' r;
' But what is betterstill, the "show' has been a good
- vnty It has been.f better one than it was thought could
. be presented here, and the universal comment upon it
' has been favorable; " Everybody was delighted with it,
especially placed; as.-ft was- on so peculiarly fitting and
i-srely beautiful - a, site Tens of thousands of people
' . from eastern and middle western states have been de
lighted with the exposition and have formed a new
J and favorable impression of Oregon. The government,
with only,' a very moderate appropriation, made an ex
hibit that has been a delight and an education to hun
, . dreds of thousands of people, and many states have
joined with Oregon in making exhibits and entertaining
' multitudes of guests. - If is not too much to say .that
,T considering 'the amount of roopejr used and the com-
. parative sparseness of the population of thir region, it has
. been the most successful exposition ever held in this
country. . ; " : ' '
With few exceptions, chief of which was last night's
-fire, everything: "passed off pleasantly." Two. other small
fires were the only other untoward incidents. The crowds
. . - Ferdinand Ward Again. ,
Oeneaae, N. T., Cor. Naw Tork Press.
. .- His-debta outlawed and his attempt to
. obtain the cuatody of hla son. to whom
. money was left In trust having failed,
, Ferdinand Ward, the erstwhile "Napo
. . leoa f Finance,' whoaa corrupt prae
. tlcaa aa a member of tha brokerage firm
; of Oranf Ward Co. -brought ruin and
death to General U. 8. Grant haa filed
ault In Manhattaa againat the estate of
hla first wife to recover S50.000, which,
he ae r a. he only placed In her hands for
aafa keeping prior to the auapenalon of
the firm. . v ' -
"Aa an instance of pure, unqualified
nerve," said a banker here today, "this
it tha rarest thing I ever heard of."
' : Ward was convicted and aerved aev-
aral years In Sing Sing for his deeds Is
connection with the brokerage firm.
When in prison hla f irat wife died. Mrs
' Ward left the remnant of bar property,
.- ' SIS. 900, to, her eon, the Internet to be
paid him -until ha was II years old, and
4 ' then tha principal. In caae of the eon''
death' one half of tha principal wae ta
. ro to Ward. A guardian was appointed
ly tha court for the child.. When Ward
waa released from jail ho tried to ob
tain -pqsaeaelOB of tha child. .A aympa.
thetia appeal waa unaucceeeful. an at
tempt to kidnap him failed, and the
Wat proceedings,' it. la k said.; came to
nauaht. '
Ward? first' earns into' prominence In
r ii s rlalng Wall' street broker. In
I the firm of Grant Ward was
-nd,-ejrtd Into this General Grant put
-i urge auia of money In tha nope ot
'ng hla sa ta gat start In tha
,1. U. R, Grant Jr., and Ward were
active partners, while. 17. 8. Grant
I Jme p. Flab; president of the Ma.
, 1: 5, war apecial partners. Ths
.GON DA I L Y
AN INDIPSNDENf 'nIWSPAPIK
PUBLISHED BY-ij0UlJJlL PUBLISHING Ca
'.-..' r streets, . r-oruano, urecon.
STATE.
brawl occurred
' All Oregon,
few weeks that the,
was an injury to their
purpose. , . .
, Have it to say
fair.
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who have taken this
awhile. The fair, If
LL THE
held somewhere, and
Almost everybody
a great advertise
be duplicated or
deeply deplore.
Missouri, all
one of the aUtes
not absorD - tnese
grow only as' the
It seeks the develop
Portland hopes and
all parts of the state
this year in our
'Missouri and
ties. The Lewis
, , .
souri as did most
In Oregon's early
raised nearly an equal
- 65 -per-eent-ot-the
purpose. True they
happened sooner,
tion in the fact
joyed them during
. The day might
and there is some
U!
Multnomah county
trebled. - The' law
full cash valuation;
comolies with the
sets down.' ;
is IS mills, as it
as it was last year;
000,000 rather than
ply to all other
lished some of
compared with
really not so far
express regret,
If we have now
having heard so
T
draught
joltiest
oilots at Astoria
Organs called the
would be unsafe
moreihan 24 feet
real management of the buaineaa waa in
tha hands of Ward, who waa known at
tha time aa tha sportleat beat dressed
and most lavish spender in the city.
Grant A Ward suddenly failed In 1SI4,
dragging down with them the Marine
bank and causing tha auapenalon of .sev
eral other banks. In the general panlo
that followed the firm of Grant It Ward
had a deficit of $11,000,000. The failure
brought ' about ' tha ' loaa of General
Grant's - entire 1 fortune and ' that oi
Jamaa D. Flan. Before tha failure, how
ever. Ward had intimated some 150.000
to hla wife, and that alone, was saved
from tho wreck.
Up until thia yaar, with millions of
debts hanging over hla head, Ward waa.
In the eyea of the law, a bankrupt An
property that he poaaeaaed might be at.
tached. Kow that tha period of bank
ruptcy and tha outlawry of debts have
expired, ' Ward ' almoet Immediately at
tempt! to recover the money which he
gave to hla wife., ' -. . J.'
: Boomerang Effect..
. From tha Minneapolis. Journal.
T. C Piatt who died politically re
cently, sajra he la againat Governor Hlg
gins for a second term. T. C. muet be
careful. 'Thia la perhapa the flrat return
ahowlng that the governor ought to be
re-elected. . '
- - An Irresistible Force".
From the Philadelphia Record. '.
According to Immigration statlatlca,
mora than 10,000 young and blooming
Irlah maidens Uodd in New Tork last
rir. That, la a feminine force before
which the moot fanatical natlvlsts will
be apt to 4uaUr . -
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no. . oiuou
Tbi Jogrpl Building, rift and Yamhill
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in attendance were invariably well behaved. Scarcely a
during the whole life of the show. -
and Portland in particular, have a right
to feel proud of the splendid success of the Lewis and
Gark fair. And the people of Portland, at least, should
once more manifest their appreciation of it and give the
city a little additional glory by turning out this after
noon and this evening. Go out tonight and see the ex
position die, not in pain and sorrow, but in pride and
glory, as a thing that has splendidly-achieved a noble
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that yoq attended the jast day of the
OREGON SYMPATHIZES WITH MISSOURI.
PEOPLE of the Oregon country will
sympathize with Missouri in the destruction of
her fine building and art gallery at the exposi
tion last night. While the loss of the building at this
time," as the fair is just about to close, is not a very
serious matter, the loss of the works of art, that cannot
replaced, is one which the owners will
- .
Oregonians will remember, has been
that has taken a. great interest and an
active part in the exposition. It has taken, as was proper
and natural,, a greater interest and a more active part
than' any other state except Oregon's immediate neigh
bor states. The world s greatest exposition was held in
Missouri's metropolis last year and .Oregon participated
liberally in that and Missouri has cordially reciprocated
exposition. ... .. . . , . .. ;
Oregon are linked together by peculiar
and Clark exposition started from Mis
of the esrly immigrants to this region.
days, if not now, Missourians pre
dominated, and many of them were prominent in build
ing and developing the new state. So in a certain sense
Oregoirconsidert Missouri its mother state, and keenly
regrets her loss. ' '
. But, as is usual in case of any calamity, H can be said
that it might have been worse. That is, the disaster
would have been more deplorable if it had occurred
earlier. The building had almost completely served the
purposes of its erection, and while the loss by destruc?
tion of the works of art is as heavy now as if it had
the owners may find a little consola
that many thousands of people hart en-
the past few months. ' , .
have been worse on its weather side
consolation in that. .
SETTING A BAD EXAMPLE.
NION COUNTY cut its assessment in two; it was
$12,000,000 and it reduced it to $6,000,000, largely
through the influence of a railroad tax agent
Most other counties have followed the example set by
In this county the assessment was
says property must be: assessed at its
the assessor does his duty when he
law and there hi responsibility -ceases
Thia does not imply that lie may not nave been mistaken
in some of his estimate; be doubtless was, but, this is a
detail which doesn't alter the principle which;-the law
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It looks a great. deal, better to say that .our. tax levy
will be. this year,. instead of 40 mills,
that our assessed valuation is 51 5U,
$50,000,000. This same rule will ap
counties. Once we statistics are pub
these counties 'which are now putting in
a low valuation will get. the sort of advertising they are
entitled to. They will be assigned to an inferior list
some of- their, sister counties which are
advanced, and there will be none to
except themselves. .
heard the last of the Taggarts, horse,
foot and dragoons, this will, be our' compensation for
much about them in the recent past
THEY DID NT KNOW.
HE IMAUM clearing the bar with a 26 feet
and a seven-foot tide is one of the
object lessons that the so-called bar
have lately experienced. A few words
of reasonable criticism which The Journal recently of
fered because of their recommendation to the captain of
the Imaum not to load below 24 feet drew forth, the
most virulent reply from the pilots and one of their
News.. "If the depth is 28, surely it
to attempt to take out.a Vessel drawing
The Journal may entertain a different,
opinion but, thank God, The Journal is not piloting the
ships in and out of the Columbia river." 1
. Everything hinged on the "if." But there was more
than 28 feet, hence it was safe to load deeper, just as the
Imaum did, and that ship went safely over the bar. All
of which proved that the bar pilots and the journalistic
seadoga at . Astoria didn't, know wjiat they were talking
about which will create no shocking sensation wherever
either is known. ' , ' .. .." I ' ' . -i. :
Ducbeaa Visita Betting' Ring.
." From the New. Tork World.
. The Duchess of Marlborough attended
the opening of the autumn meeting at
Belmont Park yesterday,' and after the
sixth race made a tour of the race track
under the direction of August .Belmont,
visiting the betting ring, where a few
bookmakers. In shirt sleeves, were sUl
paying out beta.
The duchesa sat In a box with Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend. wife of the ralnla
ter to Belgium, " and Mlaa To wnaend.
Comparatively . few . raoe-goera recog
nised her. Apparently she haa recovered
completely fjora the ear trouble which
waa recently treated In a hospital.
' As this was the first really publio ap
pearance of the ducheea, friends went
to her box, and it soon became the moat
popular one In the tier. -
Upon visiting the betting ring the
ducheea 'bad to dodge automobllea scur
rying in alt dlrectlona. On Inspecting
the-Tlng, which was littered with pro
grama and badges, she asked Mr. Bel
mont: "How many men take beta heref -.
Mr. Belmont eald often aa many aa 110
bookmakers. The duchess and Mrs. and
Mlsa Townaend then returned to Hemp
stead. ' ,
"Dying" Pearla.
From the London Truth.'
Tha late Madame Thiers bequeathed
a pearl necklace valued at ' the date of
the bequest at 100,000 franca 1 It la un
der a glass case, which ,1a let down every
averting Into a cellar. The pearls are
found to bo "dying" that la to nay,
losing their orteat for want of contact
pnw tns oumaa sun.
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SMALL CHANGS
Burying ths hatehat ia about the hard
est job aver undertaken. v .
It will ba ovar J.50S.000,' , V,
a a i ., t .'. t -
. How much will Frank Baker, ex-atata
printer at 126.000' a yaar, bat on bar
monyT . (-,.,.:.. ,
Oo tontcht ' - '.
. ' 1 a a - t. .
The big farea-comady at tha Kmplra
theatre la ovar. Ita Itka will not ba
aeen again. - -
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Last day and night of tha big shew.
A Walla WalU paper haada a aoelaty
Item: "A Harmonloua Weddtna." Why
don't the Republican facttona "get mar-
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llast night; don't mtsa it
f a a
Touna- man. don't go to eoncraei: be
come a lira insurance preeiaenu- -
The beef packers are atlll out of
JalL :- . . ;. .
Frank Davey has" a fine aenaa ot
humor; he must have been iaughing
"up hla alaeve ' au tha time. ,
The eaar should bring" about .peace
In hla own country before poalng aa an
advlaer of the world.' What does the
fellow know, any way? - n
The Eaat - Bids Enterprise Is doing a
fine work for that part of tha city.
and should be liberally supported.
If It hadn't been for the women we
name no - names ma rair wouia nave
been a failure. , - . . ..... .
Walk or ride, but go tonight '
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Wa can almost hear Roosevelt laugh
at thoae inane resolutions. . . . .
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According to the Oregonlaa, tha Re
publican party is eternally saved by
the damnation of-Senator Mitchell. This
1 "burying the hatchet" ' :
a a
' If you don't go you will regret it
, .... -. . e e -See
the fireworks tonight .
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Oh! the moon shines hrlght upon the
Wabash, where the natives live upon
the new mown hay, and they're fighting
like Bam Hill to win the railroad, en the
banka of the Wabash, far away. New
Tork Herald. And 'way out on the
banks of the Columbia and Willamette,
too. . ; .
Convicted yett V , ' ' "
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Get a move on toward tha fair.
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Hello, Philadelphia: 3 Better eradicate
the "party", microbe. . '
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Open till midnight ' , V
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Phlladelnhla North American: ! The
mistake that bank clerk In Wall street
made waa in not contributing the Slal,-
000 he stole to a campaign runa,
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There'll be'loU of noise. .. . . , ; .
" : .j "a - e :,t;
' .Washington Times: 'If we men really
do take to corse ta. -we might Juat as
well go tha whole dlatanee and praetloe
putting our handa at our walata and
stretching our necks like chickens tak
ing a drink. . ' ";
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Alba Correspondence East Oregonlaa:
A large number of people from this
neighborhood have visited the fair at
Portland and all have reported, that the
money wass well spent
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A ftO gold piece of the minting of
1150 brought 2l in Corvallla. -.a
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Dalles Chronicle: A new departure Is
being tested on O. R. N. dining car
No. BOS, where Superintendent Pryat
haa Installed white help, cooks and
waiters both being white men. Bo far
it haa proven moat satisfactory, and it
la likely all other cars will be similarly
equipped. ' i e " e "' :
"Electric lines" la aloganup tho val
,e'". ,'.. ..-.'-.
Farmers around Milton have erected
a warehouse holding 120,000 bushels of
wheat - ' .
a a
At Falls City Its pupils, and mora
coming.. . ." u , .; y
. A hundred thousand forest trees! That
la the mark aet by Irrlgon for the fall
of 101 and the spring or io; or the
nest alx months. . And that wo wur
reach and over, says the Irrigator.
. a a
Three men are employed at the broom
factory in Athena, and they have to
work early and late to keep up with
orders on band. , - , .
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Epldemio of tonsllltls in' Tha Bailee.'
a a
Boseburg Review: The railroad sur
veying crew has passed Blkton and Is
Investigating the feasibility of the pass
un Binders oreea witn a view or tun
neling through to Paradise creek. This
would shorten the route about three
mil a a. beeldea avoiding Brown's hllL
one of the moat difficult problems ts
contend with on the entire route. ,
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Lumber in great demand around Alba,
Umatilla) county; mill running full
bust v . . ' - - '''..'-"
Coyotes, have become . so numerous
and destructive to goats, lambs, chick
ens, etc, in Drain and vicinity that the
farmers and stockmen nave called a
meeting for October 14, to organise d
coyote club, and the Nonpareil says It
is likely the Club will arrange to pay
a bounty on acalpa. ;
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North Yamhill Record: H. C. Gist Is
qsilte poorly. i -
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New courthouse in Tlllsmook.
Biggest run of aalmon ever" in Tilla
mook bay.-" 1 '.;.' ......
The watermelon belt In Oregon lies
near Dallea city. .About one third of
the crop, 27 carloada, ware ahlpped this
eeaaon by three men of Dry Hollow.
Tha Chronicle saya: "An -overstocked
market haa cauaed the demand to de
crease, and while the average price re
ealvaii in other years la between ITS
and tltO a car, this year 112 to tU was
realised and this Is saying nothing of
the cantaloupes, which crop is increas
ing annually. J
a. a
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Condon reel estate moving,.
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SUNDAY " SCHOOL LES
SON for Tomorrow
' By H. D. Jenkins. D. D.
October II, 10I Toplo: "Returning
rrona captivity," xara 1:1-11.
Golden text "Jehovah hath done
great things for ua, whereof we are
glad." Pa. vxxvt:!.
nVaponslve readings ' Paalma exxvt
caxvii, cxxviu. ,
1 ' Zatrodaetion. . .r '
.' The decree of Cyrus giving the Jews
permlaalon to return to their own land
iraa iaaued In the first year or his aole
reign, All the Jews were permitted to
go back but no one was obliged to do
so, . In consequence, while many availed
themselves joyfully of this privilege.
there were a conelderable number that
declined to change. It waa now TO
yeara since the fall of tha capital city.
Only a few of thoae who had lived in
Judaea aurvived. Many of the people
nan engagea in proritaoie buaineaa In
Babylonia. Many had became bound to
i no community social as well as by
financial ties. They had maintained
schools and erected houses of . worship
in the land of their exile. The way to
Palestine waa long and arid, and what
certainty was there that all they might
be able to accumulate would not in a
few years be snatched from them again
by some of the powerful neighbors atlll
threatening their borders? ...... ..
Nevertheless, the more religious and
the more. patrlotlo did not hesitate to
undertake the 1 toilsome ' journey. An
enumeration was made of those who ac
cepted the king's permission to return,
and it was found that not less than
42.110 freemen were in the column who
with their families would make prob
ably 160,000 souls.
Perhaps no people ' ever- exiated In
whoaa breaata patriotism haa been so
mighty a force aa has been the ease
with the Jews. They nave not had a
king of their own for nearly tt centu
ries. They have not had a land of their
own for 10 centuries. Tet there is
nothing which so greatly excites them
today aa the possibility of reestablish
ing their race In the home of their an
cestors. , Every year their representa
tive men meet to dleousa plans and to
consider poeslbllltiea and to cheer one
another with the hope of a new reatora-
tlon. . .
The prophets of Israel said of Aa-
syrla that God would out down that na
tion aa a cedar of Lebanon la cut down.
It Is well known that the oonlfera never
spring up anew from their stumps. But
of Judah it was said the nation should
be eut down like aa oak or a vine, which
alwaya renews Itself from Its ' unde
stroyed roots. How . wonderfully both
tneee- prophecies have been fulfilled. It
Is no wonder that historians speak- ot
the Jew as "the miracle of history."
Without a Jand. without an army, with
out a temple, the Jewa today consti
tute tha power behind more than one
tnrone. ' They control the press of half
the capitate of Europe.- Their future
la likely to be aa wonderful aa their
past .
v '" Th ftossoa. : ': i
Verae 1. By tho preaching of Eseklel
and by the godly life of - Daniel, Je
hovah had been preparing hla people for
a worthy return. Jeremiah, while ex
horting the captivea to build thans
homea and rear themselves families' in
the land of their captivity, had clearly
foretold -their reeatabllshment in Pales
tine at the close of a deHnlto period (Jer.
tirlty was at last, fulfilled. The peo
ple had been chastened. Falsa teachera
had been dlacredlted. Idolatry, with all
Ua ejnspeaksbls moral pollutions, had
been forever renounced. ' No atrange
altar was ever again to be erected in
Jerusalem by a- son of Judah. Cyrus
had hla own purposes to subserve by
the move now contemplated, but back of
his intent was tho divine decree.
Verse t. Boastful of having subdued
the whole earth, it la probable -that Cy
rue felt some-apprehension still as to
.1 the future conduct of the nations to the
west Nothing could bo more useful, to
him than to have sitting at "the gate
way of tho nations" a people bound to
his throne by ties of grateful remem
brance. To make the return, eo useful
to him from a political standpoint at
tractive to tho Jewa from a religious
aspect Cyrus announces the return aa
designed to reestabllan tneir -national
worahlp in ita old home. He makes no
promise of rebuilding their walls, hut he
lays the emphasis upon the restoration
of that temple which was the embodi
ment of the Jewish religion and the alga
of the Jewiah hope.
Verse I. The wording of the procla
mation waa a dlatinct appeal to the re
ligious feel Inge of the people. Cyrua
realised, without doubt that there was
"no money In it" for tha returning cap
tivea. They mua be prepared to endure
.many hardships and to encounter not a
few dangers, but with these eaptives the
religious Instinct waa peculiarly atrong.
They were asked to go back, not to re
build their ruined markets for it would
take more than one generation to reatora
their trade hut to rebuild that temple
whoee destruction had been mourned aa
the moat dreadful blow aver suffered by
any nation.
Verse 4. The king, moreover, to show
his Interest in this movement, directs
the native neighbors of any returning
Jew to aid him by contributing to his
substance. Many might be seriously in
clined to throw obstacles In the way of
this return, since it would take out of
the community a large class of Indus
trious eltlsens and families whose trade
it would be an object to retain. - Cyrus,
knowing this, enjoins a general co
operation upon the part 1 of . hla
Babylonian subjects. '
Veree S. It should be remembered
that the kingdom of Judah conalats of
the original two tribes (I. Klnga xll:21)
and a large number of Levi tea who had
deserted Israel when Jeroboam set up
a rival religion there (L Kings xll:2S-ll
and IL Chron. xi:s, 12, 12, 14). As waa
fit the religious orders took the leed In
this movement for the restoration of the
temple. Even when a church has be
come corrupt aa a whole, there will be
found "a great company of the priests"
quick to respond to thtf'fSfll for any
reformation. It was so In tha flrat days
of tha Christian church (Acts vl:T) and
It Was so In the period of ths Protestant
reformation.
Verse 0. .Those returning did 'not
minimise their task. . They prepared for
it with scrupulous care. It would be
months. It might be years, before the
abandoned fields of Palestine would suf
fice for . their support Or the ruined
markets be re-established. Sacrifice
was aa necessary 'as enthuslaam.
Verse T. It is quite probable . that
Cyrus had heard af Belahassar's laat
feaat and that he knew how In the pop
ular belief the all of the dynaaty of
Nebuehadneasar waa associated with In
dignity offered tha sacred .vessels which
had been takes; from the temple. He
waa more than ' willing to part with
treasures whoee possession had brought
no good fortune to his predecessors.. --
Verse . The Greeks used to say that
'The mills -of the goda grind slow, '
, But they grind exceeding small."
There has come a turn In the affaire
of states. The "sun-worshipper." Mlth-
redath, returns by careful count to
Tarubhabel,' "Born-ln-Babylon" (crttnn.
ra 1:11; JEsra tha vessels whose
loaa was to the pious Jew tho heaviest
of all loeaea. The restoration ot the
temple furniture, moat eoetlgr and ea
cred, would be coneldered by the Jew
an obligation - to rebuild the temple,
where alone It eould be rightly repoaed.
Verses -lt We have first the tele
of the mora Important vessels, and then
the total., including minor ones not
specified in the first verses. It is the
tendency of every popular abrlno to ac
cumulate vast stores of gold, silver and
gems. For mora than 100 yeara the
temple had - received offerings ' from
pious and grateful worshippers. -Al
though wicked rulers had made now add
then a raid upon the aaored treasury,
tha temple wealth was still enormous
at the time of Jeruaalem'a fait The
loot", waa preserved at first . out of
pride, and later. It may be auppoaed,
out of superstitious fear,-. Muohr enay
have been lost but much remained.
Npt like - the exodua from Egypt la
haste and fear and want waa thia re
turn from Babylon. f Jahovah had given
hla aervanta favor in the sight ot the
king...? They were accompanied part of
the way by armed aacorta, to protect
mens rrom the bands or roooera which
infeated tha deeert 'and who - would
quickly know of the great treaaurea the
Jews carried back with them. Their
beat families,, their moat, devout teach
era, their most patrlotlo eltlsens were
In tha number retu'rnlnc "With aonea
and everlasting Joy upon their hedds"
they went forth from the land of their
captivity. - A new life was opening be
fore them, and the dawn ot that new
day waa beautiful with all algna of
Mromiee. Many of the paalma which
commemorated the Joyful event are to
be found in the aacred wrltlnga (see
especially Ps. 114). Judah was not per
footed but Judah waa purified. - With
unflinching pertinacity she clung here
after to her monotheistic fslth. that
faith which she was to - give' to the
world. She might make a burden of her
Sababths, but aha never egaln Ignored
them. And In every age there were to
be found devout-Simeons and Annaa
waiting for tha further redemption of
larael (Luke 11:21-21). Mountalna were
being laid low and .valleya were being
nlled up for the coming of the Messiah.
And ho in whoaa hand lie the hearts ot
klnga, ' waa overturning thrones and
powers until one should eome whose
right It Is to reign TEsek. xxt:!T).
On tho Bnaks"rivsr. ,
October 14. The wind was high from
the southwest during the evening; this
morning It changtd to the weat and the
weather became very cold until about
It o'clock, when it shifted to the south
west and continued in that quartet
during tho reat of tha day. We aet out
early, and after passing soma swift
water,- reached at 2 H miles a rock
(Monumental) ot a very singular ap
pearance! It waa altuatad on a point
to the left "at aomo dlatanee from the
ascending country, waa very, high and
large and res m bled in ahapa the hull
of a ahlp. At five milea we paaaed a
rapid; -at eight another and a amall
Island on the right We haltea a mile
and a half below for the purpose of ex
amining a much larger and more danger.
oua rapid than thoae we had yet paaaed.
It was three miles in length and very
difficult- to navigate. Wa had scarcely
set out .when three of the canoea atuck
faat in. endeavoring to avoid the roc as
in tha channel: soon after,. In passing
two small, rocky islands, one of the
canoea atruck a rock, but waa prevented
from upaettlng, and fortunately wa all
arrived -isafe af (he lower end of the
raplda. Here wa dined; we then pro
ceeded and soon reachedHknether (Pine-
tree) rapid on both aides of the river,
which waa divided by an Island.
As wo were descending It one of the
boats ' waa driven croaawlaa against a
rock in tha middle of the current The
orew attempted to get her off, but the
wavea dashed over her and . she soon
filled; they got out on the rock and
held her above water, with great ex
ertlon, till another canoe was unloaded
and sent to her relief, but they could
not prevent a great deal of her baggage
from floating down the stream. Aa
soon os shs waa lightened she waa
hurried down tho channel, leaving the
crew on tho- rock. They were brought
off by thereat of the party; tho canoe
and nearly all that had been washed
overboard was recovered. The chief loss
wss the bedding of two men. a to ma
hawk and some amall articles. - But all
-he reat were wet and though- by dry
lng tho powder we were able to savs It
all the loose packages of which were in
this boat yet we- loot all the roots and
other provisions, which -were spoiled by
the water. In order to diminish the
loss aa far as was in our power, we
naitea xor tne nignt on an laiand and
exposed everything to dry. . .
- On landing wa found some split tlm-
ner ror nouees. wmcn the Indiana had
very securely covered with stonea, and
alao a place where they had deposited
their flah. We had hitherto abstained
scrupulously from taking anything be
longing to. tho Indiana, but on this oc
casion we were compelled to depart from
thia rule, and, as there waa no timber
to be found., in any direction for fire
wood and no owner appeared from whom
it could be purchaaed, we used a part
of these split planks, bearing in. mind
our obligation, to repay -the proprietor
whenever we should discover him. Ths
only game we observed were geese and
ducks, of the latter we killed some. In
cluding a few blue-winged teal (Quer
queduladlsoorsK. Our . Journey waa it
miles In length.
A Limit for Sky-Scrapera.
From a New Tork -Letter. ..
Tho announcement recently that a so.
story building In thia city was con
templated set archltecta and , buildera
talking of .the poaslblllties of such an
enterprise. Many peraons believe that
law should be passed llmltlna? t
height of buildings here. Otherwlee, they
think, the buildings may grow so tall
that they will topple over and cause
dire calamity. Both the laws of physlf a
Knu iiunca nve already set a natural
limit to the height of tall bUlldlnga,
which will be mora potent than all the
laws eapable of being devised by man.
The one great law that will In th. ...
ture keep down the height of buildings
ta that "It wm not pay" to put up any
bulldlnga higher than some of the tall
est now In existence, because experience
has shown already that soma of the tall,
eat have exceeded the point where "cap.
Ital gets Its greatest returns on the
amount of the Inveatment The tendency
In the last year has been to ferine the
number of atorles of skyscrapers Inataad
of increaalng the height- A result ot
thia tendency to reduce will be that in
tho next decade there Will be a revulalon
from the 10 and 22-atory buildings, and
the tendency of tha times will be to
keep the roof down to the twentieth
story or theresbout . ...
At to tht Self-Made Man. ,
" From the New Tork Tribune.
Professor Nathaniel Butler of the tTnl
veralty of Chicago says the self-made
man's sucoess Is due only to unusual
ability. "As success Itself, rightly con
sidered. .Is an unusual, thing. , the self
made man If there la suoh a. person
seems to stand a fairly good show .
LEWIS AND CLARK
II- '. . ii .'--H
LETTERS FROM.. THE
Tha Mi
Portland, Oct It. To the Editor of
Tha Journal The name was not given
In honor of the owner of the land on
which- U now stands, for; O. P. Lent
did not own the land or plat the town
of, Lents. Neither did he name it What
ho did do was to settle In this county
tt years ago and make a home in a wil
derness where he raised a large respect
able family, where bis latqhstting waa -out
to welcome the weary and distressed
and no one waa ever turned from hla '
door. Here the mlnieter on his round
found a welcome, the teacher stayed
who taught in tho little schoolhouse
Father Lent's energy had provided and
on whose land it waa built. Here tha
needy came to receive the help only a
thrifty, honaat man could give. If any
were aick. or born, or . dead. Mother
Lent with heart and hand, waa there.
even beyond the limit of her natural'
atrength. She taught the Sunday achool
and waa a friend to alL -
Until Mr. Leat.aiul -lfl!urlaL Af
Currlnsvllle by their united efforts got .
a mall route granted, the settlers from
Portland to the Cascade mountains had
sw 10 me city of Portland for their
mail, and . When tha offices were
named the department at Washington
ehoee to call one Currlnavllle and one -Lents,
although It might, have been
Lenta Mill had not the poatofflce people
heen given to favoring brevity in nam
lng. A member of the Lent family waa
tha flrat DOatmlatreaa anf tha effinm
Was kept about five years aa an uaom. -
vaoaaiioo to the neighbors at her real,
dance,, and when Mr. Knott wished to
start the store at Lents and took the
office there waa about 11.10 due, which
was about the monthly pay for all the
ears and worry of a daily mall. The
Lent family aaaa mora h ..v.r.l him.
dred dollars than any other family to-
wnru in motor . Una. Ha alan . raira
toward tha Woodstock motor Una . and
vii.reuti ana cnarmes, tne Baby
farm among others. Multnomah county
can thanks him- for many of her good
wnen tne Foeter road . from
Lents' to the Powell valiav waa t k.
cleared of forest-trees, tha Lent famiiv
n StetAA b aa ... ... .
. ana an me rest ot the neigh-
wwrs uDscrioea ioo. Then, as no ons
would try to do tha work tor un amall
a sum, a Lent did it for them.,
. "so no piace to bury our- dead.
Lent organised the Multnomah Cemetery
company, and opened a cemetery, which
contalna the only free burial plot near
Portland except the poor farm. When '
there waa no aalary. he aerved as school
clerk for years. The first year there
waa any pay In It another took hla
place. Ha was chiefly Instrumental In
organising ths Evenlna? Star finnt.
Which mat for nearly a year at hla '
house for want of a halt It Is now the
largest, grange tn tha state. The atate
grange owea Its life to his personal and
financial aid at tha crisis of Its career.
For o.ver SO yeara the name of Lenta
haa been a landmark of Multnomah
county and no- one ever thought - of
changing it until a few newcomers and
real eatate men thought ' it would help
their buaineaa to wipe out a few old
landmarks. Aa waa eald. -Old man
Lent .waa a pretty good man. but he la
dead and doea not owa any property hero
now, i and Mt Soott la so much more
UD-to-date." . . - " v
Of course Lent Is a back number.
When he eettlpd here he. paid ltd a
aack for flour aind crossing the Willam
ette in -a skiff, carried it It milea on
bis. back. How many people here .now
know the hardships of thoae old pioneer. ,4
aaver . until mi eaiwr or in uregoman
bought a tract of land on the mountain
aide about a mile and a half of Lents,
there, waa no Mt Soott Then as he had
aubscrlbed very liberally to the new
motor line, the car was named Mt
Scott aa It waa the expectation at that
time to extend the line up the hill;
which expectation - failed owing to tha
financial crlala of 'St.
Ton are naming your schools, etc to
retain the old pioneer namea, aa tha
Ladd. Kelly, Hawthorne and others.
Father Lent waa a pioneer with them.
who waa In his way and with his means
quits aa publio aplrltad aa they. . He eut
the flrat stone at Kelly Butte which
ever went into the city of Portland, to
build ita new JalL This stons is now
in the custom house. - Why wlpe his
name off tha map becauee he, like tho
others, haa gone to cur flnaa endT
,. A EUBSUUDICH.
Portland, Oct. 10. To tho Editor of
The Journal The atate will destroy the
incentive aa well aa the individuality,
energy and Independence of tha indi
vidual, to the hurt of - ambition and
exertion, is tha" argument againat
Socialism, but no reason why is given
aa to change of composition or differ
ence of state from now. that ao much
la presumed to be lost now supposed to
be had. Were it done tha logic of It
might bo better understood. Ia the state
of something more than the people, or
government the enactment and enforce
ment of law? Socialism would make
every one a unit of atate" and govern
ment having share and authority,
through their corporate organisation
Into a governing body, whoaa laws will
be the government Equal Interest and
riaht will make, tha formulated social
sense of publio opinion the law. How
can there bo so muoh ioat in this, the
greatest exercise of the , hlgheet fu no
tion of atate and government Strange
the fight of ages for self-government of
their labor and control, of their Indus
tries, ss they , would ' have in equal
ownership - and management through
Socialism, should result so badly for
(he people! What better public control
of publle utilities can there be, and
what of a more social nature man tnoae
of common need and necessity? By all
meana let Socialism' bring thia about
that all 'may profit by their labor and
none without C. W. SAUNDERS.
Second of Twin Tnnnele Opened.
From- the New Tork Times. - . '
' The second of the twin tunnels con
necting New York and Jersey City wss
opened yesterday afternoon, Tha flrat
was opened more than a year ago. Wal
ter O. Oakman, brealdent of the Hudson
companies "was the first to step- from
the second tube to tne new I or it sid..
At about the aams time two dogs, pets
of the human beavera who, with the aid
of science,- compressed alr, . pick and
ahovel, have fought their way under the
river bed. leaped through the opening.
Then came the dlrectora and President
William O. McAdoo of the New Tork at
Jersey Tunnel company.
The opening la at the snot where the
old Hudson River Tunnel company quit
work 20 years ago after a cave-in In
which 14 men lost their lives. It may
be a year, and It may be longer,'- before
cars are running under the river bed
front New Jersef to New York.
'r Hop Iff True
From the New Tork Tribune.
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture predlcta that meat dairy
products and poultry wilt be cheaper
next winter. The city householder will
hope with all fervor that thia prophecy
aoesn t -spring a -lesx. '
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