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PORTLAND. OREGON.
THE OREGON SUNDAY JOU RNAL
-'.';.' 1 AN INDBPBNDENT NEWSPAPER . ' ,
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PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
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; THE FAIR IS OVER. , ;
I HE GREAT JFAIR is OTer. The lights went out
with the day and week. - The fine music win oe
faarrf there no more. People will be. delighted
i instructed b th anlendid exhibits both of nature
and art no more. The palaces in which they wert dis
i played will soon disappear, and "like the unsubstantial
fabric 6f ft dream leave not tv rac Dcnina. ;.
It life want out In joyous noise and
the clock struck .11 It was not
' death to mourn over, for the fullness of its time had
J come, and its mission was well accomplished. We shall
-'not see its like again in Portland. Unborn children may
have a greater fair in 2005. but they will do well if they
.. have a better one, In proportion to weir numucrs, un
ities and opportunities. Those now living here ''will see
many interesting and notable events transpire; there
t f ira i and exooaitioni of many sorts : ' but the
. exact counterpart, of this, or anything even closely re
enabling it, in scope and features, we shall not see
gain. We should be glad that we were able to see this
. one, and that, if it be so, we had some little share in
producing it. ' " " . -''" - "'" '
i ; What will the harvest -fee? That .the exposition has
been splendid success as to attendance interest, Re
ceipts, and the opinion of the people who have visited
! it; is now known and acknowledged by all, and need not
', be dwelt upon. - But how ranch-real, practical apprecia
. We good will it do to and for the Pacific northwest, Ore
gon,, and Portland? This cannot be answered now, nor
next year, nor, exactly, ever. The good the exposition
1 will do is successive, continuous, even in one sense of
; the word cumulative. The harvest will be greater each
succeeding year, though in the vastly greater Oregon that
' Ss to be it cannot be segregated or distinguished from
' the-rest. So we will never know just what the exposi
tion's benefits to the Oregon country are or have been;
' but we may be sure now that they will be great, and
' even during this generation many times its cost
Through it a great many eastern people have visited
Oregon and a far larger, number have heard favorably
of Oregon. . Some of these people have settled here and
Many others will follow later. Most Of these will be free
:.. and voluntary immigration agents, sending word back
cast to relatives and friends of Oregon's excellencies and
opportunities, and this will go on from year to year, in-
. uehniteiy. ' No, we cannot measure or even estimate in
any exact or even approximate terms the volume and
alue of the harvest "
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;. ' There is a grest demand for plans for reasonably
cheap houses. The great trouble about most of the plans
Is that they are adapted to other Sections of the country.
The Journal has had. plans drawn by a local architect
' specially adapted -to "this climate.' It has gone further
" and given the exact cost of the building material These
plans should be of wonderful advantage to those con
templating building ami we would advise our readers to
file them away for reference. '
THE MONSTER AMONG MONARCHS.
M:
ARK TWAIN'S latest publication Is not humor
ous. It is terribly earnest and truthful, being
scathing arraignment of that most iniquitous
ofmonarchs, Leopold of Belgium. This old royal repro
bate. Mark Twain asserts in his blistering brochure, has
i 'coined millions out of the very Wood and tears of the
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region caiico, as ii in onier irony, un wmgu
Leopold is the absolute ruler of the millions of people
- of. that state, or colony, few if any of whom probably
are (ess fit morally to be a ruler.
Twenty years ago, when7 his rule there began, there
.were 25,000,000 people in that country, while now there
are only about 15,000,000.- Mark, Twain calls Leopold
"the king with 10,000,000 people on bis soul," surely a
heavy burden, even for a king. According to Mr. Clem
ens it is an organized system of plunder and outrage
' which this kine has maintained in Africa for- 20 years.
"The natives are told to .collect rubber for the, king's
commercial agents. If the full tale is not brought in, the
'. king's troops wipe out a village' with sword and fire as
- an example to other villages. If a village gets behind
' hand fat its supplies, men, women and children are ruth
lessly maimed and butchered. And the agents demand
' so much that the villages are usually behind-hand." '
The writer goes on to give many particulars and to
show how facts have been suppressed or misrepresented.
; One correspondent, for instance, speaks of the devaita
Y tion of the region, but "does not take the trouble to say
, bow it "happened. He is fertile in concealments. He
hopes his readers and his Congo reformers, of the Lord
Aberdeen, Norbury, John Morley, Sir Gilbert Parker
j stripe, will think these people were all killed. They
t .were not The majority of them escaped. They fled to
. the bush with their families because of the rubber raids,
and it was there' they died of hunger. Could we help
'-'thatr:-.'y - ' ; '-,
' , Leopold is rated as one of the very rich men of the
world, second ptrbaps to only two'or three others, and it
1 is partly, through this system of wholesale robbery and
"rnurder that he has acquired his' vast wealth. There is
"tainted money" for yout The wonder is that the civ
r ilized and to some extent Christianized world will look
i . on calmly even after' such horrible atrocities are pointed
. out to them, and that the people of Belgium will allow
' such a monster to rule over. them.
PROSPERITY AND PROTECTION.
HE (by some) late lamented conference of Re
publicans used the phrase, "the party of pro
tection and prosperity." This is the veriest
claptrap, not fit to delude a 10-yesr-old boy, if he were
allowed freely to study and think, and yet it is effective
with these palavering politicians - of local prominence,
led by that great statesman," patriot and philanthropist,
Frank C Baker." "
; Nobody believes in or advocates free trade, of course
,we have to raise revenue. But a "tariff . for revenue
only" now, with this nation grown to its immense pro
portions is exactly the right thing. Nobody needs any
protection; or if anybody does, protection, is wrongly
and corruptly diverted, and everybody knows it -.
"Protection and prosperity," indeedl The truth is--land,
soil climate, industry, inventive genius cause prosperity.'-
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Protection never produced a grain of corn or a drop
of honey. It never added a kernel to a stalk of wheat or
killed a -gopher. It never produced a pancake or al
leviated, the misery of a boil.
: But some things it has done. It made the Morrison
street bridge cost $75,000 more than it would have cost
in South Africa, India, South America or China; ,We
people of Portland paid the extra $75,000. How do we
get it back? Show us that! . '
.' This much may be said for it, that the peace con
, fe rencc didn't, tear peace to pieces. - Frank Baker's lucky
typewriter helped to save the day, but the Simon faction
ttaying away from it helped still more. .
Kr let ns give some little thought to the condition
cf our streets and other municipal affairs. We ought
, DO SOMETHINO YOURSELF. ;
TN HIS SPEECHES during his recent tour'' James J.
I Hill repeatedly laid stress on the 'proposition that
railroad at least those with which he. is con-
Kected were not in the business of building up cities,
Of course rsilroads help to build up cjties, as welt as to
develop rural regions, but this is,- r should oe, omy in
cidental. A railroad seeks "and finds the best route across
the country and the best terminal city, on tidewater if
possible, for its' purpose, the transportation of freight
and passengers. There - have been instances in" which
a railroad has killed or dwarfed an interior town and
perhaps built up a rival because a subsidy was not raised
Union in eastern : Oregon and the; former town i of
Takima in Washington are. examples and there is some
evidence, to say the least, to support the proposition that
the Harriman lines have "directed traffic properly be
longing to Portland to San Francisco; but the rule is. of
certainly ought to be, that railroads , are not in 'the
city building" business, excepj incidentally., There should
be no unfair discrimination, with the" purpose of, build
ing up one city at the expense of another. !
"Don't look too far awav for what "you hope for"
Said Mr.'Hill at Tacoma. "Fix; your attention on. -what
is nearest yon and consider carefully, how you can make
the most out of it. You have here in the Pacific north
west the richest country m the , world. Your soil' is
really inexhaustible.' It produces more abundantly than
any other. You have limitless supplies, almost, of lum
ber, of coal, of fish, , and probably of many minerals.
Develop these natural resources as fast as you can and
railroads will come as rapidly as you have need for
them." " :. .t '' ' ": "v
There is solid common sense in this, yet it has hap
pened notwithstanding that railroads have not come as
rapidly as we have need for. them in Oregon, and that
because railroad magnates were playing railroad poker
in Wall street and using Oregon as chips. But Jet that
go now; Mr. Hill is coming with a road; if half the
rumors are true other big roads are coming; and branch
lines and feeders are to be built, and with this prospect
in view Mr. Hill's advice is timely, trenchant nd good.
Do the duty nearest you. Develop your own farm
first Raise more and better crops.' Build up your home"
city; Plant a rosebush if you can do no more. Buy
home manufactures. Don't expect railroads and eastern
capitalists to do it all " Do what you can yourself.. . Rail
roads, like God in this one respect, help those who help
themselves. ' i '.'
Look at Pittsburg, Denver, .Seattle and othef cities
that have largely built up themselves within themselves
and through the. energy and ambition of their own peo
ple, who did not sit down and do nothing but sing: "We
need more railroads." - ' '
And this applies to Country' people as well Convert
your big rich farms into ten or five-acre tracts that fully
utilized will yield from $50 to $500 an acre per year.
Find out what the land will best produce, what is the
most profitable. Raise things for the railroads. to carry,
and they Will come to- carry them. Help your neighbors.
Buy. home made goods. The men who make them will
help you right back. Help yourselves. Mr. Hill is
right
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The valley papers should possess their souls In peace.
Portland- does not want any of the state institutions.
The idiocy that suggests it is confined exclusively to the
precincts of the Qregonlan office. . , . .
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DEATH OF SIR HENRY IRVINO.
OHN HENRY BRODRIBB, as he lived for 51 years
of his life, Sir Henry Irving as the world knows
him, died half, an hour: after he had finished his
performance of "Beckett" in one of England s provincial
towns last Friday night ' ,
His death carried with it more of a personal pang to
the great world of theatre-goers than that of any other
actor, unless perhaps, Edwin Booth. Not that he was
familiar figure to the present generation of people
who support the playhouses. Usually, his performances
in America were given only in the large eastern cities.
But his grest influence in making the actor something
mora than a strolling mountebank, in making the play
house a place where educated people might go without
having their sensibilities rasped by the ten thousand acts
of clumsiness and incongruity that were the horror of
the theatre not so very many years ago, all this made
Sir Henry Irving a real part of the stage everywhere.
He showed that an actor might be a scholar and a gen
tleman, and his merit was recognized by England's ideal
of high society when he was knighted in 1895 the first
actor to receive the royal accolade. He bore the college
titles of D. Litt from Cambridge and Dublin, and of
LL D. from Glasgow, though he never had much school
ing and was started very early in life as a clerk.
It seems singular that a "man with so many physical
disadvantages as Irving should hsve risen to the high
place which all the world gave him without question.
His nasal defect, that he tried several times to have re
lieved by operations, his absurd "honk." bis almost laugh
able stride, made him a ready subject for the inimitable
caricature that .-"as the hit of.Henry Dixes "Adonis."
He wasn't accounted much of an actor in the beginning.
He was 33 years old and had been on the stage for IS
years playing almost 1,000 parts before "The Bells"
rang his fame over the world and begun his great success.
Yon. have to see Irving twice to appreciate him.
said a dramatic critic once. The first time you notice
his peculiarities, the second time yon forget all about
them in the wonderful man. .
This little story is told of him. At the end of a per
formance of 'The -Lyons Mail," in which Irving played
a double role, of two brothers, one good, the other a
scoundrel, but exactly alike except as to dress, one of
the nouvean riche going out of the theatre said: "Humph!
didn't think much of Irving. "I like the fellow that
played the villain best"
Irving wss a very young man when Charlotte Ciish
man went to Edinburgh to play "Meg Merrilies" at the
Theatre Royal Stars then traveled alone and the stock
company in whichever town they visited supported them.
Irving was in the Thestre Royal stock company. He
was a little surprised when Miss Cushman called him
aside after the scene m which the old gypsy-sits by the
roadside begging, Irving's part required him to give her
an alms, aridflie had done it in the conventional stage
way. "Did you ever give money to a beggar?? asked
Miss Cushman. Irving was getting only $7.50 a Week
and his answer is not of record. "Well," said the actress,
"did you plunge your-hand into your pocket and dump
whatever you found there into her, the beggars, hand?
Yon know you didn't" -Ybu took out your money, sorted
it over in the palm or your hand, picked out the smallest
piece and put the rest back in your pocket Now, do that
on the stsge tomorrow night" -
Irving told the story himself and perhaps the incident
helped to lay the foundation for the vsst csre of details
which marked and perfected every performance he gave.
As an example of this painstaking eifort an incident at a
rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice" may serve. Bas
sanio is trying to arrange a loan from Shylock for his
friend Antonio. Shylock turns away to go when Bas-
ssmo touches him on the shoulder and calls him back.
t j live accumulated enough' pride from the fair, to fee "Wait till I take three steps," said Irving to the Bassanio
..; I of the piece, "II take one step I mag turn instantly.
:4 wi& nothing leu than good streets.
If I take two steps I may fee merely trying to frighten
you, but it i take tntee steps I am going away. .
, But after all it was as a stage manager, a career he
began in 1878, that his fame was greatest 'The1 study
he put into a performance is no bettef shown than fey his
collection of books on the single subject of "Macbeth"
books on armor, books on costume,, books off archi
tecture, books on customs, history and all the thousand
and one details that went to make no the most mag
nificent production of "Macbeth" ever atsged. and prob
ably i the only- modern one in which fiirnam - wood
really came to. Donsinaue hilL It was the same with all
his plays. . -.J. - -;, y v-'V,
rrom a purely commercial point of view his methods
might 'be criticised. It was not Irving's. wsy to save-a
penny or a thousand dollars if the spending of either
sum helped in his view to make a performance, more
perfect' He made immense sums of money, but laid out
much on new pieces. - Then fortune turned against him
in old age. Plays on which he had spent thousands of
rwinnrla foil 'flat, tiia fin.n.t.l .IJf t1i. mrmim mnA at
last his beloved Lyceum, home of so many splendid pro
ductions, passed but of his hands, r ",
In spite of all this he never lost courage or confidence
in his public and in his art There was never. a man
who turned a cheerier face-to -evil fortune than Henry
Irving. He took some of his old successes, among them
"The Bells" and "Becket and set out on a new tour.
It was in the midst of his work of retrieving his fallen
fortunes that he was struck,. 4owa-. -. .- J,:.
Irvinsr chose his life career rirtv he went on the
stage ip the. face of family protests at" 18 and stuck to
it in the face pf bitter, disappointments 'and struggles
until he., finished at the top. . His was the sort of life
that would make' any career noteworthy.,.
"It isn't the Hall Calnes and such like writers and
teachers who are making Socialists, but the McCalls,
McCurdys, Rockefellers. Morgans, Scruffs. Hydes, Har-
rimans and such like demonstrators of high finance They
are the great socialistic teachers and the people are
rapidly learning. 1 , "vr:
THE AWAKENING OP CHINA. ,
A SPECIAL SHANGHAI CORRESPONDENT of
- the Outlook tells of a conversation between him
. self and an American lawyer on one side,' and
the secretary of a Chinese nobleman, a Chinese tea merJ
chant and a professor on the other, of which the salient
points are as follows: The correspondent inquired about
the exact causes of the boycott and the secretary re
plied, in part: "Merchants, students, travelers and of
ficials are exempt from the exclusion law. But Chi
nese professors, clergymen, bankers, buyers for mer
cantile houses, manufacturers, storekeepers, compredores,
doctors, literary men, editors and publishers have been
and are excluded, along with coolies, from America, as
hundreds of Chinese gentlemen have found out to their
sorrow. . No banker would claim to be" a mer
chant, and if be did they would throw him out as a
fraud. The immigration bureau construes 'merchant in
its strict English sense, a wholesaler. The business must
be in his name and he must show its volume; His silent
partner, buyer or selling agent cannot land. So we de
mand that the exempt classes be enlarged. ' We
also demand that all examination be completed at the
port of departure, so that Chinese entitled to land can
walk off at San Francisco as freely as Japanese, Siamese
or Russians." -' v
The lawyer conceded that these demands were reason
able and no less than China should insist upon, but the
secretary continued: "Our third demand is thsf Chinese
shall not "be singled out for 'exclusion,' It is an insult
to our whole country. Either America must exclude all
Asiatic labor or admit Chinese who qualify under the
general immigration law. " The time will soon
come when China .will not stand this exclusion business.
We claim that either 'exclusion' and 'exempt classes'
should be applied to all other nations or .not to China.
Why don't yotf make this lawc. stiffer.snd then treat all
'alike I You admit Nihilists and Mahas."
' The tea merchant and professor then expressed .the
opinion, that China would hold out for these demands
and continue the- boycott The secretary was ' not so
sure of this. The ; lawyer suggested that .China was
hurting Us best friends, and the 'professor responded
"Yes, 'in many caaea that is so, but China has begun to
awaken, and this treaty has to be settled now." And
the merchant added: '"If we succeed" in getting justice
from America now. we may then boycott the nation that
forces opium down our throats and the ' others that
grab out provinces. This is the beginning of a new era
in China, an era in which the thinking classes will ex
erciSe their bright to rule public opinion." ,
. ; These remarks are presented by the Outlook cotres
pondent as representative of the feeling and intention of
influential men in China, and-they, are interestingly and
importantly significant The .first demand mentioned is
reasonable and just and there is no reason for or sense
In' excluding the classes mentioned. The second de
mand seems reasonable also, though under incompetent
or;. venal consuls at Chinese ports abuses might grow
up under it The third demand we shall not consent to,
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inomjn. me auggesiion mi we mane our -general ex'
elusion law stricter is worth consideration. '' -
But behind all these particular considerations is the
statement of the Chines secretary and merchant that
"China has begun to awaken." and that "this is the be
ginning of a new era in China." This is evidently true;
ana ine umtea states must recognize. the fact
An annual rose show the mayor is right about it,
that is what Portland ought to have and it should be
something to be proud of. Visitors -rave over our roses.
We should have an annual carnival and it should be made
an event so superb aa to attract the attention of the
country. . ..... : . . v '.--:;.; :-".
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"GRAFTING" IS THEFT.
A NEW YORK bank president of national retmta-
tion, Mr. J. Edward Simmons, speaking last
week to- the Maryland Banker's' association said
some thing worth printing and listening to and heed
ing. He drew a parallel though that has been done a
million times before between the old -Roman republic
and the united states or America, the point being that
dishonesty in high places wss .the cause of the down
fall of Rome. He. might have gone farther and pointed
oui mat it wu ue ivoman senate tnai was ine tester
focus of .corruption, as it is in this country today. '
Mr.. Simmons deplored the use of the words "graft"
and "grafters," which, he said, meant ' simply "theft"
and "thieves." He argued that the use of new terms to
designate the crime of stealing other people's money was
significantly unfortunate, as havinar the effect of makinr
the old crime denounced in the decalogue in the com
mand, Thou shalt not. steal," of less jnoral significance
and import That is, a thief is a thief; but a grafter
president, president of the United States even, possibly;
yet tnt graiter is notning out a.tiuet, after alt
Mr. Simmons is right We cannot eliminate "craft'
from the language; it has gone into the dictionary al
ready; out let us insist tnat ft be made synonmous with
"theft" , ' " ' '..:-";.".': -
. How many men engaged in the cattle and sheen busi-
nesr have done almost precisely what Williamson' was
convicted of? The score , is almost unanimous. ' This,
of course, does not justify Williamson, but it ought to
prove to tne otner teuows now lucky they are. . ,
. The fair was well worth while. ., j a
LETTERS FROM
: PEOPLE
THE
Maelpte ef Beeao, . I
Oregon City. Or, Oct. . To th Edl
tor of The Journml Could a petition
of II per cent of the voters of Mult.
nomah county got on trumpod .up
eharg-M. demanding Sheriff Word's re.
It-nation T If It probably eould not that
pr Cent OI TOiara raquiraa u, viuer m
pedal election -for tba dlaehargo ef a
pubUo officer would seem to b. Blgn
nougb. becmuso ho was l acted by only
a little moro than one third of the
voters.
It would bo labor lost to ask any of
the 7,7I men who voted for hint to sign
noh a petition, and squally useless to
aek any of the l.ISt Boclallata ot Fro
hlbltlonlita becauao all Republicans and
Dmecra.ta look an mnch alike to them.
Then of -the IS, 070 who voted and
from whom the algners ot the petition
moet oome, it is sfe to say S.43S will
not sign. All the 4.7SS Ignatures must
bo obtained from the 1S.0S7 Republican!
who voted the etralght or Independent
ReDubllcan tickets.
The petition could not fee Taad anleaa
Dractloallv one half 01 ail tne itepuon
eana who did not vote for Mr. Word are
willing to sign a petition and order a
apectal election for - no other parpoae
than to dlagrao and dlaehargo a Demo-
erat from office to put a Republican in.
There is nothing In the hlatory of
American voters to Justify the suspicion
that one half of them are so viciously
partisan and unjust. Twenty-five per
cent of all the voters for the recall
petition, even in such an extreme cas
aa Mr. Word's, . means practically IS
per eent of all poasible signers. . If this
reasoning is correct there is no suffi
cient grounds for the fears of the minor
ity, nor yet for the fear that a capable
and efficient offleer need be afraid of
losing his Job- while ho Is doing his
duty. But there might be a very dif
ferent story as to the Officers who do
not do their duty.
As to the objection that six months
before a petition can bo circulated la
not long enough for an officer to vindi
cate a new policy. t
Where is It provided In our plan ef
government that an officer Shall have
a policy? The people furniah the policy
and express it in the form ot written
laws. The only business or duty of the
officer, as an offleer Is to enforce those
laws.' - .""-.
If he disapproves of any part of the
people's policy ss sxpresaed la the writ
ten law. 1t la bis duty aa a citiaen to
HYMNS. YOU OUGHT
TO ICNQW- -
Coma Thou Almighty Kingi.
JOURNEYOPLEWIS
? AND CLARK
' No one know who wrote this popu
lar church hymn. la the greater num
ber of booka It 4s 'credited to Charles
Wesley. This la boeauso it first ap
peared In company with some of his
hymns; but neither Wesloy nor his
contemporaries claimed it as his. There
are some reasons for thinking that it
was the work of the Rev. Martin Maden
(17J-170). an English Methodist cler
gymaa will known both aa a vivid ora
tor and an enthuslastlo musician. He
practiced law for several years before
being ordained. Later he was ehaplala
of the Lock hospital. The hymn, with
Its tune. "Italian Hymn," ha won for
itself no anoertala place In the worship
of American churches, although it use
Is by no means so general In other
laada.
Come, thou almighty King, , .
Help us thy name to slag,
Help us to praise;
Father, all glorious,
, " O'er all victorious.
" - Come and reign over ns.
. Ancient ef Cays I ( t
Come, thou Incarnate Word,' -Gird
on thy mighty sword;
Our prayer attend;.
Come, and thy people bless,
And give thy word success;
, Spirit Of holiness!
; Qn.ua descend.
Come, holy Comforter)
Thy sacred wltneaa bear, '
4 r la this glad hour;
"' Thou, who almighty art :
, ' Now rule In every heart,
, And ne'er from us depart, .
Spirit of power! .
; - To the great One in Three,
The highest praiaes be. .
Hence evermore!
His sovereign majesty .'..
May we In glory see, k .
And to eternity
Love end adore.'.
work for Its amendment or repeal; but
force It.
while it Is Jaw ha baa sworn te so-
On the other hand, suppose a special
election Is called new and then under
the proposed amendment. There are
worse and mere expensive evils than
asocial elections, as the Uxpayera ol
Oregon know froaa pocket-book experi
ence.. It is an experiment; of course, and
may fall aa many. Other plausible the
ories have failed la practice. But s
far as It has been tried in other gov
srnments It has succeeded. -
And is the principle rightT Is there
a voter In Oregon who would hire a man
without ree erring tne right to dleehargs
him for tood reaoon at any moment T
Is any public officer anything more
than the people' hired man? If not;
why should he Stand on any other foot
ing toward hi employers than any other
hired maat
w. g. vesx
- New York's Wagon Traffic t
Frand D. Iyott in the Auto Advocate.
Over 11.004.00S tons of agricultural
products are carried over the ordinary
wagon roaas in tne state or new xora
each year, and this Is not taking Into
oonaldsrathm th delivery of quarry
and forest products, or merchandise,
fertiliser, etc., carried away from the
marketing points back to the farm. It
seems safe to say that at leaat 40,000,
000 tons are, carried over the wagon
road of New Tork state every year.
Therefore, If the roads of the state
of New Tork were Improved until, they
were equal to those of European ooun
tles there would be a saving of over
Il0.000.00s each year to the people of
the. stata of New Tork. In ' accordance
with the best estimate made by the de
partment of road inquiries of the United
States department -of agriculture.
A Picture Easily
From the Indlanapolli
'Can't you Juat see oongrei
out of breath In its hurry t
compelling the publication ot
and source of all eampai
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getting all
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the amount
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. - On the Snake river.
. October 11. The morning was fair.
Beta obliged to remain for the purpose
of drying the baggage, . we sent out
tb hunter) to the plains; thsy returned
at IS o'clock,-, without having seen even
toe i races or any urge game, but
brought In three geese and two ducks.
Ths plains are , wavlnsr . ajvl - a. . .
walked in Xhem we) eould plainly dis
cover a range of mountains bearing
southeast and northwest, becoming
""r as iney aarancea toward . the
north, the nearest poind bearing south
about SO miles from us Our stores
being sufflcently dry 'to e reloaded.
and as w ahall be obliged vo stop for
we purpose ox making some) celestial
observations at the mouth of the river,
which cannot be) at a great dUatanee,
we concluded to embark and edrnplete
ne drying at tnat place, we theiyf ore
set out at I o'clock. - I-
For the first four miles we pasWd
three Islands, at the lower points Sof
wnion were tne same number ef raplaJs,
besides a fourth at a distance frosn
them.
Iurmg the next 10 miles we passed)
eight islands and three more raDida.M
ana reached a point of rocks on the left
side. The Islands were of various slses,
but were all composed of round stons
and aandl the rapids were In many
plaoes difficult and dangerous to pass.
About this place the country becomes
lower than usual, the ground over ths
river not being higher than 90 or 100
feet and extending back Into a waving
plain. Soon after leaving this point of
rooks we entered a narrow . oh an Del
formed by the projecting cliffs of the
bank, which rise nearly perpendicularly
from the water. The river Is not how
ever, rapid, but gentle and smooth dur
ing It confinement whloh lasts for
three miles, when It falls, or rather
widens, Into a kind of basin, nearly
round, without any perceptlbleWent
After paaalng through this basin, ws Were
Joined by three Indians, who had piloted
us through ths rapids since we left thi
forks, and who, in company with our
two chiefs, had gone before US. Thsy
bad now halted here to warn ua of a
dangerous (Fish-hook) rapid, which be
gins at the lower point of the basin.
Aa the day Is too far spent to descend
It, we determined to examine before
we attempted it
We therefore landed near an Islsnd
at the head of the rapid,, and studied
particularly all Us narrow and diffi
cult parte. The spot where we lsnded
was an old-fishing-establishment, of
which there yet remained the timbers
of a house carefully raised on scaffolds
to- protect It against the tide. Not
being able to procure any other fut
and the night being cold, we were again
obliged to use the property of the In
diana, who still remained In the plains
hunting antelope. Our progress was
only 10 miles. In consequent of the dif
ficulty of passing the rapids. Our game
consisted of two teal. .
. ii i aa .i ' ' I
' . , .Jumping for ths Train.
' From the Philadelphia Frees. ''
Cltlman is it really only 10 minutes'
walk to the station from your house?
" Hubbubs -What a ridiculous question!
Nobody In our lovely suburb sver walks
to the station. I believe), however, that
it's 19 minutes' .walk froaa the station.
a irs -'
jt permon
' Today i
or
THE CREATOR'S CARE.
By Henry F.: Cope.'" '
"Know ye that the Lord he Is OOd: it
is he that hath made us and not we our
selves: WS are hla nwinla and th. ahani
" pasture. rm. a, . , . ...
r.' ...... tawM' .
THE world may: think that It la
growing weary - and It - may
boast of Its deadening cynicism.
- uui it ami remains mat mara
la an ever Increasing multitude of peo
ple who sing, frequently, this Old, old
song, and who somehow feel that these
words ring clear from the heart of truth.
The thought ot the providence of.Ood
may make little appeal to one when, the
sky la clear and the hand Is Srm on the
tiller, but only he who reads the se
crets or ail lives knows how this hope
has given new heart to those who have
been tossed helpless, on the dark waters
of trouble. . .
But how may ws know that this -doc
trine of Pfovldenee has any root other
than our dee ire for divine assistance T
Was not Jssus mistaken when be talked
ot one who cared for the. very sparrows T
Were not these old-time singers delud
ed! Must we hot each ng-ht our own
battlea all alone, carve out our own for
tunes t In outgrowing the ancient "con
ception of Qod as an all glorious. aU
perfect man, have we not also outgrown
tne ancient Hebrew faith In him of
whom thsy sang. 'Xike as a father
plUeth his children ao the lord pltleth
mem mat rear tun 7
It la a good thlna to lose faith la the
Creator's care If we have been resting
in It as an escape from duty, from the
sxercise or our own energies.. Wbsa a
man allowa himself to be pauperised
by sis-faith in Providence an experience
ei poverty may teaoh him a good lesson.
Divine love baa not been revealed to on
courage, human . laslneea. . There to no
difference between trusting to luck and
trusting to Providence with your hands
folded and eyes shut. - There are too
many people willing to glorify Qod by
waiting for wages they -have - never
earned and - harveata - they -have- never
sown or cultivated. : Men cannot too
soon lose that, kind of. faith or learn
to call it folly. . ., ; , , v -
We are mora ' than the sheep of his
pasture: we '-are hie people; therefore
Providence means more than gifts of
plenty and patha of peace. It means
often -weary ways, toll, -fightings, sor-
sv pain, 'dark nights with no stars.
It means, ways we oannot understand.
Qur plana have been for ease and pros
perity; It seems, perhapsy we have
earned thjm. ' Then oomea hardship and
adversity. . We looked for delights and
there came but disappointments. .And
alt these things but mean .te us -that
Providence means more than our pro
tection; It means our education, our
perfection.. 4 - i s
The best thing that you can do for
a sheep may bo to put It Into the richest
pastures; there may be some people for
whom the all wise can do nothing bet
ter. But for a man. for his people, the
beat thing you can do is to throw him
out Into the barren . fields, where ha
must dig and toll, to tear down his ar
bors of eaae and hla walls of safety
that he may learn to build better. The
saddest, dreariest life of all would be.
the one ror wbion so many or us are
ever praying, the one .unmixed, with sor-
row or disappointments. ... -
.. The divine purposes .ere - the . best
promises of Providence. . The Infinitely
wlee and good will not be content with
anything short ot perfection. If we are
his creation we can be sure of hla ear,
the care that educates, disciplines and
perfects. AU nature certifies to this as
surance: It Is all a record of the nighty
power that works out perfection, that
developa ever higher forms of life. Aad
the great wide open book of the field
and the hillside has the same revela
tion for him who will read aa that re
corded long ago by the singer of Israel.
But In the process or the perreoting
the ways of Providence seem Strange
Indeed. Perhapa a man can no mora un
derstand the infinitely higher. aad more
Intricate ; purposes that are being
wrought out In hla life than the plaat
can comprehend the theories of the bot
anist . Here tn the . ..struggle, often
bruised and bitter at heart a man needs
faith to know that -out of It all comes
the good and the glory unsearchable and
Immeasurable, that though right may
aeem to be worsted, though night settle
down everywhere, though hearts be near
to breaking, and eyee know no rest promt
tears, yet the infinite goodness is over
all; the will of love will yet be done
and the work of love accomplished, that;
all things are working together .for good.
the greater good well worth the walttSg ,
for. - ,-vt ' " ' '.- i
This faith defends the heart from'
despair: this hope nervea for nobler e-f
d savors. , Nothing oauses all things to.'
work together for good better than the
confidence that the worst that ." r
la yet a way to the best that la to b m
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Sentence Sermons.. ; -'-j
V'Y
meal
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By Henry F. Cope. . .T. V
Kindness Is the key to every heart
.v -e ' " ."
Small sorrows are most voluble,
:' o' e '
dellty Is the best evldenos of faith.
na of the imagination are by not
na Imaginary alns. ... S .v
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SavSIng money Is not being saved by
moner.i ' t -
f . - e . e . f .
PraytW for ease Is asking to be ar
Invalid.) . '
, V . ' e; ' .
Borrovf ta often one way ef spelUni
Strength,,
The efelf-cehtered church ' revolver
around this. collection. .
'- s- ; . .
The flnfist sermon Is the one tha
makes thetfur fly on the other fellow'
. e e ' , f , I
. Pleasure
ways mlxe
No big su
sout
without moderation
with misery. . .
la ,ai
lecess can oome to a littl
rayer against pain la afa
sour applesv -
philosophy seems to W
da that have healed theaV
The bsst
stlnenee fro
- . e
As a bal
suited to woui
selves. .
a s f
Tha cream olf. society Is. easlly sepef
rated from the imllk of, human, klndnest
It takes morja than wfnd In the ehej
to make wings grow on the back.
Petty annorajhoea make a nod alunrJ
lines to determine ths depth of yoU
religion. I
"Ton do net neied to prove that yj
are a square waia ay aUckiag your 00
nerg uve eve:
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