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PORTLAND HEN ON
lODAV THE PORTLAND
1 Ur..rJarkston fair IS in
!mibt not enJovinir their
' the people of that region did not
! at Tolland. Yesterday the Fortlanderi passea tnrouga
; wonderful stretch of country, the most productive in
; wheat in the world, and exceedingly productive if utilized
' therefor of other1' grains, fruity livestock and other
products. :' . ' ' .:, '.
' At daylight they were at Pendleton, that has steadily
grown into a city of some 7,000 people, surrounded by a
.' magnificent country, both in area and productive ca
' pacitf. T Early in' the day bright, crisp autumn day
' with "air i like wine they j, passed . through Adams,
Athena and Weston, in the yery heart of the Oregon
, portion of the great interior wheat; belt,-where for
many miles on either side the. average wheat yield is 35
; or 40 bushels an acre, and yields of 50 or 60 bushels are
.not infrequent A little later they were at the towns
I uf Milton and Freewater, down in the Walla Walla val
ley, nestled beside the Walla Walla river, with rising
: and rolling prairies on either hand--mfles upon' miles
j, again of wheat lands? and ;in the broad and 'well
' watered valley before them tens of thousands of acres of
gravelly land that can produce fruits,' berries and veg
,? ctables equal, in 'quality and ' quantity to any raised
: throughout av large an area anywhere in the country,.
' in the afternoon they reached Walla Walla, the metrop-
; olis of southeastern Washington and of the great wheat
i belt, an old town that after growing to 7,000 or 8,000 went
, to sleep for a couple of decades, and in the; next two
: has grown to a city of 20,000 a beautiful interior city,
,, containing hundreds' of . retired, and rich or well-to-do
farmers, every one a living testimonial to the wonderful
; fertility of that region's soil,.' Then pn up through the
V Washington and Idaho portion of the great wheat belt,
. passing Dayton, Waitsburg and other prosperous towns,
and so on through a. rugged country and over a tor-
tuous route to, Moscow and Lewiston, the goal of the
j. trip. -r.v '.'..j ":.'.':: -
They will have seen a great many square miles of land
that produces the largest crops of wheat raised in the
. country. They will have seen thousands of fine or
: shards and berry patches and vegetable gardens. - They
1 will have looked for hours all day southward, east
i ward and northward toward that distant and dimly,
. blulshly-dark circlinw -ridge, the 'Blue mountains, them
; -selves vastly rich in timber and summer pasturage for
. hundreds of thousands of sheep; and in whose recesses
4 "the red dees- loves to wander" and in whose many
i brooks the trout invites the angler, . .. . , ', ...
" And off to their left, from 20 to 40 miles distant, across
) many miles of rich, rolling farming lands and an adjacent
strip of desert land, much of which is being or will be
, irrigated and made productive flows the Columbia river,
whose bank they left at 'Umatilla, the great river of the
; Tacific northwest, that is to be : made a regulator of
, freight rates if not itself an artery of commerce for all
that immense iegionthe. river whose mighty flow speaks
.' promise, prosperity and commercial freedom to the vast
!-inland empire. ; . .,'',
' ' Those who are familiar with that region never tire of
v revisiting and re-inspecting it, and refreshing themselves
in its gigantic panorama of beauty and invigorating air,
I and to such as now pass through it for the first time it
will be a revelation and an inspiration!
f As to a campaign contribution by the Mutual in 1896
Mr. McCurds mind is a blank, he says. What a for
u tunate faculty of great financiersto be able to remem
r ber or not, just as they choose.
ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE ' BRIDGES."
I
X'lS" BAD ENOUGH to have
.advertisements on private buildings and fences
- without deforming the bridges across the Wil-
' lamette -river or elsewhere in the city with these usually
offensive decorations. 'Not only are most of these an
nouncements an artistic eyesore to our own citizens who
have to. pais by them wherever they go about the city,
but when eastern1 visitors see country or city property
used for' this purpose they will naturally conclude that
we must be in very straitened circumstances financially
r or else that the impression they had before they started
; west that we were only about half civilized out here was
j correct,. '; i . v - -'V' " ' ' ." '
For a paltry $500 a year Multnomah county, with as
; sessable. property to the amount of $150,000,000 and en
tircly out of debt, is to offend the eyes of tens of thou-
sands of people who daily cross the Willamette. - -t,
These productions of the sign writer are a legitimate
species of advertising, but they could, and should have
. been kept off our bridges as well as all other, public
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'. Since they are to appear along the bridges, why not
let the sides of the courthouse and armory,: and if the
city follows suit the city hall, be used for the same pur
pose? If these advertisements are to rear their flaming
heads above the decks of the bridges, where all passers
by must needs see them look whichever way they will,
one proposition is as reasonable as the other; no, the
sides of the courthouse would be .the preferable place
. for the people if not for the advertisers. . . 1 ,'
' If possible, this bad contract should be rescinded;' if
not, it should never be renewed. ; .
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' - The president is capturing the souths as he has cap-
tnred the rest of the world. The southerners like a good
clean fighter( even if they don't vote his way.
.,THE WORKERS' RESPONSIBILITY.
WO CORDONING CIRCUMSTANCES plead for
Edward. George Cunliffe's liberty. He is guilty
of a crime, and although he stole a targe sum,
which is popularly supposed to insure tfght sentence or
; freedom from prosecution, will serve time. Cunliffe did
not introduce any element of ingenuity -or oVTty into
his work, so as to bring it up to the Rockefeller standard,
but coupled .up with that bunch of $101,000 currency in
' the old-fashioned style which ancients termed, thefu
Cunliffe's experience ' between the , upper and nether
millstones of temptation and necessity offers condoning
evidence for many of his class. .Students of human na
ture are prone to think that a $55-a-month man who
handle hundreds of thousands of dollars, is a victim of
unnatural and hapless conditions. ' Responsibility is a
. rroRec.wge element, as .well as capacity. Men who
l.ave an immense burden of responsibility are entitled to
rTiunerition. In America, where average labor, is paid
) to $50 a month, and where (he rate of recompense
- crpital invested is high, the man who is to handle
-eds of thousands of dollars is wronged when paid
. i r;5 a month.' 1 - i " V ' ,,;
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It is a cold day when lome new railroad project is not
AV'. INDKPINDBNT NIW8PAPBI ',,'.::.; ' . ';
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
Sunday) and l7 Sunday' morning at
etreeta, Fort land, Oregon. '
THE WAY.
NEW
delegation to the Lew-
TT LOOKS AS
I City were
. Lewiston We
visit fully as much as
. the sake, of
long since at the fair
lianv M.-Ivins, the
heard of before
Jerome, but the
ex-police ' justice
name is Flira.)
turn down but
of the Bar. association. .
So the machine
He is the people
will be beholden
The unfettered,
machines has become a patriotic duty. ,
In Philadelphia
reform forces. ',;V' V'-v' -';',;i--- .;.:
Vraterdav. after
McClellan and all
Jerome said: "I
The tuberculosis
important work,
must give it up
There are many
and philanthropy,
all sorts of painted
roads. 1 He says it
JOURNAL
no. J. OABaOU
The Journal Building Fiftn and
Yambfll
YORK CITY" POLITICS.
IF THE Republicans of New York
standing in with Tammany again, for
course, of some crumbs of spoils. Wil
Republican nominee for mayor; never
outside his own ward or : assembly dis
trict, is said to be a respectable man, but there is no hope
of electing him, nor will any united and sincere effort
on the' part of Republicans be made to do so. He ad
vised the indorsement, of Jerome for district attorney,
and the Republican convention really wanted to nominate
bosses ruled otherwise and put up an
named. Flammer. (Perhaps his first
The convention also refused to renora
inate Justice Gildersleeve, whom Tammany wanted to
dared not do so because of the protests
leaders of all the parties are against
Jerome, a fact which he rightly considers a compliment
scandidate, and his own,' and u elected
to no machine, no boss, no party, no
politician. It is a man in just this position that New
York and other cities too need in that office. He
says: "It is tbe same old story of a small but powerful
company of men sometimes one man who stand be
tween the people and the public service and control the
voting power of tbe people." ' "
unruled, nnbossed, common patriotic
people 'alJjByer the country hope that Jerome may tri
umphTtor aimilar fights wilf be on in various cities all
over the land within afew years. Smashing partisan
the people, with Mayor Weaver at
their head.are fighting the Republican gang of boodlers
and looters thst for a generation has made the politics
of that city a stench in the land. In New York the fight
must be directed against 1 ammany-tnougn me Repub
lican machine it it could get into power would be worse
than Tammany and Jerome is the natural leader of the
roastins Boss MuTPhy boss ot Mayor
the city officials to a shriveled scrap,
have given you the clean-cut issue, clean
as it has never been .netore in xnis or any oiaci com
munity, between the selfish, grasping boss and the plain
people whom Abraham Lincoln loved and trusted, and I
gd -forward to the 7th of November regardless of re
sults, for I believe, as I stand here tonight, that, if I
have raised the issue between the grafting boss and the
servant of the people, the mighty voice of the people will
be heard resonant and true. It always has been heard
in the cause of right'.' 1 v-;;.,. : .;
sanitarium is doing a useful and
but like the Travelers' : Aid society
- unless supported , by contributions.
calls for money in the name of charity
but few if any more worthy than
these, . ; " - ';''','.
; A: WILLAMETTE VALLEY- APPLES. ' J
OREGON ' CAN RAISE . tbTJbeat . apples in ,thi
..world. It not only can but it does. At least
that is the opinion of apple epicures in three
continents. These superb 1 and matchless apples are
raised in only two of three sections of the state. Hood
River has and . so far deserves the greatest reputation,
though other localities in eastern and southern Oregon
may and perhaps already do produce apples oi equal
excellence. .' '-; T' '..:' '' '"' ' -
The Willamette valley can produce excellent apples,
equal to those of Missouri, Michigan, New York and other
apple-famed states. - But certainly many of the apples
raised in the Willamette valley and put upon the market
here and in other towns are not a credit to this part of
the state.; If of fair size and tolerable appearance at a
gla'nce the producer can get something for them half
or one third what he could for a box of fide perfect ap
ples, and he would rather take what he can get than to
go to the trouble and expense of rehabilitating, his or
chard and keeping it free of pests, i ' v !
Doubtless many orchardisU of the Willamette valley
are entitled to be exempted from this criticism. It does
not apply to all, but it does apply to many too many.
The younger orchards, and the newer men owning
orchards, we hope and believe, are entitled to credit for
an improvement that is gradually taking place, but tak
ing the whole region together the improvement seems
sluggish. - '..'' ; . -..'-;-:: i 1 ' :':
The Willamette valley in the early days was famed
far and wide, for its big fed apples, and then the pests
had not played havoc with the orchards, as tbey have
been doing,' in many Instances unmolested, for many
years. ' There ought to be a concerted, determined ef
fort, backed by the law, to revive those early conditions
in this respect, for with work enough the pests can be
eradicated. .. ' .' ' . V i
Wormy apples ought to be driven out of the market
Oregon people living in towns are as well entitled to
good apples as the people of New York City or London.
That - Portland-Nehalem railroad is "assured" again.
But people over Tillamook-way won't believe it till they
hear the toot of a locomotive. ? ' '
THE PRESIDENT ON RAILROAD CONTROL.
TtlE PRESIDENT spoke out plainly at Raleigh
. yesterday regarding railroad regulation. He
has not changed his mind or position. He in
sists that the government must not own but must "ex
ercise a suoervisorv and reeulatorr right over the rail
is "not possible to leave the railroads
uncontrolled. The-present lack of system is fertile
in abuses of every kind, and puts a premium upon un
scrupulous and ruthless cunning in railroad manage
ment," and he gives some details. So, he says, we must
have "an administrative body with the power to secure
fair and just treatment as arnong all snippers who use
the railroads nd all shippers have a right to use them."
"Abuses of which we have a right to complain take
many shapes," and the reform necessary can only be
brought about by "giving the government power when
complaint is made of a given -rate as being unjust or un
reasonable, if it finds the complaint proper, then itself
to fix a maximum rate which it regards as just and rea
sonable, (his rate to, go into effect practically at once,
that is, within a reasonable time, and to stay.Jn effect
unless reversed by the courts." :('.' 4j
This is the crux of the 'whole problem. This is what
the railroads and railroad congressmen will fight hardest
But we know where the president stands. And the peo
ple are with him. " Andv finally, if not next year, they
will prevail.
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,The whoU country "will almost anxiously awsit the
returns on November 7 from New York and Philadelphia.
Some of them will want to stay up there, we suspect.
SMALL ,- CHANGE
Lewiaton will show Itaalf all rlshk
' What a beautiful advarUaomant for
Portland Ua brldgea will ba baraaftar.
If that absurd . contract cannot ba
abro rated.
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Conrrressraan Nick Lonaworth mlcht
ba wUllqg to par that M0.SOS duty IX.
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prapara to rata battar applaa.
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( Was it eold anouah foriouT
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It you have nothing alsa important to
do, build a railroad aar from Portland
to Coos Bay or uutavww. .
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Senator Piatt says ha Intends to die
with his bualnaaa ault on. . Also, per
haps, with Mae wooo s suit on.
Don't burn the brldrea, however; only
roaat the oommiaaionara- court.
; Court was suspended in Kvanaton until
the juda borrowed a ohew of tobaeco:
Meanwhllo the attorneys cbawad the rag.
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Ah. there, Castro I . Speak tap, .
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As soon as the papere nult talking
about Oovernor-Sanator La Follatta for
a day or two ho thraatano to raalsn.
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Chicaao Journal: A European aolan
ttat says man's first ancestor was a traa.
Tbara's nothlnsT saw in that. Darwin
proved that man . descended from
monxeya, ana any Tool Knows that
monkeys deacend rronvtraxa, '
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Bet theya'ra having sv srood time at
Lewiston. - , i .' ,
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Keening home labor employed as much
as possible la a good policy, and the
water board did right la letting a big
contract to a noma concern. .
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If. Teddy would rua again ha might
carry the aouth. too.. -
Mora ears, mora ears, la the cry from
points in all directions. , The railroads
must hear and heed it
Lawyer Beck ia aatonlshed and almost
indignant at Lawyer Hughes because tbe
latter aeema to bo honestly and earnestly
endeavoring to find out all about tthe
Mutual Life, Really, tt ia rather unpro
fessional.. ,
Lucky fall for Oregon no campaign-
. ' a -a 4
Not a new candidate for governor in
three days. Is this one result of har-
monyt .. ..... ,,'s , .;. -
A very strange thing la happening In
Texas. , A negro, aupposed to have killed
a woman and two or tbratf of her chil
dren, after having committed dastardly
assaalts, though -captured after a long
chaae, baa not been lynched, but is In
Jail awaiting trial. But state troops are
on guard. (
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Irrigon Irrigator: W are all proud
of Portland. For two months her hos
pitality has been put to aevera testa, but
she has acquitted harsalf nobly..
The interior prees should consider that
the Oregonlan does not and cannot apeak
for Portland. '.
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A German aavant aaya the bite of a
pretty girl la aa deadly as a rattle
snake's. But there is scarcely a young
man In the country who isn't willing to
take all the risks, with no antidote but
application of the maxim, "Simula fi tra
il bus curanter." v
Coos Bay now expects three rail
roads, ' ..
More salmon at Bandon than the ean-
nerlee can take care ot ' a-
Rumor says that one of Stuelaw'e fair
maldena will be lad to the altar within
the next few weeks Florenoe West.
Such events muat be rare over there.
There are over 15,000,000 feet of
loga In tbe north fork of Coos river. -
Tillamook City Is having a taste of
high finance, eaya the Headlight. The
city -waa bonded for $40,000 and the
water commission had to borrow some
thing like $ 1.1 SO to pay the first six
montha' - interest so that the . city's
credit should not be questioned.
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For the first time In SUveir Lake's
history, says the Central Oregonlan. the
girls outnumbered the boys at a dance.
Soma of them ware married girls, to be
sure, but that eut no loa, they ware Just
as frisky and enjoyed themselves fully
aa much as the younger ones.
From tbe little town of Freewater
were shipped this year 10,000 crates of
early fruita and berries and later 10
cars of mixed fruita and II cars of ap
ples; also IS care of watermelons and
10 care of onions, peaches and srranss
amounted to 6.000 boxes. All this be
sides what was peddled Out and indi
vidual small ahlpments, amounting to
several oarloada During the packing
season 160 people were employed who
were paid ti.000. Over $80,000 was paid
to Wails Walla valley fruit growers this
season, an average of $100 to each.
Clackamas county grangers have held
sueoeesful fairs. V
Some' good roads work being done in
Douglae county.
Probably a greater acreage of fr
erops than ever being planted.
e
A large packinghouse will . be built
near Baker City.
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A Crook county men wae paid $17,000
for his 1,000-aore ranch and bands of
sheep. ; .
The Astoria police are engaged In
tacking up eigne to prevent spitting or
throwing rruit nnas on the eiaewsika
The eigne are made of tin and provided
by the Woman's club.
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Salen) le the right Capital City.
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Salem Statesman: The best - and
broadest people of Portland believe that
the only way to make their city great is
to help build up a greet state, and they
are ready to help, and are helping. They
therefore deprecate euch scandalous at
terancee ae the Oregonlan has contained
against Salem. It the business people
of Salem' did not know the editorial
bllndneee and provincialism of the Ore
gonlan, suck articles would do- Portland
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
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WHY TURN TII2 UNI
TARIANS DOWN?
' -'i By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
In barring out ' the Unitarian dele
gates from its deliberations the Inter-
Church Conference on Federation acted
not only la a most Illogical but In a
most un-Christian way.
First of all let ue look at the Hlogl.
eal side of the action. Broadly apeak.
Ing, Chrlatendom is made up of Catho
lics and Protestants.
Cathollaa -believe in abiding by the
teachings of the church, while Prot
estants profess to believe In what they
call the "right of private Judgment"
According to tbe Catholics, thoae who
refuse to listen to the teachings of v the
church are not. Christiana; while the
Protestants hold that one may refuse to
listen to such teachings may, oa the
strength of the right of private Judg
ment aaarch -out for themselves other
teachings than those that are laid
down by the church and still be Chris
tians. ' 1 , '
In fact tt is' upon-fhia Idea of the
right, of private Judgment - that the
whole fabrlo of Protaatantiem roots.
When they seceded from the church the
church said to them: "Tou are heretics.
Tou have csassd to believe my teschina
and you can no longer be called Chrla
tlana." Whereupon tbe Proteetanta re
plied: "No. It I true that wo have
ceased to believe your teaching; but
that fact doea not make ue heterodox.
We are still Christians, notwithstanding
the faot that by virtue of the tight of
private Judgment we are now doing our
own thinking."
And bo Protestantism started eut on
the private Judgment platform, with the
result the natural, the Inevitable re
sult rthat It was soon broken up Into
Innumerable Beets. Today ita name ie
legion, and from the "high church"
crowd la the Church of England down
to the Salvation Army one can And any
type, ox shad, of Christianity he wants.
And now, to some , to tbe point at
Issue, any one of the almost oountleee
phases of Protestantism has the logical
light, .according to the foundation prin
ciple of Protestantism Itself, to demand
that It be called "Christian."
The Church of "England may feel In
clined to call the Methodists and Bap
tlsta heretics, and the Methodists and
Baptists may feel Ilka denying - the
name Christian to Quaksra and Shakers;
but the whole thing Is the very quint
essence of . the illogical; since Church
of England. Methodist Baptiet. Quaksr
and Shaker an alike stand on the same
bases the right of private Judgment.
tbe light of determining each for Itself,
what Christianity Is. . .. -
WelL then, let us take the Unitarians
and Judge them by the aame rule.
What ia the difference- between the
Unitarians and the other Protestant
bodies T Simply this, that the -Unitarians,
In the exercise of the right of
private Judgment o a little further
than the other-bodies do. That's all.
But suppose they have gone beyond
the others, what light have the others
the other Protestants to call them
nameet .:...'
Did not the othere go beyond the
Catholio church, far beyond it, and did
they not acorn the Catholio charge that.
In eo doing, they had forfeited their
right to be called Christians? . -
And la not aauoe tor tne goose aiso
sauce for the gander? Ia it not a mighty
poor, mean rule that wonf work both
ways ,-- .
But the-action of the inter-cbnrcn
Conference on Federation te un-Chrtstlsn
In bariing the Unitarians out' of their
dsllberatlona.
Edward Everett Hale to say nothing
of, other Unitarians Is. as fine a char
acter Sf is to DO touna in any cnurcn
on earth. In no religions body on earth
would It be possible to find a more
ChrlstUke spirit than that which belongs
to this venerable and beloved man.
If Christ were in our midst I aa
absolutely sure that he would feel per
fectly at home with the grand old Boa
ton Unitarian, and It aeema to me that
what la good enough for Christ ought
to be quite good enough for the rest
Of VS. J' ' : - ;v- ' '
' Mrs. Woodcock a Hoodoo. V.
From the Salem. Journal, " ':
A lot of Portland people seem t think
it a great Joke to drag Mrs. Woodcock
into prominence at all political gath
erings. . '-' , ; ( 1
The poor old lady has been given
almost national prominence aa a kind of
ghastly political Joke, but it has cost
them dearly. ' .
The Portland machine baa been loetng
tricks aver since ehe appeared, waving
the "Rosea felt" flag over their assem
blages. They nave not been able to elect a
United States' senator alnce Mrs. Wood
cock with her flag nag corns into prom
inence. Portland programs have fallen by the
wayside and Portland candidates dear to
the heart of the machine have fallen,
too, ever since she appeared.
Even the little peace conference could
not be pulled off without getting Mrs.
Woodcock to the front seating her in a
box. etc ,
Whatever the program may have been
at that conference it went to pieces the
moment the hoodoo appeared.
Senator Halnea can blame no one else
but the Portland newspapere that have
fanned Mrs. Woodcock's reputation into
national proportions.
There are some who think she fur
nishes large supply of the political
sagaoity that baa emanated from that
city of lata years.
It ia certain that as long aa she Is a
feature of Republican gatherings there
are liable to be thlnge happening. ,
Thomas Jefferson's Rip. T .
i. From the New York Sun.
Thomas Jefferson played his father's
long-familiar version of "Rip Van
Winkle" last night at Wsl lack's for the
flrst time in Manhattan. -Nepotism now
bslng the vogue, it" doee not argue any
epaclal rottannsee that the drama ia
thus MoCurdyled. The present venture
has Joseph Jefferson's spproval, and
appeared to meet the approval of an
audience of -considerable else.
' That the acting should be in any way
comparable to Its great prototype ie
not of course, to be expected. The best
that can be eald of It la that it ia a
reverent and faithful copy. The true
Jeffersonlan simplicity la 'everywhere
preserved. - The ' effect waa moat for
tunate aa regards extarnala. In several
scenes, euch as ,the dance that con
cludes the flrat act. the old Illusion was
not disagreeably . revived. ' But even
theee wars' most successful when the
actor's back was turned. -
The face of the eon quite lacks ths
well-remembered qualntness and arch
distinction. Hie voles husks the ertsp
ness, his eye the sparkle, that never de
serted the elder Rip -to 'his dying dsy.
The mellow sunlight of the old humor,
the melting tenderness of the old pathoa
are clouded and .subdued. There were
times when very melancholy memorise
obtruded. We are not than, so noon
forgot. . But Why enlarge on the fact
that a copy la a copyT '
' The present Jefferson la reported to
have eald that some part of what he
doea la bis own. , The (act wag sot sp-
parent laat night, and that waa one ot
the things to ba gratarm tor. Ae tar
aa the perform an o had merits it waa
that of an externally faithful replica.
So, hare's to Jeffereon'e health, aad to
ihle family-a May they all live long
ana prosper. .
"Ben Hur." the money-making giant
of modern theatrloala, began Its .sec.
end engagement In Portland last night
at the Marquam Qrand. - The bouee was
filled to -Its capacity and for an hour
after the curtain waa lifted the lobby
waa occupied by an exalted throng,
etruggllng for-tickets for future psr
formanoss. . Baa Hur won the race and
nobody was injured, The combination
of these conditions made it a typical
"Ben Hur" night to participate in
which, waa worth a taw dollars of any-
bodya money. . Generally speaking; it
will Interest some to know the ehow ia
about the same ae two yeara ago no
better, nut certainly no worse.
In that ancient day when the walls
of Babylon were overhung by gardens
that scattered Incense even to the alley
ways in that day when every eltlsen
ot Jerusalem waa the proprietor of a
roof-garden dramatio material must
have been as common aa paving stonss
are today. , Each - house ae did ' the
house of Hur had Ita thrilling romance.
we imagine, and the wonder is that so
few of them have been dreamed and re
told by modern authors. Possibly the
lamented Lew Wallace sat a pace too
awlft when he gave the world "Ben
Mur. certainly there - are few pens
now In use that could produoe a romance
or that period so enthralling.
But In Its dramatio drese General
Wallace'a universally read conceit Is
f.reemtninently a spectacle. . We sit la
be auditorium and admire it e we do a
great painting, rather than as a poem.
Thla la not to aay that the diction has
not been preserved; nor doee the play
lack fineness of construction. But
somehow the scenery eeeme t. over
shadow the eweet and genuine simplicity
of the tale. - .
When tbe dramatisation waa made by
William' Young doubtlsss he proceeded
upon' the theory that everybody had read
the book not an unjustifiable belief
and his efforts were concentrated on the
preservation of those features which
lent themselves moot readily to the de-
manda of preaent day play-shoppers. It
was a ponderous tssk. There muet be
reasonable amount of meio-dramatie
intensity, an , atmosphere of epectacu-
lartsm throughout a supreme strain for
continuity and finally a drawing of
character which only en experienced
dramatist could hope to attain. Mr.
Young's work wee faithfully performed.
And yet I know of no other in which the
spectator who had not studied the story
would have so little difficulty in losing
the thread of the plot. , ( Who misses one
of the six acts may aa well abandon
hope of underatandlng the play. But sit
through it once, closing your eyes to the
scenlo embellishment and the great
chariot race which you anticipate from
the moment you purchase your seat, and
you will hear a realistio recital of Bur's
love for hie' mother and alster, of the
perfidy of bis supposed friend, of his
eurreiing as a galley slave, of hie physi
cal salvation to the wreck of the galley.
of ble recognition by Roman adoption,
of hie instinct , of revenge and of hie
final triumph over hie bitterest enemy.
Theae are great elements of. : General
Wallace'a story and scarcely leas great
In the play. But in the latter, the
Introduction of the tempting Egyptian,
Iras, and the earnlvala and ballets muat
be thought of first for their tendency to
Interrupt and confuse, if. Indeed, they
were not included chiefly for the eake
of eommerclallem, to which end the
Stage mechanic plays sn Important part.
The Christ incident, on the other hand.
la indispensable, so prominent a factor
It Is in the consummation of Hut's long
search ror his enerisned ones. -
The race la supremely thrilling. Hut's
meeting wth Meeeala ia of dramatio
trength. . The quality of the English
hss never been questioned. The scenlo
effects are wondrous although the eky
and hortson In the first act ehow dis
tinct signs Of age and (he costuming
and grouping are the result of mastery
But to me the moot wholesome mo
ment ot the entire night wse . Hur'e
msetlng with Slmonldes, to whom be
tells the stoty of bis separation from
the family and aubeequent persecution.
It didn't last long, but It waa per
formed with more pure art than any
other scene of tbe drama, For whlcn
we are to thank Alfons Ethler (Ben
Hur) and Robert McQuade, Jr., the
Slmonldes. " f - -
Ethler is a splendid Hut. Stalwart.
handsome in face and figure, an intelli
gent reader and rull of the fire of youth,
he waa convincing enough to leave e
slight suggestion of the late Joseph
Haworth, . than whom America has
known no better Interpreter of herolca.
If the stickler could find fault In bis
performance' It would be that there Is
too little difference In bis appearance
in the first act, aa a happy boy, and in
the laat by which time he baa Buf
fered most of the agonies thst flesh le
heir to. The make-up box Is handy and
haa lost none ot Its wonderful powers.
Mr. Ethler is out 6f the town that pro
duced Maude Adama and unices we are
vastly mistaken la destined, to acquire
similar fame.
t Mr. McQuadfe's Slmonldes Is magnifi
cently done. They do not make better
character actore these days. The Mee
eala, Julius MoVlcker, is entirely satis
factory and no fault will be found with
Charles Riegel's Arriue, a mere bit
which he makes conspicuous. None of
the female roles call for extended -notice.
They all were fatrly dona - '
The "Ben Hur" engagement will run
throughout next week, closing with Sat
urday matinee.
, .- RACE WHITNEY. ,
First Woman. Letter-Carrier Married.
Bristol Correspondence Hartford Courant
Harry C Wright, a letter-carrier, mar
ried at o'clock thle afternoon Miss
Mabel Freene, another . carrier on the
free delivery routs. .
, - Mrs. Wright has the distinction of be
ing the first womsn free rural delivery
letter-carrier appointed in the United
States? She has been a oubatltuta for
several years on the route that goes over
Fall mountain and bee won for herself
a great record for feeing blinding enow
storms and heavy rains. '. , ,
Must Have Harmony.
''' Irrigon Irrigator.
The Irrigator editor le chock full of
harmony. . He -went down to Portland
end listened to the speeches at the con
vention and Imbibed great chunks of
pure, unadulterated, simon-pure Har
many, with a capital H. And he ie now
prepared to have harmony in hie own
precinct If he hss to wade through blood
to get It.
I 1"':". ' Haunted I . ' : v ',
From the Washington Post .
The Wall atreet millionaire , has a
constant fear that the owner of Ms
money Isapt to show up any morning
and demand, aa aeeounUag, - - -
THE PLAY
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JOURNEY OF LEWIS
: AND CLARK ;
On the Columbia, near the John Dsy .
river. ; ... I
Ootober IS The moraine was cool,
the wind from the southwest Ouf ap
pearance bad exolted tbe $urloslty of
the neighborhood eo much that before .
we eet out about ZOO Indians, had col
lected to see us. and aa we were de
sirous of conciliating their friendship,
we remained to smoke and confer with
them till breakfast. We' then took our
repast which consisted wholly of dog
flesh, and proceeded. We passed three J
vacant houses near our camp and at six
mliee reached the bead of a -rapid, on
descending which wo soon came to an
other, very difficult and dangerous. It
la formed by a chain ot large black
rocks, stretching from the right elde of
the river, and, with aeJeral email ;
Islands on the left nearly chokes the
channel of the river, To thle place we .
gave the name of the Pelican rapid,
from aeelng a number ot (white) pell- -cans
aad black cormorants ' about It
Just below It la a email Island near the ;
right .shore, where are four houses of.
Indians, all busy In drying fish. At 1
miles from our cmp we reached a bend ,
to the left opposite a large island, and
at 1 o'clock halted for dinner on the
lower point of 1 an laland. ort the right
elde ot tbe channel. Close to this was
a larger island on the same side, ' and
on the left bank of the river a email one
a little below. We landed near some
Indlsn huts and counted en thle cluster
of three Islands IT of thsir houses
filled with inhabltenta; they were buay
preparing fish. We purchased of them
some dried fleh, whloh were not good,
and a few berries, oa which we dined,
end then walked to the . bead of the
laland, for the examination of a. vault
whloh we bed marked In coming along. :
This place, in which the dead are de
posited, le a building about SO feet long
and 11 feet wide, formed by piecing In '
the ground poles or forks alx feat high.
aoroas which a long pole la extended the
wnoie lengtn or the structure; against .
this ridge pole are placed broad boards .
and please of canoes, in a slsctlng dl- -rectlon.
so as "to form a shed. It stands
east and west, and neither of the
extremities la closed. . on entering the
western end we observed a number of
bodies wrapped carefully In leather
robes and arranged in rows on boards,
which were then covered with a mat
Thla waa the part destined for those .
wbo had recently died. A .little further
on bones half decayed were scattered
about and in the center of the building
waa a large pile of them heaped pro-,
mlscuously on each other. At tbe eaat
era extremity waa a mat, on which tt
skulls ware placed in a ctrcdlar form,
the mode ot interment being flrat to
wrap the body in robes, and aa it de
cays the bones are thrown into the heap -and
the skulls placed together. From
the different boards and pieces of eaaoea
which form the vault were suspended on
the inside flshlng-nets, baskets, wooden
bowls, robes, ' skins, trenchers , and
trinkets of varioua kinds, obviously lit .
tended aa offertnge of affection to de
ceased relatives. On the outside of . the
vault were the skeletons of several
horses and great quantities ot bones In
the neighborhood, which Induced ue to
believe that these animals were most
probably sacrificed at the funeral rltea
of thslr masters, - Having dined we pro
ceeded past a email island where were
four huts of Indiana, and at tbe lower
extremity a bad rapid. Half a mile be
yond this, ana at too distance' or se
miles from camp, we came to ths com
mencement at the highlands on the Tight
which are the first we have -Been on that
elde elnoe leaving the Musselshell rapids,
leaving a valley 40 miles in extent Eight
miles lower we passed a large laland
In the mdldle of the river, below which
are It smaU islands, five on the right
the same number on the left and one In
the middle of the stream. A . brook -falls
In on the right side and a- email
rivulet emntiee Itself behind one of the
lalands. The country on the tight con
sists of high and rugged hills; the left
la a low plain with no timber on either
side, except a few email . willow bushes
along tiu oanxs, tnougn a zew miles
after leaving these islands the country
on the left rlsee to the same height
with that opposite It and beoomea an
undulating plain. " Two mllee efter
passing a small rapid we reecnea a
point of highland in a bend toward the
right and encamped for the evening,
after a Journey of 41 miles. The rivsr
has neen about a quarter of a mile In
width, with a current much more uni
form than It was during the last two
days. We killed epeckled gulls and sev
eral ducka of delicious flavor. 1 -;
. LETTERS FROM THE8
v. PEOPLE T
' XaUag frreet Progress. '
Portland. Or.. Oct 17. To the Editor
of The Journal Through the ever-noticeable
courtesy of your popular paper
I wish to offer a few suggestions touch
ing on the workings of tbe Ancient
Order of Hibernians In thla city. .
Strong, flourishing and vigorous is. the
preeent statue of division No. 1, A, O.
H., of Portland, judging from tue en
thusiasm and determination manifested
at each meeting; it is safe to say are
thle memorable year is over Portland
Hlbernlane can well 'compare member
ship with Sny division on the Psolf le ;
slope. September 17 a campaign was
Inaugurated for the acquirement of
members, to laat until January 1, 1106.
John J. FarreU voluntarily offered a
gold badge to sny member initiating the
most eandldates during said period.
Brother FarreU ie one of the division s
most sincere members, ' faithful, pro
gressive and enthusiast!. An Inaplr-
Ine portrait of Robert Emmett Is see- ,
ond prise offered; every member In
itiated within the given time means, a
chance to win this commendable offer
ing. This campaign ror member naa
awakened great' Interest ' already In
Hibernian circles evidenced at last meet- .
Ing 'by. the- numerous eppiioations on
the secretary's desk. It is hoped this
Interest will ripen into great aehifcve-
menta and reflect credit on those; re-
sponsible for the establishment of the
epithet known ea the "Hibernian cam
paign for membership." Respectfully
yours, D.-W. LANE.5
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Two Views of It
CorvalllS Tlmee.
. They were apparently a husband; wife
and - twe email children in town for a
look at the college. Incidentally they
happened out on the football field while
the second teem was booking pretty,
vigorously Into the first , "Oh. come,
let'e go." said she, in a hysterical votee;
let's go; it's cruel. It's cruel.? "Qo, if
you want to, I ain't" eald be, enthusi
astically; "It's bully, it's bully; go In
there boys," go to 'era; eat 'em op, eet
'era UP." said he, waving ble bat and
hurrying to where the second teemere
were delivering another line rueh. Che
aad the children went etf alene, -,
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