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CATUrJDAY. OCTOBER 21. l-3.
PORTLAND. OREGON.
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T HE OREGON DAILY
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'published w7 maigc'(wi)i 8undar d overy Sunday mornlnf at
"HANDCLASP OF LEWISTON
;T T WAS A GREAT DAY t Lewiston yesterday, not
only foe. that, city but fof - the
' ; men who were there. -ot because were were iu.
that e-Uv. but because or the
' 'Mffnifieance of the visit, the motive
. the purpose behind it. ? v'
. tv,. k-i,;. thin is an nnen river, all
. jston to the sea. Lewiston sits at
navigation. Portland sits at the head
M-Tninr vessfla. Thev have a common imercsi. intjr
should and will work together in a common cause, for a
. result equally beneficial to both and to all points and
all the country .between. . .
'. Next, lower and reasonable freight rates. This is
really the maul object of the open river. It is imma
. terial whether the river carries much of the produce and
merchandise or not Once open, it, will regulate rail
rates, for. if the railroads arc not reaso'hable the people
i.mi - .! rnmhiiH-ihcforehand ' to support
' therif. It is an era of combination. The people cannot
combine as completely and effectively as the railroads
t Van hnt ih nn do this much. Ex-Governor Moore
i'Wted. the case very lucidly yesterday at Walla Walla.
. r There is another point acquaintanceship, fraternity,
realization of common interest less local selfishness,, a
nf mir eat region, more "five and take"
" i-as against a spirit of all take and no give among us
; jsll of hs of the Columbia river region. Such visits and
Vontact and eomtrmnig. . will bear
.respect. -rtfj -1 ' ,
f As to Lewiston," it occupies vantage ground. .It is fo--innately
located. It Jus a great and resourceful region
4 behind it. With the present prospect ahead, it will grow
..into a large interior city. Its citieens are wideawake,
.progressive enterprising. ' They not only talk, but do.
'MVC ttUUUl HVl lllb W1J VI .U WllV TWVMfc
.there rejoices in the trip, and would not have missed it
. for twice the expense in time and money, ,',ni hun-
-lreds of other. Portland men would like to have gone.
Many of them should go. A man who doesn't know
"something of that great country by actual observation
js scarcely fit to do a large business in "Portland.
. ' There should be more such trips to the interior. And
ftve think there will be. They, will do Portland business
jnen good. "Let us all pull together. But to do so let
ais get better acquainted and become more fraternal.
Mr. Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust, says Phil
ippine sugar can be delivered in this country at one cent
' pound. 'Bring it in. Sugar for 80-odd million people
"at one cent a pound would be' a sweet blessing. But we
doubt not that the trust would somehow make us pay
'about five cents a pound for it.
AN EAST AND WEST OREGON
HE JOURNAL has repeatedly predicted the
building of an east and west
snn'anil tfitvtncrh a ' naaa in
tains connecting with the Union .Pacific or some .other
transcontinental system, and having Portland as its
.main terminus. When such a road would be built or
'by whom was not predicted, nor i
' will be built comparatively soon we have no doubt
$ Recent persistent rumors are that Mr.' Harriman will
secure the CorviILis & Eastern and build from Idanha,
'its eastera. te'rtnmus, to Ontario, thus controlling the
traffic of; central as well as. of northern Oregon. To
A road will certainly be built through ' Umatilla "and
Morrow counties to the Heppner coal ' fields the
Sumpter valley road would push forward, and the Wal
lowa valley be connected by rail with.th O. R. & N.
branch at Elgin. All these roads are. almost certainties
within a fiw vpiri and will ffiv rattrrn and. central
. Oregon the opportunity to develop so
, Then there is the great Klamath
. region that should and probably will
northern and westward as wen as a soutnern and west
ward outlet. While the Columbia river valley and
gorge will always be the favorite route for all traffic
4,111, I r f la ISllSISV S11, Vll
. ren win live to see two ana possibly
If Mr. Harriman should build from Idanha to Ontario,
Yaauina would be one western terminus, and Portland
another, for as all roads led to Rome all railroads enter
ing the Willamette valley would lead ' to Portland.
Yaquina bay and harbor have not been favored much by
the. government engineers, but could : be improved so
that, a certain class and amount of commerce could, be
accommodated there; but the bulk of the traffic, would
.'seek' this port :.;-fi i.W. ; "v,"--" ' ";,
One need believe only fraction of the rumors afloat,
but it is evident'that an'era of railroad building in Ore
con is at hand, and no one need he aurnriaed if hefore a
: year, passes the trans-Oregon road
been off irikllv announced a derided
... Workingmen frequently make presents' to corporation
. officials, but we never heard of reciprocity on the part
of the high-salaried officials. ' -, .
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THE OVERWORKED CANAL
TnE'PANAMA canal board of engineers has been
: down to the isthmus on a pleasure jtrip, and re
, ,; turned to Washington yesterday for another
long rest. The members .'are' real tired, not of doing
anything, of course, but because they have no idea of
what to do or' when anything but drawing salaries will
be done. This they attend to with scrupulous prompti
tude and regularity,
General Davis, chairman ot the board, is reported as
The Fair t Benefit. ,
From the Malheur Oanette.
. - There U aome discussion th days
as to whether the Lawls and Clark ax-,
position at Portland ha bean a benefit
to the. atata, of Oregon. , One exchange
auggeata that it has been the means of
. draining every locality In this state of
nil tho surplus money. The writer does
not take Into consideration the fact that
It has boea the means of bringing Into
this state a great amount of money. He
dnea not reco lime the fact that xnoney
. from all aver rhe world has been put la
circulation within the Oregon bounda
ries , He simply thinks that Portland
lone has' been benefited and the rest
of the state has suffered. Nothing eould
1 more absurd. What little money
each Individual has spent upon his trlpa
will not be mimed. If they had not
rone to Portland, they would have spent
i .a same amount In a vacation aome-
. here el a. As It Is they have 'saved
their money for this trip, which has also
n wr rad for their usual summer vaca'
lion. It la unreasonable to assume that
every part of the state has not been
ten' "fed.; Thousands of eastern people
l.ave become acquainted with the re
sources sud opportunities of this stats
tNOIPXNDBNT NEWSPAPER V ' ' ;
PUBLISHES BY JOURNAL' PUBLISHING CCV
AND PORTLAND,
saying: "So far
- Tourscore roruina
of type. , It returns
prejudice or big's
to me." ' I
that prompted it and
Certainly. No
.' -
the way from Lew
the head of river
of navigation for
action are the only
against a sea level
General Davis
Mr. Rockefeller,
love him, concluded
rise in the- price of
if they did. ; '
good iruu in tins
H
ERE IS A
great many,
Get asmall
Of course there
But the small
other there may be
But if you have
Then small farmers
cmes man iney can
RAILROAD.
railroad across Ore-
the t?rafte mmin-
well as his hands..
now, but that it
win pay. There
on 10 acres, and
Electric roads
cities are filling
sume what they
long denied them.
and Lake county
have some day a
WHERE'
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11V V.IIV( V(11V
enhance ignomy by stealing from the. widow and the
orphan. But even this depth of shame has not stayed
the greedy hands of McCurdys, McCalls and Hydes.
Conscience does not prick when they admit graft and
tnree roaas across
fraud. Effrontery
tan grounds work
first mentioned has
unnn. '
BOARD.
go. up and "mix" in a friendly way with those cheery,
energetic, . wideawake, big-hearted, liberal, progressive
people of the great inland empire. There are none be
ter in .the land. ' .
and will settle In our mldat Thousands
or., others who heretofore had no
thoughts of coming west will, during
many years to come, gradually 'give up
their eastern homes and come to Oregon.
Thousands of others, who have alwaye
looked upon the west ss a seml-clvlllsed
country, will be so favorably Impressed
that they will tell their neighbors, who
never came to Portland, of the true state
of affairs and many of them will be In
duced to vlalt Oregon In the future. The
great benefits to the aUtea can hardly
be overestimated. It has been the great
est advertisement that could have been
conceived, the expense of which has
been comparatively nothing.
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"Turn the Rascals Out!" .
From the Charleston News and Courier.
John A. McCall and Oeorg W, Per
kins hsve avowed themselves politicians
ss well ss Insurance men. In politics
there Is a good oldtampa1ga ery which
rises from the mouths of the people
whenever the trust of the people has
been betrayed. John A. McCall and
Oeorge W. Perkins must have heard
the slogan, "Turn the rascals out!" it
Justlca-ls done, they will hear It again,
shouted by: every policy-holder In the
New York Life from Maine to Mexico.
J O URN A L
no. V. 0A0
The Journal Bulldinc. ih and Yamhffl
as I am aware, neither the board nor
ny individual member of it has expressed any opinion as
to the type of the canal, that js favored. .The board is
not in possession of all the facts bearing on the question
to this city entirely iree from any
respecting that type, so far as known
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member of the board knows anything
about the canal, and so has no prejudices. The board
will carefully avoid finding out anything about the canal,
or the plans or prospects therefor, lest any facts that
might indiscreetly be thrust Hipon it should arouse prej
udice in some direction or other in the mind of some
member of the board. Utter ignorance and absolute in
means of avoiding prejudice for or
canal, r
does hint that some conclusion on some
point maybe reached in the course of a few weeks, but
we trust that he was not seriously in earnest in this
statement. The health of the members of the board is
very precious to the country; Washington is not an
agreeable place in winter, and that.' season is now ap
proaching; and the proper thing to do is for the board to
take a vacation till spring. The government should fur
nish the members ship, and let them go to France, and
along the Mediterranean, to rest " Better no canal than
to overwork these intensely industrious and patriotic
gentlemen. -' ; " '-
having discovered how the people
that they wouldn't kick at another
oil. ,It wouldn't dp them any good
" '
A LITTLE FREE ADVICE..
BIT of good advice, if it is free, to a
a large proportion, of young men:1
farm. '
mast be some quite large farms.
The. wheat raiser in eastern Oregon needs a large farm,
for -he let half of it be fallow every other year.., The
dairyman on a considerable scale cannot carry on his
businesson a few acres of ground.
farm is the ideal farm for -the averace
young man of moderate means. There is less risk with
it, there is more comfort on it, and one year with an
as much profit from it.
children, boys growing tip? ' Very
well, save a little each year and when they are grown
send or advise them to go farther back and get a less
valuable, piece of land than yours will be by that time.
can do well much farther from the
now.. - .-
There is opportunity within a radius of 20 miles of
Portland for hundreds more small farmers. - Indeed,
they are needed. And with land utilized for all it is
worth they can all do well. Look at the prices we city
people have to pay for everything. - '
But look you, the small farmer can't loaf. He must be
not only industrious but intelligent He must be cun
ning to take every advantage of, soil, climate, seasons,
opportunities. He need not work very hard all the
time, but' he must use his eyes and ears and brain .as
Then the small farm of good ground
are men who have become forehanded
even less. - ' ' s .,
are to be built. The, country and the
up. the number. of people who con
do not produce win increase rapidly.
lney all have to eat Get a small farm,. young man, and
make the most ofTtrF6rIhSny .pf you we guarantee
that it is goqfl advice. -
Somebody in nearly every one of the larger western
Oregon towns, backed by eastern capital, is going to
build electric railroads all over western Oregon. It
won't all be talk always, either.
WAS THE COMMISSIONER?
NSURANCE OFFICIALS who betray their trust are
i more culpable than the thief. Having all the vil
lainy of one who violates a fiduciary office, they
grows as they justify,, on huraanitar-t
that the world despises.
But) stronger than public indignation is public sur
prise. New f York has a lawful insurance commissioner.
His duties were strictly prescribed by the . law creating
the office,, and his powers plenary when protecting the
policy-holder. ,, He learned nothing of the insurance
crimes until knowledge was forced before him by other
officials. He is not' the man who presses investigation
when cause is revealed, and is the last to believe that the
sacred insurance fund which he , is legally sworn to
guard has been robbed. Private" trusts are violated only
by scoundrels, but the man who takes public office with
a sworn duty to perform and with public faith strong iij
him, is the deepest dyed law breaker.
New York is illustrating to the world again that the
people must protect themselves at all times. - Eternal
vigilance is no more the price of liberty than it is of
success in business. - Men who rob the insurance fund
and officers who connive at the crime, prove that selfish
ness is hopelessly constitutional, and there is no safety
when one or many human, beings are given absolute
power. .. , .'.''"
It ought to do, and must do, Portland men Brood to
Prophesied Roosevelt's Greatness.
. From ' Success Msgaslne.
More entertaining. perhaps, ' and
equally Interesting, are the anecdotes
which sre told about our president by
the Minkwlts family.. Frau Fischer dis
tinctly recollects that once she prophe
sied the future greatness of young Teddy.
She says: "One day I had a conversa
tion with Mrs. Roosevelt who said to me,
'I wonder what la gdtng to become of
my Teddyr I replied- rYou need not be
anxious about him.' He 'will surely be
one day a great professor, or, who
knows, he may become even president
of the - United States.' : Mrs. Roosevelt
rebuked me. Shs said such a thing was
Impossible, and asked how I could have
struck upon such an absurdity. But
perhaps on account of my Impulsive re
mark, I have since continually watched
Theodore Roosevelt's career and have al
ways been glsd when he has mads a step
forward In the world." .
A Chance to Make It Unanimous.
From the St Louts Post-Dispatch. -If
tha high tariff IS causing us to
build factories In Europe, perhaps Eu
rope will presently be enthuslaatlo evsr
it, too. . . , ...
SMALL CHAX " I
The people are with, the f "ijent on
the ranroaa regui-uon quesuua ana m
railroad members of congress will
maae o ow is
e e
Don't forget or fall te patronise home
Industries. . :
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Within the past month the Oregonlan,
by needlessly arousing against Port
land the direct or reflected animosity
of. the whole stats, haa dons this city
millions of dollars' wortn 01 damage. :
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Oregon will have more railroad mile
age a year rrom now, ana stilt more
coming. .. - -
-"By George! I've had a good time.'
said the president on leaving Raleigh.
Now. can't somebody start a discussion
as to whether or not "By- Oeorge",-Is
profanity T
' MeCurdy won't resign, but a good
many policy holders will, if they can
play even. ,.
Another football fatality. Good start
Joslah Qulncy, former mayor of Bos
ton, Is engaged to marry Miss Mary
Honey. He needed a sweetener. .
e .".
Could it have been Ida Tarbell who
was going to help Pat Crowe abduct
Rockefeller? , ,v .
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But there Is no need of a' woman .car
rying a rattrap In her pocket If she
has any pocket . ,
And It's Ivins, is ItT Ivlnsf" Says
the New York copper, "Hlvlns!" '.
Minister. Barrett Is off to Colombia.
He will scarcely get back for his winter
vacation before Christmas. ' , -
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The tour of the Prince of Wales snd
his retinue will cost the British people
1 1.000. 000. That would last Teddy a life
time, U he traveled nearly all the tune.
' Judging by his remarks down south,
It may be Inferred that If Roosevelt
had been a young man In 'SI he would
have been a confederate soldier.
"Puget sound Is ahead" referring
to wheat and flour exports' Is a caption
of an editorial In the Tacoma Ledger.
That always Interesting and estimable
paper should publish and copyright Its
exclusive and private arithmetics. There
might be a fortune in It ,
A Rainier door mill shipped a carload
of Its product last week to Illinois, two
carloads to Chicago, two to St Paul
and one to Winnipeg.
Perfect autumn weather In Irrlgon.
' '. . :
, The Irrlgon Fruit company will buy
a carload of seed potatoes as tha season
for planting there le earlier than In al
most any other part of the country, and
seed potatoes cannot be obtained early
enough la the spring. : - .
Off 13 acres of river bottom land two
miles above Springfield S. M. Douglas
picked 28,001 pounds of bops, making
144 bales, an average ot 2,323 pounds
to the acre, though several hundred hills
were planted only last year and did not
bear.. , .
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Work on excavation . for , Tillamook
courthouse begun. - .
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A Sandlake, Tillamook county, 'man
raised over 200 bushels of onions on a
quarter of n acre of land. .
:
A Sandlake potato weighed J pounds
snd 13 ounces snd measured ISM inches
long and 10K Inches around. -
. New brick building In Cottage Grove.
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, The- Cottage Grove Presbyterian
church, U. 8. A., and the Cumberland
Presbyterian church have unltedi
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- Big lime deposits around Baker City,
e e
Rural Northwest: Interest In the sub
ject of local and county fairs seems to
be growing some In Oregon. It Is a good
sign. The county fair as an educa
tional feature holds much the earns
relation to the state fair as the district
school to ths state university. .
Fishing oh ths Coqullls river Is better
than It haa been for many years. All
the canneries are In operation, running
both night and day, but In spits of this
faot fney are unable to handle the
product
e
Corv allls Times: The outside coet of
the Benton exhibit Is'lMOO and may
not exceed f 1.700. Of the amount taOO
will be refunded by the fair people, re
ducing the limit to ft, 200 or tl.100,
which will be still further reduced by
the amount of the prise.
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Corvallls la bound to get plenty of
good water.
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More fait wheat will be sown In
Umatilla county thaq ever .-before. Much
of It is already up and growing.
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Seven thousand head of beef cattle,
purchased In nearly every eastern Ore
gon county, will be fed by R. N. Stan
field bn his Butter creek alfalfa
ranches this season. . ,
Independence Enterprise: Peter Kurre
brought to town this week Baldwin ap
ples measuring 12 to Inches In circum
ference. They are perfectly sound, of
good color and would be hard to dupli
cate in any climate.. With the proper
attention to trees no one need pass up
Polk county for fins apples.
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Denny pheasants, scarce up tbe valley,
a e . .
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happy
: Farmers all
after rain.
again sunshine
The Steele market Is Improving, says
ths Burns Times-Herald. i
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Burns Times-Herald:' The hoodoo Is
broken and our local cattlemen may
look forward to better times. Next sea
son must ses them making preparations
early and in some way stop ths report
at railroad polnta that there are no
cattle in Harney county.. Why, bless
yout one third of the cattle In the state-
of Oregon ars within ths borders of
Harney county. Strange that we should
have no beef. . ,
Burns 4a to have a town clock, and the
fund amounts to 1120 already. .
Bums Times 'Herald enlarged. Pros
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS ' ;
perity. - .( , ,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LES
SON for TOMORROW
By H. D. Jenkins, D. D.
October 22. 19 06 Topic: . "Rebuilding
the Temple" Esra 111:10) to lv:.
Golden Text Tbe temple of God Is
holy, snd such are ye.-I Cor. 111:17.
Responsive. Reading- Psalm exxat
u Zatrodaotloa.
The long and . . dangeroue Journey
whosa InceDtfon waa noted in our ore-
vious lesson 'was at last successfully
accomplished. To move 160,000 persons
In one mass 100 miles through a region
much of which Is desert Is a tremendous
undertaking. Ws may well believe that
only those most patriotic and moat de
vout were willing to undertake It "The
return was probably begun in March and
ended In July. The people cam back
to a site rather than to a city. In leas
than 10 years, old soldiers of the civil
wsr returning te Gettysburg or Peters
burg found It; difficult to locate the
camps onoe so familiar to them. But
Jerusalem had lain In heaps for many
years. The royal gardens and pleasant
parka had run Into riotous confusion.
Upon the ' fragments of the prostrate
walls great trees were growing. It was
the luxuriance - of a Versailles turned
Into the desolation of a Hadrian's villa.
To restore a state Is sometimes more
difficult than to erect one.
The rights of the emancipated cap
tives did not extend over any great
extent of territory. To the north, the
ancient limits of Judea ran about 26
miles. Bethlehem, five miles south of
Jerusalem, marked the limit of their
possible occupation In that direction.'
East and west they controlled a strip
about 20 miles wide. . :
This narrow ' section was surrounded
upon all sides by hostlls tribes or clans,
far from being well pleased to aee the
authority of Judah re-established. -
There waa no time to be lost The
people could; pray without a temple, but
not without an altar eould they, offer
the Levltlcal sacrifices. .The first labor
waa therefore devoted to the restoration
of this sacred object . What the cross
haa ever been to the Christian, the altar
waa to the Jew (ch. 111:2). The first
feaat they eould keep In tbe midst of
the ruined city waa the feast of taber
nacles, the great national Thanksgiving,
celebrated every year In the autumn.
Soon they were able to offer dally 'sac
rifices (ch. ill:), which event was
marked as a re-birth of their, nation.
In - the meanwhile they hired, expert
builders from Tyre end Joppa (ch.
111:7) to hasten their reconstructions.
And Just so soon as they had' begun to
feel themselves reasonably secure, they
set to work to rebuild the temple Itself
as best they might from their present
resources. The temple, not the palace,
waa their symbol of national unity.
They had existed as a .people centuries
before they ever had a king. Their
return was a religious, not a political,
renaissance. '
1 . , The Xesson.
Verse 10. Back of the great altar had
formerly stood the temple proper, the
visible abode of tbe Invisible Jehovah.
Although the structure In Its completed
form embraced vast colonnadsa, beauti
ful porches and wide courts, the second
temple Itself was upon foundatlona only
0 feet square (11 Chron. 111:3).. The
"Holy House was Intended- to e a re
plica In marble of the "tent" which Is
rael used throughout Its years or wan
dering In the wilderness of Slnal. . To
lay the first stones In- the restored tem
ple, the priests, clothed In their pre
scribed garments and carrying the sa
cred vessels which were used In dlvlno,
service, were present So far aa their
poverty permitted they fulfilled their
function with beauty and Impressive
ness. However simple our worship may
be, there le no excuse for Its being care
less or slovenly or devoid of spiritual
dignity. ... : -
Verse 11.' From the first singing has
always been prominent In the worship
of the Bible. The fame of the Jewish
psalms had reached Babylon before the
Jews were taken there captive (Psalm
cxxxvll:!, 4).- No other religion haa ever
been so Identified with tbe art and prac
tice of music. To Increase Its volums
snd add to Its effect and to preserve
that unison, upon which so much de
pend, the elnglng of the temple , waa
alwaya accompanied by Instruments.
And It should be ndted that the- first
hymns sung In ths courts of the rising
temple were hymns of praise. Amid the
ruins they praised Jehovah Just as the
Pllarlm Fathers amid ths storms of
their first New England winter- praised
God. Faithfui servants of the Lord find
In any environment reasons for a doxol
on. """- '
' Veres 12. But It was naturally- an
hour of conflicting emotions. The older
men by this time, If not before, realised
that they would never, see snother
Jerusalem equal to the old. They re
joiced for their deliverance,; but they
wept for scenes wnicn not even peni
tence could restore. ' The life of the na
tion was not wholly lost, but It waa
Irreparably marred. Like Esau, they
learned that there are stains tears them
selves will not wssh away (Heb.
xli:l-17). No generation may excuse
Its own sins upon the ground that "ail
will coma out right in tne ena.
Apostate kings and debauched priests
and lying prophets naa wrougnt a ole
aster which might be mitigated but
which could never be undone. J "i
Verse 13. The new temple was
larger than the old (Esra vi:3; I Kings
vi:2 but not so beautiful, nor so rich;
and It was aa yet without theose sacred
sssoclattons which bad made the first
dear. Happily the hearts ot the young
take cheerful views ot ,ine wnoie oay
when the morning la fair, and the shout
ere were Justified In this case, since the
second temple was never associated with
such depraved scenes as was ths first
under the corrupt dominance of certain
of the Idolatrous. Upon our most Joy
ful experiences some shadow may tall.
but we should not refuse when mourn-
Inc oar losses to recognise our blessings.
We ought never to permit our remln-
iscenses to shed such prolusion or tears
as to drown our hopes.
Verse 1. No person has had vary
serious experience of life who has not
discovered that eoma Svll Is always
present with all good '(Job I: ). No
prophet ever lifts up his voice In re
buke or warning butthat aome adver-'
eary immediately rises from the pnr to
discredit him If possible. Say what tha
poet may, "Truth crushed to earth must
rise again," and again and again before
"the eternal years of God are here."
Every John the Baptist will cause eome
Herod to discover himself; and every
Savonarola eome Francesco da Puglla.
Build up tha walls ot the ruined city
if there Is courage In your heart but
know that the moment you lift a stone
from the mass of ruins some enemy ot
Jehovah will shake his spear.
-Verse - t. The enemies most to be
dreaded are those who wish to retard
the work of God's people by "helping"
it The Immediate neighbors of ths
returned Jewe were the descendants of
the colonists whom Essar-haddon, king
of Assur II Xlngs xvll:!4) had conveyed
to the land. True religion haa Ita bit
terest foes In false religion, and pagan
turn la not 'so much to be dreaded as a
corrupt Christianity. f These pseudo
Jews, for purposes of their own, wished
to be acknowledged as eo-rellglonlsts,
but at heart they had no sympathy with
the great work, undertaken by Zerubba-
bel. ,i
Verse 3. There Is strength in union,
but weakneaa In more aggregation. Re
ligious which differ In their fundamen
tal conceptions of God and man cannot
amicably Join In divine , service. Zer-
ubbabel understood this. ." Ths attempt
to form a conglomerate . of all creeds
had cost Judah Ita capital once. Ita
present ieadere did nofproposS to repeat
that disastrous experiment 'In their
very first attempts to retrieve , their
disasters. Happily there was no war
rant In their commission from the king
for accepting) such doubtrul auxiliaries.
Verse 4. There probably always has
been, and for we aught can see, always
will be, . a class of religionists whose
chief conception of duty le to prevent
somebody slse from getting on. They
have no settled belief, no positive creed,
no definite aim themselves. - They will
Join any body seemingly prosperous! but
ir tueir seir-love is burt by a declina
tion of their alliance, they become re
sentful, implacable, diabolical.
Verse 6. These Imported tribes had
a certain standing at the Babylonian
courtatnce they were blood, relatives
of the people of Mesopotamia. Doubt
less ths policy of Cryus had been ques
tioned by many of bis nobles, and to this
dissatisfied .element these Samaritans
would' make direct appeal.. Tbe most
competent sovereign lacks a good deal
of being omniscient It would have
been; difficult to discover among Intelli
gent Eutopeana a man who knew so
little of the conditions of Russia when
the war broke oat with. Japan! as tbe
csar of alVRusta. Everything conspired
to make the task before the returned
Jews ' one of unusual difficulty. The
policy of the king waa confessedly an
experiment It waa considered sure to
fall.. The enemies of the Jews had the
confidence of powerful princes as no
Jew eould hope to possess ths same. One
obstacle was no sooner removed than
another waa- brought In. Hopea blos
somed only to be blasted. But no night
waa ever yet so dark but that, soms
servant of God eould be found ready
to stand guard throughout Its hours of
blackness despairing not so long aa duty
waa plain. ' -.u '
' By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
fropjrlrht, 1906, by W. R. Hearst)
It is claimed by the average American
that our publio schools ars wonderful
places for children to obtain the founda
tion of an education, but one who listens
to the conversation of eight tenthe of
the pupils who have graduated from our
publio schools will be led to wonder why
so many Important bricks are missing
In this foundation. .
Almost any child In higher classes of
these schools can tell you the source of
the large rlvera and bound all the states
and give the snswer to problems in ;el
geora. . . - .
Many of them will recite the rules
governing correct speech, but not one In
16 will be sble to speak threa sentences
correctly without the Interpolation of
slip-shod or ungrammatloai phrases.
Here are a few of the unpardonable
expressions which are to be heard on all
sldea and In all localities from the lips
of children In public schools and even In
high schools in America: v
"Have came.' "I seen It" "I done It"
"He done It" "I ain't got nothln' " "I
ain't golnV "Haa went',' , . v
Listen to the conversation of the next
bevy of school children you encounter
snd you will hear all these, expressions
and a score more as objectionable. Yet
it is possible these very sneakers have
carried oil the prises on examination day
ror excellence in grammar.
It always sounds most Inconsistent
when children who murder the English
language In evjry sentence state the
fact that they attend "grammar school."
There Is absolutely no excuse for any
teacher who sends out such scholars
after even one term of Instruction.
The first matter of Importance In edu
cation Is decently correct language.
If the teacher makes this fact suffi
ciently Impressive every day of the
school year the children will understand
the necessity of applying the rulee they
learn to the language they use.
Every schoolroom ought 'to contain a
large bulletin board with sentences like
those quoted . above, written In large
letters and headed, the "Unpardonable
etne of speech." .
, No day should pass without a few
words of comment from the teacher re
garding the vulgarity and ofTenslveness
of such expressions, and the glaring
hallmark of Ignorance which tbey carry.
Many of the children hear these
phrases at home, but the Influence of
the school should be strong enough to
overcome this example.
It would be, did each teacher do his
duty. .... ...
When children go forth Into the world
to take part In the activities of life they
do not offend tthelr fellow creatures if
they happen to be somewhat ignorant
regarding geographical boundaries; no
one Is annoyed If they left school with
but a poor -comprehension of higher
mathematics, and If they are faulty In
the knowledge of anatomy no one of
their associates will suffer ' In conse
quence. : ' .
J?ut the msn or woman who goee forth
among his kind using .ungrammatlcal
and vulgax and ignorant language does
offend his associates and wrongs them
by his bad example.
People who have never been given the
Sdvsntages of school and who have been
such slaves of circumstance that tbey
could not even enjoy the association of
those who gave the example of correct
speech are excusable for altps In utter
ance, but no graduate of a public school,
is excusable, end no teacher In these'
schools Is entitled to the position unless
he makee grammatical language the
most Important part of his Instruction
to the children under hie Influence.
Absolute perfection In diction le not
expected of any school child. ' Stilted
or pedantic language is to be avoided,
but the application of the rulee govern
ing double negatives and past , parti
ciples, and other simple lews which
mean the avoidance of the commonest
and most painful mistakes In speech
should be made of tha utmost Impor
tance In our schools. ' ,
At present these mattere seem of the
last and least consideration witk teach
ers or pupils. If we are to Judge by the
language used by the graduates ef our
public institutions of learning. '
Insurance 'vs. . Savings ' Banks.
From Everybody's Magaslne. ;
la the last flscst year ths Increase in
the deposits of ths savings banks In the
stats of New York-was more than !
000,000. In the last six months It wss
163.000,000. "Very gratifying," the wise
one eaya. Yes; .very Instructive ' too.
Did the Equitable exposures turn a lot
of money Into tha eavlnge banks? Those
Institutions In New York state have the
care of more than 31262, 000,000. They
take good care of It. They don't waste
it, speculste In it. eteal It. In short!
they are managed
as Insurance com-
n 1
COMMON ERRORS OF
V SPEECH
panlea ought to he.
JOURNEY OF LEWIS I
AND CLARK ;
2y-s,
On the -Columbia. , " -,
October 21 The morning was cool and
the wind was from the southwest , At
6H miles ws passed a small Island; lVa
further, another In the middle of the
river, which haa aome rapid water near
Ita head, and opposite Its lower ex
tremity eight cabina of Indians on tbe
right side. We landed near them to
breakfast, but such la the scarcity of
wood that last night we had- not been .
able to collect anything except- willows,
not more than barely sufficient to qpok
our supper, and this morning we eould
not find enough even to prepare break
fast .The Indiana - received as with
great kindness and examined everything
they saw with great attention.? In their
appearance and employments, as well aa
In their language, they do not differ
from-those higher up the river. The
dress Is nearly tbe same, that of the men
consisting of nothing but a short robe
of deer or goat skin, while the women
wear only a piece of dressed skin, fall
ing from the neck so aa to cover ths
front of the body ee low as the waist ,
iivu aiouna ms way ana
passing between the legs, over which a
short robe of deer or antelope skin le
occasionally thrown; Hero we aaw two
blankets of scarlet and one of blue cloth,
and also, a Bailor's round Jacket; but we
only obtained a few pounds of roots and
some fish, for which we of course paid
them.. Anions' other thin., ,,k.
served some aoorna, the fruit of the
white oak. . These they used as food.
althei ram n mmmtA nM A I n -. . i .
informed us that, they were procured
from the Indians who live near , the
Great Falla, Thla place they designate
ur m Tirr niirfirnnniv nriiidaai mt it
by the Indians snd highly, expressive,
th wrnvA Tli. ' . V. I U -
so aa to make It perfectly represent the
sound of a distant cataract After
breakfast we resumed our Journey, and In
the course of three mites passed a rapid
(Owyhee), where large rocks were
strewn seross the river, snd at tha hesd
of which on the right shore were two
the purpose ot exsmlning It as we al-
wava do whan nv-tnM la tn h ap
prehended, and send around by land all
those who cannot swim. Five (T) miles
further Is another (Rock creek) rapid.
formed by large rocks. projecting from .
each side, above which were five huts of
inuur.na vn mi nam siue, occopiea, lis
those we had- already Seen, In drying
fish. One mile below thla la the lower
point of an Island close to the right
side, opposite which on that shore are
two Indian huts. On the left side of the '
river at thla place are Immense piles ot
rocks, which seem to have slipped from
the cliffs under which they lie. They
continue till, spreading still further Into
the river, at the distance of a mile from
the Island, they occasion a very danger
ous rapid (Squally hook), a little below
I which on tbe right side are Ave huts.
r or many roues tne river is- now- nar
row and obstructed with very large
rocks thrown Into Its channel; the hlUs
continue high snd covered, ss Is very
rarely the- case,' with a few low pine
trees on their tops. -Between three and
four "miles below the last rapid occurs .
a' second (Indian), which la also dlffl-cult-end
three miles below It is a amall
liver, which seems to rise In the open
plains to the southwest and falls In on
the left It la 40 yarda wide at Its
mouth, but .dischargee- only small
quantity of water. We gave It tha name
of Lepage's - river, ' from (Baptists)
Lepsge, one of oar oompihy. Near thla ,
little river (now known as' the 'John !
Day) and Immediately below it we had
to encounter a new Tapld. '
This river wes crowded In every 'di
rection with rocks snd small rocky
isianda, tne passage crooked and dirn
cult and for two miles we were obliged
row channels and betasen the huge
rocks. ' At the end of this rapid are-four
huts of Indians on the right end two
miles below five more huts on the same
side. Hers- we landed and passed the
night, after making 33 milts. - The in
habitants bf these huts explained to
ub mat may w;erv toe reunions oi wlDie
who llvs st ths great falls. They ap
pear to be of the eame nation with those
we have seen above; Indeed, they resem
ble In everything except that their lan
guage, although the same, " .has some
words different They 'have all pierced
noeea. These people did not however, '
receive us with the sams cordiality to '
which we have been accustomed. They
are poor; but we. were able to purchase
from them some wood to make a fire for
supper, of which they have little, and
which they say they bring from the
great falla. Tbe hills In this neighbor
hood are high and rugged, end a few
scattered treee, either email pine or
scrubby white oak. are occasionally seen '
on them. From the last rapids we also
observed the conical mountain toward '
in buui weak, wnicn lot Anaisns bbt is
not -far. to the left of 'he great falls.
From Its vicinity to that place we called
It the Tlmm 'or Falla - mountain. - The
country through which we passed Is fur-
nlshed with several fine springs, which
rise either high up the eldee of the hills '
or else In the river meadows, snd dis
charge themselves Into the Columbia..
We could not hWp remarking that al
most universally the fishing establish
ments . of ths Indians, ' both on
the-- Columbia and f the waters of
Lewis river, are on the right -bank.
On inquiry we were led to believe
that the reason may be found In their
fear of the Snake Indians, between
whom snd themselves, considering tha
wariixe temper or I net peopie, ana meir
peaceful hablta. Its very natural that
the latter should be anxious to interpose
so good a barrier. These Indians are
described as residing on a great river to
the soutn, snd always at war wun tne
people of this neighborhood. One of our
chiefs pointed out todsy a spot bn the
left where, not many yeare ago, a great '
battle waa fought In which many num
bers of both nations were killed. We
were egreeably surprised this evening '
by a present of some very good beer,
made out of the remains of bread, com
posed of the pashecoquamash, part of
tha stores we had Isld In at the bead
of the Kooskooskee, and which by fre
quent'' exposure becomes sour and
molded. . . .
Another Meanest -Man. ' . ..
" From the Minneapolis Journal. '
A . well-to-do Chicago real estate
owner came Into a hardware etore in
that elty and asked tha proprietor fdr a
pound of nails. The email package wae
made up and life prloe, a nickel, handed
to the merchant, when the customer i
ssked if the purchsss cpuld bs sent to
his house, which waa In a distant part
of the city. The merchant asssnted, and
calling an, errand boy. handed him the
parcel with the nickel he had Just re
ceived for It and said:
"Here, Johnny, take the car and take
thla parcel out to -Mr. Blink's house."
-wniu bbiu ovRioiDri are you
going to give the boy the nickel to take
the parcel outf
"Why. certainly," said the merchant
1 wouldn't think of asking htm to wslk
so far." " "
"Well." eaid the meanest man In Chi-'
eago. "if you would Just as soon glvs
me the I eents I will tske It out mr-
self'-. ., ... ) , .
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