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PORTLAND. OREGON.
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' TN TrtE trans-Pacific commerce problem, an humble
! I element s eems to be knocking at Portland's door.
,i in the torm qt a Japanese stcamsmp um w uu
porVtftapanet are masters ot tne- stcamsmp Business,
and 'ate encouraging development"-of the industry in a
I manner that 'assures them permanence in the carrying
T trade on Xhe greatest of oceans. They ahow a willing
.; ness to, enter the Columbia, if given. r fair. transcont
inental freight rate.,' Being -without tailway systems on
; this, c6ntinent, Japanese steamships are in a measure at
; the mercy of the railway companies, and in ail ot their
plans must harmonize with the transportation powers.
; They could scarcely hope to build up a great business
l on-'traffic originating in Portland and immediately
tributary territory, although the lumber and flour ex
ports constitute an important, factor, ' and for the return
t voyage to tbia continent much of the. freight must of
necessity go. to eastern ports,
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; Japanese are" willing; to come here, if they can do so
I without stirring the, animosity pTTthe-great railway
''systems.. Neither of the Jatterjias ever, given Portland
; any fair or decent ocean, line, and have striven in the
i past to divert traffic to one or the other of the. leading
northern and southern ports.-: Why should Mir. Harri
man or Mr, Hill object to the Japanese coming. here?
j Japanese , enter both - Seattle and San Francisco with
their lines, and have, forced friendly recognition and a
: place on the schedule of the-big .company liners If a
1 transcontinental rate, were given, a steamship coming
"into Portland, and the management had a chance 'to
develop all possible traffic, it would be of inestimable
1 benefit to this city and community, and would, inf act,
aid in upbuilding railway traffic for the transcontinental
lines.--- ..'-' 'V-.' , ' 'f ;-' ,'' ' -'"
' The Osaka Sbosen -Kaisha, the third great Japanese
! company to project a line across the Pacific, is reported
J,iobenegoUatingwithboth Seattle and San-Francisco.
' WithTthe Nippon Yusen Kaisha. running to the former,
! and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha to the latter, it is natural
' that the Osaka line should prefer. Portland. Informed
I men state, that ;Jt would come here if an element of en-
couragement were offered. -.The company would doubt
less operate eight to. 12 "vessels on the run within a
year, and already has an efficient feed ' line system
t operating on the oriental coast..; It would, prove, wel
1 come to Portland, and Portland should bestir itself to
; learn what could, be accomplished, and what " are the
i prospects for its exploitation. Japanese shipping mas
1 ters believe in light-draught vessels. They do not care
to run craft with greater tonnage than is comfortably
5 accommodated hi the Columbia, and Willamette under
present conditions. They ask no ' deepening ' of - the
' channel, no further improvements, no onerous obliga
tions, but offer to-come if given fair play. Is not such
' a proposition worthy of inquiry? ,' :r -V. : , -
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, THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PROFESSIONS." V
OPULAR FAITH, in the sincerity of Theodor.e
Roosevelt ia strong..: His. judgment has often
tlieve in his honesty. This wail the causeof hisqyer
wTreTmiriglr"v"icT6Ty"na election, and
',', nowhere in the Union was the confidence of the people
i more strikinelv shown than in Oreabn. " i -j
3 -.But, because, .the . people rely ppon Roosevelt's sin-
.' -Vitr Kw .r iealnua of anvthinsr in his official acta
which smacks -of insincerity or f avoritisnv They- de-
' mand, that all that' he does shall, ring true. - Any sus
picion of a deviation from the straight path excites a
... distrust v that is measured onlyj bVi the previous trust
? It matters pot whether the immediate question at issue
is important or otherwise, since the real thing to be
determined is, whether he is living up to the popular
ideal. - l " ' '- '
v Roosevelt's policy in the matter of federal , appoint
: merits in this state has been peculiarly rigorous, bat it
- ' has been accepted - uncomplainingly because the people
of Oregon have believed that he has been actuated by
(the desire to place in office only men of .unquestioned
integrity and "ability, men who-would at all v times be
" i above suspicion or reproach. In the light of this belief
. . t l . a . t ' . ' i . ( : l. l
: every appoinimeni wnicn tne prcsiaeni nas roaae nas
received more than ordinary, attention from the. people
,'. ot tnia state. . r, ..:
, One gross mistake has been made by President Roose
- velt in the exercise of his appointive power, and that
was when he named T. Cader Powell for the office of
i United States marshal for the second district of Alaska,
Immediately after the appointment was made the presi
; dent was placed in possession of evidence which showed
conclusivjelythat Po wdlwas grossly nfi--:or-any
' public office. This evidence proved that he was an
: , embezzler while county clerk of Multnomah county and
. tnat ne was .aeepiy impucaiea . in me election irauas
'. which occurred in this city last year. ' ' ;.
I ' There is every reason to believe that these facts were
, unknown to ' President Roosevelt when he appointed
' Powell to office. But it is equally certain that the
i president was . afterward placed- in the full ' possession
, -;of all the circumstances. He knows now that Powell is
' absolutely untrustworthy and that he would not now
' be at large if the law had been Strictly enforced.. Know-
. Ing this, the president his before him the plain duty of
j removing Powell : from office. " Powell has ,. now. held
, i office for eight months, and if any action is to be taken
..-it should be taken at once; -; -v,.
A .' The question issue is not whether Cader Powell
'A shall continue to draw pay from 'the United States gov-
. ernment, but whether .Theodore Roosevelt is sincere in
1 it. i . t i . t .
OffiCC ' . - . ' ; -.
:THE PEOPLE AND "THE RAILROACs.
C GOVERNMENT REGULATION of railroads has
T got to come. The people, speaking through a
. ' man whom they put into the highest office in the
world, says so, "and this beingthe fact, his word is and
shalLcome to be law because it crystallizes, public senti
ment and justice. .:.'-;''.
The people don't want to own the railroads, nor op
erate mem. that would be a dangerous thing. But the
people are going to regulate and control the railroads
along the lines suggested by the president, in spite of
the rorakers, the Elktnses, the Tom Platts, and the Oily
Gammons of the senate so graciously represented by
Grandpas Allison and Culloml' I
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi "is riot in our hum
ble judgment a very great man. but he has a tremen
dously responsive approval among the American people
when he -say si -"Mr. Roosevelt is doing a good and a
brave thing in maintaining hia uncompromising attitude
upon this -question. SinceAndrew. Jackson, took up the
cudgel against the national bank, entrenched and for
tified in commerce, finance and in politics as it was, no
president has done a" better. thing than Mr. Rjsevelt
a: a u u . i. .... i .1. t.L.if ti .
advocating in bis .message the remedy already proposed
by the Democracy." - Mr. Williams further says:, "It is
going to be a desperate fight, and many plausible pre
texts will be given to any national legislator who desires
to desert the cause of the people and of justice in order
to maintain the present power of favoritism vested in
railroad managers.";. -, ''. l: : .
There is some flavor of partisan persiflage about this.
but Williams being a southerner and & partisanspeaks
particularly for his section. : He says: "The' south' will
benefit more -from the proposed 'legislation than any
other , part of our common country. We would have
been. manufacturing, in my opinion, two thirds of the
cotton in the United States. today but for the existence
of tmfajr and3re material," .
This, IF true, isTnterestIrig and important -and . not
only to the south. ' What is true there is, with reference
to other products and traffic, true of other parts of the
country, of the west, of Oregon in particular. ;
. The- railroads have their tools' in congress-, -especially
in the "senate. They stand pat fortariff robbery," for
railroad robbery, for national bank robbery, and they
prate volubly of pur superiority and righteousness-! ,
The railroads are public, not private, concerns. That
is really. the thing to be settled and understood. They
are going to be controlled by the people. The people
will treat them right, but will refuse to be robbed as
they have been, In various' ways that toilsomely we are
finding out and understanding. :
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PORTLAND THE CENTER OF ACTIVITY,
kCTOBER, left, the heaviest ; real estaV trnsfer
rccora xnown to rortiana, and; this without In
cluding the deals for Northern Pacific terminal
I gTounds, which were from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. Last
. ib-"-" wtic mauc lor lurce ouiiaings
"which will be 12 to 14 stories highrrAfonnd these monu
menUl facts- cluster a bevy of imporUnt enterprises
' which lose distinctive form through numbers. And bet
ter than all, through this mare of great things shine
an aurora reflecting prosperity and progress that makes
T th "present dim. .,?"..."'..' -- ... . , ...
Awake? Is Portland awake? The' question "already
has a keen twang of irony. Portland is in line for
development that will amaze the coasts Ills that once
distracted" react with augmented favor just now. There
" was a tiifee when local patriots bewailed the situation
between pampered ports "of .great transcontinental rail-
, way systems, andelt the orphaned .loneliness of
neglected chitd.. "Today this situation is interoret4
giving, to this city surest prospect of competing lines,
-while the erstwhile .favojed.jonea.will be forced-to -wavi-r
gste the future with but one of the big systems. Com
petition often draw from capital that which is never
granted voluntarily Maybe Portland wilj be the center
of a sharp competitive struggle for commerce. Such is
, forecasted by present developments, and such is an
ticipated by the rush of .capitalists to invest , here and
the scramble of local and outside seers to erect great
' ' tuilJinga. '. .' , '. j f : ' "'
...A MAN WHO HAS DONE HIS WORK. 0
N , POLK COUNTY across the river from Salem
there livea a modest farmer who, without himself
realizing it, is not only a model citizen of the state
but an example and inspiration. He has a family of six
boys and three girls: One of his boys is now taking
course .in Heidelbufgf-having won" a "scholarship there
through hia work at Harvard. Another son is taking a
postgraduat-oursat Harvard. Fotrr-boyrTind-one
girl have already gone through college and are preparing
their places in the world. One boy is on the farm and
the oy.era, boys and girls, are either in academies or in
the public schools making their way toward the colleges
where, they will all go. ' . , . ' .,.
' This man has made his own way in the world. - What
he has accumulated he has won by hard knocks. There
are many other men much better oftJa the Willamette
valley ; and, many .more, that had- .1 much . better start
But from the. Very beginning he set before himself the
task ot giving his children' the very best educational ad
vantages the country afforded. He could do. this only
by great sacrifice. But in his determination he never
wavered. When the times got bad and it wat difficult
to make ends meet instead of withdrawing his children
from the schools and colleges which they attended he
simply sold some of the land that he had accumulated
and went ahead with his work.' He has now pretty well
accomplished the task that he has set for himself and has
the profound satisfaction of knowing that no investment
he ever made haa proven so satisfactory. .
It has probably never occurred to this man that hes a
model citizen as well as husband and father. ; He did
what he conceived to be hia duty nor did he confine him
self to helping his own family for to the limit of his
ability he helped others within his reach. And strangest
of all he is perhaps the only one who knows the circum
stances who fails to realize that he has done anything
worthy of partitularattcntion, Menuch-as these rarely
get any notice outside the narrow circle of their own
neighborhood and then not always what they deserve.
The. world has much to say about all sorts pf heroes,
many of them fustian, and all too little about men of this
start p who make enormous sacrifices to help their
children to commanding places in the world and make of
them citizens who will square to the highest religious
and patriotic demands that may be made upon them.. '
vIN THE JUDICIAL SANCTUM. !
WO CASES were heard, argued, considered and
are yet undecided in the local courts during the
week. One case came up in the police court
Friday. - Five Japanese were before the court accused of
"promoting and maintaining "a' lottery." The learned
lawyer for the defense,-with tiresome iteration, insisted
that' those- people couldn't, have J"promoted. and main
tained" a lottery, although they might have aided to
rob 1,000 people of Portland bf$10, $100, or $1,000 apiece.
because they hadn't been proved or couldn't be proved
to have originated the . scheme. -The J. promoters the
word of the law were not before the court. They are
probably in San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or Venice, or
Honolulu. These nice, innocent fellows only took the
dollar, or ten dollars, and passed, out something worth
from two thirds of a cent to seven and three fourthscents
more or.ls. ';. Well, probably the foxy Japs deserved
all the money they got; and the people who spent it de
served to lose it looking at the matter as a philosopher
but there is the law. - The police court judge is not sup
posed to be a philosopher or philanthropist; there were
the tickets; the money was gone; the goods were no good
or little good all this was clear; so the judge will render
us a righteous decision on Monday,
In a higher court three Judges sat for many, hours lis
tening to vapid argutnent in a will case. . i . . ....
A man . and his wife lived here many years. - Thev
made quite a large fortune. ' He anf she had their home
here. They lived hert for a third of a century. 'Here
they made their money. Here they invested some of it
They jiad Jin home here.TJJeywerea partof- the
lite and soul of the then small town. ; .r' -
Finally, as many men do," this man began to break
do wtv physically. He-consulted aoctorT who-told h im
that his life would be prolonged by going to California
and givingvup business affairaThe man was rich; he
loved this city and state, which had been good to him;
he loved and trusted implicitly the good woman who was
his wife. So settling up to some exte.nl his large bus!
ness' affairs here he and she went to southern California:
Being people of means, they did not board in a ehe.n
restaurant. Naturally, they bought a residence there,
slept snd ate therein, invited friends thereto; had a.la'wn,
and a garden, and a stable, and the proper and usual
accessories of well-to-do elderly people" who- want to
get all the comfort they can out of the balance of the
days allotted to them. Fhit they never changed their
minds. They had no children. One can well imagine
howhis-qttstion'-f disposing jjt their great" property
received their careful consideration,' particularly after
ihe'rnan's mind, was no longer diverted ta. business,
and how both took an honest pride"in the contempla
tion of a plan to leave to the city in which they spent
all the best years of their lives and in which they had
accumulated -their, wealth some great 'memorial which,
while' it might be a monument to them, would be
source ot aengnc to their fellow citizens and a cause
of satisfaction to all the aftercoming generations. Pre
cisely what both designed to do with the money, which
was theirs to do with as they pleased, she did with it
as the survivor of the pair, a generous public bequest
that reflected credit and glory upon them both.
And now an attempt is being made, upon a trivial
technicality to set aside; the noble purpose of this dead
pair and to divert from,, its public uses money which
they so nobly devised foe the good of humanity. And
is tor the courts to say which, view of the case is
to be accepted. - . ,
WAR BETWEEN RAILROAD MAGNATES.
It will mean an awakening for' the , Pacific northwest
compared with which the greatest activity heretoore
known- in all its history will be tame. The i'acilic north
wests day has been long delayed, but as no part o
the country concerned is so rips for it the developmen
win be correspondingly great and gratifying.
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OUR SALT LAKE CORRESPONDENT presents
-a very vivid picture of the transcontinental rail
. road activity of which the Mormon capital is
now so largely the center. With, the! Western Pacific
building toward San .Francisco, the San Pedro road ap
parently once again in the complete control of Senator
Clark and offering an outlet for competing lines to Los
Angeles, the Burlington building as fast as it can' its
new line'to Salt Lake, not to mention at least three
great lines Gould's, the Northwestern and the St Paul
hurrying to Pacific coast terminals, we have not only
tremendous activity - in transcontinental railroad build
ing, but a situation of peculiar local interest because of
what is involved in the outcome for the Harrtman sys
tem, an important portion of which is centered here.
It is how evident to every observer that there is upon
us a great contest between wcrof the biggest groups
of railroad managers that the country - boasts. Hill,
Gould, Morgan and probably Senator Clark are on one
side and Hirriman and the Standard Oil crowd are on
the other. : In such a contest it only remains for cither
de to determine upon undertaking any task," however
great, to bring it to completion. It is manifest that all
of them must hereafter have independent outlets to the
Pacific coast The day for joint arrangementa haa tem
porarily passed. Under circumstances such' as these
railroad building long called for and as long delayed
will now be undertaken with heartiness and good will
WRITE THE CONGRESSMEN.
REGON NEEDS HELP in its fight for a river
appropriation. It needs all the help it can get
and from every source it can reach. Our lone
senator will do everything he can and the delegation sent
from here will supplement his work with eothusiasm and
intelligence. But even more help may be neeaeo. ...
There have come, here in the past few years many men
who, while not yet widely known here, wielded a very
considerable influence in the communities -from which
they came. These men are intensely interested in the
movement now afoot to aecure a big appropriation,' yet
they are disinclined- to thrust themselves forward.
each one of them could be induced to write a letter to a
congressman of his acquaintance and lay clearly before
him the conditions and the crying need , that exists for
these appropriations he would be doing the state a gen
uine service. The Journal has been asked to make this
suggestion and in doing so it wishes heartily to indorse
and-commend it. Let -everyone Twho can. reach, a. con
gressman from any part of the country drop him a letter
which, will make him think and the. great work ahead will
be, advanced very far toward a triumphant success?
THE OPPORTUNITY OF. WITTE.
OLITICAL FREEDOM IN RUSSIA' will not
come without a tremendous struggle, the begin
nings of which are on. It has long been in por
tions of Russiaj ; V .-. . . : ': , v; -.
An infant crying in the., night , ' ""TT"Ar-
An infant crying for the light, ,.' A. '";', :'
And with no language but a cry.
The poet was wrong, however, as poets generally are
They too often write to please the ear and nine timea out
of ten fail to tell the truth. ' -
The Russian people have, or will have, some other lan
gttage than a cry. They are trying toexpress it now,
ignorantly, blindly, perhaps for the moment madly; but
it will and must be heard. No, "God's ear is hot dulled,
that he cannot hear. "... " . . :
Is Witte the man' of the hour? I he the Russian
Bolivar or Kossuth, - who shall' apparently fail, or
Cromwell or Lincoln, who shall suddenly and splendidly
succeed? Is he an autocrat or a democrat? The crisis
in Russia demands one or the other." No straddler
will' do. I - -:. -4 ''""
-The world is watching, not the czar how but Sergius
JOURNEY OF LEWIS
AND CLARK
On the Columbia, passing ; Sauvle'a
island and Kalama.
November i. Our choice of a camp
had besn very unfortunate, for on m
tatand- oppoaite to ua ware Immenae
numbers of , swan, ducks an other
wild fowl, who, during tha wtoola night
serenaded tisw1th areonfualon-of noise
which - completely pravantad out Bleep
ing. During tha lattar part of tha nieht
it - rained, and ' v therefore willingly
lfk aur eneamnment at am early . hour.
we , nuiwi at three miles - a, amall
nralrte. where tha river is only three
quarters of a mile In width, and aoon
after two houaee on the left half a mile
distant from each other, from one of
which three men came in a canoe merely
to look at us . and having dona so re
turned home. 1 At eight miles we came
to tha lower point of an Island, sepa
rated from tha right aide by a narrow
channel, on which, a ahort distance
above the end of tha island. Is situated
a larre villa re. It ia built' more com-
nactlv than the generality of Indian
villa ma and tha front has 14 houses.
which are ranged for a quarter of a mile
along the channel. As aoon aa we were
dlecovertxt seven canoes came out to
see ua. and after soma traffic, during
which they seemed well disposed and
orderly, accompanied ua a short distance
below. . V
The liver here again widens to the
apaoe of a mile .and a half. As we de
scended we soon observed, behind a
sharp point of rocks, a channel a quar
ter ot a mile wide, which we suppose
must bo the one taken by the canoes
yeaterday on leaving Image-Canoe
Island. X mile below the channel are
soma low cliffs of rocks, near which' is
a larre laland on the right aide and two
small Islands a little turtberoo. Hare
country, for even at this season of the
year we, observe very little appearance
of frost During the whole extent It la
inhabited by numerous trlbea of Indians,
who either reside In 1t permanently or
visit its waters in quest of fish and
wapatoo rcota. . We gave U tha name of
the Columbia, valley.
i 'v. '-I. Sentence Sermons.
By Henry V. Cope."
Cant is the devil's creed.
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wa-cnet two canoes ascending me river.
At this plaoe the shore on the Tight be
comes bold and rocky and the bank Is
bordered by a range of high hills cov
ered with a, thick growtn or pine; on
tha other alda by an extensive Island,
separated on tha left aide by a narrow
channel. Here we stopped to dine ind
found the Island open, with an abundant
growth of grass and a number of ponds
well supplied with rowis; at tne lower
extremity ara tha remains of an old vil
lage. We procured - a awan. several
ducks and a brant and aaw some deer on
the island. ' Besides this ' Island, ths
lower extremity of which is 17 miles
from the channel Just mentioned,. w
passed two or three small ones in the
same distance.- Hare the hills on the
right retire from the river, leaving a
high plain, between which, on the left
bank, a range of high hills, running
southeast and covered with pine, forms
a bold and rocky shore. At the distance
of six miles, however,-these hills again
return and close the river on both sides.
We proceeded on and at four miles
reached a creek on the right, about 20
yards In . width, immediately below
which la an old. village. Three miles
further,, at - the distance of S3 miles
from our camp of the last night, we
halted under a paint of highland.- with
thick pine trees, on the left bank of the
river. Before landing' we' met four
canoes, the largest of which had at the
bow- the Image ef a bear and -that of a
man on the stern. There, were 2 In
dians on board, but they all proceeded
upward and we ware left, for the ftrst
time since we reached tha waters of the
Columbia without any of the natives
during the night. Besides tha game al
ready mentioned, we killed . a - grouse
much larger than the common alia and
observed along the shore a number of
Striped anakes. : . ' r. , ., ,
x The river- is-here deep and about a
mile and one hair In width. Here, too,
the ridge of low mountaina running
northwest and southeast crosses the
river and forma the western boundary
of tha plain through which - we have
Just passed: This great plain 'or valley
hegtns above the mouth- of Quicksand
river and is about S9 miles - wide In a
straight line, while on tha right an3 left
it extenda to a great distance. ' It la a
fsrttls and- delightful country, shaded
by thick groves of tall timber, watered
by small ponds and running on both
aides of the river. The soil is rich and
capable ef any speclea of culture, but
In tha present condition of the Indians
Its chief production is tha wapatoo root,
which grows spontaneously and exclu
slvely in this .region. Sheltered as It Is
on both sides, the temperature Is much
milder- than -that ot the auaceundlng
, Tribulations spelt triumph.
The trickster la'alwaya proud dt hia
tact. ,., ' ".;" v .a-v
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Warm hearts do not ' grow . In hot-
houses. ' . . .. ; .
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Ofldlng the whistle will not raise the
steam. . -1 - ., V !
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" It Ir hard te be In the awlm without
getting soaked.' . .
An empty head Is no evidence of a
holy heart. , , .
- It Is onfy the evil we cherish that haa
power to chastise us. :
True prayer weare out the soles faster
than the knees. - , .-.
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Sermons that are easy en the pulpit
may be bard on the people,
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" If you have the water of life you will
not have to water lifes stock.,
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.There are men who never think of
glory unless they go by a graveyard.
Borne men think that a pugnacious
disposition provides them with all the
piety they need.
L It la easy, to be brave when you know
the enemy haa only blank cartridges. -
Borrowed brains have a way of balk
ing when you drive them In public.
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The eong of . sympathy never comes
until the singer has been to the school
of sorrow. . " .1
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The happy Christian so advertises his
religion that the other man will not be
happy until he gets It - - " - -
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Men who take peine to be faithful to
the fashion ara not. likely to be fash
ioned to the faithful. . .
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It's, hkrd to steer a .straight course
when you. keep your conscience In your
pants pocket .. , ,
Many a man thinks he Is patient wits-
pain when he is only perverse In eat
ing pickles. Ati.i, ,.:
-THERE IS NO - UN-.
, - BELIEF"
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, , pi O be the author of a poem
I . which. ever since Ha birth
has been ' periodically as-
erlbed.to three of the great
est .literary lights of England Is an ex-l
perienre which,, while flattering, has Its
unhappy feature,, said Mrs. JUlssle Tork
Case of Detroit" Mtchjgan.
The Ball That Set Things to Boiling.
From . the Boston Transcript v
That little ball-given by Mr. James
Hyde last winter, the bill . that set
things In life. Inaurance companies to
rolling, seems,,. as we now look back at
the accounts of ft ae' harmless as a
chafling-dlstv party In ft suburban whlst
club, compared with ' the , revelations
that Lawyer-Hughes, -the-Inquisitor of
his day, has brought' out Accusations
of 1 public- perjury,- forgery and viola
tions of the penal, code ere in the air
now.- and these are such grave offenses
against 'common, every-day codes -of
honor and honest-business that all the
Interest one takes In the work of the
Investigating committee centers about
them. , From them one turns -to that
ball last winter with a sense of relief,
finding It something really pleaaant te
contemplate by way of contrast '-
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Dewey" .Tribute to Nelson. . f
London Correspondence New Tork Bun.
Admiral Dewey his senk.to the Stand
ard eho following in reply to an Invlta
tlon to give an expression of feeling
with reference to Admiral Nelson, the
one hundredth anniversary of whose
victory at Trafalgar was celebrated re
eently: , .. , - .. ,
- I am gratlfled for the opportunity of
saying that I always think of Nelson as
that matchless sailor, whose genius
saved and glorified England, .whose
career Is -an example to the sailors of
the world-and whose tenderness of heart
endears him to all mankind. A hundred
years have only , made hia glory the
greater." ", .- .. .,
Ura Case, who has achieved a reputa
tion as a writer of short stories, 1
says and poems, ,ras discuss Ing ths Va
ried fortunes of ' her ' poem, "There la
No Unbelief:' 'l ' '
"This poem . tot Vt years has ' bean
accredited to Bulwer Lytton, Charles
Kingaley and Mrs. Browning, not te
mention a doien others," she said.
"One morning about 17 years ago
waa breakf eating , with . a very young
clergyman, whose Ironclad1 orthodoxy
permitted - of - no compromise. He
questioned me as to my religious belief.
I answered that I had an Inherited creed.
tnat 1 nil clung -to the raith or my
ret ne tar I. waa a Quakeress, a Friend.
"Than,' answered the pious young
shepherd or souls. you : are an unbe
liever and you will be damned.'
. I am not afraid of that.' I an
swered, for there Is no unbelief. The
thing is unthinkable. I believe In ev
erything that is good and beautiful and
true In God and man and nature, in
love and life and Joy. There Is no un
belief.' , . .. ..... ..... - -
"That bight I slept fretfully. , The
young aealot's words haunted and wor
ried me. in hot refutation of hia ar
rogant summary of a ballet that did
not coincide with hia, the verses were
born. That, is the only, way I can ex
plain their being."
Thla la the poem: . : (. v ;;"
There la no unbelief, t
Whoever plants a seed beneath the
And waits to see It pusli away the
- clod, . . .. ' .
. Trusts he In ao&" , '...
There la no unbelief.
, Whoever says, when clouds are In the
. sky, ' v. v : , ' -'
Be patient, heart light breaketh by
and by, '
--.- Truste the Most High.' r ,
There Is no unbelief. f ' ,
Whoever sees 'neath winter's - fields
of snow -.''---,.
' The silent harvests of the future
', ; eTow. .- -
-.God's power must know. r
''!: -."';:: -. -.- '-.r'.;'; f ; ,. : '-m
There la no unbelief.- , i ,-',-'.
f Whoever lies down on hia eouch ' to
. sleep, - , . 1 :
Content to lock each asnse In Bleep,
, ' t Knowe God will keep.--
There le no unbelief. ' .-. - ' . - r
: Whoever says tomorrow, the un-
known. - . . ' . .. - .
' The future, trusts that power alone,
j' None dare .disown.
There Is no unbelief. Z
The heart that looks on where !dar
eyelids close . '
, And dares to live when life has Only
. . .' woes, - " ' - - 7 1 '
, God's comforknowe.lJ .
There Is no unbelief. ' - - ' r
For thus by day and night uncon-
. sclously -The
heart, Uvea by the faith the lips
- deny, -."-
Ood knowefh why.. ! ' . ,' -.
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Fighting Showa Nationality. '
From the Indianapolis Journal. -
"By the way they fight I can tell
men's nationality,", said a policeman.
"An Englishman when he Is going to
Xt-ht throws his hat.and,:oat In-a blue
taring way on the ground...
"A Scot pulls his -hat down .tight on
his head and button hlsi coat carefully.
The canny scot is .not going to sat
dangar-any of 'tila-property.- ' "
"An Irishman atiteala to tha arowd
to hold his coat The Celtic ' nature de-
elres sympathy and tries to build it up.
A. uerman rnfltnodlcal. precise
folds his coat In a neat bundle and lays
his hat on top of It to hold It down.
.-"An American ia so anxious te pitch
Ih and have tha thing over that he
start fighting without giving ft thought
to hat or 00a f , '
A Sermon
V ' Today
or
Te
A WORKINQ CREED,
B.l.Menr5' r- Cope,'-' -not
thla h e... .i.-i .
S.rnJ t0, ' of wicked!
?Z it? nd th' heavy rdens. snd to
Kr, . , ' "i o aeai fny
theVn, ths hungry. sd thai thou bring
k' .?2?r h. .''Mot out -into thy
"-- isaiau ivlll. S-T. ' ,
A'
WORKINO creed is a-creed that
ne demand for a prac-'
tlcai religion Is not a modern
dutcoverv. It mam k w.a ... .
tha most sensational denunciator. .r
mere aentlmentallsm in religion to uae
l lanu than did those, 4old
12" 'Blon alwsy;'haJi
been either practice or pretense. It hss''
Us deep tides of reeling ht 1, .
!TJ?A,n ih,."! th" Per the emotion the"
more definite will be Its expression. The
danger Is not thst religion shsU become -
emotional.-a that the emotions ahall"
not be eo intense and deep striking aa to
laaue in action. , . ,
aven the demand tnr nrVtii
liglon may be purely theoretical.- s la
not alwaya tha man who i dini,. . -'
doctrinaire church who la dain w,f.t
for the down-trodden. , . The itmhi,,
sthloa Is often ft refuge from their prse- .
tloe, and the writing of books and the
delivery of lectures on sociology . be- V
ooraes often an excuse from service of
one's neighbors. -
Most men think that heaven Is riven
us as a warehouse -of unrealised Idealer
the truth is earth is given us an-a work
shop for their actuallsatiou. The vital
creed is the one that With Its force of
conviction and Its sway ef heaven born -aspiration,
compels one to attempt to -make
real now all the good we hope
heaven may hold.. v . , . .4
The real services ot a church are out- -aide
it walls.- The Inspiration and di
rection may be gtven within, but the S
work must be dona . without where the
need Is greateat When a man's religion
never gets beyond alnaln an,i ii.i,in "
he Is stifling himself with unexpressed
emotions. It, is not strange thatj
churches die when they are content to
discuss definitions of the Infinite, , while
those who are made In his likeness are -stunted,
dwarfed, and snuffed out. by
greed and shame. . .... . ,.
Some Christiana know more about the
anatomy ot an angel than they do about'
the pathology of the poor. Yet nq living .
being ever saw an angel, while the poor
we always have with ua. The noblest
divinity is simple humanltyT The moat
glorious religious service Is simply doing
me imngs tor one another that we be
lieve the all loving Ood would do It be
were'one of us. ..
- f hli w-h . vArk mam, k. . -' 7 ..
ChrlstH work the east from tha west.
It Is essy to mistake fuss and feathers ,.
for faith. ' The master, never worried -
over oongregatlons. or choirs, or -canonicals.
He left those things to the '
people who opposed -htm and brought
him to death.. He simply jjld-lha goxL
he could, never counting tha- coat to
himself; be simply spoke the truth lie
fknew. never calculating the conse
quences. The working creed -wastes no
energy on definitions while men are
aolneT It walks in the Teacher's. wav: It
doea ais-work.;: ; ccsr.. i veinZj.i
. . . . . u. 1 1 . .. , .
prenensive scnema or aavtng the world
by machinery; it Is not soma automatic
social propaltandura which will wipe -out
tne aium, clean up crime and make thla
world e highly desirable place of resi
dence - for respectable people. The
preparation of such plans may be left
to the unfortunatea who lack the heart
or the energy to engage In definite work.
Neither does it need alone a mighty
wave - ef Indignation against modern
pharasalsra and -hypocrisy, nor fasting
ovey our own faults, nor feeding tha
hungry-with tha tears of our sympathy,
copiously, generously poured out in the
eomfort of our reading chairs. , -
The need la simple: practical religion
la the easiest of alL It la to do the
good that lies nearest you: neither to
lecture on It nor to weep over It nor
even to pray over It until you have done
it. Deads of love, not dreams of bene
ficence, are recorded In heaven. It la
nobler thing by far - to have put
clean, smooth pillow under ft elck man'r
bead than to be the author of the most
elaborate Utopia, the defender of the
most intricate doctrine, or the most rlgW
observer of exact ritual. ,
-HYMNS-YOU-OUGHT-.
TO KNOW
Awake, My Soul.
By Bishop Thomas Ken.' .
-According to the "Anglican Hymnol- '
ogy," which Is a aeml-officlal estimate
of the popularity of church hymns, '.
Bishop Ken has two titles. to his credit
amongst the ten greateat songs of wor-'
ship. His evening composition, '"All -Praise
to Thee. My Ood. This Night,"
ranks first of all, and "Awake, My Soul." -
s given the sixth place. Ha wrote both
these hymns while In his charge at Win
chester, the scene of his early educe-.
tlon. At his own request ths good
bishop was burled under the east win- .
dow .of ths .chancel at From 8elwood, ;
being, ibterrsdrt'luatn - at sunrise, while ,
those gathered about ths grave sang.
Awaxe, My (tout, ana witn tne eun.'.lj
Awake, my soul, and with the aun .
Thy dally atage of duty run; t -
Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise ' :
To pay thy morning sacrifice. - - ft '-
Awake, lift up thyself, 'my heart. ' j
And with the-angela bear tby part, '- 1
Who alt night long unwearied alng
High praises to th' eternal King.
Olory to thee, who safe hast kept,'
Ann nest reireanenea ma wnue I slept;
Grant Lord, when-. I from 4 death shall - .
.; ,. ' f. t . . -v
Vaka.
may of endless life partake.
Lord. I my. vows to thee renew;
Scatter my sine aa morning dew;
Guard my first springs of thought am
... will. . ' . , - .;
And with; thyaelf my spirit fill. " '
J.
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nd
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Direct control, auggeat, thla day,
All I design, or do. or say;
That all my powers,-with all my might,
in toy soie giory may unite. - -,
. Th Supply of Platinum. -
" From the Wall Street Journal.
' A report of the United States geolog
ical survey Just made ' public states
that tha world a emvply cf platinum -tn
1104 consisted or sos, kilograms from
South --America,' end S.009 kilograms "
from Russia. ' The disturbances In
Russia brought about -a 19 per cent In
crease In price during the year. An
effort is how being made to Ineresjie"'
the output ef platinum1 In the United
States, where it an prod tahiy be ob
tained as one of the by-products of the
bfraullo sold mining of the west
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