The Oregon daily journal., December 10, 1905, Image 6

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PORTLAND, OREGON.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1905.
THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL
f ;,;.";. - j' v'.'AH'' INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER'' " ' '"
C. . JACJCSOB
l: BOSTON AND BEAN
A RECENT DISPATCH stated
-' Boston, paid. $6,500,000 for baked Deans last
, year. The computation proceeded along these
lines: The receipts of beans in Boston , during 1904
were 68,932 barrels,' equivalent to 343,660 bushels, or 10,-
997,120 quart v weighing Zl.WXW pounas. muuipiyu.,
this number by the average retail price of beans, the to
tal sum named is obtained. ;. V
i Boston has always been noted as a bean eating city
and that it could consume such a vast quantity of beans,
at such a fabulous cost, showv -if trpe, that . Boston a
appetite for beans has not been overrated, onthe con
trary has not been fully appreciated. BostoflV popula
tion is estimated at 553,000, so that the quantity of beam
mentioned would give an' average consumption to each
inhabitant, man, woman and child, of 37 quarts or 148
pounds. And as young infants could not eat beans ot
do they in Boston? and perhaps some others eat few
--there are always cranks -it follows that here must' be
people in Boston who eat anywhere from 50 to 100
' quarts of beans a year and 1 everybody knows that a
quart of dry beans makes several quarts when boiled,
as they must be before being baked. It is also stated
that the demand is increasing much faster than the pop-
' ulation, 15,000 barrels more being consumed in 1904 than
in 1903, and it is expected that the 1905 record will show
an equal or greater increase. If this keeps up long
enough, Boston will subsist principally on "beans, foi
when the time comes that each inhabitant averages
several quarts of beans a day,: how are they to eat
much of anything else?.. '
! According to, the popular Idea all these beans l4we
eaten baked, but. while this is the favorite Bostonese
form, we suppose some are eaten after boiling only,
but it is as a consumer pt the nutritious leguminous herb
or vegetable phaseolus vulgaris in the baked form that
Boston has become famousT" ' " ' ' " ": 7 "
Boston's appetite for beans might lead to several pro
found reflections. That city is regarded as the head
center of culture in the United States;, it this a. result
of bean eating for several generations ?; If so, should
not the people of other cities begin at once to eat more
beans, feed their children on beans, and teach them
early to feed their children on beans, and so on from
generation to generation, until other qfies can rival
Boston in learning and refinement ? But some will ask:
Do we want to acquire, or our descendants to possess,
the Boston brand of culture, which is reputedly cold,
clammy, ' unsympathetic . and repellant? So the prob
lem; To cat more beans or not? is a debatable one.
It has been suggested,, and. is suspected .by many,
that Boston housewives and cooks have, some culinary
secret, handed down from days prior to the great tea
party, and carefully guarded, by which Boston baked
beans are really rendered more palatable and appetiz
ing than the-same kinds and quality of beans boiled or
baked in any other place. This seems to us an unten
able theory, though very likely in a great city where
everybody has eaten beans principally for 300 years, the
art. of cooking and flavoring them has. been carried to
perfection more than elsewhere: - At any -rate, the- fig
ures quoted show-that Boston has earned its reputation.
THE TOyRIST AND OREGON.
'HAT IS PORTLAND DOING to take advant
age ' of its' opportunity to
mer tourist business? As
its value the Southern Pacific is spending $100,000 in a
single campaign . to attract tourists to the toait, from
Portland to San Diego, Eighteen California hotels arc
spending $10,000 to attract the tourist brought by the
railroads to these hotels. The tourist trade is evidently
worth something when this amount of money is spent in
. a single campaign. It is manifestly so when one con
siders that the city of Los Angeles and many other de
lightful towns in California have been literally Vuilt and
are now maintained by the tourist classes, many of
whom have become permanent residents.
California attracts and holds much of the winter travel
but Oregon presents "infinitely greater advantages 'in
spring and summer when' iti "climate, is literally ideal.
Host of these transients leave California in the Spring
and early summer. Many of them
era hornet by easy stages putting in several weeks In the
mountainous regions, notabtym Colorado. . To many of
these. the beauties and -attractions of Oregon are little
known. Were it not for the fair they would be still less
known. But, it seems to us, there is a campaign just
ahead of us in this direction. Whatever , is possible
should be done to turn the tide in this direction. If it
costs a little money to do it that should be spent because
it is simply an investment that will pay a good return.
It is not alone the .immediate benefit which flows from
uch a class of travel ; it often leads to the permanent ac
quisition of a very desirable class of people and to in
vestments which add materially to the potential-wealth
' of the state. The movement has been inaugurated; it
should be taken np with energy. It is time that Greater
Portland showed once 'again what it is able to .do in the
matter of big enterprises. Last year we scored a bull'
eye but it will not do to rest on our laurels. , This year
we should strengthen the hold we' got last year. ;
- BACKWOODS HAZING. '
""A" WONG the yoangerwestern states f ewcan boast
jr finer university than that at Moscow, Idaho.
Built in the center of a rich and fertile region,
. with varied resources tributary to it, excellently man
, aged, it has gained something more than a state reputa
'. tion and deserved it. The class of students who at
tend the university k unusually fine and the work
which they do is both earnest and effective, as any one
' . who has ever visited the institution must testify. '
: Yet it is from this university of which the people of
. Idaho have such reason to be proud, that there comes
the report of one of the most disgraceful hazings that
has been recorded this season. Imagine in a civilized
community a young marrr captured and his cheeks and
forehead marked with the figures 08 burned hito'them
with lunar caustic? Only by a miracle can he escape
disfigurement for life. Here is a case where a half
dozen yonths with backwoods proclivities disgrace $
. great educational institution:" The duty of the author
cities in Jhe premises is plain. The offenders should be
mercilessly hunted down and thrown out of the uni
versity in .disgrace. One encouraging feature of the
affair, which indicative of the feeling-of the class, is
foiiid in the resolutions adopted whic$tsbow unmis
takably that t botry ihey-Tesent the outrageous con
duct of some of their fellows'. Indeed their indignation
carries them so far as to denounce all species of hing.
It is hoped this feeling will be fostered and that as a
- secondary outcome of-the trouble the atndcnt tody ,lt
. self will frown down upon hazing and make it a thing
more honored in the breach -than in-the-obseTvaneeT
. Now watch for thet entering wedge which is intended
to lead to' the reopening of public gambling in Portland.
Fortpnately there arc two officials on guard whro can
. not vither be hoodwinked or bulldozed Ope of them
' la th sheriff and ibe other it mayor, ,
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. .
EATING.
FRENCH
that the people of
have no railroads,
by famine, vhen
at the head of the
...
storm, but always
the people forcing
the estates -in their
government is ri6t
the French drama
But on these
may not be welded
There are those
ganized revolution
capture the sum-
an illustration of
return to their east
indirect and gradual
striking distance of
he must bring his
upon this gigantic'
, A REAL
1 . western
no. t, OAKSOIX
AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS.
THE MANY striking parallels between the pres
ent course of events in Russia and those in the
early dayg of the French revolution have been
frequently commented on, , and their -contemplation is
interesting. In Russia, as there was in France, there is
a peasantry steeped in superstition, sodden in ignor
ance, and apparently hopeless. . Many Russian districts
and-as in trance in iev are ispiaieo
except tor slow communication oy oaa wagon roaus.
At a consequence these districts are sometimes swept
there is plenty of material for food
only perhaps 200" or 300 miles away. In tne -surenn-cracy
and grand ducal ring and in the church oligarchy
we see reproductions of the aristocracy and their clerical
coadjutors who crushed the people of France under the
weitrht of unbearable taxation, and saueezed out of the
oeasantrv the ereater cart of their earnings. We find
Russian government, at .the begin-
. . . . . . . ,
ning ot these more notable disorders, an auiocrai iegauy
and theoretically supreme, but in character though
YV.'T. Stead and some others do not confirm this weak
and vacillating; yielding to the rising and oncoming
too late, as did Louis XVI. We see
a national assembly, and the recog
nition of their right to take this or that liberty, and no
sooner gaining one point than they press on to another
though not as yet with the unity and solidarity of the
French revolutionists, partly on account of the vast
scope of the country, but more because of the lack of
homogeneity of race and sentiment among the people.
We have teen lately the army itself infected with the
popular fever, and turning against the government, at
happened in France. And finally, we see the conflagra
tion spreading from Russia's Parises Moscow, SC Pet
ersburg and Warsaw to the rural districts, and the peas?
ants armed with scythes and pitchforks, trampling over
: neighborhood jojaclfU.and,BuriuJ
Riot, arson, assault, slaughter all the. dread fruits of
popular passion long repressed but suddenly loosed by
the relaxation of authority and the discovery that the
omnipotent are companiments .in
rthe terrible turmoil.' The puppets of the Russian and
are remarkably alike. ' ; ,v ;
similarities we cannot base like or any
definite conclusions as to results. The parallelism is in
teresting, but superficial. Some of the forces that made
and carried on the French revolution are undoubtedly
at work now in Russia, hut-some are wanting. For one
thing, the invincible solidarity of the French " revolu
tionists is improbable of acquirement' The Russian in
turrectionaries are so fr only a large number of inde
pendent, diverse and sometimes conflicting mobs, that
intd unity either of purpose or action.
who tee in this incipient and unor
for such it seems to have become
the beginning of v worldwide, or at least a Europe-embracing
cataclysm like that ; which issuing irom the
French revolution ended, except in Russia, in the over
throw of absolutism and the establishment and observ
ance of consitutionalism. , Undoubtedly whatever-the
end of this gigantic coil, its. effects will be felt even be
yond the confines of all the Russias, especially in Ger
many, but violent political upheavals in other states as a
consequence teens improbable. The conditiont under
which such a great fire of revolution might easily spread
do not .exist as they did when the first French republic
abolished God and dated a calendar from its own birth,
France, in 4789 and the succeeding years was leading
the way. Russia is bringing up the rear, is finally fol
lowing, paffTyariet in Fi ante's way, the example oth
ers as well as trance, though mor,e quietly, have act.
- There may for a time be a republic, or an attempt at
one. Nicholas may or may not suffer the fate of Louis
XVI. But anarchy cannot long maintalnitself, indeed
hat no foundation, and socialism is as yet an "irides
cent dream.". But absolutism it already at an end in
Russia and the end will probably be a constitutional
monarchy and a national assembly that can maintain a
stable government. But that end appears not near; it
may be a long way off with bloody highways leading
to it. - .1
ROOSEVELT AND ROCKEFELLER. ' -
I T IS REPORTED from Washington that President
Roosevelt has instructed Attorney-Genera! Moody
; to prepare the documents for an attack on Stand
ard . Oil. The wonder hat been growing why smaller
trustt and monopolies were attacked, and Standard Oil
overlooked or neglected,, but it seems the psesident was
only getting thoroughly ready. Whether anything defi
nite will be directly accomplished is doubtful, but it-as
high time that the most thorough effort possible to
break up or restrict this monopoly was attempted.
A few days ago one of the' employes" ot-thislrreatest
and most dangerous and defiant of all monopolies' ad
mitted under oath in a Missouri court that he had been
ordered from headquarters to "destroy competition at
any cost," and was recommended from the same source
to use means provided by his employer falsely to con
vict its rivals of cheating their customers the Stand
ard Oil desiring a monopoly along that line also. What
does the president think of that? - ,
He must know, that the Standard Oil company has
evaded and defied laws, bribed legislatures, bought over
congressmen, wrongfully influenced judges( and. worked,
either creepingly like a pestilence, or sweeping obstacles
away like a tornado, leaving disease, and devastation be
hind, in order to enable the -men - vhd compose it - to
pocket $0,000,000 a year.' ' '
Standard Oil being the greatest of all trusts and al
lied with all, and extremely re4ourruTind powerful,
the president is proceeding slowly "and cautiously, by
approaches, as a general gets within
a supposedly impregnable jor,. But
biggest "square deal" guns to bear
'creature and then' perhaps one may
see some astonishing results. Then again perhaps not
FOOTBALL TRAGEDY. V
THERE WAS A VERITABLE-TRAGEDY in the
great football game played not long ago for the
championship between Michigan uni
versity and Chicago university. They are reputed to be
the best two teams irt s the west. Michigan was sup
posed to be superior, in line-bucking, and Chicago in
punting, which made a standoff. Indeed, the first half
of the game showed the teams evenly matched; play
ing each other to a standstill. The tveond half was
nearing its end without-either" team 'oeirig able to touch
the other's danger line, and it looked like a tie. Then
Michigan, having the ball tent it with a mighty punt into
the enemy's territory, but Chicago with a masterful
spiral sent it back, and it dropped back of the Michigan
goal Mine mto the out-stretched hands' of a Michigan
p!ayet ThatjnjtaulMichigait had 4h-better--f the
game. The situation called for a . touch-back, ": which
would render the ball dead, and Michigan could take it
25 yards in front of its goal line for a free kick, which
would have Bent it far into the - opposition territory,
where Michigan wanted It. But theHWchigan player
lost? his, .head,. and-with 11 brawny Chicagoans ran
sidewayt with" the ball. Th inevitable-happened; he
was downed behind hi own, goal line; and Chicago
scored two points and won the game.,' ,
This Michigan player who did hot trunk and act rightly
and quickly enough' iajk-eritical moment'may put in the
rest of his life tryi'dg to explain whyhe did the wrong
thing, but in vain. Like a man who commits a homicide
in a moment of absentmindedness;- remorse will not
bring the dead to life. The great game was killed by a
man who went "off his head." A fumble might have
been condoned, but it was not the Michigander's mus
cles but his brain that played him and his team false,
and that deep disgrace he can never outlive in "football
circles. He. had but a second to decide what was the
right thing to do; it was hit business as a member of
one of the crack teams of the country to decide to do
the right thing in that second and win glory for him
self and his associates; in ethat -.'. instant he decided
wrongly, and brought from the sporting point of view
unspeakable shame upon them, and himself. Besides,
it cost the Michiganders the western championship tha
they had held for five years, and incidentally a -whole lot
of coin besides. ' f
So football has its tragedies, and
CORPORATION. ARMY
ROUTED OLD WIDOW
Pittsburg Special to the New York
i World.
It has bus yim since tha worklna
people of Pittsburg have been o
wrought up over anything ther have
been over the destruction ot the horn
of Mr. Sarah Lot, at Twenty-sixth and
eyaney streets, on the south side, to
make room for the 120,000,000 addition
to the plant of the Jones & Lauchlln
8 tee I company. v i '
last Saturday was a strenuous day
for Mrs, Lot. Although past 70 years
old, eh has been battling for over six
months with the steel company and Its
millions, and. single handed, and with
out even the aid of her children, hat
defeated them at every tutn.
On that morning an agent of the com
pany went to. the little. home of Mrs.
Lot and told her that If she did not get
out by noon, her home would be torn
down over her. head. . ,
"You can't do it" she replied de
fiantly. "This place Is mine. It has
been mine for iO years. It has 'teen
my home ever since I was married,' and
my home It , will be until my death.
There Is no law In the land that will
allow you to corns and take it away
from me." .
. Although brave in the face of the
agent of the company, Mrs. Lot. was
fearful in her . heart that her home
might be taken from . her. Bhe knows
nothing about law or litigation, but
she had been told that it the company
became threatening to hurry to the
courthouse and secure an injunction
against the concern preventing them
from. Interfering with her rights.
It was 11 o clock when she hurriedly
called on her brother-in-law and told
him she was going to the ' courts to
secure an injunction, and she left htm
In charge to protect the home during
her absence. Three ferocious dogs
which have been the old woman's com
panions during her j six months' fight.
were left with him. At sne lert
her home. She did not know-that the
courts close at IS o'clock on the last day
of the week. But the company with
whom she was fighting knew and that
was the reason that they, had selected
Saturday for their day of action.'
Mrs. Lot arrived at. the courthouse
only to find that it was-closed. She
appealed, in her despair, to the Janitor
and others about the building for help,
but was told that she could do nothing
until Monday. Sick at heart, Mrs. Lot
hurried horns. '" ! '
The sight which greeted her was on
which frose the blood in her veins. Th
home she had left but an hour before
had disappeared. On the ground in
front, of the placv'where the house had
formerly stood, and which had once
been a street, but had been abandoned
by the city to make room for the im
provement, was a great pile of debris
that had once been her home. .Besld
it was piled tha scant furnishings ot
her little abode.. Near by the thre
dog, beaten into submission and thea
chained, -rjnoaned plteously." .- Her
brother-in-law. wnom sne naa ten on
guard, was nowhere to be seen. - Al
ready srreat steel . girders ' were being
joined together to complete the new
mill, which now eireicnea us rei
arms over what, a few minutes before,
had been her home. From neighbor
she learned fhe story: i . . -
No sooner had Mrs.' Lot left het
home than a force of workmen era
ployed by the company, almost a thou
sand strong, appeared on the premises.
Charles Lot, armed with bricks and
clubs, stood on the threshold and de
clared that he would brain the first man
who attempted to put foot on the prem
ises. They knew that the law would
protect him if he carried his threat
into execution. They knew that h
could kill them. U need be, to protect
the home of his sister-in-law, which
was his home. too. Bo they adopted
other tactics. They turned .their forces
onto the barking dogs and after s bit
ter fight they had them under submis
sion. Then they led them Just acros
the line onto the company's property.
They tied them there and then with
drew. It was an old trick, but it
worked. '..-.- ,
Charles Lot coult"not endure seeing
the dog 1n sgony. He stepped out to
untie them. No sooner had he placed
a foot on the property of the company
than he was placed wider arrest by
special officer of ths company who had
been placed there for that purpose. He
knew that resistance was useless and
when Informed that he w under ar
rest, he acoompanled the officer to the
south side police -station, where he was
locked up on e'oharge of trespass that
the special officer made' against him.
H' was not allowed to furnish, ball at
that time, but later in the day was re
leased on a bond which was readily
furnished by his friends.
No sooner had Charles. Lot left the
premises than the horde of workmen
took possession. Jh a , twinkling the
furnishings were carried Into the street.
Meantime a score of men, armed with
axes, had climbed -the roof. They
chopped through the tin roof and then
down the lde of th house, cutting
it nomnletelv In two. Then a great
cable was Ushed arodnd one half ot-
th little building. More tnan iuo men
tugged at the rope, and with a few
creak and -groans half of the house
came down. Then th rope was. placed
around the remaining half, and it, too,
sooa toppled over.. It was th work of
a few momenta for the army of men to
gather up the debrt and plic it in th
street Fifteen minute after th flrt
man climbed onto the roof the houa
had been completely rased and struc
tural Iron workers wer erecting th
new mills on Its sit. -
When Mrs. Lot saw what had hap
pened ehefliUd.She. was. .carried
away to the hom of her son, Charles
Lot,; but it wss hours after that
bad- happened. Since then she has been
so ill that it was feared that she might
not recover.
On Sunday Charles Lot, the brother-in-law.
appeared at tha) south aid po
lice atatlntr "to answer th oharge of
trespass- that jiad beea mad against
- I '. ,
membrance of it
eye, a pure heart,
others besides -phys
HYMNS YOU OUGHT
TO KNOW
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
'' 1 By Isaao Watts. -'
Hn spit of th fact that-Watte w
almost a wholesale hymnmaker and. m
spit of th fact -that be wrot som
of the worst doggerel that children ha
ever, been forced to learn. It yet remain
that som of the noblest Christian
hymn are of his authorship. Some of
these were composed in the course of
setting the psalms Into verse, a task
which he accomplished in an incredibly
short time. Probably this metrical ar
rangement of the ninetieth psalm was
his best piece of work in all that great
undertaking. Certainly it has become
a favorite hymn with many famous mn
and It la sung in the churches more fre
quently .than fcny of the many other
hymns of the author, sav perhaps hi
"When I survey the wondrous crosa"
Our Qod, outjjelp In ages past.
Our hope for- years to come;
Our shelter from the stormy blast.
And our eternal home! . . , -
Under the shadow of thy throne
- Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is thine arm alone, '
. And our defense is sure.. ,
Before the hills in order stood.
Or earth received her frame,.
From everlasting thou art God
To endless years the same.
A thousand ages lnjthy sight. .
Are like an evening gone;
Short at watch that ends the night
Before tha rlaing sun.
Time, like an aver rolling stream, .
Bears all its sons away; ....
They fly, forgotten, as a dream -
Dies at tha opening day.
Our God, our help in age past.
Our hope for years to come;
Be thou our. guarwhtle troubles last;
And our eternal home. .....
LEWIS AND CLARK
asa,ja,"aseas"i
OiLth seashore.. ' -
December 10 ''The moffitftr-waa
cloudy with some rain. Captain Clark
walked out on the seashore and ob-
served the Indians walking up and down .
the creek, examining the-shore; he'wasj
at a loss to understand their object,,
till one of them came to him and ex- j
plained mat mey were m sea re n i-nnn
which had ba thrown on shore and left .
by the tide, adding In English, "Stur
geon Is very good." - There Is, Indeed,1
every reason to suppose that these Clat
sop depend for their subsistence during
the winter chiefly, on the fish thus
casually, thrown on the coast. After
amusing himself for some time on tha
beach, he returned toward the village
and shot on his way two brant. As h
came near a villa; one of th Indiana
aaked htm to shoot a duck about 85 ,
steps distant; he did ao, and having
accidentally shot off It head, tha bird
was brought to the village by the In
dian, all of whom came . around In
aitonishment; they examined tha duck,
the musket . and tha very small bullet,
which were 100 tothe pound, and then
exclaimed, "Kloshemusquet, wake kunv
tux musquet" (a good musket, do not
understand this kind of musket). They
now placed before blm their best roots,
fish and syrups, after which he at
tempted to purchase a sea otter skin
with aoma beads which he happened to
have about him; but they declined trad
ing, as they valued nothing except blue
or white bead. H therefor bought
nothing but a little berry bread and a
few roots in . exchange for fish hook
and then set out to return by the same
route on which he came. He was ac
companied by Cuskalah and his" brother
aa far as tha third creek and then pro
ceeded to camp through a heavy rain
The whole party had-been occupied dur
ing his absence in cutting down trees
to make huts, and in hunting. V
him, but th officer who arrested him
did not put in an appearance. Th
cane was marked "continued," but he
will never have to answer the charg.
Th company succeeded In Its purpose,
and that I all they care for now.
- Following their usual Custom, the of
ficials of th Jone & Lauthltn com
pany refusa fo discus th matter In
any way.-- When they decided to buy
the Lot homestead theyoffered the
widow 84,000 for th property. - She re
fused to sell. After som months they
offered a bonus of 85,000. She still re
fused, and then the amount of th
bonus was Increased to 810,000, but she
told them she would not sell the plac
for any amount. It wasn't money she
wanted. -
"John brought me here when we were
married, 60 years ago," she told them.
"It has. been my home ever since I
came to America Jrom .Germany."
Willis L. King, vice-president of the
Jones ft Laughlln company, being asked
regarding his view of the legslity of
the action of the company In tearing
down th houa, said only: "It is s
matter I do not car to discuss." ,
William Lorlmer Jones, general man-.
gr of the plant., would say but little
more: "W think that w had a right
to take th action we did, but we don't
want to talk about it -
Leading the . Strenuous Life.
From th Nw York Sun. :. . .
Any human being who can emerg
unnhattered and undismayed , from the
round of dlningr"da:ncing;"rceTvtng and
speechifying which has accompanied
th vlHlt of Prlnc Louis must have the
digestion of an ostrich, the unvarying
temper of a Damascus blade, th eshn
philosophy" of an Egyptian sphinx,- th
cheerfulness of his .erstwhile majesty
King Cole. , May Baftenburg's power
of recuperation nvr grow leas!
ical death and (,njury, as well as 'war, and the conflicts
that most of us encounter in paths of peace, and this; Was
the greatest tragedy of its kind of the season. To this
player this 'was a real tragedy, and the sorrowful re
will torment him long. . .,
So, 'young man, it may be with yon sometimes in life.
Times may come when you musUact quickly, perhaps in
a moment, one way, or another, and the action of that
instant may brighten or mar yonr whole after life, and
that in a far more important sense and greater degree
that irt this illustrative case of the great football game.
But to be able to decide rightly and instantly, you need
to' be prepared. You need a healthy body, a well-balanced,
somewhat cultivated mind, a clear conscience and
a clean soul. Having these, young
man, -when the critical time $omes, you can act on the
instant, and cannot go far wrong. " ,,.
The idea of denouncing a public official because of his
determination to secure an- economical "administration
is a new thing under the sun, but there is no telling to
what lengths silly partisanship may bevcarried. ,
LETTERS FROM
; PEOPLE'
THE
" ' Woman Answer Dr. Short. " ;
- Portland. Dec. 8. To the-Editor of
The Journal Will you allow me spaca
in your paper in reply to soma remarks
that have been made regarding womea
working? . - .- a.-. . . .
- Evidently Dr. Short thinks it a crime
for women to live, for . some of us
either have to work or starve, and why
should we not go where we can get the
best pay?, Dr. Bhort says a wife should
be fitted Jto shine in society. Does he
give th girl1 who works in his kitchen
a chance to do.so? Is she not the first
one up tha morning and the last to re
tire at night? Does she receive .her
friends (I hope she ha 'some) In the
kitchen, or has she the freedom , of the
parlor? Can one have a chance to mov
In society by accepting a position at
any housework for pay? And how can
one ba clothed - if they are not paid?
Does not a woman get better pay and
have more hours to herself by office
work than in a family as a servant!
How mapy times Is It not said that any.
one can do kitchen work, and it. is . con
sldered the very lowest and" meanest
of all work, yet some people, consider
that woman's sphere! ' Be honest, be
Just, and If that is a place to fit on
for (society?) homemaking, do not put
a girl In a back bedroom or up thre
stories In the garret..
Is Dr. Short willing to take a bigger
contract than the Spokane minister has?
If he Is, then let him bring out his men
who will be such good husbands. I have
to good women in mind who are work
ing for an honest living and every day
say. "Oh, if I could quit and only had a
home!" ,
The writer of this' Is able to cook a
meal-fit for a king, can make her own
clothes, can embroider beautifully, ckn
lng fairly well and.. play some; can
sweep-a floor and do a washing, ' can
lead a prayer , meeting and drive a nail
with equal -grace, yet is compelled to
work for dally bread, and through no
fault or wish of her own.' ' Men .who
are willing to have a woman .provide s
home for thenr-are standing around by
dosens. But where, oh where is the
man who will providethe good home,
it It will be welLcared for?
I am afraid to sign my name, lest I
be ,. overwhelmed with. ??. Think
three or four times on some questions
before you apeak, Dr. Short
. . "MERELY MARY ANN."
.SpnhlioaaXarmony.
Portland, Dec 8. To the Editor of
The Journal An old-time Republican
la heard to soliloquise thus: '''Yes, peace,
harmony and goodwill to th victor at
the primaries, if a new. clean man wins."
. . . Then, after a pause, he continues:
'But to all old-timers, take notice; If
yu ever offended th Oregonlan, If you
did not shout for - Scott for senator,
then lay low. . . . Who else ar th
well-known men whom the Oregonlan
cautions to keep out?" ; . X ;
, " John H. Mitchell. -"
-"Every child who knew htm ' loved
him"
"Jchn H. Mitchell Is the only man I
ever knew whom I believe to have never
had a trace of bitterness In hi com
position He simply, did not know how
to hat and had a charitable excua for
very one of those who hounded him to
his death, even to the last." V
Silenced Cow the slander,
The voice of pity stirred
: Remembering his kind heart
Who died of "hope deferred" .
Of hatred and of malice
Who knew not how'to hate: r " : '"'
j Oh. words of love, and pity!
You com too late, too lata
: ', a... . - .v ' 'K ',-.
. We all have that within us
Our kind have been to be; '
'Twere well we had his measure
Of holy charity. .; . ,
, "All children love him dearly." .
Ah. ye,' he so loved them.
They see so much more clearlsu- -'
Than he who would condemn, , .
The airy structure bullded
Upon his heart and fame
Is like to crash and tumble,
Depart from whence It came, .
: And towering far above It ' ' " " '
; To heights thst few have scaled
..; The man who never hated,
Whom "Love hath never failed.".,:
Antoinette Wheeler Nicholson,
: " Rutslan Proverb. ' . i
From the St. Louis , Post-Dlapatch. V
' Roguery Is the last of trades. .
Without cheating, rm trading. V T
JA debt I adorned by payment.
Every fox praises his own tail.
A good beginning Is half th work. .
Every little frog Is great In his pwn
bog. --! '' . ''
Trust laXJod, but do not stumble your
self. '" . -
-. If Qod doesn't forsake ua the pigs will
not take us. - - ' . -
Oo after two wolves and you will not
catch even one.
The deeper you hide anything th
sooner you find It. "
' B praised not for your ancestors but
for your virtues.' ,'
Send a pig to dinner and he will put
bis feet on the table. - .
Carnegie Gift Made Possible.
V Pltttburi Cor. New York Tribune. :
Through the assenting vote of Mis
Ilermlon Schenley, now visiting Pitta
burg, Andrew Carnegie, one of the trus
tees of the Schenley estate here, prob
ably will be sble to fulfill his promise
that Pittsburg would receive free an 11
acrv tract of Schenley land for'a new
entrance to Schenley park. Mr. Car
regie mad-thi-Trromls-to R-M-B1-low,
director of tha department of pub
llo work, but another trustee had ve
toed the project, demanding 81,000,000
for the land. Miss Schenley has an
nounced that the Idea of Mr. Carnegie
Is s good one, and that sh will us her
influence yrith tha flv other hairs to
hav th land given, i y ,
r-- d
A Sermon for
Today
Essence of Real Religion.
By Henry F. Cope. . ' r
What doth the Lord require of thee
but Xo do Justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micalj vl:8. - - ; , : -
THERE must be some good, reason
for the ' fact ' that many men
, feel chagrined if they are '
- charged with being rellgjoua V
Often these men possess the keenest
sense of right and-make the atrongest
insistence on reality. The truth is that ' , .
they object to the unreality of that
which they have learned to call re
ligion; often - their protests against
spurious types of religion are but
declaration of th true Wind.
Every honest-hearted man turns with
loathMig from the cant, meanness and
selfishness ' that - wear the guise of
piety. It has led the world to think
that a religious man Is the one who goe .
to church, uses certain phrases and gen
erally cuts th cloth f hi life -to
tn pattern prescribed by the clergy.
Thus easily the good is made to aerve .
the bad.
It Is. a blessing that there alwavs
have been men who repudiated that kind
of piety. But o the true man rellgloo ;
Is simply the effort, to find the right
me. . He is-moot religious who lives -
best. Faiths must be Judged by their .
rruus; a man's religion and his re
ligiousness by hla living. That Is the '
best religion which best teaches men .
to live. If any book beside the 3lble
can do more for us, if any faith be
aldea Christianity can give the world
a nobler life, let us find and follow it.
To the question, what is rellalonl
the Bible gives a surprisingly simple .
answer. Instead of minutes rules It
gives broad principles; it lifts aloft
noble " ideal a " and denounces "baseness.
It breathes ot righteousness, that is,
right thought, ward, deed, relations. :.
All other thoughts and teachings but
serv thl and have value only on ac
count of their service. ...r
Every man ts-retiglous In proportion
ss lie seeks th right Evry act la 1
holy, an act of worship, aa it serve
tne good and th tru. You. can na '
mor confine religion, to a 'church than -you
can Imprison knowledge In a school
room. . It belongs on the street in the v
home, the office, the shop, wherever . -men
are aeektng to do' right and make ,
life right. Many a man Is religious
who would resent the Imputation of
piety. .,..-,..(,'.. ;-V
Right seeking and ' right doing ' is
Justice and- mercy these, make the life
of righteousness. 'There never haa been
and there never Will be any real dif
ference of opinion as to these-virtues -
He who Is ashamed of them has no
place among men; he who neither -seek .
them nor endeavors to realise them 1
not religious, no matter what his pro- '
fessions end protestations may be.
And th man who seeks them wjth all . .
his heart Is religious whatever he or ' .'"
others may think. - ; .. .
The tlme . will come when w ehall
brand as heretical and-Impious every
mockery in forms and words and pro
scriptions that has so long paraded a
ths true and only expression of godll- '
nese. Then the test of a man's religion '
will be the measure tn which his life
makes for Justice, merey-and humility. :
Then Instead of asking. What doea ec
clesiastical etiquette require me to do?
we shall inquire, What is right, noblest,
best Iota man In world of men?
Thl make the religious man, then,
that h seeks the life that deals Justly,
that walk uprightly, that love mercy,
that doc good and serve and blease
men, that , seeks not high things for -reward,
but seeks them in character,'.
This makes tha religious man whether
he be in sympathy with existing r. .
Ilglous institutions or not; these virtue
have no substitutes, neither names, car- '
emonle nor creeds can take their place. .
But when once the life has -entered
en the 'passionate search for rlgbtness,
when one th lov of Justice, mercy.-
end humility, has laid hold on us, ther
will be little time or energy to give te ''
foolish problem of angel or history,,
there will be no car whether men think
we are religious or not. We shall come .
to see that our desire In living Is ths
desire of the Lord of all life, that our
goal Is a divine and glorious one, and
nothing will turn ua from it. . Above
all will be a aense of harmony with the ''
Infinite, too deep for words, too sacred
for axpress'on. :- '.
. ' i - -. -t. ;
'.'' ".'. ' Sentence1 Sermons. ' r,V,
. - By Hanry F,. Cope.. .. ;j
Weeds are a call to work. .
.' . . .: . . .
.:' Heaven Is either now or never.
' , ' ' " '':'.'- :' ' ' t "
- Tact is touching with lov. J ;"
Th immovable heart move th world.
The blue heart always- has a black ''
ky, ..... - ... - .i v :
. ' - -.- - :
The losses of truth ar mor profit
able than the galns'of trickery.
; : . ..- :-
, The empty faith 1 usually made of
sounding braas. ' ' t '
. e. '..' . .:; .;'. . .
' The' devil Is always willing to play
dead In a war of worda ...t;r'j2.
The only work withput honor Is that' '
whtea helps no ona. ' ' y . ' . .
'" ? 77' '- -''-.'''. '' ' '.'' ;
You' cannot look constantly on dirt
and keep your windows free from dust -
. '' ".''- ,.
One'does hot get wedded to"rruth Jy. ,
flirting with doubt . , . , . ,..
'.' .: . .'',- ' . ..' .'.")'..'.. i , '
Many a deacpn who is long on coat
taUa will be found short on wings:
. !... ' . .V i k, "..'.'
Nowher does money create a mora
disappointing mirage than in a moraf
desert. - :
- ' ' 9 " --;.'
Xm tm hlessed with fortune who has" '
learned to bear mifortun.
, .- , . . ..
' A man who 1 honest for policy will ' -be
diahdnest for promotion." . '.,; '
'.-.- -. . n -
A loving heart Is like a summer's day; ..
it never needs to advertise Itself.
.. e ' .. ; v. -. ;.l
It's no sign that you wlU aet along '
with the angel because no one can get
along witn you nere. .. - w a
. Many of u want a God with a keen -
ear for our prayers and a dull ee for :
our practice. " '; , ;
The man who feels h is throwing '
away money every time he puts a dime
tn "he offering is probably right in his
own case. 1 s "
' ' . ; ' ' V- " - ' ' . '''
If you ar the salt of the earth yon
must not complain If you get a good
.shaking now aad than. -- '