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PORTLAND, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20,1803.
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Published every evening l except Sunday) and ' every 8uiMIay" Morning, at
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' , , GEER COMES FROM UNDER COVER.
A FTER SOME WEEKS of.
' which Ex-Governor Geer
- make up hii mind whether he preferred to go
to the United States senate, or to take another terra as
governor, during which he balanced himself between his
two anibftionf-with the exterityuif a tighro'p walker,
he has finally reached what appears to be an irrevocable
determination and given forth the official announcement
that he, will stand as a candidate for governor and go
into the Republican . primaries ab secure ,a nomination.
At one time there was some doubta as to whether Mr.
Ceer would again essay politics. He was supposed to
have retired tq a life of literary ease and contemplation
from which no public demands could possibly jar him.
i But last summer when the newspapers announced that
the ex-governor was . laboriously pitching hay in full
jriew of all his neighbors, when a friendly press pictured
him with the sweat of honest manual effort rolling down
his heated face and one or two of them went so far as
to present snapshots of him so engaged as evidence of
" lis perfecf good faith,"littte-"donbrwaa left mthe minds
of the -wise onea that he might not prove obdurate in
the event that anything approaching a popular uprising
should insist that he disregard his own personal com
fort arid inclinations and immolate himself once more
upon the altar of his country's needs. . ..
; And indeed he has shown himself at least complaisant
'. in this respect. We have seen no noisy evidence of a
demand amounting to a popular clamor that has arisen
for him to give up the studious seclusion of the Waldo
hills and like a modern Cincinnatus drop his plow in
the furrow to obey the imperative call of hii country
jnen. Indeed so far as w have Been able to observe
political conditions in the neighborhood of the, state ag
ricultural college and read the signs as they are' being
construed by that . other . eminent agriculturist, Dr.
Withycombe, the impression has grown that "there was
a new coon in town" who was toying with the young
affections of .the Republican spinster and leading her in
silken leashea whithersoever he listed.
But Mr. Geer baa manifestly heard the call of the
. wild, because he says so; he has come forward to re
. spond to it and he has given himself a constituency which
jany man hoping for a nomination and election would be
very proud to consider his own. First, he has been a
A farmer for 30 years. The gentle reader will note that
lie does not call himself an agriculturalist, as teachers
in that important branch of human industry who aspire
o higher honors are prone to do. A Mn Geer con
fesses, 'with an exhibition of modesty that cannot be
.too highly commended because of its rarity, it is not
nearly enough to be a mere farmer candidate (and we
can imagine how the direct and downright Dr. Withy
combe will squirm , at the thrust). That would place
' 'upon him limitations which would too closely restrict
his field of operations.- He is a farmers' candidate but
he is something more than that for he desire to be also
set down aa the candidate of the ranchmen and miners,
the fruitgrowers and stockmen of all sections, not for
getting, while always considering the pioneers of the
.Willamette, valley,-the hardy new settlers who are re
claiming the arid belt, the enterprising people of the
coast counties and the southwestern part of the state
all of these, not to mention the business interests of all
,.,rfihaa and tnurnl and, thr rmnlovers and fmp1ny r.( .11
classes and descriptions wherever found. Here is a
.really broad foundation to which we wish to direct the
amazed and wondering . attention of, Dr. Withycombe,
whose special province, and . peculiar care ia the agri
cultural interests alone.
Meantime it will be interesting to inquire how the
other half dozen candidates for important officer in
Marion countyomepfwhom considered Geer as out
of the way for a mere stateofnceTtrTegarti-thi
latest essay of. the farmer statesman of the Waldo hills.
Verily, brethren all, there is sport ahead for those who
seek nothing but the comfort which comes from a com
plicated political fight in which the onlooker has nothing
personal at stake ana is therefore tree
joy; all the fjne pointa of the game.
President Castro has cajled on his neighbor states fof
100,000 soldiers with -which to help him fight the French,
but they have troublea of their own and are not likely
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iu near ana neea we can. . -r
ALICE ROOSEVELT TO BE MARRIED. '
IT IS ANNOUNCED that Miss Alice Roosevelt, the
president's only child by his first wife, will soon
be married to Representative Nicholas Longworth
of Cincinnati Misa Roosevelt will be 22 years old in
February, and was named after her mother, Alice Lee,
daughter of George C. Lee of Boston, to whom young
Roosevelt became engaged when he was a student at
Harvard, and whom he married - in 1883. On her
mother's" -death, Alice Roosevelt, a, small child, be
fcame the protege ofTier aunt, Anna Roosevelt, now
Mrs. Cowles, who as the present Mrs. Roosevelt later,
- became a second mother to her. She haa been one of
the Roosevelt family since, the. president's second mar
riage, but has, spent long peripds with her maternal
grandmother or other relatives, and in pleasure trips.
Fhe has really spent nearly half her life in Washington,
. for her father served for years as civil service commis
sioner and assistant secretary of the navy. She appar
, ently inherits some of her father's .vivacity, and is said
to be popular not only ', because she is the president's
(daughter, but on her own account. .
; I Mr. Longworth is the only son of the late Nicholas
, Longworth, a former well knoVn, capitalist and politician
of Cincinnati,' though the son. is laid to be not a matTof
great wealth,' as targe fortunes are now estimated.. He
i n"fear!J6,Tlyrwa graduated from Harvard'
ViS3l, and is now serving his second term in congress,
"nefrossesses an impressive individuality, with attractive
Drain and Bohemia.
'. ' ' rrom th Drain. Nonpareil.
A great many people in- southern Ore
gon and no doubt som in this county
are not aware of th facrthat th fa
mous Bohemia mining country n of
th richest quarts mining districts In th
world lies mostly in Douglas county.
On a straight line th distance )' not
over J miles southeast pf Drain. Only
a portion of thla great go'ld belt Ilea in
Lan county, and if you will consult a
map you Will observe that Bohemia Is
exactly th earn- distance - from 1 Cot
tag Grov aa IfU front Drain, while
t th BiackHott district la considerably
nearer to Drain. Prominent mining ea
lrts predict that within a few years
the output of gold from the Bohemia
"mine will equal that -of -Alaska, .
A Railroad Point of View.
Prom Llf. -i "-
l.ltll Clarence, who la th sot-of a
railroad man. saw a dashund for th
a.-st time th other day. and remarked:
'"I 'don't see now that dog ran go round
ttt a tin i -oers.loag without having a
tr-at collision. '
O N DA I L Y J O U RN A L
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER .
PUBLISHED BY -JOURNAL PUBLISHING Cd
speech and action,
painful indecision in
laboriously strove to
ing man. . .
- The people of
.pleased to see
good Wishes "of
Buchanan s niece,
Monroe in 1820,
Madison, by her
ison's second term.
China is another
trouble, appears. Jo
THE
R'
USSIA is
imperfect glimpses
vast and luridly
cessive or rather
being enacted. -
Not the least
ful phases they
Alton B. Parker.
s
ECRETARY
to thoroughly en
...
fteccntly received
manufacture of
succeed by its user
Durum wheat
and the farmers
of it this year.
of other western
of it were raised
. . . i
uregon, out tne
pared to handle
are calling for this
. The people who
creasing and along
of wheaC There
country1 and abroad
this country for
cellent .thing, for.
The sultan has
He always does,
as much trouble
sultan. ..
Alfonso and the Kaiser Hunt.
Berlin Cabl In New York World.
That Emperor William la an excellent
shot la well known, but In his lata guest,
young King Alfonso Of Spain, h found
a rival. In th boar hunts In th Im
perial" parks . the young king brought
down more game than did his Imperial
host. Th kaiser Intentionally permitted
several tin specimens of th porcine
trlb to pas him, that his guest. might
hav a fair shot and in vry ins Una
Alfonso aoqtiitted himself mora than
creditably. At th and of th day Al
fonso' bag numbered 1 boars, whll
th kaiser boasud but 17. '
Secretary ,-Teit'a Omiaaion. ; ,
, From th New, Torfc Evening Pot
-Jh most -striking feature o th report
of the secretary of war Im th omission
of any mention of th beer . canteen.
Apparently the authorities are willing
to let the matter drop, or feel. In view
f thai report of th Inspector-general
and military .secretary; that tha case
for th sale of beer is not quite o oisar
aa waa thought Another mottv may
be th natural deslr to elv the new Dost
rctttf?hudints a longer , trial.
4
rco r. CAftspu.
The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhfll
figure and features, is cordial lit manner and earnest In
and may be considerable ot a com
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the United States generally will be
the president's daughter marry this
typical well-circumstanced American, rather than some
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foreigner tor tneake ox a tine, inere is no reason iu
doubt that it is a love match on both sides, and' so the
alt Americans will be cheerfully and
spontaneously accorded "to them. '
The last marriage to 'occur in the White Honse was
that of President Grover Cleveland and Frances Fol
som in 1886, and thla was the first occasion of a presi
dent's marriage there. The other weddings in the ex
ecutive mansion were those of Nellie Grant to Algernon
Sartoria in 1874, of Harriet Lane Johnson, President
in I860, of a daughter of President
and of RobertTodd, a son of Dolly
first husband, during President Mad
.
country in which a big cauldron of
be brewing. Jf Chinamen all ium
scrappers, there will be hot times in the celestial empire-
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TRAGEDY OF FAMINE.
a stage of vast proportions on which
numerous, and varied tragedies, with slight .if
any elements of comedy in any of them are be
ing enacted; and some of these tragedies the World hears
little abouti.some features of them are not easily per
ceived and comprehended. We only catch brief and
of the direful movements ' on that
lighted stage, expressive of the suc
overlapping and commingled tragedies
' "
of these, of which brief mention was
made recently, in a St Petersburg dispatch, is the
tragedy of Famine, already existent in aome districts,
and impending in others. Already the wolves of hun
ger are at many door,' and their distant howling can
be heard through many others. In five provinces the
crops failed, but most completely and disastrously in
the province of Orel, in the eastern central part of the
empire, where troops lately mutinied, and where a train
of Cossack soldiers was blown up by dynamite. Appeals
from that province for help have been made to prolific
and prosperous America, it being remembered that in
1891 a ahipload of wheat and corn -was sent from this
land of plenty to famine-stricken Russia. The situation
is in many respects worse than it was in 1891, for then
the Russian government could do much to afford relief;
but now the clutch of revolution is al its throat and ij.
is engaged in a life-and-death struggle. Workingmed
are organizing against it, peasants are at least half in
clined to revolt, soldiers and sailors are mutinying, the
railroad systems are demoralized and next month, in
the dead of winter, may be paralyzed, so that relief seems
extremely., difficult, if not impossible, even if America
could at once dispatch a shipload of foodstuffs.
The tragedies aro not all 4n the townsr The agricul
turalists are refusing to pay taxes and resisting their col
lection; why. should peasantry facing starvation pay
taxes to-. a government ..hat. can .afford them no relief
and that is tottering to its fall into ruins? And how
long these tragedies will continue, what still more fear
will exhibit, no one can foretelL But
it is certain that the tragedy of Famine will serve to ac
cumulate "horrors oh horrors' heads."" V
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With a big fee in hand, it was an easy trick for Alton
B. Parker, Tammany, lawyer, to , reverse Chief Justice
.
POSSIBILITIES OF DURUM WHEAT.
WILSON of the department of agri
culture is enthusiastic, among other things, over
the possibilties of durum wheat, a considerable
amount of which was raised on dry western lands this
year. An order for 6,000,000 bushels of this wheat was
from France, where it is used in the
macaroni, and it is anticipated that
large foreign market will open up for this variety of
grain and why should not American macaroni factories
-
is a new cereal in the United States,
of the northwest from the Mississippi
to the Pacific inclusive raised about 25,000,000 bushels
The seed came from some of , the driest
and most Unproductive regions of Europe, and it was
introduced by the department of agriculture as a cereal
especially adapted to arid conditions. ' It was distributed
in, the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyoming, and arid portions
states, and generally produced good
crops, both in quantity and quality. Some small crops
n eastern Washington and eastern
.it
oramary iiounng muis were not pre
the grain. Macaroni mills in Europe
wheat.
consume-macaroni are rapidly in
with them the demand for this kind
were poor crops of it this year abroad,
and if a large quantity of it should be produced in this
at the same time, the export demand
might not be sufficient to make, raising it profitable, but
in that case why should not macaroni mills spring up in
.great quantities of macaroni are con
sumed here as well as in Europe? The department-of
agriculture in introducing this grain has done an ex
farmers in the arid . regions.-- 1 ' w
at last granted the powers' demands.
after as long a delay and making them
as possible. A curious old fish, is the
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..Facta About Marriage. .'
from . Harper' Weekly.
Th historical facta concerning ' mar
riage aa an institution ara probably
only vaguely known to th majority of
people, most of whom would doubtless
be surprised to learn that th Institu
tion, as we know It. today, la leaa than
00 year old. Histories of th marriag
ceremony ahow that it was not solemn
ised In church a a religious rite until
th Urn of Pop Innocent III, A. I
lilt, and was not considered a-sacrament
until 144J. ..w
. Rusty Gold.
Prom th Port Orford Tribune.
- Rom papers apeak of "rusty gold" aa
a new discovery. Such la not th ess.
It- haa - bean - Known by H old beach
miners in Cooe and Curry countlea for
10 year. - It I found in all old deposits
where th aand ha tint been recently
scoured by wave action. Runty gold
will not "amalgamate with quicksilver,
but It ia . easily scoured and - can , be
caught on burlap, cocoa-matting, or any
kind of rough bottom,, properly Inclined.
We have hod much experience in "ruty
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SMALL CHANGE
Shortest days aro at hand, but they
aro tone" enough to improve and -j do
good In.
' Fifteen or firteen and one half tnllla
looks much better than a tax rat, ot
40 mills. .
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' A' Pennsylvania baby waa born In an
levator and may therefor bav more
than lu shar of tipe and down.
Don't begin to worry yet about the
January bills. . , '-
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ITaooiTinahy people don't clearly- un
derstand why Thoma F. Ryan wanted
all that Equitabl atock anyway,
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It is Governor La Pollette'a privilege
to Chans' .nia mina aDout that aenator
hlp every day if he wishes to.
Did It ever ooour to President Boom-
velt that he mlcht poaalbly be mistaken
occaaionallyT
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Governor-elect Pattiaon of Ohio fur.
nlehes afldenca of level-beadodneea by
refusinao bav an Inaugural ball. But
then be la a MethodUU ,
Con-re. weary with It lona and ar
duous labors, will adjourn In a day or
two ior a i wo weens reac
An Iowa woman wanta $75,000 dam
age from a man who courted her for
14 year and then wouldn't merry her.
Too much for a woman who couldn't
brine: a man to the sticking point In
xar leaa urn man Mat. . .
Only four more bualneea days before
th bl( holiday. . ,
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Brain may think hla Job not worth
the trouble he la having.. .
Th Pendleton Trlbun ' Dleada " fo-
strict partisan ship, but many voters
wui not nea in pie.
Th Milwaukee Sentinel prints an edi
torial on "Qlrla .Who Eat" But are
ther any girla who don't eatT
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It certainly would not be InacDro-
print for th people to elect on Dem
ocrat to th supreme bench.
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The Baker City papers seem to take
Mr. Lachmer'a congressional candidacy
u a juae.-.
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Some dkys th house of representa
tives haa been - In session almost an
hour. "But perhaps that waa long
eneugn.
' Of course, tha Democrat In congress
naa to nave a raillng-out among them
selves. Democrat are bard fellows to
lead.
ToU will have a Sunday In which to
rai up ior cnriatmas. -. -
Senator Depew la said to be In favor
of unseating Senator Bmoot. Perhaps
omooi is also in ravor of . unseating
Tainted dollara ar as difficult aa
any o geu ..,., : ,
Apparently Tlussla's 4 rouble v hav
mI Tnlr'T rT"
Springfield News: It Is reported that
one of th Celestial Medicine company's
star actors wsa auletlv married to a
Sprlngflejdcharmlng young blond last
Tuesday. This 1 evidently a case of
love at first sight, but why court for
a longer iime wnen girl can be bad
ror th asking T
A big Irrigation reservoir Is being
Diastea out or aona rock near Ashland.
Th Hillsbor condensed milk plant
ia live carloads nenind order, although
in amount or mux receipt la con
stantly Increasing.
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Hlllsboro Argus: WlUUm Rlchter,
th carrier on rout 1, says that where
th split log device la used th roads
a r very much better than elsewhere.
If this will only be put In general use
Tar mere- wui find that th road Ques
tion 1 solved. That thla la th proper
method of solving the road . problem
tner is no aouot.
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It's a wonder that Stsrveout,
Needy and some otber Oregon localities
don't chang their -names. - r
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South Myrtle Correspondence of
Myrtle creek News: Mud, mud! Vary
muddy. Alvah Deardoff put a
shed over his well on day this week.
Ha don't propose to drink raindrops
tuia. winter.
Myrtle Creek growing steadily, If
alowly.
CoqulU fishermen ar demanding a
hatchery thereabouts. .. -w-
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Kent Recorder: Our marshal is a
good marksman. Th other day he jtook
a ahot at a jackrabblt and never touched
him: th ball went wild and killed aix
of Carl Williams chickens.
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. An . Athena, boy with on shot killed
II out of 11 pigeon In a flock;
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- Sclo has made mor Improvement in
point of business houses this year than
for the past 10 or 12 years.
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. Salem haa a woman blacksmith. " At
least her nam I Smith and ah Is black.
Thla I on of Colonel Hofer"s Jokes.
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Rainier la wreatling with thW problem
of needed Improvements.
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W hop Cooa harbor will b dug out
aa deeply aa anybody down ther wishes.
A South Dakota man haa purchased
over , t.000 acres of land near Medford
and ia going to put It all out In fruit
"Thre Iowa1 hrothera have arrived In
Hood River, and will probably locate In
that' vicinity.
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. Timber wolves numerous In ths Call-
poolaa. , . - ,.t t
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Sclo expecta a railroad.
The Oaklend Owl having been pre
sented with two fine Squashes, asks bow
turkey and squash would go together.
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The Pilot ' Rock ' city council, de
clares the Record, could' keep a lawyer
busy, the yoar round,
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Toircalla has If business house '
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
THE FOSSIL WEALTH f
ATI aTTT M - . 1
ur XNCVv icALAND
Prom tha Philadelphia Inaulrer- -
When th traveler crossing th pacltto
first hears that a large number of th
Inhabitants of Nw Zealand earn their
living Dy digging gum, he ia apt to re
ceive th information with an Incre
dulity born of previous experience of
'board ahlp yarns. Nevertheless, It la
true. This queer trad is. Indeed, pe
culiar to tnat colony, among tha x
port of which kauri gum rank high,
for New Zealand -alow produces th
kauritre. .
On of the first thing you see on
landing at Auckland ar gray ware
houses Inscribed with th nam of a
nrm and th Words.! "Kauri Gum Ex
porter a" Enter on of these, make
yourself civilly known aa an inquiring
stranger ana m proprietor will ahow
you samples of his ware a "How Ilk
amoerr- you aay, aa you handle a trans-
parent lump aa big .aa a melon, but
weighing. It seems, no more than so
much hay, and of th color of brown
sherry. This la kauri gum of tha best
quality, worth Just now nearly (300 a
ton.
Other specimens, som of which In
close leave and amall twigs, ar dark
brown, nd-ven black,-sostalnd by
decaying bark and peaty Infusions. In
sis they rang from fragments as
mall aa walnuts to great, ahapelesa
chunks weighing eighty or a hundred
pounds. Th "gum," you are -told, la
really a fossilised realm found in th
earth anywber between th , surface
and a depth of about fifteen feet Th
am pis that you bold In your hand I
perhaps all that remains of a giant
kauri tree that flourished in th aoll of
prehlstorlo New Zealand.
Th kauri, of course, atlil grow In th
colony. Llkt th redwood in California,
it furnishes th boards and planka of
th colonlaLJiomoa. For that reason th
moat accessible lumbar haa been long
ago cut-down, and to see an extensive
forest you must journey to th far north.
to Hoklanga or the Bay of Islands. Th
tree, mixed with th beautiful nativ
ferns, spreada Itself In great, dark,
lonely wood along th bank of, th
estuaries that Indent that region.
It la a conifer, scientifically named
agathia, or Dammara Australia, attains
a height of eighty or even a hundred
feet and -measure - rouna iter gray.
smooth bark from ten to twenty-flv1
feet Ita close aet leavea resemble thos
of th 8outh Sea Island Araucari rather
than our pin needles. Nor la it pine
like In habit for It branch high up
th trunk, and th limb spread wiaeiy,
giving tha'tree a domelike contour. Th
modern kauri haa not lost the gom pro
ducing faculty, but th honoyjlk masses
that collect in Its crotchea ar of In
ferior commercial value.
It la only th fossil rsln that la ex
ported. Thla Is searched for in th
"gum iield,"- a well defined district
In th North Island, co-xtnslve, of
course, with th era of the vanished
kauri forests. Auckland ia lta center,
and It extend from th Walkato river,
aouth of Auckland, to th extreme
North Capes, a distance of 200 miles.
The "best place to-look for a compara
tively fresh field la In th north of th
'Auckland provincial district, For th
amall license fee df 6 shillings a year
th Impecunious digger la privilege!
these ar in remote situations. For the
urn rights on land under private owe-
ership, which lie nearer th steamir
landing than the foreat reserves, nigh
prices are often paid. A speculator, la
a case I heard of bought up 600 acres
of clay land covered with fern shrub
for 00 . and subsequently sold the
exclusive gum digging ngnta ror sz.ew.
Thla waa, of course, virgin oll.
Kauri gum land la roughly ciaasinea
InVg hill: and swamp. I
sloushv Dockets.' in flat marsh land.
wherever there le aoft or muddy anil.
that the gum spear oomes Into play,
For in aucb place great loga met wltn
a check In their downward course, be
came embedded and decayed, leaving
their precious cargo behind. There,
then, the digger sinks in hia long,
pointed rod of Iron. The novice, grasp
ing a lZ-root spear ior tne xirat time,
soon tires of thus questioning the un
responsive earth. But It la wonderful
how educated the sens of touch be
come a In avery camp ther la aure to
be on man whose finger tips, sensitive
aa antenna, hav learned at first touch
to distinguish between gum and decayed
wood, or other worthies matter.
Th eeaaon of the year, af facta the
gum digger. In the rainy Printer and
spring he works on tha bill and dry
moors. After Christmas cornea tw
montha of aettled weather, and then it
1 that the bulk of the kauri gum har
vest la gathered; for .th swamps aro
drying out and a man can work without
fear of sinking into a bog up to hit
neck. Now th lowland ar easier
to dig than the upland clays, ao It la
after Christmas that, th great "trek"
to th north set In, and th boat ply
Ing to Mongonnl and Rusaell are
crowded In the steerage.
. In the long run It ia the wholesale
price that determine th digger' prof
its, and thla fluctuates in - Auckland
between 1200 and $320 per ton of cleaned
gum, according to th demand In Eng
land and the United Statea The greater
proportion of the product 1 shipped to
till country, where it I used, not at
some colonials fondly think, for chew
ing' gum, but In the manufacture of oil
varnish. . But other considerations be
sides foreign demand and supply af
fect th diggers' gains. In many cases
th lease require him to sail hla gum
to the owner of the land "at a fair
price." and the fairness depends more
on the state -of- the buyer's conscience
than Auckland quotations. -
Kauri ia claaaed among th valuabt
export of the colony. Th quantity
exported Increased slowly up to- Ittt,
when M3 tons, valued at 11.100.000.
left th port of Auckland. Tha returns
for 1902 give an export of 7,410 tone,
valued at about 22,225,000. 7
Th government of New Zealand re
alises the value of Ita gum-bearing land.
Th gunwrlghta r - rervd by the
crown. In any case, and If a aettler dis
cover gum he cannot leaa it for dig
ging without forfeiting hla grant '
Paid After 100 Years,
Front "the Blue Mountain Eagle. .
Ira Bproul of this city recently re
ceived word from relatives in the east
that the administrator of - hla grand
father's estate haa Just roe!vd a no
tice of th settlement of a claim against
th government after the same had been
pending for more than a century.. It
waa one of the many clalma known aa
the French spoliation clalma, the his
tory of which may be familiar to som
readers of th Blu Mountain Eagle.
In 1795 France M Involved -In a war
with England and In turn for .help
given th United Statea which' enabled
thla country to gain Its - independence.
Franc expected th assfntanc of this
government which waa at that tim not
only young In years, but far from be
ing the strong power that sh la today.
Th United -State refused to help
France, and "aa a result for a short time
American commerce suffered. Mr.
Bproul a great-grandfather - and bla
brothers owned a schooner which ear-
rind on a trad between Boston and
other New England port. ,Thetr vessel
was among the many unfortunate craft
that fell a prey to French privateers.
Th United Stat secured from Franc
Indemnity not only for tha Bproul ves
sel, but for all American vessels lost
to their owner at that tlm and there
th matter stopped.- All effort to
cur th payment of the claims from
the United State failed until during
President Cleveland's administration.
when an order was made 'authorising
th payment of th Bproul claim to th
heir of the estate.
While th claim at on tlm' amount
ed to about 150.000. Mr. Bproul aaya
that there- ar ao- many descendants of
his great-grandfather and nia orotners
that by th tlm th money ie appor
tioned to all the heirs th amount re
calved by each of them will b -vry
malt -
Th moat remarkable feature "of th
Incident I th apeed which marked our
own government In the final adjustment
of the affair. .
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR
UNHAPPY- MARRIAGES?
By" Caroline.
There la auch a thing aa being too
unselfish.
The duty of unselfiahneaa la preached
so much that one la apt to look upoiv-lt
aa a great virtue, and It ddubtless Is,
but ltv ia apt to become troublesome
to- othere if one carriea It to an ex
treme.
Take Motner Eve, ror instance, it
waa her unselfishness, aa much as her
weakness, that brought ao much trou
ble on womenfolk.
If h bad only been selfish and eaten
all the apple that the serpent Induced
ber to take, Adam i would have taken
hla own apple and then he couldn't hav
blamed Eve for- her weakness.
But Eve waa lnexperlenoed, aa wall aa
unselfish, and women bav ever aince
been feeling tha consequences of her
act , . . '
Ther la much talk of advancing civil-
laatlon and each -century la supposed
to bring forth, many new Ideas, but
after all, man In many waya la Juat
about where Adam left him
He la atlll blaming Eve for hla ahort-
comlnga.
Juat now, .because ab la going In for
business, and trying to support bar-
aelf, h says that- ah la breaking up
the home and her new Independence 1
responsible for all sort of .conjugal
Infelicities.
He even aaya that before woman went
In for business they loved to bake and
aweep for their husbands. It waa their
one idea of Paradise.
Some of the moat eloquent of our
male frienda give ua reaaona for more
women not marrying.
First That they think more of hav
ing a career than a home. .
Second That a typewriter la more
attractive to them than a mere man
Third That women, having . once
taated the sweets of business, will nvr
be satisfied with th bread and butter
of married life.
But it haa been my xprieno that
th woman who care mor for a career
than a horn la th exception, and not
the rule. - That the. woman who finds
a typewriter more attractive than a man
- " ----- r"""i 1 k ""
woman who 'prefer business llf to
married life la the rarest exception
almost unheard of.
There are, of course, many women
working la offices. This doesn't neces
sarily mean that they don't want to
marry.
A woman may not walk Into the office
1 1n th morning and aay td her employer
"I want to marry. Will you helpline
find' a husbandT"
But that ia no reason for deciding
that ah haa determined not to marry.
She may be thinking all the time about
John or Louie and wondering how long
It will be before he has aaved enough
to ask her to be his.
Of, course, averythlng depend upon
one's point, of view, but it certainly
looks to me ao though th people who
were afraid that women were outgrow
lne- their love of home, and that bus!
nes and not marriage ' waa the mecca
toward which they are aiming, are peo
ple afraid of shadows.
Any one who haa aeen women 'with
men or heard them talking about men
wouldn't worry about marriage grow
Ing unpopular.
Let them look at the good elde of ths
situation, which is that there la no
greater aid to vlrtuoua and happy llf
than a congenial occupation.
If a woman has a congenial occupa
tion aha may-be leaa anxious to marry
than her elster who has nothing to do.
Sh may not marry as young as
Women formerly did. And ah will
doubtless require mor ot th man aho
marries.
But these surely ar pointa In favor
of greater independence for women.
Her Independence gives her larger
Interests, wider sympathies, more disci
plined Judgment and,- Inatead of being
a hindrance, will be the greatest help
In the many vicissitudes - of married
Ufa '
Big Money in Oysters.
From th Astoria News-Herald.'.
As showing th vast ' fortunes mad
fi th oyster business, som figures
presented yesterday ar .of unusual in
terest Seven years ago the Toke Point
Oyster company, mad up almoat wholly
of Astorians, was incorporated for
95,000. - The company opened up with
99 acres- of oyater beds. The' business
of the company haa been built up until
the last inventory showed that the
value of the company'e possessions waa
9226,000. The total amount of money
paid . In by stockholders waa 924,000.
The company haa 272 acres of, land at
present Wallace 8tuart, who Is now
in the city, haa just realised 950.000
or more from the aal -of stock In -a
new 980,000 company which he haa In
corporated. He naa 140 acrea of beda
and there are 20,000 bushels of native
oysters on the land. It la the Intention
to atock these beds with eastern pystera
More than 20 years ago Otto Carlson
of this olty was asked by Mr,- Morgan,
the San Francisoo oyater king, to Invest
94.000 In oysters. Mr. Carlson declined
to do so. Had he made the Investment
his stock tdday would be worth 9200,000.
l J . He Didn't Mean It
t Prom the Dallas Observer.-'-"
. The Salem Statesman aaye it would
be a "good thing for .the capital city
If the Balem-Portland electrlo line never
went eny farther than Wood burn." And
yet th Statesman wants electric roads
bullL into Salem from Dallas.. Independ
ence, Biivarton ana otner valley town
That was a, bad slip of th hen, brother
editor.., . .
Loves the Limelight
Prom the Chicago Tribune.
It will be exceedingly hard for Mr.
La Follette to keep himself In the back
ground during hi freshman term in the
senat, ,
BARRON IS
SCORED BY LAWSON
Thomas -W. Lawson's "FrensUd FU.
nanc" atory In Everybody' Magaslne
le cut ahort In the January number.
After writing a few paragraphs about
the Bay State gaa aoandal, and getting -'
to the point where he had Addicka and
Roger forming another coalition, Mr.
Lawaon explains- that he haa been sued
for criminal libel by Barron, of the
"Nwb Bureau." and the courts held
that it would be contempt to continue
writing orr the earn subject while the
case is pending. The case was settled
Just before the megaalne went to press,
but Mr. Lawaon did not have Urn to r
complete the installment of hla story.'
Ia commenting on thla feature of hla
work, and paying hla respects to Barron,
th trenchant pen flaya th Intruder la ' '
th apology -offered the public:
- "Before passing on to tha more potent
reaaona, may I call my reader' atten
tion to th fact that after 1 montha
of 'Frenaied Finance,' during which I
have aet forth with all the force and
clearness of which I am oapabla specifi
cations of the crueleat and most ab
horrent crime of modern time; after
I hav pointed to scores of living men
of worldwide power as malefaotors and -given
details In multiplicity of their
infractions of both civil and moral law. "
th on offense with which I am
charged Is that of painting the portrait
of a moat commonplace Individual, who
urges that I hav no right even though
h were all I represented him. te hold
up to the world hie physical appearance
ana cnaracienstics. . .
"Since complaint In thla caae waa
filed, rumors hav become well defined
that the -Standard OIL' Insurance and
other grafters of the 'System' have
boasted that they would spend unlimited
money and effort to get rvng right
hare, because thla waa aa opportunity
to get me criminally 'without rendering
themselves liable to be haled into court -to
defend the damnable Iniquities with
which I had charged them. - Thla case
la something like that of the man who
charged a band of cutthroats with a
series of murders, and In giving the de
tails of their crimee ewore that before
sallying forth upon a particular expedi
tion the captain and hla lieutenants had
brutally kicked the humpbacked cook.
By way of defense th band trium
phantly exhibited .the cook In court and .
showed him to be a atralght-backed .
dwarf." i" '
Introducing tha January articla Mr.
Lawson makea a graphic allusion to the
silent forcee of WU atreet flnancv In
thla language: . .
"rear ago I waa Impressed bv the '
story of an African Explorer who, hav-.
Ing traversed a thouaand milea of path--'
leas forest, xoroed great, rivers and '
crossed two ranges of - precipitous
mountalna, waa, in the last lap of hla
heart-grinding Journey, engulfed In a
quicksand. - Untouched he passed among
ferocious beaata and oruel savages; the
fierce waters had spared htm, and with '
aure atepe he had climbed through dark
ravines, up awful aummlta; yet e the .
end. after eluding death In "all Its
sterner- forms, he perished Ignobly. In a '
swamp, it came over me aa I specu
lated on this man'e Inglorious fate that
In softness Inheres aa great destructive
ness aa in. force. In the yielding suc
tion of tbemorass waa death aa aure
aa In the lion's mouth or in theJIae
Claws." riieaWniTnt shark oftropio
watere la not more terrible than the..
monater Jellyfish which emothera Its
prey In lta own viscid pulp. .
'Among men. It la ae In the wilds.
Silent craft 1 . as dangerous ae brute
strength. More to be dreaded in the
world of finance than the daring
plunger la the unco quid' banker, whose
gold bricks are served out to unwary
Investors from under a eloak , of
sanctity.' - ' - . ' - , .
In the heat article a promise 1st mad
to give enough vital facta of public In
terest to make amende for this short
age, and by March the writer aaya he
will "begin the exposition of that sec
tion of my message which . I have ao
longed to get to, and which, once de- '
clared, will make plain all of my mo
tives, my interests ana my desires"
my remedy."'
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Fort Clatsop.
December 20. A succession of rain
and hall during, the night At 10 o'clock
it cleared1 off for a ahort time, but the
rain aoon recommenced. We now cov
ered In four of our huta. Three Indiana
came in a canoe with mate, roots and
the berriea of the oacacommla Theao
people proceed with a dexterity and
finesse in their bargains, which, if they
had not. learned from their, foreign vis
itors, may ahow how nearly allied ta
the cunning of savagea to the little
arte of traffic. They- began by asking
double or treble the value of what they
had to sell, and lower their demands in
proportion to the greater or less degree
r ardor or knowledge of the purchaser.
who, with all hla management is not
able to procure the artlole for leaa than
Ita real value.- which the Indiana per
fectly understand.. Our chief medium of
trade constats of blue and white beads,
flleaA-wlth which they sharpen their
tools fish hooks, and tobacco; but of
all these artlclea blue beads - and to
becco are the most esteemed. -
' ' How He Got Start, J J
Prom the Moro Obeorver.
"The daya'of old. the days of gold
In Florence, Idaho, are revived by. a.
true atory of "the flret white Ttld' "
born In that famous camp 41 yeara age
thla winter. The mother was very lit
and unable - td nurse he little fellow. :
He waa kept alive for a couple of days
with crackers dipped In brandy,, there
being nothing like milk In the camn
One of th miners In camp happened te
remember that on hie way up the river
a few daya before he had aeen a band
of sheep being driven In to be slaugh
tered and- recalled that there waa a
lamb In the flock.. Without consulting
any on he strapped on hie snowshoes
and hit the trail. He found the sheen,
and th lamb, likewise th maternal ewe.
He carried the ewe back to camp, and
the baby waxed fat and aaasy. . Thst
baby Is now city treasurer at Baker
City, Oregon. His name la George Foa
ter. . '
-'-- , i
Looking for Cheap Horses.'
t. From the Pilot Rock Record.- i
Ed McBroom end a man bv the him
of Bill Black created a little excitement
yesteraay morning ey -allowing-a hired
team from Bogard'a barn to kick the
buggy in which they were seated all t
plecea. Both are horseman. Mr. Black .
a her looking for cheep horses for tha .
eastern market but axpreseed no burn
ing deslr to buy th high kickers be
hind which h rod yesterday. After'
hobbling on of th horses th team wai
hitched to another buggy and tha twe
horsemen went out of town as It hitohet v
te a kite la a storm, , 7 ,