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j' .EdnfcOT'nal Page m 13 Joiisraail PORTLAND. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER .1 27. , 1803. THE OvREGO N DA I LY' JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER , . . A PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. no. r. cmou Published everevening .(ecePt Sunday) and every Sunfoy morning, at. Tlte Journal Building, Fifth and Yarn. . ' ' j- . nui street, Portland, Oregon. ' r " - ' A TAX LEVY THAT IS RIGHT. TX WAS A HARD TUSSLE but the council has finally fixed the tax levy at 12 mills.' This, we under ( stand, wil insure a tax levy for all purposes of IS mills. It is a radical and gratifying decrease from the 40-mill levy of last year,. though the increase of the assessment roll from fifty 'Million dollars to over one hundred and thirty million dollars fully warranted itv fThe outcome is paticularlyi-gratifying for it insures the permanence of the high assessment plan, the lack of which has proven so embarrassing in the past in the financial transactions of, the city. It is in accordance with the new spirit which would place Portland, where jt properly belongs among the wealthy centers of pop -tlation in the country. It instinct to the city 'all 'the revenues reasonably required, producing, together 'with the balance ini the treasury, over $100,000 more than was spent this jear.. ; While air this is true and while in the face of violent opposition the people and the county assessor, too, for he deserves a great deal of credit for .the fortunate outcome have" won the con tested point, H makes more apparent than ever before the need xt having men of high class in the council who, while they keep fully abreast . of the times, give grave Consideration to the ability of the taxpayers to meet whatever unreasonable demands are made upon them. Portland altogethercStarts out with the right foot for ward, doing all that is necessary for it to do, but at the same .time not straining itself in any directionrThe investor who comes here will now find an assessment roll that is-right because it is legitimate and -hi will also find a levy kept within such bounds as wiH justify an in vestment witnout tear ot contiscatton through onerous taxation. ' J., W. Wadsworth, Governor Higgins and President Roosevelt s choice for speaker of the New York as sembly, is onty. 28 years old, and is a son-in-law of the late Secretary of State John Hay. ...-, MOSTLY A MATTBU TfBt SALARIES. . T T MAY BE that some of the criticism of the Panama I canal enterprise is prompted by malevolent or sin ister motives, snd- therefore should be carefully weighed and examined before being allowed to influence ' our opinions. - It is also to be remembered that the canal i a very big' project, which necessarily takes much time and re Expense to get well tinder way., Yet when all this is said it appears that the affair has -been on the whole . badly managed, and has cost an unreasonable amount of money in proportion to the achievements in .sighti t- r ' A bad and indefensible start was made in shifting the site of the canal from Nicaragua to Panama and iu piy ; ing the French company $40,000,000 for a right of way that had legally lapsed, and therefore was worth little or nothing.'' Of this, $3,639,667, ait added. 10 per Cent, - was placed' to the credit of the plant,' locomotives, cars, .'machinery, 'tools, etc., which the New York Sun charges, and nobody has ever disputed, were of no value to the TJnited States, being out of date if not totally dilapidated. , But -this original bad bargain has been followed up by a long period of nothing much in the way of canal con struction except the payment of a great number of ex orbitant .salaries to men to whom the president and Secretary . Taft took a, fancy, though sometimes emjy a temporary one.' Chief Engineer Wallace was -sharply reproved for resigning, and now Mr. Shontt, his suc cessor, is back, it appears,' in the United States at tending to his private bnsiness as a' railroad president, drawing salaries for both Jobs. r He seems to care very little about the canal,-except the salary involved, and it seems rather incongruous to. select a railroad president for chief engineer of the canaL when everybody knows that the railroads are banded together in opposition to the canaL : A- ' Then it turns out that a young man named Bishop has been drawing a salary ot $10,000 a year as "press agent" of the canaL and when congress concluded that there was no need of such an employe, he was appointed sec retary of the commission and nominated a commissioner, it being explained that the' president and he are "very friendly," and so he will continue to draw a larger salary than the secretary ot war himself. , So far, the appropriation made in the last ' session of congress has beenytxhausted, some $11,000,000 more $lcv500,000 was wanted is needed to pay expenses up to March; and as yet nobody has heard of any "dirt flying,". nor even of any immediate prospect thereof. Up to date, with unlimited resources, we have don less than De Lessens did in his last two years, with inevitable bankruptcy immediately before him. V f :. ... . . - iquitous imposition upon the Filipinos, who are thus taxed to build up a great fortune for a' shippers' trust, while their exports to this country arc subjected to the Dingley tariff, rates. Thus our benevolent government robs them "both a-goin' and a-comin.' " It is of no ad vantage either to them or to the American people for supplies for the islands to be carried in American ships, after the government goes out of the transport business. The ocean is as free to American as to foreign ship owners, and the combined few who wspuld controK the t. . " 4M. Dusines are enuuea to no monopoly. ine quartermaster-general says he will see that .Portland , gets a square deal alter this, and it is nighttime that it should, for it has teen snubbed and slighted, and its commerce injured in the interest of San Francisco and Seattle, ever-since tne united states oecame possessed of its oriental elephant, ' " ' i " ' " Apparently , the lawyers are going to get a erable share of that exposition surplus, i " eryisld- A GROWTH OF ALASKA TRADE. - ; ', MONTHLY SUMMATftY OF COMMERCE, pub lished by the bureau of statistics of the depart ment of commerce and labor,. gives some figures of interest showing the amount of Alaskan trade during the first ten months of the present calendar year to have been $12,935,172, M against $10,447,060 for the corre sponding, period of 1904, an increase of $2,483,112. The foreign merchandise shipped to Alaska . from United States ports was $335,054 in 1904 as against $298,807 in 1905. i -., '-. i ; .- ; ' .; ' V" ' '- '"' Of this trade the greater portion is credited to Puget Sound ports, the figures being $10,825,468 for ten months of 1905 as against $7,378,971 for 4he; corresponding pe riod last year, a gain of $3,446,497, while San Fran cisco's trade with Alaska' dropped off from $2,932,050 last year to $1,964,909 this year, a loss, of nearly a million dollars. , - -v.,.'- ' - Oregon is credited with only $136,039 in the ten months of 1904 and $144,795 in 1905, though in these figures no account is taken of Oregon products and supplies sent to Puget: Sound ports by rail and thence shipped to Alaskan ports. . . . Of course Puget sound people are pleased with these figures, as they well may be, as showing not only' a large increase in 'their trade with Alaska, but a corre-T sponding falling off in the San Francisco trade about one 'third of which Seattle and Tacoma have appar ently captured within a year.;. " ' ; . Oregon, so far as the official figures show, is scarcely in it at all. But should it and may it not be in it? , Oregon's hop crop will Teach about 1 15.000 oounds. instead of 60,000, as was estimated by the .Oreironian statisticians. The wheat output of Washington, Idaho and Oregon is placed at 56,240,927 by the government figures. The ' Journal's estimate made on Julv7 wis 56,000,000, while' the OregonianX made a little later, was 60,000,000. These facts are worth -noting, possibly remembering. ' j '. -j .,;'; . ALICE ROOSEVELT DOWRY SCHEME. t SMALL CHANGE Lawson begins his latest bulletin of instructions with an if, which, looks discouraging. ; - . " i ? .T-,;'.:. ,8s 1111 ...:' ,yJ'."' ''-."! ; PORTLAND AND PHILIPPINE SUPPLIES. r. Q , UARTERMASTER-GENERAL HUMPHREY explains that the principal reason why Portland TL lumber manufacturers were not riven a chance to, furnish lumber for the Philippines ii, that the law : requires all supplies for the islajads sent from - this rrtiintr to h rsrril in American vaala fw .st m,!,!. come to rhisTort; while the . transport Dix' was due at Putret sound and could carrv tha lumber. . Th rr. olanation seems satisfactory so far as this 'ease 'is eon. ' . j . . . . - i cerneff, Dut it emphasizes the objections to the law, , which ?was passed at the -instance of a few American lihip owners who thus sought tor secure a monopoly of this business. It works, as is seen' in this case, a great injustice p some American shippers, . and is an in- A press dispatch reports Mrs. Longworth as sayfng, witn reterence to the proposed dowry for Alice Roose velt, "The ideal" which was quite natural and proper, but that she suggested that a house and lot or some other -present might not have been so bad. And this reference -to'- a house and lot, after Admiral Dewey's experiencel No, let Alice and Nicholas beware of a house and lot, of all things. " " ' ' I I--"-.'.;-' ?1) BAILEY ON THE SENATE. S ENATOR BAILEY of Texas said the other day that the senate is as upright today as it ever was,", which may well be doubted, but if true doesn't prove that the senate as a whole is as upright as it should be or that it has not some pretty crooked senatorial sticks in its membership,,. ten of . whom, and they are not the worst of the lot, have been indicted dur ing th past ten years. But Bailey seems to realize that (he senate, taking some of its leading lights into close view, is not as "upright" as it ought to be, for he went on to. say that it is time the senate testified to the world that it. is no place to come to make money dis honestly.- And h might have-addedr-no-ptaee-to-get into by" the dishonesL.Use of money." r Why "it is time now to show this" to the world, if the senate is "as up right as it has ever been," and sufficiently so, Senator Bailey did not explain. . '" ' ' Judge" Hamilton admits, it is reported, that he may owe the New York Life $100,000 or so,4 and that he paid out money to various persona, whom under no circumstances 'he will name.. A spell in jail t might in duce him to change his mind." . . Longworth Know H"ow to Blush. i ' . . . Prom the New Terk. Pain. ' '' ' : Representative Nicholas Lngworth, the prtdent's . proepectlve aoa-ln-Uw, waa driven t the eapltol yeeterday by Mies Rooearelt ia her privet carriage. Tie left her at the entranoe'to the house mm ronnany iz iney naa neen an oia married couple, and when he entered the Republican cloakroom be was greeted by a ecore or members, who hastened forward so offr their eongrmtulatlona upon hie ontSflvment to the preeldent's daushter. For fully an hour Mr. Vong worth held m Impromptu . reception, while member from both -eldea of the houae ram up to shake h la hand anil extend boat wlahta. lie wore broad mil throughout the entire .day nd ppard to be Intensely happy. T aume of Me tatervlawera Mr. Lonrworth wee obllved to tU the etory of his Tret meeUng wtt.lt hla flanne. It oei rurred at a dinner at the White Hooa bout three year aro, after be bad Cast wees elected, la U feoua &4 be fore he took hi seat, and some were even old . eaousn Ho aak If ' 1 waa a ease of lfe at first sleht, which caused the brldeitroom-eleot't b.luah and smile eome mora . . r -"'' ' i - Longevity and Liquor; .'.' -..i- ,k ' From the Pblulelpfcia Preea. It has com to be generally ' reeoi nlsed a a fact thit the aloobollo habit Ur on of the main factor In determin ing length Of life. Figure furnished by Inauranee companlM ' In England show tbAf the average Jlf of 4 the total abetalner 1 nln. years longer than that of the drinker, and one of our own'con cema In the same fine of buslneaa, the Equitable, haa published a statement to the effect thai, the death rate among "moderate" consumers of liquor Is II per eent higher than among teetotalers. Rom of the eompanlee on both side of the water; indeed, put abetalner In a separate claae among the polloy-holders, making them a special allowance of f fieg eant or more n premiums, , . " .. -I Speaker Cannon's Cunning Tongue. "' From th ' Waahlngto Poet. -- A good story Is told of the speaker's reply to certain members of the house who called upon hint to enter a mfld protest against the ealectlon of Mr. Tawney aa chairman" of the committee on appropriations, Mr, 'Tawney ha been an ''insurgent' on the tariff question for year. an4 for that reason it sug gested tuelf to Meeera. Payne. Daliell aad Oroavenor that the Mlnneeota.man should not be promoted from ways and mean to such an Important chairman ship. The trio named are said' to ha v called upon the speaker to talk tb mat ter over with. him. , "Toti will recall, Mr. Speaker.'!, said on f' them, ""that TSwney ha been an Insurgent, and that he ha frequently foua-ht the organisation on the floor." "WeU," replied tbe speaker, dryly, ''he alwaya won. didn't her", This reference to tbe way in which the Insurgents never did win ended the conference. ,. v ; - - . The green Christinas matched few Christmas celebrant a only a nameless few. y' ; -.-', Even In thee shortest days, getllng up time come too soon for a good many people. - J-.' ... , 4, Will 'not the Portland Journal make the orat district a Christmas present and Jnake it unanlmoa for Walter L. TooseT SaQein Journal. The Portland Journal ha nothing whatever to do with the nomination of representative In the 11 rat district, and so has no spring present for either Mr. Tooae or Colonel liofer. - ,i . w e ?-ir , Mt's . Is this turkey haah dayT It won't be a happy New .Tear for many In Russia. .. .-. e e . . But Rockefeller couldn't enjoy hi Cbrlatma dinner half as much as some poor people did. Won't the president' pleas get hi big stick la operation upon some of the correspondents who are overloading the dlapatches with., stuff about Alice and Nick? , , : .,, - f"., A man With a wooden leg' haa . one advantage fa never can have two cold feet. v , . A no-snow Christmas or. In , fact, any other day Is something to be thankful -for In a town: one isn't in terror of . snowballing kids. A seeress says l35lairolrijr to be wild 'year." Probably' she 1 going to become c raster. It ts not unreasonable to claim Republican majority in Oregon of 40.004 to 60,000. It may be more.? Pilot Rock Record. , Tea, and then, again, it may be less, or minua. The Tillamook Headlight wants a law providing that any cfty that doe not enforce state law should be deprived f it charter. . Bet it would be unoon stituUonaL- , r . 'j The Woodburn Independent (Rep.) says "tbe Republican that can beat Chamberlain for governor ha not yet come into' the arena.' f , ., . TV : ' ' e -. , - Bob Fltsalmmons laid hi recent de feat on hi wife, showing that.be 1 a true descendant of Adam. - r- Tom Lawson may go broke, "but he will Brohahlir alwava be able to buv aome paper and ren a typewriter. - .The most noted general Just now In Russia seems to be General Revolt. It may be that Mvrybody work but father.'N but he ia an exception if he isn't worked a good deal. . ; It la only natural that those Inaur- anc company president should be un- weu, considering all the exposure they hav been eubjected to lately;- . e a . ' j The longer the prospective eeaalon. the longer eongres puts off doing any' thing.-. - ' , . , No member ot congress , presented tTndeSam with a -resignation Christ- HOMES OF tTHE OPERA .SINGERS OREGON SIDELIGHTS THE MOVEMENT started in eastern Oregwi to provide a large dowry for Alice , RoosevU-t pn . the occasion of her marriage by means of, ten- cent contrihutinna ia an amtii nt th tarlr nf iniiirmfi' conH ts.1. mil. in Kr.Vf ,nnim ,a... ,.,,.fl present, nor Is likely to make such . . . '. , . ', , . Jla New Tear's girt. niuucu vy impulsive pcupic oi generous ana gOOa inten tions. Only such a person would have failed to foresee that such a movement would be distasteful and annoying to the prospective bride and groom and their families, and, for reasons quite apparent but more easily appre hended than . stated definitely, -improper and foolish, For one thing the bridegroom, a public" man,-could not consent to take such a dowry with his bride, and . 1 . 1 . , . . . ... . . . . sne wouia certainty agree witn ner tamer, tnougn witn charitable good ' wiir-toward the contributors, in re jecting it, .State Treasurer Moore did the sensible thing in promptly announcing that he would haye nothing to do with it, and it is to be hoped that, the Baker county enthusiast who originated the . scheme will as grace fully as he ' may retire from public view, determined to consult some person of good judgment before ' he springs another sensational scheme upon the public . Cornelius expect a IS-barrel flour mill in tb spring. -v . - " , K. Stewart' tof Dayvlll contributed 1500 to the Forest Grove Carnegie 11 brary fund... -. . t.-! ,. . -..'. : Solo News: Strang aa It may appear, some men who ar generally regarded aa being honest make It a practice to "beat" the newspaper man 1n nvery, way they can. W could furnish .quit a list of such deadbeat, aome of" whom v. would take pleaaur In writing an oMtu- ary for. . Heppner Commercial club Ineorporat ed 15.000. A $4,000 building will be erected. : ., e e ... : The Galea-Creek cemetery Is to be fenced around.. Yet nobody In 1t can get out. and nobody out of It wants to get in permanently. . Wood scare 'and high in eastern Ore gon town.",. - " ' ,La Grand Chronicle: According to musk rat authority, this a to be a win ter with whisker on It Close observ ers say that there hasn't been a year in ever so long- when the musk rate In the valley took so much trouble , a this year in laying In supplies and otherwise preparing for' a .hard winter. ? ' e . e i - ' Snow deepenhVXin the upland. - A Ion Proclalmer: The coyot may kl yi and the farmer may sing hla strain, for lone wheat is-VSiitop, a result of the recent , rain; the knocker may knock until he may tire, but if any on says there are such men her. Just call htm a horrible liar; Irrigon may boom and Heppner may howl, and Lexington may swell up and drop, but lone 1 the place to get good home the place -where you can raise a.iremendou wheat crop. . . A .. ''. trader the head of "Amusements" a Eugene" paper has ""divinity school re cital." -v, . -. ' - 4 v e-, , . Myrtle Creek will be a big town yet. says th Mall. 1' A Kanaa man and hi two son are Investigating Lincoln county farms. Kent Is rapidly coming to thefront. says the Recorder. Th latest acquisi tion Is a Chines cook at th hotel. . .- -e e A Rlckreall man sold; a 1,400-pound beef cow. e e - The Pori Orford Tribune - is t the farthest wit newspaper of any tn the United Statea . . . . . : e e A vein of What ia said to be. anthra cite coal has been discovered in Mal heur county. " .'.' e e Th area of deeded land In Wallow eounty increased last year from tOt.OIi to 111,181, an Increase of IJ.S54 acres. , , )j . v . - - ! Grants Pas, Including (he immedlat Vicinity, ha a population of 1,104. ; - - . . t ' -.! - Carlton, say a correspondent ' I be-comlns- famoua for it mud baths in Ute trta, ... r ,, From th New Tork Sun. An imposing establishment haa been set up by Blgnor Caruso In the heart of th millionaire ? district. There, aur. rounded bi hi comprehensive domestic sUff, he ia within a short dtstang of th Vanderbllts, Oelrlohsea, Whitney ana oiner.New York famine who sel dom see a tenor at closer rang than i mm a parierr box. - f Blgnor Caruso ha Installed In thi eaiaDiianment.nl cook, hi maldaerv- ania, na secretary and. above all, that imporiani runctionary, th prlvat tai lor, whom he brought with him from riorenc to take exclusive charge hi clothe and costumes. . Thus do th tenore aver grow grander. Jean de Reaxk. with the one valet whn ha now become attached to th suit of Blgnor t-aruBO. used to be content snare very modest apartment at th Gllsey House with his brother. During meir nrsi year in New York th broth ers lived In even Issa expenalve. hotels. . Francesco TamSgno uaed to be con tent with a very modest Broadway ho tel, and Krnst van Dyck, when he did take a house, moved to th upper west side. Albert Belesa deposited his hou hold In the same region and never at. tempted to get any nearer rifth avenue. Tb upper west aid ha satisfied the other tenors of tha opera company. Hemrlca Knote and his family ar dom lolled in th Dakota, while Andrea Din pel la one mere at home in hi accus- tomedvapartments at tbe Majestic. - Pol Planchon one again ha the moat luxurious suit In the Hotel Astor, to which Hotel Kmma Earn I also, re turning for her brief stay in New Tork. Madam Earn is hens for too brief a period to make housekeeping t worth while. ' Madam Nordlca has a superb apart ment on Madison avenue. Her ahe rev els in tb ,'comfort of housekeeping. witn all th hardshipa of such duties moved through th horde of malds but lers, chauffeur and secretaries that make her domestic establishment as larR a that of a millionaire. Madam, Homer also indulges in the luxury of a modest apartment horn on th upper west aide, minus the chauf feur. But ah 1 not a soprano only contralto. . Olive Fremstad and Edyth Walker ar alike In other respect beside aim ing to pass from th contralto .to th soprano repertoire. Both hav selected apartment hotel aa their homes. Miss Fremstad Is at Th Algonquin) where ahi lived last year, and Mis Walker is at the Bpauldlng. , ', -'- Sine Madam Schumann-Helnk went Into comic opera th Hotel Belvedere haa housed none of ah German sinners. Madam Abarbanell live . in t West Twenty-fifth street, and Bella Alton had made arrangement to hav an apart- mem up (own. - - She changed all that plan, however. tlen sh heard that Mme. Abarbanell had deserted th Belvedere. Distressed that the only German hotel in New Tork should not house one of th opera singers. Mil. Alten has settled there for the winter under the cbaperonag of her aunt, t .7 .-'.. ' ' Mme. Bembrtch's' Polish cook, whom she brought to this country six years ago. has become an American cltiaen. ana is permanently attached to the staff ot tbe Hotel BaVoy. So the prima donna is there for another winter. - Th first thing that th prima donna does on her arrival ia to aak after the state of her Christmas tree ornaments; for she has become so accustomed to the hotel as an American home that she leaves th ornaments ot her Christmas tree there from year to year. Mme. Gadakl returns so often to New Tork to Sing that she keeps her apart ments at- the Hotel 'Cambridge, 1 which has always been a sort of bulwark of German opera, -largely because Walter Dam roach has made th hotel his home for long periods at a time. Anton von Rooy was a guest there, and so was Rosa Bucher during her not very rortunat i Journ In this country..- - . Antonio Bcottl is still at tn Hotel yorx. which acquired 'Its Italian atmosphere through the residence of Signer -Caruso there for two years. --- All the singers have their own particu lar reason for selecting certain hotels. Andreas Dlppel goes to th Majestic be cause It I Just the right distance from the metropolitan 'opera house. It Is not too long to reach In th subway, but It la far enough away to prevent him from spending all hi time In the theatre. - Mme. Nordlca likes Jo wer Madison ave nue became It Is quiet and .exclusive. Helnrlch Knote dotes on th Ansonla because th architecture of th buUding and tbe open street , front ot It. remind him of Munich. t ; Antonio Bcottl likes the Tork because the macaroni there helps him to enjoy muchmore than he otherwise would hi dinner it Stenor Caruso's. . Mme. Sembrlch likes the Savoy be cause ah can take her. dally walk around th Central park reservoir without hav ing to pas through th street and be cause the chef make good beet soup, Mm. Karnes loves to ' hav her own apartment so she can snatch a cigar out of th mouth of any man who dares to smok.. within a block of her. Mme. Abarbanell is devoted to her hotel In West Twenty-fifth street, because she can send out to -several reatauranta In the neighborhood and get excellent food. Nahan Franko ha a new house on the upper west side, but he would b. willing to exchange it almost for th privilege of conducting some other operas than Don Giovanni." Blanor Vlsna has taken a furnished flat far up oif Broadway, as be found .that his abode in Thirty-fourth street last winter was livelier than be cared for. He did not know beforehand that he was engaging th former abode of -Miss May Tone, on time Lady Hope, Alfred Herts Uvea at.th Gllsey bouse whenever he is able to escape from the Metropolitan opera house long enoogh to II v anywher. The GlorjV.df Struggle. , By Rev. "Thomas--B. Gregory. There Is no gam m& thrllllngly Inter tlng as th gam of Ufa, and the man who ha, the chance to play It and re fuses to do so deprives himself of th keeneV pleasur conceivable. . jt nas oeen saia a inousana times mat life la a battle." - Ay. it is 1 and there I where th glory snd -Joy or the Dusmess com Inl Life Is a battle and to stand In the battle-line and fight, never despairing, never showing the, white feather, with courag. undaunted holding ' th - face toward the enemy until Ite line are broken and victory sits upon our stand ard that, is where the true grandeur and blessedness-of existence era found! Borne one one said: . 'Llfe is like a gam of whist; f am not particularly fond of It, but alnc the cars have been placed In my- hand I am going to play them , for all they ar worth." That la the spirit to hav In one's breastl ' That Is th spirit that wins vlotorles and keeps th world a-movlng up grade. . No matter What ' four theories may happen to We concerning the existence In the midst of which" you find yourselves, it is your privilege, if you will have It ro, to get a whole lot of solid comfort out of th affair. To struggle, and through the strug gling to grow strong, and In the strength to win th prise for which you are striv ing. Is there any Intoxication to be conv pared with that, any pleasure or Joy that I worthy of being compared with it? 'What If there ar troubles, what lf there ar difficulties In th way. what If the skies ar dark? Bring your teeth together, knit your brows, screw your courage up, and pitch Inl Th bigger the troubles, the more stub born the difficulties, the darker' the clouds that hang over your ' head, the more firmly you should resolve to press on. . . . - - . . Tou may be defeated, but you ar not defeated yet, and Still there's room lor victory. J v' ' - - And In that thought of victory there Is enthuslaam enough to hold on up In tha darkest and most trying hour. Reader will remember the word of Paul Jones to the Knglish captain who called put to him to know If - ha had surrendered: "Surrendered, belli-' I've Just begun to fight!" ' . ' We ought to go Into' th business of living as Paul Jones went into- his fignt with tha Serapls to Itv, not to dlw to win, not to lose. --- - ' ,- . T There waa not a moment during that terrible struggle ' when Paul Jones felt ua giving up tn ngnt. Let the spirit of th "Father of the American Navy" be In the breast of very young man. THE HAT AS AN INDEX TO CHARACTER , MEMORY'S RIVER , ' By Ell Wheeler Wilcox. " ' (Coojrlaht. 1005. br W. K. Hearst.) ' In nature' bright bloaaoma not always -, reposes . ' . ,- That strange,- subtle essenc more - - rare than their bloom ' Which lie In th heart of carnations - 'and roses, ... " r That unexplained omelhlng by men called perfume. . Though modest the flower, yet great la It power - - And pregnant with meaning each pistil and lear, i. , , , If only It hide there. If only abides ' ther, Th fragrance auggeativ of love, .Joy , and grief.. - , Not, always th air that a master com- . pose Can stir human haartatring - with , . pleaaur or pain: ' ; - But strangeaubtl chord Ilk tb scent . of th roe -.- ' Breath out of aome measures, though I ' almpl th strain. . And lo! when you hear them, you love - - them and fear them; ' Teu tremble with anguish, you thrill with delight, . i -, Tot back of them slumber old dreams . without dumber, And faces long vanished peer out Into . sight. -. Those dear, foolish days, when th earth seemd all beauty, . . .. Before you had knowledge enough to h. dm - "... I When youth held nd higher Meal of duty ' : ' Than J vast to Hit on.JJyough th world and b glad. I On harmony' river they seemed to float hither - -- With all -the sweet fancies that hung ' round that tlm: -' . -.''-, Life's burdens and trouble turn Into " air bubbl,. r - .- And break oh th music's swift our- rent runiv. . - - Fair Folly comes back with her spell . while you listen, And points to th path where h . led you of old; . Tou gas on past sunsets, yon see dead star glisten, , . Tou bathe In life' glory, you swoon In death cold. ... . Al) pain and all pleasure surge np through tnose measures, . .Tour heart Is wrenched open with earthquakes of sound; From ashe and embers rise June and Decembers. -.; Lost Islands in' fathoms of feeling i refound, .- . r" - ' ., , Some aire ar Ilk outlet of memory's -- - oceans, , They rise in the past and flow Into th heart: - , ', And down them . nft shipwrecks of miahtv amotion. - All sea-soaked and storm-tossed and 7 drifting apart. - , Their fair timbers battered, their lordly sane wwm, Their skeleton crew of dead days on . . their deck Thfen . a crash of chords blending, a it rial ism. sm.ii vuu i aa Th music is over, and vanished the . , wrecks.' t ;.. .-,. f ; - By Carolina. j That ther 1 any character' to be dis played in the cholc and manner of wearing a hat will doubtless be a reve lation to the musoultne mind. But a woman who is at all observing can tell from the. hat another woman wear what manner of person it is with -" w urniing, ... v For th guidance of tbea erring, though well-meaning, men I will lay down a few general principles.' , , Thee suggestions may help soma poor man to know a woman and th kind of a woman (or, rather, t he kind of a hat) to b avoided. Ther, 1 a llttl' round hat' with searfcely any attempt at trimming, ex cept a flat black bow. " V: Thia hat la sure to be worn by a' lit tle old maid, 'one who ; 1 sweetened rather than soured by her single lot She I one who la absorbed In. other people's children. - - - U V. . t. 1 . . . . . ma mac tn oioom or youtn and has learned to think that I all man cares for in a woman. Any slight attention from a man pleaaea her tremendously, and any se rious atlenttnn krinn k V.I...L. a to her face and set her heart palpitat . Th atyl 'of hst neoullar tn thia season, th on with much trimming on th back, none on th. front and. worn so that it looks more like a tnlumaii slid than anything else. Is character istio or . an entirely different aort of woman. 8 he may - b the fashionable woman with plenty of money, who cares not ww uiuAin mnw uujra mr a n nor now many ah buy. Bh will hay on of this style, be cause It la th fashion, and if she tire of It she can pass It on to her maid. . Th other woman who wears thi ex- trema hat la a Wnman whn mrimhmm a (.. fashionable, no matter what th cost. It make no difference how unbecom- ln th hat Is to her: she must wear , . . J. AW. - - ii, it n n toe aiyie.. If you are a poor man. beware of her (unleaa ah has an Income all her own), for' ah I Self-assertive and ex travagant. Sh will be In th fashion. no matter how small your Income. " Bh will scrimp on th table to hav a new hat every season. , . A simple llttl toque worn, with a veil inaicates in iri or srean common sense. Nothing specially startling or original about her. : Just a 'good sort,' on who would b wood company on a long walk or drlv. Bhe takes life easily and comfortably and t usually veryagreeable. - Th woman who chooses a hat with abrupt angles, who always haa wings or stiff, conventional trimming on her hats, and who never .wears flowers. Is another kind altogether. Tou may always know her to be de termined. Independent, and If given half. chance sh would be domineering. Sh 1 always agreeable aa long a sh 1 having her own way, but cross her and you will find that you hav an- countered .. something strangely . Ilk ton. -. . , .;. - '-. ' , . ... . .. -' Ther la a sort of soft, elusive, feath ery kind of creation (no man would be . crude enough to Call it a hat), that If worn by some women, And th woman Who wear It ts as hard to describe a the hat ah wear. A man would say she waa distinctly feminine, womanly In all ahe did.' But ah Is more thaa this eh la subtle, elusive and charming. , Sh ts sweet and comforting. -' Sh la, above all, bewitching and fas- cinatlng. '. Sh is the kind all men think they ' would Ilk to marry, but ther ar. not enough of thia sort to go around. If you be a man in search of a wire before . you "pop tb question . study th rmadgeaf of th lady vto. whom you ar devoted, and, you W111 discovei : much that ah would never tell you. , I LEWtS AND CLARK X" PERSON AL MENTION " ! . - . . ' - r. Th rfchest Indian In th world la aid to be Dr. John War Eagle, a half breed Chickasaw. H -waa educated In Scotland, where hla father, a Hudson Bay trader", waa born.' - - - " A scheme haa been, started by Arch bishop Glennon of Bt. Louis to estab lish a colony of thousands of Catholics In -the southwestern part of Missouri. Th land wlllv.be purchased cheap, and th plan Is to hav th families make their homes pioneers did a century ago. - ' '- '"' Mr. Hetty Green I going t buy an automobile, and ah mean to run . it herself. ... ' ' Governor Folk of Missouri believe thai, public ownership sentiment Is growing and will snd In a general de mand for city possession or utilities. Lord Templemor. "tha father of th hou of lord," sat In that body for 21 year before he delivered hi maiden speech, and his -effort consisted of SI words. - - i "L'Escarpoletto" ("The. Swing"), th play which has Just' been purchased by Barah Bernhardt, waa written by an American woman, O. Constant Louns- bery, a niece of J. Ben All Has gin of California. The play was Inspired by a painting of Fragonard. and was written i in French, although Mia Lounabery has published considerable In English. ' ' V Maa Terry'a Portrait. . From a London Dispatch. Ther Is great Interest in the safe next Saturday of J. 8- Sargent's portrait of Ellen Tferry a Lady Macbeth at th auction nf the effects of th late Sir Henry Irving. It Is . pointed out that Mr. Sargent Is ' On Of th few great living painter who haa not yet passed through th auotlon-room ordeal. Con sidering the superb quality of this par ticular work, the Interest attached to Its associations and the scarcity of Mr. Sargent's works in th art market, the picture lg expected to realise a large sum. . - - .i.- At Fort Clatsop. ' December 17 Th rain did not cease last night nor th greater part of today, y tnowool, the chief, and four men of th Clatsop nation, who brought a very timely -supply of roots and 'berries. Among these was on called culhomo, : reaembtlng Uoorice In slxe and taste, and which they-rest Ilk a potato; ther wer ' also the shanataque,, a root of which they ar vary fond. It is -of a' black color, sweet to th taste, snd Is prepared for eating In a kiln aa the In- These,' as well as the aalal berries, they value highly: but wer perfectly satisfied with th return we mad them, consisting of a small piece of sheepskin r to wear around th chiefs head, a pair of earbobs for his son, a small piece of braaa -and a llttl ribbon. In addition to -our old enemies, the fleas, ws ob served .two mosquitoes, or. insects so completely resembling them , that w . can prciv-no dinerence. . Does Not Like Blue Laws. ' From the Washington Post. v There ar few more noted women In ' th .United States than Miss Phoebe Cousins of St. Louis, who Is st th Rlggs house, with her brother, J.- B. Cousins. -Tha former has had - an exceptionally. - lntwu(ln..MMa Rh la thi nnfv winmai. who was ever appointed a United Btatea marshal, filling out th unexpired term of her father upon his death, and manag- v Ing the office with signal ability.. She-, cities on- current topics, handling her themes with a vigor and Intellectual grasp that delighted her .audiences. - - "We ar having an era 1n Bt. Loula'' . said Miss Cousins, "that is not so bad as th tAA wtm nf rr ft Kut which la nnt satisfactory Jlo. peopla of liberal and ra- ' tlonal vlewa of life. . In other words, 'the - LI... . 1 CL. T I - u m(..l. ... me of that other Irrational and pnrltahl-- cat act, the abolition of tha army can teen. Th effect of thia absurd law has not been In ths Interest of -temperance, but Just fh reverse. When Our soldier ' boy wer able to obtain beer and other light drinks from th canteen they were contented and orderly and hot at th mercy of th proprietor of low drinking dives, as at present." ' From th Kansas City Journal. ' -' A llttl Topeka girl came home 'from church the other day and was asked what tha minister' text-waa. "I know -It all right," ah asserted. ; "Well. re. eat It", her questioner demanded. TW.M4.ft' mfmA mwA T 111 ... .... i.-.t - ' - "- v 1 1 ' . 7 VI I, n bedqullt" was th astonishing answer. Investigation proved that th .-central inougni ni.ine sermon naa Been ' Feur -not, and f will send you a eoiforter." f 7, 1 t- A-