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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 :.
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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.
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, 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.
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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. " "
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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, , . " ..
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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. ,.
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The green Christinas matched few
Christmas celebrant a only a nameless
few.
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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
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Mt's . Is this turkey haah dayT
It won't be a happy New .Tear for
many In Russia.
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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 , ., .
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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;- .
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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
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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. : .,
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: 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.
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Snow deepenhVXin the upland.
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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. .
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trader the head of "Amusements" a
Eugene" paper has ""divinity school re
cital." -v, . -. '
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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.
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A Rlckreall man sold; a 1,400-pound
beef cow.
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The Pori Orford Tribune - is t the
farthest wit newspaper of any tn the
United Statea .
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A vein of What ia said to be. anthra
cite coal has been discovered in Mal
heur county.
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Th area of deeded land In Wallow
eounty increased last year from tOt.OIi
to 111,181, an Increase of IJ.S54 acres. ,
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Grants Pas, Including (he immedlat
Vicinity, ha a population of 1,104.
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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."
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