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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 23, 12C5.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
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THE - OR E GO. N D AILY
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Published every evening (except
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, INVESTIGATING ALASKA TRADE.
NEW, COMMITTEE of "the chamber of .com
merce his been appointed to investigate the
Alaska trade 'Orooosition. and,
remarks, they intend to Attend to the matter auigenuy
and thoroughly, and show, if such he the case, at there
seems"! be no doubt that it is, that i Portland can and
should capture a goodly shaie of the trade of, Alaska.
w . . . i i C . J - .La..mm
. lit jiuiua. juMHwiv'f'8". j e - m
that the trade of tfiat territory for ten months of the
present- year amounted to nearly $13,000,000, about five
. sixths of which was credited to Puget sound, and most
of the rest to California. Oregon figuring in it officially
only to the small amount -of $144,795.
Portland is practically as near , to.
trade centers as are Puget sound ports, that Portland
has at least as large and good stocks of merchandise as
Seattle and Tacoma, and that soil products needed there
are more readily obtainable for shipment in Portland
than in Utose cities; so it would seem1 that all that is
necessary is' sufficient effort of the xight lind to build
up a large ocean trade with the northwestern Alaskan
poiats. '. ': - - :'.J'-.V: ' V;--. -,'1
hat the trade of Alaska will grow rather than dimin-
h is the opinion of all men familiar with its possibjH
: ties and prospects. Its mineral wealth has probably been
only "scratched as yet. mere is
ible quantities of copper along Copper rtver Nome and
contiguous districts are. likely to' go on producing gold
. for years, and there are other far northern points where
there will be H large and increasing demand for supplies.
We should not allow any city to monopolize that Jrade.
' The question of return cargoes j a perplexing one,
but it should not be beyond -solution. If . in connection
with the subject of Alaska trade we should get an addi
tional and an even broader move on and secure a smelter
for. Portland, which it ought to have,, we' would kill two
large birds, and the return cargo problem would be
'solved. -Ti4-i . : ; 'v.; , At-v. . '' y'i,y,''r
The .western Qregon' Republican candidates for governor-will
make no. objection, to the candidacy of VV J,
Lachner of Baker City, where candidate John lives, for
representative in congress. ., i f.
THOMAS W. LAWSON.
'HATEVER ONE MAY
VV. Lawson's motives or
he shall appear when, if
clearly to view on all sides, there is no doubt that,
though individuals may have been financially injured
through his bad advice, he on the whole has .done much
good. The insurance investigation, which must result in
radical reforms in. the conduct .of the great life insur
ance companies, are in part due to Lawson, and it has
become evident that he told much truth about them, and
other big concerns, that none but a coterie of high finan
ciers knew or suspected; and he doubtless has told much
truth, too, in regard to "the system," "Amalgamated,"
Rogers, Addicks and others. He did so, too,, without
-pretending to be a saint in the speculative arena him
" self, though, which-Jhay be doubted, he claimed to have
the public good mainly at heart Lawson, in fact,, is a
, conspicuous figure in the' present awa1cening of. the
4 people to'the necessity of higher standafds'in business
' as wen as in oouticai me. nowever
own motives j.and methods may be deemed. , Mr, Dooleyi
says Lawson has .used a burglar as the burglar alarm,
which is not only witty, but true, and thereby he ren
dered the public an unique and valuable .service. Some
of th,e "burglars" are impudent and brazen inr face of
the exposure, but -a good manyf them are squirming,
thanks, largely, to Lawson. '
So it was well and decidedly , advantageous to the
-country that ''Frenzied Finance," an essentially if, not
"literally a veracious historical romance, was published
ana -so widely read. The preface to
that "the raining of vast wealth is
fice of manhood," a maxim that, without caviling about
the author a consistency, needs to be remembered and
heeded. If, as reported, Mr. Lawson has made millions
recently in conjunction with the Standard Oil gang, the
public will be inclined to think that he has fallen from
Brace, or that, his virtue was only assumed, yet this
does not necessarily follow; and it at least proves that
he is one of the shrewdest' as welt as one of the most
audacious speculators and plungers' the country has ever
keen. But whatever his circumstances, character or ad.
f rations, it remains true that Lawson
country signal and valuable service.
' Between the Blaclt Hundred on one
Reds on the other, there are all sorts
mingling" of colors in Russia.
SHOULD BE ADOPTED JN ALL COUNTIES.
TP HE' SUCCESS whichfhas been achieved in Mult-
- . uuiuiia cduiiij in securing a casn valuation as
Y '. sessment and at the same time keeping the levy
within reasonable bounds should serve tn rneouracr the
other counties of the state to put in operation the same
nethods. " While the credit of Portland suffered from
the low assessment and the necessary explanations that
always went with it, the other counties of the state
which still cling to the old method of valuation are in
precisely the same, fix which was once so familiar here.
For reasons of local pride and common honesty and
to place -the counties, and thus the state, where it and
fhey property belong in the financial estimation -of in
vestors the new plan should be adopted all over Oregon.
If is' the honest; decent and proper course to pursue
until something better in the scheme of imposing taxa
tion is devised and put. .into operation, v Now that its
success nas Deen demonstrated here, a
-wnicn may be followed to advantage
k. i- .i i j .
viu.iucu tne ucuuii! iiicmiciTti see tnai
yvithin reasonable bounds, as it always should be. ' .
.: Jimmy Hazen Hyde' says he is all tired out. Most
people were tired of him a good while ago. ! . .
Wedding Will Be t Brilliant Affair.
From tha New York Amarleaiv
' Everybody aaya that the Wadding f
Mlaa 'Rooa.evelt and CongraasBian Long
worth will t n a moat mainlflcenf
eala. 'Wblla tha blue room Is tha mora
salact for tha plac ot earamonr. It la
thought that It wilt b naoaaaarjr to uaa
tha plndld east room,
! Thvdauhter ( ' Praaldant-ronraa.
alarla, waa man-ted In tha aaat room.
i was marrtea in mm wn room, i
waa Ellsbth, dauahtar of Praatdant,
Tylar, Nail la Grant waa married in tha
(lua room. Tha invltatlona will, of
tours, ba taafl-ftd from tha White Houae,
and thus the .wedding will at least ba
aami-offlclai In character. .
. It haa bean tha faahlon lately to have
grgeoua -unlforma at weddings, and. aa
tha president ia tha commander-in-chief
f tha army and navy, tha guests from
these brenrhee f Die eervics will ap
tt In full uniform.
Th-re la a brilliant atafT at ths Whit
Uuuss, Tli diplomauo corpa will 'alao.
INDKPBNDBNT NEWSPAPER
. PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
Sunday) and every Sunday mornlne;, at
hill streets, Portland, Oregon. .
, ' F,OOD AND
J'
APAN1, LI KE
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judging by their
, .it is obvious that
some ot tne Alaska
aaia 10 De inexnausi-j
amounted pnly to
THINK of Thomas
.The people of
, methods, however
ever, he stands out
tremendous war
tar trom tneai- nia
probable that some
regulation ot the
professes to have
policy-holders all
for-the welfare of
ing them-of the
the volume declares
not worth the sacri
ments, in pensions
ing trips. Judge
and as such he
to men of whom
has rendered "he
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extremity and the
of ominous com
the Mitchell trjal
lead has been set
as well as profit
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ine iew is iceot
hava a plaea jn,tha pictures of thle wad
ding day. .,.."' . . . . -On
tha hlghaat authority It is atatad
that the bridesmalda have not baan aa
lactad yat, Mlaa Rooaavalt baa Intimate
frianda In Kaw Tork, Boston,Waahlng
toii and Cincinnati, and It la certain that
tha malda W1U not all ba aalactad from
Waahlngton. whara antdng her frianda
ara Jdlasea MoCaulay, Joaephlna Board-
man, cathartn lktna, jMathllda Town-
Mnd and Po.tl.th..n.
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, : A New. Year Forecast. '
- ' Paris Letter to London World. :
Mm, d Thebes, th pet Parisian
prophetess, who la no Mother Bblpton,
but a cultured woman f th world and
charming talker, and Used to be a
great friend of rjumas file, haa Just la
sued her almanae for 10S. ; Th prefao
runs: "I called 194 a drab year. ISOl a
scarlet year; 1901 will be a mad and bnd
year." She does not say whether 4hls
wiU a6U to th waathar,
J Ol.R N A L
jo. r. caxsou
The. JournaJLBuildinf. Fifth and Yam-
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MANUFACTURES IN JAPAN.
ENGLAND, has to look abroad for
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otner tooqsiuits except rice, ana mat is bcwiuhh
relatively less, sufficient as a food supply. The
population of Japan is increasing at the rate of about
400,000 a year, while the outturn of rice, though greater
last year than ever before 51,430,221 koku (a koku fs
4.96 bushels) fell this year to 38,234,265 koku, nearly 14
per cent below the average for 10 years, though this
may have been partly due to the war-iThe yield of rice
is subject to much .fluctuation, down to 33,000,000 koku,
and its cultivation is uncertain and risky. And even, the
unprecedented crop of last yea? was insufficient for the
people's needs, for that year rice to the value of nearly
60,000,000 yen was imported, whttVless than 5,000fl00
yen. worth was exported. Jlour to the extent of nearly
10,000,000 yen was also imported, far 'more than ever
before, but nearly as much flour has been imported this
year, The tendency is toward an increase of imports of
rice and flour, a decrease of exports of rice and to the
development of manufactures. i ' "
Japan's agricultural 'area ia fery small for so large
and rapidly increasing a population, which is 'one reason
why it insisted on the -control of Korea, the neutraliza
tion of Manchuria and one half of the island of Sagha
lier from which countries it will eventually, obtain
large food supplies. ,.' Hut Japan sees that it must be
come a manufacturing country, and has already made
considerable progress in this direction. .In 1904 Japan
exported manufactured articles to the extent of 71,400,000
yen and partly--manufactured articles -to the value of
144,700,000s yen, while of raw materials the '!' exports
- 39,500,000 yen. The latter was an in
crease over 1894 of only 92 per cent,' while of manufac
tured and partly manufactured articles tha increases
were respectively 216 and 172 per cent The total num
ber of factories in Japan two years ago was 8,274, of
which 45 per cent used, machinery for motive-power.
The number of operatives was 483,839, of whom 377
per cent was males and 623 per cent females. These
figures, would be much greater now if officially' avail
able. UX ,i- V:' 1-':
. TheJapanese are imitative, observant, patient, shrewd
and resourceful, .and will, as they must in their little
island home, become an extensively manufacturing
oeoole. ', , -r -.TV-, .r-l
the country- looked unruffled at the
which has raged for several days be
tween the opposing speculative forces on the New York
stock exchange. It was a case" in which the side which
controlled, the money had in its finality 4he best of it.
On the one hand it could manipulate stocks to its heart's
content and at the same time put suck a price on money
that those who were1 forced to get it at any cost paid
the most staggering rates for it. In' this way the spec
ulators were caught coming and going and squeezed
pretty dry. ' .. ,v,
-JUDGE" HAMILTON. NEEDS A REST.
ROM "Judge" Hamilton's own report it appears
. that . he spent a good many hundreds of thOu
. . :'' Hands of dollars in preventing proposed legisla
tion affecting life' Insurance companies, chiefly, it seems,
the passage? of bills proposing their taxation: ' It is
oLthese bills were of the blackmail
ing sort, but there iv no evidence that most of them
were not honest, fair bills for the proper taxation or
insurance companies. Mr, Hamilton
been acting in the interest of the
the big grafters were very solicitous
the policy-holdersout the investiga
tion haa disclosed the fact that millions of the. policy
holders' money was squandered in extravagant and un
earned salaries, in sinecure official positions, in depriv
greater share of profits from invest
to relatives and in expensive junket
Hamilton was the legislative lobbyist
says he paid our moneys to detectives,
the company knew nothing, and whose
names ana particular employment, ne cannot divulge.
These detectives, it may reasonably be supposed, were
employed in part to hunt up the record, character and
financial standing of members of the legislature, ascer
tain who were probably most easily, tempted and most
susceptible $3 bribery. In this way "Judge" Hamilton
and his secret service men used this money year after
year "to protect the interest of policy-holders." But if
the life insurance companies had been conducted on
honest, fairly economical business lines the , policy
holders could, have well afforded to pay the -taxes pro
posed by any bill within the bounds of reason. The
taxes, or other proposed legislation would not have hurt
them half as much as the extravagance, recklessness and
grafting with which the business waa conducted, in
cluding the costly, legislative lobbying bureau conducted
by "Judge" Hamilton, whose ajduous services in behalf
of "the policy-holders" have so impaired his health that!
he is obliged to remain in delightful Pans. , - -,
, 11 yy':-:
The Oregonian's accounts of the council's investiga
tion, of the civiLservice commission-are' strikingly like
its reports of the trial of SenatorMJtcbell) when it gave
daily from six to ten columns to verbatim reports of the
evidence for the prosecution, while the, evidence for the
defense was condensed into a half column. But the
Orefronian now goes a step' farther than it did even in
not content with mere suppression.of
the truth it resorts M -deliberate falsification in its re
ports of the tesimony given in the civil service investi
gation. For the purpose of deceiving tha public as 'to
the facts, it has prevaricated repeatedly, intentionally,
maliciously. -Every person who has attended the pro
ceedings knows this to be true, ' v ' " '
. The railroads say that if let alone, and no new law
for their regulation is passed, they will be very good
indeed, hereafter. If they are going to be so, the pro
posed 'taw.. will , not interfere with thenu W-haye.atl
read what-a, penitent, promising fellow Old Nick' was
when he was sick. . . -
' Immortal "Platform."
' . v' " Trom Tlt-Blts.
An American lady visited Stratford-on-AvOn
lately and "gushsd" even
aboy th usual ' high-water mark of
American fervor. Sh had not recovered
from th attack when ah reached the
railway atatlon. for ah remarked to a
friend aa tby walked onto th plat
torm; .. -'".,
"And to think that it-was from this
very platform the Immortal bard would
depart, whenever h journeyed to town!"
..j 'v .. Tlme'g Changes. ' '. .;. V -r--
' Front th Chicago Trlbun.
.rWhen old Fladger cameto tbla town
IS years ago." said th man In th
manklntoh -"everything h bad in th
world waa on hia back." - ,
"And newr' queried-tha man who had
Jila feet on th table.
"Well,, hia wife and six dauahtera
have relieved hlrti of the burden. They
carr it ail on tnair cacks now."
iir backs now,"
Th- bllnd-plg demijohn that goes too
often to th liquor store win go nroao.
e e . ... " . j .-. -jr
If all 'the Ab Hummel of th coun
try wr sent to Jail, no other prisonra
would have to send outald Tor a law
yr. . . 'y ' ', '
Th life inaurano eompanlea may be
all rlcht financially, but w haven't
seen aoly of their 10 blottara yet
"Chlneae In anna. reads a headline.
Tea. aom of them; among ao great a
population ar many namea. , -.-
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"Th prettiest girls In America ar In
Baltimore,- aaya tn , uauimore dud.
Th man who wrote thle haa never been
la Portland, " ..'.,: ,..-..v.
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- ins nisnnt v iu,miwvwt w-
cording to th Washington Post, "la tha
capacity to take punishment with .
renity." But why ahoukrth highest
type of manhood" need punishment 7
Got that Mat of good rasolutlona made
OUtT .'.- "(. '. .
ItH be nlo' for those -who can to
etart aauar next Monday. . .
"Whv do neocle marry?" aska an x-
chang. A good many married people
are wondering themselves.
- ''"I.
After New Tear'a tb pot will bubble
nor acuviy. . ,..n
Parla la becoming a great health re
sort for grafters. .
But tha president think ha knows
that tm la a good aort of a boss.
Turkey ian'lf' fashionable for fitw
year, is ht " ..
sNew 1901 fa coming loaded.
Busala can have no peace, but may
aoon b in piece a.
e - e. . ' .
Those'Kew Torker who had to pay
0 or 100 per cent interest must have
blown in a lot ot money buying qnnat
maa presents. -,--V'. 7. '
With those iS beef trust lawyers to
pay, there la no hop that the price of
mem wui om & sum-. .
Th color or shape of a helping hand
ia immaterial - . .-,.,..
Wind up 10& bualness tomorrows
It-Is suspected by some that when
Opportunity knocka at their1 doors ah
weara thick mittens. . r
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Bank failures give Tom Lawaon a
howling opportunity.
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Th year 1S0S has been good to moat
of ua. . ' ; ,.!.""
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Old 10C haa much to lta credit to be
proud of. " ' ' -.
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Th president of Santo Domingo la
nearly alwaya fighting a revolution or
heading on; It' much th asm to
him. !''' ' -; ' , '
Mor brick building planned for
Springfield. '- -ry:y.
A. Marshf laid furnltur factory ia now
running and employing aome 40-odd
hands, and 4.000 orange boxea are being
turned out daily and a shipment ot 140,
000 will be made thla week. ,
' A band of Bonansa steers will aver
age 1,(00 pounds ach.
Fin new publlo hall in Talent, 'Where
in It la supposed varloua kinds of talent
will be displayed.
3 -
A Roeu river man who klled ' two
swan, thinking he could sell them, was
disappointed, to tha satisfaction of all
f rienda of innocent and beautiful animal
and bird Ufa. '
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- New public ' hall " and cooperative
crmese- factory, in Meda. Tillamook
county. . ', .
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Aahland women may organls an anti
woman . auff rage society.
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Klamath county augar beeta ara above
the average In saccharine properties but
a little deficient In purity which may ba
remedied by mor careful cultivation. -'
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Mayor.Wls will allow no da no halla
to reopen In Astoria, ahowing that ha la
very wis. - . - ". ; '
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Fin sugar beets In th Bull Flat re
gion In Crook county. ,
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Numerous cabins around Bend have
been broken Into during the absence of
th owners, much, damage dona and vari
ous article taken, such as stoves, cook
ing utensils, provisions, to In on
case a sewing machine waa stolen.
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A new townalt on Coo Bay Is named
Seaport.-. . ',
Many settlers pressing
Into
tha
Christmas Lake region. . . "...
Vale' a new paper la called tha Oregon
Orlono, but tha editor doean't. explain
what that nam means. , t '-'
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Coyotea mor numerous In Morrow
county than for yea re. , ; ,
. Joaeph Shearer has aold hia famous
hotel, bridge and water right on Des
chutes to a syndicate that will con
vert th power now wasted to electrical
uses at no distant day, doing wondera
In th way of development ef th hidden
resource of that part of th Inland empire.-
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' Sever new buildings . going up In
Mora' ". . ' i-r
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"-Wasco News: .' Mr. C' E.. Jones is
making a. great success of the poultry
buatneaa and several taking th hint and
going to engage in the business In th
rprlng. Considerable excitement aeema
to have been created in th DeMoti
community by reason of Mr. Jones sue
cess and evn th women ar going to
rale chicken, a couple .of them having
already rented bouses and land for th
purpose. . j ,
Fossil haa three doctor, on nor two
mor. than would Seem necessary. .
A Clatsop county - sprue tre re.
cently cut measured 105 tnohe in diam
eter at th butt and 0 Inches at th
first limb, 101 feet ' tip. ' Tha tree waa
cut Into five logs, which contained 0,
ill xeet-ei pence njf clear lumbar. .,
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
THE SUNDAY, SCHOOL
- LESSON .
- Topic; "Bviw of the Fourth Quar
ter. ' , ' t . . ; '
Golden text Thou crowneat th year
with thy goodneaa.-Psalm Uv:lU
Responslva reading: Psalm lxv.
Satrodaotlom.
Upon tha. last day of th yar HOI we
review th lessons which have been
drawn from th return of Judah to the
promised land, and auch a atudy remind
ua how in the progreaa of years God's
mercy prevails over judgment. Tha atory
we have pursued isVnot that of omnipo
tence crushing a worm, but of grace
guarding tha smoking wick of a lamp.
well-nigh xtlngul8bed. and breathing
it to a. flame (Is. xlll:3). They lit
tie understand the spirit of tb Old
Testament who do 'not see it to b th
spirit of a fllvlne compaeaion. Many a
man who-haa lived In Chicago 20, 40, SO
f ear could not tell a atranger where to
ind th JalL . H know it exlat. Ha
reads now and then that aom malefac
tor ia committed to It cells. But tie
haa never seen It It docs not atand
upon th lake front . -Th children whs;
pend long summer days In Jackaon
park, where are th muaeuma and
grassy plcnto grounds, have never com,
upon it. It la an institution or tn city,
a necessary institution of th city, but
it la notuthe" institution wnicn cnar-
acterlses lta llf and activity, .
- We have In th Old Teatament aome
thlng of v the history of centurlea
throughout which God exhibits th prln
clples of hi government W have
wars and rumora of war. But under au
the deen aotea of the a rest, solemn or
torlo. th discerning ear . eatche th
aweet vole of a dlvtn entreaty. Other
natlona were carried captive,- but Judah
mrmm wtnrM ftthe nstlona were-.de-
stroyed, but Judah still xt Jn ner
millions' of aona and daughtera, acatT
tered though they b throughout th
artn. ' 1 - .
It Is therefor with reason our com
mittee, upon Sunday school lessons gives
ua as th golden text ' lor tn rmai
atudy ef th year: "Thou crowneat th
year with goodn." . - . . ''.'
Th period covered In the' lessons of
this quarter covers about 100 years. It
extenda from, w may aay, 00 B. C to
400 B. C. v Seventy year OJ tnia tim
were pasaed in captivity. . Under the
leadership ofsa few sMf-sacrlflclng, de
voted and indomitable man, th willing
member of th trib wr permitted to
return. These men were heroes in th
truest sans of th, word. They wr
men who had proapered In exile. Zerub-babel-waa
a. "prince" (Ex. i:; 11:1) and
Neheralah srfavorit of th court (Neh.
I:1U last clause)r - Nevertheles they
were mad willing in tha day of Jeho
vah a power (P. cx:I). ' . '
.'. i Th Xiaeoa.
: Pan. v: 1T-S0 In th first lesson of
tha Quarter w ar introduced J tw on
of th noble charactera in history. Dan
iel, of patrician ancestry, supreme per
sonal charm and matchleaa courage.
Tha first scan choaen from his life is
on ao splendid so tragic, that it haa
always been a favorite with poeta and
artist. It bring into visid contraat
th arrogance of wicked sovereign and
hia Impotence. It aeema- to be God's
way of exhibiting hi Judgments, to
bring a proud- Sinner to th neignt oz
hia glory and then to caat mm down,
Belshasaf did not see hi emplr slowly
dlssolv. He aaw it collapse, aa did
Nanoleon. Many a giant wrong la am It.
tan to th earth, aa waa Goliath,- in tne
act of condemning God. While th very
foundations of the earth seemed to reel
Daniel atood calm and unmoved t de
clare th righteous will ot God la An
overthrow of th. wicked. r
Dan. vl: 10-21 Nothing exasperate
evil men mor than the vlctorlea of good
man. If DanleT had been envied Before,'
ha -waa bated now. But If Jiuch a man
had been useful to tb defeated dynaaty,
he was Indispensable to th victorious
one. Thla man .must be put to death,
waa th verdict of hi enemies. - He
could not be Impugned fo crime, there
for his virtuea muat be turned to .hia
undoing. When a good man la hated, it
ia usually for hi virtue, not for hia
mistakes. A plot was laid, subtly ann
ingenioualy concocted,, to make Daniel
obnoxiouq to tb king on account of hia
religion. Th outcome .of thla waa hia
being thrown to tha lion in tn royal
garden. Th result waa hia restoration
to mora than . hia pristine favor, hia
miraculous deliverance surrounding him
with a mysterious "aura" aa s favorite
trt heaven. -
Ex. 1: 1-11 But tha time had come
when Jehovah waa about to intervene
for : th direct and immediate deliver
ance of hia CTrosen people. Th period
of exile, 70 year, had constituted a se
vere but useful discipline for tb nation.
They had seen idolatry in lta owa homo,
and that was enough. People who de
spise th Christian religion are th laat
onea to leave it shores. The Jew
would never have known tha real apirit
of heathendom except by being forced
to live among th heathen. They were
alck now ot Bel and Ashteroth. They
longed to get back to their own home
again and to join in tha songa of Zlon
(Pa. exxxvti:S-4). Meanwhll th kings
of Babylon "began to think that they
had mad a mistake In ravishing and
abandoning,. Judaea. It would be wlaar
to rebuild It capital and to use It a a
buffer agalnat the rletng power of
Egypt. Such were possibly th thought
of Cyrus, but th thought of God wa te
restore hia repentant people and to pre
pare a way for tha coming" 6f th Mes
siah. . ?. " - .
Ea.Mil: 10: It: 5 That which, 1 torn-1
laed Judaea waa. Jerusalem, and that
which gave character to Jerusalem waa
lta temple. ' Tha fourth leason la occu
pied with" the atory of that restoration
which gave th returned exile an op
portunity to practice th requirements
of 'their religion. - It waa not without
incredible toll and amid no little danger
th work waa accomplished, since all
th enemle of right living hat tha vary
walla of a church. Their favorite way
of hindering tha true religion la by ask
ing to ba admitted to ita council upon
an equal footing. ' But th wis and
godly men who were. at th head of this
movement, snew. inai tn surest way
to ruin a good work la to -.form a part
nership with th devil. ' -
Zech. iva.iw on of tha great proph
ets of th Old Testament Is EsekleL
He wa carried Into captivity when
very young and- brought up in captivity.
But hia spirit was. never chalnedL He
waa not caat down by tha overthrow
of, Jerusalem which occurred after hia
own exna. is--wa not in despair by
the long years Of enslavement Ha en
dured becans he aaw "Hint who-la in
visible", (Heb. xl:J7). . And what he
aaw he epoke. Hi .songs cheered his
companions in - their long and weary
sojourn. "In strange land." Ha aatd
that th power to bring to paa the- di
vine, purposes Is the- power of God'
hwn Spirit, - When God ha promised
hi saints salvation, it will rls a a
spring, flow as a rlyer and broaden as
a sea. .-v .
KathV lv:10; v: Among tha move
ment of peoples by which th will of
God waa brought to pas in material
reality, not' the least unexpected waa
th elvatlon of an unknown Jewish.
maiden to tn position or a queen. ' At
first It seemed a if her honor would
cost th nation dear, since it bronaht
Into collision two sucfe stubborn wills
a those of Mordecai and Haman. But
God, who brlngi-th wondrou thlnga to
paa (Pa. lxxtl:ll). turned tbla to a
great victory: and tha sudden tranal
Hon from the shadow of death -to. the
sunshine of royal favor la celebrated
to this day In all landa where Jewa do
congregate, as "th .Feast or rurim.
- Esr vlll:21-Sl But despit Alt that
God waa doing . for. hia people, the
chariot wbeela still dragged - slowly.
What waa needed In Jeruaalem was
courage. For this purpose Nehemtah
wag sent of God and commlsaloned of
the king to rebuild the walla of th
city. d to establish for th weary
and disheartened remnant a place of
refuge and a. center of tribal llf. '
.Neh, 1:1-11 Id-thla great work the
aplrlt of prayer, prevailed. Wa aea it
by th humble and earnest petition
which th youthful Nehemlah offered.
Ukt an truly devout men, he' wa a
man of intena activity. . He pushed to
it completion what had been dragging
it slow length along. In hia auppllca
tion to God w have a model prayer for
all occasions, embracing eonfaaaion of
Bin, -remembrance of tha dlvln prom
ises and reliance upon the personal at
tributes of God. '
Neh. iv:7-J0 Tha man who had sac
rificed ao much, and .who believed ao
much was permitted to behold th real
isation of his hopes. He waa permit
ted to see Jerusalem no longer a heap
of ruins, but "a fenced city."- Once
mor the city of David took1-its place
among the capital of empire'. '
Men. vlll:l-is But all thla waa only
to be conserved by foaterlng tha piety
of . the people, through whose fidelity
the oracles -ef God must be transmitted
to future ages. It waa -not a religion
of prayer wheels and bell ringing. It
waa something to reform tha uvea ot
men and separata them from other na
tlona by raising them to a, higher plane
of belief and eonduct. - For this pur
pose th recovered" book, of the.awi waa
brought : forth and tha institutions of
religion reerected upon a securer baaia.
-lis., tne gratitude and tb conscience
of th common people. . , A '"'.,''"
Mai. 111:1-13 Th series of these stu
dies conclude with th glimmering of
th cross through th amok of th ex
piring sacrifice. andS a . vision of the
Coming Redeemer (la. ixa-TX, vs' '
"Buffalo Bill" has .decided to mo to
hia wife's horn at North Platte. Nebras
ka. His . friends aay the couol will
mak up. r i - :
Emory Gibson. IS year old. haa beea
chbsen "baby chief of the Oaaga In
diana In accordance with aa ancient
triennial custom of that trib. Every
third year a new baby chief la selected.
and -.thla year the title waa beatowed
on th Gibson boy, whoa father, a hit
man, . married a full-blood Osage
maiden The lade 'Indian name, con
ferred upon htm by Tom Tael Chief, ia
Sklnk-Kah-Hah-He-He. A five-day feoat
celebrated th new baby chief eleva
tion to th honored position.
Margaret Jessie Chung, a 16-year-old
girl of Chinas parentage living in Loa
Angeles, California, haa become a news
paper reporter there. - Sh is teaching
English in th Chines colony of that
city, and for a year past haa been sec
retary of a church memorial union. Mlaa
Chung ia thoroughly American in spirit
i... , . . . 1
John Hanisoni' on of th "81x Hun
dred" that mad th famous charge of
Baiaklava. In tha Crimean war, died at
bia home in Delhi; Delaware county,
New Tork, recently, aged 71 year. He
received a pension and honorary medal.
rwhlch th English government gave to
all the aurvivora.
AdlaL- E. - Stevenson, th only living
x-vlce-presldent of the United States,
not. of course, counting President
Rooaevelt is now 70 years of ace. hav
ing just celebrated hia birthday anni
versary 11 uw noraeaieaa on r.ranaim
aquar,"Bloomington, Illlnola. Mr. Stev
enson la apendlng the sunset of hia Ufa
quietly at hia home. He takes long
walk dally . throughout 'the city, and
hia tall, dignified form la a familiar
eight to the people of Bloomlngton, He
la a stalwart contradiction of th Osier
theory and give promts of rounding
out th eighty mark as majestically aa
he haa. th seventy.
Rev. Campbell Morgan of .Westmin
ster chapel, London, an institutional and
missionary church, haa decided to give
on tenth of all its income to foreign
missions, that it wouldsoon maintain
lone or two missionaries, and that ha
will preach on tnat subject once vry
month. .. .... . '; .
Our Popular Song Bureau.
., By William F. Kirk. '
(No. 11 of our charming aerlea, "I
Stole That Pie to Feed My Starving
Slater," la In a fair way 4p win the
capital prise. A well-known . theatrical
journal said-in a recent number, re
ferring to this great, oauaa: -i ne song
alnga itself nobody da haa th nerve
fo sing it"- Th musto ia by a promi
nent life insurance director, who shall
be nameless her forevermor.) - ,
Th courtroom It waa crowded with a
Whose wives and sweethearts sat
v.i there with them; too;
And aome . were weeping bitterly and
aom wer springing jokes -Th
latter, I 'am glad to aay, were few.
A pal young lad, aged twenty-three.
waa brought beror th judge, ,
Who asked him, ."Ar you guilty of
thl , erirnr"
Hia lawyerrwno wis at htstdertavS
him a -nervous nudge, 1
But th youth spok up with bravery'
aubiime: .1
' r : , CHORUS. ' '
I atola that pie to feed my starving
- aister, -- -( -I'm
not aahamed for ' to admit . my
smtlW. ' - '- - .
Sh married on of them there foreign
. ' nobles,
Who owned some, castles which had
- ,- not been built.
Sh waa a good stenographer,. youi
honor, - . ,
But found she couldn't earn enough
...-for two.: . . ' v-.
Then ah got aick and whan aha started
starving
2 'StoIs (that pie for her, and ao would
... ' you," ' . ;'' -' : ;.; . -s,
- .... IL '.
Th Judge he thought a minute, then
faced, this youth ao true,
Then aaid, "My boy, you haVa ap-
Tott'V did what all 'these Hie Inauranc
v fellows failed to do. '
, you've told the truth d 1 shall set
you iree. -- ' i
And then ha' flew Into a rage'and cried,
' "Bring on th dukl
H married thla poor girl When he
' '- - was broke."
They brought th tremhlltig villain, and
.r-- than, th Judge did -sty: ..
- .VX sentence" you Jo hang untlF you
- chok!"" ' " ;
1 - - CHORtTS. " '''
"I Stol that pla to feed my atarvlng
' . - Bister," eto,
,, .... ... ... ......'.......i
PERSONAL FA-NCIES
. " ; , Realization. .,. : ' . 1
" From the Atchison Globe.. -
A man never realises how many peo
ple want to treat htm until ba haa sworn
0E "J t-. .. :- - ; .;.
LETTERS FROM TllZ
PEOPLE . '
Wouen'aad Toting.
Bherwood, OrH Deo. tl. To tbiEdlto
of. Th Journal I have aeen n article Jl.
in th . . December , IS edition - headed
"Merely a Suggestion," in regard to
woman's right to vote. W all know "l
there are two aides to any or all ques
tions. I tak the opposite side. First, .
In reference -to th Scripture, found in
I Cor. xlv:l4-J5, in which the spoatle .
forbids women to apeak in th church.
Now w muat consider what kind of
women they were ("Corinthian women").
They wer .women . who wer unlearned
and just emerged out of heathenism and ;
Idolatry. Thla does not apply to th .
American women, who are educated,
cultured and refined, , In many Instanc '
above th average man, to ay sh ha .
no right to vote, when foreigner can t.
come. into this country, reside one year:
and with their naturalisation papers go
to the poll and vot. .- - -
Our women , hav as much right to -vot
or hold offlc aa they have. In '
refereno to , thoa preacheVa and
woman's work, they, ara doing mor to
alleviate th suffering of widow and
children than, any other work could '
possibly do by securing woman's- eights.
We will be reinforced in eur-Jwork of
doing away with intoxicating drlnka
from our. fair land for all time to com.
which I th cause of nine tenths of
the poverty, misery and crime spread.. '
broadcast in ths land. ., I will c)t j.
Bcrlptures found in tsalah xxxl:9-10-ll-20,
.the prophecy which, i being, ful
filled in th -rising up of ' honorabl
women. Christ said, in his teaching,
"Lt ber aloue; sh hath wrought , a
good work."- , -,, '
To BUm It alU up, if women hav net
right to vote, where did men get their
right T Thar la a better -way to aettl
war than to make th. powder- fly.
There ar no persona ao much: opposed ' .
to tha horrors of war sa ar th
mothers of -our land, they cannot bear -
th thought of having their aona aet up
for a target to b hot t
. A WORKING WOMAN.
THE PEOPLE PAY THE
;( FREIGHT ; '
Ray Stannard Baker In MeClure's Maga -
- Bin,"- -. -- .
That.los haa to b made up by aom
body. It doea ; not com out of . th
pocket ef th railroad raea; wa may ,
be aura of that Th railroad gets It
back la high, rates on the farmer's prod-"
acts, - ror tn rangers nav no trust.
They get It back in rates on your hata
and shoes,-your food, your coal and . '
other eommodltlea. You pay it you
ar a aort of unconscious philanthropist
aaalsting Mr. Armour 1n hia bualneaa by .
paying part of hia freight rata. .
Armour and hia associates not ' only
aacend to th height of power, play
ing; thua with thndetlaie of cities,
but they also go to the depths of petty -.
trickery. Nothing aeema" too great nor
too gmall when a penny is to be turned.
On would suppose that when thay"
mak million in wholesale rata die- ,
criminations that they would not de-
scend to mean and trivial aubterf ugea.
But examine thia condition of thlnga.
Beef la hung up' in tha refrigerator
cars. There Is a spae underneath an :
the floor of the" car. It haa been
charged that thtd spao I .Sometimes ,
Crowded full of dressed poultry, egjis,
and so on. Poultry and eggs take, a
high freight rata; but, thua packed, Ar
mour get them carried for nothing, it
la hia car, it la-hta packing-house; he '
baa tremendous influence with th rail
roads. - Inspectors are, -ot course, ap
pointed to see that no . contraband
freight la carried and that th weight
ar correctly- registered, but there ar
many cara and few lnapector aa th
testimony in these daaea plainly ahows. .
How much of such business goes -on no '
one knows, and no on can find out;
but it has been shown to axlat In nu
meroue caaea. Of course. If Armour can
carry hia poultry and eggs from Chi
cago to New Tork free that la, If he
can ataal th freight charge, or even a
small part of it he can underaell hia '
competitors . and ultimately put them
out of business. Indeed. - a very larg '
part of th poultry an egg bualneaa of
the country la now tn hia handa, fcnd
more la drifting that way every year.
LEWIS AND CLARK
, At Fort Clatsop.:-", -
December 21. It rained the whole
night, but ceased thla morning, and but
little rain fell In th cours of th day;
still, th weather waa cloudy and the
wind high from the aoutheaat The
Clatsop chief and hia party left us, after
begging for a great number of articles',
which, as w could not spar them,
wa refused, except a raaor. . We wer
employed all day in picketing the fort, - .
In th vnlng. a young Wahkiakum
chief, with four men and two womeru
arrived with aom dreased elkskln and
wapatoo for sale. We purchased about a .
cuanel and a- half of these roots fov ,
some red beads and small pieces of .
brass' wire and an old check. The chief,,
made u a present of half a bushel mora, -i
for which we gave him a medal and a " ,
piece of rlbbont to tl around hi hat, ' I
Thesi"' roots are " exts-emely welgome, 7 '
Bine our meat haa beoom spoil-, and -;
w weV desirous of purchaalng th re
malnder, but th chief " would not dis
pose ef any more, aa h waa on hia way
to trad with th Clafsops. They re
mained with us, however, till the next
day. " ',:.
i ' The New Anaesthetic, 'i '
" From the Chleagol Poet li -;
Those who have experimented wltfc
scopolamine claim that it haa none of .
th disadvantSgea of the older anaea
thetlca and. haa good "point which re-' '
pasted test in the operating-rooms will",
bring to knowledge. While it has bean
used alone for simple operations and to . -a
considerable degree In connection with
other anaeathetlca. it haa not yet won
th confidence of conservative surgeons
to tha extent that they feel justified In --.
aserttng It to be of a merit that wilt
drive ether and chloroform from th .
operating-room. Th-us , of acopola-'.1
mine ia, however, in .It earliest stage, '
and tha Bclentlfla men will not rest until
lta value haa been tested most thor-.
oughly. One of tha moat Important -ad- .
vantagea cited ia that thla new anaes
thetic may be administered- hypodcr- ,
mlcally, and th patient sinks Into an
apparently natural slumber. Repeated .
Injections cauae a complete anaeathesla,
and after th ' operation the patient
awakens aa If from is natural Bleep., it
ia atated that he feela no aense of die
comfort and is without the dlntreeslng".
nausea which follows recovery from th ,.
anaeathesla of thr and chloroform. .
Cv' - ' .
, Two to Make a Bargain. - .
i . From th Lincoln -Star.
John Bharp Williams la finding out' 1
that 1f h 1 to lead, hia party must ol-i ;i
tow, r . J K, -.-tf f ..'
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