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TANNER CREEK SEWER
rp HE TANNER CREEK SEWER CONTRACT
1 .-unearthed me mosvjiajrsni; an ...... .
vt of fraud that Portland had .been treated to for
Ion time:- The fraud mi self-evident and wa demonstrated-
-to the-eomplete -satisfaction-not- alona-of-tha
perta whoadaheaTOinatkn1mthe-pubKc'aa--welt
;If wa necessary to do over much of the work, but that
"Hid not allay the scandal There were grand jury inves
tigations and indictments embracing not alone the con-
tractor but i the city engineer,. hia assistant and, nthcra
as wall. One of the contractors waa
iw i... nnnfatinulv diaaDoeared and will not
turn rnliftairl " Tf'rtTsnQT"KJK'y "ntinhe atnrnrhtow I intA tht - 4.a -
, river
Another contractor nas neen
'being convicted, and in the usual order of things tne
case against him will ba dismissed in course of time
when the public has had enough time to forget the
valient features of .the case., The case against the city
engineer has beert dismissed; the case against his deputy
will doubtless also be dismissed, for whatever immunity,
was granted to Elliott would almost necessarily apply to
Scoggin, When this timecomes it .would be ridiculous
lo punish th,e faithless inspector when the principals
kad escaped without punishment r -,
". So we have another exhibition of the way things are
managed in Portland and therein we' shall find very
Jittle to discourage contractors in the future from doing
precisely as was done in the Tanner creek aewer. . In
thia particular case The Journal's .strongest criticism
.was never directed against the contractors, but against
the city engineer's office." Regardless of contract" or
specifications the contractor does precisely the sort of
Job that the city engineer insists upon his doing. If
the engineer insists upon the letter of the specifications
that is the sort of job the city will get; if he is. careless,
'. indifferent or conniving, the city will get a completed
Job to correspond. Everybody in Portland knows the
sort of job that was being turned out in the Tanner creek
aewerrAtTdmosrany-time itwaa likely to care in and
bring about such havoc and entail such property losses
s the city has never known in its history from such
sources. But the outcome of it all is simply a better
ob on the sewer, due not to the authorities but to pres
sure from private citizens and the atrenuoua exertions
. of- this newspaper, and : nobody i .
feasance jn office, or indeed for actually cheating or
tonniving to cheat the taxpayers, as was . so flagrantly
, Hone in this case, ' . . ' '--J-, ''.-"
The outcome. is not. one which. the public can view
' with much satisfaction, nor is it one, on the whole, of
which the district attorney's office should feel inordi
nately proud.
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IMPROVING OREGON ORCHARPi
'itiiKE li a manifest and gratifying, awakening of
M . the fruitraisers of the Willamette, valley to the
" necessity of ridding their orchards of pests, and
producing only wormless and otherwise dean fruit 'The
fruit inspectors of the several districts in western Ore
gon are doing a splendid work in holding meetings at
choolhouees, urging the importance : and necessity of
cleaning up the orchards and keeping them dean, and
illustrating their talk id effective ways. Farmers arc
to realize (he importance of absolutely clean orchards
and fruit, and that in aimple justice
iwell as to himself every one with an
to rid It of puts, or if this cannot
A suiticient amount .of spraying, it has been abundant
ly proven, done at the right times and with the most
Effective matter, will rid young and otherwise healthy
orchards of scale and all other pests; but in the case
f some old "orchards, that have been pest-ridden many
years, an ax and a fire may be the only sufficient means
;5f. cure.- The nozzle of an ax" is coming to be the
watchword up the valley, and. in southern Oregon, and
with that motto .well lived up to we shall soon have
ir lean orchards throughout Oregon, and vastly better
- fruit J . : - -j
'T It Is a ahame that we people of Oregon can scarcely
feet any really good applea unlesa we pay almost their
weight in silver for them. There are fine, sound apples
k-aised in some localities in Oregon, but these are sent
fcbroad, while we have to use the wormy, scrubby apples
that are a disgrace tothe atate in general and in particu
lar to the man who raised, them. But there are signs
. that . thiaJ is going to be changed. ' Orchardists and
farmers are waking up to the need and necessity of pro
ducing clean, sounds well-flavored fruit, and we expect
to aee a great change daring the next few year. . '
- Oregon ought to be and may be made the best fruit
estate in the union, but it will take work, with the "noz
Ble," and some with the Tax.", Go at it, and keep at it.
Jt will payv ;v;.'' . t. . , .- ,
7 V VOTERS SHOULD REGISTER.
t7
'OTERS SHOULD BEAR IN
V
' - they have registered since Januarys 1 of thia
year tbey cannot aim petitions for the nomina.
tion of candidates to be voted oif in the primaries. This
Is a strong reason for registering at once. ' Every good
citizen should recognize the duty of doing his share
toward securing as nominees men of integrity and abil-
, Ity. , If he fails to register early he disqualifies himself
for, participating In the. work of bringing: good candi
idatea before the votera in the primariea. The citizen
fiaa a twofold duty , to perform in the making of hia
party'a ticket not only must he go to the polls on the
flay of the primary election and vote intelligently and
aliaeriminatingly for tha best men on the primary ballot,
k fcut he must also do hia ahare beforehand in bringing
tnit the best men and aecing that their names are on the
lallot It i the purpose of the direct primary law to
How the voters, not the bosses, to name the party's
tandidatea for office. It will be the fault not of the Jaw
-butrTjf thrTOter 1f Tinfirncandidaterare 'placed on the
ticket v'..-':, V'
I V Gambling at Sea.
' ' i Front Iiondon Truth. - "
X-TrttndTorTHlne-renarTuMMa
from a trip to the United States very
full of the mlaohlef done by professional
"kraniblerS 'and cara-abarpera on' the At
Jantlo llnere, and strongly of opinion
that the shipping eompaalaa are respon
sible for. the .alateneo of this evil.
It la pretty eortain, I baHeve, that the
blackleg business Is organised like any
other Industry, and that the ganga who
frequent the AUaatle linare are regular
mitlsyee of aa Individual or firm. It
la at any rate eertaln that the member
of the ganra are known to the ships'
tiffloera, earf'ttr friend telle me that
the names of seven of them were pointed
tint to him on the passenger list of tha
"White iter llnar en which he returned
nd the Individuals Identified as they
sat at table.- It la Intereatlng to no
that among them wae a woman and a
grmith ef Innocent appearance.
It la one of the worst featume ef
the evtt that many of. thara are young
etsre going nut to America or kCanMa,
with most ef thlr worldly wsalth in
thalr nockata. My friend learned that
I gang m hia) sals, fot Utt from eex-1
O N DAI LY
'" INOBPINDBNT N IPiPIS
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
FIASCO.
tried and rnnvictcd.
tccontend.''Most
Tudire Mack, it
twice ukb mmrai
who violate the
Perhaps, if the
of Portland in his
judge of this city,
to him without too
we a Judge Mack
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one of Oregon's hard winters, or perhaps the season
hare gradually moderated during the century . with set
tlement and cultivation. -
One thing that
of game 100 years
punished .f or jniM
Drewyer and
.
this morning up
to his neighbora as
orchard is bound
the pioneera than
be done, destroyTt
be explained J We
explanation, if they
the matter, through
DEATH
G
OOD OLD
ifIND that unless
w
HAT A
public view, but
This spectacle
tain passengere at one etttlng, and that
on a recent voyage of the -came ship
ywm easeaweer e
the tune of Moe. He therefore -urgss
that aa the companlee know the Indi
viduals Jhay .ahould absolutely . refuse
to carry them, and stand tha racket uf
legal proceedings for ao doing, r -
: A Place for Jeremiah.
V From the Ladlae1 Home Journal.
A certain prosy preacher recently gave
an endless discourse on the propheta.
Flrat he dwelt at length on the minor
propheta. At laat be finished them, and
the congregation gave a atgh of relief.
He took a long breath and continued:
"Now I ahall proceed te the major
prophete." ',- '
After the major propheta had received
more then ample' attention the congrega
tion gave another elgh of relief.
"Now that I have finished with the
minor prophste and the major propheta,
what about JeremlafeT , Where le Jere
aalah's pleeet" -f- .
At thia point a tall man arose In the
back of the church. - "Jeremiah can have
re I
any Place,- he Bald X going home,
JOURNAL
mo. v. oauoxx
vv 'C, JUDGE TO THE RESCUE. .
IN OTHER AND LARGER CITIES than Portland
the people: -.and the authoritiea are organizing.
"warfare upon'notorioua t'hote18 thtt are m part
responsible, for the ruin of young women and girl., I
Chicagoi-evidence- haa -reeently-beea-taken -along thia
llnerrafir-thffcago6ufliat,-iir
Dunne for not closing up these "hotels," says he , should
go over to Judge Mack' courtroom and listen tp the
proceedings there. They will convince him, as they
of the erring girl whe are brought
thee - downfall -to -these 'hotels';
is further stated, had determined not
to wait on the mayor any longer, but to take the matter
of suppressing these dives into his own hands. "Here
after." he said. "I ahall aee that none of the persons
Jaw by harboring young girl escape
punishment These hotels flourish like weeds in every
part jof the city. They are a menace to every young
girl - in Chicago. They beckon , to-them.-- . From tiui
time- on I shall issue warrants for every proprietor of
one of these places who is brought to my attention.. I
shall sit as an examining magistrate in each ease. I
ahall aee to it that they do not escape the law." i
council persist in opposing the mayor
efforts to abolish such places, some
on evidence that can be presented
much publicity, may do ao. Haven't
here? ; .- - -
.WHY .WASNT THERE GAME? ;
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F THE WINTER 100 year ago had been like this
one, Lewis and Clark would up to thia date have
written a different diary. - But it must have 'been
seem strange to many ia the scarcity
ago. - .The Lewis and Clark party
could never aecure enough game, either by hunting dili
gently themselves or by hiring Indians to hunt for them,
to supply their larder with meat, nor could they even
procure -a full supply of fihand ao had to have recourse
at time to horse and dog meat; the latter became ao
common that they grew rather to like it Their diary
for January ?8, for instance, says: , ,
Lepage set out this morning to hunt
About noon Howard and Werner returned from - the
alt works with a supply of alt; the bad weather and
worse road had caused their delay. They informed us
that the saltmaker were very short of provisions, having
krtled ly tweUertff-UtClast aix days,' anTIhaOSerc
were no elk in the vicinity - The party that wa sent
the Netul for the eight elk returned
in the evening, bringing three only. They had all been
killed just before a fall of snow, which so altered the
face of the country that even the hunters who had killed
them could not find their game again." --v
This is only a sample of many recitala in their 'journal,
and except for which we would have naturally assumed
that the woods of Oregon were then alive with game
deer, elk and bears and that any desired number could
have been killed any day. ' But it was not so. ' Game
was apparently far more plentiful after, the arrival of
it was 100 years in
wish some oldtimer would give an
have any knowledge or theory of
the columns of The Journal
OF KINO CHRISTIAN.
KING CHRISTIAN died, as he had
lived, fortunately, without prolonged suffering,
and without making any great fusa about it
He was nearly 88 years old, and had been king of the
Danea for over 42 years. ' He raised a family of six chil
dren, through whose marriages he became known as
the "father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters
is the, queen of England, another is the dowager em
press of Russia, mother of the czar; one of his sons
is king' of . Greece; and a grandson has recently been
elected king of Norway. Hia successor is his oldest
son, Frederick, 62 yeara of age, who, like his father, is
literally a gentleman and a scholar. King Christian,
though of the aristocracy or a titled family, aon of a
duke, was not of royal lineage, but waa chosen king of
Denmark in 1863 by varioua Eur6pean powers, and his
incumbency of the office -has proven that it was well
bestowed. During his reign Denmark has participated
actively in no wars, there haa been great progress in
education and along industrial lines, and the people have
generally been prosperous and contented. The old king
loved his people and was beloved by them. , He was
proud- of his family, as he had a right to be. He was
respected and honored not only by other and in aome
respects greater aovereigns, but by mankind generally.
As king go, he waa a good one, and Danea everywhere
will juatly pay a respectful tribute -to hia memory. "
OREGON IN THE HOUSE. -
STRANGE FIGURE Hermann of
Oregon presents in the house of representa
tives! . Senator Burton, in order to draw hia
mileage and salary, appeared momentarily at a door
way, but then had the grace to retire and keep out of
Hermann actually occupies a seat and
votes and goes through the forms of filling the-of ficeJ
to which he was unfortunately elected. Other members
of the' house ignore him; he has no influence in any
of the departments; he -is a "singed cat," and Oregon
ia being properly punished. - .
ought to be a lesson and a warninar:
letJUa Jn..bothdistricta.elect the- beat men -poesible-next
June.' In this district, at least, the right sort of a man
ha not yet become a candidate.
' Housework at College.
Onrreapondanee ef Lsndsn Telegiauli.
At one of the oldeat eollegee In tha
United States, Mount Holyoke, a cer
tain amouaef4onoatlo earHio lias
been from the beginning exacted of all
the students. Mary Lyon, who founded
the college, believed In recognising the
dignity of labor, and thought the disci
pline -wholesome.. Practically all the
work of the college was performed by
the girls.
When ' Wellasley college - wae estab
lished aome years ago in a suburb of
Boston modification of this aystem
wae adopted. . Since It has grown .to
such vast proportions,, however, and
has been ao heavily endowed, the house
work . requirement haa -been relegated
to the Umbo of thlnge superseded. 1
It Is still possible for girls to.de
housework In one or two of the college
buildings, but It Is not a requirement
6f the curriculum.' The student now
doee it to obtain a definite reduction- In
bar expenses, amounting to from (2 to
ft e year. In some of the western
eollegee for women almost the entire
oost of the course eaa be paid In thia I
SMALL CHANGE
. OMve us. wermlM apples. -
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Jerome must have bad ulta a let et
fun out of that caaa. ,
k
Oregon StiQ baa Blnger Hornuum
Its bands. 3o bma. Utoalo Sn.-
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When an oM aoan aeta paoumoula. tf a
ail up witn mm. '
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Can't any candidate think of srothunr
Mf W aajr in nia piauorml. y
Am soon aa the Oregon exenraton atrnek
California It began to rain, and pourod
down ten dajra or so, which, while 4olng
some . aamage, waa worta . several mu
lion dollara to that atata. ZhaMMla
down there oould afford to hire a lot et
irOSmvorywuxtar.
roloheritanaNras a mighty good bor
rower; poor Kugene Field In his time
wasn't la Mann's elaaa at alt.
What the Red Tleket Brigade proposn
Is In all probability something that
should be beaten. i ... , .
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is one thing te ear ta Fault
Bigletow'a faveri be baaat gone em the
atage ret ...
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gome women regard marriage as merely
a neoeeaary preparation for grass widow
hood. ,. 1 .- - ,
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'. Made year garden yetf ...-. -t
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Somehow, we're rather sorry fee that
little kid, Marshall Field III.
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IThocte le expected te make another
brief visit to the isthmus ef Panama
aome time this year. .
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We would like for onoe te read af a
new baby that wasn't "bouncing." What
a newly bora baby wants te bounce tee,
anyway, : is something we could never
find out-'., . . . . '.
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' Tha people are tired of peaaat politics.
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If January ta going te shew as a
reese-up If s got to hurry. '
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The . Pendleton Tribune (hidebound
Rep.) la worrying lest the Demoaratle
party . in.. Umatilla, county should be
"Jobbed." The - Tribune- Is -juite - fre
quently unoonacloualy humorous. - .
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Most legislative eaadldatas are signing
the pledge. . ... .
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If Senator Oearia should eoaolude to
turn loose in a speech before congress
adjourns he would show some of thoee
eld talking moaebacka what a genuine
orator le. . '
Chicago haa too many ealoone and la
considering the proposition of raising
the license to 11.000. Portland haa about
M0 too. many saloons, and a like move
la In order. '
e a
..Jlottla wherefbollsb) young girls are
avatematlcallr ruined are belne black.
listed la other cities, aa wall aa Portland. I
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Telume X, Kal, of the Canny Tribune
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Canby wanta a county high sehooL
e e
Gold Beach Globe: A man around
town buying woodpecker scalps says be
pay a si a scalp if they ere fine onee:
haa paid aa high aa ll.le for aa extra
fine, red one.
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Canby Tribune: . Tea, Canby le on the
map an right and la atill shipping more
farm products than any other town be
tween Portland and aouthern Oregon
points. . . - - 4
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Navigating In Tha Dalles these daya
la a conundrum, - says the Chronicle.
Wheels don't do; it'e not up to runnere;
boats can and no port and we are eon
eldering trying airships. Truly eur
name la mud. - : ,
Two eltlsene of Deyville. In Wheeler
county; are said to contemplate running
ror governor. ...-..
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Frultmen worrying aome about - the
unseasonable weather.
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- Rogue river haa beea quite high dur
ing the week, and bae washed the bar
out la great shape, saya the Gold Beaoh
Globe. The ehancee are vessels oom
ing In and 'going out will not have much
trouble for a long time. ,
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- Big demand in southern- Oregon for
Cooe bay coal.
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Myrtle Point Enterprise: - Plans are
completed for a railroad up Cunning,
ham creek to tap Peart'a coal mlnea.
The rood will be 10 miles, besides apura
to the Simpson Lumber company'a large
bodies of timber. The work commences
soon. ' -.:.'..
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Canyonvllle hae received lta publlo
aobooi library. .
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TUlamook eounty people willvote en
the question ef . cattle running a(Jarge
in the roaaa
Fossil Journal: Rev. I. B. Brown baa
developed into a thorough, up-to-date
"water witch" and la new in the act of
producing plenty of well water for aome
of the dry ranchers north of town. If
the reverend gentleman la successful In
hie water hunting he will have more
work In this neighborhood than be can
do. ' . '
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Hood. River apples-rowers ere deter.
mined to do even better yet .
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A 1,100-acre farm near Corvallla waa
aold to Portland men for I2S.000.
aaaasisssaseailsa ! iWeta aims a .ejesii . u .a '
rather 'pellatin of the Jesuit mission
at Jordan, last Thuradey lost the ends
of three fingers In aa accident in the
eawmllL
Many Sherman county people have the
"Tezaa fever.t
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' A 40-pound bell elepper fell from the
tower -of the Presbyterian ehuroh at
PrineviUe yesterday and just missed
Rev, Mitchell, who was ringing the kelL
;V -x a e " -s
The Dalles ta Improving "its' park
grounds. , ,. . ' .
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A' Cooe eounty man offered to pay tt
a bead for hia pick et 10 ewee eui ef
a flock,, but wee refused. Good aheep
are valuable, say the Bandon Recorder.
' A Wyomlng aheepmaa bought S.'tOO
head of aheep, mostly yearUcaa. near
HeDpner, tot 1J haa ; . u
WHY CHINA'S OLD ;
VASES ARE VALUABLE
Tt-m Rmri Pans DuBoiS. .
Prleaa of aaea at the Heber Jt
Blahon aal aselta extremely the eurl
oelty of parsons who do net know the
art of China. These pricee were. enor
moua even If one gpnslder that the sale
waa made In excUent eireumstancsa.
It waa made Wthe Amerloan art gal'
leriea The fashionable and . very
wealthy- friends of the soil e tor were
there, eaxloue to obtain the ocjects mai
he had made them like more than all
tha o there ef hia rahlnata,-Tho exnerta
were, there.
Their eompeUtlon waa naturally ar
dent. The art dealers of the present
time are euro that the only way to get
them la to payfelgh pr!csejtereriob
leota.But tha uninitiated are not
plea sad entirely by tBse"eyplanattona
They think that China's art laprtce
Of tne idle and very weaiiny. ..
One Of them eald to me. "I aa per
suaded that It la possible to snake one's
self like anything. Thia 1 why there
are collectors of China's -vaaea" He
was mistaken, of eouraa. But in art one
may not learn what one doee not know.
If one may not aee Instinctively that a
Chinese vaae Is Invaluable, ' one may
never, never aee that It la. - In art eon
verte are impoeelble.
There la nothing la the world ao In
tensely artietio as a Chinese vaae. It
doea not tell a atory. It doea not preach
a moral lesson, it doee. not teeca one
bow te make raooay, bow to be a auo-
ceae, now to oo anyuuag. . t js sun'
ply torn and oolor.-- -r--r
It la ao beautiful aad so uaelees that
even the Chinese that Invented It after
the Persians, aad surpassed them In
popularity with it have eeaeed to make
It elnee the' eighteenth oentury. The
Chinese have -no longer the Mine where
in waa burned the clay of their amaaing
Tear by year the admiration of art
collect ore tor them grows in intensity;
day by day the number of persons that
have money enough to buy 4hem grows
in the United States. I am very glad.
The possession of a Chlnaae vase makes
ef a man an artlat- r ,
Ita poroelala la superior to all the
other' varieties of porcelain that the
world has known. When lta firing was
entirely auooesaful the failures were
pitilessly rejected the philosophers of
China attributed the sucoess to tat
Spirit ef the Klin. - '- .
He protected the Bring or the eeram
late that he liked. Their vasee are
tranalucld, comparable to jade,' blue aa
the eky, thin aa a leaf or Chinese paper,
brilliant aa a mirror, white as snow,
plaintively eonoroua, objects of light in
the radiance ef preeloue stones. -
The Chinese vases In colors or en em-
sis are moTe learned In tonea than all
the palettee of great painters of the
universe. Waa there ever, outelde of
China, an emperor as srtlstlo as Chi
TeuftgT-He eaHrrT wanrthCvaser 6f
one sees after the rain ta the apace be
tween two cloud a. .
He eald It and at onoe hia potters
obeyed. The blue-of-the-eky-after-the-
raln Is a color oi tne tentn century.
When the nottera who knew lta secret
died, broken pieces of the vaaea wherein
it appeared were worn as ornamenia ay
great persons, . V-. -
In the sixteenth century Tcheou and
ta the eightheentb. , Thang-Kong redls
aovaradthe secret Who cares for it
nowT If a potter knew it be
would "make - Of It ta '.our . time,
a trust, a fortuno.aVMseood
lackala.
The blue and white vases are those
which the Chinese art collectors like
beet. The white vaaea are those which
the old Spanish experte preferred. Eu
ropean collectoro disdained the yellow
vases until Regnault used their golden
tint la the curtain Of hie painting ol
"Salome" - - , .
The violet vases are- perhapa the
ecarceet because their color is the least
easily obtained; the celadon resembles
jade and waa extolled by Madame de
Pompadour. There are crackled vases,
eggshell vases, red vaaea, green vases,
and each variety haa provoked for ages,
in all. countries, the passionate prefer
encee ef the most apt art lovers.
The blue-and-wblte vase . for which
Henry J. Duveen he buys blue-and-
white vesee for J. Plerpont Morgan-
paid 110,000 at the Heber it Bishop
sale waa feet U Inchee tall. Its
diameter waa 11 Inches. The blue ie of
the lapie-laauU tint that la a standard
of comparison.
. Ia thia blue la a picture ef the em
peror and hia associates reviewing a
parade of the women of the palace
riding oa ponies. I liked much better
the blue- and white vaae that brought
17.100. It wag bought by C. S. Phillips.
Thle vase is only 1 Inchee tall, but
Its white le fascinating. The blue
makee the figure of a womaa atandlng
beside a Hon. The date of the work is
171S-17JS, a bad date for the aevere art
collectors of China. But the work le
ao beeutlful that I ahould give for It
If 1 were Mr. Morgan, my tlO.VOO vase,
I feet ttt inohee tall, and aeveral other
art objects of my art collections.
That 1 7,1 00 vase waa in the collection
Of Brayton Ivee that was sold In March,
1881. It brought much less then, but
we were not. as artlstle then aa we are
nowt There le much Badness at the
scandal of wealUT, at the folly of men.
A great human tenderness for -thlnge
has . come into our, world. It Is a fine
achievement '
H. H. Rogers Joba Jokeamitha. '
' From the New TorkfVorld.
' Henry H. Rogere, vice-president of the
Standard Oil company, head of the -"system"
eo - vigorously denounced by
Thomae W. Laweon end generally con
sldered one of the' coldest-blooded
money-makers in the country, qualified
yesterday for president of the Million
aire Jokesmlth'e union, which hia chief.
John D. Rockefeller, founded in Cleve
land last summer. To the reporters be
said:
"Well, boye, did you ever hear the
atory of how Mark Twain met Rev. Dr.
Twltchell and got religion? Not When
he jrent tn JlaoJdtaJlva.hlawUa eald
to him one day: 'Samuel, we have wan
dered around a good, while aad -led con
siderable of a bohvnlan life. Now that
w ' hav settled "down' here" flhlnk" we
ought to join aome church and be re
spectable. It'e the thing to do at least
It waa that way I wee brought up in
Elmira.' , Mark agreed and suggested
that., they make, the rounds of the
churchee and pick out the one they liked
best
"They did ao, Sunday after- Sunday,
until they bad vlatted all, and then for
a few Sundays nothing wae eald. Twain
hoped that the eubjeot waa forgotten
end he would not have te go anywhere.
But one day Mra. Clemene reminded
htm. 'Samusti' ehe eald, we have been
to all the churchee and now you ahould
decide which one we are to attend.'
Twain thought a long while and finally
eald: Tbere'a that Methodist cburoh
down In the aide etreet I rather liked
the preacher's sermons, let's go there.'
." "No, Samuel,' replied Mra Clemens,
sternly, It is not sermons you .need, but
prayers.'
"Twain thought again ' for" a while.
Xhaa ha xenliela. . -. . N
"Well. If t'a prayers I need, let's go
to vr. VTwitehell'a church. He waan't
very herd on me in hie prayers.'
"So, to Dr.- Twltcball'e church v they
went. - Some weeks ieter a Hartford maa
met Senator Joseph Hawley in Wash
ington. . Hi,.' .n.lA. '. II. nAl.lmi.
we have bad a great rellgioua revival In
Hartford.' . , '-" --,-.-..-"
-Indeed.'. said ' Hawley. 1 hadn't
heard about it' .
""Oh! It .was very ' successful. We
only loot IT. but we arot Mark Twain.'
Then Mr. Rogers wes called to the
witneae stand to -talk about Standard
Oil: Hia smile waa replaced by a atera
frown, and his merry jests were , turned
into avaalona and refusals to anawer the
atteraey-geaeral'a questions.
THE BARBAROUS CHIEF
Jy Ella Wheeler WllooW-
(OoorrlKht. laoe. bt W. B. Hunt.l
Taere-was : er kingdom . known as tha
Mind, - j.- .. ' .-: ..
A kingdom vast aa fair; '
And the brave . king, .Brain, had fa
; : . right to relga- r . ; . . ' .
' la royal eplesdor there. ;
Oh. that waa a beautiful .land, ' '.
Which unto thia kiner waa siren -
Filled with everything good and grand.
Ana U reaened from earth -te Heaven.
But . a savage monster earns one day
From ever a distant border: -
He warred with the king and dlaputed
hie away, ..
Aad aet the whole land tn disorder.
He mounted the throne,, which he made
his own:
'Re sunk- tha kinardota ta arrlef.
There waa trouble and ahame from the
hour he came
Ill-temper, the baTbaroua chief,
He threw dowa the eaatlea ef love and
peace, r ..
He burned up the altera Of prayers;
He trod dowa the grain that waa plant
- by Brain, - i:
And scattered thistles aad tares.
He wasted the storehouse of knowledge
' and drove -.
Queen Wisdom away tn fright
And a terrible gloom, like the aloud of
doom, 'j-'i v ' ' - , .
Shrouded the land la night v
Bent en more haves, away he rushed
' To the nelcbberlng klngdonv Heart:
And the blossoms of kindness and hope
ha eruahed.
And satlenoe be Bleroed wMh Ma dart
And he even went on ta the Isthmus
- -Bout v .
-That unites the Mind with. God.
And ita beautiful bowers el fragrant
flowera
' With a ruthless heel he trod.
To' you la given thle - wonderful land.
Where ths nrdlv Brain haa away;
But the border ruffian la near at band
Ba on tout wuard. I pray,
Beware of - Ill-temper, the 1 barbarous
chief. L -
- He ta cruel aa vlre er slni
And your beautiful. kingdom will eome
to grief - . ' -.
If Once you let him tn. , -H ..
Our Popular Song Bureau.
Br William F. Mrk.
(No. II of thia aeries. "Coma Home
Rafora the Scrapple Glte too cold.
Dear." la making all klnda of a hit In
Philadelphia. In fact you have no Idea
how great a sensation It. haa created.
If I were to tell you wnat a eur it naa
made, you wouldn't believe ma The
mueie Is by Mayor Weaver.),
In far-off Philadelphia, where t hope to
never be.
A natlent wife waa sitting en a slightly
worn settee.
She seemed, while she waa setting there,
a nrer to doubte and fears:
A close observer might have saw 'her
lamps -wae wet with teare.
Quoth aha, "I'm waiting here for Jack
you net it am i no run-
There are twelve ginmllla on the
hail atop at every oner
ghe waa a sad young creature as she eat
there all alone. s J
And when the clock struck half -past
eight, aba loudly then did moan:
','' Chorus: ... - - .v -.
Come home be (ere the aerapple gits
, - too cold, dear, . .
Come home before the scrapple gits
too cold; .
Ton, know your little wifey bates to
, aoolttdeer, -
But theee bare downtown stunts are
sitting old.
Wbea first we wed you premised for
to love me,
And love's sweet story then you often
told, , -
Coma heme, my husband brave, end all
. will be forgave .
Come home before the scrapple glte
too cold." ., . j,
'in. :::".v ;
All thle waa many yeara agohe Barer
- - did return,
Although bis truatlng helpmate for hia
.- presence long did yearn;
There wae no eenee of pity In his sruel,
. selfish breast s.
And now hee walking tight rope for a
- aide show la the .west
Within that Philadelphia home . a dish
of scrapple stands, -v
Where onoe It had been served by a
. young wire's levins; bands; ' w
And even now, although her hair haa
. ' . turned from red to gray, . .. ,
At Oft recurring intervale theee' aad
words she does say: :
': .. r Chorus:
."Come home - before the aerapple glte
too ooiav aear.etgv. -
Fulton's Recent Speech. f
From the Indianapolis Star.' '
Senator Fulton of Oregon aeeme to
have acquitted himself well In hie flrat
noteworthy- eppearancer -on the floor of
the senate in debate- with men . like
Spooner, Foraker and . Bailey, It is
three years now since Mr. Fulton was
elected, and.be haa done hia work unos
tentatiously - and wall. Impressing bis
ability upon . all wbo have eeen him.
and yet avoiding the "haste' with which
new senators are tempted to precipitate
themeelvee into discussions. He Is s
ansa of fine -talents and-very gi eet-tn-dustry.-
Hie habit ef mastering the de
tails of hie eubjeef and thinking,- It
through wee revealed In his prompt and
oogent answere to the questions which
were shot at blm by the beet lawyers
in tne aenate. . ; ,
His Own Grandfather. . .
From the St Loul Post-Dispatch. ' ',
I married a widow with a daughter.
My father visited our house frequently,
fell in love and married my stepdaugh
ter. Thus my father became my son-in-law
end my stepdaughter my mother,
because she wae my fsther'a wife.
My stepdaughter had alao a son. He
was, of course, my brother, and at the
eame time my grandchild, for he waa
the son of my daughter, any wife was
my . grandmother, beceuee she was my
mother's mother, I waa my wife'a hue
bend end grandchild at the same time,
and, aa the husband ef a person a grand
mother le hie grandfather. J we say
twa gtanaarae . . ( . j
1
TWOvEOYS AND A
Zli IXGARETTE '
By Ela Wheeler" Wlloox. ,,
Ctosrrlst, ISOe, by W. B. Restst.) .'
WiH . by" rri and
Were Juat the eame alas aad the aame
age, until .....
One day In their travels tt ehaaoed that '
they met
A queer UtU ereature, auraamed Cig-
arette. . ..,.-.
Thia queer nttle creature, made friends
with the boys, . ...... k
Xnd 4old Uiea- aterr of wascullne "joys"
He held for their sharing. "1 tall you."
quoth be, . -. . . .. ,
"The way to ba manly aad , big is
wrvugn me.
WlimiaTfleaeryTerded,' but Harry
. hall '
peiu OHV
7 thlnkyoBtjussertlona.
Be eald. "And. besldea, rm afraid Td
be elok." .
"Afraid!" echoed Will. , you sow
ardly etlckl , . "
Well I'm not afraid, look a-herol" As
he spoke, '
Be blew out a hale of cigarette smoke,
Five years from that meeting I saw "
them again. - - , ,
The time bad arrived when tbey both '
' ehould be men.
But etrangely enough, although Harry
boy stood
As tall and as strong as a tree la the
wood. ,,-!.'.-..-.., .,
Poor Will seemed a dwarf) sunken aye,
. hollew cheek,
Stoop shouldsra" proclaimed him-un-"
manly and weak. - ;
With thumb and forefinger he listlessly '
rolled - i . '
A cigarette, amoethlag each wrinkle and
.-sf0ld, -.; - , ,i r , ":.'. .'.-
And the amoks that he puffed from hia '
lips, I declare, .'
Took the form of a demon and grinned .
. from the air, -1 '. ,-, ,, ,.
And it said. "See that wreck ef a man
that I made . . - .
Of ' the boastful young . fellow who '
waaa't afraid." -
At Fort Clatsop. '
January 10. We are agreeably dleap .
pointed la the-eharaeter nf . our fuel.
Being entirely green pine, we supposed '
It would burn badly, but we find that
when apllt It burne very welt
Our , Popular Song Bureau. , "
' 'r ' By William F. Kirk.
No 10 of this almost endleeo' sertea
entitled, "The Cruel Hiss," while it le
arr ex trnlstte' lyric: Is not aalllng as we:
aa -tt should. No doubt the fault Jiee
with the mus1arwhIco7Taty "Theodore
Kremef.) ..... . - -
I. " . ; ; .
A crowd af heppy people sat the music
' bail within,
It wae Indeed a Jolly New Tork gang
Assembled for to see .the stirring play.
The Stain of Sin," .
Produced by Henry James and An-'
drew Lang. . i 1
The fleahy leading lady now aad then -
rorgot ner unes,
Aad whsn she said, "Don't tetnpt'me t
- .lent I fail It. .
She happened for te stumble aa aome
advertising eigne
Aad a hiss rang out la that there'
nualA Kail I
She struggled to her feet again, her-
face was pals as death, - -And
to her eyea a.dosen teardrope
. eame.
Aad when at laat aha managed for to
catch again bar breath.
These sad, appealing words she did
. exolalm: . ,i
CHORUS.
"When I'm as old aa Bernhardt Z ahall
atill remember-thle:
The first time In my bright career X
ever got a hiss!
My'aecond cousin died todayhere la
e4-is avMwm Bius y
Aad it Isn't any wondsr I'm aa nervous
as ami .-..
One touch of nature, I have heard.
- makee all the whole world kin, -To
pity then the audience waa etlrred:
Their hearte ln that one moment the
- aotreaa large did win. .
Aad after ' that - they cheered ' her i
. every word. " ..-" . ' .
An undertaker In the erowd arose aad
loudly cried: . .
"Madame, I II pleat your : second ',
- eousln freer , . .
1 can't accept your offer, sir,1 the '.
actress then, replied, . -"Becauae
my cualn died ta Kaa
. kakee."
The play went on triumphant and the
maa Who. gave the nieo
Did sneak and alowly plod upon his .
-way i ......
Said he, "111 . never -do another cruel
thing like thia, .. '
My heart reproached ne when X heard
' her aayr . ,
' '. CHORUS. ' '' ' ' ' '
"When I'm aa old as Bernhardt" eta.
. '.' Automobile for the Soudan,
' From the Motor World.
As the result of extensive experiment "
tn - the use of . an automobile oa the -desert
a novel ear haa juet been oom- .
pleted ' for the use of the ' Sirdar of
Egypt" who .will use It on the vast
sandy stretches of the Soudan, The
wheele are entirely Inclosed by; light ,
metal alden plates, leaving nothing but
the broad." aolld rubber tlree exposed.
and It 1s thought that the latter will ,
remove the difficulty of getting ever tha
surface of loose, ehlfting aand without
becoming Imbedded eo deeply as to Im
pede progress. To prevent the fine grit
working into any part of the mechanism
the entire underbody le protected by en
lnaenlonslv devised apron,' -
BltheB-keroseneu eegaaollne -suits the-
enelne equally well, end owing to the
character of the country to be traversed
provision hse especially been made for
a three "daya" supply of cooling and
drinking water, aa well ea fuel, x The
ehange speed gear gives a range from .
three to 20 milee aa hour. The oar will
In addition haul a two-wheel - trailer
very similar to-a gun carriage, upon
which will be mounted a dynamo and
Searchlight to be run from the car en
gine. Thle wlll'be used for night obser- ...
vatlori In the desert Without the searoa-
light carriage the weight of. the ear la
cloae to (.000 pounds. .
.1 '
Cleveland and Ryan, .
-Fmm the Springfield Republican.
Making, Mr. Cleveland a rebate ref
eree at a aalary of 111.000 a year can :
find no other adequate explanation than
that tt ia a eoheme ot.Thomae F. Ryan
te provide him with a handsome aalary '
at the espeaee of the pollcy-holdere of
the three big eompealee to aerve aa a
trustee ef Ryan's Equitable stork. The
ex-president - le allowing himself to be
tied us wiia ryea M Off-, y----
- LEWIS AND CLARK ,