The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, February 01, 1906, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Textr PORTLAND, OREGON. . Si 1 1" 4 " ?"'T' 1 1 t " ; . i THE O REG , 'v ; ; a, jacso Published every cveninc (except ; j ; : FORCED INTO LIN?. : .. f t IS GRATIFYING to learn I , council, which has done some .' its organization , arid , flown public opinion, is after all amenable pressed with sufficient force and concentration. Hitherto. indifferent to-its - expresston.7-; Every- license- hitherto granted has been considered sacred and protest Against "aalooninherUinuarteTspiike-SouttTrortlandJ-hav been treated with' contemptuous indifference But there i an election coming on. . better than' the political managers of the council that they are placing the result of the June election in jeop- . ardy if they do not heed the signs of the times. These -signs have Jong been apparent tdTall -other people. The law must hereafter be used to curb, if not eliminate, the raw and coarse manifestations of vice rather than to shield and encourage them. Back of this is a powerful public sentiment It is confined to no party, no class, creed or organization. It embraces men in all walks of life and alf line of human endeavor. It stands by a good and capable public official regardless of his politic!. It is interested not alone in maintaining a good moral Standard in the community but in elevating the public service. It holds not merely the balance of power, but concentrated as "if usually is, it decides the fate of elec tions. It is indifferent to the demands of parrjjrbosses or machines and applies to each man precisely the same -testrthc test of public- duty well performed - That the council should have ao long flaunted this -sentiment is' surprising, ,not because of the high stand ards which actuate the council but becaus e .politician 1 gifted with ordinary horse sense, would have taken ad vantage of the opportunity to acquire the good will of the people instead of proving to the satisfaction of the public that the mayor alone ia earnestly and sincerely in flavor of these reforms. MARSHALL FIELD'S Ti I ARSHALL . FIELD ' had a - I ll - versally conceded moral right ,- great estate aa hesaw fit, but friends cannot expect that no criticism be expressed because be gave nothing liable objects. tveffTS cothpi flliv - his- immense wealth might thus have means of accomplisbing a grsiUamounluaL-gOQdJielpIul . work, but he had other ideas,' and they out It is remarked in this connection that he had given quite liberally to charities during his life, and that under the inheritance-tax law of Illinois the state Will receive about $1,000,000 and Cook , county $100,000, but" these will have been involuntary contributions on hia part ' Mr. Field seemed to have constructed his will with ' three principal objeeta fn riew: first, the building op and support of the Field Museum of natural history to , which institution be left $8,000,000, half for building purposes ' and half for. an endowment fund ; second, the carrying fTheBsT - bnstneirofhtclrh - third, the assurance to his grandsons, children 6f bis only eon, lately deceased, of great fortunes if they should live to be 50 years old. Besides the bequest to the museum he gave his daughter $6,000,000, his widow $1,000,000 and the family mansion and all its belongings, besides her re cent wedding gift, supposed to have been large, and to other relatives, friends and employes over $10,000,000, in all $17,568,000. - . ! ; - : . The. will further provides thaL the business shall be carried on by his trustees or associates and their suc cessors, and the estate, except for some partial pay ments to the two favored grandsons, kept intact until they reach the age of 50 years." The elder one is to re ceive three-fifths and the younger one two-fifths, pay able as follows: At the age of 25, $450,000 and $300,000, and like amounts at the ages of 30, 35 and 40. if alf of the net income accruing to them Is to be set aside for accumulation and paid to them at the age of 45, and at 50 they are to come into full possession. ". " That he did not desire them to be of the luxuriously idle rich class, is indicated by this phrase in his will: "Earnestly hoping that they will each ular occupation in life inasmuch as will in my judgment greatly promote and happiness." Mr. Field was not a lavish display of any kind, and while he intended these boys, particularly his namesake," to be very rich men when they reach a mature age, be also hoped they would . follow in bis footsteps in point of keeping busy in some useful occupation. If they should , inherit his business sbility and carefuVonservativa rnethods, their fortunes will be something stupendous if they should live to his . age of 70. .,.- S'- ROGERS NEED NOT ANSWER. 1 HE New'York court of appeals has decided that it doesn't have to declare whether or not H. II. Rogers shall answer Attorney questions but in judicial deference and courtesy to the Missouri courts will wait until they have decided the an j teriorquestionwhether .JheactionJnstitutedby!ML "'lladley is legator not, the inference being that the New York court is doubtful whether any sort of prosecution r inquiry directed againstsuch a' great, grand and ' glorious institution as the Standard Oil trust can be : legally maintained or instituted, in Missouri or else where. It seems to be intimated that if the Missouri -COtmtolhelfuSteesiThey ' proceedings, and not allow Mr. Hadley to go tilting about the country and presenting absurd questions to other courts. If the Missouri courts should strangely decide that the attorney-general of that state can legally bring ; and maintain such a proceeding, and he should then' ap ply again to the New York court of appeals, the latter might be under the slightly disagreeablenecessityof de-lidhVg'n(halMrT-Rogers need answernothing tcL0y " body It was "thTs sariie NewlYork court It will be re , niembered, that decided that the Tammany count in the last election must stand, no matter what gross frauds were shown. If is such courts that are the final bul , wark of the robber trusts and political scoundrels. ' Mrs. Bonaparte'a Jewels. , From the New fork Prms. Whn Mrs. CharlM 3. Bonaparte stood with aire. Rooaevolt to receive v aueata at ttte New Year's ronrptton In. th White tluuae aba wore Materia diamonds and prarla, - They wr the jwla which had fortnod the dower of Martha pat trraon of Baltimore whea she becsme tlM wlf of the flckla Jerome Bonaparta. '"h diamond ware annt to the mother : of the nei rrVtry of the navy by Na pnlrcHt III. and they ware part of the vi i vat fortune itt .by tae king X ON DA I L Y JO URN A L IHDtHWPlHT NEWS PA PUB i, : ' ' PUBLISHED, BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING ;C0. Sunday) and avery Sunday morning-, at hill streets, Portland, Oregon. : J that even the city AMES I. HILL queer things since eral lines he business man. - . . . defiantly in face of country developer, to. it when it is ex streaks in which For instance in uxpu longer boast that immigrants rushinir the land. We have crowd into the cities." This ia uieasuiably liue as icgaitis pu In a very , short aae. now know doubling or perhaps This latter view shown that by the per acre could be Look at Oregon, ulation of about 1 10,000,000 or more: in the northeastern far larger country agricultural products. . The question-as WILL. legal if not a urn to dispose of hia his relatives and, f his will shall to purely char panics and railroads imenran pco 111: portion o tinue. 7- been made the must be carried R: EFERENCE grain could not be wirTnftadT"tfld lfflrt'fffl . ' HiUW II st'Bi making living is In southwestern: adopt some reg such an occupation their usefulness man inclined to o NE of the - General Hartley's the third Is due Westphalia.. Jaroaie had Intended them for hie American wife, but when he yielded to the command! of the em peror and discarded bar, . they war placed In the rare of London bankers. Thay remained undisturbed until the third Napolaon ascended the throne of Franoa and mad restitution In the name of hia dead uncle. The jewels were equally divided . between the brother. Charlee Jerome Bonaparte and Louts Jerome Bonaparte, now dead. The wife f the aenretarjr of the navy has much of the lace, allk and linen which Martha 'Fattersoa used. Us, her trousseau. v ... ,. 10. V. 0ABB01A The Journal Building, Fifth and Yaro- s ' ' ROOM ENOUGH FOR MEN WITH MONEY. has efficiently proved that on gen . 1 1 I 1. A - .1 is a very oroaa ana cicar-siguieu railroad builder and operator, and but he seems ., to have occasional certain lorma 01 pessimism appear. a recent "peechin,St: Paul hep said: IfliJhe nation cannot it has homes for all. -r Where are " to. our shores to end up? Not on no moreJtoffejMttientJThey:mnst those to be obtained at a nominal price, but surely no bodyllcaOlttisLte milliona "more families can yet find homes on lands hot yet settled "on or on uncultivated or Indifferently cultivated lands. Not only will the reclamation service, convert tens of mil lions of acres of arid. lands into productive farms, and teni ct millions xlacxel jnore nowcoverdwith forests will be gradually transformed into other farms, but the intelligent, systematic and intensive cultivation of atill other immense areas in the aggregate will admit of the the trebling of our population. - ia particularly applicable to the Pa cific coast and the aouth. In the latter section of tlx country cotton is the main crop, while other crops could be profitably raised, and the' average yield of 'cotton is four-tenths of a bale - per acre, - while .. it has been best methods of cultivation two bales produced in many cases, and at least one bale, more than twice the present yield, in most cases. What is7 needed there, then, ia smaller planta tions and better, cultivation, and diversity of crops'. Washington and Idaho, with a pop ,600,000 and an area of nearly 250,000 square miles, a region of natural resources, great enough it weirerelopedrancrntmzedrTo support a population of And all the states, unless it be those corner of the country, can sustain a population and greatly increase 'their yet is not the country a capacity to produce more crops and sustain a far greater-population, but the ability of those who need land to obtain it as it increases invalue. Manyof 7ttrpeo'pte of cotu pa.rativelysrnall means are turning toward Canada and Mexico, where lands are cheap, but production will go on increasing nevertheless. As to most of the "immi grants rushing to' our shores," they will "crowd into the cities," as they have ever done, ' That is the natural or chosen habitat of most of them. ' We all know that there should be greater restriction of this immigration. but so long as congress does what the steamship conrH wish rather than what will benefit EASTERN OREGONT5RYLANDF ARM INC HAS BEEN MADE several times in these columns to the success during the past few years oL farmers who have pushed outupon the dry uplands of eastern Oregon, where it was supposed raised except occasionally and in in-j Hundreds of families have taken up claims during the past few months in Crook and Lake counties on what ever since the stockmen went in there has been locally m ' " aj akt . siaiall mtt -1 - MClvlTl BBfllJ Ul 1. f tff Iff VUCCCCfJ ?! considered probable if not certain. Umatilla, county also, where men about 25 years ago took up land and abandoned it be cause they could -not raise wheat on it, others in the past year -or two have settled, and have raised fair crops, in some cases as high as 35 bushels of wheat, to the acre. There was about that time a succession of very dry seasons, which has not since recurred, and it is believed the climate as to precipitation and hot. winds has permanently changed somewhat; and then adjacent cultivation is credited with an alteration in the produc tiveness of the land. . '. . . . At all events, every jrear, prevery period of a tew yeara, has for more than a quarter of -a century demonstrated the fact that not only could grain and grass be raised in localities where everybody considered farming a hope less propositiodrbut where formerly it had apparently been proven to be so. Thus the farming area Of eastern Oregon -is- being considerably- extended lsidefronr its extension by. means of irrigation. - PARIS AND'ITS HOAXES. most curious features of French jour nalism ia its predilection toward hoaxes. It seems absurd that the third largest city of the world should delight in a form of amusement con demned as childish even on April 1 in this country. Yet Paris indubitably enjoys a hoax. The last ex tensive hoax waa described in The Journal a few months ago--thrTeturnjf the house of Orleans It was illus trated with bogus photographs one showing the con queror king entering Paris, another, President Loubet in prison, scenes in the streets, with real men, alive and on the spot at time of publication, represented by unmis takable likenesses. Imagine the sensation it would cause if some New York or Chicago newspaper were to devote a whote illustrated edition to the story of an imaginary revolution in the United States all told as if it had really happened. The newest hoax is an I account of the war between Franceanderroanyttrilj-njoyiiijindpourtxutita money to exhaust edition after edition of La Vie Illustre, which is running what purports to be a diary of events described by one-of the generals at the front. To ahow how really serious is the vein in which these hoaxes are written a sample is given: "October 28. The camp swarms with life like an ant- RUT. The"irst3ivisiori of coTbhTaTTrdops lias detrained this morning. It is the Paris division. . The seco'nd will arrive this evening from Lorient, Breste and Cherbourg; tomorrow from Toulon. The situation demands the immediate concentration of all the avail able troops. The enemy is already surging, like the waves ot a sea, against me outworxs oune torn or the Meuse betweenToul and Verdun." " i " Z-And "thisati time "when there is a menace of real war, when France and Germany Are hurrying. men and sup plies and ammunition to the frontier, when both coun tries are secretly making most elaborate- preparations for conflict. To an outsider it looks like startling bad taste, but Paris only laughs and asks for more. . r" , Amendment Rejected. From the Chicago Tribune. -"Laura," said Mr. Fercuaon. hurriedly explaining 'matter' In the kitchen, "I didn't . want to brlnf the man borne to dinner, but he kept ataylnc and etaylna at the office, and I Just had to ask him. You wll have to put aa good face on It aa you can.". ' -'If you . think fW going to change my face on hia account, Qeorce Fer auson," aald hia Kpouse, red and angry, "you'll nav ( think again! - You may bring turn eut U dinner right newf SMALL CHANGE "aa I. 1. What moat people need ia not "New Thouaht" so much aa a aultable aoDll- eatloa pr old - thoufhta. " . r- V ..... The ateel truat'a Income laat- year was only 1110,000,000. Shouldn't it have a little more protection T . v- The supreme court Judges are ' artlll quite generally dlaagreelng - with the circuit court Judgea and reversing ap pealed eaaea. There are no higher courts .to reverse the supreme court. ... . . ' Wrlghtman considers himself -the right man foifsecretaryi of state, .. ; r- Pity the poor policeman: no more free drinks or cigara.TJa a, cruel world. Perhaps when Russell Sage hears of wabualhllvlng In extreme want la Cleveland he may aend her two-bit or a, but more tlkety he wont for 'fear thaoiiey.jltUtjiquanderedfTOM Another great need of Oregon la more home-made eggs. . , ,5 ;. ..; e . e -(-(.. Jacob Rila la undoubtedly a good man. but a good deal of hi talk la not to be taken seriously, . ' . e ".. - loaded gun in ' the ' handa ef ' a drunken man aa well aa In thoae of a little child or a careleaa or excitable hunter la a vary, dangeroua . weapon. waa Illustrated In Lane county Tueaday, when a drunken man In a rail road ear shot aad killed a fellow-passenger. It waa an "accident," but one of the kind that call for severe pun- lahment . . .. ' . ; . v e . Such weather almoat indueea the faaa to- become: talkative. , , Get ready to treat the homeaeeker welt r 1 , . ' . . .. e '..- 1 Frlenda-of Candidate for Congress Ilawley have circulated reporta that Candidate Too rente; a building for a saloon and aometlmes takes a drink. and now the Roaeburg Newa aaya that Profeeeor ' Haw ley, who aemettmea preacheaThaa Hen pAening vound cam paign cigars to "the boya" up there, but It add: "He made a very good Impree alon and hie clgara . were pronounced Brat claae." .. . - . -. : . - . Of courae r R. Whitney likes hia Jdbi Of state printer. Alice and Nick went riding In a cut ter, not a. anow cutter, but a. water cut ter, a revenue cutter, the trip cutting down the revenue slightly. ,. . .'. ., . e.. , . .- A Phitadelnhla woman has applied to the French consul to find somebody to teach her dog to speak French. , It la not stated in what other languagea he aadv educated, pernapa ana wanta him to bark at Castro. By- the time they are- thaeugh eele-1 bratlng the Chlneae muat wln that New Year'a only came once In1 several yeara. . ; . .' , . Th man who' ought-o apray and won't apray ahould b mad to apray or to pay eomebody whd will Spray for him. - - Alice and Nick don't have quit 'a monopoly of courting newa: Fonny and Ena get a . brief mention occasionally. Salem Journal: ' Willi Li Hawley, Re publican candidat for congress in thi district, I a loeal preacher of th M. B church, authorized by the quarterly con ference to occupy pulpit for th church wherever he may get an invitation to preach aennon. It-aeems he 1 not entitled to wear the title of a reverend. but I a. layman, authorised to preach. ' e e Lincoln county fruitgrower' trying to organise, . . . : e .; Med ford Southern Oregonlan: ' Many of those who have registered refuse to give tlfelr politic, wblch augur wall for th casting of a big Independent vote at the election in June, and a small on at the direct primary.-" - ; Coyot Hill Correspondence of Halne Record: Jake Slmonl visited W. Ma- hary Saturday night Alma, Ma ttery went to Baker and had that mean tooth Used. It will not bother her any more. Jake Slmonla aold a large band of cattle to Jessie O'Bryant Jake aay h don't want to wast hi lif taking care of cattle. Editor Bmtth of Wolf Creek read hi paper to u at our entertainment Smith devotes half of hi paper to matrimonial af fair. He -read something ilk thla "Abb Ble vena la very lonesome is tired eating his own cooking, wants a wife. not particular, any old thing will do. i : e .Coos county farmer and dalrymeg are getting thorougnorea cattle. , 'Another big shingle mill will probably be built on the Coqulile. . . , , . ' - North Band Is to have another big manutacturing eaiaonanment. . Blaine Correspondence of Cloverdala Courier: Wi are sattsfled -now-that thi whol country 1 underlaid with a fine grade of coaL - One of our neighbor was digging a wall and when down 10 feet he atruck coal and water. The water taste very strong of mineral. An Ashland man cleared' tl.tf I from 80' acrs"of pwiches-tirtbr- years. ....... - e ;' After being long Idle, the Grants Pasa flouring mill will soon start up. e - e ' The Lakevlew Examiner has. pub lished an excellent summary of - Lake county, a -reouro. - r ; Coyotes-are - becoming -very-brave since the deep snow-fell, says the Lake view Examiner. Hunger drive them out of th hill, and In search of food they wander about the farmhouses and ven come into town. Coyotes usually fed on rabbit In winter, but the anow ha been o wet and packed a It fell that rabbit can run on top of th anow and keep out ef Mr. Coyote's reach. ' e From-three to four feet of anow aroul Silver Lake. e - . . -i Port Orford, claims the Tribune, la the deepest harbor on the , coast, , except Puget aound.. ' . ' ... - - e A new postofflce In Lane . county la named Mirth. , But being a government Institution It la not, supposed that It Is the kind of mirth mentioned by the poet that "doth into folly glide, and folly tnte aiB," . . - cc. .OREGON SIDELIGHTS I ENGLISH TRAINS ARE FASTEST " ' ' . New York Bun. Inatlnctlvalv neoola think Of apeed aa the flrat and moat Intereatlng feature of tha railroad, and In view of the deveiop mentff railroads In the United State moat1 Americans will be eurprUed .to learn that tnl country 1 not firet In the matter of fast trains. England hold the lead and Franc 1 a clo aeoond. In thla tatement reference I made not to the short bunta of apeed which this or that engine ha ahowa and may never-ahow agauuput to. the regular acheduled runa of train. In looking n rat at Enaiand one I apt tff be awe- nrlaad to rind how many faat train and long run without atopa are mad there I dally. - : The faatest regular long-aiaiane mn wlthoutln a LopjnJhworld Um "ILsjie pd to add my Vfllc to. the MQSA OrtariVet"raffonrTx5hOon w Brurrol; 11H4 mile in 120 minute, er prao- ttrallv SO mile an- hour. sn-order-to droo Daaaenaer at Bath a ear 1 dropped rrom tne nam wunuai aiup, vwn--- Ing device la operation on a numoer or European road, though atlll unknown her.-. ' - ' . The longest run without atop mad In any country ia London to Liverpool on the London Northweatern, 101 mile, made at tha rat of It mile an hour. The next longeat la on the Midland, from London to Leeda, lt milea, at the rata of Si miles an hour. , . , The train In thla eounlry coming nearest to the long run without a top I the Empire Stat expree on the New York Central, from New lork to Albany, 141 miles, at th rat of (!.st miles an hour, and, the time of tha aame train to Buffalo, 440 miles In tOO mlnutea. Is juat a trifle faeter than that of the Midland express rrom London -to Glasgow. 441 -miles In SIS mlnutea Each make zour regular top. Th .Northwestern run a train from London to Glasgow, 40m mil. In eight hour, making only two stop. The Great Northern runa a train from London to Doncaater, It mile, without top. In 16 minute, at th rat of tt miles an hour; and the Great Central train rune -over England's - new road, from London to Sheffield. 165 milea. In lIinuteeperanJIUean hour, slipping a ear at Leloeater with out atop. -". These fast and long runa are common to all the trunk lines In EnglandV.whlle In Yha United State the faat runa are all oonHned to two roads, the New York Central and the Penneylvanla. Com pared to many English faat runa. th time between New xora ana waaning ton and Boston I alow. Th distance to tha two el tie from New York U about th same, and In both ease th fastest Inlm maka It In flv hour (or a little over.. now. to B oaten), or at th rat of 4 mile an hour, three atopa oeing maao la each case. .... .. j For run of nearly 1.000 mile no country can show trains to compare with the New York-and Chicago trains KinnrtHW York Central, the beat train maklnet tha S0 milea in.Jl.080 minute, or at (4 mile an' hour. While thla la ri6TquHStf TarsttmrTsatry-t the faat traina rrom rana to uyona ana Marseille, the distance 1 twice, aa great aa acroa France. , Coming to ahort run and special aummer traina, undoubtedly the fastest are from Camden to Atlantic City. Her aoro very faat time baa been made over an Ideal country for faat time, by both th Reading and the Pennsylvania. Th Reading baa set the pc and th Penn sylvania followed. The best Reading time la S(U mlleaMn 10 minute, or 00 mile aa hour, while the beat pennayi- miles at the rate (4 milea an hour. " These constitute all tha fast regular train in th United State. The fastest run In New England outside th Beaton New York run la from Boston to Port land at th rat of 44 mile an hour, and th showing 1 still poorer, in the west and south. Chicago, In mary re spects the greatest railroad center In the world, baa no faat railroad outside the New York Central and the Pennsylvania traina referred to. Throughout the west while the beat train are very luxurloua, perhaps th moat up-to-date Jn the world, the run re all ahort averaging about 10 milea between atatlona and the apeed nowhere averages 40 mile aa hour. Throughout th south there are no really flrat-clas express train other than those from New York City or Chicago carrying th tourist travel at certain eeasona of th year. Turning to Europe outalda of England It la found, that France alone indulrca In really faat traina, and possibly she I rtrst m th numoer oi irm runnina; regularly above to mile an hour of all th great natlona.' Th greateat travel rout In all Europa eut of. England Is from Paris south to Lyons. Marseilles and th Mediterranean, and nere are found fin and faat traina. - ....,. V .:.- waewJae"S Th run from Pari to Marseilles, tUS miles, is made In 760 minute, with only alx stops. Many of th shorter rona. tich a from Part to Cala's. to the Belgian frontier, etc.. are at th rat of from II to lljnlles. an. honr for the regular achedule. - According to a German authority the average apeed or tb raatest train in Europe 1 a follows: Frenqh, II miles an hour; English, It mile an hour, and German. . II. but faat traina ar hard to find In Germany, and the service in thla respect doe not compare wiia Franc. . ' ' It takea the fastest train J2T minute to go from Berlin to Hamburg, 17S milea. which I 47. mile an hour, and th "luxe" train, the one rast goer, between Munich and Vienna runa at only 41 milea an hour;-but there are, a a rule, frequent train throughout Germany and the erveeri good. For all th rest of Europe th apeed drops to about 10 milea an hour for ex press train. Italy la surprisingly slow. It take th expres III minute to go from Tnrin to Rome, 411 miles, or only ti miles an hour, though th Milan Rom express makes nearly; 40 milea an hour. ...:.". ....... Between Rome and Naples. Ill miles. ther ar only four or flv train dally, th fastest at 14 miles an hour, while it take 020 minute to go 4tt miles on th beat train from Rom to Brlndlsl, a rat of less than 10 mil an hour.. . Th express from Stockholm to Goth enburg, th two large cltle of Sweden, barely msk 30 mile an hour,' and other European cduntrie are still worse. ' On th English train third class din ing cars ar now run. In which tha same meats are served In th flrat class coaches, but at considerably lower rates, and tha high-back eeat glv a privacy greatly appreciated by small partita or two parson dining together. ; ' Such runs aa that between London snd Birmingham on the Great Western, a distance ef 1104 milea, made without stop In 140 minutes, or at the rate of more than II milea an boar, are re markable, aa this m to be about tha regular gait of many traina id Eng land. .-.-. i Cleaning an Old Clock, y ' From th 'National jMagasIn. ' Have any of our reader a clock they value that aeema to be near the end ot Its eareer ef usefulness T Dee It akin J a beat now and then,' and when It be gins to atrlk seem to be In pain? Let me tell you what to do. Take a bit of cotton batting the else of a hen'a egg, dip It in kerosene and plac It en tb floor of the clock, in ' th corner, abut th door of th clock and wait three or four day. Your clock will be Ilk a nw one skip no more. It will atrlk aa of old, aad aa you look Inside you will find th cotton batting black with dust. Tb fumes ot th oil loosen th partlctea of duat and they fait, thus cleaning th clock. 1. 1 have tried It with ucoes. LETTERS FROM THE V PEOPLE . : Xadorstaa the Mayor. Montavllla. Or., Jan. It. To the Edi tor of Th Journal I want to write a few worda Indorsing tha letter of Mayor work ho la trying to do for the moral uplifting of Portland. HI erltlca seem to think that we ar to live in thla eoun try ef-enllghteemet- ao4 have our mouths' aealed, agalnat such' places aa Richards hotet I do not see how the council could have heard - or read the evidence and not taken action. ' Are we to aend our daughter la our old age out Into the city t help up keop th family and have opened to " them such snares and placest Aa long as auch places are allowed - we will not know what will happen with temptation on every hand and with auch places existing to lure away our daughter. Are we to run the rUk of having our daughter ruined and their families disgraced Just to put money In th pocket or auch landlords T I am glad we have a mayor who la not afraid to apeak out agalnat auch alarm. Ing evils. Sound ,out th warning, Mr. Mayor, and clean' up auch place. Do not be afraid. Ther ar thousands In Portland who will support you, and If It-comae again to your election thee thousand will speak la no unm la taxable vole in your favor. FRANK A, WILUUtnr AppcoT Tha lonal'a Ootura. Th Dalles. Or., Jan. 81. To th Edl tor of Th JournalAllow m to eon- gratulat you ort th bold stand you have taken In defense of Msyor Lane fn hia effort to give The city drPort- land a good, clean government I am a lifelong Republican but I em atrictly in line wth any newspaper or organisa tion that helps to make better citlsen- shlp. , A JOURNAL SUBSCRIBER. Lew Dockstader on Colonel Mann. - Lew Dockstader discussed Colonel Mann in tb Philadelphia Evening Tele graph. Her are a few euUlngs from his 'remarks I want to deny right here that I ever loaned Colonel Mann 111.000. I never did anything worae than offer a brand, new aafety raaor to th eolonet, It must have been broken la transit, or use. flitting In the courtroomand llsten- Ing to the -testimony gave me an idea that the society Journal la a Strang and wouderfr-thtngr-Wfay-wouldn't-lt;-b a good idea to hav a. timetable or schedule or bill ef far auch aa they use in restaurants? Then when the rich come-on ar due to be trimmed up you ean avoid argument. For inatanoe a tabla Ilk thlar 'Vailing - a - millionaire a . aeoundrei. free. Calling a millionaire a wrecker ef homes, free. "Printing atory of nrtlllonair klaalng Mis D Flash, rree. "Saying anoeators war burglar, free. Hinting - that family Jewel - ar phony,-fre Describing . victim : aa oultured gen tleman. 1100. 'Describing gay wlf aa mothsriy and retiring, soe. "Discovering that Jimmy Glue , u .a marauls. 11.000. - "Saying that - johnny Mueiiige Baa great pull In Wall atreet, 11.000. "Hinting that little Maudla Few clothe la to .marry eart- $6,000 Piadngvicttm on Immune list one vear. 110.000. - . Placing victim oa.immun list for ever. 000. i "Ther is on question that has not been taken up by the newspapers, and that la. 'What did' the colonel do with all thla money T I haven't got it; there a lead pipe. I don't think Rusaell Saga haa it I believe that It la In Colonel Mann'a whlakera. Time and a barber will tell." - Tht Paean of Peace. - '- By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Copyright. WOO, by W. B. Heaist.V With ever aom wrong to be righting, With self ever sacking for plac. Th world has been striving aad fighting Since man waa evolved out of space. Bold History Into dark regions, HI torchlight haa fearleealy cast 21 show ue tribe warring In legions, In. Jungles or ages long past - Religion, forgetting her station. Forgetting her birthright from God, Bet nation to warring with nation, . And scattered dlsaenslon abroad. Dear creed hav mad man kilt eac' otbar, - Fair faith haa bred hat' and despair; And brother has battled4 with brother Because of a difference In prayer. .... ..... , - But earth haa grown wiser and kinder. For man la evolving a aoul; From ware of an age that was blinder, We rise to a peace-girdled goat Where one man would murder in trea . . aon, ' ' And alaughter each other In hordes. They now meet together and reason, ' - With thoughte for their weapons, not .. aworda. ' v -. ; ... . Tha brute in humanity dwindlee, ": And lessen as tlm speed along, And th spark of Divinity kindles . And biases up brightly and strong, . Th eer can behold In th distance -Th race-that shall people th world- Strong men of a godllk -existence. Unarmed, '.and with war banner . furlad. - .: . j . ' . Th longer th bloodthirsty savags . Man's vast spirit strength shall un- fold. . , "'"V And tale of red warfare and ravage 8hall seem Ilk ghost stories of old. For the booming -of guns -and the rattlt Of pamage and -ponf Hct shall ceass. And the bugls call, leading to battle, Shall chang to a paean of peace. m .. 1 f ' , : ; Costly Competition. ' ' From the Philadelphia Bulletin. When a new cathedral or a new. col lege Is to be built It le well that archi tects should compete for It; for then, other thing being equal, th beat man get th Job and th beat possible kind of building ia aaaured. - . - Few . persons, though, realise what It coats' an architect to enter a competi tion. They do not understand th time snd Isbor that must be devoted to yie nwRn, in vsumaiea, eio. There le one firm of arehlteot In thla elty that spent 12.100 last year on a single competition. This firm sntered 1 competition, altogether, winning four of them, and th total cost t It wea iT.ooe, , , - -..., MR. SCHWAB'S NEW ; :. -. HOUSE ;.A By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. ,Mr. Schwab haa a new bouse. - May it not be possible that th cor rect thing to aay la that th new bouse has Mr. Scbwabf - W ar not all made alike, but aa for myr. I should fel that I waa dread fully handicapped If I had to b tied up with a 1000,000 habitation! v 1 ' A man' bouse, like every other necea alty of hut physical nature, shout sit aa easily upon him aa noaalble but think of a man having - to bear up the weigm oi a is.uuu.vog bouse I .What.le a house, an.yw.axl Primarily, a house ia .a. shelter, and then a home a place -where,, protected from th too-hot aun of summer and the chilling blaata of winter, father, mother and children may dwell together In the Upint of realj nesa. -.But the man who. - ia - -unfortunate enougn io nay to live in a is.ooo.ooo house has. not a. h0tne.3ut onl jljl grct nig Doarntug-mus for aervanta a hired giria' rest, a hired man s havenl ... - In a place a vast and splendid, with so many "appointments- and such a labyrinth of "functlona," how can the poor, plain, almpl domestlclUe manage to aaep thomaelve allvT Th great world poet makes on ef his queemy characters exclaim; " 'Tie Utter to be lowly born. And. range with bumble llvere In eon- . tent Than to be perked up In a glistening . . grii . i And wear a golden Borrow." Mr. Schwab haa avidently not gon to the troubl of reading, atudylng and "Inwardly digesting" Tboreau'a immor tal Uttl book, "Walden." I one had an Idea that I would Ilk a flu house myself, palatial aort of place,. filled full with everything rich and rare wherein J might live Ilk a lord and dispense my largesses like a prince i I read "Walden." and my. idea -was knocked higher than a kit, with th result that I am a great deal freer and nappier.tnan I would hav been had I gono on and got myself jangled up with nOUi U' 1 too ahort and the sunshine 1s to winsome, and the opportunities for usefulness and Joy are too numerous to be bothering with auch a bit of Impedi menta as a great "eatataishment" I prefer to "establish" myself In any llttl old corner that come along, where I ean do my work. and. after that read some good book, or chat with some true friend And the smaller and plainer the corner, in reason, th better. This la a free country, and If 'a man ha th money and wanta to build him- if a 14,000.000 hous i uppoa It la noDoarB business but hi pwni but I was Juat thinking that of all the men I have ever known, I can think of but two or three who would not look mighty grandeur of the establishment would form such a painful contrast to that of toe occupant a soul! A msa ought slways to be larger and grander and more attractive than the fcouae be lives In ao rich In all the ela menta of manhood, ao strong and glor ious in truth and goodness aa to maka It Impossible for his habitation to abame mm. Mr. Schwab may be all this ITiffpe h la and now that ha la Installed In hia pala?, mar h be given th trena-th tnat win enani mm to bear up under hi great burden with all becoming res Ignatlon and grace. - At For Clatsop, February : 1. The parry of four ment set out with J Field - as . ordered yesterday.- Sergeant Gas, with a party, of five, again went up the Netul In search of the elk killed several daya ago. which had not been round tn consequence of the anow. W opened and examined all our am-l munition, which had been sealed In leaden .canisters. We found that we had 27 of the- beat rifle powder. . four of) common rifle, thre of glased and one oft musket perfectly dry and in ae good order aa when first put up in th can- later a, though th whol. of It from varloue accident haa been altogether! om hour under water. Th canisters! contain four pounds each ef powder and eight pounds of lead. Had It not been for that happy expedient which we de vised of securing the powder by means of the lead, w ahould not now have a dry charge left Thre of the canisters. which had bean accidentally bruised! and cracked,' one which waa earelesalyl topped, and a nrth that had been pene-4 t rated by a nail, were damaged; these we gave to the men to dry. But even! exclusive of thess Ave we had a etockl of powder amply sufficient to laat uie during our homeward Journey. We are! alwaya careful ta put a portion of am-l munition In each canoe, o that ahoiililj one or more ef these be lost we should! not be entirely out of ammunition! Thla la our only resource for aubalst-i ence -and eelf-defenee on a Journey ofl over thre thousand miles wa hav tri make .through a country Inhabited onlvl by savages. . . ,..,.,' Tha Cause of the Mot Weather. W. J. Lampton In New York World. It' freectng down In Texas now, - With thunder on the side. And lightning flashing through., thd anow, . .. While all th folk who rid On railroad traina are In the drift Exceeding deep and wide. That' Texas, land of cotton bolls . And other tropic things Jhat call for aun and summertime of which tha noet sings ' When hs has dipped In rose-red ink , Hlr pen from bluebird's wings. That's Texse. but In New York state. Where cotton doesn't grow. Nor-other tropte.hlna.xoept . On frultstande, don't you know. We're on our hunkers praying for A bustard full of anow. . . We're "havlnfraun" andTiumraerttm While fura and skates and those Ars hustled to the back sest by Tha early blooming rose, And we can't have a thaw because . . . So far, there'e nothing free. The weather bureau'e got Ita atuff Turned upside down, and what . The Texas climate ought to have . I what New York haa got. And vice vena, which 1 why - New York la ao daraed hot... . ' ' Entitled to a Pension. Eusen F. War; If I had my wav 1 would pension an good renews. I th nH when a man haa been buffeted about H thla old world until ha I past 10 or is h ought to be entitled to a pension 10 a day that ia. If hs can show thx t roper credentials that he ia a eood fel- tr : : LEWIS AND CLARK T."