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THOSE MOST TO
"r" I HE Queen steamed awayTXapfaTriCousiia says,
'. - a - ,i ;n puri-uaucc ti iinperaiivc orcr, on nuiui
ol ilie Topeka, not trying in the meantime to do
" anything. The Queen, left the. rescue job to the Topeka,
which did nothing because it considered it to oe me
iiSSST)U giti JIM iHHy ''f ll - - fft
tug apparently did not de.iire to be forward or officious
and rush hi where bigger ships had feared to operate, and
z
fully -sacrificed.
over 100 live were a it sccnif ncedlci-Ty and shamc-
Captain Ceuift-plea4-4hat ha had -4ey orders and
'"-rrfiste
ion, but it v. ill not be the" opinion of humaHityr 1 here
'.-., are; times when the. command of God and mankind is
paramount to that of one's coldblooded and callous em
. - ployers. 'Yet if such were Captain'Cousin's orders, his
- - employers 7eatizing "the" situation, a .large part of the
.""' blame falling on his shoulders must be shifted to theirs.
' " Captain Van Schaick, who commanded the steamer
" Slocum on Lodg Island sound when it caught fire and
, . many hundreds of women and children were burned to
death or drowned, was recently sentenced to, imprison
- - mcnt for 10 years for not having complied with pro
visions for protecting his passengers, and the 'punish
. ' meut is just, as to hint. - But what of the rich owners of
the vessel, what of Van Schaick's superiors, what of the
. government and city inspectors whose duty it was to see
that such , terrible calamity could not thus occur? A
lot of them ought to be keeping the captain company.
So in this case, if the Valencia Was ordered to steam
ahead regardless of sure bearings in order to make the
Irip on time, or if Captain Cousins was ordered merely to
look on and steam away, risking nothing to save thqse
lives, it is the superiors of the captains who. are most to
t" b'ame, and wh deserve the heavier punishment TiTT
-Representa'tive Sibleyof Pennsylvania, formerly, a
radical Bryan Democrktr but-nbw
llcan, objects to granting the power tu fix rates to a
political commission-rather-thaaa judicial determina
tion by the courts. But the proposed commission is no
more political than the courts, and the people are becom
ing dissatisfied not to say disgusted with most of the
rulings of the courts on suchquefinr ' ' ' r
, 'LA BELLE FRANCE AND DON CIPRIANOT
1. .-, RANCE has probably not abandoned its intention
JT to compel Castro to make another apology if not
t Pav me of his alleged debts, but is taking
time to consider the case further, especially as the out
come of the Algeciras conference is a more" important
matter, and if France gets into a fight with Germany it
will have no powder . to waste for awhile on Castro.
France announced its intention, according to reports, to
send a fleet from Caribbean waters down to blockade
Venezuelan ports,' but. either did riot intend to do so or
else changed its mind, .and audacious and pugnacious
Castro ts still crowing on his Andean
Thtlmsff trii'h T1 Trmrrrl-s
ment. France claims -that Don Cipriano s conduct ta sev
eral particulars has been outrageous and intolerable, jus
tifying the conversion of himself and his government and
- country into Latin-American hash awhile Castro declares
in substance that France's claims are as false as a chords
. girl's complexion, and that Uncle Sam has flourished the
big stick in France's favor because Castro and the Vene-
auelan6urlswoutdTiorbritndled tyiheasphalt Trust:
.. There are indications, to say the least, that Castro".
good deal bf a blusterer and swashbuckler, a sort of inter
national bad boy, and wants it Supposed that he would
rather fight than' eat, yet. there is much ground for sus-
" picion that he has been imposed upon a good deal on the
- theory that when it came to a pinch he neither would nor
could fight avaihngly. If everything were known, an im-
partial arbiter might find Don Cipriano mostly if not al
togetherxrlthin liis-nghts as practically thtwhole thing
in the government of Venezuela. ' 1 ;
" . Of course Senator iTom Carter is in favor of a ship
: subsidy bill -He can invariably be depended upon to be
c . on the wrong side of any proposition. .
' REFORMING TIMBER LAND LAW.
I HAT THE LAND LAWS have
fert J 11.4 until eeemtly.-ery
' ruptly administered everybody
session of congress the prevailing if not the unanimous
opinion is that the laws should somehow be changed or
some of them repealed, but congress can agree on noth-
' ing and ends by doing nothing, as will probably he the
case again. The contention now, as heretofore, centers
. upon the proposal to repeal the timber and stone act,
to which Senator Fulton objects because it would leave
great tracts i5ftimrer unavailable- foe-ptirchsse-and -usef
and the objectify seems to be , well taken. .The thing
lhat ought to be done is not to prevent the sale of these
lands, except as homesteads, and the manufacture of the
timber .into lumber, but to devise a means whereby the
' government would get a fair purchase' price and the
states and counties a fair revenue from the timbered
.. lands. This seems to be an impossibility, however, and
ibe people will probably be swindled and plundered by
special interests and syndicates and corporations and
;, land grabbers to" lhe6nd-of the chapter. -Congress
either hasn't brains enough to reform the business on
practical lines, or else doesn t -want to do so. An ef
ficient lock for "the MabTe "dooF wnt D-dcvtse only'-when
the. animals Jiavejall been lost, as mostof them have
vbeea already. Some of the biggest" timber land thieves'
' . and highly 'protected lumber manufacturers are in' con
- gress.; The man who can make the most money in this
' ay is thebne. best qualified to be a senator; and yet
there isgabb1e about reforming the timber land laws.
. It's the same as giving Satan a commission to put a stop
;o sin.-' : - .'-
Mrs. Roosevelt Thoughtful.
STmia tha Indlananolls Morning; Star.
. -. Mrs, Theodora Roosevelt is one of
. ' tha- moaL thoughtful . of women. She
doe many, llltle grnrloun and kindly
7 act. i of aWcrTTVliuTIWent'
" knows. Utvaslonally the wives ot for
taer -Wahln"ston officials come to the
. rlty. but bersnae Of the pastnr from
tubllo view of thrlr hurbands they are
. TmrtiraHy;Jowt to eight. It la MrfT
Itooaewlt'a c-uaion when aha knows of
- these airlvaJs to order flowers aant in
her name to the vicltois. thus lettrrig
them, know that they, have not passed
from tha memory at the oocupants Of
the White House.
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'f Hiyu Skookura Time. ; v
- From the Arlington Reoords . '.
The flrat of this week TbeROPk Crek
Indiana, some 3 strong, a few miles
from Arlington in Klickitat county,
rlnned their big pbw-Wow and feast,
which xvurs eaeh yaar. There were
rrent Indians from Vmatllla. Yakima
.and Warm Hprlngs. The festivities have
n ranulng alnoe January "1. The
4arn wrro pnt In gambling. hom
racing and barter. The nights ware
apeat. Uk aJl kinds 9I Haoolng, suta aa
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BLAME.
- Hrr,mnTrlfK4nff The
!cameI-thatrTrhTra'rr--and
settlers and other
tain range and - be
chance with one
bune. that suDoorts
to the extensive
flockmasters who
so that the reserve
ilization has been
ished temporary
stances too far and
an ixtfemeRepnl-
andinttmperate.
Some entirely
perch
fttffiv tilt ftf ascertain-1 vastly beneficial to
or
10 eome. -
RAILWAYS
been verylmpeF-
lr-ely pot'COT-
knows. At every
possible. They
now rather than
war dances, spirit dances, skull dances,
etc. Every few days a lai'ge bullock
would bs killed and ratd.- The In
dians are inveleifafe rambTera. an
Is stated that one young burk from
Umatilla went home with five ' new
anna wsi ait-won-w4th the eardsr In
talking to a aubchlef who was present
he said: "HI yu skookum time, HI
y tnooaa moo. HI yu monte. Ill yu
coley. Heap big time.
"Innocent! Abroad" Stil Alive.
terby?onn. - IMapatchllaJJeirTork
, ; , Tribune. . ,
' One of Mark ' Twain's "Innocents
Abroad" is living quietly at Deep River
at the .age of 71 years. , He Is Captain
William A. Pratt, who was for many
i-eare one of the baat-knawn aaltlng-mastera-
of ths New York Yacht club.
Captain Pratt was turtertaaster Of ths
Steamship Quaker City- when that ves
sel made ths trip to the Holy Lnd that
Mr. Clemens haa immortalised in his fa
mous work. ' f - f r
Captain Pratt received a letter last
week from Blood good H. Cuttor, anolhe
'of the "innocents."- Mr. Cutter . writes
that h la II years eld. nd that he is
bcdrlddea zrsffl fueumausia, .
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FOREST RESERVES IN THE NORTHWEST.
THERE IS NOT so 7 much - objection-m-the-far
'"' west to. the government's forest reserve policy
. ' as there was a few' years ago or even more' re
cently. It is better understood, and it has been learned
that the government would and the "government has
bona, hde claimants in their jighttf
The stockmen, particularly the . sheepmen, have under
tha learning system hffonie reconciled in large measure
t the reserve nnlicv. for thev.hatl rather pay for cer
sure of -itthan- to. take, haphazard
another. Indeed, the Lewi-ton Iri-
ISwnaTorlncytuTBtrw-
Idaho reserves, says that it is the sheep
have exerted the necessary influence!
to "shape- the forest reserve villainy. -ASrthe country
filled ud with settlers the sheep range kept , narrowing.
policy "came to their relief; and civ
set back m order that sheep might
have undisturbed range." The sheepmen, the Tribune
declares, arc all-powerful in southern Idaho, and they
have become "unexpected allies of the miserable bureau
crats in Washington who merely desire to magnify their
own power and prerogative. r-----,
'The forest reserve policyadmittedly by the govern
ment that in a -number f cases has canceled or dimin
reserves has been carried in some in
planned on too colossal a scale, and
it has been the source of or . opportunity for great
wrongs and frauds and much so-called "villainy;" yet it
does not follow that therefore the policy, should be
abandoned, but only carefully and systematically pnr-sued-along
and within reasgjiabelines, and with an in
telligent and conscientious intent to accomplish "the
greatest good for the greatest number. -Almost every
body is now in favor of such a policy, and the ..Tri
bune's criticisms and charges are manifestly extravagant
unnecessary and Very lnappropnate-reM
serves were temporarily withdrawn m Oregon, which in
whole or in part have been restored to the public do
main, as very likely considerable portions of, present
reerve pnght tn b ?nd thi i prntinhly the ee in
IdafTo; but while selfish men and interests will always
crowd Mi, to take all.possibleadvantages of the Inaugu
ration of such a policy,, that cannot beTielJarTaffictent
reason for its' abandonment, or the radical alteration of
its general intent and scope. It cannot be helped, that
one class of .men are more benefited at first than an
other; the ultimate benefit of the great -majority is the
thing to be considered. It looks on the map as if
withdrawals' of land for' forest reserves in Idaho and
other pa rtspMheJPacific northwest had" been overdone;
that is for competent and unprejudiced experts to say;
settlement and cultivation of all agricultural lands should
be encouraged, of courses but the preservation or for
ests, and of forest streams that may be utilized for irri
gation and power purposes, is the government's very-important
duty, the right performance" of which will be
millions of American citizens in years
,Little Japan is' becoming very self-important, and has
semi-officially hinted tat its ally,.England, that the British
army is incompetent and not tip to. data and,-needs-reforming."
Great Britain knows this well enough, but
doesn't like to be told so by outsiders even by an ally.
AND RATE REGULATION. - -
HE Railway Age of Chicago, an exponent and ad
viser of railway interests, frankly declares that
it would consider the failure Of railway rate leg-
i"siation"by conh7esi at its present session as "most oia
fdrtunate for the railways," and give the following rea
sons for this opinion:
Asid&JromJj!emeritsjcf the case, it would be a po
litical misfortune if the 1 presehtantl-Tairway-sentiment
in the country should be aggravated by a growth m the
belief that the railways are all-powerful and can do as
they pleaserSuch would be the most likely consequence
of the entire failure of congress to do anything, after all
that has been said during the last year or two, on the
question, of railways and their regulation. It is true
that it would be better to do nothing than to put on the
statute"I)ookspf6vtslonssp-dical-as the-extremists
have demanded. The difficulty is that if congress, in
consequence oi the stubbornness of the extieniists, should
do nothing, it would be the railways and not the extrem
ists who would suffer." - "
What the Railway Age considers as too radical, and
who are the extremists, it does not in this article state,
but probably it would class as such the president and
his recommendations, and the Hepburn bill and its sup
porters. It may be gathered from the paragraph quoted
thst-what-the Railway Age-desires- is .rate regulation
sufficient on its face to pacify the people but that would
amount to little or nothing in practice. , .Yet it admits
lhat there are merits in the proposition and that the rail
roads would make a bad blunder in defeating rate legis
lation. -- - -The
comments of the Chicago periodical were called
out by the opinion of its Washington correspondent
that while a rate bill would pass the house easily it. would
be defeated in the senate. . This is- still to be expected
unless the bir trailroad men shall instruct their senators
to pass a rate-control bitCATready Presidents" Stickney
of the .Chicago Great Western, Cassatt of the Tennsyl-rani-adliJellen.ofthe
New Haven & Hartford have
come out decidedly in favor of such leisTation,arid other
- . - - . I ' - ---- ---. f-- 'tt.it ,T- f -1
poweriui men in me railway worta may ioiiow ineir ex
ample; bnt it is to be expected that if they advise the
senate that it may pass a bill, they' will order that the
house bill be amended and rendered nugatory as far at
are willing to accept something mild
something more radical hereafter caused
byfailoreto legislate-on- thir subject- at allnpw: r
A New One From Champ Clark. .
1. . Yesterday'a Debate In. the, HousaT"
Mr. Clsik; fontlnulng,1 eald: "One of
mypredeccssarsrnhrsoTfgeTtefif
hark In the sixties, was a man of splen
did -renhta.-Cohmei Oeerge VfAndevmn1.
While he was running for congress the
second time he was opposed by a very
able man. Colonel F. 8wltler, the Nes
tor of the editorial profesalon in Mis
souri. In the debate Bwltiler took an
entire hour to prove that Anderson was
inconsistent. ' When ' Anderson's time
cama thepnly reply he made was:
'Fallow eltlaens, consistency be
damned."' (Laughter.) . .
1 1
", Tha Chaplain's Prayer. .
Prom the Kanaas City Journal.
They are telling In Washington of s
Kanaan who, with his little boy, visited
tha senate gallery while in. the capital
recently. Among the persons the boy
wss Interested in was Edward JHrerett
Hale, a magnificent looking old man.
His father told hlm that was the chap
plaJn. "Oh,, he prays for. the senate,
doesn't heranked the lad. "No." re
plied the- Kansas man, "he ante up and
takes a look- st the- senate and then
'arrays tot U country."
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SMALL CHANGE
1
After this some people wilt be inclined
to choose Oreon rather than California
as winter resort,
- v .': .-.''
If Fonny'keep on taking En a out rM
ing' in automobiles the auaplclon will
strengthen that ha Is deipnrately de
terminrd to do oraethlhg- to avoid tha
contracted marriage
1 It la raoorted that - Senator Deoew's
eratwhlla oily and, Ray boy am He la "nlck-
ueu oer wun 100 pais cm 111 inouui.
Balfour'a - auocaaaXuLcompetltor fpr a
. In parllQmnl h nffcrfj (Q r'ff"
In the ex-premier's favor, an act which
In this country would be something new
ieftsMfBjvlfi
Feace Is a good deal better for a
country than. ever ao many war heroes.
a
It iruri''?p"(r5t0T-'orrtfnmo wlli
b the prlQclpal thenis of debate In the
eounoil tliroughout tb year.- , ' . .
Tha mayor 'a reasons for vetoing por
tions of tha appropriations ordinance, are
sufficient and convincing to verybody
except the councllmen. - .
Ivwkhart. tha Pittsburg BUndard Oil
magnate, left an estate- ot nearly 1300,-
000.0UO. Tha wonder la that J. D. Jv. al
lowed him go big a pile. ; ;
Wbo should know better than herself
whether Mrs.,. Yerkea ta , married again
or notT But some'peopla will claim that
there Is occasionally a woman who woa 1
always tell the truth about herself. ,
The doctors Ilka a dry eaat wind better
than ayiybody else.
Belnr a. veeetarlan. Senator Larollette
Is suspected of aome sympathy With the
beef trust.
A dispatch tells about the man's skin
turning to silver. It will not te quite
so difficult for him to dodge kidnappers
and for his family to prevent ghouls
were turning to gold. ; : '
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This Is the most audacious mereman
yet telling Portland women how to be
baauUtut,
A woman U suing. for Jdlvoree,bacatiee
her husband reads novels. But he might
do worse read some J?tJhe divorce trial
reports, for instance. .
e e !
Down In Alabama a wlfebeater is not
whipped, but he haa to work in a chuin
gang ha the streets or with -onvlcts in
a coal mlns. At Decatur, In that atata,
a well-to-do Jeweler and prominent elti
sen was fined ISO and SO days on the
atreetfor assaulting his wife, and 126
and 0 days more--for "oursIngTm "her
presence, and Is working on the streets
In company with white and negro city
convicts, with shackles riveted on his
ankles and sleeping in- a ilngy cell the
same as a hobo prisoner. This punish
ment may be goodie a whipping
fA BerMYnan Bundaysaw six deer at
the foot of Sugar Ivoar outte. xney
were very tame, leisurely walked away
aiuf-ihanturned around and looked at
him. It is presumed IfiafTTtie ' heavy
snow in the country above ban driven
the deer to that vicinity td seek food.
e e t
Building operations are quite exten
sive in the country around Bend.
'.;-'. e ve
TtevrvaT meetings- In the Lakevtew
Baptist church resulted In fl professsd
conversions. -j
. '
Divide np the large farms. Is- the
Salem Statesman's good advice.
. . .-, e e ' - " . . .
Snow two feet deeci"ln"Bye-aUey.
and. jnore-XaUlng. every day.
e e
Many Roseburg and Coos bay people
consider a railroad between those points
a certainty la the near future,
e e
Roeeburg-reel.eaUts dealers predict
lively, businesa ,
X inft-.i-mp mill will ha Installed at
the Gold Coin mine near Durkee in the
near future.
... e e
A Umatilla county sheepman haa lust
sheared 4.600 sheep, which apparently
suffered little in consequence.
e . e
Wallowa postofflee reeelpts Increased
jj l-l per cent In 1I0 over 1101.
: . :
Hay getting scarce, with prospect of
being very high. In Elgin.
Hug, Hearing and Wlgglesworth are
namea of Wallowa county people.
'-1 ' '
' This curious advertisement appears
in The Dalles Chronicle: "A woman
desires work by the day." Curious,
because lady" Instead of "woman" waa
not used. ,
e e . . - . .
""Grant county $Iacf"Tntnenr are happy
because of deep snows and prospective
"chuck."
e e '
-ClAUop--ountyBepubJlcarie are going
to make another effort at rehabilitation,
' Myrtle Creek Correspondence of TJm'p
qua Vallcv News P, a. Buell Is back
from Portland and haa about given up
'trying to have the appendicitis. He
underwent another examination by two
surgeonaand-they-bottf aay t he ,fia
no more appendicitis than a Jackrabbit
haa. " .-
-. -.
- Much stock being shipped . from . Jo-
seph and Enterprise. . . .'
A" mi mberbf "farmers-near-Sci-are
going to raise hemp. A company will
fumish-ehO' seed -and- yay-a-a-4oa- for
the product and it Is thought four or
Ave tons per acre can be raised... ,
.. . . e - , . .
' A Liberty -men's - strawberry plants
have large berries on , them perhaps
not very sweet, however. t.
a e v.- , ' .
The Albany Democrat wants Port
land's "Aeglan slables" strorled-mr-
e e ,
In reporting a dance a Klamath Falls
paper remarke: , "Of course there wsa a
right" . . . ',:.', "",;.:.,;.
' The Cottage drove Woman's Civic Im
provement, tlub will work for the plant
ing of many more yoae bushes, ."r.".
Cottage Jrove Nugget: Game Warden
Baker Is getting a Ane lot of fancy: birds
and Is thinking of starting a tnyre bird
enclosure for them. His last addition is,
that rff three -.Reeves .phrHants from
New Jersey. These birds are very' rare
Mad cost 109.
. OREGON SIDELIGHTS "Z
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
'LESSON
' - Bv H. D JenklnS. D. D.
Tople; "The Temptation of JesusM
aiaitnaw lvu-11. v- s -
Oolden. text 'la all points tempted
Ilka aa we are. yet without sin." Heb.
iv:ie. ' ,
Introduction.
' It is truly said that the temptation
of Jesus la a great mystery! such it is;
but let us not forget that every tempta
tion Is a great mystery. Men say, ''If
Jesus could sin-be was not divine, and
If he could not sin there waa no real
mptotton. MucU-tha asms might he
sTnrmoomr every saint. we tan mvw
In any victory over sin- pick out one
thing' ak us and something else as of
gi aceT"ThehlIdr6aIS--Tievr-TI(J
conscious of gratefu emotion aa-wnen
veil in victory over iui ilai iuii, ti
la JdlaL.to say lhat. Jfaod. gaval1l1nL.U1e
victory he exhibited no virtue, and if
tJd-id;-wot--evla-. ttsvlclory
owes no gratitude. Such reasonings
are always futile. We know that no one
ill ever bo able to pluck ua out of
Qod'g band (John x:t8), and we know
that -in. every., assault of sin we tight
the devil personally. , Every life of
grace. Is a, mystery. : Tbe life ot. our
Savior cannot , be picked to pieces any
more than our own. He was tempted
and we are tempted; and perhaps it
would not be too much to say that the
beat souls . are Invariably , tbe most
tempted. : . r-1 - - . ---
One thing la certain, temptations ar
rive whenever critical issues are to be
decided. -' When tbe devil goes -out of
any man he goes tearing hint (Mark
lx:ZS).. Many a lad knows that as some
critical period arrived In his life, when
he must say "lea" or say No with
decision, all the powers of hell seem to
be let loose upon him. Many a minis
ter can testify that when he was about
to enter upon his theological studies.
every great truth of the gospel seemed
to .vanish. We do not reach new
heights but by risking a fall. . It Is a
good sign when we are assailed, because
it Is a sign that we are getting out ot
the grip of our enemy. The hunter's
servant put It In a sentence when be
saldthat"thmanwho is shooting
rnng- riitniripoirthe-wonnged-du;ks
but never troubles himself about the
dead ones."
In the biographies of . great saints.
those who have never attained marked
ulrltual elevations find to th
l-inenrfhat their heroes "came lip out of
great tribulation" of mind and soul. It
Is the normal experlonoe. Explahp it by
"natural'' or by "preternatural" causes
as you will, the fact remains that Mes
siansnip and .temptation go together.
He who would rise will be tried, not, in
the same measure as Jesus was, but in
bis own measure Just as certainly,
. . The tessom. ,
Verse 1. ' After his public assumption
of a mission through baptism. Jesus
retired f the open eountris the unln-
hablted mountainous . region between
the Jordan and Jerusalem. In tha east
people crowd clqse together for protec
tion, so , that. every city waa formerly
surrounded by aa - unpeopled district
spoken of uuallyas "the wilderness"
(Lev. xvl:10h Borne ot our modern oc
cidental cities have, aa haa still Jerusa
lem, a natural-environment of heights
that-esn never be cultivated.!. Within
two boura' iide of New York-are dis
tricts which for loneliness are scarcely
tar be equaled by the mountains of Colo
rado. Jesus, under some strong Im
pulse,, retired to.ibis.desolata region "to
fight It out,'' as we would say "to be
tempted, of the devil," as Matthew puts
It." We may be uncertain with whom we
L-"flghV,bU--Matthewwaa not. We
think It more modern, more enlightened,'
td fight "it"
' Verse t. Orientals are far more ab
stemious than we. , They are accus
tomed to going for days with but little
or ao food. In an emergency they seem
capable of going without food for In
credible periods. The aame Is true of
our American Indians and of native
Africans. It was 'a custom ef the
Jews to express their profoundest sor
row or spiritual trouble by refraining
from nourishment. 1 The phrase "forty
days" 4s used so frequently that It
seems-necessary to consider It conven
tional. Pepya In bis diary, 1S A. D.,
asea It la this way;, simply te express
a Urge number or a long time. After
Christ's period .of abstention he wss
conscious at an overwhelming desire
for food. 1 ' - -t . .
, Verse t. .During this period of Iso
lation tha Savior appears to have been
contemplatlngwhatbewasalledto
do. He could easily see that aa the
preaching of Joha excited the hostility
ot theuTrnsTCIMsei
own preaching would exoite still greater
antagonism. What prophet bad escaped
stoning (Matt. xxili:(7)T By preaching
a spiritual gospel he would embitter
the, poor, who wished a gospel of mate
rial prosperity. By preaching purity of
life, humility ef soul and unselfishness
of conduct be would alienate most ot
the wealthy and all the ruling families,
lie did not flatter himself with peace
ful "walk over" the contested ground.
The sword would leap from its scab
bard as soon as be should begin to de
liver his -mesagelMatt."x:J 4. But
now comes the suggestion, "If ao be you
have this divine power committed unto
you, save yourself from perishing right
here and now. Put forth your miracu
lous gifts. 004. seems to have forgot
ten you. Take care of you reel f.. Save
yourself, end do It quickly." It wss
the same ' demand which his enemies
put In another form when they Insisted
thatlieeome-dowBfroea-tha woes
(Matt. xxvil:40). .
Verse 4. Jesus had come to take upon
himself our Infirmities. - If the eon of
the emperor goes Into service profes-
tjr a cnmmun soldier." yet hae a
special commissary stationed behind his
tent to see that he does not suffer any
of the hardships of the camp, he Is not
a real soldier, but a "play" soldier. Je
sus would not Imitate the role of a
Messiah. He would not .make a farce
of his mission at the outset. ' He was
here T6 obey-orders;- not te look-out
for his own comfort. .
Verse . It is Idle to speculate
whether the devil appeared or whether
Jesus waa transported bodily to aome
ST:vaTTow. The-temptatlon lie In none
of -thee details. But the people had
been taught to believe . the Messiah
ewMi sudflenly-appea. .ln-, ths-lampla
(Mai. 111:1). No man would know from
whence he had eome (John vil:J7-ll).
Now to drop down from the lofty plnna
clep of the temple, towering hundreds of
feet above the emi rts ef tbe holy house,
and to do this without harm to himself,
would win the battle at the outset.
"Drop downt that will be found easier
than to win by service and Instruction."
It was a sabtle-temptaMon.- Bnt Jeeue
had' not rome to spare himself.. He
would work ae his disciples must work
after him. He later buttressed his
claims sometimes by signs, ' but" he
never relieved the mission of its natu
ral burdens. He did not ssll on wings
while requiring his disciples to. plod
al&nf Ton foot.
Verse - "All will be accomplished
at one bold stroke If you will have It
so," aaya Satan. "No harm can eome
to you. Will not God bear you up If you
trust' wholly In hlmT Cast yourself
oft and he will look out for you. H is
la the Bible that he .will do thatr
yerse J. . Bat Jesoa replied, K man
,1 . , . , -s-a-ass-ge- j. n . j
has any right to put God to a teat which
God has not himself laid down." What
folly the teaching that we "honor God
by demanding of bim the euro of our in
surable dlaeaaea, or the repairing of our
squandered fortunes, or the filling of pur
empty pews, instanter, without - refer
ence to his wtll but only with referenpe
to our need and our "faith." Children
do not honor but dishonor their fathere
by drawing on them at sight for money
that has never been promised tham. We
have no right. to present en order on
heaven without heaven a distinct author
isation. That la what Jeaus taught; and
It s more rational thsn many schemes
of faith taught in bis name.
Verse I. Then comes a last tempta
tion. What external form It had la of
no consequence. , But the suggestion was
this: "Yoi have come to save men from
eaten? Tbe devil will withdraw If you
Will sacrifice yourself. Ssve the world
hv danrn1n-Jvotrrseifr----erill- let-men
alone if vyou wtlt cohfeiaTTiarnjf liyour
master. """jy .,,A "
question of saving men by losing my
self. -it la a. ! pie -question of. obey
Inar Clad " No man haa any rlaht to sin
tn order to putother eitn n-thaatha t
virtue. No man may ateai in oruer to
prepare- h t bey fas the mlnlsUy- Na
woman may prostitute nersen in oraex
to fit her daughter for the life of a nun
or a missionary. Wo put the problem
in its baldest way becauee that Is the
onry-way t realise Its enormity. Many
a man has sought to exeusa his specu
lations bv pleading he did It "for tus
family."; Jesus would not do It for a
world 1 We have no -right to make a
bargain with the wrong. We may not
remove difficulties bv Sin. ws muai
take, our atand where God places US and
serve him there. We cannot bargain our
damnation asainst somebody else s beav
en. It Is a mighty truth, and we ought
to remember that Jesus taught u clear
ly, emphatically, for all time. -
. Verse 11. Then came triumph, rest.
remuneration. Nothing had shaken - the
Integrity of his purpose or toe purity of
his lire. "And angeis came ana minis
tered unto him." But he could not sink
down into restful security.' Luke adds a
pregnant phrase the respite was put
"for a sesson."
THE BIG WOODS OF
OREGON
T. S. Van Dyke tn the Outing Magaalne
for February. ' v
tupendoussllenco greeted on the
greater part ot thla dense forest. For
hours at a Tlme"there waenot even the
falnteat peep of a bird, the flash of a
squirrel or thihamP-r an insect through
the vast somber halls, formed by the
serried ranks Of tree trunks. But In
almost every ravine tha sweet twitter
of the mountain quail waa quite certain
to Welcome us Jrom tha green of the
14 1i ne tha noddlnsr arms of tha scarlet
uckleberry. And in , the more open
gdai we . sometimes. . round a aosen
flocka scudding among the broad, green
leaves of the salmon berry, or nestled
under tbe dark clusters of fruit that
still nung from the shsdbush. Bo. too,
with the dusky grouse. Often he bustled
from tbe ferns and lupins on the high
ridges,' but whenever we came Into a
shady glen we -were sure to eee some
leave tbe deep shade of the vine maple
or chinquapin and tower away on throb
bing wing into tbe taller trees, where
they were almost Invisible to tbe keen
est eye. .
That pretty little enipmuna tne
Douglas squirrel sometimes trailed
his tswny tall up a huge trunk or
showed his striped aides along a fallen
log; but sometimes a whole day would
passaway without sight or sound of
any squlrrel'brrbirdrbr anylbmt That
could fairly be called an Insect. . No
such impressive solitude can be Tountf
upon - the sea or desert as in these
great shsdes where you are every min
ute expecting to meet life. Why they
should be to silent la difficult to imag-
lne -there is plenty or food, water and
room with no man to trouble. Yet thla
is so In tbe greater portion of the Sierra
Nevada, still more eo In the Cascades,,
while both of them are noisy compared
with the vest foreeta on the headwaters
of the Coqulllf river, that are ao little
traversed that tbe trail of one party
disappears before, the hoefprlnts ot the
next one mar tbe soil.
' A Historic O. R. ft N. Engine. '
From the Pendleton East Oregonlan.
O. R. 4k N. passenger 'engine No. U4,
which pnlle the Spokane passenger train
In and out of this city-daily, boasts of
one of the moat exciting and remarkable
itories of any locomotive on the entire
system, and perbapa on ths coast. ..
Back in ths 'ids, when tne union pacins
had the O. R. N. leased, engine 14
waa numbered 1,498 and waa stationed
atvKamela as a helper, where shs was
drives by Pete BL-Cyr, or "Halr-OII
Pete," as he waa more familiarly known.
On this engine fete mane nia wua aaan
down the Bhie mountains in the spring
of 188. to prevent a collision between a
freight and "passenger tramwhich had
been given a lap order.
Engine 1.4SS was standing in tne yam
at Kamela with steam up, when It was
discovered that the lap order had been
aiven and the two trains were approach
ing each other on the mountain side. The
freight train had Just left ivamela, going
eastward, and the passenger train was
tolling up ths mountain from the eaet
and a horrible collision seemed Inevitable.
Graaplng the situation . In an instant
''Halr-OII Pete" leaped into the cab of
1.4M and dashed out of the yards to catch
the freight train beore the eraab came.
Out of Kamelp. la a t per cent grade,
with- sharp -eurveer-deep rock aula and
high mountain-, and the daring feat
et catching -this strain was extremely
perilous, since the curves were Sharp
and the train, could not be seen any
great distance ahead. '
'With whistle screaming ana tne engine
rocking and reeling around the curves,
St. Cyr made five miles In lees than four
minutes and succseded In Stopping ' the
fralafht train about a mile away from the
approaching passenger, nelthelr train be
ing aware ot the mistake until after the
freight bad been etopped. -
St. Cyr is now in tne Boise peniten-
ttarv. where- ne is serving"
sentence for killing a man named Em
mons at Meadows, Idaho, two years ago,
tn, a.,dlfflculty ver a team. of. horaea...
His' feet stands alone In tbe annals
Of railroading on the O. R. N. .
Women Hear Smoot'i First Speech.
""From the'WashlnttonPost."
Ssnator . Reed Bmoot. made his first
speech In the eenate yesterday. It waa
brief, oeeepylng about five mlnutee. it
waa an arcument In favor of a bill te
extend the limit of time for homeatead
entry within the limits of the Uintah
Indian reservation from February If to
May II. Close attention was given to
Mr. Bmoot. ' The female occupants of
the galleries were especially on the qui
viva v Necks were hraned and whisper
ings .exchanged.. Indicating tbe popular
turloelty of the- man whom more than
a million women want to exolude from
the senate.
Senator Smoot developed a clear, res
onant voice that was heard in every
pert of the chamber. At the conclusion
of Me speech the bill waa passed by a
unantmoua votv -v
DANIELS DEFENDED; BY
i ROOSEVELT : ?
Washington Special to New York World.
President Roosevelt haa , scolded the
senate judiciary committee because it
is a trifle alewv in approving the
appointment of Ben Daniels . te- be
United States marshal for Arisona. Ths
cpmralttee lias deferred a report on Dan
iels alnce December, because he has a
penitentiary record, and also has killed
two men. - ;
The president explained these flaws
in a personal letter- to the committee.
The letter admitted that Mr. Daulels
had served a penitentiary aentence for
ataallng a. mule, sod .that he had killed
two ment. Hut there-wera-extehtmting-circumstances.
. . .
As to stealing the mule, the letter '
TPOThtariSurthRlhI-Ts wsde6eTSr-
ant Of the-Vikings. " The Inference Is
obvloua thar7mch anftne should tiobe
held down to rules thst-governBieu
without piratical ancestors.
l.-rurtirao. tha lettae-aaplal)
mule was stolen In a nsw, raw country,'
where primal conditions and primal pas
sions and needs governed.. It wan no.
paltry theft. Moreover, the youthful,
Viking took tbe mule "vl et armle."
Which la lAtiq for eaylng "llefp your
self.'?. Nor was the mule atolen fronr-
some poor wretch who could not afford .
to lose IC Thee young Viking-stormed
the very corral of tbe government Itself.
And, laat of all, he needed the mule.
Tbla Is the substance of, not -an exact'
quotation from, the letter, to tha com
mittee. As to the two men killed, one met hla
end la a quarrel over a townslte. and. .
Daniels waa net even indicted. . Daniels
wss indicted for killing his second man, '
but his fellow cltlsens aoqultted htm. -
Finally, the president pointed out that
Daniels waa a rough rider, and "repeat-
edly in, battle," eo the letter ran. the
writer had occgalon to -station Danlela
in extrg-hasardous plaoea, where he ao
qultted himself with "conspicuous gat-,
lantry."- -- t -. -- .
Tbe president appointed Daniels to of
fice once before, only to withdraw -the
appolntment on learning of the peniten
tiary record, although he had known of -the
two killings. - At that time he called 1
In Daniels to reproach him with having
concealedthajrttenllarrBartigfit:
Senator Knox, who was preeent at thst
Interview, told the senate Judiciary com
mittee about It. - Daniels, according to
Benatos Kuua, earnestly Insisted lhafha
had not Intended to conceal anything
from the president, but he bad "clean
forgotten" the penitentiary, bunlnese.
The president then forgave Daniels. on
the ground that he had told the truth,
and again nominated him for the office.
LEWIS AND CLARK
"At Fort Olarsop. --
February 1 There la ne occurrence
to note today. - All are pleased' that one
month of the dreary time that sepa
ratee ve from borne1 and friends, aijd
blnds us to Fort Clatsop, baa now
elapsed.-- -y :-- -----
DictinaVy of Misinformation.
'Wex-Jones, Lexicographer.
. BINGHAM To emphasise, .
Hla speech was blnghamed
with
lemmeaV-N. T. Evening Bun. ,.
MISSOURI A state "of mind. :
I'm from Missouri; you'll have to
show me. Attorney-General Had ley. '
That cheeky-MJBsourt puts us all in a -
furv.--Htandard nil Pallida .
PLAGIARISM 'The uae of an original
Idea to greater advantage than attained
by aome dead 'un. "' " , -
If Shakespeare were aiive toaay no
would be accused ef gross plagiarism
by Bernard Shaw. George Meredith on
"Cashln Byron's Profeaslon." . -
PRIZEFIGHTER One who acts; an
actor.
SNOW (1) Feathera cast by molt- '.
Ing angela "" "". T7 ' "
(I) Froaen aighs. -t- r
(1) The snow clothed the world In a
- mantle of white, - - -
And the kids of the country went wild ,
with delight Old Song.
(1) Alone In a great city and the
snow failing bitter fast Theodore Kra
mer. ' 1
f SNOWBALL A pale pellet af perdi
tion.
"Ha act it In the neck -
Whatr
A snowball." Dippy Dialogues.
Aa much chance ae a snowball In Ber
nard Shaw's whiskers. Popular Saying.
t f. C. A. Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Agents.
. Is this the 8. P. C A.T YssT There's
an Injured horse here at Broadway and
Canal street. Can't do' anything?
Weather -loo bad to send out an agentf
He might get bis feet wetT Telephone -Twaddle.
y r '
WATER WAGON The Juggernaut ef
goodfellowahlp.
Take away tne nagon,
I am on the water wagon, -
. And t dare not get a Jag on
Till the rosea bloom again.'
; -Unpopular Song. . -
WHITE HOUSE A house .Wean
In r ton. D. C. noted becauae It's mighty
bard to get Into. "" " ,
Have those people been: in a train
wreck?" . ' ,
Nope: they Just tried to gel into "tng-
Wbl te House." PI ppy Dialogues. t . .
WITNESS One who doesn't know Of
remember anything.
"What Is youY nameT"
"I forget," replied the witneaa , . f
, "Is ft Ha Ha Rogers"
' "b advlca of counsel. I have forgot
ten." answered the wltneea Report of
Standard Oirinveetlgatlon. 7
Potentialities ol Salt. :
ma Evening Post
Another alarm clock haa been Set of!
by the medical profession- Dr. Tracy
of New York saysf ' "If you want to
avoid Bright'. 7 dlaea -us -very-time
sal." Thl is inaeea maruing, ins
mora so as we see tha contempt with
which animals In general have treated
this wsmlng. Deer and other ignorant
oreatures have been known -to wander-?
scores of miles for the mere pleasure
of Uoklng up a salt opring ana acquir
ing a large case of Brlgbt's disease, and
any farmer will tell youhow the cows
hang about me in uuur ar 10 .
take Into their systems that which will
play havob with their internals. Salt is ,
a dreadful thing. Only a few months
ago a learned physician declared that a
man who wishes to attain extreme old
age-must sat great quantltiee of salt -though
eventually, of course he will die '
of Bright' s disease. Think of a man de
vouring salt and dragging hla existence
along ta St or 10 years only to fall at
laat a miserable vlotlia to Brlght's dls- '
eaae! How much better to renounce
salt and all Its pleasure and shuffle
off comfortably of eome other. edmplalnl ,
along aneus a eg so.
''If.