The Oregon daily journal., February 14, 1906, Image 6

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HK KNOCKER AGAIN
T HE Oregonian li again In ita old and pleasing
.'I .business of doing what it can to discourage the
A i investment of jreshcapitalJtt-ihn-Jtah?
latest enterprise upon wnicn-us eisjssue -
projected Oregon Coast & Eastern,' which proposes
.M a- line from Portland- to .Tillamook, thence
down the coast to California This project has been ae
- fiously in contemplation for the past two year; for the
past, six months it has been known to the members of
the transportation committee ;of the chamber -of com
merce which, from the information placental ua uis
posal. was Mtisfied that JU-iinxircral"tacking was suf
ficient to undertake and complete the enterprise. ;
' " We have reached a time in our'history when men
- nndTombinattona-of capital r aeekingrus. They hare
suddenly, discovered that here is presented one of the
greatest ; opportunity for .'the safe employment of
-atital In develooroent enterprise to -be, found any
where in the cotmryT5 Hence we hare
six months of' more such' enterprises, projected, under
consideration ' or actually' decided iopon, . than in any
past ten years of our history. , We are all agreed that
what the state needs above all else is investments of this
suture. The latent resources are here but most of them
without ;new railroads " are practically. " beyond reach.
Therefore the obvious duty of every patriotic citiaen il to
welcome every such enterprise, to encourage the invest
ment of every dollar of foreign money inclined to come
here, and while safeguarding the . public interests in
volved to make it easy for such investments to be made.
So far as "tha Oregonian is concerned in this par
ticular transaction through its own lack' of entetprlie it
failed to, get the first story that was published. Hence
it seeks 'to throw cold water upon the enterprise itself
which makes it knocking all "the more despicable;" But
the time has come, when the ptiblicVUl listenwith little
T' atience to those who are knockers for the mere sake of
nocking and who decline to listen to' reason because
they themselves knew nothing about the matter, until it
was first presented in another newspaper. -
..WORD TO ENTER THE PRIMARIES,
rip HE ONLY EXCUSE for the j. existence of a
" I minority party, any. time or any where is that
- . it stands for a higher standard of public service
Xhtfl the majority party either sees fit or is able to
, give. The-Democratic party is the minority party in
Multnomah county. Until very recently it stood no
show of success for the reason that it was tarred with
the same stick that marked both wings of the Repub
lican party.' A starting point for better things was made
a little less than two years ago when its nominee for
sheriff,. Mr. Word, was elected by-the Dmocratic-nd
independent voters of this county. What he promised
during his campaign he carried out after his election.
He did some things which before bis time had been re
garded as impossible but he succeeded because he made
the sincere effort In the pursuance of his duty and in
carrying out bis pledges he made many bitter enemies
among the open town classes' but among the masses of
the people he made hosts of loyal friends who love htm
for the enemies he has made. In the tax department hi
l.aa, msda. a' record for efficiency never approached by
any oUier man that ever held the office, tie Has. 'alien
short in one respect he refused to turn his office over
j to the Democratic warhorses to be run (or him.- Some
of these gentry seemed to have expected that with a
Democratic sheriff in office the lame old grafting meth
ods would be, maintained, only under a different label.
But In this they were doomed to disappointment The
standard which be had set for himself in the campaign
he has maintained throughout bis term. This has proven
as distasteful to some of the practical workers of the
'Democratic party aa it undoubtedly was to the practical
'workers of the Republican party but the people who
profited by his honest and efficient administration have
loudly applauded. -. ' ,
Sheriff Word now proposes to go into the Democratic
prunaries to secure a renomination. His, friends are per
fectly aware that a conspiracy is afoot to knife him
there, guided by a combination of ward workers of both
political parties. 1 Nevertheless he has determined to
enter the. race. If perfect justice were done he would
receive the unanimous support of hi party. More than
to any other man in the county it owes a debt of grati
tude to Tom Word. We do not believe that any con
spiracy can be arranged that will defeat him at the-pri-'
marie, for, largely involved in. his reelection, is the
question whether or not Portland is to recede from the
high civic, standards which have marked its course for
the past two years. It is just as well that the question
is to be tested" in the primaries so that the Democratic
party may be measured on this issue squarely presented.
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-SUPPLY OP SALMON NOT EQUAL TO DEMAND,
jTpHE -COLUMBIA. RIVER or raTchtoooV sal.
I J mon is acknowledged the world over to be the
j ' finest food fun caught, though some other va
rieties 'of salmon taken in Oregon, Washington, British
Columbia and Alaska waters are valuable, the fishing in
dustry of the Pacific northwest being one of great im
portance and deserving of careful atudy and protection.
' There is considerable evidence that the fish hatcheries
maintained by government and state aid are doing a
valuable work, but just to what extent they will aid and
preserve the industry is yet to be determined.
One noticeable feature of, the salmon industry Is the
increasing proportion of the catch that goes into cold
storage and. fresh market use! this proportion In 1905 be
ing nearly one half of the Columbia river catch, and it is
, predicted that more than one half of the 1906 catch will
be thus1 disposed of, : So great a demand for cold storage
salmon hasj arisen that the jcannerymen have h to
rely largely pa smaller and inferior fish, and on tail and
ends, and itjs evident that they will have to raise the
price hereafter to equal that of the cold storage product,
ns indeed one or more cannerymea did last year, running
a risk of loss. The demand ia also increasing for canned
and pickled Salmon, but consumers want full-airs tUh
vised, and will have to pay higher prices for it, unless
the supply, increases very unexpectedly. " ,.
According to J. W. Seahorg, the Skamokowa tannery
man. to an article in the Pacific Fisherman, "every four
- or- nve ysars tne aemana tor canned salmon has in
- . t- . . tj a M.. r
crKO twra per .cenw .uc
i;?S saw consumption of about 2,000,000 eases, the four
years prior to 1900 a consumption of about 3,000,000
cases, and the four years prior to 1905. a consumption of
cLut -4,000,000 cases on the average. Already the pack
cl ICS of over 4,500,000 cases is almost all out of first
T-vSa; and a few years more will see a demand for
to 6,000.000 cases, but that quantity will not be
'.coming, as the canned product has -reached its
1. .t, as the1 cold storage. and fresh market feature will
cartel any increase in canned salmon production, not
Tt Paintmx Jefferson. "
Francis 'Wlleon U ilniibner's.
"The Blere of BalgTaae." a comlo
a by Cobb, was th first new pro
. .:n U lint ?ork la X1U-9U JT
tHDiriNDBNT' NSWirAPin
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO,
AT WORK,
niner ana nigner
' Thi U nn nnlv
ruh. but because
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(a aftlratet foods
heard in 4he past
ing . large number
...rt;nn lf hit
appears to be doing
been uttering for the past year or two. "
A few days ago Professor Wiley announced that more
than 1,000,000 Infants had been killed by soothing syr"P
and painkillers; and more than 2,000,000 by impure milk,
and he went on to say that annato in butter, was dan
gerous and canned goods more than a year old were
deadly. ' And he added that "the foods we daily con
sume are so fraught with germ life of a harmful nature
that I am almost afraid to go to the table." That is the
trouble with the professor; he has bacteria on the brain.
He has been hunting for microbes so long and o in
tently that he sees them everywhere and in everything.
- W doubt not that a vast and varied amount of In
jurious adulterations and impurities-, are mingled with
many kind of food, nor that most Of the nostrums sold
to ease pain or gratify desire are harmful, and all rea
sonable efforts for reform in this respect should be en
couraged; but we have no confidence in Professor
Wiley's extravagant assertions. ' Mankind is healthier
and live longer
so much practiced
busy. .
entitled to have their will executed by congress, as it
seem likely to be, for it is announced that the Hey burn
pure food bill will probably pass the senate, which body
has hitherto defeated all. such legislation in the interest
of the manufacturers of adulterated foods and drugs; but
because such legislation is desirable is no good reason
Professor Wiley
'The .only-way
Incidentally the
menu about the
L
large number of
lour fnri nrin a
It Mr. Jeffereon'a grandfather, Joseph
Jefferson first, painted the scenery, and
la It he played the- -charkftter of Leo
pold. Mr. Jeffereon'a father, Joaaptt
Jefferson second, who, Ilk hi lllue-
trloua sea, was bent- to- JTbUade!; hla.
JOURNAL
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alone on the Columbia,. but' o the Mtire coast -The
year 1906 will see a sum total of 1,000.000 to 1.500,000
cases abort of the .1905 pack, so everything point, io
prices on unn
twr.tlM tha Salmon i Very pUtbI
more pe6pIOrrlniinrthattTry
nutritious. It is said to have nutrition xor Drain, oiooo,
bone," muscle and energy to the amount of .218 per cent
as compared with .168 per cent in irlom ateak, .142
per cent in ham, .131 per cent in eggs, .129 per cent in
chicken and .93 per cent in bread.. Every year the de
mand increases on the supply, and nothing that can be
doneo increase the supply should be left undone."" -'
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PROFESSOR WILEY AND IMPURE POODS.
YrThief of "the fcurean of ch emistry
In the department of agriculture,' nas appar
; ni allowed his doubtles sincere opposition
and nostrums to lead him into mak
of very -extravagant and Improbable
dwelt noon and delved into this sub
ject so long and xclusively that he seems to have lost
his head and become a species of monomaniac, so tht he
the purs food cause more narrn man
good. ' ' "7" -.-- vl7 "" ' -' '
. That a grea,t many foods and medicines are adulterated
tn a areater or less extent, and some of them with pois
onous or positively, injurious substances," is undoubtedly
true, and this fact calls for a vigorous and persistent
warfare' upon such adulteration but what the people
want is' established and reliable facts, not wild declama
tion and frenzied, generalizations, such as Mr. Wiley has
now than before food adulteration was
or disease germ hunters bad become
V- ,;-v.; "r;.v .L.
The people demand a national pure iood law, and are
tor Hysterically exaggerating tne evil oi impure food, as
has gotten into the habit of doing. ..
The imagination is a forceful agency in the matter .of
health and disease,, and if people, become convinced that
diseascgerms infest, everything they eat and drink' and
wear and breathe, the effect will be much . the same
whether tha germs are there or not. , ,
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" BOYCOTT SUBSIDED AT AMOY. f ,
HE UNITED STATES consul at Amoy reports
that while the agitation in regard to the boycott
of American products has been extreme, the ef
fect oh trade haa been but alight Practically the only
importations from America received at Amoy are flour
and kerosene, and these have not been materially af
fected there, and the agitation has almost entirely ceased,
as it has been vigorously opposed by the central gov
ernment The vice-chairman of the local chamber of
commerce . and the. head of the . agitation . has been de
prived of all honors and official position and compelled
to- leave the country, and this has had a salutary effect
on his underlings.' - :- , ".. "J x :
in which American trade can be In
creased in that district, the consul says, is by means .of
commercial travelers from Hongkong and Shanghai, and
manufacturers must strive to adapt their goods to the
prejudice well at the need jot the Jmyenu-Thl i
done by Japanese and Germans, who in consequence out
sell Americans. '.- ' - .-,-
consul makes some interestiner state-
migratory, character of .the people of
n.moy ana tne surrounding country, from 900 to 1,500
steerage passengers leaving there every week. Many
wish to get into the Philippines, and their inability to do
so ia one of the primal causes of the boycott It is tf
timated that over 2.500.00Q nf Amny-paopl. ar. aK.H
at present, and about 25 per cent of those who leave the
port do not return. Eight out of ten families h anma
members who have been or are still abroad earning wages
or engaged in trade and remitting money to their home.
If it were not for these remittances the distress would
be terrible. xiMU .. .;.:.,-'...' -.;.'. ---:-,l. -
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HELPING THE BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.
. ORD ROTHSCHILD is doing s noUbly good
work, at his own expense,' in solving to some
little' extent the oroblem of the nnemnloved in
England. : He provide! means for the emigration of a
families to. Canada, paying their pas
sage and supplying them with enough money for im
mediate wanta, to be repaid in installments. The first
contingent of 50 families sailed for their new home yes
terday, and aeveral hundred other families are to follow
this spring. If provision it made for these people to ob
tain land at a nominal or small price, on easy terms, and
they are Industrious and thrifty, it will not be many years
till they will own comfortable .counter homes and be
independent Canada has vast areas of uninhabited
land, on which fair crops can be grown,' and though the
climate i evere during a part of the year, healthy, de
termined immigrant can do tolerably well and so escape
privation if not starvation in the old country.. All that
one man will or can thus do. toward relieving the de
plorable situation of the unemployed poor in England
will go only a little way toward the eolution of tha prob
lem, but what Lord Rothschild ia doing will help some,
and others, and perhaps the government itself, may join
him in hi laudable effort, which is analagpus to the
plan of the Salvation Army to -bring landless people and
uninhabited land together. The army's plan is more
complete and practical, however, inasmuch as it con
templates the purchase of large bodies of wild land and
selling it at cost to settlers, who are to repay the, pur
chase price in installment. To succeed in the country,
poor people from the cities roust b definitely placed and
given a start along.th line marked out for them. 1 -
wa more manager than actor and more
punier man either. - A a boy he studied
architecture and drawing, and he was
also pupil to the ecenlo art fat, Robert
Coyl. an Englishman of tput at that
CrteV . ..:V .
"''V- V. ' w.i .
a j a
- mi i - : j I '
' grantor , Tillman toaaea out a
aaal of truth with his pitchfork.
Don't St anfry at that valentine. ' 'X
ttttla nonaenae now and than should bf
raUabod try mil sorts of men. - -
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Thar won't ba room for much other
news for the next throe or four days.
Th at Johns council votaa flrat ens
wajr-B4 than 4h-eihr, and ra-4aii'
happy.- It la a pity it oan't voto both
ways at .once. ,--
It Is a waste Sf time and of fort to
arm with drunken man or an angry
woman. -'.....
Mr ' Lonrworth may not ba a
rrait man, but all Amariaans aro glad
that he Is no foreign duke or count. .
Bomo politicians are sighing for th
good old times of th boaaaa and slataa.
A Pari dispatch says th Castellan
do-not daalra that Count Bonl and hi
wife shall no divorced. Of course not;
what tbay want is mora money., . . .
OOt- In tin and kaas In lln.- oar
th. Baker City Herald. Oeaae do that
. . . a m' :,..;'; ? .-v' ;
By th way we've hoard from .Jona
than again," aera th Toledo Leader.
Th Eugene State Journal think that
Portland will outgrow Seattle and that
both -will - beat 0aa -rraaoieoe U
Quarter of a century, ;
,v.
It aeema to be about time to hear of
a dlvoro ault in -the Misner family."
There will be many beside th brlSe
and groom who will be glad when It la
Bow 'many mora "million la i"'lwyr
Crorawall going to get out Of th oanai
puainesar- . . .. - i ... .. .
K Wlaoonsin man advertlae: 1 aw
In need of a wife. On willing to work."
He oan easily And candidate willing to
work him. If he has money. .
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Here. Mr. 'Weatharmaaer, ' there ia
need of reform; this is toe wide open
winter, ... , . (, , . - . ... .a-
OovenW Cummins' 'low, idea: is to
get .third term.- ' . I v , '
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Bomahow our envy of Nick la adul
terated with some pity. ; . .
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' The daughter of th president and her
husband will make an extended Euro
pean tour in thrvprlng and will be re
ceived and entertained by . all th
royalty and aristocracy. It Is th bride
who will -really be the guewt of honor
and on whom adulatlona will be lavtaaed.
but it la remarked that "ox eouraa Mr.
Ixmgworth will go along." . That Is, he
wlU Just -go along." .
A. Cow wiilt panther's skim asasurs
H latsngtbv,
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A Klamath county man haa m 14
kpple In perfect condition.
" , a v '.V.". -y -
uinptor Amarleen: The coming ea
son will bo th beginning of s great re
vival in the t-umpter district and It win
enjoy greater activity than say season
sino -tn noom oaya" Die us aoiee.
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" Much plowing being don around
Powell Butteav ... - - .,
'i Considerable macaroni wheat will be
own in Sherman county thla spring. . .
. .--a . - .
' More ObMrvsri Th flock of It quail
which Carl Poets has been feeding dur
ing th winter are eauoy chaps who want
their breakfast early.. - They are an orna
ment t the city end must not be mo-
tv'-:r'.: v ; ri
In e rockdrtUlng contest In Gold Klfl
two Josephine county men won, drilling
II H incnes in soua granite in it min
utes. V,- , - f .. . -, .-i, . ' , .. r.
Beasld is in need of a weal telephone
exchange, , v . ,. . ; . - . .
Baadon, aars the Recorder, la destined
to be one of th most Important sea
ports on th Oregon coast. Th Coqulll
valley I on or tne rtenesi in in state
In natural resources, The 1 principal
timber resources of - Coos county are
tributary to the Coqulll river. Our
Immenae coal fields are yet practically
undeveloped and there Is no better dairy
trg T""1 PaalSa nnrthaet
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Tha laraest tm erer seen In Pendle
ton were brought there by Paul Show-
away, an Indian.. , - v.. , ... M...
i, e .- i -....'
Owners of 'orchard are spraying as
they nvr did before. ; , . , .r , 4 ...
Bave Port Clatsop, urges th Astorlaa
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' A danelne eras 1 nrvlnt In Silver
Lake, aay th Central Oregonian, ,
Th sever snew storms have caused
eoneldSrabl loss to cattlemen in a pe
culiar way. All along the Deschutes
river above th lav bed a thin layer of
Ice formed over th river. The snow
fell on It snd covered It up. Thla en
tirely hid th river, and th cattle, at
tempting to eroaa en what they up
poeed wa solid-ground, would break
through and pitch heed first Into, th
river and wr lost .
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A MayvlU man wen Is III feet
Wheat crop prospects never so fever
able at this Urn of year ia Morrow
county. . . . ' ?',.-.-v'--
' An Immenae arrtsslv bear has creased
th Deschutes river near Bend twice a
year tor II years, an old settler ear a.
but he 1 toe eunning to p oaugni. -,
- Debate en aoclallam are being held
la Grant oounty. ' -. . '
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Miss' Dolly Hefty, publlaher of th
Oardine Oasett. la Tornlnsf .woman
suttrag. .. . v, .
a e , 1 1
Th Vle council ' has passed an Sr
Alnance closing ths ealoons there en
Sundays, which, the Oasett says. Is
signtneant of th moral evolution In
Vale end a recommendation of the twn
te the eastern hemeseeker,
, HU MItVll MIM, " www.
1.40S pounds each, ran away In Crook
oounty end, aomlng t the edge of e
oeep precipice wtmq. uhv uj. wiroh
In turning went over the edge . Snd
pulled then with 'It, killing both ani
mals . and smashing ' tha wsgon late
fclairj weo
awed I
OREGON SIDELIGHTS .
HOW TO SPOIL YOUR,:
' CHILDREN .
By Winifred Black, f V
'An XagHah pearcas was burled Is
ehea grave la a ebeap lot is the cheap
est pert of a b amble araveyard M Cbi
sago the other day.- Bhe wee a woman
great beauty, great wit and noble
ranuiy. Bhe and her husband separated
oaje rears ago ead eh left . England
ttirever to hide herself .a a cheap flat
fat Chicago.-' fibe ent-almoet every nit
f her Income to her daughter, a noted
ecurt beauty m England today, and to
her two sona, who. are at preaent la Ox
ford collrge. 1... i
'all of these three children are living
in th greatest luxury and comfort, but
they bad neither time nor .Inclination to
take the trouble to reply to the oable
grama which were sent to them an
nouncing ths death of their mother. Th
money ahe acrlmped to save eye, ven
went hungry to save was good enough
for them to spend. -Ths mother who sent
It to them was, so It appears, cot good
enougn ror tne last tribute of a gentle
word of 'gratitude, , or uvea perhaps of
forgiveness.""-,' .
Perhapa. there was somethlne-. to fee-
gtv. and perhaps there was not' I know
notamg of ths miserable details of this
poor woman's moat mlaerable Hfe. but
whatever abs had been, or had not been.
ene was a aevoted and self-eacrlnclng
motuer, ana ner reward ror that devotion
and self-aacriflce was ingratitude.
It takes a selflah mother to brine- uu
unselAsh children, and aU of ths cold
hearted, ungrateful children I have" ever
known have been the children of mother
who' ovar-eacrlflced . themselves, .
wncnevar I aee a woman dressing Ilk
a dowdy t buy fine elothes for her
daughter. I know, before I ' meet the
daughter Just exactly the kind of girl
she'll turn out to bo. Precisely the Sort
of SirL te.be sure, that her mother has
raade hervain, selflah snd calculating.
now can sns te "anything ciaeT .-
DO you know a woman whe' Uvea In a
nttl hall bedroom In a cheap boarding
bouse to aave money to keep her son in
colleger Doe abe wear shabby clothes,
walk in the rain to aave carfare, and
bang ever the stair from morning until
night watting for tha postman to bring
her a letter from her sonT Hsve you
seen her sonT Walt tin he comes home
for a day or two's visit and you will see
enough of him. .He'll be dreaaed In the
very latest fashion; he won't walk to
save carfare ,., .
Caba are good enough for him. and ho
will patronise bis mother and laugh at
her and do everything he can to ahow
th other boarder that ho knows ah' a
good little creature, but really, you
know after all, and he will only spend
the shortest kind of time with her that
he can possibly manage, v ' -
I know a woman who works for her
living. Bhe a cook, and th other day
ane tola m that she bad saved enough
money now to keep her daughter's music
lessons up for two years longer. "
Daughter la married to a decent me
chanic, in decent circumstances, and she
haa Just about as muoh use for muslo
lessons as a fok terrier has for a pipe
organ. -' ; . ' r -. - C 1 .
-1 asked my friend, th cook, why she
didn't give bar "daughter dressmaking
leeaona so she could laara te make hex.
ewa clothes and help her husband sava
that much, money, besides learning a
very - useful - trade which would some In
handy if husband died. . s
Every time I think ' of the look my
friend, the copk. gave m when I asked
her about the , sewing lessons I hats t
tsft of the soup. ... . . , v- 5 -.f
Pathers do vary little of th spoiling.
Half th nan In America are dragged
through Hfe helpless and 'protesting at
the heels of some half-baked .youngster,
whose mother haa taught him that there
la only one way In tha world to be con
sidered for ens moment and that Is his
own sweet way. If you want unselfish
children be a little bit selfish yourself;
that's th surest way fn h world te get
than. 'v :
Washington Gossip. , :
Washington Special te th New Tork
- - ,, 1 worlds '. s - "
The- announcement - made 'yesterday
by Senator Pettuo of Alabama, who la
now in his sstn year ane ta in eiaeet
man la the senate, that ha is a candidate
for reeleotloa revived the story st th
eapltol today of how he came to the
senate th first time. Ix-Senator .Push
wae the Democ ratio beee of the etata
When Pugh was conducting hi canvass
for reelection t th senate Pettus went
to him and aaked for his indorsement
for a local Judgeship. -.-- -- -
"Nonsense," aald Psgh, arrogantly;
"you are too eld te be a Judge."
"Well, by gum I" - shouted Pettus, "I
may be too old to be a Judge, but I
ain't toe old to be a senator:
Ju
wtiea th canvass wse over and Pettus
was elected, :. -: :
- A man stood in th west corridor ef
ths eapltol looking at the big painting
of the battle of Chepultepao. Senator
Pettus eame along. -
. "sir," aald th stranger, "you appear
te be aa eld man and probably lived in
the time depleted there. I want to ask
you, sir. if people at th time ef the
Mexican war . wore clothe Ilk those
people are plots aed aa wearing T"
- "They did not" Senator rettus re
plied promptly. 1-Was at that battle
myself and I saw nobody wearing any
elothes like those. I may aay." he con
tinued, gravely, "that, so far as wearing
apparel la concerned, that representation
Is , a pictorial lie", - .
John - Thomas Brady " ef tt Xouls,
blew through th capital a few daya ago,
looking for a government market for his
horse aalve. . It was John Thomas who.
when returning to this country after a
trip to England, whae tha Britisners
rot all his money, was halted at Ellis
stand. ' Circumstances had compelled
hi return in the steerage. -.
"Who are your aaked the Inseertor.
"John Thomas Brady jot St Louts."
"Are you a votrf - . - '
"No," ah noted John Thomas, wild with
rage, "I em a repeater. .-, . . , '
"--A--The Nob' Nuisanea.":
prom ths SeatUs Mail and Herald.
A movement Is on foot to prevent th
blowing of whistles and ringing of bells
In th city. It la contended that th
screeching of o many whistles at cer
tain hours ef th day produeee aa unfa
vorable influence upon the sick and
nervous, and that in Juatlce te those af
flicted individuals the practice should be
abated. Inasmuch aa the practice will
not be stopped by ths owners nf mills
and faotertea, it Is contended that the
time has come when the city eoeimil
should declare the practice te be a nui
sance and place a penalty en the beads
Of those whe eoatlnue it '
"Probably the time waa whan hell
snd whistles served a purpose, but ai
present It looka as though there ie con
siderable merit In the campaign that Is
Inaugurated agalnat their continuance.
It la th practice f saoat fsetoriee to
Mew a ahriu whistle three er four tint
every r"'-f from I to T o'clock.
Why? knows, except, that It la
a part of a practice that - has been
banded down from th past
But when the lawmaker starts out to
reform the practloee la thla respect, the
problem before him will be te determine
where to atop, if a mill, owner e&a not
blow his whistle at o'clock ia . ths
morula- why . should a hurch ring Its
bellt. These things, however, are easy
nough to regulate by law, but whet
about th crowing of rooster la a' coop
on th adjoining lott How i the slty
statesman going te make them obey th
lawT Then there are the cats! , These
suggestions are not mads to discourage
the anti-noise agitators, but to auggest
te the practical reformer that the task
befor him is not aa easy one. How
ever, It should not be abandoned untU
very useless noise that tends te ths
snnoyanoa of those who have aa Inher
ent right to remain unannoyed I placed
under the baa of tha law. , .
THE PLAY
A remarkable woman presented a re
markable play at tha Marquam theatre
last, night and a great audience eat in
tense attention through four acta. It
was tathey a harrowing experience for
most of those, who went to see Miss
Nano O'Neil In "Fire of. St John."
It la aot for moat of ua te know th
passions, to feel th sensations, that
actuate th people in Budermann's mor
bid play -and for this let ua b thank
ful. It ia probable that there are la the
world auca - hlgb-etrung, - sensitive,
melancholy persons ss Marl and George
Van Uarten, but not many. ,
. The play Ta laid In eastern' Prussia
and th four -acta take place with a
single settingi representing the living
room la a country home, with a portrait
of Prince Bismarck hanging on the wall,
George Van Hartaa la ngsged to marry
Gertrude, daughter of Mr. Brauer, the
bluff, hearty, - hot-tempered master of
the house. Marie, daughter ef a gypsy
woman, who haa been adopted by . the
Brauers, has been to th eity to arrange
the house for tha bride and groom, as
the wedding la to take place n four
daya On her way home ahe baa met
her mother and run away - from th
wretched woman. Maria ' and Georg
have formed en Impossible passion for
one another. They Anally decide to give
it up for th aaks of the honor of the
house, and George- goes te ths altar with
his affianced, Gertrude, a simple, trust
lug little girl, while the curtain falls
on Marl In exoeea of grief. .,
"MlssO'NsU I rather tall, with awk
ward figure. Last night she wore her
hair la a black mop ever her ears. Her
face was whits and aha looked ltka a
corpse -' Her voios seemed hoarse and
rough. .. ' . .- ' -
That wss ths first Impression. Grad
ually thla changed; one forgot the' mop
of hair, even, the unbecoming waist she
ware, when Miss O'Neil gestured with
her expressive hands or seamed her face
with II nee ef sorrow. She was alwaya.
even in the tensest moments, reserved.
studied, yet never affected. ' There, was
a realism In her acting that makea her
a real actreaa. Ths hoarse volos showed
wonderful modulations, ' the awkward
figure took ea the supple grace ef a
tlgreaa and the audience sat entranced
Her silent grief at th end ef the play,
when the man aha loved had gene to
wed a foolish child; her acorn of Pastor
Haffner'a honest love, all were notably
well done. When Jtaaee ONell weeps,
her face- grows M yeara elder Bad her
Whole being cries., itr. : (
The .supporting compear last-nisht
was excellent. There are but nine char
acters all told, and two of these ere
servants, but each is sharply- drawn.
McKee Rankin as Mr. Brauer, ths
hearty, bluff, profane, big-hearted, hot
tempered master ef .the bouse, wae ad
mirable In every way.1 The audience.
oppressed by the" melancholy ef Marie
and Georg van Harten, was glad to
laugh "With Mr. Brauer.- Hs made ths
psrt human and eonslatent 1 .......
.. As George Van Harten. the melaar.
choly lover of Marie, Andrew Robaon
waa acceptable, thoufch not remarkable
Hi was an unsatisfactory role. Melan
choly men aro not popular in stage crea
tion any more. Joha Glendlnnlng as
Pastor Haffner played te the limitations
of the part, and waa likable la every
way." Mlae Ague Rankin aa Gertrude,
the child - who Is to' wsd ths melan
choly George, ia thoroughly pleasing-.
The others do all that Is required of
them. - -..-..' .
Tonight Miss O'Neil presenta Mae
terlinck's "Monna Vanna," concluding ths
engagement.. Ths matinee attraction is
"Magda." , '-. .' .
r ' " ' ' aseneBmwsssBBawesBBSBuas ' .
vV' , Th) Coal Mlaer. - ,
'- ' " " "... ' " ."By Wax Jonoa.
Through the sunless hours at his weary
... work - '..','..'-
The miner toila in ths damp and murk.
Cabined in gloom, what part does be
play . - . - v '. "'
lalthe whirl of ths world where wa
V . know the dayT ....
TCoThg her aUty ml lea or more. ' '
Tarn iraia rusoee vj vriia wwuni
.... M. - 1 f "'-:
City end hamlet serosa the land
Binding fast in her flying band. t
Speeding tne aoiaier wnu ssaio.
Speeding the widow, the -girl end th
Freighted with grief, with mirth. With
. priae, 1,
o...v. h,, inhL AnS the thouaanda So
By grace of the moling man below;
For tne miner, sweating anaer srounu.
Make all th wheel of the world , go
,v rounds ; .'.. .,'.... '. . .;."'.
Bursting th massy wave to spray. v
Tne mignt steamaoip mini ur w,
As certain in her certain couree - ,
As if ahe moved embodied force.
Scorning ths aee and linking lands,
Ths steamahlp goea; and By ue nana
Of the miner, " sweating under ground.
who mases tne wneeiji ,wui -.wiim
go round. . , ,
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The Incoming Stream of Diamond.
. From Harper's Weekly. '--'
More than $J.00.000 worth ef dU
ttionda and ether precious stones have
been Imported Into the United State
during th past calendar year. t This Im
portation ef diamond and ' precious
tones 1 by far tha largest in the his
tory of th United States, - ths high
water mark In earlier yeara having been
tm millions In 101, while 104 showed
but 17 H' millions. In ths 1 month
of 1101 ending with th month of Oc
tober, the total wa over lit.,
er more than in any full year prior te
li. , Th importation of these- IS
months, amounting to tlt.SII.llT. gives
aa average ef over S.t.0v -per
month, so that It may - reasonably be
assured that th figures for th two fol
lowing months will bring th total up
to l million dollars, aa against IT
million dollars ta 104 and tSV millions
in isoa.. n- ..
Ho Guessed. Right. , -.
' From the Philadelphia Press.
"Ah, me!" exolatmed Hn Nsgset
"my ahopplng wa most unsatisfactory
today."
. "Huhr grunted Hasrget; "trying t
get something for nothing, I suppose.
"Tea. dear. I waa after a blrthdav
Sift ftt.Zxifi, r:..,. ; v., "
i
and ti is xrrrzrc:;c3
By Rev.. Thomas B. Gregoryr
; On ef the building I bave in mind
crowns the summit of th Acropolta, at '
Athene) the ether I race. ted la Albaay,
New Tork. ' :, .. : - .-.
Th Parthenon wa erected about B. C.' ,'
50. and waa In a perfect atate of preeer ; '
ration so lata aa the year 1(87, when
It was partially destroyed by th ex
plosion of a bomb throws by a Venetian " '
mortar-. - , , L, ' , ; ,
Built la tha age. of Periolea, four en
turiee before the birth of Christ tha
amaalng tempi might have been seen la
all of Its beauty and glory by Bbake- ,
spears and Bacon, and but for the x- .
plosion of that bomb It would In all
probability have stood "the world' Onset .
building on ths world's, finest Sits" dor' t
thouaanda of yeara to coma. - ' '
The other structure the famous, or In- ...
famous, Albany oapltol was built but .
yesterday, as It were, being flnlahed
about the 'year W7, and already those
who would enter the mighty edifice must
face this ominous slgnt "Danger! Ne
admittance 1" - 1 " ':" ..
The Albany building Is practically In
a atat ef .oollapaa, , tailing, net from .....
the explosive force of a bomb, but of
It uwa Inherent weakness and worthless-''
nees, and all this within little more tha a
a quarter ef a century after ita erection: ' :
while the Parthenon faced" the - battle ..
and the nrees for more than 1.000 years..
and waa aa '.'solid as a rock" until It
was shattered by that lU-fated VeneUaa -
hell. .'. ..... .. , .. - -. ,. ;
The charming Dori tempi on the '
Acropolta was- bullded truly.. It repr
anted th absolute sinoerity ef those wbe
erected It It was an honest piece ef
work. '-' v . : -;
It was mors than that it was ths work .-.
ef love. It waa designed te embody and
represent th Joy. th hone, th beauty , ;
that reveled In th builders souls, "and
to stand for all time aa a memorial ef ' '
the "glory that waa Greece." .
It ia far etherwiae with tha atupendoue 7
pile of atone, brick and mortar at Albany. "
Thar waa no sinoerity In the putting '-
Up of that structure. . no honeety.
It is not a tru building, but a false
one Instead.. Tha builders wrought not '
In love but In tha vtla spirit of gain." -.
They were thinking - not . of something
that should be permaently beautiful, but
only quickly remunerative. . It waa a
political -, Job., not a labor of love. It
was te represent ne Joy, hope or beauty "
at all, but only the mean, mercenary '. V
lust for "graft"- ' -
Now w know why th Parthenon stood
so long, wearing throughout th can
turle Its smlls of perfect-loveliness,
while th Albany oapltol la falling down -almost
before It can be fairly occupied.. ' '
All life must sooner ' or later falb
Only the truth ahall endure, , .r
Th thng that I don right done oa : -principle,
don In aoeordnace with th '
moral law, lasts and no other, sort of .-'
thing can lat .' . ' "" .'':
LEWIS AND CLARK
.', At Fort Clateoow- .,'.'' . '
" February 14 Wa are very ; uneasy
about our atck man at the aalt works. .
Sergeant Pryor and party-have not re-,
turned, nor can we ednoelv what causae
their delay. Drewyer visited bl trap
and eaught a An, fat beaver, on which
W. feasted. On -the 11th Inst -Captain 1
Clark completed, a map ef the country
through which - we have paased from
Fort Mandan. The southeast branch ef
the Columbia, ths Kooskooakee, an th
Columbia! from , the entrance- of the"
southeast Tb ranch (Lewis-river), as well
aa a pert of Flathead (Clark's) .rlvsr
and our track across th Rocky (Bitter
root) mountains, srs laid down by
celestial observation and survey. . The
rivers srs also connected - (aa we ob
served them at' their 'sources) with
other rivers, agreeably to the informa
tion of ths natives and to ths most
probable conjecture arising from their,
respective capacities and the . relative
positions of their respective mouths,,!
which last data have with few excep
tlons been established by celestial oo
servatlona. Ws nsw find that wo have
discovered the most practicable snd -
navigable passage across ths continent
of North America. - -r- - -
It ta that which we traveled, with the
exoeptton of that part of our. route
front the entrance of Dearborn' rlvef
into the Missouri te the entrance of
Traveler's Rest creek - Into the Flat
head (Clark's) -river. The distance be-
tween these points would be traversed
more sdvsatageously by - land, as ths
navigation ef the Missouri above Dear
born's rlvsr 1 laborious and 4ts mile
In length. - No advantage is gained -by
thla aa th route which1 we were com
pelled to travel by land from the source
of Jefferson's river to the entrance
of Travelera Rest creek la II miles.
being farther by 10 miles than tha dls- -tanee
from-tha entrance of Dearborn's
river to th last mentioned, snd a muoh
worse route also, II Indian Information
la to be relied upon. ' Accordingly to th
same information, ths Flathead (Clark'a),
river, Ilka the Lewie, which heada with
Jefferson and the Madison rivers, can
not be navigated, through th Rocky
mountains, in oonaequence of falls and ,
rapids. In confirmation ef thla ws dis
covered that there were no salmon In
Flathead river, th contrary being th ,
eaae In the southeast branch Of the Co
lurabla, although thla ia not navigable
The Indiana Inform ua that the Flathead
river runs in the direction of th Rocky
mountajns for a great distance te the -north
before it dischargee rnte th Co
lumbia river, which last according te
the asms information, la obstructed,
from ths entrance of th southeast fork
to that of Clark's river, by 9 great num
ber of difficult . end dangerous
rapMs. Considering. - therefore, th
danger and difficulty attending th navi
gation of the Columbia la this part of
ita course, aa wall a the circuitous and
distant route formed by Itself and
Clark'a river, we conceive that, even ed
mittlng Clark'a river to be aa navigable
ss the Columbia river below tha en
tranc ef Clark's which I eontrry to
our Information tha track by land ever
th Rocky mountains, usually traveled
by th nttve from th entrance of
Traveler's Rest ereek te the forks of the
Kooskooakee. is preferable, thla track
being a distance of 114 mile. The infer
ence therefor deduced from those
premises is that, the beat and most
practicable route across the continent la
by wsy of ths Missouri te the entrance
of Dearborn's rtvsr. er near that point)
thence te Flathead (Clark's) river at
the entrance of Traveler' Rest ereek;
thence up this ereek to Its forks; whence '
you' pursue a range of mountalna which
divide the waters of the two- forks ef
this creek, snd which range, still "pur
suing its westerly course, divides th
water of two main forks ef the Koos
kooakee river to their junction; thenoe -you
descend this' river by water te tha
southeast branch to the Columbia, and
down this tost to ths Paclflo. ocean. ,'
Knew the Gossip. "
From the Baltimore American, v
"Why do you keep euch an Inefficient
servant aa that, end pay her euch high
, "My dear. She has bees a T-'T
gveryf -cX fmJZzzz. Ut.ji
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