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ir SUNDAY, JUNE Id, 1CC3. PORTLAND, OREGON. T TIIEOREGONSUNDAY JOURNAL AH INDiriROINT K W S P if" . C ft. JACKSON - Publisher. Entered at the postoffloe at Portland. Oregon, for trana- portatkm through the avails aa second-class matter. editorial Roosts, - - TELEPHONES. .Mala Business Of floe.... Mala (00 . FOREIGN ADVERTiarNO REPRESENTATIVE. Vreelend-Renieraln Special Advertising Agency, X treat. New Tork; Tribune Building. Chicago. - - . - SUBSCRIPTION 'Sanaa v Carrtaa, ' . . -nt oiflrmii wia -- daj. 1 p 1!? Tke Dally JoaraaL 1 rear.... AM Tbe Daily Joaraai with BOB- ear. aMatba ATJ The Daily JoeraaL BMarba.AM , The Dally Jearaai, W1U Soa- ear. BMatbe 10 TkeDallr JoareaL BMaths.tAO Tae Daily jMrmal wit See aay, 1 awath . M Tka Dallr. ear . delta. " erei, auaday tacleaad. , . . .. J Dally. -k. delivered. Baa- . .... day exeeptad. .... ......' 44 KATES. . Tanas ay Mad. r dar. 1 yea,. fTM The Dally Jeeraal. 1 year.... A (Tke Dally Jearaal. vita Sea- - L-T aar. BMaclw I" The Dally Joeraal. d awataa.. ATI The Dally Joerael. VlU Boa- , i day, S BMataa.,. ..MO The Daily Jearaal. Bwethe.. l.0 Tbe Del ly Jearaal. artth doe- day. 1 BKiatk Tbe Dally Jearaal. 1 awnth... - 4W TM Haaday Joaraal, 1 year.. 10 Tae SttBdar Jearaal. d awataa 1JM , Remittances ahould N nidt by draft, poatal notes, kxpresa erdera and aaaaU amounts art acceptable la 1 and ': S-cent postage stamps. ., BRYAN WORRIES THE OPPOSITION. W IT.TJ AI J TmYAM-.a-a preardCTtiai -possibility is a fruitful source of editorial com ment these days. There were years, not a .few but many, .when .the. opposition press never men tioned him without a savage. attack cither upon the man or his political beliefs, but it is different now. Today he looms large on the political Horizon, and while some foes praise, others treat the plan to renominate him again for the- presidency with gentle ridicule: The latter is the knethod of the Tacoma News, .which saysr ' "Every sign on the Democratic path points Bryanward. Every plank in Democratic platforms forma a Bryan foothold. Every notable Democratic utterance breathes of Bryan. There is a magic in the name that Democracy can scarcely resist Bryan tor president on an anti-graft, anti-trust, anti-Republican platform the Democratic air is filled with the clamor of it. Missouri and South Da kota and Arkansas and Indiana have caught np the Bryan flag and hope to tack it on a Democratic pole. . ' X "Bryan is the logical leader of his party. . He has f ailed Jhr?S. btthatdoesq,tmake him in jneli a "good" citizen of a town in the middle west: , fromherTtdpoiritDemocrats. " Theyicarf aitere -iM4bB-jw. 'imiH' piitfoeopayy-w nenjieyTe vie w tast iv "years they can't figure out how they could, have won. It wasn't on the cards,' they tay, and take' a freih hold on nope. The party has changed now and Bryan has changed. Ilejt no longer the radical, no longer the revolutionary, boy orator.' He has outgrown' the last and changing ton dkiona have converted 4he others into-eonservative, f safe and sane. t He represents todsyahe solid, con servative element of his party. Hearst looms large on the horizon, the figure of socialism. From this -yellow peril,' Democracy turns in fear and with trust to the con servative Bryan, i He is 'the greatest private citizen in the nation,' he is the 'unfaltering pitriot.'the 'wise states man,' the 'superb leader.'.", '". . !A r . s.i.nva iuw AAdit. VUV I11ST I t aaVl tin H41 ,Vt J J a 11 M ' popularity." He hassurvi"ved aBuse and defeat, has won over the bitter enemies in his own party who fought him in two campaigns, and has a personal following which in numbers far exceeds that of any other public man, with the possible exception of Theodore Roosevelt. The op- : position press realizes his strength, and some of the cries that have lately come over the fence would indicate that they would much preferihenomination of some other candidate. This worry and anxiety must be wearing on zealous partisan editors. They are , deserving of sym pathy, especially in view of the fact that two years will pass before the Democrats will meet in national conven tion. In the meantime the sufferers can find no Sur cease of pain .in draughts from the ridicule .bottle. Bryan may not be nominated. Two years works many changes in political condition, but if he should be again named for the presidency, there will be few to deny him what he was not given before the respectful treatment that is tbe due of every man who is nominated by a great party for the highest office in the gift of the American people. ,.' ; . ; " . -'v.-'..' ' - , .; " f ' ' 1 ' ig ": , -. , , Insurance companies that " do not pay their honest losses in California should not be allowed to do business ; in any other state. Even in horseracing, when a gam bler "filches" at one track, he is not permitted to make st-Another, And dishonest insurance men are.no better than dishonest poolsellers. t beta reached?" Indeed, I've forgotten." Do you remember the tax rate?" "Er well, it's pretty high., 4-What- it.the total -valuatii purposes?" THERE MUST BE A RECOUNT. IN DEMANDING A RECOUNT of the votes cast for sheriff of this county,"Tom Word has taken the right course.: On the face of the returns his op- fonentr Robert I- Stevens, has . an apparent plurality- of live out of a total of nearly 20,000 votes -cast The , margin is too narrow, until verified, to be decisive. More ; than 9,000 electors "who voted for Word are interested in ; the result and they have the right to know, beyond di t pute, doubt or cavil, which man is in fact the choice of the people for the office. , ,, , . - Tom Word is the only man who can demand the re- count . He owes it to the voters who supported him and - cast their ballots for him to see that the ultimate result is not determined by chance,1 accident or intentional error ; , in the original returns. Word is not the only man con cerned. There are more than 9,000 electors who declared thathe is their choice for sheriff for the next two years v 4 and who demand that their will shall not be defeated by - anything less than-an actual preponderance of votes for tbe opposing candidate. - ' ' ' '. Friends of Mr. Stevens make a mistake when they crit icise Word for demanding a recount It il not merely . bis right it is his duty, as it would be Stevens' duty if , -. the poskiona-wcre reversed. If-6tevens-ia jn-fact-the choice of a plurality of the voters of the -county, he has ! nothing to fear from a recount'Jlf he is actuated by the " -' spirit of fair play he should lay no obstacle in the way of och a proceeding. And f he is not clearly entitled to i the office by virtue of a preponderance of the votes, he should be the last man to take advantage of technicalities r tricks to obtain it. " ' ' ' Maybe some of the people who voted "dry" at the polls ... -thought they were expressing their preference for a cer- tain sort of weather. claimed by the douma.'but in practice its power is suf ficient to give constitutional quality to governmental methods in CermanyIf. things continue as they "art now moving, the new regime in Russia will begin to take shape on the general lines of the German model To the revolutionary, organizations, that is almost as repulsive as sheer autocracy. They would br quite as much de lighted over the failure of the experiment as the reac tionaries of the court, and the bureaucracy, who have been opposing it all Along and wh hold that there is nothing like hot lead as medicine for public discontents. That extremes meet is proverbial; but when the elements constituting the extremes, are so. powerful as in Russia, the situation is necessarily precarious. 1 All that it is safe to say is that the Jonger the douma lives and moves the greater the chance for the new institutions to take root Half true; half mistaken. , The "douma" will amount to nothing until it does away with the -autocratic power of the czar and, with the bureaucracy. .' ; Utterly and absolutely. . , This, and nothing else, is the issue before the "douma," as It was before the men who chanted the Marseillaise over a hundred years ago. - - X . Probably the -Russian people are not fit for self-gov ernment; no matter; if forced to the arbitrament of force, they" will write their intelligence later in the blood of the class who. have been robbing them for over two thou sand years, -.-i 'f '"'"'I J.. 1 L ' Of course, the way to keep out of war is to be pre pared for it; but the way to, get into trouble is to think you. have the weapons with which to lick the other fel low.. As long as a nation spends over 63 per cent of its entire revenue for the army and navy and 33 cents for arbitration, the white dove of peace will continue to roost high. . . .'.,.-.,, IGNORANCE OF "GOOD?" CITIZENS. A N INTERESTING little pamphlet, containing an article. n TThe. Ignorance of Good Otizens, reprinted from the Outlook, 'has just been issued by, the National Municipal league. Its- author is J. Horace . McFarland of . Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a student of civic affairs who evidently knows what he is talking" about His plea is for greater and wiser public interest in public affairs, and he begins his appeal -with the following inferesting conversation he once had with don't know. Is there a legal limit to. the bonded debt and. has it "Let. me seeiJLthinkL It.is about nc-I. don't.lemem- ber.- ... . ..... ::,:. , , . ,. Do you know what the basis of the' assessment isr -It seems to me it is about full valuation. Wait: no. it's 75 per cent I think. : You see," he added, apolo getically, "I dn't: look after these lhings.I'm.not . in politics." ' ,' Thus does Mr. McFarland put his finger on the weak TeMDfreTicfrTft mlddl "wesfTT buta TaTr sampTe "of all the rest in this enlightened republic. Everywhere too little interest is taken in public affairs. Too many citizens devote their spare-time to studying market quotations and' baseball scores instead of posting themselves on the condition and needs of the community in which they live They leave socn UungAAd bonded debt and tax rated to bond-holders and politicians, yet rise in indignation when any one in timates that they are not good citizens. Mr. McFarland is right, and he strikes the keynote when he savs:- "Really .good citizens are intelligent citizens, who are informed at least upon the fundamental facts of the finances of their immediate municipalities. Ignorance always promotes graft, and for such ignorance the tax payer, who carelessly pays without knowledge but often with grumbling and votes without information, has no aV . a 99 " "' T - . - - . . - more than normal majorities for the remainder of the Republican ticket 1 . k. ' This result is of far more than local importance. It bespeakVa breaking away from party ties, a disposition on the part of the people to think and act for themselves, a resolution to shake off the rule of bosses and machines. It is this spirit which has excited the alarm of the trusts and the plutocrats and tbe huge corporations which have fattened and flourished, under the fostering, protective tariff. It is this spirit which finds expression in the en thusiasm for Bryan which is sweeping like wildfire across the country. . v i No wonder that Republican organs comment ' with alarm upon Oregon's' election. No wonder thst it has become the theme of anxious discussion among the lead ers of the Republican party. Oregon's election is . a warning which wise men will heed. ' KEEP OUT OF POLITICS. L IQUOR DEALERS complain that the 'local op tion law is unfair and they find catfse for serious alarm in some of the results of the recent elec tion." For these results they are themselves chiefly to blame. ' ' "J V.'- v It is undoubtedly -true that hardship has frequently resulted to the liquor dealers from the operation of the local option law, and in some cases these hardships have been unmerited. Prohibition has been Arried in entire counties where it mTghrnaveeenhern(Oxemptoe larger cities and towns." In some cases, by the. joinder of city and. country precincts, the former have been made dry when foresight and prudence would have discour aged the attempt to enact prohibition where it could not be enforced. ; -' But the liquor dealers themselves arc chiefly to blame for these results. For two years they have tried per sistently to dune llie Dublic and to override the public will. By stealth, and trickery they have tried to nullify the local option law. By open deception they tried lo Secure the adoption 'of an amendment to the Jaw ; whien was, in reality equivalent to its repeat"- " ..Such, tactics. breed intolerance. The prohibitionists, who form a small majority of the voters of Oregon, have been reinforced by thousands of independent citizens who resent such methods as have been employed by the liquor interests,' and who refuse to submit t such- dictation. The result has been natural. Prohibition is now the rule in many parts of .Oregon -where two- years ago it. could not have received popular approval. The cause of prohibitum received a mighty impetus when the liquor dealer attempted covertly to annul the local option law..;,, v ' " ' ' There is one obvious lesson from these facts the liquor interests should keep out of politics and if they ex pect fair play they ahtmld themselves be fair. If they continue the policy which they have followed for the past two years, they ' will certainly encounter atill more trouble than they have yet experienced.. '.v ;-, DELAWARE MAX HAVE A SENATOR... D ELAWARE, tor 10 years deservedly without two senators, and about half the time without any, thinks now that it. catt possibly elect, one. It really isn't important A state that was held up for 10 yearr by-Gas Addtek deareely- deserves a-enatorr : ' There are two consolations, however, for Delaware; its peach .crop was not a failure, and the circus will be there this summer. - . So the Delawareans can be supremely happy. Let them thank God that they, haven t an Aldrich in the senate! . . . " " . ; ' :v TLc Masses Are Always JLJnrateful; and Justifiably So S By Max Nordau. . TJCH a thing as gratitude of the . maaaes or of nations, ' or of the human- race in general, doea not 'exist The man of genius, whoa mental labor It Is that keeps the apeoiea alive, who accomplishes In hlraaelf the a hole m Parana uf Ilia aueelea. ana wliu fepreaanta the "beKtnnina; of alt new de velopment on the part of humanltyliaaV' to diapenaa with all thanks. He must find hla sole reward In this fact; that in thinking, doing and creatine; ha Uvea up to hla higher qualities and bring hla originality within i hla conaclouaneaa to the accompaniment .ojt powerful feellnga of pleasure. . - -otAer-aatlafacuonthanthatof the -most intenaive senaatloh poaslble of hla own ego exists no more for the most subllma man of genius than for the low- eat form of Ufa that awlma In nutritive fluid. I - Thai man of genius frequently flatters hlmaelf with the conception of immor tality. . He la wrong. . Immortality, which has bean -called a : "fine thought" is something - less than a it fine thought It - Is a - sort a shaddw of ona'a own Individuality pro jected into the future. . similar to that which a tree casts far out over the level ground when the sun la low down over the horiaon. At the moment that the tree falls Us shadow also disappears. The conception of the perpetuation of one's name, the effort to aacure for one's aelf fame after dahi lsauaa -from the same aource from which the- supersti tion pf the -continuance of an Individ ual's existence after death has also sprung. . - .' The man who creates great things and has furthered the Interests f hla na tion, or of the human race In general, can surely, at all events, reckon upon TfrtwrwesTjadi of gratitudes, which consists In the per- and valu effort! The human race la reluctant to keep up the naiae or the Image of individual persona, or to prolong any feeble refleo tlon of their Individual existence, . even In their recollection beyond the. nature) llmlta of human life. . How..long .do even the. most famous names endure As things are, mankind has not preserved any of the age of ten thousand years;" and What are ten' thou sand years in the life of mankind, not to mention the life of our planet or the solar, system? ' . It Is only when living persons derive some material -ad van tag by not allow ing the recollection of definite Individ uals to vanish that the maaaes preserve a distinct remembrance of them. - Where forgotten, and when their fellows in the world settle In some America discovered by them, without ever cherishing an other, thought of the Columbus of the new foster soil. Their organisms produced their fcrea tibns Just as a maternal organism gives birth, to a child aa they were unable to keep burled within them, they found thamaalvaa eAmnalled to thrnat them of'drserTrtng vtoweffHphTOfaurrj-fno; laghteitUlds. aSlSLj.. luariktogT forth whe ey kad 'bwomW makes haste to. forget the dead, even though they should have been Its great est benefactors. It is a pitiable slghFto observe tbe desperate efforts which the Individual makes to withdraw his Individual form from the influence of the law of anni hilation. He piles up-huge stones to make gtgantlo memorial erections, he molds the metals to preserve the out lines1 of his shape, he writes his name on every page In books, he engraves it on marble and bronse, and he associates It with charitable, institutions, streets and towna These palaces and statues, these books and Inscriptions ' are in tended to proclaim this one name In Ih-q&reOnrDiagw ages of the race and to remind them I thi this great man had acquired for hlmaelf the right to be held In grateful venera tion, r r , , . ... And ajtll ' they are all forgotten, all theae great men 'who have labored tor the .masses, .utterly forgotten after. a short span of time, and they have, after all. no reason to complain about lngratl- THE GREAT FUTURE : OF HUMANITY- - By Maurice Maeterlinck. ARB Just at a moment when a thousand new rea sons for' having eonftdence in the destinies of our klnA are being born around us. For hundreds and hundreds of cen turies we hsve Inhabited this earth, and the greatest dangers seem past They were so threatening that we escaped them only by a chance that cannot occur more than once In a thouaand times In the history of the world, - The earth, still too young, was poising Its continents. Its Islands and Its seas before fixing them. The central fire, the first master of the planet, was at every moment bursting forth from Its granite prison. . and the globe, hesitating In apace, wandered among greedy and hoe--' tile stars, Ignorant of their lawa Our undetermined faculties floated blindly. ' in our . bodies, like the nebulae In the ether; a mere .nothing-could have de stroyed eur human nature at the grop ing hoars when our1 brain was forming itself, when the network of our nerves ' was branching out . ' :. ... . , , Today the Instability of the seas and the uprisings of the central fire, though -till-poaetble,- are infinitely leas to be " feared. As for .the third peril, collision with a stray star, we may be permitted to believe that we shall' be. granted the few centuries of respite necessary for us to learn to ward it off. . .. I grant that all this is full of cues-' tlonable hopes, and that it would be almost as reasonable to despair of the destinies of man. But already It is much that the choice remains possible, . and that hitherto nothing has been de-. cldtd against us. . Every hour that passes Increases our chances of holding out and conquering. It may be said, I know, that from the point of View -of beauty,- enjoyment and - the harmonious understanding or lire, some nations the Oreeks and the Ro mans of the commencement of the em pire, for Instance were superior to our- ' selves. The' fact nevertheless remain that the sum -total of civilisation spread over- our globe was never to pe com pared with that Of today. A .iirMMinirv civilization Bucn aa . (at a.lha i Rdim.i tir . a leiandrls. formed but a luminous laiet which was hreatened .on every side, naenicnr ended by being swallowed up by tn savage ocean that surrounded it Nowadays apart . from the yeiiow .: peril, which does not seem serloue It is longer1 possible for a barbarian invasion to make us lose in a few days . : our essential conquests. . ' - Tha harharlana can no longer come tude becauseTihe Moreover, every man of genius really finds his recompense for even the great est accomplishment; nay, he actually starts his work .only after being, prepaid for it For he has at his service all the labors of preceding men of genius; he steps upon their shoulders; wherefore It It Is only fair that his successor should step on his shoulders. i- Modern Society Criminally Blind to Suffering of Vorkers The San" Francisco papers have begun charginsr the old rates for advertising, and refer to a recent occur rence there as a fslight jar, followed by an incipient blase." ''. . . , BRYAN MAY BE PRESIDENT YET. ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN looks like a coming man. It seems as if he were to be the Man of the"Hour We oncommir Hour. Bryan will in all "probability be the next. Democratic candidate for president Many believe that unless the Republicans nominate La Follette, Bryan will be elected. If nominated, be will -not carry Pennsylvania or New Jersey, possibly , not Massachusetts or Iowa and we wouldn't yet swear on Oregon or Washington; yet Bryan would De erected as against rairbatiks, for instance. Well, why not? The heavens wont Tall; earthquakes will not multiply.-And! Bryan would give at least an honesty decent, conscientious presidential administration. One thing is tolerably certain; Bryan, if nominated. will scarcely be counted out, as he was in several states, Oregon among them, in 1896. Next time, if he wins, he will get the office. If he can't win fairly and squarely, we "hope he never will get it He will win in that way, or not at alL What is the matter with President Roosevelt? More than a week has elapsed since he was called a kaleido scope, a prevaricator, a pine lath painted to look like iron, or even a mud fence. Has he joined the do-nothings? r THE , OPPORTUNITY OP.TWO CHILDREN. A THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA. HE Baltimore News says: "The Russian crisis " has" perceptibly abated in Intensity, through the ' action of the opposing powers in ignoring ir- - reconcilable differences while proceeding with the buii ' ness pf legislation. It has been officially announced that the czar will pay no attention to the. demand for the resignation of the ministry made by tha douma, as being . a matter beyond its competency.' The ministry will go on with its legislative program and deal with issues as they arise. j -.'' v- .'3. i-"Meanwhile appreciation pf the opportunities of free -Trpeedt enjoyed by the members is affecting the attitude of the douma. - The orators have their ay without stint, and even if their demands are rejected, yet at least it matt be a satisfaction to them to have art arena for the display of their powers. The German reichstag does ot posses the power of dismissing ministers which was . . - ' v " : ' , -' ; ': ' , i ; '.-.., -.."'.-... " . ' ' -i ' ' ' .e . WONDERFUL opportunity have the young King ot spam and his beautiful bride. The people of the earth have long, and always, -"loved a lover:" Perhaps nobody expressed this thought better than the pdet;philosopher Coleridge, in these lines: All thoughts, all passions, all delights, - Whatever stirs this mortal frame. All are but ministers of love, , and feed his sacred flame. each others. They are in a very important position. .The world is advancing, and if they are to keep up with the pace of the ' world they must march forward with it, even in Spain. '. . OREGON'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. I T IS A COMMON SAYING that-Oregon eounds the ' first gun in national campaigns. Political leaders all over the country await' with eagerness the result of the June election in this state, seeing in it a portent of the temper of the people of the whole nation, a possible augury of the issue of the. great clash of parties which takes place five months later, in the majority of the states. .;, .. - . . .'- - . Oregon has spoken and her utterance is a Declaration of Independence which it behooves statesmen and poli ticians to heed. In no-uncertain tones the aroters of Ore gon have declared to the aation that they wtTT no longer be bound by party ties when honesty, efficiency and good, government are in issue. Less than two years after giving Roosevelt 43,000 majority, Oregon has elected a Democratic governor, and that, too, in the tace 'of rrfuch By Count Leo Tolstoi. O oblige men to work for ST hours - continuously without sleep, be sides being cruel. Is also . un economical. And yet such un economical expenditure of human lives continually goes on around us. Opposite my son's house in Moscow, where I have often spent part of the wlntar, le a silk factory, built with, the latest technical improvements. About I.poO woman and 700 men work and live there. lAs I was sitting In my room there I ceroid plainly hear tbe . unceasing din of the machinery and from personal ex perience, for Z have been there, I know what that din means. . Three thousand women stand for It hours a day at the looms amid a deaf ening roar, winding, unwinding, arrang ing the silk threads to make silk stuffs. All tha women, except those who have just come from the country, have an unhealthy appearance. Moat of them lead an Intemperate and Immoral life. , Almost alL whether married or un to the foundling 'hospital, where 80 per cent of these children die. .For fear of losing their places, these mothers resume work the next day or .the third day after their confinement So that during 19 years, to my knowl edge, tens of thousands of young heal thy women mothers--have ruined and are now ruining their lives and the lives of their children In order ; to' produce velvet and silk. . i I met a beggar one day, a young man. He used to work as a laborer, with a wheelbarrow, but slipped, and injured himself Internally. He spent all he had on peasant women-healers and on doc tors, and has now for eight years been homeless, begging his bread and com plaining that Ood does not send him death. : " , '" How many such sacrifices ' of '' life there are that we neither know of or hardly notice, considering them inevi table. ;- - - I know men working at the blast fur naeespftheTvla,foundrieswbo,. to have one Sunday free each two weeks, will work" for SI hours that la,' after working all day will go on working all night - I have seen these men. They all drink vodka to keep up their energy, and are thus expending not the Interest but the capital of their lives. -- - "tr- - And what of the wasts of lives among married, as soon as a child is born to those who are employed on admittedly them, serra it off either to the llage or narmrui wora in -cooinng giaan, can- on crutches, sturdily built, but crippled. I manitariana. very sensitive to tbe auf ridge, match, sugar, tobacco and gls factories, in mines or as gliders T There are statistics showing that the average length of life among the people of. the upper classes la IS yeara, while it ' U 2 years among . the working men. e . - v . Knowing this, we who take advantage of labor that costs human lives should, one would think, not be able to enjoy a moment's peace. But the fact Is that we well-to-do people, liberals and hu tarings not of people only but also of animals, uncesslngly make use of such labor and try to become more and more rich, and we remain perfectly tranquil. Having learned that the women and girls at the silk factory. Jiving far from their families,, ruin their own lives and those of their children, and that the majority of washerwomen who Iron eur starched shirts, and of the typesetters who print ths books and papers that while away our time, gat consumption, we only shrug, our shoulders and say that we are very sorry things should be so, but that we can do nothing to alter It, and we continue with tranquil consciences to buy silk stuffa, to wear starched shirts and to read our morning paper. , . i We are much concerned about the hours of shopgirls, and still more about the long hours of our own children at school. We strictly forbid teamsters to make their horses drag heavy loads, and we even look after the killing of cattle In slaughterhouses ao that they may softer as. little as possible. ' But how wonderfully blind we be come as soon aa the question oonoema thoe-millions rf worklngmen, woman and children r-ho perish slowly all around us at labor, the fruit of which we use for our convenience and pi urev-v ' -'---. '-'- ' s ... LEWIS AND, CLARK - ' At Fraser, Idaho. ' June 10. After collecting our horses, which took much time, we sat out at 11 o'clock for Quamash flats. Our stock of horses Is now very abundant, each man being well mounted, with a small load on a second horse and several supernumerary ones In case of accident or want of food. We ascended the river hills, which are very high, and three miles In extent, our course being N. tS degrees E.; then turning to N. IS de grees W. for two miles, till we reached Collins creek. This was deep and dif ficult to cross, but we passed without any Injury, except wetting some of our provisions, and then proceeded due north for five miles to tbe eastern edge of Quamaah-flats, near whers we'Jflrat met the ChoTmmitBir-laar autumn. "We camped on the bank of a small stream. In a point of woods bordering the' ex tensive,, level and beautiful prairie, which le Interaected by several rivulets, and which, as ths quamash is now In bloaaom, presents a perfect resemblance of lakes of clear water. A party of Chopunnlah, who had overtaken us a few miles above,' halted for the night with us. and mentioned that they, too, had come to hunt In the flats, though we fear they will expect- us to provide for them during their stay. The country through which we passed is generally free from stone, extremely fertile and supplied with timber, con sisting of several species of fir, long leaved pine and larch. ' The undergrowth Is chokeberry near the watercourses, and scattered through the country are black alder,-a large species of red root now in bloom, and a plant resembling the paw paw In Its . leaf, ubeartng a berry of a deep , purple color. There . was alao two apecles of sumach, the purple haw, sevenbark,' aerviceberry, gooseberry, the honeysuckle beating a white berry and a species et dwarf pine, 10 or It feet high, which might be con founded with a young pine of the long leaved species, except that the former bears a cone of the globular form. With small scales, and that Its lsaves are In fascicles of two, resembling .in length and appearanoe those of eoramon pitch, pine. We also observed two species of, of wild i rose, both . qulnquepetalous, both of a damask red color, and similar in the stem; but one of them is as large as ths common red rose of our gardens; Its leaf la. somewhat larger than that of the. other species of wild rose, and the apples, as we saw them last year, were more than three times the slse of common roses. Ws saw many sandhill cranes, some ducks In ths marshes near camp, and a' greater number of burrow ing squirrels, some of which we killed and found as tender as our gray squir rels. ' - -' 5 Gfeat IClalniSfT - "President Roosevelt.would have made a great city editor for a newspaper," said a veteran correspondent last night "As soon aa one of 'his big stories falls te pan out he always has another one ready to pop to divert the attention of the public. Look at the way he let this beef thing loose Just as soon as he had laid down on the railroad rate bill." 'The president," said Colonel IkeHill, "reminds me of a man playing seven up who claims high, low. Jack and the gams after every hand. Then they show down and and If he has low and game he le .pretty well satisfied, but he never, falls to claim everything first off." ...... .. . ... ... ... ', , '-In Fly Time.' . , ' '"' The biologist brushed a fly out-cf his beara.- - '. " V "It Is early for these pesta'f he said. "I wish we could exterminate flies. They are: as"ava41J)ia and as harmful as snakes. $ .-' "And how- prolific! . From June . to September the average fly mother cumulates, a family of 2,000.000 chil dren.. If all these children lived, the flies would crowd mankind - off the earth. '.. ... .,, . "But Tiles, as it fortunately happens, are particularly afflicted with mlcro ecopio parasites- and with Innumerable sorts of germ diseases. These things kill them off, and they ase also killed off by birds and bats and toada. r- uAn odd fact about flies Is that they never sit down. They could if they would their hind legs would fold under them like a dog's er a Worse's. But no; no sitting down for Mr. Fly. He comas Into the world on his feet and on hla feet he departs. Think of It not to alt down once from birth to death!" , Time Tabfe of tha Flowers, The professor of botany paused under an oak, and the young girls In white grovped themselves prettily about' him. "Tn 'me by ths flowore." he ssld. "you should all. be able - to do that Think how .convenient It would be at this season. ' , . . ' ' . "It id I a. m. when the sow thistle opens. . it la :I,0 when the dandelion It- le 7' when the the wbtte lily hawkweed opens. opens. It la t when opens.' ' . . , . ."At 11 . a. m. the sow thistle elesee. At noon precisely the yellow goat's beard closes.- At t p. m. the howkweed closes. At I the white Illy closes. The dandelion closes at I sharp. I "Since Pliny's time 41 flowers have bean known to open and shut with great punctuality at certain hours of the day-sad night It would be possible, with a little labor, to construct a, gar den whose flowers, folding and unfold ing, would make a first-class clock. ' t Likely. look of diust" be surveyed With a the scene. . "Hew did such a hole as this," he cried, "ever get a reputation aa a great health resort T" The natlvee, smiling, answered: ! Three prominent men died here," fields and our cities, from., the shallow waters of our life: they would be satur-' attd with our civilisation, it is only by i making use of its oonquests that they , eould succeed in depriving us of our -fruits. There would therefore at worst be a halt followed . by a redistribution ef riches. Ws never had o many good reasons inr faith in our future: let us cherish It. ; allghter reasone when they did the great thlnga that have remainea tor us xn . , best evidence of the destinies of man kind. They had confidence when they. found none but unreasonable reasons "- '. for having It. ' v - Today, .when "some -of these rea eon really Spring from reason., it wonld " be wrong 10 show ess cottTaga.than dld those who derived theirs from the very , olreumstances.- whence kwe derive only our discouragements. . . " " ' Unhappy. Lot of tha Czarevitch. 'I Bom under an unlucky star, the poor little csarevltch seems destined to In- . herlt the unhappy life that is historic liv ' his family. He im now a year and a ., half old and rumor Is already busy with .. ; him. The unfortiinate . little chap le said In Russia to be ."microcephalous." which Is to aay. that hla skull to too . small to contain his brain and that he , must be an Idiot They also say that he is deaf and dumb. It is a pathetic face that the tihoto- -graph of thla baby re veaL.-lhe. face of : a child who suffers.---At the height of the war between Ruaala and "Japan and on the very eve of the rebellion which . haa shaken Russia , more thoroughly , than even the disastrous results of that . - , war, on August !. 1004, the csarevltch was born. Two weeks before M. von.t " Plehvev-tha Busslan minister of the In . terior, had been aaaaaslnated two days . later Kamlmura defeated the Vladlvoo tok fleet and 13 days later the csar'a , troops suffered a crushing rout at Uao- , yang. Four times before had the stork -arrived at ths Imperial palace and each time the hopes of all loyal Russians had been dashed by the news that It had - brought a girt The esar and the csar lna had. prayed for years for a boy, and at last, when an WaSTlarkest for them and their country, the long-hoped-for son arrived and through ths storm of war and rebellion the bells rang out in all the myriad steeples of ths vast em- olr. never did a Daoy receive tender care.. Hla imperial mother nursed him herself and he had all the attendants that money eould hire, while hla apartments were arranged with all the skill the most-modern rof hygienic experts eould devise. Bet. ' from the very first he was a puny, sickly baby. . . Aa If crushed by the weight of woe around him, ,as if shrinking from the re curring explosions of revolt and assas sination, he seemed to his nurses to hang bach from the normal develop ment of a baby, and. If the stories they tell about him be true, when the time at which a child should take notice of voices and sounds earns he gave no sign that he heard: and at the age at which most babies begin to prattle Aid try to talk his Hps remained mute, and only by the wide stare of his great, solemn eyes did he appear te notice what was going on around him.. t - These may be but the tales of . ma licious ru mormon re re, but even If they are and If the csarevltch should grow to hear and talk as well as other people, bis life aa autocrat of all tbe Ruaalas will be no bed of rosea. , Telling Age and Sex by Puis. . The -t female pulse always beats faster than the male." said a physician. ; "and from birth to death the pulse .1..' speed steadily, decreases. X have tin , doubt 'that by the pulse alone, I eould tell readily a healthy person's age and sex. ' " - . --'- "Babes at birth have a-' pulse that . beats 160 times a minute In tbe case of girls and 16 times a minute In the case of boys. At ths age of 4 er I the " fula4 beats will have fallen respective y to 110 end 100. Maidens' and youths ' pulaea averaga II and to. Mature worn- -en'a and men's average 19 and Tl. El derly women's and men's average tv and 10. . .-'' - "An old woman's pulae rarely, if ever, . -sinks below 10, but among old men a pulse under 10 le fairly com iTton . j - .At the Commencement. . f.T: . "What's John avapeakln' of nowf said ths old lady. - v - . "Dunno," replied ths old man. "Kf It ain't Latin. It's Greek, n ef It ' ain't-.' Oreek It's all right anyhow; the Whole thing's done paid ten . .
