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Editorial Page of The Journal THE JOURNAL AH I NDEvKNDEKT UWT. C. . JACKSON robllaher Pbiis:,,i r.rj .rtulaj leicept Sunday! -SB tat. rm na vmbiit street.. eiui, "aastMU at ta portetflce at Portland. Orat-oa far truwlMioo through ths mil seeoBl HI 111 TELSPHO.NES. Bditorll u. esn Office poehion adveetihino bpbskitativb Vnelaad-Benjamln Spn-tel AdwlUlug Aaey IN) Krni .treet. N.w York; Tribune BulW fci. Chicago. gebsrrtptloa Term by man t tka Called States. Canada a to an? Mexico. DAILY. Oh rear fs 00 I Ona month. SUNDAY Oae pu $tM Om month. DAILY AND SUNDAY. Om fait 17.00 I Ona month. I -BO M After long experience of the world, I affirm before God I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy. Junius. POLITICAL PARTIES. "I S THE Democratic party to die?" reiterates the New York World, which is hys terical over Hearst's nomination. Well, if it is to die, it will have a far more honorable funeral if it fol lows Hearst than if it submitted to the leadership and control of Ryan, Belmont and McCarrcn. It will be more creditable to expire in defiant antagonism to the "plunderbund" than in supine surrender to and ab sorption by it The Democratic party is made up of antagonistic elements, of leaders diametrically, opposed to one another., in policy and principle, of patriots and plutocrats, reformers and reac tionaries. On the extreme of one wing we find men almost as radical as socialists, at the other extreme arc men who have far less in common with these radicals than wJth the tnost conservative of Republicans. But does this indicate approaching dissolution? Is fierce contention be tween antagonistic elements of a party a sign of speedy death ? May it not rather happen that out of this turmoil shall arise a party reorgan ized, solidified and purified, capable at last of running a victorious race? An internal conflicting war of antag onistic elements is not necessarily a fatal disease; may it not be, on the contrary, evidence of sufficient healthful vigor to combat and eradi cate disease? The Republican party has won al most continuously for many years because it has hung together, haa been unified arid harmonious, has had able if sometimes unscrupulous lead ers and has followed .them devotedly, whether good or bad, right or wrong. The Republican party could not have won so many battles if it had always stood for wrong policies and prin ciples, if it had not been in some re spects an agency of good measures and movements, if it had not been constructively progressive. The wrongs for which it has stood, the evils which it tolerated and encour aged, its hypocrisy, corruption and violation of pledges, were obscured or ignored partly because it could really show-much apparently to its credit, and because it seemed to be a pet of Providence. Owing to causes entirely aside from politics, the coun try haa been apparently very pros perous, and the Republican party has made a large proportion of voters believe that it caused the prosperity. All that the good Lord and the be neficent elements and natural advan tages and the people's energy and enterprise have .done, and would have done in any event, the Repub lican party has claimed credit for, and in a multitude of cases the claim has been thoughtlessly allowed. This being the ease, the Republican party could win in spite of its faults and ains. The majority would follow it in doing wrong as well as in,' doing right. The habit of unified allegiance and loyalty became, fixed; the gilded mantle of prosperity concealed to un observant eyes all evil. Put the beginning of a change is apparent. People are observing, in quiring, investigating, more than they did in years past. They are more indi endent, less bound by party ties, more alive to their real interests, less complaisant under partisan false pre tenses. This is in part due to Presi dent Roosevelt himself, who in ven turing to expose and attack some of the great evils that have been nour ished and fattened by the Republican party has awakened a multitude of people to a realization of the fact that party claims and pretenses are for the most part a sham and a de n. So there is an undercurrent of .re volt m the Republican party, too, against that party's fetich, the pro- e tariff, and it business part the trusts, and the prospect is Republicans will not follow so r, unyuestiouingly and blindly as heretofore. Roosevelt himself, as many perceive, stops far short of really reformatory measures; he hugs the tariff mother, while slapping here and there a trust child; while an athematizing the mammon of po litical unrighteousness, he hobnobs with its high priests and then Roosevelt, in so far as ha is- a re former, is an anti-Republican, is aside from rather than in the lead of the Republican party. The shadows of coming events por tend that unless the Republican party reforms itself even far more thor oughly and radically than even Roose velt essays to reform it, which is to say the least unlikely, that party will ere long suffer deserved defeat. And when it does, the Democratic party- will not be dead, though it-will not be groveling before the( WaJJ. street Baals. V ) SHAW ON THE STUMP. rlRITICISM OF Secretary Shaw going about the country mak- "" ing campaign speeches, for weeks on a stretch, is entirely in order. The people, not the president or the Republican party, pay him for his .services, and are entitled to them. It is not supposed that the country is Suffering any harm on account of his absence from his post of duty, or would suffer any if he should never go back to it, but since he draws the salary for filling an office that should be non-political in character he ought to have the grace to at least make an appearance of earning it The practice of cabinet members turning campaigners and touting for the party to which they belong and the president who appointed them is bad one, is utterly indefensible, and the wonder is that President Roosevelt will tolerate, much less re quire it. He torbtds some teaerai officials, district attorneys, for in stance, exercising "pernicious activ ity" in politics, but why is it any worse for them than for cabinet mem bers to participate in campaigns and spout partisanship? There is no con sistency in allowing the heads of de partments to go out hustling in cam paigns and forbidding their subordi nates to do so. Besides, Shaw is a particularly of fensive partisan. Ha atands for and represents the worst element, polit cally and economically, in his party. He it an extreme protectionist, a Stand-patter, a champion of the trusts, an opponent of reforms, and whether sincere or not an- enemy of the people. His own state, over whelmingly Republican, has repudi ated him, and his opinions and policy are obnoxious to a large proportion of western Republicans as well as to other voters. Unless he is author ized to make patronage deals on his tour, he can do the Republican party no good, and he present a spectacle neither agreeable to the country nor creditable to the administration. The same is in a greater or less degree true of all members of the cabinet when they aally forth making partisan speeches and lauding to the skies the man who tfave them their positions. An occasional moderate, temperate address by a man like Root or Taft might not be out of place, but a campaign tour extending through weeks by a political pick-me-up like Shaw ought to do the administration more harm than good. Perhaps there is no truer measure of the extraordinary strength of Hearst's candidacy for governor of New York than the tremendous ef forts which are being put forth to compass his defeat. A torrent of misrepresentation arfd abuse is being poured forth against him, many Democratic papera joining with Re publicans in denouncing him as unfit and unssfe. The fact remains that hundreds of thousands of voters of the Empire state look upon William R. Hearst as the foremost champion of the people in the struggle agaityt the privileged few. Many who have not sympathized with his methods have nevertheless been compelled to recognize the results that he has achieved and to give their adherence to his candidacy. It is folly to be little Hearst's campaign or to ridi cule his prospects of election. He is a man of surprises and one more sur prise may he in store for those who affect this attitude toward his can didacy. Speaker Cannon has been telling farmers how protection benefits them. Or, rather, he has been re peating the stale, thin old clap-trap sophistries which the Rubes are sup posed to swallow without question. A prominent San Francisco politi cian says that the Republicans of the Pacific coast states will all be for Fairbanks in 1908. Quite likely, but if so the choice would be far from unanimous. Answering an argument in the Kansas City Journal against electing A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT. Economising Space. Th following matrimonial advertise man: appeared the other day. In an Aus tralian newspaper: "SETTLER, ab. 50. start poult, farm, wd. mar. girl, past 11, fond out door, simple Ufa; not afraid t or I yra.' rough fr. sake make eomf lov. home. Wh. bef. July It. Mr. Shingle, Q. P. O. Sydney." Tha Sydney Bulletin remarks on tbia that many a careworn w. hustling In a bk. at. tu the gt. m't'p'lla will envy that plot, of the eomf. lov. bom with tha h'na running past the dr. Facta by the Gallon. America la making annually about 100,000.000 gallons of cottonseed OIL Of this vast by-product of our $100,. 000.000 cotton crop we export to for eign countries one half, or about 50, 000.000 gallons. That which remains at home Is converted Into soaps for the laundry and toilet, substitutes for lard, etc., and drugglata use enormous quan tities In preparations for external ap plication, such aa salves and ointments. Listening. Golden stars across tha heavena With their small feet softly creep. Fearing lest they should awaken Mother Earth, who lies asleep. Listening stand the silent forests Every leaf a little ear, And, as In a dream, the mountain Shadow arms outstretches near. But who called? I heard an echo; Through my llatenlng heart It tell. Could It be her voice or was It Nothing but the nightingale? Hainrlch Heine. Earth la Getting Smaller. The astronomers say that the earth Is' a ring of matter which "was shot off" by the sun 06.000.000 years ago. and which gradually worked Itself Into a baH or globe. It la .believed that when the earth waa at Ita 'maximum senators by direct vote of the people, the Topeka Capital pertinently asks: How is it that a senator can repre sent a state without representing the people who compose the state, and how can he represent the people of the state without representing the state?" An organization resembling the late Creffield's Holy Rollers is coming to Salem to perform. That is the best town in Oregon for them to strike. Both the asylum and the penitentiary are close at hand. And the authorities should profit by the results of Creffieldism. The country papers are right in being down on the eastern mail order bouses. Home business men deserve their neighbors custom. Young man or older man, either get a piece of land if you can. It will make you independent as nothing else will. Texas is becoming tame; no blood was shed at the joint debate between Bailey and Crane. The Play By Johnston McCuIley. Lillian Lawrence, leading woman of the Baker stock company, yesterday put another Jewel In her crown. Rich ard Thornton, leading man, reached out and got .another piece of public heart, and Donald Boylss and Frances Sins son csused ripples and volcanoes of ap plause to burst forth from two large audiences. But William Dills, beloved comedian, who returned to the Baker after an abaence of several weeks, stepped upon the stags to be greeted with a tremendous ovation before he had spoken a Una, a circumstance that showed better than words Just how Dills la regarded by the rank and file of playgoers of the Rose City. 'The day Lord Quex." the Plnero play with which the Bakeritea opened a new week yesterday afternoon, la ad mirably suited to the company. It gives Thornton a chance to play Hla Orace of, Quex. a man supposed to be IS years of age. and to have had an un enviable past from a standpoint of morality. The lines of the play fit Thornton. We don't mean ha-has had an unenviable paat, nor tha tile Is quite 41. but we mean that thay are lines that might have been written for him. aa they are dished out in auch a man ner that the speaking of them comes naturally. Thornton's art la riot In his voice nor In his gestures. It Is en srt that la not easily recognised, we fear, by the patrons of the Baker, but la one that will grow upon the people In time. Thornton's artistic work is In the man ner In which he begins quietly and works up to a situation, taking mat ter coolly, never ruahlng things, never overdoing things, and bringing up at the climax Just where the author In tended the climax. In such a manner that the climax In mora vivid than when an artist begins to put breesinesa In his part with the first line. lie gauges hla temperament at the proper valuation, and hla Influence la notice able upon the remainder of the com pany. As His Orace of Quex, Thorn ton did exceedingly wall. Miss Iidwrenre had a chance In the role of Sophie Fwllgamey and gave ua a bit of sctmg suh aa gained for her 1 ft minutes of continuous applause In Boston last summer. She didn't do much In the flrat two acta but get Into bar role and follow the lead of Thornton, hut in the third art, when Thornton wcrka dellelously up to the cllmsx of the scene ami the play. Lil lian Lawrence went with him step by step snd now and than towered above him, and gave the audience by far the beat bit of work ahe haa this season. Little wonder that yeaterday afternoon the curtain fell at the end of the third act on a scene that was aa impressive in front -if the curteMl as behind. All classes of playgoers were applauding her work and ' the work of Thornton had brought every one In the houae up to their level. Donsld Bowles, aa the palmist to so ciety, played In the usual Bowles strain oi the Common halt, say aoon after parting with the sun.' Its bulk was 441 times greater than at tha present time. White Wine Stronger Than Red. "A misapprehension about tha strength of red and white wines exist."' aaid a California!). "Because red wlna has a darker, richer look, people think It la more Intoxicating. The opposite, really la the case. "Red wlnaa are made by fermenting grape .tulee. skins and aeeds together. White wlnaa are made by fermenting Juice alone. "In the skins and seeds- there Is a tot of tannin, and ' red wlna contains much tannin, while white wlna con tains none. This tannin, an astringent, closes the pores of the atomach and prevents tha alcohol In the red wlna from entering the blood freely and go ing, as the saying Is, to the head. "Whltg wine champagne for In stance haa no tannin, and hence Ita In toxicating properties are much more keenly to be feared than those of the tannln-fllled red wine." Good Anagrams. At an anagram party In Providence tha following were adjudged the best snag-rams and to them were awarded the prises: Parishioners' I hire parsons. Revolution To leva ruin. Penitentiary Nay. I repent It. Astronomers No more stars. Presbyterians Beat In prayers. , Second Thoughts. There are men who wouldn't know what to do with themaelves if, they should get out of debt. Women , are never satisfied. The pretty ones try to be brainy and tha brainy onea try to be pretty. Every man haa some vloe. If he doesn't write poetry he le apt to be long t.) a glee club or an amateur dra matic society. When you hear a little boy alng "I want to be an angel." It doesn't signify that ha is in any hurry about It. and easily kept up the high pace set by the principals. William Dills as Sir Chichester Prayne played with his usual artistic finish. Salnpolta waa good es Captain Bastllng. We didn't aee enough of Howard Russell, but he made the most of a thankless part. Frances Slosaon ,as Muriel Bden waa delicious. Mrs. Oleaaon. playing ad venturess, one might say, waa a revela tion and worked out a somewhat dif ficult role admirably. Miss Van Clave aomewhat overdid the Countesa of Ow bridge. The play la a tale of a rake reformed through his love for a pure girl half his age. The plot la an old one, but the way In which It la worked out and the beautiful lines which work It out are things that have made the name of Arthur W. Plnero stand forth In btg red lettera on the billboards of the English- speaking world. "The Qay Loro Quex" will be th bill at the Baker all week with a matinee on Saturday. "Uncle Joan Perkins." When "Uncle Joah Perkins" comes to town everyone aaya "It la that old Rube play," and turns up his nose and then goes to the theatre box office and gets a couple of tickets. That Is what hap pened yeaterday, evidently, because the Empire theatre was well filled both afternoon and evening. This year "Uncle Josh" haa lost none of itg attractiveness. The same old plot and the same old characters are there, and the same old laughs are forthcoming Just as surely as the play exists. The company producing "Uncle Josh" this year la excellent. In the title role Buft Hodgklns gives an In terpretation of the part that la good and also satisfying. J. P. Stetson makes good in huge quantities as Caleb Slick, the designing lawyer. Bertha Honora dos the woman lead In the ap proved fashion. The scenic part of the present production haa not been neg lected and Is In keeping with the gen eral merit of the ahow. "Uncle Josh Perkins" may be ' aald to be the beet ahow that has been housed In the Em pire so far this sesson. It will be there all week with Saturday matinee. It'a worth a vialt. Need of Eastern Oregon. From the Ontsrlo Demoreat. What eastern Oregon needs more than any one thing la more railroads. At present the rates ' are exorbitant and the service poor. Freight ship ments ara delayed beyond reasonable limits. Coal cannot be had because of the ahortage of equipment. The pas senger train are behind time day after day because of lack of motive power. If Harrlman would put some of those 10 per cent 'dividends paid on hla wat ered stock Into equipment It would be better for hj roads, and help to aome extent toward relieving the congested freight and passenger business. We want the Gould, the Milwaukee, the Northwestern, or any road that haa cars and engines and will give us any kind of living rata. The rate on coal from the Wyoming mine to Ontario la 14 a Ton. Can we hope to have any fac tories while thla tariff la paid? t la Imply Impossible to run any kind of a steam plant on coal, the freight of which alone amounts to 14 per ton. The railroads absorb more for the shipment of our wool, sheep and cattle than the atock grower makes for him self. This condition csnnot continue. We need a railroad commissioner In Oregon with plenty of power to bring the railroads around to where they maat furnish reasonable freight and passenger accommodations and some where near reasonable rates. Particu larly la thla true of thla aeetlon that I entirely dependent upon the caprices of one road. A Reason Suggested. From the Salem Statesman. An Interesting argument Is In prog ress among the Portland papera aa to the aetaal population of that city. Tha publisher of the city directory claims there are isf.,000 people In the city, but theOregonlan aava this Is ridiculous and that the population does not exceed 126,000 The Journal Is Inclined to fa vor the larger figure and quotes the es timate of many .leading eltlsens . which run all tha way from 110,00 to 200. 0. it Is not often we And the leading newapaper of a tlty putting up a stren uous tight to knock 40,00 off fro-n an accepted estimate of Its population. It Is said when the population of Portlsnd paaaes the ISO, 000 msrk an other newspaper may obtain tha Asso ciated Preaa report, of which the Ofe- genlan now has the exclusive control. This fact may have bearing en the ar gument pro and eon. Letters From the People Portland. Oet. I. To the Editor of The Journal President Roosevelt In hla latest utterances makea a plea for more power for the government. No as goveraiaeata are constructed and most likely alwaya will be constructed all power always doss lie In their hands. The power of life and death, the power over all property, tha right to make war and the right to make peace, the right to create trusts and tha right to unmake them, are all rights of government. The only absolute trusts In existence aa yet are creatures of gov ernment. The postofflce, which la a truat held In the name of all the people for facilitating transmission of Intel ligence and of certain kinds of mer chandise and wares, tha army, which is for acquiring of foreign markets, the navy tor the same purpose and In cidentally to fire salutes for the grat ification of vanity and love of the tin sel glittering of parade and pomp of some of the great men, are not trusts. But the people have elected certain persons to represent them, and they have absolute power for the time being They can Inform us that the negro Is not a man fDrw Seott act), and for the time being he will not be man. rhey can abolish the senate, they can abolish tne supreme court and (aa in i he government of Cuba) tney can abol ish themaelvea. o we must -look further to find th real meaning of the etatement. "the government must have more power." when aa a fact It has supreme power. And this we must conclude to be the meaning: That the power must be con centrated or In fewer hands. This Is a plea not for democracy, but for Ita antithesis, autocracy. Tat the presi dent has more power than any potentate In Europe, with the possible exception of the csar. and the power of the caar la In a precarious condition and may be annulled at any time, by revolution. The fact that our army went .to Cuba and occupied it la an act of war, and can have no other construction placed upon It. That the Cubans did not .de fend themselves makea no difference In the last sense It would be taken aa a declaration of War by any power strong enough to defend Itself. Now this country haa shown that It has the right to regulate or to destroy any trust. Did It not destroy the Oreat Northern-Northern Pacific merger? The president said It did. Did It not regu late the beet trust and put It under government control? The president said It did. Did It not pass the rats bill and show the railroads that It had the right to tell them what the freight must be? Most of us were given to understand that auch wa J the case. But the president must have more power end the president should be the government. That I tha only meaning and the only logical conclusion that con be drawn from the president's speech. Bat in centralising the power In th hands of the few would It not be all the easier for concentrated wealth to control Ita power that la, considering that most men are nut lrt falltble f The, president wishes us te understand that he wishes fo curb th trusts. But does he? How is it that while the president Is making a speech In Harrlaburg about curbing the trust hla secretary of war la In Cuba in the Interests of two of the most domineer ing trusts In the country, the eugar and tobacco trusts? Is Knox practicing to restrain the Pennsylvania railroad? Will fhey -regulate the Standard Oil com pany enough to break every bank In the country? Is Shaw getting ready to put on hi armor and make Arar against the banking trust of Walt Street? When Taft sent back word to Washington, "I have failed," how many points did sugar stock lose on Wall street? There la one Infallible thermometer which will Invariably tell ua how much the president Is hurting sny trust, and that is th stock market, and as long as stocks are going up we will be safe In thinking that none of the trust mag nates are losing sleep over the fear that they will wake up In the morn ing and find their fortunes have been harmed by a aafe and sane executive. But the president is establishing precedents which may ' reset In a way In which he least expects. The work ing people are beginning to think Their power of adaptation la marvel-, ous. They have with equal facility adapted .themaelves to every changed condition and environment and have survived them all. They have sur vived their slsve ' masters. They have survived the baron, and have aeen the passing of my lord, and they will sur vive ths passing of the autocracy of dollars. There sre many people, and the number Is continually growing, who realise that the big atick la a atuffed club when used on a trust, and that ths only place where the big stick le really used Is on the smsll msn. Does the president, while commending the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania on what la has accomplished, not know that tha people of the entire world sre becoming aware that ths tast legisla ture of that state committed the great est crime that haa yet .been perpetrated on a free people under the stars and stripes? Does he not know it formed a body called the state constabulary who are hired out aa In ths feudal daya to the very trusts It pretends to regulate? If he knows this snd makes no men tion he becomes a Jingo, providing he thinks It wrong. If he knows It and thlnka It right, be la a new kind of an advocate of democratic government and a queer worker for the Intereats of la bor,, Capital where honestly employed, if such a think' could be heeds no army to shoot down Its friend, labor. It Is coming to a time, Mr. President, where you cannot be a friend of both combatants In the economic arena. Th parting of the ways must come, and methhiks I know In which camp to find you at that time. .THOMAS 8LADDBN. ' r Trick That Am Vain. From tha Pendleton Tribune. Although Mayor Lane of Portland Is a Democrat, the Tribune feels disposed to denounce the claim of hla enemies within his party who aay that Police Captain Bruin will be the cause of hla defeat, aa a bare-faced misrepresenta tion that has been hibernating until the psychological momsnt when It would do him the most harm. Such trfeks In pol itics are old grtsaled with age. Demand for Sunday Journal. Prom tha Corvallla ftasette. The supply of extra -ooplss of Tha Sunday Journal was quickly exhsustsd In orvsllls. Sunday, and twlee as many more could easily have been sold Th demand for th Sunday Issue is du to the series of article from th pen of Professor J. B Horner That The Journal la now publishing, these articles being descriptive of the tour abroad of Pro fessor and Mr. Horner, wh have Just returned. 0 BIRDSEYE VIEWS of TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHANGE. Only eight months till we get a new council. e e i Even a harbormaster can't kill moon shine with a bullet. Senator Bailey aeems unaware that he did not extinguish the fuse. e e All college students who haven't been based yet are against hsslng. e. Not having klUed anybody directly, Stensland did not plead Insanity. a. e If Mr. Hushes Is ths president's can didate, why don't ne apell It Hua. Senator Beveridge 1 a sad caae.of a man being Intoxicated with himself. Perhaps the simplified wsy of spell ing Intervention will be annexation. e e The esar of Russia probably won't take Palme's resignation aa a hint. I e It la supposed thst Mae Wood, wheth er married or not, la tolerably happy. ' So far, Mr. Hearst has not sent a re porter over to Princeton to interview O. C. e e The president congrstulsted Pennsyl vania on showing some symptoms of remorse. e e Th soldiers took a lot of mules down to Cuba, and they may kick up a dis turbance. 1 e Young children are to be envied; when they grow up they won't have to read about the Florodora girl , October le usually a favorite month for marrying, and this month ought to beat the record In Portland. e e It la quite time some Republican spellbinder of New York should declare that the Republican candidate la a man who Hughes to the Una. e a A Chicago woman aaya ahe haa been happy, though married, for 00 years because she never let her husband go out nlghta. The old man hasn't testi fied as to happiness on his own part, e e There I a big difference between what some men elected to congress think they will do and what they really can do. A new congressman la a amall potato In Washington e e Old Tommy Piatt, If he can but keep out of hla wife's reach, and put hla money out of her reach also, should gat a good deal of aattsfactlon at aeetng or hearing how awful mad the female thing la. The Blind Side BY ADA PATTERSON. (Copyright. 100. by W. S. Besrst.) Persons there are of moderate vision who believe themselves to be phenome nally clear-eyed; others of wonderfully clear sight who yet distrust their powers of vision, but none of them and none of ua la without hla bljnd aide. Driving a horse with one sharp eye and one dull w are always prepared for the unexpected, and the air Is hesvy with the possibilities of calamity. So It la with humans, who. Imperfect In greater degree than horses, without ex ception have their blind side. So blind are aome of them that the power that holds the reins of human destiny must sometimes look with trepidation upon the work of hla handa. Women are ofteneat blind on the aid of their affections, men on that of their material Interests. A woman la blind to the faults of those whom she loves, s man to the menaces In th path of his ambition, and the woman' la the more blessed blindness. On an ocean liner heavy with Ita cargo of returning tourists I aa'w a lit tle woman leaning over the rail at im minent danger to pretty neck and smart costume peering landward for a glimpse of tha man whom ahe had cabled to meet her. She was such an extraordi narily attractive little woman that 1 leaned far over the rail, too,' afflicted feminine sympathy and feminine curi osity In equal parta, and I expected to see a more than ordinary Individual the object of that straining sight. A little gurgle of delight from the woman told me that the creature of all manly graces hsd been sighted. She was th flrat off th gangplank, and toppled Into hi arms In th fact of all waiting New York and arriving Parla and London. But such arm aa received her! And auch legs to mstchl And such a wtsened trunk between! And euch a face of dased mediocrity! Sueh blinking, redrlmmed, rheumy eyeel Such an absence of hair and auch a pre ponderance of apectaclea! Such a gen eral air of apology for what waa not meet In the man! Such an Inadequate voice to express the Inadequacy of th man! The little woman, plump, rosy, glowing with transcendent happiness flashed the eye of challenge and defi ance tinged with pity upon all other women. The male creature In her em brace waa on her blind elde. He would remain there, a demigod because of the woman's blessed blindness. A man I hsvc seen for yesrs, tolling at his desk before his underpaid clerks arrived In the morning, delving there after they had gone home fagged at Where De Quincey Want to Church. From the Westminster Oaaette. t. Peter's church, Manchester, which is shortly . to ds pulled down and In which th last service were held yea terday. la the church which De Quincey attended aa a lad and to which there are om entertaining reference In "Th Confessions ef an Opium Eater." Th flrat rector waa De Qutneey'a tu tor, and he ooseassed apparently a stock of 110 sermons, which the pupil confesssd became to him "a real Instru ment of Improvement." He only heard half of them, because It attended only th morning services, but h aay: "Those asm 110 sermons (lasting only through 10 minutes sach) for me became a perfect palaestra of Intellec tual gymnaatlca, far better aulted to my childish weakness thsn could hsve been the sermons of Isaac Barrow or Jeremy Taylor." De Quincey gives hi Impressions of the opening of the church, which took plaee when he waa In his tenth yea-. That la now 111 yeara ago. OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Lakevlew la very lively. e Fair at Prinavllle next weak. 0 Many new sidewalks lp Baker City, e e Bendon la said to bs building up rap idly. e CoqulU may have a veneer and panel factory. a e Many people are taking up Harney county land e e Vale la out of both coal and lumber and winter near. e A new Preabyterlan church has been dedicated In Merrill. i e e t The Canyon City recorder fined a man ISO for getting drunk. e a A cheeae makers' association may be formed In Tillamook county. e Port Orford cedar lumber Is shipped to New York for boat building. Seaside contlnuee to improve even when' the summer girls are gene. e A man near Corvalll realised nearly 110 each for a lot of 0-montha-old pigs. A Prlnevllle woman Is an expert tim ber crutaer, according to the Review, and can locate a aeetlon corner with un erring precision. She Is Invaluable when th prospective claimant la of her own ea. . Out of the four proposed ratlroal Into Tillamook, which will reach the county first? asks the Tillamook Head light. Some aay Hammond, others say Lytle, aome have confidence In the elec tric line from Poreat Qrove. while the backera on the coast road have lost their wind. : a ' e The southern psrt of Clatsop county, especially that part along the Necanl cum river, la equal to anything' In Tilla mook county for dairy purposes, and can be purchased for one-fourth the price the same quality of land sells for In Tillamook county, says the Seaside Signal. Monument Enterprise: Charley Car ter brought Into our office a miniature "something." which waa about the slse of a fairy princess' pillow, and asked ua what It waa. Why. Bleea your hearts! We don't know; never saw a thing like that before. It la pillow-shaped and got three halrplna In It. Charley .left It her, and the owner will receive aame Without paying advertising charges, pro vided we are enlightened regarding Its uae. of All of TJ night, working tirelessly; bloodlcsaly, determinedly for hlmse'lf and th achievement of that form ot greed and . selfishness he called hie aim in life. The years passed and the man mad no' ' frlenda. They would have ISMffered. ha aald, with hla aim In life. WJn th aim had been all but consummated, and the msn hsd promised himself tliat he might soon have the luxuries of friend ship, perhaps of the love of a woman, leisure, the sum of all thoae thing which constitute llie et Its fullest, sick ness esme, and with it the menace1 ot death, and the man forsook his desk . and wondered why all the wofld had forsaken him. It did Indeed pass him . bylnlts own multiple activities and rHnvers Interests. for the nfan had neglected everything In life but the furtherance of his own greed, fitnk friendless and forgotten, he lamented, too late, his blind side. Th most helpless feminine blindness ' I that which shields masculine turpi tude. The woman blind to the unfairh of her lover, to the Infidelities of her husband, to the monstrous diagonal bent of brother or father or son, is s sight too common for other remark than "of course." The blindness which exalts mediocrity Into genius, snd vies Into purity, 1 almost exclusively feminine. The womsn who Is In love Is hopelessly blind, whils she remains In lovs. It Is her-blind side. The woman who thlnka she I witty when she Is only disagreeable and tire some Is blind on that aide. Th woman who at 10 believes that she Is In all respects of pulchritude 80 Is blind on her age side. The woman who wears gsrlsh shsdea, accentuating her pallor and mlddle agedneas, when soft shadea would miti gate them, haa a eolor blind aide. The woman who hanga her wall with eoatly mirrors that fling back a flat tering reflection, and deceive her with the II that her pals cheeks are roay, her hollow cheeks round and soft, her heavy eyes bright, her lifeless hslr bright and electric, her lean figure pleas ingly curved, and who hanga upon tha lying Itpa of th gain seeker, 1 blind On her beauty aid. Th woman with a a polled child whom ah regards as an angel Is not necessarily a neighborhood peat. She I only blind on th maternal aid. The blindness of women la primarily th blindness of unselfishness. Bven th little vanltle on her blind aid ara vanities and foibles begotten by love or by the desire for lov. Th blindness of man la In nearly every Instance th blindness of a coloeaal selfishness. Other Coast Harbor. From th Albany Herald. Oregon enjoy many advantage In th matter ef coast harbors. Of ooursa, south of the Columbia. Yaqulna and Cooa baya are the Important harbors, but ths minor bays ara of valu t tha tributary terrltorx and are worth reasonable Improvement for the sake of thlr lumbering, fisheries. eol and field products available for shipment. It should not' follow that when a suf ficient appropriation haa been curd for th Columbia Interest shall caaa In th harbors of tha south. Juat now Coos bevy la receiving more at tention than ever before tn Its his tory. Yaqulna bay la not quite for gotten. When steamer lines roeds Ya qulna a port of call th Willamette val ley enjoyed In consequence many ad vantages In freight rates. Let tha Co lumbia be Improved, let Coos bay re ceive He share In federal apportion ment let Yaqulna have occasional men tion, anyway. Th mora harbor worthy ef Us Bdms the better far th aLat.
