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THE TRANSPORTATION PROB- '.''.:.3 ' "" j lem. : ...;.; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS in the United States are fre quent, and the annual death " list from the'nf " '"appalling; yet so : greatly has the traffic,- both freight and passenger, increased over the fa . cilities provided for handling it, that the wonder is that more rather than lest accidents do not occur. In 1899 the total number of passengers car ried on American railroads was 523, 376,508, and ' this 1 increased steadily until last year, when the number was 728,834,667, and the estimated num ber this year -is 800,000,000, an in crease of over 50 per cent. The freight tonnage increased from 959,- 763.583 to 1,610,000,000 (estimated), aa increase ofverjierenffan; ""while tha facilities for handling this tremendous growth of business have been Increased "but, comparatively little.; :'ir-- f.. l'-iC'f'----: Railroad men plead that they were unprepared for such unprecedented and prolonged prosperity, such a vast increase of products for transport f tion. They - say that never before have factories ' been turning out so much material,' wholesale houses shipping at much goodsTf affairs prcP - ducing 10 much, or people buying s6 lavishly. It is the great crops of the vest that more than any other one cause have swamped the western , , railroads,'.' and overcrowded ' those back east. The freight agent of the New York Central railroad saysr ,- In the west business has expanded to . aa unprecedented degree. Everyone In the west has money to iend. and la spending It y Those persona arebflyTna thing they have denied themselves heretofore, and the are spending with i a. free hand. This means business for - New Tork and a rush of mercantile pro- - ducts to the -west.' In all the small vll- : lagea the people have money, and on top of It come the biggest corn crop in the country's history. The eastern agent of the Illinois Central liaysi - , The remarkable prosperity of the country is responsible for the flood of business. Every section reached by our lines la In a most flourishing condition. 'People are -reaping a harvest from the rich crops in the west and south, and the whole country ts feeling the effect Just what the rMljofldn will in. If the rncreasor trafflo continues is not plain , at this time. ' And. the freight agent of another - road aya: . 1 .. ' ' . ": " ' , From one end of our system to the ther comes the cry "More cars!" We have every car available pressed into aervlce, and are lust about able to handle our business. We have been crippled by lack of locomotives also, but recently obtained a big supply, with the result that we are moving freight with remarkable speed, considering the - amount of it. ." From these and other similar state ments it seems that , while eastern roads are crowded to the limit of - their capacity they are coming a great deal nearer taking care of the busi ness than is the case on this coast The boasted prosperity is' very" well and gratifying, providing products can be promptly moved, when pro ducers need to tell and consumers need to buy.- But prosperity turns, to. "BesnMSfa apples ' if products are left on the producers hands and produc tion is largely suppressed6fpre Vented, as is the case in Oregon. It is natural, perhaps inevitable, f hat additional cars and locomotives , should first be used on eastern roads, to relieve the congestion alorvg them, rather than sent across a' long stretch t)l comparatively ( non-productive country to this coast; there is then all the more reason for people oJLtbe Pacific states to demand enough, cars and locomotives to takr care Of their rapidly growing business, independ ently of the needs of eastern roads. ' But out of this tremendous rush . and turmoil appears the urgent need of more roads, more tracks, more rolling stock, all over'the country. As one railroad man expressed it, this road was doing a two trackb.u&in on a one-track line. " Passenger trains sir drlsyfd on account of the- freiKht rnh, knd people travel at greater risk of lifj andlimb than ever. , The transportation problem is by far the biggest one before the American peo- pic ;.; , : - . ; ' '. PEOPLE AND SPEAKER. PE-AKER CANNOJf -warned 4 the members f the rivers and '", harbors congress -thathey should not ask or expect "too much." They don't and won't ask 'Itoo much,' though the speaker's warning "indi cates in advance that he thinks they will that .i,toomuch1 in his es timation. ' 1 V , "' r -'V-'-'. Speaker Cannon has been, in con gress a long time, and has gotten into a groove!. He thinks he kflew.it all long ago and nothing new or differ ent, is needed. A shrewd politician rather than- a Jbroad -statesman, the party'' interests are his first consid eration. " He want$o kep expendi tures down as much as possible, so as to make a showing of economy to the people for his party.' This was ef fective many years ago, when voters did not discriminate as they do now, and he thinks it is equally so yet. He does not perceive that the people now care less about how much money in the aggregate is expended than how it is expended. ' ; ' . ,"-- We have grown to be a billion-dol lar country and $50,000,000 a year for rivers and harbors is only one4' twentieth part of a . billion dollars. The people are willing to pay for a big navy, but they object, or will do so, to spending four or five dollars, or even three or two, for a great navy (for which there is but about , one chance in a hundred that we will have any use) to one dollar for the im provement of rivers and harbors, an investment that would return many fold its amount inx few years. The time has about come, we, think. when the bugbear of big expend itures, with' a river and harbor appro priation as its most scary feature, cannot be successfully used by .par tisan campaigners - or newspapers; wben.-iather, even men like-Speaker-Cannon will perceive that the people not only do not object to large and regular appropriations for rivers and harbors, but - emphatically demand such appropriations. - ' ' ' And it is for them, and not or Mr. Cannon or other members of con gress to say what is or is not "too much." It is the people, not the con gressmen, who must pay the bill, and they, arttryjng to.showlihatjtjheyite. ready and "willing and anxious to pay a $50,000,000 bill of this kind. , . It is for them to dictate to Mr. Cannon, not for him to dictate to them. It does not lie in his mouth to say any sum that the people de mand is "too much," THE TRAIL OP THE SYSTEM. REVELATIONS incident to the Standard Oil prosecutions are almost incredible. It seems impossible that such practices as Rockefeller and his associates are guilty of could have occurred in a civilized land, under-a free flag, and beneath the very eye of an avenging law. Here is George Rice, an inde pendent oil operator; He undertook to do business in Ohio against Stand ard. It - was - the- attempt -of a tiny child to throttle a Florida alligator. In ifs unchallenged powert Standard controlled the Cleveland and!Kfar jetta railroad, then in a receivership. It controlled scores of railroads. By mere might, jt forced them to do its bidding. It compelled the Cleveland and Marietta to carry Standard's oil at 10 cents a barrel. It compelled the same road to charge George Rice 35 cents a barrel. It compelled the road 4o pay .. over , to , Standard 25 cents of the 35 cents a barrel exacted from George Rice. . Of course Rice went to the wall. He became a hopeless bankrupt. The trail of Standard ts strewn with the skeletons of wrecked businesses and ruined competitors. , The ghosts of hundreds of destroyed enterprises shrink through the shadows of its moving caravan. Children of thou sands of employes of competitive concerns go shoeless and hungry. And wretched, because with infinite cruelty . Standard magnates crushed and ground the heart and life out of men and establishments that stood in their path or ran counter to their in satiable greed. , The oil lords heard no cry for pity, heeded no appeal to be merciful. They turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of children, saw no tears of those whose destruction they set out to encompass. They de manded and compelled their.own con trol of the oil .business. Opposition to it meant a tragedy, persistence in it, annihilation. Their business career has been a reign of terror in finance as cruel and merciless as was Robespierre's in blood. ,. The outcome of this- regime of cruelty is a billion dollars of profits amassed in the oil' business by' a hniivTtiridfrr T welrity-sli years agoA Standard's capital, stated by itself, was $69,030,798. In but 14 years thereafter, the profits from this capital aggregated the stupendous sum of $51 2,940,084, a sum nearly eight times the originst investment Ten year later, or today, the cam- Policy of Harriman and .Hill over Sunshine. When the river steamers flrat began to make Inroads on O. R. at N. freight the railway officials" bgan buying the steantara and building new ones to kep out further competition, but new boats kept appearing until the railway com pany decided lo buy no more, To meet the' lower - river rates, the rail rates were slashed. Besides this. It leased competing . steamers. .And all" this re suited in special good to the rtver porta, and this special good- will continue as long aa the Columbia river runs,' ',. Take it in the wheat business from Hover - this season as an illustration. The. grain In sacks was loaded on the steamers at the local docks, hauled to, Celllo, loaded on to the portage railroad and hauled past the falls to the lower river's upper port above The Dalles, there loaded On to steamers and hauled to Portland docks the rate for hauling and handling being less .than the rate by rail on the O. K. 4 H. from Wallula to Portland. , ... e e .... An .effort was made last week to have the portage road cease business, and report is in circulation that O. R. & N. agenta were at the bottom of the move. The commercial cluba of Port land. Walla Walla and other points in terested fought the move and saved the day for the portAge road. "... Every new move on the map of this part of the country shows the river in terests to be. forcing the O. R. at N. into the corner. Every inch . of - the way ' la being stubbornly fought , for, but the river people are winning. While it ia not expected that the new North Bank line through Hover valley will make much of a cut In rates, it Is a foregone conclusion that Another Check will be placed on the grasping, selfish Harriman line. ' . Districts, which are dependent' anon Harriman lines for transportation ar in a bad fix They are seriously handi- ings have piled up to the uncount able total of $1,000,000,000.; Such, by strangulation and murder of com petitive concerns, such by hypocrisy and guileful evasion of law and cruel, heartless destruction of the rights of others, is the. mighty ,, sum wrung from countless victims by this little group-of conspiring-oit lords; Ajilmarger nf the Uninn Pacific anrl this they profited in oil, 2nd they are potential factors in the railroad busi ness, in.: the traction business, in the banking business and various other lines of industry." What profits the records in the inner sanctuary-of this little . group would disclose is a prob lem that the country would doubtless shudder to have revealed. It is in finitely fortuitous" for the future that there is a Shermanlawhat therejs an awakened: public conscience, and Roosevelts, La Folletes, Bryans, Joe Folks and others. BOTH v PROJECTS MU5T'iG07r THE POSITION taken by the , Oregon delegates to : the River and Harbor Congress, that appropriations should be made for the CeTITb canal as well as the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia, is manifestly, asjde fom the com parative intrinsic merits of the two projects, and the relative emergency existing with regard to them, the only practical and politic attitude to taked These appropriations must depend to a considerable extent on Representa tive Jones of Washington, a mem ber of the rivers and harbors com mittee, and he has emphaticallydei dared that the .canal must go for ward simultaneously with the jetty. Senator Ankeny; will very likely take the same-position. The great upper country" must be taken into consid eration and its demands acceded to; and though it is true that the jetty at the mouth of the river is really the immediately and pressingly import ant project, even for the region east of the Cascades, the people and rep resentatives of that section must have a voicejn recommending the use of appropriations to be made. Chairman Burton ,and Speaker Cannon utter warnings against trying to get too much, and the latter sug gests that appropriations should be confined chiefly to the more import ant projects, which'iS7well enough; but the necessity and economy of car rying on these large projects -contin-uously, and with ample funds to push them to completion, so as to prevent thf " l"e nf piecemeal a nit intermittent construction, should be recognized. , To say, "We can afford or spare only about so .much"; or "because we appropriated so-much last year we can afford little or noth ing this year," is sheer folly, from a business point ol view. The only reasonable, right thing to do, the im provement of the Columbia river at its mouth and between The Dalles and Celilo having both been decided upon, is to appropriate money enough to carry' on those improvements con tinuously and simultaneously. Any other policy involves a needless and inexcusable waste of money, besides delaying important improvements that it is conceded on all hands should be made, The president's vehement attack onprK-atriftiretrin his annual mes sage for everybody knows he was belaboring W. R. Hearst-MS some thing new in ihis kind of a state p per, and not calculated to enhance the president's not invulnerable repu iation for the exercise of good judg ment and. well-balanced consideration pped. -jnUaawjCorf ed y the oppo- the Harriman. comnajvwttt-eip,, It.UH .IIV . .U.K.. WVUIn.. n... w. U K..,lnr.lw tint Kin. , n A ... 1 rtn tk, ninn. try or encourage new industries, but it usea all legitimate and some illegiti mate means to get; the last drop of blood money from the unfortunate , people along its lines. This ia the report one heara at every railway station on the Harriman system except where there Is competition! Oregon would be a far better state today if any other railroad builder had control of the lines In the clutches of Harriman. Oregon' growth, la, ser iously retarded by the policy of inaction of Harriman railroads, lta commercial growth la dwarfed, its agricultural de velopment stunted, and lta people die cou raged. This is the principal reason that . Oregon shows less activity than other northwestern states., Harriman Is holding It back. The brakes are set. and they are aet good and tight.' In. marked contrast to the Harriman policy la the Hill. joiicy. Hill la a builder, a developer, a- doer of things worth while. No Hill territory remains undeveloped Jf the "old man" can help It. He has a motive, of course a busi ness motive, but he opens the country and does his best to make it prosper ous. In the-andhe is well repaid for his efforts, and so is the public,' If there ia inactivity at any point on the entire Hill system it la not because of lack of encouragement on the part of the railway . company. Where Harri man. holds -back. Hill pushes ahead; where Harriman ia Inactive, Hill la In tensely active. The difference in these two rival railway men Is illustrated in the development of Washington and Oregon. Hill Is working to build up Washington; Harriman ls'inaolently in different to the Interests of Oregon. And between the railways flows the mighty Columbia river, nature's own highway of commerce. - of men and measures. ' In thus berat ing Mr. Hearst, Roosevelt attacks nearly half the voters of the great state of New York, who have as good a right to their1 opinion as he has to his. . . . There is little doubt that the Southern Pacific systems and their control by Mr. Harriman are quite as unlawful as the attempted merger of the Northern j Pacific and Great Northern. The courts held the merger of the northern roads' to be illegal, and 'dissolved it', as a matter of judicial record, but what did the decision and dissolution- amount to in a practical way? Nothing, so far as the people have ever discovered. And; finding the Harriman merger unlaw ful would have the same results. The Reptblican party refuses to revise the tariff shortly after t gen eral election in which that party has won, saying that this result shows that tariff revision is not demanded by the people. Later the Repub licans refuse to revise the tariff be- cause another general election is too near at hand, and well, the trusts object - So there is to be no tariff revision as long as they are in power. Under these circumstances the peo ple are likely to elect a majority of Democrat before 4ongr.and try. them once more. ' There being no state election for over -three years, and Governor Chamberlain not being in the attitude of a probable candidate in an ensu ing election,- it - may - be reasonably hoped that the legislature will Spend less-time and effort than its prede cessor did in trying to. "put the gov ernor in a hole," but rather will co operate with the governor, whose ad ministration the people so emphat ically approved last June, to do what is best for the people, regardless of politics. It is a little strange that since the president thought of so many things to mention in his message he had not a word to say in favor of improving the rivers of, the country. He is strong on a great navy and coast de fense, .as if he expected the country to be attacked by o-ome foreigV power any day, but doesn't regard the open ing of waterways as worthy of notice. But perhaps he forgot it. -If'thcre- isJ to be a raila mission, keep it out of . politics as much as possible or politics out of it. And on this ground the commis sioners should not be elected along with county and other state officers. Certainly Americans will have no objection to a treaty prohibiting the emigrit'oriof laborers f o "Japan if theirs won't come to this country. We have never heard of any great in flux of American laborers in Japan.. It may be well enough, to prepare expensively against any and every possibility of war, but while doing so the nation should . make at least eqifayy large investments in winning Victories bf peace. ' The Portland council J evidently determined to force the people to get the initiative into action next spring on several propositions. I If the jailroads can be forced to sell their large . land-holdings in Oregon, this should ' be done, but since this is probably imprac Letters Fiom tke ' ' : : People nt)i 7. . T(l 1h. y-flnrtr nf The Journal Regarding the Whitney Murray caaa, .1 have aeon considerable including the expressions of some of our ministers, and the Ideas . they have of the enforcement . of the unwritten law. I have been hoping to ae some one take up the other side and much to my grati fication and delight I learned that Port land has t leaat one real man, when my eye fell upon the communication of W. J. Peddlcord II) last Sunday's journal. , Every moral loving cltlsen should shout this man's name -at the top or hla voice. There ia little left to say on this sub ject aftr devouring an article like his. but. I am a member of the medical pro fession and a woman too, and I- wish to atate that my sympathy is with Mur ray flraW last And, all the time The medical fraternity, I am sorry to say, perhaps' more than any 'other, has the unpleasant distinction of being many time the flrat listener to the sad,-sorrowful - atory -of . the . betrayed girl. To us she comes when she feels too ashamed to face mother, brother or sister, and tella the atory of how some sweetheart.- and oftlmes her employer, has wronged her. There may be a few exceptions to the rule, but it la gener ally conceded that men are the aggres sors, and - the . unguarded . and many times childish. Innocent girl falls , a victim to vice through continued -persuasions. Then the poor girl must re ceive the acorn of all this kind world of ours. Even some of the, ministers who "never" do wrong would condemn to death the avenger of the perpetrator of so horrible a crime. A woman's virtue is the aweetest and dearest Ood glven treasure ahe possessea and when ever she le robbed of It, the robber should meet the same fate' as did young Whitney, Were there a few more brothers like Murray, there would be fewer betrayals of girls -in, the city of Portland. There would be fewer Inmates ' of refuge homos and fewer 'broken hearta among our women today. 1 confine my remarks strictly 'to this clacs of crime, and maintain that if the unwritten law would become the su preme law in such cases society would be Improved rather than otherwise. Pos sibly these ministers have no slaters or daughters, consequently are not capa ble of entering into the spirit of such a oonditlon which does not confront them personally! The ishoe does not- pinch our "foot while It is on that of our neighbor..; "Possibly these good men would appreciate a alater'e or daughter's disgrace and allow her betrayer to aneer aa Whitney sneered. ' Possibly they would not. If they; truly loved the ono so treated. - They could scarcely - re frain from following out the example of Murray, -first by trying for legal measures and assistance, and when thuae failed, resort to more radical means. Let more Murrays rise -up in our midst and there will be fewer Whltneya. DOCTOR. ticable," assessors should : sea to it that the lands are assessed at their full value, and made assessable if they are not Since the railroads ; have to pay for constructing the roads twice over county authorities need not hesitate to place a full actual valuation on the lands. Tax 'em all the law will admit. Can't the legislature : force the land-grant railroads to survey .their lands for purposes of taxation, if not to sell them? Can taxes be dodged perpetually in this way? If so, what are legislatures and courts good for? Judge Grosscup hit off the presi dent about right in saying: "He thinks everything tinder the sun that interests him is important enough to be put in his message to congress." - According to Dun's estimates, the cost of living is going up faster than ever. Hurrah for prosperity, pro tection, and political pyrotechnics. So far as California is concerned, the president will not be very urgent ly entreated to reconsider his deter mination not to run again. ' " Arabl Pashm Is Friendless. From the Pall Mall Gazette. In a little house up a bystreet of the Mohammedan - quarter, old, - friend leas, broken, live the man who might have ruled Egypt. If you ask so people in Cairo today "Where ia Arabl Pasha r It will tell you he I dead while th other five do not know. In fact, after the bombardment of -Alexandria he was sent to exile for llf in Ceylon, btflw allowed-som four years ago, to return to hla native city. It waa only after a week' hard fer reting that I discovered through a na tive Journalist the whereabouta of the great man., a - , . . Even now, in hi 70th year, he Is a big man; In his prime he must have been Immense. White hair and beard; a broad, thoughtful forehead, sur mounted by the Turkish tarboosh; kind ly eyes, dulled a little by age, but light ing up wonderfully when ha talks about things which Interest him; straight, powerful nose; a large mouth, "Which must once have been hard and cruel, now softened by adversity. Why tha -Scalpg. From New Tork Times.' Our genial - weekly contemporary Judge la disseminating political opin ions, that from a Republican point of view, must be set down as f lagaantly heretical. It most recent Issue has a cartoon representing President Roose velt in hla familiar garb of a mighty hunter. At his feet lies the carcass of a dead wolf It I probably a -wolf-labeled "Bryanlsm." Held aloft In hla left hand Is the limp and lifeless form of a coyote jit Is unquestionable a coy otelabeled "Hearstlsm." - Doea the political engineer who drafted, thl com position Intend the public to understand tain a ha killed Bryan I am T Mr. Bryan and hla friends ruefully complain that Mr. Roosevelt has stolen pretty much the whole cargo of Bryan thunder. That waa what killed the' wolf. Are. we to assume that the coyote HearstlnVn lias been slain, or is to be slain, by a sim ilar process of conveying to the White House for. presidential use and applica tion the radical doctrines) at the Hearst political faith t ' A Sermon - m ' , INDIVIDUALITY Work ouf your own ealvatlon.-Pb.lL IKJI. . . ' By Henry F. Cope. -f . EUOION ia Intensely Indlvtdus l llstlc. It is a tree that never 1 sv." twice assumes the same form. nor doea it even bear, precisely me same rruit It la aa varied as hu manity, for It depends on eacti Separate human faotor -for lta peculiar exprea- iun. ine eearon ror unirormlty In re ligion is a aearch for that which does not exist, and the wish sometimes ex pressed by individuals, to have an-, other person's faith is it wish that can never be gratified. ' There never yat wore two facea'pr claely alike, for facea are not made by the .many In a single mold; tbey grow out of llfo; they are shaped and aeared and Illumined by aenetbtlities, by emotions, by aspirations, and expe Hence, The fac ia the atory .of the life,, peculiar to Itself, having no exact duplicate. Yet, with all the variations, there ere types of faces, some that you would trust, some that repel, the face of the upward life and the face of the downward trend. 8o it ia with religion. It ia not ma chine made. It Is not a mask laid upon the man; It Is not applied from- without ; It grows from within. . True religion springs up In the heart! it ia shaped and determined by the experiences, the aaplratlona,-the sonrcea of the ltfe'a In spiration. Ideally, It ts the summing up of all the good that the life has known; practically. It Is the expression In deed and word of that good. Growing out of the ever varying in herited qualities, experience and achievmenta of each Ufa. it I not only never the same in two individuals, it ean- nevai b prclaJy-ive me on suc-f ressive days in tne same person. It work out Into larger being, grow, and develops, it will not be the same in the rrAn a In the boy, nor the same In the boy aa in the girl. Borne days see mighty changes, but, in the living soul, every dsy sees some change. This fact lias distressed some intro spective souls; they lament lost re ligious convictions, as a man might la ment the boy's outlook, the boy's en Hymns j to Know. The Soul'a Warfare. By George Heath.' '. (This hymn attained a remarkable popularity long before lta author was known. George Heath was , Unitarian minister, born and educated In England, who was deprived of his charge on the ground of unfitness His hymn still is one of the most popular In the meetings of the churches today. In the smaller meetltrRs, such as th prayer meeting. It Is seldom that the session paases with out the singing of this hymn. My aoul. be on thy guard. Ten thousand foea arise; The hosts of sin are pressing hard To draw thee front the skies,- O, watch, and fight and prayf The battle ne'er give b or; Renew It boldly Very day. , And help divine Implore. ' Ne'er think the victory won. Nor lay thine armor down; The work of faith will not be don Till thou obtain thy crown. FlghlTdn, my soul, till death rr Shall bring the to thy God! . . He'll take thee at thy parting breath. Up to his blest abode. . . , .-Correcting a Misapprehension. "I do not control one mil of rati, road." E. H. Harriman. Oh, --:.' '.,' : - ' Is that so? WelV now, do-you know Some people think that you Have corraled a few . - f - And laid them away 1 For a rainy day? Not many, of courae, but enough , For a bluff When the game -Calls for the same, ' If it ever doea My bus! Ain't It funny - ; How a chap with money Acquires a reputation .Among the common herd sl1 Of really end truly being A Julius Qjeflar bird,. When h ain't anything but a dov . Chuck-full of brotherly lov For everything that has a worm . Ha needs In his business? , . Oh, say, Ain't it rotten to think that wayf ' It' a sham dam To queer th fair fame ' Of a saint - ,.'..-:.....:.. . Who is what he is and ain't what he a Int. , Don't it? ' What do you suppose Inspires . People 10 be such HarsT . ' Huh.' ' W. J, Lampton. l. December 9 in History. .1(0 John Milton, English poet, born. Died November t, 1S74. - 1S6S Samuel Vetch, first governor of Nova Scotia, born. Died April SO, 1731. 17S7 Congress of Rahstadt opened. - 1S4S Joel Chandler Harris, southern writer, born. ;:.--,,.' 1861 The Confederate " eongress passed a bill admitting Kentucky Into the Confederacy. .'.- ... 1S6S Oladstone ministry assumed of fice. - - 1889 Chicago- Auditorium - opened. President Harrison and Mm. Pattl as alstlng. '..! 1 181)3 An anarchist exploded a bomb in the French rhamber'of deputlea. 1894 New treaty between United fltatea snd Japan proclaimed. ; Joel Chandler Harris. Joel Chandler Harrla, the southern writer, known a "Unci Remni," was born at Katonton. Georgia, December S, IMS. At It he became the "devil" In a Georgia newspaper office and spent his leisure moments devouring the vol umes In his employer' library- At 1 he moved to Pavonnnh and plunged into Journalism. In 187 he settled In At lanta, where he became editorially con nected with the Constitution, in which the "Uncle Rumus" collection appeared. In appearance the, humorist ie a red haired man of. compact build, with laughing blue eyes and a contagious laugh. In addition to hi other writing Mr. Harris is the author of history of his native stata of Georgia. , Age of Oak Trees. In Oermany oak trees only live to be about 100 year old. while in Norway and flweden th pints will survive for 119 years. ' . - - for Today i 1f m , , IN RELIGION. thusiasms end star-vaulting ambitions; Or they make fruitless efforts te eon form themselves spiritually to the pat tern of aome other saint . Ideals are inspirations, not patterns; It is folly to grieve if you do not reproduce their precise lines and angles. To test man's religion by some rigid mechanical standard is aa foolish aa to test hi vitality by hla height. Btlll greater 1 the folly of measuring religion by opinions, as though one's health could be determined by hla views on the so-called canals on Mars. Re ligion ia simply the life of the aoul, the inner being that determine char' aeter; It must b measured by Its vl tallty, its strength and purity, and the value) to th world. . '... The mechanlo will probably con Untie with Impudent ignorance to Invade the' ' realm of the aoul; he will aet up his rule of thumb creed or single doctrine or virtue or emotion and measure sll souls by thaL. -Terhaps he is still 4a- so primitive a condition of soul growth that be Imagines, his crude standard ' enoompaaaea all possible good. Let. the " man whose heart ia growing Ignore the attempt to - measure the life by the standard of things or to make all live in one atyle. ''. Let every heart reach affer the best; let every eoul-4lve out -the good - it , finds within; let every man work cut his- own salvation, -aa he must work out his own character, his own self In the world, through the toll and strug gle, through the Joy and blessing. Through life' multiform experience w learn to live; through all the strange ways of the aoul each one finds , salvation, each,, in his own wsy, finds the path to the full life. The eternal spirit Is working in alt and where that spirit I. there ts llh erty ; the infinite breathes through the Individual. Relglon first gave to man this great thought of his value end his right as a soul; It has worked through the whole leaven of society until we find the law of liberty everywhere pre vailing; men working out their Uvea from within and finding full salvation not in subjection to aome code of per fect action but in development of the things within, under the impulse of eternal aplrttual laws.- -j - ' Sentence Sermon.. By Henry F. Cope. ' Many man means his desire when he talks of his duty. . The worst of all faults is never to e any of your own. - . .. , - , - , - - No man find salvation until he finds htmself. a Tou do not obtain aanotuy--by aul- tractlng sense from spirituality. - . - . ''"'' ' ' : A little ancient faith may be worth lot of modern, fog. It' no us fussing about keeping the faith if you cannot keep your friends. e e . v , ' The man who figures on everything never makes much of a figure at an) -thing. Tou can tell a good deal about a man by the things that appeal to his sense of humor. .'.'.' v "'.'" . Th man with a headlight growing on hi face ia pretty sure to.be on the wrong track. ....... ', ; ' e '' The gate of -heaven come - a llttt -nearer every time a man stoops to sym pathise with a child. ' , '' Winds of pssslon do not blow to har bors of high purpose. , " A aanotlfled look doea. not make up for- ar-raclt- otHsamfc e The world doea not want to hear of a . golden heaven; it waits for the golden heart. , . , ' e. . ...' Do your duty and your delights will take care of themselves, e e It ts worth wklle to sow kindness even- though the only fruit should be theTssmoryof thsiowtng; zi Breaking your mirror does not remove th spots on your face. "' v,' e- e " "" r, ' Piety often seems like pretense - to those who have not felt the Impulse of principle. - . - e "'..".'. A great many who think they are building forte for the faith will find they are but barricading the pathway of progress. - ; . e Bet this day's work first and you shall not be ashamed If It should prove to be your last. , "r v Religion is a seed Which planted in dally living makea life glorious with it beauty, but hoarded It becomes a stench in the nostrils of men. Ths Baby. ' (As seen by his brother.) By James J. Montague. . ' Just guess what that ther doctor did When" I was gone one day. 1 He went and brought a raggy kid, ' . An' left it here to atay. A. An' now my muwer' got t 'tend - To him all day, an' she Don't never have no time to spend , A-doln' things for me. 8he thinks he's Just a regular aalnt, An' never aeemed to -care When I aay, scornful: "Humph f H ain't i '. Got any teeth nor hair!" - An' when I showed her how he'd ery At Just a little slap, , She eaya: "It's bad of you to try T6 hUrtTh "IIUlchapr. " I have to go to bed atone. An'- Jay awake an' hear r.-r-Th awful ghosts and goblins groan They're thick thl time o year. ) An' no one tells me stories now, 7 . But every one says: "Keep ; " A still as any boy know how Dear baby la aaleepl I, knew that doctor waa bemnd - To play us some mean trick. For every time' he's come arouhd . t Somebody ha been elok. An' whan It' me, he' mad m tak ,, A lot of awful truok . , That' gay, roe such a stomach ache) . JJ always b rung bad luokl ., Ym goln' to' get the kid some day, An' when the dootor'a her , I'll give htm to him. an' I'll aay; "Just take th 'little dear.' Tou brought him, now you- Just go on Back horns with him!" An wha The raggy little thing Is gone . , " , Mjr mail lov m again, . , ,, - - y- 4'T. f '. J.4 L1 t. - :..:.::;-;-i:':.