Editorial Page of The Journal I. f 4-. THE JOURNAL Alt IKDgFSNDKMT HtWIPtfH C. B. JacKSON...... . PaMl.aw hMkM ever mlu tesi-eot Snodsr) eaary Soae asoralitf IB. FirtS ana 111 till! errevta. PortUM. vr. Eater at tee aaeterSor at FertiaBd. Or., for traiMsilMloa (heaves Um " ,ss eeeesd-aleae tlUIPHflKH ' . ' tMlloHal Itaeap tftaatotae Ofece... ..'a " Mala DOS FottEltiN aOVSkTlglSa HErRESCNTATTTR Vrtaad SmjaailB SprrUl adnrllslo '"; lou n etreM. lersi lnaaaa sxii uUeV tug. Cblrar. - - Sabscrlptlna Tarma br aiaO te sav sddiese ta la I'nJtts 8uu. Taaaaa or MalUa: , -- . . OalLI Oaa year.,..,.., .8 00 Ona amU.. SUKOAf . . ' Oaa rear.........81.00 I Oo etoetv....... .a DAILY AND SCNDAY Oaa year..'. ST.0S Oaa aMala ...I .08 - Good impulse and good intention do not make ac tion right or safe. In the long ' run, action ia tested not by motives but by its re-' suits.-David Starr Jordan. .THE Q. A G'S DELINQUENCY. ffHB SOUTHERN PACIFIC lines -r-1 TJtnOeton.f ormerly 'the ., J, , gon ft California railroad, and its adjuncts, did not pay form erly bat during the past few years 'have been profitable. The service : ha been poor for years, owing largely to light rails, insufficient to carry the heavy engines necessary at v- fair rate -of speed,, but 'after . lontfi- delay this defect has been. In part at least, remedied. - Bnt practically no new equipment ha - been added to the O. 6 C. line in year, although the demand for transportation fa cilities were constantly increasing. The report of the Southern Pacific company for 1905 aays Its receipts for the preceding year were the larg est since the road' reorganization 4n 1898, and that the increase in traffic exceeded the facilities for handling lt, and that the equipment needed to be largely Increased.,;. This , re port waa made June 30, 1905, and yet nothing was done to provide for the still greater traffic offered that fall and in 190.- The railroad of-' ,f Iclals knew over a year and a halt agLLtha there wasa ahortageof I equipment and that traffic was rap Idly increasing, yet did nothing to meet then conditions, Jbus entailing an Immense aggregate! los upon thousands of people in western Ore-' gon.' :; ' i ,"'.';""..'' 1 "" .The trainber of locomotryeronlhe Southern. Pacific system increased from 826 in 1901 to 880 in 1908, an Increase of 8.64 per cent , In five years; 4he passenger cars' Increased "during the same period from 616 to 679, 8.02 per cent; and the freight cars from 22,291 to 23,829, 6.98 per cent. ; The passenger traffic increased-during the same time 16.34 Tereefitrahd-ha" freight traffic '.16.46 per cent., (. j '""" j" ' j These and other - figures that might be peaented how what w all know by observation and experience without them that the Southern Pacific in western Oregon ha been t delinquent in supplying transporta tion facilities which It knew were needed, f Insensible to the Interests and demands of shipper and pro ducers, oblivious to the people' need and rights, and Intolerably re miss In its duty as a common carrier and a quasi public institution. 'Be sides this, freight rates In many cases have been outrageously high- but that is another story. Now, having been very patient so long, the peo ple propose to do something about it. THE ALBANY CONVENTION. a DOMINANT, note at the Albany , . A - hlppers convention waa open atJL' ' rtTer. That topic received v.' even as much attention from the shipper as the' vital subject of railroad legislation. The Interest in ' both has become Intense In Oregon. - The folly of perpetuated .' lockage charge and unused river 1 at last ' . recognized as on the same plane with railroad discriminations, car short ages and kindred railroad abuses. , It waa so thoroughly understood ; at -Albany that -B pTOposltlonljy Governor Chamberlain for the state as a last alternative to buy the old i or build new locks at. Oregon City was applauded to the echo. A plan of state ownership and United States operation, if It had been submitted to a . vote of the shipper present, would have scarcely encountered a dissenting vote. ' Reflection 1 has , come as fruit of the car shortage and resultant ruin, and that reflection ', has for it consequence a realization of the transportation iniquities and disadvantage under which the - Ore gon communities have o long lived. . reople, revolt when they are hun gry. That has. been, the history of the world. . Yakima citizen refused to lot Ihelr children freeze with ; traloloftd of roal sweeping through their town. What they did 1 illus trative of the sequel always to be ex pected when oppressloa passe the limit of human endurance. ' The Oregon shipper has hungered long (or cars (or his rotting products. Ha has paid lockage charges uncom plainingly and endured obstructed waterways, to his own Vast detriment so long that there has been an Al bany shippers' convention! and it is his Yakima episode. Like the men of Yakima,, ha has studied the situ tlon, and determined to . acL. The difference Is that,, n alike the over driven Yakima people, he is going to act within the law, but none the lass effectively for that.- Convinced the one sure means of a final and im pregnable defense against local rail road oppression ia open rivers, these rivers will, until they are unfettered and free, be his shibboleth. ' -AID NEEDED FOR CHINA, T HE APPEAL of Governor Cham' berlaln, ' supplementing and localizing that of President Roosevelt, .; for aid for the famine-stricken millions of a district In China should -be .responded , to promptly and liberally by the pros- erous and fortunate people of Ore gon. China is very different from this country In these respects: -'. It has few "railroads and in most of Its great area none, and therefore food supplies cannot be transported from one province to another; and even if there were railroad each province or region of the empire hU-ned-jjfLEzr all Its food lupply for it own peo ple..- Therefore in China, a in Japan or India, a crop failure in any one province or section of the country mean a famine affecting millions of people before another harvest The United States Is the richest,' most productive and resourceful country on earth; Its people are the most prosperous; the country la overflow ing with a surfeit of surplus prod ucts; and therefore in any such emergency in a foreign country thia country is expected to xand should be foremost , In relief. No part of our country 1 more prosperou than the Pacific northwest, and it should do it share to save these millions in China from alow starvation. In a case like this, race, color or na tionality tuts no figure; all we are brethren. ' :. ' '-'- - mr: olney AND MEN.' WORKING- I IT 1 3 f WILL be surprising. to a rood manv nawlnl that Kr .. Dlharf WV.W VHHV ..... M Olney, Mr. Cleveland' attorney- general and secretary of state, in a contlbutlon to the Inter-Nation, insist that the Jabot. organization! ought to enter politic. .He says that It ia necessary for them to do so in order to protect the country from the evil that are consequent upon the trustification of industries, thbugfiefegardllheusTTf"ian economic development, or evolution. and cite it growth, success and stability aa proof. He credit It with making the ; worklngman' wage more steady and ' reliable, if not larger, and so being an advantage to him, but he encourages the laboring man to take a greater Interest in public affair. Labor, he - says, "must stand for equality of oppor tunity for all men and against privi lege in any form; for taxation meas ured by the protection given and the ability to bear it burden and against taxation insidiously devised for ; the enrichment of particular classes; for economy and thrift in public expenditures and against graft and extravagance, however dis guised; for, the largest measure of personal liberty consistent with pub lic order and against all form of paternalism" and so on the usual conservative Democratic doctrine tritely yet clearly expressed, and most of which. If old, Is sound. Mr. Olney deprecate the spirit exhibited and the latent purpose underlying great military and naval establish ments, and recommend trade rela tion conceived in a spirit of fair ness and equity, and pacific methods of settling international controver sies .' , ' 'i. ' ' -. -V , - ! In all these matter the worklng- med have a : vital interest, and "he has no doubt of tbetrjoyalty to "our Institutions ' and their alncere desire for the best result possible from government. Though he bad ex pressed doubt of the workingman's competency to decide what was best, he recommends to him the use of the ballot as an Instrument for bettering the country's condition, 'saying It Is "the precise weapon by which ' to make loyalty effective, to counteract prevalent reactionary tendencies, and make It plain that he who would rule In America must be a true Ameri can la sympathy and convictions. That worklngmen " will - use the weapon thus fitted ' to their hand unitedly and therefor efficiently, eU-lnterest a weM a patriotism make reasonably certain. Not until It I demonstrated that their use of It will be unwise and injurious, both as regard, themselves and the pub-: SHALL WE OR SHALL WE . NOT BEND THE KNEE? I' N SOME QUARTERS it is being made to appear that the "car shortage" Is the sole abuse of the rights of the public by the railroads, and already the railroad adherents and the railroad press are endeavoring to center the attention of the people on the remedying of this evil alone, thus, like the cuttle fish, inking the water that the rail road may escape the penalties their other shortcomings so - signally merit s ... - . : The plain fact is that Harrlman ha done his utmost to bottle up the state of Oregon so that he . might carry Its traffic in the hollow of his hand. , Open rivers have been op posed directly . and " Indirectly; rail road competition , has . been ham pered; development of the ! country ha been held back by opposing the construction - of - branch ,-and - rival roads; arid in other ways too numer ous to mention, and every effort of the people to break the shackles that bind them1iatrBi6titll'raTIroaa war fare conducted with, money extorted from the people by high and exce& slve rates. " These and sundry, other things, taken. with the "car shortage" and attending tfoubles, have aroused the to some realization of the condition that - confronts- them ' and relief I to be sought from the legis lature. If the railroads are 'to con trol that body the people will be quick to inquire the reason why. " '." . In this connection a few pertinent questions may.be in order: . If the railroads have money by the million to prevent the c6nstruc tion of other , railroads in Oregon, why have they not done one at least Of the three following things: 1, Build railroads and railroad extension without, as has been the case in several instances, waiting for individual effort to first start the work. ' " , ' ": - :;' .- - 2. Reduce felght , charges." . If these railroads, did not wish to 'ex tend their lines themselves, which they . could . easily have done from their surplus earnings, why did they not reduce ratea. Instead of piling up these enormous surplus earnings! . -8. . And it they did--not wish to do elther of these things,-why did they not supply themselves with suf ficient equipment' to accommodate the business offered t f . The reason V railroad commission Is desired In Oregon is not alone be cause of the car shortage; that la merely an incident. . . ; 1. Experience ha Xeverywhere 11c at large, will it be time to de spair of the republic.". , .. All this is rather Clevelandesque, and lacks the brusque deflnlteness of Bryan when ne tens tne. working- men, that they should use the ballot and for what purposes, but it does commend the ballot to them - as a weapon with which they can accom plish much, both for themselves in particular and for the public of which they form o Jarg and im portant a part. 'And evidences in crease that, worklngmen. are going to use the ballot hereafter more thoughtfully and discriminatingly than ever before. . ;. .Is. ' Another trust, the tobacco trust. ha been found guilty and la subject to fine, but the men who violated the law were found not guilty. These conviction . of corporations, while the men comprising and man aging them are immune, might sug gest a scheme to our burglars and highwaymen; If they could combine and form a trust under whose reg ulation they would operate, perhaps the courts, as In these other cases, might hold them individually guilt less, while imposing - penalties on their i organization-; But perhaps not; the law is a curious thing. , The Traveler' Aid bureau of the Y. W. C. A. aa managed by Mis Lola Baldwin,- has, during the past, two years or so, literally fined a iong- felt want in this city. It has done much good work, the, value of which could not be atated in figures and Is deserving of commendation and en couragement on the. part of all good citizens. . . " Committees " of investigation of candidates for United States Senator are becoming quite fashionable. The very fact that a . man seek to be elected to the senate seems to be re garded aa prima facie evidence that he ought to be investigated. - According to Wilbur Atkinson, publisher of a farmer' periodical in Philadelphia,-; -railroad transporta tion cost the government last year 146,825,994, - 'while the regular charge! of the express- compahTesior the same service for private cus demonstrafeS the necessity for rail road control. SV Not only the courts of the United States, but the court of the state of Oregon, have held that such control is not only perfectly proper, but It is the plain duty of the state to pursue it to maintain the rights of the people: 7 8. ;' At. the present time there is absolutely no forum to which the people can appeal tor the correction of any transportation abuse. 4. Rates have been maintained at a higher scale in Oregon than in any other state in " the whole United State. -'-A- :' -r-.r - n - . 6. There baa been little, if any, railroad development and extension of railroad line In the state, and yet a huge surplus has been piled up to the burdening of every established industry and enterprise la the state. 6. If the railroads of Oregon had spent even a portion of their surplus, over and above interest and dlvl- extension and otherwise, the state of Oregon ' today would not be in second place to the state of Washington,-but would have more than one million people withinlt borders. and the city of Portland would nave nearer 300.000 than-8 00,000. , r r. , ...e - .., It Is to.be ftxpected that every rail road adherent, paid attorney and subsidised servant willoppose rea sonable.. and , remedial legislation, will strive to confuse honest legis lators with a multitude of measures, and will endeavor to throttle all legislation promising any real con trol. Whlle pretending to be friends of- the, people, they will try to kill those measure that promise relief. They will doubtless be found advo cating an elective, railroad commis sion which will cause history 'to re peat, itself, for such a commission in. the nature of things will be an ally, aa It waa before, of the offend ing railroads. - ' VvV':., ;" ! ; The people must stand guard and must exact from their representa tives in the legislature faithful ad-H herence to their Interests and loyal regard to the public trust Imposed In them.',-If the legislature falls in its" duty, the railroad ahacklea will be welded still more tightly around the limb of Oregon and the wings which she is supposed to do her fly ing with will be clipped to the sec ond . Joint. The'; indolence vwhich comes from servitude dulls the ener gies and ; aspirations of our half awakened people, already too much Inclined not to "help themselves." tomers charges high enough, good ness knows would have been only 19,868,198, a difference of $37,480,-fdO; themBeiresrahe Is eoatant .te listen 795. Mr. Atkinson says that it the railroads can transport live hogs for individuals 800 mile at 88 per ton, it ought not to cost the government f 100 per ton (5 cents per pound) to transport literature 600 miles. The latest suggestion as to the dis position of himself by President Roosevelt when he teps'down and out into private life is that he should become a missionary. This is no doubt one of the several field of ac tivity In which he might shine. No preacher could be more forcible or surer that he knows It' all and was absolutely right,. and if the heathen raged' and imagined vain things, a big ' stick would aoon convert them to ' proper ways of belief and be havior.' ' ;r , Anyone who is determined, that there ahall be a war between the United States and Japan wl) .find assurance of that event ia the fact that the Jap in the Hawaiian is land have been . purchasing more rice than usual. They will use it for breastworks and ammunition, as well aa food.. 1.' , :" :" .V.'-'x'v ' . President Ripley of the Santa F railroad say that all that I neces sary .with reference to the railroads Is to let them alone. The people of Oregon have tried that for a long time, and have been forced to the conclusion that it doesn't pay. ' ' ' Guggenheim evidently has the Re publican members of the Colorado legislature secured safely and "for keeps."'. He did not spend a million for nothing. - . - - If Mr. Davey can hold fast to the members he seems to have attached to him, and there teems no good rea son why he should not, he will be elected Mr.' Speaker Monday. - - An Expensive Thermometer. ' " The moat expensive thermometer, In the United Btateaiain up at the Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, Mary land. It la valued at lie.Aoe and ia an absolutely perfect instrument. The graduations on the glaaa are ao fine that It requires a mloroscope to read them. NOTHINO DONS YET r HE TRIAL of Mayor Schmits and' Abe Ruef la nowhere in sight yet. For some weeks - now the court has been prin cipally busy- with, inquiries about members of the grand Jury. The unobservant, layman may " have a crude idea thatafter a grand Jury haa been duly tmpanneled, and has acted or Is ready to act on indict- menta and informations .laid before it, questionings of the Jurors similar to those to which trial Jurors, are submitted are out of order, but not so, at least in San Francisco, when the defendants have lot of. money. Day after day, week after-week, the process of examining .the grand Jurors, or witnesses concerning them, goes on, to such a length that the public almost forget the alleged crimes that aroused such an uproar, and becomes comparatively careless about the outcome which ia one of the reasons for all this prolonged side-stepping on the part of the de fendants' attorneya. If by any hook or crook it can be made to appear that any one of the grand Juror bad city, or even had read the newspaper account of it Interestedly, it will be argued, for days and perhaps weeks more, if the apparently interminable inquiry ever ends, that this Is a suf ficient cause for discharging the grand Jury, and quashing any indict- men to iv in ft ubtq ivuntx , wonderfully patient people we Amer icans are.'- ?" ' V. i Be Sympattetic ancl Earnest . By Beatrloa Falrfac Sympathr Is the most lovable -quality possessed by woman. No mattar bow plain or rao she mar be. u aha baa sympathy she wins love. etia need not be clever, for thoush people admire cla-vernaaa they do not love it Of course It is possible to be pretty and clever and sympathatlo all at the same tlma. and then a woman Is lire latlble; but lf-ah can hav but one of the three qualltlaa sympathy is the most valuable. ; . - To begin with, the sympathatlA wom an Is a good listener: She puts her en tire interest Into your tale of Joy or of woe, and for the time being your cause ia tier causa. She does not preach, nor say. "1 told you . so." 6h listens, and says. l know Just how you feel," land sands you away -comforted - by the' thought that in your place abe might have done Just as you did. ' She: knows- enoush--not"to-taurh"ai the wrong time, and that's a vary lm portant thing to know if you wish to win love. .. ,. ' ' The sympathetlo woman's fife la not always one of rosea, for her friends, being euro or ner sympathy, have no scruples over making - great demand ca It. They expect her to be unfall ing -wiin advice, eomrort and ... appre ciation or their virtues. All children love her; their unerring Instinct teaches them that she is tbalr rriend and protectress. Men like to talk to heri - she - does not pretend to know more - than they appreciatively, una ia earnest as well aa sympe thette,-and earnestnasa is a charming quality. - . -- - . Have yen ever talked to a peraon who eould not be serious, and who laughed at everything and turned every aid of life into a Joker It is a most tiresome quality. No ona wanta to make life a con tinuous performance of. solemnity, but at the- same time no one wants to make it one huge Joke. .. e e . e ' v ; There la a happy medium, and we all have moods when a laugh at the wrong time Jars ua moat painfully. If I were advising a girl to ehooae three qualities to cultivate I would aay, "Choose sympathy, earnestness and simplicity of manner." If a. girl strives to be a good listener ah will And It eaay to make hosts of friends. People always enjoy talking of their own woes, adventures, etc But artificial . sympathy won't do. It' must be genuine, must come from the heart Nothing artificial makes any true or lasting Impression, and In love or sym pathy it Is especially unreliable. Don't try to be clever or impressive or Impoilng. Be content to be simple, sympathetlo snd true. In that way you . will wla and hold the love of your fellow creatures. w Noses of Great Men. . ' Prominent nose eeem to have bean the property of many great men. I,y eurgua and Solon had noaea six inches in length, and Ovid was aurnamed Naao on account of hla large none. ' Solpto Naslca derived his - name from bis prominent olfactory organ, and Alexan der the Oreat and Cardinala Wolaey and Richelieu all had large noaea. On the medals of CyrMs and Artaxerxea their noaes came elemr out to the rim of the coin. - 1 A Washington's was the true aquiline type, indicative of flrmnees and pa tience, aa waa the nose of Julius Caesar. Mohammed , had a singular aoaev -It waa so curved that a writer haa told ua that the point of it aeemad continually striving to inaert Itself between tola lips. The noaea of Franklin, Ahakeapeare and ir. Johnson an bad wide nostril a, be tokening strength and love ef thought The nose - of Napoleon waa exquisitely, though firmly, chiseled. He ftea said. "Give me a man, with plenty of nose!" rreSerlcK the Great had ao large a boss that Lavater offered to wager that blindfolded he could tell' it .among 10.000 by merely taking it between hla thumb and forefinger. ' j ." ' Frightening Evil Spirits. , Soldiers fire a volley over the grave of a dead comrade because in days gon by, when auperatttlon waa practloally universal. It was generally believed that making a noise kaett away evil spirits, and the passing bell -cam Into vogue for that renaon. ' Whan f Irearma were Invented, volley firing waa aubstltuled for the paastng bell, the belief being that the aound ef battle would be more efficacious In the ease of a soldier. AS crmon THE VOICE DIVINE. " "aod,who"at sundry times and In dlvere mannera spake1 In time past unto the fathers by the prophets." Heb. 1:1 By Henry Fv Cope. ' THRO HROUOH the agea men have alted for voices to speak from out the great unknown. T Answering to thla universal longing for larger light to thla aearch for truth, there has been the coavtotlon that, where our own scanty knowledge ended, there aomethtng akin to revela tion would give ua light, we have been listening for volcea that would apeak with an authority transcending - that given to our fellows. . . Cold reason may mock at revelation, butv the aoui atruggltng In darkness, baffled by Its problems, lost In the night, still looks up and hopes. . Tor what awaits us but despair if the mys terlea of the unlverae are forever sealed, our queatlona forever unan swered, and no higher appeal to be known than that to our own eelflah In terests? It la not strange that men have heeded those who, though often mistaken or but Impostors, have cried, Thus aalth the lordr"""lr-T- It would be strange If In a world of aplrits there-might be ne communica tion ef spirit If the fairest thought of rft era la that which was given ua JKheojaan-jtsa taughtt think of . the omnipotent aa father, it would be atrange If there should be no way by which such a father might apeak to hla children. Such a world 'would contra dict all eur beat Instincts. 8ucb a world woald mean that man was better than his maker. . t . . . The divine Voice apeak, but we too oftqn listen in the wrong direction. It falls not from the skies; it cornea not in stTfingn, unnsnsl wars of ilslnus mill portents. But It Is ever speaking through tne thing f daUr-iire; it Is ever revealing truth aad beauty to the inner ear, for it comes net 'from without-but springs up within: heard by the heart rather than by the ear. : " ' The beat - things - have not dropped down: they have grown up. Life ia not from without but from within. - God speaks not In thunders, but la the hopes and the longings of heart. Even the voice we hear In the atghlngs of the Sentence Sermons. -.- -y'By Henry F. Cope Habit ia eur heaven or eur. hell. ' ......... , 9 . ., . The. heartless are spiritually home- leas. . ! v ..... a e , r- Love et tie law finds liberty in the law. ..i '- ,. , V."' The way to keep friends Is te keep faith, The heaviest chains are made from liberties abused. ' -" 1.. "''-. The sleeping ehuroh always awakes te shame. , .,.....;.,- .. . . e , . - Bcratch chronle'crttlo and yon find a hypocrite. Ha eanoet mova "hartWhose Haart cannot oe moveo. . A moonehlny religion does not make a sunamny world. a a , worthy life Is Impossible wttnout a wormy motive, The worst punishment of sin Is that ene learns 'to love It . '. Re who must he goaded te do right la going to do wrong. . ... -. i . e a '. ; : Tou never know what la la a maa unUi ha geta. la,a. minority. . , v v , a. a Eloquence has a tendency te act aa an evaporator for. religion. . ; Let money talk and you are sure to hear the. fool before long. .j. . . . T The bread of life ia never on the lips or the bread-and-butter preacher. . The beat point In a sermen la that which pierces your self -sat IS fact ton. e The really movlns- aairmon ia the ana that makes you get up and do things. The only good that really' Is good for aay is that which works good for alL ':;...'. , -e . - - ' , A man doea not have to look sheaptah te prove that he Is not one of the goeta .- "i a a - ' .... The minister oppressed by a sense ef his modernity will paralyse hla minis try. ' r . . ' .. a , a- Many a man tries to make up for a lack of a definite goal by an exoeas ef speed. L January 11 in Hiatorjr. " KIO George Fox. founder of the "80- elety of Friends,' or Qoakera, died. ISO French defeated ' Spanish at Cuenca. - .- ; 1114 -Antwerp repulsed attack of British and Pruaafan. ltlf Tuacumbla. Courtland and De catur railroad, first west ef the AUe- ghanles, incorporated. 14 Battle of ChlUlanwallah, India. ' 1868 UnHed States senate reinstated Stanton. ; .- ' - 1878 Gladstone resigned liberal lead' erahlp. - .rr. - 1888 Prince Arthur -6f , Connaught born. -' : . '' ' - 1894 Sicilian revolution crushed by government troops. " . r Not They Who Soar. A Not they who soar, but they who plod Their rugged way, unhelped, to God ' Are heroas; they who higher fare, -And. flying, fan the upper air, - , Miss all the toll that huge tbe sod. "Tie they whoso backs have felt the rod, Whos feet, hava pressed the path unshod. May smile upon defeated care, . , , . Not they who soar. . v j High np there are no thorna to prod," Nor bowlders lurking 'neath the clod To turn tbe keenness ef the share. For flight is ever free and rare; -' But heroea they the soil who've trod, - Not they who soar, " , . aul Dunbar. ' - Not a Pbpulist Among Them. - Eight eandldatee entered In the race for United States senator in Kanaaa, to succeed Senator Benson, ths appointee of Governor Hoch. Several ef these hsve already dropped ut of the running.- The toga probably will descend upon ona of the present Kansas) representatives la oeogreas, " ..,,, for Today wind or" the' message we read In the rays of the setting sun must he In us before it means aught to ua. The ten commandments owe their force not to any writing on atone but. to their, writing on our hearts; to them the aoui of man anewers affirmatively-. The only moral code wa can follow la that which apeaks with the authority of a conscience convicted.. That doea not mean that man ia hla own God, nor that ha knows no law higher than him self: it does mean that by the laws ef spiritual development the law Is being written on every hrart Every real, revelation la a divine rev elation, el nee all truth Is divine. Onca ' wa thought the scientist the enemy of religion; now we know that .whenever sclsnce lays bare one. of the facts of the universe we do but look on what the finger of the Infinite haa written. When religion fights - truth simply because truth speaks an unfamiliar tongue or. falla to respect her traditions, she it fighting asalnst God himself. Our need I not soma strange, awe-. Inspiring voice that, shall break the si lence of the midnight i sky; our need is an ear trained to hear, a spirit to understand and " reverence the sublime volcea that are ever speaking ; In our World, the voices ef the beauty of na ture, the Joy of living; the- atortea of everyday divine heroism, the forces that are making a new world, todayi aa .truly aa ever one. was made long ago. The life of our day haa not leas of the divine than the Hfe.pl long ago: but the message la harder to read; it Is for an educated race; It is spiritual - rather than merely material; It la from within; It la found In every good Impulse, la every outgoing sympathy, 'In the kind ling of eye aa friend greeta friend. In the good that men' are dnlna-. In Ilia "rMeTafloij that la becoming wider, the lova stronger between man and man. ' God speaks to men now as he spoke 16 Moae or to David.' though the man ner may have changed. But the poor In epirlt-thoa with whom pride of the past haa not -served to make them un willing to learn,' these hear the-voice; the pure In heart see blm; the seekers after truth' find - him. and to all he comes in the tanning moment or in the quiet hour when the ' voice, ef the heart makes Itself heard, - ' . ; ,. . , H ymns to Know. . The Unseen Lord. .,'.; ' ' By Ray Palmar. -f ' . I Although Dr. Ray Palmar eriU al ways be best remembered aa the author, of the great hymn, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," he did not regard that product of hla youth aa hla best piece of work in hymnody, hut preferred this, which was written much later. -It -was the outgrowth of a aermoa that ha waa pre paring in 1858 for his people at Albany, on the text I Peter 1:, U waa pub lished In a local periodical in the same year. It belonga to the class .of hymns of devotion and It id not dlf fleuU to be lieve that Its author waa heard . repeat ing the last Statu Just before he died. 1 Jesue. theae."eye have never seen That, radiant, .form, of jthlne; ta The vail of sense hanga dark between " Thy bleaaed face and mine. . v I see thee not I heartee not ' Tet art thou oft With me; , i , , And earth hath ne'er ao dear a spot As whsre I meet with thee., ; Like some bright dream that comes un .- - sought '.'-... , . : - ' Whan alumbera e'er me roll, , Thine Image ever fills my thought And chsrms my ravlshd souL Tet though I have not eeen. snl still Must rest in faith alone. I love thee, dearest Lord, and will Unseen, but not unknown.. . . When death those mortal eyee shall seal. And still thla throbbing heart. The rending veil shall thee reveal. ' All-glorloua, aa tnou art - ' , ,j ;.. ' 1 Influence oi the Portage. From tht East Oregonlan. The atatement of the rate reductions by the O. R. N. which was published at length In the East Oregonlan a few daya ago, ahow the direct influence ef the portage road. "The reduotlona affect only river polnta and practically only thoae polnta at which the boats of the Open River Transportation company touch. , ' - ' , , '' Thla Is sufficient reason '. to believe that the portage and the Open River Transportation company are responsible for the reductions. The rallroada must adjuat their freight ratea te water trans portation along the Columbia river. It la the only logloat standard where navi gable rivere are found, And the history of commerce In '-the United Statea ahowa that railroad traf- no Is even heavier along the great wa ter course . than elsewhere, , Lower ratea and river transportation "Will not harm the rallroada. but lnataad wUl in crease traffic . . -. , The railroads running parallel' te the Mississippi, Ohio. Allegheny.- Mlaaouri and ether large streams do more. busi ness In proportion to mileage than roads not in competition with the river Jines. The same will be true of the Columbia river roads. Trafflo- will grew as the country settles up, and while rates will be reduced to a reasonable basis, and while rlvtf ' ' tiiwiiiwmiM.a4ii k Ae enormous Volume, yet the railroads jstrrj ba eengeated with freight movememL wnare freight ratea are towered te -reasonable basis, the production of crops will Increaae and make more busi ness. While boat ilnea arer stimulating the settlement of the country and Induc ing , homeeteadera to cultivate cheaper land the railroads will ahare this pros perity and ao In reducing rates the rail roads are building up their own busi ness as well as making prosperity for the producer. . . Sir WUliam Treloar Birthday. Blr William Put-die Treloar. ; lord mayor ef London, waa born January is. ins. Alter graduat ne? from Klnrs college, he Joined hla father In the linoleum, carpet and mat business. Sir William entered municipal life In 1881 aa a member ef the common council, be came alderman In 1888, and sheriff in 1800. He waa knighted In. the same year. He la noted for hla devotion m the Buffering children of London, and especially the little erlpplee ef the Ragged School union. Every yearti-e I organises a great distribution of Chr1sTS maa hampers for erlpplee. Why Bridegroom. n , The man Is called a "bridegroom" at hla wedding because In primitive daya , the . newly wedded, man had tn watt upon the bride and serve at her table upon his wedding day, and thus a 'groom" a thla ooeaaion. - 1 7