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Newspaper Page Texti THE JOURNAL AR : IlfDKPEKDKNT HKWSPAPK. J C 8. JACKSON PutoUaber futlltt avcry enln eicpt 8nndar and ; wry Bandar morning it Tbe Jonrnal BnlW i In, rtftb and tamMlf etraeta. Portland. Or. Entered at the poatofrce at Portland. J-- f' rraumla.lon tkroogb tba maUa aa snd-laas mutter. TELEPHONES-MAIN T17S. HOME. A-05l. AU depart menu reached bjr tbeaa Bombera. leu IB operator trie oeparimeai Et B1d atflc. B-I444: Kl 830- I'PRKION ADVEBTISIXO REPRESENTATIVE P-innawk-k BnlMtur. 225 Fifth arenua. New Ynrk: 10O7-O8 Eorea Balldtiif. Chicaco. Subacrfptlon Tirms by mall or to anr addreaa h In tha United Sutra. Canada or Mexico; 3v..v DAII.T. iV On rear JS.00 I One month -60 &J '. BUS DAT. K. On rear. $2.80 I One month -23 f DAILY AND 6CNDAT. Jt tin rear 17.60 I On month f .TO Circulation 8uarartttt''2 bit Certiiet that tbe circulation of tit f V OBSOOIT TCtnUTAX KM nee mmanea ana n gnaranuea oj uc Adttrtiter'a Certibed Circulation Blot Book Thit Paper hat proved by tnmtigation VimI tbe circulation record are kepi with r tan ana tar cimausa nmiea wiia sucn that admtiwtrt may rely on any of mow maaa By tne publisher ovrotrship ana management September 1908. . s All that nature has pre scribed for us must be good; and as death is natural for us, It is absurd to fear it. Steele. 4 THE LEPER BILL THEN AND . NOW- ? -IHE WEEK has brought from il 1 menracy l atatrmcatt 1 Jb mmler the fc?h. in control a3 1' Los Angeles an agonizing story of the death In that city of a l leper. Mrs. Isabella Wardwell ; was the victim and her death oc-i- curred In the county hospital. Six months ago she was discovered wan '', dering ina dazed condition in the shopping district and taken to the I: police station, where the character of Jier malady was discovered. She was placed In custody and detafned i until her aged husband, the famous -. .General Wardwell, In supreme devo tion, kidnaped and took tier with ' blm to a lonely hut in the mountains near Tombstone, Arizona. There the ld soldier died and bis leper v wife was returned to her living tomb f. In the county hospital at Los An ' geles.i. where a, welcome death this ! week brought relief. f i SimuJUnoous .with the incident is " an article In the Technical World magazine that carries to the race "i. cheerful tidings of cures effected in tbe Louisiana leper hospital. "Re cent reports from the institution," . says the writer, "have shown that i; the grim old theory that a leper is v incurable la untrue." One of these h reports, made In June of this year, j. was the official biennial announce rs ment to the legislative assembly. It j announced that six lepers out of a . total of 61 under treatment had been cured during the past two years, j: This portion of the report was con- fined to 10 words, as follows: "Dls- charged, cured, 1. Practically well ; and kept for observation, 5." No 1 explanation of the details of these cures, and no claims for special credit In making them we're put forth In S. the report. r The Louisiana Institution has been ' in existence 12 years. During this ' dozen years the biennial reports have three times used the words "discharged, cured." for as many patients, and not one of -those thus set free has had to return to the leper colony, and this despite a sharp watch kept on them by health of ficials. The discharged patients were a "boy of '13, a Woman of 50 and a woman of 30, discharged from the home, respectively, in 1904, 1905 and 1906. T'Vlti Ti ri vc Ir! q rta 4r r Yt n cr a r f iho institution make no claim of new methods in the treatment of the dis : ease. They are only applying rem edies recognized for many years past as beneficial to leprosy. The im ? portant new factor introduced' has been regularity and favorable con T ditions under which to apply the old remedies in the treatment of the I unfortunate inmates. If the reports ' from this home be true, leprosy is " stripped of much of its terrors. It :j- seems at least to be a home where the stricken are treated with the consideration that ia due a human being". ' f led in mankind's treatment of lep ers-as exemplified in ine Louisiana home and that of eailier times. In the beginning of the Christian era no country in Europe was rree iroui the plague of leproay. Between the sixth and fifteenth centuries the dis ease was by far the most dangerous infection of which any account has ' rome down to us. " All the larger towns in Europe had an isolated leper settlement "that was shunned aa If It were the mouth of a burn inr hell." savs one account. A boundary line was set, beyond which no leper could venture except at the r4sk of instant death..Vlf .healthy , stranger ventured too near the Jejjer camp he was remorselessjy thrust Into 4W there to spend the remainder -of hla life. Food for the inmates was left on some exposed hill dur ing the daytime, and removed at ul&ht by the inmates' of the. camp. O.'-trai ism f rom the rent of the world .;?-. the universal fate of' the suf- ferer. Each camp was a living tomb with each patient miserably. waiting for death. 1 In sparsely settled country dis tricts solitary lepers abounded. Each wandered alone in the unfrequented woods and uninhabited waste places, he was wrapped in a sheet so that only his eyes were exposed and car ried in his hand a bell which be rang to warn wayfarers of his approach. Whenever the dismal tinkling of the eper bell was heard all fled in ter ror of their lives. The unfortunate victim subsisted as best he might on roots and berries and occasional food left by charitable persons where he could find it. Leprosy then and leprosy now signalizes a world's broadened horizon. A GREAT AM) GROWING KVIL T HE ALMOST universal criticism of tbe growing divorce evil by the press is fully justified and should be heeded by legislators and courts. The secular press can- not agree at all with the position taken by a great church and by a large proportion of another church that a divorce should not be granted for any cause, or at most for but one cause, but the secular press is prac - tically agreed that divorces are en- tirely too frequent and too easily ob-jof talned. A typical case came up in a Portland court last week. A wife sued, for a divorce because her hus- band requested her not to stay down swallow a few million bad bacteria town late in the afternoon, and on than to be constantly afraid of every one occasion when she did so refused thing good to eat. Yet In regard to or neglected to take the baby car- riage into the house. As flimsy ex- cuses are made In numerous cases, and in many where assault and beat- ings are alleged, it is at least to be suspected that these stories are gross exaggerations or pure inventions. In trfe" case mentioned the couple had been married only a little over a year, and a former admirer of the plaintiff had recently come to Port-lis land. This may be only a coinci- dence, but in many cases a divorce is sought principally because of the I wayward wanton desire of the plain- tiff to get a new companion. This facility of securing a divorce tends I to lessen people's regard and respect for their marital obligations, and many a man and woman marry with out caring much about the vows they take, the obligations they assume, or the ties they form, having it in mind that if hot exactly suited, or if some one appears who might suit better. they can on almost any flimsy pre text secure a divorce. A recent Investigation shows that from 1887 to 1906 inclusive 94 4,- 625 divorces were granted in this Country, as against 326,718 for the 20 years preceding. There was a large increase of population, but the divorces Increased about three times as much. In 1870 the divorce rate was 29. per 100,000 of population, while in 1905 it was 82 per 100,000. In other words, in 1870 there was one divorce to every 3441 people, while in 1905 there was one divorce to every 1218 people. The average of divorces per 100,000 of married persons was in 1870 81, and in 1905 200. In the latter year divorce ended one out of every 1 2 marriages in the United States, and the rate of Y. W. C. A. are comparatively mod increase is constantly rising. Under ern institutions; when people now our lax laws and liberal construe- elderly were young there were no tion of them by the courts, an appli- such things; and that they now ex cation "for a divorce is rarely denied. At the present trend of adjudication, a merely petulant wora, or tne oi moral progress, or increasing na slightest manifestation of "incom- tional righteousness, of increasing patibility," or a little variation in taste or contrariety of disposition or desire, will be sufficient for a di- vorce. The Journal believes that divorces should be granted for va- rious reasons, when a sufficient case is made out, but realizes the fact that the divorce mill has become a great national shame and scandal, and both legislatures and courts courts ought to set thpmselves about checking and correcting it. Like other evils, this one grows by indulgence. The more divorce in creases the more it will increase. Every divorce obtained on trivial grounds encourages every wanton or loose principled married man and woman to follow the divorcee's ex ample. The frequency of divorces and the ease with which they are obtained are dangerously undermin ing the very cornerstone of the so cial structure, the home. Laying the religious aspect of the case aside all reasonable and moral people can agree that the integrity of the home ii absolutely essentia! to civilized na tional life. When legfslators and courts come to encourage or tolerate the disintegration of the home and to regard marital and "family obliga tions but lightly, the very life of the nation is endangered. And while most people not of that faith cannot agree with the Catholic church that there should be no divorce for any reason, the country is much indebted to that church for its vigorous and faithful warfare not only upon this evil, but upon that other twin evil of the time, "race suicide." THE MENACE OP IMPURE MILK s EVERAL PHYSICIANS and oth ers of Portland who have" In vestigated tha subject to some extent declare that much impure and inferior milk is sold in thisoity. If this be true, as. it probably .Ig, it is k very Important duty of 4ae; au thorities to put a stop to the sale of such milk. It needs no further ar gument to con Vlaee reasonable and intelligent people-that pure milk, up to the standard Jn .quality,' Is a mat ter of the first importance.' or ec bnd only, if to anything, to pure wa- ter. It is as food used To some ex- tent by almost everybody, and 1a the I principal food 'of very young chll- - dren, and it is a food that easily at tracts and absorbs. Impurities and furnishes a breeding place through them of disease-conveying bacilli, and these facts are sufficient to - 1 show any one the imperative need I of undoubtedly pure milk in the J homes of the people. The law requires that milk sold - 1 should contain a certain percentage of butter fats and solids, and no I preservatives or adulterants. But more important than the quality of milk In this respect is the require- ment that milk shall be free from the deadly menace of dirt, of filthy foreign substances that breed invisi ble bacilli and bacteria that produce disease and often death. It has been estimated that the 2,000,000 quarts i of milk daily distributed in New York city contain 600 pounds of manure and other foul stuff, and very likely the proportion is as great or greater here. Pasteurization is effective, but so far this is imprac- ticable as to most of the milk sold In cities The Journal Is not disposed to echo or indorse all the representa I tions of the bacteriologists as to the presence in all kinds of foodstuffs countless numbers of malevolent I bacilli. Some of these men are faddists, and many of them probably I exaggerate greatly. It is better , to milk it is certain enough that it ought to be clean and pure, that im- pure and adulterated milk is a eeri- ous menace to health and life, and that whatever can be done should be done in this city to Insure the former and prevent the sale of the latter sort of milk The Cottel ordinance may not be the best that can be devised, but it an effort in the right direction, and it should be improved if possl- ble and so passed, and not merely objected to and rejected -without passing something better. The coun cil owes it to over 200,000 people to protect them from the menace of im- pure milk. AN IMPORTANT EVENT r HE LAYING of the cornersfone of the Y. M. C. A. building, that took place Friday, is an event important in its significance. As a minor matter it recalls the fact that the good people of Port- land raised the money by popular subscription for this building and also that of the Y. V. C. A., now finished and occupied, and that they are literally the '"people's buildings, and must be, as they will be, devoted to the service, the uplifting, the moral, physical and spiritual better- ment of the people of this city now and henceforth. It is because they are bo, because such is their purpose, that people gave their money freely therefor, and the fact that there is no doubt that their destined object' will - be accomplished makes this cornerstone laying importantryignlflcant. These societies Y. M. C. A. and 1st in every considerable city in the land is at once proof and promise cleanliness and decency of life and of intelligence and ntorality. It is well to build churches though there are more varieties and stcts than are needed; it is well to build court houses and city halls and bridges; but perhaps more useful than any of these, if not so ap- parently necessary, are such build ings as these. They are designed to train up youth in the way it should go, to educate morally as well as in tellectually and physically, to make young men and women self-reliant, honorable and progressive citizens and surely no work or enterprise or endeavor is more important than this. So Portland takes a proper pride in these new fine buildings to which its citizens can literally point with pride for years to come. There will center constant and considerably suc cessful efforts for the betterment and uplifting, along rational, prac tical lines, of the people of this city and of visitors. All who helped in this good work and who will carry it on are to be commended, congrat ulated and encouraged. SENATOR FULTON'S IMPOSSIBLE PLANS T HE POINT has been reached where those who are the good frfendsof Senator Fulton should offer him advice. He is en gaged in an enterprise that is abso lutely without hope of fruition. Con templation of the senatorial situa tion in Oregon has destroyed his political Judgment and led him into a course of complete un'wisdom. To the colossal mistake of opposing the electorate's right of choice in the senatorial primaries, he is adding a far graver error and one involving far more disastrous consequences to himself. It is an error that his friends. In, calmer frame of mind, must recognize, and that for his own sakevthey should communicate to Senator Fnlton. Hjs service to them In times past merits as much. It was an unpardonable error for Senator Fulton ; to' ask the admin istration to interfere In 'his behalf la Oregon politics, yhat he asked them ! on Its very face out of the question. Because of its' character it was inevitably foredoomed to re- fusal. Thus Senator Fulton failed to secure from his own party a nom - ination for the senatorship,v ; He was defeated for the place by, a rlvaj Re- publican candidate. He was defeated after an extended canvass In an open and fair vote at the ballot box. Af- ter such a defeat at the hands of his own party it was an amazing pronosi- tlon for him to go to Washington and there ask the president-elect to advise the legislature to do that. which Mr. Fulton's party In Oregon had by ballot refused to do. The president-elect, in the nature of things, could not order the Oregon legislature to elect Mr. Fulton when Mr. Fulton's own party by popular ballot had instructed the legislature not to elect Mr. Fulton. It was ask- ing of Mr. Taft that which would have put the president-elect in a most unenviable lieht. a lieht that would have been seriously harmful to Mr. Taft had he acceded to Mr. Fulton's request. For the same rea- son Mr. Roosevelt refused Senator Fulton's request, and it is safe to assume that Chairman Hitchcock ine rauroaa company was not obit will similarly refuse. The fact of Rate to anything on its part and no having asked Impossible indorse- conditions as a consideration were ments and of having been denied, imposed. It is well understood that shows how grievous is the mistake Senator Fulton is makine. It Is an enterprise that brings him harmful consequences for the reasons men- tioned. The peculiar conditions surround- ing the Oregon situation make the error the more grave. The rejec- tlon of Senator Fnlton hv hla own party voters is not the greatest of the reasons why Washington au- thorities could not possibly aid Sen- ator Fulton here. The united voice of the eastern newspapers reflects J another powerful reason. Mr. Taft nw w u ui- could not, even though requested to timate ntentlom and that its prom do so by Senator Fulton, advise leg- w, bf, kePL fVAnd, e'ther , n telators in Oregon to perjure them- this connection or otherwise the city selves. Mr. Roosevelt cannot and will not give such advice. Chair man Hitchcock Is not at all likely to counsel such a course. Men of that stamp would regard such advice as political Insanity as- well as the cli max of civic immorality. They have a higher view of life than to profane citizenship with libel of the truth. When he asked them to do such a thing Senator Fulton misjudged. his men. He took too low a view of their moral standards. He asked them to do a thing against which their consciences rebelled, and they accordingly refused to do it. His act constitutes one of the greatest mis takes in Senator Fulton's political career, and his friends who must so recognlze it, should so Inform him. rney snouia, as ms rnenas, strive to save him from utterly destroying his future career ny attempting im- possible and absolutely discredited political enterprises. Though kind- ly, these are plain words, but they are words whose obvious truth justl- fies their utterance. DEATH DUTIES G REAT LMPETUS Is certain to be given the idea of an inherl- tance tax by Mr. Carnegie's new hook. The iron master. with great clearness maintains that swollen fortunes are in part the product of Increased population, and that when, on the death of the mil- lionaire. a Dart of his accumulations is taken by an inheritance-tax. the state only takes that which is in re- ality the people's. It Is av conclusion I . 1 AU TT uvu V V au "vm gs w I cause It Is deeoiv erounded In hu- man Justice. But there is another justification of the principle. Millionaires are a natural order. In their makeup there are forces that direct the employ ment or xneir energies, ine xorces in Sumner went to Statecraft. In Tennvson thev went to Doetry. In each there was a wealth of Product. The play of these forces in Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan and lesser lights ... otthe same tlfie Js directed at money getting. Their whole energy ls ex- pended in accumulation: " They had the genius for it, and employment of that genius is an Inherent and re- sistlesa imDulse. Possession of the I - i hi i Tt neaiLU us uuiuiug w mem. it la uo . ,. . , , process of getting it more than the possession of it that gives them pleasure. In order to accumulate th.v H ca. tQ,oa Tk wtr hnnrta It i . , , v up in their safes in order to cheat the state. They hide securities in order to avoid paying toa the state . , . ..... " . that which they ought to pay. By the process they withhold to them- aolmo that urhlnh It, tho alifo'a n i m m I i a v..D "". ii. la BLcaiiuR uvui tne state, ine result or the process is that when dpnth onjnaa a va at cumulated sum that has thus been withheld from it should be claimed uy tne state. That would be an in- heritance tax. If this tax claimed rn u -l ... - 50 per cent of the holdings of some of the millionaires it would get no more than" actually belones to it.' Far more to the state than to the puny and oftimes Impotent offspring of millionairedom belongs that which the parent withheld. Piled up mil lions in the hands, of his offspring Is an influence for the offspring's harm more than for his good.- Un deserved and -unearned money-ruins most of those who inherit it.- Its possession tempts them into all . the evils of 1 ff ei:, J is destrutt lyeto so ciety, because it demoralizes "those who could i otherwise, b wholesome and useful units In society. ,1t is Idle to hold that kinship is a reason for entailing swollen fortunes or a ) - - " 1 - '--. Is I reason why the' state - should be cheated out of that which has been withheld. One drop of blood Is as good as another. One old human bone is as good as another.:; Neither should etand In the way of human progress. Neither should stand , In tne way or universal equity. JBoth from ' the standpoint of equity and expedience, Justice and, human exist- pence would be nobly served by an effective death- duty. It Is one of tbe largest sources of public revenue ,n Great Britain and it ought to be n united states, THE CIT, THE 8. P. AND FOURTH STREET T HE CITY of Portland has been not only very reasonable but very lenient and liberal with the Southern Pacific company m me-matter oi us use or Fourth street these many years. Now that corporation desires 18 months more tlme ,n WDlch to make the transfer 01 fame or a portion thereof Jto tne east Blde- The council granted 11 year but the mayor has vetoed the ordinance on the ground that ine company still insists and will in 8lst that the old permit to the orlg ,na! company is binding on the city and Is' valid and vital bb a vested ngnt or the Southern Pacific, and ihaby transferrine a Port,n "s t'a"i: " does not relinquish its rlght to the use of the street This ls a matter that must be fought Out, It A 1 . A Tl a 1 i a i m lu , c,ou518' " WOHm PDaoiy e polit,c- ndeed 11 eeems necessary, to graut the company additional time , r1emve'f rom 5he Btre,et' but cer" ta,nly " should be required to give uc"' a"u " the use of the street. This is a matter to be settled by the courts, and it is important that In the pres ent or any subsequent transaction or negotiation the city should not re linquish or prejudice any of Its legal rights. We often hear of the vested rights of corporations, but It is time to discover whether In such a case ha ROoSEVELT AND THE SENATOR SHIP i AM FOR the people ruling and I want you to be senator." When President Roosevelt in these words greeted Gov- ernor Chamberlain yesterday at the white House he voiced the sent! ment of honest, patriotic citizens all 0ver this nation. The president frankly declared in the same breath that he would have preferred to Bee Oregon elect a Republican sena tor, but the people of the state had BDOken and he bowed to their decls ion as final and indisputable. With his customary outspoken directness he made it unmistakably clear that he lends no countenance to the ef ions to aeoaucn ine uregon legis lature and to Induce Statement No .1 legislators to repudiate their pledges to the people. And the at titude of the president is the at- titude of honest men and honest newspapers an over tnese unitea States. Apparently the president did not pause to consider the "constitution allty" of the manner in which the neoDle of Oregon had expressed their choice ror senator; ne aoes noi FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE A Monument to Snakespeare---By Victor Hugo chapter V of Part III Hugo's "William Shakespeare," translated by A. Balliot, 1864.) "What do you suppose marble could do for him? What can rone Jo "here there is glory? Malachite and ainhAfltpr are of no avail; genius is i" without them. Even if all the Btones had a part in it, would ihey make that man an inch arreater? What - uU lo -re indestr .' "The Merry Wives of Windsor," The Two Gentlemen of Verona," "Tuiiii Pasar." "Corlolanus"? What ,u- ,i ..v monument more grandiose than iean, mo" tn" .5rhe Merchant of Ven- jeet more - dazxling than "Romeo and Juliet," more amaxing than "Richard III"? What moon could throw on that building a light more mysterious tnan A Midsummer Night's Dream"? What capital, were it even London, could produce around it a rumor so Kjsantjc ah he tumultuous soul of Macbeth .7 hat framework of cedar or of oak wm last as long-as ""Othello" f- What o will hA hrnnze SB mUCh aS "Ham- lot"? Ko construction or lime, of rock, of Iron and of cement. Is worth thel breath - - the deep breath or genius. which ls the breathing or uoatnrougn man. A head in which ls an idea fsuch J- ! "" SS effortVh.l (edifice equals a thought? Babel is below Isaiah: Cheops is less win ho mw:: tne c,.llsf?m ' iVHf?,'10. !. 3u venal, tne itichiuk vi o uwa,- 'y tna of Cervantes; St Pe- ter's at Rome does not reach the 'an- kle of Dante. How could you. manage to build a tower as high as that name. Shakespeare?, . , Suppose a monument.- suppose it nnlnndld: suppose It sublime a tri umphal arch, an obelisk, a circus with a . pedestal in the center, a cathedral. No people im more illustrious, more no ble, more magnificent, and more mag nanimous than the , English people. Couple these, two ideas, England and Shakespeare, and- make, an edifice arise therefrom.- -Such a iiatlem celebrating such a man, it will be superb. Imagine the. monument. Imagine ' the Inaugura- tion The peers are there, 'the com-1 mona give their adherence, the bish ops officiate, the princes Join the pro cession, the, queen : ls -present. - The homage erf -Victoria repair 'the disdain of Elijnbeth. As -for Elixalvth, ahe probably thare also " sculptured seem to have given a thdught to the excuses by which Statement No. legislators might wriggle out of per formance of their pledge; he was quite unterrified , by the . dangers which might threaten - the - Repub lican party in. consequence of obey Ing the people's will. ' It is enough for Roosevelt that the yoterB of Oregon have named Cham berlain as their, choice for Benator. He accepts the people's decision as that of the court of last appeal. ' He "wants Chamberlain to be senator" because the people of Oregon want him. and that is all that the preal dent cares to know. We commend President Roose velt's attitude to the consideration of those men and those newspapers In Oregon that are leagued in the effort to prevent Chamberlain eiee tion and to plunge the state once more into the mire of debauchery and corruption which marked sena torial elections in tbe past. T There was nothing for Chamber lain to reform, when he became gov ernor, savs the Oregonlan. But those who were at all familiar with the management of the public land business of the state for many years prior to his election know better. There was a very bad mess to re form, and Chamberlain did it. An exchange has an article en titled, "How to act when held up." We can better that instruction by advising people how to act before being held up: First, leave all your money and your watch at home, carefully hld;t second, stay at home yourself. A Poem for Today Love and Duty. morale Maitaev never will be known as a great poet," but he was a sweet ginger of many charming simple wings. He wan born of poor parents. n-ar Lon don, Eng., In 1828. His education wan deficient so far as the schools were concerned, and he fcpent much of his lire working In factories.. He was pensioned by the British government In 1S6S. There lives a voice within me. the guest angel of my heart, And Its secret Usplngs win me till the tears atrickltng start: Up evermore it sprlngetn, HKe some magic melody. And evermore It slngeth this sweet song of songs to me: This world ls full of beauty as other worlds above. .... And If we did our duty it might do full of love. Night's starry tendernesses dower in beauty evermore, Morn's bright melodious hour bursts But there are thousand hearts accursed where no bright sunbeams shine. And there are million hearts athlrst for ' love's Immortal wine. This world is full of beauty as other worlds above. And If we did our duty it might be full of love. Dear Ood. what hosts r trampled 'mlil this killing crush for gold! What noble hearts are sapped of love; what anirlts lose life's hold! Tet a merry world it would be, opulent - rnr nil nml Ave. With its lands that ask for labor and its wealth that wastes away. This world Is full of beauty as other worlds aoove. And if we did our duty It might be run or love. By Gerald Massey. This Date in History. 1608 General Ocorge Monk, who re stored the Stuart dynasty In England, born. Died January 3. 16 10. 1637 Sir Edmund Andros. colonial governor of New England, born In Lon don. Died there February 24. 1714. 1791 George Holland, famous come dian, born in Iambeth. England. Died in New York. December 20, 1870. 1862 General Banks' expedition Balled for New Orleans. 1877 Theodore Roosevelt appointed collector of the port of New York. 1889 Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the Confederate states or America, aiea at New Orleans. Born June J. 1808. 1897 Attempted assassination of the Sultan of Turkey. 1905 French Senate voted In favor of the separation of church and state. somewhere on the surbase, with Henry VIII. her father, and James I, her successor pygmies beneath the poet. The cannon booms, the curtain falls, they uncover the statue, which seems to say, "At length!" and which has grown in the shade during 300 years three centuries; the growth of a co lossus; an immensity. All the York, Cumberland, Pitt and Peel bronzes have been made use of, in order to pro duce this statue; the public places have been disencumbered of a heap of uncalled-for metal castings; in this lofty figure have been amalgamated all kinds of Henrys and Edwards,' the various Williams and the numerous Georges have been melted, the Achilles in Hyde Park has made the great toe. This ls fine; behold Shakespeare al most as great as a Pharoah or a Se sostrls. Bells, drums, trumpets, ap plause, hurrahs! What then? a What ls the salutation of royalty, of aristocracy, of the army and even of the English populace; what ls the ' sal utation of all these groups to him who has the eternal acclamation, with Its reverberation, of all ages and all men? What orison of the bishop of Ixmdon or of the archbishop of Canterbury ls worth the cry of a woman before Des demana, of a mother""before Arthur, of a soul before Hamlet? Therefore, ' when universal outcry de mands from England a monument to Shakespeare, It ls not for the sake of Shakespeare, It Is for the SAke of Eng land. A monument is an example. The lofty head of a great man Is a light Crowds, like the waves, require bea cons above them. People may not' have time to read; they are forced to see. . People pass ' by and stumble against the pedestal; they arc almost obliged to ralsel the head and to glance a little at the inscription. Men escape a book; they' cannot escape a statue. One day, oa the bridge of Rouen, be fore the beautiful statue due to David (TAngers, a peasant mounted on an ass said to me. "Do you know Pierre Cor neiller - Yea,". I -replied. "So do I," he rejoined. "And do you know The- Cid'f I resumed. "No," said he. , To him. Co'rneailewaa, This bea-inninsr in the knowledge of great men Is necessary to the people. The -monument incites -them to know more of the man. There is. 'then. In the. execution of such monuments, pop ular utilitr as well as national justice- A Sermon for Today . , In Quiet Paths. ' w. iJBJrv.Henry F-'Cope. - ' . teri" o;dfth me beside. the still wa fers. Psalms xxiii;3. ... . B Y i ar the jrreatof number of us must Hva quiet, simple Uvea. To the few who live In the limelight the existence tsf thft . vnifenv v mat seem to be , humdrum, flat, and uninteresting. But we are all too ready to aeasurft livingby Its externals and to decide that the life that never leaps into the public glare must be lived in pitiable (loom. ' .- , . U . Are thera not for all our lives, for these ordinary im.i. ,i hVf2e,.rdina.ry.: lmp)e lives of -ours. f 'rom .Srifi V.rlne" .thBt redeem the sou we mfv r Vlng: hh .levels to which VZrtonT w'l!d nd know such import! ,SS'.Ai itf' alms and Inspiring; Ideals that mav en- the inwiiJit V.V ?U ,th8 duI1 valleys of moat IJjifJl! llt,er wy not ven the most rommnnn ara w v. with the glory of jl great sacrifice or a splendid aim? ssai sacrmce or Life is what i - sv i , .-- , ii. ureamess but f 2h2l-cHtnstnce nop of condition, WtLt h2?JX$Z Wi. h" no known th.t kU' hlh minds, and noble vond theiVhmH neTer, become known be nnt ,,nwi1Utl8 clrcle who have died, not unwept or unhonored, but unsung because the sounds of thefr living havS t.ie great noisy world? najiL a& P.0"18, ?ay oftn be the best PP i ,We, tend to measure lives bv their vicissitude ih, h. X... u..-I utfLZ??ue"-, Those who make start I.iLh Knt".'id dt.80"'" et themselves talked about, but for the plain busines SrKreal work. ,of the world the folks who slay on the ground are the ones we can count on. thi'Jwf: Pd thtpg to be able to see the glory In the commonplace. We are bo easily carried away at the sight of tbe ancient, tawdrv innnin.. crity that when true worth appears in homespun we reject it; It lacks epaulets and feathers We complain of fortune because it refuses to (irem In ti..i array. Modern heroes are more likely to be In jeans or in khaki than in crimson, ami great Uvea ir. mn ifint. . , found in kitchens and workshops than in the council chambers nf Wino it- a cheap and futile way to greatness, this plan of buying Its uniform when iu wen us neart. The slse and worth of your life de pends on its aims and motives and not on the measure of its popular recogni tion The world needs today not so much men and women of startling powers, as those of sterling qualities, nOt SO niUCh a few SrllinlB S ,non, nf plain goodness. The worth of our day depends more on what we arc building into the everyday things than on what some man may be saying or doing in the glare of publicity. Often it seems a weary business to take up the dally task, the name old grind day aft.r day. Many affect lo iospite those who do It, but the spirits of eternity look- down and award the i-rowns to i nose whose toll costs most, to those who steadilr face rni.l fear not the awful foes of monotony and dull plodding. Even genius ls a matter of that steady grinding at one thing. We ought hot to desnlsn mr com monplace lots or the apparently dull level of other lives. We need vision to see how great Is any life, how much of the real riches of life there may on n any 101. now gloriously grand are he meanest tanks tli linrll..) i.hnn when love Is their motive; how the stairs or ton Become a garment of praise when UltJCtl 1H HIIOWT1. When we see thiat davs am thev prtmn alone, not as so manv hours of dull task but as. having so many oppor tunities for self dlscoverv and develop ment, so many chances for the graces and virtues, and ao many Invitations to learn the real worth of things, then the days are transformed from gloom to glory. ' We need new eyes and new hearts rather than new circumstances. Wheth er we live in a prison of a palace de pends not on the walls about us but on the will "within to be either slave or king, bound by our lot or free in heart, whether we regard life as an Imposition or as opportunity. The quiet part re rich to the open heart, and no way Is so quiet that heaven may not be there. Sentence Sermons By Henrv F. Cope. The limelight does not make the hero. Wheat weeds. often the best cure for No man receives more than he be lieves. a No man can preach far beyond Ills real self. It's never wise to trust the man who trusts no one. a You cannot help the fallen by pulling down your face. a It does not "mak von a saint to be able to sigh at the slums, The ills that follow our lusts we usually charge up to our luck. a The most ridiculous coward in tha world is tha man who fears ridicule. a Life always disagrees with the man who tries to take Its cake all at once. a Some people do not know the differ ence between fear God and -being afraid in ine aura. a When a man's rellelon rets In nn farther than his head it all runs out readily at his lips. ' When we sav we hate flatterv wa usually mean we dislike to hear it in ine intra person. r The trouble often is that n lltn to the voice of conscience while yield ing to the push of desire. It Is a good ftlen nf uni. nn aa of secrecy to keep to yourself the things you do not know. a The saddest thine- hnni it. ,. ministers to no nn i' that i knows what it has missed. (The man who ha a the universe alway finds all tbe cactus bunches there are In It a Imagmarv Ills nuiobi.. stltute something more substantial than an Imaginary hindrance. Charles P. Chandler's Birthday. Charles Frederick Ch.nu. than 40 years nrnfei In Columbia university, was born De cember , 1836, at Lancaster. Mass. After studying at the Lawrence Scien tific school and Harvard University, he went abroad and spent several years at Oerman universities. In 1864 he Joined the faculty of Columbia university. He was one- of the three founders of the university's famous school of mines and at his suggestion the Havemeyers gave the school the magnificent build ing it now occupies.. Many times Dr Chandler has been called upon by hla city, state and nation for the sort of assistance which only an expert chemist ' can give, and several years ago his services' to chemical science were gen erously recognised across the water when he was made president of the -British Society of Chemical Industry. For - number of -years- Dr,' Chandler -was chief chemist and president of the Health Department of Ts'ew York City. Jj. 3. Simpson wno . receTveJTHi unanimous support oil all factions si the North Bend cueA for mayor has been elected to thatl Wmmltirtn A thr. times, having heen the first mayor ot J the city and having been reelected tbra'?15? terms In succession.