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r0 THE JOURNAL AW INDEPENDENT NEW8PAFBB. S. JACKSON ...Pnbliahet ln, Flit and ja.ilu atretta. Portlaml. Or. Kotcrad at Hia poatofflca Portland. Of. W BMttMV. TEf. E PHONES MAIN T1T3. hi)ME. A -6051. All aV-oarfMenis reached br nnmbera. Teit the operator tba department foa want. Eaat 81d office. B-2444; Eaat 839. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE. Vrlod-Ileojiun1n Special Adver-tlalng Agency. Brnoawlrk BnlMiug. iOff Klftb u vestas, w York; JOJT-08 Royc MulWiBf. Chicago. ia presented should be passed. The state ought to adopt and pursue some definite, well-considered plan of aid to good roads. A I SE FO WARSHIPS T Sotw-rtptlon Terraa bt mitt or to aiiy addrasa 1b tha United SUtea. Canada or Mexico: ,-"." DAILY. ..93.00 I On month I -80 SUKPAT. f Ojie rear.... $250 I One month.......! .23 DAILY AND SUN DAT. Ont year 7.50 0n month . ..$ .65 One year. a 9 O, sir! I must not tell my " age. . They, "say women aad music - should never be dated. Goldsmith. X.--.. 55 HITCHCOCK AXD THE SENATOR SHIP 'pO FAR as final results are con- cerned, it is not of the slightest aJ consequence whether Chairman Hitchcock has or has not under taken to meddle in the Oregon sena- J torial situation.- It may be set ddwn as certain that he has not advised and will not advise any pledged legislator i to perjure himself. If he has done I that, ; jhis advice, by its monstrous character, condemns itself as impos sible 'to follow. If he has done less than that, his advice is worthless, be- ' cause the defeat of the people's choic; is only possible through perjury, pub- liclv and perfidiously committed. This is the Jong and short of the. situation and any connection Mr. Hitchcock may have with it. For Mr. Hitchcock to ask a pledged " legislator to enter upon a-course of known and confessed perjury is a proposition too shocking to the moral ? sense of decent men to be for one moment worthy of consideration. "The public sentiment of Oregon has al-l ready condemned it as an infamous : proposition. The' whole country has a i TH.. : UUUC UII5 BdlMC. -AIIC' VUllSUlCUC'w Ul every man rebels against it. -The business hopes and social repute of every pledged legislator scorn it. What would the word of any pledged ' man who violated his promise be worth? "Who would trust him in a financial transaction? Who would accept his word ' as trustworthy in any transaction? If he made oath in court and gave testimony at a trial what jury could believe him? If he - stood up in church and protested his loyauy : 10 me cnurcn relation ana God. almighty, who would for one " minute trust his statement? In what relation in life could he appear in which so far as his veracity is con cerned, he would not be a marked man marked and scarred with a let ter as livid and scarlet as that on the .'. TT . 1 - - 1 . urow 01 nawtnornes scanet woman r ' All this is understood, confessed and , accepted as true by legislators pledged and unpledged, and by all the people of Oregon. It is a matter about which there is no question or possibility of a question. It has been tried out and settled, and will remain settled, for which reason any expres sion of any character by Mr. Hitch cock, whether for or against the in : surrectos, will be without bearing and wnnnni rnnsermenre HE WARSHIPS of the world are doing some good now, Several vessels built for pur poses of war have arrived at ports o,' southern Italy and Sicily, or are steaming thither with speed, to do whatever may be done to aid the distressed, to relieve suffering, to dis tribute supplies, to engage in a peace ful work of charity. Every ruler of a nation with a navy has ordered whatever war vessels are able, to help to do so czar, emperor,, king and president. Our president issued orders beyond his strict constitutional power, relying on congress, very soon to reconvene, to ratify his action, as was promptly done, and every good American citizen ratified it as soon as the wfres reported it. Here we behold an alliance of the fighting forces of the world to mini mize disaster and mitigate . suffering, to save instead of to kill, to succor instead of to maim and impoverish humanity. As one writer has said, "It is a holy alliance of humanity in wrestle with the harsh and inscruta ble powers of .the earth.'" Yet when we come to think of it, our battle ships are built to do just what .the earthquake did. What an inconsist ency is here presented. Civilized hu manity spend? hundreds of millions of money to do an earthquake's work among mankind, and yet when an earthquake comes it sends these same great engines of destruction to help, to relieve, to save! Should not this incident teach a great lesson to the- rlcrs of the world to construct vessels of peace rather than of war, of aid instead of injury, of salvation and not of de struction? May not this race of bat tleships 6rF an errand of mercy fore shadow the time when destructive, cruel and barbarous war among civ ilized peoples shall cease and when all shall vie with one another to do good and not evil to their fellowmen? Prophets have foretold, poets have sung, of such a time, and it will sure ly come. This occurence will hasten its coming. LOST SUPREMACY AXD WHY? or negroes to hope for in a Re- winter,, as our four men now , there publican tlfan in a Democratic ad- are likely to do.'' They will do their ministration. . .., best, of course, but they haven't the It might" be a good thing for the Chamberlain way. country inne south would cease to be surely solid In-presidential and One trouble is there are too many con gressionalf elections, and then j appeals. If a thing is true and cer again It might also be well if the! tain, why not wind it up and be done northeastern states, from Maine to II- with it? The courts all along the linoi8, were ' sometimes to goantt- Mine are overloaded with needless ap- Kepublican, at least to the extent of I peals , Letters From tbe People t-ttni to The Journal should be written on one aide at "the paper only, and ahonld be ac- compamaa tt tne name ana naureaa or. ma win noi -00 uffvu 11 me breaking up eome of the party ma chines and securing better represen tation of the I people In congress. For It is true that while in the south Democratic nominees hare practical ly- no ' onnoRltion. tha man rfiosen I writer- Th nun frnm thoe i it. writer aaka that it be withheld. The Journal from that section are almost invar!- h, to b. nnd.r.tood aa ludontnt the new ably free from adherence Or servitude I ?r atatanieiita of correapondeata. lattera ahonld . . . . , ... be made aa brier aa possible. Tboae who wlen to any grasping or corrupting in- their letter returned when not need ahouii in terests," while it is well, known that CTM!,. . ... letter, . many northern congressmen have al-jeedin aoo words in length may. at the aia- most solely served such interests. ANDREW JOHNSON N' EXT MONTH the country will celebrate the centennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the American who above all others is held in most cherished memory, but a few days ago the centennial of the birth of the man who became president on Lincoln's death passed almost without mention or notice. Andrew Johnson was born December 29, 1808, belife a month and a half older than Lincoln. He was a noted man in his time, filled many high positions, succeeded Lincoln to the presidency and was afterward a sen ator, yet his hundredth birthday was unhonored and unsung." He was man of lowly birth, his childhood was passed In extreme poverty, he could not read and write till he was grown and married, and that under such circumstances he rose to high distinction shows that he had some admirable qualities and possessed elementa of greatness. He hei governor-representative in congress, and 'military governor of Tennessee during the war, espousing the union cause, and in 1864 was put. on the ticket with Lincoln to strengthen it in the border states. Johnson was honest, and within certain limits able, but he was hot suited to the great task devolving on him as pres ident. He was irascible, stubborn LEGISLATURE AND LOCKS T THERE is no probability that the legislature will refuse to extend the time for the open Willam ette appropriation. Signs mul ' tiply that the state must help herself, at least to the extent of bearing half the cost, or go uphelped. The wait for the ) government to do something is now in its thirtieth or fortieth yeai. It is a generation old. Men , have matured and died and children passed to manhood and old age with out even evidence that there is to be federal aid. The petitions tor it and prayers for it blew into the open tflfwirc rf . . .-. . . i . . -"i:n, cyi inrougn tn e chambers and out the back way with out a qualm or quiver in that body. Standing in the aisles of those cham bers we of Oregon have for two years held aloft an offer to bear half the cost of the project, and not one breath has stirred in acetptance. Our help evidently must be sVlf help or no help at all. If WC Wa.it fnr rrin gress to bear all the cost, apparently the rivers will ran dry and the moun tains fall before we are done with waiting. The one hope is that a con tinuation of the offer to bear half the cost-may yet induce federal ac tion. This it the view the legisla ture is iikely to take, in which event an extension of the j appropriation will be made. With freight rates in and out of the Willamette region as htgh as they were 30 years ago, what other course an the legislature take? With the railroads of the country ad vancing rates to that ; an added $JOO,0fjfJ.0QO i. to be sneezed out of the country's business every year what else can the legislature do tut inaugurate every possible measure of defense?'.' v ' . .. '' , i ..-..-..v.-. , Few matters that trill coma kt.. the legislature this winter are of more importance than the question of rood roads,,and the sute'a policy on. tils subject The Johnson bill, is emended for introduction should l i-'u -1 f. advance, and If it can- : ' ' ' 'v- 1 r- 1 no bttter bill HE DECLINE of New York city as a grain center is threatened. The receipts of grain in that port for 1880 were 140,542,291 bushels. For 1907, the receipts were 112,897.811. The exports for 1880, not including flour, were 114,647, 425 For 1907. they wertf 51,928,- 887. The business went to Montreal, which in 1907 led vall Atlantic ports combined in grain shipments. The New York World says the resuJt was caused partly by lower freight rates on Canadian railroads, and partly ""By government enterprise in deveKl oping Canadian canals." American railroads meantime were planning to raise rates and to squeeze more money out of an already declining business. The folly of New York state in permitting the Erie canal to fall into ruin and disuse aided In New York's loss of supremacy. The grain ship ments through the canal in 1880 were 67,191,740 bushels. In 1907 it was but one ninth of that amount. being only 9,585,000 bushels. The development of canals in Canada and the decay of canals in New York state caused a direct loss of nearly 90 per cent of New York's grain business. "The Erie canal," says the World, "made New York the em pire state, and made its chief city the metropolis. Rough commerce on the docks, not the great White Way, the theatres and the whizzing auto mobiles, will keep New York great. It must look to its docks that should feed Europe. It must reduce port charges. It must check' monopolies. It must maintain and develop Its water route from the great lakes and the west." As in New York, so in Portland. The figures of New York's loss of business are as burning pillars of fire The causes that made them are effective under every sky, as certain and swift In Portland as in New York. Our docks, our waterways leading into Portland and oar chan nel to the sea are agencies--to. make Portland great. Such is the logic of New York's costly experience. TAFT AND THE SOUTH I T 18 not altogether unlikely .that if Mr. Taft fulfills expectations of him as president, and the south should be prosperous dur ing the next four years, some of the states of that section of the country would be "doubtful" in the next campaign, especially if, as in all probability will be the case,- he shall- be - a candidate for reelection. He received a good many votes, comparatively, in the south last November, indicating a possible breakup of the Democratic solidity of that region, and if will not be very strange If In four years not only Kentucky and Tennessee but Georgia and- North . Carolina should follow Missouri into the Re publican column, and the same forces or reasons that will bring about this result, if it should occur, will operate also tn Virginia, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma, and la a less degree in the blacker belt of Alabama and Mis sissippi, it is chiefly the "negro question" that keeps the south solid ly Democratic; and there is really c6 more for southern whites to fear and revengeful, and overindulgence in strong drink accentuated his nat- ral faults of temperament. He was the only president ever impeached, of sage ana alkali, towering buttes and and he escaped conviction and loss Pleasant valleys, weird crepuscular ef- of Che office bjr a very narrow mar- cretlon the editor, be cut down to that limit. Says Game Laws Are Ignored". Portland. Dec. 23. To the Editor of The 'Journal Having- been out visiting in Columbia county and as I am inter ested in hunting as well as anybody, I think that, there should be some .step taken to protect the deer. These ani mals Are being slaughtered in great numbers and 'are being hunted by dogs In both Columbia and Clatsop counties. I could mention names of people who make It a practice-to hunt with hounds. I like my huntlne as well as anybody. I but when the season Is closed I believe In enforcing the law, or there will soon be very few deer left. I hope this will call somebody's attention and something will be done.. - E. A. H. "Mr. C. 8. Wood of San Francisco.-" From the Spectator. In the name of Portland, In the name of Oregon, and In the name of this great and growing northwest, the Spec tator protests against the almost irre mediable wrong my brilliant contem porary, the New York Herald, has done city, state and territory. My brilliant but misguided friend credits Colonel C. E. S. Wood to San Francisco! Could the dark depravity of a vicious and be sotted ignorance go further? No. But not only has the New York Herald at- trlhutedCfilflnfiliWood totheex-metrop-olls of the Pacific coast but it speaks of him as "Mr. C. S. Wood." The lights go out, and Mount Hood hides his di minished head.- , . ,f The hand that dragged Colonel C E. S. .Wood from his blgh throne amid the savants, artists, and llterarl of Port land and translated him, shorn of fame and initial, to San Francisco, was the fist of a supposed friend Childe Has- sam. This gentleman was presented byj V.HI'ljmi iJ. S3. ,v UUU, BUU TtflO II It? T talned here wined, dined, tead, break fasted, coffeed and luncheoned and wa bought his pictures. And then he went back to New York, and in speaking of the Harney desert whose long. stretches COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL, CHANGE Knock the knooker. gin. Johnson has been censured more than he deserved. He had in firmities of temper, he lived and acted in a time of violent passions, be made serious mistakes; but he was no doubt an intense patriot, ac cording to his lights, and meant to and in many respects did serre his country Well. BLESSED JOAN OF FRANCE fects and glorious sun rises his master brush put on immortal canvas he 'said he had been Introduced to It by "Mr. C. S. Wood of Ban Francisco." Can base ingratitude bit deeper? Impossible. Col onel C. E. S. Wood Is not of San Fran cisco: he Is a poet and an artist and a lawyer; and the best after-dinner speak er in the country; and something of a dreamer In the day time; and a gentle anarchist, wno loves his fellowmen, and carefully avoids a lot of them; he Is Colonel C. E. S. Wood of Portland ana Portland should be proud of It and of the world, which has cause to be proud, lOO. r HE CONGREGATION of Rites of the Catholic church, at a re cent sitting presided over by the pope, decided to proclaim the beatification of Joan of Arc, anc Freight Rate Increase. From the Chicago Record-Herald. The new rate act conferred on the commission the power to prescribe and fix charges, but only after a hearing ana upon complaint that rates actually the ceremony has been fixed for the charged are excessive and unreason coming Easter. She will then be able. The right to Initiate charges Is given the title of the Blessed Joan, fl'ii.j tne , crrJer. they can , . , . , . . I aw mj -3 a con aiwcu Ji (Jill eAOrcjoinr mn ana win De proclaimed tne patron unquestioned nht. Of cmir fhA nrn. I a. - M rm a s n -m I - - . . saini or r ranee. Ana inougn v ranee posea aavances, ranging, it Is reported, has unyoked itself, in the matter of frora 6 to 14 P' ent. are all subject civil government, from the church, iLCrommf!nnd '.J.' ,1 . , ... , it. t&9 commission, or the courts In the her people will surely sympathize event of any appeal, will apply to any witn ana appreciate tnis ceremony na aii or tnem is "reasonableness." nnil what it lo-nlflpa fn nt whoUror The carriers are fully aware of this. religious faith they still hold the B.JL,K2 T , I M Tv 1 -MM II I ' J iuam ui xjvmrcuij iu anctuuuiittj convincing rigures. The proposed ac- and reverent memory, for her aDDar-lt10" iB too serious and has been under ently miraculous work in delivering "f!1 JfH,de.rf H lo to,ln.It pvc'o ,. i,. , n-m.,. of -tne .not,on that " his een lightly a Mu& s. v a-u u mhuu wa, iug 4s tviou i UnuOrtftKCll. . Invader. But there Is a distinction to be drawn No historically substantiated and between legal rlht and general policy. credited event ever so nearly ap- J:," ... -?1 ZV xln proached a miracle as the conquer-1 uphold them, owing to the advance of Ing career of this uneducated, vision- prices and of wages that has mads seeing girl. History furnishes no P1re1ent freight rates inadequate; as they ,? , , , .. , . claim, are they equally confident that parallel to her; after the lapse of the business eommunitwS nearly five centuries she stands con- ly approve of their action? So far the spicuous, apart, singular, marvelous, Ppoea increases have brought the inexplicable. In the year 1431, after St,.B"T,toh'n,r "?,V ?I?cl- "d her brief but wonderful triumphs vited from a new, a powerful quarter- were over, alter suirering aeieat, lone mat am not sympathize with raoi- humiliatlon, suffering, starvation. contumely and various tortures until flesh and 6plrit were weakened, when only 19 years old, she was burned at the stake In the name of the religion of Christ. But In the greater light and under the more humane methods of the3e times she is held and will be declared to be a saint, and as such is and will be revered by Catholics the world around, not only of this bat Qf all future generations. Does she live in some state con scious of what she was and did on earth, and of what people think of her now? ,If bo, we may assume that she Js pleased at this ceremony. It is suggested that ex-President Eliot, of Harvard university bt sent to Erfgland as ambassador. There surely could be no better choice, or one more acceptable to both coun tries, if Dr. Eliot can stand the ex pense. But he 'u rather old, and may prefer to take a semi-rest. He is a man who never can entirely rest, and who never acts but to serve and bene fit the race. . ' :There can be no great improve ment without the investment of a good deal of money, ine main ques tion is not, How much. money? but, Will it pay? V ; . ... . V. '' The legislature : cannot . go far wrong in following the suggestions of the granges in various matters. , 'Chamberlain in congress could not do wprse than to fail in getting a river "and" harbor aciroorlation thjs cal and hasty legislation reducinar ra.taa ana imposing burdens "on general prin-1 cipiea. uniy imperative and unmistak able necessity can justify the rate In creases In the forum of public reason and public pollcjr. If such necessity exists the carriers are entitled to say that the event will vindicate them in the eyea of all fair minded man of af fairs. If the necessity is not impera tive a course which Is possibly defensi ble may prove wholly Inexpedient. There should be an entente cprdiale be tween shippers and carriers' and such an understanding- presupposed not only Justice but mutual forbearance and generosity. Alcohol as a Chief Cause of Crime. 6y Dr. Henry Smith Williams In Me Clure' Magaslns. -The famous Investigation of the Mas sachusetts bureau of labor statistics revealed the fact that 84 per cent of all criminals under conviction la the correctional Institutions of that stats owed "the condition which !ndced the crime" to Intemperata habits. The In vestigation included ths inmates of such minor correctional Institutions as Jails and workhouses, a, very large propor tion of whom were arrested for being "drunk and disorderly"; but if these were excluded and attention confined to charges other than drunkenness. aJ oohol could sUll be made responsible for 60.88 per cent, or mors than halt of all crimes. An almost Identical r suit waa reached quits Independently by the investigatora f ths committee of fifty whs very carefully scrutinised the records or 18,40 convicts In IT prisons and reformatories - scattered through 12 states. The investigation did not Include ordinary jails, and therefor took no account of "persons convicted., for" mere misdemeanors drunkenness or violation ef the liquor laws." The average, however, was 49 95 per cent, a percentage which the com mittee puts forward with much confi dence as representing ?an approximate expression of the truth." , - f-tae-d trs vellni? ffayslhtdT Klamath EaJs from the south are over.- wVeneuela should have had a happy New Year. A,rre.1,3r bKln the strain on those " . is- " course America will lead in relief t,.Ar you BtIckln" to fhat resolution to , Aiosi legislatures met yesterday. ThB kill Btltl nilMn n Tt.I- ..... .. . -i -J T.UU . v Big and neeesBa.rvlmnrAvmnta n wwuua- witnout money. Why not (ell tha rwnnln wVitt hav want ta K. . z j - - w jicDiuoui tutu opett&tir i Forty dava ire uv Minn io tool away playing pontics. 'WO years hence Brothar) rrharli mj liunuuot w wait awnue longer. .. . . .:: ? ... ft... - ....... - The mornlnsr newshanar ia AatrmnA to do all it can to keep Portland a vil- It will b Just like soma women; in piuiHwe ny oiner year excerjt lean year. . v Any old dav. or rthr nv is a good one for a good, honest reso lution. ... - ...... A town 'can't ba hutlt un hv mnnlii. It down In print and constantly complaining. Senator 'HevbMrn ia rimhlnr harV tr. Idaho to aid his reelection. This ought not to help him. . - t . -A Eugene newspaper speaks of the "disagreeable rain." Maybe Arlsona; would suit it better.. a Maybe the Junketina- fleet can be of some real service now. a Caatro la rennrted tn It vnru Ti. haps he' has missed drinking his seven bottles of boose regularly. , Billy Sunday says smart set women are silly. Very likely. What's Billy? asks the Spokane Spokesman-Review. t . . ' H. U P. to H. W. 8.: "What in blankety blank is ths "matter with our circulation? Cut down Portland's popu lation 100,000 or so." Salem Journal: Bill Sunday, the r formed baseball player, is afraid thugs will kill him, ana those who have heard his lectures are arraia they will not. V . - Miss Elkins is going to become a trained nurse. - Perhaps she expects Abrussl to fall from a balloon or air ship, and then she can have an .excuse to ses him. and- but this isn't a novel. Ths Salem Statesman's New Tear edition, printed on heavy book paper and profusely illustrated and filled with valuable descriptive matter, waa one of the beat publications of ths kind ever issued in Oregon. ' ' A man writing- to the Salem States man says: "In addition to the bounty of 126 for the killing of the panther, each hunter should also be licensed to kill at least 10 dear for each panther be kills; 5 dear for each bear, wolf, catamount, lynx or wildcat killed by him." But It is unlikely that the leg islature will consent to the killing of "dears." OREGON SIDELIGHTS. ' Thouarh Pendleton is dry.: considera ble buildlngjyill be done there this year. A-64 acre orchard tract near Grants Pass, over half in bearing, sold for $31,000. and ths buyer probably got big bargain. , - , A' Myrtle Point sawmill boiler burst, wrecking the machinery and building, and throwing two men 30 feet or more, but neither was killed. ? .T. H.. KonntK a pioneer of ' TJmatllla county, and the nrst man, to go iniu business In Echo, donated the site for tne scouring mui to Da erectea . inort. v rr . . s ,z :: ::T-' r Of Herman Wise, who has retired after serving four years , aa mayor, of Aatnrla. .tha KudEret save. 'he nas been one of the beat chief executives Astoria has ever had. He returns to private life with assurances from all sides that he has fulfilled his duty fnJthfullv. aa a Dublin officer and car ries with him the best of good will from each and every one or nis consiiiuenta.-- The yes 1909 promises to be one of resa for The Dalles, says the Chronicle. It Is a certainty that, many- Improve ments win oe maae nere mas win ao wonders in building up the city, making it progressive and up to uate ana caus Ing it to draw hundreds of now real dents. ' Neither Grand Bonds nor WallowaJ can long remain bottled up, says-tne Star. .Klectrlo power and other im- Droved facilities will laugh at distances ana mountain graaes. An electric line connecting Grand Ronde and Wallowa an the outside world Is as certain to come as there Is certainty of progress or any ima. - Medford's eostal receiDts for ths year 1903 totaled $14,697.65, as against $10, S44.08 for 190f, an Increase of about Si per cent, xne .receipts or tne quar ter ended December $1 were $4526.2$ as against $3383.64 for the same quar ter a year ago. ine receipts ior ue cember, 1908, were $1733.26 as com- oared with 11231.90 In December. 1907, an increase ox jfcuz.ss or u per cent. . .. . - 4. '. :. The growth of Wallowa and its sur rounding oountry has been marvelous within tne past two . years, , says tne Sun. The city doubled in wealth and population in IS months Derore tne ad vent or tne ranroaa ana aiiiiuuKri ins road reached this point late in the fall tne growth since mat time nas Deen au that could be expected. .. . j. During this year the Salem States. , ,1, i. r 1 n i a..t I , IIIBIII Will UVWUJQ JTRilB V1U. iltU Will have been i6 years under ths same manaa-ement. It now owns, besides tha Daily and Twlce-a-week Oresron states. man, the Paclflo Homestead, Northwest Poultry Journal. Oregon Teachers Monthly, and a job office. Charles Meaerve says In the Medford Tribune that sales returns have proven year after year, since fruit began to be shipped from here, that Rogue River valley can grow more kinds of fruit that lead in making record prices in the world's best markets than any other district in the United States, and that the' profits on Some orchards and vine yards are so big. as to Bound like fairy tales to eastern rruit growers. Ex-Cashier Sorlber of th T-.a Grande Farmers & Traders bank destroyed a number of good as well as forged notes, which leads Receiver Neldner to say: "If any man attempts to take advantage or tne muaaiea condition or tne oank and profit by It, because the records have been Improperly kept and In some Instances destroyed, I consider him worse culprit than the late cashier." FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE 'Cultured Brain and Spiritual Heart"' By Edwin H. Cnapin (From an oration at- Watervills (Maine) college, , now Colby university, August 12, 1846.) Say what ws will, he cannot be ths true scholar, ths true thinker, who Is not a moral, a spiritual man. ahhuuku bad men may exhibit splendid talents and genius may accompany great vices, nniv virtua ia favorable to true Intel lectual culture.- Sometimes ths light of that' genius may -shine out with i mar velous splendor, ana, line iignming, leaping all laborious points of Induction, it mav reveal at one flash some grand and remoter truth. Or a man may gather at will from his capacious memory, the clusters of a ripe scholarship; with won derful loglo be may make ths worse appear ths better reason, exhibit the smartness of p. wrestler in controversy, tne Skill I an navioaiii liiiuvimu, tha fnrva of a strong man armed tn tearing down and scattering; but, after all, he cannot oe ma irmy mmi, ths man of broad and Ipfty views, ac nnainted with truth In its Inner life and meaning, onevwho seeks it for its in trinsic excellence, wno grasps tne rela tions of ,the universe, nd hears its har mony, and goes up from knowledge to power, and from power to spiritual exal tation and triumph. And what Is intellectual culture worth without the moral? To what end Is it pursued, why do we Btrivs after knowl edge In the outward universe, or the world of mind? What advantage la it to learn the operations of nature, to win tha aacrats of tha planet and ths flower? What to us this endless procession of phenomena, this ebb and now or acuonr What to us this subtle analysis, that detects ths common law of nature In its meanest atom; this sublime induc tion that riser .from the sands of the seashore to the infinitude of worlds, themselves but golden sands . on the shores of eternity, inductlrs evidences 6f him . around whose throne they burn and wftrship? What to us this Knowl edge that rends. open ths graves of a Tears, ana reyeais to as tne they Indicate, . In every rigid filament the divine designer, and, through as cending strata, suggest the law of prog, ress and the development of a benefi cent purpose? What to us Is the use of history, poetry, of all ths forms of knowledge; except through largeness of the intellectual vision to purify the heart, and to bring us to spiritual per fection? Without this, knowledge is worse than an abstraction, and, In such a case, ws can conceive of a, splendid Intellect only as we can conceive of a star, drifting through space, without adaptation, without an orbit, without a centripetal law! In the very nature of things, then, tha true scholar Is one whose mental supremacy is 'baaed upon moral excel lence, whose Intellectual fores Is In woven with spiritual life, In whose own soul might and right are one. He, then, of all men, is fitted with ths- enthusi asm of knowledge and of Jove, to make these one In tha practical action of hu manity at large. Therefore there rests upon hfm ths most stringent obligation to ao so. juoving tne moral idea which he sees, he will labor to extend It: reverencing that supreme right in his own soul, he cannot resist the claims of humanity. In whatever sphere he Is eauea upon to set, this will be his prima object to overcome ths wrong, to establish the good and true, to bring on the new epoch when ths highest practical power shall be moral power. And let him not think that such sn age ft always to be Ideal. Ho may not see its consummation, but he may do macn io nasren it. lt tn knowledge, let tne intellectual power of the ores. ent time, declare themselves for - the right., and they must hasten that con summation. That epoch will come. Ths poet has already beheld tt In celestial allegory, when ha saw- As Is a dream sublime Ths balance In ths hand of Time: O'er east and west Its beam impended, na aay, witn an its hours of light v as aiowiy siniung out of sight. lhe RE.ALM FEMININE T 1 What Home Does.- V -y. HERE are homes and homes. That " la to say; there are ' temporary shelters where everything but the barest necessities of life are ab- . RAnt. whbri mamKam a rlinvf-f Then .not otherwise em ployed, and where the sleeping and most S-W1" 18 d?na- "ucl. a bar: ren shelter each one in the family eapes as soon as he can. The chil- -' ujmr eiee so long as uiiieiiitiiB; urigru ana companionable ca1 tin Tilllmi eh a.- i- t i. 7i V,r , " inener or noma (In name only) only when all other ava. i i r sensation or brightness are From 'this place the mother goes out when she can, be it only to walk the streets and look into the shop windows, because life must hold something else tftan such " bBrrannoas , EVnm .,..). Place the husband atid father contrives to make his escaoe to a. saloon hr. h can spend his leisure time in an atmos- puTJio wmcn ai least suggests' cheerful ness and ease, warmth and brightness., ror these things are necesary to human life as well as food and clothing. iLAnd there are ether homes to Which the thouahts of fathnr, wif and chil dren turn aa the hriirhtnKt nf u.t place that the- world offers. To come Into that charmed circle f peace and happi- Paradise. . It surrounds the guest and allays thefret caused by vthe cars and the harshness of the work-a-day world. H Is Bhelter, and also much more. . It brings out the best that is in us. moves us Jo greater kindness, nils us with higher Ideals of Ufa, nerves us to go out again into the world with courage and with clearer conscience. There are thosa who hit that tha In. dividual family home is doomed. They see in the greater economic independ ence of women a glad sign that this fettering condition is soon to be done away with. When women become fully alive to thetr possibilities, they say, a substitute for the home will be found in wholly congenial arauDinaa of kind red spirits In beautiful apartmenla. The dull, domestic duties will be taken out of the home and performed elsewhere by trained workers, and : women, no longer dependent upon men for their support, will spend their days in such worK.as' tney can ao pest, soms paint ing, some writing books, soms as orafts workers ana some, no aouDt, as teacners or tne children. , Rut la it nacnHMnrv tn rln nwnv wit the home in order -to attain peace and to further the development of the race? Is it not tsosRlble ta .have haoDv homes. even in our present condition of Inter dependence? Are not the labors of the woman in the home Just as worthy ss though she" were performing some other part of the. world's work in office or shop 'or factory t .v ' , fcfcV sndV Ling million secrets of embalmed .epochs strange J While, opposite, the scale of night forms of lira, tnat nave no use, umy naouentiy witn tne stars ascended." ... This Date lnv History. H75 Turenne defeated the Imperial ists at battle of Turkhelm. 1762 Empress Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia died. Born December 18, 1709. 1781 Arnold - invaded Virginia with 1500 British troops. 1799 England and Turkey concluded a treaty of defensive alliance. iS0 Riotous demonstrations In Eng lish manufacturing; districts sgainst thai introduction of labor saving macmoery. 1838 President Van Buren warned Americans not to aid in the Canadian revolt. -'. , ' ' 5 " 1868 United SUtes military asylum at Augusta, Maine, destroyed -by fire. 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigned me pre miership of Caps Colony. Henry E. Crampton's Birthday. Henry Edward Crampton, professor of soolorr In Columbia university, was born in New York city, January e, 187S, and was educated in the public schools of that city and In ths college of tbs City of New York and Columbia unlver-J slty. .After bis graduauon. in isss no was offered and accepted tne position or i assistant In biology In Colombia unw verslty. Two years later ne oecams in structor In biology at the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, and re mained wlth that fnstitutipn one Tear, resigning in 1836 to return to Columbia aa a lecturer. Sines 1904 hs has been professor of soology at Columbia and also an Instructor in Barnard -college. Dr. Crampton Is an associate member of the staff of ths Carnegie Institution for the station- fof experimental evolu tion at Cold Springs Harbor. His in vestigations have been chiefly In ths fields of experimental embryology and experimental evolution, his contributions appearing in leading technical Journals of the. United States, England and Ger many. . . .. ' .'" . V Random Shots. ; ' Walt Mason In Emporium Gaaette. I shot an arrow. Into ths air: It fell in th distance. I knew not where, till neighbor sajd that it killed his ealf. and I had to pay him six and a half ($6.60). I bought soms poison to Stay soms rats, and v neighbor swore 'it killed his eats; and, rather than argue across tha fence, I paid him four dollars and fifty cents ($4.60). On Bight X set sailing a toy baloon and hoped It would soar until it reached the moon; but ths eandls fell out on a farmer's straw, and hs said I must settle or go to law. And that la ths way with the random shot It never hits in the proper spot; and the Joke you spring, that you think so, smart, mayleave a wound In. some fellow's heart. " - la it not. Indeed, true that work Is work no matter whether It Is performed for the direct benefit of a few Individ uals or for a larger unseen part of ths human family? What makes the primitive Industries of cooking, cleaning or sewing appear menial to ust jusi oecauso vnr min ister to the physical well being of a few individuals. And this is a snobbish and unworty way of looking at life. The labor of a farmer Is no less sane. dignified and estimable than that of a merrli tot or a banker. Each is contrib uting1 the needs of the human family. And v tne work or a tiouseaeeper an home maker Is not less excellent, sens ble than that ofia noet or a jeweler o a textile worker. Each Is contributing either directly or Indirectly, to the needs or, the human race. Ana we are o look at life widely. Instead of narrowly ind Selfishly, we shall see -that doing direct good to a limited number, which is woman's way in the home, la as much a port of the whole scheme of life as, say, making guns or books or ships, which touch more lives at some point, and which la largely men's way. Tt la a lack of perspective that srives rise to so much of this discontent with women's work as such tn the home. Done over and over again, a round of trivial duties, all of them simple, primi tive if you like, but Indispensable, these things become wearisome. It seems tn coma to nothlnar. Just rlss and work all day, cooking meals, cleaning up the remains, washing dishes and utensils, only -to get thorn out again and do it all over again, and varying this only with waiting upsn babies, sweeping floors and washing clothes It seems so like a treadmill. Over and over again, the same thing. But look at It again in a Winer senee. It must all be done, else there la dis comfort, discontent, revolt. Done na- iiently and serenely and willingly, serv iceable duties are not unaigniriea. Tney become one's contribution to the sum total none too large of happiness and blessing. More tnan tnat, tne atmospnere or tne ome becomes a tangible thing resting upon, each inmate of It in some aegree ancr so through the home Influence, be comes a contributing factor to the life of the wider world. "By their fruits ye shall know, them" is true of the spirit as well ss of thttphysical world. Children reared in an atmosphere of plain living and high thinking are not those who are casting about feverishly for some new method of wan tin money or of acquiring sensations In their ma ture lire. tiome means sometning to these. Life and duty mean something. Honor becomes a living reality, not merely a catch word. Unselfishness snd devotion and Integrity have a firm root ing in the character, and the lives of the children who go out from wise, well ordered,- happy homes, have a distinct bearing upon the sum total of tbs world's progress. Does it make no difference whether home is happy and smoothly ordered or wtietner it is untidy ana bare or human- ' ities? f Does it make no difference whether Its duties are performed willingly or grumb lingly? Does It mstter whether It is a place to go to when there is nothing else going on, or the spot above all .others aear ana sweet ana answering to ones deepest longings? Really it makes a vast difference. We have none' too many homes. When we have more of the right sort the human race will increase in all valuable traits of character, and the world; will be as steadily moved toward ths millenidm as would be the esse even If all the women went out to labor from dawn to dusk and the home were supplanted by rars gatherings of kindred spirits with out regard to ties, snd the babies were reared in hygienic nnlovellnens, and the uncongenial primitive Industries . were performed by perfect servants. Besides who would be the servants? . .. ' K Two Good Suggestions. From What,.. to Eat a STAMP Without Mucilage A ' 1 stamp without mucilage may be V quickly attached to fin envelope bv rubbing It on the mucilage of the envel ope wnen sealing. Kub ths back of the stamp on tne ends farthest from tha point of the envelope and stamp will stick well and save the trouble of get ting out a bottle of mucilage. For Cleanlnr Blanlrata riT? Ait.-nr.wii - Garments Shave up a half bar of any - good loundry soap, add four tableSDOOnfula borar anil a llttla wr - snd melt over fire. Then add four table- -spoonfuls - household ammonia, put In tub and half fill tub-with -eoTo" water,1 Enter articles to be cleaned, let soak four hours. Then rins in water con taining four iahltpspoonfuls borsx and four tablespoonfuls ammonia. Do not wring. The articles will be Just like new. A pair of lkcht-colored wool trou sers were wsshe1ln thla way and did pot shrink a particle. . . , :. . , r $e tt.it ' ; -V: Without Eggs. ' HERE is " dark caka which ean b . made without eggs: Oas cup sugar 1 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, f teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tpanpoon nutmear, teaspoon cloves, I cups flour, 1 cup chopped raisins. , ""I