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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. ' PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENINO, JUNE t. Kit . THE JOURNAL .'-..as ncptrmwT gaTwarAria. ' 0, BmUCKSON. ..rtMlaket for a change last November. -Thei protect at the ballot box thundered Into the Whit House, and caused Fisher to be ubstituted for Dallln, framed our system. It they could have looked forward 114 years and a Edward Hlneg ' "putting Lorl mer ever" with , 1100.000. they Cr. It opened tha war for tha pet woo Id - have provided . a different ri.ruhi -r ra (V,!l7 P' t0 et benefit! from tho an- method of choosing senator. Thar Ins rut twakiU mna. "IU" wlu w"11" inoir money uuuui idu ovrar inionuca IO Create a VStem OI imu lor m iuh. ii aaveq 10 mem luoiiar government. their treaiura casket In the Arctic, atatea serve also to Justify tha rla- Ing prices. .' ' Tha conclusion of this close ob server la that apparently we cannot expect more than a very, very alow recession In the cost of living. Bntv4 ! tk o.tofn at IMrtlae. Or StaM BMtUT. rrtjcrnowrs v.m tits( n, f U tZT orMur ' S-rtant r- ut rORBiaK JkDVKBTTSINO KBjrmSWWWTATIVB. r rnii . !' 6 Banding, niicr"- fabwrlptVni news by w 44, It tk Lit4 luu or Mle. daily. SB.OO I cw momt I "0 etTNDAT. W.BO I On mimtk I PAItT AND SUNPAT. Dm mt T.M On. mouth... Washington statesmanship should now address itself to the problem of opening Alaska In such a way that the coal can be mined for cheaper heat and light for the people rather than for dividends for Wall street AN HISTORIC OHIO 6TTH A Cm year- W BEAUTIFUL twenty-five . acre grove of trees near Fremont, Ohio, originally part of the historic site of the free city of the Erica, a neutral tribe or Indians, has been deeded la perpetuity by Colonel Webb C. Hayes to the atate ESTMOKELAND COUNT T.I of Ohio. It was the home of ex Pennsylvania, is almost in a President Rutherford B. II area, and was his special car for many years. President Hayes was a book-lover A CALAMITOUS STRUGGLE) atate of been so civil for war. more It has than a 86 year. The issue is the seemingly ir- and collector, and became during his To mo to law. la for two persons to kindle a flra at their own ooeta, to warm others, and sin ire them selves cinders. reltham. WEHT'8 PRISON POLICY t HiC-CGli 80 Sublimity farmers have petitioned for the return of the convicts to road work In their neighborhood, a widely different description of the situation Is being printed by papers in other . states. The Tacoma Ledger says ed itorially: ' A number of prisoners were set to work on a public road near Balem. The cltliens became much wrought up .because among the con victs were some that had committed high crimes. A demand for guards iwas made. The governor refused to grant It. and, In answer to protest withdrew the convicts. The cltlaens would rather do without the road Improvement than feel unsafe night and day. The Oregon governor's ac- husks of life. JtJon la likely to cause distrust for the modern movement for more hu mane treatment of prisoners." The convicts are to return to work Mm the Sublimity road. Eighty farmers have presented a petition to the governor asking that they be returned. The whole community has repressive conflict between miners and mine-owners In May. 1810. 17.000 soft coal miners 'struck. They asked for an eight hour day, leave to spend their wages In other than company stores and to live In other than company houses, the right to employ a weigh er to see that they get full credit for the coa they mine, and for recogni tion of their union. The strike is still on, and West moreland county still a scene of vio lence and suffering. Ten thousand workers have quitted the county and 2000 returned to work, but a rem nant continues the unequal conflict Women have taken part in the strug gle, and added dramatic features to an already distressing drama In real life. The mine-owners refuse to arbi trate, and have filled the places of moat of the strikers with Imported foreign laborers. Evicted from the company houses, many families are in the last stages of distress, living without shelter and feeding on the One hundred babies died in the district the past winter It is a brutalized situation. It reduces men to animals, and substl tutea ferocity for the better qualities Its effect on civilization is bad, and Its issue for the profit' of the strikers most doubtful. There ought to be a better mood rallied to the support of the gover- among men. Labor needs capital ors policy. and capital needs labor. Capital The petitioners say that but one should give a living wage and ear man made a protest, and that not to exceed two questioned the plan. The road supervisor of the district writes as follows to the governor: "I am sorry that we lost our con- nest concern to labor, and labor should give back an honest day's work and have a thoughtful desire for the success of the employer. Their Interests He in a common di vlcts, as we were Just ready to do rectlon. It is unnatural and unfor- eome good work on the highways, tunate when they must face each oth The man Fisher who interviewed you I er with clubs and cocked revolvers, on toe subject misrepresents me matter altogether. There is not a man in our road district but wants the convicts, with the exception of : Fisher. He represented to you that the people were afraid of them. That ia the biggest falsehood a man ever "told." - In their petition, the SO farmers ay to the governor: "We beg here by to petition your honor that you, as governor, will furnish convict la bor to this district on the same terms and conditions as they were fur- ' nlshed AN UNPROMISIXQ PLAN r T HAS BEEN suggested that the governor, attorney general and state engineer constitute an ex offlcio highway commission, to dispense information and exercise an administrative function 'in building roads. It is not a plan to give promise of efficiency. A governor is merely a governor. Ordinarily, he knows no more about roads than the average heretofore, and we further man, and the average man usually xepresent that it is the desire of this entire district, save and except not to exceed two persons that said convicts be returned to the quarry one and one half miles north of Sublimity, Marion county, Oregon." . The Tacoma Ledger is misin formed. The scare over the convicts was only in one mere man. The pol icy of a more "humane treatment for prisoners" has not been harmed. It Is the credibility of newspapers mis representing Governor West's policy That has been harmed. They circu lated falsehoods and the public knows It. knows nothing. Besides, a live governor is the busiest man In the state, and could not possibly spare time for consider ation of road construction here and there from Baker to Medford. His service in such a capacity necessarily would be listless and of little value. An attorney general is a lawyer. Some lawyers know as little about roads and how and where to build them as a Missouri mule knows about the binomial theorem. To set the attorney general up as an ex pert on roads would be as inadvls able as to attempt to make a circus long life, possessor of many choice books, making a library of consid erable proportions he also gathered up many manuscripts and other documents and many relics of his toric worth. The entire property, with tho spacious and beautiful bouse containing all these posses sions was by the ex-presldent be queathed to his family. Now Colo nel Webb C. Hayes, having acquired all other Interesta, baa transferred the whole to his native state as a memorial to President and Mrs. Hayes. The Archeologlcal and His torical society of Ohio la to be the guardian of the property, the only condition being that a fire-proof building be put up to safely keep the books, documents and) other treas ures, and that the remains of the bodies of the president and his wife shall be consigned to a monument to be erected among the ancient trees of the new public park. This example should be widely followed. For want of visible mem orials we are apt to lose touch of those who have left this scene, though they may have filled wide spaces In the national life of their day and generation. There are but few spots in this country of a new world to which pilgrimages may be made. In the more leisurely life of the old world there are many. Once lost and overflowed in the In vasions of the new generations as they come on to the stage such recol lections disappear with the former outlines of the spots round which they cluster. Sentiment WitK West FYom tha Mad ford MaJl-Trtbuna. If tha paopla of Marlon county ao aot want tha eonviota to btUld highways for uiam. Governor vaet should loan th oonvlots to Jaokaon eounty. Wi will ba glad to ua them. - At tha rogueat of aoma of the farm ers tba parolad prlaontrs amployad In oonaiructlns hlahwaya near tba capital olty hava beaa callad off and roturnad to tho panltantlarjr, tba g-ovoraor an nouncing that If the paopla did not want tba roads' In front of thalr farms Improved tha atata had ne Intention of forrlns tho Improvement Certain nawapprs, for political rea sons, arc andaavoring to msorodit in a sovernor booauso of his poller In parol In t convlets and employing them la uaeful oocupatlons, wbere ther can earn thalr keep, aav tha atata szpansa and at tha asm ttme work out their own aa.1 ration. Of tho II prisoners paroled and mada trusties, on violated his word of honor and osraped. lis was recap lured by tha governor himself, but tba Incident has bn magnified by a hos tile press. There Is searcsrr a similar length of time In tha history of tha prison when there have not beta mors escapee than In the paat few months, sines the gov ernor sdoptsd bis parole poller. Publlo sympathy Is with Governor Wrat In hla efforts to batter the con dition of these outcasts and to effect economies for the stats. It seems a shams that such a dlatlntarsatsd effort to Improve humanity csnnot be given a fair trial without psrtlaans straining to discredit humanitarian purposes for political ends. THE MONROE DOCTRINE MITT ED AD- T What Is a newspaper's status clown out of a funeral director. , when It tells lies because a governor tries to save state money by having convicts work, or extends a helping hand to make a convict a better man? A NEW DEAL Nor is a state engineer a road builder. He Is first of all, an Irri gationist, and has duties of his own He has neither time nor talent' for being one of three to keep a general oversight over the roads of the state. This Is an era of specialization. The crime of It is that we all think THERE IS A new deal at Wash- we know how to build roads, run lngton. Mammon is no longer newspapers and preach. Road bulld- master of the interior depart- lng is an art that, in order to get ment. Alaska is not to be Gug- best results, requires the highest genheimed, if the department of the technical skill. It is because we do interior can prevent it. Secretary not realize and apply this fact, that Fisher has disallowed the notorious we suffer in Oregon a loss of $2,- Cunningham claims, and ordered the 000,000 every year from Jncompe- wnines cancenea. tence and negligence in building mere is ine nignest authority now highways ror tne belief that In the Cunning ham claims a colossal grab was to HINES be made. By allowing them, the wedge was to be entered for gobbling T 0R1MER WANTS io be elect the whole of the vaet mineral de- I e"- 1 W,H furnish all the posits of this wealth-studded empire I money needed. Do not stop of the north. With the Cunningham Rt anything." group as a precedent the way would Tnat I9 what Edward Hlnes have been cleared for a few captains phoned to Governor Dlneen just be- of finance and coal to have estab- fr Lorlmer was elected senator by lished personal dominion over the tne legislature of Illinois, according richest mineral territory in the world to testimony before the senate com- and to have entered upon its spolia- mlttee at Washington yesterday, tlon for th benefit of themselves The evidence was given by W. A. HE BRITISH foreign minister. Sir Edward Grey, made the fol lowing remarkable admission at the Pilgrims' dinner in Lon don, the other day, and laid for good and all one of the ghosts raised by Colonel Roosevelt as an obstacle to the arbitration treaty. "The Americans have a policy as sociated with the name of Monroe, the cardinal point of which is that no European or non-American na tion should acquire fresh territory on the continent of America. If it be, as I think it must be, a postulate of any successful arbitration treaty an extended kind that there should be no conflict, or possibility f conflict, between the national pol icies of the nations which are par- tics to it, the condition imposed by the Monroe doctrine is assumed as between us." The London Spectator one of the most important vehicles of Eng lish opinion comments on the peech In question, and urges the ac- eptance of the Monroe doctrine as prelude, or an agreement comple mentary, to the adoption of a gener- arbitratlon treaty between the United States and any other nation. This paper has good hope that France will accept this logic, since, It says, "her confidence In the United States is exceeded only by our own." But It does not Indulge the idea that Germany will ever fall in with these ideas. This is possible, but it jaay be submitted that the London paper underestimates the attractive power of a league of peace adopted by the three great nations, America, Great Britain and France. It is an exam ple which appeals still more strongly to the democracy of all civilized na tions than to the rulers and states men who assumo to direct their des tinies and the power and Influ ence of the people themselves is ever growing, and Germany is no stranger to its spread. When Irving Met Dickens. Fy M. B. Pteld. Memories. I never saw Mr. Irving betray any ex citement but once In my Ufa, and tbat was upon sn occasion when I dined with him In Madrid. Tha name of Dickens happened to be Introduced, and ho be came very heated in telling ma about hla relations with that author. Finally he oould no longer contain hlmaelf, and I Jumping from his seat ba walked up and down, up and dowa the floor In great apparent agitation. Ha tsld ma that ha had corresponded with Dickens long befors they ever mat. That both from his writings and hla letters bs had formed the highest conception of his personal character. That under these circumstances Dickens arrived In New Tork and he, Irving, called upon htm at his hotel. That Immediately after sending In his card he was Invited to Mr. Dickens' parlor, and as ha entered the room, that gentleman met him, nap kin In hand. He bad been dining, and tho table was covered with a vulgar pro fusion of food, and the table cloth was stained with gravy and wine. Wringing hla hand, Dickens' first sal utation was "Irving. I am delighted to sea you! What will you drink, a mint Julep or a gin cocktail?" "The idea of Inviting ma to drink Juleps and cock tails!" naively exclaimed I Jr. Irving. COMMENT AND NEWS IN DRIEF SMALL CHANGB One trouble with Oregon is toe much nw read. . ' , orns nnderetsed men remind 'one ef uiwi er unpMnok s - a . . ' There Is fine muslo In the sound ef very sort or productive industry. Market liradlotlOfi h tha An 4iUAr- roieioea will D onaapsr next fail. ' - a ... . ) Tbsra ara nnraaaojiabl astrmtata an the do Question, sa wall as ea all other questions, m If oeoola wslt till thars la athlnv alas te do to build good roads, they will uwtwt get mem. Sander la .tha favorite dar foe naanla to ret drowned or smashed tin In an auiomoDus wreex. a .. ,a It le not quits too late yet for pessi mists to predict a failure of ths apple crop, mm uiey ars aoing. Most of us buy s sood deal of sseeri enos expensively that wa can't eel! aud una no practical use ror ourselves. e e The BTOvsrnment did listen te tha voles or tne people or roruana- in tba matter er closing me bridge draws erter an. A Woman east 40. ons ef thsm says, would rather a man told her of net youthful appearance than of her beauty. w v A reform Is needed -la. the rain bust- ns: so that it will rain on ths fall crops and skip ths newly mown meadows. j .-mm However often ths bay eron has baen partially destroyed during the past two months. It's turning out fins, big crops all rig-tit new. If It be true that "ever the right oomear upnermoat" It Is sometimes so oaaiy aiaiigurea in ins rignt as to. ds unrecognisable. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Sidelights on tlje Cor-; .. "From the Chicago Journal. '- la ' the ancient ' Abbey of Boons In Scotland was once a stone carven with myatle hieroglyphics. - On this Stone of Boone all the Scottish tnonarohs ware crowned. The stone . was supposed to have magical powers to inaure good luck to king and kingdom alike. Old legends said that this wae the very . stone whereon ; the patriarch, Jaoob, rested his tired head whan he siapt on the hillside or Bethel and had hla vision of angels ascending and de. ecendlng the heavenly stairway. The stone, was believed to have been kept later In tha Temple ef Jsrvsalsm and te nave been stolen by a runaway east ern prince who brought It to tha lint. lah isles, -tAs a matter of fact, geolo Kiaie aeoiare it is or unmistakably Scotch i origin.) , , - ., . in any ease, a halo of superstition surrounded this Bton of Boone. The Scots looked on It with reverent adora tion. Then, in UM, Edwsrd 1 Of Eng. land invaded Scotland with a hostile army, captured -the Abbey of Scone. ripped the sacred atone from Its place ana sent it to jsngiand. There it wae placed In Weatmlnstsr abbey, amd every English sovsrsign bet ons sines that time has sat OB It during bis coro nation. , . Tbs stone le fixed In the lower cart Medford business mee ere consider- o nuge oia osaen cnair that Is nearly The (.Klamath rails council has de elded .To buy a street sweeping ma chine. .' ' . - . .; r " ' ' e iy v : A movement has been started at Pen dleton to organise a company of Uor 8o0ut' . e r ' rhria Orohs has been fined ' 110 at North Bend for killing wild pigeons ot of season. . . ,, The consolidation of the South Coos river district suhools wae defeated at the recent election. ; . e e The First National bank ef Eugene has been mads a depository for tbe postal savings bank. " j e e . . The noatofflce of Plna Oroya. In Uma tilla eauntv. haa bean established. It le about 10 mile south of Pilot Rock, e e - Tha annual nlonle Of ths Wisconsin people of Marion county win oe neio on the stale fair grounds at Balem. July 4. . The first of the season's series of free open air concerts at Medford was given Bundsy. There ara ft men la I the beejl. A Kansss man le at La Orands look ing over ths ground with a view of outline- In a vlneaar Plant and fruit evaporator. ne a Junket to southward and east ward. Klamath Palls snd Lakevlew are on the proposed Itinerary. . Two hunters -st Port Orford, accord- Ing to tha Port Orford Tribune, sre lining sea lions at ths rsts of SS to 10 aXt ins value is in tneir oiuooer. Eusrene Ouard: The university sum mer school registration broke all rec ords when over 100 students snxqlled. The enrollment was from 10 to 10 per eent larger than any other first day. SEVEN GREAT NAVIGATORS - CapUla Janice Cook. Restoring the Garden of Eden. The British reclamation of the Garden of Eden Involves ths construction of three great barrages each equal to tbe Assouan dam on the Nile where Sir John Alrd, by b'a monumental work, re covered from the desert the ancient em pire of the Ptolemies on ths Nils. Sir John Jackson and Arthur Noel Whitley, the distinguished railroad builders, will spend ths $100,000,000 of Turkish and British money necessary for the dam mlng of the Euphrates and ths Tigris and for the Irrigation of that onoe ver dant valley. The reclaimed Garden of Eden Js expected to have a value, when irrigated, of $200,000,000. The spades of S000 men are already at work damming up the stream that once watered the garden and the vine yard in which Adam was placed. There, between Babylon and Bagdad, the cradle of the race, where history, the arts and clvlllratlon were born, the now sandy wastes ars to thrill anew at the embrace of the waters and to bring forth fruit abundantly. THE RISE TS FARM VALUES T and their descendants forever. O . TT I T r ooueuujr r wuir a aeciBlon IS a Check to freebooting and buccaneer ing In public domain. It further dis- Cook, and was on oath The testimony fits exactly with that of Charles Funk who swore that Hlnes asked him for a contribution credits Ballinger, and further vindl- of $10,000 toward a $100,000 fund cates nnchot, Giavla, Jones and oth- for electing Lorlmer. era who were instrumental In direct- Meantime, Michael Link, one of Jng public attention to the Guggen- the bribed legislators, is dead, driven helming of Alaska. It recalls the to his grave by shame. The home of oismiBsai or rincnot ror the very Senator Holtslaw, another of the thing that the highest authority In bribed who was a respectable coun- the administration of Interior affairs sow declares in effect, to have been rlgnt try banker, is shattered and broken with the disgrace. The honor of the senate itself with Lorlmer declared Curiously enough, in an interview worthy of his seat is under a shadow. Ballinger says the Fisher decision is not "Judicial, but is political," which means that if he had remained undis turbed at the head of the interior making a third tragedy as frnit of the Hlnes method of choosing senator. It is the conception of Hlnes that department, the Cunningham claims senators should not be elected, but bought It Is his view that when so bought, the senator is an agent of the buyers, doing their bidding and voting as ithey order, would have passed to patent and Alaska passed Into the private own ership tf Morgan, Guggenheim and a few other mandarins of coal and fi It is a 'character .of. man that the It 1 weirhat the country voted I fathers did not foresee f when they HE FIGURES of the census, re cently published, show the rise in farm values from 1900 to 1910, In eleven western states, beginning with Missouri and ending with Oregon. The average rise is about 200 per cent. The highest is Idaho, with 618, the next Montana, with 394. Then comes Colorado with 300. The Financial World, In noting these facts, gives mining and irriga tion as the chief causes for the ex traordinary rise In Colorado, Idaho and Montana, and adds land specula tion as a reason in the agricultural states. Oregon's figures are 262 per cent rise during the ten years. This writer discusses the question of much interest to us whether these figures show dangerous Infla tion in values. He thinks they do not. He points out that many great er rises and fluctuations have oc curred In the stock market In the same period. But the main reason for rise In land values, is of course, that prices of farm products have almost steadily mounted In this de cade. But another material factor is the increase of the gold supply, which holds up "the nominal values, and therefore the prices, of all corn modules, land included. - , , The increase of population and its ; continuous flow- to these ..western j Segregating Prisoners. From the Pendleton East Oregonlan. In connection with his work for prison reform Governor West proposes at a later date to segregate the pris oners Into three olaeses. The thorough ly bad men and dangerous will be re quired to eat in silence at a table where the fare will be In keeping with their bad standing. There will then be an Intermediate table for those who show a desire to do right and hotter their con ditions. The third table will be for men who are classed as good men. They will be allowed to talk and eat, after tbe fashion of civilised men. It is well known that all ths oon vtcts in a penitentiary are not of equal depravity. There are ail olasaes- there, some good, some bad and some Indiffer ent Proper management of a prison calls for a segregation of the men, and Governor West's plan for dividing the convicts in classes -at the table should bring satisfactory results. One of the later-day navigators, whoss' work Is counted Invaluable In giving to the' world a clearer knowl edge of Its vast extent, and some new lands which he dlsooversd, was James Cook, an Englishman. He was tbe son of a farm servant. Havrng, In ths In tervals of crop tendlnaj, received eoms little education In the Tillage school, he was, at an extremely early age, bound as a cabin boy and a common sailor. He devoted himself so diligently to ths study fit seamanablp - and showsd ao much adaptability for the work, that In a few years he Secured for himself the position of a master. Cook was ao successful tha ha was able to conduct three great naval ex peditions for discovery In seas hereto fore untravorsed. Tbe suoceaa with which these undertakings were carried out left for him a name than which no Englishman's Is hsld in higher re spect. His first succsssful mleelon as a nav Igator was a trip to America, where he wss employed during tbe operations of the St. Lawrence In surveying the chan nel of the river and In piloting the vessels snd boats of the fleet. Sir Charles Saunders wss so pleased with hla work In that section that when he returned to England he secured for Cook the appointment as master and senior officer of Lord Colvills s own ship, ths Northumberland. When Captain Paliisssr was appoint sd governor Of Newfoundland Cook was made "marine surveyor" of the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Upon his return, sorsral years afterward, he was srven charge of ths Kngnsn expedition to the Pacific to observe the transit of Venus. He rounded Cape Horn, sue cessfully carried out his mission, and upon his return boms he sailed around the coast of New Zealand for the first time and charted the Island with some approach to accuracy. He examined the coast of Australia In ths same way; ho named New South Wales, as well as the Endeavor straits. He rsturned home after three years and the success of the vovage and the Importance of the dis coveries' were universally recognised. Cook was promoted to a commander's rank, end was appointed to command a new expedition for the exploration of the Pacific. Reversing ths order of the previous circumnavigation, he touched, on the i outward voyags, at Cape of Good Hope, and sailed thence eastward. The pri mary object of the expedition was to verify ths reports of a great southern continent, and with this view the ships were Kept along tho edge of the loo, passing ths Antarctic circle for ths first Urns on January if, 1771. The geographical discoveries made by Cook In this voyage yere both nu merous and important; and by proving tha non-exlatence of the great southern continent, which had been for so long a favored myth, he eatabllshsd eur knowledge of the southern Paclflo on a sound basis. In fact, tbs maps of that part of the world still remain eesen- Ually as hs left them. Upon his return horns, and It was decided to send sn expedition Into the north Paclflo to search for a passags round the north of America, he was at ones given command. When they had reached the Paclflo ocean, and made several attempts to find tbe passsge, they gave up the project as Imprac ticable and the two vessels anchored at the Sandwich Islands. While anchored In Karakakoa bay, In Hawaii, on Janu ary 17, 1T7), Cook and some of his men went ashore and were kindly received. But when the ships put to sea and found unfavorable weather, and returned to their former anchorage, they, found ha Inhabitants had changed and were exceedingly hostile. Upon landing they were attacked by the . savages, and Cook was killed on Februaty 14, 1771, when he had Just turned hla fiftieth year. Ha had gone ashore to secure the person of the king as a moans of obtaining Justice for thefts and other outrages committed by the natlvea, and when his back was turned a native stunned him by a blow on the head; he sank to his knees and another stabbed him with a dagger. He fell Into ths water, where he was held down by a seething crowd, and his dead body was left In the hands of the na tives, while his cowardly crow mads off. Cook's body was partly burned by ths natives, but the most of It was given up a day or two afterward and duly burled, in November, 1874, an obelisk to his memory wss erected in ths inv mediate neighborhood of the spot where he fell, but the truest and best memo rial Is his authentic map of the Pacific. Tomorrow Sir Francis Drake. Superstition. Poor Mr. Skeeryman! He leads a mourn ful life. Every time you spill tbe salt, he looks for care and strife: Thinks the new moon wasted, with Its gentle silver light. If hs observes it to the left Instead of to the right. Merer undertakes a thing when. Friday comes alonff. Says the day's a hoodoo and you're cer tain tp go wrong; Shudders when a cross-eyed man ap pears upon the scene; Loses hope completely at ths mention of 18., The howling of a homeless dog will flit nm soui wnn griex. . If he walks beneath a ladder he will tremble like a leaf. Poor air. Skeeryman! He never gets a rest. Ha reaches out for trouble and he hugs It to his breast. Washington Star. George W. Goethals, Canal Maker, From the New Tork Sun. He Is ahead of schedule; he is away under original estimates and previous accomplishments. In a hundred particu lars of time, of cost, of eoonomy of op eration, of thoroughness of construc tion. When the achievements of his engineering and administrative effi ciency are finally measured by compe tent authority, we believe that ths ex hibit will astonish the world. No wiser thing was ever done by the American government than when it decided to commit ths execution of the. Panama enterprise to one of our own "army en gineers, and there was never a more fortunate choice of an Individual than when, this modest man of real power was put Uncharge. K v ' : .The ColoneL y- Frome the Myrtle Point Enterprise. For the eleventy-elevonth time the press of the country announces that Teddy has again assured the people that he will not be candidate in 1IU. Whenever he thinks the dear people are forgetting him tho colonel always bobs up and serenely remarks, "Gentlemen, I am not a candidate." ,:, , i Clark's $120,000 Organ. From ths New Tork Times. Senator W. A. Clark of Montana for mally opened last night his 1120,000 organ, tha largest chamber organ in the world. It Is set up in the main pic ture gallery of his new mansion at Fifth avenue and Seventy-seventh street, and he had invited to a recital the fore most ora-snlsta and musicians of the olty. The senator personally received his guests, and no other members of the family were present. Ths Instrument is not very large, one of Its principal features, in fact, being its concentrated area. The cheSt and pipes are situated In the south wing of the main picture gallery, on tne sec ond floor of ths houil, and above the entrance to the gallery," and the pipes extend to the top of the lofty ceiling. The console, or keyboard. Is mov able, and when in use abuts the or gan proper to ths right. When not In use It Is hidden In a niche of the mar ble corridor separating the main gal lery, from the rotunda and the conser vatory of the copper tower. Hidden behind the Caen stone grill of the oeUlng in the north wing of the main gallery, and totally invisible, is the echo organ, considered the most remarkable feature of the organ. The chimes ringing out from ths hidden source particularly delighted the crit ics present, and with the vox mystics of the echo , organ were declared to be the most perfect ever heard Senator Clark has secured as his or ganist Arthur Scott Brook, who was in charge of the Chicago organ, and before 1891 was organist ror Leiana otanrora In the Memorial church of Los An geles. An, Appropriate Name. From the London Chronlole. There is a t-year-old baby burdened with a name which Jie will probably want to shed when he grows up. A Clergyman -wrote to ons of the church papers in l0s deploring tha weakening authority of his cloth. He cited the case of a couple who had brought blm their child to be christened on ths pre ceding- Sunday. When asked what name they had chosen, the father- replied, "Octopus, air." . The clergyman pro tested that such a name was neither Christian or seemly, and was than In formed that "hm"m our eighth, so we mean to eaUl blm something appropri ate." And in the end. In spite of argu ments, they bad their way. An Earnest Governor. From the Pendleton East Oregonlan. It was characteristic of Governor West to Uad a posse after Convict Hall and to personally retake that desperado. The governor Is modest and unassuming but he is a man of action and nerve. When he starts upon a line of work in whioh he feels he Is right he becomes Intensely Interested and he usually car seven feet high and ever three feet broad. It Is called St. Edward's chair. Undsr the oaken Beat and supported by four metal liens Is the Stone ef Boone. Tha chair Itself baa become battered and mutilated through een turles of 111 usage. Marks where the cloth of gold covering, uaad for the various coronations, has teen tacked en and torn off are plainly visible. And across ths oaken seat, scratched with a jack knire is this queer Inscription: "P. Abbott Slept la This Chair Jan. 4, HOI." "P. Abbott" was 'a schoolboy whe mads a bet.that he would spend a whole night In Westminster abbey. He did eo, and to prove he bad won hla wager he isrt tnat rudely carved testimony. His tory does not tell what happened te P. Abbott" when the inscription was die covered. Queen Mary I was the only English ruler who was not crowned In St Ed ward's chair. She used Instead a throne sent her by the pops. Whea William III and his wife Mary were crowned together the question arose as te which should occupy St. Edward's chair. It was decided to let Mary take this seat, while a companion chair was built for William. But he was a very short man and she was a very tall woman. So, to keep their heads on a level, the second chair was mads much higher than the rirst. Strange "omens" have ooocirred dur ing some coronations and in a few cases history has seemed to bear out the forecast For instance, when James II was crowned the great crown tottered on his head and would not stay firm In place. A very few years later James was a crownless fugitive. During ths coronation of George HI ths finest diamond tumbled out of tbe crown and was temporarily lost Even then many superstitious people whis pered it wss an omen that tho Ameri can colonies (the brightest Jewel, in England's diadem) would be lost, dur ing George Ill's reign. Richard II fainted at his coronation and was carried away from tbe abbey weak and helpless. A few years later he was dethroned and killed. Quean Mary I found tha orown and other coro nation headgear ao heavy she wae obliged to support her head upon her hand during the ceremonies. Her reiga was short, unhappy and disastrous. King John, during his coronation, be came confused and lost track of the ceremony. He hurried from the abbey without waiting to receive the holy sacrament His reign was unlucky from first to last so much so that "John" has been considered a "hooaoo" name for English kings ever since and no ruler has borne It When William the Conquerer, who had conquered England with a Norman army, was crowned king he celebrated the occasion by making the public fountains run wine Instead of water. The wine made the populace so noisily enthusiastic In cheering William that the stupid Norman soldiers thought an Insurrection had started. They rushed through the crowd with drawn swords, killing more than 1000 people and burn ing hundreds of houses. I Always in Good Humor "What happens to liars when they die?" a schoolmaster queried. "They will He still." was ths re sponse of a bright pupil. ries It through as some legislators dls- i ,h. h.M. ,. ... It is ths belief of Governor West that the old time method of managing pris oners oftsn does Infinite harm and no good. It Is a belief shared by almost all others who have investigated the subject The governor Is seeking to segregate- the prisoners end to treat worthy convicts as men, not as beasts. It Is a noble plan and one that deserves to succeed. It is going to succeed be cause the governor will make It succeed. However, It Is Inevitable that some band's love Is fiery hot" "Well." admitted the bride, "it Isn't so hot that it will kindle the morning fire." e Miss Beauty Knott: "Do yon think this photograph -4oes me Justice?" Miss Lovey Dove: "Tee, Indeed; I should "call It Justice tempered with mercy." e e She Why was the engagement brok en off? He Well, after taking-, the girl to prisoners will abuse the confidence dinners and theatres, giving her costly sr.. Had Nothing on Clara. , From London Opinion. "Dear Clara," wrote the young man, "pardon me, but Tm getting so forget ful. I proposed to you last night but really forget whether you said yes or no." ' .: : "Dear Will," she replied by not a, "so glad to hear from you. . I know I said W te someone last night but I had for gotten Just, whe . it was." placed In them. They have been chained down so long that naturally some will break away or try to do so. Hall did this but be wae recaptured by the very man who had granted him his parole. It wae fitting that it occurred this way and tbe effect on the prisoners should be good. It Will show that while the governor Is going to give prisoners a chance to aid themselves he will deal sternly with those who abuse their priv ileges. ... Only an honest and courageous man would go out after a desperate char acter like Hall and risk his life In taklne- hlm as Governor West did. The gov- (ntHbnl to The Journal br Walt Meson, ernor 1. entitled to congratulation, upon "T presents and a birthday gift of a mo tor car, her father accused mo of amus ing myself at her, expense.' e , Toung Reporter: "Is itx true, sir, that you started life as a Door vlourh- boy?" Successful Cltlsen: "No, sir; I start ed life as a small, red faced, yelling baby. Good day, sir." - -i; The Village Blacksmith his good work. Journal.) Portland's Rosea. . From the Washington Star. , Portland, Or, is busy with its annual Rosa Festival. The Rose Festival Is one of those beautiful flower carnivals popular on the Pacific coast, where peo- f. The village sniithy still la beneath the chestnut tree, but from i comes no clanging sound of hammer swinging free; the villagers have gath ered round to see what they may see. The smith, he isr a man of might, of pie have come to a full appreciation of lnwr frame; and from his the. flowers that grow so luxuriantly In the moist and equable climate of the northern half of the coast and so re splendently in the warm and brilliant climate of the southern half. Portland, by popular encouragement of rose cul ture in Its horns gardens and parks, has earned for itself the happy sobriquet 'City of Roses. . i The general Interest which' has been nourished among the people of that city in the cultivation of roses, has resulted in eo many beauti ful, gardens and beautiful homes that Portland from a hustling, prosalo busi ness city haa come to be on the whols a beautiful city. Cltisehs feel a great pride in their gardens, which, though the rose gives to them' the. dominant tone, glow .With all flowers.- Pride n one's home expands 'till pride in One's neighborhood and pride In one's city follow. The street pageantry and street decoration and illumination make a merry period for Portland and. call w U thousands c.YlAtorsvv f r :"-. v.: ;v plug he takes a bite, and starts In to declaim: "Well, boys. It really , was a sight the way w won that tamo We had a man on . every base when I stepped up to bat; the pitcher's curves were hard to trace he knows where hs Is at but I Just looked him in the face, and knocked the blamed ball flat: Well. singer, what Is that you say? Your horse Is needing shoes? Oh, take your cheap old plug away; you give a man , the blues; I am too busy here today to shoe 'Old kangaroos. Tee, boys, that hit brought In them all, and struck the bleachers dumb; I really thought that pltchcard fall It knocked him out of plumb J Oh. when it comes to play--ing ball your uncle's going somel" The farmers seek the smithy door to have their-, plowsharea ground;-they make the 'worthy - blacksmith sore they-. noma ps in tne pound; they Interrupt him o'er and . e'er and get hla nervee w a wvuuut . .-. - coprritbt. 1810. . Oeargt atsttaev