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M.t . , i mM A I the ministerial naval budget, and , HCL JVjLJr the hoaBe of reduced the an inpkpendknt newspaper j amount that the popular branch of c" s ' ja'ckkon ....pnbinmw the diet was willing to spend. Pre- wlm ,.r, ni0(..t sood,,) mler Yapamoto's cabinet resigned. Jy, Br.rt., .d Ynmh.1. , mspeildlag a Be6slonV of parlia. An election will be held on the naval issue, and the whole .. . i . . . ...... i .. uw.a-tland or., tor traiMoilMlon tbrouzb tb pll ! matter. "ii.1? be open for political Ui rpriitr what 1pirtmytit ywi want,. discussion. rokBioK awvkrtihi.no kEPHKSBNTAiivB ( Jt ts evident that the Japanese ! are progressing toward self gov- 2U rirth At... New Zork; 121 rople. Ci Bl!.. fblrago. 7 tzmf la U). Lulled State or Mexico. One ear $3.00 I One month -" SUNDAY One rr $2. I One mnt.i....- -f DAILY AJiU Biv.-'U!. One veer $7.60 ' n month. . .$ -63 He only docs not live In Tain "Who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech, to advance the god of others. Hindoo Maxim. 1 11! KlU Sl'ItKKXHEB T eminent. Only a few years ago the mikado was" a demigod. Par liament was an instrument to as sist in carrying oat his will. There was no conception of a ministry responsible to the legislative .branch of government instead of to the mikado. That idea,waa dominant when the constitution of 1889 was proclaimed, and even ten years ago parliament would have voted any thing 'the ministry asked ! for the navy because the mikado wanted it But the idea of responsibility to the people's representatives has grown to such an extent that'it is responsible for the present crisis. Japan has reached .the point when its people demand that the minis- VO hundred and. twenty Dem ocratic congressmen voted to repeal free tolls.- In effect, j try execute the will of parliament their latest Indictment of the fly, but whether or not It Is responsible for the spread of pellagra, there Is no question about the necessity ;f or swatting this carrier of disease and filth. : Everybody should enlist in the fly-swatting campaign. Not only should every fly be killed, but their breeding places should be overhauled and cleansed. Flies should be kept ont of the house. They should not be permitted to travel between stable and table, Between filth aad food. HAR tYAL T h-v voted to tear up tne contract with the Republic or l'an ama under which we got the right to bull4 tho canal voted to tear It up after Panama has kept the faith and we have built the canal through the Panama zne. it t hnwevpr. onlv the act 01 congressmen, and a congressman of whatever political brand, means nothing. The average congressman is not substance, but shadow. His hori zon is not the planks In his party platform, but the postofficea in his district. He steers his course not j so much Ty principle as by pap rather than the will -of the mikado. rAIXFl'L INFLECTIONS s EPTEMBER 12 1910, the au thorities of Multnomah coun ty purchased 120 gallons of ItlKfwt pYrminfltnr at Si9. rnr tj gallon. Instead of billing the con signment at tne sellers billed it at $3fcO, and the account was audited and paid. Exactly the same insect exter minator could have been purchased at a local establishment at 65 cents a gallon. In October. 1911, the county He Is never so much patriot as e , , ' . , , 4u0 gallons of the same material. ja If foiilrt hav lif.n spriiroil of a local house for $292.50. In a later order, the county was ror but) gallons or ex- HERE is not a legitimate1 ex cuse in the world for the United States to deport Har Dyal, the Hindoo scholar and economist. By the terrible arbitrament of four years war, (the United States abolished the color line, j An ac complished, culture! anq high minded gentleman, one charge against Har Dyal Is his color and nativity. i . Like all educated Hindoos, he is intensely concerned! in the uplift of his race. The gentle humanism that seeks deliverance of his coun trymen from 'superstition, error, and illiteracy is his chief offense. Thomas JefferBOn and Patrick Henry were the same kind of agi tators. In the land where, they spoke and wrote for freedom, it ought not to be a deportable of fense for Har Dyal to desire great er liberty for hf3 kindred and his countrymen. The good old United States ought not to drift away from her ancient moorings. We should still be the anchorage and asylum for for every twelve marriages In this country. In England the rate was' one to every 400 marriages and in France one to every thirty. Two thirds of the divorces are granted on the demand of the wife. The family Is the unit of gov ernment and on it the state is es tablished. If family ties are strong so is the state. If .they are weak so is the state. Rome was strong when the family flourished. She perished when the family perished. While divorce figures show an increase there are agencies at work antagonistic to this and kin dred social evils. . Everywhere the protection of the home Is being agitated by all classes. In this gen eral agitation, this fortification of family life, are signs of more hopeful-conditions. A FEW SMILES PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF Letters From the People Before the passage of the present strict banking laws in Wisconsin, start ing ai bank was a comparatively sim ple proposition. The surprisingly s m a 1.1 amount of Capital needed is well illus trated by the tory I of a prosperous coun try banker told on himself when asked how ! be happened to eotef the banking business. i "WeU," he said, "I didn't have much else to do, so building end window. The I rented an empty store painted j 'Bank' on the first day I was open for SMALL, CHAXtiE business a man came in and deposited $100 with me; the second day another man dropped in and deposited $250, asd so, by George, along about the third day I got confidence enough in the bank to put in a hundred myself." Everybody' Magazine. A former Democratic house con- ; strued the Hay-Pauncefote treaty I The present Democratic house con- j terminat ,)Ut jn actual delivery strues il aa ..ui.. there -was only 328 gallons, or a The inconsistency s not. however. osg of 272 gaHonSr for wnIch tQe because tne iiiemiirs aic ucwu- . bi? crate, birtf because they are con- gretMmen. There are no lustrous names in the roll call of the 220 Democrats "who voted for repeal. No names of .those who voted for repeal will ever be illustrious in this coun try's history. Congressmen of any party who prostrate themselves on county paid $2 a gallon. One barrel, billed at 60 gallons, was subsequently found to contain but 34 gallons. t)ne half bar rel, billed at 30 gallons, contained less than two, another less than seven, and a third less than nine gallons" One barrel billed at 60 gallons contained iess than 13. Whether or riot the barrels were the' floor of the bouse for fear -of j f l)U wnpn deIiverert nobody knows They were not checked. On re ceipt, the bill was paid without in j vestl'gatibn. ! Incidentally, what need had losing the federal patronage in their districts can never rise to prominence. There was no Underwood in the roll call of tho repeal forces. The speaker or me uouse was "ol! worth of bod bug poison? among them. The master figures! Wnat a vexing reflection for the of the body stood unmoved and Multnomah County taxpaver! Immovable among the 52 Demo-: gim.e an ,)llt tne fJrst of the crats who think a , treaty wtth a ; purchases occurred during his time wweak nation as binding as a treaty iaH coll0ly judge, what a painful Tvith a power rul nation. (record for Tl.opias J. Cleeton to i The house had no reason to re-wand on in ,Mi ambition to be a treat. It had no call to surrender. ! justire of the Oregon Supreme Unlike the prrsidenr, it had no in-icourt; ternational relations, no world re-) . sponsililities, no Mexican problem, no foreign complications to temper it nmrcA Inpe rvr I n f 1 n on ro i itz I i action. It was free to consider ' tree tolls on the basis that we built (CommnolcatloDa aent to. Tba Joarnal tor pctUcatlon In tbla department aboald be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, aboold not exceed 300 worda In length and moat be ac companied bj the najne and addreaa of the ceoder.' If the writer 6oes not deaire to kaxe the name published, he should ao autc.) "DlBCTigalon is the f-reateat of an reform er. It rationalises everything It toubea. it robs nrtnclDles of aU false sanotitr and throws them bark on their reasonableness. If thcT have no reasonableness. It ruthleaelr crashes them ont of existence acl aeta up its ewn conclusions In tbeic steta. wooarow Wilson. An Appeal to All Good People. Portland, March 31. To the Editor of The Journal I have been much in terested in the letters published and often get a point of view that is new and helpful. Just now the letters on prohibition are very interesting. Pro hibition will win eventually, because it is for the good of all. But, will some of you Kelp me by telling me what you would do if you were in my place? I need advice and I am anxious to get a different point of view than that I the oppressed, and still hold aloft I jiqw have. Between seven and eight the torch 'of liberty enlightening f months ago my husband and 1 landed v, ij in foruana wun a lew nunarea aoi mc nuiiv. , - lara nrl Virn fnr a hannv fiiturn. W ine asportation 01 war ujai haVe maje every effort possible to get would be- an un-American use or work. My husband has walked from un-American law and an un- one end of the city to the-other many, 'Doctor It's nothing serious, Carney. I'll have; you back on the Job in a week: Patient ! Whist! Can't he make it two weeks, doctor, bein' as yer bill Is goih' to be paid i by th' ccimp'ny PuCk. OREGON SIDEiaGUTa IN EARLIER DAYS By Fred LocUe. aaaaaaaaassaaBvvsSBBHBaOTaaaiaBasaBaaBBm t Th tornado season has opened early in poor old Kansas. Having made another borrow, Hiierta is, cheerfuL If all the candidates were as good they flook in their pictures, "we should worry." It is important that the candidates as well as their slogans or platforms, be scanned. , When a. man says ie is deliberat ing on the Question Of his jinrlirim v it is pretty iafe to write him down as a candidate. It is only quite a while after the news comes about those Mexican bat ties that we know what happened; and then it generally wasn't anything much. Some editors keep insisting that the Republican and . Progressive parties will unite, though nearly all the spokesmen of both those parties say they won't. i Now listen-v to the varied-voiced clamor of those not suited with the lo cation Of the brld!r aoDroaches. It would have been the. same, only per- naps more so, wnatever routes had been selected. Superintendent Glrdler. who came to Mny of Portland'a pioneer riidmU the La Grande schools a year ago, ( will remember Captain . William Tiche- nor, who used to be the master of va- f r-r,,.. i 'i. ra.ii. has been reeiectea oy the school boaru. with 400 a year added to his salary. -m- th. .mtrv imoroved and the ruins of the Pendleton academy replaced with good residences, the tas Oresonian says, the whole town will have reasons for rejoicing. , The demand for a mounted mall car rier, to serve the outlying and un paved portions of the city, is one that L. Grande is urging "Upon the postoi fice department. The Young Men s Booster club that is being organised at Astoria, is planned io include within its memoer ship residents not only of Astoria but of all the surrounding territory. With eight votes to spare, the spe cial bond issue of $18,000 to be used in improving and extending the light and water systems was t-assed at the election held-at Milton last W ednea-day. Wheeler Reporter: Mohlerite's take considerable pride in the fact that they have a church edifice while Wheeler with her industry and activity, which includes all lines of business, with out a church. We'll have one soon, however. an warranted ;assault upon justice and freedom. ' ' THE TEARS PROTEST G WHAT'S IX A NAME the canal, that we paid .for it, that It is our canal, and that the Re public of Panama placed the zone at our disposal. S E VISUAL weeks ago when the Bartholdt bill to change the name of the "war depart ment" to the "army depart ment" and of the "secretary ,of war" to . the "secretary of the army" was first under discussion ENTLEMEN who are trying to destroy the Oregon Blue Sky law will not succeed. Slight changes in the measure may be made. The system is new and necessarily is not yet stand ardized. 3 But the wildcat operations past and present make absolutely necessary the regulation of cor porations that issue stocks and bpnds. ' t We regulate banks and their op erations. Then why let a corpora tion with a state charter with power to sell stocks and bonds, proceed to do business by selling bogus bonds or worthless stocks? We regulate by law public au thority and under ceriain condi- many times, trying to get a job. But he has not succeeded. We have spent our all now and though It- has been sjient carefully, we now have our rent paid for two weeks, about two days provisions on hand, and seven -cents in cash. We never did run bills and cannot now if we wanted to, because we have no' income. We have no "Old Man" to fall back on. We have friends where we came from but they are, llko yours, doing well to care for them selves. . .. " . . Now advise me, after you think i over a little, what to do under such a Of MiOad and maybe I can try it. Don't say go back to the sou, unless r you have some soil you don't want. '--We both love to farm. Don't say appeal to some church unless you are a member of that church and have a job in sight for us. We don't want to beg. But if some of you employers who hav continually been interested in gatherf- Ing statistics as to "how long we have been out of work, how many children, where did we work last, how much longer can We eat," and then end witrf. 'Weil, a man like you is bound -to get in somewhere; 1 11 look around ana drop you a card," will drop that card it may help some. ! We are born Americans, with a love One morning Rosie's teacher noticed; her ! hanging around the desk wun rather a wistful expression. j "Well, Rosle, what is itr she finally asked, drawing the child to her. "Please, teacher, we've got a new baby f our house." "Oh, have you, Rosle? Isn't that fine? What" a the baby's name?" "ikie." ; Several days later the teacher re membered to inquire about the new arrival. "Oh, Rosie, how is Ikie today?" j The child looked bewildered, "Oh, teacher, we ain't got no Ikie.'' j "Yes. You told me you,had a baby." i A gleam' of intelligence appeared on Rosie's fate. "No, teacher, his name's Mose; his name ain't Ikie. We found we already got one Ikie." Everybody's Magazine. tions prohibit the sale of "nursery stock. Why not then regulate or for all that's right, and I try not to even prohibit the sale of securities become hardened against my felfow hv which a kitchen mnirl ia tr ho citizens. But I have tried hard to . find a little of that western hospital rouoea ot ner savings: ,tv T lls-rt to rftart about, without avajil We regulate railroads and street- Over two months ago I appealed to a car companies so they mav not good minister of this city to call ami overcharge the public. Then why not prevent United Wireless Com panies, Inland Development Com pames, Columbia River Orchard Companies and kindred corpora STORIES THAT RELATE TO HUMORISTS muscle dance. This I refused to go. to. It 'shows why the saloon likes lodges better than it likes churches. If the money spent for lodges were put into the churches, then the churches could pay the taxes on their property very easily. It is high time to do away with licensed saloons and give the home and church a chance; for the 6ake of the wives and little ones in the home Mr. Knight should study the Bibla in order to find the good in It, not in order to find fault with it. The good, true, noble and holy examples in the Bible are for ell to profit by. Prohibition does prohibit. If it did r;ot all saloonkeepers would want. it. Their denial that it does prohibit is contrary to their vote and fools no one. REV. C. I. HARRIS, C. D. By Herbert Corey. Irvin S. Cobb, the humorist, par ticularly dislikes the ' "professional southerner." ' Show him a mani wear ing a black slouch hat and talking with a drawl and a little foam begins to form in the corners of Mr. Cobb's mouth. If the other fellow tells about the grand old plantation his folks used to own before the war, Mr. Cobb is liable to lapse into violence right thera. "I think," said he. "that 111 form a new society in New. York. I'll call it the Society of New Southern Fami lies. No one will be eligible for mem bership who had a grandfather south of Mason and Dixon's line prior to May 27, 1865. m He thought deeply for a moment. "I sure will do that." said he. "We'll have a coat ' of arms, bearing a hookworm rampant and a boll weevil couchant. And our motto shall be: " 'We never owned no niggers.' " By his own rule, he's in trouble right now. sponsible for his attitude. $ WHY NOT? Si. It jrould, and it should liave ' the Christian Scierice Monitor sent -.saved Prrsidont Wilson from the : out a letter to a number of peo rompliations abroad and protected ; pie, prominent in the cause of in him against the International : ex- j ternational peace asking for opin actions and embarrassments re- ! ions on? the proposed change. Al- j most unanimously the answers as sented ito the change, the object i of which is to bring about a for getfulness of the Word, war AFRKSXO milliner has opened ( The change of .name is not ap a millinery stall in he mar- proved, however, by William H. "ket place of that citv. Busi- : Galvani, secretary of the Oregon ness Is reported good. j peace Society-; who believes In . The enterprise or the yejing lady calling- a spade a spade. On the Is In keeping with what perns to other hand the term army, he says be the tendency to swing back to implies an aggregation of brass i r) A fawJiirtno anri Clitatrms Tn f fr. V. . . t . i . . i ". ... uuuuiiwi Keuiienien, a sort or or- me.r days vendors of all kinds of namental institution for pomp and miM-icr. im . "' tuun. giory ot tins world, thouch. fre their wares to the county fair. ; quently ' used for the destruction i'nere was ine lair at DomvyurooK- of life and property. nrl h fnir at ' "NiTrmi Vnrornrl i . r- i . , .......... - - o- j inr, ji touunues, implies a Mere were to ue naa rare laces, fixed tendency toward desolation costly silks, embroidered skirts and to retain the term will only auu lowering neaa gear, as wen the more speedily result in a gen .as finely bred horses and sheep era! upheaval of public sentiment and nutritious and esculent comes-, and common sense against this de- uoies. structive agency. ine r resno milliner disclosed Another writer suggests that a .her sense of the appropriate when i mere change of name in Itself she placed ner artistically trimmed ; means little unless it, really , con bonnet between the orange stand notes a change in public senti :and the vegetable stand. j ment." ; " The yellow of the citrus blends' "What's In a name?"'quotes he i : 1 .. .. . t . . ,1 . t ! iimi. . i .... . - uamiuiiivH.-Mv wilu iu taiiKO coi- mat wnicn wo Call n rc k ored creation of her art and the any other name .would? smell as deep grwen of the trimmings shades ' swiet." As for the engineering off into the green of the pea pod educational and humanitarian du and the asparagus top. The ; ties performed at present by the feathers that proudly stand on the j army and the navy they should be Easter confections renew their as--.immediately assigned, he -thinks, to 8oclation with the plumage of the j another department. chicken, land the duck fromywhich they were rudely taken. Why not a millinery shop as i well as a, butcher shop? Why not s ladles and gents furnishing stall as well as a butter and egg stall? have the church ladies call, ihat I might at least feel a human hand again, but up io aate tney nave an been too busyi For some unknown rea son, as soon as folks find we are un employed they are woefully busy. I lrTinnj that In not rlcrht. hut lf trtiA. tions, chartered by state authority, Now, won't some of you give me a from swindling widows, orphans handshake at a distance? I long for and others Of the unsuspecting out a. little recognition. You can't see V M V. A V Y V fill AAO Mat AWAM -WAMnA.i4 lrtViH nnH T a sail r von it ti a Hmn The principle of the. law Is cor- comes when we can just live again rect. It Is as necessary a law as a and have our being:, I will join you In law to prohibit theft. It is espe- goo1 worj nom? missionary pr cially meritorious as a measure be- pf flolent. If you do et around to call cause It is the weak and unsophistl- in not speak of our financial circum- cated that bogus corporations mostly stances or look to see if you have: & nliin H or a irmnr ik. rUob up your sieeve. in iaiK on any law was given by John A. Keating, appreciate any effort any of you put president of the Lumberman's forth to Just "assure me that fellowship Trust Comnanv in Sunday's Jour- isn't dead and that there are a few nal. He said' nere in mis iar wesi wun a uiua.ui tne eastern love ior someniiug ueies vut cauciiulo cto tor us Lilt" iin i v. "me tonLj mw ja twuti lieu, naa shown that dealers In legitimate in vestment securities are put at no dis advantage whatsoever. ' Indeed,' I can not see wherein any concern working honestly can find any handicap in that fexcellent piece of legislation. Many people who Invest In bonds feel more secure, now that the law is in operation, and in my opinion, it has had ' some favorable effect on the market. Efforts will be made to kill the law. There will doubtless be at tempts to scuttle it in the next legislature. ' What would you do under such cir cumstances? EVER HOPEFUL.) Rev. C. I. Harris Replies to Critic Portland, March 31. To the Editor of The Journal In last Wednesday s Journal I read an article against mine of March 20, by C. S. Knight of Am toria. His own argument condemns him and hi method of reading the Bible and bis manner of living. ( If he follows the saloon and its in fluences he will find no good come from it. If he refrains from church influences on account of some fallen brother in it, he will be condemned for not helpin? him to rise again. The measure. SWAT THE FLY JAPAN'S POLITICAL CRISIS 0 FFICIALS of the health de partment have discovered what they say Is the second case of pellagra in Portland. A woman, who has been a resident of Oregon several years, is in the county hospital with all the symp- XAPAN Is passing through a po- . I litical crisis made acute by(toms of that di's-ac. ; . revelations concerning graft In J 'the " awarding of. naval con tracts. ; The mikado and elder statesmen are attempting to form a cabinet which, will command the confidence of parliament, j Nothing could better Illustrate the modernization ot Japan than the present situation in that coun try Following , disclosures., con cerolng the naval scandals, the house of representatives cut down It was, once th0UKb.t-t.lmt mnnlil corn was responsible for the or igin and spread of pellagra. But a commission of experts has re ported that th stable fly is .the probable source of contagion. I These experts eay that mouldy corn Ihas little or nothing to do with aa affliction which has burdened t?rtions of Europe and Is now ir ' The experts may be mistaken In I T But : the tears, disappointments saloon 1st opposed to the church and and sorrows of the thousands Who causes many to fall and be lost. If have been, swindled and plundered Mr- ,Knif," Tea? 8 ?f ibie , hf4 .t . . , .L . article shows he did to find fault in the past, cry out against other witb. it or condemn God. the church or than mere minor changes necessary its leadera then be derives no benefit to perfect the workability of the from 4114 h stands self condemned lor rwi. uiii& iu ui mvw ujr us guou advice. No one has the rieht to condemn tha MENACE OF DIVORCE church or the clergy unless he has never fallen himself unless he Is an HE first -annual renort of th example for the church and the minis- :.i"u"Vi ui ui-1 Satan's influencn throned ft, rtrlnV vorce and marriage statistics habit is far reaching and sooner or of Chicago reveals the close later brings Its vlctimg to ruin and rplatinnRhin hotwp-n ta inroniia death, besides the innocent that are , "u,v . lost or have to suffer for the guilty. court ana tne uivorce court. It ways Moses following God when he also emphasizes tne menace to the I committed a . crime? Was Abraham life of the nation which Is em- llls..aJloly lle r 00,1 before ne . j, . . , . .,i sent ine servant gin away into the bodied In the evil of divorce, aptly wilderness? " called the cancer of the family. Mr. Knight failed to see why Moses The Chicago Juvenile Court rec- hspold not see God's face, same as he wia cr Ti. icoo et a s o ueo io prom vv me lire or Moses. .... - " ' . ... ' I Abraham or Christ, or even by the mls- i.uo vuo v.aio ui tuiiuieu. i taKes oi ine preacnera or the churches Of tnese approximately 33.750 today. were the direct result of divorce or Speaking about the church using the neglect of parents through causes omSSoSTS that , constitute sufficient grounds ture, no true Christian ever could do for divorce. It is further shown such things, it wa the devil element that nearly. 50,000 divorces a year th" dln1it:ht .. .nAl . ' . ' , J Mr. Knight says the lodges do more are granted by the Cook county actual good thani the churches do. courts. I That shows where he got his informa- In 1885 approximately 24,000 H01!: U, only "foafceep' talk. divorces were granted in the United tad been prsedT Vt tS States. In the remalndei: of the first social cigars and cake were civilized world the number was passed around, while liquor was served. 20 000 Ten . vear tatfr rllvnrcM I The taik, smoke ana drink were more tu.vvu. len jears later divorces j tnan:i couid stand, and I left. The in me lUHeu.autes naa mcreasea 1 neit two meetings were no improve to b,UU(j wnile all the rest Of thelment, and dropped out and stayed ou civilized world had only 40,000. 1 after that- Another lodge had a swell TU( 1, ' ' I supper, and before the meal was over ut kso it uig ittio vi uub uivurco i woman danced nnon & hl th. Criticising the Y, M. C. A. Portland, March la.-i-To the Editor of The Journal The addresses de livered at the luncheon in the Portland hotel by- the allied prohibition forces on last Friday were, for th most part. In manuscript, but the Vemarks of Sec retary Stone, of the Y.i M. C. A., were extempore and there plight be some fine splitting in re thereto; yet as an auditor I am quit certain that I fully grasped his every utterance. The gist of his statements was to the effect that the T. M. C. A. is not in politics, but that the directors had, by unanl tnously adopted resolutions, decided to Hndorse the movement for state and ?ation-wide prohibition and that in fu ure no solicitations would be made or donations accepted ; from brewers. Wholesalers, saloons or s: loonmen for any purpose whatsoever. The vigor and emphasis which he gave to this expression brought forth applause from some of his auditors. The inference that ; the money from such sourceB is now tainted and would debauch a Christly Institution natural ly causes the mind to ask what about such funds in years gone by? The fact that money from such source was accepted discloses a venality that cannot and should not be considered creditable even at this late date. Christ taught the idea of cnaking restitution You find that same idea in Confucian doctrine' and in the Koran. Now that tne, x. m. u. a. is committed to a policy In political life that means the destruction of the means of livelihood for many who in years past gave lit- erally to Y. M. C. A. projects, why not accept the doctrine of Christ and make restitution of these "tainted" sums? Until and. unless this is done there surely will be some inanimate and inarticulate tear shedding among component parts of the various Y. M, C. A. edifices because of th fact that tbey got there through a notion on tha part of some men in the brewery, dis tilling and saloon business that they were entitled to be considered as Christians. Surely tho records of the local Y. M. C. A. will reveal the donors of the money that is now declared to be tainted, and then, like true Chris tians, the work of restitution should begin. G. A..M. Speaking of these literary folk, George Randolph Chester, the novel ist, has a house up on Fifty-seventh street full of antiques and slippery floors and rugs that smell like camels and very old masterpieces you can't see except tn a strong light." Every now and then four or five footmen Inform in a hollow square and escort him to a pink limousine. '! "Twenty years ago," said a Cincin nati editor, "I was hard at work when a little chap camo into the office sort tf sideways. He said he wanted u job. I told him there wasn't any job. 'But I really ought to have a job,' said this' little chap. 'Because I'm broke. And in the course of two or three days I'll be even hungrier than I am now. "So I explained that there were no vacancies on the staff, but that might be able to get him a few days' work if he dldn t put his price too high. He said he wouldn't do that. " 'The fact is,' said he, 'I've always been kind of queer about money. I can get along on $5 a week, thoush I tl4nk a good man ought to be worth $10 a week. But I don t want any more than that. I've always noticed that when a newspaper man gets more than $10 a wek he begins to get into ,lllll.la .S; That was George Randolph Chester. No one will question the entire sin cerity of Jack Rose, the well known state's witness. He has been lecturing before Young Men's Christian Asso ciations, church organizations and' ladies' auxiliaries ever since the Beck er trial ended. Also, ue is solid for this year, and his books are open for. 1915. Under these circum stances those who know Mr. Rose must admit that he is Justftably and undeniably strong for the uplift. "He sort of wabbled at first, though," said a friend. "He didn't know whether to go-on the lecture platform or not." "Afraid he couldn't talk?" asked the other man. "Or was he oppressed by a sense of his unworthiness?" "Neither," said Rose's acquaintance. "But he had been made a mighty good offer to open a saloon and stuss joint on Third avenue." , . He's a nice, blond, blue-eyed bell boy at the Hotel MAlpln. The other day he went to his associates upon the bench. Tears seemed to be mighty near the top. "I've just simply got to have money." he said. "Lemme have all you can spare. : For heaven's sake!" He .looked imploringly at them. So they gave up -each according to his measure. Some of them gave as little as a quarter. ' Some piingled up a dol lar or two. When' he had collected all he could he pawsed his watch. His pockets were soggy with coin. His sympathetic friend wanted to know what was the trouble. "Who said anything about trouble?" he asked. "I've got a tip on the third race and I'm going to shoot . it through the board." ' Whereupon his sympathetic friends sels plying between Portland and San Francisco in the early days.- His daughter lives in Portland as well as some of his grandchildren. , i 7 Captain Tichenor halls from New ark, N. J., where he was born on June 13. 1813. When he was 12 years' -old he went as cabin boy on tbe brig Martha to Kttrope. Coming back to the United States., he went to school f and studied navigation. - In 1828 he went to Marseilles. France, in the fall of 1828 he shipped as mate on the' steamer George Wash ington, in the New Orleans trade, ply ing on the Mississippi river, where hs ran for some years. Before he was 21 years old hs was married to Elisabeth Brlnkerhoff. He decided to quit the sea- and settle down, so he went to- Knox county, Indiana, where he stayed for the next eight years, "but the call of the sa was too strong for him, and In lli! he again went to sea. One of his eldest brothers had been In Yerba Buena, now known as Ban Francisco, in 1828 us a mate On a brig from Boston. Of his six broth- -ers, four followed the sea. In 1844 he decided to go out to the Pacific coast to Yerba Buena. However, he , got into politics in Illinois, to which state he had removed, and delayed his departure. In 1845 he assisted Colonel K. . Baker, later senator from Oregon. In raising troops for the Mexi can war. Governor French, Judge KitebeM and other- prominent, poli ticians of Illinois urged him to run for senator, so he ran. and Was elected. After serving one term he resigned on February 19, 184!. and started for the California gold fields. He reached Hangtown, later called Placervllls. on August 3, 1849. He located a claim, which became a good producer f and which he sold out at a good figure.. After selling his claim he spent some weeks in prospecting the north and middle fork of the American river, where , he struck rich diggings. The site of his discovery still bears the name of Tichenor's Gulch. Taking in three friends, he worked this gulch un til late in October of '49. When the snow drove them out he went to Sut- ter's Mill, and at the store there he met a man. by the name of Hudson, who had been mining in Oregon Gulcli with other Oregonlans, among them be ing R. R. Thompson. Hudson had 120 pounds of gold dust,- while Captain" Tichenor had 70. From Hangtown they went together to Sutter's Fort, and from there to San Francisco. All of the buildings In San Francisco were crowded to the doors. Captain Tichenor having to pay an ounce of dust for a place on the floor to lay his blanket". Next day he met A. Leonard, of New York, who offered to take him in in his newly built shanty. In the course of the conversation Mr. Leonard spoke of having a schoon er, the Jacob M. Ryerson. which he was trying to It was a well built vessel, almost new, of 160 tons. Mr. Leonard offered it to Captain Tichenor at a reasonable price, no the sale was made. He was able to get a load of freight for Sacramento at a good fig- waniea to lun mm. experience had , anA rtr HiKcharirlnir his freleht taught them that the man who bor- j the'r. he dropped down to the mouth rows money to play a race with never I of th) San .,oanun, where he pur cloes anything but borrow more. The ' v,,,,.,i en wti.r casks and went to San i.encn squmnea like a mess or adders i iv,. .- , haiit nf frenh Swater. while his friends tried to make him r rom Sltn Francisco he esiled in the give back their money. He wouldn't , rwomh.r fnr the Gulf of do it, but played the tip. On which he won; $1800 at 40 to 1. And then, Just to spoil what promised to be a perfect ry moral story, he banked all he cleared In his mother's name and went back to the bench. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE "ON THE INSIDE" By John M. Oskison. Here are three quotations: 1. "They a committee, of three stockholders of the South Bay Wharf and Terminal company of Boston) have recently made a eiareful and detailed estimate of the value of the company s property, which, I figure, would mean s. value of about $170 a share for the stock." , 2. "As to the balance of the stock I have no definite knowledge b yond a general idea that 1000 or 2000 shares possibly might be purchased at or about par." 3. "I have received your letter of the twenty-seventh, and place my In terest in the case in your hands. I am quite ready to sink or swim with you in the matter." Quotations one and two- are from a letter to the late J. P. Morgan, signed by John C. Cobb of Boston, and dated January 27, 1906; the third quotation is from Mr. Morgan's reply dated Jan uary 30, 1906. The letters were made public in the recent full disclosure by J. P. Morgan & Co. of their financial relations with the New Haven rail road system during the 20 years from 1894 to' 1914. Including 1222 shares of the South California, where he spent the winter, (trading between Lower California and i Mexico. He returned to Ssn Francisro on March 12. I860, with a cargo f green turtle, the .first cargo of this kind to be brought to 15an Francisco. The Cynic. By Henry Ward Beecher. The cynic Is one who never fees a good quality In a man, and never fail to see a bad one. He Is the humsn owl, vigilant In the darkness and bUnl to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions Into only two classes openly bad and secretly bad. All vir tue and generosity, and dlslnterested tipmt. are merely the appearance of the ootiom. no Bay and Terminal company (which at inai time tne New Haven was bar gaining for) owned by Mr. Morgan, Mr. Cobb controlled 7500 shares out of a total of J 2,387. In another part of Mr. Cobb's letter, he wrote: "I have also stated to them (the committee of three appraisers of the Boston company's stock) that I con- r f xnc. "MK! or ln ood. but selfish at 27h" WVA?"h, ?arVl " any holds that no man does a good thin nnid-7i,L8?i- fi0: ! cept r profit. The effect Of Ms " rftt.v.r.Hnn unon your feelings is --to at tho same price." chill and sear them; to send you awy Tl... . . .. I .am.. "PPoriunity. Mr., our nd morOBe. His criticisms and ,n,'&. ? II inunendoes - fall Indiscriminately upon r"..; TT.i.'J". .Vermlnal : everv lovely thing, like frost -.miJo.il j B o.l loiiri. in nis ijeiier, he pomiea out to air. iu organ every lovely the flowers. thing. If Mr. A. specific ! . in nw- nnr.nrt.mitu r. tt, V t , .reunions III . "". -v. ... --'"'v" auvui iV a. snare on from 1000 to 2000 shares of that! company's stock which "might be pur- ! on Sundays, the church : chased at or about par" ($100 a share)" j ar c-fm'n In other words, certain scattor-rf ospel is calle, storlrVii-ilriorfi who VSoH wmt . V. - " i gence: It 18 n ' ........ , " - - ..w ii-b name , knowledge as Mr. Cobb as to what price was likely to be put upon the share's by the committee of appraisers, might be induced to sell at par shares which would soon be worth 1170. Specifically, that's what it means to be "onjthe inside." In Answer to Mr. Paxton. Newport, Or., March 28. To the Editor of The Journal I would like to comment on Mr. Paxton's letter of March 23. In part he says: "I dou't believe there is any evil in whiskey, any more than there is in the many cereals from which whiskey la made and from which our daily bread is also made.'' Nonsense; Whoever heard of bread be divorced from the traffic; our liquor revenuo would cease; the traf fic would die and Mr. Paxton arid the whole nation would sober up, with innumerable blessings. j E. W. DURKEE. In Reply to M. E. Z." Vancouver, Wash., March 1 30. To the Edljtor of The Journal. A writer in The Jlournal who signs himself "M. B. Z.," ! says I surely ought to have my eyes opened in 69 years. In my younger days I thought along the same lines as M. B. Z., and still think the same about the saloon evil, but the saloons and prohibition are different questions,1 when it comes ito nnttina-' out of business. When you turning a happy home into one of prohibit a man rrom annaing Deer oi despair and poverty and of i filling whiskey In his own house you are ln poorhouses. jails and penitentiaries ? Him? on individual rights. You Whoever heard of bread giving a man I 1(tht weli Bay I shall not drink delirium tremens? Who ever heard of -p,ir.itint.iKt en mo a man getting on a drunk by drinking ! tea nor coffee. Frcture bread and then go home to kick his ! . "V, " ,T "T' "-fh. want Wife down the stairs and pitch the ! any Intoxicating uujrhey ant Children out of doors? When , It does to destroy the grape Industry, tho uch thing, we will accept Mr. Pax- ! hP $?ntrv' Lork in for ton'. Ideas, and clas. bread with ! rye. They say tbey are workinff whiskey i the boys who are the men to be. it f He al says: x IOve the taste of ! they cannot teach boy that whiskey whiskey, ana would not llve!n any n ," tb,th!L!f,?rS', land where I could not get It' ' i laws rfln them the lntell ne L fh!, i "rTU ealTgr e?n IpS, "nd kll things ready so that he can &iV they make hirr fld sUks earlv la November i I pie trees. M. fc.. says tne oia soann f aLIS. he Tav. "ProhibftL h . will feet their booze, but God w ill save the boys. If that is so wny worry about the boys? Prohibitionists want to force every one to think aa they do, by passing laws. If they would confine them selves to putting the saloons out of business they would get thousands to help who will not vote prohibition At it 1. now proposed. B. F. PEYLON. An Affair at Bell Station. Bell Station, on Estacaaa canine. Again, he says: "Prohibition has failed, and has come far short of a remedy." j -: ' A million and a half of Kansas Jay hawker, and hundreds of brewers and! distiller, elsewhere will testify to the: inaccuracy of that statement,! But again: I am bitterly opposed to tne license syouem ana iu ine evil in fluences of the liquor traffic and will yote to .top its sale." To .top right there would and L fine; but he goes on to spoil his argument fey telling us he want, it In jiug lots, ! March 31. To the Editor of The Jour- at least in quantities. not lessl than one 'nal At the insistence oi many resi gallon. - He wants it wholesale, witn the license on, so it would ibe cheap, because he love, it so Well. But with the license off, the government would dents of Bell station, I write you of our indignation toward the Portland owners of the hall tn which the drunk en brawl and dance waa held on last Staiirday night and Sunday morning. Bell Station, being situated just out side of the, city limits and in' Clacka mas county, and quite a distance from Oregon City, we are left without any immediate police protection, having no local official. Some of Portland's so cial degenerates, moral perverts, came to thiis hall, for the second (we will try to make it the last) time, to hold their debaucheries. It is a civic crime that our community, because of Its geographical location, must Buffer this humiliation when not one of our real dents participated In the revelry. The owners were warned some time ago. Now legal steps I will likely be resorted to unless we are assured that such an affair will not happen again. We would like to have it known that we consider ourselves on a par,, in point of Intelligence and morality, with persons of any of '.Portland's suburban places of residence. We are very thankful to Sherifr Word for services rendered us, since ;8herlff Mass of our county could not give us aid In time to quell the degrading affair. W. G. BRlCKLET. The Ragtime Muse He's - Haunted. Everywhere I loofc" I see Something freakish, something strange! Wonder what is wrong with me! Possibly I need. a change, Yesterday, bent o'er a book In the office, semi-dark, My old pen became a hook And I caught a dollar mark! Through the window on the wall Opposite. I nee a lakte. I am crazy? Not at all! Yes, and I am wide awake. I am strong, my will is firm. But I (must confess to fear When a ghostly angleworm Comes and whisper, in my earl , Then a black bass, floating nigh In the air. begins to sing. And I see a dragon fly Hover o'er a bubbling spring. Bluebirds from the inkwell hop, Round my head the pickerel swi.h- If this haunting doe. not stop X shall surely goand flshj po'i pronounc- Ye Mr. B. has Just Joined Certainly; the election The minister of tlie ed an example of (mi nis trade. Such a rsan ! is generous of other mens mono. iThis man is obliging: To lull u I picion and cheat you. That man i I upright; Because he Is green. I Thus his eye strains out every good 'quality and takes in only the bad. T him religion is hypocrisy, honesty a preparation for fraud, virtue only a want of opportunity, and undeniable purity, asceticism. The livelong day lie will cooly sit with sneering lip. transfixing every character tnat , i presented. It is impossible to Indulge In such habitual severity of . opinion upon our fellowmen without Injuring the tenderness and delicacy of our own feelings. A man will be what his most cherished feelings are. If. he encourage a noble generosity, every feeling will be enriched by it; if he nurse bitter and envenomed thoughts, his own spirit will absorb the poison, and 'he will crawl among men a. a burnished adder, whose life I. mischief and whose errand Is death. He -who hunt, for flowers Will find flowers, and he who loves weeds may find weeds." Let It be remembered that? roan, who Is not himself morally dis eased, will have a relish for disease in other's.- Reject, then, the. morbid am bition of the cynic, or cease to call yourself man. - j -s Strengthening. "A'clergyman," say. DeWolf Hopper, "visited a tippler In hi. flock and cau tioned him against drinking too much The man an.wered that the doctor hait prescribed liquor for Him. Well," In quired the minister, 'ha. It done you any goodT I fancy It haa an.w.rei the bibber, 'for when I got that keg a week o I could hardly lift It, and now I can r.rry It all about the room " i " The Sunday Journal The Great ' Hothe Newspaper, , consists ot Five ne-f s sections replete witb lllustrjated: features. , . Illustrated magazine ot quality. Woman's section of rare merit. Pictorial news supplement. -' Superb comic section. ; 5 Cents the Copy 1-