WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. riibllhtl Every AVrek. ENTERPRISE OREGON. Perityphlitis appends to be the thirty-second degree of appendicitis. Presently Illinois will advertise for bids for a puncture-proof anti-trust law. The trouble with most of the In ventors of nir ships is that they leave needy families behind them. People who try to be elegant by call ing them "knee trousers" might as well save energy by referring to them as "pants." That Massachusetts lady who mur dered thirty-one people Isn't likely to be used as an evidence of woman's re fining influence upon man. The scientists are all mixed up over the causes for the I'clee eruption. But as long as they can't prevent an erup tion what's the use of worrying over the class it belongs in? A Chicago judge thinks $15 a week isn't enough for a man who has a wife aud two children to support. It is like ly, however, that Hetty Green and Bus eell Sage would regard that as suffi cient to provide riotous luxury. One difference between a home and en institution that is, most institu tions was indirectly brought out at a recent meeting of the ministerial league In a New England city. The league was addressed by the president of a wom an's union which has founded a home for working girls. That wise woman told the assembled ministers that one room In the new house is set apart for "sessions of courting," where the girl.-i are permitted to receive calls from men friends. She reported that the "court ing room" is often engaged for weeks ahead. The ministers laughed, but they also applauded this triumph of human nature over old-fashioned institution rule and routine, A recent novel represents a sweet and gracious girl as concealing the ex istence of a will, in order that she may herself inherit an estate, and thus pro vide for a sick and dependent mother. The author expects us to agree that the girl Is a good girl, and that the gen erous impulse justifies itself in spile of the crime. It is a testimony to the healthy change of public sentiment in the last hundred years that reviewers and readers refuse to accept the au thor's dictum in the matter. When a man does that sort of thing, we call him a scoundrel. Why not a woman? The defaulting bank cashier, who gave the proceeds of his first theft to the support of foreign missons. went, and deserved to go, to State prison, in spite of his religious impulse. Education is doing a notable work for women In in ducing them to assume certain burdens which hitherto many of them have uot deemed obligatory. That which men call business honor Is one of these bur dens. It is a responsible possession. It requires eternal vigilance. But it is worth having and keeping, for women as for men. There, is a hopeful movement among American churches for concerted ac tion regarding divorce and remarriage. The Episcopal Church took the lead, and invited the Presbyterians to act with it. The Presbyterian General As eeiubly, at its meeting In New York, appointed a committee to confer ami co-operate with the Episcopal commit tee, and with such committees as might be appointed by other churches. The special end in view is so to affect public opinion as to secure more strict divorce laws, and, if possible, uniform laws in the various States. Were the churches of this country to act togeth er with real earnestness to accomplish this reform, they would probably suc ceed. The sacredness of marriage and the preservation of the family are re ligious and moral, as well as social, questions. Success would probably fol low a united demand for better laws from the moral aud religious forces of the community. It must be remem bered, too, that the scandal of easy di vorces and swift remarriages is not wholly a matter of legislation. The churches and the clergy are not free from blame. Divorce for trivial causes or through collusion ought to carry with it a social and moral stigma. Par ties to such divorces should be unable to find a reputable clergyman to re marry them, yet often they have expe rienced little ditlicnlty. In order to produce the effect which is desired upon public opinion and upon legisla tion, the churches must themselves maintain a high standard. for her. She would rather rend her brother's books than her own. Stories of daring, fighting and adventure are more interesting to her than tales of meek and self-sacrificing misses who act sedately and die young. The Amer ican girl has as much red blood In her veins as the American boy. There Is no such marked difference in the tastes of boys and girls as the makers of distinctively feminine stories were wont to suppose. They both like life and action In their books. Just as their elders do. and there is no reason why the girls, should not have it as much as the boys. For wholesome and inter esting books like Miss Alcott's there will always be a demand, but girls' books as a separate class seem nbout to become extinct. Nor is this a mat ter for regret. The present demand of the publishers for juvenile books written for both boys and girls afford at least one instance in which com mercial motives are in accord with what is normal and wholesome. The Ht. Hon. J. Bryce. member of Parliament, delivered a lecture at Ox ford recently upon "The Relations of the Advanced and Backward Races of Mankind," which Is provoking mnch interesting discussion In the English press. He described the various re sults of the contact of two races dif fering in strength. Either the weaker race died out or was absorbed Into the stronger, or the two liecame com mingled into something different from what either was before, or, finally, the two continued to dwell together un mixed, each preserving Its own char acteristics. By the two processes ol absorption and extinction alone more than half the tribes or peoples that existed when authentic history began have disappeared, and Mr. Bryce is of opinion that within two centuries there might be less than forty lan guages left and less than twenty na tionalitiesthat is, branches of man kind of the same stock. As to the fu ture of mankind, he doubted whether any further mixture of advanced ami backward races is to be desired. Mr. Bryce dwelt with special emphasis upon the relations of the two races where institutions are democratic, as Jn tjie United States, and as may yet be the case in South Africa and the Philippines. Evidently referring to this country, he says: "As regards political rights race and blood should not be made the ground of discrimin ation. Where the bulk of the color race Is unfit for political power a qual ification based on property and educa tion might be established, which would permit the upper section of the race to enjoy the suffrage." As regards social relations, Mr. Bryce goes to the root of the question when he says: "Law can do but little save in the way of expressing the view the state takes of how Its members should be have to one another. Good feeling and good maimers cannot be imposed by statute. Tis true, and pity 'tis 'tis true," but the truth of it Is Illustrated almost every day in this country. Mr. Bryce Is greatly puzzled when he re members how successful Mohammed anism has been in overcoming all color difficulties and creating the sentiment of equality among its followers, while Christianity has been unsuccessful. Perhaps this Is because Christianity Inculcates charity towards all and re ligious equality, while it does not con cern Itself with social and political equality. If it did, all ranks would he leveled a process for which the world is not yet ready. The questions grow ing out of the contact of the backward and advanced races in this country must be left to time to settle, and this is evidently Mr. Bryce's opinion, as he says in the close of his lecture: "When we think of the problems which are now being raised by the contact of races, clouds seem to hang heavy on the horizon of the future, yet light streims in when we remember that the spirit in which civilized states are preparing to meet those problems is higher and purer than It was when, four centuries ago, the great outward movement of the European peoples be gan." The process of solution must be slow, but It will be hastened when the backward race shows such signs of coining forward that it will be for the Interests of the advanced race to aid its upward movement. K Emth ails P OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS. Changes of a Lifetime. It took the ltoinau republic some ages to pass from the simple poverty of its early days upon the seven hills to the age of Augustus, but the American re public bus made that change iu one gen eration. Iu the second decade of the nineteenth century the lives of the American people were severely simple and pluiu. Most of the necessaries of life were raised on the farm by the people living on it. Most of their trading was done by barter. The country people scarcely ever got in the course of a year more than enough money to pay their tuxes. The farmers' houses were almost destitute of furniture. Ex cept a few school books and the family Bible, there was, no reading matter, ex cept ill favored neighborhoods where two or three families took a weekly newspa per together. Muils were infrequent uiid postage was almost prohibitory. The era of invention had not begun. Th - only means of cooking was the open fere aud the brick oven. Meat was rousted by suspending from a cord attached to a hook in the ceiling. It was with great ditlicnlty that tires were started or kept going. Tools and food and the labor of men and animals were freely borrowed anil lent. Farming tools were rude and deficient. The poverty of farms in re spect to tools made it impossible for fann ers to prosper except by cattle raising nud the cultivation of the small grains. Heating stoves or furnaces were un known. Communication between dis tant parts of the country was practically non-existent and transportation was of the crudest sort. Men were narrow and bigoted. Civilization was stationary. There was a prejudice against innova tion and change, a belief that all wisdom was in the fathers. Contrast this simple, narrow life with the complex and broad life of the poorest farmer of our times. Think of the tools and horses, the machinery and the im proved methods he has. Think of the comforts and luxuries that are his. Think how farming has been .changed from slavery to 'inspiring work. Then con trast the picture of the past with the general wealth, progress in education, dif fusion of knowledge, opportunities and hopefulness of our own times. Only the beginnings of the great power of the people are so f. r seen. As a matter of fact the tremendous changes wrought by Improvement of communication und transportation have made it possible for great free governments to exist perma nently. It is now and ever will be the fashion to talk of the good old times, but in America the old times are not to be com pared with ours. Our wealth has not spoiled the nation, though it has ruined some classes. At the core the nation is sounder now than formerly because it is wiser and better trained and equipped. Minneapolis Journal. Feminina Overwork. Now and then one hears the comment that women never know when to stop and take a rest, but persist in going on and on until they are exhausted. The explana tion, when one comes to think of it. is a simple one. Women have for innum erable generations been engaged in work which does not admit of vacations, while man's work does. Hence a public opin ion has grown up iu the one case which does not exist iu the other. The type of woman who is liable to overwork Is conscientious. If site goes away for an absolute rest of a mouth or three months, or a year, she hears a chorus of voices denouncing her as idle, incompetent or neglectful of duty. This is especially the case if she be the mother of a family. She never gets away from the care of that family, and she is al ways conscious of the fact that if any thing happens in her absence she will be condemned by a jury of her peers for having been away when it occurred. This sort of thing takes all the rest out of a vacation, and few people have the nerve to disregard it. This morbid conscientiousness, how ever, is not a tiling to encourage. The thing which every human being should do is to make sure, first, that he or she has a fair amount of the work of the world to do, and second, to stop when thut share is done. If a rest is necessary. Of course, most people who are worth anything iu life do more than their share of work, but they should uot break them selves down in the process. Every sensi ble person should find out how far It is possible to go. with safety to health and usefulness, and stop there unless life and death are involved. In that way more will be accomplished for one's self und for others than by continual over work out of some notion of pride or duty which is not real conscientiousness at all. New York News. The Press and Crime. Much has been said and written upon the idea that the press, by the publication of the details of crime iiwit..u t.. .u,. commission of other crimes. Because the iieiuus or a suicide or a murder are some times copied by other suicides or mur derers there are those who generalize from that fact that a curb should be put upon the press to restrain them from giv ing the sensational incideuts of such tra gedies. People who argue In that fashion to such conclusions understand human na ture imperfectly. They who know most of the psychology of the human animal understand that there is no riiriil !, r.t imitativeness that will explain incidental replications of example. The futility of appealing to anv such la ed in the cases of Cain and Abel. The law does not exist, else both those boys would have been righteous instead of but the one, and to-day we would be rejoiced by seeing only good boys and good girls in the families of which the parents are models of morality. Humanity is born croked twisted into a livimr interroirntion noint It w,it,t- to know all about things as soon as il hmis out tnat there are things. It instinc tively wants to put this and that together and get at the ends of things and Miat is why the baby tries to put his toes in his mouth! That same inborn curiosity follows the human creature always and accounts for the enormous growth of newspapers and gives invincible support to the doctrine of the freedom of the press. One of the greatest laments of a read ing civilization is that the world's his tory begun before the printing press was invented and the reporter who interviews got on the scene. How really satisfying it would be even now to read the details of the meeting between Satan aud Eve, a stenographic report of their conversa tion and graphic interviews with Adam after he got tired from the Garden of Eden and with Noah after he ran aground on Ararat' Newspaper makers know human na ture better than amateur moralists. They do not find that news reports of crimes breed crimes any more than news reports of sermons breed conversions, or news reports of gifts to charity set everybody or many bodies crazy to make large dona tions and get their names printed. The leal newspaper gives the news the sto ries of the daily life of the world-the good, the evil, the wise and the silly, be cause the public want to know it all and will be satisfied with nothing less. Ihe newspaper is printed for the ninety-aud-nine that ore wide awake, and not for the one who yearns for the millennia age'. Atlanta Constitution. Playing with Moral Fire. In various parts of the country there has been au extraordinary number of tragedies of late arising out of the adven tures of unmarried women with married men. Morbid literature, chiefly of for eign birth or extraction, has been pro moting in this country the myth of pla tonic affection between men and women, married and single. Almost invariably the prismatic illusion is actualized in a somber ending, if crime does not smirch both the parties or annihilate either the reputation of both suffer, and it is the unwritten law that the woman in such a case suffers beyond repair, while the guil ty man escapes or endures with compla cency the stigma which cannot be ef faced from tile future of his companion. There is no prudence in mincing words about these escapades. A married man or woman who seeks intimate and con stant companionship outside the family circle to which he or she belongs is eith er a libertine or a fool. No plea of extenuation can be set up for the moral laches of a married man or married woinuu. They know perfectly well that they are playing with (ire or playing the trapper of inexperience. No family of intelligence or self-respeet will tolerate social attentions from a married man to an unmarried woman when those attentions transcend the bounds of abso lute decorum. Yet mothers who are am bitious or avaricious will let their inno cent daughters play with this moral tire with whose Uame nine times in ten they are bound to be burnt. Many a blackened home is a grim monument to the satanic character of the myth of platonie love between married men and unmarried women and no less often between married women and un married men. Chicago Chronicle. 'PEARL OF MADRID. MJIE, rATE.NOTHE. WALKING ON THE DANUBE. One of the marked tendencies of the times in juvenile literature is the de crease in books written distinctively for girls. Of books for the young there is a riever-increiising number, but the expansion Is confined solely to boys' books or to volumes meant for both boys and girls. Stories of the "Robin son Crusoe" type are multiplying from year to year, while those of the "Little Women" type are becoming almost ex tinct. There are at least live books for boys to one for girls in every new season's list. Yet girls probably do more reading than boys. Why this ungaUant discrimination? The pub lishers explain It by-saying that they have better success with books meant for both sexes, that books for boys come next In demand, and that vol umes labeled an girls' literature are not pood sellers. The truth Is that the American girl spurns the tame and Bamby-pamby stories usually written The intrepid Austrian "water mar vel." Captain Grossman, recently com pleted a walk on the treacherous Dan ube from Vienna to Linz, a distance of nearly 1(H) miles. He towed his wife In a small boat and accomplished the feat without a mishap. His boots for water pedestrianism are five feet long and are his own Invention. Ktlible Petroleum Oil. Cottonseed oil, corn oil and linseed oil, there is good reason to believe, will probably have a rival at a not distant day in edible petroleum oil. As a mat ter of fact, petroleum has been success fully desulphurized and deniliieriillzed. Certain other solids and ingredients have been extracted from it aud the production of a fairly good edible oil has already resulted. When a man sits in the shade nnd wntches those at work In the sun, he prefers being called "critic" to "loafer." Some men are known by the com pany they are unable to get into. This Endearing Title U Bestowed Upon a Former American Girl. The most popular among the foreign ladies resident In Madrid Is a former American girl. Mine. Patenotre, wife .,,.,. ..,.. of the French Am bassador to the court of AlfoiiBo XIII. During the recent coronation festivities iu the Spanish capital M m e. Patenotre was praised and Battered and court ed as was no other woman iu the king dom. She is a fa vorite of the Queen Regent, for whom she has a special fondness, und on many occasions she has had the King as her guest. She is so popular among the elite of the king dom that she has been called the Pearl of Madrid. Mme. I'atenotre's maiden name was Eleanor Elverson. Her father was the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and one of the millionaires of the Keystone State. She was edu cated In Europe and on her return home after a six-years' absence she was pronounced the most fascinating woman iu the Quaker City. Her facil ity for acquiring languages was re markable. She is proficient in German, French and Russian, aud had been liv ing In Madrid only six months before she was able to speak the peculiar dia lect of that province with the ease and fluency of a native. In 1S114 sue became the wife of Jules Patenotre, then French Ambassador to Washing ton. . In 1S!)7 he was transferred to Vudrld. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S OFFICIAL YACHT, THE MAYFLOWER. AN EMERGENCY FIRE ENGINE. A convenient emergency fire engine is shown in the accompanying Illustra tion, which. Engineering says, has sev eral commendable features. It is man ufactured by au English concern. Prtjtllnt ItoiS(Vplt nflifink vnnl.f th f..n . .nd more than , has beec on in' ? ""thllt rivals the royal and imperial yachts of Eu, e,. princes and po"eu tates Not the Hoheuzollern Itself can outdo the presidential vac-lit In ..i ais- 'ot tue beauty of appointments, upholster? and decor, turn The tten "ur ""! apartments, in the aft of the vessel, are a dream of nrin.-elv rts'Uel,t Personal He has six state rooms for his w use and for Z " ' 1 ' "f nigs, soft carpets, the most expensive of fancy wood, fine n osa s L,,r R" chairs and lounging sofas, glittering art bedsteads and other In ,i' ll,X",r""'8 kind wait on the presidential pleasure w hen he . see, Ht t ,, t lT, """,ent8 ,hi" ilarly with the culinary department. The k elTen and , " '' Sm" serve on short notice a feast fit fur a king'. TheMavflo v L T7 f"n property of Mrs. Ogden Goelet. It w T purchased bv Z ? """ th time of the Spanish war and had been lying id e s ici then It '""T"? St tI,C dent decided to have it fitted for his person use Th' ore I'r'T ,he Pre8i . displacement of 2..HK. tons, U equipped w th twin 8Crew haS power of 4.7J0. It is one of the fastest sieam yachts afioat ' WU It consists of a three cylinder pump, mounted on a truck and driven by a petroleum motor. In case of an emer gency, the pump Is ready at once, with out loss of time in raising pressure with a steam engine. Its efficiency Is assured through the numerous tests which have been made particularly against fires in highly inflammable materials. Cuba's Flag Is Old. The flag of the Cuban republic ante dates the establishment of the republic Itself by a good many years. It dates buck to about 1850. It has a Masonic origin and hence the triamrle. Th. red field Is the emblem of war. The purpose of the movement here In thb United States was to conquer the isl nnd. Southern people, tiglitlng Ma sons, were the leaders. The three stripes represented the three depart ments into which the Island was then divided. The white stripes were put in merely to divide the blue. The star which nppeurs In the red field was the lone star of Texas. In New Orleans there existed the Association of the Pii with money nll,i ln oU when- he invaded Cubi l vr,i ! came together in 18). "sembly popped by Caterpillar,. A raihv.iy train was recentlv tn. I near uiieims, KniIK. ,1V " " ' ' I of caternllbir- n.., . ... "'c '"uw were thrown on them. '"k'1'8 Usually, we feel an oppression t. cause of a lot of little thin . b" neglected, but wh eh JSTi Ve easily disposed of ' baVe been opportunity to chew ,in . the j io .uew all he could bit REACHING TO PEKInT" The New Mongolian R,.., Trana-Bibcrian W furoifj, The report that the n.n.u.. . cretly bulldltic a rnllw... on the triinH.Mmi..iwv...i Pt vfruuii imp .f,... the Russo-Chlnese frontier to K" on the Great Wall, about from Pekln, has caused something n flutter In T.-..,.l...i , ",u U( ... ... 1Qe flig is said to have been made by . , eler who vrvi making his way thro?!" the roimtrv In .1lu..i 1 tDroilrt cated'the intelligence to an X newspaper.' While at Ki!n, . situated on the river of the sante urn. II limit lllYtv.Hvo nilluo "S ' iium lt8 JQactloh with the Argun, one of th. Tr tributaries of the Amur, he saw T oiiuv.wou.uniu wim laborers and m way material moving away to Z south on a newly constructed Z roughly laid track. He at onc M iu me cunciusiun mat what he u hud to do with a new onrt hith-.. heard of line of railway, and appesnj "uiaiueu inroruiatlon enj lug his conclusions. Should this nen prove to be correct, the fact ih .. wut lilt Russian government has serin...!. dertakfti this work Is of great political' ami military significance. It was known at the time of "theout- oreuK in cniua, in isu), that the Ro sinus hud exploring parties nut .... ining the country between KIulm. the frontier line Just south of Ufc iiaiKiu, aim Kuigan, along the regular tea caravan track. Later It derstood thut the route traced out tu not entirely satisfactory, and that i more easterly one was to be sought ot the western side of the Khlngan chain or mountains, that divides Mongolia from Manchoorla. Evidently such a route has been found, and the nolitii situation ln the far East, together m the military exigencies arising out it, hits led the Uusslan government fa hasten the construction of the railttj wnien is to bring Pekln In direct ci uection with the Siberian line through Kalgnn. The building of this railway mats. Kallar, where It starts from the mala Mnnchoorinn line, n- point of great strategic Importance, and we ibill probably learn In time that It has t come one of ltusshi's principal mllltarj centers ln Eastern Asia. From troops can be sent at short notice Mull or southeast, or called for, and boil It and the railway to Kalgan m be considered beyond danger of attack. they being covered all along the ait side by the Khlngan mountains, tit passes over which will probably bt held by the Russians. The dlstanct from Kallar to Kalinin Is about IK miles, nt least 3(10 miles shorter (bit the originally projected route from the Siberian line eust of Lake Baikal, through Klnkhta and L'rca. There is not likely to be any friction between Russia and England out this action on the part of Russia, En gland having divested herself of ant right to protest by the Auglo-Kussian convention of IS!)!) respecting ail tbil part of China north of the great wall Any trouble connected with It, If !! would be with Japan. An effort :U be made to have the rails laid whole distance by the end of the com ing autumn. New York Sun. SHE FOUND THE SPOOL A Tale Polntinir Out the Dancer " Too Mnch Haite. One Washington household w thrown into a state of confusion out morning last week. Mrs. Blank f seated at the sewing machine busily engaged ln her work, but she time to frequently shower her pet H Prulser with endearing terms. W' lug just emptied a spool, she threw it to the dog at her feet. Bruiser grW ed and, as his mistress thought, gull1 down the spool. With a shriek, Mrs. Blank imam ed the member of her household. W found her seated iu the middle of H floor with the dog In her lap flam ally, but faithfully, trying to eitract the spool which she told them ! could plainly feel In the dog's u "What are you all standing I" forr she cried. "Can't -you-do thing? Won't you do something. the poor thing Is choking roUH" Look at his eyes! Help! help!" Naturally everybody wanted to The neighbors by this time w pressed their willingness to assist when It came to the thing of ttt passing her idol over to o"1'" Utl, ,.fon.l Kl.o n-nllld not It" . in ii n i iini ii. v ' n - . her dog's life Into other btti her own, so she continued the i .... . ... H.-..isr enonrw w im a vigor w incii " nlth nliannittannl vltfllitV. Finally the little dog fell over? linlYuHon which CSlle - ' . -...ii ... i. y mm-a chi-Uko Ifnr the first tlDie ' Blank's eyes left the dog' fj Looking around the room in ear tion she saw the empty 8po had rolled into a corner l"Rte, Bruiser's throat. Her stare, her her whole attitude. In fact t tale, and Immediately the pw ployed means by which the (M a . - uionK k-i ' resusc tated. Had .Mrs. a1 In IP tinned her hunt ror me !A er s throat much longer hk hnJ i hi I,.rvns.-RPM ton Post. . Too Grall... L- "1 like to see people com"- marked Fllmsicus, "oiii w"7 cuts his stogies in two m and gets ten smokes for five J Tyte Phlst does. I think, uy hp'a n llttlo tnn rielllirloUS to ' I ui.T.nnrt((f We are never so iorciui - - w that the fanner should not J lack of farm hands, if the la8 " J mm. as wnen we see iri i loafing In a hammock wltft a I week dav ' Reciprocity l a good WW- j , want friends, reciprocate, p