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r WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. I'llhlUlu-il Kverjr Wrrh. ENTERFRISE OREGON. Child labor Is an undesirable "Infant Industry." It takes two people to make a quarrel and three to make a divorce. The statesman may (ret the glory, but the politician gets the money. After a careful survey It has been decided that the Alaskan boundary Is where It was. They say the King of Spain laughs at his people. How cau he help it since they put up with him? Life may be worth living and It may not it ail depends on whether it's your life or the other fellow's. Japan's progress Is the real thing. The Mikado's government Is about to make an influenza census. Scotland will not go Into mourning over the death of the man who wrote "The House of the Green Shutters." A man talks knowingly of the Incon stancy of women and then proceeas to get mad If one of them proves that be Is right The Fairs paid $12,000 for their au tomobile and It cost them their lives and about ten millions besides. Too expensive. Automobile records and automobile lllings are coming along so rapmij that we are forced to look upon them as alternatives. The Chicago Journal, after deep thought, has found what was the mat ter with the bicycle. It was too much like work. Oil it, man. Edison thinks electricity will displace locomotives in the next thirty years. However, we are still waiting for his much-advertised storage battery. Shad have left the Connecticut river and appeared in great numbers in the Ohio. This is the great fish story of the age. How did they got there? A man choked to death on a single mouthful of meat the other day, which teaches the danger of experimenting with strange and unfamiliar food. There appears to be a good deal of rivalry among arctic expeditions Just now, but the one that reaches the pole first will be the one that cuts the most ice. The richest mining camp In the world has just been located In Nevada. There are no present indications, however, that Great Britain will attempt to an nex it. A Connecticut couple propose to gpend their honeymoon In a balloon. It will probably be a hard come-down for them when the romance wears off If not before. Tosslbly the Crown Prince of Ger many threatens to renounce his rights to the throne only for the purpose of Bearing a little more spending money out of his pa. From the Congo conies news of the discovery of an octopus, which seizes Its human victims and eats nothing but their brains. The young Belgian offi cer who sends the report escaped uu-liaruied. The statement that five hundred and thirty-two tons of cigarettes were ex ported from Egypt In 1901 suggests the thought that In the time of Moses and Pharaoh the world was spared such af flictions as this. Then the plagues of Egypt were kept at home. ' News comes from Cairo to the effect that the corn merchants at Assouan have formed a trust In order to corner all the wheat and other cereals on the market. The slow rise of the Nile Indi cates a bad season next year and they hope to realize a heavy profit. This Is not, we believe, the first corner Insti tuted In Egypt Londoners thought that the next best thing to seeing the coronation was look ing at the decorations in Westminster Abbey. Thousands paid five shillings to enter the church on the first day that the public was admitted. The crowds were larger the next day, when the admission fee was reduced to half a crown; and on the third day, when only sixpence was charged, the people passed through the turnstiles at the rate of twenty-five hundred an hour for six or seven hours, and the wait ing line was two miles long In the af ternoon. It was noted that the sight seers were nearly all women. Every day In the great American cities men, women and children are killed by street cars traveling at a rate of speed which make such fatali ties certain. The record of these trage dies Is an appalling one. In any other country but this an Instant and rigor ous remedy would be applied. Ameri can leniency In dealing with the public-serving corporations must be held responsible for existing dangerous con ditions. There should be a limit to this leniency, however, and the tragedy In which President Roosevelt confronted uch deadly peril points a moral to this effect History records any number of misfits V genius and a few cases where genius U happily wedded to genius, but It has wholly overlooked the no less Interest ing unions of geulus and good common sense. In our own country we have u tine example of this in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison. Mrs. Edison Is a woman of Infinite tact and has brought the '"great wizard" Into beauti ful subjection where subjection is to his own advantage and the advantage of his work. He Is by no means a docile man and his genius pushes him nt a headlong rate, but Mrs. Edison wisely holds the relus and keeps genius Itself in check. Mnie, Tolstoi Is a match for her capricious, erratic husband. 8ho allows his whims wide latitude, but there Is a "thus far and no farther" to his caprice. When Mme. Tolstoi puts her foot down It is decisive, and there the matter ends. It Is said the elegant gowns of the countess aro In strange contrast to the peasant garments of her husband. Mmo. Tolstoi, no doubt, un derstands the psychology of dress nnd knows the overmastering power of beautiful dothe. Count Tolstoi or any other man may have his peculiar Ideas about dress, but the woman In beauti ful gowns will conquer him every time It requires a tact that amounts to genius to live with genius on amicable terms. Mrs. Edison and the Countess Tolstoi deserve a good share of the praise which Is given to their husbands. After the money-making man gets along towards 50 he begins to think of his money as It may bear on the lives of his children, after he Is gone or Is past the days of toil At first he thinks of his wealth chiefly for the real or fancied good It may bring him or as a means of extending his personal power and Influence, But when his children are growing up be begins to say to him self that he will be able to give or leave to each of bis children a certain amount, nnd In a sense start them In life, not where he began, but where he leaves off. They shall not know the limitations of poverty, theirs shall not be the painful struggles, the humiliat ing privations of his early years. All their life they shall have, without the painful effort, what he so hardly won i towards the close of his. His children j shall be spared his sufferings and benefited by his sacrifices. But are they ? A while ago a group of wealthy men were talking about their accumu lations, the struggles they had gone through and what they expected to do with their money. One of them, who began business life In the humblest ca pacity, had attained to great wealth and enjoyed the respect of the commu nity as a man whom money had not spoiled, said that It was his desire to leave each of his children $1,000,000. Others sioke In a similar strain, and the gathering was very harmonious un til a man, hitherto silent, remarked that he thought his friends were laying Just the sort of plans they should not. Just the sort of plans that were not ex emplified by their own successful ami useful lives. "All of you," he said, "are proud of the fact that you aro self-made men. You talk about the pri vations and sufferings and humiliations of your early life, but you know that In recollection they are the best part of your life. Tou are glad to-day that you can look back and say you were poor boys and that alone and unaided you have carved out your successful careers. You know, too, that It was the very obstacles you confronted that made you what you are. Yet here you are talking about depriving your chil dren of the very opportunities for trou ble that made you. Here you are delib erately planning to give them gilded, useless, parasitic lives. Instead of the greatest gift you can give them, which Is to deprive them of the assistance of your wealth. You know, every ono of you, that the best service you can do your children Is to turn them out and tell them to hustle." Somehow after this little speech had been spoken thn gathering lost Its complacency and self- satisractiou. There was too much truth In what had been said. The fond fathers recognized that but they will not act on the advice. That they do not Is bad for their children, but not deleterious to the community, perhaps ror pampered sons often do their best to ninne an equal distribution wealth. JIB COAL MINERS ARE UNDERPAID, By Rer. Rnrus A. White, ot Chicago. The demand for better wages Is just Coal mining In the anthracite region is not only hard, but It Is unusually dan gerous. The bureau of mine Inspection reports 4.370 men and hoys killed in the last ten years. In 1001 437 were killed i '"' V and 1.250 Injured. These fatalities left f I 230 widows and 525 orohans. For every 110,000 tons of coal mined In the anthra cite coal fields one man or boy is killed. Two are killed a day on the average for the working days of the miners and fire injnred. The killed and Injured annually in the anthracite coal mines are said to be eight times as many as were killed and wounded during nur war with Roaiu. It Is more dangerous to mine coal than to shoot Spaniards. What are the miners paid for this kind of work? On an average about $300 per year the poorest paid labor. It Is said. In the Northern States. It has been figured that at (30 a month a family of fire wonld have, after rent, medlcul bllUt and cloth tug were paid for, $14 a month for food less than 50 cents a day and not quite 10 cents a day for each perswu. How much meat at present prices will 10 cents a day buy? My sympathies are with the miners becanee before the strike was called President Mitchell agreed to submit the mat ter In dispute to an arbitration board. The reply of the open tors was terse to the point of Insult: "There Is nothing to arbi trate." Mr. Baer condescended to inform the public as well as the miners that "The rights and interest of the laboring men would be protected and cared for, not by labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God, In his infinite wisdom, had given the control of the property lterests of the country. President Baer tears a leaf from the mediaeval ages and reads it to the free Americans of the twentieth century. He talks like some resurrected baron f a mediaeval Ithenish castle. To name the Lord as a partner in the railroad and coal monopolies of Pennsylvania Is a blasphemy which should not go unrebuked.' TUBERCULOSIS IS CURABLE. By Dr. H. M. Biggs, Hen York's Health Officer. Tuberculosis is infectious and communicable, but a tuberculosis patient may live in the same room, for days or years, with a healthy person without danger to the liitter, If proper precautions are taken. The chief danger is from badlli thrown out from the respiratory tract. In advanced cases as many as three thousand millions are thrown ont In a single day. They are inhaled as dust, and lodge in differ ent tracts in the system. If conditions are favor able to growth they multiply there. But the gen eral insusceptibility to tuberculosis is very great. It is only at certain times and under certain conditions that a large pro portion of persons are susceptible. Tuberculosis la absolutely preventable and its preventa blllty is simply putting into effect simple rules of conduct It is a question solely of scrupulous cleanliness in regard to ex pectoration and disinfection of surroundings which have once Loused the disease. It is not only preventable, but curable. It Is the most Insidi ous of ail diseases. A specialist may declare no indications of it whatever and in a few weeks It may be manifest to any ono. When there is any question one examination is not enough. Where a cough continues for more than six or eight weeks, in a large majority of cases, there Is back of tint eough a tulierculosis focus. When any ono talks to yon about chronic bronchitis and continued colds make tip your mind that in a majority of cases a tuberculosis focus la back of It. Then is the time to establish this fact, for then k is easily curable; later it may not fee. in the winter and at Trouville and AIx In the summw, they make life one unending debauch. The Four Hundred In America take their cue from tie smart set in Euro. Behold them at the horse show in New York. Behold them at swell resorts. Their talk that is, what can be heard is of bonds, puts aud calls, horses, scandals and dogs. The best society? Good Lord! It is true that we havo come to a beautiful pass If simpering Johnnies and tough girls are to be accepted even by inference as the best society, wliile the good and virtuous of the land, even though quite able to pay their way at home and abroad, niMt be relegated to the middle clans and dismissed as simple bourgeoisie. The "400" are rotten through and through. They have not one redwmlng feature. All their ends are achieved by money, and largely by the unholy use of money. If ono of them propones to go Into politics he expects to buy his way, and the rogues who havtj seats in Congress or forelgu ap pointments to sell see that he pays the prico. If one of them wants to marry a lord sho expects to buy him, and the titled rascals who wiwh to recoup their broken fortunes see that she pays Che prico. Their influence is to the lost degree corrup tive. Their hangers-on and retainers are only such as money will buy. Nlu out of every ten of the fortunes behind' them will not bear scrutiny. Must these unclean birds, of gaudy and therefore of con spicuous plumage, liy from gilded boughs, fouling the vory air as they twitter their affectation of moral supremacy, and io one to shy a brlok at theau and say, "Scat, you duvllst" DANCER OF INSTITUTIONALISM. By Rt. Rer. Bishop Menrr C. Potter, ot New York. There Is danger in the tendency to n stttutionulism. Our danger lies not In physical deeds, but In social degradation and corruption, out of which comes ruin, which lies behind these physical matters. I would speak of institutional charity In this regard. On an island not half an hour's Journey from New York aro 4,000 lnsano persons uuder the care of the State, and these ioople have not been visited by any one but the State commis sioner for the last four years. The force of the appalling fact Is made plain when I say that alienists and in sanity experts say that oue of the most bishop potter. important matters in the treatment of the insane Is that of environment. The menace of modern life is in the growth of the surrender of the care of the siek, the maimed, the imbecile, to institutional vigilance. When men come to be the care of the State in such vast numbers, it is Impossible that there can be that note of personality considered the best medicine for the sick man and the insane man. of Made a Oood Guess. She was an amateur artist and, like most of her kind, considered herself several laps in advance of the average amateur. She was eager, however, to know how her work would impress one of the masters who had munaged to grusp fickle Fame by the back of the neck. One day a real painter called at her home, and she Immediately conceived the Idea of testing him. She would show him a specimen of her handi work, but would reveal nothing that might lead him to suspect her as being the creator thereof. So the fair am ateur proceeded to guide the real paint er toward her masterpiece. "Of what school would you call this painting?" she asked, expectantly . "Of the boarding school," promptly replied the real painter. Spare Moments. An Assured Competence. "You must abandon all business cares for the future," says the physi cian. "But I fear that I have not yet ac cumulated sufficient money," protests the multl-mlllloualre. "Sufficient?" repeats the doctor. "Why, my dear sir, you have enough money to pay physicians fees for the rest of your life!" Bultlmore Ameri can. ' Household Economy. Bramble Why do you always agree with your wife In everything she says? Thorne I find It cheaper to do that than to quarrel with her and then buy diamonds to square myself. Judge, DEGENERACY OF NEW YORK'S FOUR HUNDRED. By Henry Wutterson. Editor Loulsrtllv Coarler-Jovrnal The term "smart set" was adopted by society to save itself from a more odious description. The distinguishing trait of the "smnrt set" is its moral abandon. It makes a husinos of riofrlncr nn.l i Ing conventional restraints upon its uleas- :J ures and amusements. Ife-ing titled after a rule, and either rich in fact or getting money how It may. It sets Itself above the law, both human and divine. Its women are equally depraved with Its men. They know all the dirt the Men know. They talk freely with the men .Mr, ....1.1.1.1. .1. . . . .... H WATTKKSON "wuutii iuf utferu. xne women of this smart set no longer protend to reeognlie virtue, even as a female accomplishment. Inno cence is a badge of delinquency, a sign of the crude and raw a deformity, which. If tolerated at all. must carry some prom ise of amedment In London and in Paris, and at Monte Carlo SHOULD WOMEN WORK? THEY MUST. by Mrs. 6. Ahx-Tweedle. Chairman Int. Con. ot Women. Most women work simply because they must. In using the term "work," I of course mean working for wages, for occupation and work fall at every girl's feet almost before she Is out of the nursery. The house belongs to the woman, there she should reign supreme; but, alas, there are cases where there is no home, and then it is no use trying to shut the door on women's work. They are starving in thou sands with It; they would starve In tens of thousands without Whose fault Id this? Certainly not theirs. It Is no use to cry out against women "filling mxn's posts," "women working for low wages," "unskilled labor," and all the rest of It We must go back fnrtuer than that, and discover the cause. It is not for to seek, ami tt originates with men. Fathers must learn to provide for their daughters, however modestly, and then this stream of women seeking employment without quali fication will cease to exUt Do we not all know families in every walk of life, largo families where the mother's health is impaired by tlio constant struggle to keep children tidy, to make them bcharo themselves, to feed them, and keep them well? Poor womont mothers, literally overpowered with tha sire of their families. Poor mothers whose health is torn to shreds in the endeavor to drag up their children. The boys are educated as well as means will allow the danghters have moro or less to go without. The father has never realized his responsibility until too late. He has not seen the accumulation of expenses gathering ahead. He has not begun little banking accounts for the daughters as they arrived, and only when too late he realizes the situation. He dies' perhaps the mother dies, too. There is nothing left The boys can shift for themselves; there is always something for them to do; but the girls what is to become of them? Girls from 10 to 25 years of age are left daily alone, unbefriemled, incompe tent, and obliged to seek positions of unskilled labor It is not the women's fault that they are unskilled The fault Hes with the father. It Is not thre girls' fault that they are ill-paid: It is the employer who trades on their helpless position. No, no; do not abuse women workers; abuse the men who leave them is such a positiou, with neither money horns nor education. " IRELAND'S NEW VICEROY. Tha Earl ot Dudley Owns 30,000 Acres of Rich Land in KtiRland. The new viceroy of Ireland, the Earl of Dudley, Is SO years old aud wealthy. He owns 80,000 acres in England, In cluding tracts of rich mineral-bearing land, and be also bos estates In lyi Jamaica and is the master of Im mense Iron works. The social graces which are his as the son of Geor gina. Countess of Dudley, who has not vet lost her eaul or nunusy. fnmous luty. have been developed by travel all over the world. Best of all. In the present Lady Dudley, the earl has a countess whose good looks are nearly as renown ed as those of her handsome mother-in-law, and who may be trusted to shine as mistress of the viceregal lodge at Dublin. Like most healthy young Englishmen of rank. Lord Dudley Is fond of both sport and war. He Is president of the ultra-fashionable Ranelagh Club over the representatives of which the Ameri can polo players who went over this year won their first victory and, as major of the Worcestershire Yeoinanry, he saw bard service In the South Afri can campaign. The earl's duties In Dublin will be mostly of a social nature, and It is well that he is wealthy, for his outlay in this regard will be enormous, reaching probably $300,000 a year. London Dines at Noon. Except In certain circles, from the upper middle class or the lower upper classes upward, among wltom the cus tom of evening dinner prevails, the re spectable English custom Is to serve dinner at noon, the evening meal rang Ing all the way from the workman's repast of tea with winkles, bloaters, or jam, to the beavy supper of game and pastry for the rich. To this cus tom the restaurants cater, but to the EARTHQUAKE'S STRANGE FREAK. During an earthquake which recently wrought havoc 1n the Eastern Caucn. causing a commotion that was teft from TlHis to the Casnian f 2 Oaucasus to the north of Persia, the town of Schemachn w "Dctlln7 every prominent building being either wholly or partly derwed Hi .f' Russian urch, the roof and cupola of which wer turned Sv turvv ta Lnl .V" manner. Photographs were taken of the various ruined ouihl n?. V!""? V were seven mosques, soon after the disaster .nH n"" buUd,nK8. "?ng which found to be thelnost curious and 'the moT t n part of the church was less able to bear the shock of thZ LJ. X Upper lower part fa a .problem Which !, not et been soWed? earthquake thao large floating colonies of foreigners to whom an evening dinner Is a necessity they pay no heed, says the Outlook. They continue complacently to serve "dinners from 12 !to 8," after which hour one may whistle In vain, for no dinner will he get As a natural re sult, an army of French nnd Italian restaurants are doing a brisk business and amassing fortunes, not only In ca tering for their own people, but In bringing comfort to many an English bachelor emancipated from tea and Jam. Not only In the matter of ser vice, but also In the menu, does the village restaurant cling faithfully to old customs. He Wanted Action. A well-dressed man went lute the tel egraph office of a southern Michigan town and Wrote a message home for money He then laid down a quarter nnd asked that It be sent as soon al possible, "Three cents more"" saTd t" agent "Haven't got It," repUed ne man. "Can't send the message then " "Well, said the fellow, "send it as fa, as you can for a quarter. I am a gam bier, and I want action on my mon If It Is only 25 cents." "uuey, After saying all she wants Is Justice, a woman proceeds to kick if W photi graph Is a good likeness. TRUMPET CALLS. Ram's Horn Bounds a Warning Hotm to tha Unredeemed. rry . Sx 18 not the preaclier'g BPrillon but his soul, tw reaches the soul of the sinner. The light of love. Is not created by tlie friction 0f re ligious controver sy. Tou cannot be rooked with men and square with God. The money-seeking church Is not con cerned with man-saving. Christ spoke no special beatitudes to the Captains of Industry. , The bright preacher does not always muke the shining church. Tho worship of material success is likely to work the spiritual failure of I America. You may try to do many a day's worry, but you eon only do one day'i work at a tlnio. God did not design the church to be a mere lylng-ln hospital, but a recruit lug office for God's soldiers. The Great rhyslclnn never lacks pa tience, and He knows that the bitterest medicine often cures the quickest. When we got so selfish tlint we want the earth, we are not likely to give much thought to the world to come. True education looks to the strength ening of the hull of the shin nui, than to the gilding of tho figure head. Some men lay the loadstone of lnaf alongside the compass of eniiseloti and then talk about Its being a good gume. Tho reason some people do not bellnm in foreign missions Is that they are heathen themselves; they worship oth er gods. Supposing God demanded His Rh.i ro of the protlts arising from your use of the life He has lent you. what would you have left? Man cannot do without a creed! lie must have a backbone; but that is ouly a part of him. If he Is all backbone, we should call him a post; with uo backbone, a Jolly fish. SIREN OF THE CROSSING. This Vermonter Has Keen Cured of De sire for Investiization. Up In a Vermont town not very far this side of Moutpeller Is a town school supervisor who never will again stop to Investigate buzzing music at a rail way crossing. The man who, figurat ively speaking, ran up against the crossing and very forcibly found it was loaded, lives a few miles away from what Is known as the Flnloy Bridge crossing of the Central Vermont Hull road. There Is a big cliff tlmt Juts out at this point close to the umln branch, of the White river, and tho track cuts n sharp curve around It Most of the time the locomotive whistles cannot be heard on the other side of tho big rock promontory by people on tho high way. The school supervisor was taking a load of bnrk to the village, four miles away. Stirred by a series of accidents, the railway officials, unknown to the supervisor, hud Installed an electric signal bell that rings when trains get within a certain range of a highway crossing. The supervisor heard the ringing of the gong, but he had never heard anything like it before, and he marveled both at Its source and it object He continued on until he was directly ujxm the track, when an idea found lodgment In his head. With wagon full athwart the track, he stopped his team, wound the reins around the whlpstock, and, Jumping down to the ground, 'lowed as how he would see what the pesky tiling was, and walked over to the post. A mo ment later be learned, but not through looking at the post A fust freight swept around the curve and smashed the wngon Into fragments, badly Injur ing one of the horses, and started the other on a wild run down the road. The gentleman with the Investigating turn of mind recently has been re-elected as the head of the educational de partment of the town, and to-dny still holda that office, but he never will again, no, never, desert his team for-the- singing siren of the crossiug. Wasulngton Post He Waited. "What were you doing nt the time of your arrest?" asked the magistrate of the prisoner. "I was waiting." "Waiting for whom?" "Just waiting." "What were you waiting for?" "To get my money." "Who from?" "The man I was waiting for." "What did he owe It to you for?" "For waiting." "I don't know what you mean. E plain yourself." "I thought you knew I was n waiter In a restaurant" "Oh!" gasped the magistrate. Mont real Herald. It was Tommy's first glass of soda . water that he bad been teasing lot ( long. ' "Well, Tommy, . how does It taste y asked his father. j "Why," replied. Tommy, with a P"f sled face, "It tastes like your foot asleep." Cincinnati Enquirer. At Nawport. 8he-You must not kiss me until we ar formally engaged.. He Do you mean to say that you ' ways Insist upon that rule? Sue I'.ve. always tried .to. Judge. i