WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN
buee Owe a Week
ENTERPRISE. OREGON
J. Pterpont Morgan's $10X30 Bible
contains no more religion tban the
plain (1X5 edition.
London Is to bare a theater In mem
cry of Shakespeare. All the ten are
memorials of Shakespeure.
It Is significant that no coal dealers
or Ice men hare JolneJ the Cleveland
movement to live as Christ would.
There are now 250,000 words In the
English language, hence It U strange
It takes the ladle so long to say good
bye to one another?
A California woman has been given
divorce because her husband would
not speak to her. Probably be never
had a fair chance.
Ten years for counterfeiting a $3
bill Is two years for each dollar. It
Is lucky for the crook that be did not
dabble In bad twenties.
A man Is charged with stealing an
otter cap on a train, which will, of
course. Induce every bright wit to point
out that he otter reform.
A college professor thinks Americans
of the future will have black eyes. If
the habit of calling one another liars
Isn't stopped he may be right.
A New York woman demands $30,
ono for the loss of her husband's affec
tion. It seems to us that this is
bulling the New York love market
If man really Is descended from the
hog we expect some fiendish misan
thrope to take up the stockyards cry
that Therms nothing lost but the
squeal."
Prof. Percival Lowell has discovered
water vapor on liars. Many Ameri
can!, whose wells were dry last sum
mer and are staying dry under the
now will envy the Martians.
Forty magazines of general Interest
describe themselves as "total abstain
ers" as far as their advertising pages
go. The dryness, fortunately, does not
extend to the rest of the contents.
The United States Is taking on a few
governors these days who try to make
themselves believe they are presiden
tial size. They will know more about
It when they have governed a while.
The naval board of construction has.
prepared plans for three 26,000-ton bat
tle ships. Ten years ago 12,000-ton bat
tle ships were considered enormous.
What nation will be the first to launch
the 60,000-ton floating fort?
It is explained that grand opera can
not be made to pay because the grand
opera singers Insist on having salaries
that are too high. A sad feature of
the case lies In the fact that the pau
per grand opera singers of Europe de
mand even higher salaries than our
native singers are able to draw.
On December 21 the exact moment
when the sun turned north in its
course was flashed over the wires from
the United States Naval Observatorv
In Washington to all telegraph points
In Alaska. Summer Is so short In the
far north that It doubtless comforts
the people there to know that it Is
"a-comin' In" the moment the solar
tide sets In their favor.
Perhaps there would be
aassinations if there were a stronger
prooaoiury mat a murderer would be
hanged. It might even be sufficient
to make a long term In the penitenti
ary sure. Whatever may be said about
the death penalty, the certainty of se
vere punishment would probably dis
courage the taking of human life At
any rate, it would be worth while to
make a thorough test of this.
Professor Ferrero. the Tt.niinn hi.
torian, who has been giving lectures
on Rome In Boston, says that Ameri
ca is a truer heir of the Roman Re
public than any European nation ; that
xvome laugnt we world the principles
of commonwealth on a large scale,
which only the United States Is vast
enough to realize. Dr. Ferrero 1 not
pessimistic enough to press the parallel
to uncomfortable conclusions, but he
Bees In our imperialism, our wealth
and our power some resemblance to a
rrandeur that declined, although It
ever died.
For a number of years an effort has
been made from time to time to In
crease the President's salary from $50 -00
to $100,000. The salary has stood
at Its present figure since the '70s, and
the generation that has passed has,
as every one knows, witnessed such a
change In the requirements for living
that old incomes will no longer suf
fice. In official station, where there
Is -no escaping to a simple life, the
pressure is more serious than else
where. Of course the President's house
hold is far from being confined to
what $50,000 a year will procure, even
as the case now stands. In lieu of
Increasing his pay many Items of ex
penditure which might have been
charged to him have been specially
provided for by Congress. In part
the Government pays for the presi
dential stables and part for the up
keep. of the White House. The $50,
00 a year Is merely what passes
through the President's own private
parse. The Senate finance committee
has reported favorably a bill for In
creasing the salary to $100,000, and It
seems probable that the Increase will
be made In one of the regular appro
priation bills at the present session of
Congress, to that Presldent-to-be Taft
can get the benefit of It. There should
be no opposition to legislation so mani
festly just and desirable.
III
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The editor of the Popular Sctencf
Monthly asserts that women teachen
are the bane of the country's schools
Bnya, he says, get but little good from
the teaching of women and turn away
from It when they can. The girls, al
though they "need men teachers ever
more than the boys," naturally remalr
longer under feminine tuition. "The ul
timate result of letting the celibate fe
male be the usual teacher," be contin
ues, "has been such as to make It a
question whether It would not be an
advantage to the country If the whole
school plant could be scraped." And
he ungallantly refers to the womar
teacher as "a spinster, devitalized and
unsexed." The characterization of tht
teacher as "a spinster, devitalized and
unsexed" Is as far from accurate por
traiture as anything can be. It Is a
gross caricature of a body of Intelli
gent, patient conscientious womanly
women who are discharging a function
for which they are eminently fitted. Tc
be a spinster, It should hardly be nec
essary to say, does not Imply that a
woman Is devitalized or unsexed. We
do not have to go to any magazine edi
tor for light upon that point The
woman teacher Is here and she will
stay here. Her right to a place In the
schools Is based on the" possession ol
special talent for the work. The prop
er education of children up to 14 or
15 years of age Is a task requiring
more than mere scholarship and theory.
It requires a tact, a patience and a ca
pacity to adapt oneself to the individ
ual bent of the child that are as rare
In men as common In women. These
qualities make women pre-eminently
fitted for the Instruction of the young
er grades. They will certainly not be
found superfluous In the higher ones.
Woman's place Is further assured by
the fact that men In sufficient num
bers cannot be got to do the work
particularly with young children. They
lack the maternal Instinct which makes
the task agreeable to women. The fact
that men avoid that particular work tc
so great an extent Is as much a result
of an Instinctive recognition of their
unfitness for it as of an objection to
the smallness of the compensation. The
country has nothing to fear from this
recent bugaboo of the "feminization ol
the schools." "naif of life Is con
duct" and on the "conduct" side of
education the woman's influence Is in
vulnerable. On the strictly Intellectual
side her efforts and Influence are Judi
cious and effective. Too many great
men have proclaimed their lasting debt
to the training of their mothers to per
mit us to believe that woman loses her
characteristic mental aptitudes on
merely crossing the threshold of a
school.
PRETTY WIDOW ACQUITTED.
Iter Diplomatic Anawer Won the
Jury at Once.
Mrs. Grace West, a pretty little wid
ow, was acquitted in Mercer Court, In
Trenton, the other dav after she had
told an amusing love story In whldi
tue cnier hero was Albert Wetzel, a
crusty old widower, savs the New York
World. Mr. Wetzel told the Jury,
which for the most Part was comnosed
of widowers and bachelors, that the
widow had been entertaining the
Dutcner. the grocer, the Iceman and
the coal man In her home, and that the
entertainments resulted frequently in
uisoruer.
When Mrs. West had her innlnz hp
told the Jurors in a sweet plaintive
voice that Wetzel had tried to play Ro
meo to her Juliet He would nUv n
violin under her window late at night
and then In a loud voice would shout
his proposal to her to come down ami
flee with him. On several occaslo: s
Mrs. West told him she had on exnerl
ence in matrimonv and that
tnough. Wetzel Insisted, and when the
widow locked the front doors to k-rep
him out he bored a hole In the feno
in the rear, being too old to climb
over It
"Oh. dear, won't you wed me? My
life Is a hell without you," was Wet
te'.'s lat proposal to her, Mrs. Weit
tnia. Purlng the trial she vis asked
Just how handsome she thought Wetzel
was. Pie replied that she d!d not
think him half as handsome as any of
the men in the Jury box. He.' acquit
tal followed a few moments laer.
All Equipped.
"No, my daughter. I will not consent
to your engagement to a book peddler
who doesn't know what he Is going to
do for a success In life."
"Oh, father, you are mistaken. Ills
career Is all mapped out"
"How do you know that?"
"Why, doesn't he sell school atlases?"
Baltimore American.
Disappointed.
"What's the matter with Brown? He
looks disappointed."
"He Is. After working for three
years to land a 'political Job be finally
succeeded. The disappointment Is due
to the fact that connected with the
position is work he will be expected to
do." Detroit Free Press.
A Plodder.
"Did your daughter marry the genius
to whom she was engaged 7'
"Nope, I made her shake him
marry a man that could earn a living
i or ner." Houston Post
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
KIGHT-KEDIira MUST EE SUPPRESSED.
EXNESSEE talis are at present are popn-
I lous with men arrested on charges of whlte
I I capping and kukluxtng.
I T -r .1 u t .... k n1ht.1ri0ra few
onmcB uic uiuiuci vj n - e " - . - -
weeks ago of a lawyer who had bought a
lake and proposed to enforce fishing priv
ileges which were his by reason of the pur
chase, there have been numerous minor outrages. One
of these was the whipping of a farmer who sold his crop
of peanut at what other peanut growers considered too
low a price.
It is well that the civil authorities In Tennessee are
making what looks like a strenuous effort In good faith
to visit punishment upon bullying violators of the law.
If the attempt of the civil authorities fails, the State
militia should be- freely used to "prevent riotous outrages
hereafter.
Should the arm of the State be not strong enough,
the situation would call for help from the federal gov
ernment Night-riding, whltecapplng, kukluxiug nil ter
rorism and attempts at terrorism must be put down li
It takes the whole power of the standing army to do It.
The United States must be a country of law and order.
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
TtXB&XPH ON 8 A WEEK.
OCORDING to Justice Foster, women who
I marry men earning only $0 a week should
3 " I do so with a clear understanding that they
n I . - tr. i- 1 W. I . .
announces that, whatever other Judges may
do, he will never compel a husband with
such an income to contribute any part of
It for the separate support of a wife who chooses to
leave him because of discontent with the home bis earn
ings make possible. This rather startling announcement
is sure to revive the old controversy as to the amount of
money that makes possible a happy, or even an endur
able, wedded life, and doubtless many will criticise Jus
tice Foster for laying dowu a principle that takes so
little account of sentiment and the accepted platitudes
about love as the sufficient foundation of matrimonial
bliss. And yet his decision has Its merits, and many of
them.
All efforts to fix a definite sum, whether of capital or
of income, which will Justify a young man and woman In
getting married are waste of time. The outcome of the
venture depends almost entirely upon their own peculiar
ities of character and capacity, and, while some would
get along If they began on nothing at all, no amount
would bo large enough for others. The one case, like the
other, however, is highly exceptional, and for the com
mon run of humanity there is an income point below
which matrimony is folly little, If any, less than crim
inal. And $6 a week, In this city at least Is not for
two people a HvlDg wage in any true sense of the term.
Probably they could escape starvation on It but they
would constantly be on the vary verge of that uncom-
fortable condition; they would fall stead lj n . wcl.l
and economic Mile, and any trivial accident that d min
ished or cut off the wage would Inevitably drive them
Into pauperism or crime. .
If ruin came from no other source, the first child prob
ably, and the second certainly, would bring It The no
tion that two people. If only they be married, live
as cheapy as either alone is an absurd delusion. Two
can live as cheaply as many a one does, but only when
the one has been spending a large part of his or her In
come for other thlugs than necessities, and is willing,
under the new arrangement, to go without them. Twenty
dollars is much nearer than six to. the permissible mini
mum, and. at that people who have never had to main
tain a family on ss little as the larger sura wonder how
It can possibly be done. It simply can't be accomplished
on $0, if llf Is to be worthy of the name, and Its ordi
nary decencies are requisite for happiness, as they ought
to be. New Tork Times.
N
ECONOMIC WASTE 1 EXLIGIOS.
iOT alone is religion in the commission o
the economic crime of waste, but it every
where furnishes one of the most conspicu
ous examples of the tendency. It would be
bootless to philosophize over the causes
which have produced the infinite subdivi
sions anioiur theolscians or over the present-
day movement which Is leading men to consider more
than in the past their points of agreement rather than
their antagonism of belief and practice, yet the building
or altar against altar goes on apace, and the endeavor
which might be concentrated toward the betterment of
mankind Is frittered away and lost. Not one intelligent
man doubts the stupendous force creative, corrective
and remedial which could be exerted by the church
people of the laud if they could once be united and their
efforts concentrated upon the execution of good works
and th prevention of evil, and there are few who do
not appreciate the difficulties and the obstacles which
have to be overcome before such unity and concentration
can be made possible. Philadelphia Public Ledger
LIBERTY BELL NO HOBO.
HE bell is a heritage of the nation, but
PhlladelDhla is its responsible keeper. Here.
i' I In Independence Hall, is the one resting
I nlanA thnt ft almulri Aver know Tuba It
away from Its surroundings and it loses
much of the sentiment that attaches to It
To send It on Junketing expeditions la to
cheapen It If the policy of exhibiting it as a traveling
showman would exhibit a wild anlmnl from Africa Is
continued, the time will certainly come when, in some
railroad crash, It will be scattered in fragments. It baa
had one or two pretty narrow escapes already. If any
thing should happen to It Philadelphia would never be
forgiven. Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Is It cold enough for you?" asked
the shed shoesblner, as the policeman
entered, rubbing his stockinet-covered
ears.
"Cold enough !" echoed the policeman,
"I sh'd say not. What do you take me
for mutton gravy? You must think
I'm easy chilled. Cold enough- Why,
It ain't niore'n eight or ten below an'
I've been exerclsln' hard, blowln' my
whistle, all niornln'! Cold enough?
Don't you see the sweat runnin' off me?
What's the matter with you? You don't,
feel cool, do you 7
"Seems to me I can stand It with the
door shut" said the shed shoesblner,
closing the door and pressing down the
latch. "Stand to one side an' I'll put
some more coal In."
"Don't on my account," said the po
liceman. I didn't come In here on ac
count of the stove. I came because I'm
fond of the society. You ask such
mart questions."
"You look frostbit, but I didn't
know," said the shed shoeshiner.
"How should your' said the police
man. "You'd naturally think a man
would want ice Inside his hat on a
balmy day like this Is. It's the kind
of day a feller wants to cuddle up
alongside of an electric fan, ain't It?
You don't mind If I take off my coat
an' rest, do you?"
"Go ahead," said the shed shoesblner,
hospitably. "Make yourself at home."
"If we could only have a thunder
storm an' a good heavy shower tt might
get a little cooler," said the policeman.
"A breath of air would help some. The
wind ain't blowln' mor'n forty mile an
hour at the outside. It's a pity we
can't hnve one o' those good, old-fashioned
winters they tell about when It
would freeze water If you let It stand
out all night I'm Just rubbln' my nose
to get the bloom o' youth on It not be
cause It's froze stiff. Hot weather al
ways makes my nose pale. Is It-cold
enough for me? Was you ever at Medi
cine Hat?"
"Where's that?" asked the shoe
Shiner. "It's where the cold weather start
from, 'cordin' to the papers," replied
the policeman. "It get so cold there
It freezes the mercury solid. Thafs
where I'd like to be. I'd like to get a
Job on the Medicine Hat force an' stand
on a crossln' all dny with my vest un
buttoned makln' motions at the traffic.
If I can't get relief no other way I'm
goln out for a boat ride on the lake
to-night in a pair o' duck pants. I'd
probably get good an' wet If the water's
rough, as it's apt to be, an that would
be something. If it wasn't I could hang
my feet over In the slush Ice an' get
the burning out o them. Say, It's a
mighty good thing for you that I hadn't
the use of my arms when I come In
here; I'd certainly have soaked you
one. Is It cold enough ! Say, you didn't
notice the Icicles on my mustache, did
you?"
"Of course I seen you was cold,"
said the shed shoeshiner. "I was Jest
Joshln' when I asked you If It was cold
enough for you."
"It's a great Josh," said the police
man. "I wish you'd get it patented an'
I had the Job of arrestin' every guy
who infringed on It I'd start In by
clubbln' 'em to death. I tell you those.
Say, there's some Jokes that's Jokes, an'
there's some that ain't. That one ain't
Not to me. If I was runnin' a furnace
In an apartment bulldln' a feller might
make that crack an' get away with It
but I ain't doln' the right kind of stunt
to enjoy it It's too frequent any
way." "I won't do It again," promised the
shed shoeshiner.
"See that you don't," said the police
man. "When a guy asks me if It's cold
enough for me he always makes me
hot" Chicago Dally News.
PLEA FOB THE COMPARATIVE.
Overdoing; the Superlative in Our
National Habit of Exnurgrratlon.
Prof. Thomas R. Lounsbury, of
Yale, who has as one of his chief de
lights in life the shocking of the gram
marians, writes in a recent Issue of
Harper's Magazine In defense of the
use of the superlative degree in' com
paring two objects. In this attitude
Prof. Lounsbury will have the hearty
concurrence of at least two classes
school girls of the caramel ages and
political stump speakers whose ambi
tion Is to Ore the heart of the people.
Neither of these have any comprehen
sion of any other degree of speech but
the superlative degree. The positive r
too tame, the comparative Is an un
known country; the superlative, and
the superlative only, fits their excited
and exalted moods. Prof. Lounsbury
alleges that the habit of using the
superlative when two objects are com
pared Is one which the best writers
are unanimous In following.
He allows that such writers employ
both degrees In such cases; but he as
serts that where with them the com
parative is found once, the superla
tive Is found at least twice. Of course
the fact Is one of mathematics, and
probably no grammarian or critic of
the grammarians has ever wasted his
time In taking a census of the posi
tive and superlative as used by the
best writers. Whether Prof. Louns
bury is or Is not accurate In his pres
entation of this mutter as respects the
best writers, we are quite certain that
people who rank below them, or have
no rajik 'at aU as writers, use the
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SAM'S HOBS BLASTS.
lac Hot Call!. ks Wu.fc .
Repentant. "
Nobody U
kept awake DT
preach I n
n ul
man who U a!l4.
self asleep.
t la a wM(t
time to pray fof
the conversion $
sinuers B
street while
preaching la
lone to the sinners In the church.
Without great faith in somethir..
great character Is impossible.
The man who makes children's hnr.
is the real leader of the nation. "
When the heart sings the mailt k
always good, no matter who makes It
The Lord loves a cheerful wort.
about as much as He does a cheerful
giver.
Without the good mother there wouU
never have been a good man la tto
world.
The Bible declares that nabob in
not made out of any better clay thii
other folks.
The Lord hns made every sparrow i
pledge that ne will take care of Hli
own children.
There are some preachers who new
try to do anything for the Lord midl
the church bell rings.
The greatest trust ever formed fa
this world Is the one that is formed
at the mother's knee.
When you know what the derll
most against you know pretty wd
what God wants done.
If there Is a heaven for fools, tt
mun who expects to be saved on hit
wife's church meniliershlp will be tier
on a front seat
superlative with altogether too much
freedom and abandon. Everything,
compared or not, is superlative. Tho
best, the greatest, the subllmest, the
dearest, the darllngest, the worst, are
sure to be the adjectives every time.
Whatever the Issue on the orator's
mind. It is the most important before
the country, without reference to the
fact that another Issue was the most
Important last night and still another
will be the most Important to-morrow
night And nt the other extreme your
effusively enthusiastic miss has al
ways Just had the "dandiest" time,
or has recently eseated from the hor
rldest people; while all the way be
tween all sorts and conditions of men
and women scatter superlutlves about
things of Importance and things of no
importance with lavish and undlserlm
lnatlng lips. Whatever Prof. Louns
bury may have learned from the best
writers, the comparative degree Is a
device of the language that ought to
have more consideration in a land
which has yielded Itself to the habit
of exaggeration.
Simplicity.
Flushed and smiling, the girl grad
uate seated herself beside her father
In the automobile and patted the pale,
blue bow of ribbon on her essay.
"Did you like my essay, father?"
"Your commencement essay upot.
Life's Higher Calls." he said, "seemed
to me to be too too. But listen,
here is an autograph letter of John
Ruskln's that 1 bought this morning
for $17. Maybe, if you had read this
letter before writing your essay It
would have been better."
Then the father read the letter
aloud, while the young girl listened
with a scornful and sour air.
"I was obliged to write too young,
when I knew only half truths, and
was eager to set them forth by what
I thought fine words. People used to
call me a good writer then ; now they
say I can't write at all. because,
for instance, if I think anybody's
house is on fire I only say, '.ir, yoUr
house Is on fire,' where I formerly
used to say. 'sir, the abode In which
you probably passed the delightful
days of youth is in a state of lnflani.
matlon," and everybody used to like
the effect of the two p's In "probably
PBssed.' and the two d. In 'delightful
Nothing- to Pew.
Motorist's Frlend-O, I say I Good
ness gracious, we'll be smashed ud In
a minute! ' ;
Motorist All right, my dear fellow
don't excite yourself. The firm i
bought this motor from have agreed
to keep It In repair for a year.
When a man tells his side of the
story, you can't believe all he saya.
He at least exaggerates In his own
favor.
CUBS FOB CHINESE EDITOBi
All-Bering- Yamen in Pekla Xaka
Bllaatatementa and Goaslp Perllm,
Not long ago some Chinese gentlemen
with horse tails depending from tbelr
official bonnets saw to It that in of
fending editor was right propertj
flogged with bamboo rods 100 lasbn
were the editor's portion, the New Yort
Sun says. These gentlemen had no pri
vate grievance ; they were simply p.
ting the new press laws of China liU
operation.
Last year, when everything in CUm
hummed with the news of a chtnsii;
order, when the old empress dowtjt:
announced from her dragon throne thai
she would have a constitution In CWn
within ten years or know the reasra
why, and when the boycott against
anese manufactures was arranging tfc
features of a national movement, sorer
of the native papers played fart ui
loose with ancient decorum. They emi
criticised the government That cEd
for action from high sources.
Some yamen in Pekln whose prOTlw
it is to look after things as they onsk!
to be in the Internal affairs of the en
plre sent a tnotal all the way to En
gland and Germany to study hov tie
governments there handled obstreper
ous newspapers and called in for li
vice a former minister to P.erlln. Wto
all the data were at hand this yama
formulated something unique In 1
way of press laws. It was put W
operation Inst Mny and the tone of i
great many nntive papers has dropr!
about two octaves as a result.
The publlHhers, printers and edltnn
of newspapers for general circiilatla
must be over 20 years of age accordlt;
to the existing press laws; they ss&
bo generally nccepted as of sound nlr'.
and none of them mny continue blsca:!-
Ing If he hns ever served a prto
sentence for nny crime.
Each proprietor must deposit secor'r
ty of his rectitude to the amount o!
$75 before Issuing his first she.'t onW
he can prove that his publication h
purely artistic, educational or statist
col. A copy of each issue must be sen!
to the yamen that formulated tlx
laws.
"Corrections or protests against m
statements must be published in
next Issue." says this mandate. iJ
case the number of words used In tt!
letter of correction forwarded to $
editor Is more thau twice the numbf
of words used In the ordlnury stit'-
ment a fee of half the ordinary it
tisement rates may be charged."
Secret intelligence of state, crltidsi
of the throne or matter tending to
flame the public peace of mlndoroi
otnum uion long-accepted popumr "
torn if printed will render the editor
publishers and printers of the PI
containing such inhibited matter
subject to fine or Imprisonment for
less than six months nor more u
two years. Papers may be suspend
upon a repetition W any of the often
stipulated or confiscated altogether.
Hon Ther Get It.
An interesting though uot entir
convincing example of. municipal fc
omy comes from New York, where
piece of property stated to be w13
about SSO.000 was wanted by the m
nicipnl powers. The owners skf
$331,000, nnd the condemnation
ceedlngs awarded -them $202,000, wb0!
upon it is claimed the city
$70,000. At that rate If the o
had osked $1,000,000,000 the city a
have saved enough to pay off it
debt . . : . .
Yeast Statistics show that,
rule, married men live seven
longer than bachelors, and wlve
years longer than unmarried wo"
CrlmannluMilr 11'nnHoP If It- is 0W'
or If It only seems longer? X00
Statesman,