The Pacific Monthly/Volume 9/January
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PACIFIC
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JANUARY, 1903
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The Pacific Monthly
edited by William Bittle Wells
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Contents for January, 1903
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A Young Bunchgrasser
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Puget Sound Illustrated by Photographs
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Puget Sound—Poem T. A. A. Siegfriedt
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Adele — Sbort Story Illustrated by Henderson Goldie Robertson Funk 12
Upper and Lower Falls, Spokane. Wash. Photograph .... 18
Foot Ball in the Northwest, Season 1902 . H. H. Herdman, Jr. 19
Illustrated by Photographs A. A. U. Commissioner for the Northwest
The Blue Sea Calls — Poem Ella Higginson . 29
Scenes in Yoho Valley. British Columbia ....... 30
The Story of the Lewis 6 Clark Exposition to Date Henry E. Reed . 32
Secretary of the Board of Directors
On Beacon Hill, Victoria, B. C. — Poem Illustrated T. R. E, Mclnnes . 41
Departmente
Our Point of View William Bittle Wells 44
The Promise of the New Year Questions of the Day C. E. S. Wood 46
Anthracite Goal as aa Object Lesson Men and Women .......... 50
Thos. B. Reed, Woodrow Wilson, C. E. S. Wood. Gkarlcs Frohnan The Home ............ 53
The Sweet Aroma of Love, The McCorkledy Veranda. Home Life of {oseph Chamberlain The Pioneer 55
First Wedding in Oregon, First Pictvre Taking in the Northwest. Solomon Hirsch. Etc. The Reader (Formerly "Books") . W. F. G. Thacher . 57
A Foreword, The Two Vanreveis. Captain Macklin. The Sea Lady.
The Poetry of Robert Browning The Month ........... 59
General Sarvey, Politics, Sciena. Ednation. Art. Mnsic and the Drama.
RcligioBs Thought Progress 64
Oregon, Washington, The Paciic. I^aho. Montana. British Columbia
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A YOUNG BUNCHGRASSER
Photo by Ritzville Studio, Ritzville, Wash.
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Puget Sound
By John Muir
PUGET SOUND, "the Mediterranean of America," as it is sometimes called, is in many respects one of the most remarkable bodies of water in the world. Vancouver, who came here nearly a hundred years ago, and made a careful survey of it, named the larger northern portion of it "Admiralty Inlet," and one of the long narrow branches "Hood's Canal," applying the name "Puget Sound" only to the comparatively small southern portion. The latter name, however, is now applied generally to the entire inlet, and is spoken of by the people hereabouts simply as "The Sound." The natural wealth and commercial advantages of the Sound region were quickly recognized, and the cause of the activity prevailing here is not far to seek. Vancouver, long before civilization touched these shores, spoke of it in terms of unstinted praise. He was sent out by the British government with the principal object in view of "acquiring accurate knowledge as to the nature and extent of any water communication which may tend in any considerable degree to facilitate an intercourse for the purpose of commerce between the Northwest coast and the country on the opposite side of the continent," vague traditions having long been current concerning a strait supposed to unite the two oceans. Vancouver reported that he found the coast from San Fran-
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"CANOE PASS," near Anacortes, Wash. The great body of water of Puget Sound rushes with tremendous force through this pass, piling up sometimes 15 feet high, producing a veritable waterfall.
"HOLE IN THE WALL," near La Conner, Wash. Ships pass through this narrow point, which from a distance seems absolutely impossible.
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MT. RAINIER (Tacoma), from Tacoma Harbor, 14,532 feet high
Photo by A. French, Tacoma, Wash.
Cisco to Oregon and beyond to present a nearly straight, solid barrier to the sea, without openings, and we may well guess the joy of the old navigator on the discovery of these waters after so long and barren a search to the southward.
His description of the scenery—Mts. Baker, Rainier, St. Helens, etc.—were as enthusiastic as those of the most
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A GLIMPSE OF TACOMA HARBOR
Copyright Photo by A. French, Tacoma, Wash.
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MOONLIGHT ON THE SOUND—Smelter at Full Blast
Photo by A. French, Tacoma, Wash.
mansions, cottages and other buildings to render it the most lovely country that can be imagined. The labor of the inhabitants would be amply rewarded in the bounties which nature seems ready to bestow on cultivation." "A picture so pleasing could not fail to call to our remembrance certain delightful and beloved situations in old England." So warm, indeed, were the praises he sung that his statements were received in England with a good deal of hesitation. But they were amply corroborated by Wilkes and others who followed many years later. "Nothing," says Wilkes, "can exceed the beauty of these waters and their safety. Not a shoal exists in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, or Hood's Canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the world that possesses waters like these." And again, quoting from the United States coast survey, "For depth of water, boldness of approaches, freedom from hidden dangers and the immeasurable sea of gigantic timber coming down to the very shores, these waters are unsurpassed, unapproachable."
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ONE OF THE BIG LUMBER MILLS OF WHATCOM. WASH.— Showing Some of the Ships Which Frequent the Splendid Harbor Photo by Gregg, Whatcom, Wash.
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GREAT LUMBER MILLS ON THE WATER FRONT OF EVERETT, WASH.
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A VIEW OF THE HARBOR OF SEATTLE, WASH.—Some of the largest vessels in the world are now building to ply between this port and the Orient
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A GLIMPSE OF THE SOUND—Where Sky and Waters Reflect the Glory of Parting Day
Photo by Wingren, La Conner, Wash.
from the mountains and the sea. Every hidden nook in the depths of the woods is searched and refreshed, leaving no stagnant air; heaver meadows and lake basins and low and willowy bogs all are kept wholes* tnie and sweet the
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"THE MEDITERRANEAN OF AMERICA"—With Some of its Vast Shipping
Photo by A. French. Tacoma. Wash.
Heavy, long-continued rains occur in the winter months. Then every leaf, bathed and brightened, rejoices. Filtering drops and currents through all the shaggy undergrowth of the woods go with tribute to the small streams and these again to the larger. The rivers swell, but there are no devastating floods; for the thick felt of roots and mosses hold the abounding waters in check, stored in a thousand fountains. Neither are there any violent hurricanes here. At least, I have never heard of any, nor have come upon their tracks. Most of the streams are clear and cool always, for their waters are filtered through deep beds of mosses and flow beneath shadows all the way to the sea. Only the streams from the glaciers are turbid and muddy. On the slopes of the mountains where they rush from their crystal caves, they carry not only small particles of rock-
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SHIP "DASHING WAVE"—A Famous Old Character of Puget Sound
Photo by A. French, Tacoma, Wash.
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YACHTING ON BELLINGHAM BAY -Probably no Body of Water in the World is Better Adapted to Yachting Than Puget Sound of it going out to sea, floating on the tides for weeks and months ere it finds rest on the bottom.
Snow seldom falls to any great depth on the lowlands, but in glorious abundance on the mountains. And only on the mountains does the temperature fall much below the freezing point. In the warmest summer weather a temperature of eighty-five degrees, or even more, occasionally is reached, but not for long at a time, as such heat is speedily followed by a breeze from the sea. The most charming days here are days of perfect calm, when all the winds are holding their breath and not a leaf stirs. Then the surface of the Sound shines like a silver mirror over all its vast extent, reflecting its lovely islands and shores; and long sheets of spangles flash and dance in the wake of every swimming seabird and boat. The sun, looking down on the tranquil landscape, seems conscious of the presence of every living thing on which he is pouring his blessings, while they in turn, with perhaps the exception of man, seem conscious of the presence of the sun as a benevolent father, and stand hushed and waiting.
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Photo by Franch, Tacoma, Wash.
Photo by French, Taeoma, Wash.
puget Sound
liyZ^lLn. Stegfmdt
An adamant cup and a sapphire sea,
Deep glimmering depths of a liquid free;
And glittering riplets — golden, agleam;
High splendors reflected — a low sun- beam;
And a languid low murmuring, moan- ing the more
Where the tide breaks in wavelets and measures the shore.
A crystal, calm sea and an emerald bond
With hillocks of green and rivulets fond.
Where the wild, winding forests me- ander and meet
The sands of a seashore in union com- plete;
And the fresh berry-blossoms blithe waver and bloom
In the green darkened dampness of forests' deep gloom.
From sea to the hilltop, to mountains aloft, To the cragged high peaks with eider crowned soft; To the rounded calm sentinels, guarding secure These charms that of Paradise ever endure; To the azure o'erspreading and fleeciest cloud
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ADELE
Goldie Robertson Funk
UNCLE MAX has no living relative but me. We live in Seattle away up on the brow of Queen Anne Hill. Uncle Max's big sandstone house has velvety terraces dropping away from it, and a wonderful hedge of roses about it all. From the wide windows and galleries we can see just below us a great stretch of Puget Sound, and over to the right a long chain of white robed mountains.
Uncle Max loves this inland sea. It soothes him, he says.
But what I love best in the great panorama around and below us is not this huge busy sea, nor yet those silent, mystery-wrapped mountains, but a tiny little black cottage, with a rickety picket fence, and a moss grown roof, and the front all covered with ivy, green the year round ; and a bit of garden just behind, and all the place aflame just now with yellow daffodils and pale jonquils, and hundreds and hundreds of white and yellow primroses. Haven't I said a thousand times I'd give all "my expectations" from Uncle Max just to own that little spot of black and yellow and to be the girl that lives there? It's Adele and her home.
Some years ago. not many, I was a pupil in the nearest public school. I was almost four feet high, and very white and had large brown freckles and two thick braids of red hair. The boys? called me 'Reddy," then, or "Miss Speckleface." My dresses were very short, just to my knees when they should have been below; but Uncle Max knew no better, and the modiste who dressed me said I looked very cute and stylish that way; so I stood very straight and walked quite proudly, for all the other children said I would have a fortune some day. Sometimes when I just couldn't bear to hear the boys shout, "Hey, there, Reddy, town's afire," any longer, I snapped my short skirts and ran fast to keep from crying.
One day Miss Perry put a new girl in the seat ahead of me. I looked at the back of her. She had a great mop of jet black hair that was not braided at all, but just flared out in a heap all around her head. Her shoulders drooped and she wore a faded cotton dress. I looked under my desk at her feet. She had on buttoned shoes, which were quite out of style, and she had her feet drawn back far under her desk and crossed, as if she was afraid.
I was so angry to have such a looking girl sit there in front of me that I forgot everything else. I jumped right up in school with the tears running down my face, and screamed, "Miss Perry! Miss Perry! I won't sit here. I won't. I won't."
I stamped my foot in a rage and cried loud and hard. And I was angrier than ever when all the other pupils looked right at me, and this new girl turned around with a kind of wonder in her big brown eyes that I glared at through my tears, just as if she couldn't understand; and Miss Perry only said very calmly, "Very well, Eugenia, then you may stand there."
And I did stand there. I took up my book and held it before my face for nearly a quarter of an hour; and I was so tired and angry because everybody was looking at me, and because Miss Perry couldn't see that I didn't want that poor stooping girl with the ugly dress and shoes in front of me. I was not thinking of giving in at all when Miss Perry said, right before everybody, "Adele, dear, would you like to come and share my desk on the platform for the rest of the year? Your little neighbor is not so well bred as I could wish."
That was too much. To sit for one day beside Miss Perry at her desk had always been a favor for which we all contended. And here was this new girl to sit there all the time. And such stooping shoulders, and such shoes; and, of course, she would not have any pretty frocks.
For days the rude boys shouted at me as soon as we were off the playground, "She won't. She won't." And I hated Adele. I tipped my nose up high when I passed her and swished my skirts at her.
Every Friday afternoon all the grades assembled in our room and a certain number appointed from each grade beforehand did something in the way of rhetoricals. Some read original compositions, others recited, others sang.
One Friday it was Adele's turn. She was to sing. Now everybody said that I, Eugenia Redfield, had music in me, so for a year past Uncle Max had had my voice in training with Madame Couronneau, and so when Adele, with her brush of black hair and limp dress and ugly shoes got up to sing I looked right at her and tittered as rudely as I knew how.
Oh, Adele! My heart was proud and vicious then and a thousand times has it bled since when I remember the hurt that came into your face; and the tears that filled your eyes; and how you shrank behind your chair; and how your first notes were weak and trembling from shame and pain.
As Adele, frightened and mortified at first, recovered herself, the room grew very quiet. I remember the pure little voice, the low, deep notes whose plaintive tenderness awed and shamed me.
When she had finished, all the older pupils and the teachers applauded and looked very wisely at each other. Child as I was, I was astonished. But when Adele sat down again, instead of looking pleased at the applause that the teachers themselves had led, she put her elbow on her desk and leaned her cheek on her hand and sobbed out loud. And I cried and cried too, for I knew it was all my fault; and dear Miss Perry went and shielded her from us with her large white hand over Adele's face; and Miss Perry wiped the tears from her own face, too, because Adele couldn't stop. She just choked and sobbed out loud like she had been hurt a long time and had forgotten about anyone seeing her.
The next morning, proud little spitfire as I was, I hurried to school and put on Adele's desk, before she got there, a big bouquet of Uncle Max's choicest roses and a note that said:
"Dear Adele, I am so sorry, and I'm hurt worsen you because I'm wicked and you're good, and I want to love you and be just like you. If you ain't too mad at me wait for me tonight. I cried awful hard in bed last night. Eugenia Redfield."
I was so spoiled. No one had ever told me to be any different from what I was — selfish and proud and fiery tempered; but I loved gentleness and calmness in others, and I saw in Adele just what I longed to be. If I could only be just like her.
And Adele, guileless and forgiving, waited for me that night and we walked home hand in hand. I had to pass her home, the one I have described, at the foot of Queen Anne Hill. It was tiny and poor, but so clean.
Adele was the eldest of four children. The first winter following her entrance to our school the other three children were stricken with diptheria and died only a few days apart. We all sent flowers and loving messages for the timid, gentle girl had won us all, as she had Miss Perry from the first.
Always and always, after Adele returned to us, paler and quieter than ever, on up through the grades until we finished the high school together, we were constant companions.
Adele completely conquered and subdued me. She was my ideal. She will never know the bitter fights I have had to make myself like her. I grew simpler in my tastes, for Adele had an artist's eye for the true and the simple. Adele's voice appealed to everyone who heard her. It was a rich contralto. She seemed never to realize that she was always our leader and our pride when the voice teacher visited our grade. As I look back it seems to me that both the voice teacher and Adele were perfectly oblivious to the presence of anyone else. When he entered the room his quick eye searched her out. Her listlessness vanished. She drew herself up unconsciously. Her drooping eyelids opened wide over beautiful brown eyes that fixed themselves upon him and shown with a light whose whole meaning and whose source I believe only geniuses understand. He sang to her and for her, and she followed, and poured back such exquisite, perfect tones that we did not envy her, but listened and loved her.
How this poor, puny, ill-clad girl enchained me. I would have had her live with me if it had been possible. Uncle Max knew of our friendship, but I did not know then what he thought of it. As we came to be young ladies I used regularly to have Adele come to my home during my music hour, and often and often the lesson was hers and not mine. Madame and I never exchanged a word about it, but she understood. Adele was poor, and I am sure now she gladly left me to listen while she taught Adele. My voice was really indifferent, and I joyfully smuggled the lesson onto her. Music—singing, was Adele's master passion; and she was mine.
One warm June morning Madame had just left us, and Adele, flushed and excited with her lesson, walked to the long French window overlooking the blue waters of the bay. Leaning one cheek and then the other against the cool window pane she said, "Oh, I have such thoughts today. I am so greedy, I wish all of life were one music lesson. There are such sounds and such feelings in my soul that I must, I must sing them out."
At that moment Uncle Max entered the room. We both read a suppressed something in his face. He started toward Adele, and she, as if divining news of evil import, said quickly:
"What is it?"
"The boat, my child—I fear—" he hesitated, seeing Adele's face growing white and tense, "fear something has gone wrong with your parents. I—I fear the worst."
Adele was as rigid as a statue. She waited for him to go on.
"The boat went out on Lake Washington, as you know, and they went with it. The waves were rough and the boatman advised their deferring their trip; but they did not seem to fear the waves. The boat has been found, empty, but — "
Adele's slight frame relaxed and she was sinking to the floor when we caught her, and Uncle Max carried her to my room. It was only after many days and nights of watching that we ever hoped for her life and reason. Gradually her strength came back, but not till long after we knew that the treacherous waters of Lake Washington would never give up her dead.
One evening in late September, Adele, Uncle Max and I were sitting on our gallery overlooking the myriad lights of the city below, when Adele began to sing — the first time since her illness. I marveled that so frail a body could house a voice like hers. Notes so low and deep and melancholy, so divinely tender. She seemed scarcely to belong to earth. No wonder Uncle Max*s big handkerchief went to his eyes, and the tears ran unheeded down
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"—Standing almost hidden by the folds of a portiere" my own face. Dear little stricken heart! Poor and alone in the world, yet rich in a voice that angels might envy.
That winter Uncle Max sent us both to New York City, where Adele's voice was to be trained. Tireless in her devotion to her work, at the end of two years Signor Laerti sent her back to Seattle, with, "You know all that I know. I have not improved your voice, God gave you that perfect. I have given you style, ease, and nothing more."
Very soon after our return a musical club in Tacoma planned to give a Festival of Music. Adele was to sing. A German tenor who had within the year come to the city to take charge of a lately acquired inheritance was to appear also.
Adele charmed us. Her long, slim figure, in its soft, trailing robes of whitest white, was grace itself, and the heavy crown of blue-black hair made a fitting frame for her sweet, serious face. Musical Tacoma, filling the Opera House to the doors, listened almost reverently. For what seemed a full minute after she had left the stage the hush was not broken. Then came thunders of applause. I knew the culture and travel of that city full of people, and I knew that this was no small tribute from that ultra-critical audience.
Afterwards, Herr Heinrich sang. Adele had come to our box, and sat beside me, her thin, white hand on mine in my lap. From Heinrich's first note Adele did not once take her gaze from him. Again and again his eyes sought her as he poured forth the passionate burden of a German love song. Adele's hand rested heavily on mine. I shuddered as if a living voice had warned me of these two.
When we left the theater to meet the ladies and their guests again at a reception at the Tacoma Hotel, Herr Heinrich was presented. I observed him closely. Small need of that when I instinctively recoiled from him. I saw two pitiless grey eyes look down deep into the lustrous brown ones of my darling. I saw Adele's eyes flash once up to his with all her innocent soul in them, and I almost screamed. I longed to drag her away. I felt impending danger for her, even as the animals feel the coming storm.
To regain my self-control, I left them and walked away to an adjoining room. I had taken but a step into the next parlor when I noticed a tall, well formed, well dressed woman, with a great coil of flaxen hair, standing almost hidden by the folds of a portiere, her gaze fixed so earnestly on some one in the next room that she did not observe me. I turned. Her eyes were fixed on Heinrich and Adele, who stood alone as I had left them. I supposed she was a guest in the hotel who wanted to see the singers, and thought no more about her, as she soon left.
The next day I was no less troubled. Adele was more quiet than usual, and as we stepped aboard the Flyer I wished it was the ocean we were about to cross instead of this narrow bit of water between the two cities. We were hardly out of the harbor when Adele whispered: "Genie, Herr Heinrich will soon call." I groaned. I almost sobbed. Adele was all attention. "Why, Genie, Genie, dear, are you ill?" "No, no, not ill, Adele. I'm just tired, that's all," I replied.
Months passed, in which Heinrich almost lived at Uncle Max's. Need I say that Adele loved him? She was so happy. He had traveled in all countries and sung in the great theaters of all. His knowledge of musical literature, history and tradition was wonderful, and a daily feast for Adele's receptive soul. But she was happiest when they sang together.
Through one long year I watched and studied her lover, trying to shake off my fear and distrust. I could not. He stood an ever present menace to my Adele, my more than sister.
"Genie," she would say, throwing her arms about me, "you are so good to me. You give me my voice. You give me my Otto. You give me everything. Ah, I cannot repay you, I can only love you, and love you, and love you."
As if the love of an angel of light were not riches untold!
At last I spoke to Uncle Max of my feeling toward Heinrich. I could scarcely find words to say what I meant, it was all so vague, and Uncle Max only laughed. "There's no ground for your fears, Eugenia, Heinrich is all right. I have made inquiry and know how he stands. He has money and friends, and will make Adele a good husband. Gad, I hate to lose her, though!"
Oh, if I had only urged that I did not recoil from his standing, or his money, or his friends, but from the man himself.
It was the afternoon before the wedding day. Heinrich was to make one short call. Adele and I were making some last arrangements for the morrow when my maid announced a caller. Thinking it was Herr Heinrich, we went down together. A tall, flaxen-haired woman, superbly dressed, stood in the middle of the room. She scarcely observed me, but looked intently at Adele. My mind flew back to that night in Tacoma, at the hotel. This very woman had been peering intently at Heinrich and Adele from the shadow of the portiere. What could she be here for?
"Young ladies," she began, and I noted the look of distress in her handsome face, "pardon my intrusion. I know not if I come as a curse or a blessing to you," turning to Adele.
"Once, years ago, child, for your sweetheart I gave all the light of my life. My heart breaks for you, but I must speak. I am his wife."
Instantly Adele was by the stranger's side, her hand on the woman's shoulder, and peering into her face, she said: "Madame, speak—is this the truth? You are a stranger. What papers have you? I may not believe your words—and yet—" and Adele walked slowly to the other end of the room.
"My marriage certificate," began the other woman, but Adele returned to her side.
"Tell me all you will," she said.
"My poor girl! I would have spared you this, but for your own sake I may not keep silent. I was born in Vienna. My mother was an American who had come to that city to have her voice trained. My father was her teacher. They married. In a year I came. About the same time my mother had a friend die and leave a young babe. My parents adopted him and my mother nursed us both. My father discovered that we both had voices, and trained us for years, until he died. We were nineteen then, and against the wishes of my mother we married. We dreamed of opera. We would sing together over the whole world. But in a year my mother had died and my baby was born. My father had left us with nothing. Heinrich was young, too young to teach, but he sung parts in the opera, and every Sunday he was paid to sing in church. It was slow work and he made barely enough to keep us. One day, when we had struggled through another year, Otto came home in great haste. He had engaged to go at once with a troupe to Berlin to sing. He kissed us goodbye, and—after that I never saw him or heard from him again till that night you and he sang in the Tacoma theater. I heard of him in every center of music. His success in opera had been great, but no greater than I had prayed for when we two should go out together. But I must find something to do. I put my baby with friends. I sang in church, and unimportant parts in opera at first, as Otto had done. Soon I was given other parts. I was better paid. I studied all the time, and when a troupe was organized to tour America I was given one of the best parts. That was seven years ago. It seems longer. Since then I, too, have sung in every great center of music in the world. I returned to America just before I heard you. I am prosperous. My boy is being educated in this country, and I am no longer afraid of being left alone. My future is certain. But Heinrich. Ah, child, if you love him, if he seems to be all you have in life, then know he was all that to his child-wife. When he left us to starve, I yet loved him and believed he had gone to make a fortune, and always that he would come back to us. I worked and hoped and watched and waited and longed for him. Then when I knew, because he did not come to us when he prospered, that he never would come, my heart closed up to him. I did not hate him. I do not hate him. Even if he would he could never again be a part of my life. But he is my husband and the father of my boy. For my boy's sake, Heinrich may not marry tomorrow."
I believe the heart of the girl who knelt beside this woman, her arms about her, ached more for the wrong done the stranger than for herself.
"Madame," began Adele, brokenly, "it you have suffered so"
At that moment Heinrich himself appeared.
At sight of the stranger his face turned as white as marble. "Lisbeth!" he panted.
"It is I, Otto," and she rose, her magnificent figure seeming to heighten, but her full, rich tones expressing only pity. Heinrich shrank from her. He turned to me, but the wrathful indignation in my face must have been enough, for he left without a word. He left Tacoma forever.
Adele was so brave. Messengers recalled the invitations, and I put away the beautiful white things that my darling was to have worn.
Adele had suffered much in her life, but never like this.
Back again to the little cottage. We could not keep her. Pupils came for her training. She works slavishly and sings more wondrously than ever. Strangers who visit the church where she may be heard every Sunday morning go away wondering at the pale, fragile woman whose glorious contralto reaches within their very souls and sings out every grief they have ever known.
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The views of Upper and Lower Spokane Falls herewith presented are the best general views yet taken.
The power generated by the falls has been one of the principal factors in the upbuilding of
Spokane, which has reached a population of over 50,000
Photo by Will J. Oriel, Spokane, Wash.
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Foot Ball
in the Northwest
Season 1902
By H. H. Herdman, Jr.
A. A. U. Commissioner for the Northwest
THE football season of 1902 in the Northwest has had many elements which indicate progress in this, the greatest of college games. In years gone by there were comparatively few teams in the field, and of these only two or three played with any comprehension of the finer points of the game. These two or three, simply because they had been coached by men who learned football where it has been known and played for years, so far outclassed the other teams that there was little of interest in the contests. It very often happened, too, that the strongest teams did not meet on the gridiron, but fought the battle through the medium of the newspapers. Moreover, some of the colleges seemed so possessed of the spirit to win that the games resulted in pitched battles, in which each side was determined to win at any cost, by fair means or foul. This desire to win frequently led managers and captains to induce players of established reputations to enter college for the sole purpose of playing football, and with the understanding that their expenses would be paid, that the rough road to knowledge would be smoothed for them, and that their sudden disappearance after the close of the season would call forth no comment. Thus the crying evil of professionalism made its way into a sport which should be kept totally untainted by its curse.
This year there were many more teams than usual, and more of them had good coaches from either the Eastern or the California colleges. The result is that the seven leading colleges of Oregon, Washington and Idaho found themselves very evenly matched, and gave the public good games. Most of the colleges and secondary schools have learned the value of good coaching, and hired as coaches men who know the game. Incidentally it may be said that the athletics of these colleges and schools have been freer from the taint of dishonesty and professionalism than have those of the larger institutions. This is due, not to the fact that the institutions are smaller, but to the fact that their faculties have exercised a stricter control over the athletics, and
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FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.
The Center Trio of the U. of O. Eleven
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FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE MULTNOMAH AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB
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teur. May there be no step backward!
Multnomah has done so much good for
the youth of Portland, has done so
much to promote the cause of amateur-
ism, and has so much at stake, in fact
its own existence as an amateur athletic
club, that it cannot afford to nullify its
work by countenancing or encouraging
anything which smacks of profession-
alism. I put the matter thus plainly,
not because I want to condemn, but be-
entitled to the championship of Wash- ington and Idaho. In Oregon three teams tied for first honors. The Uni- versity of Oregon played scoreless games with Oregon Agricultural Col- lege and Albany College. These last two teams did not meet on the gridiron, although each professed a strong de- sire to do so. To an outsider, the diffi- culties in the way of their meeting seem trivial, and he is almost forced to the
ALBANY COLLEGE ELEVEN AND SUBSTITUTES
cause I want to see Multnomah pro- mote its own best interests, something which it can do only by living up to both the letter and the spirit of the principles upon which the club is founded.
To the disappointment of many, the inter-collegiate championship of the Northwest for 1902 was not definitely settled. The University of Washington won from Whitman College, Washing- ton Agricultural College, and the Uni- versity of Idaho, and is consequently
conclusion that *'one was afraid and the other was glad of it." Undoubtedly, if they had expended as much energy in trying to agree as each did in ex- pounding in the newspapers its superi ority over the other, together with the whys and wherefores of its contention, they would have arranged a game. Hence there was no inter-collegiate champion of Oregon to pit against the champion of Washington, and thus de- cide the problem of supremacy ; and hence the college championship of the
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DON MORRISON, Fullback on the Albany Team
Northwest remains a mooted question. Opinion inclines to the belief that the University of Washington had the strongest team. The comparative scores — which, by the way, experience has taught mean little or nothing — of Washington and Oregon against Mult- nomah seem to indicate this. Multno- mah defeated Washington 7-0, and Oregon 16-0. But Multnomah played Washington in Seattle and Oregon in Portland ; consequently, although Washington may have been the strong- er, the difference was very little, prac tically one touchdown, if we adopt this uncertain method.
The championship of the minor col- lege league of Oregon, to which neither
the University of Oregon nor Oregon Agricultural College belongs, was easi- ly won by Albany. The strength which this team showed was a great surprise, and it won for Albany the right to be considered one of the *'big three" of Oregon. Whether in a college so small as Albany there is enough material to assure the development of a team of equal strength year after year, remains to be seen. Pacific University fell be- low the standard of last year, and won only one game, that with Washington Agricultural College. Many of last year's men were not in college, and the new material did not develop into first- class players. But the P. U. players should be commended for their willing-
HOMER WATTS, Tackle, elected Captain for
1903. U. of O.
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ncss and determination to do their best
under the discouragement of successive
defeats.
It is a common remark among those who have watched the development of academic football in this part of the country, that no teams play snappier or better ball than do the teams of the academies and high schools. The youngsters who make up these teams go into the game with an enthusiasm and a vigor which their seniors might well emulate. They play hard and they play all the time. There is no **playing
The academic games in Portland have been unusually interesting this year. For the third season in succession, Portland Academy has won the penant from Hill Military Academy, Bishop Scott Academy and Portland High School, winning five of the six games played, tying in the other, and scoring 131 points as against 6 by their oppo- nents. The P. A. boys also defeated Pacific University, but lost when they went out of their class and played Al- bany. Their victory this year is due, not so much to superiority of material
FOOTBALL TEAM OF WASHINGTON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGK
for wind," no shirking. To win or lose means life or death to them, and they play to win.
There is no inter-scholastic cham- pionship of Oregon, and only one team has had the effrontery to claim a paper state championship. Oregon may be said to be divided into three divisions, the southern, the eastern and the north- western, or Portland, division. The Eu- gene High School may well claim first place in the southern division, Pendle ton High School in the eastern, and Portland Academy in the Portland.
as to good coaching and the hard, con- sistent training they were willing to do. The Hill team won second place in the race, and toward the end of the season played good ball.
The innate rivalry which exists be- tween the two principal cities on Puget Sound, Seattle and Tacoma, manifests itself in sport as well as in business. This last fall it found opportunity to show itself at the football games which were played by the Seattle and Tacoma High School teams. Seattle won the first game 16-0. and it seemed that the Tacoma boys were sadly outclassed. The Seattle players were heavier, had more experience, and showed more thorough coaching. Then, too, they had picked up many of the finer points of the game while watching Coach Knight drill the University of Washington team. But the Tacoma team practiced diligently, and when the second game was played showed themselves practically the equals of their opponents. In this game each team made a touchdown, but Seattle kicked the goal and Tacoma failed. Thus Seattle won 6-5. Hence the inter-scholastic championship of the Sound cities belongs to the Seattle High School.
A word of advice to football players may not be out of place here. Football games are played and championships are won, not in the columns of the newspapers, but on the gridiron. The players and managers of the Northwest teams may learn this as well now as any time; and the sooner they learn it the better. It is a pitiful, not to say disgraceful, spectacle, to see managers and captains of teams appearing in print and laying claim to what they have not won. There is altogether too much of this disposition to climb half way up the ladder and then to shout to the multitude that they could go the rest of the way if they wanted to; too much of a willingness to rest on what laurels have already been won, and to exalt one team by belittling another. Where there is a championship at issue, let the teams that aspire to it get together and play for it, instead of resorting to the exploded fallacy of comparative scores to bolster up a defective title. The public does its own thinking these days, and the man who claims what does not belong to him adds nothing of value to his reputation. On the contrary, he injures himself and those whom he represents. So let the contest take place on the field, let a spirit of true sportsmanship imbue everybody
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OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ELEVEN AND SUBSTITUTES
FOOTBALL TEAM OF TACOMA HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL IN THE NORTHWEST
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and take the place of petty jealousy and rivalry, and let the public be assured that there will be no more of this soph- omeric reviling and infantile wailing after g^reen cheese.
The leading college teams for this season were those from the following colleges: University of Washington, University of Oregon, Oregon Agricul- tural College, Albany College, Whit- man College, Washington Agricultural College, and University of Idaho. The record of each team is as follows:
University of Washington
vs. O. A. C. 16-6
" U. of I. lo-o.
" Whitman. 11-5
" W. A. C. 16-0
" Seattle Ath. Club. 12-0
" Seattle All-Club. 24-0
" M. A. A. C. 0-7
University of Oregon vs. Albany. 0-0
Whitman. 6-0 " U. of O. Medical, ii-o " O. A. C. 0-0 " Albany. 0-0 " Pacific University. 70-0 " M. A. A. C. 0-16
Oregon Agricultural College vs. Willamette Univ. 67-0 " U.ofW. 6-16 " U. ofO. 0-0
Willamette 21-0 " McMinnville College 33-0 " Pacific Univ. 31-0
Albany College vs. U. of O. 0-0
" Willamette 27-0
" Portland Academy 34-0 O. State Normal 15-6
" U. of O 0-0
" Ashland Normal 30-0
" McMinnville 22-0 Whitman College
" U. of W. s-ii
" U. ofO. 0^6
" W. A. C. 5-6
Pacific Univ. 28-0
" U. of I. 18-0 Washington Agricultural College
vs. Pacific Univ. 5-6
" U. of I. 16-0 Whitman 6-5
" U.ofW. 0-16
University of Idaho vs. W. A. C. 0-16 " U. of W. o-io " Pacific Univ. 23-0 Whitman 0-18 To these may be added the record of the inter-scholastic champions of Port- land:
Portland Academy vs. Pacific Univ. 6-0 " Hill Milit. Acad. 32-0 " Bishop Scott Acad. 23-0 '* Albany 0-34 " H. M. A. 6-6
Portland High School 52-0 " H. M. A. 7-0 " B. S. A. ii-o It seems to be expected of the writer of an article of this kind that he try his skill in making up an "all-star" team. This, then, is the lineup of the all-col- lege team which I should choose to rep- resent the Northwest on the gridiron: Center, Sherer, U. of W. Guards, Newton, U. of W., and Ker- ron, U. of O.
Tackles, Cox, Whitman, and Segrist, U. of W.
Ends, Jordan or Chandler, U. of O., and Hill, U. of W.
Quarter, Spidell (Capt.), U. of W. Halves, Templeton, U. of O., and Morrison, Albany.
Full, Brown, Whitman, or McElmon, U. of W.
Substitutes, Wells, U. of W., half; Watts, U. of O., tackle.
If the Multnomah players were elig- ible to this "all-star" team, many of them would be entitled to places in- stead of the college players. McMillan would play one of the halves, and Bishop might displace Templeton in the other. Stott would run Spidell a close race for quarter, and Cook, al- though not so good a Hne-bucker as Brown or McElmon, would replace either, because he is undoubtedly the best punter in the Northwest. Martin Pratt would surely play one of the tackles, but for the other positions in the line the colleges have better players than the club has.
And here, for the benefit of the younger players, is an attempt to pick an all-scholastic team of Portland to play against a similarly chosen team
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of the Hill Military Academy Team from the Sound cities or eastern Oregon:
Center, Kelley, H. M. A., or Charleston, P. A.
Guards, Seeley, P. A., and Blackburn, P. H. S.
Tackles, Koerner, P. A., and Hahn, H. M. A.
Ends, Sutherland, P. A., and Martin, H. M. A.
Quarter, Holman, H. M. A.
Halves, Fenton (Capt.), P. A., and Wood, P. A.
Full, Chalmers, P. A.
Substitutes, Scott, P. A., guard; Swope. B. S. A., full ; Montague, P. H. S., end; E. Smith, B. S. A., quarter.
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HARLAN, Quarterback
BAGSHAW. Halfback, of the Seattle High School Team
DOWD. End
The Blue Sea Calls
Ella Higginson
The days grow long and bright,
Golden the sunlight falls,
But, ah, my heart! from dawn to night
The blue sea calls.
I climb with trembling heart,
Irresolute and slow,
For, ever, that far human voice
Pleads from below.
The pure and nun-like hills,
Where Snow herself has trod.
Thro' perfumed air that stirs and thrills.
Kneel up to God.
The heights, sublime, afar,
Have held me in their thrall.
But 'neath the low, sweet evening star
The blue waves call!
Oh, calling waves, be still!
Plead not, and let me go,
That I may climb, like yonder hill,
Up to God's snow.
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A SCENE IN YOHO VALLEY. BRITISH COLUMBIA This beautiful valley has only recently been discovered, and those who have beheld its m
pronounce it the equal, if not the superior, of the famous Yosemitc Valley of Califomi Photo by R. H. Trueman & Co., Vancouver, British Columbia
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A SCENE IN YOHO VALLEY. BRITISH COLUMBIA The sublime majesty of this enchanted spot is suggested by the above photograph of Twm^alls. Both of
Tbe Story of the
Lewis & Clark
Exposition to Date
By Henry E. Reed
Secretary of the Board of Directors
IN writing of "The Lewis and
Clark Exposition to Date" it
is perhaps most satisfactory to
the reader, in the absence of
arrangements that would give
scope and form to the undertaking,
to begin at the beginning and
treat events sequentially. This
course leaves open numerous avenues leading to the prosaic, but
this cannot very well be avoided
in dealing with an Exposition
which is international in character, but
only in its preliminary stages. The
work that will determine what the
Exposition of 1905 will be is now under way and will be rounding into shape while the readers of the Pacific Monthly are engrossed in this issue.
For several years prior to 1900, Mr. Daniel McAllen, one of our leading business men, proposed and enthusiastically advocated the holding of an industrial fair in Portland. He maintained that if the enterprise were undertaken and if the people should keep within their means in financing it, a fair could be held which would greatly benefit the State and the city by advertising their resources to people in other
H. W. CORBETT, President of the Board of Directors
H. W. Scott, First Vice-President
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O. L. MILLER, Baker City, Or. ADOLPHE WOLFE, Portland, Or., ad Vice-President of the Board of Directors
States seeking homes and business investments. Some time in 1900, the suggestion was advanced that Congress might, if asked, be induced to give Portland a share of the appropriations it was passing around for fairs. The Chicago World*s Fair was still fresh in the minds of the East, the Omaha Exposition had only lately closed, and, with the Buffalo, Charleston, and St. Louis Expositions in prospect, the chances for Portland did not appear to be worth the effort. Besides, Oregon and Portland were then asking the government for large sums for river and other public improvements of great importance and it was deemed unwise to imperil these by making new demands upon Congress. The proposal to hold a fair would most certainly have died of inanition if the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Lewis and Clark expedition had not come to the rescue and furnished the historical basis, the real reason for a celebration of some kind. This aspect of the subject appealed to the Oregon Historical Society and formed the nucleus of the present movement. Without it we should have no reason for an Exposition and perhaps no Exposition; with it we have the means of acting ourselves and of inviting the world to participate with us.
The Oregon Country has been committed to an Exposition from the moment when the Historical Society, at its annual meeting on December 15, 1900, adopted the resolutions of the late L. B. Cox, "recognizing in the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Coast not only the chief of those romantic and adventurous movements which have ever characterized the advance of the American pioneer spirit, but also an event of the highest practical value, both disclosing the worth and recources of the vast region traversed and constituting one of the strongest links in our chain of title to the 'Oregon Country.'"
The further resolution of the Society on this subject follows:
That this Society will undertake to erect, during the year 1905, on the site of Fort Clatsop, an imposing and enduring monument to this great achievement in our national history, and to the memory of the brave men who accomplished it.
That in connection with the erection and dedication of this monument, the Society recommends the holding of a Northwestern Industrial Exposition at Portland, which shall fittingly portray the progress and wealth of the region with which this expedition is inseparably connected, and its relationship with the other States of the Union as well as to foreign countries.
That the Governor of Oregon be, and he hereby is, requested to submit to the approaching session of the Legislative Assembly this action on the part of the Society and to urge upon that body a cordial and effective support of the movements contemtem-
B. VAN DUSEN, Aatoria, Or. WM. D. WHEELWRIGHT, Portland, Or.
of the Board of Directors
plated, a^d that the President and 'Secretary of the Society publicly invite the people of this State to co-operate in the accomplishment of the ends in view.
That the Governor of Oregon be, and he hereby is, requested to transmit to the Governors of the States of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, which were comprised, in whole or in part, in the "Oregon Country," a copy of these resolutions, with an invitation to the people of said States to participate in the objects above set forth, and that he request each of said Governors to submit his communication to the next en- suing session of the Legislative Assembly of their respective States, for consideration and action.
That the Secretary communicate to the Senators and Representatives in Congress from Oregon and the other States above named, this action of the Society, and solicit their advocacy of such Congressional aid in the accomplishment of the purposes above set forth as may be available.
About this time a Provisional Com- mittee of 21, representing the business interests of Portland, was formed for the purpose of promoting the proposed exposition, keeping its objects con- stantly before the people of Portland and paving the way for the coming of the stock company. This commit- tee was very active and accomplished a great deal of good in its year's ex- istence.
Complying with the request of the Historical Society, the Oregon Legis- lature of T90T took prompt action in behalf of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
tion. On February 21st, the House extended the privileges of the floor to Hon. J. M. Long, chairman of the Pro- visional Committee, and listened to a fifteen minute address by him. At the conclusion of his remarks. Repre- sentative Orton, of Portland, presented two concurrent resolutions, which were immediately adopted and the Sen- ate concurred in them. One of the resolutions indorsed "the Centennial of the Lewis and Clark exedition and the Oriental Fair to be held at the City of Portland in connection there- with during the year 1905," and re- solved "that the State will give its sub- stantial financial aid thereto.'* The Governor was authorized to appoint five commissioners to represent the State, and the other Northwestern States were invited to make exhibits. The second resolution requested Con- gress to "make a suitable appropriation for a national exhibit at said fair, and also that proper acts be passed and pro- per resolutions be presented to the Oriental countries and to other foreign governments, and the Dominion of Canada, requesting them to make an industrial exhibit at said fair."
Washington, Idaho, Utah and Brit- ish Columbia promptly fell into line with Oregon, and early in the year 1901 the Lewis and Clark Exposition was being cared for in the various
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION TO DATE
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FERDINAND DRESSER, Portland, Or. GEORGE W. RIDDLE, Azalia, Or.
of the Board of Directors
States by the following State commis- sions:
Oregon. — H. W. Corbett, Henry E. Ankeny, C. B. Bellinger, C. W. Fulton, E. E. Young.
Washington.— Frank J. Parker, W. W. Tolman, J. G. Megler, E. M. Rands, George W. Rowan.
Idaho. — Thomas Kirby, E. W. John- son, J. H. Richards.
Montana. — S. T. Hauser,
Utah. — Hoyt Sherman, Hiram ,B. Clawson, L. W. Shurtleff.
British Columbia.— R. E. Gosnell.
Most of the year 1901 was spent in preparations. Joint meetings of the various State commissioners were held in Portland and at one of these "The Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition," with the legend, "Where Rolls the Oregon/' was selected as the name of the com- pany. Subsequently it was found that the Legislature of Oregon had passed an act enabling the City of Portland to levy a tax in aid of an Oriental Fair and to profit by this tax the name of the company was amended to read "The Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Ori- ental Fair."
This is its official name. Late in the year the state commissioners who had been appointed joined in a proclama- tion explaining the results of the Lewis
and Clark expedition, and stating the purposes of the proposed celebration in 1905, concluding by inviting Na- tional and State participation.
Meanwhile the local Provisional Committee kept interest from flagging and laid the plans for incorporating the stock company to carry on the fair. It was decided to place the capital stock at $300,000. The objects were declared to be:
First — To hold an American Pacific Ex- position and Oriental Fair and an exhibition of the arts, industries, manufactures and products of the soil, mine and sea, in the City of Portland, Oregon, during the year 1905, to be State, Inter-State, National, American and Oriental in its character. •
Second — To facilitate and assist in the construction of buildings and the equipment thereof, and of all classes of structures for the exhibition of the arts, industries, manu- factures and products of the soil, mines and sea, to be used as a part of or in conniection with said exposition and fair.
Third — To acquire, by lease or purchase, for the purpose of using the same for the holding of said exposition and fair, all lands deemed necessary by the corporation, and to dispose of the same when the fair is closed, in such manner as may be deemed fit.
Fourth — To borrow money on bonds, notes, or otherwise, for the general pur- poses of the corporation, and to mortgage any or all of its property and incomes, actual or prospective, including the money raised from the gate receipts, or any part thereof, and to issue all necessary mort- gages or indentures to secure the payment thereof. ^-^ t.
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A. BUSH, Salem, Or.
of the Hoard of Directors
J. M. CHURCH, La Grande, Or.
Fifth — To receive subscriptions of money, property or labor from any and all sources
The articles of incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State, Oc- tober 12, 1901, with the following cor- porators, all of whom unless otherwise noted, are from Portland:
F. E. Beach. R. F. Prael. Paul Wessinger. H. L. Pittock. I. A. Yerex. Alfred D. Bowen. S. Frank. H. Wittenberg. J. Thorburn Ross. Geo. E. Chamberlain. Julius L. Meier. David M. Dunne. W. L. Boise. H. W. Scott. H. E. Ankeny (Eugene). Charles n. Bellinger. H. W. Corbett. Henry Hahn. Samuel Connell. E. Ehrman. L. B. Cox. T. M. Long, k. W. Lewis. C. W. Fulton (Astoria). Edward Everett Young (Baker City).
R. D. Inman.
J. W. Cruthers. P. L. Willis.
E. H. Kilham. W. H. McMonies. Dom J. Zan.
L N. Fleischner. A. H. Devers. Phil Metschan.
C. L. Brown.
D. L. Povey. H. W. Goode. C. J. Owen.
A. B. Steinbach. Newton Poston. J. C. Ainsworth. George Lawrence, Jr. W. H. Morrow. R. W. Hoyt. H. S. Rowe. Herman Metzger. Fred T. Merrill. A. R. Heintz. R. J. Holmes. John H. Mitchell. Wm. F. Woodward. Louis IBlumauer. Andrew C. Smith. Joseph Simon. A. H. Breyman. Adolphe Wolfe. C. J. O^Reilly. O. Summers.
F. P. Mavs. Wm. D. Fenton. Francis I. AIcKenna.
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION TO DATE
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P. L. WILLIS, Portland, Or.
of the Board of Directors
RUFUS MALLORY, Portland, Or.
E. J. DeHart. Seneca Smith.
E. W. Rowe. W. W. Cotton. Alex Sweek Charles F. Beebe.
F. W. Mulkey.
The next thing was to raise the money. H. W. Corbett, Samuel Connell and J. M. Long, whom the corporators appointed to open a stock - book, receive subscriptions and organize the company, called to their advice committees representing the commercial organizations of Portland. A few consultations of this kind led to the formation of a provisional executive committee, which should have charge of the canvass of the city for subscriptions to the capital stock. This committee, with Hon. H. W. Corbett as chairman and myself as secretary, was organized as follows:
H. W. Corbett. P. L. Willis. E. T. William.s. W. W. Cotton. W. L. Boise. A. B. Steinbach. H. C. Breeden. Paul Wessinger. Chas. F. Beebe. Julius L. Meier. John F. Cordray.
D. M. Donaugh. H. W. Scott, R. D. Inman. H. Wittenberg. J. T. Morgan. A. H. Breyman. F. E. Beach. Owen Summers. Leo Friede. Fred T. Merrill. Ben Selling. T. W. Cruthers. H. C. Wortman. A. H. Devers. J. E. Haseltine. I. N. Fleischner. A. A. Bailey. Adolphe Wolfe. H. S. Rowe. Sol. Blumauer. H. W. Goode. Geo. W. IBates. H. C. Campbell. F. L McKenna.
The Executive Committee spent the early part of November in laying its plans, appointing its canvassing com- mittees and advertising the fact that it was coming. November 24th and 25th were designated as the days of the canvass and upon the initiative of Mr. Adolphe Wolfe, the Executive Committee declared that it would ex- pect the entire amount of the capital stock to be taken in tvvo^d ays. Few
J. C. COOPER. McMinnville, Or. COL. J. H. RALEY, Pendleton, Or.
of the Board of Directors
thought this to be possible, for no other city of Portland's size in the world had ever financed so large a public enter- prise in so short a time. Portland agreeably surprised itself, and the Ex- ecutive Committee had the pleasure of giving the city a fine Thanksgiving present in the shape of an Exposition company capitalized at $300,000 and the stock all taken. Hon. H. W. Cor- bett signed the stock list for $30,000, one-tenth of the whole. It was his generous subscription and the confi- dence in the Exposition which his con- nection with it inspired that gave the project its substantial support and as- sured its success.
When all the canvassers had made their reports, it was seen that the work of the two days had resulted in sub- scriptions amounting to $340,000. The achievement was noteworthy and it is one that will ever be recalled to the credit of Portland and the enterprise of its business men. The over-sub- scribing of the stock made an increase necessary, and at a special meeting of the stockholders, held February 14, 1902, the capitalization was put at $500,000. Subscriptions to date amount to $410,000.
Fifteen directors were elected by the stockholders at their first meeting held January 13, 1902, and the directors elected officers at their first meeting
held January 21, 1902. At the special meeting of the stockholders, held Oc- tober 6, 1902, the number of directors was increased to 25. Following are the names of the directors, the first 15 of whom have served continuously since the organization of the company. Unless otherwise stated, Portland is the residence of the directors.
H. W. Corbett. H. W. Scott. Adolphe Wolfe. Paul Wessinger. A. H. Devers. Rufus Mallor>-. John F. O'Shea. Leo Friede. Charles E. Ladd. Wm. D. Fenton. A. L. Mills. Geo. W. Bates. I. N. Fleischner. Wm. D. Wheelwright. F. Dresser. Samuel Conhell. T. C. Ainsworth. P. L. Willis.
James H. Raley, Pendleton. O. L. Miller, Baker City. J. M. Church, La Grande. Asahel Bush, Salem. J. C. Cooper, McMinnville. Geo. W. Riddle, Azalea. P>. Van Dusen, Astoria, f-^ 1 A. H. DEVERS. Portland, Or.
PAUL WESSINGER. Portland, Or.
of the Board of Directors
The officers are:
President.—H. W. Corbett.
First Vice-President.—H. W. Scott.
Second Vice-President.—Adolphe Wolfe.
Third Vice-President. — Leo Friede.
Auditor. — Adolphe Wolfe.
Treasurer. — First National Bank.
Secretary. — Henry E. Reed.
With a multitude of details to dispose of to put the company in business shape, and a mass of routine work to engross their attention, the directors have had a busy year. Before the end of their first twelve months of service, 22 stated and special meetings will have been held. It is not necessary to detail the proceedings of the Board in this writing and I shall refer only briefly to a few of the principal subjects that have been acted upon. On April 11th a hearing was given Hon. John Barrett, Commissioner-General to Asia for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, on the subject of co-operation between the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Mr. Barrett's suggestions were favorably received by the Board. On August 15th, Mr. Henry E. Dosch was appointed Special Commissioner to the Fifth National Industrial Exhibition of Japan, to be held at Osaka from March 1 to July 31, 1903. and resolutions were adopted
declaring the purpose of the company to erect a monument to Lewis and Clark in the City Park at Portland. As the result of Mr. Dosch's mission, an exhibit of the resources of Oregon will be made under the auspices of the Lewis and Clark Exposition Company at the Osaka Exhibition, and Japan will reciprocate by coming to Portland in 1905. On September 12th, the site for the Exposition was selected in the northwestern part of Portland, comprising 385 acres of land and natural lake, directly opposite the highest point on the Willamette river reached by Captain Clark on April 3, 1806. On October loth the Board declared for an appropriation of $500,000 by the State of Oregon. The present work of the company may briefly be summarized in the following recommendations of Hon. William D. Fenton, which have been adopted by the Committee on Legislation:
First — A bill for an act to appoint an Oregon Lewis and Clark Commission of nine members, and to appropriate $500,000 for the Lewis and Clark Centennial of 1905.
Second — A circular address to be issued by the board of directors, signed by the president and secretary, succinctly outlining the plan, purpose and general scope of the fair, and the estimated cost of the same.
Third — An official letter to be likewise authorized and signed, and sent to the Governors of the States of Washington, Idaho. Montana, Wyoming and Utah, asking them In recommend to their Legislatures approI. N. FLEISCHNER, Portland. Or.
A. L. MILLS, Portland. Or.
of the Board of Directors
priations to assist Oregon in holding the
Centennial.
Fourth—A like letter to be sent to the Governors of the States of California and Nevada, inviting them to recommend participation by their States in the Pacific Coast enterprise, and asking each State to make appropriations for State exhibits.
Fifth—Alike letter to the Governors of the States west of the Mississippi, and particularly the Governor of the State of Missouri, urging upon each of them co-operation, and inviting them to ask the co-operation of their States, and the transfer of their exhibits from St. Louis, in 1904. to the Lewis and Clark Centennial.
J. C AINSWORTH, Portland, Or. of the Board of Directors
Sixth — A formal communication to the President of the United States, asking him to send a special message to Congress, recommending Congressional aid, and the transfer of the exhibits from the Philippines and other territorial possessions, gathered for the St. Louis Exposition, and a direct appropriation of $2,000,000, to be expended by United States Commissioners, of which $250,000 shall be used for the erection by the United States of a Lewis and Clark memorial building, to contain therein statues of Thomas JeflFerson, Thomas H. Benton, Lewis F. Linn, James K. Polk, George M. Dallas, the great explorers, Lewis and Clark, Albert Gallatin, and perhaps two or three other such buildings, to be located on a site donated to the City of Portland and to be maintained as the home of the Oregon Historical Society, and other public bodies, and to be devoted to useful knowledge and the arts forever.
Seventh — A plan by which each State a«d the general government may be efficiently approached, with a view to their active cooperation, and ^ the employment of some suitable man or committee of persons, to take active charge of this matter at once.
The Executive Committee is charged under the by-laws with the duty of adopting the plan and scope of the Exposition. No steps have yet been taken in this direction, nor will anything be done until the State Legislatures, including Oregon, and the Congress of the Ignited Mates make their appropriations. The Exposition will be just as large as the money available will make it. The Company will keep within its means and success will crown its every effort.
On Beacon f)iU^ Victoria^ B. C.
By C R. 6. l^cXnms
"/ iotP a ship a- mailing"
Prone on a grassy knoll where runs the
. sea In from the North Pacific deep and blue, Whose tide-ript waters many a century But parted for the painted war-canoe, Till Juan de Fuca and his swarthy crew Sailed on a treasure-quest to regions cold, Idle I dream'd a summer-evening through, Watching the ruddy, western sun enfold The snowy-peak'd Olympians in transient gold.
"AN EMPRESS LINER. INWARD-BOUND"
Our air hath yet a tang of Spanish days, And hazard edge of fortune from the past Of pioneers, and wreckt and curious
strays From far-oflF lands along this coast up- cast Since brave Vancouver from his eager
mast Beheld the Island of his lasting fame, And turning to its pleasant shore made
fast, And while his stalwart tars gave loud acclaim Kais'd high the Union Jack in old King George's name.
Across the rocky harbor-mouth still fall Echoes to tell of England's easy crown; And brassy bugles from the barracks call A challenge to the careless little town That lies like a pretty maid in tatter'd gown — 'Mid tangled gardens — tempting one to halt Where gnarled oaks with ivy over-grown Are all accord with her one charming fault- - So drowsy nigh the hidden guns of Esqui- mau.
And nonchalant lay I that afternoon, For all the air a sweet aroma bore, .\nd I could hear the tumult and the tune Of tumbling waves along the pebbled
shore. Such gipsy joys to me were ever more Than chase of gold or fame; but still
for all I felt the the first thin tremor o'er and
o'er Of some vast traffic without interval To traverse soon these waterways imperial.
Where now some tug-boat leaves a smoky trail
To pencil on the air a coiling blot
Athwart the lighthouse; or the infre- quent sail
6f some slow lumber-bark or wandering yacht,
Or some gray battleship all grimly wrought
Glides by schooners from the Arctic seas.
To largely feed the crowded world, me- thought,
Here soon shall pass swift-sailing argo- sies, Full-freighted with the wheat of prairie granaries.
And musing thus upon that idle mound. Far down the reach of waters to the rfght I saw an Empress-liner inward bound Speeding thro' the Narrows trim and
white. And every moment growing on my sight Like something clear unfolding, in a
dream. Her very motion was a clean delight That woke the sapphire sea to curl and
cream Smoothly off her curving prow and snowy
beam.
And easily as up the Straits she roll'd, My vagrant fancy fairy-eyed could see. Bulging richly 'gainst her steely hold, Bales of splendid silk piled solidly With matted rice and tons of fragrant tea, Or else, her quainter cargo fain to scan. Wee China toys in silver filagree, And tawny ivories of old Japan — Packed with iris-woven riLg» from T|pahan.
All hail to her! — the white forerunner
sent From out the lavish West to rouse the old Lethargic portals of the Orient, Till all its stolid habitants be told Of quick, new modes of life, and mani- fold Swift engines of exchange, and how by
these To run their times within a finer mould. And from the rut of Chinese centuries To reach for wider joys and soother lux- uries.
We front the threshold of a giant age, Foremost still, but others follow fast. We may not trust o'ermuch the written
page, Nor measure with the measures of the
past, For all our millions and our regions vast, And arm'd array in boastful numbers told, To keep the treasure that our sires
amass'd Hath need of statesmen lion-like to hoW, And still forestall the changing times, alert
and bold.
O sure, it is no small thing to be said That under us the East and West have
met! — That our red, British route is perfected Around the World, and our red flag doth
yet High vantage o'er its strenuous rivals get. Whether it wave from Windsor's kingly
pile, Or on the farthest verge of Empire set 'Bove fearless towns, whose heart-strings all the while Thrill to every chord from their old Mother- Isle.
LOOKIXG TOWARD THE OLYMPIC RANGE
FROM BKACOX HILL
ID
We feel the center now where'er we stand, And touch community in everything, Since Science with her patient, subtle
hand Hath snar'd the globe as in a witch's
ring. And set all elements a-quivering To our desire. What marvels more she'll
show — What new delights from Nature conjur- ing — Small wit have I to guess, but this I know. That more and more the scatter'd World as one must grow.
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Then closer blend for empire — that is
power; No thing of worth e'er came of feebleness. And union is the genius of the hour. The virtues that by master craft and
stress Wrought hugely on primaeval palaces, And 'stonish'd Egypt and great Babylon With monuments of admirable excess. Seem once again from out Oblivion drawn To lighten o'er the Earth in unexampled
dawn.
The impulse of a thousand centuries Strikes upward now in our united race. Not for a Roman triumph, but to ease The intercourse of nations, and to place The social fabric on a happier base; The very enginry of war abhorr'd So soon as may is bended to erase The stain and bloody ravage of the sword; The vanquish'd now are all to equal right restored.
But cry contempt upon that sickly creed That would not fire a shot to save its own. Whose piety perverse doth only feed The hope of leaner nations, bolder grown To tread the path that we have hewn alone. 'Twas not for them we found that path so
hard — 'Twas not for them the Earth so thick was sown With British dead! Nay, rather let us guard The barest rock that flies onr flag at all
hazard.
ON BEACON HILL.
And e'en for sake of rich and plenteous peace.
Lei mastery in arms be honor'd still!
So r)nly shall the fear of foemen cease.
For this is naked truth, say what thej' will.
That when a people lose the power to kill,
They count for naught among the sons of men; —
Nor tongue nor pen nor art nor work- men's skill
Can save their homes from alien ravish then, Or lift their fallen capitols to place again.
IN THE PARK— NEAR VANCOUVER, B. C.
Then give us rifles — rifles everywhere!
Ready rifles tipt with bayonets!
And men of iron to lead who little care
For parlor tactics and for social sets!
Strong captains, worthy of their epau- lettes.
Not rich men's sons to make a scarlet show
f.ace-loving fops and wooden martinets.
But clear-eyed stalwarts o'er the ranks who know How best to train a naval gun or trap a foe.
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And tho' the burden and the fret of life Still wear upon us with unequal weight. We'll weaken not to fratricidal strife. We are a people strong to tolerate Till formed opinion tranquilly abate The jagg'd abuses of an earlier age, Rather than impatient emulate Those hapless nations that in sudden rage Of revolution wreck their ancient heritage.
i8
Our Saxon temper that 'gainst Church
and Crown And tyrant Castles of the feudal plan Made steady way until it wore them down, And straighten'd all their maxims till they
ran
Current for the right of every man Freely to change his state and circum- stance, Is virile yet unbrokenly to span What gulf ahead — what unforeseen mis- chance — Would threat the front of our magnificent advance.
And we have those whose dreams of bet- terment Outrun their fleeting day — whose hearts
ideal Beat evermore against discouragement. In high endeavor not to cease till all The barriers of creed and color fall Within the union of the British bred; Nor rest content until the mutual Machinery of state be perfected So that no least of all our brethren go unfed.
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I never saw Britania carv'd in stone r never saw Britannia carv'd in stone I've thought what merit shall be all her
own In that great brotherhood that's yet to
be— The diamond empire of futurity. Whose equal citizens all thron'd elate, And treading each a sovran destiny, Shall count it still their pride and best
estate To happily for commonwealth co-operate.
Who'd be the bard of that triumphant
time? Who hath the pen of promise and the skill To tell its periods in exultant rhyme? For I be but a dreamer on a hill. And prone withal fantastic hours to fill With fancies running wild of thought, or
gloat Eerie on the rising Moon until Betimes I hear her dim, harmonic note, Boding of forbidden things and themes re- mote.
But so a passing ship — a bugle call — Did tempt me to essay a song of state Beyond the range of my poor art as all Yon rank'd Olympians that loom serrate Against the azure, upper air are great O'er this low hill. To them young Morn- ing throws His golden, first largesse — there lingering
late Rose-mantled Eve her deep allegiance shows, — Glorious mid unconquer'd peaks and virgin
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Our Point of View
The Promise of the Neiv Year
third year of the twentieth century opens upon an auspicious out- look. In science, literature, education, religious thoug^ht, and art there is discernable a quickening impulse that promises to make the year 1903 notable. From one end of the continent to the other there are evidences of remarkable progress and develop- ment. The air is full of achievement. A great awakening seems to have taken place in men, and the swing of the new movement, its energy is irresistible. There is a contagious spirit abroad of alertness and enthusiasm that carries everything before it. Not one section, but the nation, the world, is feeling it. This psychological force is one of the great factors that makes for progress and enlightenment. It is per- haps impossible to account fully for the existence of such waves of human en- ergy, but that they do exist and exert a tremendous influence upon histor}^ and progress there can be no doubt. The one that is passing over the world at this time is of unusual significance and power. It is producing a strenuous age, and making it a i»;reat thing to be living now, liv- ing as we are in the midst of a remarkable political and social evo- lution, perhaps the most rapid the world has ever seen. Great things are taking place before our eyes. The time for small things has passed. Men's minds have been broadened and sharpened by the conflict of centuries, and the world is in a condition today to seize the great questions that con front it and solve them in a satisfactory manner. Shakespeare says that **all the world's a stage." It is more and less. The world is simply man, and in its growth and development it is like men — childish at first, boyish and foolish, and then man's estate. We have reached the time, it seems, when the world realizes that it must meet its great problems in a manly way. This spirit is shown in the establishment of the Hague Tribunal, and, in a lesser degree, in the strike commission appointed by President Roosevelt, though the work of the latter may have more far-reaching effects upon political and economic history. Indeed, it may prove to be one of the great outposts in social ad- vancement, and our posterity may point to it as the first step in a new and enlightened economic era. All along the line this wave of energy and progress is clearlv evident.
'What wonders hath God wrought" in wireless tf^p^fPjVl/^
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which 1903 will give perfected to the world! We have the flying machine almost within our grasp, and men are reaching out, as never before, for the great unknown truths and forces of the universe. The impossible is rapidly being eliminated. Buildings forty stories high are being planned for New York, where upwards of two hundred millions of dollars are being spent upon civic improvements. An attempt is to be made, with every promise of success. to make Washington the most beautiful city in the world, and as a conse- quence a movement along similar lines has begun among other municipalities. These things are indicative of the progress that is being made in some lines. One of the most encouraging signs, however, is the movement for civic right- eousness that has spread across the continent. It means that proeress is being made in high living and right thinking as well as along material lines. From whatever standpoint, therefore, we may consider the outlook for 1903, we find that it is remarkably promising and suggestive. In religion, politics, science, art, literature, education, there is the expectancy that great things will be accom- plished, and optimism breathes its fair spirit upon the world and mankind.
Among Otirselves
The publishers of the Pacific Monthly present this number to their readers with a feeling of more or less justifiable pride. The magazine is increased per- manently 32 pages with this month's issue and its scope correspondingly en- larged. A new department, ** Progress," also begins in this number. The object of this deoartment is to keep a high-grade, bona fide record of the growth, prog^ress and development that is takinp- place in the great and virile west. For the present the work along these lines will be confined largely to the Pacific Northwest, but it is expected to cover eventually the whole coast. It is not now, and never has been, the intention of the publishers of this magazine to imitate other publications. We are blazing a trail for ourselves, and it has not been easy work. This new department is, we believe, something new and unique and in keeping with our idea of the making of a magazine. It is grati- fying to be able to state that the circulation of The Pacific Monthly is jumping higher and higher with leaps and bounds, the average being very nearly 1000 new subscribers per month. This means in unmistakable terms that magic word Success! It means that advertisers will come to us, and they are coming. They must come if they want to reach this coast, and it's a pretty poor business man who would neglect the most prosperous and the most remarkable portion of the whole globe, and one that is increasing in power and population faster than any other portion. These are facts. We all know them. There's a whole lot more we could sav about this coast, but some other time will do. A man can't see much of it without burning with enthusiasm and energy. There's one more point in this connection that we wish to make. It is in your power, reader, to do us a great favor. Now the question is, will you do it, or will you forget all about it? The favor is to mention The Pacific Monthly to any ad- vertiser in the magazine with whom you do business. Simply say you saw the advertisement in The Pacific Monthly, and you will please him tremendous- ly (we'll vouch for that), and you'll make the birds sing sweeter and the sun shine brighter for us. (Both of these things happen in winter on the Pa-
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Questions of the Day
Anthracite Coal as an Object Lesson
he human race is progressive, but each generation is conservative. One of the great obstructions to any discussion of political or social problems is the instinctive prejudice of the average individual against any change in the existing order of things.
People generally dread new and untried experiments, believing it is better to bear the ills we have than fly to those we know not of: but I consider it most essential to insist as a preliminary upon a clear recognition of the truth that change will come whether we like it or not. It is impossible to hold the existing conditions unchanged. The United States is not the government it was one hundred years ago. States are no longer sovereign, slavery has been abolished, colonial dependencies acquired. Election of Senators and of the President by popular vote is foreshadowed. The world is not the world it was five hundred years ago. In religion, politics and economics it is different. Let us assume, therefore, that our institutions are not eternal, hut will change.
The next inquiry is what institutions seem most the object of assault and most subject to change. We should expect to find them to be those institutions which are most connected with the production of wealth, because, though it is true wealth does not bring happiness, it is equally true that there is no possibility of happiness where the actual necessaries of life are gained only in meagre proportion by the most laborious efforts. The facts bear out this theory.
We find the assaults to come directly or indirectlv from the laboring masses, or in their behalf, and that they are directed against the sources of wealth — Railroads. Trusts, Mines. Landownership, etc. We find an increasing number who, while not actually starved in any one day, yet live shortened lives because of the wretched economic environment into which they, are born. And we also find a stupendously in creasing wealth in the hands of a very low: a wealth which is so great it convinces us it cannot be the just reward of brains or effort, because no brains or no effort could in a few years amass such wealth were there not some special privileges which directed the labor or the gains of the many into the channels leading to the few. There is a more or less blind feeling among the people that there is something wrong in the economic institutions which make it possible for the wealth of the whole people to be in the hands of a very few — far beyond the just reward for the greatest possible human ability. Certain of the people envy and hate or fear individuals such as Mr. Rockefeller. Mr. Morgan or Mr. Carnegie. More intelligent and just minds see that the individual is rather to be commended for his use of existing institutions, and it is the institution which is to be blamed. Stones are to be hurled, if at all, at the wrongful institution, not at the man who has profited by it.
I shall assume at this point that everyone recognizes that human institutions have been changing since the creation, just as the world, the sun, the moon and stars are changing; that it is as impossible for us to hold our institutions fixed and permanent as it was for the institutions of Pericles, Caesar, Charles I and Louis XV to remain to this day.
If we conclude change will come in spite of us, the next speculation is as to what will be the character of the
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change. Herbert Spencer and other profound thinkers declare the chanfi:e is to be toward socialism, or centraliz- ation of wealth, and the instruments for producing wealth, in the hands of government for the common good. The newspapers report Mr. J. P. Morgan as coinciding in this view and declar- ing men like himself are necessary in- struments preparing the way for so- cialism by natural evolution.
There is a certain drift in human events which seems beyond control. It is as if ordered by some power su- perior to man. That drift today cer- tainly seems to me to be toward so- cialism. The first cry of the democrat- ic convention of New York upon the anthracite coal situation was for gov- ernment ownership of the mines. Cer- tainly it is easier for government own- ership to take over a few great "trusts" than to organize a multitude of com- petitive industries into one great gov- ernmental trust; and certainly the ex- istence of trusts provokes a popular leaning toward socialism. I have no doubt in my own mind that the ten- dency is towards socialism, and I be- lieve no argument or force can prevent it. It may be the actual change will be made amid a bloody revolution, the many assailing the few, the populace against the government, as has been usually the case in history ; for the own- ers of privileges assailed have always been as sure of their rights and as hon- estly outraged as is Mr. Baer when he calls for government troops to pro- tect him in his right to do as he pleases with his own. It would have been very easy to have precipitated a miniature "rebellion" or "revolution" or "war" between the strikers and the armed forces of government, and it is not difficult to imagine a situation some day which will embrace the whole coun- try, when the question shall arise of the right of the masses of people every- where to wrest from the few all man- ner of vested rights. But there is rooin to hope that a greater popular intelli- gence in our day will render it possible to make the final transition in peace.
It is quite possible also that before the final transition is made, those own-
ing the property of the country will for many years have been in absolute power by means of a standing army and a proletariat vote, which they can control. It will eventually become a question as to what are vested and inalienable rights. In spite of the pop- ular clamor against him, Mr. Baer is exactly right in his claim to do as he pleases with his own. If Mr. Baer (we will say for the sake of illustra- tion) owns the anthracite coal fields by a perfect legal title, according to the law of our day, he has just as much right to do as he pleases with it as we have to do as we please with our houses. He can forbid any man to mine any coal at all. He can, if he be so minded, shut down all mining and quit, and he is entitled to all the armed force of our land under the existing law to keep oflF trespassers and protect him in his right to mine coal by whom he pleases, or not to mine It at all if he so pleases. So that if it should happen that the anthracite coal owners choose to stop the world's sup- ply of anthracite coal and let the fields lie idle for a few generations, they have today, under the existing law, a right to do it and a right to all the force in the land to protect them in that right. Such a conclusion seems to suggest by its own awful consequences that there is something wrong, not with Mr. Baer, but with legal institutions which admit such a conclusion as a theoretic possibilit)^ For a true right is right all the time and under every theoretic possibility. It is no answer to say the self interest of the coal owners will not permit them to stop all mining. The question is, ought a whole people to depend for its necessaries on the will «>f any individuals.
A truth is right in theory as well as practice — for all truth is theory applied to practice. There is also the feeling that a man's ownership of a. natural de- posit, which he did not make, but which God made and seemingly left as a common inheritance for man, is not on the same footing with the plough or ship or other article his own hands have made from the crude deposit or natural growth. And though the feudal
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law of landholding survives today and
gives a man legal title to these natural
deposits or growths, there is an instinc-
tive feeling that there is something
wrong with a legal theory which
permits the man on the spot, or with
the ready money, to buy up and mo-
nopolize the necessary natural gifts of
the earth, even against those who at
the time were unborn and had no possi-
ble equality of opportunity: permits
him for a few dollars an acre to clap his
paper title upon all the coal, or iron,
or oil, or timber he can find and lay it
away idle, neither using it himself nor
permitting others to use it till in th-;
lapse of years he sees fit to do so.
There is no just condemnation to be made of the man who does this. The law exists, and while it exists any man may avail himself of it. For one to re- frain because he thought it wrong to lock up and monopolize these natural deposits would be useless. Though personally I believe the system of land liolding today to be very primitive and erroneous, I would not hesitate to take advantage of it myself.
Society must change the law, not abuse the men who grow rich under the law as it exists. Whatever changes come must take one of two directionr>, either toward socialism or toward an- archy. There is no other movement possible. Socialism means individual- ity surrendered so far as may be neces- sary to make the government master of all and owner of all for the common benefit. It is in short the very extreme of government. The Government is all in all. Anarchy is the exact opposite. It is the extreme of individualism. Its doctrine is the least government possi- ble. The individual is all in all.
Certain ill-balanced or uncontrolled and ignorant people calling themselves Socialists or Anarchists, have resorted to violence and crime, and the words Socialist and Anarchist today mean to the popular mind only an assassin or a firebrand. But these are perversions of the terms. Socialism and Anarchy are well recognized philosophic theor- ies of government, and in neither is there the slightest excuse for violence. Both recognize that change can only come bv evolution, from discussion;
and a prime essential in the philosophy of Anarchy is that no force must be used either against the individual or by him, except in self-defense or for the protection of a recognized right.
In theory Thomas Jefferson was an Anarchist. Herbert Spencer is an An- archist. William Dean Howells is a Socialist.
The true Anarchists and Socialists are men high up in the scale in intellect and in Christian spirit. And in a rough sort of way, it may be said, true Repub- licans are Socialistic and true Demo- crats Anarchistic; the one party be- lieving in more and more government, a strong central government, a some- what paternal government, protecting industries out of the people's funds, etc. ; the other party believing in less and less government, the least govern- ment possible, consistent with peace and order — no paternalism, and the ex- treme of local self-government, or in dividualism.
I repeat that all changes must tend either toward Socialism or toward An- archism, for these are the two ex- tremes. I have said all changes we can perceive today are in the direction of Socialism, and it seems to be the next experiment in government the hu- man race is destined to see. But I be- lieve the final and higher and better tendency will be toward Anarchy — and if I could I would direct our growth in that direction.
Nothing is ever settled in this world till it is settled right, and the one "right" thing in man's progress seems to be Freedom. Study the institutions of mankind from the earliest dawn of history, and though the progress at any epoch has been as imperceptible as the flow of a glacier, we see it has been ir- resistibly toward Freedom.
Liberty of the individual seems to be the destiny of the race. Liberty of the individual seems to be our highest ideal and ultimate truth. Therefore I believe that through every experiment some- thing will be gained toward an almost perfect liberty of the individual, or an- archy. It is a very high ideal, a very high condition. We are not fitted for it today. It may be we shall not be fitted for it in a thousand vears. But
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the millions of years which seem to us slow in bringing us to our present state are but as a watch in the night of Time.
The man who measures the possibili- ty of human progress by what he can guess at in the brief spark of his own generation is short sighted indeed. So- cialism would and perhaps will solve the anthracite coal problem by placing the ownership and control of the coal lands in the government as trustee for the people. When that is done I be- lieve a few will control the government in order to control what the govern- ment controls.
Anarchy would and perhaps will solve it by saying to the owners: **If you have no right to shut down all coal mines and forbid all coal mining, neither have you a right to mine only what you are capable of mining to day and to forbid anyone else to mine on the lands you do not intend to use for years and generations to come. Your right to any part of the earth's valuable deposits does not go beyond what you can actually mine for the benefit of the consumers: that is to say, a reasonable
space for your present and future oper- ations. And whoever finds vacant and unused lands shall have a right to oc- cupy and mine it. Title shall be iti use and possession of the land, not in a paper record. Personally I believe this the freer and better solution.
If this title existed today, the miners would not have struck. They would never strike. They would have moved on to some of the vacant coal land and gone to mining and that would contiii- ue so long as the demand for coal made a certain amount of rtHning profitabL*, for small as the coal area is, it is still more than abundant for all needs we can foresee if only it were open to iise. Demand and supply would have free play. Those willing and able to mine would have free play. But so long as the exclusive ownership of all the coal continues as now, the work of the commission is useless except to inform the public mind. Wages and price are as beyond the regulation of a commis- sion or a legislature as the tides are be- yond regulation by proclamation.
C. E. S. Wood.
Quest
By 61U 6inltb KraAl
My heart, a smitten builder, goes
About Life's Babel vast,
To find if fellow-builder knows
Or speaks her language past.
Each, with her low words and pleading.'
dumb, But meets indifferent mood; Yet prays she, — Oh, to understand! Oh, to be understood!
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TKos. B. Reed—
The death of Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed came unexpectedly. Mr. Reed was a great man. His achievements had been manifold and notable. But he was greater than his achievements. What he accomplished was considerably less than what he had the ability to accom- plish. He had the vision and the strong convictions of the great statesman, and whenever he applied the power which he posssesed to the embodiment of his ideas in national law, he very ably min- istered to his country's welfare. He greatly honored the State of Maine in his distinguished public career, and, like Fessenden and Blaine, from the same State, has left a name which will have lasting and most creditable place in the national history.
VToodroiv VTilson—
Princeton's new president receives the following well-merited tribute of praise in an editorial in the Century:
With what strength and hopefulness of countenace he fronts the peculiar duties of his new office, the numerous transcripts of his face suggest. It has the Covenanter's large-featured, lean- visaged, unyielding determination when it is set ; yet so kindly is the heart that lights it that there is almost a consciousness of effort in its firmness, and so equitable is the mind which con- trols it that its decision is never unrea- sonableness or hardness. Year after year the outgoing senior class at Princeton has registered his popularity. It is, however, not one bought by len- iency or the showing of favor. It is the response to the compelling qualities of the man — qualities merged under thf^ favoring democratic conditions of the old College of New Jersey, into an ef- ficiency which unorganized or intem- perately directed or thriftlessly used
they could not have had — the compel- ling qualities of a great teacher, who could "jest to your instruction" and "beguile you into being informed be- yond your wont and wise beyond your birthright."
C. C S. Wood- Charles Erskine Scott Wood, an ex- cellent photograph of whom is publish- ed herewith, was born in 1852, in Erie^ Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish and Eng- lish extraction. His mother was Rose Curson. and his father, Wm. Maxwell Wood, was the first surgeon-general of the Navy.
Mr. Wood was appointed to West Point and graduated in 1874. He was sent to the Pacific Coast with the 21st Infantry and stationed first at Camp^ Bidwell, California, and later at Van- couver Barracks, then called Fort Van- couver. In 1876 he was a member of an exploring expedition to Alaska, and on his return he saw his first actual service in the Nez Perce Indian war, in which his gallant conduct won him the place of aide de camp to the Com- manding General. During the cam- paign against the Pi Utes in 1878, he was promoted to ist Lieutenant of the 2ist Infantry. Soon after he served as Judge Advocate of the Department of the Columbia, and the next year was admitted to the Bar of Washington Territory, thus taking the first step in the profession which held for him such signal success and distinction.
In 1881 he returned East to serve 3S Adjutant of the U. S. Military Acad- emy. Two years later he received the degrees of L. L. B. and Ph. B. from Columbia University. The next year he resigned from the army and was admitted to the Bar of Oregon. When the Oregon National Guard was organ- ized. Mr. Wood was appointed Licit
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HON. C. E. S. WOOD
tenant Colonel on the staff of Gov. Moody, but since then his career has been identified with the leg;al profes- sion.
Throughout his life Mr. Wood has been a loyal Democrat, serving his party with courage and unselfish zeal ; and. although his affiliation with the
minority party of Oregon has debarred him from the positions of preferment for which he is so eminently qualified, yet the high order of his intelligence and the loftiness of his attainments have won for him the unstinted respect and esteem of all within the wide scope of his influence. ^.^.^.^^^ ^^ GoOgk
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It has been aptly said of Mr. Wood
that "whether we believe him to be
right in his conclusions, or wrong;
whether we look from his point of view,
another's or our own, the fact remains
that we have in him, and in men like
him, the most valuable possession of
the State — a citizen strong in the cour-
age of his convictions, absolutely fear-
less and free in the voicing of senti-
ments that, in his belief, make for hon-
est government."
CKarles FroKman—
Once upon a time a rolly-poly little man wore the burnt cork and tinseled toggery as a member of Jack Haverly's minstrels. Later, this short, fat little man established a little dramatic agen- cy where barn-storming companies were organized and out-at-elbow Thes- pians came to look for an engagement.
Another period past, and the same rotund, cherub-faced little man was manager of one of New York's leading theaters. But the management of one theater was not sufficient to satisfy the ambition of Charles Frohman — for that was the little fat man's name — and as time went on he gained control of one theater after another until he was mas- ter of eleven of the principal theaters in New York City. But his capacity for management was not bounded by the city limits of the metropolis. Today Charles Frohman is lord of the theatri- cal firmament, with only a few who dare dispute his sovereignty. About seventy theaters throughout the Unit- ed States are under his jurisdiction, while eight in London recognize his authority.
And there is no determining the number of actors, great and small, who look to him as an overlord. In his outer offices — for my lord is guarded most carefully from unwarrantable in- trusion — may be found the actors and actresses whose names rank in the van of the profession. No matter how great their stellar magnitude, it becomes as naught when the authority of the fat little man is approached. All the play- wrights bow to the same throne, and Frohman has the first consideration of nearly every play that is written. And
as the head of the "syndicate," his in- fluence is extended to nearly every theater of the better class throughout the land.
From the hard seat in a minstrel half-circle to a luxurious chair in the sumptuous offices of the Empire Thea- ter is a **long cry" — as Mowgli would say. Is it due, then, to a superior edu- cation, a high scholarship, devotion to art, high ideals? Nay, verily, for Mr. Frohman's education is the most mea- ger ; his scholarship, nil ; and as for An^ he snaps his fingers in her face. Bui because he has solved more successful- ly than any other man the equation be- tween the drama and the dollar; be- cause his sole aim is to attract audi-
CHARLES FROHMAN
ences; because the box-office receipts are his only criterion, and his man- agerial clear sightedness is not obscur- ed by any artistic ideals; because he prostitutes Melpomene to the service of his coffers, and makes of Thalia a wage-earning drudge, has he raised himself to this position of autocracy. Better than any living man does he un- derstand what the people want. And by supplying their every taste, whether it be for Shakespeare or for French.
farce, he has won success./^^ _ ^r^
The Home
TKe Sinreet Aroma of I^ove—
It is partly true that the home life of the present day is not what it was in a former generation. No human life can be, under present conditions, what it was seventy-five or fifty years ago. Even the Chinaman is forced into the places and the ways of modern civiliza- tion.
No human being can live today as his grandfather . and great-grandfather lived. Civilization has been progres- sive. It stands today for something very different from that for which it stood in the years of the fathers. And the real home, in every generation, is found where there is the best type of civilization. It is in this view that home life has changed. There is much in modes of living today which is not conducive to home-making. The trend of business is fearfully exacting. The husband and father sleeps at the home. That is about all. Life in our over- crowded cities is artificial, it is not nat- ural.
Now, that which makes home real can never change. From the home at Bethany to that of the best type in the middle ranks of society as found today there have entered into the home the same never-changing elements. They need hardly be named. There can be no home without the sweet aroma of sacrificial love.
Geo. M, Gage,
TKe McCorRledx Veranda- Mr. McCorkledy and his neighbor, Mr. Martin, were sitting on the veranda steps in the bland after-glow of a mel- low October sunset, holding what they were pleased to call a "mothers' meet- ing,'* in other words, a conversation such as they often indulged in, with no other outcome than the helpless con- clusion that girls were girls, and their
mothers knew best how to manage *em — probably.
Breaking in upon this meeting, Do- ran Josephine came home in a rush, breathless and hungry, for it was long after dinner time. At this moment Mrs. McCorkledy appeared in the doorway, anxiously looking for them. A shower of admiring exclamations greeted her: "Mamma McCorkledy, how lovely vou look! That's your swell new gown! Where Ve you been ? Who've you seen ^ Did you have company at dinner?"
"Company! Well, I should say!" said Mr. McCorkledy, and Mrs. Mc- Corkledy, rosy herself, and eager as a girl, hurried on with the story. "Only think! It was an unexpected visit from my old friend, Elizabeth Earle, and her sister. Miss Boone Greene, from New York, on their way to Singapore. We hadn't met for years, you know; but they're just the same as ever, and it made twenty years ago seem like yes- terday to us all. Then we went to the train to see them off, which prolonged the precious visit by that much."
Doranjosephine wailed: "Oh, oh, oh! The real Elizabeth Earle! The one that wrote the great story! The one that everybody talks about! The one you went to school with! We could have seen her and talked with her. And Miss Boone Greene — the great Miss -Boone Greene — oh, why didn't you send for us ? We don't want any dinner now!"
"But you telephoned in the afternoon that you could not possibly get home to dinner, you know," said Mrs. McCork- ledy, gently. "You said you had a thou- sand places to go before seven o'clock, on that Sorority business, and couldn't put it off. And of course I could not send for you, for how could I tell where you were?"
Doranjosephine plunged into the house, in the direc^Jpi^d^f @G©ning room, a trail of lamentations sounding disconsolately after them.
Mr. McCorkledy and Mr. Martin took up their discussion with renewed interest.
"When I was young," said Mr. Martin, "we children were obliged to be present promptly at meals. We could roam woods and fields, work, play, go pretty much where we pleased, but at meals we had to put in an appearance with the rest. Father was an extremely busy man, too busy to see us much of the time, but he always said that if he could look into a boy's eyes good and square three times a day and know what sort of an appetite he had, he could tell very well how things were going."
"That's right," said Mr. McCorkledy. "Now, there was breakfast time. When I was a boy the whole family gathered in the big sitting room to wait for breakfast, which was — well, a good deal earlier than it is now, and always at a set time. Father always had prayers before breakfast, and we had to be there. I'm not a religious man now — not really — but I like to think of those morning prayers. I notice that the people who sort o' have family worship now don't do it as father did. They seem to have hard work to corral the family long enough. It's either a shame-faced kind of gathering, helter-skelter, after breakfast, or the father and mother and whatever ones of the family can be caught on the wing before decent bed time."
"Well, I simply cannot get the family all together at breakfast, even," said Mrs. McCorkledy. "They've so many engagements the evening before. Even our little Sammv belongs to a 'club,' and I only put him in knickerbockers about three months ago. I did depend on Sarah to eat breakfast with you and me, but now she's joined a before-breakfast walking club, and that makes her half an hour late. It would be so delightful to see all the faces at once in the morning, all cheery and ready for the day. I think it would be a great help to each one. and a bond of family love."
Mr. Martin turned a retrospective gaze toward the fading horizon far at the end of the street. "Families are not what they used to be," he said.
"It's the fault of the clubs and precociousness," said Mr. McCorkledy. "Churches and homes ought to be enough to keep life sound and sweet, without the eternal classes and clubs. Only give us the good, old-fashioned American breakfast table, with all that the term implies, and the country could face the universe. Hello, Gargoyle!"
Mr. Gargoyle's smile beamed upon the veranda. He had approached without hearing Mr. McCorkledy's oration.
"Here, McCorkledy," he said, extracting a paper from his pocket, "before I forget it, here's your application blank for membership in the 'Occidental Branch of American Bohemians.' You can fill it out any time."
At this inopportune moment Doran-josephine appeared. They burst forth with one voice: "That will only be the fourteenth club that papa belongs to!"
Lucia Van Cliff Chase.
Home Life of Joseph Chamberlain—
"Although many guests are entertained at Highbury, Chamberlain's home," says a writer in Pearson's, "life there is on the whole restful and uneventful, and one day is much like another as far as Mr. Chamberlain's occupations are concerned. When in the country he breakfasts with the family, and then takes a turn in the garden or orchid houses. Of course, it is well known that he is a constant smoker.
"How can there be time for much in the wav of amusement when the Secretary of State must get down to his of- fice in the morning betimes, and be at the House of Commons to answer questions almost immediately after lunch, and there remain, as a rule till twelve o'clock at night ? Under the new rules Mr. Chamberlain, with other members who are in the habit of spending the end of the week away from town, will be able to get away on Friday, and will thus spend more time than hitherto at home at Highbury."
The Pioneer
Editor's Note.—This department was formerly called the "Native Son," the name of the magazine absorbed by the Pacific Monthly in May, 1901, "The Pioneer," it is believed, is a more suggestive and inclusive title: but the purpose of the department—now, as then—is to record all masters of interest to the "Native Sons" and "Native Daughters," and, in general, to nurture an interest in the early history of the Pacific Northwest, without regard for any boundary line. To this end, will be chronicled historical data and incidents, legends and traditions, and the lives and experiences of those noble men and women, "The Pioneers."
First Picture-Taking in The Northwest—
The history of picture-taking in the Northwest country is, in general, parallel with other parts of the country. In 1853 daguerrotyping was introduced and used until 1859, when the ambrotype came into use. In the former method the impression was taken on a copper plate, only one likeness resulting from one exposure. In the second, glass was substituted, the picture resembling a modern photographic negative. Sometimes the picture was transferred to oilcloth or leather, but the use of sensitized paper was unknown.
Soon after, tintypes were made, though originally sheet iron was used for the purpose.
About this time photography was introduced, it being merely a great improvement on ambrotyping. The pioneer photographer of the Northwest was D. H. Hendee. He introduced the various methods as they were discovered, and among his subjects were Dr. McLoughlin, General Leane, Colonel Joe Meek and Judge Olney. For three ambrotypes taken of Judge Olney he received one of the fifty-dollar slugs in use at that time.
It may be said, by way of explanation, that these slugs were — like the beaver money — a sort of special mintage, known only on the Pacific Coast. They were not uncommon in those years, though now they exist only in museums or in numismatic collections. They were of two kinds, round and octagonal, the latter being the variety received, by Mr. Hendee.
In Southern Oregon, P. F. Castleman was the pioneer, and for years the only, photographer.
First Marriage in Oregon—
On July 16, 1837, occurred the first marriage service solemnized by the settlers west of the Rocky Mountains. It was a double wedding, the contracting parties being the Rev. Jason Lee and Miss Anna M. Pitman, and Mr. Cyrus Shepherd and Miss Susan Downing.
The matrimonial rites were celebrated in a grove of fir trees in front of the old Methodist Mission, situated about ten miles below the present site of Salem. Here were gathered for religious worship most of the pioneer families of the Willamette Valley, forming a large and interested audience to the impressive ceremony.
The grooms had crossed the continent by means of "prairie schooners," but the brides reached the new country by the circuitous but far safer route by water, via Panama. The Rev. Daniel Lee officiated, and after the uniting of the two couples mentioned above, he married Miss Nancy McKay, a Calipooia Indian maiden, to Charles J. Roe., a white man.
It is sad to relate that Mrs. Jason Lee was not only the first white bride in Oregon, but also the first to be claimed by death, as she went to the great beyond within a year after her marriage.
Solomon Hirsch—
In the death of Solomon Hirsch, the thinning ranks of the Pioneers have lost one of their most commanding figures. His life has been one of rare usefulness, full of achievement and crowned with honors, and his death is mourned by a multitude of friends by whom his memory will ever be held in deepest reverence.
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THE LATE SOLOMON HIRSCH
Solomon Hirsch was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 25, 1839. When the boy was 14 years old his parents emigrated to this country. Soon after, he received a clerkship in New Haven, Conn., but later accepted a position at Rochester, N. Y., where he remained until 1858. In that year he came to Oregon by way of the Isthmus, going to Dallas, where he engaged in business with his brother Edward. After some years, during which he lived at Silverton and Salem, he finally came to Portland, in 1864, and in partnership with two others, established a dry goods business which has since grown to colossal proportions.
Mr. Hirsch's political career has been even more eventful. He was elected to the Legislature, serving several terms as President of the Senate. In 1888, while visiting Karlsbad, Mr. Hirsch received from President Harrison an appointment as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey. Accepting this honorable and responsible position, he proceeded to Constantinople and was received by the Sultan, and then returned to this country to make arrangements for the removal of his residence to the Turkish capital. For many years he represented the United States Government with signal dignity and honor.
First Court in Yamhill—
J. G. Baker, the first sheriff of Yamhill county, told Col. Kelly the following story of the organization of the first court in Yamhill, under the provisional government:
In 1846 Judge A. A. Skinner came to Lafayette to hold court. There was no court house, but Baker had secured a room for the court to convene. There were several lawyers present and the first act was to organize the grand jury. This was done according to the common law practice, which required the jury to have from thirteen to twenty-three members. The jurymen were called in and duly sworn in, the foreman was chosen, and then the question was, where could they hold their session? When the sheriff asked where he should take the jury, the Judge pondered a moment, then said:
"Is there no room to be had?"
The sheriff didn't know of any.
Said the Judge: "Take them out under one of those big oaks, Mr. Sheriff, and stake out the foreman and the others won't go far—they'll stand around. If any loose fellows come around while they deliberate—why, just chase them off. When they get any business in shape bring them in, and keep staking them out so until the business is all done."
Under this original practice the legal affairs of Yamhill were got under way, and there is no record of any trouble
with the jury. The Reader
By W. F. G. THACHER
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.—Henry D. Thoreau.
A Foreword
With the beginning of the New Year, and the opening of a new volume, the "Reader" makes his little bow to the public — not with the purpose of creating a new department, but rather as an outgrowth of "Books," and, it may be, an improvement upon that department. The idea is to escape the conventional "book review," offering in its stead an informal discussion of such of the new books as are received from the publishers, and such other literary gossip as may be deemed of interest.
That the Reader's opinions are honest ones, goes without saying; but at the very outstart he must plead guilty to an optimism which is temperamental, and therefore incorrigible. But it is premised that when a book is pronounced "good" or "admirable," it does not mean that it is a Henry Esmond or a Middlemarch. If the standard of the masterpieces were rigorously maintained, then, in truth, but little of present-day book making would be worthy of second thought. But such greatness seems — alas! — a thing of bygone days. We have reached a new phase, with new conditions, new ideals, and the Reader feels that he is justified in considering the current literature from a modern view point, ever holding in mind the perfection of the classic as a final arbitrament.
The line from Thoreau is prefixed with the intention of suggesting the value of a discriminate selection of the books you read. If the Reader's humble estimate be of assistance to any other reader in the choice of a book, then his labor — which is no labor at all, but pure delight — will be fully rewarded.
The Two Vanrevels
The Reader feels that it is a matter for self-felicitation that he has so faultless a bit of fiction as "The Two Vanrevels" with which to introduce himself. For surely here, if never again, he is absolved from the need of harsh treatment, and justified in the tenderest expressions of admiration.
Can you imagine a blend of "The Gentleman from Indiana" and "Monsieur Beaucaire," with the stirring movement of the former and the dainty grace of the latter? If you can, it will be possible for you to conceive something of what The Two Vanrevels is like. Those who found Mr. Tarkington's maiden effort a little crude and boyish will apprehend in his latest product the finished method and the exquisite verbiage of Beaucaire. And those to whom the foreign flavor of Beaucaire failed to appeal — if there be any such — will find no such fault with The Two Vanrevels, for its American ism is beyond reproach.
The author seems enamored of the idea of mistaken identity — the masque- rade — for it figures no less prominently in The Two Vanrevels than in Mon- sieur Beaucaire. It is a device as old as the art of story-telling, but is employed in the present instance with such com- plete adroitness as to forestall anv plaint of imitation. The two Vanrevels are good fellows, both, a worthy Da- mon and Pythias. But it is Crailey Gray, "the town scamp, ne*er-do-weel, light o' love," the poet and comedian that most appeals to our sympathy. And it is in this character that the au- thor finds his best opportunity. The book is the very soul of romance; all youth and love and laughter — as beau- tiful as a song of a summer night. But there are, too, evidences of a deepening thought, a broadened perception. And more than once the Reader fancies that he catches reflections of the political life upon which Mr. Tarkington is just launching.
(By Booth Tarkington. Price, $1.50. McClure, Phillips & Co.)
Mr. Davis' experience as
war correspondent in Cuba
evidently gave him the cue
for this, his latest novel. A war story
it is with a vengeance — a thrust and
parry, a reek of powder and a streak of
blood that set one's nerves a tingling
with excitement. Royal Macklin, the
hero, soldier and scion of fighting sires,
is a right good sort and wins your sym-
pathy at the very outset. Expelled
from West Point, he betakes himself
to Honduras to engage in a war of rev-
olution there waging, with the purpose
of rehabilitating his fair name as a sol-
dier. He is possessed of an itch for ad-
venture that leads him into all sorts of
perilous situations and keeps the story
going at a merry pace.
Mars has all the better of it — alas! — and Madam Venus is practically ig- nored — a fact which the multitude of the author's petticoated admirers will find it hard to forgive. Can it be that maturer years have weaned Mr. Davis from his fondness for sentiment? "Princess Aline" was purely a love story. "Soldiers of Fortune" was a love story built around a framework of ad- venture. And now we have a story in which the love element is almost en- tirely wanting. The deduction is ob- vious.
That which we find most admirable in the tale is the fineness of the ideals which impregnate it. Macklin is no swashbuckler. He is a soldier and a gentleman, actuated bv high standards and pure motives. Would that there were more of his stamp!
(By Richard Harding Davis. Price, $1.50. Chas. Scribner's Sons.)
Here is an amusing piece of Za!a *** fantasy for you. Fancy a
full fledged — pardon! a full scaled — mermaid voluntarily leaving her home in the further deeps and
entering the home of an English family in order to experience some of the ques- tionable delights of air-breathing mor- tals, and in the end to woo a young Englishman to her humid love.
It is a book that one impulsively de- scribes as **clever" without knowing exactly what is meant by that versatile and over worked adjective. The effect, here, is gained by introducing a foreign and mystical element — the Sea Lady — into an environment so conventional, so dominated by social traditions and usages that the resulting contrasts and the disturbance created by the inter- loper are highly diverting. This is the more so because the author is success- ful in relating the episode in a perfectly serious and matter-of-fact manner. It is like a comical story the narrator of which keeps a perfectly straight face while he is telling his anecdote, while his hearers are convulsed with laugh- ter.
TH* Poetry of Robert Broiv^AiA^
The expositors of Browning's poetry have been com- paratively few. His extreme subtlety, his marvelous complexity and the pro- furjdity of his wisdom have proved ob- stacles too formidable for any but the most courageous and painstaking of critics. For this reason, and for its es- sential value, the work will be highly prized by all lovers and students of the great poet-philosopher. To those who know, the author's name is sufficient recommendation for the excellence of the commentary. His preceding and similar treatise on the poetry of Tennyson has given ample proof of a thorough and scholarly critique.
The first chapter, contrasting the two great poets of the Victorean era, serves as a fitting introduction, and from there on we are led to an ex- haustive but never wearisome study of the poet, his art, his message, his phil- osophy of life, and so forth. Thor- oughness and comprehensiveness arc here, but, withal, a svmpathy and free- dom from captious criticism that leave no room for complaint.
(By Stopford A. Brooke, M. A. Price, $1.50. T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
GENSRAI. SURVCY-
The difficulty be-
tween Venezuela
and the allied pow-
ers — Great Britain and Germany, and
later, Italy — had its rise in certain old
claims and recent losses suffered by
citizens of the two nations residing
and doing business in Venezuela dur-
ing the late revolution. Although the
truth of the matter is entangled in the
contradictory assertions of both par-
ties, it appears that the powers made
repeated demands upon Castro, repre-
senting Venezuela, for the settlement
of these claims. The total neglect of
these demands led to the presentation
of ultimata with time limit clauses. At
the same time the German and British
legations were closed, thus severing
diplomatic relations. Soon after, a fleet
of warships flying the colors of the al-
lied powers entered the harbor of La
Guayra and captured and sunk the
Venezuelan gunboats lying there. This
overt act excited the Venezuelans to a
high pitch of patriotism. Infuriated
mobs attacked the German consulate,
and finally the arrest of all German and
English residents was ordered. Mr.
Bowen, minister from the United
States, secured the release of some of
the more prominent among the arrests,
earning for himself the thanks of the
two nations.
The seriousness of the situation com- pelled President Castro to act, which he did, requesting that the difficulties be submitted to arbitration. Hostilities continued, however, and the action of the hauling down of the British flag from its position over the custom house was punished by the bombardment and demolition of the fort of Puerto Cabello by two cruisers of the allied powers. In answer to Castro's request, the pow- ers presented notes requesting that President Roosevelt arbitrate the mat-
ter. His official reply has not yet been enunciated, but it is stated that while the President is prepared to fulfill his duty in the matter, he would prefer that the arbitration be referred to the Hague as the proper tribunal.
The next move was the blockade of Venezuelan ports by the allies. Castro, realizing at last the hazardous position of his country, empowered Minister Bowen to act for Venezuela in securing a peaceful settlement. Arbitration by the Hague tribunal is the probable out- come.
Protfr«ss of tH* Coml ComiAission
The answer of the operators to Mr. Mitchell's statement of the demands of the miners (see Dec. Month) has been filed with the commission. It consists of a gen- eral denial of all the charges preferred. The wage received by the anthracite miners is, it is affirmed, a living wage, and the anthracite regions, dependent upon the mining industry, are among the most prosperous in the United States. They assert that a reduction of 20 per cent, in hours of labor would render it impossible to produce coal with any profit, and would throw into confusion the whole system of mine working. Moreover, miners under pres- ent conditions rarely average 8 hours a day, and the demand is unjust and im- practicable.
In addition, they maintain that an in- crease in wages would of necessity compel an increase in the price of coal, thus restricting its use and reacting by lessening the output.
Regarding: the recognition of the union, they state that when a labor organization is created which shall obey the laws of the land and honestlv co- operate with the employers in seeking the best interests of all concerned, trade agreements may become practi- cable, f^ T
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The last of November a recess of ten
days was declared by the commission,
with the ostensible reason of affording
the attorneys for both sides time to pre-
pare elaborate statements of hours and
wagfcs. But it was later divulged that
the recess was held in order to permit
an out-of-court settlement of the diffi-
culty. It was stated that the operators
were willing to compromise, and a solu-
tion seemed possible until the indepen-
dent operators blocked further negoti-
ations by refusing any concessions.
They claim that they are in a position
to fullv defend themselves before the
commission ; that up to this time only
the testimony for the workers has been
received, and to drop the investigation
at this time and agree upon a compro-
mise would be to "perpetuate the injus-
tice perpetrated by the union mine
workers." So it remained only for the
commission to resume work, and this it
did on December 3. The deposition of
testimony is continued, aimed princi-
pally against the independent operat-
ors. Hearing will soon be given the
operators, enabling them to define and
defend their position.
Sensational rumors are current regarding the Russian throne, affecting principally Czar Nicholas, who is at present at a health resort in Southern Russia. The sensational ele- ment is supplied bv the statement that Nicholas is under the the mesmeric control of an American named Philipp, bv whom he is compelled to act in a ridiculous manner. A more credible version of the Czar's peculiar behavior is that he is disgusted with the con- dition of affairs in Russia, and especial- Iv with his lack of power to introduce the reforms necessar>' to elevate Russia from her submerged social and eco- nomic position. The strength of the reactionary party is responsible for the ])resent intolerable condition.
Dismffi^ctioA of tH* Csmr
POLITICS—
On December 2d, the day after its opening session. Congress received from Mr. Roosevelt the "President's Message,*' and almost
simultaneously it became common
property through the public prints, and
soon was being read throughout the
United States and most of the civilized
countries of the globe. On account of
the peculiar and momentous issues now
confronting the American people, and
on account of the independent and fear-
less attitude of the President toward
these problems, this expression of his
position was awaited with unusual
eagerness.
The message may be characterized as a competent and intelligent presenta- tion of the situation, with a strong and capable treatment of the various prob- lems. Although opinion varies with in- dividual beliefs, a consensus would ac- cord President Roosevelt praise for the bold attack he has made upon the greatest obstacles, and, at the same time, for the conservatism displayed in the face of the tremendous force of public opinion.
In brief, he begins with a survey of the country's unbounded prosperity, the causes to which it is attributed, and the measures necessary for its preser- vation. The "high individual average of our citizenship," he says, is the primal cause for our national well-be- ing.
With so much good there must be some evil, he admits. Passing to the discussion of the trusts, he holds that the trusts, in their injurious form, can- not be reached by any reduction of the tariff. Any such effort would hurt the weaker competitors more than the great combines, and turn the market over to foreigners. He affirms his belief that Congress can regulate the evils that accompany great monopolies under the power to ** 'regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States,' " and urges the passage of a law upon 'which the question can be adjudicated. If it be proven that it docs not lie within the power of Con- gress so to legislate, then "we should not shrink from amending the Consti- tution so as to secure beyond peradven- ture the power sought."
As to the tariff, he avers that **sta- bilitv of economic policy must always be the prime economic need of this country." But while he holds to this
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principle, he concedes the demands of reciprocity, and of such readjustment as is necessary to meet the altering conditions, and advises the creation of a committee of "practical experts" to investig^ate and recommend whatever changes are necessary in the various schedules.
He concedes the right of labor tc organize as well as capital, but asserts that each must be restrained from "ar- bitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others.'* In this connec- tion he emphasizes the destructive ten- dency of class animosity.
Passing to matters of less immediate moment, he advocates the creation of a secretaryship of commerce, also the passage of the Newfoundland reci- procity treaty. He refers to the Isth- mian canal by the Panama route as an assured fact, and speaks with great gratification of the prosperous con- ditions prevailing in Porto Rico, and the final pacification of the Philippines. Regarding Cuba, he says that he hopes to submit to Congress at an early date a reciprocity treaty which will relieve the present difficult position in which this country is placed.
The maintenance of the army and navy at the highest point of efficiency is, he says, essential to our welfare, and the best guarantee of peace. He refers at some length to our happy relations with foreign countries, to the success of rural delivery, to the rapid settle- ment of Alaska, and to the beautifica- tion of the capital cit>' and the alter- ations in the White House.
The 57th Congress met <:oAtfr«ss December i, for its short
term. The first day's ses- sion of the Senate lasted only 12 min- utes, the adjournment being out of re- spect for the late Senator McMillan, of Michigan. The House also adjourned after a brief session, in recognition of the death of Representative Russel, of Connecticut. David B. Henderson pre- sided over the House, but for the last time, after a career of many years and great service. There is little doubt that Tiis place will be filled by Hon. Joseph
(}. Cannon, of Illinois, who seems to possess all the qualifications for that responsible post.
The budget of expenses for the next fiscal year calls for $590,000,000. This is $22,000,000 less than last year's ap- propriation.
But little of importance has been ac- complished so far. Much time is of ne- cessity consumed in preparation, ad- justment and preliminary routine work. Among the most important measures considered are the "omnibus statehood 1)111" which passed the House last ses- sion. It provides for the admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. It is being made a party measure, with the Democrats fav^oring and the Repub- licans (exceping Quay and a few oth- ers) opposing the measure.
Another bill of importance is the anti-trust bill introduced by Represen- tative Littlefield. It provides that every corporation or similar organiza- tion shall present a report to the Inter- state Commerce Commission, disclos- ing the complete history of the concern, the amount of stock, and conditions governing it, liabilities, assets, etc. A competent representative of the com- pany must be on hand to answer all questions of the Commission. Also a tax of I per cent, on all outstanding stock is imposed.
^^^^j The negotiations be-
Nerfotiatio»»tween the United States and Colombia have been seriously retarded by the perverse at- titude of Senor Concha, the Colombian minister, who has done everything in his power to hinder matters, taking ref- uge behind every conceivable techni- cality. Twice our government has ap- pealed directly to the Colombian gov- ernment, and now Senor Concha is out of a job. His place is filled by Dr. Herran, secretary of the legation, and everything is rimning as smoothly as can be. There was some suspicion that the delaying tactics were resorted to in order to postpone action until 1904, when the original concessions of the French Panama Company expire, in vvliich event Colombia might demand higher terms.
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SCIENCE-
After one failure, due to Cmbir***** the high surf, the shore
end of the American Pacific cable has been successfully laid, and the cable steamer, the Silverton, is now speeding toward Honolulu, pay- ing out the cable as she goes. After the vessel's long voyage around the Horn, she anchored off San Francisco, several miles from the shore. A smaller steam- er took a six-mile length of the cable and carried it to a point near the shore, where it was coupled to a rope in the hands of a life-saving crew. Horses hitched to the rope then pulled the end of the cable to the shore and through a conduit to the company's offices. The sea end of the six-mile length was then made fast to the end on board the Silverton, and the steamer got under weigh for the long voyage. Communi- cation with the shore is maintained by means of the cable.
In a little over a year
JJ:- m:;::. f™'" "^^ t^e Niagara power plant on the Can- adian side will be in operation. The power is derived from five Swiss tur- bines of 10,000 horsepower each. These immense wheels are sunk in a wheel pit above the falls, 170 feet deep, 480 feet long and 21 feet wide. The water is brought from a point one-half mile above the falls, through a channel 25 feet deep. IBoth wheel pit and race are cut from the solid rock. The two plants on either side of the river will operate in unison, being connected by three great cables. This will develop about 150,000 horsepower.
The Department of Ag- riculture has instituted in Washington experi- ments to determine the relative value of food products, and the eflfects of adulterants, such as coloring, preser- vatives, etc., and especially borax, sul- phurous and salicylic acids. Twelve young men, most of them students of science, have volunteered for the experiments, which will be more exhaustive than any heretofore con- ducted. Previously, animals have been used almost exclusively, but this time the human stomach itself will
THe Food
testify, and much valuable knowledge should result. The large number of subjects and the length of the experi- ments — one year — will supply excellent data of great value to physicians, the government and the public at large.
EDUCATION-
The second annual ?"«.«^«::*** meeting of the board
of trustees of the Car- negie Institution was held recently in Washington, D. C. It was decided to make no report of the procedures of the past year, in order to obviate the dan- ger of jealousies and criticisms. Two hundred thousand dollars was appro- priated for the assistance of scientific researches during the ensuing year^ and $40,000 more for the publication of the results. In addition, the board defined what it will and what it will not undertake. In general, the princi- pal aims are the promotion of original research and the increase of facilities for higher education. Further, it de- cided that the policy of the institution would be: not to enter thefield occupied by existing organizations ; not to aid institutions when it is possible to ac- complish the same results through in- dividuals; not to provide for general courses of instruction ; not to enter the fields of applied sciences.
I A DofOASO of
Co* Kdoc^mt ion
The stand taken by Chicago University ^ antagonistic to co- education, has aroused President Jor- dan of Stanford to its defense. He ad- mits that the system holds some dan- gers, but thinks that to know these is to avoid them. The association of the sexes in college, he holds, tends to de- velop in each the useful traits found in the other. In the education of men, alone, the elements of beauty and fit- ness are subordinated to the sense of reality, while in women's colleges the reverse condition prevails. The. edu- cated woman, he says, "masters tech- nique rather than art, method rather than substance." In co-education, women meet men who can do things, and are thus turned away from senti- mentalism and caprice toward useful- ness and high ideals.
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President Elliot's at-
S^iT^ScKooi. ^^^k ^P^!^ the public schools, m which he incriminated the system for all the vices flesh is heir to, has awakened a cham- pion in President Schurman, of Cornell. In a lecture delivered recently in Bos- ton, he defended our educational sys- tem on the ground that it was best adapted to our social scheme. The state school, he said, is a great leveler, doing much to eliminate caste and racial divisions. The work of the teach- ers is directed largely to the intellectual development of the child, rather than the promotion of religious faith or moral character. This is left more largely to the home, the church ; and to these and hereditary defects, must the blame be accorded if the children are the victims of intemperance, vice or impurity.
ART, MUSIC. DRAMA—
Considerable resentment is being manifested against the tariff on works of art imported into this country. And the artists^the only pos- sible beneficiaries — are offering the most strenuous objections. Their atti- tude is that the high tariff, instead of making for the betterment of art, is working in the contrary direction by excluding the classic pictures and sculptures from this country, thereby lowering the art standards and dimin- ishing the interest in art matters. To support their objection, the fact is ar- rogated that collectors are storing their valuable art acquisitions abroad, to es- cape the tariff. Moreover, the artists resent that the production of noble paintings and beautiful sculptures should be ranked with the so-called in- fant industries requiring the protection of a high tariff. In fact, they refuse to call it an industr\^ at all, but put their work on another and higher plane.
TK«^TajK on Art
Mascagni's tour of the
country has been
brought to an abrupt
termination by the culmination of the
financial difficulties which have pur-
sued the great composer, and his final
break-down in health. From the time
of his first rehearsal in this country the venture has been but a chapter of dis- asters. The musicians' union caused trouble because of the low-priced Ital- ian players ; the critics lashed both the orchestra and the singers, and Mas- cagni became involved in difficulties with his manager. As the tour con- tinued, affairs grew worse instead of better. Mascagni, thinking himself abused, applied to his home govern- ment for redress, the result being a polite note asking that he be given fair play. And the climax came when Mas- cagni's personal effects were attached for a small debt, and the great com- poser's health gave way under the pressure. Nothing serious is expected, however, and a good result may be achieved if foreign artists will learn that the American dollar is not to be beguiled from the American pocket un- less good return is given.
REI^IGIOUS THOUGHT—
Rev. E. H.
tackmg the question of church attendance, takes a bold stand for up-to-date sermons. In an article in the Congregationalist he says that the preacher must study his field, how he can best startle and im- press the indifferent, Adopt advertising methods, he urges ; appeal to the peo- ple through the subjects in which they are interested. Preach on music, lit- erature, the topics of the day, anything to reach and hold an audience. 'Tack sermons with gospel truth," he con- cludes, "but shape them and phrase them so thkt they will appeal to the indifferent."
The American Board of Missions Foreign Missions reports
an income of $18,400,000 in the last year for mission purposes, and Qo,ooo new converts. There are now 29,000 Protestant mission stations maintained ; 6,500 men and 7,300 wo- men employed as missionaries ; 79,000 native helpers ; 3,200,000 converts, and over 1,000,000 children in mission schools. The results of the year's work
have been unusually satisfactory. Progress
Editor's Note. — The object of this department, which appears for the first time this month, is to keep a higfh-g^rade, bona-fide record of the g^rowth, progress and development of the West, it will, however, be confined for the present to the Pacific Northwest, including Ore^^on, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. An attempt will be made to make the department of actual practical value tcrall our readers, suj^g'esting the wonderful opportunities and possibilities that are before us. For some of the items api>earing in this issue we wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle. Wash.; the Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.; the Daily Oregonian, Portland, Oregon; the Evening Telegram, Portland, Oregon; the Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Oregon, and the British Columbia Gazette, Victoria, B. C.
Oregon—
The New Year's issue of the Morning Oregonian contains the following concise and suggestive summary indicative of the state's progressive trend:
"We are passing from primary and relatively small conditions to secondary and larger development. The accompanying pages set forth the general activities of the time, including: A rapid increase in population; a better conceived and a bet- ter organized agricultural industry; the de- velopment of a wholesome co-operative practice in dairying; the growth of irriga- tion, with its enormous stimulation of for- age production; the substitution in Eastern Oregon of the domestic stock industry for the old-time range practice; the opening up of the Eastern market for our timber, with the entrance of foreign capital into our lumbering industry; the i)etter local organ- ization of trade, with its increasing energy; the expansion of the flour industry, by which an increasing portion of our grain pro- duct is manufactured at home; the entrance of our staple products very largely into the channels of Pacific Ocean commerce; the entrance of Portland initiative and ca^)- ital into the transportation field; the begin- nings of commercial manufacture here. These and many other movements, which it would be tedious to name, characterize the present activity and prosperity of the country, and are to be reckoned among the assurances which expand our hopes for the future."
The time will come, and should be has- tened, when Western Oregon will contain 1,000,000 people, Eastern Oregon will de- velop at a corresponding rate, and perhaps more rapidly, under the influence of irri-
gation enterprises. The development of these two sections naturally both tributary to Portland will give this city such ;i growth as would now be scarcely believed. The greatness of Portland depends chiefly upon the upbuilding of the sections of the country, the location of which makes them tributary to this city. * * * i believe that Oregon can do nothing that will help her more than to enter at once upon a system of permanent road building upon a large scale, so that in the next few years every part of the settled portion of the state will have good roads.
— William Mackenzie, of Dundee. Scotland, in the Oregonian.
Four large steamships, the equal of those
planned or building for San Francisco and
Seattle, are to be constructed to ply between Portland and the Orient. The largest
dredge of its kind in the world has been
recently built for dredging the river from
Portland to the sea, and a 30-foot channel
is assured. Portland merchants are awak-
ening to the situation, and Portland will
be an equal competitor with Seattle and
San Francisco for Oriental trade and gov-
ernment business.
SUMPTER. Ore.— W. H. Mead, of Spo- kane, who recently purchased the Glad- stone group of five claims from I. E. Rose, is now developing the property. A tunnel is being driven, and when in 300 feet is ex- pected to tap the ledge. The new company operating the group is the Interstate Mining Company, and the price paid for the five claims was $6000.
The Geiser-Hendryx Investment Company is a new mining firm which recently opened offices here t<^ op
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erate mining properties in this district. The company has assumed control of the Midway, a few miles from the Golconda. There are ten claims in the group. The company also owns the Blue Mountain group, consisting of three claims and a fraction. The Victor claim, located adjoin- ing the Eureka and Columbia mines, has also been bonded by the Geiser-Hendryx firm. The development of this claim will commence soon.
In the Willamette Iron Works after Jan- uary I nine hours will constitute a day's work, and all employes will receive the same pay as they now get for ten hours' work.
Men who are in a position to get inside railroad information and who are close ob- servers of events in the world of transporta- tion read this important message in the present trend of affairs:
The Northern Pacific Railroad is going down the north bank of the Columbia to. some point near the mouth of that stream, where it will establish a shipping point in opposition to Astoria. The Oregon Rail- road & Navigation Company will be obliged to run its train down the south bank of the river and do its shipping from Astoria or some point near that city. Both railroads will carry the grain of the Colum- bia basin to the mouth of the river for ex- port — not only that part now loaded into ships at Portland, but also the part that now goes through Puget Sound ports. The wheat trains will run through Portland and the stevedoring will be done at Astoria and on the opposite side of the river, but Port- land men and money will do the business. Common point rates will be forced to the mouth of the river.
For several years the Northern Pacific has been pressing toward the mouth of the river. Northern Pacific engineers have been run- ning lines along the lower Columbia, and no secret has been made of their operations. The Northern Pacific has built the stretch of railroad between Kalama and Vancouver. Surveyors are now between the mouth of the Klickitat river and Vancouver, having incidentally run a line over from the Yaki- ma valley.
The Paul Mohr portage is undoubtedly in hands friendly to the Northern Pacific. In- deed, all the strategic points on the route down the north bank of the Columbia are already in the hands of the Northern Pa- cific. No hint is yet given, however, as to the point that will be made the deep water terminal at the mouth of the river.
It is believed that Harriman interests have practical control of the Columbia and Astoria railroad.
lt«w Or«i(oA Covj»orations
For We«H KskaiA^ Dec. 37» 1Q03-
Lick Creek Mining Company, Enterprise, Or.; capi- tal ttock, $200,000; to conduct a general mininff tmsi- »«•; incorporators. Charles R. Funk, S. D. Moore. A. 0. JacoN T. F. Jacob and W. J. Graves.
Paci6c Sutcs Exploration Company, Portland, Or.; capita] stock, $100,000; to conduct a general mining business; incorporators, C. A. Merriam, J. E. Tilton and T. K. Muir.
The Order of Fraternal Home-Buyers, Portland, Or.; capital stock, $10,000; to construe^ purchase, lease buildings, etc.; incorporators, J. Ledgerwood UdelL C. Guy Wakefield, John A. Taylor and J. How ard Snively.
First Free Methodist Church, Ashland, Or.; to con- struct church and parsonage; incorporators, W. I. McNutt, £. Ericcson and £. M. Bates.
Commercial Cream Company, Salem, Or.; capital stock, $5000; to conduct a general creamery business: Incorporators, Joseph H. Albert. A. A Underbill, Henry B. Thielsen, George D. Goodhue and George W. Weeks.
Sageland Irrigation Comixany^ Echo, Or.; capital stock, $1000; to conduct irrintion enterprise; incor- porators, Robert N. Stanfield, DeWitt C Brownell and Stephen A. LowelL
Brownell Ditch Company, Umatilla, Or.; capital stock, $3000; incorporators, DeWitt C. Browndl. Clara A. Brownell and Don C Brownell; to conduct an irrigation enterprise.
Hallidie Painter Tramway Company, Portland Or.; capital stock, $^0,000; to construct tramways, etc; incorporators. Sidney H. Crawston, Frank R. Russell and Ernest A. Crawston.
Oregon Trading CompanT, Sumpter, Oregon.; capi- tal stock, Sao,ooo; to conduct a general merchandise business; mcorporators, Clark Snyde, J. T. Donnelly and H. C. Bowers.
Ross Sharp Company, Portland. Or.; capital stock. $5000; to conduct a general cigar busmess; incorpo- rators, Ross Sharp, Karl Koberstine and Elizabeth Koberstine.
W. H. McXfonics & Co.. Portland, Or.: capital stock, $50,000; to conduct a general leather business; incorporators, W. M. McMonies, F. C Waserman and F. J. McMonies.
Commercial Association. Pendleton, Or.; capital stock, $30,000; to conduct a social and commercial club; incorporators, George A. Hartman, R. Alexan- der and Leon Cohen.
The Supplemental Chamber Company, Drain, Or.; capital stock, $3000; to manufacture and sell supple- mental chambers for guns, etc.; incorporators, H. B. Gillette, Joseph Lvons and W. W. Kent
Big Creek Gold Mining Company. Sumpter, Or.: capita] stock, $500,000; to operate placer mines and conduct a general mining enterprise; incorporators, Arthur 'C. Probert, George J. Armstrong ana Joseph Giffin.
Montana Conosolidated Gold Company, of Portland; capital stock, $1,000,000; G. W. Waterbury, J. H. Colt and C. Vv. Miller.
Ihe Boston-Oregon Gold Mining Company, of Ba- ker City; capital stock, $1,000,000; Charles r. Soder- ling, VV. H. Gilbert and H. W. Soderling.
Columbia River & Nehalem Railway Company, of Portland; capital stock, $100,000; David L. Kelly. Franklin G. Kelly, J. M. Lonff and Alex. Sweek.
The Pittsburg Mining and Milling Company, of Bo- hemia; capital stock, $150,000; W. H. Shane, Frank Flisher and Gustaf Gustafson. .
Oregon Feed & Milling Company, of Portland; capital stock, $10,000; Ricnard Scott, S. H. Graham and L. Luscher.
Olsen-Nordby Lumber Company, of Portland; capi- tal stock, $50,000; M. Olsen, T. W. Nordby and George S. Shenhcrd.
Grizzly Mountain Mining & Reduction Company, cf Cottage Grove .
"Fifteen years ago," says Senator Foster, of Washington, "Puget Sound customs col- lection district, which includes the chief sea- ports of the State of Washincrton, imported goods valued at about $347,818; now its im- ports aggregate $12,000,000. Then its ex- ports were approximately $1,750,000, now $35,000,000.
In lumber, wheat, coal, the mining of precious metals, and fisheries, Washington finds her chief products. Its man^tle of for«
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csts constitutes the finest bodv of timber in
the world. Professor Henry Gannett of the
geological survey estimates that there are
today 115,000,000,000 feet of standing timber
in Washington, of which about 1,000,000,000
feet are cut annually to supply the demand
of this country, Australia and the far East.
The supply, therefore, may be considered
inexhaustible, because, with reasonable care
the areas now being cut will be reforested
before the visible supply is removed for
coriimercial purposes-
Washington's coal mines are also prac- tically inexhaustible, and in coking coals and blast furnaces the 'Pennsylvania of the West' aspires to rival the 'Pennsylvania of the East. Its deposits of iron ores are about to be more extensively utilized, as the sav- ing of freight across the continent consti- tutes in itself profit sufficient to warrant large investments. In a few years the wa-
The Washington Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, to be held in the city of Portland, State of Ore- gon, in the year 1905, whose members are Frank J. Parker, chairman; G. W. Rowan, J. G. Megler, W. W. Tolman and E. M. Rands, has prepared its report for submis- sion to the coming legislature.
The commission, after citing the history and purpose of the movement and dwelling upon the advantages to be secured by the State of Washington from an exhibition of her resources, concludes with a recommen- dation that an appropriation of the sum of $100,000 be made for the purpose of suitably presenting the resources of the state at the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, said appropriation to become available on the first of April. 1903.
ONE OF THE 20,000-TON STEAMSHIPS BUILDI NG AT NEW LONDON, CONN., FOR THE GREAT
NORTHERN STEAMSHIP CO.
ters of Puget Sound have yielded $75,000,- 000 worth of fish, and the state pays annu- ally $65,000 to maintain fish hatcheries, thus insuring the permanence of the fishing in- dustry.
During the year 1902 the city of Seattle has expended more than $1,000,000 in street improvements. Under this head is included the work of grading new thoroughfares, lay- ing cement walks, curbing and parking streets, paving with brick, asphalt and other pavements, laying water mains and sewers and olanking streets.
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The Seattle & Canadian Railroad Com- pany has been incorporated with a capital of $2,700,000. It will run from Tacoma to Su- mas, on the British Columbia line. The in- corporators are Jacob Furth, cx-Govcrnor McGraw, Senator George Turner, D. C. Corbin and Charles H. Bihler, all of Wash- ington. Surveys will begin at once. Head- quarters are to be at Seattle.
Articles of incorporation of the Spokane Light and Power Company have been filed. Senator George Turner being one of the incorporators. Capital stock, $500,000. The company controls a power about three miles down the river from Spokane, a 2000-horse- power.
The Treasury Department has selected the corner of Riverside avenue and Lincoln street, Spokane, for the erection of a public building. The price is $100,000.
The Spokane Lumber Company, of which
W. C. Ufford is manager, has closed a deal
whereby it acquired 16,000 acres of timber
lands along the line of the Great Northern
railroad between Milan, Wash., and the
Pend d'Oreille river. The tract was secured
from the Northern Pacific railroad and the
amount involved was about $100,000.
The biennial report of E. A. McDonald,
state dairy and pure food commissioner.
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just filed with Gov. McBride. shows an in- crease in the production of butter in this state of 2,000,000 pounds during the past two years, and of 100,000 pounds of cheese during the same time.
Probably the most valuable cargo ever sent from a Puget Sound port to the Orient went on the Nippon Yuscn Kaisha's steam- ship lyo, which sailed from Seattle, Oct. 21, for Japan and China. It consisted of Ameri- can products valued at more than $800,000. Of this amount the cotton shipment was valued at $400,000.
The Moses Lake Irrigation Company has been incorporated. The principal office is in North Yakima. David Longmire is presi- dent; C. G. Wands, vice-president; Edward Treat, secretary. The object is to take the water from Moses lake (Douglas county, Washington), for the purposes of irrigation. The company proposes to cover thirty or forty sections.
Seattle did $16,713,420 worth of business with Nome during the season of 1902. The Nome traffic for the year is at an end. Six vessels are returning. Definite data, how- ever, as to the number of passengers and the amount of freight carried by them is at hand.
IdaKo —
State Mining Inspector Martin Jacobs es- timates the mineral production in Idaho for IQ02 at $10,924,371.83— gold, $2,467,233.21; silver, $5,421,583.62; lead. $3,035,655.
General Manager P. P. Shelby, of the Po-
catello & Idaho Northern, declares that con-
struction on the proposed railroad to the
north will be commenced in the spring and
pushed to an early completion. This line
will tap one of the richest sections of Idaho,
traversing the copper region of the Seven
Devils country and the farming district of
the Salmon river valley.
The Idaho Sugar Company has been
formed, with a capital of $1,000,000. The
company will erect a mammoth beet sugar
factorv near Blackfoot. Five thousand acres
already have been contracted for the culti-
vation of beets.
Mr. Martin L. Jacobs, state mining in- spector, is authority for the statement that "the mining industry in Idaho is now in a better condition than ever before. At the present time there is more capital ready for mining investment in Idaho than in past years. All portions of the state are enjoy- ing activity in this industry. In the silver districts of the southern parts of the state, while the recent slump in silver has reduced the margin of profit considerably, yet I
know of no instances of any mines closing down on this account. If the market suf- fers a much further decline it may necessi- tate the shutting down of some silver mines in Custer and Blaine counties. The Coeur d'Alenes are. by far the largest producers in the state, but Owyhee county, Custer coun- ty and Blaine county have many mines that are active producers."
The comparative cost of running the
drills of a mine by steam, compressed air or
electricity will soon be a matter of record.
The management of the Hecla has installed
an electric drill on the 300-foot level. A
record of the time spent in drilling, the
number of holes, and their depth, the num-
ber of cars of ore taken out, etc., will be
kept, to be compared with records of com-
pressed air and steam. This test is an im-
portant one, as the Washington Water
Power Company, of Spokane, is running an
electric power line into the Coeur d*Alenes
to supply power to all the mines of this dis-
trict.
Montana —
Of all the industries now lying dormant in Montana, probably the one that oflFers thje greatest possibilities of success is that of dairying This business, which has been so highly developed and is so great a source of wealth production in other states, has been almost wholly neglected in what is undoubt- edly one of the most favorabk localities in the United States for its successful prose- cution. There are not one half dozen cream- eries in operation in the whole state, and the capacity of these is very limited. Two that were in successful operation in Mis- soula county have been recently destroyed by fire and have not been rebuilt.
BritisK Colt&mbia—
The new railway and traffic bridge being erected across the Fraser at New Westmin- ster is progressing rapidly and it is ex- pected that this important highway will be opened for traffic before the end of the present year. The bridge, when completed, will be the largest in the Pacific Northwest, and it is being erected by the government of British Columbia at a cost of over half a million dollars. Already six railways and one electric tram line have applied for rail- way rights over it.
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A large new hotel is about to be erected in New Westminster. It will be a four-story structure, and when completed will be the most modern hostelry in the city. .0.0
British Columbia has shipped this year 50,000,000 feet of lumber to all parts of the world, the province benefitting to the extent of $1,000,000. The shingle business con- tinues to be very active; new/ffiills are^lop- igi ize y ^
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stantly going up, and good cedar limits are
constantly being secured. The activity is
due to a great extent to the demand in the
Canadian Northwest.
There is a good deal of railway activity in the lower mainland of British Columbia at the present time, and surveyors are now laying out the routes for several prospective lines. Both the Great Northern and North- ern Pacific companies are among those which are proposing to add to their mile- * age in this vicinity.
The Ross-McLaren lumber mills near New Westminster, which are probably one of the largest industries of the kind on the coast, are about to be reopened and started in op- eration. This immense plant has been lay- ing idle, owing to litigation, for the past ten years, and has now been sold to a num- ber of Wisconsin lumbermen. i^
The year 1902 has been a most important one in the Ymir district, and has marked a period of greater progress and develop- ment in the mining industry than any pre- vious year. During the period in question a considerable number of the properties have been developed up from the pros- pect stage to rank as mines, with large quantities of ore in sight.
lAcon»ormtioAS» BritisH Col^mbim ror "Week KAatAtf Dec. 36, 1903—
The Cherry Creek Gold Mininff Co., Limited; $1,000,000; mining, smelting, milling and refining.
The Wellington Colliery Co., Limited; $2,000,000; coal and metal mining, smelting, refining, etc.
The Yale-Kootenay Ice, Fruit, Fuel and Poultry Co., Limited; $40,000.
Deer Park Mining Co., Limited; $10,000; mining, smelting, etc.
The Packers* Steamship Co., Limited; $25,000; buying and selling merchandise; carrying by land and water, passengers and freight; refrigerating and storing.
The Beaver Canyon Mining Co., Limited; $100,000; general mining.
The Metropolitan Estate Co., Limited; $20,000; real estate and improvement.
Union Power and Pulp Co., Limited; $25,000; gen- eral manufacture and paper making.
The Province Mines, Limited; $100,000; general mining and smelting.
Vancouver Ledger Printing and Publishing Co., Limited; $20,000; printing and publishing.
The Otter Creek Hydraulic Co., Limited; $100,000; general mining and smelting.
Conosolidated Kingston Gold Mfning Co., Limited; $100,000; general mining and smelting.
Christina Lake Lumber Co.. Limited; $10,000; log- ging, sawing and manufacturing.
Victoria Logging Co., Limited; $30,000; general logging and timber business. (Extra-provincial Co.)
Yale Mining Co.; $250,000; Anaconda, Mont.; gen- eral mining and smelting. (Extra-provincial Co.)
Discovery (3old Mining Co. of British Columbia; $300,000; New York, N. Y.; mining of gold and other minerals.
TKe Pacific
S. S. Dickenson, the special agent of the Commercial Pacific Cable Co. states that he has chosen cable landing sites at Midway
Island, Guam and Manila. He also surveyed for a route around Nero Deep, the very deep hole in the ocean bed between Guam and Midway, which was discovered by the United States survey ship Nero, and re ported to be the deepest bit of ocean in the world.
The two most notable vessels under con struction in the United States are now build- ing in New London, Conn. These colossal ships, as yet unnamed, are exceeded in size only by the "Celtic" and "Ccdric," the larg est vessels afloat. They were ordered by the Great Northern railroad, to ply between Oriental ports and Seattle, the Pacific ter minus of that road. It is a curious fact that an entirely new company, the "Eastern Shipbuilding Co." was organized especially for the purpose of constructing these ships, and took the contract before it possessed site, plant or equipment. The dimensions are: Length, 630 feet; breadth, 73 feet; molded depth, 50 feet; displacement (with maximum draft of zdV^ feet), 37»ooo tons, within 870 tons of the figures for the "Cedric" In the hold are eleven distinct decks, the topmost one being 81 54 feet above the keel. The promenade deck is 60 feet above the water line, except when the vessel is heavily loaded. Accommodations are for 150 first-class passengers, 100 second-class. 100 third-class, 1000 steerage, and, if neces sary, 1200 troops. Its cargo capacity is 20. 000 tons. Under a horsepower of 11,000 the ships will have a sea speed of 14 knots per hour. — Scientific American.
Of the many new vessels built for Pacific Coast trade most notable are the sister ships. "Korea" and "Siberia," the largest and fastest merchant steamers of any na- tionality plying on the Pacific. The former was launched in 190T, but the latter was a product of the year just past. The vessels were built by the Newport News Shipbuild- ing Company for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in service between San Fran- cisco, Japan and China. The tonnage of the "Korea" is 11,276; average sea speed, 17.78 knots per hour; length, 572 feet; depth, 41 feet 10 inches; draft, 27 feet. The coal ca- pacity is 2,600 tons, and the power is sup- plied by twin engines of 17,902 indicated horsepower. Accommodations are provided for 210 first-class passaengers; steerage, 54 whites and 1144 Chinese.
The Oceanic Steamship Company has re cently ordered three fine large vessels from Cramps. Of these the Sierra is a type. She is a twin-screw ship of 6,253 tons. Her length is 400 feet, her breadth 40 feet, with engines capable of driving her at a speed of 17 knots per hour. She is to ply between San Francisco and Honolulynand Australia.
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Old Smjrintfs ixk Neiv^ Form
A little shotgun is a dangerous thing.
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The wise man seeth the evil and voteth
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A bald head is better than none.
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Take care of the pennies and the dollars may take care of a savings bank president.
Charity covereth a multitude of people
•vho ought to work.
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Most of the things that come to him who
waits are not worth waiting for.
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Where there is so much smoke there may
he a fool with a cigarette.
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The world owes every man a living after he earns it.
ChaM. K' BuritMldm,
A DilTereAt THintf
"It*s queer how hunters in the Adiron- (lacks mistake men for deer," said she.
"Isn't it?" assented he. "Now, if I were lo take you for a dear it wouldn't be strange at all."— Detroit Free Press.
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"Tomorrow never comes," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "but the day after the night before always does." — Yonkers Statesmai\
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A man bought three pounds of meat and brought it home to his wife to cook for din iier, and then went his way to his place of business in the bazars. The wife was hun- i^ry apd ate the meat.
In t}ie evening the man tame home and asked for his dinner.
"There is no meat," said the wife, "for the V at ate it."
"Bring the cat," said the man, "and a pair '»f scales."
"Weigh the cat," said the man. The cat ^vcighed three pounds.
"If this is the cat." said the man. "where IS the meat? And if this is the meat, where i< the cat?" — Harper's Magazine.
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Popular Song of the Day
(This beautiful ballad from the pen of Mr. Dashe M)off is entitled "Do Not Take the Doorknob From the Door," and is sung with great success by Henry Irving, Robert Downing. Eleanor Duse and other comedians. Professional copies on application. Pirates beware. Lew Dockstader please write. Regards to the Brutal Brothers.)
A young man stood before his home,
He came to say good-bye; He pressed his hand against his brow
And slowly wiped his eye. His trunk was packed and he must leave
For a city far away. He raised his hat and called farewell,
And then to his old mother he did say:
Chorus — Do not take the doorknob from the door! Leave it there to greet me as of yore.
Often in the snow and sleet
Of my old home I will weep! Do not take the doorknob from the door.
His mother stood before the house
And saw his footsteps go; She sobbed alone in her sad grief
That mothers only know, And through eternity she heard
Her son so blithe and gay, Call as he did on that dread morn,
When unto his old mother he did say:
Chorus —
(With much feeling and expression.) Do not take the doorknob from the door! Leave it there to greet me as of yore. In the Summer's heat and rain It may be that I will came. If you do not take the doorknob from the door.
— Baltimore American.
Said a seal, who immodesty hates, To a polar b'ar, one of her mates, "Your necktie pray wear. For I simply can't bear A bare b'ar, his b'ar-bear-ity grates."
— Leslie's Monthly.
Cleanly woman has an erroneous idea that by scouring the scalp, which removes the dandruff scales, she is curing the dandruff. She may wash her scalp every day, and yet have dandruff her life long, accompanied by falling hair, too. The only way in the world to cure dandruff is to kill the dandruff i?erm. and there is no hair preparation that will do that but Newbro's Herpicide. Her- picidc killing the dandruff germ, leaves the hair free to grow as healthy Nature in- tended. Destroy the cause, you remove the effect. Kill the dandruff germ with Herpi- cide.
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Down in the garden, in the shade,
Where Cupid placed an artful bench, I ling^er with the little maid
Who daily tries to teach me French; But ah, my lips will learn no more That "Je vous aime, je vous adore." "Oh! parlez-vous Fraincais," she cries;
The birds sing mating songs above, And sweet upon us smile the sj^ies,
While all the world's a world of love. 1 con my lesson o'er and o'er, Of "Je vous aime, je vous adore." Ah! in her hair the sunbeams nest.
And in her eyes the violets blow, While in the summer of her breast
The song bird thoughts flit to and fro. Oh! ne'er were words so blest before As "Je vous aime, je vous adore." The grammer flutters to the grass.
A daisy nods a knowing head. And on my breast a little lass
Outblushes all the rose's red. Ne'er lips a sweeter burden bore That "Je vous aime. je vous adore."
— Frank Leslie's.
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The warring Senators glared viciously at one another.
"Scoundrel!" hissed one.
"Robber!" snarled the other, in great heat.
"Liar!"
"Puppy!"
The debate was approaching the unpar- liamentary stage.
"If you say another word," yelled the first Senator, his eyes snapping and his chest heaving with anger, "I shall not be respon- sible for the consequences to you."
"What will you do?" asked the second, his righ hand moving quietly toward his hip pocket.
"Do?" thundered the first. "Why, you contemptible whipper-snapper! I'll boom you for the Vice-Presidency!"
Trembling with mingled fear and wrath, the second Senator sank into his seat and gnashed his teeth in a manner that proved conclusively that he was baffled. — ^Judge.
Golden West
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Our remnants are all large pieces, rich in de- s\gn and color. We sell a grand assortment, just the thin? for Sofa Pillows, Head Rests, Quilts, Cushions, etc. When you order goods of us, you can be sure of getting the largest package for your money. We All all orders promptly. Post- paid, one package, 25 cents; five packages, 11.00.
MTASTi; EMBROIDERY SII^K
Our waste embroidery silk is short pieces from the factory. Tiie pieces are from three to ten yards long. It comes in odd lengths and assorted colors. It is Just the thing for Crazy Quilts, etc., (which can be made with our silk remnants), and all kinds of fancy work in various colors. We put this silk up in large packages at a low price. One package, postpaid. 10 cents; three for 25 cents; six for 50 cents; thirteen for $1.00. You cannot buy this silk in any store for double what we ask.
NORTH PACIFIC SUPPLY CO., Dept. B 593. Seattle, Wash.
1903 SEED CATALOG
Make up your order at home
Send for our 1903 Seed Annual. The most valuable and reliable seed buyers' guide ever issued in the Northwest. Tells all about the best Seeds, Plants, Hoses and Flowers for this Coast. Ask for book No. 60. Sent FREE.
Portland Seed Co., Portland, Ore.
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DRIFT
Too Str*A«fto«iS for Him
Mr. Petronious de Hamme, the eminent iraf^edian, was compelled by the exigencies of the play to carry the heroine up a rocky defile night after night.
Mr. de Hamme was not so sturdy as he used to be, and when the management cast Miss Vera Heweigh, who tipped the scales at three hundred and ten pounds, for the heroine, his spirit rose within him.
That night he made one mighty eflPort to carry her up the rocky defile, and then ad- vanced to the footlights. In an apologetic tone he inquired: "Is there a piano-mover in the audience?" — Woman's Home Com- panion.
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- What ever became of your worthless
nephew Jim?" asked the visitor to his old home, of the genial uncle who was enter- taining him at dinner.
"Oh, he isn't worthless anymore," de- clared the uncle.
"He isn't? Well, I'm very glad to hear that Jim has turned over a new leaf. I al- ways thought there was some good in him."
"I don't know whether you could rightly ?>ay that it was good or bad that was in him, but he is the head of a big business concern now and is making money hand over fist."
"How did he do it?"
"Well, when his father died he thought he would sort of give Jim a little lesson be- cause of his evil ways; so he willed the old sawmill that had been in the family for years to Jim's brother Henry, but provided that Jim could have all the sawdust that came from the mill; and then, just to pile on the sarcasm, added another codicil to the effect that Henry should at all times provide Jim with all the sawdust he de- sired."
"Rather rough on Jim."
- Wait till I get through. One day Jim
come back home and heard of the legacy he had received, and then he went away for a few weeks and came back with two or ihrec big-looking men. They pow-wowed around a whole lot, and finally bought a tract of land right beside the sawmill and put up the biggest factory plant you ever 5iaw. Then they commenced ordering saw- dust from Henry until he had to keep the sawmill running night and day, and just fiaw all the logs into dust instead of making any lumber of them."
"What did they do with the sawdust?"
"They had every grain of it hauled to the new factory."
"What for— press it into carwheels, or make fancy picture frames, or fill cushions with it?"
"Not much! They're turning out about a million boxes of health-food every week." — Judge.
Reduce Expenses
Those troublesome family expenditures can be materially reduced if you keep our Family Expense Book. Tou will be sur- prised if you will only get one and try it a month. Every woman should have one. Gives itemized account of daily and monthly expenditures for one year of all household expenses. Price 40 cents, post- paid.
KILHRM STTTriONCRY CO.
267 Morrison St. - - Portland, Oregon.
Paper Tour House
Before doing so call or send for
samples of our complete line
Wall Paper. We will sell you Art
Goods. Picture Frames or Room
Mouldings, Paints, Oils, Varnish,
Glass, Brushes, and Decorative
Materials.
E. H. Moorehouse & Co.
NEW LOCATION
307 Washing^ton Street
Between 5th and 6th. Both Phones PORT LAND, ORBOON
There was a young man from Ostend
Who said HE should last till the end,
But when half way over,
'Twixt Calais and Dover. He done what he did not intend.
The tracks that great men leave behind
Upon the sands of time Oft show they wobbled round a lot
Before they got sublime.
— Woman's Home Companion.
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Smith dug up mussels from the stream: "Some day, perhaps," said he, "I'll find a pearl inside of one That shall bring wealth to me."
Jones worked away year after year
And added to his store, And people envied him who saw
The happy smile he wore.
One day Smith, who was old and poor. Cried out: "Behold! behold!"
The pearl that he had found was worth Ten times its weight in gold.
Jones looked, and envied Smith his luck, ' And Smith, with head awhirl.
Forgot that Jones' store was worth A thousand times the pearl.
— Chicago Record-Herald.
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Y* Oia« Hors*
An olde horse who for twenty yeares hadde notte so much as pawed ye earthe or even snorted in a loud tone, one day hap- pened along where some colts were kycking uppe their heels & having some funne.
"Ho, ho!" nickered ye olde horse, prancing uppe & looking devilish. "Verric goode, boys, verrie goode! But watch me & see how we used to do itte fortie yeares ago."
Thenne ye olde horse snorted fiercely, arched hys tail & rose uponne hys wabbly hind legges, pawing ye air & squealing raucously.
& all ye colts putte their heddes behind one another's shoulders & smiled. "Gad- zooks!" they snickered, "Watch ye Olde Mjanne gette gaye!"
Just thenne ye olde horse stubbed hys toe uponne a corn cobbe & turned a flippe- floppe uponne ye grounde alle tangled up, with hys fore leggs in a bow knot & one hinde legge over hys eare.
"Alas!" he wheezed, after he had unrav- elled himself & was limping away, "itte took me forty yeares to learn that a youthful spirit can ontte loosen uppe olde joints!"
& all ye colts kicked one another inne ye ribs & laughed gleefully.
& this is ye lesson:
(i) Never geete gaye inne yours olde age.
(2) Whenne Time scores onne you, throw uppe your hands & confess it.
(3) Never butte inne whenne you are out of ye gayme. — Leslie's Weekly.
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Perkins Restaurant
Uiider new IDMageMcm «« PortUiid, Oregon
Cke table is suppliea tvitb but the market afforas Service first-class in every respect « Cbeck system empleyea and popular prices charged ««««•«« Ule guarantee that no better can be found in Port- land for tbe;;money • ••>•>• eiveusatrial
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If you would like to try a can of Canned Peaches^ or Strawberries, or Bartlett Pears which are sweeter and fresher than any you ever ate before, which have a better flavor and are more delicious than any '^home canned^' and are entirely devoid of the taste of the can (a fault so common with ordinary brands) ask your grocer to send you
The label, like this sample^ is a beautiful blue, and the contents of the can will delight you even more than the label. The Monopole line includes Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Pineapple, Plums, Blackberries, Blueberries, Strawberries, Raspberries, Grapes and Gooseberries. We also pack Monopole G>rn, Peas, Tomatoes and many other vegetables besides Coffee, Spices, Baking Powder and Oysters. We guarantee all of them the finest obtainable* Most first class grocers carry Monopole*
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TRANS-CONTINENTAL FREIGHT CO., 325 Dearborn St., Chicago. Kyers Transfer Co.. Seattle, Wash.. Agents; C. O. Pick Transfer & Storage Co., Portland, Ore., Agents.
John H. Mitchell
Albert H. Tanner
lilTCHCLL & TANNER
Attomeys-at-Law
Cofiiinefcial Block PORTLAND, OREGON
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TACOMA u u VASHINGTON
BRITISH COLUMBIA SCENERY
Views of the wotiderful Yoho Valley, the most
majestic in the world, surpassing Yosemite*
Ff azier River Views, Etc., Etc, Etc
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J. P. riNLEY & SON
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307 ALDER STREET
Phone Black 1693 PORTLAND, OREGON
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Organized 1845 Assets, 80 Millions
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
OF NEWARK, N. J.
Aims to Furnish the Best Protection at the Lowest Cost
Dividends paid annually.
Anyone desiring information as to rates, etc., or an agency, write to
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iVIAVIl
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286 Washington Street 309 INorrlson Street
PORTUNO, OREGON
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FLOWERS
Shipping Flowers — Through the medium of the express companies, we can deliver to any rail- way station in the Pacific Northwest our flowers and designs in a perfectly fresh condition. The quality of stock we use and the care we exercise in packing insures Its safe delivery after a Jour- ney of two or three days.
Our facilities for supplying fine flowers and de- signs are second to none on the Paciflc Coast. With a score of large hothouses, covering sev- eral acres of land, we are constantly cutting large quantities of the choicest flowers.
Send for our catalogue for further information.
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Price. $1.00, postpaid.
Small package. 25c. Trial Package, 10c.
Address Salvlae Specific Co., Dept. 28,
417 Mason St., San Francisco, California.
Makes a Specialty of Fitting Glasses for School Children
Delia B. Howard
REFRACTIONIST
Room 10 Russel Bide. Fourth and Morrison Sts.
Portland, Oregon
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IT MEANS that the owner is a progressive man. He doesn't want the old, troublesome, cracking, unsatisfactory plaster. He selected ADAMANT because It is scientific, hygienic, sensible, permanent and a big saving in the end. If you are building you want to know more about it. Write us and we will prove to you that it will pay you to use ADAMANT.
THE ADAMANT CO.
7 South First Street, Portland, Oregon 222 Globe Building, 740 Pacific Ave,,
Seattle, Wash. Tacoma, Wash.
MISS ETTA HELD
nacd full treatment of OTOS A ander the terms of our ironclad guarantee } developed bust six fncbes \ neck and face beauti- fied} health and vigor added. In use over 50 years.
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SCALPINE
A positive and permanent cure for all disease of the scalp. It prevents the hair from fallings- Cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. To introduce this remedy we will send by prepaid expres one botle of Scalpine to any address on receipt of one dollar.
SLOCUM DRUG CO., Heppner, Oregon
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Tickets sold to all points in the United States, Canada and "Eu- rope.
Telephone Main 244.
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A Modern Club House on Wheels
IT CONTAINS Bathroom, Barber Shopt SmofcingRoonyVritiiig Desk, Card Tables and a Carefully Selected Library. ^ ^ ^ ^
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SHORTEST AND QUICKEST LINE TO
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AND ALL POINTS EAST Service and Scenery Unequaled
Great Northern Railway
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Eastern Trip, call at Citv
Tlcl<et Office
122 Third Street PORTLAND, OREGON
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Dally Round Trips, except Sunday.
Leaves Portland 7:00 A. M. .^-
Leaves Astoria 7:00 P.M.
The Dalles-Portland Route
"XAMOIVIA" & "IVIEXLAKO"
Dally trips except Sunday Str. "TAHOMA" Leaves Portland. Mon., Wed., Frl..7 A. M. Leaves The Dalles, Tues.. Thurs. Sat 7:00 A. M.
Str. "METLAKO" Leaves Portland. Tues., Thurs., Sat.
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7:00 A. M.
LANDING AND OFFICE: FOOT OF AL- DER STREET. Both Phones. Main 351. PORTLAND - - - OREGON. J. W. Crichton, Agt., The Dalles. A. J. Taylor, Agt., Astoria. A. K. Fuller, Agt., Hood River. Or. Wolford & Wyers, Agts., White Salmon,
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The only trant-contlnental line patslng directly through quaint and picturetqua
SALT LAKE CITY GLENWOOD SPRINGS LEADVILLE PUEBLO and DENVER
TO ALL POINTS EAST
Stop-over allowed on all classes of tickets.
Three dally trains, carrying through standard and tourist sleepers, free re- clining chair cars and a perfect dining car service. Weekly personally conducted excursions from Portland. For information as to rates and descriptive pamphlets, address
J. D. MANSFIELD, Genera/ Agent 124 Third St., Portland, Oregon
CALIFORNIA
is delightful in winter, and when the Oregon rains set in you • should take a trip via the
Beautiful Shasta Route
Elegant Vestibule Trains
leave Portland daily at 8:30 A. M. and 8:30 P. M. for the Land of Fruits, Flowers and eternal Sunshine
Fire. Portland to Los Angeles and Return,
$55.00, limited to 90 days from
date of sale
The Best of Everything
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DEPOT FIFTH
AND IRVING STREETS
PORTLAND
For Maygers , Rainier, Clat- jskanie, Westport, Clifton, Ab- 8:00 A. M. itoria, Warrenton, Flavel, Ham- imond. Fort Stevens, Gearhart Park, Seaside, Astoria and Seashore Express Daily.
7:00 P. M.
Astoria Express Daily.
Arrives.
II:io A. M.
9:40 P. M.
Ticket office, 255 Morrison street and Union Depot. J. C. MAYO, General Passenger Agent, Astoria, Or.
PATENTS GUARANTEED
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"THE COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE"
Runs for 187 Miles Along the Famous
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Giving an Opportunity for the Traveler to View
the Magnificent Scenery, including
Cape Horn:: Cascade Locks Multnomah Falls Latourelle Falls
THE DALLES OF THE COLUMBIA
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Three Trains Daily via this Route to All Points
EAST AND SOUTH
Ocean Steamers to San Francisco Every Five Days
0. W. STINGER, City Ticket Agent
A. L. CRAIG. General Passenger Agent 254 WashlngtOR St., POftland, OregOR
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Please mention the Pacific
Monthly when dealing with ^pj^rg^ QoOgle
YOUR FOUNTAIN PEN!
|P«rKaps ttlhas the old ring«r^iol(mg mk-joini: you may have paitt a ^Igh pflct: fou us& a Filler.
Tttio new f^^rms vvi^hout these objections are made anil giiaranieed al rtioderale (trices by
A. A. WATEIFlMiAN & CO.. No. 22 Tharats Street . New York. N. Y.
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Incandescent Arc Lights
5c PER HOUR while Burning on IVIeter Basis
Electric Lamps Bflow Cost tu consumers of ruir currt-nt, viz:
l&c Each; $1.75 per Dozen
Portland General Electric Co.
Seventh and Alder Streets
PORTLAND. OREGON
Hartman. Thompson & Powers
Surety Bonds Real Estate and Insurance
3 ?Sa"Mll"cf Portland. Oregon
(if.,. Jt, Durham, PrcsiJent O. M. Smith. Set y
J. L. Hitrtman, Vkp- president
Security Abstract and Trust Co.
Ko. 3 Chamber of Commercfl. PORTUIiD. OREGON
ABSTRACTS, CERTiriCATES OF TITLE, TAX SEARCHES, LOAHS
Spet ij:l R.ite* rnviie to Atlornevi, Real EsLile Agents 4inJ Rrr»ki?r^
DON'T WEAR Raggy Trniispps
or Shabby Clothes
PATENTS
Wc aill for. Sponge, Press and deliver
one suit oi your clothing each week, sew
on buttons and sew up rips for
SI. 00 A MONTH
UNIQUE TAILORING CO.
347 Wasnington Street BQTH PffOa/ES PORTUND. OREGON
Qrjirklr pcrur^d. Oim FEE DUE WHEN FATEm
OBTAIITED. Hi'Ti>\ m«.lc1. ikctcti or jilfAo, with
ileicnptiirfi rorfri5-n.ii..irtjiat<irfAienuMUtT. O-PAG-E
JLASTD-BOOK PREE. C ^nUini reft ram .n« und flitl
1 nU'rmntxoa. WElTl tOR COPT OF OTJZ BPECIAI.
OFFER. It t« thfl m.»il Iil*nil [*rry^>ctm(*n cTiir m»d« bf
jk pntent mttoruey, ia^l EVERIt tirVEMTOS BHOUliD
H.B.WILLS0NiCO.
PATENT LAWYERS,
LtDToitBidg, WASHINGTON. DC.
F. W. BALTES AWD COMPANY,
PRINTERS, PORTLANI
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The Graphic
Lesson
told by these pictures b one that no yp-tonlate farmer or potiltf yman can afford to dis- regard.
PAINT OR SPRAY YOUR CHICKEN HOUSE WITH THE FAMOUS GERMAN WOOD PRESERVER
Avenarius Carbolineum
if you would permanently destroy all poultry vermin and preserve your building from rot and decay* It is an anti- septic and non-evaporative fluid, which is an absolute preserver of any wood or fabric. It will prevent decay or rot of any kind in buildings, fences, sidewalks, boats, scows, vessels, canvas, ropes* You can apply it easily and cheaply*
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, Ger- man, French and Eng^Iish Governments all recom- mend and use it. Write for proofs and further details.
CARBOLINEUM
WOOD PRESERVrNG CO.
100 Front Street PORTLAND, ORE., U. 8. A.
Importers ■nit Sofci Agents
Meation
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mt YEAk5 AGO WfW
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