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Pacific  Montkly 


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Volume   XII 

July,   1904  >  December,   1904 


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CONTENTS 

ACTION fcJ    ^Keplaciug   old  'department   The   Month) 298,   354 

Devoted  to  the  world's  most  important   activitieH. 
America's  Greatest  Irrigation  Enterprise  .  E.   G.   Adamn  281 

Illustrated 

Angel   in   the   Moon,    The    (Poem) Li8cht»u   M..  Milli^i  Sfj 

Archbishop's  Mantle,  The  (Short  Story;         ....  Loreiia  M.    Pago  232 

Artist  of  the  Plains,  An Kathryne  Wilson  339 

Illustrated  with  drawings  and  photographs  from  paintings 

Awake    (Poem) FloreiK-o  May  Wright  148 

Battleship   **Oregon,"    The    (Illustration) ' 7t> 

Before    Love    Came    (Poem)  Marion  Cook  Knight  140 

Better  Way,  The  (Short  Story^ Edna  A.  Needles  273 

Blossom  Festival,  The :       .  Debora  Otis  ir» 

Illustrated 

Boat    Song    (Poem)  Maud  Sutton  29 

Bucket  Tramway,  The Geo.  M.  Gage  149 

Illustrated 
<'ampu8  Day Edmond    S.    Meaiiy  138 

Illustrated 

Chief  Whirlwind,   t'matilla  Keservation,  Oregon        .       .  258 

Chinese  Music  and  Musical  Instruments  Albert   <t;il«'  161 

Illustrated 

(.'hinook   Wind,   The    (Poem)  W.  C.  Belt  99 

City  Boys' Swimming  Hole,  The E.  J.  Bloom  145 

Illustrated 
< 'onfessions  of  a  Strike-Breaker  (Illustrated) .324 

A  remarkable  experience  in  the  Chicago   Butchers'  Strike 
Deacon's  Dilemma,  The   (Short  Story)         ....      Erskine  M.   Hamilton  15 J 

Delayed  Honeymoon,  A  (Short  Story) Aloysius  Coll  43 

Democratic  Convention,  The Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood     169 

Illustrated 
Development  of  the  I"?^nited  States  Navy,  The  .  Waldon    Fawcett  77 

Illustrated 

Doubts    (Poem)  Florence  Mav  Wright  10 

Down  ^*The  Pike" T.  R.  MacMechen  30 

''Extra  West,  667"   (Short  Story) Myrvin  Davis  159 

Eye  of  Ganesha,  The  (Short  Story) Eleanor  M.  Hiestand-Moore       100 

Footsteps  in  the  Eoad   (Short  Story)  .       .       .       .       E.  Foltz  34r) 

Grain-Growing  in  the  Pacific  Northwest         ....  Rinaldo  M.  Hall  217 

Illustrated 
Hermitage,    The 277 

The  home  of  President  Jackson' 

niustrated  from  photographs  and   paintings 

Hippy  and  the  Boom  (Short  Story) F.  Roney  Weir  222 

Home  of  Paul  de  Longpre,  The  (Illustration)  106 

HUMOR  (Department,  replacing  The  Lighter  Side)         .  Hugh  Herdman  312,  368 

IMPRESSIONS  (Department) Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood 

Advice   to   the   National   Democratic   Convention    (52);    Responsibility   for 

Vice  (54);  Bleeding  Colorado  (118);  Meeting  of  the  L.  A.  D.  M.  N.  (119); 

The   Turner  Deportation   Case    (119);   Politics   is  a   Game    (119);   Divorce 

(120);  The  Congressional  Committee  of  Marine  (185);  Colorado  (185);  The 

Assassination  of  Von  Plehve   (185);   Bigotry   (245);  War   (245);   Morality 

(245);  The  Chicago  Strike  (246);  Divorce  Again  (247);  War  and  Its  Costs 

(302);   Advice  to  Aspiring  Young  Journalists   (302);    The  North   Sea   In- 
cident (358);  The  Railroads  and  the  People  (358) 
Improvement  of  Nancy,  The  (Short  Story)  .  Ina  Wright  Hanson  21J 

Indictment   of    Russia,    An Wm.  H.  Galvani  3(i 

Klootchman  and  Pappoose  .......       ISU 

Korean  Art  and  Artists James  Hunter  Wells,  M.  D.  24 

Hlustrated  from  original  paintings 
Les  Martiques,  France HH 

Drawii  by  Frank  Du  Mond 

LIGHT   (Department) Albert  E.  Vert  307,  36:5 

LIGHTER  SIDE,  The  (Department) Franklyn  Godwyn       123,  188,  251 

LITERATURE  (Department,  replacing  The  Reader)       .      W.  F.  G.  Thachor  305,  362 

Little  Nonsense,  A Franklyn  Godwyn  57 

Love  is  Best  (Poem) Robert  Haven  Schauffler  2l!» 

Luck  of  Sucker  Creek,  The Dennis  H.  Stovall  227 

Illustrated 
Making  Decency  Pay Jules  Eckhart   Goodman  267 

The  Story  of  New  Coney  Island  Illustrated 


CONTENTS— Concluded 

Memory's  Lane  (Poem) Agnes  Lockhart  Hughes  226 

Military  Maneuvers  at  American  Lake,  The       .  .      Gen.  Thomas  H.  Anderson, 

U.  S.  A.   (retired)  205 

MONTH,   The    (Department) .       .48,  114,  180,  240 

Mountains,    The — A    Pastel  Marion  Cook  Knight  37 

New  York  Subway,   The O.  R.  Garland  214 

Illustrated 

October  and  Mt.  Hood  (Poem) Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood     276 

Hlustrated  by  Merle  Johnson 

On  the  Shores  of  the  Pacific Hugh  Hordman  38 

Illustrated 

OPTIMISM    (Department)  304,  361 

Ospowah's  Good  Medicine   (Short  Story)       ....  Benjamin  Franklin  Napheys    288 

Our   Native   Shrubs         .       .       .       .      " William  S.  Rice  ^       156 

Illustrated 

OUR  VIEW  (Editorial  Department) William  Bittle  Wells 

47,  113,   179,  239 

Oystering  on  the   Pacific   Coast M.   H.   Tabor  291 

Illustrated 
Paul  de  Longpre  and  His  Beautiful  Home      ....  Mary  H.  Coates  107 

Illustrated 

PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS  (Department;  illustrated) 

The  Mayor  of  Tacoma  (3);  The  World's  Largest  Ferry  (4);  Festival  Hall 
(6);  Golden  Gate  Park  Museum  (7);  The  Largest  Incubator  in  the  World 
(9);  The  Stage  (10);  Alexander  Bell  and  His  Kites  (67);  George  B.  Cor- 
telyou  (68);  Rock  Squirrels  at  Cloud  Cap  Inn  (70);  The  JPanama  Commis- 
sion (70);  Largest  Generators  in  the  World  (72);  ** Uncle  Joe"  Cannon 
(73);  Russell  Sage  and  Vacations  (131);  New  Cruiser  **  Calif ornia ' '  (132); 
The  Torpedo-Boat  (134);  A  Wave  Motor  (134);  Woman  Tennis  Cham- 
pion (195);  Paul  Morton  (197);  Seattle's  Chief  of  Police  (198);  Victor 
H.  Metcalf  (201);  Oldest  House  in  America  (202);  Monument  to  Abigail 
Adams  (204);  Greatest  Ship  Elevator  in  the  World  (259);  Puzzle  Pic- 
ture (259);  Clearing  Great  Northern  Track  (260);  Sinrock  Mary  (263);  / 
Smokeless  Powder  (263);  Japs  en  Voyage  (263);  Buildings  at  Lewis  and  v 
Clark  Exposition  (264);  Senator  Ankeny  (265);  Forestry  Building  (266); 
Recognized  the  Breed  (315);  Puzzle  Picture  (315);  Rogne  River  Forest 
Reserve  (316);  Mt.  Adams  (316);  Bremerton  Navy  Yard  (317);  Sacajawea 
and  Captain  Clark  (318);  Washington  State  Flower  (318);  Three  Genera- 
tions of  Millionaires  (319);  Wo-ho-pum  (320);  Smallest  Restaurant  in  the 
World  (321);  The  ** Nebraska''  (321);  Rogue  River  Natural  Bridge  (322); 
George  Rogers  Clark' (323);  Shoshone  Falls,  Idaho  (322) 

Pick  of  the  Litter,  The  (Short  Story) Egbert  Field  280 

Playhouse,    The  A.  Garland  94,  235 

Hlustrated 

Potter's  Vessel,  The    (Short   Story) Alovsius  Coll  294 

PROGRESS    (Department) '     .  59,  125,  190,  253,  308,  364 

Devoted  to  the  Growth  and  Development  of  the  West 
Illustrated 

READER,  The  (Department) Franklvn  Godwvn  57,  121 

W.  F.  (}.  Thaeher  186,  249 

Rear  Admiral  John  G.  Walker 2 

Rest  on  the  Flight  to  Egypt 314 

From  the  painting  by  B.  Plockhorst 
Samuel  C^uigg's  Experiment  (Short  Story)         .       .       .      E.  P  Josenhans  333 

Sculptor's  Conception  of  Sacajawea,  The        ....  86 

Illustrated 

Site  of  Fort  Clatsop         .       . P.  W.  Gillette  92 

Illustrated 

Square  Thing,  The  (Short  Story) Eleanor  M.   Hiestand Moore       11 

Strange  Legend  of  the  Double  Shadow,  The        .       .       .      F.    H.   Savior  220 

Illustrated 

*'Swinimin'  Hole"  Pictures 154-  155 

Tempered   Wind,   A    (Short   Story)  .       .  .       .      C.  E.  Adams  141 

Tepees,   The — Umatilla  Reservation 194 

Truth  (Poem) Donald   A   Eraser  160 

VIEWS    (Editorial) William  Bittle  Wells         297,  353 

Replacing  **Our  View" 
White  Lady,  The  (Storv  in  Two  Parts)         ....      Carl  Louis  Kingsburv 

Part  I  .     *  .  19 

Part  II  •  S8 

White   Winged  Fleet,   The William  Lovoll  Finley  349 

Hlustrated  with  photographs  by  Herman  T.  Bohlman 


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CONTENTS  FOIL  JULY.    I904 

BBAB  ADMIRAL  JOHK  O.  WALKES                                                        (Frontisplce) 
PEOPLE-PLA0ES-THINGH9    (lUastrated) 8-10 

Mayor  of  Tacoma. 

The  World's  Largest  Ferry. 

Festival  HalL 

Golden  Gate  Park  Museum. 

Largest  Incubator  in  the  World. 

The  Stage. 

THE  SQUARE  THINO  (story)        ....        Eleanor  M.  Heistand-Mooro  11 
THE  BLOSSOM  FESTIVAL Debora  Otis  16 

Illustrated. 
THE  WHITE  LADY   (story)        ....         Carl  Louis  Kingsbury  10 

In  two  parts.    Part  I. 
KOREAN  ART  AND  ARTISTS        ....    James  Hunter  WeUs,  Bl  D.    24 

Illustrated  from  original  paintings. 

BOAT  SONG  (poom) Maude  Sutton  29 

DOWN  "THE  PIKE" T.  R.  Mac  Mechen  SO 

Illustrated. 
THE  ANOEL  m  THE  MOON  (poem)  Ltscben  M.  BCiller  85 

AN  INDICTMENT  OF  RUSSIA        ....    Wte.  H.  Oalvani  86 

THE   MOUNTAINS—A   PASTEL         .  Marion  Oook  Knight  87 

ON  THE  SHORES  OF  THE  PAdFIO  .    Hugh  Herdman  88 

Illustrated. 
A  DELAYED  HONETMOON  (story)  Aloysins  OoU  48 

DOUBTS  (poem) Florence  May  Wtigbt  46 

DEPARTMENTS 

OUR  VIEW William  Bittle  Wells  47 

THE  MONTH 48 

IMPRESSIONS O.  E.  S.  Wood  62 

THE  READER W.  F.  O.  Thacber  55 

A  LITTLE  NONSENSE                                                   Franklyn  Godwyn  57 

PROGRESS .... 

An  Outpost  of  Empire Herbert  Outbbert  59 

Oregon    Summer    Resorts.        ....         Bruce  Wolyerton  64 


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OTer  sinoe  the  Ooremment  assumed  an  interest  in  the  question.     He  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
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Volume  XII 


JULY.  1904 


Number  1 


PEOPLE— PLACES    THINGS 


Tkc  Mayor  of  Tacoma 

GEORGE  P.  WRIGHT,  recently 
elected  mayor  of  the  City  of 
Tacoma,  Wash.,  is,  compara- 
tively, a  young  man — as  office- 
holders go.  Not  until  1905 
will  he  have  completed  two  score  of  years. 
But  young  men  are  the  fashion,  now-a- 
days,  for  mavors,  as  witness  McClellan 
of  New  York,  Rolla  Wells  of  St.  Louis, 
and  a  host  of  others. 

Mr.  Wright  has  lived  in  Washington 
ever  since  he  attained  his  majority.  Like 
80  many  other  of  our  men  of  prominence, 
he  started  on  his  career  by  teaching  school, 
his  first  engagement  being  at  Spokane. 
Later  he  turned  to  grain  and  stock  rais- 
ing, which  vocations  he  followed  until 
1897,  in  which  year  he  was  appointed 
grain  inspector  of  the  state.  This  position 
brought  him  to  Tacoma,  where  he  became 
interested  in  the  wholesale  business  of 
Love-Johnson  Company,  of  which  cor- 
poration he  became  secretary. 

Mr.  Wright  was  elected  mayor  upon  the 
Democratic  ticket  by  a  majority  of  660, 
as  against  a  normal  Republican  majority 
of  1200.  In  the  election,  party  lines  were 
largely  disregarded,  and  Mr.  Wright  re- 
ceived the  earnest  support  of  the  solid, 
mercantile  interests  of  the  city.    The  new 


mayor  is  in  ijo  sense  a  politician,  but  a 
sound,  experienced  business  man,  who  may 
be  expected  to  govern  the  city,  not  for  the 
selfish  gains  of  a  party  machine,  but  for 
the  best  interests  of  the  people. 


Wriffht, 


Taooma. 


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ronr-horae  hvrdliiiff— one  of  the  circus  fe&ts  performed  by   the   caTalrymen   at   Fort  Myer,    near 

Waahin^n,  D.  C. 


Tkc  World's  Largest  Ferry 

It  is  claimed  by  those  who  are  in  posi- 
tion to  know  that  the  "Solano/^  the  big 
railroad  transport  on  the  line  of  the 
Southern  Pacific,  and  used  by  this  com- 
pany to  transport  trains  across  the  head  of 
San  Francisco  Bay,  between  Port  Costa 
and  Benicia,  is  the  largest  ferryboat  in 
the  world.  The  Solano  makes  possible  a 
cut-oflE  across  the  bay,  saving  a  long  de- 
tour, and  shortening  the  route  between 
San  Francisco  and  Portland  on  this  line 
of  the  Southern  Pacific.  The  big  ferry 
has  been  in  commission  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  has  rendered  excellent  and  sat- 


isfactory service.  The  ferry  is  425  feet 
in  length  and  nearly  half  as  wide.  It  has 
1600  feet  of  track  room,  and  can  easily 
accommodate  two  passenger  trains  of  ten 
or  twelve  coaches  each.  The  landing,  both 
at  Port  Costa  and  Benicia,  is  a  slip  into 
which  the  ferry  fits  snugly,  and  the  ap- 
proach, or  apron,  is  made  movable  by 
hydraulic  power  so  that  the  ends  of  the 
track  may  be  brought  to  the  same  level 
as  the  floor  of  the  ferry.  This  is  made 
necessary  by  the  rise  and  fall  of  the  tides. 
It  is  exhilarating — ^this  thirty-minute 
journey  across  the  bay,  and  it  is  one  of 
the  pleasant  and  interesting  features  of 
the  trip  over  the  Southern  Pacific  route. 


The  lar^it  ferry  in  the   world — plying   in   San  Fraaoiioo  B9J, 


S^     0 


^•"leuJ  Geoilffe  '^' 


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Festival  Hall  and  tke 

Cascade   Gardens  at 

tke  World's  Fair 

No  picture  can  do  justice 
to  this  magnificent  feature 
of  this  greatest  of  the 
World's  expositions.  The 
picture  here  given  shows  a 
stretch  of  a  quarter  of  a 
mile  while  the  extension  of 
the  gardens  to  left  and  right 
embraces  nearly  a  half  mile. 
From  the  rock  floor  of  the 
basin  from  which  the  pho- 
tograph is  taken,  to  the  top 
of  the  dome  on  Festival 
Hall,  the  height  is  275  feet. 
The  lower  weir  of  the  cen- 
tral cascade  is  160  feet 
across.  The  restaurant  pia- 
vilions  at  either  side  are 
each  130  feet  in  diameter 
and  140  feet  high.  The  col- 
onnades of  the  States  above 
the  gardens  are  each  400 
feet  long  and  52  feet  to  the 
cornice  line.  The  great 
seated  figures  of  women, 
each  representing  one  of  the 
fourteen  states  of  the  Louis- 
iana Purchase,  are  made 
upon  a  scale  of  20  feet  high, 
if  standing.  This  ornate 
centerpiece  of  the  World^s 
Fair  represents  an  expendi- 
ture of  one  milKon  dollars, 
the  statuary  costing  over 
$50,000.  Here  the  visitor 
may  see  some  of  the  finest 
specimens  of  modem  sculp- 
ture. 

The  Festival  Hall  has  a 
seating  capacity  of  3,600 
and  contains  the  largest  pipe 
organ  in  the  world.  Here 
the  orchestra    concerts  and 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


organ  recitals  are  to  be  held  throughout 
the  Exposition.  Beneath  the  Festival 
Hall  are  beautiful  grottoes. 

The  grand  basin  in  the  foreground  is 
a  part  of  the  extensive  water  system  of  tho 
World^s  Fair.  To  the  right  of  the  observer 
are  lagoons  extending  more  than  half  a 
mile  around  the  Palace  of  Electricity,  and 
to  the  left  are  other  lagoons  encircling 
the  Palace  of  Education.  Behind  the 
observer  at  the  north  end  of  the  Grand 
Basin  is  the  Plaza  of  St.  Louis,  in  which 
stands  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Monument 
and  important  statuary  groups. 


Golden  Gate  Park  Mvuseum 

The  most  interesting  feature  of  the 
many  interesting  features  of  Golden  Gate 
Park,  San  Francisco,  is  the  Museum.  It 
is  not  only  California's  greatest  museum, 
but  there  is  none  other  in  all  the  West 
to  compare  with  it.  The  building  itself, 
being  modeled  after  the  old  Grecian  style 
of  architecture,  is  a  thing  of  beauty,  but 
it  is  the  contents  of  the  Museum  that  gives 
it  its  worth.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars  have  been  expended  in  collecting 
the  vast  display  of  wonderful,  curious  and 
costly  exhibits  that  the  Museum  contains, 
nnd  all  corners  of  the  world  have  been 


Thm  EmprMS  of  Japan.    Her  Majesty  is  a  leader  in  movoments  to  improve  the  condition 
of  the  women  of  her  cotintry,  and  is   the   patroness   of   many    charities. 


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Th«  Gk>ldto  Gate  Park  Moieiim  at  Ban  Franoisoo,  the    most   beautiful   and   best   equipped   moieum 

weat  of  the  Rocky  Mountains. 


scoured.  There  are  mummies  there  that 
were  first  laid  away  in  the  Egyptian 
tombs  1500  and  2000  years  before  Christ, 
and  coins  that  date  back  to  as  remote  an 
age.  There  are  rare  old  tapestries,  laces, 
paintings,  and  gold  and  silverware,  to  say 
naught  of  the  marvelous  productions  of 
all  these  by  the  masters  of  the  present. 


There  is  a  typical  old  colonial  kitchen, 
with  its  low  ceiling  and  ponderous  beams, 
its  big  fireplace  and  crane,  its  pots  and 
kettles  and  pewter  ware;  also  a  "Dutch 
living-room,"  with  its  polished  oak  floor 
and  curtained  bed.  The  great  collection 
of  statuary  and  the  relics  from  Pompeii 
are  themselves  enough  to  fill  a  museum. 


The    Japanese    destroyer    Esquonmo. 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


But  it  is  only  a  small  part;  and  nothing 
has  been  said  of  the  Oriental,  Indian,  and 
a  host  of  other  exhibits.  Califomians 
have,  indeed,  a  right  to  be  proud  of 
Golden  Gate  Park,  but,  above  all,  proud 
of  the  great  museum  the  park  contains. 


jacket  stove  located  at  one  end.  It  is 
intended  to  keep  the  heat  at  a  temperature 
of  about  103  degrees,  and  should  it  in- 
crease there  is  a  throttle  arrangement  that 
shuts  off  the  draft  of  the  stove,  while  at 
the  same  time  a  cold  air  draft  is  opened. 


The  luveit  incubator  in  the  world,  with  a  oapaoity  of  7,500  en«. 


Tkc  Liar^est  Incubator  in  tkc  World 

An  incubator  is  really  a  chicken  factory, 
and  the  largest  machine  of  this  kind  in 
the  world  is  located  at  Ransomville,  N.  Y. 
This  wonderful  incubator  will  hold  7,500 
eggs,  which  makes  its  output  capacity 
of  young  chicks  nearly  300  a  day.  It  is 
51  feet  long,  and  four  feet  four  inches 
wide.  There  are  50  compartments,  24 
inches  square,  and  each  compartment  holds 
two  trays  that  will  contain  75  eggs  apiece. 

The  inventor  of  this  machine  is  W.  P. 
Hall,  of  Pembroke,  N.  Y.,  and  he  has  so 
designed  it  that  it  is  kept  warm  by  a  hot 
water  system,  which  is  operated  from  a 


Estimating  that  the  normal  hatching 
season  extends  from  March  1  to  August  1, 
a  period  of  153  days,  this  incubator  could 
be  filled  seven  times,  calling  for  52,500 
eggs.  A  50  per  cent  hatch  would  give 
over  26,000  chicks,  and  a  75  per  cent  hatch 
would  mean  over  39,000  chicks.  If  you 
were  to  place  15  eggs  under  each  hen,  it 
would  require  3,500  hens  to  incubate 
52,500  eggs.  Thus,  a  man  with  one  of 
these  mammoth  incubators  starts  out  with 
the  hatching  capacity  of  a  very  large  flock 
,of  hens,  and  after  the  first  21  days,  he 
could  have  little  chickens  every  day  in 
the  year. 


Touth  and  old  a^o  on  the  sta^e.     Ireno  Bentley  U   a   olever   and    fascinating    aotreu    in    oomedy 
rolei.     Mn.  Oilbort  ii  the  oldest  woman  on  the  stave,  and  is  now  starring  in  a  play  writ- 
ten especially  for  her  by  Clyde  Fitch. 


THE  SQUARE  THING 

1  ne  story  or  a  trained  nuroe  and  a  football  playex — a  cnance  acquaintance  on  tne  high. 

aeaa,  and  tke  bappy  outcome 

By  Eleanor  M.  Hiestand^Moore 


FOR  three  years  Ellen  Floyd  had 
been  nursing  neurasthenics  and 
the  worry  of  it  had  worn  her  out, 
so  that  when  she  boarded  the  Ul- 
laloa,  she  wanted  to  be  let  alone. 
In  Hawaii  she  hoped  to  find  rest  and 
peace  for  a  certain  season  and  she  had  no 
mind  to  be  agreeable  to  her  fellow-passen- 
gers. The  man  who  kept  watching  her 
as  she  sat  on  the  forward  hatchway,  looked 
ill,  and  he  wore  a  bandage  over  one  eye,  on 
which  account  Ellen  made  up  her  mind 
not  to  take  the  least  notice  of  him. 

Yet  the  news  she  was  reading  did  not 
interest  her.  The  paper  was  full  of  un- 
pleasant things,  not  the  least  of  which 
was  an  account  of  the  intercollegiate  foot- 
ball game.  Ellen  knew  Gresham,  the  half- 
back of  the  Occidentals,  and  the  way  he 
behaved  was  scandalous.  After  the  riot 
with  the  rival  team,  Gresham  had  gone 
to  jail  for  smashing  somebody^s  head  in 
the  lobby  of  the  theater,  and  there  was 
another  fellow  with  him  who  had  half- 
killed  a  policeman. 

'Ifs  simply  disgusting!^'  she  observed, 
tossing  the  paper  away.  "I  am  sorry  he 
escaped.    If  I  were  the  mayor — " 

A  breeze,  catching  up  the  paper,  whirled 
it  away  right  into  tiie  lap  of  the  man  who 
sat  near  her.  He  muttered  something  in 
an  angry  tone,  and  crumpling  up  the 
sheet,  he  tossed  it  overboard  with  such  a 
show  of  temper  that  Ellen  burst  out 
laughing. 

"I — I  beg  your  pardon  I"  he  said,  with 
sudden  contrition.  "I  hope  you  had  fin- 
ished with  it !" 

Ellen  rose,  shrugging  her  shoulders. 

"It  is  customary  to  ask  first,''  she  ob- 
served, noting  the  flush  of  shame  on  the 
man's  face. 

"It  was  rude,  I  know,"  he  admitted.  "I 
ought  not  to  have  taken  such  a  liberty." 

He  certainly  ought  not,  Ellen  reflected, 
but  she  was  well  accustomed  to  the  churl- 
ishness of  invalids,  and,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 


she  didn't  care  about  the  paper.  She  had 
decided  to  snub  him  at  supper,  but  he  sat 
right  opposite  her  at  the  Captain's  table, 
and,  though  she  had  hardened  her  heart, 
he  appealed  to  her  professionally. 

"Pulse  about  90,"  she  concluded;  "tem- 
perature 101  degrees.  He  ought  to  be  in 
bed." 

He  was  a  tall,  athletic  fellow  who  was 
probably  handsome  at  his  best.  But  now 
he  was  pitifully  pale,  and  his  eyes  were 
dull  and  full  of  weariness.  He  ate  prac- 
tically nothing. 

"You  look  rather  knocked  up,  Mr. 
Bentley,"  said  the  Captain  kindly.  "What 
happened  to  your  head?" 

He  flushed  quickly. 

"Nothing  of  consequence,"  he  replied, 
with  nervous  precipitation.  "A  cut  across 
the  temple,  thaf  s  all.  It  don't  amount  to 
much,  but  it  has  given  me  a  nasty  head- 
ache." 

He  hated  to  have  Ellen  look  at  him, 
somehow,  and  she  punished  him  with 
studied  attention. 

"Did  I  understand  you  were  a  doctor  ?" 
asked  the  Captain,  turning  to  her  with 
curious  inadvertence. 

"Oh,  no !"  said  EUen.  "Only  a  trained 
nurse." 

"I'll  bet  you're  a  good  one,"  observed 
the  Captain  bluntly.  "Don't  you  think 
Mr.  Bentley  ought  to  go  to  bed?" 

Ellen  looked  the  patient  over. 

"I  think  it  might  improve  his  temper," 
she  said  coolly,  and  Bentley  was  forced  to 
smile. 

It  was  rough  weather,  and  the  Ullaloa 
pitched  a  good  deal.  Ellen  went  to  bed 
early.  She  had  not  counted  on  getting  up 
again,  but  the  cabin  boy  came  after  her  in 
great  excitement.  The  gentleman  in  No. 
17  had  slipped  down  the  gangway  and  cut 
himself  terribly.  It  was  Bentley  whom 
Ellen  found  bleeding,  for  the  wound  in 
his  temple  had  opened  afresh  and  the 
hemorrhage  that  followed  was  dangerous. 


12 


THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


"There  isn't  a  doctor  on  board,"  he  said 
faintly.  "If  you  can  do  anything — I  shall 
be  very  much  obliged.^' 

Ellen  went  to  work  in  a  deft  and  capa- 
ble way.  Aside  from  the  hemorrhage,  the 
ugly  gash  was  in  a  bad  condition.  It  had 
evidently  been  neglected.  Little  red  lines 
had  begun  to  radiate  across  the  forehead 
and  down  towards  the  ear.  The  blood  that 
was  flowing  from  a  small  branch  of  the 
temporal  artery  was  washing  away  a  yel- 
low crust  from  the  ragged  wound. 

"Who  dressed  this  in  the  first  place?'' 
Ellen  demanded  peremptorily.  "Certainly 
not  a  doctor!" 

"I  did,"  said  Bentley.  "It— it  didn't 
seem  worth  while  fussing  over." 

"It's  a  septic  wound,"  Ellen  said 
abruptly,  but  Bentley  did  not  realize 
what  that  meant.  She  stopped  the  bleed- 
ing, but  when  the  Ullaloa  landed  at 
Hawaii,  Bentley  had  to  be  taken  to  the 
hotel  on  a  stretcher. 

"I  presume.  Miss  Floyd,"  said  the  Doc- 
tor, "that  you  realize  the  serious  nature 
of  the  case.  We  shall  have  to  take  the  poor 
fellow  to  a  hospital,  and  yet  I  hate  to  move 
him  with  such  a  temperature." 

"I'll  nurse  him,"  Ellen  said  quietly, 
and  the  Doctor  said  under  that  arrange- 
ment he  might  pull  through. 

"I  think  we  ought  to  write  to  his  fam- 
ily," observed  .the  Doctor,  but  Ellen  ex- 
plained that  she  had  been  unable  to  find 
any  address,  and  Bentley  was  now  delir- 
ious. In  the  course  of  a  few  days  there 
was  a  cable  message  for  the  sick  man,  but 
it  gave  no  clue  to  his  relatives.  It  read 
simply:  "No  worse,"  and  was  signed 
"Cham."  Another  message  of  the  same 
pur|jort  came  the  day  following,  and 
others  followed  daily,  reporting  in  detail 
the  condition  of  some  one  who  was  dan- 
gerously ill.  When  Bentley  struggled 
feebly  back  to  the  world  to  which  he  had 
been  oblivious  for  weeks,  there  was  a  large 
bundle  of  cable  dispatches  which  Ellen 
had  filed  carefully. 

The  first  thing  he  remembered — ^the 
thing  he  never  forgot  afterwards — ^was 
Ellen,  moving  noiselessly  about  the  room 
in  her  pale  blue  gingham  and  the  white 
apron  whose  long,  neat  strings  were  tied 
in  a  pretty  bow  at  the  back  of  her  slim 
waist.  The  deft,  white  hands  that  band- 
aged his  head  every  morning  were  tender 
and  soothing,  and  the  brown  hair  waved 
very  prettily  under  the  frill    of    Ellen's 


cap.  Bentley  liked  to  look  at  her,  as  he 
did  for  hours,  in  silence — ^looked  at  her 
with  such  a  sense  of  secure  reliance  that 
he  felt  as  though  his  very  existence  de- 
pended on  that  quiet,  capable  presence. 

"I  am  glad  to  see  you  looking  so  well 
this  morning,"  she  said  brightly.  "You 
are  getting  along  finely." 

Bentley^s  eyes  wandered  from  Ellen's 
cheerful  face  to  the  flowers  in  the  win- 
dow— great  white  Hawaiian  lilies  that 
were  blooming  in  a  pot.  The  soft  air 
drifted  in,  stirring  gently  the  white- 
frilled  curtains.  Bentley  heard  the  swish- 
ing of  the  sea  and  the  mellow  hum  of  na- 
tive voices  in  the  street  below. 

"Where  are  we  ?"  he  asked  feebly.  "I — 
I  have  forgotten." 

"In  Honolulu,"  Ellen  said  briskly. 
"You  were  taken  sick,  you  know,  on  board 
ship  on  the  way  out  from  San  Francisco. 
You  cut  your  head,  and  you  have  had  a 
bad  case  of  blood-poisoning,  but  I  am 
happy  to  say  you  are  getting  all  right 
again." 

"Am  I?"  said  Bentley  vaguely.  'T)id 
you  take  care  of  me  ?  Oh,  yes !  I  know 
you  did.  You  have  been  here — ages!  I 
hope  you  are  never  going  away." 

Ellen  laughed. 

"I  shall  probably  stay  for  some  time 
yet,"  she  said  pleasantly,  and  then  Bent- 
ley seemed  all  at  once  to  stumble  on  the 
track  of  memory. 

"Tell  me !"  he  cried  with  great  excite- 
ment, ^Tias  any  message  come  for  me?" 

"I  should  say  so!"  Ellen  exclaimed. 
"There,  lie  down.  It  isn't  good  for  you 
to  get  excited.  Here  is  a  whole  bundle 
of  cable  messages.  You  can  read  them 
after  awhile,  and  here  is  the  last  that  came. 
I  have  not  opened  it." 

Bentley  seized  the  envelope  eagerly  and 
tore  it  open  with  trembling  fingers.  A 
low  cry  burst  from  his  lips  and  he  fell 
back  upon  the  pillows,  sobbing. 

"Is  it  bad  news?"  Ellen  asked 
anxiously. 

"No,  thank  God!"  he  cried.  "Tim 
Welsh  is  back  on  the  police  force  again." 

Ellen  waited  for  him  to  say  something 
more,  but  he  did  not  speak  of  the  matter 
for  days.  The  few  letters  that  had  come 
for  him  he  seemed  rather  averse  to  read- 
ing. On  the  day  when  the  doctor  allowed 
him  to  sit  by  the  window,  he  asked  Ellen 
to  listen  to  him. 

"I  want  to  tell  you  something,"  he  said, 


THE    SQUAHE    THING. 


18 


looking  at  her  with  so  much  misery  in  his 
eyes  that  she  felt  vaguely  his  great  un- 
happiness. 

"Don't  tell  me  anything  you  don't  want 
to  tell  me"  she  said  hastily. 

"But  I  miLst  tell  you/^  he  said,  shutting 
his  teeth  firmly.  "You  have  been  so  good 
to  me !  It  is  a  pity  for  you  to  waste  such 
kindness  on  a  fellow  like  me.  Miss  Floyd. 
All  I  can  say  is  that  it  is  not  unappreci- 
ated. I —  I —  it  is  because  I  care  so 
much  about  you  that  I  want  you  to  know." 

She  touched  his  hand  tenderly,  a  famil- 
iarity that  had  grown  out  of  his  long 
helplessness  and  sufiFering. 

"Don't  do  that  V'  he  cried  with  sudden 
passion.  "I  can  not  bear  it!  What  do 
you  think  I  am  made  of?  Do  you  think 
I  could  have  you  here,  as  you  have  been, 
day  after  day  and  not  learn  to  love  you 
better  than  I  should?" 

He  groaned  aloud  and  turned  his  face 
to  the  window,  else  he  might  have  seen 
the  fair  rosy  light  in  Ellen's  face,  and 
have  stayed  his  misery  to  some  extent. 

"If  I  were  only  halfway  decent,"  he 
observed  with  a  gesture  of  self-contempt, 
"I  would  try  to  win  you.  If  you  would 
marr>'  me.  Miss  Floyd,  I  would  be  the 
happiest  man  on  God's  earth;  but  I'm 
not  mean  enough  even  to  ask  you.  When 
you  know  all  about  me,  you — ,  you  may 
regret  your  kindness.  Miss  Floyd." 

"^Vhat  is  there  to  know?"  she  asked 
sharply. 

"My  name  is  not  Bentley  at  all.  It  is 
Montgomery.  I  am  Gresham's  friend, 
the  man  who  ran  away  from  San  Francisco 
because  he  had  almost  killed  a  policeman 
and  was  afraid  he  would  be  arrested." 

Ellen's  face  had  grown  suddenly  pale. 

"How  did  you  come  to  do  it  ?"  she  asked 
slowly,  as  the  memory  of  the  whole 
wretched  episode  of  the  International 
Football  game  came  back  to  her.  Mont- 
gomery had  been  intoxicated  in  the  theatre 
after  the  sweeping  victory  of  the  Occi- 
dentals, and  he  had  hit  a  policeman  on  the 
head  with  his  cane,  in  a  melee  that 
occurred  in  the  lobby. 

Bentley  looked  at  her  with  the  color 
high  and  hot  upon  his  face. 

"I  was  beastly  drunk,"  he  said  without 
the  slightest  attempt  to  apologize.  There 
was  nothing  to  say. 

"And  then  you  ran  away — like  a 
coward?"  she  said  bitterly,  unmindful 
of  the  cruelty  of  her  question. 


"Yes,"  he  replied  with  the  candor  of 
utter  hopelessness.  "That  is  just  what 
I  did." 

"Oh,  how  could  you !"  she  cried  passion- 
ately. 

Ilis  head  sank  back  wearily. 

"It  seems  beastly  and  impossible  now," 
he  replied,  "but  at  the  time  it  seemed 
very  natural.  Of  course  I  never  intended 
to  do  any  harm ;  but  that  is  not  the  ques- 
tion. I  see  now  that  that  is  not  the 
question  at  all." 

"It  is  luck}'  for  you  that  the  man  got 
well,"  said  Ellen.  She  was  so  angry  with 
him  that  she  was  unkind. 

Bentley  shuddered  and  closed  his  eyes. 

"Do  you  think  it  was  the  square  tMng 
to  run  away?"  she  demanded  sternly, 
hardly  knowing  herself  why  she  had  set 
the  standard  of  conduct  so  high  for  him. 

"There  was  nothing  else  for  me  to  do," 
he  replied.    "The  police  were  after  me." 

"You  could  have  stayed  and  faced  it," 
she  said  slowly.  "When  a  man  has  com- 
mitted a  crime — " 

He  winced  at  the  word. 

" — all  he  can  do  is  to  submit  to  the 
punishment  he  deserves.  It  seems  to  me 
that  one's  sense  of  justice  would  make 
that  imperative." 

He  looked  at  her  in  astonishment. 

"You — you  think  I  ought  to  have  borne 
the   disgrace   of  imprisonment?" 

"The  disgrace,  it  seems  to  me,"  she 
said  pitilessly,  "was  in  doing  the  thing." 

Bentley  was  silent.  Then  he  said  in  a 
voice  full  of  misery: 

"It  seems  that  I  have  not  been  able  to 
escape  the  consequences  of  my  acts,  any- 
how," he  observed.  "I  reaUze  that  my 
own  conduct  has  made  it  impossible  for 
me  even  to  hope  for  the  one  thing  that 
seems  to  me  desirable  in  life." 

Ellen  was  strangely  cold  and  cruel  just 
then. 

"A  woman  might  well  hesitate  to  marry 
a  man — with  such  a  history,"  she  said 
deliberately,  and  Bentley's  face  lying  on 
the  pillow,  grew  whiter  as  she  spoke. 

"Don't  push  me  too  hard,"  he  said,  with 
a  little  catch  in  his  voice,  "I  can  not  bear 
it  from  you.  Tell  me — do  you  think 
that  ?  What  could  I  ever  do  to  make  you 
despise   me   less  ?" 

She  looked  at  him  for  a  moment. 

"I  am  not  your  mentor,  Mr. —  Mont- 
gomery," she  said  rising,  "I  think  every 
man  ought  to  regulate  his  own  morals." 


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THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


What  had  happened,  the  doctor  could 
never  find  out.  Ellen  gave  up  her  patient 
in  the  course  of  a  few  days,  and  Montgom- 
ery declared  he  was  going  back  to  San 
Francisco.  It  was  three  months  since  the 
theatre  escapade,  and  Gresham,  who  had 
simply  been  fined,  was  writing  him  to 
come  back.  The  matter  had  been  fixed 
up  by  Montgomery's  family,  and,  after 
a  stormy  debate,  the  College  Faculty  had 
not  expelled,  but  simply  suspended  him. 
Montgomery  had  the  advantage  of  wealth 
and  influence.    Yet,  it  seems,  as  Gresham 

remarked  afterwards,  that  he  was  "a 

fool  after  all,'*  for,  after  he  returned  to 
San  Francisco,  not  content  with  having 
jpsid  all  the  expenses  of  Tim  Welsh's 
illness,  Montgomery  actually  gave  him 
s.  house  and  lot  in  the  Mission  District, 
'where  Welsh  was  living  in  imaccustomed 
prosperity. 

"He's  a  blooming  idiot,"  Gresham 
observed  finally,  for,  after  the  whole 
scandal  had  died  out,  Montgomery  ap- 
peared before  a  magistrate  and  actually 
asked  to  be  arrested! 

Ellen  Floyd  read  about  this  in  the 
paper.  How  the  public  was  entertained 
by  the  unusual  spectacle  of  a  man  solicit- 
ing his  own  arrest  for  assault  and  battery 
and  his  former  victim  flatly  refusing  to 
enter  a  complaint.  The  matter  was  dis- 
missed   with   comments   on   the   growing 


intimacy  between  Tim  Welsh  and  the  man 
who,  in  breaking  his  head,  had  assumed 
an  obligation  highly  profitable  to  Tim. 

It  was  the  following  year  that  Mont- 
gomery graduated  with  such  a  record  as 
surprised  those  who  had  known  his  earlier 
collegiate  history.  Everybody  knew  it  was 
in  him,  but  it  was  a  surprise  to  see  it 
come  out. 

"It  all  comes  of  hitting  an  Irishman 
on  the  head,"  observed  Gresham,  "and — ^" 
he  glanced  over  at  the  giri  to  whom 
Montgomery  was  talking — "Ellen  Floyd 
— principally  Ellen  Floyd." 

Montgomery  was  looking  down  at  her 
with  a  quiet  dignity  in  his  eyes,  a  look 
such  as  a  woman  loves. 

"I  have  tried  to  do  the  square  thing," 
he  said  simply.  "Do  you  think  I  could 
have  done  anything  better?" 

The  strength  of  a  man  who  has  con- 
quered is  sometimes  more  winning  than 
the  imassailed  power  of  viri;ue. 

"Nothing,"  she  answered  with  shining 
eyes. 

"Could  you  trust  me  now?"  he  asked 
anxiously. 

"I  could  do  more  than  that,"  she 
answered.  "I  have  always  done  more  than 
you  have  credited  me  with  doing,  I — ^" 

"Speak!"  he  demanded. 

"I  love  you,"  she  said  softly.  "That 
is  the  squarest  thing  I  know." 


THE  little  foothill  town  of  Sara- 
toga, Santa  Clara  County,  Cal., 
has  for  the  past  five  years  made 
the  hlossoming  of  the  prune  the 
occasion  for  a  day  of  festivities. 
Each  year  the  devotees  of  this  fete  have 
increased  in  numbers,  and  each  year  thej 
have  made  the  pilgrimage  from  a  greater 
distance,  till  the  fame  of  this  blossom-time 
Mecca  has  so  extended  that  it  may  be  of 
interest  to  take  a  look  at  it  when  not  in 
festive  attire  and  learn  something  of  its 
history  and  the  circumstances  which  gave 
birth  to  this  yearly  celebration. 

For  some  years  the  country  surround- 
ing Saratoga,  which  derives  its  name  from 
the  fine  mineral  springs  gushing  from 
the  near-by  hills,  has  been  given  up  to  the 
cultivation  of  grapes  and  prunes,  and  the 
town  had  become  a  quiet  rural  center  with 
a  decidedly  religious  tendency.  Though 
it  seemed  largely  in  the  hands  of  laborers 
for  its  good,  and  real  estate  men  declared 
it  already  paradise,  yet,  in  the  words  of 
one  of  its  public-spirited  citizens,  mis- 
sionary teas  had  not  killed  out  poison  oak, 
the  Epworth  T^eague  had  not  repaired  di- 
lapidated fences,  valiant  wrestling  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  TJ.  had  not  removed  unsightly 
rubbish    from    the    roadsides    or    white- 


washed forlorn  sheds.  In  short,  such  a 
condition  of  things  prevailed  as  the  dwell- 
ers in  country  towns  well  know.  It  re- 
mained for  two  bright-eyed  Eastern  girls, 
whom  the  Saratogans  were  anxious  to 
have  settle  among  them,  to  tell  them  "they 
were  a  pokey  lot  whose  lives  began,  con- 
tinued and  ended  in  religious  meetings.^' 
"Then,"  he  says,  "we  woke  up,  rubbed 
our  eyes  at  the  stinging  words,  and  lo, 
the  l)lossom  festival  was  born!"  Invita- 
tions were  extended  to  the  surrounding 
country,  which  ran  something  like  this: 
"Come  on  the  vestibuled  Southern  Pa- 
cific Pullmans.  Come  in  the  red  Stan- 
ford coaches  with  your  holiday  horns. 
Come  with  sober  family  nags.  Festoon 
your  bicycles.  Fill  your  big  four-horse 
trucks  with  lively  young  folks.  Drive 
your  jovial  jaunting  cars.  Come  singing. 
Jjeave  care  behind  for  a  day  and  be  thank- 
ful." And  after  this  varied  fashion  they 
came,  till  this  last  year  the  trolley  has 
penetrated  the  valley,  making  many 
changes  and  increasing  the  number  of 
visitors. 

Has  the  festival  accomplished  anything 
for  the  people  of  Saratoga?  They  think 
it  has.  In  the  words  of  one  of  their  citi- 
zens, "Boys  begin  to  count  it  good  citizen- 


16 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


The  prune  orchard,   where  br&nohet  of  uiowy  bloetonu  meet. 


Mrs.    Hare,    photo. 


ship  to  care  for  public  roads ;  women  rake  blacksmith^s  shop  is  painted,  the  streets 
up  weeds  and  persuade  men  to  bum  rub-  have  been  lighted  and  tumble-down  fences 
bish    when    company   is   coming.      The     have    disappeared.      The    supervisor   has 


The    orchards    of    the    foothUls.    Los    Oatos    in    the    distance,    from    the    Santa    Cms    Mountains. 


THE    BLOSSOM    FESTIVAL. 


17 


The    abandoned   mill,    near   Saratoga,    California. 


had  the  spring-holes  drained  and  streets 
graveled  where  needed.  The  children  have 
cultivated  a  more  agreeable  manner  toward 
fitrangers,  and,  to  be  practical,  all  these 
things  have  tended  to  a  rise  in  real  es- 
tate." ITius  we  see  the  day  organized  for 
the  esthetic  purpose  of  more  thoroughly 


appreciating  one  of  the  beautiful,  fleeting 
changes  of  the  season  has  yielded  some 
practical  results,  and,  let  us  hope,  al- 
though they  can  not  be  so  easily  measured 
or  classified,  its  object  has  been  fulfilled 
in  other  respects. 


The  orchard,  the  rineyArd,  the  evergreen  oakt,    and    the    Santa    Clara    Valley. 

Mrs.    Hare,    photo. 


A     purling     stream,     near     Saratoja. 


Mrs.    Hare,    photo. 


THE  WHITE  LADY 


A  -weird  tale  of  mystery  and  adventure  in  tbe  snow-alirouded  ^istnetfoea  of  tke  mountainfl 

IN  TWO   PARTS-PART  I 
By  Carl  Louis  Kingsbury 


IT  was  on  a  grey  November  afternoon 
that  Dick  Eastlake  and  I  loitered  in 
the  one  little  waiting  room  of  the 
railway  station  at  Collins,  impatient 
for  the  arrival  of  the  conveyance 
that  we  had  engaged  by  wire,  to  take  us 
into  the  heart  of  the  Far  Away  range  on 
s,  hunting  trip. 

While  waiting,  we  vainly  essayed  to  en- 
list the  sympathetic  interest  of  the  station 
agent,  who,  as  we  soon  ascertained,  rep- 
resented the  entire  clerical  and  mechanical 
force  of  the  railway  company  at  that 
point. 

"We  engaged  Hank  Thompson  to  take 
us  up  into  the  mountains ;  he  was  to  meet 
lis  here  when  the  train  came  in,"  Dick  in- 
formed him. 

"The  train!"  echoed  the  agent  testily, 
^There's  two  trains;  A.  M.,  P.  M.  Hank 
was  here  when  the  A.  M.  pulled  in.  P.  M.^s 
usually  late;  happened  to  be  on  time  to- 
day.   Hank'll  be  ^round  after  awhile." 

Fortified  with  this  assurance,  we  dis- 
posed ourselves  to  wait  with  what  patience 
we  could  command,  and  the  agent,  dis- 
missing us  from  his  consciousness,  picked 
up  a  battered  violin  and  began  a  persist- 
ent, doleful  sawing  across  its  strings.  The 
performance  could,  by  no  means,  be  class- 
ified as  even  an  attempt  at  musical  ren- 
dition; it  was  nerve-racking,  yet  the  one 
quavering,  insistent  strain  gave  an  occa- 
sional hint  of  something — some  vague, 
underlying  message,  vainly  groped  for. 
Dick^s  temper  is  mostly  as  sunny  as  a 
California  day  in  June,  but  our  driver's 
nonappearance  had  irritated  him,  and 
with  a  scowl,  he  suddenly  turned  upon  the 
agent: 

"Why  the  devil  don^t  you  try  some- 
thing besides  that  infernal  whine  ?" 

The  entire  force  of  the  railway  com- 
pany sprang  to  his  feet.  "Because,"  he 
eaid,  with  a  black  look,  "that  'infernal 
whine,'  as  you  call  it,  is  what  I  want.  Have 
you  any  objections  ?" 


"No;  the  thing  is  atrocious,  but  there's 
no  accounting  for  tastes.  Still,  if  there  is, 
somewhere,  a  musical  kindergarten  that 
you  could" — Dick  paused  suggestively. 

The  agent  smiled. 

"I  don't  need  a  kindergarten  training," 
he  said,  and  proceeded  to  demonstrate  the 
truth  of  his  statement. 

We  were  in  a  hurry ;  the  grey  November 
day  was  waning,  our  driver  had  not  yet 
come,  and  we  might  have  to  hunt  him  up, 
yet  we  both  stood  listening,  entranced, 
while  in  place  of  snowy  fields  and  pinch- 
ing cold  there  came  a  rush  of  springtide 
greenness,  a  hint  of  June  roses,  of  bird 
songs  mingled  with  the  flow  of  rippling 
water,  all  instinct  and  pulsating  with  joy- 
ous life.  Suddenly  the  music  ceased ;  the 
violinist  lowered  his  instrument  and 
looked  at  us,  the  better  and  higher  expres- 
sion that  the  music  had  called  to  his  face, 
vanishing  in  one  of  scowling  discontent. 

"For  all  that,"  he  declared,  shortly,  in 
recognition  of  our  enjoyment  of  his  per- 
formance, "I  can't  get  the  combination 
that  I  want." 

"WTiy,  when  that  particular — ^^combina- 
tion' — judging  from  the  sample  that  we 
have  heard,  is  so  atrocious,  do  you  feel 
called  on  to—"  Dick  was  beginning,  when 
the  agent  stopped  him  with  an  angry 
twang  of  the  fiddle  strings : 

"It  isn't  atrocious  if  you  get  it  right; 
it — ifs  compelling;  it  takes  hold  of  you. 
There's  a  devil  of  a  Mexican,  living  some- 
where up  in  the  hills — ^he  plays  it  some- 
times— if  he  takes  the  notion.  But  he's  as 
little  to  be  depended  on  as  the  thing  itself. 
He-"  ^ 

"All  ab — 00 — ard !"  sang  Hank  Thomp- 
son, stopping  his  mules  at  the  edge  of 
the  depot  platform. 

Not  until  noon  of  the  next  day  did  we 
reach  the  cabin  of  the  Oldest  Inhabitant. 
This  individual  proved  to  be  a  taciturn 
and  surly  miner  of  a  disposition  so  retir- 
ing that  he  had,  so  far  as  the  outside 
world  went,  not  only  crawled  into  a  hole, 


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but  had  achieved  the  added  distinction  of 
pulling  the  hole  in  after  him. 

On  the  way  up  our  driver  had  assured 
us  that  the  old  miner,  Mr.  Brown,  other- 
wise "Bill,^*  would  kick  like  a  bay  steer 
when  asked  to  take  us  in.  "But  don't 
you  give  in  an  inch!*'  Hank  warned  us 
cheerily;  "Bill's  heart's  all  right  yit,  an' 
it's  a  mercy  to  him  that  I  bring  folks  up 
to  camp  on  him  once  an'  agin ;  keeps  him 
from  gittin'  plumb  petrified.  Besides, 
he'll  git  to  thinkin'  a  heap  of  you  before 
you  leave.  I've  brung  hunters  up  here 
afore,  an'  I  know." 

Despite  Hank's  warning,  we  were  not 
prepared  for  the  fury  of  resentment  with 
which  the  old  gentleman,  who  had  opened 
the  door  in  response  to  Hank's  Imock, 
greeted  our  arrival.  Undismayed,  Hank 
began  imloading  our  luggage  by  the  sum- 
mary process  of  firing  it  into  the  open 
doorway,  and,  at  the  same  time,  he  ex- 
postulated pleasantly  with  the  inhospita- 
ble miner: 

"Come  now,  Bill,  what's  the  use  of  all 
this  jawin'  ?  These  fellers  has  got  to  stay 
here;  you  know  that.  It's  too  late  to  look 
uj)  airy  other  place." 

"You  know  blamed  well,  you  limber- 
jointed  jackass,  that  there  ain't  airy  other 
place  to  look  up." 

"That's  what  I've  been  tryin'  to  tell 
you,  all  along,  but  you  wouldii't  hearken 
to  reason.  You'll  have  to  take  'em  in, 
that's  all!" 

"Wha'd  ye  bring  'em  for,  ye  cussed — " 

Hank,  who  was  to  make  half  the  return 
trip  that  day,  had  already  swung  the 
mules  around  on  the  homeward  track;  he 
looked  over  his  shoulder  to  bestow  a  de- 
mure grin  on  the  enraged  owner  of  the 
cabin. 

^TTou'U  git  over  it.  Bill,  an'  thank  me 
for  givin'  ye  a  chance  to  git  acquainted 
\rith  these  fellers;  good  fellers  they  are, 
if  I  do  say  it.  An'  gentlemen,  don't  ye 
fret  your  gizzards.  Bill's  bark  is  all  there 
is  to  him.  He  never  bites,  an'  he's  got 
plenty  to  eat,  an'  as  good  beds  as  you'll 
find  in  a  long  day's  journey.  So  long,  an' 
good  luck  to  you!" 

The  Oldest  Inhabitant  shook  his  fist,  in 
impotent  fury,  at  the  retreating  back  of 
the  driver. 

"If  there's  airy  law  in  this  country 
that'll  purtect  a  man  in  the  peaceful  en- 
j'yment  of  his  own  cabin,  I'll  have  it  on 
Hank  Thompson,"  he  roared,  and,  just 


then,  the  mules  stopped  and  Hank  looked 
back  to  call  out : 

"Sa — ^ay,  what's  the  matter  with  their 
goin'  to  the  Mexican's?" 

*^Vhat's  the  matter  with  their  goin'  to 
hell?"  yelled  our  unwilling  host.  But 
the  suggestion,  whatever  lay  behind  it, 
had  turned  the  scale  in  our  favor.  "Come 
in,"  he  said  abruptly.  "Course  it- ain't  no 
fault  of  yours  that  you  was  brought  here, 
but  111  git  even  with  that  feller  yit." 

I  don't  know  whether  Mr.  Brown  ever 
got  even  with  the  driver  in  the  way  that 
his  words  darkly  shadowed  forth,  but  I  do 
know  that  within  twenty-four  hours  he 
was  looking  after  our  comfort  as  solicit- 
ously as  he  would  for  that  of  life-long 
friends. 

We  had  bargained  with  Thompson  to 
return  for  us  at  the  end  of  two  weeks, 
and,  naturally,  made  the  utmost  of  our 
limited  holiday.  We  were  very  success- 
ful in  getting  game,  all  of  which  Brown 
dressed  and  cared  for.  As  he  insisted  on 
doing  this  work  imaided,  and  as  the  sup- 
ply of  meat,  apart  from  that  we  con- 
sumed, fell  to  his  share,  we  made  no  stren- 
uous objection  to  this  arrangement,  and, 
for  some  days,  remained  unaware  of  any 
peculiarity  in  the  mode  or  place  of  dress- 
ing. 

On  the  tenth  day  after  our  arrival,  the 
weather  that  had  held  good  so  far,  turned 
bitterly  cold,  and  a  furious  snowstorm 
set  in.  For  three  days  we  were  virtually 
imprisoned.  A  part  of  this  time  we  spent 
in  the  manufacture  of  snowshoes,  in  the 
use  of  which  we  were  both  experts,  and  it 
was  plain  that  if  we  were  to  get  out  at 
all  it  must  be  upon  them.  The  fourth 
day  dawned  clear  and  cold.  Immediately 
after  breakfast  we  started  out  for  a  day's 
sport  in  the  mountains. 

We  returned  to  the  cabin  a  little  before 
nightfall,  bearing  pick-a-pack  the  carcass 
of  that  rare,  shy  creature,  a  mountain 
sheep.  Twice  or  thrice,  before  reaching 
the  cabin,  we  heard  the  howling  of  timber 
wolves,  and  the  sound  did  not  dispose  us 
to  linger  on  our  way. 

As  this  was  not  only  the  first  sheep 
that  either  of  us  had  ever  shot,  but  the 
only  one  that  we  had  ever  seen  at  close 
range,  we  proposed  to  Brown  that  he 
should  have  our  assistance  in  dressing  it. 
At  this  he  turned  unexpectedly  craidcy; 
but,  as  we  both  insisted,  matters  were  at 


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length  compromised  by  his  agreeing  to  al- 
low ns  to  oversee  the  work. 

Brown  took  the  carcass  within  the  shel- 
ter of  a  solid  little  lean-to,  minus  outer 
door  or  window,  and  lighted  only  by  the 
door  that  opened  into  it  from  the  main 
cabin. 

*TVhy  don^t  you  take  him  outside  under 
that  pine  tree?^*  Dick  suggested,  survey- 
ing the  cubbyhole  with  disfavor.  '^There's 
good  light  out  there.^' 

"An'  wind,  to  carry  the  scent.  This  is 
good  'nuff  place ;  if  you  don't  want  to  stay 
in  here  you  don't  have  to." 

Outside  the  cabin  the  ground  was 
frozen  as  hard  as  iron,  and  there  was,  to 
all  intents  and  purposes,  a  whole  unused 
world  into  any  part  of  which  the  refuse 
from  our  quarry  might  have  been  cast 
without  offense;  but,  having  cleaned  the 
sheep,  Brown  took  a  spade  and  dug  a  hole 
in  one  comer  of  the  lean-to.  Into  this 
he  shoved  the  refuse,  paying  no  heed  to 
my  questions.  Dick,  who  is  wise,  said 
nothing  until  the  ground  was  neatly 
smoothed  over  the  impromptu  grave,  then 
he  asked,  quietly: 

^TVhy  do  you  do  that?" 

Brown  straightened  his  bent  shoulders 
and  faced  Dick,  a  reminiscent  look  on  his 
weatherbeaten  old  face. 

"Ever  been  huntin'  in  this  part  of  the 
Faraway  Sange  afore — or,  say,  within  the 
last  three  years?" 

"Never,  at  any  time;  we  have  always 
gone  farther  south." 

"I  wish't  you'd  a'  gone  furder  south 
this  time.  Wal',  I  don't  mind  admittin' 
that  things  has  got  so  that  ifs  agin'  my 
principles  to  leave  airy  thing  laying 
around  loose  that  might  tole  wild  animals 
nigh  my  cabin.  You  fellers  that  live  in 
towns  and  think  you  know  it  all  because 
you  read  sonve  dumed  newspaper  every 
day  has  got  a  heap  to  learn  about  the  big 
world  that  lies  outside — ^whafs  that?"  he 
broke  off  suddenly,  and  the  three  of  us 
stood  listening  in  startled  silence  as,  close 
at  hand,  a  wierd,  moaning  cry  rent  the 
air.  The  cry  was  followed,  after  an  in- 
terval, by  a  distinct  whine,  as  some  soft, 
heavy  body  bounded  lightly  upon  the  roof 
of  the  lean-to.  This  was  followed,  in  turn, 
by  an  eager  clawing  and  scratching  at  the 
shingles.  We  could  not,  of  course,  see 
anything,  but  the  promptitude  and  energy 
with  which  our  host  acted  at  this  junc- 
ture was  trulv  wonderful. 


Hanging  from  hooks  on  the  wall  was 
a  loaded  Winchester  rifle.  With  one  noise- 
less bound  Brown  secured  it,  and,  stand- 
ing in  his  tracks,  raised  the  barrel  and 
fired  at  that  part  of  the  roof  from  which 
the  sound  proceeded.  The  buUet  went 
crashing  and  splintering  through  the 
boards  and  the  pine  shakes;  the  little 
room  was  filled  with  powder  smoke,  and 
again  that  wild  cry  rent  the  air  as  the 
creature  slid  off  the  roof. 

The  three  of  us  ran  out  and  around 
to  the  lean-to  roof. 

There  was  nothing  to  be  seen  save  the 
splintered  shakes  and  a  few  drops  of  blood 
on  the  snow.  But  presently  I  discovered, 
just  where  the  edge  of  the  roof  overhung 
the  ground,  a  larger  splash  of  red,  and, 
mingling  with  it,  a  tuft  of  something 
white  that  I,  at  first,  mistook  for  a  tiny 
bunch  of  feathers.  Turning  it  over  care- 
lessly with  the  toe  of  my  boot,  I  saw  that 
it  was  a  fragment  of  white  fur.  Too  late, 
we  regretted  our  precipitancy  in  reaching 
the  spot,  for  any  footprints  left  had  now 
been  hopelessly  overlaid  by  our  own.  After 
a  little  further  search,  which  revealed 
nothing,  we  re-entered  the  cabin  and 
Brown  silently  replaced  the  rifle  on  its 
hooks. 

"What  do  you  suppose  that  was?"  I 
asked  our  plainly  preoccupied  host. 

"Some  hungry  critter,"  was  the  brusque 
reply;  "one  of  you  fellers  be  cuttin'  up 
some  of  the  mutton  whilst  I  make  the 
coffee." 

Dick  and  I,  enjopng  our  meal  with  the 
appetite  of  hunters,  paid  little  attention 
to  Brown,  imtil,  hunger  somewhat  ap- 
peased, I  had  leisure  to  observe  that  the 
bit  of  steak  that  he  had,  at  first,  taken 
upon  his  plate,  still  remained  untasted. 
Dick  noticed  it,  too. 

"What's  the  matter.  Brown;  why  don't 
you  eat  ?"  he  presently  inquired. 

For  answer.  Brown  shoved  his  plate 
aside  with  an  impatient  gesture,  and,  ris- 
ing, took  his  pipe  from  the  mantel,  filled 
it  from  the  sack  of  fine-cut  in  his  coat 
pocket,  then  sat  down  before  the  fire,  leav- 
ing the  supper  table  uncared  for.  This 
was  unusual,  for  he  was  a  neat  house- 
keeper. 

When  the  soothing  fumes  of  the  to- 
bacco began  to  rise,  like  a  cloud  of  incense 
between  himself  and  his  confidant,  the 
open  fire,  he  remarked  to  the  latter: 

"Yes;  thafs  it.     I  can't  figure  it  out 


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no  other  way.  Like  enough  the  Mexican^s 
sick ;  an^  he  can't  hunt  wu'th  a  cuss^  sick 
or  well.  I  ain't  seen  him  in  a  dog's  age; 
don't  want  to  see  him,  nuther,  but  I 
never  knowed;  I — never — ^knowed — ^"  He 
relapsed  into  musing  silence.  When  he, 
at  length,  roused  himself  it  was  to  ad- 
dress Dick,  for  whom,  he  had  made  it 
plain  from  the  first,  he  entertained  much 
more  respect  than  he  did  for  me. 

"Say — ^there's  a  Mexican — curi's  kind 
of  feller — ^he  lives  in  a  cabin  three  or  four 
mile  deeper  back  in  the  hills.  The  feller 
— ^he  lives  alone — ^yes — ^he  lives  alone,  and 
he  ain't  much  of  a  hand  with  a  gun.  Them 
Mexicans  never  be,  and  the  snow's  deep, 
and  the  trail  blocked — ^" 

" — ^And  you  think  it  would  be  no  more 
than  neighborly  for  us  to  share  our  luck 
with  him?"  Dick  concluded  the  sentence 
lightly ;  "all  right,  he's  welcome  to  a  share 
of  it." 

"You  ain't  a  bad  feller."  For  once  our 
host  looked  at  the  person  he  was  talking 
to  instead  of  the  fire,  as  he  spoke — 'TTes, 
I  seen  right  oflf  that  you  wa'n't  a  bad  fel- 
ler." 

Encouraged  by  this  encomium  on  my 
friend,  and,  perhaps,  with,  some  faint 
hope  of  diverting  a  little  of  it  to  myself, 
for,  truly,  the  quarry  was  as  much  mine 
to  give  as  Dick's — ^I  said: 

"If  s  a  bright  moonlit  evening;  suppose 
you  tell  us  the  way  and  we'll  take  some 
of  the  mutton  over  to  him  now." 

"Airy  fool  but  a  plumb  fool,"  mused 
Mr.  Brown,  with  his  eyes  upon  the  fire, 
"would  know  better  than  to  reckon  that  a 
brace  o'  strangers  could  bounce  in  on  that 
Mexican  and  make  him  a  gift,  out  of 
hand.  Proud  as  the  devil,  he  is--<Tod  Al- 
mighty knows  what  of,  I  don't;  but  I  'low 
that  he's  human,  or  part  human,  anyhow, 
and  I  don't  want  him  to  starve;  but  the 
thing's  got  to  be  managed ;  yes,  sir,  mwn- 
aged!"  TCnitting  his  grizzled  brows  he 
again  took  counsel  of  the  fire. 

After  a  minute  or  two  he  looked  at 
Dick.     "Goin'    huntin'    to-morrow,    ain't 


ye 


9» 


Dick  nodded  silently. 

^^es,  o'  course;  I  needn't  a'  asked! 
Kill  things  as  long's  the  snow's  deep  and 
they're  helpless  and  can't  git  away  from 
ye.  Wall,  I'm  kind  o'  concerned  about 
that  Mexican — ^" 

" — Why  concerned  about  him,  all  at 
once?"  Dick  inquired,  carelessly. 


"'Cause  I  am,  and  thafs  reason 
enough !"  was  the  tart  rejoinder.  "Wall, 
if  ye  git  anything — and  ye  will;  a  two- 
year-old  baby  'ud  git  something,  with  a 
popgim,  in  this  snow — ye  better  round  up 
at  iJ&e  Mexican's  cabin  with  it.  Ye  must 
make  some  mighty  ^ood  excuse  for  stop- 
ping." He  studied  Dick's  stalwart  fig- 
ure, reflectively.  "I  don't  suppose  ye'd 
like  for  to  go  lame,  sudden?"  he  sug- 
gested. 

"We  might  ask  for  a  drink,"  I  ventured, 
inanely,  and  Brown  bitterly  assured  the 
fire,  "Even  a  plumb  fool  ought  to  know 
that  a  hunter,  no  matter  if  he  was  nothing 
but  a  pot-hunter,  could  eat  snow  enough 
for  to  squench  his  thirst." 

Dick  clasped  his  hands  above  his  head 
and  yawned  sleepily. 

"1  discovered  to-day  that  my  snow- 
shoes  are  not  very  strong,"  he  remarked. 

"That  ain't  a  bad  idee,"  Mr.  Brown 
conceded. 

Later,  in  the  seclusion  of  the  bunk 
room,  as  we  were  undressing,  I  asked  Dick 
if  he  had  noticed  any  peculiarity  in  the 
cry  of  the  animal  that  had  jumped  to  the 
roof. 

"Ye — s;  yes,"  he  responded,  slowly, 
pausing  in  the  act  of  pulling  off  a  sock, 
"it  reminded  me  somehow,  Alex,  of  the 
screech  that  our  friend,  the  agent,  was 
trying  to  evoke  from  his  violin — ^and 
couldn't."  After  he  was  snugly  under  the 
blankets  he  poked  his  head  out  again  to 
observe:  "These  old  miners,  living  off 
in  the  hills,  like  the  recluses  that  they  are, 
are  apt  to  become  astonishingly  supersti- 
tious." 

"No  doubt,"  I  assented,  sleepily. 

The  sham  accident,  premeditated,  has 
a  way,  sometimes,  of  confounding  its  pro- 
jector by  becoming  an  unpleasant  reality. 

Late  in  the  afternoon  of  the  next  day 
we  were  far  up  on  the  side  of  a  mountain 
that  overlooked  a  chaotic  jumble  of  rocks 
and  evergreens  at  its  base,  and  were  hot 
on  the  trail  of  a  deer,  unmindful,  for  the 
nonce,  of  anything  else,  when  the  accident 
that  Dick  had  scheduled  to  happen  to  his 
snowshoes  took  place,  resulting  in  both 
a  broken  shoe  and  a  twisted  ankle.  The 
edge  of  the  shoe  caught  as  Dick  was  in 
full  career  imder  a  bit  of  jutting  rock,  and 
snap!  it  went,  while  Dick  fell  headlong, 
face  downward. 

I  was  but  a  few  yards  behind  him,  and 
as  he  made  no  immediate  effort  to  rise,  I 


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23 


hurried  up  to  him  with  my  heart  in  my 
mouth,  to  find  that,  his  head  having 
struck  a  rock,  he  was  partially  stunned. 
It  took  some  vigorous  effort  to  bring  him 
around,  and  then,  discovering  the  condi- 
tion that  he  was  in,  the  situation  did  not 
seem  to  me  much  improved.  But  it  was 
Dick  who  now  recalled  that,  a  few  min- 
utes previously,  we  had  observed  smoke 
rising  from  somewhere  in  the  wilderness 
of  rocks  and  gnarled  trees  beneath  us. 
"It's  around  here  somewhere,  that 
Brown's  Mexican  lives,"  Dick  concluded, 
"and  it  looks  to  me  as  though  we  were 
booked  to  trespass  upon  his  hospitality, 
also.  We'll  have  to  trail  down  that 
smoke,  Alex." 

We  did.  It  was  not  an  easy  task,  and 
all  Dick's  nerve — and  he  has  his  share  of 
it — could  not  repress  an  occasional  moan 
of  anguish  as  I  half  dragged,  half  carried 
him  toward  the  doubtful  haven.  I  re- 
gretted, too,  as  we  stood,  at  length,  before 
the  closed  door  of  a  substantial,  low- 
browed cabin,  that,  in  our  eagerness  to 
secure  the  larger  game — now  beyond 
reach — we  had  let  slip  opportunities  of 
getting  anything,  and  I  recalled  that 
Brown  had  suspected  suffering  for  food 
here,  providing  that  this  turned  out  to  be 
the  cabin  of  the  Mexican. 

As  my  repeated  knocking  brought  no 
response,  I,  at  length,  tried  the  door,  and, 
finding  it  unlocked,  threw  it  open  and  en- 
tered, supporting  Dick.  A  low  fire  smoul- 
dered in  an  open  fireplace  at  the  side  of 
the  room  opposite  the  door,  and,  drawn  up 
before  it  was  an  inviting  looking,  sleepy 
hollow  chair.  Into  this,  without  words, 
Dick  promptly  dropped,  while  I  proceeded 
to  replenish  the  fire  from  the  stock  of 
fuel  that  lay  in  roadinoss  boside  it.     We 


were  in  a  comfortable  room,  cosily  fur- 
nished; so  much  I  saw  in  the  hurried 
glance  that  I  cast  aroimd  while  working 
over  the  fire.  Two  or  three  closed  doors 
gave,  apparently,  on  other  rooms,  and 
directly,  from  beliind  one  of  the  closed 
doors,  came  the  sound  of  a  querulous  voice 
asking  impatiently: 

"What  are  you  waiting  for — why  don't 
you  come  in?" 

The  voice  was  that  of  a  woman.  Dick 
was  quite  too  much  engrossed  with  his 
own  suffering  to  give  heed  to  anything 
else;  and  while  I  hesitated  what  reply  to 
make,  there  came  a  quick  footstep  on  the 
snow  outside,  the  door  was  thrown  open, 
and  a  slender,  swarthy-looking  man  stood 
framed  in  the  doorway,  against  the  daz- 
zling whiteness,  staring  at  us,  the  intru- 
ders, with  surprise,  and,  it  was  painfully 
apparent,  the  strongest  disfavor. 

In  his  hand  he  carried  a  brace  of  white 
ptarmigan,  and  before  waiting  to  receive 
our  apologies  and  explanations,  he  crossed 
the  room  and  deposited  them  on  the  floor 
just  within  the  doorway  of  the  room  from 
which  the  querulous  voice  had  come.  Then 
he  came  back  and  stopped  beside  Dick's- 
chair. 

"What  do  you  here  ?"  he  asked.  He  lis- 
tened quietly  to  our  explanations,  and 
then  examined  Dick's  foot.  "Not  broken;, 
badly  sprained,"  he  said,  and,  without 
more  words,  went  to  work  to  make  hi& 
undesired  guest  as  comfortable  as  the  cir- 
cumstances allowed.  But,  through  all  his- 
busy  ministrations,  I  observed  that  he  had 
a  furtive  air  of  anxious  watchfulness,  and 
his  troubled  glance  frequently  sought  the 
door  of  the  room  whence  the  woman'& 
voice  had  come. 


(To  be  continued) 


^($^'r 


KOREAN  ART  AND  ARTISTS 


Tne  illu0tration0  are  reproduced  from  tke  paintinga  of  tke  foremost  Korean  arti«t,  in  tlie 
private  collection  of  tke  autkor.     Tkird  article  in  tke  series  on  Korea. 

By  James  Himtcr  "Wells,  M.  D. 


ABOUT  3000  years  ago,  Korea  led 
all  Asia  in  art  and  music;  and 
in  literature,  was  second  only 
to     China.      The  finest    large 
bronzes  now  in  Asia,  examples 
of  which  I  saw  in  Tokio  and  Nikko,  Japan, 
prove   the   truth    of   this   assertion.      In 
Korea  was    invented    the  first  movable, 
metal  type,  made  of  bronze.    The  Chinese 
printed    from   wooden    plates,   carefully 
engraved  by  hand,  but  the  arti- 
I  sans  of  Korea  saw  that  the  proc- 

JjL       ess  of  printing  would  be  greatly 
^^       facilitated   if   movable  type   was 
A^       used,  and  thus  the  first  type  was 
ini       raade.    This  was  in  the  13th  cen- 
/^^       tury.     The  world  to-day  is  using 
movable,  metal  type,  and  is  in- 
>r        dcbtod  to  Korea  for  the  invention. 
/C*  There  is  no  doubt  that,  origi- 

nal ly,  the  Koreans  wt:i-t^  an  artis- 
te       ti<>    people,    but    the    ^utTt^<liDg 


wars,  first  between  Korea  and  China,  then 
between  Korea  and  Japan,  and  then  be- 
tween Japan  and  China,  with  Korea  as 
the  battleground,  crushed  out  what  ar- 
tistic promise  there  was  in  the  beginning. 
Pottery,  however,  was  produced,  and 
those  of  its  relics,  now  very  rare,  are 
graded  among  the  very  first  of  the  prod- 
ucts of  this  art. 

A  certain  silversmith  of  my  acquaint- 
ance is  the  best  in  his  nation,  but  is  able 
to  do  only  crude  and  simple  work,  though 
a  few  in  the  north  do  fine  inlaid  work  on 
very  beautiful  models — a  survival  of  the 
age  when  bronzes  were  extensively  pro- 
duced. 

At  present  there  are  but  feeble  indica- 
tions of  what  was  once  the  leading  art 
center  of  Asia,  and  there  is  very  little  to 


A   KOREAN   WOMAN   8PINNIN0. 

The  larger  part  of  the  machine  it  the  flywheel.    The  oord  tame  the  ipool  rapidly,  and  m  winds 

the  cotton  or  flax  on  the  ipool. 


THE    STROLLING    GENTLEMAN. 

ThaM  pictnrM  are  in  eTerj  detail  true  to  life.    The  fan,   hat  and  lony  sleeTei  proclaim  this 

man   a   Korean  gentleman   of  leisure. 


DAHCIKO   OntL,    OR   KEBAHO. 
Every  roVemor  and  nu^trata  in  Korea  has,  aa  part  of  his  retinue,  a  ntunber  of  girU  who 
his  food  and  danoe  for  him.     They  dress  in  gay  colors,    in  oontradistinction   to  all  others, 
who  dress  in  unbroken  white. 


A  EIOH  OFFZOIAL. 

Th«  htHi  with  tlie  oraae  and  the  peonliar  flaps  turned   back    (the   Emperor*!    flaps   torn    forward), 

ladloate  that  the  personage  is  not  only  a  hivh  offlcial,   but  is  of  the  rosralty. 


A    COMMON    COOLIE. 
No  hat,  itntw  ihoM,  ooatm  olothea,  and  pilffrim'i  pack.     His  home   U  when  he 

is  A  Mmi-b^ritr. 


•l6«pt  and  ha 


KOKEAN  ART  AND  ARTISTS. 


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tell  of  the  glory  that  was  once  Koreans 
in  these  lines.  It  is  a  decaying  nation 
and  a  listless  and  unproductive  people. 

The  condition  of  pictorial  art  as  it 
exists  to-day  in  Korea  is  fully  shown  in 
the  accompanying  pictures,  reproduced 
from  the  paintings  of  the  foremost  Korean 
artist.  To  the  Korean,  these  pictures, 
crude  and  faulty  as  they  appear  to  us,  arc 
the  acme  of  perfection.  The  Asiatic  is 
uncritical  and  imaginative,  and  whatever 
is  lacking  in  the  picture's  semblance  to 
life  is  readily  overlooked  or  supplied  from 
the  imagination.  It  is  the  same  quality 
which,  in  a  child,  makes  a  picture  but 
E  little  less  real  than  life  itself. 


The  Korean's  standards  of  art  are  far 
simpler  than  ours,  and  herein  lies  their 
beauty.  We  demand  so  much,  even  of  art, 
in  this  practical  age,  that  we  are  very 
apt  to  overdo  the  matter.  The  simple 
lines  and  the  simple  life  of  the  Koreans, 
as  illustrated  by  these  samples  of  their  art, 
has  much  in  it  to  commend  them.  As  they 
advance  in  other  ways,  we  will  find  that 
the  old  and  supposedly  forgotten  artistic 
instincts  will  awaken,  and  bear  fruit.  It 
is  not  too  much  to  expect  that  out  of  Asia 
something  will  come  in  the  future  that 
may  be  of  as  much  value  to  art,  as  was  the 
movable  type  in  the  earliest  days  of 
typography. 


BOAT  SONG 

Bow,  row, 
While  the  lake  lies  hushed  and  dim, 
Far  and  away  flees  the  lagging  day 
To  the  sun,  for  she  loves  bnt  him. 

Bow,  row, 
Bend  to  the  dripping  oar. 

Bow,  row, 
Oh,  the  breath  of  the  pines  is  sweet, 
The  ripples  sing  as  the  mdder  swings. 
And  the  stars  are  under  our  feet; 

Bow,  row. 
Bend  to  the  dripping  oar. 

— Maude  Sutton 


r 


DOWN  THE  PIKE 

The  Boulevard  of  Gaiety' at  the  St.Louls  EKposition 

By  T.  R  .Mac  Mechen 


Entrance  to  "Creation"  on  "The  Pike,"   at   the   St.   Louis  Exposition. 


rigidly 
public 


THE  Pike  is  not  a  side  show 
of  the  Universal  Exposition; 
neither  is  it  a  circus  of  Mun- 
chausen monstrosities. 

A  new  era  of  entertainment, 
opposed   to  the  theory   that   the 
still   loves   to   be   humbugged,   is 
introduced  to  the  amusement  seeker. 

The  Pike  will  show  the  world  at  play 
on  a  scale  never  attempted  in  the  most 
halcyon  days  of  pleasure.  Cheap  and 
tawdry  deception,  the  "Aim  flam"  and 
jingle  of  fakirdom  have  been  stamped  out. 
Yet  there  is  nothing  tame  about  Pike 
fever.  Larger,  grander  and  more  varied 
because  of  its  mightier  volume  of  life  and 
color,  the  intoxication  is  greater.  Its 
pulse  throb  is  that  of  the  Roman  satur- 
nalia. Its  swing  and  rh}i;hm  the  measure 
of  a  tremendous  military  march. 

Simple  insistence  on  perfect  fidelity  in 
assembling  the  strange  peoples  and  their 
color  environment  has  raised  this  St.  Louis 


fiesta  of  fun  Far  al)ove  those  of  all  other 
expositions. 

The  Pike  is  not  a  jumble  of  nonsense^ 
It  has  a  meaning  just  as  definite  as  the 
high  motive  which  inspired  the  Exposi- 
tion. It  mirrors  the  lighter  moods  of  all 
countries. 

The  Exposition  is  a  mammoth  spectacle. 
The  Pike  is  Olympian  in  proportion  and* 
character.  Colossal  structures,  stretching- 
for  a  mile  on  both  sides  of  a  paved  street,, 
furnish  immense  theatres  in  which  the 
latest  ingenuity  of  the  master  showman 
is  displayed.  Five  millions  of  dollars- 
were  spent  in  merely  erecting  buildings 
in  harmony  with  the  dignity  and  magni- 
tude of  the  greater  pageant. 

Seven  millions  will  have  been  expended 
before  the  opening  of  the  Exposition  in 
transporting  6,000  natives  of  foreign 
countries,  1,000  wild  and  domestic  animals 
and  nearly  a  million  dollars  in  curious 


DOWN  THE  PIKK. 


81 


-wares  to  tempt  the  collector  of  the  quaint 
And  the  antique. 

Two  of  the  largest  aniiisoments  cost 
3.  lump  sum  of  $1,400,000.  "Jerusalem, 
the  Holy  City,"  one  of  these  concessions 
-find  the  largest  open  air  show  ever  con- 
^ructed,  represents  an  outlay  of  e$700,000, 
subscribed  mainly  by  capitalists  in  St. 
Louis.  "The  Tyrolean  Alps,"  the  second 
Attraction,  commanded  an  equal  amount 
from  business  interests  in  the  World's 
Fair    City.      Twenty  other    shows    each 


That  the  concessionaire  and  his  audience 
might  both  be  protected,  the  Exposition 
management  wisely  awarded  to  the  show- 
man presenting  the  characteristics  of  any 
forei<^  country,  the  exclusive  privilege 
of  selling  in  his  concession  the  wares,  for 
which  that  country  is  noted  among  trav- 
elers and  lovers  of  rare  decoration. 

These  precautions  serve  to  keep  the 
Pike  above  reproach.  The  visitor  feels 
that  his  time  and  his  innocent  investment 
have   not   been    wasted.      In   its   positive 


Looking  down  "The  Pike"  from  the  "Galveston  Flood." 


<»st  $100,000.    Not  an  amusement  on  the 
Pike  cost  less  than  $50,000. 

Reproductions  of  famous  quarters  of 
<5ities  celebrated  in  history  and  literature 
^re  exact  as  personal  inspection,  photo- 
graphs and  architectural  sketches  could 
make  them.  The  inhabitants  of  these 
mimic  scenes  are  the  inhabitants  of  the 
original  places,  secured  at  considerable 
time  and  expense  to  the  showman.  The 
daily  life  of  these  transplanted  popula- 
tions is  a  true  reflection  on  a  smaller  scale 
of  the  lives  thev  lead  in  their  real  homes. 


industrial  lessons  which  are  mingled  with 
its  theatres,  sports,  music  and  dancing, 
the  Pike  teaches  quite  as  important  a 
lesson  as  do  the  exhibits  in  the  Exposi- 
tion palaces.  How  to  mix  pleasure  with 
the  more  serious  things  of  life  is  the 
picture  held  up  for  those  who  read  as  they 
run  clown  the  Pike. 

Take  "Jerusalem,'^  the  largest  amuse- 
ment at  the  Exposition.  It  is  an  actual 
walled  replica  of  those  places  in  the 
Holy  City,  immortalized  by  the  scriptural 
storv  of  the  Xazarene.     Eleven  acres  of 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


broken  topography  are  covered  with  more 
than  300  structures  of  varying  size,  sep- 
arated by  22  streets  and  crowded  by  1,000 
natives  of  the  real  Jerusalem. 

The  papier  mache  mountains  of  the 
Tyrolean  Alps  rise  100  feet  above  seven 
acres  which  are  covered  by  snow-capped 
masses  of  the  Ortler,  ancient  castles,  a 
typical  Tyrolean  village,  dashing  moun- 
tain torrents,  and  a  panorama  of  unrivaled 
Alpine  scenery. 

A  different  atmosphere  is  breathed  in 


In  the  Irish  Village  and  exhibition  sucb 
historical  structures  as  the  old  House  of 
Parliament  at  Dublin  are  reproduced 
exactly.  Carmac's  Castle  on  the  Rocks- 
of  Cashel,  an  old  Irish  arch,  902  year& 
old.  Blarney  Castle,  in  which  Edward 
Harrigan,  the  American  actor  will  give 
performances  of  genuine  Irish  drama  are 
objects  of  interest.  Jaunting  cars  pas& 
through  historic  scenery. 

A  widely  different  show  is  the  Palais 
du  Costume  which  is  a  history  of  fashion, 


Entrance  to  "Old  St.  Louii." 


A  crowd  attracted  by    the    alluring    vociferations    of    the    leather- 
lunged  "ipieler." 


mysterious  Asia,  a  mingling  of  the  quaint 
life  and  architectural  settings  of  India, 
Ceylon,  Burmah  and  Persia.  The  rites 
of  Eajahs  and  the  primitive  color  of 
Burmese  villages  contrast  strongly.  Carl 
Hagenbeck's  Circus,  Zoo  and  Panorama 
are  the  largest  representation  of  an  animal 
paradise  that  has  ever  been  constructed. 
By  a  patent,  invisible  device,  wild  and 
domestic  beasts  roam  at  large  in  a  vast 
natural  panorama  with  nothing  between 
them  and  the  spectators. 


presenting  the  intermediate  changes  in 
dress  between  the  period  of  the  Roman 
colonies  through  all  ages.  Thirty  scenes 
reproduce  with  exactness,  the  fashions, 
with  accessories  such  as  the  architecture 
and  furniture  of  the  times. 

Constantinople  is  the  composite  title 
of  a  correct  imitation  of  eleven  sections  of 
the  Bazaars  of  Shamboul  with  a  fine 
entrance  through  the  Mosque  of  Nouri 
Osmanieh.  A  labyrinth  of  narrow  street* 
branch  from  Kalpakdjilar  Dgedissi,  the 


DOWN  THE  PIKE. 


83 


main  avenue,  all  filled  with  Turkish  mer- 
chants. The  sketches  for  this  concession 
were  made  by  Djelal  Bey  Ben  Essad,  son 
of  the  late  Marshal  Essad  Pasha,  one  of 
the  best  art  critics  in  Turkey. 

How  unlike  other  shows  is  the  tremen- 
dous "Naval  Exhibition,'^  a  monster  repro- 
duction of  the  Battle  of  Santiago !  Battle- 
ships, cruisers  and  a  flotilla  of  torpedo 
and  submarine  boats  are  operated  over 
a  great  water  expanse  by  electricity.  The 
forts  are  attacked,  the  Merrimac  is  sunk, 
and  the  Spanish  fleet  destroyed.     Akin 


long,  Geisha  girls  with  their  dances,  and 
native  rag-maldng  girls  from  10  to  15 
years  old  are  some  of  the  interesting 
objects. 

"The  Galveston  Flood^Msa  vivid  picture 
of  the  great  disaster  of  September,  1900,. 
producing  remarkably  realistic  effects 
through  the  use  of  plastic  and  pictorial 
art,  combined  with  mechanics  and  elec- 
tricity. Real  water,  real  waves  washing 
a  real  beach,  the  destruction  of  the  city 
with  all  the  noises  of  that  fearful  storm^ 
and  the  restoration  of  the  stricken  city. 


Tlie  B«7  of  Bantiaeo  as  it  is  reprodnoed  at  St.  Louis.     Here  the  naval  display  is  made. 


to  this  marine  picture  are  the  "Deep  Sea 
Divers,"  operated  under  water  in  com- 
plete armor  and  harness. 

Japanese  life  and  manners  as  never 
before  witnessed  in  the  United  States 
make  the  Japanese  Village  one  of  the 
principal  sights  of  the  Pike.  Parts  of  the 
imperial  gardens  at  Tokio,  filled  with  very 
old  trees  trained  in  shapes  of  man,  bird 
and  beast,  the  Temple  of  Nikko,  all  the 
life  of  a  street  in  Asakusa,  300  natives, 
jinrickashaws,  roosters  with  tails  25  feet 


make  an  effect  that  is  truly  great.  "New 
York  to  the  North  Pole"  is  an  illusion 
with  the  actual  reproduction  of  an  ocean 
liner  500  feet  long  by  80  feet  wide,  com- 
bined with  a  trip  to  the  north  pole. 

In  the  same  class  of  amusements  comes 
"Under  and  Over  the  Sea,''  a  wonderfully 
realistic  trip  to  Paris  by  submarine  boat 
and  return  by  airship  to  the  Exposition. 
Here  the  passengers  are  in  the  midst  of  a 
furious  tempest  while  sailing  in  mid-air. 
"Creation,"  a  mammoth  illusion,  takes  the 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


spectator  back  through  ten  centuries,  on 
a  canal  of  real  water,  to  the  Genesis. 
Within  the  shell  of  a  dome  larger  than 
that  of  St.  Peter's,  the  earth  and  the  seas 
are  formed  from  the  void  at  the  command 
of  a  supernatural  voice. 

The  "Streets  of  Seville"  show  the  life 
and  customs  of  Spain.  The  "Plaza  de 
Toros  of  Madrid,''  the  famous  market 
place  of  Triana,  the  "Gypsy  Lane  of  Bar- 
celona" are  filled  with  Dons,  Senoritas 
and  gypsies.  Then  the  eyes  are  pleased 
with  the  delicate  green  and  deep  red  rose 
color  scheme  of  the  "Teatro  de  los  Floros." 
Widely  remote  coloring  is  obtained  from 
the  Chinese  Village  with  its  theatre  and 
players,  the  joss  house  and  tea  garden 
built  of  bamboo  and  palm  leaf.  Two 
hundred  native  artisans  are  plying  their 
curious  trades  by  hand  as  they  have  done 
for  centuries. 

The  "Battle  Abbey"  is  the  largest  cyclo- 
rama  ever  constructed,  showipg  all  the 
decisive  battles  of  the  world.  The  life  of 
the  Cliff  Dwellers  is  illustrated  by  careful 
reproductions   of   strange   caves   existing 


to-day  in  the  Mancos  River  Canyon  of 
Colorado— the  habitations  of  a  lost  race, 
combined  with  the  pueblos  of  their 
descendants,  the  Zuni  Indians  of  New 
Mexico.  The  "Sibeuian  Railway"  and 
"Russian  Village"  take  one  into  the  frozen 
north  and  reveal  the  widely  beautiful 
scenery  of  a  little  appreciated  countr}-, 
with  its  peculiar  customs.  "Cairo"  is  a 
larger  and  much  more  dignified  and 
accurate  picture  of  the  land  of  the  Khedive 
than  the  famous  "Streets  of  Cairo"  at 
Chicago.  The  Bedouins  of  the  desert  are 
a  living  part  of  a  show  that  employed 
many  hundreds  of  natives  and  animals. 

A  new  spectacle  is  "The  Firefighters," 
an  extraordinary  exhibition  of  a  crack 
organization  of  American  fire  laddies  with 
their  modern  apparatus.  Houses  in  flames 
furnish  the  fiery  theatre  for  scientific  life 
rescuing.  "Hunting  in  the  Ozarks"  is  the 
largest  shooting  gallery  ever  built.  The 
hunters  roam  through  the  natural  forests 
and  bag  game  that  unexpectedly  springs 
from  all  sorts  of  coverts.  A  "Forty-Nine 
Mining  Camp"  depicts  the  West  of  the 


r?^ 


The  "Siuike  Dance"  in  the  Indian  TiUa^e  on  "The  Pike. 


THE  ANGEL  IN  THE  MOON. 


35 


gold  fever  period  with  its  life  and  rude 
customs  and  ruder  justice  revived.  "Old 
St.  Louis''  is  a  collection  of  historic 
buildings  standing  with  their  true  rela- 
tions as  they  did  in  the  days  of  the  first 
settlement.    The  earlier  life  of  the  pion- 


eers is  graphically  told  by  living  imper- 
sonations of  traders  and  Indians.  The 
largest  scenic  railway  in  the  world  is 
another  feature,  while  the  great  "Observa- 
tion Wheel"  overlooks  all  this  display  of 
amazing  sights. 


Huta  of  the  Vluyuii  in  the  Fhilipplna  viUace  on  "The  Pike.'* 


THE  ANGEL  IN  THE  MOON 

Have  you  ever  seen  the  angel  in  the  moon, 
With  her  outstretched  pinions  gleaming 
gold  on  gold, 
And  her  shadowy  draperies  streaming  fold 
on  fold? 
Have   you    ever    seen   the   angel   in   the 
moon? 

O'er  the  fates  of  all  on  earth 

From  the  tragic  hour  of  birth 
Till  the  gates  of  death  swing  open  and  the 

weary  souls  pass  through, 
She  keeps  watch  and  ward,  and  waiting,  sees 
the  dreams  of  life  come  triie. 

— Lischen  M.  Miller. 


AN  INDICTMENT  OF  RUSSIA 

Lne   grievances    of  tbe  people  of  RuMia  under  tbe  government  of  tbe  Czars 
By  William   H.  Galvani 


THAT  the  exiled  Eussians  through- 
out the  world,  and,  more  espe- 
cially, in  lands  where  the  bold 
and  free  spirit  of  Anglo-Saxon 
civilization  guarantees  liberty 
to  all,  should  be  so  unanimous  in  their 
emnity  towards  Russia,  is  something  that 
the  vast  majority  of  writers  on  present- 
day  topics  can  not  understand.  But,  as 
a  matter  of  fact,  it  is  not  Russia  that 
stirs  every  one  of  those  exiled  men  and 
women  to  so  unbending  an  enmity.  It  is 
the  Imperial  Government  of  the  Czar- 
ridden  Empire,  the  actual  and  terrible 
source  of  all  of  long-suffering  Russia's 
misfortunes,  against  which  there  is  such 
an  outburst  of  hostility. 

The  question  naturally  suggests  itself — 
what  are  the  actual  causes  that  give  rise 
to  such  hostility? 

The  causes  which  gave  rise  to  these  hos- 
tile demonstrations  on  the  part  of  the 
Russian  exiles  abroad  are  not  of  a  per- 
sonal character — ^these  are  to  be  found  in 
the  grievances  of  the  whole  people  of  Rus- 
sia. Twenty-five  years  ago  Wendell  Phil- 
lips, addressing  Harvard  College,  took 
occasion  to  defend  the  noble  band  of  men 
and  women  who  enlisted  under  the  ban- 
ner of  Human  Rights  in  a  life  and  death 
struggle  with  the  bloody  despotism  of 
Russia.  In  that  memorable  address — 
^^The  Scholar  in  a  Republic" — delivered 
within  three  months  after  Alexander  II. 
was  sent  down  the  way  of  the  Czars,  in 
the  streets  of  St.  Petersburg,  Wendell 
Phillips  proclaimed  that  "for  every  sin- 
jofle  reason  they  (our  fathers)  alleged, 
Russia  counts  a  hundred,  each  one  ten 
times  bitterer  than  any  Hancock  or 
Adams  could  give/'  But  bitter  as  the 
grievances  of  the  people  of  Russia  were 
twenty-five  years  ago,  they  are  infinitely 
more  so  under  Nicholas  II.  in  the  year 
1904.    Chief  among  these  grievances  are: 

The  enormous  army,  navy  and  civil 
service,  requiring  a  svstem  of  taxation  for 
their  maintenance  that  amounts  practi- 
cally to  confiscation. 


The  overbearing  arrogance  of  the  gov-, 
eming  class  who,  aided  by  the  impostures 
of  their  twin-brother,  the  organized  priest- 
hood, have  established  a  system  most  hate- 
ful for  its  cruelty,  oppression  and  usur- 
pation. 

The  deliberate  failure  of  the  Imperial 
Government  to  provide  at  least  a  common 
school  system  that  would  be  adequate  to 
forever  remove  the  dark  blot  from  a  coun- 
try, wherein,  in  this  twentieth  century, 
more  than  half  of  the  population  remains 
hopelessly  illiterate. 

The  total  absence  of  a  free  press,  free 
speech,  free  assembly,  and  of  oflScial  re- 
sponsibility of  any  kind,  have  made  it 
possible  for  the  Imperial  Anarch  to 
quench  the  fires  of  freedom  in  the  blood 
of  Russia's  noblest  men  and  women. 

Tlie  brutal  and  cunning  policy  of  en- 
couraging sectional  and  sectarian  strife 
among  a  people  who  under  all  ordinary 
circumstances  would  never  be  guilty  of 
such  criminal  folly,  is  practiced  in  order 
to  divert  their  minds  from  the  actual 
source  of  their  bitter  sorrows  and  needless 
misfortunes. 

The  frequent  wars  of  conquest  waged 
by  the  Imperial  absolutism  upon  it*^ 
peaceful  neighbors,  whenever  internal 
feuds  come  to  a  standstill,  have  kept  a 
country  of  enormous  resources  in  a  con- 
stant state  of  bankruptcy  and  reduced  a 
patient  and  industrious  people  to  a  most 
hopeless  condition  of  poverty  and  degra- 
dation. 

The  base  and  deliberate  system  of  lying, 
fraud  and  violation  of  treaty  obligations 
on  the  part  of  the  Imperial  Grovernment 
— both  at  home  and  abroad — ^has,  by  the 
grace  of  Nicholas  II.  and  his  ofBciai  rep- 
resentatives, made  Russia  an  object  of 
scorn  and  derision  among  the  civilized 
nations  of  the  earth,  and  more  than  ever 
convinced  every  thinking  mind  that  the 
Wliite  Czar's  call  for  peace  only  means 
war  in  which  every  principle  governing 
civilized  warfare  is  violated,  and  his  Im- 
perial hints  in  favor  of  religious  tolora- 


THE  MOUNTAINS— A  PASTEL.  37 

tion  are  only  signals  for  riot,  rape,  and  over  additional  territory  and  population 

plunder  of  defenseless  people.  in  ease  of  victory  over  Japan. 

These  are  but  some  of  the  grievances  Those  who  best  know  the  nature  of  Eus- 
which,  without  any  international  organ-  sia's  governing  brigands  know  only  too 
ization,  concerted  action  or  mutual  under-  well  that  in  the  himiility  of  defeat  alone 
standing,  have  prompted  every  exiled  man  there  lies  the  hope  for  anything  like  a 
And  woman  to  disown  and  denounce  in  representative  system  of  government.  The 
unmistakable  terms  the  hypocriijy  and  crushing  defeat  of  the  Crimean  war  about 
brutality  of  the  Holstein-Gottorp  and  An-  fifty  years  ago  brought  the  emancipation 
balt-Zerbst  dynasty  for  provoking  a  of  almost  fifty  millions  of  serfs,  and  a 
hloody  war  with  a  peaceful  people  who,  disastrous  campaign  in  the  Far  East  at 
to  their  credit  and  to  Russia's  diame  be  this  time  may  bring  liberation  to  the  en- 
it  said,  have  achieved  in  fifty  years  under  tire  population  of  Russia  from  the  dead- 
their  Mikado  more  than  Russia  has  under  liest  and  most  brutal  power  that  ever  op- 
the  Czars  through  all  of  her  national  ex-  pressed  humankind. 

istence.    It  is  because  of  such  a  condition 

of  affairs  that  Russians    at    home    and  ^r     xx-   tt    /-r  i                            •    j 

abroad  prefer  all  the' terrors  of  defeat  to  ^^^-  ^^'  ^'  ^^^^^^  '^  ^  recognized  au- 

an  increased  arrogance  of  absolutism  and  thority  on  Russian  affairs,  having  spent 

the  further  extension  of  its  despotic  rule  half  of  his  life  in  that  country. 


TKe  Mountains — A  Pastel 

By  Manon  Cook  Kjugkt 

The  Aesthetic  Soul  stood  on  tlie  edge  of  the  High  Bluff  and  gazed  long  at 
the  Glorious  View.  Her  eye  traveled  over  the  shimmering  expanse  of  water,  and, 
following  the  turn  of  the  river,  rested  at  last  upon  the  Mountains,  silhouetted 
against  the  flaming,  sunset  sky.     Then  she  sighed. 

It  had  been  a  bright  day  and  her  Shadow  was  still  with  her.  ITor  is  it  likel}- 
lie  would  leave  her  side  at  the  setting  of  the  sun.  There  is  the  moon,  you  know, 
:and  evening  is  such  a  happy  time.  When  she  sighed  so  heavily,  and  that  longing, 
tinsatisfied  look  came  into  her  eyes,  he  was  much  troubled. 

"What  is  it?''  he  asked.    "Are  you  not  happy?'' 

"It  is  the  Mountains,"  she  said.  "They  are  so  suggestive.  They  make  me 
long  to  do  so  much,  to  accomplish  great  ends;  they  make  me  unsatisfied  with  my 
present  narrow  confines.  They  intimate  the  possibility  of  a  fuller  life, — but  I  have 
«o  few  opportunities." 

She  sighed  again,  and  then  they  turned  and  walked  slowly,  thoughtfully, 
homeward. 

She  was  very  ambitious  and  aspired  to  Great  Things. 

On  that  same  Bluff,  a  little  later,  the  Weary  One  came  to  rest.  Slie  sat  long, 
and  at  length  the  reflection  and  beauty  of  the  glowing  West  shone  in  her  face  and 
made  it  glad. 

He  Whom  She  Loved  stole  softly  up  behind  her  and,  taking  her  hand,  held  it 
tenderly  in  his  warm,  rough  one.     The  day  had  been  a  hard  one  for  him,  too. 

"What  makes  you  so  happy?"  he  said.  "Are  you  not  tired,  Little  One?"  The 
face  she  turned  to  him  would  have  been  a  revelation  to  the  Aesthetic  Soul. 

"A  little,"  she  answered,  "but  I  forget  it  all  looking  at  the  Mountains.  They 
inspire  one  so.  They  glorify  everjrthing  and  make  Life  take  on  brighter  hues. 
With  you  and  the  Mountains,  Love,  what  more  could  I  ask?" 

And  the  Peace  of  the  Twilight  Hour  rested  on  them  both. 


ON  THE  SHORES  OF  THE  PACIFIC 

A  description  of  tbe  ixrave-kiMcd  beaclies,  ixrkitlier  throng 
tke  toil-ixrom  for  rest  and  recreation 

By  Hugk  Herdman 


Childimi  in  th*  lurf  at  Jjong  Beaoh. 


THE  Easterner  who  visits  the 
beaches  of  the  Pacific  Northwest 
for  the  first  time  almost  inva- 
riably gives  utterance  to  a  feel- 
ing of  disappointment.  He  is 
usually  more  or  less  familiar  with  the  At- 
lantic Coast  summer  resorts,  with  their 
large  and  magnificently  appointed  hotels, 
their  elegant  summer  homes,  and  their 
commodious  bathhouses.  He  has  either 
mingled  with  the  elite  of  society  who 
throng  there  to  escape  the  stifling  heat  of 
the  city,  and  maintain  even  there  the  bar- 
riers of  exclusiveness ;  or,  as  an  outsider, 
he  has  viewed  them  with  curiosity — per- 
haps with  envy.  He  has  attended  the 
balls,  the  concerts  and  the  banquets,  or  he 
has  heard  or  read  of  them.  His  idea  of  a 
summer  at  the  beach  is  that  it  is  a  con- 
tinual round  of  fashionable  gaiety.  Nar- 
ragansett  Pier,  Newport  and  Atlantic  City 
are  the  names  which  come  uppermost  in 
his  mind,  when  he  thinks  of  the  resorts 


where  the  well-to-do  spend  the  summer 
months. 

Accordingly,  when  he  comes  to  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  and  hears  us  talk  of  our 
beaches  he  pictures  them  as  he  knows 
those  in  the  East  to  be.  He  imagines  that 
he  will  find  hotels  and  homes,  of  course 
not  so  elegant  or  costly  as  those  on  the 
Atlantic,  but  attempting  to  approach  them 
in  these  respects.  Hence  he  is  disap- 
pointed. He  sees  no  great  hotels,  no 
splendid  mansions.  Instead,  he  finds  com- 
fortable frame  hostelries  and  neat,  little 
cottages  nestling  among  the  firs  and  hem- 
locks and  oaks,  half  hidden  from  the  sea, 
but  within  hearing  of  its  incessant  roar. 
On  inquiry,  he  learns  that  there  is  no  ex- 
clusive quarter  where  only  millionaires 
may  abide.  On  the  contrary,  he  finds  the 
huml)le  cottage  of  the  man  who  is  in  com- 
fortable circumstances  within  a  stone's 
throw  of  that  of  the  man  whose  thrift  has 
yielded  him  millions.    The  engineer  of  the 


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39 


SeenMt  enjoyment  it  to  be  found  in  the  oontact  with  the  breakinff  waves. 


locomotive  that  draws  a  private  car  may 
live  next  door  to  the  man  who  rides  in  the 
car  and  calls  it  his.  The  bookkeeper  may 
lean  over  his  back  fence  and  chat  with  the 
president  of  the  bank  in  which  he  works, 
and  they  may  gather  driftwood  together 
on  the  beach  to  fill  up  their  fireplaces. 

Far  from  being  places  where  Dame 
Fashion  holds  sway,  they  are  real  resorts 
where  the  weary  may  rest,  the  weak  grow 
strong,  the  invalid  convalesce.    Whatever 


artificial  barriers  of  society  may  be  erected 
in  the  city  are  here  let  down,  and  human 
nature  again  usurps  the  rule.  The  one 
pre-requisite  to  freedom  and  a  good  time 
is  respectability.  Of  dances — ^never  balls 
— there  are  many;  and  parties — ^never 
fetes  or  banquets — succeed  each  other  in 
rapid  succession.  Consequently,  if  our 
Easterner  stays  long  enough  (and  he  usu- 
ally does)  he  feels  his  first  impression  of 
disappointment  vanishing  and  being  re- 


Tlie   "T.   J,   Potter,"   the   paUtial   iteamer  plying    between   Portland    and    Dwaco. 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


BirdMje    view    of   Lon^    Beach. 

placed  by  a  hearty  admiration  of  this  typ- 
ical Western  way  of  enjoying  nature  at 
her  primitive  best,  and  a  keen  exultation 
in  the  vigor  and  the  freedom  of  the 
healthful  life. 

On  tiie  beach  he  discovers,  mayhap  to 
his  surprise,  that  women^s  bathing  suits 
are  intended  to  be  used  in  bathing  in  the 
water,  rather  than  in  the  sunshine  and 
the  admiration  of  men,  or  the  envy  of 
women.  And,  wonderful  to  behold !  he 
sees  them  put  to  the  use  intended.  In- 
credible?    I  affirm  it. 

Under  a  sun  which  rarely  is  dimmed 
by  a  cloud,  and  in  a  temperature  which 
seldom  is  warmer  than  seventy-five  de- 
grees, he  sees  young  and  old  of  both  sexes 
indulging  in  all  the  sports  which  appeal 
to  mankind  on  a  holiday. 

Here  is  a  company  of  children,  equipped 
with  spade  and  bucket,  industriously  dig- 
ging and  clawing  after  the  nimble  razor- 
back  clam ;  there  a  crowd  of  boys  and  meji 
playing  baseball  on  the  long,  almost  level 
slope  of  the  firm  sand  at  low  tide ;  yonder, 
their  elders  indulging  in  the  more  sedate 
game  of  croquet;  and  yonder,  bicyclists 
and  horseback  riders  speeding  up  and 
down  the  beach.    When  the  tide  turns  and 


approaches  half-fiood,  they  desert  their 
games  and  don  their  bathing  suits  for  a 
few  plunges  in  the  cold,  exhilarating: 
water.  The  men,  ungallant  creatures,  gel 
enough  of  this  long  before  the  women  do, 
because  the  water  is  very  cool  and  they 
seem  to  become  chilled  more  quickly  than 
do  the  members  of  the  sex  which  we  in 
moments  of  abstraction  or  self-delusion 
term  "the  weaker."  I  have  seen  a  robust^ 
red-blooded  son  of  Adam  standing  on  one 
foot  and  looking  like  a  blue  heron,  chilled 
to  the  marrow  and  chattering  like  a  ca- 
nary, while  a  frail  slip  of  a  girl  dived  and 
paddled  about  in  the  water  as  if  it  were 
at  a  hundred  degrees. 

On  the  Washington  side  of  the  Colum- 


The   lifMATinff   boat   at   Ilwaoo   Beaoh. 

bia,  and  extending  down  to  North  Head 
which  surmounts  Cape  Hancock,  or  Cape 
Disappointment,  as  it  is  generally  called, 
is  Long  Beach,  so  called  from  its  long. 


Surf  bathinf  U  a  favorite  pastime  at  Lonir  Beaoh.     Every  day,   dnriac 


ON  THE  SHORES  OF  THE  PACIFIC. 


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^^^^^s^hfi^B^^^^V 

1 

-  z.J^      J 

^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"-« 

TIm   liffhthouM    at   Fort    Canbj,  the   mouth  of  tho  CoIiunMa. 


uninterrupted  stretch  of  smooth  sand. 
It  extends  north  for  a  distance  of  23  miles 
z&  far  as  Leadbetter  Point,  which  over- 
looks Shoalwater  Bay.  Besides  the  pleas- 
ures which  the  beach  affords,  there  are 
those  of  a  trip  to  North  Head  Lighthouse, 
which  stands  upon  the  rocky  summit  of 
Cape  Disappointment  and  signals  to  the 
watchful  mariner  that  both  danger  and 
safety  lie  there — danger  if  he  permit  his 
flhip  to  be  hurled  against  the  beetling 
crags,  and  safety  if  he  cross  the  bar  aright. 
Then,  too,  there  is  Fort  Canby,  which  the 
United  States  has  constructed  and  garri- 
soned to  protect  the  harbor  from  invasion. 
Here  perches  another  lighthouse,  whose 
rays  are  visible  21  miles  away. 

Long  Beach  has  the  distinction  of  sup- 
plying its  residents  with  driftwood  to  last 
them  the  entire  season.  The  currents 
which  swirl  around  North  Head  pile  high 


up  on  the  slope  during  the  winter  great 
quantities  of  wood  of  all  sorts.  Here  is  a 
huge  fir  or  spruce  log,  or  perhaps  a  tree, 
root  and  all,  at  one  time  a  towering  deni- 
zen of  the  forest,  now  beaten  and  broken 
by  the  waves  and  cast  upon  the  shore  like 
some  nude  corpse.  Here  lies  a  shattered 
spar  from  some  sailer,  here  the  lid  of  a 
chest,  both  Jaden  with  mystery  and  sug- 
gestive of  storms,  privations  and  death. 
Before  a  fireplace  blazing  with  the  bril- 
liant flames  of  these  tokens  of  tragedy, 
Fancy  spreads  her  wings  and  soars  in  an 
atmosphere  of  pure  romance.  She  see*; 
the  storm-racked  vessel  and  hears  the  cries 
of  the  death-stricken  sailors.  In  the  agony 
of  impotence  she  beholds  the  one  rent 
asunder  by  the  relentless  billows  and  the 
others  engulfed  in  the  insatiate  maw  of 
the  sea.  Or,  perhaps,  a  log  of  sandal 
wood  wafts  her  on  its  incense  to  the  sun- 


tbe  tiimnier  montht,  the  ocean' •  ed^  is  thronged  with  tportiTO  bathen. 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


smiled  shores  of  Japan^  and  she  views 
that  new-old  nation  casting  aside  its 
swaddling  clothes  of  ignorance  and  super- 
stition and  arraying  itself  in  the  mail  of 
the  warrior. 

This  beach  has  only  recently  become  a 
place  of  sojourn  for  the  pleasure-seeker. 
A  few  years  ago  the  gulls  wheeled  their 
silent  flight  undisturbed  by  man;  the 
seals  and  sea-lions  sported  immolested 
near  the  shores;  and  the  whales  spouted 


there  to  flounder  and  die.  We  have  not 
yet  reached  the  sea-serpent  stage  in  the 
development  of  seaside  novelties,  and 
until  we  cease  to  be  interested  in  a  mon- 
ster no  larger  than  the  whale,  we  shall 
probably  hear  nothing  of  his  submarine 
relative.  No  doubt  he  will  be  forthcom- 
ing when  occasion  demands,  but  that  time 
is  not  yet. 

As  the  sun  rising  over  the  edge  of  the 
Atlantic  pushes  back  the  curtain  of  the 


FeoulUr  rock  form&tisn  in  th*  lower  Columbia. 


and  gamboled  unseen,  save  by  those  aboard 
passing  ships.  Now  the  gulls  keep  a  wary 
and  anxious  eye  lest  one  of  the  tribe  of 
man  approach  too  near ;  the  seals  and  sea- 
lioris,  though  still  to  be  seen  almost  any 
time,  keep  farther  from  the  shore  than 
they  were  wont  to  do;  and  the  whales  arc 
sighted  at  farer  intervals  than  before.  Oc- 
casionally, however,  one  of  these  mammals 
comes  too  close  to  shore  and  soon  finds 
himself  beaten,  driven  and  rolled  by  die 
resistless   breakers   high   upon   the   sand, 


night  and  paints  the  heavens  with  hues  of 
gray  and  purple  and  saffron  and  gold,  and 
ushers  in  the  rosy-fingered  morn,  so  the 
same  sun  sinlcing  below  the  edge  of  the 
Pacific,  12,000  miles  and  more  away, 
draws  the  slow  curtain  of  the  northern 
night,  and  bathes  the  heavens  in  the  gold, 
the  saffron,  the  purple  and  the  gray  of 
heavy-eyed  eve,  leaving  us  breathless  with 
wonder  at  the  splendor  of  creation,  and 
exalted  with  thanksgiving  for  the  majesty 
of  the  Creator. 


A  DELAYED  HONEYMOON 

A  practical  joke  -wkiek  tkreatened  to  develop 
aerioua  coiuequencefl 

By  Aloyaius  Coll 


STRANGE !— four  men  in  swallow- 
tails  out   in   the   shadow   of  the 
rose  bushes  of  the  back  garden — 
and  so  many  pretty  young  girls 
flitting  about  on  the  front  lawn; 
music  and  dancing  on  the  piazza ;  delicious 
refreshments    at    cozy  corners  here  and 
there ! 

The  old  country  mansion,  notable  for 
many  gay  gatherings,  to-night  smelled  of 
October  leaves ;  October  stars  shined  over- 
head; the  dews  of  an  autumn  night 
sparkled  on  the  grass ;  horses  champed  and 
neighed  at  the  great  gates  leading  in  to 
the  secluded  house — all  about  the  artis- 
tic riot  and  merriment  of  a  happy  wed- 
ding night ! 

But  four  men  in  swallowtails  had 
drawn  apart  into  the  darkness — beyond 
the  light  of  the  lanterns  and  the  lamps. 
Not  even  the  piquant  glow  of  a  cigar 
burning  on  the  bosom  of  the  darkness 
to  betray  their  ambush ! 

Alexander  Bonbright  was  speaking. 
'*I  tell  you  what,  fellows,  it's  easy — easier 
than  you  think.  TheyVe  got  to  drive  to 
the  station  to-night — seven  miles  the 
shortest  way — ^to  catch  the  Express  on  the 
main  line  going  east.  The  train  leaves 
at  12:20.  We  have  two  white  teams,  so 
much  alike  you  can't  tell  one  from  the 
other  in  daylight,  let  alone  in  the  dark. 
Besides,  I've  been  to  a  wedding  or  two, 
and  everybody's  too  flusteted  to  notice 
anvthing  out  of  the  ordinary. 

"But  would   it  be   quite   fair,   Alex? 
Teddy's  such  a  soft  lump,  after  all;  to 
separate  him   from  her  that    one    hour 
would  kill  him.    I  don't  want  to  unload  a 
stiff  at  the  station — I'm  no  undertaker !" 

"Let  me  remind  you  of  a  certain  night 
not  so  long  ago,  Gene  Morton,"  replied 
the  unrelenting  Alexander — "the  night 
you  liad  your  wedding!  Who  did  the 
decorating,  if  it  wasn't  this  same  Mr. 
Groom  who's  going  to  be  the  victim  to- 
night? Doc  has  it  in  for  him,  too — ^he's 
the  man  that  had  the  announcement  cards 


distributed  on  the  train  when  Doc  and 
Sally  went  off." 

"Right  you  are,  Alex,"  chimed  the 
dentist.  "I'm  for  anything  that'll  make 
that  gentleman  look  back  over  his  records, 
and  strike  a  balance  on  old  scores." 

"Tom  Benford  hasn't  any  reason  to  be 
chicken-hearted  in  the  game,  either," 
persisted  Bonbright.  Benford  was  the 
fourth  of  the  group. 

'^ell,  what's  the  plan,  as  it's  now 
completed?"  said  Morton.  "We  can't 
stand  here  all  night — it's  a  dead  give- 
away. Besides — ^this  bimch  of  petticoats 
don't  get  together  every  night!" 

"Simple  as  rolling  off  a  log,"  answered 
Bonbright.  "We'll  have  the  two  white 
teams  with  the  cabs  ready  for  action  in 
good  time.  One  of  the  fellows  can  acci- 
dentally break  the  big  electric  globe  on  the 
front  porch  with  his  cane  in  the  excite- 
ment as  the  bridal  party  is  sighted  coming 
out  to  make  a  dive  into  the  bridal  cab. 
There  won't  be  any  light  on  the  porch, 
then,  except  the  glow  of  the  Chinese  lan- 
terns— and  I  think  they'll  all  be  burned 
out  by  that  time.  Ted  never  suspects 
me  of  being  in  the  game  to  trick  him — 
I've  promised  him  to  be  a  faithful  best 
man  all  the  way  through.  He  knows  the 
rest  of  the  gang's  loaded  for  him." 

"Now,  Gene  can  go  out  just  before  time 
for  the  bridal  party  to  start,  and  climb 
up  on  to  one  of  the  cabs  with  white  horses 
I've  made  arrangements  for  Mrs.  Mun- 
roe  to  get  in  before  this,  and  wear  an 
overcoat  and  my  hat.  She'll  look  enough 
like  the  groom  to  deceive  Bess  in  the 
dark  for  a  few  moments — and  that's  all 
that's  necessary.  Once  the  door's  slammed 
shut  we  don't  care.  I've  had  the  levers 
removed  from  the  inside  of  the  cabs,  and 
there's  no  opening  them  except  from  the 
outside.  Mrs.  Munroe's  entered  into  the 
spirit  of  the  thing,  and  won't  mind  the 
drive  to  the  station  and  back  for  the  fun 
we'll  all  get  out  of  the  trick." 

"When  Gene  drives  his  cab  up.  Doc,  and 


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some  more  of  the  fellows  we^U  take  in,  can 
help  the  bride  to  make  a  grand  rush  down 
the  steps  and  into  the  cab.  The  minute 
she's  stowed  in  beside  her  chaperone,  slam 
the  door,  and  give  Gene  the  word  to  break 
2i,WB.y.  Meantime,  leave  it  to  me  to  handle 
Mr.  Teddy.  I've  already  assured  him 
that  Tm  going  to  help  him  fool  all  the  rice 
throwers  and  old  shoe  hurlers,  by  making 
arrangements  to  have  the  bridal  cab  down 
at  the  gate,  in  the  rear  lane.  I'll  escort 
him  down  myself." 

"What  giri's  going  to  be  the  bride?  He 
won't  go  without  Bess;  you  can  bet  on 
that." 

"Nell's  going  to  be  his  bride — ^it  won't 
matter,  she's  his  sister — ^'till  we  get  him 
started  rightly.  Whaf  s  the  diflference 
then  if  he  does  find  out  that  the  bride's 
maid  has  been  palmed  oflf  for  the  bride? 
You  see,  this  back  lane  is  almost  pitch 
dark,  there  are  so  many  overhanging 
trees.  Tom  can  have  Nell  under  tow 
right  ahead  of  me — I'll  hold  Ted  for  a 
bracer — and  he'll  not  discover  the  ruse 
till  he  gets  into  the  cab.  Then,  I'll  take 
care  that  Mr.  Groom's  cab  never  overi;akes 
Gene.  Gene  '11  have  the  better  horses, 
and  if  Ted  gets  out,  and  insists  on  driving 
himself,  he  won't  be  able  to  catch  up 
anyway." 

"It's  a  good  scheme,  Alex,"  said  the 
others  in  chorus.    "Come  on!" 


The  guests  flocked  on  to  the  front 
piazza.  Everybody  was  laughing,  talking, 
shouting  at  the  same  time.  At  the  door, 
the  crowd  became  a  jam. 

"Here  they  come!"  was  the  cry  from 
those  nearest  to  the  hallway. 

Littl6  bags  of  rice  were  lifted  out  of  the 
tight  squeeze,  ready  to  fling,  and  old 
shoes  were  gripped  with  firmer  fingers, 
ready  to  cast  in  the  wake  of  the  fugitives. 
Above  the  commotion,  a  cane  was  waving ; 
suddenly  it  struck  the  fifty-candle  power 
electric  globe,  now  the  sole  light  in  front 
of  the  house,  and  a  shower  of  glass  fell 
upon  the  floor  and  over  the  guests !  Loud 
cheers,  mingled  with  feminine  shrieks, 
went  up,  as  darkness  enveloped  the  mad 
rush. 

Meantime,  deception  was  playing  in  the 
rear  hallway.  First,  down  the  stairs 
tripped  a  girl  enveloped  in  a  long  coat, 
and  on  the  arm  of  Tom  Benford  she 
rushed  from  the  rear  door  down  the  lane. 


Next  came  two  men,  one  carrying  a  travel- 
ing bag.  "Here,  old  man,  take  this  for  a 
bracer!"  whispered  Bonbright,  to  the 
groom.  "Do  as  I  tell  you,  and  we'll  beat 
'em  badlv.  They've  all  gathered  to  the 
front!"   " 

"Hurry,  man!"  Bonbright  gripped  the 
groom  by  the  arm. 

"Where's  Bess?" 

"Gone  ahead.  Benford  has  her  safe. 
See  them, — just  turning  the  lane?" 

"The  two  hurried  down  the  shadowy- 
lane.  As  the  groom  and  his  best  man 
made  the  last  turn  in  the  lane,  they  could 
see  in  the  dim  night  Tom  Benford  assist- 
ing the  girl  into  the  cab,  to  which  wa» 
hitched  a  pair  of  white  horses. 

As  the  groom  came  up,  Benford  swung 
wide  the  door  of  the  cab,  and  with  a 
double,  "Good  luck,  old  man!"  and  "Be 
good  to  him,  Bess!"  Teddy  was  shoved 
into  the  cab,  and  the  door  slammed  shut 
upon  him.  Bonbright  hopped  up  beside 
the  driver.  The  horses  dashed  away — ^but 
their  speed  was  soon  reined  to  a  rough 
walk.  "Whatever  you  do,  or  I  do,  you're 
not  to  catch  up  with  the  cab  that  has  the 
other  white  horses  in  it,"  was  Bonbrighf  s 
command  to  the  driver. 

"I  guess  this  pair,"  indicating  the 
occupants  of  the  cab,  "don't  wan't  to  ketch 
anvtliing  else  just  now,  do  they  ?"  was  the 
laconic  reply. 

Immediately  Bonbright  heard  a  loud 
thumping  on  the  inside  of  the  cab,  and  hi» 
name  coupled  with  a  storm  of  invectives. 

What  sounded  very  much  like  a  foot 
kicking  the  roof  of  the  cab,  was  the  next 
disturbance  from  within.  Twice  the 
driver  turned  to  look  back.  "Sort  of 
strenuous  toosin'!"  he  ventured,  in  Bon- 
bright's  apparently  deaf  ear. 

"Listen!"  said  Bonbright,  hurriedly. 
"This  is  a  wedding  joke — imderstand? 
If  I  give  you  a  poke  in  the  ribs  anywhere 
along  the  road,  make  a  wrong  turn.  Get 
lost!  See?  Lose  time,  somehow!"  He 
slipped  a  coin  into  the  cabman's  fist. 

Bonbright  turned  to  look  back.  A 
shower  of  glass  rained  out  into  the  road  f 
A  man's  foot  continued  to  kick  the  ragged 
shards  from  the  door  of  the  cab ! 

"Whoa!"  yelled  the  driver. 

Bonbright  hopped  down.  The  same 
instant  a  long  arm  protruded  through  the 
hole  in  the  glass,  opened  the  cab  door  from 
the  outside — and  the  groom  bounded  out. 

"Sneaking  traitor  I"   he   howled,   mad 


A    DELAYED   HONEYMOON. 


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with  rage.  Then  he  darted  back  into  the 
cab  and  dragged  his  sister  through  the 
door.  "Get  out  of  here!"  he  snarled  in 
supreme  disgust.  "Fun^s  fun — ^but  this 
is  nothing  but  a  low-lived  trick!  No 
decent  fellow  would  act  like  you  have," 
he  continued,  lunging  at  Bonbright. 

The  arch  plotter  stepped  back,  stagger- 
ing with   laughter. 

"Where's  Bess?"  The  question  was 
uttered  through  set  teeth. 

^^ou  never  played  any  honeymoon 
tricks,  did  you?"  was  the  provoking 
reminder   of   Bonbright. 

''Where's  Bessr 

"Gone  ahead." 

"You  said  that  same  thing  when  you 
were  starting  me  down  the  lane  on  this 
fool  errand,  you — ."  He  broke  into  a 
run  towards  the  house.  Bonbright  raced 
after  him,  calling:  "Stop!  Stop,  Ted! 
She  has  gone  ahead.  Wait,  and  I'll 
explain !" 

The  groom  stopped  short,  and  stood 
quivering  with  vexation. 

"She  was  put  into  another  cab  at  the 
front  porch,  and  sent  ahead  of  you.  It's 
merely  a  Uttle  trick  to  cheat  you  out  of 
the  ride  to  the  station  with  your  bride — 
that's  all.  She'll  be  at  the  station  when 
you  get  there." 

"She'll  not  get  there  a  second  ahead  of 
me,"  was  the  determined  reply.  "Is  this 
the  truth,  on  your  honor?  You  fellows 
have  gotten  square  by  this  time."  The 
tone  was  humble  and  beseeching,  now. 

"On  my  honor,"  swore  the  other, 
slightly  softened  by  the  helplessness  of 
his  friend. 

"Who's  with  Bess?" 

"Your  aunt — ^Mrs.  Mimroe.  Gene's 
driving." 

They  both  dashed  back  to  the  cab  they 
had  deserted,  passing  the  groom's  sister, 
as  she  hurried  back  to  the  house  to  tell 
the  other  guests  how  well  the  plans  had 
carried  out.  Bonbright  started  to  climb 
up  to  the  driver's  seat.  "No  you  don't — 
I'll  handle  the  whip  the  rest  of  the  way," 
and  Bonbright  was  pulled  back.  "Get 
inside,"  was  the  command  of  the  groom. 
Bonbright  gave  the  cabman  a  sly  poke  in 
the  ribs,  and  obeyed. 

The  horses  were  lashed  to  their  utmost 
speed.  At  a  reckless  pace  the  cab  jolted 
along  for  a  mile.  "You  can't  keep  up  this 
gait,  up  hill  and  down  hill,"  cautioned  the 


driver.  "You'll  kill  a  horse,  and  won't 
get  to  the  station  at  all." 

"Don't  care;  I'm  going  to  catch  the 
other  cab,  or  kill  both  horses,  or  pull  the 
tongue  out,  or  drive  that  simpering  idiot 
inside  over  the  bank  somewhere."  The 
long  lash  writhed  in  hissing  cracks  over 
the  flanks  of  the  startled  steeds. 

Another  mile — and  then  another;  still 
no  cab,  no  white  horses  in  sight!  Bon- 
bright himself  began  to  marvel  at  Gene's 
driving. 

Suddenly  the  driver  swerved  his  pair 
to  the  left,  and  they  went  steaming  down 
a  narrow  road.  Had  it  been  daylight,  the 
groom  would  have  known  this  as  a  little- 
frequented  highway,  for  grass  grew  close 
to  the  wheel-marks. 

Another  ten  minutes  of  driving,  and  the 
cabman  drew  up,  looking  carefully  to  right 
and  left.  "What  now?"  growled  the  other 
man  on  the  box. 

"I  thought  I  was  takin'  a  near-cut  by 
making  that  last  tum-^I  guess  I  ought 
'a'  kept  on  to  the  next  tum-oflf." 

" you !"  exploded  the  other,  wildly, 

snatching  the  reins. 

"Get  off!"  he  thundered.  "Jump,  or 
I'll  throw  you  off!" 

"I'm  responsible  for  this  team," 
answered  the  cabman. 

"I'm  responsible  for  my  wife!"  The 
driver  went  sprawling. 

Before  he  could  regain  his  feet,  the  cab 
wheeled  suddenly  and  dashed  on,  the  ter- 
rified horses  galloping  in  their  traces 
under  the  scourge  of  their  new  master. 
A  trail  of  dust  rolled  on  into  the  darkness ; 
a  cursing  cabman  trudged  along  the  road, 
far  in  the  rear ;  a  half  repentant  trickster 
poked  his  head  out  through  a  fringe  of 
glass  shards,  and  wondered  what  instant 
Death  should  pick  his  mangled  body  up 
along  the  highway. 

Two  lathered  horses,  mouse-colored 
with  a  mortar  of  sweat  and  country  dust, 
dashed  up  to  the  railroad  station,  hung 
their  heads,  and  coughed.  Players  at  a 
late  game  of  cards  looked  from  the  win- 
dow of  a  pullman  on  the  Express.  It  had 
already  pulled  into  the  station.  Seeing 
the  white  horses,  the  late  watchers 
laughed:  "A  bridal  party,  fellows!" 

"All  aboard,"  called  the  conductor, 
sharply. 

A  hundred  yards  beyond  the  little 
station  house,  the  heads  and  necks  of  a 
second  mouse-colored  pair  of  horses  were 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


visible.  As  the  groom  gave  one  hurried 
look  in  their  direction,  a  couple  of  tall 
men  started  forward  on  a  run  down  the 
platform,  gesticulating  frantically  and 
shouting  something  that  was  lost  in  the 
roar  of  the  engine. 

"All  aboard,^'  snapped  the  conductor. 
The   train   moved. 

"Here's  your  bag,"  said  Bonbright,  "and 
good  luck,  old  boy!"  Crawl  on — ^there's 
Gene — ^he's  put  Bess  on  all  right." 

The  train,  pulling  out  on  a  stiff  down- 
grade, had  gained  rapidly.  The  groom 
hurled  his  traveling  case  aboard,  mounted 
the  step,  and  with  one  last  wave,  fled  in 
the  door — to  join  the  bride  stolen  from 
him  for  one  whole  hour! 

The  two  men  dashed  up  to  Bonbright, 
shouting  madly.  Then  the  three  looked  at 
each  other  in  dumb  consternation,  and 
dashed  into  the  telegraph  office. 

Just  after  the  Express  had  thundered 
past  the  fourth  mile  number,  a  perspiring, 
frantic  young  man*  grabbed  the  coat-tails 
of  the  conductor  as  he  went  through  the 
narrow  aisle  of  the  buflfet. 

"But  I  tell  you  I  can't  stop  this  train 
till  we  get  to  Confluence,"  said  the  rail- 
road man.  "We  take  water  there.  You're 
pretty  near  five  miles  away  from  your 
station  now,  anyway,  and  if  you'd  get  off 
you'd  have  to  walk  back.  At  Confluence 
you  can  catch  the  west-bound  Mail,  due 


there  twenty  minutes  after  we  arrive — 
you'll  be  back  much  sooner  by  that,  don't 
you  see?" 

The  young  man  nodded,  glumly. 

The  man  in  buttons  had  an  amused  look 
on  his  face.  "Aren't  you  the  groom  that 
was  to  get  on  to-night — telegraphed  for 
the  parlor  section?" 

"Yes — possibly — but  I  don't  need  any 
state-room !" 

"Mighty  funny  how  some  women  back 
out  at  the  last  moment,"  grunted  the 
conductor,  passing  on. 

When  the  Express  pulled  into  Con- 
fluence, the  operator  from  the  tower  was 
waiting  on  the  platform.  He  handed  the 
conductor  a  telegram,  with  the  words: 
"Give  it  to  him  at  once,  or  it'll  be  too 
late.    He's  to  get  oflE  here." 

"Get  off! — I'd  like  to  see  you  try  to 
keep  him  on!  Wanted  to  maice  a  flyin' 
leap  at   Indian   Creek!" 

"It's  for  you,"  the  conductor  said,  as 
the  groom  came  down  the  step.  Holding 
the  paper  with  nervous  fingers,  he  read 
by  the  light  of  the  conductor's  lantern: 
"Get  oflf  at  Confluence.  Take  Mail  back. 
Tried  to  head  you  oflf  at  station.  Aunt 
flunked  last  minute.  Bess  still  at  home. 
Dancing  till  5:18  A.  M.  train.  Cab  will 
meet  you. 

"Alex." 


DOUBTS 


In  early  youth  love's  semblance  came  to 
me; 
I  held  it  to  my  heart  and  doubted  not 
That  it  was  love.    Oh  sweet  credulity 
That   gave  to  memory   one  fair,  vernal 
spot. 

In  truth,  it  lived  not  long,  that  early  dream; 

Like  April  flowers  that  soonest  fade  away 
It  passed.  And  years  have  passed.  And 
now  I  seem 

Again  to  feel  love's  presence  day  by  day. 

It  satisfies  my  mind,  my  heart,  my  soul, 
It  fills  my  life  with  calm  content;  above 

All   else,   it   complements   and   round   the 
whole. 
And  yet — and  yet  I  question:  "Is  it  love?" 

— Florence  May  Writfkt 


OURVIEW 


YwfflMBITTLEmr 


'r^W.MVtrai'^ 


There  is  no  day  like  to-day. 

*  «         * 

We  bow  and  likewise  smile.    This  is  volume  twelve,  number  one. 

*  *        * 

The  essential  thing  in  life  is  to  understand  what  is  worth  while. 

*  *       * 

The  true  and  sure  estimation  of  a  man  is  to  be  found  more  by  what  he  does 
not  do  than  it  is  by  what  he  does  do. 

*  *       * 

In  spite  of  personal  preferences,  there  is  an  actual,  determinable,  true  valua- 
tion which  time  and  experience  have  placed  upon  all  forms  of  human  activity.  One 
of  the  greatest  problems,  therefore,  that  faces  each  individual  throughout  life  is  a 
recognition  of  this  valuation  and  a  consequent  and  correct  adjustment  of  his  aims 

and  ideas. 

mm       * 

Stand  for  the  best  you  know.  In  business,  in  politics,  in  religion,  in  morals, 
be  something,  be  somebody.  Don't  compromise.  Any  fool  can  do  that.  Be  a  man — 
a  man  with  nerve  and  power  and  freedom  to  scorn  the  compromise.  Come  out 
into  the  open  and  stand  for  something  with  your  might.     Stand  {for  the  best 

you   know. 

*  *         * 

Recent  exposures  of  corruption  in  public  life  and  the  punishment  of  those  com- 
plicated in  the  matter  are  indications  of  normal  and  healthy  Americanism.  While 
we  are  on  the  lookout  to  detect  and  punish  those  who  are  false  to  their  trusts,  there 
is  not  much  danger  of  the  coimtry  going  to  the  dogs.  With  our  outlook  upon  the 
past,  the  realization  of  dangers  which  threaten  us,  and  our  unparalleled  energy  and 
resources,  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  the  United  States  will  go  on  to  the 
greatest  and  grandest  future  that  the  imagination  can  depict. 

«       *       * 

Gird  on  your  armor  for  the  battle  of  life,  and  fight  the  fight.  ^*He  who 
hesitates  is  lost.'^  Go  at  the  world  with  courage,  with  self-belief  and  unquenchable 
enthusiasm,  and  the  world  will  stand  aside  and  let  you  pass  on  to  the  rewards 
of  success.  In  all  experience  nothing  is  so  sure  as  that  the  man  who  believes 
in  himself,  who  understands  the  proportionate  value  of  things  and  who  knows 
how  to  work  and  wait,  will  eventually  attain  a  desired  end.  Genius,  unless  it 
bo  the  genius  of  hard,  persistent,  consistent  work,  has  had  little  or  nothing  to 
do  with  the  success  of  the  great  men  whose  names  stand  out  in  the  pages  of 
history.  Columbus  was  no  "genius.''  He  simply  had  a  fixed  idea  and  he  believed 
in  it  and  in  himself  although  the  world  laughed  him  to  scorn.  So  with  nearly 
ail  great  discoveries  and  inventions:  it  has  been  belief  that  has  produced  success. 
Some  men  are  satisfied  with  one  thing,  some  with  another,  but  success  in  all 
its  complex  and  varied  meanings  stands  within  the  grasp  of  every  man  who  is 
in  earnest  about  the  thing  which  he  has  set  his  hand  to  do. 


A  ^world-'wicle  survey  of  important  events  in  all  departments  of  kuman  activity 

-|     -,.      p  The  past  month  has  brought  some  important  moves  in  the  great 

Tk   W   ^^*     ^^^  g^ame  being  played  in  the  East,     The  first  land  battle  was 
'  fought  on  the  shores  of  the  Yalu,  and  victory  perched  on  the 

standard  of  the  Japanese.  A  crossing  of  the  river  was  effected  May  1,  being  stoutly 
opposed  by  the  Russians.  The  Czars  soldiers,  however,  were  swept  from  the  field, 
with  a  loss  of  2,500,  while  1,100  Japanese  were  hilled  or  wounded.  General  KuroJci 
continued  his  advance  into  Manchuria,  successfully  overcoming  the  half-hearted 
resistance  of  the  Russians.  There  is  reason  to  believe  that  Kouropathin  aims  td 
draw  the  Japanese  on  until  battle  may  be  offered  on  terms  favorable  to  the  Russians. 
He  has  asked  for  100,000  more  men.  Meamwhile,  a  second  army,  under  General 
Kodama,  was  landed  on  the  Liao-tung  peninsula,  menacing  Dalny  and  isolating 
Port  Arthur.  It  is  thought  that  the  repeated  efforts  of  Admiral  Togo  to  close  the 
entrance  to  the  harbor  have  at  last  proved  successful,  and  that  thh  Russian  fleet 
is  at  last  "bottled  up'*  in  the  inner  roadstead.  With  Port  Arthur  thus  completely 
invested  by  land,  and  with  no  escape  by  sea,  her  fall  is  only  a  matter  of  time.  The 
Japanese  cause  suffered  its  most  serious  loss  in  an  attempt  to  rid  the  harbor  of 
Kerr  bay  (near  Dalny)  of  its  mines.  First,  a  torpedo-boat,  in  trying  to  set 
off  a  mine,  was  herself  destroyed.  Later  the  fine  cruiser  Miyako  came  in  contact 
with  a  mine  and  was  sent  to  the  bottom.  The  Miyako  was  comparatively  new,  a 
20-knot  vessel  of  1,800  tons  displacement,  and  her  loss  will  be  felt.  Both  the 
belligerent  nations  have  negotiated  large  loans  to  finance  the  war.  Russia  has 
borrowed  $200,000,000  at  5  per  cent,  in  Paris;  while  Japan  has  raised  $50,000,000 
^  in  London  at  6  per  cent,  a  considerable  part  of  the  loan  being  subscribed  in  the 
United  States. 


^  -  •    On  April  28,  the  first  session 

Uosing  of  Qf  ^Yie  Fifty-eighth  Congress 
Ciongresfl  came  to  an  end.  In  review- 
ing the  work  it  has  done,  three  facts  are 
impressive.  The  most  conspicuous  is 
the  legislation  accomplishing  the  isth- 
mian canal.  The  consummation  of 
this  long-dreamed-of  thing  alone  insures 
the  Fifty-eighth  Congress  a  place  in  his- 
tory. A  second  feature  is  the  magnitude 
of  the  expenditures,  the  appropriations 
amounting  to  $781,574,629.99,  marking 
it  as  one  of  the  most  extravagant  sessions 
on  record.  The  third  notable  character- 
istic of  this  Congress  is  the  number  of 
things  it  has  left  undone.  After  the 
Panama  measures,  its  important  legisla- 
tion could  be  mentioned  in  a  breath.  It 
ratified  the  Cuban  reciprocity  treaty;  it 


ratified  the  Chinese  commercial  treaty, 
providing  for  two  open  ports  in  Man- 
churia; it  re-enacted  Chinese  exclusion; 
it  regulated  Philippine  commerce — and 
that  just  about  sums  it  all  up.  When  the 
number  of  great  questions  demanding 
issue  is  considered,  the  list  seems  small 
indeed.  Congress  postponed  action  on 
bills  to  regulate  trusts;  Canadian  reci- 
procity; measures  intended  for  the  relief 
of  our  insular  possessions ;  the  bill  to  pro- 
tect prominent  officials — occasioned  by 
McKinley^s  assassination;  the  anti-in- 
junction bill.  Other  bills  that  went  by 
the  board  were  the  general  reciprocity 
bills;  tariff  revision;  investigation  of 
postal  scandals,  land  scandals,  etc.  This 
record  of  omission  is  due  in  great  part, 
no   doubt,    to   the   approaching   election, 


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49 


and  the  consequent  desire  of  the  Repub- 
licans— ^the  dominant  party — ^not  to  en- 
danger their  chances  by  any  legislation 
which  might  prove  unpopular.  The 
closing  days  of  the  session  witnessed  some 
sizzling  political  debates.  Bourke  Cock- 
ran,  the  new  membjBr  from  New  York, 
stirred  up  the  trouble  with  a  fiery  Demo- 
cratic speech.  Dalzell  replied,  and  the 
two  had  it  out,  without  much  regard  for 
legislative  dignity.  The  closing  hour  in 
the  House  was  made  the  occasion  of  an 
expression  of  the  loving  esteem  in  which 
Speaker  Cannon  is  held  by  both  parties. 
He  was  visibly  touched  by  the  ovation. 

rwf  r  r  t  ^^^  fi^*^  steps  in  the 
r^"i  D  transfer  of  the.  Panama 

Canal  Property  rjj^^^i  property  have  been 
taken,  and  no  obstacles  to  the  actual  work 
of  construction  now  remain.  The  action 
brought  by  Colombia  in  the  French  courts 
to  restrain  the  execution  of  the  sale  was 
lost,  and  the  title  comes  to  the  United 
States  without  incumbrance.  The  pay- 
ment of  the  $40,000,000  was  made  through 
a  svndicate  of  J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  and  was 
managed  in  such  a  way  as  not  to  disturb 
the  money  market,  and  so  as  to  retain 
the  ownership  of  the  $40,000,000  until 
it  was  actually  paid  over  to  the  Banque 
de  France,  the  designated  depositary, 
thus  obviating  the  possibility  of  further 
litigation.  The  authority  and  responsi- 
bility for  the  construction  of  the  canal 
has  been  turned  over  by  the  President 
to  the  War  Department,  with  a  letter  of 
instructions.  The  Commission,  working 
under  the  Department,  is  to  have  charge, 
not  only  of  the  actual  work  of  construc- 
tion, but  of  the  government  and  policing 
of  the  canal  "zone,'^  the  necessary  meas- 
ures for  sanitation,  etc.  ^'Sanitation"  is 
the  watchword  of  the  whole  affair,  and  is 
given  paramount  importance,  and  every 
precaution  will  be  taken  to  prevent  the 
loss  of  life  by  fever,  which  has  so  handi- 
capped previous  work  on  the  isthmian 
canal.  Lotteries,  gambling,  etc.,  are  pro- 
hibited, but  the  Panamans  are  not  to  be 
interfered  with,  so  long  as  their  behavior 
does  not  affect  the  construction  of  the 
canal. 


plying  to  pool-rooms  special  intelligence 
from  the  race  tracks.  Evidence  was 
Brought  forth  that  the  company  was 
practically  in  collusion  with  the  pool- 
rooms, and  that  the  service  was  supplied 
with  full  knowledge  of  its  illegal  purpose. 
When  this  startling  news  was  first  pub- 
lished. President  Clowry  at  first  refused 
to  take  action,  denying  any  responsible 
complicity  on  the  part  of  the  company. 
Then  he  presented  a  compromise  action, 
offering  to  comply  with  any  request  of 
public  authorities  to  stop  the  telegraphic 
service,  when  specific  charges  were 
brought.  Finally,  however,  through  the 
action  of  prominent  directors — ^notably 
Chaimcey  Depew — an  order  was  issued  to 
discontinue  the  service  to  the  pool-rooms 
all  over  the  country.  This  will  deprive 
the  Western  Union  of  many  millions  of 


Through  the  action  of  the 
"City  Club" of  New  York, 
the  Western  Union  Tele- 
graph Company  has  been 
forced  to  discontinue  its  practice  of  sup- 


Tke  Western 
Union  and  tke 
Poolrooms 


"One   o&ndidAto't  vntamiihed   reoord." 

From    the    PorUand    Oregonian. 

dollars  revenue,  and  will  put  out  of  busi- 
ness hundreds,  if  not  thousands,  of  pool- 
rooms. The  larger  houses  will.be  able  to 
re-establish  their  business  by  providing 
private  means  of  telegraphic  communica- 
tion ;  but  the  vast  majority  of  these  nefari- 
ous concerns  will  be  forced  to  the  wall. 


50 


THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


^^      .        -  -  On  April  30  occurred 

Upcmnj^  oi  tke  the  formal  opening  of 
bt.LouiB  bxpontion  ^he  Louisiana  Pur- 
chase Exposition  at  St.  Louis.  Great 
crowds  were  present,  and  the  ceremonies, 
though  of  a  simple  nature,  were  most 
impressive.  President  Roosevelt,  in  Wash- 
ington, touched  the  telegraphic  key  that 
set  in  motion  the  machinery  of  the  Fair. 
Perhaps  the  most  spectacular  feature  was 
the  first  plunge  of  the  great  volume  of 
water  in  the  cascade  fountains.  As  is 
usually  the  case  with  expositions  of  so 
great  magnitude,  much  work  remains  to 
be  done,  especially  in  the  installation  of 
exhibits;  but  this  is  being  rapidly  pushed 
to  completion,  and  everything  will  un- 
doubtedly be  ready  before  the  great  influx 
of  visitors  begins.  The  total  cost  of  the 
Exposition  approximates  $50,000,000, 
and  the  result  is  a  spectacle  that  eclipses 
all  previous  attempts.  A  tract  of  1,240 
acres  of  land  is  occupied  by  the  Fair,  and 
nearly  1,000  buildings,  including  fourteen 
splendid  exhibition  palaces,  have  been 
erected.  A  detailed  description  of  its 
many  features  would  fill  a  book,  but  it 
is  hoped  that  most  of  the  readers  of  The 
Pacific  Monthly  may  be  enabled  to  see 
for  themselves  the  marvels  of  this  greatest 
of  "World's  Fairs.'^ 

-^  .  .  .  ,  Last  October,  the  Uni- 
JJecmon  Agamflt  ^ed  States  immigration 
lurner  authorities   ordered   the 

deportation  of  an  Englishman  named 
Turner,  under  the  act  of  Congress  forbid- 
ding admission  to  anarchists.  He  was 
arrested  while  addressing  an  assemblage 
in  New  York,  but  was  released  on  bail, 
and  permitted  to  return  to  England.  His 
case  was  carried  to  the  Supreme  Court, 
under  the  contention  th^t  Turner  was  an 
anarchist  in  theory  only,  who  did  not 
advocate  violence,  and  that  his  deportation 
was  an  infringement  of  the  right  of  free 
speech.  The  court  decided  against  Tur- 
ner, arguing  that  a  sovereign  nation 
has  the  inherent  right  to  protect  itself 
by  keeping  out  objectionable  persons. 
Freedom  of  speech  was  not  affected,  as 
Turner  was  a  foreigner  who  had  not  yet 
acquired  the  right  to  free  speech. 

_^  -.  .  No  new  phenomena  of  import- 
FoiiticB  ^j^^Q  jjg^y^  arisen  in  the  field 
of  politics  during  the  past  month.  The 
personnel   of  the  Republican  convention 


is  nearly  completed,  and  over  three-f ouriihs 
are  instructed  for  Roosevelt.  The  plat- 
form, too,  has  been  drawn  up — ^by  Senator 
Lodge — and  will  soon  be  public  property. 
It  is  understood  to  contain  no  start- 
ling innovations.  Judge  Parker — whose 
silence  seems  invulnerable — is  still  in  the 
lead  among  the  Democratic  possibilities, 
and  it  seems  probable  that  the  convention 
will  be  stampeded  in  his  favor.  Hearst, 
it  is  thought,  has  shot  his  bolt,  and  is 
no  longer  a  prominent  factor.  There  was 
a  rumor  that,  in  case  a  "Cleveland'^ 
or  "conservative"  candidate  were  nom- 
inated, the  Bryan-Hearst  faction  would 
desert -and  put  their  own  ticket  in  the 
field,  but  this  was  exploded  by  Hearst's 
flat  denial.  Mayor  McClellan  is  regarded 
as  the  only  other  considerable  possibility. 


"o  •  •  1  A  J  ^^^    advance    of    the 

.  "^i -^^'^"**^*  British  forces  on  their 
in  Ihibct  "political  mission'^  into 

Thibet  has  been  attended  with  so  many 
obstacles  and  dangers,  as  to  be  practically 
at  a  standstill.  The  real  nature  of  the 
military  errand  is,  of  course,  on  longer 
concealed,  but  it  is  becoming  apparent 
that  the  ability  of  the  Thibetans  to  offer 
resistance  was  vastly  underestimated. 
They  are  now  armed  with  modern  guns, 
and,  considering  the  difficulties  of  the 
country,  and  the  rigor  of  the  climate,  are 
in  a  position  to  make  it  extremely  un- 
pleasant for  the  Englishmen.  There  is 
some  hope  that  negotiations  may  be  con- 
ducted which  will  enable  the  two  countries 
to  come  to  an  understanding,  but  the 
probabilities  are  that  the  British,  with 
their  expected  reinforcements,  will  ad- 
vance toward  Tjahassa,  the  capital  city, 
and  that  they  will  be  stoutly  opposed  by 
the  Thibetans. 


^  .      .^  Professor    Alexander    Bell, 

bcienMic  j.^Q  venerable  inventor  of 
Kite  Wyin^  ^^^  telephone,  has  for  sev- 
eral years  been  working  on  the  problem 
of  aerial  navigation,  through  the  flying 
of  kites.  At  a  recent  field-day  of  the 
National  Geographic  Society,  Professor 
Bell  conducted  experiments  in  kite  flying, 
for  the  benefit  of  the  scientists.  The  kites 
used  are  entirely  unlike  the  familiar  pat- 
terns, being  tetrahedrals,  or  four-sided 
solids,  each  face  of  which  is  a  triangle. 
Two  of  the  four  faces  are  covered  with 


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51 


silk,  and  the  frames  are  made  of  light 
wood  or  aluminmn.  Steel  or  aluminum 
wire  is  used  to  fly  these  kites.  The  kites 
used  were  but  six  feet  on  a  side,  but 
Professor  Bell  has  sailed  them  as  large 
as  thirty  feet.  Whether  any  available  re- 
sults were  obtained  from  the  experiments 
is  not  known. 

,^  .      Marconi,  the  inventor  of  wire- 

Marconi  j^gg  telegraphy,  reports  that, 
-^*"*  on   a   recent   trip   across   the 

ocean,  he  was  at  all  times  in  communica- 
tion with  either  one  or  the  other  continent, 
by  means  of  the  "wireless.^^  Until  he 
was  1700  miles  out,  he  communicated  with 
his  European  station,  and  then  connected 
with  the  Glace  Bay  station,  on  this  side 
of  the  Atlantic.  As  a  result  of  his  success. 
Marconi  announces  that  he  will  establish 
daily  newspaper  service  on  the  Cunard 
line. 


''Who'i  Wlu)   in  the   Orient!" 

From    the    Tacoma    Ledger. 


_-  T>  1  r-  ^®  *  result  of  the  charges 
The  Red  LroM  brought  against  the  Red 
Society  Cross  Society,  Miss  Clara 

Barton,  founder  of  the  society,  and  for 
twenty-three  years  its  president,  has  re- 
signed, and  Mrs.  John  A  Logan — widow 
of  General  Logan — has  been  elected  to 
succeed  her.  The  unfortunate  and  deplor- 
able contention  which  has  cast  a  shadow 
over  the  noble  work  of  Miss  Barton,  grew 
out  of  certain  remonstrances  against  the 
official  acts  of  the  president.  It  was 
claimed  that  she  had  exceeded  her  author- 


ity in  the  management  of  a  certain  dona- 
tion of  land,  that  moneys  subscribed  for 
the  relief  of  the  victims  of  the  Galveston 
flood  were  diverted  from  their  object, 
and  that  the  accounts  of  the  Society  were 
kept  in  an  unsatisfactory  manner.  Most 
of  the  charges  were  withdrawn,  aad  the 
remainder  were  answered  in  such  a  way 
as  to  exonerate  Miss  Barton;  but  the 
disruption  of  the  Society  seemed  to  neces- 
sitate her  withdrawal,  as  the  first  step 
toward  reorganization. 

_.     ,        .  Bvan  almost  unanimous 

Prcflbytenan  ^ote,    the    Presbyterian 

Lhurchcfl  Unite  General  Assembly,  in 
annual  convention  at  Buffalo,  decided  in 
favor  of  the  proposed  union  with  the 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church.  The 
question  will  have  to  receive  the  favorable 
vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  Presbyteries, 
before  finally  approved;  but  this  is  re- 
garded merely  as  a  form,  the  result  of 
which  is  a  foregone  conclusion.  The 
Cumberland  Church,  which  left  the  parent 
body  because  it  could  not  accept  the  doc- 
trine of  infant  damnation,  has  a  mem- 
bership of  185,000.  As  the  objectionable 
clause  has  no  longer  a  place  in  the 
Presbyterian  creed,  there  is  no  barrier 
to  the  union,  which  will  mean  a  member- 
ship of  1,250,000  for  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

xj  TL>r  o  1  The  death  of  Sir  Henry 
JlenryM.btanlcyM  Stanley  closes  the 
•^**^  career     of     the     most 

famous  explorer  of  our  day.  He  first  came 
into  public  prominence  when,  as  a  reporter 
on  the  New  York  Herald,  he  was  sent  by 
the  elder  Bennett  to  discover  the  where- 
abouts of  Livingstone,  the  missionary  and 
explorer,  who  had  been  missing  in  Africa 
for  two  years.  Stanley  not  only  succeeded 
in  this,  but  made  some  important  dis- 
coveries on  his  own  account.  After  three 
years  in  the  wilderness  of  central  Africa, 
he  returned  to  England  to  find  himself 
famous.  The  following  year  he  returned 
to  Africa,  explored  the  Congo,  organized 
the  Congo  Free  State,  and  performed 
other  feats  of  exploration  and  discovery. 
For  his  achievements  he  was  made  the 
recipient  of  distinguished  honors.  He 
was  ^iven  the  Legion  of  Honor,  was 
knighted,  and  received  many  honorary 
degrees.  Mr.  Stanlev  was  the  author  of 
many  books  of  travel  and  exploration. 


IMPRESS^ 


^s 


JLESKRSKINE-SCOTT-WOODj 


Life  0  desire  is  kappiness.     Freedom  10  kappmess.     Only  by  mental,  moral  and 
bodily  freedom  can  man  truly  improve. 

WANTED !  A  partner  for  a  life  interest  in  a  well-established  business.  Money 
not  80  much  an  object  as  character  and  brains.  Must  be  sober,  ambitious,  indus- 
trious, patient  and;  unselfish,  with  a  safe  family  history  as  to  habits  and  body  and 
mind.  No  objection  to  capital.  Intense  and  jealous  love  not  so  much  an  object 
as  general  sanity  and  afiOnity. 

^PPly  ^^  Miss  Evk. 

LOST!  An  ideal ;  healthy,  orderly,  thrifty,  gentle,  kind;  more  beautiful  in 
character  than  face.  She  loved  so  little  (or  so  much)  she  was  content  to  yield  and 
forego  in  order  to  promote  happiness.  She  loved  her  love  more  than  herself  and 
never  stabbed.  She  did  not  think  the  loyalty  and  intensity  of  her  love  an  excuse 
for  jealousy,  nagging,  and  the  creation  of  hell  upon  earth.  She  was  not  content 
to  be  supported,  but  realized  that  one-half  the  labor  was  hers.  She  created  peace, 
and  gave  rest. 

Finder  will  be  liberally  rewarded  if  he  will  return  her  to  the  undersigned. 

Everyman,  Everywhere. 


Advice  to  tke  Democratic  National  Convention 

Gentlemen:  You  will  be  divided  into  two  camps:  the  conservatives  and  the 
radicals.  A  house  divided,  against  i itself  can  not  stand;  but  let  me  suggest  you 
would  better  fall  than  to  unite  merely  for  purposes  of  plunder. 

You  Conservatives  would  do  well  to  remember  that  conservatives  are  always 
wrong.  The  one  sure  thing,  the  only  certain  thing,  is  that  you  are  wrong.  Con- 
servatism has  always  stood  for  the  existing  order  of  things,  and  the  existing  order 
of  things  never  endures.  King  John  of  England  was  conservative.  The  feudal 
dukes  of  France  were  conservative.  And  had  the  conservatism  of  the  world  always 
triumphed,  the  earth  would  be  owned  to-day  by  a  few  overlords,  and  the  people 
would  wear  (more  visibly  than  now)  the  iron  collars  of  serfdom. 

You  gentlemen  of  the  Radicals,  remember  you  can  not  swear  you  are  right; 
and  though  no  progress  could  ever  be  made  if  before  the  experiment  were  tried  we 
must  be  sur^  of  its  success,  and  though  you  are  right  in  insisting  that  new  things 
are  not  to^-be -condemned  because  they  are  new,  yet  remember  that  not  every  new 
thing  is  right,  and  be  patient  with  your  more  backward  brethren. 

Gentlemen  of  both  the  Cojiservative  and  the  Radical  camps,  what  is  your 
problem?  Is  it  to  win  in  the  coming  campaign  and  secure  patronage  for  the 
office-himgry?  Then,  in  God's  name,  make  your  bargain  with  the  powers 
that  be  and  shout  vehemently,  "Let  us  in!  Let  us  in!"  Suppress  every  thought 
which  will  offend  any  one.  Throw  principle  to  the  dogs.  Be  all  things  to  all  men, 
and  nothing  to  any  one.     Get  votes ;  no  matter  how  you  get  them,  get  votes  I     But 


IMPRESSIONS.  53 

if  your  problem  be  to  increase  the  sum  of  human  happiness,  to  lessen  the  burdens 
of  the  many,  to  aid  human  progress,  you  must  decide  what  is  the  evil  you  are  to 
overthrow.  What  is  that  evil?  It  is  precisely  the  same  question  (different  in 
form  and  degree)  which  Athens  met,  and  Rome  met,  and  which  the  world  has  been 
meeting  since  history  began.  The  evil  is  the  government  of  the  many  by  the  few ; 
the  money  tribute  paid  to  the  few  by  the  many. 

This  is  no  more  a  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for  the  people, 
than  were  the  governments  of  Pericles,  Nero  and  Louis  XI'V.  It  is  only  better  in 
degree.  How  much  do  the  people  have  to  say  about  their  taxes?  Their  laws? 
Every  law  on  the  staute  books,  not  a  criminal  law,  is  in  the  interest  of  some  schem- 
ing and  predatory  few.  The  people  choose  certain  governors  on  certain  promises 
never  carried  out.  The  people  are  run  by  bosses,  and  the  bosses  are  run  by  property. 
This  government  is  in  fact  an  oligarchy;  a  collection  of  many  oligarchies  within  a 
greater  oligarchy.  Can  you  show  me,  gentlemen,  any  oligarchy  which  was  not 
founded  on  property?  Nay,  can  you  show  me  any  government  which  was  not 
founded  on  property  ?  The  earliest  idea  of  government  was  to  take  from  the  many 
for  the  few.  That  is  still  the  idea  and  effect  of  government.  Feudalism,  with  its 
lords  and  overlords,  rested  upon  the  idea  of  ownership  of  vacant  land  by  a  fee  title 
in  the  lord,  viz.,  landlordship.  The  despotisms  of  Athens  and  Rome  rested  upon 
landlordship  and  the  right  to  levy  taxes. 

It  is  the  same  to-day.  It  is  said  Mr.  John  Rockefeller  is  worth  a  billion.  No 
man  can  earn  a  billion.  To  him  must  flow  in  some  invisible  channel  the  tribute 
from,  the  many,  as  surely  as  it  flowed  to  the  emperors  and  nobles  of  old.  This  is 
the  evil  you  are  to  remedy.  If  you  would  destroy  the  oligarchy  of  government,  you 
must  destroy  the  oligarchy  of  weath.  If  you  would  destroy  the  oligarchy  of  wealth, 
you  must  cut  the  arteries  which  feed  to  the  few  the  earnings  of  the  many. 

Disguise  it  as  you  may,  shout  "Demagogy,^^  "Anarchy'^  and  ^^ested  Rights^' 
as  you  please,  this  is  the  evil  which  has  grown  with  us  into  visible  proportions  and 
which  will  be  somewhat  cured  by  evolution,  or,  in  due  time,  by  revolution. 

It  is  true  we  have  more  personal  liberty  than  had  the  common'  man  under 
Nero,  Henry  VIII.  or  Louis  XV. ;  but  personal  liberty  is  not  all.  ^TTou  take  my 
life  when  you  do  take  the  means  whereby  I  live.'^ 

I  say,  obscure  it,  ignore  it  as  you  will,  the  evil  assailing  this  country  is  a 
plutocratic  oligarchy.  The  conservative  who  cries,  "Let  things  be  as  they  are,'^  or 
"Stand  pat,"  is  as  wrong  now  as  he  was  in  the  days  of  Charles  I.  of  England. 

What  is  the  remedy  ?  The  remedy  now,  as  in  the  past,  must  be  one  more  step 
toward  freedom!  freedom!  freedom!  That  government  is  best  which,  governs 
least.  You  must  stop  repeating  these  words  and  you  must  do  them.  Once  more 
from  the  statute  books  of  the  overlords  must  be  stricken  the  laws  giving  privileges 
and  monopolies.    What  are  they? 

First — The  laws  which  permit  congress  to  give  land  to  those  who  do  not  use 
it.  Title  to  land  should  depend  on  use  and  occupation  and  with  the  cessation  of 
use  and  occupation  title  should  cease.  The  title  of  congress  to  land  is  the  title  of 
the  King  of  England.  Congress  has  not  of  right  title  to  one  inch  of  land  any- 
where as  against  the  actual  user  of  it. 

Second — The  law  which  prohibitively  taxes  private  banks  ten  per  cent  on  any 
notes  of  issue.  This  was  originally  a  scheme  to  sell  government  bonds,  and  intended 
to  give  national  banks  and  government  bonds  a  monopoly  in  the  issuance  of 
currency. 

Third — The  whole  protective  tariff  schedule — as  clear  a  robbery  of  the  people 
by  the  barons  as  ever  was  done  upon  the  Rhine  in  the  Middle  Ages. 

Fourth — Railroads  must  be  likened  to  rivers  and  compelled  to  haul  any  man's 
car  at  cost  or  forfeit  its  franchises  if  it  unjustly  discriminates. 

Put  in  these  four  planks,  gentlemen,  and  enforce  them,  and  you  will  cut  the 
roots  of  the  trusts — ^not  merely  tickle  their  tops.  You  will  have  moved  toward  less 
law,  less  special  privilege,  and  more  freedom.     I  do  not  mean  personal  liberty.     I 


64  THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 

mean  freedom  of  action  and  of  thought.  Whenever  you  find  a  change  is  in  the 
direction  of  freedom,  be  sure  you  are  right;  be  not  afraid;  go  ahead  confidently. 
Every  step  in  human  progress  has  been  toward  freedom,  and  freedom  is  the  ulti- 
mate goal  of  all  progress. 


Responsibility  for  Vice 

A  Seattle  man,  Herbert  Gowell,  committed  suicide  in  Portland,  Oregon,  be- 
cause he  had  lost  all  in  the  gambling  dens  of  that  city.  He  left  a  sort  Qf  will 
directing  the  gamblers  to  pay  his  debts,  because  they  were  the  authors  of  his  ruin. 
A  man  named  Eichardson  is  suing  certain  gamblers  in  Portland  under  the  law  per- 
mitting him  to  recover  double  the  amount  of  his  losses. 

Such  laws  as  these  are  responsible  for  the  belief  of  the  Gowells,  Richardsons 
and  others  that  the  gamblers  are  the  only  ones  to  blame.  The  persistent  insistence 
from  the  pulpit  that  those  who  set  traps  for  the  weak  are  the  only  blameworthy 
ones,  begets  such  laws.  The  whole  is  the  result  of  a  false,  emotional  logic.  We  feel 
sympathy  for  the  loser,  pity  for  the  weak,  and  so  we  fly  tooth  and  nail  upon  the 
purveyor  of  vice,  imtil,  in  the  heat  of  the  onset,  all  sense  of  any  responsibility  in 
the  victim  is  lost.  We  teach  him  that  he  is  a  much  to  be  pitied,  petted  and  pro- 
tected innocent.  The  time-honored  argument  of  the  gravedigger  in  Hamlet  that 
the  water  will  not  come  to  you  to  do  the  drowning,  you  must  go  to  the  water,  sug- 
gests the  truth.  • 

When  a  man  or  woman  is  deprived  of  all  freedom  of  will  and  is  bound  hand 
and  foot  and  forcibly  carried  into  the  haimt  of  vice,  he  or  she  may  properly  call  for 
protection.  But  where  the  cause  of  ruin  is  that  the  individual  is  too  weak  to  resist 
the  allurements  of  vice,  any  forcible  protection  of  the  individual  does  more  harm 
than  good.  It  begets  a  false  sense  of  responsibility.  It  renders  parents  less  vigilant. 
It  induces  the  belief  that  the  "victim''  is  the  prey  of  other?  when  in  reality  he  is 
the  victim  of  himself.  It  removes  from  the  victim  that  opprobrium  which  he  should 
share  equally  with  the  tempter.  Gambling-house  keepers  are  beyond  the  pale  of 
good  society,  and  are  excluded  from  fraternal  orders;  but  gamblers  are  not.  The 
real  law,  the  true  law,  the  force  of  unwritten  public  opinion,  is  obscured.  Looking 
after  other  people's  morals  by  force  of  law  means  a  loss  of  individual  freedom  and 
individual  sense  of  responsibility,  and  it  never  has  produced  any  good  commen- 
surate with  the  evil  it  does,  and  it  never  will.  It  violates  a  fundamental,  natural, 
universal  law — freedom  of  human  will.  It  is  precisely  of  the  same  character, 
though  diflfering  in  degree  and  purpose,  as  forbidding  the  holding  of  religious  meet- 
ings not  sanctioned  by  the  government. 

It  is  said  the  new  mayor  of  Seattle  intends  by  force  of  law  and  integrity  of 
purpose  to  have  neither  gambling,  prostitution,  nor  a  "grafting''  police.  I  predict 
his  utter  failure.     No  King  Canute  will  ever  stay  the  tide  of  luuiiaii  aature. 

By  some  sort  of  crooked  reasoning,  people  jimip  at  the  conclusion  that  one 
who  does  not  favor  making  people  good  by  law,  means  to  let  people  go  to  the  devil 
without  a  word  of  advice  or  a  helping  hand  to  stay  their  course.  The  advice,  the 
reasoning  with  the  young,  the  control  by  parents  over  the  young,  the  helping  hand 
at  all  timos  to  all  men,  is  exactly  what  I  do  believe  in,  and  I  would  not  obscure  our 
responsibility  by  aiming  a  law  at  vice.  There  will  be  no  vice  when  there  are  no 
vicious,  and  the  vicious  must  become  good  by  their  own  wills,  not  by  law. 

It  is  a  delusion  to  think  you  have  destroyed  vice  because  you  have  built  a  wall 
around  it.  Men  and  women  must  be  taught  to  resist  evil  influences.  They  must 
be  reasoned  with,  prayed  with,  and  helped;  but  you  might  as  well  talk  of  making 
an  arm  strong  by  bandaging  it  as  of  making  people  truly  good  and  strong  of  char- 
acter by  putting  them  in  a  desert  or  on  the  other  side  of  the  wall  from  vice. 

I^et  me  humbly  suggest  to  the  antagonists  of  vice  that,  looked  at  in  the  long 
perspective,  the  reforms  which  will  count  are  those  economic  reforms  which  give 
to  the  mass  a  less  hopeless  struggle  for  existence  and  happiness. 


[READER! 


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'TTTZ 


P55TS 


A  review  of  current  books  and  an  opinion  of  tkeir  menta 


It  has  come  to  be  true  that  to  denom- 
inate a  book  a  "problem  noveF'  is  to 
characterize  it  as  a  morbid,  emotional, 
feverish  story,  dealing  with  the  marriage 
relation,  and  appealing  more  or  less 
directly  to  the  prurient  appetite.  It  is 
an  unfortunate  perversion  of  the  term, 
for  any  book  which  deals  seriously  with 
one  of  the  many  great  questions  of  life 
may  properly  be  designated  a  "problem 
novel;"  and  many,  if  not  most,  of  the 
works  of  the  greatest  novelists  may  be 
so  classified.  In  this  broader  sense,  "The 
Law  of  Life,"  by  Anna  McClure  Sholl, 
is  a  problem  novel.  The  central  theme 
is  reminiscent  of  the  Dorothy-Casau- 
bon  part  of  "Middlemarch,"  although 
the  subject  is  treated  in  an  entirely 
diflEerent  way.  It  is  a  situation  that 
is  fraught  with  many  dan- 
gers for  the  imwary  author,  but 
is  handled  with  a  delicacy,  a 
firmness  of  grasp  and  a  purity  of  purpose 
that  removes  it  from  all  suspicion  of 
offensiveness.  There  is  no  prudish  shrink- 
ing from  the  truth,  and  the  story  is  carried 
logically  to  its  inevitable  conclusion. 

"The  Law  of  Life"  is  a  book  of  many 
phases.  Its  locale  is  a  large  American 
university,  which,  under  the  pseudonym 
of  "Hall worth,"  is  recognized  as  Cornell. 
The  people  of  the  story  are  drawn  from 
the  students,  the  faculty  and  the  society 
which  clusters  about  a  great  college.  In 
her  depiction  of  types,  the  author  is  most 
successful,  and  her  understanding  of  this 
peculiar  phase  of  life  is  deep  and  true. 
There  is  a  deal  of  witty  and  philosophical 
talk,  with  a  sprinkling  of  memorable  epi- 
grams. 

(Appleton's.) 

"How  Tyson  Came  Home"  is  a  book  of 


The  Law 
of  Life 


considerable  unevenness.  Its  first  few 
chapters  promise  much.  The  introduc- 
tion of  characters  and  the  luminous 
picture  of  the  painted  buttes  and  mesas 
of  the  Southwest  justify  the  reader  in 
anticipating  a  story  of  swift  movement 
and  keen  interest ;  and  then,  of  a  sudden, 
the  scene  shifts  to  England,  the  action 
lags  and  there  is  little  to  relieve  the 
monotony  until  toward  the  close,  when 
the  narrative  seems  to  gather  itself  to- 
gether again,  and  moves  swiftly  to  the 
end. 

The  author,  William  H.  Kideing,  may 
be  an  American,  or  he  may  be  an  English- 
man, but  he  is  certainly  more  at  home  in 
depicting  the  life  of  the  former  country. 
-J       —  Tyson,  Nona  and  the  Sen- 

riow  ly«on  ator  arc  faithfully  drawn, 
L.ame  Home  ^^^.  ^j^^  English  characters, 
from  the  lords  to  the  lackeys,  all  impress 
you  as  being  distorted  or  caricatured. 

The  truth  is,  "How  Tyson  Came  Home'' 
is  none  too  strong  as  to  structure.  The 
author  never  seems  to  be  quite  certain  of 
himself,  and  is  forever  being  swept  away 
by  little  side  eddies,  that  serve  only  to 
impede   the   main   current   of  the   story. 

(John  Lane.) 


It  is  always  good  to  get  back  to  nature, 
to  see  her  sunny  smiles,  to  inhale  her  pun- 
gent odors,  to  feel  the  renewing  power 
of  her  nearness.  There  is  so  much  of  the 
strenuous,  the  blatant,  the  garish  in  our 
life  and  literature,  that  anything  to  re- 
mind us  of  the  simple  things  of  life  is 
to  be  thrice-welcomed. 

Such  seems  to  be  the  message  of  "A 
Bachelor  in  Arcady,"  by  Halliwell  Sut- 
cliff.  The  central  figure — hero  he  can 
hardly  be  called — is  an  amateur  gardener. 


56 


THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


a  sort  of  masculine  Elizabeth.     He  is  a 

A  R    k  1     Purposeless  and  fanciful  indi- 

A*^  J^'^^^^^*   whose   waking    hours 

inArcady    g^jjj    ^^   ^   divided   between 

gardening,  fishing  and  scribbling.  He 
is,  moreover,  a  philosopher,  in  a  dreamy 
sort  of  a  way,  and  an  innocent  humorist. 
His  limitless  leisure  enables  him  to  become 
intimately  acquainted  with  nature,  as  she 
reveals  herself  in  field  and  garden  and 
hedgerow.  The  story  of  the  Bachelor^s 
experiments  and  labors  with  flower  and 
vegetable,  his  fishing  expeditions,  his  con- 
versations with  the  gardener,  connected 
by  the  slender  filament  of  a  love  story, 
is  pervaded  with  a  gentle  charm.  Its 
humor  is  quaint  and  delicious;  its  philos- 
ophy, true  and  broad;  its  sentiment,  ten- 
der and  fanciful. 

The  book  is  a  quiet  protest  against  the 
fever,  the  over-activity  of  life.  It  is  as 
pure  and  cool  as  a  bubbling  spring,  and 
a  draught  from  its  pages  will  refresh  your 
mind  and  soul,  and  give  you  a  saner, 
sweeter  view  of  life. 

(T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.) 

Solomon  to  the  contrary  notwithstand- 
ing, there  is  something  new  under  the 
sun;  "The  Picaroons,^^  by  those  two, 
original,  Californian  collaborators,  Gillett 
Burgess  and  Will  Irwin,  is  certainly  "up- 
to-now,"  to  employ  an  expressive  barbar- 
ism. If  there  is  anything  more  novel, 
more  racy,  more  pungent,  it  has  not 
reached  tlie  Reader's  desk.  It  is  fresh 
coined  from  the  mint  of  modernity. 

To  be  sure,  the  picaresque  novel,  or 
**rogue  romance/'  is  of  ancient  inception, 
originated  in  Spain,  and  developed  in 
England,  notably  by  Fielding.  It  has 
_,  long  been  a  matter  for  wonder- 

^."*  ment  that  the  picaresque  has 

Picaroons  \^^n  gQ  neglected,  for  where 
is  the  man  whose  heart  does  not  soften  to 
an  amiable  rascal,  or  whose  interest  is 
not  held  by  the  annals  of  his  roguery? 

There  may  be  those  who  will  find  the 
humor  of  "The  Picaroons"  a  little  too 
broad,  and  its  style  a  little  too  highly 
flavored.  Every  man  to  his  taste,  say  we. 
Moreover,  the  picaresque  implies  these 
very   qualities. 

If  it  were  necessary  to  characterize 
"The  Picaroons,''  with  one  adjective,  we 
should,  without  hesitation,  dub  it  "Frisco- 
esque.'' 

(McClure,  Philipps  &  Co.) 


The  bleak  New  England  coast  is  an  un- 
failing hunting-ground  for  the  searchers 
after  quaint  and  eccentric  characters. 
Sarah  Ome  Jewett,  Mrs.  Greene  and 
others  have  found  here  the  material  and 
inspiration  for  their  delightful  books,  and 
now  Mr.  Joseph  C.  Lincoln  must  be 
added  to  the  list.  His  "Cap'n  Eri''  will 
take  rank  with  the  best  of  them. 

The  author  does  not  write  from  hear- 
say; that  is  evident.  To  speak  with  so 
great  understanding  and  svmpathy  of 
these  people,  he  must  have  lived  among 
them,  breathed  with  them  the  salt  air  of 
the  sea,  shared  their  joys  and  sorrows,  and 
learned  to  read,  beneath  the  homely,  often 
uncouth  exterior,  the  genuine  strength  and 
sweetness  of  character. 

Cap'n  Eri  is  the  salt  of  the  earth,  bluflf, 
great-hearted  old  mariner  that  he  is.  His 
^  ,  -,  .  fund  of  stories  and  wise  sav- 
^ap  n  tin  ^^^  ^g  inexhaustible.  He  is 
the  central  figure  of  a  group  of  characters 
that  you  hail  at  once  as  the  best  of  com- 
rades for  the  brief  journey  from  foreword 
to  finis.  There  is  enough  of  a  plot  to  in- 
sure a  connected  narrative,  but,  as  is  usual 
in  books  of  this  nature,  chief  interest  at- 
taches to  the  quaint  speeches  and  actions 
of  the  people  themselves. 

(A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.) 


A  HOME  THRUST. 


Booker  T.  Washington  tells  a  capital  story 
of  Jerome  S.  McWade,  who,  he  says,  seemed 
to  him,  when  a  boy,  to  ^be  the  *  *  smartest  col- 
ored man  in  the  world.'* 

**  Jerome  was  a  slave.  He  lived  in  Vir- 
ginia, at  Hale's  Ford.  One  day  he  appeared 
in  a  red  velvet  waistcoat,  and  straightway 
he  was  seized  and  taken  to  the  office,  for 
this  waistcoat  was  the  master's  property.  The 
master  had  worn  it  on  his  wedding  day. 

**Well,  Jerome  managed  to  prove  that  he 
had  not  stolen  the  waistcoat.  Calhoun  Ham- 
ilton had  stolen  it,  and  Jerome  had  bought 
it  from  Calhoun  for  a  small  sum. 

**  *Now,  Jerome,'  the  master  said,  *I  ad- 
mit you're  not  a  thief,  but  you're  a  receiver 
of  stolen  property,  and  that's  just  as  bad.* 

**  *No,  no,  sir,'  said  Jerome.  *No,  no. 
That  is  not  just  as  bad,  by  any  means.' 

**  *Why  isn't  it  just  as  badf  said  the 
master. 

**  *  Because  you  wouldn't  receive  stolen 
goods  yourself,  sir,  if  it  was  bad.' 

**  *What  do  you  meanf  I  a  receiver  of 
stolen  goods!  Explain  yourself,'  the  master 
commanded. 

*  *  *  Why,  sir, '  said  Jerome,  *  you  bought  and 
paid  for  me,  the  same  as  I  bought  and  paid 
for  that  red  waistcoat.  Well,  wasn't  I  stolen 
same  as  the  waistcoat  wast  Wasn't  I  stolen 
out  of  Africa?'  " 


Musings  of  a  Mysogyxust — 

There  are  two  infallible  ways  of  win- 
ning a  woman.  The  first  is  to  woo  her 
with^might  and  main,  never  resting  until 
she  surrenders.  The  second  is  to  be 
absolutely  indifferent  and  let  her  court 
3'ou.  Between  these  two  extremes  lies 
only  failure. 

If  all  wives  were  as  angelic  as  most 
men  think  their  fiancees  are,  married  life 
would  be  as  insipid  as  cambric  tea. 

Some  girls  measure  the  strength  of  a 
man's  infatuation  by  the  amount  he 
spends  on  violets  and  chocolates. 

Nothing  flatters  the  average  young 
husband  so  much  as  to  have  his  wifo 
make  him  think  that  she  thinks  that  she's 
"twisting  him  around  her  little  finger.'* 


HER  PARASOL 


A  dainty  thin?,  so  deftly  wrought 
Of  Ivory,  silk  and  fllmy  lace, 

I  envy  you,   oh  parasol, 

The  fortune  of  your  happy  place. 

I  envy  you  the  gentle  clasp 

Of  her  small  hand,  so  soft  and  fair. 
As  thus  you  poise  above  her  head. 

And  breathe  the  incense  of  her  hair. 

I  envy  you  the  right  to  shield 

Her  from  the  sun's  too  ardent  rays. 

And  would  that,  too,  you  might  forfend 
My  rival's  bold,  profaning  gaze. 

When,  with  a  snap,  she  shuts  you  up, 
And  puts  you  on  the  rack,  perdie! 

I  know  exactly  how  you  feel. 
For  that's  the  way  she  uses  me. 

-G.T. 


About  the  only  use  a  girl  has  for  men 
is  to  make  the  man  jealous. 

When  a  girl  suspects  that  a  man's 
intentions  are  at  all  serious,  the  first 
thing  she  does  is  to  write  his  name  with 
a  "Mrs/*  before  it,  to  see  how  it  looks. 

When  a  girl  calls  you  a  'Tiorrid  old 
thing,"  you  may  know  that  you  have 
reached  the  top  note  in  the  gamut  of 
her  approval. 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Quotmg  Precedent — 

"Paw,"  began  Willie. 

"Yes,  my  son." 

"Would  you  like  me  to  be  like  George 
Washington  ?" 

"Certainly." 

"Then  you  needn^t  whip  me.  I  just 
chopped  the  garden  hose  into  a  dozen 
pieces." 

Broken  Slumter— 

Doctor:  "Did  you  sleep  well  last 
night?" 

Patient :  "No,  my  rest  was  very  much 
disturbed." 

Doctor:  "Was  the  medicine  I  sent 
taken  according  to  directions?" 

Patient:  "To  tell  the  truth,  doctor, 
the  bottle  fell  from  the  table  and  was 
smashed." 

Doctor:  "Well,  ifs  no  wonder  then 
your  sleep  was  broken." 


Tke  Exception — 

"There  is  only  one  class  of  people  who 
can  use  the  American  flag  for  advertising 
purposes  without  objections  being  raised." 

"What  class  is  that?" 

"The  politicians." 


Curtailed  Lil>erty — 

First  Afghan :  "Lo,  brother,  and  since 
the  ruler  of  this  hot  and  benighted  country 
has  decreed  that  each  of  us,  his  subjects, 
may  have  no  more  than  four  wives,  I  will 
no  longer  serve  him.  I  shall  leave  my 
native  land  this  fortnight." 

Second  Afghan:  "And  where  do  you 
expect  greater  liberty,  brother?" 

First  Afghan:  "I  shall  betake  myself 
to  an  enlightened  and  blessed  place  in 
the  new  world,  called  Utah." 


>V^c^ 


"Tkrough  Tkick  and  Tkin* 


Tea  TaUe  Amenities — 

"I  wonder,"  queried  the  salt  cellar,  if 
the  horse  radish  will  be  able  to  draw 
the  tea?" 

"If  not,"  returned  the  pepper-box,  "the 
cheese   mite." 

On  hearing  which  the  tumbler  fell  over, 
the  cold-slaw  shivered,  while  the  napkin- 
ring  announced  that  the  meal  was  ready 
to  serve. 


Contemporaneous  History — 

"Now,"  said  the  teacher,  "  can  any  one 
tell  me  what  empire  it  was  that  the  his- 
torian Gibbon  wrote  the  decline  and  fall 
of?" 

"I  know !"  exclaimed  the  boy  with  red 
hair. 

"Well,  Jimmie?" 

"Russia." 


How  tke  TrouUe  Started — 

Mrs.  Flannigan:  "Sure,  an^  me  poor 
husband's  corns  hurt  him  that  bad  he 
can  harrdly  get  along." 

Mrs.  Finnegan :  "An'  I  think  it's  corn 
juice  what's  ailin'  yure  poor  husband, 
Mrs.  Flannigan." 


At  tke  Wild  West   SLow- 

Inquisitive  young  lady:  "And  did 
your  former  partner  on  the  plains  wear 
his  hair  long?" 

Bullet-proof  Bill :  "He  wore  it  as  long 
as  he  could,  miss,  the  Indians  scalped 
him  you  know." 


ROGRESS 


.jfJtiaL" 


For 
pire," 
Great 


AN  OUTPOST  OF  EMPIRE 

By  Herbert  Cutkbert 

HE  FACT  is  not  generally  known  that  Sir 
Francis  Drake,  one  of  England's  most 
famous    sailors,    received    his    knight- 
hood,   not    for    his    valor    in    fighting 
England's     battles    on    the    sea,     but 
for    his    peaceful    voyages    of    discovery 
along  the  Pacific  Coast  of  this  continent. 
Long  before  the  Spaniards  occupied  prac- 
tically all  this  coast,  centuries  before  the 
<liscovery  of  the   great  Columbia     River,    this 
;:;reat  sailor,  fighter  and  discoverer,  just  thirty 
years  after  Columbia's  second  voyage  to  Amer- 
ra,  sailed  along  these  shores    of     the    Pacific, 
lf>ok  possession  of  the  whole  territory  on  behalf 
flmt  ■teamor  on  tue  ^f  his  Quecn,  and  nam'ed  it  "Nova  Albion,"  or 
Fuiflo— 1B35.  Kew  England.    From  that  day  to  this  there  has 

lieen  an  outpost  of  the  British  Empire  on  the 
Pad  fie  Cna!?it.     \\s  v\nvi   location  has  been  changed  several  times  and  the 
bintrirv  of  (In-!?!?  tliaci^MA^  it?  very  interesting,  especially  of  the  period  when 
it  was  centered  at  Nootka  Sound  in  the  days  of  Quadro,  Cook  and  Van- 
couver, 
the  past  forty  years,  however,  Victoria,  B.  C,  has  been  this  "Outpost  of  Em- 
where  at  the  village  of  Esquimalt,  three  and  one-half  miles  from  the  city, 
Britain's  only  naval  yard,  dry  dock  and  forts  on  the  Pacific  Coast  are  sit- 


8.  fi.  BeKTfl 


K.  M.  warships  at  anchor,  Esquimalt  harbor. 


60 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


uated.      Naturally,    should    any 
complications  arise  with  other  na- 
tions over  this  war  l>etween  Rus- 
sia and  Japan,' 'the  eyes  of  thu 
world  will  be  upon    Victoria^  dA 
they  are  now  upon  Port 
Arthur.      A    descrJi>- 
tipi^-therefore,  of  tJus; 
intCTCsting     city 
may  be  of  inter- 
est. 

This  ''Outpost 
of    Empire^'     is 
not  only  a  mili- 
tary   and    naval 
station,  but  is  a 
most     delightful 
city     in     every 
way.    Victoria  is 
the     capital     of 
British  Columbia 
and  is  known  as  tb*    H 
green  Cit/^  of  Can.ula.     h 
has  always  been  re*  nornize*) 
as  a  city  in  which    life  is 
well  worth  living.     Its  sit- 
uation is  ideal,  surrouii<1ed 
as  it  is  on,  three  sides  by  tlie 
island-studded     Straits     of 
Juan  de  Fuca,  leading  out 
into  the  great  Pacifir  Oceiin, 
the    shore-line    broken    by 
huge,  rocky  bluffs,  shelter- 
ing innumerable  small  liay.^ 
with    sandy    beache.^,     anil 
from  which  superb  views  of 
the  snow-capped  01}Tnpian  range  of  mountains  and  of  the  lordly  Mount  Baker  are 
always  obtainable. 

During  the  last  few  years,  the  tourists,  and  the  health  and  homeseekers  have 
discovered  for  themselves  this  favored  city,  and  hence  it  has,  in  a  very  short  time. 


Oowlohan     Itt^a 
WAjr,    &«ar   Vlc- 


Moant  Baker  from  Oak  Bay. 


PROGRESS. 


61 


become  one  of  the  great  resorts  and  residential  cities  of  America. 

The  climate  of  Victoria  is  the  city^s  greatest  assets  notwithstanding  its  beauti- 
ful environs.  For  fully  seven  months  in  the  year,  there  is  a  daily  average  of 
seven  hours  of  bright  sunshine,  a  temperature  never  over  78  degrees,  even  in  the 
height  of  summer,  and  rarely  below  40  degrees  in  winter,  and  an  average  rainfall 
for  seven  months  of  not  more  than  eight  inches.  The  winter  climate  is  the  mild- 
est in  Canada ;  roses  and  other  flowering  plants  and  shrubs  having  been  in  bloom 
during  the  whole  of  the  winter  of  1903-1904.  The  air  of  Victoria  is  invigorating 
and  never  enervating. 

Aquatic  and  field  sports  are  indulged  in  very  freely  by  the  young  people  of  the 
city ;  in  fact,  there  are  few  cities  of  its  size  on  the  continent  that  can  compare  with 

it  in  this  regard. 
[  \  ^^^^  Splendid  driving 

and  cycling  are 
other  features  of 
life  in  this  city 
of  the  Canadian 
Far  West.  The 
Ocean  Avenue 
Beach  Drive, 
about  eight  miles 
long,  is  one  of 
the  finest  marine 
drives  in  the 
world. 

The  naval  sta- 
tion at  Esqui- 
mau, with  its 
dockyard,  dry 
dock,  ironclads 
and  torpedo  - 
boats ;  Beacon 
HiU  Park,  with 
its  zoological  col- 
lection, fine  rec- 
^»  ^         ^^^  ^^y^  ^^^      reation   grounds, 

^Bn      "ffjF  JBMPQfWJi^^      beautiful     walks 
G^^H^^^^B  ^^^^^J^^^^H      and   drives ;  the 

^^■pgHp^HJI^^^^^B^^^         stately  pile  cost- 

I^JC^^^^^V  ^!5^  ing  over  one  mil- 

lion dollars  and 
the  most  beauti- 
ful structure  in 
splendid  museums 
^collections  of  animal, 
fhiiiorai  iunl  ngri cultural  specimens; 
(lak  Bay,  with  fine  sandy  beaches 
beloved  of  campers;  and  the  far- 
famed  Gorge  at  the  head  of  Victoria  Arm,  a  natural  reversible  waterfall — all  are 
places  of  interest  to  those  who  visit  Victoria.  During  the  summer  months  there  are 
daily  excursions  in  steam  launches,  by  rail,  by  steamer  and  by  tally-ho  to  the  nu- 
merous islands  and  resorts  which  surround  the  city. 

The  Victorians  are  a  progressive  people,  and  are  doing  much  to  make  this  "Out- 
post of  Empire'^  a  model  city.  It  has  now  a  population  of  nearly  30,000  people. 
ITiere  are  some  very  important  public  works  under  way,  and  the  Canadian  Pacific 
railway,  realizing  its  great  future,  is  building  a  superb  hotel  that  will  be  one  of 
the  finest  in  the  West,  and  whicli  will  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  $1,000,000. 


d  en  <t  e  St  patk 
TiewR*  and  a 
glimxpse  of  Vie.' 
torlft,  B.  O. 


--T" 


^ 


Avith  iluur  iltie 


PROGRESS. 


63 


The  opportunities  for  enjoy- 
ment and  pleasure  have  had  a 
great  deal  to  do  with  making  Vic- 
toria such  a  delightful  residen- 
tial city.  The  trains  of  the  Es- 
quimalt  &  Nanaimo  railway  are 
crowded  almost  daily  with  citi- 
zens and  visitors  who  are  making 
their  way  to  the  numerous  camp- 
ing and  hunting  places,  within  a 
very  few  miles  of  the  city,  where 
they  know  splendid  salmon  and 
trout  fishing  is  to  be  had. 

The  people  of  Europe,  of  East- 
ern Canada  and  of  the  United 
States  have  really  very  little  con- 
ception of  the  marvelous  beauties 
of  this  portion  of  the  Pacific 
Coast.  Tlie  chief  charm  of  this 
superb  scenery  is  that^  it  is  the 
revelation  of  the  Almighty's  con- 
ception of  the  beautiful,  as  ex- 
emplified in  this  perfect  combi- 
nation of  mountain,  sea,  sky, 
meadow,  stream  and  headland  in  one  everlasting,  perfect  picture — the  wonderment 
of  all  who  are  privileged  to  behold  it. 

Life  in  Victoria  has,  perhaps,  fewer  drawbacks  than  any  other  Western  city,  and 
as  one  gentleman  wrote,  "there  may  be  more  beautiful  places,  but  in  my  journey 
round  the  world  it  has  never  been  my  good  fortune  to  find  them." 


Zn  Tlotozto's  flu*  dry  dook. 


OREGON'S  SUMMER  RESORTS 

By  Bruce  AVolverton 


My  first  impressions  of  the  seacoast  of 
Oregon  were  wafted  to  me  by  the  sea 
breezes.  They  were  received  in  the  wiiy 
ter,  after  storms  had  lashed  the  surf  into 
a  fury,  and  the  angry  billows  had  begun 
to  beat  their  deepest  diapason  on  the  reefs 
and  rocky  headlands. 

My  next  impressions  were  real,  for  the 
reports  of  a  trail  cut  by  adventurous  spir- 
its, and  the  sound  of  the  hunter's  horn 
were  frequent  reminders  of  the  attrac- 
tions in  those  mountain  wilds.  Oft  re- 
turning tourist  parties  would  talk  of 
salmon  and  flounders,  bass  and  bear,  deer 
and  elk,  so  that  I  had  a  lively  curiosity 
to  know  more  of  this  wierd  land  of  moun- 
tain and  moor,  where  huntsman^s  horn  re- 
sounded in  echoing  refrain  to  the  tune  of 
the  fisherman^s  oar. 

Newport;  Eightly  have  they  named 
this  resting,  trysting  place,  seated  by  the 


Cnrlons  som*s  on  tli*  shore. 

sea,  fanned  by  the  salt  air,  wooing  tl^e 
weary  worker  and  affording  all  classes  an 
opportunity  for  a  real  outing,  an  outing 
by  the  sea.  Fancy  pictures  it  as  famous 
at  no  distant  day  as  her  prototype  of  the 
Atlantic  Coast.  At  this  place  the  Japan 
current  is  said  to  approach  nearest  the 
coast,  so  that,  with  favorable  breezes,  the 
warm  waters  of  this  ^^great  river  of  the 
sea''  tempers  the  surf  to  its  bathers,  ren- 
dering this  healthful  pastime  most  de- 
lightful.    The  shore  sands  slope  gently, 


BMMid*  mosaics. 

and  the  undertow  is  at  a  minimimi. 

The  sea  breezes,  the  breath  of  the  pine 
and  cedar,  cups  of  nectar  distilled  in 
mountain  fastnesses,  the  fish  and  fowl, 
the  crabs  that  crawl  in  the  sea,  the  berries 
luscious  and  ripe;  these  ail  invite  us  away 
from  scenes  of  wearisome  toil  and  brain- 
racking  problems  to  enjoy  an  outing  in 
the  many  beautiful  and  entrancing  spots 
which  nature  has  so  lavishly  provided. 


Popular   pastimes. 


DRIFT. 


HIS  IDEA  OF  IT. 

At  the  theater  the  ladies  are  discuBsing 
the  attire  of  those  about  them,  as  usual.  By 
and  by  their  attention  is  attracted  to  a  lady 
who  is  the  central  figure  of  a  box  party. 

''Isn't  she  stunning f  murmurs  one  of 
the  fair  ones.  ''She  is  dressed  in  mauve 
satin,  is  she  notf" 

"No,  no  I"  corrects  another  of  the  ladies; 
"it  is  a  pearl-gray  satin." 

"Now,''  laughs  another  of  them,  "let  us 
leave  it  to  the  professor,  here.  What  has  he 
to  say  of  itf  What  is  she  dressed  in,  pro- 
feasor!" 

Here  the  professor,  who  has  been  studying 
the  sights  and  scenes  with  all  the  interest  of 
a  savant,  takes  a  casual  glance  at  the  object 
of  the  discussion  and  ventures,  "As  nearly 
as  I  can  jud^e  from  here,  she  is  dressed  in 
pnris  naturalibus. " 

Whereat  they  laugh,  thinking  he  refers  to 
peau  de  sole,  or  some  such  fabric,  and  has 
merely  made  one  of  the  numerous  blunders 
which  are  common  to  the  untutored  man.— 
Judge. 

STUDIES  OF  THE  VEBNAOUIiAB. 

The  Chicago  Tribune  reports  the  following 
conversation  between  the  ribbon  counter  girl 
and  the  girl  at  the  candy  counter,  as  illus- 
trating the  highly  edifying  effect  "emanci- 
pation" has  on  our  girls: 

"Onnustf" 

"  'Bright I" 

"Okumoff!" 

' '  Sure    zima    stanninear. ' ' 

"Juh  meaniti" 

"Ubetcha." 

"Ooseddy  did!" 

* '  Gurlova   there. ' ' 

"Wah  sheno  boutiti" 

' '  D  'no.      Swatshesedd. ' ' 

"Oakum  off  I  Yercoddin." 

"Thinkso  fu  wanta.  Bawche  Chrismus 
gifst" 

' '  Notchett.     Bawchoorst ' ' 

"Naw.    Saylookeerl" 

"Watchasayl" 

"Jeer  how  Tomman  Lil " 

"Notsloud.    Somebody  learus." 

"Lettum.     Nuthinmuchno  how." 

* '  Quitchercoddin. ' ' 

"Oakum  off  I     I  aintacoddin. " 

"Oracious  Imus  begittinalongi " 

"Somus  I." 

"Slong!" 

"SlongI" 


^  BRAND 


!  PERFECTION  IN 
:  CAhMED  GOODS. 

Peas.Corn.ltuits 

Tbmatoes.Beansi 
VejctJLbies,  Catsup] 
5almon.01ivG0il 
>SYrup5.  Clams, 
Oysters.  6hrimp. 
Lobster:^ 


pRErrRHED  Stock 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


NOT  SO  FUNNY. 

It  is  the  custom  to  laugh  at  the  absurd 
answers  so  often  made  by  youngsters  to  the 
hard  questions  put  to  them  in  school,  etc. 
But  these  answers  are  really  more  pathetic 
than  humorous,  for  they  show  the  prevalent 
tendency  to  push  pupils  on  beyond  their 
depth,  instead  of  developing  them  by  the 
'**  drawing  out"  process,  which  is  the  true 
basis  of  education.  Here  are  some  of  these 
innocent  answers  made  by  pupils  in  an  Eng- 
lish school: 

What  religion  had  the  Britons f  A  strange 
and  terrible  one,  called  religion  of  the  dudes. 

What  caused  the  death  of  Cleopatra  f  It 
was  because  she  bit  a  wasp. 

What  can  you  tell  of  Jonsonf  He  sur- 
vived Shakespeare  in  some  respects. 

What  do  you  call  the  last  teeth  of  manf 
False  teeth. 

What  is  the  spinal  column  f  Bones  run- 
ning all  over  the  body.  It  is  considered 
•dangerous. 

Name  a  domestic  animal  useful  for  cloth- 
ing and  describe  its  habits.  Ox:  doesn't 
have  any  habits,  because  it  lives  in  a  stable. 

What  is  the  function  of  the  gastric  juice  f 
To  digest  the  stomach. 

Name  six  animals  of  the  Arctic  zone.  Three 
polar  bears.     Three  seals. 

—The  Pathfinder. 

•       •      • 

Wise  Brothers,  Dentists. 
Failing   Building,   Third   and   Washington 
Streets,  Portland,  Oregon. 


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Postpaid 


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U$erui 

Novelty 


N I CKLE    PLATED 

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TAPE  IMEASURE 

ALL    THE    GO    IN   THE    EAST 

Send  for  one  before  they  are  all  cone. 

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THE  best  medical  authorities  are  unanimous  in  recom- 
mending horseback  riding  for  nervous,  lung  and 
kindred  complaints.  Particularly  is  this  mode  of  exercise 
beneficial  on  this  West  coast,  where  the  patient  can  enjoy 
the  pure  open  air,  inhale  nature's  ozone  and  the  resinous 
fragrance  of  pine,  fir,  cedar  and  hemlock. 


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Silver  Fillings  :   :    ^|  FtsU  Set  of  Teeth,  5M 

These  are  new  prices  for  first  class  work. 

I  give  my  personal  attention  to  patrons  and  DO  ab- 
solutely guarantee  all  my  work  for  ten  years. 
I  have  the  latest  appliances  known  to  dentistry. 
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DEIPT. 


A  DEFERRED  RESTITnTION. 

A  pi^  belonging  to  a  widow  named  Murphy 
mysteriously  vanished  one  night;  and  Pat 
Hennessy,  a  ne'er-do-well,  was  suspected  of 
having  had  something  to  do  with  its  disap- 
pearance. He  denied  all  knowledge  of  the 
pig,  however,  and  as  there  was  no  evidence 
against  him  he  was  allowed  to  go  free;  but 
at  Mrs.  Murphy's  instigation,  the  priest  went 
to  see  him. 

"Pat,"  said,  the  priest,  "if  you've  no  fear 
of  the  law  in  this  world,  at  least  five  a 
thought  to  the  hereafter.  When  you're  be- 
fore the  Judgment  Seat,  what  are  you  going 
to  say  about  that  pifff" 

"Shure,  I  dunno,'^'  replied  Pat.  "Will 
they  be  after  askin'  about  th'  pig  in  Pur- 
gatory, yer  Biverincef" 

"They  will,"  said  the  priest. 

"Will  Mrs.  Murphy  be  there,  yer  Biv- 
erincef" 

"Yes,  Pat." 

"An'  th'pigl" 

"Yes,  Pat.'^ 

"Shure,  I'll  wait  an'  give  it  to  her  thin, 
yer   Biverince. "—February    Woman's   Home 

Companion. 

•       »       • 

Poor  Peebles  (about  to  be  operated  on  for 
appendicitis):  "Doctor,  before  you  begin  I 
wish  you  would  send  and  have  our  pastor, 
the  Bev.  Mr.  Harps,  come  over." 

"Dr.  Cutter:  "Certainly,  if  you  wish  it, 
but-ahl-" 

Feebles:  "I'd  like  to  be  opened  with 
prayer."— Life. 


JHL 

Wrinkles 

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BT 

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Graduate  Demiatofocist 

^^^i^ahI^I 

Beautifler  and  Beatorer 

^jflJjHI^B. 

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OSTEOPATHY 

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gradiiat«a  of  American  Sohool  of  Osteoiwthy  and  A.  T. 
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The  incompar- 
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Touring  Car 

is  the  best  car 
made  in  e^'ery 
respect  for 
pleasure  or 
i>iismess«  It  is 
n  reliable  road- 
star  and  holds 
the  world's 
record  as  the 
fastest  stock 
car  ever  put 
upon  the  track. 


Over  ISO  of  these  cars  sold  on  the  Coast  since  Januan^  1st,  1Q04. 

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Tliere  are  a  dozen  of  them  that  w\[{  be  glad  to  talk  **  White"  with  you,  and  nota  **kicker''  among  them. 
Call  at  214  Second  Street,  Portland,  Ore.,  see  the  cars  and  have  a  ride. 


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Bain's  Hack  &  Dray  Co. 

NEWPORT,  OREGON 

Spedal  Attention  Given  Transferring 
Baggage  and  Camping  Outfits. 

Furnished  and  Unfurnished  Houses. 

Hack  to  Otter  Rode  and  Lighthouse. 

ALL  AT  BCD-ROCK  PRICES 

Leave  Orders  at     :     :     :     :     :      BAIN'S  BAKERY 

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WATCHMAKER  JEWELLER 

W.  B.  SHAKESPEARE 

31  Government  Street,  Victoria,  B.  C. 

SOUVENIRS  AND  NOVELTIES 
EVERY    DAY     ERESH    ARRIVALS 

STEP  IN  AND  LOOK   AT  THEM 


Golden 
West 


O      SPICES,     o 

COFFEE,TEA, 

BAKING  POWDER, 

FUVORING  EXTRACTS 

Abiolurelhirify,    Fl^\l5^  Flavor, 
Oreart>^  Srmv^h,  l>e&sor\abkfricei 

aOSSETaDEVERS 

PORTLAND,  OREGON. 


Dotcl  2)riar6 


Victoria's  elegant  Tourist  and  Commercial  Hotel. 
Under  new  and  progressive  management  and  re- 
plete with  modem  equipment.    Convenient  to 
parliament  buildings,  shopping  district  and  places  of  amusement.    American  ahd  European  plans. 


C.  A.  HARRISON,  Proprietor 


SINGCHONG&CO. 

M  A  ZV  U  F  A  C  T  U  R  B  R  S     OP 

Ladies'    :    Children's 
^=  and  Gent's  ^= 

White  Goods 

Ladies'  Silk  Undergarments,  Wraps, 
Waists,  Etc.,  Made  to  Order. 

333  Morrison  SL,  Portland,  Or. 

Marquam  Building        -^— ^— ^^^— ^ 
Between  6th  and  7th  SU.        Phone  Hood  33 


TURKISH,  RUSSIAN  AND  ELECTRIC  LIGHT 

BATHS 

THE  only  place  in  town  where  Scientific  Mas- 
sage is  given.  The  attendants  are  trained 
nurses,  and  treat  all  diseases  with  hydrotherapy 
treatment.    Battle  Creek  System. 

Ladies'  and  Gentlbmbn's  Dbpaktment 

300  Oregonian  BIdg. 

Telephone  Main  1938  B.  L.  TURNEY.  Prop. 


Novelty  Photo  Fan 

THE   NEWEST  THING  OUT 


The  viL'Mt  b>>>autlfLLi  utiil  drtlAtEcartEDlpi«^cr"tT».'ri.'d. 
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hi  bnttlf^  AT^'ynn,  mb;  rmln  r>€'<ar]  «rvtj  or  ehovolate 
brown  I  dfM>orELtf.'4i  wrlth  ribtu^n  t{>  tiB.rmotiizH&  fend  Me- 
curolr  riTiXtd-  Can  be  om^nixi  and  cToeed  at  *U1. 
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F on  OM  F  T U  1>  A  Y',  (rt &t  J  tiir  coif  r,  A  «*l  of  f  00 p.  t»tte 
fif  i^vtili  color 4  i»r:^tt>iiLd  fur  uun  liolliLr,    A^^ctii  w&Qti^. 

West  Coast  Supply  Co. 

165  Park  street  Portland,  Oregoii 


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HAIR  SWITCH 


ON  EA9Y  CONDITIONS 

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CHOCOLATE  POWDER 

UAhm  PURE  COCOA.  SUGARmJ CREAM. 

OUAUTY  a  PURITY  UNEXCELLED. 
SOLD  BY  DRUGGISTS  A  GROCERS  EVERyWHERL 


2 


OVERLAWP    TRAINS    DAILY 

THE  FLYER 
THE  EAST  MAIL 


2 


ST.  LOUIS  andRetuni   $67.50 

CHICAGO  ssLS^sni  $72.50 


MAY  II,  12,  15 

JUNE  i6,  17,  i8 

5TOP-OVERS    JULY  I,  2,  3       GOOD  90 

AILOWEO        AUG.  8,  9,  lO            l>AVS 

SEPT.  s,  6.  7 

OCT.  3,  4,  s 


Sptendid  S«fvl<«  Llp*tc»-Date  Equipment 

CourUouA  EiiH>lciye$ 


Ddyfight  Trip  Across  the  Cascades  and  Rocky  Mountains 


For  tickets,  riies^  fiilJcrs  anJ  full 
Itiformiition,  cnU  on   ur  aJJress. 

n.  DICKSON,  City  Ticket  Agent, 

1  22  Third  5U  Portland,  Ore. 
S.  G.  YERKES,  G.  W.  P.  A., 

612  Hnt  Avenue,  Seattle,  Wash* 


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TEe  WASHINGTON  LIFE 

INSURANCE  COMPANY  f«E^  y^ 


FIRST  IN  SAFETY  AND  RELIABILITY 

FIRST  IN  EARNINGS  AND  PAYMENT  OF  DIVIDENDS 

FIRST  IN  TAKING  CARE  OF  THE  INTERESTS 
OF  POLICY  HOLDERS 

H  WASHINGTON  LIFE  Endowment  Policies  and  5%  Gold 
Bonds  can  be  secured  on  annual  payments.  No  taxes.  Insurance 
for  your  family,  or  estate^  pending  maturity.  These  unsurpassed  con- 
tracts offer  the  safest  and  best  means  to  provide  for  old  age. 

1[  The  WASHINGTON  Twenty  Payment  Life,  Loan  and  Term 
Extension  Policies  are  unequaled.  Call  at  our  offices  and  we  will 
prove  it  to  you. 

^  The  best  and  most  successful  business  men  are  the  best  in- 
sured men.    No  man  can  afford  to  be  without  life  insurance. 


For  particulars,  call  or  write 

BLAIR  T.  SCOTT 

GENERAL  MANAGER 

609-10-11-12  AND  13  CHAMBER  OP  COMMERCE 
PORTLAND,  OREGON 

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View  from  ^^eot  Porch,  Tke  Breakers 

HOTEL  BREAKERS 

inc  Leading  Summer  Hotel  in 
tke  Pacific  Nortnwest 

AMERICAN  5^  EUROPEAN  PLANS 


BREAKERS  STATION 
Long  Beach  P.  O.  WASHINGTON 


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Connects  at  St.  Paul,  Omaha  and  New  Orleans 
with  all  transcontinental  lines.  Call  on  or  write 
the  undersigned  before  purchasing  your  ticket  to 
St.  Louis.  We  will  ticket  you  via  any  route  you 
may  desire,  give  you  the  very  best  service  ob- 
tainable and  quote  you  the  special  rates  now  in 
effect  to  Eastern  points. 


B.  H.  TRUMBUI^I^,  Comm^rclAl  Atf t.,  I^STHira  St.,  Portl^Aa,  Ov. 
J.  C.  I^INDSKY,  Trmv.  r.  Oik  p.  A«,  I4S  THI^a  St.^  PortlmAa,  Orm. 
PAUI^  B.  THOMPSON,  r.  Ok  P.  A.,  Colm^A  Block,  ^•Attl«,  tKr^sH. 


Herring-Hall- 
MarvinSafeCoi 


Manufacturers  of  the 
Genuine  Hall  Safe  Co.'s  Safes 

and  operating  the 

LARGEST  AND 
BEST  EQUIPPED 
SAf  E  WORKS 
IN  THE  WORLD 


PORTLAND  SAFE  CO.,  Sole  Agents 

70  Sixth  Street,  Portland,  Ore. 


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Hartman,  Thompson  &  Powers 

Surety  Bonds 
Real  Estate 
and  Insurance 


SCHAMBEI  OF 
COHEICE 


Portland,  Oregon 


M.  C.  Gilswold,  PRsiilcaL     W.  S.  Keeter,  SeCy 
J.  L.  Hartmui,  Vioe-Picaldeiit 

Security  Abstract  and 
Trust  Co. 

Nm.  214-215  ClMMnbcr  «l  Ce—wirct, 
PORTLAND,  ORC 

ABSTRACTS,   CERTIFICATES 
OF  TITLE,  TAX  SEARCHES,  LOANS 


John  H.  Mitchbli.  Almemt  H.  TAirim 

MITCHELL  &  TANNER 

Attomeya-at-Law 
Commetdal  Hock,      PORTLAND,  OREGON 


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MAGAZINES? 


If  to,  have  them  bound  at  a 
small  coit. 


:The: 


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Company 


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PMNTCRS 
BOOKBINDERS 
PAPER  RULERS 


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PATENT  FLAT  OPENING 
BLANK  BOOKS 


22  Front  Street,  Portland,  Ore.  | 

TdcphMW  Main  2305 


to  «.  M.  TO  4  p.  M. 


TBL.  RBO  •••4 


W.  R.  INGE  DALTON,  M.  D. 

OBNITO-UfllNAIIY  AND  SKIN 
DiSBASKS  ONLY 

Rooms  330-331    Lumber  exchange.  SEATTLE.  WASH. 


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Wif.  M.  Laod 
President 


J.  Thombuut  Ross 
Vice-President  and  Manager 


T.  T.  Burkhart 

Secretary 


hMtMttMittttttM 


John  K.  Kolllock 
Asst.  Secretary 


LOANS 
REAL    ESTATE 


Safe  Deposit 
Vauts 


We 
Lartest  and  Best 

Equipped  Real 
Estate  Office  and 

the  largest  and  roost 
complete  outfit  of 
maps  and  plats  in  the 
city.  Our  real  estate 
ownership  books  and 
records  of  claim  of 
title  are  accurate  and 
up-to-date. 


Al^TRACTS 
TITLE  INSURANCE 


Interest  allowed  on  time  deposits 

and    certificates    issued 

thereon. 


THE  TITLE  GUARANTEE  AND  TRUST  COMPANY 

6  and  7  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Portland,  Oregon 


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T.  S.  McRath 


Iron  and  Steel  Products 


Boildinf  Materials 

Aintworth  Building,  Portland,  Ort. 
Telephone  Main  466 


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barne:iS  (sl  CO. 

PATENTS 

Write  for  our  book  on  Patents. 
Mechanical  Drawing. 

Oregon  &  Washington  Boating  Co. 

BARGING,  UGltTCRING 
AND  PRCIGHTING 

Barges  for  Bent.    Boating  of  Lumber.  Ties  and  other  Wood 
Products.    Ship  Lightering. 

H.  F.   GERSPAOH,  Manaoxb. 

Office,  Foot  of  Morrison  SL,  Portland,  Ore. 

.SALARY  LOANS 

Money  loaned  salaried  persons,  ladies  or  gentlemen. 

Learn  our  Easy-Payment  System  that 

gets  you  out  of  debt. 

NCI^SON  Oh  HINDI^CY 

508  McKay  Building  Ponland.  Oregon 


Cured  piles 

now  smiles 
like  this  again  like  this 

He  cured  himself  by  using  the  Dr.  Magoris  Home 
Treatment  for  piles,  fissures,  fistulas,  and  all  dis- 
eases of  the  rectum.  Package  costs  50c.  All 
druggists  sell  it.  We  guarantee  cures  or  refund  your 
money.  Trial  package  FREE  for  the  name  of  one 
other  person  who  has  piles.  Dr.  Magoris  Home 
Treatment  Co.,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 


Largest  OotUers  in 
the  Northwest* 

The  highest  type  of  perfectXNi 
IN  MEN'S  AND  BOYS' 

high-grade  dothiqg,  teriishfaigs  and  hats 


Malt  ordmra  pfmptty 
attmndmd  to 


PORTLAND      ^ 


OREGON 


THE  GLORIOUS 

<<STARS  AND  STRIPES" 

We  make  them  to  order.  Anysiae.  Anyqnantitj. 
A  large  assortment  of  FLAGS  constantrjr  in  stock. 

Wa  ANB  MANUFAOTUnSNS  AND  IMrORTBRS  OF 

Bags,  Twinss,  Tents,  Awnings  and  Mining  Host 

BAG  PRINTING  A  SPECIALTY 

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W.  C.  NOON  BAG  CO. 

Incorporated  1893 
32-34  First  St.  210-216  Couch  St.   Portland,  Oft. 


THE  MAGNIFICENT  SCENERY 


OF 


COLUMBIA 
RIVER 

The  most  beautiful  in  the  world,  can  best 
be  seen  from  the  steamers  "DALLES  CITY" 
"REGULATOR"  and  "BAILEY  GATZERT" 
of  the 

REGULATOR  LINE 

DO   NOT    MISS  THIS 

Steamers  leave  Portland,  Alder  Street  dock, 
7:00  A.  M.  daily,  except  Sunday,  for 
The  Dalies,  Cascade  Locks,  Hood  River 
and  way  landings. 

PHONE   914 

8.  HeOONALO,  Agent,  Portland,  Ortgon. 
A.  W.  ZIMMEMMAN,  Agent,  The  Dallss.Ortgon. 
H.  C.  CAMPBELL,  Manager,  Ptrtland,  Ortgon. 


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ANDERSON 
6;  DUNIWAY 
COMPANY 


Printers    ana 
Litkograpkers 


I  Pkone  Ma^  17     208  Aider  St. 
PORTLAND,  ORE. 


Ibe  SEASIDE 

Bath  House 


Located  at  the  Terminus  of  the 

Aslorfo  A  Orfmnbia  River 
RjJIroad 


The  only  salt  water  bath  house  on  the  North 
Pacific  Ocean.  It  has  a  large  swimming  pool 
24  X  70  feet,  and  10  feet  deep,  with  a  con- 
tinuous flow  of  ocean  water  running  through 
the  pool.  Hot  tub  baths.  Neat  bathing  suits 
to  rent  for  surf  bathing.  Swimming  taught, 
with  good  attendants  for  beginners.  Open 
the  year  round,  it  being  the  best  summer 
resort  accessible  to  Portland. 


£.  N.  ZELLER,  Blanager 

Seaside,  Oregon 


Joaquin  Miller  and  other  Characteristic 
Western  Authors  and  Artists  contribute 

to 

SUNSET 

The  only  magazine  that  faithfully  tells,  by  pictures  and  text, 
of  the  wonders  of  California,  Oregon,  Nevada,  Utah,  Arizona,  New 
Mexico,  Texas  and  the  nation's  west- 
em  borderland.  It  is  notable  for  the 
number  and  artistic  merit  of  its  en- 
gravings. The  representative  busi- 
ness houses  advertise  in  its  pages.  If 
you  want  to  learn  of  California  and 
the  West,  read  SUNSET  regularly. 


$L00a  Year 


10c  a  Copy 


PUBUSHBD  MONTHLY  BY 

PosMiiger  Department 
Southern  Pacific 


4  Montsomery  Street  -  SAN  FRANCISCO 

1S3  Oarlc  Street     -     -     -    -     CHICAGO 

349  Broadway     -     -    NEW  YORR  CITY 

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CLAXSOP  BRACH**^^''^^°*^  Premier  Summer  Resort 

SEASIDE  is  now  ready  to  extend  a  cordial  welcome  to  seekers  of  recreation  and  rest,  and  is  far  better  equipped  to 
take  care  of  this  summer's  influx  of  visitors  than  at  any  time  in  the  history  of  Clatsop  Beach.    The  excellent 
transportation    fiacilities   afforded    by    the  Astoria   &  Columbia  River   Railroad   Company  is   only  one   of  the 


Portland-Seaside  Flyer  en  route  to  Seaside. 

many  remarkable  advantages  possessed  by  Seaside,  and  this  year  has  already  witnessed  great  and  substantial 
improvements  at  this  favorite  resort,  perhaps  the  most  important  of  which  is  the  installing  of  a  water  s^^tem  to  be 
in  operation  July  ist,  insuring  a  supply  of  pure  and  wholesome  mountain  water,  which  will  be  hailed  with  delight 
alike  by  permanent  residents  and  summer  guests. 

The  pre-eminence  of  Clatsop  Beach  as  a  health  aud  pleasure  resort  is  becoming  more  firmly  established  with 


Boating  and  Fishing  on  the  Necanicum,  Seaside. 
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Taanel**  A.  *  0/R.  R.  R. 

eacli  year,  and  the  proeresain^e  spirit  manifested  on  ev«ry  hand  Ln  the  directioQ  of  providitiR  for  the  «>mfDrt  and 
pleAtture  of  vmtora  at  isenside  ia  only  a  forerunner  of  iti  future  great ne&ii;  and  to  keep  pace  with  this  widc-flwake 
spirit,  the  A.  Sl  C.  R.  K.  R.,  vrhich  naw  serveathe  beach  Uitere<itsfK>  well,  in  thoroughly  aflve  to  the  neceiisity  of  pro- 
lidiftK  improved  tranaporlation  service,  and  ia  prepared  to  tuect  every  rei^uiretneTit  in  Lhis  direction. 


L  The  Orescent.    2.  Bathing  at  Seaside.    8.  Bathing  at  Qearhart  Park.    Three  little  gems  that  make  one  long  to  sniff  old  ocean's  briny  breezes. 
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Two 
hroughTraini 

to  Chicago 

daily    (rorn   Portland   and   pom t9   in  Ore^oD  and   Eastern 

Wash  ingtan  via  the  Oiwon  Railroad  &  Navigation  Company, 

Oregon  Short  Line,  Union  Pacific  Railroad  and  Chicago 

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Butterworth 


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Stationery  and  Notions 


Correspond ence  Solicited 
Neatly  Furnished  Rooms 


SEASIDE 


OREGON 


SMILED 

Hid  pUei, 
was  wild 
with    pijn 

Cured  piles 

now  tmilct 
Hke  tliii  again  like  thi< 
Be  cured  bimsdf  by  using  the  [>r.  Magorit  Home 
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other  penoD  who  has  piles.  Dr.  Magoris  Home 
Tmtioent  Co.,  Bingb^mton,  N>  Y, 

1LR|TM\H   I'IGARH 

fvtnd  for  a  copy  of  Tbs  Smokkh'!^  Guidk  cantnniing 
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the  Pacific  Coast.  Addrt's^,  W,  E.  NRUM  &  CO.,  Four^ 
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WHEN  BiriVG  LIFE  INSlJR4PiCL 
A  5CARCH  with  OPEN  EVES  will  sdUsfy  yon  that  the  policies  of  the 

MUTUAL  BENEFIT  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO. 

contain  Spectai  and  / y^-w/i a r  advantages  not  iombiuc^d  in  the  policiea 
ol  other  companies. 

1j  read  m  the  Irg-ht  of  ihe  Company's 

FIFTY-EIGHT  YEARS  OF  HISTORY 

the  value  of  the  comptchtfmve  and  certain  protection  they  afford  will 
be  eapecially  appreciaxed. 

THE  COMPANY'S  MUTUALITY  is  real;    ITS  SECURITY, 
Great:  ITS  ECONOMY  and  EARNING  POWER,  Cnstirpa^Si^d. 

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PORTLAND,  ORFGOIH 


ill 


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Headquarters  for  Commercial  Men 
Fine  Sample  Rooms 


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Ed.  IHnaud*$  Ean  de  Quinine 

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Ed.  Pfnand's  Eau  de  Quinine 

Is  4l£0  a  most  excellent    Katr   Dressing— The  sweet 

and  ref^ntd   odof  which   It  luves  In  the  hair  oiakei 

the  toilet  ■  luxurv      ::::;:£ 

SOLD   EVEKY  WHERE 


Leading  Double  Keyboard 


NEW  AND  SECOND-HAND 


TYPEWRITERS 


OF  ALL  MAKES 

SOLD,  RENTED  AND 
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Platens,  Supplies  and  Parts  for  All  Machines 

Rubber  Stamps,  Notary  Seals,  Etc. 

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Webster's  Pencil  Sfuupener 

For  School  and  Office 


Never  wears  out,  $3.00 


THE  TAV-SHOLES 


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Typewriter  and  Office  Desks,  Chairs,  Etc. 
Mimeographs,  Hektographs  and  All  Supplies. 
Shipping  Books  and  Office  Specialties. 
Ask  for  Catalogues. 

COAST  AGENCY  CO. 


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PORTLAND,  OREGON 


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PORTLAND,  ORE. 


,  J.  YOUNG, 

Manager 


C.  J.  CURTIS, 

Attorney 


Seaside  Real  Estate  Co. 


Lots  in  the  Grove  and  on  the 
Beach  for  sale.  Also  Inglenook, 
Hennosa  Park,  Ocean  Grove 
Cottages  for  rent.  Rents  Col- 
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Embalmert  and  Funeral  Directors 

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Weinhard 


MANUFACTURBR      OF 

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&  Choice  Malt 

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THE  WONDERFUL   MERITS    OF 

AVENARIUS 

Carbolineum 


SHOULD    RECEIVE    THE    CONSIDERATION 
OF    EVERY    THOUGHTFUL    PURCHASER 


^  On  account  of  its  large  covering  capacity,  Aven- 
arius  Carbolineum  is  the  cheapest  paint  on  the 
market.  Oae  gallon  covers  350  sq.  feet  of  dressed 
lumber    and   230    square  feet  of    rough    lumber. 

^  As  a  paintj  with  its  very  attradive  nut-brown 
color,    it    is   an^  unquestioned  success. 

^  IN  ADDITION  it  ts  ihe  only  wood  preserver  tried 
and  tested  by  a   sufficient  number   of    year'i    experience. 

Q  It  is  the  only  efEdent  and  practical  means  to  prevent  rot, 
dry  rot  and  decay  of  wood  above  or  below  ground  or  water. 
It  preserves  wood  for  at  leaft  3  times  its  natural  life,  and  we 
guarantee  it  wiU  double  the  life  of  wood  if  properly  applied. 

4  It  will  deitroy  chicken  lice  aad  all  vermin.  Pjiint  or  iipraythe  inter- 
tor  of  yaiir  chicken  houx  with  Aveiuiriiu  CarboLineum  uid  you  wiM 
have  health ii^r  chickenA  and  more  eggi, 

Q  Avenarim  Carbolineutn  hu  heeD  in  use  linte  1670  acKJ  imported  by 
ua  for  over  18  year*.  We  know  it  is  all  we  cinim  for  it  and  mote. 
We  know  it  h  no  experiment.  It  is  applied  with  a  bnuh  Like  ordinary 
pjint.  and  no  skill  is  required  to  use  it. 

^  Write  us  today  and  we  shall  he  glad  to  show  ymi  dMidusively  that 
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LES  MABTIQUBS,  FBANCE  (Drawn  by  Frank  Dn  Mond  (Frontispiece) 

PEOPLE— PLACES— THINOS  (lUustrated)  .        .        !        .        .      67 

Alexander  Bell  and  His  Kites 

George  B.  Cortelyou 

Rock  Squirrels  at  Cloud  Cap  Inn 

The  Panama  Commission 

Largest  Generators  in  the  World 
"Uncle  Joe*'  Cannon 

THE  BATTLESHIP   "OREGON"    (Illnstxation) 76 

THE  DEVELOPMENT  OF   THE  UNITED   STATES 

NAVY  (Ulnstrated)  Waldon  Fawcett  77 

THE  SCTTLPTOB'S  CONCEPTION  OF  SACAJAWEA  ...        86 

(Ulnstrated) 
THE  WHITE  LADY   (fiction)  ....     Carl  Lonis  Eingsbnry  88 

In  two  parts.     Concluded. 
THE  SITE  OF  FOBT  CLATSOP  (Ulnstrated)  P.  W.  Gillette  92 

THE  PLAYHOXTSE   (Ulnstrated)  .A.  Garland  94 

THE  CHINOOK  WIND  (poem)       .        .        .        .        W.  C.  B.  99 

THE   EYE   OF  GANESHA    (fiction)  .    Eleanor  M.Hie8tand-Moore  100 

THBEE  PANORAMIC  VIEWS  OF  THE  GK>RGE  OF    THE  COLUMBIA        104-105 

THE  HOME  OF  PAUL  DE  LONGPRE   (illnstration) 106 

PAUL  DE  LONGPRE  AND  HIS  BEAUTIFUL  HOME 

(lUustrated)  Mary  H.  Coates  107 

DEPARTMENTS 

OUR   VIEW William  Bittle  Wells  113 

THE  MONTH 114 

IMPRESSIONS Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood  118 

THE  READER 121 

THE   LIGHTER    SIDE 123 

PROGRESS             125 

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Volume  XII 


AUGUST.  1904 


Number  2 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS 


Alexander  Bell  and  His 
Kites 

PEOFESSOR  Alex- 
ander  Bell,  the 
venerable  inventor 
of  the  telephone, 
has  for  several 
years  been  working  on  the 
problem  of  aerial  naviga- 
tion, through  the  flying  of 
kites.  At  a  recent  field-day 
of  the  National  Geographic 
Society,  Professor  Bell  con- 
ducted experiments  in  kite 
flying,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
scientists.  The  kites  used  arc 
entirely  unlike  the  familiar 
patterns,  being  tetrahedrals, 
or  four-sided  solids,  each 
face  of  which  is  a  triangle. 
Two  of  the  four  faces  are 
covered  with  silk,  and  the 
frames  are  made  of  light 
wood  or  aluminum.  Steel 
or  aluminimi  wire  is  used 
to  fly  these  kites.  The  kites 
used  were  but  six  feet  on  a 
side,  but  Professor  Bell  has 
sailed  them  as  large  as 
thirty   feet.     Whether   any 


Profesgor   BeU   explaining   his   new   kite    airship. 


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The  kite  in  the  air. 

available  results  were  obtained  from  the 
experiments  is  not  known. 

George  B.   Cortelyou 

George  Bruce  Cortelyou,  whose  rise  into 
prominence  has  been  almost  as  rapid  as 
President  Roosevelt's,  was  bom  in  New 
York  in  1862.  His  recent  election  as 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  National 
Committee  is  an  honor  which  is  indica- 
tive of  unquestioned  executive  ability,  and 
is  a  rare  compliment  to  the  worth  of  the 
man. 

Mr.  Cortelyou  was  appointed  by  Pres- 
ident Roosevelt  secretary  of  the  new  De- 
partment of  Commerce  and  Labor,  and 
before  that  department  was  established 
was  Secretary  to  the  President.  Mr.  Cor- 
telyou resigns  to  manage  the  campaign, 
and  the  Portland  Oregonian  has  this  to 
say  on  the  subject: 

"The  selection  of  Secretary  Cortelyou 
as  Chairman  of  the  Republican  National 
Committee  is  the  last  definite  change  from 
the  Hanna  to  the  Roosevelt  regime.  It 
was  resisted  by  the  old-line  Republicans 
because  it  marked  absolutely  the  passing 


of  party  control  into  new  hands.  For 
three  years  Roosevelt  has  been  engineer 
of  a  Hanna-McKinley  machine;  now  it 
is  his  own.  Hanna  and  Quay  are  gone, 
and  Piatt  is  politically  moribund.  The 
Roosevelt  era  has  begun.  We  do  not  know 
how  efficient  Cortelyou  will  be  in  prac- 
tical political  direction,  or  how  active  and 
successful  in  reaching  the  great  sources  of 
campaign  supply ;  but  we  can  surmise  that 
his  nomination  was  not  insisted  upon  by 
Roosevelt  and  his  friends  without  suffi- 
cient guaranty  that  he  is  a  man  to  do 
things  and  get  others  to  help  do  them." 
Anent  this  change  in  the  cabinet,  the 
Week's  Progress,  of  New  York,  states 
that  the  retirement  of  Attorney-General 
Knox  and  the  probable  appointment  of 
Secretary  Cortelyou  as  chairman  of  the 
Republican  National  Committee  means 
two  changes  in  the  cabinet,  at  least,  and 
the  rumored  retirement  of  Postmaster- 
General  Payne  because  of  ill-health  may 
or  may  not  mean  another  strange  face  in 
the  President's  official  family.  It  is 
known,  however,  that  the  President  has 
no  intention  of  sparing  Secretary  Cortel- 


Profestor    Bell    liyinff    the    kite. 


GEORGE  BKTTCE  COKTELTOTT.  the  new  ohairmaii   of   the    Republican    Vational    Committor. 


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Portland,  Oregon,  in  1905. 

jou,  upon  whom  he  has  learned  to  depend, 
from  a  prominent  place  in  his  council. 
Wliile  acting  as  chairman  of  the  National 
Committee  he  will  be  out  of  the  cabinet 
onl}'^  temporarily,  and  it  is  apparently  the 
intention  to  hold  back  the  resignation  of 
Postmaster-General  Payne  until  after 
election  when  Secretary  Cortelyou  can 
come  back  to  fill  that  vacancy.  Secretary 
of  the  Navy  Moody  has  also  declared  his 
intention  of  returning  presently  to  his 
private  practice  of  law,  so  that  there  are 
in  contemplation  four  cabinet  vacancies 
to  be  filled  between  now  and  the  reas- 
sembling of  Congress. 


Senator  Fairbanks 

Charles  W.  Fairbanks, 
who  has  been  nominated 
for  the  Vice-Presidency 
on  the  Republican  ticket, 
was  born  in  Ohio  in 
1852.  He  graduated 
from  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University  in  1872,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Ohio 
bar  in  1874.  He  then 
established  a  practice  in 
Indianapolis,  Indiana. 
He  was  the  Republican 
caucus  nominee  for  U. 
S.  Senator  in  1893  from 
Indiana,  but  was  de- 
feated. He  was  elected, 
however,  in  1897,  and 
his  present  term  will  not 
expire  until  1909.  He 
was  appointed  in  1898  a 
member  of  the  Joint 
High  British  -  American 
Commission. 


Rock  Squirrels  at 
Cloud  Gap  Inn 

About  6,000  feet  high 
on  one  of  the  sides  of  Mt. 
Hood,  Oregon,  there  is 
located  a  picturesque  and 
interesting  inn.  It  is 
called  "Cloud  Cap  Inn,^^ 
and  is  built  of  huge  logs 
which  are  held  securely 
in  place  by  anchored  ca- 
bles— a  necessary  precaution  on  account 
of  the  fierce  gales  in  winter  and  the  dan- 
ger of  snow  slides.  At  times  the  snow 
is  from  30  to  40  feet  deep,  but  in  the 
summer  Cloud  Cap  Inn  is  a  most  delight- 
ful place.  There  is  found  near  the  Inn  a 
rare  species  of  squirrel,  called  in  this 
vicinity  the  Rock  Squirrel.  The  little  ani- 
mals are  very  tame  and  afford  a  consid- 
erable source  of  amusement. 

Tke  Panama  Commission 

The  following  men  have  been  appointed 
to  serve  on  the  Panama  Canal  Commis- 


the  ffronnds  of 
held   in 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


71 


South   front  of  the   FaJi-af-t''  of  Vatiud  I&duBti-ieB  i^t   tbe   Str  Louii    ExpoiitioD. 


The  Japanese  battleghip  Atahi. 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


sion :  Admiral  John  G.  Walker,  chairman ; 
Gen.  G.  W.  Davis;  W.  B.  Parsons,  New 
York ;  W.  H.  Burr,  New  York  ;B.  M.  Har- 
rod,  Louisiana;  C.  E.  Grunsky, California; 
F.  J.  Hecker,  Michigan.  Of  these,  the  first 


The  KooMTelt   medallion   which   has  Just   been  ttmck. 

six  are  engineers,  and  the  last  is  a  *^usi- 
ness  man,'^  who  served  as  a  government 
director  of  transportation  during  the 
Spanish  war.    Rear  Admiral  Walker's  ap- 


pointment as  chairman  was  logical  and 
satisfactory,  as  he  has  participated  in  tho 
investigations  of  the  various  possible  canal 
routes,  and  has  been  closely  identified  with 
the  canal  from  the  beginning  of  govern- 
mental interest  in  it.  The  commission  is 
not  regarded  as  an  especially  strong  one 
to  handle  so  gigantic  a  problem.  The  sal- 
ary for  each  commissioner  has  been  fixed 
at  $12,000  per  year,  with  $15.00  per  day 
additional  while  on  the  Isthmus.  Admiral 
Walker  has  submitted  to  the  House  Com- 
mittee on  Commerce  an  outline  of  condi- 
tions with  which  it  will  be  necessary  to 
deal.  From  thirty  to  forty  thousand  la- 
borers will  be  required,  most  of  whom  will 
be  negroes  and  coolies.  It  will  be  need- 
ful to  thoroughly  police  the  "canal  zone,^' 
which  will  have  a  population  approxi- 
mately of  70,000. 

Largest  Generators  in  tke  ^A^orlJ 

One  of  the  mammoth  5,000  horse- 
power electric  generators  of  the  Niagara 
Falls  Power  Company  is  shown  herewith. 


Tapestry  detail  and  new  gideboard  at  the  White  House,  desired  by  Mn.  RooteTelt. 


\ 


JOSEPH    G,    CAKNOy.    ONE    OF   THE    COUTilTEY'S      STB  OK  G    KEH.  " 
from    nUnoiH    and    BpeaJker    5Btb    Coti^nai.      ChKirm&n  Natioftfrl   Supui^licaD   CotiTeiitioD   Li 
^^hic^   nominntitd    TheodorB    SoaieVfilt    (or  Freiident  and   Chfts.    W.   Fftirbuik^   if  or   Vioft' 
Frnaidnnt,     Bdnt  in  UqtHi  Cut^linK  m  lS3g. 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Senator  Chas.    W.   Fairbanks. 

It  is  operated  by  a  turbine  located  oDe 
hundred  and  forty  feet  below  it  in  a 
wheel-pit  cut  out  of  solid  rock.  Connect- 
ing the  turbine  with  this  generator  is  a 


steel  tube  or  shaft.  The  generator  makes 
two  hundred  and  fifty  revolutions  per 
minute.  As  one  horse-power  more  than 
equals  the  power  of  ten  men,  this  machine 
represents  the  force  of  an  army  of  fifty 
thousand  able-bodied  laborers.  In  the 
station  where  this  generator  stands  there 
are  ten  other  similar  machines,  the  total 
output  of  which  is  fifty  thousand  horse- 
power, or  a  total  of  fifty-five  thousand 
horse-power  in  the  station.  This  repre- 
sents the  force  of  more  than  a  half  million 
of  men.  It  is  by  these  machines  that  the 
Falls  of  Niagara  are  "harnessed."  Water 
flows  from  the  upper  river,  through  a 
canal  to  penstocks,  which  carry  it  down 
the  pit  to  the  turbines.  Leaving  the 
turbines,  the  water  flows  through  a  tunnel 
over  a  mile  long,  two  hundred  feet  below 
the  surface,  to  the  lower  river.  This 
tunnel  runs  under  the  heart  of  the  city. 


Out  of  the  largest  electrio  generators  in  the  world. 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


vo 


A  Tiew  of  Cloud  C»p  Inn,  showing  BCt-  Hood.  Thia  majestic  mountain  Is  ll,Sa&  f*ct  high  and 
U  on*  of  ftv*  snoW'Dipped  psAks  Tisible  from  Partland  .Oregon.  Cloud  C*p  Itm  it  litimt^d  an  oiw  of 
the  ildu  of  Mt.  Hood,  kt  an  aititiidB  of  mbout  6^000  feot. 


The  result  of  a.  day's  flshinff. 


THE   DEVELOPMENT  OF  THE 
UNITED  STATES  NAVY 

Tke  0tory  oi  i^vliat  lias  been  done  in  a  quarter  of  a  century  to  bring  tbe  United  States 
Navy  to  second  place  among  tke  navies  of  tbe  i^vorld 

By  ^X^aldon  Fawcctt 


EVERY  citizen  of  the  greatest 
republic  has  reason  to  feel 
genuine  pride  in  the  marvelous 
advancement  which  has  been 
made  by  the  United  States  in 
building  up  a  great  navy.  Less  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century  has  been  required 
to  assemble  under  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
a  fighting  fleet  which  in  point  of  tonnage 
afloat  ranks  third  among  those  of  the 
nations  of  the  world,  with  a  prospect,  ere 
many  years,  of  stepping  into  second  place. 
Uncle  Sam's  magnificent  squadron  of 


sea  warriors  is  a  creation  of  the  present 
generation,  and  yet  more  significant  is 
the  fact  that  it  is  the  product  of  American 
brains  and  brawn  as  found  in  Yankee 
navy  yards  and  ship-building  plants. 
Other  new  nations  setting  out  to  establish 
a  navy  have  been  content  to  purchase  a 
nucleus,  at  least,  from  the  professional 
ship  builders  of  the  Old  World,  who  make 
a  business  of  turning  out  warships  com- 
plete to  the  last  detail  and  ready  for 
immediate  service.  Not  so  with  Miss 
Columbia,    however.      This    nation    has 


V.   S.   battleship  Maine   (new).     Ohio  and  Missouri  are  sister  ships. 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


The  Oregon  oominr  bow  on  at  full  speed.     This  picture  was  seoured  at  risk  of  life  by  the  photographer. 
His  frail  boat  was  tossed  aside  by  the  great  battleship  Jnst  after  the  exposure  was  made. 

worked  out  its  own  salvation  in  a  naval     with  scarcely  an  exception,  our  quarter 
sense  as  well  as  in  everything  else,  and,     of  a  thousand  floating  vehicles  of  offense 


dSUJRI     EPIECIK   ©IF  TTHIIE    OIS^EdSOra 


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and  defense  have  been  fashioned  by  our 
own  people  from  materials  found  in  our 
own  domain. 

The  close  of  the  Civil  War  found  the 
American  Navy,  in  ships  as  well  as  men 
the  most  powerful  in  the  worid;  but  for 
fifteen  years  after  the  close  of  the  conflict 
little  attention  was  paid  to  building  ships 
for  the  navy,  until,  gradually,  the  fleet 
degenerated  to  the  ignominy  of  the  worid's 
standard  of  inefficiency. 

The  rehabilitation  of  the  navy  began  in 
the  summer  of    1881    when    there    was 


cruiser  Chicago,  which,  extensively  refitted 
so  as  to  constitute  a  practically  new  ship 
has  but  recently  been  chosen  as  the  flag- 
ship of  our  Pacific  squadron.  She  is 
325  feet  long,  48  feet  wide,  draws  19  feet 
of  water  and  engines  of  5,000  horse-power 
actuating  twin  screws  drive  her  at  a  speed 
of  about  sixteen  miles  per  hour.  Her 
heaviest  armor  is,  however,  only  one  and 
one  half  inches  in  thickness. 

The  two  smaller  cruisers,  the  Atlanta 
and  Boston,  which  were  constructed  at 
this  time  are  what  are  known  as  protected 


Tlw  azmored  omiaer  BtooUtb. 


appointed  a  board  of  officers  headed  by 
Bear  Admiral  John  Rodgers  to  investigate 
and  report  to  Congress  upon  the  condition 
and  needs  of  the  service.  The  vigorous 
representations  of  these  men  gradually 
aroused  public  sentiment  and  turned  the 
tide  of  Congressional  policy.  In  1883 
authority  was  obtained  from  the  national 
legislature,  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy 
invited  proposals  for  building  one  cruiser 
of  4,500  tons,  two  of  3,000  tons,  each,  and 
a  dispatch  boat  of  1,500  tons.  Tlie 
largest  of  these  vessels  and  the  pioneer 
of   our   present   splendid   navy   was   the 


cruisers  and  are  each  276  feet  long,  42 
feet  wide  and  draw  17  feet  of  water.  The 
dispatch  boat  which  constituted  the  fourth 
member  of  this  first  squad  of  recruits 
for  the  new  navy  was  the  Dolphin,  which 
has  for  years  past  been  in  service  as  a 
private  yacht  at  the  disposal  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  the  Secretary 
of  the  Navy  and  other  high  officials.  She 
is  240  feet  in  length,  and  32  feet  wide, 
and  is  armed  only  with  one  6-inch  rifle 
backed  by  a  few  rapid-flre  guns.  Although 
highly  useful  in  a  certain  sphere  the  craft 
is  to  this  day  imique  in  the  navy,  it  never 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


having  been  found  possible  to  secure 
authorization  for  the  construction  of 
further  vessels  of  her  class. 

The  next  step  in  the  development  of 
the  new  navy  came  with  the  construction 
of  the  battleship  Texas  and  the  protected 
cruisers  Charleston  and  Baltimore.  The 
late  William  C.  Whitney,  who  was  at  the 
time  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  purchased 
abroad  the  plans  for  these  vessels,  but 
fortunately  they  were  changed  consider- 
ably by  the  infusion  of  Yankee  ingenuity 
ere  the  ships  were  completed.    During  the 


all  her  predecessors  in  that  she  carried 
armor  twelve  inches  thick,  which  was  cer- 
tainly in  marked  contrast  to  the  one  and 
one  half  inch  plate  which  afforded  the 
sole  protection  of  the  pioneers  of  our 
White  Squadron. 

ITie  next  addition  to  our  navy  brought 
under  the  flag  the  armored  cruiser  New 
York,  the  protected  cruisers  Olympia, 
Cincinnati,  Raleigh,  Detroit,  Marblehead 
and  Montgomery,  and  the  gunboat  Ban- 
croft. By  far  the  most  important  of  these 
was  the  monster  New  York,  a  remarkable 


The  llrtt-olMt  luperimposed  torretad  battleship  Keanarge,  tliter  of  Kentaoky. 


Whitney  regime  also  occurred  the  con- 
struction of  the  ill-fated  Maine,  the  first 
new  armored  ship  wholly  of  America u 
design.  Both  the  Maine  and  the  Texn:* 
were  built  directly  under  government 
auspices — ^the  Maine  at  the  Brooklyn 
Navy  Yard  and  the  Texas  at  the  Navy 
Yard  at  Norfolk,  Va.  Both  these  vessels 
rated  as  se(*ond-cla88  battleships,  the  Texas 
carrying  hut  two  twelve-inch  guns  and  the 
Maine  four  ten-inch  guns  where  our 
modern  first-class  battleships  have  four 
twelve-inch  or  thirteen-inch  rifles.  The 
Maine  was,  however,  a  great  advance  over 


ship  in  a  variety  of  ways  and  one  that 
marked  an  epoch  in  warship  construction 
not  only  in  the  United  States  but  through- 
out the  world.  The  New  York  is  an 
armored  cruiser,  whereas  all  her  prede- 
cessors had  been  merely  protected  cruisers. 
In  other  words?,  she  haa  almost  as  much 
protection  as  a  battleship  combined  with 
greater  speed  than  is  usually  possessed 
by  such  heavy  vessels.  The  vessel  is  380 
feet  long  and  65  feet  wide,  and  has  two 
sets  of  engines  which  are  able  to  drive  her 
through  the  water  at  a  speed  in  excess 
of  twenty-three  miles  per  hour.     In  still 


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81 


Torpedo-boat  destroyer  Deoatur. 


another  direction  did  this  splendid  craft 
constitute  a  distinct  departure  from  prec- 
edent. She  was  wholly  unprovided  with 
sail  power.  She  has  masts,  to  be  sure,  but, 
unlike  those  in  all  her  predecessors  of  the 
new  navy,  they  are  not  designed  to  carry 
sails. 

Following  the  Yankee  triumph  in  the 
construction  of  the  New  York  came 
another  American  triumph  as  a  result 
of  the  authorization  of  1890  for  three 
battleships  which  were  to  be  designed  and 
constructed  with  no  restrictions  to  hamper 


American  genius.  Thus  were  evolved  tho 
famous  Oregon  and  her  two  sister  ships, 
the  Indiana  and  Massachusetts.  Good  as 
were  these  floating  fortresses,  improve- 
ments were  made  in  the  battleship  Iowa 
which  followed  them.  Then  came  the 
armored  cruiser  Brooklyn — twenty  feet 
longer  and  otherwise  an  improvement 
upon  the  well-nigh  peerless  New  York, 
These  heavy  fighting  ships  were  supple- 
mented by  the  two  fast  cruisers  Columbia 
and  Minneapolis,  designed  for  commerce 
destroying  and  scouting  duty,  and  by  a 


Battleship  Alabama,  sister  of  niinois. 


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Beproduotion  of  the  painting  made  for  the  War  Department  of  the  famous  battle  of  Santiaco,  which 
occurred  July  8,  1898.     The  Brooklyn  is  in  the  lead,  followed  by  the  Oreron. 


fleet  of  torpedo  boats  which,  while  involv- 
ing a  wide  range  of  design  and  represent- 
ing an  aggregate  in  number  and  tonnage 
which  appears  insignificant  in  comparison 
with  the  torpedo  fleets  of  some  foreign 
powers,  are  yet  capable  of  rendering  very 
efiicient  service. 

This  brings  us  down  to  the  new  century, 
the  first  product  of  which  is  found  in 
the  world-renowned  twin  battleships 
Kearsarge  and  Kentucky.  The  feature 
which  distinguishes  these  two  vessels  from 


the  other  warships  of  our  own  or  any 
other  navy  are  what  are  known  as  the 
superimposed  turrets.  As  every  person 
knows,  the  big  guns  on  a  battleship  are 
housed  in  revolving  steel  cheese  boxes, 
known  as  turrets,  set  up  on  deck.  In 
the  case  of  the  Kearsarge  and  Kentucky 
an  innovation  was  made  by  setting  a 
second  turret  on  top  of  each  of  the 
ordinary  miniature  forts.  No  other 
departure  from  beaten  paths  ever  pro- 
voked such  widespread  discussion  as  did 


Battleship  Iowa. 


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8:i 


this  ingenious  Yankee  scheme  for  placing 
one  pair  of  guns  above  another — the  lower 
turret  at  each  end  of  the  ship  holding  two 
of  the  monster  thirteen-inch  guns,  while 
above  are  the  two  eight-inch  guns. 
Another  novelty  which  focused  the  eyes 
of  the  world  on  the  twin  battleships  was 
the  first  utilization  of  electricity  for  turret 
turning. 

Finally,  the  Kearsarge  and  Kentucky 
were  a  revelation  in  the  possibilities  of 
heavy  arming — something  for  which  the 
United  States  has  always  been  famous. 
In  addition  to  the  eight  monster  guns  in 
the  two  double  turrets  each  battleship 
carries  a  total  of  nearly  fifty  rapid-fire 


and  fifty  pound  projectiles  hurled  by  the 
guns  in  the  big  double  turrets. 

Following  the  Kearsarge  and  Kentucky 
came  other  sister  vessels,  the  Alabama 
and  Illinois  of  exactly  the  same  dimen- 
sions, 368  feet  length,  72  feet  wide  and 
drawing  23^  feet  of  water.  The  super- 
imposed turrets  were  not,  however,  intro- 
duced in  the  newer  vessels  nor  in  the  class 
which  followed,  made  up  of  the  first-class 
battleships  -  Maine,  Missouri  and  Ohio. 
These  latter  vessels  are  each  388  feet 
in  length,  72  feet  wide  and  draw  23^  feet 
of  water.  They  have  twelve-inch  rifles 
for  their  principal  weapons  instead  of 
thirteen-inch  guns  of  the  type  found  on 


Tlie  double  torreted  monitor  Monterey. 


guns,  of  which  fourteen  are  of  the  big 
five-inch  variety,  arranged  in  broadside — 
a  deadly  line  of  seven  of  these  quick-firing 
weapons  ranging  along  either  side  of  the 
main  deck.  Each  of  these  large  rapid- 
firers  hurls  a  projectile  weighing  fifty 
pounds  and  one  broadside  or  seven  of 
these  guns  would  be  able  during  every 
minute  of  a  fight  to  throw  fifty-six  shots 
or  a  total  weight  of  nearly  three  thousand 
j)Ounds,  which  hurled  at  a  velocity  of 
2,300  feet  per  minute  would  be  sufficient 
to  lift  a  modern  battleship  nine  feet  in 
the  air.  And  all  this  is  without  regard 
to  the  terrific  destructive  force  of  the 
eleven  himdred  pound  and  two  hundred 


the  Kearsarge,  Kentucky,  Alabama  and 
Illinois,  it  being  claimed  that  the  twelve- 
inch  gun  which  has  long  been  used  exten- 
sively in  the  British  Navy,  can  be  handled 
to  better  advantage  than  the  larger  guns. 
Meanwhile,  returning  to  his  old  stand- 
by of  civil  war  times,  Uncle  Sam  has, 
within  the  past  few  years,  secured  at  a 
cost  of  nearly  a  million  dollars  each,  four 
modernized  single-turret  harbor  defense 
monitors,  the  Arkansas,  Florida,  Nevada 
and  Wyoming,  each  carrying  two  of  the 
twelve-inch  guns  and  a  host  of  rapid-fire 
weapons  of  various  calibres.  Likewise  we 
have  within  the  half  decade  added  to  our 
floating  strength  a  fleet  of  sixteen  torpedo- 


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BAttleship  LouitiMia,  tUter  of  Gonneoticat. 


boat  destroyers  and  about  a  dozen  torpedo 
boats  of  uniform  designs. 

Eapid  as  has  been  our  progress  in 
acquiring  floating  fortresses  up  to  this 
time,  it  pales  in  significance  beside  the 
great  fleet  now  building  or  under  contract. 
Just  to  indicate  the  scale  on  which  addi- 
tions are  now  being  made  to  our  water- 
borne  defenses  it  may  be  pointed  out  that 
whereas  our  navy  now  contains  a  total 
of  only  eleven  first-class  battleships,  there 
are  in  the  shipyards  and  in  varying  stages 
of  completion,  a  total  of  thirteen  first-class 
battleships,  or  more  than  our  entire  pres- 
ent strength,  and  this,  too,  is  without  re- 
gard to  the  battleship  New  Hampshire 
authorized  by  the  last  Congress,  and  the 
contract  for  which  has  not  yet  been  let. 

Leaving  out  of  consideration  the  new 
vessels  just  authorized,  and  the  designs 
for  which  have  not  been  fully  determined 
upon,  we  have  thirty-one  vessels  building 
as  against  two  hundred  and  fifty-two  now 
in  our  navy.  However,  nearly  all  of  the 
new  ships  are  fighters  of  good  size  while 
included  in  the  present  strength  are  many 
tugs,  converted  yachts  and  other  minor 
craft.  But  to  make  another  comparison 
which  will  emphasize  what  a  tremendous 
building  programme  we  have  under  way, 
it  may  be  cited  that  the  total  tons  dis- 
placement of  the  naval  vessels  now  in  serv- 
ioo  is  531,886  with  767,088  indicated 
hori?e-power  represented  in  tlieir  engines. 
The  now  ships  yet  in  the  hands  of  the 


workmen  will  aggregate  349,431  tons  and 
481,300  indicated  horse-power.  This  will 
gi\iB  us  a  grand  total  when  all  these  ships 
are  in  commission  of  881,317  tons  and 
1,248,388  horse-power.  Great  Britain 
has  a  total  tonnage  of  1,485,105  while 
France  has  at  present  but  781,754.  How- 
ever, France  will,  in  all  probability,  have  a 
sufficient  number  of  new  vessels  afloat  ere 
we  gain  our  impending  increase  to  keep 
Uncle  Sam  in  third  place  instead  of  allow- 
ing him  to  move  up  at  once  to  second 
place,  as  would  be  indicated  by  the  above 
figures. 

Among  the  new  battleships  are  the 
Connecticut  and  Louisiana — monsters 
450  feet  in  length  and  16,000  tons  dis- 
placement— to  the  construction  of  which 
special  interest  attaches  because  one  is 
building  in  a  private  shipyard  and  the 
other  in  a  government  navy  yard,  in  order 
to  determine  whether  Uncle  Sam  or  pri- 
vate enterprise  can  do  things  most  quickly. 
An  interesting  group  of  duplicate  battle- 
ships is  made  up  of  the  Georgia,  Nebraska, 
New  Jersey,  Rhode  Island  and  Virginia. 
Each  of  these  is  435  feet  long,  76  feet  wide 
and  displaces  nearly  15,000  tons  of  water. 
Like  all  our  newer  battleships  their  heavi- 
est battery  consists  of  four  twelve-inch 
guns.  A  slight  improvement  upon  these 
designs  is  found  in  the  plans  for  the  yet 
newer  Idaho  class  of  battleships. 

Especially  significant  in  our  recent  war- 
ship building  is  the  fact  that  Miss  Colum- 


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85 


bia  has,  after  an  interval  of  neglect,  gone 
back  to  the  armored  cruiser  type  of  sea 
fighter  which  won  world-wide  fame  when 
Yankee  naval  architects  evolved  the  New 
York  and  later  the  Brooklyn.  There  are 
now  well  on  the  way  to  completion  eight 
superb  new  armored  cruisers  bearing  the 
names  California,  Colorado,  Maryland, 
Pennsylvania,  South  Dakota,  Tennessee, 
Washington  and  Wisconsin.  Each  is  502 
feet  in  length — one  hundred  feet  longer 
than  the  pioneer  armored  cruisers  and 
longer  than  any  of  our  battleships — and 
they  have  from  23,000  to  25,000  horse- 
power in  herculean  engines  which  will 
hurl  them  through  the  water  at  speeds 
in  excess  of  twenty-five  miles  per  hour. 
In  addition  to  this  big  array  of  the  "cav- 
alry of  the  sea"  the  new  program  author- 
izes two  more  armored  cruisers,  to  be 
named  the  North  Carolina  and  Montana, 
and  three  scout  cruisers  which  will  act 
as  "the  eyes  of  the  fleet.'^  Incidently  the 
conditions  in  our  new  possessions  have 
made  it  necessary  to  provide  a  number  of 
gunboats,  some  of  which  will  soon  be  com- 
pleted, and  the  growth  in  the  scope  of 
Uncle  Sam's  floating  schools  for  young 
^'Jackies''  has  necessitated  the  letting  of 
contracts  for  new  training  ships  of  the 
Cumberland  class  which  have  steam  and 
sail  power  combined. 


BwiBffinff  a  IS'inch  gvax  into  place  on  board  the  Orecon* 


The  battleship  Wisconsin. 


THE  SCULPTORS  CONCEPTION  OF 

SACAJAWEA 

inere  nave  been  no  previoua  attempta  to  produce  a  likeness  of  Sacaja'wea  (BirdTironian)^ 
-who  guided  Lewis  and  Clark  tkrougk  several  thousand  miles  of  i?irildemess  to  tke 
Pacrnc  Coast.  Inasmuck  as  tkere  kas  come  doi^vn  to  us  no  means  by  i^vkick  any 
individual  peculiarities  of  {ace,  figure  or  gesture  could  be  traced  out,  tke  conceptions 
of  tke  two  sculptors  kerewitk  reproduced  kave  a  peculiar  and  lasting  value. 

THERE  is  a  cer^ 
tain  fascination 
in  studying  dif- 
ferent concep- 
tions of  the 
same  subject  by  twa 
sculptors  who  are  widely 
separated  by  distance^ 
tomperament  and  the  in* 
fluences  of  environment^ 
and  this  is  particularly 
true  when  the  theme  is. 
so  fro«]i  and  untried  m 
that  of  Sacajawea,  the- 
Indian  girl  -  wife  and 
mother,  who  guided" 
Lewis  and  Clark  through 
several  thousand  mile* 
of  savage  wilderness  to- 
the  Pacific. 

An  Eastern  and  a 
Western  city  have  been 
the  scene  of  the  activities, 
of  the  two  sculptors,  Miss- 
Alice  Cooper  (Chicago) 
and  Bruno  Louis  Zimm 
(New  York),  who  have 
been  working  out  their 
conceptions  of  Sacajawea 
for  the  Lewis  and  Clark 
Fair  and  the  Louisiana 
Purchase  Exposition. 

Miss  Cooper  is  em- 
bodying in  her  statue  all 
the  freedom,  dramatic- 
intensity  and  unconquer- 
able courage  of  the  West, 
Sacajawea  standing  with 
uplifted  arm  and  ardent 
praze  pointing  toward  the- 
distant  sea. 

"The     one     exquisite 
touch,  however,  that  dif- 
ferentiates    this     statue- 
,  -     ,        ,    ,    ,      .  ^  ^  «  ,  from  every  other  is  tha 

Lateit  tketoh  model  of  statue  of  Sacajawea  for  Lewis  and  Clark  Fair.  v     i  i  j  i 

Miss  Cooper's  conception.  chubby,  round-eycd  pap- 


THE  SCULPTOR'S  CONCEPTION  OF  SACAJAWEA. 


87 


poose  that  peeps  over  Sacajawea's  shoulder 
from  under  the  buffalo  robe.  Without  this 
mark  of  humanity,  Sacajawea,  with  her 
superb  fearlessness,  would  resemble  aii 
Indian  D  i- 
ana." 

Bruno 
Zimm's  con- 
cepiion,  on 
the  contrary, 
is  of  patience 
that  endures 
to  the  end, 
'  heroism  min- 
gl ed  with 
meekness, 
weariness  that 
knows  no  rest. 
While  less 
flramatic  and 
impassioned 
in  pose  than 
Miss  Cooper's 
it  is  strictly 
in  accord 
with  the  facts 
that  have 
•come  down  to 
us  in  the  jour- 
nals of  Lewis 
«  n  d  Clark. 
Mr.  Z  i  m  m 
says: 

"In  form- 
ing my  con- 
■eeption,  I 
tried  to  avoid 
the  old,  hack- 
neyed pose, 
with  the  hand 
shading  the 
eyes,  an  atti- 
t  u  d  e  which 
Tias  been  used 
on  every  occa- 
sion of  In- 
d  i  a  n  depic- 
t  u  r  e,  and 
which,  what- 
•ever  its  artis- 
tic beauty,  is 
•certainly  very 
commonplace. 
"My  statue  is 
supposed  t  o 
•exhibit    Saca- 


jawea as  she  may  have  appeared  when 
crossing  the  Rockies,  a  weary,  searching 
expression  on  her  face  and  in  her  eye, 
looking  out  toward  the  West  for  the  large 

water,  the 
habitat  of 
the  whale, 
which  s  u  b- 
sequently  s  o 
excited  her 
curiosity.  The 
dress,  for  the 
reason  of  her 
long  captivity 
by  the  Minne- 
tarees,  is  of 
that  tribe/' 

Thus  it  will 
be  seen  that 
realism  is  the 
keynote  to 
M  r.  Zimm's 
conception  of 
Sacajawea. 
Every  detail 
i  s  painstak- 
ing, exact, 
true  to  the 
most  petty  de- 
tail of  those 
hard  and  toil- 
some days  of 
travel  over  the 
Rockies. 

Miss  Cooper 
on  the  con- 
trary  has 
idealized  her 
theme,  lifting 
her  heroine 
above  the 
plane  of  the 
commonplace 
into  a  loftier 
and  nobler 
realm,  trans- 
forming her 
into  the  very 
spirit  of  the 
West,  keen  of 
vision,  daunt- 
less  of  henrt, 


pressing 
ward 


statue  of  Sacajawea  made  for  St.  Louis  Fair  by  Bruno  Zimm. 


on- 
with 
rapt  purpose 
and  unreiiiit- 
ting  zeal  to 
the  goal. 


THE  WHITE  LADY 


A  iKreird  tale  of  mystery  and  adventure  in  ike  sno^w-slirouded  (sLBtneeeeB  of  tke  mountainfl 

IN  TWO  PARTS-PART  II 
By  Carl  Loius  Kingsbury 


AFTER  seeing  Dick  comfortably 
established  I  made  my  way 
back  to  Brown's  and  reported 
the  realistic  outcome  of  the 
accident  that  he  had  desired. 
Brown  was  much  concerned ;  he  urged  me 
to  take  a  quarter  of  the  mutton  and  return 
at  once. 

"I'll  be  over  airly  in  the  morning; 
airly/'  he  told  me;  "I'll  be  riggin'  up 
a  sled  to  fetch  Eastlake  over  here  on 
in  the  morning." 

"0'  course  you  fellers  could  come  and 
camp  on  me  with  impunerty  but  camping 
on  the  Mexican — ^that's  different;  I'll 
be  over  airly." 

"Thompson  is  due  to-morrow,  to  take 
us  back  to  the  station,"  I  remarked. 

'TTou  all  c'n  go  all  right;  it  ain't 
going  to  hurt  a  spraint  ankle  none  to  ride 
on  a  easy  buckboard.  Now  you  git  back 
and  stay  right  with  Eastlake  until  I  come 
in  the  morning." 

It  was  nine  o'clock.  The  three  of  us, 
Dick  and  the  Mexican  and  I,  were  sitting 
before  the  fire,  a  silent  party,  for  it 
seemed  impossible  to  engage  the  Mexican's 
attention  on  any  subject,  though  he  was 
plainly  above  the  average  of  his  country- 
men in  intelligence,  when  Dick  remarked, 
glancing  at  the  meat  that  still  lay  on  the 
table  where  I  had  deposited  it  on  first 
entering : 

"I'm  as  hungry  as  a  wolf" — ^he  got  no 
further,  the  Mexican  turned  on  him  with 
flashing  eyes; — "AYhat  for  you  speak  like 
that?"  he  checked  himself  abruptly;  "It 
is  true,  senor,  no  doubt  that  you  have 
much  hunger,  and  your  friend  has  brought 
food;  we  will  eat."  He  got  up,  starting 
toward  the  door  of  the  room  that  I  after- 
ward knew  to  be  the  kitchen,  but  paused 
to  say,  apologetically;  "I  have  not  so 
great  of  food  myself ;  the  snow,  it  is  deep, 
and  never,  at  any  time,  was  I  of  mucii 
success  with  a  gim." 

The  meal  to  which  he  presently  called 
ns  consisted  of  mutton  steaks  and  water — 


nothing  more.  "It  is  that  the  snow  is 
so  deep,"  the  Mexican  again  explained 
as  I  took  my  seat  at  the  table  while  he 
filled  a  plate  and  glass  for  Dick  to  whom 
supper  was  served  on  a  little  table  beside 
his  chair. 

The  Mexican  sat  with  me,  his  back  to 
the  door  of  the  room  in  which  Dick  sat; 
I  had  not  heard  the  opening  of  the  closed 
door  where  the  woman  waited  but,  pres- 
ently, Dick's  voice  sounded,  clearly  and 
questioningly : 

"Good  evening,  madam, — I,  the  gentle- 
man who  runs  this  establishment — ^" 

The  gentleman  who  ran  the  establish- 
ment, his  face  the  color  of  grey  ashes, 
had  already  bounded  to  his  feet,  and,  in 
three  swift  strides,  was  beside  Dick's 
table.  I,  curious  to  know  why  he  should 
become  so  painfully  excited  because  his 
wife  had  chosen  to  show  herself  at  last, 
was  close  behind  him. 

Before  the  fire,  slightly  supporting  her- 
self against  the  back  of  a  high  chair, 
stood  a  woman,  smiling  down  upon  Dick, 
who  was  returning  her  regard  with  a  look 
of  intense  surprise.  She  was  a  tall 
woman,  magnificently  dressed,  notwith- 
standing that  she  was  within  doors,  in  "x 
cloak  or  mantle,  of  softest  white  fur.  The 
mantle  was  so  long  that  it  reached  to  her 
feet,  which  I  observed,  as  she  advanced 
one  of  those  slender  members  toward  the 
blaze,  were  also  clad  in  white  fur. 

"I  grew  weary  of  lying  still."  She 
tossed  the  explanation  over  her  shoulder 
to  the  Mexican,  much  as  she  might  have 
tossed  a  bone  to  a  hungry  dog,  and  I 
am  bound  to  say,  he  received  it  with 
something  of  the  expression  and  air  that 
the  canine  might  have  done.  The  woman 
again  turned  to  Dick,  who  is  very  hand- 
some; from  his  face  her  eyes — yellow 
eyes,  with  more  than  a  hint  of  ferocity 
in  their  depths — ^turned  slowly  to  the 
scanty  supper  on  the  table  beside  him. 

"You  furnish  your  guests  but  poor 
entertainment;  you  should  have  called  on 


THE    WHITE    LADY. 


89 


me  to  assist  you."  She  glanced  at  the 
Mexican  and  laughed  mockingly. 

"1  do  that  that  I  can ;  you  know  I  would 
do  better  were  it  in  my  power,"  the  Mex- 
ican assured  her,  humbly,  and  I  saw,  with 
wonder,  that  his  forehead  was  beaded  with 
perspiration  and  that  his  hands  were 
trembling. 

"You  should  have  called  me,"  she 
repeated,  and  Dick  hastened  to  declare; 
"We  have  done  very  well  indeed.  We 
owe  you  and  your  husband  apologies  for 
this  intrusion;  it  was,  as  you  see,"  nodding 
slightly  toward  his  injured  foot — "una- 
voidable." 

"Make  no  apologies,"  the  White  Lady — 
as  I  had  mentally  christened  her — said, 
smiling  slightly,  "My — ^husband — ^here, 
has  a  saying,  the  Lord  will  provide,  and 
this  is  a  provision.  To-morrow  there 
will  be  food  in  plenty — for  me." 

"I  said  it  to  you  but  once — once — when 
we  were  starving,  Cyrene.  May  the  Mother 
of  God  be  merciful!  It  was  sacrilege," 
murmured  the  man,  in  a  broken  voice. 

"My  friends  helped  us  then;  we  shall 
not  need  to  call  upon  them  this  time — 
although,  as  you  told  the  senor,  the  snow 
is  deep,"  the  White  Lady  responded  with 
a  smile  that  revealed,  rather  unpleasantly 
long,  white  teoth.  Perhaps  I  am  over 
fanciful,  but  her  smile  seemed  to  me  a 
thing  to  shudder  at.  The  thin,  scarlet 
lips  curled  back  and  the  yellow  eyes  glit- 
tered. She  still  maintained  the  station 
that  she  had  first  taken  beside  the  high 
chair  but,  as  she  made  the  last  remark, 
she  gave  an  impatient  movement  and  the 
furred  mantle  slipped  from  one  shoulder 
revealing,  to  our  astonished  eyes,  a 
blood-stained  bandage  about  the  exposed 
shoulder  and  neck.  With  a  smothered 
exclamation,  the  Mexican  sprang  to  her 
side. 

"Will  you  not  lie  down?  You  take 
risks;  lie  down,"  he  said  entreatingly, 
readjusting  the   mantle. 

^Tlisks!"  she  retorted,  scornfullv;  ^^I 
shall  take  more — many  more — ^unless^ — • 
to-morrow — there  shall  be  much  food  in 
the  cabin.  Is  it  not  so?"  she  glared  at 
him   questioningly. 

The  Mexican  stamped  his  foot  in  sud- 
den, uncontrollable  rage. 

"Always  it  is  that  you  are  hungry !  But 
no,  a  thousand  times  no!"  he  cried  sav- 
agelv. 

The  White  Lady  dropped  into  the  chair 


beside  which  she  had  been  standing  and 
stretched  her  hands  toward  the  fire.  "You 
are  not  wise,  Cordova,  it  would  be  weU 
to  gratify  me."  As  the  man  whom  she 
caUed  Cordova  made  no  reply  she  turned 
to  Dick  and  continued,  in  a  thin,  high 
voice,  "This,  it  is  a  far  and  a  cold  country. 
We  dwellers  in  the  wilderness  know  its 
dangers,  its  hunger,  its  trackless  solitudes 
as  none  other  can."  She  paused  and  Dick 
nodded  assent  without  speaking ;  his  seem- 
ing indifference  apparently  piqued  her  for 
there  was  a  distinct  suggestion  of  a  whine 
in  her  voice  as  she  continued: 

"To  wander  amid  the  snows  all  day, 
to  feel  the  cutting  wind  upon  one's  face, 
to  hear  the  wild  voices  of  the  creatures 
who  haunt  these  solitudes,  to  feel  set 
apart  and  homeless,  that  is  the  heart  of 
all  loneliness,  and,  after  that,  crowning 
it  all,  comes  hunger." 

"What  a  singular  creature ;  what  a  mys- 
terious creature !  Who  is  she,  what  is  she, 
whence  does  she  come,  and  whither  does 
she  go?"  I  questioned,  melitally,  with 
an  underlying  thought  that,  so  far,  the 
AVhite  Ijady's  remarks,  few  as  they  had 
been,  had  brought  up,  and  ended,  with  a 
sort  of  linguistic  crash  against  the  one 
dominating  idea  of  hunger. 

Cordova  had  seated  himself  in  such  a 
way  that  his  eyes  were  fixed  on  the  gleam- 
ing orbs  of  the  White  Lady.  It  struck 
me,  after  a  furtive  glance  or  two,  that 
they  were  compelling  eyes,  this  in  despite 
of  the  abject  manner  in  which  he  had 
entreated  her  but  a  moment  before,  and 
that  they  were  commanding  the  White 
I,ady.  Presentlv  she  desisted  from  her 
attempt  to  set  Dick  to  talk  and  looked 
at  the  Mexican. 

"There  is  more  than  one  way  of  doing 
a  thing,"  she  said,  coldly;  "since  you 
will  not  agree  to  the  thing  that  I  desire, 
play." 

"Not  to-night,"  Cordova  implored,  his 
voice  quivering  with  anxiety,  "You  are 
hurt—" 

"Plav."   she   reiterated. 

"No!" 

'^es,  else—" 

"I  will  plav,  but  I  will  have  no  treach- 
ery.   Kemember  that." 

"There  shall  be  none — as  you  mean  it.'' 

I  had,  before  this,  noticed  a  violin  lying 
on  a  table  in  the  corner.  It  seemed  fitting 
that  the  instrument  should  voice  the 
further    expression    of    this    mystifying 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


pair,  with  their  puzzling  conversation. 
The  Mexican  took  the  violin  and  began 
playing.  It  was  the  one  strain  that  the 
depot  agent  had  tried  to  catch,  alluringly, 
insistently,  entreatingly  given;  that  one 
strain  and  no  other,  the  player  repeated 
it  a  half  dozen  times  and  stopped. 

"It  is  enough,^'  he  said,  bitterly. 

"It  is  enough — ^and  you,  you  are  a 
coward!"  With  the  words,  the  White 
Lady  arose,  stealing  softly  toward  the 
door.  "It  is  enough,"  she  repeated,  and, 
opening  the  door,  stepped  out  into  the 
freezing  winter  night.  The  door  closed 
upon  her  but  not  before  there  came  to  our 
ears  the  sound  of  many  scurrying,  padded 
feet.  The  violin  dropped  from  the  Mex- 
ican's shaking  grasp,  he  covered  his  face 
with  his  hands  and  groaned  aloud. 

Dick  half  rose  from  his  chair.  "Now," 
he  cried,  "What  does  this  mean,  why  do 
you  allow  that  lady  to  go  alone  into  the 
night,  in  this  wilderness,  and  in  this 
weather  ?*' 

"Neither  the  wilderness  or  the  weather 
affect  her,  and  I  will  answer  no  questions. 
You  came  here  uninvited,  senor,"  returned 
the  Mexican,  recovering  his  nerve. 

We  were  given  sleeping  quarters  in  one 
of  the  adjoining  rooms  and,  for  reasons, 
I  purposely  left  the  door  between  it  and 
the  larger  room  ajar.  We  both  lay  down 
without  undressing;  I  was  resolved  not 
to  lose  myself  in  sleep:  there  was  some- 
thing so  eerie,  so  inexplicable  in  our 
surroundings  and  companionship  that, 
it  seemed  to  me,  a  case  for  watchfulness. 
What  DicFs  intentions  were  I  could  not 
say  but  I  know  that  it  was  long  before 
he  slept,  as  I  could  tell  by  his  restless 
movements. 

As  I  lay  in  my  bunk  I  could  see  the 
Mexican  hovering  over  the  fire  in  the  next 
room ;  his  attitude  was  one  of  the  deepest 
dejection.  Evidently,  the  night  was  to 
bring  no  sleep  to  him.  Dick's  regular 
breathing  at  length  proclaimed  that  he 
slept,  and  I  think  I  must  have  lost  myself 
in  a  doze,  for  I  had  seen  or  heard  no 
one  enter  when  I  was  roused  by  the  sound 
of  low  voices  in  the  next  room  and  I 
opened  my  eyes  to  see  the  White  Lady 
standing  by  the  side  of  the  Mexican  with 
one  slim  white  hand  upon  his  shoulder 
entreating  him,  apparently  without  effect, 
so  much  was  plain  from  their  attitude 
and  the  expression  on  their  faces.  I  could 
not    catch    their   words    until,    becoming 


angered,  the  White  Lady  raised  her  voice. 

"I  am  absolved  from  that  promise.  Why 
should  I  have  kept  it,  what  are  promises 
to  me?  But  I  have  kept  it — ^because  It 
suited  me  to  do  so;  it  is  you  who  have 
broken  our  compact.  None,  not  one 
himian  foot  was  to  cross  this  threshold 
while  I  remained." 

"Cyrene,"  in  his  excitement  the  Mex- 
ican spoke  more  loudly,  "you  know  the 
circumstances." 

"Bah,  what  care  I  for  circumstances! 
And  it  was  one  of  them  who  gave  me 
this."  She  touched  the  reddened  bandage 
with  one  claw -like  hand,  continuing 
angrily,  "We  went  far  and  found  nothing. 
They  have  chased  away  the  game — at 
least,  they  have  chased  it  out  of  my  reach 
fpr  the  present.  See,"  she  tore  savagely 
at  the  bandage  on  her  shoulder — ^'^my 
wound  bleeds  again — ^" 

"I  told  you,  Cyrene,  that  you  incurred 
a  risk — " 

"Risk !  Give  me  satisfaction.  I  would 
not  let  them  go  on  without  me  and  I 
return,  as  I  went,  hungry.  I  am  weary 
of  hunger;  I  will  forgive  your  breach 
of  faith  if  you  will — ^" 

"I  will  not,  I  have  told  you."  Both 
voices  were  louder  and  the  Mexican  rose 
to  his  feet.  The  White  Lady  stood  in 
front  of  him ;  she  placed  a  hand  on  either 
of  his  shoulders  as  she  said,  "You  need 
do  nothing  only  keep  out  of  the  way,  it  is 
all  I  ask.    It  is  not  much." 

"Not  much!  Oh,  you  devil,  you  devil. 
Outcast  of  God  and  man  that  I  am,  that 
will  I  not  do.  For  you,  soulless,  I  have 
accepted  damnation — ^" 

"He  is  so  beautiful,"  urged  the  White 
Lady  in  a  sibilant  whisper,  "So  beautiful. 
And  these  blonds — ."  The  Mexican,  his 
eyes  glittering  ominously,  gave  her  an 
angry  push,  the  mantle  fell  still  farther 
from  her  shoulder,  she  rearranged  it  with 
a  steady  hand  but  the  hand  was  reddened 
with  blood  when  she  held  it  up  before 
Cordova's  eyes. 

"Sec!"  she  said,  "I  suffer,  it  is  well 
that  I  have  satisfaction.  You  do  not  care 
that  my  blood  stains  this  hand — and 
yours !"  With  a  sudden  gesture  she  swept 
her  dripping  hand  across  his  palm  and 
laughed  to  see  the  crimson  stain  that  it 
left.  "It  is  as  well,"  she  went  on  calmly 
enough,  "I  am  tired  of  you.  I  told  you 
that  I  should  tire  of  you  sooner  or  later. 
You  are  a  tame  coward,  but  you  shall  not 


THE   WHITE   LADY. 


91 


balk  me,  I  have  always  had  my  own  way, 
and  I  always  shall/^ 

"Not  if  it  lies  through  this  man^s  heart, 
Cyrene.  No,  not  for  you  or  all  your  kind.'' 

"One's  way  may  deviate,  somewhat,  it 
need  not  always  lie  through  a  white  man'3 
heart ;  other  hearts  will  do.  And,  alway?, 
you  are  a  poor  hunter,  Cordova.  My  own 
and  the  wilderness  are  better.  Good 
night." 

The  door  opened,  closed  again,  and 
Cordova  brooded  alone  over  the  dying  fire. 

Brown  was  on  hand  with  the  sled  before 
sunrise  the  next  morning  but  he  seemed 
to  regard  his  arrival  as  late  enough  to 
require  some  apology. 

"I've  had  to  break  roads  most  of  the 
way,"  he  said,  ^^ut  we'll  get  you  out  o' 
this,  now,  in  a  jiffy." 

The  Mexican  had  disappeared  on 
Brown's  arrival  and  we  left  without  seeing 
him  again. 

Dick^s  foot  was  much  better  when,  late 
in  the  afternoon.  Hank  Thompson  put  in 
an  appearance,  and  he  professed  himself 
as  willing  and  able  to  start  at  once  on  the 
return  journey.  But  Thompson  vetoed 
that  proposition. 

"It's  too  late  in  the  day  to  start  out 
now,"  he  said,  "We'll  get  a  soon  start  in 
the  morning,  all  right,  but  we  may's  well 
inflict  our  comp'ny  on  Brown  for  to- 
night." 

We  stayed  accordingly.  Once,  twice, 
thrice,  during  the  night  Dick  and  I,  lying 
wakeful,  heard  the  wild  cry  that  was  so 
like  the  wailing  note  on  the  Mexican'^ 
violin,  and  even  the  stolid  Hank  had  been 
disturbed  by  the  crying,  as  we  learned  at 
breakfast. 

"Heard  wolves  hoUerin'  'round  to  beat 
the  band  last  night,"  he  remarked,  "They 
must  be  gittin'  purty  thick  since  the 
bounty^s  took  off." 

^TTes,"  Brown  assented,  "they  are." 

Presently,  Thompson  went  out  to  hitch 
up  his  mules.  His  departure  was  fol- 
lowed, directly,  by  an  excited  and  urgent 
shout : 

"Come   out   here;   come   quick!" 


What  we  found,  when  we  reached  the 
spot  that  Hank  indicated,  was  the  torn 
and  mangled  body  of  the  Mexican,  Cor- 
dova, lying  in  a  blood-stained  wallow  of 
snow. 

"Must  a'  been  comin'  over  here  and  the 
wolves  ketched  him,"  Hank  said,  soberly. 
"But  why  didn't  he  holler?  We  could  a' 
heard  him,  this  nigh  the  house;  why  in 
time  didn't  he  holler?" 

A  tuft  of  white  fur  still  tightly  clutched 
in  one  mangled  hand  may  have  been  the 
answer  to  that  question.  Cordova  had 
made  no  outcry;  was  his  life  given  for 
another  ?    Had  he  purposely  kept  silence  ? 

When  we  reached  the  station  we  found 
that  the  afternoon  train,  true  to  its  tradi- 
tions, was  some  hours  late.  Before  it  came 
we  had  seen  the  coroner  and  knew  that  he 
was  on  his  way  to  the  cabin,  far  away 
in  the  mountain  solitudes,  where  lay  the 
body  of  the  Mexican. 

Twilight  was  deepening  into  dusk  when, 
far  down  the  track,  a  single  wavering 
star  grew  and  brightened  and  we  knew 
that  the  belated  train  was  approaching. 
Within  the  lonely  little  station  house  Dick 
and  the  operator  and  I  waited.  Suddenly, 
"Holy  Moses,  what's  that!"  shouted  the 
operator,  pointing,  as  he  spoke,  to  one 
of  the  rear  windows. 

Framed  in  the  frosty  panes,  as  we 
looked,  was  a  strange  white  face.  A  face 
with  long,  gleaming  teeth  showing  white 
between  parted  scarlet  lips  and  with  flam- 
ing yellow  eyes  that  glared  at  Dick,  at 
Dick  alone. 

In  an  instant  we  were  on  the  platform 
outside.  Within  that  instant  the  traip 
thundered  up  with  a  roar  and  a  rumble 
that  shook  the  earth. 

It  was  the  voice  of  the  great  world 
calling  us  back  to  the  known  and  the 
commonplace. 

We  ran  around  the  depot  to  the  rear 
window.  Nothing  there,  but,  away  across 
the  field,  going:  as  lightly  as  thistle-down 
blown  before  the  wind,  ran  a  guant  white 
wolf,  making  back  to  the  mountains  from 
whence  we  had  come. 


THE  SITE  OF  FORT  CLATSOP 


^WLere    tke    first   land    \nr^a    cleared    and    bouses    built   by    American    citizens    on     tbe 

Pacmc  Coast 

By  P.  W.  GiUette 


Looatinff  the  ti^ht  of  Fort  Clatsop.  At  the  extreme  left  is  Silas  B.  Smith,  the  desoendant  of 
Oobaway,  the  Clatsop  chief.  In  the  oenter  are  L.  B.  Cox  and  C.  W.  Shane.  All  three  are  deceased. 
At  the  extreme  right  is  the  writer  of  this  article. 


SOME  three  years  ago  the  Oregon 
Historical  Society,  realizing  the 
necessity  of  permanently  establish- 
ing the  location  of  Fort  Clatsop, 
deputized  Mr.  L.  B.  Cox  to  visit 
the  locality,  in  the  company  of  the  writer, 
and  to  leave  such  marks  as  will  permit  no 
future  doubt  as  to  the  exact  site.  In  the 
party  were  also  Silas  B.  Smith,  Judge 
Galloway  and  Carlos  W.  Shane.  The  lat- 
ter is  an  old  settler,  who  was  at  one  time 
in  possession  of  the  ground  occupied  by 
the  fort. 

The  writer  was  able  to  identify  the  ex- 
act spot,  and,  by  the  relative  location  of 
standing  timber,  to  determine  the  boun- 
daries of  the  pallisade.  Stakes  were 
driven,  so  that  the  site  of  the  fort — the 
"Plymouth  Eock  of  the  Pacific'^ —  is  fixed 
for  all  time. 

Fort  Clatsop,  so  named  by  Lewis  and 
Clark  for  the  Clatsop  Indians  who  occu- 
pied the  surrounding  country,  is  situated 
on  the  west  bank  of  the  river  Netdle,  now 
the  Lewis  and  Clark  River,  one  and  a  half 
miles  above  its  mouth,  and  three  miles 
from  the  Pacific  Ocean,  in  Clatsop 
County,  Oregon. 


Lewis  and  Clark  reached  and  selected 
this  point  on  the  7th  day  of  December, 
1805,  and  on  the  8th  commenced  to  cut 
down  trees,  clear  land  and  build  their 
cabins.  They  erected  seven  cabins  in  all ; 
the  smokehouse  was  built  first,  in  order 
to  have  a  place  to  smoke  and  dry  their 
meat.  A  storehouse  was  built  for  their 
ammunition,  stores,  etc. ;  a  small  cabin  for 
Tousaint  Chabonau,  the  interpreter,  and 
his  wife,  "Sac-a-ja-wea,"  and  the  remain- 
der of  the  cabins  were  used  as  quarters  for 
the  officers  and  men.  As  soon  as  the 
houses  were  completed,  they  constructed 
a  strong  stockade  around  the  clearing,  as 
a  protection  against  the  Indians. 

The  stockade  enclosed  something  over 
a  half  an  acre  of  land,  and  stood  on  the 
high  land,  about  two  hundred  yards  back 
from  the  river;  within  and  on  the  north 
side  of  the  inclosure  was  a  beautiful 
spring,  which  supplied  the  garrison  with 
an  abundance  of  pure  water.  After  the 
fort  was  completed,  a  number  of  men  were 
set  to  work  to  survey  and  open  a  trail 
through  the  forest  to  the  ocean,  three  miles 
west. 

Fortunately  they  found  a  dividing  ridge 


THE    SITE    OF    FORT    CLATSOP. 


1»3 


running  almost  due  west,  and  nearly 
through  the  timber,  to  the  Skipenon 
Creek,  across  which  they  felled  a  tree  for 
a  bridge.  This  stream  ran  through  a 
broad  marsh,  through  which  the  men  were 
obliged  to  wade.  When  the  writer  came 
to  Oregon  in  1852  this  trail  was  in  pretty 
good  condition,  having  been  kept  open  by 
Indians  and  wild  animals.  I  have  walked 
over  it  many  times. 

The  houses  of  Fort  Clatsop  were  built 
of  round  logs  and  roofed  with  "split 
shakes,'^  and  the  cracks  chinked  with  tim- 
ber and  moss. 

When  Lewis  and  Clark  left  Fort  Clat- 
sop, March  28,  1806,  they  gave  the  fort, 
houses  and  furniture  to  Co-ba-way,  the 
Clatsop  chief,  with  whom  they  were  very 
friendly. 

Some  of  Co-ba-way^s  grandchildren  yet 
live  on  Clatsop  Plains.  One  of  his  daugh- 
ters married  a  white  man,  Mr.  S.  H. 
Smith,  who  crossed  the  plains  in  1834. 

Fort  Clatsop  is  a  spot  of  great  historic 


importance.  There  the  first  land  was 
cleared  and  houses  built  by  American  citi- 
zens on  the  Pacific  Coast;  there  our  flag 
was  first  planted  by  officers  and  soldiers  of 
the  United  States,  by  direction  of  Presi- 
dent Jefferson. 

On  the  same  trip  a  visit  was  paid 
to  the  "Salt  Caim,^^  where  Lewis  and 
Clark  boiled  sea  water  to  extract  salt 
for  their  use.  The  appearance  and 
location  of  the  "Cairn"  is  sufiicient 
evidence  that  it  is  the  one  referred 
to  by  members  of  the  expedition;  but 
the  best  possible  testimony  was  from 
the  lips  of  the  old  squaw,  "Stin-is-tum/^ 
or  Jennie  Micheal,  as  she  is  now  called. 
The  old  woman — she  is  over  80 — ^was 
brought  to  the  spot,  and  testified  that  her 
mother  had  often  told  her  of  Lewis  and 
Clark,  and  had  spoken  of  this  pile  of 
stones  as  the  place  where  they  made  salt. 
It  is  noteworthy  that  Stin-is-tum  is  one 
of  the  three  (one  man  and  two  women) 
sur\iving  full-blood  Clatsop  Indians. 


8tin-is-tum,   who  located  the    "salt  cairns"  of  Lewis  and  Clarli. 


THE  PLAYHOUSE 

By  A.   Garland 


Xadffe  Cur  Cooke  u  "Xn.  Winrt." 

DAVID  BELASCO  is  in  the  en- 
viable though  somewhat  difficult 
position  of  living  up  to  his  rep- 
utation. Within  the  last  few 
years  he  has  made  three  stars 
whose  popularity  is  on  the  increase.  He 
is  now  confronted  with  the  question :  Hav- 
ing outshone  all  other  managers,  can  I 
now  outshine  myself?  Mr.  Belasco  is  the 
one  producer  who  furnishes  veritable  sur- 
prises to  theatergoers,  nnd   this  season^s 


was  the  appearance  of  Henrietta  Crosman 
in  his  play  "Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs/' 
founded  on  Egerton  Castle's  novel  "The 
Bath  Comedy."  Mr.  Belasco  has  a  the- 
ater of  his  own,  and  four  stars — Mrs.  Les- 
lie Carter,  Blanche  Bates,  David  Warfidd 
and  Henrietta  Crosman,  all  of  whom  have 
made  record  runs. 

So  far  as  supporting  companies  are  con- 
cerned, Mr.  Belasco  has  set  a  standard  no 
other  manager  seems  willing,  if  able,  to 
equal;  and  when  it  comes  to  the  staging 
of  a  piece,  it  is  perhaps  true  that  Mr.  Be- 
lasco surpasses  them  all. 

m       m       m 

There  are  two  classes  of  people  to  whom 
success  is  never  begrudged — to  the  one 
who  has  honestly  and  laboriously  earned 
it,  and  to  the  other  who  has  attained  it 
easily  and  yet  wears  it  so  graciously  that 
we  are  glad  that  it  has  come  without  the 
usual  attendant  drudgery.  To  these  two 
divisions  a  mother  and  her  daughter  be- 
long, Madge  Carr  Cooke  and  Eleanor  Rob- 
son.  The  former,  after  long  years  in 
stock  work  and  character  parts  in  many 
and  various  companies,  is  now  a  star  in 
"Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch/'  a 
play  the  box  office  receipts  of  which  are 
in  correct  proportion  to  the  selling  quali- 
ties of  the  book  itself.  Eleanor  Kobson, 
her  daughter,  came  into  prominence  not 
more  than  three  years  ago  in  "A  Balcony." 
She  followed  that  by  appearing  as  Kyrle 
Bellew's  leading  woman,  and  then,  most 
pretentious  of  all,  she  essayed  Juliet.  Even 
those  critics  who  thought  it  impossible 
for  her  to  make  a  characterization  merit- 
ing praise,  found  her  interpretation  de- 
lightful. Miss  Robson  had  seen  no  one 
act  the  part  and  her  reading  had  the  claim 
to  originality.  This  year  she  is  the  little 
'^slavey"  in  a  dramatization  of  Israel 
ZangwilFs  story  "Merely  Mary  Ann."  It 
was  said  that  she  fell  in  love  with  the 
quaint  character  of  Mary  Ann  before  she 
thought  of  playing  the  role,  and  those 
who  have  read  the  book  will  remember 
that  the  tale  breaks  off  suddenly,  leaving 
doubt  as  to  the  ending. 

Mary  Ann,  the  tiny  maid  of  all  work, 
fresh  from  the  green  meadows,  has  come 
into  all  the  horrors  of  a  London  lodging 
house,  and,  unknowingly,  falls    in    love 


THE  PLAYHOUSE. 


95 


with  a  young  composer,  Lancelot.  In 
poverty  and  failure,  with  a  desperate 
craving  for  human  sympathy,  he  turns 
more  and  more  to  Mary  Ann,  and  accepts 
her  genuine  devotion.  At  last  he  is  forced 
into  doing  what  he  considers  hack  work 
— writing  a  popular  air — and  with  the 
despised  reward  he  decides  to  leave  Lon- 
don for  the  country.     Mary  Ann,  in  all 


her  innocence,  begs  to  go  with  him,  and  at 
last  he  consents.  Then  comes  the  news 
that  Mary  Ann  has  fallen  into  a  fortune, 
and  now  Lancelot's  pride  makes  him  re- 
fuse all  that  Mary  Ann  more  eagerly  than 
ever  offers. 

Here  it  was  the  story  ceased,  and  Miss 
Robson  begged   Mr.   Zangwill  to  tell  us 


Arnold   Daly   and  Dorothy   Donnelly   in    "Candida.*' 


DC) 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


David  Warfield,  a  clever  actor  who  owei  much  of  his  laooess  to 
Belaaoo'i  management. 


how  it  ended,  and  so  "they  married  and 
lived  happily'*  act  was  tacked  on.  A  very 
simple  and  almost  trite  plot,  and  yet 
"Merely  Mary  Arm,"  with  its  Dickens- 
esque  flashes  of  humor  and  pathos,  is  very 
real  to  us.  Miss  Eobson  has  the  greatest 
of  all  gifts — ^the  power  to  touch  our  hearts. 
*       *       * 

It  must  be  encouraging  to  start  out 
with  all  the  earmarks  which  attend 
genius;  to  have  in  rapid  succession  those 
disappointments  which  are  meant  to  try 
one's  courage  and  whet  one's  ambition.  It 
would  seem  as  though  when  discourage- 
ments pressed  hardest,  something  must 
have  whispered  to  Arnold  Daly,  "keep  on 
— this  is  but  the  payment  exacted  in  ad- 
vance for  honors  soon  to  come.''  Mr. 
Daly  kept  on,  and  his  is  the  greatest  per- 


sonal triumph  of  the  sea- 
son. As  an  experiment, 
he  produced  at  a  matinee, 
George  Bernard  Shaw's 
"Candida."  The  audience 
was  made  up  largely  of 
players,  but  his  fame 
spread. 

Then  came  the  chance 
to  fill  in  a  week's  engage- 
ment; the  critics  were 
united  in  *  their  wonder- 
ing praise,  and  the  pub- 
lic began  to  take  notice. 
WinchcU  Smith,  Mr. 
Daly's  manager,  believed 
in  the  venture,  and  the 
tiniest  theater  in  New 
York,  "The  Vaudeville," 
was  leased.  Then  came 
the  fire  regulations,  and 
while  "The  Vaudeville" 
was  undergoing  these 
changes,  some  place  must 
be  secured.  Mr.  Smith 
besought  the  "Carnegie 
Lyceum  Company,"  but 
they  refused,  as  one  of 
their  rules  forbade  the 
moving  in  of  scenery.  He 
offered  to  play  with  their 
scenery,  and  so  one  night 
was  provided  for,  but  the 
following  evenings  had 
been  engaged  in  advance 
by  others.  He  endeav- 
ored to  persuade  "The 
Strollers,"  whose  stage  is 
of  an  ironing-board  dimensions,  but  no 
woman  had  ever  played  in  their  club- 
house and  it  took  much  labor  to  induce 
them  to  be  gallant,  but  at  last  the  much 
traveled  "Candida"  had  a  home  for  a  sec- 
ond evening. 

No  place  else  could  be  discovered,  and 
so  "Candida"  went  back  to  daily  matinees 
at  "Carnegie  Lyceum."  Then  the  New 
York  Kindergarten  Association  asked  Mr. 
Daly  to  play  a  benefit  matinee,  and  if 
there  is  one  organization  which  contains 
the  elect  in  the  fashionable  worid,  this  is 
the  one.  The  seats  sold  for  ten  dollars 
apiece,  and  even  the  passes  which  went  to 
the  critics  were  paid  for  at  that  rate,  but 
Arnold  Daly  now  had  the  stamp  of  ap- 
proval from  Fifth  Avenue,  and  what  mat- 
tered all  his  previous  hardships? 


Scene  from  "Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs,"  Henrietta  Crosmaa's   succeuful   play   of   the   past   season. 


98 


THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


MlM  Eleanor  Robion  u  "Mary  Ann." 

Mr.  Daly's  first  hit  was  in  "Pudden'- 
head  Wilson/^  with  Frank  Mayo.  Mr. 
Mayo  is  one  of  the  young  actor's  idols; 
he  and  Eleanore  Duse,  a  large  portrait  of 
whom,  together  with  an  autograph  letter, 
hangs  in  the  lobby,  are  the  patron  saints 
of  "The  VaudeviUe."  Mr.  Daly  has  de- 
cided views  as  to  his  work.  "I  don't  want 
to  star.  Any  actor  can  get  a  backer  and 
do  that,  but  every  one  can't  play.  A  good 
production  is  what  I  care  about,  no  mat- 
ter whether  I  have  the  best  role  or  not." 

He  is  very  young  and  very  enthusiastic, 


and  this  is  only  the  beginning  of  his 
work;  if  he  keeps  on  as  he  has  begun,  he 
will  be  a  worthy  successor  to,  if  not  even 
greater  than,  Mr.  Mansfield. 

*       *       * 

When  each  season  brings  its  crop  of 
theatrical  failures,  and  this  year's  is  a 
plentiful  one,  there  comes  the  annual  hue 
and  cry  for  the  ignored  American  dra- 
matist. But  does  he  exist,  and  is  he  go- 
ing the  rounds  with  his  wonderful  play 
to  which  no  manager  is  willing  to  listen? 
Why  do  not  these  same  critics  advertise 
that  they  are  willing  to  advocate  his  cause, 
and  the  honor  of  discovery  will  be  theirs  ? 

Playwrights  are  all  too  scarce,  and 
managers  know  that  few  patrons  are  at- 
tracted purely  by  reason  of  the  author  of 
a  piece.  Take  Richard  Harding  Davis. 
He  is  well  known,  his  novels  are  liked,  but 
his  first  play,  a  dramatization  of  "Soldiers 
of  Fortune,"  was  not  carried  to  success 
by  the  power  of  his  name,  but  by  the  breez- 
iness  of  Mr.  Edeson.  What  happened  to 
his  next  play,  "The  Taming  of  Helen," 
with  even  a  better  cast  ?  It  was  soon  taken 
off,  and  now  this  season,  after  his  appren- 
ticeship at  play-buildihg,  comes  his  first 
real  play,  "The  Dictator,"  with  William 
Collier  in  the  leading  role.  Even  the 
magic  of  Clyde  Fitch's  name  could  not  save 
"Glad  Of  It,"  and  if  "The  Other  Girl," 
written  by  Augustus  Thomas,  had  not 
been  the  cleverest  comedy  which  has  ap- 
peared this  winter,  it  would  not  have  been 
playing  to  packed  houses,  but  would  have 
gone  the  way  of  his  "Colorado." 

Another  case  directly  in  point  is  that  of 
George  Ade.  ^Teggy  From  Paris"  did  not 
draw  because  of  his  fame,  but  when  that 
was  taken  off,  his  newer  "The  County 
Chairman"  proved  so  popular  that  it  has 
lasted  the  rest  of  the  season. 


This  year  has  been  an  unprofitable  one 
for  the  theaters,  and  consequently  the  list 
of  revivals  has  been  large  and  the  number 
of  Shakespearean  productions  remarkable. 
There  is  less  expense  and  not  so  much  risk 
connected  with  a  revival,  wherefore  Fran- 
cis Wilson  and  De  Wolf  Hopper  returned 
to  their  former  successes,  "Erminie"  and 
"Wang."  "The  Two  Orphans"  was  put  on 
with  an  all-star  cast,  and  it  was  a  pleasure 
to  see  the  younger  generation  who  made 
up  the  larger  part  of  the  audience. 


THE  CHINOOK  WIND. 


yy 


So  far  as  Shakespeare 
is  concerned,  he  draws 
no  royalties,  and  can  not 
complain  of  how  his 
plays  are  put  on.  Viola 
Allen  and  Mr.  Greet^s 
company  of  Elizabethan 
players  presented 
^'Twelfth  Night,''  the 
first,  in  a  very  modem 
and  gorgeous  produc- 
tion; the  second,  in  the 
way  it  was  done  in 
Shakespeare's  time. 

Ada  Eehan  and  Otis 
Skinner  as  joint  stars  in 
*'The  Merchant  of  Ven- 
ice" and  ''The  Taming 
of  the  Shrew"  were  thor- 
oughly artistic,  but  the 
really  wonderful  im- 
personation —  the  one 
creation  which  brought 
new  light  to  bear  on  the 
most  fascinating  and 
hardest  of  roles — was 
the  Hamlet  Forbes  Rob- 
ertson gave  us.  He  made 
the  moody  Dane  a  hu- 
man being — rational  in 
every  way.  His  reading 
was  delightful,  his  voice 
the  most  flexible  of  any 
modem  actor  and  his 
face  and  physique  ideal 
for  that  character. 


David   BeUioo. 


THE  CHINOOK  WIND 


Bom  of  the  breath  of  the  ocean 

And  warmed  by  the  son-kissed  sand 
On  the  shifting  dnnes  of  Clatsop 

And  the  westmost  sea-girt  land, 
To  the  ice-littered  crest  of  the  mountains 

The  deep  bellied  snows  of  the  plain 
Unlocking  the  source  of  the  fountains 

With  the  soft  soothing  breath  and  the  rain. 

Warm  as  the  tints  of  the  even 

The  sundown  portals  gave 
Soft  as  the  breast  of  the  ocean. 

Strong  as  the  sweep  of  her  wave, 
Up  the  inland  stretch  of  waters, 

By  the  ice  king's  hoary  throne, 
Quickening  ever  slumbering  nature. 

Calling  springtime  to  its  own. 

W.  C.  B 


THE  EYE  OF  GANESHA 


By  Eleanor  M.   Hiestand-Moore 


WHEN  Professor  Bodley  was 
up  on  Puget  Sound  maldng 
observations  on  the  Japanese 
current,  I  assisted  him  up  to 
the  time  when  the  Navi\f^- 
tion  Commission  notified  us  that  the  ap- 
propriation for  this  special  work  was  ex- 
hausted. In  the  days  of  unlimited  leisure 
wliich  intervened,  Bodley  took  to  writing 
articles  on  the  hyperborean  tribes,  while  I 
continued  to  angle  for  seaweed  and  evolve 
theories  upon  the  migration  of  aquatic 
life.  One  morning  I  went  over  to  Lummi's 
Island  at  the  Indian  reservation,  and  it 
was  on  the  south  beach  I  picked  up  the 
remarkable  relic  which  I  have  since  called 
the  Eye  of  Ganesha.  Much  to  my  sur- 
prise. Professor  Bodley  refused  to  recog- 
nize the  importance  of  this  discovery,  al- 
though he  was  deeply  interested  in  dem- 
onstrating the  great  power  of  portage  in 
ocean  currents.  The  moment  I  saw  this 
very  peculiar  object  lying  in  a  heap  of 
cobblestones,  I  apprehended  its  import- 
ance. 

It  was  a  black  stone,  very  heavy,  of 
obscure  composition,  resembling  jade  more 
than  anything  else,  ovoid  in  shape,  smooth 
on  one  side  but  upon  the  other  marked 
with  a  few  vague  lines  in  which  I  could 
plainly  trace  an  attempt  to  delineate  a 
human  eye.  It  seemed  to  me  as  I  exam- 
ined it  that  on  the  black  surface  of  the 
stone  I  could  detect  faint  indications  of 
color  artificially  applied,  but  if  this  were 
so,  the  sea  water  had  practically  obscured 
the  fact.  There  were  also  certain  little 
scratches  upon  the  stone  as  though  it  had 
been  firmly  set  in  metal  with  which  it  bore 
the  marks  of  friction.  Moreover,  when  I 
took  an  impression  of  the  intaglio,  I  de- 
tected the  line  of  a  drooping  eyelid,  and 
holding  the  stone  in  a  certain  position, 
it  seemed  to  me  perfectly  obvious  that  I 
had  found  the  eye  of  some  huge  image. 
I  wrote  for  the  Smithsonian  a  voluminous 
report  of  this  discovery,  embodying  some 
remarks  on  the  possibility  of  the  Japanese 
current  having  transported  to  the  western 
shore  o^'  America  an  object  of  such  size 
and  weight.  Professor  Bodley  refused  to 
si^  this  report,  and  it  was  never  for- 


warded. I  set  the  stone  up  on  my  man- 
tel, where  it  challenged  a  great  deal  of  ar- 
gument up  to  the  time  when  the  astonish- 
ing event  which  I  am  about  to  narrate, 
occurred. 

I  had  gone  to  bed  one  night  on  a  salmon 
salad,  and  I  did  not  sleep  well.  My  room 
faced  the  street,  but,  as  I  lay  there  toss- 
ing restlessly  in  bed,  it  occurred  to  me  that 
the  electric  lights  were  unusually  bright 
and  I  got  up  to  close  the  blinds  more  se- 
curely. But  there  was  just  as  much  light 
in  the  room  as  ever.  It  was  filled  with  an 
odd  refulgence  such  as  I  have  since  seen 
emanating  from  specimens  of  radium. 
Moreover,  as  I  endeavored  to  investigate 
this  phenomenon,  I  observed  that  the  light 
was  intermittent.  It  ebbed  and  flowed  at 
slow  intervals,  as  though  it  emanated  from 
some  source  regulated  by  an  automatic 
cut-off. 

"What  the — !"  I  observed  in  bewilder- 
ment, to  which  casual  remark  there  was 
an  Immediate  reply  in  the  form  of  a  rather 
melodious  whistle,  coming  from  the  chim- 
ney corner. 

"Bodley !''  I  called  sharply,  but  he  was 
snoring  in  oblivion. 

"It  ain't  Bodley,^'  some  one  observed. 
"It's  me  V' 

I  traced  this  remark  to  my  Morris  chair 
where  there  was  a  strange  man  sitting.  I 
turned  on  the  electric  light. 

"Thanks!"  said  my  visitor  with  a  sigh 
of  relief. 

"What  are  you  doing  here?"  I  de- 
manded, at  which  he  shrugged  his  shoul- 
ders in  a  deprecating  way  and  smiled 
wearily. 

"I  ain't  here  from  choice,"  he  replied  in 
a  despondent  tone.  "Pve  followed  that 
damned  eye  for  months !" 

"What  eye?"  I  asked,  as  I  had  little 
need  to  ask,  for  immediately  I  felt  a  mild 
electric  shock  which  evidently  came  from 
the  mantel  where  my  much-disputed  relic 
lay. 

It  was  glowing  with  what  we  now  call 
"radio-activity,"  and  as  I  gazed  at  it  in 
astonishment  it  rolled  upward,  the  heavy 
lid  closed  over  it  for  a  moment,  opening 
again  as  the  light  continued  to  stream 


THE   EYE    OF    GANESHA. 


101 


from  the  dilated  pupil,  and  I  felt  upon 
my  whole  body  the  gentle  pricking  of  an 
electric  shower. 

"I  wouldn^t  stand  there/'  observed  my 
visitor.  "It  ain't  good  for  you.  I  can 
stand  it,  because  I  ain't  all  here  you  know, 
but  you'd  better  move  over  there,"  and  he 
waved  me  to  the  other  side  of  the  fireplace. 

"May  I  ask,"  I  managed  to  say,  "what 
all  this  means?" 

"Blamed  if  I  know,"  he  said  gloomily. 
"You  picked  the  darned  thing  up,  and 
wherever  it  goes,  I  go.  That's  the  rule 
of  the  game." 

He  was  a  blunt  man  in  coarse  clothes. 
His  face  bore  marks  of  dissipation,  and 
he  was  much  tanned. 

'nSTho  are  you,  anyhow?"  I  inquired 
very  naturally. 

"I  used  to  be  a  sailor,"  he  said,  sighing, 
and  then  I  observed  for  the  first  time  that 
he  held  in  his  hands  a  shabby  cap  on 
which  the  letters  "TJ.  S.  S.  Montgomery*' 
were  faintly  legible  and  that  hi)th  his 
wrists  were  tattooed  with  red  and  blue 
bracelets. 

"I  was  gunner's  mate,  sir,  in  the  Unitod 
States  Navy,  that's  what  I  was,"  he  de- 
clared, "but  I'll  be if  I  know  what 

I  am  now !" 

'TVTiere  did  you  come  from?"  I  per- 
sisted. 

"Steillacoom." 

The  lunatic  asylum ! 

'T  ain't  bughouse,"  he  observed,  "though 
I  don't  blame  anybody  who  thinks  I  am. 
It's  such  a  darned  queer  thing  that  I  don't 
expect  folks  to  believe  it.  It's  natural 
they'd  think  I'm  crazy.  You  see,"  he  con- 
cluded confidentially,  "this  ain't  me  you're 
talking  to— I  mean  that  I'm  sleepin:^ 
down  at  Steillacoom  in  bed  like  anybody 
else,  though  I'm  booming  around  up  here 
at  the  same  time  just  as  you  see  me." 

"Oh!"  I  exclaimed,  "you  are  an  astral 
entity." 

"Is  that  what  you  call  it?"  he  said, 
much  relieved  that  I  could  grasp  the  sit- 
uation. 

I  went  over  to  the  closet  and  poured  out 
some  whisky.     I  seemed  to  need  a  brace. 

"Have  a  drink?"  I  inquired,  as  pleas- 
antly as  I  could. 

He  groaned  and  buried  his  face  in  his 
hands,  as  though  the  suggestion  were  tor- 
turing. 

"I  can't  drink,"  he  said  piteouslv,  "and 
I  can't  eat — when  I'm  like  this,  I  mean. 


I  can't  seem  to  get  hold  of  things.  There 
ain't  no  feel  to  'em." 

^TTou  must  feel  queer,"  I  remarked  with 
growing  interest. 

"I  feel  queer,  and  I  am  queer,"  he  said 
emphatically.  "Just  keep  your  eye  to 
the  sou' west — will  you?     Look  at  this!" 

Then  to  my  imutterable  astonishment 
the  man  rose  from  the  chair  and  deliber- 
ately walked  through  the  wall  into  the 
next  room  where  I  heard  him  whistling 
softly  a  familiar  air.  He  did  not  disap- 
pear in  any  mysterious  manner.  He 
simply  walked  through  the  wall  as  though 
it  had  not  been  there  and  as  I  stood  gaz- 
ing after  him,  he  came  back  in  the  same 
remarkable  fashion  without  the  least  ex- 
ertion. 

"Now  you  see  me,  now  you  don't!" 
he  remarked  grimly.  "Wotddn't  that  jar 
you?  It  beats  any  hoodoo  show  I  ever 
seen." 

"How  do  you  account  for  it?"  I  asked. 

He  jerked  his  thumb  toward  the  man- 
tel. 

"It's  that  goo-goo-eyed  god,"  he  said 
savagely,  an  impertinence  which  was 
promptly  resented,  for  the  stone  eye' 
emitted  an  angry  flash  and  I  felt  a  shock 
that  nearly  knocked  me  over.  The  man 
cowered  in  the  chair  overcome  with  fright. 

"Don't  look  at  me  like  that!"  he  said. 
"For  the  Lord's  sake,  don't  look  at  me 
like  that !" 

The  eyeball  rolled  in  excitement,  and 
the  heavy  lid  began  to  wink  very  rapidly, 
while  a  shower  of  sparks  seemed  to  ema- 
nate from  the  luminous  interior  aglow 
with  a  brilliant  phosphorescence. 

"I'll  be  good !"  wailed  the  wretched  man. 
like  a  terrified  child.  "0,  Ganesha!  I'll 
be  good,  if  you'll  forgive  me !" 

He  was  actually  crawling  on  his  kneet* 
before  the  glovring  eye,  his  forehead 
touching  the  floor  in  the  most  abject  hu- 
miliation. He  writhed  and  moaned  as 
though  he  were  in  great  pain. 

"For  Heaven's  sake !"  I  cried,  "what  i& 
the  matter?" 

Yet  I  could  see  for  myself  that  the  poor 
wretch  was  in  the  power  of  the  Eye.  It 
was  some  time  before  he  grew  quiet  and 
could  speak  to  me  coherently — some  time 
after  the  stone  eyelid  had  drooped  again 
and  the  angrv  sparks  had  ceased  to  scin- 
tillate. 

"I  ain't  ffot  a  mite  of  sense,"  he  said 
brokenly.     "Ganesha  ain't  fond  of  me — 


102 


THE    PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


naturally — ^because  I  busted  his  face  one 
time  in  the  Temple.  Me  and  Tim  John- 
son went  ashore  one  day.  It  was  a  Hoodoo 
Temple/*  he  explained. 

"Hindus  I  suggested. 

'TTes  1  It  was  an  oflE  day  and  we  had  a 
good-sized  jag  on.  We  got  in  underground 
in  the  cellar  where  they  kept  the  sacred 
cats  and  we  crawled  up  the  gangway  be- 
fore any  one  got  on  to  us.  I  ain^t  got 
much  respect  for  idols — ^at  least,  I  didn't 
use  to  have,*'  he  added  apologetically. 

'TTou  looted  the  place,**  I  said  sternly; 
''you  two  drunken  sailors  1  They  ought 
to  have  killed  you  both.  I  am  surprised 
that  an  officer  in  the  United  States 
Navy — ^** 

"Lord,  sir!**  he  interposed.  '1  didn*t 
know  no  better  in  those  days.  Tim  and  I 
gouged  the  idol*s  eyes  out,  but  we  didn*t 
mean  anything  by  it.  Anyhow,  the  idol 
got  even  with  us.  He  got  after  us  botti 
every  night  and  when  the  eyes  was 
stolen — ^** 

''Stolen?**  I  exclaimed. 

"What*d  you  expect?**  he  demanded. 
"We  warn*t  the  only  ones  that  wanted  *em. 
But  the  idol  made  us  hunt  *em  up  again 
and  there  won*t  be  a  moment*s  peace  for 
either  of  us  till  them  eyes  are  put  back 
where  they  came  from.  One  of  them 
turned  up  at  Foochow  in  a  fantan  game 
and  Tim  got  stuck  in  the  gizzard  for  try- 
ing to  grab  it.  I  meet  Tim  sometimes.  He 
says  he*s  dead,  but  he*s  the  liveliest  corpse 
I  ever  seen.  His  other  eye— it*s  the  left 
6an*sha  eye — ^**  he  observed,  jerking  his 
thumb  toward  it,— "I  don't  know  how  it 
got  over  here.** 

"By  the  Japanese  current,**  I  said 
quickly. 

"Maybe  so!**  he  replied;  "maybe  not! 
Anyhow,  Tve  got  to  keep  tagging  around 
after  it  till  I  can  manage  to  get  it  back  in 
the  idol*s  head  alongside  of  the  other  one. 
Now,  if  you  would  give  me  a  lift,  sir,  I*d 
make  it  worth  your  while.** 

I  glanced  at  the  relic  on  the  mantel  and 
beheld  an  utterly  new  phase  of  the  situa- 
tion. The  light  which  had  emanated  from 
the  Eye  of  Ganesha  was  diffused  through 
a  space  now  occupied  by  the  most  astonish- 
ing figure  I  had  ever  seen.  It  was  the 
wraith  of  a  huge  form,  squatting  with  diffi- 
culty within  the  narrow  limits  of  my  room, 
a  great  fat  idol  with  three  pairs  of  hands 
and  as  many  feet,  a  pale  diaphanous  pres- 
ence in  whose  head  the  stone  eye  was  set 


alongside  of  another  eye  of  which  we 
seemed  to  see  only  a  suggestion.  The  bril- 
liant drapery  of  the  idol  .was  enriched  with 
gems  of  great  beauty  and  its  broad,  naked 
breast  was  glittering  with  similar  orna- 
ments. 

"That*s  His  Nibs  !**  whispered  my  sailor 
friend.    "Ain*t  he  a  dandy?** 

The  poor  fellow  was  trembling  like  a 
leaf. 

"What  does  he  want?**  I  demanded  for- 
cibly, for  I  felt  that  I  must  assert  every 
atom  of  will  I  could  summon.  The  elec- 
tro-magnetic current  was  very  strong. 

"He  wants  his  eye  sent  back  to  Futta- 
pore.  The  consul  knows  all  about  it.  If 
you*d  just  send  it  to  him,  it  would  be  all 
right.  I  was  going  to  write  to  him  from 
*Prisco,  but  I  had  too  much  bo^e  and  f 
shipped  on  a  coast  steamer  one  day  by 
mistake.  I  dassn*t  say  a  word  now  or 
they'd  jug  me.** 

I  looked  at  the  idol,  on  whose  misty 
coimtenance  there  was  an  expression  of 
anxiety.  In  the  midst  of  that  wraith  of  a 
face,  the  great  stone  eye  glowed  with  pe- 
culiar brilliancy. 

"May  I  ask,**  I  proceeded  with  great 
respect,  "whether  it  would  be  entirely  sat- 
isfactory to  Ganesha  if  I  should  forward 
his  eye  as  this  person  suggests?** 

The  idol  nodded. 

"Go  on,**  urged  my  astral  friend.  "He 
understands  everything,  though  he  don't 
speak  anything  but  Harian.** 

An  angry  flash  of  the  eyes  and  a 
sharper  pricking  of  the  electric  current 
marked  the  idol*s  displeasure  at  this  in- 
terruption. 

"Shut  up  !**  I  said  sharply,  for  the  gun- 
ner*s  mate  had  let  out  an  unearthly  howL 

Doubtless  these  delays  were  dangerous 
for  the  idol,  as  though  he  meant  to  warn 
me  of  his  power,  suddenly  reached  out 
two  pairs  of  hands  and  boxed  me  on  both 
ears  at  once.  It  was  a  curious  thing,  but 
I  did  not  feel  the  contact  of  the  hand;? 
at  all  only  a  violent  shock  of  electricity 
almost  stunned  me  for  the  moment  and 
in  the  first  heat  of  resentment  I  forgot 
that  I  was  dealing  with  something  super- 
human. Making  a  single  wild  dash  at  the 
idol,  I  grabbed  the  stone  eye  and  wrenched 
it  forcibly  out  of  its  astral  socket.  For 
a  moment  I  managed  to  hold  it,  and  then 
my  fingers,  paralyzed  by  the  electric  shock 
I  received,  loosened  their  grip.     The  eye 


THE    EYE    OF    GANESHA. 


loa 


fell  crashing  upon  the  hearth  and  broke 
in  a  hundred  fragments! 

A  wild  shriek  from  the  sailor^  a  shriek 
of  terror  merging  quickly  into  joy,  brought 
me  to  my  senses. 

"YouVe  done  it !  YouVe  done  it  V  he 
shouted.    ^Tou^ve  knocked  him  silly  \" 

I  stared  stupidly  at  the  place  where  the 
idol  had  suddenly  been  snuffed  out.  There 
wasn't  a  vestige  of  his  appearance,  while 
on  the  hearth  where  I  knelt  beside  the 
shattered  eye  lay  a  diamond  of  such  huge 
dimensions  that  I  could  hardly  credit  its 
reality.  The  Eye  of  Ganesha  owed  its 
radiance  to  a  gem  that  was  worth  a  mil- 
lion dollars. 

'TTou  knocked  him  silly!'*  shrieked  my 
astral  visitor,  who  was  executing  a  sail- 
or's hornpipe  in  a  frenzy  of  delight.  "I 
dassn't  tdl  you  and  I  dassn't  touch  it  my- 
self, because  he  had  me  magnetized  so  I 
couldn't.  Lord,  sir !  He's  quit  the  galley 
for  good.  Thafs  your  diamond!  Yes, 
sir!  It  don't  belong  to  nobody  but  me, 
and  111  give  it  to  you  if  you  get  me  out 
of  the  asylum.  Yes,  its  my  diamond,  all 
right,  beorase  that  was  a  Korean  idol  and 
the  Chinese  hooked  it  and  the  Hindus 
killed  the  Englishman  who  brought  it  to 
Puttapore." 

"It  seems  to  be  an  evil  eye,"  I  observed 
a  little  dubiously. 


"'Taint  an  eye  any  longer,"  he  said 
benevolently,  "it's  just  a  diamond  and  a 
jim-dandy,  too!" 

I  will  not  mention  the  name  of  my  sin- 
gular visitor,  a  name  that  is  registered 
among  the  deserters  from  the  United 
States  Navy.  He  left  mc  with  the  utmost 
deliberation,  in  high  spirits,  and  the  only 
notable  thing  about  his  departure  was  the 
fact  that  he  walked  out  without  opening 
the  door.  A  few  days  later  I  went  down  to 
Steillacoom  and  inquired  for  my  friend. 
He  was  a  patient  whose  case  was  not 
understood  by  the  physician  in  charge.  He 
was  cataleptic  and  had  hallucinations  that 
he  was  being  pursued  by  an  invisible 
enemy. 

"Keep  mum !"  he  whispered  to  me,  and 
I  did. 

He  was  released  from  the  asylum  "on 
parole,"  when  I  signified  my  willingness 
to  make  myself  responsible  for  his  good 
behavior.  The  subsequent  sale  of  the  Eye 
of  Ganesha  was  discussed  for  weeks  in 
the  newspapers.  The  gem  has  taken  rank 
under  that  name  with  the  famous  dia- 
monds in  history.  In  the  division  of 
spoils,  I  think  I  was  quite  fair  to  the  gun- 
ner's mate,  and  I  did  not  forget  Bodley 
who  has  ever  since  deferred  to  my  judg- 
ment in  all  of  the  Smithsonian  matters. 


Opposite  Lyle,  on  the  ColumbU  River,  looking  toward  the  Washins^ton  shore, 


Near  White  Salmon,  from  the  Washington  side  of  the  Columbia  River,  showing  the  famons  Hood  River 


Taken  from  Yiento,  on  the  Oregon  shore,  a  few  miles  above  the  Cascades.    In  the  heart  of  the  famous 

Wind  Xountein  appears  over  the  promontory 


ateat  ninety  niiles  from    Portland,  Oregon.     TTp-stream — riyht  hand. 


T.    Blrdaall.    Photo,   Portland.    Or. 


TallBj,  and  the  town  of  Hood  River,  about  Mventy  miles  from  Portland.  T.    Blrdsall.    Photo,   Portland,   Or. 


and  wonderful  ffor^e  of  the  (Columbia  River.     Hood  River  is  at  the  extreme  ri^ht,  up  stream,  and 

of  the  right  bank  at  the  extreme  left.  T.    Blrdsall,    Photo.    Portland.    Or. 


I 


PAUL  de  LONGPRE  AND  HIS 
BEAUTIFUL  HOME 

Somctln'ng  about  the  struggles  toward  success  of  tbe  greatest  flower  painter  in  tke 

— nis  Lome,  and  kis  love  for  flowers 


rid 


By  Mary  H.   Coates 


FLOWERS  that 
daily  bloom  in 
happy  c  0  m- 
panies  to  reap- 
pear in  splen- 
dor never  fading  — 
these  are  the  blossoms 
in  the  home  of  Paul  de 
Longpre,  the  king  of 
flower  painters.  The 
entire  flower  realm, 
from  wayside  wilding 
to  fragile  hothouse 
beauty,  he  has  made 
his  life  study.  With 
his  genius  and  the 
courage  of  his  convic- 
tions, he  started  at  the 
lowest  rung,  single  of 
purpose,  and  stub- 
bornly overcoming  dif- 
ficulties, climbed  until 
he  reached  the  heights 
of  his  hearths  desire — 
that  of  being  the 
greatest  flower  painter 
in  the  world. 

The  beginning  lies 
away  in  Lyons,  France, 
the  home  of  his  child- 
hood, for  he  always 
loved  flowers.  His 
mother  was  left  a 
widow  in  straightened 
circumstances,  with 
ten  children.  The 
breadwinners  were 
PauFs  two  older  broth- 
ers, who  painted  fans 
for  fashionable  shops 
in  Paris,  When  he  was 
a  child  of  eight  years, 
the  family  moved  to 
Paris,  and  he  was  sent 
to  school :  but  on  many 
a  day  he  eluded  the 
calls  of  book  and  in- 


A  paintiiw  by  Paul  de  LoBfpre. 


108 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTULY. 


Mme.  de  Louvre. 

stmctor  to  hie  away  to  the  fields  outside 
the  city  walls  to  find  flowers  and  feed  his 
hope  of  some  time  being  a  flower  artist. 

No  dreamer  was  he,  but  a  live  boy,  wide 
awake  to  the  flrst- beckon  of  opportunity. 
He  made  sketches  of  favorite  nooks  and 
blossoms.  These  he  showed  to  his  school- 
mates, some  of  whom  were  well  supplied 


with  pocket  money,  and  straightway  the 
little  pictures  and  the  coin  of  the  realm 
changed  owners.  When  he  was  twelve, 
the  little  artist  had  to  give  up  school  life 
to  join  his  brothers  in  wage-earning  for 
the  family  support.  It  was  really  a  step 
toward  the  future  he  had  now  marked  out 
for  himself — that  of  being  the  best  flower 
painter  in  the  world. 

His  talent  was  evident  in  his  work  from 
the  start.  Yet  there  were  many  dis- 
couragements. Orders  for  fans  sometimes 
came  in  slowly,  or  not  at  all,  and  profits 
were  small;  but  the  thought  of  his  life 
plan  held  him  steadfast ;  and  by  the  time 
he  was  eighteen,  Paul  de  Longpre  had 
won  quite  a  national  reputation  as  a 
painter  of  fans. 

He  was  romantic,  too,  and  was  married 
to  a  charming:  young  girl  when  but  nine- 
teen. In  selecting  a  home  of  their  own 
he  took  another  stride  toward  his  cher- 
ished standard.  He  chose  a  cottage  out- 
side the  city,  and  by  making  fans  still  do 
service  as  commercial  art,  and  worMncj 
sixteen  hours  a  day,  for  six  months  of  the 
year,  he  managed  to  spei-d  the  remaining 
months  among  flowers,  and  in  painting 
from  nature. 

The  time  of  times  to  aspiring  young 
artists  came  to  Paul  de  Tjongpre  when  he 
was  twenty-one;  his  first  picture  was 
hung  in  the  Paris  salon.  Then  came  or- 
ders for  impori:ant  paintings,  and  for 
years  his  fiowers  hung  in  the  salon  by  the 


Side  view  of  the  de  LoBfpre  nutniion. 


Frcm   a   painting   by   Paul   de   Lon^rpre. 


no 


THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Paul  de   Lonipr*. 

side  of  portraits,  landscapes  and  historical 
paintings. 

Success  is  in  the  silences,  though  fame 
is  in  the  song,  the  poets  tell  us,  and  in 
the  silences  the  great  flower  artist  treas- 
ures up  hard-earned  triumphs.  Among 
them  his  coming  to  America,  acting 
against  the  advice  of  his  friends.  He 
reasoned  that  the  painter  with  world-wide 
aspirations  should  know  both  the  East  and 
the  West,  and  so,  with  his  family,  sailed 
across  the  Atlantic. 

Paul  de  Longpre  arrived  in  New  York 
with  $900  (which  was  all  that  could  be 
rescued  of  fifteen  years*  careful  savings 
lost  in  a  collapsed  bank  of  Paris),  and  in 
the  silences  are  recorded  his  effori;8  to  es- 
tablish   himself,    a    fortigner,    a    flower 


painted  among  compara- 
tive strangers.  After  five 
years  pf  strenuous  exer- 
tions instead  of  succeed- 
ing, his  capital  had  dwin- 
dled by  half.  Then  he 
decided  upon  a  daring 
scheme.  Again  be  went 
against  the  most  vigorous 
advice  of  all  his  friends. 
He  gave  an  exhibition  of 
his  paintings  and  into  it 
went  every  dollar  he  pos- 
sessed. 

An  exhibition  of  flower 
paintings,  exclusively, 
was  new.  It  was  novel, 
and  it  was  an  immense 
success.  After  that  his 
flowers  were  exhibited 
there  every  winter;  also 
in  Boston,  Chicago  and 
Philadelphia,  and  the 
memorandum  of  one  ex- 
hibition —  25  pictures 
sold,  with  an  average  of 
$300  each  —  shows  the 
substantial  appreciation. 
After  a  decade  spent  in 
the  East,  the  popular  ar- 
tist turned  toward  the 
Pacific  Slope,  and  settled 
in  Southern  California, 
among  the  olive  and 
orange  groves  of  Holly- 
wood, a  select  suburb  of 
Los  Angeles. 
In  the  land  of  the 
Fleur-de-lis,  Paul  de  Longpre  is  closely 
related  to  the  earliest  nobility,  and  is  a 
descendant  of  the  great  statesman,  the 
Marquis  de  Mesmes.  Also  he  is  an  Amer- 
ican by  all  the  rights  of  naturalization, 
and  an  enthusiastic  citizen  of  this  coimtry. 
A  gift  to  President  Roosevelt,  a  picture 
from  the  artist,  now  hangs  in  the  White 
House.  It  is  one  of  his  beautiful  paint- 
ings of  a  typically  western  wild  flower. 

Paul  de  Longpre  is  a  botanist  and  a 
self-taught  artist.  He  had  no  instruc- 
tions in  painting,  or  in  drawing,  and  he 
has  established  a  "school"  entirely  his 
own.  He  paints  in  oils  or  water  colors  at 
will.  His  flowers  have  been  adopted  by 
the  French  Government  as  standard  mod- 
els for  the  state  schools  of  art  throughout 
that  country  on  the  recommendation  of 


PAUL   DE   LONGPKE   AND    HIS   BEAUTIFUL   HOME. 


Ill 


artists  of  such  renown  as  Bonnat^  Bouge- 
reau  and  Gerome.  He  works  with  infinite 
care. 

Upon  the  picture  which  was  hung  in 
the  French  section  of  the  International 
Exhibition  in  1889,  he  spent  five  months, 
sometimes  giving  an  entire  day  to  a  single 
leaf  of  foliage.  In  fact,  overwork  has 
brought  him  five  severe  illnesses  in  the 
last  twenty  years. 

In  one  respect  the  famous  artist  is  a 
grand  surprise;  remembering  the  theme 
from  the  beginning,  one  might  expect  to 
find  a  grim  face,  shaded  by  beetling  brows 
and  lines  of  determination;  instead,  he  is 
success  personified — ^a  sunny  countenance, 
blue  eyes,  wherein  merry  twinkles  chase 
one  another,  glad  and  young  of  heart,  a 
courtly  geniality,  and  a  step  that  is  jaunty, 
even  boyish  with  enthusiasm,  as  he  strolls 
among  his  loved  flowers.  With  the  happy 
comradeship  of  his  family,  Mr.  de  Long- 
pre^s  days  are,  as  he  himself  expresses  it, 
an  artist's  ideal  realized. 

Mrs.  de  Longpre  is  gentle  graciousness 
itself,  the  while  clinging  lovingly  to  the 
language  of  their  native  land;  and  of 
flowers  among  flowers,  the  sweetest  are 
their  two  daughters,  charmingly  accom- 


plished Miss  de  Longpre  and  tiny  Pauline, 
the  pet  of  the  family. 

The  villa  is  Moorish-Califomian,  and 
its  arabesque  facades  arch  over  alluring 
interior  vistas.  Spacious  reception  hall, 
polished  floors,  Indian  tapestries,  carved 
chairs  and  tables,  ancient  armor,  cabinets 
filled  with  rare  treasures  from  many  lands, 
pianos  (the  master  is  both  a  musician  and 
a  composer),  and  the  grand  stairway  leads 
to  balconies  and  outlooks  of  mountain, 
valley  and  blue  Pacific.  Everywhere 
about  the  house — pictures,  pictures,  bear- 
ing the  talismanic  signature  of  the  man 
whose  lifework  is  love  of  flowers. 

The  picture  gallery,  which  the  cele- 
brated artist  kindly  keeps  open  to  all  vis- 
itors upon  presentation  of  their  visiting 
cards,  is  on  the  north  from  the  reception 
hall,  and  is  down  three  or  four  steps,  which 
permits  the  right  Hght  from  the  broad 
Spanish  windows.  Efere  it  is  that  flowers 
bloom  in  exquisite  and  perpetual  spring- 
time; simple  wild  blows,  rare  orchids, 
water  lilies  with  gauze  flies  poised  above, 
trumpet  creepers  with  humming  birds, 
lilacs  and  butterflies,  sunflowers  and  bees 
that  almost  hum  aloud,  baskets  of  daisies, 
sprays  of  white  fruit  bloom  dropped  poet- 


A  Tlew  In  the  rarden. 


112 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


ically  on  sheet  music — ^genius  that,  white 
over  white — and  countless  other  studies; 
the  many  paintings  so  artistically  ar- 
ranged that  not  one  beauty  outshines  an- 
other. 

Fortunate,  indeed,  was  the  Pacific  Slope 
when  Paul  de  Longpre  sought  the  West. 
His  home  is  an  enchanting  vision  that 
fills  the  most  prosaic  with  pleasure.  Its 
atmosphere  is  refinement,  beauty,  and 
bird  song,  and  everywhere  the  evidence  of 
the  master's  artistic  temperament.  It  is 
a  paradise  on  earth — sober,  good  men  have 
said  so — 600  of  them  at  one  time,  Metho- 
dist ministers  of  the  General  Conference 
of  Los  Angeles  who  visited  and  reveled  in 
its  glories,  and  enthusiastB  and  tourists  by 
tho  thonsands  have  told  of  it. 

The  first  glance  is  an  intake  of  pure  dp- 
liciousness-  The  street  lines  are  ever- 
gTOQTi  bodies,  with  \nnca  to  the  lawns  ami 
flnwer  beds ;  the  di\nBion  walls  an?  ^rcfm 
arbors.  Tliere  are  ten  eun^mcr  l/owors.  no 
two  alike,  and  bctw^on  blossoms  bv  tbn 
million,  in  ma^ns  f^f  color  schemes.  Therr 
are  .1500  rose  bushes,  bordors  nf  ivy,  so- 
dnnu  lolu'lia;  rockerirp  of  eacti ;  eornerj? 
of  alvi^pum  bunked  with  Sbasta  daisies  nnd 
nrowTied  with  stately  Mat  ill  jo  poppies^nll 
white  and  ^old:  ferneries,  pot  plants  and 
fib  rubs  makinp  billows  of  (-'olor  merdu^  in 
the  nnrnr^infT  sreonRry  of  the  trees  on  the 
opnosite  boundary. 

Thp-  de  Iionq[)re's    lovely    home    wm 


thrown  open  to  the  general  public  in  the 
early  season,  when  the  famed  artist  gave 
an  exhibition  of  paintings  lasting  three 
weeks.  It  was  an  ovation.  Ten  thousand 
persons,  by  the  most  conservative  esti- 
mate, accepted  the  prized  invitations ;  and 
thirty-five    choice    paintings    were  sold 

Paul  de  Longpre's  fame  and  pictures 
have  gone  all  over  the  earth;  and  his 
flowers,  birds  and  bees  will  live  through 
years  unknowable  after  many  seemingly 
more  substantial  honors  of  trade  and  glit- 
tering show  have  passed  into  oblivion. 

As  he  walks  in  his  garden — ^in  which  he 
has  collected  almost  every  plant  known  to 
ibe  botanisit.  tbrre  is  an  indefinable,  mys- 
tic Boinething  about  bira — communion 
with  the  soul  of  flowers,  it  may  be — which 
ea.^ily  shows  that  flowers  are  as  the  breath 
of  life  to  him.  Has  he  a  favorite,  and 
which,  where  all  are  belovpd  ?  The  poet- 
heart  of  John  S.  McGroaiy  tells  the  se- 
eret.     It  is  the  flower : 

*'That   cheered   bim  when   Fortune   lookaJ 

askance j 
Tn  bJB  flays  of  fcloom  and  trouble  'neath  the 

bencliujf  skips  of  France, 
An<i  now,  witb  aLl  tbo  worltl  and  its  laurels 

at  his  fopt, 
The  lioart  of  hljn  caa  not  forget  bia  firat  love 

— Marguerite*^' 


OUR  VIEW 


g^LIAMMTLtmi 


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There  is  no  success  without  sacrifice. 

*  *         * 

Whenever  the  world  finds  a  man  who  is  willing  to  sacrifice  enough  to  attain  a 
desired  end,  the  wotld  is  glad  to  hestow  its  rewards  upon  him.  The  law  of  compen- 
sation never  fails,  and  chance  has  no  part  in  the  workings  of  the  universe. 

*  ♦         ♦ 

The  most  powerful  nation  in  the  world,  when  all  of  its  resources  are  taken  into 
consideration,  is  undouhtedly  England.  The  richest  nation  in  the  world  is  the 
United  States.  The  most  determined  and  progressive  people — shall  we  not  say  the 
most  enlightened — are  the  English-speaking  nations.  It  should  be  a  source  of  pride 
and  gratification  to  every  son  of  England  and  America  that  these  two  great  nations 
•  are  united  by  the  strongest  bonds  of  blood,  language  and  ideals. 

*  *         ♦ 

The  revolting  spectacle  of  legalized  murder  is  now  under  way  in  the  Orient  in 
earnest,  and  we  read  daily  Tepori:8  of  the  number  of  dead  and  wounded.  Two  thou- 
sand Eussians  killed  and  there  is  great  joy  in  Japan.  A  Eussian  warship  sinks  a 
Japanese  transport  crowded  with  soldiers,  and  it  is  considered  a  great  triumph.  The 
brightest  young  men,  the  flower  of  both  Eussia  and  Japan,  are  being  sacrified  at  the 
altar  of  barbarism.  A  wild  career  of  butchery  is  on,  and  the  best  butchers  will  win. 
Human  beings  are  the  targets.    The  barbarity  of  it  all  is  revolting  and  nauseating. 

*  ♦         ♦ 

It  has  been  demonstrated  beyond  doubt  that  even  a  machine  needs  rest.  There 
seems  to  be  a  law  requiring  one  day  out  of  every  seven  to  be  set  aside  for  rest  and 
recuperation.  We  may  violate  this  law,  but  the  price  will  be  paid  for  it.  So  this 
talk  about  vacation  being  unnecessary  is  the  sheerest  nonsense.  Vacation  is  not  only 
necessary  but  vital  in  these  strenuous  times.  The  American  nation  is  a  nation  of 
worriers  because  of  the  great  things  that  are  being  done.  We  are  living  and  working 
at  high  tension,  and,  if  breakdown  is  not  to  result,  a  period  of  rest  is  absolutely 

essential. 

*  ♦         * 

Every  man  has  to  work  according  to  the  stuff  that  is  in  him.  Each  one  has 
to  meet  his  own  peculiar  problems.  There  is  no  infallible  rule  for  action  excepting 
as  a  choice  between  right  and  wTong.  Each  decision,  nevertheless,  is  toward  a 
definite  course  of  action,  whether  intentional  or  unintentional,  and  stamps  the 
character  of  the  man — one  who  will  go  up  or  one  who  will  go  down.  But  you 
can't  expect  to  get  out  of  a  man  more  than  is  in  him.  A  yard  of  cloth  is  a  yard  of 
cloth  and  no  more.  We  might  think  and  plan  and  devise  for  all  eternity,  but  wg( 
couldn't  make  a  yard  and  a  quari:er  out  of  it.  So  we  all  have  our  limitations.  Yet 
we  will  make  progress  in  this  worid  and  be  satisfied  with  the  brightness  of  life  and 
our  lot  if  we  are  honest;  if  we  strive  for  the  light  of  God's  clear,  unmistakable 
truth;  if  we  stand  for  the  best  we  know,  and  try  always  to  know  more,  conscien- 
tiously and  sincerely;  if  we  hate  shams  and  snobbery;  if  we  have  faith  in  ourselves 
and  in  the  worid. 


A  world-'wi<]e  survey  of  important  events  in  all  Jepartmentfl  of  buman  activity 

1   1      \jj  The  civil  war  in  Colorado  may,  perhaps,  be  jiLstly  termed  the  event 

C\  A^^  "*  during  the  past  month  that  seems  likely  to  have  a  more  far-reach- 
Vioiorado  ^^^  influence  upon  the  welfare   of  humanity   than  any  other  one 

thing.  While  the  war  in  the  Orient  has  continued  to  attract  world-wide  attention, 
and  AmericofH  politics  have  assumed  a  greater  interest  owing  to  the  meeting  of  the 
national  conventions,  the  case  in  Colorado  bears  particularly  upon  the  greatest 
economic  question  of  the  day,  and  will  tend  to  hasten  the  ultimate  relation  between 
capital  and  labor.  A  dispassionate  view  of  the  disgraceful  scenes  in  Colorado  lays 
the  blame  primarily  at  the  doors  of  those  who,  by  hook  or  crook,  nullified  the  will 
of  the  people  of  Colorado  for  an  eight-hour  day.  Labor  advances  this  argument 
and  it  is  unanswerable.  If  the  politicians  and  weak-kneed  legislators  are  responsible 
for  the  failure  to  carry  out  the  law,  upon  their  heads  lies  the  blame  for  the  subse- 
quent rioting  and  bloodshed.  At  the  same  time,  however,  there  is  no  justification 
for  the  cowardly,  dastardly  work  of  the  union  miners  in  blowing  up  the  train  carry- 
ing nonunion  men.  The  principle  laid  down  by  the  union,  that  if  a  union  man  does 
not  desire  to  work  no  one  else  shall  be  allowed  to  do  so,  is  abhorrent  to  all  sense  of 
right  and  justice,  and  the  American  people  are  united  against  the  "closed  shop." 
If  this  be  the  slogan  of  unionism,  then  unionism  is  doomed.  A  resort  to  violence  is 
a  mistake,  and  whether  the  unions  sanction  the  action  of  the  Colorado  miners  or  not, 
or  disclaim  all  responsibility  for  it,  as  they  do,  unionism  will  be  blamed  for  the 
acts  of  violence  in  Colorado. 


In  General — 

The  steamboat  General  Sloeum  left  her 
pier  in  the  morning  June  15,  carrying 
unquestionably  2,500  excursionists  for  a 
day^s  outing  on  an  island  in  Long  Island 
Sound.  The  excursion  was  largely  of 
women  and  children,  being  of  St.  Mark's 
parish.  Fire  broke  out  in  a  pot  of  boiling 
fat,  and  the  boat  burned  completely  in  an 
incredibly  short  time.  It  is  known  that 
905  perished,  all  but  40  of  the  number 
being  drowned.  June  28  the  inquiry  to 
fix  blame  for  this  most  appalling  disaster 
was  completed.  A  verdict  was  rendered 
in  which  the  directors  of  the  Knicker- 
bocker Steamboat  Company,  Captain 
Vanschaick,  of  the  Sloeum,  Captain 
Pease  of  the  commodore's  fleet,  and  others 
were  held  criminally  responsible.  The 
charge  in  each  case  is  manslaughter  in  the 
first  degree.    This  was  probably  the  most 


horrible  disaster  which  ever  happened  in 
American  waters.  It  reveals  a  condition 
of  things  relating  to  steamboat  inspection 
which  is  unbearable. 


Tliere  is  a  steamboat  war  in  progress 
between  the  big  liners  that  ply  on  the 
Atlantic,  and  as  a  result  the  steerage 
rates  from  Europe  have  been  reduced 
from  $15.00  to  $9.50.  A  lower  grade  of 
immigrants,  owing  to  the  lessened  cost  of 
passage,  has  been  coming  in,  and  240  out 
of  3000  that  landed  during  a  week  in 
June  were  deported;  30  out  of  3000  is 
the  normal  figure. 

Tke  TVar  in  tke  Orient — 

The  most  important  engagement  dur- 
ing the  past  month  between  the  Bussian 
and  Japanese  forces  culminated  on  June 


THE  MONTH. 


115 


15  at  Vafangow.  The  Russians  under 
command  of  General  Stakelberg  were  de- 
feated with  a  loss  of  about  2000  men  and 
a  large  number  of  valuable  guns.  The 
Japanese  report  a  loss  of  about  900.  They 
were  commanded  by  General  Nozu. 

The  Vladivostok  squadron  made  a  sor- 
tie recently  and  simk  the  Japanese  trans- 
port Hitachi,  ruthlessly  slaughtering 
most  of  the  soldiers.  Two  himdred 
were  killed  by  the  bursting  of  a  single 
shell.  Two  other  transports  were  sunk 
at  the  same  time,  but  a  large  part  of  the 
crew  and  passengers  were  saved. 

Lanes  are  tightening  around  Port  Ar- 
thur and  news  of  important  engagements 
there  are  expected  dwly.  The  rainy  sea- 
son is  now  under  way  in  Asia,  during 
which  time  it  is  the  evident  expectation 
of  the  Russian  commanders  that  Uttle  will 
be  done  towards  moving  the  troops.  It 
will  perhaps  develop  that  the  Japanese 
will  not  be  greatly  affected  by  the  condi- 
tion of  the  ground,  and  some  surprises 
are  probably  in  store.  While  the  Japa- 
nese forces  have  been  xmiformly  victorious 
so  far  during  the  war,  it  is  yet  too  early 
to  make  any  intelligent  forecast  as  to  the 
final  outcome.  The  most  important  de- 
velopments that  will  largely  affect  the 
ultimate  result  are  the  thorough  prepar- 
edness of  the  Japanese  army  and  navy, 
the  brilliancy  of  Japanese  commanders, 
the  earnestness  of  the  Japanese  men  at 
arms,  and  the  uncertainty  that  seems  to 
prevail  among  the  Russians  at  home  and 

in  the  field. 

♦      ♦      ♦ 

Sixteen  hundred  miles  of  the  projected 
railroad  from  Cape  Town,  Africa,  to 
Cairo,  Egypt,  have  been  completed,  and 
it  begins  to  look  as  if  Cecil  Rhodes'  dream 
of  a  **Cape  to  Cairo''  railway  will  soon 
be  realized.  The  line  will  open  up  a  vast 
region  of  considerable  commercial  im- 
portance. 


The  International  Women's  Congress 
met  in  Berlin  June  13  to  18.  There  was 
a  large  attendance  of  representative 
women  from  all  parts  of  the  world,  and 
over  200  addresses  were  delivered  bearing 
upon  subjects  in  which  women  are  espe- 
cially interested.  "The  Americans  pres- 
ent were  impressed  with  the  great  defer- 
ence shown  the  United  States  as  the  lead- 
ing country  in  the  world  in  the  women's 

movement." 

•       ♦       ♦ 

"Le  Jongleur  de  Notre  Dame"  is  the 
title  of  a  new  opera  by  Massenet,  which 
has  recently  been  produced  in  Paris  and 
favorably  received.  The  Illustration  says : 
"There  are  beauties  of  the  first  order  in 
^IjC  Jongleur  de  Notre  Dame,'  especially 
in  the  second  act,  and  it  is  unnecessary  to 
say  that  the  frame  of  the  music  is  mag- 
nificent and  in  perfect  artistic  harmony. 
The  book  by  M.  Lena  is  very  simple,  its 
chief  merit  being  that  it  furnishes  ex- 
cellent musical  situations.  A  remarkable 
feature  of  the  piece  is  that  there  is  na 
feminine  role." 

In  Politics — 

The  Republican  National  Convention 
met  in  Chicago  June  21,  22  and  23.  The 
only  uncertainty  that  faced  the  conven- 
tion was  the  man  who  should  be  selected 
as  a  candidate  for  the  Vice-Presidency. 
It  was,  of  course,  a  foregone  conclusion 
that  Roosevelt  would  be  unanimously 
nominated  for  the  Presidency  and  that  the 
platform  would  say  what  it  said.  Chas. 
W.  Fairbanks,  of  Indiana,  was  nominated 
for  Vice-President.  It  was  imdoubtedly 
the  least  enthusiastic  gathering  of  its  kind 
ever  held  by  one  of  our  great  parties. 
And  what  served  to  lessen  public  interest 
in  the  convention  was  the  Imowledge  that 
the  result  in  November  will  depend  less 
upon  what  was  done  at  Chicago  than  upon 
what  will  be  done  at  St.  Louis. 


The  Perdicaris  incident  has  been  tem- 
porarily closed  by  the  release  of  Perdi- 
caris, brought  about  largely,  it  seems, 
through  the  efforts  of  France.  The  brig- 
and, Raisuli,  secured  the  ransom  de- 
manded besides  a  good  many  other  things 
that  he  happened  to  think  of.  Morocco 
is  evidently  in  a  sad  plight. 


Three  changes  took  place  in  President 
Roosevelt's  cabinet  on  July  1.  William 
H.  Moody,  formerly  Secretary  of  the 
Navy,  became  Attorney-General;  Paul 
Morton,  of  Chicago,  became  Secretary  of 
the  Navy;  and  Victor  H.  Metcalf,  for- 
merly congressman  from  California,  be- 
came Secretary  of  the  Department  of 
Commerce    and    Labor,    succeeding    Mr. 


116 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Coftelyou,  who  resigned  to  manage  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt's  campaign.  Mr.  Knox, 
formerly  Attorney-General,  has  been  ap- 
pointed senator  from  Pennsylvania  to  fill 
the  unexpired  term  of  the  late  Matthew 
S.  Quay. 

The  appointment  of  Metcalf  and  Mor- 
ton is  commented  upon  most  favorably  by 
the  press.  Mr.  Morton  is  at  present  vice- 
president  of  the  Santa  Fe  system  and  has 
been  a  democrat.  His  father,  the  late  J. 
Sterling  Morton,  was  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture in  President  Cleveland's  second 
term.    Both  men  are  able  and  popular. 


The  new  Canadian  tariff  program  im- 
poses a  heavy  fine  on  importations  that 
are  invoiced  below  the  market  value  of 
the  country  in  which  they  are  produced. 
The  fine  is  intended  as  a  *4iit''  at  the  prac- 
tice of  American  manufacturers  who  have 
been  making  "a  slaughter  market^'  of 
Canada.  The  tariff  has  met  with  the  en- 
tire approval  of  the  Canadian  press,  and 
little  or  no  objection  from  our  own,  much 
to  the  surprise  of  the  former. 

*       *       * 

The  result  of  the  Oregon  election  hold 
on  Jime  6  is  regarded  throughout  the 
country  as  indicative  of  the  general  feel- 
ing in  the  West  regarding  Republican 
policies.  The  re-election  of  Binger  Her- 
mann and  J.  H.  Williamson  may  un- 
doubtedly be  taken  as  an  expression  of 
approval  of  the  Roosevelt  administration, 
but  the  really  important  results  of  tho 
election — ^the  majority  in  favor  of  local 
option  and  the  direct  primary — ^have  been 
passed  over  by  the  Eastern  press. 

In  Science — 

A  lieutenant  in  the  French  navy,  M. 
Turc,  has  invented  a  boat  which  he  claims 
neither  rolls  nor  pitches.  The  problem 
has  boon  "to  discover  a  boat  of  such  a 
kind  that  the  periods  of  pitching  and  roll- 
ing: which  are  proper  to  the  boat  and 
which  depend  on  its  manner  of  loading 
and  on  the  form  of  the  keel,  shall  be  lon- 
ger than  those  of  the  largest  wave  it  shall 
encounter."  The  inventor's  boat  is  a  pe- 
culiar looking  object,  built  high  above 
the  water  on  two  floats  which  allow  the 
water  to  flow  between  the  sides  of  the 
*  boat  proper.  M.  Turc  estimates  that  his 
boat  will  attain  a  speed  of  nineteen  knots. 


Professor  Winfield  Ayres,  of  the  New 
York  Post-Graduate  Hospital,  has  an- 
nounced a  new  cure  for  Bright's  disease. 
A  catheter  is  introduced  directly  into  the 
kidney  without  making  any  incision  or 
using  the  knife  at  all.  To  do  this  an  in- 
strument known  as  the  cystoscope  is  in- 
troduced into  the  bladder,  which  is  then 
lighted  up  by  an  electric  light  attached  to 
the  instrument,  and  by  this  guidance  a 
long  catheter  is  inserted.  The  medicines 
are  then  forced  into  the  kidneys.  In  this 
way  drugs  can  be  used  with  safety  which 
if  injected  into  the  blood  would  cause 
certain  death.  The  drugs  used  are  those 
in  ordinary  use  among  surgeons  as  anti- 
septics and  are  in  sufficient  strength  to 
destroy  the  disease  germs. 

*  ♦       ♦ 

The  medical  profession  is  beginning  to 
regard  worry  as  a  disease  susceptible  to 
medical  treatment.  The  symptoms  in- 
clude "various  degrees  of  vague  dread  and 
apprehensiveness,  often  taking  definite 
forms,  in  which  case  they  are  designated 
as  ^phobias'  or  'obsessions  of  fear,'  weak- 
ening the  capacity  of  attention  and  mem- 
ory, and  tendingto  a  confusion  of  ideas.  The 
treatment  of  the  patient  should  be  directed 
to  improving  the  circulation,  the  mus- 
cular feebleness,  and  the  condition  of  the 
brain  and  nervous  system.  Hence  tepid 
and  cold  douches  are  useful,  as  are  shower 
baths  and  moderate  physical  exercise." 

*  ♦       ♦ 

Professor  Rutherford  before  the  Royal 
Institution  in  London  stated  recently  that 
in  addition  to  the  three  kinds  of  rays 
which  radium  has  been  found  to  give  off. 
there  is  in  addition  an  emanation  which 
behaves  like  a  gas  and  can  be  condensed 
by  cold ;  it  can  be  secluded  in  the  radium 
itself,  and  is  liberated  when  the  salt  is 
dissolved  in  water.  This  emanation, 
though  exceedingly  minute  in  quality, 
possesses  three-quarters  of  the  character- 
istic powers  of  radium  and  all  its  prop- 
erties. Could  we  collect  a  cubic  inch  of 
the  emanation,  the  tube  containing  it 
would  probably  melt,  while  a  few  pounds 
would  supply  enough  energy  to  drive  a 
ship  across  the  Atlantic,  though  each  of 
those  pounds  would  require  seventy  tons 
of  radium  to  supply  it. 

*  *       * 

The  telephone  industry  is  now  capital- 
ized in  the  United  States  at  $450,000,000, 


THE  MONTH. 


117 


with  over  2,000,000  instruments,  and 
nearly  5,000,000  miles  of  wire.  There 
are  over  4,000  systems,  and  64,628  wage- 
earners  in  the  industry,  besides  14,124 
salaried  officials.  During  1902  the  reve- 
nue  derived   from  the  industry  reached 

$86,825,536. 

♦       «       « 

Dr.  Walther  Thorner,  of  Berlin,  has  re- 
cently invented  an  apparatus  for  pho- 
tographing the  background  of  the  eye, 
many  fruitless  attempts  having  been  made 
heretofore  to  find  a  solution.  His  inven- 
tion is  an  important  one,  and  is  a  big 
step  forward  in  the  treatment  of  eye 
diseases. 

In  Education — 

The  larg^  majority  of  this  yearns  grad* 
uates  of  Yale  and  Princeton  will  select 
business  pursuits,  while  those  of  Harvard 
and  Columbia  will  take  up  law.  Twenty- 
eight  from  the  four  universities  will  go 
into  the  ministry.  The  New  York  Olobe 
says:  "Figures  such  as  the  above  are 
probably  the  best  answer  often  put  as  to 
whether  formal  education  fits  or  unfits 
for  a  business  career.^' 


The  closing  of  public  schools,  colleges 
and  universities  for  the  customary  sum- 
mer vacation  has,  as  usual,  been  made  the 
occasion  for  utterances  by  men  and 
women  of  high  educational  rank,  which 
have  much  significance  as  indicative  of 
present  educational  methods  as  well  as 
future  administrative  purposes.  In  the 
natural  evolutionary  processes  it  has  come 
«bout  that  a  few  immense  educational  in- 
stitutions are,  by  a  sort  of  tacit  consent, 
assigned  to  the  lead,  and  the  rest  follow. 
Not  that  criticism  has  ceased,  and  not 
that  the  views  of  these  leaders  are  alto- 
gether in  sweet  accord,  but  their  utter- 
ances are  the  creeds  of  the  many  who  fol- 
low their  lead,  and  so,  under  them,  the 
educational     promenade     goes     forward. 

In  Art — 

A  new  society,  called  the  Society  of 
American  Sculptors,  has  been  organized  as 
a  revolt  against  the  methods  of  the  Na- 
tional Sculpture  Society.  The  purpose 
of  the  new  organization  is  "to  give  an 
exhibition  at  least  once  a  year  which  will 
correspond   to    the    Paris    Salon.      It    is 


planned,  also,  to  have  a  permanent  exhi- 
bition of  the  smaller  works  of  sculptors 
which  may  find  a  ready  market.'^ 

In  Religious  Tnought — 

The  Oxford  press  has  just  issued  the 
first  complete  text,  transcription  and 
translation  of  the  "Sayings'^  of  Jesus  dis- 
covered by  Professor  Hunt  at  Oxyrhyii- 
chus  in  November,  1903,  and  by  Pro- 
fessors Grenfell  and  Hunt  at  the  same 
place  in  1897.  The  ^^Sayings"  were  writ- 
ten at  the  end  of  the  second  century  or 
during  the  early  part  of  the  third.  The 
editors  consider  these  fragments  ^^one  of 
the  most  important,  remarkable  and  best 
attested  of  the  savings  ascribed  to  our 
Lord  outside  the  New  Testament.^^ 
*       «       * 

Nothing  in  the  realm  of  religious 
thought  is  just  now  attracting  so  much 
attention  as  some  form  of  union  among 
various  Protestant  churches.  Prom  the 
disposition  to  magnify  and  to  exalt  into 
great  importance  the  distinctive  features 
of  the  creeds  whereby  denominations  have 
been  established  and  continued  in  being, 
there  has  come  in  recent  years  a  desire 
to  look  after  the  things  in  which  beliefs 
resemble  one  another.  The  Armenian  and 
the  Calvinist  in  the  disrupted  Presby- 
terian church  are  seeking  for  the  one  fold. 
When  the  larger  and  stronger  of  the  Pres- 
b>i:erian  bodies  exhibited  to  the  world  the 
real  courage  of  its  convictions,  it  broke 
down  the  barriers  which  were  separative 
between  it  and  the  Cumberlands,  and 
union  became  certain  in  the  near  future. 
Pvblic  Opinion,  in  its  issue  of  June  23, 
presents  a  "Svmposium  of  the  opinions  of 
religious  leaders  on  the  recent  tendency 
to  reconcile  denominational  differences.'*' 
A  letter  was  sent  out  making  the  follow- 
ing inquiries:  "As  the  fixity  of  distinct 
convictions  among  Protestant  divisions 
relaxes  and  the  disposition  toward  some 
sort  of  unity  increases  is  not  the  under- 
lying spirit  an  evidence  of  religious  in- 
difference and  unsettled  religious  convic- 
tions, an  evidence  of  weakness  rather  than 
strength  in  that  it  represents  a  growing 
indifference  to  the  doctrinal  standards 
that  have  given  rise  to  Protestantism  ?  Is 
not  diversity  the  genius  and  glory  of 
Protestantism  and  is  not  the  life  of  Prot- 
estantism being  sacrificed  to  the  new  lib- 
eral movement  ?'' 


IMPRESSKNS 


lRLESkUSKINE-5C0TT-W0()Dj 


Freed* 


reedom  la 


bappinesa.     Freedom  of  body,  mind  and  soul  10  tke  natural  ri^kt  and 
ultimate  destiny  of  every  individual 


Bleeding  Colorado 

T5LEEDING  Colorado  is,  by  force  of  arms,  deporting  men  from  their  homes 

"^^    who  are  themselves  guilty  of  no  known  crime  except  belonging  to  a  union,  and 

bleeding  Kansas  is  refusing  to  have  these  men  dumped  within  her  territory. 

The  men  are  in  hard  luck,  for  it  seeans  as  if  they  must  get  off  the  earth. 

The  condition  of  armed  anarchy,  as  the  newspapers  call  it,  in  Colorado,  should 

give  rise  to  thought.    It  will  occur  elsewhere  in  time  and  it  indicates  that  radical 

reform  in  economical  conditons  will  probably  come  through  forcible  collisions 

after  all,  through  the  dynamite  bomb  rather  than  through  preaching. 

The  struggle  began  by  an  effort  on  the  part  of  the  union  to  dictate  an  eight- 
hour  labor  day.  The  mineowners  claim  that  the  real  object  of  the  unions  was  to 
compel  all  nonimion  men  to  join  the  unions.  Undoubtedly  there  is  a  tyranny  of 
unions.  Undoubtedly  unions  are  inconsistent  with  freedom  and  full  individual 
development.  Undoubtedly  unions  are  an  evil,  but  undoubtedly  that  evil  was 
forced  into  existence  by  a  greater  evil — the  natural  union  of  capital  and  the  abso- 
lutely inhuman  tjrranny  of  capital. 

The  one  evil  came  from  the  other  evil  upon  the  principle  that  self-preservation 
is  the  first  law  of  nature. 

Every  man  should  be  free  to  work  where  he  pleases  and  as  fast  and  as  long  us 
he  pleases  without  dictation  from  his  associates  or  from  men  a  thousand  miles  away^ 
whom  he  has  never  seen. 

But  the  freedom  of  labor  vrill  not  be  possible  until  the  vacant  earth  has  been 
made  free  to  those  who  would  use  it,  the  issuance  of  money  has  been  made  free  to 
those  who  are  able  to  issue  it,  and  all  monopolies  created  by  law,  those  robberies  of 
the  people,  are  abolished.  It  is  the  root  which  must  be  struck  before  the  top  wiD 
die.     Control  by  law  of  these  monopolies  is  a  delusion  and  a  snare. 

No  one  can,  by  any  possibility,  excuse  the  murder  of  nonunion  workers  by  union 
men ;  but  murder  is  not  done  by  men  except  when  they  are  desperate.  If  we  rivet 
our  whole  attention  to  the  suppression  of  outrages  and  do  not  inquire  why  out- 
rages occur,  we  are  not  making  progress. 

History  shows  that  vested  rights  in  property  have  always  been  cruel  in  their 
own  defense;  honestly  cruel.  Mr.  Baer,  of  anthracite  coal  fame,  felt  honestly  indig- 
nant that  the  troops  of  the  United  States  were  not  called  out  to  sweep  the  striking 
miners  off  the  earth.  He  believes  that  he  has  a  vested  right  in  the  anthracite  coaj 
fields  to  work  them  when  he  pleases  and  how  he  pleases  or  not  at  all,  if  he  pleases. 
He  said  on  the  witness  stand  the  other  day  that  the  price  of  anthracite  coal  was 
not  determined  by  any  question  of  supply  or  demand  or  cost  of  mining,  but  the 
price  was  fixed  at  what  the  consumer  would  bear,  "Just  as  you  fix  your  fees,'*  he 
added,  to  the  lawyer  who  was  examining  him.  The  difference  between  a  lawyer 
fixing  his  fee  as  high  as  the  traffic  will  bear  and  the  monopolist  of  one  of  the  natural 
products  of  the  earth  fixing  its  price  at  all  the  traflBc  will  bear  is  too  obvious  to  need 
discussion. 

Colorado  is,  in  fact,  dominated  by  the  wealthy  corporations  concerned  in  Colo- 


IMPRESSIONS.  119 

radons  mines.  General  Bell,  who  has  been  the  military  instrument  of  Governor 
Peabody  during  the  martial  law  regime,  says,  referring  to  the  intended  use  of  the 
militia  to  control  the  Denver  city  election : 

"I  am  accused  of  nsing,  or  attempting  to  nse,  the  military  in  the  late  campaign.  This 
is  false,  but  the  corporations  used  the  militia  for  their  purposes,  and  instead  of  the  militia 
being  used  to  protect  the  people  and  uphold  the  law,  that  force  was  actually  degraded  to 
the  uses  of  the  local  corporations  who  connived  at  the  breaking  of  the  law.  *  •  •  The 
very  men  whom  we  use  the  militia  to  protect,  imported  all-round  bad  men  (the  very  inen 
I  ran  out  of  their  camps)  to  break  the  law  in  Denver  and  carry  the  election  in  their 
interest. ' ' 

There  is  the  trouble. 

Corporations  have  no  soiQ;  they  have  no  conscience;  the  manager  does  for  his 
corporation  what  he  would  not  do  for  himself  personally.  You  can  never  tell 
whether  a  riot  has  arisen  by  natural  friction  or  has  been  actually  precipitated  by 
the  corporation  owners  in  order  to  secure  police  protection  and  to  manufacture 
public  sentiment. 

Wicked  as  it  is  to  murder  innocent  men,  yet  the  forcible  wholesale  deportation 
of  men  innocent  before  the  law,  without  any  trial ;  their  expulsion  at  the  point  of  the 
bayonet  because  they  belong  to  a  union;  the  suppression  of  the  press  and  of  the 
civil  law  by  an  oligarchy  ruling  the  state  by  military  power  are  worse,  immeasur- 
ably worse. 

It  will  be  found  here  as  ever  before  that  the  "upper^'  classes  and  property  rights 
are  the  worse  sinners.  The  crimes  ojf  the  laborer  arise  from  the  desperation  of  a 
struggle  for  existence. 

Meeting  of  tke  L.  A.  D.  M.  N. 

T^HE  meeting  of  the  Saphira  Chapter  of  the  Ladies'  Association  for  the  Dissemi- 
'■'  nation  of  Misinformation  about  our  Neighbors  was  a  great  success.  The 
reputations  of  several  young  girls  who  had  been  guilty  of  youthful  follies  were 
ruined  for  life,  and  the  moral  scalp  of  a  clergyman  was  added  to  the  society's 
trophies.  A  resolution  to  furnish  members  with  postal  cards,  with  cards  for  answer 
attached,  for  convenience  in  interrogating  people  all  about  their  private  business, 
was  voted  down,  on  the  ground  that  such  inquiries  might  be  deemed  impertinent, 
or,  if  answered,  might  compel  the  society  to  accept  the  truth.  The  subject  for 
Tegular  debate  was,  ^'Are  Women  Brainless  Because  of  Tea  and  Tattle,  or  are  Tea 
and  Tattle  Because  Women  Are  Brainlejss  ?'*  The  discussion  became  quite  heated, 
and  the  subject  was  somewhat  obscured  by  the  personalities  indulged  in  and  the 
more  or  less  direct  allusions  to  the  shady  past  of  some  of  the  members  added  in- 
terest to  what,  taken  as  a  whole,  was  one  of  the  most  successful  meetings  of  the 
chapter. 

Tke  Xumer  Deportation  Caae 

T^HE  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  has  decided  that  the  deportation  act  is 
-■■  constitutional  upon  the  general  theory  that  no  alien  has  any  right  to  enter 
this  country  at  all  and  that  Congress  may  prohibit  aliens  coming  to  this  country 
for  any  reason  whatever;  that  the  spirit  of  the  constitution  does  not  extend  to 
aliens,  guaranteeing  them  freedom  of  speech  and  of  opinion. 

This  law  will  either  become  a  dead  letter  or  we  will  become  a  dead  nation. 

PoKtics  IS  a  Game 

"P  OLITICS  is  a  game.  The  oflSces  are  the  prizes.  There  has  been  a  change 
^  in  the  Portland,  Oregon,  postmastership.  Presumably  all  of  the  candidates 
were  equally  competent,  because  from  first  to  last  not  one  word  was  said  as  to 
their  fitness  for  oflBce,  but  the  sole  discussion  was,  and  a  very  anxious  discussion, 
which  one  can  the  machine  least  afford  to  offend  by  turning  him  down?  Yoimg 
people  should  remember  that  politics  is  a  game. 

The  democrats  carried  in  Multnomah  Coimty,  Oregon,  the  offices  of  sheriff 


120  THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 

and  district  attorney  Immediately  the  republicans  set  about  much  needed  re- 
form. They  have  taken  away  from  the  sheriff  the  right  of  feeding  the  prisoners 
in  the  jail,  have  cut  down  his  deputies,  and  they  announce  that  at  last  they  intend 
to  put  through  the  Legislature  an  act  providing  flat  salaries  for  these  officials.  It 
is  curious  what  a  stimulus  to  right  doing  it  is  to  have  the  other  fellow  reaping  the 
benefit.     Politics  is  a  game,  and  the  taxpayer  is  the  prize. 


/ivorce 


I 


T  is  appropriate  to  the  blossom  and  nesting  time  of  the  year  that  thoughts  of 
love  and  mating  should  stir  the  breast,  and,  if  love  and  mating,  why  not 
divorce?    They  are  the  blossoms.     It  is  the  fruit. 

Anti-Divorce  Congresses  are  bursting  into  bloont  all  over  the  land — ^thc 
Mothers'  Anti-Divorce  Congress  in  Chicago;  the  Anti-Divorce  League  in  New 
York ;  and  the  anti-divorce  sentiment  in  the  Methodist  convention  at  Los  Angeles. 

N'ow,  as  you  can  not  stop  the  slow  glacial  flow  by  hitting  it  with  an  axe,  nor 
hasten  it  by  giving  it  a  kick,  so  the  divorce  question  will  evolve  its  own  solution 
regardless  of  the  "antis'^  or  of  me. 

To  have  no  divorces  presupposes  infallibility  of  judgment  in  every  boy  and  girl, 
man  or  woman.  It  presupposes  the  same  likes,  dislikes  and  affinities,  character  and 
development  at  forty  as  at  twenty. 

Are  human  beings  infallible  in  judgment?  No!  Hence  divorce.  Is  the  man 
or  woman  of  forty  the  same  as  at  twenty  ?     No !  Hence  divorce. 

Is  the  love  of  twenty  the  same  as  the  love  of  forty?     No!  Hence  divorce. 

There  are  but  few  regular  divorces  among  our  brothers  and  sisters  of  the  lower 
animals,  because  their  marriage  is  merely  mating  for  perpetuation  of  species.  When 
you  come  to  think  of  it  in  cold  blood,  human  marriage  has  that  for  its  foundation 
stone,  too. 

It  has  other  elements,  also,  but  I  suppose  no  marriage  ever  took  place  which 
was  not  really  a  sexual  mating.  Men  do  not  marry  men  and  women  do  not  marry 
women.  It  is  a  great  universal  law,  and  not  to  be  blushed  at  or  stammered  over 
except  by  those  minds  who  find  themselves  ^^purer'^  than  the  universal  God. 

The  birds  and  beasts  find  their  escape  from  the  divorce  courts  in  the  fact  that 
they  were  never  legally  married.  But  the  boy  or  girl  of  seventeen  and  nineteen  or 
eighteen  or  twenty,  impelled  by  this  same  all-compelling  goad,  who  mate  with  aB 
little  discretion  as  the  robins — they  are  to  be  kept  together  in  hell,  in  bands  of  legal 
«teel,  because  it  seems  to  some  one  that  God  has  belied  himself  and  decreed  to  be 
lifelong  what  He  has  made  in  most  cases  impossible  of  being  lifelong. 

It  is  significant  that  God,  as  generally  imderstood,  is  man-created,  in  that  His 
edicts  are  always  those  of  the  hierarchy  in  power,  and  as  the  hierarchy  itself  de- 
velops so  God's  edicts  change. 

Moses  decreed  free  divorce.  He  said,  "Write  any  one  of  your  wives  a  bill  of 
divorcement  and  let  her  go."  If  Moses  were  the  mouthpiece  of  God,  this  was 
the  law  of  Omniscience ;  but  Christ  said  it  was  only  because  of  the  hardness  of  heart 
of  those  old  polygamists,  and  as  God  could  not  change  their  hearts,  he  did  the  best 
he  could. 

Christ  said  there  must  bo  no  rlivoroe  except  for  adultery.  Again,  if  this  be 
the  word  of  God  that  is  the  end  of  the  discussion,  and  yet  divorce  is  growing  and 
ought  to  grow  until  people's  own  sense  of  happiness  or  duty  is  the  sole  controlling 
force. 

Many  a  drunkard,  gambler  or  tyrant  of  uncontrolled  temper  makes  home  more 
a  hell  and  marriasre  more  a  failure  than  the  adulterer.  If  divorce  at  all  then  the 
lo^c  of  it  is  divorce  in  every  case  where  the  true  foundations  for  marriage  have 
failed.  There  is  a  deal  of  solemn  talk  by  parrots  about  the  home  and  children.  No 
home  and  no  child  is  bettered  by  forcing  people  together  who  would  be  apart.  In- 
stead of  decreasing,  divorce  will  inrrpflse,  for  it  means  greater  freedom.  The  only 
law  which  ought  to  keep  people  together  is  their  wish  to  be  together  or  their  own 
free  sense  of  dutv  and  fitness. 


[READER] 


}  3  iJ 


A  revie^w  of  current  bookfl  and  an  opinion  of  their  merits 


The  true  story  of  the  first  explorer  of 
the  West  is  now  presented  to  the  public 
in  "The  Journey  of  Coronado  from  Mex- 
ico to  the  Buffalo  Plains  of  Texas,  Kansas 
and  Nebraska/^  translated  from  the  orig- 
inal journals  and  edited  by  George  Parker 
Winship.  This  remarkable  history  told  at 
first  hand,  which  has  been  pronounced  of 
more  thrilling  interest  than  any  historical 
novel,  has  just  been  published  by  A.  S. 
Barnes  &  Co.,  in  their  notable  Trail  Mak- 
ers series  under  the  consulting  editorship 
of  Prof.  J.  B.  McMaster.  While  Coro- 
nado's  journey  is  of  general  historical  in- 
terest, its  publication  will  be  peculiarly 
welcome  in  the  West.  The  East  has  had 
John  Smith  and  Henry  Hudson;  the 
South,  De  Soto ;  and  now  the  story  of  the 
first  explorer  of  the  West  is  brought  within 
the  reach  of  general  readers.  The  Coro- 
nado is  uniform  with  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.'s 
popular  edition  of  the  Journals  of  Lewis 
and  Clark. 

«  4e  « 

The  Yeoman 

Instead  of  the  vigorous  character  and 
virile  virtues  one  would  expect  from  the 
title,  we  are  treated  to  the  morbid  mono- 
mania of  one  who  was  "slow  brother  to 
the  ox.^' 

The  ingrowing  egotism  of  this  char- 
acter is  the  axis  around  which  the  story 
revolvps. 

The  author  has  made  the  beautiful 
daughter  of  the  Yeoman  a  plastic  creature 
ardently  loved  by  the  squire's  son.  In 
order  to  avoid  the  natural  denouement 
he  is  compelled  to  drown  this  lover  in 
what  is  the  only  strong  chapter  in  the 
book. 

The  story  drags  on  to  a  happy  ending 
hastened  by  the  death  of  the  Yeoman  from 


slow  paralysis  and  the  flaccid  love  of  a 
colonial  cousin.  Dainty  bits  of  descriptive 
writing  are  interspaced  with  lengths  of 
dreary  dialogue. 

(The  Yeoman,  John  Lane,  New  York.) 


In  all  the  long  list  of  college  graduates 
this  year,  the  name  which  easily  attracts 
the  greatest  attention  is  that  of  Helen 
Keller.  Miss  Keller  graduated  from  Ead- 
cliffe  College,  Harvard,  on  June  28,  and 
the  event  was  given  especial  significance. 
Many  distinguished  people  were  invited 
to  be  present,  and  newspapers  and  period- 
icals displayed  close  interest  in  the  sub- 
ject. Miss  Keller  has  already  proved  her 
ability  in  one  field  of  life  work — ^that  of 
literature.  Her  book  on  "Optimism" 
showing  her  wonderful  and  sunny  vein  of 
philosophy,  as  well  as  attitude  toward  life, 
published  a  few  months  ago  by  Crowell,  is 
now  in  its  tenth  thousand. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 
Mr.  A.  J.  Dawson,  author  of  ^^idden 
Manna,''  a  romance  of  Morocco,  has  just 
received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Ion  Perdicaris, 
who  was  seized  and  taken  into  captivity 
by  Raisuli,  the  Moorish  brigand.  The  let- 
ter was  written  in  the  brigand's  camp  and 
is  remarkable  for  the  whole-hearted  trib- 
ute it  pays  to  the  personal  qualities  and 
fascinating  manner  of  the  bandit.  It  is 
dated  Benaires,  Saturday,  June  4,  and  be- 
gins— "What  an  opportunity  for  good 
copy  you  missed  by  not  being  with  us 
when  Varley  and  I  were  carried  off."  His 
publishers  must  also  regret  that  Mr.  Daw- 
son could  not  have  been  a  witness  of  the 
kidnapping.  "Hidden  Manna"  reveals 
Dawson's  thorough  knowledge  of  and 
sympathy  with  the  Moors. 


122 


THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Written  for  the  amateur  and  expert 
alike,  the  Fisherman's  Handbook,  which 
John  Lane  has  just  added  to  his  series  of 
Country  Handbooks,  is  not  so  much  a  book 
of  instruction  as  a  discourse  concerning 
the  various  methods  of  angling  and  the 
tackle  best  suited  to  them,  as  the  author 
has  found  them  in  his  own  experience. 
The  methods  he  sets  forth  have  been 
proved  effective  time  and  often.  But,  as 
he  observes,  he  is  not  the  only  successful 
angler.  "Different  men,''  he  writes,  "dif- 
ferent methods'';  this  handbook  shows 
how  one  man  '^goes  angling." 

In  this  spirit  the  author  proceeds  to 
explain  the  mysteries  of  his  delightful 
hobby.  He  discusses  the  ways  of  angling 
for  salmon,  trout,  grayling  and  coarse 
fish  with  an  artificial  fly;  the  tricks  of 
spinning  for  the  same  with  artificial  or 
natural  baits ;  bottom  and  mid-water  fish- 
ing, and  angling  in  salt  water.  In  an  ap- 
pendix he  gives  full  descriptions  of  va- 
rious sort  of  tackle  and  suggestions  for 
the  use  and  care  of  them.  The  book  is 
illustrated  with  many  diagrams  and  from 
photographs  taken  by  the  author. 

Speaking  of  dry  fly  angling,  Mr.  Shrub- 
sole  says : 

"The  great  and  increasing  popularity 
of  angling  with  a  dry  or  floating  fly  is  not 
without  good  reason.  I  am  not  with  those 
who  advance  it  as  the  style  of  trout  fish- 
ing to  the  neglect  of  all  others — ^notably 
the  use  of  the  small  or  wet  fly — but  I  am 
certainly  of  the  opinion  that  it  ranks  first 
among  the  numerous  methods  of  angling 
for  trout;  howbeit,  the  dry  fly  man,  pure 
and  simple,  is  a  bigot,  whose  bigotry 
sends  him  home  often  enough  with  an 
empty  basket.  If  there  be  a  greater  mis- 
take than  that  of  the  dry  fly  bigot,  it  is 
made  by  him  who  neglects  to  avail  him- 
self from  time  to  time  of  the  wondrous 
deadly  power  of  a  single  fly  fished  dry.'' 
♦        ♦        « 

"William  Keith"  is  to  be  the  next  sub- 
ject in  a  series  of  appreciations  by  George 
Wharton  James  appearing  in  Impressions 


Quarterly  (San  Francisco,  Paul  Elder  and 
Company)  to  be  followed  by  "John  Muir," 
that  in  the  June  number  of  the  magazine 
being  "Ina  Coolbrith."  Miss  Coolbrith 
was  an  interesting  figure  in  the  literary 
affairs  of  the  early  days  in  California — ^a 
friend  of  Bret  Harte,  Charles  Warren 
Stoddard  and  Joaquin  Miller,  and  this 
paper  of  familiar  reminiscence  touches  on 
some  friendly  gossip  not  generally  known. 
Another  serial  in  "Impressions"  is  by 
Adeline  Knapp,  "Nature  and  the  Human 
Spirit,"  of  which  two  papers  have  thus  far 
appeared,  "The  Return  to  Nature"  and 
"Nature's  Place  in  Culture." 


Word  comes  from  London  that  Mr. 
Thomas  Hardy  has  entirely  given  up  writ- 
ing fiction.  He  is  devoting  himself  to  the 
second  part  of  his  drama,  "The  Dynasts," 
of  which  the  first  part  was  recently  pub- 
lished by  The  Macmillan  Company. 

♦  ♦        ♦ 

How  far  is  the  servant  problem  in 
America  really  the  problem  of  the  Amer- 
ican mistress?  That  is,  how  far  is  the 
prevailing  diflBculty  about  servants  merely 
an  indication  that  many  American  women 
do  not  understand  how  to  manage  domes- 
tics? The  experiences  of  "The  Singular 
Miss  Smith"  answer  this  question  amus- 
ingly ;  and  Mrs.  Kingsley's  breezy  novel  is 
spoken  of  by  serious  reviewers  as  an  in- 
valuable aid  to  the  young  housekeeper. 

♦  ♦        ♦ 

Though  the  action  of  Mr.  Churchill's 
new  novel,  '^The  Crossing,"  takes  place 
in  the  Great  Wilderness,  and  the  tale  is 
full  of  the  woods  atmosphere,  three  charm- 
ing women  grace  its  pages.  First  there  is 
Polly  Ann,  a  glorious  specimen  of  pioneer 
yoimg  womanhood;  then  Antoinette,  who 
captivates  the  dashing  young  dare-devel 
Nick  Temple;  and  then  Helene,  "who 
might  have  governed  a  province  and  still 
have  been  a  woman,"  splendid  in  her 
power,  yet  always  womanly. 


Bakery  Bread — 

"Why  anybody  ever  buys  bakery  bread 
at  all  is  perhaps  something  of  a  mystery, 
but  some  people  occasionally  do  it.  Of 
course,  if  you  are  a  single  man  and  live  at 
a  boarding  house  where  they  don't  know 
how  to  cook,  you  have  to  eat  bakery  bread 
or  eat  no  bread  at  all  (the  latter  course  is 
the  safer);  but  if  you  are  married,  and 
your  marriage  isn't  a  failure,  your  wife 
mukes  bread  instead  of  buying  it.  She 
makes  good  bread,  too, — bread  that  can 
easily  be  distinguished  from  a  white  oak 
block  or  a  mineral  specimen.  But  there 
comes  a  time  when  your  wife  goes  to  visit 
her  mother  for  a  week,  a  month,  or  an 
indefinite  period,  according  to  the  state  of 
the  home  atmosphere  at  the  time,  and  you 
are  left  to  struggle  alone  with  the  prob* 
lem  of  housekeeping.  You  find  it  more 
of  a  struggle  than  you  had  thought  it  was 
from  seeing  your  wife  engaged  in  it.  You 
had  thought  at  first  that  you  would  much 
rather  your  wife  would  go  to  visit  her 
mother  than  that  her  mother  should  visit 
at  your  home;  but  after  she  has  been  away 
a  day  or  two,  you  are  not  so  sure  about 
it.  Of  course,  for  a  short  time  you  do  very 
well,  for  your  wife  has  left  a  goodly  sup- 

?ly  of  food,  including  some  homemade 
read;  but  after  you  have  disposed  of  that, 
the  real  trouble  begins.  You  go  to  a  bak- 
ery  and  buy  something  that  is  called 
bread,  and  as  you  have  no  time  to  get  it 
analyzed,  you  have  to  let  it  go  at  that. 

Now,  there  are  two  kinds  of  this  so- 
called  bread — the  airy,  and  the  indestruct- 
ible. If  you  happen  to  get  the  former,  it 
is  a  comparatively  easy  task  to  prepare  it 
for  the  table.  It  consists  mostly  of  air 
cells,  large  and  sm^all,  surrounded  by  a 
sort  of  membrane,  the  whole  enclosed  in 
a  thin  but  tough,  leathery  substance  made 
by  a  secret  process  known  only  to  the 


baker.  After  removing  the  shell,  the  in^ 
ner  portion  may  be  rolled  into  a  ball  about 
the  size  of  a  small  lemon  and  eaten  in  any 
manner  desired.  Six  loaves  will  m^ke  a 
meal  for  one  person — if  he  has  plenty  of 
other  food. 

The  indestructible  variety  is  more  dif- 
ficult to  manage.  It  is  covered  by  a  bark 
somewhat  resembling  that  of  a  hickory 
tree,  and  as  it  contains  no  sap,  the  bark 
is  as  difficult  to  remove  as  hemlock  bark 
at  certain  periods.  It  may,  however,  be 
chopped  off  with  a  sharp  ax.  The  loaf 
should  then  be  put  into  a  kettle  and  boiled 
for  forty-eight  hours,  after  which  it  may 
be  cut  into  small  pieces  and  fed  to  the 
chickens.  The  bark  may  be  used  for  fuel 
or  sold  to  a  tannery. 

This  information  is  for  the  use  of  un- 
fortunate men  who  may  be  left  to  keep 
house  alone  and  who  are  unable  to  make 
bread. 

— Charles  Bumside. 

At  tlie  Weiiing — 

"Oh,  we're  the  first  ones  at  the  church  !'* 
"Good.  We  can  see  every  one  who  comes 

in.     Let's  sit  here  at  the  back." 

"No,  let's  sit  near  the  front.    We  can 

see  the  bride  better." 
"But  we  can't  see  the  others  so  well." 
"Very  well.    My,  they  haven't  decorated 

the  church  very  nice,  have  they?" 

"No,  it    evidently  wasn't    fixed    by    a 

fiorist." 

"Looks  as  though  they  got  the  fiowers 

in  their  own  yard." 
"Te-he-he!" 

"Who  are  those  people  just  coming  in?" 
"I  don't  know,  but  they  don't  look  very 

stylish." 
"Is  Grace  to  receive  many  presents  ?" 
"I  haven't  heard  of  anything  elaborate. 

Oh,  here  they  come!" 


124 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


"Goodness,  who  is  that  at  the  organ? 
The  playing  is  awful!" 

"There's  the  bride  and  groom.  Doesn't 
she  look  like  a  stick?" 

"Yes,  and  isn't  he  nervous?" 

"Poor  fellow!" 

"He  looks  as  though  he'd  like  to  run 
away  and  escape  before  it's  too  late." 

"I  feel  sorry  for  him." 

"So  do  I." 

"How  did  she  land  him?" 

"It's  leap  year,  you  know." 

"Te-he-he!" 

"Do  you  really  think  she  proposed  to 
him?" 

"I  wouldn't  be  surprised." 

^^ou  used   to  be  very  chummy  with 

"Me  ?  Why,  the  idea !  I  never  did  like 
her.     See  how  her  dress  fits!" 

"It  hangs  on  her  as  though  she  made 
it  at  home  instead  of  going  to  a  dress- 
maker." 

"And  her  veil!" 

"A  perfect  fright !    And  her  bouquet !" 

"Resembles  a  bunch  of  cabbages." 

"She  looks  as  if  she  feared  he  would 
say  'no'  at  the  critical  moment." 

"What  if  he  would!" 

"Wouldn't  that  be  deUcious?" 

"U-um." 

"It  seems  just  as  if  she  was  dragging 
him  to  the  altar." 

"Hear  how  loud  she  says  'yes*!" 

"And  I  can't  hear  him  answer  at  all." 

"Guess  he  feels  ashamed." 

"Isn't  his  face  red?" 

"There's  the  ring,  now !" 

"See  how  she  holds  out  her  finger  for 
it!" 

"Well,  she's  got  him  at  last." 

"Hasn't  it  been  a  dowdy  wedding?" 

"Just  awful!" 

"Not  a  bit  of  fashion  to  it." 

"Well,  now  it's  over  let's  go  over  and 
congratulate  the  couple." 

"Let's." 

The  Reason  A^Hiy — 

Jinks :  "I  wonder  how  Jones  can  afford 
to  get  married  and  divorced  so  often." 

Binks :  "That's  easy.  Jones  is  getting 
rich  writing  "The  Reflections  of  a  Bach- 
elor." 

«  «  4e 

Fast  colour — a  blue  streak. 


Xkc  Gentle  Sex — 

A  woman  is  glad  that  she  is  not  a  man : 

When  she  sees  her  husband  trying  to 
shave  with  a  dull  razor  in  three  minutes. 

When  she  sees  the  latest  styles  in 
millinery. 

When  some  one  has  to  hunt  for  the 
supposed  burglar. 

When  the  bills  come  in  for  the  summer 
vacation. 

When  political  questions  are  being 
discussed. 

When  her  husband  goes  to  work  on  a 
stormy  day. 

When  lodge  matters  must  be  attended 
to. 

When  some  one  near  her  is  smoking  a 
poor  cigar. 

When  she  attends  a  meeting  of  the 
sewing  circle. 

When  the  picnic  lunch  must  be  carried 

When  she  can  wear  a  diaphanous  waist 
on  a  sweltering  day. 

Married  tkc  V^askcr-V^oman — 

Some  peoples  lif  auf  die  income  dey  haf — 
Oders  lif  py  die  sweat  of  der  brow; 

But  mein  way  of  lifing  suits  me  der  best — 
I  lif  py  die  sweat  of  mein  frau. 

^^Not  AvailaUe^— 

The  following  verse  was  received  in  re- 
ply to  some  returned  MSS.,  with  the  sug- 
gestion that  the  author  try  some  lighter 
theme : 

So  I  must  choose  some  "lighter  theme," 
Must  squelch  each  wise  or  lofty  dream. 
Must  don  the  tinsel  and  the  bells, 
Or  else  forego  the  "stuff"  that  "sells?" 

Must  write  the  squibs  that  make  one  smile 
And  serve  the  moment  to  beguile. 
Must  tickle  with  stubborn  quill, 
Or  "go  'way  back"  and  sit  right  still?" 

But  what,  good  sir,  if  active  mind 
Malicious  bent,  is  still  inclined 
To  statelier  style  and  nobler  things 
Than  pen  of  "note  and  comment"  slings? 

I  know  the  answer.     Don't  exclaim 
If  'tis  a  fault,  not  yours  the  blame. 
The  "reading  public"  of  the  day 
Dictates  the  requisites  that  "pay." 

Forced  by  the  spirit  of  the  age 

I  lay  aside  the  pen  and  page 

Nor  count  again  the  worn  reply, 

"Not  wanted,  but  we  won't  tell  why!" 


ROGRESS 


.X, 


^% 


■^ 


Devoted  to  tke  energy,  entkiisiasm,  groivtii,  progress  and 
development  of  tke  great  Nortliwest 

Prosperity! 

What  a  hearty,  happy  ring  the  magic  word  has!  What  a  picture  it  presents 
of  teeming  fields,  and  granaries  filled  to  the  bursting;  of  deep  mines,  where  every 
blow  of  the  pick  brings  forth  copper  or  iron  or  silver  or  gold;  of  the  lumber  woods, 
and  the  stately  monarch  of  the  forest  crashing  to  earth  under  the  blows  of  the 
woodman's  axe;  of  laboring  locomotives,  and  white-winged  ships,  bearing  to  the 
marts  of  commerce  the  products  of  field  and  forest  and  mine;  of  expanding  towns 
and  cities,  alive  with  human  activity  in  shops  and  factory,  office  and  countinghouse ! 
Work  for  everyone,  and  the  maximum  return  for  toil,  that  is  what  brings 
prosperity.  Peace,  contentment,  the  joy  of  living;  these  are  a  few  of  its  results. 
The  Pacific  Coast  is  enjoying  such  prosperity  as  can  be  found  in  no  other  locality 
in  the  United  States,  Nor  is  it  the  result  of  any  abnormal  circumstance,  but 
the  rational  outgrowth  of  natural  conditions.  Nowhere  can  be  found  such  nat- 
ural resources — such  fertile  soil,  such  mineral  deposits,  such  gigantic  forests, 
such  fisheries,  such  waterways,  such  a  climate. 

These  things  are  the  materials  of  prosperity.  All  that  is  needed  is  men  and 
women  to  avail  themselves  of  these  unapproachable  advantages.  And  they  are 
coming.  In  tens  and  hundreds  and  thousands  they  are  following  the  course  of 
Empire  to  dwell  in  this  land  of  plenty.  There  is  room  for  all,  and  for  millions 
more,  for  the  productivity  of  this  marvelous  land  has  been  hardly  guessed. 

Here  is  the  promised  land — prosperity's  headquarters.  Gird  yourself,  rise,  and 
come  to  enjoy  its  blessings. 


Portland's  new  flreboat,   the   "Oeozve  H.   Williami,"  built  by  the  "Willamette  Iron  and  Steel  Works." 


PROGEESS. 


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AArncat  From  ttc  Inland  Empire — 

According  to  the  figures  published  in  the 
Seattle  Post-Intelligencer,  there  have  been 
shipped  during  the  last  few  months  from 
the  Inland  Empire — the  wheat  belt  of 
Eastern  Oregon,  Eastern  Washington  and 
Northern  Idaho — 35,000,000  bushels  of 
wheat,  while  many  millions  of  bushels 
are  still  held  for  higher  prices.  The  aver- 
age price  paid  has  been  65  cents  a  bushel, 
which  is  considered  an  excellent  price, 
being  nearly  double  that  commanded  a 
few  years  ago. 

Over  $20,000,000  have  been  paid  to  the 
farmers  of  this  section  during  the  past 
season  for  wheat,  and  unexampled  pros- 
perity is  the  result. 

The  process  of  mortgage-paying  has 
been  going  on  for  some  years  and  the 
farmers  are  now  out  of  debt.  The  pros- 
pects for  another  year  are  very  encour- 
aging, and  the  people  of  the  Inland  Em- 
pire nave  every  cause  to  be  satisfied  with 
that  section  of  the  earth's  surface  that  it 
is  their  lot  to  inhabit. 

Idalio'5  Welfiirc— 

In  speaking  of  the  prosperity  of  Idaho, 
Governor  Morrison  said,  in  a  recent  in- 
terview: 

"There  is  a  great  immigration  into  the 
state,  all  portions  being  favored  with  this 
influx.  In  my  visit  to  Kootenai  county 
I  was  astonished  at  the  great  growth. 
The  lumber  there  is  increasing  with  leaps 
and  bounds.  Many  new  settlers  are  mak- 
ing their  homes  there  and  the  same  is 
true  of  Latah,  Nez  Perce,  Idaho,  and  the 
southern  part  of  Shoshone  county. 

"Immense  irrigation  schemes  in  the 
southern  part  of  the  state  are  doing  much 
for  its  progress.  The  Twin  Falls  Irriga- 
tion Company,  which  takes  water  from 
the  Snake  River,  will  reclaim  244,000 
acres  in  Cassia  and  Lincoln  coimties.  It 
is  sagebrush  land,  which  heretofore  has 
been  nnproductive  on  account  of  the  lack 
of  water.  The  main  canal  will  flow  an 
immense  body  of  water.  With  the  main 
canals  and  laterals  there  will  be  over  300 
miles  of  ditches.  Its  construction  will  en- 
tail an  expenditure  of  $1,500,000.  The 
land  is  mostly  on  the  north  side  of  the 
river. 

'The  American  Falls  canal  project  will 
reclaim  30,000  acres  of  fertile  lands  in 
Bingham  and  Blaine  coimties. 


"The  mining  industry  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  state  is  in  a  healthy  condi- 
tion. Capital  is  becoming  more  inter- 
ested in  Thunder  Mountain  as  the  won- 
derful possibilities  of  the  district  are  real- 
ized and  the  district  is  rapidly  coming  to 
the  fore.'^ 

Tkc  Lumber  Tra<le  — 

The  Pacific  Lumber  Trade  Journal 
offers  this  retrospect  on  the  business  of  the 
past  year: 

"At  no  time  during  the  past  year  has 
there  been  any  cause  to  suspect  a  retrench- 
ment in  the  demand  from  the  East,  Cali- 
fornia or  foreign  ports.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  when  the  statistics  for  this  year  are 
published  it  will  be  seen  that  the  demand 
for  our  lumber  products  this  year  has 
shown  a  greater  increase  than  during  the 
year  1902.  The  total  Eastern  shipments 
will  show  that  there  will  be  an  increase  of 
probably  not  less  than  10,000  car  loads 
over  1902,  of  which  the  proportions  will 
be  about  6,000  car  loads  for  lumber  and 
about  4,000  car  loads  for  shingles.  This 
in  spite  of  the  greatest  car  shortage  in  the 
history  of  the  trade.  The  California  de- 
mand will  show  up  fully  as  good  as  the 
year  before,  while  the  foreign  cargo  sliip- 
ments  will  exceed  those  of  1902  by  at  least 
25  per  cent/' 

Arid  LanJ  Survey—" 

The  report  of  John  T.  Whistler,  engi- 
neer in  charge  of  irrigation  surveys  and 
examinations  in  Oregon,  contains  much 
that  is  of  interest.  A  one-sided  develop- 
ment of  the  state  is  not  to  be  desired.  The 
agricultural  resources  of  Eastern  and 
Southeastern  Oregon  are  relatively  un- 
toudied  though  returns  from  endeavor  in 
some  sections  have  added  largely  to  the 
aggregate  wealth  of  the  state  in  recent 
years. 

The  obje»:!t  of  what  is  known  as  the  arid 
land  survey  is  well  known.  As  a  proposi- 
tion which  fcieeks  to  store  and  distribute  the 
waters  of  certain  sections  so  that  instead 
of  running  to  waste  they  will  insure  boun- 
tiful crops  to  the  farmer  over  wide  areas 
that  are  now  unproductive,  irrigation  is 
attracting  the  careful  attention  of  broad- 
minded  men.  It  has,  moreover,  enlisted 
the  attention  of  the  Government  as  a  sci- 
entific proposition,  and  one  that  can  be 
worked  out  satisfactorily  only  by  engineer- 


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ing  skill  and  systematic  methods.  The 
entire  scheme  commends  itself  to  all  pro- 
gressive citizens,  as  it  does  to  their  repre- 
sentatives in  Congress,  for  its  breadth, 
utility  and  great  promise  of  development. 

Tke  Tonnage  of  Pugct  Sound  Ports — 

The  tonnage  clearing  from  Puget 
Sound  during  the  eight  months  was  967,- 
137,  of  which  amount  238,467  was  sail. 
But  one  port  in  the  United  States,  and 
that  the  port  of  New  York,  exceeded  Puget 
Sound  in  the  aggregate  amount  of  its  sail 
tonnage  for  the  eight  months,  and  New 
York  led  this  port  by  but  27,000  tons.  In 
the  amount  of  American  sail  tonnage  en- 
gaged in  its  foreign  trade,  Puget  Sound 
was  easily  the  first  ocean  port  in  the  coun- 
try, the  American  tonnage  from  this  port 
being  nearly  twice  as  great  as  that  which 
cleared  from  New  York  during  the  same 
period.  In  American  steam  tonnage.  New 
York  was  again  the  only  ocean  port  in  the 
United  States  which  exceeded  Puget 
Sound.  Puget  Sound  continues  thus  to 
hold  its  record  as  the  American  port  which 
carries  the  highest  percentage  of  its  ocean- 
borne  commerce  in  American  ships.  Near- 
ly one-third  of  the  sail  tonnage  from  this 
port  was  American,  and  more  than  two- 
thirds  of  our  steam  tonnage  was  Ameri- 
can. 

Compared  with  other  Pacific  Coast 
ports,  Puget  Sound  has  a  long  lead  in 
volume  of  tonnage,  both  of  sail  and  steam. 
The  total  tonnage  clearing  from  San 
Francisco  was  624,363,  and  from  Willam- 
ette 139,218.  From  Willamette  all  but 
6,000  tons  was  under  foreign  flags. 

The  exports  of  Puget  Sound  for  the 
eight  months  exceeded  those  of  San  Fran- 
cisco by  upwards  of  a  million  dollars,  and 
were  two  and  one-half  times  as  great  as 
those  of  Willamette. 

In  exports  of  flour,  Puget  Sound  was 
the  fourth  port  of  the  country,  and  in  ex- 
ports of  wheat  was  the  sixth.  She  export- 
ed flour  to  the  value  of  $3,908,525  during 
eight  months,  as  compared  with  exports  of 
$10,814,854  from  the  port  of  New  York, 
which  has  a  long  lead  over  all  other  ports 
of  the  country  in  its  flour  exports.  The 
exports  of  flour  were  more  than  $800,000 
greater  than  those  from  San  Francisco, 
and  considerably  more  than  double  those 
from  Portland. 


Forest  Fires — 

Every  summer  and  autunm  large  areas 
of  public  and  private  forests  are  devas- 
tated by  fire.  This  destruction  is  a  uni- 
versal injury.  It  not  only  destroys  a 
valuable  asset  in  the  list  of  the  country^s 
resources,  but  is  productive  of  floods.  The 
forest  is  the  most  effective  means  of  pre- 
venting floods  and  producing  a  more  reg- 
ular flow  of  water  for  irrigation  and  other 
useful  purposes.  To  prevent  the  mis- 
chievous forest  fires  Congress  has  enacted 
a  law  which  forbids  setting  fire  to  the 
woods,  and  forbids  leaving  fires  (camp 
fires  and  others)  without  first  extinguish- 
ing the  same.  The  law  provides  a  maxi- 
mum fine  of  $5,000,  or  imprisonment  for 
two  years,  or  both,  if  the  fire  is  set  ma- 
licioiisly,  and  a  fine  of  $1,000,  or  impris- 
onment for  one  year,  if  the  fire  is  due  to 
carelessness.  It  also  provides  that  the 
money  from  these  fines  goes  to  the  school 
funds  of  the  county  in  which  the  offense 
is  committed. 

Commissioner  W.  A.  Richards,  of  the 
General  Land  OflQce,  has  issued  circulars, 
warning  the  public  against  carelessness, 
inasmuch  as  many  fires  start  from 
neglected  camp  fires,  and  makes  the  fol- 
lowing requests: 

1.  Do  not  build  a  larger  fire  than  you 
need. 

2.  Do  not  build  your  fires  in  dense 
masses  of  pine  leaves,  duff  and  other  com- 
bustible material,  where  the  fire  is  sure 
to  spread. 

3.  Do  not  build  your  fire  against  large 
logs,  especially  rotten  logs,  where  it  re- 
quires much  more  work  and  time  to  put 
the  fire  out  than  you  are  willing  to  ex- 
pend, and  where  you  are  rarely  quite  cer- 
tain that  the  fire  is  really  and  completely 
extinguished. 

4.  In  windy  weather  and  in  dangerous 
places  dig  a  fire  hole  and  clear  off  a  place 
to  secure  your  fire.  You  will  save  wood 
and  trouble. 

5.  Every  camp  fire  should  be  completely 
put  out  before  leaving  the  camp. 

6.  Do  not  build  fires  to  clear  off  land 
and  for  other  similar  purposes  without 
informing  the  nearest  ranger  or  the  super- 
visor, so  that  he  may  assist  you. 

As  hunters,  fishers  and  campers  will 
soon  haunt  the  woods  and  streams,  it  is 
hoped  that  newspapers  everywhere  will 
circulate  this  warning  and  information. 


DEIFT. 


Drift 


A   SOrCNTIPIG   DIAQNOSIS. 

**What  is  your  diagnosis  f  asks  the  older 
phyaieian  of  bis  young  confrere,  who  is  ear- 
nest but  inexperienced,  and  who  has  been 
called  in  consultation. 

**Well,"  says  the  younger  medico,  **  there 
doesn't  seem  to  be  much  the  matter.  The  pa- 
tient has  a  slight  fever  and  some  little  tight- 
ness of  the  chest.  1  should  say  there  was 
nothing  more  than  a   cold   bothering  him.'' 

**My  boy,"  said  the  older  man  kindly, 
**you  have  gone  about  it  wrong.  Note  these 
symptoms:  A  white  marble  stairway  in  the 
entrance  hall,  gold  furniture  in  the  parlor, 
cut  glass  and  silver  galore  in  the  aining- 
room,  two  automobiles  in  the  side  yard,  a 
solid  mahoganv " 

"But  what  has  that  to  do  with  the  sick- 
ness of  Mr.  Gumpursef" 

"It  has  lots  to  do  with  it.     The  man  has 
congestion    of    the    bank    account,    and    the 
proper  move   for  us  to   make  is  to   relievo 
that  as  much  as  possible."— Judge. 
»      •       • 

Some  fools  and  their  money  are  parted  only 
by  death. 

•  •      • 

WHAT  IS  IT? 

**It  is  all  well  enough,"  said  Uncle  Joseph, 
as  he  put  down  the  book,  '  *  but  it  isn  't  true. ' ' 

"Why  not!"  I  asked. 

"Because  the  author  makes  him  propose  to 
the  heroine  in  a  crowded  theater.  Now,  a 
woman  doesn't  want  to  be  proposed  to  in  such 
a  place.  She  wants  a  quiet  spot,  where  she 
can  weep  a  little.  Story-writers  should  take 
this  into  consideration." 

"Pshaw!"  said  I. 

"When  a  woman  accepts  a  man  for  good 
and  all,  she  likes  to  put  her  head  on  his  shoul- 
ders and  cry, ' '  said  Uncle  Joseph.  "  I  do  not 
know  why  it  is,  but  they  all  do  it." 

"Do  they!" 

"Didn't  your  wife  when  she  accepted 
youf"  he  demanded. 

"Well,  yes,  I  believe  she  did." 

"They  all  do,"  said  Uncle  Joseph.  "They 
like  it;  it  somehow  comforts  'em." 

"But  why!"  said  T. 

"Ask  the  women,"  said  Uncle  Joseph. — 
February  Woman's  Home  Companion. 

•  •       • 

SIDE  UGHT  IN  HISTORY* 

Newton,  ever  a  lazy  chap,  was  lying  asleep 
under  a  tree.  His  mother  sauntered  into  the 
orchard  and  discovered  him  there.  Awaken- 
ing him  forcibly,  she  said:  "Ike,  why  don't 


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you  get  a  job  or  discover  gravity  or  some- 
thing like  that!" 

"Mother,"  said  the  soon-to-be-great  man^ 

'  *  if  gravity  wants  me,  it  knows  where  I  am. ' ' 

'  »       *       * 

Job  was  waiting  patiently  for  the  doctor. 
At  last  he  came. 

*  *  Doc, ' '  said  Job,  * '  can  you  tell  me  the  dif- 
ference between  me  and  David?" 

*  *  I  'm  up  against  it, ' '  said  the  doctor.  ' '  Tell 
it." 

"Well,"  said  Job,  "David  is  a  manly  boy 
and  I  am  a  "boily  man. ' ' 

This  was  only  another  of  Job's  humors.— 
Chicago  Journal. 

»       »       • 

REVERSING  THE  CASE 

An  Irishman  was  called  upon  to  give  evi- 
dence in  a  shooting  affray. 

"Did  you  see  that  shot  llredf"  asked  the 
magistrate. 

"No,  sor;  but  I  heard  it,"  replied  the 
witness. 

"That   is   not   satisfactory.     Step   down." 

As  the  Irishman  turned  to  go  he  laughed, 
and  was  rebuked  by  the  magistrate,  who  told 
him  it  was  contempt  of  court. 

"Did  yez  see  me  laugh f" 

"No;  but  I  heard  you." 

"That  is  not  satisfactory." 

And  then  the  court  laughed.— Green  Bag. 
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A  glad  smile  broke  into  a  long,  low  chuckle 
of  delight  that  made  the  clubman  in  the  next 
chair  rouse  for  a  moment  from  the  labors  of 
digestion  and  exclaim: 

''Struck  a  good  thing,  ehf    Let's  have  it." 

**Good  thing!"  said  the  happy  member. 
^*It'8  simply  a  Klondike  and  Golconda  rolled 
into  one,  with  an  inexhaustible  mother  lode 
in  sight." 

"Oh,  I  thought  it  was  a  joke." 

''Joke  nothing!  This  is  as  serious  to  me 
as  the  sources  of  my  income." 

"You  interest  me." 

"The  Japanese  have  just  made  another  ad- 
vance in  Manchuria." 

"Well,  I  don't  see  an3rthing  in  that  to 
chuckle  about." 

"You  don't,  ehf  Listen  to  this."  Anl 
he  read  off  an  ^cocunt  of  skirmishes  and  bat- 
tles full  of  names  that  sounded  as  if  the 
make-up  man  had  pied  a  paragraph  and  sent 
it  to  press  without  correction. 

"I  don't  see  any  richness  in  that,"  said 
the  one  who   had   butted   in. 

"You  don't,  ehf  Well,  perhaps  you  will 
get  wise  when  I  tell  you  that  my  business 
interests  lie  almost  equally  in  building  sleep- 
ing cars  and  modern  flat-houses." 

"I  am  still  dark." 

"Pish,  tush,  man!  Can't  you  see  that  this 
new  list  of  outlandish  names  will  enable  me 
to  christen  all  the  sleeping  cars  and  apart- 
ment houses  that  I  can  build  in  the  next  two 
years  f"— Judge. 


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ELOOTOHMAN    AND    PAFPOOSE (Frontispiece) 

PEOPLES-PLAOES-THINaS  (iUnstrated)  131 

Bussell  Sage  and  Vacations. 

New    Cruiser    *  *  California. ' ' 

The  Torpedo  Boat. 

A   Wave   Motor. 

CAMPUS  DAY Edmond   S.   Meany  188 

(Illustrated. 

BEFORE  IiOVE  CAME    (poem)                                Marion  Cook  Knight  140 

A  TEMPERED  WIND  (fiction)                                  0.  E.  Adams  141 

THE  CITY  BOYS'  SWIMMINa  HOLE  (iUnstrated) E.  J.  Bloom  145 

AWAKE  (poem) Florence  May  Wright  148 

THE   BUOEET   TRAMWAY    (illustrated)               George  M  Qage  149 

THE  DEACON'S  DILEMMA  (fiction)                      Erskine  M  Hamilton  161 

"SWIMBON'  HOLE"  PICTURES 154-166 

OUR  NATIVE  SHRUBS  (iUnstrated)                       WiUiam  S.  Rica  166 

* 'EXTRA  WEST,  667"   (fiction)                         .      Mjnrvln  Davis  159 

TRUTH  (poem)           Donald  A.  Fraser  160 

CHINESE   MUSIC   AND   MUSICAL   INSTRU- 
MENTS (iUnstrated) Albert  Gale  161 

THE  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION  (iUnstrated)  Charles  ErsUne  ScoU  Wood    169 

(Including  Bryan's  Speech,  p.  175.) 

DEPARTMENTS 

OUR  VIEW William  Bittle  WeUs  179 

THE  MONTH 180 

IMPRESSIONS Charlel  Erskine  Scott  Wood  185 

THE  READER W.  F.  O.  Thacher  186 

THE  UaHTER  SIDE Franklin  Godwyn  188 

PROGRESS 190 

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Volume  XII 


SEPTEMBER,  1904 


Number  3 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS 


Russell  Sage  and  Vacations 

ALL  unconsciously,  Eussell  Sage, 
the  successful  old  money- 
grub,  exposed  himself  to  end- 
less ridicule  when  he  gave  ut- 
terance to  his  now  famous 
advice  concerning  vacations.  There  is 
something  intensely  humorous  in  the 
thought  of  that  aged  slave  of  the  dollar 
setting  himself  up  as  an  authority  on  this 
subject.  But  when  he  naively  admits  that 
he  has  never  taken  a  vacation,  pointing 
pridefuUy  to  his  own  career  as  an  example 
of  a  life  given  over  to  unremitting  toil, 
without  the  yearly  outing  which  is  so  dear 
to  the  average  man,  it  approaches  the  ab- 
surd. 

It  has  its  pathetic  side,  too.  That  a 
man  of  so  great  attainment  should  be  so 
blinded  to  the  joys  of  life ;  that  he  should 
be  content,  year  after  year,  to  sit  at  the 
seat  of  customs,  to  barter  and  plot  and 
contrive  in  order  that  his  vast  wealth  may 
not  slip  away  from  him,  but  may  continue 
to  grow ;  to  know  no  sweeter  pleasure  than 
the  sound  of  the  ticker  and  the  hoarse 
tumult  of  Wall  street — and  thus  to  go 
down  the  declinine^  years,  with  the  grave 
yawning  at  his  feet:  there  is  certainly 
pathos  in  that. 

Nay,  Russell  Sage,  you  have  lived  yoiir 


Mrs.  David  B.  Francis,  president  of  the  Woman's 

Club,  St.  Louis,  and  wife  of  the  President 

of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition. 


132 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


life  with  but  one  aim — ^the  accumulation 
of  wealth.  Success  has  rewarded  your  ef- 
forts, and,  no  doubt,  you  consider  yourself 
a  successful  man.  We  have  no  quarrel  to 
pick  with  you.  You  have  paid  dearly  for 
your  gains,  and  we  pity  you  from  the  bot- 
tom of  our  hearts.  There  can  be  no  joy 
and  brightness  in  life  for  you.  We  (and 
^^we"  are  the  ordinary  men,  who  take  all 
the  vacation  we  can  get  and  beg  for  more) 
know  that  all  your  millions  are  not  worth 
the  memory  of  hours  afield,  with  rod  and 
gun,  hours  on  the  seashore,  with  the  hot 
Sim  burning  our  skin,  and  old  ocean  lap- 
ping at  our  feet,  hours  in  a  hammock  with 
pipe  and  some  favorite  author.  These  and 
the  anticipation  of  other  such  days  in 
store  give  a  zest  to  life,  Russell  Sage,  and 
a  sparkle  and  a  glow  that  never  goes  with 
clipping  coupons.  You  know  nothing  at 
all   about   it,   so   you   were   very  unwise 


BuMeU  Bf,  the  famous  old  flxianoier,  whoM  lemariuible 
■udTioo   on   Taoations   liaa  arooaod   mnoh  oommeat. 


The  adopted  mother. 

to  speak  as  you  did.  Work  is  an  ex- 
cellent thing,  and  every  man  must  do  his 
share;  but,  like  everything 
else,  it  may  be  carried  to  an 
extreme,  and  in  excess  it 
becomes  a  fearsome  task- 
master. 

With  all  your  money  bags 
you  have  missed  the  best  in 
life,  and  we  wouldn^t  change 
places  with  you,  Russell 
Sage,  for  all  your  millions. 


New  Cruiser  California 
The  recent  launching  of 
the  new  and  formidable  ar- 
mored cruiser  California 
from  the  great  shipyard  of 
the  Union  Iron  Works,  San 
Francisco,  Cal.,  proved  a 
very  important  event  in  the 
annals  of  the  American 
navy.  In  the  history  of  the 
Golden  State  the  affair  was 
no  less  notable. 

The  California  enjoys  the 
enviable  distinction  of  being 
the  longest  war  vessel  of  her 
class  in  the  world.  She  is 
longer  than  the  battleships 
Oregon,  the  Iowa,  Ohio,  and 
other  great  vessels.  She  is 
nearly  twice  the  length  of 
the  New  York  and  other 
cruisers  of  that  class. 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


133 


The  dimensions  of  the  California  are: 
Length  over  all,  603  feet;  extreme 
breadth,  70  feet;  full  loaded  draught,  26 
feet;  total  displacement,  13,440  tons.  She 
has  twin  screws  and  triple  expansion  en- 
gines, whose  total  indicated  horsepower 
aggregates  23,000.  This  great  power  is 
capable  of  developing  a  maximum  speed  of 
22  knots  per  hour.  At  a  high  rate  of 
speed  the  propellers  will  make  120  revo- 
lutions per  minute.  There  are  30  large 
tubular  boilers  placed  in  eight  water-tight 
compartments. 

The  coal  bunkers  hold  2,000  tons  of 
coal,    and    the    new    cruiser^s    steaming 


In  every  respect  the  California  is  an 
up-to-date  fighting  machine.  Electricity 
will  be  used  throughout  the  vessel  for 
lighting,  for  the  turning  gear  for  the  tur- 
rets, for  the  loading  apparatus  of  the 
heavy  guns,  and  for  various  other  pur- 
poses. 

There  will  be  an  ice  plant  on  board 
capable  of  turning  out  three  tons  daily; 
an  evaporator  plant,  capable  of  producing 
over  20,000  gallons  of  fresh  water  per 
day,  and  also  a  distilling  apparatus,  witli 
a  capacity  of  10,000  gallons  of  drinking 
water  each  day. 

The  California  will  be  fitted  up  as  a 


The   splendid  new   ftrft-cUuM   oruiaer   "CalifomU/*  one  of  the  finest  fl^htiny  ships  in  TTnole  Sam's  navy. 


radius  is  estimated  at  5,000  knots.  Her 
armament — main  and  secondary  batteries 
— ^is  very  complete.  In  both  offensive  and 
defensive  fi,ghting  the  California  will  be 
one  of  the  most  formidable  war  vessels 
in  the  American  navy.  In  addition  to 
her  destructive  armament,  the  new  cruiser 
will  be  able  to  offer  to  hostile  projectiles 
a  very  strong  resistance,  in  the  shape  of 
massive  hull  protection. 


flag  ship,  and,  with  a  full  complement, 
will  carry  47  officers  and  782  enlisted 
men. 

The  construction  of  this  great  and  for- 
midable cruiser  was  authorized  by  an  act 
of  Congress  approved  March,  1899.  The 
price  fixed  upon  for  hull  and  machinery 
was  $3,800,000,  and  her  complete  arma- 
ment, $1,000,000,  thus  making  a  total  of 
nearly  $5,000,000. 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Tkc  Torpedo  Boat 

If  there  is  one  fact  that,  beyond  any 
other,  has  been  brought  out  by  the  Russo- 
Japanese  war,  it  is  that  of  the  formidable- 
efficiency  of  the  torpedo-boat.  Heretofore- 
these  pigmy  craft  have  been  looked  upon 
with  more  or  less  contempt.  In  the  war 
between  the  United  States  and  Spain  the- 
torpedo-boat  played  a  very  small  part,  the 
bulk  of  the  fighting  being  done  by  the- 
cruisers  and  battleships.  It  remained  for 
the  Japanese  to  appreciate  the  destructive 
value  of  these  deadly  naval  instruments. 
In  their  hands,  the  torpedo  has  assumed 
a  new  and  awesome  significance.  In 
nearly  every  engagement  the  torpedo  has^ 
struck  the  decisive  blow.  Like  wasps, 
they  dart  upon  their  enemy,  sting  and 
away  again,  before  a  defense  is  possible. 
Unlike  that  noxious  insect,  their  blow  is- 
deadly.  It  is  as  if  the  wasp  possessed  the 
fangs  of  a  cobra.  No  armorplate  ever 
cast  can  resist  the  rending  power  of  a 
Whitehead  torpedo. 

So  swift  is  their  motion,  and  so^ 
small  the  exposed  surface,  that  the 
torpedo-boat  is  the  poorest  possible 
mark  for  the  ponderous  guns  of  the 
great  war  vessels;  and  so,  to  meet  the 
torpedo-boat,  a  new  style  of  craft  has  been 
developed  —  the  torpedo-boat  destroyers. 
Swifter,  and  as  easily  maneuvered  as  the 
torpedo-boat  herself,  she  is,  at  the  same 
time,  armed  with  guns  sufficiently  power- 
ful to  pierce  the  thinly  protected  torpedo- 
boat.  She  lurks  in  the  lee  of  the  great 
floating  forts,  or  does  patrol  duty  aroTrnd 
the  fleet,  ready  to  dart  out  and  give  battle 
directly  the  dread  torpedo-boat  is  seen. 
Thus  battles  are  fought  and  won  by  these 
tiny  craft,  before  the  ponderous  battle- 
ships hardly  get  into  action.  It  is  the 
^Tiit-and-get-awa}^'  policy  once  more;^ 
speed,  cunning  and  quick,  telling  blows, 
instead  of  heavy  movements  and  thunder- 
ous cannonading.  It  is  a  style  of  fighting- 
peculiarly  suited  to  the  Japanese,  and  by 
them  has  been  brought  to  high  perfection. 

A  Wave  Motor 

On  the  Cliff  Drive,  which  skirts  the 
ocean  shore  north  of  Santa  Cruz,  in  Cali- 
fornia, there  is  a  wave  motor,  where  the 
horses  of  the  sea  have  been  broken  to  har- 
ness, and  have  done  steady  work  for  seven 
years.     The   inventor   of  this   successfn? 


Hametsinr  the  waves  of  old  ooeon.     Wave  motor  at  Santa  Cruz,   California. 

Photo    by    C.    L.    Aydelotte. 


Japanese    torpedo-boat    destroyer    "Akutsuki,"    one  of    the    pigmy    craft    that    have    floured    so    promi- 
nently in  the  naval  engagements  of  the  Russo-Japanese  war. 


136 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


duurmiBff    Vary    Mannerinf ,    one    of 
mott    popular    aotroMos. 


Amerioa't 


the  outer  well  a  counter-balanced  float 
rises  and  falls  between  vertical  guides  a& 
the  breakers  or  waves  raise  and  lower  the 
water  level.  In  the  second  well  the 
plunger  of  a  common  force  pump,  working 
in  any  part  of  a  long  pump  barrel,  on  the 
down  stroke,  forces  the  salt  water  up  125 
feet  to  the  tank. 

In  ordinary  weather  the  pump  fills  the 
tank  in  an  hour,  but  has  done  it  in  thirty- 
five  minutes.  It  will  throw  a  four-inch 
stream  to  a  height  of  125  feet. 


ConrteBy    of    Burr    McIntoBh    Monthly. 
Copyright,  1904.  by  The  Burr  Mcintosh  Studio. 

motor  is  E.  J.  Armstrong.  His  idea  is 
quite  a  simple  one.  The  plant  contains 
mainly,  two  wells,  a  force  pump,  counter- 
balanced float,  derrick,  pipes  and  5000- 
gallon  tank. 

The  wells  are  sunk,  one  behind  the 
other,  on  the  sheer  cliff,  facing  the  open 
sea,  and  reach  from  thirty-five  feet  above 
high  tide  to  below  low- water  mark.  They 
open  into  the  ocean  at  the  bottom.     In 


On    the    beautiful   Willamette   by   moonliffbt. 


ForlMt  Bobertion,  the  eminent  Enffliah  actor,  as  H  mlet.      His    ma8terl7    interpretation    of    Shakespeare't 
rreateit    character   was   the   paramount   performance    of  the  past  dramatic  season. 


CAMPUS  DAY  has  been  inaugu- 
rated as  the  unique  holiday  of 
the  year  by  the  students  and 
faculty  of  the  University  of 
Washington.  Every  one  who  has 
visited  the  Puget  Sound  region  knows  that 
the  forests  there  are  dark  and  dense  in 
their  almost  tropical  tangles.  The  cam- 
pus of  the  University  of  Washington,  com- 
prising three  hundred  and  fifty-five  acres, 
wholly  within  the  city  limits  of  Seattle,  is 
covered  with  this  same  native  growth  of 
trees  and  shrubs.  Two  lakes — Union  and 
Washington — bound  the  campus  on  the 
south  and  east,  giving  about  a  mile  of 
lake  shore  in  each  case.  The  thick  forest 
growths  approach  to  the  very  edges  of 
these  shores,  making  them  inaccessible, 
except  through  the  construction  of  paths. 
The  land  slopes  from  its  highest  table, 
where  are  located  the  university  buildings, 
by  gentle  grades  to  the  shore  of  Lake 


Union,  and  by  steeper  terraces,  bluffs  and 
ravines  toward  Lake  Washington. 

Such  experts  as  President  David  Starr 
Jordan,  of  Stanford  University,  Professor 
D^Arcy  Thompson,  of  Dundee  University, 
Scotland,  and  Professors  Richard  T.  Ely, 
Frederick  J.  Turner  and  Paul  S.  Reinsch, 
of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  have  vis- 
ited this  particular  campus  in  its  wild 
ruggedness  and  have  pronounced  it  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  locations  for  an  in- 
stitution of  learning  to  be  found  anywhere 
in  the  world.  To  make  some  of  this 
beauty  more  available,  an  appeal  was  made 
to  the  students  and  faculty  to  establish 
a  sort  of  annual  "labor  day,'^  when  every 
man  should  appear  with  an  ax,  pick  or 
shovel,  while  the  women  should  provide 
the  midday  meal.  The  response  was  en- 
thusiastic, and  the  results  of  the  first 
Campus  Day  most  gratifying. 

The  workers  comprised  about  six  hun- 


"CAMPUS  DAY.'' 


139 


dred  men  and  women.  They  were  organ- 
ized into  companies,  properly  oflBcered, 
and  devoted  one  whole  day  to  good,  hard 
labor.  The  faculty  and  graduate  students 
were  called  the  "awkward  squad,'*  which 
was  given  the  hardest  and  least  attractive 
work  of  filling  ditches  and  leveling  ground 
between  the  buildings.  The  Law  School 
men  built  a  path  along  the  shore  of  Lake 
Washington.  Men  of  the  College  of  En- 
gineers built  winding  paths  through  two 
large  ravines.  Other  classes  cleared  land 
and  built  paths  in  various  directions. 
Great  care  was  taken  not  to  mar  in  the 
slightest  the  natural  beauty  of  the  rich 
forest.  The  campus  will  one  day  be  one 
of  the  finest  natural  parks  in  this  part  of 
the  world. 

Probably  the  best  piece  of  work  accom- 
plished was  the  clearing  of  a  natural 
amphitheater    formed    by    a    wide    and 


Cleariav    the    natural    amphitheater,    whioh    wlU 

be  one  of  the  features  of  the  campus  at 

the   XJniTersity   of   Washington. 


Some  of  the  workers  equipped  and  ea^r  for  the  fray. 


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THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Students    of    the    College    of    En^ineen,    ttartinir 
one  of  the  windina:  paths  on  Campus  Day. 


evenly  sloped  ravine.  Without  grading 
and  by  simply  removing  the  trees  and 
undergrowth,  there  was  revealed  a  natural 
auditorium  that  will  accommodate  an 
audience  of  thirty  thousand  people.  The 
back  or  "sounding  wall/'  consists  of  a 
mass  of  interlocking  trees,  such  as  fir, 
hemlock,  cedar,  maple  and  alder.  A 
rough,  temporary  platform  was  built  on 
a  huge  fir  stump.  The  acoustic  proper- 
ties have  surprised  all  who  have  tested 
them.  From  any  place  on  the  wide  sides 
of  the  theater  an  auditor  can  hear  every 
syllable,  even  when  the  speaker  drops  his 
voice  to  a  whisper.  This  splendid  pos- 
session will  be  improved  by  each  succeed- 
ing jimior  class  in  the  College  of  Liberal 
Arts,  and  soon  Greek  plays  will  be  giveji 
a  fine  setting  in  this  beautiful  spot  by  the 
far  Western  sea. 


BEFORE  LOVE  CAME 

Before  Love  came  I  knew  not  sights  nor  sonndSi 
Save  what  had  always  seemed  to  be; 
A  rose  was  but  a  rose— ah,  me!— 
Before  Love  came. 

Before  Love  came  a  bird  was  but  a  bird; 
Now  In  my  soul  an  answering  thrill 
I  feel,  where  erstwhile  all  was  still. 
Before  Love  came. 


Before  Love  came,  dear  heart,  how  poor  I  was! 
The  fragrance  and  the  song  could  give 
No  ecstacy;  I  did  not  live 
Before  Love  came. 

—Marion  Cook  Knight. 


A  TEMPERED  WIND 


Tne  meeting  of  tw^o  'uranderers — tke  exchange  of  confi<leiice8 — a  story  of 
appealing  kuman  interest 

By  C.  E.  AJams 


THE  Flyer  was  an  hour  late.  The 
Great  and  Powerful,  surfeited 
with  attention,  had  closed  the 
window  of  the  ticket  office, 
and  could  be  seen  struggling 
wildly  with  the  telephone.  Hanging  up 
finally  with  a  jerk,  he  came  through  into 
the  waiting  room,  and,  standing  before  the 
billboard,  wrote  rapidly: 

"Flyer  delayed  in  Tacoma  by  slight  ac- 
cident to  machinery.  No  night  boat.  Will 
run  as  usual  to-morrow.'^ 

A  ripple  of  disappointed  comment  ruf- 
fled the  silence  of  the  waiting  crowd. 

People  picked  up  their  bundles  and 
pushed  and  crowded  for  the  door  with  the 
eagerness  of  instant  necessity. 

A  young  mother  carrying  her  child  and 
a  man  in  rain  coat  and  cap  drifted  to- 
gether as  they  neared  the  door.  Standing 
aside  as  she  passed  through,  he  made  an 
awkward  but  earnest  profiEer  of  assistance. 

"Vd  like  to  help  you  over  the  tracks,*' 
he  said.  "You  can^t  carry  the  baby  and 
your  bag,  too.     Excuse  me  for  speakin\^' 

The  sincerity  of  the  offer  was  apparent, 
and  after  a  mementos  hesitation  the  girl 
gave  him  her  bag  and  followed,  as  he  led 
the  way  through  an  open  passage  to  the 
street.     Here  he  paused. 

"Give  me  the  kid.  I  guess  I  can  man- 
age him  all  right.'' 

Before  she  could  remonstrate  he  had 
taken  the  child  from  her  arms  and  started 
across  the  network  of  tracks.'' 

"Keep  close  to  me.  Look  out  there, 
you!" — ^to  a  drayman.  "Now,  we're  all 
right.  Don't  you  see  you  couldn't  never 
have  got  over  here  alone,  with  all  these 
things  screechin'  and  blowin'  and  runnin' 
you  down.  Are  you  goin'  to  Tacoma  to- 
night?" 

"I  must,"  she  said,  eagerly.  'T  guess 
I  can  get  over  on  the  electric  road  pretty 
soon." 

"Thafs  right.  That's  just  how  I'm 
goin'.     The  station's  right  up  here." 

The  little  waiting  room  was  warm  and 


bright,  and  the  girl  gave  a  sigh  of  relief 
as  she  saw  that  it  was  unoccupied.  The 
instinct  of  the  hunted  was  strong  within 
her  these  days. 

The  man  pulled  an  easy  chair  near  the 
stove  and  went  out  to  make  some  inquiries. 
Coming  back  soon,  he  said: 

"I've  been  findin'  out  about  the  trains. 
We've  just  missed  one;  but  there'll  be  an- 
other at  nine.  You  don't  need  to  worry. 
You'll  get  home  to-night  all  right." 

His  allusion  had  evidently  not  been  a 
happy  one,  and  brought  no  cheerfulness 
to  the  tired  face.  Changing  the  subject 
quickly  he  remarked: 

"I  ain't  had  no  dinner,  have  you?" 

She  shook  her  head,  "I  don't  want 
any." 

The  man  looked  at  her  keenly.  'TTou 
ought  to  eat  something.  We  won't  get 
there  till  after  10  o'clock.  I  suppose," 
hesitating,  "you  wouldn't  feel  like  com- 
ing out  to  get  anything?" 

She  shook  her  head  again.  Evidently 
she  was  trying  to  sift  his  motives,  and  out 
of  the  poverty  of  her  experience  could  find 
no  satisfactory  explanation  for  his  con- 
tinued interest. 

The  man  slowly  buttoned  up  his  rain 
coat,  and,  pushing  back  his  cap,  stood  look- 
ing down  on  her  with  a  quizzical  expres- 
sion on  his  strong  face. 

"It's  just  come  to  me,"  he  said,  "that 
like  as  not  that  hat  and  coat  of  mine  was 
influencin'  you  some  about  dinner."  His 
eyes  twinkled  and  the  girl  smiled  invol- 
untarily. "If  my  other  hat  and  coat 
wasn't  in  Tacoma  I'd  put  'em  on  if  it 
would  make  you  feel  any  better  about  this 
eatJn'  business." 

"Oh,  no.  I  don't  mind  that,  but—" 
The  man  filled  up  the  pause. 

'TTou  see,  it's  like  this:  I'm  just  get- 
tin'  home  after  twelve  months  in  a  mighty 
dry  old  country.  I  ain't  seen  a  decent 
mist  nor  drizzlie  since  I've  been  gone.  I 
ain't  tasted  fog  like  this  for  a  year.  Seems 
like  I  could  just  slice  it  off  and  eat  it. 


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THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


"I^m  used  to  livin'  up  in  the  woods 
where  things  is  green  and  shinin^  all  win- 
ter long  on  account  of  the  damp^  and  Vyb 
wore  these  kind  of  clothes  right  along. 
This  morning,  when  I  struck  the  town, 
and  see  the  fog  lyin^  low  on  the  Sound,  I 
felt  like  I  was  back  in  God's  own  country, 
an'  I  went  right  out  and  bought  me  this 
slicker  and  cap.'' 

The  girl  smiled  again,  looking  up  at 
the  man  with  new  interest.  Some  feeling 
of  fellowship  had  been  established  between 
them. 

"I  like  the  fog,  too,"  she  said.  "It 
seems  to  wrap  you  up  and  take  care  of 
you."  She  stopped  abruptly,  shunning 
the  revelation  which  the  words  implied. 

The  man  took  up  the  conversation. 

"Been  livin'  long  on  the  Sound?" 

She  dropped  her  eyes.  "No ;  my  home 
was  on  the  other  side  of  the  mountains. 
We  came  out  from  Kansas  after  my 
mother  died,  about  six  years  ago." 

The  man  leaned  forward,  quickly  recog- 
nizing, but  apparently  ignoring  the  subtle 
betrayal  of  her  words.  "Kansas!  Why, 
that's  where  I  just  come  from,  where  I 
M'as  born  and  brought  up.  I  thought 
there  wasn't  nothing  like  it  till  I  come  out 
here." 

■Phey  talked  for  a  little,  finding  some 
common  interests  in  the  section  and  the 
prairie  life  to  which  both  had  been  bom. 
He  saw  that  she  was  weary,  and,  finally 
glancing  at  the  clock,  he  pulled  up  the 
collar  of  his  slicker,  still  stiffly  creased 
In  its  store  folds. 

*TVell,  if  you  won't  come  I'm  goin'  to 
get  my  dinner  and  bring  you  something 
in.  And  before  she  could  reply  he  had 
opened  the  door  and  was  gone.  Left  to 
herself,  she  cared  for  the  child,  and  then 
leaned  back  in  her  chair  with  closed  eyes. 

The  man,  coming  quietly  in  with  the 
tray  of  food,  stopped  for  a  minute  within 
the  door.  The  girl's  hat  had  slipped  back, 
making  a  dark  background  for  the  fair 
liair  and  weary,  childish  face.  One  hand 
rested  on  the  little  bundle  by  her  side ;  the 
other  hung  listlessly  over  the  arm  of  the 
chair.  As  he  waited,  the  fragrance  of  the 
coffee  smote  upon  her  half -conscious  sense, 
and  she  sat  up  quickly,  with  words  of 
thanks.  A  warm  glow  crept  over  her  face 
as  she  ate  and  drank,  the  man,  meanwhile, 
matching  with  friendly  eyes. 


"I  knew  what  you  need  better  than 
you,"  he  said,  quietly. 

By  the  time  she  had  finished  her  lunch 
other  travelers  began  to  appear,  and  when 
he  went  away  with  the  tray  a  woman  sit- 
ting near  inquired  if  he  were  a  lumber- 
man. The  girl  hesitated  in  some  little 
confusion  before  replying,  "I  think  so. 
He  is  a  stranger  to  me." 

The  woman  looked  surprised,  turning  to 
speak  in  a  low  voice  to  her  companion. 
The  girl  shivered,  drawing  her  wrap  closer. 

The  train  was  ready  when  he  returned. 
He  took  the  child  this  time  as  a  matter 
of  course,  leading  the  way  to  the  car  and 
arranging  a  place  for  their  comfort. 

She  saw  that  he  seated  himself  directly 
behind  her,  watching  every  motion  as  she 
took  off  her  wrap,  folding  it  to  make  a 
bed  for  the  child.  The  train  under  way, 
they  passed  through  brilliantly  lighted 
streets,  then  over  the  trestles  of  the  bay, 
and,  fiiially,  with  greater  speed,  out  into 
the  more  open  country  beyond. 

The  girl  sat  looking  from  the  window, 
filled  with  a  sweet  sense  of  security  and 
peace.  The  child  stirred  and  crie^  and 
she  took  it  up,  resting  its  soft  face  against 
her  cheek.  In  the  front  of  the  car,  a 
woman  had  turned  in  her  seat  and  was 
watching  them  curiously.  It  was  the 
same  who  had  spoken  in  the  station. 

The  girl's  mood  changed.  She  felt 
again  the  darkness  and  despair  of  that 
near  past,  in  the  shadow  of  which  she 
must  ever  walk. 

The  matron — ^kind  friend,  good  woman 
— ^had  kissed  her  last  week,  giving 
words  of  strength  and  comfort.  ^TTou  are 
a  good  girl,  Mary,  a  good  girl ;  I  know  it. 
If  they  won't  let  you  keep  baby,  come 
back.''  And  she  was  going  back.  There 
was  nothing  else  to  do.  She  could  not 
be  separated  from  the  child.  She  would 
try  another  place;  but  in  all  the  world 
there  seemed  to  be  no — 

The  car  stopped  suddenly.  The  con- 
ductor went  forward,  swinging  his  lantern 
out  into  the  darkness.  In  a  few  minutes 
he  came  back.  "There's  been  a  landslide 
'round  the  next  curve.  We  won't  get 
through  for  several  hours.  Any  wanting 
to  return  to  Seattle,  please  take  the  rear 
car.  Passengers  desiring  to  wait,  can  re- 
main in  this  car.  If  they  don't  clear  the 
slide  by  morning,  a  train  will  be  sent  from 
Taconia  to  connect." 


A  TEMPERED  WIND. 


143 


The  man  leaned  over,  speaking  reassur- 
ingly. *'It  looks  like  Seattle  was  bound 
to  keep  Tacoma  out  of  the  game.  I  ain^t 
kicking,  but  it  seems  like  it^s  hard  on  you. 
If  you  want  to  go  back — ^^  ^^Oh,  no,''  she 
said.  "I  couldn't  go  back.  I'll  wait  in 
the  car  here." 

The  man  nodded.  "That's  right.  I'm 
goin'  to  stay  right  by  it  myself." 

The  passengers  filed  out  of  the  car, 
dropping  complaints  and  anathemas  by 
the  way. 

The  conductor  came  to  the  door  again. 
'TTou're  goin'  to  stay  by  it?  All  right. 
I'm  going  up  the  track  now  to  see  what 
I  can  do.  I'll  let  you  know  later  how 
things  look.  He  closed  the  door,  and  the 
rear  car  slid  away  into  the  darlmess. 

As  the  sound  of  the  retreating  wheels 
died  away,  the  girl  spoke,  with  a  shadow 
on  her  face. 

"Perhaps  I  ought  to  have  gone  back  any 
way,  but  there  wasn't  any  place — " 

The  man  interrupted  her.  "You  done 
just  right.  You  don't  need  to  worry  any. 
You  can  rest  right  here.  I'm  goin'  out 
to  smoke  pretty  quick." 

He  saw  that  she  was  comfortable,  in- 
sisting that  she  get  out  a  shawl  which  she 
said  she  had  in  her  bag. 

"I'm  goin'  now,  but  I'll  be  near  if  you 
want  me.  She  slept  a  little,  waking  now 
and  then  to  listen  for  the  sound  of  the 
footsteps  beside  the  car.  Sometimes  she 
could  see  the  light  of  his  pipe,  a  glow 
worm  in  the  darkness. 

It  was  early  morning  when  he  came  in, 
strong  and  fresh,  with  the  drip  of  the  mist 
on  slicker  and  cap. 

"Don't  you  get  tired  walking  like  that  ?" 
she  asked.  He  laughed.  "I'm  just  get- 
ting rested.  I  don't  ask  nothin'  better 
of  weather  than  this." 

He  left  his  damp  coat  and  cap  in  the 
front  of  the  car,  and  sat  down  behind  her, 
leaning  over  to  look  at  the  child. 

"Ain't  he  slept  too  long?"  She  shook 
her  head,  smiling. 

"I  don't  know  much  about  'em,"  he 
said,  "never  havin'  any  of  my  own.  No, 
I'm  not  married."    He  laughed  a  little. 

"When  I  told  my  partner  good-bye, 
goin'  East,  I  told  him  I  might  likely  bring 
back  a  wife;  but  when  I  got  there  I 
didn't  seem  to  find  none  that  just  fit  my 
case,  and  the  longer  I  stayed  the  more 
company  I  seemed  to  be  for  myself.     I 


ain't  got  no  near  relatives  back  there  now, 
an'  so  about  f  aU  it  run  strong  in  my  veins 
to  get  back  to  the  Sound.  Sleepin'  or 
walan'  the  mountains  kept  callin',  and  it 
seemed  like  I  couldn't  stand  it  if  I  didn't 
get  way  up  on  top  of  something  and  look 
off.  So  yesterday  I  got  back  just  the 
same  as  I  went,  and  then  last  night" — 
his  voice  shook  a  little,  but  he  went  on — 
"when  I  come  into  the  waiting  room  and 
see  you  settin'  there  with  the  child,  some- 
thin'  begin  to  work  in  me  new  like,  and 
big  and  strange.  I've  been  thinkin'  out 
there  what's  it's  like.  Before  now  I've  been 
goin'  through  the  woods,  mile  after  mile, 
just  the  same,  and  all  at  once  there'd  be  a 
clearin',  an'  a  stretch  of  blue  sky  and 
mountains,  big  and  white  and  shinin*. 
reachin'  up  to  heaven  itself.  And  the 
almightiness  of  it  all'd  get  into  me,  makin' 
me  feel  littler  than  little,  because  I 
couldn't  hold  no  more. 

"Do  you  see  where  them  blue  hills  is 
showin'  through  the  clouds?  Me  and  my 
partner's  claims  right  on  top  of  that 
lowest  range.  I  built  my  house  on  the 
edge  of  the  bluff,  an'  you  can  sit  on  the 
porch  and  hear  the  river  singin'  and  talk- 
in'  down  below.  When  it's  clear,  you  can 
see  way  off  to  the  Sound,  and  when  iti* 
misty,  the  valley's  like  fl  big  blue  sea,  and 
the  mountains  shinin'  on  the  shore. 
There's  a  lumber  mill  and  a  good  road 
down  to  the  line,  and  everything  is  goin' 
our  way.  I  don't  know  what's  happened 
since  I  left,  for  I  ain't  no  hand  to  write, 
nor  my  partner,  neither;  but  I  know  him 
all  right." 

"Now  you  just  keep  watchin'  the  clouds 
over  there,  fioatin'  and  shiftin',  an'  pretty 
soon  Mount  Tacoma's  goin'  to  tell  you 
good  morning.  I  don't  want  you  to  do 
iio  talkin'  till  I  get  done.  I've  been  read- 
in'  your  story  right  along  in  your  face, 
an'  in  your  ways  to  me  an'  to  the  child. 
Nobody  can't  tell  me  different.  I  know 
you're  a  good  woman." 

She  put  up  her  hand,  and  he  knew  that 
she  was  crying. 

"Things  has  been  workin'  in  me,  tramp- 
in'  up  and  down  out  there.  If  I'm  not 
mistaken,  you  understand  what  I'm  think- 
in'  and  feelin'.  A  voice  is  tellin'  you  and 
me  the  same  things,  an'  if  you'U  just  listen 
an'  give  it  time,  it'll  speak  clear  and  sweet 
to  you  like  it  has  to  me." 

"I  ain't  done  yet.     See,  the  mountains 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


all  white  and  pure,  and  the  red's  creepin' 
up  behind  it. 

'Tf  ow,  I^m  goin*  on.  In  Tacoma  there's 
a  good  man  I  know,  a  preacher.  He's 
be^  up  in  the  woods.  He  knows  me  and 
he'll  do  everything  all  right,  and  to-mor- 
row night,  after  we  get  home,  the  pine 
logs'U  be  glowin'  on  the  hearth  and  you'll 
be  rockin'  the  child  to  sleep  in  the  fire- 
light, and  my  partner'll  be  comin'  in  glad 
to  see  me  and  my  wife  from  Kansas — ^an' 
— ^my  child.  There  ain't  no  neighbors, 
but  some  wouldn't  mind  that  if  they 
wanted  to  be  quiet  and  liked  to  keep  com- 
pany with  the  mountains  an'  trees." 

She  stopped  him  now.  "I  do  under- 
stand. The  voice  has  been  speaking  to 
me,  too,  about  you.  But  I  must  tell  you 
bec^AUse  you  are  asking  me  to  be  your  wife. 
You  must  let  me  tell  you." 

The  man  dropped  his  head  on  the  back 
of  the  seat.  She  should  stand  at  the  bar 
of  no  justice  but  that  of  love. 


It  was  a  pitiful  story  of  trust  and  de- 
ception. 

"I  can't  say  anything  good  for  myself; 
but  the  matron  does.  She  says,"  and  her 
voice  thrilled  with  the  joy  of  it.  "She 
says  I  am  a  good  girl." 

The  man  raised  his  head,  reaching  over 
for  the  little  hand,  still  wet  with  the  tears 
of  confession. 

"You  are  that.     I  ain't  nothin'  like  so 

good.     I  wisht  I'd  been  better — for  you." 
****** 

The  conductor  threw  open  the  door  with 
a  bang. 

"They  won't  get  through  the  slide  be- 
fore noon;  but  there's  a  train  from  Ta- 
coma up  the  track.  You've  had  a  long 
wait.  You  must  be  tired.  It  isn't  so 
bad,  though,  being  all  together." 

Outside  the  car  the  man  held  the  child 
easily  in  the  curve  of  his  arm,  and  taking 
the  girl's  hand  led  her  steadily  on  into  the 
sunshine  of  a  new  day. 


A  view  of  the  Willamette  River  near  Portland,  Oreffon.  Photo  by  H.  M.  Stnilh.     J 


THE  CITY  BOYS'  SWIMMING  HOLE 

Tbe  PuUic  Batks  tliat  are  ike  Jeli^kt  of  tbe  ampkibious 
boy  aunn^  the  summer  months 

By  E.  J.  Bloom 


U^m^^Mi 


%^    't*- 


1 


All   ready   to   plunge    into   the    cool   water. 


FOETUNATE  is  the  man  whose 
boyhood  was  spent  in  the  coun- 
try. His  memory  is  a  never- 
failing  storehouse  upon  which 
he  can  make  generous  draughts 
to  soothe  the  careworn  years  of  his  man- 
liood.  Well  he  remembers  the  midsum- 
mer days,  when,  at  stem,  parentc^l  com- 
mand, he  "wed''  the  garden,  the  hot  sun 
burning  his  back,  his  thoughts  up.oi  the 
angle  of  the  creek  where  the  '^swimmin' 
liole''  invited,  with  its  screen  of  willows 
and  its  stretch  of  cool  sand-  Again  he 
sees  the  familiar  hand  through  the  back- 
yard fence,  with  two  fingers  extended  and 
slightly  parted;  again  he  dives  for  the 
place  where*  the  palings  are  loose,  and, 
Tisking  a  licking,  sneaks  through  the  alley 
■to  join  the  gang  bound  for  the  ^Tiole." 


Now,  as  then,  the  country  boy  has  the 
advantage.  He  still  finds  his  way  to  the 
old  mill  pond,  or  the  pool  down  by  the 
big  clump  of  willows ;  but  for  the  city  boy 
much  has  been  done  to  overcome  the  hand- 
icaps of  his  habitation.  The  munici- 
pal government,  forgetful  of  its  boyhood 
days,  no  longer  permits  indiscriminate 
swimming  along  the  banks  of  the  river; 
but  generous  men,  who  are  mindful  that 
they,  too,  were  once  boys,  have  contributed 
to  the  erection  of  free  swimimng  tanks, 
where  the  amphibious  boy  mav  find  every 
opportunity  to  follow  out  his  inborn  ten- 
dencies. In  one  of  the  larger  cities  of 
the  Northwest  this  has  been  done,  and 
has  been  attended  with  splendid  results. 
Not  only  has  a  means  of  healthful  and 
innocent  amusement  been  provided,  but 


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THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY, 


■ 

« 

i 

'■4i 

Hpgti«»"^v  ^LJrCaiJK'W^'? ,  ^g:k1■^ 

-El 

A  hot  and  dirty  crowd,   awaiting   tho  openinir  of  the  baths. 


the  death  rate  among  youngsters  learning 
to  swim  has  been  greatly  reduced.  Thi« 
is  proven  by  the  fact  that"  prior  to  the 
establishment  of  the  public  baths  the  an- 
nual loss  was  from  twenty-five  to  fifty 
lives,  while  since,  the  number  has  fallen 
almost  to  zero. 

These  baths  are  well  equipped  for  the 
purpose,  and  since  being  opened  there  had 
been  practically  no  desire  manifested  on 


the  part  of  the  boys  to  return  to  the  old 
plan.  Here,  with  a  tank  thirty-five  feet 
wide  and  a  hundred  feet  long,  and  a  grad- 
uated depth  of  from  eighteen  inches  to 
ten  feet,  they  can  disport  themselves  to 
their  hearts'  content. 

The  tank  itself  is  wholly  made  up  of 
slats,  four  inches  in  width,  placed  about 
an  inch  apart  on  the  bottom  and  about 
two  inches  apart  on  the  sides,  and  allows 


It  would 


as  if  water  were   the  natural  element  of  the  boy. 


THE   CITY   BOYS'   SWIMMING    HOLE. 


147 


In  they  ro»  feet  first,  head  first,  splashing  and  playing  like  a  sohod  of  porpoises. 


a  constant  change  of  water  of  the  same 
temperature  as  other  parts  of  the  stream. 
The  tank  is  surrounded  by  four  pontoons, 
on  which  dressing  rooms  and  instructors 
quarters  are  located.  These  pontoons  are 
of  sufficient,  width  so  that  plenty  of  room 


is   left   for   a   runway,   springboard   and 
other  diving  contrivances. 

The  greatest  number  the  baths  have 
ever  acconmiodated  in  one  day  was  2,500. 
of  which  1,800  were  boys.  During  one 
season  over  a  thousand  boys  learned  to 


Here   the   little   boys   disport   themseWes    in    a   shallow  corner  of  the  tank. 


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swim  here,  and  without  a  single  serious 
accident. 

On  a  warm  day,  the  baths  are  packed 
to  suffocation.  Boys  of  all  shades  of  color, 
and  all  conditions  of  life,  meet  here  on 
one  common  plane. 

The  greatest  number  the  baths  have 
ever  accommodated  in  one  day  was 
twenty-five  hundred,  of  which  eighteen 
hundred  were  boys.  During  one  season 
over  a  thousand  boys  learned  to  swim 
here,  and  without  a  single  serious  acci- 
dent. 

The  clang  of  the  big  gong  outside  the 
instructor's  quarters  marks  the  close  of 
the  swimming  period,  and  then  the  boys 


all  scamper  for  their  dressing  rooms  to 
get  ready  for  the  street.  Handling  such 
large  crowds  of  boys  requires  perfect  and 
unflinching  discipline,  and  the  commands 
of  the  instructors  are  so  well  heeded  that 
it  hardly  ever  requires  more  than  thirty 
seconds  in  which  to  clear  the  whole  tank. 
Ten  minutes  later  they  are  on  the  street, 
very  wet  as  to  hair,  and  going  througli 
strange  contortions  to  remove  the  water 
from  their  ears — ^the  rule  being  to  kick 
the  foot  on  the  other  side.  Their  whole- 
hearted laughter,  their  bright  eyes  and 
clear  skin  are  evidence  enough  that  the 
city  boys'  swimming  hole  is  an  invaluable 
and  much  appreciated  institution. 


Leaving  the  bathi — a  cooler,  oleaner  and  happier  lot  of  bo7s. 


AWAKE 

Oh  prisoned  souls,  in  slumberous  fetters  lying, 

Who  scarcely  dream,  so  strong  the  chains  of  sleep, 

Awake!  Awake!  Your  own  soul-pinions  trying. 
Shake  off  your  slumber  deep. 

The  power  within  yon  lies.    Arouse  to  action. 
And  seek  the  love  and  wisdom  hid  therein; 

TiU  from  the  great  AU-source,  with  sore  attraction, 
Comes  that  which  yon  would  win. 

For  soul  can  role;  and  there  is  naught  above  it 
That  may  its  growth  and  progress  disallow. 

Oh  seek  within  it  for  the  power  yon  covet. 
And  claim  it,  here  and  now! 

—Florence  May  Wright. 


THE  BUCKET  TRAMWAY 

An  ingenious  contrivance  used  hy  tke  farmers  of  tkc  Palouse  country  to  tran^ort 
tkeir  pro<luctj;  from  ttc  uplands  to  tlie  river 

By  George  M,  Gage 


Oeneral  view  from  the  upper  terminal  of  the  Intextor  Warehouse  Company't  tramway,  Wawawai,  thow- 
tng  Snake  River  and  the  famous  840-acre  orchard  of  Wm.    La   FoUette. 

Photo   by   Hudson. 


THE  grain  tramwa3{  of  the  In- 
terior Warehouse  Company,  at 
Wawawai,  Whitman  County, 
Washington,  was  built  in  1901, 
for  conveying  grain  from  the 
wheat  lands  tributary  to  the  Snake  Eiver 
bluffs  over  the  face  of  the  bluff  to  the 
steamboat  landing  on  the  river.  The  ele- 
vation of  the  upper  warehouse  is  1,700 
feet  above  the  river,  and  the  distance  be- 
tween the  two  houses  is  about  5,150  feet, 
making  an  endless  cable  nearly  two  miles 
in  length. 

The  upper  terminal  of  this  tramway  is 
a  large  cast-iron  wheel,  eight  feet  in  diam- 


eter, supplied  with  a  patent  rachet  grip 
that  the  cable  passes  through,  and  a 
smooth,  band-iron  grip  brake  for  regulat- 
ing the  speed  of  the  cable.  The  lower 
terminal  is  constructed  in  the  same  man- 
ner. The  farmers  deliver  their  grain  to 
the  warehouse  at  the  upper  terminal,  and 
the  sacks  are  placed  on  the  carriers  and 
lowered  on  the  cable  to  the  house  on  the 
river. 

The  cable  is  run  on  a  gravity  basis,  the 
loaded  carriers  pulling  up  the  empty  ones. 
The  lower  terminal  is  in  the  tower  of  a 
large  warehouse  at  the  foot  of  the  bluff, 
and  grain  is  conveyed  in  chutes  from  this 


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tower,  either  to  dif- 
ferent sections  of 
the  warehouse  or  to 
the  steamboats,  as 
the  case  may  be. 

When  working  at 
full  capacity,  ten 
hours  per  day,  this 
tramway  puts  down 
200  tons  of  wheat. 
Regarding  distance 
that  grain  is  drawn 
to  it,  it  may  be  said 
that  practically  all 
of  the  grain  in  a 
territory  extending 
five  miles  out  in 
three  different  di- 
rections from  the 
upper  terminal  is 
taken  care  of  by  it. 
The      carriers      on 

this  cable  are  about  80  feet  apart.  There 
are  128  carriers  on  the  cable,  so  that  64 
are  going  down  loaded,  while  64  are  going 
up  empty. 

This  tramway  has  proved  a  great  suc- 
cess, and  saves  the  farmers  a  haul  of  from 


Scene  on  the  bloffg  of  the  Ba&ke  River,   Bhowiny  the  oarrjin^  towers 
and  buckets— one  ascending*  one  desoendinc— of  the  tramway. 

Photo  bj   Hadson. 

10  to  15  miles  over  a  rolling  country  to 
the  nearest  railroad  station.  There  are 
about  50,000  sacks  of  wheat  put  down  to 
the  river  landing  over  this  tramway  each 
season. 

When  the  government  shall  have,  given 
to  the  Upper  Colum- 
bia an  unobstructed 
passage  for  steamers, 
and  when  irrigation 
shall  have  trans- 
formed the  arid  and 
semi-arid  lands  lying 
adjacent  to  it  and  its 
tributaries  into  pro- 
ductive fields,  there 
will  be  needed  many 
and  many  a  tramway 
to  carry  to  the  river 
and  the  railroad  by  its 
side,  the  fruits  and 
grains  which  will  be 
grown  by  the  thrifty 
farmers  who  will  own 
and  cultivate  the 
country  reclaimed  and 
made  fit  for  homes  of 
thousands    of    peoplo. 


"The  man  at  the  brake" — scene  in  the  upper  terminal  of  the  tramway. 

Photo  by   Hudson. 


THE  DEACONS  DILEMMA 


A  remarkable  tale  of  trampfl  and  trousers — tbe  confusion  of  tke  Deacon- 

tlie  explanation 

By  Erakine  M.   Hamilton 


DEACON  Tracy  had  gone  out 
to  the  bam  to  look  after  his 
horses,  not  for  eggs,  and  when, 
in  an  unfortunate  slip  from 
the  hay  loft,  he  sat  down  in  a 
nest  full  of  them,  the  incident  made  him 
unhappy.  He  knew  that  eggs  were  made 
to  be  sat  on — ^by  hens — but  when  the  task 
was  undertaken  by  a  respectable,  middle- 
aged  gentleman  lie  himself,  it  was  a  la- 
mentable failure.  He  viewed  the  yellow 
blotch  on  his  Sunday  drab  trousers,  and 
gave  utterance  to  a  few  remarks.  No 
matter  what  he  said.  It  was  not  precisely 
the  same  speech  he  would  have  made  at 
a  Sunday-school  convention.  He  removed 
the  egg  marks  as  best  he  could  with  whisps 
of  straw,  and  then  went  into  the  house  for 
further  repairs  from  Mrs.  Tracy.  It  was 
a  Fourth  of  July  morning,  and  he  found 
his  wife  very  busy  in  getting  ready  for  a 
church  picnic. 

"Well,  I^m  glad  youVe  come  in,''  she 
remarked.  "I^m  in  an  awfid  hurry,  and 
I —  Why,  Silas  Tracy!  What  have  you 
been  doing  to  yourself  ?^^ 

^T!'ve  been  sitting  on  eggs,^^  replied  the 
deacon,  solemnly. 

"Sitting  on  eggs  ?  Well,  I  should  think 
you  were  old  enough  to  know  better.  Now 
go  upstairs  and  put  on  some  other  clothes 
as  quick  as  you  can,  for  we  must  be  go- 
ing/' 

The  deacon  disappeared  up  the  stair- 
way, and  presently  returned,  arrayed  in  a 
suit  of  black.  The  carriage  was  soon  at 
the  door,  and  the  family  started  for  the 
picnic  grounds,  leaving  tiie  farmhouse  de- 
serted and  alone  for  the  day. 

Near  the  hour  of  noon  two  ragged, 
dusty  wayfarers  came  plodding  lazily 
along  the  public  highway.  As  they  came 
opposite  the  Tracy  homestead  they  paused 
and  looked  in  that  direction.  They  were 
hungry,  and  the  farmhouse,  standing  back 
from  the  road,  in  the  shade  of  the  trees, 
looked  inviting,  and  suggested  possible 
refreshment.     After  a  moment^s   discus- 


sion they  turned  down  the  lane  to  the 
back  of  the  house,  and  stopped  at  the 
kitchen  door.  One  of  them,  evidently  an 
Irishman,  approached  and  rapped.  There 
was  no  reply,  and  he  rapped  again.  No 
answer  came,  and  all  was  silent  within  the 
house. 

"Whist,  Dan,  I'm  thinkin'  theyVe  heard 
we  was  comin'  to  see  'em,  an'  have  jist  left 
on  that  account." 

"Oh,  come  on,"  growled  Dan.  "There's 
nobody  at  home,  an'  we  can't  get  nothin' 
to  eat  here." 

"Indade,  an'  I'll  look  about  a  bit  first," 
persisted  the  other.  "Me  own  mother  used 
to  say  to  me :  ^Mike,  me  boy,  ye'U  find  a 
fortin  some  day,'  an'  now  I've  found  it  I'll 
step  into  it." 

Without  further  words  Mike  began  to 
try  the  various  windows.  He  soon  discov- 
ered one  which  had  been  left  unfastened, 
and  entered  the  house.  A  moment  later 
he  threw  open  the  kitchen  door  with  a 
polite  bow. 

"Come  in,  Mishtur  Burk,"  he  said.  "Me 
family,  as  ye  can  see,  have  gone  off  to 
spind  the  Fourt',  an'  have  left  me  to  en- 
thertain  gintlemin  like  yersilf.  Come  in, 
and  whativer  ye  sees  that  ye  like,  jist  take 
it.     I'm  that  ginerous  wid  me  friends." 

Dan  accepted  the  proffered  hospitality 
with  a  grim  smile,  and  the  two  speedily 
made  themselves  at  home.  Mike  made  a 
fire  in  the  kitchen  stove,  and  soon  had  the 
teakettle  sending  forth  jets  of  steam,  while 
Dan  went  through  pantry  and  cellar  for 
provisions.  The  table  was  spread  with 
Mrs.  Tracy's  best  linen,  and  china  from 
the  closet,  and  our  wanderers  sat  down  to 
a  sumptuous  repast.  Neither  time  nor 
expense  did  they  spare  in  the  banquet,  and 
they  enjoyed  it  in  luxurious  silence. 

"Well,"  said  Mike,  leaning  back  in  his 
chair  after  eating  all  he  could  swallow, 
"it's  mesilf  that's  glad  of  yer  company, 
Mishtur  Burk,  an'  I  hope  ye'U  always 
have  plinty  to  ate  an'  to  wear.  An'  that 
makes  me  think,"  glancing  down  at  his 


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own  ragged  apparel,  "that  I^m  not  drissed 
as  a  gintleman  should  be  whin  his  friends 
call  to  see  him.  So,  if  ye'U  excuse  me,  Fll 
jist  step  up  the  stairs  an'  see  if  me  driss 
suit  is  anywhere  thereabouts.'* 

Without  further  words  he  ascended  the 
stairway.  He  was  gone  but  a  short  time, 
and  when  he  came  back  he  was  clothed  in 
a  blue  coat  and  vest,  and  drab  trousers — 
the  suit  Deacon  Tracy  had  taken  oflf. 

*^  'Tis  a  fine  fit,  indade !"  he  said,  sur- 
veying himself  in  a  mirror.  "Me  tailor 
be  a  good  one.  But  I  see  there's  some 
yellow  paint  on  me  trousers,  or  ilse  a  yel- 
low dog  has  rubbed  ag'in  'em  while  he 
was  wet." 

Dan  smiled  indulgently  at  his  whimsical 
friend,  and  then  remarked  gruffly : 

"We'd  better  git  out  o'  here,  or  the 
coves  what  own  this  place'U  come  back  an' 
find  us." 

Mike  made  no  objection,  and  after  clos- 
ing door  and  window  the  two  set  forth 
once  more  on  their  travels. 

Meanwhile,  ignorant  of  the  unusual  fes- 
tivity going  on  at  their  home,  the  Tracy 
family  were  having  a  pleasant  time  at  the 
picnic.  Here  they  met  many  of  their 
neighbors  and  church  acquaintances.  The 
place  was  a  grove,  on  the  bank  of  a  small 
river,  and  bw^at-riding,  fishing  and  other 
amusements  were  indulged  in  by  the 
young  people,  while  the  older  ones  sat 
under  the  trees  and  talked.  About  the 
middle  of  the  afternoon  Johnny  and  Wil- 
lie Tracy  approached  their  father. 

"Say,  pa,  won't  you  take  us  in  swim- 
ming? You  said  you  would  the  first 
good  chance." 

The  Deacon  had  often  spoken  of  what 
a  wonderful  swimmer  he  was  in  his 
younger  days,  and  he  had,  indeed,  prom- 
ised his  boys  to  give  them  a  few  lessons 
when  opportunity  came.  The  opportunity 
was  here,  and  there  was  no  good  reason 
why  he  should  refuse.  Accordingly  the 
three  started  off  down  the  river  to  find  a 
suitable  place.  They  soon  reached  a  spot 
remote  from  the  picnic  grounds,  and  free 
from  probable  interruption  or  observation. 
A  large,  dense  clump  of  willows,  near  the 
river's  bank,  afforded  a  secluded  place  for 
disrobing,  and  in  a  few  minutes  the  little 
party  were  in  the  water,  enjoying  them- 
selves to  their  hearts'  content. 

A  short  distance  from  the  river,  and 
beyond  the  clump  of  willows,  was  a  coun- 


try road,  and  down  this  road  came  two 
figures,  one  clad  in  blue  coat  and  buff 
trousers.  Mike  was  in  advance,  discours- 
ing volubly,  while  Dan  walked  silently 
behind.  As  they  drew  near  the  clump  of 
willows  the  shouts  and  laughter  on  the 
other  side  attracted  Mike's  attention,  and 
he  stopped  suddenly  to  listen. 

"An'  what  be  goin'  on  over  there,  be- 
yant?"  he  questioned. 

**0h,  come  on,"  growled  Dan.  ^TTe're 
always  a-stoppin'  about  nothin'. " 

'Indade,  an'  I'll  see  about  this  first 
Wasn't  it  me  own  mother  as  used  to  say 
to  me,  'Mike,  me  b'y,  it's  the  bird  that's 
huntin'  that  finds  the  worm,  an'  if  ye 
wants  good  luck,  ye  must  look  for  it'." 

"Oh,  bother  take  yer  mother!  Come 
on !"  urged  Dan. 

"Niver  ye  mind,  Mishtur  Burk.  If  ye 
had  respicted  yer  mother  whin  ye  was 
young,  ye'd  a  been  as  dacint  a  man  as 
mesilf.  But  ye  wasn't  brought  up  right, 
an'  has  no  sinse  to  obsarve  whaf  s  goin'  on 
about  ye." 

As  -he  spoke,  the  persistent  Mike  left 
the  road,  and  pushed  his  way  through  the 
willows,  while  Dan  reluctantly  followed. 
They  soon  discovered  the  group  in  the 
water,  and  were  about  to  retrace  their 
steps,  when  Mike's  keen  eye  saw  the  cloth- 
ing in  the  bushes. 

"Did  ye  iver  see  such  luck?"  he  whis- 
pered exultantly.  "I  was  thinkin'  the 
way  over  here  that  thim  yellow  marks 
on  me  trousers  wus  not  lookin'  nice,  an* 
the  gintleman  I  borrowed  'em  from  might 
know  'em  by  that  same.  An'  here  the 
saints  have  put  a  fine  black  suit  right 
under  me  nose.  As  me  mother  used  to 
say"— 

"What  in  blazes  do  I  care  what  yer 
mother  said?"  interrupted  Dan,  savage- 
ly. "Let  the  clothes  alone,  an'  come  on, 
or  them  coves  in  the  river  will  be  back 
here,  an'  we'll  have  no  end  of  bother." 

"Be  aisy,  an'  presarve  yer  timper, 
Mishtur  Burk,"  answered  Mike  compos- 
edly. "An'  didn't  me  own  mother  used 
to  say  to  me:  'Mike,  me  b'y,  if  ye'U 
kape  a  clane  skin  on  yer  body,  an'  clane 
duds  on  yer  back,  ye'U  niver  die  in  the 
poorhouse." 

In  vain  did  Dan  protest.  His  objec- 
tions were  of  no  avail,  and  even  while  he 
was  talking  Mike  deftly  made  the  ex- 
change. 


THE  DEACON'S  DILEMMA. 


153 


'TBegorra,  Fm  honest,  onyhow/'  said 
the  latter,  as  they  reached  the  road  once 
more.  "Me  own  mother  used  to  say  to 
me:  ^Mike,  me  b'y,  whativer  ye  does,  be 
honest.'  ^An'  I  jist  took  the  things  I 
found  in  these  pockets  an'  put  'em  in  the 
pockets  of  the  suit  I  left  behind.  Let 
this  be  a  lesson  to  ye,  Mishtur  Burk.  Hon- 
esty is  always  the  best  policy." 

There  was  no  reply  to  this  homily,  and 
the  two  resumed  their  aimless  wandering 
— Dan  in  moody  silence,  and  Mike  happy 
in  the  possession  of  a  full  stomach,  a  good 
suit  of  clothes,  and  a  clear  conscience. 

That  Deacon  Tracy  and  his  boys  had 
a  good  time  in  the  river  goes  without 
question.  The  boys  were  overflowing  with 
exuberant  delight,  and  the  Deacon  forgot 
himself  and  became  a  boy  once  more.  But 
seasons  of  enjoyment,  like  other  things, 
can  not  last  forever,  and  the  little  party 
regretfully  left  the  water  to  resume  their 
clothing  and  return  to  the  picnic  grounds. 

^T'P'ell,  this  has  been  a  tip-top  good 
time,"  said  the  Deacon,  as  they  entered 
the  clump  of  willows.  "I'm  real  glad 
you  boys  thought  about  it.  A  swim  like 
that  makes  me  feel  young  again,  and  T — 
Hello!   What  in  the  world  is  this?" 

"What's  what?"  asked  Johnny  in  sur- 
prise. 

"Why,  these  clothes!  Look  at  these 
clothes'!" 

"They're  your'n,  ain't  they?" 

"Of  course  they're  mine,"  answered  the 
Deacon,  drawing  his  hand  across  his  fore- 
head in  perplexity,  '^ut  how  did  they 
get  here?" 

Johnny  looked  at  his  father,  and  then 
at  the  clothes,  seeing  no  reason  for  this 
perturbation. 

'^Why,  pa,  you  put  'em  there  yourself, 
didn't  ye?" 

"Now,  Johnny,  Willie,  both  of  you," 
continued  the  Deacon,  with  a  pained  ex- 
pression on  his  countenance.  "Look  me 
right  in  the  face,  and  tell  me  this:  Did 
I  have  on  that  suit  when  I  came  down 
here?" 

For  a  moment  the  boys  were  silent. 
Had  something  turned  their  father's 
brain? 

*TVTiy — I  guess  you  did;  I  don't  re- 
member. Of  course,  you  must  have  had 
it  on,"  answered  Johnny.  But  the  Dea- 
con was  far  from  satisfied. 


As  soon  as  they  could  they  hurried 
back  to  the  picnic  ground,  where  the 
Deacon  at  once  sought  Mrs.  Tracy. 

"Say,  Mary,  do  you  see  anytliing  pe- 
culiar or  strange  about  me?"  he  asked 
anxiously. 

"No,  I  can't  say  that  I  do,"  answered 
that  lady,  surveying  him  critically,  "ex- 
cept you  seem  a  bit  worried,  and  I — ^why, 
Silas,  you  didn't  change  that  suit  after 
all!" 

"That's  just  it,"  said  the  Deacon, 
gloomily.  "I  thought  sure  I  had  done 
so,  for  I  remember  going  upstairs  for  that 
purpose.  But  it  seems  I  didn't  and  that 
is  what  troubles  me.  I  have  noticed  lately 
I  forget  things,  and  I'm  afraid  my  mind 
is  giving  away,  and  I'm  going  to  have 
softening  of  the  brain,  may  be,  and" — 

"Softening  of  the  brain!"  and  Mrs. 
Tracy  laughed  heartily.  ^'Why,  you 
haven't  a  bit  more  softening  of  the  brain 
than  I  have.  You  simply  forgot  to  change 
your  clothes,  and  that's  all  there  is  to  it. 
But  it  is  strange  I  didn't  notice  it  before. 
It  mortifies  me  that  you  went  about  all 
day  looking  like  that." 

But  when  the  family  reached  home 
that  evenii^g,  the  mystery  was  fully  ex- 
plained. The  disturbed  furniture,  the 
soiled  dishes,  the  depleted  pantry,  and 
the  ragged  clothes  in  the  closet,  plainly 
indicated  that  tramps  had  visited  the 
house.  Mrs.  Tracy's  wrath  was  beyond 
expression,  while  the  Deacon  was  cor- 
respondingly elated.  The  discovery  had 
banished  all  fears  as  to  his  mental  con* 
dition. 

"I  know  it  was  tramps,"  he  said.  "They 
took  my  clothes  here,  and  then  traded 
again  by  the  river — and  here's  the  proof !" 
He  held  up  a  piece  of  plug  tobacco.  'T! 
found  this  in  ray  trousers  pocket,  and  you 
know  I  never  use  the  stuff." 

"And  you  a-talking  of  softening  of  the 
brain,"  answered  Mrs.  Tracy,  wrathfully. 
"I  wish  I  could  have  been  here.  I'd  have 
softened  the  brains  of  those  tramps  with 
a  rolling  pin — ^that's  what  I  would !" 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  good  woman 
would  have  kept  her  word,  but  the  mis- 
chief was  done,  and  the  culprits  safe  from 
any  such  visitation  of  her  wrath. 


The   "or   iwimmin'   hole."   where  the  oountry  boy  dellfhtt  to  go. 


Playing  in  the  hot  s&nd  on  the  beaoh. 


Hesitation  before  the  iint  plunye.     The  water  is  oold,  and  it  takes  no  little  ooursce  to  "duok  over.' 


lii 

**• 

"Drying  off"   after  the   swim. 


OUR  NATIVE  SHRUBS 


Some  of  tke  attractive  Uosaoming  plants  tkat  migbt  be  used  to  advantage  in  garden  and  park 

By  William  S.  Rice 


the  present  rate  of  consumption.  The 
common  name,  "California  Holly/^  re- 
fers more  to  the  berries  than  to  the 
leaves,  as  the  latter  have  not  exactly  the 
form  of  holly  leaves.  This  is  such  a 
beautifnl  shrub  in  cultivation  that  it  is 
a  shame  that  it  is  not  more  generally 
employed  for  this  purpose.  It  requires 
no  more  attention  than  many  other  plants 
which  take  its  place  on  the  lawn.  By 
plucking  the  berries  discriminately,  one 
may  obtain  each  year's  supply  of  Christ- 
mas greens  from  the  same  bush.  Its  na- 
tive haunts  are  the  Coast  ranges  from 
San  Diego  to  Mendocino  County,  Cali- 
fornia, also  the  foothills  of  the  Sierra 
Nevadas. 

Another  beautiful  shrub  which  arouses 
admiration  even  from  the  layman  has 
been  generally  overlooked;  and  why?  I 
suppose  because  it  is  "wild";  yet  there 
isn't  a  more  handsome  shrub  in  cultiva- 
tion than  the  wild  white  Azalea  of  the 
Sierras.  In  June  and  July  the  borders 
of  the  Merced  Eiver  and  other  mountain 
streams  are  covered  for  miles  and  miles 
with  the  bushes,  whose  rich  green  foliage 
is  almost  obscured  from  view  by  the  mag- 
nificent clusters  of  white  and  yellow  or 
sometimes  pinkish  flowers.  Its  spicy  per- 
fume breathes  of  the  "forest  primeval," 
and  suggests  days  spent  with  rod  and 
line  along  woodland  streams. 

Productive  of  as  much  pleasure  would 
be  a  bush  of  Manzanita.  Fancy  a  bush 
of  this  character  in  full  bloom  about 
Christmas,  when  its  dense  crown  of  pale 
foliage,  surmounting  the  rich  purple- 
brown  stems,  is  thickly  sown  with  the  lit- 
tle clusters  of  fragrant,  waxen  bells.  After 
the  blossoms  are  gone,  numerous  brilliant 
scarlet  or  crimson  shoots  appear,  which  at 
a  little  distance  look  like  another  kind  of 
blossom.  The  Manzanita  grows  from 
three  to  twenty-two  feet  in  height;  and, 
aside  from  its  blossoms,  its  limbs  and 
bark  are  very  attractive  in  color,  ranging 
from  a  terra  cotta  to  rich  crimson  and 
orange. 

Who  has  not  admired  the  soft,  gray. 


The    dainty    tasMlt    of    the    Swamp    Alder. 

IT  IS  a  matter  of  frequent  regret  that 
our  native  shrubs  are  not  more 
generally  employed  in  laying  out 
gardens  about  our  homes  and  in 
public  parks.  Possibly  this  is  be- 
cause we  too  often  leave  that  important 
work  entirely  to  the  hands  of  the  land- 
scape gardener,  instead  of  personally  su- 
pervising the  planting  of  the  home  gar- 
dens, and  imparting  an  air  or  individ- 
uality to  the  work. 

I  remember  what  a  thrill  of  pleasure 
was  experienced  only  a  short  time  ago  on 
seeing  on  the  lawn  of  a  small  cottage  :i 
handsome,  robust  bush  of  the  Christmas 
berry  (Toyon)  bedecked  with  clusters 
upon  clusters  of  creamy  white  blossoms. 
I  thought  at  the  time,  what  a  joy  that 
same  bush  will  be  to  its  owner  next  De- 
cember when  all  those  blossoms  are  re- 
placed by  scarlet  berries! 

This  handsome  shrub  is  in  danger  of 
extermination  if  its  berries  and  foliage 
continue  to  be  used  year  after  year  at 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


silky  buds  of  the  pussy  willow,  in  early 
spring,  swelling  with  the  vernal  impulse 
and  ripening  later  into  a  "catkin"  loaded 
with  golden  pollen?  Yet  who  has  ever 
raised  a  tree  of  this  same  willow  in  their 
back  yard?  Strange,  when  it  grows  from 
cuttings  so  easily  and  will  flourish  any- 
where with  scarcely  any  attention.  A  twig 
placed  in  a  bottle  of  water  for  several 
weeks  will  gradually  send  out  tiny  white 
roots  at  the  base,  and  by  and  by,  after 
being  set  in  the  ground  outdoors,  it  will 
produce  a  handsome  bush  which  year 
after  year  will  give  you  a  whole  family 


tassels,  which  dust  their  pollen  in  golden 
clouds  on  every  passing  breeze. 

In  conclusion,  I  must  say  that  when 
the  plant  lover  has  plenty  of  space  at  his 
disposal,  it  is  advisable  to  keep  the  wild 
shrubs  and  herbaceous  plants  by  them- 
selves; in  other  words,  to  plant  a  wild- 
flower  garden  and  have  in  it  only  wild 
species  of  plant  life.  I  remember  a  gar- 
den I  once  had  the  pleasure  of  visiting, 
which  to  my  mind  was  the  most  interest- 
ing ever  seen.  A  giant  pine  or  two 
shaded  the  whole  yard.  Under  the 
branches  a  rustic  arbor  was  built,  and  at 


:    '-^^ Jit-  -  ^ 

IW^ Vj^ 

^SBR^ 

The  dalioate  blossoms  of  the  C&lifomU  Az&lea   (Rhododendron   Oooidentales) . 


of  silky  "pussies."  The  pussy,  or  Glau- 
cous willow,  has  pleasing  leaves,  and  is  a 
truly  ornamental  tree  in  its  native  haunts 
along  streams. 

Found  in  the  same  locality  as  the  pussy 
willow  is  the  common  swamp  Alder.  It 
is  a  low  shrub,  probably  from  six  to  eight 
feet  in  height.  Its  buds  are  among  the 
first  to  answer  the  call  of  the  vernal  sea- 
son. All  through  the  fall  and  winter — 
in  fact,  as  soon  as  the  leaves  have  fallen 
— the  alder  bushes  are  covered  with  firm, 
crimson-tipped,  green  catkins,  which 
hang  stiffly  from  the  stems.  Now  when 
spring  rouses  the  buds  from  their  leth- 
argy, these  same  stiff  little  catkins  loosen 
their  joints  and  become  dainty,  flexible 


various  places  rocks  had  been  artfully 
placed.  The  beds  were  covered  with 
every  conceivable  species  of  fern,  wild 
ginger,  and  other  denizens  of  the  moun- 
tains, which  were  allowed  to  grow  in  rank 
profusion.  A  winding  path  led  to  the 
arbor  which  was  half  concealed  by  a  fes- 
toon of  wild  Clematis  and  Virginia 
Creeper. 

The  beauties  of  the  woodland  were  thus 
brought  home  to  the  very  door,  and  it  re- 
quired a  very  slight  stretch  of  the  imagi- 
nation to  fancy  that  one  was  miles  away 
from  civilization,  while  lounging  upon 
the  rustic  seat  in  the  arbor  beneath  the 
pines. 


"EXTRA  WEST  667" 


A  mad  ride  to  deatk — tke  courage  and  keroic  faitkfulneflfl  oi  a  train  cre'w 

By  Myrvin  Davis 


ALL  day  the  snow  had  fallen, 
slowly,  steadily,  whispering 
into  the  long  reed  grass  of 
the  hollows,  weighing  down 
the  branches  of  the  bull  pine 
and  fir  on  the  ridges;  but  the  men  on 
"Extra  West  667''  thought  nothing  of  it, 
only  to  jerk  it  out  of  their  collars  and  mit- 
tens, swearing  picturesquely. 

They  were  loaded  with  steel  for  the 
Clearwater  extension;  twenty-one  cars,  a 
full  train,  with  a  double-header.  The  cars, 
loaded  to  twenty,  thirty,  fifty  per  cent 
over  their  capacity,  with  the  clinging, 
springing  steel,  were  hard  to  draw  and 
hard  to  hold,  slipping  a  little  on  the  down 
grades  to  loosen  the  dogs  on  the  hard-set 
brakes,  rocking  a  bit  under  the  brakeman's 
feet  as  he  passed  back  and  forth  to  watch 
them.  All  trainmen  know  what  steel  is, 
and  on  the  hills  they  are  afraid  of  it. 

'^361''  was  the  second  engine,  a  trim- 
built  Santa  Fe,  a  half-breed  Baldwin, 
high  on  her  drivers,  a  sprinter  of  the  old 
passenger  service  before  the  compounds 
came,  fast,  but  light  for  freight.  "667'' 
was  the  head  engine,  and  handled  the  air. 
She  was  a  Baldwin  standard.  Dick  ran 
361.  Bums  was  on  667.  Cool  men  they 
were,  who  knew  danger,  but  not  fear. 

Thus  they  went  through  the  drowsy 
half-light  of  the  snow-fiUed  afternoon, 
and  the  children  in  the  schoolhouses,  far 
apart,  watched  them  going,  steaming 
easily,  as  they  rolled  with  muffled  wheels 
through  the  growing  whiteness. 

The  eariy  night  came  down  quickly  and 
caught  them  on  the  bench  just  below  Mos- 
cow, before  they  reached  Howell,  at  the 
top  of  the  hill.  They  call  it  a  hill,  those 
careless  railroad  men,  careless  of  word, 
but  watchful  of  brake  and  signal.  It 
drops  a  hundred  feet  to  the  mile,  and  a 
sled  would  run  down  between  the  rarls  on 
a  winter's  day  like  a  scared  coyote.  But 
the  boys  were  not  paid  for  mountain  work 
there,  and  will  not  honor  it  with  the  name. 
When  they  reached  Vollmer,  some  three 
miles  down  the  hill,  they  stopped  for  or- 


ders. The  air  whispered  softly  through 
to  the  stuttering  brakes,  the  trainmen 
rolled  out  with  their  lanterns,  sniflSng  for 
hot  boxes,  damning  the  snow  and  a  soul- 
less corporation.  Then,  signalling  each 
to  each  in  answer  to  the  high-sign  from 
the  platform,  the  engines  puflFed  once  or 
twice,  and  slid  out  on  to  the  snow-covered 
gradft  blinding  white  in  the  glare  of  the 
headlight,  with  the  snow  blown  from  the 
bench  a  thousand  feet  above. 

In  the  cupola  of  the  caboose  Gurtin 
watched  the  snow-dust  following  the  light, 
dancing  and  leaping,  mad  with  the  rush 
and  the  tumult.  Under  the  feet  of  the 
brakemen  as  they  double-clubbed  the 
brakes,  the  treacherous  steel  slipped  and 
slid  under  its  covering  of  snow.  It  was 
slippery  work  on  a  slippery  track.  At 
each  stride  they  were  going  faster.  Be- 
fore they  reached  the  flat  they  were  mak- 
ing thirty  miles  an  hour  without  a  pound 
of  steam.  Ten  miles  is  the  limit.  The 
"flat"  is  an  easier  grade  with  nothing  flat 
about  it;  but  they  had  thought  to  hold 
them  there,  should  they  get  a  start,  and 
now  the  men  on  the  engines  knew  they 
were  in  for  it.  Bums,  on  667,  clapped  on 
the  air  hard,  then  let  go  for  another 
charge^  but  the  retainers  were  not  turned 
up,  and  he  felt  that  he  couldn't  hold  them. 
He  tried  again,  then  gave  over  the  air  to 
Dick,  whistling  change  of  air. 

Then  Dick  gave  it  to  them  all  he  could 
send;  the  brakes  gripped  and  ground  on 
the  steaming  wheels,  but  they  couldn't 
hold ;  nothing  held.  They  were  dropping 
straight  into  the  canyon,  fifty  miles  an 
hour  now,  and  trains  don't  stop  on  a 
mountain  grade  when  they  once  get 
stari:ed  at  that  rate.  Guri:in  and  his 
brakeman  in  the  caboose  knew  it,  and  they 
cut  her  loose  and  held  her  with  the  hand 
brakes,  as  the  unlighted  cars  lashed  into 
the  night,  dropping  straight  as  raindrops, 
driving  the  straining  engines.  The  snow 
was  oil  to  thoir  wheels,  as  it  ran  in  water 
from  brake  and  rail.  Nothing  could  stop 
them  but  the  cessation  of  the  force,  that. 


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THE    PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


swinging  worlds,  was  drawing  back  to 
their  motber^s  beart  tbe  drivers  and  the 
driven. 

As  they  rounded  a  curve  four  rear  cars 
snapped  oflf,  as  a  boy  snaps  tbe  "popper^' 
from  his  riding  whip,  and  went  whirling 
into  tbe  canyon  below.  Dick  heard  them 
go,  and  knowing  be  was  lighter  by  sixty 
tons,  ishot  the  air  into  them,  and  sent  his 
brakeman  back  to  club  the  brakes  again. 
It  was  a  frightful  task,  but  knuckling  to 
it  on  hands  and  knees,  be  crept  from  car 
to  car,  calmly,  fiercely,  lajdng  in  with  his 
brake  club,  fighting  for  his  life,  bravely, 
with  those  ahead  in  the  steam-filled  cabs. 

Down,  down  they  shot,  rounding  curve 
after  curve  on  the  winding  track.  At 
each  they  thought  they  were  gone;  as  each 
was  past,  their  hope  would  rise  again,  for 
they  thought  perhaps  she  would  ride  it 
out.  Both  engineers  had  thrown  their  en- 
gines over,  and  were  working  full  steam 
with  tbe  great  drivers,  gleaming,  gripping, 
gliding  over  the  slippery  rails,  dropping 
as  a  spun  top  drops  from  your  hand. 

The  sleepers  in  the  canyon  a  hundred 
feet  below,  waking,  heard  the  roar  of  the 
train,  and  saw  the  light  as  the  brakes, 
shooting  and  streaming  fire,  clutched  and 
clutched  again,  lighting  the  blank  walls 
above  them — so  near  you  could  reach  them 
with  your  hand — ^and  throwing  into 
shadow  the  sheer  fall  below.  As  a  flash 
it  was  gone,  and  they  wondered  and  slept 
again. 

It  was  twelve  miles  from  Vollmer  to 
Kendrick,  at  the  foot  of  the  grade.  They 
had  started  slowly.  But  it  was  only  nine 
minutes  after  they  had  started  until  the 
watchers  at  Kendrick,  hearing  the  roar 
of  the  train,  came  out  to  wait  below  the 
last  curve.  They  heard  Bums  whistle 
for  Pine  Siding,  three  miles  above,  but 
before  they  had  run  the  few  feet  from  the 
station  to  the  curve,  she  was  thera 

Just  above  this  last  curve  the  road  is 
straight  for  a  ways.  Hold  your  left  arm 
out,  half  close  your  hand  and  you  have  it ; 


the  road  makes  a  complete  half -circle  into 
the  yards.  Just  above  this  curve  is  the 
whistle  post  for  the  coimty  road  crossing. 
Burns,  blinded  with  the  whirling,  roaring 
torrent  of  steam  and  snow,  did  not  see  it, 
but  Dick  knew  it  was  there,  and  when  he 
felt  the  curve  leap  under  him  he  whistled,, 
one  long,  two  short;  his  defiance  to  fear 
and  death.  For,  just  as  667  struck  the 
point  of  the  curve,  the  track  melted  from 
under  them,  the  rails  snapped  and  curled 
like  broken  hair,  and  out  went  ties  and 
ballast,  rails  and  braces,  Uke  dust  beneath 
the  mighty  weight  of  the  driven  drivers. 
Oh!  how  they  leaped  to  it;  like  lions  at 
a  hunting.  There  was  no  time  for  stum- 
bling, nor  noise  of  bumping  cars  or  ring- 
ing steel ;  but  as  one  mighty  burst  of  thun- 
der, followed  by  the  hissing  of  the  rain,  so 
they  crashed.  With  one  mighty  bound, 
and  sidling  as  they  leaped,  as  graybounds 
clear  the  hedges,  the  engines  cleared  the 
two  hundred  feet  of  rock-strewn  slope 
down  to  the  Potlatch  and  across  it,  and 
the  flying,  ringing  steel  came  after,  twist- 
ing, bending.  As  one  would  throw 
matches  from  a  saucer,  they  left  the  cars 
and  leaped  upon  the  throbbing  engines, 
heaped  high  in  wild  confusion,  damming 
the  river  in  its  course.  Then  over  all 
came  silence  and  the  hissing  of  the  en- 
gines. 

The  five  men  who  had  fought  through 
the  fearful,  roaring  blindness,  calm  to  i£e 
last,  died  at  the  throttle  and  at  the  brake, 
hoping  yet  to  hold  the  train  when  the  last 
curve  was  passed.  Nobly  had  they  fought, 
and  as  the  wires  clicked  it  east  and  west 
the  crews  of  other  trains  and  engines^ 
waiting  here  for  orders,  there  for  trains, 
heard  it  and  knew  all  that  it  meant,  and 
were  silent  at  the  awfulness  of  it.  Yet, 
as  when  soldiers  hear  of  comrades  slain 
in  battles  fought  and  won,  they  felt  a 
fierce  gladness  mingled  with  the  pain,  and 
their  work  was  a  more  sacred  thing  for  the 
lives  that  it  had  taken. 


TRUTH 

Trutli,  like  the  kernel  of  a  nut. 

Within  its  sheU  of  error  lies; 
This  hard  encasement  you  must  break 

Before  you  reach  the  hidden  prize. 

Take  care  that  in  the  sheU  abusing 
Ton  injure  not  the  nut  past  using. 
^Donald  A.  Fraser. 


CHINESE  MUSIC  AND  MUSICAL 
INSTRUMENTS 

By  Albert  Gale,  Director  of  Music,  University  of  Waskington 


I-FOST  OS   TCHOU. 

TO  most  people  of  the  Occident 
the  music  of  the  Orient  makes 
little  or  no  appeal  except  from 
the  standpoint  of  novelty.  The 
casual  listener  hears  nothing 
but  a  succession  of  squeaking  sounds, 
scraped  out  seemingly  at  random,  inter- 
spersed with  the  crashing  of  cymbals  and 
the  pounding  of  drimis 
and  gongs.  But  to  the 
student  of  music,  es- 
pecially if  he  has  stud- 
ied somewhat  the  na- 
tional characteristics, 
this  confusion  o  f 
sounds,  at  first  mean- 
ingless, begins  after 
several  hearings  to  re- 
veal beneath  its  rough 
exterior  many  gems  of 
exceeding  worth  and 
beauty.  The  following 
native  description  of  a 
Chinese  melody  gives 
some  idea  of  how  its 
beauties  appeal  t  o 
him:  "Softly,  as  the 
murmur  of  whispered 
words;  now  loud  and 
soft  together,  like  the 
patter   of   pearis   and 


creations, 
melodic 


pearlets  dropping  upon  a  mar- 
ble dish;  or  liquid,  like  the 
warbling  of  the  mango  bird  in 
the  bush;  trickling,  like  the 
streamlet  on  its  downward 
course;  and  then  like  the  tor- 
rent, stilled  by  the  grip  of  the 
frost." 

Many  of  our  best  composers 
have  considered  the  study  of 
national  music  of  great  import- 
ance and  have  been  glad  of  its 
influence  upon  their  musical 
Its  many  unique  rythmic  and 
fancies     offer     suggestions     to 


y^ 


CHENG. 


TAI-KU. 

the  thoughtful  musician,  while  the  instru- 
ments upon  which  it  is  performed,  though 
usually  of  harsh  and  strident  tone,  oft- 
times  embody  points  of  ingenuity  which 
might  well  be  adopted  in  further  perfect- 
ing our  own.    From  the  remotest  periods. 


162 


THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


TAI-DET. 


the  Chinese  have  had 
a  musical  system.  Ear- 
lier than  3000  B.  C. 
the  development  of 
their  musical  scale 
was  begim.  This  scale 
has  for  its  foundation 
many  phenomena  of 
nature.  The  relation- 
ship between  heaven 
and  earth,  which  the 
Chinese  claim  is  an 
harmonious  one,  is 
fundamental  in  estab- 
lishing the  relation- 
ship of  a  perfect  fifth, 
which,  when  succes- 
sively developed,  gives 
the  twelve  tones  of  the 
Chinese  scale.  In  this 
development  heaven  is 
represented  by  the  fig- 
ure 3,  while  the  figure 
2   is   the    symbol    of 


earth.  By  cut- 
ting a  series 
0  f  bamboos, 
each  of  which 
is  two  thirds 
the  length  of 
the  next  lon- 
ger, the  scale  ^^ 
tones  are  de-  \, 
rived.  It  is  T 
interesting  to  "^ 
note  that  this 
system  of 
scale  develop- 
ment, which 
has  been  known  to  the  Chinaman  for  cen- 
turies, is  the  foundation  of  our  present- 
day  system  of  piano  tuning;  the  only  dif- 
ference being  that  in  our  tuning  we  em- 
body an  imperfection  in  each  fifth,  so  that 
the  completed  circle  of  fifths  will  be 
equally  tempered,  while  the  Chinaman  in- 
sists on  tuning  his  absolutely  perfect  ac- 
cording to  theory,  and  therefore  has  as  a 


BEN-KOW  OS  FA&-KOW. 


KINO. 


CHIXESE  MUSIC  AND  MUSICAL   INSTRUMENTS. 


163 


BON-KU  OS  8ACKU. 

result  a  scale  musically  out  of  tune.  These 
twelve  tones  represent  to  him  the  twelve 
moons,  also  the  twelve  hours  of  the  day, 
and  as  they  are  developed  strictly  in  the 
relation  of  2  to  3,  and  therefore  in  accord 
with  the  principles  which  nature  has  sug- 
gested, they  must  be  accepted  as  absolutely 
perfect,  even  if  out  of  tune. 

The  perfect  accord  of  this  scale  of 
twelve  tones  with  nature  is  given  in  the 
story  about  Lvng-lun,  a  famous  musician 
who  lived  in  the  reign  of  Hoang-tu  and 
was  chosen  by  that  ruler  to  determine 
upon  a  fixed  system  of  musical  sounds. 
Scarcely  knowing  how  to  proceed,  Lyng- 
lun  wandered  into  the  land  of  Li-joung, 


where  were  to  be  found  the  most  perfect 
growths  of  bamboo.  Selecting  one  of  them 
he  cut  it  off  between  the  joints  and  remov- 
mg  the  pith,  blew  into  it.  It  so  happened 
that  the  sound  given  out  was  in  unison 
with  the  tone  of  his  speaking  voice,  and 
with  the  sound  of  the  running  waters 
of  the  river  Hoang-ho,  which  was  close 
by.  "Behold,  then,''  cried  Lyng-lun,  *'the 
fundamental  sound  of  nature !  This  must 
be  the  note  from  which  all  others  are  de- 
rived.'' Just  at  this  time 
the  magic  bird,  Foung- 
hoang,  accompanied  by 
its  mate,  flew  into  a  tree 
near  by  and  began  to 
s:ing.  The  first  note  was 
'n  unison  with  the  voice 
i)f  Lyng-lun,  and  with 
ihe  sound  of  the  river 
Hoang-ho  and  with  the 
1  lamboo  he  had  cut.  Sud- 
denly all  the  other  birds 
reased  their  singing  and 
t'ven  the  winds  of  the 
I'arth  were  hushed  while 
Lyng-lun  busied  himself 
f^utting  reeds  of  various 
lengths  and  tuning  them 
to  the  tones  given  by  the 
birds  Foung-hoang  and 
his  mate.  Each  san?  six 
different  tones,  which, 
when  placed  on  the  bam- 
boo pipes,  gave  a  succes- 
sion of  twelve  notes.  The 
notes  of  odd  numbers 
which  were  given  by  the 
mate  were  pronounced 
perfect,  and  those  of  the 
even  numbers,  or  fenuile, 
imperfect.  The  chromat- 
ic scale  as  here  given  is 
used  by  the  Chinese  only 
in  instrumental  music;  vocal  music  and 
the  instrumental  accompaniment  to  it  is 
always  in  the  pentatonic  scale.  This  is  a 
scale  the  five  tones  of  which  bear  the  same 
relations  to  each  other  as  do  the    notes 


P'l-P'A. 


SAM-YEN. 


164 


THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


upon  the  black  keys 
of  the  piano.  No 
harmony  is  intro- 
duced in  their  mu- 
sic, all  the  instru- 
ments playing  in  unison,  the  voice  taking 
a  sort  of  improvised  part  in  falsetto,  em- 


OUT- 

])loying  mostly  the  tonic  and  dominant 
tones. 

The  instruments  of  the  Chinese  are  di- 
vided into  eight  classes  each  representing 
a  distinct  tone  quality.     Similarly  as  we 


WAVO-JORK. 

recognize  the  tone  qualities  of  strings, 
flutes,  brass,  double  and  single  reeds;  so 
the  Chinaman  classifies  his  instruments  as 
having  the  sound  of  stone,  of  skin,  of 
wood,  of  metal,  of  bamboo,  of  gourd,  of 


HSUEN. 

silk,  or  of  baked  earth.  The  sound  of  stone 
is  described  as  being  "less  tart  and  rasp- 
ing than  the  sound  of  metal,  much 
brighter  than  the  sound  of  wood,  and  more 
brilliant  and  sweet  than  either.^'  The 
king,  an  instrument  possessed  by  every 

The  ChinoM  Chromatio  Scale. 

Confucian  and  Imperial  temple,  and  one 
from  which  this  quality  of  tone  is  ex- 
tracted, was  in  use  2200  years  before 
Christ.     It  consists  of  two  rows  of  eight 


OA-YEN. 


CHINESE  MUSIC  AND  MUSICAL   INSTRUMENTS. 


166 


n    *.-^V   \ 


'■^■Tv;';'' 


SE-O-LO. 


DAI-LO. 

stones  each,  sus- 
pended in  a  frame 
and  played  by  strik- 
ing with  a  small 
mallet.  It  is  sound- 
ed in  the  temples 
during  the  burning 
0  f  incense  and 
played  as  an  accom- 
paniment to  the 
songs  of  praise. 

Eight      different 
kinds  of  drums  give 
the  sound  of  skin,  in  one  of  which — ^the 
j^O'fou — ^the   sound   is   modified   by   first 
boiling  the  skins  for  the  heads  in  water, 
«nd    partly    filling 
■the    body    of    the 
drum  with  husks  of 
rice  to  mellow  the 
^ound.      The    Chi- 
nese name  for  drum 
is  Icou,     The   ten- 
Tcou   or   far-Jcou,   a 
■small  temple  drum 
upon  the  heads  of 
which  are  depicted 
•certain   beasts   and 
dragons,  is   of  in- 
definite pitch.  It  is 


used  by  the  Buddhist  priests 
to  gain  the  ear  of  the  gods 
for  their  prayers. 

The  bon-ku  or  sac-ku  and 
the  two  sizes  of  tai-ku  are 
of  definite  pitch,  the  small 
ini-ku  being  an  octave  be- 
low the  hon-ku  and  a  fourth 
above  the  larger  tai-ku, 
which  is  of  older  type  and 
less  frequently  used.  The 
skin  covering  of  these  drums 
is  from  the  "water  ox,"  as 
the  Chinamen  call  it.  The 
skin  is  stretched  on  very 
tightly  while  wet;  and  the 
vibrating  surface  being  com- 
paratively small,  the  sound 
given  out  after  the  skin  is 
dry  is  consequently  very 
acute  and  entirely  unlike 
that  of  any  drum  used  by 
Europeans.  As  the  vibrat- 
ing surface  of  the  hon-ku  is 
only  about  one  and  a  half 
inches,  it  requires  great 
skill  to  play  it.  The  parts 
taken  on  this  drum  are  very 
rapid  and  are  played  by  the 
leader  of  the  orchestra  who 
also  plays  the  ho-go-y  at- 
tached to  the  same  stand.  The  pitch  of 
the  ho-go-y  is  the  same  as  that  of  the 
small  iai-ku.  As  it  is  of  wood,  we  have 
exemplified  in  it  another  one  of  the  Chi- 
nese tone  qualities. 

Another  interesting  instrument  giving 
the  tone  quality  of  wood  is  known  as  the 


WANO-THEO. 


WO-KIIC. 


im 


THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 

'-  A  FAVORITE  ORCHtSTRALTHEMt- 


X 


M 


ou.  It  is  in  the  fomi 
of  a  crouching  tiger 
having  teeth  on  its 
back  which  are  scraped 
with  a  rod.  Origi- 
nally these  teeth  were 
but  six  in  number, 
and  were  tuned  to  the 
five  notes  of  the  pen- 
tatonic  scale  and  the 
octave  of  the  first ;  but 
its  use  at  the  present 
day  is  only  as  a 
n^hmic  instrument, 
the  teeth  now  num- 
bering twenty  -  seven, 
without  definite  tun- 
ings. 

For     the     tone     of 
metal,  they  have  many 
kinds  of  bells,  gongs 
and  cymbals.  The  Chi- 
nese name  for  bell  is  tchung 
ichung  is  an  instrument  precisely  like  the 
king  except  that  the  sixi:een  stones  are  re- 
placed by  bells  which  are  tuned,  as  are  the 


THE  SAME  MtUODY   m 
CHIlHtSt  NOT/VTIOM  ^ 


n 


/fco^c 


X 


Uak 


X 


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Jk 


J; 
U 


-(tc 


The  pien- 


MARLORAH. 


stones  of  the  king,  to 
the  twelve  perfect  in* 
tervals  or  liis  of  the 
octave. 

The  mar-lo-rah  or 
^Ti  o  r  s  e  gong"  was 
much  used  in  China  in 
ancient  war  times.  Its 
use  at  present  is  in 
the  temple  orchestras 
and  occasionally  in  the 
theaters,  where  its 
special  prerogative  is 
to  depict  scenes  of  ter- 
ror. It  is  struck  with 
a  stick  muffled  with 
rags,  and  whether  the 
blow  be  heavy  or  light, 
it  always  causes  a 
shudder.  This  instru- 
ment has  been  intro- 
duced with  telling  ef- 
fect by  Cherubini  in  his  Re- 
quiem in  C  minor,  also  by 
Meyerbeer  in  "Robert  le 
Diable/'  and  by  other  Euro- 
pean composers. 

I'port  and  tchou 
are  names  given  by  the 
Chinese  to  the  huge 
pair  of  cymbals  which 
forms  a  principal  part 
of  every  Chinese  or- 
chestra. These  cym- 
bals are  about  thirty 
inches  in  diameter,  and 
though  large  and  cum-  ^ 
bersomc,  they  are  han- 
dled with  a  skill  that 
shows  plainly  the  Chi- 
naman's knowledge  of  the  proper 
cymbal  tone  and  how  to  produce 
it.  For  the  sound  of  bamboo,  the 
Chinese  have  several  kinds  of 
flutes  and  pan-pipes.  The  tone 
quality  of  those  flutes,  however,  is 
very  different  from  that  of  Euro- 
pean flutes,  having  a  very  marked 
reedy  quality,  produced  by  cov- 
ering an  extra  orifice  below  the 
embouchure  with  a  piece  of  thin 
tissue-like  lining  taken  from  the 
inside  of  tlie  bamboo.    They  have 


CHINESE  MUSIC  AND  MUSICAL   IXSTEUMENTS. 


167 


TAI-KU, 


six   finger   holes,   giving 
the  diatonic  scale. 

Another  instrument 
coming  under  this  head  is 
the  det'toi  or  so-na,  an 
instrument  of  the  double- 
reed  class  similar  to  the 
oboe  used  in  the  modem 
orchestra,  but  of  much 
harsher  tone.  In  playing 
this  type  of  instrument, 
the  Oriental  musicians 
have  acquired  a  knack 
that  might  be  adopted  to 
advantage  by  our  double- 
reed  players  —  that  of 
breathing  without  inter- 
rupting the  playing.  This 
instrument  is  a  great  fa- 
vorite among  the  Chinese 
as  is  also  the  tai-det, 
which  is  simply  a  size  larger.  They  are 
used  on  all  sorts  of  occasions,  whether  of 
sorrowing  or  rejoicing. 

For  the  sound  of  gourd,  the  Chinese 
have  an  instrument  called  the  cheng.  It 
consists  of  a  hollow  gourd,  serving  as  a 
wind  chest  and  supporting  twenty-one 
bamboo  tubes,  seventeen  of  which  are 
fitted  with  free  metal  reeds.  By  stopping 
the  single  fijiger  hole  provided  in  each 
tube,  the  reed  within  is  caused  to  vibrate. 
It  is  played  by  inhaling  the  breath  rather 
than  exhaling.  Its  use  at  present  is  con- 
fined to  the  orchestras  of  the  Confucian 
ceremonies.  It  is  of  great  antiquity;  in 
fact,  it  is  one  of  the  most  ancient  of  east- 
em  instruments. 

The  sound  of  silk  is  extracted  from 
a  great  variety  of  instruments,  all  of 
those  having  silken  strings  coming  under 
this  head.  In  the  Chinese  ga-yen  or 
ur-heen,  as  it  is  sometimes  called,  we 
find  preserved  in  nearly  every  detail 
the  ancient  ravanstron  of  India>  which 
was  probably  the  earliest  of  stringed 
instruments  played  with  a  bow,  and  the 


one  from  which  our  vio- 
lin is  a  direct  descendant. 
In  this  instrument,  the 
body  is  of  heavy  bamboo 
covered  with  skin  from 
the  tan  snake.  The  neck 
is  of  swan  wood  tipped 
with  bone.  The  two  silk 
strings  are  tuned  a  fifth 
apart,  the  same  as  in  the 
modern  violin,  but  with 
the  bow  hair  passing  be- 
tween in  such  a  manner 
that  by  pressure  of  the 
middle  finger  of  the  right 
hand  upon  the  hair, 
either  string  can  be 
played  at  will.  The  left 
hand  in  playing  occupies 
a  position  corresponding 
to  the  "second'^  used  by 
violinists,  leaving  out  the  two  notes  usu- 
ally played  by  the  first  finger  and  giving 
consequently  the  pentatonic  scale.  The 
Chinaman  rosins  his  bow  as  he  plays 
from  a  lump  placed  on  the  body  of  the 
instmment.  The  wo-Jcim  is  precisely  like 
the  ga-yen,  except  that  in  the  wo-kim  the 
sounding  body  is  larger  and  the  snake 
skin  covering  of  the  ga-yen  is  replaced  by 
a  thin  piece  of  wood. 

The  gut-kim  or  "moon  harp''  is  of  swan- 
che  wood  left  in  an  unvarnished  state  that 
its  tone  may  be  unimpaired.  Its  four 
silken  strings  are  tuned  in  pairs  a  fifth 
apart  corresponding  to  the  tuning  of  the 
ga-yen  and  wo-kim.  For  sostenuto  effects, 
the  Chinese  use  a  vibrato  method  like  that 
in  mandolin  playing,  picking  the  strings 
with  the  finger  nails  which  the  performer 
wears  long  for  the  purpose. 

In  the  sam-yen  the  body  and  neck  are  of 
swan-wood  with  three  pegs  of  orange  wood. 
The  top  and  bottom  of  the  body  are  cov- 
ered with  tan  snake  skin.  The  instru- 
ment is  without  frets.  The  three  silken 
strings  are  tuned  in  fifths  and  are  played 


-  A  CHINLSE  WLLODY  WITH  MODERN  HARMONitS-  6\httt  flcdie. 


168  THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 

^  CHWESt  THWE  UPON  WHICH  WEBiR'S  TURMiOOT  OVERTURE  \S  FOUHOEt)- 


with  the  vibrato  effect  the  same  as  the 
gut'kim. 

The  pH-p'a,  or  balloon-shaped  guitar, 
is  made  of  wootung  wood,  and,  like  the 
gut'him,  is  left  unvarnished.  The  four 
silk  strings  are  tuned  as  fourth,  fifth  and 
octave  from  the  lowest.  Twelve  slips  of 
bamboo  glued  to  the  body  serve  as  frets 
and  give  the  pentatonic  scale.  The  bone 
scallops  upon  the  neck  are  not  used  in 
playing.  The  p'i-p'a  finds  its  most  fre- 
quent use  in  the  southern  part  of  China, 
where  it  is  the  favorite  instrument  of  the 
minstrels  and  ballad  singers.  It  is  also 
played  a  great  deal  by  the  Chinese  women. 

We  may  get  some  idea  of  the  esteem  in 
which  music  is  held  in  China  from  the 
saying  of  the  Emperor  Tschun,  about  2300 
B.  C,  "Teach  the  children  of  the  great; 
thereby  reached  through  thy  care  they 
will  become  mild  and  reasonable,  and  the 
unmanageable  ones  able  to  receive  digni- 
ties without  arrogance  or  assumption.  This 
teaching  must  thou  embody  in  poems,  and 
sing  them  therewith  to  suitable  melodies 
and  with  the  play  of  instrumental  accom- 
paniment. The  music  must  follow  the 
sense  of  the  words ;  if  they  are  simple  and 
natural,  then  also  must  the  music  be  easy, 
unforced  and  without  pretention.  Music 
is  the  expression  of  soul-feeling.    If  now 


the  soul  of  the  musician  be  virtuous,  so 
also  will  his  music  become  noble  and  full 
of  virtuous  expression,  and  will  set  the 
souls  of  men  in  union  with  those  of  the 
spirits  in  heaven.^^  (Quoted  by  Ambrose.) 
Although  the  Chinese  have  a  system  of 
musical  notation,  their  orchestras  play  en- 
tirely without  notes,  and  when  one  con- 
siders the  small  amount  of  playing  that, 
some  of  them  do,  the  exactness  and  unity 
which  characterizes  their  performance  ifr 
quite  marvelous.  Especially  is  this  true 
of  the  percussion  players.  Rythmic  ef^ 
fects  which  would  put  to  shame  our  most 
vaunted  rag-times  are  played  with  a  pre-^ 
cision  that  might  well  serve  as  an  object^ 
lesson  to  many  of  our  bunglers  on  drum 
and  cymbal.  As  to  the  melodies,  they  are- 
intensely  fascinating  after  one  has  be* 
come  thoroughly  imbued  with  their  spirit. 
These  melodies,  when  given  out  by  the 
strident  tones  of  the  ga-yen  and  wo-kim^ 
sprinkled,  as  it  were,  with  the  reiterated 
pizzicato  tones  from  the  gut-Jcim  and  sam- 
yen,  and  tempered  with  the  sweet  though 
odd,  shimmering  notes  of  the  reedy  flutes,, 
give  an  effect  totally  unlike  that  produced 
by  the  music  of  any  other  nationality.  It 
is  music  that  to  the  initiated  is  bewitch- 
ingly  beautiful. 


THE  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION 


Some  of  tke  inciJents  Tirliick  made  tlie  convention  at  St.  Louis  tke 
mo«t  dramatic  beU  \>y  any  political  party  of  recent  years 

By  Cliarles  Erskine  Scott  ^^ooA 


PHILOSOPHERS  who  study  hu- 
man    nature    either    laugh    or 
weep.        Democritus      laughed  *, 
Christ  wept.     The   Democratic 
Convention  was  cause  for  laugh- 
ter and  for  tears.    So  was  the  Republican 
Convention.     So  is  every  National  con- 
vention. 

The  monkeyishness  of  it !  Men  scream- 
ing and  chattering  they  knew  not  why, 
save  that  others  were  screaming  and  chat- 
tering, too.  The  childishness  of  it !  Men 
dancing  and  jumping  on  chairs,  parading 
about  with  banners  and  flags,  drunk  with 
the  unintelligent,  emotional  frenzy  of  a 
campmeeting.  The  claptrap  stage  ma- 
chinery of  it! 

-     ,  For    example,    Judge 

Parkers  ^  Parker  was  nominated 

Nomination  ^y  Martin  Littleton  in 

a  florid  speech  of  rhetoric  and  epigram- 
matic platitudes,  one  of  which  was,  "He 
is  the  servant  of  the  party,  not  its  mas- 
ter,^* rudely  shattered  by  Judge  Parker's 
telegram  supplying  a  gold  plank  to  the 
platform,  which  the  convention  had  care- 
fully omitted.  At  the  close  of  this  speech, 
there  was  a  very  evident  stage  preparation 
for  a  popular  outburst.  Men  were  sta- 
tioned here  and  there  to  begin  it  and  spur 
it  on,  waving  flags  and  yelling.  When  it 
showed  a  tendency  to  subside,  new  devices 
were  resorted  to, — parade  of  delegates,  or 
a  fresh  outburst  from  the  band.  Again 
and  again,  as  it  showed  signs  of  a  natural 
death,  it  was  galvanized  by  some  fresh 
feature  sprung  upon  the  audience  with  all 
the  stupid  skill  of  the  manager  of  a  new 
comic  opera.  By  these  means  the  uproar 
was  kept  going  twenty-nine  minutes,  I 
think.  I  will  not  pretend  to  be  exact  on 
so  important  a  matter,  as  gentlemen  on  the 
platform  timed  these  explosions  carefully, 
and  gravely  announced,  "CockrelFs  dem- 
onstration lasted  ten  minutes  longer  than 
Parker^s,^^  and  seemed  jubilant.  So  of 
each  outbreak  for  each  nominee;  his  ad- 
herents made  desperate  efforts  to  break 


the  record  in  minutes  of  insensate  yelling. 
Much  of  it  was  started  to  new  bursts  by 
messenger  boys  and  youths,  admitted  with 
their  elders,  who  yelled  for  the  boys'  pure 
love  of  noise.  The  real  anxiety  of  each 
band  of  partisans  to  keep  its  "demonstra- 
tion'^  going  longer  than  the  other  fellow's 
suggested  that  candidates  could  be  chosen 
on  the  theory  that  the  longest  fit  of  child- 
ish and  senseless  yelling  should  be  the 
decisive  factor — as  Judge  Bridlegoose  gave 
his  decision  to  the  lawyer  with  the  heaviest 
load  of  books.  In  truth,  to  Judge  Parker, 
as  to  each  nominee,  there  was  a  natural 
outburst  of  applause,  limited  in  its  extent, 
and  which,  though  prolonged  by  tactics, 
could  not  be  made  universal.  There  was 
just  one  outburst  for  a  candidate  which 
was  spontaneous,  universal  and  spontan- 
eously prolonged:  that  was  for  Senator 
Cockrell  of  Missouri,  who,  when  the  votes 
were  counted,  got  just  forty-one  votes.  So 
much  for  the  value  of  yelling. 

There  was  only  one  man  in  the  conven- 
tion who,  every  day,  at  every  hour  of  the 
day,  in  season  and  out  of  season,  was 
hailed  by  an  applause  so  spontaneous  that 
it  seemed  as  if  every  one  of  the  twelve 
thousand  acted  on  the  same  instant,  and 
^        ,  so  prolonged  that  only 

Oryans^  j^jg  ^^j^  efforts  to  re- 

Fopulanty  g^^j.^    ^j.^^^    produced 

the  desired  silence.  Tliis  was  Mr.  Bryan. 
The  difference  between  his  reception  and 
all  others  was  as  the  difference  between 
musketry  which  rattles  with  increasing 
volume  as  the  men  catch  the  order,  and  an 
instantaneous  overwhelming  clap  of  thun- 
der near  by.  No  one  could  be  blind  to  the 
fact  that,  though  he  was  overwhelmingly 
beaten  in  the  convention,  and  all  the  world 
knew  it,  yet  if  popularity  had  been  the 
test,  he  would  have  swept  the  New  York 
delegation  and  their  friends  like  straws 
in  the  vdnd. 

The  Chicago  Chronicle,  in  formally  be- 
coming a  Republican  paper,  said  (July 
12)  :     "When  one  thousand  men  repre- 


THE   TACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Kayor  MoClellan  of  New  York,  Tammany's  ohoioe  for  the 
Democratic  candidacy. 


senting  the  Democrats  of  the  United 
States,  most  of  them  chosen  with  much 
difficulty  as  representatives  of  what  is 
called  conservative  Democracy,  permit  a 
mere  demagogue  to  bully  them  into  wrong- 
doing, it  must  be  that  the  demagogue  is 
greater  than  the  party /^ 

Certainly  the  impression  l6ft  on  me  in- 
dividually is  that  when  Mr.  Bryan  retired 
from  the  convention,  exhausted,  sick  and 
defeated,  he  was  and  is  the  biggest  man  in 
the  party,  and  more  a  power  than  ever. 
Nor  is  the  reason  a  secret.  He  has  the 
courage  of  his  convictions.  He  is  out- 
spoken. He  uses  no  trickery  or  subter- 
fuge, but  all  men  may  plainly  see  his 
course  and  hear  his  views.  He  stands  for 
the  plain  people — the  masses.  He  fears 
a  plutocratic  oligarchy  and  the  fall  of 
free  democratic  government,  and  he  is  not 
afraid  to  say  so.  That  is  why  he  is 
"greater  than  his  party,''  as  the  Chronicle 
chooses  to  put  it. 

It  has  become  plain  to  a  great  many 


people  that  we  are  fol- 
lowing the  path  of  every 
other  republic  in  history. 
Wealth  will  and  does 
govern,  and  our  wealth 
is  rapidly  gravitating  by 
legal  monopolies  and 
privileges  into  the  hands 
of  a  few  who  can  and 
will  dictate  to  the  many, 
or  rather,  will  wield  the 
powers  of  government 
over  the  many. 

The  cry  of  "dema- 
gogue" no  longer  fright- 
ens men  from  saying  this 
truth,  and  the  courage 
of  Bryan  is  one  reason 
why  others  are  not  afraid. 
True,  he  mistakes  the 
remedy,  in  my  opinion, 
when  he  proposes  free 
coinage  of  silver  at  six- 
teen to  one,  rather  than 
absolutely  free  money 
and  free  banking,  all 
laws  removed  and  the 
economic  force  left  to 
adjust  itself  by  natural 
laws,  or  when  he  pro- 
poses state  ownership  of 
railroads.  But  assuming 
that  he  is  mistaken  in  a 
particular  remedy,  there  are  millions  who 
say  to  themselves,  "His  effort  is  for  the 
greater  freedom  and  prosperity  of  the 
masses,  and  better  a  mistake  in  the  effort 
than  no  effort"  "Better  a  loss  of  pros- 
perity in  an  experiment  than  a  loss  of 
freedom.''  "Prosperity  may  be  regained, 
freedom  can  not."  Such  thoughts  as  these 
are  now  in  the  minds  of  millions  who  used 
to  hoot  at  Mr.  Bryan  as  a  young  dema- 
gogue. The  small  banker  is  beginning 
to  see  that  he,  too,  will  have  his  day  and 
be  swallowed.  Where  are  the  hundreds 
of  competing  railroads  of  twenty  years 
ago  ?  Where  the  thousands  of  Democratic 
neswpapers?  Where  the  thousands  of  in- 
dependent banks? 

The  tendency  to  centralization  of  all 
property  is  clear,  and 
Plutocracy  in  one  lifetime  it  has 

become  apparent  that 
there  is  no  avenue  of  wealth  which  can  be 
traversed  by  any  man  without  crossing 
the  path  of  a  few  men  of  great  power,  as 
Mr.  Rockefeller,  Mr.  Rogers,  Mr.  Morgan. 


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171 


Mr.  Eockefeller,  to  me,  is  only  a  type, 
only  a  piece  on  the  human  chessboard.  I 
view  him  simply  as  a  product  of  our  laws 
and  conditions.  Knowing  that  it  has  al- 
ways been  the  wealth  which  has  ruled 
every  country,  and  that  that  country  is 
most  democratic  where  the  wealth  is  by 
natural  causes  distributed  according  to  in- 
di^ddual  effort,  I  object  to  the  concen- 
trated wealth  of  Mr.  Eockefeller  and  of 
such  as  he,  as  a  menace  to  democratic  lib- 
erty. I  object  because  such  wealth  is  not 
the  natural  reward  of  individual  effort, 
but  of  laws  which  permit  monopolies,  and 
I  would  annul  the  laws  which  send  a  mo- 
nopolistic flow  of  wealth  toward  this  oli- 
garchy. Such,  I  take  it,  is  Mr.  Bryan's 
view.  He  has  no  personal  hatred  for  in- 
dividuals, but  he  fears  for  democratic  free- 
dom. In  honesty  of  intent,  he  seeks  a 
remedy;  others  seek  other  remedies.  But 
the  remedies  are  all  untried  and  must  be 
uncertain  till  tried.  Yet  something  must 
be  done,  so  the  particular  remedies  sink 
into  comparative  insignificance  compared 
with  the  great  danger  which  millions  of 
common  men  are  fearing  more  and  more 
every  day.  In  Mr.  Bryan  they  see  a  fear- 
less leader,  a  sincere  man,  a  man  who  has 
surrendered  all  ambitions  rather  than  sur- 
render his  principles;  a  man  who,  like 
Lincoln,  is  a  great  commoner,  casting  his 
lot  with  the  plain  people,  becoming,  by  his 
eloquence  and  ability,  their  champion, 
whose  clear  aim,  whatever  may  be  his  the- 
ories, is  that  there  shall  be  a  government 
of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for  the  people. 

You  can  not  down  such  a  man  by  a  de- 
feat in  a  convention,  nor  by  his  death,  be- 
caust  the  man  is  a  cause.  It  is  the  inevita- 
ble struggle,  and  another  Moses  for  the 
people  will  rise  up. 

I  believe  that  Mr.  Bryan  is  stronger  to- 
day than  he  ever  was,  and  that  if  he  can 
become  the  apostle  of  a  sound  theory  for 
economic  freedom,  he  will,  if  he  lives,  yet 
lead  a  revolution  at  the  polls.  The  force  of 
character  is  invisible,  but  irresistible. 
There  is  scarcely  a  child  in  the  land  who 
could  not  have  told  the  difference  between 
Mr.  Hill  and  Mr.  Bryan  in  the  convention. 
One  is  a  shifty  politician — a  "peanut" 
politician,  if  you   please.     His   creed   is 

■^get   votes. '^      If   vou 
yan—      ^ 

a  Contraat 


Hfll  and  Bryan-      ^^^^  ^  belief,  give  it  up 


and  suppress  it,  if  it 
may  frighten  votes.    Be  tricky,  or,  in  his 


own  language,  "Skate  over  the  thin  ice 
quickly."  Be  cowardly ;  either  talk 
double,  or  talk  not  at  all,  lest  you  lose 
votes.  Votes,  votes,  votes!  that  is  the 
creed,  the  principles  and  the  ambitions  of 
Mr.  Hill.  He  is  the  mere  politician.  He, 
if  any,  is  the  demagogue.  Mr.  Bryan,  on 
the  other  hand,  says.  It  is  better  to  be  de- 
feated right  than  to  triumph  wrong.  He 
puts  principle  before  votes.  He  is  candid 
with  the  people.  All  men  know  his  views. 
He  is  fearless,  sincere  and  honest.  Yet  he 
was  wiped  off  the  slate  in  this  convention 
by  Mr.  Hill  and  Mr.  Bebnont.  Why? 
Back  of  Mr.  Hill  is  wealth,  power  and 
the  conservative  ideas  of  the  East.  Back 
of  Mr.  Bryan  are  only  the  common  people 
and  the  radicalism  of  the  West.  To-day 
the  conservative  wealth  power  triumphs. 
The  answer  emphasizes  the  truth  of  Mr. 
Bryan's  fears.  The  plutocratic  oligarchy, 
which,  like  the  Erie  Railroad,  has  no  poli- 
tics, turned  in  fear  from  Mr.  Roosevelt, 
a  man  they  could  not  dictate  to.  For  his 
assault  upon  the  Merger,  for  his  interfer- 
ence in  the  coal  strike,  for  what  wealth 
calls  his  demagogic  character,  they  fear 
him.  He  is  "unsafe,"  just  as  Bryan  is 
"unsafe,"  just  as  all  men  will  be  "unsafe" 
always  and  forever  who  interfere  with 
privilege  and  wealth,  just  as  all  men  in 
the  past  have  been  "unsafe"  who  attacked 
kingship  or  other  legal  monopoly.  Cor- 
nelius Gracchus  was  "unsafe."  Savonarola 
was  "unsafe."  Voltaire  was  "unsafe." 
Cromwell  was  "unsafe."  Lincoln  to  the 
slave  wealth  was  "unsafe." 

Change  is  inevitable,  yet  the  reformer 
is  always  "unsafe"  to  the  upper  classes 
who  must  be  reformed  that  the  masses 
may  progress.  And  the  eternal  truth  is 
that  this  world  was  made  for  the  masses, 
not  for  the  few.  That  which  stands  be- 
tween the  people  and  their  natural  right 
must  go — slowly,  it  is  true — but  surely. 
And  no  man  dare  say  that  any  question 
which  permits  an  answer  for  the  privi- 
leged few  and  a  different  answer  for  the 
great  mass  of  men,  is  ever  answered 
rightly  till  it  is  answered  in  favor  of  the 
many.  This  world  is  for  the  life  which 
it  bears,  not  for  the  parasites  upon  that 
life. 

It  is  said  "Wall  Street"  first  attempted 
to  defeat  Roosevelt  for  nomination,  but 
finding  his  hold  on  the  people  too  strong, 
and    losing    their    chief    politician    (]\rr. 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Hanna),  they  turned  necessarily  to  the 
other  party;  and  in  the  mere  vote-seeker, 
Mr.  Hill,  they  find  their  tool. 

Judge  Parker  is  a  most  estimable  man. 
Probably  neither  he  nor  Mr.  Hill  view 
x>r    «"ii      J  themselves  as  the  ref- 

-?T7  n  o  -  ^S^  o*  t^e  plutocratic 
WaU  Street  oligarchy.       Probably 

both  regard  themselves  as  benefactors  to 
the  race  in  killing  "Bryanism^';  but  to 
me  it  is  clear  that  the  aggregate  money 
power  of  the  country,  which  fears  Mr. 
Roosevelt  as  a  firebrand,  an  uncontrolla- 
ble demagogue  playing  to  the  galleries,  is 
supporting  Mr.  HilL 

The  politician  who  battles  for  principle 
is  a  very  "rare  bird."  The  plain  people 
who  have  their  hands  to  the  plough,  who 
seek  nothing — ^these  have  principle;  but 
the  mass  of  politicians  seek  oflSce  or  graft. 
The  campaign  fund  is  a  very  great  temp- 
tation, because  even  if  you  lose  the  fight 
still  you  have  had  the  fund,  and  no  ques- 
tions asked. 

The  "pie  coimter"  atmosphere  was  very 
prevalent  at  the  convention.  You  breathed 
it  everywhere.  Men  were  abundant  who 
wanted  to  be  marshals  or  district  attor- 
neys or  collectors — on  down  to  the  mere 
heeler  for  the  campaign,  who  had  his  eye 
on  "Belmont^s  Wall-street  Barrel.'^  Even 
Senator  Tillman,  in  his  address  to  the 
convention,  said :  "For  God's  sake,  let  us 
get  together  and  win!  I  am  tired  of  be- 
ing out."  If  that  remark  is  carried  to  a 
logical  conclusion,  as  perhaps  it  is  hardly 
_-,.--  fair  to  do,  it  means, 
Hankmngforthc  ^^^  ^g  ^y^  ^p  princi- 
rlesh  Fots  pj^g    ^j^^    combine    to 

win.  Let  us  get  at  the  flesh  pots.  Till- 
man didn't  mean  that  fully,  but  the  weari- 
ness of  being  away  so  long  from  the  "pie 
counter"  was  evident  among  all  the  dele- 
gates, for  they  were  politicians,  more  or 
less.  They  were  there  to  pick  a  '^winner" 
with  a  "barrel."  They  were  tired  of  fol- 
lowing a  "loser"  with  no  "sack."  But  a 
convention  is  an  absurdity  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  people,  and  the  people  never 
tire  of  following  a  plain  poor  man  like 
Lincoln,  who  is  their  champion. 

What  is  the  relation  between  a  conven- 
tion and  the  people?  It  is  laughable.  A 
few  men  select  delegates  to  a  county  con- 
vention. This  selects  delegates  to  the  state 
convention.  This  selects  delegates  to  the 
National    convention,    and    all    the    way 


through  the  bosses  are  watchful  to  see 
that  the  selections  are  "safe."  The  state 
delegation  gets  to  the  National  convention, 
and  unless  the  several  members  are  put  on 
committees  (as  all  can  not  be)  they  find 
their  duties  consist  in  wearing  a  badge 
and  shouting.  If  put  on  a  committee,  they 
fijid  some  two  or  three  men  do  the  work 
which  they  ratify  in  silence.  Senator 
Lodge  arrived  at  his  convention  with  the 
Republican  platform  in  his  pocket.  Mr. 
Hill  arrived  at  his  convention  with  the 
Democratic  platform  in  his  pocket,  and 
the  only  contestant    in    conmiittee  room 


Judire  Alton  B.  Parker  of  New  York,   chosen  by 
the    Demoontic    Convention    mm    its    candi- 
date for  President. 


was  Mr.  Bryan.  In  short,  the  rank  and 
file  of  a  state  delegation  are  mere  figure- 
heads at  a  convention,  and  usually  repre- 
sent the  state  machine,  so  that  the  relation 
.  between     the     people 

A  Convention  Is  ^j^^  ^j^g  convention  is 
Not  the  People  extremely  remote,  and 
it  by  no  means  foUows  that  the  people  will 
approve  the  work  of  politicians  in  conven- 
tion assembled.  Platforms  really  mean 
so  little  that  candidates  and  the  power 
behind  them  will  be  more  looked  at. 

If,  as  in  the  case  of  the  English  monar- 
chical republic,  we  could  go  to  the  people 


THE  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


173 


on  an  issue,  and  then  be  put  in  control  of 
all  branches  of  government  to  be  respon- 
sible for  action  on  the  decision,  we 
might  hope  to  make  a  victory  on  a  plat- 
form amount  to  something.  But  with  a 
Democratic  president  and  a  Republican 
congress,  what  can  be  done  for  a  Demo- 
cratic platform?  Even  when  the  Demo- 
crats had  Mr.  Cleveland  and  a  Democratic 
congress  elected  on  tariff  reform,  it 
amounted  to  nothing  against  the  tremen- 
dous political  pull  of  the  allied  tariff 
grafters.  So,  in  the  coming  election,  the 
people  will  look  at  Roosevelt,  supposed  to 
be  hated  by  the  "trusts,"  and  at  Parker, 
silent  on  all  points,  even  after  the  omis- 
sion of  the  money  plank  was  called  to  his 
attention  by  the  newspaper  men  at  Eso- 
pus,  till  he  was  nominated  by  Hill  and 
Belmont,  and  they  will  say,  what  is  be- 
hind Roosevelt  we 
A  Close  Contrast  know;  what  is  be- 
hind Parker  we  fear; 
so  that  if  it  be  a  really  popular  election, 
Roosevelt  will  win.  If  the  crowded  pop- 
ulation of  the  East  can  be  purchased  or  in- 
timidated, Parker  will  win. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Parker  was  the 
worst  nomination  which  could  have  been 
made  except  for  the  money  power  it  en- 
listed, and  that  very  strength  is  a  weak- 
ness. The  Bryan  people  would  have  taken 
any  gold  man:  Olney,  or  Gray,  or  Tom 
L.  Johnson,  or  McClellan ;  but  Parker  was 
the  candidate  of  a  faction,  and,  as  is  pop- 
ularly believed,  of  an  undemocratic  plu- 
tocratic power. 

On  that  memorable  night  of  nomina- 
tions, as  speeches  went  on,  one  could  not 
but  be  impressed  with  the  idea  that  the 
speakers  were  speaking  to  tickle  their  own 
ears,  to  earn  the  reputation  of  "spell 
binders,"  rather  than  seriously  to  present 
a  candidate.  The  crowd  grew  restless. 
Twelve  thousand  people  were  in  the  hall. 
When  Champ  Clark  nominated  Senator 
Cockrell,  the  whole  place  blossomed  sud- 
denly with  small  American  flags,  and  be- 
came a  sort  of  flower  garden  swept  by  a 
breeze. 

The  night  wore  on,  and  Senator  Bailey, 
.  as  chairman,  again  and 

Large  Asscm-  ^gg^j^     threatened     to 

blies  Unruly  p^^j.     q^^     disturbers; 

but  if  a  speaker's  voice  could  not  be  heard, 
it  was  useless  to  try  to  stem  the  tide  of 
disturbance.    Cries  of  "Cut  it  short,"  "Sit 


down,"  "Louder,"  made  bedlam  of  the 
place.  Often  was  witnessed  the  sad  case 
of  a  speaker  who  in  his  first  two  minutes 
made  a  climax  received  with  thunderous 
applause,  and  who  did  not  know  enough 
to  then  sit  down,  but  pursued  his  dreary 
way  to  the  end  amid  catcalls  and  hootings. 

One  of  the  eloquent  exceptions  was  the 
speech  of  Clarence  Darrow,  of  Chicago,  in 
seconding  Hearst.  It  was  not  a  placating 
speech,  but  one  of  defiance.  With  fine, 
virile  sentences  he  arraigned  the  Hill  fac- 
tion before  him  as  those  who  had  scuttled 
and  deserted  the  ship  of  Democracy.  But, 
through  praise  and  blame.  Hill,  Belmont 
and  the  Xew  York  delegation  sat  serene. 
Indeed,  after  the  first  boom  of  applause 
for  Parker,  it  was  noteworthy  that  when, 
in  the  nimierous  seconding  speeches  that 
were  made,  spontaneous  and  quite  hearty 
applause  would  break  out  at  the  mention 
of  Parker^s  name,  the  New  York  delega- 
tion as  a  whole  sat  unmoved  and  did  not 
join  in  the  applause.  Perhaps  it  was  a 
desire  to  get  to  the  end  speedily  and  be- 
gin voting.  Perhaps  it  was  that  security 
in  the  result  which  robs  an  occasion  of  ex- 
citement. 

Mayor  Rose    of    Wisconsin  nominated 


Senator    Henry   O.    Davis   of   West   Virgrinia,    the 
Democratic  nominee  for  Vice-President. 


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THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Wall  in  a  plain  speech,  calling  on  New 
York  not  to  insist  on  forcing  down  the 
throats  of  the  convention  a  candidate  who 
was  not  even  the  candidate  of  that  part  of 
the  state  which  gave  Democratic  majori- 
ties. *'\Vhy  is  it/'  he  asked,  "that  we  must 
accept  a  candidate,  who,  silent  himself,  is 
vouched  for  by  those  who  never  give  a 
New  York  Democratic  majority,  and  is  op- 
posed by  those  who  always  give  the  Dem- 
ocratic majority  in 
Parker  and  Xew    York?''      (That 

Tammany  jg      ^q      ggy^       Judge 

Parker  and  Hill  represented  the  state, 
which  is  Republican,  and  Murphy  and  the 
opposition  represented  the  city,  which  is 
Democratic.)  But  to  this  also  the  New 
York  delegation  only  returned  pitying 
smiles.  In  fact,  I  was  reminded  of  times 
when  I  have  had  to  appear  before  a  com- 
mittee of  a  legislature  whose  members 
had  the  price  of  their  votes  in  their  pock- 
ets. They  listened,  but  were  serene  and 
only  impatient  for  their  release. 

A  fiery  individual  named  Sam  White, 
from  Iowa,  jumped  on  a  chair  and  said, 
"On  behalf  of  the  unbought  and  unpur- 
chaseable Democrats  of  Iowa'' —  He  was 
then  suddenly  pulled  to  the  floor  by  other 
.  members  of  his  dele- 

Fisticuffs  gation.       The       New 

and  Fraud  York    delegation     for 

the  first  time  awoke  from  its  calm,  and 
every  man  jumped  to  his  feet.  One  began 
protesting  and  sought  to  get  the  chair- 
man's ear.  It  was  laughable,  because 
there  had  been  free  whispers  of  the  pur- 
chase of  delegates  by  Belmont's  agents; 
yet  when  the  disheveled  Mr.  White  was 
brought  to  the  platform  and  allowed  to 
complete  his  sentence,  he  said,  "On  behalf 
of  the  unbought  and  unpurchaseable  Dem- 
ocracy of  Iowa,  I  second  the  nomination 
of  that  sterling  jurist,  pure  man  and  great 
Democrat,  Judge  Alton  B.  Parker."  So 
everyone  laughed,  and  the  New  Yorkers 
had  their  fright  for  nothing.  On  Mr. 
White's  return  to  his  delegation  some  one 
k^locked  him  down,  and  for  a  time  the 
night  was  enlivened  by  a  fight.  Then  the 
chairman  of  the  Iowa  delegation  took  the 
platform  and  explained  that  the  utter- 
ances of  the  fiery  White  were  unauthor- 
ized, and  would  receive  the  treatment  they 
deserved,  and  the  Iowa  delegation  would 
vote  for  Mr.  Hearst,  at  the  proper  time. 

It  became  so  apparent    that    speakers 


Cluirle>  FranoiB  Murphy,   "Bobs"   of  Ta. 
defeated  by  David  B.   HUl  for  the  con- 
trol of  the  New  York  deleration  to 
the  Demooratio  Convention. 


were  there  to  air  their  own  eloquence,  that 
finally,  about  two  in  the  morning,  all 
seconding  speeches  were  by  resolution  lim- 
ited to  four  minutes.  But  the  crowd  had 
verv  sensitive  ideas  on  time.  They  would 
be^n  to  yell  "Time  V  "Time !"  before  the 
speakers  had  talked  a  minute.  One  weak- 
ness of  speakers  they  quickly  caught.  It 
seemed  as  if  no  seconder  could  get  up  and 
say.  For  such  and  such  reasons  I  second 
Judge  Parker ;  but  it  was  always,  I  second 
one  who,  etc.,  etc.;  who  has,  etc.,  etc.; 
whose  purity  of  life,  etc.,  etc. — until  the 
crowd  would  yell,  "Name  him!  Name 
him !  Spit  it  out !  Time !  Time !" 

When  Nebraska's  name  was  reached  in 
the  call  for  nominations,  a  gentleman  in 
the  delegation  arose,  but  the  caUs  for 
Bryan  became  so  uproarious  that  finally 
he  was  obliged  to  rise  and  make  the  sim- 
ple statement  that  Nebraska  exchanged 
places  with  Wisconsin.  His  turn  came  at 
a  little  after  four  o'clock  in  the  morning. 
Daylight  had  crept  into  the  hall,  which 
was  still  packed,  a-flutter  with  flags  and 
fans.  Ten  thousand  people  were  there, 
from  the  crowded  floor  to  those  leaning 
down  from  among  the  rafters  of  the  gal- 
leries :  a  crowd  that  had  sat  the  long  night 
through   and  grown  intolerant    of    even 


THE  DEMOCKATIC  CONVENTION. 


175 


four-minute  speeches.  (All  these  things 
are  worth  considering  by  the  philosopher 
at  this  convention.) 

As  Mr.  Bryan  wedged  his  way  from  his 
seat  in  the  delegation  to  the  platform,  the 
air  was  rent  with  cries  of  "Bryan! 
Bryan !"  and  again  you  felt  in  your  bones 
the  sincerity  of  the  thundering  applause. 

No  man's  personality 
Bryan  s  Power         does  this.     He  stands 

for  an  idea,  and  he 
would  be  dull  indeed  who  could  not  then 
feel  in  that  daylight  hour  that  so  far  as 
the  people  were  concerned,  there  was  but 
one  man  in  that  hall. 

The  roll  call  had  proceeded  to  the  end, 
and  the  secondings  of  Parker  left  no  doubt 
that  Hill  was  triumphant  and  that  Parker 
would  be  selected  just  as  soon  as  the  roll 
could  be  called.  Bryan,  who  had  worked 
sixteen  hours  on  the  platform  commit- 
tee, and  had  been  fifty  hours  without 
sleep,  stood  there,  waiting  for  the  applause 
to  subside.  Hill  sat  in  an  aisle  seat  in 
the  New  York  delegation,  directly  in  front 
of  him.  Bryan  let  his  eyes  rest  upon 
HilFs  face  for  a  moment,  and  Hill  turned 
away  slightly;  then  Bryan  ran  his  eyes 
over  the  crowd.  In  all  this  he  seemed  to 
be  absent-minded — as  if  thinking.  Pres- 
ently, he  saw  that  the  chairman — Senator 
Bailey — was  vainly  endeavoring  to  quiet 
the  applause,  which  was  becoming  hyster- 
ical. So  Bryan  stepped  forward,  and,  rais- 
ing both  hands,  motioned  for  silence.  The 
noise  slowly  died  to  a  mutter  that  dropped 
suddenly  to  death-like  silence,  and  Bryan 
began.  For  an  hour  he  held  that  impa- 
-^        ,  tient  crowd  upon  his 

Bryan  8  ^pg^    jj^    silence,    save 

tloqucncc  ^s  a  short  roar  of  ap- 

plause would  mark  some  point  he  made. 
When  he  spoke  of  coming  there  to  sur- 
render the  trust  given  to  him  by  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  two  old  men  on  the  platform 
near  me  began  to  cry,  and  quite  a  noticea- 
ble flutter  of  handkerchiefs  was  seen  over 
the  hall.  His  speech  was  not  rhetorical; 
there  were  no  theatrical  effects;  but,  ear- 
nestly and  as  a  prophet  of  the  people,  in 
simple,  clear  phrases,  he  stated  the  peo- 


ple's danger,  and  begged  for  some  other 
choice  than  Roosevelt  and  the  god  of  war, 
or  Parker  and  the  god  of  gold. 

Take  it  all  in  all,  it  was  the  most  im- 
pressive, the  most  really  eloquent  speech 
I  have  ever  listened  to;  and  though  it 
can  not  read  as  it  was  spoken,  it  is  given 
here  in  full,  as  the  one  great  incident  of 
an   historical   occasion. 

When  he  concluded,  there  was  silence, 
as  if  they  waited  for  more ;  and  then,  as  he 
turned  away,  there  was  an  outburst  of 
applause  that  rang  to 
Hifl  Reception  the  roof  and  would  not 

be  quieted  so  long  as 
he  remained  in  sight. 

I  take  it  that  the  newspapers  who  ridi- 
cule this  man  can  not  see  beyond  to-mor- 
row and  the  pay  counter.  In  the  after 
time,  when  all  of  us  are  dust  and  Time 
shall  be  winnowing  that  dust ;  when  presi- 
dents shall  count  for  their  worth  as  men, 
and  some  who  were  not  presidents  shall  be 
greater  than  some  who  were;  when  all  shall 
be  measured  by  their  service  in  the  uplift- 
ing of  mankind ;  when  the  greatest  of  men 
shall  be  seen  as  mere  puppets  in  the  play 
of  Destiny — ^then  the  names  of  Hill,  Bel- 
mont and  Rockefeller  will  be  utterly  over- 
^  i.   ,.     ^  looked  and  forgotten, 

IJchttling  Uryan  ^^^  p^^se  will  be  made 
la  ^enaeiees  ^j^jy  ^^^^  g^^^  ^^^^^^ 

as  Bryan,  men  of  men,  who  have  battled 
with  what  power  was  given  them,  hon- 
estly, for  the  good  of  struggling  man — ^the 
toiling  and  stricken  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren of  the  common  mass. 

Wealth  rules  for  the  day  in  every  age, 
but  only  ideas  are  eternal  and  move  the 
world.  Back  of  Mr.  Belmont  and  Mr. 
Hill  is  money;  back  of  Mr.  Bryan  is  an 
idea.  You  can  retard  it,  hide  it,  for  a 
time,  but  you  can  not  jail  it  or  kill  it. 

^^Sixteen  to  one'^  was  a  mere  suggestion. 
It  is  as  nothing  compared  to  the  great 
truth  he  announces  and  agitates :  that  the 
Republic  stands  in  the  shadow  of  a  plu- 
tocratic oligarchy.  His  open-breasted  bat- 
tle against  this  danger  gives  him  his 
strength  and  will  give  him  his  fame. 


BRYAN'S   SPEECH 


Gentlemen  of  the  Convention:  Two  nights 
without  sleep,  and  a  cold,  make  it  difficult  for 
me  to  make  myself  heard.  I  trust  that  it  will 
be  easier  in  a  moment,  but  as  I  desire  to  speak 
to  the  delegates  rather  than  to  the  visitors, 
I  hope  that  they  at  least  can  hear. 


Eight  years  ago  a  Democratic  convention 
placed  in  my  hands  the  standard  of  the  party 
and  gave  me  the  commission  as  its  candidate. 
Pour  years  later  that  commission  was  renewed. 
I  come  to-night  to  this  Democratic  convention 
to    return    the    commission    and    to    say    that 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


you  may  dispute  whether  I  fought  a  arood  flflrht; 
you  may  dispute  whether  I  finished  my  course, 
but  you  can  not  deny  that  I  have  kept  the 
faith.     (Cheers.) 

As  your  candidate  I  did  all  I  could  to  brinar 
success  to  the  party.  As  a  private  citiien 
to-day  I  am  more  interested  in  Democratic 
success  than  I  ever  was  when  I  was  a  candi- 
date. (Cheers.)  The  reasons  that  made  the 
election  of  a  Democrat  desirable  were  stronger 
in  1900  than  in  1896;  and  the  reasons  that  make 
the  election  of  the  Democratic  candidate  desir- 
able are  stronger  in  1904  than  they  were  in 
1900. 

The  gentleman  who  presented  New  York's 
candidate  dwelt  upon  the  danger  of  militarism, 
and  he  did  not  overstate  the  dangers.  Let  me 
quote  the  most  remarkable  passage  that  ever 
occurred  or  that  was  ever  found  in  the  speech 
of  nomination  of  any  candidate  for  President. 
Governor  Black,  of  New  York,  in  presenting 
the  name  of  Theodore  Roosevelt  to  the  Repub- 
lican convention,  used  these  words: 

"The  fate  of  nations  is  still  decided  by 
their  wars.  You  may  talk  of  orderly  tribunals 
and  learned  referees.  You  may  sing  in  your 
schools  the  gentle  praises  of  the  quiet  life. 
You  may  strike  from  your  books  the  last  note 
of  every  martial  anthem,  and  yet  out  in  the 
smoke  and  thunder  will  always  be  the  tramp 
of  horses  and  the  silent,  rigid,  upturned  faces. 
Men  may  prophesy  and  women  pray,  but  peace 
will  come  here  to  abide  here  forever  on  this 
earth  only  when  the  dreams  of  childhood  are 
the  accepted  charts  to  guide  the  destinies  of 
men.  Events  are  numberless  and  mighty,  and 
no  man  can  tell  which  wire  runs  around  the 
world.  The  nation  basking  to-day  in  the  quiet 
of  contentment  and  repose  may  still  be  on  a 
deadly  circuit,  and  to-morrow  writhing  in  the 
toils  of  war.  This  is  the  time  when  great 
figures  must  be  kept  in  front.  If  the  pressure 
is  great  the  material  to  resist  it  must  be 
granite    and    iron." 

This  is  a  eulogy  of  war.  This  is  a  declara- 
tion that  the  time  hoped  for,  prayed  for.  of 
perpetual  peace  will  never  come.  This  is 
eulogizing  the  doctrine  to  brute  force  and 
giving  denial  to  the  hopes  of  the  race.  And 
this  President,  a  candidate  for  re-election,  is 
presented  as  the  embodiment  of  that  ideal, 
the  granite  and  the  Iron,  to  represent  the  new 
idea  of  militarism.  Do  you  say  you  want  to 
defeat  the  military  idea?  Friends  of  the  South, 
are   you    trying   to   defeat   the    military    idea? 

Let  me  tell  you  that  none  of  you.  North, 
East  or  South,  more  fears  the  triumph  of  that 
Idea  than  I  do.  If  this  is  the  doctrine  that 
our  nation  is  to  stand  for,  it  is  retrogression, 
not  progression;  it  is  the  lowering  of  the  ideals 
of  the  nation;  it  is  the  turning  backward  to 
the  age  of  force.  More  than  this,  it  is  a 
challenge  to  the  Christian  civilization  of  the 
world,  and  nothing  less.     (Loud  applause.) 

Twenty-.seven  hundred  years  ago  a  prophet 
foretold  the  coming  of  One  who  was  to  be 
called  the  Prince  of  Peace.  Two  thousand 
years  ago  He  came  upon  the  earth,  and  the 
song  that  was  sung  at  His  birth  was  "Peace 
on  earth,  good  will  toward  men."  (Loud  cheer- 
ing and  applause.)  For  2  000  years  this  doc- 
trine of  peace  has  been  grrowing.  It  has  been 
taking   hold   upon   the   hearts   of   men. 

For  this  doctrine  of  peace  millions  have 
given  their  lives.  For  this  doctrine  of  peace 
thousands  have  crossed  oceans  and  given  their 
lives  among  savage  tribes  and  among  foreign 
nations.  This  doctrine  of  peace,  the  foundation 
of  Christian  civilization,  has  been  the  growing 
hope    of    the    world. 

And  now  the  ex-governor  of  the  greatest 
state  of  the  nation  presents  for  the  office  of 
President  of  the  greatest  republic  of  all  history 
a  man  who  is  granite  and  iron,  and  who  repre- 
sents not  the  doctrine  of  peace,  but  the  doc- 
trine that  the  destinies  of  nations  are  still 
settled  by  their  wars.  (Loud  applause.)  Will 
vou  of  New  York  present  a  graver  indictment 
against  President  Roosevelt  than  that?  Will 
you  of  the  South  present  a  graver  indictment 
against  President  Roosevelt  than  that?  I 
do  not  ask  what  Is  the  character  of  the  man; 
he  may  have  every  virtue.     He  may  be  exem- 


plary in  every  way/  but  if  the  President  shares 
the  idea  of  the  man  who  nominated  him;  if  the 
President  believes  with  his  sponsor  at  Chicago 
that  wars  must  settle  the  destinies  of  nations, 
that  peace  is  but  a  dream,  that  women  may 
pray  for  it.  that  men  may  prophesy  about 
it,  that  all  these  talks  of  orderly  tribunals 
and  all  this  are  but  empty  sounds;  if  he  be- 
lieves these  things  he  is  a  dangerous  man  for 
our  country  and  the  world.  (Prolonged  cheer- 
ing and  applause.) 

I  believe  he  ought  to  be  defeated;  I  believe 
he  can  be  defeated,  and  if  the  Democratic 
party  does  what  it  ought  to  do  I  believe  he  will 
be   defeated. 

How  can  you  defeat  him?  I  tried  to  defeat 
the  Republican  party  as  your  candidate.  I 
failed,  you  say?  Yes,  I  did.  I  received  a 
million  more  votes  than  any  Democrat  had  ever 
received  before,  and  yet  I  failed.  Why  did  I 
fail?  Because  there  were  some  who  had  aflUli- 
ated  with  the  Democratic  party  who  thought 
my  election  dangerous  to  the  country,  and 
they  left  and  helped  to  elect  my  opponent.  That 
is  why  I   failed. 

I  have  no  words  of  criticism  for  them. 
(Applause.)  I  have  always  believed,  I  believe 
to-night,  I  shall  always  believe,  I   hope,  that 


William  Jenniara  Bryan,  the  mott  oon- 
■piouooB  flffore  at  the  convention. 

a  man's  duty  to  his  country  is  higher  than  his 
duty  to  his  party.  I  hope  it  will  always  be  true 
that  men  of  all  parties  will  have  the  moral 
courage  to  leave  their  parties  when  they  believe 
that  to  stay  with  their  parties  will  be  to  injure 
their  country.  The  success  of  your  government 
depends  upon  the  independence  and  the  moral 
courage  of  its  citizenship. 

But,  my  friends,  if  I  failed  with  six  millions 
and  a  half  to  defeat  the  Republican  party,  can 
those  who  defeated  me  succeed  in  defeating 
the  Republican  party?  If  under  the  leadership 
of  those  who  were  loyal  in  1896 — (applause) — 
we  failed,  shall  we  succeed  under  the  leader- 
ship of  those  who  were  not  loyal  in  1896? 
(Applause.) 

If  we  are  going  to  have  some  other  god 
besides  this  war  god  that  is  presented  to  us 
by  Governor  Black,  what  kind  of  a  god  is  it 
to  be?  Must  we  choose  between  a  god  of  war 
and  a  god  of  gold?  Is  there  no  choice  between 
them?  If  there  is  anything  that  compares  in 
hatefulness  with  militarism  it  is  plutocracy, 
and  I  insist  that  the  Democratic  party  ought 
not  to  be  compelled  to  choose  between  militar- 
ism on  one  side  and  plutocracy  on  the  other 
side.     (Applause.) 


THE  DEMOCRATIC   CONVENTION. 


177 


We  came  here  and  agreed  upon  a  platform. 
We  were  in  session  sixteen  hours  last  nigrht, 
if  you  can  put  sixteen  hours  into  a  night.  We 
entered  the  committee  room  at  eight  last  even- 
ing, and  left  it  at  twelve  to-day.  But,  my 
friends,  I  never  spent  sixteen  hours  to  better 
purpose  in  my  life — (cheers) — ^because  I  helped 
to  bring  the  party  together,  so  we  could  have 
a  unanimous  platform  to  go  before  the  country 
on  in  this  campaign.     (Applause.) 

How  did  we  get  it?  It  was  not  all  that 
I  would  have  desired.  It  was  not  all  that  your 
Sastem  Democrats  desired.  We  had  to  sur- 
render some  things  that  we  wanted  in  the 
platform.  They  had  to  surrender  some  things 
they  wanted  in  the  platform.  But  by  mutual 
concession  and  mutual  surrender  we  agreed 
upon  a  platform  and  we  stand  on  that  platform. 
(  Great    cheerin  g. ) 

But,  my  friends,  we  need  more  than  a 
platform.  (Applause.)  We  have  to  nominate 
a  ticket,  and  that  is  the  work  of  this  conven- 
tion. Had  you  come  to  this  convention  in- 
structed for  any  man  to  the  extent  of  a  major- 
ity, I  not  only  would  not  have  asked  you  to 
disregard  your  Instructions,  I  would  not  If 
I  could  have  prevented  it,  permitted  you  to 
disregard  your  instructions.     (Applause.) 

I  believe  in  the  right  of  the  people  to  rule. 
I  believe  in  the  right  of  the  people  to  instruct 
their  delegrates,  and  when  a  delegate  is  in- 
structed, it  is  binding  upon  him.  But.  my 
friends,  not  a  majority  came  instructed  for  any 
candidate.  That  means  that  you  were  left 
upon  your  responsibility  to  select  a  candidate, 
and  a  grave  responsibility  it  is.  Grave  is 
the  responsibility  resting  upon  these  delegates 
in  this  convention.  I  have  not  come  to  ask 
anything  of  this  convention.  Nebraska  asks 
nothing  but  to  be  permitted  to  fight  the  battles 
of  Democracy.      (Cheers.) 

Some  of  you  have  called  me  a  dictator. 
It  was  false.  You  know  it  was  false.  (Cheers.) 
How  have  I  tried  to  dictate?  I  have  suggested 
that  I  thought  certain  things  ought  to  be  done. 
Have  not  you  exercised  the  same  privilege? 
Why  have  I  not  a  right  to  suggest?  (Applause.) 
(A  voice:     "You  have.") 

Because  I  was  your  candidate,  am  I  now 
estopped  to  ever  make  suggestions?  (Cries  of 
"No.  No.")  Why,  sir,  if  that  condition  went 
with  a  nomination  for  the  Presidency,  no  man 
worthy  to  be  President  would  ever  accept  a 
nomination — (applause) — for  the  right  of  a 
man  to  have  an  opinion  and  to  express  it  is 
more  important  and  sacred  than  the  holding 
of  any  office,    however  high. 

I  have  ray  opinions  about  the  platform.  I 
made  my  suggestions.  Not  all  of  them  were 
received.  I  would  like  to  have  seen  the  Kan- 
sas City  platform  reaffirmed.  (Applause.)  I 
am  not  ashamed  of  that  platform.  I  believe 
in  it  now,  as  I  believed  in  It  when  I  was  run- 
ning upon  it;  then,  I  was  your  candidate,  but 
the  people  in  the  Democratic  party  did  not 
agree  with  me,  and  their  will  was  supreme. 

When  they  veto  my  suggestions  I  have  to 
accept.  There  is  no  other  court  which  I  can 
appeal  to.  I  have  not  attempted  to  dictate 
about  candidates.  I  have  not  asked  the  Dem- 
ocrats of  this  nation  to  nominate  any  particu- 
lar man.  I  have  said  that  there  were  many 
In  every  state  willing  to  be  President;  and 
I  have  said  that  out  of  six  millions  and  a  half 
who  voted  for  me  in  both  campaigns,  we  ought 
to  be  able  to  find  at  least  one  good  man  for 
President.     (Loud  applause.) 

I  have  made  these  suggestions  only  in  a 
jreneral  way.  I  am  here  to-night  as  a  delegate 
from  Nebraska.  I  have  not  confidence  enough 
In  my  own  opinion  to  tell  you  tliat  I  can  pick 
out  the  man  and  say  that  this  man  must  be 
nominated  or  we  shall  lose.  I  have,  I  think,  a 
reasonable  faith  in  my  own  opinions;  at  least 
I  have  this  faith,  that  I  would  rather  accept 
ray  own  and  stand  by  thera  if  I  believed  them 
right,  than  accept  anybody  else's  if  I  believed 
them   wrong.     (Loud  applause.) 

Nebraska  is  not  here  asking  for  the  nomi- 
nation of  any  man.  We  now  have  a  platform 
on  which  we  all  can  stand.  (Loud  applause 
and  cheering.)  Now,  give  us  a  ticket  behind 
which  all  of  us  can  stand.     (Prolonged  cheers). 

You  can  go  into  any  state  you  please  and 


get  him.  I  have  not  as  much  faith  as  some 
have  in  the  value  of  a  locality.  I  have  never 
been  a  great  stickler  for  nominating  candidates 
from  doubtful  states  on  the  theory  that  their 
personal   popularity   would   elect   them. 

I  have  had  so  much  faith  in  the  virtue  of 
Democratic  principles  that  I  thought  a  Demo- 
crat ought  to  vote  for  a  good  man  from  any 
other  state  before  he  would  vote  for  a  bad  man 
from  his  own  state.     (Applause.)  . 

I  do  no  believe  much  in  this  doctrine  of  state 
pride,  and  I  have  found  that  when  people 
come  with  a  candidate  and  tell  us  first  that 
we  must  carry  a  certain  state,  and  that  that 
man  is  the  only  one  who  could  carry  the  state, 
they  do  not  put  up  a  bond  to  deliver  the  goods 
if  they  are  accepted.  (Applause.)  And,  any- 
how, a  state  that  is  so  uncertain  that  only  one 
Democrat  in  the  nation  can  carry  It  can  not 
be  relied  upon  in  a  great  crisis.     (Applause.) 

Now  we  have  our  platform.  Select  your 
candidate.  If  it  is  the  choice  or  the  wish  of 
this  convention  that  the  standard  should  be 
placed  in  the  hands  of  the  gentleman  presented 
by  California;  the  man  who,  though  he  has 
money,  pleads  the  cause  of  the  people;  the 
man  who  is  the  best  beloved,  I  think  I  can 
safely  say,  among  laboring  men  of  all  the 
candidates  proposed;  the  one  who  more  than 
any  other  represents  opposition  to  the  trust 
question — if  you  want  to  place  the  standard 
in  his  hands  and  make  Hearst  the  candidate 
of  this  convention,  Nebraska  will  be  with  you 
in  the  fight.     (Cheers.) 

But,  my  friends,  Nebraska  does  not  make 
any  request.  If  you  think  that  the  gentleman 
from  Wisconsin,  who,  though  faithful  in  both 
campalgrns,  was  not  with  us  on  the  money 
question — if  you  think  Mr.  Wall,  agreeing  with 
the  East  on  the  gold  question  and  with  the 
West  on  other  questions,  would  draw  the  party 
together — if  you  want  to  place  the  standard 
in  his  hands,  Nebraska  will  be  with  you  and 
contribute  her  part.     (Cheers.) 

If  you  prefer  an  Eastern  man  and  find  some 
one  who  will  give  both  elements  of  the  party 
something  to  believe  in,  something  to  trust 
in,  something  to  hope  for,  we  are  willing  to 
join  you  with  him.  My  friends,  it  is  not  al- 
ways that  every  available  man  is  mentioned. 
There  is  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  a  man 
whom  I  mention,  without  consulting  his  dele- 
gation, without  consent  of  the  man  himself; 
an  Eastern  man  who  voted  with  us  in  both 
campaigns,  but  against  us  on  the  money  ques- 
tion, and,  I  believe,  in  sympathy  with  the 
people;  a  man  twice  governor  of  a  grreat  state 
(cheers) ;  a  man  who  only  two  years  ago,  when 
a  candidate  again,  carried  the  great  State  of 
Pennsylvania  outside  of  the  two  great  cities 
of  Philadelphia  and  Pittsburg.  If  you  Eastern 
Democrats  who  have  insisted  that  your  objec- 
tion to  me  was  my  belief  in  free  silver — if  you 
Democrats  are  willing  to  take  a  gold  man,  I 
am  willing  to  let  you  have  your  way  on  that 
question  in  this  man,  for  I  will  trust  his  hon- 
esty on  all  questions.     (Applause.) 

I  only  mention  these  candidates  as  illustra- 
tions. I  came  here  to  second  the  nomination 
of  a  man,  and  I  come  to  second  his  nomination 
not  because  I  can  assert  to  you  that  he  is  more 
available  than  any  other  person  who  might  be 
named,  but  because  I  love  the  man,  and  be- 
cause on  the  platform  we  have  adopted  I  don't 
think  there  is  any  good  reason  why  every  Dem- 
ocrat in  the  East  might  not  vote  for  this  man. 
T  come  to  second  the  noraination  of  Senator 
Cockerell,  of  Missouri.  (Long-continued  ap- 
plause, followed  by  cheers.)       -^ 

He  Is  the  Nestor  of  the  Senate.  He  Is  ex- 
perienced in  public  affairs.  He  is  known;  he 
has  a  record.  He  can  be  measured  by  it; 
and,  my  friends,  I  would  be  willing  to  write 
my  Indorsement  on  his  back  and  send  him  out 
to  the  world,  willing  to  guarantee  everything 
he  did.  (Loud  applause.)  They  say  that  he 
comes  from  the  South.  What  If  he  does?  I 
do  not  share  the  feeling  that  some  people  have 
that  the  Democratic  party  can  not  take  a  can- 
didate from   the  South. 

They  say  he  was  in  the  Confederate  army. 
What  if  he  was?  I  do  not  share  the  belief  of 
those  who  say  we  can  not  nominate  an  ex- 
Confederate.     (Prolonged     cheering     and     ap- 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


plause.)  My  friends,  that  war,  that  cruel 
war,  was  40  years  ago.  Its  issues  are  settled; 
its  wounds  are  healed.  The  participants  are 
friends.  We  have  got  another  war  on  now. 
and  those  who  know  what  the  war  between 
plutocracy  and  democracy  means  will  not  ask 
where  a  man  stood  40  years  aero;  they  will  ask: 
Where  does  he  stand  to-day  in  this  war? 

My  friends,  I  believe  that  the  erreat  issue 
in  this  country  to-day  is  plutocracy  versus 
democracy.  You  have  said  that  I  had  Just 
one  idea,  the  silver  Idea.  Well,  awhile  back, 
they  said  I  had  only  one.  but  then  it  was  the 
tariff  idea.  There  is  an  issue  frreater  than 
the  silver  issue,  the  tariff  issue — the  trust 
issue. 

It  is  the  issue  between  plutocracy  and  de- 
mocracy; whether  this  is  to  be  a  government 
of  the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the  people, 
administered  by  officers  chosen  by  the  people, 
administered  in  behalf  of  the  people.  It  is 
either  this,  or  it  is  to  be  a  rule  of  the  moneyed 
element  of  the  country  for  their  own  interest 
alone.  The  issue  has  been  growing.  I  want 
you  as  Democrats  here  assembled  to  help  us 
meet  this  question. 

You  tell  me  the  Republican  candidate  stands 
for  militarism.  Yes,  but  he  also  stands  for 
plutocracy.  You  tell  me  he  delights  in  war. 
But  there  is  another  objection  to  him,  and  that 
is  that  he  does  not  enforce  the  law  against  a 
big  criminal  as  he  does  against  a  little  crimi- 
nal. Laws  are  being  violated  to-day,  and  these 
laws  must  be  enforced.  The  people  must 
understand  that  we  are  to  have  equal  rights 
for  all  and  special  privileges  to  none.  (Ap- 
plau.se.  > 

We  have  had  the  debauchment  of  elections. 
It  was  stated  the  other  day  that  in  the  little 
State  of  Delaware  $256,000  was  spent  in  the 
state  on  one  day  just  before  the  election  of 
1896.  Some  say  that  we  must  have  a  great 
campaign  fund,  and  go  out  and  bid  against 
the  Republicans.  My  friends,  I  want  to  warn 
you  that  if  the  Democratic  party  is  to  .save 
this  nation,  it  must  not  save  it  by  purchase, 
but  by  principle.  Every  time  we  resort  to 
purchase  we  cultivate  the  spirit  of  barter, 
and  the  price  will  constantly  Increase  and  elec- 
tions will  go  to  the  highest  bidder. 

If    the    Democratic    party    is    to    save    this 


country,  it  must  appeal  to  the  conscience  of 
the  country.  It  must  point  out  the  dangers 
to  the  republic,  and  if  the  party  will  nominate 
a  man,  I  care  not  from  what  part  he  comes, 
who  is  not  the  candidate  of  a  faction,  who  Is 
not  the  candidate  of  an  element,  but  the  can- 
didate of  a  party,  the  party  will  stand  by  him 
and  will  drive  the  Republican  party  from 
power  and  save  this  country.     (Applause.) 

My  friends,  I  believe  that  you  could  take 
a  man  from  any  Southern  state  who  would  go 
out  and  make  a  fight  that  would  appeal  to 
Democrats,  all  Democrats  who  love  Demo- 
cratic principles,  and  to  Republicans  who  be- 
gin to  fear  for  their  nation's  welfare — take 
such  a  man,  and  I  believe  that  he  would  poll  a 
million  more  votes  than  the  candidate  of  any 
faction  whose  selection  would  be  regarded  as 
a  triumph  of  a  part  of  the  party  over  the  rest 
of  the  party.     (Applause.) 

I  simply  submit  it  for  your  consideration. 
I  am  here  to  discharge  a  duty  that  I  owed  to 
the  party.  I  knew  before  I  came  to  this 
convention  that  a  majority  of  the  delegates 
would  not  agree  with  me  in  my  financial  views. 
I  knew  that  there  would  be  among  the  dele- 
gates many  who  did  not  vote  for  me  when  I 
sorely  needed  their  help.  I  was  not  objecting 
to  the  majority  against  me,  nor  to  the  pres- 
ence of  those  who  went  away  and  came  back. 
But,  my  friends,  I  came,  not  because  I  thought 
I  would  be  delighted  to  be  in  the  minority  in 
our  opinion,  but  because  I  owed  a  duty  to 
the  6,000,000  brave,  loyal  men  who  sacrificed 
for  me.     (Cheers.) 

I  came  to  get  them  as  good  a  platform  as  I 
could.  I  have  helped  them  to  get  a  good  plat- 
form. (Applause.)  I  came  to  help  get  as  good 
a  candidate  as  I  can;  and  I  hope  that  he  will 
be  one  who  can  draw  the  factions  together, 
who  can  give  to  us  who  believe  in  aggressive, 
positive.  Democratic  reform  something  to  hope 
for,  and  to  those  who  have  differed  from  us 
on  the  main  question — that  he  can  give  them 
something  to  hope  for,  too.  And  I  close  with 
an  appeal  that  I  make  from  my  heart  to  the 
hearts  of  those  who  hear  me:  Give  us  a  pilot 
who  will  gruide  the  Democratic  ship  from  mili- 
tarism, the  Scylla  of  militarism,  without 
wrecking  her  In  the  Charybdis  of  commercial- 
ism.     (Great  demonstration.) 


OUR  VIEW 


.lAiMBITTLE 


The  demand  for  MEN  is  always  greater  than  the  supply. 

*  *         * 

Kefined,  purified,  noble  character  is  not  a  gift,  nor  is  it  inherent.  It  is  to  be 
won  by  constant,  unceasing  effort  to  approach  the  ideal,  and  it  is  the  one  thing  that 

is  really  worth  while  in  this  world. 

*  «         * 

The  young  man  who  expects  to  attain  success  without  the  most  intense,  con- 
tinuous struggle,  misunderstands  the  world  and  the  reason  for  its  rewards.  Work 
and  struggle — ^liard,  unremitting,  careful,  determined  struggle — are  the  foundation 

stones  of  all  character  and  success. 

*  ♦         * 

Those  who  are  supposed  to  know,  assure  us  that  the  country  is  "safe.'^  A  good, 
thorough-going,  dependable  Democrat,  Roosevelt,  has  been  nominated  by  the  Re- 
publicans, and  a  stanch,  reliable,  conservative  and  safe  Republican,  Parker,  has 
been  nominated  by  the  Democrats.  It  is  a  grab-bag  proposition  this  year.  You 
can  shut  your  eyes,  take  your  choice  and  be  satisfied. 

*       *       * 

The  Pacific  Monthly  publishes  this  month  an  article  by  Mr.  C.  E.  S.  Wood  on 
the  Democratic  convention.  The  publication  of  this  article  is  not  from  a  partisan 
standpoint,  but  in  recognition  of  the  fact  that  the  result  in  November  will  depend 
less  upon  what  was  done  at  Chicago  than  upon  what  was  done  at  St.  Louis.  In 
this  connection  we  wish  to  remind  our  readers  that  The  Pacific  Monthly  does  not 
take  sides  on  political  questions.  It  has  been  and  is  the  policy  of  the  magazine  to 
make  no  editorial  expression  of  preference  for  candidates,  but  to  publish  by  compe- 
tent partisan  writers  a  review  of  the  Democratic  and  Republican  outlook.  In  keep- 
ing with  this  policy  there  will  appear  in  The  Pacific  Monthly  in  the  near  future 
short,  crisp  articles  on  "Why  Roosevelt  Should  be  Elected^^  and  "Why  Parker 
Should  be  Elected."  ♦       *       * 

The  organization  in  Portland,  Oregon,  recently  of  the  Oregon  Development 
League  is  a  much  delayed  step  in  the  right  direction.  The  purpose  of  the  League, 
as  indicated  in  the  name,  is  the  development  of  the  state  through  publicity  and  co- 
operation. The  California  Promotion  Committee  has  found  it  advisable  to  do  the 
same  work  for  California  that  will  be  done  by  the  newly  organized  League  for  Ore- 
gon, and  the  Seattle  Chamber  of  Commerce  takes  the  lead  in  such  work  for  the 
State  of  Washington.  In  Victoria  and  Vancouver,  B.  C,  the  Tourist  Associations 
are  very  active  in  bringing  the  advantages  of  British  Columbia  before  the  world. 
The  purposes  of  these  organizations  are  practically  identical,  and  in  a  sense  they 
present  a  peculiar  anomaly.  Why,  it  may  be  asked,  is  it  necessary  to  induce  immi- 
gration if  the  Pacific  Coast  is  all  that  these  organizations  claim  it  to  be?  If  we 
have  the  finest  climate  in  the  world,  the  most  fertile  land,  majestic  scenery,  and  all 
that  makes  life  pleasant  and  desirable,  why  do  not  people  find  it  out  and  come  West 
without  any  urging?  The  answer,  of  course,  is  that  they  do  find  out  and  are  com- 
ing, but  not  fast  enough  to  suit  the  Western  idea  of  things.  So  we  organize.  The 
l)enefit  of  such  organizations  is  not  confined,  however,  simply  to  those  who  take 
advantage  of  their  opportunities  and  come  W^est.  There  is  an  equal  advantage  to 
be  derived  to  the  states  which  foster  such  organizations.  The  people  are  brought 
into  closer  contact  and  a  deeper,  broader  spirit  of  loyalty  and  progress  is  engendered. 


A  ivorld-^cle  aurvcy  of  important  events  in  all  <lepartment0  of  buman  activity 


Tk    1     A'       ^^  f^^  ^  ^^^  country  is  concerned,  the  convention    of    the  Demo- 
Ihe  Lieading    ^^^^^-^  party  at  St.  Louis,  to  nominate  its  candidates  and  to  enunciate 
^^^^  its  platform,  was  the  chief  event  of  the  month.    The  outcome  of  the 

Republican  convention  was  foregone,  but  that  of  the  St.  Louis  gathering  was  in  doubt 
to  the  last;  and  in  its  dramatic  episodes,  its  sustained  excitement  and  its  impassioned 
oratory,  it  surpassed  any  similar  event  of  recent  years.  Its  essential  importance 
lies  in  the  fact  that  the  conservative  element  of  ihe  party,  under  the  efficient  leader- 
ship  of  David  B.  Hill,  was  again  restored  to  power,  completely  ousting  the  populistic 
forces,  which  look  to  W.  J.  Bryan  as  their  leader.  Mr.  Bryan  was  by  all  odds  the 
most  conspicuous  figure  of  the  convention,  and  his  thrilling  eloquence  was  never 
more  in  evidence;  but  when  it  came  to  a  vote,  his  followers  made  but  a  pitiful  show- 
ing. Perhaps  ihe  most  impressive  incident  was  the  receipt  of  the  Parker  telegram, 
announcing  his  fidelity  to  the  gold  standard.  By  his  friends,  this  act  was  lauded  as 
an  evidence  of  their  candidate's  political  indepeiidence  and  soundness  on  the  money 
issue.  By  his  foes  it  was  denounced  as  a  piece  of  trickery,  designed  tt)  force  the 
gold  standard  upon  the  convention,  at  a  time  when  a  revolt  would  spell  disruption 
and  consequent  defeat.  The  true  significance  of  the  convention  is  the  restoration  of 
the  Democratic  party  to  the  prestige  it  has  lost  in  the  past  two  campaigns.  Roose- 
velt's election  is  no  longer  conceded  as  a  certainty,  and  ihe  contest  promises  to  be 
hotly  fought  by  two  well-matched  antagonists,  neither  of  which  can  claim  any  great 
advantage  until  the  last  vote  is  in. 


Tke  War  '^^^  P^^^  month  has  wit- 
nessed much  severe  fighting 
in  the  far  East,  but  without  any  decisive 
results.  Steadily,  doggedly,  the  Japanese 
forces  under  Oku  and  Kuroki,  have 
pounded  away  at  the  Eussian  line,  meet- 
ing stubborn  resistance  at  times,  but  al- 
most invariably  accomplishing  their  pur- 
pose. One  post  after  another  has  been 
abandoned  by  the  Russians,  until  now  Niu 
Chwang  is  the  only  point  of  importance 
in  the  Liao-tung  peninsula  —  excepting 
Port  Arthur — in  the  possession  of  the  Rus- 
sians. As  Niu  Chwang  is  invested  by  the 
Japanese,  it  may  be  safely  predicted  that 
Mukden  will  be  Kouropatkin's  next  base 
of  resistance.  The  wet  weather  has  ap- 
parently not  interfered  with  the  Japanese 
advance,  and  the  fighting  has  been  of 
the  severest  character,  the  fatality  on  both 
sides  being  appalling.     About  Port  Ar- 


thur, the  situation  is  not  materially 
changed.  Desperate  attempts  have  been 
made  by  the  Japanese  to  gain  command- 
ing points,  with  some  success.  Much  ex- 
citement was  aroused  by  a  dispatch  from 
Mukden  to  the  effect  that  the  Japanese 
had  been  repulsed  with  a  loss  of  30,000. 
Later  advices  reduced  the  number  of 
killed,  until,  finally,  the  whole  story  was 
discredited.  Under  guise  of  merchant- 
men, two  Russian  cruisers  passed  the  Dar- 
danelles, and  created  an  international 
flurry  by  holding  up  shipping  suspected 
of  carrying  contraband  articles.  The  Brit- 
ish steamer  Malacca  was  the  first  victim; 
but  English  ire  was  at  once  aroused,  and 
a  stern  demand  for  the  immediate  release 
of  the  vessel  brought  the  desired  result. 
The  British  vessel  Knight  Commander, 
sailing  from  Xew  York  with  a  cargo  of 
railroad  material  for  Japan,  was  sunk  by 


THE  MONTH. 


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the  Russians.  The  German  steamer  Ara- 
bia, chartered  by  the  Portland-Asiatic 
Steamship  Company,  laden  largely  with 
flour  for  the  Japanese,  was  seized,  and  her 
fate  will  be  decided  by  the  Prize  Court  at 
Vladivostok.  Great  apprehension  is  felt 
for  the  Korea  and  the  Shatvmut,  each  with 
large  cargoes  for  Japan,  which  are  now 
overdue  at  Yokohama. 

Tliey're  oflE!  With  the  formal 
Politics  acceptance  of  their  respective 
nominations  by  the  two  principal  candi- 
dates, and  the  perfection  of  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  parties,  the  great  contest  is 
now  well  under  way.  Although  campaign- 
ing may  not  begin  until  the  cessation  of 
the  hot  weather,  yet  intense  activity  pre- 
vails in  the  rival  camps,  with  every  pros- 
pect for  the  keenest  kind  of  a  struggle. 
The  Democratic  convention,  which  re- 
sulted in  the  nomination  of  Judge  Alton 
B.  Parker  for  President,  and  ex-Senator 
Henry  G.  Davis  for  Vice-President,  was  of 
historic  importance.  Mr.  Bryan  waged  a 
strong  fight,  and  swayed  the  vast  assem- 
blage again  and  again  with  his  oratory, 
but  was  unable  to  control  the  votes  neces- 
sary to  defeat  Judge  Parker.  The  con- 
struction of  the  platform  precipitated  an- 
other battle,  with  Bryan  again  in  the  thick 
of  it.  He  held  out  for  an  income  tax,  and 
demanded  that  no  recognition  be  made  of 
the  existing  money  standard.  A  compro- 
mise was  finally  effected,  by  which  both 
measures  were  dropped.  This  partial  vic- 
tory for  Bryan  was  neutralized  by  Judge 
Parker's  impressive  and  straightforward 
telegram,  declaring  his  belief  in  the  gold 
standard,  and  declining  the  nomination  on 
any  other  basis.  Other  salient  points  of 
the  platform  are  those  for  tariflE  revision, 
for  the  independence  of  the  Filipinos,  and 
against  monopolies.  Any  effort  to  revive 
race  animosity  is  condemned;  laws  giving 
capital  and  labor  "their  just  rights"  are 
favored,  and  a  promise  is  made  to  con- 
struct the  Panama  Canal.  Other  planks 
contain,  more  or  less  overtly,  criticisms 
of  the  present  administration.  Tom  Tag- 
gari:,  of  Indiana,  has  been  selected  to  man- 
age the  Democratic  campaign.  One  thing 
is  ceri:ain:  the  Democrats  will  have  a  lib- 
eral campaign  fund,  for  Mr.  Davis  is  him- 
self many  times  a  millionaire,  and  other 
moneyed  men  of  the  party,  who  were  es- 
tranged by  Bryan,  may  be  expected    to 


"dig  up."  This,  coupled  with  the  un- 
doubted excellence  of  their  candidates,  will 
put  the  two  parties  upon  an  equal  footing. 

vf  T>  L  '  Chicago,  Kansas  City  and 
Meat  PackcTfl  q^i^^j.  cities  are  in  the 
Dtnke  throes  of  the  largest  strike 

in  the  history  of  the  meat-packing  indus- 
try. Seventy-three  thousand  men  are  di- 
rectly involved,  and  if  sympathetic  strikes 
are  ordered,  as  seems  probable,  the  number 
will  be  largely  increased.  The  wages  of 
unskilled  laborers  in  the  meat-cutting  de- 
partments is  the  cause  of  the  dispute,  but 
the  exact  situation  is  obscured  by  the  con- 
tradictory statements  of  the  contending 
parties.  The  strike  leaders  claim  that  they 
are  resisting  a  threatened  decline  in  wages, 
while  the  packers  declare  that  the  men  de- 
manded a  raise.  A  meeting  was  arranged 
for  the  disputants  before  the  Illinois  State 
Board  of  Arbitration,  with  good  prospects 
of  a  settlement,  but  the  employers  refused 
to  make  any  concessions,  and  negotiations 
were  declared  off.  The  packers  are  im- 
porting nonunion  men,  and  the  usual 
strike  phenomena  of  riots  and  bloodshed 
have  resulted.  In  the  portions  of  the  coun- 
try supplied  by  the  packers,  the  prices  of 
meat  have  soared,  and  the  public  is,  per- 
force, learning  the  advantages  of  a  vege- 
tarian diet. 


WHEBE    THE    SHOE    PINCHES. 

John  Bull — Oi  say,   Sam,   the  benar  is  walking  off 
with  me  ships,   doncherknow. 

XTnole    Sam — ^Ya-s,    b'gosh;    and   it's   my   goods   that 
are  in  your  ships. 

From    the    Spokesman- Review. 


Slocum  Disaster: 
tLe  A^itermatk 


There  has  been  no 
shirking  of  duty 
in  fixing  the  blame 
for  the  terrible  Slocum  disaster.  The  cor- 
oner^s  jury — upon  whom  fell  the  trying 
duties  of  the  investigation — acted  with  no 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTnLY. 


uncertainty,  and  their  report  is  a  rigorous 
accusation  of  all  the  officials  connected 
with  the  affair.  The  president,  secretary 
and  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Knicker- 
bocker Steamboat  Company  are  found 
guilty  of  criminal  negligence  in  failing 
to  see  that  proper  fire-fighting  and  life- 
saving  appliances  were  installed.  The 
captain  of  the  vessel  is  held  criminally  re- 
sponsible for  the  accident.  The  commo- 
dore of  the  fleet  is  also  held  accountable, 
and  the  mate  of  the  Slocum  is  accused  of 
cowardice.  In  addition,  Henry  Sundberg, 
the  government  inspector,  is  held  for  in- 
competence and  carelessness  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  duties.  Because  of  the 
greater  scope  of  the  federal  laws,  it  was 
agreed  that  the  federal  courts  should  han- 
dle the  matter.  The  men  were  all  arrested, 
but  released  on  bail.  The  next  step  will 
be  taken  by  the  grand  jury  in  securing  the 
necessary  indictments.  Trial  can  not  be 
reached  before  October. 


— ,     c-  L-        r  ^^'i^^  people  still  discus- 
L    XT      "^         si^^  *^^  burning  of  the 
the  Norgc  Slocum,  the  news  of  an- 

other marine  casualty  came  as  an  added 
shock.  On  June  28,  the  Danish  steamer 
Norge  struck  a  reef  off  the  coast  of  Scot- 
land, and  sank  almost  immediately.  Of 
the  700  passengers  and  the  crew  of  80,  but 
one  boatload  of  27  was  saved.  The  pas- 
senger list  was  composed  entirely  of  Nor- 
wegian, Danish,  Swedish  and  Finnish  im- 
migrants to  the  United  States.  The  ill- 
fated  vessel  was  built  with  the  customary 
water-tight  bulkheads,  designed  to  prevent 
just  such  an  accident ;  but  the  connecting 
doors  were  left  open,  and  the  compart- 
ments were  useless.  It  is  thought  that  the 
Norge  missed  her  reckoning,  as  she  was 
out  of  her  course  when  she  ran  upon  the 
reef.  Her  engines  were  reversed,  and  she 
backed  into  deep  water,  only  to  go  to  the 
bottom. 

T?  11  XT  •  1  ^  splendid  victory  for 
Folk  Nominated  ^^^^^^  politics  was  that 
for  Governor  resulting  in  the  nomina- 
tion of  Joseph  W.  Folk  for  Governor  of 
Missouri  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  As 
Circuit  Attorney  of  St.  Louis,  Folk  has 
smitten  tlie  boodlers,  hip  and  thigh,  and 
has  earned  the  cordial  enmity  of  the  ^lis- 
souri  machine.  In  spite  of  this  organized 
and  unscrupulous  opposition,  he  received 


the  unanimous  vote  of  the  convention.  In 
his  speech  of  acceptance,  he  declares  open 
war  upon  the  boodler,  and  no  quarter.  "If 
I  am  elected  to  a  larger  field  of  opportu- 
nity," he  says,  "I  propose  to  make  Mis- 
souri the  most  unhealthy  place  in  all  the 
land  for  corruptionists  to  operate  in." 

\T  TM  1-  ^^*  ^^^  Plehve,  Russian 
Von  Plehve  Minister  of  the  Interior, 
Assasflinated  ^^et  his  death  by  the  explo- 
sion of  a  bomb  thrown  by  a  Finn  named 
Leglo.  The  minister  was  riding  in  his 
carriage  in  St.  Petersburg  when  the  as- 
sassination took  place.  Leglo  was  imme- 
diately captured.  The  explosion  of  the 
bomb  was  terrific,  reducing  the  carriage 
to  shreds  and  splinters,  and  horribly 
mangling  the  unfortunate  occupant  and 
his  coachman.  The  deed  is  believed  to  be 
part  of  a  plot  of  great  magnitude,  and 
many  arrests  are  being  made. 

P  -  -  The  persistent  failure  of 
Ketorm  tor  Ruggian  arms  seems  to  be 
Russia  arousing  her  rulers  to  the 

need  of  a  remedy  for  internal  troubles. 
One  of  the  most  radical  reforms  of  the 
generation  is  that  which,  by  imperial  de- 
cree, abolishes  the  system  of  condemning 
without  trial  persons  suspected  of  political 
crimes.  Hereafter  suspects  of  this  class 
will  be  tried  according  to  the  regular  pro- 
cesses of  law.  Other  reform  measures 
are  those  effecting  the  abolition  of  certain 
harsh  forms  of  punishment,  as  the  use 
of  the  knout  and  the  cat-o'-nine-tails,  and 
the  supercession  of  military  rule  in  rural 
districts  by  a  newly  organized  police.  Evi- 
dently the  Czar  is  sincere  in  his  intention 
to  ameliorate  the  intolerable  conditions 
which  have  prevailed  in  Eussia. 


M. 


Since  his  liberation,  Ion  Per- 
oroccos    (jicaris,  who  was  held  captive 
^^^^  by  the  Moorish  bandit,  Rai- 

suli,  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  af- 
fairs of  Morocco.  It  appears  that  the 
country  is  in  danger  of  serious  disruption, 
if  strong  measures  are  not  adopted.  Mr. 
Perdicaris  has  gone  to  Paris  to  urge  that 
the  French  government  dispatch  a  com- 
manding force  at  once  to  restore  order. 
If  France  fails  to  do  this,  Perdicaris  rec- 
ommends that  Eaisuli  be  given  authority 
to  deal  with  the  situation.  Instead  of  be- 
ing a  common  robber,  Raisuli,  according 


THE  MONTH. 


183 


to  his  late  captive,  is  a  man  of  culture  and 
power,  and  the  strongest  man  available  to 
stem  the  tide  of  anarchy  and  brigandage 
which  is  threatening  Morocco. 

-^  -  -.  With  the  final  release- 

Release  of  jnent  of  Mrs.  Maybrick 

Mrs.  Maybnck  f^.^^^  i^^^  i^^g  confine- 
ment, an  international  aflEair  of  consider- 
able interest  is  brought  to  a  close.  Fifteen 
years  ago,  Mrs.  Maybrick — an  American 
girl,  married  to  an  elderly  Englishman  of 
wealth — was  convicted  of  murdering  her 
husband.  The  evidence  was  weak,  and. 
by  most  people,  Mrs.  Maybrick  was  con- 
sidered innocent.  Every  effort  was  made 
in  her  behalf,  but  resulted  only  in  the 
commutation  of  her  death  penalty  to  a 
life  imprisonment.  Some  time  ago,  she 
was  put  on  guard  in  a  convent,  preparatory 
to  her  final  release.  She  is  now  with  her 
mother  in  France,  and  will  shortly  return 
to  this  country. 


"Let  ME  at  him!" 

From   the  Tacoma   Ledger. 

Like  a  chapter  from  a  his- 
Uisappearance  torical  romance  reads  the 
of  Loomis  story  of  the  disappearance 
of  Kent  J.  Loomis,  brother  of  Francis 
B.  Loomis,  Assistant  Secretary  of  State. 
Mr.  Loomis  was  made  the  bearer  of  a 
trade  treaty  with  King  Menelik  of  Abys- 
sinia, whither  he  was  bound  on  the  Kaiser 
Wilhelm  III.     He  was  much  in  evidence 


during  the  voyage,  but,  on  landing,  he 
failed  to  appear,  and  his  luggage  was 
turned  over  to  the  United  States  Con- 
sulate. Some  time  later  his  dead  body 
was  found  on  the  coast,  with  an  ugly 
wound  at  the  back  of  the  head.  Wliat 
greatly  increases  the  mystery  of  the  affair 
was  the  presence  on  tlie  vessel  of  one 
W.  H.  Ellis,  a  Hawaiian  or  negro,  of 
fabulous  fortune.  It  is  known  that  Ellis 
was  en  route  to  the  court  of  Menelik,  with 
whom  he  was  very  friendly.  According 
to  Ellis*  assertions,  the  Abyssinian  poten- 
tate was  disposed  to  make  him  his  suc- 
cessor, and  that  he  was  desirous  of  serving 
as  the  bearer  of  the  treaty.  The  matter 
is  being  sifted  by  the  authorities,  but  if 
yet  veiled  in  mystery. 

^^  -^  -  In  the  death,  in  his  seventv- 
Uom  Paul  ninth  year,  of  Paul  Kruger, 
^**°  once  President  of  the  Trans- 

vaal Republic,  the  world  loses  one  of  its 
most  picturesque  figures.  His  life  is  in- 
dissolubly  linked  with  the  Boer  people, 
and  his  biography  would  almost  constitute 
a  history  of  the  Transvaal,  so  closely  were 
the  two  connected.  He  played  a  conspicu- 
ous part  in  the  struggle  to  wrest  a  free 
home  from  the  hostile  tribes  of  the  wil- 
derness, and  was  elected  president  of  the 
Transvaal  in  1882.  The  part  he  played 
in  the  Boer-British  war  is  too  well  known 
to  need  rehearsal.  Despite  his  many  faults, 
Paul  Kruger  had  the  qualities  of  great- 
ness: heroism,  and  exalted  unselfishness, 
patriotism  of  the  highest  kind,  and  the 
ability  to  sacrifice  himself  utterly  for  the 
cause  to  which  he  was  devoted.  He  died 
in  Switzerland,  but  will  be  buried,  at  his 
own  request,  in  the  Transvaal. 


Deatk  of  ^^Golden 


After   a   two   weeks" 
^   -  „  ^  illness.   Mayor  Sam- 

Rule    Jones  ^g|     ^      j^nes,     of 

Toledo,  died  July  12.  Mr.  Jones  has 
become  famous  through  his  introduction 
into  business  of  the  "Golden  Rule.''  His 
factory  was  managed  most  sucessfully  on 
this  basis.  In  1897  he  was  elected  Mayor 
of  Toledo  on  the  Republican  ticket.  His 
radical  socialism  prevented  his  renomina- 
tion  in  1899,  but  he  ran  on  an  independent 
ticket,  and  was  overwhelmingly  elected. 
He  was  greatly  beloved,  and  his  death  has 
awakened  universal  regret. 


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THE    PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Investigation  of 


Over  a  year  ago,  the 


x:     i  f.  .         Agricultural  Depart- 

tood  Preservatives     j^^^^     instituted     a 

thorough  investigation  of  the  effects  of 
food  preservatives,  such  as  borax,  salicylic 
acid,  etc.,  upon  the  human  system.  This 
was  undertaken  as  a  result  of  Germany^s 
action  in  excluding  certain  of  our  exports, 
especially  tinned  meats,  and  also  to  guide 
our  government  in  its  policy  toward  im- 
ported food  products.  A  number  of  men 
were  fed  upon  the  foods  in  question  and 
careful  note  taken  of  the  effects.  The 
"poison  squad,'^  as  the  subjects  were 
known,  were  bound  to  eat  no  other  food, 
and  were  also  kept  in  ignorance  of  the 
true  nature  of  the  food  they  were  eating. 
The  results  prove  conclusively  that  borax 
and  similar  preservatives  are  more  or  less 
injurious.  The  digestion  and  appetite  are 
affected  and  loss  of  weight  ensues.  The 
report  concludes  that  the  free  use  of  such 
preservatives  is  not  desirable,  and  that, 
at  any  rate,  the  quantity  and  character 
of  the  preservative  should  be  plainly  indi- 
cated. 

-.  Most  deplorable  is  the  van- 

yandalism  at  sialism  which  resulted  in 
bt.  Louis  ^i^g  partial  destruction  of 

Santos  Dumont^s  air  ship  with  which  he 
purposed  to  compete  at  the  World's  Fair. 
In  spite  of  the  constant  guard  maintained 
over  it,  the  baloon  attached  to  his  machine 
was  so  cut  as  to  render  its  use  impossible. 
The  police  were  unable  to  find  any  clue 
as  to  the  perpetrator  of  the  deed,  but 
charged  the  inventor  himself  with  destroy- 
ing his  vessel  to  avoid  participating  in  the 
race.  The  charge,  of  course,  was  utterly 
without  substantiation.  Santos  Dumont 
left  almost  immediately  for  Paris,  with 
the  expressed  intention  of  repairing  his 
baloon  and  returning  in  time  for  the 
contest.  Since  his  arrival,  he  has  declared 
that  he  will  not  return.  Vandal  hands 
also  attacked  the  great  organ  in  Festival 
Ilall,  rip])ing  a  hole  in  the  secondary  bel- 
lows, but  not  greatly  impairing  the  use 
of  the  organ. 

--  -  .  So  rapid  are  the  ad- 
Largest  Vessel  in  vanees  made  in  ship- 
The  \Vorld  building  that  the  right 

to  be  called  the  "largest  vessel  in  the 
workV  does  not  lie  very  long  with  one 


ship.  But  the  vessel  which,  to-day,  is 
undoubtedly  entitled  to  the  superlative  is 
the  new  White  Star  liner,  the  Baltic,  which 
recently  entered  New  York  harbor  after 
her  maiden  voyage.  The  Baltic  measures 
725  feet  in  length;  beam,  75  feet.  Her 
extreme  displacement  is  40,000  tons,  and 
her  engines  are  capable  of  developing 
26,000  horse  power,  making  possible  a 
sustained  speed  of  17  knots  an  hour.  Es- 
pecial emphasis — in  these  days  of  marine 
disasters — is  placed  on  the  life-saving 
equipment,  which  is  most  complete,  con- 
sisting of  26  boats,  with  a  total  capacity 
of  1,372  persons. 

Victory  for  American  ^^^  }^^  ^^nnual 
CoUege  AtUetes  ^^^       between 

field  and  track 
the  athletes  of  Harvard  and  Yale,  repre- 
senting America,  and  Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge, representing  England,  held  at 
West  Kensington,  England,  the  Americans 
were  successful  in  six  out  of  nine  events, 
winning  the  meet.  The  two-mile,  one-mile 
and  half-mile  runs  went  to  the  English- 
men, while  the  hundred-yard  dash,  the 
four  hundred  forty-yard  run,  the  hurdles^ 
the  high  jump,  the  broad  jump  and  the 
hammer  throw,  were  won  by  the  Ameri- 
cans. From  this  record  it  would  appear 
that  the  Americans  possess  greater 
strength  and  speed,  while  the  Englishmen 
develop  greater  endurance.  This  is  the 
third  international  meet,  in  which  the 
Americans  have  been  twice  victorious. 

In  the  college  of  liberal 
New  I<lea  in  arts  of  Northwestern  XJni- 
Scbolarsbips  versity  100  new  scholar- 
ships have  been  established, 
the  requirements  for  which  are  unusual 
The  beneficiary  must  not  only  possess  a 
certain  amount  of  "  book  learning,"  but 
he  must  give  promise  of  superior  achieve- 
ment or  fitness  for  public  service.  "Force 
of  character,"  says  President  James, 
"powers  of  leadership,  qualities  of  man- 
hood, physical  vigor,  etc.,  will  all  be  con- 
sidered in  the  selection  of  students,  who 
will  be  chosen  from  a  list  submitted  by 
the  faculties  of  high  schools  and  acade- 
mies." This  idea  of  fitness  was  introduced 
by  Cecil  Rhodes  in  his  Oxford  scholar- 
ships. 


impression! 


«^-  ^  r^^Tirr  •  m^ 


HARLE.SKRSK!NESCOTT*WOODj 


So  long  as  tkere  is  government  enforced  on  all  by  a  so-called  majority,  tnere  -will 
le  a  rollcry  of  tke  many  for  tke  benefit  of  tke  few.  Only  tLe  few  really  exercise 
the  po^wer  of  government. 

Tke  Congresdional  Committee  of  Marine 

'  I  'UlS  committee  is  evidently  collecting  excuses  to  pass  a  ship  subsidy  bill.  Why 
'*'  not  ?  If  taxpayers^  money  is  given  to  steel  makers,  glass  makers,  sugar  makers, 
and  other  makers,  why  not  to  ship  makers?  Why  not  also  encourage  the  raising 
of  camels  in  Arizona?  It  is  not  that  there  is  lack  of  ships  in  the  world — nor  lack 
of  competition — American  shippers  now  have  the  fleets  of  all  nations  bidding  for 
cargoes.  It  is  only  because  these  ships  do  not  fly  American  flags.  Therefore  the 
American  farmer  is  to  be  taxed  to  enable  wealthy  gentlemen  to  have  a  bonus 
for  building  ships. 

All  restrictive  economic  laws  are  bad.  The  ship  Director  was  sold  some  years 
ago  and  by  a  fool  American  law  (which  still  lives)  all  Americans  were  forbidden 
to  bid  on  her ;  that  is,  the  law  forbids  any  American  to  buy  or  own  any  ship  built 
abroad.  This  wonderful  law  is  to  "encourage"  American  ship  yards,  not  ship 
owners.  Now  ship  owners  must  also  be  encouraged.  Verily,  the  people  are  fools 
and  deserve  to  be  swindled ! 

The  farmer  and  the  laborer  pay  all  bills.  Yet  their  votes  elect  the  repre- 
sentatives who  vote  for  the  "graft."  Disguise  it  as  you  will,  every  "protection,'* 
every  "subsidy,"  every  "aid,"  is  a  "graft."    The  plain  people  pay  the  bills. 

Colorado 

^  I  'HE  whole  civilized  world  is  against  Governor  Peabody.  The  London  papers 
^  speak  of  Colorado  as  worse  than  Russia — ^the  thoughtful  press  everywhere  is  a- 
ghast  at  such  violent  disregard  of  all  the  sacred  principles  of  Anglo-Saxon  liberty,  so 
Governor  Peabody  is  explaining — and  the  explanation  is  unsatisfactory  and  dis- 
honest. He  states  that  the  failure  of  the  legislature  to  pas^  an  eight-hour  law 
was  not  the  cause  of  the  strike,  as  the  strike  was  called  six  weeks  before  the  legis- 
lature adjourned.  Yet  he  knows,  none  better,  that  the  strike  was  called  only  be- 
cause it  was  plain  to  all  men  that  the  legislature  did  not  intend  to  pass  such  a 
law,  as  commanded  by  the  constitutional  amendment,  and  it  did  not  pass  such  a 
law.  The  strike  was  a  protest  to  the  legislature.  No  local  riot  or  personal  crime 
ever  excuses  or  can  excuse  the  violation  of  the  constitutional  rights  of  citizens  by 
the  executive  sworn  to  respect  them.  Governor  Peabody  is  a  dead  man  in  American 
politics  forever. 

Tke  Assassination  of  Von  Plekve 

T^ANY  respectable  papers  in  London  and  New  York  come  very  near  excusing 

-■•  *    the  assassination  of  Von  Plehve  as  a  defense  of  its  liberties  by  weak  Finland. 

It  remains  for  "Liberty,"  the  organ  of  philosophical  anarchism,  to  point  out  that 

force  is  always  wrong  against  a  peaceable  person,  and  always  injures  the  cause 

which  invokes  it. 


READEK 


g^,  W.  F.  G.  THACHER 
1*r 


jiiii.::!:.  fT 


^^P 


A  rcvievir  of  current  books  and  an  opinion  of  their  merits 


Better  than  any  living  man  Stewart  Ed 
ward  Wliite  knows  the  great  wilderness. 
To  him  the  trackless  waste  is  a  sentient 
thing.  He  knows  its  ways,  responds  to  its 
feelings,  sympathizes  with  it,  loves  it. 
Best  of  all,  he  has  the  art  of  interpreting 
it.  W^ile  the  human  element  in  "The 
Silent  Places"  is  by  no  means  lacking,  it 
is  untamed  nature  that  plays  the  domi- 
nant part.  The  wild  is  not  merely  a  back- 
ground, a  setting,  but  a  vital  factor  in 
the  story. 

The  narrative  is  singularly  simple,  yet 
with  a  quality  of  epic  greatness.  It  re- 
counts the  heroic  struggle  of  _.  ^.. 
two  men  with  the  savage  i***  bilcnt 
forces  of  the  elements.  On  ^^*ces 
that  long,  bitter  pursuit  race  into  the 
icy  fastnesses  of  the  north,  the  reader  fol- 
lows, as  if  into  a  different  world.  It  is 
all  so  real ! — and  yet  so  apart  from  all  or- 
dinary experiences  of  life.  It  holds  you 
in  a  thrall  of  breathless  suspense,  and 
haunts  you  for  days  after  you  have  put 
the  book  aside. 

Sentiment,  in  the  accepted  sense,  is 
missing — but  not  missed.  In  its  stead  is 
the  great  love  of  a  red-skinned  forest 
maiden  for  one  of  the  white  men.  Pa- 
thetic, appealing,  almost  tragic,  it  yet 
forms  a  vital  and  fitting  part  in  this  elo- 
quent and  memorable  story  of  elemental 
things. 

(McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.) 


There  seems  to  be  no  limit  to  the  num- 
ber of  variations  that  can  be  rung  on  the 
theme  of  mistaken  identity.  It  would  be 
a  safe  conjecture  that  one  novel  out  of 
every  twenty  is  developed  from  this  idea. 
The  most  recent  addition  to  the  list  is 


"Anna,  the  Adventuress,"  by  E.  Phillips 
Oppenheim.  It  is  a  story  of  Bohemian  at- 
mosphere, with  the  scenes  in  Paris  and 
London.  Two  sisters,  remarkably  alike  in 
appearance,  but  decidedly  dissimilar  in  na- 
ture, are  the  chief  characters,  and  the 
complications      that      arise     .  _- 

from  the  confusion  of  their  V^^^*' 
identities  are  wildly  excit-  Adventuress 
ing,  to  put  it  mildly.  It  is  the  kind  of 
book  every  chapter  of  which  creates  an 
irresistible  impulse  to  read  the  next  one. 
The  swiftly  shifting  situations,  the  rapid 
transitions  of  scene,  and  the  liberal  use  of 
sensational  incidents  keep  the  interest  of 
the  narrative  up  to  the  keenest  pitch,  nor 
is  there  any  lapse  in  the  high  tension. 
Bizarre,  it  certainly  is,  and,  at  times, 
trenching  on  the  risque;  yet  to  the  average 
novel  reader,  its  ingenious  plot,  its  nerv- 
ous action,  and  its  cleverly  concealed  de- 
nouement will  more  than  repay  a  read- 
ing. 

(Little,  Brown  &  Co.) 


It  is  no  easy  matter  to  present  a  nar- 
rative logically  and  coherently,  by  means 
of  a  series  of  letters ;  yet  this  is  what  Beu- 
lah  Marie  Dix  has  accomplished  in 
"Blount  of  Breckenhow,"  and  has  proved 
herself  an  expert  craftsman  in  the  per- 
formance. Without  let  or  hindrance  the 
story  is  unfolded,  laying  instant  claim  to 
the  reader's  attention,  gathering  force  and 
swiftness  as  it  moves  onward,  and  carry- 
ing evenly  and  strongly  to  the  end.  All 
this  is  done  without  sacrificing  the  episto- 
lary nature  of  the  narrative.  There  are 
letters,     long     and     short,    |^-  - 

grave  and  gav,  indited  by    ^^o^J*  oi 
many  different  hands,  and    ««ckenliow 
each  one  contributing:  its  share  to  the  dc- 


THE  READER. 


187 


Telopment  of  the  story.  The  individuality 
of  each  writer  is  discernible  in  the  style 
and  character  of  his  letters,  and  the  rela- 
tions of  the  persons  of  the  story  are  clearly 
set  forth  without  editor^s  notes. 

It  is  a  sad  tale:  that  of  James  Blount, 
and  one  that  appeals  powerfully  to  the 
sympathies.  Yet  it  leaves  no  smart,  for  its 
ending,  though  sorrowful  enough,  is  peace- 
ful, and  the  reader^s  feelings  are  spared 
that  final  twinge.  Blount  was  scurvily 
misused  by  fate,  'tis  true,  and  sacrificed 
everything  for  a  love  he  deemed  hopeless ; 
yet  he  died  "with  the  light  upon  his  face,*' 
happy  at  last  in  the  possession  of  that 
love.  A  hero  of  finest  mold  was  James 
Blount. 

(The  McMillan  Co.) 


Fannie   Hardy   Eckstorm,    author   of 
Penobscot    Man." 


'The 


A  story  as  a  story  is  no  better  because 
it  is  true;  but  as  a  transcription  of  life, 
shedding  light  upon  the  character  and  ex- 
periences of  men,  reality  gives  it  an  ap- 
preciated value.  In  "The  Penobscot  Man,'' 
Fannie  Hardy  Eckstorm — pleasantly  re- 
membered for  her  bird-book — ^has  given  us 
a  collection  of  stories  of  the  Maine  river 


men.  With  a  loyal  hand  she  has  chroni- 
cled some  of  the  deeds  which  exalted  to 
heroism  those  lives  of  toil  and  hardship. 
Without  idealization  she  has  recorded 
them,  but  in  the  honest  colors  of  reality; 
and  these  tales  assume  for  us  a  new  sig- 
nificance because  their  characters  actually 
lived  and  breathed,  and  because  these 
deeds  of  truest  courage  were  performed 
without  a  thought  of  their  heroism,  with- 
out a  suspicion  that  they  were  to  be  set 
forth  in  printed  page. 

The  author  knows  well  of  what  she 
writes,  and  her  work  is  endowed  with  fin- 
est sympathy,  and  the  full   rn     n      i       ^ 

J      /     T  f      1  The  Penobacot 

understandmg     of     long   -w 

familiarity.  Her  stories 
have  that  revealing,  spiritual  quality,  so 
that  the  reader  sees  not  only  the  deed,  but 
the  soul  of  the  man  who  does  it.  The  in- 
ner and  the  outer  life  are  both  made  man- 
ifest. 

Although  the  author  modestly  disclaims 
any  art  in  the  telling,  we  must  beg  to  dis- 
agree. To  the  narrator  who  seeks  to  mold 
his  story  into  perfect  form,  facts  are  ham- 
pering things ;  yet  each  one  of  the  tales  in 
this  little  volume  has  a  proportion  and  a 
finish  that  leaves  little  to  be  desired. 

($1.25;  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
ton.) 

The  life  of  Frederic  William  Farrar, 
sometime  Dean  of  Canterbury,  and  prob- 
ably one  of  the  three  greatest  churchmen 
of  his  age,  edited  by  his  son,  Reginald 
Farrar,  is  a  monument  of  loving  memory 
to  a  great  •  and  good  man. 

As  a  biography,  however,  it  ^^  ^t. 

.     ,.         "".   \.  ^'      ^         .'         Dean  Farrar 

IS  disappointing.     Smoothly 

conventional,  it  chronicles  the  external  in- 
cidents of  a  rather  placid  existence,  with 
hardly  a  glimpse  into  the  intimate  life, 
which  would  reveal  the  real  man,  under 
the  robes  of  the  churchman. 

However,  the  account  is  comprehensive, 
minute  and  reliable,  and  supplied  with 
many  letters  which  are  illuminative  and 
of  decided  value. 

(T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.) 


A  Page  from  tLe  Cynic  s  Notebook — 

Tell  a  girl  she  is  pretty,  you  may  win 
her  approval;  tell  her  her  rival  is  ugly, 
you  will  win  her  eternal  gratitude. 

To  win  a  girl,  a  man  must  excite  her 
curiosity,  command  her  admiration,  arouse 
lier  interest,  and  then — make  her  cry. 

A  man's  capacity  for  falling  in  love  is 
like  the  phenomena  of  electrical  discharge 
in  a  thunderstorm:  it  accumulates  until 
it  reaches  a  certain  degree,  and  then 
strikes  the  nearest  available  object. 

The  best  part  of  a  man's  manliness  is 
his  boyishness;  the  best  part  of  a  girl's 
girlishness  is  her  womanliness. 

There  is  a  peculiar  variety  of  girls 
whose  preference  for  a  man  is  always  man- 
ifested by  extreme  ill  usage. 


Dressed  to  KOl.^ 


Do'wn  Wkerc  tLe  ^Vemcrwiirst  Grows — 

Mama  sent  John  to  the  butcher's; 
Sad  to  say,  he  never  came  back    (no 
flowers) ; 
Since  that  day  the  family 
Have  never  been  able  to  eat  sausage. 
Selah ! 


Good  Advice — 

We  notice  that  General  Ma  is  threaten- 
ing Kouropatkin's  rear. 

Put  a  shingle  in  the  loose  part  of  your 
trousers,  Koury.    It'll  save  trouble. 

*  *       * 

Editorial  Troubles — 

The    "Devil" — The    foreman    says    we 
can't  set  any  more  of  these  war  dispatches. 
The  "Old  Man"— Can't!    Why  not? 
The  "Devil" — No    more    ski's    in  the 

font. 

*  ♦       ♦ 

TLe  Hobos  Complaint — 

Rusty  Eonald  (throwing  down  a  copy 
of  Pudge  with  an  expression  of  disgust) — 
This  'ere  Eoosh'n  war  makes  me  sick. 

Dusty  Donald — What  d'you  care? 

Rusty  Ronald — Why,  since  the  war 
broke  out,  us  fellers  don't  get  half  the 
space  in  the  comics  that  we  used  to. 


Ttc  Saddest  ^Vords — 

Onct  I  read  some  po'try 
(I  like  it  now  and  then), 

Which  said  the  saddest  words 
Are  these:  It  might  have  been. 

That  poet-fellar's  wrong, 
Which  I  think  you'll  admit. 

The  saddest  words  are  these: 

(Confound  'em)  !  "Please  remit/' 


THE  LIGHTER  SIDE. 


189 


Unsopliisticated  Man — 

They  were  on  the  piazza  and  the  moon 
was  their  only  light. 

"Did  you  know/'  she  was  saying,  "that 
the  SmjiJie  girl  was  married  last  Wed- 
nesday T^ 

'TTes/^  he  replied,  reaching  for  her 
hand. 

"And  Ethel,  my  chum,  is  engaged.  And 
I— ^^ 

"You— ^' 

"I  am  to  be—" 

"Whatr 

"A  bridesmaid." 

"Wouldn't  you  prefer  being  a  bride?" 

"Oh,  James!" 

And  the  foolish  fellow  actually  believed 
that  he  had  proposed  without  assistance. 

♦       ♦       ♦ 

**Motlicr  Goose*'  Indicted — 

"Maria,"  began  Mr.  Crusty,  "don't  read 
those  ^Mother  Goose'  verses  to  the  chil- 
dren." 

"But  why  not,  Henry,"  asked  his  obe- 
dient spouse. 

"They  are  positively  text-books  of 
crime.  They  inculcate  criminal  instincts 
in  the  infantile  mind." 

"Nonsense,  Henry!  ^Mother  Goose'  has 


been  read  to  youngsters    for    years  and 
years." 

"Yes,"  replied  Mr.  Crusty,  "and  that  ac- 
counts for  the  increase  in  wickedness  dur- 
ing the  last  century.  Remember  the 
motto:  'The  tree  grows  as  the  twig  is 
bent.'  Children  have  gained  knowledge 
from  'Mother  Goose'  that  they  should  not 
have  until  they  have  arrived  at  an  age  to 
distinguish  right  from  wrong.  To  my 
mind,  and  I  have  given  the  subject  deep 
thought,  the  evil  dispositions  and  ten- 
dency to  wickedness  which  children  have 
are  directly  traceable  to  the  time  they  had 
the  vicious  lessons  of  'Mother  Goose'  read 
to  them.  And,  Maria,  think  of  it !  These 
lessons  in  crime  have  been  inculcated  by 
the  mothers." 

"Why,  Henry,  you  can  not  show  a  sin- 
gle instance  ofVicked  example  in  the  fa- 
miliar lines  of  'Mother  Goose.' " 

"Can't  I !"  exclaimed  Mr.  Crusty.  "Just 
think  a  moment  for  yourself.  There  is 
Tom,  the  piper's  son,  who  stole  a  pig;  the 
cat  that  ran  away  with  the  pudding  string ; 
the  elopement  of  dish  and  the  spoon; 
goosey  gander,  who  threw  an  old  man 
down  stairs ;  there  was  a  man  and  he  had 
naught  and  robbers  came  to  rob  him ;  the 
case  of  the  boy  throwing  the  cat  in  the 
well;  the  instance  of  the  lady  who  rode 
the  dapple  gray  pony  so  crueUy;  cooking 
blackbirds  alive  in  a  pie.  These  are  but  a 
few  which  I  recall  just  now,  but  if  you  will 
scan  the  book  you  will  discover  dozens  of 
cases  where  cruelty,  theft,  falsehood  and 
other  bad  habits  are  invested  in  the  heroes 
and  heroines  of  'Mother  Goose.'  The  book 
should  be  suppressed." 

"Henry !" 

"Well,  Maria?" 

"Doesn't  your  supper  agree  with  you?" 
*       «       ♦ 
Consistent — 

"Is  Grouchy  much  of  a  kicker?" 

"I  should  say  he  is !  Why,  in  winter  he 
plays  football  and  in  summer  he  is  signed 
with  the  baseball  team  just  to  intimidate 
the  umpire." 


ROGRESS 


Devoted  to  tke  energy,   entkusiasm,  groivtli,  progress  and 
development  of  tke  great  Nortkwest 

Elboiv  Room — 

Set  out  an  orchard  of  apple  trees  ten  feet  apart,  and  you  will  have  a  very 
poor  orchard.  The  trees  will  interfere  with  each  other's  growth;  they  will  lack- 
sunlight  and  moisture  and  the  nourishment  of  the  soil.  Puny,  branchless  trees 
will  result;  many  will  die.  You  will  get  a  tent\  of  a  crop  of  a  very  poor  quality 
of  apples. 

Set  out  your  trees  forty  feet  apart,  and  each  one  will  thrive,  without  trespass' 
ing  upon  its  neighbor.  Each  will  attain  a  symmetrical  growth,  with  a  deep,  wide 
rootage,  and  broad  low-spreading  branches. 

That's  the  way  the  Lord  intended  apple  trees  to  grow. 

This  isn't  a  disquisition  upon  appln  trees.     It\s  an  allegory. 

Men  are  like  apple  trees — THEY  NEED  ROOM.  The  more  room  a  man  ha^ 
the  more  he'll  grow  and  expand  and  d'ivelop. 

That  is  one  of  the  chief  charms  of  the  Pacific  Coast;  we  have  lots  of  room. 

''Room"  is  another  way  of  saying  ''opportunity."  There  are  opportunities 
everywhere,  but  there  are  more  of  them  to  the  square  mile  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
than  any  tvhere  else  in  the  world.  For  the  same  amount  of  effort,  a  man  can 
get  greater  returns  here  than  any  place  ehe  in  the  world.  Why?  The  reason  is 
simple.  The  resources  are  here,  the  raw  material:  wonderful,  unguessed  treas- 
ures of  field  and  mine  and  stream.  That  doesn't  mean  that  a  man  must  be  a 
farmer  or  a  miner  or  a  fisherman.  These  men  take  the  raw  material  first,  and 
pass  it  on  to  the  miller,  the  manufaclvrcr,  the  merchant,  the  lawyer.  When 
they  prosper,  everybody  prospers. 

That's  the  first  reason:  resources.  The  second  ?>;  elbow  room.  We  aren't 
smothered  to  death  with  competition.  There  is  room  for  all.  No  matter  what  your 
business,  the  Pacific  Coast  offers  you  an  opportunity.  It's  a  young,  growing, 
uncrowded  country,  whose  greatest  need  is  men.    And  there's  lots  of  elbow  room. 


Tke  Ijcviris  and  Clark  Exposition — 

As  tlio  work  on  the  grounds  and  build- 
ings of  the  Lewis  and  Chirk  Exposition 
grows  apaee,  the  great  Fair  becomes  more 
a  reality  in  the  minds  of  those  who  are 
observing  its  progress.  There  is  some- 
thing very  real  and  su])stantial  about  th«3 
great  structures,  so  rapidly  taking  form, 
in  whicli  the  Exposition  is  to  ho  lioused. 
The  sense  of  vagueness  is  lost  before  this 
manifestation  of  reality. 

The  Fair  is  a  fact.  The  scoffings  of  the 
incredulous  are  hushed.  There  remains 
no  room  for  doubt.  To  any  one  who  has 
recently  visited  the  site  and  observed  the 
beautifully  graded  grounds  and  gardens, 
the  massive  buildings,  all  under  roof,  and 


the  signs  of  activity  in  every  direction* 
the  Fair  is  already  an  assured  success. 

The  only  thing  that  can  turn  this  an- 
ticipated triumph  to  a  failure  will  be  a 
lack  of  attendance.  Xo  matter  how  great 
the  Exposition  may  be,  if  visitors  are  not 
attracted,  its  success  will  be  defeated.  Tho 
great  question  is.  Will  the  people  come^ 

The  Portland  Oregonian  says  that  the 
grounds  on  which  we  expect  visitors  from 
the  East  are  not  at  all  those  depended  on 
at  St.  Louis — supremacy  in  magnitude  of 
plan  or  of  display.  We  do  hope  for  a 
moderate  attendance  on  the  part  of  those 
who  will  come  to  see  what  we  can  do  and 
to  visit  this  part  of  the  country  for  its 
own  sak(»:  but  the  bulk  of  our  attendance 


192 


THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


will  be  from  Oregon  and  her  neighbors, 
between  the  Pacific  and  the  Rockies,  be- 
tween Alaska  and  South  America.  There- 
fore the  great  problem  is,  how  to  make  the 
Exposition  attractive  to  our  own  people; 
and  its  solution  is  largely  a  process  of 
selection  exercised  at  St.  Louis.  Presi- 
dent Elliot's  advice  is  worth  while,  for 
he  is  in  a  position  to  know  what  has 
proved  attractive  there. 

It  is  fortunate  that  Director-General 
Goode  is  now  making  a  study  of  condi- 
tions at  St.  Louis,  and  that  Colonel  Dosch, 
whose  judgment  on  exhibits  will  be  largely 
relied  upon,  is  there  all  the  time  and  de- 
voting himself  to  separating  the  wheat 
from  the  chaff.  He  thinks  that  about 
seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  exhibits  at 
St.  Louis  are  better  away  from  here  than 
on  hand.  He  hopes  to  get  the  desirable 
twenty-five  per  cent  and  add  to  them 
others  equally  attractive. 

The  supreme  desideratum  at  the  Lewis 
and  Clark  Fair  is  a  collection  of  buildings, 
electric  displays,  exhibits  and  entertain- 
ments that  will  draw  our  own  people 
thither  irresistibly  again  and  again.  Hence 
we  want  from  St.  Louis,  if  we  can  get 
them,  those  attractions  which  are  always 
thronged  with  sightseers  and  to  which  the 
pilgrim  returns  to  renew  impressions  of 
wonder  and  delight.  There  are  paintings 
in  the  Fine  Arts  building  to  which  the 
jaded  traveler  repairs  again  and  again 
whenever  he  is  in  their  vicinity.  There 
are  Florentine  marbles  in  the  Manufac- 
tures building  which  would  draw  many  to 
the  Lewis  and  Clark  grounds  for  a  second 
visit  with  their  chaste  and  poetic  beauty 
if  they  were  the  only  attraction  there.  But 
not  to  discriminate,  for  inclinations  are 
various,  the  St.  Louis  Fair  is  in  reality 
Oregon's  great  opportunity;  and  for  an 
Exposition  of  our  size  and  scope  and  ex- 
•  pected  attendance,  the  fresh  experience 
at  St.  Louis  puts  us  on  a  far  more  advan- 
tageous footing  than  if  we  were  taking  up 
the  matter  more  in  the  dark  without  these 
trustworthy  guides. 

Wkeat  Growing  vs.  Diversified  Farming 

Not  many  years  ago,  nearly  all  of  the 
arable  land  of  the  Pacific  Coast — or  at 
least,  of  the  Northwest —  was  sown  to 
wheat.    The  acreage  was  so  vast  that,  no 


mater  how  small  the  returns  per  acre, 
the  income  was  princely.  Wheat  required 
less  fitting  than  most  crops;  there  was 
less  trouble  in  handling  it ;  and  the  market 
was  certain.  The  land  was  new  and  year 
after  year  produced  immense  crops  with- 
out signs  of  exhaustion. 

These  conditions  still  hold,  but  in  a 
diminished  degree.  The  wheat  king  still 
reigns,  but  his  ascendency  is  waning.  Vast 
areas  of  government  or  railroad  lands  are 
no  longer  to  be  had  for  a  nominal  price; 
the  great  wheat  fields  of  a  decade  ago  are 
beginning  to  show  signs  of  exhaustion: 
and  the  farmer,  through  force  of  necessity, 
is  turning  to  other  crops. 

At  first  blush  this  change  might  be 
reckoned  a  hardship,  but  this  is  not  true. 
A  country  where  diversified  farming  pre- 
vails is  always  far  more  prosperous  than 
one  in  which  wheat — or  any  other  one 
crop — is  produced.  A  great  wheat  farm, 
that  might  support  one  man  in  affluence, 
when  cut  up  into  small  tracts,  will  support 
fifty  or  a  hundred  men  in  comfort.  And 
it  stands  to  reason  that  fifty  or  a  hundred 
small  farmers  will  bring  far  more  business 
to  the  district  they  inhabit  than  one  big 
farmer.  An  acre  of  land  sown  to  wheat 
may  yield  its  owner  a  net  return  of  five 
dollars,  maybe  more,  probably  less,  while 
an  acre  cultivated  for  diversified  products 
will  yield  twice,  thrice  or  many  times 
that  amount.  Then,  too,  diversified  farm- 
ing is  much  better  for  the  land.  Continu- 
ous crops  of  wheat  sap  the  vitality  of  the 
land,  without  putting  anything  back.  Al- 
ternated with  clover,  the  fertility  of  the 
land  is  maintained.  A  scientific  rotation 
of  crops  will  not  only  perpetuate  the  pro- 
ductivity of  the  soil,  but  will  increase  it. 

Thus,  in  all  ways,  diversified  farming  is 
better  for  the  country  where  it  is  practi^. 
It  means  a  greater  population;  it  means 
greater  returns  per  acre;  it  means  the 
maintenance  of  the  soil's  fertility.  The 
most  prosperous  districts  in  the  world  are 
those  where  the  small  farmer  tills  the 
soil. 

The  wheat  king  is  doomed.  Inevitably 
his  broad  acres  will  be  broken  up  into  small 
fields.  He  is  a  picturesque  figure,  but 
concentration  and  competition  will  not 
stay  their  march  for  him.  It  is  evolution- 
ary, inevitable. 


DRIFT. 


It  Wasn't  New  York. 

A  gentleman  who  had  occasion  to  go  to 
an  inland  New  England  village  ten  miles 
from  a  railroad  was  met  at  the  station  by 
an  old  fellow  who  looked  as  if  he  might  have 
just  awakened  after  a  Bip  Vankle  sleep.  His 
horse  and  buggy  were  in  keeping  with  their 
owner's  ancient   appearance. 

"Here  we  air  at  last,"  said  the  driver, 
when  they  finally  came  to  three  houses  and 
a  blacksmith's  shop. 

"This  isn't  much  of  a  place,  is  itf"  said 
the  depressed  stranger,  looking  around. 

"Oh,  you  don't  see  all  o'  it  from  here," 
was  the  reply.  "Thar's  two  more  houses 
over  behind  that  hill  thar,  an'  a  cooper's 
shop  jest  around  that  bend  in  the  road  thar. 
Come  to  bunch  'em  all  together  an'  it's  con- 
sid'able  o'  a  place— but  o'  course  it  ain't 
New  York."— May  Woman's  Home  Com- 
panion. 

•       «       « 

Canard  Disproved. 

The  Kentucky  delegation  is  assembled  in 
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Vice-President  and  Manager 


T.   BUKKHART 

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John  K.  Kolllock 
Asst.  Secretary 


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LIFE 
INSURANCE 


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imitate  the  features  in  the  policies  of  the  Massachusetts 
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H.  G.   COLTON9  Pacific  Coast.  Manager 

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THE  PACIFIC  MONTHLY 


Edited  by  Wilfiam  Bitde  Wells 


The  entire  contents  of  this  Magazine  are  covered  by  the  general  copyright  and  articles  must  not  be  reprinted 

without  special  permission.    Extracts  from  articles  may  be  made  provided  propM- 

credit  is  given  THE  PACIRC  MONTHLY 

CONTENTS  FOR  OCTOBER,    1904 

THE  TEPEES— UMATILLA  BESEBVATION         ....        Frontispiece 
PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS    (iUustrated)  196 

Woman  Tennis  Champion 

Paul  Morton 

Seattle's  Chief  of  Police 

Victor  H.  Metcalf 

Oldest  House  in  America 

Monument  to  Abigail  Adams 
THE  MIUTABY  MANEXJVEBS  AT  AMEBICAN 

LAKE   (illustrated) Gen.  Thomas  H.  Anderson, 

U.  S.  A.  (retired)  205 

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Number  4 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS 


^A^oman  Tennu    Ckampion 

IT  was  by  no  mere  chance  that  Miss 
May  Sutton  won  the  woman's  lawn 
tennis  championship  of  the  United 
States.  She  earned  her  honors 
fairly  by  defeating  the  previous 
champion.  Miss  Elizabeth  Moore,  in 
straight  sets,  and  her  other  records  prove 
beyond  a  doubt  that  she  is  the  best  tennis 
player  of  her  sex  in  the  United  States. 
She  is  a  California  girl,  her  home  being 
in  Pasadena,  and  she  is  but  seventeen 
years  old.  It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that 
Miss  Sutton  has  never  lost  but  one  set  in 
match  play  since  she  was  twelve  years 
old.  She  is  one  of  five  sisters,  all  tennis 
experts,  and  until  her  recent  trip  East,  all 
her  championship  matches  were  fought 
out  with  members  of  her  own  family. 
With  Miss  Hall,  also  from  Pasadena,  Miss 
Sutton  won  the  woman's  doubles,  and 
she  is  also  the  holder  of  the  Western 
championship. 

When  Miss  Sutton's  youth,  strength 
and  ambition  are  considered,  there  is  good 
probability  that  she  will  soon  be  the 
woman  champion  of  the  world. 


Miss  May  Sutton,   of  Pasadena,   California,   winner 
of  the  woman's  tennis  championship  for  1904. 


Paul  Morton,  the  newly  appointed  Secretary  of  the    navy. 

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Paul  Morton 

It  is  not  at  all  strange  that  President 
Boosevelt  should  choose  to  surround  him- 
self with  men  of  his  own  type:  young, 
clean-cut,  vigorous  men,  whose  ability  has 
been  proven;  practical  men  of  affairs; 
whose  success  in  their  chosen  calling  qual- 
ifies them  for  a  larger  undertaking. 
Such  a  man  is  Paul  Morton,  the  new 
Secretary  of  the  Navy. 

Thirty  years  ago,  a  lad  of  sixteen,  Paul 
Morton  began  work  in  the  offices  of  the 
Burlington  railroad,  addressing  envel- 
opes. It  was  the  old  story :  efficiency  and 
industry  rewarded  by  rapid  advancement. 
At  twenty-one,  he  was  the  assistant  gen- 
eral freight  agent  of  the  same  company. 
Before  his  appointment  to  the  cabinet, 
he  was  second  vice-president  of  the 
Santa  Fe  and  Burlington  systems — and 
one  of  the  best  known  railroad  men  in 
the  West. 

Why  should  Paul  Morton  relinquish  a 
congenial  position,  with  a  salary  of 
$25,000  a  year,  to  take  up  a  new  line  of 
work  with  an  $8,000  salary?  To  the 
initiated,  the  answer  is  not  difficult.  In 
the  first  place,  Morton  is  a  warm  per- 
sonal friend  of  Theodore  Roosevelt,  and 
would  sacrifice  much  to  serve  him.  In 
the  second,  it^s  in  the  blood,  for  J.  Ster- 
ling Morton,  the  father,  was  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  under  Cleveland.    The  son  is 


Tom  DeL&ney.  Seattle's  efficient  chief  of  police,  who 
hat  done  much  to  rid  the  city  of  unde- 
sirable   characters. 

Photo  by  Jamea  and  Busbnell. 

proud  of  his  fathers  record,  and  glad  to 
follow  the  family  precedent  for  public 
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repreMatative  of  the  Paoiflo  Ck>ait  on  the  Board 

of  Lady  Manafen,  the  St.  Looia  Ezpoaition. 

He  may  be  expected  to  perform  the 
exacting  duties  of  the  new  position  with 
the  same  clear-headed  efficiency,  the  same 
acute  grasp  of  affairs,  the  same  electric 


energy  which  have  contributed  so  greatly 
to  his  success  in  life.  He  believes  in  a 
greater  navy  and  an  improved  consular 
service.  And  he  doesn't  know  how  to  spell 
failure. 

Seattle's  Ckief  of  Police 

Through  the  honest  policy  of  one  man, 
there  has  been  a  complete  revolution  in 
police  conditions  in  Seattle  in  the  past 
few  months.  This  improvement  has  been 
made  in  the  face  of  the  statement  that, 
despite  all  efforts,  Seattle  could  never 
be  governed  as  anything  but  a  wide-open 
town  because  it  is  a  seaport.  The  reform 
has  been  accomplished  by  one  man,  whose 
only  policy  was  to  deal  fairiy  with  every 
one.  This  man  is  Tom  DeLaney,  Seat- 
tle's chief  of  police. 

For  eight  years  DeLaney  was  in  the  cus- 
toms service  and  for  nearly  fourteen  years 
chief  of  police  at  Port  Townsend,  which 
position  gave  him  a  peculiar  insight  into 
the  crookedness  of  a  coast  town. 

When  DeLaney  came  into  office,  the  city 
was  full  of  crooks,  criminals  who  were  not 
allowed  elsewhere,  and  those  who  pro- 
tected them  from  the  law.  The  police 
courts  were  corrupt,  and  in  the  depart- 
ment itself  there  existed  petty  jealousies 
so  that  it  was  practically  disorganized. 
The  policy  of  the  new  chief  of  police  was, 
"I  play  no  favorites,"  and  his  instructions 


Cable  ferry  across  the  Weshkah  River. 


The  three-mill  ion-dollar  "Alaika"   building,   in  Seattle,  erected  by  men  whose  fortunes  were  made  in  the  ^Id 
fields  of  Alaska.     When  completed,   it  will  be  one   of  the   finest  buildings   on   the  Pacific   £?oast. 


Victor  H.  Hetcalf,  of  Oakland,  California,  who  su   -^eeds  Cortelyou  aa  the  head  of  the  Department  of 

Labor  and  Commerce.  Courie8.v   of    Sunset    MntiHrAn^?- 


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to  the  department  on  coming  into  ofl&ce; 
^^Do  your  duty,  and  play  no  favorites/^ 

DeLaney  has  made  no  radical  changes 
in  the  department,  removing  only  those 
who  were  convicted  of  crookedness.  Soon 
after  his  accession  to  office  a  number  of 
ward  politicians  who  acted  as  "fixers," 
that  is,  squared  matters  between  the  de- 
partment and  crooks  who  lived  and  op- 
erated in  the  city,  were  arrested  and  prose- 
cuted in  the  courts  under  the  state  va- 
grancy law,  which  provides  that  no  man 
can  live  in  the  state,  suspected  of  crooked- 
ness, regardless  of  the  amount  of  money 


nalia  confiscated  as  evidence  for  the  pros- 
ecution. 

Countless  similar  cases  illustrate  the 
policy  of  the  new  chief.  In  his  fight 
against  crime  he  has  had  the  backing  of 
Mayor  Ballinger  and  has  gradually  se- 
cured that  of  the  rest  of  the  city  admin- 
istration. The  newspapers  of  Seattle  have 
waged  an  important  part  in  the  war 
against  crime,  but,  after  all,  it  is  to  the 
innate  honesty  and  courage  of  the  man 
alone  that  the  clean  condition  of  the  city 
is  due. 


The  oldest  house  in  America,  located  at  St.  Augustine,    Florida. 

Francis. 


Built    in    1664   by   the   monks    of   St. 


he  possesses.     This  led  to  the  wholesale 
emigration  of  crooks  from  the  city. 

A  good  example  of  DeLaney's  work  is 
the  case  of  the  poolrooms.  Wlien  the  chief 
ordered  them  closed  the  proprietors  noti- 
fied the  police  that  they  would  appeal 
their  cases  to  a  higher  court  and  reopen 
next  day  as  they  had  been  accustomed  to 
doing  in  similar  circumstances  heretofore. 
DeLaney  sent  back  a  message  that  they 
would  again  be  clovsed  and  their  parapher- 


Victor  H.   Mctcalf 

When  George  Bruce  Cortelyou,  first 
secretary  of  the  newly  created  Department 
of  Commerce  and  Labor,  was  chosen  to 
manage  President  Eoosevelt^s  campaign, 
AMctor  H.  Metcalf  was  selected  as  his  suc- 
cessor. The  appointment  was  particu- 
larly gratifying  to  the  people  of  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  states,  for  Mr.  Metcalf  is  a 
Califomian,  and  the  only  representative 


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of  that  section  in  the  cabinet. 

Previous  to  his  entrance  into  public 
life,  Mr.  Metcalf  practiced  law  in  Oak- 
land, California,  whither  he  came,  soon 
after  graduating  from  the  Yale  law 
school.  For  more  than  twenty  years  he 
pursued  the  even  tenor  of  his  way,  build- 
ing up  a  remunerative  practice,  attending 
strictly  to -his  business  as  an  American 
citizen,  and  establishing  an  inviolate  rep- 
utation for  highest  probity.  Then  he  was 
elected  to  the  fifty-sixth  congress  on  the 


and  capital.  Those  who  know  him  be- 
lieve that  he  is  com^tent,  even  for  so 
trying  a  position. 

The  new  member  of  the  cabinet  is  of 
the  open-air  type,  athletic,  a  sportsman, 
with  a  fondness  f or >  every  kind  of  game. 
He  is  a  crack  shot,  an  excellent  swimmer, 
and  his  erect  figure  and  firm  bearing  are 
evidence  of  his  athletic  proclivities.  His 
home  life,  whether  at  Oakland  or  at  "The 
Roost'' — the  hunting  lodge —  is  ideal.  He 
has  two  fine  sons — one  at  Annapolis,  one 


^.  4 


Seattle's   ma^nifioeiit   new   railroad   station.     Bein^  built  by  the  Oreat  Northern  Railroad,  but  will  be 

used  as  a  union  depot. 


Kepuhlican  ticket,  and  has  served  as  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
ever  since.  A?  an  energetic  and  efficient 
man,  lie  has  won  his  way  in  the  house, 
and,  in  his  second  term,  was  appointed  to 
the  important  committee  on  ways  and 
means — a  signal  lionor  for  so  new  a  man. 
In  his  new  position,  he  has  many  per- 
plexing problems  to  solve.  Cortelyou  has 
done  little  more  than  to  organize  the  new 
department,  and  his  successor  must  learn 
to  handle  the  complicated  machinery  of 
his  office.  He  must  face  the  greatest 
question  of  modern  times:  that  of  the 
trusts,   and    the   relations   between   labor 


in  business,  and  the  grace  and  charm  of 
his  w^ife  will  not  be  eclipsed  even  in  the 
brilliant  light  of  Washington  society. 

Oldest  House  in  America 

It  would  be  strange,  indeed,  if  the  old- 
est house  in  America  was  not  a  great  cu- 
riosity. The  landmark  that  is  so  recog- 
nized is  located  in  St.  Augustine,  Florida, 
on  a  tiny,  narrow  thoroughfare  near  the 
center  of  the  interesting  old  city.  Its 
history  tells  that  it  was  built  in  1564  by 
the  Plonks  of  St.  Francis.  It  is  con- 
structed of  coquina,  a  combination  of  sea 


The  monament  erected  by  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolutioii  to  the  memoiy  of  Abigail  Adams, 
the  mother  and  the  wife  of  Presidents.     Th**  stones  used  in  the  cairn  were  brought  from  all 

parti  of  the  world. 


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shells  and  mortar  that  is  almost  inde- 
structible. This  substance  was  quite  plen- 
tiful in  the  vicinity  of  the  early  settle- 
ments about  St.  Augustine.  It  is  of  this 
material  that  the  walls  of  the  old  city 
gate  as  well  as  the  walls  of  Fort  Marion 
are  built,  and  these  are  in  an  excellent 
state  of  preservation.  When  Sir  Francis 
Drake  sacked  and  burned  the  town,  this 
was  the  only  house  left  standing  in  the 
path  of  destruction.  As  a  remnant  of  the 
old  regime,  it  is  highly  prized,  especially 


ican  woman  crowns  the  summit  of  Penn's 
Hill  near  the  City  of  Quincy,  Mass.  It  is 
dedicated  to  Abigail  Adams,  wife  and 
mother  of  a  president,  and  bears  a  bronze 
tablet  with  the  following  inscription: 

"From  this  spot,  with  her  son,  John 
Quincy  Adams,  then  a  boy  of  seven,  by 
her  side,  Abigail  Adams  watched  the 
smoke  of  burning  Charlestown,  while  lis- 
tening to  the  guns  of  Bunker  Hill,  Sat- 
urday, June  17,  1777.  The  Adams  Chap- 
ter of  Quincy,  Mass.,  of  the  Society  of 


The  "Tremont,"  one  of  the  two  largest  freighters  plying*  on  the  Paoiflo  Ocean.     She  recently  carried  to 
the  Orient  the  largest  cargo  ever  borne  by  a  Pacific    Ocean    steamship.     The    "Tremont"    and   the 
''Shawmnt"   wiU  soon  be  surpassed  in  freight-carrying   capacily  by  the  new  freighters  which  James 
Hill   is   building  for  the   Oriental  oommerce. 


as  a  cocoanut  palm  planted  by  the  Monks 
still  stands  as  a  sentinel  over  the  quaint 
old  edifice. 

Tlie  Monument  to  Abigail  Adams 

While  the  American  people  have 
erected  many  monuments  and  statues  to 
the  memory  of  the  great  men  who  have 
helped  to  make  the  history  of  this  coun- 
try, they  have  been  very  dilatory  in  hon- 
oring their  famous  women  in  such  fash- 
ion. One  of  the  very  few  public  monu- 
ments erected  for  the  purpose  of  keep- 
ing green  the  memory  of  a  noted  Amer- 


the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution,  have 
caused  this  memorial  to  be  erected  Jime 
17,  1876.^' 

The  monument  is  constructed  in  the 
form  of  a  cairn,  the  material  being  stones 
of  many  sizes  brought  from  all  parts  of 
the  world.  At  the  foot  of  the  hill  are  two 
houses,  one  being  the  ancient  dwelling 
where  President  Adams  lived  for  years 
and  the  other  the  house  where  John 
Quincy  Adams  was  bom.  Near  by  are 
the  blue  waters  of  the  bay  and  the  granite 
quarries  of  the  famous  and  historic  City 
of  Quincy. 


THE  MILITARY  MANEUVERS  AT 
AMERICAN  LAKE 


An  account  of  tke  recent  *'*'  y^^r  games  *^ 
in  i^kicli  tke  soldiers  —  regular  and 
volunteer  —  of  Oregon,  Wasbington 
and  Idako  took  part 


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By  General   Tkomas   M.    Anderson, 
U.  S.  A.  (Retired) 

A  BRITISH  peripatetic  philoso- 
pher, who  once  honored  The 
States  with  his  presence,  in 
giving  the  world  the  benefit 
of  his  observations,  stated 
that  Americans  cared  nothing  for  sports 
as  recreations,  but  only  cared  for  them 
when  they  involved  a  contest.  He  re- 
marked further  that  they  cared  but  little 
for  political  principles,  only  took  the  same 
kind  of  interest  in  an  election  as  in  a 
horse  race. 

As  to  the  charges,  we  need  only  put  in 
the  plea  in  abatement,  that  they  are  no 
more  true  of  us  than  of  all  other  nationali- 
ties. 

The  interest  now  shown  in  military 
field  maneuvers  has  its  base  in  the  uni- 
versal interest  taken  in  combative  com- 
petition. 

The  military  maneuvers  at  American 
Lake,  in  which  the  National  Guardsmen  of 
Oregon,  Washington  and  Idaho,  and  the 
regulars  of  the  Department  of  Columbia 
bore  a  part,  took  the  form  of  simulated 
warfare.  Similar  contests  have  been  held 
in  California,  Ohio  and  other  states,  and 
on  a  large  scale  on  the  Bull  Run  battle- 
field, in  A^irginia. 

The  leading  nations  of  Europe  began  to 
liave  military  maneuvers  of  large  bodies 
of  troops  fifty  years  ago,  but  it  is  only 
recently  that  the  rules  of  Kriegspiel  or  of 
war  games  began  to  be  applied  to  them 
in  simulated  campaigns.  Originally  the 
"Kriegspiel"  was  a  classroom  academic 
exercise.  It  w^as  played  on  prepared  maps 
with  little  blocks  of  wood,  representing 
different  divisions  of  infantry,  cavalry  or 
artillery.  There  were  rules  for  the  move- 
ments of  these  blocks.  If  not  opposed, 
they  could,  in  a  given  time,  be  moved  a 
given  distance  over  level  or  broken 
ground,  or  open  or  forest  land.  Under 
the  rules,  infantry  and  artillery  fire  was 


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assumed  to  inflict  a  certain  loss  at  differ- 
ent distances. 

All  this,  of  course,  was  a  checkerboard 
strategy.  Men  of  flesh  and  blood  can 
not  be  moved  around  like  chessmen.  Heat, 
cold,  storms,  floods  and  innumerable 
natural  obstructions  render  theoretical 
calculations  of  little  value  in  actual 
warfare,  and  also  in  simulated  warfare 
moral  elements  come  in.  There  will  be 
varying  degrees  of  energy,  endurance  and 
of  determination  or  discouragement. 
There  will  be  different  degrees  of  confi- 


strength  should  occupy  in  close  or  open 
ground,  and  the  time  required  for  a  de- 
ployment or  change  of  front.  A  man  of 
average  intelligence  can  commit  these 
statements  to  memory  in  a  very  short 
time,  yet  no  one  without  practice  can  esti- 
mate the  distances  involved  in  the  sim- 
plest field  maneuver.  Distances  look  so 
surprisingly  different  under  differing 
conditions ;  whether,  for  instance,  we  esti- 
mate over  land  or  water,  over  hills  or 
plains,  or  by  night  or  day,  or  in  sunshine- 
or  fog.     In  estimating  distances,  the  firo 


Capt.   Hawthorne's  battery  in  action.     The   Oregon   hattery  was  with  Hawthorne  in  this  engaflremeiit. 


dence  or  mistrust  in  leaders.  For  these 
reasons  it  is  evident  that  practical  instruc- 
tion is  better  than  theory.  Finally,  in 
competitive  maneuvers  the  natural  desire 
to  win  adds  greatly  to  the  zeal  and  am- 
bition of  the  contestants. 

In  civil  life  no  one  believes  that  busi- 
ness methods  or  mechanical  excellence  can 
be  learned  or  acquired  from  books.  Prac- 
tice must  supplement  theory.  This  is 
just  as  true  of  the  art  military.  Take 
an  obvious  example.  Manuals  of  tactics 
state    the    space    a    brigade    of    a    given 


of  an  enemy  is,  of  course,  a  very  confusing 
factor.  In  calculating  the  time  it  may 
take  to  reach  a  given  position,  the  con- 
dition of  the  roads  or  the  character  of  the 
intervening  country  will  have  to  be  con- 
sidered, and  an  absolute  assurance  can 
only  be  obtained  by  reconnoitering.  What 
the  enemy  may  do  in  the  way  of  obstruc- 
tion or  opposition  further  complicates  the 
problem.  The  object  of  field  maneuvers 
is  to  make  the  problems  given  as  nearly 
like  those  of  actual  warfare  as  possible. 
Nothing  seems  simpler  than  marchingr 


Tlie  oluunpion  thootinr  team—from  the  Second  Washiatrton  Reffulan — ^who  won  the  contest  between 
militia  and  re^an  at  American  Lake,  and  were  sent  to  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  to  shoot  for  the 
National  trophy.  Ofioer^  mated  are— from  left  to  rigrht— Capt.  F.  T.  Leg^ett,  Briff.  Gen.  Jamee 
A.  Drain,   Capt.   C.   T.   Dulin,   First  Lieut.   J.  M.  Curry. 


Company    E — the    sharpshooters    of    the    Washington  troops  in  the  last  engagement. 


0«neral  Fonston  and  staff.  From  left  to  ri^ht,  the  oAoera  are:  Brig.  Oen.  Frederick  Funston,  MaJ. 
Robert  R.  Evans,  Capt.  Frank  A.  Orant,  MaJ.  Kees,  First  Lieut.  Burton  J.  Mitchell,  First  Lieut. 
Edwin  C.   Lony.  MaJ.  Rudolph  G.  Ebert. 


Oreffon  battery  on  their  way  to  the  front. 


THE    MILITARY    MANEUVERS. 


209 


a  column  along  a  road.  Yet  one  officer 
will  do  it  well  and  another  poorly.  One 
general  will  bring  in  his  division  after  a 
long  day^s  march  fresh  and  full  of  fight. 
Another  will  bring  it  in  hot,  hungry,  mad 
and  discourged.  All  this  comes  from  the 
fact  that  there  are  many  things  in  cam- 
paigning which  can  not  be  learned  out  of 
books.  Neither  Army  Regulations  nor 
Manuals  of  Guard  Duty  give  a  command- 
ing officer  any  suggestions  as  to  selectini^ 
reliable  men.  Ten  days*  field  service 
teaches  a  commander  more  about  the  char- 


together  in  camps  of  instruction.  This 
is  particularly  advantageous  to  the  Na- 
tional Guardsmen,  as  it  trains  them  in 
methods  of  mobilization  and  teaches  them 
to  provide  for  themselves  Yh  camp  and  on 
the  march.  Another  most  instructive  fea- 
ture of  these  field  maneuvers  is  that  it 
brings  into  co-operation  all  the  branches 
of  the  service;  the  cavalry,  artillery,  the 
signal  corps  and  engineers.  No  amount 
of  drill  in  army  and  parade  ground  can 
give  the  object-lesson  of  combined  ma- 
neuvers. 


Gen.  MAoArthur  and  party  reviewiner  the  troops.     Mac  Arthur  is  the  left  one  of  the  first  two  figures.     At 
his    Tight   is   Col.    Foster,    British   attache. 


acter  and  management  of  men  than  ho 
can  possibly  learn  in  any  other  way.  A 
study  of  history  and  text-books  is  not  to 
be  underrated;  it  is  only  urged  that  ex- 
perience is  a  necessary  supplement. 

Since  the  enactment  of  what  is  known 
as  the  "Dick**  law,  it  has  been  possible  to 
give  our  state  troops  an  up-to-date  or- 
ganization. With  more  liberal  appropria- 
tions, they  are  now  properly  armed  and 
equipped.  Finally,  the  wise  course  has 
been  adopted  of  bringing  the  state  troops 
and  the  organizations  of  the  regular  army 


As  battles  are  now  fought  in  extended 
order,  it  is  indispensable  to  have  wide 
fields  for  extended  deployments.  The 
Camp  of  Atascadero,  in  California,  em- 
braced an  area  of  22,000  acres.  Tlierc 
were  in  this  camp  5,000  men  of  all  arms, 
and  of  these  2,100  were  of  the  State 
Guard  of  California. 

WTiere  it  is  possi])le,  maneuvers  in  sem- 
blance of  warfare  are  carried  on  over 
miles  of  diversified  country.  This  gives 
opportimity  for  ambuscades,  strategems 
and  surprises.     That  this  may  be  carried 


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out  systematically  and  with  as  little  fric- 
tion as  possible,  a  corps  of  umpires  has 
to  be  organized.  The  oflBcers  detailed  for 
this  duty  operate  under  a  system  of  well- 
considered  rules.  They  accompany  each 
separate  detachment  of  the  contending 
forces,  keeping  in  a  book  of  printed  forms 
records  of  every  movement,  the  time  they 
are  firing  or  under  fire,  the  kind  of  fire, 
the  ammunition  used,  a  statement  of 
every  location,  the  orders  under  which  the 
command  operated,  and  how  they  were 
carried  out.     It  is  upon  the  reports  of 


the  maneuvers  at  American  Lake  by  the 
Oregon  and  Washington  regiments.  In 
fact,  the  war  veterans  can  be  identified  in 
all  the  regiments  which  take  part  in  field 
exercises. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  our  citizen 
soldiers  are  benefited  by  the  experience 
they  gain  in  these  camps  of  instruction. 
Nor  will  the  taxpayers  begrudge  the  ex- 
pense. There  is  never  much  fault  found 
with  expenditures  which  go  back  directly 
to  the  people. 

There  may  be  some  lovers  of  peace  and 


KetenrM   moYiag  up   to  the   front. 


these  observers  that  the  chief  umpire 
makes  his  decisions  and  criticisms.  Their 
reports  are  made  upon  the  execution  of 
such  problems  as  tlie  attack  and  defense 
of  convoys  and  the  attack  and  defense  of 
outposts  or  of  entrenched  positions,  con- 
tact of  opposing  forces  and  the  like. 

Since  our  Spanish  War,  and  its  corol- 
lary, the  Philippine  insurrection,  our  war 
maneuvers  have  been  much  more  realistic. 
Our  National  Guard  regiments,  largely 
made  up  of  veterans,  deport  themselves 
like  trained  soldiers.     This  was  shown  in 


concord  who  deprecate  the  effects  of  these 
warlike  object-lessons  in  the  nation.  Na- 
pier asserts  that  Anglo-Saxons  are  warlike 
but  not  military.  Americans  are  unmil- 
itary,  and  can  hardly  be  said  to  be  war- 
like. We  put  up  a  stiff  fight  when  we 
have  to,  yet  certainly  we  are  not  of  a  bel- 
ligerant  disposition,  and  there  is  but  little 
danger  of  our  becoming  so.  The  nation 
at  large  is  well  assured  that  the  victories 
of  peace  are  more  renowned  than  those 
of  war,  and  vastly  more  profitable. 


THE  IMPROVEMENT  OF  NANCY 

Tke  man  and  tke  maid — tke    separation— tke  secret  of  tke 
rock  pile — the  reuniting 

By  Ina  \Vriglit  Hanson 


LONG,  straight  furrows,  red  as 
brick-dust,  trailed  across  the 
side  hill.  At  their  end,  but 
below,  on  comparatively  level 
ground,  was  the  olive  orchard, 
each  tree  set  symmetrically  within  its  own 
circle  of  rock-bordered  .irrigating  ditch. 

Judson  Barrows,  resting  a  moment 
from  his  plowing,  looked  beyond  the 
orchard,  and  frowned. 

"If  it  wasn't  for  that  useless  rock-pile !" 
he  muttered.  "What  in  canopy  is  the 
reason  for  an  eighth  of  an  acre  of  piled 
up  stone,  to  say  nothing  of  the  ledge  run- 
ning clear  across  the  ranch?  A  wicked 
waste,  good  neither  for  man  nor  beast!'' 

The  young  man's  face  was  better  to 
look  upon  when  he  smiled  than  when 
he  frowned.  The  smile  followed  quickly, 
for,  from  behind  the  rocks — like  the  ruins 
of  a  giant's  castle,  white,  and  high,  and 
in  places  moss-covered — from  behind  the 
rocks,  and  threading  her  way  in  and  out 
among  them,  came  Nancy,  black-eyed,  but 
with  long  hair  the  color  of  this  strange 
Auburn  soil;  delicately  slight,  but  beauti- 
fully curved — Nancy,  charming  combina- 
tion of  child  and  woman. 

Halfway  through  the  orchard,  Judson 
met  her,  taking  her  outstretched  hands, 
and  smiling  tenderly  on  her  glowing  eyes, 
and  flaming  cheeks. 

"0  Judson,  guess!  The  most  unlikely 
thing  in  the  world  to  happen !" 

"I  think  my  father  must  have  struck 
it  rich,"  he  answered  bitterly,  "that's  the 
most  unlikely  thing  I  can  think  of." 

Two  grievances  had  Judson:  one,  the 
eighth  acre  of  rocky  waste;  the  other, 
that  his  father  spent  his  time  with  a 
mining  pan  on  the  American  River,  in- 
stead of  helping  him  cultivate  the  soil, 
raise  the  mortgage,  and  educate  a  house 
full  of  vounger  children.  Two  hopes, 
also,  had  Judson:  one,  to  build  an  olive 
mill  that,  by  the  manufacture  of  oil,  their 
income  might  be  greater;  the  other. 
Nancv. 


"Poor,  patient  old  man!"  said  Nancy 
softly.  "No,  it  is  not  your  father,  but 
mine.  He's  come  back,  Judson!  My 
father!  He's  rich,  too,  and  he's  going 
to  take  me  away  with  him  to  the  city. 
Isn't  it  grand?  Everything  I  have  ever 
dreamed  of  come  true.  But  best  of  all 
is  my  name,  Jud.  It  was  dreadful  not 
to  have  any  name  but  Nancy.  Nancv 
Adair,  that's  it.     Isn't  it  pretty?" 

"I  don't  understand,"  said  the  young 
man  slowly,  "your  father — " 

"Of  course  you  don't,  poor  dear.  I 
will  try  to  be  sensible  and  explain.  Fif- 
teen years  ago,  a  boy  of  twelve  was  stand- 
ing at  the  Auburn  Station,  looking  at  the 
Overland  train,  when  a  man  alighted, 
leading  a  little  girl  of  four.  The  man 
went  up  to  the  boy,  and  asked  him  to 
look  after  the  child  till  he  came  back. 
The  man  was  my  father,  and  he  never 
came  back  till  to-dav;  the  boy  was  vou, 
and  the  little  girl—" 

"The  little  girl  was  you,  the  sweetest 
child  that  ever  brought  sunshine  to  a 
house  already  filled  with  children,"  Jud- 
son interrupted,  "well,  he's  left  you  all 
this  time.  What's  he  come  back  for 
now  ?" 

"Tie  hated  me  because  my  birth  causcMl 
my  mother's  death.  He  didn't  want  to 
see  me  ever;  but  now  he's  repented,  and 
he's  come  back  to  care  for  me.  He  did 
wrong  of  course,  but  he's  mv  father, 
Juddie." 

"Of  course  he  is,"  Judson  growled. 

"And  he's  rich,"  continued  the  girl, 
"rich !  He  says  I  am  to  be  improved  in 
everA^  way,  and  when  I  get  dressed  up, 
T  shall  be  a  beauty.  A  beauty,  Jud,  think 
of  it!  A  boautv  with  eves  like  a  Mexi- 
can's, and  red  hair!"  Her  laugh  rans: 
out  merrily,  but  it  brought  no  answering 
note  from  her  companion. 

"A  beauty,  shucks!  As  if  you  needed 
fine  clothes  to  make  you  a  beauty!  You 
don't  need  any  improvement.  He'll  spoil 
you  instead  of  improve  you.     Then  he'll 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


marry  you  to  some — ^^  wrath  choked  his 
utterance,  and  Nancy  dug  the  toe  of  her 
little  shoe  into  the  red  dirt. 

"He  says  I  am  bound  to  make  a  fine 
marriage/'  she  said  hesitatingly,  ^T^ut 
that's  a  long  ways  off.  I  wish  you  were 
glad  about  my  good  fortune.  0  yes, 
another  thing  he  told  me:  that  I  could 
liave  a  lot  of  money  to  spend  as  I  like 
liere.  How  much  will  it  take  for  your 
t)live  mill,  Jud?" 

The  young  man  drew  himself  up 
proudly.  "Do  you  think  I  would  take 
one  cent  of  your  money,  child?  Go  out 
into  the  world  and  enjoy  yourself  if  you 
can't  be  contented  here.  I  thought  you 
had  always  been  happy  here  on  the 
4*anch.     Haven't  you,  dear?" 

The  wistfulness  of  his  voice  and  eyes 
thoked  her.  ^TTes,  I  was  happy  because 
I  thought  it  was  to  be  my  life  always; 
but  now  that  I  can  go  out  into  the  world, 
and — be — improved,  I  think  I  want  to 
go.  I  wish  you  wouldn't  look  so  cross. 
I  wish  you  were  glad." 

"Glad  ?  Of  course  I  am  glad !  0  yes, 
I  am  raving  glad!"  He  caught  her  sud- 
denly in  his  arms.  She  shrank  from  his 
unwonted  roughness,  but  his  kiss  was 
very  tender. 

"There,  sweetheart,  I  have  something 
which  no  man  out  there  in  the  great, 
wide  world  where  you  are  going,  can  take 
from  me.  Go,  be  happy  and  good  as  you 
are  now,"  and  Judson,  grim-mouthed, 
and  fierce-eyed,  strode  back  to  his  horses. 

"If  he  had  asked  me,  I  believe  I  should 
have  stayed,"  she  said,  looking  after  him 
tearfully.  Then  her  thoughts  flew  out 
into  the  great,  wide  world  where  she  was 
to  be  improved,  and  her  little  feet,  which 
Judson  worshipped,  took  her  swiftly  back 
to  her  repentant  father. 

"It's  tough,"  Judson  muttered,  loosen- 
ing a  strap  here,  and  adjusting  a  buckle 
there,  that  his  horses  might  be  sure  of 
comfort,  "but  I've  no  right  to  interfere. 
She's  got  her  chance,  and  she  shan't  be 
tormented  by  me.  Don't  see  much  show 
for  me  now,  but  maybe,  sometime — " 
and  he  resolutely  resumed  his  plowing. 

For  five  years  Judson  worked  days  to 
pay  off  the  mortgage  and  to  school  the 
other  children,  and  studied  nights  to  keep 
])ace  with  Nancv's  improvement.  For 
five  years,  he  held  doggedly  to  his  pur- 
pose   of    not    interfering    with    Nancy's 


chance;  even  when  her  letters  came,  he 
shut  his  eyes  resolutely  to  the  vein  of 
sadness  running  through  them. 

She  wrote  enthusiastically  of  balls  and 
dinners,  of  her  beautiful  dresses  and  her 
jewels;  she  wrote  innocently  of  the  fine 
people  whom  she  had  met,  and  Judson"? 
frown  grew  black.  Then,  perhaps  on  the 
next  page  would  be : 

"I  have  tried  to  tell  them  how  beauti- 
ful against  the  green  is  Auburn's  red 
soil;  but  they  can  not  understand  how 
soil  can  be  red,  or  being  red,  can  be 
beautiful,   so   I  have  given  up  trying." 

Or,  "I  fear  I  was  not  bom  to  the  pur- 
ple. Yesterday  I  was  so  horribly  home- 
sick for  a  breath  of  pure  mountain  air, 
with  the  scent  of  daphne  and  sage  and 
chaparral,  that  I  cried.  Papa  went  out 
and  bought  me  more  jewels.  Poor  papa, 
and  poor,  rich  me  !'^ 

Or,  "I  dreamed  of  Auburn  last  night, 
and  of  the  beautiful,  white  rock-pile 
which  you  hate  and  I  love.  Don't  be 
cross  at  the  dear,  old,  mossy  things  any 
more,  Judson.  Be  glad  that  they  are 
there  for  me  to  dream  of." 

It  was  this  last  letter  of  Nancy's  which 
was  troubling  Judson  as  he  walked 
briskly  toward  the  orchard.  He  was 
wishing  he  had  not  put  the  dynamite  in, 
and  blown  the  rocks  to  pieces  that  morn- 
ing. He  was  planning  to  use  them  for 
the  foundation  of  his  olive  house,  and 
was  on  his  way  then  to  survey  the  results 
of  the  explosion. 

As  he  neared  the  pile,  he  exclaimed 
with  astonishment.  The  tallest  one  still 
stood,  as  if  defying  the  elements  of  de- 
struction; but  great  pieces  had  been 
blown  from  it,  and  on  the  jagged  sides  of 
the  giant  rock,  something  caught  the 
rays  of  the  sun,  and  flashed  them  back. 

The  young  man's  face  was  white  as 
he  picked  up  a  small  piece.  It  was  there, 
too,  flecks  of  it  all  through  the  broken 
rock.  Then  the  light  died  out  of  his 
eyes  as  he  thought  of  what  it  might  be — 
only  "fools'  gold,"  strewn  abroad  by  the 
devil  to  make  men  curse  God  and  die! 

From  the  other  side  of  the  orchard,  his 
father  was  coming.  Grizzled  and  bent, 
his  eyes  on  the  ground,  as  if  always 
searching  for  the  precious  substance,  his 
miner's  pan  under  his  arm,  the  old  man 
was  starting  on  his  daily  trip  to  the 
river. 


THE  IMPROVEMENT  OF  NANCY. 


213 


For  perhaps  the  first  time,  Judson  felt 
a  great  pity  for  this  bent,  old  man,  always 
disappointed,  and  never  losing  hope.  He 
felt  something  of  respect,  too,  for  his 
father  would  know — one  electrical  mo- 
ment, then  the  miner's  shout  rose  to 
heaven. 

"Gold-bearing  quartz,  as  I'm  a  sinner! 
Why,  boy,  there^s  thousands  of  dollars  in 
these  busted  rocks.  Likely  it  goes  clean 
through  the  hull  ledge.  Boy,  we're  rich ! 
rich !  rich !" 

The  old  man  fell  upon  the  priceless 
fragments,  sobbing  like  a  child;  but  Jud- 
son stood  with  his  face  toward  the  west, 
and  his  strong,  right  hand  inside  his 
checkered  shirt  where  lay  Nancy^s  last 
letter. 

Two  hours  after  Judson  Barrows 
reached  San  Francisco  he  was  ringing 
the  bell  at  Nancy's  father's  house.  As 
Nancy  was  passing  through  the  hall,  she 
opened  the  door  herself — Nancy,  whoso 
trailing  gowTi  was  the  color  of  his  own 
olive  trees,  whose  wealth  of  hair  was  the 
hue  of  his  native  soil,  and  whose  great, 
black  eyes  glowed  with  joyful  surprise — 
Nancy,  a  beauty,  as  she  had  said  she  was 
to  be. 

It  was  not  Judson's  way  to  lose  time. 

"Nancy,  T  have  come  to  take  you  home. 
Will  you  marry  me?"  he  asked,  as  he 
followed  her  into  the  parlor. 


A  flippant  answer  was  on  her  tongue, 
but  his  grave  eyes  silenced  it. 

"I  have  always  loved  you,"  he  said 
simply. 

"You  have  taken  plenty  of  time" — 
her  voice  was  dangerously  calm — "were 
you  so  sure  of  me  that  you  thought  I 
would  wait  for  you  years?" 

"No,  I  was  not  sure  at  all — except — 
sometimes.  Sometimes  I  felt  as  if  you 
belonged  to  me,  and  I  was  certain  to  get 
uiy  o^^Ti.  I  was  waiting  to  give  you  your 
chance.  That  day  in  the  orchard,  when 
you  told  me  you  were  to  be  improved,' 
as  you  called  it,  I  vowed  I  would  not 
interfere." 

"Then  why  have  vou  come  now,  Jud- 
son?" 

He  hesitated.  Should  he  tell  her  what 
had  been  hidden  in  the  rocks  she  loved? 
No,  he  would  hear  her  answer  first.  He 
could  not  buy  even  Nancy. 

"Things  have  gone  w^ell  at  the  ranch. 
I  can  care  for  you  comfortably,  and — 
and — I  love  you." 

The  girl  put  her  arms  impulsively 
around  his  neck. 

"0,  Juddie!  It  was  cruel  of  you  to 
wait  so  long.  If  you  hadn't  come  pretty 
soon,  I  think  I  should  have  gone  to  you. 
I  never  would  have  waited  much  longer." 

She  looked  up  joyously,  but  her  black 
eyes  shone  through  tears. 


THE  NEW  YORK  SUBWAY 


Tke    ^reat    undex^round    rail^way    Jiiat    completed — an    effort    to    solve  tke  problem  of 

rapid  transit  for  tke  metropolis 

By  O.  R.  Garland 


WITH  the  opening  of  the 
underground  railroad,  in 
the  fall  of  this  year, 
there  will  have  beeu 
settled  one  of  the  most 
perplexing  problems  with  which  the  great 
city  of  Xew  York  has  ever  contended. 

In  a  metropolis,  the  question  of  trans- 
portation is  always  a  pressing  one,  but 
the  usual  difficulties  were  more  than  in- 
creased by  reason  of  the  peculiar  formation 
of  Xew  York  City.  Occupying  as  it  does 
an  entire  island,  the  width  of  the  city's 
limits  confined,  but  not  its  length,  its 
"business  center"  circumscribed  by  no 
definite   limits,    and   with    no   particular 


portion  set  aside  for  a  residential  section, 
it  is  small  wonder  that,  since  1868,  dis- 
couragement overthrew  all  plans. 

London  and  Paris  have  had  under- 
ground railways,  but  the  combined  length 
of  all  their  tracks  does  not  more  than 
equal  the  distance  between  the  Battery 
and  Forty-second  street  in  New  York. 

The  title  to  the  road  is  vested  in  the 
municipality  of  the  City  oi  New  York, 
but  in  order  to  obviate  the  necessity  of 
plunging  the  city  in  debt,  the  entire  road 
has  been  leased  for  fifty  years  to  the  con- 
tractor, John  B.  McDonald.  He  also  haa 
an   option   for   twenty-five  years   beyond 


Subway  station  at  Twenty- third  street,  the  heart  of  New  York's  shopping  district. 


view  of  the  iubwijp  nliowiiii'  tracki  for  locml  and  eipr«iA    tra,Ln8. 


Platform  and  track  at  City  Hall  station — New  York's  underground  railway. 


216 


THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


that,  and  then  the  city  must  purchase  the 
equipment  at  an  agreed  price,  or  one 
settled  upon  by  arbitration. 

There  were  but  two  bids  for  the 
contract  for  the  entire  work,  one  for 
$39,000,000,  and  Mr.  McDonald's  for 
$35,000,000,  which  was  the  cost  estimate 
of  the  chief  engineer.  The  firm  of  August 
Belmont  &  Co.  organized  a  corporation 
called  "The  Rapid  Transit  Subway  Con- 
struction Company"  which  furnished  Mr. 
McDonald  with  security  and  finances — 
Mr.  McDonald's  bond  alone  being  $4,- 
000,000. 

The  subway  is  very  close  to  the  surface 
of  the  street,  being  for  the  most  part  only 
four  or  five  feet  below,  and  the  excavation 
itself  is  about  twenty-one  feet  in  depth. 
This  does  away  with  the  many  steps  to  the 
stations — the  great  drawback  to  the  ele- 
vated system. 

Perhaps  a  few  figures  will  help  to  show 
the  immensity  of  the  work.    Over  500,000 


cubic  yards  of  rock  has  been  tunneled, 
and  1,700,000  yards  of  earth  excavated; 
7,000  vault  lights  have  been  put  in  place, 
and  350,000  yards  of  track  laid.  All  this 
has  been  done  in  four  years,  and  by 
12,000  men. 

The  motive  power  is  electricity,  the 
third-rail  system,  and  the  entire  subway 
is  lighted  by  electric  lights.  The  ventila- 
tion is  almost  perfect  and  in  summer  the 
place  is  one  of  the  coolest. 

Part  of  the  way  the  road  is  laid  with 
four  tracks,  two  for  expresses  and  two 
for  locals.  The  fare  is  five  cents  for  the 
entire  trip,  but  the  company  has  the  right 
to  run  a  parlor  car  on  each  train  and  to 
charge  extra  fare  for  riding  therein. 

The  time  for  local  trains  is  fourteen 
miles  an  hour,  and  the  express  trains 
may  go  at  the  speed  of  thirty  miles  hourly, 
making  the  motto  of  the  road  an  accom- 
plished fact:  "From  the  Battery  to  Har- 
lem in  Twenty  Minutes!" 


Open   air   stretch   of  traok  before   entering  tunnel. 


GRAIN-GROWING  IN  THE  PACIFIC 

NORTHWEST 

Facts  and  figures  on  tke  great  industry 
By  RinaUo  M.  HaU 


GRAIN-GROWING  in  the  Pacific 
Northwest  is  a  surprise  to  the 
entire  agricultural  world.  That 
vast  region,  comprising  a  large 
part  of  Oregon,  Washington 
and  Idaho,  known  as  the  Inland  Em- 
pire, is  peculiarly  adapted  to  the 
raising  of  all  small  grains,  especially 
wheat,  and  this  cereal  has  made  the 
section  famous.  It  has  carried  the  name 
of  Walla  Walla  to  the  uttermost  ends  of 
the  earth,  and  wherever  wheat  is  bought 
and  sold  the  name  of  this  prosperous  little 
city  is  known.  Cables  from  Liverpool — 
the  world's  market — carry  the  news  every- 
where that  Walla  Walla  is  making  cer- 
tain offerings.  Pendleton,  Palouse,  Lew- 
iston,  Moscow,  La  Grande,  The  Dalles, 
Heppner,  Union,  Colfax  and  other  In- 
land Empire  cities  are  also  big  wheat- 
buying  and  shipping  centers.  Consider- 
able wheat  is  annually  raised  in  the  Wil- 
lamette Valley,  but  from  the  fact  that  it 
is  the  oldest  part  of  the  state,  and  more 
densely  populated,  the  lands  are  more  val- 
uable for  diversified  farming. 

In  1903  the  estimate  of  the  chief  of  the 
United  States  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  was  14.4  per 
acre  for  the  wheat  yield  of  the  entire 
coimtry.  For  the  states  of  Oregon,  Wash- 
ington and  Idaho  the  average  was  21.2 
bushels  per  acre,  nearly  48  per  cent  higher 
than  for  the  country  as  a  whole.  Then, 
again.  Inland  Empire  wheat  weighs  so 
much  that  it  is  next  to  impossible  to  find 
any  sufficiently  light  to  grade  as  "Xo.  1,*' 
while  in  the  wheat  sections  of  the  Middle 
West  the  farmer  counts  himself  fortunate 
who  can  raise -a  crop  that  is  good  enough 
to  get  into  the  "No.  1"  classification  (58 
pounds).  Inland  Empire  wheat  averages 
from  59  to  65^  pounds  per  bushel.  In 
Minnesota  a  sack  of  wheat  weighs  on  an 
average  of  about  115  pounds;  in  the  In- 
land Empire,  in  1903,  it  tipped  the  scaler 
at  about  130  pounds,  and  the  price  per 


bushel  in  Oregon,  Washington  and  Idaho 
was  higher,  70  to  75  cents  being  received. 

There  has  never  been  anything  like  a 
complete  crop  failure  since  the  first  settler 
arrived.  Robert  Jamieson,  who  has 
farmed  near  Weston,  Umatilla  County,  for 
thirty-two  years,  does  not  remember  when 
his  wheat  made  less  than  forty  bushels  per 
acre,  and  it  has  often  averaged  sixty-five. 
Different  sections  use  different  varieties  of 
wheat,  the  official  reports  showing  that 
Little  Club  is  most  used  where  the  rainfall 
is  20  inches  or  more ;  Red  Chaff  where  the 
rainfall  is  15  or  20  inches;  and  Bluestem, 
where  it  is  less  than  15  inches.  Genesee, 
Grant,  Red  Russian,  Canadian  Hybrid  and 
Sonora  are  also  largely  grown.  The  rainfall 
in  Eastern  Oregon,  Eastern  Washington 
and  Northern  Idaho  is  well  distributed. 
Grain  is  sown  in  the  autumn,  about  the 
time  the  rains  begin;  remains  in  the 
ground  during  the  period  of  greatest  pre- 
cipitation (usually  in  the  form  of  snow)  ; 
matures  and  ripens  with  the  decreasing 
rainfall  of  early  spring  and  summer,  and 
is  harvested  from  July  to  December,  the 
driest  part  of  the  year.  With  a  rainfall 
of  twenty  inches,  a  yield  of  40  bushels 
to  the  acre  is  an  ordinary  thing,  while 
50,  60  and  70  are  often  grown.  Spring 
wheat,  under  favorable  conditions,  yieldr^ 
from  20  to  30  bushels  per  acre. 

The  cost  of  wheat  production  in  the 
Inland  Empire  is  relatively  so  much  less 
and  the  yield  so  far  ahead  of  many  much- 
advertised  and  boasted  sections  of  the 
United  States  that  actual  returns  from 
harvest  fields  are  often  discredited  by 
those  who  have  not  visited  the  region. 
The  yield  in  the  Red  River  Valley,  North 
Dakota,  is  from  5  to  35  bushels  per  acre; 
the  cost  of  raising  a  35-bushel  bumper 
crop  there  is  $7.50  per  acre,  which  means 
that  the  net  profit  from  an  acre  of  60-cent 
wheat  in  the  Red  River  Valley,  yielding 
35  bushels,  is  $13.50.  In  the  great  In- 
land Empire  the  cost  of  raising  an  acre  of 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


wheat,  ready  for  market,  is  between  $5  and 
$7.  Assuming  that  it  is  $7.50  per  acre, 
and,  according  to  Eichard  McGahey,  of 
Walla  Walla,  authority  on  the  subject,  it 
never  exceeds  that  amount,  in  the  case  of 
Samuel  Drumheller,  who  from  the  up- 
lands of  Eastern  Washington,  raised  10,- 
560  bushels  from  160  acres,  an  average  of 


In  Eastern  Oregon  and  Northern 
Idaho,  where  the  cost  of  production  is 
practically  the  same  and  the  yield  equally 
as  large,  similar  profits  are  made.  Scores 
of  authenticated  yields  are  from  40  to  68 
bushels  per  acre  for  the  Inland  Empire, 
and  when  it  is  known  that  the  average 
wheat  vield  of  the  entire  United  States  is 


Two    styles    of    the    combined    harvester    and    thresher,    which    in    one    operation, 
thresher,  cleans  and  sacks  it,  as  it  moves  through  the      field. 


heads    the    arrain. 


66  bushels  per  acre,  at  the  market  price, 
65  cents  per  bushel,  means  a  net  profit 
of  $5,664,  or  $35.40  per  acre,  nearly  three 
times  the  profit  of  that  from  an  acre  in 
the  Red  River  Valley.  To  Bruce  Ferrell, 
in  the  same  county,  who  threshed  23,250 
bushels  from  420  acres,  an  average  of  56 
bushels  per  acre,  it  means  a  net  profit  of 
$11,962.50,  or  $28.25  per  acre. 


only  about  15  bushels  per  acre,  the  profit 
of  wheat-raising  in  Oregon,  Washington 
and  Idaho  is  readily  seen. 

According  to  careful  estimates,  the 
total  yield  of  wheat  in  the  Inland  Em- 
pire, 1903,  was  about  35,000,000  bushels, 
which,  at  70  cents  per  bushel,  represented 
a  value  of  $24,500,000.  Of  the  35,000,- 
000  bushels,  Oregon  produced  12,000,000, 


GEAIN-GROWIISJG  IN  THE  PACIFIC  NORTHWEST. 


219 


the  yield  of  a  few  of  the  leading  counties 
foUowing:  Umatilla,  2,750,000;  Sher- 
man,  2,250,000;  Gilliam,  1,000,000;  Mor- 
row, 450,000;  Wasco,  900,000;  Union. 
850,000.  The  total  production  of  Wash- 
ington was  22,100,000  bushels.  The  great 
belt  of  the  eastern  part  of  the  state, 
largely  tributary  to  and  reached  by  the 
Oregon  Railroad  &  Navigation  Company, 
made  a  splendid  showing,  Whitmao 
County  producing  6,900,000  bushels,  Lin- 
coln, 6,700,000;  Walla  Walla,  2,200,000; 
Adams,  1,800,000;  Douglas,  1,300,000; 
Spokane,  600,000.  Idaho  is  credited  with 
5,000,000  bushels  in  1903. 

A  visit  to  an  Inland  Empire  wheat  field 
during  the  harvest  season  is  a  surprise 
and  a  revelation  to  one  not  accustomed  to 
the  sight.  The  big  combined  harvester 
and  thresher,  drawn  by  a  team  of  20  to 
30  horses,  heads,  threshes,  cleans  and 
sacks  the  grain  as  it  moves  through  the 
field,  dropping  the  filled  and  securely  tied 
bags  off,  five  on  six  in  a  pile,  at  regular 
intervals,  every  operation,  except  tying 
the  sacks,  being  done  automatically. 

Oats,  barley,  flax  and  rye  are  also 
grown  in  large  quantities  and  in  a  profit- 
able manner.  W.  T.  Pettijohn,  of  Mos- 
cow, Idaho,  raised  12,600  bushels  of  white 
oats  from  180  acres,  an  average  of  70 
bushels,  and  similar  yields  are  reported 
from  many  sections  of  the  grain  belt.  The 
barley  output  of  Columbia  County,  Wash- 
ington, alone  last  year  was  over  1,600,000 
bushels,  selling  from  76  to  80  cents  per 
bushel.  H.  K.  Fisher,  of  Baker  County, 
Oregon,  reports  a  yield  of  99  bushels  per 
acre  for  barley.  Thomas  Filkerson,  of 
Eastern  Washington,  threshed  102  bush- 
els of  barley  from  an  acre  of  bottom  land. 


Fred  Stine,  of  the  same  region,  raised 
4,425  bushels  from  53  acres,  an  average 
of  83^  bushels  per  acre.  R.  H.  Prather, 
Columbia,  Washington,  had  800  acres  of 
barley,  that  averaged  60  bushels.  L.  R. 
Van  Winkle,  of  Weston,  Oregon,  reports 
a  barley  yield  of  85  bushels  per  acre. 

That  the  flax  industry  of  Oregon  is  an 
unqualified  success  and  has  come  to  stay 
was  proved  in  1903  by  experiments  by 
Eugene  Bosse,  a  celebrated  Belgian  flax 
expert,  who,  in  addition  to  about  130  acres 
which  he  put  in  on  his  own  account  in 
the  Willamette  Valley,  raised  20  acres  for 
the  United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture. The  flax,  according  to  Mr.  Bosse, 
will  produce  a  much  better  grade  of  fiber 
than  the  best  raised  in  Belgium  or  Ire- 
land, and  manufacture  a  finer  quality  of 
linen.  Mr.  Bosse  declares  that  a  great 
future  is  in  store  for  Oregon  as  a  result 
of  the  experiment,  and  that  within  a  few 
years  there  will  be  an  immense  fiber  fac- 
tory somewhere  in  the  Willamette  Valley, 
turning  out  the  finest  fabrics,  from  the 
best  cordage  and  binder  twine  to  the  most 
delicate  laces.  The  fact  that  over  three 
tons  per  acre,  worth  $12.50  to  $15  per 
ton,  can  be  raised,  means  a  big  profit  to 
those  engaged  in  the  industry. 

The  rich  lands  of  the  Nez  Perces  reser- 
vation, Northern  Idaho,  are  yielding  large 
returns  to  flax  growers.  Over  50,000 
acres  of  the  famous  Clearwater  Valley  are 
annually  in  flax,  an  average  of  15  bushels 
per  acre  being  received,  making  a  total  of 
750,000  bushels,  which,  at  $1.20  a  bushel, 
represents  a  value  of  $900,000,  and  be- 
sides, thousands  of  acres  of  wheat  are 
raised. 


LOVE  IS  BEST 

Though  I  must  aye  remember, 

I  shall  not  ever  brood 
On  sordid-eyed  November 

That  marred  our  April  mood. 

Though  I  must  aye  remember 

The  word  that  may  not  die, — 
The  fleck  of  cold  night-ember 
In  our  fresh,  morning  sky, — 
That  cloud  shall  never  dull  one  slenderest 

ray, 
For  Love  lights  us,  twin-hearted,  on  our 
way. 

— Robert   Haven   Schauffler. 


THE  STRANGE  LEGEND  OF  THE 
DOUBLE  SHADOW 


Tke  Indiaiu*  interpretation  of  tl&e  dual  sbado^w  cast  by  Mt.  HooJ 
By  F.  H.  Saylor 


ITS  perpetual  snow  mantle,  its  beauty 
of  outline,  and  its  glaciers,  together 
with  the  incomparable  scenic  com- 
bination of  lake,  river,  wooded 
hills  and  ex{)anse  of  verdure  skirt- 
ing its  base,  have  endeared  Mount  Hood 
to  the  hearts  of  those  resident  in  sight  of 
its  uplifted  head,  and  won  the  admiration 
of  the  traveler  who  occasionally  beholds. 

Like  all  of  the  sentinels  of  the  Cas- 
cades, it  has  been  the  basis  of  tradition 
among  the  aborigines,  and,  possibly,  has 
had  more  legends  connected  therewith 
than  any  of  the  others.  It  also  stands 
unique  among  the  mountains  of  the  world 
from  the  fact  that,  at  times,  it  casts  a 
double  shadow.  To  the  white  man  this 
freak  of  nature  presents  a  beautiful  pic- 
ture only.  To  him  it  is  but  an  added 
charm  thrown  around  the  grand  old 
mountain  to  lend  increasing  enjoyment 
while  in  contemplation  of  its  grandeur. 
To  the  superstitious  mind  of  the  Indian 
the  phenomenon  displays  a  reflex  of  inci- 
dent happening  when  mankind  was  in 
its  years  of  youth,  and  from  it  he  read? 
the  future  of  his  race.  To  him  it  has  a 
meaning,  and  hopefully  he  awaits  the 
dawn  of  the  hour  when  promises  spoken 
in  the  long  dead  past  shall  be  fulfilled. 

The  Indian  asserts  that  the  incident 
connected  with  the  first  appearance  of  this 
double  shadow  brought  about  a  remark- 
able change  in  the  stature  of  his  forefath- 
ers. Antedating  that  occurrence  they 
were  as  tall  as  the  noble  firs  that  kiss  the 
clouds  with  their  high-reaching  tops.  The 
tyee  or  chief  among  them  was  more  of  a 
giant  than  those  over  whom'  he  ruled,  his 
height  towering  above  them  so  much  that 
his  warriors  could  walk  under  his  out- 
stretched arm  without  disturbing  the 
plumes  with  which  they  adorned  their 
hair.  He  was  not  only  majestic  in  ap- 
pearance, but  was  most  pure  of  soul ;  ever 
solicitous  for  the  welfare  of  his  people. 


and  was  a  kind,  impartial  judge.  Pass- 
ing days  brought  a  son  to  his  household, 
and  as  the  years  of  the  boy's  life  increased 
he  became  the  more  like  the  source  whence 
he  sj)rang,  was  of  commanding  presence, 
his  bravery  unquestioned  and  his  charac- 
ter without  stain. 

Few  escape  from  the  impulse  for  com- 
panionship with  one  of  the  opposite  sex, 
which,  when  grown  to  fullness,  marks  the 
measure  of  their  joy  or  brings  acutest 
pain.  To  this  rule  the  son  was  no  excep- 
tion. When  Klose  Tamanowis,  the  god- 
dess of  love,  rose  to  greet  the  coming 
morn  and  sped  through  the  vaulted  blue 
on  an  errand  from  the  stars,  the  sunlight 
paled  before  the  radiance  of  her  smile. 
Aflame  with  ecstatic  bliss,  the  young  man 
gazed.  Attracted,  she  halted.  From  his 
lips  fell  the  plea  that  no  more,  unloved, 
should  she  roam  alone  in  space,  but 
should  come  and  be  his  bride,  his  queen- 
Already  half-inclined,  it  took  but  little 
urging  of  a  suit,  so  strange  and  bom  in 
haste,  to  win  a  heart  already  won.  With 
mutual  consent  came  outstretched  arms 
to  clasp  heart  to  heart,  but  lo!  between 
them  arose  a  shape  of  aspect  dread,  veiling 
from  sight  the  ardent  lover  from  his  bride. 
'Twas  Cultus  Tamanowis,  the  goddess  of 
jealousy,  who,  in  rage  and  hate,  had  inter- 
fered with  love's  young  dream. 

Not  content  with  obscuring  the  lovely 
vision,  her  rancorous  spite  must  be  fur- 
ther vented.  Seizing  the  golden  tresses 
of  the  maiden,  Cultus  Tamanowis  struck 
them  from  her  head.  As  the  fiend  threw 
them  here  and  there  or  stamped  upon 
them,  they  were  ground  into  the  rocks  or 
carried  by  the  winds  into  opened  crevises, 
there  to  lie,  not  forever,  but  until  the 
miner  of  a  race  to  come  should  find,  ex- 
tract and  gloat  over  them.  While  the 
gold  is  capable  of  bringing  pleasure  to  its 
possessor,  it  still  retains  the  contaminat- 
ing touch  of  her  who  murdered  joy  and 
love,  and  through  this,  those  who  covet 


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may  find  misery  untold  in  its  pursuit  or 
possession. 

Transfixed  the  youthtful  chieftain 
stood;  then  his  heart  burst  with  grief. 
The  father,  bewailing  his  untimely  end, 
wove  a  mantle  pure  and  white  around  his 
form,  renewing  the  robe  each  passing 
year  as  a  symbol  of  his  grief.  Thus 
Mount  Hood  was  formed,  and  a  grander 
tomb  no  soul  before  or  since  has  known. 


people  were  told  not  to  grieve,  for  in  the 
future  the  dead  would  break  away  from 
bonds  and  live  again,  and  all  would  re- 
sume their  former  size. 

As  Mt.  Hood  seems  to  rumble  or  to 
emit  a  cloud  of  smoke,  the  Indian  hears 
the  quickening  of  a  soul  whose  rehabili- 
ment  will  be  to  them  a  renewal  of  departed 
excellence,  and  admit  them  to  the  happy 
hunting    grounds.      Disappointed    often. 


A  party  Mc«ndixifir  Mt.  Hood,  showing  plainly  tho  remarkable    doable    thadow   oast    by    the    moutnain. 


Cultus  Tamanowis,  her  jealousy  still 
unappeased,  gathered  great  stones  and 
hurled  them  toward  the  place  of  sepulcher 
to  break  its  covering  and  expose  to  view 
the  object  she  would  see.  In  their  fall 
to  earth  the  great  rocks  struck  the  people, 
killing  some  and  dwarfing  others  to  their 
present  size.  Before  further  damage 
could  be  done,  the  sun  god  stopped  the 
fiend  in  her  devilish  work,  but  too  late  to 
undo  what  she  had  done.     The  stricken 


yet  they  stoically  hope  and  wait. 

To  prove  the  story  handed  down  for 
unnumbered  years,  they  point  to  the 
double  shadow,  claiming  that  the  brighter 
one  is  Klose  Tamanowis  in  spirit  form 
coming  to  greet  her  lord  and  lover  when 
he  again  awakens,  and  that  the  darker 
one  is  the  Cultus  Tamanowis,  the  fiend, 
ever  present,  if  possible,  to  intrude  upon 
and  blast  the  bloom  and  blossom  of  a 
happy  hour. 


HIPPY  AND  THE  BOOM 


A  story  of  Seattle — a  man,  a  mule  and  a  side  lull 
By  F.  Roncy  ^?V^clr 


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I 


HAD  a  dream  about  you  last 
night,  Kinzer,  I  did  honest. 
I  dreamed  that  you  was  goin* 
to  have  a  spurt  of  luck." 
Henry  Kinzer  turned  towards 
the  speaker  a  gaunt  face  upon  which  was 
written  unbelief,  mingled  with  a  super- 
stitious curiosity  to  know  the  details  of 
Pitt  Wells'  dream. 

"I  dreamed,"  continued  Pitt  Wells, 
"that  you  and  me  went  down  to  play  the 
bank  together.  I  dreamed  that  you  put 
ten  dollars  on  the  king  to  win — ^the  last 
king  in  the  pack,  mind  you,  the  others 
bein'  losers — ^the  last  king — and  you  took 
the  money.  Then  I  dreamed  that  you 
went  right  on  from  bad  to  worse,  winnin' 
money  steady — always  on  the  king.  Now 
wasn't  that  kind  of  queer?" 

Kinzer  shook  his  head  and  kept  on 
currying  the  flanks  of  his  mule. 

"That  dream  couldn't  come  true  for 
I  ain't  got  ten  dollars  just  now." 

"You  can  git  ten  dollars  and  another 
on  top  of  it  if  you  are  a  mind  to  sell  your 
mule.  And  you  might  just  as  well  sell 
him;  one  mule  ain't  no  good  to  you  nor 
to  anybody  else.  Now  here  we  are,  you 
got  a  mule  and  T  got  a  mule;  neither  one 
of  us  can  work  one  mule  to  any  advan- 
tage. You  ain't  got  the  money  to  buy 
my  mule  and  you  won't  sell  me  youm." 

"How  much  will  you  take  for  your 
mule?"  asked  Kinzer,  lovingly  mopping 
off  the  long  face  and  drooping  ears  of 
Hippy,  who  had  been  a  faithful  servant 
to  a  most  unfortunate  master. 

"Well,  I'll  take  forty  dollars;  or  I'll 
give  you  ten,  and  that  chunk  of  land  up 
there  on  the  hillside  for  your  mule.  It's 
a  good,  likely  piece  of  property,  and  if 
the  city  ever  should  grow  out  there  it 
might  make  you  rich — why  say,  do  yon 
know  what  1  paid  for  that  chunk  of  land? 
T  paid  a  thousand  dollars  for  it.  That 
was  when  the  boom  first  began;  and  six 
months  from  the  time  T  bought  it  I  could 
have  sold  it  for  three  thousand  if  I'd 
known  enough  to  let  go." 


"And  what  could  you  git  for  it  now?" 

Pitt  Wells  cocked  his  battered  felt  hat 
far  to  one  side  in  order  to  scratch  his 
head,  and  his  unclean  moustache  hid  the 
sarcastic  expression  of  his  mouth. 

"Well,  it's  worth  suthin'  to  raise  pota- 
toes on.  It  ought  to  be  worth  thirty 
dollars,  and  thafs  givin'  you  as  much  for 
your  mule  as  I'm  askin'  you  for  mine." 

Kinzer  remembered  how  this  man's 
lash  was  wont  to  sing  above  the  backs 
of  his  straining  team,  how  the  only  words 
he  ever  gave  to  them  were  oaths,  and 
when  he  thought  of  Hippy's  friendly, 
velvet  nose  fumbling  his  hand,  and  the 
knowing  wink  of  the  great  ears  at  the 
sound  of  his  step,  he  could  not  entertain 
the  thought  of  making  Pitt  Wells  his 
master. 

"Come,  now,  what  d'yeh  say?  You 
can't  go  on  teamin'  because  you  ain't 
got  the  price  of  another  mrde.  One  mule 
is  about  as  much  use  to  a  man  as  the  half 
of  a  pair  of  shears,  and  by  gracious,  mule 
fodder  is  hard  to  come  by  now  days,  if 
it  is  cheap." 

But  Kinzer  only  shook  his  head  and 
kept  on  currying  his  mule,  while  Pitt 
Wells  left  the  bam  in  a  huff. 

Before  Hippy's  toilet  was  complete  the 
owner  of  the  bam  came  in.  "Well,  Hank," 
he  began,  and  Kinzer  could  see  there  was 
something  disagreeable  coming,  "what 
you  goin'  to  do,  sell  your  mule  or  git 
another  ?  I'd  like  to  know  because  there's 
a  teamster  down  here  by  the  name  of — 
well,  I  don't  seem  to  remember  his 
name — ^but  he  wants  the  bam.  Of 
course  if  you're  goin'  to  git  another  ani- 
mal, I'll  keep  the  stalls  for  you;  but  if 
you're  only  goin'  to  stable  one  mule  here, 
why  I  s'pose  you'll  have  to  look  out  for 
another  place  so't  I  can  have  room  for 
a  pair." 

Kinzer  was  angry.  He  knew  to  whom 
he  might  lay  this  affair.  If  Pitt  Wells 
thought  to  force  him  into  the  sale  of  his 
mule,  he  should  find  that  he  was  barking 
up  the  wrong  tree.    But  that  did  not  make 


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his  dilemma  any  easier  to  face.  The 
facts  remained  that  his  good  mule  team, 
which  had  been  so  bravely  carrying  him 
through  the  hard  times,  had  been  ruined 
through  the  carelessness  of  another,  and 
that  'with  Hippy  alone  he  could  not  hope 
to  make  a  living.  The  town  had  gone 
hopelessly  to  pieces.  There  would  be  a 
job  of  hauling  as  long  as  the  sawmill 
was  building,  and  until  fifter  the  skid- 
road  was  finished,  but  aside  from  this 
little  riffle  of  industry,  the  place  stagnated 
in  unhealthy  inactivity.  Men  poured  out 
as  they  had  poured  in.  Boarding  house? 
axid  saloons  echoed  vacantly  to  the  sighs 
of  their  proprietors;  alders,  vine  maples, 
and  great,  spreading  brakes  were  reclaim- 
ing comer  lots  which  had  been  wrested 
from  them  only  a  short  time  since  and 
sold  for  fabulous  prices.  Seattle  was  dead 
and  buried,  the  public  said,  and  had  car- 
ried down<  to  ruin  with  her  hundreds  of 
hopeful  citizens  who  had  pinned  their 
faith  to  her  fair  skirts  and  believed  in 
her  great  future. 

All  day  Henry  Kinzer  wandered  aim- 
lessly about  the  town,  a  haunting  sense 
of  helplessness  upon  him.  Unless  he 
could  secure  another  animal  to  replace 
the  one  he  had  lost,  he  must  give  up  the 
job  on  the  sawmill,  and  that  seemed  to 
him  to  be  the  only  job  in  town.  If  only 
he  had  the  means  to  buy  Hippy  a  male 
affairs  might  slip  back  into  their  old  ear^y 
channel.  Pitt  Wells  had  enough  so  that 
he  might  lend  a  man  the  price  of  a  mule 
and  not  feel  it;  but  Pitt  Wells  was  no 
philanthropist,  and  he  was  in  need  of 
another  mule  himself  to  take  the  place 
of  the  one  he  had  lost  through  overwork 
and  lack  of  care.  Kinzer^s  heart  was  hot 
with  resentment  as  he  thought  about  it, 
and  he  vowed  that  rather  than  sell  Hippy 
to  that  man  he  would  take  him  up  the 
hillside,  tie  him  to  a  young  alder  and 
cut  his  throat  from  ear  to  ear.  If  it  had 
not  been  for  Pitt  Wells'  dream,  he  might 
have  carried  out  this  rather  melodramatic 
programme.  He  was  capable  of  it.  But 
all  day  he  fumbled  the  dollar  and  a 
quarter  in  his  pocket  and  thought  about 
that  dream.  Suppose  it  should  come  true. 
Suppose  he  should  go  down  to  Lancy's 
and  put  a  dollar  on  the  king  to  win,  ju.^t 
as  Pitt  Wells  had  dreamed  that  he  did, 
and  suppose — well,  he  would  not  do  il. 
He  was  not  such  a  fool  as  to  gamble  away 


his  last  dollar.  If  there  really  was  any- 
thing in  dreams,  some  one — not  himself, 
of  course — but  some  one  would  win  on 
the  fourth  king  that  night. 

He  gave  Hippy  his  supper  and  got  his 
own — and  went  to  Lancy's  just  to  look 
on  awhile  to  see  if  the  last  king  won,  as 
Pitt  Wells  had  dreamed  it  did.  Pitt 
Wells  was  there;  Pitt  Wells  wa«  always 
at  Lancy's — and  John  Dibbs  was  there, 
and  Albert  Hughes — all  the  boys  in  fact, 
and  Albert  Hughes  put  his  money  on  the 
king  to  lose,  and  won  the  stake. 

"D'ye  see  that?"  whispered  Pitt  Wells 
in  Kinzer's  ear,  "D'ye  see  the  king  lose? 
Now  you  keep  your  eye  pealed  to  see  him 
lose  three  times  runnin'  an'  win  on  the 
fourth." 

There  was  an  adjustment  of  the  ivory 
tallies  to  show  the  king  the  loser,  anl 
Kinzer  fingered  his  dollar  nervouslv. 

"If  you  put  ten  on  the  last  king  yoij 
make  ten,"  declared  Pitt  Wells  soleninl.. 

"Why  don't  you  bet  yourself?"'  de- 
manded Kinzer  with  some  heat. 

"Because  if  I'd  bet  I'd  lose,  but  voii 
wouldn't." 

"But  I  haven't  got  the  ten." 

"You  can  git  it."  Pitt  Wells  pulled 
out  a  dirty  bill  and  held  it  towards 
Kinzer. 

"Will  you  lend  it?"  questioned  Kinzer 
excitedly,  reaching  for  the  bill,  the  fire 
of  the  gambler's  desire  in  his  face. 

"No,  I  don't  do  business  that  way ;  bu*^ 
I'll  give  you  ten  dollars  and  the  real  estate 
I  spoke  of  for  your  mule." 

The  dealer  pushed  another  ivory  disk 
into  place  to  indicate  that  the  third  king 
had  been  a  loser. 

Kinzer's   fingers   closed   over  the  bill. 

"The  mule  is  mine,  then,"  said  Pitt 
Wells.  Kinzer  did  not  reply,  but  pushed 
his  way  towards  the  case  and  put  his 
money  on  the  king.  Hippy  had  changed 
hands,  and  immediately  the  fourth  and 
last  king  was  swept  into  the  losing  pile. 

Kinzer  turned  to  face  Pitt  Wells,  hut 
that  gentleman  had  left  the  place. 

The  next  day  Kinzer  went  down  to  the 
camp  where  Pitt  Wells  was  hauling.  As 
he  came  in  sight,  a  gray  ear  twinkled 
knowingly,  and  a  mulish  face  was  turned 
towards  him  in  hope,  but  a  lash  curled 
and  cracked  on  Hippy's  flank,  and  the 
hard  face  of  Pitt  Wells,  leering  above  his 


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load,  was,  in  the  eyes  of  Hank  Kinzer, 
like  the  face  of  the  master  of  Hell. 

"I  want  the  deed  to  that  land,  and  I 
want  it   quick,^^   Kinzer   demanded. 

He  had  presumed  that  Pitt  Wells  would 
make  difficulties  in  handing  over  the  deed, 
but  in  this  he  was  mistaken.  He  came 
down  from  his  load  at  once.  Hippy  was 
looking  over  the  shoulder  of  his  mat*? 
into  the  eyes  of  his  former  master. 

"That  mule  is  too  fat  to  work  well,'' 
commented  Pitt  Wells,  %ut  Fll  soon  take 
that  oflE  him." 

In  his  heart  Henry  Kinzer  swore,  "so 
help  me,  Fll  pay  you  for  that,  you  devil, 
if  it  costs  me  my  life." 

Pitt  Wells  made  over  the  deed,  and 
even  furnished  an  abstract  for  the  land. 
He  was  only  too  glad  to  be  rid  of  the 
property,  for  the  taxes  were  again  due, 
and  a  tax  levied  upon  land  valued  at  three 
thousand  dollars,  and  payable  when  it  ha^ 
shrunk  to  thirty  dollars,  is,  to  say  the 
least,  discouraging. 

When  the  deal  was  completed,  Kinzer 
did  the  only  thing  which  was  left  for  him, 
rolled  his  blankets  together  and  traveled 
into  the  country.  And  the  first  night 
he  crept  into  a  barn  to  sleep,  and  heard 
the  cliamping  and  grinding  of  equine 
jaws,  and  being  alone,  and  a  fool,  he  shed 
salt  tears  into  the  hay  in  thinking  of 
Hippy,  the  mule,  and  the  quivering  gray 
flanks  under  the  merciless  lash  of  Pitt 
Wells. 

During  the  following  months  it  was 
hard  to  get  a  living,  for  the  depression 
which  paralyzed  the  cities  reached  a  gaunt 
hand  towards  the  farming  communities 
as  well,  but  not  with  quite  so  disastrous 
an  effect,  for  nature  was  lavish  and  apples 
hung  sweet  and  juicy  on  the  trees  and 
potatoes  swelled  in  the  sandy  soil.  There 
were  mountain  streams,  cold  as  ice,  where 
speckled  trout  flashed  recklessly,  and  a 
man  with  a  hook  and  a  box  of  matches 
might  dine  like  a  millionaire,  with  salmon 
berries  and  spicy  wild  blackberries  for 
dessert.  With  a  couch  of  fir  boughs  at 
night  and  a  good,  thick,  logger's  blanket 
for  covering,  it  was  not  such  bad  enter- 
tainment. Wliat  little  work  he  found  to 
do  was  hard,  uncertain,  and  commanded 
but  small  pay.  Sometimes  it  was  in  the 
mills,  again  in  the  camps,  and,  hardest 
of  all,  in  the  mines. 

One  day  while  tramping,  by  reason  of 


the  pity  in  a  girl's  heart,  he  found  steady 
employment  on  an  Oregon  farm,  and  ac- 
cepted it  gladly,  with  its  homely  duties, 
its  domesticity,  and  its  peace. 

And  it  was  here  that  he  picked  up  a 
month-old  newspaper  which  seemed  to  be 
all  headlines,  and  the  words  Klondike  and 
Alaska  alternated  with  every  other  word 
in  the  sheet.  It  was  the  first  he  had  heard 
of  the  great  change.  After  this  the  news 
of  the  strike  and  what  it  had  done  for 
Seattle,  and  what  it  was  likely  to  do  for 
the  whole  Northwest  began  to  sift  in  upon 
him/  from  all  quarters.  He  had  worked 
hard  since  he  leit  Seattle.  He  often  won- 
dered if  Pitt  Weils'  lar^  had  driven  Hippy 
with  more  cruelty  than  the  lash  of  cir- 
cumstance had  driven  him. 

He  was  thinking  this  as  he  asked  for 
his  employer's  mail  at  the  postoffice  in 
the  little  one-horse  town  near  which  he 
worked. 

"Fd  like  to  own  that  block  in  Seattle 
just  now,"  he  heard  a  man  say  over  his 
shoulder. 

He  turned  slowly.  "What  block?"  he 
questioned,  with  a  premonition  of  what 
was  to  come,  and  the  man  handed  him  a 
Seattle  paper  with  an  advertisement  ask- 
ing the  address  of  the  owner  of  block 
number  418,  Belmore's  addition. 

"I  own  that  block,"  he  murmured,  and 
the  man  laughed,  thinking  it  a  joke. 

"Yes,  I  bet  you  do.  I  bet  the  owner  of 
that  block  is  round  here  feedin'  hogs  for 
ten  dollars  a  month  and  his  board.  Why, 
do  you  know  what  they  want  to  do  with 
that  block?  I  seen  it  in  the  papers,  my- 
self. As  soon  as  they  can  find  the  owner 
and  buy  the  block,  they're  a  goin'  to  build 
a  scenic  hotel  on  it  worth  half  a  million. 
A  company  of  Eastern  capitalists  has 
been  advertisin'  for  the  owner  of  that 
block  for  three  months.  They  say  there 
is  the  finest  view  itf.  the  world  to  be  had 
from  that  spot  of  ground.  I  seen  it  in  the 
papers." 

That  night  found  Henry  Kinzer  a  pas- 
senger on  a  train  bound  for  Seattle,  and 
a  few  hours  later  he  trod  the  old  familiar 
streets  where  he  had  met  such  complete 
failure;  and  the  first  face  he  recognized 
was  the  face  of  Pitt  Wells,  a  bit  redder, 
eyes  considerably  inflamed,  and  moustache 
more  polluted  and  untidy  than  before. 

Pitt  Wells  fell  upon  the  neck  of  his 
friend  and  fairly  blubbered  his  joy. 


HIPPY  AND  THE  BOOM. 


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''Back  at  last,  Hank,  and  none  too  soon 
to  suit  me;  none  too  soon.  We've  been 
advertisin'  for  ye.  Our  land,  you  know — 
they  want  to  build  the  big  hotel  on  it." 

"What  land?''  queried  Kinzer  coldly, 
as  he  cleared  himself  from  the  demon- 
strative embrace  of  his  acquaintance. 

"Why  the  block  up  on  the  hillside  that 
you  bought  a  share  in  for  a  damned  old 
gray  mule,  you  rascal!  I  tell  'em  that 
I  own  an  interest  in  the  block  yet,  but 
they  won't  believe  me.  They  say  the 
land  stands  in  your  name.  *Why,'  says 
I,  'of  course  the  land  stands  in  his  name ; 
why  shouldn't  it5f.  says'I.  'He's  the  best 
friend  I've  got,  but  I  own  a  share,  and 
a  big  share  in  it  just  the  same.  Why,'  says 
I,  'all  I  ever  got  out  of  that  land  was  a 
sway-backed  old  mule — a  balky  old  rep- 
robate that  I  couldn't  do  nothin'  with, 
and,'  says  I,  'I  paid  a  thousand  dollars 
cash  in  the  edge  of  the  boom  for  that 
block,  and  was  offered  three  thousand 
dollars  for  it  when  the  boom  was  on, 
and,'  says  I,  'you'll  find  out  when  Hank 
Kinzer  gits  here  whether  he  recognizes 
my  claim  or  not.'" 

'^Where  is  the  mule?"  asked  Kinzer. 

"Lord !  Who  knows  ?  I  don't.  I  sold 
him  to  a  garbage-cart  man.  Say  now, 
old  boy,  you  wouldnH  be  mean  enough  to 
shake  old  friends,  would  you?" 

"No,  you  bet  I  wouldn't." 

"That's  what  I  told  the  boys.  I  says, 
'you  wait  till  Hank  gits  here.  There'll 
be  the  biggest  time  you  ever  saw.'  Why, 
say.  Hank,"  he  drew  near  and  his  voice 
sunk  to  an  awed  whisper,  "they'll  give 
sixty  thousand  dollars  for  that  danged 
old  side  hill.  What  do  you  think  of  that?" 

Kinzer's  heart  leaped  within  him.  One 
night,  down  in  Oregon,  when  he  traveled  a 
country  road  without  a  cent  in  his  pocket, 
a  girl  looked  shyly  at  him  over  a  gate. 
With  his  hat  in  his  hand,  he  had  told  her 
frankly  that  he  was  moneyless  and  hun- 
gry, and  asked  her  for  an  apple.  She 
invited  him  in  and  gave  him  his  supper 
and  was  undoubtedly  instrumental  in 
making  him  one  of  the  family,  for  her 
father  had  hired  him  and  he  had  lived 
for  two  months  under  the  same  roof  with 
her.  Now,  as  Pitt  Wells  whispered  the 
price  which  had  been  offered  for  block 
418,  a  vision  arose  before  him  of  that 
girl  clad  in  shining  silk,  standing  against 
a  background  of  apple  boughs,  with  her 


arm  about  the  neck  of  a  gray  mule.  He 
smiled  into  the  eager,  covetous,  bleary 
eyes  of  Pitt  Wells,  whose  hopes  arose, 
ignorant  as  he  was  of  the  vision  which 
caused  the  smile. 

"But  won't  we  have  a  hell-of-a-time 
when  we  git  our  money,  eh.  Hank?" 

The  smile  on  Kinzer's  face  faded  into 
a  cold,  hard  stare.  Pitt  Wells  faltered, 
"Eh,  Hank?  You'll  do  the  fair  thing  by 
the  friend  who  brought  you  this  good 
luck,  won't  you.  Hank?" 

"You  bet  I  will." 

Pitt  Wells  beamed  again.  "What'U 
you  do.  Hank?" 

"I'll  give  him  a  feed  that  will  make  his 
eyes  bulge  out  of  his  gray  old  head." 

"That's  like  you,  Hank,  and  clothes?" 

"He  shall  have  silver-plated  clothes 
with  gold  bobbers  on  the  bridle." 

"And  drink?" 

'^e  shall  stand  with  his  feet  in  a 
brook." 

"And  money?" 

"He  shall  have  a  padded  stall." 

"God  bless  you.  Hank,  you  are  a  true 
friend.  And  how  much  of  the  money? 
It  wouldn't  be  mor'n  fair  that  you  hand 
over  a  part  of  the  money — right  out  and 
out,  you  know.  Hank,  to  do  with  as  I 
please.  This  treating  and  housing  and 
clothing  is  all  right,  but  one  likes  to 
handle  a  little  ready  of  their  own,  of 
course." 

"Not  in  this  case.  The  friend  who 
helped  me  to  my  good  luck  don't  care  to 
handle  money." 

"But,  Hank,  I  do'  care  to  handle 
money." 

"Oh,  you  f  I  wasn't  talking  about  you. 
You  never  helped  me  to  anything  except 
a  piece  of  land  with  some  thousand  dollars 
back  taxes  due  on  it  that  you  couldn't 
pay." 

"Well,  you   couldn't  pay  'em  either." 

"They  are  all  paid  now,  you  bet." 

"Who  paid  'em?" 

"A  man  in  Oregon  that  I've  been  work- 
ing for.  I  am  ready  to  give  a  perfect 
title  to  the  land." 

"Hank,  he — ^he  ain't  the  friend  you 
referred  to  is  he?" 

"No." 

"I  thought  not.  I  thought  you 
wouldn't  forgit  me." 

''Your 

"Yes,  me.     I  am  in  hard  luck.     I've 


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been  fooled  out  of  every  cent  I  owned. 
But  I  am  the  one  who  was  the  cause  of  all 
your  good  fortune." 

"Not  much  r 

"Who  was  then?" 

"Hippy,  the  mule.  Pitt  Wells,  I 
wouldn't  give  you  a  mouthful  if  you  were 
starving.  When  I  remember  how  you 
dreamed  your  dream  to  git  me  to  play 
the  bank  at  faro,  and  fooled  me  out  of 
my  mule — " 

"Fooled  you  out  of  your  mule,"  gasped 
Pitt  Wells.  "I  gave  you  over  sixty  thou- 
sand dollars  for  your  mule.  Do  you  call 
that  )foolin'  you  out  of  your  mule?" 

"When  I  think  of  how  you  lashed  the 
poor  thing  just  because  you  knew  it  made 
me  cringe,  I  could  give  you  something 
with  a  good  stomach.  I  could  give  you 
a  hiding  that  would  tone  you  up  for  a 
month.    Git  out  of  my  sight,  you — beast." 

A  week  later,  as  Pitt  Wells  stood  in 
Lancy's  door  (Lancy  had  waxed  great 
since   the   boom)    he   mournfully   called 


attention  to  a  passing  object.  It  was 
a  gray  mule,  battle-scarred,  and  showing 
signs  of  rough  usage,  being  led  in  the 
direction  of  the  freight  depot  by  a  man 
from  the  boarding  stables. 

"There  goes  a  mule,  gentlemen,  that 
I  once  bought  from  a  friend  of  mine  and 
gave  him  for  it  sixty  thousand  and  ten 
dollars.  That  friend  bought  him  back 
last  Tuesday  for  eighteen  dollars  and 
sixty-two  cents,  a  clear  profit,  as  I  figure 
it  out,  of  fifty-nine  thousand  nine  hun- 
dred and  ninety-one  dollars  and  thirty- 
eight  cents.  He  is  goin'  to  take  him  on 
to  an  apple  ranch  down  in  Oregon,  where 
he  can  sleep  in  a  padded  stall,  wear  a 
silver-plated  harness,  and  stand  all  day 
with  his  front  feet  in  a  mountain  brook 
and  his  hind  legs  in  clover  that  reaches 
to  his  knees.  And  yet,  gentlemen,  when 
I  asked  that  friend  of  mine  for  the  price 
of  a  drink  this  morning,  he  told  me  to 
go  and  dream  that  Vd  had  a  drink.  What 
d've  think  of  that,  gentlemen?  What 
d've  think  of  that?'' 


MEMORVS  LANE 


I  know  a  lane  where  the  brier  rose 

Leans  o'er  the  old  stone  wall; 
And  the  scented  blooms  from  an  apple  tree, 

like  tinted  sea-shells,  fall. 

There's  a  turnstile,  too,  'twixt  the  winding 
lane, 
And  the  meadow  with  blossoms  white. 
Sweet  stars  that  the  Queen  Moon  spilled  from 
her  boat 
On  the  sleeping  world,  one  night. 

Here  cornflowers  open  their  pretty  blue  eyes, 

And  poppies  flirt  with  the  sun. 
While  all  of  the  grasses  are  glittering  with 
gems. 

That  fairies  from  dewdrops  have  spun. 

Ah,  yes!  There's  a  brook,  it  ripples  and  smiles 
Past  banks  where  the  fringed  gentian  peeps. 

But  the  song  that  it  sings  to  the  violet,  I 
ween, 
She  safe  in  her  little  heart  keeps. 


Ay,  this  is  the  lane  that  memory  paints, 
Where  my  flower  of  love  once  grew; 

For  down  by  the  stile  I  met  a  maid 
With  eyes,  like  the  cornflowers,  blue. 

Her  cheeks  were  flushed  with  the  pink  of  the 
rose, 

Her  lips  wore  the  poppy's  red; 
And  sunbeams  were  playing  at  hide  and  seek. 

With  the  curls  on  her  golden  head. 

Lightly    she    tripped    through   the    meadow 
sweet, 
And  the  breeze  softly  kissed  her  brow. 
Then  she  laughed,  and  her  laugh  was  the 
song  of  the  brook, 
Methinks  I  can  hear  it  now. 

But  alas!  for  the  passing  of  sununer  dreams, 
We  met,  and  we  parted  for  aye; 

Now  lonely  I  walk  here  in  Memory's  lane. 
While  she  rides  on  the  world's  highway! 


THE  LUCK  OF  SUCKER  CREEK 

Tke  true  story  oi  a  discovery  of  ^olcL  tliat  puts  fiction  to  tke  blusk 
By  Dennis  H.  Stovall 


A  prospector  with  his  outfit  bound  for  the  new  Eldorado. 


THIS  is  a  tale  of  gold,  and  it 
concerns  the  meteoric  rise  of 
a  family  from  penury  to  riches 
in  one  day.  It  tells  the 
realization  of  a  dream  that 
falls  to  the  lot  of  few. 

If  the  details  of  the  Briggs'  strike  were 
not  true,  the  story  of  it  would  befit  the 
most  glittering  pages  of  fiction.  It  could 
then  be  published  without  preface.  As  it 
is,  an  explanatory  note  is  necessary  to 
assure  you  that  "this  is  a  really  true  tale, 
dearest  beloved,  it  is  really,'^  as  Mr.  Kip- 
ling would  say. 

Each  year  the  golden-winged  goddess 
takes  new  flight  and  bids  the  restless 
fortune-hunter  hie  to  other  fields.  The 
Eldorados,  Bonanzas  and  Golcondas  of  the 
great  mineral  Northwest  are  as  changvii- 
able  and  as  shifting  as  the  men  who  find 
them.  One  year  it  is  the  ice-glittering 
peaks  of  Alaska;  another  year  and  it  is 
the  remote  mountains  of  Buifalo  Hump; 
still  another  year  and  the  scene  shifts  to 
the  bleak  and  burning  desert  of  Tonapah ; 
and  yet  another  and  the  golden- winged 
goddess  leads  the  never-halting  line  up 


the  narrow  trails  of  the  Siskiyous,  through 
the  old-time  camps  of  Southern  Oregon, 
and  on,  on,  up,  up,  to  the  snow-covered 
summit.  Here  on  the  great  divide  between 
two  great  states — America's  pioneer  min- 
ing states — and  within  a  few  miles  of 
where  she  led  the  same  line  over  half  a 
centurv  ago,  the  goddess  pauses  in  her 
flight." 

This  Eldorado  of  the  Siskiyous  is  sixty 
miles  from  the,  railroad.  The  most  con- 
venient way  of  reaching  it  is  by  Grants 
Pass.  From  there  you  follow  the  old  stage 
road  to  Holland,  forty  miles.  It  is  fully 
eighteen  miles  from  Holland  to  the  head 
of  Thompson  Creek,  the  location  of  the 
new  camp.  And  it  is  a  continual  climb 
all  the  way  from  Grants  Pass — a  climb 
from  an  elevation  of  900  feet  to  an  eleva- 
tion of  5,500.  As  Holland  is  only  1,700 
feet,  the  main  portion  of  the  climb  is  on 
those  last  eighteen  miles  of  trail. 

From  Holland  the  trail  leads  to  Moun- 
tain Ranch,  and  then  conies  a  steep  climb 
over  the  divide  into  Sucker  Creek.  Up 
Sucker  Creek,  some  ten  miles,  is  Benson's 
Ranch,  which   is  becoming  a  convenient 


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stopping  place  since  the  rush  into  the 
district  began.  From  Benson's  the  trail 
follows  Fehley  Gulch  over  the  Siskiyou 
divide.  Mounting  the  crest  one  looks  out 
over  an  endless  array  of  ranges,  jutted 
with  snow-capped  peaks  and  crags.  You 
are  up  above  the  timber  line  here,  and 
the  mountains  are  covered  only  with  scrub 
pine,  or  matted  with  a  growth  of  snow 
brush.  At  your  feet  Thompson  Creek 
rises,  and  only  a  half  mile  away  the 
Briggs'  claim  is  located.  And  here,  too, 
but  a  few  hundred  yards  from  the  base  of 
Tenant  Peak,  is  the  site  of  Goldenview 
City. 

For  a  number  of  years,  David  Briggs 
and    his     family    of    three    boys,     two 


ing  to  do  with  the  story.  That  which 
concerns  us  most  is  the  discovery  the  boy 
made  when  he  clambered  down  the  steep 
mountainside  at  the  head  of  Thompson 
Creek.  His  boot  struck  a  big  stone  that 
was  particularly  heavy  and  gave  off  a 
sound  like  lead.  He  picked  it  up  and 
broke  off  a  fragment.  The  broken  frag- 
ment glittered  bright  and  yellow.  Then 
the  boy  knew  that  the  big  stone  was  full 
of  gold.  He  tossed  it  into  his  hunting  bag 
and  went  home.  The  family  was  at 
supper. 

"Any  luck,  son?"  asked  the  father. 

"Nope,"  the  boy  replied,  hiding  the 
truth.  "No  luck,  dad.  No  luck  at  any- 
thing  anymore.     I'm  tired  of  it,  tired 


Part  of  the  Brigfs  family  in  camp  on  Thompson  Creek.     The  yoonff  man  at  the  left  ia  Ray  Briffga, 

discoverer  of   the   mine. 


daughters  and  the  mrother  have  lived  re- 
mote in  the  mountains  of  Southern  Ore- 
gon. The  family  has  worked  and  toiled 
honestly,  zealously,  gaining  a  livelihood 
by  days  of  perseverance  and  drudgery,  at 
ranching  and  sluice-mining. 

Ray  Briggs,  one  of  the  boys,  was  the 
hunter  of  the  family,  and  to  him  fell  the 
lot  of  supplying  meat.  One  early  morning 
of  June,  this  year,  Ray  shouldered  his 
rifle  and  went  out  after  game.  He  struck 
a  buck  trail  and  followed  the  signs  up 
Sucker  Creek  from  his  father^s  ranch. 
Hour  after  hour  he  trailed,  and  was  led 
over  the  divide  to  the  head  of  Thompson. 
Here  he  came  upon  the  game  and  fired. 
Whether  or  not  he  got  the  buck  has  noth- 


of  the  ranch,  tired  of  the  mine.  I  guess 
I'll  quit  buckin'  boulders — quit  the  whole 
job." 

The  old  man  was  astonished  at  this  open 
declaration  of  mutiny  from  a  son  that  had 
always  been  cheerful  and  faithful.  After 
a  long  silence  he  recovered  and  said: 
"Well,  son,  I  guess  you'll  either  buck 
boulders  or  move  on." 

"Nope,  I  won't  buck  boulders  or  move 
on,  either — not  when  I  can  pick  up  rock 
like  this,"  and  he  laid  the  big  stone  on  the 
table. 

The  family  went  wild  with  joy.  Supper 
was  forgotten.  The  mortar  and  the  dolly 
were  brought  out,  and  the  big  stone  gave 
up  over  $700.00. 


In  the  upper  rigrht-hand  comer 
Below  it  "old  n 


it  Ray  Briffrt,  the  younff  man  whose  luck  it  was  to  discover  the  ffold  mine, 
an"  BriflTffs.  standing  in  the  "fflory  hole,"  with  a  chunk  of  the 
precious    rock    in    his   hand. 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


So  was  discovered  the  famous  Briggs' 
mine,  the  glory-hole  that  is  being  talked 
about  from  sea  to  sea,  the  glory-hole  that 
brought  the  golden-winged  goddess  into 
the  Siskiyous,  leading  swarms  of  men  up 
every  gulch  and  stream. 

The  family  removed  from  the  ranch 
and  made  camp  at  the  discovery.  And 
here  they  will  remain  till  the  north  wind 
brings  its  blinding  gusts  of  snow,  alid  the 
great  Siskiyous  are  wrapped  in  the  thick 
white  cloak  of  winter. 

All  the  Briggs  family  have  done  in 
actual  mining  on  the  claim  could  be  done 
by  one  man  in  a  day.  Yet  they  have  taken 
out  a  fortune.     Over  $15,000  worth  of 


minutes'  time  dig  out  fifty  dollars  worth 
of  gold.  Still  it  is  not  a  pocket — bears  no 
resemblance  to  a  pocket,  save  in  its  re- 
markable richness.  There  is  a  hanging 
wall  and  a  foot  wall,  and  each  one  well 
defined,  one  of  granite,  the  other  of 
porphyry. 

There  is  an  inch  of  almost  solid  gold 
on  the  hanging  wall.  This  is  much  oxi- 
dized, and  can  be  removed  in  chunks  the 
size  of  a  man's  hand.  The  remaining 
eleven  inches  of  the  ledge  consists  of  oro 
that  sparkles  with  gold,  of  ore  that  will 
yield  $10,000.00  a  ton. 

The  mountainside,  at  the  point  of  the 
Briggs'  find,  is  very  steep,  and  the  contact 


The  first  f6000  brought  in  from  the  Briggt'  mine.     The  silver  doUsx  shows  oomparative  sise  of  the  nunets. 


gold  was  mortared  by  hand,  to  say  naught 
of  the  quantity  of  rich  ore  on  the  dump, 
and  that  sacked  and  cached  for  shipment. 
About  their  camp  are  tin  cans,  fruit  jars 
and  pails  filled  with  gold. 

The  property  is  now  under  bond  to 
Eastern  parties  for  a  consideration  of 
$115,000.00. 

The  Briggs'  find,  in  its  general  make- 
up, occupies  a  unique  place  among  all  the 
rich  finds  of  the  mineralized  West.  Here 
you  can  take  your  jack-knife  and  in  five 


of  porphyry  and  granite  follows  the  hill 
for  a  long  distance;  in  fact,  has  been 
traced  for  2,400  feet.  The  strike  therefore, 
is  but  a  rich  pay  shoot  on  the  vein.  A 
large  number  of  the  claims  located  in  the 
district  follow  this  contact.  Many  of  these 
run  southward  into  California,  and  well 
down  on  Indian  Creek.  Others  have  been 
located  over  the  divide  northward  in  Dead 
Horse  Gulch  and  Upper  Sucker.  Then 
from  the  strike  southward,  following 
Thompson,  scores  of  location  notices  are 


THE  LUCK  OF  SUCKER  CREEK. 


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posted.  Several  good  strikes  have  been 
made  in  the  district  besides  the  original 
discovery,  though  none  of  such  remarkable 
richness. 

Thus  once  again  the  tide  of  the  gold- 
hunting  world  ebbs  toward  the  Southern 
Oregon  country.  The  story  of  the  "Sucker 
Creek  strike'^  is  being  told  from  ocean  to 
ocean.  The  rush  is  on  to  the  new  Eldo- 
rado, and  only  the  deep  snows  of  winter 
can  drive  the  tireless  prospectors  out. 
Hundreds  of  claims  have  been  located 
in  the  new  district,  and,  of  course,  a  town- 
site  surveyed.  "Golden view  City^'  it  is 
called,  and  while  it  is  yet  but  a  city  of 
tents  and  cam/p-fires,  its  promoters  can 
show  you  where  the  big  brick  hotel  will 
be  located,  and  where  the  department 
store  and  post  oflBce  ultimately  will  stand. 
Also  there  will  be  a  saloon  or  two,  for  high 
altitude  snakes  are  bad  up  there,  and 
some  provision  must  be  made  for  snake 
bite. 

A  striking  proof  that  the  new  Eldorado 
has  sprung  a  genuine  sensation  is  the 
appearance  of  the  man  looking  for  a 
'^ost  mine.'' 

"Nearly  fifty  years  ago,''  said  one  of 
them,  "two  men  worked  rich  placer  dig- 
gin's  up  in  that  country.  They  were 
located  in  a  little  basin,  and  the  ground 
was  lousy  with  gold.  They  built  a  stone 
reservoir  and  brought  water  down  to  sluice 
off  the  ground.  After  they  had  been  at 
work  for  some  time,  and  had  many  pounds 
of  nuggets  and  dust  sacked,  a  band  of 
Injims  swept  down  on  'em  and  in  a  mighty 
little  while  the  two  miners  were  sent  over 
the  Long  Trail.  The  Injuns  buried  the 
gold  under  a  big  oak  tree  near  the  diggings 
and  went  away,  satisfied.  Long  years 
afterward,  when  the  red  man  was  obliged 


to  throw  off  his  war  paint  and  feathers, 
and  live  in  peace  on  the  reservation,  one 
of  the  duskies  who  had  taken  part  in  the 
murderous  assault  upon  the  two  lonely 
miners,  told  of  the  deed.  Nearly  every 
year  since  then  parties  of  men  have  gone 
up  Sucker  Creek  looking  for  the  lost  mine. 
They  are  looking  for  the  stone  reservoir 
and  the  oak  tree,  the  oak  tree  with  the 
pile  of  gold  beneath  it." 

"Now,"  continued  the  seeker  for  lost 
treasure,  after  he  had  bitten  off  a  fresh 
chew  from  his  plug,  "I  know  precisely 
where  that  stone  reservoir  is.  I  have  been 
there.  Yes,  sir ;  I've  been  in  it !  I  took 
a  drink  of  water  from  it.  But  that  was 
before  the  old  Injun  gave  the  story  away, 
and  I  knew  nothing  of  its  association  with 
a  lost  mine.  That  was  some  eighteen 
years  ago  that  I'm  telling  you  about  now. 
I  was  up  in  that  country  looking  for  stray 
cattle,  that  is,  cattle  that  didn't  particu- 
larly belong  to  anybody.  On  a  very  warm 
day  I  grew  thirsty  and  crawled  down  into 
a  little  basin,  thickly  overgrown  with  wil- 
lows, where  I  could  hear  water  trickling, 
to  get  a  drink.  When  I  raised  up  I  hap- 
pened to  notice  that  I  was  in  what  ap- 
peared to  be  an  old  and  dilapidated  cistern. 
Through  the  moss  and  fern  I  detected  a 
well-placed  stone  wall.  I  found  the  gate 
through  which  the  water  had  been  dis- 
charged from  the  flume  into  the  cistern 
and  still  another  wh^re  it  had  flowed  from 
the  cistern  into  the  sluice.  Then  I  knew 
it  was  not  a  cistern  at  all,  but  a  reservoir, 
a  stone  reservoir  that  some  miner  had 
used.  I  believe  I  am  thq  only  man  who 
knows  where  that  stone  reservoir  is,  and 
I  am  going  to  find  it  again." 

And  perhaps  he  may;  but,  after  all — 
perhaps. 


THE  ARCHBISHOPS  MANTLE 


Tkc  lover  •  ruse — tlic  confession — tke  fli^kt 
By  Lorena  M.  Page 


TWO  strokes — mellow,  but  dis- 
tipct — ^floated  upon  the  noc- 
turnal air  from  a  distant 
steeple. 

"At  two  o^elock  and  all 
hours  may  the  love  of  Jesus  kindle  in  my 
heart,"  came  the  angelic  mingling  of 
voices  from  the  convent. 
^  As  the  chant  died  away,  the  man  mufHed 
in  the  great,  gray  cloak  raised  his  head 
and  gazed  with  burning  eyes,  not  upon 
the  shrine  before  which  he  was  kneeling, 
but  toward  the  house  of  God  where 
an  approaching  footfall  was  becoming 
plainly  audible. 

From  a  passageway,  marked  by  a  spot 
of  black  deeper  than  the  surrounding 
obscurity,  camie  a  figure,  tall,  narrow, 
and  erect,  with  a  patch  of  white  across 
brow  and  breast. 

The  man  before  the  shrine  dropped  his 
head  as  if  resuming  his  devotions.  His 
lips  moved  in  an  inaudible  petition. 

Around  the  prioress  who  approached 
him  a  garden  of  ignored  flowers  sent  their 
sweetness  on  the  moist,  night  air;  behind 
her  was  cloistered  a  company  of  virgins, 
whose  souls,  like  the  perfume  of  the 
flowers,  mounted  straight  to  heaven. 

But  there  was  one  in  that  pure  host 
whose  thoughts  at  times  were  of  the  earth 
alone,  and  it  was  this  sinful  one  that 
vexed  the  mind  of  the  prioress  now. 

The  peace  of  Eden,  smiling  in  the  gar- 
den at  the  threshold  of  the  sacred  place, 
did  not  extend  to-night  to  the  erring 
novice  within  —  like  a  fallen  angel,  she 
had  prayed  and  wept  until  exhausted.  She 
was  lying  now  flat  on  her  face  against  the 
cold  stone  pavement  of  a  bare,  candle- 
lighted  room,  with  arms  outstretched  in 
the  form  of  a  cross.  Near  her  a  suppliant 
counted  her  beads  before  the  Holy  Sacra- 
ment. The  sisters  relieved  one  another 
at  the  stroke  of  the  hour  day  and  night, 
year  in  and  year  out,  in  ceaseless  adora- 
tion before  this  altar.  The  one  now 
coimting  her  beads  was  the  fifth  to  kneel 
there  since  the  penitent  had  fallen  pros- 


trate, so  more  than  four  hours  had  passed 
and  still  the  living  cross  did  not  move. 

Mother  Conception  came  down  the 
grass  walk  of  the  garden,  her  black  serge 
robe  brushing  the  dew  from  the  verdure, 
her  chin  resting  upon  her  white  guimpe, 
her  eyes  upon  the  ground.  She  passed 
the  shrine  without  seeing  the  man,  al- 
though the  hem  of  her  coarse  garment 
swept  against  him. 

He  shifted  his  position  vdth  some  noise, 
agitated  the  pine  bough  beside  him,  and 
upset  a  flower-pot  against  a  stone. 

This  sudden  movement  in  the  dark,  at 
her  very  feet,  startled  the  prioress  more 
than  she  would  have  cared  to  own.  Then 
the  calm,  acquired  by  years  of  discipline, 
returned,  and  her  eyelids  resumed  their 
customary  droop;  but  in  that  one  brief, 
backward  glance,  she  had  recognized  the 
archbishop's  mantle. 

"Father  Bemardine,''  she  said,  pausing, 
and  the  man  thought  he  had  never  heard 
so  adorable  a  voice — save  one. 

"Yes,  Mother,*'  came  in  muffled  tones 
from  the  lips  covered  by  a  tightly-closed 
hand  filled  with  the  gathered  folds  of  the 
gray  robe. 

"You  did  not  get  away  as  early  as 
usual.''  She  had  lowered  her  veil,  and 
her  tones  might  well  have  been  those  of  a 
disembodied  soul  speaking  across  the  walls 
of  a  tomb. 

"I  am  here.  Mother,"  he  murmured, 
vaguely,  still  upon  his  knees. 

"I  have  come  from  the  sacred  altar 
of  the  Holy  Sacrament  where  one  of  the 
young  novices,  who  is  to  take  the  black 
veil  to-morrow,  is  doing  penance,"  ob- 
served the  mother.  "Truly  she  needs  great 
discipline,  for  her  thoughts  are  anchored 
to  the  earth,  and,  my  heart  being  sorely 
tried  concerning  her,  I  came  into  the 
garden,  scarcely  noting  whither  my  stcpa 
led." 

"Perchance  I  may  be  of  assistance, 
reverend  Mother."  He  rose  to  his  feet 
in  the  deep  shadow  of  the  pine  tree  which 
grew  beside  the  shrine.  "Her  name  is — ?'' 


THE  ARCHBISHOPS  MANTLE. 


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"Repentance — Sister  Repentance/' 

"Repentance  ?''   he  questioned,  vaguely. 

"The  one  known  to  the  world  as  Rose 
Chapin — surely  you  have  not  forgot- 
ten—" 

"Ah,  yes.  Rose — Sister  Repentance. 
No,  I  have  not  forgotten."  His  strong 
hand  grasped  the  small  bough  which 
brushed  his  shoulder  and  the  scent  of 
crushed  pine-needles  mingled  with  the 
perfume  of  the  flowers. 

"Will  you  come  with  me,  most  Holy 
Bishop  ?  She  needs  your  sternest  counsel 
and  command." 

"No — not  in  there.  Send  her  to  me 
here — and — I  will  see  what  can  be  done.'* 

For  the  archbishop  of  the  diocese,  to 
speak  was  to  be  obeyed,  and  the  prioress 
quitted  him  without  a  protest. 

He  waited.  And,  in  the  meantime, 
he  sniffed  the  acrid  scent  of  the  tassels 
gripped  in  his  hand,  and  laughed  a  wild, 
internal,  soundless  laugh;  he  felt  smoth- 
ered by  the  throbbing  arteries  in  his 
throat ;  his  heari;  seemed  to  leap  and  toss 
like  a  bounding  cork  on  a  raging  torrent. 
He  threw  himself  again  before  the  shrine. 

"May  the  powers  be  mdne  to  liberate 
this  soul!  May  I  break  the  fetters,  oh, 
God !"  he  breathed. 

The  slight  figure  that  came  from  the 
gloom  of  the  passage  was  clothed  in  white 
garments,  and  had  the  appearance  of  a 
spirit.  The  immensity  of  night  was  fac- 
ing her.  Her  heart  was  a  prey  of  terror, 
for  a  darkness  full  of  unseen  and  formid- 
able traps,  into  which  it  was  alarming 
to  penetrate  and  in  which  it  was  fearful 
to  remain,  was  about  her.  Her  tender 
young  limbs  were  briiised  and  stiff  from 
contact  with  the  hard,  cold  floor,  and 
her  movements  were  slow  and  full  of 
hesitation.  Though  her  tread  was  as  soft 
as  that  of  a  frightened  fawn  upon  the 
moss  by  a  spring  at  midnight,  the  man  in 
the  great  mantle  heard  it.  But  he  re- 
mained kneeling  before  the  shrine. 

"Mother  Conception  sent  nue.  Father; 
what  do  you  wish  ?"  she  questioned.  How 
sweet,  and  gentle,  and  hesitating  the 
voice ! 

"What  is  your  offense?"  he  asked, 
gruffly,  without  raising  his  head. 

"I  have  been  obedient.  Father;  I  have 
kept  my  vow  of  poverty,  chastity,  and 
seclusion;  but.  Father,  my  thoughts  arc 
beyond  my  command." 


She  paused  and  with  a  gesture  he  or- 
dered her  to  continue. 

"I  have  seen  no  one  beside  the  mothers 
and  sisters,  yourself,  and  the  old  gardener 
who  minds  the  gate,  for  more  than  four 
years  now,  and — ^yet — I  see  another  in 
all  my  waking  hours,  and  I  dream  of  him 
at  night.  This  is  my  sin.  I  have  fasted, 
and  my  soul  has  been  filled  with  the  love 
I  bear  him.  I  have  risen  from  my  first 
sleep  to  read  my  breviary,  and  his  eyes 
have  gazed  into  mine  from  between  the 
lines.  I  have  chanted  my  matins,  and 
my  heart  has  sung  ^I  love  him.'  I  have 
slept  upon  straw  in*  serge  sheets,  and 
prayed  that  the  lap  of  comfort  might  be 
his.  I  have  scourged  myself,  and  asked 
that  the  hardships  of  the  world  might 
pass  by  him.  I  have  observed  the  rule  of 
silence,  and  begged  that  the  music  of  the 
universe  might  cheer  his  path.  Once  a 
week  I  have  confessed  all  these  sins  in 
public.  I  have  made  reparation — and-  - 
still  I  sin.    Do  with  me  as  you  see  fit." 

She  stood  with  hands  crossed  meekly 
upon  her  breast,  her  eyes  gazing  at  the 
one  star  just  showing  above  the  wall. 

"Kneel  beside  me  here."  The  tone:? 
were  so  harsh  and  strange  that  she  hesi- 
tated, wondering  and  afraid. 

"Here  in  the  shadow,"  he  insisted. 

She  knelt  in  the  place  designated. 

"Why  did  you  enter  here  in  the  first 
place?"  he  questioned,  sternly. 

"Oh,  Reverend  Father,  more  for  the 
love  of  him  than — chastise  me  if  you  will, 
I  must  speak  the  truth — than  for  the  love 
of  God,  and  thinking  to  forget  this  love, 
even  as  the  one  who  prompted  it  forgot 
me." 

"Forget  you  ?  Speak  on ;  conceal  noth- 
ing." 

"To-morrow  I  am  to  become  the  bride 
of  living  death,  but  it  does  not  matter — 
now,  for  another  became  the  bride  of 
Alex  Martel." 

A  queer  sound  came  from  the  sweeping, 
gray  mantle;  she  did  not  heed  it,  but 
went  on — 

"I  shall  wear  my  handsomest  dress — 
white  for  the  last  time.  I  shall  be 
crowned  with  roses — the  last  I  am  to 
touch  in  life  or  death.  They  will  brush 
my  hair— before  it  is  shorn.  While  T 
lie  upon  the  stones  they  will  throw  a 
great,  black  veil  over  me,  and  sing  the 
office  of—" 

"Stop !  for  the  love  of  God !"  the  man 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


interrupted  in  a  choking  voice.  "They 
lied  to  yon !  Alex  Martel  never  married ; 
he  has  been  trying  to  reach  you  ever  since 
you  came  here.  His  brother  Alfred  mar- 
ried and  they  told  you — '^ 

"How  should  you  know?"  She  clutched 
a  fold  of  the  archbishop's  mantle,  for- 
getful of  the  dignity  due  so  holy  a  gar- 
ment. 

He  raised  his  eyes  cautiously,  and  gave 
a  sweeping  glance  around  him,  then  lifted 
his  hood  and  put  his  face  close  to  hers, 
at  the  same  time  holding  out  his  arms. 

"Alex,'*  she  gasped,  and  broke  into 
sobbing  so  low  that  it  was  scarcely  audible 
above  the  sighing  of  the  night  wind 
through  the  pine. 

He  did  not  speak,  but  his  lips  pressed 
hers;  his  strong  embrace  held  her;  her 
arms  were  around  his  neck;  her  face 
against  his  breast.  They  felt  neither  the 
chill  that  precedes  the  dawn,  the  cold 
earth  beneath  them,  nor  the  dew  upon 
their  garments.  They  took  no  thought  of 
the  grim  wall  surrounding  them,  nor 
the  convent  frowning  down  upon  its  first 
love  scene.  The  murmur  of  the  pine 
was  a  celestial  melody. 

"I  have  come  for  you,  Rose.  Will  you 
go?"  were  his  first  words. 

They  rose  to  their  feet  now,  and  the 
gray  mantle,  still  fastened  at  his  throat 
and  caught  over  one  arm,  covered  her  as 
his  arm  was  thrown  about  her. 

"Oh,  Alex,  I  must  go — I  am  not  good 
enough  to  stay  in  this  abode  of  saints. 
1   am  too  worldly — I — " 

Her  lagging  speech  was  smothered  with 
a  kiss. 

They  cautiously  quitted  the  shadow  of 
the  tree  on  the  side  nearest  to  the  iron- 
bound  gate  in  the  wall.  They  hurried 
over  the  flower  beds;  they  glided  through 
the  dark;  they  gained  the  massive  gate. 
A  great  key,  taken  from  a  fold  in  the 
gray  mantle,  unfastened  the  padlock.  The 
ppnderous,  iron  -  bound,  nail  -  studded 
weight  swung  open  on  noiseless  hinges. 
A  dim  light  was  shining  in  the  porter's 
lodge  beside  the  wall,  but  there  was  no 
other  sign  of  life  about  the  place. 

The  girl  gave  one  last  glance  back  at 


the  rugged  profile  of  the  convent,  outlined 
before  the  first  faint  streaks  of  dawn, 
then,  scarcely  breathing,  she  passed  the 
gate-keeper's  lighted  window. 

"There  is  nothing  to  'fear  in  there,'* 
he  told  her,  drawing  her  back  gently. 

A  man  in  a  black  robe  sat  well  down 
in  a  chair  before  a  fireplace,  where  only 
a  few  coals  remained  bright  among  the 
dull  ashes  upon  the  hearth.  The  broken 
fragments  of  a  goblet  lay  at  his  feet.  The 
old  gardener  was  beside  the  table,  his 
arms  folded  upon  it,  his  head  upon  them. 
An  empty  bottle  and  glass  were  within 
his  reach.  A  lamp  with  a  wick  flickering 
in  its  last  glimmer  sat  near. 

"The  archbishop!  The  gardener!" 
gasped  the  girl.     "Oh,  come!" 

"There  is  no  danger  to  be  feared  from 
that  quarter,"  he  reassured  her.  "They 
will  sleep  for  hours.'* 

She  looked  at  him  with  wondering 
eyes. 

"The  gardener  could  not  resist  a  bottle 
from  a  generous  traveler,"  he  laughed. 

"And  the  archbishop?"  she  questioned. 

"Did  not  resist  a  treat  from  the  gar- 
dener— and  more  than  forty  winks  was 
in  every  swallow.  I  borrowed  the  mantle 
while  they  were  winking." 

"How  pure  the  air  is,  Alex!"  she  said 
a  moment  later,  with  a  little  break  in  her 
voice. 

"Yes,  love,  and  the  mom  will  soon  be 
breaking;  we  must  mount  and  away." 
He  pointed  to  the  horizon  which  was 
growing  white. 

A  big,  black  horse  waited  in  a  thicket. 
It  was  the  act  of  a  moment  to  wrap  the 
archbishop's  mantle  about  her  slender 
form  and  to  swing  her  tenderly  to  the 
pommel  of  the  saddle.^ 

Then  he  was  up  behind  her  and  they 
were  oflf. 

The  muffled  feet  of  the  horse  beat  a  dull 
retreat  through  the  waking  day. 

A  little  lover,  in  the  form  of  a  war- 
bling bird,  greeted  them  as  they  flew  past. 

The  prioress  waited  in  her  bare,  cold 
cell  for  the  return  of  the  novice. 

The  archbishop  and  the  gardener  slept 
on. 


THE  PLAYHOUSE 


Tnc  opening  of  tkc  season  1904 — ne'w  stars — foreign  celebrities — ne'ws  of  tke  stage 

THE  opening  of  the  American 
theatrical  season  has  devel- 
oped into  something  very  much 
like  the  fall  display  of  fash- 
ions: a  view  of  the  latest  and 
most  successful  London  and  Paris  models. 
The  "star^'  system,  as  it  prevails  in 
this  country,  was  quite  unknown  to  the 
British  public  until  Mr.  Charles  Frohman 
gave  it  a  glimpse  of  his  methods.  In 
Ijondon,  the  managers  of  theatres  and 
the  producers  of  plays  are  themselves 
actors — a  state  of  affairs  tending  toward 
the  maintenance  of  a  higher  standard  in 
regard  to  plays  and  a  more  thoroughly 
artistic  presentation  of  them. 


Madame  Sejane   as  Nora  in   "A  Doll's  House." 
Sejane  will   tour  Amerioa   this  winter. 

An  actor  manager  will  see  possibilitie-; 
in  plays  which  would  never  occur  to  the 
commercial  producer,  and  it  not  infre- 
quently happens  that  the  role  which  in 
this  country  is  given  to  a  '*star"  is  not 
the  one  chosen  bv  the  London  actor  who 


Winsome  Edna  May  in  "The  School  Oirl." 

cares  more  to  create  a  certain  character 
in  an  absolutely  finished  manner  than  to 
play  "a  fat  part." 

Take  "The  Little  Minister"  as  an  exam- 
ple. In  London  the  character  of  Gavin 
Dishart  was  the  principal  one,  but  when 
the  comedy  was  played  in  this  country 
and  given  to  a  "star" — Miss  Adams — 
the  whole  play  was  made  to  revolve  around 
her. 

Here  is  Mr.  J.  E.  Dodson's  explanation 
of  our  way,  and  he  should  know  since  he 
is  an  English  actor  who  has  played  a 
very  great  deal  in  this  country. 

"You  Americans  can  create  a  demand 
for  anything — no  matter  what — simply 
by  setting  aside  enough  money  to  adver- 
tise it  on  a  large  scale.  Your  average 
citizen  does  not  take  time  to  think,  and 
can  hardly  spare  the  time  to  read,  henc? 
tlie  size  of  type  is  a  great  factor  in  getting 


236 


THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Edith  Wynne  MathiBon,  Sir  Henry  Irring's  leading  woman. 


the  attention  of  the  American  public. 

"Take   a   theatrical    poster — 

PAMELA   PARQUET 

(Letters  four  feet  high) 

in 

"The  Front  Row" 

(Letters  two  feet  high) 

by 

Thomas  Augustus 

(Letters  one  foot  high) 

and  the  strap-hanger,  who  reads  as  the 

elevated   train   runs,   never   gets   beyond 


that  first  line,  and  consequently  is  heard 
to  say,  'I  must  see  Parquet  in — what's 
that  play  she's  doing  ?''^ 


This  is  next  to  the  last  season  for  Sir 
Henry  Irving,  who  is  to  retire  in  190fi 
after  fifty  years  of  stage  life.  His  strange 
gutteral  tones  will  sound  even  more 
muffled  by  contrast  with  the  unusually 
clear  speaking  voice  of  his  new  leading 
woman,  Edith  Wynne  Mathison. 

Miss  Mathison  is  Welsh,  and  her  glori- 
ous voice  with  its  remarkable   range   is 


THE    PLAYHOUSE. 


237 


an  inheritance.  Her  aunt  was  known  as 
"the  Nightingale/^  while  her  mother  was 
called  "the  Linnet  of  Wales/*  Miss  Math- 
ison^s  husband  is  C.  Bann  Kennedy,  who 
is  himself  a  good  actor,  a  Shakesperean 
scholar  of  renown,  a  collector  of  rare 
books,  and  a  writer  whose  verse  often 
appears  in  our  American  magazines. 

Sir  Henry  Irving  would  have  been  a 
great  man  in  any  walk  in  life.  He  has 
all  a  great  man's  preoccupation  and  dis- 
dain. At  one  of  the  London  perform- 
ances, Nansen  occupied  a  box  and  the 
fact   was   quickly   communicated   behind 


scenes,  and  the  chance  to  pass  on  an 
interesting  bit  of  news  was  furnished  to 
the  actors.  First  one  after  another  took 
occasion  to  say,  "Do  you  know  who  is 
in  the  box  on  the  left,  Sir  Henry  ?" — and 
without  wating  for  a  reply,  "Xansen." 
Finally  after  a  halJE  dozen  had  come  to 
him  with  this  same  item  of  information, 
one  volunteered  the  additional  remark, 
"Great  man,  Mr.  Nansen!"  In  a  crisp 
dry  tone  came  Mr.  Irving's  rejoinder : 
"Yes,  remarkable  ability  to  stand  tlu^ 
cold." 


Bignor    Novelli,    the   eminent    Italian    tragedian,    comingr    to    America   this    winter. 


238 


THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Pretty    Paula    Edwards,    who    will    appear    in    the 

name  part  of  "Winsome  Winnie"   the 

ooming  season. 

The  two  new  "stars/'  which  are  new  in 
that  name  only,  to  make  their  appearance 
this  winter,  are  Francis  Wilson  and  Mrs. 
Gilbert.  Mr.  Wilson  is  to  play  in  dramatic 
comedy.  It  has  been  his  desire  for  many 
years  to  leave  musical  comedy,  but  that 
queer  face  and  those  queerer  legs  proved 
too  great  an  asset  in  that  particular  field. 

Mrs.  Gilbert  is  our  oldest  actress  now- 
playing  roles,  and  she  has  never  been 
starred  before.  Her  play  has  been  written 
especially  for  her  by  Clyde  Fitch  and  will 
be  called  "Grandma." 


It  will  seem  strange  not  to  see  Weber 
and  Fields  together,  as  their  paAnership 


has  lasted  from  youth  to  middle  age,  from 
real  poverty  to  comparative  wealth,  from 
the  days  when  as  boys  they  worked  during 
the  day  in  a  factory  and  did  "a  turn"  on 
the  variety  stage  at  night,  to  the  present 
time  when  they  are  Broadway  theatre 
owners. 

Mr.  Weber  will  keep  the  old  music- 
hall  and  will  have  a  company  headed  by 
Anna  Held  and  supported  by  Aubrey 
Bouccicault,  Marie  Dressier  and  otherS; 
among  them  being  the  dancer,  Bonnie 
Maginn,  whose  greatest  popularity  came 
during  the  old  Weber-Fieldian  days. 

Mr.  Fields  has  a  new  theatre  bearing 
his  name,  Marie  Cahill  for  leading  woman, 
and  Bessie  Clayton,  whose  whirlwind 
dancing  has  never  been  equaled. 


Bernard    and   Hattie    Williams    in 
From  Kays." 


'The    Oirl 


OURVIEW 


WIUWlBlTTlimM 


^^^.^rM^xtK^^.'^ . . 


It  has  been  well  said — Honesty  is  not  the  best  policy;  it  is  the  only  policy. 

«       «       « 

The  man  who  had  predicted  during  the  first  McKinley-Bryan  campaign  that 
the  "financial  interest'^  would  be  supporting  the  Democrat  nominee  eight  years 
later  would  have  been  laughed  to  scorn.    Such  is  life  and  politics. 

♦       «       ♦ 

Visitors  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair  who  are  so  fortunate  as  to  live  on  the  Pacific 
Coast  are  beginning  to  think  that  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition  to  be  held  at 
Portland  next  year  will  eclipse  the  St.  Louis  Fair  in  point  of  genuine  interest.  If 
Portland  can  secure  the  cream  of  the  exhibits  at  St.  Louis,  and  all  indications 
point  to  success  in  this  particular,  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition  will  not  only 
have  many  unique  features  of  the  West,  but  will  he  a  credit  to  the  country  at  large. 

♦  *         ♦ 

Optimism  is  not  always  an  unalloyed  virtue.  It  can  be  made  a  stumbling  block 
in  the  road  of  life,  although  it  is  worth  *a  thousand  pounds  a  year  to  look  on  the 
bright  side  of  things.^  Action  must  go  hand  in  hand  with  optimism.  The  realities 
of  life  must  not  be  obscured  if  there  is  to  be  any  genuine  progress.  We  must  look 
at  things  as  they  are,  not  as  we  would  like  to  have  them.  But  optimism  coupled  with 
enthusiasm  and  action  presents  an  irresistible  force — a  force  that  has  always  con- 
quered adversity  and  untoward  circumstances.  It  is  no  one  thing,  however,  that 
creates  success.  Singleness  of  purpose  is  an  essential.  Tenacity,  earnestness,  self- 
belief,  enthusiasm,  honesty  and  an  indomitable  spirit  are  equally  as  important.  But 
they  are  all  null  and  void  without  optimism. 

♦  *         ♦ 

The  year  1905  promises  to  be  of  extraordinary  importance  to  the  growth  and 
development  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  Lewis  and  Clark  Centennial  Exposition  at 
Portland  beginning  next  June  will  alone  be  of  incalculable  benefit  to  the  entire  West, 
but,  apart  from  this  great  undertaking  which  is  practically  assured  a  gratifying  suc- 
cess, there  is  a  spirit  in  the  air  of  enterprise  that  presages  the  beginning  of  great 
things.  Yet  even  now  we  are  in  the  midst  of  a  world  movement  that  is  making  the 
Pacific  the  center  of  the  world^s  activities  and  promising  the  mjost  alluring  and  bril- 
liant future  for  the  lands  bordering  this  side  of  the  Pacific.  A  great,  magnificent, 
splendid  future  is  in  store  for  us,  and  although  we  may  not  realize  it  we  have  already 
passed  over  the  threshold.  The  writing  is  on  the  wall  so  clearly  and  unmistakably 
that  even  a  dullard  may  interpretate  the  signs  aright.  A  splendid,  greater,  grander 
nation  is  in  the  making  and  its  greatest,  grandest  part  will  be  the  Pacific  Coast. 

The  world  does  not  stand  still;  progress  is  inevitable — progress  not  only  in 
science,  art,  literature,  but,  most  important,  in  the  great  social  problems  with  which 
humanity  has  always  been  struggling.  We  have  made  wonderful  strides  in  science, 
but  there  will  be  a  greater  than  Edison.  In  literature  there  will  be  a  greater  than 
Shakespeare.  In  art  there  will  be  a  greater  than  Raphael  or  Michel  Angelo  or  Phid- 
ias. There  will  be  a  greater  than  Gladstone  or  Lincoln  or  Napoleon  or  Alexander  tho 
Great  or  Franklin  or  Cromwell  or  Caesar  or  Justinian  or  Luther  or  Calvin  or  Wesley. 
We  have  not  reached  the  limit.  The  world  does  not  go  backward.  Progress  it* 
inevitable. 


A  'world-wide  survey  of  important  events  in  all  departments  of  kuman  activity 


Tk, 

Event 


.  J.  During  the  past  months  all  other  interests  have  paled  hefqre  the 
le  Lieadin^  momentous  events  in  the  far  East.  Tremendous  battles  have  been 
waged;  mighty  issues  have  been  decided;  tens  of  thousands  of  lives 
have  been  sacrificed.  Both  of  Russia's  fleets  have  been  shattered;  her  ships  are^ 
maimed  and  dispersed,  until  their  fighting  value  is  nil.  Beleaguered  Port  Arthur  is 
invested  on  every  side;  the  Japanese  assaults  have  been  of  unparalleled  ferocity,  and 
the  cannonading  the  heaviest  known  to  history.  The  fall  of  the  city  seems  inevitable. 
On  the  Yalu,  the  Japanese  success  is  even  more  astounding.  In  almost  every 
engagement  they  have  been  victorious,  and  the  Russiatis,  resisting  stubbornly  and 
retreating  without  rout,  have  still  met  defeat  at  every  point.  There  is  still  no  talk 
of  surrender,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  "minions  of  the  Czar"  will  need  even  more 
severe  a  lesson  before  they  admit  their  inferiority ;  but  to  the  world  their  ultimate 
defeat  seems  inevitable.  The  Japanese  have  proved  themselves  complete  masters 
of  the  military  art.  Their  fanatical  courage  is  resistless;  the  strategy  of  their 
generals  is  of  the  highest  order;  no  obstacle  seems  to  daunt  their  enthusiasm.  Here- 
tofore the  outcome  of  the  war  was  veiled  in  uncertainty,  but  now  even  the  most  con- 
servative critics  are  expressing  their  conviction  of  the  complete  success  of  the 
Japanese  cause. 


—I     .^jj  Two  of  the  greatest  battles 

Ihe  War  ^f  modern  times — one  on 
sea,  the  other  on  land — is  the  record  of 
the  past  month  in  the  Eastern  war.  In 
addition  to  this,  one  of  the  greatest  sieges 
in  all  history  is  being  conducted.  On 
the  tenth  of  August,  the  Russian  squad- 
ron, finding  the  harbor  of  Port  Arthur 
no  longer  tenable  because  of  the  near  ap- 
proach of  the  Japanese  siege  guns,  en- 
deavored to  escape  and  to  join  the  Vladi- 
vostok squadron.  The  ever  watchful  Togo 
was  prepared,  and  a  running  fight  ensued 
in  which  the  Russian  squadron  was  com- 
pletely routed.  The  Japanese  attack  was 
focussed  upon  the  flagship  Czarevitch, 
which  was  rendered  almost  a  total  wreck. 
Admiral  Wittsoeft  was  killed,  as  well  as 
the  captain  and  other  officers  of  the  ves- 
sel. Five  of  the  battleships  with  one 
cruiser  put  back  into  the  harbor,  while 
the  rest  of  the  vessels  were  dispersed,  after 
receiving  terrific  injuries  from  the  heavy 
Japanese  fire.  Four  days  later,  Admiral 
Kamimura   encountered   the   Vladivostok 


fleet  and  won  a  complete  victory.  The 
crack  cruiser  Rurik  was  sunk,  and  the 
other  vessels  forced  to  flee.  This  leaves 
Japan  virtually  in  control  of  the  sea,  with 
both  of  Russia's  fleets  crippled  and  inef- 
fective, and  hardly  a  factor  in  the  strug- 
gle. Immediately  after  the  first  naval  en- 
gagement, the  Japanese  land  forces  began 
a  general  assault  upon  Port  Arthur.  With 
a  desperate  determination  and  with  an  ap- 
palling loss  of  life,  attack  after  attack 
was  made  on  the  Russian  strongholds.  The 
cannonading  was  incessant,  and  one  after 
another  the  environing  fortifications  were 
abandoned,  until  only  the  inmost  lines  of 
defenses  remained  in  the  possession  of  the 
Russians.  Terms  of  surrender  were  of- 
fered to  General  Stoessel,  but  were  refused 
with  torrential  profanity.  Then,  sud- 
denly, the  scene  of  guiatest  activity  shifted 
to  the  north,  where  the  great  hosts  of 
Kuroki  and  Kuropatkin  confronted  one 
another.  The  Japanese  began  a  steady 
advance  northward  that  seemed  irresisti- 
ble.   The  Russian  defense  was  determined. 


THE  MONTH. 


241 


but  point  after  point  was  evacuated,  until 
at  Liao-Yang  a  stand  was  made.  Here 
was  fought  the  greatest  battle  of  the  war. 
For  days  the  outcome  was  uncertain.  The 
fighting  was  tremendous,  and  the  life  sac- 
rifice terrific.  Finally  came  the  news  that 
Liao-Yang  had  been  abandoned,  the  Rus- 
sian flanks  had  been  turned,  and  Kuro- 
patkin  in  full  retreat  toward  Mukden.  The 
battle  then  resolved  itself  into  a  pursuit 
race,  with  Mukden  as  the  objective  point. 
Here,  it  is  thought,  the  Russians  will 
make  their  final  stand.  The  Japanese  are 
straining  every  nerve  to  head  off  the  re- 
treat. Although  they  have  been  invariably 
victorious,  they  will  count  the  campaign 
a  failure  if  Kuropatkin  escapes. 


Acoordinff   to  Napoleon,   an  army  tghi»  on  its 

■tomach.      In    that    caio,    Port    Arthur 

moit  be  nearly  aU  in. 

— From  the  Tacoma  Ledger. 

P  ,.  .  For  some  reason  or  other,  the 
Politics  great  political  contest  has  so  far 
failed  to  arouse  the  customary  public  in- 
terest. Perhaps  it  is  merely  overshad- 
owed by  the  greater  game  being  played  in 
the  far  East.  The  important  events  of 
the  past  month  were  the  several  notifica- 
tions of  the  respective  candidates,  and 
their  carefully  prepared  replies,  intended, 
no  doubt,  for  use  as  political  timber  in 
the  campaign.  Roosevelfs  speech  of  ac- 
ceptance was — like  the  Republican  plat- 
form— a  review  of  the  administration, 
with  an  obvious  willingness  to  abide  by  the 
record  made,  and  with  confident  assur- 
ances that  the  work  begun  would  be  car- 
ried to  a  consummation.  Judge  Parker^s 
reply  was,  like  the  man,  conservative,  ju- 
dicial. He  emphasizes  the  delimitations 
of  the  three  branches  of  the  government. 


with  evident  reference  to  Roosevelt^s  im- 
patience of  constitutional  restraints.  The 
tariff  is  attacked,  but  it  is  frankly  ad- 
mitted the  Republican  majority  in  the 
senate  will  make  it  impossible  to  modify 
the  tariff  laws  during  the  next  four  years. 
The  trusts  are  "viewed  with  concern,"  but 
Judge  Parker  asserts  that  the  present 
laws,  if  enforced,  are  suflBcient  to  curb 
the  evil.  Filipino  self-government  is 
urged,  and  all  forms  of  imperialism  are 
opposed.  In  conclusion,  the  Judge  stated 
that  he  would  not  accept  a  renomination. 
He  has  already  resigned  his  position  on 
the  bench.  Mr.  H.  G.  Davis^  reply  was  no- 
table for  the  bold  stand  in  favor  of  the 
gold  standard.  In  notifying  Mr.  Fair- 
banks, a  point  was  made  of  the  extreme 
age  of  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Vice- 
President,  as  providing  an  unsuitable  oc- 
cupant for  the  presidential  chair,  in  case 
anything  should  happen  to  the  President. 
Interest  centers  in  the  gubernatorial  con- 
test in  New  York,  this  year,  more  than 
ever,  the  pivotal  state.  Feeling  the  neces- 
sity of  nominating  a  man  capable  of  at- 
tracting the  greatest  possible  number  of 
votes,  the  Republican  leaders  have  used 
their  utmost  powers  to  persuade  Elihu 
Root  to  accept  the  candidacy — so  far  with- 
out success.  David  B.  Hill,  representing 
the  up-state  Democratic  faction,  and  Chas. 
Murphy,  Tamman/s  leader,  are  still  at 
odds.  Their  reconciliation  is  indispensa- 
ble to  Democratic  success  in  the  state. 
Other  states  are  nominating  their  gov- 
ernors, the  party  newspapers  are  printing 
perfervid  editorials,  and  the  cry  of  the 
spellbinder  is  abroad  in  the  land.  These 
are  the  signs  of  the  times. 


Deportation 
in  Colorado 


Anarchy  and  mob  rule 
hold  full  sway  in  Colo- 
rado. The  latest  act  in 
open  defiance  of  law  was  the  forcible  de- 
portation of  ten  prominent  citizens  of 
Cripple  Creek,  who  had  been  actively  iden- 
tified with  the  Western  Federation — ^the 
union  organization.  Among  the  deported 
men  were  an  ex-Attorney  General  of  the 
state,  two  other  lawyers,  and  others  of 
wealth  and  position.  They  were  marched 
about  three  miles  out  of  town,  with  an 
escort  of  3,000  non-union  sympathizers. 
They  were  then  told  to  leave  the  country, 
and  were  threatened  with  a  bullet  or  a 
rope  if  they  ventured  back.    On  returning 


242 


THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


to  the  town,  the  disorderly  element  of  the 
crowd  broke  away  from  the  control  of  the 
leaders — among  whom  were  leading  busi- 
ness men — ^and  wrecked  the  union  store. 
The  military  has  been  withdrawn,  and 
the  authorities  are  powerless.  For  the 
present,  the  Citizens'  Alliance  and  the 
Mineowners'  Association  control  the  sit- 
uation. 

rjn  jy  t  ^  The  situation  at  Chicago 
1  he  Uutchcw  ^^^  ^j^g  Q^her  strike  centers 
dtnke  Y^^     jjQ^     greatly     altered 

during  the  last  month.  Neither  side 
shows  any  signs  of  yielding,  although  it 
is  the  general  impression  that  the  strikers 
are  losing  ground.  The  effort  to  arbitrate 
the  matter  through  Mayor  Harrison's  in- 
tercession came  to  naught,  by  reason  of 
the  packers'  refusal  to  make  any  conces- 
sions. They  claim  that  eighty  per  cent  of 
the  usual  amount  of  work  has  been  done, 
and  that  their  financial  loss  is  slight,  as 
they  are  enabled  to  close  out  the  supplies 
that  have  accumulated  in  their  ware- 
houses. A  point  was  gained  by  the  strik- 
ers when  they  compelled  the  city  authori- 
ties to  issue  an  order  that  the  strikers 
could  no  longer  house  the  strike  breakers 
in  the  yards,  as  a  violation  of  the  munici- 
pal sanitary  regulations.  Several  severe 
riots  have  occurred,  and  lives  have  been 
sacrificed.  Meanwhile,  the  price  of  meat 
soars,  and  the  independent  meat  packers 
are  the  only  ones  who  are  not  suffering 
from  the  great  struggle. 

^      J   .  The    annual    encamp- 

UrandArmy  ^^^^     q£     ^^^     q^^^j^j 

bncampmcBt  ^^^^^.  ^^  ^1^^  Republic 

was  held  this  year  at  Boston,  and  was 
characterized  bv  much  enthusiasm.  There 
are  now  246,261  members  of  the  G.  A.  R. 
— 10,000  less  than  last  year — but  of  these 
only  16,000  were  able  to  participate  in  the 
procession.  Gen.  Wilmon  W.  Blackmar 
was  chosen  commander-in-chief,  vice  Gen. 
John  C.  Black,  and  Denver  was  selected 
as  the  next  convention  city.  Resolutions 
were  adopted  against  disfranchisement  on 
color  lines,  and  congress  was  urged  to  pass 
a  law  affirming  the  order  of  the  pension 
bureau  that  veterans  62  years  of  age  should 
be  entitled  to  pensions  without  regard- 
ing their  actual  inability  to  labor. 


A  rLU  ^^  August  12,  at  the  very  time 
A  Child  ^i^Qj^  ^^Q  Russian  battleships 
10  15om  ^gj.g  going  down  to  defeat  l^ 
fore  the  Japanese  fleet,  the  Czarina  gave 
birth  to  a  male  child.  The  boy  weighed 
eleven  pounds  and  is  healthy  and  sound. 
He  is  named  Alexis  Nikolarevitch,  and,  if 
he  comes  to  the  throne,  will  be  Alexis  II. 
By  this  event — so  long  the  object  of 
prayers  and  wishes  in  the  Czar's  kingdom 
— great  joy  has  been  brought  to  the  royal 
family  and  to  the  Russian  people;  but  to 
those  of  other  races,  it  would  seem  that  the 
heir  was  born  under  an  ill-fated  star  to  a 
life  of  much  burden  and  sorrow.  The 
christening  was  attended  with  much  pomp 
and  ceremony,  and  the  Czarevitch  has  al- 
ready been  made  honorary  colonel  of  the 
Finland  Guards. 


Why  not  hitoh  a  KaniM  070I0116  to  a  oouple  of 

KaniM  ooni  ihooks  and  rapply  tho  Japt 

with  Kansas  com. 

— From  the  Tacoua  I^edfrer. 

T   L      T      LI  ^^  ^P^^^  ^^  ^^^  arbitra- 

•  tIj'"  v^  l  ^^^^  agreement  of  1903, 
in  New  York  another  contest  is  on 
between  the  builders  of  New  York  and 
the  union  workmen.  Several  strikes  were 
ordered  by  the  unions  in  defiance  of  the 
treaty,  and  in  retaliation  a  lock-out  was 
finally  declared  by  the  Employers'  Asso- 
ciation, and  notice  was  given  that  the 
places  of  the  strikers  would  be  filled  by 


THE  MONTH. 


243 


nonunion  men,  providing  they  did  not  re- 
turn by  a  certain  date.  It  is  asserted  by 
the  association  that  the  present  diflBculty 
arises  from  a  desire  on  the  part  of  so- 
called  labor  leaders  to  revive  the  old  sys- 
tem of  grafting,  made  impossible  by  the 
arbitration  agreement.  At  least,  it  is  man- 
ifest that  the  unions  have  acted  in  bad 
faith,  ignoring  the  terms  of  the  treaty  to 
which  they  had  subscribed. 

_  ,  The  "naval  demonstration''  made 
Y^  U^  by  the  U.  S.  European  squad- 
Yieida  ^.^j^  before  Smyrna,  Turkey, 
had  the  desired  effect,  and  the  Sultan  has 
agreed  to  all  of  Minister  Leishman's  de- 
mands. The  principal  point  at  issue  was 
the  treatment  of  American  schools  in  Tur- 
key, which  for  years  have  been  unsatisfac- 
tory. Our  schools  were  not  included  in 
the  "favored  nation"  class,  and  were  sub- 
ject to  unfavorable  discrimination.  Our 
minister  undertook  to  secure  for  our 
schools  the  privileges  enjoyed  by  those  of 
other  nations,  but  the  Sublime  Porte 
evaded  his  demands  by  dilatory  tactics. 
Finally,  after  repeated  postponements, 
Eear  Admiral  Jewell  was  ordered  to  take 
his  vessels  to  Smyrna  to  bring  the  Porte  to 
immediate  action.  The  arrival  of  the  fleet 
was  anticipated,  and  Mr.  Leishman  was 
given  assurance  that  there  should  no  lon- 
ger be  any  discrimination  against  Ameri- 
can schools. 

^.,  The  "Subway  Tavern" 

13iflhop  Potter  jg     ^     ^^y^^^    recently 

and  the  baloon         ^^^j^^^    ^^    ^^^    York 

City,  the  purpose  of  which  is  to  provide 
at  a  minimum  cost  pure  food  and  pure 
liquors,  under  the  best  moral  conditions. 
The  house  is  under  the  auspices  of  certain 
reform  workers,  who  believe  that  it  is  im- 
possible to  entirely  eradicate  the  drink 
habit,  and  that  it  is  best  to  minimize  the 
evils  that  attend  it.  Bishop  Potter  deliv- 
ered the  opening  address,  in  which  he  said 
that  the  keynote  had  been  struck  by  this 
attack  on  the  liquor  situation.  His  action 
has  aroused  a  storm  of  criticism  from  the 
Anti-Saloon  League,  W.  C.  T.  U.,  and 
similar  organizations,  and  many  denuncia- 
tions of  his  position  have  been  published. 

rj,.    D     'J  ^  short  time  ago,  Presi- 

1  he  Frcsidcnt  ^^^^^  Roosevelt  was  impor- 
on  Lynching  ^^^^^  ^^  commute  to  life 
imprisonment  the  death  penalty  imposed 


upon  a  negro  for  criminal  assault  on  a  lit- 
tle girl.  The  reason  for  the  plea  was  the 
alleged  weakmindedness  of  the  criminal. 
After  an  investigation,  the  President  de- 
nied the  application,  accompanying  his  de- 
cision with  a  statement  which  may  be  ac- 
cepted as  an  expression  of  his  attitude 
toward  lynching.  He  says  that  the  crime 
in  question  is  one  to  which  "we  largely 
owe  the  existence  of  that  spirit  of  lawless- 
ness which  takes  form  in  lynching."  It 
is  essential  that  its  punishment  should  be 
swift  and  certain.  He  expresses  regret 
that  we  do  not  have  special  provision  for 
more  summary  dealing  with  this  type  of 
cases,  but  condemns  lynching  because  "it 
seeks  to  avenge  one  infamous  crime  by 
the  commission  of  another  of  equal  in- 
famy." 

^  .|  1  A  1  ^^^^  y^^^  1904  is 
Railroad  Accident  i^aintaining  its  record 
in  Colorado  f^^   terrible   disasters 

by  the  worst  railroad  accident  that  has 
ever  occurred  in  America.  Over  a  hun- 
dred lives  were  lost,  and  it  was  only  by 
a  seeming  miracle  that  the  rest  of  the  pas- 
sengers were  spared.  Exceptionally 
heavy  rains  had  flooded  a  small  canyon, 
spanned  by  a  wooden  bridge,  on  which 
were  the  tracks  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  Railroad.  When  the  "World's 
Fair  Flyer"  attempted  to  cross  the  bridge 
the  middle  span  gave  way,  and  the  engine, 
baggage,  smoking  and  chair  cars  were  pre- 
cipitated into  the  raging  torrent,  35  feet 
deep.  Of  all  the  passengers  in  this  part 
of  the  train,  only  three  escaped.  The 
Pullmans  were  left  on  the  track,  their  oc- 
cupants being  unaware  of  the  appalling 
fate  from  which  they  were  so  marvelously 
spared. 

~-  -  -    ,  Former     Premier     Wal- 

W  aldcck-  ^ig^j^  _  Rousseau,        whose 

Rousseau  Uead  ^^^^^  occurred  at  Corbeil, 
France,  August  10,  was  undoubtedly  his 
country's  foremost  statesman.  His  pub- 
lic career  is  a  long  and  honorable  one, 
embracing  many  prominent  oflBces.  He 
became  premier  in  1899,  when  the  Drey- 
fus case  was  the  center  of  public  interest, 
and  took  a  daring  stand  in  pardoning 
Dreyfus  after  his  second  conviction,  and 
securing  a  proclamation  of  general  am- 
nesty to  all  concerned.  He  was  also  the 
author  of  the  law  against  the  religious  as- 
sociations.    Ill-health     necessitated     his 


244 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


resignation  in  1902.  His  death,  which 
resulted  from  an  operation  rendered 
necessary  by  his  serious  condition,  is 
mourned  by  the  whole  French  people,  and 
the  funeral  was  the  occasion  of  national 
sorrow. 

Tkc  The    Lake    Erie    &    Western 

Sunday  Railroad  has  announced  that 
Excursion  it'  will  handle  no  more  Sun- 
day excursions.  The  abolishment  of 
Sunday  excursions  on  the  Vanderbilt  lines 
is  also  under  serious  consideration.  This 
movement  is  not  alone  a  concession  to 
moral  sentiment,  but  is  based  also  on  hu- 
mane and  economic  grounds.  The  danger 
of  accident  on  Sunday  excursions  is  always 
far  greater  than  on  the  regular  trains. 
Employees  are  worn  out  by  the  extra  du- 
ties, and  the  organization  of  the  road  is 
disrupted. 


its  naturalness.  This  paper  is  on  sale  in 
Europe,  and,  without  doubt,  will  soon  be 
procurable  in  America. 


Cole 


The  problem  of  color  pho- 
^,  ,       tography  is  one  that  has  in- 

Fhotography  terested  the  scientist-pho- 
tographers for  some  years,  and  several  so- 
lutions were  reached.  In  each  case,  how- 
ever, the  method  was  too  difficult  and  com- 
plicated to  be  extensively  practiced.  Now 
two  European  experimentors  have  pro- 
duced a  paper  upon  which  may  be  printed 
color  photographs  from  any  ordinary  neg- 
ative. The  paper  is  given  ten  chemical 
coatings,  separated  by  layers  of  gelatine, 
and  each  one  graduated  to  a  wave  length, 
producing  a  certain  color  shade.  After 
printing,  the  paper  is  washed  in  water  of 
a  required  temperature,  which  dissolves 
the  gelatine,  leaving  the  color-print  in  all 


"A  hard  nut  to  crack." 

— From    the    Spokesman- Review. 

Airsbip  M.    Lebaudy,   the   Parisian 

News  aeronaut,  made  a  successful 

ascent  in  his  dirigible  balloon  recently.  He 
covered  a  distance  of  12^  miles  in  15  min- 
utes, sailing  at  a  height  of  250  feet  from 
the  earth.  Holland,  the  inventor  of  the 
submarine  boat,  has  turned  his  attention 
to  aeronautics,  and  is  devising  a  craft  to 
navigate  the  air.  He  is  working  on  the 
aeroplane  principle,  without  the  aid  of  a 
balloon  attachment.  The  airship  race  at 
St.  Louis  was  not  an  unqualified  success. 
But  two  vessels  started,  both  operated  by 
Americans.  One  descended  but  a  few 
miles  from  St.  Louis,  while  the  other,  of 
which  G.  E.  Tomlinson  was  the  aeronaut, 
got  as  far  as  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  200  miles 
from  the  starting  point.  Under  the  con- 
ditions of  the  contest,  the  $5000  prize  will 
go  to  him,  unless  some  other  aspirant  suc- 
ceeds in  reaching  a  point  nearer  Washing- 
ton monument  before  November  1. 


IMPRESSWNS 


[AKI.LSKRSKlNK-SCOTTVVOODi 


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Morality,  if  it  oe  tne  trutn,  pays — tnc  universe  is  founded  on  it. 
misery;  its  observance  makes  success. 


ts  violation  makes 


Bigotry 

"DEHOLD  how  each  one  is  to  himself  the  universe!   Behold  the  perversity  of  the 

-^  human  mind !    Each  demands  freedom  for  himself — to  think  as  pleases  him, 

to  speak  as  pleases  him,  to  act  as  pleases  him;  but  when  another  wishes  to  do  the 

same,  behold  I — chains,  fire,  clubs,  and  shouts  of  "License,'^  "Infidel,"  "Rebel !"  "You 

must  think,  speak,  and  act  as  pleases  me." 

War 

X\7AR  is  cruelty;  war  is  waste;  war  is  stupidity.  There  is  no  question  which  could 
^^  not  be  better  settled  without  war,  if  rulers  would  settle  it.  Even  in  republics 
it  is  rulers  who  make  war,  always  it  is  the  people  who  are  killed. 

Morality 

/^  HEIST  said,  "Do  unto  others  as  you  would  that  they  should  do  unto  you." 
^^  Confucius  said,  "Do  not  unto  others  that  which  you  would  not  have  them  do 
to  you." 

Gautama  said,  "If  thine  enemy  come  to  thy  house,  give  him  food.  Even  the 
tree  refuses  not  its  shade  to  the  axman  at  its  root." 

Mohammed  said,  "Resolve  if  people  do  good  to  you,  you  ^ill  do  good  to  them, 
and  if  they  oppress  you,  oppress  them  not  again." 

Socrates  said,  "A  wrong  can  not  be  right,  so  though  one  has  done  you  wrong, 
yet  if  you  truly  love  the  right  you  will  not  do  wrong  to  him." 

Every  enlightened  age,  every  civilized  people  has  had  its  wise  teacher  seeing 
and  teaching  the  Golden  Rule;  yet  of  the  countless  millions,  how  many  have  mad(> 
it  the  rule  of  conduct  ?  How  many  have  clearly  seen  that  it  is  the  greatest  success 
of  all? 

Samuel  Jones,  Mayor  of  Toledo — "Golden  Rule  Jones" — is  dead.  Xo  man's 
influence  dies.  The  waves  of  example  keep  widening  ever.  I  take  from  the  "Public" 
an  extract  from  an  article  by  Graham  Taylor  in  the  Chicago  Daily  News.  As  we  read 
it,  let  us  imagine  the  funeral  of  Russell  Sage  or  any  "successful"  man,  or  our  own 
funeral,  and  ask,  "What  is  Success?" 

"Within  the  Memorial  hall,  which  had  so  often  re-echoed  his  ringing  voice, 
the  people  took  their  last  look  at  the  face  they  loved.  They  had  outlined  in  flowers 
the  aisle  through  which  they  were  to  pass  by  their  dead.  And  were  flowers  ever  more 
the  symbol  of  hearts  grown  together?  For  they  were  sent  there  by  all  the  city 
departments,  by  'Syrian- American  citizens,'  Polish,  German,  Hungarians,  and  other 
nationalities;  by  the  University  club  and  the  Bartenders'  union;  by  the  United 
Catholic  societies  and  the  Spiritualist  association;  by  the  horseshoers,  cloakmakers, 
and  many  other  labor  unions ;  by  the  Western  Oil  Men's  Association,  accompanied  by 


246  THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 

sixty-two  names  of  his  business  associates  and  competitors;  by  his  own  employees^ 
who  gave  a  great  floral  golden  rule  with  the  words :  ^ We  knew  him/ 

"Between  5:30  a.  m.  and  9  p.  m.  for  two  days,  fifty  people  a  minute  passed 
Up  that  aisle,  until  fully  fifty-five  thousand  men,  women  and  children  of  every 
description  silently,  reverently  and  affectionately  parted  from  their  friend. 

"Then  his  fellow- workmen  took  up  his  body  to  carry  it  home.  Such  a  procession 
as  followed  it  has  seldom  been  led  by  the  living  or  the  dead.  There  were  not  only 
the  labor  unions,  but  the  mothers,  wives  and  children  of  the  men ;  policemen,  firemen, 
mail  carriers,  and  oflBcials  of  the  Toledo,  Cleveland  and  other  city  governments; 
six  hundred  newsboys  and  their  band,  playing  'Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee' ;  musical, 
benevolent  and  fraternal  societies,  and  unorganized  groups  of  citizens,  women  and 
children  followed  in  their  train.  No  military  company  nor  any  implement  of  war 
Dr  strife  was  seen.  To  the  music  of  the  'Golden  Rule'  shop  band  they  marched  in 
strange  silence  through  silent  throngs. 

"At  the  end  of  the  long  march  to  the  distant  cemetery  thousands  more  were 
in  waiting  by  the  open  grave.  When  friends  were  leaving  it  and  it  was  being  filled, 
a  German  singing  society  spontaneously  broke  out  in  a  farewell  song,  and  a  broken 
Voice  in  the  tongue  of  the  fatherland  was  heard  saying  good-by.'* 

I  would  rather  be  buried  with  such  love  than  win  from  "Glory"  a  bronze  statue. 

And  by  his  "Golden  Rule"  policy  Samuel  Jones  became  a  "practical  success,'" 
Vhich  means  always  to  the  modern  mind  a  money  success.  It  is  the  only  rule  upon 
which  a  safe  and  just  society  can  ever  be  founded.  It  is  the  ultimate  perfection 
of  society. 

As  Henry  George  wrote,  "That  we  should  do  unto  others  as  we  would  have  them 
do  unto  us — that  we  should  respect  the  rights  of  others  as  scrupulously  as  we  would 
have  our  rights  respected — ^is  not  a  mere  counsel  of  perfection  to  individuals — but 
it  is  the  law  to  which  we  must  conform  social  institutions  and  national  policy — if  we 
would  secure  the  blessings  of  abundance  and  peace." 

Tke   Cbicago  Strike 

T  T  is  said  that  the  packers  will  win  and  250,000  men  will  lose  their  jobs.  The 
"*•  newspapers  report  that  the  Pullman  company  under  the  Parry  system  of  a  union 
of  employers,  will  have  a  sympathetic  "lock-out."  I  also  read  that  one  of  the 
packers  said,  "we  can  get  plenty  of  unskilled  labor  for  fifteen  cents  an  hour.  The 
unions  are  fi\ing  in  the  face  of  the  law  of  supply  and  demand  in  trying  to  compel 
us  to  pay  eighteen  and  one  half  cents  an  hour." 

The  law  of  supply  and  demand,  like  all  great  natural  forces,  is  irresistible. 
The  solution  of  the  trouble  is  not  to  be  found  in  unions,  but  in  reforms  in  those 
economic  conditions  which  bring  an  army  of  starving  unskilled  laborers  knocking 
at  the  gates  of  capital.  That  reform  must  be  greater  economic  freedom;  less 
meddling  with  natural  laws  by  legislature  laws;  no  special  privileges  in  tariffs, 
in  money,  in  land.  It  will  take  generations  to  effect  these  changes,  but  in  radical 
reforms — less  law  granting  special  privileges,  and  more  freedom  lie  the  remedy — ^not 
in  unions.  Unions,  as  fraternities,  as  places  for  interchange  of  views  and  forming 
acquaintances,  as  clubs  for  social  purposes  or  for  political  and  economic  discussion, 
are  good.  They  fill  the  place  of  the  medieval  guilds.  But  unions,  as  they  repress 
individualitv,  dictate  iron-clad  rules  and  restrict  human  freedom  and  ambition,  are 
bad. 

As  is  true  of  evervthing  else  which  exists,  there  was  a  cause  which  forced  unions 
into  existence.  That  cause  was  the  oppression  of  labor  by  capital.  Unions  are  such 
an  evil  in  the  tyranny  they  exercise  and  in  their  check  to  individual  freedom, 
that  there  must  be  some  very  strong  cause  which  continues  their  existence  in  spite 
of  their  evils.  Nothing  with  evil  in  it  continues  to  exist  unless  there  is  a  powerful 
reason  for  its  existence.  That  reason  to-day  is  the  same  reason  which  gave  rise  to 
unions. 

It  is  the  self-defense  of  the  laboring  man  against  the  special  privileges  which 


IMPRESSIONS.  247 

make  a  few  wealthy  and  powerful.  It  is  the  laboring  man^s  battle  for  life;  only,  he 
does  not  see  the  root  of  the  evil  and  continually  attacks  the  result.  He  is  engaged 
in  the  task  of  baling  out  the  sea.  He  opposes  capital  on  the  one  hand  and  the 
starving  army  of  the  unemployed^  on  the  other,  but  fails  to  attack  the  causes  alike 
of  excessive  and  tyrannous  capital,  and  of  the  clamorous  army  of  those  who  have 
no  choice  but  to  take  any  wages  or  starve. 

As  the  arm^  increases — as  the  supply  of  labor  more  and  more  exceeds  the 
demand,  the  more  desperate  and  the  more  useless  will  be  the  struggle  of  the  unions, 
until  out  of  desperation  will  be  bom  a  truer  remedy:  more  freedom  for  all,  less 
legal  privilege  to  a  few. 

Divorce  Again 

CO  many  communications  have  been  received  by  this  magazine  and  myself,  con- 

^    corning  the  article  on  divorce  in  the  August  number,  that  some   further 

discussion  has  been  requested  by  the  editors.    All  of  the  comments  were  in  a  kindly 

tone,  but  most  of  them  disagreed  with  me,  and  some  expressed  regret  that  I  was  an 

advocate  of  such  views. 

I  have  felt  for  a  long  time  that  it  matters  little  what  comes  to  any  man  of 
praise  or  blame.  Any  one  man's  career  is  soon  over,  and  the  only  questions  the 
future  will  ask  are,  "Was  he  honest?'*  "Did  he  aid  the  truth?"  Only  time  can 
tell  whether  a  man  has  aided  the  truth;  but  as  discussion  is  fatal  to  error  and 
favorable  to  truth,  I  believe  any  agitation — even  hostile  agitation — of  a  question 
of  morals  is  better  than  stagnation.  All  men  should  unite  in  saying,  "Let  the 
truth  prevail.'' 

In  the  first  place,  I  have  to  suggest  here,  as  I  have  had  occasion  to  do  in  other 
discussions,  that,  merely  because  a  man  advocates  freedom,  he  is  not  to  be  under- 
stood as  desiring  to  abolish,  even  if  he  could,  all  decency,  all  loyalty,  all  unselfishness. 
The  men  who  opposed  human  slavery  in  this  country,  by  the  same  curious  perversion 
of  ideas,  were  supposed  to  be  opposed  to  all  law  and  order  and  rights  of  civilized 
society.  The  word  "freedom"  to  the  slaveholders  of  the  South  meant  "License,'' 
"Anarchy"  and  such  other  false-logic,  bugaboo  words. 

Now,  in  every  state  of  society — and  whether  divorce  be  free  or  not — fidelity, 
loyalty,  steadfastness,  tenderness,  unselfishness,  have  been  and  will  be  more  valued 
than  fickleness,  disloyalty  and  selfishness.  No  one  can,  even  if  he  would,  ever  make 
the  worthy  unworthy,  or  the  base  of  higher  value  than  the  nol)le. 

The  question  is.  Shall  men  and  women  regulate  their  own  marriage  relations 
by  their  own  sense  of  right,  decency,  loyalty  and  fitness,  or  shall  the  law  undertake 
to  judge  for  them  and  keep  together  those  who  would  be  asunder?  If  the  law 
must  keep  cat  and  dog  chained  together  for  the  good  of  the  state,  then  Plato's 
"Republic"  offers  the  only  logical  plan — which  is  that  the  law  must  determine  before- 
hand who  may  marry,  and  see  to  it  that  cat  and  dog  are  not  chained  together.  It 
is  recognized  that  the  marrying  is  solely  the  affair  of  the  mating  couple — even  the 
breaking  of  the  engagement  is  solely  the  affair  of  one  party  (except  the  action  for 
damages  for  the  breach  of  contract).  But  as  soon,  as  the  couple  is  wed,  then, 
whether  they  have  children  or  not,  or  whether  they  possess  property  or  not,  the 
state  says  they  must  stay  together,  even  though  both  be  tugging  at  their  chains. 

It  is  not  enough  that  they  wish  to  separate.  One  must  commit  adultery,  or  be 
a  drunkard,  or  commit  some  other  brutality.  When  one  does  this,  then  the  other, 
in  spite  of  children,  in  spite  of  property  rights,  may  have  a  divorce,  and  all  this 
nonsense  about  public  policy  requiring  people  to  live  together  who  wish  to  be  apart 
falls  to  the  ground. 

The  fact  is,  this  vacant .  theory  which  is  chattered  by  parrots  about  the  state 
having  a  vital  interest  in  the  home  and  family  is  borrowed  from  the  canon  law. 
The  church,  of  course,  did  have  an  interest  in  keeping  up  the  home,  because  marriage 
was  a  sacrament  of  the  church,  and  must  not  be  trifled  with,  and,  of  course,  the 
state — ^that  is,  human  society — ^has  an  interest  in  its  units  or  families  being  decent 
and  prosperous.    But  I  ask  sound  argument  and  sound  logic  and  sound  morals  to 


248  THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 

prove  to  me  that  the  state  or  any  one  else  has  any  interest  in  perpetuating  a  family 
hell  upon  earth  or  in  keeping  together  a  couple  either  one  of  which  intensely  abhors 
the  union.  The  result  of  the  forced  union  is  neglect  of  children,  demoralization 
of  the  home  atmosphere,  and  often  adultery.  . 

The  state  has  no  greater  interest  in  a  family  than  the  family  itself,  and  has 
no  greater  interest  in  children  than  have  the  parents;  and  when  the  useless  inter- 
ference of  the  law  is  removed,  society  will  find  that  the  real  bond  is  either  love  or 
that  sense  of  duty  and  high  morals  which  is  the  only  true  law,  or  lastly,  a  fear 
t)f  the  opinion  of  society.  Instead  of  morals  being  worse  with  free  divorce,  they 
Avill  be  better,  and  conduct  now  excused  or  extenuated  will  no  longer  be  tolerated. 

The  logical  conclusion  is  that  what  begins  with  the  parties  alone,  and  the 
^foundation  of  which  is  the  will  of  the  parties,  should  end  with  the  parties  alone, 
and  when  that  foundation  has  fallen. 

The  needless  injury  done  by  the  law  may  be  illustrated  by  a  very  common 
case.  Wlien  the  man  or  woman  has  been  guilty  of  such  an  offense  that  the  law 
permits  a  divorce,  and  the  couple  themselves  recognize  that  there  must  be  a  divorce, 
and  are  willing  for  the  sake  of  their  children  to  separate  quietly,  they  can  not  do 
so,  but  the  law  actually  compels  them  to  come  into  court  and  blazon  abroad  the 
mistakes  and  unhappiness  which  belong  peculiarly  and  privately  to  themselves. 
The  brutality  of  the  law  is  illustrated  by  another  case,  not  uncommon.  When  one 
of  the  married  pair  goes  to  the  other  and  frankly  and  honestly  admits  that  time 
and  circimistances  have  produced  a  change,  that  he  or  she  loves  another,  the  law 
does  not  permit  them  to  separate  quietly ;  it  does  not  pejmit  them  to  separate  at  all ; 
but  if  the  one  who  has  changed  commits  adultery,  then  guilt  receives  from  the  law 
the  freedom  denied  to  innocence.  Such  a  chain  upon  human  freedom  can  only  be 
productive  of  deception  and  immorality. 

There  was  in  some  of  the  communications  a  certain  shocked  sense  that  marriage 
should  be  called  mating,  sexual  mating.  Undoubtedly  marriage  is  of  two  elements : 
sexual  affinity,  or  love,  and  congeniality,  or  friendship.  With  youth,  the  mere  blind 
instinct  called  love  is  apt  to  sway,  and  hence  so  many  matrimonial  mistakes.  Unless 
calm  friendship,  esteem,  fellowship  exists,  the  marriage  can  not  be  of  life-long 
happiness.  But  to  deny  the  great  part  which  sex  plays  in  marriage  is  to  be  blind 
to  nature.  W-e  may  refine  it  as  much  as  we  please,  and  the  falsely  modest  may 
ignore  it  as  much  as  they  please,  yet  sex,  and  sexual  love,  will  continue  to  make 
marriages  until  the  end,  as  it  has  made  mating  from  the  beginning. 

I  do  not  mean  that  the  mere  sexual  mating  is  before  the  eyes  of  young  couples, 
but  I  mean  the  force  is  there,  just  as  the  force  of  gravity  controls  us,  though  we 
are  unconscious  of  it. 

•  In  conclusion,  as  marriage  is  a  mating,  freely  made  by  the  parties  alone, 
founded  upon  a  desire  to  live  together,  neither  society,  state,  children,  nor  anybody 
else  is  benefited  by  compelling  people  to  live  together  who  have  ceased  to  desire  it. 
If  one  repels  a  marriage  association  so  earnestly  that  his  or  her  moral  nature  and 
sense  of  right  fail  to  make  the  union  tolerable,  it  is  better  he  or  she  should  be  bid 
to  deparfc  in  peace.  When  one  hates,  where  both  should  love,  it  is  better  to  let  them 
adjust  their  mistake  as  freely  as  they  were  permitted  to  make  it.  When  this  day 
arrives — as  it  will — then  the  woman  (usually  the  injured  party)  or  her  relatives 
will,  before  the  marriage,  be  sure  that  she  is  not  to  be  the  toy  of  a  year,  and  by 
contract  will  secure  her  and  her  children's  property  rights.  In  short,  freedom  and 
self-help  will  hereafter,  as  always,  make  for  truer  happiness  and  truer  justice. 

With  the  utmost  respect  for  those  who  believe  marriage  to  be  God-ordained,  and 
all  its  phases  fixed  by  divine  decree,  I  recognize  that  with  these  no  discussion  of  this 
question  is  possible;  for,  as  the  Godhead  is  omniscient, there  can  be  no  question  of  its 
edicts.  But  the  history  of  religions — Christian,  Buddhist,  and  Mohammedan — 
and  the  practical  departure  to-day  of  the  law  from  religion  in  this  respect,  show  that 
the  divine  edicts  will  not  be  accepted  by  society  as  unchangeable.  Therefore  a  gen- 
eral discussion  is,  I  think,  pertinent  and  useful. 


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A  revierw^  of  current  books  and  an  opinion  of  tkeir  merits 


A  reading  of  Dolph  Wyllarde's  "The 
Rat-trap"  leaves  the  Header  halting  be- 
tween two  opinions:  the  first,  a  lively 
appreciation  of  a  remarkable  story,  intelli- 
gently conceived  and  brilliantly  executed; 
the  second,  a  decided  inclination  to  disa- 
gree with  the  author  in  his  reasoning. 
The  writer,  we  take  it,  who  deals  with 
great  life  questions,  must  be  guided  by 
great  life  principles.  Of  these,  "the 
wages  of  sin  is  death,"  ^Tiappiness  can  not 
result  from  evil,"  are  the  foremost.  Ex- 
ceptions there  may  be,  but  literature — 
as  governed  by  the  canons  of  art — ^must 
abide  by  the  fundamental  principles. 
Surely,  to  unite  a  man  and  woman  in  a 
great  love,  when  a  deed  of  dishonor  stands 
forever  between  them,  is  to 
defy  the  essential  articles  of 


TLe 


•^  "CJ. J     nic    essential    ai  tivjies    ui 

Kat-trap  right  and  wrong.  But  putting 
aside  all  casuistic  quibbles,  we  gladly  give 
Mr.  Wyllarde  credit  for  an  extremely 
entertaining  und  powerful  novel.  Its 
locale.  Key  Island,  an  isolated  British 
dependency,  is  not  a  prepossessing  one, 
and  the  handful  of  English  men  and 
women  marooned  there  are  not  to  be 
envied.  But  this  very  isolation  gives  the 
story  a  dramatic  insularity  which  is  made 
singularly  effective. 

Most  daring  is  the  author.  He  never 
stays  his  hand,  whether  it  be  in  laying 
bare  the  quivering  tissues  of  a  woman's 
heari:,  or  in  exposing  the  inmost  purposes 
of  a  man's  mind.  In  fact,  audacity  of 
plan  and  treatment  is  the  first  character- 
istic of  the  whole  book.  The  author  snaps 
his  fingers  at  conventions,  and  the  result, 
though  it  arouse  antagonism,  is  forceful 
and  most  impressive. 

(John  Lane,  New  York.) 


If  you're  looking  for  two  or  three  hours 
of  solid  fun,  just  clamber  into  the  Bishop's 
carriage,  and  take  a  ride  with  Nance 
Olden.  A  merry  chase  she'll  lead  you, 
to  be  sure — the  madcap ! — \^nth  her  artful 
tongue  and  her  deceitful  wit.  But  you'll 
enjoy  yourself,  never  fear,  and  you'll  find 
a  new  and  piquant  fiavor  in  this  breezy, 
racy  story — jaded  old  novel  reader  though 
you  be. 

Nance  Olden  is  an  Oliver  Twist  in 
petticoats — a  Trilby  and  a  Becky  Sharp 
rolled  into  one.  She  is  more  than  that, 
for  she  hails  from  New  York,  and  is 
distinctly  a  product  of  "th'  Avenoo." 
Whether  she  is  real  or  not  depends 
largely  upon  the  credulity  of  the  reader; 
but,  at  least  she  is  the  most  en- 
livening figure  that  has  pranced   across 


Miriam   Michelion,    author  of   "In   the   Bishop's 
Carriage." 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


T  1  T>-  L  '  ^^^  pages  of  latter-day 
^  ™  ^"^^P »  fiction.  Her  verve  is 
Carnage  untiring;     her     wit,     un- 

failing; her  courage,  dauntless.  And  her 
badness  is  only  skin-deep — just  an  ugly 
vesicle  acquired  through  bad  associates 
and  environment,  which  speedily  cracks 
off,  chrysalis-like,  leaving  the  soul  more 
pure  and  sweet  because  of  its  unlovely 
disguise. 

The  newspaper  training  of  the  author, 
Miriam  Michelson,  has  brought  her  into 
familiar  contact  with  the  people  of  the 
streets  and  the  theatres,  and  she  speaks 
intimately  of  the  life  of  the  under-world 
and  the  stage. 

So  here's  to  you,  Nance  Olden,  child- 
thief,  incomparable  mimic.  You're  the 
cocktail  on  the  literary  sideboard.  Prosit ! 

(The  Bobbs-Merril  Co.,  Indianapolis.) 

If  you  care  for  the  historical  novel  of 
the  old  school — ^that  is,  the  school  the 
vogue  of  which  was  at  its  zenith  four  or 
five  years  ago — ^you  will  like  "The  Bright 
Face  of  Danger." 

It  is  the  kind  of  a  book  that  resembles 
closely  a  hundred  others  of  the  same 
family,  and  is  no  better  than  they — and 
certainly  no  worse.  Moreover,  any  of  the 
reviews  written  for  the  rest  might  be 
equally  adapted  to  this  one. 

The  author,  E.  N.  Stephens,  is  an 
expert  at  his  craft,  and  he  works  in  the 
most  pliable  material.  Hot-blooded  youth, 
a  ready  sword,  a  desperate  villain,  a  lovely 
lady  in  distress,  a  duel,  a  flight,  a  few 
love  passages  and  a  lived-happily-ever- 
after:  these  are  the  essential  components, 

TL    "R  •  L  to  he  arranged  according 

Ihc  iiright  ^Q  ^i^g  ^^:^^  Q^  purpose 

Face  of  Danger     of  the  author. 

Recognizing  its  sole  purpose — to  amuse 
— Mr.  Stephens'  book  is  quite  satisfactory. 
Its  swift  movement,  its  deeds  of  prowess, 
its  intrigues  and  mysteries,  its  high-flown 
sentiment  make  it  a  good  sample  of  the 
novel  of  "dering-do."'  The  hero  is  no  less 
a  hero  than  his  many  predecessors,  and  he 
handles  his  sword  in  true  knightly  fashion. 
As  a  lover,  too,  he  is  adequate,  and  con- 
ducts his  amour  in  gallant  style.  As  for 
villainy,  never  was  there  such  a  pair  of 
red-handed   rascals   as   the   "Count"   and 


the  "Red  Captain."  If  you  weren't  quite 
certain  that,  as  a  thorough-going  historical 
romance,  it  must  result  happily,  you  would 
tremble  for  the  outcome. 

(L.  C.  Page  &  Co.,  Boston.) 

In  the  preface  to  his  latest  collection 
of  animal  stories,  entitled  "The  Watchers 
of  the  Trails,"  Mr.  Charles  G.  D.  Rob- 
erts is  at  some  pains  to  set  forth  that  his 
tales  are  "avowedly  fiction."  At  the  same 
time,  he  explains  that  "the  material  of 
which  they  are  molded  consists  of  facts." 
In  other  words,  the  stories,  while  not 
necessarily  actual  occurrences,  are  consist- 
ent with  the  truth.  And  as  to  the  ascrip- 
tion of  human  motives  and  mental  pro- 
cesses to  the  beasts  and  birds,  for  which 
Mr.  Roberts  and  Mr.  Seton  were  gently 
taken  to  task  by  Mr.  Burroughs,  he  aflBrms 
his  right  to  infer  such  motives,  as  under- 
lying the  actions  of  the  animals  as  he  has 
observed  them. 

Without  entering  further  into  the  con- 
troversy, the  author  is  at  least  immune 
from  criticisms  of  sensationalism.  He 
TLc  successfully  avoids  the  sen- 

"Watckers  of  timental  and  melodramatic 
tte  Trails  pitfalls,  into  which  some  of 
his  compeers  have  stumbled.  His  stories 
are  marked  by  a  broad  sincerity,  an  anx- 
ious regard  for  the  truth — and  this  with- 
out sacrificing  one  least  degree  of  interest, 
for  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  more  readable 
animal  stories  have  ever  been  gathered 
into  one  volume.  Mr.  Roberts  covers  the 
whole  scope  of  the  animal  kingdom;  and 
whether  he  is  writing  of  bird  or  beast, 
fish  or  insect,  he  is  equally  at  home.  It  is 
noteworthy  that  the  most  successful  tales 
are  those  which  transcribe  simply  an  in- 
cident from  the  life  of  some  "furtive  crea- 
ture" of  the  forest's  fringe,  the  hedgerow, 
marsh  or  pool,  rather  than  the  more  ex- 
tensive stories.  These  bits  of  animal  bi- 
ography, as  interpreted  in  the  glowing 
colors  and  intimate  understanding  of  the 
author,  are  singularly  appealing,  and  pos- 
sess a  true  dramatic  quality.  Sad  they  are, 
too,  for  nature  is  full  of  tragedy. 

The  volume  is  exquisitely  gotten  up  and 
its  many  full-page  illustrations  and  end- 
page  decorations,  by  C.  L.  Bull,  add  much 
to  its  value. 

(L.  C.  Page  &  Co.,  Boston.) 


A  Leaf  from  tkc  Csmics  Notebook — 

A  woman  may  not  be  able  to  throw 
a  baseball  or  sharpen  a  pencil,  but  she 
can  pack  more  things  into  a  trunk  than 
a  man  could  get  into  a  freight  car. 

When  a  girl's  hair  is  coming  down,  her 
skirt  sags  and  things  are  loose  at  the 
back,  she  imagines  that  she's  gotten  up 
in  "studied  disorder." 

The  first  thing  some  women  will  do 
when  they  reach  heaven  is  to  locate  the 
best  pier  glasses. 

A  girl  knows  more  in  five  minutes  about 
the  art  of  kissing  than  a  man  could  learn 
in  five  years — but  she's  mighty  careful 
not  to  let  the  man  know  that  she  knows. 

A  fussy  woman  makes  you  think  of  a 
hen,  but  for  a  fussy  man  nature  provides 
no  parallel. 


On  tne  Contrary— 

The  Man  was  admiring  the  Girl's  figure 
as  she  strode  around  the  golf  links. 

What  splendid  proportions,  thought  he, 
what  rounded  outlines. 

Later  he  saw  her  in  bathing,  and  stood 
aghast. 

Where  were  the  generous  curves,  tlie 
graceful  contours? 

Instead,  angles  and  flat  straight  lines. 

And  yet  they  say  that  figures  can't  lie, 
he  thought,  sorrowfully. 

TLe  Weaker  Sex- 
One   of    those    frail,    fragile,    Dresden 
china  creatures  called  girls  will: 

Dance  from  8  p.  m.  to  5  a.  m.  with 
exposed  arms  and  neck,  constricting  stays 
and  crippling  French  heels,  and  suffer  no 
ill  effects. 

Gambol  for  hours  at  a  time  in  the 
coldest  water,  while  the  men  stay  in  from 
seven  to  twelve  minutes,  and  then  break 
for  their  heaviest  sweaters  and  V.  0.  P. 
Consume  such  inordinate  quantities  of 
chocolates,  sundas,  bon-bons,  ice  cream 
sodas,  etc.,  etc.,  as  would  ruin  the  diges- 
tion of  a  glass-eater. 

And  perform  other  equally  wonderful 
feats  of  strength,  endurance  and  resist- 
ance. 

Yet  they  call  them  "the  weaker  sex." 


Legal  term  illustrated:  '^'^ Filing  kis  Suit.' 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


TKe  Idea- 
Jones  took  the  night  train  from  St. 
Paul  to  Chicago.  Being  restless,  and  un- 
accustomed to  riding  in  a  sleeper,  he 
tossed  about  a  great  deal,  and  each  time 
his  head  came  into  violent  contact  with 
the  top  or  sides  of  his  berth. 

A  friend  greeted  him  at  the  station. 
"Well,  Jones,  Tm    glad    to    see    you. 
How  are  you,  anyway — but  what  under 
the  sun  has  happened  to  your  head  ? 

"0,  nothing  much/^  was  the  grim  reply. 
"Those  are  onlv  berth-marks." 


Gladys :  I  had  the  loveliest  time  at  the 
beach !  Just  think :  I  was  there  less  than 
two  weeks  and  had  sixteen  proposals! 

Mayme :  Why  you  wrote  me  there  were 
only  two  eligible  men  in  the  place! 

Gladys:  Well?  That^'s  seven  for  one 
and  nine  for  the  other. 


Mrs.  Book  Worm:  Why,  B.  W.,  how 
yellow  you  look!  I  believe  you  have  an 
attack  of  the  jaundice. 

Mr.  Book  Worm:  No,  it  must  be  the 
effect  of  that  yellow  journal  I  ate  yes- 
terday. 


Tte  Lover  8  Dilemma 
(Triolet) 

When  her  eyes  confess 
And  her  lips  deny, 
How^s  a  lover  to  sfuess — 
When  her  eyes  confess 
Does  she  mean  no  or  yes? 
Love-tortsred  am  I 
When  her  eyes  confess 
And  her  lips  deny* 

-G.  T. 


An  Object  Lesson — 

For  a  solid  half  hour  Johnny 
Jones  had  worried  his  father 
with  a  series  of  such  questions 
as  could  suggest  themselves  to 
no  mmd  but  that  of  a  wide- 
awake seven-year-old.  They 
ranged  on  a  wide  variety  of 
subjects,  and  finally  ended  up 
with  the  Eastern  unpleasant- 
ness. "Pa,  Where's  the  ^seat 
of  war'?'' 

The  worm  turned. 

"That's  the  place  where  I'll 
make  it  mighty  warm  for  you, 
if  you  don't  quit  asking  me 
fool  questions." 


Charley:  I  notice  that  Mae  has  taken 
to  riding  astride. 

Evelyn :   Well,  she  has  the  right. 

Charley :  I  didn't  see  anything  the  mat- 
ter with  her  left. 


First  Chorus  Girl:  What  did  Dotty 
say  when  the  manager  fired  her  because 
she  couldn't  dance? 

Second  C.  G.:  She  said  she  didn't 
care — she  had  no  kick  coming. 


ROGRESS 


HSM 


-^-^-^ 


Devoted  to  tbe   energy^  entkusiasm,  growtk^  progress  and 
development  of  tke  great  Nortkwcst 

Ignorance — 

People  don't  know  about  the  Pacific  Coast — its  resources,  its  possibilities ,  its 
incomparable  advantages.  If  they  did,  there  would  be  such  an  influx  of  homeseekers 
that  tlie  railroad  facilities  would  be  taxed  to  the  uttermost  to  handle  them.  But, 
they  don't  know. 

To  the  average  inhabitant  of  the  East  or  of  the  Middle  West,  the  Pacific  Coast — 
that  wondei'ful  section  betvjeen  the  Rocky  Mountains  and  the  Pacific  Ocean — is  an 
unknown  land,  mythical,  distant,  unreal. 

Many  there  are,  of  course,  who  have  read  of  the  beneficent  conditions  which 
have  combined  to  create  this  wonderland,  and  have  marveled  thereat,  but  have  not 
been  convinced,  A  few  have  passed  through  on  a  touring  trip,  and  have  been  moved 
to  wonder  and  delight. 

But  they  don't  know. 

The  fact  is,  the  majority  of  people  who  live  on  the  Pacific  Coast  are  themselves 
unaware  of  the  future  in  store  for  this  region.  Only  a  few  of  wide-compassing  vision 
have  fully  measured  the  resources  of  this  country.  Still  fewer — those  of  prophetic 
souls — have  read  the  sigiis  of  future  greatness. 

As  surely  as  the,  sun  rises  and  sets,  so  surely  does  the  course  of  empire  move 
westward;  so  surely  is  the  star  of  progress  moving  toward  the  Pacific  Coast,  as  the 
scene  of  the  next  great  act  in  the  advance  of  human  development. 

''The  man  on  the  Pacific  Coast  to-day  is  facing  the  front  of  the  world." 


Tkc  Larger  Future  of  tke  Nortkwest — 

In  the  Chicago  Kecord-Herald  there 
appeared  recently  an  article  by  the  rail- 
road editor,  setting  forth  the  wonderful 
opportunities  of  the  Northwest,  especially 
as  based  upon  irrigation.  The  writer  has 
visited  this  section  and  has  thoroughly 
familiarized  himself  with  the  situation. 
As  a  result  he  presents  a  glowing  picture 
of  the  present  prosperity  and  the  future 
greatness  of  their  favored  region.  In 
his  opening  paragraph  he  strikes  this  key- 
note  of   enthusiasm : 

"The  Pacific  Northwest,  Oregon,  Wash- 
ington and  Idaho,  is  on  the  eve  of  big 
opportunity.  There  are  many  reasons  for 
believing  that  the  lands  of  the  picturesque 
Columbia  and  the  Willamette  are  shortly 
to  see  a  development  which  will  rival  any- 
thing in  history.     For  more  than  three 


years  the  people  of  the  far  Northwest  have 
been  engaged  in  a  campaign  of  education 
unique  in  character,  national  in  scope, 
intense  in  purpose  and  which  will  culmin- 
ate in  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition 
to  be  held  in  Portland  in  1905. 

"Back  of  this  campaign  is  the  enthusi- 
asm of  several  millions  of  people  with  an 
unbounded  faith  in  a  territory,  which, 
they  will  tell  you,  is  richer  in  resources, 
climate  and  scenery  than  any  other  terri- 
tory of  equal  area  on  the  globe.  The 
enthusiasm  of  the  people  of  the  Pacific 
Northwest  is  characteristic.  There  is 
nothing  like  it  in  the  United  States.  They 
want  population,  and  population  they  are 
rapidly  acquiring.  When  people  tell  you 
in  sober  earnest  that  if  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers  had  landed  upon  the  Pacific  Coast 
instead  of  Plymouth  Rock  the  East  would 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


to-day  be  a  desert,  you  may  be  sure  there 
is  something  doing  in  the  way  of  active 
development.  The  kind  of  enthusiasm 
which  permeates  the  Northwest  is  illus- 
trated by  the  recent  organization  of  the 
Oregon  Development  League  with  head- 
quarters in  Portland.  Every  business 
man  worthy  of  the  name  is  a  member, 
and  they  pay  a  man  a  salary  of  $6,000.00 
annually  just  to  tell  the  people  about  the 
resources  of  their  state." 

In  speaking  of  the  large  part  immigra- 
tion is  to  play  in  the  coming  development 
of  the  Northwest,  the  writer  says  that  "ir- 


A  bucket  tramway,  used  to  convey  wheat  and 

other  produce  from  the  hifh  ground  to 

the  Columbia  River. 

rigation  has  become  the  slogan  of  this  cam- 
paign for  population.  The  people  of 
Oregon  and  the  Northwest,  alive  to  the 
possibilities  that  lie  in  irrigation,  are 
making  a  determined  effort  to  secure  the 
1905  convention  of  the  National  Irriga- 
tion Association.  If  this  convention  can 
be  induced  to  meet  in  Portland  during 
the  Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition  it  is  felt 
that  irrigation,  and  consequently  immi- 
gration, will  receive  a  tremendous  impetus. 
"Irrigation  has  already  become  one  of 
the  main  factors  in  the  development  of 
the  Pacific  Northwest.    Probablv  nowhere 


are  the  possibilities  of  irrigation  greater, 
and  nowhere  are  there  to  be  found  better 
examples  of  the  irrigation  methods  of  the 
present  and  what  can  be  accomplished 
by  them.  Even  now  more  than  1,800,000 
acres  of  land  are  under  irrigation  and 
partly  settled,  which  added  in  1903 
through  products  of  the  soil  a  total  of 
$10,729,000  to  the  Pacific  Northwest. 
Nearly  5,400,000  acres  still  remain  which 
are  transformable  into  a  garden.  It  is, 
therefore,  estimated  that  irrigation  will 
eventually  add  fully  $338,000,000  annu- 
ally to  the  wealth  of  this  favored  country. 
These  estimates  are  not  fanciful,  but  are 
rather  under  drawn.  They  are  based  upon 
an  average  producing  value  of  $50.00  per 
acre,  which  is  conservative.  Thousands 
of  acres  of  land  already  under  irrigation 
bring  returns  from  $100.00  to  $300.00 
per  acre.  In  the  State  of  Washington 
more  than  2,000,000  acres  are  susceptible 
of  irrigation  and  150,000  acres  are  now 
under  irrigation,  and  are  rapidly  coloniz- 
ing. In  Oregon  2,775,000  acres  are  capa- 
ble of  irrigation,  and  225,000  acres  are 
now  under  irrigation.  In  Idaho  620,000 
acres  can  be  irrigated,  and  about  713,595 
acres  are  now  under  irrigation. 

"It  is  stated  that  600,000,000  acres  of 
Western  land  are  susceptible  of  irrigation, 
but  that  the  water  available  will  not  ir- 
rigate more  than  60,000,000.  Of  this 
amount  the  works  i)lanned  and  being 
planned  by  the  government  do  not  cover 
more  than  20,000,000  acres,  leaving  40,- 
000,000  acres  to  be  developed  by  private 
enterprise." 

Tkc  Nortk"wcflt  and  tke  Tourist — 

The  tourist  is  beginning  to  appreciate 
the  beauties  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  For 
years  California  has  been  most  popular — 
and  justly  so — with  the  seeker  after 
health  and  recreation.  But  even  Cali- 
fornia, charming  as  it  is,  with  its  per- 
petual sunshine,  its  orange  groves  and 
its  poppies,  presents  no  such  scenic 
grandeur  as  the  states  that  lie  to  the 
north  of  it.  Indeed,  in  no  other  section 
of  the  world  is  to  be  found  such  a  wide 
variety  of  picturesque  features.  Here 
may  be  seen  mountains  as  grand,  as  awe- 
inspiring  as  any  in  the  Alps  or  the 
Pyrenees.  Neither  the  Ehine  nor  the 
Hudson,  nor  any  other  river,  can  rival 
the  marvelous  beauty  of  the  gorge  of  the 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Columbia.  Xowhere  in  the  world  can  be 
found  such  magnificent  forests  as  are 
here  to  be  seen.  Niagara  may  boast 
greater  volume,  but  in  height  and  in 
number,  and  in  the  savage  beauty  of 
their  setting,  the  waterfalls  of  the  North- 
west are  peerless. 

Then  there  is  the  coast  of  the  Pacific, 
with  its  sandy  beaches,  its  driftwood,  its 
sheltered  coves  and  jutting  headlands. 
There  is  Puget  Sound,  an  inland  sea  of 
surpassing  beauty,  dotted  with  myriad, 
gem-like  isles  that  rival  in  lovliness  those 
of  the  St.  Lawrence.  There  are  the  many 
mountain  lakes  and  streams,  the  canyons, 
the  glaciers,  the  countless  beautiful  and 
impressive  views  that  charm  the  eye  and 
inspire  the  soul. 

Moreover,  there  are  other  things  of 
exceptional  interest  to  the  tourist.  There 
are  thriving  cities,  beautiful  in  their 
location,  their  streets,  buildings,  parks 
and  natural  environments.  There  are 
great  harbors  at  which  ships  from  all 
over  the  worid  are  at  anchor.  There  are 
great  industries  carried  on  on  a  scale 
imparalleled  elsewhere.  Here  the  great 
forces  of  development  are  in  visible  opera- 
tion. And  to  all  these  attractions  are 
added  climatic  conditions  that  approach 
the  ideal. 

Surely,  with  all  these  enticements,  the 
tourist  can  not  ignore  the  appeal  of  this 
wonder-country  to  the  lover  of  the  beauti- 
ful, the  unusual,  the  picturesque. 

TkcWkcatYicia- 

The  figures  of  the  official  estimate  of 
the  wheat  yield  for  Oregon,  Washington 
and  Idaho  are  most  gratifying.  They 
show  that  the  crop,  while  not  a  record- 
breaker,  by  any  means,  is  an  excellent 
one.  There  is  a  large  increase  in  acreage, 
and  the  average  yield  is  satisfactory. 
Washington  leads  with  11,426,061  bushels 
of  winter  wheat,  with  an  average  of  26.3 
bushels  per  acre.  The  acreage  has  grown 
from  373,989  acres  to  434,451  acres,  and 
the  total  increase  is  at  the  rate  of  52.1  per 
cent.  In  Oregon  the  yield  is  7,828,034 
bushels,  an  increase  of  870,423  bushels 
over  last  year.  Idaho's  harvest  will  be 
4,058,878  bushels,  neariy  double  that  of 
last  year.  The  sum  total  for  the  three 
states  is  23,312,973  bushels,  which  with 
the  prevailing  high  prices,  will  represent 


quite  a  bundle  of  money  for  the  farmers 
of  the  Pacific  Northwest. 

Diversified  Fiakeries — 

A  prominent  Washington  newspaper 
calls  attention  to  the  possibilities  of 
diversified  fishing  in  our  streams  and  on 
our  coast. 

"There  is  money  to  be  made  in  the 
fishing  business,"  it  says.  "It  is  an  indus- 
try that  has  been  worked  in  the  Northwest 
on  but  one  or  two  lines,  and  these  have 
been  overworked.  Excessive  salmon  fish- 
ing has  depleted  the  supply.  Rivers  need 
restocking  if  the  salmon  industry  is  to 
be  saved  to  posterity.  The  mjeans  of  main- 
taining a  perpetual  supply  must  be  pro- 
vided by  legislation. 

"But  there  are  other  lines  of  fishing 
that  can  be  developed  while  we  are 
remedying  the  errors  we  have  made  by 
excesses  in  the  one  direction.  We  can 
develop  a  future  resource  in  shellfish 
and  varieties  of  other  fish  heretofore  per- 
mitted to  live  and  die  in  countless  millions 
without  consideration. 

"A  few  years  ago  the  shrimp  consumed 
on  Puget  Sound  came  wholly  from  Cali- 
fornia waters.  And  all  the  time  the  waters 
of  Puget  Sound  teemed  with  a  superior 
article.  We  buy  canned  lobster  though 
it  has  been  demonstrated  that  the  Puget 
Sound  crab  packed  in  tins  is  a  positive 
luxury.  Canned  clams  find  a  ready  mar- 
ket even  here  at  home.  We  send  East  for 
oysters,  though  the  Eastern  varieties  can 
be  produced"  here  in  greatest  perfection. 
Shad  are  abundant,  and  with  rock  cod, 
salmon,  salmon  trout,  smelt,  sea  bass  and 
many  other  varieties,  can  be  shipped  in 
cold  storage  to  responsive  markets  all  over 
the  continent.  There  are  small  varieties 
of  smelt  that  resemble  sardines  in  flavor, 
and  herring,  too,  are  abundant.  Then 
there  is  the  anchovy.  These  delicate  little 
fish  swarm  in  nearly  all  Pacific  Coast 
waters.  They  are,  perhaps,  our  most 
valuable  fish,  yet  no  steps  have  been  taken 
to  make  use  of  them. 

"Diversified  fishing,  like  diversified 
farming,  is  of  greater  benefit  to  communi- 
ties. It  means  a  larger  army  of  the  em- 
ployed, a  more  extended  season  of  activity, 
a  greater  amount  of  capital  invested,  a 
larger  and  more  valuable  product  and 
more  general  commercial  relations  with 
other  markets." 


DRIFT. 


Nearing  the  End. 

Methuselah  was  in  his  nine  hundred  and 
sixty-eighth  year.  It  was  a  long,  dry  sum- 
mer that  year,  too,  and  Abelgad  the  Beehe- 
mite.  and  Obadad  the  Dinnymite,  were  fret- 
ting over  the  drought. 

"Yes,"  quavered  Methuselah,  fidgeting 
with  his  stout  cane,  "it  is  prettv  warm;  but 
1—** 

Here  Abelgad  and  Obadad  winked  know- 
ingly at  each  other. 

"But  I,"  Methuselah  continued,  "can't  say 
that  T  recollect  any  year  that  ever  has  given 
us  such  a  long,  dry  spell. '^ 

Then   Obadad   and    Abelgad   walked    softly 

■away,  saying  one  to  another  that  the  old  man 

was  showing  his  first  signs  of  breaking  down. 

— Judge. 

»       »       • 

A  Different  Viewpoint. 

For  the  seventeenth  time  the  stout  visitor 
had  groped  patiently  under  the  couch,  on 
w^hich  he  was  sitting,  for  a  rubber  ball  be- 
longing to  his  hostess'  little  son.  Each  time 
it  was  returned  to  him  the  delighted  young- 
•ster  squealed  with  delight. 

"How  little, '*  sad  the  mother,  "it  takes 
to  amuse  a  child." 

"Well,  I  don't  know  about  that,"  re- 
turned the  visitor,  who  was  crimson  from  ex- 
-ertion  and  decidedly  limp  as  to  collar.  "It 
•seems  to  me  that  it  takes  a  great  deal." — 
Woman  's  Home  Companion. 
»       »       • 

Significant. 

Margaret's  father  and  mother,  whose  home 
was  in  Xew  York  City,  had  arranged  to  take 
a  long-talked-of  trip  to  Chicago.  The  night 
before  they  were  to  start  on  their  Western 
-expedition,  Margaret's  mamma  told  the  little 
girl  that  she  must  go  to  bed  early,  as  she 
would  have  to  be  up  by  daylight  the  next 
morning. 

Margaret  very  obediently  consented  to  pre- 
pare for  bed.  When  her  dress  had  been  taken 
■off  and  her  nightie  put  on,  she  knelt  to  say 
her  prayers.  She  closeiV  her  petition  as  fol- 
lows : 

"Good-by,  God!  Good-by,  angels!  Good- 
byl  Good-by!  I'm  going  to  Chicago  to-mor- 
row!"— Woman's   Home   Comi)anion. 

«  :K  :K 

Meekly — Y'es,  we're  going  to  move  to 
Swamphurst. 

Doctor — But  the  climate  there  may  disa- 
gree with  your  wife. 

Meekly — It  wouldn  't  dare. — Philadelphia 
Prj^ss. 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


How  to  Spell  Oat. 

Brown— "I  had  a  letter  from  Smith  this 
morning,  and  I  bet  you  a  cookie  you  don't 
guess  in  half  a  dozen  guesses  how  the  igno- 
rant  beggar  spelled  cat." 

Jones-^a  bet  I  do." 

Brown— '* All  right,  then;  fire  away." 

Jones— *'C-a-t-t." 

Brown— **  No." 

Jones— '*C-a-t-t-e." 

Brown— **  No." 

Jones— '*K-a-t." 

Brown— **  No." 

Jones— *^K-a-t-t." 

Brown— *^  No." 

Jones— '*K-a-t-t-e." 

Brown— **  No." 

Jones— **C-a-g-h-t." 

Brown— ''No." 

Jones— ''Well,  how  did  he  spell  itt" 

Brown— "Cat." 

Jones  (angrily)— "But  you  said  he  was  an 
ignorant  beggar." 

Brown— "So  I  did;  but  it  is  not  likely  that 
he  would  be  so  ignorant  as  not  to  be  able  to 
spell  cat."— March  Woman's  Home  Com- 
panion. 

*        *        * 

"  'Tis  a  great  ambition  Oi  hov,"  said  Cas- 
sidy. 

"To  work  so  ye '11  hov  lots  o'  money,  Oi 
suppose,"  said  Casey. 

"No;  to  hov  lots  o'  money  so  Oi  won't 
hov  to  work."— Philadelphia  Public  Ledger. 


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DRIFT. 


Obituary. 

(From  the  Weekly  Trego  Truckpateh.) 
\  The  old  man  Gunn 

Of  Jayhawker's  run, 
f         Who  had  the  mon, 
J"  Died  to-day  at  one. 

A  neighbor's  son 
*.  Shot  Gunn 

With  a  shot-gun. 
He  leaves  one.. 
Son. 

Now  every  one 
Asks  every  one, 
*' Shall  we  call  this  son. 
This  Gunn's  son. 
This  son  of  a  Gunn, 
The  heir  Gunnf— Judge. 


Robert  B.  Mantell  tells  of  a  clergyman 
who  went  fishing.  He  was  perched  in  a  pre- 
carious position  when  he  got  a  bite,  and  in 
his  excitement  fell  into  the  stream. 

He  yelled  lustily  for  help,  and  a  farmer 
came  along  and  pulled  him  out. 

**How  did  you  come  to  fall  int"  inquired 
his  rescurer. 

**I  didn't  come  to  fall  in,"  replied  the 
dripping  preacher,  **I  came  to  fish.*'— New 
York  Telegram. 

•       •       • 

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TRUE  TO  NATURE       ^ 

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THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


He  Helped  Himself. 

**Well,  Bobby,  how  do  you  like  church?" 
asked  his  father,  as  they  walked  homeward 
from  the  sanctuary,  to  which  Bobby  had  just 
paid  his  first  visit. 

*^It's  fine!"  ejaculated  the  young  man. 
**How  much  did  you  get,  father?" 

**How  much  did  I  get  I  Why,  what  do  you 
meanf  How  much  whatt"  asked  the  aston- 
ished parent   at  this  evident  irreverence. 

*'Why,  don^t  you  remember  when  the  funny 
old  man  passed  the  money  around  I  I  only  got 
ten  cents." — Lippincott's  Magazine. 


Got  a  Bite. 

In  a  certain  town  in  the  north  of  Ireland 
there  is  a  fishing-tackle  shop,  the  sign  whereof 
is  a  brazen  trout  dangling  at  the  end  of  a 
fishing  rod  of  massive  proportions.  Late  one 
night  a  townsman  who  had  been  dining  **not 
wisely  but  too  well"  happened  to  see  this 
fish.  He  looked  at  it,  then  went  cautiously 
to  the  door  and  knocked  gently. 

** Who's  there?"  demanded  the  shopkeeper 
from  an  upper  window. 

^'Sh-h!  Don't  make  a  noise,  but  come  down 
as  quietly  as  you  can,"  was  the  reply.  Think- 
ing something  serious  was  the  matter,  the 
man  arose  and  stole  downstairs. 

*^Now,  what's  the  matter?"  he  inquired. 

**Pull  your  line  in  quick;  you  have  got  a 
bite,"  roared  the  tipsy  one  as  he  erratically 
turned  a  corner. — London  Tit-Bits. 


Both  Very  Old. 

When  off  duty.  Professor  Richards,  of  Yale, 
enjoys  a  joke,  and  his  pupils  often  come  to 
him  when  they  have  heard  a  new  one.  He 
adds  to  the  fun  sometimes  with  a  witticism 
of  his  own.  Such  was  the  case  when  one  of 
the  students  perpetrated  the  following  an- 
tiquity: **  Professor,  would  you  like  a  good 
recipe  for  catching  rabbits?" 

'  *  Why,  yes, ' '  replied  the  professor.  *  *  What 
is  it?" 

'*Well,  you  crouch  down  behind  a  thick 
stone  wall  and  make  a  noise  like  a  turnip," 
answered  the  youth,  giggling  in  ecstasy.  Quick 
as  a  flash  came  the  reply:  **0h,  a  better  way 
than  that  would  be  for  you  to  go  and  sit 
quietly  in  a -bed  of  cabbage  heads  and  look 
natural." — Christan  Endeavor  World. 


Modem  Literary  Business. 

^*Yes,  gentlemen,"  says  the  first  promoter, 
**I  will  come  in  on  the  deal  with  you  and 
help  you  to  promote  the  combination  on  one 
condition." 

^^And  that  is?"  asked  the  others. 

**That  I  have  the  privilege  of  writing  the 
magazine  expose  of  our  dealings  with  the 
public." 

After  forcing  him  to  agree  that  all  the  rest 
shall  have  time  to  publish  their  articles  on 
**How  to  succeed"  before  he  writes  his  ar- 
ticle, the  papers  are  signed Judge. 


QUEEN  LOUISE  FACE  ] 
MASSAGE  CREAM 

Beaatifies,  nonthea,  lnviffnrnt<^.  refrpHhfn  and 
cleanses.  Will  remove  Wrinkles,  Freckles.  RIackheadN. 
Tan,  Bunbum  and  other  Facial  Bleminhen.  It  pro- 
duces a  velvety  clear  complexion.  It  im  u#ed  b}  all  the 
leading  society  ladies  ana  prominent  actref«rte^. 

For  sale  by  all  prominent  department  t*ion-*.  druij 
stores  and  barber  supply  houset*  in  the  Fnited  Stat***. 
If  your  dealer  cannot  supply  you  with  the  Quet-n 
Louise  Cream,  order  direct  from  u*i.  niviuK  his  name, 
and  upon  receipt  of  50  cents  for  a  8-oz.  jar  or  tlAt)  for 
the  6-oz.  beautiful  crystal  jar,  we  will  send  you  b>  ex- 
press prepaid  the  Queen  Louis**  Cream,  together  with 
a  beautiful  illustrated  book  givinK  full  directions  how 
to  use  the  Cream  for  Facial  and  Body  MasftaKe. 

Address  Dept.  B.  R. 

N.  LOPARD  <8b  CO.,  Inc. 

705  Broadway.         :     New  York.  N.  Y. 


4C0AL 

INDUCEMENT 


We  want  to  sell  70a  a  ton  of  our  COAL. 
We  will  marantee  to  sell  it  to  yon  cheaper,  if  you 
mention  The  Faoiflo  Monthly,  than  you  can  buy  a  sim- 
ilar srade  elsewhere. 

You  can  telephone  us  the  order  if  you  wish,  but  yon 
must  mention  this  magazine  to  get  the  reduction. 
Our  regular  prices  are  f5.60  to  $7.00  per  ton  delivered. 
We  make  a  lower  price  to  the  reader  of  thiM  ad. 

W  hen 

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Neckwear,  Fur  Pillow  Muffs 


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OUR  SPECIALTY 


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■  — 

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TO  ASCERTAIN  the  value  of  The  Padfic  Monthly  as  an  advertising  medium,  as  we  are  a  number 
of  other  publications,  we  print  bolow  a  coupon  which,  if  presented  here  at  time  of  purchase 
and  before  the  time  specified  on  the  coupon,  will  secure  to  purchaser  a  discount  of  S25.0O  on  any  new 
piano  in  our  store. 

Remember,  this  means  your  choice  of  Chickering,  Weber,  Kimball,  Hazelton,  Lester,  Hobart  M. 
Cable,  Crown,  Bailey,  Hallet  &  Davis,  Bause,  and  twenty  other  makes  of  highest  grade  pianos. 


Cut*  tUs  out.    Worth  $25  Cash. 


EILCRS  PIANO  HOUSE 

Pacific  Monthly  Coupon 

This  Coupon  will  be  received  at  Ellen  Piano  House 
No.  861  Washington  St..  Portland,  Ore.,  and  is  good  for 

Twenty-five  Dollars 

toward  the  pnrchase  price  of  any  one  of  our  new  pianos.  If 
presented  at  any  time  before  the  first  of  December,  1904. 
EILER8  PIANO  HOUSE. 

NOTK:  We  agree  to  accept  this  Goupon  exactly  the 
same  as  cash  on  any  piano  in  our  stock,  and  arrangements 
may  be  made  for  payment  of  the  remainder  by  the  week  or 
month,  as  beet  suits  the  convenience  of  the  buyer.  Deliv- 
ery of  the  instrument  will  be  made  immediately  or  any 
time  in  the  future. 


EILERS 

PIANO  HOUSE 

The  Largest,  Liveliest,  Most*  Responsible 

and  Popular  Piano  Concern  on  the 

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HOMES  FOR  HUNDREDS 


One  hundred  thousand  acres  will  be  open  for  public  entry  on  October  20th,  1904.  by  the  State 
of  Idaho,  under  the  mammoth  Twin  Palls  irrigation  canal,  in  the  fertile  Snake  River 
valley  in  Southern  Idaho. 

TERMS. 

This  tract  has  been  set  apart  for  entry  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress,  known  as 
the  "Carey  Act/'  the  terms  of  which  are  most  inviting. 

Actual  residence  is  required  for  but  a  short  period,  and  any  person  holding  a  filing  can 
transfer  his  right  at  any  time. 

Entries  can  be  made  in  Government  subdivisions,  not  to  exceed  160  acres  to  one  person  and 
the  entry  does  not  conflict  with  rights  of  entry  under  other  laws  of  Congress,  can  be 
made  by  Power  of  Attorney. 

A  uniform  price  of  $25.50  per  acre  for  land  and  water  right,  with  payment  privilege  ex- 
tended over  a  period  of  ten  years,  has  been  fixed  by  the  State  Land  Board. 

SOIL. 

Rich,  alluvial  and  very  productive.  It  contains  no  alkali  or  mineral  substancs,  and  is  very 
free  from  gravel  and  stones. 

WATER  SUPPLY. 

Secured  from  the  Snake  River,  which  will  afibrd  abundant  water  for  irrigation  purposes  at 
all  seasons  of  the  year. 

PRODUCTS. 

Alfalfa,  timothy,  clover  (both  hay  and  seed),  oats,  wheat,  barley,  vegetables,  berries  and 
all  deciduous  fruits.    Red  winter  apples  and  peaches  here  attain  perfection. 

CANAL. 

Twenty  six  miles  of  the  main  canal,  80  feet  wide  on  the  bottom  and  120  feet  on  top  built  to 
carry  a  volume  of  water  ten  feet  deep,  is  now  completed,  and  laterals  are  heme  con- 
structed to  carry  water  to  the  lands.  This  system  is  the  largest  in  the  U.  S.  and  will 
ultimately  cover  an  area  of  270,000  acres. 

POWER. 

Shoshone,  Salmon,  Auger  and  Twin  Palls  are  immediately  adjacent  to  these  lands  and  will 
furnish  almost  unlimited  power.  Work  is  already  well  advanced  at  Shoshone  Falls 
and  power  will  be  available  at  an  early  date. 

CLIMATE. 

Is  healthful,  mild  and  equable.    The  winters  are  mild,  the  spring  and  fall  seasons  usually 

very  pleasant,  while  the  summers  are  not  uncomfortably  warm,  the  atmosphere  being 

cooled  by  the  mountain  breezes. 
The  opening  of  this  large  tract  comes  under  most  auspicious  circumstances.    Those  seeking 

homes  cannot  find  greater  advantages  and  opportunities  anywhere  than  are  found  in  the 

Twin  Falls  District. 

TWIN  FALLS  CITY. 

Situated  near  the  center  of  this  tract  of  land,  promises  a  phenomenal  growth.  Already  a 
water  system  and  a  long  distance  telephone  are  installed.  Many  buildings  are  in  course 
of  erection,  among  which  is  a  hotel  costing  about  $50,000. 

Town  lots  are  offered  at  very  reasonable  prices  and  are  certain  to  advance  rapidly  in  value. 
For  Fun  ParUcvlars  Address 

TWIN    FALLS    INVESTMENT    CO. 

TWIN  PALLS,   IDAHO 

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TAYLOR,  THE  TAILOR 

MAKES   SUITS  THAT   PIT 

Cutting  Experience  29   Years 
Foreign  and  Domestic  Woolens 


92  >^  Sixth  St. 


PORTLAND,  ORE. 


PAT     FOLKS 

I  have  reduced  my  weight  55  poumdB,  bust  9  inches, 
waist  8  inches  and  hips  9  inches  in  a  short  time  by  a 
guaranteed  harmless  remedy,  without  exercise  or  starv- 
ing.   I  want  to  tell  you  all  about  it.    Enclose  stamp. 

Address  MRS.  CHARLOTTE  WOODWARD,  Oregon 
City,  Oregon. 


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MITCHELL  &  TANNER 

Attomeys-al-Law 
Cofnmcrcial  Block,      PORTLAND,  OREGON 


Rat«8  Reasonable 


Sample  Rooms 


European  Plan 
NEWLY  OPENED 

HOTCL  SHANKS 

J.  B.  Shank*,  Prop. 

First-Olass  Check  Rentatirant  In  connection. 

To  try  n»  is  to  Btay  with  us. 


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OSTEOPATHY 


Drs.  anna  M.  and  F.  J.  BARR 

Graduataa  of  American  Sohool  of  Osteopathy  and  A.  T. 

Still  Infirmary,  of  KirkaTille.  Mo.     'Phone  Main  2226. 

Offloe Hoars:   9 to  12 A. ^.. IjBO to 4jB0 P.  M. 

800  Dckum  BIdg.    :    :    :    :    :    Portland,  Ore 


tjP»#W»tt»e^< 


Novelty  Photo  Fan  i  i 

THE    NEWEST  THING  OUT  !► 


FOR  DECORATING  THE  HOME 

The  moat  beantifol  and  artiatio  article  ever  offered. 
Holds  any  cablnet<l»ed  photograph  or  kodiJc  picture. 
NO  PBETTIEBWATeTerdeTiBedtorahowinsphotoa. 
Can  be  hong  on  the  wall,  placed  in  a  comer  or  on  the 
piano. 

Jnst  like  out,  made  of  flneat  mat  or  poster  board, 
in  l>ottle  green,  mby  red,  pearl  gray  or  chocolate 
brown,  decorated  with  ribbon  to  hannonise  and  se- 
curely rireted.  Can  be  opened  and  closed  at  will. 
SlTCLOjpen  22x12  in.,  closed  tel2  in.  SEND  90  GENTS 
FOB  ONE  TODAY.  sUting  color.  A  set  of  four,  one 
of  each  color,  postpaid  for  <me  dollar.   Agenta  wanted. 

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Yaquina   Bay* 

Stimmer  Resort  ReacHed  Via 

Southern  Pacific  Company 

Driving,  Boating,  Fishing,  Hunting,  Surf-bathing,  may  be  enjoyed, 
and  here  is  the  only  place  where  Rock  Oysters  are  found. 


DIOOINO  ROCK  OYSTBRS  AT  NBWFORT. 


Neivportt  Cape  Fotiliveather  Light  Hotise» 
U.  S.  Life  Saving  Station, 

are  among  the  many  interesting  places  near  this  famous  resort.  Full 
information  and  our  beautifully  illustrated  catalogue  may  be  secured 
from,  any  Southern  Pacific  Agent,  or  address 

W*  £•  COMAN,  Gen'l  Passen|(er  A|(ent,   Portland,  Ore. 


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Hartman,  Thompson  dllPowers 

Surety  Bonds 
Real  Estate 
and  Insurance 

3  ViAZUh^"     Portland,  Oregon 


M.  C  Griswold,  President.     W.  E.  Keeler,  Sec^, 
.    J.  I^.^l^aztman,  Vice-PresidteC      :  *      " 

Security  Abstract  and  * 
Trust  Co. 

Mm.  214-215  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
PORTLAND,  ORE.  ' 

ABSTRACTS,    CERTIFICATES 
OF  TITLE,  TAX  SEARCHES,  LOANS 


Music  Lovers!  Sr?.ri'ro2:s 

CBND  JOB  10  oento  in  silrer  or  BtAiniM,  tocether  with  the  names 
^  of  10  peraonfl  who  get  mall  at  your  postofBoe  who  are  inter- 
ested in  moeio,  and  we  will  send  yon  onr  handsome  magasine 
one  year.  We  reoeire  hundreds  of  new  sa^acrlptiona  dally 
from  persons  who  think  our  Magasine  a  bigger  bargain  than 
Harpeor's.  Mansey^.  Ladies'  Home  Journal  or  MoOlnre's.  This 
is  a  special  offer  for  a  short  time  only,  so  send  at  onoe.  Our 
Bobeoription  price  may  advance  to  $1  per  year  soon.    Address 

Burses  Publishinc  Co.,  DepL  K.  L.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 


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R*E^^^  Y  "American  Stories,"  the  best  monthly 
I  |%l_l_#  magazine  published,  and  we  will  send 
you  samples  of  100  other  magazines, 
all  different.    American  Stories,  Dipt  I.  U  Braal  lifiii.  Hrt. 


WM.  M.  I^ADD 

President 


J.  Thorburn  Ross 
Vlce-I^resident  and  Maqager 


T.  T.  BUX.KHART 

Secretary 


John'K.  Kolllock 
Asst.  Secretary 


LOANS 
REAL    ESTATE 


Safe  Deposit 
Vauts 


We  have  the 
Largest  and  Beat 

Equipped  Real 
EsCaU  Office  and 

the  largest  and  most 
complete  outfit  of 
maps  and  plats  In  the 
city.  Our  real  estate 
ownership  books  and 
records  of  claim  of 
title  are  accurate  and 
up-to-date. 


ABSTRACTS 
TITLE  INSURANCE 


Interest  allowed  on  time  deposits 

and    certificates    Issued 

thereon. 


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6  and  7  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Portland,  Oregon 


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BOSTON 

STEAMSHIP 
COMPANY 

PUGET  SOUND-ORIENTAL  LINE 


INTENDED  SAILINGS 


FROM 


TACOMA^N'>  SEATTLE 


TO 


YOKOHAMA,  KOBE,  MOJI, 

NAGASAKI,  SHANGHAI, 
HONG  KONG  AND  MANILA 


Camrins  Cargo  on  thronsh  Bills  of  Lading 
to  all  principal  porta  in 

Japan,  Korea,   China,   Philippine  Ishinds, 
Straits  Settlements  and  India 


Tremont     -    Aug.  9  Pleiades   -    Oct.  28 

Lyra  -    -    -  Sept.  5  Tremont     -  Nov.  12 

Hyades    -    Sept.  21  Hyades    -       Dec.  6 

Shawmut   -  Oct.  12  Lyra     -    -  Dec.  12 

Pleiades  -     Dec.  30 

Snbject  to  change  withont  notice. 


SHAWMUT   AND    TREMONT 

Oarry  Flrat-GlaaB.  Intermediate  and 
Steerage  Paaaengers. 


For  Rates  and  other  Information  apply 
to  any  Agent  of  the 

Northern  Pacific,  Great  Northern,  and 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 

Railways,  or 

Frank  Waterhouse 

Managing  Agent 

SEATTLE,    -    -    WASH. 


lam  , 

JohnriacMntosh 
the  Toffee  Ring- 


Mackintosh's  Toffee 


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Is  a  Most  Delicious  == 

Old  English  Candy 


I  AM  called  "  The  Toffee  King  "  because  I  am 
the  largest  manufiacturer  of  Toffee  in  the 
world.  In  England  alone  I  sell  over  a 
hundred  tons  a  week.  There  is  an  exquisite 
flavor  about  Mackintosh's  Toffee  that  makes  it 
"more-ish"— the  more  you  eat  of  it,  the  more  you 
want  of  it;  and  I  want  to  say  that  it  is  the  purest 
candy  made — as  pure  as  the  crystal  springs. 

If  you  have  any  trouble  in  securing  Mack- 
intosh's Toffee,  don't  hesitate  to  write  me  and 
send  me  the  name  of  your  dealer.  I  will  see  that 
he  is  supplied.  Don't  hesitate  to  do  this ;  your 
letter  will  receive  my  prompt  attention. 

I  find  that  since  I  began  to  introduce  my 
Mackintosh's  Toffee  into  this  country,  other 
candy  manufacturers  are  beginning  to  imitate 
my  Toffee.  This  is  surely  complimentary  to  my 
goods,  as  "  imitation  Is  always  the  sincerest 
flattery."  And  so  I  want  to  warn  you  that  the 
original  Toffee  is  Mackintosh's,  and  see  to  it  that 
your  dealer  supplies  you  with  Mackintosh's 
Toffee.    Don't  forget  the  name. 

Trial  package  sent  by  mail  for  ten  cents  in 
stamps  to  pay  postage  and  packing ;  or  I  will 
send  you  a  4-lb.  Family  Tin  for  |i.6o  and  pay  all 
express  charges.  But  before  sending  your  order, 
try  your  dealer  first. 

John  Mackintosh 

Department  19 

78  Hudson  Street,  New  York 


This 


design  cafyrighted,  F004.  John 
Mackintosh,  New  York. 


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Double  Daily  Train  Service 

To  the  Beytiful  Twin  Cities 

MINNEAPOLIS  AND  ST.  PAUL 

AND  THE  EAST 


1-OVERLAND  TRAIN  DAILY-1 


VIA  THE 


2 


NORTHERN  PACiriC- 
BURUNGTON  ROUTE 


To  Denver,  Lincoln,  Omaha,  St.  Joseph,  Kansas  City,  St.  Louis, 
and  all  points  East  and  Southeast. 


The  Only  Direct  Line  to  the  Famous  Yellowstone  National  Park. 

The  Only  Reliable  Pioneer  Dining  Car  Line. 

Excellent  Throu^jh  Car  Service. 


Try  the  ''North  Coast  Limited" 

Electric  Lighted.    The  Finest  Train  on  Earth. 


A.    D.   CHARLTON,  Assj.  Gen  I  Passenger  AKt^255  MomSOn  St 

PORTLAND,  OREGON 


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ElfTABLIBHKD  18BS 


'Phomv  Red  977 


Portland  marble  (Uorks 

SdMICH  «  nCM 

MAKUFAOTTJRKBS  OF  AKD  DKAI.KB8  IN  ALL  JLJUHM  OF 

MARBLE,  GRANITE 
AND  STONE  WORK 

Estimates  Givea  on  Application 

268  First  Street,  ^^^?er!JSf  stS^**  ^*'" 

PORTLAND,  ORE. 


Oregon  &  Washington  Boating  Co. 

BARGING.  UGHTCRING 
AND  rREIGHTING 

Bargva  for  Kent.    Routing  of  Lamb4>r,  TImi  and  other  Wood 
Pro<lactii.    Ship  Lightering. 

H.   F..  OEBSPAOH.  Mamaokb. 

Office,  root  of  Morrison  St.,  Portland.  Ore. 


SMILED 


Cured  piles 

now  I 

like  this  again  like  this 

He  cured  himself  hy  uang  the  Dr.  Magoris  Home 
Treatment  for  piles,  fissures,  fistulas,  and  all  dis- 
eases of  the  rectum.  Package  costs  50c.  All 
druggists  sell  it.  We  guarantee  cures  or  refund  your 
money.  Trial  package  FREE  for  the  name  of  one 
other  person  who  has  piles.  Dr.  Magoris  Home 
Treatment  Co.,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 


THE  OLYMPIA 

C.  N.  TUNIN.  Proprietor 

Headquarters  for  Gxninercial  Men      rM , , «% .^i «    \\r^  ^ u 
Fine  Sample  Rooms  OlyiTipia,  Wash. 


THE    GLORIOUS 

"STARS  AND  STRIPES" 

We  make  them  to  order.  Any  size.  Any  quantity. 
A  large  asoortment  of  PI«AGS  constantly  In  stock. 

Wa  ARK  MANUrAOTUNana  AND  IMPORTSna  OP 

Bags,  TwinM,  Tents,  Awnings  and  Mining  HoM 

BAG  PRINTING  A  SPECIALTY 

Write  US  for  prices.  Mention  the  Pacific  Monthly 

W.  C.  NOON  BAG  CO. 

Incorporated  1893 
32-34  First  St.  210-216  Couch  St.   Portlaod.Ors. 


THE  MAGNIFICENT  SCENERY 


OF 


GOLUMBIA 
RIVER 

The  most  beautiful  in  the  world,  can  best 
be  seen  from  the  steamers  ''DALLES  CITY" 
••REGULATOR"  and  •'BAILEY  GATZERT" 
of  the 

REGULATOR  LINE 

DO  NOT    Miaa  THIS 


steamers  leave  Portland,  Alder  Street  dock, 
7:00  A.  M.  daily,  except  Sunday,  for 
The  Dalles,  Cascade  Locks,  Hood  River 
and  way  landings. 

PHONE   914 

8.  MCDONALD,  Aftnt,  Portland,  Ortflon. 
A.  W.  ZIMMERMAN,  Agsnt,  Tho  DaliesTortgon. 
H.  C.  CAMPBELL.  Managsr.  Portland.  Ortgen. 


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ANDERSON 
&  DUNIWAY 
COMPANY 


**? 


Printers    and 
Litkograpkers 


PWe  MaLi  17     208  Alder  St. 
PORTLAND,  ORE. 


t**'*******^*****'*'*^*******^^^ 


i 


Vulcan  Coal  Co. 


Puget  SouHd  HOUSE  COALS 

From  $5.50  to  $7.00  per  ton  delivered 

• 

Rock  Springs.  Wyoming  Coal.  I8.50 
Special  rates  on  all  coals,  5  ton  lots  or 
more.  Best  grades  Eastern  and  West- 
em  blacksmith  coals.  Foundry  and 
smelter  cokes. 

Office  329  Bumslde  St.  Phone  Main  2776 

PORTLAND.  OREGON. 


Joaquin  Miller  and  other  Characteristic 
Western  Authors  and  Artists  contribute 

to 

SUNSET 

The  only  magazine  that  faithfully  tells,  by  pictures  and  text, 
of  the  wonders  of  California,  Oregon,  Nevada,  Utah,  Arizona,  New 
Mexico,  Texas  and  the  nation's  west- 
em  borderland.  It  is  notable  for  the 
number  and  artistic  merit  of  its  en- 
gravings. The  representative  busi- 
ness houses  advertise  in  its  pages.  If 
you  want  to  learn  of  California  and 
the  West,  read  SUNSET  regularly. 


$1.00  a  Year 


10c  a  Copy 


PUBUSHBD  MONTHLY  BY 

Possenser  Department 
Southern  Pacific 


4  Montgomery  Street  -  SAN  FRANCISCO 
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(«^tM^«#««^4^^4«^t^M^44^^^ 


^    We    Retail   Goods    »t   Wholesale    Prices     # 

X  H  K 

I  Pacific  mail  Order  Co. 


208-210  Pint  St.    207-209  Salmon  St. 

Portland,  Ore0cm 

We  Sell  Bverythinf  Toa  Need 

Harness,  Farm  Implements,  Fumittsre, 
Stoves,  Groceries,  Pianos,  Organs,  etc* 

Send  for  lllustraied  Catalogue  at  once.     IMnu  llpt 


WM.  DEVENY 


ESTELLE  DEVENY 


FLOSSIE  DEVENY 


THE     DEVENYS 

Tke  Only  Scientific  ChiropoiiaU 

IN  THK  CITY 

Ptume  Main  ijoi 

Parlors  in  The  Drew,  Room  203 

ll2lMMtfSt.liarlirriiii,l^liTil«IMi  PIITUII.  NttM 


MRS.  L.  B.    HAMILTON 


MRS.  C.  A.  CROWELL 


THE    CALUMET 

RESTAURANT 

50c     DINNERS     A     SPECIALTY 

FIRST    CLASS     FAMILY     RESTAURANT 

149  Seventh  Street  PORTLAND.  ORE. 


Fire  Bricks  and  Clay 

Lime,  Cement  Piaeter 

Pig  IroR  aRd  Coke  IroR  aRd  Steel 

T.  S.  McRath 

Imporltr  and  Exporlar 

AlRSworthBidg.,PortlaRd,Ore.,U.S.A. 
C»rraspaiidtne«  Solicitad 


Rates,  S2.00  per  day  and  up 
American  Plan 

ClK  6ei$er  6rand 


GEISER  GRAND  HOTEL  CO.. 
Proprietors 


Art.  Harris.  Manager  BAKER  CITY,  ORE. 


STOVER 

GASOLINE 
ENGINES  V 

STATIONARY   AND   PORTABLE 


PORTABLE  GASOLINE  CIRCULAR 

WOOD   SAW    MACHINES 
GASOLINE  DRAG  SAW  MACHINES 

Hundreds  of  Stover  Engines  In  use  In  Oregon.  Washington  and  Idaho 

Pumping  Water.SawingWood.GrlndIng  Feed  for  many  other  purposes. 

Send  for  Catalogue  of  Stover  Gasoline  Engines. 

MITCHO.L,  LEWIS  (fh  STAVER  CO. 

spoklk*!^*«>^-    Boi...  id>Ho   t     X    PORTLAND,  ORE. 


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BOOK  CLUB 

Special  for  30  Days  Only 


DEATH:  The  Meaning  and  RcMilt, 
Vilsoni    '    ' 


:  doth 


$1.25 


LAV  OF  HEREDITY,  VlUiams; 

cloth I>25 

$Z50 
Our  special  price  for  the  two,    $1*25 

CREATIVE  AND  SEXUAL  SQ- 

ENCE,  by  O.  S.  Fowler     -      $2.00 
LAV  OF  HEREDITY,  VilUann,  L2S 

$3.25 
Our  special  price  for  the  two,    $J*60 

JONES^  BCX>K  STORE 

291  Alder  St.,  Portland,  Ore. 


Portland  Paint «  OPall  Paper  eo. 

PAINTERS       DECORATORS 

Dealera  In  Wall  Paper  and  Room  Mooldiafi. 

Jobbers  of  Globe  Weather  Proof  Paint  and  Qnmm 

Varnishes.       Phone  Black  2B1I. 

96S  Smeond  St,,  Portiamd,  Orm» 


Profitable 

investments 

On  the  Pacific  Coast.     A 

Satisfactory  Profit  assured 

and  the  Security  of  your 

Money  absolutely  guaran- 

teed.    No  sum  too  small — 

none  too   large.     Capital 

$  10,000,000.00.    Write  us 

for  particulars. 

EQUITABLE  SAVINGS  & 

LOAN  ASSOCIATION 

CORCORD  BLDG.,  PORTLAND,  ORE. 

J.  p.  FINLEY  &  SON 

andFonieral  Mredort 

=  Lady  Attendant 


Both  Phones  No.  9  ■ 


Cor.  Third  and  Madison  Sts.» 
Portland,  Ore. 


EDWARD  HOLMAN 

UNDERTAKER,  EMBALMER 
AND   FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 

Experienced   Lady    Assistant 
aao.aaa  Third  St. PORTLAND,  ORB. 

BOJAHS  NO  DANDRO 


MA  riAiynDA  <>  ^  deUghtful  and  refreshing 
■^VF  \Mi\Vk\MW%\M  8hampoo  Powder,  which  thor- 
oochlv  cleanses  the  scalp,  removes  and  prevents  dandruff, 
■tops  nilling  hair,  prevents  baldness,  imparts  health  and 
▼igor  to  the  roots  of  the  hair  and  produces  a  healthy  and 
luxuriant  growth.    Send  for  booklet. 

J.  CLARK  CO.,  838  S.  Hope  Street,  Los  Angeies,  Cal. 


BEAUTY,  BRAIN  AND  BRAWN 


How  to  Attain  and  Retain  them  by  Nature's  own  true 
methods,  which  insure  a  strong,  healthy  body,  active 
limbs,    new    life,    rosy    cheeks    and    natural    beauty. 

ii  pages,  IOC.    Send  for  free  list  of  helpful  books  to 
•at.  P.  M.  104,  NATIONAL    INSTITUTE   OF    SCIENCE 
Clilcago,  III. 


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Two 
hroughTraini 

to  Chicago 

daily    from  Portland   and   pomts   in  Oregon  and   Eastern 
Washington  via  the  Oregon  Railroad  &  Navigation  Com  pan)% 

Oregon  Short  Lme,  Union  Pacific  Railroad  and  Chicago 

&  North-Wesiern  Railway,   over 

THE  ONLY  DCHJBLE-TUCK  RAILWAY  BETWEEN 
THE  MISSOURI  RIVER  AND  CHtCAM. 

Th«  ChicqiFO' Port  land  S^necjalr  the  most  luxurjous  train  fn  the 

world,    Pullman   skepinif   C3r$,   dininff  car,    t>uffet   EmokJnir 

and  library  car  fhiirbfr  and  bath).     L^sa  than  three  days 

Portland  to  ChicaRo.    Daily  excurciona  in  Pullman 

tourbl  fileepine  cars  from  Portland  thrnugh  to 

Chicago  without  chanjre. 

R.  R,  RfTCKlH,  CcDCral  Affeat  Pacltc  Coait, 

617  Marii^ct  St.,  S*A  Fraacltca^  C«l, 
A.  G.  BARlCBRt  General  Affeat,  153  TbJr4  St., 


Portlaad, 

J!^'»**  C.  A  M.-W.  RY. 


^^lEe  lUinois  Central 


Connects  at  St.  Paul,  Omaha  and  New  Orleans 
with  all  transcontinental  lines.  Call  on  or  write 
the  undersigned  before  purchasing  your  ticket  to 
St.  Louis.  We  will  ticket  you  via  any  route  you 
may  desire,  give  you  the  very  best  service  ob- 
tainable and  quote  you  the  special  rates  now  in 
effect  to  Eastern  points.  ^ 


B.  H.  TRUMBUI^I^.  Comm*«*cial  A.tft«,  143THira  St.,  Portland,  0<*«. 
J.  C.  I^INDSKY,  Trav.  r.  <Bk  P.  A..,  143  THira  St.,  Portland,  Or*. 
PAUI^  B.  THOMPSON,  r.  d^  P.  A..,  Colman  Block,  Soattlo,  IXrasH. 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY— ADVERTISING    SECTION. 

LIFE 
INSURANCE 


Y^UY  clid  all  the  best  life  insurance  companies  in  the  United  States 
imitate  the  features  in  the  policies  of  the  Massachusetts 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company? 

Y^|-|Y  ^  ^^  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  GDmpany,  after 
the  strictest  investigation^  considered  the  safest  life  insurance 
company  in  the  world? 

Y^|-|Y  ^^^  ^^  Massachusetts  Mutual  pay  annual  dividends  in 
preference  to  any  other  time  for  dividend  payments? 

T^|i^[^|^^    are  dozens  of  other  similar  questions  you  ought  to  be  able; 
answer  intelligently  before  you  take  life  insurance* 

JT^    is  to  your  interests  to  let  us  help  you  answer  them. 
PJI  I      out  the  blank  below  and  send  it  to  us  today. 


-- OUT  MERE ,. 

H.   G.   COLTON,  Pacific  Coast  Manager 

Mossadmsetts  Mutual  Life  bis.  Co. 

Portland,  Ore. 

Dear  Sir: 

Without  committing  myself  to  any  action  whatever  you  may  send  me  free 
information  regarding  the  questions  in  the  Pacific  Monthly  relating  to  life  insurance. 


Name 

Address 

Age ,, Date  of  birth Occupation. 


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^    thought  and  the  matured  scholarship  of  the  Church." 
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All  inquiries  cheerfully  answered. 


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2ft  MonteM  Street.  Portland.  Ore. 


Send  lOo  for  one  year's  aobMriptlon  to 
"American  BtoHm,"  the  beat  monthly 
mafcazine  published,  and  we  will  aeaa 
•  yon  iuimplm  of  100  other  magazinea,  all 
different. 

Awtrlcan  Storitt,  Itptl. U  Jm*  liH«» ^^' 

lo  men  in  each  State  to  travel, 
tack  signs  &  distribute  samples 
and  circulars  ofotir  goods.  Salary 
$60  per  month,  $3  per  day  for  ex- 
KUHLMAN  CO.,  Otpt.  B.  Atlas  Block,  Chicafo. 


PREE! 


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f\iCNEY&  LIVER  REGULATOR 


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Meascoijers.  Express  Wagons  at  feasonable 
rates.    Baggage  checked* 

**Jotktktk^  os&  tHm  Spot*' 
Telephone  Main  53 

Office  93  Sixth  St..  near  Stark  Portland,  Ore. 

JCFP  W.  HAYES,  Supt. 


Thompson  of  Scranton 


Hundreds  of  ambitioas  persons 

are  making  money  under  my  direction 
raising  Ginseng.  I  sell  the  true  American 
Ginseng,  roots  and  seeds  and  guarantee 
them.  I  can  show  you  how,  on  a  very 
small  investment,  under  my  direction, 
you  can  make  more  money  than  you  ever 
did  before.  Ginseng  can  be  grown  any 
where;  no  speculation. 

If  vou  are  interested  in  the  Ginseng  Industry, 
I  will  send  you,  free,  complete  information  as  to 
my  methods  of  successful  Ginseng-raising.  Write 
me  today. 

ARTHUR  C.  THOIMPSON, 

Dapt.  20,  Thampton  BIdg.  Scrantan,  Pa. 

Thompson  always  wants  a  few  more  orients. 


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EUROPEAN       and       AMERICAN 

$1  and  Upwards                           $2.50  to  $4.00 

: 

TWO  BLOCKS  FROM  TEMPLE  SQUARE 
AND  MORMON  INTERESTS.     Excellent 
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ST.  PAUL 
BONNEAPOLIS 

CHICAGO 

WASHINGTON 

NEW  YORK 

BOSTON 

SPOKANE 

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HELENA 

OMAHA 

KANSAS  QTY 

ST.  LOUIS 


The  Pioneer  Dining 

Car  Route  and 

Yellowstone 

Parle  Line 


'  TickeU  sold  to  aU  pointo 
in  the  United  States,  Canada 
and-Sorope.    ' 


T«l«phona  Main  244 


For  detailed  information, 
ticketa,  sleeping  car  reterra- 
tiona,  call  on  or  write 

A.  D.  Charlton 

ASSISTANT  6ENERAL 
PASSENGER 
.       A6ENT 


255  Morrison  St.,  cor.  Third,  PORTLAND,  OREGON 


CALIFORNIA 


Go 


: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. 

Fare,  Portland  to  Los  Aqgelet 
and  Return,  $55.00,  Bnited  to 
90    days  from  date  of  sale 


THE  BEST  OF  EVERYTHING: 


For  beautifully  illustrated  booklets  describing  this  delightful  trip  address 

W.  £.  COMAN,  c«».  Paw.  Agent  uiws  in  Oregon  Portland,  Oregon 


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CHICAGO  22d_R£h-  $72.50 


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For  tickets,  rates,  folders  and  full 
InforttiatlQh,   CaII   qn    or  aJdrrsft^ 

tf.  DICKSON,  Gty  Ticket  Asent, 

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S.  G.  YERKES.  G.  W.  P.  A., 

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Varicocele 
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Cured  to  Stay  Cured  in  5  days.    No 

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Cure  or  Money  Refunded. 

T  O"  I'-iH" *-■*-*  |-fi|iidJ]r  diiiH|i|M?iin}.  Pftin  DCMi^i4i  nliDnHt 
] n-itJinll r.  Thi>  PtJii;ii.^Dt  nliK^d  Id  drli^fn  tnytsi  ihv  d WaU^d  Vf-iin« 
narl  ilH  t9^^ri<Di.An  iLnd  Hwi'lllni;  fiiib«Mt^.  E^UD'  Indfrattcin  of 
Var)i:r»eE.-lt?  fraalrhi^  and  in  ks  si  end  cooi'i'a  tha  pit^Ptirti  tiF  iM^r^ 
ft^'vt  iif'-AHh.    'in.&ny  uk'iitm'til^  hv*!-  tr^vK,  ajrlgiuiit\ng  tram  ittlier 


H.  J.  TILLOTSON,  M.  D. 

Tht  Matttr  Specialltt  of  Chicago,  who  Curat  Varl- 

cocala,  Hydrocola,  and  traatt  patlantt  partonally. 

Ettabllthad  1880. 

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r^>*iult  fMt'fti  ptpL^riDi'iLfii  tatititA  ]ti  thii  H^'-at^am.  Ynrlcoc«tle  And 
FjHlirtiri'li*.  If  rii?Bh"Ct**^,  wilt  iiindcrniiui*  physical  Atri'tiBth, 
dt^fo'i^^  thi^  nirrttul  fj^'utiUijit  dt-tHtiuf  thii  tx^^frnuji  HrptcuD,  Bud 
n U  i in [bt*'l J  pr[>d ui-<*  t-fm v\ i^:rf^■W.ii  rt*ii  1 1 it.  Ld  t nutvl i ng  6 {tK'tuum  fjf 
mi'ii  1  n]wA>H  cuTT'  tbi*  I'RS'irr  ua  wc'IE  um  the  eutuiiN  fdesttrt*  thai 
evi*rj  iFprHfid  ntCtc-tiid  with  tbtwmor  nllSifti  dijteoHCiswrltiqittfhitaf 
cAn  I'xpljiiu  my  uicthfjd  rnf  cum,  wlij,{?h  in  »nfii  and  pcrraanent. 
Mt  romnqlLiiliim  will  mmT  J'ow  notUtna,  nnd  njjr  chargtti  for  a, 
perfect  core  will  be  reasonable  and  not  more  than  70a  will  b^  w  LUioK  to  r<A7  for  th«i  bcnt^tliM  cnnTi<rnid. 

f*g%^ektt%f\f    n§   €*tafd>    ^  what  yon  want.    I  give  a  legal  guarantee  to  cure  or  refund  yoor  money.    What  I  hare 
v.lSlXailll.7    VI    v.urfs    done  for  others  I  can  do  for  70a.    I  can  cure  you  at  home. 

.  impossible  for 

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CONTENTS  FOK  NOVEMBER.,  1904 

Cliicf  TVlurl-wiid,  Umatilla  R.e0ervatioii,  Oregon  (Frontispiece) 

People— Places— TLingfl 259-266 

The  Greatest  Ship  Elevator  in  the  World     Puzzle  Picture 

Clearing  Great  Northern  Track  Sinrock  Mary 

Smokeless  Powder  Japs  en  Voyage 

Buildings  Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition         Senator  Ankeny 

Forestry  Building  Illustrations  from  Photographs 

Making  Decency  Pay     .....         Jules  Eckhart  Goodman  267 

The  Story  ai  New  Coney  Island.     Illustrated 

Tlie  Better  Way  (Skort  Story)  .    Edna  A.  Needles  273 

Octol>er  anJ  Mt.  HooJ  (Poem)  Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood      276 

Illustrated  by  Merle  Johnson 

Tke  Hermitage '  ....     277 

The  Home  of  President  Jackson.     Illustrated  from 
Photographs  and  Paintings 

Tke  Pick  of  tke  Litter  (Skort  Story)  Egbert  Field  280 

Americas  Greatest  Irrigation  Enterprise  E.  G.  Adams  281 

Illustrated 

Ospow^ak^s  Good  Medicine   (Skort  Story)  Benjamin  Franklin  Napheys     288 

Oystering  on  tke  Pacific  Coast  M.  H.  Tabor  291 

Illustrated 

Tke  Potter's  Vessel  (Skort  Story)  Aloysius  CoU  294 

DEPARTMENTS 

Views  (Editorial) William  Bittle  WeUs  297 

Actions  (Replacing  old  department,  Tke  Montk)  ....  298 

Devoted  to  the  world's  most  important  activities 

Impressions  .  .  .     "     .  .  .  Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood  302 

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Ligkt   (New  Department)  Albert  E.  Vert  307 

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LIABILITIES 


RESOURCES 

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Bonds  886.154.91 

Cash  and  due 
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Real  Estate 1.784.56 

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Surplus  and 
undivided  profits...      100.243.19 

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Deposits 3.095.093.77 

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"Bie  Blue  Mountain  Sanatorium 

For  the  Core  of  Tnbercnlosis 

IT  is  mistake  to  think  that  a  warm  climate  is  beneficial  in  Tuberculosis.    On  the  contrary,  the  further 
north  you  can  go,  the  sooner  you  can  get  well.    Sanatoria  in  Norway,  Canada  and  the  Adirondacks 
give  82  per  cent,  of  cures  againnt  25  per  cent,  of  cases  in  Arizona  and  California. 
Eastern  Oregon  has  one  of  the  finest  climates  in  the  woild  for  the  cure  of  the  disease.    Its  ad- 
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A  MIMIMUM  OF  RAINFALL  A  LOW  HUMIDITY 

A  MAXIMUM  OF  SUNSHINE  FREEDOM  FROM  COLD  WINDS 

THB  BLUB  MOUNTAIN  SANATORIUM  is  located  in  the  heart  of  the  Blue  MounUins,  3omUes 
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has  the  further  distinction  of  entire  freedom  from  fogs  and  mosquitoes. 

Tuberculosis  is  one  of  the  most  curable  of  diseases  if  treated  promptly  and  properly.  Neglected,  it 
is  one  of  the  most  deadly  scourges  of  mankind. 

Don't  be  deluded  with  the  idea  that  you  can  be  cured  at  home.  Not  one  per  cent,  succeed  in  obtain- 
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ideal  and  only  successful  treatment  for  the  disease. 

Patients  at  the  Blue  Mountain  Sanatorium  have  the  additional  advantage  of  receiving 

DR.  BINGHAM'S   INHIBITORY  SS^RUM 

This  serum  is  harmless,  non-irritating  and  is  a  positive  remedy.  It  promptly  arrests  the  progress 
of  the  disease,  stops  the  fever,  cough  and  expectoration,  stimulates  the  appetite,  and  is  "half  the  battle" — 
both  in  regard  to  time  and  expense— in  getting  well. 

In  all  institutions  for  the  treatment  of  Tuberculosis,  great  reliance  is  placed  on  bathing.  This  is 
oneof  the  special  features  at  the  Blue  Mountain.  The  baths  are  supplied  with  water  from  natural  hot 
sulphur  springs,  and  exert  a  powerful  curative  influence. 

Rates  $75  and  $50  per  month.    This  includes  medical  attendance,  nursing,  board,  tents  and  covers. 

Patients  who  cannot  afford  these  rates  can  camp  on  the  grounds  and  will  receive  the  treatment, 
baths,  etc.,  for  $5  00  per  week. 

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Volume  XII 


NOVEMBER,  1904 


Numl>er  5 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS 


Greatest  Sliip  Elevator  in  tke  World. 

A  SHIP  elevator  is  a  decided 
novelty  in  this  country,  and 
the  first  one  of  the  kind  to 
be  built  on  the  American 
continent  has  recently  been 
completed  and  put  in  service  at  Peter- 
borough, Ont. 
It  is  technic- 
a  1 1  y  known 
as  h  Hydrau- 
lic Lift  Lock, 
and  it  per- 
forms  ^vith 
one  movement 
the  functions 
of  five  ordi- 
nary locks 
which  w^id* 
be  required  to 
overcome  the 
fall  of  65  feet 
in  canal  level 
at  this  point. 
As  a  work  of 
e  n  g  i  neering 
initiative  and 
skill  it  is  un- 
surpassed by 
anything     ac- 


complished in  recent  years,  and  Canadians 
feel  a  just  pride  in  their  achievement. 

The  Peterborough  Lift  Lock  is  the  out- 
standing feature  of  the  Trent  Waterway, 
now  in  course  of  construction  by  the 
Canadian  Government.  But  little  is  known 
in    the    United     States    regarding    this 


PUZZLE     PICTTTEE. 

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A  saotioB  of  traok  on  the  Great  Vorthem  Bail- 
way  near  Seattle  that  haa  taken  as  hich  as 
1800,000  a  jear  to  keep  in  oondition.  The 
difioolty  ii  heiny  oreroome  hj  the  lue  of  hj- 
draolio  mining  lyttem. 

scheme  for  connecting  I^ke  Huron  with 
Lake  Ontario    by  a  navigable    waterway 


that  will  afford  a  short  cut  for  grain  from 
the  Northwest  to  tide-water,  and  prob- 
ably few  outside  of  Canada  are  aware  of 
this  dangerous  rival  to  the  Erie  Canal 
that  is  now  almost  finished  and  will  be  in 
full  operation  long  before  the  enlarged 
Erie  Canal  will  be  in  position  to  meet  its 
new  and  unlooked-for  competition. 

At  Midland,  Ont.,  the  northern  termi- 
nus of  the  Trent  Waterway  (it  would  be 
a  misnomer  to  call  it  Canal)  there  is  a 
splendid  harbor.  Between  this  point  and 
the  town  of  Trenton,  on  Lake  Ontario, 
there  lie  a  dozen  or  more  large  bodies  of 
navigable  water,  known  as  the  Kawartha 
Jjakes,  joined  continuously  by  rivers  also 
navigable  to  a  great  extent;  so  that  of 
the  200  miles  covered  by  this  route  but 
20  miles  required  canalization.  As  stated 
above,  all  but  three  miles  have  been  fin- 
ished, but  these  unfinished  portions  are  at 
either  end.  The  waterway  in  its  present 
uncompleted  condition  is  an  internal 
stretch  of  first-class  navigation,  hermetic- 
ally sealed  at  either  end;  useless  from 
a  national  point  of  view,  but  affording 
some  250  miles  of  direct  and  lateral  inland 
navigation  for  local  use.     It  is  believed 


View  from  the  top  of  the  rreat  Feterboroofrh  elevator. 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


261 


that  in  two  years  time  the  entire  project 
will  be  finished.  In  view  of  the  small  cost, 
it  is  surprising  that  the  scheme  was  not 
consummated  long  ago.  Up  to  the  pres- 
ent time  there  have  been  expended  less 
than  five  million  dollars,  and  it  is  esti- 
mated that  another  five  millions  will  be 
sufficient  to  finish  the  work. 

Peterborough's  Lift  Lock  is  a  Cyclopean 
structure  of  concrete  and  steel.  It  is  the 
largest  of  its  kind  in  the  world.  England, 
France  and  Belgium  each  have  a  small 
lock    worked   on   the   lift   or   "elevator" 


were  120,000  yards  of  excavation  required 
for  the  pit,  and  the  sub-structure,  con- 
taining 26,000  cubic  yards  of  concrete,  is 
said  to  be  the  largest  monolithic  mass  ever 
put  together. 

There  are  two  steel  basins  or  chambers 
working  up  and  down  between  guiding 
towers  125  feet  high  from  the  bottom  of 
the  pit,  which  is  27  feet  below  the  level 
of  the  water  in  the  lower  reaches.  Over 
the  central  tower  is  the  lockmaster's  cabin, 
from  which  the  operation  is  controlled. 
The  basins  measure  140  by  33  feet,  and 


Th«  Feterborouffh  ship  elevator,  the  luvest  elevator  of  the  kind  in  the  world.    Located  at  Peterborough, 

Ontario,   Canada. 


principle,  but  the  largest  of  these  is  not 
more  than  half  the  size  of  that  at  Peter- 
borough, which  is  designed  to  accommo- 
date 800-ton  barges  having  a  capacity  of 
25,000  bushels  of  grain.  Indeed,  the  whole 
waterway  has  been  planned  for  this  class 
of  barge,  there  being  a  depth  of  8  feet 
of  water  on  the  sills  of  all  the  locks.  Work 
was  begun  in  1897  and  completed  in  July 
of  1904.  Some  idea  of  its  magnitude  may 
be  obtained  when  it  is  stated  that  there 


weigh  about  400  tons  each.  When  filled 
with  water  to  a  depth  of  8  feet,  they 
weigh  1700  tons.  They  are  supported  by 
heavy  steel  trusses,  of  the  double  canti- 
lever style,  upon  rams  nearly  8  feet  in 
diameter  and  weighing  120  tons  each. 
These  rams  have  a  65-foot  stroke  and  work 
in  two  steel  water-tight  presses,  one  under 
each  chamber.  The  foundations  for  the 
presses  are  on  solid  rock  in  wells  70  feet 
deep.     The  two  presses  are  connected  by 


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THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Sinrock  Mary*   the  Reindeer  Queen. 


a  pipe  12  inches  in  diameter,  and  this  con- 
nection enahles  the  two  chamhers  to  work 
practically  automatically;  that  is,  when 
the  valve  connecting  the  two  presses  is 
opened  the  upper  chamher,  which  has  heen 
loaded  down  with  8  inches  of  extra  water, 
giving  it  an  increased  weight  of  about  100 
tons,   will   descend   and   force  the   other 


chamber  up  to  the  higher  level.  This 
operation  may,  of  course,  be  carried  on 
without  regard  to  whether  there  are  boats 
in  the  chambers  or  otherwise,  since  it  is 
a  well-known  scientific  fact  that  any  body 
floating  in  water  always  displaces  its  own 
weight.  A  chamber,  therefore,  containing 
one  or  half  a  dozen  boats  mav  be  raised 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


2(33 


by  the  weight  of  the  other  chamber  with 
the  extra  8  inches  of  water. 

The  total  length  of  time  required  to 
make  a  lockage  is  about  12  minutes  from 
the  time  that  the  gates  are  lowered  at  the 
bottom  to  allow  the  boat  to  enter  until 
it  leaves  the  chamber  above.  In  making 
the  actual  ascent  about  three  minutes  are 
required. 

Sinrock  Mary,  tkc   R.ein<leer  Queen 

Charity  and  science  have  been  combined 
by  the  officials  of  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment in  Alaska  in  an  effort  to  prevent 
the  starvation  of  tbe  Alaska  Esquim^o 
tribes  by  supplying  them  with  herds  of 
reindeer  from  across  the  seas.  This  work 
has  now  been  going  on  for  ten  years,  and 
there  are  upwards  of  50,000  of  those  most 
useful  domestic  animals  domiciled  among 
the  needy  tribes  of  the  far  north. 

The  reindeer  is  a  delicate  animal,  and 
when  the  work  of  introducing  them  was 
begun  it  was  found  that  the  natives  were 
not  only  ignorant  of  its  habits  and  the  care 
necessary  for  it,  but  were  exceedingly 
averse  to  adopting  it  in  the  place  of  the 
dog,  it  being  practically  impossible  to  raise 
the  two  together.    In  order  to  prepare  the 


■rfflPwrt 


Curios  made  from  smokeless  powder.  Smokeless 
powder  is  made  by  only  two  miUs  in  America. 
A  lighted  match  can  be  applied  to  it  without 
danger.  It  bums  slowly,  as  wax  does,  and  can 
be  used  to  kindle  the  kitchen  fire. 


Japanese  returning  to  Japan  to  enlist. 


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PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


265 


natives  for  the  care  of  the  animals  and  at 
the  same  time  to  bring  about  their  adop- 
tion, the  government,  after  delivering 
the  first  herd  on  the  Seward  peninsula, 
offered  to  give  a  number  of  the  animals 
to  any  native  who  would  apprentice  him- 
self to  the  keeper  of  the  herd  for  a  period 
of  months  and  master  the  work  of  caring 
for  them. 

The  first  native  to  offer  himself  for  this 
work  was  Sinrock  Charley,  and  with  him 
he  brought  his  wife,  Sinrock  Mary.  Side 
by  side  they  herded  reindeer  under  the 
direction  of  the  herders  brought  with  the 
tribe  from  Iceland,  and  soon  they  became 
proficient  in  reindeer  lore.  .  At  the  end  of 
their  apprenticeship  they  were  presented 
with  a  herd  of  the  animals  to  become  their 
own  property. 

With  their  own  animals  they  were 
equally  careful  and  frugal,  and  the  herd 
increased  rapidly  until  now  it  numbers 
nearly  one  thousand.  Some  four  years 
ago  Charley,  the  husband,  died,  and  since 
that  time  his  wife  has  assimied  the  work 
herself  and,  with  the  assistance  of  hired 
herders,  has  kept  her  herd  in  the  best  of 
condition,  until  it  is  now  by  far  the  largest 
owned  by  any  native  in  the  territory. 

Mary's  home  is  at  Sinrock,  about  30 
miles  from  Nome.  For  several  years,  in 
fact  ever  since  the  discovery  of  gold  at 
Nome,  she  has  made  much  money  each 
winter  by  hiring  out  her  reindeer  to  pack- 
ers and  prospectors  for  use  in  transporting 
goods  and  supplies  from  place  to  place 
during  the  long  winter  season. 

Waskington's  Junior  Senator 

The  achievements  of  Levi  Ankeny,  the 
junior  United  States  Senator  from  Wash- 
ington, afford  a  striking  example  of  the 
opportunities  which  the  Oregon  country 
holds  out  to  the  young  man  of  intelligence 
and  untiring  energy.  Born  in  obscurity, 
left  an  orphan  at  an  early  age  to  be 
brought  up  by  an  adopted  father,  given 
but  scanty  educational  advantages,  thrown 
on  his  own  resources  in  his  early  man- 
hood. Senator  Ankeny  has  risen  through 
the  sheer  force  of  indomitable  perse- 
verance and  strength  of  character  to  the 
position  of  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of 
liis  state. 

Senator  Ankeny  was  born  in  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  August  1st,  sixty  years  ago.     With 


Senatofr   Levi   Ankanj,    of   Wathinffton. 

Captain  Ankeny,  his  adopted  father,  he 
crossed  the  plains  to  Portland  in  1850, 
and  for  a  few  years  spent  a  portion  of  his 
time  in  the  Portland  public  schools.  While 
in  his  teens,  he  engaged  in  the  transporta- 
tion business  with  his  adopted  father,  and 
later  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
in  Lewiston,  Idaho.  Still  later  he  moved 
to  Walla  Walla,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
banking  business.  The  passing  years  have 
brought  him  a  large  measure  of  financial 
success.  He  has  from  time  to  time  in- 
vested heavily  in  farm  lands,  mortgages, 
live  stock  and  mining  properties.  He  has 
also  expanded  his  banking  business  and 
capital  until  he  is  now  the  president  of 
seven  banks  in  Washington  and  Idaho. 
He  is  variously  estimated  to  be  worth 
from  $1,500,000  to  $2,000,000,  all  of 
which  he  has  accimiulated  by  his  own 
efforts  in  the  three  states  of  the  Pacific 
Northwest. 

Senator  Ankeny  was  married  in  1867 
to  Miss  Jennie  Nesmith,  the  daughter  of 
the  late  United  States  Senator  James  W. 
Nesmith  of  Oregon,  and  they  have  a 
family  of  grown  children. 


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MAKING  DECENCY  PAY 

A.  Story  of  tke  Reformation  of  Coney  Islana 
By  Jules  Eckkart  Goodman 


THE  Coney  Island  of  a  few  years 
ago  will  be  reniemberefl  as  a 
jumble  of  old  dilapidated 
shacks,  thrown  together  in 
haste  and  negligence;  dirty 
little  shops,  smelling  of  sausage  and 
sauerkraut;  low-class  saloons  of  every 
variety;  vulgar  dance  halls,  reeking  with 
the  odors  of  stale  beer  and  sweating 
humanity;  a  mass  of  *^fake'^  shows,  with 
boisterous  "spielers";  a  perfect  bedlam  of 
fakirs  and  tricksters,  the  very  quintessence 
of  the  crass  and  vulgar.  It  so  happened 
that  among  the  crowds  that  thronged  the 
place  there  were  some  clear-headed  busi- 
ness  men,   who   felt   the   possibilities   of 


the  resort,  and  saw  how  miserably  they 
were  being  abused.  A  city  of  over 
three  millions  within  less  than  an  hour's 
ride  I  A  great  pleasure-loving  community 
simply  waiting  to  be  amused !  Here  was 
opportunity  fairly  thrown  at  one's  head. 
There  was  just  one  drawback — the  place 
had  a  bad  name.  Before  anything  could 
be  done,  that  had  to  be  rectified.  The 
only  way  to  do  this  was  to  introduce  forms 
of  amusement  which  would  appeal  essen- 
tially to  the  clean-minded,  to  the  great 
middle  class.  Thus  decency  became  the 
watchword,  and  with  as  much  doubt  as 
delight  was  the  progress  of  the  work 
watched. 


Open  air  circus  of  "Dreamland"  at  Coney  Island. 


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The  beginning  was  made  early  last  year 
by  Messrs.  Dundy  and  Thompson,  with 
their  truly  remarkable  "Luna  Park/' 
Early  this  spring.  Providence,  in  the  shape 
of  a  fire  of  rather  goodly  size,  stepped  in 
and  aided  in  the  good  work  by  sweeping 
away  a  considerable  portion  of  the  old 
place.  And,  finally,  this  summer  came 
"Dreamland.'^  The  result  is  that  where 
once  was  a  disreputable,  ramshackle  mass 
of  "resorts,^'  there  is  now  a  sort  of  con- 
gress of  amusements,  of  good  character 
and  real  beauty.  Canals  have  been  dug, 
picturesque  buildings  erected,  little  gar- 
dens laid  out  and  tiny  villages  constructed. 
Over  it  all  have  been  spread  thousands 
upon  thousands,  nay,  millions,  of  electric 
lights. 

Such  has  been  the  metamorphosis  of 
Coney  Island,  which  stands  forth  as  one 
of  the  best  examples  in  the  country  of  the 
commercial  value  of  decency. 

Travel  is  the  principle  upon  which  most 
of  the  side  shows  are  based.  You  may  go 
anywhere  from  a  trip  to  the  moon  to 
twenty  thousand  leagues  under  the  sea. 


Tlie  great  white  world  is  an  open  book 
and  you  can  chat  with  Esquimaux  at  the 
North  Pole;  or,  if  your  taste  lay  other- 
where, you  may  glide  through  the  canals 
of  Venice  to  the  tinkling  of  guitars.  Per- 
haps you  would  care  to  coast  through 
Switzerland,  or  go  upon  an  excursion  down 
into  a  mine,  or  through  the  sewers  of 
Paris,  or  down  tropical  rivers — it  may  all 
be  done  for  a  nominal  sum.  And  be  it 
said  that  in  almost  every  case  the  jaunt 
is  well  worth  the  money  paid.  Some  of 
the  illusions  are  quite  wonderful  and  must 
have  cost  thousands  to  produce.  Indeed, 
it  has  been  said  that  over  five  millions 
went  into  the  producing  of  Luna  Park  and 
Dreamland  alone. 

But  to  return  to  our  jaunts.  There  are 
delightful  Japanese  tea  gardens,  where 
you  can  get  genuine  rice  cakes  and  tea, 
served  by  the  daintiest  Japanese  maidens. 
The  Midgets,  among  whom  is  Mrs.  Gen- 
eral Tom  Thumb,  have  a  village  of  their 
own.  Or,  if  all  this  be  too  tame  for  you 
and  you  prefer  history,  you  may  witness 
again,  with  convincing  realism,  the  Gal- 


Tha  Fall  of  Pompeii  Building.     Clerks  on  the  waj  to  their  dutiei.     Coney  Island. 


The  tower  in  "Dreamland"  at  nifht.    Conej 


THE  NEW  CONEY  ISLAND. 


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veston  flood,  or  the  Johnstown  flood,  or 
the  fall  of  Pompeii,  or  the  eruption  of 
Mount  Pelee,  or  the  great  Baltimore  fire. 
Under  the  caption  of  "War  Is  Hell/^  you 
may  see  reproduced  upon  actual  water  and 
with  toy  boats  large  enough  to  hold  a  man 
such  historic  scenes  as  the  battle  between 
the  Monitor  and  the  Merrimac,  the  blow- 
ing up  of  the  Maine  in  Havana  harbor, 
and  recent  battles  in  the  Japanese-Russian 
war.  Perhaps  the  greatest  side  show  of 
them  all,  or  at  least  one  of  the  greatest, 
is  a  very  clever  representation  of  the 
recent  Durbar  at  Delhi.  Here,  for  fifteen 
cents,    you   see   a   performance   which    is 


gines  come,  and  the  firemen  begin  their 
work.  There  are  heroic  rescues  of  men 
and  women,  there  are  thrilling  escapes, 
and,  above  all,  it  is  so  real  that  you  feel 
the  excitement.  The  exhibition  must 
require  several  hundred  people,  and  its 
properties  include  two  street  cars,  two  or 
three  cabs,  delivery  wagons  and  an  im- 
mense amount  of  paraphernalia. 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  things 
about  Coney  is  the  different  kinds  of  loco- 
motion that  it  contains.  There  are  boards 
in  the  sidewalks  that  jolt  you  when  you 
step  on  them.  There  are  wobbly  bridges. 
There   are    Ferris   wheels   and    merry-go- 


The   Animal   Pavilion,    Coney   Island. 


really  quite  remarkable,  requiring  several 
hundred  men  to  produce,  and  which  is 
thoroughly  enjoyable.  Allied  to  this  in 
point  of  interest  at  least,  is  an  exhibi- 
tion of  firemen  at  work.  A  street  scene, 
so  realistic  and  convincing  that  you  feel 
you  are  part  of  it,  is  shown.  For  nearly 
ten  minutes  you  watch  the  passing  of  life 
and  general  daily  activity.  Then  sud- 
denly in  a  paint  shop  there  is  an  explo- 
sion, followed  by  a  sheet  of  flames,  and 
the  next  miuute  the  whole  block  is  a  mass 
of  fire.     The  alarm  is  turned  in,  the  en- 


rounds  and  elevators  by  the  dozen.  There 
is  one  combination  of  an  elevator  and 
merry-go-round  that  is  unique,  and 
another  aerial  merry-go-round  with  bas- 
kets that  swing  out  to  an  angle  of  thirty- 
five  degrees,  giving  you  the  sensation  of 
flying.  There  are  scenic  railways  of 
divers  sorts,  and  miniature  railways  with 
vest-pocket  editions  of  engines.  There  are 
chutes  and  slides  and  jolly-go-rounds  and 
helter-skelters.  There  are  steeple  chases 
and  boats  with  the  motion  of  the  sea. 
There  are  slides  and  jams  and  jars  and 


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jerks.  After  you  have  gone  the  rounds, 
you  know  exactly  where  every  joint  and 
muscle  of  your  body  is  situated. 

And  then  the  dance  halls,  with  their 
highly  polished  floors,  where  Bill  swings 
Maggie  in  a  polka  to  a  waltz  movement, 
and  tries  to  waltz  a  two-step!  And  the 
noise  of  the  "spielers"  and  the  venders  of 
peanuts  and  popcorn  and  souvenirs !  You 
<?an  have  Jenny's  name  embroidered  on  a 
handkerchief,  or  you  can  be  aristocratic 
and  present  her  with  a  filigree,  silver- 
Avire  butterfly  made  to  order.  You  can 
buy  candy  in  the  semblance  of  sausage 
and  potatoes,  or  have  your  "photo  taken 
in  one  minute"  in  a  thousand  different 
ways.  You  can  sit  and  watch  out-of-door 
vaudeville  shows  free  of  charge — excel- 
lent vaudeville  at  that — or  you  can  go  to 
several  good  animal  shows,  including 
Bostock^s.  If  you  are  fond  of  speculation 
there  are  those  who  will  guess  your  weight, 
or  read  your  hand,  or  tell  your  fortune 
or  your  name.  You  can  test  your  lung 
power  and  your  muscle  power  by  contri- 
vances of  many  kinds  and  great  novelty. 


At  the  same  time  you  can  simply  sit 
and  watch  the  crowds.  The  streets  are 
full  of  color.  Arabs,  Chinese,  Esqui- 
maux, Turks,  Japanese  and  Lilliputians 
amble  their  way  through  the  throng. 
Here  and  there  is  a  camel  or  an  elephant, 
with  perhaps  a  caged  tiger  upon  his  back. 
Above  all,  there  are  everywhere  dozens  on 
dozens  of  brass  bands,  and  the  music 
thereof  is  wierd.  Not  since  the  days  of 
the  Tower  of  Babel  has  there  been  such 
a  conglomeration  of  sounds  as  is  to  be 
heard  at  Coney  Island  to-day. 

And  so  Coney  Island  is  fast  coming 
into  its  own.  It  has  not  yet  reached  its 
climax,  and  every  year  will  see  an  im- 
provement. So  far  as  respectability  goes, 
it  has  made  wondrous  strides.  But  two 
years  is  a  very  short  time,  and  that  so 
much  has  been  accomplished  speaks  vol- 
umes for  the  men  who  have  done  it.  No 
one  can  afford  now  to  come  to  New  York 
in  the  summer  and  not  go  to  Coney.  It 
is  one  of  "the  sights" — one  of  the  big 
sights. 


The  Chutes,  Coney  IiUnd. 


THE  BETTER  WAY 

By  EJna  A.  Needles 


IT  WAS  thoughtful  of  the  folks 
not  to  come  down  to  see  us  off/^ 
remarked  Carleton. 
''Thoughtful  of  me,  you  mean, 
not  to  let  them/^  laughed  Doro- 
thy, taking  off  her  gloves  and  leaning 
comfortably  back  against  the  ugly  plush 
upholstery  of  the  Pullman  car.  "After 
all,  why  should  they  want  to  see  us  off 
now,  any  more  than  the  other  times  ?'' 

"Before,^^  he  returned,  looking  at  h* 
little  bare  hand  with  its  bright  new  ring, 
*'you  came  away  for  the  day.    Now — ^^ 

"Now,  I  feel  as  if  I  should  never  come 
back,''  die  said  dreamily. 

The  engine  snorted,  gave  a  convulsive 
jerk  or  two,  and  the  train  began  moving 
out  from  the  station. 

"Thank  Heaven,  we're  off!''  ejaculated 
Carleton.  "Just  in  the  nick  of  time,  too,'' 
he  added,  with  a  backward  glance  out  of 
the  window.  "See !  There's  Dr.  Sargent 
come  down  to  felicitate  us." 

They  caught  a  glimpse  of  a  tall  woman 
in  black,  waving  frantically  at  the  train  as 
if  to  compel  it  to  stop,  then  were  whirled 
out  into  the  open  country,  away  from  the 
smoke  of  the  town — ^where  the  fields  were 
green  and  there  seemed  no  black  in  the 
blue  of  the  sky. 

"She  didn't  look  precisely  congratula- 
tory, either,"  mused  Carleton  aloud. 

Dorothy  gave  a  nervous  little  laugh. 

"That  wasn't  what  she  was  after !  She 
came  to  take  back  something  she  had 
given  me." 

"What!     The  spoons?" 

"Of  course  not." 

"What  then?" 

"I'm  afraid  if  I  tell  you,  Henry,  you'll 
make  me  give  it  up.  Promise  me  you'll 
not." 

"Have  I  ever  made  you  do  anything 
against  your  will?"  he  asked  reproach- 
fully. 

"No-o — ^but— " 

"Well,  then?" 

"But  promise,  Henry,  promise!" 

"Very,  well,  I  promise."  He  smiled 
quizzically  at  the  intensity  of  her  tone. 

"Henry,"  she  began  suddenly,  "did  I 


ever  tell  you  that  I  am  horribly  frightened 
every  time  I  step  on  a  train?" 

"Frightened!"  he  returned,  incredu- 
lously, "you  who  have  been  all  over 
Europe !" 

"Yes,  I  know,"  she  replied,  impatiently. 
"They  say  it  is  only  inexperienced  trav- 
elers who  are  nervous.  But  that's  a 
mistake.  It  seems  to  me  the  more  one 
travels  the  more  one  sees  the  danger  of  it. 
I  have  been  in  two  terrible  accidents. 
Once,  half  the  train  I  was  on  went 
through  an  open  bridge,  and  those  of  us 
who  were  saved  had  to  stand  by  and  know 
that  down  under  the  muddy  waters  scores 
of  poor  creatures  were  struggling — dying. 
As  we  stood  there,  one  man — ^think, 
Henry,  only  one — floated  to  the  top, 
gasped,  and  went  down  again." 

"Poor  darling!"  said  Carleton,  ten- 
derly. "What  pictures  to  carry  with 
you!" 

"But  the  other  accident  was  yet  more 
frightful;  there  was  a  collision,  and  the 
trains  took  fire.  Men  and  women  were 
burnt  under  our  very  eyes.  Those  of  us 
who  were  unhurt  did  all  we  could  for  the 
others — but  it  was  so  little!  There  was 
one  poor  woman  pinned  down  under  the 
seats — all  but  the  upper  part  of  her  body. 
She  had  a  little  darling  baby  in  her  arms. 
I  started  to  take  him  away,  for  the  flames 
had  almost  reached  her,  but  she  said : 

"  ^It's  no  use,  he's  dead.  Leave  him  to 
me.'    Oh,  it  was  awful !  awful !" 

Carleton  put  his  hand  over  hers  for  a 
second. 

"There,"  she  went  on,  after  a  momen- 
tary pause,  "I'll  not  tell  you  any  more. 
I'll  try  not  to  think  of  it.  But  ever  since 
then  I  have  had  the  feeling  that  I  should 
be  in  one  more  wreck,  and  that  the  third 
time  I  should  not  escape.  Of  course  I 
know  that  it  is  a  nervous  fancy,  but  it 
scales  me  as  much  as  if  it  were  a  real 
presentiment." 

"Why  did  you  never  tell  me  before?" 
he  asked.  "I  never  dreamed  when  we 
were  going  off  on  those  little  picnics  of 
ours  that  you  were  suffering  an  agony  of 
fear." 


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^*I  wasn't/'  she  returned  quickly.  "We 
never  went  far,  and,  anyway,  I  felt  happy 
and  safe  in  your  love.  I  hegan  to  think 
1  should  never  he  afraid  again.  It  wasn't 
until  yesterday,  when  I  was  trying  on  my 
wedding  gown,  that  the  old  terror  came 
back.  Then  the  thought  of  the  length  of 
our  wedding  journey  came  over  me,  and 
of  all  that  might  happen  before  it  was 
ended.  I  knew  it  was  a  childish,  unrea- 
sonable terror,  and  I  tried  to  think  of 
some  reasonable  way  of  overcoming  it. 
The  thing  I  dread  most  is  not  death  itself, 
if  it  be  quick  and  easy,  but  a  long  martyr- 
dom, such  as  that  poor  woman  suffered. 

"The  thought  came  to  me  suddenly  that 
if  I  had  a  little  vial  of  poison  to  carry 
with  me  —  something  that  would  be 
instantaneous  in  its  effects — ^then  I  could 
travel  without  fear." 

"I  went  to  Dr.  Sargent  at  once,  and 
coaxed,  and  coaxed,  and  coaxed,  until  at 
last  she  let  me  have  it.  And  now  I  feel 
as  safe!" 

"She'd  have  done  better  to  give  you  a 
nerve  tonic,"  said  Carleton  warmly. 

"That's  what  she  said,"  laughed  Doro- 
thy ;  "but  I  wouldn't  have  it.  The  idea ! 
Do  I  look  as  if  I  needed  medicine?" 

Carleton  looked  at  her  with  frankly 
adoring  eyes.  "You  beautiful  girl  I"  he 
breathed,  noting  as  if  for  the  first  time 
the  clean  brightness  of  her  hair  and  eyes, 
and  the  pure  soft  red  of  her  lips  and 
cheek. 

"T  am  glad  you  think  me  beautiful,"  she 
said,  wistfully.  "Of  course  I  know  I  am 
only  ordinarily  pretty,  but  your  thinking 
these  other  things  shows  me  how  much 
you  care  for  me." 

"  ^Je  vous  aime,  je  vous  adore :  que 
voulez  vous  encore?'"  he  quoted,  lightly. 
"But  I'd  rather  love  you  than  adore  you. 
To-dav,  in  your  white  gown  and  veil,  and 
with  that  rapt  look  on  your  face,  you  were 
too  lovely — I  was  afraid  of  you.  I  like 
you  better  as  you  are  now — so  human  that 
you  would  kiss  me  if  we  were  alone. 
AVouldn't  you,  sweetheart?" 

"Yes,"  she  whispered,  and  though  her 
color  deepened,  her  brown  eyes  were  raised 
unfalteringly  to  his. 

"Tell  me  about  the  place  where  we  are 
goincr,"  she  asked,  after  a  little  pause. 

"Up  in  the  Sierras  there  is  a  little  lake 
half  covered  over  with  yellow  water-lilies. 
On  it  is  a  boat,  and  on  the  shore  beside 
it   a  one-room   cabin.     All  about   is  the 


forest  with  its  delicate  undergrowth  of 
flowers  and  ferns,  and  in  the  distance  are 
blue,  snow-topped  mountains.  And  the 
air — " 

"Oh,  I  know  the  air  must  be  delicious ly 
cool  and  pure,"  interrupted  Dorothy.  *'] 
wish — oh,  how  I  wish  we  were  there !" 

"To-morrow  at  this  time,  we  shall  be/' 
replied  Carleton.  "It  looks  to  me,  how- 
ever, as  if  we  were  a  little  behind  time/' 
he  added,  with  a  glance  at  his  watch.  "I 
believe  I'll  go  back  and  see  the  conductor. 
We  don't  want  to  miss  connections.'* 

"Don't  be  long,"  she  said;  "and,  oh, 
Henry,  before  you  go,  put  up  the  window 
for  me." 

He  did  as  she  wished,  and  went  away 
smiling  at  a  certain  babyish  wisp  of  hair 
which  the  breeze  from  the  window  had 
blown  down  around  her  eyes. 

Five  minutes  later  came  the  crash. 
Carleton  was  standing  in  the  aisle  of  the 
end  car,  preparatory  to  going  forward. 
He  was  thrown  violently  against  the  door. 

"Oh,  God/'  he  groaned,  "save  Doro- 
thy !" 

Eecovering  his  footing,  he  wrenched 
open  the  door  and  sprang  off  the  train. 

"Telescoped!"  said  a  man  beside  him, 
but  he  did  not  answer. 

Ahead,  he  saw  two  broken  engines  and 
a  heap  of  splintered  cars,  and  from  the 
wreck  came  such  sounds  as  turned  him 
faint. 

Somewhere  in  the  din  a  little  child  was 
sobbing.  "Mamma,  mamma,''  it  called, 
with  recurrent  pauses,  as  if  to  hear  a 
reassuring  voice.  Carleton  felt,  dully, 
the  certainty  that  the  mother's  voice 
would  never  again  hush  that  helpless  cry. 

It  seemed  to  him,  as  it  always  does  at 
such  times,  that  ages  passed  before  he 
reached  the  car  he  sought.  It  was  stand- 
ing, and,  outwardly,  not  badly  injured: 
but  from  within  came  groans  and  shrieks 
that  set  Carleton  to  muttering,  "God. 
God,"  as  the  child  had  cried,  "Mamma." 
The  same  spirit  of  utter  helplessness  ani- 
mated both. 

As  he  reached  the  open  window,  the 
forward  car  burst  into  flames,  and  as  he 
looked  down  into  Dorothy's  white  face, 
they  heard  with  terrible  distinctness  the 
words,  "Shoot  me,  you  cowards  I"  And 
at  intervals,  like  a  bullet,  came  the 
agonized  cry,  "Cowards!  Cowards!"  It 
came  from  a  fireman  wedged  in  against 
the  boiler. 


THE  BETTER  WAY. 


275 


^TDorothy!" 

She  looked  up  at  him  from  the  vise 
in  which  she  was  caught.  The  accident 
had  come  just  as  she  had  turned  to  look 
out  of  the  open  window,  and  all  but  her 
face  and  breast  were  held  fast. 

Carleton  began  trying  to  tear  apart  the 
unyielding  timber. 

"I'll  save  you,  darling,"  he  muttered 
between  set  teeth. 

"Don't,  Henry,"  she  entreateJ.  "You 
can't  do  anvthing." 

"I'll  get'^help,  ril— "  he  was  starting 
away ;  but  she  called  faintly,  "Henry !" 

"Don't  leave  me,'^  she  said.  "There  is 
so  little  time,  and  I  have  so  much  to  say, 
I  want  you  to  know  why  I  love  you.  It 
is  because  you  are  good.  Oh,  of  course, 
I  suppose  I  should  have  loved  you  any- 
way— but  it  seems  to  me  I  couldn't  have 
cared  so  much — I  couldn't  have  been  so 
happy — and  so  proud  of  you  I'' 

"God  won't  separate  us  always,  I  know. 
Wherever  he  takes  me  he  will  bring  you. 
It  is  a  little  as  if  I  were  going  to  P^urope — 
without  you.^' 

"Help  ^^ill  come,"  he  uttered,  in  an 
agonized  voice. 

"It  will  come  too  late,"  she  replied 
sadly.  "Don't  you  hear  the  flames?  Just 
before  they  reach  me  you  must  give  me 
the  poison,  Henry." 

"It  is  in  my  breast,"  she  continued,  a 
faint  flush  creeping  into  her  face.  "Please 
take  it  out." 

He  put  forth  his  hand,  then  drew  it 
back. 

"Oh,  I  can't,  I  can't,"  he  groaned,  his 
face  drawn  and  white. 

"My  poor  boy!"  she  sighed,  an  infinite 
tenderness  breathing  from  her  voice  and 
eyes.  "Oh,  how  hard,  how  much  harder 
for  you,  than  for  me  I"  Then,  after  a 
pause,  "Now,  dear,  you  must!" 


He  fumbled  at  the  fastening  of  her 
gown. 

"I  think  you'll  have  to  take  off  my  rib- 
bon," she  directed,  then  laughed  at  his 
clumsiness. 

He  thrust  his  hand  into  the  lace  of 
her  corsage.  As  he  untied  the  narrow 
ribbon  with  awkward,  trembling  fingers, 
there  came  into  the  minds  of  both  pure 
thoughts  of  the  future  which  was  never 
to  be — a  vision  of  the  little  children  they 
had  hoped  for,  as  real  at  that  moment  as 
if  they  had  lived. 

Dorothy  sobbed  and  Carelton's  features 
worked  convulsively.  "We're  losing  so 
much !"  she  murmured,  brokenly,  through 
her  tears. 

At  that  moment  the  nearness  of  death 
was  forgotten — but  not  for  long.  The 
flames  which  had  been  licking  up  every- 
thing in  their  path — solid  unresisting 
woodwork  and  frail  shrinking  flesh — now 
burst  upon  them. 

Carleton  broke  the  cord  that  held  what 
he  sought,  and  made  as  if  to  press  the  vial 
to  her  lips,  but  she  motioned  him  away. 

"After  you  have  given  it  to  me,"  she 
said,  "don't  wait  but  a  moment — only 
long  enough  to  see  I'm  ^afe — then  go 
help  the  others — there  are  so  many,  it 
would  be  wrong  to  stay.    Xow !" 

Again  he  held  the  vial  to  her  lips,  and 
this  time  she  drained  it.  The  poison  acted 
very  quickly. 

Life  fluttered  a  moment  and  was  gone. 

The  line,  "In  some  brighter  land,  bid 
me  good-morrow,"  flashed  through  Carle- 
ton's  mind,  almost  as  if  she  had  spoken 
it,  but  then  he  remembered  how  long  it 
would  be  before  he  should  see  her  again, 
and,  groaning,  he  turned  away  to  help 
the  "others"  whose  suffering  she  had 
escaped. 


J^ 


^^ 


October  and  Mt,  Hood 

Pfopt  on  the  azure  pillars  of  tlie  aJf 

The  snow-peaked  motmtaiji  guards  tlie  tartfa, 

adrcam  \ 

Bro^^m  dryads  muse  above  the  bul?>kling  itrejuHf 
And  ruddy  Maenads  braid  their  g^fossy  hair 
Wtth  wax  bcrrlei  and  Ferns,    Now,  every^^here 
Is  glajnnury  haze  and  smell  of  leaves  and  gleacn 
Of  maples  reid*    Old  earth  herseU  doth  seon 
To  sigh  that  summer  ends*  sweet  as  a  pfayer* 
These  are  the  Eden  days,  when  every  £fOve 
Of  dim  tales  whispen^  and  the  fancy  swings  i 
In  time  to  faery  fluting*     Close  by  the  sprcttgi^ 
Are  prints  of  satyrs'  hoofs.    I  live  above 
This  fretful  world,  and  led  by  wide^yed  Love 
My  soul  floats  out  and  dreams  bnxnortal  things* 

C.  E.  S-  Wooi 


THE  HERMITAGE 


Tke  Grand  Old  Soutkem  Home  of  President  Jackson 


ABOUT  seven  miles  from  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  is  a  grand  old 
Southern  estate,  once  the  home 
of  General  Jackson,  seventh 
President  of  the  United  States, 
and  where  he  spent  over  forty  years  of 
his  life.  In  1799  General  Jackson  and 
his  young  wife  moved  to  this  plantation, 
naming  it  "The  Hermitage."  Their  home 
was  in  a  double  log  cabin,  and  was  sur- 
rounded by  numerous  cabins  for  their  ne- 
groes. Tn  1816  a  modest  brick  house  was 
built,  and  five  years  later,  rebuilt  into  the 
mansion  as  it  stands  to-day.     It  was  at 


that  time  the  finest  house  in  the  county. 
There  was  also  a  well-kept  garden,  and 
the  plantation  had  the  reputation  of  being 
the  best  cultivated  one  in  Western  Ten- 
nessee. ^: 

Some  years  ago  the  State  of  Tennessee 
purchased  the  Hermitage  from  Andrew 
Jackson,  the  adopted  son  of  General  Jack- 
son. The  state  then  gave  the  place  into 
the  care  and  keeping  of  a  society  of 
patriotic  women,  organized  in  1889  and 
constituting  themselves  "The  Ladies'  Her- 
mitage Association,"  whose  object  it  has 
been  "to  restore  and  save  from  decay  and 


Front  View  of  The  Hermitage. 


27« 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


President   Jackson,    from   a   painting  by  Earle. 

niin  the  abode  of  him  whose  deeds  and 
fame  have  given  prestige  to  America,  and 
shed  glory  upon  its  history." 


The  estate  consists  of  the  mansion,  a 
negro  cabin,  the  tomb,  and  twenty-five 
acres  of  ground. 

The  mansion  is  a  fine  specimen  of  co- 
lonial architecture,  with  its  broad  porches, 
great  pillars,  and  large  hospitable  rooms. 
Leading  to  it  from  the  road  is  an  avenue 
bordered  with  trees  forming  a  lofty  and 
graceful  arch  overhead. 

The  tomb  is  of  white  marble  and  was 
built  at  the  time  of  Mrs.  Jackson's  death 
in  1828.  The  inscription  on  her  tomb  is 
a  tribute  of  praise  to  her  beauty  of  per- 
son, character  and  life.  General  Jackson 
was  buried  under  this  same  marble  dome, 
with  the  simple  inscription,  "Born  March 
15,  1767.    Died  June  8,  1845.'' 

When  the  Ladies'  Hermitage  Associa- 
tion undertook  the  care  of  the  estate,  they 
found  it  in  a  condition  of  extreme  dilap- 
idation. But  through  their  efforts,  the 
grounds  have  once  more  taken  on  their 
former  beauty  and  neatness,  and  flowers 
are  again  blooming  in  the  old-fashioned 
garden,  ^luch  has  been  done  in  the  way 
of  gathering  relics,  and  many  beautiful 
things  belonging  to,  and  used  by.  General 


The  bedroom  of  The  Hermitage,  reproduced    at   the   World's   Fair. 


THE  HERMITAGE. 


279 


Jackson  have  been  restored  to  the  Hermit- 
age. The  fine  old  mahogany  pieces,  the 
carpets,  curtains  and  various  other  things 
are  restoring  the  mansion  to  the  same  vis- 
ible conditions  as  when  the  charming 
Rachel  Jackson  was  mistress  of  it. 

There  are  several  portraits  of  General 
Jackson  in  the  Hermitage  and  two  of  ^Mrs. 
Jackson,  by  Earle,  one  of  which  always 
hung  in  her  husband's  bedroom. 

Tbe  association  will  reproduce  this  bed- 
room at  the  World's  Fair  at  St.  Louis, 
using  genuine  Jackson  furniture  from  the 
Hermitage. 

There  still  remains  a  fine  collection  of 
relics  which  the  association  hope  some 
day  to  purchase  from  Colonel  Jackson, 
son  of  the  adopted  son.  The  collection  in- 
cludes personal  articles  of  clothing  and 
jewelry,  the  fine  library  of  several  hun- 
dred volumes,  gifts  from  a  host  of  ad- 
miring friends,  and  many  other  things, 
ail  of  which  will  add  to  the  historic  in- 
terest of  the  place. 


Mn.  Jackion,  from  a  paintinff  by  Earle. 


The  Jackson   carriajc. 


THE  PICK  OF  THE  LITTER 


By  Egbert  Field 


BOZE  was  cross. 
There  was  nothing  unusual 
about  that,  however,  because 
Boze  was  a  bulldog,  and  had 
an  innate  tendency  to  be  cross ; 
but  on  this  particular  day,  as  he  sauntered 
down  Dock  street,  his  ill  humor  was  due 
to  a  sore  foot,  which  caused  him  to  limp 
considerably.  Sometimes  the  big  brindle 
would  pause  and  lift  his  foot  aloft,  and 
then  during  the  few  moments  respite  from 
the  pain  he  would  meditate,  with  as  much 
pleasure  as  a  bulldog  is  capable  of  experi- 
encing, on  what  happened  to  the  other 
dog.  And  even  though  there  was  some 
satisfaction  in  the  fact  that  his  antagonist 
was  "out  of  commission,^'  it  was,  however, 
a  source  of  regret  to  him  that  he  allowed 
a  smaller  dog  to  get  a  leg  hold. 

Boze  had  a  contempt  for  fighting  dogs, 
anyway,  that  is,  trained  fighters,  and 
while  he  had  clearly  demonstrated  that 
strength  and  grit  could  overpower  science, 
still  it  had  cost  him  a  sore  foot  to  prove 
his  point.  The  brindle  also  consoled  him- 
self that  had  he  not  lost  most  of  his  teeth 
(due  to  old  age),  the  fight  would  not  have 
lasted  long  enough  to  be  interesting.  The 
old  dog  was  also  thinking  of  other  days; 
days  when  he  was  little  and  lived  with  his 
mother  and  numerous  little  brothers  and 
sisters  in  a  big  dog-house,  and  he  remem- 
bered hearing  his  master  say  there  was 
only  one  puppy  in  the  litter  that  looked 
like  its  father,  and  that  he  hoped  the 
puppy  would  make  a  great  fighter,  and 
Boze  knew  he  was  being  talked  about.  He 
also  heard  people  use  big  words  like  "pedi- 
gree" and  "Royal  Kennels,"  and  more  talk 
that  he  did  not  understand.  Then  he 
remembered  being  sold  and  taken  out  to  a 
big  ranch  where  there  were  lots  of  cattle 
and  horses,  and  he  heard  it  said  that  he 
was  to  be  a  watch  dog,  whatever  that 
meant. 

During  his  first  year  on  the  ranch  he 
made  it  his  business  to  chase  away  any 
stray  ste^  or  horse  that  wandered  too 
near  the  house,  and  he  became  very  expert 
in  nipping  the  animals  on  the  heel  without 
getting  kicked. 

The  next  trick  he  learned  was  to  throw 
a  steer  by  catching  it  by  the  nose  and 
running  under  it,  causing  the  animal  to 
turn  in  the  air  and  light  on  its  back.  He 
hurt  one  or  two  steers  badly,  and  then  he 


was  punished  and  he  learned  that  such 
rough  treatment  would  be  allowed  only 
in  cases  of  emergency. 

But  dreams,  and  particularly  day 
dreams,  are  liable  to  sudden  termination, 
and  Boze  suddenly  heard  shouting  and 
saw  people  running,  and  drivers  were 
hurrying  up  side  streets  as  if  something 
terrible  was  going  to  happen.  The  dog 
forgot  all  about  his  former  home ;  his  foot 
did  not  hurt  now,  and  Boze  also  ran ;  not 
with  the  crowd,  who  were  trjring  to  get 
away  from  the  trouble,  but  directly  to 
the  water  front,  from  which  the  people 
seemed  to  be  coming.  There  he  found  the 
dock  in  possession  of  a  big  red  steer,  that 
had  broken  away  from  the  longshoremen 
who  were  loading  a  cattle  ship.  By  this 
time  every  person  who  could  do  so  had 
found  a  place  of  safety,  although  a  few 
longshoremen  were  pretending  to  sur- 
round the  steer,  taking  care,  however,  to 
keep  at  a  safe  distance. 

Boze  had  just  made  up  his  mind  to  take 
a  hand  in  the  affair,  when  the  steer  hap- 
pened to  look  his  way,  and,  with  lowered 
head  and  a  wild  bellow  of  rage,  he  charged 
the  buUdog. 

The  yell  of  an  enraged  steer  may  weU 
strike  terror  to  the  heart  of  man  or  beast, 
but  if  Boze  felt  any  fear  it  was  not  mani- 
fest. The  dog  stood  perfectly  still  until 
the  steer  was  within  a  few  feet  of  him, 
and  as  the  steer  made  a  final  lunge, 
expecting  to  lift  the  dog  on  his  horns,  the 
brindle  flattened  himself  on  the  dock ;  but 
only  for  a  moment,  for  as  the  steer^s 
horns  grazed  the  dogs  back,  Boze  leaped 
into  the  air  and  fastened  on  the  steer's 
nose.  Then  with  a  quick  movement  he 
went  between  the  front  legs  of  the  animal, 
and  the  steer  was  thrown  through  the  air, 
coming  down  on  his  back,  only  to  find  the 
dog  still  holding  so  tightly  that  he  was 
unable  to  get  up. 

Boze  knew  that  the  men  would  come 
and  tie  the  steer,  now  that  the  danger  was 
over,  and  when  he  was  told  to  let  go  he 
did  so.  But  when  some  one*^aid  "Nice 
^^S^'  ^^d  tried  to  pat  him  on  the  head, 
he  growled  and  then  heard  the  man  call 
him  a  "dirty  brute." 

Then  he  realized  his  foot  was  hurting 
again,  and  the  old  dog  went  limping  down 
the  street,  wondering  why  his  master  ever 
moved  to  town. 


AMERICAS  GREATEST  IRRIGATION 

ENTERPRISE 


An  account  of  tke  largest  ByBtem  of  irrigation  in  tke  United  States,  ^wbick  is  to  reclaim 
in  Idako  a  section  one-fourtk  as  large  as  tke  State  of  Rkode  Island. 

By  E.   G.  Adams 


NLY  in  the 
last  half  of 
the  last  dec- 
ade has  there 
come  to  be 
any  th  ing 
like  a  broad 
grasp  of  the 
industri  al 
possibilit  i  e  s 
o  f  Oregon, 
Washington 
and  Idaho  —  the  states  which  form  the 
great  right  shoulder  of  Uncle  Sam's 
heritage.      Now,   however,   no   particular 


foresight  is  required  to  foretell  the  indus- 
trial supremacy  of  the  land  drained  by 
the  mighty  Columbia  basin.  Of  the 
means  which  are  to  bring  about  this 
supremacy,  irrigation  is,  perhaps,  the 
most  important. 

The  whole  Pacific  Xorthwest  is  the 
scene  of  almost  unparalleled  irrigation 
projects.  Southern  Idaho,  particularly 
along  the  old  Snake  Biver,  is  alive  with 
activity  in  reclamation,  both  by  govern- 
ment and  private  initiative.  To  reach  one 
of  the  great  enterprises  which  is  to  revo- 
lutionize this  section,  and  which  may 
almost  be  termed  one  of  the  wonders  of 


"A   canyon   of  wondrous   beauty   about   thirty   miles  below  Shoshone  Falls.   Idaho.     The   beetling,   ba- 
saltic palisades  rise  a  thousand  feet  from  the  blue  waters  below  the  canyon's  rim,  tinted  and 
shaded  with  the  colors  of  Vulcan's  workship." 


282 


THE   1>ACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


the  world,  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
takes  you  to  Shoshone,  or  Kima- 
ma,  from  which  point  a  stage  ride 
of  twenty-five  miles  is  necessary. 
A  corporation,  known  as  the  Twin 
FalU  Land  and  Water  Power  Com- 
pany, taking  its  title  from  the 
falls  of  rare  beauty  situated  near 
this  promised  land,  is  now  bring- 
ing to  completion  an  enormous 
dam,  whereby,  if  occasion  should 
demand,  the  great  Snake  River  at 
the  lower  stages  of  water  can  be 
diverted  into  two  great  parallel 
canals.  The  larger  of  these,  on 
the  south  side  of  the  river,  is  80 
feet  wide  at  the  bottom  and  124 
feet  at  the  top,  and  deep  enough  to 
carry  ten  feet  of  water. 

The  story  of  this  great  project, 
whereby  273,000  acres  of  land  are 
to  blossom  with  Xature's  richest 
verdure,  begins,  as  usual,  with  the 
pluck  and  faith  of  one  man — Mr. 
T.  B.  Perrine.  Something  over 
twenty  years  ago  Mr.  Perrine  dis- 
covered an  oasis  in  this  desert — 
a  canyon  of  wondrous  beauty  about 
thirty  miles  below  the  noted  Sho- 
shone Falls — and  there  he  made 
his  home.  The  beetling,  basaltic 
palisades  rise  a  thousand  feet  from 
the  blue  waters  below  to  the  can- 
von's  rim,  tinted  and  shaded  with 
the  colors  of  Vulcan's  workshop. 
Over  the  edge  of  this  canyon  Mr. 
Perrine  let  do^Ti  by  ropes  the 
wagon,  lumber  and  tools  ^vith 
which  he  began  his  conquest  of 
Nature's  barren  rugs^edness. 

By  faith  he  saw  that  the  Snake 
would  some  day  yield  a  marvelous 
water  power  and  that  its  waters 
could  be  made  to  flow  out  over  four 
hundred  square  miles  of  desert 
sage.  For  nine  successive  times 
he  filed  a  water  right,  covering  a 
period  of  over  thirteen  years,  be- 
fore he  found  capital  to  put  his 
plan  into  action.  Mr.  P.  L.  Kim- 
berly  of  Salt  Lake  was  the  man 
convinced. 

The  point  chosen  for  this  dam 
is  about  twenty-three  miles  above 
Shoshone  Falls,  where  the  river 
has  cut  only  about  fifty  feet  below 
the  level  of  the  surrounding  coun- 


AMERICA'S   GREATEST   IRRIGATION   ENTERPRISE. 


283 


One  side  of  the  winff  wall  with  ten  of  the  gate 

framet    erected    in    readineu    for    the 

waste  gates. 

try.  Here  it  is  choked  in  its  course  by 
two  basaltic  islands,  affording  an  ideal 
spot  to  stop  this  giant  of  the  plains.  The 
two  dams  at  the  right,  as  shown  in  the 
illustration,  are  now  completed,  work 
having  been  begun  in  April,  1903.  They 
are  60  and  70  feet  in  height,  and  150  feet 
broad  at  the  base,  with  a  20-foot  roadway 
across  the  top.  The  construction  con- 
sists of  loose  rock,  faced  with  150  feet  of 
earth.  Running  from  bank  to  bank, 
through  the  middle,  a  wood  core  of  dou- 
ble plank,  starting  from  below  bed-rock, 
serves  to  check  the  seepage  of  water, 
causing  the  rock  crevices  to  fill  with 
earth  and  make  the  dam  water-tight.  The 
great  thickness  of  these  dams,  supported, 
as  they  are,  by  the  two  islands,  makes 
them,  beyond  all  possible  question  impreg- 
nable, even  if  the  gr.eat  government  reser- 
voirs, which  are  to  be  built  in  the  moun- 
tain valleys  above,  should  give  way.    The 


The  four  gates   in  the  north  half  of  the  tunnel, 

the  middle  pier,  and  one  of  the  gates 

south  of  the  pier  are  here  shown. 

total  length  of  the  three  dams  is  over  one- 
fifth  of  a  mile.  To  empty  the  main  chan- 
nel of  its  terrific  rush  of  water  while  the 
last  dam  was  building,  the  island  to  the 
right  was  pierced  a  little  below  the  bed  of 
the  right  channel  by  four  huge  canals 
ten  feet  square  and  eighty  feet  long.  Mas- 
sive steel  gates  regulate  the  flow  at  will. 
The  cost  of  these  subway  canals  and  the 
electric  power  plant  constructed  some  dis- 
tance below  by  which  power  was  secured 
to  operate  the  electric  drills,  shovels,  der- 
ricks, cable  ways,  hoists,  pumps,  and  elec- 
tric lights,  has'^been  over  $100,000.00,  and 
yet  this  great  outlay  has  gone  for  no  per- 
manent part  of  the  finished  work,  which 
will  require  about  two  millions  and  a  half. 
The  surplus  water,  not  needed  for  the 
great  canals,  is  not  to  flow  over  the  rim 
of  the  dams  but  over  the  top  of  the  two 
islands,  of  which  the  intensely  hard  rock 
will  wear  away  but  slightly  in  a  lifetime. 


The  outlet  ends  of  all  of  the  eight  compartments 
of  the  tunnel  are  here  shown,  completed.  The 
ooffer  dam  in  front  wiU  be  removed  when  the 
tunnel  is  put  into  service. 


The  most  northerly  compartment  of  the  tunnel  is 

here    shown,    looking    up    stream    from   the 

lower  end.     This  is  the  shortest 

of  the  eight. 


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The   d&m   as   it   will   appear   when   completed. 


To  carry  over  this  water,  an  open  weir  of 
four  hundred  feet  in  width  is  located  on 
the  left  island,  which  will  ordinarily  keep 
the  water  level  above  the  dam.  In  case  of 
any  high  flood  from  any  cause,  a  further 
escape  is  provided  by  a  system  of  ninety- 
nine  waste  gates,  1500  feet  long,  sur- 
mounting the  right  island.  The  stability 
of  the  whole  structure  is  thus  settled 
beyond  question.  Except  for  the  first  four 
of  the  twenty-six  miles  of  the  canal  now 
completed,  no  heavy  rock  cuts  have  been 


necessary;  yet  the  moving  of  such  a  vast 
quantity  of  earth  required  a  small  army  of 
men  and  horses.  With  the  completion  of 
the  last  dam  the  rock  cutting  in  the  canal 
will  be  finished,  and  the  work  on  the  weir 
and  spillways  brought  to  an  end.  When 
all  is  ready,  the  old  Snake,  probably  eons 
older  than  Xiagara — and  this  marvel  of 
our  continent  is  more  than  a  quarter  of 
a  million  years  old — will  choke  and 
become  dry  below  the  great  dam  which  has 
filled  her  mouth  two  whole  davs  ere  the 


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A  group  of  railroad  officials  itandinff  at  the  rear 
of  their  private  train  at  Park  City,  Utah.  Mr. 
Kruttschnitt  is  the  figure  to  the  right;  next  to  him 
is  Mr.  Filer,  then  Mr.  Schumacher,  traffic  man- 
ager, Oregon  Short  Line;  Mr.  J.  C.  Stubbs,  traffic 
director,  Southern  Pacific  system,  is  the  next; 
Mr.  Monroe,  of  the  Union  Pacific,  located  at 
Omaha,  is  next,  and  Mr.  Buckingham,  superin- 
tendent of  the  Oregon  Short  Line,  with  head- 
quarters at  Salt  Lake  City,  is  the  last  figure 
to  the  left. 


canyon  above  is  filled  to  the  brim.  The 
hungry  old  miner  waits  impatiently  for 
this  day  of  days,  for  in  the  pockets  of  the 
canyon  below  he  believes  the  yellow  dust 
can  be  found  in  heaps. 

WTien  the  canyon  above  is  full  the  canal 
gates  will  be  thrown  open,  and  down  its 
new  channel  will  flow  a  river  of  no  mean 
proportions  for  twenty-six  miles,  when  it 
will  divide,  one  part  taking  a  high  line, 
the  other  a  low  line  course  until  they 
reach  the  river  below.  These  main  canak, 
together  with  the  laterals  and  ditches,  if 
placed  in  line,  would  reach  from  Portland 
to  San  Francisco  and  back. 

As  soon  as  the  water  is  turned  into  the 
canal,  the  Oregon  Short  Line  will  begin 
Imilding  a  road  through  the  length  of  the 
land,  out  over  which  the  ranchers  may 


send  his  products  as  far  east  as  New  York, 
or  to  Portland  on  the  west. 

This  great  project,  under  the  Carey 
Act,  whereby  Uncle  Sam  has  given  to 
those  states  which  contain  arid  lands  a 
million  acres,  provided  they  will  reclaim 
them,  is  a  poor  man's  opportunity,  and 
differs  in  this  respect  from  the  irrigating 
projects  now  being  undertaken  by  the  gov- 
ernment. The  man  who  wishes  to  secure 
a  homestead  under  the  government  plan 
must  live  upon  his  land  continuously  from 


I.    B.    Perrine. 


Showing    the    electric    engine    passing    the    canal 
headgates  site,  drawing  a  train  of  earth  cars. 


date  of  filing.  He  is  given  no  assurance 
of  getting  a  patent  to  more  than  40  acres 
of  the  160  he  files  upon,  and  this  only 
after  ''a  period  of  five  and  probably  ten 
years."  A\nhat  his  water  right  will  cost 
he  will  not  know  until  Uncle  Sam  has 
built  reservoirs,  constructed  canals  and 
opened  ditches  and  then  figures  out  each 
man's  share.  As  he  has  no  title,  he  can  not 
borrow  money  to  tide  him  over  a  time  of 
financial  stress.  Only  the  well-to-do 
farmer  can  hope  to  win  when  the  odds  are 
thus  against  him. 

Not  so  in  the  case  of  the  propositions 
under  the  Carey  Act,  for  on  payment  of 


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THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


A    newly    deTised    reToWinf    rake    for    gatherinx 

up    Mcebmsh   into    windrowi   after    it    has 

been   out  with   the    "frubber." 


25  cents  to  the  state  and  $3.00  to  the 
water  company  at  the  outset  he  has  the 
use  of  his  land  till  the  end  of  the  sec- 
ond year,  and  thereafter  he  pays  a  yearly 
sum  which  in  tea  years  amounts  to  $22.00 
an  acre,  at  which  time  he  gets  his  patent 
and  title  to  a  perpetual  water  right.  This 
he  may  secure  sooner  if  he  makes  pay- 
ment in  full  and  improves  one-eighth  of 
his  land.  Under  the  Carey  Act  the  settler 
has  credit  at  the  corner  grocery ;  under  the 
government  plan  he  has  no  credit,  for  he 
owns  nothing  until  the  government  pleases 
to  grant  him  title.  He  can  not  sell  or 
mortgage,  for  he  has  no  title  to  deliver. 
Under  the  former  plan  as  soon  as  the 
water  company  has  sold  one-half  of  the 
land  which  it  is  possible  to  irrigate,  then 
the  settlers  may  take  possession  of  and 
control  the  water  svstem.    Thus  it  is  read- 


ily seen  that  a  man  of  push  having  a  little 
capital  can  easily  get  a  splendid  home- 
stead in  Idaho,  and  if  he  takes  advantage 
of  his  opportunities,  the  time  will  not  be 
far  distant  when  he  will  become  a  farmer 
king,  independent  and  happy,  his  lands 
having  risen  in  value  to  $100.00  an  acre, 
with  the  certainty  of  going  much  higher, 
as  they  have  in  neighboring  localities. 

The  clearing  off  of  the  sagebrush,  the 
plowing  and  seeding  of  his  land  the 
farmer  can  do  himself;  or,  if  he  prefers, 
can  hire  it  done  at  about  $5.00  an  acre. 
Fences,  ditches  and  his  home  and  neces- 
sary buildings  will  cost  from  $500.00  to 
$1000.00  more,  so  that  with  a  strong  pair 
of  hands  and  about  $1000.00  capital  our 
Idaho  settler  can  see  his  way  clear  to 
secure  eighty  acres  of  land  (and  this  is 
a   big  ranch   in  the  irrigated   districts). 


The  main  canal  a  short  distance  from  the  intake. 


A  lateral,  showing  levees  built  up  from  bor- 
row pits  on  both  sides.  This  practice  has  been 
wisely  discontinued,  as  it  leaves  the  land  in  bad 
shape.  It  is  preferable  to  cut  the  laterals  deeper 
into  the  ground,  use  a  little  more  grade,  and  put 
in  check  gates  for  diverting  water  to  the  land. 


with  a  comfortable  homestead.  Plenty 
of  work  at  good  wages  can  be  had  while 
the  work  of  construction  of  canals  and 
laterals  is  being  completed  in  the  lower 
portions  of  the  great  tract,  and  this  will 
tide  him  over  till  his  alfalfa  crop  yields 
six  tons  an  acre  during  its  second  year's 
growth.  For  this  he  will  find  ready  sale 
to  stockmen  at  not  less  than  $6.00  a  ton 
in  the  stack.  Xo  pencil  is  needed  to  dis- 
cover that  the  net  returns  from  an  acre 
is  several  times  greater  than  the  farmer 
of  the  Middle  West  gets  from  his  acre  of 
corn  or  wheat.  A  small  orchard  of  large 
fruits  and  a  garden  of  small  fruits,  such 
as  cantaloupes  and  strawberries,  will  yield 
the  income  of  a  section  of  land  in  Dakota 
wheat,  even  if  the  producer  goes  as  far  east 


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as  the  Mississippi  River  for 
his  market.  Already  the  land 
which  can  be  watered  from  the 
twenty-six  miles  of  canal  near- 
ing  completion  —  30,000  acres 
—  is  sold.  On  October  20. 
in  addition  to  the  30,000 
acres  mentioned  above,  100,- 
000  acres  were  thrown  open 
for  settlement.  As  the  work 
progresses  similar  tracts  will 
be  thrown  open,  until  the 
whole  great  area,  one-fourth  as 
large  as  the  State  of  Rhode 
Island,  will  be  sold  and  be- 
come the  home  of  a  people  liv- 
ing under  conditions  of  com- 
munal interests  and  advan- 
tages not  surpassed  in  any 
country.  Every  modern  con- 
venience, from  the  telephone 
to  the  electric  heated  house 
and  automobile,  will  find  place 
here. 

When  one  stops  to  reflect 
that  within  a  few  miles  of  this 
tract  there  is  now  running  to 
waste  over  a  half  million  horse 
power  at  Shoshone,  Twin  and 
Augur  Falls,  and  that  at  no 
distant  day  these  unharnessed 
giants  will  be  set  to  work  in 
the  rich  mines  to  the  north  and 
south  and  in  the  turning  of 
spindles  and  the  flying  of 
shuttles,  he  gets  a  vision  of  in- 
dustrial growth  that  can  not 
but  arouse  enthusiasm.  In- 
deed, the  possibilities  of  this 
country,  when  its  many  irriga- 
tion projects  are  under  way 
and  its  enormous  horse  power 
has  been  utilized,  appal  the  im- 
agination. This  is  especially 
true  when  one  realizes  the  full 
meaning  of  the  unsurpassed 
climate,  the  freedom  from 
blizzards  and  cyclones,  the 
marvelous  productivity  of  the 
soil  and  the  great  wealth  of 
gold,  coal  and  lead.  It  is  a 
country  to  arouse  the  greatest 
enthusiasm  and  a  most  import- 
ant factor  in  the  upbuilding 
of  the  greater  and  grander 
America. 


OSPOWAH'S  GOOD  MEDICINE 


By  Benjamin  Franklin  Napkeys 


IT  WAS  a  hot  day  in  Archulita.  The 
sun  beat  down  out  of  a  cloudless 
sky,  just  as  it  had  for  the  past 
two  months.  There  were  few 
signs  of  life  in  the  adobe  village. 
Three  small,  half-naked  Mexican  boys  lay 
curled  up  in  the  shade  of  the  National 
Coal  Mining  Company's  office,  and  a  mel- 
ancholy cur  or  two  lolled  near  them  and 
snapped  at  the  flies. 

The  office  itself  looked  as  forlorn  and 
heat-distressed  as  the  landscape  in  gen- 
eral. Inside,  two  women  were  seated  near 
a  baby  carriage.  One  was  a  young  Mexi- 
can, the  other  the  wife  of  the  resident 
manager  of  the  company.  The  only  other 
occupant  of  the  office  was  the  manager 
himself,  Mr.  Alfred  Winslow.  He  and 
his  wife  were  new  to  this  region  of  brown 
plains,  alkali  dust  and  scorching  winds; 
and  the  little  town,  with  its  population 
of  Mexicans,  Indians,  half-breeds  and 
whites,  bored  them  exceedingly.  The  wife, 
however,  found  some  pleasure  in  visiting 
her  husband's  office,  where  she  could  watch 
the  picturesque  inhabitants. 

The  baby  awoke,  and  its  nurse  took  it 
over  to  the  window.  This  interested  the 
three  little  Mexicans  outside,  and  they 
came  up  for  a  closer  inspection. 

"Talk  to  them,  Mercedes,"  said  Mrs. 
Winslow.  "Ask  them  where  they  have 
been  to-day." 

Mercedes  complied.  "They  say,  have 
been  to  see  Sen  or  Sharp  put  man  in  calo- 
hosor 

"They've  seen  what?" 

"She  means  Marshal  Sharp,"  put  in 
Winslow.  "He  arrested  somebody  this 
morning  and  brought  him  to  town." 

"Oh,"  said  his  wife,  "go  on,  ask  them 
more  about  it,  Mercedes." 

The  nurse  questioned  the  boys  again, 
and  translated  their  reply.  "Some  ranch- 
cro,  they  say;  not  know  name,  they  say; 
not  know  why,  they  say." 

"Dear! — I  wish  they  did,"  sighed  Mrs. 
Winslow.  "An\i:hing  new  would  be  a 
blessing  this  hot  day." 

"Well,  here  comes  some  one  who  can  tell 
you,"  said  her  husband,  as  a  tall,  blue- 


shirted  man  entered.  "Hello,  Strouthers; 
hot,  isn't  it?  Who's  the  man  that  Sharp 
brought  in  this  morning?" 

"Good  afternoon,  everybody,"  said 
Strouthers.  "Yes,  it's  hot;  but  cheer  upl 
It'll  be  a  good  deal  hotter  before  long. 
I've  half  a  mind  to  go  over  an'  use  my 
influence  with  Ospowah,  an'  get  him  to 
change  the  weather  for  us,"  and  Strouth- 
ers laughed. 

"Who  is  Ospowah?"  asked  Mrs.  Wins- 
low. 

"He's  an  old  Ute  medicine  man — one 
of  these  Indians  that  claim  they  can  make 
grass  grow,  an'  cure  sickness,  an'  things 
like  that.  He  drifted  down  here  among 
the  Navajoes  years  ago.  I  s'pose  he  was 
driven  out  of  his  own  tribe  for  some  dirty 
work,  but  the  Navajoes  took  him  in,  an' 
he's  been  a  power  among  them  ever  since." 

"But  what  about  the  man  that  the  Mar- 
shal brought  in?" 

"He's  a  young  Greaser  that  had  a  lot 
of  cattle  with  some  other  man's  brand  on 
them.  Claims  he  bought  them  from  a 
man  from  the  North,  but  every  cattle 
rustler  says  that.  We've  telegraphed  the 
sheriff,  an'  he'll  be  down  on  to-morrow's 
train  to  take  him  up  for  trial." 

"Where  is  his  ranch?"  asked  Mrs. 
Winslow. 

"Out  about  eighteen  miles  on  the  old 
Fort  Lewis  road,"  answered  Strouthers. 
Mercedes  started  and  listened  intently  for 
the  next  remark. 

"What's  the  fellow's  name?"  asked 
Winslow. 

Strouthers  though  a  moment.  "Juan — ' ' 
Mercedes  put  the  baby  in  its  carriage  and 
waited  eagerly.  "Juan  I^amp — ero.  No, 
that's  not  it.     Juan  Candel — " 

"Senor,"  whispered  Mercedes,  "is  it 
Juan  Candelario?" 

"Yes,"  cried  Strouthers,  "that's  the 
man.     Do  you  know  him?" 

Mercedes  began  to  wring  her  Jiands  and 
walk  up  and  down  the  room.  "Si!  si! 
He  is  my  homhre,  mv  man!" 

"H— m^'  said  Strouthers.  "Well,  I'm 
sorry,  young  woman ;  hut  if  he's  taken  to 


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Santa  Fe  there  won't  be  a  weddin'  very 
soon,  to  say  the  least/' 

"Oh,  he  would  not  steal!  Juan  an 
honest  man,  senor!     Ask  the  padre!'' 

"My  poor  girl!''  said  Mrs.  Winslow, 
sympathetically.  "Is  he  guilty,  Mr. 
Strouthers?  Can  anything  be  done  for 
him?" 

"It  looks  like  he  was.  I  s'pose  she 
might  see  him  before  he's  taken  away, 
though;  if  that'll  be  any  satisfaction." 

''4^1/  51/  Senora.    I  may  go?" 

"Certainly.  Come,  Mr.  Strouthers,  I'll 
go,  too." 

The  little  party  soon  reached  the  jail, 
a  low,  flat-roofed,  adobe  structure,  and 
Strouthers  gained  them  permission  for  a 
few  minutes'  conversation  with  the  new 
prisoner.  Juan  Candelario  was  brought 
from  his  cell  to  the  office,  and  left  alone 
with  the  visitors. 

His  story  was  soon  told.  It  was  the 
same  old  tale,  so  familiar  to  Strouthers, 
of  how  the  prisoner  had  bought  the  stolen 
cattle  from  a  stranger  who  could  not  be 
found.  He  told  it  without  hei station, 
however,  and  his  open,  honest  face  did 
much  to  convince  his  hearers  of  his  inno- 
cence. 

"Now,"  said  Mrs.  Winslow,  when  Juan 
had  been  taken  back  to  his  cell,  "I  believe 
that  man  did  l)uy  those  cattle.  Cheer  up, 
Mercedes.  I  know  that  before  Juan's  case 
comes  to  trial  we  can  find  the  man." 

"He's  out  of  the  country  by  now," 
Strouthers  said. 

"Can  nothing  be  done,  then?" 

"Don't  know,  I'm  sure,  unless  we  get 
Ospowah  to  conjure  him  out.  All  the 
Navajo  bucks  say  that  he  can  do  any- 
thing," answered  Strouthers,  with  a  poor 
attempt  at  wit. 

"Don't  talk  so,"  said  Mrs.  Winslow. 
"Can't  you  see  that  the  poor  girl  believes 
everything  you  say?    It's  a  shame!" 

The  caution  came  too  late.  Mercedes 
had  caught  at  the  straw,  and  begged  to 
be  allowed  to  visit  the  reservation. 

"Better  let  her  go,"  whispered  Strouth- 
ers. "It'll  take  her  mind  off  her  troubles, 
anyway.  I'm  awful  sorry  I  said  an\i:hing 
about  it,  but  all  of  us  can  drive  over.  I 
know  you'd  like  to  see  the  Navajo  settle- 
ment, Mrs.  Winslow,  an'  Ospowah's  worth 
a  visit,  besides." 

Mrs.  Winslow  agreed,  and  they  were 
soon  on  the  way  to  the  Navajo  reservation, 
on  the  outskirts  of  Archulita.    Strouthers 


stopped  at  the  door  of  the  worst  looking 
hut  in  the  place  and  went  inside.  He 
emerged  presently  with  the  announcement 
that  the  Indian  would  receive  them. 

"Will  he  do  anything  for  Juan,  senor?'' 
asked  Mercedes. 

"Oh,  I  s'pose  he'll  throw  a  few  fits  or 
somethin'.  He'll  do  anything  for  money; 
but  come  in  an'  see  him." 

They  entered  a  small  room,  about 
twelve  feet  square,  carpeted  with  coyote 
and  wolf  skins.  On  the  walls  hung  gar- 
ments trimmed  with  beads,  and  in  one 
corner  was  a  string  of  scalp-locks,  the  last 
grisly  reminders  of  the  owner's  life  in  the 
old  days  among  his  own  people.  On  a 
heap  of  beautiful  Navajo  blankets  in  a 
comer  sat  Ospowah,  smoking  a  dirty 
corncob  pipe.  There  was  nothing  about 
the  wrinkled  figure  that  suggested  any 
nobility  of  character,  nor  any  power  such 
as  his  adopted  tribe  claimed  for  him.  He 
was  an  ordinary  modern  Indian,  that  was 
all. 

"Hey,  wake  up,  you  old  villain,"  said 
Strouthers.  "You've  got  visitors.  Get  up 
and  talk." 

Ospowah  uncoiled  himself  from  the 
heap  of  blankets  and  rose  to  his  feet. 
"What  squaws  come  see  ol'  Ospowah?" 
he  croaked.  "Buy  blankets,  moccasin, 
scalp-lock?  Long  time  ago  Ute  squaws 
think  scalp-lock  heap  good,  long  time 
ago,"  and  he  laughed  in  a  cruel,  senile 
wav  that  made  Mrs.  Winslow  shudder. 

"Shut  up  about  your  Ute  squaws  an' 
their  scalp-locks,"  growled  Strouthers.  "I 
don't  doubt  that  they  was  bloody-minded 
enough ;  but  we  didn't  come  down  to  hear 
about  them.  This  girl  wants  you  to  throw 
a  fit  or  somethin'  that'll  get  her  young 
man  out  of  jail.  I  s'pose  you've  not  for- 
gotten how  to  make  good  medicine?" 

At  the  word  "medicine,"  Ospowah 
straightened  up  and  tried  to  look  digni- 
fied. "Me  big  medicine-man  once,  heap 
big  medicine,"  he  said.  Strouthers 
laughed. 

Ospowah  walked  over  and  put  his  hand 
on  Strouthers'  shoulder.  "You.  no  b'lieve 
Ospowah  got  medicine  to  get  buck  out 
jail?  Ospowah  can,  only  too  much  lot 
trouble,  that  why.  You  no  b'lieve,  that 
why?" 

"Sure,"  answered  Strouthers,  "sure,  I 
believe  it.  That's  why,  being  a  deputy 
marshal,  I  brought  this  girl  over  here. 
Oh,  I  believe  it — certainly." 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Ospowah  began  to  grow  angry.  "You 
go/^  he  said.  "Let  two  squaws  talk  medi- 
cine talk.^^ 

Strouthers  was  about  to  refuse,  when 
he  caught  an  imploring  look  from  Mer- 
cedes; so  he  turned  to  Mrs.  Winslow  and 
said:  "Well,  1^11  stand  right  outside  the 
door,  an'  we'll  let  the  girl  make  arrange- 
ments with  the  old  cuss.  It'll  kinder  make 
her  more  hopeful,  an'  she'll  have  the  pleas- 
ure of  thinkin',  after  it's  all  over,  that 
she  done  what  she  could." 

"Now,"  said  Ospowah,  after  Strouthers 
had  gone,  "now,  squaw,  talk  medicine," 
and  he  looked  at  Mercedes  inquiringly. 
She  spoke  for  some  time  in  the  Mexican- 
Indian  dialect,  Ospowah  nodding  his  head 
and  putting  in  a  word  now  and  then. 
When  she  finished,  she  took  a  little  bag 
from  her  bosom  and  handed  it  to  the 
medicine  man. 

"Why,  Mercedes,"  said  Mrs.  Winslow, 
"isn't  that  the  money  you've  saved  from 
your  wages?" 

Mercedes  nodded.  "For  him;  to  pay 
Juan  out,"  she  said. 

"Don't  give  it  to  him.  He  has  no  power 
to  help  Juan.  Save  the  money  for  the 
trial,  if  you  like." 

"No !  no !"  put  in  Ospowah.  "Buck  get 
out.  Sheriff  no  take  buck  away.  You 
see!" 

Mercedes  refused  to  retract  her  gift, 
and  the  two  women  went  outside,  where 
Strouthers  was  waiting  for  them. 

"Well,"  asked  that  worthy,  "did  he 
agree  to  get  him  out,  young  woman?" 

Mercedes  answered  affirmatively. 

"He'd  better  be  pretty  quick,  then,  for 


to-morrow  afternoon  the  sheriff  '11  be  here. 
Just  think  of  me,  a  deputy  marshal, 
aidin'  an'  abettin'  a  crazy  old  medicine- 
man to  bunco  a  poor  girl  into  thinkin'  he 
can  conjure  people  out  of  jail!  But  I'll 
make  him  give  her  back  the  money  in  a 
couple  of  days,  Mrs.  Winslow." 

The  next  day  Strouthers  started  out 
with  Marshal  Sharp  after  more  law- 
breakers. For  the  first  time  in  the  history 
of  the  railroad  there  was  no  train  that 
afternoon  from  the  outside  world.  Early 
in  the  evening  a  dispatch  came,  stating 
that  a  cloudburst  and  washout  had  oc- 
curred in  Eagle  Canyon,  about  forty  miles 
above.  The  track  was  torn  away  and 
sand  piled  upon  the  roadbed,  so  that  there 
could  be  no  train  to  the  town  for  several 
days.  This  delayed  the  arrival  of  the 
sheriff,  and  Mercedes  was  comforted. 
Late  that  night  Strouthers  galloped  up 
to  Winslow's  house  and  knocked  excitedly 
on  the  door. 

"Say,"  he  said,  when  Winslow  appeared, 
"tell  Mercedes  that  the  Greaser  didn't 
steal  them  cattle,  after  all.  I  met  the 
right  cuss  on  the  road  to-day.  He  was 
ridin'  back  to  give  himself  up — said  devils 
had  been  chasin'  him  since  last  night,  an' 
drivin'  him  back  here.  An',  say,  I  stopped 
at  old  Ospowah's  just  now,  an'  found  him 
lyin'  beastly  drunk,  with  all  his  drums, 
an'  snake-skins,  an'  such  medicine-man's 
truck  around  him.  Tell  Mercedes  that 
her  young  man'll  be  let  loose  in  the 
mornin',  an'  Marshal  Sharp  an'  I'll  dance 
at  the  weddin',  just  to  show  that  there's 
no  hard  feelin's.  Good  -  night,"  and 
Strouthers  rode  away. 


THE  MINER 

Deep  in  the  man-made  pits  of  earth. 

Far  from  the  world  and  the  son, 
A  lonely  slave  in  a  Titan's  grave, 

He  toils  till  the  day  is  done. 

But  his  faith  is  high  as  the  shaft  is  deep, 

While  he  hews  at  the  stubborn  rock; 
And  his  heart  gives  a  bound  at  the  shift-bell's  sound. 

And  his  blood  goes  red  with  the  shock. 

Then  he  thinks  of  the  dear  ones  that  wait  above, 

And  his  step  on  the  lift  is  light. 
And  his  soul  offers  up  a  simple  prayer  to  God  of  the  earth- 
pits,  God  of  the  air, 
God  of  the  day  and  night. 

—Julia  Josephson. 


Oystering   on   tke   Pacific   Coast 


By  M.   H.  Tator 


Oystering  on  Bhoalwater  Bay,   Washin^rton. 


IT  IS  a  boast  of  the  people  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  States  that,  some- 
where in  their  specially  favored 
section  of  God's  green  earth,  they 
can  raise  anything  that  is  produced 
anywhere  else  in  the  world.  There  may 
be  exceptions,  but  the  oyster  is  not  one  of 
them.  If  the  average  inhabitant  of  the 
East  or  Middle  West  were  to  be  ap- 
proached with  the  query,  do  oysters  grow 
in  the  Pacific  Ocean?  the  answer  would 
probably  be,  no.  Indeed,  very  few  of  the 
Californians,  Oregonians,  and  Washing- 
tonians  themselves  realize  to  what  an 
extent  the  oyster-raising  industry  is  being 
carried  on. 

Among  the  leading  points  where  the 
oyster  is  being  grown,  the  bays  about  San 
Francisco,  Yaquina  and  Netarts  in  Ore- 
gon, Shoalwater  and  Olympia  in  Wash- 
ington must  be  noted. 

Probably  the  earliest  oystering  on  this 
coast  was  done  at  San  Francisco  away 
back  before  the  days  of  the  Forty-niners. 
In  1851  six  men  from  San  Francisco 
chartered  the  schooner  Robert  Bruce  and 
set  sail  for  Shoalwater  Bay,  Wash.,  some 
twenty  miles  above  the  mouth  of  the 
mighty  Columbia.  They  were  convinced 
from  Indian  reports  and  otherwise  that 


oysters  were  abundant  there,  and  this  they 
found  to  be  true.  Coming  to  anchor  on 
the  north  shore  of  the  bay,  at  a  point 
later  called  Bruceport,  they  began  to  lay 
plans  to  ^'tong"  a  shipload  of  the  bay^s 
best,  but  the  ship's  cook  fell  out  with  the 
company  and  in  an  evil  hour  set  the 
schooner  afire  that  he  might  work  his 
spite  upon  Captain  Ledlow  and  his  crew. 
Among  the  men  that  came  on  the  Bruce, 
John  S.  Morgan  has  been  most  successful. 
For  years  he  lived  in  the  old  village  of 
Oysterville,  across  the  beautiful  bay  where 
he  saw  his  first  venture  go  up  in  smoke. 
San  Francisco  now  numbers  him  among 
her  many  millionaires 

Every  bay  has  its  oyster.  Those  well 
informed  tell  us  that  a  flavor  peculiar 
to  itself  characterizes  the  native  oyster  of 
every  oyster  bed  warmed  by  the  Japan  Cur- 
rent. To  the  older  residents  of  the  Coast, 
our  native  oysters  are  Ihe  ne  plus  ultra, 
possessing  for  them  a  flavor  not  ap- 
proached by  their  fatter  cousin  of  the 
Gulf  Stream  coast.  Easterners  usually 
fail  to  relish  the  Pacific  oyster  on  first 
acquaintance,  complaining  of  an  oily, 
fishy  twang;  but  the  taste  is  soon  acquired, 
and  never  lost. 


Preparinir    the    oysters    for    market. 


Interior  of  an  oyster  packing  plant  on  Bhoalwater  Bay,  Washinarton. 


OYSTERING  ON  THE  PACIFIC  COx\ST. 


293 


For  two  reasons  young  stock  from  the 
Atlantic  Coast  is  now  being  extensively 
used  here:  first,  because  the  native  stock 
is  getting  short,  and  second,  because  the 
Eastern  oyster  finds  a  more  ready  sale  at 
higher  prices.  Oystermen  prefer  to  get 
their  Eastern  stock  as  "spats,"  that  is,  one 
year  old;  and  these,  wlien  ready  for  the 
table,  after  three  or  four  years,  are  larger 
than  they  would  have  been  at  home,  many 
of  them  selling  readily  as  ''count s." 

The  young  stock  is  purchased  largely 
from  Massachusetts  bays  and  is  shipped  in 
barrels,  dry,  in  refrigerator  cars,  a  carload 
of  150  barrels  costing  the  growers  over 
$1,000.00  laid  down  here. 

The  first  company  to  import  the  East- 
ern stock  began  operations  seven  years 
ago.  Their  purchases  last  year  amounted 
to  twenty-four  carloads,  full  a  half  of  the 
total  importation. 

The  combined  output  of  the  various 
companies  engaged  in  the  oyster  industry 
in  Washington  is  estimated  at  from  3,500 
to  4,500  sacks  of  ninety  pounds  each  every 
month.  The  price  per  sack  in  the  mar- 
kets of  San  Francisco,  Salt  Lake  City, 
Portland,  Spokane  and  Seattle  ranges 
from  $2.25  to  $3.25.  At  a  glance  it  is 
seen  that  the  yearly  output  of  the  12,000 
acres  of  oyster  beds  in  this  bav  vields  the 


goodly  sum  of  over  $100,000. 

Besides  oystering,  the  business  of  can- 
ning the  juicy,  fine-flavored,  razor-backed 
clams  is  of  considerable  proportions. 
These  thin-shelled  clams  are  dug  from  the 
ocean  beach  at  low  tide,  and  when  minced 
or  put  up  whole  make  as  delicious  a  soup 
or  chowder  as  can  be  found  anywhere. 
The  president  of  the  company,  wlio  is  a 
woman,  by  the  way,  tells  us  that  she  is 
finding  a  ready  market  as  far  east  as  St. 
Paul. 

Let  us  set  off  in  the  gray  of  the  morn- 
ing with  a  sturdy  oyster  laddie  to  the 
banks  where  the  bivalves  thrive.  Hoist- 
ing sail,  with  his  oyster  scow  in  tow,  he 
heads  off  to  a  distant  spot,  and  from  the 
boundary  posts  knows  that  he  is  within 
his  own  preserves,  for  every  acre  of  the 
bay  available  for  oyster  growing  is  owned 
by  some  one.  x\rmed  with  two  rake-like 
tools,  he  now  begins  "tonging"  and  draw- 
ing up  the  oysters,  throwing  them  upon 
the  scow.  In  fine  weather,  when  the  tide 
is  low  and  the  beds  are  good,  our  com- 
panion can  "tong"  over  a  hundred  sacks 
a  day.  Our  boat  is  loaded,  and  we  are  off 
for  the  culling  scow  near  shore,  where 
the  whole  pile  is  sorted  by  hand  and  the 
young  oysters  taken  out  to  be  returned 
to  the  beds  for  another  period  of  growth. 


A  view  of  the  oyster  beds  of  Shoalwater  Bay,   Washin^on. 


THE  POTTERS  VESSEL 


By  Aloysius  Coll 


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'HEX  a  girl  blushes 
like  that,  Peggy,  to 
hide  the  secret  in  her 
heart,  that  secret  can 
be  only  one  thing." 

"I  know,  Polly.  It's  good  of  you  to  dig 
<lown  into  the  bottom  of  my  heart  and  fish 
it  up  without  making  me  beat  about  the 
bush,  and  tell  half  a  dozen  fibs  about  it. 
But  it  is  hard  to  blurt  it  right  out,  you 
know  it  is." 

The  young  girl  emphasized  her  words 
with  a  gentle  shake  of  her  head.  As  she 
looked  up,  the  October  breeze  caught  the 
errant  strands  of  her  sunny  hair,  and 
tugged  at  them,  inviting  them  to  a  romp 
with  the  thistle-down  that  floated  down 
the  brown  slope  to  the  yellow-brown  road, 
which  in  turn  seemed  to  race  on  and  on 
with  the  tinge  and  the  tint  of  autumn, 
till  it  reached  the  silver  ribbon  of  the 
river,  stretching  across  the  mouth  of  the 
Talley  like  a  white  pennant  in  the  bill  of 
a  homing  dove.  Even-thing  about  the  two 
picturesque  figures  on  the  ledge  of  stone 
below  the  abandoned  stone  quarry  sug- 
gested the  brown  autumn  —  the  autumn 
that  is  brown  and  gray.  Above  them  the 
brown  bank  of  grass  and  fallen  leaves 
sloped  back,  like  the  brow  of  a  bronzed 
warrior,  to  a  gray  fence,  streaked  with  the 
silver  hair  of  dried  lichens.  At  their  feet 
was  a  little  mat  of  brown  leaves,  blown 
into  the  quarry  like  amber  wine  poured 
into  a  bowl.  Across  the  valley  the  brown 
trees  dropped,  one  by  one,  their  brown 
leaves  into  the  grass,  and  overhead  the 
wind  piloted  a  random  gray  cloud  across 
the  uncharted  skies.  Even  the  eyes  of  the 
}oung  girl  were  gray,  and  those  of  her 
elder  companion  and  confidant  were  brown 
and  striking  still,  for  all  Miss  Polly's  six 
and  thirty  autumns,  and  had  in  them  more 
of  good  fellowship  than  curiosity.  ^Xever- 
theless,  they  were  kind  and  sympathetic, 
and  invited  confession. 

"I  know  he's  much  older  than  I  am," 
continued  the  younger  girl,  confidingly, 
^Ijut  not  so  much  older,  as  the  world  looks 
on  it  to-day.    Then,  he  is  so — " 

"Do  you  love  him?"  was  Polly's  quick 


interruption,  cutting  oQ  the  rehearsal  ot 
one  man's  good  qualities. 

For  answer  Peggy  only  murmured 
something  too  low  to  be  understood,  and 
buriecTher  face  in  her  lap. 

''I  wish  I  could  look  about  me,"  said 
Peggy,  after  a  moment's  contemplation  and 
broken  thought,  "like  you  do,  Polly,  and 
lose  myself  and  all  my  troubles  in  the 
flowers  and  the  birds,  and  the — troubles 
of  other  people.  Do  you  know,  Polly,  I 
believe  you  were  never  worried  by  these 
big  affairs  of  the  mind  and  heart,  for  if 
you  wore,  you  couldn't  forget  them  for 
others — not  even  for  me." 

''I  should  never  wish  to  forget  you, 
Peggy,"  said  the  other,  quickly,  and  with 
calm  reproach.  "Xow,  little  one,  what's 
the  matter?  YouVe  given  me  a  dozen 
hints,  but  you  don't  explain.  AVhat  is  the 
matter?" 

Pegg}^  sighed  long  and  deeply.  "Every- 
thing's the  matter.'* 

"Then  that  means  that  one  thing,  and 
only  one  thing,  is  the  matter." 

"But,  Polly  dear,  one  thing — when  that 
is  the  one  thing — puts  everything  else 
wrong — with  me." 

Polly  looked  at  her  companion  curiously, 
a  little  smile  lengthening  the  corners  of 
her  mouth. 

"Polly,  you've  helped  so  many  of  the 
girls — I'll  tell  you  ever}i:hing.  Yes,  you 
have,  for  they've  told  me.  We're  always 
bothering  you  for  good  advice,  as  if  you 
were  our  mothers.  Yes,  for  we  can  talk 
to  you  even  easier  than  we  can  to  our 
mothers;  I  don't  know  why — perhaps  be- 
cause we  know  you  never  had  the^e 
troubles  of  the  heart,  while  we  feel  that 
our  mothers,  having  had  to  do  with  men, 
must  have  had  them.  So  we  feel  a  little 
guilty,  \ou  see,  when  approaching  them  on 
a  subject  which  we  know  is  like  an  X-ray 
drawn  over  our  own  souls,  to  show  them 
our  most  sacred  secrets.  That's  the  rea- 
son we  come  to  you,  Polly ;  we  know  your 
advice  will  be  given  without  a  tinge  of 
personal  chagrin,  or — the  cloud  of  mem- 
ory." 

Polly  smiled.  She  saw  much  to  interest 
her,  it  seemed,  in  the  yellow-brown  road 


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leading  out  to  the  silver  river.  Peggy 
screwed  up  her  mouth,  dug  her  hands  into 
her  lap  as  if  to  bolster  up  courage,  and 
continued:  "Xow,  Polly,  I've  had  a 
quarrel." 

Polly  smiled  again,  this  time  with  the 
merest  burst  of  laughter.  She  did  not 
seem  to  think  a  quarrel  such  a  dreadful 
thing,  after  all,  Peggy  was  forced  to  make 
further  revelation. 

"But  the  man  with  whom  I  quarreled, 
PoUy— it's  different." 

"Your  lover,  I  suppose,"  suggested 
Polly;  "girls  always  quarrel  with  their 
lovers;  they  fight  with  their  brothers.'' 

"Yes — Polly,  you  know  who  it  was." 

The  other  was  gazing  into  the  leaves  at 
her  feet.  From  one  of  the  little  vines 
that  dared  to  come  out  from  the  crannies 
of  the  stone  ledge,  she  plucked  a  golden 
leaf,  tried  the  contrast  by  matching  it 
with  the  gray  goods  over  her  breast,  then 
suddenly  removed  it  and  twined  it  in 
Peggy^s  golden  hair.  With  admiring  eyes 
she  looked  upon  her.  "I  can  not  under- 
stand how  Henry  Herbert  could  quarrel 
with  you,  Peggy,"  she  said,  quietly. 

"Polly,  there's  no  use  flattering  me 
now;  it's  advice  I  need — a  scolding,  I 
believe." 

Polly  made  no  reply,  and  Peggy  contin- 
ued: "It  was  just  a  trifle;  a  few  words. 
It  all  happened  at  the  dance  two  weeks 
ago.  All  because  I  split  one  of  Henry's 
dances  for  Billy  South;  Henry  despises 
him.  So  do  I,  but  a  girl  can't  let  a  man 
own  her  outright.  It  was  just  a  little  test 
of  his  love.  But  pride,  Polly,  I  forgot 
about  that.  And  men  have  it,  too.  It's  a 
hobby  of  their's.  Henry  has  more  than 
most  men;  so  things  have  gone  from  bad 
to  worse,  till  ten  whole  days,  and  nights, 
have  gone  by,  and  he's  never  been  near  the 
house!  What  am  I  to  do? — send  him  a 
meek  little  note,  or  shall  I  continue  to 
hold  out  till  he  is  brought  to  my  feet  on 
his  knees  ?"  There  was  genuine  distress  in 
Peggy's  countenance.  "Maybe,"  she  added, 
grimly,  "Henry's  not  of  the  praying  kind, 
and  will  not  be  brought  to  his  knees !" 

Polly  was  silent  a  long  time.  The  other 
took  her  silence  for  the  deliberation  of  a 
judge  who  is  confronted  by  a  knotty  legal 
tangle. 

"I  think  it  would  be  wrong  for  me  to 
attempt  to  give  advice  in  this  case,  Peggy," 
she  said,  finally.  "You  have  lived  in  our 
town  only  a  little  over  a  year,  and  you  do 


not  know  everything.  But  listen — I'm  go- 
ing to  tell  you  a  story." 

She  did  not  settle  herself  as  if  for  a  long 
tale.  The  calmness  of  her  face  was  not 
perturbed.  "It  has  pleased  some  of  the 
younger  girls  to  look  upon  me  as  a  demure 
little  old  maid — isn't  that  so? — a  potter's 
vessel  that  has  never  seen  the  fire.  Some- 
times, Peggy,  the  vessel  that  is  fired  is  the 
stronger  for  its  burning — but  sometimes, 
that  which  has  been  in  the  furnace,  having 
suffered  hidden  cracks,  is  weaker  than  that 
unglazed  clay  shape  fresh  from  the  model. 
I  know  a  little  old  maid,  with  brown  eyes 
and  yellow  hair — " 

Peggy  looked  up  with  a  startle. 

"Whom  many  looked  upon  as  a  vessel 
that  bore  no  hidden  wound,  because  few, 
very  few,  are  privileged  to  see  the  potter 
put  his  vessels  into  the  kiln.  God  is  that 
master  potter,  Peggy,  and  did  it  ever  seem 
to  you  that  in  that  furnace  of  love  many 
vessels  have  been  scarred  by  the  fire,  while 
others  have  been  made  strong  and  beauti- 
ful by  it?" 

She  ceased  abruptly.  "Let  us  call  the 
little  old  maid  the  Fragile  Vessel,"  she 
said,  "for  that  is  what  the  little  old  maid's 
heart  was  like,  then.  Now  it  is  as  a  ves- 
sel in  which  many  confide  their  secrets  as 
if  into  the  keeping  of  some  strong  treasure 
casket.  But  at  that  time  the  Fragile  Ves- 
sel had  not  yet  seen  the  fire.  It  was  very, 
very  young,  and  fresh  clay  is  impression- 
able. But  it  was  fair  of  form,  and  the  clay 
of  which  it  was  molded  was  so  sensitive 
that  images  of  the  birds,  the  flowers,  the 
reflection  of  the  brook,  and  all  the  bright 
and  good  things  of  the  world  were  caught 
up  in  its  sun-lighted  walls,  and  stored  as 
sacred  within.  One  day — a  great  treasure 
slipped  into  the  Fragile  Vessel,  and  grow- 
ing great  for  joy  within,  could  never  be 
withdrawn  out.  Peggy,  you  know  what 
that  treasure  was.     .     .     . 

"How  did  the  treasure  come  to  be 
within?  The  Vessel  itself  scarcely  knew. 
A  young  man  came  between  it  and  the 
great  sun.  He  was  as  an  enchanting 
shadow;  and  his  face  came  to  be  graven 
on  the  Vessel,  more  clearly  than  all  the 
flowers  and  the  birds  and  the  mountains 
and  brooks,  and  his  name  was  stored  away 
within  its  heart  forever. 

"And  under  the  touch  of  this  strangely 
soothing  potter,  the  Fragile  Vessel  be- 
came a — a  woman!  And  what  had  been 
only  an  impression  before,  now  crystallized 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


as  the  very  breath  of  life,  the  flesh  and 
blood  of  that  woman's  being,  the  soul  of 
her  destiny  and  the  end  of  her  every  hope. 
The  wine  of  love  ran  red  on  her  lips.  The 
undertow  of  happiness  splashed  up  from 
the  well-springs  of  her  heart,  and  glistened 
like  dewdrops  in  her  eyes.  The  glory  of 
content  danced  on  her  hair. 

"But  with  the  power  of  love,  came  the 
dominion  of  love, — woman's  love.  Love 
was  strong,  love  seemed  all-conquering. 
And  love  took  up  the  torcli  of  pride,  and, 
hurling  it  into  the  golden  abyss,  trans- 
formed the  valleys  of  heaven  into  the  rag- 
ing pits  of  hell!     .     .     . 

"How  was  it  done?  Oh,  so  easily.  A 
little  test  of  love ;  one  rising  suspicion ;  one 
word  of  pride,  one  glance  of  bitterness — 
and  then  the  parting ! 

"Yes — ^he  came  back.  The  Fragile  Ves- 
sel, now  the  little  old  maid,  had  been  visit- 
ing his  sister;  and  the  whisper  had  gone 
the  rounds  that  he  had  come  back  to  re- 
claim his  love  of  the  years  gone  by,  to 
reclaim  the  love  that  in  the  maiden's 
heart  had  grown  sweeter  and  sweeter  for 
years  of  ripening.'' 

She  paused,  and  peered  down  the  yellow 
road,  that  stretched  away  to  the  silver 
river.  "See  that  young  girl  coming  along 
with  those  two  big  baskets,  Peggy.  I  do 
hope  that  man  in  the  wagon  just  turning 
into  the  valley  will  catch  up  and  help  her 
along.  If  he  doesn't  I  intend  to  give  her 
a  lift  myself  when  she  gets  this  far.'' 

"But  the  man — ^the  maiden,"  prompted 
Peggy. 

"Well,  sudden  hope  made  her — foolish. 
It  was  June — Jxme  of  this  year.  She  went 
down  the  garden  walk  to  meet  him,  in  the 
moonlight.  The  garden  was  abloom.  Iris 
nodded  a  God-speed  on  her  journey  of 
love.  And  the  little  old  maid's  heart  made 
answer  to  every  sound,  and  to  the  sjlence, 
and  to  the  whisper  of  the  wind  and  the 
perfume  of  the  darkness  and  the  star- 
shine.  For  love  tipped  the  stars  with 
tongues  of  light  that  dropped  like  arrows 
of  fire  at  her  feet;  and  every  tree  seemed 
a  cradle  of  her  hope,  wherein  the  wind 
crooned  her  soothing  lullabies. 

"The  moon  lifted  his  head  from  the  pil- 
low of  clouds ! 

"He  came!  First  a  dim  shadow  hurry- 
ing along  the  old  gray  wall,  lengthening 
and  lengthening,  like  a  filmy  giant — ah, 


how  love  grew  in  the  little  old  maid's 
heart,  as  that  shadow  grew  and  grew  on 
the  old  gray  wall ! 

"Then  —  his  head  and  shoulders — 
showed  above  the — gray  stones  of  the  gar- 
den wall!  A  hush  on  the  flowers! — A 
stutter  of  welcome  at  the  gatelatch — and 
the  little  old  maid  turned  her  face  from 
the  moonlight  to  his  breath — and  forgot 
all  words  of  greeting  in  his  arms ! 

"The  moonlight  was  on  her  hair,  gold, 
gold,  gold  in  the  silver  night  for  all  the 
hairs  of  white  that  might  have  shone  in 
the  day;  she  heard  him  murmur  about  its 
glory,  and  she  felt  his  lips  upon  it !  Her 
hands  were  in  the  clasp  of  his,  and  she  felt 
his  breath  upon  them.  Her  face  was  close 
to  his  breast;  he  could  not  look  into  it — 
but  he  spoke — he  called — " 

Here  the  voice  broke.  Peggy  looked  up. 
Polly  was  smiling,  but  through  quick  tears 
that  had  started  to  her  eyes. 

"He  called  your  name,"  finished  Peggy ; 
"yes,  yes,"  she  emphasized,  carried  away 
by  the  tale,  and  deceived  by  the  brave  smile 
on  the  other's  face  into  believing  those 
tears  tears  of  joy. 

"He  called— NOT  MY  NAME— AX- 
OTHER'S  !" 

"Another's !"  For  the  first  time  'Peggy 
comprehended  that  it  had  been  a  tragedy, 
not  a  sunny  romance,  that  had  been  un- 
folding before  her  in  the  brown  autumn. 
"Oh,  Polly,  I  never  heard — I  never 
knew — " 

"He  was  deceived,  by  the  hair,  Pegg}% 
in  the  moonlight — " 

"Did  he  ever  explain?  Who  was  the 
other — ^the  other  girl?" 

"I  wish  her  much  joy,"  said  the  little 
old  maid,  with  sweet  significance,  drawing 
the  young  girl  to  her,  and  kissing  her  fer- 
vently on  the  smooth  white  brow  and  on 
the  gel  den  hair,  close  beside  the  yellow 
October  leaf. 

Then  she  turned  about  quickly.  "Look, 
Peggy,  how  glad  I  am !  The  man  in  the 
wagon  has  stopped.  See !  he  is  lifting  the 
little  girl  into  the  wagon !" ' 

The  fair  young  girl  with  the  autumn 
leaf  in  her  hair  said  nothing. 

It  seemed  to  her,  as  she  looked  off  into 
the  valley,  that  she  could  see  one  potters 
vessel  crash  into  another  on  the  silver 
river,  and  sink  it  in  the  sunlight. 


By  WILLIAM  BITTLE  WELLS 


In  1905  Portland,  with  the  assistance  of  many  states  in  the  West,  British 
Columbia  and  our  national  government,  will  hold  an  exposition — a  very  dangerous 
thing  to  do.  Dangerous  for  two  reasons :  First,  there  has  been  a  special  tendency 
in  enterprises  of  this  kind  for  the  city  in  which  the  exposition  is  held  to  become 
ambitious  and  overstep  the  bounds  of  conservative  management.  As  the  enterprise 
grows,  it  is  realized  that  it  would  be  a  fine  thing  to  have  this  and  that,  and  ambition 
piles  up  the  debts,  the  incurring  of  which  in  ordinary  business  enterprises  would 
not  be  tolerated.  It  was  so  in  Chicago.  It  has  been  especially  true  of  Buffalo 
and  St.  Louis.  This  is  the  first  and  great  danger.  The  second  is  in  supposing 
that  people  will  come  West  in  large  numbers  to  see  the  exposition  itself.  Such  a 
supposition  misunderstands  the  real  object  of  the  exposition  and  the  conditionj? 
which  surround  us,  and  we  might  as  well  admit  it,  between  ourselves,  here  and  now. 
The  exposition  is,  or,  at  least,  should  be,  a  means  toward  an  end — not  an  end 
itself.  As  we  understand  the  matter,  the  object  of  this  exposition  is  not  so  much 
to  make  a  great  display  as  it  is  to  advertise  the  best  part  of  the  world  and  get 
people  here.  The  exposition  is  an  advertising  scheme,  and  it  is  a  good  one.'  We 
know  what  we  have  out  here.  There  would  be  no  business  sense  at  this  time,  there- 
fore, in  spending  all  the  money  that  will  be  spent  simply  to  felicitate  ourselves  upon 
our  accomplishments  and  our  own  good  fortune  in  living  in  the  West  and  the  con- 
sequent misfortune  of  others.  Our  benevolent  object  in  this  exposition  enterprise 
is  to  tell  the  benighted  individuals  who  are  so  blind  and  unfortunate  as  to  live 
where  blizzards,  snow,  ice,  droughts,  insufferable  heat,  and  all  such  inconveniences 
of  life  make  existence  a  burden,  something  of  our  blessings  and  opportunities  and 
induce  them  to  come  West.  The  exposition  becomes,  therefore,  the  piece  de  re- 
sistance  of  an  advertising  plan,  and  advertising  the  most  important  thing  in 
connection  with  the  exposition,  second  not  even  to  the  buildings  and  display.  Peo- 
ple who  come  West  in  1905  are  not  going  to  expect  a  great  exposition  in  Portland, 
though  we  shall  have  one  that  will  be  noteworthy  and  a  splendid  success.  They 
will,  however,  see  a  greater  exposition  than  the  world  has  ever  held  before — the 
exposition  of  our  climate,  our  wonderful  irrigation  enterprises  and  our  tremendous 
opportunities  and  advantages.  But  people  will  not  come  West  unless  their  curiosity 
and  interest  are  aroused.  The  slogan,  therefore,  should  be,  "Advertise,  Advertise. 
Advertise."  Money  should  be  spent  with  newspapers  and  magazines  throughout  th»^ 
land.  We  should  not  expect  a  little  gratuitous  advertising  to  accomplish  the  great 
work  necessary  to  be  done  along  these  lines.  Because  we  know  here  in  the  Pacific 
Northwest  that  there  is  to  be  an  exposition  in  Portland  in  1905,  and  because  a 
little,  a  very,  very  little  has  been  done  to  advertise  our  fair,  it  is  wbrse  than  folly 
to  suppose  that  the  world  has  any  idea  that  there  is  to  be  an  exposition  in  Portland. 
The  exposition  is  not  advertised  and  those  who  think  that  it  is  are  deceived.  This 
is  the  second  danger.    Will  we  profit  by  experience? 


^?^ 


A  R.eviC'^'  ot  the  most  important  activities  of  the 

moDtn  m  Polittcd.  Science.  A.rt,  Education 

ana  Reli^iou^  Tnougkt 

Considering  the  great  forces  at  work,  the  past  month  has  been  remarkably 
quiet.  The  presidential  ca/nipaign  will  probably  go  down  to  history  as  the  most 
tranquil  for  half  a  century  or  more.  Instead  of  the  wx)nted  enthusiasm,  torch-light 
processions,  the  exaggerations  and  rantings  of  the  campaign  orator,  there  hus  been 
a  spirit  of  indifference,  due  largely  to  the  fact  that  the  two  great  parties  stand  for 
practically  the  same  thing.  The  election  will  hinge  upon  a  choice  of  men,  and  from 
an  impartial  standpoint  it  looks  at  this  writing  as  if  Roosevelt  had  the  better  of 
it.  He  appeals  to  the  enthusiasm  of  men,  to  those  who  do  things,  whereas  Parker 
appeals  to  the  more  conservative  spirit.  It  is  aggressiveness  versus  conservatism, 
and  it  is  only  natural  in  this  age,  which  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  has  recently 
termed  ''the  dawn  of  the  brightest  century  the  world  has  ever  seen,"  that  aggres- 
siveness should  triumph.  It  is  by  no  means  certain,  however,  that  Roosevelt  will 
be  elected.  Owing  to  the  unpopularity  of  the  "Odell  tag''  in  New  York,  that  state 
has  become  still  more  debatable  ground.  There  are  two  Republican  factions  in 
Wisconsin  which  have  greatly  complicated  matters  there,  and  under  the  circum- 
stances the  Democrats  have  at  least  an  even  chance  of  carrying  the  state.  The 
chances  are  also  about  even  in  Indxnnn,  so  that  the  Parker  campaign  is  not  so  badly 
off  as  it  may  seem  from  a  superficial  glance,  A  little  apathy  on  either  side  in  any 
of  the  debatable  territory  may  turn  the  tide  of  the  election. 


After  the  defeat  of  the  Russian  forces  at  Liao-Yang  and  their  masterly  ret  rear 
to  Mukden,  the  worn-out  armies  were  ■compelled  to  take  a  period  of  rest.  After  a 
few  weeks  and  contrary  to  all  expectations.  General  Kouropatkin  assumed  the  of- 
fensive for  the  first  time,  due,  it  is  said,  to  pressure  from  St,  Petersburg,  The  Japs 
were  defeated  in  a  few  preliminary  engagements,  but,  at  this  writing,  they  have 
successfully  resisted  the  Russian  advance  and  the  most  important  engagement  of 
the  campaign  is  predicted. 

Those  who  have  observed  the  situation  carefully  assert  that  the  Japanese  will 
not  go  into  winter  quarters,  but  will  continue  iheir  vigorous,  aggressive  and  suc- 
cessful campaign.  Port  Arthur  continues  to  hold  out,  and  Stoessel,  the  Russian 
general  in  command,  asserts  that  he  can  withstand  the  Japs  until  next  spring. 
Fresh  meat  is  selling  in  Port  Arthur  at  $1.20  per  pound,  and  eggs  are  20  cents  each. 


Tkc  State 
Elections 


The  results  of  the  state 
elections  occurring  in 
September  were  anx- 
iously awaited  by  the  politicians  as  indica- 
tive of  the  pr(\sidential  vote  soon  to  be 
cast.  Vermont  has  always  been  consid- 
ered a  political  barometer,  and  the  out- 
come in  that  state  was  far  from  encourag- 
ing to  the  Democratic  leaders.     The  Re- 


publican majority  was  over  31,000,  ex- 
ceeding the  majority  received  by  the  Re- 
publican candidate  in  the  corresponding 
election  four  vears  ago.  In  Maine,  there 
was  a  slight  falling  off  in  the  Republican 
vote,  and  a  similar  gain  in  the  Democratic, 
although  the  Republican  plurality  was 
30,000.  In  Arkansas,  the  Democratic 
nominee    for    governor    was    elected    by 


ACTIONS. 


299 


20,000  majority,  as  against  40,000  for  the 
gubernatorial  candidate  on  the  same  ticket 
two  years  ago. 

-,  -         The    eighth    annual    ses- 

LongrcM  ot  gJQ^  ^i  ^Y\e  International 
OcograpkcM  Geographical  Congress 
convened  recently  at  Washington,  this  be- 
ing the  first  meeting  of  the  Congress  in 
the  Western  hemisphere.  One  of  the  most 
interesting  features  of  the  session  was  an 
experiment  in  time  signalling.  At  mid- 
night, September  15,  the  observatory  at 
Wasliington  was  connected  with  nearly 
every  important  city  on  the  glol)e,  and 
messages  were  flashed  both  east  and  west, 
across  continents,  under  oceans.  The  re- 
sults were  marvelous.  In  Australia  the 
east  and  west  messages  were  received  sim- 
ultaneously. Other  points  reported  slight 
variations,  not  exceeding  one-half  of  a 
second.  The  purpose  of  the  experiment 
was  to  demonstrate  the  feasibility  of  a 
universal  time  standard.  At  a  banquet 
given  in  honor  of  the  foreign  members  of 
the  Congress,  Commander  Perry  an- 
nounced that  lie  would  again  try  to  reach 
the  north  pole,  and  explained  the  methods 
hy  which  he  hoped  to  succeed. 

-,  .  -         As    a    result    of    Colonel 

Tt.^*^  ^  Younghusband's      armed 

Ihibct  expedition  into  Thibet,  a 

treaty  has  been  signed  by  British  and 
Thibetan  representatives  which  will  settle 
the  difliculties  between  the  two  states. 
Thibet  binds  herself  to  establish  posts  for 
commerce  between  British  and  Thibetan 
merchants,  to  demolish  forts  threatening 
the  Indian  frontier,  to  repair  certain 
passes,  and  to  pay  an  indemnitv  of  7,500,- 
000  rupees  ($2,400,000).  It  is  also  pro- 
vided that  without  Great  Britain's  sanc- 
tion, no  ITiibetan  territory  shall  be  sold  or 
leased  to  any  foreign  power,  nor  shall  any 
other  power  enter  Thibet  to  construct  rail- 
roads, develop  mines,  etc.  To  guarantee 
the  performance  of  these  conditions  Great 
Britain  shall  maintain  troops  in  Thibet 
for  three  years.  The  former  Lama,  who 
opposed  Great  Britain,  and  who  has  fled 
the  country,  has  been  deposed,  and  his 
spiritual  honors  have  been  bestowed  upon 
Tashi  Lama  by  the  Chinese  Amban,  who 
lias  supported  the  British  expedition  from 
the  oiitstart.  Russian  influence  has  been 
eliminated. 


xy  '  g^  •  On  September  11,  consid- 
Riwaian  Cruiflcr  (.^jji^ie  excitement  was 
at  San  Francisco  aroused  by  the  news  that 
a  Russian  cruiser,  the  Lena,  had  put  into 
San  Francisco  for  repairs.  As  such  re- 
pairs could  not  be  completed  within  the 
24-hour  limit,  the  vessel  was  taken  into 
custody  by  the  naval  authorities.  The 
Japanese  consul  demanded  that  the  Lena 
be  required  to  leave  at  once.  This  being 
denied,  on  the  ground  that  the  vessel  was 
unseaworth}',  he  preferred  another  per- 
emptory request  that  Japanese  experts  be 
allowed  to  examine  the  refugee.  The 
United  States  authorities,  however,  replied 
that  they  did  not  propose  to  deputize  their 
authority  in  the  matter.  When,  upon  in- 
vestigation, it  was  decided  that  it  would 
take  at  least  six  weeks  to  complete  the 
necessary  repairs,  it  was  agreed  that  the 
Lena  be  dismantled,  and  her  crew  placed 
on  parole.  Both  Russia  and  Japan  have 
expressed  their  gratification  at  the  fairness 
and  promptitude  with  which  the  L'nited 
States  authorities  have  acted. 


Meat  Strike 
Settled 


After  a  memorable  strug- 
gle of  59  days,  the  great 
packing-house  strike  was 
declared  off  by  President  Donnelly,  of  the 
butchers'  union.  This  means  virtually  a 
defeat  for  the  strikers,  and  Donnelly  ad- 
mits as  much,  saying  that  he  ordered  a  re- 
turn to  work  in  order  to  prevent  a  dis- 
ruption of  the  union.  He  takes  a  very 
philisophical  view  of  the  matter,  declar- 
ing that  the  union  has  received  a  salutary 
lesson,  by  which  they  will  profit  in  the  fu- 
ture. They  will  hereafter  be  less  dicta- 
torial and  more  conservative,  he  says,  and 
less  inclined  to  strike  on  any  pretext. 
Most  of  the  skilled  men  will  be  taken  back, 
except  where  their  places  have  been  satis- 
factorily filled.  The  unskilled  men  will 
be  out  of  a  job.  The  packers,  too,  will 
profit  by  the  lessons  of  the  strike,  and  will 
make  concessions  where  possible.  At  least 
mutual  respect  has  grown  out  of  the  strug- 
gle. The  loss  in  wages  to  the  men  is  esti- 
mated at  $5,100,000,  and  the  loss  to  the 
packers  at  $7,500,000. 


Army 
Maneuvers 


The  most  extensive  military 
maneuvers  ever  held  in  this 
country  took  place  this  fall 
on  the  historic  battlefield  of  Bull  Run. 
Twenty-six  thousand  men  participated,  of 
which  number  one-fifth  were  regulars  and 


800 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


the  rest  militia.  They  represent  about  one- 
fourth  of  the  national  and  state  troops  of 
the  "Atlantic  division,"  including  the  sea- 
coast  from  Maine  to  Texas,  This  army 
was  under  the  command  of  Maj.  Gen.  Cor- 
bin,  and  the  two  contending  divisions,  the 
"Browns"  and  the  "Blues,"  were  com- 
manded, respectively,  by  General  Bell  and 
Gen.  Fred  Grant.  "^  Companies  from  dif- 
ferent points  of  the  country  were  com- 
bined in  the  different  brigades,  so  that  the 
men  might  get  acquainted.  Two  "bat- 
tles" were  fought,  under  theoretical  con- 
ditions, of  course,  but  involving  many  of 
the  hardships  of  actual  warfare.  Each 
army  was  successful  in  one  of  the  contests, 
according  to  the  awards  of  the  umpires. 
The  war  games  proved  so  exhausting,  es- 
pecially to  the  inexperienced  militia,  that 
nearly  10,000  of  them  were  unable  to  ap- 
pear in  the  final  grand  review.  They 
knew  nothing  of  the  hardships  of  actual 
campaigning,  and  were  completely  used 
up  by  the  hard  work.  It  is  just  this  in- 
experience that  the  war  games  are  ex- 
pected to  remedy.  The  cost  to  the  gov- 
ernment is  $2,000,000,  appropriated  for 
that  purpose. 


Our  navy  has  recently  been 
Two  New  increased  by  the  addition  of 
Batdeships  ^^^  j^^^  first-class  battle- 
ships, the  Louisiana  and  the  Connecticut. 
That  is,  these  vessels  have  been  launched, 
although  some  time  will  necessarily  elapse 
before  they  can  be  fully  equipped  and  put 
into  commission.  The  construction  of 
these  ships  was  ordered  three  years  ago  by 
congress ;  and,  in  order  to  test  the  relative 
efficiency  of  the  government  and  private 
shipbuilding  plants,  the  Connecticut  was 
ordered  built  at  the  Brooklyn  navy  yard, 
while  the  building  of  the  Louisiana  was 
consigned  to  the  Newport  News  Shipbuild- 
ing Company.  The  latter  vessel  was  com- 
pleted first,  and  launched  August  27, 
while  the  sister  ship  took  her  virgin  plunge 
a  month  later.  These  war  vessels  are  the 
most  powerful  in  the  navy.  They  are,  re- 
spectively, 450  feet  long,  and  of  16,000 
tons  displacement.  Their  engines  will  de- 
velop 16,500  horse-power,  with  a  speed  of 
18  knots.  The  armament  consists  of  four 
12-inch  guns,  eight  8-inch,  and  twelve  7; 
inch  rifles,  in  the  main  battery,  with  a 
host  of  smaller  guns  in  the  secondary  bat- 


Record  for  AH   previous   records  for 

Wireless  overland     wireless     tele- 

Telegrapky  graphic    dispatches    have 

been  broken  by  the  De  Forest  Wireless 
Telegraph  Company.  A  dispatcher  in 
Chicago  sent  a  message  of  400  words  to 
an  operator  on  the  fair  grounds  at  St. 
Louis,  which  was  received  without  diffi- 
culty. The  distance  is  over  300  miles.  The 
company  is  now  transmitting  messages  be- 
tween the  two  points  at  regular  rates.  The 
current  conveying  the  message  must  have 
traversed  the  City  of  Chicago,  with  its 
power-houses,  skyscrapers,  elevated  struc- 
tures and  other  obstructions,  heretofore 
considered  insuperable.  The  company  will 
establish  other  overland  routes,  including 
a  relay  route  between  Chicago  and  New 
York. 


-^.  The   damnatory   clauses   in 

IJispute  over  causes  of  a  warm  dispute  in 
^^*^**  theAthanasian  creed  are  the 

the  English  church.  The  progressive  fac- 
tion desires  that  the  clause  declaring  that 
the  nonbeliever  shall  perish  everlastingly 
"shall  be  expunged  from  the  creed.''  The 
conservative  element  resists  any  such  rad- 
ical change,  as  paving  the  way  to  more 
objectionable  alterations.  The  clause  in 
dispute  has  not  appeared  in  the  American 
Episcopalian  prayer-book  for  one  hundred 
years. 


Tke  It  is  claimed  for  the  "Acous- 

Acousticon  ticon,"  the  invention  of  R. 
Hutchinson  of  New  York,  that,  by  its  use> 
anyone,  however  deaf,  may  hear,  provid- 
ing the  auditory  nerve  is  not  destroyed. 
The  device  is  a  combined  telephone  and 
microphone.  A  sound  amplifier,  a  ^4bra- 
tory  diaphragm  and  a  small  storage  bat- 
tery are  parts  of  the  mechanism.  A  girl 
of  22,  who  had  been  deaf  for  16  years, 
using  the  acousticon,  was  able  to  hear 
grand  opera  as  well  as  any  person  in  the 
audience. 


1^  ,      y  The    Department   of   Agri- 

V  A  S^P"*"  culture  is  at  last  to  take  ac- 
roodstutts  ^|^,p  measures  to  prevent  the 
importation  of  impure  and  adulterated 
foods.  Laboratories  are  being  installed  in 
our  principal  ports  to  carefully  inspect  and 
analyze  all  suspected  foods.  The  depart- 
ment is  awaiting  the  interpretation  of  the 


ACTIOKS. 


;^0i 


law,  which,  it  is  thought,  will  shut  out  all 
German  sausages,  "Scotch"  whisky,  ''pate 
de  foie  gras''  and  other  imported  "deli- 


cacies. 


.  -,  The  $100,000  prize  offered 

AcrialLontcstby  the  St.  Louis  Exposition 
at  bt.  Louis  authorities  for  the  best  dir- 
igible airship  is  attracting  a  number  of 
contestants.  Trial  has  been  made  of  the 
Benbow  machine,  not  with  unqualified  suc- 
cess. Professor  Benbow  steered  his  craft 
for  100  feet  in  a  straight  line,  and  then 
the  inevitable  mishap  occurred,  bringing 
the  attempt  to  an  abrupt  finish.  One  of 
the  formidable  contestants  will  be  Thomas 
S.  Baldwin,  of  San  Francisco,  who  will 
enter  with  two  machines.  From  England 
comes  Major"  Baden- Powell,  of  Boer  war 
fame,  who  is  also  an  aspirant  for  aerial 
honors.  To  compensate  for  the  absence 
of  Santos-Dumont,  France  is  sending  Hip- 
pol}i:e  Francois  to  participate  in  the  race. 


TLc  Parlia- 


The  annual  session  of  the 
-,  .  Parliamentary  Union,  held 
mcntary  Union  ^^  St.  Louis,  was  attended 
by  226  members.  The  delegates  were  wel- 
comed by  First  Assistant  Secretary  of 
State  Francis  B.  Loomis,  and  Congress- 
man Richard  Bartholdt  was  the  presiding 
officer.  Two  significant  resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted,  one  calling  upon  the 
powers  signatory  of  the  Hague  convention 
to  intervene,  separately  or  jointly,  with 
the  belligerents  in  the  Eastern  war;  the 
other  asking  President  Roosevelt  to  call  a 
second  session  of  the  Hague  conference  to 
meet  in  this  country. 


Army  On   November    1,   the   new 

Wo^  n  11  war  college  at  Washington, 
War  CoUe^c  ^  (..,  will  open  its  doors! 
Only  the  picked  men  of  the  army  will  be 
privileged  to  enter,  after  courses  at  the 
garrison  schools,  the  special  service  schools 
and  the  staff  college.  They  must  rank  not 
higher  than  major  nor  lower  than  captain. 
Tlie  new  institution  will  not  be  a  school  in 
the  accepted  sense,  but  rather  a  congress 
of  soldiers  to  study  the  art  of  war.  War 
plans  will  be  the  chief  subject  of  study, 
and  specific  problems  of  the  campaign  will 
be  attacked.  General  Tasker  H.  Bliss  is 
at  the  head  of  the  institution,  and  under 


him  are  Col.  Arthur  L.  Wagner  and  Col. 
Charles  Shaler. 

George    E.    Roberts,    Director    of    the 

Mint,   has   completed   his   calculation   of 

-^M-     T\'  ->  ^^^    production    of    gold 

Mint  Directors   ^^^  gU,.^.^  j^  ^^^^  United 

for  the  calendar  year  1903.  The  figures 
for  the  United  States,  by  states  and  terri- 
tories, are  as  follows: 

Gold.  Silver,  Corn- 
Value,        mercial  Value. 

Alabama     %  4,400  

Alaska     8,614,700  $         77,544 

Arizona     4.357.600  1,829,034 

California     16.104,500  503.010 

Colorado     22,540,100  7,014,708 

Georgrla     62,000  216 

Idaho     1,570,400  3,513,996 

Kansas     9,700  52,596 

Maryland     500  

Mlchlgran    27,000 

Montana     4,411,900  6.826,842 

Nevada     3,388,000  2,727.270 

New   Mexico    244,600  97,578 

North    Carolina    .  .  .           70.500  5,940 

Oregron     1,290,200  63,720 

South    Carolina    ...         100,700  162 

South    Dakota     6,226,700  119,448 

Tennessee     800  7,020 

Texas     245,376 

rtah     3,697,400  6,046,271? 

Virginia    13,500  5.130 

Washington     279,900  159,030 

Wyoming    3,000  108 

Totals     $73,591,700  $29,322,000 

The  total  number  of  fine  ounces  pro- 
duced in  the  United  States  for  the  cal- 
endar year  1903  was  54,300,000.  The 
value  of  silver  is  computed  at  54  cents  a 
fine  ounce. 

Tlie  total  output  of  gold  shows  a  de- 
cline of  $6,400,000  and  of  silver  a  decline 
of  1,200,000  ounces  from  the  figures  of 
the  previous  year.  The  falling  off  in 
both  metals  is  almost  entirely  due,  ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Roberts,  to  labor  trouble;^ 
in  Colorado.  The  most  important  gain 
made  by  any  state  was  about  $500,000  in 
gold  by  Xevada. 

P'or  the  entire  world  the  total  output  of 
gold  was  $325,527,200;  of  silver  $92,- 
039,600.  Mexico  was  the  only  country 
that  exceeded  the  United  States  in  silver 
output,  producing  $38,070,000.  Australia 
fell  far  below  in  silver,  with  an  output  of 
$5,228,700,  but  far  exceeded  all  other 
countries  in  gold  with  an  output  of  $89,- 
210,100.  Africa  came  next,  producing 
$67,988,100  in  gold.  Russia  produced 
$24,632,200  worth  of  gold,  and  Canada 
made  a  good  showing  with  a  gold  output 
of  $18,834,500.  After  British  India,  with 
upwards  of  $11,000,000  of  gold  to  its 
credit,  no  other  country  reaches  the  five- 
million  mark. 


By  CHARLES  ERSKINE  SCOTT  WOOD 


Every  misery  on  eartk,  except  tke  evils  wliicli  tke  flesk  is  natural  keir  to,  comes 
from  some  men  seeking  to  govern  otLers  in  mind,  body  or  estate 

AVar  and  Its  Costs 

WHICH  is  a  greater  preventive  of  war — preparedness  or  unpreparedness  ? 
In  frontier  days  it  was  known  that  nothing  made  a  man  so  quarrelsome  as  a 
**gun'^  in  his  pocket.  Personally,  I  have  no  more  use  for  war  among  nations  than 
for  each  fellow  to  settle  his  own  quarrel  by  force  of  arms  with  his  neighbor,  as 
they  used  to  do  in  the  good  old  days  of  knighthood.  Xot  only  are  you  told  that 
the  courts  then  could  not  settle  quarrels  between  barons,  but  even  the  courts  set- 
tled questions  by  the  foolish  trial  by  battle.  But  personal  quarrels  are  no  longer 
settled  so. 

I  read  that  the  countrymen  of  that  Czar  who  proposed  the  Peace  Tribunal 
are  braining  and  disemboweling  the  countrymen  of  the  Mikado,  and  the  country- 
men of  the  Mikado  are  found  dead  with  their  teeth  in  the  throats  of  the  Russians ; 
that  women  are  weeping  and  men  groaning  by  the  hundreds  of  thousands,  and  I'll 
venture  to  say  that  not  one  of  the  Russian  soldiery  knows  any  better  reason  why 
he  should  disembowel  a  Japanese  artisan  than  the  bulldog  knows  why  he  should 
fight  in  the  pit  for  his  master ;  and  the  same  with  the  Japanese  artisan  soldier. 

Whose  fight  is  it,  anyway?  What  is  it  for?  And  what  is  the  good?  At  the 
end  of  all  the  slaughter  and  waste,  it  will  be  settled  by  a  treaty  in  which  all  Europe 
will  take  a  hand.  And  the  United  States,  too;  for  are  we  not  a  great  big  boy  now? 
And  is  not  Senator  Lodge  greater  than  Washington? 

Keep  out  of  European  politics?  Xonsense,  George!  We  are  a  world-power! 
Senator  Lodge  is  a  statesman.  We  have  governors,  too,  and  we,  too,  run  out  and 
get  killed  whenever  they  tell  us.  We  are  flea  bitten  with  statesmen.  See  Chauncoy 
Depew.  He  is  a  statesman,  too.  And  we  build  great  big  battleships,  every  one  cost- 
ing more  than  a  college,  and  sometimes  they  hit  a  rock,  and  some  day  they  go  up  in 
smoke.  Who  builds  them?  Well,  the  statesmen  order  them,  and  the  people  pay 
for  them. 

Faugh!  V\e  smelt  corpses  rotting  myself,  and  I  know  he  is  a  fool  who  gets 
killed  save  for  a  principle  he  knows  and  approves.  Wars  are  not  prevented  nor 
victories  won  by  battleships,  but  by  the  moral  power  and  the  wealth  of  a  nation. 
The  battle  is  not  to  the  strong  in  battleships,  but  to  the  strong  in  resources.  We 
are  bitten  by  a  killing  bug.  We  are  full  of  strenuousness.  Our  soldiers  wear  caps 
like  those  of  the  Germans.  We  are  a  militarv  world  power  and  the  people  pav  the 
bills.     ''Hoch  dcr  KakerT 

Advice  to  Aspiring  Young  Journalists 

THOUGH  I  write  in  September,  the  elections  may  be  over  before  this  sees 
the  light  of  day.  Still,  as  the  future  before  the  young  journalist  is  long,  1  modestly 
suggest  that  he  may  win  fame  for  himself  who  will  so  report  his  political  adver- 
saries that  bye  and  bye  people  will  sav,  '^This  man  writes  the  truth;  it  may  be 
used  as  history.^' 

And  to  the  comic  paper  artist  I  suggest  that  he  be  comic.  It  is  an  excellent 
plan  neyer  to  draw  or  write  unless  you  have  an  idea.  If  I  were  to  start  a  comic 
l)aper — which  no  one  contemplates  except  as  they  do  suicide — I  would  print  certain 
rules,  such  as — 


IMPRESSIONS. 


803 


"All  mother-in-law  jokes  barred." 

"All  puns  concocted  out  of  idiocy  subjects  the  maker  to  a  fine.  Such  as,  *The 
wagon  spoke  with  its  tongue  and  said,  *You  fellows  make  me  tired/  " 

"No  drawings  of  rural  gentlemen  will  be  accepted  which  have  either  Horace 
Greeley  or  billy  goat  whiskers.  The  least  atom  of  original  observation  would  teach 
the  aspiring  young  artist  that  whatever  characteristics  our  agricultural  population 
have  these  styles  of  whiskers  are  not  of  them." 

To  discuss  the  cheap,  coarse  conventionalities  of  the  comic  artist  would  take 
a  whole  number.  And  yet  for  good,  clean,  original  humor  there  is  room.  Life  is 
about  the  only  through  and  through  paper  of  wit  and  humor  without  cheap  vul- 
garity. Puch  has  never  lost  the  distinction  Bunner  impressed  upon  it;  but  some 
of  the  others  are  simply  unspeakable.  And  as  for  the  comic  sheets  of  the  daily 
press  or  weekly  press,  they  consist  in  exploiting  inane  hoodlumism  in  red  ink.  I 
see  Peck's  Bad  Boy  has  revived.  To  me  he  was  always  disgusting.  Under  the  in- 
fluences of  the  daily  press  our  youngsters  can  not  fail  to  be  hoodlums  of  the  deepest 
slang,  whose  ideas  of  wit  and  gentle  humor  will  be  bad  English  and  brutal  practical 
jokes.    Where  is  this  American  humor  we  used  to  hear  about? 

Then  there  is  a  cro\vn  of  glory  awaiting  the  young  college  graduate  who  can 
report  a  baseball  or  football  game  or  any  other  athletic  sport  as  if  he  were  not 
addressing  a  gang  of  toughs.  It  may  be  wearisome  to  say  "the  ball"  constantly,  but  a 
writer  of  exact  facts  would  use  the  word  "ass"  as  often  as  he  had  occasion  to  de- 
scribe the  animal.  He  wouldn't  say  the  "long-eared  quadruped,"  the  "mellifluous 
brayer."  He'd  just  keep  on  repeating  plain  "ass."  Now  to  say  "Jinksev,  of  the 
Seals,  took  his  willow  and  jumped  on  the  rubber,  but  he  couldn't  find  Jumpsey,  of  the 
Angels,  who  was  the  twirler  for  the  first,  until  he  was  thumped  in  the  slats  by 
the  horsehide  and  given  a  pass  to  first,"  may  be  ])eautiful  English  and  clear  as 
mud,  but  if  I  were  an  A.  Y.  J.  I'd  try  and  write  good,  terse,  simple  English, 
and  call  everything  by  its  right  name,  no  matter  how  often.  Calling  it  the  sphereoid 
and  the  pigskin  doesn't  really  lift  one  into  an  original  style,  and  rob  Shakespeare  of 
his  laurels.  There  is  need  of  truth  and  clean-cut  originality  and  direct,  simple 
style  in  every  branch  of  modem  journalism. 


Clond  •ffect  from  Columbia  River,  showinr  Mt.  St.    Helens,    Washington,    in    the    distance. 


Editors  Note. — Max  Xordau  in  his  essay  on  Optimism  and  Pessimism  says: 
'*The  truth  is  that  optimism,  an  infinite,  ineradicable  optimism,  is  the  base  upon 
which  all  mans  conceptions  are  founded,  the  instinctive  feeling  which  is  natural  to 
him  under  all  circumstances.  What  we  term  optimism  is  simply  the  form-  in  which 
our  own  life-force,  or  vital  energy,  and  the  processes  of  life  in  our  organism  arc 
presented  to  our  consciousness.  Optimism  is,  therefore,  only  another  term  for 
vitality,  an  intensification  of  the  fact  of  existence.''  H  is  a  belief  in  these  things 
which  has  brought  about  the  introduction  of  this  department  into  The  Pacific 
Monhly.  The  scope  and  purpose  of  the  department  will  gradually  be  enlarged,  crit- 
icised and  improved,  until  it  will  be  unique  in  character  and  of  undoubted  and  ac- 
I'nowledged  worth  to  our  readers. 


"Could  we  choose  our  environment,  and  were  desire  in  human  undertakings 
synonvmous  with  endo^^Tuent,  all  men  wouhl,  I  suppose,  be  optimists.  Certainly 
most  of  us  regard  happiness  as  the  proper  end  of  all  earthly  enterprise.  The  will 
to  be  happy  animates  alike  the  philosopher,  the  prince  and  the  chimney-sweep.  Xo 
matter  how  dull,  or  how  mean,  or  how  wise  a  man  is,  he  feels  that  happiness  is  his 
indisputable  right.  ♦  ♦  ♦  Most  people  measure  their  happiness  in  terms  of 
j)hysical  pleasure  and  material  possession.  Could  they  win  some  visible  goal  which 
they  have  set  in  the  horizon,  how  happy  they  would  be !  Lacking  this  gift  or  that 
circumstance,  they  would  be  miserable.  If  happiness  is  to  be  so  measured,  I,  who 
can  not  hear  or  see,  have  every  reason  to  sit  in  a  corner  with  folded  hands  and  weep. 
If  I  am  happy  in  spite  of  my  deprivations,  if  my  happiness  is  so  deep  that  it  is  a 
faith,  so  thoughtful  that  it  becomes  a  philosophy  of  life — if,  in  short,  I  am  an 
optimist,  my  testimony  to  the  creed  of  optimism  is  worth  hearing.  *  *  *  So 
my  optimism  is  no  mild  and  unreasoning  satisfaction.  A  poet  once  said  that  I  must 
be  happy  because  I  did  not  see  the  bare,  cold  present,  but  lived  in  a  beautiful  dream. 
I  do  live  in  a  beautiful  dream;  but  that  dream  is  the  actual,  the  present,T-not  cold, 
but  warm ;  not  bare,  but  furnished  with  a  thousand  blessings.  The  very  evil  which 
the  poet  supposed  would  be  a  cruel  disillusionment  is  necessary  to  the  fullest 
knowledge  of  joy.  Only  by  contact  with  evil  could  I  have  learned  to  feel  by  con- 
trast the  beauty  of  truth  and  love  and  goodness.  *  ♦  ♦  A  man  must  under- 
stand evil  and  be  acquainted  with  sorrow  before  he  can  write  himself  an  optimist, 
and  expect  others  to  believe  that  he  has  reason  for  the  faith  that  is  in  him.'' — 
Helen  Keller,  on  Optimism. 

"My  optimism  is  grounded  in  two  worlds,  myself  and  what  is  about  me.  I 
demand  that  the  world  be  good,  and  lo,  it  obeys.  I  proclaim  the  world  good,  and 
facts  range  themselves  to  prove  my  proclamation  overwhelmingly  true.  To  what  ib 
good  I  open  the  doors  of  my  being,  and  jealously  shut  them  against  what  is  bad. 
Such  is  the  force  of  this  beautiful  and  wilful  conviction,  it  carries  itself  in  the  face 
of  all  opposition.  I  am  never  discouraged  by  absence  of  good.  I  never  can  be  ar- 
gued into  hopelessness.  Doubt  and  mistrust  are  the  mere  panic  of  timid  imagina- 
tion, which  the  steadfast  heart  will  conquer,  and  the  large  mind  transcend.^' — Helen 
Keller,  on  Optimism. 


The  time-tried  phrases  of  the  reviewer 
seem  flaccid  and  colorless  when  dealing 
with  a  book  like  Maufice  Hewlett's  "The 
Queen's  Quair/'  The  standards  by  which 
the  books  of  the  day  are  adjudged  no 
longer  subserve.  It  bears  no  relation  to 
modem  fiction:  it  is  a  thing  apart,  tran- 
scendent, akin  to  all  that  is  great  in  liter- 
ature. 

The  masterlines  of  it:  this  penetrative 
analysis  of  a  woman's  heart !  The  flawless 
form  and  symmetry  of  it !  The  compel- 
ling power ;  the  exceeding  beauty ! 

Stories  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  have 
there  been  a-many,  but  none  that  for  an 
instant     merits     comparison     with     this. 
About    the    historical    lay-figure    of    the 
Queen  —  enigmatical,      tragic  —  Maurice 
Hewlett  has  created  a  woman  of  flesh  and 
blood,  of  mind  and  spirit  5      rjr,     ^ 
and   so   perfectly  has   he      A nc  Queens 
conceived   her   character,     v^^air 
and  so  perfectly  revealed  it,  that  it  stands 
out*   sharp    and  distinct,   vivid,  a  living 
thing,  as  real  as  life  itself. 

Mary  is  the  central  figure  of  a  vast, 
populous  picture,  like  the  canvas  of  a 
Messonier,  thronged  with  historic  figures, 
tumultuous,  intricate:  a  wonderful  web- 
bery  of  plot  and  counterplot,  motive  and 
intrigue.  In  it  is  all  the  mysterious 
allurement  of  by-gone  times.  It  is  the 
very  essential  romance  of  history. 

And  the  telling  of  it !  In  Mr.  Hewlett's 
hands  the  English  language  become  a  new 
and  potent  instrument.  He  plays  upon 
it  as  a  master  touches  the  keys  and  stops  of 
a  mighty  organ.  Under  his  touch  it  sings 
and  crashes,  it  flashes  and  leaps,  it  glows 
and   throbs.     It   is   not   only   a   perfect 


Conduirted  by 

.  G.  THACHER 


veliit'le  for  hi^  thought,  but  itsrlf  a  buau- 
tifiU,  vital  thing. 

To  say  more  were  merely  to  coTiipoiiml 
cxpn:^>ioTi?  of  praise.  "The  Quif'ir^ 
Quair"  is  a  piece  of  literature,  classic,  a 
creation,  touched  with  the  fire  -  tipped 
wand  of  genius. 

(The  McMillan  Company:  Xew  York.) 

No  school  of  modern  fiction  is  more 
worthy  than  that  which  draws  its  material 
from  modern  politics,  and  no  better  exam- 
ple of  the  political  romance  has  appeared 
than  "The  Grafters,"  by  Francis  L\Tide. 
The  story  is  concerned  with  the  operations 
of  a  most  unscrupulous  gang  of  corrup- 
tionists,  who  succeeded  in  gaining  control 
of  the  government  of  a  state  with  a  pur- 
pose to  prostitute  its  offices  to  their  private 
gain.  The  name  of  the  state  is  sup- 
pressed, but  we  have  it  on  good  authority 
that  it  is  Texas — although  a  similar  story 
might  be  told  of  many — indeed,  Dwst — of 
the  states  of  the  Union.  — . 
There  is,  of  course,  the  A  r 
intrepid  hero,  who  dares  ^''^"*" 
everything  in  opposing  the  machine,  and 
he  is  a  hero,  too,  of  the  best  mettle,  and  as 
worthy  your  applause  as  any  knight  or 
soldier  of  olden  times. 

It  is  a  thrilling  tale,  full  of  startling 
incidents,  swift  action  and  varied  move- 
ment. To  style  or  literary  quality  it 
makes  small  pretense,  but  there  is  no 
doubt  that  it  grapples  close  the  reader's 
attention  and  holds  it  unwavering  to  the 
close. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  Mr.  Lynde 
found  it  expedient  to  introduce  the  love 
element,  which  really  has  no  part  in  the 
story.  But  the  sentiment  is  so  imponder- 
able that  it  is  hardly  more  than  a  feathery 
riffle  on  the  torrential  current  of  the 
narrative. 

(Bobbs-Merrill :  Indianapolis.) 


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THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


A  tiling  of  genuine  beauty  is  M.  E. 
Waller's  story  of  the  hills  of  Vermont, 
-^^The  Wood -Carver  of  ^L}Tnpus/'  It 
carries  you  out  of  the  beaten  track,  away 
from  the  harrying  din  of  the  city,  the  bat- 
tered highways  of  trade,  up  into  the  cool, 
clean  fastnesses  of  Nature's  citadels — the 
mountains.  And  yet,  because  where  life 
is,  there  is  suffering,  you  find  here  the 
same  old  struggle:  the  eternal  conflict  of 
the  spirit  with  the  encumbering  clay. 

A  rare  sermon  is  this  story  of  the  crip- 
ple, who,  pitifully  handicapped  at  the  very 
beginning  of  the  fight,  yet  plays  his  part 
like  a  man  and  makes  his 
life  so  thoroughly  worth    Wood-Carver 
the   living.      His,^  too,   is    of  Xympua 
the    sweet    reward    that 
must   ever  come  to  him  who  fights   the 
good  fight. 

In  spite  of  its  pervading  pathos,  the 
story  lifts  you  out  of  yourself  and  into 
another  realm  of  thought.  Its  idealism 
is  serene  and  exalted,  and,  abnost  uncon- 
sciously, you  are  refreshed  and  stimulated 
and  filled  with  a  desire  for  better  things. 
There  is  much  of  quiet  himior,  too,  and 
many  a  pleasing  bit  of  character  studv. 
Delightful  people  are  those  that  clus- 
ter around  the  invalid's  chair  of  the  Wood 
carver  and  whose  lives  are  so  strangly 
linked  with  his:  men  and  women  of  cul- 
ture and  true  nobility,  who  open  for  the 
sufferer  doors  to  unguessed  words  of 
travel  and  study. 

But  the  best  part  of  the  book  is  the 
gentle  philosophy  which  pervades  it:  life- 
messages  that  are  fresh  and  true  and 
inspiring.  No  one  can  read  it  without 
heeding  its  call  to  the  higher  life. 

(Little,  Brown  &  Co.:  Boston.) 

It  is  hardly  to  be  wondered  at  that  the 
stormy  life  of  George  Gordon,  Lord 
Byron,  should  appeal  strongly  to  the  eager 
searcher  after  literary  material.  He  stands 
solitary  among  the  great  figures  of  his 
day,  and  of  many  days:  the  strangest 
mixture  of  good  and  bad  that  was  ever 
moulded  into  human  form. 

Daring,  indeed,  is  the  novelist  who 
attempts  to  portray  that  enigmatical  char- 
acter, to  puzzle  out  the  secrets  of  that 
inscrutable  heart.  This  is  what  Hallie 
Erminie  Rives  has  done  in  "The  Casta- 
way/' and  not   with   unqualified  success. 


True,  she  has  been  able  to  construct  a 
startling  story,  with  Gordon  ever  in  the 
forefront;  but  the  book  lacks  everything 
of  sanity,  of  style,  of  smoothness.    It  is 
melodramatic,  florid,  muddy  and  cheaply 
sensational.    The  author  endeavors  to  win 
the  reader's  sympathy  for     — . 
her  hero  by  posing  him     A*** 
as  the  victim  of  circum-     ^a«**w*y 
stances.     In  her  eyes,  his  vices  become 
virtues.     She  glozes  his  lapses  from  de- 
cency, and  endeavors  to  palliate  his  dis- 
gusting excesses. 

To  us,  her  efforts  are  unavailing.  Pity 
is  the  only  sentiment  that  can  be  had  for 
a  man  who  drags  in  the  mire  of  debauch- 
ery the  God-given  genius  which  was 
George  Gordon's.  Even  the  final  sacrifice 
fails  to  atone  for  a  wasted  and  misspent 
life. 

The  author  fails  to  solve  the  problem. 
We  must  still  wonder  at  the  miracle  of 
the  fragrant  blossoms  of  poetry  which 
sprang  from  the  muck-heap,  and  con- 
tinue to  enjoy  the  flowers  w^hile  we  loath 
the  foul  source  from  which  they  grew. 

( Bobbs-Merrill :  Indianapolis. ) 

In  "Suzzane  of  Kerbyville,^'  Mr.  Dennis 
H.  Stovall  has  seized  upon  some  of  the 
characteristic  incidents  and  conditions  of 
fiftv  vears  ago,  when  the     ^  ^ 

gold  passion  was  at  its  ^**'""**-?* 
height,  and  Kerby,  as  the  *^««"byviUc 
metropolis  of  the  gold  fields  of  Southern 
Oregon,  was  the  theatre  where  many  an 
exciting  drama  was  played.  The  resultant 
story  is  full  of  dash  and  vigor,  with  some 
excellent  character  sketching.  The  author 
is  a  valued  contributor  to  the  Pacific 
Monthly. 

lyfany  books  have  been  written  after  the 
style  of  ^'Ben  Hur,"  but  none  that  has 
even   approached  the  excellence   of   Lew 
Wallace's  classic.    "The  White  Lady,="  by 
Caroline  Atwater  Mason,     — ^ 
is    no    exception    to    the     JJlS .     •    - 
rule.      It  is   of  the  ac-     ^hitc  Lady 
cepted  form,  with  the  persecuted  Chris- 
tian  maiden   and  the   other   well-known 
features — even  to  the  scene  in  the  gladia- 
torial arena,  where  the  girl  is  miraculously 
saved  from  a  martyr's  death. 

(Griffith  &  Eowland  Press:  Philadel- 
phia.) 


Sympathy  is  the  grandest  word  in  the  English  language.  It  lies  at  the  root 
of  all  religion.  The  great  lack  of  human  society  is  sympathy.  Half  of  the  world  is 
longing  for  compassion,  pity,  love.  The  briers  meet  us  at  every  turn,  and  there 
is  nothing  like  sympathy  to  ease  their  pricks  and  stings.  It  is  the  compassionate 
touch  that  tells.  A  touch,  a  kiss,  a  kind  word,  a  pressure  of  the  hand,  may  do 
much  toward  helping  one  who  feels  that  for  him  or  her  no  man  cares.  There  is 
something  exquisitely  soothing  in  the  knowledge  that  the  pulses  of  one  human  heart 
beats  in  unison  with  ours.  WHien  the  child  was  dead,  and  the  prophet  came  to 
heal  it,  he  stretched  himself  out  on  the  child,  and  put  his  lips  to  the  child's  lips, 
and  his  hand  on  the  child's  hand,  and  his  heart  to  the  child's  heart.  It  was  then 
that  the  breath  came  back,  and  the  child  showed  signs  of  returning  life.  There  is 
nothing  that  cures  hearts  in  the  world  like  other  hearts  laid  upon  them,  brooding 
them,  and  imparting  to  them  something  of  their  own  sympathy  and  goodness.  If  a 
heart  can.  not  be  cured  by  a  loving  heart,  it  is  incurable — with  the  Christian  there 
can  be  no  such  thing  as  moral  indifference  to  others.  There  is  no  room  for  con- 
descension and  a  lofty  tone  of  patronage  in  these  ministries  of  Christian  love.  To 
hurt  the  sensibilities  of  the  suffering  one  we  would  help,  is  to  pour  acid  into  the 
already  raw  wound.  Sympathy  given  in  the  great  spirit  of  Christ,  in  the  spirit 
of  Him  who  bore  our  sins  and  carried  our  sorrows,  and  there  is  not  a  man  in 
America  so  high  that  he  is  above  the  reach  of  the  need  of  such  sympathy. 


Many  people  to-day  live  on  credit.  Whatever  they  buy,  they  buy  on  credit. 
It  is  true  that  trade,  commerce  can  not  exist  without  a  mutual  confidence  in 
which  men  trust  each  other.  It  does  not  at  all  times  suit  the  conveniences  or  even 
the  possibilities  of  business  that  each  single  transaction  should  be  a  ready  money 
transaction.  Perhaps  even  in  matters  of  family  expenditure  it  may  save  trouble 
to  pay  at  certain  times.  On  the  principle  that  no  debt  was  ever  to  be  contracted, 
commerce  would  be  almost  annihiliated,  and  the  precept  would  be  found  imprac- 
ticable. While  that  is  so,  only  the  wilfully  blind  can  fail  to  see  the  evils  of  the 
credit  system,  when  carried  beyond  its  legitimate  limit.  When  one  hasn't  to  pay 
spot  cash,  it  is  truly  marvelous  the  things  they  must  have,  which  they  would  not 
have,  if  they  had  to  pay  at  once.  The  credit  system  is  the  nursery  in  which  men 
and  women  are  trained  to  make  a  finer  appearance  than  circumstances  or  income 
justify,  to  buy  more  thau  they  can  pay  for.  Clothes  are  procured,  and  the  wearer 
poses  as  stylish  and  upright,  yet  the  tailor,  the  dressmaker  has  never  seen  any  money 
in  return.  It  is  the  same  with  furniture,  dry  goods,  jewelry,  and  a  host  of  other 
things.  There  are  those  who  never  seem  to  dream  that  the  time  will  come  when 
these  bills  contracted  must  either  be  met  or  their  character  suffer. 


V-^,^-7^-.T..iV 


Devoted  to  the  development,  ffro-wtn  and  pro|frcs»  of  tnc 
AVcst*     For  a  greater  Paci^c  Coast 


Never  before  have  there  been  such  remarkable  evidences  of  growth  and  develop^ 
ment  on  the  Pacific  Coast  as  we  see  to-day  upon  all  sides.  It  seems,  indeed,  as  if 
people  elsewhere  were  beginning  to  appreciate  the  fact  that  this  coast  offers  most 
extraordinary  opportunities,  and  an  unquestioned  movement  west  of  large  propor- 
tions has  resulted.  Buildings  are  springing  up  with  almost  incredible  rapidity  and 
progress  in  civic  improvement  is  keeping  pace  with  the  influx  of  population.  Trav- 
elers who  are  in  touch  with  the  whole  coast  are  astounded  at  the  evidences  of  pros- 
perity and  growth  and  predict  a  most  alluring  and  brilliant  future.  Even  the  most 
conservative  men  who  have  studied  the  situation  speak  with  an  enthusiasm  that  par- 
takes of  the  nature  of  prophecy.  It  is  doubtful  if  we  who  live  here  and  enjoy  the 
blessings  of  this  God-endowed  land  fully  appreciate  the  great  and  splendid  future 
that  is  before  us.  We  are  accustomed  to  speak  of  our  climate,  the  fertility  of  the 
soil,  the  wealth  of  gold,  silver,  copper,  nickel,  lead  and  coal  that  bursts  from  ledge.< 
about  us,  but  such  things  are  only  a  small  part  of  an  almost  incalculably  great 
promise  for  the  lands  bordering  the  Pacific.  A  great  heritage  is  ours,  a  heritage 
that  calls  for  strong,  clear-minded,  sincere,  consistent,  entMisiastic,  determined  and 
aggressive  manhood.  We  each  have  a  part  to  do,  and  it  is  a  part  of  gladness  and 
strength.  ''Awake,  awake,  put  on  thy  strength,  0  Zion."  "Sing,  0  ye  heavens,  for 
Jehovah  hath  done  it;  shout,  ye  lower  parts  of  the  earth;  break  forth  into  singing, 
ye  mountains,  0  forest,  and  every  tree  therein T' 


Tkc  Alaskan  Cable— 

The  completion  of  the  cable  connectiii<]: 
Sitka  and  Seattle  marks  another  step — 
and  a  great  one — in  the  development  of 
Alaska.  It  is  by  far  the  most  important 
public  work  that  has  ever  been  attempted 
for  that  wonderful,  distant  part  of  Uncle 
Sam's  domain.  To  be  thus  connected  tele- 
graphically with  the  States,  and  with  the 
rest  of  the  world,  will  mean  much  to  the 
dwellers  in  that  far  land,  and  will  do  away 
with  that  sense  of  isolation  which  has  been 
one  of  the  great  handicaps  to  settlement. 

Commercially,  the  advantage  of  direct 
and  immediate  communication  will  be 
indeed  great.  The  shippers,  merchants 
and  miners  of  Alaska  will  receive  the  mar- 
ket reports  of  the  world,  and  will  no  longer 


be  dependent  upon  indirect  and  circuitous 
means  of  communicating  with  business 
associates,  jobbers,  etc.,  in  the  States. 
Business  will  be  greatly  facilitated,  the 
expense  of  long  delays  will  be  eliminated, 
and  great  benefit  can  not  fail  to  follow. 

Pugct  Sound's  Fine  Sko'wmg — 

The  statistics  which  are  now  available 
for  the  commercial  year  ending  June  30, 
1904,  make  it  evident  that  the  year  has  not 
been  so  active  in  foreign  commerce  as 
either  1903  or  1902.  This  shrinkage  i? 
due  to  natural  causes :  in  part  to  the  light 
wheat  crop  which  reduced  the  volume  of 
exported  breadstuffs,  and  in  part  to  the 
conditions  in  the  Orient,  w^hich  cut  into 
the  foreign  trade. 


PROGRESS. 


309 


The  report,  however,  is  favorable  to 
Puget  Sound,  as  the  decrease  for  the;?e 
ports  was  less  than  for  other  ports  of  the 
Coast. 

The  exports  of  the  Puget  Sound  district 
for  the  year  ending  with  June  amount  in 
value  to  $32,756,403,  as  compared  with 
$32,400,522  in  1902-03;  $33,564,278  in 
1901-02,  and  $20,357,106  for  1900-01. 
Portland  shows  a  corresponding  shrink- 
age, her  exports  for  the  year  just  closed 
amounting  in  value  to  $7,878,812,  as  com- 
pared with  $10,796,373  in  1902-03;  $12,- 
129,876  in  1901-02,  and  $10,381,732  in 
1900-01.  San  Francisco's  exports  show  a 
similar  falling  off,  though  the  complete 
figures  for  the  year  from  that  district  are 
not  yet  available. 

The  imports  through  the  Puget  Sound 
district  have  not  shown  as  large  a  shrink- 
age as  the  exports.  During  the  year  end- 
ing June  30,  1904,  the  imports  of  foreign 
merchandise  through  this  district  were 
valued  at  $11,285,096,  as  compared  with 
$12,177,243  in  1903;  $11,970,799  in  1902, 
and  $6,721,060  in  1901. 

Tacoma's  total  foreign  commerce  for  the 
year  was  vahied  at  $14,858,608,  and  Seat- 
tle's at  $12,156,816.  These  figures  repre- 
sent tKe  total  imports  and  exports  of 
Tacoma  and  Seattle,  the  two  leading  ports 
of  the  Puget  Sound  district.  Both  ports 
lead  Portland,  and  Tacoma  ranks  second 
to  San  Francisco  among  the  Pacific  coast 
ports  in  the  foreign  trade. 

Trade  with  Alaska  and  the  Philippines 
shows  a  very  gratifying  increase. 

The  value  of  Alaska  trade  for  the  twelve 
months  ending  »Tune  30  is  estimated  at 
$20,000,000,  a  very  large  share  of  which 
was  with  Puget  Sound. 

The  total  shipments  of  domestic  mer- 
chandise to  Alaska  during  the  eleven 
months  ending  with  May,  for  which  alone 
full  figures  are  at  hand,  was  $8,109,997, 
of  which  amount  $5,386,156  was  from 
Puget  Sound.  The  increase  in  shipments 
from  Puget  Sound  to  Alaska,  over  the 
corresponding  period  of  last  year,  was 
$529,785,  figures  which  give  the  lie  to  the 
statement  that  the  trade  of  Alaska  is 
falling  off.  In  truth  and  in  fact  it  is 
expanding  with  regularity,  month  bv 
month  and  year  by  year.  The  same  statis- 
tical tables  show  that  the  receipts  of  gold 
from  Alaska  during  the  eleven  months 
were  $6,070,268,  exclusive  of  gold  from  the 


British  Yukon.  This  it  a  gain  of  over 
$1,500,000  over  the  corresponding  period 
of  the  previous  year. 

The  trade  of  Puget  Sound  with  other 
noncontiguous  territory  on  the  Pacific  is 
expanding  in  a  similar  proportion  to  the 
trade  with  Alaska. 

Imports  from  the  Philippines  show  an 
extraordinary  increase,  indicating  that  the 
bulk  of  the  trade  is  destined  to  come  this 
way.  In  the  previous  fiscal  year,  the  im- 
ports of  Philippine  products  at  Puget 
Sound  were  valued  at  $35.  During  the 
eleven  months  ending  in  June  the  imports 
at  this  port  were  valued  at  $1,380,175. 
The  Atlantic  ports  showed  a  heavy  decline 
in  imports,  and  the  total  volume  at  San 
Francisco  was  valued  at  but  $550,231. 

Metkodfl  of  Preparing  Land  for  Irrigation— 

The  Office  of  Experiment  Stations, 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 
will  soon  issue  a  bulletin  describing 
methods  of  preparing  land  for  irrigatior 
and  applying  water  to  crops  in  different 
sections  of  the  arid  region  of  the  United 
States.  In  this  bulletin  the  methods  of 
getting  rid  of  sagebrush,  smoothing  the 
ground,  building  laterals,  and  distributing 
water  over  fields  as  developed  by  the  expe- 
rience of  farmers  in  irrigated  districts  arc 
brought  together  and  described.  The 
tools  and  implements  used  are  illustrated 
and  the  cost  of  the  work,  based  upon  actual 
examples  in  different  states,  is  given.  The 
purpose  is  to  afford  beginners  a  reliable 
guide  both  as  to  the  cost  of  bringing  wild 
land  under  cultivation  and  methods  best 
suited  to  different  soils,  climates  and 
crops.  The  facts  included  in  this  bulletin 
have  been  gathered  by  the  irrigation  inves- 
tigations of  this  office,  acting  in  co-opera- 
tion with  the  state  experiment  stations 
and  the  state  engineers'  offices. 

This  bulletin  brings  out  the  fact,  not 
well  understood,  that  the  cost  of  preparing 
land  for  irrigation  is  in  many  instances 
greater  than  the  cost  of  building  canals 
and  reservoirs.  Detailed  figures  of  the 
cost  of  checking  land  show  that  it  varies 
in  certain  districts  in  California  from 
$9.96  to  $18.08  per  acre.  This  is  more 
than  twice  the  cost  of  the  canal  systems 
in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley,  California, 
which  is  given  in  the  report  of  the  Census 
Bureau  for  1902  as  $4.99   per  irrigated 


310 


THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


acre.  Where  the  preparing  of  land  is 
contracted  for  the  cost  of  checking  varies 
from  $7.50  to  $20.00  per  acre.  The  price 
of  preparing  land  for  flooding  is  much  less, 
but  is  $5.00  per  acre  in  Wyoming.  Tho 
need  of  a  better  understanding  of  this 
particular  branch  of  irrigation  practice  is 
becoming  more  and  more  important. 
Reservoirs  and  canals  are  but  means  to 
accomplish  a  purpose.  That  purpose  is  to 
increase  the  products  of  the  soil.  The 
value  of  the  ditch  or  reservoir  depends 
upon  the  acreage  of  land  which  it  will 
serve  and  the  increase  in  the  value  of  the 
products  which  the  use  of  water  will  bring 
about.  The  time  is  coming  when  the  most 
important  problems  connected  with  irriga- 
tion will  be  the  best  means  of  applying 
water  and  not,  as  at  present,  those  of 
canal  and  reservoir  building. 

About  thirty  different  methods  of  apply- 
ing water  are  now  in  use.  This  does  not 
mean  that  there  are  thirty  distinct  systems 
but  includes  the  different  ways  of  prepar- 
ing land  by  checking,  compartments,  deep 
and  shallow  furrows,  flooding,  sprinkling, 
and  subirrigation.  The  bulletin  gives 
some  of  the  results  of  a  series  of  tests  of 
different  methods  of  applying  water  and 
the  difference  in  loss  of  water  by  evapora- 
tion in  deep  and  shallow  furrows  and  iu 
flooding.  About  one  and  one-half  times 
as  much  water  was  needed  to  irrigate  an 
acre  of  land  by  flooding  as  was  required 
in  furrows  twelve  inches  deep.  About  one 
and  one-third  times  as  much  water  was 
needed  to  irrigate  in  furrows  three  inches 
deep  as  in  furrows  one  foot  deep.  A 
saving  of  one  third  of  the  water  by  the 
adoption  of  a  better  system  would  mean 
not  only  increased  profits  to  farmers  but 
a  large  increase  in  the  acreage  which  could 
be   irrigated   from   canals   or   reservoirs. 

Dairying  in  Tillamook — 

The  coast  counties  of  Oregon  are  taking 
commercial  rank  never  before  realized  or 
dreamed  of  in  the  history  of  the  state. 

A  number  of  safe  harbors  give  ingress 
to  the  coastwise  shipping.  Fishing  and 
the  lumber  trade  are  attracting  many 
settlers  and  much  capital.  Tillamook  has 
these  attractions  in  no  small  degree. 

But  the  most  prominent  and  popular 
industry  now  within  her  borders,  is  dairy- 
ing. The  location  is  ideal.  The  climate 
is  salubrious.     With  almost  no  snow  or 


freezing  weather  in  the  low  lands  in  win- 
ter, and  occasional  showers  or  heavy  dews 
in  summer,  the  grazing  season  is  as  near 
continuous  as  could  well  be  imagined. 

The  soil  also,  being  a  rich  loam  or  clay, 
is  well  adapted  for  meadow  or  pasture. 
All  these  conditions  conspire  to  encourage 
the  dairy  industry. 

Within  the  last  few  years,  the  farmers, 
by  a  wise  co-operation,  have  built  up  a 
niagnificent  trade.  About  thirty-five 
creameries  are  in  constant  operation  in 
Tillamook  County.  At  first,  butter  was 
the  principal  product;  but  now  they  are 
manufacturing  cheese  almost  exclusively. 
Exact  figures  are  not  at  hand,  but  a  con- 
servative estimate  by  Mr.  Mcintosh  of 
Tillamook  City,  who  handles  the  principal 
part  of  the  output,  places  the  shipment 
of  cheese  from  Tillamook  County  in  1903, 
at  1,000,000  pounds.  This  at  ten  cents 
net  represents  the  modest  sum  of  $100,- 
000  to  the  farmers.  We  are  told  of  one 
man  who  averaged  from  his  thirteen  cows 
seventy-five  dollars  profit  per  cow.  This 
seems  large,  but  any  one  investigating  the 
methods  adopted  by  a  thrifty  farmin;? 
commimity,  in  a  locality  having  such  ideal 
conditions,  will  not  be  surprised  at  tlii< 
magnificent   showing. 

As  to  markets,  there  seems  no  limit. 
The  product  is  superb,  the  reputation  is 
established,  the  dealers  are  satisfied  and 
Tillamook  cheese  finds  ready  sale  in  th(* 
best  houses  of  all  the  coast  cities.  In  this 
industry,  Tillamook's  future  is  well  as- 
sured, and  has  promise  of  a  large  increase 
within  the  next  few  years. 

Irrigation  for  tke  Inland  Empire — 

The  most  important  irrigation  enter- 
prise in  Oregon  is  that  of  the  Deschutes 
Irrigation  &  Power  Company,  which  will 
reclaim  immense  areas  of  land  in  Central 
Oregon.  The  company  is  formed  by  the 
consolidation  of  two  irrigation  companies, 
and  is  capitalized  at  $2,500,000.  It  will 
control  a  total  of  210,000  acres  of  land. 

Practical  irrigation  in  the  Deschutes 
country  began  in  1900  and  has  been  eon- 
ducted  on  a  small  scale  ever  since.  The 
new  company,  however,  plans  to  establish 
the  most  modern  equipment  for  their 
enterprise.  The  water  is  taken  from  the 
Deschutes  river,  and  carried  across  two 
miles  of  barren  lava  bed  before  it  reaches 
irrigable  country. 


MUTIKG  in  OREGON. 

No.  1 — Prospector's  companion  and  outfit.     No.  8 — ^Dredffinr  for  gold,   Burnt  River,    Or.     No.   3 — Placer 

Mining,   John  Day  River.    No.   4 — Golconda  Mine,  Oregon.     No.  5— Baker  City,  Or. 

No.    6 — Eureka    and    Excelsior    Mills. 

Courtepy  of  O.   R.   &  N.   Co. 


Written  for  the  Pacific 
M  o  n  till  y  unless  oth  erwiac 
desi(;fnatcd 


Cooducted  by 

FRANKLYN 
GODWYN 


At  tkc  Reception — 

"I've  been  watching  that  masculine- 
looking  woman  over  in  the  corner.  She's 
eaten  three  plates  of  lobster  salad,  and 
that's  her  fourth  cup  of  coffee.  Shouldn't 
you  think  it  would  disagree  with  her? 

"Disagree  with  her?''  replied  the  meek- 
looking  man,  sadly.  "No,  it  wouldn't  dare. 
That's  my  wife." 

Sympathizing  Friend:  What's  the  mat- 
ter, old  man?    You  look  worried. 

Museum  Manager :    Worried  !     I'm  up 


a^rniniit  it  for  fair.  The  AllnnoV  j^ot  the 
piiikine.  and  her  hair's  falling  out:  the 
* i Ui^f^-rntor  got  indigestion  eating  !i?lap- 
jaektii  at  the  last  stop;  the  Ta!Oiu*fl  T^ady 
got  wel   and  the  eolors  all  ran  together; 

rheumatism ;  the  Fat  Lady's  losing  flesh ; 
the  Living  Skeleton  is  gaining  five  pounds 
a  week ;  and  the  Snake  Charmer's  got  the 
delirium  tremens.  0,  no!  I'm  not  hav- 
ing any  troubles. 

Same  Old  Game — 

Three  dull  reports  shattered  the  silence 
at  Port  Arthur.  "What  was  that  ?"  cried 
an  inhabitant. 

"That  ?"  answered  one  who  had  been  to 
county  fairs  in  Michigan,  and  knew  the 
ways  of  the  world.  "Oh,  that's  only 
another  little  three-shell  game." 


"Sttikinf  a  happy   medium.' 


HUMOR. 


Ttc  Midnigkt  Cr 

A  hot  and  sultry  night  in  St.  Peters- 
burg. In  the  palace  of  the  Romanoffs  all 
was  quiet,  save  for  the  occasional  clink  of 
glasses,  the  foolish  jest  and  maudlin 
laugh  of  the  Grand  Vizier  and  the  Court 
Jester,  as  they  sat  late,  drinking  vodka. 
Suddenly  the  silence  which  hovered  the 
palace  was  rent  to  fragments  by  a  long, 
quavering  wail. 

The  Grand  Vizier  leaped  to  his  feet,  his 
face  the  color  of  putty,  each  hair  erect 
with  terror. 

"Zookski !     What  was  that?'' 

The  words  were  forced  through  chatter- 
ing teeth. 

Again  the  high-pitched  moan,  weird, 
ventriloqual,  impinged  upon  the  tortured 
ears  of  the  listeners.  A  grotesque  grin 
spread  itself  over  the  misshapen  features 
of  the  Jester.  He  had  located  the  sound 
in  the  nursery. 

"That?" — in  answer  to  the  Vizier's 
question — "Oh,  that's  onlv  a  little  hot 
heir." 

His   fiendish   chuckles  trailed   off  into 

nothing,  and  again  the  silence  fell  like  a 

black  pall. 

*       «       * 

The  Enthusiast:  Oh,  I  had  the  linest 
horseback  ride  this  morning!  Got  up  at 
5  o'clock  and  rode  two  hours.  The  air 
w^as  fresh  and  bracing;  the  dew  glittered 
and  sparkled  on  the  grass;  and  the 
birds! — oh,  it  was  great!  You  ought  to 
try  it,  old  man ! 

Man-with-a-Grouch:  Humph!  The  only 
horse  I  ever  ride  at  that  unearthly  hour  is 
a  night-mare. 

He         *         « 

A  mennacious  inaiviaual  was  relating 
uiie  of  his  many  remarkable  aciventures 
10  a  forbearing  but  uninterestea  audience 
ot  one. 

"Yes,  sir;  it's  a  fact  that  I  was  left 
alone  on  that  barren  island  for  ten  days — 
.  yes,  sir;  ten  days,  without  a  thing  to  eat, 
and  without  any  company  but  my  dog. 
Ponto.  And,  sir,  about  the  fifth  day  1 
got  so  sufferin'  hungry  that — what  d'you 
suppose  I  did?" 

Xo  response. 

"Well,  sir,  I  cut  off  the  dog's  tail  and 
made  soup  of  it,  and  gave  Ponto  the 
bones." 

"Well,  you  were  reduced  to  an  extrem- 
iiy/'  replied  the  long-suffering  listener. 


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PERrtCTION  in' 
CAIinED  GOODS 

Feas.CornJmit^ 
Tomatoes.  Beans 
Ye  jetaiblcs.  Catsup. 
Salmon.OlivcOil.' 
iyrup^.  Clams, 
Oysters.  5hrimp. 
Lobster^.... 


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AtiMi;S  Lewis 

Fortland.Orgogn. 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTnLY. 


A  Week's  Wooing— 

If  the  girl  you  wish  to  wed 
On  Sunday  you  should  meet, 

You  can  win  the  maiden's  heart 
Ere  the  week's  complete. 

On  Monday  you  must  call  on  her — 
You  have  no  time  to  waste. 

On  Tuesday  take  her  driving — 
By  Cupid  you'll  be  paced ! 

Wednesday,  chocolates  you  must  send, 

And  ask  her  to  the  play. 
On  Thursday,  violets  must  plead 

Your  cause — love's  flowers  are  they. 

On  Friday  next — now  heed  me  well — 
You  must  the  maid  ignore, 

And  with  her  rival  oft  be  seen — 
She'll  value  you  the  more. 

And  if  on  Saturday  you  call — 
Unless  1  miss  my  guess — 

And  ask  the  maid  to  marry  you, 
She'll  promptly  answer  "Yes." 


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An  Eight  Weeks'  Home  Treatment 
for  $5.00 

T  ADIE8  or  gentlemen  shall  have  joat  what  they  need  for 
-^  any  affliction  for  that  sum  of  money.  If  blackheads, 
treAtment  for  blackheads;  If  wrinkles,  treatment  for  wrin- 
kles: if  freckles,  treatment  for  freckles,  etc.  At  the  con- 
clnsion  of  these  eight  weeks  each  patron  will  be  folly  quiU- 
ifled  to  care  for  her  own  or  his  own  face,  as  the  case  may 
be.  equal  to  most  of  the  dermatologists.  Investigate  this 
great  offer.  Manr  of  the  profession  would  charge  $75  for 
what  we  give  for  $5. 

MADAME  AZA  HOLMES-RIBBECKE 

Master  and  Teacher  of  Dermatology.    Write  for  Booklet. 
Free  Samples  of  Massage  Cream.    Call  or  writ«. 


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whether  in  a  picture,  cast  or  choice  piece  of 
pottery;  or  if  you  wish  to  have  your  picture 
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THB  best  medical  authorities  are  unanimous  in  recom- 
mending horseback  riding  for  nervous,  lung  and 
kindred  complaints.  Particularly  is  this  mode  of  exercise 
beneficial  on  this  West  coast,  where  the  patient  can  enjoy 
the  pure  open  air,  inhale  nature's  ozone  and  the  resinous 
fragrance  of  pine,  fir,  cedar  and  hemlock. 

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Gold  Fillings    :    StM 
Silver  Fillings  :   :    .50 

These  are  new  prices  for  first  class  work. 


Gold  Crowns  :  $4.00 
FtillSetofTeeth,  5M 


I  srive  my  personal  attention  to  patrons  and  DO  ab- 
solutely guarantee  all  my  work  for  ten  yrars. 
I  have  the  latest  appliances  known  to  dentistry. 
OPPiCB  HOURS :  8  to  5.    Sunday,  10  to  13. 

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ORKOON 


HUMOR. 


A  Leaf  From  tkc  Cynic's  Note  Book — 

Compliments  arc  the  small  change  in 
the  coin  of  love. 

If  men  selected  as,  wives  the  same  girb 
they  take  to  dances,  liow  the  race  would 
-deteriorate ! 

There  is  nothing  more  abhorrent  than 
an  unwelcome  caress. 

A  woman  never  really  knows  how  much 
she  loves  her  husband  until  after  she  has 
seen  him  shave. 

Many  a  bridal  veil  becomes  the  winding 
sheet  of  the  heart. 

riorse  Sense — 

As  Nebuchadnezzar  was  quietly  grazing, 
he  heard  some  newsbovs  shoutinsj :  WUX- 
TREE!  WUXTREE!  All  about  the 
butchers'  strike!  Meat  gone  up  to  10 
shekels  a  pound ! 

^'There  are  advantages  in  a  herbaceous 
diet/^  he  reflected,  as  he  cropped  the  suc- 
culent grasses. 


IDiu  De^  Quinine 

Ed.  Pinaad's  Eau  de  Qidiune 

h  the  brsT  Hair  RestDrjitJve  known-'U  prtMrves  thi 
hilr  from  iwrjisitk  attacks,  tones  up  the  hair  bultu* 
clunus  the  scalfi  4ncl   pC4itlv«]y   resnove^  dandruff 

Ed.  Pinaud's  Eav  de  Qainine 

[s  ilSD  M  most  excellent    Hakr  Dre^sine— The  sweet 

and  refiTied   odar  which  It  Enves  In  the  hair  nukes 

the  toilet  a  luxury      ;::::;; 

SOLD  EVEI^YWHERE 

S-CIX. 

Botties, 

S1.0D 


Wise  BroUien»  Dentbts. 
FalUng  Buildings  Third  and  Washiagtoa  SU. 
Portlandt  Oregon* 


Sanipuret 


LTRUE  TO  NATURE 

THE  COUNTERPART  OF 

^     MOTHERS  MILK  > 

,        A  NATURAL      ■ 

AT  4  MONTHS  OLD    - 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Hero  Without  Honor. 

An  anecdote  about  General  Miles  concerns 
an  innocent  professonal.  It  was  in  an  up- 
town hotel.  A  number  of  men  were  gathered 
around  listening  to  the  speaker,  a  slender  and 
rather  magnetic  man. 

**  Yes/'  he  was  saying,  **I  was  in  the  midst 
of  it  at   Santiago.'' 

**Were  the  Spaniards  good  fighters! " 

**  Rather.  But  I  took  five  of  them  unaided 
— officers,  too — in  Cuba,  and  two  more  in 
Porto  Rico!" 

**May  T  ask  who  you  are?"  inquired  the 
general. 

**Yes,  indeed.  I'm  Mr.  Clinedinst,  the  pho- 
tographer, from  Washington,  and  I  took  you, 
too,  in  Porto  Rico." — Philadelphia  Ledger. 


Johnny — Say,  papa,  passing  counterfeit 
money  is  unlawful,  isn't  itf 

Papa — Yes. 

Johnny — Well,  papa,  if  a  man  was  walking 
along  the  street  and  saw  a  $10  counterfeit  bill 
upon  the  sidewalk  and  did  not  pick  it  up, 
wouldn't  he  be  guilty  of  passing  counterfeit 
money,  and  couldn't  he  be  arrested  and  put 
in  jailf 

Papa — More  likely  the  lunatic  asylum.  Now 
you  may  go  to  bed,  my  son Cincinnati  Com- 
mercial-Tribune. 


He — I  see  there's  a  Yale  man,  don't  you 
know,  who  has  a  machine  for  weighing 
thought. 

She — Indeed!  But  suppose  a  man  never 
thinks.     What  then! 

He — I  don't  know,  I'm  sure. 

She — Whv  don't  you  go  up  and  test  itf — . 
Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 


Aide-de-camp — Well,  your  excellency,  it 
might  have  been  worse. 

Russian  General — Ivan,  T  've  heard  that  said 
about  4000  times  during  the  past  ninety  days. 
I  do  not  wish  to  seem  harsh,  but  the  remark 
is  growing  slightly  monotonous. — Houston 
Chronicle. 

*  *        * 

Plodding  Pete — Lew,  ef  youse  wuz  a  ma- 
chine, wot  kind  would  youse  ruther  be  I 

Lazy  Lew — One  uv  dem  perpetual  motion 
machines. 

Plodding  Pete — Coz  wbyt 

Lazy  Lew — Coz  dey  never  work Chicago 

News. 

*  *        * 

Ketchum  A.  Cummin— *' So  your  father  ob- 
jects  to   my   calling  to   see   you,   does   he?" 

Anna  Goe  Wynne— "Not  at  all.  What  he 
objects  to  is  my  being  at  home  when  you 
call."— Chicago   Tribune. 


She — Is  it  really  true  that  the  blind  can 
determine  color  by  the  sense  of  touch! 

He — Sure.  I  once  knew  a  blind  man  who 
was  able  to  tell  a  red-hot  stove  by  merely 
putting  his  finger  on  it The  Pathfinder. 


QUEEN  LOUISE  FACE 
MASSAGE  CREAM 

I.  5 1  ■■  I  [  1  ■*!*•.  W  i  1 1  ri^oiiLi vi '  W  r j  nkl'OK,  Frtvkl**,  Blarkht^inlfkr 
"l,,iir),  H^anhuTn  plu'I  mln'r  Facinl  Blifitii!:^]«-«.  It  tir<>- 
iltie^'K  11  vr>lvcijp'  rli-ur  i-niuDU'^f^m.     It  i*  l^mhiI  h]r  kII  th^ 

rittfrt*  Hnd  bftrUer  »pjn.ilr  tii'UN>i'«i,  in  thv  ttnit^Mi  l^t^Uisii'. 
If  if^mr  ilfijtli^r  cpittti^it  supply  jmti  with  ibf  Unm4i 
Lri>titii(^  (?rf*ro,  orrlc-r  ilirtsrt  Crfun  ui«,  tflrinfl  hL>innnir«^ 
jind  npon  rwi'hil  nf  ^t  cMiitp  fnr  a  ^it,  Jcir  nr  %l.W  f*ft 

r.hi' fl-i'n.  JuMiuMfnT  iTjii.ll  jin.  'a--  will  ^t-nri  jriQ  by  t^x- 
f-P"**!-  JTt'lmi'i  ibi"  ^.Jn«ini.  [■•■i^  ■■  rn-jtm,  t^hfAtKh^r  With 
n  b^'jiuiKtiJ  illu-^lrjkii'il  r»' "  k  iS  •■  .  i.,.- Uy\i  <i\n*<rllftnf^  hnm 
til  ij^f  TN-^  t'rt-juii  fii-f  Kini.i*  i.rnJ  m-.h  Ma 


705 


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One  hundred  thousand  acres  will  be  open  for  public  entry  on  October  aoth,  1904.  by  the  State  of  Idaho,  under 
the  mammoth  Twin  Palls  irrigation  caual,  in  the  fertile  Snake  River  valley  in  Southern  Idaho. 
XKR.MS*    This  tract  has  been  set  apart  for  entry  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress,  known  as  the 

"Carey  Act,"  the  terms  of  which  are  most  inviting. 

Actual  residence  is  required  for  but  a  short  period,  and  any  person  holding  a  filing  can  transfer  his 

right  at  any  time. 

KntricH  can  be  made  in  Government  subdivisions,  not  to  exceed  160  acres  to  one  person  and  the  entry 

does  not  conflict  with  rights  of  entry  under  other  laws  of  Con^press,  can  be  made  by  Power  of  Attorney. 

A  uniform  price  of  $25.50  per  acre  for  land  and  water  right,  with  payment  privilege  extended  over  a 

period  often  years,  has  been  fixed  by  the  SUte  Land  Board. 
SOII#*    Rich,  alluvial  and  very  productive.    It  contains  no  alkali  or  mineral  substances,  and  is  very  free  from 

gravel  and  stones. 
IXTAXKR  SYJPPI^Y*    Secured  from  the  Snake  River,  which  will  afford  abundant  water  for  irrigation  pur- 

poses  at  all  seasons  of  the  year. 
PRODYJCXS*    Alfalfa,  timothy,  clover  (both  hay  and  seed),  oats,  wheat,  barley,  vegetables,  berries  and  all 

deciduous  fruits.    Red  winter  apples  and  peaches  here  attain  perfection. 
CJkMJkM^m    Twenty  six  miles  of  the  main  canal,  80  feet  wide  on  the  bottom  and  lao  feet  on  top  built  to  carry  a 

volume  of  water  ten  feet  deep,  is  now  completed,  and  laterals  are  being  constructed  to  carry  water  to  the 

lands.    This  system  is  the  largest  in  the  United  States  and  will  ultimately  cover  an  area  of  270,000  acres. 
POIXTKR*    Shoshone,  Salmon,  Auger  and  Twin  Falls  are  immediataly  adjacent  to  these  lands  and  will  furnish 

almost  unlimited  power.    Work  is  already  well  advanced  at  Shoshone  Palls  and  power  will  be  available  at 

an  early  date. 
CI^IMAXK*    Is  healthful,  mild  and  equable.    The  winters  are  mild,  the  spring  and  fall  seasons  usually  very 

Eleasant,  while  the  summers  are  not  uncomfortably  warm,  the  atmosphere  being  cooled  by  the  mountain 
reezes. 

The  opening  of  this  large  tract  comes  under  most  auspicious  circumstances.    Those  seeking  homes 
cannot  find  greater  advantages  and  opportunities  anywhers  than  are  found  in  the  Twin  Falls  District. 
XWIN  WJk.1^1^  CIXY*    Situated  near  tne  center  of  this  tract  of  land,  promises  a  phenomenal  growth. 
Already  a  water  system  and  a  long  distance  telephone  are  installed.    Many  buildings  arc  in  course  of  erec- 
tion; among  which  is  a  hotel  costing  about  $50,000. 

Town  lots  are  offered  at  very  reasonable  prices  and  are  certain  to  advance  rapidly  in  value. 

Fop  r«nP«rtlc«tars  Address  TWIN  FAI^LS  INVESTMENT  CO. 

Twin  Falls,  Idaho. 

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Surety  Bonds 
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The  WASHINGTON  LIFE 

INSUILANCE  COMPANY  f;i^  y^ 


FIRST  IN  SAFETY  AND  RELIABILITY 

FIRST  IN  EARNINGS  AND  PAYMENT  OF  DIVIDENDS 

FIRST  IN  TAKING  CARE  OF  THE  INTERESTS 
OF  POLICY  HOLDERS 

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1[  The  best  and  most  successful  business  men  are  the  best  in- 
sured men*    No  man  can  afford  to  be  without  life  insurance* 


For  particulars,  call  or  write 

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GENERAL  MANAGER 

609-10-11-12  AND  13  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE 
PORTLAND,  OREGON 

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PIANOS 

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COMPANY 

rtood  BuildiviK,  Smtt  f  ranckco^  CaL 

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over  qu^irter  of  a  century*  All  that  can 
be  denured  for  Action,  Tone  and  Finish. 


other  ]»4  i-Kpenaivc  make*.     Also  {sccoad-hand 
Hanoti  Hnd  Organ j*  always  on  hand. 

Sold    on    Cast   Payments    if   DCsmEO 


/Johnmckintosn 
the  Toffee  King 


MACKINTOSH'S  TOFPEE 

I*  El  Part;  ftjHl  Dtlicious 

OLD  ENGLISH  CANDY 

Anrl  ]  wnnt  t.n  mny  to  thi4  l^fMi^l^f*  of  I'HE  pA€IFtC 
Mn?n  WLir  thjit  it's  junt  r.tiH  nuirij'  ft>rtlmwJif>lip  l:im- 
ily,  nnil  thv  rh'^ldnrn  iti  iiitrtlcuin.r.  Tb^re  lis  Dr>thEnig 
"intrt  Bit  ip>H-Hr'  nr  "iuHt  liln?  ilr"  Ynar  lU^tiU'r  eun 
fni^ialv  jriMj.  If  inA  wrUia  m^,  mid  M.<nd  nu-  hln  an  nits 
nniL  I  Hill  talk  iriib  hitn. 

Trial  r^'i^lEHtEi'^  m^nl.  for  KIc  in  KtiiiiitHi^  i^t 
l-Eb,  Fftmtli' Ti.li  ^Hiit  for  il.StKund   1  psiy 

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D«pt,  19.   7S  nud«on  Street,  Mew  York 


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ms  Holland  Bulbs,  Our  new  vgo^,  handsomely  Illustrated, 
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PORTLAND  SEED  CO.,  Portland,  Ore. 

CiiUI<rg  of  Nunery  Stock!  alM  ready 


Fire  Bricks  and  Clay 
Lime,  Cement  Plaster 

pig  Iron  and  Coke  Iron  and  Steel 

T.  S.  McRath  &  Co. 

hnporief  and  E^poMer 

%  Ain8worth  BIdg.,  Portland,  Ore.,U.S.A. 

Correspondence  Solicited 


DRINK  PURE  WATER 

"Puritan"  Witw  Still 

Price  $5,00 


Dayton  Hardware  Co» 

J92  First   St.,  Portland,  Ort. 


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who  is  permanently  located  to 
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BOSTON 

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COMPANY 

PUGET  SOUND-ORIENTAL  LINE 


INTENDED  SAILINGS 


FROM 


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TO 


YOKOHAMA,  KOBE,  MOJI. 

NAGASAKI,  SHANGHAI, 
HONG  KONG  and  MANILA 


Carrying  Cargo  on  through  BlUaof  Lading 
to  all  prinoipalporta  in 

Japan,  Korea,   China,   Philippine  Islands, 
Sirails  Settiemcnis  and  India 


Tremont     -    Aug.  9  Pleiades    -    Oct.  28 

Lyra  -    -    -  Sept.  5  Tremont     -  Nov.  12 

Hyades    -    Sept.  21  Hyades    -       Dec.  6 

Shawmut   -  Oct.  12  Lyra     -    -  Dec.  12 

Pleiades  -     Dec.  30 

Sabject  to  change  without  notice. 


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Carry  Fint-Claas.  Intermediate  and 
Steerage  Paasengers. 


For  Bates  and  other  Information  apply 
to  any  Agent  of  the 

Northern  Pacific,  Great  Northern,  and 

Chicago,  Burlington  &.  Quincy 

Railways,  or 

Frank  Water  house 

Managing  Agent 

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of  the 

REGULATOR  LINE 

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Steamers  leave  Portland,  Alder  Street  dock, 
7:00  A.  M.  daily,  except  Sunday,  for 
The  Dalles,  Cascade  Locks,  Hood  River 
and  way  landings. 

PHONE  g14 

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'   &f  DUNI'WAY 
COMPANY 


Printers    and 
Litnograpners 


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MINNEAPOLIS  AND  ST.  PAUL 

AND  THE  EAST 


1-OVERLAND  TRAIN  DAILY-1 


VIA  THE 


NORTHERN  PACinC- 
BURLINGTON  ROUTE 


To  Denver,  Lincoln,  Omaha,  St.  Joseph,  ICansas  City,  St.  Louis, 
and  all  points  East  and  Southeast. 


The  Only  Direct  Line  to  the  Famous  Yellowstone  National  Park. 

The  Only  Reliable  Pioneer  Dining  Car  Line. 

Excellent  Through  Car  Service. 


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Electric  Lighted.    The  Finest  Train  on  Earth. 


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Gttmption  yL  Gambling 


The  Century  Dictionary  says:    ^GUMPTION*  is  clear,  practical  common  sense.* ' 
That*8  Annual  Divid^i^ds 

And  also  states  that:     'GAMBLING*  is  to  engage  in  financial  transactions  or 
speculations  dependent  for  success  chiefly  upon  chance  or  unknown  contingencies." 

That's  Waiting  a  Term  of  Years  for  Your  Dividends 

Hon.  Wm.  A.  Fricke,  formerly  Insurance  Commissioner  of  the  State  of  Wis- 
consin, says  :     **A11  that  is  vicious  in  the  conduct  of  the  business  of  life  insurance, 
extravagant  competition,  etc.,  is  chargeable  to  the  deferred  dividend  contract :     All 
•that  is  good — equity,  economy,  actual  cost — is  due  to  the  annual  dividend  account- 
ing  to  policyholders.'* 


Whidi  of  these  two  men,  do  yoa  think,  mode 
the  better  investment? 


ANNUAL  DIVmENnS 

In  1890  an  employe  of  the  Studebaker  Co. 
insured  in  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  for 
|5,ooo,  20  Payment  Life  plan,  with  annual  div- 
idends.   His  death  occurred  in  1901. 
The  Company  paid  policy     -        -        $5,000  00 

Dividend  additions    -        -        -        - ^18  55 

Total  paid  by  Company  -  -  $5,618  55 
Which  was  a  return  of  33^  %  of  all  premiums 
paid,  besides  face  of  policy. 

Good  dividend,  wasn't  it? 

Had  this  policy  been  on  the  deferred  div- 
idend plan,  only  $5,000  would  have  been  paid. 


DEFERRED  DIVIDENDS 

In  1882  a  Portland  gentlemen  insured  in  a 
certain  large  company  for  $7,000  on  the  Life 
plan.  He  made  his  last  payment  in  1901,  and 
died  a  few  days  after.  His  policy  contained  the 
following  clause:  **No  dividends  shall  be  ap- 
portioned or  paid  on  this  policy  before  the  end 
of  the  accumulation  period.  The  accumulation 
period  is  twenty  years."  As  he  failed  to  com* 
plete  the  last  policy  year,  having  lived  only 
nineteen  years  and  six  days  his  entire  dlvldeDdft 
were  forfeited  to  the  company* 

Was  that  good  judgment  ? 

Had  this  policy  been  in  a  company  paying- 
Annual  dividends,  all  the  twenty  year's  div 
idends  would  have  been  paid  in  addition  to 
the  face  value. 


II,  Q,        X  A  yearly  settlement  is   what  your  banker  makes.     Why  do 

Colton»     >w  you  wait  20  years  for  dividends  on  your  insurance  ?    See  me 

PortkiiMi.  Ore.       x^  about  our  Annual  Dividend. 

% 

Without  commit-  X/zi 

Ing  myself  to  any  action     N^o  WW  ^^  ^^/^T     ^¥^/^Tk.T 

whatever,  you  may  send      X  l\^       Kjfrn       \,j'\J  ■  />  Jl  ^JM 

me  free  information  regard"        ^^ 

ing  your  in«iurance  proposition.  \  General  Manager  for  Pacific  Coast  States 

Name X  Chamber  of  Commerce  BaHdinar 

Address X  Portland,  Ore. 

Occupation Age.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal.  Seattle,  Wath^ 

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DEATH:  The  Meaning  and  Rcsttlt, 
Vilsonj  cloth       -        -        -      $|^ 

LAV  OF  HEREDITY,  WlIlianM; 
cioth i^ 

$^50 

Our  special  price  for  the  two,    $K25 

CREATIVE  AND  SEXUAL  SQ- 

ENCE,  by  O.  S.  Fowler     -      $Z00 
LAW  OF  HEREDITY,  WIIHams,  1*25 

$335 
Ouf  special  price  for  the  two,    $U60 

JONES^  BOOK  STORE 

291  AUer  St*,  Portland,  Ore. 


CDe  Scandinaoiaii  Jlneiicaii  Bank 

SKATTLK,  WASH. 

Capital  Paid  Up.  «300,000.00 
Surplus,  «ISO,000.00 


THE  OLYMPIA 

C.  N.  TUNIN,    roprietor 

Hcadquarters  for  Commercial  Men     rM,,r«r^;«    WF^^u 
Fine  Sample  Rooms      Ulympia,  Wash. 


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THE    GLORIOUS 

STARS  AND  STRIPES" 

We  make  them  to  order.  Any  size.  Any  quantity. 
A  large  assortment  of  FLAGS  constantly  in  stock. 

Wa  ANB  MANUPAOTUNBRS  AND  IMPONTBNS  OP 

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BAG  PRINTING  A  SPECIALTY 

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Incorporated  1893 
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r  *  M, ''/ "  ™  v^'  '^^  *^  '^^^  f^iit  ^'*^  I  »**^*  -^t^  n  H  rtjcurt- 
f »^hL~"i ^  te?^  V^'  '"^  ^^''L*'  ^^f**      f  he  ii^w  .rnp  of 

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This  Plume  $2 

COMTFH8K  PLrMf!. 
15  inrht>^  Innir.  »«{jjiilHr  tm 
theulLtunv  S|,hndii1  riQnl 
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thnn     i-^    tiHii4it]|<     „o|,|     „, 

fi>r  $2.00. 

SHtin>  pTanii^  jn  colnrfl,  42  25* 
wnrtli  *5,m,  jii-ppnid  for  J3.00. 

17  J  .S CTT  VXm T KftSE  P Lr  M  E* 
lujiilti  f'^Ht-Ui  H^t-tlit'  pirtnn^  frrmi 
tb+'V(.rynri<>Hi  TjJm  k  plumfwcifmiilp 
i>Ird.-<,  EH|itTin]|>  Unc^^  xtmnic  U*k^ 
ttirs-,  Mnde  of  viira  hfn%rf  wnd 
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Ufll^r"MJ  at  *7.0t".  t'r^'iMiirl  ror|5,00 

I4irJ  for  $1  0,00. 

Ehrw   B-lnrh    hlflrJt  4tr  whltt  1(1., 

w-fif   flnp.«t   nunjjti.      Hotter  th^n 

(itorM  g*xiulli  ftt  *a.m.    Lk.livifhHi  pnijiqSci  for  $2.25. 

t ,.  «J!?  ??  *^^  H^  '^^t  "*'/  Sp**^  " '  "^'^  *i*^*'  S  bf  *  11  Ji  il  |j  i  c- 
«Tw  rhi.  new  Sniikfi  imd  tvtt^  Plumpi*.  jxiid  r*howa  all 
me  TA^tiiciiiiibJf-  Htinirtv  fnr  t>iC'  CEiminu  mhqm:iii 

inrt^«??ikLS^'**'^?"'^'  ?".*^*^  ^'^^^'^'*'  f^-^th^' 
L>r3[e  '^''™   ""'  ^trlcb  sent    Trev  with  errry 

SOUVENIR  PRICE  LIST 

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ninny  ln*£iiitifiil  tnrm  incEun^^,  dhsf  fntly  Hbi^irritt^l 
wiTh  fUjjrnrftiKw  nmd(.  rliri  tt^  from  rh-  fHriTlu'f>i  Tnn. 
tnitiftiiripc*.  nf  b(iHH,  plimn'ft.  huA^t*,  frui'*,  tljM  etc  in 
«    /L^l\7/""*  "'**^     *^'*'^  ^''^'  '^'^  ^  ta  cover  pju^tniif^ 

CAWSTON  OSTRICH  FARM 

TJi4>  OritfiDiiiJ  (Et^inr  of  Eht? 
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ESTELLE  DEVENY 


FLOSSIE  DEVEN> 


THE     DEVENYS 

Tke  Only  Scientific  CWopoduts 

IN  THE  CITY 

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CONTENTS  FOR  DECEMBER,  1904 

Rest  on  tKc  Hi^kt  to  Egypt (Fronlispiece) 

From  the  painting  by  B.  Plockhorst 

People — Places — Tliiiigs 315 

(Illustrated  by  phoiogjaphs) 

Recognized  the  Breed  Three  Generations  of  Millionaires 

Puzzle  Picture  Smallest  Restaurant  in  the  World 

Rogue  River  Forest  Reserve  The  Nebraska 

Mt.  Adams  Wo-ho-pum 

Bremerton  Navy  Yard  Rogue  River  National  Bridge 

Sacajawea  and  Capt.  Clark  George  Rogers  Clark 

Washington  State  Flower  Shoshone  Falls,  Idaho 

Conlessiona  of  a  Strike-Breaker    ........  324 

A  remarkable  experience  in  the  Chicago  Butchers'  Strike 

Samuel  Quig^'a  Experiment  (Sbort  Story)  .      E.  P.  Josenhaus  333 

An  Artist  of  tKe  Plains         ....  Kathryne  Wilson  339 

Illustrated  with  drawings  and  photographs  from  paintings 

Footsteps  in  tte  Road  (Skort  Story)  E.  Foltz  345 

Tkc  Wkite  Winged  Fleet  .  .  WilUam  Lovell  Finley  349 

Illustrated  with  photographs  by  Herman  T.  Bohlman 

DEPARTMENTS 

Views  William  Bittle  Wells  353 

(Editorial  Department) 

Actions        ............  354 

Devoted  to  the  world's  most  important  activities 

Impressions        .......       Charles  Erskine  Scott  Wood  358 

Optimism      ............  361 

Literature 362 

Ligkt  .  .  .  .  Albert  E.  Vert  363 

Progress 364 

Devoted  to  the  development,  growth,  progress,  the  energy  and 
enthusiasm  of  the  West 
Humor         ........  Hugh  Herdman  368 


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OF   PORTLAND,  OREGON 


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Capital $  500,000.00 

Surplus 900,000.00 

Deposits 8,250,000.00 


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J.  C.  A1H8WORTH,  President 
W.  B.  Atkr,  Vice  President 


R.  W.  SOHMKBR.  Cfwhier 
A.  M.  Wright,  Asst.  Gaahier 


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WANTS    GOOD    BUSINESS    UPON    SUBSTANTIAL   ASSETS 


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O.  F.  Adams,  President 

R.  O.  JuBiTZ.  Secretary 


L.  A.  Lewis,  l«t  Vice  Prenident 

A.  L.  Mills,  2nd  Vice  President 


Security  $w\m$  $f  trust  Company 

266  Morrison  Street,  Portland,  Oregon 


Interest  Paid  on  Savings  Ac- 
counts and  on  Time  Certificates 
of  Deposit. 

Directors— C.  A.  Del  ph.  L.  A.  Lewis, 
Joseph  Simon,  A.  L^  Mills,  C.  F.  Adams. 
J.  N.  Teal.  James  F.  Failing. 


Statemeiit  of  eoHdition,  Julie  30, 1904 


RESOURCES 

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Bonds 886;i54.91 

Cash  and  due 
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Real  Estate 1.78».56 

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LIABILITIES 

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Deposits 3.095.093.77 

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Portland,  Oregon 

Boardlnir  ^^d  Day  School  for  boys 
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Manual  Training,  Classical,  College  and  Business 
Courses.    For  catalogue,  address 

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Steanis  Blocks  Portland,  Or. 

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Portland  Academy 

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The  Academy  proper  fits  boys  and  girls  for  college. 

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For  Catalogue  or  further  information,  address 

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Walton  College  of  Expression 

SPOKANE,  WASHINGTON 
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Volume  Xn 


DECEMBER,  1904 


Numtcr  6 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS 


Recognizecl  tke  Breecl 

The  late  P.  D.  Armour,  of  Chicago, 
while  the  strictest  of  disciplinarians,  and 
despising  any  act  that  did  not  savor  of 
strict  honesty,  was,  at  the  same  time,  gen- 
erous and  kind  to  his  deserving  employ- 
ees. A  small,  mean  action,  or  an  attempt 
to  impose  upon  kindness,  would  arouse  the 
quick,  hlunt  wrath  of  the  Western  "self- 
made"  man  quicker  than  the  loss  of  mil- 
lions, or  all  the  antics  that  the  "bulls" 
and  "bears"  could  create. 

Mr.  Armour  was  accustomed  to  make  a 
Christmas  present  of  a  suit  of  clothes  to 
all  the  clerks  in  his  office.  They  usually 
selected  good  business  suits  worth  $50.00 
or  $60.00,  and  did  on  this  particular 
Christmas,  with  the  exception  of  one.  That 
one  clerk  chose  a  dress  suit  that  cost 
$125.00.     Mr.  Armour  called  him  up. 

"How  is  this,  :\rr.  Blank?  It's  all 
right,  of  course,  but  I  notice  that  you  were 
lavish  to  yourself  beyond  all  your  asso- 
ciates. VVliat  surprises  me  is,  that  after 
all  my  years  in  the  business,  you  should 
think  I  would  fail  to  recognize  a  hog 
when  I  saw  him." 


PUZZLE   PICTTJKE. 

A  picnic  party  at  the  falls  of  a  itream  enterinj 

the  Columbia  Biver.     How  many  people 

are  in  the  picture? 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


A    niLmnioth   AUi^ar   piDe   iff    itka    Upper   Ro^iw 
B.{Tor    ForvMt    Buiery*,    Soutti^rn    Onsiron, 


Upper  Rogue  River  Sugar  Pine 
Reserve 

The  great  "Silent  places"  of  Oregon, 
and  of  the  West,  are  in  the  trackless 
woods  of  the  Upper  Rogue  Sugar  Pine 
Koserve.  This  is  the  largest  forest  of 
sugar  pine  in  the  world.  Its  giant  trees 
are  excelled  only  by  the  famous  redwoods 
of  California.  The  reserve  embraces  over 
2o0  square  miles,  and  adjoins  the  249 
square  miles  of  Crater  Lake  National 
Park.  As  the  whole  is  under  the  protect- 
ing care  of  rangers  and  park  patrolmen, 
the  500  square  miles  of  the  two  are  prac- 
tically one  vast  park.  There  are  many 
trees  in  this  reserve  that  are  from  25  to  34 
feet  about  l)ase  of  trunk.  There  are 
many  trees  larger  than  this  in  the  North- 
west, but  they  are  not  sugar  pines.  It  is 
murder  to  cut  a  tree  in  this  reserve.  Men 
make  their  campfires  of  broken  boughs 
and  fallen  wood,  of  which  there  is  plenty. 
T^ncle  Sam  has  a  guarding  hand  over  the 
"Silent  places,"  and  he  who  builds  a 
campfire  there  must  leave  no  smouldering 
embers.  In  this  reserve,  and  by  Rogue 
l?iver  Gorge  is  Mills  Falls,  the  fall  of 
^fills  Creek  over  the  canyon  wall  into  the 
Rogue.     It  is  a  sheer  fall  of  18()  feet. 


Mt.    Aduxu,    Waahinfton,    from    Trout    Lake.      Heifbt  12,470  feet. 


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3 


Saoajawea  pointing  across  the  Rockies  to  Osptsin  Clark.      A    posed    picture    by    Major    Lee    Koorhouse 

of  Pendleton,  Orevon. 


The  Rhododendron,  the  state  flower  of  Washington. 


THREE    OENE&ATIONS    OF    MILLIONAIRES. 
W.   A.   Clark   I,    II,    HI. 


PEOPLE— PLACES— THINGS. 


321 


The  ■mallett  restaurant  in  the  world. 


Tke  Smallest  Restaurant  in  tke 
World 

The  smallest  completely  equipped  res- 
taurant in  the  world  as  far  as  any  evi- 
dence to  the  contrary  can  be  found,  ex- 
ists in  Butte,  Montana.  It  is  just  three 
feet  wide  and  13  feet  6  inches  deep  and 
will  seat  only  four  people.  Half  of  the 
13  feet  is  taken  up  by  the  kitchen,  which 
contains  a  small  refrigerator,  a  gas  range, 
a  coffee  urn  and  a  very  complete  cupboard. 
Every  bit  of  room  from  floor  to  ceiling 
is  used.  The  one  table  is  18  inches  wide 
and  three  and  one-half  feet  long.  There 
are  four  stationary  chairs,  which  are  in 
constant  use. 

The  "Success"  restaurant  occupies  a 
niche  between  two  business  blocks  and 
can  never  hope  to  grow.  It  is  located  in 
the  very  center  of  Butte,  near  the  corner 
of  Main  and  Broadway,  and  catches  the 
night  trade  from  reporters,  gamblers  and 
those  who  eat  in  a  hurry.  Only  the  best 
materials  are  used  and  the  prices  are 
hiffh.  The  owners  are  chefs  and  run  two 
12-hour  shifts. 


THE    BATTLESHIP    NEBRASKA,    LAUKCHED    AT    SEATTLE.  OCTOBER  7,   1904. 

Owing  to  the  unusual  conditions  surrounding  the  building  of  the  ship,  the  occasion  was  of  more 
than  ordinary  importance.  SeatUe  citizens  paid  9100.000  toward  the  cost  of  the  vessel  in  order  that 
the  difference  between  Eastern  and  Western  prices  could  be  met. 


322 


THE  PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


The  Roffue  River,  Oregon,  Natural  Bridge. 


Rogue  River  Natural  Bridge 

One  of  the  many  interesting  things  to 
see  on  the  road  to  Crater  Lake  Park, 
Oregon,  is  the  Rogue  River  Natural 
Bridge.  It  is  located  a  half-day's  journey 
beyond  Pros{)eet,  or  l?ogue  River  Falls, 
and  is  in  the  heart  of  the  Upper  Rogue 
Sugar  Pine  Reserve.  It  is  an  ideal  camp- 
ing place,  among  the  big  trees,  and  as 
deer  are  plentiful  in  the  woods,  and  fish 
abundant  in  the  river,  hunting  parties 
from  all  parts  of  the  West  camp  out  at 
the  Natural  Bridge  each  summer.  The 
river  here  flows  through  a  wide  canyon, 
and  at  the  point  where  the  bridge  occurs, 
lava  rock  was  poured  profusely  during 
the  period  of  ^lazama's  eruption.  Thi^ 
lava  rock  is  porous  and  honeycombed, 
and  instead  of  being  washed  away,  was 
cut  through  and  beneath,  leaving  a  nat- 
ural bridge  above.  There  are  really  two 
bridges,  and  only  a  short  distance  apart. 
The  first  one  is  low  and  sagged,  and  rough 
on  the  surface.  A  wagon  could  not  be 
hauled  across  it,  but  it  is  used  continually 
as  a  crossing  for  horses,  sheep  and  cattle. 
The  lower  bridge,  a  view  of  which  is 
shown  in  the  accompanying  cut,  is  built 
u])on  perfectly  constructed  piers  and 
arches,  keyed  and  set  as  if  put  in  place 
by  human  masons.  Above  the  rock  on 
this  bridge  there  is  much  soil,  with  grow- 
ing hemlock,  spruce,  pine  and  fir. 


Tkree 

Generations  of 
Millionaires 

The  recent  mar- 
riage of  Senator 
multi  -  millionaire 
W.  A.  Clark,  the 
Senator  from  ^Ion- 
tana,  to  his  penni- 
less ward.  Miss  An- 
nie La  Chapelle,  oi 
Butte,  Mont.,  fur- 
nished gossij)  for 
two  continents. 

Ten  years  ago 
Miss  La  Chapelle, 
then  little  better 
than  a  child,  was 
observed  by  Clark 
as  she  walked  home  from  scbool.  Her 
beauty  impressed  him  so  that  he  sought 
out  her  parents,  and  from  that  time  on 
the  entire  family  knew  all  the  sweets  of 
luxury.  Exhausting  the  educational  re- 
sources of  America,  ^liss  La  Chapelle  was 
sent  abroad,  under  the  chaperonage  of 
Senator  Clark's  sister.  A  few  months  ago 
the  sensational  announcement  was  made 
that  the  millionaire  and  the  penniless  girl 
had  been  married  for  three  years. 

Clark's  family  at  Butte,  knowing  that 
such  ^n  alliance  would  mean  a  divi- 
sion of  the  Senator's  great  wealth,  were 
never  friendly  with  the  La  Chappelles. 
Suflicient  money,  however,  has  been  set- 
tled on  all  the  Clark  family  so  that  each 
representative  of  the  three  separate  gen- 
erations is  individuallv  a  millionaire. 


Shoshone  Falls,  from  the  grrade  on  the  south  side, 
looking  down  stream. 


GEORGE  ROGERS  CLARK. 
The  brilliant  military  hero  who  won  the  Northwest  for  the  American  nation.  Geor^  Rorera  Clark 
was  an  elder  brother  of  William  Clark,  who,  with  Keriwether  Lewis,  made  the  journey  in  1803,  which 
it  known  as  the  Lewis  and  Clark  expedition  and  the  centennial  of  which  will  be  celebrated  by  a  great 
exposition  in  Portland  in  1905.  The  nation  is  just  bejinninj  to  realize  the  ^eat  debt  of  gratitude  duo 
the    Clark   family. 


CONFESSIONS  OF  A  STRIKE- 
BREAKER 

Tne  experiences  or  a  strike-breaker  in  tke  recent  butckers^  strike  in  Ckica^o,  ^wkick  caused 
tke  loss  or  millions  or  dollars.  Tke  strike  ended  in  a  victory  for  tke  packers  and  kas 
been  a  serious  Uo^w  to  unionism.  Tbis  article  is  covered  by  tbe  general  copyrigbt  oi 
Xhe  Pacific  Montbly,  and  Great  Britain  ngbts  are  reserved.  For  obvious  reasons, 
tbe  autbor  s  name  la  omitted. 


ON  the  eighth  of  August  last  1 
was  in  Grand  Eapids,  Mich- 
igan, recovering  from  an  at- 
tack of  malaria.  I  was  un- 
employed and  unacquainted. 
The  long  period  of  inaction  had  served 
to  fill  me  with  that  "devil-may-care" 
spirit  that  comes  periodically  to  all  in 
whose  veins  Celtic  blood  flows.  I  felt  fit 
for  an3^thing,  and  chance  put  forth  an 
opportunity  that  resulted  in  an  experience 
which,  though  valuable,  I  never  wish  to 
duplicate. 

I  was  walking  along  Canal  street  when 
a  huge  sign  at  the  door  of  an  employment 
agency  caught  my  eye.     It  read : 


"$1.75  A  DAY  BOAED  AND  TRANS- 
PORTATION FREE  FOR  LABOUR- 
ERS AT  ONCE." 

I  was  comparing  in  my  mind  the  rates 
paid  for  similar  work  at  home,  and  was 
turning  to  walk  off  when  one  of  two  men, 
coming  out  of  the  doorway,  said: 

"It  isn^t  safe ;  it^s  at  Swift's  at  the  stock 
yards." 

I  didn't  wait  to  hear  more,  but  walked 
in  and  inquired  the  nature  of  the  work 
advertised.  A  middle-aged  lady  in- 
formed me  that  it  was  as  I  had  heard  out- 
side, that  it  was  an  excellent  opportunity 
for  a  young  man,  and  that  the  positions 
were  permanent  if  desired.     Accordingly, 


President  Donnelly  addreiiiny  a  mass  meeting  at  the  stock  yards. 


COxXFESSIONS  OF  A  STKIKE-BREAKER. 


325 


(Froip  left  to  right.) 
Barney  Cohen,  president  State  Federation  of  Labor. 
Oeorge  F.  Ooldra,  business  sg ent  Paoking  Teamsters. 
William  Schardt,  president  Clkicaffo  Federation  of  Labor. 

at  ten  o'clock  that  night  I  "shipped"  to 
Chicago — one  of  a  gang  of  thirty-two 
bound  for  the  stock  yards  to  serve  as 
strike-breakers.  We  were  certainly  a 
mixed  lot.  Every  element  that  goes  to 
make  up  that  transient  laboring  class — 
which  is  practically  unknown  in  any  coun- 
try but  America — was  in  that  car.  On 
the  seat  alongside  sat  an  ex-cowboy,  whom 
I  soon  had  telling  me  his  experiences  in 


Waffon  overturned  by  strikers. 

the  Western  states.  Opposite  were  two 
"lumber  jacks"  who,  tired  of  farming, 
were  trying  this  change  until  winter  and 
their  regular  employment  should  come 
again.  Their  long,  gaunt,  wiry  figures 
were  the  picture  of  strength  and  of  that 
easy  grace  peculiar  only  to  the  children  of 
nature.  The  bulk  of  the  gang  were  noth- 
ing more  than  dissipated  boys  such  as  one 
finds  hanging  around  the  lower  quarters 
of  any  city. 

We  arrived  in  Chicago  early  next  morn- 


NeffTO  strike   breakers  on   their  way  to  work. 


32B 


THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Children  of  striken  at  relief  station  securinf  food. 

ing  and  took  the  train  right  up  to  tho 
yards,  where  we  were  graded  and  sorted 
out  hy  C.  0.  Young,  su))erintendent  of 
Swift's  plants.  His  keen  eye  ran  over 
the  whole  gang  and  he  pieked  out  the 
only  two  hutehers  there  at  onee.  I  was 
marked  out  for  Eddie  IIa\\'thorne's  de- 
partment and  went  ofT  with  the  others  to 
breakfast,  wondering  greatly  what  was  to 


happen  to  me.  Breakfast  was  served  up- 
stairs in  one  of  the  sausage  rooms,  and 
we  were  waited  on  by  as  buxom  a  lot  of 
negro  girls  as  ever  I  saw.  Everything 
was  rough,  hut  the  food  was  good  and 
])lentiful.  Breakfast  consisted  of  boiled 
l)aeon,  potatoes,  boiled  eggs  ad  lib,. 
canned  apj)les,  bread,  butter,  and  coffee, 
so  I  made  up  my  mind  that,  whatever  else 
might  ha})pen,  there  was  no  danger  of 
starving. 

After  breakfast  I  was  taken  to  the  East 
House  "killing-beds,'^  where  both  cattle 
and  sheep  are  butchered.  The  foreman 
seemed  to  find  no  difficulty  in  placing  the 
others  at  work,  but,  after  some  delibera- 
tion, asked  me  if  I  knew  anytliing  about 
scales.  1  said  I  did,  and  was  thereupon 
deputed  to  help  the  man  at  the  scales  and 
to  learn  that  work.  The  weighing  and 
recording  of  same  was  easy,  and  my  in- 
structor, therefore,  taught  me  how  to 
grade  sheep  and  lambs  and  keep  a  record 
of  that  also. 

When  I  had  time  I  began  to  look 
around  and  watch  the  gang  with  which  I 
was  working.  Almost  every  nationality 
on  earth  was  represented,  and  side  by 
side  with  them  worked  men  from  the  gen- 
eral office  and  heads  of  other  depart- 
ments. The  "Dago"  and  the  negro  pre- 
dominated. If  any  one  can  tell  me  a 
worse  combination,  I  will  go  to  see  it,  no 
matter  where  it  is.     In  spite  of  the  fact 


strikers'  children  in  strike  parade. 


CONFESSIONS  OF  A  STRIKE-BREAKER. 


327 


that  the  men  were  unskilled  and  disor- 
ganized to  a  certain  degree,  work  pro- 
ceeded in  fair  shape.  The  reason  wa.- 
not  far  to  find.  American  system  applied 
to  the  division  of  labor  had  made  it  pos- 
sible for  the  employer  to  obtain  better 
results  with  low-class  labor  than  the  Eng- 
lish em])loyer  with  his  antiquated  meth- 
ods could  do  with  a  good  class  of  labor. 
Machinery,  too,  helped  out  here  and  did 
away  with  the  most  laborious  tasks.  Over- 
seer Hawthorne,  a  nervous  little  cockney 
of  the  rankest  kind,  ran  around  the  place 
abusing  everything  in  sight,  while  his 
foreman  followed  to  put  right  what  the 
overseer  put  wrong.  Those  two  men  were 
living  types  of  the  difference  in  methods 
of  management  of  England  and  of  Amer- 
ica. Hawthorne  was  ponij)ous  and  abus- 
ive; his  foreman,  Tim,  was  unassuming, 
conciliatory,  but  firm. 

My  Scotch  accent  gave  me  an  introduc- 
tion to  a  fellow-countryman  rejoicing  in 
the  name  of  Burns.  He  was  on  the  office 
staff,  but  was  working  temporarily  in^  the 
killing-beds.  I  went  to  dinner  that  day 
at  the  restaurant  in  the  general  office  in 
company  with  Burns,  and,  as  everything 


A    striker's    family. 

there  was  in  first-class  shape,  I  took  my 
meals  there  for  the  rest  of  my  stay.  The 
waitresses  there  had  struck  along  with  the 
other  workers,  so  the  stenographers 
stepped  into  the  breach  and  waited  on  the 
dinner  table  every  day.  There  again  one 
might  observe  the  difference  between  ed- 
ucated and  uneducated  workers,  lliose 
girls,  though  unaccustomed  to  that  work, 
attained  a  high  standard  of  efficiency.     1 


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will  also  say  that  they  were  the  best  look- 
ing body  of  girls  I  had  ever  seen. 

The  dinner  was  a  seven-course  one  if 
desired  and  was  served  to  visitors  for 
twenty-five  cents.  At  meals  other  than 
dinner  every  one  waited  upon  himself. 

That  night  when  work  was  done  I 
went  to  see  the  sleeping  quarters.  They 
did  not  appeal  to  me.  A  long  line  of  beds 
down  the  center  of  one  of  the  storehouses, 
with  no  divisions  of  any  kind,  constituted 
sleeping  quarters.  All  kinds  and  condi- 
tions of  men  lay  there.  I  went  out  to  the 
yard  gates  and  took  a  room  in  the  Tjansit 
House  owned  hv  the  Union  Stock  Yarl? 


Bossing  this  gang  was* the  hardest  part  of 
the  work.  They  were  an  Africo-Italian 
combination,  and  though  I  picked  up 
Italian  strenuous  enough  to  move  an  ele- 
phant if  it  understood  Itahan,  it  wa^ 
mostly  thrown  away  on  those  men.  The 
sons  of  sunny  Italy  do  not  love  exertfon 
of  any  kind. 

No  one  could  complain  of  lack  of  ex- 
citement. There  were  riots  at  the  gates 
morning  and  night.  Even  in  the  killing- 
beds  we  had  our  share  of  excitement.  The 
men  who  felled  the  cattle  were,  of  course, 
unskilled,  and  the  result  was  that  cattle 
"came  to''  after  thev  had  been  thrown  out 


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and  Transit  Company.  At  night,  after 
work  was  over,  the  negroes  came  out  and 
sat  on  top  of  the  refrigerator  cars  and 
sang  choruses  as  only  negroes  can,  or 
played  ball.  This  game  showed  the  brutal 
side  of  the  negro  nature.  They  were 
never  better  pleased  than  when  the  ball 
struck  and  hurt  some  bystander  who  was 
not  on  the  lookout. 

Shortly  after  this,  my  instructor  fell 
ill  and  the  entire  work  of  weighing,  grad- 
ing and  bossing  the  wash  gang  fell  to  me. 


of  the  "knocking  pens"  on  to  the  killing- 
beds.  A  "Texan"  got  off  this  way  the 
first  day  I  was  there,  and  the  way  he 
cleared  the  killing-beds  was  wonderful. 
At  last  an  intrepid  spirit  got  hold  of  his 
tail  and  the  steer  slipped  and  fell  on  the 
greasy,  bloody  floor.  Before  he  could  rise 
half  a  dozen  men  had  hold  of  his  tail 
and  a  "knocker"  came  up  with  his  ham- 
mer and  put  an  end  to  his  troubles. 

One  day,  just  at  the  dinner  hour,  two 
live  "Texans"  were  accidentallv  shot  from 


CONFESSIONS  OF  A  STEIKE-BREAKER. 


329 


the  knocking  pen  into  the  killing-beds. 
For  half  an  hour  they  kept  every  one 
lively.  One  of  them  seemed  to  have  a 
special  antipathy  for  dressed  sheep,  charg- 
ing at  them  as  they  hung  on  the  hooks. 
A  bucket  was  thrown  at  him  and  he 
straightway  ran  it  against  a  post  and  flat- 
tened it.  The  other  confined  his  atten- 
tion to  the  butchers  and  managed  to  dam- 
age two  of  them.  Finally,  one  of  the 
steers  had  to  be  hamstrung  before  he 
wouhl  give  in.  This  is  forbidden  by  law, 
I  believe,  and  should  the  society  for  the 


"shackler"  slips  a  chain  around  a  hind 
leg  and  in  an  instant  the  steer  is 
^Tioisted,"  only  his  head  and  shoulders 
touching  the  ground.  A  man  steps  up 
und  slips  a  muzzle  which  is  mounted  on 
a  pole  over  the  animal's  head  and  forces 
the  head  back  till  the  throat  is  fully  ex- 
posed and  protrudes.  The  Jewish  butcher 
then  approaches  with  a  knife  eighteen 
i  aches  long,  honed  till  it  is  keen  as  a 
nuor,  and  at  a  single  stroke  almost  de- 
capitates the  animal,  which  is  then 
boisted  clear  off  the  ground  to  bleed.    TJ]i 


Paokera*  efflffies  hvaig  by  the  striken. 


prevention  of  cruelty  to  animals  catch  the 
butchers  at  it  a  prosecution  would  follow. 
One  of  the  sights  of  the  killing-beds  is 
the  Jewish  butcher  at  work.  It  is  not 
generally  known,  but  is  none  the  less  true 
that  the  orthodox  Jew  will  not  eat  beef 
or  mutton  killed  Gentile  fashion.  The 
>iosaic  laws  must  be  complied  with,  and 
ihey  forbid  the  felling  of  an  animal  whose 
flesh  is  to  be  used  for  food.  Accordingly, 
when  beef  is  to  be  killed  for  Jewish  con- 
sumption, the  steer  has  a  rope  tied 
around  his  neck  in  the  knocking  pen.  The 
knock  pen  is  then  thrown  open  halfway 
and  the  steer's  hind  legs  protrude.     The 


till  the  moment  his  throat  is  cut  a  steer 
})ellows  furiously  and  any  one  accustomed 
to  the  slaughter-house  can  tell  when 
"Kosher  meat,"  as  it  is  called,  is  being 
killed,  even  if  not  in  sight  of  the  killmg- 
bcdi?.  This  process  is  distinctly  inhuman, 
but  has  its  advantages,  nevertheless.  The 
steer  is  worked  up  to  a  frightful  pitch  of 
excitement,  and  when  his  throat  is  cut 
every  drop  of  blood  is  pumped  out  of  his 
buay,  thus  insuring  that  the  meat  is  right. 
The  Gentile  fashion  of  killing,  viz., 
^'knocking"  first  and  "sticking''  after, 
practically  makes  it  certain  that  the  ani- 
mal bleeds  to  death  in  a  semi-comatose 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


blate,  or  more  likely  entirely  unconscious 
in  this  state  the  heart  is  not  as  active 
and  so  the  blood  is  not  so  thoroughly 
ejected.  It  is  very  diflicult  to  drive  steers 
into  the  "knocking  pens''  when  "Kosher 
meat"  is  being  killed,  as  those  outside 
hear  the  others  bellow.  Yankee  ingenuity 
comes  to  the  front  again  in  tlie  shape  of 
an  electric  "tickler,"  a  long  rod  connected 
by  a  chain  to  one  of  the  electric  wires.  A 
touch  of  this  rod  makes  the  most  recalci- 
t^^ant  steer  go  straight  into  the  knocking 
pen. 

The  force  of  police  in  the  yards  nat- 
urally had  to  be  greatly  augmented  dur- 
ing the  strike,  and  after  seeing  and  watch- 
ing those  men  it  is  easy  for  any  one  V) 
understand  why  Chicago  is  a  lawless  cily. 
A  more  indolent,  indifferent  set  of  men 
do  not  exist.  They  passed  most  of  their 
time  loafing  and  smoking  and  not  one  in 
ten  of  them  ever  seemed  to  have  his  uni- 
form brushed.  They  were  thoroughly  in 
sympathy  wnth  the  strikers  and  made  no 
pretense  of  being  otherwise,  while  their 
insolent  demeanor  to  the  general   public 


would  have  made  any  one  think  they  were 
masters  instead  of  servants  of  the  public. 
Their  complete  inability  to  look  after  a 
Chicago  crowd  w^as  shown  by  the  fact 
that  Eddie  Hawthorne  and  his  foreman 
Tim  dared  not  go  home  even  under  police 
escort. 

Every  evening  after  work  was  over  1 
made  for  the  main  gates  or  for  the  "ave- 
nue." Here  the  strikers  were  in  evidence 
und  on  several  occasions  1  saw  strike- 
breakers pulled  off  the  car  and  beaten  al- 
most to  death  before  the  police  arrived. 
At  the  "avenue"  gate  I  saw  a  crowd  of 
girl  strikers  set  on  a  girl  coming  out  of 
the  yards,  pull  her  clothing  to  rags,  tear 
her  hair  out,  stab  her  with  hatpins,  and. 
in  fact,  behave  more;  like  furies  than 
v.'omen.  Some  strikers  spoke  to  a  negro 
inside  the  yards  as  he  alighted  from  the 
train  one  morning.  He  immediately 
p'jlled  his  gun  and  fired  and  it  was  amus- 
ing to  see  the  crowd  scatter.  Finally  he 
emptied  his  gun,  and  then  the  police 
came  on  the  scene  and  arrested  him.  The 
strike-breaker  was  alwavs  liable  to  be  ex- 


Waitinf  for  the  ambulance  after  a  riot. 


CONFESSIOXS  OF  A  8TEIKE-BREAKEK. 


881 


amined  by  the  police  to  see  if  he  carrier! 
weapons.  One  carload  of  negroes  yielded 
sixty-seven  revolvers  and  innumerable 
knives  after  a  police  search. 

The  packers'  meat  wagons  were  never 
safe  outside  of  the  yards.  On  Halsteil 
street  one  morning  I  saw  one  "blocked^' 
by  some  coal  teamsters.  The  crowd  gath- 
ered like  magic,  pulled  the  driver  from 
his  seat  and  l)eat  him,  cut  the  traces  and 
drove  the  horse  off,  upset  the  wagon  and 
poured  some  fluid  on  the  meat  and  dis- 
persed long  before  a  patrol  wagon  came 
on  the  scene. 

The  homes  of  strike-breakers  were 
stormed  by  mobs,  sacked  and  often  set  on 
fire.  The  strikers  held  people  up  in  the 
yards  district  every  night.  Even  the  rail- 
road cars  belonging  to  the  packers  were 
not  safe.  A  train  of  those  cars  stopped 
at  a  downtown  crossing  one  day  and  a 
mob  set  on  it  and  detached  the  meat  cars, 
opened  them  and  destroyed  the  content.- 
before  the  police  came.  General  chaos 
prevailed  at  that  time,  and  a  strike- 
breaker took  his  life  in  his  hands  when 
he  went  beyond  the  yard  precincts. 

On  the  thirty-first  of  August  the  stock 
handlers,  who  had  not  gone  out  with  the 
butchers,  struck,  evidently  thinking  that 
they  were  strong  enough  to  force  the  pack- 
ers to  come  to  terms. 

Help  was  needed  in  the  yards,  so  I  quit 
Swift  &  Company's  service  and  went  to 
the  Union  Stock  Yards  and  Transit  Com- 
pany and  asked  for  a  cow  puncher's  job. 
The  gentleman  who  engaged  me,  whose 
name  it  would  le  unwise  for  me  to  give 
for  reasons  hereinafter  evident,  questioned 
me  as  to  my  memory  for  faces  and  my 
ability  to  count  cattle  and  handle  them. 
I  was  accordingly  instructed  to  open  and 
shut  gates,  keep  count  of  all  cattle  moved 
and  help  shift  tliem  from  my  own  sec- 
tion to  any  other.  This  was  easy  work, 
but  on  days  when  the  "runs''  were  heavy, 
such  fis  Monday  and  Wednesday,  there 
would  be  three  hours  in  the  morning  dur- 
ing which  five  or  six  thousand  cattle 
would  have  to  be  counted  and  ''delivered" 
to  commission  men.  "Delivering"  con- 
sisted of  counting  the  cattle  in  a  pen, 
which  often  necessitated  driving  them  out 
and  then  booking  them  against  the  com- 
mission house  to  whom  they  were  deliv- 
ered. This  system  has  to  be  used,  as  there 
are  frequently  disreputable  dealers  in  the 
yards  who  would  think  nothing  of  steal- 


Polioe  arrettiiiff  a  teamster. 

ing  a  steer  or  reporting  shortages  that 
did  not  exist. 

The  first  day  I  rode  a  horse  which,  I 
was  told,  was  at  least  twenty-five  years 
old  and  had  spent  all  his  life  in  the  yards. 
The  apt  way  that  horse  could  sidle  up  to 
a  gate  so  that  one  could  lean  over  and 
open  it  would  have  put  any  English  hunter 
to  shame.  When  cattle  did  not  go  fast 
enough  "Nigger"  would  bite  them.  After 
that  1  rode  a  vicious  half-breed  bronco 
which  had  been  used  for  night  work  pre- 
viously and  was  unaccustomed  to  day- 
light, flies  and  the  sun.  When  he  was 
taken  out  in  the  morning  he  would  buck 
the  blanket  out  from  under  the  saddle, 
and  even  when  saddled  he  would  buck 
every  time  a  fly  lit  on  his  back.  About 
this  time  the  Western  cattle  began  to 
come  in  in  numbers,  and  one  of  the  sights 
of  the  yards  was  to  see  the  brand  inspect- 
ors, all  Western  men,  ride  in  among  a 
"bunch"  of  Westerns  and  sort  them  out 
according  to  their  brands.  There  are  sev- 
eral hundred  brands  all  different,  and 
those  men  never  seemed  to  find  any  diffi- 
culty in  placing  them. 

The  Western  or  range  steers  are  dan- 
gerous to  handle,  but,  at  the  same  time, 
one  of  them  is  always  more  dangerous  to 
handle  than  twenty.  The  reason  is  that 
the  steer  associates  separation  from  the 
herd  with  some  kind  of  evil,  such  as 
branding. 

Shortly  after  this  the  strikers  came  to 
terms  with  the  packers  and  the  strike  was 
declared  off.  I  decided  I  had  seen  all  I 
wanted  and  went  to  the  gentleman  who 


332 


THE    PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


had  engaged  me  and  told  him  so.  "In 
that  ease,"  he  said,  "1  would  like  you  to 
remain  here.  Keep  an  eye  on  the  union 
men  when  they  come  back  and  report  any 
kind  of  abuse  on  their  part  towards  the 
nonunion  men." 

When  the  union  men  did  come  back  it 
was  quite  evident  that  they  intended  to 
manage  the  business  for  the  Union  Stock 
Yards  and  Transit  Company  and  to 
scare  all  nonunion  men  out  of  the  yards. 
My  reports  were  followed  by  dismissals 
of  union  men  every  day. 

Finally  I  was  betrayed  to  the  union 
men  by  a  blunlering  clerk  in  the  office. 
That  same  day  two  commission  men  who 
had  been  very  friendly  to  me  came  and 
warned  me  that  my  life  was  in  danger  if 
I  remained  in  the  yards.  I  was  not  in- 
clined to  believe  them  at  first,  but  that 
afternoon  as  I  sat  underneath  one  of  the 
viaducts  which  are  used  for  movin?  cat- 
tle from  one  part  of  the  yards  to  another, 
a  bucket  of  manure  and  another  of  water 
were  emptied  upon  me  and  the  bronco.  The 
bronco  let  out  and  nearly  brained  the 
man  I  was  talking  to,  and  then  proceeded 
to  get  rid  of  his  saddle  blanket  as  a  si<m 
of  his  resentment.  It  was  useless  to  try 
and  track  the  perpetrators  of  this  "little 
joke,"  as  the  numerous  "shutes"  leadins: 
down  from  the  viaducts  formed  the  best 
kind  of  a  hiding  place.  Later  on  that 
same  afternoon  a  brick  was  thrown  at 
me  from  another  viaduct. 

That  ni^ht  I  went  to  my  chief  and  told 
him  thpt  T  had  had  now  a  suflficiencv  of 


stock-yard  experience.  I  will  here  say  that 
this  man  was  the  highest  type  of  manager 
that  I  have  seen  in  this  country.  He  rep- 
resented all  that  is  finest  in  American 
management,  being  able  to  keep  on  the 
best  of  terms  with  his  men  and  yet  handle 
them  exactly  as  he  wished,  while  possess- 
ing the  keenest  judgment  of  character 
and  rare  business  ability. 

I  packed  my  grips  and  went  down  to 
the  Union  depot  that  same  evening.  I 
had  bought  my  ticket,  checked  one  of  my 
grips  ahead  of  me  and  was  just  about 
to  go  through  the  gates  when  something 
landed  on  my  left  jaw.  I  reeled  and  only 
was  saved  from  falling  by  a  fellow-pas- 
senger. Before  I  could  turn,  the  man 
who  had  struck  me  was  at  the  top  of  the 
stairs.  The  policeman,  as  usual,  did  not 
see  what  had  happened,  though  he  was 
only  about  fifteen  paces  away  at  the  time 
and  supposed  to  be  watching  the  gate.  I 
now  realized  that  I  must  have  been 
tracked  for  over  four  hours  through  Chi- 
cago by  a  union  "thug"  and  this  was  his 
first  opportunity  to  get  at  me. 

On  arriving  at  my  destination  my  jaw 
was  still  swollen  and  painful.  I  accord- 
ingly went  to  a  doctor,  who  informed  me 
that  the  "alveolar  process,"  or  spongy  bone 
in  which  the  teeth  are  fixed,  was  frac- 
tured, so  I  judge  I  must  have  been  struck 
with  a  "billy"  or  some  similar  weapon. 
A  sraall  lump  will  always  remain  on  my 
jaw  as  a  reminder  of  my  experiences  in 
Chicago  Union  Stock  Yards. 


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SAMUEL  QUIGG'S  EXPERIMENT 


By  E.  P.  JoaenKaus 


SAMUEL  QUIGG,  in  shirt  sleeves 
and  minus  a  collar,  sat  ruminat- 
ing one  July  afternoon.  Samuel 
was  a  bachelor,  corpulent  in  fig- 
ure, and  rendered  very  uncom- 
fortable by  the  intense  heat  of  the  mid- 
summer day.  He  had  left  his  store  in 
charge  of  his  clerk,  and  had  climbed  the 
stairs  to  his  chamber  above,  with  the 
avowed  intention  of  "cooling  off  for  a 
spell."  The  sun  beat  pitilessly  into  the 
room,  and  "cooling  off"  was  purely  a  mat- 
ter of  imagination. 

In  truth,  Samuel  was  suffering  from  a 
consuming  inward  fire,  compared  with 
which  the  sun's  most  scorching  rays  were 
refreshing.  It  had  always  been  his  hope 
some  day  to  fall  madly  in  love,  but  he  had 
anticipated  nothing  like  the  experience 
which  had  now  befallen  him.  At  times 
he  had  manifested  a  slight  preference  for 
one  or  another  of  the  attractive  girls  of 
the  little  Washington  town,  but  his  affec- 
tions had  never  been  seriously  engaged, 
and  he  had  guarded  himself  from  bestow- 
ing attentions  which  could  by  any  possi- 
bility be  misconstrued.  He  was  looked 
upon  in  the  community  as  a  confirmed 
bachelor. 

Samuel  Quigg  at  forty-seven  was  a  dig- 
nified man,  genial,  but  avoiding  intimacy 
with  other  men,  respected  for  his  moral 
uprightness,  perhaps  also  for  the  posses- 
sion of  substantial  worldly  goods,  which 
set  him  a  little  above  and  apart  from  his 
associates. 

Samuel's  life  was  a  simple  one.  He 
was  sole  owner  and  manager  of  a  large 
general  store,  lived  in  apartments  above 
his  place  of  business,  and  took  his  meals 
at  "The  Sands  Hotel"  opposite.  Until 
the  arrival  of  Minerva  Sands  to  act  as 
housekeeper  of  the  hotel,  for  her  uncle, 
Daniel  Sands,  Samuel  Quigg  gave  little 
thought  to  meals,  none  at  all  to  raiment, 
beyond  his  natural  preference  for  cleanli- 
ness. 

Minerva's  advent  workorl  a  sudden  radi- 
cal change  in  the  man.  She  was  a  young 
woman  prepossessing  in  appearance,  win- 
some in  manner,  with  a  quick  wit  which 
amused,  while  her  dignity  effectively  re- 


buked slight  attempts  at  familiarity  at 
first  indulged  in  by  some  of  the  younger 
boarders.  Her  ability  as  manager  attracted 
custom,  and  the  long  table  over  which  she 
presided  was  well  filled  with  lawyers, 
clerks,  and  numerous  transient  guests. 

From  the  moment  of  his  first  glance  at 
her  bright  eyes  and  graceful  figure, 
Samuel  Quigg  had  become  Minerva's  help- 
less captive.  As  permanent  boarder  among 
transients,  he  was  given  the  seat  of  honor 
at  her  right  hand,  and  the  struggles  he 
underwent  in  his  efforts  to  make  himself 
worthy  of  such  distinction  entitle  him  to 
rank  with  martyrs. 

As  the  usual  supper  hour  drew  near, 
Samuel  concluded  his  meditations. 

"If  I  could  only  feel  sure  about  her  tem- 
per, I'd  ask  her  to-night !"  he  mused. 

Rising,  he  bathed  his  perspiring  face 
and  wet  his  hair,  which,  thick  at  the  sides, 
was  thin  on  top,  and  afforded  glimpses  of 
a  shiny  pink  scalp — a  sad  trial  to  Samuel. 
It  was  a  task  requiring  time  and  infinite 
patience  to  arrange  his  scanty  locks  ad- 
vantageously. Having  finished,  he  picked 
up  his  discarded  collar,  scanning  it  du- 
biously. 

"Fourth  to-day !  But  I'll  have  to  get  a 
fresh  one,"  he  decided. 

Opening  the  top  drawer  of  his  dresser 
he  stirred  the  contents  vigorously,  draw- 
ing out  at  random  a  confused  tangle  of 
masculine  belongings.  Extricating  a  very 
high  collar  which  he  hoped  would  hide  his 
prominent  "Adam's  apple,''  he  jammed  the 
remaining  mass  back  into  the  drawer,  and 
attempted  to  adjust  his  collar.  Mental 
agitation  must  certainly  have  affected  his 
grasp,  for  the  collar  button  slipped  from 
his  fingers  and  rolled  down  his  back.  A 
second  went  the  same  way.  The  third  re- 
mained firmly  in  place,  but  a  jerk  to  bring 
the  collar  to  terms  wrecked  the  neckband 
of  his  shirt,  rendering  necessary  an  en- 
tirely fresh  start. 

One  would  hardly  suppose  it  a  matter 
of  vital  importance  to  arrive  at  a  hotel 
table  at  the  precise  moment  when  the  din- 
ing-room doors  should  be  flung  open  to  the 
public.  Such,  however,  was  Samuel 
Quigg's  daily  ambition.     In  his  endeavor 


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to  attain  it  he  completed  his  toilet  in 
frantic  haste,  rushed  across  the  street  and 
appeared  in  the  "Hotel  office"  panting, 
perspiring,  five  minutes  too  early. 

"Hello,  Sam!  Runnin  to  a  fire?" 
called  out  the  host. 

"I  thought  I  was  late,"  replied  Sam, 
stiffly. 

"No  great  harm  done  if  you  was.  I 
guess  Mi  nervy  M  a'  saved  your  seat  for 
ye  I''  with  a  wink  at  the  company. 

A  snicker  followed  tliis  pleasantry. 
Sam's  state  of  mind  had  long  been  ap- 
parent to  all  beholders.  Before  he  had 
time  to  reply  the  doors  were  opened  and 
he  slipped  into  his  place,  receiving  from 
Minerva  a  smile  which,  as  he  afterwards 
confessed,  "broke  him  all  up." 

^linerva,  fully  conscious  of  her  lover's 
embarrassment  in  her  presence,  could  not 
resist  the  feminine  impulse  to  tantalize 
him. 

"You  must  eat,  Mr.  Quigg;  indeed,  you 
must,  or  we  shall  think  you  are  ill,"  she 
said,  plying  him  with  dainties,  and  gazing 
at  his  agitated  countenance  with  affected 
concern  which  sent  little  shivers  of  delight 
along  his  spine. 

Minerva  could  not  understand  Samuel's 
hesitation. 

"What  is  he  afraid  of?  Can't  he  see 
that  after  all  Fve  suffered  I'd  fairly  jump 
at  an  offer  from  a  good  man?  If  he  doesn't 
hurry  I'll  have  to  take  the  matter  into  my 
own  hands  and  show  him  how  a  'progres- 
sive woman'  assists  Fate."  She  smiled,  a 
little  bitterly. 

Su})per  over,  Sam  drew  the  host  aside. 

"I  want  to  talk  to  you,  Dan.  Come 
over  after  I  shut  up  store,  can't  you?  I 
want  you  to  advise  me — you've  always  been 
a  good  friend  to  me,  Dan,*'  he  added, 
nervously. 

Dan  reflected. 

"Maybe  I  might  drop  up  'long  'bout 
nine  o'clock,"  he  said. 

Dan  waylaid  Minerva  in  the  hall. 

"\Mien  you're  through,  come  upstairs. 
I  want  to  see  you." 

"I'm  through  now,"  said  Minerva,  lead- 
ing the  way  to  her  own  room  and  setting 
a  chair  for  her  uncle,  who  tip})ed  com- 
fortably back  against  the  wall.  Minerva 
fidget  ted  under  his  steady  gaze. 

"Did  you  want  amihing  special?"  she 
asked. 

"Yes,  but — I'm  darned  if  I  know  how 
to  get  at  it,"  Dan  replied. 


Minerva  smiled,  roguishly. 

"Something  about  the  business?"  she 
inquired. 

"No,  'tain't — and  you  know  it.  Say, 
^linervy,  tell  me,  honest,  would  you  marry 
again  if  you  was  to  have  the  chance?" 

"I'm  not  likely  to  have  a  chance,"  she 
answered  evasively. 

"Xonsense!  You  ain't  blind,  and  you 
can't  fool  me.  You  know  's  well  's  I  do 
that  Sam  Quigg  just  about  worships  you. 
I've  seen  him  edge  all  the  way  'round  thr* 
room  just  to  get  the  chair  you'd  been  a 
settin'  on ;  and  when  he  fin'ly  got  it,  settle 
down  as  contented  and  happy  as  a  settin' 
hen,  or  's  if  he'd  struck  a  ledge  of  pay  dirt ; 
such  signs  as  them  can't  be  misunderstood. 
Whtit  I'm  want  in'  to  know  is  what  you 
think  of  Sam.    Do  you  like  him?' 

"He  seems  a  very  worthy  man,"  Min- 
erva replied  demurely. 

*'See  here,  Minervy  Sands!  Quit  your 
foolin',  and  talk  sense.  Would  you  marry 
Sam  Quigg,  if  he  was  to  ask  you?  He's 
asked  me  over  there  to-night,  and  I  have 
an  idee  that's  what  he  wants  to  talk  about. 
Before  I  go  I  want  to  know  how  you  feel 
about  it,  so's  not  to  make  no  mistake.  If 
you  do  want  him,  say  so;  or  if  you  don't, 
and  I'll  act  accordin'." 

Minerva  hesitated  a  moment,  then  rose, 
nnd  going  close  to  the  old  man  placed  her 
hands  upon  his  shoulders.  Ijooking 
straiirht  into  his  kind  eyes,  she  said: 

"I'nele,  you  know  what  my  life  has 
been ;  you  must  know  that  to  be  loved  and 
honored  by  a  good  man,  like  Mr.  Quigg, 
would  make  earth  a  heaven  to  me."  Her 
voice  broke,  and  she  sobbed  upon  his 
shoulder.  Dan  let  his  chair  Aown  upon 
all  fours,  and  drew  her  to  him. 

"There,  Minervy,  don't  cry!  Yes,  I 
know  all  about  it.  You've  had  a  mighty 
hard  row  of  it,  poor  little  girl!  Lots  of 
times  I've  wanted  to  take  you  away  and 
bring  you  here.  But  no  man  had  ought 
to  interfere  between  a  woman  and  her  hus- 
band, 's  long  's  she's  got  the  grit  to  stick 
to  him.  That's  all  over  now ;  'tain't  no  use 
thinkin'  of  it.  I  just  want  you  should 
understand  that  you're  goin'  to  be  took 
good  care  of  's  long  's  /  live,  and  all  I've 
iM)t  'II  be  yours  when  I'm  gone.  You  ain't 
obb'nfed  to  marrv  no  man,  'nless  you'd 
ruther  'n  not;  but  if  marryin'  Sam  Quigg 
is  goin'  to  make  you  any  happier  'n  you 
be  now,  I'm  ready  to  help  along;  thafs 
all." 


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"How  good  you  are!'^  Minerva  ex- 
claimed, wiping  her  eyes.  "I  don't  know 
what  I  do  want;  Fll  leave  it  all  to  you, 
Uncle/' 

"Well,  I'll  act  accordin'  to  my  best  judg- 
ment. It's  time  I  was  goin'.  I'll  let  you 
know  in  the  mornin'  what  he  says." 

Dan  loitered  on  the  porch  before  keep- 
ing his  appointment.  At  last  he  put  on 
his  hat,  and  slowly  crossed  the  road. 

"Come  upstairs,  Dan  !"  Samuel  called. 
They  seated  themselves  by  the  open  win- 
dow. Sam's  words  were  slow  in  coming. 
After  several  false  starts  he  gave  up  ef- 
fort, and  helplessly  waited  for  Dan  to 
begin  a  conversation. 

This  Dan  perversely  declined  to  do; 
after  a  long,  uncomfortable  silense  he  rose, 
remarking : 

"If  you  ain't  got  nothin'  more  to  say, 
I'll  be  goin';  I've  been  broke  of  my  rest 
consid'able  lately,  and  it's  been  rut  her  a 
tryin'  day,  what  with  the  heat  an'  all — '' 

"Oh,  it's  early  yet;  sit  down.  I  want 
to  consult  you,  to  get  your  advice.  You've 
always  been  like  a  father  to  me,  Dan — " 
then  abruptly: 

"You  know  vour  niece,  Minerva — '' 

"Yes,  I  know  her." 

"Well,  I've  been  thinking  for  a  good 
while  that  I'd  like  to  talk  to  you  about 
her.    The  fact  is,  Dan,  I — I  love  her!" 

"Tliat's  natural,"  said  Dan;  "most  folks 
do,  come  to  know  her." 

"But  I  mean  more  than  that.  IM 
like  to  marry  her,  if,  after  a  few  ques- 
tions, everything  is  satisfactory." 

"I'll  save  you  the  trouble  of  asking 
qmstions,"  said  Dan,  his  face  darken- 
ing. "I  s'pose  you've  heard  some  talk 
about  her  getting  a  divorce  from  her  lius- 
band.  Slie  was  married  at  seventeen  to  a 
scamp,  who  abused  her  for  eight  years, 
and  wound  up  by  running  away  with  an- 
other woman.  She  wouldn't  ask  for  a  di- 
vorce, thinkin'  he'd  get  tired  of  the  otber 
woman  and  come  back  to  her.  He  did 
leave  the  otlier  one,  but  only  because  he'd 
found  a  fresh  fool  to  listen  to  him.  Wlien 
I  heard  that,  I  went  to  Mi  nervy  and  in- 
sisted on  her  gettin'  a  divorce.  'Twan't 
no  trouble,  the  facts  was  well  known.  Soon 
's  it  was  over  1  brouglit  bcr  here,  bag  and 
baggage;  and  here  she's  a  goin'  to  stay, 
long's  ever  she  wants  to.  I  shoukln't 
think  she'd  bave  the  courage  to  try  an- 
other man.     I  wouldn't,  if  1  was  her." 


Dan  spoke  with  much  warmth.  Samuel 
hastened  to  pacify  him. 

"I  wasn't  thinking  of  that;  I  shouldn't 
have  spoken  to  anybody  but  herself  on 
such  a  subject.  What  you  say  makes  me 
the  more  anxious,  if — if — everything  is  all 
right." 

"What  in  thunder  do  you  mean  ?  Ain't 
you  satisfied  ?" 

"Oh  yes,  yes !  It  isn't  anything  serious; 
most  men  wouldn't  think  much  about  it, 
I  suppose.  But  you  know  I've  never  had 
much  to  do  with  women.  I  don't  feel 
capable  of  judging  them  without — with- 
out a  little  practice,  as  you  might  say." 

Dan's  features  relaxed  into  a  grin. 

"Experience  wouldn't  help  you  none,  if 
you  had  it ;  there  ain't  no  two  women  alike 
in  the  hull  creation,  and  you  can't  calki- 
late  with  no  manner  of  certainty  on  the 
best  of  'em;  the  best  way  is  just  to  go  it 
blind,  and  take  your  chances.'' 

At  this  somewhat  pessimistic  view  of 
the  subject,  Sam's  face  lengthened. 

"Maybe;  but  straws  show  which  way  the 
wind  blows,  and  I've  been  thinking  how  it 
would  be  to  try  a  few  little  exyerimenis, 
just  to  test  her,  you  know." 

"To  find  out  what  your  chance  is,  you 
mean?  The  quickest  way  'd  be  just  to  ask 
her,  no  beat  in'  round  the  bush.  She  can't 
more  'n  say  'N'o.' " 

"You  don't  understand,  Dan.  'Tisn't 
that.  I'm  afraid  she's  got — well  a  tem- 
per, and  I  might  run  up  against  it,  un- 
knowing, and  there  might  be  a  lot  of 
misery  for  both  of  us  if  I  didn't  find  out 
beforehand  the  things  that  are  likely  to 
rouse  it,  so's  to  avoid  'em  afterwards. 
See?" 

"Vrdl,  yes,  I  see — and  I  can't  deny 
that  ^li  nervy  has  the  Sands  spunk. 
!Miglity  good  thinjr  to  have,  too,  if  it's 
well  kep'  under,  'f  I  was  vou,  1  b'lieve  I'd 
take  my  chance  of  bein'  able  to  steer  clear 
of  it,  rutber  'n  resk  stirrin'  of  it  up. 
^leddlin'  with  a  woman's  temper  is  tick- 
lish business." 

"I  know,"  Sam  assented,  "but  stems  to 
me  the  best  way  will  be  to — to  take  a  little 
more  tiuie,  not  to  be  in  too  great  a  hurry. 
I'm  just  as  much  obliged  to  vou,  Dan, 
and—" 

"Well*  Samuel,  you  asked  for  my  ad- 
vice, and  I'm  goin'  to  give  it  to  you, 
straight.  Don't  you  be  such  an  everlastin' 
idiot   as   to   qo  to   triflin'   with    Minervv 


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Sands,  or  you'll  get  slipped  up  in  your 
reckonings.  Slie's  able  to  take  care  o'  her- 
self, and  don't  need  to  ask  no  odds.  If 
she  wasn't,  you'd  have  me  to  deal  with 
if  you  hurt  her  feelin's.  That  girl's  the 
apple  of  my  eye,  Sam.'* 

"I  know  it,  Dan;  of  mine,  too,  if  you 
don't  mind  my  saying  so.  It's  for  her 
good*  a*s  well  as  my  own,  I'm  taking  all 
this  trouble,  before  I  let  her  suspect  my 
feelings  towards  her." 

Dan  turned  away  to  hide  an  involun- 
tary smile. 

"You're  just  like  everybody  else  askin' 
advice — sot  on  havin'  your  own  way, 
whether  or  no.  I've  give  my  opinion. 
Good-night." 

"You  won't  betray  me  to  her,  will  you? 
Don't  let  her  suspect — " 

"Lord,  no!  That  would  upset  your 
dish.  I  don't  mind  sayin'  't  if  Minervy 
does  feel  like  takin'  another  resk,  you'd 
suit  me  as  well  as  anybody  I  know — 
'round  here/'  he  added,  conveying  the  im- 
pression that  outside  the  limits  of  the  vil- 
lage stood  numerous  waiting  suitors  much 
more  to  his  mind." 

Sam  slept  soundly  that  night,  satisfied 
to  have  made  the  first  move  toward  the 
realization  of  his  hopes.  Without  being 
a  vain  man,  he  yet  estimated  himself 
highly,  being  well  aware  of  the  respect  ac- 
corded him  in  the  town.  Xo  doubt  of  the 
final  outcome  of  his  suit  harassed  him. 
T]>e  successful  manipulation  of  the  details 
of  his  somewhat  novel  courtship  perplexed 
him;  but  these,  he  reflected,  need  not  be 
hurried ;  he  would  take  plenty  of  time  to 
perfect  his  plans,  and  trusted  to  be  able 
to  carry  them  out  without  arousing  Min- 
erva's suspicion. 

To  Dan  the  prospect  appeared  less 
promising. 

"Who'd  ever  suppose  Sam  Quigg  'd 
take  such  a  crazy  crotchet  into  his  head," 
he  mused.  "Him  that's  so  prompt  in 
business,  to  hang  back  and  squibble,  and 
hunt  up  'bjections  to  the  very  thing  he 
wants  the  wust  way.  It  does  beat  all, 
what  a  fool  a  man  is  w^hen  he's  in  love ! 
Seems  to  deprive  him  of  common  hoss- 
sense.  And  Minervy!  What  in  Tophet 
'11  I  say  to  her?  Have  to  tell  her  he's 
\veighin'  her  in  the  balances  to  find  out  if 
she's  quite  good  enough.  'T  wouldn't 
s'prise  me  none  if  she  did  let  fly  her  Sands 
temper  at  that.    Xo,  I  can't  tell  her  that, 


either;  I  promised  Sam  not  to  let  on  what 
he's  up  to.  Darn  him !  I'll  have  to  fix 
up  some  yarn,  but  'twon't  do  no  good.  Mv 
lies  never  fool  nobody." 

Dan  tossed  and  tumbled  until  daybreak, 
and  when  he  rose  was  still  in  doubt  how 
he  should  satisfy  Minerva's  natural  cu- 
riosity in  regard  to  his  conversation  with 
Samuel  Quigg.  She  did  not  approach 
him,  but  all  through  breakfast  Dan  felt 
that  she  was  studying  him,  only  biding 
her  time  to  question.  When  Sam,  by  an 
awkward  movement,  spilled  his  coflfee 
over  the  spotless  tablecloth,  Dan  regarded 
her  with  anxiety,  realizing  that  Sam  was 
already  experimenting.  Minerva  betrayed 
no  annoyance,  but  skillfully  repairing  the 
considerable  damage,  refilled  Sam's  cup, 
bestowing  the  usual  liberal  allowance  of 
cream  and  sugar,  and  appearing  in  nowise 
ruffled  by  the  mishap. 

Knowing  that  an  interview  with  his 
niece  was  inevitable,  Dan  strolled  care- 
lessly in  her  direction,  when  he  observed 
that  she  was  at  leisure.  She  withdrew 
out  of  hearing  distance  of  her  maids. 

"Well,  Uncle?"  she  inquired. 

"There  ain't  much  to  tell  you,  yet,  Min- 
ervy." 

"Did — didn't  he  say  anything?"  she 
asked,  her  face  flushing. 

"Yes — yes,  he  said  consid'able;  but — 
fact  is,  Sam's  got  a  good  deal  a-weighin' 
on  him  just  now,  and  he  didn't  quite  get 
to  it  to  make  no  def'nite  proposal  exactly, 
not  yet,  that  is.    He  will ;  give  him  time," 

"Was  it  about  me  he  wanted  to  talk  to 
you?" 

"Yes,  you — and  some  other  things  I 
can't  tell  you  about  now;  private  matters 
't  he  wouldn't  trust  to  nobody  but  me — 
matters  that's  troublin'  him." 

"Xow,  Uncle,  tell  me!  Did  he  say  he 
wanted  to  marry  me,  or  didn't  he?  I 
ought  to  know." 

"Lord  bless  your  heart !  Yes!  He  said 
it  a  dozen  times  over !  But  before  he  can 
come  out  flat  footed  and  tell  you  so,  he's 
got  to  settle  up  these  other  things  I'm 
tcllin'  you  about,  and  it  may  take  him 
quite  some  time.  Don't  you  begin  to  worr^- 
and  get  impatient  if  he  don't  say  nothin' 
right  away, — and  don't  'pear  to  take  no 
notice  if  he  acts  kind  o'  queer  sometimes. 
He's  worried  pretty  nigh  crazy." 

"Then  why  did  he  speak  of  me  at  all  ?" 

"Why,  he — he — sort  o'  wanted  to  feel 


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his  way,  you  know — see  where  he  stood, 
and  what  his  chances  was." 

"Uncle,  you  didn^t — surely  you  didn't 
tell  him—'' 

"Course  not !  Take  me  for  a  fool  ?  T 
told  him — not  in  them  words  exactly,  but 
that's  the  sense  of  'em — ^that  if  he  ever 
expects  to  get  you  he'll  have  to  mind  his 
Ps  and  Qs;  that  you're  all-fired  particu- 
lar, and  ain't  goin'  to  take  up  with  no 
man  that  don't  come  up  to  your  ideeg  of 
what's  what.  It  discouraged  him  some, 
but  he'll  come  round  all  right  in  the  end." 

Minerva  studied  her  uncle's  counte- 
nance. 

"You're  keeping  something  back;  but 
I'll  just  have  to  trust  you." 

"That's  right,"  said  Dan,  relieved  to 
have  the  interview  safely  over. 

"Minervy's  sharp  's  a  weasel.  Lucky 
I  happened  to  think  of  callin'  them  ex- 
periments ^private  matters.'  Nothin'  like 
a  little  mystery  to  keep  a  love  affair 
a-goin',"  he  thought,  complacently. 

Sam,  refreshed  and  invigorated  by  a 
calm  night's  rest,  planned  an  active  cam- 
paign. 

"What  would  make  a  woman  mad,  I 
wonder?"  he  queried.  Taking  pencil  and 
paper,  he  jotted  down  ideas  which  occurred 
to  him,  chuckling  as  some  particularly 
happy  thought  struck  him.  Wlien  he  had 
evolved  what  he  considered  a  sufficient 
number  of  tests,  he  rearranged  and  care- 
fully copied  his  list  in  ink  upon  a  sheet 
of  foolscap,  folded,  and  put  it  in  his 
pocket. 

Minerva,  conscious  of  being  under  in- 
spection, not  only  by  her  presumed  lover, 
but  by  her  uncle  also,  resented  the  latter's 
reticence. 

"It  isn't  fair.  He  might  give  me  a 
hint — I  wish  I  hadn't  let  him  know  that 
I  care ;  but  he's  so  good,  he  wouldn't  con- 
ceal anything  I  really  ought  to  know." 

Consoling  herself  thus,  Minerva 
watched,  alert  to  perceive  indications  of 
Samuel's  hidden  anxieties.  Could  he  be 
financiall}^  embarrassed?  A  guarded 
sounding  of  her  uncle's  knowledge  upon 
this  point  dispelled  the  suspicion.  Had 
some  other  woman  claims  upon  him  ?  In- 
vestigation proved  this  theory  absurd. 
Samuel's  entire  life  had  been  passed  in  the 
village;  he  was  known  to  every  man, 
woman  and  child.  No  scandal  had  ever 
touched  him.  Moreover,  his  admiration 
for    herself    was    strongly    in    evidence. 


Clearly  she  had  no  rival  in  his  affections. 
Puzzled,  she  settled  down  to  the  convic- 
tion that  Samuel  must  believe  himself 
threatened  by  some  obscure  disease ;  possi- 
bly the  dread  of  insanity  haunted  him, 
filling  his  mind  with  dire  forebodings. 
Dan's  warning  to  her  not  to  be  alarmed 
if  at  times  Sam  "acted  queer,"  frequently 
recurred  to  her  during  the  year  which  fol- 
lowed their  conversation.  Samuel  certainly 
gave  reason  for  wonder  by  his  erratic  be- 
havior, his  frequent  marked  avoidance  of 
her,  invariably  followed  by  abject  apolo- 
gies and  redoubled  attentions ;  his  unprec- 
edented neglect  of  personal  appearance. 
Many  things  conspired  together  to  arouse 
in  her  doubts  as  to  the  wisdom  of  leaving 
the  sure  refuge  of  her  uncle's  home,  be- 
sides the  important  fact  that  as  yet  she 
had  not  been  requested  to  forsake  it.  Al- 
together, the  situation  was  one  calculated 
to  try  the  nerves  and  patience  of  a  sensi- 
tive, high-spirited  woman. 

Light  was  shed  upon  her  darkness  by  a 
trifling  circumstance.  In  clearing  the 
dining-room  one  day,  she  picked  up  a 
folded  paper,  inadvertently  dropped  by 
one  of  the  boarders,  opened  it,  and  glanced 
at  its  contents.  Her  first  look  of  bewilder- 
ment was  succeeded  by  one  of  deepest  in- 
dignation, and  she  angrily  tore  the  paper 
through.  Changing  her  mind,  she  tucked 
it  safely  away  for  future  reference. 

"I  wish  I  didn't  love  him !  But  I  do, 
so  T  can't  punish  him!"  she  lamented. 

Dan  was  becoming  disgusted  by  Sam- 
uel's clumsy  maneuvers.  Minerva's  meek- 
ness also  disturbed  him. 

"I  can't  make  her  out,"  he  mused.  "She 
has  got  the  Sands  temper,  enough  to  raise 
the  shingles  off  the  meetin'  house  roof, 
but  she  ain't  showed  a  trace  of  it.  When 
Sam  made  out 't  he'd  plumb  forget 't  he'd 
asked  her  to  drive  to  S — .  with  him,  after 
she'd  rigged  up  an'  waited  three. hours,  I 
thought  she  wotdd  go  for  him;  but  she 
never  even  peeped.  Then,  when  he  brought 
that  triflin'  Hobbs  girl  here  to  supper, 
right  before  her  eyes,  an'  took  her  to  the 
show  afterwards,  Minervy  felt  it,  I  know 
she  must  of,  but  she  didn't  say  a  word. 
Sam  '11  carry  them  experiments  of  his  too 
fur,  one  of  these  days.  Minervy's  spirit 
must,  have  been  broke  by  her  fust  hus- 
band, 'r  else  she's  mighty  deep  in  love 
now.  Sam's  a  fool.  I  wish  't  she  would 
let  out  a  little  on  him.  He  needs  fetchin* 
up  short." 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


Minerva's  virtue  of  patience  was  finally 
rewarded.  Samuel  Quigg  proposed  in  due 
form  as  soon  as  he  was  convinced  that  the 
completed  list  of  experiments  had  failed 
to  stir  to  action  the  dreaded  "Sands  tem- 
per/^ 

"So  long  as  she  hasn't  fired  up  at  what 
I  have  done,  she'll  he  able  to  stand  any- 
thing Pm  likely  to  do,"  Sam  reasoned. 

His  offer  becomingly  accepted,  Minerva 
despatched  her  lover  to  announce  the  en- 
gagement to  Uncle  Dan. 

"Them  doubts  of  yours  all  settled?"  he 
inquired. 

"She  has  the  temper  of  an  angel  T  Sam 
exclaimed,  rapturously. 

"Didn't  say  nothin'  about  the  way 
youVe  been  a  carryin'  on  ?" 

"Not  one  word !  I  tell  you,  Dan,  she's 
just  about  perfect !    I'm  a  lucky  man !" 

"That's  what  you  are!"  assented  Dan, 
with  conviction. 

"I'm  glad  it's  all  settled.  Sam  ^1  be 
good  to  her,  and  he's  a  nice  feller,  for  all 
his  foolishness.  But  it's  awful  queer  about 
Minervy.  I  can't  believe  she's  real  happy. 
'Tain't  liJce  her  to  be  so  humble." 

Minerva,  however,  betrayed  no  lack  of 
happiness,  but  at  once  set  about  prepara- 
tions for  her  wedding,  in  the  following 
September.  The  days  were  too  short  for 
the  tasks  with  which  she  planned  to  fill 
them,  and  she  often  worked  late  into  the 
night.  A  feverish  zeal  possessed  her,  im- 
pelling her  to  undertake  unnecessary 
labors.  She  put  the  hotel  into  the  best 
of  order,  personally  superintended  the 
canning  and  preserving,  and  stored  the 
pantry  shelves  with  homemade  goodies 
such  as  boarders  love.  Her  exertions 
worried  Uncle  Dan. 

"What's  the  matter,  Minervy?  You 
don't  need  to  do  all  this.  You'll  be  just 
across  the  street ;  'tain't 's  if  you  was  goin' 
out  of  town." 

Minerva  looked  thoughtfully  at  him. 

"Something  might  happen  that  we  did 
go  out  of  town,"  she  said.  "I  want  to  do 
everything  I  can  while  I'm  here.  Nothing 
will  ever  be  the  same — afterwards.'' 

"Now  don't  you  go  and  get  low-soir- 
ited.  You're  all  tired  out,  I  c'n  see  that. 
But  if  you  have  any  doubts  about  bein' 
happy  with  Sam,  don't  be  afraid  to  speak 
out.     Now's  the  time." 

"I  haven't,"  she  replied,  smiling  reas- 
suringly. 

Samuel  Quigg  was  sparing  no  expense 


in  fitting  up  apartments  for  his  bride,  and 
was  as  pleased  as  a  child  with  the  results 
attained. 

"  'Tain't  a  bit  better  than  she  deserves,'' 
he  would  say,  in  response  to  admiring 
ejaculations. 

*The  wedding  ceremony  was  to  take 
place  in  the  parlor  of  the  Sands  Hotel. 
Samuel's  wide  acquaintance,  and  Min- 
erva's popularity,  combined  to  make  the 
list  of  guests  include  well-nigh  the  entire 
adult  population  of  the  town,  and  they 
fille;!  to  overflowing  the  lower  rooms  of 
the  hotel  as  the  appointed  hour  ap- 
proached. 

Guests  occupying  coigns  of  vantage  in 
the  hall  saw  Samuel  Quigg  ascend  the 
stairs,  closely  followed  by  the  clergyman 
and  Uncle  Dan. 

A  long  wait  followed,  and  the  company 
grew  restive.  Upstairs  consternation 
reigned.  The  bride  could  not  be  found, 
neither  was  there  a  scrap  of  writing  to 
serve  as  a  clue  to  the  cause  of  her  disap- 
pearance. The  three  men  stared  at  one 
another  dismayed,  at  a  loss  what  to  do. 
Just  as  the  clock  struck  eight,  the  hour 
appointed  for  the  ceremony,  a  boy  came 
tearing  up  the  back  stairs,  three  steps  at 
a  time,  and  thrust  a  letter  into  Samuel 
Quigg's  hand. 

As  he  opened  it  a  folded  paper,  torn 
through  the  middle,  fell  to  the  floor.  A 
glance  at  it  drew  a  groan  from  Sam.  He 
read  the  note  addressed  to  himself,  then 
silently  passed  it  to  his  companions.  It 
was  as  follows : 
"Dear  Sam : 

"The  enclosed  sheet  will  explain  my  ab- 
sence. Now  that  you  have  had  the  bene- 
fit of  your  experiments,  I  claim  the  right 
to  try  one,  and  shall  hold  my  "Sands  tem- 
per" in  reserve  for  future  use.  I  love  you, 
Sam,  and  do  not  recall  my  promise  to  be- 
come your  wife.  But  first  I  wish  to  test 
the  '^ Quigg  disposition/*  If  it  endures 
this  strain,  come  to  K —  one  month  frora 
to-day,  and  we  will  be  quietly  married 
there. 

"Yours, 

"Minerva  Sands." 

While  Samuel  Quigg  and  the  clergyman 
conferred  together  as  to  the  best  method 
of  dispersing  the  assembly  below.  Uncle 
Dan  communed  with  himself,  thus: 

"I  guess  I  hadn't  no  call  to  worry  about 
Minervy's  losin'  all  her  spunk.  She's  got 
enough  left  to  do  business  with." 


AN  ARTIST  OF  THE  PLAINS 

By  Katkryne  W^ilson 


ARLY  in  the 
winter  of 
1  8  8  5  -  G,  a 
northern  wind 
swept  over  the 
rain  -  soaked 
►  ra  i  ries  of 
Eastern  Mon- 
t  a  n  a  and 
shrunk  the 
mercury  to  a 
mark  far  be- 
low zero.  In 
the  space  of  a 
few  hours  the 
cattle  ranges 
were  tight  in 
the  grip  of  the 
ice  -  god,  and 
all  forage  was 
hidden  deep  beneath  billows  of  snow.  The 
change  came  unexpectedly  and  caught  the 


stockmen  unprepared.  As  a  result,  the 
great  herds  of  cattle  ranging  everywhere 
were  reduced  to  pitiful  straits,  and  week 
by  week  the  rangers  reported  an  appall- 
ing number  of  dead  and  starving  live 
stock. 

The  Helena  owner  of  the  Bar  R  outfit 
wrote  to  inquire  concerning  the  welfare 
of  his  five  thousand  cattle,  of  which  his 
superintendent  found  it  rather  embar- 
rassing, under  the  circumstances,  to  make 
a  report.  A  red-haired  cowboy,  who  hap- 
pened to  be  present  on  the  receipt  of  the 
letter,  hitched  up  his  "chaps,"  shifted  his 
sombrero  to  the  back  of  his  head  and  vol- 
unteered to  answer  the  communication. 
Seating  himself  by  the  deal  table,  he  took 
out  his  pencil,  set  to  work,  and  after  an 
interval  of  soft  scratching  on  a  piece  of 
rough  paper,  he  ended  by  tossing  his  effort 
to  "the  boss'^  for  inspection. 

On  the  sheet  was  a  sketch  of  a  cadav- 


SIONALIITQ. 

From  the  painting  by  Charles  M. 


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erous  steer  standing  huddled  up  against 
the  onslaughts  of  the  blizzard,  his  hide 
fallen  in  around  his  ribs,  his  joints  stick- 
ing out  at  every  conceivable  angle,  his 
head  hanging  helplessly  between  his  fore- 
legs— a  miserable,  dejected  wrack  of 
bones  in  its  last  extremity.  In  the  back- 
ground of  snowy  wastes,  the  gaunt  form 
of  a  hungry  wolf  lurked  in  anticipation  of 
his  prey.  Beneath  the  picture  was  the  in- 
scription, "Waiting  for  the  Chinook — The 
Last  of  the  Five  Thousand.'' 

The  drawing  was  sent  to  carry  its  mes- 
sage of  disaster,  but  it  was  destined  for 
another  mission,  for  the  recipient  appre- 
ciated its  value  and  showed  it  to  his 
friends.  In  this  way  it  came  to  the  notice 
of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cru- 
elty to  Animals,  the  promotors  of  which 
straightway  appropriated  it  for  its  graphic 
lesson  and  sent  it  broadcast  with  their  lit- 
erature. The  result  was  that  a  cowpuncher 
of  the  Western  ranges  promptly  became 
the  center  of  interest  of  a  goodly  number 
of  appreciative  friends,  and  when  it  was 
discovered  that  this  plainsman  could  also 
paint  in  oils  and  water  colors,  draw  in  pen 
and  ink,  and  model  in  wax  and  clay. 
Charles  M.  Eussell  found  himself  an  ob- 
ject of  curiosity  and  a  figiire  of  unusual 
picturesqueness  to  an  approving  public. 
To-day  the  work  of  the  "cowboy  artist  of 
Montana"  commands  tempting  prices,  and 
Mr.  Eussell  is  no  longer  a  cowboy  by  pro- 
fession. 


There  are  two  circumstances  which 
render  the  work  of  C.  M.  Russell  unique. 
One  is  the  fact  that,  with  the  exception  of 
a  little  elementary  instruction  as  a  school 
boy,  he  has  never  had  a  lesson  in  his  life. 
The  other  is  his  perfect  familiarity  with 
every  detail  of  the  life  of  both  the  cowboy 
and  the  Indian. 

Born  in  St.  Louis  thirty-five  years  ago 
of  a  family  in  comfortable  circumstances; 
a  self-imposed  wanderer  at  fifteen  because 
of  an  irresistible  fascination  which  the 
West  possessed  for  him;  the  associate  of 
an  old  trapper  for  two  years;  a  cow- 
puncher  at  seventeen;  a  dweller  with  the 
Crow  and  Blackfeet  Indians  for  a  year, 
'and  a  free-lance  always,  the  course  of  his 
life  has  been  sufficiently  unrestrained  to 
satisfy  the  requirements  of  a  nature  as  big 
as  his.  Chafing  under  the  restrictions  of 
conventionality,  ill  at  ease  anywhere  but 
in  the  open  stretches  of  the  plains  where 
one  may  breathe  comfortably,  a  lover  of 
big  things  and  of  the  primitive,  Charles 
M.  Russell  is  of  the  West,  western. 

He  has  dabbled  in  paints  more  or  less 
all  his  life.  To  quote  his  own  version, 
"WTien  I  came  here,  I  brought  some  paints 
and  one  brush  in  an  old  sock,  and  I've 
been  dobbin'  away  ever  since."  For  several 
years  he  painted  desultorily  and  purely  for 
his  own  pleasure.  Wlien  funds  got  low  he 
occasionally  disposed  of  a  picture  to  the 
ever-ready  purchaser  for  a  nominal  sum, 
and  painted  again  when  the  mood  seized 


Here  ii  illustrated  the  battle  herd  on  the  trail  from  Texas  to  the  ranges  of  Montana.  Mo  one  can 
fail  to  admire  this  superb  representation  of  the  range-rider  and  his  horse  in  the  forecround,  as  thej 
both  watch  the  long  and  slowly  movingr  train.  The  unerring  pen  of  the  artist  has  accurately  por- 
trayed the  oowboy,  as  he  easily  rests  in  his  saddle,  and  also  the  horse  of  the  plains,  brave,  strong 
of  limb  and  tireless.  From  a  drawing  by   Charles  M.    Russell. 


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him.  Not  until  recently  has  he  been  will- 
ing to  paint  to  order,  and  what  he  for- 
merly did  consent  to  do  under  such  condi- 
tions was  not  usually  up  to  his  own 
standard. 

In  1892  he  drifted  to  Great  Falls, 
where  he  first  took  his  work  seriously,  and 
in  1896  he  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy 
Cooper,  of  Cascade,  an  energetic,  well-bal- 
anced woman  of  the  true  Western  type, 
whose  nature  fitted  antithetically  into  that 
of  her  husband  with  the  happiest  results. 
She  is  devoted  to  his  interests,  confident 
of  his  genius,  ambitious  for  his  success, 
and  it  is  wholly  due  to  her  influence  that 
he  has  finally  exchanged  his  avocation  for 
his  vocation. 

A  few  years  ago,  interested  friends,  ap- 
preciating Russell's  extraordinary  talent, 
succeeded  in  persuading  him  to  go  East 
and  take  instruction  in  technique.  He  was 
put  to  work  on  first  principles  and  told  to 
draw  straight  lines.  After  a  day  or  so  of 
this  kind  of  thing,  he  suddenly  turned  to 
the  instructor. 

"Say,  can  you  draw  an  Injun?''  he  in- 
quired. 

"Why,  yes,"  replied  the  artist,  "I  can." 

"H'm!  A  Fenimore  Cooper  Injun," 
grunted  the  Westerner.  "I'll  draw  you 
one  that'd  scalp  you,"  and  with  a  few 
strokes  he  evolved  a  portrait  of  a  very 
savage  red  man,  quite  in  accord  with  his 
own  feelings  at  the  moment,  after  which 
he  put  on  his  sombrero  and  left  the  room. 
He  has  never  been  back. 

In  a  picturesque  log  cabin  studio  filled 
with  Indian  and  cowboy  relics  among  the 
surroundings  for  which  he  cares  most  in 
the  world,  with  the  association  of  his  wife, 
his  ponies  and  his  friends,  "Charley"  Rus- 
sell lives  his  life  and  does  his  work  as  he 
finds  it — a  work  that  is  rendered  doubly 
important  by  reason  of  the  rapid  passing 
of  the  old  West  and  the  birth  of  the  new, 
where  the  cowboy  is  already  an  object  of 
curiosity  and  the  Indian  is  no  longer  seen 
in  his  native  haunts.  It  is  no  inconsidera- 
ble thing  that  these  characteristic  features 
of  the  West  that  was,  are  being  put  into 
permanent  form  by  one  who  knows  his 
subj^t  in  all  its  phases  with  a  knowledge 
that  is  absolutely  accurate  and  authentic. 
Nothing  in  literature  has  yet  been  done 
so  graphically  to  portray  the  one-time 
West,  as  do  these  achievements  of  the 
"cowboy  artist.'* 

One   of   the   first   characteristics   with 


Charlea  M.  BusseU. 

which  one  is  impressed  in  viewing  one  of 
Russell's  pictures  is  the  remarkable  action 
which  he  infuses  into  all  his  subjects,  no 
matter  how  prosaic.  It  may  be  a  strag- 
gling pony  or  an  Indian  raid  that  he  is 
depicting — a  poker  game  or  a  cowboy 
"jamboree."  But  whatever  it  is,  the  very 
essence  of  the  West  is  incorporated  in  the 
vigorous  freedom  of  attitude,  the  uncon- 
scious breeziness  of  manner,  that  distin- 
guish all  his  figures. 

Russell's  chief  fault  is  a  tendency  to 
neglect  portions  of  his  picture  that  he 
considers  of  too  little  importance,  and 
the  result  is  often  an  unfinished  work 
whose  imperfections  show  up  glaringly  in 
a  reproduction.  This  fact  lays  him  liable 
to  an  accusation  (that  may  seem  partly 
justifiable)  of  carelessness,  and  yet  it  is 
quite  in  accord  with  the  nature  of  one 
who  has  no  time  for  small  things  at  close 
range.  "I  like  to  live  where  I  can  look  a 
long  way  off  without  seein'  anybody,"  he 
says,  and  his  pictures  prove  it.  Much  of 
his  oil  work  betrays,  also,  the  influence  of 
his  practice  in  water  color  through  the 
broad  sweeps  of  suggestive  tints,  almost 
impressionistic  in  their  effects — a  device 
that  is  all  very  well  in  its  place,  but  which 
is  not  always  used  discriminatingly  by 
Russell.  However,  it  is  quite  probable 
that  his  fault  in  this  respect  is  due  pri- 
marily to  ignorance.  There  are  many 
tricks  of  technique  well  known  to  the  ver- 
iest dilletante  of  the  studio  that  Russell 
has  not  discovered  for  himself  and  whose 
value  he  himself  appreciates.  "What  I 
would  like  most,"  he  says,  "is  to  know  how 
artists  lay  on  color.    I  would  like  to  have 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


AN    APACHE    INDIAN. 

From   the   sketch  by   Charles  M.    Russell. 


a  chance  to  study  this  in  some  good 
studio."  It  is  in  just  such  simple  things 
as  this  that  he  encounters  his  greatest 
drawbacks.  A  few  fundamental  princi- 
ples of  technique  would  work  wonders  for 
him,  could  he  manage  to  hold  himself 
within  the  narrow  confines  of  indoors  long 
enough  to  be  taught. 

Early  this  spring  Russell  went  to  New 
York  to  dispose  of  some  of  his  pictures, 
and  attracted  attention  first  with  a  model 


in  clay  of  a  cowboy  on  a  broncho  "smok- 
ing up,''  as  the  artist  called  it,  with  his 
revolver — a  bit  of  work  pronounced  by  a 
leading  sculptor  to  be  the  best  of  the  kind 
he  had  seen.  Russell  stayed  six  weeks, 
sold  all  of  his  valuable  paintings,  executed 
orders  for  book  and  magazine  illustra- 
tions, got  acquainted  with  the  art  circles 
of  the  metropolis  and  then  had  had  all  he 
could  stand.  He  took  his  palette  and 
brushes  and  went  back  to  Great  Falls. 


FOOTSTEPS  IN  THE  ROAD 

By  E.    Foltz 


OLD  Henry  Kausch  came  out  of 
of  the  garden,  where  he  had 
been  at  work  all  morning.  His 
wife  was  washing  milk  crocks 
on  the  back  porch  and  hanging 
them  on  the  picket  fence  "to  get  fresh/^ 

Washing  milk  crocks  was  a  daily  task, 
which  constant  repetition  had  made  pleas- 
ant. This  morning  the  work  would  have 
given  the  same  satisfaction  as  heretofore 
had  it  not  been  for  the  fact  that  at  the 
moment  the  last  crock  was  disposed  of 
Mrs.  Eausch  saw  her  husband  take  a  plug 
of  tobacco  from  his  pocket  and  bite  off  a 
large  piece.  The  proceeding  met  her  dis- 
approval, and,  as  she  never  could  "put  up 
with'^  feuch  a  habit,  she  felt  called  upon 
to  remind  him  of  his  fault. 

"Now  thet's  nice,  ain't  it,  Henry?" 

Henry  misconstrued  her  and  looked 
toward  the  barn,  expecting  to  see  some- 
thing unusual. 

"Hay?  Where?"  he  asked.  "I  don't 
see  nothin'." 

"Oh,  you  never  want  to  see  nothin'  what 
you  ought  to." 

*^ell,  you  git  me,  maw!  What's  the 
matter?" 

"Yes,  thet's  it— Vhat's  the  matter!' 
You  alwus  want  to  know  what's  the  mat- 
ter with  me  and  never  think  what's  the 
m;atter  with  yourself!  Here  I  can  work 
and  slave  and  save  day  after  day,  and  you 
lay  around  and  do  nothin'  but  chew  to- 
bacco! I  git  so  disgusted  some  times  I 
don't  know  what  to  do.  I  think  ef  I 
didn't  want  to  work  I'd  at  least  stop 
chewin'  of  tobacco !" 

The  quizzical  expression  in  his  face 
faded.  He  did  not  reply,  but  put  his 
tobacco  into  his  pocket  and  gazed  wistfully 
at  the  garden. 

"Yes,  I  think  I'd  stand  there  and  say 
nothin',  too,  ef  I  was  you,"  the  wife  said, 
resuming  her  reproof.  "It's  easy  for  an 
able-bodied  man  to  work  a  little  in  the 
garden  and  chew  tobacco  while  his  wife 
cooks  and  washes  and  saves  for  him.  I 
should  think  you'd  go  and  hunt  for  work 
instead  of  layin'  around  the  house  every 
day." 


The  old  man  looked  down  the  road 
toward  town  and  nervously  scratched  his 
grizzly  head. 

"Well,"  he  said,  "I  ben  all  over  the 
country  for  miles  about  after  work  and 
couldn't  git  any.  I  even  ben  over  to 
Marsh vi  lie  thinkin'  mebbe  I  might  git  a 
job  there,  but  it  wan't  no  use." 

"Oh,  you  didn't  try !" 

"Yes,  I  did  try.  I  tell  you,  maw,  there's 
mighty  little  work  agoin'  this  summer. 
When  there  ain't  anything  adoin'  you  can't 
git  a  job." 

"I  guess  you'd  git  work  ef  you'd  go 
about  it  in  the  right  way.  You're  afraid 
you'll  hev  to  work  a  little." 

Mrs.  Eausch  hurried  with  her  duties  as 
she  scolded  and  her  husband  stood  well 
out  of  her  way. 

"I  tell  you  when  there  ain't  any  work 
to  be  got  you  can't  git  any,"  he  repeated 
earnestly.     "Times  is  too  hard." 

"Yes,  but  I  notice  times  never  git  too 
hard  but  you've  got  to  hev  your  tobacco." 

"Oh,  my  goodness !  Got  to  harp  on  thet 
again !  I  should  think  you'd  git  tired  of 
thet  subject  some  time,  maw!" 

"And  I  should  think  you'd  git  tired 
a-hearin'  me." 

"I  do!" 

"Well,  then,  why  don't  you  give  it  up  ?'' 
she  asked,  suddenly  facing  him. 

"Xow,  maw,"  he  answered  good-na- 
turedly, "you  know  as  well  as  I  do  thet 
I've  ben  a-chewin'  all  my  life.  Ef  I  was 
to  quit  now  it  'd  injure  my  health — " 

"Injure  your  health !  And  what  do  you 
think  of  my  health,  say?  You  don't  think 
anything  about  my  health,  do  you?  Ef 
you'd  saved  the  money  you  spent  for  to- 
bacco we'd  be  a  good  deal  better  off  to- 
day." 

"Not  very  much  better  off.  The  tobacco 
I  bought  didn't  cost  a  fortune  and  I  don't 
chew  near  so  much  as  some  men." 

"  ^As  some  men !'  Some  men  is  hogs ! 
What  do  you  want  to  chew  at  all  for?" 

"I  git  a  lot  of  comfort  and  satisfaction 
out  'n  it." 

"And  what  about  me?    I  should  think 


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you'd  git  some  sense  and  hev  some  consid- 
eration for  your  wife." 

"I  hev." 

"Yes,  what  kind!  You'd  rather  hev 
your  tobacco  to  satisfy  yourself  than  to 
stop  a-chewin'  of  it  to  please  me.  Thet's 
the  kind  of  ^consideration'  you've  got  for 
me!" 

"You  don't  look  at  it  in  the  right  light, 
maw." 

"No,  I  never  look  at  nothin'  in  the  right 
light,  'specially  the  question  of  a-chewin' 
tobacco.  A  woman  never  looks  at  thet 
question  in  the  right  light." 

After  an  experience  of  many  years  of 
married  life  Henry  knew  that  no  argu- 
ment could  induce  his  wife  to  look  with 
favor  upon  the  tobacco  question.  There- 
fore, he  shifted  uneasily  about  and  when 
she  went  into  the  pantry  after  some  glass 
jars  he  slipped  away  to  the  garden. 

There  was  a  patch  of  onions  to  be 
weeded  and  several  rows  of  beans  to  be 
looked  after.  While  the  old  couple  were 
not  exactly  poverty-stricken,  their  indus- 
try had  never  brought  a  reward  sufficient 
to  place  them  beyond  the  necessity  of 
daily  toil  and  careful  economy;  and  as 
Henry  pulled  up  the  weeds  he  estimated 
how  much  the  few  acres  of  vegetables 
would  net  him  in  money. 

Times  indeed  were  hard  that  summer 
and  there  was  little  work  at  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  which  he  followed ;  and,  what 
was  worse,  there  was  no  improvement  in 
sight,  which  greatly  depressed  and  dis- 
couraged the  old  man.  But  while  the  hot 
sun  beat  upon  him  as  he  pulled  the  weeds 
from  the  dusty  onion  patch  that  morning 
there  came  to  him  a  thought  other  than 
that  of  hard  times.  It  was  the  thought  of 
what  his  wife  had  said — "thet's  the  kind 
of  consideration  you've  got  for  me,"  and 
it  hurt. 

It  was  not  so  much  her  words  as  her 
manner  that  touched  him.  He  paused  in 
his  work  as  if  listening.  He  heard  a  song. 
It  was  the  sweet  melody  of  an  old  song 
half  forgotten  which  brought  up  the  re- 
membrance of  a  time  long  ago  when  he 
learned  to  love  a  young  girl.  It  was  thai 
same  girl  who  was  singing,  the  wind  carry- 
ing the  tune  over  the  garden  fence. 

It  was  all  so  long  ago,  that  little  i)ietuie, 
that  he  thought  it  must  have  been  a 
dream;  but  now  he  saw  it  as  plainly  as 
then.  He  remembered  the  wooden  seat 
under  the  old  cherry  tree  on  which  tlwy 


sat,  and  he  remembered  how,  one  moonlit 
night,  he  put  his  arm  around  her  slender 
waist  and  kissed  her  red  lips,  and  how  she 
trembled  and  hung  her  head.  Now  every- 
thing was  changed.  Old  surroundings  had 
disappeared,  mutual  friends  had  gone  to 
return  no  more,  and  they  two  had  grown 
old  together.  Even  the  cherry  tree,  with 
its  black  and  knotty  limbs,  was  gone.  But 
there  was  one  thing  that  never  died.  The 
sun's  rays  that  burned  the  old  man's  arms 
and  neck  as  he  worked  were  not  warmer 
than  his  love  for  Mary  Ann,  the  sweet- 
heart of  long  ago. 

The  hot  dust  settled  upon  his  sweaty 
face,  but  he  gave  it  no  attention.  Many 
of  the  weeds  were  stubborn,  but  the  rough 
hands  that  seized  them  were  strong.  A 
tear  gathered  in  his  kindly  eyes,  but  was 
quickly  brushed  aside.  The  heat  and  dust, 
the  weeds,  the  tear  were  forgotten  be- 
cause she  told  him  that  he  had  no  consid- 
eration for  her.  If  she  only  knew  the 
many  weary'  miles  he  had  walked  in  search 
of  work  and  the  disappointment  he  suf- 
fered, if  she  knew  what  it  is  for  a  man 
to  work  all  his  life  at  an  uncertain  trade 
and  find  his  savings  disappear  in  a  few 
months  of  hard  times,  if  she  knew  how 
much  he  cared  for  her  all  these  years, 
would  she  say  he  had  no  thought  of  her? 

Again  he  brushed  away  the  tears  and 
from  his  pocket  he  took  the  plug  of  to- 
bacco and  threw  it  into  a  heap  of  weeds 
by  the  fence. 

"I'll  show  her  thet  I  do  care  for  her," 
he  said  to  himself,  as  he  went  to  the  house. 

She  was  canning  berries  and  as  the 
steam  arose  from  the  boiling  kettle  it  en- 
veloped her  and  she  wiped  her  face  with 
an  apron. 

"Goodness!"  she  muttered  to  herself, 
not  knowing  that  he  was  watching  through 
the  open  door. 

"Maw,"  he  began. 

"You  back  here  again  to  bother  me  when 
I'm  at  work?"  she  peevishly  replied. 

"Maw—" 

She  paused  and  looked  askance. 

"Maw,  I  stopped  chewin'." 

"Oh,  go  'long,"  she  said.  "How  long 
till  you  begin  again?" 

"Never  '11  chew  again.  Maw,  do  you 
remember  back  in  the  fifties,  when  I  used 
to  come  to  see  you?" 

She  turned  away  and  went  on  with  her 
canning,  while  he  leaned  against  the  door- 
post. 


FOOTSTEPS  IN  THE  ROAD. 


347 


*T)o  you  remember  one  evenin^  when  we 
was  both  settin'  on  a  bench  out  in  the 
yard/'  he  said,  with  emotion,  "and  I 
kissed  you?^' 

He  waited  some  moments  for  an  answer, 
but  she  said  nothing.  She  went  about  her 
work  and  presently  spilled  a  ladle  of  ber- 
ries. 

"Now  see  what  you  made  me  do!''  she 
exclaimed.  "I  wish,  Henry,  you  wouldn't 
hang  around  here  when  you  see  I'm  busy. 
You  git  in  my  way." 

The  old  man  got  a  bucket  of  water  and 
a  rag  to  wash  up  the  berries. 

"Oh,  never  mind,"  she  said.  "I'll  do 
thet.  You  wouldn't  git  it  clean,  any- 
how." 

"Yes,  I  will,"  he  protested. 

"Well,  ef  I  clean  it  up  myself  I  know 
it  '11  be  done  right.  Here,  gi'  me  thet  rag !" 

He  handed  it  to  her  and  silently  stood 
by  as  the  process  of  scrubbing  went  on, 
and  when  it  was  finished,  drew  a  long 
breath. 

"Maw,  I'm  goin'  over  towards  Brush- 
town  to  look  for  work.  There  was  to  be 
a  house  put  up  there  some  time  this  sum- 
mer and  mebbe  it'll  soon  be  started.  I 
ben  watchin'  it  for  a  long  while." 

"Well,  go  then,  ef  you're  goin',  and 
don't  talk  so  much  about  it." 

He  went  away  and  she  continued  her 
work.  When  the  noon  hour  came  she 
waited  for  him ;  but  as  he  was  late,  she  ate 
alone  and  hurried  back  to  work. 

"He'll  come  stragglin'  along  after 
while,"  she  said  to  herself.  "It  seems  to 
me  Henry's  gittin'  more  shiftless  every 
day.  I  wish  he'd  git  somethin'  to  do  pretty 
soon  so  he'd  be  out'n  the  way." 

She  inspected  the  place  where  the  ber- 
ries were  spilled  and  as  the  stains  had 
not  all  been  removed,  she  scolded. 

"Thet's  a  nice  spot!  What  '11  people 
say  when  they  see  thet  spot !  They  '11  say 
there's  pigs  live  here  instead  of  people, 
thet's  what  they  '11  say !  I'll  hev  to  lay  a 
piece  of  carpet  or  oilcloth  over  it  to  hide 
it.  But  then,  I  don't  know — I  hate  to  see 
grease  snot  and  stains  covered  up  with 
pieces  of  carpet.  Of  course  people  wouldn't 
Tcnow  it  was  there,  but  I  would,  apd  thet's 
enouffh  for  me.  I'll  git  some  lye  and 
scrub  it  out." 

In  the  back  lot  was  an  ash-hopper  and 
when  she  went  after  the  lye  she  wondered 
why  Henry  was  bo  late  for  dinner.  But  he 
wrould  come  soon ;  so  she  would  hurry  with 


her  work  and  finish  before  he  returned. 
The  kitchen  was  scrubbed  and  the  berry 
kettle  hung  upon  the  picket  fence  with 
the  milk  crocks.  It  was  late  in  the  after- 
noon, but  she  could  do  some  mending  be- 
fore Henry  returned. 

She  looked  at  the  clock. 

"Well,  he'll  not  be  home  before  supper 
now.    I  wonder  what  keeps  him." 

She  was  preparing  supper  when  a  neigh- 
bor called  to  borrow  a  cup  of  sugar. 

"I  jest  got  out,"  she  said,  "and  thought 
as  my  John  's  goin'  to  town  to-morrow  I'd 
run  in  and  borrow  it  of  you  and  pay  you 
back  to-morrow." 

"Oh,  thet's  all  right.  Your  man's  goin' 
to  town?" 

"Yes ;  he  said  he  heerd  they  needed  men 
on  a  new  buildin'  the/re  puttin'  up  and 
thought  he'd  see  if  he  couldn't  git  a  job 
there." 

"Henry  started  off  this  forenoon  before 
dinner  to  look  for  work,  too." 

"He  did?    And  did  he  git  it?" 

"He  hain't  got  back  yit.  I'm  lookin' 
for  him  to  drop  in  now  most  any  minute. 
I  don't  see  what  keeps  him." 

"Oh,  that's  the  way  with  men.  They 
hain't  got  no  feelin'  for  a  woman.  I  know 
my  John  hain't.  He  jest  picks  up  and  goes 
and  stays  as  long  as  he  sees  fit  'thout 
sayin'  a  word  about  it  to  me,"  the  neighbor 
said. 

"Well,  thet  ain't  the  way  with  my  man. 
I  wish  he'd  go  more.  When  he  ain't  a- 
workin'  he  jist  lays  around  and  chews  to- 
bacco. Henry  never  hardly  goes  anywhere 
unless  he  tells  me  where  he's  a-goin'.  To- 
day he's  stayed  away  longer  'n  usual.  I 
wonder  what's  a-keepin'  him.  It's  not  like 
him  to  stay  so  long." 

"Oh,  he'll  come  back  purty  soon.  Well, 
I  must  be  goin'  or  the  children  '11  think 
I've  run  off." 

Supper  was  getting  cold,  but  Henry  did 
not  return.  The  old  woman  went  out  to 
the  barn  to  milk  the  cows,  thinking  when 
she  came  back  to  the  house  Henry  would 
be  there.    But  he  was  not. 

"I  declare,  I  don't  see  what  keeps  him. 
I'll  put  the  milk  away  and  mebbe  he'll  be 
back  by  the  time  I  git  through.  And  I'll 
hev  to  make  a  little  more  fire  to  keep  the 
supper  warm.  I  wish  Henry  wouldn't  go 
awav  and  stay  like  thet." 

She  took  down  the  crocks  from  the  fence 
and  after  wiping  them  inside  and  out  with 
a  damp  cloth,  ranged  them  on  the  hard 


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ground  of  the  cellar  floor  and  poured  in 
the  rich  milk.  Then  she  remembered  for 
the  first  time  that  Henry  said  he  had  quit 
chewing  tobacco. 

"I^m  glad  of  it  and  hope  he'll  stay  quit. 
But  I  declare,  I  don't  see  why  he  don't 
come  home.  Here  it's  gittin'  dark  and  he 
hain't  come  yit." 

She  lit  a  kerosene  lamp  and  set  it  on 
the  table,  then  went  out  on  the  porch  to 
listen  for  his  footsteps  in  the  road ;  but  she 
only  heard  the  katydids  calling  to  each 
other.  She  half  wished  he  had  remained 
at  home. 

"I  don't  see  what  he's  got  to  go  and 
stay  away  like  this  for  and  worry  a  per- 
son to  death.  I  don't  see  what's  keepin' 
him.'^ 

Ah,  somebody  was  coming  down  the 
road !  It  must  be  he !  The  footsteps  came 
nearer  and  she  walked  down  the  path  to 
meet  him  at  the  gate.  No,  it  was  not 
Henry — ^the  person  passed  by. 

She  returned  to  the  house  to  see  what 
time  it  was,  and  again  went  out  to  listen 
and  to  wait.  She  was  leaning  on  the  gate, 
peering  into  the  darkness,  when  she  sud- 
denly recalled  what  Henry  had  asked  her 
that  morning — whether  she  remembered 
the  seat  under  the  cherry  tree  and  the 
moonlight  night  many  years  ago. 

^^It  was  mean  of  me  not  to  \e  an- 
swered him,^'  she  said  to  herself.  "I  de- 
clare, I  git  pervoked  at  myself  some 
times.  Seems  I  jist  say  what  I  oughtn't 
to  at  times  and  keep  quiet  when  I  ought 
to  say  somethin'.  I  know  he'd  liked  it  ef 
I'd  told  him  how  much  I  care  for  him. 
And  he's  ben  so  good,  too,  lately.  Bein' 
out  of  work  must  be  awful  discouragin' 
and  yit  he  didn't  complain;  jist  did  the 
next  best  thing — worked  the  garden,  f. 
wish  I  hadn't  ben  so  cross  at  him.  T 
wonder  what  keeps  him.  Ef  somethin's 
happened !  Oh,  ef  it  has  I'll  never  forgive 
myself  r 

Tears  will  tell  what  is  in  the  heart. 
Far  into  the  night  she  sat  weeping  and 
waiting  for  his  return,  and  as  she  cried 
a  thousand  incidents  recurred  to  her.  Lit- 
tle kindnesses,  little  courtesies  that  Henry 
had  shown  her  were  recalled.  They 
seemed  so  trivial  at  the  time  that  they 
were  accepted  without  a  thought.  Now 
they  appeared  in  a  new  light.  Henry  was 
so  good,  so  much  better  than  other  men; 
<!0  honest,  so  sturdy  and  kind. 


The  lamp  was  beginning  to  bum  low, 
but  the  tears  came  faster  as  her  anxiety 
increased.  The  clock  struck  twelve,  and 
as  the  sound  died  away,  the  gate  down  the 
path  creaked.  She  ran  to  the  steps  to 
see  who  it  was  and  in  the  darkness  al- 
most ran  into  Henry. 

"AVhy,  maw,  you  up  yit  waitin'  for 
me?" 

She  could  not  reply.  She  was  glad  it 
was  dark  so  she  could  wipe  her  eyes  with- 
out him  seeing  her  do  it. 

"I  didn't  expect  you'd  set  up  and  wait 
for  me." 

"Yes,"  was  all  she  said. 

While  he  ate  supper  in  the  kitchen  she 
stayed  out  on  the  back  porch.  When  she 
came  in  to  put  away  the  dishes  she  turned 
her  face  so  he  could  not  see  her  eyes. 

"This  lamp's  so  dim,"  she  said ;  and  he 
lit  another. 

"I  didn't  expect  to  be  so  late,"  he  said. 
"I  walked  all  over  the  country  to-day  and 
went  over  to  town  towards  evenin',  as  I 
heerd  there  might  be  a  chance  for  me 
there.  They^re  puttin'  up  a  big  brick 
buildin'  there  and  I'm  to  go  to  work 
dressin*  lumber  for  them  Monday  mom- 
in\  I'm  awfullv  sorry  I  was  so  late 
gittin'  in." 

"Henry?"  she  interrupted. 

"What  is  it?" 

"Henry,  I  was  jist  a-thinkin'  I'd  rather 
not  hev  you  stop  chewin'.  You  wouldn't 
seem  like  yourself  any  more  ef  you  did." 

He  glanced  sharply  at  her  and  the  old 
fire  within  was  quickly  fanned  into  a  new 
blaze. 

"Well,  all  right,"  he  said;  'T)ut,  maw, 
I'm  awfully  sorry  I — I  worried  you  by 
bein'  so  late." 

She  looked  up  at  him  through  her  tears 
and  their  eyes  met.  It  was  enough.  He 
threw  both  arms  around  her  and  drew  her 
closely  to  him. 

"I'm  glad  you  did,"  she  whispered. 

The  old  man  fervently  kissed  her  wan 
cheek  and,  as  in  the  days  of  old,  she  hung 
her  head  ai:d  blushed.  For  some  moments 
only  the  ticking  of  the  clock  broke  the 
silence,  and  then  she  raised  her  eyes. 

"Henry,  do  you  think  the  angels  is  hap- 
pier 'n  us?"  she  asked. 

"No,"  he  said. 

A  good  spirit  passing  that  way  looked 
upon  them  and  blessed  them,  for  the  old 
couple  were  again  young  lovers. 


^A^iUiam  Lovell  Finley 
Illustrated  witk  pkoto^rapks  hy  AA^illiam  BoUman 


EVEBY  fall  when  the  ocean  be- 
gins to  beat  heavily  along  the 
Oregon  shore,  a  white-winged 
fleet  sails  up  the  Columbia  and 
Willamette  rivers  and  winters 
When  most  of  the  other  flocks  have  gone 
to  the  southland,  this  feathered  fleet  skims 
about  the  wharf-lined  waterfront.  Like 
about  the  waters  of  the  inland  harbors. 


the  white-sailed  craft  of  the  summer,  these 
gulls  add  life  to  the  landscape  as  they 
float  about  with  grace  and  ease.  They 
add  beauty  to  the  river  as  they  swim  idly 
on  the  water.  Most  of  us  are  too  busy, 
however,  to  look  at  the  aesthetic  value 
of  these  birds,  but  we  can^t  get  away  from 
their  economic  importance. 

The  Western  gull  comes  not  for  fishing 


"Mottled    gray    sea-grull    chicks.' 


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"Alonff    the   ffimtsy    slope." 


alone.  He  pays  for  his  existence  in  the 
amount  of  garbage  he  picks  up  along  the 
river.  He  is  a  successful  scavenger.  He 
skirmishes  the  river  for  dead  fish,  putrid 
flesh  and  waste  stuff  of  every  kind.  But 
he's  not  particular  as  to  his  food.  If  it 
runs  low  along  the  river  he  hunts  over- 
land. Yes,  he  even  takes  to  the  farm.  I 
have  often  seen  a  great  flock  of  these  snow- 
plumaged  gulls  following  the  plow,  walk- 
ing along  and  hovering  over,  just  like  a 
flock  of  blackbirds,  to  grab  every  worm 


that  is  turned  up.  Feed  them  along  the 
river  and  they  return  as  regularly  every 
day  as  a  cat  for  his  dinner.  They  become 
just  as  tame.  They  are  experts  on  the 
wing  and  will  take  a  crust  of  bread  in 
mid-air,  rarely  missing  a  catch. 

Summer  before  last  we  visited  the  na- 
tive haunts  of  the  Western  gulls  and 
climbed  about  their  homes  on  some  of 
the  haystack  rocks  off  the  Oregon  coast. 
We  found  them  even  more  picturesque,  as 
they  flashed  their  white  wings  against  the 


"Efffs    of    §rTeeii    hoe,    blotohod    with    brown.' 


THE  WHITE-WINGED  FLEET. 


351 


"Bwimminir  idly  on  the  water.' 


rough  brown  rock,  than  they  are  about  the 
bays  and  rivers.  We  climbed  the  rocky 
slopes  to  the  crevices  where  these  birds 
had  carried  a  few  handsful  of  grass  for  a 
nest.  We  saw  them  building  on  almost 
every  suitable  table-ledge.  But  the  largest 
number  of  nests  were  scattered  about  the 
green  slopes  on  the  top  of  the  rock.  Here 
each  gull  scratched  out  a  little  hollow  and 
lined  it  with  dry  grasses.  Two  or  three 
eggs  of  greenish  hue,  blotched  with  brown, 
in  each  nest,  were  so  closely  matched  in 


coloration  with  the  green  and  dry  grasses 
that  we  had  to  watch  at  every  step  to  keep 
from  treading  on  them. 

Later  we  found  the  top  of  the  rock 
fairly  alive  with  mottled  gray  seagull 
chicks.  A  pair  of  these  chaps  are  about 
as  interesting  as  anything  I've  seen  in  the 
bird  line.  They  show  little  fear,  but  there 
is  generally  a  look  of  surprise  in  their 
eyes  when  you  stoop  to  pick  them  up. 
These  young  gulls  retain  their  mottled 
dress  until  after  the  first  vear.    The  snow- 


"Ridinff  the  anchor  chain." 


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THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 


white  breast  and  pearl-gray  coat  are  only 
worn  by  the  more  mature  birds.  The 
brownish  looking  fellows,  perched  along 
the  docks  of  the  city,  are  not  a  different 
species,  but  only  immature  gulls. 

He  who  would  study  the  art  of  aerial 
navigation  would  do  well  to  watch  the 
gulFs  flight.  I  have  often  looked  at  these 
birds  as  they  hang  in  the  air,  or  move 
straight  up  the  teeth  of  the  wind  at  the 
rear  of  a  steamer.  They  poise,  resting, 
apparently  motionless,  on  outstretched 
wing.  It  is  a  difficult  feat.  A  small  bird 
can't  do  it.  A  sparrow  hawk  can  only 
poise  by  the  rapid  beating  of  his  wings. 
The  gull  seems  to  hang  perfectly  still, 
yet  there  is  never  an  instant  when  the 
wings  and  tail  are  not  constantly  adjusted 
to  meet  the  different  air  currents.  Just 
as  in  shooting  the  rapids  in  a  canoe,  the 
paddle  must  be  adjusted  every  moment  to 
meet  the  different  eddies,  currents  and 
whirlpools  and  it  is  never  the  same  in  two 
different  instants.  These  gulls  are  com- 
plete masters  of  the  air.  A  sailboat  can 
only  tack  up  against  the  wind.  A  gull, 
by  the  perfect  adjustment  of  its  body, 
without  a  single  flap  of  the  wings,  makes 
rapid  headway  straight  in  the  teeth  of  the 
wind.  I've  seen  them  retain  a  perfect 
equilibrium  in  a  stiff  breeze  and  at  the 
same  time  reach  forward  and  scratch  an 
ear. 

We  were  interested  last  winter  in  study- 
ing the  great  flocks  of  gulls  that  live  about 
San  Francisco  Bay.     Every  morning  at 


eight  o'clock  the  garbage  is  emptied  at 
the  long  dock  of  the  navy  training  sta- 
tion. The  gulls  about  the  vicinity  knov/ 
this  as  an  ordinary  laborer  knows  the 
lunch  hour.  They  flock  around  by  the 
thousands.  It  looks  like  some  one  had 
poked  a  stick  into  a  hive  of  big  feathered 
bees. 

Protection  has  made  these  birds  very 
tame.  "Old  Whitey''  used  to  be  known  to 
almost  every  sailor  on  the  Pensacola.  Ho 
always  wintered  about  the  ship  and 
showed  up  for  meals  as  regular  as  the 
bugle  blew.  He  had  his  own  perch  on 
the  bowsprit  and  would  take  bread  or  meat 
from  the  hand  like  a  pet  pussy.  There 
were  always  several  others  riding  the 
anchor  chain  waiting  for  scraps  from  the 
table. 

The  minute  a  new  food  supply  is  found 
anywhere  about  the  bay,  the  news  spreads 
in  the  gull  world  by  wireless  telegraph. 
A  flock  of  half  a  dozen  gulls  will  increase 
to  as  many  hundred  in  an  hour  or  so. 
You  can't  see  just  where  they  come  from, 
but  they  come.  Wlien  the  steam  dredger 
started  to  deepen  the  channel  of  the  Oak- 
land estuary,  a  whole  flock  of  gulls  sailed 
in  and  settled  at  the  mouth  of  the  long 
pipe,  which  was  belching  forth  a  mixture 
of  mud,  water,  rocks  and  clams.  It  was 
as  bad  as  a  crowd  of  a  thousand  noisy 
newsboys.  Such  a  shoving,  clambering, 
flapping,  grabbing!  Every  clam  was  gob- 
bled up  the  minute  it  struck  ground. 


"Perched   alon^   the   dooks   of   the   city." 


By  WILLIAM  BITTLE  WELLS 


The  lowest  rates  ever  made  by  the  railroads  from  Mississippi  River  points 
to  the  Pacific  Coast  go  into  effect  next  year  on  account  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark 
Exposition  in  Portland.  By  this  very  commendable  action  a  large  attendance  to 
the  fair  is  assured,  and  the  exposition  may  already  be  called  a  success.  Owing  to 
the  low  rates,  thousands  who  have  long  desired  to  visit  the  Coast  will  come  to  the 
exposition  and  travel  will  be  greatly  stimulated.  Of  course,  it  may  be  urged  that 
in  taking  this  action  the  general  passenger  agents  have  been  actuated  by  a  selfish 
motive,  but  we  do  not  choose  to  see  it  in  that  light.  The  truth  of  the  matter  is 
that  the  greatest  factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  West,  apart  from  the  resources 
themselves,  has  been  the  persistent  advertising  done  by  the  passenger  departments 
and  the  broad-minded  attitude  that  they  have  assumed.  The  Pacific  Monthly  has 
urged  in  the  past  that  there  is  a  debt  of  gratitude  due  the  railroads  from  every 
man  who  has  even  the  smallest  financial  interests  on  this  Coast,  and  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  call  attention  to  this  fact  when  the  railroads  have  shown  such  a  signal  interest 
in  the  success  of  the  Portland  Exposition. 


A  great  tribute  has  been  paid  Theodore  Roosevelt.  It  has  been  freely  given 
because  it  has  been  richly  deserved.  Roosevelt  has  demonstrated  that  he  is  able 
to  stand  alone — ^the  severest  test  of  greatness  in  men.  He  is  a  man  of  action.  He 
is  honest.  Even  his  enemies  will  admit  that  he  has  done  what  he  believed  to  be 
right.  Naturally  he  has  made  mistakes.  He  has  antagonized  the  South.  But  his 
record  as  a  whole,  his  fearlessness,  his  integrity  of  character,  his  energy,  his  en- 
thusiasm and  undoubted  ability  overshadow  any  errors  in  judgment.  He  is  the 
li\nng  embodiment  of  the  spirit  of  the  times.  There  is  no  other  living  man  who 
is  a  better  exponent  of  the  best  in  American  character.  He  is  the  typical  American. 
Yet  he  has  his  faults — some  very  grievous.  But  in  his  faults  he  is  still  representa- 
tive of  the  American  people. 

Roosevelt  has  a  great  opportunity — greater  than  that  which  has  been  given 
to  any  President  since  Lincoln.  It  is  in  his  power  to  break  the  "Solid  South." 
It  is  in  his  power  to  guide  the  nation  toward  the  "manifest  destiny"  which  is 
unmistakably  ours,  and  yet  steer  clear  of  the  shoals  and  dangers  of  imperialism. 
The  years  before  us  are  years  of  great  promise  and  greater  responsibilities.  A 
firm,  upright,  patriotic,  honest,  energetic,  statesmanlike  man,  loyal  to  the  highest 
and  noblest  traditions  of  our  country,  is  needed  at  the  head  of  the  Government. 
Roosevelt  is  all  this,  and  there  is  no  reason  why  he  should  not  make  the  most  of 
his  great  opportunity,  cementing  the  nation,  preserving  our  traditions  and  yet  ris- 
ing to  our  newer  responsibilities  and  opportunities  for  a  greater  nation  among  the 
nations  of  the  earth.  We  have  a  part  to  play  as  a  nation  in  the  world.  It  is  not 
a  part  of  sniveling,  not  a  part  of  timidity.  It  is  a  great  part  and  we  will  not  shirk 
it.    Roosevelt  is  the  man.    The  people  have  said  it.     Vox  populi,  vox  Dei. 


A  Review  of  tkc  most  important  activitiea  of  ttc 

montb  in  Poll  tic »,  Scieiu^c,  Art,  Education 

anJ  Religious  Tnau^nt 


Roosevelt  and  Fairbanks  have  been  elected  President  and  Vice-President  of 
the  United  States  by  an  immense  majority.  They  carried  all  the  doubtful  states, 
only  the  Solid  South  voting  against  them.  The  silent  vote  had  com«  to  the  polls 
and  proclaimed  aloud  its  convictions.  At  this  writing,  the  morning  after  election, 
it  is  even  believed  that  Maryland  has  gone  Republican.  The  present  count  shows 
the  vote  in  the  electoral  college  will  be  325  for  Roosevelt  and  Fairbanks  to  151  for 
Parker  and  Davis.  McKinley's  vote  was  292,  in  1900,  an5  Bryan  at  the  time  re- 
ceived four  more  than  Parker.  Roosevelt's  plurality  in  New  York  exceeded 
McKinley's  of  1900  by  41,500.  He  received  185,000  more  votes  in  his  native 
state  than  Parker,  and  even  in  Greater  New  York,  traditionally  Democratic,  he 
ran  much  nearer  to  Parker  than  was  expected.  When  it  had  become  certain  that 
Roosevelt  had  been  elected  President,  he  immediately  announced  that  he  would  not 
be  a  candidate  for  another  term. 


The  world  was  contenting  itself  with  news  of  Russian  advances  and  repulses 
in  Manchuria  and  partisan  reports  of  how  the  presidential  election  would  swing 
when,  on  October  21,  the  Baltic  squadron  passing  through  the  North  Sea,  for  a 
yot  unsatisfactorily  explained  reason,  fired  upon  a  fleet  of  fishing  boats  on  Dageor 
Bank,  off  Hull,  England,  sinking  one  and  injuring  two  others.  The  news  did 
not  get  abroad  until  Sunday,  October  23,  but  for  a  week  after  that  date,  inter- 
national complications  of  an  extremely  serious  nature  were  threatened.  The  dip- 
lomatic forces  of  both  England  and  Russia  had  never  been  thrown  into  such  a 
fever  of  work,  made  none  the  less  easy  by  the  ridiculous  story  told  by  Admiral 
Rojestvensky,  in  command  of  the  fleet,  who  said  the  transport  Anatol  was  at- 
tacked by  torpedo-boats  and  he  flred  upon  them  to  protect  the  transport.  There 
was  a  distinctly  warlike  feeling  all  over  England  at  the  outrage.  The  Czar  has 
expressed  his  sorrow,  and  the  matter  will  be  laid  before  an  international  coui- 
mission  under  the  Hague  convention.  At  one  time  it  was  suspected  that  the  act 
was  deliberate,  and  that  Russia  wished  to  draw  England  into  war.  Russia  could 
then  sue  for  terms  with  both  England  and  Japan,  on  the  plea  that  she  could  not 
fight  them  both,  and  thus  save  her  damaged  military  fame  from  worse  injury. 


After  a  long  period  of  almost  continuous  retreat,  the  Russian  army  in  Man- 
churia under  General  Kuropatkin  on  October  9  took  up  an  offensive  Smovement, 
marching  to  the  southeast  across  the  Shakhe  River  to  Hamantung,  20  mileg  below 


ACTIONS. 


365 


Mukden,  and  20  miles  north  of  the  Yentai  coal  mines  held  by  the  Japanese.  Field 
Marshal  Oyama  concentrated  the  Japanese  troops  about  the  mines  and  for  six 
ilays  one  of  the  bloodiest  battles  in  history  was  waged.  By  October  20  the  first 
decisive  victory  was  won,  the  Japanese  capturing  30  guns.  The  Russians  were 
caught  unprepared  while  changing  the  disposition  of  forces  and  were  hammered 
at  l)y  both  wings  and  the  center  of  the  Japanese  army.  On  this  day  and  the  fol- 
lowing days  the  Russian  losses  were  fearful,  the  Japanese  suffering  much  less. 
Oyama  estimated  the  Russian  dead  at  30,000.  The  world  scanned  these  move- 
iiieuts  with  interest,  as  it  seemed  as  if  a  turning  point  in  the  war  might  come, 
1)11 1  in  the  end  the  Russian  army  entrenched  itself  on  the  north  side  of  the  Shakhe 
Riv(T  and  then  it  was  certain  that  the  object  of  the  advance  movement,  the  recap- 
ture of  the  Yentai  coal  mines,  was  a  failure.  The  Japanese  interfered  constantly 
with  the  orderly  Russian  retreat.  General  Oku  with  the  left  wing  of  the  army 
pressing  Kuropatkin  hard.  By  this  movement  the  Russians  were  forced  to  take 
the  offensive,  holding  Lone  Tree  Hill,  the  key  to  the  situation.  With  both  armies 
ready  for  battle  and  close  upon  each  other,  they  remained  without  movement  from 
October  18  and  to  November  7.  On  the  latter  date  the  eituation  was  still  un- 
changed, the  Japanese  waiting  for  reinforcements  and  the  Russians  apparently 
unable  to  move  forward  and  unwilling  to  give  up  the  advantage  they  held. 


p.  .  .  In  the  parliamentary  elec- 
fclectionflm  ^.^Q^g  f^p  ^j^g  Dominion  of 
Canada  Pflnada,  held   November  3, 

the  Liberal  government  was  re-elected 
with  a  gain  of  about  15  in  the  House  of 
Commons.  This  vote  of  confidence  in 
Laurier  was  expressed  on  both  sides  of  the 
continent^  in  Nova  Scotia  and  on  Van- 
couver Island.  The  Conservative  leader, 
R.  L.  Borden,  was  defeated  in  his  own 
constituency  in  Nova  Scotia  and  the  Prov- 
ince of  Quebec,  Laurier^s  home,  sustained 
the  premier  with  a  large  majority.  The 
leading  question  in  the  campaign  was  the 
construction  of  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway 
with  government  aid,  which  was  favored 
by  the  Liberal  government.  Otherwise  the 
campaign  was  free  from  questions  of 
policy. 

^  -  I  That  Port  Arthur  was 
Fort  Arthur  ^i^oj^ed  to  fall  within  the 
month  was  reported  from  Dalny  as  late  as 
November  2.  The  Japanese  were  in  pos- 
fiPSQion  of  all  but  the  main  forts  and  the 
highest  j)oint8  of  the  eastern  hills  and  had 
tvcH  ps  in  numbers  to  advance  on  these  and 
finally  take  the  city.  It  was  prophesied  at 
that  time  that  before  the  Pacific  squadron 
could  reach  the  scene  of  action  the  Jap- 
anese flag  would  be  flying  over  the  city. 

Congress  of  The  event  in  the  scientific 
Arts  and  world  which  has  been  most 

Sciences  noteworthy  during  the  past 

autumn  was  the  International  Congress 


of  Arts  and  Sciences  at  the  World's  Fair, 
September  19  to  25.  There  was  a  collec- 
tion of  scholars  at  St.  Louis  such  as  rarely 
comes  together.  Science  in  its  most  va- 
rient  forms  came  before  the  congress,  and 
the  leaders  in  all  branches  were  present. 
The  convention  listened  alike  to  Josiah 
Royce,  the  foremost  American  speculative 
philosopher,  and  to  James  Bryce,  M.  P., 
the  best  known  writer  on  political  econ- 
omy. To  keep  order  in  the  conglomera- 
tion of  sciences,  seven  general  divisions, 
and  24  subdivisions  were  made.  The  con- 
gress was  attended  by  hundreds  of  bril- 
liant men  and  women  from  all  the  civil- 
ized countries  of  the  world,  and  the  ex- 
position authorities  received  the  distin- 
guished foreigners  with  marked  attention. 

rjft  A-  1-  Captain  Thomas  S.  Bald- 
1  he  Airship    ^Ijj^  ^f  g^jj  Francisco,  has 

invented  a  dirigible  airship.  The  "Cal- 
ifornia Arrow^^  made  by  him  and  sailed  by 
A.  Roy  Knabenshue  at  St.  Louis  in  the 
airship  competition  on  its  first  trip,  Oc- 
tober 25,  went  ten  miles  over  the  city,  and 
though  it  became  unmanageable,  kept 
afloat.  Later,  on  October  31  and  Novem- 
ber 1  the  same  aeronaut  took  the  airship 
on  short  flights,  proving  it  not  only  to  be 
dirigible,  but  capable  of  making  headway 
against  a  fair  breeze.  Several  days  later 
the  machine  became  loose  and  flew  away 
by  itself  and  was  later  found  a  considerable 
distance  into  the  country.  The  flying  ma- 
chine is  sustained  in  the  air  by  a  cigar- 


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THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


shaped  balloon  and  has  attached  a  long 
frame  work,  carrying  a  gasoline  engine  ca- 
pable of  driving  the  air  propeller  2,000 
revolutions  a  minute. 


Tke  The  New  York  subway  ha?^ 

New  York     finally  been  completed  after 
Sutway  several  years,  during  which 

the  leading  streets  of  the  city  constantly 
resembled  a  mining  camp.  The  tunnel- 
ing was  done  through  solid  rock.  Most 
of  the  22  4-5  miles  is  completed  and  the 
entire  cost  when  in  working  order  will 
be  about  $60,000,000.  The  contract  for 
building  the  subwav  was  given  John  B. 
MacDonald  for  $35,000,000  in  1900,  a 
company  was  formed,  with  August  Bel- 
mont as  president,  to  carry  on  the  work, 
and  funds  were  raised  on  3^  per  cent 
bonds  to  the  amount  of  $55,000,000.  The 
property  has  now  been  leased  to  the  In- 
terborough  Rapid  Transit  Company  for 
fifty  years  at  rental  which  pays  the  in- 
terest on  the  bonds  and  1  per  cent  on  the 
whole  amount  besides.  The  tunnel  under 
the  East  River  to  connect  with  Brookl\Ti 
is  now  under  construction.  By  the  use 
of  the  new  subway  the  length  of  Manhat-  • 
tan  Island  can  be  run  in  fifteen  or  twenty 
minutes. 


-J  .  Practically  the  entire  time 

ArT^rJ*^*  of  the  Episcopal  Generol 
After  Divorcc(^()nvention  which  met  in 
Boston  early  in  October  was  taken  up  with 
the  matter  of  remarriage  after  divorce. 
Previously  the  convention  had  been  en- 
gaged in  discussing  the  requests  from 
many  dioceses  to  use  the  revised  version 
of  the  Scriptures  in  the  public  service. 
This  was  refused  and  a  report  from  a 
sub-committee  brought  before  the  conven- 
tion the  following  resolution  to  be  voted 
on :  "No  minister  shall  solemnize  a  mar- 
riage between  two  persons  unless  by  in- 
quiry he  shall  have  satisfied  himself  that 
neither  person  has  been  or  is  the  husband 
or  wife  of  any  other  person  then  living 
from  whom  he  or  she  has  been  divorced 
for  any  cause  arising  after  marriage." 
The  House  of  Bishops  supported  the  res- 
olution, but  the  laity  objected.  The  stand 
•>f  the  latter  was  that  it  was  too  advanced 
a  movement  and  that  it  ignored  the  Gos- 
pel of  Jesus  Christ.  They  recommended 
that  the  movement  against  divorce  should 


be  taken  up  more  generally,  that  the 
churches  should  make  a  united  protest 
against  it  and  that  public  opinion  should 
be  aroused  to  the  extent  that  divorced 
persons  would  find  themselves  fallen  from 
their  caste.  The  vote  of  the  committee 
of  the  whole  was  214  for  and  191  against 
the  resolution,  but  when  the  vote  was 
taken  by  dioceses  and  orders  the  resolu- 
tion was  lost  by  one  vote  in  the  clerical 
orders  and  by  five  in  the  lay. 


Peace  At  the  Peace  Congress  held 

CoD^rea  at  in  Boston  during  the  early 
Boston  days  of  October,  just  before 

the  fearful  carnage  of  Mukden,  there  was 
much  talk  and  little  action.  In  fact,  there 
was  no  opportunity  for  action.  All  the 
congress  was  called  upon  to  do  was  to 
say  that  the  Hague  Tribunal  is  a  very 
fine  institution  and  that  fighting  is  ob- 
noxious. All  Boston  was  pleased  to  ex- 
])res8  such  sentiments  and  the  press  dis- 
patches found  space  to  tell  how  some 
Baptist  organizations  in  Kansas  sent  tel- 
egrams expressing  their  support  to  the 
peace  movement.  The  remarkable  thing 
about  the  congress  was  the  number  of 
brilliant  men  and  women  who  took  part. 
Secretary  Hay  represented  the  United 
States. 


Peace  \Vhile  the   Peace   Congress 

Congress  at  was  only  a  general  move- 
St.  Louis  ment  and  served  merely  to 
express  public  sentiment,  on  Septem- 
ber 24,  a  World's  Peace  Conference 
took  place  at  St.  Louis  at  which  there 
were  260  delegates,  240  of  which  were 
actual  legislators,  representative  of  almost 
every  parliamentary  and  legislative  body 
in  the  civilized  world.  The  men  who 
took  part  in  that  conference  shape  diplo- 
matic history.  Their  meeting  was  nota- 
ble and  their  purpose  definite.  They 
elected  Richard  Bartholdt  president  of  the 
Interparliamentary  Union  and  voted  to 
meet  at  the  Hague  at  the  call  of  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States.  Their  pur- 
pose is  to  give  to  the  International  Court 
power  to  execute  its  treaties,  so  that  its 
decisions  will  be  law  which  the  powers 
will  respect.  If  this  can  be  done,  it  will 
be  the  first  step  towards  enforced  arbitra- 
tion and  final  peace  among  nations. 


ACTIONS. 


857 


_      .  The    American    Board    of 

rore^n  Commissioners  for  Foreign 

Missions  Missions  held  their  annual 

meeting  at  Grinnell,  Iowa,  October  11-13, 
and  reported  the  expenditure  during  the 
last  year  of  $750,000,  leaving  them  $22,- 
000  in  debt  as  a  result  of  the  falling  off 
in  legacies.  The  church  contributions  at 
the  same  time  have  increased  $55,000.  It 
was  also  reported  that  the  number  of 
churches  making  themselves  responsible 
for  individual  missionaries  is  greatly  on 
the  increase.  The  work  of  foreign  mis- 
sionaries has  not  spread  geographically 
in  the  past  two  decades,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  added  island  territory,  but  in 
the  meanwhile  its  intensive  progress  has 
been  marked.  There  are  now  900  trained 
missionaries  in  the  field  and  some  of  the 
missions  are  self-supporting. 

An  Art  A    separate    building    has 

Museum  for  been  given  by  Mrs.  W.  S. 
Portland  Ladd  for  the  housing  of  the 

Corbett  collection  of  classic  statues  be- 
longing to  the  Portland,  Oregon,  Art  Mu- 
seum. In  the  new  quarters  the  statues 
will  be  placed  to  better  advantage  than  in 
the  present  location  in  the  Library  build- 
ing and  greater  possibilities  for  study 
have  been  provided.  Now  the  artistically 
inclined  will  have  an  opportunity  to 
study  art  advantageously.  It  is  even  ex- 
pected that  a  competent  teacher  of  art 
will  be  secured.  At  present  the  most  use 
made  of  the  collection  is  by  a  few  after- 
noon classes  of  ladies  who  take  up  the 
study  of  art  as  a  graceful  accomplish- 
ment. 


•D  zii    1  •  ^^^  launching  of  the  bat- 

Jtfaftkship  ^i^hip  Nebraska  at  Seat- 
Nebraska  ^.j^^  October  7,  was  the  end 
of  a  remarkable  piece  of  enterprise. 
Moran  Brothers,  of  that  city,  shipbuilders 
on  a  small  scale,  suddenly  made  a  bid  for 
one  of  the  largest  battleships  to  be  built 
in  the  world.  Their  offer  was  taken  and 
the  citizens  of  Seattle  raised  a  subsidy  of 
$100,000  to  enable  the  bidders  to  meet 
Eastern  prices.  The  situation  was  almost 
unprecedented.  A  shop  had  to  be  built 
up  right  about  the  growing  hull.  Tools 
and  machines  had  to  be  purchased  before 
the  work  could  be  done.  But  it  was 
finally  built  after  long  delays,  and  the 
cause  given  for  the  various  strikes,  that 


there  were  too  many  boys  at  work  on  the 
vessel,  had  reason  in  it.  Boys  wore 
used  where  they  were  of  as  much  service 
as  a  man,  and  the  remark  that  the  vessel 
was  built  by  boys  had  something  in  it. 
But  so  far  it  has  shown  itself  perfectly 
well  constructed  and  is  undoubtedly  as 
strong  as  if  it  had  been  constructed  in  a 
large  navy-yard.  At  all  events,  Williams 
and  Shannon  Moran  are  to  be  praised  for 
showing  more  enterprise  than  any  other 
men  in  the  Northwest. 

Free  A     remarkable     convention 

Tkinkers'  was  held  in  Kome  toward.^ 
Convention  the  middle  of  October,  at 
which  there  were  5,000  free-thinkers.  Of 
this  number  only  ten  were  Americans, 
though  other  countries,  mostly  the  older 
ones,  were  well  represented.  Striking  ad- 
dresses were  made  on  religious  questions 
in  the  very  stronghold  of  orthodox  relig- 
ion by  Professor  Haeckel,  of  Jena,  and 
Professor  Lambrose,  an  Italian  philoso- 
pher. The  assemblage  aroused  public  in- 
dignation by  the  expression  of  their  sen- 
timents, but  were  not  disturl>ed. 

Assaults  on  The  battleship  Connecticut 
Battleskip  which  was  launched  in  the 
Connecticut  Brooklyn  navy-yard  within 
a  few  days  of  the  first  dip  of  the  Ne- 
braska into  Seattle  harbor,  was  the  victim 
of  peculiar  assaults.  Three  separate  at- 
tempts were  made  to  sink  the  vessel,  any 
one  of  which  might  have  resulted  in  se- 
rious damage.  On  two  occasions  portions 
of  the  hull  were  found  where  a  rivet  and 
a  plate  had  been  bored  through,  appar- 
ently with  the  idea  that  as  soon  as  the 
vessel  struck  the  water,  she  would  fill  and 
sink.  Both  these  attempts  were  discov- 
ered before  harm  was  done.  But  not  to 
be  frustrated,  a  third  assault  was  made 
on  the  vessel.  An  obstruction  was  placed 
on  the  ways  under  water  in  such  a  posi- 
tion that  the  hull  would  have  been  badlv 
damaged  when  being  launched,  if  it  had 
not  been  removed.  Who  is  guilty,  was 
the  imanswered  question  about  the 
Brooklyn  navy-yard.  The  at  tempt  e(t 
crimes  have  been  laid  to  labor  unions  and 
the  idea  has  been  scoffed  at.  It  has  been 
with  more  apparent  justice  laid  at  the 
door  of  anarchy,  but  even  the  repetition 
of  the  attempts  gave  no  clue  that  could  be 
relied  upon. 


A  religion  u  'wortk  no  more  tkan  ita  net  result  in  making  men  better  anJ  bappier. 

Tke  Nortk  Sea  Incident 

Had  England  been  as  great  a  bully  as  the  United  States,  the  firing  on  her  fishing 
fleet  by  the  Russian  squadron  would  have  been  good  cause  for  war  and  there  was  a  jingo 
party  in  England  which  desired  it.  Some  day  Americans  will  blush  for  a  declaration  of 
war  because  of  the  blowing  up  of  the  ** Maine/'  a  declaration  by  an  overwhelmingly 
superior  power  and  made  while  Spain  was  on  her  knees  disclaiming  all  knowledge  of  the 
matter  and  praying  for  mercy  and  asking  that  the  whole  matter  be  referred  to  a  tribunal. 
We  did  not  think  that  course  consistent  with  our  dignity  as  a  world  power.  England 
does.  Who  believes  to-day  that  Spain  as  a  nation  had  anything  to  do  with  the  blowing 
up  of  the  Maine? 

Tke  Railroads  and  tke  People 

Every  railroad  is  of  necessity  a  monopoly.  There  is  a  limit  beyond  which  paral- 
leling and  competing  are  impossible  and  within  a  certain  territory  every  railroad  has 
monopolistic  control,  precisely  as  a  street  railway  has  a  monopoly. 

Every  monopoly  of  necessity  exercises  arbitrary  power.  The  possession  of  this  power 
makes  it  a  matter  of  self-interest  for  railroads  to  preserve  it  to  the  full  by  combina- 
tions and  agreements  among  themselves  against  the  common  customer,  the  public;  and 
the  possession  of  it  enables  the  stronger  line  to  absorb  the  weaker.  The  charges  paid  by 
the  people  furnish  abundant  funds,  because  they  partake,  to  a  certain  extent,  of  the 
nature  of  an  enforced  tax.     You  must  pay  the  railroad's  rate,  whatever  it  be. 

I  have  found  it  so  impossible  to  write  anything  which  can  not  by  some  one  be  mis- 
understood that  I  will  say  now  that  railroads  are  certainly  worthy  of  their  just  hire,  and 
I  do  not  believe  in  national  or  state  ownership  or  control  of  railroads.  Paul  Morton, 
now  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  testified  that  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  had  had 
no  real  effect  in  controlling  railroads,  and  that,  by  one  method  or  another,  the  railroads 
conduct  their  affairs  as  if  there  were  no  commission.  Every  one  ought  to  know  the  use- 
lessness  of  commissions  and  laws  to  control  private  interest.  Laws  only  drive  the  railroads 
to  still  further  control  of  the  legislatures  or  to  other  devices  for  evading  the  arbitrary, 
inflexible,  and  often  absurd,  provisions.  In  fact,  law  can  not  ever  regulate  trade,  nor 
control  a  monopoly  if  the  roots  of  the  monopoly  are  allowed  to  exist. 

I  believe  in  allowing  the  railroads  to  conduct  their  business  as  freely  as  you  conduct 
yours  or  I  mine,  but  I  believe  in  removing  the  monopolistic  power  from  them  and  putting 
it  where  it  belongs,  viz.,  with  the  public,  but  not  with  the  state.  That  there  is  a  monopo- 
listic power  exercised  by  railroads  is  instinctively  felt  by  all.  It  is  this  instinct  which 
drives  courts  into  the  illogical  position  of  saying  that  railroads  and  telegraph  companies 
may  bind  a  ticket  purchaser  or  message  sender  by  the  conditions  printed  on  the  ticket  or 
blank,  provided  those  conditions  are  reasonable.  This  provision  shows  that  it  is  not  a  mat- 
ter of  contract  at  all  between  company  and  individual,  but  it  is  a  regulation  of  the  busi- 
ness by  public  policy,  speaking  through  the  courts.  If  it  were  a  contract,  it  would  bind 
the  individual  in  all  its  terms,  and  the  court  would  have  no  right  to  make  a  new  contract 
for  the  parties.  The  impossibility  of  its  being  a  contract  is  felt  if  you  picture  yourself 
in  the  long  line  before  the  ticket  window,  the  agent's  stamp  working  like  mad  and  the 
tickets  flowing  out  in  a  steady  stream.  What  would  the  people  do,  what  would  the  agent 
do  if  you  stopped  to  read  all  the  conditions  on  some  ticket  a  yard  longf  Or  suppose  you 
took  a  seat  and  read  the  ticket  all  through  and  thereby  missed  your  train,  and  came  back 
to  the  agent  and  objected  to  the  condition  that  you  would  not  sell  the  unused  part  of  your 
ticket,  or  to  any  other  condition.  The  agent  would  tell  you  that  he  had  no  power  to  alter 
those  conditions,  and  you  could  take  that  ticket  as  printed  or  walk.  Or  in  case  of  a  tele- 
gram of  life  and  death  haste,  suppose  you  are  told  that  you  must  either  sign  that  blank  or 
do  your  business  by  letter.  Now,  it  is  true  you  could  walk  or  you  could  write,  but 
steam  and  electricity  belong  to  this  age  and  its  populace.  They  are  a  part  of  the  very  ex- 
istence of  modern  society  and  are  the  common  right  of  each  member  of  society;  and  no 
one  has  recognized  for  a  moment,  not  even  the  companies  themselves,  the  right  to  say 
*  *  You  can  walk, "  or  *  *  You  can  write. ' ' 


IMPRESSIONS.  359 

The  point  I  now  make  is  this:  Where  there  is  no  mutuality,  where  the  parties  are 
not  on  the  same  footing,  where  one  is  wholly  ignorant  of  the  contract  or  where  he  must 
contract  as  the  other  dictates  or  **walk,"  there  can  be  no  contract.  True,  some  of  the 
conditions  are  upheld,  and  the  party  is  said  to  have  agreed  to  them,  which,  as  a  rule,  he 
did  not,  even  by  implication,  for  he  never  knew  them.  In  fact,  he  agreed  no  more  to  the 
reasonable  than  to  the  unreasonable  ones.     He  never  made  a  contract  at  all. 

The  real  truth  is  that  the  court  says  to  the  railroad  as  a  public  corporation:  "You 
owe  a  duty  to  the  public  and  you  may  run  your  business  under  certain  of  these  regulations 
because  they  are  reasonable,  but  certain  other  of  your  regulations  are  set  aside  and  de- 
clared void  because  unreasonable  and  inconsistent  with  your  duty  to  the  public.  Your  rea- 
sonable regulations  are  binding  on  Turk  or  Dane,  foreigner  or  idiot,  on  those  ignorant  of 
them,  as  well  as  those  knowing  them,  because  they  are  the  conditions  necessary  for  a  fair 
conduct  of  your  business  in  the  public  interest.  But  there  is  a  mutuality  between  you 
and  the  whole  public.  You  owe  the  public  a  duty  by  reason  of  your  existence  as  an  in- 
evitable monopoly  in  its  midst,  and  you  shall  not  tyrannously  and  unjustly  exercise  that 
power. ' ' 

Thus  we  come  to  our  first  conclusion:  That  the  public,  or,  if  you  please,  the  state,  dic- 
tates terms  to  the  companies  through  the  legislatures  and  the  courts,  and  does  so  on  the 
ground  that  the  companies  are  not  absolute  owners  of  their  property,  but  hold  and  operate 
it  on  trust  and  on  condition  that  they  will  fulfill  their  duty  to  the  public.  This  duty  to  the 
public  and  this  right  of  control  over  the  property  of  the  companies  is  said  to  arise  out  of 
the  very  existence  of  the  companies  as  creatures  of  the  state;  that  is,  as  corporations, 
created  by  the  public  law  and  allowed  to  exist  by  will  of  the  people,  and  also  because  as 
corporations  they  are  allowed  a  power  never  allowed  to  any  individual  or  set  of  private 
individuals,  viz.,  the  right  of  eminent  domain,  that  is,  the  right  to  condemn  and  take  a 
man's  property  against  his  will.  But  these  donations  of  corporate  life  and  of  right  of  emi- 
nent domain  are  only  a  part  of  the  concessions  made  by  the  people.  Suppose  Mr.  John 
Rockefeller,  Mr.  Wm.  Bockefeller,  Mr.  Boger?,  Mr.  Harriman  and  Senator  Clark  form  a 
partnership  to  build  a  railroad;  or,  as  he  is  said  to  be  worth  a  billion,  suppose  Mr.  John 
Bockefeller  alone  builds  a  transcontinental  railroad,  or  any  other  railroad,  and  buys  every 
foot  of  his  right  of  way  by  regular  private  purchase.  Does  any  one  feel  for  a  moment  that 
he  could  or  would  be  allowed  to  occupy  that  right  of  way  and  run  that  road  as  he  pleased, 
that  he  could  make  arbitrary  conditions  and  tell  people  they  could  accept  them  or 
**walkf"  The  private  road  of  Mr.  Bockefeller  would  be  subject  to  precisely  the  same 
necessary  regulation  in  the  public  interest  as  any  other  road.  Suppose  he  said,  **This  is 
my  own  private  property;  111  shut  it  down  for  a  month  or  a  year.'*  Probably  people  would 
first  try  to  buy  it  from  him,  but  in  the  end  they  would  force  that  road  to  open,  if  they 
had  to  condemn  it  and  take  it  from  him.  Suppose  he  never  opened  it  to  the  public  at  all, 
but  said,  **This  is  my  personal,  private  line  to  the  Pacific  Coast."  If  he  closely  paral- 
leled another  line  and  the  public  were  served  as  well  by  the  other  line,  the  public  would 
laugh  at  him  and  let  him  have  his  way.  If  he  occupied  new  territory  and  occupied  the 
best  feasible  right  of  way,  the  people  would  surely  take  it  away  from  him.  They  would 
have  to  do  so  in  self-defense.  They  would  pay  him  a  fair  price,*  that  is  all.  But  he  would 
say,  ''This  is  my  'vested  right.'  "  To  which  the  people  would  reply,  "As  against  the 
whole  people  you  have  no  '  vested  right '  in  a  right  of  way  necessary  to  the  whole  people 
nor  to  anything  you  have  placed  thereon.  A  vested  right  you  have  to  the  fruit  of  your 
labor,  the  fair  price  for  your  rolling  stock,  your  rails  and  labor  of  construction,  and 
when  this  price  is  paid  you,  every  right  you  have  in  the  premises  is  satisfied. ' ' 

This,  as  it  seems  to  me,  is  the  only  vested  right  any  railroad  or  telegraph  line  can 
be  said  to  have:  the  right  to  fair  compensation  for  the  products  of  its  labor — the  monop- 
olistic right  to  use  any  certain  right  of  way  it  holds  in  trust  for  the  public  and  on  condi- 
tion that  it  will  serve  the  public  better  than  any  one  else  will.  This  is  an  important 
point  to  remember.  They  are  trustees  for  the  people,  holding  their  right  of  way  only  on 
condition  that  they  will  serve  the  people  better  than  any  one  else  is  willing  to  serve 
them  on  that  same  right  of  way.  Why,  then,  should  the  public  leave  its  inherent  rights 
in  the  hands  of  one  if  another  will  serve  it  better! 

Wherefore  I  conclude  that  the  rights  of  the  people  in  railroads  (and  some  such  rights 
are  universally  acknowledged)  flow  not  so  much  from  their  permitting  the  company  to 
exist  as  a  corporation  or  from  their  conferring  on  it  the  legal  right  of  eminent  domain  as 
from  a  broad  general  law  of  self-defense  which  is  part  of  the  structure  of  society,  viz.,  that 
no  monopolistic  use  of  the  earth 's  surface  for  the  exclusive  benefit  of  a  very  few  can  exist 
as  against  the  needs  of  ail  society.  Therefore  the  monopolistic  occupation  of  a  certain  ex- 
clusive strip  of  soil  and  the  erection  thereon  of  a  highway  which,  by  reason  of  its 
strength  of  situation  and  the  financial  strength  flowing  therefrom,  makes  duplication  of  it 
impossible,  is  consented  to  by  society  only  on  condition  that  such  highway  will  give  soci- 
ety the  best  service  possible  or  take  its  pay  for  its  work  and  leave  the  soil  and  the  fix- 
tures thereon  for  the  use  of  those  who  will  give  the  best  service. 

I  am  opposed  to  the  theories  of  socialism.  I  believe  in  individualism.  It  seems  to 
me  the  only  stimulus  and  from  it  has  come  all  progress.  But  individualism  does  not  mean 
the  right  of  any  one  or  a  few  individuals  to  any  particular  part  of  the  earth 's  surface.  AU 
our  property  rights  and  so-called  "vested  rights''  exist  only  by  consent  of  that  generai 


3G0  THE   PACIFIC    MONTHLY. 

mass  called  society.  The  vested  rights  of  the  feudal  barons  are  gone.  Many  of  the  old 
vested  rights  of  individuals  over  the  seashore  and  fisheries  are  gone.  The  vested  rights 
of  the  fifteenth  century  are  not  the  vested  rights  of  to-day.  No  man  to-day  has  a  vested 
right  in  his  own  house  against  the  will  of  sotfiety  to  cut  a  street  through  it.  The  earth's 
surface  no  man  created.  To  occupy  any  part  of  it  is  a  monopoly  and  subject  always  to 
the  welfare  of  society.  He  who  can  monopolistically  fix  the  cost  of  carrying  any  product 
to  the  consumer  owns  both  the  producer  and  the  consumer.  He  can  make  the  freight 
rate  **all  the  traffic  will  bear.''  If  oranges  were  a  dollar  apiece  in  New  York  and  a  cent 
apiece  in  Los  Angeles,  and  the  railroad  fixed  the  freight  rate  at  ninety-nine  cents,  what 
would  be  left  for  the  producer!  There  is  a  true  cost  of  production,  which,  with  the  mar- 
ket price  and  cost  of  reaching  market  determines  the  profit,  if  any;  and  there  is  a  true 
cost  of  haul,  and  sometimes  the  latter  of  necessity  absorbs  a  possible  profit  to  the  con- 
sumer; but  that  the  profits  of  the  railroads  are  excessive,  reckoned  from  actual  cost  or 
actual  value  of  the  railroad  and  a  fair  reward  for  the  cost  and  labor  of  operation,  no  one 
doubts.  To  fix  rates  each  railroad  must  be  opened  to  competition  on  its  own  track,  not 
by  parallel  competition,  but  by  competition  on  its  own  track. 

The  cry  everywhere  to-day  is  regulation  of  the  railroads  as  monster  monopolies  hav- 
ing the  country  literally  in  bands  of  steel.  To  open  this  competition  on  its  own  track  and 
to  execute  the  trust  it  owes  the  public,  I  propose  that  roads  be  left  in  the  hands  of  pri- 
vate management,  with  the  clear  idea  in  the  minds  of  the  people  that  the  present  owners 
and  managers  occupy  their  right  of  way  in  trust  for  the  people,  subject  to  the  condition 
that  they  will  give  the  best  service  possible,  and  whenever  any  responsible  syndicate  or 
other  corporation  shall  under  proper  conditions  offer  to  perform  the  same  or  better  serv- 
ice at  better  rates  (all  to  be  particularly  specified),  then,  unless  the  existing  occupant  of  the 
right  of  way  meets  this  offer,  it  shall  by  the  new  bidder  be  paid  the  then  fair  market 
price  for  its  personal  property  and  appurtenances  to  the  soil  and  labor  of  construction,  and 
be  dismissed  from,  its  trust,  and  the  new  trustee  or  competitor  be  installed,  precisely  as  we 
are  doing  every  day  with  private  trustees  who  are  not  acting  faithfully  in  the  best  in- 
terests of  those  they  represent.  And  this  to  apply  to  any  single  unit  of  a  system,  as  well 
as  to  the  whole  system. 

Also  I  would  allow  every  private  shipper  to  sue  in  his  private  capacity  and  recover, 
say,  ten  times  the  amount  of  his  damage  for  any  breaches  of  the  railroad's  trust,  as  a 
carrier,  toward  him,  as  one  of  the  public.  Such  a  law  would  have  prevented  the  secret  re- 
bates to  the  Standard  Oil  Company  by  the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  and  would  to-day  leave 
it  in  the  hands  of  the  injured  party  to  work  a  correction  of  unjust  discrimination  as 
the  Interstate  Commerce  (.'ommission  never  can. 

Also  as  another  but  lesser  corrective  of  the  abuse  of  the  '* right  of  way  monopoly," 
T  would  compel  a  railroad  to  haul  at  the  lowest  profitable  charge  the  private  freight  car 
of  any  shipper  who  proved  that  he  was  charged  an  excessive  rate,  the  burden  of  proof  to 
be  on  the  shipper  as  to  what  was  the  lowest  proper  rate. 

Neither  the  first  nor  the  last  of  these  would  probably  ever  be  enforced,  but  just  as  a 
river  fixes  rates  on  a  parallel  railroad,  though  no  freight  is  really  carried  by  river,  so  the 
possibility  of  these  redresses  would  compel  a  proper  execution  of  that  trust  with  which 
we  all  feel  instinctively  the  railroads  are  charged,  but  which  they  disregard,  and  lionestly, 
too,  because  of  the  general  misconception  of  'tested  rights." 

Finally,  let  me  say  that  nothing  is  so  conservative  and  so  little  progressive  as  the 
legal  mind.  It  clings  to  the  branches  of  the  past  till  the  common  sense  of  the  age  knocks 
its  fingers  loose  with  a  club.  For  example,  when,  under  Henry  VIII.,  wills  affecting  real 
estate  were  made  possible,  the  highest  court  decided  that  the  will  could  only  operate  on  the 
real  estate  a  man  had  at  the  date  of  making  the  will,  not  at  date  of  death — **For  no  man 
can  convey  that  which  he  hath  not,"  a  maxim  wise  enough  as  to  deeds  between  the  liv- 
ing, but  utterly  stupid  as  to  a  will.  The  law  began  by  considering  these  monopolies,  the 
railroads,  in  the  same  light  as  the  competitive  carters  and  carriers  on  the  highway  from 
London  to  Manchester,  which  highway  was  open  to  all  competitive  carriers  and  none  of 
them  held  monopolistic  powers.  The  result  was  a  lot  of  foolish  clinging  to  old  branches, 
but  the  knuckles  of  the  courts  have  been  pretty  well  rapped  by  the  inevitable.  The  courts 
still  are  in  the  dark  about  the  railroads  because  of  following  old  analogies,  and  still  sanc- 
tion many  tyrannies  by  the  roads.  The  legis'.atures  we  expect  to  find  secretly  on  the  side 
of  the  railroads  whenever  it  becomes  worth  while — that  is  whit  they  are  paid  for. 

If  you  conclude  that  the  railroads  really  are  trustees  for  the  people  and  owe  the  pub- 
lic a  duty  and  that  the  special  monopolistic  privilege  given  to  them  in  trust  is  their  right 
of  way,  then  the  remedy  for  an  abuse  of  the  trust  is  precisely  the  same  as  is  applied  to 
every  other  trustee  who  is  dishonest  or  incompetent:  remove  him  and  replace  him  by  one 
who  can  and  will  execute  the  trust.  That  *'one"  is  not,  in  my  opinion,  the  state,  with  all 
its  complications  of  politics  and  lack  of  individual  initiative  and  ambition,  but  is  a  com- 
petitor who  shall  bid  for  the  special  privilege  for  selfish  and  personal  reasons,  the  reasons 
which  animate  all  forceful  actions.  It  is  absurd  to  say  that  there  can  be  no  competitor. 
Such  an  admission  at  once  confesses  slavery  to  a  plutocratic  oligarchy.  The  people  are 
wealthier  than  even  Mr.  Rockefeller  and  the  group  of  overlords  they  still  work  for. 
Given  the  right  to  bid,  bidders  will  be  found,  and  the  fear  of  bidders  will  compel  the  ex- 
ecution of  the  trust. 


The  gi'eatest  thin|^  are  invisible.  What  a  man  accomplishes  is  not  to  be  com- 
pared to  what  a  man  is.  A  great  and  magnificent  temple,  a  wondrous  painting,  an 
extraordinary  engineering  feat — these  things  are  insignificant  compared  to  the 
minds  which  created  them.  It  is  the  invisible  man,  not  the  outward  thing,  that 
is  great.  ♦       ♦       ♦ 

No  great  undertaking  has  been  accomplished  by  those  who  stand  for  negation. 
It  is  the  man  who  believes  in  himself,  the  positive  character,  one  not  afraid  of  any 
obstacle,  however  great,  who  accomplishes  things.  Timidity  is  fatal.  The  world 
has  a  place  for  the  man- who-is-af raid,  for  the  timid,  the  ultra  conservative,  but  it 
is  not  a  place  of  much  honor,  not  worth  striving  for,  not  an  enviable  position.  We 
want  men  of  action,  men  with  confidence  in  themselves,  men  of  nerve,  fowadays, 
men  who  dare  and  do.  ♦       *       ♦ 

If  you  would  be  happy,  if  you  would  be  progressive,  if  you  would  be  a  doer 
and  not  a  dreamer,  get  out  of  yourself.  Look  at  external  things  and  not  at  small, 
insignificant,  internal  and  personal  affairs.  Health,  progress,  success  depend 
more  upon  an  attitude  of  mind  than  upon  any  other  one  thing.  If  you  would  be 
great,  think  great  thoughts,  worthy  thoughts,  pure,  noble  thoughts.  Then  you  are 
great.  Smallness  is  in  the  mind,  not  in  the  body.  Put  aside  frivolous  things  and 
incidental  worries.  Dare  to  do  and  do!  Be  broad-minded.  Stand  straight  like 
men  and  with  indomitable  will,  courage  and  belief  strive  for  the  height  above. 
It  is  yours.  *       ♦       ♦ 

"Genius,"  says  Emerson,  "believes  its  faintest  presentiments  against  the  tes- 
timony of  all  history;  for  it  knows  that  facts  are  not  ultimates,  but  that  a  state  of 
mind  is  the  ancestor  of  everything."  Mind  is  greater  than  matter.  Facts,  im- 
possibilities crumble  before  belief.  The  furnace  fire  of  this  world  that  has  moulded 
nations,  made  great,  strong,  splendid  men  has  been  belief.  What  are  the  pusillani- 
mous obstacles  in  the  path  of  success  and  righteousness  compared  to  inconquerable, 
unquenchable,  high-minded  belief — faith!  "Are  you  in  earnest,"  says  Goethe, 
"seize  this  very  minute.  What  you  can  do,  or  dream  you  can,  begin  it.  Boldness  has 
genius,  power  and  magic  in  it.  Only  engage,  and  then  the  mind  grows  heated. 
Begin,  and  then  the  work  will  be  completed." 

*       *       * 

There  is  a  spirit  in  the  air  of  optimism,  of  promise,  of  achievement.  It  is 
almost  possible  to  put  out  our  hands  and  through  the  invisible  air  grasp  an  in- 
visible yet  unmistakable  evidence  of  great  things  to  come.  But  not  the  sluggard; 
not  the  man-who-is-af raid ;  not  the  timid.  The  man  who  believes  in  himself,  who 
has  faith  in  his  oivti  ability,  who  is  undaunted  at  ALL  obstacles — he  it  is  who  can 
SEE.  He  knows  that  life  is  worth  while  and  its  rewards  are  sure.  But  blind,  blind, 
blind,  worse  than  blind,  is  he  who  trudges  always  lifers  pathway  crying  that  there 
is  no  opportunity.  Opportunity !  Upon  every  side  and  at  every  turn  there  is  an 
opportunity  waiting  for  men — for  MEN.  The  crv  goes  reverberating  throughout 
the  world— for  MEN,  MEN,  MEN ! 


A  SHORT  HISTORY  OF  OREGON  has  just 
been  issued  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Company,  of 
Chicago.  The  author,  Sidona  V.  Johnson,  has 
made  a  careful  study  of  the  subject  and  a 
book  of  undoubted  interest  and  value  has  re- 
sulted. Just  such  a  work  has  long  beefi 
needed,  and  it  has  already  been  adopted  by 
some  of  the  leading  schools  of  Oregon  as  a 
text-book. 

«        «        « 

AN  ISLiW^D  CABIN,  by  Arthur  Henry, 
deals  with  life  in  a  cabin  on  a  hitherto  un- 
occupied island.  The  story  is  dragged  out  to 
a  length  of  almost  three  hundred  pages  with, 
out  an  incident  other  than  commonplace.  The 
book  is  made  up  for  the  most  part  of  descrip- 
tion and  dialogue,  the  one  well  enough  done, 
the  other  unnatural.  However,  the  air  of  the 
sea  pervades  the  pages,  and  the  author's  evi- 
dent enthusiasm  for  his  hobby  is  a  saving 
grace. 

(A.  S.  Barnes  &  Company,  New  York.) 


It  seems  unfortunate  that  at  this  time,  when 
the  reading  public  is  as  tired  of  the  historical 
novel  as  the  theater-going  public  is  of  the 
comic  opera,  so  really  excellent  a  book  as 
ROBERT  CAVELIER,  by  William  Dana  Or- 
cutt,  should  be  published.  Dealing  with  the 
life  and  times  of  the  great  Seur  de  La  Salle, 
the  author  has  taken  the  usual  liberties  with 
facts,  and  has  written  a  story  of  unusual  in- 
terest and  charm. 

(A.  C.  McClurg  &  Company,  Chicago.) 


In  THE  LAW  OF  THE  LAND  Emerson 
Hough,  who  wrote  THE  MISSISSIPPI  BUB- 
BLE, has  not  written  a  book  which  will  enti- 
tle him  to  recognition  as  a  great  writer,  but 
he  has  told  an  intensely  interesting  story. 
With  a  conventional  beautiful  heroine,  a  con- 
ventional lawyer-hero  of  the  Opie  Reed  breed, 
a  conventional  slippery  villain,  a  couple  of 
conventional  weak  villainesses,  a  conventional 
Southern  planter,  also  of  the  Opie  Reed  type. 


A  regulation  Opie  R*#d  aettuig,  and  a  Sher- 
lock Holmes  plot,  hp  baa  created  a  story  tb»t 
hoUla  thf?  int^^rt^st  of  the  reader  from  begin- 
ning to  emi. 

*        *        * 

(The  Bobbs-Merrill  Company,  Indianapolis.) 
Everybody  likes  a  hero,  and  a  hero,  it 
seems,  must,  according  to  most  precedents,  be 
a  soldier.  A  SOUTHERN  GIRL,  by  Stanton 
Winslow,  is  a  typical  war  romance.  The  book 
is  oftentimes  crude  and  its  situations  at  times 
melodramatic.  Until  some  one  shows  in  an 
entertaining  way  that  the  hero  who  keeps 
books  or  shovels  sand  is  as  good  a  hero  as  the 
man  who  risks  his  life  for  his  country,  stories 
of  the  type  of  A  SOUTHERN  GIRL  will  con- 
tinue to  fill  the  shop  windows.  Mr.  Winslow 's 
book  is  neither  better  nor  worse  than  others 
of  its  kind. 

(The  Whittaker  &  Ray  Company,  San  Fran- 
cisco.) 

«        «        « 

That  Brand  Whitlock,  whose  latest  book, 
THE  HAPPY  AVERAGE,  has  just  been  pub- 
lished, knows  life  in  a  small,  Middle  West 
town,  as  well  as  life  in  a  city,  no  one  will  be 
likely  to  question.  The  Happy  Average  is  a 
love  story,  simple,  unpretentious,  but  it  forms 
most  agreeable  reading  and  is  wholesome  and 
clean.  It  is  the  story  of  the  college  gradu- 
ate, who,  unsuccessful  in  his  little  home  town, 
goes  to  the  city  to  make  a  living  for  himself 
and  the  girl  he  loves — a  theme  not  new,  but 
presented  in  a  new  way.  The  few  characters 
are  graphically  drawn,  and  a  delightful  hu- 
morous touch  takes  acidity  from  the  satire. 

(The  Bobbs-Merrill  Company,  Indianapolis.) 


Paul  Elder  &  Company,  of  San  Francisco, 
deserve  unstinted  praise  for  the  high  standard 
that  they  have  maintained  in  the  many  beau, 
tiful  booklets  and  more  pretentious  works 
that  have  been  published  by  this  enterprising 
firm.  Two  recent  books  from  this  house, 
YOSEMITE  LEGENDS,  by  Bertha  M.  Smith, 
and  UPLAND  PASTURES,  by  Adeline  Knapp, 
show  a  discriminating  taste  in  press  work  and 
binding  that  is  a  great  relief  in  this  day  of  so 
much  slipshod  book  work.  Artist,  author  and 
publisher  are  here  found  in  the  happiest  com- 
bination. The  books  are  well  written,  well 
printed  and  well  bound,  and  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  say  so. 


The  brightest  day  in  the  calendar  will  soon  be  with  us  again,  though  the  sun 
will  have  set  its  face  towards  the  summer.  The  passing  years  have  not  dulled 
the  eagerness  with  which  men  cherish  the  Evangel  of  Bethlehem.  There  have 
been  many  messages  in  these  later  days,  but  in  the  midst  of  our  intellectual  unrest 
and  social  discontent,  there  is  none  so  meaningful,  so  profoundly  significant,  so 
deeply  spiritual,  none  that  the  world  of  men  needs  to  hear  more  frequently  than 
this :  "Behold,  I  bring  you  good  tidings  of  great  joy,  which  shall  be  to  all  people, 
for  unto  you  is  bom  this  day  in  the  city  of  David  a  Saviour,  which  is  Christ  tht' 
Lord."  This  is  the  message  that  strikes  through  our  earthly  pessimism  with  :» 
power  that  recovers  and  blesses  our  lives.  The  Christ-child  is  still  the  most  splen- 
did fact  in  the  history  of  this  cold  cynical  world.  Cramped  and  crowded  as  we 
are  by  the  things  that  are  seen,  it  means  much  that  this  fact  stills  the  great  world'.; 
noisy  machinery,  closes  the  offices  and  work  ships,  causes  the  man  on  the  street,  as 
well  as  the  man  in  the  Church,  to  move  nearer  to  a  knowledge  of  Him  whose  na- 
ture and  whose  name  is  love. 

It  matters  little  whether  the  day  fixed  for  the  observance  of  this  fact  is  cor- 
rect chronologically,  so  long  as  something  of  the  meaning  of  that  fact  comes 
home  to  men,  and  the  hope  of  redemption  through  the  coming  near  of  God  springs 
afresh  in  the  great  world  heart,  and  discouraged  souls  are  brought  to  rest  in  the 
Divine  Saviour,  whose  birth  is  the  world's  hope,  and  whose  death  is  the  world's 
healing.  From  the  cradle  at  Bethlehem  there  still  streams  forth,  undimmed  by 
the  passing  centuries,  the  light  of  life  to  guide  and  direct  the  activities  of  man- 
kind. The  infant  Saviour  of  long  years  ago  is  to-day  the  leader  of  men,  the  master 
of  every  trade.  He  stands  beside  us  in  the  home,  in  the  public  service,  in  the  higli 
places  and  the  quiet  places  of  life,  shedding  happiness  into  the  hearts  of  the  young 
and  old  among  us,  and  brightening  the  dark  places  of  sorrow  and  suffering. 


Christmas  reminds  us  of  God's  unspeakable  gift  to  us.  The  gift  of  Christ  i:> 
the  highest  expression  of  God's  love  for  us.  God  so  loved  that  He  gave.  Love 
always  gives.  We  give  expression  to  our  love  in  the  grand  old  custom  of  Christmas 
giving.  It  is  possible  to  misunderstand  this  custom,  and  by  introducing  a  spirit  of 
selfishness,  misuse  it,  and  rob  it  of  all  it's  beauty.  Christmas  is  the  time  of  all 
times  to  be  marked  by  real  unselfishness,  and  by  the  unselfish  outflow  of  the  whole 
nature.  If  we  have  seized  the  spirit  of  the  day,  we  will  be  brought  very  near  to 
the  Kingdom  of  Heaven,  for  we  will  strive  on  that  day  to  give  pleasure  and 
happiness  to  others.  The  giving  of  gifts  is  not  simply  a  question  of  paying  so 
much  for  value  received. 

Christmas  giving  should  not  be  degraded  to  a  business  transaction,  or  low- 
ered to  the  level  of  a  bargain  counter.  Every  gift  should  stand  for  a  kind  and 
loving  thought,  not  for  the  payment  of  a  debt.  If  the  coming  of  Christ  means 
anything  to  us,  and  if  into  our  lives  there  has  entered  that  joy  of  which  the  angels 
spoke,  we  will  remember  some  one  whom  no  one  else  is  likely  to  remember,  an»l 
bring  joy  and  comfort  to  the  homes  of  the  poor  and  suffering. 


rr-T 


Devoted  to  the  development,  ^rowtK  and  progress  of  tke    '^^ 
W^est.     For  a  greater  Pacific  Coast 


Lajid  $500.00  per  acre  for  farming  purposes!  Such,  in  the  briefest  possiJAp 
summary,  is  the  story  of  irrigation  in  the  Pacific  Northwest,  Those  tvho  are  not 
in  touch  with  the  marvelous  opportunities  that  irrigated  land  offers  can  only  doubt 
and  wonder  at  the  wonderful  stories  of  success  and  opportunity  that  irrigation  has 
made  possible.  No  mere  enthusiasm  for  the  possibilities  of  the  West  and  especially 
for  the  Pacific  Coast  could  approach  the  facts  in  the  case.  The  vistas  of  greatness 
that  are  opened  up  by  a  knowledge  of  the  resources  made  possible  by  irrigation 
alone  bewilder  the  mind.  The  imagination  is  appalled.  We  have  a  great  country,  a 
loonderful  country,  a  beautiful  country,  but  it  is  so  great,  so  promising,  so  rich 
in  all  that  man  desires  that  we  ourselves,  even  though  filled  with  enthusiasm  for  it, 
can  not  fully  appreciate  the  greatness  of  the  heritage  tvhich  is  ours.  Time  will 
make  the  Pacific  Coast  a  veritable  Garden  of  Eden,  with  a  multitude  of  broad- 
minded,  prosperous,  happy  and  optimistic  people. 


Increaaed  Trade  "with  the  Orient — 

Though  the  "Chinatown"  in  San  Fran- 
cisco is  decreasing  in  numbers,  the  trade 
with  China  is  largely  increasing.  Before 
the  passage  of  the  treaty  the  "city  within 
a  city"  numbered  about  40,000.  Now 
there  are  about  18,000.  But  the  mercan- 
tile class  has  increased  in  numbers,  and 
their  various  lines  of  trade  have  also  ex- 
tended. There  are  about  six  hundred 
places  of  business  in  the  "quarter,"  ac- 
cording to  the  Chinese  Business  Direc- 
tory. This  does  not  include  a  number  of 
small  shops  in  the  alleys  that  "make  no 
sign,''  and  various  industries  that  are  car- 
ried on  in  houses,  such  as  painting  fans, 
the  manufacture  of  ornaments,  etc. 

During  the  past  fiscal  year  our  imports 
from  China  were  valued  at,  in  round  num- 
bers, $6,000,000,  and  our  exports  were 
about  half  these  figures.  To  this  sum 
should  be  added  opium  to  the  value  of 
$1,500,000,  imported  by  Chinese  mer- 
chants in  the  name  of  white  men.  Under 
the  treaty,  Chinese  can  not  import  opium, 
hence  this  ruse  is  adopted. 


These  figures  include  only  the  Chinese 
Empire  proper.  Our  importations  from 
the  foreign  possessions  in  China,  accord- 
ing to  figures  in  the  custom  house,  are 
about  $4,000,000,  and  our  exports  are 
about  half  these  figures.  So  our  yearly 
imports  from  China  and  the  territory  in 
the  gripe  of  foreigners  is  about  $10,000,- 
000,  while  our  exports  are  only  about  50 
per  cent  of  the  imports. 

Our  export  and  import  trade  with 
Japan  reaches  about  the  same  figures,  but 
it  should  be  taken  into  account  that  for 
the  past  few  years  Japan  had  been  se- 
cretly preparing  for  war,  and  thus  trade 
was  increased  in  unnatural  proportions. 
In  addition,  the  principal  Chinese  mer- 
chants of  San  Francisco  are  large  import- 
ers of  Japanese  goods,  and  while  this 
trade  is  put  down  in  favor  of  Japan,  it  is 
the  Chinese  merchants  who  are  entitled 
to  the  credit  of  the  business.  A  nmnber 
of  the  Japanese  business  houses  in  San 
Francisco  are  practically  managed  by  Chi- 
nese, who  are  employed  because  they  have 
superior  business  qualifications.     During 


PROGRESS. 


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the  last  few  months  the  Japanese  have 
imported  from  San  Francisco  large  quan- 
tities of  steel,  an  article  of  commerce  that 
never  heretofore  figured  in  our  imports  to 
that  co^lntn^  Breadstuffs  and  other  con- 
traband articles  swelled  their  importa- 
tions to  figures  corresponding  with  those 
of  China  territory. 

Notwithstanding  this  contraband  trade 
with  Japan,  our  trade  with  China  is 
larger  than  that  of  any  other  power — 
counting  China  proper  and  foreign  pos- 
sessions in  China. 

Whether  the  new  treaty  shall  be  more 
exclusive,  or  otherwise,  our  trade  with 
China  will  largely  increase.  Our  mer- 
chants have  at  last  discovered  what  other 
countries  have  known  for  years — that  men 
must  be  specially  educated  in  the  com- 
mercial language  of  a  country  in  order 
to  get  its  trade.  They  must  also  under- 
stand the  language  and  customs  of  the 
people,  and  their  needs.  A  number  of 
young  men  in  the  employ  of  San  Fran- 
cisco mercantile  houses  are  being  specially 
prepared  for  Oriental  business.  They 
are  instructed  in  the  commercial  language 
of  Canton,  which  is  the  commercial  lan- 
guage of  China,  and  will  be  sent  to  Can- 
ton and  the  various  treaty  ports  as  busi- 


ness agents  of  San  Francisco  houses.  This 
new  departure  is  under  the  direction  of 
Dr.  John  Endicott  Gardner,  professor  of 
Chinese  language  and  literature  at  the 
University  of  the  Pacific,  San  Jose.  This 
method  of  special  training  will  create  a 
revolution  in  trade  circles  in  China  as 
compared  to  our  present  system,  but  it 
will  take  some  time  to  make  it  very  effect- 
ive. In  a  similar  manner,  a  number  of 
Chinese  are  being  instructed  in  Western 
commercial  methods,  especially  as  apply- 
ing to  San  Francisco  and  the  Pacific 
Coast.  By  thus  familiarizing  Chinese 
and  Americans  each  with  the  methods  of 
the  two  countries,  it  will  greatly  increase 
trade  and  open  new  avenues  for  business 
and  business  men. 

A  Chinese  bank  will  soon  be  organized 
in  San  Francisco  which  will  facilitate  the 
business  of  the  Chinese  merchants  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  and  in  Canton.  Most  of  the 
business  will  be  in  exchange,  yet  it  will 
do  a  general  banking  business.  At  pres- 
ent, the  fishermen  along  the  Oregon  coast 
and  in  Alaskan  waters  deposit  their  earn- 
ings with  merchants  who  keep  the  money 
as  an  "accommodation.^'  The  bank  will 
give  interest  on  deposits,  and  will  there- 
fore receive  much   of  this  "free  trade." 


HAKYESTINO   IN   EASTERN   OREGON. 

From  a  photograph  by  J.  P.  Kidd.  Ontario.  Oregon. 


366 


THE  PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Several  of  the  Chinese  merchants  lend 
money  at  from  one  to  three  per  cent  a 
month.  The  bank  will  take  from  these 
pirates  much  of  that  business.  As  these 
small  borrowers  are  unknown  to  the  Amer- 
ican banks,  and  do  not  speak  English, 
they  are  thus  held  in  bondage  by  these 
sharks.  Lee  Yow,  the  so-called  "King  of 
Chinatown/'  has  waxed  fat,  financially, 
by  this  ^system  of  holding  up  his  country- 
men. Lew  Ken  and  Tong  Bong,  the 
wealthiest  Chinese  in  San  Francisco,  and 
well  known  throughout  the  Pacific  Coast 
among  the  Chinese,  are  at  th^  head  of  the 
enterprise,  and  the  stock  will  be  distrib- 
uted among  the  merchants,  generally.  Both 
American  and  Chinese  notes  will  be  is- 
sued. The  Chinese  bank  note  is  longer 
and  narrower  than  the  American  note,  the 
edges  are  prettily  bordered  in  red,  and 
on  each  denomination  there  is  a  different 
motto  in  Chinese  characters.  The  notes 
will  be  printed  on  the  finest  Chinese  bam- 
boo wood  paper. 

With  the  decrease  in  the  number  of 
Chinese,  gambling  is  also  on  the  decline. 
There  are  not  so  many  gaming  houses  in 
the  "quarter''  as  there  were  twenty,  or 
even  fifteen  years  ago.  In  the  "good  old 
days,"  when  Chinatown  numbered  40,000, 
the  "quarter"  yielded  a  "graft"  of  about 
$1,000  a  week  to — somebody.  Now,  the 
pickings  are  only  about  half  that  sum. 
It  is  mainly  by  the  decrease  of  gaming 
houses  that  the  decadence  of  Chinatown  is 
mostly  noticed.  It  is  prospering,  on  the 
other  hand,  commercially,  and  the  busi- 
ness is  more  concentrated.  The  better 
clement  of  Chinese  have  been  reforming 
their  town  in  reducing  the  number  of 
gaming  houses  and  opium  dens,  and  in 
discouraging  the  wars  of  the  highbinders. 
But  the  professional  guides,  who  live  upon 
the  sins  of  others,  have  opened  and  main- 
tain low  resorts  for  the  benefit  of  their 
tourist  trade.  A  number  of  Americans 
have  entered  into  competition  with  the 
Chinese  and  have  opened  "wine  rooms," 
thus  diverting  Chinese  trade.  The  Chi- 
nese den-keepers  naturally  object  to  this 
intrusion  of  the  'Melican  man,  and  are 
carrying  the  war  into  the  American  quar- 


ter of  North  Beach  and  the  Latin  quarter 
of  Telegraph  Hill. 

While  the  Chinese  population  is  de- 
creasing, the  Japanese  are  increasing. 
There  are  about  15,000  in  San  Francisco, 
and  2,000  arrived  last  year.  The  Jap- 
anese do  not  colonize  like  the  Chinese, 
but  are  found  in  nearly  every  part  of  the 
city,  depreciating  property  wherever  they 
open  a  store  or  restaurant.  There  is  a 
strong  sentiment  against  them  in  San 
Francisco,  especially  since  they  began  to 
force  their  way  into  the  public  schools, 
and  the  public,  generally,  will  instruct 
California's  representatives  in  congress  to 
apply  the  new  treaty  provisions  to  them  as 
strictly  as  to  the  Chinese.  The  Japanese 
are  very  assertive,  and  even  aspire  to  as- 
similation with  white  people.  This,  and 
the  fact  that  they  are  increasing  in  large 
numbers,  has  attracted  the  attention  of 
the  people  and  the  exclusion  of  the  Jap- 
anese will  be  a  live  issue  henceforth. 

J.    M.    SCANLAND. 

Tkc  WcaltL  of  tkc  Farmer- 

The  latest  bulletins  of  the  Department 
of  Agriculture  comprise  a  compilation  of 
crop  statistics  collected  and  tabulated  since 
weather  conditions  were  of  no  further  in- 
fluence. They  show  the  United  States  to 
be  the  richest  country  on  the  globe,  and 
the  farmer  the  richest  of  all  classes  and 
grades  of  citizens.  The  total  value  of  the 
wealth  the  farmer  owns,  and  has  contrib- 
uted to  the  wealth  and  to  the  prosperity 
of  the  country,  is  placed  at  the  enormous 
total  of  $3,200,000,000,  as  against  a  total 
of  $3,073,000,000  in  1903,  of  $2,987,000,- 
000  in  1902  and  of  $2,845,000,000  in 
1901. 

It  is  made  up  of  corn  of  the  value  of 
$985,000,000;  wheat  of  the  value  of  $551,- 
000,000 — ^an  increase  over  1903,  when  the 
value  was  $443,000,000;  of  cotton  of  the 
value  of  $600,000,000,  of  hay  of  the  value 
of  $550,000,000,  of  potatoes  of  the  value 
of  $158,000,000,  of  oats,  rye  and  barley  of 
the  value  of  $356,000,000,  and  of  tobacco, 
of  buckwheat,  of  vegetables,  of  fruits  and 
other  agricultural  products,  making  up 
the  grand  total  of  $3,200,000,000. 


AMOHO    THE    BIO    OEDASB    OF    WABHINOTON. 

Pboto    by    J.    H.    Le    Balllster.    Anacortes.    Wash. 


Written  for   the   Pacific 
Moutkly    unl^M    ott. 
ieeignAteA 


By 

HUGH 

HERDMAN 


Whence  the  Bed  DeyiL 

The  hosts  of  hell  were  assembled,  and  Pan- 
demonium was  in  an  uproar.  His  Satanic 
Majesty  sat  on  his  high  throne  and  smiled 
in  his  peculiar  satanic  way.  At  his  right  eat 
Moloch  and  Belial,  and  on  his  left  Mammon 
and  Beelzebub. 

Suddenly  Satan  rose  and  waved  his  wand. 
Immediately  the  hubbub  ceased.  Low  mut- 
tered curses  and  execrations  from  one  or  an- 
other whose  tail  was  being  trampled  on,  or 
whose  wings  were  being  twisted  in  the  crush, 
were  to  be  heard.  Otherwise  all  was  quiet. 
For  a  minute  or  two  Satan  looked  about  him 
triumphantly. 

**Well/'  he  said  at  last,  '*I  did  it." 

They  applauded  vociferously. 

**Did  what,  your  Majestyf  •'  Beelzebub,  the 
privileged,  a.sked. 

**I  corrupted  Man,"  he  replied,  striking  a 
Xapolcon-at-Austerlitz   attitude. 

** Three  cheers  for  his  Majesty!"  Moloch 
shoute<l.  And  they  responded  in  their  usual 
devil-may-care  manner.  Loud  and  long  did 
they  cheer,  because  they  delighted  in  the 
news,  and  because  they  were  more  comforta- 
ble standing  and  cheering  than  they  were  sit- 
ting on  seats  of  redhot  rock. 

**What  else  did  Your  Majesty  do?"  asked 
Mammon,  the  unsatisfied. 

Before  replying,  Satan  curled  his  tail 
around  his  left  ankle,  rested  the  tip  of  his 
right  wing  on  the  floor,  crossed  his  right  foot 
over  his  left,  and  chuckled  with  glee.  Like 
to  the  hissing  of  water  dropping  upon  heated 
iron  was  his  chuckle.  Then,  pulling  a  fiery 
feather  from  his  left  wing,  he  stuck  it  in  his 
cap. 

**I  left  a  relative  of  mine  there,"  he  re- 
plied. And  again  he  chuckled  vaingloriously. 
**They  will  not  find  him  for  several  thousand 
years,  but  he  will  be  on  hand,  or  rather."  he 
corrected  himself,  chuckling  again.  **or 
rather  on  wheels,  when  he  is  needed  for  my 
purpose.  A  devil  on  wheels  he  will  be,  too. 
He  will  cause  almost  as  many  souls  to  jour- 
ney to  our  delightful  winter  resort   here  as  I 


ft>uja  if  I  were  tli*?re/' 

*'Yi>Mf  relative,  Tour  Maj^rityt"  H««Hal  m- 
t|airf*il. 

**V(«i,  sxnd  TPsembling  nie,  Mun  will  vmR 
bim  the  lied  DeviL" 

**Evcii  iLur  the  reason  thitt  you  au*i  I  are 
red,  to  prevent  the  splattered  blood  of  his 
innocent  victims  from  showing." 

**And  his  namet"  shouted  the  auditors, 
**We  would  do  him  honor." 

**Ah!  that  is  where  I  showed  my  immortal 
mind  at  work.  I  have  christened — I  mean, 
deviled  him  Automobile.  Man  will  stop  t*» 
pronounce  his  name,  and  we  will  get  another 
victim." 

'*The  victim  will  be  he  who  is  caught  by 
your  relative?"  Belial  asked. 

**Xo,  unfortunately,  never;  only  the  oup 
who  rides  seated  on  my  relative,"  Satan  re- 
plied, pulling  another  feather  from  his  win^ 
and  putting  it  in  his  cap. 

**A11  hail  to  Your  Majesty  and  your  kins- 
man   Automobile!"    they    shouted,    springing 
eagerly  to  their  feet,  for  the  janitor  had  be^-n 
zealous  in  the  performance  of  his  duty. 
•       •       • 
Easy  to  Answer. 

Jinks — Here,  Binks,  you  are  up  on  all  the«^ 
Russian  names.  How  do  they  pronounce  the 
name  of  the  Russian  commander-in-chief? 

Hinks — Well,  most  people  who  read  the  pa- 
pers pronounce  him  a  failure. 


Hie  Firat  Monday 

From  **  The  Entirelr  New  Cynic's  Calendar** 
Copyright,  Paul  Elder  and  Company, San  FraocuCD 


HUMOR. 


Just  an  Inkling. 

The  Blotter — I  understand  that  our  master 
is  going  to  write  a  play. 

The  Writing-pad — Yes,  he  gave  me  an  ink- 
ling of  it  this  morning. 

*  «       * 

A  Ck>mmon  Origin. 

''Honeymoon,  honeymoon,  *'  mused  the 
etymologist,  ''I  wonder  if  that  word  isn't 
derived  from  luna,  just  as  lunacy  is!'' 

''Um,"  replied  the  old  bachelor,  '*I 
shouldn't   be   surprised.      The   symptoms   are 

the  same! " 

•  *       « 

Playing  His  Part. 

Mr.  Rooster — Just  look  at  young  Gobbler 
there.  He  is  going  to  the  bad  fast.  He  keeps 
low  company  and  slouches  around  like  a  reg- 
ular bully. 

Mr.  Drake — Ah,  he's  not  so  bad,  after  all. 
You  see,  before  Thanksgiving  he  conceived 
the  idea  of  pretending  to  be  tough  and  must 
keep  it  up  now  till  after  New  Year's. 


The  Latest  Invention. 

Mike — Have  yez  hear-rd  about  thim  baby 
incubators,  Patf 

Pat— Sure,  Mike!  And  a  foine  t'ing  they 
ar-re,  too. 

Mike — Phat  ar-re  theyf 

Pat — I  sees  thira  a^  Saint  Louie.  They  ar-re 
little  air-tight  gla^s  boxes.  An'  whin  yez 
go  to  bed,  yez  jist  put  the  brat  in  there  an' 
lave  him  in  all  night.  Yez  see,  he  can't  cry, 
'cause  they  ain't  no  air  fer  him  to  cry  with. 
Annyhow,  yez  couldn't  hear  him  if  he  did. 

Bridget — G'wan!     Min  don't  know  nothin' 
about   babies.     It    ain't   to   kape   him   from 
cryin'  that  they  shut  the  air  off;  it's  to  kape 
him  from  gittin'  wind  on  his  stomick. 
•       •       * 

Fancies  of  a  Philogynist. 

All  men  are  created  equal;  all  women  are 

created   superior. 

»       *       * 

Man's  god  is  his  stomach;  woman's,  her 
heart. 


In  the  winter  of  life  man  wraps  himself 
in  the  warm  garment  of  memory;  woman 
wraps  affection  in  it. 

«       «       jf 

Man  can  not  live  by  bread  alone;  he  needs 

a  woman's  love. 

«       *       « 

The  coming  of  a  good  woman  into  a  man's 
life  is  a  gentle  tap  on  the  gate  of  elysium; 
the   going   out   is   a   cordial   invitation   from 

hades. 

»       •       • 

Woman  falls  lower  than  man,  says  the  cynic. 
How  can  she  when  it  is  man  who  pulls  her 

downf 

«       *       * 

Woman's  affection  may  be  unworthily  be- 
stowed; it  is  never  unworthy. 


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THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Or  Ck>nr8e  Not. 

Senator — Your  argument  is  very  adroit,  Col- 
onel, but  it  will  not  hold  water. 

Colonel — My  deah  Senatoh,  1  did  not  intend 
it  to.  If  I  thought  it  would,  sah,  I  would  dis- 
own it,  I  assuah  you,  sah. 

•       •       * 
The  Onrls  of  Yesterday. 

Ah,  where  are  the  curls  of  yesterday f 
The  curls  that  little  maids  used  to  wear. 
The  golden  tress  of  dainty  Tess, 
The  raven  jet  of  blithe  Annette. 
That  hung  so  soft  and  wavy  and  fair 
From  heads  poised  light  on  shoulders  slight 
And  forms  that  knew  not  woman  *8  caret 
Ah,  where  are  the  curls  of  yesterday, 
The  curls  that  little  maids  used  to  wear! 


Oast  Down. 

The  Comedian — Hello,  TIamfat,  what's  the 
matter?     A  little  bit  cast  down  to-day f 

The  Tragedian — Shades  of  Shakespeare,  I 
should  say  I  am  cast  down!  Why,  prithee,  man, 
look  here  upon  this.  Here  am  1,  I,  the  cele- 
brated Hamfat,  who  with  reason  expected  to 
play  the  part  of  Hamlet  in  the  all-star  pro- 
duction, cast  down,  away  down,  the  list  as 
the  Gravedigger!  Pah!  **To  what  base 
uses  we  may  return  Horatio!^'  Cast  down! 
** Angels  and  ministers  of  grace,  defend  us!'' 


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solutely guarantee  all  my  work  por  tbn  ybars. 
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HUMOR. 


To  the  Man  Who  Didn't  Get  It. 
If  you're  yearning  for  an  oflBce, 

Don't  boil  up  in  a  stew 
Should  the  delegates  have  missed  you 

In  their  list  of  ** chosen  few." 

Just  read  the  daily  papers, 

And  be  proud  that  you're  not  one 

Of  that  vile  class  that  editors 
Are  heaping  crimes  upon. 

You  should  feel  yourself  quite  lucky, 
And,  indeed  for  joy  should  weep 

To  know  you're  not  the  man  they  say 
*' Stole  all  the  widow's  sheep." 

You  did  not  brain  your  baby. 

Neither  did  you  choke  your  wife, 

And  you're  not  meant  when  papers  say 
*'He  should  be  in  for  life." 

Thank  Providence  you're  out  of  those 

And  of  many  other  ills, 
For  the  man  that  heads  the  ticket 

Often  has  to  foot  the  bills. 

*  *       * 

Frenzied  Finance. 

**It  seems  to  me,"  said  the  Breakfast-fo<»d 
Philosopher,  **that  nearly  every  man  is  a 
phrenzied  financier — frenzied  trying  to  make 
ends  meet." 

•  •       • 

Wise  BtotbttSf  Dentists. 
Failing  Building,  Third  and  Washington  Sts. 
Portlandt  Of  egon. 


Btautinci   and 
Prcjcrvcs  the  CompLtxJon. 

A  fwisSiue  tehe  -till  rUnpped 
tin  nda,  plmflnir  ^nd  a1  I  »lim^fflli:tniuv. 
Mrnntn'i  fsLcm^n  <:vvrybpx.     Sold  ewfiry^ 
where  .or  by  mall.  •$  cenis. 
Avoid  Harmfu  Umitatioiu,     Sample  Free. 

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y^c 


ROBERT  LEE  ALLEN,  A^fi  3  Year* 
Samtas  d^ndensid  MiiJt  Cif..  SttiUle.  Wash, 
>"  'Gentlcmrn— Out  b&by  usetl  Sutiipure  Milk  nnlil 
et^hlcf^n  luoEilh!!  old,  if  tilling  ho  olh^r  Food.     Mr  waA 
UEirer  sick  a  day  tvhile  using  your  food,  aud  wc  liavc 
had  to  call  the  tloclor  qrjly  ouci-  since. 
Vours  very  truly. 

P.  I..   ALLHK, 
Mgrt.  MetropolUftii  Prf^is,  SeatlTe,  W&^h.. 


TrueToNature: 


A  PPt^p-E-CT  POOD  POR 

INPAMTSslNVALIDS 

.AriATURALNOURlSh- 
InPNT,  EASILY  DI6ESTEDJ 

'PRPCISP  IN  COnPAR- 
IISON  WITM  A  nPALTrtY 

MOTHERSMILK 

^SOLb  BY  ALL  tkU66I6TS  h 


THE   PACIFIC   MONTHLY. 


Silenced. 

Mr.  Henpeck  (reading  Burns) — **A  man's 
a  man  for  a '  that. ' '    When  Burns  said  that — 

Mrs.  Henpeck  (interrupting) — He  didn't 
say  it;  he  wrote  it. 

*  *       • 
Joyless  Joy. 

There  once  was  a  man  named  Joy, 

Whose  name  did  naught  but  annoy, 

For  when  he  essayed 

To  win  a  fair  maid, 

She'd  always  te-he,  ''Oh,  what  joy!" 
«       *       * 
He  Knew. 
"Pa,  what  part  of  speech  is  woman!" 
"Hush,  my  son  I     Not  so  loud." 
"Don't  you  knowf" 
"Yes,  of  course  I  do." 
"Well,  why  don't  you  tell  met" 
"I  will  if  you  will  not  tell." 
"All  right." 
"She's  no  part — she's  all  of  it." 

*  •       • 
Bossia's  Hope. 

War  Expert — The  Japs  are  winning  now, 
but  when  winter  sets  in  there  will  be  a  dif- 
ferent story  to  tell. 

War  Novice — Sot  You  think  the  Russians 
can  stand  the  cold  better  than  the  Japs  canf 

War  Expert — Ah,  no,  but  they  can  maneu- 
ver better  in  snow.  They  are  so  expert  with 
skis. 

*  •       • 

"Where  ignorance  is  bliss"  is  a  bad  place 
in  which  to  live. 

"The  power  behind  the  throne,"  is  some- 
times a  dynamite  bomb. 

"It  will  be  a  cold  day"  when  the  North 
Pole   is   discovered. 

We  don't  know  what  the  weather  will  be 
in  1905,  but  it  will  certainly  be  a  fair  year 
for  Oregon. 

"Distance  lends  enchantment  to  the  view" 
of  a  cyclone. 

The  man  who  tries  to  get  something  for 
nothing  generally  succeeds  in  getting  noth- 
ing for  something. 

In  the  race  for  office  the  high  and  low  run 
side  by  side  and  frequently  the  low  are  ahead 
at  the  finish. 

Eternal  investigation  is  the  price  of  too 
much  official  liberty. 

Small  minds  are  often  more  conspicuous 
than  large  ones. 

A  fool  may  destroy  in  a  moment  what  it 
has  taken  a  wise  man  years  to  construct. 

The  man  who  is  in  love  with  himself  is  in 
danger  of  wasting  his  affection. 

In  an  argument  with  some  people  physical 
strength  is  more  effective  than  eloquence. 

Those  who  never  appreciate  kindness 
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TWIN  FALLS.  IDAHO. 


HOMES  rOR  HUNDREDS 


One  hundred  thousand  acres  will  be  open  for  public  entry  on  October  aoth,  1904,  by  the  State  of  Idaho,  under 
the  mammoth  Twin  Palls  irrigation  canal,  in  the  fertile  Snake  River  valley  in  Southern  Idaho. 
TKR.MS*    This  tract  has  been  set  apart  for  entrv  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress,  known  as  the 

"Carey  Act,"  the  terms  of  which  are  most  inviting. 

Actual  residence  is  required  for  but  a  short  period,  and  any  person  holding  a  filing  can  transfer  his 

right  at  any  time. 

Kntrie^  can  be  made  in  Government  subdivisions,  not  to  exceed  160  acres  to  one  person  and  the  entry 

does  not  conflict  with  rights  of  entry  under  other  laws  of  Confess,  can  be  made  by  Power  of  Attorney. 

A  uniform  price  of  $25.50  per  acre  for  land  and  water  right,  with  payment  privilege  extended  over  a 

period  often  years,  has  been  fixed  by  the  State  I^and  Board. 
SOII#«    Rich,  alluvial  and  very  productive.    It  contains  no  alkali  or  mineral  substances,  and  is  very  free  from 

gravel  and  stones. 
IKTATKR   SVPPI^Y.    Secured  from  the  Snake  River,  which  will  aflford  abundant  water  for  irrigation  pur- 
poses at  all  seasons  of  the  year. 
PRODVCTS.    Alfalfa,  timothy,  clover  (both  hay  and  seed),  oats,  wheat,  barley,  vegetables,  berries  and  all 

deciduous  fruits.    Red  winter  apples  and  peaches  here  attain  perfection. 
CANAI^*    Twenty  six  miles  of  the  main  canal,  80  feet  wide  on  the  bottom  and  120  feet  on  top  built  to  carry  a 

volume  of  water  ten  feet  deep,  is  now  completed,  and  laterals  are  being  constructed  to  carry  water  to  the 

lands.    This  system  is  the  largest  in  the  United  States  and  will  ultimately  cover  an  area  of  270,000  acres. 
POmrKR*    Shoshone,  Salmon,  Auger  and  Twin  Palls  are  immediately  adjacent  to  these  lands  and  will  furnish 

almost  unlimited  power.    Work  is  already  well  advanced  at  Shoshone  Palls  and  power  will  be  available  at 

an  early  date. 
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gleasant,  while  the  summers  are  not  uncomfortably  warm,  the  atmosphere  being  cooled  by  the  mountain 
reezes. 

The  opening  of  this  large  tract  comes  under  most  auspicious  circumstances.    Those  seeking  homes 
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Town  lots  are  offered  at  very  reasonable  prices  and  are  certain  to  advance  rapidly  in  value. 

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Twin  Falls*  Idaho. 

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idends. His  death  occurred  in  1901. 
The  Company  paid  policy  -  -  fo.ooo  00 
Dividend  additions  -  -  -  -  618  55 
Total  paid  by  Company  -  -  $5,618  55 
Which  was  a  return  of  33^%  o^  all  premiums 
paid,  besides  face  of  policy. 

Good  dividend,  wasn't  it? 

Had  this  policy  been  on  the  deferred  div- 
idend plan,  only  $5,000  would  have  been  paid. 


DEFERRED  DIVIDENDS 

In  1882  a  Portland  gentlemen  insured  in  a 
certain  large  company  for  $7,000  on  the  Life 
plan.  He  made  his  last  payment  in  I90i,an(l 
died  a  few  days  after.  His  policy  contained  the 
following  clause:  **No  dividends  shall  be  ap- 
portioned or  paid  on  this  policy  before  the  end 
of  the  accumulation  period.  The  accumulation 
period  is  twenty  years.*'  As  he  failed  to  com- 
plete the  last  policy  year,  having  lived  only 
nineteen  years  and  six  days  his  entire  dividends 
were  forfeited  to  the  company. 

Was  that  good  judgment? 

Had  this  policy  been  in  a  company  paying 
Annual  dividends,  all  the  twenty  year's  div- 
idends would  have  been  paid  in  addition  to 
the  face  value. 


H..C.        \  A  yearly  settlement  is   what  your  banker  makes.     Why  do 

Colton»      >^  you  wait  20  years  for  dividends  on  your  insurance  ?    See  me 

Portiafid,  Ore.       xf^f.  about  our  Annual  Dividend. 

Without  commit-  X^ 

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irZ".ri:L'Z^.\    M.  G.  COLTON 

ing  your  insurance  proposiUon.  \  General  Manager  for  Pacific  Coast  States 

Name X  Cluuiiber  of  Commerce  Bunding 

Address X  Portland,  Ore. 

Occupation Age 

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Wilson;  cloth       •        -        -      $1^ 

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cloth 1>25 

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CREATIVE  AND  SEXUAL  SQ- 

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LAW  OF  HEREDITY,  Williams,  J^ 

$3.25 
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JONES*  BOOK  STORE 

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Cbe  Scandinaviaii  Jlneiican  Bank 

SEATTLK.  WASH. 

Capital  Paid  Up.  «300,000.00 
Surplus,  SI 50, 000. 00 

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IT  is  mistake  to  think  that  a  warm  climate  is  beneficial  in  Tuberculosis.    On  the  contrary,  the  further 
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A  MIMIMUM  OF  RAINFALI,  A  I*OW  HUMIDITY 

A  MAXIMUM  OF  8UNSHINK  FREEDOM  PROM  COI«D  WINDS 

THB  BLUB  MOUNTAIN  SANATORIUM  is  located  in  the  heart  oi  the  Blue  MounUins,  30  mUes 
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In  all  institutions  for  the  treatment  or  Tuberculosis,  grest  reliance  is  placed  on  bathing.  This  is 
one  of  the  special  features  at  the  Blue  Mountain.  The  baths  are  supplied  with  water  from  natural  hot 
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Opinion 


U 


THE  MAN  without  an  opinion  never  gets  rich.  Decision  in 
all  matters  is  half  the  battle.  Advice  from  many  friends 
is  like  taking  everybody's  medicine — sure  to  kill,  and 
causes  the  loss  of  many  golden  opportunities.  Invest 
with  the  Smuggler  Gold  &  Copper  Mining  Company,  a 
sure  dividend  payer  within  the  next  two  years,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
advanced  value  of  its  stock.  A  gilt  edge  investment  is  now  offered 
with  the  Smuggler  Gold  &  Copper  Mining  Co..  of  Portland,  Ore. 
These  mines  are  located  in  the  Index  and  Silver  Creek  Mining 
District,  Snohomish  County,  Washington,  in  which  are  a  number  of 
the  best  mines  in  the  Northwest.  Surrounded  on  the  Northeast  side 
by  the  famous  Rockefeller  mine,  also  the  Cord  and  76  mines  and 
Rainey  mines.  On  the  Northwest  side  by  the  Bonanza  Mining  & 
Smelting  Co.,  Bonanza  Queen,  Silver  Lake,  Silver  Queen,  Elite,  and 
45  mines.  On  the  Southwest  side  by  National,  Golden  Eagle,  Ethel, 
Bunker  Hill  &  Sullivan.  On  the  Southeast  side  by  the  German  Syn- 
dicate, Siinset,  Wilbur,  and  Apex.  The  property  lies  two  and  one- 
half  miles  from  Monte  Cristo  Railroad,  fifteen  and  one-half  miles 
from  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  at  Index  and  fifty  miles  from  the 
Everett  smelter.  Index  District  was  awarded  the  first  prize  at  Spo- 
kane in  competition  with  the  entire  Northwest,  including  British  Co- 
lumbia. The  analysis  of  the  Smuggler  average  consisting  of  30  feet 
cross-cutting  the  ore  body  is  as  follows: 


ASSAY    NO.  2. 

Gold,  1.01;  value,  $20.87. 
Silver,  3.59;  value,  $2.15. 
Copper,  4  1-10  per  cent. 
Total  value,  $33.66. 


ASSAY    NO.   1. 

Gold,  .86;  value,  $17.77. 
Silver,  1.04;  value,  $0.62. 
Lead,  trace. 
Copper,  8-10  per  cent. 
Lime,   10^/^   per  cent. 
Silica,  28  25-100  per  cent. 
Iron,  .42  per  cent. 
Nickel,    none. 
Platinum,  .01  per  cent. 
Total  value,  $20.92. 

The  mines  consist  of  seven  full  claims  of  twenty  acres  each,  or 
140  acres.  There  are  seven  distinct  veins  averaging  from  four  to 
thirty  feet.  Many  assays  have  been  made  from  time  to  time,  the 
lowest  of  which  is  $11.67.  The  last  assay  made,  at  a  depth  of  thirty 
feet,  shows:  gold  $3.01,  silver  $6.12,  copper  $32.10  and  in  all  $41.23. 
The  ore  is  becoming  richer  as  depth  is  attained.  An  excellent  wagon 
road  has  recently  been  built  by  the  miners  of  the  district,  with  the 
County's  assistance,  which  is  completed  to  within  one  and  one-half 
miles  of  these  mines. 

Now  is  the  time  to  invest.  We  believe  there  is  no  other  proposition 
before  the  public  in  the  Pacific  Northwest  that  presents  the  induce- 
ment to  purchasers  that  will  compare  with  the  Smuggler  group  of 
mines.  We  are  selling  a  few  shares  for  the  purpose  of  operating  the 
mines,  the  purchase  of  machinery  and  other  modern  devices  to  make 
the  mine  a  dividend  payer  at  the  earliest  possible  date. 


Mckinley  Mitchell,  Pres. 

W.  J.  DOXEY,  Vice.  Pres. 
W.  J.  MXEOD,  Director 
a  FREIWALD,  Director 


W.  J.  WALTERS,  Qea*l  Sopt. 
HARVEY  BAILEY,  Sec. 
D.  S.  WILLIAMS,  Treas. 


Address  an  MaU 
IMatterto 


Smuggler  Gold  (2»  Copper  Co. 

202  >^  Stark  St.,  Portland,  Ore. 


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