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“ What a land, this of Japan, this dreamland where colors fade only to blend with those more beautiful, where art lives unalloyed by the cankers of modern vulgarism !
How we dreamed; the temple gongs had resounded hollowly over the water, but they were lost in the common sound of song, music, and laughter. There were no temples, there was no world beyond that blue-gray hill across the lake; there was naught else but the teahouse of the Stork — and Haru San. ”

“ No man, no set of men, no nation, therefore, can stand for unrighteousness with impunity. This fact is clearly branded on every page of history. That we can rise superior to party and politics; that we are willing to assert our manhood; that we, as American citizens, are loyal to our best and highest traditions is encouraging and strengthening. It means that a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people shall endure and not perish from the earth. ”

“ As bad air escapes with a draft, the vent served as a sort of chimney, sucking off the bad and drawing in the pure. Just beyond where the vent entered the tunnel was a door to which the shift bosses and superintendent only had keys. The afternoon was hot. Even the mountain air seemed sleepy as Prescott perspired over the monthly report, casting an occasional longing look up at the comfortable looking white head of old War Eagle. The superintendent was showing the mine to some lace-booted, corduroyed gentlemen from Spokane, and Prescott worked lazily. ”

“ But she found it warm in the big store, and the cheerful red soon left the Little Old Maid's nose, and found its rightful place in her still unwithered cheeks, though her bright brown hair, impolitely handled by the wind, stood out in fluffy disorder not unbecoming to the prim little face.
As she passed through the men's furnishing department on her way to her own counter, she noticed that a new lay figure had been added to the group of irre- proachable masculine dolls, whose mission in life is to present to the eyes of the Portland man all that is newest and most elegant in male attire. ”

“ This valley is hot the marvelous region of fiction, where human skulls lie grin- ning by the cold but poisoned waters of the desert-well; where the verdant oasis lets forth its mysterious monsters to devour the wanderer, or where the fabled "Octopus-vine," so vividly described by imaginative journalists, reaches out its vampire tentacles to grasp and hold the passing prospector in the clutch of death, while the fragrance of its soporific flowers soothes him to unconscious slumber. ”

“ Clouds of wild pigeons darkened the sky. Myriads of wild turkeys hung in the sycamores, and Tecumseh was arousing the Indian to a last stand against the onrushing white man.
St. Louis was a village on the border; beyond lay darkest America, untraversed even by the trapper. Lewis and Clark were approaching Oregon, one hundred years ago, resting in this July at the Orcat Falls of the Missouri, that since the beginning of time had thundered down those rocks unheeded. ”

“ Three weeks in the hills made a wonderful difference in Dick Lacey's appearance. His blue shirt and corduroy suit lost their newness, his face turned red, and a fringe of dirty whiskers sprang out around it. He was of an excitable temperament, and the wild spirit of the mountains entered into and possessed him. He became a hunter, without the skill to hunt; a hillsman, without the strength to climb.
Then, one day, he saw a deer and shot at it. ”

“ A mule in a freight outfit unloading at the company store brayed a sonorous approval and the night shift turned over in their bunks and yawned a curse.
"I don't believe I want any lunch today," mused Prescott, and he turned aimlessly into a trail that crept around huge bowlders here and there and then with frightful acclivity darted up and up.
"The great and only superintendent of the War Eagle Mining Company can't iceep his bookkeeper from thinking of her, anyway," he confided to the trail, as he dug his toes into it and unforgivingly eyed a steep place ahead. ”

“ Of classical sculpture, the Lewis and Clark Exposition boasts two beautiful groups. These are by Philip Martiny, who has been awarded first rating among decorative sculptors. They adorn the water front at either end of the boat land- ing, "Neptune" and "Amphitrite." The god of the sea and his consort have risen from the deep in their shell chariots. They survey calmly the waters of the tiny lake as if pleased with the vision of beauty. ”

“ There were scores the house, sometimes toping the first of the savage brutes. In their rage and trail. He was puzzled to understand what disappointment they behaved like mad had become of the animal, but at the same things. They bounded high into the air, time pushed on for the house. While still whisking their brushes and snapping their about two hundred yards from the door tremendous jaws with a sound such as the a long low howl that made the silent swarming sharks make in Kingston Har- woods echo strangely, broke upon his ear. ”

“ The sleigh bells! The Masons' sleigh bells!
The strong soldier felt his veins grow cold and perspiration burst over his brow. He rushed madly downstairs and gazed through the peep hole. Not a living wolf was to be seen. Not a sound of them" from any quarter. Only the two that he had shot that morning near the wood pile. Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, came again the silvery sound borne on tlie western wind from the well-worn track leading to the Masons' ranch.
Seizing his cavalry trumpet, Boyd dashed upstairs again and with all the power of his lungs blew the cavalry call "Retire !" ”

“ A noble looking chief, holding the Bible to his breast, is telling his son that in the ways of the white man is wisdom found. The youth peers forward searching the future and seeming to catch the spirit of a new day. Fine dignity of character is expressed in the figure of the Indian and the grouping and composition are admirable.
The three other Borgium groups are in- stalled on the terrace overlooking the lake. The soft green of summer foliage, the deeper shades of the tall firs behind, and the rising mountains farther back furnish an unparalleled setting of beauty for these. ”

“ Oregon has established the whipping post for wife-beaters. Certainly wife-beaters deserve beating of some kind, but as I read of the first chastisement—the observing crowd, the bared back, the skin gradually welling out its blood, the groans of the victim—I wondered if in the creation of so brutalizing a drama we were not paying a high price for the cure. Whether the public was not being hurt more than the back of the man brute. ”

“ China, now that it is beginning to awaken to the modern world, begins to feel the stigma of insult in the general exclusion of its people from this country. It feels as if its merchants and scholars at least should be allowed to travel through and reside in this country as freely as Americans reside in China. ”

“ Is it because predominance of evil makes it more common, or that we being evil see it more readily, or that the abnormal, by its nature, stands out excusant and disfiguring? What- ever the answer, it should be the ambition of every lover of goodness to make much of goodness, to sound its praises, to flavor his words with its appreciation. ”

“ Slender ribbon-like falls hang lightly from the brow of a sheer precipice or dash in foam down some rocky gulch, and the morning mists that linger on the wooded peaks veil in mystery the beauty beyond. One's desire to possess and perpetuate some scene of beauty becomes irresistible, when, out comes the camera — snap — and the thing is done! ”

“ The wrong may seem to triumph temporarily, but the right eventually conquers and remains. The laws of righteousness are right. They are unchangeable. The world advances steadily and is coming day by day and year by year into a better and higher conception of right. There can be no such things as final defeat of right. ”

“ THE warning whistle of a departing steamer accelerated the steps of the hurrying crowd. Before the dock Avas reached I was pushed on the heels of two men who were talking animatedly. "Yes, I am going to Victoria on the Eobert Boyd," I heard one say. "You see he has been in Alaska for ten years, and is now coming out with a fortune. He hasn't a relative on earth. ”

“ But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; and on his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also doth not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous ”

“ In all departments of human endeavor, unquenchable confidence in one 's own ability or policy is more than half the battle. A football team that enters the field without enthusiasm and confidence is already beaten. It is worse than folly for men to undertake any commercial enterprise without enthvisiasm and the fullest confidence and belief in ultimate success. So in all forms of human endeavor, and in all forms of struggles between men for the mastery. It is the man that counts. ”

“ An old man, feeling its subtle power, was tempted out of doors for the first time in many weeks, and seating himself under a spreading maple, watched the dancing sunbeams at his feet, and listened to the leaves above, as they whispered to him of other days.
Pretty soon the snowy head began to nod drowsily, and the Goddess of Dreams, touching him with her magic wand, led him into a happy field, where the birds were singing and flowers nodded him welcome as they gaily rocked in the breeze. ”

“ Part of hating evil is ignoring it, neglecting it. Thinking of things of good report and speaking of them strengthens good. Shutting our mouths as well as our ears against the fruit of evil, in the scorn of silence, weakens its hold upon us. ”

“ Word was put into office as the crying protest of an indignant and outraged public at a time when the city was pledged by its officials for unrighteousness and municipal rottenness. Dr. Lane goes into office as a further protest against such conditions. There could not, therefore, be a healthier sign of public morality and responsibility than is to be found in the fact that a Republican state and a Republican city have thrown off the shackles of party politics and asserted that manhood which must be the controlling factor in preserving our National life from disintegration and ruin. ”

“ Art had not brought her gifts into the homes of the Northwest. The first needs of daily life pressed so closely upon the Oregon home-builder that he was forced to think always of utility rather than of beauty.
The Exposition honors these days of the past. Its stately buildings, its beautiful lawns and gardens, its fountains and In'idges, its opulent embellishment on all sides — these, indeed, point the contrast between then and now. But in splendid unison they proclaim that the thousand- fold richer life of to-day was made pos- sible only by the strenuous living of the pioneer ”

“ A brilliant lawyer, an able and upright judge. A genial friend with a large sense of humor and a large store of pity. And yet his greatest quality as judge and as a man was his sympathy with all men. All men to him were brothers. ”

“ Again and again ho filled the magazine until uneaten wolves lay in heaps around the door and the rest of the band skulked behind the stumps. All that remained of poor Fruin was a small red spot just under the window. Then began the siege. For three days and nights the wolves, whose numbers had been considerably augmented since the battle on the first day, kept close watch over the lonely dwelling. Now and then Boyd picked off one of the brutes, but although the wolves must have been famishing, they did not dare to touch the carcasses by day. At night the dead were dragged away and devoured. ”

“ From a peep hole alongside the door Boyd fed the deer with scraps, which they took greedily from his hand. The peep hole is one of those devices of the middle ages which the lonely settler in untrodden Canada is wise to incorporate in the front elevation of his abode. It is built so as to enable the inmate to rake the whole clearing in front with his rifle without opening door or window, when unwelcome guests, Indians, bear, or wolf, happen to call. ”

“ Donaldson, with a smothered cry, fell for- ward on the parching sand — face downward, with his hands beneath him. Now, as in the last delirium of insanity, McNully staggered wildly to his side and kicked the body. There was no response, no movement of the limp, still limbs. The bullet had reached its mark.
But McNully did not observe the absence of a bullet-hole. lie was too eager to taste the water. Like a maniac he tore the vessels rudely from their place, and started, with a groan, as he observed how light they were. ”

“ Chicago, being the home of the most advanced modern movements, has by this become the first city in which this inevitable conflict has arisen. With the unions lined up in firm array on one side and the employers on the other, and neither willing to give the other an inch of advantage, the struggle has worn on for weeks and no end has been sighted. ”

“ It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ”

“ Ordinarily a completely defeated nation is at least sym- pathized with, but not Eussia. In its stupid way it broke its head on a fence, and then it stands and blinks at the fence. The world in general prefers a knave to a fool, and Eussia has posed in the light of the greatest fool nation in history, and nothing has testified to this so much as the bland way in which Eojestvensky sailed into a trap which he must have known would be set for him in the neighborhood of the Corean Straits. ”