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KOOSBVKLT CLUBS.
That there will be any serious effort
t3 rush Mr. Roos$velt into the back
Enund And to work up the nomination
t .aiother for the Presidency The Ore
ircr in deems improbable. Yet It is alto
gether TeJI enough for the supporters
T the PresWent to be prepared to meet
ru h powtble effort. During months
past "feelers" have been thrown out in
many directions, but without encour
&& response; yet the project seems
r.ot to have been given up wholly, and
ir.Il yet be pushed, undoubtedly, if there
shouid appear to be a chance for its
success.
The chief opponents of President
Roosevelt are certain great capitalistic
&rd plutocratic interests, which have
rtsented Ms action in Important mat-t-rs,
like the great coal strike and the
rrc-gr cases. They were obliged to
j.'.d, but they yielded gtumbllngly;
a'd it has been understood all along
tvj.f they were biding their time, in the
i. z if aocomplishing his undoing in
th- Republican National Convention.
"Wiat is known as "Wall Street" Is
cgjuast Theodore Roosevelt. But it is
r t confident of its power to turn him
cs, though that is the dearest object
cf ts desire. Falling in this, as it is
sure to do, it will address itself to the
k i?rk vf patting up for the Democratic
jarty a. candidate of Its own liking. In
t .s. it may succeed, or It may not.
resides the capitalistic combinations
4tzl -would like to defeat Mr. Roose
tc t m almost every state there are
disgruntled Republican politicians who
tkc d quickly manifest the same incli-rat.-r,
if they should see any move
r l that way. There are such In Ore
gor, as eteewhere. It Is proper, there
iv?c for the supporters of the President
f be on their guard against machina
t. rs through which hostile delegates
2t,.ght be sltiHed into the National Con-vc-tirtn.
Organization of Roosevelt
.-bs throughout Oregon, begun already
w.ih igor to Portland, as announced In
TV Oregouian of yesterday, is a meas
r.'e both of precaution and of aggres
e. ", on the part of the President's sup-r-rttrs
There may be no great need,
but .t is just as well to be vigilant, and
r-.oreoer to have the organization ef
fctd through which any demonstra
t,oi or effort like that threatened dur
ing some time past in news reports
Irom various' parts of the country may
be rr.-t and foiled.
The Oregonian's own belief is that the
President will be nominated without
r.r nal opposition in convention. But
there are elements of opposition that
would defeat him if it were possible.
They may not appear in the convention
st all, but they might and probably
would be & force there, if no precau
ticary measures were taken against
them. Plutocratic influences are always
fcu:,d to be powerful among irrespon
s.b delegates from states that never
can be depended on for a Republican
electoral vote; and there are great
bunches of delegates from such 'States.
The Oregonlan approves the project of
forming Roosevelt clubs throughout the
Pacific States, even though the senti
ment here is so solidly for Roosevelt,
and from this point of view such action
zr.ight seem unnecessary. Nevertheless,
push the Roosevelt clubs!
Question has arisen whether the or
gar Ization of the two houses of the Leg
islature is to be the organization for the
special session, or whether a new or
ganization is necessary. It is a need
less question. Each house may do its
own will. That is, each may retain its
former and present officers or elect oth
ers. Each house is a law unto itself,
and Its acts are subject to-no review,
except through the high court of public
opinion, to be manifest through future
elections. Each house may change its
officers at any time it sees fit. But it is
not likely to make any change, and cer
tainly will make none, except for good
reason. The President of the Senate
and Speaker of the House are merely
th& voice or organ through which each
body speaks; as Speaker Lenthall said
to Charles I when commanded to sur
render the five members: "I have neither
eye to see nor voice to utter, except as
this house commands." Each house
may do what it wills to do, subjectnly
v naoae opinion, wnicn, with us, has
definite constitutional forms to which
ltmayappeaL It may be supposed that
the officers of the regular session will
be continued through the special ses
sion. Resolutions to that effect may be
adopted, if the houses think it proper;
but such action is not at all necessary.
EVEBY MAN LEND A HAND.
The action of the Secretary -otJVar In
requiring free right of way for the
dalles canal, as a preliminary to any
work upon the project, seems to be with
out precedent It Is therefore disquiet
ing to all who understand the immense
importance of this undertaking to the
great Northwest. To inquire Into the
motives of the Secretary would be use
less, however, perhaps impertinent and
possibly unwise. It is the plainest of
facts that the War Department, since
Mr. Root's Incumbency, has lost no op
portunity to injure the Columbia River
and to discriminate injuripusly against
the City of Portland. So far as we
know nothing else has ever been pre
tended. But it does not necessarily follow that
the dalles order is to be properly con
nected with that policy of discrimina
tion. It is our understanding that the
special board which, examined the river
with the Harts project In view made the
suggestion About the right of way at
the instance of its own members; that
General Gillespie in his turn (and the
General has always been a good friend
to Portland) repeated the recommenda
tion, so that Secretary Root's approval
may have been only a natural concur
rence In the advice of his engineer
corps.
In one way, however, the prerequisite
condition, while technically unprece
dented, does find a sort of precedent In
the fact that the people of Seattle ob
tained and presented to the United
States Government the right of way
necessary for the Lake Washington
Canal. It is distinctly possible, also,
that the special board of engineers did
what they did in order to bring the cost
of the canal within the cpst of the
Harts canal, so that the project might
be made secure without reference back
to Congress for authorization. The En
gineer Corps has always been friendly
to Columbia River projects, and the
course of the special dalles board in
other respects deserves all possible ap
proval and gratitude from the people of
Oregon and Washington. With hem,
as with Symons, Jones, Harts and Lang
fitt, the aid of commerce here has been
a labor of love.
All these things aside, however, as
incidentalsand negligible, and as belong
ing to the irrevocable past, the situa
tion that confronts us is the fact of the
condition Imposed by Secretary Root
and the absolute necessity of our com
pliance with It. Before a spade is struck
-Into the ground at Celilo, the Govern
ment must have been tendered a right
of way. The regularity or the theoret
ical Justice of the demand does not now
concern us. What e are up against is
the fact; and It now becomes of the
highest and most imperative necessity
that the right of way be provided as
soon as possible. We should say that if
is well worth the state's while to buy
the right of way. It is well worth the
while of riparian owners to donate such
land as they can and limit their de
mands where reimbursement Is neces
sary to the lowest possible figure. There
ought to be public spirit enough along
the route of the canal to insure an easy
negotiation for the right of way. It is
Incredible that the O. R. & N. should so
adroitly court popular execration and
legislative reprisal as to stand in the
way of so great and beneficent an un
dertaking. The expense of moving tracks
now in the way may be great, and should
be made up to the railroad; but the
management of the road must be given
credit for prescience enough to foresee
the inevitable result of thwarting the
popular will.
Every business man and property
owner in the Columbia Basin owes sup
port and encouragement to Governor
Chamberlain and every member of the
Legislature who has expressed a de
termination to stand faSt In this crisis
for the public welfare. The proposal to
repeal the portage road appropriation
without any proviso for the diversion of
the fund toward the right of way is one
of utter folly and danger. The great
ness of an Oregon is bound up in a
most intimate way with the opening of
the Columbia River. The Western Ore
gon man who thinks to advance his
section by striking out this appropria
tion as a blow to the Inland"EmpIre
would be inconceivably short-sighted.
Senator Mitchell is reported as actively
interested in the right of way enter
prise, and it Is earnestly to be hoped
that he will stand fast.
Oregon will never have Its limbs free
for a fair fight in the commercial strug
gles before It until It has -secured the
advantage of an open river from Lew
Iston to the sea and the consequent
lowering of freight rates. Puget Sound
draws Eastern Oregon and Washington
trade from us now. and "Washington
surpasses us in population and gains on
us in business because rates from the
Inland Empire to tidewater are so high
as to enable the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern to haul wheat over the
mountain grades to Puget Sound. Every
man who gets at the bottom of the com
mercial and industrial situation in the
Pacific Northwest understands this
matter clearly. The river must be
opened. The right of way must be se
cured. It is the duty of all with any
power or Influence at all to lend a hand.
HANGER IN THE TISTOL 1CABIT.
Alexander Garnett, who on Wednes
day night in San Francisco fatally shot
Major J. W. McClung, will be placed on
trial for murder. Garnett in a fit of
drunken rage drew a pistol and at
tempted to shoot Mrs. Lillie Hitchcock
Colt, in her rooms at the Palace Hotel.
Major McClung lost his life by throwing
himself between Mrs. Colt and Garnett.
It Is the old story of drink and the
"gun habit."
Garnett is a victim of alcoholism and
has always been In the habit of carry
ing a "gun." Such fellows, drunk or
sober, are prone to pull a weapon on
slight provocation; but as a rule few
men, North or South, attempt to arbi
trate a quarrel with a woman by a pis
tol. Unless Garnett was insane with
drink, it is probable that Major Mc
Clung resented his language to Mrs.
Coit and that a quarrel ensued. In the
course of which Garnett shot McClung.
Garnett is the name of a distinguished
Virginia family, two Confederate Gen
erals of that name, graduates of West
Point, having been killed in the Civil
War; and McClung is a name of great
distinction In the annals of Mississippi.
All the parties to the tragedy are mem
bers of the so-called "Southern Colony"
bf San Francisco.
It was a distinguished son of the South
and an ex-Confederate who once said
I that the greatest curse of the South was
I "whisky and the pistol habit." The re
mark was just. There are quite as
many whisky drinker's at the North as
at the South, but the habit of "carry
ing a gun" is not so universal; 0 there
are not so many murders among well
bred people at the North as at the
South. At the South the drink-crazed
man always has "a gun" handy and
in nine times out of ten commits murder
qnder the influence of passion and real
or fancied provocation. If he did not
always carry a gun he mJght not com
mit murder. He might regain his san
ity or might be put under restraint, but
so long as the "pistol habit" prevails
among Southern men there will be mur
ders in high circles like" that in which
Garnett and his victim were conspic
uous. The pistol habit makes every
quarrel likely to end in murder.
LET THE INDIAN WORK OB STARVE.
At last a report has been issued from
the Indian Bureau at Washington in
which a plain and -practical solution
of the Indian question is suggested.
"Let the Indian be taught the rudi
ments of the English language," says
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones;
"protect him only to the extent that he
may gain confidence in himself, and
leave nature and civilization to do the
rest" Thus equipped for self-help, it is
further urged that the Indian be given
to understand that he "must work or
starve."
Discarding sentiment, yet instinct
with the principle of justice and the
logic of kindness which seeks to equip
the individual for life's battle, leave
him to fight it and Insist that he must
fight it or perish, is this tardy official
presentment of a solution of the Indian
question. By contrast with the policy
so long pursued by the Government
toward its Indian wards, It is startling.
It discards as useless Indian education
that runs Into the sciences, pFaces a
sharp and speedy limitation upon the
.practice of issuing rations to Indians
wjfo occupy fertile lands, have been
supplied with agricultural Implements
and seed arid Instructed In, the elements
of Industry, and decrees that the Indian
must make use of the knowledge of
farming or other handicraft that he has
gained for his own preservation, or
drop out of existence.
There is real humanity In this plain
and simple proposition, though at first
it may seem harsh. It Is clearly no
kindness to the Indian, as a race or an
individual, to keep him or permit him
to hang upon the outskirts of civili
zationa strong, able-bodied vagabond
satisfied with the assurance, drawn
from the past, that if he does not feed,
house and clothe himself the Govern
ment will, when a time of stress comes,
supply him with food, shelter and ap
parel. A fair sample of the lives that reser
vation Indians live, and of the death
that they not infrequently die, under
the mistaken policy that the Govern
ment has long pursued toward them,
has been presented to the public before
the United States Court in this city
within the week. Idle, thriftless, vi
cious; without thought of the morrow
except to wonder whether they can
manage to elude the law and procure
whisky; nursing bitter feuds and laying
plans for vengeance and plots for mur
der; filthy beyond description in their
homes and lives, the mass of reserva
tion Indians mock by their daily exist
ence the methods that have long been
pursued for their civilization. Against
these methods and utterly discarding
them as inefficient and pernicious comes
at last a voice from the Indian Bureau
saying: "Let the Indian be taught that
he must work or starve." Supplement
ing this, Commissioner Jones expresses
the opinion that this policy would in a
generation or more work the regenera
tion of the race. It would certainly re
generate the race or cause it to become
extinct. In either event the require
ments of humanity would be met by the
policy recommended.
AN UNDAUNTED ENEMY.
The Oregonlan Is in receipt from the
Navy Department of Volume 16, Series
1, of the "Official Records of the Union
andConfederate Navies in the War nf
the Rebellion." These records relate to
the operations of the South Atlantic
blockading squadron from October 1,
lS64to August 8, 1865, and of the Gulf
blockading squadron from June 7 to
December 15, 1S6L These official Union
and Confederate documents are most
valuable historical material, for they
were purely business papers written at
the time, not intended lor the public,
and are utterly without any rhetorical
rot or fustian. Nevertheless these dry
dispatches shed a flood of light on the
naval situation of the Confederates, and
extort admiration for the energy and
courage with which they strove to cre
ate a navy that would help to defend
the ports of the South and In time per
haps break the blockade at Charleston
and Savannah.
tThe audacity of the Confederates may
be gathered from the fact that as early
as October 12, 1861, a Confederate
steam ram drove the steam gunboat
Richmond and the sailing gunboat Vln
cennes from the head of the passes of
the Mississippi River. The Richmond
had three planks stove In below the
water Ifne, and the Vincennes only es
caped by throwing overboard all her
guns but four. The Confederates fired
With rifled guns, and nothing but the
arrival of the United States steam gun
boat McClellan, armed with rifled guns,
saved the Union vessels from destruc
tion. The stupidity of the Navy De
partment in sending two sailing vessels
to guard against the attack of a steam
ram and in arming them with inferior
guns was, of course, inexcusable. .
The report of Admiral Dahlgren con
cerning the defenses of Savannah and
Charleston after their evacuation shows
that Beauregard had made these ports
absolutely Impregnable to attack from
the sea. In the judgment of Admiral
Dahlgren, save by Sherman's advance
from the rear, Savannah's and Charles
ton's defenses could not have been
turned. Of course. If they had been as
strongly fortified in the rear, the prob
lem of Sherman and Dahlgren would
have been the same as that presented
to Grant and Porter at VIcksDurg. The
remarkable thinglshown by the Confed
erate dispatches Is the undying pluck
shown by the military and naval au
thorities at Savannah on the eve of
evacuation, with Sherman's army of 60,
000 men at their gates. It was serious
ly proposed for the Confederate gun
boats at Savannah to put to sea and
fight their way Into Charleston or Wil
mington through the large blockading
fleet This was found impracticable, so
the gunboats .were destroyed, but if
the torpedoes could have been removed
these gunboats would nave gone to sea.
So late as May 1, 1865, the Confederate
authority seems to have prevailed in
Augusta, Ga., although "the civil au
thorities apprehended a riot that night"
Admiral Dahlgren in his report recites
the fact that eleven fine Union Iron
clads were destroyed by the Confeder
ate torpedoes during the Civil War, be
sides seventeen unarmored gunboats.
The energy and daring ofthe Confeder
ates were so remarkable that if they had
been better equipped with engineering
resources or had been able to obtain
the help of a European navy the Con
federacy would probably have survived
the conflict The South at first had the
advantage of Interior lines, but it lost
that advantage with the loss of the
Mississippi and its tributaries and the
close blockade of Its coasts. When we
remember that the South was not peo
pled by a very large population of
trained mechanics, as was the "North,
the energy and skill manifested was
wonderful. To be sure, the Rebellion
carried over to the South the flower of
the old Army and Navy, but that could
not make up for the absence of mechan
ics, of manufacturers, or break the
blockade which cut off the South from
procuring military supplies from abroad
and cut it off also from the market for
its cotton, which alone could provide
the sinews of war.
Further evidence of the efficacy of
modern transportation methods in the
promotion of temperance is formulated
by the order of the Northern Pacific
Railway managers, to take effect on the
first of the coming year, which requires
all employes of the company to abstain
from liquor as a condition necessary to
a continuance In Its service. Not only is
drinking to excess interdicted, but the
social glass, the forerunner of excess in
thousands of instances, is forbidden
upon pain of dismissal. This is a plain
business proposition, devoid of a single
element of what is called "temperance
reform." It will, no doubt, be more
efficacious In promoting temperance,
which In the case of a vast multitude
of men means total abstinence, than all
of the temperance lectures that emo
tional reformers have delivered in half
a century. Men unable to observe its
requirements are already too far gone
In Intemperance to be safe handlers of
a traffic that is carried on at a high
rate of speed, while those who have not
reached that point In the Indulgence of
appetite will be saved to themselves,
their families an'd the requirements of
business betore (as the orthodox preach
ers of a past generation were wont to
declare) "It is everlastingly too late."
Operating officials of the Northern Pa
cific are justified in the opinion that the
order will result In great good to the
company and its operatives, while It
will certainly relieve the traveling pub
lic from a long-standing menace of dis
aster. As before said, there is no sen
timent in this order, It Is purely a
.matter of business, and for that reason
Is likely to be effective.
The Bureau of Statistics gives the
latest data as to the tonnage movement
of thegreat seaports of the world. At
the head of the list stands London,
where the total tonnage entering and
leaving port in 1902 was 17,504,108. The
tonnage of New York last year was
17,398,058, only 166,050 tons less than that
of London. Antwerp's tonnage In 1902
was 16,721,011, while that of Hamburg
was 15,853,489. The tonnage of Hong
Kong was 14,724,269, and that of Liver
pool was 13,157,714. Cardiff is seventh
on the list with a tonnage of 12,556,694.
Rotterdam had a tonnage last year of
11.6S4.20S. Singapore Is ninth in rank
with a tonnage of 10,913,031. Marseilles
had a tonnage of 9,463,872. Next comes
the Tyne ports of England, with a
movement of S,369,347, nearly double
that of any of our ports excepting New
York.
The Army and Navy Journal extols
the DOwer and Inflnermp nf tho imcrl.
"can Navy as illustrated in recent events
on the Isthmus. The presence of our
fleet in Central American waters has
Insured the amplest protection for the
lives and property of all foreigners. To
what extent violence and bloodshed
might have followed the disturbance in
Central America but for the presence
of our warships at Colon and Panama
can only be judged from past experi
ence, but that the consequences would
have been serious but for the silent
menace of those vessels cannot be
"doubted. The alertness of naval offi
cers, together with the readiness and
efficiency of their ships and crews, have
won for the Navy the highest praise
as a peace-compeller.
Contributions to the Conservative'
cause are pouring in from British work
Ingmen who refer feelingly to "Old Joe"
and scout in enthusiastic terms all fear
of a dear loaf with "Chamberlain our
friend and champion' Ah, how griev
ously do they err who set up the game
of politics without regard to the emo
tions and enthusiasms bf unlettered
hearts! These workingmen could not
argue with Devonshire or Rosebery,
but Chamberlain's grit and charm lure
them on. So it was with Caesar, so
with Napoleon. The gift of leadership
rises superior to Cobden and Adam
Smith. JLove me, love my platform.
There are 25,000 Italians In the City of
New Orleans and 60,000 In the State of
Louisiana. They are rapidly crowding
tire- negroes out of the sugar districts
in the southern part of the state, as the
Sicilian peasants save money from
wages the negroes can barely live on.
The Italian immigrants go to the coun
try and work on farms, and there Is not
a single pauper among them.
The transcontinental railway gangs
that switched us off from Nicaragua to
Panama, are now trying to switch us
back to Nicaragua. See-saw. Any
thing to prevent construction of the
canal, either at Panama or Nicaragua.
Here we are, to swear in both scales
against either scale. Anything for de
lay; anything for defeat of the canal.
After announcing that Mr. Bryan's
speech teemed with wit and humor, the
London correspondents go on to cable
a succession of dull commonplaces.
Either the bright things were lost In
transmission or else, the occasion must
have been enlivened by the proverbial
British humtfr or the juice of the grape.
The Philadelphia Press thinks the
Democrats ought to hurry up and hold
their National Convention before Bryan
gets back. The suggestion Is one of
prudence and harmony, two elements
that the Democrats surely need in their
business.
The Wisconsin Legislature has sent
to Washington a resolution in favor of
electing United States Senators by pop
ular vote. The Pennsylvania Legisla
ture did the same thing a few years
ago, and that was the end of It
To play Panama against Nicaragua
and Nicaragua against Panama Is the
policy of those who want no canal
1 either at Nicaragua or Panama.
WARRANT OUT FOR CLEVELAND?
New York Sun.
The rainbow mathematician of the 19th
and 20th Centuries, General Charles
Henry Grosvenor, has already canvassed
the. electoral vote of 1901. He announced
the' result on Wednesday to the House of
Representatives. His result Is the elec
tion of the Republican candidate, with
out the vote of New York. This Is the
process of the interesting old cipherer's
arithmetic:
Total electoral vote 476
Necessary to elect 239
Surely Democratic States 151
Doubtful States 62
Surely Republican States 263
New York's 32 electoral votes are mag
nanimously assigned by General Gros
venor to the doubtful column. His arith
metic doesn't need them next year. The
General Is dead sure of these 25 states,
with theit 263 electoral votes, for the
Republican candidate next year:
California lffiNorth Dakota .... 4
Colorado .. oOhio 25
Connecticut TJOregon 4
Illinois 271 Pennsylvania .... 34
Indiana .-... 15'Rhode Island .... 4
Iowa lSSouth Dakota ... 4
Kansas lOjVermont 4
Maine 6JWashlngton 5
Massachusetts .... ldWest Virginia ... 7
Michigan 14 Wisconsin 13
Minnesota U Wyoming 12
Nebraska Si
New Hampshire .. 4 Total 263
New Jersey 12
That, of course, easily elects the Re
publican candidate, without New York,
Delaware, Maryland, Montana, Idaho,
Nevada and Utah, and with 24 votes to
spare. Applause greeted General Gros
venors demonstration from the Repub
lican side of the House; amazement and
dismay were pictured on the features of
the more Impressionable Democrats as
the General mercilessly pointed out the
figures of 1301.
Yet let us look a moment at Gros
venors table of certainties.
He has made that table impressive and
potentially effective by including not less
than seven states, now possessing 91 elec
toral votes, which can be carried, and
have been carried, by a Democrat com
manding the confidence of the people.
Here they are:
California 101
Connecticut 7
West Virginia ... 7
Wisconsin 13
Illinois
Indiana 15) Total 91
llsew Jersey 12
When we say that these seven states'
hav,e been carried by a Democratic can
didate for President we are referring no
further back into the past than the very
last Presidential election, at which a
Democratic candidate, standing on a
Democratic platform, appealed to the
suffrages of his fellow citizens.
The year was 1S92, and the man was
Grover Cleveland. He carried California
by 470 plurality, Connecticut by 5367, Illi
nois by 26,993,1 Indiana by 64S2, New Jersey
by 14,974, West Virginia by 552 and Wis
consin by 6470.
Grover Cleveland as a candidate not
only did this, but he also carried all of
General Grosvenor's doubtful states, ex
cept Utah, which was not then in state
hood; Montanawhere Weaver got enough
votes to defeat the Democrats, and Ne
vada, which went, not Republican, but
Populist Mr. Cleveland carried New
York by 45,518. Delaware by 504, Mary
land by 21,130 and Idaho by 19S0.
And these Cleveland majorities or
pluralities were rendered by the voters In
the four "doubtful" and seven "surely Re
publican" states of General Grosvenor's
classification, In full knowledge of the
Democratic candidate, for he then already
had served thecountry for four years as
ita President.
Lifting the seven Cleveland states of
1S92- from their unwarranted place in
General's Grosvenor's list of securities,
and adding them to the admittedly Demo
cratic states, together with the four
"doubtful" states which Mr. Cleveland
did carry, we have a result somewhat
different from that which the Ohio math
ematician ciphered out in the House on
Wednesday:
Total electoral vote 476
Necessary to choice "239
Surely Democratic States !!!"lol
Other States carried by Cleveland in 1S92 91
lsov'iork' Delaware, Maryland and
Idaho r 53
"235
Surely Republican States 172
Doubtful States 9
"476
We read somewhere in a newspaper
headline yesterday: "A Warrant Onh fnr
Grover Cleveland."
ORIGINAL OF MAJOR PENDENN1S
The Story That Suggested the Open
ing Chapters.
Mrs. Richmond Ritchie writes in Corn
hill Magazine:
Miss Horace Smith once told me a story.
It was long and complicated, but she as
sured me she had told It to my father, the
late W. M. Thackeray, just before he
wrote "Pendennls," and that it had partly
suggested the opening chapters. It con
cerned a family living in Brighton, some
where near Kemp Town. There was a
somewhat autocratic father and a ro
mantic young son who had lost his heart
to the housemaid and determined to
marry her. The father made the young
man give his word of honor that he would
not marry clandestinely, and then having
dismissed him, rang the bell for the but
ler. To the butler this Major Pendennls
said: "Morgan," (or whatever his name
was), "I wish you to retire from my
service, but I will give you 200 in bank
notes if you will marry the housemaid be
fore 12 o'clock tomorrow." The butler said,
"Certainly, sir," and the young man next
morning was told of the event which had
occurred. As far as I remember a mel
ancholy and sensational event immediate
ly followed, for the poor young fellow was
so overwhelmed that he rushed out and
distractedly blew1" his braln3 out on the
downs behind the house, and the butler,
meanwhile, having changed his 200, sent
a message to say that he had omitted' to
mention that he had a wife already,- ahd
that this would doubtless Invalidate the
ceremony he had just gone through with
the housemaid.
Earthly Paradise.
Boston Herald. ,
What's this we hear about the formation
of a woman's anti-foo'tball league, to work
for the abolition of the strenuous game of
football, and what sweeter boon does the
average young woman crave than to -be
Invited by her best young man to a foot
ball match?
Beyond the Hills.
Chicago Tribune.
"I can hear the drums as the array comes
From beyond the hills," he said.
And he leaned and smiled like a happy child
As he shook his snowy head.
And he clutched his cane while the far refrain
Came In murmurs to nls cars.
But they whispered low: "He has dreamed
it so.
And It Is no drum he hears."
"I can hear the life as It leaps with life.
And the drums roll madly, too,"
Was the old man's sigh as with kindling eye
He would hum the war songs through.
"It Is Jimmy Shea that Is how he'd play
When the road was hard and long;
And It's Billy's drum that 13 calling, ,'Come'"
As It keeps time with the song."
And his fingers slim beat a tattoo grim
On the stout arm of the chair.
While his lips grew stern and his eyes would
burn
With the fire that once was there.
"Oh. the bugle call, and the drums and alll"
He would say. "Their music fills
All the night and day; I can hear them play
In the march beyond the hills."
"I can hear the drums, and the army comes
From beyond the hills, " he said.
With his eyes aglow he saluted slow
And he touched his snowy head.
Then his eyes were closed as If he but dozed.
And his day of days had dawned;
3pr the low drum beat had allured his feet
To the hllla and far beyond.
WAS JESUS A CARPENTER?
Chicago Inter Ocean.
That Jesus of Nazareth was a carpen
ter by trade before he began his min
istry Is generally assumed. Painters and
poets have represented him as working
beside Joseph at tlfe carpenter's bench.
The assumption rests, however, upon a
single sentence In St Mark's gospel. In
the parallel passage in St. Matthew he
Is spoken of, not as a carpenter, but as
"the carpenter's son." There is no other
mention In the gospels or elsewhere in
the New Testament ,
That Jesus was a woodworker of some
kind was-a tradition early current, and
yet evidently received with some doubt.
Justin Martyr, one of the earliest Chris
tians after the apostles whose writings
have come down to us, says that Jesus
"was deemed .a carpenter, for he was in
the habit of making plows and yokes." As
will be shown later, this probably means
only that Jesus had enough knowledge of
woodworking to make certain agricul
tural Implements. In fact, the recorded
sayings of Jesus, according to the careful
analysis of them in the current Crafts
man, tend to show that his regular earth
ly vocation was quite other than the car
penter's. Jesus in his sayings shows familiarity
with domestic, commercial, professional,
and agricultural life. The grinding of
grain, the making of bread, the mending
of clothes, the washing of dishes, are used
by him as illustrations. He knows the
ways of the banker and the money lender,
of Judges, lawyers, policemen, criminals
and physicians. He quotes the current
prices of articles of trade. He has ob
served children at play and the professed
ly devout at prayer. He knows the de
tails of feasts and weddings, even to the
order of the guests at table and the
proper kind of garments. But the refer
ence to these things are rather those of
an observer from the outside than of an
expert from the Inside.
But when we come to the farmer's,
fruitgrower's, and shepherd's life we have
details that show the expert The works
of sowing and harvesting are described
with minuteness. So is the work of the
vineyard. So Is especially the work of the
shepherd. No particularref erences to these
passages are necessary. They will occur
at once to every reader of the gospels.
Furthermore, he knows the signs of the
weather. In fact, everything indicates
that Jesus in his early life had kept sheep
and worked on a grain-growing farm, and
also in the vineyards and about fruit
trees, especially the fig.
On the other hand, allusions to build
ing operations of any kind are almost en
tirely wanting. In only one place does
he offer any comment upon a work of
architecture. That is when he goes forth
from the magnificent Temple of Herod
at Jerusalem arid replies to Invitations to
admire it with a prediction of its over
throw. He tells of the buildlng( of a tower,
but only to point the moral bf counting
the cost in advance, lest it be left unfin
ished. In the parable of the houses built
on the rock and oa,the sand no details are
given of the work of man. Attention is
fixed upon the forces of nature which pre
served one house and destroyed the
other.
Even if he did make plows and yokes,
as Justin Martyr says. It would seem to
have been as a part of farm work rather
than as a carpenter. That a preacher and
teacher should have neglected to draw il
lustrations from his own trade, or from
the trade which he had seen his father
practice when he was a boy, Is incredible.
The only conclusion seems to be that the
passage In St Mark's gospel is based on
a misunderstanding of the fact stated in
St Matthew's, that Joseph had ceased to
ply his trade before Jesus was old enough
to be Interested in It. and that Jesus him
self was not a carpenter, but a shepherd
and farmer.
SUPPORTED IN THE SOUTH.
The Panama Policy of the Adminis
tration Is Approved.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Two things are accomplished. Panama
is an established and recognized nation.
This country has entered into treaty re
lations with it over the Panama Canal
question. The ratifications are yet to be
made, but they will be made and the con
struction of the canal begun promptly.
There is nothing now to make a fuss
about. .
The Tree discussion of the question
since Panama revolted has cleared away
many confused Ideas and shown that the
act of the United States Government in
recognizing the new republic at once and
effectively has violated no obligation of
treaty or any duty of morality between
nations.
Colombia's protest Is that of the wolf
with its leg in the trap Itself had set for
Uncle Sam. President Marroquin ful
minates like a sleepy man, Ignoring the
facts that Panama's delegates notified
him two months ago that the failure of
the Hay-Herran treaty would be the sig
nal for them to reassert their reserved
right of independence and that his own
appointee as Governor of Panama, Gen
eral Obaldla, said to him that in case
Panama should take such a step, he him
self would cease to be a Colombian and
become a Panaman solely, as he has
since done.
The plea of surprise will not hold In
this case and we doubt if Colombia will
find one whit of sympathy for the plight
she has brought upon herself by her
policy of stubbornness and greed.
An overhauling of the documents of our
past dealings with Colombia under the
treaty of 1S46 plainly shows that our
action in this case Is fully in line with
our rights and that we owe no apology to
anybody for recognizing the assertion and
creation by Panama of her inalienable
right to set up an independent govern
ment capable of self-maintenance.
We rejoice particularly that the ques
tion is now to proceed upon diplomatic
principles to its conclusion. In the end
Panama will be an independent nation
with world-wide recognition and the
United States will possess by purchase
from Panama and the French Canal
Company all the property and rights be
longing to the Interoceanic canal and
necessary for Its perpetual operation and
ownership.
The Constitution instantly' recognized
the situation and Its development and
threw Its voice and influence in favor of
the nonpartisan support of the Panaman
position and the American opportunity
created thereby, offering to this country
the ope thing which Is of more vital Im
portance to the South than to any other
section of the Union.
Faint Heart Never Won Fair Appro
priation. The management of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition to be held In Portland
Is asking Congress to assist by a Gov
ernment appropriation of $2,125,000. With
St. Louis setting the record mark at
55,000,000, Portland sees no good reason for
being bashful in its demands.
A Legitimate Inquiry.
Philadelphia Record.
The price of crude oil has been ad
vanced 5 cents a gallon. Is the University
of Chicago In need of money, or is it
some churches that are to be endowed
this time?
To Stella.
Sir Philip Sidney.
Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame.
Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but
thee;
Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history;
if thou praise not, all other praise Is shame.
Nor so ambitious am I as to frame
A nest for my young pralso In laurel tree;
In truth. I swear, I wish not there should be
Graved In my epitaph a poet's name.
Nor, If I would, could I just title make.
That any land thereof to me should grow.
Without my plumes from others' wings I take;
For nothing from my wit or will doth flow.
Since all my words thy beauty doth endlte.
And "Love ", ',1 ov hand and make3 me
- wrltA.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Made in Heaven.
Married, at the residence of- the bride,
Tuesday evening, November 24, Mr. Rob
ert Bonnet and Miss Dora Coles.
For future needs they've no concern,
And lifo Is but a sonnet;
For Robert now has Cole3 to burn.
And Dora a new Bonnet. S. P.
There are no bricks in the ."Hole in the
Wall."
Colombia does jiot speak .softly,
does she carry much of a stick.
Nor
The Tabasco Central Railway Company
is being floated. Warm proposition!
Oberlin Carter, whose sentence expires
today, will find that his punishment is
just beginning.
Six couples were married at Hood River
on Thanksgiving day, but the general re
joicing was not spoiled.
There appears to have been some sub
terranean work in connection with the
plans of the submarine boat.
The gun does its best to discourage
the habit of dragging it by the muzzle,
but the fool crop is perennial.
Austria, reviled by Hungary on one
side and by Italy on the other. Is like
the ham In a very mustardy sandwich.
If something must be done to accelerate
the canal, what's the matter with a dec
laration of Independence from Wasco?
Infringement of trademark Is the sln
cerest form of flattery, but it Is one that
Columbia River salmon packers strongly
dislike.
Wos y Gil, lately President of Santo Do
mingo. Is on his way to Cuba, where his
name should add new luster to the pearl
of the Antilles.
Run, jack rabbit, run like sin.
Echo ha3 a cannery, and she'll pop you In;
Run, jack rabbit, run like the devil.
Hit only high spots, never touch the level.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
announces that the Middle West Is dis
covering Ibsen with its wonted whole
heartedness. Bad news. Wo shall soon
be backed off into the Pacific.
When a detective induces men to Join
in a train wrecking plot, as one did in
Colorado, it is a question whether his
power of suasion or the men's wickedness
should be most considered by the jury.
Dr. Bedloe, ex-Consul at Amoy, says
the Japanese are strengthening their navy
by converting mail steamers Into armored
cruisers. It would be almost as sensible
to talk of converting bathtubs into bat
tleships. The Countess Isabella Kwllecki, who has
been released after 10 months' Imprison
ment, says that the worst feature of life
in jail was the deprivation of her mirror.
And yet the majority of prisoners dread
most their reflections.
"Ironquill" Ware is styled the Don
Quixote of the Administration. Even so
the lean knight-errant was as much of
a rough-rider as the power of Rosinante
would allow. And we are not informed
who is cast for the windmill.
Chorus by Republican Committee:
O Mark Hanna, won't you please speak out.
We all want to know what the deuce you're
about;
O Mossa Hanna, won't you
please
speak
out.
More and more the courts of the United
States are becoming instruments of op
pression. A recent decision prevents Neely
from obtaining the $20,000 bail he put up,
on the flimsy pretext that he has less
right to the money than the people from
whom, he stole it
Various plans to decrease the number
of immigrants have been suggested. One
Is to have Indians whooping on the docks
and another to have students greet in
coming steamers with their college yells.
A better plan would be to show the new
comers the rush for a quick-lunch
counter.
Bryan Is In the Insidious atmosphere of
monarchial institutions. He tucks his legs
under the same mahogany with men of
title and robber statesmen. He exchanges
jests with fanatical devotees of gold. Such
Influences are stealthy in their action, and
ultimately deadly. It may be that Want
age shall shelter two exiles, or that an
other estate shall be walled off opposite
Cliveden.
Mr. Sparks, of the Baker City Postof
fice, Is a little ahead of the age. There
is no doubt that most of the circulars that
burden the mail clerks and annoy the re
cipients, should be thrown into the fur
nace, but the regulations of the Postoflice
Department unfortunately prevent the
clerks from exercising their discretion.
"Man Is born to trouble as the Sparks
fly upward," says the Bible, only in this
case the flying upward Is checked by the
cage of departmental custom.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Silas Zeke got an economical wife, all right.
Cyrus That so? Slias Yes, she actually col
lected the rice that was thrown at the wedding
and made a rice pudding. Chicago News.
The Fiancee But I can't believe that I am
the only girl he ever loved. Her Friend Oh,
I wouldn't mind that. It doesn't pay to give
too much attention to past performances.
Judge.
She She's really too young to go shopping
alone. He Yes, she is rather impressionable.
She How do you mean? He She's liable to
get excited and buy something. Philadelphia
Press.
Playwright By the way, I'd like to have you
tell me what you think about my new play.
Critic I suppose you mean ou would like to
have me tell you vhat I tioirt think about it.
Boston Transcript.
"Father, why do they make such long
speeches In Congress?" "My son. If you knew
how much trouble It Is to get the floor you
wouldn't be surprised at this reluctance to give
It up." Washington Star.
"You must have had an awful time with the
smallpox In your house." "There were com
pensations. The police maintained a quaran
tine, and my wife didn't have to get a servant
for seven weeks." Judge.
"How many wives did you say you have
had?" she asked. "Ten. And how many hus
bands have jou had?" "Seven. May I ask
where you are from?" "Salt Lake City. ,And
jou?" "The Rlalto." Life.
Slmkins Your wife strikes mo as being a
very thoughtful woman. Timklns And she Is.
Why, you couldn't imagine half the thlng3 she
thinks If 1 happen to be detained at the office
till after midnight. Chicago News.
"What were those blood-curdling shrieks I
heard last night" "That was Jamison trying
to quiet his new baby. You see he can't sing a
note, and so he gives his college yells as a
substitute." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Sometimes," said the poet, "I almost get to
thinking I would rtUher have been born rich
than a genius." "Oh, dear," his wife replied,
"I don't go to such extravagant extremes. If
you'd only been born with a longing to go out
and get a job somewhere I'd be 'satisfied."
Chlcaxo Record-Herald.