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Ed Brlnkmwnt Fourth and Pacific Ave, N. W.; Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 71 degrees; minimum temperature, 64 degrees. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and slightly warmer; northerly winds. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1904. SOMETHING ABOUT PRINCIPLES. A letter written by a good friend, on the so-called local option act, proposed to the electors of Oregon, appears to day. The letter Is on another page. The comment follows here. Referring at once to his concluding statement, let us say, never mind the li quor dealer. He is not the man under consideration at all. It Is the policy and the effects of it, that are to be consid ered, "The principle that majorities ought to rule" Is not at all the question. That, anyway, is not a fixed principle, but is subject to conditions and limi tations. For even majorities must act reasonably, and in view of all the cir cumstances, or their efforts will produce only unhappy consequences. No ma jority in the North can enforce negro suffrage at the South, but the effort may make a lot of trouble, and has made a lot of trouble, as all know. No majority for prohibition, in such a coun ty as Clackamas let us say could pre vent the sale and consumption of li quors at Oregon City, but its effort to do so Tvould produce all the unhappy consequences sure to follow from vain attempts to enforce prohibition. And since prohibition is impossible at Ore gon City, why should the greater vote of the County of Clackamas try to force prohibition on the town? There is no parallel between the submission of the defeated- faction In a party for such submission is purely voluntary to en forced submission to a prohibitory law. Nor Is this all, nor nearly all. At bot tom Is a feeling or a principle, uni versal in human nature, that no ma jority has a right to prohibit the use of a thing that a minority, In decency and propriety,, wish to 'use. Therefore prohibition never "goes," never " will. That this thing or that thing may be abused is no argument at all for prohi bition of the use of it. Of all the evils that afflict mankind, abuse of the rela tion of the sexes Is undoubtedly the gravest the one thing fraught with most terrible consequences. But who talks of prohibition here? It Is the same, as to liquors and tobacco, and a hundred other things, though In less" degree. The notion of prohibition of the sale and use of liquors belongs to a primi tive state of the human mind; to an Immaturity and rawness that you never witness In mature civilized societies. In civilized Europe It would be laughed at; in the older parts of America, in the villages, towns and cities where we find the largest variety and differentiation of life, it Is disregarded, too. Let the rural districts and precincts, where there are few persons or none who want liquors, and where consequently there could be no sale, enact prohibition, If they desire, and be absurd, If they will. But they can't force It on others who do not want it. This Is what the so called local option law proposes to at tempt Even if it should have a ma jority It will not succeed. But it would put Oregon In the category of ridicu lous, crotchetty, fussy and whimsical communities, along with Maine and Kansas, and join us with that small though select common laughing-stock of peoples and states. In a thousand -nays the life of great ,and progressive communities Is diversi fied beyond the conception of those who try to fix and fossilize It within the Jimlts of their own conceptions. Man gets on, an only gets on, by having free choice and range of nature and opportunity. His Maker did not remove temptation from him, but threw him against It, at the beginning, knowing, apparently, there was no other way to develop personal and moral character. A secluded and cloistered virtue is no virtue at all. Some will perish, undoubtedly; but so ciety lives only through Its strong and sturdy members. This is not to say that society Is not to protect the weak It can. it does, it must, protect the weak against the aggression of the strong: but It cannot protect the weak against themsehes, without trenching upon the rights of free action, through which the strong grow stronger, and find a freedom that makes life worth living. These are high principles. The Ore gonlan cannot expect those who rely upon the statutory law. Instead of the law of personal responsibility and per sonal character, to keep them in the line of duty and right living, or those parents who are so weak as to be unable to govern their house holds and would call upon the state to place a policeman at the head of the table to keep the chil dren In order, to understand it. Never theless, these things will be understood, Indeed are understood now, by those In whose hands are the destinies of the. present and of future generations. It remains as heretofore, and it will be the law of the life of man to the last ages, that those who cannot stand the strain and pressure of moral require ments will perish. The satisfaction Is that better will succeed them. DISQUALIFIED! Mr. Bryan ias been frequently impor tuned, so we learn from that faithful and not invidious mirror of his altru istic mind, the Commoner, to advise his followers as to "the best manner of providing heat, light and water for a home in the country." Where else, indeed, should the tolling masses turn for counsel and guidance on these Important tdplcs than to him to whom all knowledge Is intuitive and all learning the merest child's play? Where else but of Bryan himself, the apostle, counsellor and friend of the dwellers alike in Nebraska sodhouse, Kansas dugout and Oregon houseboat, can the horny-handed and tawny whlsked derive their architectural as well as economical truth and beauty? Nowhere else, obviously; and the fit ness of the application in question seems to have struck the Commoner office with much force, for the answers which it gives to the "frequent inquir ies" are, it says, "given as a result of his own experience." And yet we cannot help feeling that the Commoner's readers will own a deep sense of disappointment when they read the Commoner's advice. As to heating, Mr. Bryan has advanced along the beaten path of stoves, base "burners and furnace to the hot water system, which Is best. Inasmuch as "the heat Is uniform and the temperature can be easily controlled." As to lights, Mr. Bryan has found ordinary gas unequal to his de'sires, and in his new home at Lincoln he has re sorted to a lighting plant of acetylene, constructed in an excavation at some distance from the house, supplying 100 lights, the magazine having a capacity of 100 pounds of carbide. The Independent water plant main tained by Mr. Bryan for his entirely comfortable and artistic country seat Is constructed on the compressed air system. The supply tank itself Is In the ground below the frost line, so that the water Is "thus kept cool In the Sum mer and does not freeze In the Win ter." As the water is pumped into the tank the air is compressed, forcing the water through the house. The pressure is kept at about 45, and with a hose on each floor the protection against fire Is ample. A hot water system of heating, an acetylene gas plant built on the grounds and supporting 100 lights, an automatic power water system with a tank below the frost line, supplying cool running water throughout the house, and a fire hose on every floor what sort of an outfit Is this to put iefdre the toiling masses of this country today, gentle men? What will the poor apple-grower of. Western New York, with whom Bryan has been wont to weep; what will the poor women of Cumberland who have no seaside cottages say to this exhibit In modern luxury? Jeffersonian simplicity, CInclnnatus at the plow, even Parker feeding his pigs at Esopus, are all lifted lhto prouder eminence by this spectacle of hot water heaters, acetylene burners and marble washstands. Was Bryan shamming all the time In his hostility to the arts of plutocracy or has he fallen from grace, like Hogg, Harvey and Towne? At any rate, it is mani festly dishonest for the Commoner to continue under Its present name. Let it be known as the Patrician or the Sybarite. The palace of Dives is. no suitable abode for the tribune of the pee-puL PUBLIC POORLY PROTECTED. Wreckage picked up on the west coast of "Vancouver Island would indi cate that another ancient condemned revenue cutter had come to grief, prob ably with a considerable loss of life. The Corwln was built at Portland near ly thirty years ago, and was considered old and tender long before she was con demned and sold by the Government, but she apparently had no difficulty in securing a large number of victims to take passage on her. The long list of maritime tragedies credited to the Pu get Sound fleet, and mostly due to structural weakness or old age of the lost vessels, suggests the query, "What would be considered an unsafe vessel at Puget Sound ports?" It Is apparent from the news dispatches regarding the re ported loss of the Corwln that some of the passengers were not exactly satis fied as to her seaworthiness, and pro tested against going on her. If this is true, a grave responsibility rests on the authorities who permitted the vessel to depart on her voyage. It hasnot been so long ago that the incident has passed from the minds of the public that the condemned revenue cutter Clara Nevada, short of equip ment. Improperly manned and generally worthless, was lost with all on board while on a voyage from Alaska to Seat tle. Since then there have been numer ous disasters In which the loss of life has been very heavy, and in nearly every case there was an element of neg ligence and carelessness tlje presence of which was responsible for the trou ble. Sixty lives were lost a few months ago by the destruction of the steamer Clallam on the short route between Port Townsend and Victoria. There Is a difference of opinion as to the exact cause of that accident, but whether it was due to structural weakness which made her an easy prey to the waves or to the criminal carelessness and lack of judgment of the men who- were oper ating the craft, some of the responsibil ity must rest on the men who "passed" the craft as seaworthy, and her officers as competent to be Intrusted with the lives of passengers. A shortage of suitable boats brought In the Alaska trade such craft as the Clara Nevada, Jane Grey, Eliza Ander son and similar craft in the early days of the Alaska rush, and a slight cut In rates drew passengers away from more expensive but safer boats. This, how ever, was no excuse for the negligence of the Inspectors, and cannot be offered In the case of the Corwin.i The average landsman, who as a matter of fact Is generally the average traveler at sea, seldom has more than a superficial knowledge of the sea ajid its dangers. He trusts Implicitly in the 'owners or agents to book him on a seaworthy steamer, and, after embarking on that steamer, relies on the -officers of the ship to land him In safety at his destination. It Is to protect these innocent travel ers that Government Inspectors are ap pointed, and the records of marine dis asters to craft sailing out of Puget Sound offer abundant evidence that this protection has not been given. Puget Sound 'is new and raw on nearly all matters relating to shipping, and the frequency with which these disasters occur leads to the belief that the offi cials are learning very slowly. A MTT.TTAKY HUMBUG. The British view of the war in the Far East Is that "Buss la has been found out"; that she Is the most gigan tic humbug that modern history re cords. The Russia which Englishmen have long regarded as a standing men ace to Great Britain's hold npon India Is gone. Great Britain's little ally, Japan, has proved that the Russian Is just what he was In the days of Napo leona resolutei obstinate fighter, but a slow, clumsy and stupid soldier. Great Britain has been Imposed upon by Rus sia's rapid conquest of the Tartar prov inces of Turcomanla, and has given Russia credit for an up-4o-date knowl edge of the art of war. It Is clear that Russia, outside of its barbarian cour age in battle, is relatively no more for midable as a military power than she was when Frederick of Prussia defeated her with terrible slaughter at Zorndorff, than she was when Napoleon beat her army to a pulp at Frledland; than she was in the Crimean War, when third rate British Generals beat her at the Alma and at Inkerman. Courage the Russian always had, but he has always been a slow-witted, dull, stupid soldier as far back as Narva, when Charles XII of Sweden Shipped 80,000 Russians with 10,000 men. Napo leon at St. Helena said that the Russian soldier was a brave and resolute fighter, but that Russia was never ready for war. And that Is the characteristic of Russia today. Look at the Trans-Siberian Railway, built ostentatiously as a "military railroad," and yet It is a single-track line, poorly built, with only forty-pound rails. The Russian forces in Manchuria numbered in January about 142,000. It Is more than three months since war was declared, and, if the Trans-Siberian Railway was equal to Its military pretensions, Russia would have been able to add In the past ninety days 150,000 men to the 142,000 named as the effective force when war was declared. If Russia-had been able to do this she would' have today under General Kuro patkln an army of at least 250,000 effect-. lve men, and out of this General Kuro patkin ought to have a movable army of at least 125,000 men which he could use at any point It Is perfectly clear that the Russian General has had no such army at his command, for he has allowed a Japanese army of not over 50,000 men to march from the Talu close) to Llao Tang without serious interrup tion from the start The landings of the Japanese were not resisted; Port Arthur was abandoned to save the troops necessary to maintain railway communications. All signs show that the Russians felt themselves outnum bered, and this fact Is explainable only on the ground that the Trans-Siberian Railroad has been overtaxed to supply the army already In Manchuria and has been able to carry but few men. Up to the blockade of Port Arthur the Russian army was fed by sea, but since the declaration of war in February last the whole Russian military, naval and civic population has had to get food and military supplies by this wretched Trans-Slberjan Railroad. This situation Is explained-fcy the fact that Russia was as unprepared for war as was Napoleon UIH In July, 1870, when one of his war cabinet boastfully announced that France was ready for a victorious march to Berlin down to the "last but ton on the soldier's gaiter." This was mere "wind pudding," and France found It out the moment that a battle of serious consequence took place. It. was then evident that the so-called French army existed largely on paper; that It was completely outnumbered by the Germans at every point; was not only outfought, but outgeneraled. Noth ing could exceed the valor of the French soldiery; they fought as gallantly as they ever had In all their military his tory, but they were organized and com manded by corrupt military bureau crats at Paris, while their leaders in the field were military mediocrities, the personal faor!tes of the Emperor. The result of this state of frightful unpreparedness for war was the crush ing defeat of the French armies on the field and the ultimate occupation of Paris and the exaction of humiliating terms of peace. And this was the con sequence to France of military unpre paredness. The finest military nation In all Europe was completely worsted by Germany. If this was the conse quence of unpreparedness to a brilliant nation like France, what must It be to a dull, backward, corruptly governed people like those of Russia? Outside of the corrupt bureaucratic government of Russia, Japan has had the same posi tive advantage enjoyed by Germany in 1870-71. She has made her individual soldier as intelligent as possible. In Japan over half the children are at school; in Russia only one child In eight Intelligence, science and trained technical skill have been on the side of Japan. Thus far It Is clear that with Japan, as with Germany in 1870, vic tory has come because of superior popu lar education. Modern arms, modern ships, require a far higher average of individual intelligence than when sol diers fired from the hip at Waterloo. THE SETTLER'S OPPORTUNITY. Of the 100,000 acres that were with drawn from settlement in the Okanogan country some months ago, 60,000 have, after proper inspection, been restored to, entry as agricultural lands. This means prosperity of the type that fol lows the legitimate Interpretation and operation of the homestead law for a beautiful and fertile section of the great State of Washington. These lands are said to He chiefly in well-watered val leys contiguous to a forest reserve of which, when sequestered from entry, they formed a part The basis of the Nation's wealth Is in Its lands. Not in holding, but in wisely disbursing and as wisely conserving its great areas, Is this fact demonstrated and this wealth made available. The community. In a local sense, gains in stability, material resources and public spirit by every thrifty home that Is added to It In a wider sense the state and Nation gains through the same subtle power. When this home is maintained directly from the soil its roots strike deeply and its stability is assured. Without stopping to analyze the feel ing beyond the simple fact that desira ble lands attract desirable settlers and these in combination add to the public prosperity, the people of a state con gratulate themselves and each other when a body of fine agricultural land, that has for some reason been seques tered, is thrown open to settlement The people of Montant are at present re- jolclng In the certainty that before many months the Crow reservation In that Btate will thus invite a large body of settlers and be dedicated to cultiva tion and to homebulldlng. There Is similar rejoicing- lnv South Dakota at the prospect that the Rosebud reserva tion will soon be added to our eminent domain. Washington has had her part at various times In this "settlers' oppor tunity," and Oregon has not been with out similar favors. Oklahoma's wild boom a few years ago, when a large tract of her beautiful and fertile area was thrown open to settlement, subsid ed 1A due time and she has reaped a rich harvest in farms and homes from the grand opening that was planned and executed in the White House. Folly ran riot for a time over the landbut In true agricultural fashion the human chaff was winnowed from the wheat and Oklahoma, having made much of her opportunity, ask3 now to be admit ted to the privileges and the political dignity of statehood. The Government has grown expert in devices for the protection of the actual settler. It has learned wisdom from ex perience. There have been land rushes and townsite booms since then but the proportions of the Oklahoma rush and boom have not again been approached. Every effort that official vigilance, dic tated from department headquarters in Washington, can do to make the open ing of a grand body of land the settlers' opportunity has been made since then, and so successfully that the speculator has been for the most part baffled and the homebullder and farmer protected and favored. These safeguards will fol low the Intending settler Into the Okan ogan country and enable him to make the most of his opportunity. The Olympla Recorder announces that the Chamber of Commerce of the Cap ital City has appointed a committee of three to Investigate the Dofflemeyer Point land scheme, the details of which were printed In The Oregonian several weeks ago. At the time The Oregonian printed the story, the Recorder rebuked this paper for giving circulation to it before any of the Puget Sound papers had printed anything regarding it The Recorder, to make an exhibition of Its own vigilance and Importance, an nounced that It had kept its readers constantly informed regarding the movements, of the townbullders and would continue to do so. If the remark able vigilance of the Recorder was ap preciated at home, It seems strange that it is necessary for the Chamber, of Commerce to appoint an investigating committee. Time and trouble would be saved by having the editor of the Re corder appear before the commercial body and explain all about the project It is an old trick and a sucqessful one for peddlers to pretend that they are selling stolen goods, as one did In Pen dleton. There Is a strain in many per sons that renders them so anxious to make a more or less dishonest penny that they fall victims to the designing. "Very estimable people will often buy cloth or cigars that they have been led to believe "never paid duty," and there are numbers of industrious philosophers that make their living by meeting this tendency. Persons of -otherwise blame less character are also entrapped some times by the street peddler, who picks up before their eyes a ring that he has apparently just discovered In the gut ter. He offers hfs find for a fraction of what he says it is worth, and cupidity not infrequently leads his victim into paying double prices for a piece of "phony" jewelry. If the Republicans in Congress are to be blamed because there was not a larger appropriation for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, what meed of cen sure should be visited on the Democrats who didn't want to appropriate any thing? On the test vote to bring up the bill under a special rule, but a single Democrat voted in the affirmative. This lone Democrat was Mr. Maynard, Rep resentative of the Jamestown (Va.) dis trict, who has a bill pending for a large appropriation to assist the celebration In the year 1907 at Jamestown. It was the Republicans who passed the Lewis and Clark bill, moved thereto by the appeals of President Roosevelt Of course he couldn't prevail with the Democrats. The kidnaping of the American Perdi carls from the City of Tangier Itself is an Indication of the state of the country for whose behavior France will present ly be responsible. By her recent agree ment with Great Britain, France as sumed a virtual protectorate over Mo rocco, and she Is-likely to find herself Involved In several fights with the scat tered tribes along the eastern border, tribes over whom the Sultan has no more control than he can obtain by threats of extermination. Fortunately for France, other powers are not likely to become Involved with Morocco, ex cept In some individual case resembling that which is now taking American ships to Tangier. The Methodist General Conference has set Monday, May 30, as the date of adjournment The amusement question is still open to debate, if not to settle ment The brethren are weary. Per haps they will take counsel of discretion and relegate the matter to the mists and shadows of another four years. This would be wise. The question may settle Itself before that time. It will settle Itself in the long run In any event Ecclesiastical dogma and edict are now practically without power in the realm that amusement calls Its own. Indians out in the vicinity of Everett, Wash., seem to be engaged in the wholesale business of making "good In dians" out of each other. Puruslng this line of effort, John Price, a Puyallup brave, shot and killed his brother and wife, his own wife having previously been killed by another brother. It 13 thus that the Indian question Is solving itself aided by the "firewater" of civ ilization. Certainly, when the people of Multno mah County come to the election of a Sheriff, they may properly prefer to elect a man whose name is on the tax rolls of the county. But neither the name of Mr. Thomas Word, nor of any of the firms or corporations he Is work ing for, appears on the county or city tax rolls. It Is painful to read In the Commoner an unqualified commendation of Folk, the Missouri Prosecuting Attorney painful, for, if he came into prominence as a Presidential candidate, Mr. Bryan would have to show up his unfitness and the task would be awkward. The subjects of prohibition are vari ous. In Lake County the cattlemen prohibit sheep. SOCIALISM AND BANKRUPTCY. Minneapolis Tribune. It gives one a start to hear that the So cialist party has made remarkable head way in the particularly sane and sober minded State of Wisconsin. The explana tion Is that this headway Is almost en tirely confined to a few cities on Lake Michigan, whose predominant foreign pop ulation almost removes them from the category of American communities. She boygan, for example, elected a Socialist Mayor, Milwaukee elected several Social ist Aldermen after the late boodle expo sures. The city la so torn up over theso that the Socialists expect to elect several members of the Legislature and perhaps a candidate for Congress. The organiza tion there Is on the lines of a labor union, with regular dues from every member, expended for the good of the party by a central committee, which makes all nom inations fo? office, without appeal. In a recent number of the Outlook we find an outline of the platform 'of the Mil waukee Socialists. They do not expeqt tq abolish civil government and private property at one blow; they are content at present to strive for a few objects which they consider most urgent These objects seem to us most Interacting for their sub stantial identity with the objects sought and attained In the British provincial cities given over to the extreme view of municipal ownership. Besides some obvi ous reforms, like regulation of street-car and gas service, employment of organized labor, Municipal Court reform and aboli tion of the contract system, nearly ill the oblects sought by the Milwaukee So cialists Involve ralsihg money by taxa tion to spend unproductlvely. Here Is a list of the most characteristic of them: Providing work for the unemployed. Public coal and wood yard and Ice yard. Employment of attorneys by the city to conduct cases for the poor. Free medical service. Regulation of the cost of medicine. Public crematory. Public baths In all wards. Street closets. Plumolng and sewage to be done by city on Installment plan. Open-air gymnasiums. Care by city of all trees on streets. Free school books. Erection of labor temple. Free concerts. Raise In teachers' salaries. Some time ago the Tribune printed a list of the objects attained by municipal ownership In the English cities that have carried the Idea farthest They who re member that list wlll.be struck by its sub stantial identity with the list of objects sought by the Milwaukee Socialists. It will be remembered also that the. municipal ownership cities In England 'have come pretty nearly to the limit of their power to borrow money for public objects. They are approaching the alternatives of bank ruptcy or abandonment of public works whenever It is necessary to renew or ex tend them. In fine, the platform of the Milwaukee Socialists Is a platform of mu nicipal bankruptcy. f Schools and Effeminacy. Philadelphia Record. Dr. James M. Green, who has achieved eminence by his efforts to educate the youth of New Jersey, cautiously dissents from the conclusion of the British (Mose ly) education commission which recently inspected American schools. "I am not ready to admit," said the doctor, "that we are becoming more effeminate. It Is pos sible to mistake refinement for effemin acy." Anyhow, there Is no evidence that women teachers are responsible for what ever decree of ffemlnancy the American man Is afflicted with, as the Britons as sume. If it be true that there Is a lack of robust masculinity In the American, It does not reveal Itself during the time when the boy Is under the influence of the woman teacher. No father of a normal boy under the age of 14 in this country will admit or boast that' his male offspring lacks a single characteristic of the most untrammeled and bloody-minded savage. Quakers Going Into Politics. Cleveland 'Plain-Dealer. It has been painfully evident for many years that the politics of the Quaker City does not take Its tone from the still con siderate Quaker element of that town. For generations the Philadelphia Quakers abstained from politics as consistently as they did from war, but now comes the report that all this Is to be changed. They are said to have made up their minds that in order to bring about a better state of affairs in the city and state, it Is neces sary for them to take an active part In politics. This, if true, is a commenda ble though somewhat belated resolution, for the Quaker principles of nonresidence should hardly be carried so far as to lead to acquiescence in such a system of rob bery and other corruption as has pre vailed for years In Philadelphia. How the Farmer 13 Robbed. Sioux City Tribune. Although the farmer does not set aside a portion of his produce and hand It over directly to the tariff beneficiaries, he might just as well do so for all the dif ference "It would make, In effect He .sells his produce at fixed prices in the open markets of the world, and out of the money received must pay a certain portion to the monopolies in excess of what their goods are worth. He Is poorer by jUBt as much Is robbed of just as much as would be the case If he were compelled to set aside part of his wheat, corn, oats, hay and other crops and turn It oyer to the privileged Interests. Democratic Humiliation. Nashville American. So far as Hearst is concearned, he Is an Impossibility; his very candidacy Is an offense against decency. But It Is humil iating to think that such as he place such a low and cheap estimate .on the Demo cratic party as to feel that Its nomination Is for sale to him that happens to have the use of a few million dollars. Is there anybody who believes that before the ad vent of Bryanlsm. any such creature a3 Hearst would have dared to try to do what he is trying to do now? Other Silent Men. Savannah News. While the enemies of Judge Parker are howling for him to talk, thoughtful peo ple will be apt td reflect that it is the silent men who accomplish great things. Robert E. Lee was a silent man: so was U. S. Grant and .so was Von Moltke. The Japanese General Kurokl Is not doing any talking, but the progress he is making is notable. Raising Cain. Sioux City Tribune. Mr. Bryan has started out to raise Cain. The Democratic party, being groggy from much pounding under Mr. Bryan's leader ship, is not able to resist very well, and so Bryan and Cain are likely to travel to gether from now until after the Demo cratic National Convention. The result of this association Is bound to be disastrous. "Break, Break, Break." Alfred Tennyson. Break, break break. On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And 1 would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That be shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad. That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill!. But O for the touch of a vanish'd. hand. And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break. At the foot of thy crags. O sea! But the tender grace of a day that Is dead Will never come, back to me. A NEW CRITICAL HANGER. ' Chicago Inter Ocean. That the musical crltlo and the dra matic Critic are not alone in danger of assaults and threats of assault is shown by an incident at one of our baseball parks, and which la deftly treated by a contemporary. It is often the sad task f the mu sical or the dramatic critic to write of outrages to art and at times to be come somewhat severe and personal. Those occasions are nq,t infrequently followed by a call from the person criticised and an Invitation to an en counter. It Is human nature to resent criticism. But in the reviewing" pro fession these incidents have hereto fore been confined to the departments named. Now, however, appears a new dan ger. v The basebaU critic is the target We read, for Instance: David Jones, who was so merrily fried by ail the critics for his great break of last week, discovered yesterday that he had been abased. Just why it should take four days, for the knowledge to soak into Davy Is hard to say, but It did, and he went after his chief de tractor. At the close of the game he cumoea up on the wire netting of the press box and addressed his enemy. David's exact remarks are not re ported, but their nature may ne in ferred from this: He declared that the scribe was responsible Tor the crime of 1873, and was also an exem plification of the Darwinian theory. He tald that the reporter's grandfather's uncle waa a traitor to George Washington and a brother to Benedict Arnold: he said that the reporter articles were written amid the black and curling eanoke of a hop Joint and he Invited him to come out and fight under Marquis of Mulebcrry rules. This is going too far. Fortunately, the baseball critic is protected by a wire netting, and in that respect has tho advantage of his musical and dra matic contemporaries. But if the base ball critic Is not to be permitted to criticise, what Is to become of the Na tional game? A Free Advertisement. New York Sun. To All Democrats: Whatever else you forget do not neglect la making up your platforms ward, county, city, AssemDiy, Senate, judiciary, state and National to. Incorporate a clause commanding all Dem ocrats between the ages of 9 and 99 to sub scribe for the Commoner. This is abso lutely essential to the cause of Democ racy. No true Democrat between the ages mentioned can be safe without the Com moner. It tells him how to speak, with whom to speak, how to breathe, and when to breathe, and If carefully perused Is warranted to be a sure cure for coughs, colds and bunions. The pestiferous will tell you that the ed itor of the Commoner did not have a 2-cent postage stamp to lick or a tongue With which to lick it in the Spring of 1896. and that now he has plenty of both. Defy all such malevolent persons, denounce them and send In your subscriptions to the Commoner; price, 51 a "year, Invariably In advance. Get all your friends to sub scribe, and the editor of the Commoner will chuck off a liberal bonus the more subscribers the more liberal the chuck off. No Democrat from the cradle of the ages was ever so great a Democrat a3 I am, but that Is neither here nor there; all that you've got to do Is to subscribe for the Commoner, Jl u year, Invariably in advance and I will do the rest! Perfectly Natural. Philadelphia Inquirer. Of course Bryan and Hearst are keeping their own counsel and their policy Is guarded with the secrecy that accompa nies the campaign of the Japanese against the Russians, but lfthere should be a bolt, no one need be at all surprised. Indeed, why should there not be? Was there not a bolt against Bryan In 189C, when a Gold Democratic party was formed? Demo cratic opposition to the regular ticket went far toward encompassing Bryan's de feat Isn't it but natural, then, that he should resent these bolters getting the upper hand now? A third party would not seem to be at all improbable under the circumstances. Git! Louisville Courier-Journal. Kentucky is hardly ready to be made the prey of foreign heelers. Her Democrats retain their sense of sight and smell, a certain modicum of organization and dis cipline and an undoubted measure of self respect Their manhood Is still Intact They need only to look about them to see for themselves, and, seeing, put forth their authority. No combine of ignorance. Im pudence and boodle can flourish in God's country, and If Messrs. Walsh, Ihmsen and Shober, the Hearst interlopers, are wise even If they have one remaining throb of mercy for their crazy principal they will take up their beds and their bar rel and walkl Parker's Republican Friends. Brooklyn Citizen. Judge Parker Is In the lead for the nomi nation, and his availability Is dally im pressing Itself with increased force upon the thinking Democrats In the party. Even Governor Odell admits that the Judge will be a hard man to beat and to those who know the relations of personal friendship between the two men this utterance will be interpreted as a confession that the Democratic prospects, with Parker as the candidate, are bright Indeed. If the Gov ernor were otherwise convinced he would find ways and means of discouraging the Judge's candidacy. No Toleration for Hearst. Montgomery Advertiser. Is it Incumbent on the genuine Democ racy longer to show patience or toler ance for Hearst or his boomers? Is there any plea that can be advanced In favor of himself or of those who are aiding and abetting him in hi3 discreditable work? We know of none. He and his coadjutors will cause trouble at St. Louis just as sure as they are given encouragement or even shown toleration. They should be sat upon In every state, so that they may, not have vitality or Impudence enough to attempt an Interference with the work of the convention. Not for Sale. Louisville Times. If Kentucky were to support Hearst in the National Convention there could be no escape from the conviction that she was paid to do it as tha one argument in his favor Is that he is willing to buy his way. Brought face to face with sucn conditions; called upon to reply to an of fer of money for what has always been regarded as an heritage of honor, the Democrats of the state cannot keep silent The insult has been offered them openly. It should be resented openly. Objection to Mr. Hitt. Washington Post Another objection to naming Mr. Hltt for Vice-Presidential candidate is that there will be no way of heading oft the "It and Hltt" talk. The Last Conqueror. James Shirley. Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are; Though you bind-In every shore And your triumphs reach as far As night or day, Tet you, proud monarchs. must obey And mingle with forgotten ashes, when Death calls ye to the crowd ot commen men. Devouring Famine, Plague and War, Each able to undo mankind, Death's servile emissaries are; Nor to these alone confined. He hath at will More quaint and subtle ways to kill; A smile or kiss, as be will use the art. Shall have the waning skill to break a heart. NOTE ANDJOMHENT. "Where toUs the Oregon the sky '"' , Doth glow with Italy's own bin, And greener verdure greets the eye Than dear old Ireland's emerald hue. The rose ot Sharon scenta the sale "While Persia blooms from 11 the- groua; Here fair ScoUa's lochs In every vale By Alpine peaks are girded round. "Where rolls the Oregon combine Hudson his grandeur, Rhine her grace; The Southern palm, the Northern pine . Mingle their boughs in fond embrace. Hera Dover's cliffs and Alton's brae And vineclad hlllo of Sunny France Sleep 'neath an Euganean haze "Where AdrlaUo wavelets dance. Where rolls the Oregon. O man. Be worthy of this high estatel Upright and bold to form and plan As forest monarch stanch and etralgnt; Like these clear waters bright and pure; And gracloua as tho Summer rose. Steadfast to labor and endure As jonder peak's eternal enows. The Summer must be further advanced than we had expected; the circus Is here and the sea-serpent has been reported. Masters of steamers trading from the West Indies to New York report that the Gulf Stream Is moving more rapidly than it used to move. Evid ently the hustle of the"New South" la having its effect or did Tom Richard son have anything to do with the ac celeration? In the current number of Harper's Bazaar there is an article describing a visit to England, and one of the tourists la describing a Devonshire lane. "Who cares," said she, "when there's such a sky abote and one Is shut In to such, bloom and verdure as this? Smell the Mae! "Mae" is unquestionably the limit A copy of "the most low-down newspa per on earth," namely, the Submarine, which Is published at Coachella (Col.), 76 feet below sea level, shows that the editor is almost submerged with ads. His editorials appear beneath the caption of The undertow" and jottings are printed binder the head "McGInty'a Musings." The devastating effect . of . politics; was never better shown than In the Irrlgon Irrigator. Once that was a sprightly sheet, a ditch, so to speak, that carried the water of wit into the arid patches of life. Now, alas! the Irrigator contains little but politics. Instead .of telling us about the peaches feminine that ornament the" "board walk," which we take to be Irrl-. gon's parade ground, -we are bored with talk of majorities, native sons, legis lative measures, attacks and counter attacks. Leave the boulder-strewn path of politics, O Irrigator, and come back to the board walk. A publisher's bulletin conveys tho in spiriting Information that "Miss Margaret Horton Potter, the author of The Flame Gatherers,' Is at her desk at 6 A M., and does all her writing before breakfast At 7 the reward of virtue comes in the shape of a cup of tea. She does more or less reading or studying or correcting proof during the remainder of the day, In preparation for further work, but the actual writing of her books Is done be tween 6 and 7:43 A. M." This is about the most uncomfortable habit of author ship that could well be Imagined, and there will be small surprise that Miss Potter's books are tinctured with melan choly. The1 Toronto Mall and Empire comments upon the pre-emlrience of Toronto in two respects. The city 13 proverbially good and moral and It enjoys the reputation ot being the fourth best betting city in America, that is, so far as horse racing Is concerned. Just why these incon gruous distinctions have been gained is not clear. The Mall and Empire at tributes Toronto's love of racing to her large population of citizens of "pure Anglo-Saxon blood," which the paper de clares to be "the horse-racing blood." Few things have not been claimed at one time or another for the "Anglo-Saxon," but the Mall and Empire's discovery ap pears to add an entirely new one to the list , It will be a source of great regret to lovers of art that Mr. and Mrs. How ard Gould have fallen out with the ar chitect whom they had commissioned to build their simple home on Long Island. The Goulds desired a replica of Kilkenny Castle, but they found that more space would be required, so they told the architect to let everything go double and build them a family nest exactly twice the size of that in Kil kenny. Other changes were made, and the architect began to grow squeam ish. He suspected that the addition of orangery and entrance porch, ballroom and other things would ruin his repu tation as an artist He kicked, and the Goulds had a row with him, so for tho present Long Island will be unprotect ed by the frowning battlements of Gould castle. It is a great pity that things should have turned out so, just as the taste of rich Americans was about to be vindicated before scoffing Europeans. WEX. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "Tour husband ias water on the brain." an nounced the doctor. "Dear me!" she said. 1 hope It baa been boiled." LIpplncott'B. Parts "His fritnda speak of him as a man of parts." "Well, they should know. He has quartered himself on them for years." Puck. Mrs. Smitklns Distressed again? I was won dering how you could eat that rich pudding. jIr g.it wasn't distressing me then; that's how. Boston Transcript "They are criticising you for not expressing an opinion." "Perhaps," answered the silent candidate: "but not as much as they would criticise the opinions If I expressed any." Washington Star. "It Is a lamentable fact," said he who thinks, "while the appetites of men have kept pace with the onrush of time, their stomachs re tain all the limitations and prejudices of Purl tan daje." Town Topics. "O, George!" complained the young wife, "it was nearly midnight before you got home last night." "Well, weui" exclaimed ner husband, "iou women are so Inconsistent. Before we were married jou didn't care how late I got home." Philadelphia Fress. "My idea of a wise man," said the youth who thoJght he knew things, "la one who knows when to stop talking." "A man who possesses the genuine orana or wisdom," re joined the -venerable philosopher, "knows when ... hhnln 'T.aH' W..VW "Being continually held up as a horrible ex ample Is about as monotonous as the music of an automatic piano," says a Marshall cynic, "but it Is a much leas strain on your nervous system than trying to balance a halo on the back of your head. Jiansas City Journal. "Both my grandparents, said Bragg, "were noted for their courtly manners and sterling rectitude. They were really remarkable gen tlemen." "Yes?" replied Pepprey. "By the way, did you ever read that Italian scientist's book on 'Degenerates'?" Philadelphia, Press. " "Ef you pleaee. sun," said the colored brother at the accident Insurance office, ""I wants you ter put a guarantee on my let leg." "A guar antee on your left leg?" "Tee, sah. Too see. I gwine off on de railroad, en if any leg is ter be runned over I wants It ter be dat one kaze It's got de rheumatism la Ui" Atlanta, Constitution.