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6 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAy, PORTLAND, APRIL 12, ISO. afcatered at the Posioace at ortUa4. Oregon, at second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIRFTION BATES. Br Mail (postage prepaid, in savant Deny, with scnaay. per moniu. - Dally. Suo-Ur excepted, per year. Daily with Sunday, per rear Sunday, pr year The Weekly, per year The Weekly. X months. ....OSS , S.00 , 2.00 1.SO . .20 To cur uMcnn Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excrjtf a.lic Dally, per week. deUvered. Sunday lnduded.30e POSTAGE RATES. Vnlted State a. Canada and Mexico 10 to M-page paper -- 25 24 to 8-page paper... Foreign rales double. News or dlscunlon Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oreconlan." not to the name or aor Individual. Letters relating to adver tlalnr. subscription or to anr business matter ahould he addressed simply The-regonlen." 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For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1812 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1208 Famam street. For sale In Ogden by W. G. Kind. IK 23th street; Jas. II. Crockwell. 242 23th street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South street. For sale In Washington. D. C by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale Iff Denver, Colo., by Hamilton Kendrick, 'joa-912 Seventeenth street: Louthan aV Jackson Book c Stationery Co., Fifteenth and latwrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy: slight ly warmer during the afternoon; variable winds, mostly northerly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 4S deg.; minimum temperature, 38 cleg.; precipitation, trace. roriTX.AAD, SUNDAY, APRIL. 12, 1003. THE USE OP THE HOUSE. Again there Is a lively demand for the horse, at good to high prices. Which means, of course, that horses, especial ly good ones, are scarce. A few years ago many horsebreeders seemed dis posed to give up In despair. Hence the scarcity of horses now. But there never can be more than a temporary interruption of the demand for good horses; and now the business Is better, perhaps, than ever it was In Oregon. Of all animals, the horse is the most useful and the most beautiful. With out the horse it is doubtful whether man ever could have reached any stage of real civilization. Man In America had no horse; and students of the primitive conditions of the human race hold that the want of the horse was one of the chief reasons why man in America though he had dwelt for ages here had made little progress, and probably never could have made more. In America there was no animal of su perior strength to do the work of man; no animal fleet of foot to aid man's slow Jocomotlon. Steam and electricity have relieved the horse of much .of his drudgery; but the farm work and country work must still be done by the horse till the land shall contain so many human lnhab? ltants that there will be no room for the horse, and agricultural labor will be done with human hands, as now In many parts of the Old -World. But this is not a hopeful prospect; for it means human degradation. There seems now lees probability than a while ago of general use of the automobile. It is used mainly by those who make n. fad of It, and who must be devoted for the time to one fad or an other. On certain avenues of large cities it is used for conveyance of pas--sengers, but little or nothing can be done with it where the streets are very thronged. Besides, it is a dangerous machine, both to those who ride in it and to those within reach of It, Those 'OR pleasure bent, except a few faddists, will always turn to the horse, that is certain; for no horseless vehicle can give the satisfaction one feels when be hind a span of quick-stepping horses. Doubtless the horse, as the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" says, is an ex pensive luxury and not for all purses. 'but neither are many other things that go to make up the pleasures of the world; and the automobile Is more ex pensive than the horse. We cannot all live In "huts of very plain brown- stone," fronting on the boulevard, .such ns "The Autocrat" Bays he would have contented himself with; we cannot have .galleries of rare works of art and rich Karnlture in general; but If we are healthfully constituted we con look at these things In the possession of others -and take pleasure In the sight. So we can visit the horse show and get sat lsfactlon, if we will. But who could -ever be delighted with the sight of a park filled with automobiles? The horse will always be with us. Other methods of locomotion never will EUperscdo him. HOW rORTLAJfD CAME TO WIV At last the nine young men wearing gray uniforms with brown trimmings, known to the good citizens of Port' land as the Portland Browns, have broken Into the percentage column. From March 26 to April 10 these sturdy young men lost ball games in a manner that turned the hair of Portland fans gray. The victory to the Browns Frl day came none too soon. The loss of another game and another wait of twenty-four hours would, have been more than the shattered nerves of the local fans could have stood. Statistics compiled by the light of Friday night's moon show that at least twenty of Portland's leading business men fans of the deep and double-dyed hue would have been candidates for the mental-repair factory at Salem. The Browns have won their first game of course they did. How the news through the city went flying! And they followed It up by winning an other nerve-racking contest yesterday. Mlrabile dlctu! The Initial victory did not surprise several of Portland's most rabid fans. They had called upon ProDhet Gaston Wlnagame. that swarthy man, with a face of crimson. who carries about with him bags of snakes, bundles of scourges of terrible fury, three-legged birds of evil omen caught In the midnight with" the sore cry of ancient Egypt, with herbs that calm like the drug of Juliet's monk, with lightning stored from the wrath of the opposition. Prophet Wlnagame fastened. Xlt& jnaJeeUc silence to the pleadings of the fans. Twice over and again they begged and supplicated, and their talk fell not Upon ears that beard not. While the pleaders were still pleading Prophet Wlnagame slowly arose and pointed with his quivering Index finger southward toward Sacramento. Ills Ella Wheeler Wllcox-llke figure rose to Its full height" and his Marconi sys tem began to work. Fans felt the psychic vibration, but they were cour ageous, so they waited. Slowly, the prophet began to talk: "I have read Latin by the moon, and I have delved Into the mysteries of the differential calculus as the equinoctial was at Its height: I have with me a rabbit's foot, that has drawn mystic circles around the shrine of the first Barneses, and I have read Browning. Stop! that's the word. Browning the Browns. Tomor row theywln. Go home now, you fans, while I mix me broth that will stop the winning streak of Mlque Fisher's Sen ators. I have sworn In two languages that the Browns shall win the time set is Good Friday." JIAVS PLACE IX THE I'XIVKIISE. Beneath the sky two contending armies of faith array themselves the mlnlmlzers and the exalters of the hu man race. Is man a being of Godlike majesty lit for the companionship of his Maker throughout eternity, made In the image of God and but a little lower than the angels, or Is he a mere speck the sunbeam of time, a negligible maggot in the great cosmic cheese? It would be a fascinating study to show from how many points of view this greatest of the themes of thought may be approached. The riddle has been sought in the alembic of the al chemist, the soul of the seer, the lens of the a.Uronomer. There are argu ments from design, arguments from analogy, arguments from conscious ness. Yet the question seems open to argument still. The last word has as suredly not been said, and, while in old Omar's time. Inquirers were wont to frequent doctor and saint, today they seek the man of science and the philosopher, but aye come out at the same door wherein they go. Materialism may not be true, but it is at least logical and impressive. To peak in its terms, we may say that. given a universe of primordial nebula. we should be In a fair way to get In the ordinary course of Inescapable law, just about the circumstances and the life we know. There is no alternative of the hypothesis that two and two are four, or that a diameter multiplied by 3.14159! gives you the circumference, or the precession of the equinoxes, or the effect of tidal action, or the persistence of force, or the law of gravity, or the adaptation of organisms to their en vironment by the process of natural se lection. Given matter as It Is. and laws whose opposite we can scarcely conceive. an& there you have the uni verse as It is today, conditioned only upon the requisite lapse of tfme. We are tempted sometimes to give thanks for things that could hardly have been otherwise. It Is not surpris ing, for example, that the earth is so admirably adapted to man's abode, if we consider the fact that man Is the product of these same conditions. That the human frame fits Into the exterior mold In which it finds Itself is. no mere wonderful than it is to find a bouse look green which has been painted with green paint. It looks remarkable, at first bluBh, to see the amphibian so cleverly hooked up for both land and sea subsistence; but It becomes quite a matter of course when we reflect that he would have been swept out of existence long ago but for this fortunate equipment, and that Innumerable comrades of his have lived but a day because they found themselves unable to withstand cnvl ronment with their Imperfect prepara tion. Every surviving species In this great graveyard of a planet Is the happy exception among multitudes that have swarmed into existence in our prolific air, earth and sea, only to be wiped away by pitiless fate. It is as if we should stand on the ocean shore on the morning after a great storm and marvel at the loving care which bad bestowed upon the sole sur vivor a Ufe-buoy, a raft, a rugged con stitutlon and an iron win, with no thought of the hundred other wretches who went down In the waves, with none to hear their cry or lend a hand or carry the dying message to true hearts at home. Man Is the product of the earth; and It is quite the necessary thing that he should And upon It things adapted to his use. Out of a hundred useless mln erals, he picks out coal to warm him. Its carbon combines with oxygen to make heat. This is not providence, but necessity: for only by these laws of chemistry was the globe Itself possible. Morning succeeds night, and Spring the Winter, but so It must be with every globe like ours, and so It is with num berless ones that have no beings to rejoice at It. Such life as the planet could support would have perforce bred and fought and brought forth Its kind In pain and misgiving, however long the day or night, however inclined the axis to the orbit Man, beast and plant take their lives because Just such lives and only such can survive in the cir cumstances. The naked globe is no more fitted to the abode of civilized man than the rough ore in the iron mine is fitted to support a sky-scraper or turn the. wheels of your admirable split-second Waltham- Irameasurably far as this view of roan is from the calm abode of the poet and prophet, it is somewhat reassur ing, on the whole, to be reminded, as by Mr. Alfred kussci Wallace, tn late number of the Independent, that stern-browed Science herself Is some times fain to come back to the ancient dream of man as the child of Deity, descended from the gods, bestowed from eternity with Immortality, and the central figure In the cosmic plan. The unique position occupied by man In the theology of the early world measurably countenanced by Mr. Wal lace In his astronomical estimate of the solar system as the approximate cen ter of the universe, and of the earth as the only habitable body In the sys tern. In a later Issue of the Independ. ent, Mr. Wallace's speculations are dis credited by Professor W. H. Pickering. of Harvard Observatory, who never theless inclines to agree with him that, with one possible exception In the case of Mars, our sister planets are unln habited. He also believes that man the most Intelligent animal In the unl verse, and that the earth Is of such antiquity that If an angel had visited It once every 100,000 years he would perhaps have -come a thousand times since oar planet was launched Into space. But only on his last visit would he havryound life upon it. Mr. Wallace ja not an astronomer, u Professor Pickering seems at some needless pains to emphasize, but his aclentlflc training -and method ore not to be lightly set aside. Moreover, the great Englishman's suggestions are strikingly in line with those offered some years ago by Dr. T. J. J. See. now of the Naval Observatory at Washington. It we remember aright. Professor Pickering 'was at one time associated with Dr. See In the Flag staff and Mexican observations, upon which Dr. See's conclusions were based; and it is simply unaccountable that he treats this subject so fully without mention of those conclusions; principal of which, as regards the ques tion In hand, was 'that throughout space there is no evidence -of another such orderly and beautiful system as we of the sun's family enjoy. It Is perhaps worth remarking, incidentally, that if man were contemplated as the end of creation, the process adopted would necessarily have been just about what we see in operation. There are but two exDlahations of the universe God and chance. Dar winism, wherever design is shut out, is simply chance. In all the multitudi nous combinations which heredity poured forth upon the earth and sea- only those fortuitously fitted to their environment "chanced" to survive. The green bug does not live upon the green leaf because Nature kindly provided him that Invisible cloak, but merely because he alone out of the myriads of many colors escaped the enemy's de vouring eye. The heron of the light ning beak and noiseless feet Is not de signedly endowed for survival; It Is only that his thousand companions. formed by chance In different shapes. perished from sheer maladroltness by starvation. Man himself Is man, slm ply because chance combined in him the brain for memory and the Hps for speech. But when all 1b said and done, the ul timate appeal, tllogically, perhaps, but certainly, and especially at the Eas- tertlme. Is to consciousness. The as tronomer and evolutionist come back at last to the question. Is this august procession of wonders to terminate in a mere speck on the wheel of time? Is man, with all the aspirations of his deepest nature, a sort of false alarm In Nature, and Is conscience as the voice of God within the soul to be pro nounced a hoax? It is flattering to man's vanity .to think that he Is born for the eternal years; that though his feet are on the clay, his soul may com mune with the Infinite God; that in the highest heaven, whither bis thought so loves to soar, there may be thought also of him. It Is a vision, whether true or false, that has possessed the noblest minds, the loftiest, the most steadfast. It Is the cry of Tennyson: Thou madeet man he knows-not why. He thinks he was not made to die. And thou hast made him. thou art just! WHO AHE THE WEAKLINGS f In more than one of President Roose velt's public addresses there Is the as sertion that our civilization will become 'a brutal sham and a mockery if dur ing this century the men of high and fine moral sense show themselves weak lings; If they possess only that clots- tered virtue which shrinks shuddering from contact with the raw facts of actual life; If they dare not go down Into the hurly-burly where the men of might contend for the mastery: If they stand aside from the pressure and con filet." The President, of course, does not mean by "craven a" ancUeak lings" the Invertebrate children who have inherited superfluous wealth from their parents;. for this class is too small and too Inconsequential to be other than a cheap man of straw, a punch lug-bag for the President's .flat. The President's pugnacity sometimes seems to interfere with his power of philo sophic thought. His language some times Is that of a man who places the physical above the moral forces In the attainment of a high and enviable and enduring civilization. He seems at times to speak. If he does not think, in the spirit of a military chieftain rather than a statesman. The American people are prone to sharp differences of opinion on public questions; but It does not make the; American people open to the epithets of "cravens" or "weaklings" because many of them, while they do not fear Just and honorable war, nevertheless prefer the victories of peace. A Chi cago Journal, Public Policy; pronounces Mr. Roosevelt's discourse false In spots. saying that no man possessing a "high and fine moral sense has ever been or can ever be a weakling. Civilization became possible through the courage of such men. It-Js maintained and ad vanced by their courage today. All the brutality, sham and mockery there is in our civilization comes from brute strength divorced from a 'high and fine moral sense.' From men possess. Ing a high and fine moral sense have come all of the great man-ennobling movements that, mark epochs of true advancement In the history of the world." The point Is well taken. It does not reflect upon the sincerity, the strength of character and wholesome energy of President Roosevelt, but It reveals his disposition to talk as if the "hurly burly," the "raw facts of life," stood chiefly for the struggle of brute force and a wrestle with cold steel. He who thinks that men of high and fine moral sense are In danger of showing them selves weaklings has read history with a careless eye. "Great Captains, with their guns and drums, disturb our judgment for the hour, but at last si lence comes." Behind the guns and drums of Grant stood Lincoln, of whose high and fine moral sense Grant was but the military executive. The great est and rarest man of our struggle was Its man of high and fine moral sense, the modest and shy Lincoln, who could be drawn Into politics only by a great cause whose success appealed to him strongly when personal ambition could not attract him. The great side of Cromwell was not his soldiership, but the conscience and courage' of his statesmanship, which rested on his piety and moral sense. Cromwell and Hampden, like our own Washington and Lincoln, were men who were drawn out of comparative retirement Into the "hurly-burly" because the voice of duty, not the trumpet call of ambition, started them to their feet. Tjj talk about men of "high moral sense show. Ing themselves weaklings" is a contra- diction in terms, for such men are never weaklings in any life struggle that stands for high public or private duty. Nobody hates war more In tensely than a conscientious clergyman. yet it was a very shy. inodest clergy man who fell leading a charge at Fred ericksburg, and another clergyman who was a Captain In the Tenth Massachusetts-fell at the Wilderness; Professor Chamberlain, of Bowdoln 'College, led , the Maine regiment that saved Little Round Top. There were many clergy mea tn. our Wetvtera Army, and no braver mea won sore glory -where "there were, many brave men and there was much glory." ISapoIeon was thi malHt exemDlar of the Strenuous life the world ever saw: but we do not rate him as a great er force in the world's permanent life than Shakespeare, who was the genius of contemplation rather than of drum and trumpet action in war and politics. Cervantes did Ms duty tn the hurly burly of the great sea .fight of Lepanto, but the Immortal part of Cervantes, his high and fine moral sense. Is not sought for in his contribution to the world of warlike sturt and strife. The Christian world could better have lost Lepanto than to have been without "Jon Quixote." Webster was. a man of strenuous life compared with Dr. Charming, but Dr. Charming, because he Was a man. of high and fine moral sense, showed far more moral courage lnh!s anti-slavery attitude than Webster. His pulpit brethren were against him; his parish ioners und friends- had no sympathy with his views; he did not naturally love controversy and opposition; he had no natural Joy of the conflict; he had a delicate, small, weak body and no physical pugnacity, but he ruled down his natural timidity of temper. and his latest biographer says of him that he "did not generally require the trumpet of fame to be so'inded before the man to whom he lent sympathetic ear. If he came with any plea for a hu mane consideration of a just and righteous cause." Feeble in body, mild In temper, Dr. Channlng was not afraid of his rich, aristocratic congre gation, which was so bigoted that a lady lost her seat in a private pew be cause she asked Garrison to sit with her. Webster, powerful In body and mind, was afraid of his party, afraid of his own fame, and he manifested less moral courage than delicate little Dr. Channlng, whose spirit triumphed over his weak flesh simply because he was a man of high and fine moral sense: he followed the flag of his conscience more heroically than did Daniel Web ster, despite the fact that Channlng had the frail physique and the gentle spirit that Is associated in the rude .popular mind with what la termed "a cloistered virtue." But- it was the frail-bodied Channlng that in the hour of trial and danger was a braver and better soldier of the cross than the stalwart, leonine Webster. There Is a trifle too much of Carlyle's apotheosis of mere brute force in the evolution of modem civilization in Mr. Roosevelt's indictment of "weaklings" and "cravens" in American life. We grant that the world would be an un cleared wilderness without the man of Jacksonlan force and fighting quality, but we should not forget that the world would be nothing but a monot onous vast wheat farm, a world of nothing but coal, cotton and corn, of ships and stocks, without "the man of high and fine moral sense," whose winged spirit expresses itself in out ward form of action and speech Instinct with thrilling and Inspiring spiritual aspiration. Moral force, however, need not be divorced from physical force. In the last resort or analysis, it is the abil ity to fight that tells and decides. Moral force needs physical strength to give It effectiveness In the world of. deeds. A CUEBUFII. CHEED AJCD ITS APOSTLES. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, erstwhile poet ess of "passion," now apostle of "new thought,-" Is with us. The extrava- ganza of her first poems is equaled by the optimistic philosophy of her pres ent creed. This Is saying a good deal. but one has only to glance through her latest volume to realize the truth of the statement. Her creed is a cheerful one. and parts of It are particularly welt fitted to minister to the self-compla cency of people whose lines have fallen In pleasant places. For example, she exhorts everybody to throw away their old clothes In the Spring and Fall and get new ones, declaring that there is hew strength, repose of mind and In sptratlon In fresh apparel." The prac tical woman, .who must wear her old clothes, with such furbishing as her limited means and tact In making over permits, assents readily to this theory. but rising far information would ask the cheerful apostle how she would manage to reduce it to practice, were her husband working-on a salary of 60, or even $100, a month, and the children from four to six in number were, be cause of tt Winter's rampant growth between them and their Fall outfitting. each and all needing new clothes? Qod gives Nature new garments every season; we are a part of Nature,' says this serene advocate of new clothes. This Is logic worthy of a poet the logic of a woman who has for the asking everything she wants; but It can hardly be found conclusive to the woman who must make the most of limited means in keeping herself and her family re spectably clad. A statement that ap plies to the lilies of the field with beauty and sufficiency has long ago been discarded as Inapplicable to hu man bodies, which, unfortunately for this theory, do not grow their own cov ering. But when. In continuing her dis quisition upon "old clothes," Mrs. Wilcox says, "When I read of a wealthy man who boasts that be has worn one hat seven years, or a woman in affluent circumstances who has worn one bonnet for various seasons, I feel sorry for their Ignorance and ashamed of their penurtousness," she voices a sentiment to which none but sordid and penurious souls will demur. A further statement of creed, which may be cheerfully Indorsed by persons not too practical. Is that which declares that "right thinking pays large divi dends." She urges all to -think success, prosperity, usefulness, adding: "It is much more profitable than thinking self-destruction, or the effort at self-destruction, for that Is an act that aims at an impossibility." The last clause Is, of course, a matter of opin ion or belief But when she adds, "You will only change your location from one state to another, you djd not make yourself, you cannot unmake yourself. you can. merely put yourself among the spiritual tramps that hang about earth's borders, because they have not prepared a better place for them selves," she prescribes what should prove & strong tonic to the would-be suicide the man or woman who Is con templating a "cheap, vulgar, cowardly thing," Again, when Mrs. Wilcox says "It Is an unpardonable sin to talk dlscourag. ingly to human souls hungering for hope." she states strongly a simple truth concerning those "who should know better than to add to the mental m&larla. of the X.orH." Finally, the woman who would "rathe be a tender hearted reformed, sinner than a hard hearted model of good behavior." who would "rather learn sympathy through star than not leanr it at aM." who- de clares that there is nothing- that can not be lived down, risen above and 1 overcome, does well to promulgate her creed, even tf It Is not unmixed with much that Is visionary. Impractical and unreal, and is heralded under the catch-name of "the new thought." WOXEX ASD TUB FAIR. The opinions of Mr. M. H. De Young, of San Francisco, to the effect that a woman's department at an exposition is a certain and persistent breeder of con tention, and his advice to us to avoid trouble and expense by eliminating the proposed woman's department from our plans, have not escaped criticism. It was only a few days ago that a Pen dleton paper. In something like a spasm of manly gallantry, rushed to the de- fens: of our "mothers, wives and daughters" not to mention our "sisters. cousins and aunt-upon the very much strained assumption 'that Mr. De Young had said something very unkind. And there have been other champions who have felt or at least declared that lovely woman has been grievously out raged by Mr. DeYoung"s opinions. Mr. DeYoung needs no defense. His statement was In answer to questions asked him by The Oregontan. It was a courteous response on the part of a man of experience in such matters to our desire for the results of his ex perience. He said simply and with no tone of disrespect to womankind that he had never been able to discover any real distinction between man's work and woman's work; that work was work, no matter who did it; that he saw no point In making a line of distinction where there was none in reason or fact. He said, further, that his observation of women's departments of expositions had taught him that they cost an amount of money entirely out of pro portion to the results which they brought about; that In the organization of the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco one of the pre-eminently successful of American expositions, by the way he had "cut out" anything like a distinct ive woman's department, and had not been able to see that anything had been lost thereby. It was, he said, universal experience that a woman's department was a source of annoying problems of precedence and of a veritable sinkhole of expense, since few women had suf ficient experience In the administration of large affairs to .do business upon business principles and to make the most of funds put Into their hands. He declared that there la work in plenty for women to do In connection with an exposition; but it is not a work' calling for a special departmental organization. As well, he said, have a, distinctively man's department as a woman's depart ment. Mr. DeYoungs opinions were given by The Oregontan for what they are worth without discussion; we do not now commend or. apologize for them; they are the result of much experience. and they merit careful consideration. unbiased by passion or hysteria. No question of the "dignity" or "respect' for womanhood is Involved In It; It Is simply a matter of business expediency. and was so presented by Mr. DeYoung, But his advice finds some color of con flrmatlon in questions which are raised in connection with an organization of women in promotion of the Exposition a few days back. A. week has not passed since this or ganization was effected or alleged to be effected, and already the halrpulllng to speak metaphorically has begun. On the one hand, the desire of the club women to erect a building on the Pair- grounds, without expense to the asso ciation, la altogether commendable; and on the other, the effort, under direction of the proper committee, to arouse In terest among the women. Is entirely proper and not subject to criticism. We should say that the clubwomen should be encouraged In every way pos sible; and at the same time that the directors ore wine In declining to re strict the participation of women to those with club memberships. There should be welcome and a place for women who do not believe In clubs as well as for those -that do. TUB MATERIALS OP HISTORY The Oregonlan Is In receipt of an ad vance print of volume 16, series 1, of, the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies In the War of the Rebellion." This volume gives the op erations of the South Atlantic blockad ing squadron from October 1. 1S63, to September 30. 18-J4. The reports and correspondence ore placed chronolog ically. In the record of events In which both sides took part, the Confed erate reports, when they could be ob tained. Immediately follow the Union reports, while the miscellaneous Con federate correspondence la placed at the end of the volume. The roost Impor tant event covered by these official rec ords Is the bombardment of Fort Sum ter, October 28 to November 10, 1863, by the Ironclad fleet of Admiral Dahlgren. The bombardment, supported by the fire of our land batteries, reduced Fort Sumter to a heap of ruins, but left it still In a defensible condition against boat parties attempting to occupy it. The work of preparing for publication these official records of the Union and Confederate navies was begun in July, 1SS1; their publication was finally au thorized by Congress In July, ISO, and began In that year. The first series of the naval records of the Civil War em brace the reports, orders and corre spondence, both Union and Confeder ate, relating to all naval operations on tne Atlantic ana uuii coasts mm ui land waters of the United States during the contest. The second series em braces the reports, orders and corre spondence relating to the condition of the Union Navy In 1861, and the con struction and outfit of the Confederate navy, including privateers. Thus far the reports ot the union commanders are found to be full and fairly complete, but the Confederate records are far from complete, which Is due to the great difficulty found in collecting them, and also to the fact that a large part of the archives ot the Confederate Navy Department at Kicnmona was burned at the close of the war when Lee's army evacuated the city. The collection and publication by our Government of the military and naval official records, both Union and Con federate, cannot be too highly com mended. History depends" for its ac curacy on a complete collection and comparison ot its materials, and full 'materials can seldom be had until Ions after the events with -which the his torian deals have transpired. The major portion of our enlarged history of the Civil War has been written within the last-twenty years, beginning with the publication of the Scrfbher se ries, "Campaigns of the Civil War." prepared by distinguished soldiers, to whom the Governraent and. other custom dlans of records and special Informa tion, extended every aid In their power. This was followed by the Century war papers, which served to correct or con firm earlier histories from fuller and more complete materials, and even within the last five years important ad ditions and corrections have been made by the publication of the military mem oirs of General J. M. Schofield and his able lieutenant. General J. D, Cox. since Greeley's "American Conflict" was published In IS65, Grant. Sherman. Sheridan. Pope, Porter, McClellan, Humphreys and other eminent 'soldiers have published the history of the great campaigns In which they took the lead ing or on Important personal part: and the Confederate side of the great strug gle has been fully told In the memoirs of Joe Johnston, Beauregard. Hood. Longs tree t, Forrest. D. H. Hill and Jef ferson Davis. The best Confederate books are those of Beauregard. Long- street and Joe Johnston. The best war books on the Union side ore those of Humphreys, Schofield and Cox. There are' also a large number of carefully prepared books like the "Life and Cor respondence" of General Thomas KUby Smith and General M. F. Force, men whose superior ability, intelligence and professional attainments brought them Into very near and confidential official relations with Grant and Sherman. A1J this material Is valuable for the light It helps to cast, on the Inner side of the conflict; but the most valuable materi als of history, of course, are the official reports, both Union and Confederate, already published by the Federal Gov ernment, to which the War Department is now preparing to add a complete roster of the officers and enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies. Secretary Root holds that It is only fair to the South to make a list of its soldiers for the benefit of posterity, and he, has sent a letter to the Governors of all the states which furnished troops for the Confederate armies, asking for their co-operation. We are nearly eighty-eight years from the battle of Waterloo, and yet we are only today getting at the whole truth of Napo leon's military and political career and character. The authentic materials for a full and accurate history of our great Civil War are not yet exhausted: they are accumulating every day In the pub- llcatlon of official records, regimental histories, private diaries and memo randa of civic and military function aries of high responsibility and unsul lied reputation for veracity. Another thirty years may pass away before tne materials for a complete history will all be collected, sifted and digested by tne historian. A curious "christening" Is scheduled to take place a, Cramps' shipyard next month. The new Turkish warship Medjldl will slip from the ways, and the Sultan has asked Miss Alice Roose velt to "christen" her. In common use. to christen is to name, and this is all there is of the ceremony in the cose of a warship. But in point ot lacs, to christen Is to bestow a Christian name. 'Medjldl" will hardly coma under this head, since the vessel will belong to a Mohammedan and not a unnstian na tion, notwithstanding her so-called- 'chrlstenlng." The payment ot certain Turkish debts to American citizens was arranged for in the contract made witn the Cramps for building this snip. These payments being covered in the contract price of the vessel, the Sultan thereby escaped direct payment, ana Incidentally prevented a horde of Eu ropean claimants from calling upon him for settlement. Diplomacy enters into this matter. There are other American claims nnd certain demands for the extension of privileges to American missionaries In Turkey pend ing. To secure an adjustment of these the good will of Abdul Hamld is neces sary. Therefore Miss Kooseveu wm no doubt officiate at the ceremony oi christening the warship of an un-Chris- tion nation, as requested. Until within relatively recent years Presidents ot the United States have not Journeyed far from Washington. President Hayes was first to break this record by pushing out to the Pacific Coast. President Harrison followed some years later, and President McKinley made a brave but futile attempt two rears aro to cover the route which President Roosevelt has undertaken. Each of his predecessors In this line traveled more leisurely than President Roosevelt Is doing. It 13 easy to see that his rest in Yellowstone Park will be that of a strenuous man. out for all that there Is In the trip. However, he will be, relieved from speechmaklng and handshaking during the time that he is lost to an admiring constituency In the solitudes of the great park. Hence, even If he goes gunning for mountain Hons, rises early and tramps late, he will enjoy the rest that comes from getting tired in a new direction. Marian Fergus Woolman, of Burling ton. N. J., lately a pupil of Vossar Col lege, and possessed of a fortune oi iw, 000, being Impressed with the usefulness of Salvation Army methods In reaching and reclaiming the lowly and degraded, has lately become a zealous worker In the Salvation Army barracks and on the streets. Her friends marvel at her strange choice of labor and position. even as did those of Miss Drexel. of Philadelphia, heiress to an independent fortune, who a few years ago entered a convent, nut tne young woman is firm In her determination to direct her efforts and means into what she consid ers a channel for good, and her voice Is heard nightly in singing and ex- hortation upon the streets. Who shall say that she has not made better use of her talent than if she had buried It In a petty title and gone to live an Idle, aimless life abroad? A bill Is before the New York Assem- blv calling October 14 "Discovery day" and making It a legal holiday 'in that state. It Is well to be exact about a fact of this kind, if it is to be crystal lized Into a holiday, and thus brought annually to the attention of the public. In this view the date of this Incubating holiday should be October 12, thus mak ing it correspond with a simple state ment of history. A. E. Reames. of Jackson County, the Democratic nominee for Representative in Congress for the First District, is a young man of good ability and good character. He will poll the entire vote of his party, but hardly anything more. 'The necessity of supporting and vindi cating the Roosevelt Administration is understood: and Mr. Hermann mere- fore should be sent bock to Washing ton. K0TE AND COMMENT. - The hoodoo Is off! The Browns are still climbing. , This' is the birthday of the Spring bon net. J. Pierpont Morgan Is to build a 8,W mansion- It's up to Andrew Carnegie to give hist a good library. Somebody once made the remark that swell clothes ' make the man. In these days of high-priced tailors they generally break him. The blacksmiths have raised, the price for shoeing horses, and these useful ani mals are probably rery glad thlt they da not have to foot the bills. Dr. Frederick de Forest Heald. now professor In biology in Parsons College. Iowa, has been elected, to the position of adjunct professor of plant physiology and general bacteriology In tba University ot Nebraska. When the hold-up artist wm arrested at A-torla, the police announced that Port land would be free from this sort of crime for a while. Now a new artist has put In his appearance. How inconsid erate he is for the feelings ot the police! Sintiam, Oregon. April 11. (to the Ed itor 1 see by the Oregon! in .paper that Tlllie Johnson sex she wrote some potery that was In your paper the other day. and allso sex she has moved to Sclo. I wud like to say that the reason she went to Sclo was becux she would not pay me her bord bill for 2 months. I don't think the potery blxnts pays. An'ny way it don't pay me. Fleze publish" this and oblldge yourn. LEM. WITHERBEE. Proprietor of Wltherbee's Hotel, ritea reasonable. "The contractor for the New York rapid transit subway recently stated," says the Electrical Review, "that owing to the great developments In electrical art. a generation of electricity Is now only three years. This Is a startling announcement and sets one to thinking- What becomes ot all tbe old machinery and who pays for the new? How long will It be before a company can install a plant and feel as sured that the machinery will not have to come out within a year or two? Does not this continual scrapping of machinery mean a loss somewhere?" A Tale of a Miner In Rhyme. An old miner from over the Rhine, Worked every day In his mhlne. Though he grew very old. He never found gold. Tot t that metal there was cot a shine. In a stove tn his old log eahln nUh, Ho placed giant powder to drlgh: And the Coroner frowned. For all that he (owned Was a scalp-lock, a hat and a Ugh. The Prodigal's netnrn. The Prodigal returned homeward. And when he was yet a long way off his father saw him. and was filled with com passion, and ran to him, and fell on his neck; and kissed him. The Prodigal was deeply moved by the show ot feeling and said: Father, I am minded to speak on en Important subject. A little roast veal" and he hesitated, fearing to proceed. 'Alas! my son," exclaimed the father. T know your thoughts, but I am unable to comply with your desires. We have no. fatted calf It It haa been absorbed by the- beet trust," and the father went bit terly. -So?" muttered the son with a slsh. "Yes," sild the father, and ' continued weeping bitterly. "We Jive on canned meat now." The Prodigal wiped a solitary tear on his sleeve, and went the way he came. Battle of Waterloo. Lord Byron. There was a sound of revelry hy night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then' Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brava men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with Its voluptuous swell. Soft eyes-looked love o eyes which spake again. And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear KT No: 'twas but the wind. Or the car rattling o er me stony iura. On with the dance! let Joy be- uaconflned! No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet Hut. hark that heavy sound breaks la once more. As ft the clouds Its echo would repeat: And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before: Arm! arm! It Is It Is the cannon s opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's rated cmenatn; ne aia near That sound the first amidst the fesUval, And caught Its tone with Death's prophetic ear: And when they smiled because n aeemea it near. His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier. And roused the vengeance blood alone could auell: He rushed Into tbe Held, and. foremost fighting. tell. ah? ihn and there was hurrying to and fro. And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress. And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise ot tneir own iovinnc3. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, ana cnoung- Which ne'er might be repeated: who could guess If evermore should meet those mutual eyeo. Since upon night so sweet sucn awiui mom could rise! And there was mounting In not r,""-.1"' The mustering squadron, ana mo Went pouring forward with Impetuous speed, . . , .... Mha f arnr- Ana swiruy lormms m And the deep thunder peal on peal alar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; while thronged tne ciuiena. wm. irny. Or whispering with white lips: "The foe! they come! they come; And wild and high the "Cameron s gathering" The war-note of LochleU which Albyn'a hills Have heard and heard, too, have her Baxea foes; How In the noon of night that pibroch thrills. Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fiU tbe mountaineers With the fierce naUve daring which lnsuus The stirring memory of a thousand years. And Evan's, Donald's fame, rings In each clansman's ears! And Ardennes wave above them her green iMTH. Dewy with nature's teardrops, as they paas. Grieving. If aught Inanimate e'er grieves.. Over the unreturnlng brave alas! Ere evening to De troaaen uae ue grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In Its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valor, rolling on the foe. And burning with high hope, shall molder cold and low. Lajt noon beheld them full of lusty life. Last eve In Beauty's circle proudly gay, Tbe midnight brought signal sound of strife. The morn the marshaling tn arms the' cay Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er It, which when rent. The earth la covered thick with other clay. Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent. Rider and horse friend, foe la one red burial blent!