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The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solicits, tlon. Ko stamps should be Inclosed for this pur pose Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, oJSce -at 1U1 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Bex S55. Taoema postoSlce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune building, New York city; -The Rookery," Chicago; the 6. C Beckwith special agency, New York. For sale in San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 748 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros., 236 Sutter-street Per 6ale ip Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 2X7 Dearborn street TODAY'S TVEATHBRi-OccasIonai rain, with brisk southerly winds. PORTX.AXI1, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11 MERELY" SEWaCTMEBfTAI, POLITICS. All men are entitled to liberty, but it is civic liberty, not the liberty -of sav age freedom. Liberty fs for every peo ple, but national freedom is not for every people, for every people cannot maintain civic liberty. The root of the mistake made by such men as Senator Hoar, in their talk about our position In the Philippine islands, lies in their assumption that ali men are equal in their capacities and powers, as they are equal or ought to be equal in their personal and property rights; and therefore that every creature in the form of a human being ought to par ticipate in government, and that every people has the divine right to natural independence, -whether it have actual fitness for self-government, ior not, or can maintain a government with jus xice and freedom, or not. This is a theoretical, sentimental and therefore practically aibsurd view of human na ture and human affairs. Senator Hoax's criticism on Senator Beveridge -was that the latter's speech did not contain the words "justice,-" "liberty," "right," "freedom." It was sl speech of practical sense, and duty that Senator Beveridge delivered; not a speech of theories and platitudes. "Wherever the American flag may be planted, as the symbol of American au thority and institutions, justice, liberty, right and freedom attend it. The best words in any vocabulary may become words of emptiness and cant. The flag of the United States is a better em blem of liberty and justice than the flag of any semi-civilized or savage tribe of the Philippine islands Mr. Hoar's theories" to the contrary not withstanding. Under the flag of the United States there will be real liberty in the Phil ippine .islands. Under Tagal domina tion there could, at best, be nothing better than a semi-civilized despotism. There may be national independence wfthout liberty or justice for individ uals, but not under the American flag. If Senator Hoar will introduce a res olution or act plainly declaring that the Philippine islands are entitled to na tional independence, and directing the president towithdraw the military and naval forces of the United States im mediately from the islands, the coun try will consider what he may have to say. For this is the only alternative to maintenance of the sovereignty of the United States over the islands. The proposal that we shall assure, them na tional independence and then guaran tee their protection against foreign en emies, is preposterous. "We should soon fcavo enormous indemnity hills to pay, or be involved in a war on account of our proteges, to which the Spanish war would bear only such comparisons as small things bear with great. The w hole question is simply whether the people of the United States desire to keep the Philippine islands or to abandon them. Observe that if we keep them we are doing, no more as to them then "weare doing as to Puerto Hioo. The principle is; exactly the same; the facts exaotiyctJifc same with the only difference thafihe one place is an island in the Atlantic, the other, islands in the Pacific Observe further that if, as Senator Hoar says, we hiive bought the Filipinos a's a flock of sheep, we bought the people of Lou isiana and of California in th,e same way. Your oratorical sentimentalist pays fittle attention to actual facts. He is guided by his emotions or palpi tations; in his hands the greatest words as freedom and justiee, become as cheap as copper counters; he con founds liberty with national independ ence, and1 sees no difference in the ca pacity of men of different races, of men tjlvilizod or uncivilized, for the func tions and responsibilities of govern ment ariji, pqHucal life. He sees no mistake and. contends there was no mistake in .the indiscriminate endow ment with jsuffrage of the negroes of the United Stales jjust delivered from slavery. So hfiTthinks the tribes of the Philippine islands can erect and main tain a government on principles con sistent with justice and freedom. The lessons of the world on such subjects are no lessons to him. He has his fixed idea, called by a great word-coiner "eleutheromania." It is sentimental politics gone to seed. FOR BOYS OXLY. Tuesday "was a proud day for a cer tain woman to whom was born, on a farm in Highland county, Ohio, thirty seven years ago last October, a boy fLat was named Albert Beveridge. The mother is still living, and we may be sure there is no prouder woman in the land today than she whose son's name is upon all lips, as the man who takes front rank among the men of the coun try, by reason of the great speech de livered in the senate. His career is one fit to be set before any boy as an ex ample to emulate. Not that Senator Beveridge is a great man; but his suc cess is already far above the average, and. he has attained it only through making the most of his powers, through humble opportunities, thank fully and laboriously embraced. Mr. Beveridge had no wealthy rela tives to educate him or political influ ence to help him to be supported by government. He has never been an J offtee-sejeker. ATSaong th senators in the cangrcssionalT directory, no "biog raphy" except one is as short as his. 5ts 'events are few. He was" "born on- a farm. His father and brothers were soldiers in the Union army. He was married in 18S7 and elected In 1S99. From other sources We know not only that he made his own way, but that early there- fell to him the support of his widowed mother. He worked on the farm, he sold papers on the streets. He worked his way through school, and he studied law as he could in the in tervals of breadwinnfng. He made friends, not through wealth or social station, for he had neither, but because he was manly and respectful, honest and faithful. He let the saloons alone, but he- was not a prude. He went to church, and is still an earnest Method ist, but without cant or ostentation. There are all kinds of ways of get ting on to the worldv . A man ean get wealth or power, as Croker and Gor man have done, at the expense of "his own conscience and the loss of the re7 spect of mankind. But the price is too .high. The..succeS9 of Mr. Beveridge, who lias raised himself 'from poverty to eminence by honorable methpds,, vis at once a rebuke to demagogues like Bryan, who say a poor man has "no show" in this country, and also a re proach to those who, like Croker, ad vertise to the youth of the country that the way to honor and wealth is through trickery and corruption. Every career like Jthat of Senator Beveridge should be stamped upon the minds of Ameri can boys so that its lessons will never be forgotten. THE MISTAKES OP WOLSELEY. Every severe war is a deadly image breaker. Popular idols perish by its iconoclastic hand. Sometimes the vic tim is a veteran who has done good work in his day but has become senilej through age and the luxurious inactiv ity of a long peace; sometimes he is a man whose military scholarship and nrnfpfinTnil loafTir-nn. tmottIoT is fc--1. J ceptionaHy strong political and social Influence, have rapidly promoted him to supreme command over sterling men "who have learned the profession on the battle-field. Our civil war soon disposed of General Scott, an able sol dier In his prime, but unequal at 73 to the military responsibilities of supreme command. Our civil war also shattered military idols like McCIellan, men of personal gallantry, of sound military scholarship, but unequal to the extraor dinary energy, resolution and moral courage which are demanded of a gen eral upon the battle-field. General Mc CIellan was in bed at 8:30 the morning of the battle of Antietam, when Gen eral Sumner, commanding the Second army corps, reported to himJ:or orders. General Hooker -had -been' in severe ac tion since 8 o'clock with the First corps, and McCIellan was still in bed. That kind of soldier may be a great scholar, or military critic, but he is not likely to make a great military execu tive on the battle-field. Two years of hard fighting, from January, 1862, to January, 1864, also shattered a good many military idols of the Burnslde and Hooker quality, who lacked Mc CIellan, military scholarship and were quite as destitute of moral courage and energy in the field. The searching sternness of the South African war is rapidly pricking the bubble of military reputation that has been represented for many years by Lord "Wolseley, the commander-in-chief of the British army. The London Mail, which has a million subscribers, does not hesitate to hold Lord "Wolseley re sponsible for the blunder of sending an army of foot soldiers to face an army of mounted men, unaccompanied by large bodies of cavalry. "We are glad that this General Wolseley has lived long enough for his country to find him out. "Wolseley is a good Illustration of the old adage that "kissing is won not by merit, but by favor." He is 67 years old, the same as Lord Koberts, and yet while everybody knows that Lord Roberts won his honors by forty years of service in India, including his his toric march from Cabul to Candahar, few well-informed men could tell today why Lord "Wolseley rather than Lord Boberts is at the head of the English army. This man Wolseley served as a subaltern officer in the Burmese war, at Sebastopol, on the staff during the Indian mutiny of 1S57, and the Chinese war of 1860; quelled the first half-breed rebellion of Kiel in Manitoba, captured and burned Coomassle, the capital of Ashantee, a warlike nation of negroes on the west coast of Africa, At Tel-el-Keblr in 1SS2 he put to flight an army of Arab! Pasha's cowardly Egyptians. He undertook to relieve Khartoum, but was so slow that he failed of his ob ject He never commanded to exceed 10,000 white soldiers in action; he never as commander fought a battle against white civilized soldiers in his life, and yet this military snob had the impu dence and ignorance to write this in his published books: Military students in Europe do not pay much attention to the battles of the American war be cause battles conducted by undisciplined and hastily raisrf soldiers have no Interest for the military student of nations with great regular armies-hIghly4ralned-to-the-4ervlce and art of war. General Sherman, an educated sol dier, who had .successfully commanded an army of 100,000 men, sharply called Wolseley down for this assertion. A j very high English authority, Colonel Chesney, contradicted General Wolse ley, and said that there was no such training for soldiers as fighting; that our four years of war had made our soldiers the equal of any in the world; that the actual fighting in our civil war was far more stubborn, as shown by the per cent of loss, than in the Franco-German war. This same Gen eral Wolseley, in his published letters, always insultingly spoke of "Mr." Grant and- "General" Lee and "Gen eral" Jackson. While this man Wolse ley sneered at "Mr. Grant," he did not hesitate in his wisdom to tell General Lee" that he "blundered" in not attack ing Burnslde the next day after his dis astrous repulse before he could recross the river. General Longstreet, in his "Military Memoirs," shows that Lee acted wisely. The Federals had at least 50,000 men who had not been severely engaged; they had a very large and splendid artillery which from the hills completely covered the ground over which Lee would have had to advance, and he would have been only less reck less than Burnside, had he left his de fenses on Ihe. heights for the plain and attacked 'us standing on the defense. Wolseley glorified "Stonewall" Jackson as the great military genius of the Con federacy, when the truth was that Jackson's eccentricity or incapacity, call it what you will, as Longstreet Clearly shows, cost Lee complete vic tory over McCIellan at Gaines' Mill, and especially. a.t Glendale, June 30, 1862, when Jackson's .failure to take the right road 'saved -, McClellan's army, which otherwise- would have heen cut "in twoy'Lee and "destroyed in detail. And this is the kind cf British mili tary snob who is at the head 'of the English army, and is getting found out as a military student and critic and closet soldier as distinguished- from, a great general. He, laughed at pu? American volunteers in the eiyil war when today his boasted British' regit lars retire under less per eenfc-'.of loss than our raw volunteers endured o.n both sides at Bull Bun. Tw.elve pei cent were "lost In killed and wounded at Bull Run, -green troops, before the Northern iines broke, while Methuens "regulars" at Magersfonteln only lost S per cent before they lost all appetita for further advance. IS A CORRUPT OLIGARCHY A RE. I public? The attempt of the anti-expansloh) pull-back democracy to persuade the American people that an edict to extir pate cannibalism should be preceded by "the consent of the governed," thai is, by t the assent of the eaters rather than by the protest of those doomed to be eaten, is calculated to amuse sane and intelligent folk. The mass of the American people are not disposed tobe f poled so far- by a phrase as to remit the government of the Philippines to the rule of a class cf half-civillaed pi rates, who to this day eut the throats in cold hlood of all Intelligent Filipino Insurgents who have made submission to our government. From the Philip pine point of view, assent to the doc trine of "the consent of the governed" when it implies the permission of piracy and the organization of a preda tory community, whose ship of state would be a pirate Malay proa,- Is ab surd enough, but is it more absurd than this ridiculous' apotheosis of the Boers as a republican or democratic form of free government resisting the suprem acy of what Senator Mason, of Illinois, and kindred spirits call "British tyr anny''? We publish elsewhere a letter to the New York Times from a very able and eminent New York lawyer, Thomas G. Shearman, which recites the facts about the governing Boers of the Transvaal, whichprove them to be, what The Oregonlan has always named them, not republics at all in our American or English understanding of the word, but mere obsolete medieval oligarchies, like the Italian states of Venice, Genoa and Florence in the middle ages. Paul Kruger and his political clan are no more fighting the battle of equal political rights and privileges- of repub lican democratic liberty than were the Medici, the despots of Florence, when they . warced ?agafnst Pisa or Rome;, than wasjthfi fepu'6licio'f' Venice 'when it fought that of Genoa for commercial reasons. Paul Kruger, .with his whole Boer "republic" is nothing but a sur vival of obsolete, brutal, political medi evalism, and is a perfect medieval tyrant and a despot who holds both Courts and the legislature firmly by the collar, subject to his ultimate decision The pro-Boer democracy, like the pro Philippine democracy, are really fooled, or pretend to be fooled, Ty -mere phrases. The facts set forth with lawyer-like conciseness and logical precision by Mr. Shearman show plainly that Kruger and his personal and political clan are a band of corrupt creatures, who are naturally making the fight of their lives to save their stake, which Is im mense, in the perpetuity of their oligar chy. The taxes levied by the Trans vaal government since Kruger and his clan invited the presence of foreigners, sold them their lands at enormous prices, exceed $20,000,000, nine-tenths of which" are collected from these foreign settlers. Half of these enormous taxes have been expended in making prep aration for war, and half have been divided among Kruger and his clan. Kruger gets $35,000 a year salary, and has received enormous sums through legislative bonuses on various pre texts. His son-in-law and private secretary lives in a $250,000 house; every , Boer, official Js jtjy hisawn con fession bribed , by -the- Boer" railway company. The 50,000 -foreigners vho built Johannesburg are denied any mu nicipal privileges whatever. There is no free press, and all the courts aie under the thumb of Kruger. who can overrule their action. No business can be done in Pretoria except by bribing Kruger's family and. political and social clan. A RULE TO WORK ONE WAY. We are just through reading the pro tests of California against giving French fruitgrowers access to our mar kets. ."Let them not interfere with us," we can hear them saying; "let them sell to their own. people, and let tariffs be placed .so high as to keep their wares out." It is with something like a shock, therefore, that we come across this dispatch, which appeared in yes terday's papers:' ' " " San Francesco, Jan. 0, Commissioner Kasion. the .negotiator of reciprocity treaties between the United States, and foreign countries, will soon receive a petition, in which the fruit canners of the state and dealers In California canned goods unite. Jn asking him, In negoti ating treaties with foreign countries, to give due consideration to the necessity for Increas ing the exports of California canned fruit, which the petition declares can only be done by material reductions In the tariff placed on said goods by foreign countries. Many signatures to the petition were obtained today In this city. With one breath we demand of con gress to throw away the reciprocity treaty with France because it encour ages trade in fruits, and" with the next we implore Kasson to go ahead with more such treaties. There is no room for error or inadvertence or hurried calculation in this matter. The pur pose is deliberate. Pile on the duties' on. fruit from Europe, but cajole Eu rope into taking down their duties on fruits from us. This is not an inspiriting or a very statesmanlike view of international trade. Through sliarp practice it might for a time be made to prevail. But the destructive tariff, as an engine of com mercial war, is rapidly becoming obso lete. Upon the United States has de scended the mantle of champion of the Open Door. We have left behind stand points from which we .have been wont to view the promotion of, commerce. Old things have passed away, and, be hold, all things have become new. The announcement of the deathat Salem a few days ago of a worthy pioneer woman, known in the early days in the familiar manner character istic of country neighborhoods as "Mrs. Sam Allen," will recall to many men and women, old or growing old, kindly and even tender memories of a farm house on the Ablqua, in Marlon coun ty, where openhanded , hospitality was. dispensed to wayfarers for many years..' And not. alone wayfarers, but the en tire settlement for many miles around shared. upon" '"meeting days1' the mas ter and mistress being stanch Cumber land Presbyterians of their day and generation the generous hospitality of the farmhouse, and went their way stronger spiritually, no doubi, in that the riee'ds of the "perishing body" had been supplied. The faded face shown in The Oxegonian yesterday as a por trait of.this.generous house-mother and devout ehurchwoman- ot a past genera 'tion Tibtds, it may be' said, but little resemblance to the cheery face so widely known in pioneer times, but In its lines a character sketch of kindli ness and endeavor may be traced which needs no elaboration to those whose memories run back to the "early days." We are.aecustomed. to say: The light of a brighter era. Shines on the frontier line, Yet It isadoubtful If any era wilL or can be brighter with the light of true hos pitality arid neighborliness than that f 0 which this woman, whose passing is herein noted, belonged. Secretary Gage has done wisely, if his special report to congress is cor rectly epitomized by the dispatches, in explaining the points raised without going into the general subject of the sub-treasury system and its bearings on currency conditions. The currency experts are theoretically unanswerable in' their contention that absorption of large stims from the circulation embar rasses business, and the corollary is unassailable that this diminution of currency supply outs a responsibility of remedy In some shape on the govern ment. Yet a comprehensive system of deposit of government funds in banks is'not to be undertaken with the non chalance assumed by students of the oretical finance or bankers anxious for government deposits. It is well enough to remember what Director of the Mint Boberts said the other day: No. possible supply of money can prevent stock-exchange panics or -periods of monetary stringency, because speculation and rising- prices will .absorb any possible increase until the pres sure for ready cash la just as great upon the new plane as It -was unon the old. The cry for more money Is as- unappeasable as the de mand for more wealth. A nw supply, Instead of salisfyihg the demand, stimulateo It. As for the accumulation, of funds in the treasury, that is the highest sort of wisdom, in view of the unknown cost of the war upon which' we entered twenty-one months ago'. Many of those who complain of the surplus now would have been merciless in their crit icism and unbounded in their wrath if our preparations in a financial way had proved inadequate. One. thing which greatly hinders Brit ish movements in. South Africa is the rainy season. The earth everywhere is saturated witn water and in many places very soft, rendering movement of wagon trains and artillery difficult; and streams that carry little or no water in the dry season are now raging torrents. In the dry season the Tugela river runs nearly dry. It is nov a for midable stream, and passage of it Is easily obstructed with modem rifles and artillery. The country is hilly and open, much resembling wide stretches of our own interior. There are some stunted trees, but no forests and very little brushwood. The country, with range of modern arms and opportunity of extended view, is admirably suited to. defensive operations in war. Judge O'Day complains that a. few men have got all the money nowadays, and nobody else can get any. We think the judge in error. Money can be got by working for It, the same as ever. There, for example, is the useful occupation of cutting cordwood. Cord wood is wanted, and as good price can be had now for cutting cordwood as could be had in those halcyon days thirty years ago. There Is plenty of money to be had, as of yore, by work ing for it; but it comes a little slow to those of us who want to play at states manship for it. "Believing that the pension roll shotild"bea"roll ol (honor and a sym bol of fidelity to the nation-,' the vet erans of Sedgwick post, G. A. R., at Salem, protest earnestly against the passage of Senator Cullom's bill to "make- deserters from the Union army eligible to pensions. Their resolution does credit to their sense and patriot ism. ., Senator Hoar says he believes Aguin aldo Is "honest and patriotic." He is the same honest and patriotic gentle man who, before the Americans came, had sold out to Spain for something like half a million dollars and left the country. Senator Hoar is a man of ex cellent intentions, but his dpflnitiosS'of honesty and patriotism need revision: General Butter during the civil war refused to surrender escaped negro slaves because they were "contraband of war;" that is,-4the slaves were as much property of-the enemy open to military appropriation and confiscation as Confederate horses, mules or can- non ' ' -i There are democrats who want more expansion. Here Is the New York Journal insisting that the United States ought to buy the Danish West Indies. The price, it says, is a matter of no real importance. J. J. Hill is heavily interested In steamship lines. Yet he has the cour age to denounce the subsidy scheme as "a national scandal and disgrace." It is a testimony that should have weight with thinking men. ' A QUESTION OF FACT. Tesnpe'r mxH Touchiness Will Wot De cide the Delasoa Affair. New York Times. If Great Britain has made a mistake, or a series of mistakes, she is able ana doubtless willing to pay for them. We have seen no evidence of any Irritation on this side, except such as was obviousry worked up for the occasion. That is not apparently true of Germany. The some what hysterical remarks of the German press Irresistibly recall a remark of Stev enson's about the behavior of the Germans In Samoa: "Touchy themselves, they react all history In the light of personal ar fronts." Given this state of mind, and it is, not wonderful that the German press should see, in the attempt of Great" Brit ain to keep recruits and arms and ammu nition out of the Transvaal, nothing but a deep-laid plot to Insult and humiliate Germany. The German government has shown Itself superior to nonsense o this kind. But one of the misfortunes of tne situation is that just now the German government has a reason for not discour aging It, In the urgency of its own desire for an increase of the navy. The govern ment, in willing to have Its own purpose advanced by argumento never so flimsy. And; of- course, it has not escaped the- at tention of the German government that the .seizure of. German steamers in or just I but of Dslagoa bay is used by the German ( press as such an argument. If Germany only had more ships In Delagoa bay, say the German publicists, such insults couia not be offered to her. A strong German squadron In Delagoa, bay, whatever else it might be, would not be a peacemaker. There Was & strong German squadron In Manila bay last year, and It proved to be sjroply a very effeptlve irrnant. An equally strong squadron, under the com mand: of officers no better instructed in international law or International man- L nersr would not prevent -the British front exercising what they belieyed to b$ their belligerent rights; but it would add to tne exerclso of them an enormous amount or superfluous friction. ' " i n O i A DIPLOMATIC VICTORY. E'er Which Secretary Hay Deserves His Country's TlianUs. New York Times. That Is really a remarkable diplomatic achievement which the state department modestly records. It announces that in answer to our application for equal priv ileges of trade In any possessions, spheres of influence, or claims that may be gained or made by European powers In China, all the powers concerned have re turned favorable answers except Italy. Italy's concern Is comparatively slight, but her consent also Is expected. We do not know how Mr. Hay has managed this. ' We seemed to be giving away our whole case when we refused to takcany part In the British effort for the open door Jn jChlna, ,and when, our stat department .actually "gave out" the amazing and palpable untruth that our commercial interests were not Involved In the struggle between Russia and England in Peking. Of course, we were bound to Lglve to all others what we had given Spain in the Philippines by our treaty of peace. In any case the potential trade of the Philippines is a mere trifle comparea with the potential trade of China. So that it seemed that we had no "quod pro qup" to offer. As for Russia, the commerce of Man churia by eea is not likely to concern her as a carreer, but only as an owner. It is only if sea-borne commerce should threaten to oust her land-borne products from the "hinterland" that any Russian interests would seem to be threatened. As for Great Britain and. Japan, they were already fully committed to the prin ciple of the- open door. It was only tne interference of Germany, France and Rus sia that prevented Japan from applying it to China at the close of her victorious war. And as for France and Germany, It seema that they have been, converted to the Brit ish theory of colonization, against that which they have held and acted upon hith erto, and have determined to take a leal out of the book of the most successful colonising power the world has ever known. According to this principle, tnb owner, partitloner or claimant of a piecb of foreign territory merely puts himself to the trouble and expense of policing it, and for his reward takes such a share ot the proceeds of its trade as he can get m free competition. This is a doctrine wnich the German government can afford to ac cept, and has come near to showing its readiness for accepting. But that France will accept It, even after her four centuries of failure of making the other theory pay, is a real surprise. It may be that she expects "compensations elsewhere," say in commercial treaties. This, of course, the administration cannot grant. It may have promised to use its good offices to ward getting it granted. In any case, it is a signal public serv ice that Mr. Hay has performed. Hand icapped as he was, he has won a diplo matic victory, and has succeeded in re pairing the huge blunder of his prede cessor, which seemed irreparable. He deserves the congratulations and thanks of his countrymen. 3 fc Moody No Faith Curlst. Medical Record. Mr. Dwight L. Moody, who died last week, offered a gratifying contrast to many of his cloth, especially revivalists, In his appreciation of regular m'ediclhe and hls antipathy to quacks. In speak ing of a prominent Christian Scientist, or faith healer, or what-not, In Chicago, whose offenses against humanity and com mon sense- are many and notorious, he praised medicine as the noblest of profes sions, after that of the min stry. "Never yet," he said, "in all my years of work have I called upon an able doctor, telling him of the sickness and need of some poor friendless person, that he did not at once go to the rescue, without money and with out price. Some of the noblest men I ever knew have gone out as medical mission aries, devoting their lives to doing good with the skill and healing medicines the Lord has conferred upon them." "These are the men," he continued, "who are called devils by the 'faith healers,' " but he prayed God to forgive those guilty ot such slander. "God heals," he said, "through doctors and through medicine. Do not be carried away through ravings of fanaticism. We have a new 'ism' In America about every year 'beware ot the 'isms'! What would I do if I fell sick? Get the best doctor In Chicago, trust to him and trust to the Lord to work through him. The doctors have done wonders as their knowledge has grown; they have re duced the dangers of death from diseases that once slew all they touched; and the dociois, If God helps them, will yet find a way to stop the ravages of oth'er ter rors." o Blessedness of Kipling's Modesty. New York Commercial Advertiser. The best thing about Kipling is that ho can't speak. He tried to the other day in the schoolroom at Rottingdean before the members of the Navy League. Firit he grew red, then ghastly pale, and he dumped out his words Irks a load of coal, with his eyes fixed qn a lantern at tha back of the room. Then after five fidgety minutes, he shot out of the door, as the reporters said, "as if somebody had yelled, 'The Toof's giving away.' " He will never make one of those author-orators, bless his heart EIe will never be reading from his own works with minutely explanatory gestures and with pumped up tremolo for the pathetic parts. He will never be turn ing up in small towns and telling crowds of poky provincials how he came to be what he now is. His voice will never be heard at alumni dinners quavering over the possibilities and the dangers of young manhood, and urging it upward, ever up ward. He will not be called upon on all occasions for an oratorical Indorsement of Virtue, and of the righteousness of doing right. The kindly niggardliness of natiire 'has gagged and stiffened him and gftnen him gooseficsh and a snow-white liver for all this sort of thing. It has bottled him up with his own talent In order that he may not prove fiat when the cork is drawn. And the world will be the gainer thereby. a a . Fayins for Their Presumption. Louisville Courier-Journal. If a reported interview with General Kitchener is authentic, he goes to South Africa with an appreciation of the difficul ties before him. He attributes the British defeats to tha ignorant impatience of the jingoes, who insisted that "the Boers were only half-civilized and could be easily de feated by troops only half prepared for war." He thinks that with an avoidance of the mistakes already made, it may re quire a year's hard campaign to end the war. There can be no doubt that Kitchen er, if allowed his own discretion, will make thorough work of anything he attempts. He never strikes till he is ready, and when he is ready h's army is a3 complete a fighting machine as can be made of hu man flesh and blcod. ! O Yellow War on Business. Louisville Courier-Journal. The contemptible attacks being made upon Secretary Gage by the yellow jour nals of New York are a repetition of the similar disgraceful assaults upon Secretary Carlisle. Mr. Gage is following the ex ample of his predecessor and ignoring tho vicloti3 raglngs. Every man In New York knows how t6 appreciate these slanders, but there are some hysterical people and newspapers in the back districts for whose j benefit Mr. Gage should teach a few met ropolitan editors a lesson. It is a passing shame that the secretary of the treasury cannot devise a simple plan for restoring to the market a portion of the money it needlessly takes away without being ac cused of prostituting his great office for private gain. It Is a heavy load of slander that secretaries of the treasury must reckon with the emoluments of their high post. NO CASE AT LAW. Quay's Claim Ruled Out on - More Than One Account. Chicago Times-Herald. The most hopeful sign of tho new year in politics is the realization on the part of the friends of Quay that he cannot bo quietly railroaded into the United States senato because ho is a "good fellow" or a "good republican." This Is the achievement of public senti ment. The supporters of tho ex-senator are at bay. In tho expressive language of the prize ring, they are "sparring for wind." Those who have committed tho amazing folly of declaring that they would vote to seat Quay now find them selves forced to defend the indicted boss. That la a hard task for an honest man. Those who vote for him now fully realize that the people will demand an. explana tion. Senators who vote to stultify them-cp-Tvtpc hv ovRi-tn-rnintr all DFecedents. merely for partisan considerations, must face an angry constituency at home and an outraged public sentiment throughout the Union. As a matter of fact, there is no defense for Quay. No man who votes to seat him can justify the act by any honest argument. He has no legal claim what ever upon a seat In the United States sen ate. No man ever presented more spu rious credentials for admission to that body. Waiving all questions of precedent and conceding the right of the senators to stultify themselves by voting against their convictions as recorded In the past, will the supporters of Quay violate the plain mandate of the law as expressed in both the state and federal constitu tions? The federal constitution provides that a governor may make "a temporary appointment" to fill a vacancy which, happens "during the recess of the legisla ture." The senatorial vacancy in Penn sylvania did not happen "during a re cess." The vacancy arose March 4, 1S99, by the expiration of the term of Matthew S. Quay, and a republican legislature re fused through 79 ballots to re-elect Quay. But the constitution of Pennsylvania makes express provision for filling a sen atorial vacancy It says: "In case of a vacancy In the office of United States senator from, this com monwealth in a recess, the governor shall convene the two houses by proclamation in notice not exceeding GO days, to fill the same." So that even if the vacancy had oc-. curred "during a recess" the action of Governor Stone In appointing Quaywas illegal and Indefensible. The clause in the federal constitution which vests gov ernors with discretionary authority to fill senatorial recess vacancies applies only where a state constitution has failed to make express provision for such an emer gency. The amazing impudence of Quay In ask ing the senate to violate law and prece dent to give him a seat in that body on such credentials should receive prompt and fitting rebuke. The time is propitious for this stroke for clean politics and good government. a Ought to Be Passed. Chicago Tribune. Senator Beveridge's resolution is a clear cut declaration that the United States in tends to keep the Philippines that it does not at this time contemplate tne possi Wlltv of ever elvlmr them up. All who favor the abandonment of the Philippines, either at once or In the near future, will vote against this resolution. AH who be lieve In American expansion win vote for it. That resolution will be adopted. It will be taken by the president as tha expression of the will of congress that he -shall continue the work of pacifying the Philippines and preparing them for whatever kind of government congress may at a later day deem It wise to es tablish. With the adoption of that reso lution the moribund "anti-imperialist" issue will be heard of no more. n a. " Interesting1 tor Carnesie. New York Press, rep. Mr. Carnegie's published determination not to give 350,000 to the republican party would have been worth at least 500.000 in votes to the party In question in the year 1S92 the year when Mr. Carnegie made the largest single "personal contribution" in political history to a party's defeat. It is still worth a good deal to git rid of him, though his renunciations and denuncia tions do not command the bouncing pre miums ot the year of his unfortunate, if misleading, exhibition as the typical "vul gar accident of a protective tariff." 0 a A Triangular Town. Indianapolis Sentinel. The newly founded town of Triangle, Tex., promises to be unique. It Is laid out In the form of an equilateral triangle; its lots are triangular in shape and the ground plan of each of the 23 houses which have thus far been erected there is three-cornered. The three principal streets are named Equilateral, Scalene and Isosceles, and the residents have even carried their curious idea into the local government, which consists of a so-called triangular council, having threa members. 5-3 P Modern Girl. Indianapolis Press. "Harold," said the dear girl, "am I the only girl?" 'Harold groaned involuntarily. "Am I the only girl you ever told sho was the only girl you ever told she was the only girl you loved.?" i a ' Carries It Too Far. Chicago Times-Herald. "My daughter has a great ear for mu sic" "Well, that wouldn't be so bad If she didn't think she had a voice for it too." The Unanswered Ietter. Chicago Record. "How did your correspondence end with Miss Jimp?" "I wrote to her, and she couldn't thlnR of anything to say In reply." u-o ' Unseasonable Remark. Yonkers Statesman. Mr. Crlmsonbeak It's ridiculous to sup pose that all dogs are growlers. Mrs. Crlmsonbeak And just as absurd to think that ail the growlers are dogs. i-q Rhyjne for Small People. S. E. KIser in Chicago Tlmeg-Herald. LORDLY MAN AND LOWLY MULE. Man is the greatest work of God, The oxen are his slaesf He lures tha lightning- from the cloud, And harnesses the waves. To him alone a. soul Is given, And he receives at birth The glorious hope of joy In heaven "When he is done with earth. Man is sublime, the homely mule Is made ot poorer stuff: But mules, quit drinking, aa a. rule. When they have had enough. MAX THE GODLIKE, GOAT THE MEAN. The goat is not regarded as A noble beast, and It Hag pever won distinction for An undue share of wit. Compare the homely goat with man: How Godlike does he standr How pitiful tha beast becomes And how absurdly planned I i Yet, while we look upon the goat Aa neither fair nor wise. It doesn't live by taking pills Instead of ezerclse. ; NOTE AND COMMENT- Clothes speak louder than words some times. The question now Is, How are we go ing to pronounce '00? The man who is the first to wish for snow will bo the last to shovel off h r walk. Judging from past experience, the less news London gets from South Africa, tho luckier she is. People who pay dues to the Kennel Club realize, of course, that their money is go ing to the dogs. v "Truth answers every purpose of life." Ladles' Home Journal. Perhaps; but not every question. The climate of South Africa is not rigorous, but there Is plenty of slaying over there most of the time. The latest advertising scheme of variety actresses, that of having themselves shot, does not promise to become popular. A whole shipload of Missouri mules has been sent to General Buller, yet all the kicking thus far has been done by the London press. Strangers In Oregon suppose, natur ally enough, that Tongue point is right in the mouth of the Columbia and be tween tho teeth of every gale that blows there. Having made JiO.OCO out of his book, and nothing but questionable glory out of his war services, Bryan can now appreciate the adage to the effect that the pen 13 mightier than the sword. General Yule, the officer who led the British retreat from Glencoe and Dundee to Ladysmlth after General Symon's death, has gone insane- and Is now In England. Mortification, combined with Illness, unhinged his mind. There Is no race question at the moment In- Jackson, Miss. Alderman Smith Rob ertson, colored, died a day or two ago. and the white mayor and aldermen will act as pall-bearers at the funeral. It Is a tribute never before paid to a negro there. An up-country paper pnnts a "special dispatch," telling- how Cecil Rhodes, "pre mier of Cape Colony," succeeded In "ef fecting an escape from Ladysmlth on horsebackTSajeRhdjeacTe pK "inler, and how he reached beleaguered Ladysmlth from beleaguered Klmberley, the "special' does not state. "This Is the 20th cent" began an Ari zona man. "I was about to remark," ho resumed, when he recovered conscious ness In the hospital the next day, "that this was the 20th centipede I had seen yesterday." Moral: Vlien a man Uve3 In Arizona, don't place his intelligence on a par with that of Emperor William until you can maka out a case against him. All the Hohenzollern princes born 3lnfe 1722 have slept In a curious old cradle of carved oak. On tho four sides Is carved the text: "He hath given his angel3 charge over thee, to keep thee In all his ways." The emperor regards thi3 old heirloom somewhat In the light of a "luck" of the Hohanzollera. race, and all his children have on after tho'Othar been cradled in Jr. The people of Beveridge. Kan., thought it would be a graceful thing to invite Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, to lectu'a In the town. But their invitation brought the following reply: "I beg to say that it 13 not my pre3en or ultimate Intention to enter the lecture field. Thanking you for your suggestion. I am, very respectfully, "ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE." Hon. J. J. Howser, the new mayor of Medford, was the dudish young popu list representative of Jackson who with stood tho blandishments of the rump house managers in the attempted leg's latlve session of 1S9T, once was reported, after due deliberation, to have returned a trifle of $2000 that found its way to hs room from a statesman's ppcket3. En joying the honors of the mayoralty, ho doubtless feels that virtue orings its re ward. In Lane county, all roads seem not to lead to Eugene, if one may judge by tho Register's suggestion that "arc light3 be erected on Skinner's butte, to serve a3 beacon lights to the whole surrounding country on dark nights." It would be, apparently, a sort of lighthouse in the plain, to warn the masters of prairie schooners against the olllows of the val ley, or perhaps the breakora that always beat about the foundations of a 3tate sehool. p w The Gray Mother- (TO AN, OLD GAEUC ATK.) The colonial volunteers proceeded to the front Public Press. Lo. how they com& to rat. Long through the nigbt I call them. Ah. how they turn to me. East and south my children scatter. North and west the world they wander. Yet they come back to me, Came with their brave hearts beatlnff. Longing to die for me. Me, the gray. old. weary mother. Throned amid te northern waterifc Whera they have died for me. Died with their aongs around m Girding my shores for me. Narrow was my dwelling for them. Hemes they bullded o'er the ocean. Yet they leave all for me. Hearing their mother calling. Bringing their Uve3 for me. Far from south seae swiftly salllnjr. Out from under stars I know not. Come they to fight for me. Eon3 of the sons I nurtured. God keep them, safe for me. Long as their fathers saved ma, Died for me among the heather.. Now they come back to me. Come. In. their children's children. , Brave of the brave for me. In the wilds and waves they slumber. Deep they alumber in the deserts. Rise they from graves to me. Graves where they lay forgotten, Shades of the brave for me. Yet my soul is veiled In sadness, Fcr I see them fall and perish. Strewing the hlllg for me. Claiming the world in dying. Boaght with their blood for me. Hear the gray, old northern mother. Blessing now her dying; children. God keep ye safe for me, Christ watch ye la your sleeping, "Where ye have died for me. And when God's own slogan sund6h. All the dead world's dust awaking, Ah, will ye look for me? Bravely we'll stand together, I and ray sons with me. L. McLean "Watt la London Spectator. ,H
