frHE MOKNIXG OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST I, 1900.
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THE SOUTHERN DARKY.
What Js to become of the negro in
the South, is a question that many ob
! servers are asking themselves. On the
cne ha:d is tbe dominant Southern
"white, chiefly concerned in subordinat
ing the negro with constitutional
amendments, instead of with the shot-
igun; and on the other hand Is the
2forthern politician General Grosvenor,
ior example, in the August Forum
; thinking all there is to do Is to prove
jthe fact of disfranchisement. Neither
iof these parties to the controversy is
Wikely to offer more valuable contrlbu-
j tion to the subject than to darken coun
sel. One is too near to the problem,
another too far away. The Southron
lis concerned only with the Immediate
task at his hand. He is consumed in it
so thoroughly that he has only time to
I admit hurriedly, when questioned, that
disfranchisement is his purpose. He is
Snot concerned as to the effect on the
negro, for many reasons, chief of which
lis his abrorptlon Jn the task itself. He
is ni.t even moved to abandon the shot-
igun for the constitutional amendment
(because of any consideration for his
j victim, but solely because he hopes the
substitution may make his own society
k snore safe and reputable.
Such studies as General Grosvenor's
lare equally lacking in pertinence. The
Q. E. I. of his Forum essay is that the
jrurposi? of the constitutional amend
ment is denial of suffrage to the lgno
Irant black and its preservation to the
llgn rant v,hlte. This is denied by no
Ibody, lvt of all perhaps by the South
tern pi liti"ians, whose admissions of the
Iwh le truth form the piece de resist
ance of Grosvenor's literary spread. He
tr-kes it for granted that all anybody
I net Js or cares to Tcnow about the negro
problem is the fact of disfranchisement,
land "tthen he does that he makes the
iirJst.ike of imagining he is at the end of
ithe journey when he has only begun it j
JThe South has disfranchised the igno-
irant, prupertyleas negro, -and he is go
Sing tj stay disfranchised. Appeal to
the Keith is as vain as appeal to the
S-uth. Practically, Southern society
Iwi-l never deliver itself over to the in
ferior and the incompetent. The weak
Swill not rule the strong. And theoret-
pcclly, if it comes to a sociological com-
mt, the South will say to the North,
This laborious and distasteful task we
are engaged in has been forced upon
us by your smartness in giving the
negro the ballot before he was ready
for it. Tou have contributed carpet-
gbaggers, force bills, sectional hate and
Bother aggravations of the disease in the
mme of remedies; now, if you please,
re will attend to the case ourselves.
It is not for any critic in this genera
ion to solve the negro problem. The
lost he can do is to try to get at the
lexact facts and look them squarely In
:e face. The operations of Washing
ton's industrial schemes; the constltu-
Itioral amendments; the slow rise of
isclated blacks to wealth and social
station, where they have every privi
lege of a white man of equal capacity
mJ power; the progress of enlighten-
lent in the North upon the exact na
ture of the problem; the diminution of
race hatred as race hatred, and the
raual weaning of Southern brains
ird character from the soclallst-berld-
ien, Eryanlte Democracy these are
s:sdirarg if not always beneficent in-
iuences that will clarify the situation
is time goes on. Perhaps there is no
lore cogent enforcer of Mr. "Washing
ton's gospel of work instead of vote
than these same constitutional amend-
icrts, whose triumphal march moves
krcral Gr6svenor to such syllables of
?.
Meanwhile large numbers of negroes
III lose the excitement and the usu
fruct i f politics, and a small propor
:L n of their most offensive individuals
"1 bo removed with violence. The
?uLhcm darky needs not General
r sinor's sentimental protection or
Mr. "SVaihirgton's Industrial training so
rouh as he needs manners. Seen at
. -s- rare, he is an entirely different
g fvin our well-trained Northern
i.va cr p Tiers, barbers and coachmen.
EI s Insuperable insolence is enough to
"" .: Ins life and liberty in any city. .
rri or South. He has leen denied
Tr.: ing of the old plantation era, I
Btir 1 h " rao. not strangely, of course.
-.a'1 r -ic from any other source. The ':
To he le Mkely to get it is in the !
bar J s h 1 of experience. In order to
al - g, the egro needs the same j
juaVies no more or less, than a white i
snan ! corresponding walk in life. In
is li,'-s, -whatever it may be, he
'1 J.sc '-er ait length that -without
Ullitj J.ni attention to duties, nobody.
PAit.tr r mack, is apt to get ahead vers
jar n respect or employment.
Ahon all is said and done, the
iiegr s destiny is in his own hands.
Intrcss is the indispensable preliminary
eo th-' enjoyment of any power or od-
nry. How hard this Government
has tried to force the tool of self-gov-
'TOPT-t Into the untrained hand of the
leg1"! History attests, and how futile
I he effort is shown by General Gros
ser r s he ipieseness and the ceaseless
ia"i b if the constitutional lock-out.
t is a dherting coincidence that the
. rrn statesmen who recognize so
J-.cay He unavailability of political j
power In the hands of the negro should
insist as they do upon repeating the pro
gramme with the Tagals.
AX IDEAL AR3IY RATIOX.
Colonel Charles A. Woodruff, United
States Army, who has recently been
ordered to Manila as United States
Commissary-General for the Philip
pines, has a very interesting article
in the Journal of the Military Service
Institution on "Ideal Ration for Army
in the Tropics." Colonel Woodruff de
fends the present Army ration, with its
authorized substitutive Issues and its
authorized savings, as almost perfectly
satisfactory to the regular soldier,
whether serving in the frigid, temper
ate or torrid zone. During the Spanish
War, illness due to the Inuring process,
through which all troops must pass, to
homesickness, change of climate, water
and mode of living, improper sanitation,
Indulgence in green fruits and the trash
of hucksters, etc., and to grossly incom
petent cooks, was all attributed to the
"unsultableness of the ration for troops
in the tropics." The facts are that our
regulars have subsisted upon this ra
tion with satisfactory results in three
wars, many Indian campaigns and a
century of garrison life, ranging from
Alaska, with 50 deg. below, to Arizona,
with 120 degrees; from the table lands
of the Rocky Mountain region to the
swamps of Louisiana and Florida. The
regiments tnat in 1898 went to Cuba in
midsummer lost twice as many by the
bullet as from disease, and their loss
from disease was only one-third of that
suffered by regiments that remained in
this country. The Tenth Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry had more than fif
teen Tnonths' service in the Philippines,
and lost seven men by disease, while
the Twelfth and Thirteenth Pennsyl
vania Volunteer Infantry never left the
United States, and yet lost in only eight
months' service forty-two men by dis
ease. The annual death rate from dis
ease among our soldiers In the Philip
pines was 17.20 per thousand, which is
about equal to the death rate among
the British soldiers in India, whose
ration today is in fundamentals nearly
identical with that of the United States
Army.
The British troops have operated In
India extensively for 150 years, and
while they vary the Sepoy's ration to
suit the various races, their own, after
a century and a half of experience,
where rice is cheap and meat Is dear,
Is: Meat, 16 ounces; bread, 16 ounces;
potatoes, 16 ounces; rice, 4 ounces;
sugar, 2.5 ounces; tea, 0.71 ounce; salt,
0.C6 ounce. In South Africa It Is bil
tong against canned meats. Before the
war, when the master desired the best
practical food for his slave to keep him
in the best physical condition, the diet
was meat, largely bacon, and cornmeal.
During the Civil War the Southern
army subsisted mainly on "hog and
hominy." The Federal Army was reg
ularly supplied with "hardtack" and
beef or bacon. The Northern soldier
will not thrive on cornmeal and bacon
or rice and bacon, while the Southern
soldier prefers corn bread to wheat
bread, and does not crave to so great
an extent fresh beef. Neither can fight
on rice, like the Japanese or Filipino,
and thrive. The Army ration of 1790
included one-half gill of rum, brandy or
whisky, and as late as 1840 contracts
for labor in civil life generally Included
three drinks a day. The whisky allow
ance has disappeared from both the
military service and from civilian labor
contracts. The British ration for India
includes a liberal allowance of tea, but
no coffee, while the American ration
Includes a liberal allowance of coffee,
with about half the British allowance
of tea. Englishmen are a nation of tea
drinkers, while Americans as a rule
prefer coffee. The American meat
bread and bean eaters who followed
Aguinaldo's horde through the jungles
of the tropics, were able to chase down
and disperse his anaemic rice-eaters.
The people of Porto Rico, who live on
rice, beans, maize, dried fish and fruits,
are universally anaemlcs, while the na
tives, who live in towns and can afford
to eat freely of meat, show no trace of
anaemia. The plague and the cholera
are far more fatal among the ill-fed
natives of the tropics than among the
acclimated foreigners, who live on a
mixed diet, with meat an Important
component. Americans crave fatty
foods in the tropics, for the Subsistence
Department sells the officers and troops
as much breakfast bacon, butter, ham,
lard and sardines as It does the same
troops In the United States. The Esqui
maux and the wild Indian all seem to
thrive much better In their own habi
tat when fed upon army rations, which
they never refuse. Meat consumption
among the natives of hot countries Is
limited by their purses, not their tastes.
In Cuba and Porto Rico, in private
houses and restaurants, the noon and
evening meals are prodigal of meats of
all kinds. The Chinaman is a rice
eater in China, but in this country,
when his Income admits It, he is a pork
eater, and the rich Chinese are great
consumers of poultry. Old Froissart
described the English soldiers, who won
Cressy, Poictlers and Aglncourt, as the
greatest meat-eaters In Europe, and the
Buccaneers, who scourged the Spanish
main, were the greatest meat-eaters in
the tropics. The Army ration includes
fresh beef or fresh mutton, or canned
fresh beef, or mutton, or pork, or bacon,
or ham, or brawn, or dried fish, or
pickled fish, or fresh fish, or canned
salmon; flour or soft bread, or hard
bread, or cornmeal; beans or oatmeal,
or rice, or pease, or hominy; potatoes,
onions, canned tomatoes, or other fresh
vegetables not canned, when they can
be furnished in a wholesome condition.
The company commander finds author
ity to vary this ration, flexible In itself,
by savings and purchases to almost any
extent, to suit ever, condition that may
arise, so that it is now an almost Ideal
ration.
TREY WILL ALL ADVAXCE.
The announcement that the British
commander-in-chief. General Gazellee,
proposes to advance with his troops
at once on Pekln, and that the
American troops, as soon as General
Chaffee arrives at Tien Tsln. will do
likewise. Is important, for It will inev
itably force the Russians, Germans and
French commanders to accept the initi
ative, for they cannot afford to hang
back at such a time. The troops of
Japan will surely move in support of
the British troops, for England Is
Japan's strongest friend among the
powers of Europe. Russia and Ger
many are not strong enough on the Pa
cific coast of China today to oppose
successfully a forward movement on
Pekln, undertaken by the United States
acting in conjunction with England and
Japan, and they would be exceedingly
foolish not to support gracefully what
they cannot prevent; for if, as is not
improbable, the English, American and
Japanese troops should be successful
In reaching and occupying Pekin, the
loss of moral prestige to Russia, Ger
many and France would be consider
able. The allies cannot afford to let Eng
land, America and Japan go forward
and win all the glory of a gallant ad
vance, even if it ended in a heroic de
feat Blood is thicker than water, and
we may be sure that If England, Amer
ica and Japan resolve to go forward, the
whole allied army will join In a gen
eral advance. The forlorn hope will
get all the glory in any event, while 11
the rest of the foreign commanders
hang back they will get nothing but
shame.
Thedeclslon of the English and Amer
icans to march forward at once is not
only soldier-like, but It Is the only way
to end the existing jealousies of Russia,
Germany and France, which hesitate to
trust Japan to the fullest extent. The
proposed advance Is not more desperate
than that successfully undertaken by
General Havelock when he marched to
the relief of Lucknow. He was not able
to do more than increase the numbers
of the defenders of the residency suf
ficiently so that they were able to hold
out until the second relief under Lord
Clyde reached the city, and the Eng
lish, Americans and Japanese may not
be able to do more than Havelock did,
but to do this would be a great glory,
and not to attempt it would be a great
shame.
It is not likely the foreign Ministers
are yet In the hands of their assailants.
It Is probable they are still standing
on the defensive, and the presence of
a strong relieving force would be more
likely to increase the number of their
open Chinese friends within the city
than It would to double the number of
their foes.
THE LOG-RAFT 3IENACE.
Another of the unwieldy log rafts has
left the Columbia River for San Fran
cisco. The men who go down to the
sea In ships, the owners' of the ships
and the underwriters carrying Insur
ance thereon, will all breathe easily
after this helpless mass of logs has
reached its destination. The danger to
navigation of these log rafts, whether
they hang together or break up, is so
great that Congressional aid has been
Invoked to keep them from the ocean.
Nearly every one of the rafts that have
left northern ports for San Francisco
have either broken up entirely or been
cut adrift for a time by the steamers
towing them. When they have broken
up, thousands of logs were sent drift
ing In all directions, and In the grasp
of the waves were thrown with catapult
force against any unfortunate vessel
they might encounter. When they were
abandoned by the steamers and re
mained Intact, the dangers In some re
spects were intensified.
When bad weather forces a tug to cut
loose from a sailing vessel, barge or
other ocean-going craft In tow, the
abandoned vessel with a rudder and
stump of a mast on which to hang a
sail can generally retain some control
of her movements and make her pres
ence known to other vessels. Not so
with the low-lying, shapeless mass of
logs. On dark nights the first intima
tion the shipmaster has of Its presence
is when his ship is right on top of it.
Several of the small coasting steamers
have had very narrow escapes of this
nature, and It Is not at all improbable
that at least a portion of the vessels
which have mysteriously disappeared
since log-rafting on the ocean com
menced have fallen victims to these lost
rafts and logs. The sugar ship Iolanl
was sunk by a blow from the ArgUs so
light that the officers and crew were
unaware that the vessel was injured
until she commenced sinking.
If a light tap from another vessel will
destroy $200,000 worth of property In
less than fifteen minutes, It Is easy to
understand the possibilities for mischief
where hundreds of floating battering
rams are thrown In the path of ship
ping. The experiment of shipping logs
and lumber in this manner has had a
pretty thorough trial, and the result
has not been satisfactory. Now that
the last one has deDarted from the Co-
lunioia, ana uongress win soon pre
vent them leaving any port for an
ocean voyage, the shipbuilders who
held off while the experiment was on
can now proceed to turn out lumber
and timber-carrying craft which can be
handled at sea without jeopardizing the
safety of everything else afloat on the
ocean.
WHAT WE RAVE DOXE IX CUBA.
When the United States occupied
Cuba, In 1S9S. few Americans believed
that we could organize a stable govern
ment within less than ten years, and
few foreign observers believed that we
would ever evacuate the Island. They
remembered that Great Britain occupied
Egypt for the same purpose In 18S2,
and that Egypt Is not only still under
an English protectorate, but that
Egyptian Soudan has practically be
come a British province, and Is likely
to remain so for many years to come.
The conditions, social and political, in
Cuba at the time of our occupation were
not favorable to speedy establishment
of self-government, redemption from
disorder and creation of prosperity. A
seventh of the population had in three
years perished of hunger. An army of
1LO00 men demanded immediate inde
pendence. The civil war had destroyed
property on sugar plantations estimat
ed at ?S6S,000,000. A yield of 1,000,000
tons of sugar had dropped to 250,000
tons. In Matanzas alone in three years
304,000 cattle had sunk to 66,000; 96,000
horses to 19,000, and 18,000 mules to 8000.
Then there was a double race ques
tion to increase the unfavorable out
look for New Cuba. In a population of
only 1,572,797 there were 129,240 Spanish
Immigrants, 79,526 other immigrants,
and 505,438 persons of negro or mixed
negro ancestry. One-half the popula
tion was negro or foreign. One-half of
the population over 10 years of age was
Illiterate. The church was potential In
the state. Burial was In the exclusive
control of the priests, and high fees for
marriage had resulted In widespread
concubinage, embracing a fifth of the
population of marriageable age. Mod
ern scientific sanitation was unknown,
and Havana was a vast breeding
ground for yellow fever. Official cor
ruption was common, so that no ele
ment of difficulty was wanting to per
plex and confound us In the political
problem presented for our solution.
Nevertheless, marvelous success has
crowned our efforts, and eighteen
months after formal occupation sum
mons was issued for the choice of a
constitutional convention. The Cuban
army has been peacefully disbanded,
and its strongest division forms today
the excellent police of Havana. Free
dom for marriage and burial have been
established. The revenues have been
freed from a debt of 512,602,000, -and
military charges of $5,395,000, In 159-1
$3,052,282 was spent for sanitation, and
In Havana alone deaths from yellow
fever in August, 1899, dropped to 10
where in 1896 they had been 29fr in the
same month.
In Santiago, the water supply was
doubled, the death rate halved, the
birth rate increased, sewage introduced
and yellow fever suppressed. Out of
nearly 300,000 children of school age,
only 49,414 on tbe date of our occupation
had ever been in a schoolhouse. Today
a good school system covers Cuba, and
2500 of its teachers are visiting the
United States for recreation and in
struction. Courts have been purified.
Bribery1 has been exposed and punished..
Order and security exist all over an
Island which had not known security
on its roads for a generation. Last
Spring municipal elections svere held,
and city self-government, already exists.
Monopolies have been abolished, and
odious occupation taxes repealed. No
concession has been made; no charters
have been Issued; no Cuban lands have
been sold. No wonder the most Intelli
gent and conservative people of Cuba
are sorry that the time draws near
when the United States Government
will remit the island to the people from
whom they accepted It as a high and
responsible trust which has been most
ably and most honorably administered
The right of the state to maintain
order and enforce law Is the paramount
Issue In Idaho. Good citizens ought to
combine, not through "fusion" of party
organizations or the division of offices,
but at the polls, for the good name of
the state and well-being of society.
They ought to combine, not through
convention agreements or committee ar
rangements, but by a concert of action
through a general desire to save Idaho
from the dishonor which threatens an
American state. By common Instinct,
for a common end, the voters ought to
support the candidates for state offices
who stand for law and order. As elec
tion day approaches, the necessity of
massing the votes of soberness and con
servatism ought to grow upon the peo
ple of the state. The party which
turned its back on Governor Steuncn
berg ought to be beaten for its faith
lessness tc a man who has rendered
Idaho greater service than any other
citizen of the state. As he was worthy
of support by voters without reference
to party affiliations, so the organization
that spurned him ought to be denied
support of voters without reference to
party leanings. It Is time for all re
sponsible citizens of Idaho to get to
gether on the paramount Issue, leaving
the minor differences of partisan strife
for settlement after a great question
has been determined. That the grav
ity of the situation Is understood among
the earnest and right-thinking citizens
of the state mas be inferred from an
article reprinted today from the Lewis
ton Morning Tribune, an independent
Democratic journal. The issue is so
vital that It is entirely beyond the con
trol of partisan bias.
The wide-awake and determined citi
zens of Portland, if there are any such,
may as well make up their minds that
a stubborn fight for the rights of this
section may have to be made almost
Any day with almost any of the rail
roads that -have entrance hore. When
the time comes, The Oregonian will par
ticipate actively in the mix-up, and it
bespeaks in advance the support of the
people in the fight It will make for the
future of this state and city. There Is
no portion of Portland and no part of
Portland's business that The Oregonian
wants to see removed to Astoria, to
Puget Sound, to San Francisco or to St.
Paul, Omaha, Salt Lake or Denver.
Ways must be found to make the busi
ness of this state and city, freight and
passenger, effective agency for securing
proper transportation service, by sea
and land, and charges that will pro
tect our local Interests. We need a lit
tle less oratory, politics and boasting of
Nature's gifts here, and a little more
unlted-we-stand determination ami
keep-off-the-grass attitude to our nu
merous competitors and beneficiaries.
The appointment of Chafles Miller to
the Major-Generalship of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania is, denounced by
the Philadelphia Press as due to politi
cal "pUll." General Gobln, the senior
Brigadier-General, is a gallant Union
veteran, who, although himself an ar
dent Republican, has always urged the
reappointment of Major-General Snow
den, a Democrat. The appointment ol
Miller has been made under orders from
ex-Uulted States Senator 'Quay, who
has been prompted to It by Congress
man Sibley. In this way the commis
sions ip the Pennsylvania National
Guard are used for machine purposes.
The appointment of the new Major
General is made under the influence of
Quay, and for a political purpose only,
for merit In the service and seniority ot
rank the Philadelphia Press says "do
not count In promotions against the exi
gencies of the machine while the Quay
administration is in authority."
They order these things differently in
Seattle. The telephone company is
contumacious, and the entire business
community rises up as one man and or
ders out the Instruments. Can any one
refer off-hand to such a performance
In the history of Portland?
There are too many people in the
world of certain kinds. The Italian an
archists are a salient feature of the
surplus population, and civilization
must find some way to' remove them,
painlessly if practicable, but at all
events effectively.
Dr. Bernard Daly, late Fusion candi
date for Congress, has bought the bond
Issue of Lakeview. Can a man have
money and be a bondholder without
forfeiting membership in the Bryan
party?
One hopeful opening for the Southern
darky is in military service. He makes
a good soldier, and he needs nothing
quite so badly as the discipline of army
life. That will give him civility.
If the next House is Democratic, what
will become of the Army and our means
of maintaining order in the Philippines
and protecting our citizens in China?
McKlnley's luck is persistent. Wel
lington of Maryland has come out
against him.
The Same Old Fig-ht.
Chicago Journal.
The platform also alleges that imperial
ism is the paramount issue. Perhaps it
Is, as a matter of fact; but the party
will experience some difilculty in getting
the countrj to believe it. The platform is
Bryan William Jennings" Bryan. He Is
the Alpha and Omega. And Mr. Bryan de
clares, as ne declared tour years ago:
"We (I) demand an American financial
system which shall restote and maintain J
a bimetallic price-level, and as part of
such system the immediate restoration pt
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold "at the present legal ratio of
16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation." The Demo
cratic party, which is Mr. Bryan, will
be forced to defend that declaration from
now until election day. It will scarcely
have time to talk about Imperialism or
anything else. The Republican party will
make the campaign on the silver Issue;
the Democratic party, which is Mr. Bryan,
must defend it. So it's the old fight over
again
PROATDEXCE AMOXG ACTORS.
Sad Case of Jananschck Made the
Text of a Sermon.
New Tork Times.
The case df Mme. Janauschek, the once
famous tragic actress, will, no doubt,
seem strange to the casual observer of
passing events. That an actress who once
occupied a position of distinction second
to none In her calling should in her age
be dependent upon the actors' fund for
care in sickness Is deplorable. Tet In this
case the conditions were perhaps unavoid
able. The style of play In 'which this
player made her fame has passed out of
public favor. For years there has beez
little or no room on the stage in this
country for an actress trained in the
traditions of what is known as the "le
gitimate" drama, and Mme. Janauschek
gradually found less and less field for her
services. In recent seasons she has had
to be content with comparatively small
parts In stock companies.
Such conditions as hers at present are,
however, lamentably frequent in the
ranks of the dramatic profession, and
they are too often the result of Improvi
dence. There is something In the artistic
temperament inimical to worldly wisdom.
The intoxication of public applause dead
ens the mind to care for the morrow. It
Is so hard to realize that a day will In
evitably come when the artist Is no longer
the pet of the public and when the In
come will surely dwindle to Insignificance.
The temptation to live in luxury, to ride
in cabs rather than in street-cars, to eat
of the fat of the land and drink of its
milk, is hard to resist in the days when
the public shouts its bravos from the
housetops and the managers bid in the
market places for the actor's services.
But it would be unjust to many thought
ful, business-like members of the dra
matic profession to allow the reader to
gain from this an impression that all ac
tors are without a sense of their obliga
tion to provide for their own old age.
There are very many who do this, and
there are not a few who are possessed of
substantial wealth. Most of thess are
Investors in real estate, and their hold
ings would astonish those who look upon
the actor as still a nomadic creature. Mr.
Jefferson, Oliver Doud Byron, Lotta,
Maggie Mitchell and Lillian Nordlca are
among the well-to-do persons of this
country. They are individuals In a con
siderable class.
Grapevine Messages Front tlie Scat of
War. '
Baltimore American.
PEKIN, July 25. Empress Tsi Ann Is
said to have stopped at the legations
while riding her bicycle this morning. It
is evident that the Lojjationers were safe,
a3 she had her tires pumped up there.
SHANGHAI, July 23. Prince Wun Big
LI this morning received a message from
Viceroy Fib Sum What stating that the
Boxers have burned Pekln and compelled
the Emperor of China to swallow one of
his proclamations. The Emperor expired
In great agony.
CHE FOO, July 25. A Chinese runner
from Pekin says that the Imperial troops
have struck for back pay, and that tfce
weekly massacre has been postponed for
that reason.
PEKIN, July 20. (Delayed In transmis
sion.) The Empress this afternoon or
dered the troops to cease bombarding the
Legations for one hour, during which
time she entertained the besieged with a
pink tea. The Tung LI Tamun has
Issued an edict based on this act, show
ing that the foreigners havo nothing to
fear.
TIEN TSIN, July :. Li Hung Chang de
clined to assign any reason for his trip
to Pekln, saying that he was tired think
ing up excuses, and that hereafter the
public could choose any one of the rea
sons he has heretofore assigned, and he
would stand by it for the next 10 hours.
UMSCADCOSKI, Siberia, July 23. A Chl
neso spy was discovered In the Russian
fort here today. He was betrayed by his
owi. efforts to shout: "Hurrah for Gen
eral ShootemsoqulckavltchlskI," his par
oxysms being painful to see. Because of
this fact the General has memorialised
the Czar, asking that his name be added
to the armament of Russia.
NANKING, July 25. Prince Tuan has
20,000000 troops massed In the baseball
park awaiting orders.
PEKIN, July 25. Emperor Kwang Hsu
announces that there will bo no messages
sent out by the Ministers today, as the
individual who has been writing them is
Indisposed.
WHANG HOW, July 23. Prlnco Bug
Hous has received a message from Pekin
saying that on last Tuesday the Em
press carried a hamper of club sand
wiches to the Legations and collected
their laundry, which she Is having done
at her own expense. The Emperor Is
also said to have taken poison and shot
himself through the heart at a late hour
last night. This was not his regular day
to die, but he said he was anxious to
attend to some other matters later on
In the sveek.
Grim Humor of Mafclclngr-
Among the numerous books that have
appeared on the subject of the South
African War is a little volume by Major
F. D. Baillle, entitled "Mafeklng: A Diary
of the Siege." It Is written with no liter
ary merit whatsoever, yet It is so packed
with Incident and episode as to be most
fascinating reading. The siege continued
for seven months, and it Is doubtful
whether the Boers or the British came
to be more tired of it. Major Baillle,
among many other interesting things,
gives us the following Incidents to show
how a sort of seml-friendllness sprang up
between the besiegers and the beseiged:
An unexploded five-pound shell, fired Into
Mafeklng, was found to contain tho following:
missive:
"Mr. Baden-Powell: Please excuse me for
sendlnp this iron messenger 1 havo no other to
send at Present. He Is rather excentrlc but
vorglve him If he does not behave well, I wish
to ask you not to let j'Our men drink all the
whisky as 1 wish to have a drink when we all
come to see you. clndly tell Mrs. Dunkcley
that her mother and vamlly are all quite well.
I remain, youra trewly, a Republican,"
Conversation by flag went on frequently.
This was the sort of dialogue:
Yesterday the Boers volunteered that they,
the Dutch, were knocklnr us about In tho
Free State. The orderly said. "The Free State,
where Is the Free State?" and the Boer said,
"North of the Oranee River." On the order
ly's answering, "Ah, you mean New Eng
land," the Boer seemed hurt, but they are
pretty civil ail the same, and both sides con
tinually ask after their various friends and get
answers.
Copyrlsht of Political Platforms.
Baltimore Sun.
Texas Populists will open the political
ball with a novel proposition before them,
and that is to copyright their platform
and keep It safe from predatory oplnion
molders of the other parties. They say
that their former friends and boon allies
have been touching their pet theories
with plaglarlstlc fingers, anw some of
their best Ideas have stuck fast and been
used to their detriment. Aside from keep
ing their deliverances whole, the copy
right scheme may have another virtue of
Inducing people to read them. As a rule
state platforms are a dreary waste of
words never Intended to be anything mora
than a jingle in the voters' ears. But
if the Lone Star State Populists carry
out the copyrlsht idea they may give
their pledges a stronger touch of seri
ousness. However, It will really mean
nothing, since It would be difficult to
have such a document brought within
the- limits of the copyright law.
SILVER STII.I. AT ISSUE.
Election of Bryan a Menace to Gold
Standard.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Congressman Hill, ot Connecticut, a
leading member of the house banking and
currency committee, and who was Influ
ential in framing the House gold standard
and currency reform bill, for which the
Senate bill was substituted, in a recent
speech confirms some of the leading posi
tions of Professor Laughlln as to the de
fective and Inadequate provisions of the
latter bill for the maintenance of the gold
standard If the large powers It vests In
the Secretary of the Treasury were In un
friendly hands. The House bill made am
ple provision for every contingency. It
was thorough and self-executing. It made
It Impossible for a hostile Secretary of
the Treasury to evade or frustrate its
provisions. The Senate bill, however,
which passed, made only the greenbacks,
the Treasury 'notes of 1SS0 and the new
2-per-cent bonds redeemable in gold. It
provided for the retirement of the Treas
ury notes and the substitution of silver
certificates therefor. "It made no special
provision," says Mr. Hill, "for the ex
changeability of other forms of money."
It continued the existing system of two
forms of curency gold coin and gold
notes and silver coin and silver certifi
cates circulating side by side; but while
it was declared to be the duty of the Sec
retary of the Treasury to maintain the
parity of all the different kinds of money
issued by the Government, he was not
provided with any means of doing so,
other than the present availability of sil
ver to pay duties. But this Mr. Hill re
gards, as most financiers do. as a very
unsafe reliance. A free-silver Secretary
of the Treasury could pay the Interest
and principal of any other Government
bonds than the 2-per-cents In silver. The
money question Is, therefore, not yet set
tled In Mr. Hill's view. He is quoted as
saying:
"It is not true that further legislation,
only can reverse the action of the Fifty
sixth Congress. It can be done in full
compliance with the letter of the law by
the action, of an Administration not In
harmony with Its spirit."
It Is not true, therefore, that the silver
Issue Is dead. The snake Is scotched, not
killed. It still remains of vital Import
ance that the American people see to it
that the Administration of the gold-standard
law Is not committed to a free-sllver
crank In- the White House, and conse
quently a free-silver crank in the Treas
ury. 0
Humbert's Death Prophesied.
PORTLAND. July CO. (To the Editors
Noting the shocking news of King Hum
bert's assassination,, there Is mournful
significance In remembering the words of
anarchist Lucchenl immediately on his ar
rest after piercing the heart of the beau
tiful Elisabeth of Austria:
"Next will come the King of Italy, but
now, unfortunately, I will be prevented
from having the pleasure of doing for him
myself."
The above was brought on in the testi
mony at the murderer's trial, and can be
found on page 2S1 of an intensely Interest
ing book, 'The Martyrdom of an Em
press," written by an anonymous author
ess, presumed to be a lady-in-waiting.
Thus In something less than two years
has Lucchenl's fearful prophesy been ful
filled. Z.
Second Inacgurnl Address.
Fellow-Countrymen: At this second au
pcarlng to take the oath of the Presiden
tial office, there is less occasion for an ex
tended address than there was at the
first. Then a statement, somewhat in do
tall, of a course to be pursued, seemed
fitting and proper. Now, at the expira
tion of four years, during which public
declarations have been constantly called
forth on every point and phase of tho
great contest which still absorbs the at
tention and engrosses the energies of the
Nation, little that Is new could ba pre
sented. The progress of our arms upon
which all else chiefly depends. Is as wel1
Jcnown to the public as to myself; and It
is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and
encouraging to all. With high hope for
the future, no prediction In regard to It 13
ventured.
m -
Mendacity at Lnrgc In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Record.
The antl-lmperiallst Is not yet represent
ed with strict accuracy either by Roose
velt or the Republican press. At no time
has he demanded the "immediate Inde
pendence" of the natives of the Philip
pines. MEN AND W03IEX.
Mrs. Lanrtry lately appeared on tho Isle of
Jersey, her native place, in "Tho Dsgener
atcs." The Prince of Wale3 recently contributed a
hundred autographs to a charity bazaar In
London, the profits or which were to go to the
South African relief fund.
Sir William Mulr, tho head of Edinburgh
University, well known for his work In secur
ing women full academic advantages at that
place, announces that he will shortly resign
from office.
Professor Bernhard E. Fenow, of tho Cornell
College of Forestry, has been elected an official
delegate to the International Forestry Con
gress, to be held In Paris In connection with
the exposition.
Padercwskl at home is a slave to the piano.
His work Is as arduous there as In public
places. After his early dejeuner, Paderewskl
practices until his second breakfast, at 12
o'clock, or devotes a part of the three or four
hours to musical composition.
The massive EOld cup presented to the City
of Dublin by Queen "Victoria, in commemora
tion of her recent Visit, Is of gold throughout,
weighs 100 ounces, and stands two feet threo
Inches In hcir-nt. The pedestal 13 of black
marble. Inlaid with gold. The depth of the cup
Itself Is 18 inches, and tho circumference of
the rim three feet.
Olive Schreiner, who Is still so bitter over the
South African war as to express a feeling of
shame at her English descent, says: "If the
republics are annexed. If the Afrikanders are
oppressed, peace is Impossible. Every trench
of Boer dead is a grave of i.n:iana s nonor.
Every bullet making a wound also finds a bul
let in the heart of the empire."
Killed: A Son.
Edwin I. Sabln In Puck.
(From the Report-Killed: White. Oliver. Co.
H, Thirty-sixth Inf., In action at Calamba,
May .)
Out in the Philippines (can't tell where,
Jes' exactly, tho Pa ha3 read
All it gives In the atlas there).
Ollle but, mebbe, you've heard? is dead.
Pa, he says that it mayn't be so;
Things In the papers ain't always right,
Specially names but I know. I knowl
(Killed in action, Oliver White.)
Mus' be Ollle for It's the same
Regiment company, even, too.
Pa Insists: "It's a common name:
We'll jes' hope that the news ain't true."
Tet why, when the paper come today,
Was I of a sudden took with fright
Ere ever I saw what it had to say?
(Killed In action, Oliver White.)
Few, I reckon, will think it's him;
"Oliver" sounds so stiff and queer;
To all the people he's "Spike" and "Slim,"
No one spoke of him different here.
Wasn't the steadiest kind of lad;
Loafed a little; and4 drank a mite;
But then, he wasn't precisely bad.
(Killed In action, Oliver White.)
And p'rhaps we ought to be glad he went.
I was wlllln' I cried a bit.
But thought If soldlerln" was his bent
'Twas wrong to keep him away from It.
And now the people who called him wild
And good-for-nothing, will seo they might
Have all misjudged him my child! my child!
(Killed la action, Oliver White
X0T2 AND COMMENT.
How would you liko to bo but of coursa
you would.
Agulnaldo will do more thanistand by
his flag. He will run with it
May be some of the mlssionarIesaafcel
the Boxers If it was hot enough for roera.
The armies of the powers In China ara
strong enough, but they need to practice
team work a sood deal.
The legend. "Here lies a Shanghai cor
respondent," need not be printed on a,
tombstone to be truthful.
If William W. Astor keeps on moving:
he may find an island small enough tea
enable him to be exclusive.
At the present time there Is no need
of any one rising to explain that tne
heathen Chinee is peculiar fonways that
axe dsurk, etc
Where there's a wilt there's a way,
TBey say;
But there's never a way, when youtnu&a It,
That there Isn't a lawyer to pay.
Some day
For finding a way how to hreak.lt.
They cannot build a railroad near
Tho City of Pekln,
Unless they desecrate a sravo ,
Where sleeps some Mandarin; . .
And In Luzon they cannot lay
A half a. mile of ties t .
Unless they cross some fifty spots " -
Where Asulnatdo lies.
On the basis of the statue of Gladstone)
erected In the University Square ,at
Athens tho following words were Inscribed:
EPEIROU MOtRAL IDK THESSA-
LIAI PHAOS HIERON
DOKAS ELRUTHERIAS, DOUIiO-
SUN ALEKOX.
TAS-TVEUEROESIAS JtNKil&N
KSLLAS TOD AGALMA
HEXoATO SOI. GLADSTOXE,
IIOU KLEOUS ATHAXATON.
This may be rendered In the meter oc
tho original:
Thou to Epirus and Thessaly, held 'ncath th
sway of tho tyrant.
Gavest freedom's flight, breaking tho yok ot
the slave;
Mindful of that great boon. Hellas this trlbutai
of honor,
Gladstone, raises to thee, son of eternal re
nown. Samuel Rogers, tho poet, was one j of
the prominent figures In London society
of whom Babbage. the Inventor, hasva
good deal to say in his "Passages Protn
tho Life of a Philosopher."
Tho poot on one occasion spoke of a,
disadvantage arising from having one's,
windows formed on one large sheet of.'
plate glass a fashion then only In Its In
fancy. He said that, sitting at dinner ono
day in a friend's house, with his back to.
one of these single panes of plate glass,,
he fancied that the window was open, and!
actually caught cold In consequence.
Babbage, perfectly aware that the un
regulated Imagination was capable of
playing such tricks, had taken measures,
to keep his own strictly under control,
and, to the great amusement of Rogers
guests, he at once capped the poet's story
by the following:
"When I go to a friend's house in the
country, and unexpectedly remain for the
night, having no nightcap, I should natu
rally catch cold. But by tying a bit oC
pack-thread t.'ghtiy around my head. I go.
to sleep imagining that I have a nightcap,
on; consequently I catch no cold at all."
PLEASANTTUES OF PAKAGKAPHEIlSf.
An Easy One. "Why Is W. T. Stead Uko the.
platform ot a party that isn't in power?" "L
dunno." "He always views with alarm."
Chicago Times-Herald.
Very Like. "What a lawless set those Chi
nese Boxers seem to be." "Yes; they carry on
for all th" world like Kentuclclans In election
time." Indianapolis Journal.
Passenger Guard, have I ttrao to say good
bye to my wife at th barrier? Guard I don't
know, sir. How lonr have you been married?;
Glasgow Evening Times.
Different Pink3. "Do you llKe pink teas?'"
asked the Biooklyn Ctrl. "I never tasted',
them," replied her visiter from Cook County;
"but I Jii.t dote on pink lemonades." Brook
lyn Life.
Reports from the rural district" cor.flrm the.
impression that tho UirtU nun perspired aw
fully last week, while the farmer sat In tho
barn and expatiated oh hU lovo of bard work.
Boston Transcript.
The Town Crier. "They say that In hla
youth he wa3 ambitious to be a prcache."
"Sayest thou so? Yet I think ho hath found a
calling in which folks will say more heed CO
what he hath to soy!" Puck.
"Aren't you ashamed to be an object of char
ity?" exclaimed tha pedestrian. "I ain't no.
object of charity." replied Meandering MIks,.
Indignantly. "I'm a great moral an' clvillzla"
Influence. I am a promoter of philanthropy."
Washington Star.
"This boy of mine," said tho distressed.
parent, "has always been backward In hU les
sons. He doesn't eem to be smart enough."'
"You leave him with me." said the old-f&ao-loned
pedagogue, significantly: "I'll make hlra
smart." Philadelphia Record.
Ratios. The goose laid a golden egg and IC
silver eggs In rapid succession. Then she laid,
another sliver ess. and the peasant killed her
forthwith. "She is infected with the commer
cial ratio heresy!" he said, very sternly. This
fable teaches how extremely earnest are th
agrarian element in respect of this mattcrtof
ratios. Detroit Journal.
Culinary Hints In Verne.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Always havo lobster sauce with salmon,
And put mint sauce your roast lamb on.
Veal cutlets dip in egg and breadcrumb;
Fry till you see a. brownish red ceme.
Grate Gruyere cheese on macaroni;
Make the top crisp, but not too bony.
In venison, gravy, currant jelly; .
Mix with old port-see FrancatelH.
In dressing salad mind this law: ""
With two hard yolks use one that's raw.
Roast veal with rich stock gravy serve.
And pickled mushrooms, too, observe.
Roast pork sans apple sauce, past doubt
Is Hamlet with the Prince left out.
r
Your mutton chops -with papsr cover.
And make them amber brown all over.
Broil lightly your beefsteak to fry It
Argues contempt ot Christian diet.
Kidneys a flner flavor gain
By stewing them in good champagne.
Buy stall-fed plgeona. When you've got them
The way to cook them Is to pot them.
Wood grouse are dry when gumps marred 'esi;
Before you roast 'cm always lard 'era.
It gives truf epicures the vapors
To seo boiled mutton minus capers.
Boiled turkey gourmands know, of course,
13 exquisite with celery sauce.
The cook deserves a hearty cuffing
Who serves roast fowl with tasteless stuffing.
Smelts require egg and biscuit powder..
Don't put fat pork In your clam chowder.
Egg sauce few make It right, alas!
Is good with blueflsh or with bass.
Xlce oyster sauce gives zest to cod,
A fish, when fresh, to feast a god.
Shad, stuffed and baked, is most delicious.
It would have electrified Apiclus.
Roasted In paste, a haunch of mutton
Might make ascetics play the glutton.
But one might rhyme for weeks this way.
And still have lot3 of things to say.
And so I'll close, for, reader mlna
This Is about the hour I dlaa.