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10 THE MOHNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1900. EARLY SPANISH DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS (Copyrfsht, IKK), by Seymour Eaton.) He OREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED BY PROF- SEYMOUR EATON DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS OF AMERICA BY LYMA2JP. POWELL. VIII. In temperament and training the Span ish people seemed suited, to the task of xperaJon. For many years they had been at war with the iloors, and In the school of war had learned to take blows as well as to give them. Inured to the hardships of campaigning, they were ready to bear their full share of the trials of the pioneer. Their love of adventure was now at its full and the strain of bohcmlanism in their blood was new most evident and most Impera'tive. To leave home and kindred and country made few demands upon their feelings. Most of them could set all without a pang and with none of the anticipatory dread of the homesickness which under the modern name of nostalgia did great dam age to our soldiers in Cuba and the Philippines. Fierce adventurers that fell on kingdoms for their prey, the Span lards seemed of all the European peo ples to be Just the men to open up the new world to settlement. But they were never good colonizers. TVlth them colonization was always in the words of Swinburne, "a hideous and Boeotian jest." "Where other nations achieved at least a moderate success the Spaniards never lost a chance to make an arrant failure. Not one of their experi ments, viewed in the larger light of his tory, could by any warrant of Imagina tion be called a real success. Not only did the natives whom they found suffer griev ously, but the mother country always in the long run paid to the uttermost tho hard penalty of the witless and vicious policy she allowed her colonizers to ini tiate and to follow, to her and their un doing. From the very moment the lone ly followers of De Soto sunk his weighted remains in the midnight darkness to the bottom of the Mississippi River the lines Professor TV. P. Trent wrote In 169S have been veraclously accurate: Thine hour Is come, a stronger race Succeeds nnd thou must fall. Thy pride but adding to thy sad disgrace. As wormwood unto tall. And ret thou hast but reaped what thou hast sown. For In thy pride of strength Thou didst the kingdom of the mind disown. And so art sunk at length. The Spaniards used not merely poor Judgment in the solution of their coloniz ing problem;, they used no judgment at all. They sent out foolish, weak and gracoless men to deal with concerns tnat required men wise and strong and true, nnd they gave to all the "Christian scoundrels" they sent out carte blancne to go where they pleased and do as they liked. The Jamestown settlers were over-eager for gold, but there was a John Smith ready at the proper moment to reduce the chaos to some order. The Dutch wera chiefly Interested In the economic value of the now America, but they were not averse to work or to trade for their reward. The pilgrim fathers, in the well-known playful words, first foil tiprn their knees and then upon the ab orlglnes, but this was Just a fleck upon tho fair fame at the settlers of New England. The Spanish explorers had no redeeming traits. Cruel, lazy, greedy, they camo hither for the solitary pur pose of discovering gold, and the gliding of their greed with pious professions of devotion to the cross made it tho more nausoating. Never caring to make a home or to found a nation, the:- were impatient to despoil the land of all its pold and then sail back to Spain, to be flattered and envied by a people always ovcrfond of the tinsel and the glitter of this life of ours. The men who sacked Mexico and Peru, who trampled the best development of Indian civilization to pieces undr tho hnrd hoofs of cruel con quest, who worked the soft inhabitants of the adjacent islands to death and .re plpced them by "blnck men captured In tho wilds of Africa, wer Just goldhunt prs. nothing more. And Spnnlsh coloniza tion was in consequence foredoomed to failure. Columbus was tho worthiest of all the men ton 5-inln 5"nt out. and he was not a Smnlard. Vh:ro Nunez de Uilboa, called inaccurately Balboa by English writers, is th most attractive of all the unattnct4vo Spaniards who came hither. A bankrupt and a rebel, he crossed tho Jean Ponce de Leon, ocean in 1501 to repair his fortunes by pood luck. To escape imprisonment for debt in Kaytl he took passage concealed in a cask in an out-bound vessel, and when the vessel was wrecked off Daricn ho led a revolt against the captain. En clsco. who had spared his life, deposed Encisco and made himself by the force of an unscrupulous character commander of the company. One day while on a foracing expedition not far from the present town of Colon, an Indian chief, observing the greed of the Snanlards. told them of a vast ocean to the west ward where gold was as plentiful as pebbles on the shore. Hero was at last Jean Ponce de Leon. the chance for Vasco Nunez to repair his wasted fortune, retrieve his ruined roputiulon and atone for his great trea son. Sptember, IBIS, ho left Darien with noarly 3M men, bloodhounds and Indian guides. Ho fought his way with need less cruelty through tribes of hostile In dians, "hewing them in pieces as the "butchers doc flesh in the shambles" or giving them over to the dogs, which tore them limb from limb "as if thev were wild boirs or Hr-rics." On September 25 he found himself on the crest of the Cordlilems, not far from the line of the present Panama Railroad, while at the base glittered for many a milo a waste of unknown waters which Vasco Nu nez. alb4t ho fell upon his knee in awe. could not have dreamed was the largest occur on the globe. Wading out Into the water to hi waKt. he took possession of It in the name of Spain and called it Mar del Sur, or South Sea. to distinguish it from the Mar del Norte, as the SpnirAs termed the Caribbean. Vasco Nunoc nuide several voyages along the P&eHIc Coat snd fell a victim to the fears and Jealousies of a rival, the Gov ernor of Darien. who had him beheaded in 1T. Around the name of Juan Ponce de Leon there Is the halo of a rich rominee. Of noble pedigree, a companion of Columbus on Ms secftnd voyace. a rather f-mons soldier f fortune already pact the hev dy of his youth, and growing old and Wase. Pence de Leon added to Spanish lovo for gold an insatiate desire to h voHniT enough to extract from gold its full dT.yht In Ms earlier dy he h-d heord of course, the Oriental stories of a foun- tain where the oldest might renew his youth. Possibly he had read the spuri ous letter of old Prester John, who vowed he could commend the fountain, because he had tried it once himself. When word came to Ponce de Leon In Porto Itlco that the long-sought fountain was now j at last located, tht Indians said It could be found on an island called BIminI, j northward of Hispianola, he could scarce-1 ly wait the coming of King Ferdinand's consent for him to hasten off to have his bath. "Wealthy enough to bear the whole expense, he tot sail on his pathetic voy age with three caravels In March. 1513. and, disembarking at the Bahamas, the j aged cavalier and his companions tried every lake, stream, rivulet and spring, and then in disappointment hastened on their way, to make their real landfall, not Easter morning, as some historians say, but six days later, April 2, near the site of St. Augustine. He tarried long enough to name tho country Florida, to find the story of the fountain all a myth, to cruise awhile among the neigh boring islands, and then at last to re- FERXAXDO turn to Porto Rico, still white-haired ! and wrinkled and a little Older. In 1521 j he came out once again to found a col- ' ony, but his landing was disputed by the Indians, and he received a wound in tho thigh from an arrow, which sent him to Cuba, there to die a death of prolonged suffering. A yet more formidable and if possible more disastrous attempt to take posses sion of the countrj- was made in 152S by Panphllo de Narvaz. Appointed to succeed Cortez, the conquerer of Mex ico, he landed on the coast of Florida in the Spring of 1K5, and fired by Pin eda's mention of gold ornaments on the Mississippi Indians, he hurried inland as fast as he could go to find an Indian town as full of gold and precious stones as those which welcomed Plzarro in Peru. With the characteristic stupidity of his infamous predecessors, he relied upon the sword to conquer a country which might have been secured by kind ness. Thfr first batch of Indian captives was flung to bloodhounds, though upon the chief the kinder torment was inflicted, of an amputated nose. The Indian ar rows, the dlrmal swamps, the tangled forests, the smothering heat, the fever breeding climate, the scarcity of food, turned them back at last, and the sur vivors reached the Gulf, near the mouth of the Mississippi the most of them to perish in the fierce "northers," still a menace to the sailors on the mighty Gulf. Fernando de Soto had been with Cor dova at Nicaragua, and had had a hand in the conquest of Peru. Made Governor of Cuba in 1337, he offered at his own expense to redeem the unkept promise of Narvnez, and was authorized by his sovereign to conquer and to occupy the land embraced within the patent of his predecessor. In May of 1539 he anchored at Tampa, within sight of the spot where 11 years before Narvaez had set out on his Ill-starred expedition. Though Do Soto had roundly blamed Pizarro for his horrid treatment of the Inca. and though he knew full well the baneful conse quences of the foolish, faithless policy of Narvaez toward the natives, De Soto proved just as silly and as cruel. No Indignity was too fiendish for him to try upon hapless men and women who fell Into his clutches, and in consequence he had to fight his way, inch by inch, across the country, though the hostile Creeks, no mean antagonists even for the armored and firearmed Spaniards. Before relentless hostility the Spaniards slowly melted away, and, after a desperate fight In the Autumn of 1541. near the site of Mobile, where De Soto lost 170 of his men, the end seemed near, even to the most sanguine and most sanguinary. On to the Mississippi they pushed, barely escaping annihilation in a furious engage ment with the Chlckasaws. The eldorado of their fancy still eluded them, though they must have penetrated far beyond the Mississippi. Wounded in battle, weak ened by suffering and disease, disheart ened by his failure to find gold and his Inability to found a colony. De Soto at last orders the building of two brlgan tlnes, in which his party may float down the Mississippi and from Its mouth make back to Cuba. The work was hardly un der way when the commander died of fever. May 21, 1542, and was buried in the Mississippi, lest the Indians should wan tonly desecrate the grave, A year later the few survivors of a cause forever and deservedly lost made their way to the Mexican coast and sent the doleful news of their undoing to Havana. After this the colonizing of the New World languished for a while. The Span lards had nothing to show for all their pains except the lasting pain of mortify ing failure. Instead of gold they had nothing but experience, by which neither then nor in their recent government of Cuba have they ever profited. For the life of them they could see no good rea son for holding Florida, and when in the Autumn of 1361 Philip II announced that he would encourage no further attempts to colonize the country every one was glad to have an end of unsuccessful ef forts to find gold where there was no gold, and to deal with natives who could gle a good account of themselves. Philadelphia! The Chinese anil Missionaries. Poultney Blcelow in North American Review. The public misrepresentations cf the spirit and alms of the Christian religion and cf tho objects which animate Chris tion missionaries In their work are almost incredible. I have before me a specimen of the posters which are from time to j time exhibited throughout the country with a view to bring indignation and con tempt upon the foreigner. It represents our Savior in the shape of a hog. He is being worshiped by two "foreign devils." the one marked "teacher." the other "dis ciple." These two are branded with the most Insulting epithets known t the Chi nese vocabulary, notably those lndlca ing lack of sexual virtue. One Inscription reads. yThls is the beast which the for- elgn devils follow. The bog's skin and "bristles are still upon him." Down ths left-hand side of the picture and In tho middle of the poster are inscriptions which are absolutely too otssene for publication. JESTER'S BEST LAWYER. Father Time Worked in Ills Behalf and Successfully. Chicago Tribune. One of the most remarkable criminal trials in history has Just como to an end at Now London, Mo. Old Alexander Jester has been acquitted on the charge of murder, and the mystery, which for nearly 30 years has surrounded the fate of young Gilbert Gates is still unsolved. In the case Is Involved nearly every pos sible element of sensational interest. On January 23. 1S7L Gilbert Gates, a mere boy, dirappenred while traveling In a mover's wagon through Missouri in company with Jester. Jester was ar rested and locked up in jail In Mexico, Mo. Aided by other prisoners, he dug a tunnel and escaped. "With his escape the curtain drops on the first act of the tragedy. The next 29 years are a. blank. A. A. Gates, of West Chicago, father of the missing boy, spent much money In looking for his son and in trying to get some trace of Jester, but his eilorts were DE SOTO. useless. Finally he gave up tho attempt. John W. Gates was the elder brother of young Gilbert. One aay, sitting in his hotel in New York, 29 years after his brother had vaninhed from tho knowledge of the world, he casually picked up a newspaper. His eye happened to fall upon a little Item telegraphed from an Obscure village in Oklahoma Territory. It related that an old, white-haired man, locked up In Jail as the result of a land dispute under the name of W. II. Hill, had been positively identified as Alex ander Jester. Almo3t before ho had re covered from the shock a. 'letter came from a woman cnlling herself the, half sister of Alexander Jester. She de clared that for nearly CO years she had concealed the knowiedge of her brother's crime; tint her conscience would allow her to conceal it no longer, and that she wished to give him up to Justice. The Gates family, hoping to get at last the solution of the long mystery, procured the arrest of Jester. He was brought back for trial to the country through which, 30 years before, he and young Gilbert Gates had driven on their way to the golden West. Detectives swarmed about Middle Grove, Mo., and traced every step taken by Jester on his long overland journey in 1S71. They fol lowed him into the far Southwest and brought every detail of his life for 25 years under the microscope. The search for witnesses extended over almost as many states and territories as years havo elapsed since the alleged crime was committed. Eminent attorneys were em ployed to prosecute the case, and the trial began. Never, perhaps, in the hls xory of Jurisprudence has such a won derful exhibition of memory been given as that displayed on the stand and under oath by many of the witnesses. Old men and women testified to the most minute details as to the acts arid whereabouts of Jester In January, 1871, fixing with positive exactness such facts as the date and even the time of day when Jes ter, for instance, asked for a drink of water or stopped his wagons at a cross roads store. People to whom such feats of memory seem Impossible should re member, however, before condemning the witnesses as untruthful, that people In the rural districts have fow exciting things to interest them, and, consequent ly, remember wfth vividness facts which city residents would soon forget. Again, it is a common experience that old peo ple often retain in memory occurrences of their early life long after more re cent events have been forgotten. At any rate, witnesses were found who wove about old man Jester a web of circum stantial evidence. " But after hearing all the evidence and listening to the speeches of the eminent criminal lawyers, the jury, seven mem bers of which were born after the al leged crime was committed, found him "not guilty" on the third ballot. The ver dict Is not a surprising one. On the contrary, it would have been an astonlsh inig thing if so old a man had beeen found guilty so many years after his al leged crime was committed. Time is tho one fixed and unalterable factor Jn all human affairs, and a crime which has been a mystery f nearly 30 years is not likely under any circumstances ever to be punisned. Hardwoods of Great Value, Medford Mail. The hardwoods of Southern Oregon are rapidly coming into notoriety. They should be preserved with the utmost care for manufacturing purposes. Hardwood on the Coast will be as valuable as walnut In the Middle Western States. We re member when fine walnut trees, three or four feet In diameter, which would have made the finest quality of furniture, were cut down and made into rails; and. we have lived to see this timber so scarce and valuable that the stumps of these fine trees have been dug up and sold at fabulous prices to meet the demand for this valuable wood. The value of all grades and varieties of hardwood, 'suit able for manufacturing purposes, should be understood now before it has been ex hausted Jn waste or used for purposes where less valuable woods would answer as well. Every Important resource sus ceptible of exhaustion through waste or inadvertance. should be carefullv hus banded to meet a future demand which is certain to come. Member of the Church Militant. Medford Mall. , There was a rough meeting house up'at Talent last Sunday evening. Evangelist Goddard was holding services, and. as we are told, during his remarks made romc assertions to which James Forsythe, a Southern Pacific painter, took exceptions. The evangelist stepped out of the pulpit and proceeded to eject Forsythe from the church, which act was accomplished after a second effort. The evangelist's collar was torn off and his puter garments otherwise disarranged. A warrant was sworn out by T. J. Ecll, charging For sythe with disturbing a religious meeting. He pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and costs, amounting in all to $15 30, which was paid. M'KINLEY IS IHE BOSS AD HAXXA.IS OXLT AS CLAT IX THE POTTER'S HANDS. An Entertaining: Stnd-r of McIClnley and Bryan by a Man "Who Observes Keenly. l is sometimes said that Mr. McICln ley Is an opportunist, saj-3 a writer in tho New York Sunday Herald. He is. Opportunism is the essence of American business success. Given honesty, loyal ty, industry, untiring energy the ground work common to all Industrial or politi cal organizations and no other princi ples arc needed by the modern school. Everything else Is Improvised as required by the developments of the day, and the emergencies of the hour. Put Mr. Bryan .at the head of a big concern and he would endeavor to run it by means of preconceived notions. It would be all theor;-. There would be hard and fast rules. He would try to operate upon men by means of principles borrowed from the fathers. Mr. McIClnley, the true executive, counterpart of all modern Industrial administration, operates upon men directly through understanding of human nature. McKinloy's one basic principle led him, immediately after his inauguration in 1SS7, to call Congress to special ression for the purpose of enacting a new tariff law. There his instinct and his luck ran parallel. His Idea was to give the coun try prosperity. Now, prorperlty was com ing of itself; coming slowly but surely in response to laws Infinitely higher and greater than acts of Congress. But Mc IClnley got his new tariff law upon the 'statute books Just In time to secure the credit for all the good times that fol lowed. Apart from this one act, all the remain der of McKinley's administration has been opportunicm of the simplest and most obvious sort practical, sensible, buslners opportunism meeting problems after they have developed and not before. -drliting carefully with complications till they can be thoroughly understood, tak ing advantage of events rather than try ing to force, or create them. McKinley never set out to be an explorer or dis coverer. He sails alor.tr with the fail wind, but steers constantly and well and has one of the best weather eyes ever seen upon the political waters. He runs Into port with the tide, but no mariner ever watched light more alertly than ho or was more skillful In avoiding shoal or breal-.er. McKinley's habitual opportunism, hla practice of waiting to see how the wind blows, has given the careless observer the impression that this is a sign of weakness, of timidity, of lack of char acter.. It is nothing of the sort. Oppor tunism is Mr. McKinley's principle, it is his strength, It is his salvation. He be lives in it, he wonshlps at Its shrine. He goes upon the theory that the best op portunist Is the most successful In the race. The results Indicate that he is right. In 1896 William McIClnley did not know whether he was a gold man or a silver man. The question had never been brought forward in an acute way. Hith erto he had escaped all searching in quiry by announcing himself a bimetal ist the convenient compromise, which meant nothing and was employed by so many persons. But in 1S93 his party was meeting in National convention at St, Louis and threatening to take a new departure by putting the word "gold" into its platform. Did Mr. McKlnley fa vor it? He did not know. He was wait ing to seo what the party itself wanted. He was for whatever the party was for. Mr. McKinley is strongly enough for the gold standard now. Of course, he is. The path is plain. It' is unmistak able. And if any one harks back to the doubtful days of 90 when It was the toss of a copper whether It should be gold or a straddle, let him not say that hesitan cy on McKinley's part was a sign of weakness. Ndt so. In his philosophy and his philosophy, mind you, Is practi cal and success-bringing, that bit of cautious waiting, oar to ""ground, that renunciation rather than assumption of responsibility was strength, strength of the highest order. Mr. McKinley lays no claim to being a great leader, a pion eer. He is content to go as fast as the world goes, and he cautiously tries p avoid going a whit faster. This Is the natural adaptlblllty of a man whd knows almost noting of books, excepting the Bible and the Congressional Record, but who mingles more with men, reads them more assiduously, draws more out of them, than any other personage of his times. . . . The enemies of Mr. Mc Kinley are fond of saying "he has kept his ear so close to the ground that ho has worn that member off close up to his head." But this is only a bit of witti cism. Mr. McIClnley believes in keeping his car to the ground. That is his meth od. Understand this, and you have the keynote to his character. He does not believe there is anything reprehensible in it. To the contrary, he belivcs it his duty. He has faith that nine times out of 10 the people are right in their sober Judgment; that it is safe to follow them; that the vox popull Is the voice of wis dom. He has no shame in being an op portunisthe only wants to be the best opportunist in the business From whatever point of view we study McKinley we find him pursuing this fa vorite method. He aims to bo no An drew Jackson, as Grovcr Cleveland. The world is not to him an oyster, to be opened as he likes with the sharp end of his firmly held Instrument of power. It Is, rather, a complex, growing, devel oping thing, subject to certain of na ture's laws as to climate, atmosphere, soil and water, and it Is his business to watch and nourish and guard It, and when it finally blooms, be It prickly cac tus or sweet rose, it is his and he is with it, and in control of It, and, as chief gardener, he so trains It that it may inure to his glory and renown. If we seek a better keynote to the Mc Kinley character than any we have as yet employed, perhaps wo shall find It In saying that he Is an adept in the art of benevolent selfishness. His Is the policy and tho practice which endeavors to make everything work out for tho com mon good and his own special benefit. So great is his skill that even close ob servers often lose sight of the man and h'.s personal motive in the splendor of the well disposed ensemble. He is even content to play the game so adroitly that men think him weak and vacillat ing. There is a prevalent belief that he laoks strength of purpose and Is easily led by others: that he wobbles and yields too much to be entitled to a niche in the gallery of real fame. This is an error. It is a natural error, due to the cleverness -with which the game of benevolent selfishness istplayed. Judged from a little distance William McKinley is thought the most generous and self-sacrificing of men. He is all urbanity, all milk or human kindness, all surrender and compromise. His speech Is soft, his glove of velvet. So smooth and unctious arc alt his moods and methods that small wonder the steel of selfish ness and persistency, of Iron will and indomitable purpose to reach the result aimed at, is overlooked. ... In the estimation of the ill-informed public the character of McKinley has been wholly subordinate to that of Hanna. The child who asked if McKin ley .would still be President were Hanna to die is famous. But this, too, is a myth. It may surprise a goodly number of people to learn that Instead of Hanna eclipsing McKinley. It Is Hanna who Is as clay in the hands of the Presidential potter. Hanna is at heart the sincerer, milder man, no matter what manners Indicate. Hanna loves McKinley; McKin ley uses Hanna. Wholly contrary to a general belief, it is not the chairman of the Republican National committee who Is thestronger-willed, the more sel fish, dominant, Bryan. Discontent needs nothing so much as a voice. Nothing but a voice can direct and lead it. A voice s ready to fall down and worship. Unconsciously, to it self, the organized discontent of the Democratic party at Chicago in 1S96 wa3 seeking a voice which should summon to its side all the unorganised discontent of the masses. Suddenly the voice ap peared. It came as a potent phrase maker from the prairies. With Its "cross of gold and crown of thorns" It stood wit outstretched hands and tho scepter was placed in them. The voice was Bryan. From that day to this the party has remained true to Its Instincts, and has made no serious effort to rid itself of the leadership of the soothsayer. It has recognized the eternal . fitness of things by keeping as Its lmperator the utterer of epigrams, by preserving the dictatorship of the discontented in the hinds of the chief declalmer. . . . "We Democrats are a different people from the Republicans," said Mr. Dock cry, a former Congressman from Mis souri, and the next Governor of that state, at Kansas City. "The Republi cans have discipline. They arc organized on business lines. The leaders say how many addresses shall be made, and who shall make them, and that's all there is of It, But when we Democrats get together ovcry one of us thinks it his duty to ma!:e a speech, and all the rest of us think it our duty to stand around and help him." Of this party Mr. Bryan Is tho fitting and well-chosen louder, Mr. McKinley 13 such a perfect typo of the business and executive spirit of the American people that he may be said to be a personification of it In our public life. Mr. Bryan as perfectly represents the elements of protest, of dissent, of discontent, of dreams of higher and bet ter things not definitely dchned, or well understood, but which have a good and virtuous sound when translated, into well-rounded rhetorical periods. . . . But It will not do for anyone to assume that Mr. Bryan, because an Idealist and an egotist, is without the will power and forco of character which arc. requisite to a succcrsul management of the Na tion's altalrs. That would be a great mistake, a deception of one's self. There is a widespread impression, especially In the East, that the Democratic candidate for President is shallow, demagogic; a mere dreamer, whosa dreams fail to co ordinate, and whose lack cf stamina would make his administration at Wash ington a rudderless, water-logged dere lict, full of surprises and dangers. I know Mr. Bryr.n well, and I am sure this Is a gross misconception of his char acter, Mr. Bryan is in earnest! He be lieves what he says. Ho really and truly thinks the gold standard a great evil In the world, the Imperialistic tendencies of the Republican party a menace to the ' Republic. These are with him more than matters of the mouth they are from the heart. He may be a dreamer, but he" dreams honestly and without the aid of self-administered narcotics. ... His faith is not in practical politics, in the old methods which William C. Whit ney, Arthur P. Gorman and Marcus A. Hanna know so much of. When Mr. Bryan rays his trust Is in the people he means it. He is not merely saying things for the sound of them. That Is his creed. In tliis day and generation it seems sad ly old-fashioned and prosaic, but with Mr. Bryan It is eminently practical and modern. It is the only politics he knows. His conception of manipulation is to get , the people together in nn open space where there is a hill or rostrum at ono side of it, and there to appear and make appeal to them by word of mouth. If the politicians of Kansas City had not suc cumbed to this dictatorial Idealist's lrade as to the platform, do you know what wo should have seen? One of the most dramatic incidents ever witnessed in a National convention. Mr. Bryan speed ing to Kansas City by special train, rushing to the hall, raising his hand and his voice over tho multitude, ap pealing from leaders and generals and heads of masses to the private In the ranks. Ho would not have appealed In vain. There never was a great man in politics who was not bigger than his party. Mr. Bryan know this. He had made himself his party's voice, but he yearned for something more. He was Its nominal physical leader. But that was not enough. He wished to be Its moral master. The opportunity came when the head men led him up in the mountain. He seized it. He compelled them to set the stamp of their approval upon him when he ran counter to their wishes. This is more than leadership It Is abso lutism, but absolutism for principle's sake. It is heroism, because it may be renunciation of the Presidency. . . . Bryan has made himself a man before the eyes of his countrymen. He has re sisted and won. That it was hi3 purpose deliberately and strikingly to place him self in contrast with Mr. McKinley there can be no doubt. He had seer the countrj- tending to the conclusion that his rival was as clay in the handu of Potter Hanna; a trimmer and wobbler; a man without moorings to any other bank than that of self-interest; ono who would shift and turn and run this way or that to be President again. It was not Mr. Bryan's business to stop to Inquire whether this estimate of McKinley was wrong or right. All he wanted to know was that the estimate had place in men's minds. His task was to put himself in contrast with that figure, of his rival, to make people say unto themselves and to one another: "Here at last Is the man we long have sought; one who bends not the knee, whose moral backbone is of solid stuff; ono who may be wrong in some things, but who Is right in character and strength." It is the fashion in some parts of the country to look upon Mr. Bryan as a dan gerous radical of revolutionary tenden cies. But many of his friends complain of him that he is not radical enough. They would like him to favor government ownership, but he refuses. They talk to him of the initiative and referendum. He waves them aside. Instead of being a Populist with Democratic leanings, Mr. Bryan is a Democrat with a love for Ppp ullst votes. Mr. Bryan possesses remark able ability as a hypnotist. Nearly all tho men who. fall within his Influence are completely charmed by him. This is not confined to those who agree with him upon the Issues of the day, but often extends to those who go to argue with him. During the agitation about tho Democratic silver plank a number of prominent party men called on Mr. Bryan to coax him over to the conserva tive side. Almost invariably Mr. Bryan and they were, in harmony at the close of the Interview, but it was not Mr. Bryan who had yielded. The one notable exception to this rule was David B. Hill. Mr. Bryan is a fatalist. He believes he is to be President of the United States before he dies. He is so confident of it that he does not permit himself to be worried by doubts and fears. If it does not come In 19C0, it will como in 1904, and if not In 1901 then In 1903; for Mr. Bryan has not the slightest notion of stepping aside from Democratic leadership even if defeated next November. The Demo- crats who want to defeat Mr. Bryan this year In order that their party may get rid of him once for all are reckoning without the knowledge or co-operation of Mr. Bryan. Hoiv Her Deafness Was Cored. Detroit Free Press. "My wife has had her curiosity ap peased in a way that will satisfy her for some time," said tho newly-married man. "It was my idea to make our wedding trip as quiet as possible and do away as much as we could with the an noyance that usually attends wedding couples. But the woman said that she was proud of being a bride, and that she wanted to hear the comments that the people would make. With this end In view, rhe hit upon the crazy notion of playing deaf and dumb and going through a lot of monkey shines with our fingers to carry out the scheme. She reasoned that this would cause people to talk In our presence and thus we would be able to hear what they said. "I opposed the idiotic idea from the start, but what I said cut no figure, and I had to consent to the plan. Our first chance to try the scheme occurred in a railway station where We were waiting for a. train. My wife commenced her TJbat ordinary irea&masl falls to relieve painful periods They know Lydla Ea Pink" hasn's Vegetable Gom pour.tS will and does and has, naore than any other medicine Every woman knows about Rlrsm Pinkhana's medicine Every woman knows seme woman Mrs Pink" ham has cured But nine women csit of ten pzst eff getting this re liable remedy until their health is nearly wrecked sy experiments or neg leotl Then they write to Mrs Pinkham and she cures them, hist of course it takes icszger to do so Don't delay getting help if you are sick She has helped a million women Why not you 9 pantomime, and I had to carry it out, feeling like a fool while I was doing it. She wobbled her fingers and I wobbled mlno. and we soon had every one staring .at us. There were two women seated back of us, and the comments she de sired so much to hear soon-came. " 'It's a newly married couple, said one. 'The poor things are deaf and dumb. Isn't it awful?' " 'What do you suppose he saw in her?' asked the other. 'Sho Is posltlvely homely. " 'And I believe her hair is bleached said the first woman. " 'And her hat Is out of date.' was the next startler. " 'Looks like an old one made over, was the reply. " 'Her dress wrinkles in the back,' said the first. " 'She's 35 if she's a day, and she looks as if she had a frightful temper,' put In one of them. "Right there my wife found her tongue, and her remarks to those two Women left no doubt about her having that important article that women are supposed to ex orcise so freely." Ennrene Sleeps Brownsville Hnatlea. Eugene Register. Everyone realizes that in the near fu ture the trade of the Blue River mining district will be a matter vitally import ant to Eugene. Everyone knows that thi3 trade is now menaced by the town of Brownsville; that there is only one possi ble way in which it can be retained to Eugene, and that that way Is to improve the Blue River road. These are facts. 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