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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21
vAPOLocir poa the lumber evil..
A great deal of latitude has been
Jgien the assertions, accusations and
defenses of correspondents and officials
in the matter of public school lands,
if the facts have not been published
St Is not because effort has been spared
to dig them up or because applications
!for a hearing have been denied. But
there is one aspect of the affair that
2ias not yet been presented, to which
Jattention should be drawn, and this is
the reason existing in public policy why
acquisition of great timber land dis
tricts by syndicates should be encour
aged. Nobody seems to have a word of de
fense lor the predatory lumberman
"Who goes up and down the land seek
ing what forests he haply may devour.
As for him, he seems disposed to con
fess judgment, and meekly await his
anerlted punishment Tet a little reflec
tion might discover mitigating clrcum
etances even In the case of the hard
ened lumber king. He develops the
country, he employs labor, he brings
money into the state, he clears land,
3ie makes business for the railroads
'ond Indirectly for all lines of trade.
The same theory that would keep our
irests intact from destruction could
be Invoked with equal force to prevent
minors from robbing our rich moun
tains of their gold, and prevent the
farmers from using up the nitrates in
the soil of the "Willamette Valley.
"We shall not undertake to defend or
palliate the perjury of those who, hav
ing signed a contract with a syndicate
for purchase of the claims on which
bey flle, make oath that the land is
for their own use and not for sale. But
their moral obliquity is no more patent
than is the fact that If this timber
land is held until individual settlers
camp on each separate quarter-section
and build a sawmill there, Puget Sound
will continue to do the lumber business
of the Pacific Northwest. If these syn
dicates will only build sawmills and
railroads, open up the country and add
to its wealth, their turpitude In hav
ing money and spending it may be
3orne and even condoned.
Tou can't have- a thriving lumber
.trade and at the same time have all the
trees standing untouched on the hill
sides. The forestry problem, moreover.
Is essentially different here from the
painful and oppressive nightmare It
lias become In Eastern states. The
Douglas fir recreates Itself with such
fecundity and rapidity that in It is al
most realised the traditional paradox
of eating one's cake and having it, too.
Jarge areas of land, treeless thirty
years ago, are covered today with thick
young forests. In the hills between the
Cowlitz or the Willamette and the Pa
cific Ocean, trees are growing up as
fast as ax or Are is dragging them
down. An abandoned farm Is ready for
the FawmiH In a generation. Mr. John
Minto, the Marlon County pioneer, has
tv 'I ten a pamphlet on this subject
WhUh every one should read who is ln
f rested in practical forestry.
The great difficulty in our lumber
development, perhaps, is the aversion
ej m.uiv exccnVnt people share to the
epc taole of capital lucratively at work.
It Is not the perjury of the timber
c'.mmant or the forest supply of the
3 ar 2000 that worries them, so much
us it is the apprehension that syndi
cates buying up timber land and op-c-a'hig
sawmills might- make Interest
rr at Wtf taxes on their Investment.
Wo cannot, as yet, imprison these dls
c tinted persons as public enemies, or
i"invlate them in boiling oil, or en
2arge the insane hospitals for their ac
c mmodatlon. They must be permit
ted to gTR'pte fiercely with a country
that refuse to let them save It by main
i-"-"gth Bat the syndicates will go
i.' 1 1 as Ions as they can make any
f' ' f Big tartts require big amounts
''Hal. and tbe money will be forth-
" mg so ng as it can make anything
i.' 1 s entire, or so long as it thinks
3r a- If it oaa't make any profit, it
rU -hut up shop. The finest preserver
tf 'orsts is the Populist legislator
tallB a crusade against lumber syn
c.v.as. Probably the next best is the
rI'road with prohibitive lumber tariffs.
fummimkxt ineroHE peace.
Tl.e latest news from Pekln Is a re
newal of ropo8Mte for peace on part
cf V e ChitHfee Government through LI
JT'isg Chanff. These propositions have
been addressed, It is reported, to all of
V e powers. So far as the United States
la c ncerned, the terms of peace would
seem tc be settled la advance. The dec
3aratlo. of thte country as to the open
d vr and the recent demands upon the
CUrese Government Itself set forth the
V '.icy -which the United States has
udo; 'ed and from which it is not likely
to depart. Mr. Hay, in his note of
July 3, wrote
T&e poller Ownt or the United
&tatea t to wc a solutkni wlricfa may brine;
tbcut pentMUtent rafetr Mt4 peace in China,
p-eerve Chinese torrtterat and administrative
".i f, protect alt rtcht guaranteed to friend
ly pcers b trvt an International law, and
Ba.fecua.r4 for tfee wM the principle of equal
t-4 'partial tt4e witk alt parts of the Cht
aesexnptra Secretary Hay defined the policy of
this country to be "to afford all possi
te protection everjrhere ia China to
.American life and property, to guard
and protect our legitimate American
Interests, and to aid In preventing a
rpread of disorder to the other prov
ince of the oaipire and a recurrence of
such disasters.' The relief f our Le
gations, the rescue of the American
csalaaaries and other citizens la Pekln
has been accomplished, and It remains
to accomplish the rest of our avowed
purposes and to see that our treaty
rights In China are satisfactorily guar
anteed by a responsible and competent
government at Pekln. Our troops are,
therefore, quite likely to Winter at Pe
kln and remain until a final settlement
has been assured. Our Government
has more to ask than a mere money
indemnity. The guilty officials and
leaders of the mob who murdered cru
elly our missionaries, men and women,
at Pao Ting, in railroad communication
with the capital, must be sternly pun
ished, if our citizens are to be safe In
the future. Our troops will not leave
China until a Chinese Government is
organized and an administration in
stalled that will maintain order and
protect foreigners.
What will this new government be?
It certainly will not be represented by
the Empress Dowager and her fugitive
confederates, who are responsible for
the outbreak, and whose recent mis
representations to the envoys was a
clear case of double dealing. Of course,
if General LI Ping Heng had 15,000
trained troops to resist our advance to
the capital, and if General Tung Fu
Slang has 30,000 trained troops to guard
the fugitive Empress and her treasure,
the Empress "had troops enough to have
protected the Legations. She cut off
the head of the Secretary of the For
eign Office for sending food to the Le
gations, and punished other pro-foreign
officials with death. To allow her to
remain at the head of the Chinese Gov
ernment or to go without punishment
for her crimes would be the height of
folly for the future.
Of course, the new Chinese Govern
ment must be headed by some repre
sentative of the ruling Manchu dy
nasty to satisfy the public opinion of
China, but some representative of that
dynasty should be taken whose hands
are not responsible for the blood of
helpless American women murdered at
Pao Ting. The Empress Dowager's life
may be spared, but it would be a blun
der worse than a crime to let her re
sume her place at the head of the Pe
kln Government Pekln Is the place to
make peace; Pekin is the place where
to determine who are the guilty, and
Pekln above all is the place to punish
them.
DRUM AXD TRUMPET POLITICS.
It is conceded on all sides that the
campaign is dull beyond precedent.
This situation Is natural, for the Re
publicans are full of confidence and the
Democrats have little hope. In 189S the
Republicans were badly frightened,
and worked with the desperate energy
born of unusual alarm, while the Bryan
Democrats were full of hope, resting on
hard times and their ability to convince
the farmers that the so-called degrada
tion of silver was responsible for the
low price of wheat If the Republicans
had believed as firmly in 1884 or In 1S92
as tbey did in 1896 that defeat would
pick their pockets, they would not have
losb the election. The campaign of 1896
possessed all the conditions to warrant
a bitter battle; for the Republicans be
lieved that the triumph of free silver
at 16 to 1 meant a financial revolution,
whose fruits would be bankruptcy and
mercantile disaster on every side. The
fight was not for party pride or po
litical traditions, but for the sanctity
of vested interests, both of the poor
man and the rich. Labor made com
mon cause with capital because labor
was convinced that a victory for free
silver at 16 to 1 meant the practical
confiscation of one-half its savings,
whether represented by banks or insur
ance companies, the sudden inflation of
the price of commodities without a cor
responding rise in the price of labor.
Labor could remember the days of in
flation prices in the Civil War, when
the greenback dollar was worth but 50
cents in gold, a day of enormous prices
without corresponding rise In the price
of labor.
With capital and labor both badly
frightened there could not be an apa
thetic campaign in 1896. But today the
situation is reversed; for neither capi
tal nor labor is as badly frightened as
It was In 1896; first, because Ihey are
not apprehensive that Bryan will be
elected, and second, because they do
not sincerely believe that Bryan's elec
tion In 1900 could possibly prove as ca
lamitous as it would have been In 1896.
Under these circumstances, a drum and
trumpet campaign today is out of the
question. The people as a whole are
too practical and intelligent to pretend
to fears that they do not feel, or to
affect a hope they do not entertain.
The Republicans do not apprehend the
election of Bryan, and they do not be
lieve that, if elected, he could ruin the
country as he might have done if elect
ed In 1836 The Democrats do not ex
pect to elect Bryan, and are, of course,
apathetic in expectation of a losing
fight. Thousands of them who will
vote for Bryan will not worry over his
defeat Probably thousands of them. If
they really expected to elect him, would
not vote for him, for they have ceased
to believe in flat silver and feel noth
ing but contempt for the issue of "antl-
lmperlalism." The consequence is that
the campaign will be as apathetic as
that of 1SS6. when Van Buren was
elected to succeed Jackson. Van Buren
was not personally popular, although
he Tras a very able man; but he was
nominated and elected in obedience to
the flat of Andrew Jackson bj the
votes of the united Democratic party
over the dispirited and divided Whig
party, which really by its own folly
threw away all chance of success.
In the campaign of 1836 the Democ
racy was apathetic because It felt sure
of victory, and the Whigs were apa
thetic because they were sure of de
feat The campaign of 1S10 was the
only real drum, and trumpet campaign
ever seen In this country. It was liter
ally a "song and dance" campaign, but
its effusive, superficial, noisy enthusi
asm had no serious moral basis what
ever. The victorious Whig candidate
was 67 years of age. a vain old man,
who had won an Indian fight at Tippe
canoe, In 1S11, and the small "battle of
the Thames," over the British and In
dians in the War of 1S12-15. In neither
of these petty fights did Harrison dis
play any military ability worthy o
notice compared with that of Wayne
or Jackson, and yet the united Whig
party elected this commonplace old
man President over a very able states
man by a larger plurality than Andrew
Jackson obtained over Adams in 1828,
and falling short only 11.000 of the plu
rality obtained by Jackson In 1S32.
This drum and trumpet campaign of
sixty years ago was, as we have said,
utterly without moral issue of earnest
ness. It was an absurd medley of
"coonskins, hnrd cider and log cabins."
No memorable speeches were made, al
though the great Daniel Webster con
descended la days of difficult stage
travel to be the orator at a monster
"Haprlson" meetingin the little town of
Stratton, on the summit of the Green
Mountains. The man Harrison, was
fairly sung into victory by the most
absurd kind of campaign Bongs con
cerning "Tippecanoe and Tyler too,"
"Van, Van's a used-up man." Van
Buren was satirized in the lines:
Linden Wold, the Fox's Hole,
The coons all laughed to hear It told.
The American people behaved like a
band of drunken mountaineers at a
Kentucky barbecue. Such a campaign
never took place before or since, for In
the great campaigns of 1856, 1860 and
1864 great moral issues were involved,
and when the people are terribly In
earnest they do not sing and shout
Since 1864 there have been no great
campaigns of deep political excitement
and popular apprehension equal to that
of 1896. The absence of drum and trum
pet enthusiasm today Is complimentary
to public intelligence.
OUR JfATIOVAI. FAILURE.
The poets and composers who have
failed to produce a satisfactory Amer
ican National song and they are
many are held up to renewed censure
and contumely by an accomplished
writer in the New Tork Sun, who ar
raigns the old favorites for their well
known shortcomings. "My Country!
'Tis of Thee" Is criticised because the
music Is borrowed, because the musical
accent falls upon the unimportant
words and because the composition as
a whole lacks force. "The Star-Spangled
Banner" has borrowed music also
(worse stljl, it Is borrowed from an old
English opera), is unsingable in any
key because Its range exceeds that of
the average voice, lacks the right
rhythm for marching, and is cheapened
by the opening line with its flat ex
clamation, "Oh, say!" "Hail, Colum
bia," is put under the ban because It
is musically wholly unworthy, and
"Yankee Doodle," which is simple and
rousing and endeared to us by tradi
tion, is entirely wanting in dignity.
Far be it from the present purpose to
offer aught in extenuation of this our
National fault, purely one of omission
though it be. The critic's points are
not open to objection. But where he
seems vulnerable is in his failure to
include other most grave and glaring
shortcomings of our men of meter and
melody. What the Sun's critic wants is
a National song "as rousing as the
'Marseillaise,' as devout as the 'Gotter
halte,' as martial as the 'Wacht am
Rheln,' and better than any," and he
undertakes to say that it is actually
coming in the golden age ahead of
us. But there are other things we
ought to have in this country and for
whose lack somebody, perhaps every
body, Is quite as culpable. Why has
no American composer produced an "II
Trovatore" or a "Thanhauser"? Why
has no American poet written the equal
of "Hamlet" or the "Ode to a Grecian
Urn"? Why do we still have to go
to the old masters for canvases instead
of to Chicago or Kansas City? -Jf any
American poet has written a sonnet
like that of Milton on his blindness or
an apostrophe to the ocean equal to
Byron's, the magazine publishers so
far have failed, owing to press of other
matter, or other causes, to make room
for it.
Is it possible after all to make a Na
tional hymn, with the desired qualities,
in a night? How much, after all, does
the "Marseillaise" owe to the fires of
the Revolution, or "God Save the
Queen" to the memories it invokes, or
"Die Wacht am Rheln" to the vine-clad
hills and Teuton campflres where It
grew to full maturity? "The Star
Spangled Banner" was born out of the
throes of a National peril; seventy
years of civic occasions and fireside
memories have entered Into "My Coun
try, 'Tis of Thee"; it is the dangers
and heroisms of the Lost Cause, and
not its words or notes, that start the
"rebel yell" when "Dixie" rises from
the band, and the strains of the choir
invisible itself could not recoup "Hall,
Columbia" for the loss of the conscious
ness that it has been handed down from
sire to son through many a National
crisis and many a bloody campaign.
A National hymn must be sung by the
Nation unless it is to be a misnomer,
and the best part of It is something
the poet and composer cannot put into
It. Time must nurture the National
anthem, If we ever have one and one
only, danger and daring must contrib
ute to Its history, and human life in
tragedy and pathos be beaten into its
lines and staves before It will rise
spontaneously from the patriotic heart
and prompt the patriotic cheer. This is
a heavy task to require of our song
writers, facile though they be, and
handy both in ragtime and local hits.
A man could almost as easily manu
facture a few genuine Egyptian mum
mies or Moselle of the vintage of 1870.
Philadelphia has been a hot town this
year. Here is the record of the hot
wave that passed over it from July 15
to July 22:
Maximum Mean
temp. temp.
July 15 93 SI 5
July 10 09 SO
July 17 93 87
July 18 OS 8S
July 19 01 SI
July 20 92 83
July 21 94 83
July 22 89 80
And here Is the record of the second
hot wave that passed over Philadelphia
from August 6 to August 13:
Maximum Mean
temp. temp.
August 6 95 800
August 7 97 81
August S 00 S4 0
August P 04 SG3
August 10 97 S83
August 11 100.0 P06
August 12 99 87
August 13 , .-90 SO
Severe as has been the visitation of
this last hot wave, and breaking the
Philadelphia record, as It did, for the
two hottest days in August, it did not
equal in duration the terrible ten days
from August 4 to August 13, 1896,
which caused the greatest number of
deaths and 'prostrations ever recorded.
Here is the record of the hot wave of
August, 1896:
Maximum Mean
temp. temp.
August 4 90 79
August 5 ....94 82
August 0 90 80
August 7 90 Si
August 8 96 80
August 9 96 S7
August 10 93 84
August 11 97 87
August 12 97 87
August 13 94 85
These fourteen days of excessive tem
perature caused 203S deaths from sun
stroke in the entire region affected,
Boston, New Xork, Philadelphia, Balti
more and Washington furnishing 1461
of the total and St Louis and Chicago
310. The records, however, are known
to be incomplete, and the actual num
ber of deaths was much larger. The
annals of the hot waves that pass over
the Atlantic States and the Middle
West stand every Summer for a rec
ord of suffering and death that ought
to promote an annual exodus to West
ern Oregon and Western Washington.
There is no possible hope In the near
Zuture for pension reform. The Repub
lican campaign documents are full of
figures on the pension question, which
ar denounced by the New Tork World
as a very reprehensible method of cam
paigning. So It is, but the Democratic
platform includes the following plank:
"Wo favor liberal pensions t6 them (soldiers
and sailors) and their dependents, and -sve re
iterate tho position taken In the Chicago plat
form In 1890 that the fact of enlistment and
service shall bo deemed conclusive evidence
against disease and disability beforo enlist
ment. '.
This is a direct bid -for the Boldier
vote in its offer to guarantee pensions
on account of any disease alleged to
have been Incurred in the service,
though that may not have been the
fact. Both parties are guilty this year
of bidding for the soldier vote; both
parties have always been guilty of it,
and for this reason there is no hope
of any pension reform legislation in the
future. All the vicious pension legisla
tion now on the statute-book has been
placed there as a bfd for the soldier
vote.
It is reported that a resolution will
probably be passed at the coming
Grand Army encampment in Chicago
to change the date of Memorial day
from May 30 to the last Sunday In May.
This would be an excellent reform, for
the obvious reason that the day is, in
its essential motive and ceremony, a
sacred one, but it has come to be given
over, outside the Grand Army, to sports
and amusements, so that its signifi
cance has been greatly Impaired in the
popular mind. The celebration of Me
morial day on Sunday is not out of
harmony with the spirit of the day of
rest; the music, the marching and the
flowers are nothingi more than would be
deemed fitting and appropriate to a mil
itary funeral, and care could be taken
not to have the exercises Interfere with
any of the services of the churches.
Forty-seven years ago, at a Demo
cratic' state convention, held at Mont
peller, Vt, the Democrats of Vermont
adopted the following resolution on the
subject of expansion, which was in
troduced by the brilliant John Godfrey
Saxe, wit and poet, who was then the
editor of the Burlington Weekly Sen
tinel: Resolved, That in opposing the narrow and
timid policy which, had it prevailed, would
havo limited the United States of America to
the territory of Massachusetts, Connecticut and
the "Providence Plantations," the Democratlo
party has wisely favored the enlargement of
tho domain of freedom; and that we are in
favor of the acquisition of any territory on
this contlnpnt or the islands adjacent thereto,
whenever It can be done consistently with the
rights of other nations and the honor of our
cwn.
London is disposed to think better
now of the Treasury's action in turn
ing the new loan over to Americans in
exchange for badly needed gold. In
this country we should hear fierce de
nunciation of the Government for ex
tending help to the banks and Indi
rectly preventing a panic. If there is
anything your true Populist loves, it's
a panic. It shows the need of rotten
money.
Likely enough some shrewd Chinese
General 'made an effort to keep the
Dowager Empress from leaving Pekln.
He was casting an anchor to windward,
against the time when the allies were in
full control.
Gllmore's magazine story has given
Arthur Venville an international fame.
Oregon cannot afford to let him perish
for want of a ransom.
The Indiana wheat crop will be light,
and therein lies Democratic strength.
The shortage is directly attributable to
Mr. Hanna.
Another German-American's Views.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Congressman Bartholdt, a representa
tive German-American citizen of St.
Louis, entertains little fear of a defection
on tho part of German-American, voters
from the Republican, ticket this year. Ho
reposes too much confidence In their habit
of doing their own thinking to believe
that they can be led astray by false doc
trines. The Imperialism issue is a fake
issue, just as the cry of "Caesarism" was
In 1S72, he says. German-Americans
learned 'at that time how they were de
luded by this cry, for Grant's re-election
utterly discomfited his calumniators.
Congressman Bartholdt does not think
they can be fooled again, and, moreover,
he sees no argument in the present cam
paign that is likely to make Democratic
votes among German-Americans. In
speaking of the Democratic method of
campaigning, he says: "Let them con
tinue their Jekyll and Hyde performance
by talking Imperialism to the East and
19 to 1 to the West The intelligent
voter knows full well what the real car
dinal issue in this campaign is. He re
quires no National convention to tell him.
The important question is whether the
country shall continue to be prosperous
and happy, or shall again become poor
and miserable. That Is the real 'para
mount issue, as it Is understood in every
home in America, or as It ought to be un
derstood. Mr. Bryan observes convenient
silence on this all-important issue, but
he cannot deny these three propositions:
First, that the American people are now
enjoying a fair measure of prosperity;
second, that want and misery are the
memories of the last Democratic Admin
istration; and, Ihird, that the change was
brought about during the incumbency of
President McKlnley and under a Repub
lican Congress."
Treason.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"Every person owing allegiance to the
United States who levies) war against
them or adheres to their enemies, giv
ing them aid and comfort within the
United States or elsewhere, is guilty of
treason. Every person guilty of treason
shall "suffer death."
This has been the law of the United
States for 110 years, and is the law to
day. Under other clauses of the same
law, "every person who Incites" or "as
sists any insurrection," or "who car
ries on any correspondence with any
foreign government with Intent to de
feat the measures of the United States,"
is liable to heavy fine and long impris
onment "If two or more persons con
spire by force to prevent, hinder or de
lay the execution of any law of the
United States," each Is liable to similar
penalties.
The letter of Dr. Montague B. Lever
son, of Fort Hamilton, N. T., to G. Apa
clble, found among the rebel archives
in Luzon, and published recently, cer
tainly gives "aid and comfort" to the
enemies of tho United States. Edward
Atkinson, George S. BoutwelU Carl
Schurz. Edwin Burritt Smith, J. Lau
rence -Laughlin, A. H. Tolman and sev
eral others of their kind, if the Govern
ment chose to notice? them, could cer
tainly be sent to prison for assisting an
insurrection. The facts as to the acts
and words of these men are notorious,
and tho law i3 plain. Every reader can
apply tho law to the facts.
Whenever the word "treason" Is ap
plied to tho utterances of Mr. Bryan's
supporters. Democratic newspapers make
frantic appeals to "the right of free
speech." But here Is the law, and here
are the facts. Neither can be changed
by boastful defiance of the Government
to prosecute the guilty. The United
States Is merciful, but its mercy does
not absolve the traitors morally or acquit
them before the bar of public opinion.
THOSE JEALOUS EASTERNERS.
How Plainly Is Manifested Their
Envy of Oar John. Barrett.
Springfield Republican.
Slam was never in its history so well
known as it has been since the "Hon."
John Barrett returned to his country
men. Indeed, Slam may almost be said
to have come Into international existence
through Mr. Barrett It Is related in
the books that the Portuguese discov
ered the country In 1511, and that a Brit
ish ship reached there in 1613; but it is
certain that Slam did not become a world
power until It was rediscovered by John
Barrett in 1894.
In our own case, Slam began to mean
something more than a jungle place where
they raise twins. In tho Winter of 1S97-98.
Copies of th English newspaper printed
in Bangkok began to reach this office,
containing articles, heavily blue-penciled
by a strong hand, warmly eulogizing
"the Hon. John Barrett United States
Minister to Slam," and lamenting tho
fact that the necessities of American
politics compelled the retirement of so
great a diplomat from his majesty's court
at Bangkok. Since then our acquaint
ance with Siam has steadily grown more
intimate.
For Mr. Barrett came home a person of
renown, "the late United States Minis
ter to Siam." He is never known to
write, speak, eat, or pare his nails, with
out having it felt In ever-widening circles
hat he is the "late United States Min
ister to Slam." The magazines and
weeklies that prize his views on Oriental
affairs, invariably refer to him in con
nectian with Siam. In the August North
American Review his name stares at you
from the title page as "John Barrett,
formerly United States Minister to
Siam." In the current Harper's Weekly
you get him again In bold, black type, as
"John Barrett, late United States Min
ister to Siam." When tho Republican
chairman in Vermont Introduced him at
tho rural rallies, it is the same "tho Hon.
John Barrett late United States Minister
to Slam." When Mr. Reed, tho other
day, asked, "Who is this man, Barrett,
anyway?" of course the reporter chirped
up, "the late United States Minister to
Slam."
Now, this is great for Siam (where
did you say it was?) but It Is proper to
inquire how much Siam the ordinary man
can take along with his ice water, with
out a nervous and physical collapse? We
wish to be entirely Just to Slam, but
really President McKlnley would confer
a blessing upon the Nation if he would
cut short the Slam advertisement by
sending Mr. Barrett to Uruguay or Ecu
ador for a diplomatic spell. As tho "late
Minister to Ecuador' Mr. Barrett would
be welcomed home again with demonstra
tions of joy.
THE SCIENCE OF BEAXS.
The Sun's Funny Man Is at His Old
Tricks Again.
New York Sun.
Bolls the world in torrid lakes, as a
great bean-eater and pie-eater said, but
the love of knowledge does not wi.t
Salamanders were sunstruok and fire
eaters, were dropping one by one tho day
when this letter was sent to us by a cor
respondent, whom we here thank In the
name of science and of beans:
To the Editor of the Sun Sir: Your
article of today, dealing with Dr. Har
per's experiment with cheap meals, is
most enjoyable, and tas both understood
and appreciated by mo as well as by
others who are familiar with tho reputa
tions of the learned and popular purvey
ors of Park Bow referred to by you; but
we have been fairly "stumped" by one
word which you use. "Cyamologlsts" we
never heard of before, and, though tho
word was probably coined for the occa
sion, you have doubtless good reason for
its make-up. Please enlighten. H. Z.
New York, Aug. 9.
A cyamologlst or cyamologer Is a man
versed in cyamology, which is the science
of beans. Take one Greek bean, "kya
mos," and the Greek "logla," a speaking,
and you have "cyamology," a speaking
concerning beans. Take "cyamologj" and
graft on the ending "1st" or "er" to ex
press the agent, and you have "cyamolo
glst" or "cyamologer." Cyamology is a
member of the old familiar "logia" or
"logy" clan, and denotes a justly ven
erated branch of science. But why should
we be suspected of coining "cyamolo
giBt"? There is excellent authority for It.
Thus, In Mr. Hiram Cobb's "The New
York Aladdin," we find this stanza:
Then close up all our kitchens,
Let all your cooks be whist;
And shut up tight the mouth of might
Of the proud cyamologlst 1
In Mr. Oxenbrldge Byles' "Thunder in
Tooley Street" occurs this illustrative
passage:
For all it overweens.
It doesn't amount to beans;
This egotistical, cyamomystlcal,
Anti-Imperialist League.
"Cyamomystlcal" and "cyamomistlcs"
are rare words, but we find In "The New
York World of Words":
"CamophllIst," "fond of beans, a lover of
beans."
"Cyamophagist," "a bean eater, a native of
Boston, U. S. A.
Cyamophagy," "the eating of beans."
The work quoted does not notice the
Latinized form In "The Paradise of Po
sies" (1589):
Tho Cyamophagl, and such as have
No heads upon their shoulders.
The Indebtedness of Shakespeare to
these lines has been noticed, we believe,
by the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly. Thus the
Avon may be said to flow Into the Charles.
The Strenuona HantinBtou.
Boston Herald.
Collls P. Huntington was one of the
great railroad magnates, of whom the
Nation has produced so many. His
place is In the first rank. When Con
gress had under consideration, 25 years
or more ago, some question of dealing
with the Pacific Railroad companies
which brought all their representative
men to Washington, it was remarked
by members of the committee before
whom they appeared that C. P. Hunting
ton was the most wilful and com
manding personality of the group. He
was rugged, resolute, autocratic His
grasp of affairs within the sphere of his
particular business was comprehensive
and Intense. The contrast botween his
rude, aggressive, sometimes fierce man
ner, and the calm, smooth, deferential
habit of Jay Gould was Immense. Pow
er was the impression produced by his
aspect and, his speech. He was a fighter
by nature, and a terrible one, who could
be as ugly as relentless. He was self
assertlvo to the last degree, a nature
typical of ambition, self-reliant and
greedy. Whatever graclousness he may
have exhibited in private life, In busi
ness be was hard, domineering and suc
cessful. The Queennlmry Drama.
Chicago Tribune.
September 1 a new law goes Into force
In New York which forbids prizefights
within the limits of the state, no matter
under what evasive title they may mas
querade. It has been feared in some
quarters that all the "pUgs" who have
been making their headquarters in New
York would take up their boxing-gloves
and other apparatus and emigrate to Chi
cago. That would have been bad enough,
but a more recent announcement makes
the prospect so much worse that In the
Interest of suffering humanity Governor
Roosevelt ought to call the Legislature
together In special session and repeal the
obnoxious law. Instead of coming to Chi
cago, the pugilists are going on the stage
almost in a body. From announcements
already made, it appears that there are
to be heavy-weight melodramas, feather
weight farces, and even musical comedies
with welter and middle-weight champions
In the stellar roles. "Bloody-Nosed B1IV
"George the Gouger," "Bat the Brute"
and all the other young gentlemen who
have won honors in the squared circle
are to be starred, and if .they all suc
ceed In getting engagements, it would
seem that there will be little room for
Richard Mansfield. Mrs. Flskfe, Maude
Adams or any one else during the com
ing theatrical season. It may well be
considered a question whether the pu
gilists will not do more harm on the
stage than in. the prlzerlng, and. if
pressed for a decision, most people would
probably be In favor of letting them
fight Prizefighting is not likely to lower
the tone of morals in Greater New York,
while a dozen or two pugilistic theat
rical companies are certain to have a
demoralizing effect on the country at
large.
PROPHECIES OF 180C.
Mr. Bryan's Direful Views of the
Gold Standard.
Boston Advertiser.
If the prophecies and predictions made
by Mr. Bryan had proven to bo true, the
gold standard, which has been in opera
tion since he uttered them, would have
produced the following dire results, to
wlt: It would have Increased tho purchasing
power of the gold dollar Madison
Square speech.
It would have been as certain to make
prices fall as a stone is to fall when It is
thrown into the air. Newton. la,, speech.
It would have Increased the debts of
the people and lessened their ability to
pay them. Baltimore speech.
It would have made times harder and
harder. flame speech.
It would have starved everybody except
the money changers and the money own
ers. New Haven, Conn., speech.
It would have transferred the bread
which one man earns to another man who
had not earned It. Hartford, Conn.,
speech.
It would have made tho rich richer and
the poor poorer. Newark, O., speech.
It would havo decreased the number
who are happy and increased the number
who are in distress. Same speech.
It would have destroyed the hope of the
tolling masses. Minneapolis speech.
It would havo destroyed tho-opportunity
to work. Same speech.
It would have Increased the number of
Idle men. Same speech.
It would have decreased the volume of
standard money. Same speech.
It would have encouraged tho hoarding
of money. Hornellsvllle, N. Y., speech.
It would have made It more and more
difficult for the farmer to live. Madison
Square Garden speech.
It would have injured the wage-earner.
Same speech.
It would have made employment less
certain. Same speech.
It would have discouraged enterprise.
Same speech.
It would have paralyzed Industry.
Same speech.
It would have lessened the ability of
savings banks to collect their asset3.
Same speech.
It would have Increased tho danger of
depositors losing their deposits in savings
banks. Madison Square Garden speech.
It would have compelled depositors In
savings banks to withdraw their deposits
to pay living expenses. Same speech.
It would have lessened the salaries of
those engaged in business occupations and
would have lessened the permanency of
such salaries. Same speech.
It would have injured those who have
permanent investments In railroad stocks
and other like enterprises. Same speech.
It would have Injured or destroyed tho
manufacturers of agricultural implements,
wagons and buggies. Springfield, O., and
Flint, Mich., speeches.
It would have lessened the ability of
the masses to buv goods and thereby
would have lessened the number of travel
ing men. Indianapolis speech to traveling
men.
It would have made It Impossible for
husbands and wives to nay off the mort
gages on their homes. Minneapolis, Minn.,
speech to ladles.
It would have made It necessary to ad
vocate tho closing up of our public
schools. Monmouth, 111., speech.
Wharton Bnrfcer Not Ineligible.
Chicago Tribune.
The reporter of the Nebraska Supreme
Court who was once a Judge sends out
word from Lincoln, the home of all wise
men, that Wharton Barker the Presi
dential candidate of the Middle-of-the-Road
Populists, has forfeited his Ameri
can citizenship, and hence Is ineligible
for the Presidency. Mr. Barker Is said
to have forfeited his citizenship because,
"when connected with some improve
ments in Russia, he was titled Lord of
St. Wenceslas bv the Czar, and before
accepting the title he did not ask Con
gress for permission to receive it"
A lawyer who has been a Judge should
be better Informed as to the Constitution.
Ninety years ago Congress was afraid
lest European powers might seek to at
tach American citizens to their interests
by titles or pensions. The fact that some
prominent men west of the Alleghanles
had been In the pay of Spain had be
come known. So Congress submitted to
the states an amendment providing that
any person should cease to be a citizen
of the United States who should accept
receive or retain any title of nobility or
honor, or who, without tho consent of
Congress, should accept any present pen
sion or office from any Emperor, King,
Prince or foreign power.
This amendment was not ratified, how
ever. The only Constitutional provision
bearing on the subject Is the one that no
person holding any office or trust under
the United States shall, without the con
sent of Congress, accept any present,
emolument office or title of any kind
whatever from any foreign, state. This
clause has no application to private citi
zens. They can accept, and occasionally
havo accepted, decorations and petty
titles from foreign potentates. Possibly
Mr. Barker has done so. If he has. that
will not stand between him and the Presi
dency. All that bars his way to that high
office is his inability to get the necessary
number of votes.
MEX AJJD WOMEtf.
Aram S. Hewitt, of New Tork, says that
the world Is built three times in a. century.
Mrs. Samuel Smartwood, wife of a railroad
engineer living in Wllkeibarre, Pa., has Just
given birth to her 25th baby.
Duse's daughter, Elizabeth Marchetti. Is
studying to be a schoolteacher at Munich. She
Is said to bo an image of her mother.
Evelina, Countess Pisani. who died recently
in North Italy, was the daughter of Dr. Van
MilllnEen. who attonded the poet Bron in his
fatal illness.
Tho Rev. James M. Gray, a well-known Bib
lical scholar, has declined a call to become
permanently nsioclated with the Rev. R. A.
Torrey In tho work of the Moody Bible Insti
tute. Chicago.
Tho oldest of the colonial representatives In
London is Lord Strathcona. of Canada. Gen
eral Sir Andrew Clarke, tha noted soldier,
statesman and engineer of Victoria. Australia,
is next to him.
Slam's Crown Prince, who is studying at
Oxford. Is bound to be an up-to-date potentate
like his father. He recently developed appen
dicitis, and enjoyed the modern operation for
that misfortune.
The hat worn by President Van Buren during
his Inauguration ceremonies has Just been pre
sented to the museum of Illinois College. It
Is a great beaver of tho style since associated
with President Harrison.
General Nelson A. Miles' famous collection
of weapons has been recently augmented by
the gift from n. South American politician of a
sword worn in several campaigns by Simon
BoUvar. "The Liberator."
President Eliot, of Harvard, has declared
himself In favor of tho shirt waist man as
student. Several members of the faculty com
plained of tho fatigue costumes worn to lec
tures by students in June, but President Eliot
did not sympathize with th complaining faction.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Many a poor manha3 made $1000 by not
going to Nome.
The thermomotertwent np to 93 in Lon
don last week and to 90 in the provinces.
And Chicago, too. had her guess too
high. Sha fell 2H,42S short of tho 2;0C0.
000 mark.
A person experienced in the chattel
mortgage business states that the filing
of numerous such instruments in Port
land does not always denote hard times,
or that people are borrowing to tide over
a bad spell. He says that some people
could not well get along without a chattel
mortgage on everything they possess, and
a renewal from time to time is necessary
for legal effect
The attorney of the city and county
of San Francisco has decided that tho
rule providing for the dismissal of fe
male teachers in case of marriage Is in
valid, and says, among other things, that
her marriage Is not a matter of school
department's business. The Portland
School Board recently adopted a rule
adverse to marriage within the term of
service, and a legal opinion of this kind
in this state would doubtless bo wel
comed by the teachers interested.
Despite the state statutes which pro
hibit sale of malt or splritous liquors
in any form to any person under any cir
cumstances, a compromise has been ef
fected in almost every town or city of
the State of Maine. By this compromiso
saloons are tolerated on sufferance of an
annual or a semiannual fine. This has
been the arrangement In Bar Harbor for
several years. The three selectmen elect
ed at town meeting appoint the police
and make the municipal regulations. The
local regulations regarding the sale of
liquors in Bar Harbor are that saloons
or club3 selling llquora shall not keep
open after 11 at night or on Sundays.
The late Charles Russell, the first Cath
olic to hold the high office of Chief Jus
tice of England, was the son of a brewer;
his uncle was a Catholic priest and pres
ident of Wayworth College; a brother
was a Jesuit priest, his sister was Mother
Mary Baptist Russell, superioress of Uie
Sisters of Mercy at San Francisco, to
which place she went in V1S54, and a
daughter Is at present In a convent in
England. He was Intensely fond of horse
racing, and a great student of the game
of whist. The elevation of so devout and
eminent a Roman Catholic to the highest
judicial office in England proves tnat
the English people aro no longer afraid
of the pope. As early as 1S3S a Roman
Catholic, Judge Tarey, wa3 made Chief
Justice of the United States Supremo
Cour:, but under our lawsifrom the found
ation of the Federal Govenment no re
ligious test was required for publfc of
fice, but Catholic emancipation was not
enacted by the British Parliament until
1S2), and even to this day the Viceroy of
Ireland is always a Protestant
In spite of the explicit provisions of
the treaty of Berlin and thearemonstrances
of England, France and Germany, tho
Government of Rumania has practically
denied citizenship to the Jews, for during
the last 20 years less than 100 Rumanian
Jews, members of a few wealthy fami
lies, have been enfranchised. Of tho
260,000 Jews in the kingdom, most of them
descended from those who have been
settled there for generations, only 900 are
now citizens. Even in their case the
right is only personal, and does not de
scend to their children. The Jews, be
ing thus aliens In the eye of the law, aro
denied free education. There are 30,000
children of their race who are entitled
to it, but only by paying fees are 2000
of them able to obtain educational ad
vantages which are free to Rumanians.
The higher schools are closed to them,
and they are hampered in establishing
schools of their own. No Jew Is permit
ted to hold a government office, or a
position In a hospital or on a railway.
No Jew may be an architect, a veterinary
surgeon, a dispensing chemist or a law
yer. No Jew can be employed In tha
National bank, or serve in the Chamber
of Commerce, or hold a commission in
the army. A Jew cannot sell tobacco
or salt, and by a special act against ped
dlers 20,000 of them have been brought
to the verge of starvation.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEItS
A Dashing Miss. "Is she a girl of tha
period?" "Oh, no; she never punctuates with
anything but dashes." Phlladerphla Bulletin.
Charitable Old Lady. "Poor woman! And
ora you a widow?" Beggars-Worse than a
widow, ma'am. Ma husband's living, an' I
havo to support him. Glasgow Evening Times.
Much Needed-First Girl I thought that
young man was going to bo hero two weeks.
Second Girl Oh, he's coming iack. He's only
going to town over Sunday to get a llttla rest.
Harper's Bazar.
That Boy Again. "Papa," said little Wlllio
Asklt. "Well, my son? "la the days of
Kings, and knights, and nobles, did they hav
to put postage stamps on their shirts of mall?"
Baltimore American.
Too Much Poetlo Son Ah I father. Poets
are born, not made. Father (angrily) Look
here, you! Write all thet dern. rot ye want,
but don't go blamln' mother 'n' ma fer it. Wa
won't stand it! Puck.
"Oh. my frlend3," exclaimed the earnest old
man who was talking, "think of tho future!
"What will you bo doing; SO years from now?"
"Waiting for news from China," conjectured a
reckless young person in tha group. Chicago
Tribune.
Apologies All Around. Mrs. Niblick You
mustn't mind my husband. Mr. Von Bunker, if.
ho swears terribly while he Is playing golf.
Von Bunker And you mustn't mind me, Mrs.
Niblick, if I taka tha words out of his mouth.
Brooklyn Llfo.
His Meter. Mrs. Floodyer Oh. Mr. Bates,
how I enjoyed your lovely volume of poems!
Batts You're very kind. Indeed! Do you lika
the Alcaic meter? Mrs. Floodyer Alcaic meter!
Oh, I see, you want to change th,e subject.
Modesty is the crown of genius. But really I
cannot say. Doe3 It save much, gas? Brooklyn
Life.
At the Daj' Dawn.
Ripley D. Saunders in St. Louis Republic
Daylight dawns In the dappled sky
What shall the new day be?
'Tis but a flash till tha day goes by
"What shall the new day see?
Hopeful hearts that look for the best?
Sorry souls in a mournful quest?
With the sun In the east or the sun in tin
west
It's a choice for you and met
Daylight dawns In the dimpled sky
Joy that the night is done! f t
Tis but a breath till the day shall die
Get tha good of tho sun!
For the little day Is yours to make
Bitter or sweet for your own life's sake.
And your heart shall strengthen or your heart
shall break.
As you choose while the day doth runt
Goldenroil.
Chicago TIm-es-HeraM.
Far. for across the spreading lea
I see the yellow waves that ljll
Down through the rifts, from knoll to knoll.
Like billows on some golden sea.
And deep, deep down inside of ma
I seem to feel my very saul
Moved by some wondrous witchery
That sets the burning teardrops freel
Ah, goldenrod. in song set high
O'er all the other weeds that grow
I, too, would sing thy praise if I,
Alas! wera not kept sneezing so
If I codfoud tha luck atchool
With drier eyes bight look at you!