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'Letters reratlng to advertlslns. subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "Th Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts snt to It -Rlthout solicita tion, No stamps should toe Inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, offlco at 1131 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 935, Tacoma Postofflce. Eastern Business Office The- Tribune build ing, New Yo-k City; "The Rookery. Chicago; the S. C Becklth special agency, New York. Xpr eale In San Tranc'sco bv J. X. Cooper, 746 Market street, near the Palace Hotel, and at G j'.dsmtth Brers , 230 Sutter street. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. i TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair, with northerly "Winds. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20 "WHY, AND THE WAY OUT. Everybody is on the miners' side. "Why Is It? "We have had these little unpleasantnesses before, and the strik ers have been jumped upon from, the start. What's the difference now? Well, what has the answer always Tjeen to tho strikers' demands? Can't afford It. Industry isn't paying. Prices ere too low. Business won't stand it And everybody has sot up and said: Here, you men, this is a bad time for you to strike. The company hasn't paid any dividends for a long time. Overproduction has accumulated a big surplus that is pressing down the mar ket. There's no money in the business now. Take it easy a while, and directly when times look up you will be taken care of. The reason -why everybody is on the striker' wide is that hnslnens is xroocl and the mincowners are malt ing: money. Let them divide with the men. We used to have overproduction in coal because people couldn't afford to use it freely. Now this strike-has only been going on a week, and there is a coal famine all over the East Stocks are cleaned up, prices axe high, there is an unlimited demand for oceans of coal at almost any price. If the com panies have to charge a little more for their coal in order that the miners may have liberal wages, all right. The coun try will stand it. Everybody is pros perous. We want the mlneowner to have a fair price for his coal, but we want the miner to have fair pay for his j work. The Democrats expect to profit by the strike. Why, certainly. Vote for Bryan and hard times. Then yon will put the mlneowner in a hole, and -when the miner strike everybody will nay, as in 1S94, busi xicbk can't stnnd it. Vote for Bryan, ly all mean, Mr. Miner, and yon can kill off instantcr the sympathy of the whole country that rock out to yon In thiw hour of' prosperity. A WOMAN'S VIEW. A woman's conclusions on business problems are frequently open to ques tion, but her intuitions as to the char acter of men can seldom with safety be despised. When a woman advises her husband to buy a certain corner lot he will probably consider other evi dence before making up his mind. But when she says, "My dear, I feel that that man has a bad heart, and I beg you not to have anything to do with him in a business way," if he rushes on heedless of her warning, he does so at his peril. The train of reasoning by which. Mrs. Iiease reached the conclusion in 189G that the gold standard was ruining the country it is impossible now to follow, and perhaps is not in any event impor tant. But her opinion of the characters of Bryan and Stevenson is worth a moment's reflection, for she may be right. She is a strong-natured woman, and her intuitions may have something in them. Of Bryan she says: I thought him a. sincere man four years npro, . man devoted to a. prin ciple and with the courage to main tain it in the face of all opposition. But, alas! events have forced me to the sorrowful conclusion that my erstwhile idol Is simply an ordinary man with an abnormally developeil Presidential bee in his bonnet, whose seductive hums "have made liim forget principle, consistency and duty to his country and fellow man. Unfortunately, there is too much basis for what Mrs. Lease says. Four years ago Bryan devoted himself without de viation to the cause of the toiling masses against the conspiracies of the money power. Through the free and unlimited coinage of silver by the United States alone he proposed to de stroy the gold standard and right the "wrongs "of the poor and needy. This year he made his Indianapolis notifica tion speech without a single reference to the subject, and he manifests a cheerful alacrity in talcing tip any old issue, like hatred of England or the Populist fad of "direct legislation," that promises a few votes. He has given some cause, at least, for the charge that he has abandoned the role of the de voted knight of a principle for that of a trimming politician. This, evidently, Mrs. Lease has in mind when she says: It really makes one sad who be lieved in his sincerity four years ago to compare his fearless and consist ent utterances then with his cheap demagogism of today. I have heard even some of his followers say that liis present speeches did not seem to ringr as true as those of four years ago, and that he failed to impress them as he did then. This is simply due to the fact he is talking what he does not believe in his secret heart. The scramble for votes is also re vealed in the choice of Stevenson for "Vice-President Here is what Mrs. Lease thinks of Adlal: X hear Adlai Stevenson spoken of as a. real nice old gentleman, and X presume lie tsj but I rcm.em.ber bin as one of those who were firing on our troops in the rear in the stormy days of '01, a "Knight of the Golden Circle," and be seems to be at his old tricks now. If the women of the country take this view of Bryan and Stevenson, the Dem ocratic cause Is a goner. COME OVER. It beats all the gumption, of the men of Seattle. How they stand by their town, how they work together, how they do things, how they get there! Chicago rising from the ruins of its great fire, Galveston pulling itself to gether from the desolation of its awful storm, are eminent examples of the community determination and. push that are signally and uninterruptedly in evidence at the busy and plucky metropolis of Puget Sound. The spec tacle is one that can only excite the admiration, though it may provoke the wrath, of Seattle's rivals. The latest exhibition of Seattle's co lossal enterprise and nerve is the ap pointment of a committee charged with the duty of inducing thirteen or more transcontinental railroads to push west ward and make Seattle their Western terminus. These men mean business. They are men of brains, of diplomacy, of information, of tenacity. They may not get all thirteen of the roads, but they will come as near it as anybody, and if they only get one they will be satisfied for their labors, and In any event they will have drawn attention to their town and perhaps attracted capi tal for productive investment. You never hear Seattle whining that somebody is getting Its business away from it Nobody gets It away. You never hear it calling mass meetings to find out who is. to blame for the loss of its Alaska trade. It doesn't lose it You never hear it denouncing census bu reaus because Seattle's enumerators have been too lazy or careless to take the full population. They always take It You never hear Seattle men com plaining that some railroad or other has got them in its grasp. They -get to gether, and If there Is any grasping to be done the railroad is up against it. You never hear them crying about the relentless oppression of Its telephone' monopoly. They order out their instru ments as one man, and the monopoly does the crying. You never hear of their walking the floor because they can't get money for their local enter prises. They get the money and the other fellow walks. You never hear them raging because other towns are noticed more frequently In Eastern pa pers. They simply get their notices in and let the other towns do the raging. Now, it is one of the simple but per plexing facts of the situation that Seat tle does all this in the face of obstacles before which less determined hearts would be daunted. Such produce as it gets from Eastern Washington and such goods as it distributes there have to be hauled over the Cascade Range In opposition to the water-level grades that connect that territory with Port land. It has to do Its commerce In spite of the terrifying dangers of the Straits of Fuca, compared with the peaceful fresh-water harbor of the Columbia. It has to Import its fruit and farm produce from Oregon. It cuts lumber and mines coal, and that's about all, while the re gion around Portland Is amazingly pro ductive in wheat, fruit, hops, poultry and dairy products, wool, livestock, vegetables, flax, hides and hay. It had S000 population in 1880 to Portland's 17, 000, and now It has 80,000 to Portland's 90,000, and It has done this with Tacoma fighting it on one side and Spokane on the other. Our compliments to the bustlers and hustlers and rustlers of Seattle! The best thing we can wish them Is that they would come over to Portland, where their grit and gumption will have something worth while to work on. MICROBE-KILLER WANTED. When the unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 was proposed as the great cure-all for human ills, it was promptly designated as the "sliver craze." The fact that so many otherwise intelligent men remain blind to reason and com mon sense on this subject ought to be proof of the fact that the word "craze" was rightly applied, and that, as far as the silver question Is concerned, the ad vocates of free coinage at 16 to 1 are as crazy as many of the inmates of our asylums, who appear to be perfectly sane until they begin to talk upon their hobbles. Medical science has developed vari ous microbes that attack the bodies of mankind, and has succeeded in discov ering the remedy for destroying most of them. The grip microbes appear sim ultaneously in all parts of the country, and it seems to attack the brain as well as the body of Its victim. Is there any reason why there should be dbubt as to whether there are microbes for the brain as well as for all other parts of the body? Was there ever a religion or a fad so absurd that it failed to se cure some adherents? Is it possible' to find" a better explanation of the fact that a man, otherwise intelligent, is blind to reason on any given subject, than that certain microbes have at tacked his brain and rendered him of unsound mind on that subject? Unless you grant that there are such things as silver microbes, which blind the minds of their victims to all light on the silver question, how can you ac count for the fact that so many intelli gent wage-earners are still in favor of reducing their own wages and the wages of every other person more than one-half? How account for the fact that an educated man will tell his hear ers that a free-coinage law will reduce more than one-half the quantity of wheat and other staples the United States must send to Europe to pay Its Indebtedness abroad, and at the same time maintain that the banks, in surance companies and employers in the States will have to settle their indebt edness by payment of as much as at present? Will a man who is sane go on a strike today for more wages and at the same time whoop It up for "free silver" and a reduction of one-half in wages? Let the medical profession turn its attention to the search for the silver microbe, and, having found It, as it is certain to do, free the country from the great danger threatening by presenting a cure for the disease. The decision of the School Board that children whose homes, except in a tech nical sense, are outside of the district must pay tuition if they attend the pub lic schools is but justice to the taxpay ers. There has been too great laxity In this matter for several years past, the board erring In the Interest of a one-sided benevolence. The statement of. Plreclr, Thompson tha fully 3Q0 non-resident children are now In at tendance upon the schools of the dis trict, indicates the magnitude of this abuse of the taxpayers' generosity, and calls most emphatically for a rule re quiring all such pupils to pay for their schooling on. pain of dismissal. The matter Is one that should, not be tem porized with, but settled, upon the basis of abstract justice to those who main tain the public schools through the an nual levy for that purpose upon their property. TROUBLES OF THE TURF. The horseowners and trainers an nounce their purpose to organize for protection against the racing associa tions. Now, if we can .have an organi zation of associations to protect them selves against owners and trainers, and another of the bar and pool men to pro tect themselves from owners and asso ciations both, the fight for annihilation of the turf as an institution can go on ward merrily. The decline and fall of the American turf has this characteristic of deca dent enterprises generally that all par ties to the transaction vociferously lay the blame on everybody else. Ask the unsuccessful manager of a meeting what the trouble is, and he will tell you It is the rapacity of the concessionaires. Ask the pool-seller and he will say it is the d fool manager. Ask the judges and they will say It is the owners. Ask the owners and they will say It is the judges and the secretary. Any and all of them will agree in cursing the un enterprising public. The real trouble with the turf is the same trouble that Is threatening the sparring match, the diamond field, the gridiron and the scull. That Is, profes sionalism. That is, the substitution of commercialism for sport You can kill football by hiring a lot of professionals and palming them off as amateurs. You can kill baseball by making it a grasp ing corporation first and a genuine en tertainment afterward. You can kill prize-fighting by selling the decision to the highest bidder, and oarsmen have long ceased to be heroes because they preferred to be sharpers. Horse-racing has lost so much of its attractiveness that the association and the various concessionaires have to fall to and pluck owners and public alike In order to get their money back. Give a poor programme, and the directors will wring every dollar they can out of horsemen on technicalities, while the bar and pool-box won't play unless you. manage heats so as to insure the most possible drinks and commissions. The result Is a weary public and a sqre, crowd of horsemen, and the result .of that is recrimination all round. Now, it is no use to upbraid peopje for not patronizing this or that amuse ment. Human nature will not be driven or scolded to Its pleasures. You" might as well abuse a man for not playing whist or riding a bicycle as to denounce him for not attending races tha.t don't Interest him. The danger In all these things is of getting the cart before the horse. Attractive sport 'will never go begging. Who ever heard the' Stahfords say that Portland takes no interest in football? Who ever heard' the Boston ians or Nance O'Nell complain that Portland is a poor show town Would Rlngling say that there was no use bringing a circus to Portland, or would the Elks say you could never get a crowd here to a carnival? What the various turf interests need is not so much a firmer .hpld pn each other's neck as it is to give a good show. Red-hot sport never went a beg ging in this or any other country. There Is more money in Portland today than there was in 1888, when Homestake sold for $200 first choice, and Stnfax and Guido for $100, and whenC550,000 changed, hands on a single race. There was no complaint then that Portland didn't ap preciate horse races, or that the bar and pool-box couldn't make money, or that the association must hold out entrance money from the horsemen, or that the horsemen needed protection from the directors. Good sport drew good crowds, and there was -plenty of money for everybody. The great depreciation in horseflesh a few years ago gave the breeding In dustry a setback that It will take a lit tle time to recover from. But' the place to rebuild the turf Is from the bottom up. Get good horses and hang up good purses. And all things else shall be added unto you, JUSTICE TO 'THE WEATHER BU l REAU. ' The fact thaJl the recent West Indian hurricane, which broke "upon the Gulf Coast, and, describing a half-circle, reached the Great Lakes, lashing their waters into fury, and. finally spent itself on the New England Coast, did not fol low the course at first predicted by the Weather Bureau, has been adversely commentedf-upon by the press in vari ous sections of the country. It is but fair, however, to recognize that its warnings in regard to the subsequent course of the storm' demonstrated the general accuracy of the" service and at tested its great usefulness. The Weather Bureau does not give official predictions for more than forty eight hours In advance. The outline of the probable course of the hurricane when it was near Key West was not a formal prediction, but a statement of the probability that, following the course in which it was then moving, the storm would swe"ep up the Atlantic Coast That outline was turned Into an error by the turn of the hurricane to the westward, after which its subsp. quent course was foretold with accu racy, though its remarkable 'violence could not be predicted. The danger sig nal was given at Galveston and other Gulf ports In advance of the storm. If warping could have saved the city lying on the low sand island separated from the main coast by Galveston Bay, the weather service would have ben grandly extolled. This being impossi ble, there are those who censure it un reasonably. Later on, when the storn made its circuW sweep inland, danger' signals were given to the Lakes, ena bling much of the shipping to reach harbor and minimizing the loss as com pared with that of gales in former years. Similar service was performed for the region of Vancouver's Island by the local Weather Bureau Saturday night the result being that very little damage was done to shipping by the gale that in gusts reaching a maxi mum of eighty miles an hour whipped the waters of the Gulf of Georgia. Thoughtless or captious persons may jest when the careful calculations of the Weather Bureau are upset by a seem ingly sud'den after-thought of the ele ments rioting In perversity; but it is a, fact, nevertheless, that the weather pre dictions are generally of great service and W Infrequently gf. th highest value in preventing loss of life and property. Much Is still o be learned before meteorology becomes an exact science, but much, has ben learned the truth and value of which reasonable men are. willing to concede. The late ex-Governor Llewelllng, of Kansas, will be remembered while h is remembered at all as one of the Pop ullstic Governors whot directly and in directlS', brought a gpod deal of trou ble upon the people of that state. They survived the affliction, however, are perhaps all,the better for the bitter dosp of medicine for which, believing it a cure-all, they elamored, and which Gov ernor Llewelllng, nothing loath, ad ministered with unsparing hand. The m'utatlomvof politics in this country are witnessed in the comple"te transforma tion of Kansas in the past five year. Governor Llewelllng did not die until his political methods had long been discredited, and he himself thrust aside; Jerry Simpson is but a name, or at most as a figure seen at the long end of an avenue, r going no one knows or cares whither; Peffer may or may not be, still alive If the latter, he has completely dropped otit'of sight and mind, and he is not likely to be heard -from again except as his final passing is an nounced, and OMrs. Lease has turned from the- grievous error of her ways, renounced .Populism and free silver, and appears.xfor the gold standard and pros perity. ''In the meantime, Kansas farms are relatively free of mortgages, and Kansas voters are preparing to indorse at the polls In November the methods that have brought prosperity to the people. Perhaps the unclaimed dogs in the city pound are done to death when the time comes in the most merciful man ner possible, This the public has from time to time been assured is the case, and it may be hoped th,e assurance is well grounded. Not the city officers, who in thft line of duty are compelled to perform this task, but the individual owners of dogs are to blame for what ever unavoidable suffering falls to the lo.t of these miserable animals huddled together and suffocated en masse. The voluntary ownership of a dog, or of any other helplessand dependent creature, involves a "degree of personal responsi bility . which 'a manmost inglorlously and even 'cruelly shirks when he allows the confiding brute to be captured and take'n to the pound. He who cannot oi does not want to' pay a license on his dog can and should put a merciful end to' the life of the creature himself. There Is no excuse for the man who neglects or refuses to do his duty by his dog, in one way or the other. Again Nome beach has been swept by a tempest that destroyed the frail makeshifts foi? habitations that were hastily constructed in the early Sum mer In the vain hope that they would afford protection from the elements, while scows, small tugs and lighters have been blown about like corks and helplessly stranded. It will certainly be astonishing if no lives were lost, afloat or ashore, through the fury of the gale. The condition of the people there is but a repetition of disaster that has always followed human Impru dence. To protect men from themselves Is practically1 impossible. The Northern Pacific's persistent re fusal to join in a pooling arrangement is a noteworthy phenomenon in tha rail road worlcL For one thing, 'it speaks volumes for the strength and tactical position of the road, and for another it will make certain theorists think twice before they make sure that pooling is the only thing to prevent rate-cutting. Many things that were impossible a few years ago are possible today with, busi ness at Its present volume'. Nor has anybody yet proved why the law of the survival "of the fittest should " be ex empted, in its operation from railroads History will give a high place to Gen eral Palmer, soldier without fear, pa triot without guile, statesman without shadow of turning. The Democrats who left th'elr party' In 1896, rather than stand for a He, will be .honored well in the day that the free-silver iniquity stands revealed In all Its folly and enor mity.' It will be John M. Palmer's deathless fame to have been the standard-bearer of as gallant a band of pa triots as have adorned the annals of American politics. The troops are ordered away from Pektn, and It may be hoped they will be put at work in Luzon. The best cam paign document the Administration could Issue would be suppression of the Tagal insurrection. Great Britain's following of the United States' lead is a welcome sur prise. It adds another chapter to the record our diplomacy has made In being In the lead. PAINT DIET FOR HORSES. Scientific Inquiry Into a Rather Startling: Phenomenon. ' Chicago Inter Ocean. A delivery wagon horse drank a bucket of white paint on" one of the downtown streets 'of this city, the other day, and, to all appearances, was in the best of condition and spirits hours afterward. White paint does not come under tho provisions of the. puce-food law, but be fore it Is accepted as a fact that horses are Immune from lead-poisoning, it would be well, enough to await an analysis of the kind of white paint this particular horse drank. There are white paints, and then, again, thoro are white paints. Every horse owner , has had experiences . enough to know this. There Is white paint which stays white just long enough to enable the painter to collect the contract price, of his job. Then it begins to change. From a pure milk white It becomes- a dull white, a light gray, a dark gray, a drab, a slate or pale blue, and a pea green. Then It evaporates into thin ether, ;and vanishes into apace, i Turpentine, lime, chalk, glue, and a dash of sweet oil constitute a certain kind of white paint much sought by people who arc looking for bargains Jn exterior decorative work. None of these constitu ents Is" "poisonous. A delivery horse might not only survive the consumption of a mixture of them, but grow fat on it. Turpentine, we are Informed, is often given In large doses to delivory horses as a spring tonic. Limo is excellent for a sour or overworked stomach. - There Is ground for the belief that chalk admin, istered in regular doses relieves that dis tressed feelihg so common to horsed that form the habit of eating pasteboard boxei and cigar stump3 on the streets. The effect of s:lue on the system of the de livery horse, we are assured. Is sedative rather than stimulating, while sweet oil Is a preventive of the stiffness superin duced by exposure to draughts. There is no case on record where a de livery .horse has survived a dose of white lead: Government muleshave- been known to swallow cartridges, and to manifest exaltation of spirits after consuming sut- mule would 3ro.w tno lme a? "White lead. There are1 many delivery horses arid many carette horses in Chicago that white lead, administered in small or large doses, would be good for, but not in. a physical sense. If there is a horso heaven, the white-lead route would prob ably be the shortest to it We are con strained to doubt that the white point the delivery horse drank was the kind of white paint that has white lead in It WOMAN'S WEAPONS. And a Blind Struggle o Explain Their Philosophy. Louisville Courier-Journal. The Chicago Tribune has long held first 'place among American journals for Its work In collecting statistics at firsthand. We have frequently had occasion to note these investigations, but ho branch of its researches Is more Interesting than Its latest, which is a virgin field for the statistician. That Is the character of the weapons which women use when they become bel ligerent Th,e Tribune has made this tabu lation from the police records "of Chicago for a year: Broomhandlea 1S Table-knives of all kinds "193 Stove-lid. lifters '9 Rolling-pins Plates and dishes 2 Hatpins - i Hair brushes and hand mirrors. 48 Hops ......' S3 Revolvers ... 31 Flatlrons 23 Curllntf-lrons 12 Umbrellas and parasols 11 Shoes and slippers 9 Scissors S Forks Books 4 Potato-mashers .... 3 Rldlng-whlps 3 Lamp 1 Nursing bottle 1 This is an interesting and Instructive showing, and proves that the conventional wit which man, alnce time Immemorial, has perpetrated at the expense of woman on tho warpath is well-founded on fact In that cheap wit the broomhandle has been immortalized, as woman's favorite weapon, and stern fact demonstrates that the broomhandle is really entitled to that distinction. In this table It has a good lead over all other weapons, and has even a greater when reinforced by the mops, which properly should be coupled with it It Is easy to understand why such weapons as stove-lid lifters, rolling pins, hatpins and flatlrons should be popular, for they are exceedingly formidable in the hands of an angry woman In action, but it is not clear why umbrellas and parasols do not figure more extensively. Perhaps this Is explainable on the theory that a woman really has no conception how formidable she Is when at large with an umbrella or parasol, even when sha Is not In a state of war. Naturally one would expect the Item of "shoes and slippers" when looking over a list of Chicago women's weapons, and the fact that they are not oftencr employed Is of cheerful import, for Chi cago shoes and slippers have the repu tation of belonging to tha heavy ord nance. A surprise of the lis.t Is that only one nursing bottle figures In It Surely the ladles of Chicago must be Ignorant of the effectiveness of such a weapon. It is safe to say that there are few men who would not prefer to face a brigade of broomhandles, hair brushes, etc., rather than one well-loaded nursing bottle. The Ostracism, of Carlisle. Washington Star. His condition forcibly Illustrates the changes that have taken place in this country in a comparatively brief time. Only a few years ago he was the leader of the Democracy in Kentucky and one of the narty's National leaders. Today he Is practically an exile from.Kentucky, and without political following there or elsewhere. As the phrase Is, he Is out of politics. He Is giving his whole time to the practice of the law. One of the ablest of our public men, developed since the close of the ClvlL War, a good lawyer, a great parliamentarian, a most convinc ing speaker, after 25 years-' experience in National affairs, and while still an active and comparatively young man, he Is lost to the public service through the opera tions of as xadical a change of party leadership, local and National, as ever was witnessed in this country. In Ken tucky the men, with but few exceptions, who co-operated with Mr. Carlisle In, giv ing to the Democracy of that state a Na tional Influence are now in opposition to It, either on account of Goebelism of Bryanlsm. Tha men in charge are as pygmies, when 'compared with him and them. It is the day of small men and discreditable measures, and it Is probably well for his fame and personal comfort that Mr, Carlisle has transferred his resi dence to New York. A survey of the National field presents a spectacle quite as surprising. The Democrats of his In tellectual stamp are either In open oppo sition to the party's established leader ship, or else, merely for regularity's sake, are supporting candidates and platforms arousing no respect In their bosoms what ever. Politics Makes Fun for Parisians. The Century. The minstrel poets have come down from the Hill of Montmartre to the Rue de Paris, where may be found the Theatre des Auteurs Grls, the Grand Gulgnol, tho Maison du RIre and the Roulette. At these theaters short nieces are played and political songs are sung that make fun of the government whatever It may be, for clever minds are always to be found on the opposing side. One-act plays by modern authors are given, and also some reproductions of old plays from, the repertoire of the Theatre de la Folre. These performances are all better suited to Frenchmen than to foreigners. Divinities in Indian Art. Chautauquan. So benign was the religious system of the Indian that each department of the animal kingdom was provided with a lit tle divinity to look after Its affairs. Thus the Spirit of the Great Swan looked after all swans, the Spirit of the Great Turtle controlled all turtleddm, and so on through the list, every kind of an animal having Its own protecting spirit to guard Its Interests and punish Its enemies. These divinities, who were under the con trol of the Great Spirit, felt a great Inter est In the human race, and any one of them might become the protecting genius of any particular man. ' A Kissing: Hamlet. New York Times. If he would kiss less, .though, this Prince of Denmark (Mr. Sothern's) would be more dignified. He kisses his father's picture, just after the "Foul deeds will rise" speech, when Hamlet Is surely not In a kissing mood. He UiFfes the tablets after he has set down on them that a man may smile and yet be a vllllan. He kisses the hilt of his sword after the soldiers have sworn upon It He kisses Ophelia but any man would do that, 'with such an Ophelia, if he could. Dedd Ones. New York Sun. Colonel Bryart has dropped Moses and Naboth and is now .weeping over Absa lom. Absalom Is paramount with him at present; but not Absalom. Moses or Na both Is deader than antf-Imperialism. Work of the Aviators. San Francisco Chronicle. If tho antl-expanslonlsts will only write out a quit-claim deed to the Phil ippines all doubt as to Unclq Sam's title to. the gr6up will quickly vanish. A Martyr to Fate. Washington Post As the campaign warms up, Mr. Bryan may abandon his. luxurious private car and go scudding about thp, country on a ?onfloJ&t DANIEL WEBSTER ON. BRYAN1SM Slx,ty-slx years ago, on January Si, 3834, Daniel Webster stood up in tha United States Senate and denounced the dema goglsm of his day In words which fit the present crisis precisely. He said: "Sir, I see in those vehicles which carry to the people sentiments from high places, plain declarations that 'the present con troversy Ib but a strife between one, part of the community and another. I hear It boasted as the unfailing security, the solid ground, never to be shaken, on which recent measures rest that the poor naturally hate tha rich. I know that, under the cover of the roofs of the Capitol, within the last 24 hours, among men sent here to devise means for the public safety and the public good. It has been vaunted forth, as matter of boast and triumph, that' one cause existed powerful enough to support everything and to defend everything; and that was, the natural hatred of the poor to the rich. "Sir, I pronounce the author of such sentiments to be guilty of attempting a detestable fraud on the community; a double fraud; a fraud which is to cheat men out of their property and out of the earnings of their labor, by first cheating them out of their understandings. "The natural hatred of the poor to the rich! Sir. It shall not be till the last moment of my existence, it shall be onjy when I am drawn to the verge of oblivion, when I shall cease to have re spect or affection for anything on earth, that I will believe the people of the United States capable of being effectually deluded, cajoled and driven about in herds, by such abominable frauds aj this. If they shall sink to that point, if they so far cease to be men, thinking men, Intelligent men, a3 to yield to such pre tenses and such, clamor, they will be slaves already; slaves to their own pas sions, slaves to the fraud and knavery of pretended friends. They will deserve to be blotted out of all records of free dom; they ought not to dishonor the cause of self-government, by attempting any longer to exercise It; they ought to keep their unworthy hands entirely off from the cause of. republican liberty. If they are capable of being the victims of artifices so shallow, of tricks so stale, so threadbare, so often practiced, so much worn out, on serfs and slaves. " 'The natural hatred of the poor against 'the rich!' The danger of a moneyed aristocracy!' 'A power as great and dangerous as that resisted Dy Hie Revolution!' A call to a new Declaration of Independence!' Sir, I admonish the people against the object of outcries like these. I admonish every Industrious la borer in the country to be on his guard against such delusion. I tell him the at tempt is to play off his passions against his Interests, and to prevail on him in the name of liberty to destroy all the fruits of liberty, In the name of patriot Ism to injure and afflict his country, and In the name of his own Independence to destroy that very Independence and make him a beggar and a slave. Has he a dollar? He Is advised to do that which will destroy half Its value. Has he hands to labor? Let him rather fold them, and sit still, than bo pushed on by fraud and artifice to support measures which will render his labor useless and hopelea?. "Sir, the very man of all others who has the deepest Interest in a sound cur rency, and who suffers most by mis chievous legislation in money matters, Is the man. who earns bis dally bread by his dally toll. Preying on nobody, he becomes the prey of alt His property fs in his hands. His reliance, his fund, his productive freehold, his all, is hla labor. Whether he work on his own small capital or another's his living Is still earned by his industry; and when the money of the country becomes depre ciated and debased, whether It be adul terated coin or paper without credit that Industry Is robbed of Its reward. He thon , labors for a country whose laws cheat him out of his bread. I would say to every owner of every quarter section 67 land In the West, I would say to evfry man In the East who follows his own plow, and to every mechanic artisan and laborer In every city in the country. I would say to every men everywhere who wishes by honest means to gain an honest living: 'Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Whoever attempts, un der whatever popular cry, to shake the stability of the public currency, brins on distress In money matters, and drive the country Into the use of paper money, stabs your interest and your happiness to the heart "Sir, the great interest of this country, the producing cause of all Its prosperity, is labor! labor! labor! We are a laboring community. A vast majority of us all live by industry and actual employment in some of their forms. The Constitution was made to protect this industry, to give -it both encouragement and security; but above all. security. To that very end. with that precise object In view, power was given to Congress over the currency and over the money system of the coun try. And whoever has the wickedness to conceive and the hardihood to avow a purpose to break down what has been found In 40 years' experience essential to the protection of all Interests, by array ing one class against another, and by acting, on such a principle as that the poor always hate the rich, shows him self tho reckless enemy of all. An enemy to his whole country, to all classes, and to every man In it he deserves to be marked especially as the poor man's curse!" MEN AND WOMEN. Tht French Minister of tho Colonies has In timated M. Vlsne d'Octon, Deputy for the Herault -with tho task or atudylng and com paring British and French methods of coloniza tion and expansion In the far East. St. Marceaux, tha French sculptor, has finished his statuo of the late Alphonse Dau det, and It will be set up nest Sprlns In Parts. It Is to be paid for by public subscription. The author is represented as resting1 under tho shade of an olive treo. Already preparations, are being made for tho centenary celebration of Hans Christian An dersen's birth, which took place In 1E03. An elaborate edition of his works, to ba printed in flvo ianguaces, including English, is to be printed under Danish Government auspices. Hiram Maxim is at work In London upon an extraordinary device that ho has conceived for the evolution of pressure hitherto unknown to science. Mr. Maxim has treated tho hot weather with energetic contempt and applied himself as busily as ever to tho Immense busi ness interests with which he Is concerned. Tang Leev the Chinese Minister to Russia. Is practically bankrupt, and hao had. to move out of the palatial residence of the Countess Kleln mlchel. In St. Petersburs. (which he has been occupylns at a Cost of about $10,000 a year). Into a chea? flat. His financial distress is at tributed to the cessation of remittances from his government and to tha fact that he Is un able to get credit. The venerable Canon Carter contributes to an Ensllsh periodical an Interesting letter on the early connection of the lata Archdeacon Furse with the House of Mercy, Clewer. He devoted himself especially to rescue work, among tho degraded population of tho pariah. In those days the future archdeacon was known as "Welllnston Johnson, the family afterward taking the nama of tho archdeacon's mother. NOrE AND COMMENT. Every 10 years Tacoma, regrets her ao tlon In stoning the Chinese out of town. If we had never expanded, to whom, wculd Galveston have turned for relief? Orover Cleveland had better speak uj pretty soon, or Chairman Jones will b carrying him for Bryan. Dewoy ought to come back by assert ing that Hobson never kissed half too girls he is credited with. There Is nothing new under the sun, but the Issues the Democrats dig up everjr year are a. rretty good imitation. Bryan must have got hold of some of Lincoln's speeches that the biographers o tho great President never knew he made. Oom Paul would have got better resulta out of the sympathy he got at the begin nlnsr of the war if he had stored it -up for a rainy day. Just where President Harper, of Chi cago University, was when the Standard Oil Company scut that $10,000 to Galves ton, Is sometning he Is trying to find out. Maud Muller. on a Summer's day. Raked In no meadows, sweet with hay. And up old Baroara Freltchle'a street There- ne'er came tramp of marching toet. No boy 3tood on the burning deck And failed to hold the flames In checlx. No apple shot by William Tell From oft his son's fair tresses fell. George Washington could work a Ua "With any writer In Shanghai. Tho ships sunk In Manila Bay Just got by accident that way. And so It goes; the true romance The critics won't give half, a chanca. And we may find out by and by That possibly thfr critics lie. John Jeffrey, who died recently In Lon don at the age of 80. was an active anO. lifelong opponent of vaccination. He was; a member of the- Kelghley Board of Guar dians at the time when a number of tho members were Immured Mr. Jeffrey among them within York Castle for their detqrmined resistance to authority on the. subject of vaccination. Mr. Jeffrey argued the matter with the then Lord Chief Jus tice In London when It Came before tho courts. He informed his lordship that the guardians could not have guaranteed the ppace of Kelghley If they had en forced the regulations, and the Lord ChleC Justice replied to him: "Never you mind about the peacof Kelghley; we will loolc after that." The managers of many of the theat rical companies which tour In India, and In India only, have j. clever way of dls- penslng entirely with one or two o tha most Important members of the cast, thereby saving salary expenses, and at the same time of Insuring tha the house shall be crowded. A week or so before, let us 3ay. A's company Is due to arrive. In. say, Allahabad, the officer In com mand of the garrison there, or else soma citizen who Is equally Influential, recolves a courteous letter from A to the effect that two of the leading memoers of his (A's) theatrical company have been sud denly taken ill or, it may be. have met with some acciden.. ana asicng the im portant personage whether he could by any possibility Induce two well-known town residents who have histrionic talents to play the parts, adding, slyly, that ir he cannot succeed In doing so it will bt useless for the company to visit the town. Aa a rule the Important person age falls Into the trap. The scientific nomenclature of diseases! is very convenient to physicians in mak ing out death certificates, but If the doc tors were more careful about their writ ing and about properly blotting their papers the names of diseases mentioned in the certificates would be more easily, made out if not more readily under stood. There aro probably some who take an Interest In knowing what dis eases people die of In Portland, but only a few derive much Information frqm be ing told that a man died of "mltraL re gurgitation." Even when It Is explained! that "regurgitation" means an eructa tion or throwing back, and that "mitral Is a term applied to the left auriculovcn tricular valve of the heart, it Is still dif ficult to imagine what was the matter with the old nfm who died of mitral regurgitation at the poor farm the other day. Tho Health Commissioner's Medical. Dictionary Is rapidly going to p!ece under constant usage, and "something; has got to be did." m PLEASANTRIES OF PABAGBAPHERS A Christian Endeavor Movement Tho effort of tho allies In China. Puck. . Soothing. "Henry has Insomnia, but ho got a good sleep last night." "Opiate?" "Not I read him tha list of rrlzcs awarded at th Paris Exposition." Chicago Record. The Three Degrees. Johnny Paw. what do they mean when they say a man. "takes things, easy"? Paw That ho is either a philosopher , a kodak fiend or a kleptomaniac BalUmoro American. Table Talk. "They say the-er-lata depart ed." said the flrstxcannlbstl. Indicating the dlshi bofore- them, "was a very learned man." "In deed," replied tho other, helping himself for the third time, "then thl3 is truly what th white men call an 'Intellectual feast." Philadelphia Press. A Little Deception. Ragged Robert Wot yer doln? Mouldy Mike I'm lay In wld my head; In ther sun. so's to get meself ' sunburnt. "Wofs the game now?" "There's a temper ance feedln place around th' corner, an th redder a man's nose Is, th more symperthy ho gits." New York Weekly. An Optimist. "What Is an optimist?" asked the youth who would fain becomo wise. "Aa optimist," answered the man who has becom wise at a sacrifice of amiability. Is a mam who. having no coal bills or other household expenses himself, takes It for granted - that everybody can be Just as llghthearted as ha Is." Washington Star. The Hopeful Candidate. Baltimore American. X ought to be elected. For I've talked "most everywhere; I have shouted for tho party Till the echoes filled the air; I've 'leetloneered tho county. And the only thing I sea ' So I must be elected If they only vote for me. I've told how, for my country, My heart just fairly bleeds; I've promised, every farmer A year's supply of seeds; I've hoarsely shrieked that "monoy Is at the masses throats" I ought to be elected If I only get the votes. I'm kissing all tho babies Within tho county lines V e helped out on some rent bills I've paid a dozen finc3. And now, for my electron There's nothing In the way. Except the little ballots On next election day. Lay of the Populist. New York Herald. ' In the shade of. a haystack a. Populist sat, A-twlstlng the brim of his last Summer hat. And trying to lighten his mind of a load By humming the word3 of tho following Oda; Oh. for free silver! Oh. for a change! Oh, for McKlnley In rifle-shot jrapgoi Oh. for a chance at plutocracy's ranks I Oh, for a crack at the National banks! And. so he kept oh-lng for all ho had not Not contented with owing for air that he'd got.