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B THE, FORKING OREGONIA-N, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901 .fC. mhz rsgamcow itered at the PostoSce at Portland. Oregon. as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. lltorlal Rooms.. . J bo Business Office... GST REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. By Hail (postage prepaid). In Advance UJy, with Sunday, per month 1 S5 a. y, Sjiioa) excepted, per year 7 50 'i wiia ounaay. per year v w adar, per year 2 00 as Weekly, per year 1 60 lo Weekly 3 month 60 City Subscribers lay. ptr week, delivered. Sundays excepted.l5c ? per week delivered. Sundays included.?: POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: to 10-nare oarer lc to 32 page pater ......................... .2o I Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication ice uregoman should be addressed Invana r "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name xny Individual, letters relating to advertls- Ig. subscriptions or to any business matter f.ould be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." RTba Oresonlan does not buy poems or stories om Individuals, and cannot undertake to rc- krn any manuscripts sent to It without solicl- Itlon. Ko stamps should bo inclosed for this larpose. Il'uget Sound Preau Captain A. Thompson. -ce at 1111 Pacific avenue. Tacoma. Ecx Si. itna Postfflce. i Eastern Business Office 17. 48, 40 and 53 bute building. New Tork City; 490 "The Icckery." Chicago; the S C. Beckwlth special they, Eastern representative. jFor sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 10 Market street, near the Palace Hotel: Gold- It: Ih Pros , 2.16 Sutter street: F. W. Pitts. OS Market street; Fester & Orear, Ferry Iews stand. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. I J So. Erring street, and Oliver & Haines. 100 Spring etrret. For rale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., IT Dearborn street. jFcr sale In Omaha by H. C. Shears. 103 N. Ixteenth street, and B&rkalow Bros.. 1012 irnam street. IFor sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News 77 W Second South streit. r"or sale In New Orleans by Ernest 4 Co.. 5 Royal street. On fl!e In Washington D. a. with A. W. ann. 000 Ith N W. For sale In Denver. Cote., by Hamilton & rran k. ;0' biz Seventh street. TDAT S "tt EATHER Probably fair; winds vM nrtiirTii lORTLAAD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 I Elsewhere In today's issue appears a penchant communication on the sub- -1 f the dental bill before the Legls- Iturc. The Oregonlan is in entire svm- uhy With "Fair Play." and under- kkes to say that he puts the "recru- Lrs ' hors du combat The medical and r.al professions have both adoDted to scrfst less and pernicious dogma that licrtislng is "unprofessional," but in pr tlrr they are all glad enough to get Iver-i-slng provided it is free. The y r Jffs that are immoral are those hat th- aderttaer honestly nays for. doctors and dentists of skill and char ter a'l.rtise in The Oregonian. and li'ts fir malpractice, which afford a Ignificant test of efllcience, are seldom rught against them, often against the :n-ad ertlsers. There is no more sense li doctors or dentists refusing to ad- crtlse than for lawyers or bankers or phouls or churches. The Bellinger code bill, passed by l:e Senate, 22 to 5, is in every -way a referable plan to the commission bheme. As to the details of the pro- :Eal and Its merits as to the work of rintlng and publishing, The Oregonian not sufficiently apprised to speak th confidence; but as to the advisabil- ly of a new oede and as to the pre pinent fitness of Judge Bellinger to do lie work, no doubt whatever can exist any quarter. Probably no man con- rted with the Oregon bar is more r.rthy tj perpetuate the labors of kady and Hill than Judge Bellinger. Is a lawyer he was indefatigable and templars; as a Judge he is without ar or favor and above reproach. His tme Is sufficient guarantee of accuracy :d merit in the new code. It is gratl- lng that with much of legislation im- Icd by the Senatorial fight, the Sen- fce has recognized this good work and ie House will doubtless concur without Innecessary delay. If certain Senators, Morgan of Ala- lma among them, had known as much rrll 19, 1S9S, as they know today, they fculd not now And themselves in the fkward Inconsistency betrayed In ut- hr contradiction of their vote upon the ?claratIon of war. There were Sena- brs who resisted the demand of Turpie, leller, Mason and others to recognize :e non-existent Cuban Government; it they all agreed to the clauses of the claration of war that make us trouble iW. For example: ISec 4. That the United States hereby dlc alms any disposition or Intention to exercise Jvcrelirntj , Jurisdiction or control cr said Island, except for the pacification creef, and asserts its determination when l&t Is accomplished to leave the government iJ control of the island to its people. Obviously, it Is a bad mess. Mr. Mor- xn Is right when he says we need saling and naval stations and forts prcg the southern coast of Cuba, but Is wrong in supposing that we can in ;mmcn honesty proceed to demand lem. "Whatever exigency we are in, id faith is no way out of it. A lUltltude of reflections crowd upon the Lied in contemplation of this awkward tuatlon. One is that our irresponsible :r.ate is inferior as a working body the House of Commons, with its au critative Cabinet, which determines : Ilcics upon reflection. Another is that the heat of declaration of war the lest intention will go astray through Irk of forethought and deliberation, bt a, apparently, must be turned adrift. e can only hope that annexation will rrcal to her as the profitable course. lo this end. Congress should withhold irlff concessions she could rightfully fcniand as a part of the "United States. The r -rrunatlon of General Frederick e'-t Grant to be Brigadier-General in :e regular Army is without justlflca- Icn He is a great soldiers son. and lat Is his sole claim to consideration. te was graduated from "West Point In F"l, anl served on his father's staff :1 v.n General Sherman's staff until pi, whtn he returned to civil life. He fas Minster to Austria. His record tuslcess life and political life as Po- ?e Commissioner of New York City ught him no reputation as a man of rcrgj cr capacity. "When he resigned P Acq Commissioner he was regard- as a complete failure, as a soldier, a man of business and as a public Ifica'' He has won no reputation in ie Philippines that justifies his being ken practically from civil life and tared oer hundreds of officers in rery way better fitted in experience id training for the position. The ap- aintment of Dr. Leonard "Wood and iptaln J F. Bell to the rank of Briga- ler-General is certainly inexcusable am the Army point of view, but the ?pv!ntment of Fred D. Grant is worse this, that it is contemptible, for he is man o no ability, while General "Woodarfd,Jeneral Bell are at least men of sqch mental capacity and military abilityrJ-General "Wood's rise from an Assistant Surgeon in the regular Army to that oCBrigadier-General has no pre cedent since 1S61, when Assistant Sur geon S. "W. Crawford, U. S. A., who was part of the,&arrison of Fort Sumter un der Major Kobert Anderson, when It was fired upon, In April of that year, was made Major of the Thirteenth In fantry, and at the close of the war was a division commander In the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. General George Sykes used to allude sarcastically to Crawford as his "Surgeon-General." General J. Franklin Bell is an able and efficient soldier, but It was gross injustice to Jump a junior Captain of Cavalry over 1032 officers of longer service. For the promotion of Dr. "Wood there Is no excuse. He com manded a volunteer cavalry regiment three weeks: he is an able sanitary en gineer, a good civil administrator and organizer, but these facts furnish no good reason why an Army doctor should be made a Brigadier-General In the regular Army. The nominations of Grant, Bell and "Wood ought not to have been confirmed, but the responsibility for the great wrong of their nomination rests upon the President and his mili tary adviser. General Corbin. In a recent discussion between United States Senator George F. Hoar and United States Senator Turner, the lat ter, referring to Senator Frye, of Maine, said: He is so cheerful and optimistic of spirit that he can only be compared to the country man mentioned In the Flush Times of Ala bama and Georgia, who. In relating a fight which he had had with a neighbor, said: "I gently Inserted my nose between his teoth and bore him to the ground." Mr. Hoar Mr. President, -nlll my honorable friend allow me to say In justice to John Phoenix that that -was the celebrated fight be tween John Phoenix and the editor of the San Diego paper. Mr. Turner I thank the Senator from Mas sachusetts for his correction. Mr. Hoar He was an old and personal friend of mine, and I wanted him to get the credit due him. A correspondent inquires when Sena tor Hoar was associated with the late Captain George H. Derby so intimately aB to be a personal friend. Captain Derby was a Massachusetts man, born and bred at Dedham, near Boston, and was graduated from "West Point in 1846. George F. Hoar was born and bred at Concord, Mass., and was grad uated at Harvard in 1846. Derby came of a distinguished old Salem family. His father was a lawyer, a graduate of Bowdoin College, and a man of some note as an author. Boston was not a great city in 1846, and Massachusetts boys who distinguished themselves at West Point had a wide social acquaint ance with the Massachusetts boys of their vicinity who were students at Harvard. Doubtless Senator Hoar's acquaintance with "John Phoenix" dates back to their college days. Cap tain Derby, who was a brilliant humor ist, was stationed for several years at Vancouver Barracks, and Is well re membered by a number of our citizens who were young men In 1854-56. Cap tain Derby died in May, 1861, from the effects of a sunstroke he received while engaged on professional duty in Florida in 1859. A MORAL BOYCOTT. There Is an association in Trenton. N. J., founded recently by a number of women connected with the "W. C. T. U., known as "The Business Girls' As sociation." Nearly a hundred of the members have already signed, the fol lowing pledge: I hereby promise not to associate with or to marry any man who is not a total abstainer from the use of all Intoxicating liquors. Includ ing wine, beer and cider, and I promise to ab stain from the same myself and I will not marry a man to save him. Advising young girls to "boycott" so cially not simply drunkards, but all young men who are not total abstain ers, belongs to the deepest ooze of plat form bigotry and folly. Nine-tenths of the clergy of Great Britain, whether of the Anglican Church or Dissenters, are not total abstainers, and outside the Methodist and Baptist churches a ma jority of the clergy In America do not abstain absolutely from the use of some form of alcohol. The use of wine and beer at dinner Is not unusual among clergymen in America, and the use of whisky xis not rare among clergymen who have been educated in Scotland. Gladstone used wine daily at dinner from youth to old age, both In public and In private, and so did every Pres ident of the United States save Lincoln. Is there any need for an apology for the decent use of wine at dinner? To use wine in moderation Is no more a sane excuse for using it intemperately than the temperate use of food is any palliation for gluttony or children born In wedlock any plea In abatement for bastardy. Why should young girls be urged to "boycott" socially a young man who uses alcohol at all rather than a young man who Is cruel, deficient in commer cial integrity, without honor in pecu niary matters, a social sponge, who grinds the face of the poor, robs the ignorant or despotlzes over the weak or the unfortunate to his own selfish advantage? Are there no scoundrels or brutes who are total abstainers? Tour sober gambler and your sober burglar are very common characters: they have to be to succeed at their nefarious busi ness. No right-minded woman would marry a drunkard, and yet no right minded woman would refuse to marry a man otherwise of good repute except upon proof that he was a total ab stainer from alcohol. He might be a total abstainer and yet be a very worth less fellow, and he might drink a glass of wine at dinner or elsewhere in mod eration all his days and be an admira ble man. It is true that no young woman ought to marry a young man "to save him." A young man who would accept such a sacrifice is worthless, and a young woman who would consent to make such a sacrifice is wanting in both moral sense and worldly wisdom. Young men, like young women, work out their own salvation, and the tem perance morality that has only a coddled life, that bursts into being and continues to bloom only because of a young woman's smllet or outstretched hand, has not vigor enough to keep it sweet in the smallest of the world's trying experiences. Every man sooner or later earns a reputation for the power of self-restraint or the lack of it, not simply In the matter of abstemi ousness in the use of alcohol, but in all matters where self-indulgence may mar the sane conduct of life. To earn a rep utation for self-restraint and modera tion as opposed to self-indulgence and riotous living, is a fair test of a man, but whether he is or is not a total ab stainer from alcohol is of and by itself no assurance that he is an all-around self-ruled, self-restrained man. He might never drink and yet be utterly destitute of moral sense, as is the sober miscreant under death sentence at Co lumbus, O., for shooting and robbing his friend in order to get money enough to marry upon, or he might drink a glass of wine every day at dinner with his family from youth to old age, and remain from first to last a model hus band and father. There is absolutely nothing In these specific tests of presumptive virtue. You must not drink this or you must not do that, If you ever expect to be officer of mine. It was Holmes that said: Tis but the fool that loves excess; Hast thou a drunken eoul. The bane is In thy shallow skull. Not In my silver bowl. AGE AXD EXERCISE. It has become the fashion for certain people who dabble in the so-called "sci ence of being" and deduce alleged facts from their own opinions to assert that men and women need not grow old, even physically; that in constant activ ity and cheerfulness and a determina tion to remain young lies the secret of perpetual youth. The chimney corner, so enticing to persons who, according to the calendar, are old, Is flouted as en ervating instead of restful, and aged people are warned to shun Its allure ments, ignore aching bones and stiff joints, take to the sharp, frosty air, and thus cheat nature out of her dues. On the other hand comes Dr. Hoy. a reputed medical expert of Chicago, and declares that men of middle age and past do not need and should not take exercise that, In fact, they are better off and stand a better chance of long life if they will forego physical exer tion. This theory he has elaborately set forth in a book recently published. Ac cording to his reasoning, every action of the brain or the muscles destroys cells, uses up tissue and creates so much waste matter to be taken up by the blood and eliminated from the sys tem. The machinery for carrying off this waste, he says, Is strained If It Is exercised after It Is thirty-five years old. The case of Senator Davis is cited as an example of death resulting be cause the poison induced by disease could not be gotten rid of, the machin ery of the body that should have per formed this service having become worn out through a long period of undue ac tivity. It is further asserted that Will iam M. Evarts is alive at more than three-score and ten, a"nd Joseph Cham berlain keeps his health and strength though an old man because neither takes exerpise. Hence It is concluded that exercise Is a foe to health, and especially to longevity. But what of Gladstone, who used, the ax dally In the forest at Hawarden un til past four-score? Or of Ruskin, who lived to be an old man In spite of cease less mental activity? Or of Victoria, who took her dally drive to within a week of her death at past four-score, and even up to that time gave con sideration to weighty matters of state? In the face of such testimony, the cor rectness of Dr. Hoy's position may well be doubted. Indeed, from evidence all about us It is safe to conclude that exercise Is indispensable to persons of all ages, varying only In kind and de gree at the different stages of life. Is6 lated examples, however illustrious, do not prove or disprove a general rule. Common sense Is the safest guide In all cases. The man of 40 cannot, with out Injury, indulge in a vigorous course of athletics which would be beneficial to a young man of 20, nor should the man of 60 attempt to be as nimble as a man of 40. And when nature lures the aged man to a cozy seat by his own fire side, he will not greatly err in compli ance. The whole truth, after all the labored reasoning of extremists on both sides of the question, Is that every one should take a reasonable amount of ex ercise dally, regulated to suit his age and bodily vigor, urging himself thereto If necessary with the reflection that ac tion Is life Inaction death. STEALING THE LIVERY OF HEAVEN Ex-Congressman Lentz desires to make the local Bryanlte Democratic or ganization of Columbus, O., now known as "the Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln League," a National organization. The Impudent appropriation of Lincoln's name and fame by the Bryanite Democ racy Is one of the punishments that great and good men are made to suffer after death. The late Chief Justice Ryan, of Wisconsin, who was famous for saying nothing good of a brother lawyer in life, never hesitated to pro nounce a charming eulogy upon him dead. On one occasion, when the Chief Justice had spoken with conspicuous eloquence, one of his audience re marked: "Judge Ryan always did like dead lawyers." It Is something so with the Democratic party. It never had anything but brutal abuse and vilifica tion of Lincoln in life, but the moment Lincoln was assassinated the Demo cratic camps become vocal with elo quent praise of the great President. Lincoln Is treated with nominal re spect, but he is really cordially hated by the Bryanlte Democracy, because they know and feel that Lincoln's logic, enforced by Grant's sword, dispersed the Democratic party and remitted it for twenty-five years to the condition of hungry political outlaws and sullen exiles from the pale of National patri otism. Lincoln is the great distinctive figure in the Republlc'3 Pantheon, and yet the Bryanlte Democracy today pre tends that It Is ready to canonize him and celebrate his birthday as hilarious ly as they do that of Jefferson. Jef ferson was a legitimate Democratic saint, who would have disrupted the Union long before his death, had It not been for John Marshall, whose presence on the Supreme Bench prevented Jeffer son from honeycombing the timbers of the ship of the Union with the teredo doctrine of state supremacy. Outside of bedlam finance, which was always re pudiated by Jefferson, Bryan Is justi fied in his worship of Jefferson, but the picture of Jefferson has no business In the same Democratic gallery with that of Lincoln. The only explanation that would jus tify the association of the Bryanlte saints in the same picture gallery with Lincoln would be explanation of Judas' presence in the great painting of the "Last Supper," viz., that the historical unity of the picture made the face of the traitor as indispensable as the face of the Christ. To a full picture gal lery of Lincoln's times, the faces of its Judases are as necessary as the faces of the saviors of the Nation, but lo a gallery exclusively devoted to the ex hibition of Democratic political saints there is neither room nor good light for the picture of Lincoln. The Bryan ite Democracy has use for Jefferson's memory and "principles," but as yet they have no sincere admiration for the memory or use for the patriotic princi ples of Lincoln. It Is altogether too soon for the Bryanlte Democracy to ap propriate Lincoln with impudent assur ance, even as they have Washington and Jackson, and describe him as "the foremost exponent in his time of good, sound. Democratic doctrine." It is al together too soon for the Bryanite De mocracy to try to make its political "rogue's gallery" look respectable by plundering the Republican party's "hall of fame" of its leading heroes and statesmen. When the Bryanite Democ racy celebrates Jefferson's birthday, It never hesitates to couple his name and fame with that of Washington, who de nounced Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic party, as a political incen diary; and with that of Jackson, who collared Calhoun and cowed him into submission when with Jefferson's torch in his hand he tried to fire the fabric of the Union. It would be a crowning act of political Impudence for the Bryanite Democracy to include henceforth in its gallery of ancestral portraits that of Abraham Lincoln, who carried the battle-flag of his party when It sent the Bourbon Democracy howling back to Its trenches, who with both pen and Bword stabbed the pro-slavery Democracy to death. The Bryanlte Democracy making claim to Lincoln as an original evan gelist of their creed of flat money and populism Is Jlke a rabble of Turks on a religious feast day, pledging the mem ory of Jesus as a prophet Identical In moral and spiritual philosophy .with Mahomet. It Is too soon for the people to forget the past. Lincoln's picture among the portraits of the political an cestors of the Bryanlte Democracy would be like the portrait of Cromwell in the library of a Jacobite who still believes that Charles I was "a blessed martyr" and that Edward VII is a usurper upon the throne of Great Brit ain. When the Bryanlte Democracy tries to steal Lincoln's name and fame as a sign under which to conquer, they have "literally stolen the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." In the break-down of the Spanish armored cruiser Emperador Carlos V, at the outset In her attempt to reach Cowes to take a place of honor In the marine funeral procession of the late Queen, the Spanish newspapers are forced to proclaim that there Is some thing rotten In Spain's navy. It Is in deed pitiful if the Government at Mad rid has learned nothing fromjthe Span ish-American War. An object-lesson limned with blood and fire, and pre senting destruction In Its blackest, and at the same time most vivid, tints should not pass unheeded. The verdict of the Spanish Liberal press is that "useless officials with powerful titles" must be cleared out of the navy If It Is to retain the semblance of a fighting equipment. As at present constituted and officered, Spain's navy is not un fortunate it Is simply useless, even as a guard of honor at a funeral, and what enrages the critics the most Is that, such as It Is, It costs annually 27,000,000 pesetas to keep It Inoffensively aflodt. In cur solicitude to make laws against usury, we should not neglect to leg islate against the man who would pay excessive interest, as well as against him who would receive it. The usurer has nothing to favor him except the folly of his victim. No law of the land compels any man to borrow. A law of business and commerce, however, inhibits borrowing at less than a market rate. This rate is low or high, according to attendant risks. One of these risks depends upon the character of the borrower. If he makes rash promises, he probably Is more dishon est than the lender, because he hopes to cheat the latter with usury laws. Moreover, It Is not dishonest to lend money at more than the legal rate. Besides, the signer of a note wants the money or he would not sign. He violates the usury law, not the lender. Generals J. H. Wilson and Fitzhugh Lee, who have been confirmed by the Senate as Brigadier-Generals In the reg ular Army, are both of them graduate? of West Point, and both of them veter ans of the Civil War. Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Robert E. Lee, was gradu ated from West Point In 1856. On the outbreak of the war he resigned his commission, entered the Confederate Army, and rose to be Major-Gencral. General Wilson was graduated from West Point In 1860, and rose to be Ma-jor-General of Volunteers during the Civil War. Both of these officers will soon go upon the retired list. In order to render more complete "protection," why not have a law to compel inspection of everybody who shaves? In this way the next person would be spared much hazard, and barbers would not be so liable of mal practice. If only those with a permit should be allowed to shave, we can readily see what a panacea for Inno cents It would be against barbers' Ills. By this means also, a Board of In spectors would be given fat jobs and thereby removed from the wear and tear of grinding for a living. At Tillamook four steelhead salmon have been caught whose dorsal finn was removed at the Salmon River hatchery last year. Wiseacres con clude that salmon do not always re turn to the same stream to spawn. They certainly do not if gifted with the wisdom of those four fish. Sa gacious flsh, no matter how brave, would never risk the Columbia more than once. The very fact that those four escaped the snares of the Colum bia Is reason enough why they never came back. Some $5,000,000,000 of personal prop erty Is yearly assessed in New York City alone, and is yearly "sworn off." This personal property Is, however, nearly all of it the stocks and bonds of cor porations, and the State of Pennsyl vania successfully reaches it by taxing the gross receipts of these corporations as a measure of the value of their fran chise. Some such device as this is likely to be adopted generally, as the only means of making accumulated capital bear its proportion of the public bur dens. A Tacoma woman has brought trip lets into ,the world. That city has started out to make a larger census showing in the next 10 years than In the last decade. TOPE LEO'S NEW ODE. ' . AX. CHRIST. MOCCCC. PRIDIE KALENDAS IANVARIAS A IESV CHRISTO INEVNTIS SAECVX.I AVSPICIA. Cultrix bonarum nobllls artlum . Decedlt aetas; publtca commoda, Vlrcsqua naturae retectas, Qulsquls avet, memoret canendo. Saell occidentls me vehementlus Admlssa tangunt; haec dolco et freme. Pro! quot retrorsum consplcatus, Dedecorum monumenta cerno. Querarne caedes, sceptraque dlruta. An pervagantls menstra licentiae? An dlrum In arcem Vatlcanam Mllle dolls Inltum duellum? Quo cesslt urbls, prlnclpls urblum, Nullo Impedltum servitlo decus? Quam saecla. quam gentes avltae Pontlncum coluere sedem? Vae segregatls Numlne legtbus! Quae lex honestl, quae superest fides? Nutant. semel submota ab arts, Atque ruunt labefacta lura. Auditls? Effert impae consclus Insanlentls grex saplentiae; Brutaeque naturae supremun Nitltur asserulsse numen. Nostras supernam gentls orlginem Fastldlt excors: dlssoclabllem. UmbraB lnanes mente captans, Stlrpem homlnum pecudumque mlscat. Heu quam proboso gurglte volvltur Vis lmpotentls caeca superblae, Servate, mortalei. In omne Iussa Del metuenda tempus. Qui vita solus, certaque Veritas, Qui recta et una est ad supcros via, Is reddere ad votum fluentes, Terrlgenls valet unus annos. Nuper sacratos ad cineres Petri Turbos piorum sancta petentlum Is lose duxlt; non Inane Ausplclum pletas renoscens. Jesu, futurl temporls arbiter, Surgentis aevl curslbus annue; VIrtute divina rebelles Cogc sequi mellora gentes. , Tu pacts almae semlna provehe; Irae, tumultus, bellaque trlstla. Tandem resldant: tmproborum In tenebrosa age regna fraudes. Mens una reges, te duce, temperet, Tula ut lnstent leglbus obsequl; Sltque unum ovlle et pastor unus, Una fides moderetur orbem. Cursum peregl, lustraque bis novem. Te dante. vlxt: Tu cumulum adllce; Fac, quaeso, ne incassum precantls Vota tul recldant Leonls. Leo XIII. TRANSLATION. In the year of Christ 1000. On the day before January 1. From Jesus Christ. The prospects of the opening century. A noble age, fosterer of good arts, is dying; whoever cares to may commemorate In song the public cohvenlences and the forces of nature that have been laid hare. More keenly do the things permitted by the declining century touch. me; at these I grieve and wax wroth. Oh, shame, how many monuments of disgrace do I perceive In look ing back! Shall I mourn over battles and thrones over turned, or the monBters of license roaming at will, or the unhallowed war opened with a thousand wiles against the Vatican citadel? "Where has vanished the honor of the city, chief of all cities, bound by no service; the city which the ages, which our ancestors peo ples, revered as the abode of pontiffs? Alas, for laws turned away from the Deity: What law, what faith. Is left for the good man? As soon as they are removed from the altars all laws totter and fall Into ruin. Do ye hear? The self-confident herd extols the lmplousness of science growing mad and strhes to assert the tuprcme divinity of brute nature. Senseless, It turns in disgust from the divine orlcln of our race; snatching at empty phan toms in its mind, it mingles together the races of men and that of beasts, that cannot be united. Oh, Into how shameful an abyss Is whirled the blind power of Impotent pride. Observe, mortals, at all times the awful commands of God. He who alone is the life and the certain truth, who Is the straight and only way to heaven. Only He has power to make the years flow according to their wish for those dwelling on earth. Lately He himself led crowds of the pious, seeking the holy places, to the consecrated ashes of Peter; no meaningless augury that piety is coming to life again. O Jesus, our Judge In future time, grant favor to the course of the rising age; by Thy divine power compel the rebellious people to follow better things. Do thou strew the seed of gentle peace; may angry passions and quarrels and deplora hl wars at last be quelled; drive into the realms of darkness the frauds of the wicked. May one thought, under Thy lead, restrain kings that they may press on to obey Thy laws; may there be but one fold and onti Shepherd, and may one faith rule the world. I have run my course and hao lived twice nine lustra. Thy gift. Do Thou add a crown ing gift. Grant that the prayers of Thy Leo, who is entreating Thee, may not be In vain. METRICAL TRANSLATION. Translated for the Independent by Dr. William Haes Ward. Now ends this age, kind nurse of noble arts; It useful gifts, and nature's powera unveiled. Let those who will acclaim with grateful hearts. The allures of this falling century Concern me more; these I bemoan. Alas! Whav wrongs my backward gase recalls to me! Of slaughters, broken scepters, vice wide spread. Shau I complain? Or of the atlcan Beset with thousand wiles of battle dread? Queen City, that hast never owned defeat, Why fades thy fame? Long centuries hon ored thee; Ancestral tribes bent at thy pont!ff3 seat. Woe when man's law the law of God defies! What faith can stay, once from God's altar rent? Then justice faints and falls, and honor dies. Hear ye the Impious rant, the rabble speak. Vain of their crazy lore? Their only God In nature blind and dumb and dead they seek. They scorn to see, wrought In the human frame. Image of God; but, chasing empty dreams. They make the seed of man and beasts the same. Alas! how wallows in a gulf of shame Man's shameful pride! Mortals attend and bend. In service bend before God's holy name! Ho Is the Life, the Truth, the only Way To Heaven above. He only can restord The vanished years to mortals gone astray. Tls He that lately led the pious throngs Of pilgrims seeking Peter's holy dust No empty omen for our prayers and songs. Jesus, .thou ruler of all times that be. Bless thou the century's successive years. Bid thou the recreant nations turn to thee! Nourish, I pray, the seeds of kindly peace, To realms of darkness drive the crimes of men. That passions, tumults, cruel wars may cease. Let Kings with eager hearts thy laws obey; One sheepfold and one shepherd let there be. And let one faith-rule all the earth for aye. My course Is run. Now fourscore years and ten Thou glvest me of life; give me Its crown. Let not thy Leo's prayer be prayed in vain. Democratic Testimony. Louisville Courier-Journal. It was Garfield who spoke of John Mar shall as "that great Judge who found the Constitution paper and gave It power." Be that as it may, the demurrers to Mar shall's construction of the Constitution arc today merely paper, while Its power as now maintained Is along the lines that Marshall laid down. It Would Help the Democrats. Louisville Courier-Journal. If the Republicans care to block needed leclslatlon In order to force action on the subsidy bill, and If they choose to saddle. on the country an extra session in order to complete their raid on the taxpayers, so much the better for the Democrats, as far as party considerations are concerned. A FILIPINO ON THE PHILIPPINES St. Paul Pioneer Press. A native Filipino, Benito Llgarda. form erly Secretary of the Treasury in Aguln aldo's Cabinet, has recently given an In teresting interview in New York concern ing the situation In the islands. He is vouched for as one of the most highly re spected citizens of Manila and as a gen tleman or unimpeachable veracity. That he is a conservative as well as an intelli gent observer is apparent in all his state ments. What he says will therefore have more weight than the hearsay reports of statements of irresponsible and compara tively unknown natives which the antl Admlnlstratlon press Is continually rolling tinder Its tongue. Of the drift of native sentiment since September, when he left Manila, he does not undertake to speak with authority, as he has had, like the rest of America, to depend on meager and contradictory press reports. He .how ever, has great faith In the tact and wis dom of the Taft Commission and its ulti mate success in winning the confidence of the natives. He says of it: This commission, headed by Judge Taft, Is fast setting at the bottom of things. It Is grappling with problems which confront It. and is dally lessening the friction which ex ists. Thousands of Filipinos are beginning to realize this. Perhaps not quite as much progress has been made as your people ex pected: but progress there has been, and It has been sure and certain. It is slow, it perhaps will be slow. President Taft and his associates have Inspired confidence wher ever they have gone and In what they have done. Suspicion of the Americans Is giving way 'to confidence, and there is a growing Impress ft) n that the American commission and the American Government are sincere In their endeavors' to better the condition of the Is lands and to lift up the people from a state of bondage to self-respect. On the much-mooted question of the capacity of the Filipinos to govern them selves, Llgarda says: A great deal has been said about the fitness of the Filipino for self-government. I believe, and I say It with all respect, that the Fili pinos are not capable of self-government now. They certainly will be In the future. They have good Intelligence and love moral and social development, and I can assure you that they have a natural moral element In their character. When the Filipinos know the laws and customs and the real feelings of the American people toward them I am sure they will make as good citizens as you are. Why not? Tou must remember that they have had no part or chance In the government of their country. They have been practically serfs. When the Americans broke the Span ish yoke and ended Spanish rule. It was natural that many should think that they were able to conduct their own affairs, but I know they are not able. The Spanish Government had taken away not only the idea but the spirit of development. Conditions were as bad as they could be. Not content with this blow at the flimsy foundation upon which the fiery advocates of Filipino independence have reared their gorgeous superstructures of unsubstantial words, Mr. Llgarda substantiates the con tention and echoes the warning of General Lawton that the blood of the American soldiers lies at the door of their own countrymen, who have by misrepresenta tion of the purposes of the Government and by their silly clamor fostered misap prehension and false hopes among the Flllrlnos. On this subject he says: Some of you Americans have done your best to keep up this Insurrection by sending out encouraging statements to those who are fighting against your government. Why do they do that? The activity of those In arms today can be acounted for In great measure by the activity of these men who live In your own United States of America. I tell you absolutely that many of the American officers and soldiers have been killed by this American aid. False Ideas are given to the Filipinos and quicker than any one can tell the news la carried to the Filipinos' camp. I know not why you do this. If Americans themselves post pone the days of peace, whom can you blame? Certainly not the Intelligent Filipinos, who really would like to follow peaceful pursuits, but who hesitate to do so because your own people put Into their heads that they are to continue In practical slavery, that Ameri ca will withdraw from the Philippines and that Americans have no right to the Islands. I have very much respect for those American people who are honestly trying to secure Im mediate self-government of the Philippines. But their Ideas are not practical. The Philippines are not ready. I indulge the hope that as soon as the Filipino demonstrates his capac ity for self-government complete and ample Justice will be done by your country. In the meantime we must go along in the paths of progress, developing all wo can under the fostering care of your country and do away with all friction which tends to retard prog ress. William II nnd Bliimnrck. Fortnightly Review. William's great merit was that he dis missed Prince Bismarck. This may seem strange, considering that a young mon arch needs nothing more than an old, wise and strong Minister, more especially a Minister of the world-wide fame and in fluence of a Prince Bismarck. But It was exceedingly good luck for Germany that Prince Bismarck was not permitted to die in harness, as he often wished. If he had died as Chancellor without the world hav ing had an opportunity of seeing William II and Germany getting on without Prince Bismarck, hls death would no doubt have meant war, very likely a European war. Alive and not ruling, Prince Bismarck served, as It were, as a buffer state. As It happened, both France and Russia had to fear the reappearance of Clnclnnatus. Meanwhile the world had seen that all was right in Germany without the great founder of the empire. But It may be granted that this high po litical motive was not the only cause of the overthrow of the first Chancellor. Long before this catastrophe there have been politicians who prophesied that the young Emperor and the old Chancellor would not be in accord for long. Prince Bismarck himself was sagacious enough to forestall his own fate, for he used to say the Emperor would be his own Chan cellor. Yet he was not wise enough to take the consequences. Maybe gratitude, the popularity of the Chancellor, and the advantage of having such a man as First Councilor would have made the Emperor delay from day to day and from year to year the catas trophe,' were not his overruling desire to let the world, especially his own people, know that In Germany, in Prussia, the monarch is the real ruler.- William II was jealous not as man, but as sovereign. One should be master, and that one was not to be the Chancellor. It was a ques tion of principle. Bryan's Talk on England. New York Times. We can imagine the consternation which the King's compliance with the oracle's advice would create in England. The very first step, of course, would be the resignation of all the Ministry, from Lord Salisbury down, who are responsi ble to Parliament for the official utter ances of the sovereign. Tho next would be the taking, of measures, for which there Is a precedent at the beginning of the last century, for the dethronement of the ICIng, as non compos mentis, and the establishment of a regency. We trust that there are not many of our readers who need to be told what an abysmal depth of ignorance Is here dis played by the statesman who undertakes to Instruct his countrymen by these won derful suggestions, and who seems to have terminated his reading of British consti tutional history with the close of the act ive period of George III. The Latest General Grant. Boston Herald. It pays to be the son of a great Gen eral and something of a Republican poli tician besides. In the recent Army pro motions, Frederick D. Grant has been Jumped over 804 Captains, 277 Majors, 93 Lieutenant-Colonels and 77 Colonels in the regular Army. The great General Grant won bis promotions in a different man ner, being taken at tho beginning of the Civil War from a humble position in civil life, and fighting his way up to all of them by successive steps. N0Tri.AND'V0MM,rNi ! .This Is the month when the year takes l day off. Affairs in Madrid seem normal condition again. to be in their That death of Kruger's seems to be an unlimited go-as-yu-please. Captain Oborlln M. dissatisfied with jail Carter Is evidently life. Vancouver, Wash., Is proving Itself to be a great city by becoming the scene of a crusade against vice. Minister Wu Is doing so muoh talking that there is reason to fear hei is goingi to join the Populist party. There Is a lobster famine in Boston. Have the antls selected some other city as the seat of their capital? Wllhelmlna's honeymoon will not bo marred by the fear that Alfred Austin is going to write an ode about it. Queer that the Chinese mandarins who were requested by Kwang Hsu to com mit suicide should decline the honor! The esteemed Congressional Record has reached a circulation of 26,000. And somo people question the prosperity of the country. King Edward will have to study for thar stago If he ever hopes to look like all the pictures that have been printed over his name. The bill to save the big trees at Cal averas, Cal., which has passed the Senate and now awaits the action of the House, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to pay $125,000 for the famous grove and. If the offer Is refused, to save the grovo under condemnation proceedings. Tho San Francisco Call says: "The strong sentiment that has been developed in behalf of the big trees Is extremely creditable to the people of California. Nor Is that . sentiment confined to this state. We have become as a people old enough and wise enough to know that historic treasures and natural wonders havo mora than an intrinsic value. We have lost much In this direction that might havo been saved; but we may at least pre serve what is left." "One of the most desirable posts at Windsor Castle," says a correspondent of the Chicago Record, "Is that of 'tho King's limner,' who in ancient times dec orated books and manuscripts with initial letters, and who now prepare parchment commissions when his majesty is pleased to confer knighthood or some other honor upon one of hla subjects. The man who now fills the post has extraordinary skill with the pen and brush, and his diplomas and certificates were greatly admired for their exquisite taste and skillful execu tion. He receives a salary of J2500 a year. "She clockmaker at Windsor Castle re ceives the same compensation, and it is his business to keep all the timepieces In repair. The historiographer, who is sup posed to keep a record of events, holds an hereditary office, with a salary of $2500 a year. The master of music. Sir Walter Parrett, the famous organist, receives 11500, and arranges concerts for his majesty's diversion. The surveyor of pictures Is paid 51500, the librarian (who by the way is Richard R. Holmes, an emi nent author), receives $2500, the examiner of plays $1600; the keeper of the swans Is paid $200, and the barge master, who looks after the boats used by the royal family at Windsor, has a similar compensation." PLEASANTKIES OP PAItAGItArilEItS Hypocrisy is the homage whioh Tammany Hall pays to virtue. Puck. They Wanted Him. "He says that his em ployers always regarded him as a valuable man." "Yes. they offered a large reward fer him when he left." Life. Not Complaining. The New Pastor I'm very glad to have your husband's good opin ion. Slste Hardshell Oh! he's quite satis fied. He says, What can we expect at such a. salary? Puck. Poor Fellow. Lena I don't know what to make of Harry Harmless. Alma Well. If you were to do as a good many of the girls have, done, you'd make a fool of him. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Miss Fuzzle I want to break my engage ment, but don't know how to do It without driving the poor fellow to sulcwe. uuw Brother Why don't you let him see you la curl-papers Just once? Tit-Bits. Literary Note. Messrs. Mowln, Baryl & Co. announce that they have already sold 2,580,000 copies ot a thrilling novel they axe to bring out next Fall. They have not yet selected the author who is to write It. Chicago Times-Herald. An Episode. Streakor We had a glorious trip. Beautiful weather all the time, and the auto collided with only one man. Whlzzer Police notified? Streakor Yes; but tho man was so far gone that it wasn't worth while to arrest him. Harper's Bazar. Urban Economy. Tenant Why, what you call a spare bedroom Isn't a room at all, only the picture of an alcove painted on the wall! How could we get a bed In there, pray? Jan itorWell, people mostly has their furniture painted In these day3. It saves movin ex penses. Detroit Journal. A Testimonial. Jones You remember what a miserable memory I used to have? Well, Dr. Bolus gave me a. prescription that haa done me a world of good. Smith Something to take before meals, was it? Jones Well, I don't recall Just what the directions were, but It's a splendid cure. Philadelphia Press. Fnlstnff's Song. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Where's he that died o' Wednesday? What place on earth hath he? A tailor's yard beneath, I wot. Where worms approaching be; For the wight that died o' Wednesday, Just laid the light below, Is dead as the varlet turned to clay A score of years ago. Where's he that died o Sabba' day? Good Lord, I' not be he! The best of days Is foul enough From this world's fare to flee; And the saint that died o Sabba day, "With his grave turf yet to grow. Is dead as the sinner brought to pray A hundred years ago. Where's he that died o yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss th pat When this night's Junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is.Jdst as dead ho! ho! As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago. The Little Lady. (Of Four Bright Tears.) .Atlanta Constitution. The Llttie Lady hath' for me . Only her kisses tender. And in her eyes a light I see That's all of earthly splendor. Sha knows not when the world goes ill: ' She only knows she love-s me still! The Little Lady's smiles so bright With mystic spells have bound me; She waits for me when falls the eight, And twines her arms around me. She knows not where my steps may bo: She only knows her love for me! Dear Lady of the tender years And of tho bright eyes beaming. God keep these trusting eyes from tears. And God ba with you dreaming! I know not what those dreams may be: , I only know your love for me!