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Spring" street, and Oliver & Haines, 103 6o. Spring street.. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., C17 Dearborn streeL For sale In Omaha by H. C Shears, 105 2?. Sixteenth street, sad Barkalow Bros., 1012 Farnam street. For sale in Salt Lake tiy the Salt Xiake News Co., 77 TV". Second South street. On file in Washington, D. C, with A. "W. Dunn, C00 14th N. "W. For aale in Xenvr, Colo., by Hamilton' & Xendrick, D00-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S WjEATHER. Generally fair, with variable winds, mostly northerly. PORTLAXTJ, SATURDAY, MAY 4. A YISIOX OP PEACE. "War Is yet with us, but it has been ameliorated. It has also found its way Into new channels." When nation .lifts up sword against nation now, it is the eword,of commercial .nnd.in Austria! an-, tagonism. The prize of this struggle is markets and the weapons are drastic Jaurdens Jald jxpam production and trade. To this" conflict belong the waste of war and somewhat" of its cruelties. The oppressive hand of restrictions has made many an industrial solitude and called It peace; and where activity and plenty should "reign, there -arise the sounds of complaining bitterness and rage. In our social relations., "we have j xaKen on tne aspect ot civilization; but In our Industrial life we are reveling in savagery."- It is accounted in Germany a crime to consume American beef, and to be in nocent of it they go without, and their doctors say their iealth suffers from insufficient meat diet. In this country we protect our Infant iron and steel in dustries from foreign competition; and the reward is in enabling, by high prices at home, our manufacturers to sell at bargain prices abroad. Russia has laid burdens on- machinery imports, and her farmers are crying for the ag ricultural Implements they need ior their crops. On the Continent of Eu rope they collect taxes to support beet production, and.-he English, consumers Tejolce in cheap sugar at German and Trench, expense. The blow falls on those in whose behalf the weapon was raised. These things will be remedied some fc""iuy, but their reign is not so regretta ble, perhaps, as that other superstitious dread of the alien" In his adopted home. "Sn China they hold the "foreign devil" la religious aversion, but who has war rant to laugh at their patriotic zeal? The arrogance of the British In the presence of other nationalities is pro verbial; the German self-conceit and French pride are almost on a par with the insolence of, the Spaniard " or the Jew's devout dpy at being the chosen people. Ip. America- we should have risen superior to this weakness, but we ihave not .Nowhere, probably, is the lorelgner so cordially despised or so cavalierly treated. Our -Colonial Dames and Native Sons are apt to be oblli ous to the fact that many people stayed where they were from adequate motives, one being that they were con tented with their neighbors and their neighbors were contented with them. It Is sometimes laudable to move, it is eometlmes justifiable to .stay and pay TSeTent It Is in this country that such things as "British gold" and the "pau per labor of Europe" and the "heathen Chinee" are looked oipon with supersti tious dread. "We are apt to bewail that an Englishman should buy land here which we have to sell, or lend us money we are eager to borrow, or come here to start factories., operate ships, or put Ills capital into Improvements. "We are .glad to have the services of Irishmen on the policef.fofce, and Italians In vegeta ble gardens and boo'tblack stands, or Chinese in laundries, or Japs on the railroads, or Greeks In our fisheries, or Swedes and Bohemians on our farms; but we reserve the precious privilege of denouncing each and all as foreigners end aliens and arraigning them for 'ruining the country." In this dread, of unfamiliar tongues and klns,we"have advanced but little beyond the condition of the Jew who regarded the gentiles as dogs, or the Greeks who regarded the Chinese as devils, or the Mexicans who worshiped the falr-"comprexioned Spaniards as be ings from another sphere. Science and religion, education, and conquest, -have proved themserres" uname'TO pierce tne adamantine wallof -race hatred. The work will be "doneby the enlightening influence of productive industry, as it ees its necessities. The achievement of liberty in political and religious lines has been- preliminary to the noble task now coming in, of securing to the, Indi vidual the right to the labor of his iands and the use of his earnings. Gov ernment will be made to see that Its province is not to interfere with Indus try, but to stand aside and give It free scope. In those days the British Hon shall He down with the Russian bear; and the American egle. shall- spread "-his wings with weleotoeJEriendshlp over the 2fW World and the Islands of the sea and the Chinese dragon no more shall terrify. For the golden age of univer sal amity will have been brought In by the extension of liberty to the work of every man's hands, and the recog nition of his right to dispose of it as he wills. Ex-Governor MacCorkle, of West Vir ginia, is a Southern born and bred man, I and his solution of the race problem, offered -a year ago, is worthy of adop tion by Virginia today. Go'vernor Mc Corkle "would adopt an honest, Inflexi ble educational and property basis, ad ministered fairly for black and white, which would appeal to the desire for the acquisition of property and of edu cation. Such a franchise, he pointed out, would not subject the white peo ple to the political domination of the negroes. The three states of the South in which the negro element is strongest are South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. "Were the suffrage restricted to those owning their own homes, the white voters of South Carolina would outnumber the colored two to one; of Mississippi, four to one; of Louisiana, three arid one-half to one. Nearly the same proportions would exist with an educational qualification. AN EXEMPLARY JOLLY. y From a careful piece of discriminat ing criticism in the San Francisco Call we learn concerning the President's speeches upon the present tour:. They are: 1. Models of good taste. 2. He pleases while he Instructs. 3. He displays the imaginative faculty which supplies the grace and garniture ot all speech. 4. He shows a broad-minded appreciation of -manly and persistent effort, even of opponents. 5. He has reached that calm of philosophy where quarrel and recrimination have no place. 6. He" is a philosopher, statesman and optim ist 7. In command of "those twin forces of ora tory, humor and pathos," he resembles Lin coln; In fact, be goes Lincoln one better, for "each seems a shade more delicate than Lin coln's." As the Call does not find anything except to praise, in its long analysis of the President's speeches, it is to be re gretted that It rests content with speci fying McKInley's superiority to Lincoln. Why not to Webster, to Cicero, to De mosthenes, even? If a man Is every thing that an orator, statesman and philosopher can possibly be, why com pare him with one whose oratory and philosophy were never greatly consid ered? Perhaps it is not so much the humor and pathos of these speeches, com pelling comparison with Lincoln, as it is the open secret that the comparison is one "very dear to Mr. McKinley, and that nothing can so delight him as a coupling of his name with that of the martyred President, We trust the Call has not exhausted its impartial and discerning literary criticism in this effort. A few more just as acute and discriminating obser vations should be brought out of cold storage the morning of the President's arrival in San Francisco. Nor should they lose their reward. POSTAL SURPLUS IX SIGHT. The Postal Department under the present management bids fair, it Is said, to come out at the end of the present fiscal year now less than two months hen.ee with a surplus Instead of the large deficit with which it is usually confronted. The deficit has, in fact, been steadily diminishing, not withstanding the many burdens with which the malls are loaded. That shown at the last fiscal accounting was $5,385,000; for 1899 It was $6,610,000; irx 1898 it reached $9,020,000, and in 1897 It was $11,411,000. The total deficit for the past ten years has been over $100,000, 000, caused mainly, as successive Postmasters-General bave shown In their yearly reports, by the rank abuse of second-class postal privileges. The franking privilege also, as most liber ally Interpreted by Government officials, saddles tons of mall upon the depart- ment's resources, which are carried free. This abuse extends, It Is held, in many instances to the clothing and personal effects of members of Congress, at a saving to themselves of freight and ex press charges. This abuse of Uncle Sam's generosity has been checked to some extent within recent years, but It is still shamefully prevalent. The advantage, however, taken by venders of cheap literary commodities of the provision of the postal law which provides a low rate of postage for news papers, magazines and other periodical publications, is responsible for the bulk of the postal deficit. Venders of pub lications such as cheap novels, distrib uters of advertising circulars and the like, by issuing their wares at stated in tervals, bring them under second-class matter as specified by law, and an enormous bulk carried through the malls at a loss to the department re sults. Efforts have been made to cor rect this abuse by law, but without success, and the postal surplus at the end of the current year, if there is one. will be in spite of the abuses indicated. The explanation of this is found in the fact that the people are writing and have within the year written more letters than ever before in a similar space of time, thus increasing the revenues from postage on first-class matter. Business thrift and enterprise, and individual in telligence, as shown in the multiplica tion of private correspondence, may, therefore be said to have over-balanced the abuse of which complaint is made. MORGAN'S STEAMSHIP LINE. The New York Tribune's London cor respondent is right In stating that Mr. Morgan's policy of buying ships which can only be sailed under a foreign flag "will not create an American merchant marine." Yet this wholesale deal may be the entering wedge which will let in an American merchant marine In spite of the efforts of a protected few to keep It out. Mr. Morgan undoubtedly bought tb Leyland fleet because there is no other kind of investment today which offers such good returns as are re ceived from deep-water ships. In time he might also show the American peo ple that this country would be a ma terial gainer If New York were made the home port and disbursing port of the big fleet, instead of keeping It on the other side of the Atlantic, as he will be obliged to at present. When America becomes familiar enough with the shipping business to adopt the methods followed by the greatest maritime nations on earth, Mr. Morgan's purchases will all be sailing under the American flag, and they will need no subsidy to keep them there, either. Every shipyard In the United States Is crowded with orders, and It Is extremely doubtful If an Amerlcan-bullt fleet the size of that just purchased by Mr. Morgan could be secured within" three or four years. If the present pros perity In deep-water shipping continues for that length of time, the fleet will show profits nearly if not fully equal to the original cost. It was a condition and not a theory with which this coun try's financial Napoleon had to cope when he was casting about for an in- vestment that would offer something better than the "2 per cent net" which I millions or American capital must be satisfied with in many bond and; secur ity investments. This condition was a world-wide pros- vciiiy ia me ocean carrying xraae, an which England, Germany. Norway and other less Important nations were piling up greater profits on their investment in a single year than American capital was earning In ten years. The ships of these nations were making the bulk of their profits out of the American traffic, and it was but natural for an American citizen to desire to partici pate in the big profits. ,The ancient American navigation laws refused to Mr. Morgan the right which Germany and Great Britain give to their subjects, ( to add to the maritime glory of those countries by permitting the vessels to be registered under the flag of the new owner. This refusal was the result of a ''theory" that we cannot sail ships in competition with other nations without a subsidy. Mr. Morgan purchased a fleet of thirty-four large modera-bullt steamships. The taxes and home port disbursements of this fleet "will amount to millions of dollars annually, and yet, according to the "theory" and not the condition, America would be seriously injured If these taxes and disburse ments were made in New York instead of London. Suppose Mr. Morgan to have been a subject of Germany a country which has shown a more won derful maritime growth than any other nation on earth; the German flag would have been floating over his new fleet In the shortest possible time, and the country would have rung with praises for the man who had added so greatly to Germany's prestige on the high seas. The American merchant marine is growing in spite of the obsolete ham pering navigation laws, but it would grow at an astonishing rate if American citizens were granted the same privi leges as are extended to the citizens of the other big maritime nations. What the industry needs is not a subsidy, but to be let alone, to be given absolute freedom. The Leyland fleet, with Its thirty-four steamers, is a big addition to the merchant marine of any country, and If we were to extend to its new owner the same recognition that is given by Great Britain and Germany to her shipowners, American capital would immediately annex a few more of the big fleets that are making so much money in carrying American products to market We must admit that Mr. Morgan's policy 'will not cre ate an American merchant marine," but it will aid in creating a sentiment which, sooner or later, will attain pro portions that will command a hearing and throw enough light on the iniqui tous subsidy graft to wither it. THE SALOON IS ALWAYS WITH US. Robert Alston Stevenson has a nota- 'ble article in the current number of Scribner's on "Saloons." It Js notable because the author comprehends that the saloon in some form has always been with us and Is always likely to be with us; that its existence grows natur ally out of the gregarlousness of human nature; that it can be "regulated, ameliorated, but cannot be extirpated; nor even supplanted by philanthropic "canteens," -where .hot tea and coffee and a wholesome lunch can be obtained 'by the natural clientage of the saloon. The trouble with these--emasculated canteens- is that tracts, checkers and backgammon', newspapers, tea and cof fee, do not furnish what hardworking sailors, stevedores and other hand toll ers want after a hard day's work. They are not In search of moral or mental Improvement; "they want fun "with their fellows, and they want beer." Mr. Stevenson says that the philanthropic founders of the emasculated, deodor ized canteen, with its tea and tracts," might help many a sailor if you gave him his beer in decent surroundings, but you will not persuade a sailor, or the stevedore, or any other man seeking rest after a hard day's toll, that it is wrong to drink a glass of beer If he has been accustomed to it from child hood. If saloons were really prohibited, these men would no more take to tea and tracts and checkers than down town men of businessat the noon houj would take to tea and tracts If there were no saloons. Your hard worked sailor or stevedore, or your restless stock broker or speculator, if there were no saloons, would carry a bottle, just as all drinking; men do in dry states when there is a spasm of strict enforcement of closure upon the saloons, the hotels and the drug stores. A zealous but candid prohibitionist in a "dry" New England State lost all faith In the wisdom of his pet law when he saw that with saloons closed abso lutely tight there was more drunken ness than when they were open. This was because every saloonite became a solitary drinker or he sought a secret dive, which, screened from public ob servation, was a standing temptation to utter lack of self-restraint. The sa loon in New York City presents a curi ous phase in the region Inhabited by Russian, German and' Polish Jews. They are very poor; they live In densely crowded. tenements; they support four saloons to a block,' and'yet, despite their poverty, they do not get drunk in their saloons, and the typical Jewish saloon Is a decent place. It provides a meeting-place and the opportunity for social Intercourse that cannot be found else where. The customers of the Jewish saloons teach a lesson of sober, tem perate life, even in conditions of severe poverty. In the Italian saloons intem perance is not common, for the tippling is confined to cheap, light Italian wine and beer. As In the case of the He brews, intemperance does not commonly figure as a cause of poverty among the natives of Southern Europe. The Ger man not seldom takes his wife and children with him to the beer saloon, and their saloons show a remarkable freedom from the disorderly conduct and hot-headed drinking that charac terize the American and Irish resorts. Mr. Stevenson finds all grades of sa loons; some where openly and success fully vice of every description Is en couraged, and some just as easily found where the barkeepers are under orders to exercise as best they can a restrain ing Influence where there is risk of dis order and drunkenness, because "decent people won't come to a saloon that gets a bad name." To the question, "Grant ing that the saloon can be explained on" grounds not wholly vicious, what are you going to do with them?" Mr. Ste venson returns an answer which de nounces prohibition without qualifica tion. The committee of fifty, organized In 1893 for the specific purpose of in vestigating the liquor problem in all Its aspects, after several years' study posi tively affirm in reference to the evils of prohibltoryylegislatfon The public bave seen law defiled, a whole generation of habitual lawbreakers schooled In evasion and shnznelessness, -courts Ineffective through fluctuations of policy., delays, per juries, negllgigncesj and other miscarriages of Justice, officers of law double-faced and mer cenary, legislators timid and Insincere, candi dates hypocritical., and truckling, and office holders" unfaithful to pledges'" and to reason able public expectation. This denunciation -of-prohibitory leg islation comes from a body of men among whom are fourteen ministers of the gospel, two bishops, two presidents of universities and twenty-three well known men "who are In the habit of telling the truth as they see it." To take away the saloon from the man who wants to drink does not reform his views or make it appreciably harder for him to get what he wants. The,aver age man who all his life has been accus tomed to the use of alcoholic beverages is sure to cling obstinately to his belief that he has a right to do so whether in the back room of a saloon or at his own table. The average man, outside- of a jail, a hospital or an almshouse, is sure to resent any legislation that treats him as a presumptive ward of the pub lic, a constructive criminal, pauper or invalid. Mr. Stevenson says that in dustrious, sober worklngmen who pat ronize saloons and admit the dangers that surround them are "unanimous in the opinion that whatever substitute succeeds to the saloon will in the first place Sell drinks to Its patrons and sec ondly be brought about directly or In directly by the worklngmen themselves. The great mass of the worklngmen are hostile to patronizing attempts at im provement that afford the men no part In the process. Charity is not popular in the name of philanthropy with self supporting American workmen. The worklngmen's associations In London and New York believe in the creation of a demand for a place where men could meet with their wives without being asked or expected to drink, where treating was tabooed, yet where good drinks could be obtained if desired. Along these lines those who are Inter ested In saloon reform will be obliged to establish any successful substitute. Mr. Stevenson closes with the state ment that men, no matter where they live, or how, must have their fun and have It in their own way; that saloon reform depepds far less for succes's on legislation than on sympathetic under standing of men as they are found, and he evidently believes that the "Army canteen," which the prohibitionists have upset, will be the model for the coming substitute for the present sa loon. The nuinber of cases of smallpox re ported to the health' officials of New York City since Noyember 1, 1900, Is 599; ,the number of vaccinations per formed by the Inspector' of the Health Department In the same time Is 275,882, and at least as many more have been vaccinated by their physicians. The death rate from smallpox in New York City is below that of any year when -an epidemic of the disease has prevailed since 1868. The deaths have been about 20 per cent of the cases, whereas In other years -of epidemic it has ranged from 23 to 28 per cent. Some Western States have suffered severely this sea son. Colorado has iiad 1771 cases re ported, nearly aUyO.f .-vvhlch. pecurfred since January lKansas lias had 2315, Minnesota 2006 and Wisconsin 564. -The totalV number of- casesjoccurrlng in the country slncejNGVember"lf 1900, are ported t& "th'e National authorities, is 13269i as compared with 2657 cases in the same period-, last year. This In crease Is undoubtedly. due to relaxation of sanitary vigilance.'" " Governor Odell, of New York, has a proud record of success as,a "reform" Executive. By means of retrenchment and cutting down useless appropria tions, the 'expenses of the state govern ment under his recommendations have been reduced by the Legislature nearly $2,000,000 without crippling any public enterprise or cutting off any needed ap propriation. New sources of taxation, mainly corporations, will yield $3,500,000 in revenue a year, a total gain of about $5,500,000, making possible a state tax of 1 20 mills, or the lowest tax known In New York since 1855;' and about one third the state tax of 1880. The Albany Journal says: The people can confidents look forward to the Leslslathe session ofip902, which will un doubtedly, with the advice of the executive, devise and enact Into law some new measure of taxation that will absolutely clear real es tate of all the burden that It now bears for state' purposes, and for the first time In the history of the State of New York her tax gatherer Will not ley one dollar upon a single farm or home In this state Now and then Emperor William is able to overcome his shrinking mod esty and really assert his opinions on measures under discussion by his law makers. Now that Mexico is to be lighted by an American gas plant, perhaps she ,will not be quite so much in the dark on the money question. - Capitalists are engineering a corner in whisky in direct defiance of the pub lic sentiment against monopolizing ne cessities. If J. Pierpont Morgan ever goes into the circus business, a 100-rlng show will be but a small affair. Has It 'occurred to any one yet to send Punston to hunt the north pole? A Retired' General Philadelphia Inquirer. Word come from Ohio that that veteran warrior, General Coxey, of the Tramp Army fame, Is piling up gold in heaps almost as high as the sandbanks out of which he dug his earlier fortune. He is also building a factory of some sort or other that presently will give employment to several hundred men at wages which, of course, he will fix at the top notch. Thus Is another factor of discontent si lenced through the Imperceptible influence of Republicanism, as illustrated In the dcnnomle Dollcles In Vojrue. Many things were said of Coxey at the time of his memorable march that really were not warranted, for even at that time he was a man of means; but it was a fool tramp nevertheless, and he now confesses hl3 error by strict attention to his own busi ness. No Hurry. Kansas City Journal. It is taking tha Cuban constitution con vention quite a while to settle matters with the United StateB, but the copventlon doesn't begrudge the time. It Is business of high importance and shouldn't be rushed through hastily. Besides, each member Is drawing 510 a day. a ' Real Infant Industries. " Indianapolis News. Our infant industries do Indeed need protection, but the Infants are men with small capital, and the protection needed is against the trust3. BEVERIDGE ON NEW TARIFF POLICY Chicago Evening Post It is not often that a public man deliv ers an address so original, suggestive and thoughtful as was that of Senator Beverldge on "The American Situation," delivered before the Grant Club at Des Moines. The Indiana Senator discussed the unprecedented developments of the last two or three years in the light of the new conditions confronting the United States and the civilized world at large. Tho territorial question he held to be strictly subordinate to that of National trade and the prosperity of labor and capital. The great nations have entered into a world-wide war of commerce. Tariff walls are being erected against our prod ucts, for our advantages are too great to enable any people to compete with us in a comparatively free field. Even Eng land Is certain to surrender her free-trade policy. The tax on sugar Is an entering wedge; the protective movement is stead ily gaining ground In Great Britain, and direct taxation i3 becoming too oppres sive to permit of further extension. Won derful as our progress has been In Old World markets, our trade with Europe is certain to diminish. Our relative, If not our absolute, preponderance will not long he maintained. Senator Beverldge con tinued: "Within 25 years every manufactured article entering English ports will pay a heavy duty unless by. reciprocal tariff arrangements we keep Great Britain's markets open to our. products. The same Is true of every other European nation, and this policy of self-preservation will be applied to their colonies also. It follows, therefore, that the American tariff must meet these new' conditions But our tariff will be made to meet these new condi tions along tho lines of International reci procity. - , Changes in our tariff system are In evitable and the farslghted upholders of protection are beginning to realize It.. The discussion started by Congressman Babcock"s proposal to withdraw the duties on. the raw materials used by the steel industry Is still proceeding and having a liberalizing effect. Manufacturers, more and more anxiousjto secure foreign trade, are discovering that we cannot Increase our sales without augmenting our pur chases. The keynote of future policy will be reciprocity, not exclusion and pro hibition. In the Orient we shall insist on the open door, and our possession of the Philippines will enable us to make that demand effective. China may or may not preserve her integrity, but whatever hap pens, our rights and Interests in her markets shall be respected. To quote Sen ator Beverldge again: All that America Is concerned In Is that when China's partition occurs the door shall be kept open to American goods, no matter how tightly It Is shut against any other nation. In this situation the possession ot the Philip pines makes us masters of the game. And In this situation liberty of action on the part of our Government is necessary to our master ing this greatest commercial arrangement of history. And so It Is that the power of fre hand developed In the Philippines, and even more in Cuba; so It Is that a purely Ameri can Government In the Philippines; so It It that the Philippines themselves become neces sary to the American future in the far East. But there Is no reason why the Philip pines should not eventually become as free andjndependent as Cuba will be even under tfire Piatt programme of Ameri can suzerainty, and this the Indiana Sen ator recognizes and admits. The "free hand" for the United States Is not in compatible with full self-government In the dependencies. Kings In Danger. London Spectator. Police prevention is not perfect, though 'it does much, for if It were perfect there would be no assassinations, and there are. The problem Is therefore to prevent a man In the street from reaching the Klnsr either by bombshell,, bullet ar knife, and experi ence shows that It is nearly, if not quite, insoluble, Bullet-proof carriages are of ttbavaji against dynamite cartridges, nqr can the JKIng be deprived entirely either .of air orUghV. One would have thought an escort whlph rode close would be suf ficient security, but either it la not, or the Kings And such escorts on all occa sions wearisome and hampering beyond endurance. Disguise is out of the ques tion, for reasons of dignity. The use of the dagger can, we think, be prevented eltlier'by extreme watchfulness on the part of the icing's companions, or by setting orderlies to ride close up to the carriage steps, or by Cromwell's device, the wearing of a shirt of mail, which can be constructed of aluminum rings, and need not therefore be Intolerably heavy. The best precaution of all, however, Is perhaps very rapid traveling, as not one man in 50 can so measure pace as to be sure of hitting a mark that moves at 12 miles an hour. This was Napoleon's device, and he kept his life, though whole groups of men were eager to assassinate him, and laid with that end the most elaborate plots. It was because he sus pected the Bourbon Princes of paying for such plots that he murdered the Due d' Engheln "In reprisal." Swift driving Is said to be the device also of "William II, and if It protects him he Is clearly bound to continue it. A King in a modern state has no more right to defy assassi nation than he has to inflict any other useless misfortune on his people. He must not shrink In battle, because that desplrlts his armies, but for a man in his position facing assassins is .not cour age but foolhardlness. A King, however, cannot "always be galloping; he ha3 his work to do outside as well as Indoors, and there will always remain an ele ment of danger In his position, which is best minimized by availing himself of the special liability of all Intending as sassins to be betrayed. i Traps and Overfishing:. Chicago Tribune. Howard M. Kutchin, a special agent for the United States Fish Commission, has made an exhaustive investigation Into the salmon fisheries of the Pacific Coast, and reports that the waters of the Colum bia. River region and Puget Sound, where salmon have been so plentiful In years past, are now so far stripped that the end of the packing industry is not far off. Traps and the capture of salmon In the spawning season are the causes for the rapid decline of this great In dustry. In Alaskan waters the National Government has Intervened to keep up the! supply by forbidding the use of traps or. of seins within a certain distance of the mouths of rivers, and by requiring all persons engaged in taking salmon to conduct hatching establishments and plant fry equal to four times the number of mature fish taken. The destructlveness of corporate, and Individual greed is only equaled by the public indifference. Our wild animals and game birds are rap idly disappearing. Shellfish of several kinds will soon be extinct, and our forest trees will be all cut offere many years, and yet comparatively few persons give the matter even a passing thought. The Mistake Ah out Rubinstein. Athenaeum. Rubinstein played more than once he fore the court, but on the first occasion a somewhat humorous Incident occurred. A lettter of Introduction to Prince Al bert from the Grand Duchess Helene was forwarded through the Russian embassy. This was In 1S57, about a year after peace had been concluded, and the pian ist was mistaken, so relates his biograph er, A. McArthur, for a "secret agent of the Russian court coming to London In the disguise of a musician." Rubinstein's magnificent playing soon convinced te royal party that they had before them la genuine artist. Busy Times for Mrs. Nation. " Kansas City Times. According to Mrs. Nation's latest "dream" her mission Is to rid the world of liquor, tobacco, corsets, Jewelry, dime novels, immoral plays and politicians. Mrs. Nation has more business han a cranberry merchant. AMUSEMENTS-" "The Adventures of Nell Gwynn" is the title Of the version of the sayings and, doings of the actress of Drury Lane, selected, by Miss Florence Roberts to pre sent to the crowd that filled Cordray's Theater last night. The version, without comparing it with any ot the others, is a good one. It gives Miss Roberts an opportunity to paint a very charming picture of the winsome Nell, and as that Is all it pretends to do, it is a success. The play and Miss Boberts together made an excellent impression. The sup port had little to do but assist the seen-, ery In making up sumptuous stage pic tures, and it did that admirably. Miss Boberts is more pleasing as Nell Gwynn than as Sapho. There is a gay, careless air about the charmer of Charles II that Is more natural and more whole some than the wiles and woes of the French adventuress, and the easy style In which the" actrees tossed her defiance to the disguised king or wheedled him when he was unmasked become her better tnan mimicking the witcheries of the unhappy Sapho. Everything she did last night was natural and graceful, and without apparent effort. She was a charming orange girl, a dashing actress, and a strong-willed woman. It was eaay to see why Charles was captive to her charms: it was difficult to understand why the fickle Mardyn could so easily give her up. It was In scenes with this eame Mardyn that Nell was perhaps a bit too heartless. A touch of real re gret, a quiver of the voice or a sigh to show that she really mourned the "badly buried love" -might have heightened the effect ot the comedy, but the lack of it was the only flaw In her performance. As Charles II. Charles Gerson looked imposing and acted as one would ex pect a spoiled voluptuary to act. Lu cius Henderson was a good Mardyn, and George Webster as Haynes did a pretty little bit of comedy on his own account. The remainder of the cast, which was large, did what little they had to do without leaving room to pick flaws. The play was magnificently staged. The Belasco-Thall Company has demon strated that It knows how to mount a play, and everything has been done for Nell Gwynn scenlcally that could pos sibly help to make It successful as a spectacle. Each scene was a beautiful picture, while the costuming was unusu ally elaborate and tasteful. "Nell Gwynn" will be repeated to night. "Sapho" this afternoon. MATINEE TODAY. "Sapho" Will Be the Attraction at Cordraj.'s Theater. 'Sapho," which has proved so success ful all week at Cordray's, as presented by the Belasco-Thall Company, will be the matinee attraction there this afternoon. The play is one of the strongest in the repertoire of the company, and is pre sented with a careful attention to every detail of scenery that characterizes all the Belasco-Thall 'productions. Mies Roberts plays the name part. 'ftotes of the Stage. Franklyn Fyles, the well-known dra matic critic, has written a play called "Kit Carson." The James Neill Company Is crowding houses with "A Bachelor's Romance" In San Francisco. Carlyle Moore, stage director of the Belasco-Thall Company, was formerly a pharmacist in Portland. Georgia Calne, who has been playing this season in "Foxy Qulller," may be a comic opera star next year. The Japanese actors who made a, tour of New York. London and Paris ire going to build a national theater in Tokio with the proceeds. Sarah Bernhardt Is 'reported to - have received while In this country $9000 a week JSOOO for her appearance- and 51000 for traveling expenses. Her contract was Independent ot the actual, recelpfef " A play by F. Anestey, "The Man From Blankley's," was produced in London by Charles Hawtrey. A feature was a real dinner which was really eaten by the actors, and which took up the whole of one act. ADOX OtAM. A New Translation of the Fine Old Heorerv Hymn. Jewish Comment. There have been of late two notable translations of Adon Olam Into English. Zangwill tried his hand at it in the Sun day School Times, and now Israel Gol lancz's version, called a paraphrase for children, appears in the London Jewish Chronicle. There are other English ver sions of this truly great hymn, that by Borrow being perhaps the finest. "Adon Olam" is witness to the pure monotheism and the perfect faith of the Jew. Mr. Gollancz's paraphrase is as follows: Eternal Lord, his praise I sing, "Who reigned before the world was wrought; Creation's voice acclaimed him King. "Whose word created all from nought. And when all things shall pass away, He will not pas's; ho still will reign. Alone, unchang'd. of sov're"Ign sway; He was, he Is, he will remain. Yea, he la One; no second dares Compare with him la wondrous might; None owns hi3 strength; his throne shares; "Without beginning. Infinite. My God, my living savior he; My rock of hope In sorrow's hour; I thirst my cup he fills for mo; He Is my beacon and my tower. "Whene'er I sleep, whene'er I wake, "With him I leave my soul so dear; His care may he my body make; God guarding me, I have no fear. A Greek Husbandman. Chautauquan. The Andrlan husbandman lays up his terrace and leads his little aqueduct to water It. When he has got his footing, so to speak, In one little shelf of soil or a dozen of them, he plants his olive, flg, and vine, his bit of barley or wheat, his patch of onions, potatoes and beans. Against the north wind he sets his brake of cypress trees with Intertwining vines or of tall reeds In triple ranks. He keeps half a dozen goats and sheep for wool, milk and cheese; a family pig (untaxed); a donkey for transportation (I have yet to see a cart or carriage on the island); possibly a cow or two of the best stock in the Aegean. In due season you shall see him winnowing his barley on his hill top threshing floor, and the Andrlan girls treading the wine press with blushing feet, or gathered to the unique Andrlan festival of the flg stringing. There is, too, the hilltop monastery, where you may quench your thirst at the hidden spring that used to flow wine Instead of water on Dlonysius's holiday; and the Round Tower, which may have looked down on Agamemnon, when ha put in at Gavrion Harbor on his way home from Troy. And within a stone's throw of that tower you may see a peasant wife knit ting silk stockings for her peasant hus band, while silk fishing nets drape the rude walls all her own handiwork, from the rearing of the cocoon through all the stages to these finished products. Forty years ago Andros was a great silk- pro ers, but the blight fell upon that beautiful industry, and it continues now only in domestic hands. Instead the lemon has become the chief staple, and on the south and east of the Island every gTen and slope is beautiful with its tender green and gold. Andrlan life today has all the simplicity of the antique. And one who would es cape the modern world could hardly Co so more completely than with the brethren of Hagia Mone or with my friend. Demet rius Zaraphonldes and his American wife on their 12-story farm at Katakoilo. XOTE AND COMMENT. 4. v The way the" South 13 turning ouSo welcome the President does not indicate any abject fear of empire. Japan shows how rapidly she is adopt ing enlightenment methods ot government by having a cabinet crisis. The President ot Chile has applied for a leave of absence. Why doesn't he just take It, like our President? An' Omar'a "ftublayat" His heart, no doubt, was light and glad. Because he never fancied that Some day he'd be a social fad. Pat Crowe would have saved himself a good deal of trouble if he bad simply stood trial and been acquitted like Cal lahan. The daughter of Secretary Hay has written a tragic poem- The secretary's reformation. It appears, wa3 not inherited hy his children. The foolklller sat by the brink of the "stream. "With a song ot Joy In his throat: "I soon shall be saved much hard work,'" said he, "By the man who rocks the boat." An Ohio woman kalsomlned the saloon keeper who sold her husband whisky. Just plain whatewash is considered good enough for most joint-keepers. The "Literary Digest" asks If the poet should read his own works to the public. Let us hope it does not Intend to print all the answers in the negative It re ceives. I Just as we were throwing boquets at ourselves because the fuel bills were growing smaller, we remembered that tho water tax is twice as high through the Summer. Tim Murphy, the actor, met Henry Wat terson. the editor, in Washington the other day. "What Is your latest story?'1 the actor asked. "'No such thing as a new story now," growled Watterson. "It is Impossible to keep a story good for two days. What's the use of thinking up new stories when they get spread all over the country between daylight and dawn? Why, sir, do you know why It Is impossible to keep a good story as your own property? It's these blank tel egraph operators, who like good stories better than anybody. Suppose Chauncey Depew has .a good story in New York. He tells it. Some telegraph operator hears it, and that night, when things are quiet on the wire, he asks the fellow at San Francisco or Denver or Timbuctoo if he has heard the latest, and then he ticks it off. Every man along the line hears it and ticks it off to the fellow he Is working with, and by daylight the new story is the property of the wide, wide world. New story? Faugh!" They ain't no poets workln' like The ones that used to be. The stuff that's printed nowadays -Seems tame an' flat to me: Jim Riley's clever, past a doubt. An funny, an' all that. But he ain't never wrote a pome IJke "Casey's at the Bat,' I've read the book called "Seven Seas,"' An' In It there's some things In swlngln', marchln'. Ilvln verse. That gets right up an' sings; But, grantln' Klplln' bad that kind1 O' rhymtn right down pat, Hq never stirred a feller up -M Like "Casey's at the Bat." '" ' You talk about descriptive pomes I , ' That there one makes me see Just how the diamond used to look -I hear 'the howlln-crdwd aroun'r- The bleachers where I sat, "Whene'er I read through again Ole "Casey's at the Bat." v ' The soft Jblue sky, the. palm-leat fans. The swlngln, swayln- crowd. The fielders slzzlln' In the sun. The coacher yellin' loud. The "In" side on the players' bench, Engaged In friendly chat. They all come back If Just you read . Ole "Casey's at the Bat." I've read baseball pomes of today. An' all of them is tame; There's only one that's half way fit To deal with that great game; The old gods had their "IHad," ' An Omar's "Rublayat" ' "Was to the ancients what to ball Is "Casey's at the Bat." PLEASANTRIES OFPARAGRAPHEnS' "You fell Into the creelt with your new breeches on?" "Yes, pop. You see, I fell in bo quick 1 hadn't time to take them off." "A Smart answer, my son. So suppose you take them off now." Philadelphia Times. A Heartless Brute. Mrs. Justyed Penelope 1st dying of a. broken heart. Mr. Juatyad The cause 7 Mrs. Justyed Oh. a. man. as urual after refusing Percy seventeen times, he haa stopped calling. Judge. Brlgham-C saw you and your wife dining at the new restaurant last evening. Burnham How do you know it was my wife? Brigbam I heard you say, "Guess we'd better have some roast beef." Boston Transcript. A schoolmaster recently received the follow Ins; note: "Dear Sir: Please excuse my son. Jack from attending school today, as he has to be at the funeral of bis two augt;. Jt will see that It does not occur anjr-Tlb-Bltar. "Wasted Vocal Energy.-'Are you going to stand still and let the trusts absorb everything worth having?" pleaded the agitator. "No" answered the matter-of-fact citizen. "I'm Willing to do anything I can to make the trusts give up. But my observation Is that a trust Is very much like xs. buUdog. You can't make It let go simply by hollering at It." "Washington Star. Chrlstua Cnnctator. Arthur Munby In the Spectator. So far beyond the things of Space So high above the things of Time And yet, how human Is thy face. How near, how neighborly, thy cllmsl Thou wast' not bom to fill our skles "Wlth luster from some alien sons; Thy light, thy love, thy sympathies, , Thy very essence, are our own. Thy mission, thy supreme estate, , Thy life among the pious poor. Thy lofty language to the great; Thy touch, so tender, and eo sure; Thine eyes, whose looks are with ua yet; Thy voice, whose echoes do "not die; Thy words, which none who hear forget. So piercing are they, and so nigh; Thy balanced nature, always true And always dauntless and serene. "Which did the decda none else could do And saw the sights none else had seen. And ruled Itself from first to last "Without an effort or a pause By no traditions of the Past By nothing, save its own pure laws; All this, and thousand traits beside, "Unseen till these at least are known. May serve to witness far and wide That thou art He, and thou alone. But. oh. how high thy spirit soars Above the men who tell thy tale! They labor with their awkward oars. And try to Hhow thee and they fall. They saw thee; yet they fall like ua, "Who also strive to limn thee out, And say that thou art thus or thus, And carve our crumbling creeds with Doubt, Or build them up with such a Faith And such a narrow, niggard Love As clings to what some other salth. Or moves not, lest some other move Ah, none shall see thee as thou art, Or know thee for himself at all. Until he has thet In bis heart. And heeds thy whisper or thy call. And feels that In thy sovereign win Eternal Manhood grows not old. But keeps Its prime, that all may flK, Tby large, illimitable fold. -t JUL,