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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1901)
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Oregonlan -should e addressed Invaria bly '"Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any-Individual, letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should "be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does siot buy poems or stories Jrom individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office atdlil Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 955, Tacoma Fostoface Eastern Business Office 7. 48, 49 and 59 Tribune building, 2Ccw York City; 469 "The Rookery," Chlcagoi,the S. C. Beckwlth special agency, Eastern representative. Por sale In San Francisco, by J. 3C Cooper. 740 Market streel,;nearhe Palace Hotel; Gold smith Bros, 23G Suiter street; "m VT. Pitts, 1008 Market etreet; Foster &. Orear, Ferry sews stand. . For sale In Lbs Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 253 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 106 Co. Spring street. For sale In Chicago tiy tbe P. O. News Co . 217 Dearborn street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lai.e Jfews Co , 77 TV. Second South street. For sale ln,Ogden by W. C. Kind, 204 Twen tj -fifth street. On file at Buffalo, JC. T., In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale In Washington, D C, by the Ebbett House newstand. For sale In Denver, Colo , by Hamilton A Xendrick, 906-012 Seventh street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Fair and warmer; northwesterly winds, J . , PORTLAND, P'RIDAY, MAY 31, 1001. BREAKERS AHEAD. The political effect of the Supreme Court's decision in the insular cases is easy of apprehension. It will not ap pease, but thoroughly arouse, that large body of citizens who dread colo nialism as it exists In Europe. Close upon the heels upon satisfaction that Congress will have free play to do what Is right and necessary in the dependen cies, will come a popular demand that this privilege be not abused, but exer cised for the highest good of the islands, our trust and not our spoil. It is perfectly certain that between the two great parties this sentiment is more likely to choose for Its expression the Democratic than the Hepubllcan. There is now no danger 8f scuttle in the Phil ippines or of their summary abandon ment. It is not necessary to vote the Republican ticket to retain them. The question in many minds will be how best to secure generous treatment for them, politically and commercially, and the method that will naturally suggest Itself is a Democratic ballot. This is only one of the many causes operating to the present? disadvantage of the Republicans. Underlying most of them are the questions, in some form, of trusts, tariff and labor. The trust burden is partly associated .with the dependencies themselves, for to the trusts is ascribed responsibility for the Porto Rico' Injustice and the contem plated spoliation of the Philippines. The steel kings have shown their hand in their desire for perpetuation of pres ent tariffs and antagonism to organized labor. In this they can hardly fail to count on much sympathy in Republican ruling circle and yet more certainly on increasing distrust among working men. The halo that has surrounded the protective tariff has disappeared from the workingman's view, and his disillusion will be vigorously promoted by the spectacle of high-tariff trust magnates denouncing unions and trying In practice to break them down. The labor vote "is drifting away from the Republican party, because of its trans parent affiliation with great corpora tions, at war with organized labor, ami clinging to excessive and superfluous protective duties. In the State of Ohio this tendency is likely to be revealed this Fall In the defeat of Governor Nash, the election of a Democratic Legislature and the eupersedure of Foraker by a Democrat In the Senate. In Ohio such legitimate disaffection as exists concerning Re publican policies will be strongly en forced by the sf&Tallstlc Impulse, which In that state," as well as in Indiana, has gained considerable strength within re cent years. Greeribackism, pauperizing influences of protection and pensions, and the intensely utilitarian and op portunist character of Ohio Republican Ism, have formed a fertile soli for so cialism there, which has responded to the sowing of modern doctrines of pub lic ownership, unionized labor, and, in the cities, "wide open" municipal poli cies. The things that have kept the Demo cratic party from power, with instruc tions to j-eform the tariff, have been purely fortuitous and of its own un lucky choice. One was its opposition to the war" for the Union, another was its espousal of depreciated currency, an other was its demand for hauling down the flag in the Philippines. Unless It can get up some new absurdity for use In the directions of masterly misman agement, it is apt to be called to con trol of the Government Perhaps it may be lucky enough this time to keep Its fool mouth shut and let fate thrust victory upon it by making it the hum hie and undeserving instrument of pun ishment upon the Republican party for Its sins. BITTERNESS FADING AWAY. The reunion "of the veterans of the Confederacy at Memphis, Tenn., is In successful progress The leading Con federate Generals present are General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, a famous division commander under "Stonewall" Jackson and Early, and Generals Ste phen D. Lee and A. P. Stewart of Mis sissippi, who were corps commanders in Hood's army during the Atlanta and Nashville campaigns. President Mc Kinley had been invited by the city au thorities to visit Memphis bn this occa sion, and the- thanks of the reunion were extended to the President and to Congress for the passage of the act making an appropriation for the rein terment of the Confederate dead in- terred in the National cemetery at "Washington, and Chat whenever the Te- quest for the dead of any Confederate"! state be made by any state or organ ized memorial association, they be restored to the care of their native state. It was voted to ask Confess to make an appropriation sufficient for the care of the Confederate dead In ceme teries at the North. The gratitude of the South is properly expressed to President McKinley for this legislation, for it -wa3 originally suggested by nim in the first pubc speech he made at the South after his inauguration, and he afterwards strongly recommended In his message the law that has been enacted. Gen eral Longstreet, the most illustrious surviving Confederate soldier, was not present; neither was General Hampton. They are too old to incur fatigue that can be avoided, for Iongstreet Is in his 82d year, and Hampton in his 83d year. Memorial day finds little of the old time bitterness left between the sec tions. The Xioulsville Courier-Journal recently noted that the funeral of Mau rice Thompson, the naturalist and au thor, at Crawfordsvllle, Ind., was char acterized by a high-souled incident Although the dead man was a Confed erate soldier and did not die among the comrades with whom he fought. full military honors were paid his mem ory, for McPherson Grand Army Post of Crawfordsvllle turned out in uni form and escorted the body of their former foe to the grave with all the mourning ceremonies of their organiza tion, the same as though he had been one of their members. THE SEW BRITISH ARMY. The new British Army scheme of Secretary of War Brodrick, which was adopted on Its first reading, after three days debate, on the 17th Inst, by the verjr large majority of 142 votes in the House of Commons, is reported to be so unpopular with the present British Army that a large number of officers have resigned their commissions. The plan calls for six army corps complete, with an army reserve, militia and mili tia reserve, yeomanry and volunteers,, with a total strength of 680,000 men, an' apparent reduction from the strength before the beginning of the South Afri can War of about 70,000 men. The six army corps will call for 250,000 men; the militia reserve is to be increased from about 30,000 to 50,000, and the yeo manry from 10,000 to 50,000, the militia strength proper being now about 125, 000. The volunteers are expected to bring up the number to the 680,000 called for. In the course of debate Mr. Brodrick admitted that there were grave doubts if enlistment would All up his skeleton army, as the enlist ments would have to be double what they have been even in war time to make hlB plan In any way available. English officers who were attached to our Army headquarters in the Cuban campaign hold that a sufficient number of men cannot be obtained unless the pay of the British soldier be made equal to that of our men that Is, more than doubled. The last Punch has a cartoon showing an artisan and a farmer's lad very indifferent to the King's service unless It was made worth their while. If Brodrick's scheme should fail as a working plan. Great Britain would break down In a great war without re sort to conscription, and Continental military critics do not believe that Great Britain will ever pass a conscrip tion act The contrast between the sit uation, even in so conservative and non-military a nation as Great Britain, and .our own, Is a just cause for con gratulation. Our Congress authorized an increase of our Army to about 100, 000 men. but it has been cut down by the Secretary of War, because of the changed condition in the Philippines, to about 77,000 men. Of these, only about 10,000 men are in this country, while in 1894, under anti-Imperialist President Cleveland, there were 26,000 soldiers", all available to be used against the Chi cago mob. Verily, It Is a subject for laughter among gods and men, the Democratic dread that President Mc Kinley wanted 100,000 men ready to "crush labor" and aid capital, and the first act of the Administration under its new authority was to cut the Army down to 77,000, and of this force but about 10,000 iare in the country within call of the President. With the" final solution of the Philippine problem our Army will shrink back into Its old time home proportions. This contrast between our situation and that of Great Britain Is not made for the purpose of criticism upon the action of the British Parliament, for Great Britain, like the United States, avoids conscription and does the best she can to meet her Impending mili tary emergencies. The happy condition of affairs In the United States Is due to our good fortune and to our geographi cal situation. We rub against no power whose vineyard we covet, and nobody wants war with us. The At lantic Ocean, that rolls between us and any formidable foe, explains why we have hitherto needed "no watch tow ers, no forts along our steep." It is due more to our good fortune and our geographical isolation from Europe than to our overpowering good sense that we have not been dragged into foreign wars, and that the great mili tary powers of Continental Europe have been so rent and divided by hostility to each other that there never has been a time when any combination against us was possible that promise success. When we were so weak that the des potic power of Europe by union could have wrecked our rising Republic and divided the cargo like pirates, even as Prussia, Russia and Austria cast lots for the" garments of Poland after her crucifixion, the despotic powers of Eu rope had all they could do to defend themselves against the storm of the French Revolution and its terrible child. Napoleon. We were safe up to Waterloo because despotic Europe -had Its hands full at home. After Waterloo, despotic Europe was too utterly exhausted to combine against us, and It really did not think our Republic was "worth the candle" of conquest The Crimean War kept Great Britain, Russia and France busy; the war of France with Austria in 1859 furnished a home outlet for militarism, and by the time that our Civil War of 1861 broke out Europe was so divided by political rivalries that combination against us was Imprac ticable. When that war was over, we had exhibited military and naval Intel ligence, valor and hardihood on both sides that convinced Europe united America was too strong numerically and too rich In military resources of fighting men and In all the sinews of war to be the subject of warlike assault for the future. Brutality has again sought to punish brutality by the Infliction of penalty equal In degree to the crime committed. Ungoverned" passion of one type has been met by ungoverned passipn. of another type. Falling under the one a defenseless white wpman was subjected to outrageous assault and murdered by a negro; falling under the other, the negro was burned at the stake by white men, with a deliberation tharwas not the least horrible feature of the case, the avengers gloating ghoullshly over the contortions of the crisping body of the victim that told of his agony after his cries were drowned in the crackling of the flames. All of this occurred in a Florida town, the people of which white and colored--have heretofore de veloped no striking evidences of sav agery. Is this a confirmation of the truth of 'the estimate that civilization is, after all, but skin deep, "and that to find the savage it is only necessary to scratch his boastful brother of civ ilized life? 7SOT AN IMAGINARY DISEASE. Many physicians have been wont to hold that hydrophobia is a purely Im aginary disease. Investigation has abundantly corroborated the distrust with which most cases of rabies has been viewed by careful men, but the genuineness of the affliction has been clearly established by various tests made from time to time in the Pasteur Institutes of various cities. Results reached in cne of these hospitals, lo cated In the City of Baltimore, were re viewed before a recent council of physi cians in that city. The superintendent of the institute. Dr. N. G. Keirle, read a paper in which he presented a tabu lated statement of .209 cases of rabies that had been treated there -up to the first of March of the present year. Of this large number, but one had failed to respond to treatment. This patient was a boy 8 years old who had been bitten by a dog on the 2d of February of last year, and two days afterward was admitted to the institute. He re ceived only one treatment, consisting ..of two hypodermic injections, when he was removed from the Institute and tbe treatment discontinued, against the ad vice of the physicians. In the mean time, in order to test the matter, a cow that had been bitten by the same dog, and rabbits that were Inoculated at the institute, had died of rabies, and the boy was brought back for treatment February 25. He, however, developed rabies March 14, and died three days later. Laying special stress upon the point that rabies in animals is a dis ease much more common than is sup posed, Dr. Keirle advised that persons bitten should without delay take the treatment which has proved successful In so large a majority of cases, and which, as he believes, would have proved so In the case cited as a failure but for the unwise delay -In applying it Testimony of this character rises su perior to the distrust and disbelief with which many eminent men have come to regard hydrophobia There Is in it no recital of sensational developments, such as in former years were indulged, and which caused careful men to place the disease In the catalogue of purely Imaginary ills. The findings presented were based upon experiments carefully. conducted, the developments of which were watched and noted at every step. Incredulity must stop short when con fronted by such evidence, and confine Itself strictly to such cases of rabies as are reported by frightened people who tell of patients In the throes of death from this disease "barking like dogs," "walking on all fours," going Into frightful paroxysms at the sight of water, etc. The truth seems to be that there is such a disease as rabies; that It Is communicated under certain conditions by the bite of animals; that the sufferings of those to whom it Is communicated are exceedingly distress ing, and. finally, that a very large pro portion of persons bitten by rabid ani mals and promptly subjected- to the Pasteur treatment for rabies not only escape with their lives, but without any great inconvenelnce or suffering. Conditions are not favorable to the development of rabies In the Pacific Northwest hence the terror which a thirsty dog, eagerly seeking water, In spires In sections east of the Rocky Mountains is practically unknown here, and our people only take such interest in the disease and its treatment as Is dictated by an Intelligent desire to know the truth concerning It as re vealed by scientific inquiry. WOULD BETTER HAVE BEEV AVOIDED. The American society which seeks to erect a public memorial in Quebec to General Richard Montgomery, who lost his life In an assault upon that city in the Revolutionary "War, encountered bitter opposition from the descendants of the Revolutionary Tories or British loyalists who were living in Canada during the war or settled there after the colonies had won their independ ence Qoldwin Smith, in the Toronto Sun, says: ' It Is a pity that the proposal was ever made It was sure to raise once more the ghost of that hateful feud which has ridden Canada like a nightmare, perverting her commercial pollcj and Interfering with her prosperity and progress Royalists and Roundheads, Catholics and Huguenots, Hanoverians and Jacobites, hae burled their dead and are living In fra ternal union "Why cannot heirs of the fac tions of the American Revolution on both sides do the same? Goldwin Smith Is right, but the Ca nadians are not more bitter than the American vandals who twice blew up the monument to Major Andre erected at Tarrytown, N. Y., by the late Cyrus W. Field to please his friend. Dean Stanley. A famous French General, Marceau, was in 1795 killed in battle against the Austrlans at Altenkirchen, in Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, whose passage Marceau had forced at the head of his troops. A tablet was then erected to his mem ory, which remains without disfigure ment to this day, and whose inscrip tion is made the subject of some fine lines in Byron's "Chllde Harold." There are other great battle-fields of Europe on which memorial stones In honor of great commanders who there fought their last battle have been erected. These memorial stones, whether the work of friend or foe, have been re-f spect'ed and protected by the Govern ment to this day. But Europe is an old country, where the profession of arms held high con sideration and where political wars have been waged unceasingly between its great powers for centuries Can ada is a thinly Inhabited province, and the civilization of the United States Is provincial in sentiment on many sub jects that In older countries are viewed with indifference. Suppose a British association should desire to erect a monument to Sir Edward Pakenhdih on Jackson's battle-field of New Or leans; is It likely that 'consent would easily be obtained from the people of that city or that the monument would be secure from early defacement? It Is said to be very doubtful whether the City tit London would consent to erec tion of -a statue of George Washington for "Washington was quite as much of a traitor as Montgomery, who served under Wolfe in the Quebec campaign, 'while "Washington served under Brad dock at the battle of the Monongahela. Mr. George M. Cole, of Dundee, in a letter published recently criticising" teachers' examinations as conducted in this state, makes some good points and many suggestions which our- educa tional boards would do well to con sider. As, for example, when he says of questions in history supposed to test the knowledge of candidates for teach ers' certificates: A large part of the teachers who failed at the last examination failed on history, and that list of questions deserves more severe criticism than the teachers who failed. They were questions calling for exact facts, such a the lawyer or Intelligent business man wquld keep stored in his library, while he trained his Intellect to act upon those tacts. Is It not more important to kndw the causes and effects of the greatest clUl war found In the annals -of history than It Is to load the mind with the, exact date on which battles Te gan and ended Is It. not more Important to learn a practical lesson for present use than to know of' past facts? And yet not a single question In history called for any practical ap plication ot historical knowledge. There is perhaps not an Intelligent pupil In the higher grades of the gram-o mar schools, or In the High School of this city, who has not irked over the unnecessary strain required to fix in his memory the exact date of various minor events in general history. The fact that much more time and effort are required to fix these dates In the memory than are, or under the circum stances can be, given to a considera tion of the events of history, their causes and effects, Is conceded. This is a process which may be said to re semble the making of a meal on husks and leaving the kernel, resulting in a condition of fullness devoid of nourish ment. It is believed by officials at the War Department that from the present out look it will finally become necessary to appoint civilians for examinations for commissions, to fill the hundreds of vacancies still existing in the grades of First and Second Lieutenant in the reg ular Army. Only a little more than half of the appointments provided for by law haye been filled, and it 13 be lieved that not more than 40 or 50 per cent of those appointed will qualify. The policy of appointing civilians is strongly antagonized by Lieutenant General Miles and the Adjutant-General, both of whom favor making the examinations more lenient In order that a greater proportion of enlisted men and officers of the volunteer Army may enter the regular service. There is a strong endeavor on the part of certain officers of the War Department to pre vent the future appointment of any volunteer officer who Is over the age limit heretofore adhered to In making appointments from civil life or from tjie ranks. The recent appointments contained many names of officers who had passed many years beyond thl3 limit. These will now have to take their chances with the- boards of exam iners. ' Consul Hughes, of Coburg, has In formed the State Department that a canal to unite the Caspian and Black Seas is1 under consideration As pro jected, this waterway1 ill be 22 feet deep and about 150 feet wide. It will begin at Astrakhan, 'on the Caspian, and end-at the harbor of Taganrpg, on the Sea of Azof. The estimated cost will be about $20,000,000. As indicated by this proposed canal construction, the center of Russian trade and manu facture is gradually shifting southward, where the production of iron, coal and petroleum Is rapidly Increasing. The metallurgical Industries and trade In cotton from Middle Asia are also being largely developed. The railroads at times prove insufficient carriers, hence the digging of this canal to meet the growing demands of commerce. Truly, the way to meet the demands of com merce is to meet them. Russia seems to be versed In speedy methods looking to this end, and applies them promptly, while the United States Government talks "canal" year after year without coming to any conclusion. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wan tonly attacked The "Oregonlan, using phrases of which the following are sam ples: A Journalistic ghoul. Coarse and brutal Outside the pale of decency. Shunned as a contagion , Mendacious and slanderous. Unblushing falsehood "Worst school of yellow Journalism Bejond the borderland of decency? Villainous terms This blackguard effusion Dastardly temper and language. This pestilence 4 , Hideous reproaches Indecency of its contents, Leper. Infamy. Noting this extreme Vituperation, The Oregonlan gave the Seattle paper a proper characterization, setting forth what manner of newspaper It is; and then the Seattle paper complained that The Oregonlan was "abusive" and 'In decent"! Whereat the Spokane Spokesman-Review laughs heartily, and sug gests,, a Turkish bath, for the Seattle brother. Decoration day was generally ob served in this city in true harmony with its original purpose. The day was an Ideal one "rare as a day In June," ba,lmy, bright and pulsing with awak enlngJlfe. Flowers were abundant, the car service was better than ever before,, rendering the cemeteries easily accessi ble to the crowds that thronged thither bearing fragrant burdens; the proces- f slon was suggestive of patriotism, and its sacrifices, and the addresses were eloquent and appropriate. As the even ing shadows closed softly over the hon ored graves, embowered in roses, one could well imagine that Beneath the great arch of the portal , Through the streets of the city Immortal Was wafted the fragrance they shed The pause given by such a day's ob servances to tne eager pursuits or me can scarcely fail to soften the hard and make smooth the rough places in the way of endeavor. General Castro, who today is provis ional President of Venezuela by act of Congress and' the will of the people. Is described by our veteran United States Consul at Maracaibo, E. H. Plumacher, as the ablest and most efficient ruler that Venezuela has had for many years. ' The "Klondike rush", this Spring is a quite orderly movement The busi ness Is being handled by regular trans portation lines, and even Seattle can tell of no more than 600 people waiting there- to go north. PUBLIC OPINION IN CHINA- New York Journal of Commerce. The world is only beginning to realize Ihe significance of. China's refusal to sign the secret treaty with Russia In regard to the iuturo- cT Manchuria. Astute as Rua sian diplomacy Is credited with being. It has made throughout this Chinese busi ness some serious bhmders, and the greatest blunder of all has, been the con duct of the Manchurlan negotiation. It Is true that Russia is still In virtual pos session of the three provinces that her troop are supposed to be still engaged In keeping order there. The treaty was in tended to legalize a protectorate, leaving It to the decision of Russia now much power the Chinese Government should be permitted to exercise north ot-the Great Wall. The demand made on China to consent to this agreement wis undls ,gulsedly arrogant; the date "on which It .must be signed was fixed with a peremp toriness which sounded like a veiled declaration of war. The Russian Govern ment threw Its whole prestige and Influ ence In China into the scale, which did not, however, kick the beam. On the cori trary, all that Russia could do to bring about the signature of the convention was fairly outweighed by the appearance of an unsuspected force in China the force of nubile ODlnlon. This is not its first striking manifestation in our time. The Bimpress JLNJwager naa 10 now xo 11 at me beginning of last year, when all arrange ments had been made at Fekin, for the final dethronement of the Emperor; for the dropping of his name fromthe Na tional Almanac and the appointment of a successor, who in the annals of the Em pire, should follow Tung-chlh; the abor tive reign of Kwang-su being reckoned as non-existent. The open preparations for carrying out this plot raised a storm for which the Empress and her clique wer, not prepared, so they discreetly aban doned their purpose. They did succeed In visiting their vengeance on come of the prime movers in the protest a move ment which showed to their consterna tion that the spirit of reform had not been extinguished by the wholesale exe cutions of 1898. Public opinion in China had scored its first great victory on the side of modern progres's. The victory over Russia has been a still more signal one The proposal of the Russian- Minister to evacuate Pekln al most as soon as the relief force of the allies entered It was the first move In a game whose obvious purpose It was to despoil China and fool the allies. The next move was the preparation of the Manchurlan Convention, whose terms Russia curtly declined to communicate to any other power, Intimating that it was a question which solely concerned the two empires that were to be parties to It ,The assumption was that the corrupt and reactionary clique, still In power at Hslan, would be ready, with the consent of their representatives at Pekln, to make any kind of a bargain which Russia chose to dictate, and that the matter was not of sufficient consequence to evoke more than, a mere diplomatic protest from the Western powers. The last thing thought of was the existence of a public opinion which should prove stronger than the threats, the bribes or the promises of Russia. Efow this asserted itself the files of last month's Shanghai -newspapers plainly reveal. As the "North China Daily News" summarizes the movement "From North to South, from within and from without, wherever a few patriotic Chinese could be got together with a tele graph wire at their disposal, there was held a meeting of protest. Resolutions were passed and forwarded. Lltteratl, merchants and msndarlns alike signed them. It was a genuine outpouring of national feeling." To the question 'of whether there Is a real power behind all this, the answer is emphatically in the affirmative for, as our Shanghai contem porary remarks,, when the Yangtse has spoken, when Szechuan has applauded and Shangtung. signified her approval, amid a chorus from Canton, Foochow, and even Singapore, and Japan, there Is no longer any doubt as to the power be hind the "voice. As to the effect of all this on the esti mation In which Russia is held in China there seems to be as little room for doubt. She has revealed" herself to the Chinese people in fter true colors those of the In veterate foe of the Integrity of the Em pire. It has been said that If her flag had been the skull and crossbones she could hardly have raised greater Ire than she has done. However this may be, It Is certainly not a small thing to have for near neighbors 400,000,000 enemies along the frontier of 10,000 miles There has been altogether too much disposition both In England and with us to assume that Russia had already made Manchuria her own, and that it was a waste of timo to go on protesting against her aggres sion south of the Amur. Neither the great Chinese Viceroys nor the Govern ment of Japan have ever been ready to agree to the alienation of Manchuria, and Russia must reckon with both of them before she can safely claim possession of that vast territory. Even if China were left to fight her own battle single-handed against the marauding Muscovite, so far as the Western powers are concerned, Russia has learned enough from recent experience to be by no means eager to face the hostility of such an empire added to that of Japan. Whatever of uncer tainty there remains about the future of Manchuria can readily 'be removed by adopting the policy which has been sug gested by our own State department of declaring- the whole region open to the trade of the world. Let the allies Insist on that declaration as part of the com mercial privileges to be gained in settling the terms of peace. If Russia objects she must do so on the ground either that Manchuria Is no longer part of the Chi nese Empire, or that she has acquired certain special privileges there which ex clude the possession of equality of com mercial 'opportunity by other nations. That would bring the whole question to a , point where the status of the three Man churlan provinces wouia nave xo De ae cided by the consent of all the powers in terested In the future. Of these, Great Britain, the UnUed States and Japan are f the tihief, and with them must finally rest the determinations of what bounds shall be set to the territorial ambition of Russia In Asia. . The task may prove less difficult than it seemed, now that the. force of public opinion In China has had sd striking a demonstration. Slodern Cariosities. Baltimore American. A woman ' lately died on Long Island who prided herself on the fact that she had never seen a trolley car nor a rail road train. A boast of this kind shows the rapid advance of modern life that a man or woman can win notoriety as a curiosity In knowing practically nothing of what the majority look on now as among the simplest necessaries of life. The man who has never ridden in a rail road train and the woman who has never seen a. trolley rank with the people who fast for 40 or 50 days, or who have their stomachs and tongues removed. Spectacular Kansas. Kansas City Star. Eugene Ware's description of Kansas as a stage, 1,000,000 feet wide, with the whole world for an audience, is very apt and clever. Indeed, anything that happens in Kansas at once assumes the import ance of a National event. Kansas plays tragedy, comedy and vaudeville with equal success, and whoever appears In the.center of this colossal stage is certain to be the subject of the field glasses and telescopes of the whole countryL A Plea In Defense. Washington Star. It Is unfair, not to say foolish, for -out-of-town newspapers to hold up the Ayres affair as a standard by which Washing ton's moral tone Is to be Judged. There Is always a disposition to portray Wash ington as very much addicted to the pace that kills. But, compared with other cities, its scandal rate is decidedly low. And the people who contribute excitement almost invariably come from elsewhere. AMUSEMENTS. Tou're out in the boatyard a while, looking at the sloop on the ways and won dering if. the dory yonder in the bay Isn't olng to begin pulling at her anchor when the swell rolls. In; then yon go into the shop and smell the shavings and the paint, and along toward evening you wan der Into the house, where the fire Is flick ering fitfully and the clam pie on the table breathes a delicious fragrance on the air. And all, the while a, little com pany of honest warm-hearted, simple minded folk live their quiet lives around you, talk the commonplace small talk that Is Interesting because of the light It throws on a real-life drama that is being enacted before you, and if they keep you laughing most of the time, you are pretty sure to see things through a mist now and then, It only by way of recom pense. That Is "Sag Harbor," which was played to a big audience at the Marquam last night by a company so thoroughly good that Jthey could all go down Into that little Long Island village and no one would suspect that they were not born and raised some place thereabout. The play Is without climaxes save those which occur in the life ot almost every one; it has no situations which are not tbe logical result of the mistake which forms the theme of the; story, and it is dramatic without being In the least theat rical. And, although James A. Heme, who created It, is not In the cast, the consum mate skill with which he transfers to the stage the quiet scenes which before his time were such strangers there, without marring a character or losing a shade of local color, Is just as much evident as though ha were speaking the quaint lines of lovable old Cap'n Dan Marble. It is the old Captain's deep interest in the people around him which makes all the trouble, for, with the sympathy of the man "who loveth best all creatures great and small," he has divined that Ben Tur ner, the boatbullder, loves Martha Ree9e, the girl he has brought up from a child, and so sets about to grove to Ben that Martha loves him In return. But Mar tha doesn't loVe him, or at least she thinks she doesn't Gratitude overwhelms her when Ben asks her to marry him, and she asks for time to answer. Then Ben's brother, Frank, whom tbe girl has prom ised to marry, comes back from the sea, and Captain Dan sees his mistake. There Is a cruel scene between the brothers when Ben learns of the girl's love for Frank, but Martha decides that she must marry Ren, and marry him she does, al though Frank comes back from the sea again and again to bring bitterness into her life. Such a state of affairs cannot last always. Frank says something about Ben one day which hurts Marth and she rebukes him. Ben overhears their con versation, In which they refer to their love of other days, and the old wound Is re opened. But the old Captain, standing with his back to the three as they sit nursing their unhapplness, tells them, the story of his meddling, and drops in a word or two about the baby, and when he has finished Ben and Martha are In each other's arms, and Frank sees the trouble he has made, and Is sorry. So the play ends, with Frank finding consolation in the smiles of the village music teacher, with Ben and Martha happy In each other, and with old Captain Dan jubilant in the disclosure which has just been made to him by the wife whom, he was 15 years courting. Besides the people who are most di rectly concerned in the clot there Is Free man Whltemafsh, who Is the village paint er and choirmaster, and who requires only to say "Come 'ere" to win any girl In town. There Is also "William Turner, agent of the "steambut" Antelope, a number of villagers who are as unlike as the peo ple we meet every day, and last of all there Is the most delightful baby, -ever seen on a stage. The scenery carries out the whole natural atmosphere of the play, and consequently is all that, art can make It It is a hard task to single out the mem bers of the company, for no all-star cast could more perfectly interpret such a play. George Woodard plays Cap'n Dan so naturally that one never misses Heme, and If a higher compliment could be found for him It is not within reach of the writer. Marlon Abbot, last seen here when she faded the stars In the Kelcy Shannon production of "The Moth in Flame," was Elizabeth Ann Turner, the spinster who accepts Cap'n Dan after 13 years of lovemaklng, and a wonderful piece of work !he did with the part Frank Monroe, as William Turner, didn't act at allr he was Just the old, keen-witted, lo quacious steamboat agent W. T. Hodge, as Freeman Vi nltmarsh, red of head and rasping as to voice, reminded every one in the audience of village characters they had met, and perhaps contributed more to the merriment than any of the others. Forrest Robinson was all that could be asked of Ben Turner, and one can ask a good deal of sUcb a part J. Wooster Dean played Frank Turner acceptably. Fanchon Compbell. as Martha Reese, was allotted the difficult task of bringing un happlness into such a sunny scene, and she did It admirably. Charlotte Walker made a very winning music teacher, con tributing a delightful bit of comedy in the last act Mrs. Sol Smith made much of the small part of Mrs. John Russell, and her allusions to the late Captain John will be long remembered. The remainder of the cast, which7 Is considerable, was so good as to 'cause not one jarring note In the general harmony of the production. "Sag Harbor" will be the attraction the remainder of the week, with a matinee Saturday, and those who miss it will miss the beBt attraction of the whole season. Souvenir Matinee at Cordray'n. A very pretty souvenir photograph or Harry Corson Clarke, the comedian, made by the Standard Embossing company ot New York, will be presented to every lady attending the matinee performance of the most laughable comedy. "What Did Tom kins Do?" at Cordray's Theater Saturday afternoon. Mr. Clark has been most suc cessful in this comedy, written especial ly for him, In which he appears In one ot the greatest character sketches ever pre sented, having, as It has, a reputation throughout the United States. Mr. Clarke's specialties, in which he impersonates Frank Mayo and Henry Irving, are worth going a long way to see. Miss Alumna Slnns. Miss Alumna, You have thurrfbed & r Stack of 'ologles, and go ( An a ruddy Understudy For life's chic and purple show. ' In your bright mind You've the right kind Of gray matter to project ' And to lay. Sis, On that basis, A ten-story Intellect. - You've been hauled up And not balled up; J-k- But the world's not trlgonom, And you're dead ripe For Its lead-pipe Cinch, my crack-a-JacJc phononu - Golden streamlets. Radiant dreamlets, Cabbage maidens ere they're matched, But they've wedded Some1 red-headed Guy with gas-pipe legs attached. After poring Comes the soaring TIs the Muses' quid pro quo, ' ' And you've got a Sweet sonata. Till Fate pulls the tremolo. - "Take your sheepskin No more peeps In Psychologfe toppy lugs Will be sported When you're cQUried As the girl abaft the'hpgar' H. F. rx -.jr: NOTE AND COMMENT. , Is May SO a day of general rejoicing?" It Is very evident that this Olyrapla oil connpt be made light otV "We xnlshe bring- the modern "Waahtne- ton over to help celebrate the Fourth. May hasn't made so much ot a record that June needs to feel at all dis couraged. Look out for a large bunch of the hottest days ot the season along any time now. The race Is not always to the swift. Sometimes the New York Yacht Club doesen't let the swift get a show. Now that the hazing has been abolished at West Point the cadets cannot malm the "plebes" till the football season. It is not likely that Sir Thomas Lipton. will stop building cup challengers as long as the rest of the world keeps on buy ing tea. Now charges of bribery are made against the Hawaiian Legislature. Truly these Islands axe making wonderful prog ress in the science ot government. Hon. Grover Cleveland hasn't sent out any bulletin as to the catch of fate. Per haps he is afraid of shattering his well known reputation for blunt honesty. If there was any rhyme for Fourth but North you would see this space do voted to a poem so full of stirring pa triotism that It would make one ot Pat rick Henry's speeches look like an in surgent manifesto. The value of a cup defender after she has won the America's cup and maintain ed the honor and supremacy of Ymkea boat building was aired In the supreme court in New York the other day. Lika the broken-down race horse, the cup de fender was relegated to the junk pile af ter she had outlived her usefulness. William Strieker Is suing J. Oliver Ise lln to recover $500 commission claimed on the sale ot the Defender. Mr. Striek er, on the witness stand, said he had heird Mr. Iselln wanted to sell the De fender for Junk, and he Introduced M. Samuels & Sons, who bought the $150. 000 boat of two years ago for 000. The jury, after a few minutes' retirement, returned a verdict for Mr. Iselln. Vassar College, at morning chapel as sembled, was listening to routine an nouncements before the morning hymn. Suddenly the hundreds of young women began to listen. "Miss Gould," President Taylor had just begun "Miss Helen Gould has Just given another scholarship to the college. It Is to become available at once and Is In the form of a gift outright of J10. OOO." After remarks upon the repeated bene factions, the president calmly announced the hymn. "Ten thousand times ten thousand," chanted the chords of trebles. The uplifted face of Yassar'a under graduate body smiled one broad per vasive smile. But whoever heard of a retroactive sense of humor, especially la a hard-worked college faculty com mittee on morning chapel? PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Motormxn That fellow fooled me, that tlm. Conductor How's that? "I thought he want ed to get on and I didn't stop, but he didn't want to get on." Life. New York Style. Prisoner (Indignantly) Your Honor, that Policeman arrested m simply because I threatened to report him ta the Commissioners. Judge Ah! Insanity, ehl I'll have to remand you for examination. Puck. And Her Old Gent Father? Tom Hello, where are you going? Dick To call on mj young lady friend. Tom Oh t what sort ot a person Is her old lady mother, and does het young gentleman brother give you any troublol Philadelphia Press. "Didn't the motorman see the car ahead ol him?" said the inquisitive man. after th crash of the rear-end collision was over. "Yes," replied the uninjured conductor. "Iw seen it, but It was so dark that be took It fer a man." Brooklyn Life. Brown What's got Into Wetmoro lately t He's drunk more than half the time. Stephen Yes; It's his little game, you know. Brown His little game? Stephens Yes. He has thut far been neglected by the fair sex. He hopes that qme nice woman will marry him to re form him. Boston Transcript. The Irish of It. The sua was pouring down a wealth of warm rays on the heights thtl morning as a pair of Celtic nursa girls, push ing perambulators, walked abreast to Paclfla street. "Sure, It's warm."' said one. "Sure, It Is," agreed the other. "It's very pllslnt In the shade, but there ain't any." Brooklyn Eagle. A Great Relief. Mrs. Catterson I thought 1 would come and tell you that your Harold hai been fighting with my Bobble, and settle th matter it I could. Mrs. Hatterson Well, fot my part. I have no time to enter Into anj discussion about children's quarrels. I hopt I am above such things. Mrs. Catterson I'm delighted to hear that. I'll send, Harold ovei on a stretcher In an hour or so. Harper's Ba lar. A Hoodooed Yacht. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Tommy Lipton , Went to sea On the Shamrock. Merrily; For he had a King on deck. Neither thinking Of a wreck. There was brightness , Overhead, , And the sails were - t Widely spread. Everything looked Snug and trim; Tom chaffed Ed and . Ed chaffed him. Suddenly thers Came a blast; ' Ed and Tommy Grabbed the mast. Faster, fiercer. Blew the squall: Sown came mainmast. Sails and all. Consternation Reigned on deck. Caused by such, a Sudden check; But King Ed was Safe and sound. And he soon was Shoreward bound. 'Twasn't Tommy LIpton's fault There came such a Fearful halt; There's a hoodoo On bis boat That won't let tht Shamrock float. There's been trouble All along. Always something Going wrong; Getting stranded. Caught in gales. Losing masts and Losing sails". ' ' No use thinking Of the cup; Tom bad better Give that up; For"tlS plain to Every one That a hoodooed Yacht can't rsa. I J9v3M&t- -rfw-