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Ita-UTHORSHIP OP "THE PRAIRIE
JBXOWER."
The account of th nriMn nf v, ,.
Jnance or novel known as "The Prairie
Flower," given la a letter from Oregon
City, bears upon Its face unquestiona
ble marks of accuracy and truth. The
novel has so many touches of local color
that It cannot be doubted that the ma-
i-enais were bad from one familiar with
Oregon and with the journey across
lue Pams. unat these materials, with
much of the narrative were supplied
by Mr. Moss, and by him handed to
William Johnson, who passed them on
iu x.raerson .Bennett, we see no reason
.u uuuuu .Bennett, questionless, made
tuumons. gave touches throughout, and
jcraaps eiaDorated the plot It was a
jreat novel in its day. Evervhnriv ,
ft, and down to 1S68 not less tBan 100,000
wpies naa oeen sold.
The statement of Dr. Geiger that
vllllam Johnson was tho mithA.
Jeives explanation through the letter of
Mrs. Clark, daughter of Mr. Moss. To
Dr. Geiger and others Johnson ni,t.
ess claimed the authorship. It is for-
""" "iueeu mat ugnt is thus thrown
n uie genesis of this highly interesting
oraance and llterarv pnienrin ,
arly history of Oregon. Few American
lovels have had a more extended run
han this one had in Its day; and there
aa De no oouDt that a large edition
. xne -rrairie Slower," and of Its
equel, "Lcni Leoti," if now reprinted,
ould be sold in the Pacific Northwest
States. It has had nn olrrnintfmn v.07.
hese thirty or perhaps forty years.
ui a. ivuz ume everynody attributed
fie authorshln to lmprenn -no.,n
literary knowledge, critical Judgment,
carcely existed then In tht Woof aa
1 the literary world Scott, Irving and
mumerable writers had followed the
Ian of presenting their romances as
luiicB ieit Dy a mysterious stranger "
p "found In an old garret" ' So there
as no doubt that Emerson rsonnoft
as the actual author of "The Prairie
lower." Of larcre rart of it no. rinint
ss was. But we think there can be no
3udc tnat the outline or framework
as supplied by Mr. Moss. Whether
fuuam jonnson added anything to it
moot now bo known "Rnf f -
Ighest Interest in Oregon to have thes"e
favemeais elicited about it
A BELATED PROTEST.
L Hlllsboro anreacher in hto cmmr
1st Sunday railed against Sunday
owbpapers ana Sunday trains. He
Ivised a boycott of thA Sonthom t
3c's Sunday passencrer train on the.
est Side, insisting that thero is no
ed of the movement of anv train on
at day. Yet later in his discourse
t-saia: if there were any work of
arlty or necessity I -wnuiri- inmn n
ard that train myself." Every per-
will judge for himself what motiv
cause may be sufficient to Justify
1 an uuung the train on Sunday, or
other day. No one has? to nst- r.
Ission of ecclesiastical authority. But
jiere were no Bunaay train our good
ather would be cut out of his oppor-
311 xo ao many a -work of charity or
3essity on Sunday. Preachers no.
s and The Sunday Oregonlan need
lit tram, and will oe carried on it,
anie as ungodly pleasure-seekers
commercial travelers. As to the
rspaper, a good one is a moral
pney every day in the -week, sinri m
lially so on Sunday, when its oppor-
mies are, greater.
this resistance to the Sundav
in that locality? Hlllsboro was
of the last places in the United
Ites, where a railroad exists, to be
ipuea witn a Sunday train, for con-
iience 01 passengers and carriage of
i ana newspapers. Does the sanc-
I Of the day. Or its nresPrvnMon oa
institution for the blessing of man,
end on rejection of these modern
veniences? And since there long
e been Sunday trains, for the con-
lence ana benent of every other civ
d locality on earth, did this good
fcers-regard "the West Side" as the
I hope and last retreat of the Purl
Sunday? He evidently thoueht the
le world was gone to perdition, ex-
the West Side": and that now
gone, too. In a free country there
pithing to prevent a man from mak.
I himself ridiculous, when he has a
that way.
inday trains and Sunday newspa-
meet a public want This Is why
exist lot 5 per cent of the neo-
lof the United States would stop
If it were In their Dower to do
Congregations to whom such ser-
ti as that of the Hlllsboro preacher
delivered smile at the absurdity;
they go to the postofflce to get
Sunday mail, and they read their
lay newspaper during the after-
bome may not go to hear the J
preacher at all. but may take up the
newspaper Instead. It will be the fault
of the preacher if they do. If he have
a message to deliver, worth the hear
ing, be sure they will hear it But no
man is jjping to hold a congregation by
insisting on a Puritan Sunday, and by
protesting against the conveniences of
social and civilized life. Not necessar
ily is a man irreligious because he
doesn't care to hear these poor crudi
ties. But the Hlllsboro brother, through a
new birth, will yet get into the pro
gressive world, broader in intelligence
and riper in spiritual life. We trust
he will get real help through the Sun
day train and The Sunday Oregonlan.
Deliverance from isolation is the first
need, moral, Intellectual and spiritual,
of the individual and the community.
For that they knew this, is the reason
whythe people of the West Side, from
Portland to Corvallls, sent up their pe
titions 'for the Sunday train. V
UNIVERSITIES 'WHILE YOU "WAIT.
One by one the professors of the Uni
versity of Chicago promote the gayety
of nations In ways that can only make
the Judicious friends of the institution,
if there are any such, grieve. There is
a continuous performance of outbreak,
censure, and then an explanation from
the offender that only tends to make
matters worse. Is any generic expla
nation to be found for these specific
outbursts? Do their sources He in com
mon ground which may be understood
if not improved?
A university, to begin with, consists
not In Imposing walls or high-piled li
braries or long lists of instructors, or
even in hundreds of students. Money
can do a great deal, but money, like
everything else, has its limitations.
Honor's voice cannot provoke the sleep
ing dust nor flattery soothe the dull,
cold ear of death. Not all the blood of
beasts on Jewish altars can give the
guilty conscience rest, and there is no
art to charm away the melancholy of
her who has suffered the losa of her vir
tue. Everything Is competent, within
only Its sphere, and In the realm of
moral and Intellectual achievement the
potency of money whether from Cen
tral Pacific leases or Standard Oil div
idends has sharp and imperious limi
tations. Perhaps the most important thing
Presidents Jordan and Harper cannot
give their universities is tradition. We
know what tradition means to our
Army and Navy which sustained theirs
in the war with Spain; and this same
sort of bundle of histories and aspira
tions directs and informs our univer
sity life. We are a new country, it is
true. But there are degrees in our new
ness. Harvard, for example, began In
1636, In the days of Milton and Crom
well, Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu.
The heroic history of these 265 years
has set up standards whose cumulative
power over men is one of the most
potent forces of our civilization. It
cannot be manufactured over night
Time is an element no labor-saving pro
cess or community of interest, can sup
ply. Even God himself cannot make a
3-year-old steer in a second.
Another thing Mr. Rockefeller and
Mrs. Stanford cannot give their educa
tional establishments Is Its spiritual ex
perience. Into everything of solid
moral worth there must have entered
the spirit of prayer, devotion and self
sacrifice. John Harvard was a poor
preacher. Tale was started by a band
of poor but devoted preachers. "Pray
ing bands" and contributions that could
ill be spared have broken ground and
laid corner-stones for almost every one
of our great institutions of higher learn
ing. This, is foundation upon wrhlch
our latter-day universities have not
been built If is not so much the air
of newness or of men and things hastily
thrown together, perhaps, that puts
Chicago or Stanford at its disadvan
tage as it is this crying lack of holy
memories, high tradition and heroic
sacrifices. A stream cannot rise higher
than its source, and the blundering pro
fessor who sought to lift up Rockefeller
on .a pedestal by the side of Shakes
peare may have bullded better than he
knew in suggesting the difficulties of
Chicago University. Patron saints fit
to be set before the young for study
are not evolved from Pacific railroads
or petroleum manipulation.
It is desirable to be smart, but It Is
better to be right, and the great an
chor of correct training is conservatism.
Nothing is more characeristlc of -our
mushroom universities than the facil
ity with which their professors respond
to every changing wind of doctrine.
Things venerated, things deeply rooted
In the convictions of the wise and good
are held at naught by these keen young
fellows, because they are not held to
safe moorings by the;age and habits of
time-honored and time-solidified tradi
tion. All truth is relative, and the ap
parent brilliancy of a fresh discovery
or a new point of view may be falsity
Itself when laid alongside the higher
and most essential truth of results.
Dash and piquancy do not make the
best men, and to make the best men,
more and more of them. Is the univer
sity's only excuse for being.
THE SPECIES' SEW EXVIRON3IEXT.
President Schwab, of the steel trust,
was so much in demand Sunday that
he couldn't be seen. "He kept away
from his apartments." the New York
dispatch says, "during the day and up
to a late hour tonight"
Whither shall the modern magnate
flee from the reporter's presence? If he
fly to the uttermost parts of the earth,
or hides in the depths of the sea, even
there shall cards be sent In and the
kodak put in rest Time was when the
unwilling interviewee might be safe in
his "apartments." He could send out
word he had nothing to say, he would
be sick, or perhaps even bluntly deny
himself to all callers. But this seems
ungracious and may lead to retribution,
which is more easily inflicted than re
paired. Not at his office, therefore, nor at nls
apartments, nor at his favorite club,
can the great man who must not be
seen be secure from the importunate
reporter whose children are crying for
malted milk and ice cream soda". Ho
tels, obviously, are unavailable, for the
gentlemanly attendants have a fashion
of knowing the great man and of com
municating his presence to the press.
Incognito Is the only safe means of dis
posing of himself. In various unpre
tentious abodes about town ho can have
apartments under such assumed names
as his fancy affects, and with the aid
of telephones, messenger boys and like
appliances, he can carry on the busi
ness of existence with measurable com
fort and effectiveness.
Our highly wrought civilization Is, In
facty subjecting the species human to
a constantly increasing strain, not only
mental, but physical." The resourceful
reporter can readily make a monkey
of most of us, and the strenuous sights
and sounds of the modenTcity provide
an environment -which compares well
for strenuousness with the habitat of
the aborglnes, .and which ought In time
to restore to us the keen vision and
acute hearing of the savage. No enemy
lurks in tree or crevice for his deadly
spring, but from every direction steal
upon us the hurrying carriage, the
darting automobile and the noiseless
bicycle. The flash and the distant
whirr of these dangers are as hard to
detect and their possibilities of dan
ger as definite as the signs of the hos
tile redskin or wild beast We do not
scan the horizon for beacon fires or pore
over footpaths for prints of passing
feet; but we need quite as keen vis
ion for the telescope and the camera,
the ship in the offing and the needle's
point Telephone and telegraph train
the ear, Intricacies of the cuisine edu
cate the palate, and In a hundred trades
the perceptive nose is as essential to
daily bread as when the savage sniffed
to windward for tidings of a coming
foe.
We should not evidently, conclude
with too great haste that under civiliza
tion we shall suffer atrophy of our sen
sual organs. Culture has so multiplied
the things to be seen and heard that
eye and ear are still a long way from
their muster-out. Science Is teaching
us how to preserve and even .to Improve
their capabilities. Perhaps the belief
in the superior physical powers of the
savage is part of the manifold super
stitions with which our life Is crowded
full. From the cradle to the grave we
are beset with old wives' fables that
darken our understanding and Impede
our growth. The day will come when
all. these things shall be banished, to
gether with all the fables of antiquity.
The world will be wiser, but will it in
all respects be happier? In the perfect
fabric of truth, Is there no room for
the ornaments which imagination paints
with skillful if deceptive brush? If the
poet and the prophet could tell but the
plain unvarnished truth, would life be
quite as well worth living as it is to
day? THE CHARGES AGAIXST SCHLEY.
Admiral Sampson did not participate
In the naval battle off Santiago, In
which Cervera's fleet was destroyed.
Schley did. Sampson was In command
of the fleet, however, through not pres
ent Schleyhad the actual command
in the battle. The differences between
the two men have been fanned by vi
tuperations on the part of the friends
of each. Intemperate language has
been used, and dignity has been for
gotten. . Sampson's official announcement of
the battle and of the destruction of
Cervera's fleet was unfortunate, and
even unjust, because it Ignored Schley.
It began: "The fleet under my com
mand presents the Nation with a
Fourth of July present" etc It is true
that the Heet was under command of
Sampson, but Sampsqn's ship, the New
York, took no part in the battle; In
deed, was not in sight of it. Friends of
Schley asserted that Sampson was
claiming credit for himself that did not
belong to him; that he gave the infer
ence in his dispatch that he had per
sonally led the fleet in the attack on
the Spanish ships, and that this was
most unjust to Schley. Then Sampson's
friends began a counter attack on
Schley, asserting' that his course for
some time before the battle had been
vacillating, and even insubordinate.
Vituperation followed accusation, and
when the list of promotions proposed
as rewards for conduct during the war
was sent to the Senate, a storm was
raised there, for Sampson's name was
ahead of Schley's. Favoritism, malevo
lence, injustice, conspiracy, were freely
charged all round.
Sampson, on his part, had asserted in
an official letter that Schley's conduct
In command on the south coast of
Cuba, before the battle, was reprehen
sible; and later the Secretary of the
Navy, supporting Sampson, wrote that
Schley's conduct was reprehensible "by
reason of its unsteadiness of purpose
and push, and failure to obey orders,"
and that it "did not meet the approval
of the President and the department."
Specifications are presented in support
of this statement. They may thus be
epitomized: While off Cienfuegos,
when the exact position of the Spanish
fleet was in doubt, Schley had been
urgently directed, if he was satisfied
that Cervera's fleet was not at Cienfue
gos. to proceed "with all dispatch, but
cautiously," toSantiago, where the en
emy was believed to be, and where he
actually was. He remained at Cienfue
gos for thirty hours without having
taken any initiative to procure infor
mation from the natives as to the pres
ence of the enemy in that harbor.
Learning, however, a little later, that
he was not there, he left for Santiago,
May 24, but instead ofjproceedlng with
all dispatch, as ordered to do, he
moved at a slow rate and did not reach
Santiago until late in the afternoon of
May 26. There he met the St Paul,
whose commander, Captain Slgsbee, be
lieved Cervera to be at Santiago; and
yet. three hours after arriving there,
Schley turned back westward, signal
ing to the squadron that the destina
tion was Key West Next morning the
Harvard, coming from the eastward,
caught up with him and delivered the
department's order directing him to re
main at Santiago and ascertain,
whether the enemy was there or not.
To this Schley replied that he would
have to disobey the department's or-,
ders and continue to Key West He
did so, and went westward until he was
forty-eight miles away from Santiago.
Then he changed his mind and turned
back to Santiago, -where he arrived
again on May 28. Up to this time, as
Secretary Long reports, "there had
been nothing to prevent the escape of
the Spanish fleet" There Schley re
mained until Sampson arrived, four
days later, when new orders were
given and new dispositions made. It Is
not asserted that-there w,as any hesi
tation or inefficiency in Schley there
after. Before a court of Inquiry these
charges are now to be examined.
Schley and his friends assert that his
answer will be a complete explanation
of adequate defense. It is singular
enough, and it raises a protest, to find
an officer whose conduct won a decisive
battle on trial for his course during the
movements and maneuvers that pre
ceded It There is suspicion of the ex
istence of a clique and a conspiracy;
but the whole facts will now be brought
forth, and it may be hoped the Inquiry
will close a controversy that has been
in progress more than three years.
An Improvement in the weather la
the corn bell has forced down prices on
both corn and -wheat and the market
on the latter is again settling down
toward the low point of the season.
Were there no other factors to be con
sidered in the situation, the damage
already wrought on thetAmerican corn
crop would undoubtedly be offset to a
large extent by the enormous yield of
wheat the crpp of which has already
reached a point where it is generally
considered assured, and good for nearly
700,000,000 bushels. There is, however,
a great shortage in wheat in Europe,
and America will require nearly every
thing over and above a normal crop to
meet this shortage. This will leave
only an average surplus to meet the
normal requirements of the Old World,
and the shortage in the corn crop un
der such circumstances cannot but
have a powerful sympathetic effect
When it is considered that the value
of last year's corn crop in the United
States was nearly 2 times as large as
that of the wheat crop, it can easily
be understood what an effect a short
age of even one-fourth a crop may
have on the market. Rains have un
doubtedly improved the situation, but
the extent of the improvement must be
great indeed to warrant much weak
ness in any of the cereals at the pres
ent time.
The discontinuance of the gigantic
frauds which have been perpetrated
under the forest reserve schemes will
not on.ly keep some vast areas of fine
land fr,om falling into the hands of un
scrupulous speculators, but It will also
Increase the value of the holdings of le
gitimate settlers. So long as there were
plenty of dishonest people willing to
submit to a mild form of perjury for an
insignificant sum, the timber sharks
were enabled to secure vast holdings at
a much lower price than they would
have been forced to pay for similar
land taken up by bona fide settlers.
The latter In hundreds of cases vould
be glad of an opportunity to sell the
timber from their land, if they could
secure a fair price for it No matter
how much the settler might wish to get
more land into cultivation he has ordi
narily hesitated to get rid of his mag
nificent timber by burning and slash
ing; and yet so long as so much script
land was available timber on individ
ual claims held by farmers found no
buyers. The reckless waste t timber
now going on will soon leave us with
thousands of acres of denuded forest
lands, from which the speculators have
hurriedly removed the timber and sold
it for a mere pittance, when in justice it
should have been left for the settler
who could eventually have realized
enough to compensate him for the labor
of replacing his timber claim with a
farm or fruit orchard.
In April, 1862, Admiral Dewey and
Rear-Admiral Schley were both among
the young officers of Admiral Farra
gut's fleet who distinguished them
selves In the passage of the forts and
the subsequent battle with the enemy's
fleet that decided the fate of New Or
leans. In recently presenting a Far
ragut medal to Rear-Admiral Schley on
behalf of the Associated Veterans of
Farragut's Fleet, the Secretary, in his
letter, among other things, said:
Dear Sir and Shipmate: We take pleasure
In presenting you with the Farragut medal
the Insignia of your old alma mater as a.
token of our high esteem for you as an officer
and also In recognition of your Illustrious
services in the Spanish-American War and on
board of the brave old Winona, at the capturo
of New Orleans, for which you received wltn
brother officers the congratulations of the
Navy Department, tho Government and the
country for courage and daring, In letters from
Washington, dated 'May 10, 1862.
Hitherto compulsory school attend
ance has not been enacted in, the
Southern States, but some 600 South
Carolina teachers attending a Sum
mer school at Columbia have put them
selves on record favoring such legis
lation for that state, following an ap
peal from President Wilson, of Con
verse College. This, says the' Colum
bia State, "commits the educational
forces of the state to the policy and
insures for it the active aid of intelli
gent and influential men and women In
every county." This promises well, but
we suspect the promise will not soon
be realized, for the Irrepressible negro
will become a factor in the problem,
and the Legislatures will not force edu
cation on a creature they have disfran
chised as an illiterate and desire to
keep In a state of disqualification for
the franchise.
Hurdle-racing and the steeplechase
may well be regarded as relics of bar
barism, and are so regarded by all hu
mane persons and societies. As evi
dence of the utter and wanton cruelty
of the first sport, witness a Butte dis
patch: "Gold Dust, ridden by McCarthy,
and Delgado, ridden by Morrison, in the
hurdle race tefday. fell at the last Jump.
Morrison was so badly Injured that his
recovery is doubtful. Gold Dust broke
a shoulder and had to be shot" From
the suffering, imperiled brutes human
and beast on the track to the delighted
brutes in the grandstand, an exhibi
tion of this kind is shocking to well
regulated minds, and should be forbid
den by law.
Those Republican papers that are
urging Bryan on to a bolt from his
party must reckon on a very low grade
of intelligence In the Democratic ranks,
if they suppose such transparently in
terested advice will be taken as sincere.
The fact is that the whole -country, as
well as the Democratic party, is to be
corigratulated upon the recent Ohio de
liverance, and anything that puts a
general extension of that action in jeop
ardy is a, public calamity, Better we
should never have another Republican
President than that the silver heresy
Bhould again become rampant in the
land.
Complaints against enforcement of
the bicycle ordinance would have more
point if it were not for the simple fact
that bicycle accidents, usually numer
ous, have been very rare this Summer.
The main reason doubtless is that the
riders have been kept off the walks. It
Is a consummation long devoutly
wished and one In which Judge Cam
eron may and probably does take a par
donable pride.
It was certainly a pity to Jump at the
first Porto Rico cargo arriving after
the free-trade proclamation, and hold it
for duties. It is not well to be finicky
in' these matters. The only way to do
a good deed is to do it handsomely.
Admirers of Fred Warde will rejoice
to learn that he is to include in his
coming season's repertoire his old suc
cess. "Belphegor the" Mountebank." He
doe3 nothing better than his difficult
role in that most beautiful play.
Warning From Orunlia.
Omaha Bee.
Several large sales of lumber land in the
Pacific Northwest have been made re
cently. The lumber barons are preparing
to strip that country as they have, tho
land of the North. While this is going on
no intelligent or concerted effort is be
ing made to restore the forests. Future
generations are likely to lament bitterly
the short-sighted greed of this day.
THE "CRIME" OF PICKETING.
New York Evening Post.
The recent injunction of Judge Gager,
of the Superior Court for New Haven,
Is a remarkable Instance of a confusion
of the ends of Justice, ahd or the adoption
of a method inimical alike to social growtn
and judicial soundness. Criminal action
and discourteous action and desirable ac
tion are all blended In one injunction. Vio
lence, threats, congregating, loud and
boisterous noise, picketing and persuasion
are bundled up and denounced in one im
perious prohibition. Innocent things and
laudable things are forbidden simply, as
the means of escaping the labor of sifting
out and punishing the criminal things
that may be associated with them. The
court waives its function of discrimination
and judgment, and falls back on authority.
Trespass, the Interruption of traffic, vio
lence and the threats of violence are all
sufficiently provided for in the ordinary
processes of law; but here is a judge who,
instead of employing those processes,
sweeps with his Injunction the whole field
of action, making no discrimination be
tween right and wrong, innocence and
guilt.
It is as if one arraigned for slander were
dismissed with the injunction, "You shall
not talk at all, for if you do, you are sure
to say something slanderous"; or as if a
publisher, prosecuted for libel, were for
bidden to Issue his paper In any shape.
What action could be more within a
man's appropriate freedom than to per
suade a fellow workman to a line of con
duct that is designed to substitute a nine
hour day for a ten-hour day? Picketing,
aside from trespass and violence, is noth
ing more than systematic persuasion, in
an urgent case, directed toward those who
cannot be otherwise reached.
An Injunction of this order Is making
that criminal which tho people, acting
through its Legislature, has not made
criminal, is setting aside the ordinary
safeguard of the citizen In trial by jury,
and is causing an innocent act to take on
the consequences of a violation of law
from which It may have been carefully
guarded. Confusion and tyranny do not
often rise higher than this mark. It is
an action that thrusts itself directly In
the path of social progress. The entire
controversy between labor and capital,
notwithstanding the errors and evils that
have gone with it, has been, during the
past century, one of the most renovating
of social movements, and no part of that
controversy has been more legitimate than
that Involved in the reduction of the hours
of labor.
Judge Gager would rob the workman of
the direct and ordinary methods of en
forcing his views and bring the machin
ery of law to work in an entirely un
usual way in favor of his adversary. If
there is any time in which the law should
be applied with caution, moderation and
fairness, it is In connection with the set
tlement of questions Involving the ulti
mate welfare of society. There Is, in tnese
questions, no temper of criminality, but
simply a wish to assert and maintain
rights. The judiciary already suffers from
the suspicion among workingmen that it
does not and will not bring to this class
of questions sound and unbiased opinion.
Workmen would feel that they might as
well be arraigned before the company with
whom the controversy was opened as be
fore a man like Judge Gager. One weighty
reason why workmen are adverse to legal
arbitration is that they distrust the in
tegrity of the Judiciary on social ques
tions. They do not believe there is a spirit
of fairness at the bottom of the Ju
dicial mind.
This injunction is also against the slow
growth of judicial opinion. The Emrllsh
courts traveled over this ground for half
a century. They subjected workmen to
every variety of restraint They impris
oned women for saying "Bah!" to a
"scab"; and yet a quarter of a century
ago they reached the sound principle that
what a single citizen may do Innocently
may be done Innocently by any number
of citizens. Guilt is not a question of
numbers, and action does not take on a
new legal character by being performed
by a trades union. We should bring to
social problems a totally different tem
per from that indicated in this injunc
tion. The 'violence that is so easily
awakened by them Is very largely due to
the feeling among workingmen that fair
ness and candor cannot be expected in
their legal settlement; and that the ju
diciary is aiming, even in this hour of
combinations, to rob the workman of his
only defense, tho right of combined ac
tion. This is not true, and, therefore,
Judges ought not to take action which
lends color to such suspicions.
Trljjgrs Said It.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Chicago Standard (Baptist) says
Professor Trlggs admits having said that
all hymns except "Lead, Kindly Light,"
are doggerel, and that dime novels are to
be preferred to Sunday-school books. He
made these statements to his class, but
says, In self-defense: "The public should
understand that a teacher in the privacy
of his classroom may atat a thing play
fully, paradoxically, with that exaggera
tion that belongs to good pedagogy, and
so leave the class to discriminate the
true and the false." Going yet further
in the process of self-stultification, how
ever, he admits that he knows nothing
about either Jiymns or Sunday-school
books, "never having had the opportunity"
in his life "at any college to study any
thing but the literature of paganism in the
classic fields and the literature of liberal
ism in the English field." That the or
thodox gentlemen who control the des
tinies of the University of Chicago should
have appointed to so important a profes
sorship as that of English literature a
man who confessedly knows nothing of
any literature save that of paganism and
"liberalism'' and yet who attempts to
instruct his class concerning a vast num
ber of the choicest literary products,
which he has never read this may
strongly testify to the breadth and uni
versal tolerance of the management, but
will add very little to the popular estimate
of their common sense. The query may at
once be raised: How many others among
the professors of this highly endowed uni
versity are engaged In giving Instruction
concerning things which they know noth
ing about?
Spanish Wnr Pensions.
Boston Transcript.
The total of the claims for pensions for
the war with Spain filed up to date Is ip
tfee neighborhood of 48,000, of which but
7000 have thus far been granted. Our
army in the war with Spain attained a
maximum strength of 278,000 regulars and
volunteeers. The claims filed, therefore,
represent less than 20 per cent of tho sol
diers we employed, and tho pensions to
bo granted will probably sustain a much
smaller percentage to the number of men
In arms.
If our Civil War pensions were on the
same scale we should not need to meet an
annual pension charge of 5140,000,000 36
years after Lee's surrender. May 1, 1S65,
three weeks after Lee's surrender, the to
tal strength of the Union Army was
1,000,516 officers and men. June 30, 1901,
there were on the pension rolls the names
of 997,854 pensioners. In other words, th.
army of pensioners today is within 3000
of the strength of the army of soldiers
we had In 1S65.
iHftues 6f the Pant.
Atlanta Constitution.
Questions which wita nrnminpnf in thi
campaign of 1900 have been retired by virU
tue of natural operation without any dis
credit to themselves. Whatever there waa
debatable in our possession of the Philip,
pine Islands at that time has been swept
away by the dictum ' of the Supreme
Court, and what we have now to consider
is the new condition resultant, without
wasting time over the past.
Better Than Prayer.
Louisville Courier-Jourrial.
Some day the farmers will quit depend
ing on Providence and prayers for rain,
and will do their own irrigating. Then
we shall not know the meaning of crop
failures from, drouth.
HISTORIAN MACLAY AGAIX.
New Tork Times.
Commander Wainwrlght, Superintendent
of the Naval Academy, writes to the Sec
retary of the Navy that while the history
of the Navy written by Mr. E. S. Maclay,
called by our neighbor, the Sun. "the
greatest living American historian," was
adopted at the Naval Academy in 1S05. the
third volume. In which Admiral Schley is
called a coward, a liar, and a caitiff, has
never been used, and he does not know
of a copy about the- place. It is Just as
well, nevertheless, that Secretary Long
has put that third volume under official
ban. When a country's greatest living
historian gets his history adopted at an
Institution of learning and then Issues
a revised or supplemental volume, the
entire work la likely enough to get into
the hands of students. In this case, so
peculiar and active are the Influences at
work, we should say the probability waa
very great that but for tho Secretary's
Interference the great historian's third
volume would sooner or later have been
found among the text-books In use at
the academy.
The painful fact that the incident can
not be considered to have come to its
close with the Superintendent's letter
arises from the appearance in the arena
of controversy of Mr. C. G. Graham, a
correspondent of the Associated Press,
who witnessed the Santiago fight from
the bridge of the Brooklyn. It has been
asserted, and we have not seen It denied,
by Mr. Maclay or any other great his
torian, that Admiral Schley was aboard
the Brooklyn during the battle Mr. Gra
ham Is considerate enough to make the
following observation:
It has been, and la still, hard for me to be
lieve that the historian. Maclay, wrote his at
tack upon Rear-Admiral Schley except by
instigation and at the urging of a clique. He
Is in close touch with those who have provided
the press and the civilian bead of the depart
ment with the material that has been Intended
dire failure as It has been to change tho
publio view of Admiral Schley's character as an
officer and man.
Maclay asserted he wrote his criticisms from
naval reports. What reports? The expurgated
things that have been foisted upon the public,
or the real reports of commanding officers?
I have In my possession the report of tho
battleof Santiago, written by two officers of
the converted yacht called the Vixen. It Is
signed by Lieutenant Alexander Sharpe, and
it was his account of the fight as he saw It
at short range the only naval eye-witness not
engaged Ixk fighting. I have placed It along
side the Navy Department book, which has
been expurged so as to give but little credit to
the Brooklyn, and so as not to disclose tho
real position of Sampson's ship, tho New
Tork. Is that the way history is made, ana
Is -Maclay to be blessed for boldly following
the example set him?
Schley was on the deck of the Brooklyn.
Captain Cook was near. A man's llfeblood
splashed their clothes. The ship quivered un
der fire. Still they stood there. Captam
Clark, on tho Oregon, was on his bridge.
Captain Philip, of the Texas, stayed on his
bridge until part of it was shot away.
Mr, Graham must be mistaken about
the mutilation of the official reports. That
Is Incredible. At least Sampson's praise
of Schley for his part in the engage
ment was allowed to stand, and after that
It would have been childish to strike out
anything else reflecting credit on the
Brooklyn. The Brooklyn spoke for her
self. In fact. She showed more hits from
the enemy's guns than all the rest of the
fleet put together, and the enemy's ships
were hit by her oftener than by any other
of our ships. This has been held to es
tablish the fact that the Brooklyn actu
ally was In the fight; and Mr. Graham's
personal testimony that Schley was on
board tha Brooklyn conclusively proves
that, In spite of the earnest efforts that,
according to America's greatest living his
torian, he made to run away In caitiff
flight he did not succeed. But the most
shocking thing in Mr. Graham's remarks
is the allusion to a "clique" and his
accusation that the greatest living his
torian has been "in close touch with
those who have provided the press' with
the ammunition of abuse and defamation
discharged against Admiral Schley. Is
there a press agent as well as a clique?
The KnKliih. Schoolboy.
Chambers' Journal.
A boy, aged 10, thus answers a question
as to the cause of the Transvaal disturb
ances: "Krugger and Kannerbullsm i3
one. He Is a man of blud. Mr. Chamber
ling has wrote to him sayln come out and
lite or else give up the blud of the Eng
lish you have took, he is a boardutchman
and a wickld heethln. lord Kitchener has
sent for his goary blud and to bring back
his canderlus hed ded or alive."
An essay on Mr. Gladstone by a boy of
11 states: "Mr. Gladstone lovd every
body, "he lovd publicuns and clnners and
Irishmen, he wanted the Irish to come to
England and have home rool, but Mr.
Chamberlln says, no, no. so alars he got
his blud up and kllld Mr. Parnel. Mr.
Gladstone died with great rispect and la
burrled In Westminster with pleceful
ashes."
The boy writer of the following Is de
cidedly backward in his Tennyson. Con
cerning the late poet laureate he writes:
"Tenyson wrotebutelfull poIm3 with long
hair and studld'so much that he sed moth
er will you call me airly dear? his most
gratist polm Is called the idle king, ha
was made a lord but he was a good man
and wrote many hoads. he luvd bur dear
Queen so much that he made a polm to
her called the fairy Queen."
Mighty St. Louis.
Salt Lake Tribune.
St Louis is a mighty and thriving city.
The Globe-Democrat says the value of
shoes manufactured In that city increased
from $2,000,000 worth in 1SS0 to 537,000,000
worth In 1900. If it were not for about
four months of awful heat in Summer
and five months of storm and cold in
Winter, St Louis would be a great place
for a young man to settle and grow up
with the city.
The Old-Tlnie Circus Show.
Denver Post.
These here circuses we see
Ain't the sort that used to be
Great big wonderful affairs
Keeps us scatterin' our stares
'Long the strung-out rows o' rings
Tryln' to see all the things
Till our rubbernecks gits sore
Ao a bile, an every pore
Sweatln plum from head to feet
From excitement an' the heat,
An' our eyes git tangled so
Seems they're swappln" plac:s; go
Hollln' up an" down the tent
Sort o in bewilderment
Tryln' to see it all till they
Git right In each- other's way!
Leave the tent plum certain wo
Haven't seen the half, by gee!
An' around the town we sneak
Lookln cross-eyed fer a week!
.Give us them ol'-fashioned shows,
Seats a-pllin' up In rows
'Round a single hrowed-up ring.
Where they showed us everything
In a. bunch, an' we could ect
Watchln' 'em an' never fret
Thlnkln there was somethln we
Wasn't goln' to git to see.
Or ringmaster used to bring
Of himself into the ring
Dressed in MaJor-GJn'ral clothes,
Trimmed with gold from head to toes.
Then he'd crack his whip, an' in
Danced the clown with funny grin,
Sayln' to us, "Howdy, folks!"
Then begin a-crackln' Jokes,
An' we'd laugh till tears 'd rise
Threatenln' to drown our eyes!
From tb eddlcated hog
Through the hull darn catalogue
Clear to Mamscll Centipede
On her bareback 'Kablan steed
Jumpln through a hoop o Are
They would show, an' never tiro
Any of us rubbernecks
Of the man or woman sex.
Ain't no use o' talkin', those
Durn new style Termlsc'us shows
Stretchln' rings in gorgus style
Down the tent fur half a mile.
When It comes to rattlln' sport
O' the satlsfyin' sort.
Jest ain't in the game, by Jot
With the shows o long ago.
NOTE AND COMMENT. ;
The thirsting man grasps at a straw.
A free swimming bath would be very
handy just now.
The children of Admirals should do
seen and not heard.
Summer was delayed en route, but It
managed to get here.
Astoria has now got something better
than natural advantages.
If you are inclined to call this hot
weather, think of Kansas.
Mr. Morgan and Mr. Shaffer seem to
have recognized the value of common
sense.
The report that Schley has engaged Mr.
Maclay to write his biography is probably
unfounded.
The tallest stories from the seaside do
not surprise the alcoholic degenerate. H
is used to see serpents.
The Columbia seems to be averse to be
ing sold for Junk, which is the fate of all
beaten cup challengers.
Aguinaldo objects to prison life in Ma
nila, but that is because he doesn't know
what it would be like to live in Boston.
Admiral Edwards, of tho Astoria re
gatta, had better be careful how he words
any dispatches of victory ho sends out
Kansas knew how to appreciate thJ
spell of Oregon weather that finally came)
In response to the Drarera of th tiothi
llace.
While mosqulto3 and other pests are be
ing exterminated in Now Jersey, wbyi
would It not be a good schema to include)
tho anarchists?
The union laborers are going to raise ts
fund of 5300,000 to retain a lawyer, bu$
they will probably find the. amount hope-4
lessly insufficient
It is said that tho Galapagos turtles in
the New York Zoo will live to be 200 yeara
old. It is possible that they will be still
on earth when tho war in tho Transvaal
Is concluded.
Women sign painters in Berlin undergo)
a regular apprenticeship. They are first
taught how to use the brush and to mix
paints. Gymnastlo training is a part of
the course, so that the women may ascend
scaffolding and stand on ladders without
losing their nerve. The female painters
wear gray linen frocks and caps, and look
more like hospital nurses than mistresses
of the brush.
A binder in the Kansas wheat fields will
cut 15 acres a day, and the cost of run
ning it, is 40 cents an acre. Therefore, a
man who is running 16 binders Is at a
considerable expense about J100 every
day. The cost of harvesting a crop of
wheat, from the sowing to threshing,' is
figured as follows: Plowing and har
rowing, $1; seeding and drilling, $1 50; cut
ting, ?1 25; threshing, $1 75; hauling, $1 50;
total. $7. The farm help i3 paid '2 a day.
and Is expected to work from sun-up to
dusk, with double pay for nights or Sun
days. The English papers report a rowing
match for women at the Saltash regatta
on the River Tamar. "Although the
weather was very boisterous, one boat
was rowed by Mrs Martin, aged 69, and
Mrs. Prout, aged 70, who finished sec
ond, the winners being two young women.
Mrs. Prout pulled bow in the crew of
Saltash boat women who half a century
ago created a sensation by crossing to
France and rowing at Cherbourg and else
where. In every instance they beat the
crews of Frenchmen, and on one occa
sion they defeated a picked crew of Brit
ish bluejackets at Devonport"
Dr. Brooks, the Superintendent of Pub
lic Schools in Philadelphia, received the
following letter the other day from Joseph
Jamelo. Alepe House, Ashantee Road,
Cape Coast:
"Sir: Tour greatest affectionate name
being recommended to me by an intimate)
friend of mine, as under your patronage
and supervision the best schools in the
City of Philadelphia aro maintained, X
beg most reverently and sincerely to ap
ply to you to provide me literally a sit
uation in your diocese, to dwell there, and
to be trained intellectually, and if possible
to be a handicraft My intention to this
humble petition Is only duo to the early,
calling of my parents of the land where)
" 'No more sighs, no mora tears,
s No more troubles and temptations.
But peace and prosperity abound.'
"Since then I have had a very meagec
training, and, as American people are lib
eral, I dare say, having the Almighty as
my will in all, as well as believing yott
to havo some basis of truth, would listen
to my request, so that you may deserve
the verdict of 'Well done, good and faith
ful servant' "
PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPHERS
Not a Congenial Pursuit. "And will you
devoto your son to art?" No; he has too
good an appetite." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Reason for It. "But tho gown doesn't nt,
Insisted the patron. "That," replied the mo
diste, calmly, "Is because you are not made
right." Chicago Post.
Evidently Unexpected. Gladys Ferdys rich
uncle is dead. Her Brother Jack Was it ex
pected? Gladys Oh, not at all. Why. only
last week Ferdy asked me to marry him.
Judge.
All Making the Best of It. "Young Smlg
glns was so troubled about his debts that ho
Joined a don't-worry club." "Yes?" "And
be found its membership made up chiefly ot
the men ho owed." Brooklyn Life.
Cautious. Excited Cltlien See that maa
and boy? Well, they're burglars! Arret
them at once! Policeman Er I would you
mind calling the boy over here? I I thins
I'll arrest him first." Ohio State Journal.
Very Likely. Wife I somehow Just feel in
my bones that we will go to Europe this
Summer. Husband In which bona do you
feel it most? Wife Well, I don't exactly
know, but I guess It's my wish-bone. Boston
Traveler.
An American Outburst. He That English
man is to be convicted of bigamy in Nevada.
She Served him right. We are not so crazy
about the British that they can come over
here and marry ua In blocks of five. Chicago
Record-Herald.
True to Principles "I don't know what to
do with those Popullstlc angels that arrived
yesterday," complained the chief musician in
the Elysian Fields. "They say they won't
play on anything but silver harps." Balti
more American.
Coming His Way. "We don't seem to find
things comln' our way as fast as they used
to," said Meandering Mike. "Cheer up," saia
Plodding Pete. "If you want to see some
thin comln your way Jes' go back to dat
house an' say 'Pretty Fldo to de brindle
dog dat's lyin on de porch." Washington
Star.
Looked Like It. "John, dear." said tho
bride, after they had got to keeping house-,
with a never-vacant "spare room.' "I believe
all our friends think we are perfectly miser
able." "Why, my dear?" cried the aston
ished husband; "why?" "Well, they seem to
be carrying out the. Idea that 'misery loves
company.' "Philadelphia Bulletin.
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