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A CHAiVGE I METHOD.
Standing in the presence .of his dead
'Chief. Inibued with the solemnity and
Sond reverence of the occasion. Presi
dent Roosevelt said:
In thl6 hour -at deep juid tcrrjble National
,1)reayamat I Jnfa u tate thit It shall be
Ijni4 aim ip ooniicupabwlutol." without arlanc
ihe policy of Prepldent McKlnloy for the peacp
and prspecUy and honor ot our belo-.ed
country.
Such are the needs of the Hying that
we must look to the new regime ven
before the l epresentativ of the old has
Jbeen carried to lis rest. The new Presi
dent xeallzed this, and felt the neces-
feity of a -word of nromise and assurance.
The utterance reflects credit upon his J
sucai i, auu utiuiit us ine auijra.Die spii it
of loyalty and conseratism in which
2ie talces up his task. But it is vain
to bllnk:he fact that he has used the
word "policies" in a mistaken sense,
smd it must be recognized as soon as
possible that the programme he out
lines 'is beset with very grave limita
tions. A "Washington dipatch says it
is realized there that the new Admin
istration is embarked on unknown eas.
K. , wuc, OUU ttUlUlU UUU1 J
that with the change of Administration'
v. . : .. ,
STCU;XTff
jfrom -the one pursued by the old.
n . J, u , .
The difference between McKInley and
JRoosevelt is in the personal initiative
whioh the aew man has and the other
had -not. Therefore the reference to
policies" needs to be corrected. Boose
"velt .sets something before him and
aims at it. This is his uniform history,
Jthis is the law of his being. In his case
policies are the result of study and cqn,. J
friction. In the case of the Administra
tion jiist closed policies have been the
resultant of circumstances. As to tii
hvar with Spain, as to the disposition
lbf the. Philippines, as to the treatment
sof Porto Bico. as to the tariff, as to
iourrencj', we have dons what tardily
developing events have made inescap-
fetble. If we except the recommendation
of free trade with Porto Rico, deserted,
ithe word to Pans Commission or Con-
grpss 3ias practical' been to do the
' Jbest it could, and instructions have been
as a constant state of flux. What the
Administration's policy was concerning
3the Philippines, concerning the reforma- I
tjon of the currency, concerning the
sreforoiatlon of the tariff, concerning
iA-nny reform or ship subsidies, many
Shave speculated about, but no one has
("known. Policies have been formed byi
teyents and slow-torming public opinion.
This is said respectfully, not invidi
ously, and It is said at all only because
Hfc is necessarv for the country to un
derstand at the outset that it can no
longer expect a similar course, but
must adapt itself to a President who
jwHLknow what he wants and wi"J use
means to get it. Congress wil get a
ftnessapre in December wrhose Import it 1
iwi? 1 need be at no pains to understand
!Qertaln well-defined courses of action 3
rfil be offered and -urged. As Hayes
thad a Southern policy that meant spe-
ciSc -tilings, as Cleveland told Congress 1
Shat he wanted the Sherman silver pur
acjhases stobped and the tariff on raw 1
iTcnaterials withdrawn, o Theodore
''"Roosev-elt will tell us what he thinks
Bhould be done for the tariff, for the
(currency, for the Philippines, for vio-1
riators of the civil service law. Each
Uf these two antagonistic methods of J
procedure has its merits and its perils. J
President Roosevelt's errors should be
minimized by the sagacious counselors '
he is certain to call to his aid. His in-:
-Itiative and resolution should be of-
IjreaJ .service In holding him firmly on
B.ue rjfjnt -course, nce ji is einuruceu.
5Je may make mistakes, but bis aim
fwiil be civic righteousness. In patriot- i
ism and high purpose the two Admin
istrations are alike, but they will pur
'cue their ends in different ways.
In Frank Carpenter's recent letter
upon Java and the Javanese It was
6tatedthat,ln the bazaars of Java the
"women--do Fhe greater part of the buy
fog -for" 25,000000 people. This disposes
of the charge that the invasion of the
business field, and especially the field
of merchandising, by women is "due to
the .development of the "new woman'
since nowhere on earthig "the matter
of woman's rights or ivoman'-s educa
tIpn."a"M'o low an ebb as 'among the lit
tle. ,ytdlow peoples of jthe Orient. Old i
as the ages are the customs that bind
womaa to "man's will and service in
thes& countries, and yet here & naye j
them as buyers and sellers for a nation.
If it shall develop, af-ter all, that the
woman in business lias a more ancient
place in the economics of life than the
woman who stays at home, what shall
we do for a stock argument against
the "new woman," as illustrated Joy
the modem wide-awake woman, who
can upon occasion take care of herself
and make a living for the family? In
view of the evidence adduced from the
Orient by so observing a traveler as
Frank Carpenter, is not the new wom
an, as an institution, when reckoned
upon the business basis, an ancjent
dame, after all?
THE UXSEEX WORED.
President McKinley seems to have
been a man who held to his religion
without ostentation and believed with
out great adp. Ministers were within
call at his dying hour, but none was
summoned. He preferred to commune
with his loved and loving wife, to ex
press simply and solemnly his resigna
tion to the divine decree, and to recall
one of the noblest and most helpful
hymns of the Christian church. He
seems to have felt that his cross iifted
him nearer to his Maker, he wished to
pass out of life with a heart in tune
with the infinite.
Almost as impressive as this death
bed testimony was another scene, enact
ed almost slmultaxueously before a bul-letin,-Joard
in the .great, wicked -City
of Chicago. As the dread news came
over the wire from Buffalo and was
spread in view of the surging midnight
throng, voices took up the President's
hymn, and when the strains of "Nearer,
My God, to Thee" died away, the dis
patches tell, J'here was a pause. Many
were in tears. A college student then
bared his head and prayed aloud, while
the great crowd listened."
Prayer, we can readily understand,
was something unfamiliar to most of
that crowd upon the midnight streets
At any other time it would have been
the .signal. 2ot for reverential silence,
but for ribald Jeers and derisive-groans.
What hushed them into soiemnity was
the presence of death, the sense of sor
row. And life is tull -of just uch
mournful and subduing passages. How
often the deathbed brings the scoffer
to his kneesi How eagerly the unre
pentant prays for priest or preacher
in the hour of supreme mystery and
dread! How .differeptjy then do the
careless regard the house of worship,
the hymn of praise and prayer, the
words of Holy Writ, the supplication
forinercy at the awful Throne!
Well, which Is the sane and which
the foolish view? Is the reckless ab
sorption of life or the .solemn medita
tion of the dying hour the safer and
more worthy state of mind? Is death
the only reality, and living, as the poet
calls it. only a fever, or are the hopes
and fears of the passing soul only the
creatures of vaiD superstition, at which
the thoughtful .should smile for them
selves forever? Can there be, after all,
any God, any life heyond the grave,
any word of truth in hymn or prayer
or -v olee of danger in neglect or promise
of safety in holiness?
The only answer to these, as to all
such inquiries, is that we ,do not know.
It is our privilege to doubt and -scoff
or to believe and do. In the spiritual
realm is perfect liberty. Science at
length has banished the tyranny of en
trenched authority over individual con
science. We are free to Ignore the spir
itual world, or to enter there with all
our aspirations, resolves and works of
.faith and lpve. They are few who
longer put their trust in streets of gold
and gates of-pearl, or shudder at the
1 !,-. -.v1 fl R.momt
lrtC rfTiL LJ
to whom the unseen world is an eyer-
?r!sent reaUt ieine Gf d-out l:
tauon. impulse to acts of continence and
mercy, solace in the dying hour. Busy
as the President had 'been, and care
less as is the crowd upon Chicago
streets, there is something in the uni
versal heart that responds to the mes
sage of religion in an hour when sol
emn thought .presses upon the mind,
and the vanities and worse than vani
ties of business and pleasure for the
moment fall away.
The pity of religion is, perhaps, .the
greatest pity of all, that so many of
Its devotees unduly magnify its place
in life. A proper sense of proportion
will save us from sanctimoniousness
as well as, from irreverence. Beware
them whao about with long faces
and covet the chief seats -in the syna
gogue, and for pretense make long
prayers. Verily, the publicans go into
Heaven before them. There is no prep
aration for death so good as a hlame
iess and a -busy life. For such there
may be no ostentatious pietj' there
was none with President McKInley. But
when the end comes, the faithful soul
wilj &in iTJith. love and lohging to its
Maker, and breathe a word of xesigna
jtion ito the Infinite Will, of which we
know so 1lttie hut in which we trust
so much.
AS OLD, JfEW KAILTJRE.
The failure of another co-operative
experiment was lately recorded In the
collapse of the Ruskin colony, in Geor
gia. This colony was apparently two
years ago in a flourishing condition.
Here, it was fondly believed, the so
cialist had found vindication of his
theories. Idealists, even from as far
away as the Pacific Coast, looked upon
it with feelings of mingled triurhph
and longing. Now, however, coms the
news that this .experiment has gone the
usual way of co-operative colonies, and
has heea dissolved In a hopelessly
bankrupt condition.
This result is -simply a duplication of
the general history in this country of
atterapts to carry out practical ,ccm-
munism. The pathway of idealism is I
strewn with wrecks of this character.
Many attempts have been made to
carry out the common property idea,
but even comparative success has been
the'-exception, and this has never been
scored with Americans ns the moving
.force. As opposed to individualism and
independence, the -communistic experi
ment goes to the wall. Enthusiasts
haye time and again invested their all
in the futile attempt to demonstrate
the doctrine -of the brotherhood of man
as exemplified in the elimination of the
possessive pronoun "mine" from the
community's ,. vocabulary, putting
"ours" in its place, pursuing this at
tempt 'to the bitter end, theyTiave not
Infrequently lost their last dollar in the
maelstrom of community investment j
and -fared forth Into the world penni
less, victims of misplaced confidence.
Stm, jthe theory of a co-operaiiye com
monwealth is attractive to minds pf a
certain order, and a-repetition of the
co-operative experiment may be ex
pected from time to time, regardless,
of the failure that has 130 generally fol
lowed them. It is safe, however, to
predict that not while human nature
Js human natur, in is ragged, prac
Itical, aggressive sense, will the affairs
of mankind be conducted on the co-operative
and generally communistic
plan. Selfishness, or that phase of it
that is denominated self-interest, is op
posed to the property equalization plan.
And justly so, since the accumulative
powers in men differ as widely us do
their moral and social qualifications
and their intellectual fiber and grasp.
It is neither possible cor advisable to
deprive human effort of individual en
ergy, since this is the mainspring of all
accumulative endeavor the force that
finds expression in success. This being
true, co-operative accumulation, from
which individual holdings are elimi
nated, fails; as long as it Is true, the
theory of communism cannot be reduced
to practice, howeyer mightily and in all
sincerity idealists wrestle with It.
A WORD ABOUT THE FAIJU
Every friend of the Xewls and Clark
Centennial Fair will sincerely regret the
letter that Mr. Edward Everett Young,
a member of the Oregon Fair Commis
sion, has written to members of the
Legislature asking their opinions on
the advisability of calling a special ses
sion to promote the enterprise. Mr.
Toung appears to have written the fet
ter on his own responsibility, and dt is
not apparent that his act has the in
dorsement of Hon. H. W. Corbstt, chair
man of the Oregon Commission, or of
Hon. J. M. "Long, chairman ot the pro
visional committee of arrangements.
Commissioner Young's recommendation
that the state issue $1,000,000 bonds to
aid the enterprise is as unfortunate and
thoughtless as his idea of a special ses
sion. It wiH hurt the fair. Besides, the
state Is not permitted to .go In debt to
aid any cprporation, as the following
provisions from article 11 of the fcon
stitution amply testify:
Section 0 The state shall not subscribe -to,
or be Interested In, the otock -of an company,
association or corporation
Section 7. The Legislative A'mWy .shall not
loan the credit of the ftatc nor In an .manner
create anv debts or liabilities, which ehall,
Kingly or In -the aggregate, w 1th jorev lous debt?
or liabilities, exceed the sum of ?5O,O0O, jex
ocpt in case ot war, or to rep-M ipaslcn, or
suppress insurrection, and aery contract of
indebtedness entered into or arsumed 'by or on
behalf of -the state, when all Its liabilities
and debts arpount to said sum, shall be void
and of no effect.
Scotion 8 The state .shall neir assume the
debt at anj count, ,town or other corporation
yvhatecr, unless such -deb's shall hae been
created to repel .-invasion, suppress Insurrec
tion or defend the state In var
In dissenting from Commissioner
Young's extreme -views, The Oregonian
fepls that it should -say a -word of cau
tion to the gentlemen who are tempo
rarily In charge of affairs pending the
organization of the .Exposition company
and to those who may be the leading
spirits pf the Exposition -company. If,
as Commissioner Young says, "It Is
hardly worth while to attempt the cele
bration contemplated in 1905 with less
than $10,000,000 as a wprklng capital,"
we .should abandon the project at once
We cannot finance so .great an under
taking, and that is all, there Is to it.
Commissioner Young thinks the state
should raise $1,000,000 tram bonds, the
City of Portland $1,000,000 for a corpora
tion, California -l,000,v00, Washington
$1,000,000, the other JNorthwestem States
$1,000,000. This would give $5iO00.000 and
form the basis of a request tor $5,000,000
from the Government. California can
afford -$1,000,000. but it will never give
so large an amount, or it has not a
!$1,000,000 interest in .the fair. The
Northwest never will be able tp raise
$4,000,000 without bankrupting itself
Commissioner Young bases hie hope of
financing the Exppsjtion in this way on
the success at St. Louis. He forgets
that while St. Louis is only six times
as large as Portland, it Is many times
richer. It ias an assessable valuation
of nearly $100,000,000, whereas Portland
has Ipss than $40,000,000. He forgets
that Missouri has over 8,000,000 people,
whereas Oregon has few more than
400,000. He forgets that the territory
which will contribute to the success
of the St. Liouis fair has a population
of fully 15,000,000, while that directly
interested in the Lewis and Clark Cen
tennial the original Oregon Country
has jaot more than 1.250,000 people. It
Is absurd to talk of handling $10,000,000
here because St. Louis has succeeded in
raising between $16,000,000 and $17,000,
000. An .exposition on the lines laid down
by Commissioner Young would bank
rupt every one identified with it and
give the country a tremendous setback.
The Exposition which we propose to
hold must be managed in a conserva
tive way. Charleston has glven us an
example of what can be' done with a
fair amount of money properly han
dled. Talk about bonding the .state
for $1,000,000 and of raising an equal
amount in Portland is ridiculous, tor
the one is unconstitutional and the
other impracticable. We .shall not be
surprised if Commissioner Young's let
ter causes prejudice against the Expo
sition and results in a mpvemnt to re
quire members of the -next Legislature
to pledge themselves to he watchful -of
the Exposition enterprise.
A FRUJTGIOWjUVG JBRA. ,
Records are constantly being made cf
horticultural triumphs, which indicate
that the .twentieth century -will usher
in the "age of fn$tt," even as the clos
ing years of the nineteenth were bril
liantly lighted hy the appointments of
the electrical era, and the few preceding
years were, upon ample testimony of
the world's progress in mechanical
arts, known and hailed as the age Pf
steel. Each In is own realm, a wide
and prosperous domain, within past
years, successively or jointly;, cotton,
wool, com and wheat has been hailed
king in the agricultural world, team
and electricity in the transportation
world, and coaj, Iron, copper and silver
in the mineral world. Gold, of course,
is ononarch of the mineral realm, a'
clent and modern, and his glittering
scepter has been extended -over aU .other
domains- throughout the ages, -giving
sanction and Impetus to all develop
ment, prospering all h-y his bounty.
But of the growing things, in an ag
ricultural sense, that respond to the
effort of man, fruit is forging ahead
with gigantic strides. Jndeed, It has J
been truly -said that the "procession of
o-ur fruits is something wpuderfui at
every stage." Detailing its inarch
through a single season, the Independ
ent says: "Peaches rom California
are followed by those from Georgia,
and these are supplemented by those
from Connecticut. Last of all, Michigan
and New York -fill their haiskets and
round out a full two months' supply.
Florida strawberries begin the proces
sion, and each degree of latitude takes
its turn until New York, ear Lake On
tario, closes the llst This .giyes the
consumer more than six weeks ,of his
favorite berry, and he is quite ready
then to turn to the raspherry. This
fruii cannot he shipped to any distance
with success, and is therefore a local
luxury. Its season cannot extend over
about one month. But the blackberry
is ready before the raspberry is gone.
The Southern dewberry is on hand by
July 1. and the Northern Eldorados
protract the season until September 10.
The century, which began -with a mea
ger supply xf fruits, closed wjth a suc
cession that reached the. whole year
round. The evolution of new and bet
ter fruits, more beautiful and more
luscious, still goes on."
Apples follow, of course, sound and
juicy; oranges, onee a luxury scantly
served, are in riotous supply during
many months; cranberries come to the
table .before Thanksgiving time, and
abide with us until Springy prunes,
fresh and dried, take their turn and
serve their purpose; pears join the pro
cession at intervajs, giving variety to
the toothsome display, and melons
take their place in it quite naturally'
at the time when they are most -appreciated.
Of the small fruits, perhaps the
greatest and most wonderful develop
ment has been made in strawberries
and .grapes. OX the former, the little
field berry, the delight of the children
of half a century ago, has expanded Into
the luscious cone an inch In diameter
and severs 1 inches in cii cumferen.ee.
In 1840, the date at which Harvey's
Seedling and Wils.on'3 Albany began
to appear, not $1000 worth of cultivated
strawberries -were marketed in the
United States; Sixty years later, in
1900. not less than $80,000,000 worth
found their way to the tables of the
Nation Regarded in the main by con
sumers as of value only to pjease the
taste and nourish the body, the en
thusiast sees in strawberries food for
the soul and .stimulation to the brain.
In other words, the priory of these
evolved fruits Is not only "what they
are dplnp to feed, but what they are
doing to quicken our intellects and en
noble pur characters."
This is. witnessed in the creation of
such men as Dpwnin.g, Barry, Long
worth and Rogis, who have added over
fifty varieties to our list of grapes; of
Wilder and Seckle and Sheldon, the
latter a woman, whose names are syn
onymous svith pear culture; of Bald
win and Hubbardston, odorous with the
subtle perfume of apples, and of Bur
bank, -of our own Pacific Coast, Tv-ho
stopped not at th creation of new
f rults. but who has reveled in the realm
of beauty ,-3?vafvhig therefrom the love
liest of flowers, and -walked prosaically
in he domain of agriculture ancl turned
from Its brown mold the best of ail por
tatoes and given It his .name,.
To have these names is to exalt vthe
deeds of IrlendsVf mankind. So says
the enthusiast above quoted, and so say
we, voicing further with him the desire
that the day may dawn when he who
creates a -new fruit shall be honored as
he has been honored who wins a battle.
A paragraph ,in yesterday's edltipn pf
The. Qregonian, through careless word
ing, conveyed the impression that the
gangrene which caused President Mc
Kinley's -death followed the embedding
pf the bullet in the back. The facts are
as Mated in the dlsRatches. After the
passage of the bullet the mischief was
irreparable, if gangrene of sych a
wound followed. Either the President
had poor blood .and the iascerated tis
sues refused to heal, and, of course,
mortification followed, tt the bullet
may have been Intentionally poisoned,
as was the eustojn with a&sasekis in
jthe Middle Ages, or it may have been
dirty, and thus made polspnpus. A dis
charge of pus from a healing wpund
can he drained away, but gangrene is 1
due to an utter refusal of the wounded
tissues to repair themselves by he&Ung.
An Did man or any man pf poor blood
who .gets a slight wound of the foot
often dies of .gangrene even after rer
peated amputations, hut a man of vig
orous condition and non-vitiated blood
recovery rapidly from suph wounds of
the extremities. It would have done -no
good tp find "the ball and remove it, for
the .mischief which wrought the gan
grene at both mouths of the wound and
along Its trade was done by Jts passage,
not by the incident of its remaining n
the muscles of the back. Whether ihe
-gangrene was due to the President's
poor blood or to the poisoned quality of
the hall. 1t was incurable. Hundreds
of such .cases have been seen in Army
hospitals. Even in case of gangrened
(mortified) stumps of arms and legs, J
where they were exposed to view and
ware constantly treated -with powerful
caustics and ,by aecpndary and tertiary
amputations, deaths are common, but in
such a wound as McKinley had, of gan
grene following the infliction oi the
wound,, it is 'incurable. This .gangrene,
it should be noted, came -not from the
retention of the ball in the muscles .of
the hack, but from the passage of the
ball. For some reason the tissues re
fused to repair themselves, and ganr
.grene followed, and then death was
sure. There is little doubt that the
President's blood was poor, and he died
just as an old man -who has poor blood
often dies, of gangrene from -a .slight
wound that would promptly heal if his
blood had -been good, when a yigorous
man will recover frdm a severe wound.
Miss Josephine Eastwick, the Phila
delphia young woman who went over
to England and tried to float flat stock
to the extent of half a million, was
shaky 3n her mind, joo doubt. She
should have played or higher stakes
and become a financial magnate. The
schoolboy'-s estimate of magnitude as
an exculpating feature of crime, as
based upon the greatness achieved by
Alexander through wholesale murder,
and the Ignominy that followed the
murderer who killed, a single man, as
expressed in the lines,
Well, then, if I should kill a man,
I'd lttira hundred more
J. would ;bo axeat and not get hung.
May be applied to dropsical transac
tions in finance. This young woman
lacked the -nerve to play for stakes big
enough to win. Of course vshe was daft.
The certainty that Vice-President
Boosevejt felt jn the speedy recovery -of
President McKinley was expressed an
positive words when he left Buffalo
Wednesday, and further exemplifled in
,the out-of-the-way place in the moun
tains to which he betook himself. Had
the, .slightest doubt lingered in his mind
in -regard to the matter, he would, it is
needless to say, have remained within
easy call o JMilburn house. This fact
will disarm oil criticism upon his inac
cessibility when the call for his imme
diate return to Buffalo was .sent out.
Theodore Roosevelt was bom in New
York City, October 1, 1858. He be
comes President before .his -43d birth
day, at an earlier age than any other
President. .Grant became President at
47. Cleveland at 48, Pierce and JQarfleld
at 9, Polk at J50, Tyler .at Si. The old
est at accession was the first Harrison,
aged 68,
LA,WSOAT.AKD HJS INDEPENDENCE
New York SPrlbune.
If there were reason to suppose that
further tests might prove Mrl Thomas
W. Lawson's yacht Independence to be
superior to the Columbia and the Consti
tution her owner's apparent determina
tion to break her up would cause regret,
for Shamrock II is universally believed
to be a dangerous boat. Yet even in that
case Judicious and well-informed per
sons would not be ready to admit that
the New York Yacht Club could properly
modify the conditions under which the
Independence was Invited to compete for
tho honor of defending the cup. But the
evidence all contradicts Mr. Laweon's an
nouncement that she is the fastest acht
afloat, and therefore there Is no occasion
to shed tears at the prospect of her de
struction. Nor, whatever effect it may
have produced In the latitude of Bos
ton, is Mr LawEon's recent explanation
of his conduct likely to win- sympathy
and applause elsewhere, though It was
evidently designed to be extremely ap
pealing. If anybody was still unable to account
for the coqrse pursued by Mr. Lawson,
his latest outgiving is a convincing proof
that just such a course was natural to a
man capable of defending it in such a
manner. In the first. place, his statement
of the terms on which he might have en
tered the Independence In the trial -races
bears not the remotest resemblance to
the terms prescribed by Commodore Lcd
yard. Mr. Lawson says he was required
to take oath -that the Independence "no
longer belonged to" him, and ''to turp
her over to any member of the New York
Yacht Club, arbo might he designated";
that he was told that when he iad done
this he JV-ould hayeno more rights in
her than Jf he hod pot given the boat a
hougfrtv 3ftgt Jbe sfg to belong to the
member of the club o whom she was
gLven -Jn fee simple' and that Jihe might
sell her, break her up, gink her or do
-whatever he 4Wi?hed wljh her."
"Now, the fact is that Mr. Lawson was
of&clajjy Informed by Mr. Lcdyard that
the Independence could be qualified to
enter the trial races In :either'-of two
v,fLysby being enrolled in. the name of
one or more members of the Now York
Yacht Club ana registered in the .name of
such member or members, or by being
chartered to a member or members for a
period of iot less than two months. 'In
the former case she would be entitled to
all club privileges, while In the latter cast
she would be entitled to enter the squad
ron runs on the annual cruise as vell as
the trial races. Mr. Lawson was further
informed that 4the selection of a member
or members to whom the Independence
might be thus temporarily intrusted
would De a matter of his own personal
choice,, and the arrangement would be
one wholly between himself and the mem
ber cr members selected by him. For
a time these .conditions appeared to be
perfectly satisfactory to Mr. Lawson, but
subsequently, for reasons best known to
himself, he changed hi? mind, or his at
titude, apd finally submitted an impossi
ble form of contract, drawn by legal, ad
visers whom he declined to name. Now.
on the eve of sending his yacht to the
scrap heap, he evinces, to put it mildly,
fln amazing forgctfulness of the simple
conditions Jo which he was necessarily
required tp conform, describes a state pf
things which never existed except in his
own Imaglnatjaij, and poses as a generous
and patriotic sportsman Jn whose way in
surmountable obstacles haye been unac
countably placed. '
It is an ,errat,c performance, .If there
ever woe one, but we are forced to be
Jieye that it As quite' characteristic of Mr.
Lawson. Fortunately no interests more
important than his own seem to be in
volved. Jt may be that a better boat
than the Columbia or he Constitution
is needed to defend the cup, but, if sp,
there is no -reason to think that it coultj
be. saved by tbe Independence.
WHEN JIOOSEVJBL.T WAS AFBAJ-
It "Was a JJlbllcnl Phrnse That Struck
Terror to Small Tedly Soul.
Harper's Weekly.
Theodore Rposevelt was not always the
mighty hunter he is now. He has had
his day of being afraid of big game. But
that was many years ago, when he was
a wee little boy i.0 short trousers and
used to play tag in Madison-Square in
New York.
Opposite the Square, on the east side,
stood a Presbyterian church, and the
sexton, while airing the building one Sat
urday, noticed a small boy peering cur
iously in at the half-open door, but mak
ing no move to enter.
"Come in, my little man, if you wish
to," -said the sexton.
"No, thank you," said the by. I
know what $ ou've got In there."
"I haven't anything that little boys
mayn't jsee. Come in."
"I'd rather jiot." And the juvenile The
odore cast a .sweeping and somewhat apprehensive-
glance around the pews and
galleries and bounded oft to play again.
Still the lad kpt 'returning once in a
while and peeping dn. When he went
home that .day he told his mother of the
sexton's 4n.vitattoJn, and his unwillingness
to accept it.
"But uvhy didn't you jgo Jn, my dear?"
she esked. ''It is the House ot God, but
there is no harm in entering it quietly
and looking about."
With some shyness the little fellow
confessed ifhat he was afraid to go in.
because the eal might jump out at him
from under a pew: or .same where.
"The zeal? What Is the zeal?" the
mother inquired.
"Why," explained Theodore, -"J -suppose
it is some big animal like a dragon or an
alligator. I went there to church last
Sunday with Uncle R. , and I heard the
minister read from the Bible about the
zeal, and it frightened me."
Down came the Gpncorda-nee from the
library shelf, and tne aWer .another of
the texts contaialxig the word "jBeal" wap
read to the child, whpse eyes suddenly
grew big anahis voice excited, as he ex
claimed: "That's itthe iaet you read."
It -was Psalni ijxix., 3: -For the zeal of
thine house hath eaten rae up."
Tbje fxesiOent Unprotected by ITT
Philadelphia Ps3.
The assassination of two presidents
failed" to convince the American -Congress1
that the chief executive of the Notion. -
jjeeded special legislation for the protect
Upn of his person. Will this foul crime
in Buffalo, which has filled the whole
Nation with grief and apprehension, con
vince Congress -that the Chief Magistrate
of a -republic does need special legal pro
tection from the evil-minded, -the anarch
ist and the insane?
At presentihe murder of the President
ot the United States or a criminal as
sault upon him violates no Federal Stat
ute, unless it 3s done in a for,t, navy
yard, arsenal or other place within the"
exclusive iurisdictlpn of the "UnitedS-States.
The crime committed la Buffalo 6n "Frl-
.,!!?, WS. feAJ'
Presldcot of the United States In jeop
ardy, is an offense not against the "United
States, hut against the peace of the -single,
State of New York, in which the .Fees!.
dent happened to be when the attempt;
on his life was made,
Sr.Va'S Formidable Blearing.
Npw York Times.
Wu Ting Fang, who was a guest at a re
cent wedding in Washington, was ap
proached after the cercntony by the best
man and jocularly asked to go over to the 9
joung couple and pronounce a Chinese
parental blessing. The obliging Wu im
mediately complied. Placing his hands on 4
the blushing ride and shaking groom, he
said:
jMay every .new year bless you with a
man child ortsprJng until they shall tnunx
ber 25 in all. May these 25 man children
offspring present you with 25 times 23
grandchildren, and may these grandchil
dren "
It is said that the little bride grew hys
terical about this time, and the best man
made another request to Wu thla time to
desist.
A-SIUSEMENTS.
"The Queen of'fiayti." one of the best
"coon s&owq" that has ever been seen
in Portland, oncned a week's engagement
to a crowded house at the Metropolitan I
last evening, and was given an energeut:
reception. The company, which is un
usually lafge for Its kind, numbers sev
eral colored comedians who scorn, to have
the knack of exciting laughter, a chorus
of good voices, and half a dozen rcaliy
exceptlonaj singers, the principal of whom
was Laura Moss, billed as "the Austra
lian nightingale."
The entertainment Is the usual hodge
podge of songs, dances and dialogue
sketches, with a sprinkling of the Jokes
which our grandfathers laughed at. and
enough of a plot to provide a scene at
court and furnish an opportunity for the
gorgeouo costumes which are the delight
of the African heart.
Among the numbers which most Rleased
the audience was that of the Sherrah
quartet, which sang four or five song?
with :hat the. nrogrammc called the mel
aphone accompaniment, by which an ef
fect was reached both pleasing and navel.
The Grundys and Vaughner executed a
series of buck-ond.-wing dances which
called forth an abundance of applause.
Kraton, a clever hoop Juggler, contrib
uted an Interesting specialty, and Stewart,
a sj&ck-wire balancer, accomplished safely
the, usual difficult feats in his line.
t)r the Individual members of the cast.'
Frank Kirk, as a ragtime hobo; Harry
L. Gllham, an Afro-Sometlc wanderer of
the earth, and Miss Lottie Lewis, as the
Queen of Haytl, succeeded In winning tht
largest share of popular favor.
Tho costumes and scenery were new and
bright, and the orchestra which Is carried
by the company assisted much in the
music.
"The Queen of Hayti" will run all the
week, except Thursday night, with the
usual Saturday matinee.
THE arEILLS TONIGHT.
"The Case, of Rebellion 5aian!' at
the Ulnrqunm Theater.
All of the -members of the Nelll com
pany save Mr. Nelll, Miss Chapman and
three others arrived in Portland last eyen
ing, and the latter 'will arrive this morn
ing, having remained over one day 1j
San Francisco. Their engagement at- the
Marguam, which is to last all thte week,
will open with "The Case of Rebellious
Susan."
"The Case of Rebellious Su3an" is an
adaptation of "Francilllon," by Dumas
tils. In It Henry Arthur yones. the au
thor, has not In any case sacrificed any of
the wit or situations of the original, but
has added the gentle cynicism of a well
bred Englishman to the eplgrammatlf
raillery of the French. His version Is
said to be loaded with delightful carica
tures In the characters of a wouJd-he
genius, a etrang-mlnded voung woman.
tj plcal English squire and the wife of the
squire. The great interest of the drama
Is the tragedy that frowns through ino
mask of comedy the exploitation of the
sinister theory that a wife may break
some of the commandments In retaliation
of her husband's polygamous habits.
The advance sale has been very heavy
for the entire engagement, and especially
for tonight.
CpRDRAY'S TO OPEX TONIGHT.
CIpBed Xnst Evening Out of Respect
io Uad President.
Out of respect to the memory of Presl.
dent McKInley, the regular opening or
Oordray's Theater In the "Daughter of
the Diamond King" did not take place
last evening, the doors, of the theater be
ing closed. Jn the lobby a large framed
portrait of the president, draped In black,
had been placed, and a brief lettered an
nouncement fchat the opening had been
deferr.ed Until this evening out of respect
to the President. There had been a large
advance sale for the performance, and the
money for the tickets was refunded.
JSoffiti at thp 5tnre.
"Wanda by Oulda, has been drama
tized. Richard Carle has written a comedy
called ,Tb.e Mimic Mummy."
Martin Harvey Is to produce his version
of "Eugene Aram" in Dublin.
Elsie De Wolfe will begin her season hi
Washington about the middle of October.
Mary Anderson Navarro recently di
rected a children's entertainment In Ens
land. Charles Dalton will appear In New
York In "The Helmet of Navarre" about
Christmas.
Four companies in Englnnd are playing
"The Belle of New York,'' and two "The
Caelno Girt
Henry pixie, Mabel Love, Eme Fay and
Madee Leasing are among the principals
in "The Whirl vpf the Town," as it is to
be given in London.
George L. Baker, manager of the Baker
City Theater and of the recent carni
val in that city, 19 in Portland and v-lll
remam about a week.
It is not likely that Paderewakl's opera.
"Manru," will he heard here until 1!K)-J.
One new production In New York will be
the "Messallne" of Pe Lara.
Stephen Fhfuips is writing a play for
E. S. Willard. L. N. Parker has also j
play for the same actor, whose hero 1
Pope .eo .X, before the latter attained pa
pal honors.
La Belle Lourette and several of the
members, pf the "Daughter of the Dia
mond KJng," which iv ill play ut Coraray a
this week occupied a box at the Metro
politan Ja&t evening.
Manager Clarence H. Jones, of the Met
ropolitan, announces that out of respect
to the memory of President McKInley, no
performance will be given at bis theater
Thursday, the day of the funeral.
Grace George will soon begin refaearsnli
fox her comff New York season. Her
opening play js said to be from the pen
of a famous American author, and she
will probably present two or three more
during the course of her engagement.
"Wild West" 1a the title of the new bor
der drama iii which John W. Cope, now
plaj lng the part of the ranchman in "Ari
zona," will star next season. The chief
Character, which will be acted by Mr.
Cope, Js Wild Bill, a frontiersman as weU
known in the West 40 years ago as was
Buffalo Bill.
Joseph Jefferson's Fall tour of eight
weeks begins September 30 In Troy. N. Y..
and ends November 22 in Baltimore, after
which he goes to his -Florida home for
-the Winter, ft will be welcome news to
ithe thousands of Mr. Jefferson's admir
ers to know that he Is la -splendid health
and strength. The -veteran comedian is
.good for many years of active stage work.
Aaa?.cay Sb-ouid Go.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
It is surprising that any government
:hnirtrt mmnivniv h A Mno nr npr. 1
mlt them to become citizens. At heart
,. ....... ....u . -w.., .
each and every one Is a murderer, and
but awaits the opportunity to commit it.
othS Irftwr tod ca"n Vfoundror
imprisonment for life, should be the im
mediate fate of ay vrhp entertain such
sentiments as are harbored by these ene
mies of mankind.
i
The Hobo's .Dream.
Ualthnftre "World.
PtPJE I.
X (dreamed of ja beautiful land.
Where ithe rivers ran cold, foapdngr becx.
SVhexe milk punches wc ever at hand,
Aaa of tbbst I had .nothing to fear.
. PIPE 2,
Where jsbi fljies yvtte bubJUnr brlsht.
And a whole eea of sparkling champagne;
Where big cocktails were ever In sight.
And high balls -shot trom mountain and plain.
PIPE 3.
Creme 4e jmeitfcje irwamps of cool-looking green,
AVIth whole lsland3 of finely cracked ice;
With the finest frapneB ever seen.
Topped Kith cherries and other things nice.
PIPE 4.
Where the gutters oterflowed in-the street,
With untold million gallons of hooscj
In which tired hobos soaked their poor feet.
And enjoyed a- heavenly snooze.
W-E AND GQ&IfllENT.,
The whining sehqolboy veu know the
rest.
It Is high time to bogin, saying money
for Christmas presents.
The reports of a parl famine are not
creating any uncnslness in tha pig' pens.
The matinee girl is thlwkfr.g up new
ways to extract mony from the ptarnal
fist.
The concert of the powers: fe nearly
ready to open the Winter sasn In
Europe.
The price of cordwood now stps In to
take a little attention away from the
potato.
The mosquito can point with prl-de to
the fact that he is not o bad as the
tarantula.
If the weather man will osly earry days
like yesterday In his sample e?e. 1 will
get some large orders.
The Sultan of Turkey is havinsr trouble
with his cook. He shouW retektHl his
orders for two or three warships and pay
her salary.
Mr. William Waldorf Aster eharaeter
izea an American oditer who has. been
abusing him as an insect. The editor un
doubtedly is a little fty.
Some of the men who rocked th boat
are dead; others remain to prevent the
Foo'.killer from talcing his long-deferred
vacation next Summer.
Many Indians are eollege graduates and
have fortunes of several hundred thou
sand dollars. That quotation begiiuilng
"Lo." seems to be among the bask num
bera. An English wrfter declares that not un
til a woman reaches the age of 46 does
she reach that maximum of her power
over susceptible members of the other
sex. "Her face," says the writer referred
to, -"may have lines that 'sweet and 20'
regards with dismay, her figure may be
fuller than 'sweet 17' deems graceful, it
may even be that art has to step In
where nature fails in the matter of hals
and complexion, but It is manner which
tells- In carriage, In interest. In thoughtS.
the woman of 10 at the present tlay Is
as young as her daughter less than half
her years, but her mind is better bal
anced, her Judgments are eleaser."
The English term of Invitation to a
country house for the "week's end" Is so
concise that it Is surprising that it has not
been adopted moc generally in this coun
try. A young bachelor, to whom it was
unfamiliar, received such an. invitation
from some acquaintances who have a
house at Cedarhurst this Summer. It
necessitated nn immediate anawer, and
not understanding just what it meant he
was in doubt about how to word his an
swer. He was anxious to visit thte house
because of a certain young woman who
was spending two weeks there He did
not want to expose his ignorance of the
scope of the Invitation, however, and
taken literally "week's end" Implied to
him merely an Invitation for Saturday
evening. There would so many other al
mlrers of this particular girl there that
an Invitation for Saturday evening only
did not promise much. He ftsaMy doekled
that the only thing for him to do was to
plead another engagement. Whea he
learned later that his invitation wa to
come down Friday night and say until
Monday morning his disgust at mteelng
such an opportunity was great.
Oh. bark. e doge. in pureet Jr a! gayly
wag thy Tale.
And purr full loud, ye Thomas Cat. who
much ore wont to wajl.
And yonder In e Pasture Lot. where revs ye
placid Cowe.
i Shall sweet Contentment surely reign some
few brief Houres now.
For ye small Boye hereafter shall have hut
brief space to playe.
For knowe ye creatures one and all that
School takes uppe today e
No mora ye Dogge need soutHe down ye Pike
In sad-voleed woe.
Because he hath a clanging Strkig et eW tin
Cannes in tow.
No more je Catte may oaly feel In aaiew S-
curitje.
When crouched upon ye topmaat Bough of
some far-;spreading Tre.
No more je Cowe je alrgun vlewe. and ruanes
in Feare aw aye.
Ye Boy no more at Large doth reunite, lor
School takee uppe te,daye.
Ye Mothers who no minute knew how long
the House mlsht stand.
Now flnde a lUtel Time to do the work that
fallos to Hand.
Ye Babies small that howled fuH sottde when
harpooned with a Plnne,
No lonjer add their dismal Watt to sweH the
horrid Blnne.
And all the Noise and Moll and Strife have
vanished quite awajc.
For ail je Bojcs are absent nswe, aed School
takes uppe TadaxcA . T"
Philadelphia's Falrmaunt Park has a
caterpillar corps composed of men who do
nothing but scrub down the shade trees
and kill the dislodged Insects. The imple
ment used Is simply an ordinary scrub
bing brush nailed to a long pote, ad it
takes considerable endurance to keep up
such w ork all day. Aa soon as the cater
pillars touch the ground they start to
climb the tree again, and the men have to
step lively to kill all the fallen oaes.
Said one of them the other day- "This
Is the only really effective way of getting
rid of the pests. I have tried other ways,
but they wore no good. Jake tar trups.
for Instance. I hav e watehed caterpillars
wriggle their way out of helr fur, leav
ing it in the tar. Poisons, instead of kill
ing thorn, seem to make them fat. I took
one of these lotions to a drug store where
I hid bought it and told tho man it was
worthless. 'Just pour some of it down
a caterpillar's throat and see if he doesn't
die.' said the druggist- 'You're foolish
I said. 'You've got to catch your eater-
... . , ,, ,..
i"r " " """ " "" jr.
caught him you might as well stamp On
him. and then v ou know he's dead.' "
Some
Advice Concerning Jntia'a
Garden.
Charles Edvard Thomas in Harper's
Bazar.
Julia bs a carden fair v
At the edge o' town
Marigolds and roses rare,
S-eet to bind in Julkt's hair
And upon her gown.
Four-o'clocks and touch-me-not.
Pride o' .prince's feather;
DalMas and forset-me-not.
Wistful -little bergamot
Growing all together.
Ssnday Julia walked with mn
When the sun was down;
Very sweet ard fair was she
Heaven must have envied me
At the edge o' town.
What saw I of flowers fair
Qr cared that I -should see?
No flower in all the world so rare
As that .sweet one beside me thero,
When Julia walked with me.
Julia has a farden fair
At the edge o' town
Would you .see the flowers rare7
Walk not. then, with Julia there.
When the sua Is down.
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