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PORTLAXD, THURSDAY, SEPT. 10.
UXFORESEEX DEMAXDS.
Pamine is abroad in the land the
famine 'induced by abundance. Crops
ieed more money than the banks have
ifcmJiand to Jend, products need more
.cars, than the railroads can supply to
haul them in. Secretary Gage is buy
ing bonds and leaving accumulating
revenues on deposit, and lumber mills
plan to shut down till the railroads can
catch up with them. Meanwhile, what
Is the difficulty?
The fact is that nobody has had the
gumption to keep pace with the devel
opment of the country. The Inertia of
the human mind prevails among the
most far-seeing and enterprising. The
steel strike is vainly pleaded now in
extenuation of a car famine, for cars
are not delivered in sixty days from
date of order. Financiers figured wise
ly, in calculating Uie increase of wealth
in the West and the increased holdings
of Western banks. Where they seem
ttf have erred is in underestimating the
growth of population and development
of business, with the consequent pro
digious Increase in the need of currency.
The phenomenal achievements of
American industry are revealed in record-breaking
statistics of trade and
manufactures': but nobody seems to
have calculated accurately the inev
itable effect of this activity In swollen
demands for those numerous instru
ments of business represented by trans
portation and currency. There are
jnore men in Oregon now than in 1S99;
but it is impossible to get requisite help
to harvest crops, care for salmon or
provide fuel. The reason is in the un
precedented demand for products and
labor. Numbers are able to afford lux
uries and even necessities who could
not afford them a few years ago. Num
lers are able to employ help who a
lew years ago had to do all their own
work.
This change In the condition of the
people is general throughout the coun
try. It has already been revealed in
the Increased consumption of food prod
ucts and merchandise. It is reflected
in ihe advanced prices of a long list
of pur staple products. The price
of wheat would also reflect it if it were
jiot for the increased demand for ocean
tonnage, which beats down the price of
wheat because taking from it for high
returns to ships. The amelioration in
the people's circumstances is also most
strikingly revealed in the prodigious
demand for lumber and building ma
terials of all kinds, which outruns the
making and delivering facilities of mills
almost doubled In capacity within
twenty-four months.
Of this general activity there are, of
coarse, many causes. The most potent
one Is the extension of the gold stand
ard, 'with Its accompanying stability
to "confidence and facility of interna
tional trade. Another profound cause
is in the advance of American chemis
try and invention as applied to raw
materials and manufacturing processes.
These two things have operated to ac
cumulate in the United States, and in
Europe as well, immense stocks of pro
duce and of merchandise, made at low
cost and afforded cheap transportation.
It Is well to remember that Europe
has shared in this prosperity, and that
much of our own. accumulation and
comfort has been achieved only through
the Increased ability of Europeans to
buy our foodstuffs and merchandise. To
reduce Europe to a state wherein its
people can sell us nothing and there
lore buy of us nothing. Is an ambition
as vicious as it is impossible.
THE SURPLUS BOGIE. '
The surplus in the National Treasury
is quite a persistent and very substan
tial quantity. Though a material reduc
tion of taxation went into effect July
3, the object of which was to stay the
nee'dless accumulation of surplus reve
nue, the- month of August, which in
five qut of the? six years immediately
preceding the present has shown a
greater or less deficiency in National
Income, produced this year a surplus
of .receipts over" expenditures amount
ing to ?6,000,000. This showing, it is
explained, is due to a heavy decrease
in military and haval expenditures
these having much more nearly ap
proached the peace basis last month
than at any other time since the out
break of the Spanish War. This pro-J
cess, should it continue, is likely to in
crease the Treasury surplus to what it J
was before.the reduction of taxation a
statement that will at once suggest a
remedy through further pruning the tax
list of the emergency Items that made
it so formidable and produced such
enormous revenues.
It is held, and with sound reasoning,
that the tears freely expressed concern
ing the disastrous effect of locking up
this immense surplus in the Treasury
are without foundation in probability
still less in fact The fear of "tight
money" is based largely, if not wholly,
upon its effect on speculative schemes.
Legitimate business, whether in indus
trial or trade lines, is not likely to "be
hampered by the growth of the Treas
ury surplus. The money of the coun
try need not be, and it may fairly be
presumed will not be, locked up to an
extent that will inflict injury upon busi
ness that is created and supported by
the legitimate demands of a popula
tion's growth and increase in wealth
and wants. The fear that forebodes
business catastrophe as an early im
pending result of the persistent accu
mulations of the Treasury surplus is
the "bogie" of prosperity, always in
easy call of the imagination that feeds
upon the possibility of disaster, and
makes of it a basis for dismal fore
bodings of financial depression, of
which, at present, neither the records
of industry nor those of trade show any
sign.
ACC03IPLICES OP czol'gosz. n
The Imbecile attempts of Czolgosz to
simulate insanity show forth the utter
emptiness of the man's mind. He has
no discernment, no discretion, no appli
cation. These weaknesses have been
abundantly demonstrated by such inci
dents of his useless life as research has
brought to light. He has succeeded at
nothing. In his make-up Is neither wit
nor application, but in their stead Na
ture gave him a certain credulity
coupled with low cunning, through
which he has brought himself into his
present state of misery.
Surely misshapen minds of this sort
do not deserve the full measure of
.odium which we visit upon the intelli
gent and willful anarchist of the Most
and Goldman type. The man Is respon
sible for his crime, he deserves as he
will surely receive death; but he is to a
great degree the product of forces
within and without him, of which he
had neither knowledge" nor the capacity
to comprehend. Czolgosz is a red
handed murderer, but he is also the
dupe of more responsible enemies of
order. He is a slayer of the innocent,
but he is also the victim of scoundrels
worse, than himself. His days are few.
Like many another misguided wretch,
he awakens when too late to the enor
mity of a crime he committed without
adequate reflection and upon misappre
hended motives. Society cannot suffer
so dangerous a man to live; but its
wrath against him may well be tem
pered with a comprehension of his
weakness and folly as well as his crime.
The degree of a man's guilt depends
not upon the remote consequences of
his sin, but upon the moral value of
his conscious choice. Study of history
and growing enlightenment have en
abled us to weigh more justly the mo
tives of the world's great persecutors.
At length we have learned the bearing
of the criminal's ancestry upon his
choices. We know how apt is the un
tended garden of the soul to grow up
to weeds and noxious things. - We know
how hard it is for misshapen minds
reared in hotbeds of Old World tyranny
and ignorance to come up useful and
contented to maturity. "W-e know how
certainly to look for crime from the
squalid tenements of our Whitechapels
and East Sides. We do not expect too
much from the soil where only bad
seeds fall. We do not think to find
Anglo-Saxon comprehension of true .lib
erty and enlightened self-control in the
product heredity and environment raise
up for us in Poland and Sicily and
the turbulent factions of Latin America.
Czolgosz, then, is a conscious crim
inal, but h'e is a product of compelling
causes. An ineffectual brain to begin
with, and this made hopeless through
ignorance and the, for him, indigestible
food of theoretical anarchy, a restless,
unhappy disposition, and a sense of
baffled effort through his ignominious
failure at everything he has undertaken
these untoward influences have ren
dered him the easy- prey of Emma
Goldman's treason-engendering appeals.
The poor wretch will go to his infa
mous death the victim of those who
should have known better than to scat
ter incendiary talk about on brains too
weak to modify it with the precaution
of order. Their outcries against gov
ernment are of a kin with Ingersoll's
outcries against religion. There was
much truth in what the great agnostic
said. But it would have been infinitely
better for him and for his memory if
his lips had been sealed before they
started hundreds on the road to phys
ical self-destruction and moral suicide
of still more terrible import. The real
assassins of McKInley are the apostles
at whose feet this Polish creature
learned: and something accessory be
fore the fact are the American people
themselves, who rise in horror at crime
here at home they viewed with per
functory disapproval when Patersdn
sent her conspirators over to murder
pbor, old Humbert What rage should
we not indulge today if Czolgosz had
come over to his crime from a midnight
conference at Vienna or Milan!
THE ROYAL VISIT TO CAXADA.
The Duke of York, heir apparent
to the British crown, is now making a
royal visit to Canada. He landed at
Quebec at noon on Monday last where
he received a splendid welcome. On
Tuesday he witnessed a military and
naval review on the historic plains of
Abraham, over 5000 volunteers from
Montreal and Quebec taking part with
over 1000 bluejackets from the British
war vessels. Yesterday the Duke left
Quebec for Montreal, where he arrived
at 3 P. M. He will remain in Montreal
until September 20, when he will leave
for Ottawa.
This visit of the Duke of York recalls
similar events in the past history of
Canada. The Duke of Clarence, after
wards William TV", the so-called "sailor''
King of England, first visited Halifax
in 17S6. about three years after the dec
laration of peace between the American
colonies and Great Britain. Halifax
was then a poor, dirty town of some
4000 to 5000 people. The Duke of Clar
ence visited Montreal and Quebec,
which had a population then of proba
bly 9000 to 10.000 each. In 17.91 the Duke
of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, and
great-grandfather of the' Prince now
visiting the Dominion, came to Canada
as commander of a royal regiment At
that time Canada had a population of
225,000, of whom 100,000 were French
Canadians and some 59,000 were Ameri
can refugees, who had been "Tories"
during the Revolutionary war and went
to Upper Canada and New Brunswick
when the American colonies won the
day. The Duke of Keefc remained in
Quebec three years, and won the respect
and affection of the people, and he spent
several years at Halifax from 1794 to
1800. in command of the imperial troops.
He was not married at that time, but
had a faithful mistress, Madame de St
Laurent. Baronne de Fortisson, who
lived with him many years, until his
marriage in 1818, when she retired to
a convent
Not until 1860 did another Eriglish
Prince come to Canada. In I860 Albert
Edward, the Prince of Wales, then a
youth of 19, visited Canada., In his tour
of two months he visited all important
places in British North America and in
the United States, wherehe was warmly
welcomed. He visited President Bu
chanan at Washington, and had a
splendid reception, October 18, I860, at
Boston. On this occasion 1200 children
of the public schools sang an Interna
tional ode composed by Oliver Wendell
Holmes to the air of "God Save the
Queen." The Prince on his tour was
accompanied by the Duke of Newcastle
as chief adviser. He exhibited go.od
sense during his Canadian tour by re
fusing to countenance a special demon
stration In his honor by the Orangemen
of Upper Canada, on the ground that
it was a party display, which, out of
respect for his Roman Catholic subjects,
he could not sanction by his -presence.
In 1861 Prince Aifred. afterwards the
Duke of Edinburgh, made a flying visit
to Canada, and in 1869 Prince Arthur,
now Duke of Connaught, came to Can
ada as an officer in an imperial regi
ment. Prince Arthur gave his name to
a port at the head of Lake Superior.
In 1878 the Princess Louise came to Can
ada as the wife of the new Governor
General, the Marquis of Lome, now the
Duke of Argyll, and at the same time
arrived at Halifax the ironclad Black
Prince, commanded by the Duke of Ed
inburgh. In 1890 Prince Arthur, the
Duke of Connaught, landed at "Vancou
ver, on Jiis way to England from the
East, where he had been commander-in-chief
at Bombay. The present royal
visitor to Canada, the Duke of vYork,
the only surviving son of King Edward
"VII. will soon be created Prince of
Wales. He is now 36 years of age; he
followed the sea for several years and
became a captain in 1893, when he mar
ried the only daughter of the Duke of"
Teck, who accompanies him on this
visit to the Canadian Dominion.
After visiting Ottawa he proceeds im-
mediately west as far as- the Pacific
Coast Then he returns east and pays
extended visits to Ontario and the mari
time provinces, whence he leaves for
England toward the end of October.
THE TRIAL OP THE ASSASSIN.
The assassin of President McKinley
refused to plead on arraignment, but
the counsel assigned him by the court
entered the plea of not guilty. Under
the old English code, which was en
forced as late as the reign of George
II. a contumacious prisoner who refused
to plead was liable to be "pressed to
death." This punishment was inflicted
upon Abel Corey, who was arraigned
for witchcraft before the courts. of the
colony of Massachusetts and refused
to plead. Victor Hugo gives a vivid
description of the terrible nature of
this punishment in his novel "The Man
Who Laughs." Corey was the last per
son to suffer by this punishment in New
England, but as late as the first quar
ter of the eighteenth century the pun
ishment of "pressing to death" a pris
oner who refused .to plead or the witness
refusing to testify was inflicted in Eng
land. Under the Constitution of the United
States and of1" all the states no person
can be deprived of life, property or
liberty without due process of lav, and
this right of a full, fair trial which
belongs to the assassin carries with it
the right to counsel. If the accused is
without counsel, the court must assign
counsel, and as every lawyer is an offi
cer of the court, that assignment cannot
be refused if the court declines to re
lease the appointee. If a prisoner elects
to be his own counsel, the court can
permit him to do so, but even in that
case the court would doubtless inter
fere to protect him from any conse
quences of his legal ignorance; that Is,
the court would take care that the pris
oner did not lose any of his constitu
tional rights.
It is not likely that the plea of insan
ity will be made for Czolgosz, for, while
the assassin is doubtless a degenerate
so far as brains and moral sense are
concerned, he is medically sane enough
to be responsible for his actions. He
Is at least as sane as Prendergast, the
homicidal crank, who was executed for
the murder of Mayor Harrison, of Chi
cago. Prendergast said that he killed
Mayor Harrison "without any feeling of
personal malice," nevertheless he was
not regarded as an Irresponsible per
son; he knew he was violating the law;
he was capable of self-restraint, had he
not chosen deliberately to defy human
law arid the consequences of Its viola
tion. It will not be pretended that any
man who commits a wanton murder or
persistently leads a criminal, lawless
life, is an absolutely sane man in the
sense that Fresldent McKInley was
sane, but there Is a long distance be
tween the responsibility of a man of
ill arranged or unarranged brains and
the absolute irresponsibility of a maniac
for his deeds.
If for no other reason; the country
ought to be glad that the assassin was
not lynched on the spot by the angry
crowd, for in that event we should
never have known whether the Presi
dent had been slain by an irresponsible
homicidal maniac or tby a responsible
homicidal crank, who has existed since
the dawn of history, whose universal
earmark is the love of notoriety and
lawlessness; fellows of morbid self
esteem, who are always ready to exe
cute their own personal sweet will In
defiance of and contempt for the legal
peace and order of society. Such creat
ures are, of course, never In a state of
perfect mental health and moral sanity,
but nevertheless they know what they
are about; they know the consequences
of their lawless acts and should be
made to suffer for them. The law can
not afford to stop to make a fine dis
tinction between the mental health and
moral power of the Individuals who
compose the criminal homicidal class
of the country. There was a streak of
Insanity in the great actor, the elder
Booth, but had Wilkes Booth ever been
put on triaL he. could not have suc
cessfully pleaded Insanity, because he
knew he had committed a crime, for ht
ran away after Lincoln's murder; Pren
dergast knew he" had committed crime,
for he went to the police station and
gave himself up.
These homicidal cranks, tried in the
court of their own convictions, by their
own self-erected standards, doubtless
feel entirely satisfied with their " own
conduct, but that fact does not consti
tute a state of mental or -moral irre
sponsibility for their acts. They have4!
defied the law, knowing it to be the law.
and they are legally and medically sane
enough to suffer the consequences of
their crimes. They are sane enough to
understand that they have no right to
execute every man they have tried, con
victed and sentenced to death for some
real or fancied violation of the creed
of crankdom. They clearly understand
that their deeds are crimes, and because
they do they should always be sent
to the scaffold. There is no probabil
ity that any plea of Insanity will be"
made In the case of the President's as
sassin. The doctors who examined him
after arrest pronounced him. certainly
sane to the extent of perfect responsi
bility for his acts.
The Oregonlan was in error in its
statement that Sergeant McKinley dis
tributed ammunition under fire at An
tietam. He distributed food under fire;
his heroism was of the sort that Kipling
sings in his tribute to the gallant Hin-J
floo carrier, who brings up water with
out flinching to the men on the firing
line. Here is the story as told in the
words of President Hayes, who was
McKInley 's Colonel:
The bloodiest day of the war, the day on
which mbre men were killed and wounded
than any other day of the war, Avas the 17th
of September, 18G2, in the battle of Antletam.
That battle began at daylight. Without break
fast, without coffee, the men went into the
fight and continued until after the surf went
down. Early in the afternoon they were fam
ished and thirsty. The commissary depart
ment of the brigade was under Sergeant Mc
KlnleyJs administration, and a better choice
could not have been made, for when the Is
sue came he performed a notable deed ot
daring at the crisis of the batttle, when it
was uncertain which way the victory would
turn. For, fitting up two wagons with neces
sary supplies, he drove them through a storm
of shells and bullets to the assistance of his
hungry and thirsty fellow-soldiers. The mules
of one wagon were disabled, but McKinley
drove the other safely through and was re
ceived with hearty cheers and from his hands
every man in the regiment was served with
hot coffee and warm meats, a thing that had
never occurred under similar circumstances
in any other army in the world. He passed
under the fire and delivered with his own.
hands those things so essential for the men
for whom he was laboring.
Twenty years ago today, September
19, 1881, shuddering wires bore to the
sad heart of the sorrowfully waiting
Nation the mournful tidings that Presi
dent Garfield had passed away at El
beron. "From sheer exhaustion," as
chronicled by the press dispatch that
conveyed the first news of the event,
"the President dild at 10:35 P. M." The
assassin's bullet accomplished In his
case in eighty days the diabolical er
rand on which it was sent A similar
I missile sent with the same Intent in
the early days of this fateful month
deprived William McKinley of his life
and the Nation of another President
after .six days' suffering. Then, as now,
a sad and impressive funeral train took
its way from the Atlantic seaboard in
land, returning to the State of Ohio
the body of an honored son for sepulture-
The fidelity with which 'this
black chapter in our National history
has been repeated is appallirig. Re
reading in the sorrowful events of today
the rewritten chapter, the hearts of all
loyal citizens of the Republic tremble
with Indignation even while they swell
with grief over the tragedy-nald and
new which utterly without cause, save
such as exists in the malevolence of
anarchy, robbed them of a chosen ruler.
The Indiana clergyman who Said that
in his opinion President McKinley In
life was a political demagogue made an
ungracious and .untimely speech, but he
did not exceed his legal rights of free
speech. Thousands of men who voted
for Bryan last November were-permlt-ted
the same license of speech without
any threat of being mobbed for their
opinions. It was just as gross an out
rage to tar and feather a man for say
ing that President McKinley was a
political demagogue after his death as
it would have been to tar and feather
him before his death. The occasion of
the President's murder is in danger of
being turned by thoughtless people into
a brutal hoodlum's holiday. It is stu
pid enough to lynch a man for crime,
but it is utterly without excuse to lynch
him for bad taste and boorlshness. A
man has just as clear a right to say
today that President McKinley In his
judgment was a demagogue In politics
as 'he had to say it before the Presi
dent's murder. If he ever had a right
to say it, he does not lose it by death
of the President '
The. political institutions of Finland
have followed those of Poland into the
unrefunding tomb of Russian absorp
tion. The new military service law, by
which Finnish soldiers can be sent to
the uttermost parts of the empire, has
been promulgated by the Czar In the
face of the most earnest protest of the
Finnish Senate. "As to the Czar's good
intentions," says the imperial answer
to the memoranda asking assurance
of the maintenance of the political insti
tutions of Finland, "his loyal subjects
should not be In doubt." This Is the
answer of absolutism, and against It
there Is no appeal In Russia. The al
ternatives from which these people are
to choose are exile, voluntary immigra
tion, death or submission. Poland
learned her lesson; Finland will learn
hers, and ffom title page to text the
word "liberty" will be expunged. This
Is Russia's way, and, needless to say,
Russia's way prevails In Russia.
Agricultural conditions throughout
the state are highly satisfactory to all
classes of husbandmen. The planting
season was good, the growing season
excellent, and the harvest season per
fect throughout the entire state. While
some crops notably potatoes and hops
are not heavy, all are abundant, and
these are entirely free from defect of
any kind. What Is lost In quantity,
therefore, is made up In quality. The
consumer will pay the prices incident
to this adjustment and the agricultur
ist Is, or should be, happy.
The silence of Czolgosz Is a decided
improvement upon the loquacity of
Guiteau. It is, indeed, a much appre
ciated relief to find one silent anarchist
in the country, and the invitation that
will in due time be given the assassin
to take a seat in the electrical chair
that is part of the punitive equipment
of the State of New York will not be
the less urgently pressed because of
this unwonted silence.
Not an American Product.
Nashville American.
Happily, the anarchist Is not an Ameri
can product. He comes to us from other
lands and a strict scrutiny of all immi
grants, their antecedents and intentions,
and a turning back of every one who can
not give a good account of himself and
produce a statement from the officials
of the place from which he comes that he
Is a desirable citizen will be helpful in
the work of freeing the country of this
horrible menace. Any step that will rid
us of them -is justifiable. The whole ques-
tion Is: What is that step?
IMMORTALIZED IN OUR HISTORY
Lincoln's Favorite Poem.
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying
cloud,
A flash of lightning, a break of the wave.
Man passeth from life to hie rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall
fade.
Be scattered around and together be laid;
And the young and the old, and the low and
the high,
Shall moulder to dust and together shall He.
The infant a mother attended and loved;
The mother that Infant's affection who proved;
The hulband that mother and Infant who
blessed
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest.
The maid 6n whose cheek, on whose brow, in
whose eye,
Shone beauty and pleasure her triumphs
are by;
And tho mem'rleo of those who loved her and
praised
Are alike from the minds of the living erased.
The hand of tho king that the scepter hath
borne.
The brow of the priest that the miter hath
worn.
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave.
Are hidden and lost In the depths of the grave.
The peasant whose lot Is to sow and to reap.
The herdsman who climbed with his goats up
the steep,
The beggar who wandered in search of his
bread.
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
The saint who enjoyed the communion of
heaven,
The sinner who dared to remain unforglven.
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
Have Quietly' mingled their bones in the dust.
i
So the multitude goes, like the flower or the
weed
That withers away to let fcthers succeed;
So the multitude cornea, .even those we behold.
To repeat every tale that has, of ten been told.
For we are the same that our fathers have
been;
We see the same sights that our fathers have
seen;
We drink the same stream and view the same
sun, i
And run the same course thaiTour fathers have
run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers
would think;
From the death we are shrinklnr our fathers
would shrink;
To the life we are clinging they also would
cling;
JJut It speeds for us all, like a bird on the
wing.
They loved, but the story we cannot unfold;
They scorned, but tho heart ot the haughty is
cold;
They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers
will come;
They Joyed, but the tongue of their gladness Is
dumb.
They died ay, they died; and we thlnga that
are now
Who walk on the tuff that lies over their brow,
Who make in their dwelling a transient abode
Meet the things that they met on their pil
grimage road.
Tea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
AVe mingle together in sunshine and rain;
And the smiles and the tears, the song and
the dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
'TIs the wink of an eye, 'tla the draught of a
breath;
From the blossom of health to the paleness of
death.
From the glided saloon to tho bier and the
sliroud
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Henry. Knox.
Garfield's Favorite Hymn.
Abide with me! fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fall and comforts flee.
Help of the helpless, Oh, abide with me!
Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's Joys grow dim, Its glories pass away;
Change and decay In all around I see;
0 Thou, who changest not, abide with me.
Thou on my head In early youth didst smile;
And, tho rebellious and perverse meanwhile,
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee;
On to the close. O Lord, abide with me.
1 need Thy presence every passing hour;
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's
power?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Thro' cloud and sunshine. Lord, abide with me.
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where Is death's sting? where, grave, thy vic
tory? I triumph still If Thou abide with me.
Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes;
Shine thro' the gloom, and point me to the
skies.
Heaven's morning breaks! and earth's vain
shadows flee!
In life, In death, O Lord, abide with me.
Henry F. Lyte.
Garfield's Favorite Poem.
Commend me to the friend that comes
When I am sad and lone.
And makes the anguish of my heart
Tho suffering of his own;
Who coldly shuns the glittering throng
At pleasure's gay levee.
And comes to gild a somber hour
And gives his heart to me.
He flies not with tha flitting stork,
That seeks a. Southern sky.
But lingers where the wounded bird
Hath laid him down to die. i
Oh, such a friend he 13 Indeed,
Whate'er his lot may be,
A rainbow In the storm of life.
An anchor on its sea.
McKInley's Deathbed Hyma.
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee;
E'en tho' It be a cross
That ralseth me.
Still all my song shall be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Tho' like a wanderer.
The sun cone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet In my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
t Nearer to Thee!
There let the way appear
Steps up to Heaven;
All that Thou sendest me
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise.
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I'll raise; '
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God. to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Or If, on joyful wing,
Cleaving the sky.
Sun. moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly.
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Sarah F. Adams.
.
A Dirg-e.
Bear up, Columbia, crushed with nameless
sorrow.
Break not poor heart, remember 'tis God's
way;
Tho sun must set to rise on somo tomorrow
Beyond the valley in eternal day.
It is God's way His will be done;
He even gave His only Son.
It la God's way!
He calls, and mountains rise to sun-crowned
glory;
Though worlds be rent no seedlet goes astray.
Thy martyr's death spells out the grandest
story, r
Though we may fall to read It is God's
way. '
It Is His way!. His will be done
Who even gave His only Son.
It is God's way!
EDWARD OTHAIER LTNNE.
Portland, September 16. '
AMUSEMENTS.
Time Is a sovereign remedy for a broken
heart or a blighted life, and 50 years is
a long, long time, but rosemary is for
remembrance, and remembrance flourishes
Ilk a green bay tree long after the broken
heart Is healed and the blighted life has
bloomed again. Such a feverish sentiment,
at any rate, is Inspired by the play "Rose
mary." which the Neill Company gave at
the ilarquam last night to an audience
which had more than one tear to shed
with the feeble old man who uses the
last act to hark back to the love of 50
years ago, and whose gentle meditations
on the heyday of his youth when he was
but scant 40 years old give one new re
spect for the wisdom of Tennyson, when,
in the bitterness of a newly-despised
affection, he found the courage to say:
"Tis better to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all."
Hut, after all, Sir Jasper Thorndyke 1?
hardly a target at which to level much
sympathy. He discovers a happy pairof
lovers in the full glory of an elopement,
takes them, in and gives them shelter,
and after reconciling the girl's parents,
whom he intercepts in hot pursuit, he
proceeds to fall in love with the girl her
self, and comes within an ace of sup
planting the lover, when an old friend
calls his attention to the painful fact
that his course is hardly honorable. Then
he gives them both his blessing, and re
tires to solitude to nurse hi3 sorrow for
50 years, when he comes forth a dodder
ing nonagenarian, plucks a spray of roo
mary from his pocket and recalls one by
one the circumstances which led to Its re
posal there, half a century before. A
more unselfish man might have reflected
that a youth who had been able to per
suade a maiden to elope with him had
some small claim upon her; a wlser one
might have known that a good girl does
not cast a lover off merely because an
other man Is more, thoughtful or hand
some. At all events, Thorndyke brought
about his own ears all the misery in
which he was steeped for 50 years, and
was as little deserving df sympathy as he
was of the softening influence of time.
The honors of the play fell in equal
measure to Mr. Neill and Julia Denn,
whose portrayal of the part of DorotTiy,
the winsome maid with whom Thorndyke
falls In love, was the first fine work she
has had a chance to do during the pres
ent engagement. Mr. Neill was hit
wonted,, natural and easy self In the
earlier acts, when he spoke the lines of
the big-hearted, absent-minded country
squire, but the passion he Infused Into the
scene when he is awakened to the know
ledge that he has made a serious mistake,
and his admirable sketch of extreme age
in the last act, again confirmed the al
ready confident opinion of his admirers
that he Is an artist down to his finger
tips.
Miss Dean's time came In the third act,
in tho quarrel scene "vOtR" her lover, and
the remembrance of her tearful presence
at the door, on tho other side of which
she supposed her lover to be, and the pa
thetic figure of grief she made when she
learned he was really gone, needs no rose
mary to preserve It
John W. Burton, as the Irascible father
of tho runaway girl; Lillian Andrews, as
his wife; Frank MacVicars, as a pro
fessor of violent temper; Donald Bowles,
as William, the lover, and Scott Sea
ton, as a servant, and Robert Morris, as
a postboy, all contributed their full share
toward the pleasure of the perfornuTTlce.
The" play was mounted with the attention
to detail which marks all the Neill pro
ductions, and costumed with a careful
regard to the time of action.
Tonight, out of respect to the memory
of President McKinley, there will be no
performance. Tomorrow night, "The
Royal Box" will be repeated.
COMING ATTRACTIONS. "
"A Baggage Check" at Cordray's
. Xext Week.
"A Baggage Check" will be the attrac
tion at Cordray's next week, beginning
Sunday evening. This farce comedy comes
comes direct from New York. It is said
to be replete In catchy music and spec
ialties of a recent date. Tha leading
comedy role Is in the hands of James T.
Kelly. Every attention has been paid to
the musical portion of the entertainment,
several of the late New York song suc
cesses being Interpolated throughout the
introduction. A pleasing back-ground to
the farce-comedy picture is furnished by
the presence of a number of pretty girls.
Tho equipment, properties, scenic effects
and music used in the original New York
production are promised as a part of the
production here.
"A Runaway Girl" at the 3Inrqnam.
The sale of seats for "A Runaway
Girl," which appears at the Marquam
Grand Theater Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, September 23, 24, 23.
will open tombrrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The company comprises some 50 players,
prominent among whom are seen the
names of Arthur Dunn, Walter Clifford,
Joseph Tre Denick, Maurice Abbey,
George Miller; Henry Leone, Harry Dick
son, Frank Regis, Miss Celeste Wynn.
Miss Clara Belle Jerome and Miss Rosa
La Harte. There are many others of
equal distinction.
Notes of the Stnge.
Cordray's Theater having remained
closed Sunday night as a tribute to the
memory of the late President, will give
the usual performance tonight.
Ralph Stuart has been engaged to sup
port Grace George.
James K. Hackett will probably produce
this season Winston Churchill's dramati
zation of his novel. "The Crisis."
The tour of S. Miller Kent In "The Cow
boy and the Lady," will begin next week
at Atlantic City and will extend to the
Pacific Coast.
In "The New Yorkers." which will be
given with Dan Daly as the star, the
comedians were originally anarchists. It
is thought better to change this now.
The prqduction of "The Messenger
Boy." at New Haven, was received with
praise for both music and book. James T.
Powers, Rachel Booth, George Calne and
May Robson also came in for individual
comment.
It is said that the "booing," as it is
called, of American plays and actors in
London, is due to popular resentment at
American invasion of theatrical London.
The better class of theatergoers and the
press protest against the practice.
The new Ziegfield Musical Company will
present Anna Held In her new venture,
"The Little Duchess." She will have with
her that clever comedian, Charles A. Blge
low. He will be seen in a role which is
said to fit his talents like a glove, with
plenty of amusing situations.
Should Be Expelled.
Chicago Chronicle.
George L. Wellington is the name of
the Senator from Maryland whose term
will expire with the present Congress and
whose seat Arthur Pue Gorman Is try
ing to capture. He was elected as a Re
publican, but he: had a quarrel with the
Administration and lost his share of the
control of the Federal patronage In Mary
land. Hence he remarked in an interview
on the subject of the attempted assassi
nation: "McKinley and I are enemies. I
have nothing good to say about him, and,
under the circumstances, do not care to
say anything bad. I am indifferent to
the whole matter." No enemy of the Gov
ernment could have made a remark In
worse taste and spirit A movement to
expel Mr. Wellington from the Senate
would not be vigorously opposed even if
ex-Senator Gorman should be appointed
to fill the vacancy.
Care Nothing for the Franchise.
Atlanta Constitution.
Two years ago, by a vote so emphatic
that only three names were recorded In
favor of negro disfranchisement, Georgia
declared for the opposite course. Yet with.
In two weeks after thi9 'declaration over
10,000 negroes emigrated from Greene,
Morgan and adjoining counties to Mis
sissippi. They left the right to vote be
hind them and tumultously rushed Into
a state where they knew they were barred
politically.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Got the dust out of your eyes?
A breach-of-promiae cas might be calted
an unattachment suit.
Many Indians are aetocs. IXwman
note. The converse is also true.
Judging by the delay in stgnfofr It, tlo
terms of the Chinese protocol must L
about 10 years at hard tabor.
"The melancholy days are com, the sia
dest of the year," so sang the sd-9ou.
oyster as he wiped away a tear.
Now that hopplcking is over, there 1-5 t
prospect that the salaries of servant g:r -will
bet down to about $100 a week.
Miss Clara Morris, the gifted author,
has made such a reputation in. Hteratur
that she Is thinking- of going on tfc
stage.
Directors of railroad an4 steameMp Hm s
are again busy writing dentate sttmors
that they have been absorbed by? J. P.
Edward tips the beam at -
pounds. This explains why he te no
the author of any af the anti-fat test -monials.
"William Waldorf Astr says the new -papers
drove him from, the eountry. Tlu-,
is what is known as one of the triumphs
of the press.
The scoundrel who dtagttteetl himsrit
with burnt cork before emm!titinr a fou
crime used bad judgment All "coons
look alike to a lynching bee."
A New York minister has been censured
by his congregation f$r specMbUh& in fu
tures. A minister is spHad to regard
the future as a dead sure thing.
Another Kansas express train h ben
blockaded by grasshoppers. We are look
ing for a report to the efteefc that tht
Kansas mosquitoes have gone ever into
Nebraska to maseaere the Inhabitants.
Nothing is to tall to come out of Kan
sas. Anxious housewives will be glad to
know, a London paper tells Its readers,
that "vegetaline," made by a Marseilles
firm by refining oil extracted from the
copra (dried cocoanut), and. now placed
on the English market. Is not, as it was.
feared, an imitation butter or even a sub
stitute for butter in its domestic iree ,
According to the maker's agents, "veg
etaline" is almoht entirely a manufactur
er's article, although it ean be used In the
kitchen for making pastry and will be
supplied In retail if there Is any demand
for it. But the value of the' proess by
which "vegetaline" is made will, it id
claimed, be in providing bakers and bis
cuit manufacturers with a substitute for
butter which is not only pure awl eheap,
but which, for bteeuits in partteuhxr, is
better than butter.
It was an uptown grocery whfeh a little
girl about 5 years of age entered tho
other day. saying, relates the Philadelphia.
Record: "I want a spool of cotton!" "You
won't get that here." replied the grocarr
jokingly. "You'll have to go to the black
smith's shop for that" "I want a spool
of cotton." the child repeated, clutching
something very tightly In her right band.
And she continued to reiterate the request
for a long time before quitting thestore.
Presently her mother appeared in the door
with a very Irate countenance. "D'ye
mean to toll me that you haven't got a
nutmeg?" she inquired indignantly. "Was
that what the child wanted9" exblHvl
the grocer. "She asked for a spool of cot
ton." "Couldn't you see the nutmeg in
her hand?" retorted the mother. "I saw
something in her hand, but I didn't know
what it was." "Well, all you had to do
was to smell it!" was the final shot with
which the matron departed. Witnesses
to this scene have amused themaelves
ever since, asking tho grocer why he
doesn't exercise greater detective skill in
finding out what his customers require
when they don't know themselves.
Said Nicholas to Wilhelm, "X. think. O cousin
mine,
I need you in my army for a sokller of the
line.
Tho Fueileersky reclmoat a Celenel now is
shy;
I know behind you in the field they'll battle
till they die."
Said "Wilhelm unta Ntchelas, "Great Csar, I
lent? have maant
To give you a commission in a German regi
ment. You're just the kind ot fighting- steek I need
to lend my men;
I'll make of you a Hauptmann with a flourish,
ot my pen."
Said Nicholas to "Wilhelm, "It la very good
of you
To give to me a. company of trusted men and
true.
But If with Russia Germany should fall Into
a Hpat,
Pray where then weuM yours truly have &
chance to get off at?
"For you a3 Colonel In my ranks aould tako
your regiment
And leave me shy ten companies, while I must
be content
To take but one away from yeu. Ne, no, my
friend, I feel
That you are hardly giving me what's known
as a square deal."
Said "Wilhelm unto Nlehelas, "Dear cousin,
don't get sore.
A German company Is worth a Russian army
corps,
And so you get the beat of It, no matter what
befall
Tour Job will ba equivalent to that ot Gen
eral." But Nicholas could hardly see the justice of
the spiel.
And William could not see his way to make
another deal.
So both the other's offices declined with many
thanks,
And now they serve each other as mere pri
vates In the ranks.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGnAPIIERS
That Hired Girl Again. "Do the Smiths
keop a glrir "No. They hire a geod many,
but they don't keep them." Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin.
Tho Usual Fate. '"What bos become of that
octogenarian who was telling lie the ether
day how to live to be a hundred years eld?
"He died at the age ot 82." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
On the Line. Old Lady Can you tell me.
If you plaze. where I'll get the Blackroclc
tram? Dublin Car-Driver Begorr, ma'am, lr
you don't 'vatch yourself, you'll get k Jn the
small of your back In about half a minute.
Punch.
Crimson Glare. Friend Why are you star
ing at old Tippler's red nose? Arttefe-I am
getting Inspiration for a. great marine picture
Friend What will you call It? Arttot Why,
"The Lighthouse Below the Bridge." Chi
cago News.
Not the Grammatical Kind. "Wht Is a
conjunction'" asked the teacher. "That which
Joins together." was the prompt reply. "Give
an Illustration," said the teacher. The up-to-date
girl hesitated and blushed. "The mar
riage service," she saRl at last Chicago
Post.
The Distinction. "Yes. that's a pretty piece
of bric-a-brac. Where dW you ge it?" "in
Canada. " "What duty dW you have to pay
on It?" "None at all." "Smuggled It through,
did you?" "No; I Just slipped It through. It
Isn't smuggling unless you're caught at It."
Chicago Tribune.
A New Speeles. "I wouW Hke to sell you
the entire works of Omar Khayyam." bgan
the book agent, gllblyj "they are the finest
things thaf ever eame frem a pen." "Them's
a. new breed o plgi f me," eemmented 34r
Perkenlard. scratehing his head debteuely
Are they anything Hko Berkahlres?" Ohio
State Journal,