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Newspaper Page Textg -i-y-r-s t" i.-')'s'1t?-&.'a' - , Wf-ru T-"S- T'S'V t s Jjlf " v5 -sjge-'Hjr.-aiwwTP vwtW & THE MOBNma OHEGONIAN; MONDAYS OCTOBER .22,, 1901. aer-"" 4&-r 'fi s'jvfi rsg&mcm -ate8l a$ t Postofflee at Portland, Oregon, 3 " us -second-claes xrfatter. sri" :.' " REVISED SUBSCRIPTION HATES. 33r Mall (postage prepaid), In Advance Sally, -with Sunder, per month ......$ 85 Daily, Sunday excepted, "'per year......... 7 SO Xally. with Sunday, per yeer... 9 00 Sunday, per year i......- 2 00 The "Weekly, per year... .,.., I 50 Th Weekly. 3 months f 00 , To City Subscribers TDally. per -week, delivered, Sundays excepted.l5e Dally, per -week, delivered, Sundays lncluded.20c POSTAGE HATES. United States. Canada and ilesJco: 10 to 14-page paper ,... .............. ......lc 24 to 28-page paper .........................2c Parclga. rates double. Jfewe 4?r.dIousslon. Intended for publication In The rfejjonlan should be addressed invarla- ( bly "Editor The Oretfonianj," not to the nans of any Individual. Letters relating to advertls fng, subscriptions or- to any business natter ehoald ne addressed, simply "'The Oregonlan." Eastern- Bu-siness Office 43. 44. 45, 47. 48. 40 Tribune building. 2ew York- City; 403 "The Booker-," Chicago; the S. C. Beckwith special gfcncy, Eastern representative. For'saXtj in San rranclsco by I. "E. lice. Pal nxtce' Hotel nffRs stand; Gpldsmjth 'Bros.. 2S0 Gutter. 3ttet; -P. W. Pitt-. J008 Market streetr -fJTv'it Cobjter'TPo.736 Market street, near the :Palace Horei; 'Foster s Orcar. Perry news stand. ForaIe In xios Anodes by B. P. Gardner, 253 So. Spring -utreet, and Oliver & Haines, 100 So, Spring street, v For -ale in Chicago by "the P. O. News Co.. t'SlX Dearborn street For sale lit Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1012 'JFarnam street. For Fale in Salt X,-ke by the Salt Lake Kewc Co . 77 W. Second South street. Tor -sale In-Ogden by W- C. Kind, 201 Twcn-sty-nrth street, and by C. H. Mjers. Tor sale in Kansas City. Mo., by Fred Hutchinson. 304 Wjandotie street. On flle at Buffalo. K. Y in the Oreaon ex hibit at thfr exposition. For sale in Washington. D. C, by the Ebbetl .House news stand. Tor ealo in Denrer. Colo., by Hamilton ' jK.cparlcK. 006-012 Seienth street. TODAY'S WEATHER Generally lair weath r; variable winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 72; minimum temperature, GO; pre cipitation, .01 inch. PORTLAND, 3I02VDAY, OCTOBER 21. .. coanrcRCE axd- language. A Congress of American Sepubllcs is soon to assemble in the City of .Mexico. A leading part will be taken jby the United: States. Figures of trade f urnished by the Treasury Department for the UHe and guidance of our dele Sates present features of great inter- 'est. They Indicate how much we have jyet to do. If we would have the con trolling interest or part in the trade 'of Latin America to which we aspire, ,and to which our hegemony in the 'Western Hemisphere would seem to entitle-us. It. is shown by the statements com piled for the use of our delegates to the congress that while Canada, on our northern border, takes 52 per cent of all ,her imports from the United States, Mexico, on our southern bor der, takes from the United States only 40 per cent, and Central America still less. That we do not get into inter 'coursewith our Southern as we do with our Northern neighbors is due in part doubtless to racial differences; but the main disadvantage is in difference of languages, for we do not understand each other, and variant speech is a bar to commerce as to all other human in tercourse. Hence, as we cannot ex pect 'our Southern neighbors to learn JEjiglish, we must learn Spanish. If we are going to do very much In commerce 'with the countries of Latin America, we must cultivate the Spanish language to an extent not hitherto attempted by us. "We do, indeed, take many commodi ties from the countries to the south of us; we send them few commodities in exchange. For South American goods our payments are made mostly through Europe. From the countries of South America the United States in 1901 pur chased goods valued at $110,320,607, "wlifle our sales to them In that year were but $44,770,S88 less than one-half of our purchases from them. Of Brazil we are by iar "the largest customer In her chief articles of ex portcoffee and rubber. But Brazil Im ports little from the United States. In 1899 6he bought In foreign goods to the value of over $105,000,000, of which the 'United States supplied hardly 10 per cent. Take these figures from other countries: Uruguay and Paraguay im ported goods valued at 525,000,000, of 'Which the part from us was less than 7 per cent; the Argentine Republic $112,- 000,000, of which about 10 per cent was from the United States. We have a "-similarly scant proportion of the trade n of the-countries of the Pacific Coast of "South America. The South American (countries fronting on the Atlantic im jport goods to the value of nearly $300, ") 000,000 yearly; those of the Pacific 'side tb the value of over $60,000,000; yet our proportion in each case will amount scarcely to 10 per cent of the whole. 2tfow therefore, if it be possible to cul 'tlvate a better understanding with the 'countries of .Latin America, we surely should be about it And it will be possible. But it can .come only through Intercourse, and in tercourse can be had only through the medium of language. We cannot change the speech of the countries ""south "of us .from Spanish to English, and If we want the commercial Inter course we must push the cultivation of 'the Spanish language. Much may be done in. our schools, but it is only through residence in the various coun tries that skill can be acquired in local and. dialectical variations. A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. 'It is not Improbable ihat the Demo crats, of Kentucky will nominate Henry Watterson for Governor of their state. That he would like to receive the nomi nation is well lenown. That he would "be elected goes without saying. Mr. "Watterson's party fell out with him "badly on the money question in 1896, but Watterson has been completely vin dicated by the result though the strife cost him a great deal of money, for the Courier-Journal suffered a party boy cott. However, bygones now are by gones. Mr. Watterson is a very original, in dependent and picturesque character. There are two sides to the man. He is impulsive and brilliant, yet under strict control of conservative and common sense. Np man more clearly conceives or understands the leading forces of the time, or with more certainty sep arates what is permanent in their na ture and tendency from their merely temporary and accidental qualities. It is this discernment that makes him a man of first principle's. As a party man he is a Democrat, because his environ ment makes him so. But they say now that his candidacy for the office of Governor is but a pre paratory .movement on the part of his friends to secure for him the nomina tion for the Presidency on the Demo. cratio ticket In 1904. He would be a candidate of high quality. He harbors none of the doctrines that were fore most in the two campaigns of Bryan ism. But for that very reason it will scarcely he possible to persuade any Democratic National. Convention to ac cept him as the candidate. Mr. "Watterson is an American of highest type. He moves with the strongest currents of our National thought and life. He is an expansion ist, not only on the business of past times, but on that of our present day. He knows the history of our country and is in full accord with its movement. The Democratic party ought to take him for its candidate for the Presi dency. But will it? It would If the newspaper men of the country, irre spective of party, could guide it. "WHITHER COflHPETITTON LEADS. The reciprocity acritation is a bless ing in one way, and that is in its sug-' gestion to the public mind of the le gitimacy of the desire felt by other countries to do business with us. For the first time we find high-tariff or gans dwelling in sympathetic strain upon the entire propriety of Cuba, for example, coveting an increase In her sales here of sugar and tobacco. It is true, we cannot look too closely at this exhibit in humanity, for If we do we shall see that It springs from a de sire to help our protected trusts to greater sales of their wares abroad; we must simply take it for what it Is worth, and be glad for its educational value. The home producer of the United States needs nothing so much, per haps, as he needs awakening to the fact that "there are others." Our wheatgrowers, who compete at Liver pool with India, Russia and the Argen tine, have always apprehended this fact, and are used to it. But here are the Louisiana plantations, protesting against concessions to Cuban sugar, when they appear to have reached the limit of their capacity, and at the best can supplj only a 6mall fraction of our needs. Last year Louisiana pro duced 340,000,000 pounds of sugar, against 710,000,000 six years ago, and 600,000,000 pounds the last year ,of the Harrison reciprocity treaties; but the country consumes some 2,500,000 tons of sugar a year, much of which comes from Hawaii free of duty, without per ceptible hardship on the home grower. The fact is that our every producer must make up his mind to contend with foreign competition. From, the "strenuous life" our new world posi tion puts upon us there is no escape. Our cotton-producers also are to feel the same tension. Germany 'is intro ducing cotton into her South African colonies with a thoroughness and de termination that leave no room for doubt of the experiment's success. Cotton operatives and machinery have been put into Togoland, West Africa, between the Gold Coast and Dahomey. The climate and soil are favorable, for the plant thrives amazingly. The ma chinery and operatives are of American Importation, and the black labor is cheap. Emperor William Is himself di rectly interested in the enterprise, which contemplates nothing less than the extension of cotton cultivation to other German dependencies in West and Southwest, possibly also German East Africa. All of which may well remind us that the day of isolation for our producers in any field' of effort is past, and that we must meet foreign competition here at home, even as we thrust American competition into Europe and Asia. While we are absorbing Canadian lum ber mills and running London street cars, Cuba presses for easier access to our sugar market, and Germany pro poses to grow her own cotton. In all this there is occasion for no alarm, but only for felicitation. The commercial mlllenlum will be the time when prod ucts, as well as capital and money, are in a state of perfect fluidity, and flow hither and thither, as need or abundance moves them, as- freely as the tides in the great ocean ebb and flow responsive to the sun and moon. TIME FOR A BEGINNING. In contrast with what we have been accustomed to from, both theorists and financiers, the Bankers Association ad journs with a distinct impression of conservatism. Reform has been talked of, advocated and demanded, but not in sweeping terms or peremptory tone. Perhaps justice requires that we should exempt the National bankers generally from the revolutionary pro grammes that, have come out of re formers so prolifically in the past eighty years. They have hesitated at retirement, or even impounding of the greenbacks; they have been in doubt about "banking on assets," they have dreaded to cut loose entirely from the security system In which they as well as the people at large have conducted financial operations for a generation. Now, it is quite possible that the bankers err on the side of conserva tism. Business men err on the side of caution as often as on the side of reck lessness. No one can fall short of the very moderate positions laid down, for example, by Secretary Gage. His as sertions concerning the Treasury notes, the bank circulation, the revenues and the Subtreasury are practically ax iomatic No enlightened student of our currency can cavil at his proposals, and most, we think, would go beyond them. It Is Important that we proceed slowly and abreast of general consent and un derstanding. But it must be realized that the present National bank system is ephemeral. It cannot last, because if we are honest we must look forward definitely to extinction of the National debt. Doubtless there are bankers who would welcome perpetual bonds for the sake of .continuance in the present sys tem of secured currency; but they must be undeceived. We must look forward to a. bank-note currency based on the commercial assets of the business com munity rather than upon the Govern ment debt, and, inasmuch as progress in that direction must necessarily be slow, a beginning cannot be made too soon. The same must be said of the Treas ury notes, of the silver burden and of the Subtreasury. We are in a false way with all these things. Govern ment 6lns against labor and trade when it wantonly locks up -currency that is needed in the channels of indus try. The Treasury's non-interest-bearing promises to pay should be required to do the duty of money no longer than they can with safety be redeemed. The half billion or so of silver and sliver tokens that we are clumsily and pre cariously maintaining at double their real value should be made honestly re deemable In gold, or else put in the jway. of equitable extinction or readjust - ed to the mercantile value, on the Jap anese or Russian plan. AH these weak nesses In our system are a menace to peace and solvency. It is not enough to denounce them. Congress should1 take initiatory steps toward their amelioration. No more auspicious time for banking reform has presented itself .for forty years, and it is equally cer tain that when the present prosperity gives place to another period of depres sion it will be too late. Constructive legislation Is never framed in a panic. HOW SEALS ARE VANISHING. In another column appears a com munication from Professor David Starr Jordan, objecting to some comment made by this paper on the sealing in dustry. The attitude of so prominent a man as Professor Jordan on this vexed question contributed in oc small measure to creating a public senti ment favorable to the monopoly which directly and indirectly caused every American sealing schooner to seek the protection of an alien flag The fur-seal herd of the Prlbllof Islands has undoubtedly declined In numbers since the year 18S5, but it has never been proven that this decline was due to the work of the pelagic sealers. On the contrary, when this decline in the island herds first became noticeable there was an increase in the number of seals in the open sea. In 1887, the first year that the United States made an active crusade against the Victoria sealers, the catoh of the pelagic fleet was 24,800 skins. A year later It was 24,950 skins. In 1889 nearly all of the American schooners had been driven over to the Canadian, side, and the catch ran up to 43,315" skins, and in 1891 to 50,338 skins. The increasing size of these catches was disastrous to the Island monopoly, as it cut down the price of skins so low that the profits of the business were seriously threatened, and in 1892 the American Government sent a big fleet of revenue' cutters into Behring Sea and at an expense of thousands of dol lars harassed the sealers so that the catch was cut down to 45,385 skins. This showing was made with two of the fleet wrecked and eleven seized. The Canadian sealers had always con tended that the wholesale slaughter of seals on the Pribilof Islands had a tendency to discourage the escaping seal from returning to those haunts, and had driven them to other waters. That this belief was well founded was proven a year later, when half of the fleet crossed the Pacific and; hunted off the Japan coast, taking- 29,000 skins over there, and, returning to Behring Sea, ran the season's catch, up to 70,000 skins. In going over to the Japan coast, the hunters not only escaped the persecution of the patrol fleet, but made good catches, and a year later the season's catch was 94,474. skins, of L which 48,993 were taken on the Japan coast and 26,341 In Behring Sea. This enormous catch was made by thirty-two vessels, the schooner Tri umph alone taking 3240 seals in Behring Sea and 1320 along the coast. This was the largest catoh ever made .by a sin gle schooner) and was made nine years after Professor Jordan first noticed the "steady decline" In the Pribilof Island herd. The catch for 1895, as shown In the figures of Professor Jor dan, fell back to 74,124 skins. This was due to the Japanese Government tak ing its cue from this country and chas ing: sealers out of waters claimed by Japan, and also to unfavorable weath er, the same causes further reducing the catch in 1836. Since that time the catch has remained about stationary, although fewer sealers have been en gaged in the business, spears have been substituted for guns, and the services of expert sealers with which to man the vessels have Been difficult to se cure. The inhuman practice of branding the females In order to make their skins worthless has also been a factor In scattering the island herds to the four "winds of the ocean. A number of these branded seals have been taken by the schooners, and the branding iron wounds, festering in the salt water, bear mute evidence of the terror with which the poor victim fled from the haunts where such cruelty was prac ticed in order that a monopoly might be perpetuated. The seal herds of the Pacific wiU not be extinct when the club and the branding-Iron have frightened the last of the fur-bearers from the protected Pribilofs. The tortured .animals will vseek refuge elsewhere, just as they did when they were driven from the South Shetland Islands by the greed of the hunters. In the open sea they have a show for life. On the islands there is no escape from death or torture. It is not a "matter of satisfaction to kvery American that our flag no longer pro- I tects and that our citizens are no long er engaged in the business of pelagic sealing." That the business Is legiti mate as well as profitable is shown by the recent payment 'by the United States pf $425,000 damages for illegal seizures of Canadian sealing schooners. It will be a "matter of satisfaction," however, when the branding-Iron and club of the Pribilof Island monopoly no longer aid in the extinction of the seal, and the expensive opera-bouffe revenue patrol service in Behring Sea is discontinued. TfAIiE WEEK. Yesterday began the observance of the bicentennial of Yale University. If indications pre to be taken literally, the exercises on this occasion will be of rare academic value, at once not ing the progress and scoring the tri umph of scholastic art in America. Services began with commemorative sermons in a number of the' churches of New Haven yesterday, and will end with thegreat function inhe Hyperion .Theater Wednesday, the 23d Mist.,, when Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and John Hay, Secretary of State, will appear as-honored guests of the university, each receiving there from the degree of LL. D. The great and honored place in the Republic all along the line of earnest endeavor that has been held by men who came to Yale to study, and in due time went away to apply to the affairs of life the knowledge and training there gained, attest the wisdom Qf those who In the Nation's small beginnings laid the foundation of this university. Not only do Yale men throughout the country regard the celebration that be gan yesterday with profound interest, but men of culture who owe their first duty to other colleges and universities regard the event with profound interest. All of the institutions of learning In this country will be represented at the gathering in New Haven this week, while many famous universities abroad Jj will participate la the exercises of the "bicentennial celebration through dis tinguished delegations. The history of Tale will be- traced from its beginnings by ( annalists elo quent with the inspiration' of- a lofty theme. The grand old institution has and probably holds its own place in history, and for its memorial on this imposing- occasion it wilL point to its record in the lives and. work of men who have issued in eager procession from its gates through the succeeding years of two centuries. The Iron Age Informs us that "in the wire trade the outside competition is beginning tb tell." It seems that "wire rods have been sjbwly receding In price, and the quotations on nails are more and more frequently shaded." Here is a hint off weakness In the steel trust. It is said to have earned $8;000, 000 in profits since the first of-the year, and the other day was reported to be earning $12,000,000 net for October alone. Nothing could be more certain than the attraction such figures supply to com petitive effort. High profits are not the way to successful mpnopoly. The per manent trust, unless it controls sup ply almost absolutely through patentsJ or possession of sources of raw material, must advance through excellence of wares and cheapness of production. The Schwab trust may find foemen worthy of Its steel, just as the sugar trust has found. These things will become known in time, and will exerts a salutary Influ ence upon the investing public, which now seems willing to believe anything a trustr promoter may offer in commen dation of his wares. The American Herald, an Irish Cath olic gaper of New York City, that is supporting Low for Mayor, has com piled some Interesting chronology of Mr. Croker's absences Abroad, thus: 189-t Left New York June 10, returned July 5. 1895 Lieft New York March 28, returned Sep tember 21. 1S0G Left New York. February 20, returned November 22 (atc: election). , 1S97 Left New York February 24, returned September 8. 1898 Left New York April 24, returned July 30. 1800 Left New York. April 2Tr returned Au gust 13. 1800-r-Loft New Yorlc November 28. returned June 23, 1000. ,.. 1000 Left New York December 11, spent Christmas In England. 1001 Heturned, to New York September 14. Total time spent In Europe and on steamer in lastrjieven yeara: Three years eight monOTa and 21 "days. It Is evident that If Mr. Shepard Is elected he will have to do the trick without the newspapers, as Carter Har rison, father and son, have always done in Chicago. Great as has been the triumph, in naval architecture in recent years, the skill of designers has not yet been able; to evolve a self-acting battle-ship. Hence the call of Secretary Long for Congress tdf provide adequate means whereby the magnificent ships of our Navy may be efficiently manned and? kept in readiness for action. The one thing that a shlp-of-war cannot do is to operate itself, and the one thing, ac cording to the Secretary' of the Navy, which the Government has not done to make our new Navy effective is to train enough men to operate it. The matter is up to Congress, and Secretary Long warns that body that delay in discharging its duty in the premises may at any time be productive of most disastrous consequences. There may be "a. famine in whisky," as' President Thompson, of the Ken tucky Distillers' Association, said re cently, when commenting on the reso lution of the distillers of Kentucky to hold the output of the state for the coming year down to 25,500,000 gallons; but there never has been anything like such a large quantity of coffee as is now pressing on all the world's mar kets. A trade paper of New TCork says that all the licensed coffee warehouses of that city "are full to overflowing, and their owners have just Issued no tice that the limit of capacity has been reached." .It is a pertinent reflection uDOn the majesty and infallibility of "the law' that the statute concerning the presi dential succession leaves room for a chaotic Interregnum. It provides for the incumbency in case of death of both President and Vice-President, "until a President shall be elected." Who is to rule between election and in auguration nobody knows. Laws, we are reminded, are drawn by fallible men excepting, if we must, the Federal Constitution, which Is regarded by many as of equal authority with the two tables of Moses and perhaps it is. Even if it be true, as Senator Mitch ell suggests and we suspect there is an element of truth in it that pro tective tariff is responsible for the exist ence of the great trusts In less degree than many suppose yet it could do no harm to cut away the support of pro tection from the steel trust, the salt trust, the copper trust, and many more. These colossal trusts certainly do not need It; and as certainly It tends to foster them. Queen Victoria used to be content with a special train of four cars when she traveled, and the same equipment is said to accommodate King Edward, except on extraordinary occasions. In this democratic land kings of finance require longer trains when they travel over their domain. "When It comes to regal splendor, our kings cannot be ex pected to be outdone by any monarch of effete Europe. The dispatch about Czolgosz, that came "West reading "Christian Scien tists" is printed in Eastern papers "Christian societies." An error in transmission seems to be responsible for an unjust aspersion upon a relig ious organization that numbers some of our best-tempered and most patriotic, citizens. A man can save $60, or perhaps $600, by going without shade trees. And he should by all means dos so. Money doubtless Is the only thing In this life tha can delight him. And now we are to ha.ve a receiver for the Portland Savings Bank build ing. If the creditors don't get the worth of their money, somebody else will. Dewet le reported to be dead. The eagerness of the British to believe the rumor shows they have some apprehen sion that the news is false. John Pierpont Morgan came and went. But air and water are just as cheap as ever. - EARIY) VESBHAN REAMSM, Portland art-lovers have a most grate ful opportunity for studying early Vene tian realism, in the- Ladrf" collection of carbon prints now being exhibited in the rooms of theArt Association. The world has unfortunately, been forced to the habit of regarding realism as something that deals exclusively with ugly and. dls-r tresslng blots In human nature or its environment, sickening tragedies of ' ev-ery-day life, such, as Zola, Ibaen, and Kipling deal out to us in literature; and which in art we find in Hogarth's pic tures, in Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lea son," or Goya's terrible portfolio of" Span ish etchings, the "Disasters of War." Very different was the realism, of' the Venetians. Living-In a. glamorous atmos phere of opal sea mists and flaming sun set splendor, such as can only be found in the shifting, luminous vapors of an Island home, the Venetians as Symonds has pointed out in their eagerness to reproduce the colors seen In their native skies, developed, a color-sense that has never been equpded In the history of art; Shelley In "Julian and Maddalo" has de scribed, a Venetian sunset, which he and- Byron saw together: We stood Looking- upon the evening and the flood, Which, lay betwcea the city and the: shore Paved with the image; of the sky: the hoar And hairy Alps, towards the north appeared. Through mist, a heaven-sustaining bulwark, reared Between the east and west; and half the sky Was roofed with clouds of rich emblazonry. Dark purple at the zenith, which stllL grew "Down the steep west Into a wondrous hue Brighter than burning gold, even to the rent Where tho swift sun. yet paused In his descent Among the many-folded hlljs they were Thosf famous Euganean hills which bear, As.seen from Lido through the harbor piles. The likeness ot a-clump of-peaked Isles And then, as It the earth and sea had been Dissolved lno one lako of, fire, were seen Thoso mountains, towering as from waves ot flame, Around the vaporous sun, from which there came The Inmost purple spirit of 'light, and made Their very peaks transparent. "Ere It fade," Said, my companion, "I Tvlll'show you soon A better station." So, o'er the lasune We glided; and from that funereal bark I leaned and saw the cltyf and could mark How from their, many lBles, In evening's- gleam Ito temples and Its palaces did geem Like fabrics of .enchantment piled, to- heaven. This extraordinary genius for color among the Venetians was the direct re sult ot their environment, and a warm love for nature as they found it, and as such was Dure realism. The color is necessarily lost in the monochrome copies now being exhibited, but there" are two or three trustworthy reproductions in color made by the well-known Arundel So ciety, of" London, which, with their golden translucence of atmosphere and sumptu ously appareled figures in the foreground, give the student some slight Insight into the passionate reverence for color that distinguished this Adriat'o people. A nation of merchant princes, living in the midst of civic luxury anct pomp that has made them the wonder even- of Kings, greatly given to splendid display of' pageantry, yet at heart a simple and nat ural people, fresh, wholesome and sin cere, it was possible for them to develop a concept of beauty that appealed to the i senses;- and was almost wholly devoid of I spirituality, yet was not Immoral. The Venetians of the 15th century were a commercial people, and had as little power of idealization as humanity can show in all its diverse types; but their realism was so frank and naive that it. appeals to us with the same freshness of delight as that of the child.. It is, we feel, mere ly the realism that springs from Imma turity. On every canvas, no matter what the subject or what the epoch, they painted themselves, a simple, contented. Joyous people reddened, healthy-loooklng fish ermen; shapely youths with waving hair framing frank and handsome faces? Sen ators in- round caps, long gowns and huge sleeves; women in jeweled bodioes bare throated and" gentle of face, their beau tiful heads set on strong, well-molded shoulders: the Dpge in a mantle of cloth of gold, with ermine mosetta, white coif, and crimson cap set with precious stones. The Christs have no spark of divinity, in them. The Madonnas are merely beautiful women; with chaste but ex pressionless faces. unlighted even by the redeeming quality of human love. Tbey were differentiated from other wo men only by an unsmiling solemnity. Venetian piety could rise no higher. There is nearly always a sad dignity of bear ing in these early Madonnas; some of them are even glum. Those by Crlvelli who clung to antiquated methods be yond his time are clad quite after the fashion of patrician women of Venice, in gowns bordered with pearls, and or naments encrusted with gold. In the original paintings these ornaments were of stucco, raised from the surface. Con spicuous examples of these early stucco ornaments- may be seen in the work of the Vivarinl. A thousand other details of the dally life .of the Venetians, were, In the ear lier Istages of art, crowded fondly on to the canvas even in the most sacred sub jects intended for altar-pieces. Thus, hi Crivelli's "Annunciation," jars of pre serves, fresh fruits, decanters, flower pots, the Inevitable cucumber and strut ting peacocks are pressed up closely to ward the Virgin so as not by any chance to be overlooked by the spectator. In order to exhibit the entire architectural plan of the elaborately ornamented house in which Mary kneels, both the exterior. and the interior are shown, together with. tho perspective of the entire street, dis tant balconies and gardens, with bird cajres and gossiping people. A rather odenooklng Team of" light may be traced from its starting-place in the clouds, downward through the street where it pierces the wall of the house through an ornamented aperture con veniently placed there for it by the oblig ing painter, and comes to an end upou the Virgin's head. Just outside her -window the angel, In slashed Venetian silks and velvet, pauses to hold converse with a cherubic-faced bishop. Certainly In nc other picture can Venetian realism in all its, early qualntness and naivete be stud ied to greater advantage than in Crtr velll's "Annunciation." In the Vivarinl, Crlvelli, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, there is a certain stiff ness, an overdefintteness of outline, the heads are represented In startling relief against the contrasting background, with no atmosphere between. But with. Gio vanni Bellini, greatest ot the 15th century painters In Venice, this harsh ness disappears, never- to return. Con trast the negligent, overconsctous grace of the Madonna In. Catena's "Warrior Adoring Jesus" with any of the Vivarinl or Crlvelli Madonnas, and the influence of Giovanni Bellini will bo seen. He was the first to throw real tenderness and human sympathy Into Venetian art. Note the tragedy of grief shown, in the face of the disciple who attended the "Dead Christ," and. In. another study of tho same subject, the human pity of the two angels 'that bear up the Christ. Giovanni Bellini worked with avidity in the new medium of oil introduced from Flanders by Antonello da Messina in 1473. and bequeathed this rich legacy of color to Titian. Before that time painting had been done in tempera, solid pigments be ing employed, mixed with water In which gum had been dissolved. The new me dium oil stimulated Giovanni and those who followed him Carpaccio, Catena, Cima and the rest to produce that splen dor of coloring that finally under Titian made the Venetian, school without a ri val. The superb pageant pictures painted by Gentllle Bellini, brother to Giovanni, give one a true and lifelike Idea of Venetian pomp and state ceremonial. Contrast with these sumptuous spec tacular pieces the gentleness and sim plicity of the angel musicians In Carpac clo's "Presentation of Christ in the Tem ple." One of them has her head poised as though listening, with Ups apart and with waiting flute. This, as a trivial de tail at the base of the main body of the picture, illustrates the loving care which the Venetians, bestowed upon mere ac- cessorles. A, . ASBSjgMEKTS. Manager Cordray thought he had tested the elasticity of his theater on earlier occasions, but the way the standing-room; stretched last night at the opening of "Yon Yonson" proved to himv that he had. still considerable more to learn about the maxim, to. the effect that there's al ways room for one more. People stood as thick in the foyer as It they had been melted and poured In, while every seat upstairs and, downs was taken early in the evening, and a fair-sized crowd of late comers could not get in at all. "Yon Yonson" is the same old favorite it, always was. The man who called it the Swedish "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was rather more epigrammatic than accurate,, but it surely has the drawing; power of, the "Tom -stow," and while It Is free from praying Evas and baying blood hounds, it keeps people just as Interested as did ever Eliza on the Ice or Topsy grappling with the, problem of original sin. The Incongruity of the situations. Is atoned for by- the fact that they are funny.. The efforts ot tha uncouth and unkempt laborer to show that his heart la in the right locality- keep people- laugh ing, and when, they laugh they have no time to stop and ask questions about the consistency of- plpt. The log-jam, scene throws- In the dash ot heart Interest and makes the-mixture all the more palatable, and the specialties, which are dropped In. wherever there Is a little open time In the plot, seem to be the right things in the right placev and are accepted at tfclr face value, which is uncommonly high. In the case of the present company. It cannot be said that "Yon Yonson" solves, any- problem, that Spencer cr Dar win have failed: to shed light upon, but it can. be said that it amuses people, and that 13 probably all that It is intended to do. Its reception., last night was flat tering. The audience applauded when ever they had a, chance, and made a num ber of chances which they didn't have. They laughed' steadily and consecutively. They cheered now and then, and it was very apparent that they were satisfied. Knute Erickson, in the name part, looks the awkward Swede ho plays, and: his dialect is the kind one hears In the kitchen. He is fully equal to the comedy he Is called upon to furnish, and ia the last act throws In a. very pleasant sur prise in the way of an. original musical specialty. After extracting catchy music from, a banjo, a- broom, and a youthful mandolin he sings a couple of songs In a, fashion which would make him a strong favorite In any minstrel show, and which clinches his popularity with the audience. Beatrice Norman, as Grace Jennings, has not much to do, but does what Is al lotted to her In an, easy and graceful style. Annie Mack Berleln makes a capital Irish woman. Belle Gold as Jennie Morris does a song and dance that is worth while, Edward J. Mack is sufficient as Amos Jennings, and the remainder of the com pany is adequate. The play Is well mounted, the log-jam scene adding a touch of stage-mechanic realism as good" as anything of Its kind. 'Yon Yonson," will be the bill the rest of the week. IVledernanns at the Metropolitan. The "Wiedemann Company, which played a Summer engagement at the Metropoli tan, returned to that theater for a week's engagement last erenlng, opening in a farce-comedy entitled "The Major's Daughter," which made a, decided hit with a crowd that filled tho theater to the doors. The play is supplied with a. plot and a counter-plot, which got mixed badly for the first few acts, but which are finally disentangled In a Uve-happy-ever-af ter finish. Neither Interferes, with, the comedy, which is based largefy on mistaken, identity, and which did a big business in applause last night. Tom and Nellie "Wiedemann, as the lovers in the affair, were the stars, but Jack McDon aldfc usually cast as an all-wool hero or a three-ply villain, donned the cloth and enacted the role of 'a long-faced parson with much effect. Between the actsrthe Mulloly sisters. In songs and dances, scored. Nellie Wiede mann ,wh6 has added some Improvements to her Illuminated dancing.,- earned1- sev eral encores. Bacon and Vane did an op eratic sketch which won liberal applause, and petite Zella Mario gave a dance which, while it was clever and amusing, hardly Justified her removal from her downy beL . Tonight, "Down In Egypt." Politics in Xctt Yorlc. Sefeh Low, candidate for Mayor of New York m opposition to Tammany, Is set ting a pace m his speeches In New York which is livelier than that of any political standard bearer within easy memory. His spoeches. so far printed In full furnish the best of campaign material. They are keen and witty and hit the nail on tho head every time, as the following samples show: Mr. Shepard expressed himself as devoted to homo rule for the City of New York. Well, so am II But I have never, while holding to that doctrine, accepted a nomination at tha hands or a man Rho makes his home in England and rules New Tork from there. ... In hla let ton ot acceptance Mr. Shepard quotea tho Democratic- words of Sllxs Wright. Horatio Seymour and Samuel X. Tllden. and: he seems to forset In this campaign that he la not the candldato of those gentlomen he appears aa the representative of Mr. Crokor, Mr. Devery and Mr. Carroll. ... It Mr. Shepard wants to know who Is responsible- for my nomination this vear. I think I ctrn tell hlmf Tho persons who are reponilblo for my nomination this vear ara the 150.000 men, Kepuoiicans ana Democrats alike, who voted, for me four years ago, and of that number Mr. Shepard. was one. I Speaking of the defense made that Tammany will now be good, Mr. Low sayst A British Admiral by the name of Coflln. who was born. In Nantucket, In returning to Amer ica, told a fellow vojaser that when he got to Nantucket he -would show him. a IobstT a yard long. Well, the Admiral's friend ques tioned it, and so they made a wager. When they reached Nantucket he could not produce any lobsters of the required length, so he fur nished himself with affidavits made by many fishermen that when they and tho dmlral were bojs the lobstera; In Nantucket were a jard lone, and on the faith, 04 those adldavlts the Adrrlral claimed the bet. Naturally, It had to be referred to arbitration, and the verdict ot the. arbitrators wad: "Affidavits are not lob-sters.'-' Referring to the claims about the good Croker has done, Mr. Low recalls that Mr, Tilden once sold of himself that un doubtedly he had a poor memory, but It had never reached that flnar" stage of decrepitude where he recalled what had never taken place. Iiine to Snntos-Dumont, Josh Wink In. Baltimore American. SantovDumont, 'most every day we see a ca blegram Which says,&mt you have taken flight and come down with a slam; You shoot into the aiuro dome which reaches overhead. And ere the cheery have died away, lodgo la an onion bed. Santos-Dumont, there's little doubt that some day you may fly, For you'll be. If you're, good enough, an angel bye-and-bye. One day jou, break the thingumbob that gears the jlnglewhtzz; Next day It Is the rollerfluke that gets put out of biz; The circumambient atmosphere no sooner holds your .ship Than, suddenly the fllptyflop will neither flop nor flip. Remember, Santos, that it Is the little things that count. And, up. to date. It seem3 your name should be Santos-Dismount. Santos-Dumont, here's hoping you will make the old thing work, Until you fly around the globe with neither Jar nor Jerk. And then we'll all get your machines and trav el everywhere It's better than a railroad pass to simply ride qn air. Sq, hurry up, Santos-Dumont, and earn the victor's crown, And fix the "airship sq it T?U 50 up as well as j down. NOTE AXD COMMENT: The wise turkey roosts high these days. "Was yesterday next Spring, or Summer? last Santos-Dumont continues to be one of tho rising young men of the world. J. p. Morgan has seen Portland. Tho question Is now how much he will offer for It. London. Punch Is making cartoons about the Boer "War. They make puzzle pic tures look easy. It is noticed that Hon. Thomas C. Piatt, ot New York, has not yet been made Secretary ot State. Unlike Wu Ting Fang, Marquis Ito has not told Roosevelt once how this country ought to ba run. The case of Miss Stone looks as If it would require the combined talents ot Sherlock Holmes and General Funston. A newspaper; head running "Bill Will Come Up Again," relates to a measure before Congress, not to Bryan. He Is down for good. Mr. BrodTlck asserts that the British have plenty of troops In South Africa, They are apparently suffering from, an overproduction of Major-Generols. It ha3 been decided that a man, named Schulz, who recently, fell Into the hands of the Russian, authorities, is not an American. It is also probable that a man named, Alexandrofosky who has recently been, sent to Siberia, Is not a Chinese. At Parfe, on the 23th ult. the Assietto au Beurro was seized by the authorities for publishing a. caricature of King Ed ward of the same character as those prlntd some time ago of Queen Victoria which excited such deep indignation In England. Dr. Garth, physician and versifier, 'Who lived In the time of Addison, when lin gering late over his wine one night was asked by Richard Steele it his patients would not need him. The doctor had the honesty to. reply that it did not matter in the least whether ho saw them that night or next day; for nino had such bad constitutions that no physician could cure them, while the remainder had such good ones that all the doctors In the world could not kill them. One of tho most popular playwrights in Paris was recently a victim of a practical joke. In order to get peace and quiet ness to finish a play, he went to a, country town. At the station, to his astonish ment, he was received with hooting and also cordial shakes of the hand from a crowd of entire strangers. He found h's villa surrounded by a great throng and his appearance was the signal for hoot ing and cheering. In despair he went to the Mayor of the town, who calmly in formed" him that- he wa3 Dreyfus in dis guise. A parish priest, going the rounds one July day in a little Irish village, met a farmer whom he knew well, but who was a Protestant and- not a member of his flock. Says Pat: "At ye plaso, yer rlverince, would yo be so koind as. to pray for a wee drop o rain como Sunday next, for sorra a thlng'll ' grow in mo little garden wid the present hate of the weather?" "I'm sorry to hear it" said tho priest, kindly, "but why do you not ask your own clergyman. Pat?" "Ah, shure, yer rlverince," replied Pat. "and what for would I bo axin' him to pray for rain wld thlm cocks o hay a-standlng on his lawn?" Tammany's betting fund for the com ing election. It is said, amounts to 110. 000, and will be placed to tho best ad vantage. Most of tho betting will bo done by John Consldine, who has not yet placed any money, but is ready to d" 1 so. ine present ouuook, no sy, j a even money. It seemed to surprise h when he was told that a bet had be made at 10 to 9 In favor of Seth Lov "Although I think tho betting is eve just now," ho sold, "It will probably fa vor Shepard In the long run. It is very likely that some business men, who aro Interested In seeing Low win, might bo t willing to give odds for the sake ot effect. but I do not think that will be generally rthe case." A masked robber on a bicycle recently I held, up a- stage coach near White Cliffs, New South Wales, and; carried oft the mails and a parcel of opals worth $7000. Thj3 is explained by the fact of White Cllff3 being tho moat Important opal field in Australia. More than 2000 men there earn a. hard and precarious living by digging these beautiful stones out of the sun-baked clay. No sort of mining is more laborious or more purely specu lative. The digger; ptolfrbW morning till night for six months or a year, per haps, In the heart-breaking desert, with out finding a traqe of opal, and then suddenly he sees something glittering and he may come on lumps, or rather layers, that make, him a capitalist In a few minutes. Recently a lad from Sydney who had slaved and starved for nearly 13 months without earning a penny, left his own shift In despair and struck into an abandoned claim alongside. In half an hour he took out a stone for which he got ?C500 and which was probably worth double as much. PIEASANTRIES OF PARAGUAPHERS The Up-to-Now Influenza. "Have you hay fever?" "No; that's, old. I have the electrlc fan sniffles." Puck. His Specialty. "Will your Uttle brother sins a song for a penny?" "Naw; but he'll frow a fit fer a nickel." Judge. A RopoFt. He How Is the new cook getting along? His Wife Well. I had to discharge her twice this morning, but sine then she's been doing fairly well. Brookl n Life. Evidence. "Does Mr. Bllmmln3 know much about hor-ie races?" "No," answered tho man. n 1th a faded and experienced look. "How can jou tell?" "By the fact that he la willing to bet on them." Washington Star. The Polite Touns Man. "Yes," said, tho haughty young woman una tvai a Colonial dame, aa well as a Daughter of the Revolution, "my great-great-grandnlre fell at Bunker. Hill." "Ice or banana skin?" Inquired the polite young man from Milwaukee. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Heartless. Teas It jou doa't love hira. why don't iou let him know It? Jess Well, he sends me flowers and takes me to the theater. ou know, and Tes3 But. gracious' I don't see how you can play with his affections that way. Je;s Play? I call that "working'1 them. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. A. (before the full-length, portrait of a girl) Oh. If I only krow the painter of this! Artist (stepping forward, joyfully) Permit me, madam, to Introduce myself as the painter. Mrs A. What extraordinary good luck! Now you will tell me won't jou the address of the dressmaker who made this girl's frock? Tlt-Blts. Her One Request. "Charley, dear," said loun Mrs. Torklns, "there Is one favor I wait to ask you. I hope you will realize It Is for your own good and not get angry." "What Is It?" "I want you to solemnly promise mo that you will never bet on a horse that isn't going to win." Washington Star.