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.. 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,
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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.