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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, OCTOBKR 31
TO MAKE THE JETTY EFFECTIVE.
Today -The Oregonian presents a sub
ject of supreme importance, not only
to the people of Oregon, but to those
of the whole Columbia Basin. It 5s
dealt with at some length, yet the mat
ter is compressed as closely as is at
all consistent with the necessity of
making the subject sufficiently under
stood. The presentation in this form is
-due to conferences between the editor
and Judge M. C. George. The article
on another page was written by Judge
George, whose interest in the -subject
began when he was Representative in
Congress, many years ago, and has con
tinued to this day. His acquaintance
with the maps, charts, surveys, hydro
graphy, official reports, general history
and extensive literature of the subject
is very complete. From this knowledge
the paper signed with his name is writ
ten. The Oregonian commends it as a
strong statement, and believes It will
be a convincing one. The object Is to
awaken an attention that will secure
re-examination by the proper authori
ties of the conditions at the mouth of
the Columbia RiveF, with a view to
modification of the-fetty plans, so that
the channel may be reduced to a width
much Jess than that contemplated in
the present plans for extension. In
stead of a width of four miles or more,
the .channel ought not to be more, or
much more, than one mile wide. Any
extension of the jetty that shall not
reduce, and greatly reduce, the width,
The Oregonian believes will be of little
advantage. And, with deference to the
opinions of those who propose extension
of the jetty without reducing or con
tracting the throat of the channel. The
Oregonian submits that it does not call
for -any special of technical knowledge
of -river engineering to enable one to
see or conclude that the way to get a
channel is to make a straight course
for the river to the sea, confined within
limits that will give' the currents of
river and ocean the necessary power,
in direct lines, for scouring a channel
and. ' t Or maintajnlng it. As Colonel
Mendell puts it," "To concentrate the
river within moderate limits, and to
discharge -its waters as a unit to the
sea, are the objects sought." These
have ibeen effected only in partial de
gree, because the channel has not been
sufficiently contracted. Nor will it be,
by extension on the plan -proposed
though some further improvement may
be possible on that plan. "What Is re
quired now Is extension of the jetty on
a plan that will reduce the breadth of
the channel at the mouth of the river
toHlmits that will assure the results
desired. It is certain we shall get the
result, if we narrow the throat of the
river suluciently. Whether it be prac
ticable to. reduce the width to one mile
is a question for expert opinion. But
it certainly can be reduced very far
within the limits of the present work
and the proposed extension. It must be
so reduced, as The Oregonian con
ceives, or the result will be wholly dis
appointing. In the text of Judge George's article,
and in the diagrams printed with It,
the details necessary to a fair" compre
hension of this situation are supplied.
They are stated with so much clearness
that repetition of them here would add
nothing to their force, and condensation
of them would be scarcely possible. The
main facts are that the channel, though
considerably contracted by the work al
ready done, yet has not been narrowed
enough for desired results; that if the
present jetty shall be extended seaward,
on the lines proposed, the extension
will be of little present and no perma
nent service, for the channel will not be
made narrower by it; that further con
traction of the channel is the one de
sideratum, indeed the one Indispensa
ble thing; and that this is attainable
only through change of the direction
of. the Jetty to a more northerly course
and through extension of it to a point
opposite the North Cape and sufficiently
near it to "concentrate the river within
moderate width" say one mile or not
much more and to "discharge it as a
unit to the sea." The North Cape is a
fixed point The problem is to establish
a line of jetty to a point opposite this
cape and establish the head of the jetty
there, sufficiently near the opposite
cape to leave an opening similar to that
at San Francisco Bay. Any plan that
does not compress the channel within
the width of one mile, or at most one
and a half miles, will not answer the
purposes intended. The work done thus
far is not useless, for it Is serving the
purpose of building up Clatsop Spit,
and it has somewhat contracted the
river and thereby has improved the
channel, but. It leaves the river too
wide; and what is a matter of still more
concern is this, that the extension as
proposed will not reduce the width, but
.will merely carry the jetty out further
into or towards the sea, leaving the
mouth as wide as at the present time, or
wider still.
"What should be done, and what
course should be pursued, to reach the J
desired end? The suggestion, at the
close of Judge George's article, is an
excellent one. Since the extension of
the jetty as proposed would be an error.
"let the coming river and harbor bill
contain an appropriation for the im
provement of the mouth of the 'Colum
bia, but to be expended on such plan
as may be approved by the present
Chief of Engineers. Colonel Gillespie
has fortunately recently become Chief
of Engineers. Let him be given a fair
chance again at this great work, and
after this lapse of twenty years, and
empower him at his discretion to ap
point a board of engineers to review,
with all the light we now have, and
let General Gillespie, who for years was
local engineer In charge, now say what
plan of jetty extension and from what
point will secure the greatest benefit."
The work has not followed the plan
suggested by him when he was the en
gineer in charge here, and we trust he
will again become Interested In it, and
cause the whole subject to be reviewed,
in the light of present knowledge. Fi
nally, let us say that this is the one
subject of supreme importance to the
State of Oregon and to the great val
ley of the Columbia River the extent
and position of which make it a' sub
ject of highest National importance as
well. The jetty is to be extended. Let
the plan be reviewed, that assurance
may be had that the extension will be
effective. The whole solution lies in
sufficient contraction, of the channel,
and no greater length of jetty will be
required to contract it to one mile than
to leave it three or five miles wide.
NAVY DEPARTaiENT'S FAILURE.
It will require a tremendous "amount
of resolution for the Schley court of
inquiry to find against "the accused,"
as the Navy Department's counsel in
fellcitously designated the hero of San
tiago. The charges against him have
been discredited and the general effect
of the testimony has been to win favor
for Admiral Schley in quarters where
he has been regarded with distrust
The principal counts against him are
six: (1) Failure to find that the Span
iards were not at Cienfuegos; (2) slow
ness in going to Santiago and in the
retrograde movement; (3) ineffective
blockade at Santiago; (4) failure to en
gage the Colon in face of the shore bat
teries; (5) the "loop"; (6) nervousness
and fear during the battle of July 3.
It is true that on some of these
counts, notably the one about the San
tiago movement and the retreat toward
Key "West, the first witnesses called by
the Navy Department conveyed a dis
tinct impression of irresolution and de
lay on Admiral Schley's part. But this
now seems to have arisen more from
the witnesses' lack of knowledge of
what was passing in the Admiral's
mind than from any shortcoming on his
own part He and those near him have
given lucid and satisfactory explana
tions of the movements, delays and
changes. The country expects a verdict
of acquittal.
Schley was assured that the Span
iards were in Cienfuegos. The con
sensus of expert opinion, both at Wash
ington and on the ground, also pointed
to the conclusion that Cienfuegos was
the natural place for them and San
tiago next to impossible. A plan was
concocted for communication with the
insurgents ashore, who could have told
him better. But the code of signals ar
ranged and intrusted to McCalla was
not communicated to Schley, who was
of all men the one most required to
know it The excuses given by McCalla
for this failure on his part form one of
the most discreditable and suspicious
exhibits in the whole affair.
As to the Santiago and the retro
grade movements, the testimony Indi
cates that the Admiral was anxious to
coal, but regarded the weather unfavor
able, that his determination to avoid
being caught in battle short of coal
was well-advised, and that as to his
slow rate of speed in moving to Santi
ago his progress was Impeded by slow
and disabled ships, and that he could
mbve no faster than his slowest vessel.
As to the Santiago blockade, Admiral
Sampson In an article in the Century
stated that Commodore Schley main
tained a blockade of Santiago harbor
at a distance of twenty miles. None of
the witnesses put his ships at a greater
distance from the mouth of the harbor
than eight or ten miles. Schley him
self makes it five or six.
It is also shown that avoidance of
the Spanish shore batteries in the re
connoissance with the Colon was ob
served upon the express mandates of
Admiral Sampson and the War De
partment They wanted all the ships to
fight the Spanish ships with. His ap
parent attack on the Colon was in
tended to develop the caliber of the
Spanish land guns. It is noteworthy,
regarding the fifth charge, that in his
testimony of yesterday Admiral Schley
exactly confirms Captain Wood's ac
count of the celebrated "loop"; and it
is worth recalling that Captain Eulate,
of the "Vlzcaya, described this move
ment as a remarkably brilliant ma
neuver to avoid the ramming he had
planned to give the Brooklyn. The
charges of fear and nervousness are
contradicted by every man who was
near the Admiral during the engage
ment It was the misfortune of Admiral
Sampson that he was absent from the
battle of Santiago until the victory was
won and the last Spanish ship had sur
rendered. But it was not Admiral
Schley's fault, and Admiral Sampson's
friends made a terrible blunder when
they undertook to punish Schley for
-"Sampson's misfortune. The trial has
only served to bring out in clearer
light the magnanimous and soldierly
qualities of Schley, the ungenerous na-
ture of Sampson, and the meanness of
the naval clique's conspiracy. Upon
the useful and honorable career of a
great sea captain, Admiral Sampson, a
cloud has fallen, through the ill-advised
efforts of his fool friends. If the pres
ent court fails to render justice to
Schley, a Congressional inquiry will
supply the lack.
ASIATICS CANNOT BE EUROFHAN
IZED. Sir William Mackworth, Lieutenant
Governor, of the Punjaub, in a recent
public speech admitted that the Eng
lish training and education of the na
tive chiefs of 'India had not thus far
been crowned with success. Meredith
Townsend, an Englishman who has
lived ten years in India, reaches the
conclusion that the English experiment
in India is so much a failure that if
the English should turn the country
over to its native rulers today there
would be nothing left In a few years to
show that English civilization ever
ruled the country, save a few splendid
roads, many useless buildings and a
memory that in a century of new events
would become extinct. The Romans,
after occupying Britain 400 years,
utterly failed to Romanize it, and the
English have utterly failed to Europe
anize India. If Alexander the Great
had lived he might have Hellenized
Asia, but since his death there has been
no advance to the prospective perma
nent domination of European influence
in Asia. Persia beat back the Roman
when he tried to follow In the steps of
Alexander. The Roman could Roman
ize the Gauls and the Iberians, but of
Asiatics he Romanized not a single
tribe. Neither Russia nor Great Brit
ain today has as yet exercised any abid
ing influence upon the conquered mil
lions of Asiatics. Great Britain has en
forced a peace in India that has pro
duced manifold blessings but she has
neither won over or converted any large
section of her subject population.
The people of India today are incur
ably hostile, awaiting only their oppor
tunity. There are but G60.000 native
Christians in the 300,000,000 of India's
people, and many of these are mere
nominal Christians for revenue only,
and the Christian creed has no percept
ible place in any one great province.
On the other hand, one-fifth of the 300,
000,000 of India are Mohammedans.
The Mohammedan missionary succeeds
because he leaves his converts Asiatics
still, while the Christian evangelists
strive to make their converts not sim
ply Christians, but middle-class Eng
lishmen. The convert Is practically re
quired to renounce one civilization and
to accept another not ln"his eyes higher
than his own; he is compelled to break
his caste, which means to give up his
fixed position In the world, his kinsfolk
and his friends," his domestic law. If
the British Army departed, the Moham
medans would soon rule the peninsula,
for the warlike, fighting races of India
are largely of that faith. So strongly
persuaded is Mr. Townsend of the real
failure of English rule to persuade In
dia to accept the civilization, he ideas
"or the creed of the English people that
to the question "Will England retain
India?" he is disposed to answer in'the
negative. He is convinced that Asia
will ultimately regain her own, and the
work of governing India will be trans
ferred from European, and Christian to
Asiatic and Mussulman or pagan hands.
The -railways will be "torn up; the uni
versities scouted by native military
rulers; the whole work of the- British
conquest will be undone, and India be
reduced to the condition in which .Eng
land found her. The greatest experi
ment ever made by'Europe in Asia will
prove as complete a failure as the Ro
man occupation of Britain. Turning
from the English experiment in India,
which he insists will fail because the
ineffaceable distinctions of race were all
against it from the first, to China,
Japan, Turkey and Trans-Caucasian
Russia, Mr. Townsend argues that the
inherent differences between Europe
and Asia forbid one continent perma
nently to conquer the other. He grants
that temporary partition of Asia may
take place, hut insists that no lasting
conquest of Asia by Europe is practica
ble. It would take ten armies of 10000
men each to merely penetrate Asia and
garrison it in a military sense. It hag
nearly 900,000,000 of people, and in these
millions are included warrior races of
formidable powers of attack and resist
ance, who outnumber all who speak
English. Three Asiatic soldiers, the
Turk, the Sikh and the Japanese, have
already adopted European arms and
discipline, and they are probably equal
on the battle-field to the Russian rank
and file. The Turk is said to be the
best individual soldier in the world.
These Asiatics are not primitive sav
ages, but civilized people, whose civili
zation has been arrested so that it does
not rise to the level of enlightened
Europe.
Asia is too vast in territory, too nu
merous In population and too highly
though imperfectly civilized to warrant
the belief that its conquest would
be practicable or Its partition perma
nent The action of Japan is not re
garded as an object-lesson of European
influence; Japan has only adopted Eu
ropean arms, discipline and tactics, and
some of the European methods of taxa
tion and revenue, just as the Turks
have adopted European artillery. In all
essentials the Japanese and the Turks
both are today thoroughly Asiatic. This"
is not a sanguine view of the future of
Asia, but doubtless it is a correct one;
It would be Impossible to pin with bay
onets a new civilization upon a very old
continent like Asia, composed of great
and small nations. Mr. Townsend pre
dicts that the American will not rule
the Asiatic of the mainland, chiefly be
cause he will not wish to rule him and
that his ultimate attitude toward all
Eastern races, like his present attitude
toward China, "will be that of rather
contemptuous guardianship."
The open season of ten days for deer
began in Vermont on the 22d Inst.
Despite the fact that deer are become
so plenty In Vermont as to be a great
damage to the farmers, under the Ver
mont law no person may kill during the
open season more than one deef. In
Maine from September 1 to October 1
one person may kill one deer for food
purposes, to be consumed in the local
ity where taken, and In the open sea
son, from October 1 to December 15, one
person In that, time may take two deer.
The more stringent provisions of the
Vermont law have resulted in that
state" being fairly overrun with deer.
The deer are so numerous and so tame
that they run over cultivated farm
lands and gardens, trample down and
browse upon the growing grain and
vegetables, and are most destructive to
orchards. They can leap any ordinary
fence or wall, and if the Legislature
does not extend the open season and
Increase the number of deer that may
be killed, every farmer will be obliged
to put a wire fence eight feet high or
higher about all his cultivated and
orchard lands. The State Game Com
missioner says the animals are rapidly
increasing, and that the Legislature oi
1902 will have to adopt some liberal
game laws in order to protect the farm
ers. Twenty-five years ago deer were
ex&nct In Vermont, save a few in the
wild parts of Essex County, in the
northeastern corner of the state. About
1876 a few deer were brought from the
Adirondack region of New York State
and turned loose in the mountain for
ests of the state. They were protected
by law for twenty years, and there was
no open season until 1896.
The greatest strength of Edward M.
Shepard, the opponent of Low for the
office of Mayor of New York, lies In
his excellent personal character and his
high reputation "ag a lawyer of excel
lent ability. He is also the author of
the best biography of Martin Van
Buren ever written. The nomination of
Shepard .was a shrewd move on the
part of Croker; it was a bone thrown to
the angry dog. Of course, thinking
men like ex-Mayor Hewitt and Carl
Schurz cannot be induced to vote for
the Tammany ticket, because it is
headed by, an able man, whose per
sonal character Is clean; but the great
mass of Democratic vomers will be satis
fled with the nomination of an able man
of good repute, and without a very
strong Democratic support Low cannot
be elected. The registration falls a
good deal below that of 1900, when it
ought at least to have equaled it, had I
the people been deeply aroused against
Tammany. This failure to obtain a full
registration means either comparative
indifference or unwillingness on the
part of a good many voters to take
sides. If New York throws away this
chance to unload Tammany, Croker
and his political heirs and assigns are
likely to be in the saddle for a long time
Ho come.
Montana is to be congratulated upon
a matter reported by Governor Toole
as the result of his observations dur
ing a recent visit at the State School
of Mines at Butte and the State Nor
mal at Dillon. "The Montana boy,"
said the Governor, "has an ambition
above teaching school, and he leaves
that field open to the young women."
In explanation of this statement he
says:
Out of about 70 students at the state normal,
we found but five boys. The rest are happy,
healthy and good-looking girls and young wom
en, who are studying to become instructors and
educators. At tho State School of Mines the con
ditions are reversed. There are about 60 stu
dents, and I understood there were but two j
women among mem, ana tney were noi regu
lar attendants, so that It shows that thB
Montana boy's mind and ambition run to the
knowledge and practical pursuit of mining,
while the Montana girl is not infringed upon
in the field of her chosen profession.
It would seem from this that he
young people of Montana are applying
to their future needs the advice of
Longfellow:
Study thyself, and most of all note well
Wherein kind Nature meant thee to excel.
Boys do not go amiss when they
choose the sturdier vocations of life,
while girls make no mistake in choos
ing those which are womanly. Therein
"kind Nature meant thern to excel."
The Czolgosz family prudently waived
their right to claim or attempt to re
move for burial the body of the assas
sin. Crankism unfortunately did not
die with this assassin, ,nor did he rep
resent the only phase of it. The danger
that his dead body would be mobbed
and perhaps carried away piecemeal
by a frenzied throng athirst for venge
ance upon the President's murderer, If
given to his relatlves-by the prison offi
cials, proves this. So, on the other
hand, the hundreds of letters addressed
to the assassin during the brief period
of his incarceration offering sympathy
and attempting to offer consolation, is
In evidence on the other extreme. These
cranks have been ignored and outwit
ted, impartially; the letters failed to
reach the assassin, being stopped at
the prison office, and his body was pro
tected from indignity by simple burial
In the prison yard. Thus closes without
public sensation or peril to officials In
discharge of their duty the black chap
ter in our National history that was
opened to the public view on the 6th
of September.
Missionary endeavor in Bulgaria has
indeed not been an eminent success.
Instead of' teaching the people there
Christian morals, it has in effect done
the opposite. "Thou shalt not steal"
may be In the Christian moral code, but
Miss Stone's missionary zeal has re
sulted In the exaltation of stealing to a
virtue. Nothing succeeds like success,
and success is the greatest of all. re
ligions. The success of the bandits if
they get that $110,000 will be a more
potent religion for them than all the
precepts of Christianity combined. The
Issue Is now before the Christian world
and ItszeaIous workers. But the Chris
tian world evidently prefers to rescue
Miss Stone and to debauch the morals
of the brigands. It is not clear that
Miss Stone has achieved much success
in preaching the gospel as her Teacher
bade her. ..
Decent people can now pass along
Fourth street, from Ankeny to Flan
ders, without being molested and hav
ing their sense of propriety shocked by
the inmates of disorderly houses ad
dressing them from windows and doors.
The police have given the order that all
window blinds must come down, and
that all doors must be kept closed In
that portion of the town, and the order
is being generally obeyed. It is a
change In the right direction, and ought
to be made permanent.
Edward, S. Stokes, who killed "Jim"
FIsk in January, 1872, is dying of
Bright's disease In New York City.
Stokes did not kill Fisk because of Josle
Mansfield; he killed him because' Fisk
used his opportunity through the Erie
Railroad to ruin his business. Stokes
escaped with four years' Imprisonment.
There is said to be a shortage of wood
at Salem. That Is probably the reason
why certain county official's up that
way are squabbling instead of "sawing
wood."
The Issue of annexation of suburbs
to the city or separation therefrom
seems to vibrate according to persbnal
interests of property-owners.
Dewet may be dead, but in view of
the fact that the Boer War is not
ended,the British may be excused from
gloating over the rumor.
Perhaps when it is all over, Sampson
will want a court of inquiry, too.
ADVANTAGE OF-GOING 'BAREFOOT
Letter In Brooklyn Eagle.
Were it not that there-is a large per
centage of the human race still troubled
as Naamari,- the Assyrian" leper, was, that
Is to say, hankering after some great
thing to happen to Improve their physical
condition, there Is small doubt but that
many who are today afflicted might be
free from suffering, many of the Sick per
fectly well, and that without money and
without price.
The immediate incentive to this commu
nication, that pathetic tale of self-destruction
on Columbia Heights reported
in the Eagle Friday of last week, would
never have been told nor the poor family
plunged into the grief of the widow and
fatherless had John C. Topping known
and believed what every man on earth
should be convinced of the vital truth
told by the writer In the New York Medi
cal Journal 'of Juiy 19, 1S92. That an
nouncement of a perfectly new theory ol
disease received marked "attention at the
time from many of the leading physicians
of New York. Including the late Dr.
Loomls, Dr. Bolton Bangs, Dr.' LaldlaW
and many others; and It may be men
tioned, much to the credit of the profes
sion, that to this day medical advice con
tinues to reach the people of Greater New
York in goodly numbers, directing them
to practice, free of cost, what was then
recommended and which, in so many
cases, has redounded to the permanent
benefit of sufferers.
The gist of the article was, as stated at
the time, "that civilized man Is seriously
damaged in health by wearing on his feet
a covering in the shape of prepared leath
er or composition for soles, which, more
or les9. insulates his body from tile
earth."
From numerous historical and anthropo
logical data and -from common everyday
facts the truth of this proposition was
sought to be established; for example, the
marked inferiority In general bodily health
of the civilized, as compared with the
savage or semi-savage, of whatsoever
race, color or climate, who never placed
anything between his foot soles and the
earth. The lower animals are also health
ier than man, who uses them, unless they
are deprived of natural foot contact with
mother-earth. If this is done, they very
soon deteriorate and suffer as man does.
The horse is shod with iron, which, being
a conductor, does not injure him. But, if
a piece of sole leather is placed under
each of his feet, not fastened there by
nails, but with thongs around his fetlocks,
as our shoes are secured to our ankles,
the horse in a short time becomes infirm
and useless. This ls not'only theory: it Is
fact, which the writer has more than once
seen demonstrated most practically. Dogs
which enjoy out of door liberty are
healthy; but lap dogs which keep the
house -and walk like their mistresses
mostly on fine Insulated carpets, quite fre
quently have to go with their mistresses
to th dentist from toothache,. It was
told. In the papers the other1 day that one
of the monkeys at the Central Park Zoo
had to have a tooth extracted, as one put
it, "just like a human being"; in other
words, actually, as it were, setting up for
human privileges!
Again, .a curious fact is found in
"Brown's History of Man." To wit, that
Professor Brown was quite unable to ac
count for something he witnessed in West
ern Africa. He visited and was kindly
received by the King of Dahomey, a
savage, whqm, to the professor's astonlsh
menfhe found suffering from severe eye
trouble and toothache. The professor
was the more surprised at this, because,
after diligent search, he could not find one
other person In all the King's dominions
whose eyes and teeth were not perfect
He mentions, however, under the head,
"Habits, Clothing, Etc., of the People,"
that the whimsical King wore gorgeous
silk sandals on his feet and that, by a
special edict, no other person In his king
dom was allowed to wear any foot cover
ing whatsoever. The King monopolized
the first concession that the savage ever
makes to civilization and he bore all the
pain of it in his own royal body! ,
Suffice to say here that,, unimportant as
this theory seems to some professional
healers that opinion being generally held
in an inverse ratio as to the real Impor
tance of its holders it is fearlessly sub.
mitted as a subject eminently worthy of
scientific research that no human being
ever died or suffered from pulmonary
consumption, disease.of the kidneys, heart
disease, cancer or any other of our most
dread distempers, nor one. ever had
diseased or aching teeth, defective eyes,
baldness or Insomnia who ffom his birth
never wore .any protection but such as
nature gave him for the soles of his feet.
The trouble in the demonstration of this
great truth lies in the fact of its belng'ln
the majority of cases a gradual and slow
process, and that anything remedial to be
believed in In these days must be some'
thing great and costly, preferably some
drug that acts like dynamite. But that Is
not Dame Nature's way; and after all,
and contrary opinions notwithstanding, to
that woman's mandates t we must bow If
we would have health.
Some nervous complaints are not so
tardy In responding to the restoration of
natural conditions; and here Is where In
somnia, which drove -poor Mr. Topping to
his grave, comes in. The worst case of
Insomnia Is easily overcome, and the
sufferer will sleep like a "baby if he will
walk on fresh-turned-Up mold or on the
grass in his back yard. To avoid taking
cold, however, the experimenter should
kep his ankles and even the uppers of his
feet clothed, say, with gaiters, and the
moment his walk is finished he must
plunge his feet Into cold water, afterward
rubbing them hard with a coarse towel
till they glow with a fine natural heat;
then he at once resumes his shoes and
stockings. To hang around, even In the
heat of Summer, with bare feet, Is almost
sure to lead to colds. Half an hour's
exercise in this way morning and evening
will enable any one of normal physique
to enjoy natural, refreshing sleep, even
where the strongest opiates have been
used and at last- failed.
Let any.man consider the wonderful na
ture of the soles of his feet. Is It not
suggestive that here, where In the nat
ural state, they would meet the earth
at every step, are marvelous clusters of
nervesprovided by the Creator, "as all his
provisions are, for seme beneficial pur
pose? The question seems to be: Is it not ab
solutely necessary for people to remember
that, whatever strides-we make toward
refinement and elegance of living, we can
never with impunity shed our amenability
to the unalterable laws of nature?
What is necessary in deciding this mat
ter is some honest reflection, but, above
all, intelligent, practical tests for the
satisfaction and great benefit 'of people
who suffer and fail to find relief from
medicine. GEORGE QUARRIE.
Mr. Cockran'n Rennonn.
New York Sun.
Mr. Cockran will support Mr. Shep
ard because:
First, after accepting the Tammany
nomination, Mr. Shepard declared his vir
tue to be unimpaired, in Mr. Croker's
presence.
Secondly, Inasmuch as "no boss can be
dislodged by reverses at the polls," Mr.
Cockran maintains that It Is better to
aid in the master boss' triumph, trusting
to future attacks upon him from within
the ranks of his own army.
Carried to its logical conclusion, this
latter principle would require that, if yo.u
want to beat a party, join it! Don't
shell the organization from without Get
Inside of It and blow it up1!
Subsidies ol No Avail.
Atlanta' Journal.
The folly of trying to build up foreign
trade by subsidizing ships has been clear
ly demonstrated by France, tho country
that has carried the subsidy principle fur
ther than any tfther. France, after
spending hundreds of millions in ship sub
sidies, finds her commerce smaller and
weaker than it wag when she began that
policy. She has Increased her subsidies
time and time again, but her merchant
marine has continued to 'decrease steadily.
AMUSEMENTS.
It took "The Sea of Ice," a five-act
melodrama, to awaken the latent possi
bilities of the Wiedemann company. The
playgolng public has suspected that these
possibilities were lurking beneath tho re
spectively fair and manly countenances
of the members of the company, but not
until this chilly titled melodrama was en
acted at the Metropolitan last night was
assurance made doubly sure.
"The Sea of Ice" is a drama for your
money. Its turbulent story opens on the
rocking billows on the good ship Urania,
whose captain and crew are tossed over
board by an indiscreet stage villain named
Carlos. They land on an iceberg, and
the next curtain goes up on an atmos
phere that makes on strain his eyes to
catch a glimpse of a scantily clad Eliza
and hark for the deep baying bloodhounds.
But neither the mulatto nor the canines
are forthcoming. Instead the captain or
the ship and family, consisting of a wife
and child, appear, and are followed by a
sailor styled Barabas. They make a
few well-chosen remarks, the tenor of
which Is that the ice Is going to break
up presently, and that their prospects are
bright for Interment in a watery grave.
Incidentally they express very Indifferent
regard for Carlos. Verifying prophecy,
the ice breaks up, splintering and crash
ing, and soon the rude, tempestuous surges
dash high before the footlights, tossing
on their foamy bosoms the child, who,
having fortified herself with a prayer,
clings calmly to a cake of ice and rides
safely Into port The port she makes
happens to be in Mexico, where she Is
adopted and naturalized by the Aztecs
or some other Intelligent race, and after
la years meets with some of her fellow
voyagers, who, of course, do not recdgnlze
her. The natural thing for Carlos to do
is to fall in love with her. The same
portion is the lot of one Horace, who
wears the tight-fitting clothes and noble
brow of a hero. All hands go back to
France, where Carlos, who is wide be
tween the eyes, elevates himself to power,
casts Horace Into the bastlle, and Is
about to deport the girl's female friends
among the fellow-voyagers back to Mex
ico, when she springs a pleasant surprise
on him by becoming his wife. She didn't
marry him to reform him, either. She
still feels that he Injured her wnen he
murdered her respected parents, and after
cowing him to the floor with a few
searching looks,, she makes a covenant
with Barabas, who has evidently swum
back to France, to pull off a general un
masking scene, and as a result Carlos'
crimes become known to the world, and
she is ready for the final curtain In the
arms of Horace, whom she loved all the
time.
The play Is elegantly costumed, some
of the garments worn by the men being
giddy enough to turn the heads of tne
most fastidious matinee girl. The stag
ing is all that the play requires, the Ice
scene being particularly pleasing.
Frank G. Long, as Carlos, afterward a
French nobleman, with a long name, does
most of the work, mostly consisting of
soliloquies, which he delivers with becom
ing enthusiasm. Jack McDonald was nis
usual animated self as the captain of the
ship, and afterward as x noble who has
gone against the game to the tune of
10,000 crowns. Tom Wiedemann Is Hor
ace, of pale face and large heart, and
Nellie Wiedemann Is the girl, putting on
diminutive Zella Marie In the first act as
an understudy, the years of the character
being at that time something like two,
rather a tender age even for a stock com
pany leading lady to portray.
"The Sea of Ice" will be the bill tonight
and tomorrow night It will be found
worth seeing.
"The Casino Girl" at the Marqnam.
The sale of seats for "The Casino Girl,"
which comes to the Marquam Friday and
Saturday nights, and Saturday matinee,
opened yesterday, and the demand was
such as to assure big houses. Tho book
is said to be one of the brightest that the
prolific pen of Harry B. Smith has turned
out. and the music, which Is by Ludwlg
Englander, is fully equal to the best work
of that well-known composer, whose music
for "The Rounders" is so well known In
Portland. Manager Samuel E. Rork, un
der whose direction the comedy will be
given, promises an adequate production.
"Hunting: for Haivklns" at Cordray's
The cast of the company which will pre
sent "Hunting for Hawkins" at Cordray's
Sunday night and next week, is composed
of well-known actors, many of whom have
been seen In Portland 'before. John L.
Kearney, who plays Hawkins, was here
with "A Stranger in New York." playing
the stranger, and also with Belle Archer,
in "A Contented Woman." Others In
the cast are: Alf Grant, Frank C. Young
and Bessie DeVole, Bertie Conway, last
seen here In the soubrette role Genie, in
"Ole Olson,"; George D. Melville. Frank
Ely. Donald Harold, C. L. Kohsin, May
Thompson, Effie Kamman and Maude Al
lertoji. "Theodora."
Mrand Mrs. Clarence M. Brune will be
seen at the Marquam Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday nights of next week. In
an elaborate scenic production of "Theo
dora." Mrs. Brune will be remembered
as Minnie Tittel, for many years a favor
ite Portland actress, and afterward lead
ing lady with Frederick WarXe. The
company Includes a large number of peo
ple, and the scenery is said to be un
usually good. The sale of seats will begin
Friday.
Hi Kerry's Minstrel.
lil Henry's minstrels, which have never
failed to play to good business In Port
land, will open an engagement at the
Metropolitan Sunday night, and will re
main through the week. Manager Baker
made a special effort to secure them, and
feels sure that his selection will be ap
proved. A number of improvements have
been made In the organization this year,
and It Includes many well-known burnt
cork comedians and vaudeville people.
Its band Is said to be the best carried by
a minstrel show. Seats are now one sale.
South's Bar to Expansion.
Chicago Chronicle, Dem.
Americans must learn to treat men as
they individually deserve, and not put a
ban on the highest merit when It appears
in an Individual of a particular race.
They must learn this or they will fall
lamentably In their new and world-wide
ambitions.
"The Melancholy Days."
Josh Wink In Baltimore American.
The melancholy days have come, the saddest
of the year
The time when parodies like this on every side
appear:
For now the gentle poet takes his facile foun
tain pen
And rhyming dictionary, and essays the task
again;
He grinds It out the yearly ghost about the
"somber haze."
And eke the grouchy coal man of "the melan
choly days."
The melancholy days, forsooth! Now pumpkin
pies are here
In all their mellow yellowness to make ex-
istence dear;
The arrogant mosquito to some other clime has
hied.
-And, oh, we have the oyster now, escallopcd,
raw or fried;
The. mothballs and the pawnballs from our
overcoats we raise.
And yet the parodies appear on "melancholy
days."
The melancholy days, indeed! The leaves are
gay with gold.
The air Is crisp and bracing with its tingling
taste of cold.
The stars come close and closer in the clear
October night.
And everything combines to help along the
appetite;
But still the gentle poets tune their yearly
bunch of lays
To groundless rhymes about the absent "rael-
Ancholy days."
NOTE AtD COMMENT.
He that hath a gate, let him look to It
A sign on a barber shop rends: "Com
pressed air used on all customers." Is
thui an improvement on eas?
Boys will be boys, a fact that will
make it necessary for policemen to ex
ercise unusual vigilance tonight.-
Czolgosz was not even granted the priv
ilege of having a good press agent write
advance matter for his entertainment.
It Is time for paragrnphcrs to take their Jokes
out of the pigeon-hole
And amend thom by striking out Ico and sub
stituting coal.
It will take the President a good many
years to live down all the anecdotes of
his boyhood which have been published
lately.
English papers approve Roosevolt's ac
tion re Booker T. Washington. Perhaps
Br'er Washington will be invited to the
coronation.
Bryan Is going to try to wrest Nebraska
from the Republicans. If he does "the
talking, It la likely that the Republi
cans will do the wrest.
The Chinese object to Minister Wu be
cause he la too popular. Perhaps they
had better hire Admiral Sampson to rep
resent them at Washington.
If Hall CaJne is elected to the Manx
Parliament, Marie Corelll will have to
take unto herself a husband and try to
get Into a mothers' congress.
Ccrvera cannot get up any enthusiasm
about the court of Inquiry. Whoever
won the victory, his navy remains at tho
bottom of the salt, salt sea.
The rich man may not stand a very
good chance of getting Into heaven, but
he Is able to buy his daughters a few
bunches of chrysanthemums now and
then.
Perhaps with the great improvements in
telescopes which have been made lately a
certain Admiral will be able to see tho
next battle that is won by the fleet under
his command.
The talk about sympathetic strikes re
minds Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, of one that he
conducted when only a boy working on a
farm. He relates: "The force of hands
had dwindled to two, a fellow named Joe
and me. The farmer decided to dischargo
the other fellow, whereupon Joe suggested
that I should stop work also, leaving the
farmer In a fix. This I did. I went out on
a sympathetic strike; but the result was
that the farmer hired Joe back again, and
I was left out in the cold."
An Important cricket match was re
cently scheduled in an English village
and, to the disappointment of everybody
the best player was unable to play, owing
to a sprained wrist The new curate was
hurriedly substituted, and by his bril
liant play secured a victory for the local
team. The next morning as the squire,
himself an enthusiastic cricketer, was
leaving the church, where the curate had
just preached his first sermon, he was
asked by the vicar what he thought of the
new curate. "Oh," responded the squire,
"his voice is weak, his doctrine shaky,
he Isn't as learned as he should be, but
his cricket Is a fair eye-opener. We must
keep him. even If we have to pay him
double tho salary."
The Bank of England Is a healthy Insti
tution, with a capital of over $72,000,000
and a surplus of about 51S.000.OCO. yet the
governor receives a salary of only 510,000
a year. Small city banks pay as much as
that to their presidents. The pay of its
24 directors Is 52500 each per annum. Tho
bank is a vast building, one story high
and perfectly Isolated. There Is not a
window to be seen in its walls. The of
fices are lighted from the roof, or frorr.
the nine inner courts and garden. At
night a detachment of the Foot Guards,
commanded by a Captain, watches over
the safety of the "Old Lady of Thread
needle street." During the day the private
watchmen of the company Itself suffice to
maintain order. The bank Is Intrusted by
the treasurer with the arrangements for
the Interest on the national debt, consols,
annuities, etc.. and receives from the gov
ernment as payment for its services about
51,3CO,0CO.
MIss Dena Ellison, who lives near Pro
montory Butte, Ariz., Is famous through
out the Southwest as a bear killer. She
has killed so many of these brutes that
her memory cannot keep track of their
number. Miss Ellison's father moved to
Arizona from Texas 16 years ago, as ho
declared that the Lone Star State was
becoming "too civilized." and his cattle
lacked room to graze. Now he has room
enough. His 20.CCO head of fine stock can
roam over a territory 100 miles square and
nothing to .step their movement. It was
long Colonel Ellison's habit to spend his
leisure hours with his hounds pursuing
bears and mountain lions. When his
daughter, Dena, grew old enough to ride
a broncho she. would often accompany her
father on his shorter hunting trips. Her
first bear was killed with a revolver after
It had attacked her In a rocky defile and
killed her horse. The girl then lassoed
one of her victim's cubs and killed the
other with a shot. With the live cub tied
fast to her saddle she proceeded home to
tell of the incident
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAP1IERS
That Ended It. Maud What makes you treat
Jack so coldly? You used to And him so In
teresting. Marie Didn't you know I was en
gaged to him now? Town and Country.
Few Can Do It Successfully. "Why do you
say he Is a man of no Judgment?" "Because,
when he finds a dialect story that amuse3 hlna
he tries to read It aloud to his friends."
Chicago Post.
Her Economy. Mrs. Falttc She isn't a very
good manager. Is she? Mrs. FInde No, In
deed! Why, She had to buy four extra turkeys
so a3 not to waste the dressing she had made
for one. Harper's Bazar.
How glorious these October days.
When Nature wear3 her fairest looks.
The splendor of the changing leaves.
The misery of changing cooks.
Suburban Paper.
Going Easy. "He Is dying very calmly," ob
served the physician, as he felt the pulse of
the sufferer. "So like John." softly spoke 'ha
prospective widow. "He always was an easy
going man." Baltimore American.
Beginning at Home. Jasper I understood
that you had turned over a new leaf, and were
even going to love your enemies; but It seem
to me that you love no one but xourself. "Well,
I am my own worst enemy." Life.
The Count I weesh to marry your daughter,
salre! I am worth one hundred tousand dol
lalre. The Millionaire But I thought you
were a bankrupt. The Count I mean zat I
am vorth zat moch to you. Brooklyn. Life.
Self-Approval. "Young man." said the se
rious person, "don't you realize that the loa
of money is the root of all evil?" "Well,"
answered the spendthrift, "You don't see ma
hanging onto money as it I loved It, do you?"
Washington Star.
Faint" Pra'se. Towne I hear JacK Fllgher
was arrestea for running his automobile at
the rate of 10 miles an hour. Browne Yes.
and he's fighting mad about It. Towne Why.
does he deny the charge? Browne Yes. h
considers It a gross libel upon the speed of hla
i machine. Philadelphia Press.
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