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THE JkTCXRNINQ OBEGONIAN, TUESDAY; DECEMBEE 31, 190f. 6 he rsgomo Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as seond-class matter. REVISED, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month i Sj Dally. Sunday excepted, per year i &0 Dally, with Sunday, per year J 00 Sunday, per year - y The Weekly per year j The Weekly. 3 months D0 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays exceptefi.l5c Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays lncludcd.200 POSTAGE RATES. United States Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper- .........lo 14 to 2S-page paper .... ..o Foreign rates double. need only to go ahead upon present lines. There is, too, a world of wisdom In the message which Mr. Kimball, the leading New Tork apple dealer, sends to the makers of the Oregon product. News or discussion intended for publication in The Orcgonian should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oresonlan." not to the name of .any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription or to any business matter 6hould be addressed elmply "The Oresonlan.'' The Oresonlan does not buy poems or stories from individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscript sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should te inclosed for this curnose. Eastern Business Office, 3. 44. 43. ?. 4S- 40 Tribune building. New Tork City; 4C0 "The Rookery," Chicago: the S. C. Beckwith special agency. Eastern representative. For sale in San Francisco byUE. Lee. Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Eros.. 230 Butter street: F. W. Pitts. 100S Market street; J. K. Cooper Co.. 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry news stand. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 50 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 100 So. Spring street. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. For sale In Omana by Barkalow Bros.. 1CU Farnam street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 W. Second South street. For sale in Ogden by W. C. Kind, 204 Twenty-fifth street, and by C. H. Myers. On file In the Oregon exhibit at the exposi tion. Charleston, S. C For sale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo, by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 000-912 Seventeenth street. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers; warmer; southerly winds. Increasing In force. POUTLAXD, TUESDAY, DEC. Ol, 1001. TROUBLE FOR "OLD COMMUNITY.' It Is plain to be seen that the new railroad policy Is in peril. It is men aced both from without and from with in. The movement from the outside is In the form of an attack on the North ern Securities Company, the so-called railroad trust. But there Is also evi dence of Internal discord, evidence that the jealousies and selfishness that for merly disturbed the relations of great railroad managers have not all been sunk in community of ownership. The Hill and Harriman Interests are still rivals. The Burlington must "tote fair" with both Great Northern and Union Pacific, or there will be trouble; and if it is fair with those lines, there are eight or ten other roads between Omaha, Chicago and St. Paul that may take traffic away from the Burlington, and that will make trouble. It was a great idea to -extend com munity of ownership in order that har mony might prevail In the railroad world. If the originator could have had it patented or copyrighted, all might have gone well. But whether Mr. Bill, Mr. Harriman, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Schlff or somebody else was first to evolve the new policy, he could not keep it to himself and he -could not occupy the whole field at once. Consequently sev eral able-bodied financiers and railroad organizers were soon playing at the same game. A certain stage of prog ress was attained without conflict. Each great system could be harmonized within itself, but It must have relation with other lines or systems,, and here is where difficulty was encountered, a difficulty that is not yet solved and is loaded with disaster for the great rail road combines. Perhaps It is disappointing to Mr. Bill to find that the people of the Northwest do not unqualifiedly Indorse his great "harmonization" scheme. He may be disgusted at the dogged determination of Pacific Coast ports other than Puget Sound to remain on the map. But his querulous plaint will- not disarm his ad versaries nor defeat them. It will not turn the course of commerce. Mr. Har rlman still holds his own counsel, but it is easy to be seen that he has not ob tained all he desired in the Burlington settlement. Be has deprived Mr. Bill of power to use the Burlington to dis embowel the Union Pacific, but it may be doubted whether he has such influ ence as will prevent the Burlington from competing actively with the Union Pacific Indeed, if the Northern Securi ties should be dissolved and the North ern Pacific preferred stock retired, the Union Pacific would be entirely unpro tected In a situation that would be un endurable. It Is safe to say that Mr, Harriman will not suffer his interests to go unprotected. Be will not, for exam ple, permit control of the Northern Pa cific to escape him before the status of the Northern Securities Company shall be fully settled, for if he should permit this, Mr. Bill himself might be very willing to see the trust dissolved and the Barriman people thus turned out in the cold. No man can see what will come of the present railroad movement. It is big with possibilities. Unquestionably events of the past year have made the idea of Government ownership more welcome to the people than it ever was before. But it cannot be supposed that the fictitious "valuations" manipulated into railroad stocks will ever be taken as a basis of negotiation for Govern ment control. At the Esime time, men who are in the game are making vast fortunes by putting together and tear ing apart great systems, and if it were not for the overtowering frailties of human nature, for conflicting individu alities, ambitions, passions, prejudices, hopes and fears, there would be hardly a check to the lust for power. The in eradicable element of human nature may be read in the conditions that threaten to disrupt all the nicely-laid plans of the railroad magnates. A FRUITLESS APPEAL. On the whole, the dissatisfaction ex pressed by Republican newspapers with the Philippine tariff bill is greater than might have been expected, for party discipline Is strong. It was to be ex pected that such independent journals as the New York Evening Post, Boston Berald. Philadelphia Ledger and Bul letin, and Washington Post would con demn the illiberallty, but not, perhaps, ' that positive and even indignant pro test would arise from such supporters of the Administration as the New Tork Tribune, Chicago Inter Ocean and Bec-ord-Berald, and San Francisco Chroni cle. "We have printed from day to day extracts from these papers, which show a gratifying coincidence with the tariff policy toward the Philippines that was urged by The Oregonlan directly upon the Supreme Court decision on the four teen mamona rings case. The present effort Is directed toward securing from the Senate an amend ment of the Bouse bill, reducing the Dlngley rate on Philippine Imports. An excellent basis for such action Is the recommendation of the Taft Commis sion, which favored rates only 50 per cent of the Dingley schedules. "The Philippine Commission," the New Tork Tribune correctly observes, "Is undoubt edly the best judge of the political ef fect within its jurisdiction of a tariff law. If by granting this request we can teach Filipinos that peaceful till ing of the soil pays more handsomely than bushranging, we shall be solving our colonial problem and saving much money. The few Interests that might possibly suffer somewhat by the pro posed reduction in duties are not to be compared in Importance with the whole Nation, which is concerned to establish peace and prosperity In the Philippines at the earliest possible minute." And the Chicago Inter Ocean makes this pointed appeal: Fortunately, tho Senate remains to protect tho American and Filipino peoples from tho narrow-minded legislation rushed through the House by the Hon. Sereno Fayne's duplicity. .The Senate can and undoubtedly will take due cognizance of tho Taft commission's expert knowledge. It can and should insist upon treating the islands with a generosity profit able in every way to their people and to our selves. The Senate must save the Nation from a policy which will make the Philippines an other French Tonquln or Spanish Cuba on our hands which by condemning the Filipinos to hopeless poverty will continually incite them to rebellion. In other crises Jthelr Senate has not failed the American people, and they look to It to rescue them from disaster in tho Phil ippines. These are considerations that must carry great weight with every man who recognizes the necessity of cultivating good will in the Filipinos and with every man who is jealous of his coun try's honor. "We do not think the Sen ate is overpopulated with persons of this description. Therefore, much as we deplore the Payne injustice, we have no expectation that the Senate will re gard the Filipinos any more favorably than did the Bouse. Neither trans pacific trade nor Pacific Coast devel opment is dear to the hearts of the average Eastern business Interests that are influential with Congress. To ad dress the Senate upon considerations of wisdom and justice would be an act of supererogation and almost criminal waste of time and strength. cause as a sheltered and guarded, non combatant creature, a woman might grow up into saintly shape with her high, heroic virtues unalloyed with any of the vices which seem to be mixed like base metal with the virtues of his most heroic men. One of the most heroic soldiers in bat tle during the Civil "War was a New England volunteer, who. In spite of his low origin and very limited education, rose rapidly from the ranks to a Lieu tenancy. Be knew the tactics; he never lost his head; he was a natural-born leader of men In battle; he Ifad the ringing voice, the nerve, the coolness, the daring, the executive energy and skill. And yet that young fellow had been under grave suspicion as a thief before he had enlisted. Be spoiled his fine military record by turning ma rauder, and after the war ended he was convicted of robbing the malls. Gen eral Briscoe, of the Unlcn Army, a most gallant officer, at the very close of a most brilliant career was disgraced and dismissed the service for misappropria tion of Government funds. There Is al together too much made of the virtue of physical courage in battle; it is a very desirable and necessary quality, but very bad men quite as frequently have It as very good men. Napoleon had so little faith In "good men" making the best soldiers that he said: "Every sol dier ought to be a scoundrel, and if he was not already one, the sooner he be came a scoundrel the better soldier he would be." Vrhile this Is not true of mod ern warfare, It Is nevertheless true that heroic courage in battle docs not neces sarily imply that because a man is without fear he Is also, without re proach. Many men have been as brave in battle as Sidney or Bayard; few men have been as humane and honorable In peace or war. that attends this ravishing game could not be more strongly stated than In these words. In a restricted sense they might be made to apply to whist, which as a professional game Is deeply absorb ing. As a light amusement the Inci dent of an evening's entertainment this game, and in fact any game suit able for such a purpose, cannot be "ex hausting," and hence may be Indulged with Impunity. Under conditions of sharp competition, however, which tax mental alertness to the utmost and con stantly reveal new possibilities that the enthralled player Is eager to pursue, prudent people ?who are alive to the value of. time and mental effort may well echo the sentiment of Josef Boff man concerning chess-playing, that "it takes so much out of a person" for which no return Is made. It will be worth the while of Oregon fruitgrowers and others to read an arti cle on another page of this paper, treat ing of the Oregon apple trade in New Tork. It appears from careful observa tion and Inquiry that the apple product of this state has the call in all markets where It is known, and that it easily commands the trade at a higher range of prices over all competitors. Criticism of Oregon products from the standpoint of their preparation for market Is an outworn song, and it is truly refreshing to hear it said of one branch of our strictly home industry that it is pursued upon the basis of expert skill and that it makes a pace which rivalry Is un able to follow. More important, how- COURAGD NO ASSURANCE OF HONOR George Alexis, Rough Rider, former clerk In- the mailing division of the New Orleans postofilce, who was appointed on the personal recommendation of President Roosevelt, was convicted on the 22d Inst of having stolen articles from the mails. Alexis was Lance Cor poral in Company I, of the Rough Rid ers, and his military record of wounds received and of courage and bravery at El Caney and in the trenches at San tiago was of the very best. The popu lar delusion that a very brave man la seldom or never a thief is quite as often discredited In life as the popular as sumption that a bully is usually a cow ard. For the sake of peace and human happiness it Is a pity tliat a bully Is not always a coward, but, unfortunately for the weak In this world, a bully, while always a brute. Is not seldom quite as brave as the pugnacious dog his phren ological lines and curves recall. Sir "William Gordon Cummlng, who was ex pelled from "the Prince of Wales' clique" for cheating at cards some ten years ago, wag a soldier with a splendid record for gallantry in face of the en emy. The truth is that courage In battle is a very cheap and common quality. Pug nacity carries with It np necessary as surance of pecuniary honor or truthful speech. Mere pride and vanity make many a cheap, worthless man behave with personal courage in battle. Bene dict Arnold behaved with matchless courage both at Quebec and Saratoga, where he led his troops until he fell wounded with the desperate valor of Ney at Waterloo. Marshal Massena, who alone of all Napoleon's great lieu tenants remained absolutely undis mayed in the hour of terrible defeat and retreat at Aspern, was an utterly heart less, rapacious man, a thief In all money matters Intrusted to him, utterly dissolute In his habits; a man of low vices and vulgar life, even when past 50. Marlborough, who was as serene and composed in battle as he was In a court drawing-room, was a traitor, a liar, and the most venal of men. A man of moral courage, who would never stoop to He or steal, might make a very wretched soldier in battle, and a man without a particle of truth, pecuniary honor or honesty might face and storm a battery. Some men are physically brave part of the time; some men are phys ically cowards all of the time, but very few men, as Napoleon and Wellington both testified, are brave all of the time. There Is no in consistency between the capacity to behave courageously in battle and an Incapacity, to refrain from cheating at the card table, or an inclination to play the part of a liar, a traitor or a land pirate. AH of Shakespeare's villains abound in physical courage. Shakes peare knew that in human nature very High qualities are sometimes found as sociated with very mean trails. Indeed, soUruthfui a painter was Shakespeare that all his most heroic men are marked "with some gross infirmity. There is a deal of dross mingled with the gold of their nobility. Purity of character we find among some of his women, but among none of hi3 men, who are stained more or less by sin and spiritually scarred by the rough conflicts and cor rupting rivalries of this world, and Shakespeare was too true an artist to sketch them as saintly figures; but some OCR LATIN-AMERICAN ELEPHANT. There 13 no reason why differences between European powers and minor American states should not always be susceptible of settlement without re course to arms, and without friction between Europe and the United States. There are no hard and fast lines for these settlements, or for the part that this country Is to play In them. They are matters for diplomatic and reason able adjustment. Neither Germany nor the United States should be put to the humiliation of having to fight over so small a thing as Venezuela, The position the United States will occupy in this Venezuela matter is, of courae, the version of the Monroe Doc trine contained in President Roosevelt's December message to Congress. "We do not guarantee any state against punishment If It misconducts itself," he says, "provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power." The expression is unfortunate, for it seems to overlook the fact that Great Britain Is very much an American power, and territorial aggression of hers In South America would be resented as promptly as would aggression on the part of Germany, as it was, as a matter of fact, resented by President Cleveland In lS&i, in the case of thi3 very same troublesome little state of Venezuela. But In general the theory is correct enough, that we do not propose to stand between small American states and the consequences of their own acts, includ ing the collection of their debts. Tet there Is nothing today that stands between war and the enforcement of the Monroe -Doctrine but the sagacity of diplomacy. This Is competent to avert It, but It may at any time fall If impulsiveness usurps the place of dis cretion, either at Washington or Ber Un. It Is all very well to say that Germany can collect her debts from Venezuela in every way except by seiz ure of territory. But if there is no money forthcoming from the empty Venezuelan treasury after threats of every sort have failed, what Is Germany to do? Great Britain was In the mood to back down, but Germany may not be in that mood, and certainly there Is a good deal of unfriendly feeling for us In official German circles. About all that can be said of our un dertakings under the Monme Doctrine is that the certain prospect is infinite trouble and ajinoyance. What the Mon roe Doctrine really Is, hew far Europe will accept it, to what extent we would carry en war to defend it, what assist ance we should render Europe to collect Its Central and South American debts, what moral support we should render unwilling American debtors to defraud their European creditors these are all questions we should greatly enjoy to settle offhand over a small battle, dis miss the subject and go on to something more congenial. But that is impossi ble. Between jealous misconstruction put by Europe upon our motives and the scrapes into which Latin-America Is always getting itself, our adherence to the Monroe Doctrine is certain to In volve endless difficulty and even dan ger. Tet we must maintain It, In order to our own peace and secdrlty, and we are Increasingly able to do so. In this way we contribute, unintentionally, to the unrest and disorder of the planet. Except for the Monroe Doctrine, the people in South America would long ago have been delivered ' from revolu tionists Jnto the hands of Teutonic stock that could and would rule them in pros perity and justice. Senator Boar lately reduced to the form of a resolution the suggestion that followed the assassination of President McKinley in regard to the banishment of anarchists to an island all their own. This resolution provides that the Pres ident be requested, if he shall deem It practicable, to enter Into negotiations with other civilized countries, looking to an International agreement on the pro posed method of segregating anarchists from the reBt of mankind. While It Is not probable that the President will deem such, action practical, there Is some speculation in regard to remote possibilities in the case. In the event of such an agreement being reached, the Island selected and anarchists ex iled therecn, it would be but fair to leave them to their own devices, with full permission to experiment upen each other. Think of Berr Most, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Abraham Izaak and their dupes of the Czolgosz and Brescl order abandoned to their theories and cut off from rescue! Satis faction at the certain result Is only clouded by the thought that the wlshed for'experlment will, In all human proba bility, never be made. TAXING PHILIPPINE IMPORTS. " Chicago Inter Ocean. Tobacco-growers in any foreign land can sell their raw leaf In our markets by paying a duty of So cents to 51 S3 .per pound, according to quaUty. But the Philippine grower, living upon what the Supreme Court has solemnly declared, to be American soil, must pay from 3S.4 cents to $1 92 per pound. Foreign cigars can enter our markets at a duty of W 50 per pounds and 25 per cent ad valorem. But Philippine cigars must pay 54 57 per pound and 5 per cent ad valorem. Brazil, Egypt or any other foreign land which does not pay sugar bounties can send Its sugar here by paying a duty of 519 a ton on raw and $S9 on refined. But Philippine raw sugar must pay 519 45 a ton, and refined 529 45 a ton. Forty-live cents a ton may not seem much, but it is a discrimination against an American product In favor of a foreign product. Nor do the beauties of the Payne tariff seem to end here. While we compel the islands to pay these taxes in order to sell their products to us, our raw sugar, when sent to them, pays but 514 73 a ton, and our refined but $27 27 a ton. Our leaf to bacco, to enter their markets, pays only 22.7 cents a pound, and our cigars only 0.9 cents a pound. In other words, we put low taxes on our products entering the Philippines, and high taxes on their chief products coming here. We compel the Filipinos, In order to trade with us, both to take and to pay prices fixed by us. Against this precise policy on the part of the British Government our forefath ers took up arms. We have not hitherto given the Filipinos any reasonable excuse for rebellion. The Payne tariff. If it be comes a law, will provide mat excuse. It ought to be called "an act to increase poverty and incite rebellion In the Philip pine?." If wo want a Tonquln on our hands, this is the way to get it If we wish to have Spain's experience with .Cuba, this is the way to get It. Th6 Payne tariff is a scandal on the faco of It. We still await evidence that It Is anything else in essence and intent. In an account of the sinking of the French bark Benrlette at Astoria, the Tacoma Ledger alludes to the Columbia as "that unlucky river." The same Issue of the Ledger contains accounts of the loss of the fine new schooner Min nie E. Caine end the American ship Santa Clara, together with a number of minor marine mishaps on Puget Sound. The Benrlette and her cargo were worth less than $15,000. The Minnie E. Caine and the Santa Clara were worth about $150,000. If the mishap to the Ben rlette justifies the Ledger in dubbing the Columbia an ''unlucky" body of water, what in the name of the great Mount "Tacoma" would It term Puget Sound? The open season for deer In Wisconsin resulted in a death "roll of seventeen men killed and thirty-three wounded. The casualty rate of Maine during the open season for deer was nine men killed and fourteen wounded. The mod ern shooting rifles ussd are deadly at two miles, and their power of penetra tion Is so great that some persons have been killed by bullets that had passed through the animal shot at. A bullet that, after passing through a large tree trunk or a thick board, has still pene trative power left sufficient to kill a man, makes the woods a perilous place In the hunting season. The law should forbid the use of such weapons by sportsmen. Matters of Faci. Boston Herald. The United States has sent out a com mission to the Philippine Islands to In vestigate and report what is just and right In our National uxfilcy with regard to them. The commission is composed of able men not men who are against keep-, ing possession of these Islands, but who favor it. What do they say In their re port on this tariff question? They "ear nestly recommend" tha. Congress reduce by 50 per cent tho United States duty on tobacco, hemp and sugar and other mer chandise coming from these islands. At the head of this commission is Judge Taft, the Governor of the Islands. He is a Re publican and -high-tariff man, appointed by a Republican and high-tariff President. He cornea to Congress with this testlmony and advice as to what It is wise- and proper to do. Congress receives It, and acts directly In the face of what it dc clarcs should be done. The 'high tariff people make their own selection of men who are to Inform themselves and pass upon the needs of the Philippine Islands. They obtain Information upon this point, and they refuse to act, as it In effect in structs them to do. By so doing they proclaim that they hold the Philippine Islands not to benefit tho people who in habit them, but to use them to promote the assumed interest of people who live In the United States, several thousand miles away. President Roosevelt invited "Mr. Dooley" to dinner the other day, despite the fact that "Mr. Dooley" Is the author of the keenest bit of political satire that has ever been penned concerning "Colonel Rosenfelt." Blstory here only repeats Itself, for Suetonius records that the great Julius Caesar, whenever any man wrote any lampoons about him, only laughed and Invited the author to dinner. It was lucky for the "Mr. Dooleys" of ancient Rome that Julius Caesar had this bump ol humor abnor mally developed in his head, or they would have lost their own. The State of Washington very prop erly honors In death the man whom It honored In life. The mortal remains of Governor Rogers will be borne to the grave with every mark of the respect in which he was held, both in private and in official life. The press of Washing ton, and, indeed, of the entire North west, has given generous tribute to his worth, and the people, forgetting polit ical differences in the final summing up of a life's record, sincerely regret Its untimely close. Principle vs. Pelf. Pittsburg Post. The record of the Republican Congress men who voted against the Philippine tariff bill is rather more honorable than that of the Democrats who voted for it. The five Republicans voted against lt.be cause they did not believe In Imperialism and on principle. The three Louisiana Democrats who voted for It did so be cause they were bought up by the Dlngley tariff on sugar proposed to be levied on the Philippine product. Their opposition to imperialism was only a pocket-book question. AMUSEMENTS. Jefferson De Angelis was Introduced to a big Portland audience at the Marquam Grand last evening through the excellent medium of "A Royal Rogue." by Charles Klein and William T. Francis, and before he had been five minutes on the stage he had easily proved himself as the funniest comic opera comedian who has ever been seen there, although Frank Daniels, Fran cis Wilson and other stara of that same magnitude has played In the theater re peatedly. De Angelis Is always funny. He can sing a song with no particular humor in it and extract roars of laughter from every part of the house. He has a tire less fashion of scattering all sorts and kinds of acrobatic dances in his path, each one funnier and more original than the last. He can make the most ordinary colloquy so irresistible that no one can look upon It and keep a straight face, and his faculty for creating all sorts of "business" to accompany his every action amounts to positive genius. While he was on the stage those In the oudlence laughed till they were actually exhausted. and had to look away to rest before a glance at the comedian should start them off again. Every song in which he par ticipated was encored again and again, and the one he sang by himself called for so many repetitions that for a while it locked as if nothing else would be doing for the rest of the evening. It Is doubt ful If ever a comedian made such a hit in Portland; certainly no comic opera- ever provoked so much mirth, or called forth such boundless and boisterous applause. De Angelis ha3 in "A Royal Rogue"' a most excellent opportunity, as both book and music are wonderfully clever, and the lyrics, which are by Grant Stewart, aro of a high order. The piece is of the time of the French Revolution, when the citizens were thirst ing for the gore of everything royal, and Baptiste Ballou a baker (De Angelis), gets himself mistaken for the head and front of the whole aristocracy, a Due who yearns to possess the crown and mow off the heads of the entire plebeian mob. It is his efforts to escape arrest for debt as a baker, to evade the clutches of a de signing widow as the Due, and to refrain from committing suicide as a GeneraL whom he later impersonates, that create most of the amusement. De Angelis is equal to It all. From the time of his sud den entry till the fall of the last curtain he Is an alternate picture of piteous dis tress or lofty exultation. His affectations of extreme hunger, in the second act, was looked upon as being as funny as possi ble, but a little later he made twice as much fun out of a mere conversation with a soldier. Furthermore, he knows how to sing a funny song as It should be sung, and this, added to his marvelous ability to dance, gives him a hold over his audi ence that is never for a moment broken. There are others in the cast, which is to say the supporting company is good. Henry Norman, a baritone with a fine voice, plays the part of one of the as sassination club members with much droll ery, and his voice is the life of many of the songs and choruses., Helen Byron, as dainty and clever a soubretto as one would wish to see, Is of much personal assistance to Mr. Do Angelis In the part of Bnllou's daughter. Gertrude McKenzie US2S a sweet clear soprano so well In the one song she sings as to create a desire to hear more of It. Adclla Barker is a ludicrous French Duchesse; John Dudley makes much of the small part of George Girodet, and Edmund Lawrence is an ex cellent La Blanc. ' The chorus is good, and doc3 full jus tice to the fine music of the opera. 'Ihe concerted numbers are all well put on, particularly taking being the double sex tet in the beginning of the second net. The costuming and scenery are all that modern art could make them. "A Royal Rogue" will be repeated to night and Wednesday night, and a holiday matlnce will be given Wednesday (New Year's) afternoon. KGTE AXOMMENT. Last call for resolinsj The weather remainoncommlttai. If you have swearrfrepare to swoar them now. We'll get those D. Christmas, maybe. Indies for next Be sure that your ceVration doesn't become a "hang over." This afternoon the weg SUn Will bid farewell to 1IH The husbands of some wi have cigars to burn in the kitchen sto During the last week no oncould justly accuse General Miles of taiklV too much. Schley says the "Incidents Js closed. Here is another proof that h$s a great Hcarlnjr on Rcprocity. Boston Transcript. The vote of the Philippine bill shows, pretty clearly what would be the fate of any reciprocity treaty that might come up, because on these question the Senate Is likely to be quite as Bourbonlsh a6 the House. This attitude Is simply purblind, unpatriotic, and unwise, whether looked at from the truly National or the selfishly partisan point of view. The City Jail will probably no longer be an asylum of revelry and a palace bf case, and the paeans of laziness will no longer float through its halls. If hobos had a good appetite before, it follows that now their appetite should be doubly good. The corridors of the bas tlle will now blaze with light and bray with minstrelsy, at the expense of tax payers, to good purpose. Condemned, but Invincible. Philadelphia Times. Every newspaper of any real independ ence in political expression condemns the bill relating to the Philippine Islands which the Republican managers are trying to jam through Congress. But that will not stop It. The Republicans have the majority and they will pas3 It, although few of them believe that it is a piece of wise, legislation. COMING ATTRACTIONS. "The Girl From aiaxlin's" at the Mnrqnum. The sale of scats will open at 10 o'clock this morning for "The Girl From Max im's," which comes to the Marquam Grand Theater next Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, with a matinee Saturday. Heading the list of players, In the titular role of the play. Is Miss Lena Merville, who is said to Interpret the character of Praline, the Moulin Rouge dancer, to the life. W. H. Turner, who plays Dr. Paty pont. Is credited with a clever rendition of the role of the much-harrassed physician. Others In the cast of principals are: Joseph Allen, John H. Armstrong and Harry Dull. THE RED SEA PASSAGE. Representative Kluttz, of North Caro lina, asks Congress to answer this ques tion: "11 immigration Is a good thing to enhance the value of the arid lands of the West, why is it not equally good that the Government should spend money In draining the millions of acres of swamp land in the South?" In Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida there are millions of acres of land that are today not worth 50 cents an acre, but drain the water out of tHese swamps and these lands would be worth $50 an acre. As early as Washington's day that able man of business often discussed the project of redeeming the lands of the "Dismal Swamp," and today an asso ciation of Northern capitalists Is pre paring to redeem a million acres of the Florida Everglades. The great Okefcn okee Swamp, of Georgia has been re deemed la spots by drainage. Under these circumstances. It Is plain that if the West asks the Government to irri gate its dry lands, the South will be sure to demand that the Government drain Its wet lands. The difference Is that the arid lands belong to the Gen eral Government and the swamp lands do not. Four thousand deer and 173 moose were killed In Maine thl3 season. This refers only to the number of animals brought out of the woods. Many are killed and eaten In the woods, or are allowed to He where they fall. Not less than 12,000 deer are .killed In Maine each season, and their present numbers are estimated at from 100,000 to 150,000. A Judge in Minnesota has Issued a restraining order against retiring the preferred stock of the Northern Pacific. The conference of Governore In Mon tana could not accomplish so much In a hundred years. A battle was never won by a debating society. A Glnrlufr Inconsistency. San Francisco Chronicle. Sending soldiers to the Philippines to suppress rebellion against the sovereignty of the United States and Isolating the Isl ands commercially, as If they were for eign territory, constitute an Inconsistency which no amount of explanation can eradicate. Let's 13 e Consistent. Boston Herald. We ought not to make fish of the Fili pinos and flesh of the Porto Ricans. Con sistency forbids It, and statesmanship points out the propriety of putting our new possessions on a par In rights and privileges In each of the two hemispheres. The Chinese cannot understand the conflicts between Christian sects. That Is because they do not know what "evangelical" means. In this some min isters of Portland are wiser than they. One of our gravest objections to a war with Germany Is that the Kaiser would probably lead lilg forces In per son. We think too much of him to en joy putting his prestige In such peril. -er. la the assurance that a vast and profitable field of business remains to be I of his great women are made to stand exploited, and that our apple producers for the ideal or periect womannoou ot Josef Hoffman, the wonderful pian ist, states the case in regard to chess and chess-playing succinctly when he says: "I delight In chess and have some talent that way, I believe, but I dare not play it. It is too exhausting. It takes so much out of a person and it leads to nothing but more chess." 1 The waste of time and mental strength England will abandon the project for increasing Its navy Instead of abandon ing the Boer War. Although it would be cheaper to abandon the war, such a course would be more expensive. The comparative smalinesa of the de linquent tax account shows that citi zens are learning to pay their taxes. After all, it is a losing game to try to beat out the tax collector. Slight Learn From the Romans. Washington Post. The Rorams were model conquerors and empire-makers. They never oppressed their new subjects: never interfered with their customs, religious observances, lan guage or social Institutions. They exact ed tribute, maintained their domination with an iron hand, but there was no petty tyranny, no meddling In domestic affoir3, none of the Intolerable nigging which Is worse than captivity and famine put to. gctlier. We might take a leaf out of Rome's book greatly to our profit. We take the Filipino, whose Ideas and habits" aro the growth of 00 years and whose religion has for at least four centuries been that of Christianity, and we pro ceed to uplift him chiefly by the hair. Wo lecture him on his morals. We hold him and wash his neck. We take away his customs and give him ours. Intel lectually, morally, socially and in every other way we nag him to Infurlatlon. And then, finding him insensible to our benev olence, we call him a monster of Ingrati tude and shoot at him. Another Blow nt Ship Subsidy. Philadelphia Record. Because he can buy steamships more cheaply In the United States thin he can build them in England. Sir Christopher Furners, the great English shipbuilder, has contracted for the building of 12 steamships in this country. They are to cost $4,000,000. Undoubtedly with our cheap Iron and steel and our efficient la borwhich is also cheap because of its efficiency we can distance the world in shipbuilding. It Is the knowledge of this fict more than other dissuading argu ment that Is throwing cold water on the ship subsidy scheme. Hooker "Wnaulngtcn's Story of aa Old Colored Preacher. The Outlook. I remember that In one of his talks Mr. Washington, referring to his belief that the most profitable education of the peo ple of his race required virious methods. according to the needs of the people un der different conditions, told a story of an old colored preacher who was endeavor ing to explain to his congregation how it was that the children of Israel passed over the Red Sea safely, while tho Egyp tians, who came after them, were drowned. The old man said: "My breth ren, it was this way: When the Israel ites passed over it was early In the morn ing, while it was cold, and the Ice was strong enough so that they went over all right; but when the Egyptians came along It was in the middle of tho day, and the sun had thawed the ice so that it gave way under them, and they were drowned." At thla a young man In the congrega tion, who had been away to school and had come home, rose'and said: "I don't sec how thit explanation can be right, parson. The gaography that I've been studying tells us that Ice never forms under the equator, and the Red Sea Is nearlv under the equator." "There, now." said the old preacher, "that's all right. I'se been 'spectin' some of you smart Alecks would be askin' some such fool question. The time I was talkln' about was before they had any iosrrafrics or 'auators cither." "That good old man," said Mr. Wash ington, "was just trying in his simple manner to brush away the cobwebs which stood in the way of his logic. By some such method the misconceptions which hamper the course of education for the colored people must be removed before tho best results can be attained." At Law Since 1S50. London Globe. The Melbourne law courts have their Miss Flite. a character Immortalized by Dickens in "Bleak House." An elderly woman may frequently be seen In the cor ridors, addressing the empty air some times in passionate tones with out stretched arms, and again in low, threat ening mutterings. During the progress of an argument in the county court, be fore Acting Judge Johnson, some refer ence was made to the absence of evi dence on a certain point. Suddenly the court was startled at hearing a female cry out In Irate tone3, "I have given plenty of evidence since '56!" A glance around showed that the Interrupter was the old lady of the corridors, who was advancing with determination toward the barristers' table. China is said to be getting leady for another war. China doesn't lctn things very readily. Now and then a train goes ovl a road without colliding with another V going off tho track. Maclay asserts that his record spot less. Maclay himself, however, hi been spotted for some time. The New York ice trust has gon Into the ccal business. It seems destind to enjoy extreme prosperity. There are still enough Major-GenVals in South Africa to get up a Pretoria pin ner party for next Christmas. Fortunately the Christmas festlvies usually leave one in the proper fra!ne of mind to renounce past follies. There Is a man In our town. And people sound his praise. Because his resolutions keep Sometimes for three whole days. Miss Stone has allowed several days to go by without dying or being rescued. She is apparently getting careless ot fame. The Christmas Commoner discussed The President's message at length, which was exceedingly considerate, in view of the fact that the message never discussed the Commoner at all. "This is the first snow storm I've seen in SG years." said William Hesse, of Bang kok. Slam, to a Philadelphia reporter, the other day. "Snow Is unknown to Slam. and, of course, you have heard the story of the King of Slam calling the first Brit ish Ambassador a liar for saying It snowed In his home country. When we went to Bangkok we had a picture repre senting a snow storm, and Mrs. Hessel In trusted it to a Siamese artist to be cleaned. Tho latter took the snowflakes to be spots or daubs of paint, and care fully covered them over. The picture Iooks more Siamese now, but the spectacle or. leafless trees amid a gorgeous environ ment of green grass and Siamese flowers docs not accord with Western ideas." It is said that the redemption division of the National Postofilce at Washington is nearly swamped by the return of the left-over Pan-American postage stamps since November 1. Some 10.000 packages have been received. All records are brok en as far back as Chief Scott can recol lect. This official expects to superintend the burning of Pan-American remainders of the face value of 51,MX).X. New York City returned 5C5.000 wortn. Washington $30,000 worth, and several other cities will aggregate 51.000.CCO worth, with 20,000 small offices to hear from. The returns seem largely to consist of the 4, 5, S and 1& ccnt values, with the S-cent leading. It Is estimated that philatelists throughout the world bought more than $2S,C00 worth of Pan-American stamps, representing the face value of about 1G0.C00 sets. These will never do postal duty. "Perhaps Uncle Sam has builded better than he knew in paying 520,000.000 for the Philippines." said an Army officer who recently returned from those islands. "I think I have successfully solved the prob lem of what we shall do with the Fili pinos. Whatever may be their faults, they make the best servants in the world, if you can cure them of petty thievery. Overcome that, and you have an ideal servant. At home here we are confronted everlastingly by the servant girl proposi tion. .Bring the Filipino men here, ana tho servant girl question will be a dead Issue. The men aro small, active, and not afraid of work. They could be trained to do general housework. Just as the Chi nese do on the Pacific Coast. I had a Filipino servant in Manila, who did xny cooking, my washing In fact, everything that a servant girl Is expected to do In tho United States, and doesn't. Bring tho Filipinos here, and we will kill two b.rds with one stone. We will solve the servant girl problem., at home and break up the Insurrection in the Philippines." China is trying to keep out foreign ers, but so far every effort has been vain. What ia needed is probably an imitation of the Geary law. War between Argentina and (Shlle has been such a peaceful affair that Ecua dor and Peru are persuaded to try It. Two Immortals. Chicago Tribune. Shade of General Wlnfleld Scott And this is the Immortal Julius Caesar! Do you know. General, that one of the favor ite exclamations of my countrymen now is "Great Caesar"? Shade of Julius Caesar You flatter me. General. Acquaintances of mine assure me that "Great Scott!" Is much more fre quently heard. Still 3Iorc Is Required. Denver Post. Does the President intend to let the matter rest there, sacrificing an Insignifi cant subordinate while tho stars in the consteUation are allowed to escape? How about Long himself and Crownihshield and Hackett and the rest of hem? Mac lay has got his just deserts. Now let the real culprits stand forward and get what is justly due them. It will be Interesting to note the next move of the President. who surely must himself know a good deal about the ring which has so long controlled the Navy Department, to Its detriment. How Ccnnda Sees It. Montreal Star. The high officials of the United States Army and Navy are beggars to talk. Ad miral Sampson talked about A-Imlrai Schley and got himself talked nearly to death In consequence. The majority of the court of Inquiry talked back at Ad miral Schley, just as though he were a mere human being. Then General Miles had to put his spoke In and talk aboat the court of inquiry- Now the Secretary of War has had to tall: to Miles for talk ing too much. The next thing wid be that some fool will want Congress to talk to Secretary Root for his imper tinence in giving General Miles a talking to. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "Is your friend Wrltem a literary nan?" "Oh, no: merely a successful novelist." Judge. A Troublesome Witness. Mother (angrily) Did he dare to kiss you more than once? Daughter (.evasively) Well, mamma, I know it wasn't less than once. Puck. Greatly Overestimated. Ilewltt Halt tha world doesn' know how the" other half lives. Jtwett I think you overestimate the number of, people who mind their own business. Brooklyn Life. "Would you rather have something else than a piece of cake?" asked the kind neighbor of little Freddie, who had run an errand for hr. "Yes. ma'am," said Freddie, promptly; "I would rather havo two pieces." Tlt-Blts. Real Pkasurc Her Father Ahal I caught ou kissing my daughter, sir! What dj you mean by that sort of business? He I don't consider It business at all. sir. but pleasure, purely pleasure. Philadelphia Press. She That distinguished-looking man with the Van Dyke beard Is a celebrated animal painter. He He must be busy now. "What makes you think so?" "Oh, there are so many of thoso Noah's arks sold around tho holidays." Yon kers Statesman. Nancy (trying to pick up some lost stitches In a stocking) Oh. dear! I can't do this' "You must have patience, dear child. Don't you know Rome was not built in a day?" Nan cy (indignantly) If God made heaven and earth in six days, t cuess It didn t take h.m more than 20 minutes to make Rome. Life. Serene Confidence. "I am afraid," said the publisher, "that you arc harming your reputa tion by the indifferent work you aro putting into this new serial." "Nonsense." answered tho self-assured author. "Evcv if the work Is unusually poor, the public will take It for granted that I am great. Otherwlso I couldn't get such stuff published." Washington Star.