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STATEMENT. AND APPEAL.
The basis of political conditions In
Multnomah Conuty two years ago was
'wholly different from the basis that ex
ists now. One faction two years ago
held Its primary alone. There was no
opposition. Republicans not in accord
with the purposes of this faction made
no appearance at the primary polls.
Since the others had all the party ma
chinery, all the Judges and clerks, all
the police and other official forces at
their command, with power to cast and
to count the vote without check or su
pervision, the opponents of the machine
did not molest them, but stayed away,
making no appearance either at the pri
maries or in the convention.
A citizens' ticket was the outcome of
this situation two years ago. Many Re
publicans participated in the movement.
Strictly, however, they were not bolt
ers, for they had taken no part what
ever in the Republican primaries or
convention. They knew they would
have no chance whatever In the pri
maries, for that was before the primary
election law was enacted, and the ma
nipulation was wholly In the hands of
their opponents.
This time, however, it was different.
The primary law, enacted by the Leg
islature of 1901. gave opportunity to or
ganize and vote against the machine,
and to have the .vote counted. Every
thing was done under the close super
vision of law. But the "old crowd,"
though In possession of all the ma
chinery of party organization and work
ing official authority, with the munici
pal and county departments, to the very
extremity of energy and abuse, were
beaten in the primary and lost the con
vention. There was about forty major
ity in the convention against them,
which was Increased as the affair un
folded and the results became well un
derstood. On the first day the minor
ity entered the convention and took part
in the proceedings. The convention then
adjourned for one week. When it reas
sembled the minority, with ten or
twelve exceptions, refused to appear
end issued their "bolters' manifesto."
During that week Mr. Simon and his
friends had been very busy with the
Democrats, as they have been busy ever
since. A programme was laid out,
which is to be followed as nearly as
they can make It go. The Simon ma
chine is to get, through fusion, a num
ber, perhaps a majority, of the nomi
nees for the Legislature and some of
the city and county offices. Mr., Cham
berlain1 is to have their support for Gov
ernor, and the machine in Portland I9 to
be worked with desperate energy to
elect him and to put a body of mem
bers into the Legislature from this
county who will, do Mr. Simon's bidding.
Reinforcement for these members Is to
be sought in different parts of the state,
and. effort will ,be made to get Demo
cratic co-operation in the Legislature,
through the assistance of Mr. Chamber
lain and his friends. If Mr. Chamber
lain could be elected Governor and the
power of that office could be turned into
the combine, the Simon machine could
again be placed on Its feet It could put
any check it pleased upon legislation;
it could defeat the new charter; it could
continue the present regime In Portland
and hold ground" on which it might'
hope for complete re-establishment of
its power.
This lBthe general plan of the Simon
bolt; for a. bolt it is. The parallel it
attempts with the citizens' movement of
two years since is an untrue one, for
this is a bolt and that was not The
Republicans who took part In the citi
zens movement two yea,rs ago had par
ticipated in no Republican primary, had
entered no Republican convention; and
they violated no moral obligation or
party usage when they joined that un
dertaking. On the other hand, the pres
ent withdrawal is a proceeding taken
by men who had participated. In the
course of party action, and who, If they
had won, would have felt that they
had a right to demand acceptance of
. the results by others who had taken
part in the-primary and convention.
Are men to be Republicans, or are
they not? Are -there any principles or
purposes which are to be sustained, or
can best be sustained, through the Re
publican party? Or Is it a delusion that
the Republican party is or can be use
ful to the 'country more useful than
the other? The Oregonlan doesn't ap
prove all the methods or all the details
of the afctlon of the Republican conven
tion; but never mind them.- -The abuse
was infinitely less than that practiced
here during a score of years by these
protestors. The question is. Are Repub
licans to adhere to their party or follow
the fortunes of a faction which assumes
an air of injured innocence and pleads
the baby act when at last, after many
T years of absolute rule, It loses Its hold
on the party?
DEGENERACY A MYTH.
They who are troubled at the reputed
degeneracy of British and American so
ciety will And food for salutary reflec
tion In an article contributed to the
Popular Science Monthly for April by
Professor J. J. Stevenson, of New Tork
University.' Mr. tevenson Is a thorough-going
optimist, and lays on the
brush without much regard to back
ground or perspective. There are no
shadows on- his landscape, and the
cheerful air with which he discards the
somber tints of commercialism, trusts,
municipal corruption, vast fortunes,
etc., is at once refreshing and unique.
Yet he makes out a case withal which
most healthy-minded persons will ac
cept as much nearer the truth than
the contention of dyspeptic and remi
niscent philosophy.
Professor Stevenson welcomes "com
mercialism" with "the glad hand." It
is doing something, he says, for man on
his physical, social and moral side, and
does not concern itself solely, as did
the creative genius ancient and Eliza
bethan which we mourn, with his es
thetic side. A certain distant century,
it Is true, produced a Shakespeare; but
there was only one, so we are at least
equally culpable with many other di
visions of time. Creative minds are as
great and as numerous today, but their
energies are claimed by concerns much
nearer and more vital to human needa
Newton stood out pre-eminent; but
there are half a dozen- Newtons in
America today, made common by very
numbers; while Howards and Shaftes
burys. Instead of being, a nine days'
wonder, blossom around us so plenti
fully that we take them as a matter of
course.
The strongest and most Interesting
part of Mr. Stevenson's paper is his
treatment of man's material lot, and the
showing made Is Impressive. He has
gathered up the progress of humane
civilization, working through steam,
chemistry, invention and accumulated
wealth, to cheapen creature comforts,
multiply the Individual's earning power,
prevent war, settle labor troubles and
put education within reach of every
child. Instruction is far more practical
than formerly, he contends. It aids the
needy in capacity for earning, and fits
the masEes for freer and brighter lives.
Nor has this' been done at t expense
of culture of the old sort; for classical
students he finds to be far larger in per
centage of the whole population than
formerly. Culture In the old sense has
Increased, and practical education has
been added.
The virtues of a commercial civiliza
tion have been arrayed with consum
mate skill by no less a philosopher than
Mr. W. E. H. Lecky, and It 1b these vir
tues and no others which Professor
Stevenson finds in healthy state of ad
vance in -this money-making age. A
necessary corrective of his optimism la
the recollection also of the vices of the
commercial civilization and the vacant
spaces where the virtues of other civil
izations would shine with credit and
profit Trading and manufactures pro
mote honesty and sobriety, undoubt
edly, and in the long run a superficial
sort of happiness. But reverepce and
plfety and self-sacrifice, all the religious
and domestic and some of the patriotic
virtues, are not as signally displayed as
In parts of Europe and Asia, where
material progress gives little cause to
boast The Increase In the commercial
virtues for which Mr. Stevenson con
tends must be conceded. But there are
other fields from which excursions
would not bring home so pleasing spoils.
AN DLD SPOOK.
The attempt to prejudice the Ameri
can people against President Roose
velt as the coming "man on horse
back" is a very old bit of political
stage property, a very ancient ghost
that does not now walk for the first
time. "The man on horseback" was
what Henry Clay and the New England
partisans of John Qulncy Adams pre
figured as General Andrew Jackson's
statesmanship should he become Pres
ident The people, however, remem
bered with pride that Jackson was the
victorious "man on horseback" at the
battle of New Orleans, elected him Pres
ident, re-elected him, and were anxious
to give him a third term. Jackson
made a most peace-loving President,
and never wrote a message as full of
Implied warlike Intent as President
Cleveland's "Venezuela message. Gen
eral Taylor, who was our victorious
"man on horseback" at Buena "Vista,
was a most conservative and peaceful
President
"When General prant was nominated
for President, General Francis P. Blair,
the Democratic candidate for Vice
President, bitterly denounced the hero
o Vicksburg as the coming "man on
horseback," but Grant was a most
peace-loving man. He kept the peace
firmly with England when Charles Sum
ner did his best to break It; he kept the
peace with Spain under the very strong
provocation of the Vlrginlus massacre;
his last official act was to urge the
withdrawal of bayonet government
from the South. The historical testi
mony Is overpowering that fromWash
ington down to Grant our military
Presidents have been most pacific In
their foreign policy and most delicate
In their strict regard for the sanctity
of the "civil law. Generals Sherman and
Hancock, In their correspondence over
the possible outcome of the disputed
Hayes-Tllden election, showed the
strongest desire to avoid all appearance
of irreverence for or Indifference tQ the
supremacy of the civil law in time of
peace. Sherman more than once said:
"Soldiers do not favor ware; they hate
wars, for they know their terrible cost
in blood and treasure, in political vio
lence and social corruption; politicians
make wars and then soldiers have to
fight them."
President Roosevelt was "the man on
horseback" at San Juan Hill, just as
President Hayes was at Cedar Creek;
just as President Harrison was at Re
eaca; Just as President McKlnley was
at Kernstown. and because he was this
kind of "a man on horseback" he holds
a warm place In the hearts of the peo
ple. All the power and opportunity
that any President of the United. States
has to play the part of "the man on
horseback" is imposed upon him by the
Federal Constitution. The "War Depart
ment's Army bill adds nothing tQ the
President's power and reduces nothing
the present functions the law gives Gen
eral Miles. The President is, Commander-in-Chief
by the Constitution.
No law can abridge his orders. The
general in command Iras only the au
thority the President grants. The
President's orders are his powers; the
President can select from the Generals
of the Army the man to exercise those 1
powers. Lincoln lifted McClellan to the
top and then removed him at his will;
so he did Burnside Buell, Hooker, Fre
mont, Rosecrans. To the President's
enormous powers as Commander-in-
Chief, In peace or war, the present bill J
adds -nothing. It simply proposes to
add the system of the general staff to
our Army to increase the practical effi
ciency of its administration. Moltke
was chief of staff under the German
Emperor as Commander-in-Chief. Our
American President by our Constitution
practically occupies the same supreme
military position as the German Em
peror, and there is no reason why the
gcrieral staff should not be easily adapt
ed to our American military conditions..
It no more Germanizes the American
Army to adopt valuable military re
forms from Europe than It American
izes an English or" German Army to
borrow from the United States our
training of cavalrymen to fight on foot
and the use of rapidly extemporized
field lntrenchments. And yet General
Miles has the folly to assert that under
the new Army bill an "autocrat" or
"military despot" could be created, and
Henry Watterson predicts the approach
of "the man on horseback."
In his speech ou retiring from polit
ical life, Macaulay said that "the sov
ereignty of the mob leads by no Jong or
circuitous path to the sovereignty of
the sword." This means that out of the
chaos of anarchy marches "the man on
horseback " The mob Is not sovereign
in our country, or likely to be. Anarchy
does not threaten us, and until It does
we need not fear that our broncho
buster will suddenly become "the man
on horseback." Soldier Presidents do
not make revolutions, but civic revolu
tions sometimes breed Bonapartes.
TWO KINDS OP IMMIGRATION.
It is a remarkable fact that while the
opposition to Chinese exclusion has
crumbled away like a house of cards,
the most strenuous efforts of Immigra
tion reformers at the East fail utterly
to arouse the old enthusiasm for shut
ting out Europeans. Loosely conceived
references to "the foreign element" as
responsible for sporadic exhibits In vice,
pauperism and crime in our great cities,
may still be met with frequently. But
they are as disconnected and Impotent
as the phenomena of which they com
plain. The dregs of foreign immigra-'
tion accumulate In our cities, especial
ly in New York, where they are held In
subjection If not In spoliation and ter
ror; but the main stream flows on to
the farms, mines and factories of the
interior and the Pacific Coast, where it
does useful work and adds to our Na
tional wealth.
The census Indicates a subsidence of
the acute stage of the immigration
scare. Although nearly 4,000,000 persons
from all other lands came to the United
States In the decade ending with 1900,
the total increase in the foreign-born
population was only 1,151,000 over the
figures for 1890. In the meantime the
native-born inhabitants of the Repub
lic had Increased by more than 12,000,
000. The truth Is that the period em
bracing the last ten years of the nine
teenth century shows a marked falling
off in immigration as compared with
the preceding decade. In 18S2 alone
788,000 newcomers arrived In the United
States. The highest number reaching
our shores in any twelvemonth of the
stretch from 1890 to 1900 was 623,000, and
the general average was much lower.
The European Immigrant is assim
ilated with our American civilization,
If not in his lifetime. In the succeeding
generation. There Is a limit, certainly,
to the volume we can comfortably ab
sorb, and possibly industrial conditions
will enforce that limit with reasonable
accuracy without recourse to drastic
legislation. Unquestionably paupers,
criminals and diseased persons should
be excluded, but the old fear of the
foreign blood that was to pollute the
stream of American life has been al
layed. The reason is that the children
of our foreign-born are American. Even
the adults come with more friendship
for our free institutions than for those
they leave behind. In every walk of
life the boys of Immigrant fathers and
mothers, and often those who came here
In youth ornament our citizenship and
strengthen the National vigor in peace
and war.
Itis the baneful difference from all
this that stamps our Asiatic immigrants
with danger. The Chinaman comes
here as an alien, whose farthest thought
Is to take up the burdens of citizenship
and raise up children for the support
and defense of his adopted country.
Undoubtedly American-born- children of
Chinese parents Would be American In
sentiment and habit if brought up In
American schools and surroundings and
filled from infancy with the thoughts
and ideals , imbedded in the English
tongue. Much as the Caucasian brain
differs from the Mongolian, It does not
prevent assimilation along these lines.
We" Have young Chinamen among us
that prove It But the conditions that
make Americans of the German or the
Italian child are absent and rejected
by the Chinese. They come here not
In families, but as sojourners, foreign
In every purpose and habit, and, so far
as suffered, actually maintain for them
selves a sort of extra-territorlallty,
even to the taking of life, liberty and
property. Foreign communities of this
character are objectionable and danger
ous in any country. Its resources and
Its protection are for those who give it
their allegiance.
AN IMPOSSIBLE PRECEDENT.
In South .Carolina and Arkansas long
custom within the Democratic party
makes possible the choice of United
States Senators through primaries. This
Is, an entirely different thing from the"
primary plan now on trial In Illinois,
or the convention plan proposed by stat
ute In Oregon. None of these expedi
ents haB any healthy prospect of per
manent adoption. Probably no make
shift for Constitutional change In the
method of electing. Senators can ever
attain general ueage.
The Senatorial office Is one which
usually attracts a number of aspirants,
and it Is only when one qr at most two
in xi party aspire to Its candidacy that
selection by primaries or conventions Is
practicable. So long as the Constitution
lodges the responsibility of Senatorial
elections with the members of the Leg
islature, any attempt to anticipate that
action will only draw upon Itself the
combined opposition of all -aspirants
other than the one In whose Interest
the attempt is made. The Republicans
of Yamhill County the other day In
structed their delegates to the state
convention to oppose the nomination of
a Senator at Portland this week. This
action very likely reflects the desires of
some Senatorial candidate. Friends of
other candidates will doubtless take a
similar position.
On a larger scale an exact duplicate
of this phenomenon Is now on view In
the State of Illinois. There the plan
has been entered upon of naming the
United States Senator through primaries
and subsequent nomination at the state
convention. The primaries are now be
ing held throughout" the various coun
ties of the state, and Representative
Hopkins Is reported to have secured 266
of the 390 delegates thus far chosen.--His
good fortune In this respect has
naturally aroused alarm among other
candidates. Mason, Dawes, Sherman,
etc The Republican state central com
mittee met last week to formulate the
call for the state convention; fixed May
8 as the date, but did not, as It was
(expected to do. Include In the outlined
objects for the convention's attention
the nomination of a candidate for Sen
ator. The omission was brought about
by -the opponents or Mr. Hopkins. The
Chicago Tribune thinks this marks the
end of the Hopkins undertaking. The
state convention will not nominate, and
the election will be thrown into the
Legislature, as usual.
Such popular contests of state con
vention or otherwise generally accepted
party candidates for United States Sen
ator as have occurred in Northern
States have been so unique In their cir
cumstances 'as to render them Inoperat
ive as precedents. In Illinois In 185S
the pre-eminence of Lincoln and Doug
las pitted them together naturally. In
1858 General Palmer was nominated In
state convention by the Democrats of
Illinois because he was practically the
unanimous choice of the party. He was
the only Democratic aspirant before the
state convention, he was the only Dem
ocrat considered by the Legislature.
The Republicans in that year made no
nomination, because they were divided,
and in that division between Farwell,
Oglesby and others they made General
Palmer's election possible. In 1891 John
M. Thurston" and W. J. Bryan made a
joint canvass of Nebraska for the Sena
torshlp, Mr. Thurston winning.
These, so far as we can recollect, are
the only experiments with this device
"in Northern States. They srew natur
ally, as we have said, out of the excep
tional circumstances which gave one
man a fortuitous selection for; the race.
No general rule can be based upon a
combination of circumstances so rare.
It is not in human nature for candidates
for the Senate to give up their fight till
the last court of appeal has been
reached. That court Is the Legislature.
The state convention Is not and cannot
be final. The convention binds nobody.
The Legislature's action is definitive.
Neither members of the Legislature nor
candidates will contentedly abrogate
the responsibility and privilege con
ferred upon them by the Constitution.
Nominations for popular election of Sen
ators will be potent when the popular
election elects.
President Roosevelt has not gotten
over the habit which distinguished him
as Governor of New York of saying
what he means and meaning what he
saya He Is not, In the crafty sense of
the term, a politician, but his habit of
"getting there," as demonstrated by the
events of recent years, is only matched
by his determination to stand by his
opinions. To fight the President is most
unprofitable, but his critics and the op
ponents of this policy find great advan
tage In the fact that they are ndt com
pelled to follow any blind trails In the
effort to find fault. with the Adminis
tration. His habit Is to "speak but,"
whether in bringing the Lieutenant
General of the Army up to the snub-blng-post
or declining, in distinct terms,
in the ante-room of the White House,
to interfere in the local political affairs
6t a city or state. This "over and above
board" policy of dealing with men and
measures is valuable, since It enables
every aspirant for Presidential favor
to realize at once "where he Is at"
Hmperor Francis Joseph of Austria
performed the traditional ceremony on
Good Friday of washing the feet of
twelve aged men at the Hoffberg. The
aggregate age of these recipients of im
perial favor was 1010 years. Twelve
women, whose aggregate age was 1182
years, received Imperial gifts. The cere
monies were conducted In the presence
of the diplomatic corps, and t were
quaintly symbolical of humility and
charity. To the extent that It repre
sents theso graces In all sincerity this
practice Is entitled to as respectful con
sideration as other Christian rites that
are more universally observed.
The number of persons made happy
by the Easter legend Increases from,
year to year. With music, flowers and
Spring millinery as features of Easter
observance, this sustained and increas
ing popularity Is not strange. Nor s it
reprehensible. Oh the contrary, it tends
to the development and cultivation of
a love for the beautiful and is at once
gratifying and commendable. No one
can sit for an hour in the delicately
scented atmosphere of a flower-decorated
church and listen to Easter music
and sermon .without the subtle benefit
that follows the touch of refining In
fluences. It Is very gratifying to Portland citi
zens to know that outside capitalists
have sufficient faith in the future of the
Pacific Coast and the Northwest to be
ready to make such Investments as
those now proposed, by the Portland
Railway Company. It would seem that
all reasonable encouragement should be
given through the support of its citi
zens to enterprises of this kind, which
disburse so much money a present, and
must of necessity depend upon the fur
ture entirely for the return of the in
vestment Every American who witnesses a
Mexican or Spanish bullfight wishes to
see the tortured animal gore his tor
menters. The enthusiasm, therefore, of
the Americans who witnessed the scene
i at Juarez, Mexico (opposite El Paso), on
Sunday, was as creditable as It was
natural. The race to which we have
the honor to belong Instinctively hates
cruelty.
Dr. Thomas Dunn English, author of
"Ben Bolt," continues at four-score and
three years to keep death at bay. He
has been critically 111 for many days,
and of course the cdntest can have but
one result This result, true sympa
thy would fain, hasten, and not for even
an nour delay.
The Iowa Legislature has appropri
ated $150,000 for monuments to Iowa sol
diers In Vicksburg Military Park. One
shudders to think of the number of
metal caricatures of patriotism which
this sum will turn out.
The question as to whether, the Grand
Army or the Administration dictates
the policy of the Nation In pension mat
ters Is again up to the President From
present indications, the Grand Army
will win out
I '
CAIRO TO THE CAPE.
The death of Cecil Rhodes calls to mind
the great project cast into abeyance by
the Boer War, by which he planned to
bind together the British territories hi
Africa and to make British influence dom
inant throughout the continent We re
fer, of course, to the Cairo-Cape railway
project This gigantic conception has
been the basis of British African pollcy
for the past five or six years, and It con
tributed largely though indirectly to the
causes which led up to the Transvaal con
flict Nothing has been heard of It of
late, but there has been, reason for this,
and It must not be assumed that It has
been forgotten or abandoned. All the
motives which supported it prior to the
war still exist and. In relation to recent
events and present conditions, they oper
ate with Increased force to urge It upon
the British people.
A little study of the map of Africa will
vastly aid comprehension of the Cairo
Cape project x England, It will be found,
practically controls a chain of countries
extending from the Mediterranean Sea
in the novthto the Indian Ocean at the
south. There is missing from this chain
a link or two, but with the conquest of
the Transvaal, no serious barrier In the
form of foreign territory remains to be
overcome. Egypt, now a British depend
ency, extends from the mcuth of the Nile
to the 20th paraHel; on tho south it joins
the Soudan, which in turn Joins the little
territory of Fashoda, now also under tho
British dominion. The next country In
line toward the south Is British East Af
rica, which carries tho chain of direct
British ownership to Victoria Nyanza on
tho line of the equator. At this point
there Is a break of some four or five
hundred miles, with German East Africa
on the east and the Kongo Free State at
the west Passing this foreign territory,
the chain of British dominion is taken
up at the ninth parallel (south) and, fol
lowing through British Central Africa,
Rhodesia, British South Africa, the Trans
vaal, the Orange Republic and Cape Col
ony, to the cape. One who thus looks
down the map with the Cairo-Cape
project in mind la likely to get through
mere force of geographical information
new light upon the Fashoda incident, the
struggle for Khartum, the efforts of Eng
land to gain and hold control of the
Transvaal and the Orange State, and in
studying the relative position of Rhodesia
and other territories brought under the
British dominion by the enterprises of
Mr. Rhodes ono gets a new conception of
the breadth and purpose of a man who la
truly entitled to be styled an empire
builder.
One by one the non-British jurisdictions
which intervene between Cairo and
the Cape German East Africa alone
excepted have been shouldered out of
the way and recent diplomatic move
ments give color to the suggestion
that the rights of England over
the whole line of the projected rail
way will be made complete through
arrangement with Germany on one hand
or with the Kongo State on theother.
Even under the stress of war It has
not been forgotten that the national pur
pose back of this war and of the events
which preceded the war Is to so estab
lish British authority in Africa as to
bring that continent chiefly in a political
sense and wholly In a commercial sense
under the English dominion.
"The Cairo-Cape raifway project Is ner-
haps the most daring conception In all
the history of material development It
far surpasses the Siberian railway project,
which in some sort it resembles, both as
to the vast amount of capital involved
and as to its Immediate political and com
mercial significance. Already while it is
as yet a project only a mere dream It
has won for England the Empire of Af
rica. To carry It out according to Mr.
Rhodes' plan will make of Africa a
country second only in Its power to create
wealth to tho American Continent. More
than this, if it be done promptly, it will
restore the prestige which England has
lost of late years and extend It Africa
under the Influence of this great work
will do for England more than India has
ever done. It will provide an outlet for
her energy, return a profit upon her sur
plus capital, afford a market for her man
ufactures; It will, in short, give her all
of the advantages which follow a great
national effort put forth under circum
stances which arouse the spirit and stim
ulate the native force of a people. It
will, furthermore, command the admlra.
tion of the world and be a sign among
the nations attesting the unbroken power
and the continuing intrepidity of the
British race.
Wntterson's Ignorance.
New York Times.
The bill in question Is simply a bill to
promote the reorganization of the Army
on modern Hne3. General Miles appears
to think that process equivalent to the
"Russianizatlon" or "Germanlzation" of
the Army. But we believe it is admitted
that Russia and Germany have efficient
armies. More than that, so far from be
ing, as it has been misrepresented to be,
a bill for Intrenching a staff "ring," the
object of the measure, with other meas
ures propos'ed by the department, is pre
cisely to prevent the formation of such a
ring by eecuring a continual Interchange
between line and staff, the continual aera
tion of the staff, and the keeping of offi
cers on the active list of the Army who
are either not good enough or yet too
good to servo with troops in tho fleld.
Instead of intrenching the TIte Barnaeles
of the staff departments, the object of
the secretary has been to dislodge and
"detach" them. And they are all perfect
ly aware of the fact If Colonel Watter
son had read the bill, or had taken the
opinion upon it of the progressive officers
of the Army who are not in possession
of the "soft things" of staff appointments,
he could not be so absurd as to represent
it as a bill to make the President, be ho
"statesman" or "rough rider," a mili
tary dictator.
Conscience Money for n Hotel.
Boston Herald.
The other day a priest presented himself
to the cashier of the Parker House and
handed him $30, for which he asked a re
ceipt When asked to whose account the
money should be credited, the priest re
plied that the money camerom one of
his flock, who had requested him to hand
It to the Parker House cashier, and to
have It credited to the conscience fund,
without revealing the Identity of the per
son for whom he was acting. The money
wa3 credited as directed. It may be
thought that this is an extraordinary oc
currence, but the hotel's conscience fund
Is augmented by frequent contributions
from anonymous sources. Nor is the ex
perience of this hotel exceptional. It ob
tains in a great many establishments hav
ing extensive dealings with the public.
Baby Act In Politics.
Albany Democrat
In Oregon polities have begun to sim
mer; down in Portland they have done
more. They have bolted decidedly enough
so that a faction of delegates refused to
go Into the convention. Matters are
pretty serious whenever a body of men
get so much disturbed as to refuse to
finish the work for which they were elect
ed. Men who will not abide by the ma
jority In a convention these days are not
J deserving of a place in a convention.
0DR AMERICAN MONTENEGRO.
Philadelphia) Bulletin.
When a dispatch from Paris the other
day announced that "King Achilie I of
Patagonia and Araucania" was dead, and
that the designated heir to his "throne"
was an inrant nephew, the eyes of 99100
of tho reading public, at least in America,
opened wide and questions beginning with
"Who?" "What V or "Where?" were
on everybody's lips. Both the wonder
and the implied Ignorance are excusable.
Of the many petty royalties in the
world, Achilie I was not the most ob
scure, perhaps, since a great part of his
existence was devoted to diligent self
advertisement; but he was certainly the
least seriously rcgarden. Hence, except
for the lightest mention, usually by way
of ridicule or satire, neither he nor his
"kingdom" was ever heard of. In the
strict sense, his kingship was Indeed a
myth, and he possessed only a colorable
claim to political authority. His history
is replete with suggestion for "the comic
opera librettist.
Araucania is a considerable region on
the west slope of the Andes, near the geo
graphical middle of the territory of Chile,
and Is Inhabited by an Indigenous people,
who ethnologlcally rank highest, perhaps,
of any In South America that have re
tained a distinct existence. In character
and customs they differ from the Pata
gonlans proper, who are nomads of a
primitive type. The Araucanlans have
been described as possessing many vir
tues, among them humanity, generosity,
courtesy, benevolence, great courage and
Intense love of liberty. They showed for
hundreds' of years remarkable aptitudo
in war. compelling tho Spaniards to quit
their land, and maintaining against Chile,
as did the Yaquls against Mexico, a vir
tual independence, which they have but
recently relinquished. Their ideas of eco
nomic and social polity resemble In some
degree those that Bacon attributed to
the citizens of his Atlantis. Their coun
try Is rich in many metals, particularly
gold, which the Spaniards sought eagerly
to exploit Had it been in their power,
they would no doubt have sacrificed the
Araucanlans us they did the subjects of
the Inca3 and the gentle islanders of the
Caribbean to their unending greed. But
the Araucanlans. after they had expelled
the would-be conquerors, closed their gold
mines, recognizing In the yellow metal the
root of the gravest of all the polltica:
evils that had threatened them.
It Is not wholly clear how the French
man, who, in 1S61. took the title of An
tine I, King of Araucania, obtained the
chieftainship on which he based his claim
to sovereignty. He was succeeded in 187S
by his cousin, Achilie Laviarde. No power
has ever recognized the existence of the
Kingdom of Araucania, and Achilie 1
passed nearly all his time In affording
amusement to the easily amused Pa
risians. He was more lavish of empty
titles and tinsel decorations than was
Soulouque. the Haytlan Emperor, Imitator
of -Napoleon III. But behind his spectacu
lar performances was the ever-present de
sire to barter the natural resources of
his "kingdom" for money. In this He did
not succeed. Andrew Carnegie was one
of the last, to refuso to embark in a
plausible scheme for realizing on the min
eral deposits of Araucania. No capitalist
was ever found who was willing to take
the risk of defying the territorial au
thority of Chile, and thus putting himself
on the footing of a pirate and outside
the protection of International law.
Np Wonder He Died.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Andrew E. Watrous, chief editorial
writer on the New York Press, committed
suicide the other day. Perhaps some clew
to the cause of his act may be found In
this paragraph from the New York
World:
Mr. Watrous had suffered more than two
years from nervous prostration and insomnia,
caused by his self-sacrlflclng devotion to his
profession. He thought deeply, with strong
conviction, and wrote dairy often 4000 or 5000
words a day on the widest range of editorial
subjects, that carried appeal to readers of in
telligent, wholesome minds. He never In his
whole life wrote an unworthy line. His mind
was almost as universal in its store of knowl
edge as his heart was universal ft Its sym
pathies. Such a daily grind as that might under
mine the strongest constitution and san
est mind. Mr. Watrous, who was a very
versatile writer, was only 45 years old. yet
he had worked so arduously and long that
most of those who knew him by reputa
tion believed him to be a much older man.
The Poison of the Lily of the Valley.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A German botanist has discovered that
the pretty flower known as the lily of
the valley contains a poison of the most
deadly kind. Not only the flower Itself,
but also the stem as well, contains an
appreciable quantity of prussic acid.
While injecting a decoction of lily of the
valley into the ear of a guinea pig, he
noticed the animal succumb Immediately,
with all tho symptoms of poisoning by
hydrocyanic acid. Chemical analysis of
the little plant has disclosed, however,
the presence of this poisonous constitu
ent, to which strange to say scientists
attribute precisely the penetrating per
fume of the lily of the valley. The atten
tion of the German botanist has been
drawn by the fact that one of his gard
eners has felt himself 6elzed with dizzi
ness and vomiting, after having raised
Inadvertently a bunch of lilies of the val
ley to his mouth, the lips of which were
cracked.
Outlandish Hendgear,
Philadelphia Record.
The monstrosities that are now seen on
the heads of young girls and even of
middle-aged women, who ought to know
better, are a disgrace to any civilized
country. The headgear of savages is ar
tistic by comparison. Feathers, flowers,
fur and lace, all jumbled into one shape
less and bewildering mass, sometimes al
most the size of a bushel basket are
stuck on the head and turned up at the
side, so as to make the wearer appear
a veritable scarecrow Occasionally the
massive topping Is tilted forward, pro
jecting far over the face, hiding all but
tho chin. This is the spectacle seen on
the streets and in the churches and thea
ters at the present timev Some of the
gown3 worn deserve almost as severe
criticism.
Good Reason for Going- Slow.
A negro was driving a wagon and In
going through a street ran against a
funeral. With the superstition of his race
he thought it would be bad luck to cross
behind the funeral, so he tried to cross
ahead of it, but the driver of the hearse
whipped up his horse rind the two went
neck and neck for a time, until finally
the darkey sang out: "Say, dah, pull up
youah hoss! Mah boss is in a hurry
an yuah's Isn't!"
Love's Philosophy.
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean.
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is slnzle.
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven.
And. the waves clasp one another;
No slster-floweV would be forgiven
If It dlsdaln'd its brother:
And the sunlight clasps the earth.
And the moonbeams kiss the sea
What are all these klssings worth,
If thou kiss not met
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Con You Unveil the Muse?
Columbia University Jester.
A man hired by John Smith & Co.
Loudly declared that he'd tho.
Man that he saw
Dumping dirt near the store.
The drivers, therefore-, didn't do.
Death.
"Walter Savage Landon
Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not' what into my ear;
Of his strange language all I know
Is, there Is not a word of fear.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Pass the pie.
See that fly on the wall
March went out like the Queen of tho
May.
Lightning Is apparently no respecter of
buildings.
Let's see what kind of a ticket Mr.
Cohen will name.
Why doesn't General Miles make his
offer to the Boers?
Mr. Hanna Is more formidable as a man
ager than a candidate.
This is a fickle month, and is therefore
highly suitable for conventions.
Strange how hard the men who are sure
of victory keep right on working.
The cyclone has already begun the work
of stimulating emigration to Oregon.
This Is the day when the practical joker
claims the privilege of remaining un
hanged. The Mayor of Topeka has been 'horse
whipped. Fame Is often costly, but some
people cannot do without it.
How Is Santos Dumont's airship going to
fly around St Louis without being punc
tured by Marconi's aerograms?
The Sultan has forbidden his subjects to
gamble. He must have been sitting in a
game with some of the wise ones.
In Louisville 4000 barrels of whisky were
involved in one transaction. What Louis
ville needs is a whisky clearing-house.
If the delegates do not all buy new hats
before they leave Portland, it will be be
cause they are either deaf or Immune to
flattery. '
A Colorado man offers to Irrigate Ne
braska for $1000 a year. He would hardly
make the same offer with reference to
Kentucky.
The brewers' strike is robbed of its ter
ror, now that Prince Henry has gone homo
and the Spring supply of bock is already In
the vats.
J. P. Morgan had better not buy Chile
in the hope of selling it to Uncle Sam, If
the Danish agent's estimate of the cost
of Congressmen Is anywhere near correct.
Colonel John Mosby, the leader of one
of the most Important Confederate cav
alry commands during the Civil War, is
in Government service in Colorado,
charged with preventing the private ln
closure of public lands.
A new yjolet has been discovered, and
by a young woman, Miss Lillic Angell, on
Orange Mountain, N. J. She sent plants
to the Smithsonian Institution, and tho
curator, Charles L. Pollard, has named
the species "Viola Angellae. The flower
is large and violet purple, and the leaves
large and glossy.
General T. M. Buffington, the Governor
of the Cherokee Nation, measures l feet
6 inches In his stockings and weighs tITa
pounds, and Is not overburdened with su
perfluous flesh. He wears a No. S hat.
No. 12 shoe, and dresses after the most
approved business fashion. His one
eighth Cherokee blood gives him flie rud
dy appearance characteristic of the race
of which he is so proud.
Geronimo, the famous Indian chief, now
80 years old, has petitioned the authorities
at Washington to release him from captiv
ity. Although nominally he has been for
the last 10 years a military prisoner at
Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, he has
had, as a matter of fact, a large amount
of liberty for several years, and not only
Is allowed to cultivate a small farm, but
receives pay of $C5 a month as a "Gov
ernment scout"
Honors have been easy for some timo
between Representative Eddy, of Minne
sota, and Representative Cushman, of
Washington, as to which is the homelier
man. The partisans of Cushman tell this
story" to prove that Cushman wins: Once
in his district In Minnesota, when Eddy
was making a canvass for election, he
dropped Into a hotel in a little country
town where some friends lived. The man
who ran the hotel was the big politician
of the district A very old man living in
the hotel came into the room where Eddy
and his friends were sitting, and looked
Eddy over carefully. "I swow!' said the
old man, "that's the homeliest man I ever
did see. Who is he?" Hush!" cautioned
the man who ran the hotel, "that's Mr.
Eddy; he's the candidate for Congress in
this district" "Well," squeaked the old
man, "I knew he was too good-looking to
be a Democrat"
A Philadelphia preacher tells a story of
a young man who took his best girl to
church, and when the time for "collection'
came round, rather ostentatiously dis
played a ?3 gold piece. Presuming upon
the engagement to marry that had been
made by her, the young woman placed a
restraining hand upon the arm of her
fiance. "Why, don't be so extravagant,
George!" 'she exclaimed. "Oh, that's noth
ing," he replied: "I always give $5 when I
go to a strange church." Just then the
deacon came with the plate, and Geosge
dropped a coin. Everything seemed favor
able, and tho young man beamed with a
sense of generosity. Then the minister
made the announcements for the week,
and concluded with the wholly unexpected
announcement of the day's collection.
"The collection today," said he, "was
J2 75." George hadn't much to say all the
way to his fiancee's home.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHIAS
La Montt Here is a periodical deoted to air
navigation. La Mojne Ah, It must be a fly
paper. Philadelphia Record.
Why, Indeed? The Husband Why Is it that
women always say, "I'll be ready in two sec
onds"? -The Wife Humph! and why Is it that
men always say, "Oh! I'm ready now"?
Brooklyn Life.
Satisfactory Substitute. Mrs. Odd Mary,
where is the whisk broom? Mary Why, mem,
wo were all out o" breakfast food and I had to
chop It up for Mr. Odd's breakfast. Chicago
Daily News. -
His Lordship Prisoner, you have the right
of challenging ny of the Jury, if you desire
to do so. Prisoner Right y'are. guv'nor. I'll
fight that little black-whiskered bloke at lh
end, if he'll step outside. Tit-Bits.
A Caso of Ill-Treatment. "He calls his po
ems 'the children of hl3 brain. " . "Dear me,
then I should think the horrid critics ought to
be taken in hand by the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Children." Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin.
The Unusual. "Did you say jou saw my boy
Josh laborin" under great excitement?" said
Farmer Corntocscl. "Yes." "Well, I don't
wonder, If Josh was laborin at all. ho must
have been purty surprised an generally flus
tered." Washington Star.
The Promoters. "Let us make the capital
stock $1,000,000,000." said the flrst promoter.
"All right," said the second, who was prepar
ing the Tjrospectus on the typewriter. "Will it
be hard to Increase that capital?" asked tho
flrst. "No. Indeed. All I have to do is to hit
this 0 key a few more tlinaj." Baltimore
American.