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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1002
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
On Sunday, April 27, France will hold
her election for the next Chamber of
Deputies, and the canvass Is now In
active progress which will decide the
character of the French Government for
the next four years to come. The ma
jority of the Chamber of Deputies se
lects the Ministry. The present Cham
ber, elected In 1898, contains 584 Depu
ties, elected In separate districts as
nearly asposslble with 100.00Q popula
tion. Under French law a candidate
must have a majority. France In 1893
elected 235 Republicans, 98 Radicals, 57
Socialists, 82 Radical Socialists. 35
Rallies (Roman Catholic Republicans),
58 Reactionaries and' 7 scattering. The
present Ministry, headed by "Waldeck
Rousseau, represents a coalition be
tween the Progressive Republicans, the
Radicals and the more conservative So
cialists. The polled vote In 1898 was
7,838,013, out of 10,231,532 electors. The
absentees were nearly all Reactionaries.
In 1898 the republic was in an over
whelming majority, meaning by that,
while there are various Republican fac
tions In France, six out of seven votes
cast in 1898 agreed In preferring a re
public. The French Republic faces today no
pretender. Twenty years ago Count
Chambord, the Bourbon heir, was a live
political figure. He was succeeded by
the Count of Paris, the Orleanlst heir.
Boulanger. in 1890, promised to become
a successful military adventurer. The
Duke of Orleans at one time had a
popular following, but quickly lost It
by his vices. Prince Louis Bonaparte,
now a General in the Russian Army,
has not developed into a pretender, -and
the Dreyfus case, through the wisdom
and courage of President Loubet, was
tided over without driving France Into
a military-clerical reaction under some
ambitious soldier. Today, on the eve
of her national election, France con
fronts none of these perils the republic
has won. The only contest today In
France is whether the next government
shall represent an alliance between 'the
center of the Republican party and the
Radical Socialist party or between this
center and the moderates. The pros
pect Is that the French voters will elect
a Chamber of Deputies even more fa
vorable to Premier Waldeck-Rousseau
than the present
Waldeck-Rousseau has shown Im
eelf to be not only a strong man, but a
most tactful statesman. He came Into
power at a time when the existence of
the French Republic seemed threatened
by the contest between those who de
manded and those who opposed a re
vision of the judgment rendered by the
iirst court-martial In the Dreyfus case.
He has put an end to the Dreyfus scan
dal without alienating the army or out
raging the public sense of justice. He
formed a Cabinet out of a Parliament
where there was no real majority, and
he has not only kept this heterogeneous
Cabinet together but has made It a
good working machine. He has averted
conflict between the army and the civil
power; has courageously reorganized
the general staff, and has driven
through both chambers the law regulat
ing religious associations, the aim and
effect of which has been to expel -the
Jesuits alid other teaching orders from
France. And yet he has done this with
out exciting any serious resentment on
the part of the Roman Catholic Church
in France, for the church knows that
the hostility of the government Is not
directed at the church, but at the Jesuit
schools, whose teaching Is subversive of
Republican principles; that is, the state
does not propose to tax Itself for the
multiplication of Its foes.
"While the Socialists in the Chamber
of Deputies have supported Premier
"Waldeck's leading measures, he has
yielded to none of their extravagant
demands save the project for old-age
pensions. The present Premier of
France has certainly deserved well of
the republic, and the vote at the na
tional elections this month will doubt
less return a Chamber of Deputies that
will be sure to continue his Ministry.
President Doubet is an able man, both
honest and brave, and with a Premier
like WaldeckrRousseau and a President
like Ixiubet, France ought td be able
to meet successfully any trial that
comes to her during the next four yeara
Within the next four years it is quite
possible that there will come a clash of
arms between Russia and Japan. In
that event Great Britain would support
Japan, and France has virtually an
nounced that she would sustain Russia.
President Loubet's visit to the Czar Is
public notice that France is to act with
Russia. In event of a great war be
tween RuEsla and France on the one
side and Japan backed by' Great' Brit
ain on the other, France could not be
In better hands than those of President
Loubet and Premier Waldeck-Rousseau.
If the resolution which recently
passed the Chamber of Deputies be
comes a law by the concurrence of
the French Senate, the term of the next
and of every succeeding Parliament will
be six years instead of four. The strong
support which all the French Republi
cans gave this resolution for prolonging
the term of the Chamber of Deputies to
six years may be taken as an expres
sion of their confidence in success at the
Impending general election.
THE DOUBLE LIFE.
No- novelist ever contrived a stranger
story of marital Irregularity than Is
uncovered by the murder of Mrs.
Charles A, Furbush and her little girl.
In Philadelphia last week. But for the
chance that led to the negro servant's,
horrible revenge and consequent
revelation of the double life that
has been carried on for years by
Charles A, Furbush, a wealthy manu
facturer and broker of that city, the
facts in this most unusual and revolt
ing case would probably never have
come to light.
In the Fifteenth-street home Mr. Fur
bush had a wife and two children. The
house was a handsome one, and luxuri
ously furnished with costly paintings
and statuary. The woman was 47, good
looking and affectionately regarded by
her neighbors. The two little girls re
sembled the father. The Spring Garden-street
home was also grand, within
and without In it lived a wife and one
child, also a daughter. The day of the
tragedy Mr. Furbush waB in New York,
and returned In hot haste upon tele
graphic summons. He was at the
Spring Garden-street house a while, but
spent most of the night away, dividing
it between sorrowful watches at the
side of the dead woman and equally
distressful interviews at the hospital
with his little Elolse, the second daugh
ter, who was wounded but not killed by
the murderous negro. In her Intervals'
from suffering she recognized him,
called him "Papa," and talked of their
common misery. At the Spring Garden
street house the lights were low, and In
response to Inquiries it was said that
the mistress of the house was ill, she
knew nothing of the other Mrs. Fur
buBh, she was no relation of hers, she
could- not be seen.
Owing to the reserve and delicacy ob
served by the Philadelphia papers, out
of respect to the man's position In busi
ness and society and through sympathy
with the relatives of both women. It is
uncertain what are the facts about the
relations of the man with his two puta
tive wivea Whether he was married to
both or to one, and which one, and
whether either or both of them knew of
the other family's existence, can at
present only be surmised, though time
may disclose all. It Is incredible that
a woman of right Instincts could be
consenting to such baseness. It seems
Incredible that any woman with ordi
nary knowledge of affairs would
willingly bear children to a man who
could never own them before the world.
All that is. certain Is that this man,
with all his wealth, business capacity,
soclar- qualities and cultivated tastes,
was a moral monster, in who.se excep
tional case all rules of human nature
are put to naught and all explanations
fall to explain.
' Tet, however exceptlbnal his nature
or his theories of life, his actions are
indefensible by any code. Marriage as
It is observed In Great Britain and the
United States has been approved by the
experience of the race in all the experi
ments from promiscuity down through
polyandry and polygamy. Supported
by history, enforced by the law and
sanctioned by religion, the marriage
custom Is binding upon all men to be
the husband of but one wife and to her
to be true in wealth or poverty, joy or
sorrow, good or 111. The punishment of
this man', as he sat by the bier of the
woman he had wronged, and thought
of the other one agonized In grief and
illness, that he had perhaps more deep
ly wronged, of the children still living
whose future he had blighted, of his
own proud name now humbled in the
dust, was very great, but no greater
than he deserved. The duty was upon
him of conforming to the custom of so
ciety. If his nature was exceptional,
that was his misfortune. There Is no
excuse for offenses against the law of
domestic sanctity. Man Is as bounden
as woman to respect it If his tempta
tion is greater, so is his strength. '
TONNAGE AND CROP PRICES.
Oregon wheat; flour, lumber, salmon
and other products are now going out
to the world's markets on the lowest
ocean freight rate that has prevailed
since 1896. From the Antipodes sailing
ships are bringing coal to this city at
lower rates than those exacted from
the m(nes In adjoining states. From
Europe many cargoes of salt, cement,
glass, Iron and building material are
headed for this city at the lowest freight
rate on record. Steam and sail vessels
are coming- from Calcutta with bags
for the Oregon wheat crop at the lowest
rates that has been paid in ten years,
while from the Orient tramp steamers
are .cutting rates on sulphur, rice, mat
ting and all other freight which can be
secured to fill the vacancy under deck.
Meanwhile new tonnage Is going 'into
the water at a record-breaking rate all
over the world.
The slump in freights has, of course,
called a halt In new contracts for ships,
but like a soft 'snowball rolling down
hill, the business has gained volume a3
It gained speed, and will not reach Its
greatest proportions until just "before It
comes to a halt This Is a bad season
for the shipowners, but among the pro
ducers no regrets are expressed. The
men who handle the ocean commerce of
the world can be numbered by the
hundreds, or the thousands, and they
are now In a fair way to lose some of
the big surplus that has been accumu
lating during a number of years of
prosperity. The producers and the con
sumers are numbered by millions, and
from the highest to the lowest they are
reaping the benefit of low- ocean
f relghta Not more than 100 individuals
or firms are -Interested In the ships that
carry to market the products of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, but 1,000,000
people in the three states profit by the
reduction In these freights. An Iniqui
tous tariff has enabled the salt trust
to force prices up to unreasonable fig
ures, but the decline in ocean. freights
has started thousands of tons from Eu
rope to Pacific Coast ports, where It
can be landed and sold far below the
prices exacted by the trust
No matter how remote the producer
or the consumer may be from the
American seaboard, he Is certain to
profit by any reduction In ocean freights
which will admltvof his products reach
ing a market at lessened expense for
carriage. 'Rail lines which carry the
products of-the Interior farms to tide
water do not reduce their rates when
crops are poor, freight scarce and the'
foreign markets at low ebb, and accord
ingly; the only relief that the American
farmer can secure at such a time Is that
afforded by low ocean rateS. When
crops are bad In one part of the coun
try, and good elsewhere, the railroads
cannot move their transportation equip
ment to the locality where freight is
plentiful, and thus by competition
equalize matters on a supply and de
mand basis. With the ocean steamer It
Is different The-Almighty has provid
ed for these wanderers commercial
highways on which all flags have an
equai'opportunlty.
When the crops are bad and freight
Is scarce in certain parts of the world,
the steamer can up anchor and steam to
a port where conditions are more favor
able. The producer in the unlucky dis
trict which the steamer may-leave, as
a partial offset for his poor crop, will
have the call on trie steamer before
she departs, however, at a very low rate
of freight Even the producer who has
been favored with a good crop receives
an additional benefit by the competi
tion of the various steamers that have
been driven away from other parts of
the world and flock in where freight la
plentiful. Vessels now loading In this
port are flying the British, -German,
Austrian and ifcench flags. They have
come here from the remote quarters of
the earth, and they are after business
and will take it or what they can se
cure. A shipping trust that can bring the
fleets of all of these big powers together
and regulate rates Is as impossible as
an International alliance that would sat
isfactorily unite them. For this reason
the producers of the world will period
ically find relief from excessive freight
rates in the assertion of the law of sup
ply and demand, which in the case of
ocean freights cannot be obstructed or
nullified by combinations and mergers.
POPULAR REVERENCE FOR POWER
The humor of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens
Is never quite so grotesque and com
pelling as when its author attempts to
divert It to some serious end. This has
been the doleful fate of the humorist's
ventures in statesmanship, but it is
happily averted In the case of his an
swer to "Does the Race of Man Love a
Lord?" which ornaments the place of
honor in the North American Review
for April.
Among the many frailties of our poor
human nature, none lends itself more
readily to banter than the instinctive
homage paid to power, and In its lm
pulslve.and ofttlmes unconscious mani
festations Mark Twain has discovered
a fruitful field for the employment of
his peculiar talents. He has marked
them all the worship paid to royalty
by the nobility, the aristocracy's wor
ship of the nobility, the worship every
eminent class or individual irets in his
own realm, large or small, from the
King on the throne to the leader of
the newsboya And he shows up with
rare skill and much good humor the
various modes In which this adoration
expresses Itself. We can all recall the
pleasure with .which the man who once
has supped with the Emperor or walked
down the steps of the Capitol with the
Senator, or rode across country with
the Governor, or shook hands with the
vheavy-welght champion, or assisted
Mrs. Quality to alight from her car
riage, narrates the Incidents of, his tri
umph to admiring and envious audi
ences, and we all know h6w well
pleased the most belligerent democrat
Is to be recognized by the great man
or photographed with Prince Henrb' or
addressed In friendly terms by some
person of great eminence or wealth.
This all looks very pitiful to Mr.
Clemens, though It Is far from being a
new story. Dickens is full of carica
tures of this universal propensity.
Thackeray is apt to enter into the spirit
of worship, and when he refers In Es
mond,""perhap3, to the Duke as one of
the greatest gentlemen In England, one
feels that the novelist Is part of the
admiring throng. But in Dickens there
Is always som character like J6ey Bag
stock who Is continually bringing up
the story of how the Prince slapped him
on the shoulder, or like Sir Leicester
Dedlock, with his adoration of Lords
Coodle, Doodle. Foodie, etc. This is
partly due to the Identification of
Thackeray with polite society, wllh
which Dickens had no part or sympa
thy. Mark Twain's new contribution to
the subject consists, however, in his
contention that the American loves a
lord as much as the Englishman does,
and that the worship of Power and
Consplcuousness Is a common falling of
humanity.
To all this there Is to be taken grave
exception, not so much "Ih its direct
teaching as in its Implications. It Is
the danger of comedy that It Is tempted
to take Itself too seriously. Mr. Clem
ens Is our greatest exponent of high
comedy. Comedy In its high and true
sense, as occupying Itself with the foi
bles and frailties of- society, is his nat
ural and exclusive mode of expression,
even when he drops Into pathos or
rises Into description. But high" com
edy Is not life, and the foibles of the
race are only a part and a very small
part of ks character. This reverence
for power is an instinct that cannot be
laughed away. It belongs to no order
of society or stage of civilization. It is
an Incident of the reward that comes
to the exceptional mind. It does not in
dicate anything to our discredit that.
rorce or character gives power and
power gains recognition in America as
It does elsewhere. Human nature is not
made In monarchies or unmade In de
mocracies. In reverence for power the
whole world Is kin. , ,
There Is a little difference, through
out the world, by reason of the variant
circumstances that contribute to emi
nence, but not much. In all history
and under all forms of government
power has been principally achieved,
not delayed or inherited. Ancient Chal
dea, Persia and Egypt were ruled by
men whose successive authority was
built up by revolution within "or inva
sion from without Cyrus gained the
throne of Media and founded the Per
sian monarchy through his own efforts.
Darius wrested dominion from the un
willing hands of a revolutionary oli
garchy. Caesar was the son of a Cap
tain In the Roman Army, Napoleon
was born in Corsica, the son af an
Italian lawj'er. William the Conqueror
was the Illegitimate son of a Duke of
Normandy. The story of Joseph Is a
familiar one In the ancient and mod
ern world. The great Bismarck carved
his own way up from obscurity to
power, Gladstone was the son of a Liv
erpool merchant, Disraeli's father was
a struggling author. DeWltte, the fore
most Russian statesman of the day, be
gan life as. a railroad la-borer, and
China's powerful dictator. Ll Hunir
Chang, came into the army out of a
humble village in a minor province in
,the empire, so little thought of that the
date of his birth Is Involved in obscur
ity. In general, then, men revere emi
nence. In Old World or New, because
It testifies to power. It Is not only the
Influence and the consplcuousness the
great enjoy. It Is the force of charac
ter they have demonstrated. Only
churlishness or embittered envy would
withhold the tribute mediocrity pays
to eminence. Its exhibitions can be
made fun of so can everything else.
Religion is parodied in sanctimonious
ness -and sentiment In sentimentallsm.
It is the mission of high comedy to
make us laugh at Its caricatures of nat
ural impulses. But its caricatures aVe
not the real things. Veneration for the
great and good Is not a weakness,
though its absence is a weakness in
Young America. It shows itself at
times in ridiculous ways, and so does
every other Instinct of the mind. Mark
Twain does not permit any knowledge
of this truth to escape 'him. through
his entertaining essay. And It Is well
he does not. It would spoil his comedy.
Suicide Is under practically all cir
cumstances the act -of a person tem
pprarily bereft of reason the effect of
a cause, more or less occult, which,
rather than the act Itself, enlists sympa
thy for the victim. Thus the young
mother of four little children, herself
but 23 years old, who took her own life
at Fairvlew a few days ago, Is well en-.
titled to the pity of the pitiful In the
circumstances, whatever they were,
that brought her life to so tragical a
termination. The "woman's lot" as
represented In this case, is not the less
deserving of sympathy tender, Intelli
gent and helpful because it Is a lot
which myriads of women, by reason of
strength, have borne.' uncomplainingly
from youth to middle age Thoughtless
ness, Ignorance and poverty combine to
render the lot of the physically delicate
young mother of many children any
thing but an enviable one, or one easy,
to bear, and censure may well be silent
when a woman so situated forgets In
despondent misery those dependent
upon her and gives up the struggle. A
sermon enlightening to the thoughtless
and helpful to the overburdened might
be preached from a text of which a
suicide of this class is a ghastly object
lessoni The physician, for obvious rea
sons, is the proper person to deliver
such a sermon, and manly men and
conscientious women will be the better
fitted 'for the discharge of the more sa
cred duties of life by hearing It
Dr. Edmund J.James, president-elect
of the Northwestern University, has
this to say on coeducation In his first
communication to the board of trustees:
There are many signs of a marked reaction
in the public mind on the subject of coeduca
tion. Not only has the system ceased to make
new converts, but there arc Indications that it
Is losing ground In tho very territory which it
had so completely won. One hears oftener the
claim that the Increasing number of women
tends to feminize the Institutions where they
are. In some cases to such an extent as to dis
courage the attendance of men. It Is urged
with increasing persistence that the social dis
tractions and dissipations form a very serious
problem, while others emphasize the fact that
tho broad difference In the future careers of
the two sexes should find a more adequate rec
ognition In the college, curricula.
If this estimate is correct. It merely
shows that experiment has worked out
a problem that no amount of discus
sion could settle. It' does not prove tha't
young women cannot keep up with
young men in college studies, but sim
ply that It Is not worth while, under
the differing conditions of their lives,
to do so. Matters of this kind settle
themselves, one way or the other. All
that they want Is time and opportunity.
Nature may be relied upon to do the
rest to the satisfaction of the majority
of those concerned.
The street-car accident In Alblna, by
which a little girl was killed last Sat
urday, Is an exceedingly shocking and
deplorable event Since, as it appears
from the evidence, the child ran heed
lessly Into a moving car in the effort to
escape from another danger, real or
fancied, there can be no blame attached
to the motorman. nor. Indeed, unless it
can be shown that the cow that fright
ened the child Is a vicious beast, unfit
to be staked out to graze, where children
are passing, to any one else. It Is one
of those sad casualties that human
foresight is powerless to prevent and
which go to make up the great sum of
human suffering and bereavement The
most that can be said of it was said In
the beginning of this paragraph, and
we can only repeat that the event Is
exceedingly shocking and deplorable,
the only palliating feature In the case
being that death resulted without in
flicting suffering or disfigurement upon
the hapless child.
For falling to pray for the Czar at a
church festival in Berblkl, a town of
Polish Russia, a CatholIc priest was ar
rested1 in the midst of divine service on
Easter Sunday. His congregation re
sisted, a scrimmage resulted, and a
number of people were wounded before
a semblance of order was restored. In
cidents of this kind can scarcely be said
to create a prayerful spirit or tend
greatly to sbothe the Irritation of the
Catholic Poles against the government
Perhaps these people can be compelled
to render lip service in prayer for the
ruler who Is to them, by hereditary
taint, their oppressor, but It Is not in
the power of the Procurator of the Holy
Synod himself to control their thoughts
and feelings. It Is here that human
will and human intelligence triumph
over oppression, saying to its expo
nents: "Thus far and no farther."
The Canadian Pacific Is opposed to
the Chinese exclusion bill. This Is In
deed ominous, for the Canadian Pacific
is among the most powerful members
of Congress. It has taken the lead In
delaying the Nicaragua Canal, and has
retained Its differentials and bonding
privileges In eplte of all that could be
done by Americans with Congress and
before the Department of Justice. New
England is the closest ally of the Ca
nadian Pacific, and how Its Senators can
go against It on the Chinese question
Is Inconceivable. Boston Is not all sen
timent It has an eye to Its trade con
nections. The salmon season opens one week
from today. Cannerymen and fisher
men, profiting by past experience, are
prepared to meet each other on the
basis of "sweet reasonableness" In the
matter of prices for. fish, while, If the
assumption that the good run of salmon
last year was due to artificial propaga
tion holds, fish will be more abundant
In the Columbia River than for many
years past. Hence the cKeerful prog
nostication that this will be a good
year for the salmon industry.
THE -MULTNOMAH DEMOCRATS. ,
Pendleton East Oregonlan.
It la bruited about the state' that the
Multnomah Democrats are considering a
proposition from the Simon Republicans
to form a coalition for the purpose of de
feating the Republican ticket, city and
county, This object is to be desired the
defeat of the Republicans of Multnomah
County. But. as t6 the coalitlbh with
Joseph Simon, and j his cohorts, there Is
not the slightest doubt that it will be the
most disastrous movement that can be
entered into by the members of the De
mocracy of that county. It will be to
place over' the entire Democratic ticket of
Oregon the hoodoo of a man who ha3 Just
received the most thorough beating at
the hands of his party that ever a man
was given with the bludgeon of the voter."
Joe Simon has been discredited. Ho has
been told by members of his own organi
zation to go something like 2,000,000 miles
back, and, after arriving at his destina
tion, to sit down in a chair into the seat
of which a can of glue has been poured.
To tie up with Joe Simon at this time
of all times means to injure the cause
of the Democracy more severely than in
any other way that could be suggested.
If the Multnomah County Democrats de
sire to end all chances of success in the
present campaign, let them enter into a
political partnership with Joe Simon, and
then well may all effort cease and the
fight be given up.
It will take from the strength of George
E. Chamberlain, who will be the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor, the. major
portion, and there will be no more like
lihood that he will be elected than that
he will take a trip to the moon upon the
back of a wild cayuse.
As the situation stands, Mr. Chamber
lain Is a strong candidate. Coupled with
Joe Simon by the act of the Multnomah
County Democrats, he will be in no hope
of success.
Joe Simon is at this juncture a good
man to have upon the other side. He Is
one with whom no one can afford to be
associated politically.
THE LOGIC OF "SCUTTLE."
Protection "Without Sovereignty Re
sponsibility "Without Power.
New York Sun.
Another Philippine debate is soon due
In the Senate, this time upon the bill-for
the temporary government of the Islands.
The substitute bill and accompanying
report of the minority of Mr. Lodge's
committee Indicate the course of the op
position. Now, as at every previous stage
of necessary legislation concerning the
Philippines, the alternative policy Is sim
ply Scuttle.
This time there Is a slight variation or
addition to the main Idea, the abandon
ment of American sovereignty. The mi
nority substitute proposes that the United
'States shall hold the Islands, until peace
Is established, the obligations, of the
Paris treaty are carried out, and elec
tions have been held for the adoption of
a constitution and the establishment of
an Independent government Then, hav
ing proclaimed to the world the fact that
the Philippine Republic is an'lndependent
and sovereign nation, we are to proceed
to negotiate with Great Britain, Ger
many, Franco and such other powers as
the President may deem necessary, for
the perpetual inviolability of that sover
eign nation from foreign Interference.
In other words, having relinquished all
claims to American sovereignty, and hav
ing withdrawn from the Islands, we are
yet to be responsible to the rest of the
world for the new republic's behavior,
and also responsible tp the Filipino Re
public for the continued preservation of
its Independence against assault by other
nations!
Suppose the experimental republic fails?
Suppose the proposed negotiations, with
the other great powers fail?. Suppose
that one of them finds a pretext for break
ing its treaty obligations? We are out of
sovereignty, but up to the ears in re
sponsibility for the Filipinos.
Protection without sovereignty, respon
sibility without power such Is the logic
of the logicians of Scuttle.
The Tovra of Unite.
Boston Evening Transcript
Into an ounce of brandy put a small
dose of cocaine; drink the mixture, and In
10 minutes you will find yourself in the
mental and nervous condition which is the
normal state of the citizen of Butte. .
Butte never sleeps. It Is as wide awake
at 2 In the morning as .at midday, every
shop open, every industry in full blast
The life of the town depends upon the
mines and tho smelter; and these never
stop. Day In and day out, the year
round they work continuously, with three
eight-hour "shifts" of men, one stepping
in as Its predecessor steps out; from
year's end to year's end neither Industry
ever drops a stitch. The shift that
comes off at midnight, but eat, drink, and
be served with Its amusements, like the
others. So It happens that every door
in down, of boarding-house, shop, saloon,
theater, and all the rest, stands always
ajar. So far as buslnees is concerned,
there is literally no day, no night One
hour Is like all the rest; every hour is an
hour of hustle. To the stranger It ap
pears like delirium; to the man of Butte
It is a matter of course.
The result Is easily foretold; quick ex
haustion and early death. The man of
Butte is an octogenarian at 40. a senile
ruin at 55. Oo one lives to be old, In the
accepted Eastern use of the word; you
wil lnever see that white and venerable
and beautiful old age which has so firm
a place In our life, our poetry, our very
religion. Overstrung nerves snap; brains
crumble; nearts yield to their load.
Perplexities Thnt Come With. Trplet
Philadelphia Times.
"I was called," said a physician, "to at
tend triplets. The three youngsters, a
few weeks old, lay 3ldc by side in a crib,
and it was a physical Impossibility to tell
ono from the other. Each had a different
aliment The mother knew that one had
a cough, but did not know which It was.
Mother and doctor waited for a cough be
fore deciding to which of the trio It be
longed. "A different medicine was prescrlbel for
each, and the anxious mother was per
plexed to know how she should avoid giv
ing the wrong medicine to the wrong
child. The doctor came to the rescue by
placing a piece of red flannel around the
nec,k of ono bottle, and a strip of simi
lar material around the arm of the child
to whom it was to be given. White linen
and a piece of green cloth were used re
spectively for the other two."
i -
To Hcnrlk: Ibsen.
On entering his 75th year, March 20. 1002.
Edmund Qosse in the Athenaeum.
Red "star, that on the forehead of the North
Hast flared so far and with so fierce a blaze.
Thy long vermllllon light still Issues forth
Through night of fir-woods down thy "water
ways. And draws us up Its sinister, wild rays;
Lower It falls and nearer to the sea
But still tho dark horizon flames In thee.
All stars and suns roll tholr predestined oonrse.
Invade the zenith, hang on high, and turn;
rhrust onward by some god-like secret force.
They sparkle, flush, and, ere they fade, they
tjtrrri.
Each quenched at last In its historic urn;i
.Each sloping to Its cold, material grave.
Tet each remembered by the light It gave.
Thy radiance, angry star, shall fill the sky
When all thy mortal being hath decayed:
Thine is a splendor never meant to die.
Long clouded by man's vapors, long delayed,
But risen at last above all envious shade.
Amid the pearly throng of lyric stars
Thy fighting orb has lamped the sky like Mars.
And when the slow revolving years havo driven
All pearl and fire below the western wave.
Thbugh strange new planets crowd our startled
heaven.
I Thy soul will still bear on Its architrave
The light reflected that thy luster gave.
Hall, burning Star! a dazzled Maglan, I
"Kneel to thy red refulgence till I die.
THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon based his
argument on the Chinese exclusion bill
on the ground that a nation has a right
to exclude undesirable immigrants. Such
a right Is based on the general welfare of
the American people, and on the same
principle as the policy of protection to
American labor. It has been contended
that If the existing treaty with China
should expire, the right to exclude Chi
nese would be swept away. Senator
Mitchell's position Is that the right to
exclude undesirable Immigrants docs not
depend upon the consent of the
government whose people are excluded.
The acquiescence of such government Is
desirable on grounds of amity, but If any
government whose people are considered
undesirable declines to consent to exclu
sion, the right of exclusion Is not thereby
affected. The right to exclude the
products of labor Is universally admitted.
The only question Is as to the policy of
exclusion. "When duties are levied that
add a sufficient percentage to the cost of
placing goods of another nation on our
market the goods of that nation are
virtually excluded. It makes little dif
ference whether goods are denied a land
ing, as in the case of infected goods, or
are made by legislation so costly that
the foreign owners -of the goods abstain
from trade In such goods.
Sme years ago the European countries
prohibited the importation of American
pork on the pretext that It was an un
healthful article of food. The United
States did not assume that the right of
prohibition did not exist but that the
two governments had no right to prohibit
on a fraudulent pretext They 'had no
right to brand an article of American ex
port as unfit for consumption without
proving the fact of unfitness. There Is
in point of principle no difference be
tween excluding the products of labor
and In excluding labor. What the Chi
nese want Is to sell their labor In the
American market They would, as a,
rule, rather live in their own country
and sell the products of home. labor in
this country than come to this country.
Senator Mitchell has not proclaimed a
new principle of law, but by restating an
old one hna placed exclusion on Impregna
ble ground. The late Senator Thurman
declared In the debate on the restriction
act of 1SS4 that the right to exclude un
desirable immigrants was Inherent in a
nation's sovereignty. Exclusion has been
opposed on th6 ground of policy. It has
been asserted that the United States
would lose more by exclusion than It
would "gain. This might be true of one
country and not of another. Much would
depend upon the character of immigrants
and much upon the value of the trade
of. the country whose people it was pro
posed to exclude. On these points the
nation which adopts an exclusion policy Is
the judge of what is best for itself.
The Oregon Republicans.
Seattle Washlngtonlan.
The Oregon Republican State Convention has
taken very advanced ground toward satisfying"
the public sentiment of that part of the Re
publican party which soma yeara ago gave Its
allegiance to the various so-called reform
forces.
The Oregon platform emphatically Indorses
the war being made by President Roosevelt
upon the trusts; urges the passage of the
MItchell-Kahn Chinese exclusion bill; favors
the creation of a department of labor; Roose
velt's Irrigation plans; election f Senators
by direct vote and the initiative and referen
dum. What more do the reformers want?
"We predict a sweeping victory for Oregon
Republicanism. The reform elements have had
similar allurements from the Democracy, but
have always largely fought shy of a very
close Intimacy with that party because they
had no proof of Its sincerity. Now that the
Republican party is making similar overtures
It Is probable- that the bulk of reformers will
go back Into the ranks and take off their
coats for the whole Republican proposition
because they have usually found the Republi
cans doing what they promised. If the next
Republican State Convention In Washington
should go an equal length in the same direc
tion, the old bourbon Democrats would And
their ranks decimated till the effort to All
their delegations would become discouraging.
Really those reforms, when analyzed, seem
to be in harmony with old-line Republican
principles.
The Mltchell-Kahn Chinese exclusion bill Is
the one which has received the Indorsement
of organized labor, and should pass.
President's Roosevelt's acts and plans are
certainly good Interpretation of Republican
doctrines. The direct Senatorial vote is as
much a Republican tenet as any other. Most
Republicans favor It.
As the election lu Oregon occurs earlier
than that is Washington, we shall note the
result of this move on the part of our frlenda
in Oregon with very great Interest. The men
who went out of our ranks after these reforms
were sincere men. - if they can be Induced
back Into the ranks by such a platform as
Oregon's and got into enthusiastic service,
tha party will be strengthened in a direction
where it most needs strength.
BEX BOLT.
The Oregonlan is asked to print this most
famous of the poems of Thomas Dunn English.
with an account of Its origin and first publica
tion, un 1843 N. P. Willis, who. with George
P. Morris, was publishing "The New Mirror,"
a literary and society weekly at New York,
asked Dr. English for a poem, to help their
undertaking, and suggested a sea song. Eng
lish tried it. after renewed presslntr. but
couldn't get on; and drifted finally Into remi
niscence and Imagination and produced "Ben
Bolt." He wrote to Willis telling him to burn
It If he did -not like It, and something would
be sent when tho writer was more In tho vein.
Willis published the song with a commendatory
line. It had no title, and was signed "T, D.
E." It took hold of the popular heart at once,
was fitted to music, and was everywhere re
cited and sung. Everybody whoso memory
runs back fifty years and more will recall the
enormous vogue the song had and kept, during
a long period. Following is the poem:
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown.
Who wept with delight when you gave her a
smile
And trembled with fear at your frown?
In the old churchyard in the valley, Ben, Bolt,
In a comer obscure and alone,
They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray
And sweet Alice lies under the stone.
Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt,
Which stood at the foot of the hill.
Together we've lain In the noonday shade
And listened to Appleton's mill.
The mill wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt,
' The rafters have tumbled In,
And a quiet that crawls round the walls as
you gaze
Has followed the olden din.
Do you mind the cabin of logs, Ben Bolt,
At the edge of the pathless wood.
And the button-ball tree and Its motley limbs.
Which nigh by the doorstep stood?
The cabin to ruin has gone, Ben Bolt,
The tree you would seek In vain;
And whore once the lords of the forest waved
Grows grass and the golden grain.
And don't you remember the school. Ben Bolt,
With the master so cruel and grim.
And the shaded nook In the running brook.
Where the children went to swim?
Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt;
The spring of the brook Is dry.
And of all tho boys who were schoolmates then
There are only you and I.
There Is change in the things I loved, Ben Bolt;
They havo changed from the old to the new
But I feel in the depths of my spirit tho truth
There never was change in you.
Twelve months twenty have passed, Ben Bolt,
Since first we were friends yet I hall
Thy presence a blessing, thy presence a truth,
Ben Bolt of the salt sea gale.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
It seems to be a good deal of a con
fusion movement.
Even though the salmon run every yeir
they are caught once In a while.
The Queen of the May will be crowned
with Icicles, if this sort of thing keeps up.
There seems to be always room for one
more foreign prince In Uncle Sam's heart.
And still the bunco man doesn't move
on. But perhaps he hasn't been invited
to.
Are there ho more fragmentary parties
! for whom tho Democrats .have an- affin
ity?
The Ahkoond of Swat ought to join
the procession of potentates headed to
these shores.
Congressmen arc now distributing
seeds. With them the harvest will come
in November.
This business of shifting January
weather Into an April diy can be very
easily overdone.
It is not surprising that the Boer war
keeps on going, considering the frequency
with which It is wound up.
New York seems to have substituted
Low and dry for the ancient and ac
cepted expression, high and dry.
Already therpopular physician Is begin
ning to keep solid with his patients by
advising a month at tho seashore.
Perhaps, after all, tho Danish purchas
ing agent merely meant to distribute
Christmas gifts among our Congressmen.
If Mr. Hanna becomes a candidate for
President he will know what to do with
the money he gets out of the subsidies
on his ships.
Bryan has not written a great deal
lately. He must be devoting the time he
formerly spent at literature combing the
hayseed out of his hair that accumulates
there during the night.
King Edwardjdeslres- that the Prince of
Wales come to America. He evidently,
Is anxious to have the young man en
joy at least one good time before he as
sumes the responsibilities of the throne.
General Funston has been called to ac
count for his public conversations. A
General who wants to keep on the good
side of the JVar Department should buy
a gag and use it from the time he lands
In this country.
Peter Smds, of Germantown, a Phila
delphia suburb, has an extremely Inter
esting collection of photographs of no
table persons taken whiles they were en
gaged In their favorite, and in soma
cases, their sole recreation. Mr. Sands
values his collection chiefly because in
each Instance the recreation Is truly the
favorite one of the subject of the photo
griph. Thus, Andrew Lang, Grover Cleve
land and Rudyard Kipling are seen fish
ing. H. G. Wells and H. T. Knatchbull
Hugessen are playing cricket. Ian Mac
laren Is on the links. The poet Swinburne
Is swimming, William Watson Is reading
Persian and the laureate Austin is gir
denlng with a spade. W. D. Howells is
walking, Henry James Is sketching,
George Moore is painting, John Oliver
Hobbes Is playing chess, Mary E. Wil-kins-
Is In her aviary, and Mrs. Humphry
Ward is riding on horseback.
J. Edward Addlcks announcement that
he has built a stone wall around Dela
ware reminded Senator Burrows of the,
time Senator Ell Saulsbury, from that
state, had a few words In the Senate
with the late John J. Ingalls, of Kan- "
sas. Saulsbury had Invested In some,
Kansas bonds that were repudiated, and)
he naturally didn't think well of the
state. He arose one day and took half
an hour to express his opinion of Kan
sas. When he had finished, he had de
nounced the people, the climate, the coal '
and about everything else In the state.
Senator Ingalls uncoiled himself from his
chair and arose. In mock humility ho
commented on the rebuke Kansas had
received. Then he began a panegyric on
Kansas that brought every Senator Into
the chamber and held the galleries en
tranced. It was one of the most eloquent
speeches ever made by Ingalls. He went
back to the days of thes Missouri com
promise and reviewed the history of Kan
sas, dwelt on the soldiers the state fur
nished for tho Civil War and swept down
to the date on which he was talking.
Then he stopped a moment, looked at
Saulsbury and said: "And, Mr. President,
this is the state that has been assailed
In this chamber by a man who represents
In part In part, Mr. President a state
which has two counties when tho tide 13
up and three when the tide Is down!"
Saulsbury had nothing more to say.
PLEASAXTRIES OF PARAGRArilERS
A Master. "Is ha a master of English ?'
"Yes, to Judge by the liberties he takes."
Detroit Free Press.
Chloe Is your husband a breadwinner? Su
san 'Deed he Is; he's won do prize atjj. dozen
cakewalks. Yonkers Statesman.
"Do you ever advise your patients to take
exercise, doctor?" "Oh. jw; it's perfectly safe,
to do so. They never take it." Indianapolis!
News.
A Sacrifice. "Yes. you see he was told he'd
have to stop drinking during office hours."
"And has he actually stopped?" "Well, yes,
he's stopped having office hours." Philadelphia
Press.
Sign of Death. Jlmson I have h'eard that It
Is a sign of death If a dog howls beneath your
window. Jester Beneath my window? You
bet! I would kill any dog that would dare to
do It. Ohio State Journal.
Resignation. Employment .Asent I'm sorry,
Mrs. Hauskeep. but I'm sure I haven't a cook
that would suit you. Mrs. Hauskeep Never
mind; I've gotten over all that Just send ohe
and let me see If I could suit her. Philadelphia
Press.
On tho Last Day's Skating. Parson Jones
Once there was a little boy who went skating
on Sunday. Now, do you know what terrible
thing happened to that little boy? Boy Y-yes,
sir. .1 s'pose his folks made him go to church
three times the next week to pay for It,
Judge.
His View. She The minister asked for fur
ther contributions today for missionary work.
He H'm. He's an ecclesiastical jingo, Isn't
he? She What do you mean? He Why, he's
calling for war on Sin and Satan, and demand
ing big appropriations to carry on the fight.
Town and Country.
Something Awful. The Girls Wot yer all
dressed up fer, Willie some of yer folks dead?
WUHe Worse an' dat. The Girls Goln ter be
took ter de dentist's? Willie Worse an dat.
The Girls Gee. Willie, w'ot'a goln ter be did
ter yer? Willie I'm goln ter have my plctur
took. Leslie's Weekly.
Two young ladles were talking the other day
about a third 'who had just become engaged to
a widower, who plays tho cornet and has four
children. "What could be worse." exclaimed
one, "than four children and a cornet?" "Noth
ing." said the other "except, perhaps, six chil
dren and a trombone." Tlt-Blts.'
Of Course Not. "My son," said the parson to
a small boy who was digging In a back lot,
"don't you know that It Is a sin to dig on the
SablSath. except In case of necessity?" "Yes,
sir." replied the youngster. "Then why don't
you stop It?" asked the good man. " 'Cause
this Is a case of necessity," replied the young
philosopher. 'A feller can't fish without bait."
Chicago Dally News.