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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, MAY O, 1002
HIS WORTHY EXAMPLE.
Judge Williams was against fusion
last election, when we had a Simon
ticket, and he Is against fusion thlE
year, when the regular ticket is anti
Simon. He represents the mass of the
voters. His idea and theirs is that the
question who is running for ja, lot of
minor offices is not nearly so Important
as that larger question what policies
the state is to stand for In the great
issues at stake in the Nation.
If the Republican platform this year
2iad demanded free coinage of silver
and the abandonment of the Philippines
and surrender to the trusts, Judge Will
iams would not have accepted the nom
ination for Mayor. It makes a great
deal of difference to a conscientious
man what principles he is called upon
to approve, but it makes j-elatlvely lit
tle difference to him whether John
Jones or Bill Smith is chairman of the
central committee or Chief of Police,
assuming that Jones and Smith are each
capable of doing the work called for
and are not morally objectionable.
Now it is the fact that the principles
offered the Republican voters by Its
party organizations this year are not
only approved by the party as a whole
throughout the Nation, but no exception
locally has been taken to them. The
several planks In the platform are pre
cisely what they would have been, ex
cept in the details of phrasing, had the
primaries and the control of the party
resulted differently. There Is no com
plaint at the policies adopted. The sole
ground of complaint is that certain men
were not elected as delegates and cer
tain other men, aspirants for office,
were not nominated. There are those
who propose to carry disappointment
over defeat to the point of beating at
the polls the men who were success
ful in the conventions.
This Is a proposal in which Judge
Williams declines to join. It Is a pro
posal in which the rank and file of the
party will refuse to join. To co-operate
In the fusion movement here this elec
tion is to assert that the personal for
tunes of aspirants for office are of
greater moment than the party as a
whole and the establishment of the
principles for which the party stands.
No man should vote the fusion ticket
unless he is prepared to maintain that
Tevenge for persons and factions is a
greater end in government than the pur
suance of correct courses 6f action by
the Nation. The men who will carry
this desire for vengeance to such
lengths will be, as the campaign grows
old, very few. The position which
Judge Williams takes is the only one
that Is defensible and right His exam
ple and precept never deserved amore
loyal Indorsement from this "commun
ity. J
XS ATTRACTIVE DREAM.
An admirable solution of the Philip
pine labor problem is suggested by
Chaplain T. G. Stewart, of one of our
colored regiments the Twenty-fifth
Infantry. He would put our American
negroes there under American control.
The natives are Inefficient, Chinese are
undesirable on some accounts, and the
prospect for Industry on a large scale
is not bright Negro labor would do
nicely. Chaplain Stewart says that no
less than 7000 American negroes have
been In the Philippines as soldiers, first
and last, and that nine out of ten of
them like the country and would prefer
to remain there. One black soldier who
bad just received his honorable dls-
cnarge, asked when he would return
to America, replied: "I do not care if
I never go. They are disfranchising
my people over there. I feel freer here
than I do at home. In Texas we are
Just niggers in uniform, but here we are
colored soldiers and have the respect of
every one."
If this proposal could be carried out,
several birds might be killed with this
one particular stone. It would mitigate
the race difficulties In the South and
doubtless promote good feeling in the
Philippines. Experience shows that the
negro thrives and can work hard in
the Philippines without discomfort The
natives are very friendly to them, and
like them much better than the whites.
Instead of looking upon them with con
tempt, they regard them as superior
beings on account of their vastly su
perior physique. The insular govern
ment will have control of large areas of
land, which could be allotted to negroes
as homesteads under proper conditions,
and there would be no lack of employ
ment upon the cotton, sugar and hemp
plantations, to say nothing of the man
ufactories that are sure to spring up,
Here, obviously, la an ideal arrange -
merit, and, like Ideals in general, It Is
too good for real life. With one simple
stroke, behold the Philippines devel
oped, the negro problem solved, the
solid South broken up, sectionalism,
eradicated. There Is nothing whatever
In the way but the Incidental detail of
getting the negroes over there. They
won't go. Thanks to the fifteenth
amendment, they are anybody's equal
and will not be bundled off anywhere
like the Inferior race they are not.
Probably nobody knows this better than
the Southern statesmen who are urging
us to repeat our negro experience with
the Filipinos.
A LITERAnY HACK.
Bret Harte was a man of literary
genius who lived and died a literary
hack. He was the first man to discover
the literary mine which Kipling has
since so successfully worked. Dickens
hailed him as a gifted worker In a new
field when he published "The Luck of
Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of
Poker Flat" The field that Bret Harte
was the first to work In our day was
that of unconventional, untutored
men that are unspoiled by pinchbeck
culture and civilization if not unspotted
by the world. Dickens instantly rec
ognized the author of "Tennessee's
Pardner" and "The Luck of Roaring
Camp" as a man of genius, although
Dickens had never been in California;
had been In America but once since
1842, and had never visited the trans
Misslsslppl West But Dickens felt that
Harte's characters moved anQ talked
like Homeric and Shakespearean fig
ures; not like puppets or pantomlmists
but with the free stride and spontane
ous speech that Is common to healthy
human nature. " (
Dickens recognized the touch of gen
ius In Bret Harte without knowing
California, even as intelligent Ameri
cans were prompt to appreciate the gen
ius of Kipling, not because they knew
East Indian life by reading or experi
ence, but because Kipling's colore were
primarily thole of human nature, the
magnetic touch of which makes us all
of kin. Dickens hailed "John Oakhurst,
Gambler," as a natural man and
brother, even as we all did "Terence
Mulvaney." In our Judgment Kipling
was the pupil of Bret Harte. The pupil
became greater perhaps than his mas
ter, because he had more ambition,
more industry, for Bret Harte was from
youth up an indolent man who took
life as easy as he could afford to. And
yet when we remember that Bret
Harte was first In the field. It is doubt
ful whether his great pupil, Kipling,
has done any more work of permanent
value than hie master.
There is nothing In Kipling's work
of more permanent quality than the
best of Harte's early creations. There
Is nothing in Kipling's verses that are
of more permanent quality than the
best of Harte's. "John Burns of Get
tysburg," "The Reveille," "The Drum,"
"The Heathen Chinee," "The Society
Upon the Stanislaus," "The Hawk's
Nest," and many others of kindred
quality are quite as good as the best
of Kipling's verses. It Is nothing
against Harte that his first work was
his best work; for that Is quite as true
of Kipling, who has never done any
work as good as his .first books, like
"Soldiers Three" and "Plain Tales Fr6m
the. Hills." Perhaps his latest .work,
"Kim," makes against this conclusion,
but "Kim" is a jewel from the original
East Indian mine, and on the whole
there is nothing In "Kim" that out
shines some of the first tales In which
"Terence Mulvaney" Is. the hero, the
glory and the shame.
Bret Harte was Kipling's predecessor
in the field of the unconventional man,
and we think his permanent literary
mark Is quite as long and deep as that
of Kipling. His creative genius was
quite as fertile in prose, and in verse
Harte bad a vast deal more natural
humor and delicate-satiric quality; he
was easy and spontaneous where Kip
ling was Intense, eccentric, if not ob
scure. Take him all in all, we think
our American Bret Harte was a man
of more original creative literary gen
ius than Kipling; a really greater hu
morist Bret Harte was a literary hack
all his days, but so, for that matter, is
Kipling, and so was Hawthorrie. Haw
thorne was a poorly paid literary hack
until he made a hit with "The Scarlet
Letter," but even that success would
not have reloased him from the chains
of literary servitude if his classmate,
Franklin Pierce, had not been elected
President in 1852. Pierce gave Haw
thorne the consulship to Liverpool, and
Buchanan continued it; but for this
pecuniary endowment Hawthorne would
have been a literary hack to the end of
his daya Hawthorne never did any
thing as good as "The Scarlet Letter."
His genius culminated in that book, al
though he survived Its production fif
teen years.
Howells is a literary hack today, and
so, for that matter, have been most
of our notable men of letters. That is,
they have kept on writing for the mar
ket long after it was clear that their
best work had been done. To illustrate:
Take Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; he
could always find a market, a remuner
ative market, for his work long after
he had passed his prime of literary pro
duction. His first notable poem was
"Old Ironsides," published in 1830. He
had a literary market until 1893, a
period of over sixty years. And yet in
all this time he produced little of more
permanent quality than the work of his
first quarter century of authorship. His
memorable poems are his "Last Leaf,"
"The Chambered Nautilus," "Under the
Violets," "The Voiceless," "Brother
Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline,"
"Bill and Joe" not a long record, for
sixty years. The truth Is that genius
in its youth emits Its freshest, most
original notes bfore it has any market
in mind. The note of genius was In
the first work of Burns, Byron, Shelley, j
Keats, before they knew whether there
was any market for their verse or not
Oregon's timber resources have lately
attracted the attention of practical mill
men who have found in the depleted
forest supply of Michigan and Wiscon
sin the necessity of expansion if they
would continue in the lumber business.
As a result, agents of some of the larg
est sawmill companies of the Middle
Northwest have within a few years past
looked over timber lands in various sec
tions of the state, and have made from
time to time some very large purchases.
Having first cruised the lands carefully,
they have bought understandlngly. It
may be surmised from a. certain un
dercurrent of criticism that owners
have not always sold as understand
lngly. These lands have been seques
tered by Isolation so long that their
owners, In many Instances, have held
them at a nominal ,value, and with the
first appearance of a purchaser have
closed gladly with such terms as have
been offered, in order to "get some -
thing," as they express it, out of their
long unprofitable holdings. This Is not
surprising, since such lands are prac
tically valueless to a man whose entire
capital they represent and for which
no purchaser appears. When, however,
an intending purchaser, with capital
sufficient to build sawmills, establish,
logging camps and construct railroads,
appears, these lands assume a positive
value according to their location, extent
and the quality and quantity of their
forest growth. While owners should
avoid the too common error of placing
a prohibitive value upon their holdings,
they should, as a matter of Intelligent
self-interest Inform themselves as
thorougnly as do Intending purchasers
of the commercial value of the lands,
to the end that they may receive what
they are reasonably worth In paring
with them. It does no sort of good to
make complaint about a business trans
action after it is once consummated.
We shall probably hear a great deal
about the sharp bargains that great
lumber syndicates have driven in secur
ing vast timber areas In this state a
few years hence. There would be no
baeis for such complaints were the hold
ers of timber lands to proceed as care
fully and Intelligently in the matter of
their disposal as the purchasers proceed
In the matter of their acquirement The
development of our timber resources Is
desirable. To .develop them capital Is
necessary, and the many small Individ
ual holdings must be merged Into syn
dicate holdings. This Is a fair, open
and legitiihate proposition. The only
drawback to Us satisfactory consum
mation Is In the lack of specific knowl
edge, on the part of present owners, of
the commercial value of their timber.
Without this they are likely to block
development by placing a valuation al
together too high upon their lands; or,
on the other hand, to part with them
at prices which will be made the basis
of ill will against a future Industry
that may result in vexatious and un
profitable contentions.
AN ABSURD CRITICISM.
The Right Rev. Benjamin I. Kelley,
the Catholic Archbishop of Savannah,
In his address before the Confederate
veterans on the 26th ult, charges Pres
ident Roosevelt with having written a
number of years ago a denunciation of
Jefferson Davia In which he compared
him to Benedict Arnold. It Is quite pos
sible that the bishop's quotation Is cor
rect, but what of It? There is not a
leading public man In either party,
North or South, that could not be con
victed of having spoken or written
words of undue passion and prejudice
concerning the leading actors in the
great Civil War. Twenty years ago
Theodore Roosevelt was a young, Im
pulsive man; the bitterness that grew
out of the Civil War still Inflamed the
hearts and colored the speech of able
men on both sides, who have since
learned to view the Civil War and Its
great actors In a more generous and
philosophic spirit Twenty years ago
there were unseemly debates in the
United States Senate, In which Jeff Da
vis was denounced with Intense bitter
ness and defended with extravagant
zeal by men like Zack Chandler, of
Michigan, and Blaine, of Maine, on the
one side, and Lamar, of Mississippi, on
the other.
Probably there was some; buncombe
In the talk of Blaine and Chandler,
but their bitter denunciation of Davis
reflected a public opinion that had not
yet had time to cool after the Civil
War and take a philosophic view of the
Civil War, its origin and Its far-reaching
consequences. Cold men, like Sena
tor Edmunda even yielded to thj spirit
of prevailing sectionalism, and spoke
with bitterness on the Issues of the Civil
War. At such a time, when the most
eminent men of the Republican party
at the North denounced Jefferson Davis
with peculiar bitterness, It was not re
markable that a young, ardent man
like Theodore Roosevelt should have
estimated Davis historically as a man
of the quality of Aaron Burr. Probably
William McKInley twenty years ago
estimated Jefferson Davis exactly as did
Theodore Roosevelt but a great many
things have happened in twenty years.
Death has removed the leading per
sonages of the Civil War. A vast
amount of historical material has been
published which reflects honorably upon
the actors on both sides to the great
contest; a new generation has taken the
place of the generation of the Civil
War; a foreign war has summoned ex
Unlon and ex-Confederate soldiers and
their sons to the defense of the old flag,
and time, the great avenger, has made
the sectional hate of the Civil War an
outworn, threadbare creed for social life
and political action. There Is nothing
singular In tbla It has always been so.
Memories of civil wars die hard. The
Jacobite quarrel lasted a century; It
survived Cromwell: It survived the
fllthy, corrupt rule of Charles H; It
survived the cruel despotism of James
n; it was not converted to reason by
the wisdom of William ni or by the
domestic tranquillity of Anne and her
successors. The best blood of Scotland
was spent like water for the miserable
pretender as late as 1746, nearly a cen
tury after the execution of Charles I.
The brutality with which the Tories of
the Revolution were treated after our
Independence is another illustration to
the point Even Washington shared in
this feeling of bitter partisan hate for
these men. The large-minded men who
were military leaders on both sides
were the first to set the example of
moderation and forbearance. The poli
ticians on both sides were the last to be
converted to reasonablenesa
President McKInley acted wisely in
making the best use of his opportunity
and summoning out of their retirement
both the ex-Union and ex-Confederate
soldiers. It is a matter for congratula
tion that two eminent Confederate vet
erans are upon the retired list of the
1 Army today. But, even If the Spanish
war naa not come, this extinction of
old animosities could not have been
long deferred, because the forces of
business and human self-interest are
always too much for those of pure sen
timent; the world in the long run Is
quite willing to let the dead past bury
Its dead. The politician on both sides
had found out that the day for the In
vocation of trfe war "fetich" was over;
he had found out that the negro prob
lem at the South, whether Its ultimate
solution was wise or unwise, could only
be solved by the South for Itself. We
have all learned these things; we have
all obtained new light President Mc
KInley, President Roosevelt, everybody
but perhaps the Catholic Archbishop of
Savannah.
Chairman Foss, of the House naval
committee. In his report, recently pre
sented In conjunction with the naval
appropriation bill, points out that com
oaratlvely few of our shins have any
1 real flgattny value. He declares that
our naval strength Is practically con
fined to 'eighteen battle-ships, eight ar
mored crcsers and twenty-one protect
ed cruisers. The residue of the ships
that go to make up the total (13S built
and buliaing) would be of very little
actual value In war. This showing by
comparison with the navy of Germany,
no comparison with that of England be
ing instituted, makes the United States
Navy relatively Insignificant In fight
ing 'strength. Our Government, how
ever, has a trick of rising to meet an
emergency upon which Its patriotic sons
place great reliance. Their confidence
In It in this respect has never been
shaken, but is strengtheaed rather by
every test to which it Is subjected.
However, it Is not wise to trust too
much to this characteristic, for without
doubt the battle-ships of any other Eu
ropean nation. If called upon to meet
our Navy in hostile encounter, would
speak In a way far more convincing of
their ability as fighters than did the
navy of Spain In our last encounter.
Discretion Is well deemed the better
part of valor, and In this view, doubt
less, Chairman Foss recommends pro
vision for the construction of two first
class armored cruisers and two gun
boats In addition to those vessels now
under way. The term "first class" Is
much more comprehensive now than It
was even wfien the Oregon was built
It means that the new battle-ships shall
have the heaviest armor and the most
powerful armament that can be floated
and handled, and the highest practica
ble speed and th.e greatest radius of ac
tion. Leviathans of the deep these ves
sels will be for it may be assumed that
they will be built In the near future;
peace persuaders of the most pro
nounced type, since their terms of peace
are such as compel the most profound
respect, whether of men or nations.
The black bass of Northern New York. New
England and Northeastern Pennsylvania
waters are descended from the few adventur
ous youngsters that straggled long ago from
Lake Erie through the Erie Canal.
Between 1S50 and 1852, lakes or pond3 in
Massachusetts and other New England States
and In bordering New York counties, and White
Lake In Sullivan County, were stocked with
black bass from Saratoga Lake nndthe Hud
son River; Flax Lake, near Wareham. Mass.,
being tho first of the New England lakes in
which the fish were placed. From those lakes
the black bass has come to be an Inhabitant
of a wide range of waters between the Hud
son and the New England coast line. N. Y.
Sun.
The Sun Is in error. D. P. Thomp
son, for many years professor of nat
ural history In the University of Ver
mont, In his "History of Vermont" pub
lished in 1841, gives a scientific descrip
tion of the black bass, and names It
as one of the fishes Indigenous to Ver
mont waters from the first settlement
of the state. The St Lawrence River,
the Sun admits, wis always the home
of the black basa The Sorel River con
nects the waters of Lake Champlaln
With those of the St. Lawrence, and of
course that lake and Its tributaries were
full of black bass from he earliest
times. It is not necessary to resort to
the Erie Canal theory to account for
the presence of black bass in the waters
of New England. Lake Champlaln and
Its tributaries were full of black bass
from the earliest times, and the stock
ing of the rest of the inland waters of
New England was an easy matter. John
Barnard, a noted English actor, who
lived 'twenty-five .years In-America,' In
his "Reminiscences" refers to the re
markably fine fish that he ate at Bur
lington, Vt, In 1808. The Vermont
angler In the Champlaln Valley caught
the black bass In Lalce Champlaln and
Its tributaries before his state was ad
mitted to the Union, In 179L
Wastefulness of bird life has seldom
found a more complete illustration than
in the almost total disappearance of
wild pigeons from the states of the Mid
dle West These birds abounded through
the wooded sections of Northern Illi
nois, Ohio and Indiana In the earlier
years of the past century, flying In
great flocks with a whirr of wings that
announced their coming even before
their shadow darkened the air. Their
extermination has been so complete that
a single specimen of these' birds Is rare
ly seen. One of these strayed into .
Chicago park a shor.t time ago, and a
naturalist to whom the bird was un
known called the attention of a very
intelligent man to It inquiringly.
"Why," he exclaimed, "that Is a wild
pigeon, the first one that I have seen
In more than twenty-five years," add
ing; "I wish I had a gun." The last
sentence explains the extinction of these
pretty, harmless creatures, and per
haps also the Increase of Insect pests
which farmers and orchardists are com
pelled to fight so strenuously In vari
ous ways.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Sun says that the office of
Consul-General at London carries with
It the largest annual pay given to any
official of the United States Govern
ment, with the one exception of the
President First-class Ambassadorships
pay $17,500, while Mr. Evans will draw
In salary and fees the net sum of about
$30,000. The salary is $5000 In addition
to all the notarial fees, which amounted
last year to $8357 50, and other fees,
which bring the total net compensation
up to $30,000. For a great many years
and until recently the salary and fees
of the office amounted to between $50,000
and $60,000, and the last lucky patriot
to draw it was the Hon. Pat Collins, of
Boston, whom "Cousin" Osborne suc
ceeded. South Carolinians have already start
ed a fund for the erection of a monu
ment to the late General Wade Hamp
ton. In peace and In war General
Hampton was a type of Southern chiv
alry which stands for all that was best
In the old South. Warmly beloved by
all classes of his fellow-citizens, he will
not long remain without a monument
that will commemorate the enduring
virtues of his long life.
Where the Torture Degau.
Minneapolis Tribune.
It is true that there has been sup
pression of horrible details in the savage
warfare of the Philippines. These are
not pleasant reading and the censorship
has been merciful. Now it seems to be
thought necessary to Democratic policy
to drag out stories of execution of treach
erous guides and details of retaliatory
pressure upon captured spies and con
spirators to obtain evidence required to
safeguard American lives. This Is tho
mildest side of the hideous picture. It
is Incomplete without the companion
stories of ambush and assassination,
murder of unarmed prisoners, torture of
loyal natives; mutilation of the dead and
carving to pieces of the wounded, which
are a commonplace of the warfare our
troops have been sent half round the
world to encounter. The cry for the stop
ping of the severities against the natives
.may be answered as a Frenchman ans
wered the plea of abolition of capital
punishment "Let Messieurs the assassins
stop first"
PARTIAL VIEW OF FREMONT.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
It is understood thai- the President Is
especially anxious for the passage of the
bill Just introduced in Congress for the
appropriation of $50,000 for the erection
of a statue to the memory of John C.
Fremont, in Washington. The monument
project has been talked about for several
years, and most of , the newspapers of
the country have, at one time or another,
exprejsaed themselves in favor of it At
this Louisiana centennial season, when
expansionist ideals appeal with particu
lar force to the country, the time would
seem to be opportune for the erection of
memorials in honor of the men who fig
ured prominently in the list of the great
expansionists. John C. Fremont was one
of these. -
Other men explored part of the vast
territory between the Mississippi and the
Pacific long before Fremont Lewis and
Clark and Pike were through a large
part of this region before Fremont was
born, the first and second of the&e going
from St. Louis to the 'Pacific and back
by way of the Missouri and the Colum
bia, and the third one tracing out me
western line of the Louisiana region
through part of its length and going down
Into New Mexico 40 years before that ter
ritory came finally under the Stars and
Stripes. Long was in the Rocky Mountain
region about a dozen years after Pike,
and, like Pike, is remembered by the
name attached to one of the summits of
that range. This was when Fremont was
a schoolboy, and when neither he nor
anybody else guessed at the connection
which he would have In after years with
pathfinding In the great West
It was Fremont's distinction that he
was actlvo at a time when men's thoughts
were directed to the region between the
Mississippi and the Pacific with greater
Interest than ever before. His explora
tion of the Rocky Mountains in 1S42. his
account of which was made public Imme
diately afterward, made the route be
tween the Missouri and the mountains
better known than It had been along to
that time, marked out the best spots for
camps on the way, and pointed out the
advantages of the South Pass as an ave
nue through the mountains. Hie explor
ation of 1&43-4I gave the world a better
knowledge of the Salt Lake basin and
much of the Pacific Coast than it had pre
viously possessed. Fremont's report of
the first of these explorations abolished
the American desert myth propagated by
the hasty generalizations of Pike and
Long, and, with the report of the second
exploration, immensely swelled the tide
of the immigration across the plains to
the Pacific Cpast which gained Oregon
for the United States in the controversy
with England, which ensued in 1816. His
story about the Salt Lake basin sent Brig
ham Young and the Mormons to that
quarter. His third expedition brought him
to the Pacific Coast in 1S46, before Zach
ary Taylor reached the Rio Grande, and
gave him the chance to raise the Ameri
can flag In California at the beginning
of the war with Mexico. The Washing
ton monument bill ought to pass, and
probably will pass. Fremont rendered
brilliant service to the United States in a
great crisis in its history.
TWO THINGS NEEDED.
Tho Personal Touch anil
Contact
With. Civilization.
Kansas City Star.
Tho advance notices regarding Professor
Frank Strong, the new chancellor of tho
Kansas University, are highly flattering.
He Is said to be fine looking something
which Is not at all unimportant to have
a sagacious regard for the presentation
of himself and his cause, and as he is a
graduate of Tale University, and has had
considerable experience as an instructor
and administrator, no misgivings need-be
felt respecting his ability to meet tho
professional requirements of his position.
In the chancellorship of the University
of Kansas personality counts for more
than anything else. It Is more Important
that the man at the head of that insti
tution should thoroughly know human na
ture and the world than that he should
be rooted and grounded In books. It is
the easiest thing-ln the world to Impart
technical knowledge to Kansas young
men and women. The academic equip
ment of the Kansas University Is already
excellent The students can learn all
that anybody need to know about physics,
mathematics, history, polemics, etc. The
curriculum Is good enough, and the fac
ulty good enough to have made a con
stant demand for Kansas professors from
Lawrence In the East
To be plain about It, what Is needed in
the Kansas University is an infusion of a
more cosmopolitan spirit The Kansans
are as interesting and as able people as
can be found on the big round globe,
but it doesn't hurt them an atom to be
brought Into contact with influences which
are alien from the temper and spirit of
their own state. They make the best
material for "blending" on the planet
The Kansas boy who goes to Tale or
Harvard or Princeton and gets the point
of view which is to be obtained at those
Institutions, and submits himself to the
processes which add a certain grace to
his positive and aggressive Western qual
ities, comes out of It about the finest
product that can be thought of.
It would seem as feasible and as eco
nomical to provide such advantages for
the youth of Kansas in their own uni
versity as to send them away to obtain
them, though, of course, nothing quite
makes up for a complete change of en
vironment No college president in the land ever
had a finer lot of material to work with
than Chancellor Strong will find at Law
rence. He Is Indeed to be congratulated
If he proposes the accomplishments of an
experienced man of the world, the savolr
faire of a large social experience and the
ability to show the students a side of
life which Is usually not fully developed
In a state as young a3 Kansas.
Untidy Streets and Disease.
Medical Record.
The intelligent and well Informed por
tion of the community does not need to
be told at this late day of the connection
between dirty streets and the spread of
infectious disease, but there seems to be
no general appreciation of the pathogenic
part that may be played by sjtreets that
are simply littered with refuse, but not
appearing to the eye to be dirty in the
ordinary sense of the word. On this ac
count we thins the commissioner of street
cleaning. Dr. Woodbury, did well to
bring the matter forcibly forward In a re
cent address to the Civic Club. "In two
sections of the city," he said, "the people
throw shoes, oilcloths and everything else
right out on the streets. The people
don't think, and as a consequence a grow
ing ground is afforded for the worst pos
sible diseases. Four hundred and twelve
sweepers are now on the sick report with
bronchial diseases and phthisis because of
the germs they have Inhaled."
Refuse not only serves as a nidus for
morbific organisms, but it also very great
ly obstructs the automatic cleansing that
the gutters are designed to accomplish,
and it increases the difficulty of the
sweeper's work.
o
Reason for His Opposition.
Boston Herald.
The Washington correspondents are dis
posed to regard Congressman Sibley's
outburst of indignation against the'Phll
lpplne cruelties as a local outcome of his
being refused the appointment of ambass
ador to Italy. In point of fact, while
there was ample reason for such a speech
as this Pennsylvania millionaire In poli
tics made, the public was not expecting
It from Just that quarter. Mr. Sibley's
moral and humane sense had not been
very prominently In operation up t this
very prominently In operation up to this
very particular In his politics. He had
undergone three separate changes in this
respect within a recent period, and al
ways with an apparent object In view.
ON RECEIVING A BURGLAR.
Letter In New Tork Times.
I had never Been burglarized before,
and, therefore, had no practical knowl
edge of the business. To be sure, I had
a theory for what thinking man hasn't
often a large and generous supply, per
haps, too.
They might not always apply as well
as had been expected when the critical
moment arrived to put them in use, but
in the light of recent experience I am
quite convinced It Is advisable to be pro
vided liberally with theories, even if
sometimes they do prove a misfit
What I had deemed a most symmetri
cally constructed and, a3 I had fondly
hoped, useful theory, was that, if a
burglar should ever fairly succded in in
troducing himself in my slceplng-room be
fore I had time to protect myself, I should
quietly and calmly, without .undue fuss
and agitation, and without ruffling his
temper unnecessarily, await events.
This idea, of course, was based upon a
supposition that my guns or other para
phernalia of offense and defense were
safely stowed away In a duly locked bag
or sideboard, or something so Inaccessible
as to render it impossible for me to reach
without opposition from the burglar, who J
vined my evident intention of securing a
weapon to his Injury and damage.
Prudence, you will observe, Is an Im
portant factor In this theory. Prudence,
alto. Is tho better part of valor, as has
been tritely remarked by people of ex
perience, and so the major part of this
theory ha3 an element of safety about it
that ought to commend It to the prudent
mind.
It so happened that In the Instance I am
about to relate the burglar had entered
my room about 3 o'clock In the morning
when I was sleeping soundly. By some
sort of mesmeric influence, induced per
haps by the magnetism of a big, burly vil
lain near the bed, I had a startling dream
at that moment In which I saw a scowl
ing rascal standing over me. and, as ho
painted a revolver at my head, said: "Tou
stir now or attempt to ratee an alarm
and I will blow your d d head off."
It was nt this juncture my pet theory
seemed to loom up conspicuously as a
measure of relief. I did not shout" or
alarm others in the house, of whom there
were several, but Just concluded to await
events. Up to this point I had evidently
been dreaming, but at that moment a
noise as of some object falling to the
floor fully awakened me-to the facts of
the situation. I had still the vivid dream
of a threatening burglar in my mind, but
without any special feeling of alarm,
looked about the room, which was dimly
lighted by a gas Jet turned low, but saw
nothing, the burglar, as it later appeared,
having crouched down at the head of tho
bed and out of my line of vision, which
position I can't say now I regret his
having taken.
My trousers containing my money hung
on the bedpost In detaching these he
had jostled some bbject to the floor, which
was what I heard as It struck.
My revolver, of course, was In a bureau
drawer on the opposite side of the room.
I was quite well aware I could secure
this only at the risk of my life, and so,
thinking the matter over on the lines of
my best theory, concluded to await
events.
This philosophical study of the moment
continued until I became drowsy, and, ab
surd as It may seem, went to sleep again.
It was three or four hours later when I
awoke, to find my clothes, with such
valuables as they contained, missing.
The gentleman magnanimously left tho
garments which he got on a lower floor
after sorting from the pockets such arti
cles as he deemed most useful to him
self, and took his departure as he had en
teredby a rear window. I am quite sure
that had It not been for my well-developed
theories, which induced, like "Br'er
Rabbit," the plan of laying low, I should
have done something foolish, and either
the burglar or myself got' hurt probablyi
myself. A. T. THOMAS.
Bryan's Sneer nt the People.
New Tork Commercial Advertiser,
Mr. Bryan has "put away the crown"
once more, but with somewhat unusual
emphasis and quite unusual signs of tem
per. Things arc clearly not going to suit
him. He speaks of tho anti-beef trust
agitation as "a great howl," and says the
"people never seem to realize how bad
anything Is until their stomachs are af
fected." Sneering at the dear people
whom he has always loved and whose din
ner pall he was so anxious should always
be "full"! Is not the connection between
a full dinner pall and a full stomach quite
close and direct? Go to, Mr. Bryan, you
forget yourself and your own record.
"Money is with me," he adds, "still the
essential issue." which Is not news, for
he has succeeded In accumulating enough
of it to enable him to build a $20,000 house
and lovely barn. As for a third Presi
dential nomination, he says: "I shall not
be a candidate for the Presidency in
1D01 under any conditions. Even should
the Democracy in 1904 accept the Kansas
City platform as Its platform, I should not
be a candidate for the nomination." But
would he refuse to accept a nomination?
That Is the question which our own Shep
ard Is trying to get Bryan to answer,
but It Is a safe bet that he will not suc
ceed. Frnnlc Stockton Jfo Poet.
Boston Transcript
The late Frank Stockton never could
write a successful poem. In this connec
tion, the novelist frequently told a good
story on himself. In his youth, In conjunc
tion with his brother John, he wrote many
poems with which he afflicted the editors
of various Canadian periodicals. The effu
sions came back always. The editor of one
magazine was an especial target of the
Stocktons, but as none of their poems
were ever accepted, the brothers came to
the conclusion that this editor had no
conception of good poetry. To prove their
belief they hunted up and dispatched to
him an ode little known from Milton.
Within two days they received a check
and a letter of thanks. "I came to the
conclusion that that editor knew poetry
when he saw It after all," Mr. Stockton
used to say, "and gave up trying to write
it"
Well Fixed, for Diplomacy.
Chicago Tribune.
In European countries, where the art of
diplomacy has been developed beyond the
rudiments, the qualifications of a man's
wife are considered nearly as carefully
as are his own in the consideration of
his eligibility to a foreign post This is
because it is one of Jthe first duties of a
diplomat to further amity between his
country and the one to which he is ac
credited. His wife, If a gracious hostess,
can be of Invaluable assistance to him in
the performance of this duty. Mrs.
Squires Is a charming woman, accus
tomed to entertaining and the usages of
the world. She could not fall to make a
pleasing Impression on the Cuban lead
ers, and after having dined with her they
would be less apt to emit volcanic dia
tribes comparing the American eagle to
a base bird of prey.
Flotvers.
Frank L. Stanton. In tho Atlanta Constitution.
Not like you gavo them! They are withering
now,
But something lingers of remembered grace
A touch, a tone the beauty of your face.
And -waifs of dark locks clustering o'er your
brow.
Fore heaven, 'tis something- In this world of
strife.
To and this color coming from the clod!
To know there is one woman In this life
Who knows a violet Is the breath of God.
Who reaps rare roses from dim vales of rest.
From all the terror of the world apart.
And while the red thorn bruises her dear breast.
Hides It within the cloisters of her heart
Give me the violets and the lilies white;
The lilies, with the languor, still and deep!
Give me- the dews that make the daisies white.
Give me the popples that are fain of sleep.
Glva me the dreams! ... And let me think
the eklea
Arched In sreat blue, or darkening from above,
In all their gloom In all, their mysteries
Hold no name dearer than the name of Love!
NOTE AND COMMENT.
They are blocking Fourth street In more
than one way. v
-Among the most pleasant coming events
is the sweet girl graduate.
Admiral Schley might have said a little
more without sacrificing any of his popu
larity. Perhaps the Queen of Holland thought
that enough prominent people had died
for one week.
For some reason or other no vacancy
has occurred on the fusion ticket for more
than 24 hours.
The American people are preparing to
acquit themselves of the charge of eating
too much meat.
The Boers will consider the British
peace proposals. If they can spare the
time from the field.
The Cubans seem determined to make
their President feel as much at home as
Prince Henry did In America.
Just as the Civic Improvement Associa
tion begins Its work the candidates scat
ter their election cards around town.
After all, the officers of the Chicago
have reason to be thankful that they
were not arrested in Madrid instead of
Venice.
Those who have not yet received their
invitations for the coronation should re
member that there is often a delay in the
malls.
Investigation has proven that the meat
trust has been raising prices. Somehow,
people have been suspecting it for several
weeks.
The Southern Pacific is going to man
age its own eating-houses. It will have
considerable difficulty In making them
any worse.
Senator Hanna says that the Oregon
election is of great Importance to the Re
publicans. Some such impression as that
is very general out here.
The Democratic sage who formerly
quoted Scripture and other ancient lit
erature now seems to be full of circular
saws and modern Instances.
The Governor of Arkansas has par
doned a negro criminal on condition he
go to Massachusetts. If Governor Taft
will try this plan on Filipinos for a while
it may do something toward abating the
enthusiasm of the antis.
Jules Verne, the novelist, though now in
his S6th year, still works at his desk for
four hour3 a day. He has several new
books in hand, which he hopes to finish
before the close of the year. His house in
Paris is crammed with scientific books,
electrical apparatus, nautical Instruments,
etc., and on the wall of his study hangs
an enormous map of the world, all
scored over with lines indicating the
routes taken by the heroes of his stories.
M. Verne corrects his works to a re
markable extent, and It Is said that he
has rewritten many of his books 10 times.
High prices were paid for first editions
at the Hibbert salo in London. Defoe's
"Robinson Crusoe" in three volumes
brought $1030, a record price; T. D'Urfey's
"Songs Complete," $230; Westmacott'a
-The English Spy," with colored plates
by "R. Cruickshank, $255r Horace War
pole's annotated copy of Gray's "Poems,"
$9S5; Keats "Poems," $395; "Endymion,"
$140, and "I amia, Isabella and Eve of St.
Agnes." $275; MIddleton's "A Trick to
Catch the Old One." 160S. $252; Henri Ill's
copy of Paolo Paruta's "Delia Perfetiono
della Vita Polltica," Venice, 1579, $1250;
Robert Burns' "Poems," chiefly In Scot
tish dialect $945; Boccaccio's "Decam
eron," the first English translation, 1620.
$315; S. Butler's "Hudlbras," $200; Byron's
"Poems on. Various Occasions," $250, and
"The Waltz," $390; a set of Dickens' nov
els, 30 volumes, $415.
"Since snake skins have become so fash
ionable in wallets, belts and cigarette
cases," said a zoo keeper In one of the
big Eastern cities recently, "we find rath
er a dearth of snake meat here. It Is
necessary for us, you know, to buy a
certain quantity of snakes each month,
not for exhibition purposes, but as food,
for many of our most valuable specimens
are cannibals, and will eat nothing but
their own kind. Well, up to a year ago,
men visited us regularly with snakes for
sale, and we had no difficulty In buying
all the 'pines' and 'blacks' and 'garters
we desired at 5 to 20 cents apiece, ac
cording to size. But now these men sell
their snakes to tanners, and get for them
three or four times more than we can
afford to pay. So I don't know what we
are going to do for snake meat unless wo
start a farm, and In the future grow
right here the food snakes that we need."
Getting Along: Without It.
Baltimore Sun.
There are infatuated protectionists high
tariff votaries gone daft who imagine
that the foreigner cannot live without
American goods. Unquestionably the life
of the man across the ocean is better
worth living because he enjoys the prod
ucts of American skill and industry. But
in a pinch our foreign brother can manage
to exist without the aid and consent of
the United States. Not very long ago we
barred Russian sugar from our markets.
Prior to that time Russia had been buy
ing American machinery and agricultural
Implements. The Russian Minster of Fi
nance issued a decree Increasing the du
ties on these articles. The Russian Is
now managing to get along without Am
erican plows and machinery. He can buy
both In England and in Germany.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIERS
He You would marry me If I had plenty of
money? "But I would love you then." Life.
Mr. Westslde Is Briggs still paying atten
tion to your sister? Eastslde Naw they've
been married this two mont's! Brooklyn Life.
Harry (fervently) You are the only girl I
ever loved! Carrie Really! What a lot of fun
you have ahead of you! Glasgow Evening
Times.
In His Line. Mrs. Chestnut Sire. Chestys
husband designed her Spring hat. Mr. Chest
nut 'Well, It's right In his line. He Is an
architect of skyscrapers. Judge.
Bertha And to Edith has made up with
Fred? How did It happen? Constance Oh,
you see. It was the only way In which she
could have another quarrel with him. Boston
Transcript,
A High Honor. "Petersen says he's very
susceptible to heat." "Susceptible! I should
say he was! Why he hod3 the medal for
being the first man to be sunstruck In March."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Bobble's Reason. Little Bobble Willlo
Smith wanted to fight me. maw, an I wouldn't
do It. Proud Mother That was perfectly right.
Bobble. Llttlo Bobble You het! I did fight
with him wuncet an' he licked me. Ohio Stato
Journal.
Table Supplied. "You seem pleased when
these racing automobiles come this way." In
terrogated tho new boarder at the farmhouse.
"Certainly!" responded the old boarder. "If
It wasn't for them running over a hen onca
In a while we'd never have chicken on the
table." Chicago Dally News.
A Cheerful Giver. "And aren't you going to
give your penny for the poor heathen?" asked
the Sunday school teacher, reprovingly."" "Oh,
1 s'pose." replied little Bobbie, as he held It
out reluctantly, "If you think they need it
wurse 'a I do." Ohio State Journal