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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MAY 110, 1002.
THE SULKER IX HIS TEXT.
The name of T. T. Geer stands on the
official ballot as the Republican can
didate for United States Senator. The
name of C. E. S. "Wood appears as the
Democratic candidate. There Is this
difference, that while Mr. Wood is the
nominee of his party's state convention,
Mr. Geer is the nominee of himself
through petition.
This, however, is unimportant. The
fact remains that Mr. Geer asks the
votes of his party for Senator, and the
pertinent question concerning his appeal
is. Upon what grounds does he make it?
"What steps Is he taking to deserve that
Indorsement from his party?
It is a matter of almost universal re
port from Marion County that Governor
Geer, like Achilles at Troy, is sulking
In his tent. He knows that the battle
is on, he is well aware of these inces
sant reiterations of his disaffection. Yet
he says nothing to reassure those who
look with misgiving toward Marion
County for some sign from Governor
Geer's friends of desire or effort for
Republican success.
The vote of Marion County next Mon
day will be the measure of Mr. Geer's
loyalty to the Republican ticket. It will
also be the measure of his claim upon
the party for recognition. He is a can
didate for United States Senator, and
he has -a body of adherents 'devoted to
his political advancement If he tells
them that his political future will be
clouded by a light vote for Furnfsh in
Marlon County, and will be brightened
by a heavy vote for Mr. Furnlsb, then
the effect will be instantly known as
well a9 it will "be known June 3.
Governor Geer need not deceive him
self into thinking that the Republicans
throughout the state will Indorse a
course of private vengeance and reward
the man who helps turn the state over
to Democratic hands. The idea that
one man is bigger than the party will
not obtain genera! acceptance, however
pleasingit may be to those with grudges
to satisfy at public expense.
The vote of Marion County next Mqn
day will be the measure of Governor
Geer's loyalty to the Republican ticket
It will also be the measure of his claim
upon the party for recognition. Noth
ing Mr. Geer can do will so establish
him in favor as a Senatorial candidate
as a manly course in this matter. Noth
ing could so stamp him as of too small
caliber for the place he holds and the
place he seeks as the delivery of his
county over to Chamberlain out of pique
at his own failure to secure renomlna
tion. UXGEXEROCS COXDUCT.
Are we to understand that high-toned.
Southern gentlemen go about the coun
try, while under pay from the public
treasury, making baseless and vituper
ative charges against their political op
ponents? f
Are we tounderstand that a "good
fellow" resorts to cheap and vulgar
slander in the hope of damaging an
opposing candidate a man of honorable
life and stainless record?
Are we to understand that a man who
is serenely confident of winning his
election in a walk gets in a panic and
hurls all sorts of unfounded and defam
atory statements about, in the hope of
accomplishing- through venomous at
tack what he has despaired of through
appeal to principles?
The high-tone gentleman, good fel
low and cocksure candidate referred to
in the foregoing Questions is George E.
Chamberlain, and the honorable man
be has foully aspersed is William J.
Furnish. - '
We take it that 'all pretense of high
mindedness and 'good-fellowship and
fairy stories abouthonorable methods
of warfare will now be abandoned by
the motley crowd of political freeboot
ers, professed Republicans, professed
Democrats and what not, who are active
and tireless, not in support of a single
legitimate political principle, but in
quest of official plunder, through what
ever device can be laid hold upon.
There is not a worthy or commend
able motive animating the entire fusion
outfit. Whether the Philippine Islands
are abandoned or kept, whether the
American Army is supported or de
famed, whether the Paclfid Coast Is rec
ognized in Congress or elsewhere, is
absolutely nothing to these creatures so
long as they can employ the state and
municipal government for support of
their own ends.
From such a shameless and con-
eclenceless alliance, who has any right
to expect honor or decency In campaign
methods? Who could expect that
George Chamberlain would prosecute
crime in Portland, which he is paid to
do. In any other way than by Junketing
over the state concocting' slanders
against the Republican nominee for
Governor? Who could expect anything
else than that under the soft garb of
good-fellowship would protrude at
length the venom of malice and inven
tion? Why does Mr. Chamberlain desert his
high-toned platform of good-fellowship
for a precipitate discharge of these
slanderous, poisoned missiles Inconsist
ent with civilized warfare? Certainly it
Is not the act of a man serene In the
confidence of certain victory. Rather Is
It the desperate agitation of a man in
the extremity of fear and apprehension.
THE DEAD OF BOTH SIDES.
The time is past with thoughtful men
when on Memorial day we think only
of the Union dead in the restricted sense
which refers only to those who fell in
defense of the Stars and Stripes. In the
enlarged field of historical vision that
has at last come into our possession
we cannot help thinking of the dead of
both sides; the illustrious obscure who
by thousands on both sides fought with
equal tenacity and equal valor.
Thoughtful men have learned long ago
to abstain from bitter, undiscrimlnat
Ing denunciation of the great civic and
military leaders of the Southern Con
federacy. We know today nothing- but
the news of peace prevented New Eng
land from secession in 1814. We know
that Lee and Dongstreet and Joe John
ston bore arms against the Union not
because they were secessionists, but be
cause blood was thicker than water.
They could not fire upon their domestic
altars, upon their neighbor's porn fields
and their kinsmen. We know that Lee
as strongly disapproved of slavery as
did Washington; we know that the
North was equally responsible with the
South for the planting of slaVery within
the Constitution and Its National protec
tion. We know that the South, if ca
pacity for unstinting sacrifice of its
best blood and treasure and endurance
of extreme hardship be the test of
earnest patriotism, was as patriotic at
least as the North.
Many of the Confederate soldiers who
fell in the last assault upon Lee's lines
before Petersburg had nothing but
"goobers" (peanuts) in their haversacks.
Nothing could exceed the valor with
which the tattered remnant of Lee's
famished army fought ifp to the hour
of surrender. When we remember all
these things today, It Is impossible not
to think of the Confederate dead as well
as the Union dead with equal respect
if not equal gratitude. The rank and
file of the Confederacy certainly were
not In love with slavery, for they did
not own any slaves and they knew that
slave labor was fatal to their social
and industrial advancement and. Influ
ence. The struggle on both sides, so far
as the rank and file were concerned,
was fought out by men who knew very
little about the constitutional merits of
the quarrel. The North knew that the
flag had been fired upon; the South
knew that its soil was Invaded. Pro
vincial Ignorance, sectional prejudice,
political credul.ty, were common enough
on both sides among the rank and file.
The leaders knew what they wanted,
but it is quite certain that the Confed
erate Army cared nothing for slavery,
and it is equally certain that the North
em Army cared nothing about it
Under these circumstances the sec
tions, like two big giants, pounded each
other without much scientific skill for
four years. The North finally strug
gled, stumbled and blundered Its way
by sheer strength and endurance to vic
tory. The South was exhausted by
hunger and hardship; the North had
considerable strength left, but was suf
fering from the severe punishment it
had taken. In the Incidents of this
great conflict there is no just reason
for sectional hate, but in its conse
quences Is there anything beyond the
extinction of slavery that Is a subject
for National congratulation? In our
judgment, next to the extinction of
slavery, which was wrought through
the hand of war and was not unwel
come to the rank and file of the Con
federate armies, for it was the begin
ning of the end of their political depres
sion, the greatest benefit of the Civil
War was the tremendous capacity
manifested by the people of both North
and South for grim, "pizen mad," pig
headed fighting. The valor, the tenac
ity, the endurance, the energy, the en
terprise, the inventive skill, the fearful
losses in battle, were a most impressive
object-lesson to all Europe.
Before the Civil War the great powers
of Europe never lost an opportunity to
snub us. They knew that but for
France our war for Independence had
been lost, and that in 1812-14 we bad
won little glory on land and had suf
fered much shame. Our victory over
Mexico was won over an Inferior race,
so Europe was not afraid of us and
rated the North as a mere Yankee ped
dler who would fight with gold but
never with steel. But after the great
battles and awful losses on both sides of
Shlloh, Antletam, Stone River, Freder
icksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,
Chlckamauga and the Wilderness, Eu
rope woke up to the fact that the 20,
000,000 of American people were pos
sessed of enormous military endurance,
valor and enterprise. That military object-lesson
to Europe was worth all the
Civil War cost, and to that critical les
son the South contribuied as much as
the North. For this reason, if for no
other, we can all afford to assent to
President McKlnley's conclusion that
the time has come when both sides
could afford to take pride in and help
care for each other's graves. The Civil
War had to come; Jet us concede what
is probable, that Jeff Davis was as sin
cere a man as Abe Lincoln, and, allow
ing for the imperfect intelligence of the
people on both sides and their lack of
judicial spirit, the war between the sec
tions, soon or late, was sure to come.
Only through this war could slavery
be killed; only through this war could
the people of both sections ever discover
that an American, born and bred North
or South, was a formidable fighting
man; only through the Civil War could
either section ever really know how the
other lived. Only through the Civil
War could the Southern Intellect be
emancipated so that it could take its
true place in our literature and In our
business world. Surely the material
loss of property by the war was a small
price to pay for this beginning of the
intellectual redemption of the "South
from, the social paralysis of slavery.
To a thoughtful Union veteran It seems
on Memorial day as if he could gladly
bless the memory of the heroic veterans
of both North arid South who fired into
each other's bosoms "unflinchingly in
1EB1-65. murmuring with the Japanese
patriot martyr, "It Is better to bo a
crystal and be broken than to remain
perfect like a tile upon the housetop'
TOXGUE AXD THG GRAZIXG IXTER-
ESTS.
Representative Lacey'o bill for leasing
the public range has probably gone to
Its grave. Indefinite postponement in
such a case means that it is not deemed
wise to handle it in the form presented.
If the committee shall let all leasing
bills rest until there 'shall be a public
demand for such legislation, the subject
will not soon come up again.
Congressman Tongue has taken a
prominent part In representations that
have brought the leasing bills to this
.timely end. As chairman of the com
mittee on Irrigation and arid lands, he
was in position to contribute materially
to the defeat of those unpopular and
pernicious bills. And he was active in
that work. He knew that his state
needed settlers, homebullders, rather
than grazing leases; he knew that the
greatest good to-the greatest number
would not admit of any system of land
lease proposed In these bills. Therefore'
he was a conscientious and effective,
agent In preventing consideration of
land-leasing measures.
Representative Tongue took position
In this matter when the Jesse D. Carr
case was up for action. Carr com
manded Influence that made it difficult
for the Government to reach him, the
decrees of the courts being suspended
by appeals and all sorts of dilatory tac
tics serving to postpone execution of
Judgment, though there was no question
as to the merits of the case. Mr. -Tongue
took a prominent part in urging the
Commissioner of the General Land Of
fice to act, and In laying the case before
the Attorney-General before the United
States Attorney for Oregon was directed
to prosecute. And later, when - Carr
took an appeal that threatened to pre
serve his Illegal fences for an Indefi
nite time, Congressman Tongue insisted
upon an order from the President to the
Marshal of Callfornfa directing the de
struction of Carr's fences. They were
all destroyed last December, though
the Court of Appeals has not yet handed
down Its decision.
These acts tell plainly enough where
Congressman Tongue stands- on matters
affecting the Interests of people in the
grazing regions. When he shall be re
inforced bV such a man as Mr. Will
iamson, knowing intimately every phase
of the livestock business, 'Oregon will
have a team In the House of Represent
atives that will make it foolhardy for
any corporation or combination to at
tempt to plunder the public domain
for the benefit of the fewt
In a recent lecture at Yale University
Bishop Potter took the ground that
"Christ did not denounce wealth any
more than -he did poverty"; that "it
was the lust of riches, the greed of
gain, the vulgar snobbishness which
used money and wealth for display"
against which Jesus Inveighed. This
view cannot be reconciled with the
words and the spirit of Jesus. This is
not the lesson of the parable of Dives
and Lazarus, in which the rich man
goes to hell because he has had the good
things of this life, while Lazarus goes to
heaven because he was poor and had
evil things in this life. Jesus tells the
rich young man, who asks how to in
herit eternal life, to sell all he has, give
to the poor, "take up the cross and fol
low me." Jesus tells his disciples that
it will be. most difficult for those' who
have riches to enter the kingdom of
God; that "It is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter Into that kingdom."
Bishop Potter tries to prove too much.
Jesus was a Socialist; his utterances
plainly Indicate that he believed In com
munism In this world's goods; he did
not look for long life for this world.
The rich man of his day stood for a
ruling class, against which Jesus as a
seditlonist ceaselessly raised his voice.
Poverty was so grim in those days; the
poor man was so defenseless against
the rich, that Jesus denounced the rich
when he preached his gospel to the
poor. The rich of Jesus' day were the
ceaseless oppressors and bloodsuckers
of the poor and Jesus was thinking
when he spoke not of all time, but of
his own time when the average rich
man was a robber and a slaveholder.
George E. Chamberlain is a marvel as
a political contortionist Up in Ma
cleay Precinct, Marlon County, where
Governor Geer resides, Chamberlain
lauded Geer to the skies and pre
dicted his election to the United
States Senate. He was bidding for the
votes of Geer's friends. Down here in
Portland, where Geer's opponents are
thickest, he severely criticised Geer's
policy In handling the school lands. He
was bidding for the antl-Geer vote. It
may be expected that he will spend all
Saturday evening bidding for the In
fluence of the tenderloin district, and on
Sunday he will fix the church people.
He has been all over the state telling
the law-abiding citizens how zealously
he will enforce the laws of the state
when he shall become Governor, but
all the while vice reigned supreme In
its usual haunts in Portland. He told
the people how he would compel the
Legislature to enact desirable laws, and
while the words were still ringing In the
ears of his auditors an innocent girl
was stricken down by a band of thugs
in Portland and not one of them was
arrested. If Chamberlain will not bring
murderers and thugs to justice while he
is Prosecuting Attorney, will he have
any more regard for official duty as
Governor? If he believes that Geer has
not been wise In handling the state land
business, why did he not have the cour
age of his convictions and proclaim his
opinion at Macleay?
How many Republicans, following
certain autocratic leaders who have
been "turned down," will vote for spite
and revenge against the Republican
party, and against its principles and
purposes? Democratic success in Ore
gon would be a verdict against Presi
dent Roosevelt and the National Ad
ministration. How many Republicans
are trying to defeat the candidates of
the party, and therefore the party
itself, to "get even"? The entire hope
of the Democratic party and its can
didates is based on assurances given
them that this work of petty revenge
will be carried far. No doubt a lot of
eelflsh little Republican- politicians
would sacrifice everything to gratifica
tion of their lust for revenge, but The
Orcgoulan will not believe they can
take many unselfish citizens with them.
In a recent letter to the New York
Sun Mr. Goldwin Smith suggests that,
as any attempt to revise the old creeds
and make them gibe with the current
scientific criticism of the Bible Would
necessarily end in their complete de-
struction. the wiser course would be" "to
let them remain as they are "for what
ever they may still be worth," but "to
cease to impose them or any human
manifesto as', ordination testa" He
would have a minister simply pledged
"to preach what in "hfs conscience "he
believes to be the truth." Mr. Goldwin
Smith's suggestion was practically
adopted by the presbytery of Elizabeth,
N. J.,, In licensing unanimously as a
preacher a young man who took the
ground that the story of Adanjand Eve
was allegorical, not historical. One of
the oldest ministers in the, presbytery
remarked that the church must meet
the new ideas which are constantly
growing in it, and that after all, the
Individuality of the minister is the main
thing. This presbytery practically set
aside the Westminster Confession as a
test of belief of a candidate for the
ministry, and substituted proof of fit
ness through integrity of character and
fidelity to the spirit of Christianity. Mr.
Goldwin Smith says that this expedient
of a purely allegorical interpretation of
the stories of the Bible, its miracles
and Its description of the fall and the
redemption, amounts to a surrender of
the whole supernatural system of which
the resurrection is an Integral part.
The public that transacts its large
postal business in the cramped, poorly
ventilated, ill lighted, malodorous halls
and narrow ante-rooms of the Portland
postofllce building sees some light
ahead. The appropriation for the relief
of these conditions carried by the omni
bus public building bill, that has been
formally agreed upon in conference, has
been increased to 5640,000 a sum which,
judiciously disposed, will give our citi
zens at least standing room without
treading each other's heels while trans
acting their money order and registry
business, buying postage stamps, mail
ing packages, etc. For the relief prom
ised, many thanks.
The- fusionists are boasting that they
have the Influence of the police and
fire departments to help them carry this
election, and they cite that as one in
dication that they will win. It Is for
the people to say whether the police and
fire departments shall run the city or
the city shall run the departments.
Croker bullf up Tammany Hall through
the power of these departments In New
York City., Shall D. Soils -Cohen and
Schuyler Spencer use the city employes
in Portland t make themselves party
bosses? Are the people to be governed
by the men who hold petty ofllqes, or
are the city departments to be governed
by the people?
Every reader of The '.Oregonlan na9
heard the remark tba.tKice ad virtue
always vote together. The Christian
people of Portland would take offense
If The Oregonlan should say that Jhl3
is often true. It wIU not say it,-; But it
has a question or two to propound to
the people who believe that vice and
virtue should not vote together. First
Who Is the choice of the lawless ele
ment for the office cf Governor, and
who is your choice? Second Who is
receiving the support of the vicious ele
ment for Mayor, and who is receiving
your support? ,
The Oregonlan has heard of a citizen
who Is going tovvote the fusion or citi
zens' ticket in order that he may "turn
the Courthouse clique out of place and
office." Will our fellow-citizen look
Into this matter a little? He will find
that the fusion or citizens' ticket is the
ticket of the Courthouse clique and. of
the City Hall clique. That ticket owes
Its existence to these cliques, and the
names of many of its present members
and officeholders are on it
The Democrats complain that the Re
publican ticket In Multnomah County
was named by a majority of the party,
and not by unanimous vote. They think,
therefore, that the minority should vote
the fusion ticket Is it not a fact that
the leaders of the minority of the Re
publican party tried to gain control of
the county convention? "Would our
Democratic friends be any better satis-.
fledwlth a ticket named by a minority
instead of a majority?
The declaration of the Democratic
platform of Oregon, in regard to the
.Philippines, is tnat we shall "grant
them .their Independence." But Mr.
Chamberlain repudiates this declara
tion. He may be honest In this, but is
he greater than his party? By what
right or authority does he assume to
set this declaration aside? Is he honest
and wise, or Is his party controlled by
a foolish stupidity?
Justice Andrews, late of the New
York Supreme Court, was strenuously
opposed to earth burial. He directed
that his body be cremated, and to In
sure obedience to the command, inserted
pt provision In his will invalidating that
instrument in ine event xnat ms wisnea
in this respect were disregarded. Need
less to say, they were properly carried
out
Judge "Williams Is a great man and a
broad man He has set his mark, as no
other man has done, upon the .history
of Oregon. His Intellectual powers are
still at their best "We shall make no
comparison or contrast between him l
and his opponent, as to fitness for the
Mayoralty of Portland. It is, said that
"comparison is odious," So let It pass.
But
It Is strange indeed that, with the
confidential friends of Governor Geer in
Marion County behaving as they do
towards Mr. Furnish, Mr. Geer" should
imagine himself a candidate lor the
United States Senate. .
F. C. Barnes is a successful business
man who would discharge the duties pf
County Commissioner with dignity,
credit and economy. A man that can
run Jiis own business successfully Is a
good man to trust with public buslnesa
If there are Republicans who think
there is no further reason for the Re
publican party to exist, of course they
may as well vote for Chamberlain and
the fusion ticket. But why should such
profess to be Republicans?
Judge "Webster's good work In the
campaign entitles him to the united
vote of his party. For the office of
County Judge, to which he aspires, he
possesses every requirement of ability
and high character.
Mr. Chamberlain expects a great ma
jority in the "North End" of Portland.
It is the reward he expects for not hav-
lng- used "his powers as District Attor
ney to trouble unlawful vice in that
locality.
INSTITUTION OF "MEMORIAL DAY
In May, 1SS3. a letter was received at
National headquarters from a German
soldier, who had served in the "Onion
Army, stating that it was the custom in
his country for the people to assemble
In the Springtime and scatter flowers upon
the graves of the dead. Three years "bo
fore this James Redpath organized a pro
cession, consisting of white and colored
soldiers, 2000 children and several thou
sand citizens, all of. whom carried bou
quets, which they placed upon the Union
graves at Charleston, S. C.
This was a local event of great interest
at the time, but It was not until the letter
referred to suggested that the custom of
decorating the Union graves be unani
mously observed by the Grand Army of
the Republic that it wes officially con
sidered, and the movement became one of
National Interest. Adjutant-General Chip
man, to whom the letter was addressed,
referred the matter to Commander-in-
Chief Logan, who heartily approved th6'
Idea, and issued the following order to an
posts in the . country. This document,
given below. Is now considered one of the
most urpclous in the history of the G, A.
R.
Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic,
Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, u. i.
May 5. 1SGS.
The 30th day of May. 1S68. Is designated for
the purpose or strew ins with flowers or other
wise decorating the graves of comrades who
died in defense of their country during the
late rebellion, whose bodies now He In almost
eery city, Ullage and hamlet churchyard In
the land. In this observance no form or cere
mony Is prescribed, but posts and comrades
will in their own way arrange such fitting
service as testimonials of respect as circum
stances may permit.
We are organlred, comrades, as our regula
tions tell us, for the purpose, among other,
things, of preserving and strengthening those
kind and fraternal feelings which hajfe bound
together the soldiers, sailors' and marines who
united to suppress the late Rebellion. What
can aid more to assure this result than cher
ishing tenderly the memories of our heroic
dead, who made their breasts a barricade be
tween our country and Its foes? Their soldier
lives were the reveille of freedom to a race In
chains, and their death the tattoo of rebellious
tyranny In arms. We should guard their
graves with, sacred i lgllance. All that the con
secrated wealth and taste of the Nation can
add to their adornment and security Is but a
fitting tribute to the memory of her slain de
fenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on
such hallowed ground.
Let pleasant paths Invite the coming and go
ing of reverent visitors and fond mourners.
Let no -vandalism of avarice or neglect, no
ravages of time, testify to the present and
coming generations that we have, forgotten, as
a people, the cost of a free and undivided Re
publlc. If other ejes grow dull, other hands
slack and other hearts cold In the solemn
trust, ours shall keep It well as long as light
and warmth of life remain In us.
Let us then, at the time appointed, gather
around the sacred remains and garland the
passionless mounds above them with the
choicest flowers of Springtime. Let us raise
above them the dear old flag they saved from
dishonor, let us In the solemn presence renew
our Sledge to aid and assist those whom they
have left among us, a sacred charge upon a
Natloa's- gratitude, the soldiers and sailors,
widows and orphans. It Is the purpose of the
Commander-in-Chief to Inaugurate this observ
ance, with the hope that It will bo kept up
from year to year while a survivor of the war
remains to honor" the memory of his departed
comrades. He earnestly desires the public
press to lend its friendly aid In bringing to
the notice of the- comrades In sell parts of the
countryln tlmo for simultaneous compliance
therewith.
Department commanders will use efforts to
make this order effective. By order of
JOHN A. LOGAN. Commander-in-Chief.
N. P. CHIPMAN, Adjutant-General.
WILLIAM T. COLLIER, Assistant Adjutant
General. LOYALTY WON'T BE SHAKEN.
Minneapolis Tribune.
. No political party In the United States
ever attacked a war in which this country
was engaged without coming to grief. No
body of public men ever attacked the
honor, conduct and reputation of soldiers
fighting the battles of the United States
without being overwhelmed by popular
wrath and resentment It matters little
whether the war be just or unjust popu-
lar or unpopular. Once this country is
engaged in armed conflict the people are
bound to see it through and to endure
neither criticism nor obstruction of those
who are carrying it on In either civil or
military capacity.
Opposition to the "War of 1S12 killed the
Federal party; opposition to the Mexican
"War killed the "Whig party; opposition to
the war of the North for preservation of
the Union destroyed the Democratic party
for a generation. There is no mistaking
this lesson of history and experience. The
Democratic party has made a dangerous
experiment in adopting an attitude of
nagging and fault-finding n relation to
the acts of the President, the "War De
partment and the Army in the Philippines.
It will fall into fatal error If it should
adopt opposition to the establishment of
peace and order under American sover
eignty in the islands as a distinct party
policy. Most dangerous and disastrous of
all is the policy of attacking the Army as
a whole and deserving officers as indi
viduals, on the testimony of ex-mllltary
hoboes and guard-room graduates that the
war has been carried on with savage bru
tality. "We suspect that the American peoplo
would stand by the Army in the face of
positive proof that it had made war with
a certain degree of harshness. Certainly
the monstrous lies which the Senate com
mittee has been, swallowing for a week
will not shake Nlts loyalty to the service.
The attitude of" the American peoplo to
ward its Army in war may not be very
rational, but it Is absolutely natural. It h
expressed by the gallant sailor's toast
"My country, right or wrong." It Is ex
pressed by the prompt and unquestioning
support of President's Cleveland's Vene
zuelan policy by almost every Republican
In Congress. It is expressed by the silent
Vote of almost every Democrat in Con
gress to grant President McKlnley's re
quest for I50.WO.000 at the opening of the
Spanish "War. Any party or any individual
that gets in the way of this National feel
ing is going to have trouble.
Lavr Students Resent l Nctt Rale.
New York Herald.
Believing that imputations have been
cast on their honestv law students of Co
lumbia are aroused at rules which have
been formulated for the coming examina
tions. One rule provides that atudentg must
supply themselves with fountain or stylo
graphlc pens. Answers written with pencil
will not be examined." Another Is hat
"students will not be allowed to take
books, blotters or papers Into the examination-room,
nor to make use of any
paper other than that furnished by the
examiner.
The rules that have created the most
disturbance provide, "that no student will
-be admitted to an examination after a
member of the class has left the room,"
and that "no one leaving the examination
room for any cause will be allowed to re
turn and continue his examination,"
Nearly all the law students ore col
lcge graduates and they believe that no
stricter rules should be provided In the
Columbia Law School than obtained dur
ing their undergraduate careers.
Boston's Nerr Floating Hospital.
Boston Post
Plans have been prepared for a new-Boston
floating hospital, to cost $60,000, of
which 5SO0O has already been raised. It is
intended to have. If possible, the boat
ready for use by the Summer of 1003.
On account of the rapid growth of the
work of the Boston floating hospital In
caring for the sick bableafe. the accommo
dations of the old boat are no longer suf
ficient At first the plan was simply to
keep the children out during the day. Now
they remain on the boat till cured. The
new boat will be larger In size, will have
all the latest hospital advantages, and
wIU be especially designed for scientific
studv and isolation of contaslou diseases.
POEMS FOR MEMORTAfc DAY-.
The Bine and the Gray.
By the flow of the Inland river,
Whence the fl&ts of iron have fled.
Where the Jjla,des of. the grace-grass quiver.
Asleep are the ranks of the dead. -Under
the sod. and the dew,
Waiting the Judjjmjnt day
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray.
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Those In the roblngs of glory,
Thosa in the gloom of defeat, ,
All with the battle-blood gory.
In the dusk of eternity meet. 1
Under the sod. and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment day - ..
Under the laurel, the Blue.
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers t '
Alike for the friend -and the foe.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day
Under (he roses, the Blue, ,
Under the llllcsr the Gray. y
So with an equal splendor ,
t The morning sun rays fall
With a touch Impartially tender.
On the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment day
Brotdered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So when the Summer calleth
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain. v
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day v '
Wet with the rain, the Blue,
Wet with the. rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not upbraiding, ',
The generous deed was dene; ,A i
In the storm o the j ears that are fading
No braver battle was won.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment day
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war cry sever, ,
Nor the tflndlng river be red;
They banish our anger forever,-
When they laurel the grates of our dead.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
Francis Miles Finch.
The Bivouac of the Dead.
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round.
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved one left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms.
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.
Sons of the Bark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there.
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along" the heedless air.
Tour own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grae;
She claims from war his richest spoil.
The ashes of her brave.
Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest.
Far from the gory field.
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
Ihe heroes' sepulchre.
Best on, embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood ye gave; ,,
No Impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave; " .
Nor shall jour glory be forgot ,
While Fame her record keeps.
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Ton marble minstrel's olceless stone
In deathless song shall tell.
When many a vanquished age hath flown.
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck ndr change, nor Winter's blight
Nor Time's remorseless doom.
Shall dim one ray of Glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb.
Theodore O'Hara.
Dirge for a Soldier.
Close his eyes; his work Is done!
What to him Is friend or foeman,
Rise of moon, or set of sun.
Hand of man, or kiss of woman 7
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snowl
Wha't care he? he cannot know;
Lay him low!
As man may, he fought his fight.
Proved his truth by his endeavor;
Let him sleep In solemn night.
Sleep forever and forever.
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow!
What care, he? he cannot know;
Lay him low!
Fold him In his country's stars,
Boll tho drum and fire the vojley!
What to him are all our wars.
What but death bemocklng folly?
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow!
What care he? he cannot know;
Lay hhn low!
Lave him to God's watching eye.
Trust him to tho hand that made him.
Mortal loe weeps-Jdly by;
God alone has power to aid him.
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snowl
What care he? he cannot know;
Lay him low!
George Henry Boker.
Tenting? on the Old Camp Ground.
We're tentrng tonight on the old campground.
Give us a. song of cheer.
Our weary hearts a song of home
And friends wer love so dear.
CHORUS.
Many are the hearts that are weary tonight.
Wishing for the war to cease.
Many are the hearts looking for the right.
To see the dawn of peace.
Tenting tonlgflt tenting tonight.
Tenting on the old campground.
We've been tenting tonight on the old camp
ground. Thinking of days gone by.
Of the loved ones at home that gave us the
hand
And the tear that said good-bye."
Wo are tired of war on the old campground,
ilanv are dead and gone
Of the brave and true who left their homes;
Others have been wounded long.
We've been fighting today on the old camp
ground. Many are lying near;
Some-are dead and some are dying;
Many are in tearSj Walter KIttredge.
At MasjnoHn Cemetery.
Sleep sweetly Id your humble graves.
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet nonarble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel In the earth
The blossom of your fame Is blown.
And somewhere, waiting, for its birth.
The shaft is In the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which Keep In trust your storied tombs,
Beholdl -your -sisters bring their tears.
And these memorial blooms.
Small tributes! but your shades will smile,
More proudly on these wreaths today,
Than when some cannon-molded pile
Shall overlook this bay.
"Stoop, ansels, hither from the siriesl
There is no holler spot of groudd -,
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty crowned.
Henry Tlmrod.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
It will soon'be all over but the voting.
Sometimes a circular saw cuts both
ways.
Better let the straw hats season a while
longer.
When In doubt, let the other people do
the betting.
More Imported weather. The Kansas
variety this time.
Summer seems as much delayed as the
Boer peace announcement.
The Simon men are nearly as confident
as they were the day before the pri
maries.' The weather man seemed to think that
the free bath was not finished soon
enough.
t
The bunco men are reappearing. They
apparently do not want to waste their
registrations.
King Edward has put the coronation
into rehearsal, and his press agents re
port excellent progress
The candidates -will have to talk very
fast If they make all the promises they
would like to before election.
Mr. Ware's next volume of poetry ought
to contain some very thrilling experi
ences, if he conducts his office as did his
predecessor.
Still another challenger for the Ameri
ca's cup Is to be built It is quality, not
quantity, however, which counts with
cup-challengers.
Mr. Richard Harding Davis will attend
the coronation. Thus King Edward's ex
pectation of being the chief figure will be
cruelly blighted.
After all. it Is just as unhealthy in the
vicinity of a servant girl who lights the
fire with kerosene as It is in the neighbor
hood of a volcano.
Senator Morgan is not In accord with
Tillman and other Southern Senators. Ha
believes It possible for a man to be both
rational and a Democrat.
The largest dividend on the Paris ma.
tuals in France last season was at Vln
cennes, in the Pavllllon (5frs. enclosure).
An Investment of 5 francs on the horse
brought over 3000 francs, or t00 to 1. Tho
next best of the season was about 1.20 to l,
and the record of the 1S00 season was 10S
to 1, at Maisons Laflltte. In New Zealand
recently for 1 -Invested over a horso
named Leo Delaval, 322 was returned;
833 being paid at Adelaide In 1SS1 for
1 pound put on a horse named "D. O.
D.." who won the Goodwood handicap.
A story is told of a Ceylon planter wno
wanted to go away for a day's shooting.
Approaching his men, he said: "Although
I myself will be absent, yet I shall leave
one of my eyes to see that you do your
work." And to the surprise of the na
tives, he took out his glass eye. placed it
on the stump of a tree, and left For
some time the natives worked like ele
phants; but at last one of them, seizing
his tin In which he carried his food, ap
proached the tree and placed it over the
eye. As soon as they saw that they were
not being watched they all lay down and
slept peacefully until sunset
' One day last Autumn Bennet Burleigh,
the noted English special war correspond
ent, was encountered a few miles outside
of Pretoria by that volcanic rhetorician.
General Tucker. "What the are you
doing out. here with that thing?"
asked the general, pointing to a kodat
which was slung round his shoulders.
"Well, sir," promptly replied Mr. Bur
leigh, "I was Intending to take some
photographs; but had I known that I was
to have the pleasure of meeting you 1
should have brought out a phonograph."
At this audacity, it is said that even
General Tucker's stock of sulphurous ad
jectives ran low.
New York will treat Its poor to good
music this Summer. Classic selections
will be played on the recreation piers of
Manhattan and "ragtime" will be scratch
ed. All of the seven piers are to be open
ed to the public on Decoration Day, and
no bandleader will be permitted to re
main at any one pier longer than a week.
In some instances the change will be
made twice a week, and none will havo
more than 30 nights' play. The taste of
the different localities will also be taken
into consideration. Italian music will be
played in the Italian neighborhoods, w hilo
Vaterland melodies" will charm the Ger
mans and old Irish airs make happy the
hearts of those from the old sod.
The Bed Cross Society, which Is incor
porated In nearly every country in tho
world, is to hold soon In Russia Its Inter
national convention. These meetings oc
cur every five years. Clara Barton, repre
senting the American Red Cress, is now
at sea, steaming Russlaward. Of Miss
Barton one of the organization's secretar
ies said, recently: "She Is over 73 yeara
old. and yet she is as active and as
cheery as a young girl. The American
Red Cross Society Is due entirely to her.
She went to Europe to recuperate after
the Civil War, wherein her Indefatigable
work at nursing had worn down her
health, 'and while abroad she witnessed
some of the Franco-Prussian war and
helped the Red Cross folk In their work.
She began, immediately on her return
home, to organize a society here, and cer
tainly this energetic and good woman
may be said to have succeeded, for the
American Red Cross Is now one of the
biggest and best The very biggest and
the very best Is therJapanese Red Cross
Society."
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
He I see Oldboy is pretty gay yet If he Is
aging. She Oh. es; h's got one foot In the
grave, and the other In society. Yonkers
Statesman.
Some One Sure of It Bobble-Pa. is It really
true that when you lick me It hurts you more'n
It does me? Father Tes. Robert. Bobble
Then here's where we get the mischief. I threw
the cat down the well, an' ma's goln to tell
you on me. Judge.
Proper Remedy. "Pittsburg Is laboring un
der heavy fire-insurance expenses In the down
town district," remarked Mr. Dukane. "Now
that Is something." added Mr. Gaswell. "to
which the water cure should be applied."
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Hopeful Woman. "Woman Is naturally more
hopeful than man." "Yes; there's my wife,
for instance: for years past every time she has
had occasion to buy fish she has asked tho
dealer If they were fresh, hoping. I suppose
that some day he'll say 'no.' "Philadelphia
Press.
In the Far West "What do you do with a
man that steals a horso out here?" asked tho
tourist on tho coach. "String him up," blurt
ed Amber Pete. In forcible tones. "And a man
that .steals an automobile?" "Give him a pursa
for ridding the country of a nuisance." Chi
cago Dally News.
Hester People are so queer; I sang at an
entertainment the other evening, and If you'll
teHce It not a soul had a word to say about
my performance. What do you think of that?
Bertha They certainly were very considerate,
dear; but I should think they might have
found something to say that would not Injure
your feelings. Boston Transcript
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