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For salo In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlak. 90G.012 Seventeenth street; Louthaa & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., 15th and Lawrence streets; A. Series. 1053 Champa street. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy. with occasional light showers during- the morning; warmer; westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 55; minimum temperature, 45; pre cipitation, 0.45 inch. "PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JUXE 3, 1002. FACTIONAL VENGEANCE. Mr. Chamberlain is probably elected. This has been anticipated as a proba bility for some time past. 'Mr. Furnish has been sacrificed to a spirit of re venge. A faction, rendered furious by Its failure to control conventions and nominations as it had been accustomed to do, turned party-wrecker. "Venge ance was its motto, and it worked for vengeance wherever it had power. The Simon faction in Multnomah, the .Geer faction In Marlon, the Lowell fac tion in Umatilla, the Moody faction in "Wasco, 'operating as far as they could reach in other counties, threw their ef forts all in together. The faction that has defeated Mr. Furnish, though but a .fraction of the party 10 per cent, rerhaps, of its voters claimed to be "the whole thing." The contest neces sary for maintenance of the gold stand ard, waged during past years, had put the leaders of this faction, accidentally. at the head of the party organization; and when they were beaten in the pri maries and conventions this year, they resolved since they no longer could control the party to wreck it. If they could. How far they may have succeeded in this design is not yet fully known; but It is pretty certain they have elected a Democratic Governor; apparently also have brought many Democrats into the Legislature though returns from every part of the state are meager; Xor the count necessarily is low, and we shall not have sure returns till tomorrow. The Republican state ticket, with ex ception of Governor, is elected: also the two members of Congress. Judge Will iams is elected Mayor of Portland, and nearly if not all the Republican ticket for Multnomah. The Simon-Geer combination has taken such revenge as It could; but neither Mr. Simon nor Mr. Geer will find tangible result from this line of action. Each of them will be given in definite leave of absence from leader ship and office. Nor is Judge Lowell apparently nearer any of the objects of his perennial desire, Sweet as re venge may be to- envious minds, it never pays in the long run. THE PRICE OF WOOL. ' The 1902 wool clip of Oregon promises to be a record-breaker, and the quality of the product Is above the average of recent years. As yet but few large sales have been made, and there has been an undertoneof strength to the market that has induced growers to await an im provement in prices. While this im provement may materialize, there are indications that the market is -apj proaching the "dead line" where coir sumptlo'n will be restricted to such an extent that the price will Tecelvg a -natural check. Shoddy, cotton and other wool substitutes figure more extensively than ever as regulators of the price of wool. In this respect wool Is at a de cided disadvantage as compared with wheat, or other farm products, as the buying public seems willing to accept most any substitute that is offered when the price gets too high. The American Wool Reporter is authority for the statement that when clean wool goes above 50 cents per pound In price the use of substitutes increases very rapidly. flaking allowance for the heavy shrinkage of Oregon wool in the clean ing process, and for freight to the East ern factories, where most of It is con sumed, Oregon wool at current quota tions is not far from 50 cents per pound cleaned. There is at the present time a bill before Congress making it a crim inal offense to sell a fabric In which wool is used unless the fabric Is stamped or branded with the percent age of wool that it contains and with the names and percentages of the other materials Used In Its manufacture. This bill Is Intended to check the use of shoddy and other substitutes and corre spondingly enlarge the market for wool. It is questionable, however, whether it will haVe the desired effect. Wool at 50 cents per pound makes a more costly garment than the poorer classes can af ford to wear; they will buy something within the reach of their purses, regard less of what its component parts may be. The passage of this bill, however, will have the effect of determining whether or not the poor man desires legislative protection against wool sub- stitutes. If he continues to buy any thing but the pure wool goods, it may be taken that he-is unable or unwilling to pay the price demanded for the pure stock. The present protective tariff on wool needs revision if It is to secure the re sults expected of It, for it has failed to establish uniform prices and has largely promoted the use of shoddy and other wool substitutes. Previous to the en actment of the "tariff on wool prices were frequently higher than they are at the present time, and the use of substi tutes for wool was on. a very limited scale. Considerable quantities of Aus tralian wool were imported at that time, and it was far and away superior to shoddy and cotton for mixing pur poses with American wools. The Impor tation of this wool had an apparent ef fect on prices of our native wools, which It was expected the protective tariff would remove. The tariff did remove the Australian and other foreign wools from the market, but, as before stated, it has failed to improve correspond ingly ike situation for the American woolgrower. The poor man can no longer have cheap Australian wool mixed with the" American product, but he can and will have shoddy and cotton, because Ahey are cheap. The cost of living to the wage-earner is greater now than It has been for a number of years past, and, although work Is more plentiful and wages have advanced, he Is still unable or unwilling to buy pure wool goods when the material costs more than 50 cents per pound, and a mixed article will give nearly as good service at much less cost. If there were a high class demand sufficient to take up all of the American wool that could be, pro duced at any price which might be ex acted, protection could run -to the limit In lifting prices by shutting out foreign wools. In the absence of such a de mand wool will find a market governed to a large extent by the buying powers of consumers who prefer the pure arti cle, but will accept a substitute when prices are too high. GREAT GAIN FOR DECENCY. Although there are no fewer than 100, 000 qualified electors. In the state, It is .doubtful If the complete returns will show more than 80,000 votes. For this there are several reasons. On the Re publican side there is widespread dis affection throughout what has been fgr years a majority section of the party, and on the Democratic side the Fusion leadership has disgusted many who are Democrats from principle and not from spoil. A powerful discourager of activity, moreover, has been a somewhat general inclination to regard this year's election as unimportant, which It "certainly Is not. when its full bearing on National issues is considered, but which It un doubtedly is, If we compare it with such a supreme Issue as presented it self In 1896, when practically the entire voting population went to the polls, or so acute a crisis as was felt In 1898, when an active war was on with an Oregon regiment In the field. The stay-, at-home vote has been large, and doubly impressive In Its magnitude when we remember the heavy influx from Immigration the state has received in recent years. Besides this actual shortage in the vote, there Is further an apparent deficit of thousands due to the registration law, the new primary law and the elimination of money from the cam paign. It is well known hat the regis try law has cut off many hundreds who were wont to summon up Interest enough to vote on election day, but whose resolution is unequal to the task of registering. The primary law and the reduction of official emoluments through various reformatory acts have combined to limit a vote that was for merly swollen through corruption. Yesterday saw an orderly election; and the day before was a more than usually quiet Sunday preceding elec tion. The excess of salaries which many county and city officers were wont to receive and to spend in cam paign arguments, the most honorable of which was the outright purchase of votes, has disappeared under salary acts and reductions In official fees. 'The shrinkage in the vote compared with registration Is especially noticeable In the slum districts, and affords unmis takable proof of the activity with which colonies of voters were registered by the Simon machine for use at the primaries. No citizen Who compares the quiet and decent election we had yesterday with the orgies that used to character ize the polls under the old regime can wish to go back to the former practices, even with the reward of a heavy vote. It is better to have stay-at-homes who can't come out unless they are paid than to have competent public senti ment set aside through their pernicious activity and to have the general de corum menaced by acts of disorder and crime. What we lose in quantity we gain in quality. Oregon will never see a return- of the day when the reforms brought in by the Australian ballot, the registration law and the official primary will be abandoned. Reforms of this 1 kind never go backward. They will be amended only to be perfected and ex tended. THE TERMS ARE LIRERAL. The terms of peace granted to the Boers by Great Britain are not only just but generous, and Instinct with the spirit of civic wisdom. It Is re ported, however,' that the conclusion of peace will enable the government to withdraw the proposition for a bread tax, which is estimated to produce about $13,000,000 directly, while the indi rect burden in shape of Increased price of grain grown in Great Britain will bring the total up to $20,000,000. It is but fair today to say that the Boer War was originally precipitated and forced upon Great Britain by old Paul Kruger, who was arrogant enough and dull enough to suppose that In thirty days after his ultimatum the Boers would be at Durban, in Natal, and that all Cape Colony would be in a blaze of revolt. The British interference In be half of the rights of the Ultlanders was as just as our Interference .between Mexico and Texas. The original American settlers In Texas were Ultlanders. They rebelled against the oppressive treatment of Mexico, as the Ultlanders of the Trans vaal would have rebelled had they ob tained opportunity and assistance. Jo hannesburg was a city of 50,000 people, whose capital and Intelligence had en riched the Transvaal and who paid all Its taxes and furnished it with all its revenue. Paul Kruger would not allow any of these Ultlanders to hold any -municipal office in the city. He gov erned them by Ignorant Dutoh police- J men. He would allow these 50,000 peo- pie no seats in the Legislature and no votes. He was only asked by them for a limited representation. He would give them nothing; he robbed them right and left; he and all his family became very rich through sailing Justice and concessions and pocketing the plun der. Suppose 50,000 Americans with money and brains built up a city In a mining district of Sonora, Mexico, and Presi dent Diaz governed those 50,000 Uitland ers as Paul Kruger did Johannesburg does any sane man suppose that the appeal of these Americans to the United States would not procure a re monstrance to President Diaz? Sup pose President Diaz suddenly broke up conference with our Government and Issued an- ultimatum announcing his In tention to Invade our territory at once; he would be doing just what the Mex ican General did on the Rio Grande in 1846, just what Paul Kruger did when on October 10, 1893, he announced his purpose to Invade Natal. Paul Kruger wasthe evil genius of the Boer Repub lics. But for his arrogance, malignity and ignorance, there would have been no Boer "War. He was a treacherous, vindictive, corrupt, short-sighted leader, a sort of Boer Santa Anna. OUR CENTENNIAL MAYOR. Judge Williams closed his campaign and becomes Portland's World's Fair Mayor with the unique distinction of being so universally respected and hon ored that the worst his opponents could say against him was that he "lent re spectability' to the ticket on which he ran. Higher tribute to worth could not be asked. In the presence of such merit and accomplishments, it is small wonder that partisanship grew abashed and even the vice and crime that were leagued against him lost heart and weakened In their desperate purpose. Judge Williams will be the Mayor. Above the minor figures In this cam paign whose names have been conjured up by the Fuslonlsts as scarecrows, he towers like the giant oak among a for est of shrubs. His long acquaintance with men and with public affairs, his knowledge of and Interest In Portland for these many years, his clear head and upright purposes, will insure a municipal administration long to be memorable In the city's annals for Its own dignity and force, as well as for the Centennial epoch and the inaugura tion of the new modern charter. The congratulations upon this occa sion are not for Judge Williams. He will leave his large law practice, possi bly never to return to it, and the official career upon which he Is to enter can add little if anything to his fame and achievements as a National figure. The congratulations are for the city Itself, which has thus conferred upon itself no mean measure of honor. The whole state will feel a Justifiable pride and gratification In the result, and In the far wider circle of the Nation at large the event will be welcomed by all who understand and appreciate a demon stration of the fact that a pure and true man may run for office and be elected, through all the stress and bitterness of American municipal politics, without being tarnished by its maliciousness or sullied by its slime. How easily and swiftly our politics would be purified, if men like Judge Williams were oftener sought after for office, and would accept the burdens as he does, for the sake of the good they can do! Wherever the story of his cam paign and his victory goes, the hearts of good men. and women will be light ened for the good news, and faith In righteousness will spring brighter In the universal mind. Let us hope that they are few who voted against Judge Williams, and yet who, In their secret heart, in some quiet hour, away from evil prejudices and surroundings, are not glad their efforts failed. A HARD FIGHT "WON. Peace at last has concluded the re markable war between Great Britain and the South African Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. When this war broke out. In October, 1899, the area of the" two Boer Republics was about 167,000 square miles, sup porting a white population, outside of those engaged In the mining camps, of probably not over 180,000. The mili tary strength jof the Boers. Including boys and old men, was perhaps 50,000 men. These 50,000 men, however, were all sharpshooters, armed with the finest improved military magazine rifles. They had ample supplies of ammunition. They were all mounted riflemen; they had an excellent artillery corps armed with the best guns of modern French and German manufacture. They knew the country, and with their light equip ment could easily march two miles while the British troops marched one. Their armies from first to last never suffered any losses by killed and wounded or disease that were not made good by the Afrikander recruits from North Cape Colony and Natal. The outbreak of the war was due to the ar rogance of Paul Kruger, a corrupt man, but not In any large sense a man of superior Intellectual power, for If he had been his visits to Europe would have taught him as much as a visit to Washington and a tour of our great cities has taught more than one In domitable Indian chief; taught him the folly of going to battle with such an adversary as Great Britain. It was true the Boer leader at the outset had some superficial advan tages. He could mass his troops on the frontier of Natal, Issue an ultimatum and rush over the Natal border upon the outnumbered English, who could not be reinforced 'before sixty days from England. Kruger undoubtedly counted upon an uprising of the Afri kander population of Cape Colony and Natal. Had this expectation been ful filled. Great Britain would have prob ably lost South Africa, but the Afri kander population of Cape Colony and Natal was too intelligent to allow ties of blood and historic tradition to ex change the rule of Great Britain for that of a Boer Confederation. So there was no general revolt on part of the Afrikander population, bej-o'nd a few districts in North Cape Colony. The Boers had, too, the superficial advan tage In the fact that Great Britain's enormous naval strength could not be employed against them. Kruger un doubtedly was cunning enough to make his credulous people believe that if they could make a transiently successful re sistance at the outset, In extremity France, Russia and Germany would serve notice of intervention on -Great Britain. It was not remarkable that Kruger was able to impose upon the confidence and credulity of his simple minded people. They had led an Iso lated existence for sixty years; they were in religious and political Ideas a medieval republic The same imposi tion could have been practiced upon the Illiterate mountaineers of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and the Carollnas by their trusted political lead ers before the Civil "War. These South ern mountaineers were as gallant a race of men, as formidable riflemen, as re ligious and as honorably distinguished for the primitive virtues of veracity and courage as the Boers, and were as conspicuous for Ignorance, superstition and ferocity. From the invasion of Natal, in Octo ber, 1899. until the arrival of Lord Rob erts, the first week In January, 1900, the British suffered severe reverses. The attempt to hold Ladysmlth against superior numbers was a military fcluo der; for the true line of defense was that of the Tugela River. The disas ters to Methuen at Modder River and to Buller at Colenso were due to -military Incapacity to understand that the inry incapacity to unursuiuu luai uic i radical changes In modern rifles and cannon made frontal attacks on an, In trenched force of riflemen Impossible of success. Lord Roberts' Invasion of the Orange Free State relieved Klmber ley. forced the capitulation of Cronje, forced the Boers t6 let go of Ladysmlth and obtained the occupation of Bloem fonteln. From the standpoint of mili tary common sense the Boer War after the middle of March, 1900, was a hope less conflict. Pretoria surrendered June 5, 1900, and September 1. 1900. the Transvaal was proclaimed part of the British Empire. The guerrilla warfare waged since that date in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State has been as utterly senseless as If Lee and John ston had used their Influence to main tain armed resistance to the Federal authority by guerrilla mountain war fare after the armies of the Confeder acy were unable to keep the field and the principal seaports and strongholds of the South had been lost. There was nothing remarkable In the long resist ance of the Boers, except the gross Ig norance of the outside world which lay at the bottom of It The Confederates of the mountain region of the South could have made just as gallant, just as skillful and energetic resistance of the Boer guerrilla quality as was of fered by Dewet and Botha. It Is Immeasurably better for the world, for South Africa, for the Boers themselves, that the British should pre vail. The Boer will become a Briton, and before fifty years have passed will be a warm supporter of British Ideas and Institutions as instinct with larger popular liberty and justice than the Boer under Kruger ver knew. The contest has cost England a good deal of blood and a vast deal of treasure. No other nation In Europe could have carried such a contest through, for no other nation has the financial resources or the resolute constancy of spirit. The Boer fought to his last ditch, and he fought like a gallant man, but his chil dren will be glad that their fathers lost the fight. Lord Kitchener deserves all the praise he gets for his success In South Africa. It has proved a very hard and difficult military problem that he was given to solve. There are 176,000 square miles of territory In the two Boer Republics. He had a thousand miles of railway to guard between Cape Town and Pre toria. He had the railway from Pre toria to Durban via- Ladysmlth to guard. The Orange River railway crossings of the lines leading from North Cape. Colony to the seacoast at Port Elizabeth and New London had to be protected. There were no food supplies to be obtained In the war-swept area of the Boer Republics; all the Boer Inhabitants were the friends of the en emy; the Boers rode two miles to his one; they knew the whole country; they were better mounted, as well as armed, and as a whole better shots; they had no military base, no depots, no prisoners to care for; they had only to cut in and cut out at every oppor tunity by day or night. Hunting the Boers with ordinary regular soldiers was like hunting wild ducks with a drum and fife. Kitchener's work has been largely that of an able. Indomita ble military engineer. It was a thank less. Inglorious kind of warfare, but for success It took a man like Kitchener, an able engineer, a master of details, a painstaking, patient man. His work In Egypt was brilliant, but the greatest service that Kitchener ever wrought for Great Britain was his wearing out the resolution of the Indomitable Boers by his own Immense fortitude. It is not likely that the deWe of Paul Kruger to return to the .Transvaal will be gratified. The reasons for this are obvious. Elements of harmony, not those of discord, are desired and will be required In conjunction with Brit ain's task fn South Africa. Moving along lines of the least resistance, some friction will necessarily occur between the government and Its new and Inly rebellious subjects for some time. It would be worse than folly to Import such an obstacle to reconciliation as would be presented by the presence of Kruger, even If he lived In retirement and refrained from talking, which, of course, he would not do. Time heals all wounds, and one of his processes consists In gathering In at their ap pointed season men who are too old or too stubborn to change tHelr views of life and who chafe' constantly at Its vicissitudes as unjust, personally op pressive and cruel. Some days ago The' Oregonlan re printed from the Chicago Chronicle and credited to that paper a rebuke to Sen ator Dolllver, of Iowa, for having quoted Lord Macaulay's assertion that Burke was "on the wrong side of every question." It appears that the Chroni cle was In error, inasmuch as the re mark was not Senator Dolllver's own, but an extract he was reading - from the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, for the purpose of having some fun with Senator Carmack, of Tennessee. All that was said, therefore, in derogation of Senator Dolllver's knowledge of Ed mund Burke was based on a misappre hension of fact. Perhaps the Chronicle, in Its' haste to censure Dolllver, was not as careful as It should ha-ve been to make sure of Its facts. Souffrlere seems to be engaged in blasting a fissure In the bottom of the sea large enough to receive the Island of St. Vincent whole. .No wonder the In habitants of the Island regard the work of the volcano with apprehension and are anxious to sail away before the final blast of those withering, consum ing gases Is touched off and the ocean takes back the tribute wrung from it by volcanic force "In the unremembered ages." The State of Connecticut Is getting to be a great peachgrowlng state, and this year Jt Is estimated will market 1,000,000 bushels of the tlusclous and profitable fruit, v HOAR'S STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS Minneapolis- Tribune. The full report of Senator Hoar's speech In the Congressional Record shows It to have been a wonderful demonstration of Intellectual power, and as a rhetorical ef forth worthy of the best traditions of the Senate. It was Illuminated, too, by a tone of sincerity that inspires respect for the orator, though his logic falls to con vince those of a contrary opinion. All who know the grand old man of Massa chusetts are Inclined to give him crtdlt for absolute honesty in his position. His high character and his past record make him a sort of privileged character, and it Is not surprising that bis constituents pa tiently put up with all his aberrations and eccentricities, In 'view of the luster which he sheds upon their state as one of the few remaining fcreat men of a for- - mer generation credit for fervid oratory, for eloquence. for faultless rhetoric, for hlgh-mlnded- ness,.we have said about all that can do said, from i common-senso standpoint, in favor of his speech. As an exhibition of practical statesmanship It fall3 to meas ure up to the wisdom of the men whose Ideas have found actual lodgment in the policy of the Nation. If there could be upon this earth a government of pure idealism and sentiment, then Senator Hoar's tests would apply. But they nev er have furnished a feasible scheme of governmental policy and never will fur nish one before the millennium arrives. The fatal weakness of Senator Hoar's whole effort is found In one admission fatal to his contention which he makes early In his brilliant diatribe against the Philippine policy of the United States. He said he found himself beset with this difficulty, that he was to denounce what seemed to him one of the most foolish and wicked chapters in our history, yet he was compelled to admit thit tho men who tire responsible for it are neither foolish nor wicked. "On the contrary," he added, "there are no men on the face of the earth with whom on nearly all other subjects I am in general more In accord; to whose sound Judgment or prac tical sagacity I am more willing to defer, or to whose patriotism or humanity I am more willing to commit the honor or the fate of the Republic." Surely, If we do not grow grapes of thorns or figs of thistles, the obverse rulo will apply, that bad fruit will not grow from a sound and healthful stock. It Is difficult to conceive of the men so eulogized by Senator Hoar putting In force a policy of such Infamy as he de scribes. Is not the actual truth of the matter found In tho fact that those men were and are practical statesmen, ani mated by high motives, while Senator Hoar, likewise animated by high motives, is after all a mere Idealist? ' This presumption Is borne out by his reply to the point made by the defenders of the Philippine policy, that we carried out essentially the same policy In the Louisiana and Florida territory; that Is to say, that, we in practice de nied the doctrine in respect to the Inhabitants found In those territories, that Just government rests only on the consent of the governed. , Sen ator Hoar's reply Is, substantially, that there were no people fit for self-gdvern-ment in the regions anciently acquired from France and Spain. So his logic re duces itself, after all. to a mere matter of assertion. The Filipinos, In his opin ion, arc fit for self-government, while in the opinions of the practical statesmen whose policy he so bitterly attacks, they are not. A Hnmbufc and a Farce. Curry County Tribune. We have always believed In and advo cated the election of United States Sen ators by the people, and We were Inclined to. the belief that the new state law per mitting the printing of the names of candidates for United States Senator on the official ballot would hrlng out a full expression of the people, and act as an Instruction to the Legislature. The Indi cations are now that the law will prove a humbug and a farce. For instance, the Democratic State Convention nominated a candidate properly. The Republican convention made no nomination. Geer was nominated by petition, signed, prob ably, by as many members of other par ties as Republicans. Geer would have made a strong candidate for Governor, but he is not the choice of Southern Ore gon Republicans for Senator, though, perhaps, most of them will vote for him, because it Is "Hobson's choice." Now suppose we elect a Republican Legisla ture, and the Democratic candidate gets more votes than Geer, will the Republican Legislature send Mr. Wood to the Sen ate? Not likely. Suppose Geer gets the majority? He "Is not the Republican nom inee, fairly speaking. His nomination has been foisted upon the party, without the consent "of the majority "In convention assembled," or otherwise. Will Repub lican legislators feel obligated to support him In opposition to the actual choice of their constituents? Not likely. Suppose Goer gets a majority and the Legislature Is Democratic, what chance will ho stand for election? None. "Viewed from any light, the matter appears to be a big farce. NoIs.e and Nosc-Rubblnar. Baltimore Sun. Why does man express sentiments of friendship and hospitality through the medium of noise? Is the custom a sur vival of prehistoric days, a relic of bar barism? A friendly nation sends over a Prince of the blood royal. A squadron of our warships meets him at sea and at once proceeds to make the welkin ring with the thunder of artillery. Another na tion commissions some of Its leading men to bring us a message of cordial regard. No sooner are the visitors within eight of our shores than appreciation of the honor bestowed upon us is expressed in noise. Cannon roar and bugles blare and an ear splitting din voices the popular welcome. It Is the custom among some savage tribes to rub noses as an expression of friendship. Civilized people regard such practices as ridiculous . But. as a matter of common sense. Is nose-rubbing more rldlculouB than nolse-maklns as a method of expressing emotion? Each seems to be a very primitive way of welcoming the stranger within our gates. Old peo ple wonder why at Christmas or on the Fourth of July the youngsters celebrate vlth firecrackers and torpedoes. Isn't that custom quite as sensible as the adult's way of expressing hospitality with a series nininns? What is there In noise that makes It so f.isclnatlng to mankind? The Paalm. of the Old Soldier. Baltimore American. The blue is fading into gray, Just aa when sunset comes With bugle calls that die away And softly throbbing drums: The shadows reach across tho sky And hush the cares of day; The bugle call and drum beat die Tho blue fades Into gray. The gray Is blending Into blue A sunrise glad and fair. When in the richness of. the dew, Tho roses riot theTe, The bitterness of yesterday Is lost to me and you; The blue is fading Into gray The gray blnds Into blue. They're sleeping now the long, long sleep. The boys who wore the blue; Above the gray the grasses creep And both were good and true; And in the twilight of our life. The ending of tho way, Thero comes forgetfulness of strife The blue fades Into gray. Above each mound the lily glows. And humble daisies nod; The ruby gloryof the rose Sheds luster on tho sod; " The tears the tears they are the dew That greets the coming day. The gray Is blending Into blue The blue fades Into gray. THE WONDERFUL OMOTEPE. New Tork Times. The route through lAke Nicaragua passes dl rectlx under the shadow of Cmoter. a volcaho capable of doing for that region, without pre vious advertisement of intentions, all that Mount Pelee has done in Martinique. From the Sun. That Is not the worst of it. Omotepe Is what is known as a jumping volcano, the vulcanus saltans horribllls of Pliny the Younger. There Is conclusive historical evidence that early In the 15th century this vol cano was situated In Frycburg, Me. This fact was established by accyrate drawings of it sketched upon a stone hatchet hand ed down for generations In the tribe of Paugus, the celebrated Indian chief. As Is well known, Omotepe has two great horns springing from Its slopes, giving It from a distance the appearance of a gigantic aurochs. This peculiarity is faithfully sketched upon the Paugus hatchet. There Is no other horned volcano on the globe. But Omotepe was that very peak In Darlen upon which stout Cortes stood el let with all his men and rubbered at the Pacific. We pass over an unauthentlcated horned volcano In Ohio and come to the record of Omotepo's visit to the Island of Mauritius, which rests upon the high au thority of Petermann. This was In 1764. Whether th,ls is the volcano which pnee lay athwart the route of the Panama Can al Is not clearly established. Lieutenant Wyse refers vaguely to a very sudden and remarkable reduction In De Lesseps esti mates of the cost of excavation due to "a great natural change in the topography of the region." This Is too Indefinite to jus tify an Identification of Omotepe. But everybody knows, of course, that It was In 1SS7 that the volcano swooped ddwn upon the Island In Lake Nicaragua which bears Its own name, and has since re mained there. Omotepe has 13 craters, each one of which, when working on full time. Is ca pable of doing things that make the tre mendous exploits of Mount Pelee seem like the sputtering of cheap fireworks made for country consumption. All the canal commissions have reported that the Nicaragua Canal would be In no danger from Omotepe. This would be true If the mountain would stay put. But what can you do with a Jumping volcano? It might at any moment project Itself upon the summit of the Cordillera Range, destroy ing the upper levels and lock system, of the canal and annihilating Corlnto; or, on the other hand. It might take a trip to Greytown and block the Gulf entrance. The chapter upon volcanoes and earth quakes In the report of the Isthmian Canal Commission is reasonably full. The conclusion is that "such danger as exists from earthquakes Is essentially the same for both the Nicaragua and Panama routes, and that in neither case Is it suffi cient to prevent the construction of the canal." Of the danger from volcanoes the. report is silent. It Is a reasonable In ference that the commission did not con sider the perils from that source of suffi cient moment to be taken Into account, Lulled Into a false sense of security, the Senate committee has accordingly report ed adversely Senator Hoar's bill giving the President fullidiscretion to select the route of the canal and declares positively that the House bill providing for a canal across Nicaragua should be passed by the Seriate. . If the volcano arguments against the Nicaragua route were advanced by the enemies of all canals and every canal, or by persons having a speculative Interest In the choice of the Panama route, the calm indifference with which they are disregarded by the Senate committee would be Justified. -But these protests against incurring an awful and needless peril come from persons who are exceed ingly zealous and notoriously disinterest ed. From whatever source they come, the unsteady and revolting habits of Omo tepe arc of themselves sufficient to com pel the. committee to take serious. thought about the risks Into which they would, plunge the country In running the canal along the base of this migratory and ex plosive monster. Justice to the Philippine. Chicago Inter Ocean. "Porto Rico exhibits the splendid re sults of American civilization," said the Hon. Charles H. Grosveno'r on Wednes day, to the Ohio Republican convention. "We will repeat In the Philippines, on a larger scale, what we have accomplished 60 brilliantly In Porto Rico." By "we," Mr. Grosvenor ostensibly means the Republican party, acting through the Republican majority In Congress, Really, he means David B. Henderson, John Dalzell and Charles H. Grosvenor, the majority of the House committee on rules, who constitute the House machine and dictate legislation, as long as their fellow-members and the peo ple do not revolt against their domina tion. What gave Porto Rico free trade and produced the "splendid results" of which Mr. Grosvenor now boasts? Was It the Henderson - Grosvenor - Dalzell triumvi rate? Certainly not. Its alms were free rum and taxed bread. Only by a moral revolt of the people against this pro gramme were free trade and a measure of prosperity secured to Porto Rico. How did this same triumvirate plan to treat the Philippines? Worse than when they were Spanish territory. It aimed to erect a higher tariff barrier against the Philippines than when they were alien soil. But again tho people revolted, and, through the Senate, obtained a 25 per cent tariff concession. "Sptt words " runs the homely saying, "butter no parsnips." The people refused to be deceived by the men who sought to make Porto Rico foreign soil. They never can be satisfied with mere promises about what is to be done some time or other in the Philippines. What the people demand In our new possessions is not fair phrases, but Just deeds. Mr. Grosvenor will do welL to bear this fact In mind, and when he returns to Washington, to square his acts with bis speech. The Philippine Testimony. Indianapolis Journal. For every returned soldier from the Phil ippines that tells sensational stories re garding cruelties and outrages that he claims to have seen or heard while there, a hundred can be produced who will swear they never saw or heard of anything of the kind. Negative testimony, of course, docs not weigh much, but It tends to con firm the belief that the statements of the few fellows who are trying to create a eensation are "pipe stories." A Pretty Love Song By WhomT I love you; 'tis the simplest way The thing I feel to Ull; Yet If I told it all the day Tou'd never guess how well. Tou are my comfort and my light. My very life you seem; I think of you all day, all night, Tls but of you I dream. There's pleasure in the lightest word That you can speak to me; My soul Is like the Aeolian chord And vibrates still to thee. I never heard the love-song yet So thrilling, fond or true But In my own heart I have met Some kinder thought of you. I love the shadows on your face. The light upon your hair, I Jove to sit for hours and trace The passing changes there. I love to hear your voice's tone Although you should not say - A single word to dream upon ' ,When that had died away. O. you are kindly as the beam , That warms where'er It plays, And you are gentle as a dream Of happy future days! And you ar strong to do the right And. swift the wrong to flee. And If you were not half so bright, . Xou're" all tho world to met y NOTE AND COMMENT. The work of reconstruction will now be gin in South Africa. King Edward "will get his crown blocked up two or three sizes now. King Alfonso doesn't relish the prospect of being married non-sight, non-seen. Whit a lot of war correspondents have been put out of the'r jobs the- last two or three days I With a strike on one hand and President Roosevelt on the other, the beef Jtrust has reasdn to be nervous. Senator Hanna will find that the Presi dency Is not to be had on the same terms as a seat in the United States Senate. Americans are very numerous in Berlin this year, but then Berlincrs have been more than usually numerous in America. If scientific investigations on Mount Pelee are continued much longer, there will be a fine opening for young college professors in- this country. Just how sensitive Wall street Is was manifested on a recent morning when it became known that Russell Sage was un able to come down town. This Is so un usual that an uneasy feeling at once man ifested Itself, and could not be quieted until it was certainly known that the oc togenarian multi-millionaire was mer?ly suffering from a slight cold. Mr. Sage has only absented himself thus on one or two occasions since Norcross tried to blow him to pieces with a dynamite bomb. An ordinarily veracious chronicler tclll this story of a suit brought against tho Pennsylvania Railroad by a farmer whose cow was killed by a train: There was a long trial, with learned arguments or. both sides. The jury brought In this ver dict! "If the train had been run as it shoula have been ran; If the bell had been rung as It should have been rang; If the whistle had been blowed as It should have been blew both of which they did neither the cow would not have been Injured when she was killed." A recent vacancy In the Consular serv ice which attracted attention by the fact that there was not the usual rush of ap plicants to fill it reminds Secretary Hay of a story. There was a post in South America, he said, in the tropical region on the east coast, which was so unhcalth ful that it Is no small undertaking to get any Consul to stay there. At last a man was found who seemed to thrive on the climate and on the malaria. After a num ber of years' service, however, his less fortunate wife succumbed to the con ditions and died, and soon he resigned and came home. Several years passed by, when. one day the department received a letter from him, saying that he had mar ried again, and had about made up his mind that he would like to go back with his new wife to the old consulate. The late M. Xavier de Montepln, the French novelist, who died the other day in Paris, always referred to one of his early experiences with particular zest. On concluding a long .and elaborate tale of ad venture, he took It, full of hope, to a pub lisher, who promptly declined It on evn the rrost advantageous terms, to the writ er's poignant mortification. Twenty years afterward this Identical publisher be sought at his hands a sensational story one of those serials which were the delight of grlsettes offer ing any price within reason. "Well.' said De Montepln, "I will oblige you, but my terms must be somewhat heavy- I want 4000." After many protests it was paid. In telling the story De Montepln added: "The best of the business was that it was the very same story which he had previously rejected, and which I had In various directions endeavored in vain to dispose of." Bishop Ninde on "Higher Criticism.'' Chicago Record-Herald. The reception accorded the very sens ible utterances of Bishop Ninde by the alumni of the Garret Biblical Institute at the alumni reunion on Tuesday last Is one of the gratifying signs of an Increas ing tolerance toward the so-called "high er criticism" on tho part of a great ecclesiastical organization. In his address to the alumni the bishop declared that the attitude of the church toward scientific and historical research should be cordial and hospitable, and that the church would do well to grant the largest liberty In the Investigation of the Bible. Said tho bishop: We do well to grant the largest liberty In the Investigations of the Bible. Suppose wo do 'admit that Moses did not write the Penta teuch and that there were two Isaiahs, shall we at once throw up our hands and cry. "All is lost, our Christian faith is destroyed"? With all the changes In belief that have fol lowed the Investigations of the Scriptures tha foundations of Christianity will not be under mined. The fact that every utterance of Bishop Ninde In favor of the higher criticism was enthusiastically cheered by the 200 members of the alumni, all of whom are active clergymen, 13 a hopeful sign of the times In the religious world. The church should not give comfort to the assailants of Christianity by an Intolerant attitude toward investigation and research. The foundations of Christianity are laid deep er than the authorship of the Pentateuch. The "higher criticism" cannot disturb a faith that Is rooted deep In the human heart, that has demonstrated its power through centuries of history to Influence human conduct in such a way as to bring about the highest form of civilization, even though the "higher criticism" should strip Christianity of everything but the Sermon on the Mount, that would still supply the basis of the only standard of ethics upon which a decent, well-ordered society and government can exist. i PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRArHERS Among the Swift. "Does Billy Billions get much fun out of his automobile?" "I don't be lieve he does. I never hear of his being ar rested." Washington Star. Church I see that Texan has called his new oil well "The Senator." Wonder why ho gavo It that name? Gotham Because it is such a "spouter," I suppose. Yonkera Statesman. Mr. Pitt I understand that there Is a good deal of doctored milk on the market, Mr. Penn I suppose the water cure Is tho one principally used. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Sure Enough. Kwoter There's no doubt about that old saying about driving a horso to water. Kidder Yes. and although a. man may drive a pen. a pencil must be lead. Philadel phia Press. Cause for Suspicion. "Amy feels terribly about her new dress. She knows It Isn't a bit becoming." "What makes her think so?" "Why, several of her girl friends have t3ld her It looks perfectly sweet." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Observing Child. "Where does the electricity come from that lights oiir houses?" asked the teacher. "It come3 from the wall," answered the little girl who resided In an apartment house. "The Janitor goes and unbuttons it-" Chicago Tribune. Agent This edition of tho Bible Is the very latest. Housekeeper But surely you can't im prove on the Bible? Ascnt I refer especially to the "Family Register." Besides, a page each for births, deaths and marriages we give three pages for divorces. Philadelphia Record. Ignoring Precedence. Edmonla Mrs. Top notch Is what I call Impertinent. Eudonla In what way? Edmonla Why, she is not a Colonial Dame; but when she came to tho Colonial reception she had on a more elegant frock than any one of the Dames. Detroit Freq Press.