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THE CUBAN COMPACT.
In another column we print the so
called Piatt amendment, which,
through its Incorporation In the Cuban
constitution, in deference to American
insistence, defines the present formal
connection of the Cuban Government
with the United States. The signifi
cance of this agreement this compact
is best explained by its history. When,
after the authority of Spain in Cuba
had been extinguished, and after peace,
domestic order, a reformed civil system,
industry and sanitation had been es
tablished, the islanders under American
initiative set about creating a local and
independent government. A constitu
tional convention, having been elected
by the island people and assembled at
Havana, found it difficult to adjust sat
isfactorily the relations of the projected
government with the United. States.
This country had fought the fight of
the Island, redeemed it from tyranny,
organized it to an extent in line with,
modern ideas, and in so doing had in
the face of the world taken upon itself
responsibility for Its good conduct and
general welfare. Standing thus pledged,
it was only fair in truth it was plainly
necessary that Cuba should enter into
guarantees with the United States safe
guarding the conditions which the lat
ter power had expended its money and
its blood to establish.
This necessity was not entirely an
agreeable one to the Cuban constitution-makers,
who would have liked, if
it had been possible, to cast off all
connectlonand obligations to the United
States. As the work of formulating the
'island constitution progressed, as the
.proposals of radical Cubans became
less and less respectful of the American
arelatlonhip, it became necessary that
eome definite assertion of American ex
pectation should be 'put forth; and In
response to this necessity the Senate
committee on relations with Cuba, of
Which Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, is
chairman, reported resolutions in the
iform of an amendment to a pending
Cuban measure defining the terms upon
which the United States would with
draw its forces and its authority from
the island. These resolutions, known as
ithe Piatt amendment, passed b'oth the
(Senate and the House of Representa
tives, and were in due order submitted
to the Cuban constitutional convention,
In which they were received with mani
fest displeasure, and after a full and
jprotracted discussion, were rejected by.
b. heavy vote. The result was to create
something like a deadlock, for, after
declaring its mind, the American Con
gress hg.d adjourned for the Summer.
While matters were in this posture
o. committee of the Cuban convention
paid a personal visit to the Government
iat Washington for the purpose of com
Sng, if possible, through personal conT
Serence, to some basis of settlement!
President McKinley, who was just
about starting on a visit to the Paclfio
States, delayed his plans somewhat to
give these envoys respectful hearing,
land he and his Secretary cf War, Mr.
iRoot, had frequent and extended talks
with the visitors. No official report of
these conferences has ever been given
to the public, but at their conclusion
the visitors returned home and to their
Beats in the convention, where, after
several closed sessions, the ,Platt
amendment was adopted by a bare ma
jority of one vote. It is, therefore, part
of the Cuban constitution.
Whoever will read this compact at
tentively will see that at all vital points
it limits the Independence of Cuba and
puts that island under bonds to the
United States. It practically abdicates
to the United States the whole foreign
relations of the island government; It
gives to the United States the right of
veto upon Its financial policy whenever
it shall pass beyond purely domestic
concerns; Jt gives the United States the
right of intervention for the mainte
nance of social order, for the protection
of Cuban commerce, for the mainte
nance of sanitation, and practically
since the terms of the arrangement are
wide for any purpose which this coun
try may determine to be for the welfare
of Cuba. And, as if to sum up all
minor rights In one supreme right, It
authorizes the United States specifically
to employ military force in the carry
ing out of this compact. In other
words, the Cuban convention, In accept
ing the Piatt amendment, accepted the
practical sovereignty of the United
States at every essential point In
everything but name. Pretensions of
Independence are ridiculous when the
fight of review, of regulation, of armed
Interference and control belongs to one
party to the compact and the other
party is bound to the duty of obedience.
"When one has to mind t'other's or
ders," says Dick Deadeye, "equality's
out o' the question."
There Is a secret or half secret chap
ter ia the histoyy above referred to
which goes far to explain" the present
irritated attitude of the Cuban Congress
toward the United States with the
charge more or less openly made that
we have not kept faith with Cuba. In
the conferences held by President Mc
Kinley and Secretary Root with the
visiting committee of the Cuban Con
gress, in May of last year, some assur
ances were given which changed the
attitude of the envoys and through
them of a majority of the Cuban con
stitutional convention. It has never been
so stated officially, but it Is, we think,
a fact beyond question that the visitors
were assured that If the Cuban con
vention would accept the Piatt amend
ment and incorporate It in the island
constitution, the American Administra
tion would exercise Its Influence with
Congress to secure tariff concessions
greatly to the advantage of the island.
It is, indeed, probable that this pledge
either given personally by President
McKinley or directly authorized by
him, included the specific reductions in
the sugar schedules which were embod
ied in Administrative suggestions last
Winter. These presumptions explain
the determined attitude of President
Roosevelt In the matter of the Cuban
reciprocity treaty, for In this as In other
matters he bolds the country bound in
honor by the engagements of McKinley.
WHY SHOULD THIS DEt
In a recent number of the National
Provlsloner is an article on "Slaughter
ing and Meat-Packing" by Harry C.
McCarty, of the livestock division of the
United States Census Office, in which
this statement appears:
In the extreme West. San Francisco gained
GS.8 per cent In production, between 1600 and
1900, while Portland, Or., fell off 10.8 per
cent In the cane period
It is useless to multiply words to
point out the force of this statement.
There stands the unyielding statistical
fact that Portland fell back one-sixth
in its meat-packing in the decade be
tween 1890 and 1900. And this in the
face of the undeniable fact that the
livestock production In the field of
which Portland, is the natural center
greatly increased in that period; and in
the face of the further fact that Port
land can buy and does buy livestock
cheaper than any other market on the
Pacific Coast
Hogs are the basis of the packing
house industry. Though transporta
tion advantages are distinctly with
Portland, but two-fifths of the hogs of
the district Immediately tributary to
this city come here to market. And of
those two-fifths only about 25 per cent
are packed in Portland, the remainder
going chiefly to Puget Sound.
Census figures for the year 1900 show
that 27,255 hogs were received In Port
land. This showing was surely small
enough for a city of this size so favor
ably situated small enough, If every
animal had been slaughtered and con
sumed here. But the figures show that
of the 27,255 hogs received, 20,015 were
shipped out again, leaving but a paltry
7240 as the measure and extent of
Portland's meat-packing business for
that year. And that same year 20,000
hogs were shipped from the Willam
ette Valley to market In San Francisco
without touching Portland, while we
were importing pork products from
Eastern packing-houses almost by the
trainload. San Francisco received 52,
879 hogs, and packed every one of
them.
, As has been shown repeatedly, Port
land has advantages for a large meat
packing industry not possessed by any
other city on the Pacific Coast. San
Francisco and Puget Sound buy, in this
market because of its advantages.
Packers here pay les3 than the packers
in the Eastern centers for their hogs.
But by a curious combination of trade
circumstances, in which local packers
are by no means a passive factor, hogs
from the Columbia Basin are shipped to
Kansas City and Omaha and their
cured products are returned to be dis
tributed to the consumers from Port
land jobbing-houses.
This is an unnatural state of affairs.
No country can prosper under such an
economic policy. It is fatal to indus
trial life. Two transcontinental freight
rates stand between Portland packing
houses and their Eastern competitors,
besides an advantage of abput 50 cents
per hog In the local custom of weigh
ing irom the car instead of after feed
ing the animal In the yard. There is
every assurance that the supply will be
ample for any packing establishment
of reasonable proportions. The need of
Portland in this relation is more packing-houses
and larger stockyards', and
there should be no cessation of agita
tion until they are secured. The oppor
tunity is here for establishing as great
a packing Industry as Kansas City has,
an industry measuring about $87,000,000
a year, beside which the entire wheat
industry of the Columbia Basin is smalL
Adequate packing-houses and stock
yards will do the business and make
money for all concerned.
A GOOD SIGN PIIOJI TUB SOUTH.
Judge Campbell, of the County Court
of Amherst County, Va., recently sum
moned before him to answer a charge
of contempt a venerable preacher
named Crawford, who had published in
a newspaper an article that the Judge
regarded as reflecting upon his court
The clergyman was discharged be
cause the Judge discovered that con
tempt proceedings could not be upheld.
Then Judge Campbell adjourned his
court and publicly horsewhipped ttte
venerable preacher. The Rev. Mr.
Crawford appealed to the court for jus
tice against this gross outrage, but the
Amherst County jury acquitted the
ruffianly Judge, in face of the fact that
he openly confessed he had committed
a breach of the peace. When the ver
dict of not guilty was announced, the
crowd cheered and the women shed
tears of joyous emotion. The Judge's
counsel argued that he had been Justi
fied in thrashing "this Yankee preacher."
It Is difficult to conceive of a more
frightful outrage from the legal or
moral point of view than that commit
ted by Judge Campbell. To horsewhip
an old man whom he was unable to
hold on a legal charge of contempt of
court was to bring himself Into con
tempt, and to accept as a legal vindica
tion a travesty of justice, which stood
for law insulted by Judge, jury and
people, was utterly disgraceful to a
man occupying a highly responsible po
sition of judicial responsibility. To the
honor of the best public opinion of Vir
ginia, it should be said that the lead
ing Richmond papers denounce the ac
tion of Judge Campbell as a travesty
on justice, and call upon the Legislature
to remove him from the bench with
out delay. No wonder there are lynch
ings in a state which furnishes such
examples of lawlessness on the bench as
that found In Judge Campbell. And yet
this man was thought fit to be a mem
ber of the recent Virginia Constitutional
Convention.
We notice with pleasure that the lead
ing newspapers of Richmond, of Co
lumbia, S. C; of Charleston, of Savan
nah and Atlanta, of Memphis and
Louisville, are prompt to denounce acts
of disorder and lawlessness among the
people, and never whitewash the gross
conduct of such ruffians on the bench
as Judge Campbell.
WHAT TO READ.
The exclusion of Mark Twain's
"Huckleberry Finn" from the Denver
Public Library on the ground that it is
Immoral and sacrilegious probably
drew its inspiration from the example
of a few feminine-minded persons in
Boston who a few years ago 'prepared
an Index expurgatorius for the Boston
Public Library which was laughed at
far and wide. These engineers of the
expurgation of temptation are repre
sented by the Boston clergyman who
placed on the market a new version of
Burns' "Auld Lang Syne" with the ex
planation that he had done the work
In the interest of temperance. There
was a protest filed a few years ago
against Longfellow's "Building of the
Ship," on the ground that there were
lines In It which were calculated to
start a blush on the cheek of Innocence.
God help such "Innocence"; Its "cheek,"
we suspect, would be found exceeding
ly hard.
An exceedingly stupid and sancti
monious clergyman, the Rev. Thomas
Bowdler, once published an edition of
Gibbon's "Rome," from which the fa
mous chapters concerning early Chris
tianity were expunged. Virtue and
morality do not turn, when we come to
deal with men and women, upon read
ing or not reading this or that. The
Oregonlan has more than once said that
the man or woman who can't be trusted
with the world's literature from the Bi
ble and Homer down to Burns until it
has all been expurgated Is a creature who
is not worth saving, for he has already
parted with his salvation. If a man or
woman old enough to read the world's
literature cannot be trusted to read It
without expurgation, they will certainly
need all human society completely ex
purgated of all sin before they can be
have themselves, and this Is Impossible.
No person who is not utterly desti
tute of all sense of humor will pretend
that Mark Twain's masterpiece belongs
to the class of books that are flat stale,
obscene by intent, insipid and generally
unprofitable; it has endured the test of
time, and beloriga to the highest class
of original American humor. If an in
dictment can be found against it as
"Immoral and sacrilegious," an equally
good indictment, we think, could be
maintained against two-thirds of the
most celebrated fiction and poetry of
modern literature, meaning by that
that great humorists sketch both high
life and low life, delineate both
good and evil, and, of course, make
their characters speak fair or foul, as
the case may be. It Is' impossible to
conceive of a man of fouler mind or
more cold-blooded obscenity of speech
than Iago, or of a more sacrilegious
spirit than Richard in, but we do not
on this account expurgate Shakespeare.
We do not expurgate Cervantes, or
Montaigne, or Pope, or Fielding, or
Sterne, or Burns, or Byron, or Balzac.
Wo do not expurgate the world's lit
erature, ancient or modern, because the
world, outside of -feminine-minded per
sons of both sexes, knows that men
and women are not educated to virtue
by keeping them in Ignorance of the
existence of vice; it is the knowledge
of both good and evil; the choice be
tween good and evil, between right and
wrong, that makes men and women
that stand for conquest We cannot
expurgato the world of all vice and
temptation, and since we cannot, how
absurd is the whole philosophy of edu
cation which expects anything but a
stagnant, mummified civilization could
bo created out of men and women
whosa Bense of decency or common
sense is so lightly rooted that they can
not bo trusted to read the world's liter
ature until it has been expurgated,
deodorized and fumigated, or to walk
its streets until all the world's life has
been expurgated of all its evils, its
temptations and Its vice!
A healthy mind does not need an ex
purgated literature to keep it clean, and
a morbidly weak or vicious mind will
not extract strength or wisdom from
feeding on water gruel. For the man
agers of a public library to exclude
a book from its shelves that the high
est public opinion In both America and
England has read with admiration and
delight is a bit of Puritanic self-sufficiency
and arrogance. What will these
femlnlne-mlnded folk do with Bret
Harte, with Dickens, with Thackeray,
with Kipling, with Charles Reade, with
Dumas, with Stevenson? All of these
great writers make their various char
acters talk the speech that belongs to
the part, even as Shakespeare makes
Iago a monster of obscene cynicism and
Falstaff a foul-mouthed scoundrel. A
bopk whose humor has won for it a
permanent place m the world's litera
ture Is a book that It was utter folly
to exclude from a public library. It
was folly because thousands thajt never
read It before will be sure to read it
now, and It was an abuse of the author
ity vested In the managers of the li
brary to impose their private judgment
upon the grown-up public of a large
city.
Of course, nobody expects that "im
mature children will be treated like
mature men and women, but mature
men and women havea right to expect
that books which. 'have for years been
treated as holding a high place In
American humorous literature shall not
be excluded in" obedience to the per
sonal taste and prejudice of a library
committee, who may or may not know
anything in particular. What shall a
man or a woman read? is a question
they are as sure to decide for them
selves as what they shall eat or drink
or wear, and the only effect of arbitrar
ily and capriciously excluding a book
of high quality is to make everybody
read it outside the library.
AN' IN C O M PLETE FORMULA.
Magistrate Furlong, a Justice of the
Peace of Brooklyn, recently gave a
young woman whose husband had de
serted her early In their marital experi
ence, but who. through much personal
persuasion, had been Induced to return
to her again, the fallowing bit of coun
sel on the side, before dismissing the
case:
Keep your husband Jealous. Make him Jeal
ous and you will be happy. It he Is Jealous
you will never need to enter court again to
sue him for abandonment. The Jealous hus
band Is kind; the Jealous husband is faithful;
the Jealous husband Is loving. Keep your
husband Jealous.
There Is something in the annals of
almost every community that Impeaches
this advice for soundness. It may be
good as far as It goes, but It is conspic
uous for its neglect to tell the young
woman how to make and keep her hus
band Jealous and at the came time ob
serve the proprieties which make a
woman's life worth the living In any
decent community. Justices' Courts
have been the vehicles through which
too many scandals based upon the jeal
ousy of husbands have been aired to
make this, advice come fitly from one
of them. Over against the statement
that "a Jealous hueband-ls a kind hus
band" stands the record of many a
domestic boutf from vulgar halrpulllng
up to pistol practice with fatal effect
This Is, perhaps, due to the fact that
the principle upon which Justice Fur
long's advice. Is based is not sufflclently
comprehenslve to cover j the whole
theme. In making & husband Jealous
the enthusiast can easily go too far for
her own personal safety, not to men
tion her reputation for prudence and
faithfulness. The game Is one which
only the wisest of women can safely
attempt to play, and it may be added
that these will scorn to take a hand
In it, while, unfortunately. It Is Irresist
ibly attractive to the most foolish. The
formula of Justice Furlong is Incom
plete. Until some other philosopher
supplies its glaring deficiency, it may
be assumed that the secret of domestic
bliss will remain unsolved and the. crim
inal calendar still labor underUts heav
iest burden.
According to figures compiled by the
Chicago" Livestock Journal, there was
a decrease of 81,555,795 pounds of beef,
live weight, marketed In July, 1902, as
compared with July, 1901. The figures
cover the sales In the five large mar
kets, viz.: Chicago, Kansas City,
Omaha. St. Louis and St Joseph, the
decrease in Chicago being exceptionally
heavy. It Is further stated that a total
of 193,000 cattle, 1,281,000 sheep and 292,
000 hogs less than the number In the
corresponding period of 1901 were mar
keted at these points in the first seven
months of 1902. It devolves upon such
vegetarians as are good at figures and
strong in the belief that meat will
eventually be banished from .the bill
of fare of civilized peoples to show how
long, at this rate of decrease, It will
take to put the meat trust out of busi
ness and wipe out the livestock Indus
try. The whole course of the Cuban ad
ministration Iii respect of foreign af
fairs has been in recognition of the
practical sovereignty of the United
States over Cuba by virtue of the Piatt
amendment. One of President Palma's
first declarations when he took the
reins of authority In hand was
that under the terms of ife compact
with the United States Cuba needed
no army, no tfavy and no diplomatic
corps. A Minister to the United States
and a business agent in Spain was all,
he said, that the Island needed In the
way of foreign representation. And up
to this time his course has been in ac
cord "with this declaration. Although
It has been a bitter pill for the Cuban
office-seekers and they are legion he
has not encumbered the administration
nor burdened the public purse with
groups of functionaries upon presump
tions of an assertive "Independence."
Professor C. W. M. Black, the quiet,
scholarly recluse of. the faculty of the
University of Oregon, who died a few
days ago while on the way to Colorado
for the benefit of his heath, was an
earnest, studious young man, who ap
pears to have taken life all too serlously
to compass many years of It A con
sumptive, he shut himself up with his
books while his lungs were demanding
fresh air and opportunity for expansion,
and hi? strength was falling from the
Inroads of disease and lack of exercise.
There is but one penalty for a mistake
of this kind, and this Professor Black
paid before thirty years of a possible
ninety bad been told. The pity of his
death Is in the canceled opportunity,
th'e arrested usefulness and develop
ment that it chronlclea
From the display made In the Munici
pal Court recently by two 'little girls
as experts In a halrpulllng and fisticuff
performance, it would appear that the
maternal slipper has not been properly
wielded in at. least two Alblrfa house
holds In times past, while from the
language quoted as an accompaniment
to the fight -It may be assumed that
the juvenile vocabulary thereabouts
needs careful pruning. Next to airing
family troubles In public places, the re
cital of neighborhood squabbles In
court Is the most disgraceful and tiresome-
proceeding that can bo indulged.
When mothers cannot control girls of
8 and! 12 years. It Is clear that domestic
discipline Is sadly out of tune.
I. Allan Macrum, who died at his
homo near Forest Grove Wednesday,
was a man who, as educator, lawyer,
business man and public-spirited citi
zen, left the stamp of his endeavor upon
the community of which, for nearly a
third of a century, he was a factor
Though scarcely beyond the prime of
his years, the Infirmities of life had
pressed upon him heavily for eome
months, making him -old before his
time. In the premature cessation of his
activities the public has sustained' a
loss that will be felt In many ways.
He will be carried to his grave today,
leaving a record of' good citizenship
behind him.
The Piatt amendment, by which the
relations of the United States and Cuba
are defined, is a much more binding
contract by far than that which at
tached the Transvaal to England prior
to the late war and In the enforcement
of which that war was fought Any
lfgal authority will say, we think, that
acceptance of such terms as those In
volved in the Piatt amendment Is vir
tual acknowledgment of the eoverelgnty
of the power by which tho agreement
Is enforced.
Mr. Wyndham, the Chief Secretary
for Ireland, In a recent debate included
T. W. Russell among the "political des
peradoes" "those unworthy and des
perate persons whose programme of
proscription and fear has paralyzed
every nerve of Irish national life." Mr.
Russell responded by saying that Mr.
Wyndham "long ago mortgaged his
soul to the landlords, who are now
foreclosing their Hen."
There are gratifying signs of vitality
in the Coos Bay railroad project though
the current speculation about its back
ing should be taken with salt But the
manager who declares that It Is none-
era arc does not commend himself either
as a man of sound discretion, of good
temper, or of gracious diplomacy.
THE PLATt AMENDMENT.
The full text of this resolution, -which,,
through its incorporation in the Cuban
constitution, has become the compact be
tween the United States and Cubat is as
follows:
Tho following resolution was reported to the
United States Senate by the committee on re
lations, with Cuba- on February 23. It was
passed by the Senate February 27. and by tho
House March 1:
That In the fulflllment of the declaration
contained In the Joint resolution approved
April 20. 1803. entitled. "For the Recognition
ot the Independence of the People of Cuba,"
demanding that the Government of Spain re
linquish Its authority and government In the
Island of Cuba, and withdraw Its land and
naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters,
and directing the President ot tho. "United
States to use land and naval forces of the
United States to carry theso resolutions Into
effoet. the President Is hereby authorized to
leave the government and control of the Island
of Cuba to Its people as soon as a government
shall have been established In said Island unr
der a constitution which, either as a part
thereof or In any ordinance appended thereto,
shall define the future relations of the United
States with Cuba substantially as .follows:
First That the Government of Cuba shall
never enter Into any treaty or other compact
with any foreign power or powers which will
Impair or tend to impair tho Independence of
Cuba, nor In any manner authorize or permit
any foreign power or powers to obtain, by
colonization, or for military or naval pur
poses, or otherwise, lodging In or control over
any portion of said Island.
Second That said government shall not as
sume or contract any public debt to pay the
Interest upon which and to mako reasonable
sinking fund for the ultimate discharge ot
which the ordinary revenues of the island,
after defraying the current expenses of the
government, shall be Inadequate.
Third That the Government of Cuba con
sents that the United States may exercise the
right to intervene for the preservation of
Cuban Independence, the maintenance of a
government adequate for the protection ot life,
property, and Individual liberty, and for dis
charging the obligations with respect to Cuba
imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United
States, now to bo assumed and undertaken
by the Government of Cuba.
Fourth That all acts qt the United States in
Cuba, during Its military occupancy thereof
are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights
acquired thereunder shall be maintained and
protected.
Fifth That the Government ot Cuba will
execute, and as fnr as necessary extend, the
plans already devised, or other plans to be
mutually agreed upon, for the sanitation ot
the cities of the island, to the end that a re
currence bf epidemic and infectious diseases
may be prevented, thereby assuring protection
to the peopla and commerce of Cuba, as well
as to the commerce of tho Southern portions of
the United States and the people residing
therein.
Sixth That the' Isle of Pines shall be omit
ted from tho proposed constitutional boun
daries of Cuba, and the title thereto left to
future adjustment by treaty.
Seventh That to enablo the United States to
maintain the Independence ot Cuba and to
protect tho people thereof, as well as for Its
pwn defense, the Government of Cuba will
sell or lease to the United States lands neces
sary for coaling or naval stations -at certain
specified points, to be agreed upon with the
President of the United States.
Eighth That by way of further assurance,
the Government of Cuba will embody the fore
going provisions In a permanent treaty with
tho United States.
THE OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE-
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Rev. Dr. Frank M. Bristod, one of
the most eloquent ministers of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, formerly of Chi
cago and Evansym, and now of Wash
ington, D. C, haa recently been paying
a visit to his boyhood home in Kankakee,
this state.
Strange as it may appear, one of the
first things the eminent divine did after
appearing among the scenes and the
friends of his childhood for the first time
In many years waa to go to the country
to find the old swimming hole of his
boyhood Joys.
He found it "out yonder toward Big
Rock," but it is not related whether ho
plunged In, as he was wont to do before)
the thought of becoming a famous
preacher ever entered his mind. Probably
tha most he did was to look contem
platively into the waters of the pool,
no longer muddied by the splashlngs of
sun-burned legs and arms, no longer
echoing back the shouts of careless boys,
but quiet placid, and forlorn and let
his imagination follow tho lead of the
poet who sings:
We have bathed in the warm, clear waters
where the Indian healed his pain;
Wo have plunged In glee to the wave-tossed
sea, and have dived In the salty main;
But memory ever takes us back, with longing
In our soul.
To Jump once more as In days of yore In our
boyhood's swimming hole!
And aa the eminent pastor stood on the
brink of the pool from which in the glad
past he had turned handsprings, he must
have recalled how
Tho big boys dived from the trestle, soma ten
feet high or more.
While the young ones dropped, feet first, or
hopped from the old springboard on s"hora;
And. oh, the thrill of that moment when our
first high dive was made
From the trestle's height. In the envious sight
of the others who wero afraid!
How well we had noted the danger the spot
where the barbed wlro lay;
The glass-strewn place, and the Jagged faco of
the rock where the big crabs stay;
Over there Is the sunken log: and here's where
tho bloodsucker lies;
On the other bank, where the weeds grow
rank, were the snakes and stinging files.
The Rev. Frank Bristol has been In
closo combat with the world for many
years, and there have been monthB, may
be years, when nil recollections of his
boyhood days have been crowded out by
present tisks, trials and responsibilities,
but ho would not be an American man
with an American boyhood behind him
If he did not cherish deep down in his
memory, through the heat of the battle,
a picture of the spot where the happiest
hours of his early years were spent.
The August Dividend.
NewYork Timea
Tho interest and dlvtdentl disbursements
scheduled for August represent the Con
siderable sun of $61,042,822. For the eight
months from January to August Inclusive
the division of earnings in interest and
dividends represents $629,416,214. The larg
est disbursements for tho present year
wero those of July, J129.462.aS3. August
Is an "oft" month. In a aenae, whereas
January, April, July and October aro
those In which the regular quarterly divi
dend and interest payment are commonly
made. Comparing the amount scheduled
for disbursement this month with that of
August 1901. we find that it shows an In
crease of more than $3,600,000.
These figures show very clearly the
wonderful prosperity of the country. Its
principal, and perhaps only, menace is
found In the increasing prevalence of la
bor disturbances In lines affecting the
supplies of raw materials for many Im
portant Industries. Under ordinary con
ditions this would lndlcato the beginning
of reaction, and give those Inclined to
base prophecies of tho future upon the
leESons of past experiences -warrant for
the prediction that wo have passed tho
climax of the groat revival and entered
.upon the period of contraction -which
might be expected to end In general de
pression, on the theory that action and
reaction aro equal. A more plausible ex
planation of the situation is that organ
ized labor has lost Its head, and finding
Itself confronted with new and formida
ble forces as the result of consolidation
13 simply plunging, each Important unit
of the labor movement hoping by extra
efforts to conquer recognition and to
avert the disaster "which befell the Amal
gamated Association ot Iron, Steel and
Tinplate Workers and -which now threat
ens the United Mine Workers, There was
never a time in the industrial history of
tho United States when labor was as well
paid aa now or had as few real griev
ances to be righted by recourse to
strikes.
ALEXANDRA OF ENGLAND.
Correspondence New York Tribune.
Alexandra ot England Has always held
her own place. In the regard o tho British
public, a placo net Infringed upon by any
other person whomsoever. From the day
when, a girl of 19, in her quaint little,
old-fashioned poplin frock and shawl,
mauve because of the English mourning
for the Prince Consort she landed at
Gravesend as their future Queen, the
English people havo always loved Alex
andra. That gravo historian, Justin Mc
Carthy, says of her: "On a Certain day
In March, 1863, I stood on a platform in
Trafalgar Square, and saw a bright, beau
tiful young face, smiling and bending to
a crowd on either side, and I, like every-
body else, was literally stricken with
admiration of the beauty, the sweetnees
and the grace of the Princess Alexandra
of Denmark. In truth, I am not in gen
eral an enthusiast about Princes or
Princesses; I do not belleva that lhe
King's face usually gives grace. In this
Instance the beauty of the Princess Alex
andra had been so noisily trumpeted that
one's natural instinct was to feel dis
appointed, and to say so, when the Prin
cess herself came In sight But it was
impossible to feel disappointment or any
thing but admiration at the sight of that
bright fair face, so transparent In the
clearness of" Its complexion, so delicate
and refined in its outlines, so sweet and
gracious In its expression. I think some
thing like the old-fashioned chlvalric,
chimerical feeling of personal loyalty
mtiat have flamed up for a moment in the
hearts of many men, who, perhaps, wouH
have been ashamed to confess that their
first experience of such an emotion waa
due to the passing glimpse of the face of
a pretty, tremulous girl."
For years Alexandra has been the act
ing Queen of England In all social func
tions. It was she who held many of the
drawing-rooms. It -was she who stood at
the head of English society. Few of all
those Americans presented at court for
years past ever saw Victoria. It
was Alexandra whose hand they kissed.
Alexandra has laid cornerstones, dedi
cated orphan asylums and presented di
plomas, year after year. In her patient
hard-working way. Some one counted up.
the other day and found that since she
came to England she has been instru
mental In raising, or causing to be raised.
$25O,000.0C&) for charity. .She has always
cared most for children's charities. The
little folk have a warm spot In Her
Majesty's heart and orphan asylums and
children's hospitals have been her sper
clal core.
The new Queen has the .kindest of
hearts. Ono December afternoon, pars
ing through a hall of Marlborough House,
sho noticed a tlred-looklng young girl,
and paused to talk with her. She found
that it was' a little seamstress, who sup
ported an Invalid mother, and had come
to deliver some children's garments' made
for the royal household. Talking on, the
Princess tfound out the wish of the sew
ing girl's "heart to buy a sewing machine.
On Christmas Day the machine waa sent
her, "a Christmas gift from Alexandra."
It was after the death of the Dukeo
Clarence, "Eddy," her firstborn, that she
met an old woman In the lane near her
country home, burdened with a load
which she carried on her back. Again
the great lady stopped to talk, and found
that the old woman's son used to carry
the pack, but now he was dead. "I never
carried it when Jack was here," said the
carrier -woman. The Princess of Wales
turned away, the hot tears in her eyes,
and the next day sent a donkey and cart
to Jack's mother.
Women, it is said, owe to Queen Alex
andra two things which have become an
Integral part of the feminine wardrobe
the tailor-made gown and tho high collar.
The Queen has a long neck, whence the
high collar. As for the tailor-made frock.
It was exactly In line with the severe,
well-groomed elegance -which the Queen
likes.
Alexandra's" proficiency at needlework
is well known. Not only can she trim a
hat and turn the heel of a stocking, but
she can handle the loom and the spinning
wheel. This is not strange in a Danish
woman, for the loom has never gone out
of Denmark, and there today in art stores
In New York beautiful pieces of fancy
wdrk and woven fabrics the handiwork ot
Danish women. Her housewifery is also
notable, and Sandrlngham has always
been tho model of an English country
home. In her model dairy, with its blue
tllea from India, and Its silver milk pans
on marblo shelves, the Queen used to Ilka
to make butter when her daughters were
girls. She has always been fond of ani
mals, especially dogs, and her kennels
are well known In the world of bench
shows.
Emigrating to Avoid Taxation.
Christianla Farmand.
National and municipal expenditure In
Norway has grown at such a pace that
already over 30 per cent of all private In
comes Is earmarked for the tax-gatherer.
No wonder emigration shos. such alarm
ing Increases, and unless retrenchment
takes the place of the present ruinous
policy, there will soon be no population In
the country to tax.
PERSONS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT.
Madame Janauschek. the actress. Is very 111
at Saratoga, tho result of a second stroke of
paralysis, which has affected her entire left
Bldo.
Atlanta has Ms third dally newspaper, the
News, the first Issue of which appeared last
Monday. Its editor-in-chief Is John Temple
Graves.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and his family are
understood to contemplate going to India for
the great coronation durbar at the beginning'
of next year.
Miss Grace E. Berry, of Worcester, Mass.;
has been elected dean of the women's division
ot Colby College In place of Miss Grace E.
Mathews, who retired at the close of the last
college year. Miss Berry was, graduated from
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.,
la 1803; taught In Western College, Oxford,
O., from 1603 to 1807; Btudled at Mount Hol
yoke for the degree of master ot arts In 1S0S-0,
and has since taught at Mount Holyoko In
the department of physics.
The late George von Siemens was often ab-'
Bent-minded. Ho used to carry a pouch In
which he kept cigars, and sometimes small
articles. One dar, while traveling In an ex
press train, he opened tho window and turned
the pouch inside out to get rid ot the frag
ments ot cigars, having forgotten that ho had
In the morning put In a handful of gold pieces.
The train was at that moment passing a small
station, and Instead of lamenting his loss or
resolving to try to recover tho gold, he re
marked to his companion: "How the station
master will rejoice!"
An Instance of King Edward's memory for
faces Is going the rounds of tho English press.
At the tlmo of the operation upon the King a
nurso who had been present to assist left the
room on his recovering consciousness, but no:
before the King had caught sight of her face.
Directly afterwards ho asked one of tho phy
slctans who she was, for he had" seen her
somewhere. The doctor admitted that this
was so. for, but a short while before, the
King had presented the same nurse with a
medal for her work In South Africa. The
King asked that she be brought In. and
shook hands with hr. saying: "I have proved
for myself how well you deserved that medaL"
Never the Time and the Place.
Bobert Browning.
Kever the time and the place
And the loved one all togetherl
This path how soft to pace!
This May what magic weathcrl
Where Is the loved one's face?
In a dream that loved one's face meets mine.
But the house is narrow, the place is bleak
Where, outside, rain and wind combine
With a furtive ear. If I strive to speak.
Wlth a hostile eye at my flushing cheek,
With a malice that marks each word, each sign
O enemy sly and serpentine,
Uncoil tbee from the waking man!
Do I hold the Past
Thus firm and fast
Yet doubt If tho Future hold I can?
This path so eoft to pace shall lead
Thro' the magic of May to herself Indeed!
Or narrow it needs the house must be,
Outsldeare th storms and strangers: we
Oh. close, safe, warm sleep I and she,
1 and sat!
NOTE AND COMMENT.
No man who used the hammer ever
escaped it
Why not build a monument to Tracy
-with the reward?
Colombians need men for war. Their
armies at present consist only of gen
erals. Old Boston is threatened -with a lobster
famine. Its 'present supply of lobsters is
not good to eat
The only reason we believe tho C003
Bay Railroad Is surely a go is that no
body has yet said so.
Judge Williams promised his opponents
he would be the liveliest kind of a'Mayor.
He is keeping his promise.
We never see the picture of a candi
date for Carnival Queen but we wonder
if she really looks that way.
Even If a man does advocate his own
fair site, the others may actually have1
the disadvantages he points out
The man who proposed an extra session
of the Oregon Legislature may be alive,
but he is certainly dead to the world.
Democrats complain that tho cost bf
living advances, but the Nation has had
enough of their attempt to get the cost
of living lower.
If some people haven't any brains these
days. It Is not because there is a lack of
brain foods, but because they haven't
any brains to feed.
Don't be in a hurry nor a flurry nor a
worry about those oil tanks. Fire, of
course, will bo considerate enough to hold
off until they are moved away.
Bryan manages to keep calmly out of
his own prosperity, silver or no silver,
trusts or no trusts. Imperialism or no Im
perialism, poor man or no poor man.
Growth of chic pride in Portland, and
growth of a sense of Individual respons
ibility on the part of citizens are really
noticeable. And still there Is room for
improvement
A bunch of tho so-called republics of
"South America are behaving In their
usual manner. Each of them contains
too many statesmen for tho repose of
any government
Byran's third denial that ho Is a can
didate probably means no more than the
other two. But perhaps heretofore he
has not been a candidate for tho Presi
dencyonly for defeat.
The Alaska steamship line project has
been turned over to a committee for fur
ther consideration. Now, if that com
mittee will only turn It over to another
committee, and that other committee will
do the same "stunts," perhaps we shall
stand our usual chance of getting the
line.
It is legal for a man to bring prairie
chickens from Wasco into Multnomah
County at thl3 time of year, Inside of
him, but not outside. Mr. Burrell's mis
take was that he didn't eat the birds be
fore he started home. The logic of tho
law may be clear, but better spectacles
than ours are needed to see It.
The increasing seriousness of the re
ports from Venezuela Indicate that the
revolution is not so dangerous as was
supposed. We had no Idea President
Castro was up against It so good and
hard. Now we shall have a perfectly
safe, easy, healthful revolution; one of
the old kind a fight to the finish.
Before you resist the occupation tax.
be sure you aro not a chronic kicker.
There is Buch a thing as paying more not
to pay a tax than to pay a tax. Taxation
without representation Is tyranny, but
with misrepresentation of your citizen
ship It is something worse. Be a man
and a citizen without misrepresenting
yourself.
A Democratic paper says It doesn't see
how the Republicans of Oregon are go
ing to get out of electing Governor Geer
to the Senate, since he got so big a vote;
and it says, moreover, that he Is an em
. inent man. Everybody, however, knows
that the big vote was merely a fluke, and
some think the eminence spoken of may
be duo to flatness of the country south of
Pudding River.
Mr. Bryan attacks Prresldent Roosevelt
because the latter said that "a good sol
dier must not only be willing to light but
anxious to fight-" This, Mr. Bryan
thinks. Is a sign of an Inhuman and
blood-thirsty disposition. The logical in
ference is that Mr. Bryan, though onco
a soldier, was not anxious to fight. Many
persons thought as much at the time,
though perhaps unjustly. .
Piatt is going to run the New Tork
campaign on little wheels. He is afraid
6i big National wheels. Therefore, ho
wiill cut the Cuban question out of the
campaign. It Is otherwise with Roose
velt, the New York President. Ho Is
willing "to sacrifice a second term" for
reciprocity. Piatt Is the man who would
not havo accepted Roosevelt If he hod
had his choice. He is the man -who
would run things on little wheels.
Put the fair on hills, so that visiters
can see out. Don't put the fair on hills.
Put tho fair on a flat. Don't put the fair
on a flat. Put it on a pond. Don't put It
on a pond. Put It in the heart of tha
city. Put it as far outside tho city as
possible. Put it next to the other roan's
real estate. No; don't put It next tg the
other man's real estate. Put It next to
my real esate. Yes, put It next to mj:
real estate.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHER3
The Yankee Peril. "Europe Is really In dread
of J. P. Morgan." "Xo wonder. First thing
she knows Europo will find herself incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey." Puck.
Had Him There. "Jack, what are you going
to be in the next world?" "A sailor, yer
reverence same as I am now." "But are wa
not told there shall bo 'no more sea" V "Mebby
so. yer reverence; but there'll be a lake."
Chicago Tribune.
He Had to Die. "If you refuse me." cried
Moody, "my blood will be upon your head. I
cannot live without you." "Well, self-preservation
Is the first law of nature." replied Miss
Coolcy. "I simply couldn't llvo with you."
Philadelphia Press.
Principal Well, did you get that money
owing by Smith? Collector I'm sorry to say
I did not. There were a number of Smiths at
that address, all of whom denied being your
debtor. One even threw me out. Principal
That's the one. Call on him ajaln. Tlt-Bita.
A Prejudiced Opinion. "Is it true that men
of genius do not know the value -of money?"
"I'm afraid it Is." answered Mr. Stormlagton
Barnes. "Most men ot genlvs see so little ot
It that they never have a chance to form any
definite Ideas on the subjict." Washington
Star, r
Sad Intelligence. The devjted wife went to
the seashore, leaving her bnely husband be
hind. She anticipated a Jojoua Summer. The
second day after her arrival, however, sho
received the following telegram front her
hubby. "Como home at on:e. A button cam
oft my coat today." Ohio S&to Jouraat