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(PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 39
"GRAFTS" ON THE SEWER FUND.
The Inability of those modern cornu
copias, "the county" and "the city," to
keep pace with the prosperous desires
of the multitude was painfully brought
to light In "Taxpayer's" communication
of a day or two ago on the subject of
cesspools and vaults. There are not
sewers enough between the river and
Mount Tabor, and "Taxpayer," by the
aid of question marks, thus moralizes:
Is it because there Is so much graft going
a In the city that funds are not available
lor such necessary and legitimate thlpgs as
jewers? Do the grafters have to have their
rraft, whether the citizen has health pro
tection la the way of sewers or not?
The idea that money paid for sewers
Is somehow diverted into the pockets of
the city officials is interesting, if not
original or accurate. The fact Is, more
over, that Portland is one of the best
sewered cities on the continent, and
Bewers have been constructed and ex
tended just as rapidly as the owners
of property benefited by their construc
tion were able to pay for them.
It Is the function of the city gov
ernment to build sewers, roadways and
bridges; but In doing this work it acts
is the agents of the people Interested,
who must themselves pay the price. If
"Taxpayer" really owns a lot between
Bunnyslde and Mount Tabor, it Is the
province of himself and his neighbors
to build a sewer, or in Its default to
provide for themselves otherwise under
Buch sanitary conditions as will pre
serve their" health and not menace the
health of those around them. Persons
Who can never-do anything: for them
selves are always rushing Into print
iVith-complalnts that they are neglected
by the, "government."
Chronic petulance and dependence
can be better borne, however, than this
cheap fling at everybody in office as
dishonest. "Graft" Is easily said, but
not so easily proved. So far as The
Oregonlan knows, no money that should
bae gone to build sewers at Sunnyside
has ever found Its way into the pockets
of Mayor Williams, Auditor Devlin,
Treasurer Werleln, or any member of
the Council or Executive Committee.
If "Taxpayer" Jtnows of any, he should
speak up. There will be no difficulty In
meting out justice to the offender.
UOW THE CANAL DOES PROGRESS!
If the world should come to an end
this morning, It Is exceedingly doubt
ful how much serious Injury would be
done to tho project of an Isthmian ca
nal. We are in a fair way to complete
it now within the same time limit and
under the same propitious auspices that
will prevail if tonight the heavens are
rolled away as a scroll and the elements
melt with fervent heat, and
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palace,
rhe solemn temples, the great globe Itself,
Yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve:
And like this Insubstantial pageant faded
Leave not a rack behind. '
August Is an inopportune time for the
transcontinental railroads, which have
"cajoled, threatened, bribed and cor
rupted "against the isthmian canal these
many years, to reap their reward as
chronicled in the Bogota cables. Con
siderations of humanity forbid that the
already riot and humid air should be
further laden with the scorching, with
ering words that only are fit to charac
terize this shameless prostitution of the
age-long dream of commerce and ex
ploration to the base ends of corrup
tlonlsts and blackmailers. In the Sodom
and Gomorrah of "Washington Intrigue
and Wall-street stock Jobbery and Co
lombian degradation, where are the ten
righteous souls to save from utter de
struction? It Is Impossible to foresee the sequel
to the act of the Colombian Senate in
rejection of the Hay-Herran treaty. If
we only knew what would be the most
effective Instrument of delay, then we
should be able to arrive approximately
at the thing most likely to be done.
Once It 6eemed to an uninformed world
that to press the Niearagunn route was
the way to success; but those on the
inside persuaded "a confiding country
that to substitute the Panama route
was the true short cut to results. Now
we have seen that the Panama route
was chosen simply because it was im
possible. It would -seem, indeed, as it the un
scrupulous and all-powerful wreckers
of the Isthmian canal had rather over
acted the part. In bringing in a unani
mous vote of the Colombian Senate
against the treaty. If the result had
been close. It might have been main
tained that an unexpected slip had
.somehow occurred; but when the entire
Senate rejects our proposal to buiid the
canal, the Panama manipulators are
estopped from the pretense that the as
surances of plain sailing with the Co
lombian government were put forward
In good faith. The confiding statesman
Is readily pacified when two or three
of a supposed friendly delegation get
away; but here Is a case where the
whole delegation gets away. We should
repose too much confidence In the per
ceptive faculties of the Senate leaders
to imagine them now offering the ex
planation that this Colombian hostility
was something unforeseen and unsus
pected. What, then, to do? The choice of the
Panama route as an Insuperable obsta
cle to a canal Is certainly approved by
experience. It will be fitting to Insist
upon it to the exclusion of all others,
unless at any time a method of winning
Colombia's consent should appear, and
then the engineering difficulties of the
Panama route could be exploited the
moment there, was a well-defined pros
pect of Colombian acquiescence. Mean
while It is not to be supposed our noble
patriots are idle with Nicaragua and
Costa Rica. Doubtless those govern
ments will he suitably fixed by the time
Congress or the President turns to them
again. It Is possible the machinations
of the canal's enemies may at length
gain the attention of Theodore Roose
velt. Words said as he can say them,
and acts of his own boldness and di
rectness, may yet give some measure of
pause to the conscienceless "betrayers of
the National honor and welfare.
FEASIBLE CURRENCY PROPOSALS.
We are unable to place much cre
dence in the Washington special pur
porting to give the Senate currency
programme. The two measures an
nounced for support are so meritorious
and feasible that the Republican lead
ers cannot be supposed to have given
them their adherence, except upon the
most positive evidence. They are too
simple and efficacious to please the
Fowler brand of currency reformers,
and they are too honest and devoid of
special privilege to Wall street to please
Aldrlch. They are probably the dream
of some humble and intelligent reporter
rather than the product of a real emi
nent and trust-serving statesman.
It says in this dispatch that all the
need" of elastic currency can be met by
the simple device of repealing the' anti-
.-quated and pernicious limitation upon
retirement of bank circulation,, which
cannot now proceed faster than $3,000,
000 a month. Truer word was never ut
tered. The evils of this restriction and
the certain benefits of Its repeal have
.often been set out In these columns.
Currency reformers will make the point
that a higher tax upon the emergency
Issues would assist In their prompt re
tirement; but It Is not certain that any
such unusual Incentive is needed. Bank
circulation declines with measurable
rapidity under -existing statutes, and
would surely do so much faster under
the proposed amendment. It may also
be objected that this programme would
Involve Indefinite perpetuation of the
present bond security system. But this
Is really no objection at all. So long as
we have the security system we must
use It In the most efficacious manner
possible. The Senate committee's re
ported declaration that there Is no pop
ular demand for a change to "asset
currency" Is the simple truth.
We have always looked with misgiv
ings upon the campaign against the
Subtreasury system; and even yet we
regard the proposal to keep Increased
portions of the public moneys on de
posit with certain selected banks as a
measure fraught with doubt and dan
ger. The proper place for the Govern
ment's funds Is In the Government's
vaults. There Is no doubt about that.
There Is an element of Insecurity,
though certainly small, In the practice,
soon to become general and adminis
tered with more or less inevitable hu
man carelessness, of farming out the
public moneys where they must In fact
become merged with the general stock
of the holding banks. No administra
tion, can escape the nasty charges of
favoritism In the selection of the banks,
and, however unfounded they may be,
there will always be knaves to exploit
and fools to believe them. In addition
to all this, every amelioration of the
difficulties under which the Govern
ment labors In doing a banking, busi
ness which does not belong to it, in pil
ing up large surplus funds to tempt ex
travagance, and especially In withdraw
ing money from the people through In
ordinate tariff taxes, unjustly wrung
from Industry for the behoof of cor
porations already rich every ameliora
tion of these difficulties only smooths
the way for a perpetuation of these
evils and puts off the day of honest and
prudent dealing.
Why, then, should the proposal to
authorize deposit of customs revenues
in National banks upon security In
shape of approved state, municipal and
railway bonds, be commended? One
reason Is that It Is Inevitable. There Is
no feature of our fiscal sj-stem so heart
ily and unanimously execrated by the
bankers themselves as the Subtreasury
system. The bankers can get their will
In currency legislation, and the only
reason why we have not already had
thorough banking reform Is because the
banks can't agree among themselves.
On the propriety and necessity of "the
Treasury ceasing to disturb the money
market by withdrawals of currency
from the channels of trade, the banks
are agreed. It is worth a good deal to
make them happy, unless at too high a
price. Another reason is suggested by
the banknote situation. The system
as it Is and not the system -that should
be Is what we have to face the con
dition, not the theory; and the condi
tion is that the existent tariff and cur
rency regime Is impossible -of serious
alteration for a generation. No person
now of mature years will live to see the
day when free trade will supersede pro
tection as our National policy, or when
free banking will supersede the general
principle of Government guarantee, su
pervision and control. There is the
same need, accordingly, for removing
friction over the Subtreasuries as for
removing friction over banknote re
tirement. The end to which Congress should ad
dress itself, so far as the currency is
concerned. Is the gradual strengthening
and elevation of the prevailing system
by such minor reforms as will not
alarm either the wise or the foolish, the
banks or Investors. Any violent change
operates to the advantage of speculat
ors with Aldrlch bills on one hand and
brutal agitators like Bryan on the other
hand. Fortunately, no radical measure
can command the votes requisite for
passage. Fortunately, every compre
hensive bill like Aldrlch's or Fowler's
antagonizes so many groups In Con
gress that It falls under their concerted
opposition. The only measures that can
pass are the safe and simple ones, to
the Jews of Wall street a stumbling
block, and to the Greeks of the "scien
tific" school foolishness.
The fact that Jeffries and Corbett
go through a prolonged course of train
ing to fit themselves for a prizefight
has been noted by tie St. Louis Chroni
cle and the lesson drawn that men In
other walks of life should train in the
same way and attain the same endur
ance. As a- matter, of fact, nothing
could be more foolish. Training for a
specific effort that is to be made at a
certain time Is a necessity! but as a
means of promoting health, the great
object of life, It would be fatal. A man
in hard training is very aptly said to
he "on edge." The slightest thing- may
make him go stale. He is trained down
to the minute almost. Far different
would it be If he were to try keeping
on edge permanently. The effort would
end in a complete breakdown of his
constitution. For the ordinary man the
best state may be described as half
trained. A razor edge is useful In shav
ing, but detrimental for chopping wood.
OUR NEW MILITIA LAW.
A correspondent writes to inquire
whether our new militia law contains
Any provisions Imposing "death as the
penalty for refusing to answer the call
of the President for military duty," and
also whether the unorganized militia
can be held to a term of five years'
service or one. Somebody has been
"talking through his hat" to our cor
respondent. Our new militia law Im
poses no new military burdens upon the
people of. tills country. So far as the
organized militia, the National Guard,
Is concerned, the new law simply seeks
to secure uniformity In organization,
armament, discipline and instruction,
better arms and equipment, and. more
thorough training. This organized mi
litia is subject to the call of the Presi
dent in time of war to serve if neces
sary until the volunteers are ready to
take the field, for a term not exceeding
nine months. The unorganized militia
are subject to nothing beyond the re
quirements of tlie old law of 1793, wblch
Is reiterated .'n the first section of the
new law. Under the new law, as under
the old, the President In case, of Inva
sion, rebellion or when the laws cannot
be executed, can call out the militia
in such numbers as may be necessary
for a period not exceeding nine months.
There is nothing In this respect of obli
gation to service In the new law that
was net In the old law. In time of war
the organized militia, or National
Guard, may be called Into service by
the President, but this right Is a con
stitutional right under the authority
given Congress, under which laws have
been enacted since the foundation of
our Republic making every citizen of
military age, whether In the organized
militia or not, subject to military duty
whenever called out by the United
States.
In Europe, conscription and standing
armies prevail, but in Great Britain and
the United States there is no conscrip
tion. Voluntary enlistments are resort
ed to to ke.ep the ranks of our regular
Army full, and when our military ne
cessities are greater than our small
regular Army can meet, we raise great
armies of United States volunteers.
With these volunteers the Government
fought the gigantic war of the Rebel
lion to a victorious conclusion. After
obtaining a million of men by volun
teering, the Government resorted to a
draft In July, 18C3, to fill up the armies
wasted by battle and disease. Under
this law a man drafted could obtain
exemption by paying the Government
$300 or by furnishing, a substitute. In
event of another war as long In dura
tion and as great In dimensions, our
Government might be forced to supple
ment volunteeerlng by a draft, but
whatever is possible for the Govern
ment to do under the present militia
law Is simply a reiteration of the au
thority given the President by the old
law. The new law gives the President
no new powers; it does not attempt to
enlarge his authority In any respect.
The new law only seeks to put our
organized militia in a better state of
efficiency and preparation through bet
ter arms, discipline, equipment and In
struction, than before. Only in event
of a great military or civil emergency
Is the President authorized to call out
the organized or unorganized militia.
The President today can do under the
new law of 1900 nothing that he could
not do before under the old law, so far
as calling able-bodied citizens into ser
vice, for a term not exceeding nine
months. The regular Army and the or
ganized militia would form the first
line behind which our volunteer masses
would assemble and organize. The un
organized militia, or reserve, would
theoretically be subject to call In emer
gency, but In practice there would be
no emergency that the regular Army
and National Guard could not meet.
THE BIRTH OF THE PARTY.
The Republicans of Michigan will
celebrate at Jackson, In March,- 1904,
the completion of the fiftieth year of
the existence of the Republican party,
established In that city In March, 1834.
It Is an error to speak of the Republi
can party as organized at Pittsburg,
Pa., in 1855. The first convention tak
ing the name of Republican assembled
there, and, after adopting a platform
of principles, adjourned to meet at
Philadelphia In June, 1S56, when Fre
mont and Dayton, the first candidates
of the Republican party for President
and Vice-President; were put In nomi
nation. In the thirty-third Congress
Michigan had two .Democratic Senators
and four Democratic Representatives.
In the election for the thirty-fourth
Congress the Republicans carried three
of th.e four districts of Michigan and
the three Republican members called a
meeting at Jackson, then the state cap
ital, and adopted there the name Re
publican as that of a National party.
Subsequently the name Republican was
taken up at Detroit, Milwaukee and
elsewhere in the West, but It was not
until the meeting at Pittsburg, Pa.,
that representatives from other states
appeared to acquiesce In the declared
purpose of the party, which was not to
abolish slavery, but to oppose any ex
tension of It to Western terrtorles.
A Southern-bom and bred man,
"Wood row Wilson, president of Prince
ton University, In a chapter contributed
to "The Cambridge Modern History,"
is of the opinion that but for the .repeal
of tho Missouri Compromise, which ex
asperated the free states, and John
Brown's raid, which alarmed and em
bittered the slaveowners, Henry Clay's
compromise measure of 1850 might have
averted civil war, or at least postponed
It many years. John Brown's raid
would never have taken place but for
the passage of the Nebraska bill, and
the consequent attempt to "establish
slavery In Kansas. From this point of
view Stephen A. Douglas forced the Re
publican party Into organization and
agitation, and was the real author of
the Civil War. Dr. Wilson says that
of their own motion the Southern men
had never dreamed of demanding the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, but
were persuaded by Douglas to use their
power in the House and Senate to make
an end of compromises for the future
by the adoption of "squatter sovereign
ty." The race for the possession of
Kansas led to bloodshed and finally to
civil war. The Republican party took
its platform from the old "Liberty
party" of 1840-44, but It gathered Its
recruits from the anti-slavery Whigs
and Democrats of the North, whose pa
tience was exhausted and whose fears
were excited by repeal of the Missouri
Compromise in 1S54, so that Douglas
bulided far better than he knew; he
intended to make a successful bid for
the Southern vote for President In the
Democratic National Convention of
lSSO, but he unified and solidified all
shades of anti-slavery opinion at the
North Into the Republican party and
alienated from himself the Southern
Democracy b his fight with President
Buchanan over the Lecompton constitu
tion. Without Douglas there would have
been no Republican party, no Civil
War, for many years to come; so In a
certain sense Stephen A. Douglas forced
into life and labor the great party
which made his election as President
impossible arid that of his great rival.
Lincoln, sure. It drew Into Its ranks all
the old-line Whigs, who had hitherto
followed the flag of Seward rather than
that of Webster. It absorbed all the
old-line Democrats, who, with. Hannibal
Hamlin, Simon Cameron, Preston King,
had voted for the Wilmot Proviso of
1845, and all the Ftee-Sollers, who were
followers of Salmon P. Chase and
Charles Francis Adams. It' was strong
enough under the exasperation follow
ing the enactment of the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise in 1854 to elect
Lincoln President In 1860. And yet it Is
doubtful, save for the Civil War,
whether the Republican party would
not have been defeated by the Democ
racy in 1854. Alexander H. Stephens
took this view In his opposition to the
secession of Georgia, He argued that
Lincoln as a constitutional President
could not, under his oath, do any harm
to the Institution of slavery; that the
Republican Congress had not the power
to harm slavery If the South remained
In the Senate; that only by exposing
slavery td the exercise of the Indefinite
war powers of the President could slav
ery suffer harm; that civil war invited
the exercise of that fatal power; that
four years of peace would quiet the
exasperation of the North over the re
peal of the Missouri Compromise, and
that in 1864 a united Democratic party
was likely to be victorious. But the
counsels of Stephens were rejected, and
the moment that Civil War began the
Republican party was sure to be sus
tained by every War Whig or War
Democrat who had hitherto been as bit
ter a pro-slavery man as Butler, Gush
ing, Daniel S. Dickinson or Edwin M.
Stanton.
When Civil War was ended, of course,
a good many Democrats went back to
their old party, but there were thou
sands who remained in the Republican
camp; some of them because of the dis
reputable part borne by the Democracy
toward Lincoln's policy; some of them
because of the early attempts of the
Democracy to discredit the payment of
our war bonds In gold, and to favor
the Issue of Illimitable greenbacks. The
Republican party lived on Its "war"
capital and the Democratic disposition
to fool with repudiation and cheap
money for twenty years after the res
toration of the Union. It lives today
a vigorous life In spite of many serious
mistakes in its policy of reconstruc
tion and dilatory action in stiffly up
holding the gold standard against cheap
money compromise,, because it has had
a policy and pushed it for all It was
worth. All this time the Democracy
has had no policy save that of negation.
It has waited until the Republican
party showed Its hand, and then the
Democracy has contented Itself with
opposing the Republican policy, wise or
unwise, patriotic or unpatriotic The
result Is the Democracy, when It has
not been a mere dogmatic negationist
In politics, has been a wild-eyed .Popu
list, for free riot In government and for
free silver In finance. The Republican
party's life began In the gigantic blun
der of a Democratic party demagogue,
and It has lived largely since out of the
capacity of the Democratic party to do
the wrong thing at just the right" time
to help the opposition.
The unspeakable Turk Is again
abroad In Macedonia, slaying and
maiming helpless people, including
Christians, who fall in his way. For
reasons that are largely financial, the
great powers of Europe look on, pro
testing, it is true, but declining to in
terfere. These brutal brigands and cut
throats have grown up in the very
presence of an earnest missionary effort
of more than half a century, a fact that
attests the futility and wastefulness
of the attempt to Christianize or civil
ize these people through mild and gen
erous means. When the principle which
declares that he who takes the sword
shall perish by the sword is applied
to these people their outrages against
humanity will cease, and not until then.
In the meantime, Turkey is Indebted to
England and Germany in enormous
sums, and their only chance to secure
payment Is through a continuance of
the Ottoman Empire. Hence the seren
ity with which these nations look on
while the terrible Turk perpetrates un
speakable atrocities upon the helpless,
who In self-defense become "insur
gents." In fulfillment of reasonable expecta
tion, the Government's receipts have
now begun to overtake its expendi
tures, and are rapidly wiping out the
deficit that was a feature of the Treas
ury's operations In July. During the
first week In August the excess of re
ceipts was considerably more than
$3,500,000, bringing the deficit of the
fiscal year to that date downj close to
$5,000,000.
The question now agitating those who
supervise the personnel of the Navy In
the Interest of the proprieties In dress
Is whether the enlisted men shall wear
nightshirts or pajamas. Who shall say
that the questions of peace are insig
nificant as compared to those of war?
No one seems to have done President
Roosevelt the good turn at the Ne
braska convention to oppose his in
dorsement. Consequently the demand
for his renomlnatlon became a mere
matter of form. Instead of the enthusi
astic affair It became In Kentucky.
The man who stole Senator Ben Till
man's pass on the Burlington and then
had the hardihood to proclaim his find
may well be characterized as a sneak
thlef. But what of the octopus-hunter
who accepts passes from money devils?
It would perhaps be inhuman to wish
that the Turks and the Insurgents could
end their fight as did the Kilkenny cats,
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BRYAN AS A CRITIC OF BOLTERS
Harper's Weekly.
Mr. William Jennings Bryan no longer
denies that In November, 1S32. he and his
friends in Nebraska voted, not lor Mr.
Cleveland, the Democratic- nominee, but
for the Populist candidate. Mr. Weaver,
with the result that Mr. Harrison carried
the state by a small plurality. That Is
to say, if Nebraska had happened to turn
the scale, Mr. Bryan's defection would
have deprived the Democracy of the Pres
idency. Mr. Bryan defends in the Com
moner the course which he then pursued,
by asserting that It was devised for strat
egic purposes. A strategy that gave the
state to the Democracy's opponents seems
to have been Ill-conceived, or, at all
events, ill-executed. Wa are perfectly
willing to concede, however, that for the
vote which Mr. Bryan cast In 1SS2 he had
an exemplary, an edifying, and even a
patriotic motive. We concede that of the
moral and Intellectual quality of the mo
tive he must be the exclusive judge.
Neither would we for a moment assert
that ho was disqualified for being the
nominee of a Democratic National conven
tion in 1SS6 because he had chosen to vote
for a non-Democratic condldate In 1S92.
However "Irregular" may have been tho
course pursued by Mr. Bryan In JS92, wo
hold that his credentials of regularity
were perfected from the moment that he
was permitted to take a seat as a delegate
from Nebraska in tho Democratic National
convention which met at Chicago four
years later. Not only do we concur with
fodder should ..not be allotted to a sheep
should be welcomed back to the fold, hut
we know o5 no reason why tho warmest
corner In the fold, and the best part of the
fodder should not be allotted to a sheep
that went astray. That Is precisely what
the Chicago convention of 1S96 did In the
case of Mr. Bryan. His fellow delegates
did not Invite him to take a back scat, but
summoned him with effusion to "go up
head." It was in the same spirit that the
Democracy in the State of New York
welcomed back with hurrahs In 1S32 the
Barnburners who had bolted the nomina
tion of Lewis Cass in 1S4S. Mr. "Bryan has
sometimes been credited with saying that
he has no objection to the readmlssion of
Democrats who voted against him In lSSt
and 1S00. but that he docs not think they
ought to presume to dominate a National
convention. Jf Mr. Bryan really said
this, which we doubt, he must for the
moment have forgotten that he, the bolter
of 1S92, wns allowed, only four years later,
not only to re-enter a Democratic National
convention, but to carry off the prize of
the Presidential nomination. We hold that
the precedent then established was a prop
er one; and we do not see how Mr. Bryan
can object if It should next year be fol
lowed in the case of Mr. Cleveland or
some other Gold Democrat who, for strat
egic or other reasons, declined to accept
the candidate or the platform put forth
at Chicago in 1S96.
Senttle's Reputation Abroad.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Seattle, Monday. Dear Nonpareil: Last
night I took a walk with a sergeant of
the police force. He traversed the main
business streets of the city with great
care and attention. With tho exception
of a belated street riot or two and a few
hold-up men hurriedly finishing up the
straggling homegoers, the streets were
In perfect order. We had turned to re
turn to the station when suddenly the ser
geant grabbed my arm.
"Look," he whispered, "wouldn't you
consider that suspicious?"
I looked Three men with masks had
Just placed a tie across the trolley line
and were lying in wait for the approach
ing car.
"They are not passengers," paid the
sergeant, with an air of deep thought. "Or
they would flag the car. Ha! Another
suspicious circumstance."
The car had struck the tie with an awful
crash. The passengers were' thrown in all
directions. Quickly the masked men ran
forward and began clubbing the motor
man and the conductor.
"If they were law-abiding citizens they
would not do that," mused the policeman,
edging away a little. "Ah, there they are
taking the valuables from the passengers.
They have fled. This Is very suspicious.
I believe a crime has been committed. Let
us Investigate." And we rushed for
ward. "There, didn't I tell you," said the desk
sergeant triumphantly after he had heard
the stories of the victims. "There has
been robbery committed. If I hadn't
reasoned It out and inquired the villains
might have escaped. Let' us sound the
alarm."
We did so. The villains are not in limbo
as -yet, but thanks to the wonderful de
ductive powers of the police force, their
capture is regarded as a certainty.
Wlio Otitis Jiew Zealand T
London Chronicle.
Queer points are raised from time to
time In courts of law. For Instance, one
Just seriously reserved for consideration
by an Australian Judge of the Supreme
Court namely, whether New Zealand Is
legally a British possession. It sounds
like a joke at the expense of that most
ardent and energetic of Imperialists.
"King Dick" Seddon. At the same time,
it Is possible there may be something
in the point. Although Captain Cook
repeatedly urged upon the imperial gov
ernment the colonization of New Zealand,
no practical step was taken until very
late in tlie thirties, when It leaked out
that the French were contemplating the
annexation of the islands. It was a close
race between a British and a French
man-of-war. the British ship winning by
a few hours. It Is conceivable In the ex
citement of the moment some formality
in the proclamation of British sovereignty
over New Zealand may have been over
looked. In 1SS5 a Frenchman who called
himself "Baron de Thierry" proclaimed
himself "Sovereign Chief of New Zea
land." but his funds failed, his ninety
three followers deserted, and he sank into
obscurity.
Finds Rare Flovrer.
Orchard and Farm.
A rare plant, known as the golden yel
low lupine, has been discovered In Walla
Walla. Valley by William Cuslck the vet
eran botanist of Union. Or. Miss Emma
Cusick, a niece of the discoverer, was
asked by her uncle to be on the watch for
the lost flower while attending the Whit
man College commencement picnic .She
found a specimen growing on the banks of
a small stream In the foothills of the Blue
Mountains. Botanist Cuslck lost no time in
going to Walla Walla and found that his
niece had located a real specimen, there
by ending his search of 25 years. Doug
lass, the Scotch botanist, who spent two
years on the Pacific Coast, beginning In
1S20, found this rare specimen of flower
In the mountain region near the Walla
Walla camp of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany. He secured but ono specimen In
America. The flower was highly prized in
Europe. It Is a very beautiful yellow
blossom, having soft, velvety, golden pet
als. The color grows deeper and richer
by cultivation. It is a hardy plant, easily
transplanted and more beautiful than the
tulip.
Was Here All the Time.
Washington (la.) Democrat.
Jake Huff, brother-in-law to Joe Jack
son, left his place one morning In 187L
He hitched up to his wagon and drove out,
and that was the last he heard of him
till a few days ago he got a letter in re
sponse to one he had written. Huff Is In
Oregon.
Appropriate.
Helena Record.
Bob Meeks seems to have, escaped
through a hole in the wall Into the Hola-ln-the-Wall
country.
Miss Jones' Mas.
Chaparral.
"I dislike that Miss Jones. She. seems
double-faced."
"Impossible, or she'd bo wearing the
other one."
CHICAGO'S MARRIAGE MARKET.
Baltimore Sun.
Recent dispatches have told the up-to-date
story of a Chicago lady, Mrs. Grace
Snell Cofnn-Conln-Walker-CofBn-Layroan.
aged 37, who Is seeking a divorce from
Mr. Layman, said to be her fifth husband,
and who, in anticipation of success lri her
suit; has Just telegraphed to the mat
from whom she has been thrice divorced:
"Please marry me Just once more, Frank,
dear." Mrs. "Snell and so on" as the ac
count for the sake of brevity calls her
was married to Mr. Layman less than a
year ago; but ho has no money, and her
heart reverts to Frank Coffin, her first,
second and fourth husband. The lady has
found time, notwithstanding her matri
monial occupation, to cultivate literature
and is a writer of romance. Her own ca
reer affords her, doubtless, many ro
mantic Incidents. The heroine of five
weddings and five divorce suits cannot
but be a walking encyclopedia of senti
ment, "having over and over sounded all
the octaves of nuptial rapture and de
spair. To her practiced ear the wedding
march is a familiar tune, and she could
give points to lady reporters whose func
tion it Is to describe wedding presents and
wedding trousseaus Indescribable lin
gerie, golng-away dresses, coming-home
dresses, etc Mrs. So-on"s Ave marriages
suggest, in view of her age. an average
duration for each union and disunion of
about three years, whereas trousseaus are
calculated to last five years. She is.
therefore, probably tho possessor of a
considerable accumulation of lingerie and
dresses suited to all occasions, from the
wedding breakfast to the divorce court."
Should "Frank, dear," consent to wed her
again, he need not fear that he will soon
be called on for an outfit.
But Mr. Coffin Is. said to bo slow to ac
quiesce In her anticipatory offer of her
hand. To her tender message for It
seems to bo In good form In Chicago for
the lady to "propose" Frank replies
rather unfeelingly, "No more at present,"
he says; "I think I've married you for
positively the last time." But for this
Chlcagoan. as for the Wife of Bath, there
Is no "positively the last time," for while
there is life there is hope of another
match. Mrs. So-on complains of the di
vorce law that she has to wait a whole
year before she can get her divorce.
"Isn't it dreadful!" she exclaims. Tho
world moves fast nowadays, but It is all
to slow for Mrs. Snell-Coffln-Coflin-Walk-er-Coffin-Layman.
Tlie Romance of Blanche Walsh.
The conditional divorce granted to Miss
Blanche Walsh last April has now been
made absolute, and the actress Is priv
ileged to make a new matrimonial al
liance. If she chooses to take that hazard
once more. Miss Walsh's case Is some
what peculiar. Proceedings for her di
vorce revealed for the first time the fact
of her marriage. It had been regarded
as somewhat singular that this attract
ive Irish girl, whose personal graces
and professional distinction made her a
shining mark, had been so successful In
avoiding Cupid's shafts, and she was
credited with the Inheritance of some of
her fathers shrewdness In meeting tho
arts of persuasion. This theory was pret
ty generally adopted among those who
had known the political career of the
former warden of the Tombs. But tho
ways of the stage Incline hard toward
matrimony and divorces. The mesal
liances of tho life are not surprising when
Its particular propinquities aro taken into
consideration. Miss Walsh, for example,
fell In love with Alfred Hickman, still
little known to fame, when she was
playing Trilby and he Little Blllee. What
could be more natural? The real Trilby
really loved "tho little shrimp," much to
the surprise of Sandy, and why should
not the mimic Trilby O'Farrell, nee
Walsh, bo similarly smitten? And as
there was no Svengali to interpose his
"spell," why should they not steal away
to the "Little Church Around the Cor
ner" and be married, without so much as
asking tho consent of Taffy and Sandy?
But it was a bad match, evidently. Tril
by soon after sailed for Australia, and
Billee well, his course is not so. well
known. Seemingly they suited each other
better apart than together, and both
kept tho secret of their marriage for
seven years. This secrecy, under condi
tions that most have brought both many
new opportunities to marry, is tho most
unusual phase of the case. According to
established tendencies in "the profes
sion," each should have been married
and divorced at least once since the
event of 1SS5!
Canada Kicks on Vanderbilts.
Montreal Herald.
The Duke of Marlborough continues to
be mentioned for Governor-General of
Canada.
The Duke married a Vanderbllt.
Needless to say, of course, Canada has
no objection to Vanderbilts, but it has' a
decided objection to Vanderbllt worship
In the States, and particularly on the part
of the yellow Journals which issue an
extra edition every time a Vanderbllt eats
a biscuit.
With the Duchess presiding at Ottawa,
the New York Journal, or some other en
terprising "yellow" would proceed to
throw fits all over the place.
They would hurl a special train to Ot
tawa containing an expert- staff of ro
mance writers, and would Issue special
editions every seven minutes with two
foot headings:
Vanderbilts Rule Canada!
Canadians Dazzled!
She Wore Her Diamond Tiara!
It Was Worth $90,000,000!
Vanderbilts the Whole Thing!
And lots of other headings too numer
ous to mention, but all tending to the
same effect namely, that the great Ameri
can girl is at the head of the Canadian
works just as she Is In India, where Miss
Daisy Letter, of Chicago (Lady Curzon),
is supposed to rule the roost.
Please, good, kind England, don't send
the Doolc
The Phantom.
Bayard Taylor.
Again I sit within the mansion.
In the old, familiar seat;
And shade and sunshine chase each other
O'er the carpet at my feet.
But the sweetbrlarB arm? have wrestled up
wards In the Summers that are past.
And the willow trails Its branches lower
Than when I saw them last.
They strive to shut the sunshine wholly
From out the haunted room;
To fill the house, that once was Joyful,
"With silence and with gloom.
And many kind. rememberM faces
"Within the doorway come
Voices, that wake the sweeter music
Of one that now Is dumb.
They sins In tones as glad as ever.
The songs she loved to hear;
They braid the rose In Summer garlands
Whose flowers to her were dear. '
And still her footsteps In the passage.
Her blushes at the door.
Her timid words of maiden welcome
Coma back to me once more.
And, all forgetful of my sorrow.
Unmindful of my pain,
I think she has but newly left me.
And soon will come again.
She stays without, perchance, a moment.
To dress her dark-brown hair;
I hear the rustle of her garments
Her light step on the stqlr!
O, fluttering heart! , control thy tumult.
Lest eyes profane -should see
My cheeks betray the rush of rapture
Her coming brings to me:
She tarries .long: but lo, a whisper
Beyond the open door.
And, gilding through the quiet sunshine,
A shadow on the floor!
Ah! 'tis the whispering pine that calls me,
The vine, whose shadow strays;
And my patient heart must still await her,
Kor chide her long delays.
But my heart grows sick with weary waiting.
As many a. time before:
Her foot Is ever at the threshold,
Tet never passes o'er.
NOTE AXD COMMENT.
Evidently some of tho. phone girl3 are as
cute as they are charmlngf '
It looks as if the cupwlll be lifted and
the canal built about the same time.
It would add to the world's quiet it tho
hinges of the open door wero 'oiled.
There is a confeuHthrower in Jail at
Olympia, and he doesn't seem a bit out
of place.
It Is only the people who know how to
handle torpedo boats that have accidents
with them.
"Dinso" Is the engaging manner in
which the Council Bluffs Nonpareil refers
to a drunkard.
Astoria will permit no snakes to be at
large during the ragatta. thus relieving
the minds of any Jolly skipper that may
have been too free in splicing tho main
brace.
Milwaukee's city ling seems likely to be
three schooners of beer, or. on a ground
azure. On the same principle, other
cities have adopted municipal flags as fol
lows: Seattle Tho Jolly Roger, .with the motto.
"Hands up." ,
Tacoma Black flag, representing night, wlta
the motto, "Don't wake me."
San Francisco Blue flag, with ostrich hldlr.g
head In sand. Motto: "We see no compe
tition." Boston A spade, with the motto, "Call It
an agricultural Instrument.
St- Louis A boodler, crouchant. bars sinis
ter and dexter. Motto,. "I'll jnlsa the fair."
Fashion Xotea, and.. Comment.
ZIgzaz strappings aro as effective as they
are hard to make.
So they think in the Georgia convict
camps.
Stole effects are in as firm favor as ever
for coat finishes.
Ungrammatlcal, but probably true.
If you ire tho owner of a yacht by all meani
have the signal of your craft or club embroid
ered on tho right ankle of your , silk stocking
the inside of the ankle Philadelphia Record.
Thoso who merely own bicycles should
by all means" have tho license number
of their wheel embroidered in the same
way.
"Diary of a. Chnrch. Member."
Monday. Just returned from tha Guild
of Touchers' convention In' New Tork.
Trip so expensive I" won't be able to sub
scribe a cent to church work here for
twelve months. (
Tuesday afternoon. Attended picnic of
Holy Stragglers' Society. Excellent ath
letic sports. Evening. Meeting of tho
Church Literary Club. Bead paper on
Bible Study a Handicap to Novelists.
Wednesday. Daughters of Royalty had
fair this afternoon. Bought paper doll for
$9.73. Most successful event, as all soci
ety leaders were present.
Thursday. Birthplace League social
good fun. Church well decorated for
event. Won first prize In Cakewalk open
to members of all church societies.
Friday Th Bilious Brotherhood refused
my proposition to hold a Fall carnival.
Would bring In big money and be splen
did ad. for the church, but they aro all
dead ones.
Saturday. Tappers? Union held a most
successful debate on the Advisability of
Separating the Union from tho Church.
Evening. Attended social and concert by
the Young Gushers' Auxiliary and Church
Aid Society. Lasted until daylight.
Sunday. Bested. Too tired to go to
church.
Where Birth Rnte throw Luia.
MELBOURNE, Aug. 18, 1953. Victoria Is
greatly excited over tho news that a baby
was born In tho colony last night. Ex
cursion trains aro bringing in thousands
of people from surrounding towns, and
even from the other colonies. It Is feared
that the little creature cannot survive, as
there Is no one In the Commonwealth
that knows how It should be treated.
Keep Off the Limerick.
It Is with regret that we see in otherwise
carefully edited newspapers such a dread
ful thing as a so-called "continued" Lira
erick A Limerick Is essentially Incapable
of continuation. It Is a Jewel of wit, pol
ished, shining, and complete. It can no
more bo continued than an epigram could
bo stretched into a speech. It might. In
deed, be possible to have a "sequence" of.
Limericks, as In the case of the sonnet,
but even then each would be solf-con-taincd,
detached, as tho pearls in a neck
lace or the stars In a constellation. The
Limerick is the -one metrical form that
the present ago can claim, and that alona
should save us from those who would
tinker with its completeness. Earlier
times have given us many formal meas
ures, tho ballade, the sestlna, the trifling
triolet, the sonnet; and so forth, but It
remained for the Victorian age to fix tho
Jewel of tho Limerick in its tiara. An
other point. We have had sonnets upon
the sonnet, triolets upon the triolet, and
Swinburne In "A roundel Is wrought as a
ring or a star-bright sphere" has wrought
a perfect ring for the linger of the muse.
There Is even famous "bee" epigram upon
the epigram, but where Is tho Limerick up
on tho Limerick? Is Miss Carolyn Wells,
whose Limericks are "jewels to hang in
the. ear of thought," so dull a3 to leavo
unnoticed thl3 blue chip upon the table
of fame?
PLEASANTRIES. OF IARAGRAriIERS
"The Chinese are a very ancient race, aro
they not?" queried the Information seeker.
"Tes," replied the laundry-strike victim.
"They belong to the Iron age." Chicago Dally
News.
McBluff I did want to tip you, waiter, but
I have no change . "Walter I can make change
for .you. sir. McBluff Er can you? "Well
er give me Ave pennies for this nlckeL
Philadelphia. Ledger.
"Tou say your conscience prompted you to
pursue this course?" "That's what I said,"
answered Senator Sorghum. "I concluded that
I couldn't conscientiously refuse all that
money." "Washington Star.
"Did you hear that there was a skeleton In
Smith's family?" asked Jones. "You don't
say so!" exclaimed his wife. "Where?" "In
side of Smith." replied Jones. And then ho
chuckled Idiotically. New York News.
"Maudle, dear, those shoes look tight. How
do they feel on your feet?" "Perfectly com
fortable, mamma." (To herself: "If she had
asked me how my feet felt In the shoes, she
would have had me!") Chicago Tribune.
Befitting a Waitress. Polk She took part la
your amateur play, didn't she? Jolk Oh.
yes, she took the part of a waitress. Polk
What sort of a costume did she wear Jolk
A fetching one, of course. Philadelphia
Press.
"Unconscious humor Is always the best."
"Yes," ' replied the amateur chauffeur, "the
funniest thing I ever saw m my life was a
fellow who furnished matter for one of the
comic weeklies, after I had run over him tha
other day." Chicago Record-Herald.
His Musical Taste. "You never applaud at
a concert." .''Xo," answered Mr. Cumror. "If
I enjoy a piece well enough to applaud it,
I know by that fact that It Isn't the sort of
music that mother and the girls would ap
prove of my aoplaudlng." Washlngtdn Star.
The Ocean Located. The class In elementary
geography was up for recitation. ''What Is
an ocean?" asked the teacher. "You may
answer, Jant." "It Is a large body of. water
stiuated near Norfolk, Va.," replied Janet,
who had once visited her aunt at the set
shore. Kansas City Journal.