9
THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1903.
its VB$oxtian.
Entered at the PostoEce at Portland. Oregon,
as second-class matter.
REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
By Mail (postage prepaid In advance)
Dally, "with Sunday, per month .$0.85
Dally, Sunday excepted, per year 7.&0
Daily, with Sunday, per year 8.00
Buaday. per year.. 2.00
The Weekly, per year 1.80
The "Weekly, 3 months 80
To City Subscribers
Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted-loc
Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.20c
POSTAGE RATES.
United States, Canada and Mexico
10 to 14-page paper lc
If to 80-page paper 2c
12 to 4-page paper ...3o
Foreign rates double. .
Nfcws or discussion Intended for 'publication
in The Oregoniar should be addressed Invaria
bly "Editor The Oregonian," not to the name
of any individual. Letters relating to adver
tising, subscription, or to any business matter
should be addressed simply. "The OrelJnlan."
The Oregonian does not buy poems or stories
from individuals, and cannot undertake to re
turn any manuscripts sent to it without solici
tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this
-srpose.
Eastern Business Ofllce, 43, 44, 45, 47. 48. 4D
ITrlbune Building, New York City: 510-11-12
Tribune Building. Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth
Special Agency, Eastern representative.
For sale in San .Francisco by L. E. Lee, Pal
ce Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 230
Butter street; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market street;
J, K. Cooper Co.. 740 Market street, near the
iWace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news
tahd; Frank Scott. SO Ellis street, and N.
."Wheatley, Sl3 Mission street.
For sale in Los Angeles by ,B. F. Gardner,
350 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines,
205 South Spring street.
For sale in Kansas City, Mo., by Blcksecker
Wgar Co., Ninth and "Walnut streets.
For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co..
817 Dearborn street; Charles MacDonald, 53
iWaahlngton street, and the Auditorium Annex
sews stand.
For sale In Minneapolis by M. J. Kavanagh,
k0 South Third street.
For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612
Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1308
Farnam street; McLaughlin Bros., 210 S. 14th
trtet.
For sale In Ogden by W. G. Kind,. 114 21th
treet; James H. Crockwell. 242v 25m street;
F. R. Godard and C. H. Myers.
For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News
Co., 77 "West Second South street.
For sale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett
Jlouie news stand.
For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton St
Sendrick, 800-012 Seventeenth street: Louthan
4c Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets.
TESTE RDATS "WEATHER Maximum tern
jpcrature, 70; minimum temperature, 59; pre
cipitation, .12 of an inch.
TODAY'S "WEATHER Partly cloudy; north
erly winos.
PORTLAND, TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1903
"WE ALL WORK."
The people of Finland have been in
bard lines in the last two or three
years. First the heavy hand of Russia
was laid upon them, depriving them of
ihelr constitutional rights. Then came
s. famine, first in the small grains that
they are able to raise in their short
season, and again in fish, which is a
staple article of food with them. But
through all their trials they have pre
served their Integrity of purpose. A.
5 "Watch, a Finnish-American, speak
ing lately In the Philadelphia Record,
Bald: "If a man in Finland asks for
bread he is given the opportunity to
earn it, never the money to buy 1L It
IS this policy, pursued generation after
generation, that has made the Finnish
people prefer death to begging, as it is
understood here."
During the sharp pinch of the famine
?ree lodgings were established in ten
of the northern bailiwicks of Finland.
In these warmth and food could be had
Xor the earning. The women and chil
dren were taught cookery, knitting and
weaving, and the men were provided
With work. Everybody works, there
being hardly a millionaire in Finland's
2,555,000 inhabitants. Yet in ordinary
seasons the people live above want and
make no complaint of their lot
There is a type of people on the New
England coast that resembles in this
way the Finnish people at home. As
expressed by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps" in
her touching story, "A Madonna of the
Tubs," "not a drop of pauper blood rolls
in the veins of these sturdy bodies."
Going through one of the villages of
these fisher folk after having- heard
pitiful stories of their, poverty, a puz
zled philanthropist said: "None of your
people seem to be in actual want"
"We all work," replied the other sim
ply. If any type of poverty is en
nobling it may be held to be that which,
leaving no margin for luxury, scarcely
any for what is known as the comforts
oMlfe, depends upon its individual en
ergies to supply its needs. Manifestly
the only way to Increase the happiness
of people of this sturdy, self-respecting
type is to increase their opportunities
for earning and their skill in new lines
of Industry.
GREEKS IIEARLNG GIFTS.
We cannot share in the feverish anxi
ety of certain Republican papers and
statesmen to see Senator Gorman, of
Maryland, nominated for President.
There is something exempiarlly sar
donic in Senator Cullom's ardent praise
of Gorman for having betrayed the "WI1-
son tariff bill to the protected interests.
Something much like this Cullom inter
view we had already observed in the
editorial pages of the New York Trib
une, as follows:
The extremists who misjudged and misrepre
sented his efforts to convert the deficit creat
ing "Wilson bill of 1801 Into a practicable piece
of tariff legislation have never ceased to charre
him with all the accumulated sins of a Con
gress majority capable of every folly. The
idea of his returning to political power when
the men who wrote and inspired the "Wilson
pill have long since perished outside the breast
works is, and will always be, a thorn In the
flesh to the free trade doctrinaires and zealots
who had their day and wasted It under the
eecond administration of Grover Cleveland.
.bui, wis animosity discounted, we can see
, no serious obstacle to an acceptance by Demo
crats generally of Mr. Gorman's availability
a a Presidential candidate. Though ho may
hesitate to urge his claims, there are others
who will exploit his many titles to Democratic
leadership. Virtually the only Democrat who
In this generation has shown his capacity to
make tne Democratic opposition felt In Con
rcss. or to hold It. when a party power, to
somff reasonable sense of discipline or responsi
bility, he naturally appeals to voters tired of
feuds and factionalism as the one strong spirit
equal to composing differences and restoring
order. Trained to diplomacy, "he stands or
should stand In grateful contrast to the self
willed and self-centred pilots who have only
guided the party to shipwreck.
Is there, then, a Republican consplr
acy looking to Mr. Gorman's nomina
tlon by the Democrats? Maybe so, for
certainly there would be no man, not
5yen Bryan, more certain of defeat.
The American people do many queer
things, at times, but they do not elect
their Gormans and Hills, Quays and
Platts, to the Presidency. They in
trust a modicum of power to these
wolves In sheep's clothing, but they
draw the line at the Presidency, whlcl
has so far been kept for men of honest
purpose and high character.
And yet, on second thought, perhaps
the' Democrats could do no better than
to give Gorman the nomination. The
empty honor should, in fact, be passed
around among: their brainy men, just as
the democrats of the First Oregon Dis
trict hand out biennially a package of
moonlight on the lake to Jim "Weather-
ford and Bob Veatch and Dr. Daly. Let
Gorman be nominated In 1904, Hill In
1908, Francis in 1912, Harrison in 1916,
etc. This is better. It Is a waste of
material to run the same man twice in
succession. It is twenty-four years
since anybody has been nominated by
the Democrats for President except
Cleveland and Bryan. This is unfair.
As the nomination is a mere compli
mentary testimonial, It should be
passed around. General Killfeather, of
Portland, would make as good a run as
Gorman, and is better qualified.
SOUTH OPPOSES DEPORTATION.
Attractive as the proposal to establish
the negro In a separate state or states
of the Union appears to those who view
with apprehension the apparent failure
of every other device that has been
undertaken, It seems destined to be
blocked by no less potent an element In
the problem than the South itself,
which rises up in dread at the prospect
of losing the cheap labor with which
its great staple crops are gathered. The
Atlanta Constitution, for example, says
"the proposition of racial segregation
is race bigotry worthy of the dark
ages," denies that there is at the South
an irrepressible conflict fend deadly Ir
reconcilability between the races, and
undertakes to say that, to all appear
ances, the whites and blacks are get
ting along very well together and are
mutually prospering.
The Louisville Courier-Journal de
scribes John Temple Graves' proposal
to deport thenegroes of this country as
one that has no following among the
people. Ex-Governor Northen, of Geor
gia, declares that the schemes for de
porting the negro are Impossible and
absurd,- and that the South could not do
without the negro, as he constitutes
three-fourths of the farm labor. Gov
ernor Northen says: "I have spent all
my life among negroes, and I want to
live in no country where there are
none." This is the feeling of the South
ern man of the "old school," the school
of "Wade Hamptonwhose dying words
were, "God bless all my people, white
and black." Governor Northen points
out that it would be impossible to get
rid of the negro at the Sojuth without
disrupting every industry In the whole
region; they furnish the great bulk of
the labor, and are absolutely essential
to the South. As for the indolence of
the negro, no man will believe that
charge who knows that the agricultural
labor of the negro has produced a
$600,000,000 cotton crop this year.
Richard H. Edmonds, a Southern
man, editor of the Manufacturers' Rec
ord at Baltimore, rebukes Mr. Graves
for his deportation proposal and for his
misrepresentation of the Southern In
dustrial situation. So far from the
South presenting any signs of "halted
i development" because "of the shadow
of an unsolved problem," Mr. Edmonds
shows that the value of this year's cot
ton crop Is $600,000,000. Of this cotton
the South will consume in its own mills
over 2.000,000 bales, and thus add about
$200,000,000 to the value of the raw sta
ple, and the value of the various cotton
seed products will be about $100,000,000,
That Is, the South this year will ob
tain for cotton products alone about
$900,)00,000, and Its other agricultural
products will be worth $500,000,000 more.
There Is no "halted development" In
these figures. .
This view is supported by an un
prejudiced observer of great ability and
wide range of travel, Archibald R. Col
quhoun, who belonged to the English
public service in India, Slam, Burmah,
China, Mashonaland, Central America
Siberia, Mongolia, Java, Borneo, the
Philippines and Japan. Mr. Colquhoun
tmnits tne deportation of the negro
even to the Philippines Is absurd. His
conclusion is that for good or evil the
negro is in the United States to stay
and that the negro problem cannot be
solved by any such drastic measure as
deportation. His own view, derived
from the success of the British govern
ment in Its treatment of the emancl
pated blacks of Jamaica, would be to
acknowledge that while the fusion, so
cial or otherwise, of the two races is
impossible, there Is, nevertheless, no
reason -why they cannot live side by
side without contempt on the one hand
or hatred on the otluer. That is, there
Is no obstacle to the American negro
living with his white neighbor on terms
similar to those of the Mohammedan or
the Hindoo with the British. There is
no reason why the relations cannot be
similar to those prevailing in Jamaica.
In Jamaica the freed blacks have great
ly Improved In morality and' industry;
crime is comparatively rare and trivial.
The roads and public works are built
by the blacks, many of the overseers
and foremen being also men of color.
In Jamaica, as In Cape Colony, it Is
customary for the Governor to entertain
any colored men of standing, and many
of the government offices are open to
them. There is no restriction in cars,
theaters or hotels, and yet there is far
less Insolence or lntruslveness on part
of the negro. The Jamaican negro has
not been taught to consider himself as
the equal of the white man, but he la
bors under no sense of Injustice because
he knows he will be treated according
to his deserts if he rises above the level
of his race. Racial fusion is out of the
question, but on his merits he can raise
himself In the estimation of the world,
white and black.
In Jamaica the whites and blacks live
together, enjoying the same privileges
and to a great extent the same oppor
tunities without race fusion and with
out race hatred. Mr. Colquhoun would
treat the negro frankly as an alien
race; would have separate schools spe
cially adapted to the wants of the race.
"The whole aim and end of alt negro
training should be to make every boy
or girl a better black, and not a closer
Imitation of a white." Mr. Colquhoun's
conclusion Is that "the negro cannot be
transported; he will not be extermi
nated; if left alone, he will retrograde
and drag the white race down as well.
There remains the single alternative to
elevate him, at all costs and in face of
every difficulty. ... . , Treat him as a
man of alien race, unfitted at present
for self-government or the full rights of
citizenship, but treat him notwlth
standing as a man, not as a tertlum
quid between a man and a dog."
It has been announced that in certain
New England woolen mills the substi
tutlon of cotton for wool is to be great
ly increased. There is a method of
treating" cotton with caustic soda in a
process known as' mercerizing, and this
makes the cotton fabric look so much
like wool that many are deceived by It.
Now it is said that these New England
mills are to engage largely, in making
a cotton cloth for overcoats, and in this
cloth, no wool whatever will be used.
The reason of thl3 enterprise is the high
price of wool caused by the operation
of the Dingley tariff law. The exclu
sion of foreign wool gives to a few the
control of the domesticmarket, and
prices recently have been put so high
that woolen clothes for moderately poor
people have become too expensive, and
hence the demand for a cheap cotton
substitute. This is not only a, wrong to
a great mass of people, but will work
to,, the injury of the woolgrowers.
"Whenever a substitute for an article is
generally adopted its use Is apt to con
tinue. And so the protectors of wool
will overreach themselves by their de
mand for the monopoly of the home
market and work themselves Injury.
In the meantime the poor are denied
the right to buy woolen clothing while
the rich can supply themselves from
Europe.
110, FOR IRVIXGTOX!
Once more racing Is to be attempted
at Irvlngton track, ana tnis time, ij.
never before In the history of the track,
the racing events will be on the square.
In undertaking to give a race meeting j
and a fat stock show at Irvlngton, the
gentlemen who are behind the Multno
mah Fair Association have assumed a
great task. The history of the Portland
racetrack has been besmirched with
scandal, but In the face of this the offi
cers, all prominent Portland business
men of high standing and character.
have devoted their time and money to
an effort to raise the "sport of kings"
out of the slough Into which It was
cast How well they have succeeded
will be proved by the high class of rac
ing that will be seen during the coming
five days.
Of late years several attempts have
been made to revive the sport of racing
In Portland, but disaster pursued them,
and It was not until a couple of months
ago that men who have worked to bring
about the meeting took hold of the co
lossal task of again bringing racing
Into good standing In Portland. Irvlng
ton track was In deplorable condition.
the buildings and sheds were little
short of wrecks. The Multnomah Fair
Association was incorporated for $l),000
and it took more than $7000 of this to
get the place tenantable. But the
money has been well spent, for those
who have been In the habit of going to
Irvlngton will not recognize the- place,
and as It stands' today it is thoroughly
up to date and one of the most cosmo
poll tan.
After this was accomplished, the next
thing of importance Was to get a. high
class of horses, both runners and har
ness, to race at the meeting. There was
not sufficient money left in the treasury
to hang up big purses, but to the grati
fication and pleasing surprise of the
officials, they found horsemen willing
to bring their horses to Portland as a
compliment to the men who were be
hind the association.
These owners have long known that
If racing -could be conducted on the
proper plan Portland would be one of
the best cities in the Northwest, and
they were willing to bring their horses
here this Fall and race them just to get
the association started. From a horse
standpoint, Portland has everything In
Its favor. Horsemen know that it Is
one of the best wintering quarters in
this part of the country. The state Is
naturally a horse state, and for lt3 size
has some very fast performers. Irving-
ton is the ideal spot for racing. The
track Is as fast as any In the North
west, and If this meeting Is a success
next year will see a thirty days' meet
ing In Portland. Inside the track Is a
splendid steeplchase course, and- It is
the hope of the officials of the associa
tion that next year will see the Hunt
Club, with a splendid clubhouse, quar
tered at Irvington. They also hope to
have the Driving Club In their fold.
Every effort possible will be made to
get these two organizations as mem
bers of the Multnomah Fair Associa
tion. It is the Intention of the associa
tion to please the public, and nothing
has been left undone that will tend to
their comfort
A "VANISHING TYPE.
There died at Hoqulam, "Wash., a few
days ago, at the age of 61 years, a man
of familiar name and lineage, who was
born and who had passed the entire
period of his more than three-score
years in the Pacific Northwest Marcus
"Whitman "Walker carried In his name a
memorial of the missionary era In
which he was born, and, In the restless
spirit that dominated his movements
through life, the pioneer instincts that
sent his parents Into the depths of the
North American wilderness on their
bridal tour In 183S.
A representative of the pioneer mis.
slonary type, he carried throughout his
life a desire to move from place to
place, rather than a purpose to settle
himself down and accumulate property.
In conformity with this desire, which
crystallized Into the habit of a lifetime,
he moved when past middle life Into
the wilds of the Northwestern "Wash
ington coast and set himself to a task
of homebullding, the requirements of
which were primitive in character and
abounding In contentment And still In
conformity with the restless spirit that
prompted him to change and again
change his abiding-place, his body was
conveyed after death a long distance
for burial. As a man of this mold Mar
cus "W. "Walker lived a long and blame
less life. Simple In his habits, of mod
est aspirations, frequently changing his
residence, he accomplished little from
the ordinary standpoint of thrift or
public service, yet his name, as far as
It extended, stood and :stlll stands for
personal integrity.
Such a life may be quoted as a con
vincing argument of the subtle power
of heredity and early environment over
kthe forces In later years that make for
what Is called progress. As before said,
this man was the product of the pioneer
missionary era In the Northwest He
was born amid the most primitive sur
roundings, of parents who were still
full of the migratory impulse and the
missionary Idea. Content with little,
perforce, since they had left the farthest
Western verge of civilization far behind
them; controlled by a spirit of rectitude
in their dealings with those around
them; unsettled, in the sense that they
were in constant readiness to move at
the behest of circumstances, or In
obedience to the stern call of necessity.
the lives of these people furnish data
by which the simple riddle of the life
just ended may be read. And in one
such a life is not the record of many an
earnest and In Its way useful life rep
resenting what is known as the pioneer
type written?
"We follow the lines of this simple rec
ord with a feeling akin to reverence. It
is the record of the lives of men and of
women who, in quiet unostentatious
contented fashion, did what they could,
in their way, to, push the bounds of civ
ilization on Into the wilderness; lives
that, in -the main, were well satisfied
with their achievement and did not fret
and worry In the attempt, year after
year, to make it greater and yet
greater. More nearly, perhaps, than
any other class of people In the "West
ern world have pioneers, of this type,
solved the riddle of contentment. The
part they played in the drama of civili
zation was for many years a leading
one. Latterly it has been overshad
owed by the energy and enterprise of
those through whose efforts the blazed
trail has expanded into the railway
track, and the packtraln Into the rail
way train. But their place Is an hon
ored one In the annals of the Pacific
Northwest, even as their lives were
honorable in the relatively narrow con
fines within which they were spent.
Representative Hermann's letter on
forest reserves, printed on another page
this morning, leaves nothing to be ae-
sired on the head of perspicuity and
discretion. It Is aimed, and we should
say well calculated, to pour oil on the
troubled waters, so far as the land con
troversy affects various groups of Re-
publican politicians.
Throughout it
breathes the spirit of harmony and the
glad hand. "We may take "occasion to
discuss Mr. Hermann's views more at
length anon. For the present It is suf
ficient to call attention to the letter and
bespeak its general perusal. It is clear
that the present reserve policy of the
Administration can count on consider
able antagonism in the new Congress.
It is noticeable that Mr. Hermann is
much 'more reserved than Senator Ful
ton in reference to the present conduct
of the Interior Department, and the
self-control no doubt does him credit
Controversies of this sort are easy to
start but sometimes awkward as. they
develop in unexpected directions.
A bust of Queen "Victoria and me
morial tablets to the late Empress
Frederick of Germany and the Duke of
Edinburgh, were lately unveiled in the
littla parish church of Cralthle, near
Balmoral Castle, where the late Queen
and her children attended services In
the earlier and she alone in the later
years of her long reign. King Edward,
by whose orders these memorials were
placed, caused a number of cairns that
his mother had caused to be placed in
Cralthle churchyard and about the
grounds of Balmoral Cattle In com
memoration of trifling but to her im
portant family events to be razed, thus
inviting, criticism from sentimental
people.- It must be admitted by all,
however, that the present ruler's trib
utes to the dead members of his house
take a more dignified and appropriate
form than did those placed by the order
of his mother in her sad and sorrowful
age..
Our average tariff rate on Canadian
products coming Into the United States
is 49.S3 per cent, or about double the
Canadian rate of 24.83 per cent on du
tiable goods exported by us to Canada.
Yet in the last fiscal year our exports
to Canada Increased from $109,000,000 to
$123,000,000, while ,our imports from that
country Increased only $6,500,000 from
$48,076,124 to $54,660,410. This in spite of
the fact that since 1900 British imports
are favored with a 33 1-3 per cent pref
erence. British imports nave mcreasea,
but imports from the United States
have grown still faster. The one-sided
character of this trade is causing much
dissatisfaction in Canada, where more
reciprocity is wanted. At present the
balance in our favor is settled by im
ports from England, but the Canadians
argue that it would pay us better to get
products direct from Canada.
An epidemic of eye disease prevails to
an alarming extent among the public
school children of the poorer districts
of Greater New York. A total of 100,000
cases have been examined by the physi
cians of the Board of Health, and a hos
pital for the exclusive treatment of
victims of this disease will be estab
lished. Unsanitary conditions breed
this disease, and, being contagious, it
bids fair to become universal amon
the children of the crowded tenement
districts. Of all handicaps to endeavor,
blindness Is the heaviest, and a munici
pality the children of which are threat
ened by thousands with this calamity
may well bestir Itself to preventive as
well as remedial measures looking to
its control.
The new life of James Madison by
Galllard -Hunt holds that Madison
might fairly share a little of the glory
for the purchase of Louisiana. It is to
his credit that for twenty years before
the purchase he had been a strenuous
advocate of safeguarding the interests
of the United States In Mississippi
River navigation and In the frontier
generally. He had strongly opposed
diplomatic settlements with European
powers which cut the West off from the
Gulf. Madison, too, as Jefferson's Sec
retary of State, doubtless had some In
fluence upon the decision to accept the
Louisiana purchase, the greatest act of
Jefferson's Presidential life.
The presence of 10,000 people, "chiefly
Americans," at the formal opening of a
new $50,000 bullring at Juarez, Mexico,
near the Texan border, last Sunday, Is
a disgrace to the American name. To
make this American holiday on Mexican
soil, six bulls were tortured and slain
and a number of horses were killed by
the maddened creatures before they
were finally dispatched. Truly, the In
stinct of savagery, the leading force of
which Is cruelty, lies close to the sur
face of civilization.
The grave and prolonged illness of
Rev. Dr. Wise, of Portland, is the occa
sion of much regret and solicitude on
the part of hundreds in the Pacific
Northwest who have come to know him
not only as a cdnsecrated preacher and
masterly pulpit orator, but as an en
thusiastic devotee of everything good
and true In community life. His recov
ery seems assured now, and will be the
occasion of general rejoicing.
If Parks Is thrown out of the Kansas
City convention, organized labor will
receive, as it will deserve, the encomi
ums of all fair-minded men everywhere.
But suppose he Isn't thrown out will
the unions accept with equal relish the
comment elicited by surrender to a very
dangerous and discredited leader?
To De Witte has been Intrusted no
less Important task than approaching
European financiers with a view to
loans for the Russian government. This
is hardly the job the Czar would pick
out for a discredited man.
A machinery building of the Standard
Oil Company burned at Jersey -City
Sunday, loss $60,000. The sad occurrence
is mitigated, however, by the fact that
turpentine was yesterday marked up 2
cents a gallon.
SUNDRY DRAMATIC TOPICS.
Porpoxe of Lljffct Comedy.
t A. W. Plnero.
I have long hoped that the time would
arrive when an English dramatist might
find himself free to put intb the hands
of the public the text of his play simul
taneously with its representation upon the !
stage. Interesting as might be the publi
cation of a play subsequent to Its with
drawal from the boards of a theater, it
has seemed to me that the Interest would
be considerably enhanced If the -play
could be read at the moment when it first
solicited the attention of the playgoer,
the consideration of the critic Such a
course, I haye felt, were it adopted as
a custom, might dignify at once tho
calling of; the actor, the craft of the play
wright It would, by documentary evi
dence, when the play was found to pos
sess some Intrinsic value, enable the
manager to defend his Judgment, while it
would always apportion fairly to actor
and author their Just share of credit or
of blame. It would also offer conclusive
testimony as to the condition of theatrical
work In this country. ,
It will hardly be denied that there ex
ists in certain places the impression that
an English play Is a haphazard concoc
tion of the author, the actor and the
manager; that the manuscript of a
drama, could It ever be dragged, soiled
and dog-eared, from the prompter shelf,
would reveal Itself as a dissolute-looking,
formless thing, mercilessly scarred by
the managerial blue pencil and Illumi
nated by those innumerable Interpolations
with which the desperate actors have
helped to lift the poor material Into tem
porary unhealthy popularity. . . .
It chances that the first work which I
find myself able to present under these
altered conditions is one which in its
designs Is a comic play which essays to
touch with a hand not too heavy some of
the surface faults and follies of the hour.
It lays bare no horrid social wound, It
wrangles over no vital problem of Inex
tricable perplexity. If an unsightly cica
trice appears to be momentarily exposed,
It will be found upon examination to be
comparatively the merest freckle; if any
question be raised, it Is only the old.
often asked question Can the depths be
sounded of Ignorance, of vulgarity of
mind, of vanity and of self-seeking. . . .
Even at a 'time when the bent of the
dramatic taste is, we are assured, delib
erately severe, there may be some to
whom the spectacle' of the mimic cas li
gation of the lighter faults of humanity
may prove entertaining nay, more, to
certain simple minds, instructive. There
may be still those who consider that the
follies, even the vices of the age may be
chastised as effectually by a sounding
blow from the hollow bladder of the jest
er as by the fierce application of the
knout; that a moral need not Invariably
be enforced with the sententiousness of
the sermon or the assertiveness of the
tract . . .
Adumbration of the Baconian. Craze.
Written 25 years before It broke out.
Water Savage Landor.
There Is as great a difference between
Shakespeare and Bacon as between an
American forest and a London timber
yard. In the timber yard the materials
are sawed and squared and set across; in
the forest we have the natural form of
the tree, all Its growth, all Its branches,
all Its leaves, all the mosses that grow
about it all the birds and Insects that in
habit it; now deep shadows absorbing
the whole wilderness, now bright burst
ing glades1, with exuberant grass and
flowers and fruitage; now untroubled
skies, now terrific thunderstorms: every
where multiformity, everywhere Immen
sity. Bacon was immeasurably a less wise
man than Shakespeare, and not a wiser
writer, for he knew his fellow man only
as he saw him in the street and in the
court, which Indeed Is but? a dirtier street
and a narrower; Shakespeare, who also
know him there, knew him everywhere
else, both as he was and as he might bo.
In bo wide and untrodden a creation as
that of Shakespeare's, can we wonder or
complain that-sometimes we are bewlld
ered and entangled In the exuberance of
fertility? Dry-brained men upon the Con
tinent the trifling wits of the theater.
accurate, however, and expert calculat
ors, tell us that his beauties are balanced
bv his faults. The poetical opposition
puffing for popularity, cry . cheerily
against them. His faults are balanced by
his beauties; when, In reality, ajl the
faults that ever were committed In poetry
could be but as air to earth. If we could
welrh them against one single thought or
Image, such as almost every scene exhib
its in everv drama of this unnvaiea
genius.
Story of George Ade.
George Ade is a sensitive man. Some
years ago the late Blff" Hall included In
the column gossip that he wrote for an
Eastern dramatic weekly a joke that was
attributed to Mr. Ade. "I understand.
George," some one was said to have re
marked to him. "that all the bright men
come from Indiana." "They do," was
Ade's alleged reply, "and the brighter
thev are the quicker they come."
The quip was quoted far and wide, both
in serious and In comic papers. But In
Indiana, and especially near the dear old
farm where the master ot the modern
fable spent his guileless, barefoot boy
hood. It created no laughter. Even In In
dlanapolls, that Important If not bustling
center of the Indiana commonweaitn,
only a few persons with a sense of humor
consented to snlckerT and then not in pub
lic
There were editorials In the papers, and
letters from correspondents, remarks
from the State Historical Society, and a
few words from best friends. Something
was said about the "bird that befouls Its
nest," and altogether it made Mr. Ade
very uncomfortable, very unhappy, and
somewhat unkind In his remarks to those
jwho referred to the joke as being "bully
coou.
It took him Several months. In fact.
to deny the story and to prove that he
never, never, never said any sucn tmng,
The Shakespearean Revivals.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
According to present prospects there
will be very few important Shakes pear
ean revivals In this country during the
coming season. So far as we can learn
now, the list will Include only these plays
"As You Like It," by Miss Crosman.
"Midsummer Night's Dream," by Mr.
Goodwin.
"Twelfth Night" by Miss Allen.
"Hamlet." by Mr. Sothern.
"Othello" (possibly), by Mr. Lackaye
"Taming of the Shrew" and "Merchant
of Venice." by Mr. Skinner and Miss
Rohan.
The most that can be said for this
prospect is that It is an Improvement over
last season a aeciuea improvement. JBut
conslderthe sad state of an English-speak
lng Nation of 70,000,000 people which does
not see some of Its eminent players In
"Lear." or "Macbeth." or "Richard III'
at least once a year. The play-goers of
Germany fare vastly better than that
Notoriously Bad Loser.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Wc cannot understand why so much
bad fuss should be made over the petty
question of a fourth-class Postmaster In
Delaware. It Is true that the person
who has lost a postoffice Is a woman, and
women are notoriously bad losers. In
whatever game they play. But why
should big newspapers devote columns of
solemn editorial to tho subject, and why
should high department officials think it
needful to defend their routine action at
portentous length? This looks ,Zlke the
beginning of Mr. Gorman's olever cam
paign of pin pricks to exasperate the
President, and provoke him to make some
fatal break. We observe that all the anti
Roosevelt papers, whether their motive
Is political or financial, have taken up
the cry. It seems rather a pity that the
new Civil Service Commissioner, who
thinks to win his spurs In this teapot
tempest should be credited to Minnesota.
THE FASHION OCTOPUS.
Chicago Tribune.
"They" have said that women's sleeves
shall bulge near the elbow Instead of near
tho waist But who are "they.'v
"They" are "it"
But how did they come to be It? In the
happy days before trusts were organized
"they" became "it" by Inheriting or con
quering a position-among the elite. Today I
"they" become "It" by organizing a trust,
holding a convention, and Issuing an
nouncements. Let this process go a little
bit further and fashion, which used to be
capriciously controlled by les grandes
dames for their own diversion, will be ar
bitrarily controlled by the dressmakers for
their own emolument.
There was some flexibility about . the
old system. There might be .rival grandes
dames. There might be parties and fac
tions within the parties. There might be
slight deviations and aberrations from the
normal as a fashion worked Its way down
from Rue Easy to West Three Hundred
and Forty-sixth street The percolation
of a fashion through excessive social
strata was extremely gradual and quite
automatic Each stratum got It from
the stratum Just above. The only thing
one was sure of and what else, after all,
could one want to be sure of ? was that i
the person who originated the fashion was
one of the indubitable great ones of the
earth. Dressmakers were to be regarded
more or less as intermediaries. The orig
inators were thrones, dominions, princi
palities and powers, or, at any rate, their
female consorts. Hamlet and his breed
still exercised their prerogative to be
glasses of fashion and molds of form.
The modern organization of Industry Is
bringing a change which strikes chill fear
to the heart of every true Jeffersonlan
Democrat and of every true Thackeryan
snob. The dressmakers are forming close
associations which reach common agree
ments and establish common policies. A
few years from now the International As
sociation of Dressmakers, meeting at Rio
Janeiro, will order sleeves to bulge un
der the armpit No dressmaker in the
world will then allow a sleeve to bulge
anywhere else. All the old sleeves will be
thrown away. Millions and millions of
new sleevesWlll be made. And the purses
of the dressmakers will bulge all over.
If anybody thinks that this prophecy Is
entirely caused by a jaundiced mind's
eye, let him observe the autocratic ut
terances of the dressmakers' convention
now sitting In Chicago. It Is true that
these utterances are mainly phonographic
reproductions of utterances already made
In Paris. Nevertheless, they are utter
ances. They go. - -
Fashions have ceased, in a degree, to
percolate. They have begun. In a de
gree, to- flood all social strata at the same
time. The two main causes ot this are
newspapers and fashion conventions. The
newspapers merely announce. The fash
Ion conventions go further. They formu
late. Admit that one or two tentacles have
already been developed by the young
fashion octopus.
The South Affnlnst Bryan.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
It is no secret that the South never
liked Bryan. Southern Democrats voted
for him In two National campaigns be
cause they had to vote for the party s
nominee In order to keep the South in
Democratic control, but they had a deep
dislike to Bryan and his principles. It Is
not surprising, therefore, to hear that the
South Is solid against him now, but It
Is somewhat surprising to hear also that
It is solid for Gorman. Senator Clay, of
Georeia. said, speaking for Southern
Democrats:
We have talked the subject over anions our
selves, and we have about concluded that
Senator ' Gorman Is not only the strongest
man In the party we can nominate, but w
believe there la an excellent opportunity of
electing him. His Democracy, his ability as a
leader, and his safe views on all the Important
questions which will figure In the coming- cam
palgn will stafmp him as the strongest man we
have In our party today. This estimate of
Senator Gorman Is not confined to Georgia,
but extends from Maryland all down through
Virginia. West Virginia, North and South
Carolina. Florida. Alabama. Tennessee, Mis
sissippi. Texas and Louisiana.
As for Bryan, Senator Clay's observa
tions about him are scarcely decorous
He says he does "hot wish to be profane,"
but he will stop at nothing short of pro
fanlty in expressing his opinion of him,
calling him a "dead card" and saying
that the party "has sufficient common
sense and business tact to discourage all
further attempt to play him off on
prosperous and progressive country."
There will be a disturbance In Nebraska
when those observations reach the office
of the Commoner.
An Unqualified Denial.
Early in August last The Oregonian
wrote Will H. Thompson, author of "The
Hleh Tide at Gettysburg-." a letter In
quiring whether the New Orleans Times
Democrat was correct In Its statement
that two stanzas In that remarkable poem
were not written by Mr. Thompson, but
added by an unknown hand. Mr. Thomp
son, who has but lately returned from an
absence of more than five weeks, replies
as follows:
Seattle, "Wash.. Sept IS, 1003. The New Or
leans Times-Democrat seems to have kicked up
a lively mess In regard to the "High Tide
at Gettysburg," manufactured out of whole
cloth, every particle of the material out of
which the fuss comes. The fact Is that I have
never Intimated to any human being that I
was not the author of any line or word In the
poem, nor did Mr Charles A. Dana In his
lecture refer to this poem saying Jhat It wa
unfortunate that Its author was unknown
No cart of the Times-Democrat's criticism
ever came of anything but sheer Invention
by the Times-Democrat's writer. I can only
Imagine his- reason for stating that the author
did not write the two last stanzas in the
poem referred to upon the theory that the wish
was father to the thougnt. He Is evidently
one of the unreconstructed rebels, who Is no:
willing to adroit that any rebel soldier would
bo willing to stand a3 author fit the sentiments
expressed In the two stanzas referred to, and
therefore has Invented a theory of his own and
put It forth as fact.
WILL. H. THOMPSON.
The Coliseum by Moonlight.
Lord Byron.
The stars 'are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful!
I linger yet with Nature, for the night
Hath been to roe a more familiar face
Than that of man: and In her starry shade
Of dim and solitary lowliness
1 learned the) language of another world.
I do remember me. that In my youth.
When 1 was wandering upon such a night
I stood within the Coliseum's wall.
mm the- chiof relics of almlirhty Rome:
The trees which grew along the broken arches
Waved dark in the blue midnight; and the
stars
Shone through the rents of ruin; from afar
The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber, and
More near, from out the Caesars' palace came
The owl's cry. and. Interruptedly.
Of distant sentinels the fitful song
Begun and died upon the gentle wind.
Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach
Appeared to skirt the horizon, yet they stood.
Within a bowshot wnere tne uaesars awelt.
And dwell the tuneless birds of night, amlds
A grove which springs through leveled battle
ments,
And twines Ha roots with the Imperial hearths
Ivy usurps the laurel's place of growth
But the gUdiators' bloody Circus stands,
A noble wreck in ruinous perfection.
While Caesar's chambers and the Augustan
halls
Grovel on earth and Indistinct decay
And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon, upon
All this, and cast a wide and tender light
Which softened down the hoar austerity
Of rusged desolation, and tilled up.
As 'twere anew, the gaps of centuries.
Leaving that beautiful which still was so,
And making that which was not, till the plact
Became religion, and the heart ran o'er .
"With silent worship of the great of old!
The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still
rule
Our snlrlts. from their urns.
?0TE AND COMMENT.
"Central" at St Paul must have had
quite an enjoyable time hearing Chaun
cey Olcottf make love- to Mrs. Mollneux
by telephone, but It Is reasonable to ex
pect Mr. Olcott's tones to be somewhat
acid., when he next asks for "long distance."
"Jewels From the Diamond.
Brooklyn was out for blood, from the
drop "of the flag and played pennant b3ll
all through the game, says the New York
Press. Strang stabbed for a station and
purloined a perch. Kling's hurl to nail
him at the far turn was so wild that he
made third on the misplay. A marvelous
heave to the mat by Slgle. after swallow
ing Sheckard's starseeker, held Sammy on
third. Strang scored, however, on a daz
zling double by Dobbs. Dobbs was nabbed
at third by Tinker, though, on Doyle's
dancer the locust-lifter roosting on the
choice and Dahlen was massacred by
Currlc and Chance.
The Harlequins still wore their swatting
togs in the second round. It was evident
they contemplated slaughtering Currle
early in the game. Gessler singled and
raced to third when Jordan duplicated his
performance with the cudgel. Jacklltsch
gave up the ghost at first. Tinker aiding.
but the out was as good as If it had been
an Intentional sacrifice, for Gessler patted
the pan while the fielders were busy with
the hickory hefter. Schmidt trained a
glassy eye on Currle and feazed the slab-
master for a nook. Jordan jotted on
Strang's bunt, for which Currle made a
gallant effort. Schmidt was nipped at
third because Currle was more successful
with Sheckard's attempt and hurled the
hide to Casey in grandstand style. Dobbs
was an easy vlctim'for the twlstmelster,
too, as he went out from the box to first
A Human FncUInjsr-Houne.
Stories concerning the feats of Dr. H. L.
Bonner, of Marlon, O., as an eater have
savored so strongly of Munchausen, the
classic prevaricator, that the Sentinel
(Parkersburg) has been loath to believe
them. Inquiry into the case has convinced
it beyond a doubt that the most amazing
of these reports are literally true, and
that in Dr. Bonner Ohio can boast of a
man who can stow away more food at a
single sitting than any other man living.
A correspondent writes as follows con
cerning this great eater:
It is strictly, though we can hardly say
painfully, true that Dr. Bonner has been
known to eat 25 pounds of grapes be
tween meals of an afternoon, and thinks
no more of treating himself to a whole
bunch of bananas when he feels that way.
or incidentally making away with a crata
of strawberries or a basket of peaches.
than an ordinary person would think of
taking two bites at a cherry-
'And when the doctor really gets down
to business at a regular meal his bill of
fare generally runs about as follows:
One five-pound steak smothered in
onions.
"Four dozen hard-boiled eggs.
"Eighteen boiled potatoes.
"A quart can of tomatoes.
"Two or three pies, and from six to nine
glasses of milk fill in the chinks.
Often when the doctor comes home late
of a Winter night after a long, hard drive
he will take a few light 'refreshments' be
fore retiring, in the shape of a four-pound
steak, 56 hard-boiled eggs, three and a
half pumpkin pies, and aVallon of milk;
and we have it as the direct testimony of
a personal friend that Dr. Bonner never
had the nightmare In his life.
"The same friend tells us of a chance
acquaintance of" the doctor who happened
to meet him on the street one day about
noon and Invited him Into a restaurant to
luncheon. The doctor suggested that It
hatt better be a 'Dutch treat,' but his new
friend objected to that and asked what
he would have. The doctor said that If it
was 'all Jhe same' he would take a five
pound steak smothered in mushrooms to
begin with, and after that he wouldn't
mind having three dozen fried eggs, a
can or two of tomatoes, a dozen cucum
bers, and such little side dishes as there
were on the bill.
"The acquaintance thought tho doctor
was putting up a bluff, but he ordered two
five-pound steaks, the eggs and the other
things on the list After the order was
served the friend engaged In conversation
with a gentleman passing by and turned
his back to the table, whereupon the doc
tor, just for a joke, cleared off everything,
so that when his host was ready for his
meaL there was nothing left but the tooth
picks. The host's remarks on this occa
sion are discreetly left to the imagination.
"It would be wholly unjust to Dr. Bon
ner to close this account of his extraordi
nary achievements at the table without
stating in all seriousness that he Is by no
means a glutton or a man who cares to
pose as a great eater. On the contrary, he
Is a refined gentleman, a graduate of Ed
inburgh College, a lover of art and litera
ture, and a successful and highly respect
ed physician. Nature seems to have en
dowed him with an abnormal capacity for
food, and he only cats what he craves and
what he needs, as other men do. He is a
well-proportioned man. his weight being
220 pounds and his age 63 years."
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
"I see that old Closefist has begun to wear
glasses." "Yes I think he's Injured his eye
sight looking out for No. 1." Puck.
"I met Kernel Kalmuck a month ago and he
was drunk, and I just met him up the street
and he's drunk again." "No. not again,
yet "Houston. Post.
Sklda-Dld your friend. Chcstcrlus McRanter
the tragedian, enjoy his vacat,on17uSo;1
can't say as to whether he enjoyed It or not,
but the public did. Boston Journal.
Angry Father-Toung man. you are sitting
up too late with my daughter. Last night I
heard you kissing her. Caperton-W ell. sir.
some one has got to.-Detrolt Free Press.
The Philosopher-My boy. If you smoke these
vile cigarettes you will never learn to save
rrK- Twn,. whiz, mister! I've got a hundred
'and fifty coupon" now.-Phlladelphia Bulletin.
Maud (at the party)-There's Irene over In
the corner, talking to Cholly Slympatc. She
has to do something to kill time. Mabel-Is
that Why she looks daggers at the clock every
faw minutes ?-Chlcago Tribune.
Mrs. Jones Your husband is still very rend
of you. I suppose? Mrs. Brown Oh, yes. b.ut
still he isn't satisfied, so he stays away from
home all he can. Absence, you know, makes
the heart grow fonder. Boston Transcript.
Tou really think Hartrox Is a liar?" "The
biggest ever. If I knew he was telling the
unvarnished truth I couldn't believe him.
New York Press.
A That's Jones' daughter with him. She's
Just about to be married. B Who's the
lucky man? A Jones. Boston Globe.
"I can't imagine anything worse than a man
who never had an opinion of his own." "Un
less it's a man who has lots of opinions that
I he thinks are his own." Philadelphia Press.
Sioiklns What do you know about uunng37
Is his reputation for veracity good? Tlmkins
Well, all I know about Billings is that he Is
the father of a baby that Is Just beginning
to say things. Chicago News.
Tommy Do you believe In transmigration,
pop? Pop Sometimes. Tommy Well, from
the way I love peanuts I must have been an
elephant once. Chicago News.
Mrs. Greene I knew somebody was coming.
I dropped a dlahcloth only ten minutes ago.
Mrs. Gay Thanks. When I know you are
coming to my. house, I drop everything. Bos
ton Transcript.