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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
COMMENDABLE PROGRESS.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked
meats did coldly furnish forth the mar
riage tables. Hamlet, I., 2.
They who came to mourn over the
dead treaty between the United States
and Colombia behold our prosperous
union with Panama. A little month ere
yet "those shoes were old, the Hay-Var-illa
compact is ready for signature and
all the bells are ringing at Colon and
Panama.
All of which is satisfactory. Haste
is not objectionable or dangerous unless
delay is necessary. Heaven knows we
have waited centuries enough for an
isthmian canal, without fearing now
the Imputation of precipitate action.
The harvests which revolutions gather
In an hour are of slow fruition. So It
is with the canal. It is not alone on
the isthmus that circumstances have
been ripening through the years; but
also in the United States Senate, where
winds and waves of popular conviction
have been beating upon rock-bound
conservatism and railroad affiliations;
In the "White House itself, where at
length this vision of commerce has pos
sessed the mind of the Federal Govern
ment, and in -foreign lands, where Euro
pean arms, trade and diplomacy have
moved to the point of welcoming the
realization of an American canal, with
all the necessary concomitants of
American ascendency there in military
and political senses. The swiftness
with which the blow has fallen Is In
perfect keeping with the long prepara
tory struggle. The flower has bloomed
In a night, but its seed has been nour
ished in the bosom of four hundred
eventful years. Probably the signing
and ratifying of the new treaty will
come on apace, and the way be cleared
for construction ' at a date apparently
impossible two months ago.
The rapidity with which events move
on is not more noteworthy than the
care with which they are guided. It
is clear that the Administration Is pre
pared to meet even' contingency In a
masterly way. The rage of Colombia
has been foreseen and will be molli
fied by such financial arrangements as
will gain more for her than her stub
bornness and over-reaching could gain
for herself. Though we shall have
large jurisdiction at Panama and Colon,
the Integrity of the new republic will
be preserved, and not confused with
the new ambitions of neighboring de
partments or provinces. European co
operation will be enlisted by judicious
adjustment of the Colombian national
debt. All these things are within easy
reach of American talents and re
sources. It Is Incredible that any seri
ous obstruction to the treaty's ratifica
tion can be worked up in the Senate,
within or without party lines.
TRUE, THOUGH NOT NEW.
"Whoever has examined the conduct
and proceedings of both parties for
some years past, whether in or out of
power, cannot well conceive it possible
to so far toward the extreme of either
without offering some violence to his
integrity, or understanding. A wise
and good man may indeed be some
times induced to comply with a mem
ber, whose opinion he generally ap
proves, though it be perhaps against
his own. But this liberty should be
made use of -upon very few occasions,
mid those of small importance, and
then only with a view of bringing over
to his own side, another time, to some
thing of greater and more public mo
ment. But to sacrifice the lnnocency of a
friend, the good of our country, or our
own conscience, to the humor, or pas
sion or interest of a party, plainly
shows that either our heads or our
hearts are not as they should be; yet
this -very practice is the fundamental
low of each faction among us, as may
be obvious to any who will impartially
and without engagement be at the pains
o examine their actions, which how
ever Is not so easy a task; for It seems
e. principle in human nature to incline
one way more than another, even in
matters where we are wholly uncon
cerned. And It is a common observa
tion that in reading a history of facts
done a thousand years ago, or standing
by at play among those who are per
fect strangers to us, we are apt to find
our hopes and wishes engaged on a
sudden In favor of one side more than
another. No wonder, then, we are so
ready to interest ourselves in public
fdB&lrs, where the most inconsiderable
have some real share, and by the won
derful Importance "which every man' Is
of io himself, a very great Imaginary
one.
And indeed, when the two parties that
divide the whole commonwealth come
once to a rupture, without any hopes
left of forming a thread, with better
principles, to balance the others, It
seems every man's duty to choose one
of the two sides, though he cannot en
tirely approve of either; and all pre
tenses to neutrality are justly exploded
by both, being too state and obvious,
only Intending the saf etyv and ease of a
few individuals, while the public is em
broiled. Now, The Oregonian is not presenting
all this as original matter. But the
matter is Just as good as it was two
hundred years ago, when written by
the celebrated Bean of St. Patrick's,
Dublin.
FUR SEAL STILL PLENTIFUL.
Owners of Victoria sealing schooners
are again dispatching some of their ves
sels to the hunting grounds off Cape
Horn, and the fleet from the Canadian
port operating in this new field will this
year number eleven vessels. All of the
schooners that have hunted on the
southern grounds have prospered, most
of the vessels last year securing 2000
skins each. The weather conditions
are less favorable in the new hunting
grounds than they are In Behring Sea
and. off ,the North Pacific coast, but
the success of the sealers is conclusive
evidence that the herds of fur-bear.ers
in the Pacific Ocean are fully as large
as they ever were. The Inhuman brand
ing iron of the United States Govern
ment agents has driven them in" terror
from some of their favorite haunts
in the North Pacific, and too many
hunters off the Japan coast have fright
ened some of them away from there.
The ocean Is wide, however, and the
seal's environment and cunning give
all the protection that is required to
perpetuate the Industry for an indefi
nite period. Professor Jordan has been
prating about "vanishing seal herds"
for the past twenty years, but the
herds In the water are as numerous as
ever, and the only ones that vanish are
those that are transferred from their
native element to the holds of the
Canadian schooners, and they are never
missed from the vast herds which re
appear each season. In endeavoring to
protect the Alaska sealing monopoly
the American Government has driven
the American sealing schooner from
the sea, and the loss, direct and Indi
rect, to our people through being de
prived of the right to engage in the
business has amounted to many mil
lions of dollars. "With an ordinary
catch this season, that fleet of eleven
vessels sailing out of Victoria for Cape
Horn will bring back over $250,000
worth of skins. This Is not as much as
some of our other industries produce,
but if the fleet of forty American
schooners which were sailing out of
Pacific Coast ports when the Govern
ment began its persecution of the
sealer, twenty years ago, had contin
ued in the business until the present
time, some of those fine residences and
business blocks that Victoria sealers
have built with the proceeds of their
catches would grace American instead
of Canadian ports.
This great industry was lost to the
United States through either cupidity
or stupidity in giving the Alaska fur
trust a monopoly of the seal-killing at
the breeding grounds. The seal in the
open sea, with a fair chance to escape
the hunter, was in little or- no danger
of extermination or of being driven
away from the North Pacific grounds,
but when the Government permitted
the big fur monopoly to invade the
breeding grounds and ruthlessly club
to death vast herds of seal, leaving
thousands of motherless pups to starve
on the beach, the fur-bearer began to
migrate, and his migration was accel
erated a few years ago when the tor
turous branding Iron came Into use.
The vigilance of the hunters has failed
to drive the seal from the ocean, but
the vigilance of the Government In pro
tecting a monopoly has driven the
American sealer from the ocean.
It might be said that we could riow
take advantage of the new field for op
erations and again get in the business.
Unfortunately, all of our sealing cap
tains, hunters and boatmen have long
since followed their vessels under the
British flag, and the recruiting of a
fleet such as we had in the early '80s
would require many years of work and
the expenditure of a large sum of
money. "We are out of the sealing busi
ness, and we were forced "out by the
blunders of the Government officials
and experts like Professor Jordan.
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
Ex-Senator John H. Reagan, of
Texas, the only survivor of the Con
federate Cabinet, predicts that the re--suit
of the present drift of our politics
will be a dissolution of the confedera
tion of states or a monarchical form of
government, and he opposes the divis
ion of the State of Texas on the ground
that he wants that state to be big
enough to stand alone when the disso
lution of the Union comes. Senatbr
Reagan Is In his 92d year, and he talks
as many men of ability and intelligence
talked In his boyhood, when the disso
lution of the Union was not an unrea
sonable presumption. But the condi
tions which then made a dissolution
possible no longer exist. In 18C0 we
had but thirty millions of people
about nineteen millions In the North
and some eleven millions in the South.
There were few railroads In the South.
The navigation of the Ohio, the Missis
sippi and the Missouri counted for so
much more than railroads that had It
not been for the Importance of the Con
trol of these great inland waterways
It is doubtful whether the "West would
have fought unanimously on the side
of the Union.
Today the South is cobwebbed with
railroads connecting it with the whole
North. Newspapers have multiplied all
over the country. The agencies which
make most powerfully against -sectionalism
and promote a common concern
in the welfare of a united country
have been so enormously Increased In
their far-reaching Influence that it is
safe to say that the Union will never
be dissolved, simply because the vast
majority of the people of all sections
of the country know that as a matter of
business It would not pay to dissolve It.
It was by no means clear to the lead
i ers of the South that as a business
f proposition the establishment of the
Southern Confederacy was an extrava
gant experiment The recognition of
the Confederacy by France and Eng
land was not unreasonably expected,
and as late as February, 1863, General
Beauregard did not despair of an
estrangement of the Northwest from the
Union, and he urged the Confederate
government to offer the Northwestern
States a treaty of alliance, offensive
and defensive, whenever they should
separate "from the rest of the United
States." He added: "They may not
accept It at first, but they will think
about it and discuss it It will be a
beginning for. those who are tired of
war to stir up, and finally, after one
or more severe battles, they will make
up their minds that we are their best
friends and they will act as we de
sire." This was written after the ter
rible year of 1862, In which the Union
armies had been either defeated or
fought drawn battles from Shlloh to
Fredericksburg.
Beauregard's view was sound, and if
the war had been prolonged another
year without victory, the peace party
would probably have swept the North
west. As a military and economic ex
periment, the Southern Confederacy
was not a reckless venture in 1SG1, but
all the conditions of that day are so
completely changed that It is safe to
say that, whether in the future we
stand or fall, there will be no disunion;
we shall stand or fall together. Our
form of government It is possible may
be changed in some respects. Monarchy
was subverted by Cromwell, but the
English nation was not dissolved.
Cromwell was succeeded by the son of
the King he sent to the block, but the
English nation remained a unit. So
while our republican form of govern
ment may experience some change, mu
tual Interests and the sense of self
preservation will be sure to keep us a
united country. The American Union
or Nation will never be dissolved, sim
ply because we .have become too Intel
ligent a people not to understand that
it cannot possibly pay to dissolve it
Our people may differ strongly as to
whether It pays to enlarge our Union,
but they all agree that It Is the high
est wisdom not to dissolve It.
IN MEMORY OF DR. M'LOUGHLIN.
Agitation at Oregon City of the ques
tion of erecting a monument to Dr.
McLoughlln Is timely, and Oregon City
furlshes at 'once-an Ideal and historical
site for such a monument Citizens of
Oregon and "Washington, or of such
portions of these states as were known
to and exploited by Dr. McLoughlln,
whether as chief factor of the Hudson's
Bay Company or in his last years as a
public-spirited American citizen, may
well be called upon to forward this ob
ject, both by their Interest and their
means. For many years, comprising
the formative period in which civili
zation established Its outposts In the
Pacific Northwest, Dr. McLoughlln was
the ruling spirit of events.
Kind, somewhat austere, as became
the ruling power In a section far re
moved from the seat of government;
just and generous, he filled a place In
the energies and exigencies of the time
the Importance of which cannot be
overestimated. Americans who ob
tained a foothold in the land which he
had occupied In unquestioned authority
for many years conceived more or less
prejudice against him In the earlier
times because he was first of all a
British subject with all that that Im
plied to a man In his station of author
ity; but this gradually melted away
when he became an American citizen
and was as loyal to his adopted as he
had been to his native country. He
made his home at Oregon City at that
time the goal for which transconti
nental immigration struggled. Engag
ing in the peaceful pursuits of busi
ness in the old pioneer town; Interested
in its growth and identified with Its
prosperity, he passed the last. years of
his eventful life there died and was
bUrled there, and there through all the
years the ceaseless monotone of the
"Willamette falls has been his requiem.
Almost as often as burial has been
made In private grounds, whether of
the home pasture lot or the church
yard, time and change have shown that
it has been a mistake. The most pa
thetic and neglected spots In rural New
England are the family burial plots.
Once "sacred to memory," they are
now (where they have not been obliter
ated by the plow of the careless stran
ger) overgrown by wlldwood tangle,
marked only as burial places by reeling
or prostrate slabs of crumbling sand
stone, or more enduring but weather
stained, mossgrown marble.
Times change and people change. The
personality that Is prominent and pow
erful In the affairs of today Is forgot
ten In the tomorrows of half a century.
Hence it is that few of the citizens of
Oregon, relatively speaking, know that
the dust of Dr. McLoughlln, deposited
less than half a century ago by his re
quest In the small lnclosure of the
church In which he reverently wor
shiped, lies there in an obscure grave.
The proposition to erect a monument
to his memory Includes a site on the
hill, picturesque and commanding be
yond description, and eminently suita
ble for the purpose. It would be well,
were It possible to do so from a senti
mental point of view, if It also Includ
ed the removal of his remains to the
site selected, when the monument was
completed and at the time of Its dedi
cation. But whether this is done or
not the effort to secure funds for
building a monument to the memory of
Dr. McLoughlln should be continued
until the object Is accomplished.
A marvel of speed was brought to the
attention of the public some two years
ago by the statement that the dis
tance between Paris and Amiens was
made by rail at the rate of about
slxty-flve miles an hour. The progress
that mankind Is making In the art of
learning to fly without wings was lately
noted In a test of electricity as a motor
on a German railway In which a speed
of 131 miles an hour was developed.
This Is much faster than the ordinary
mortal cares about getting over the
ground, but conditions being favora
ble, It Is confidently asserted that even
greater speed than this can be attained
over relatively short distances through
electrical traction. This German test
only confirmed the opinion that has
been entertained by electrical engineers'
ever since this subtle force was reduced
to control. So far, however, It Is true
that beyond a certain limit much
within the phenomenal speed that can
be attained, the cost of this rapid tran
sit Is greater than those who travel
can afford to pay. The danger that at
tends such a rate of speed Is also much
greater than prudent people will care
to Incur. This Is a fast age, but very
few persons, relatively speaking, care
to Indorse Its extreme possibilities by
riding literally upon the lightning's
wing.
Madame Curie, the discoverer of ra
dium, was born thirty-six years ago in
"Warsaw. She Is an Indefatigable stu
dent, dresses with severe simplicity, and
gives absolutely no thought to the cut
or fit of her garments, so long as the
simple details of "neatness and comfort
are observed. As described by Mad
ame Belnstock, a highly cultivated
French woman, Madame Curie Is tall,
well proportioned, with magnificent
light yellow wavy hair which harmoni
ously frames a fine straight forehead.
The features of her face are fine and
regular; the eyes a light blue, very ex
pressive and soft; the mouth alone,
with Its thin lips, gives a slight touch
of hardness to the expression of the
physiognomy. The wife of a studious
man, the mother of a shy little daugh
ter of seven years, who is described
as "a small blonde, In good health, full
of life and tenderly cared for by her
mother"; a scientist to whose findings
the scientists of the world give wonder
ing attention, Madame Curie stands be
fore the world In a complex role, every
detail of which she has mastered.
"With the discovery of a force more
wonderful than the X ray to her credit,
full of faith and courage, she will pur
sue her researches concerning radio
active bodies, hoping in a year's time
to have disclosed other forces to the
scientific world. Perhaps the greatest
wonder In all of this Is the development
from lowly parentage and amid poverty
and prejudice of a human mind so alert
persistent and far-seeing as that of
Madame Curie.
The Chicago City Council has taken
time by the forelock In the hope to
diminish the July death rate from tet
anus. An ordinance has been passed
carrying a penalty of $100, which for
bids any one to sell, lend or furnish a
toy pistol or similar firearm In which
any explosive substance can be used.
The Fourth of July 4s yet some months
off, but It Is well to legislate upon this
matter before the noise merchants get
stocked up with explosives. It Is a
well-established fact that the celebra
tion of Independence day each year Is
the direct or Indirect cause of more
wounds and fatalities than have result
ed from some of the more Important
battles of the world. The discomfort
danger and loss from fire, annoyance
and shock to the jierves, from the same
cause, cannot be computed. Chicago,
for once at least nas set a good exam
ple which other cities might with hu
manity and propriety follow. If the
Portland City Council takes the matter
up, It may be hoped that "cannon
crackers," "Dewey chasers" and the
"explosive cane" will come In with the
toy pistol for Interdiction. And to this
may be added the hope that our mu
nicipal lawgivers will give the matter
their early and earnest attention,
thereby materially assisting to lessen
the July death rate arid helping to re
duce the July budget of discomfort to
the minimum.
The German steamship Kaiser Wll
helm II arrived at New York November
10 with 1566 passengers from Europe.
"While this was a small list compared
with some that have been noted during
the Summer and early Autumn, it Is
sufficiently large to cause speculation
as to where this immigration is going
to end. It is now a certainty that the
number of foreigners coming in for
the calendar year 1903 will reach a total
of 1,000,000. If this vast throng of new
comers would scatter out "West and
clear up and Improve some of the
many millions of acres of Idle land and
become producers, they would meet
with a warm welcome. Unfortunately,
the most of tTrfem crowd Into the cities
and intensify a struggle for existence
which Is already sufficiently strenuous
to cause untold misery and suffering.
The new "West needs thousands and
millions of workers, but it would prefer
to have most of them In the fields, for
ests and mines instead of the cities.
The Influx of 1,000,000 foreigners ln
quest of a job will have some effect on
the labor market In the United States,
for they cannot all get on the police
force or live off their neighbors.
Among the lost articles reported to
the London police last year were 21,608
umbrellas. This was nearly one-half
of the entire number of such articles
reported. The umbrella by this show
ing maintains its place in the record of
forgetfulness, even, as It would doubt
less be maintained In the records of
petty larceny, were the latter records
accessible. The figures given lead the
New York Independent to ask what
there is In the moral or physical nature
of the umbrella which Impels It to be
numbered among the lost and aban
doned. The attraction which the um
brella has for the sneakthlef may read
ily be explained, but what there Is In
this useful and easily transported arti
cle to cause a cog to slip In the owner's
memory when he puts It down in a
public conveyance, hall, hallway or
church. Is a question that may well
puzzle the most accomplished alienist
The 5200,000 clubhouse which the
"Woxklngman's Educational and Home
Association of New York will build for
Its members will undoubtedly do much
toward elevating and Improving the
condition of the New York working
man. The Tammany excuse for the
corner saloon find worst places has al
ways been that they were the poor
man's club, where he could meet and
exchange views with fellow-cltlzens In
his own walk of life. A worklngman's
club conducted on the plan suggested
for this latest New York enterprise
would cause the Tammany argument to
lose much of Its force. It Is possible,
however, that the poor men who con
gregate In Tammany's clubs are mostly
worklngmen who work only the public
and politics. For such the new club
will have small attractions, and the
red "lights will still burn "on the Bow
ery." There is negro blood today In the
ranks of the Russian aristocracy, for
Peter the Great elevated a negro who
was one of his favorite officers to the
nobility, and there Is negro blood In the
aristocracy of Great Britain, for the
announcement of the coming marriage
in South Africa of Lady Mary Grey re
calls the fact that the third wife of the
late and eighth Earl of Stamford Is a
mulatto, the daughter of a Hottentot
cook" and laundress in the family of
that peer, whom he married after she
had borne him two children. Lady
Mary takes her place In Burke's peer
age. The rebuke administered by Attorney
General Kn,ox to District Attorney
Summers, of Nebraska, is a timely re
buke to those antls who have been
carping at the Administration's pur
poses of honesty In attacking frauds.
It Is a' mistake, the conjecture tele
graphed from "Washington that Judge
Bellinger, on a technicality, directed
the dismissal of the charges against
Mr. Moody. He did It because there
was nothing In them.
'Except Mr. Hermann, the Oregon
delegation at "Washington have nothing
to say about the ac.qtilttal of Mr. Moody.
J jt becomes them, to be silent
POSITION OF THE STEEL- TKUST
Chicago Record-Herald.
The last few days have brought spe
cific proof that the United States Steel (
Corporation, big as it is, is not big
enough to carry on its business regardless
of those ordinary trade conditions of
supply and demand which regulate prices.
It has been compelled to make substan
tial reductions in the prices of Its prod
ucts, despite Its frequently declared pur
pose to keep prices where they were.
The payment of the dividends on the
water in the Steel stock requires, as Is
evident, huge earnings. If the watering
of thestock was not a deliberate swindle
it was because the promoters of the trust
honestly believed tha by their new organ
ization they could keep up the prices and
the earnings and the dividends. To a
certain extent their failure Is already
apparent Their policy, as phrased by
The "Wall Street Journal, Is now toned
down to "the maintenance of a .more
or less uniform and stable price for Us
(the trust's) products, and yet not to
maintain a fixed prlco so as to make It
hold the umbrella, so to speak, and
thereby permit competitors to undersell
them." The power of outside competi
tion is here most clearly recognized.
Nevertheless it may still be true that
the trust will be able to prevent "runa
way" markets and to produce much
greater stability of prices than has for
merly been the case. Steel billets, which
have just been reduced from $27 to 523 a
ton, have sold as low as 515.43 in 1S94,
515 in 1S9S, and 519.75 in 1900, and as high
as 539.50 in 1SS9 and 529 in 1902.
A most Important fact to bo noted in
the trust's favor when the proballtles of
its future prosperity are under consider
ation, is the one to which James, J. Hill
called attention in an Interview printed
yesterday namely. Its ownership of the
most valuable Iron mines on the conti
nent, estimated to contain SO per cent
of the ore of the country. That these
mines are enormously valuable there is
no doubt, but the Investor will take little
account of them so long as he fears that
a reorganization of the company may
wipe out his stock certificates altogether
and leave those same valuable mines to
the possession of some one else, possibly
the fortunate holder of the first mort
gage bonds.
Ancther phase of the trust's manage
ment which will be closely watched in the
immediate future is Its attitude toward
.labof. Its announced policy is not to
"reduce production proportionally in all
its mines, but to shut particular mills
entirely whenever a restriction In output
is decided on. The power or the trust
In this respect Is so great that if it
exercises It arbitrarily It will hold the
fates not merely of many of Its union
laborers, but of whole communities, In
Its hand.
Monkeys In Society.
Baltimore Sun. .
Having imported "rag-time" music and
"coon songs" from the United States and
enjoyed these frlvolties to the utmoBt,
French society has adopted another fea
ture of American high life. A dispatch
from Paris states that the wife of a dis
tinguished professional man In the
French metropolis gave a reception last
week In honor of "Consul," a chimpanzee
which has been the chief attraction at ar
place of amusement in Paris. The cards
of Invitation stated that the guests were
invited specially to meet the accomplished
Simian. At the reception "Consul" ap
peared In faultless evening dress. He was
duly presented td the guests and his man
ners, according to ah reports, were
worthy of a Gallic Turveydrop. "He
flirted with the women," says the dlspafcn,
"like a courtier." In fine, the Simian made
the hit of the season, and the guests were
charmed by his elegance of deportment
and his wit In the entertainment of mon
keys, however, gilded society In the United
States is still far In advance of the Old
"World. More than a year ago we intro
duced them Into society, banquetted them
and otherwise admitted them to a plane
of equality with the members of our most
exclusive social circles. It Is gratifying to
our pride that Parisian society is follow
ing' the American lead in this matter.
Those who have made a study of the
monkey's social graces and accomplish
ments find the Simian a very delightful
addition to the Four Hundred a creature
of incomparable refinement and most
brilliant wit. It Is hoped our French
friends will prove equally appreciative
otherwise the monkey's feelings will be
hurt
Not a Good Year for Grafters.
New York Evening Post.
"Western critics are speaking out plainly
and fearlessly against fraudulent entries
on public land, which are coming to light
in Oregon, "Washington and California.
In these states, it Is charged, at least
10,000 entries have been made under the
timber and stone act which cannot stand
Investigation; and under the desert land
act abuses have arisen, not to speak of
125 unlawful Inclosures covering some
2,500,000 acres of public domain. It Is to
protect the bona fide settler the man
who needs cheap land to live on that
there Is a call for searching inquiry on
the part of Government officials. The
lands to bo settled are yet extensive, but
there is a demand for practically all of
them, and when the great acreage of the
arid and seml-arld states Is brought near
to adequate Irrigation systems, the legiti
mate demand will far exceed the supply.
The speculator has watched, with more
or less cynicism, the attempt of Land
Commissioner Richards to destroy his in
fluence; but it must be remembered that
this Is a year when "grafters" are not
flourishing particularly, and something
helpful and definite is likely to result
from these recent disclosures, and from
the resolute orders of Secretary Hitch
cock. Roosevelt's Legs Too Straight.
"Washington Dispatch to Atlanta Constitution.
All "Washington Is talking about a little
conversation that occurred today between
the President and Judge Adamson, which
was as follows:
The Judge called at the "White House
and said:
4iMr. President, my only business 13 to
pay my respects. In the language of
'Br'er Rabbit' just to past the time o'
day with you."
Said the President:
"I am always glad to see you, but I
am especially delighted to see you today,
and speaking of 'Br'er Rabbit' reminds
me that Br'er Jack Rabbit on tho isthmus
jumped one time too many for his good."
Mr. Adamscnt "I guess that when he
jumrcd he wasdIsappoInted that he did
not run against a bowlegged President
who could not head him In a lane."
The joke amused the President very
much, and he repeated It to nearly all of
his callers during the remainder of the
day.
Got th' Mumps.
Eajtlmore News.
Bay. I got th' mumps; an' say,
Ain't It awful when your face
Swctis all up? "Why, yesterday
I c'd hardly find a place
For th pie, It hurt me so.
With thenf orful. achhV Jumps 1
It's Jest fun t stump your toe,
v Side o 'mumps!
Every time I try f talk
Somethln' gits me In the Jaw,
An' it shakes so when I walk,
I Jess holler out f'r maw.
An she come3 a-runn!n' my!
Don't I git a couple thumps
On th ear fr yellln'? I
Hate th' mumps!
Ain't nobody sorry, ner
Don't nobody seem t care
Can't sea what I'm fussln fer;
They don't feel no achln' there
"Where I do; they seem to think
It's a picnic t' have lumps
On somebody else's face,
"With th mumps!
Cut my fingers, stumped my toe.
Got ten thousand kind o' bumps.
But thcy's nothln' hurts me so
Llko th' mumps!
MISTAKE WOULD BE MONUMENTAL
Rrnnklvn Eairle. Dem.
r The Democratic party will not do well
to take counsel from Senator Teller, of
Colorado. He has never been a Demo
crat a moment in his life. He went from
Republicanism Into Populism, and an
nexed himself to Democracy In the period
of Bryan and of Bryanlsm. Since then
he has out-voiced in the "party" men
who have been Democrats all their lives,
on the old principle that "one renegade
fights worse than ten Turks."
It is now his plan to commit the De
mocracy in the two houses of the Con
gress to a solid and unchangeable oppo
sition to any recognition of the new Re
public of Panama, and to go to the coun
try, in the Presidential election, on the
plea of a canal across Nicaragua, Instead
of one by the Isthmus. A canal between
oceans has been an aspiration and a de
mand of commerce ever since vessels
have been propelled by steam. The de
mand has not been met but events have
constantly increased the pressure for it,
and conditions have lately become favor-
able In the accomplishment of it
Every conclusion of surveying, every
attempt at construction, every thought of
the engineering and business world has
favored the Panama routo as a prefer
ablllty, while regarding the Nicaragua
route as a not Impossible though a npt
desirable alternative. The Teller move
ment Is one to beat the Panama attempt
on the very verge of Its possible accom
plishment It is one to revive the Nica
ragua movement, if not with the intent,
then surely with the consequence, of hav
ing no canal at all. The capital of the
world will not go to Nicaragua, when
Panama Is accessible The capital of the
world will not sanction the recourse of
government to Nicaragua, for Inter
oceanic canal purposes, when the work
across the Isthmus of Panama Is already
one-third done and when the engineering
problems of that work have been solved.
To be for Nicaragua Is in effect, if not In
purpose, to be against any canal between
oceans at all in the circumstances as they
now exist, and under conditions which
have been brought about by diplomacy
and by revolution on the Isthmus.
Should the Democratic party be misled
by Mr. Teller and other Popullstlc per
sons to take this position. Its mistake
would be monumental. Tho error would
be practically as great as the attitude of
the party toward the toleration of slav
ery was politically wrong and morally
abominable. The Democratic party, if
it would not imaii a discredited and a
decreasing minority for almost as many
years as those In which the. pro-slavery
curse, with It3 consequences, fell upon it,
should do away with the programme
which Mr. Teller Is preparing for it Sen
ator Gorman should have foresight enough
to beat the Teller programme. The Sen
ators from Georgia and from Virginia,
ahd from other Southern States which
have a volume of considerable com
merce and a hope of much more com
merce, should join with Mr. Gorman in
rebuking the efforts of Senator Teller.
He is the representative of a state
which has no outlet to the sea. It has
no possibility of ocean commerce. It Is
a railroad ridden state. It3 business in
terests', as Teller regards them, are im
paired by the enlargement of the com
mercial facilities of the commonwealths
that border on or that reach the Atlantic
and the Pacific. He is a bad counselor for
a progressive party. His advice was not
taken by tho Republican party, and he
marched out of Its membership Into Pop
ulism, and thereupon annexed himself to
Democracy. A result has been that the
party has steadily lost caste and strength
since It became chargeable with his
heresies and afflicted by his membership.
He Is not a bad man, but a match is
wider than his mind and an owl In the
daytime can see farther than he does. Re
publicanism should not be able to pre
sent Democracy in the role of Bourbonlsm
which Mr. Teller cuts out for the party
with which his affiliation Is a misfortune.
Wanamaker on Roosevelt.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
One of the most striking tributes to the
popularity and political strength of Presi
dent Roosevelt that has been paid recently
comes from John "Wanamaker. "When the
latter was Postmaster-General and Roose
velt was Civil Service Commissioner there
were several passages at arms between
them that were extremely lively. Appar
ently these have left no personal bitter
ness In Mr. "Wanamaker's mind, for In a
conversation with a World correspondent
at Hot Springs, Va., yesterday, he said
that nothing could prevent Roosevelt's
nomination next year, that Quay would
support him because "he is too wise to
run against a tornado," and that as for
Hanna he "is too wise to sell himself out
to any hopeless cause even under his own
trademark. The overwatered trusts will
doubtless oppose Roosevelt, but they will
be bursting up all along, and their opposi
tion will help him." "When asked If he re
garded Roosevelt as opposed to trusts, Mr.
"Wanamaker replied: "He i3 opposed to
everything dishonest, and sufficient of a
business man to support every fair and
honorable combination of business enter
prises that will benefit business, protect
Investments and contlnuo full employment
at old-time wages." As for the recogni
tion of Panama, that was "highly com
mendable and sets the pace for other na
tions." A Period of Conquest.
New York Times.
Our interference is equivalent to a de
nial of the right of the Colombian govern
ment to put down an Insurrection within
its own borders. All Insurrectionists ever
want is to be let alone. If the govern
ment whose sovereignty they have thrown
off la restrained from putting them down
they contentedly proceed with organizing
their own Independent government This
Is what appears to be going on In the
revolted State of Panama. Colombia is
dismembered, a new republic Is estab
lished by our aid and in circumstances
which create an overwhelming probability
that It was by our procurement We have
wrested Cuba from. Spain, and maintain
over tho Island a certain measure of con
trol. Wo have taken Porto Rico for our
own. Wo now wrest from Colombia a
part of her territory, and establish there
a little republic over which we shall be
compelled to maintain an actual protec
torate. The South American republics
see us investing them, pressing ever
nearer, first Cuba, then Porto Rico, now
the Isthmus of Panama. Nothing is lack
ing to establish and complete the pre
sumption that we have entered- upon a
policy of conquest and control.
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A Hint to Cannon.
Springfield Republican.
The Oregon scheme for a Lewis and
Clark Exposition In 1905 Is a worthy one
in many respects, but the demand on the
Government for 52.500,000 to start the
thing casts a kind of chill on one's en
thusiasm. So many appropriations of this
kind have beenjnade in the past, how
ever, that Congress may succumb. Here is
a chance for Speaker Cannon, in any
event, to show his power and his grip on
the purse strlnes.
World Strangeness.
William Watson.
Strange the world about me lies.
Never yet familiar grown
Still disturbs me with surprise.
Haunts mo like a face half known.
In this house with starry dome.
Floored with gcmllke plains and seas.
Shall I never feel at home.
Never wholly be at ease?
On from room to room I stray,
Yet my Host can ne'er espy.
And I know not to this day
Whether guest or captive L
So botween the starry dome
And the floor of plains and seas
I have never felt at home.
Never wholly been at ease.
r
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Retribution.
From out the soundless void, where nothing
was,
A Voice called omnlform creation
To spread a feast and. deck a bower fair.
Then called a man and writ upon a scroll:
"I reign. Thou servest and art not of thy
self supreme."
The summoned puppet rad no word,
Nor of his doom took heed.
He reared a tawdry throne
And of ambition's draught drunk all.
Then hurled the chalice far and shrieked:
"I am the Kins."
Tho Voice, defied, called seas to rise
And when the day was done
Remained alone the ooze of perished things.
The Cure and -the Bite.
There was a young man from Duluth
Who was given to drinking vermuth.
His friends tried to save him
By allaying his craving
With something less warm when forsooth
He took gasoline.
Now It's plain to be seen.
He'd better have stuck to vermuth and
Duluth.
Columbia should ask for a temporary
restraining order.
It looks from the side lines as If Mr.
Moody has kicked a field goal.
Every man cherishes a secret ambition
to have a cigar named after him.
The President may yet find it necessary
to send Richard Harding Davis to Pan
ama. "
No, Anxious Enquirer, burial permits
are not necessarily made out in the dead
languages.
There Is hope of a courteous railway
fireman that ho may In time become a
civil engineer.
Tho majority report of the City Council
seems to be that Councilman Flegel Is a
mean old thing.
Now that the Cuban bill is out of tho
way we can turn our attention to Thangs
giving arrangements.
Some of these days the fool killer win
catch up with his work and start some
thing with the Dowleites.
It will be seen by a close perusal of
local police columns that "the wounded
man" still falls with a "heavy thud."
The problem of what to do with our re
tired Army officers seems to have been
solved by the patent medicine testimon
ials. The Increasing longevity of the oldest
Mason should be a source of general grati
fication. He hasn't died for nearly a
month.
If there Is anything In nomenclature tho
foreign ships now in this port must be
closely related to the Pullman Palace Car
Company. ,
That Virginia Governor, who would ar
rest Grover Cleveland for violation of the
game law Is a friend of Colonel Bryan and
a silver man.
After a long hiatus your Aunt Carrie
Nation is again a first-page-top-of-the-column
feature with pure reading matter
all around her.
Some of these days a measly little coast
ing schooner will unearth that buccaneer's
treasure on Cocos Island and Robert
Louis Stevenson will turn over in his
grave.
One household in "Waterbury, Conn., i3
desolated. Matilda Benson, the cook, "a
really good cook," whose fame as a
maker of mince pies was almost state
wide," has given up her job at 520 a
month on being left 530,000 by a relative.
Tears are flowing in "Waterbury, and
faces are blanching at the prospect of a
mince-pleless Christmas.
' Mr. Leonard Wood, who now wears the
single star of a Brigadier-General, now
wants the double stars of a Major-Gen-eral,
but is having all kinds of trouble
trying to Induce the Senate to see things
his way. If he succeeds In getting his
appointment confirmed he should em
blazon on his crest "Ad astra per as
pera." Our genial friend, Mr. Jehovah P. Mor
gan, of the Tuxedo neighborhood, was In
town yesterday doing a little trading.
Mr. Morgan Is one of the leading stock
men and farmers of his locality and re
ports crops in good condition with the
exception of late U. S. Steel, which was
injured by the recent frost In spite of
this and a shortage in tho water supply
he says that his stock Is doing well and
that he expects to clear something like
$40,000,000 for his Summer's work. While
in town Mr. Morgan bought a set of un
liquidated blocks for his children and his
Winter supply of Northern Securities. He
also called at the Sun ofllce and left 51
for a year's subscription. Mr. Morgan has
discovered the advantages of this town
over Nyack as a trading point and was
highly pleased at the substantial growth
which our little city is making. Come
again, Jehovah. We will treat you right
New York Sun.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
JTm afraid," said the amateur actor, "It
will be necessary for me to kiss your wife In
the last act. You won't mind, will you?"
"Not at all," replied tha broad-minded hus
band. "I can stand It If you can." Chi
cago News.
"Hello!" said the neighborly bore, "what
are you building tho new chlckenhouse
for?" "Why," replied Nettles, "for a flock
of pink camels, of course. Tou didn't sup
pose I'd put chickens In it, did you?"
Philadelphia Ledger.
Old Lady Haven't you got any more Ag
gers In marble? Attendant No madam;
these aro all. Is there, any one- you are
looking after? Old Ladjj Yes, I want the
statue of limitations I'vp heard my dear
husband talk so much about. Tit-Bits.
"Although I have granted you this Inter
view." said the pompous new office-holder,
"I don't want people to think I'm in the
habit of talking for publication." "They
won't," replied the reporter, "when they see
these remarks in print." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Greene I notice you always turn to the
page with tho stock quotations when you
take up a paper. I suppose you take an oc
casional flyer on the market, eh? Gray
Never Invested a dollar In stocks In all my
life. I find It cheaper to read the quota
tions. Boston Transcript.
"BUgglns is very unfortunate In his lovo
affairs." "Yes," said the girl with yellow
hair; "you see, Mr. BUgglns makes the
great mistake of trying to converse Intelli
gently, when he ought to be simply holding
hands and looking as If he were stupefied
with Joy." Washington Star.
"What is the difference between a mis
fortune and a calamity?" somebody once
asked Disraeli. "Well, if Gladstone fell Into
the Thames," was the reply, "that would be
a misfortune; and If anybody pulled him out,
that, I suppose, would be a calamity."
1 Argonaut