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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, ATOIL 22, 1004.
REGISTER NOW.
It Is a public duty for every citizen
of Oregon to cast his vote in the No
vember election. No matter how he
votes, his. vote should be recorded one
way or the other. There is an oppor
tunity now lasting till May 15, for reg
istration at the office of the County
Clerk. At that date the books will
close, not to be opened again before
the November election. Everybody
wants to vote for President. Every
body should vote. It Is the patriot's
privilege as well as duty. A heavy vote
will be the beet advertisement Oregon
can send out. The vote of 1900 was
84,000; in 1&02 it was 90,000. This year it
should be 100,000. Qualify yourself to
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DESERTERS IX THE HOUR OF PERIL.
The perils to our National life with
which imperialism is fraught have long
been apprehended by all true Demo
crats. "Whether viewed through the
sturdy Bryanic Intellect of Judge
O'Day or the silk-stocking sensibilities
of C. E. S. Wood, the ruin of holding
subject colonies beyond the sea stands
out vividly over all creation. The aw
ful injustice of subjugating and ruling
the Filipinos is to be dreaded not so
much for the unhappy islanders, whose
fate is comparatively negligible, as for
the reflex action on ourselves, in whom
liberty will thus be crushed and tyr
anny enthroned. This danger to our
institutions has never been more sa
gaciously and eloquently portrayed
than In the Democratic National plat
form of 1900, which was adopted by and
with the consent and approval of the
Oregon Democracy, influential and
loyal members of which stood up on
chairs at Kansas City and howled for
some fifteen consecutive minutes when
Senator Tillman had finished his im
passioned reading of the anti-imperialism
plank. From the Kansas City
platform, therefore, we quote:
The Filipinos cannot bo citizens without en
dangering our civilization; they cannot bo
subjects without imperiling our form of gov
ernment. The burning Issue of imperialism, growing
out of the Spanish War, involving the very
existence of tho Republic and the existence of
our free institutions, we regard as the para
mount issue of this campaign.
Four years have passed since the
Democratic parts', with patriotic eye,
keenly saw and fearlessly pointed out
the murderous rocks on which the ship
of state was surely and swiftly drift
ing. In those four years our course
has held right on toward the scene of
certain death. More effectively than
ever before, perhaps, order has been
maintained and rebellion suppressed at
the cannon's mouth throughout the
whole Philippine Archipelago. All the
dangers to our civilization Involved In
the Filipinos as citizens and to our
form of government in the Filipinos
as subjects are more Imminent today
than at any previous moment. . If "the
very existence of the P.epubllc" and
"the existence of our free Institutions"
trembled in the balance then, how
much more today, with Filipino insur
gents hopelessly crushed and the
strenuous life In full sway at the White
House! l
And yet the Democratic party of Ore
gon, in convention assembled, looks up
and down and all over the ship of state
from keel to maintop and has not a
word to say In warning or admonition
against the dangers of imperialism. It
cannot be that they were wrong in 1900,
talking through their hats, or merely
casting about for some escape from the
financial issue. "We can only conclude
that they have lost concern for the
safety of our civilization, the perpetu
ation of our form of government and
the very existence of our free institu
tions. "We did not think the Democrats
of Oregon were the men to desert the
common people and our free institu
tions in this heartless manner. The
ship of state is drifting on Scylla and
Charybdls both, with none to stand by
there or lend a hand.
Of the older school of financiers in
this country was E. W. Clark, of Phil
adelphia, who died last week. In these
days of rapid financial gains and losses
the announcement that the banking
firm of which Mr. Clark was even then
a member was the mainstay of the
Federal Treasury In the war with Mex
ico, has a far-away sound. "With Jay
Cooke E. W. Clark was In direct finan
cial succession to Stephen GIrard, who
raised the money for the second war
with England, and Robert Morris, who
raised money enough, In its later years,
to carry the "War of the Revolution to
its happy conclusion. These men are
cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer as
belonging' to tjie school of financiers
"who were brought up to make money
by increasing the general wealth, and
not by robbing the public" The In
ference that these men In passing on
have not left successors to their meth
ods as well as to their 'wealth Is a
gloomy one. and need not be indulged.
A POSSIBLE IIARRIMAX PROGRAMME.
It Is the assertion of the Hill inter
ests that the Harrlman objections to
the promulgated plan of Northern Se
cudities distribution must not be sus
tained because success of the op
position would further a Harrlman
scheme to exercise control of Northern
Pacific so as to merge it with St. Paul
for a continuous line from Chicago to
the Pacific Coast. If this assertion
correctly represents the facts, it opens
up an entirely different Interpretation
of the Harrlman purposes than any
heretofore suggested. r
That Is to say. If Harrlman contem
plates the creation of a new transcon
tinental combination consisting of the
Northern Pacific and St. Paul, his pro
gramme falls in an altogether different
category from the Hill undertaking of
combining two parallel and competi
tive lines. It would correspond to
Union Pacific's acquisition of Central
Pacific and Southern Pacific, to North
ern Pacific and Great Northern's acqui
sition of Burlington, or to the "Vander
bilt undertakings with Lake Shore or
Big Four. The completion of a strong
through connection conserves and may
promote competition. It is not at all
the objectionable thing the country's
anti-monopoly predilection apprehends
and disapproves In the merging of two
parallel and competitive roads like
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
It will be said, of course, that Harrl
man control of Northern Pacific Is ren
dered Intolerable, In view of his control
of Union Pacific, for the same reason
that Hill's ownership In Great North
ern precludes his acquisition of- North
ern Pacific. In this view The OregO
nian has already acquiesced. And yet
as a matter of fact there would de
velop in practice a great difference
between the two operations, growing
out of the situation at the terminals.
The Northern Pacific and Great North
ern begin at St Paul and end at Puget
Sound. They are not only controlled
by one man, but they serve the same
communities. Now the Harrlman
Northern Pacific, ending at Puget
Sound, would be In the same hands as
the Union Pacific ending at Portland,
and the Southern Pacific ending at San
Francisco; but the unity of these sep
arate Harrlman lines would be very
materially disturbed by the demands
of the rival communities they serve. A
measure of competition would be en
forced by the rivalries of Puget Sound,
the Columbia River and San Francisco
upon the operating and traffic officials
of Harrlman Northern Pacific and Har
rlman Union Pacific, which would
never arise in connection with Hill
Northern Pacific and Hill Great North
ern, plying side by side between St
Paul and Puget Sound.
This is not a barren speculation, for
the evidence is at hand In the present
situation of Harrlman Union Pacific at
Portland and Harrlman Southern Pa
cific at San Francisco. There is a con
tinuous pressure upon Southern Pacific
officials on behalf of San Francisco and
upon Union Pacific officials at Port
land and Omaha. It is active and per
sistent enough to suggest the thought
that perhaps the basis of railway com
petition lies quite as much In the com
munities served as In ownerships. For
some days past there has been activ
ity on behalf of Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle before the railroad officials as
opposed to Spokane, and another mani
festation of activity on behalf of Port
land as against San Francisco. It be
comes necessary for community of in
terest to take cognizance of local de
mands wherever there are competing
lines and even where there are com
petitive terminals under a common
ownership.
If the interests of the Northwestern
States, to which Mr. Hill professes such
single and altruistic devotion, were to
decide this matter, there need be no
doubt as to where the verdict would
fall. "Whether Puget Sound, for exam
ple, would get more concessions from
common ownership of Northern Pacific
and Great Northern or from a separate
ownership in which shippers might
successfully invoke the competitive
spirit admits of but one answer. If
Mr. Hill were to acquire a road down
the Columbia River from the Big Bend
country to Portland, he would find if
practically Impossible and certainly
unwise to sacrifice Portland to the am
bitions of Puget Sound. It Is just as ab
surd to suppose or to charge that Har
rlman acquisition of Northern Pacific
would sacrifice Puget Sound either to
Portland or to San Francisco. Owners
are practically powerless In such cases
against the iriore experienced judgment
and firm decision of traffic and operat
ing heads of departments. The only
situation In which there would be a
complete paralysis of competition would
be where identical ownership is com
bined with Identical terminals.
PARKER AND ROOSEVELT.
Henry Watterson on the 5th Inst, In a
review of Democratic Presidential pos
sibilities and the Issue, hit the nail on
the head when he advised his party
that the issue is Roosevelt alone.
"Roosevelt the Strenuous, with all that
he Implies, will be the only issue," he
said; "all thoughts, all passions, all de
liverances, will eddy around the Presi
dent" Mr. Watterson said that while
he deemed McClellan the strongest can
didate, nevertheless he had great faith
in Parker. But Parker has one element
of weakness; he is the candidate of the
David B. Hill Democracy, which is rep
resented by the Democrats of the coun
try counties of New York and by the
Brooklyn and Kings County Democ
racy. The Tammany Democracy will
be as cold toward Parker as It was
to Hancock In 1880; to Cleveland In 1884
and 18SS. Cleveland escaped defeat In
1884 only by the skin of his teeth, and
won out only by great Republican de
fection consequent upon the nomination
of Blaine, which was repudiated by the
Conkling and George "William Curtis
Republicans.
The Tammany leader. Murphy, will
never exert himself to elect a candidate
of David B. Hill's choosing to the Presi
dency of the United States, because he
knows that this would mean the su
premacy of David B. Hill In the Demo
cratic party of New Tork. The nomi
nation of Judge Parker at St Louis
would give to Hill the control of the
Fall convention for the nomination of a
state ticket, and the state election
would mean-more to Tammany than the
National election. Tammany in power
at Albany is of more consequence than
a Hill Democrat in the "White House.
The nomination of Parker at St Louis
would hold up Murphy's scheme to ab
sorb the Brooklyn Democracy into
Tammany Hall. It Tias always been
Hill's policy as the leader of the coun
try Democracy to prevent the absorp
tion of the Brooklyn Democracy by
Tammany Hall, "because this union
would subordinate the country Democ
racy perforce to the Tammany boss.
This situation explains the hostility of
Murphy, the Tammany b6ss, to the In
dorsement of Judge Parker, the candi
date of David B. Hill.
Murphy will probably quietly work
against Parker's nomination at St
Louis, and If It Is approved, will prob
ably affect an ardor for his election he
does not feel and make no energetic
effort to rally the vote of Tammany
Hall to his support The probable-l uke
warmness of Tammany Hall In event of
Parker's nomination Increases Roose
velt's chance of carrying the state. The
lukewarmness of Tammany Hall lost
New York to Hancock In 1880; It came
near costing Cleveland the State of
New York In 18S4, and it lost him the
state in 188S. The turning down of
Tammany Hall this year Is likely to
lose the Democracy the State of New
York if the choice of David B. Hill for
the Presidency is approved by the Na
tional Democratic Convention.
THE WIFE AND THE PAY CnEOK.
A Judge In a Philadelphia court
lately decided that a wife Is not enti
tled to her husband's pay envelope.
That Is to say, the employer for whom
the husband works Is justified In refus
ing to turn over the latter's salary
check to his wife, upon demand.
This Is probably good law of the
kind that our forefathers, following the
old English law, placed upon our statute-books
and there can be no quar
rel with the Judge, from a' judicial
standpoint, who decides a case accord
ing to law. The fact remains, however,
and It Is well In this connection to call
the attention of men who work for a
stipulated sum each week or month to
It that the husband who turns over his
pay check to his wife is more than
likely to be the winner of considerable
savings at the end of the year, which
would otherwise have slipped through
his fingers.
This statement, of course Is based
upon the supposition that the wage
earner Is a thrifty, sensible man and
has taken the necessary precaution to
marry a sensible and thrifty woman.
There are women, as well as men, who
cannot handle money to advantage, but
these are seldom found In the homes
of Industrious artisans. There are
women who like dress and display In
household furnishings too well to be
trusted to draw and dispense the week
ly wage or the monthly salary, just
as there are men who like drink or
cards too well to be trusted to pass the
saloon or the gambling-house with
their pay In their pockets. But, given
a sober, honorable husband and a con
siderate, caretaklng wife, and the lat
ter Is usually much the better manager
of the family Income than the former.
This Is said without disparagement
to the good Intent of the husband. The
wife being closer, so to speak, to the
family needs, knows just what Is neces
sary to supply them, and she Is besides
more willing to make sacrifices for the
saving fund than the husband. This
being true. It may be safely assumed
when a man Is prosperous on a small
salary as shown by the fact that he
owns his home, Is out of debt and has
a little rainy-day fund to which he
adds something every year that -his
wife handles the pay check and has,
with his cheerful consent, done the sav
ing. The tendency of the times of all
prosperous tlmea Is to spend too much
and save too little. The problem of
bringing up a large family has grown
exceedingly perplexing in view of this
fact Hence the decrease in the num
ber of children In the families of
thoughtful, responsible people of the
moderately well-to-do class. It Is to
the wives In this class, generally
speaking, that the disbursement of the
weekly wage or monthly salary may
safely be trusted, with the assurance
that, barring the accident of sickness
or other misfortune in the family, there
will be a saving at the end of the year.
The decision of the court above noted
may be good law; doubtless It is. But
the men who, having married sensible
women, rise above this law In Its arbi
trary sense and make the wife secre
tary of the domestic treasury will do
so to their profit
WAR MEDALS.
The medal of honor roll In the War
Department Includes the names of
many brave men, associated with those
of men who secured the medal either
through-mistake or political pull. Some
of the most gallant officers in the his
tory of the regular Army have refused
the award of brevet rank In their dis
gust because it has been so often ob
tained by men who were distinguished
for nothing save perennial service in
the office of the Adjutant-General or
Judge-Advocate-General at Washing
ton, D. C. It Is something so In the
matter of war medals; they are worn
ostentatiously by so many cheap, thra
sonical veterans that a true soldier Is
disposed to hide his if he has one. Sec
retary of War Root was not long in.
discovering that for years Army med
als have "been Issued unlawfully by
direction of high authority, and he put
a stop to the raids of influence upon
the roll. It had become a common
practice for persons who had served
In the Civil War to apply for a medal
of honor thirty years or more after Its
close, and to obtain it on very slight
proof of their right to receive such an
exceptional honor.
This practice was stopped by issuing
a rule limiting the period within which
application should be made. Secretary
Root urged, too, the enactment of leg
islation restricting the granting of
medals to men who have performed
some gallant deed in actual conflict.
The records' show that In the Civil War
awards were made In many cases
without regard to the limitations of the
act of March, 1863, providing that the
medals should be bestowed upon
officers and enlisted men only as a re
ward for unusual gallantry In action.
Medals of honor were Issued to civilian
scouts and to guides, and one was
granted to Dr. Mary Walker, who
served In the war as a contract sur
geon and displayed "unusual gallan
try" la wearing masculine clothing
both In peace and war. Medals of
honor In 1865 were bestowed upon offi
cers and noncommissioned officers who
escorted the remains of President Lin
coln from Washington to Springfield,
111.
In the same year, 864 medals of honor
were awarded to officers and men of
the Twenty-seventh Maine Infantry
"for volunteering to remain in service
and participate In the battle of Gettys
burg, their terms of service having ex
pired," although it has been shown that
only about 300 of the SS4 officers and
men volunteered to remain and did re
main on Arlington Heights in the de
fense of the Potomac until the result of
the battle of Gettysburg was known.
An official report says: "The records
show that it was Intended to Issue a
medal of honor only to those who vol
unteered to remain and did remain In
service beyond the expiration of their
terms, but, evidently through inadvert
ence, the medal was Issued to about
560 other members of the regiment who
did not volunteer to remain in the ser
vice and who were sent home before
the battle was fought The records do
not show either the names of those
who volunteered to remain or of those
who did not so remain, but the name
of each man who received a medal is
contained on the roll of honor."
A popinjay militia Adjutant-General
of a small New England State more
than thirty years after the Civil War
obtained on his own personal narra
tive of his military exploits a "war
medal" through the judgment of Adjutant-General
Corbln that on his per
sonal statement he was entitled to It
The Victoria cross means something
In the English army; the iron cross
means something in the German army;
the war medal in the American Army
may be awarded to a true soldier for
a deed of exceptional courage In battle
or it may 'be awarded to a military
braggart of the Bob Acres quality
either for something he never did or
for something that did not entitle him
to a "war medal." Of course, no man
in the permanent Army should ever ob
tain a brevet or a war medal save for
genuine military service on the battle
field or In campaign. Major Asa Bird
Gardiner, U. S. A., of the retired list
obtained a brevet for gallant and dis
tinguished service In the office of the
Judge-Advocate-General at Washing
ton. D. C.
It Is somewhat risky for an individ
ual to marry again upon the simple
presumption that a derelict husband or
wife Is dead. Many domestic trage
dies and at least one pathetic poem
have attested the miseries of acting
upon a supposition of this kind which
subsequent events failed to verify.
The Judge is wise, therefore, who fore
stalls possible legal and domestic. com
plications by granting an application
for divorce from a long-missing spouse.
If ever there is a case In which a man
can be justly condemned without a
hearing. It Is in that of a recreant hus
band and father who drops out of his
family life and buries himself In dis
tance and silence. Enoch Arden was
to be pitied In his sorrowful home
coming only because he was kept away
from home and wife and children for
ten or twelve years by circumstances
over which he had no control and was
entirely cut off from communication
with the world. But the husband In
practical life who simply "gets tired"
goes without the preliminary of a
good-bye and refrains from making
known his whereabouts for a number
of years, more or less, should be sup
planted in the affections of his neg
lected wife without compunction on her
part by a more manly man. And to
make all things snug and safe against
the possible return of the derelict, she
should be given a divorce before she
ventures again Into matrimony. The
presumption lacking specific evidence
to the contrary that a worthless, Irre
sponsible human derelict Is alive Is al
ways the safest when dealing with the
legal aspects of his case.
The United States Investor, noting the
relative quotations of British consols
and American 2 per cents, thinks the
higher price of the latter gratifying to
American pride, but warns its readers
against the Idea that our credit Is as
much better as the figures seem to say.
"The British government," says the In
vestor, "turns its consols adrift, as It
were, upon the open market, permitting
natural demand and natural supply to
fix the price. In the United States,
however, the Government has artifi
cially boosted the price by virtually
compelling the National banks to bid
for and digest great quantities of the
Government securities, thus restricting
the supply to a point where there Is an
eager demand. Under these conditions
It would be surprising If the market
for American securities were not better
than that for the British consols. The
banks buy the bonds because they have
to, In order to Issue notes or secure
Government deposits. Their bids are
due, not to the credit but to the man
date of the Government It Is absurd,
therefore, to argue that the fact that
American consols sell the highest of any
government Issues In the world, proves
that America's credit is highest" There
is no sense in the notion that either
British or American governmental se
curities are affected by considerations
revealing comparative confidence In the
solvency of the two nations. Their rela
tive status Is a question of interest
rates In the two countries, qualified by
the considerations the Investor sets out.
It is brought out in the latest issue of
Bradstreet's that the Union Pacific
Railway Company sold Its holdings of
Northern Pacific stock to the banking
firm that organized the Northern Secur
ities Company, receiving in exchange
cash and shares in this company. This
seems to put It beyond the power of
the Union Pacific to get back what it
wants enough Northern Pacific stock
to give It control of the Northern Pa
cific. A sale Is a sale, and that's an
end of the matter, Bradstreet's seems
to lean to the view that the litigation
initiated by Mr. Harrlman Is friendly,
though there Is much reticence on the
part of the Interested parties. It Is sus
pected that the object of the litigation
Is to set at rest legal questions that
might hereafter arise as to the proper
way to comply with the decision of the
Supreme Court In regard to the merger
and also to obviate litigation by out
siders. The war has opened a brisk market
for American horses in Japan. Lack
ing the space to breed horses, Japan Is
compelled to buy abroad. Lacking the
ground space upon which to raise for
age, she will be compelled to purchase
hay abroad. The Pacific Northwest
will probably be called upon to furnish
the forage as It has already been called
upon to supply 10,000 horses. As a com
mercial feature, the opening of this
horse market Is gratifying, but from a
humane point of view the prospect Is
one from which those who sympathize
with suffering animals recoil.
In our news columns this morning the
utter failure of excursion rates for the
St Louis Fair to serve the purpose of
Oregonians who wish to attend Oregon
day Is explained. Probably it Is Impos
sible to reopen the matter with the
railroads; but It may not be Impossi
ble to secure a change of date for Ore
gon day. This change, If It can be
brought about will solve the difficulty.
ALL VERY FUNNY, NO D0DBT. '
Springfield Republican.
The appeal for a zeneroua grant to the
proposed Lewis and Clark Exposition In
Portland, Or., found the House of Rep
resentative In a surprisingly unrespon
sive mood"wben the Senate exposition
bill was called up for consideration. It
was an unexpected rebuff, and the House
may In due time, after the necessary
log-rolling by the members from the Far
West be persuaded to conform to estab
lished precedent and yield whatever Is
desired. Still, the coldness of the House
toward the exposition proposed on the
North Pacific Coast was a hopeful sign.
The country is almost tempted to believe
that when Congress is asked to give
J5.O0O.O0O toward the celebration by means
of a world's fair, of the centenary of the
Black Hawk War, or the 300th anniver
sary of the appearance of the first fiat
boat on the Ohio River, It will resolutely
refuse.
The Lewis and Clark expedition across
the continent was undoubtedly a signifi
cant and important event in American
history. Lewis and Clark deservedly rank
with the great explorers of all time. Yet
whether their transcontinental journey
deserves to be celebrated by a $5,000,000
world's fair with a $10,000,000 deficit, in
one of the remotest corners of the United
States, more than the 200th or 250th an
niversary of the first Ohio River flatboat,
is a question upon which citizens may
honestly divide. For our part without
underrating tho Importance of the Lewis
ana Clark exploration, it must be said
that the opening of the Ohio River to
flatboat navigation, whenever that impor
tant event occurred, possessed a signifi
cance which the dullest eye should dis
cern. For it was then that modern com
merce began its triumphant and amaz
ing course of empire in the Ohio and
Mississippi Valleys, ultimately changing
the history of the world.
The world's fair occupation has reached
a most interesting stage, It might be said
a critical stage. Congress bears a heavy
responsibility In now shaping Its course
so that one thing or another will surely
happen to this delightful business of cel
ebrations plus fat Government appropria
tions. If the tendency goes on, in less
than a century the country will be in a
perpetual ecstacy of shows, and even the
centennial annlversay of the opening of
the Boston subway will rise grandly to
the dignity of an International exposition,
generously endowed out of the public
funds, and appealing to the official
patronage of mankind.
More About Poe and Chivcrs.
New York Evening Post
The Sewanee Review, that excellent
literary quarterly of the South, will
pardon us if we quote some clever
fooling of Mr. Andrew Lang's In Long
man's, anent the Interminable Poe-Chl-vers
debate. A writer In the Sewanee
has discussed tho relationship between
Poo's Raven" and Chlver's "Lost Ple
iad,' and between other poems of the
two friendly singers. Mr. Lang amuses
himself over tho question after his
wont, and adds a capital parody of "Do
lores," for which we will forgive him
the misspelling of Mr. Newcomer's
name:
About 1851 Chlvers came out with
"Eonchs of Ruby." An eonch Is a shell,
like "conch" in conchology. Hero is a
samplo of an conch, based on Poe's
"Annabel Lee":
Where the Opaline Swan circled, singing,
With her elder-down Cygnets at noon.
In the tall Jasper Roads that were springing
From the marge of the crystal Lagoon
Rich canticles, clarion-like, golden,
Such as only true love can declare.
Like an Archangel's voice in time? olden
I went with my Lily Adair
With my lamb-like Lily Adair
With my salnt-llke Lily Adair
With my beautiful, dutiful Lily Adair.
Here is another:
Her cye9, lily-lidded, were mure.
Cerulean, celestial, divine
Suftuned with the soul-light of pleasure.
Which drew all the soul out of mine.
She had all the rich grace of the Graces,
And all that they had not to spare;
For It took all their beautiful faces ,
To make one for Lily Adair.
Go it. Chlvers! That is really very
nice. It Is also very like Dolores, by
Mr. Swinburne, in movement, apd Mr.
Alphonso G. Newcom"e. in the Se
wanee Review, says ." at Mr. Swine
burne's "debt to Chlvers Is'as conspicu
ous as his debt to Alfred, de Musset,"
which is so inconspicuous that I never
noticed it
Oh. festive and frantic Dolores!
The Joy of the Sixties wert thou.
With thy sanguine and succulent glories,
With the blood on thy breast and thy brow!
But thy tune was afloat in the Fifties.
So doth Mr. Newcombe declare,
And to steal It poetical thrift is.
From Lily Adair!
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'Sdeathl
Judge.
The doughty buccaneer has boarded the
private yacht Now. the private yacht
carries no great treasure, whereat the
doughty buccaneer Is wroth. He goes
from stem to stern and from hatches to
hold In search of plunder. As he rushes
Into the cabin he is confronted by a pale
young girl, whose patrician lips curl with
scorn. Taken -aback, he essays a courtly
bow, such as was practiced by Captain
Kldd and others; but the unfamiliar sur
face of the heavy carpet proves too much
for his feet and he stumbles ungracefully.
"Ha, ha!" comes In a high treble from
between the patrician lips.
"Why do you 'ha, hn?' " demands the
angry buccaneer.
"You claim to be a freebooter, but you
are only a carpet slipper." And she
walked the plank like the lady she was.
Hearst Boom a-Rolling.
Kansas City Journal.
As a matter of fact the Hearst boom
Is still rolling on as before, gathering
delegates and Increasing the circulation
per capita. Contrary to expectations, Its
progress has not been checked by the an
nouncement of Its death and burial. The
bluff of Its enemies doesn't seem to be
working. As long as Mr. Hearst'3 agents
continue to distribute good money In gen
erous quantities the great unwashed don't
understand that the boom has ceased to
boom, and tho Parker talk falls on heed
less cars.
Divide Time Bathing Days.
Utlca, N. Y., Observer.
Ar. English woman visiting in this coun
try has taken occasion to express her hor
ror at the spectaclo at New Jersey coast
resorts of men and women bathing in the
same ocean on tho same day. And then
the way they sit about on the sand in
their bathing suits 13 so shocking. Per
haps it could be arranged by the author
ities of the towns along the coast that
women should bathe on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays and men on
Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays.
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At Bethlehem.
Richard Crashaw.
Come, wo shepherds, whoso blest eight
Hath met Love's noon in Nature's night;
Come, lift we up our loftier song.
And wake the Sun that lies too long.
Gloomy night embraced the place
Where the noble Infant lay:
The Babe look'd up, and show'd His face;
In spite of darkness. It was day:
It was Thy day. Sweet! and did rise
Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.
Wo saw Thee in Thy palmy nest,
Toung dawn of our eternal Day;
We saw Thine eyes break from their East,
And chase the trembling shades away:
We saw Thee (and we blest the sight).
We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light
Welcome, all wonders in one sight!
Eternity shut in a span!
Summer In Winter! Day in Night!
Heaven In Earth I and God In man!
Great Little One, Whole all-embracing birth.
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to
Earth.
RILEY WROTE LEOXAhVE. J
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April 13.-James
Whltcomb Riley, the Hoosler poet, made
a statement today about "Leonalne," the
poem which he wrote In his youth in Im
itation of Poe, and which Alfred Russell
Wallace recently published In the Fort
nightly Review, crediting It to Poe, and
giving the circumstances to the And.
"It was a mistake due to the folly of
my youth that I ever wrote that poem,"
said Dr. RUey, "and God knows how I
have suffered from It It Is always com
ing up at the most inopportune times and
I suppose it will do so until the end of
my life; but I must stand by my error.
Of coursa. I reassert that I wrote It but
as to its merits I am not the judge. This
same man who wrote this article pub
lished one several months ago in the
same magazine. It was at tfie time I was
in Philadelphia to receive a degree of
honor that it came out and I was humil
iated beyond belief.
"All I have to say about the author
is that he is entitled to his belief, as I
have stated both that I did write the
article and that I did not In fact, he Is
as good a man as he believes me to be
bad, and that is the greatest praise I
could pay him.
"About eighteen years ago I was work
ing on the Anderson Democrat A lot
of us got to talking one day about critics,
and I said that they did not know what
they were talking about t said that
some of my poems were pust as good
as other poets', but I could not sell them
because I signed them simply 'J. W.
Riley, and no one knew who I was."
Riley then told the story of writing the
poem, and of having It published In a
Kokomo paper, with a story to tho ef
fect that it had been found in an old
book. The poem was widely copied, and
led to much discussion, and when proof
was demanded a young man named Rich
ards was employed to write It In the fly
leaf of an old dictionary. He wrote with
a quill pen, and with diluted Ink, to make
it look old, and it was almost a perfect
Imitation of Poe's handwriting. The old
dictionary was purchased by a Mr. Foote.
of New York, and Paul Lemperly, of
Cleveland, Ohio, now has It
"When the truth came out," continued
Mr. Riley, "I lost my position on the An
derson Democrat No paper would ever
print my explanation of the affair. The
memory of that time still stands out as
one of the saddest experiences In my life,
and one that I can never outlive. Even
as It 13 now, there Is nothing for me to
do but to acknowledge that I wrote it,
as I do; but that does not stand, since I
once denied being the author. I wrote
It, but I did not; I did not write It, but I
did, and I am a liar any way you put it"
Transcontinental Railways.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
There are now five transcontinental
railways in operation in the United
States and Canada and oae across Europe
and Asia. A transcontinental railway
is in process of construction In Australia
and more miles are being added every
month to the lines that are to constitute
the Cape to Cairo Railway In Africa.
Meantime, tho project for a railway to
extend from the United States by way
of Mexico and Central America to Buenos
Ayres in South America is receiving the
attention of the Central and South Amer
ican states, as well as of the United
States and Mexico.
Recent reports show that the project
for a railway that will connect the great
rail transportation system of the United
States with that of South America Is
more favorably regarded In Central and
South America than ever before. The
construction of 4S0O miles of railway In
Mexico, Central America and In the
northern and central sections of South
America will give a continuous line from
Chicago, San Francisco or New York to
the City of Buenos Ayres, the Chicago of
In Australia, the completion of the
Trans-Siberian Railway gave impetus to
the movement to build a railway travers
ing Australia from north to south. Rail
ways already In operation can be util
ized and new construction would be con
fined to the central divisions. What effect
the war In the East will have on the
Australian enterprise remains to be seen,
but the suspension of traffic on the Siber
ian system will probably delay construc
tion in Australia.
The Trans-Siberian system covers a dis
tance of 5S00 miles from Moscow to
Vladivostok and Port Arthur. About one
thousand miles of railway, counting
Moscow as the western terminus, are In
European Russia, 2300 In Siberia proper
and 1G00 in Manchuria. Lines westward,
from Moscow by way of Vienna, Berlin
and Paris cover a distance of over two
thousand miles to the English Channel,'
giving a transcontinental line from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
If the Siberian and Manchurian sys
tem 13 to be sacrificed In war or Is to be
mado the football of European politics,
thero will be less Inducement to com
plete the Cape to Cairo Railway In Af
rica. If one nation that builds a great
transcontinental railway builds at its
own risk In Asia, there will be little in
ducement for another nation to build at
its own risk In Africa or South America.
Where They Take Things Easy.
Mexican Herald.
Come rest, ye weary ones, on the broad
and generous bosom of Mexico, the moth
erly tropical dame! Here Is sunshine,
dolce far niente when required, a genial
and courteous people and rest from In
cessant debate. When the great Amer
ican people ieally desire repose they will
ask with unanimous voice to bo annexed,
and the bannor of Mexico will float to
the shores of the great lakes over a
united, rejoicing and enthusiastic people,
who, on their Thanksgiving day, shall
eat of mole de guajolote and the stuffed
bird of legitimate Yankee procedure.
Bryan's Process of Elimination.
Cleveland Leader.
Is William J.Bryan searching for the best
candidate for the Democrats by the pro
cess known as elimination? It looks a bit
liko it He seems to have disposed of
every one os "unfit" or "unsafe," save
only Saffron BUI and Silver Bill. He
would soon "eliminate" the first if there
were any apparent chance for the last
He knows the fit one, tho safe one, and It
Is the Commoner's editor, or all signs
fall.
Southerner for Vice-President.
Columbia (S. C.) State.
We see no reason why the second place
on the ticket should not now be filled by
a Southerner there are a dozn big
enough for that place or for any other.
Either John Sharp Williams, Charles B.
Aycock or FItzhugh Lee would be as
strong as any Vice-Presidential candidate
we are likely to find out of the South.
The Valley of Unrest.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars.
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars.
Nightly, from their azure towers.
To keop watch above tho flowers.
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lastly lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness.
Nothing there Is motionless.
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic -solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around tho misty Hebrides!
Ah. by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn to even.
Over the violets there that He
In myriad types of the human eye.
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
Tliey wave: From out their fragrant tops
Eternal dewa come down in drops.
Tbey weep: from off their delicate items
Perennial tears descend in gems.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Statistics Up to Date.
One of the interesting exhibits of Wyoming
In the mines department at the World's Fair
Is a single piece of soda weighing CCOO
pounds. It was cut from Soda Lake. In Al
bany County, and la the largest single piece
of soda ever exhibited. If made Into soap
of half-pound bars It would do the washing
of a small family for 2400 years. New York
Tribune.
Oregon will send a single apple, weigh
ing 13 pounds, to St Louis. If made
Into hard cider. It would Intoxicate Car
rie Nation In two days.
Washington will send a saw-log 00 feet
long, and 500x497 inches at, the end. If
made into sawdust this would supply St
Louis with breakfast food for three weeks.
A Chinook salmon weighing 4312 pounds
will be an Interesting exhibit from Clat
sop County. If split up into trout. It would
supply the New York Sun with fish stories
for two Sunday issues.
Alaska will be repesented at St. Louis
by a Kadlak bear weighing 2374 pounds. If
It could walk like a man It would supply
221 girls with hugging for two days.
New York will send to St Louis a Hearst
boom 945 feet in diameter. If all the
hot air were piped from It every radiator
in the city would be redhot for a month.
A brickbat weighing 6591 tons will be ex
hibited at St. Louis. If divided into bricks
and bats It would be sufficient to build a
now hotel In Portland and put the Browns
at the top of the Hat
In San Francicso.
"Parsifal's coming here."
"Huh! Bet Jimmy Britt can beat any
Dutchman."
Coiner Anderson's die has been cast
Exciting war news this morning from
Denver.
There's one way for East Side people to
get around the Morrison bridge difficulty.
Walk.
Tacoma isn't setting a thief to catch a
thief just appointing gamblers to the po
lice force to stop gambling.
A 17-year-old girl living' at Dry Run, this
county, at ono meal ate 10 eoft-bolled eggs
at one sitting. Hagerstown. Md., Herald.
Nineteen eggs would make a big sitting
for any hen.
The EI Paso News prints an excellent
editorial on surf bathing. However, as
the article previously appeared in The
Orcgonlan, our judgment may be biassed.
Some papers express surprise that Rich
mond Pearson Hobson failed to win a
seat In Congress, yet they would see noth
ing unusual in the failure of Bourke Cock
ran, say, to obtain the command of a
battleship.
Victor Smith tells In the New York Press
of a very valuable book that has just been
published. It is called "Rules for All
Games for Onlookers." Opening the
book, you find this one sentence: "Keep
Your Mouth Shut" It would be hard to
compress more sound advice Into four
words.
The Critic is usually accurate in its
statements, yet It seems impossible that
Marvin Dana, the editor of the Smart Set,
should, as the Critic asserts, have been
the editor of Judy for three years. Judy,
it may bg explained, Is a London weekly,
a "comic" weekly. In three years Mr.
Marvin would either have gone crazy or
have ruined his paper by putting jokes
In It
Americans have an idea that tho out
lying provinces of Russia are inhabited by
semi-barbaric races. A dispatch In yes
terday's Oregonian should remove this de
lusion. The one vocation that Is peculiarly
the product of twentieth century Ameri
can civilization is successfully followed in
the wildest part of Russia. Fifty thou
sand dollars was taken from a hold-up
train on the Trans-Caucasian Railway.
The following extracts from .the Port
Arthur Novlkral give an intimate view
of life In the bombarded city:
Several shells fell In our midst yesterday.
General Kouropatkln arrived from Harbin
yesterday. He Is regarded as a harbinger of
better things.
We thought we heard an explosion In tho
arsenal Ihla A. il., but Investigation showed
It to be a false report.
Admiral Togo paid us a flying visit yester
day. Come again. Tog.
The torpedo-boat HuchlkuchI has not re
turned from her visit to the outside. It Is
feared that her crew has went to a watery
grave.
BUI Bonesky says this Is the worst Spring
he has known in 53 years. He predicts shell
storms for the next three months.
The hall of shells Is damaging the crops
some.
One swallow doesn't make a Spring, but one
shell docs.
Don't be a knocker. Help along the town.
Paint your barn. Sweep the powder off the
lawn. Don't leave bombs In the street. Boost.
Talk Port Arthur. Get In and advertise. Send
the Novlkral to your friends. Get your name
in the dispatches. Advertise, advertise, ad
vertise. Subscribers killed during a bombardment
must notify the Novlkral office. Papers sent
after subscriber expires will be charged for.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"He's employed by tho railroad company
now, I understand." "Yes, ho has charge of
tho puzzle department." "The what?" "He
makes out tho time tables." Philadelphia
Press.
"I wonder if there were any actors in an
cient times?" queried the matinee girl. "Sure
thing," rejoined the cheerful Idiot, "doesn't
the good book tell us there was a Ham In tho
ark?" Chicago News.
"I can't teach that Grindle girl how to
skate. It's no use trying." "But why does
she persist In wanting to learn?" "Bocauso
she thinks she falls so gracefully." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
She Yes, she's engaged to Smalley, al
though she once told me that she wouldn't
marry the best man living. He Well, shs
has stuck to her statement, even If she does
marry Smalley. Chicago Dally News.
Floor Walker Wonder hy that lady in the
brown hat to always In the bargain counter
rush. She never buys anything. Salesman
She carries an accident policy, and she Is try
ing to realize on it. Boston Transcript
Mr. Roxley Ridiculous, sir! Before you
think of marrying my daughter you should
be making at least 55000 a year. Mr. Nervy
Well, If you can make a position for mo
In your office at that salary I'll take it
Philadelphia Press.
"Don't you occasionally regret not having
given more attention to the classics?" asked
the sluden. "No," answered Senator Sorg
hum. "Pootlcal quotations don't carry much
weight nowadays. Wnat people are Inter
ested in is market quotations." Washington
Star.
He Ha! Absurd things that "Battledore
Ballads." Eh! What? She I'm sorry you
think so my sister wrote them. He Er
of course, I don't mean the -words they're
rlppln. I mean the music poor stuff spoils
words composer ought to be kicked who
wrote it? She I did! Punch.
Cholly That overcoat doesn't fit you, Al
gy. Algy (proudly) I bought this overcoat
In Lunnon. It was made foh the Pwlnce.
Cholly Now, see heahl You hov'nt allowed
yourself to be fooled by any such clothing
dealer's yarn, hov you? Algy (triumphantly)
I didn't get it of a clothing dealah. I
bought it of a pawnbrakah, New York
Weekly.
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