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PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 22,. 1904
THE MINING CONGRESS.
Cultivation of the soil and the care
of flocks preceded the development of
the mineral resources of the earth. But
it was the primitive society that ex
isted then; and without development
of metals on a large scale there could
have been no advance or progress from
it.
It was only in a small way that agrl
culture could get on, till production of
metals came in to help it. And, as all
things grow through mutual help, In
crease of flocks came through. progress
of agriculture; which itself was only
lean and meager, till iron and steel
could help it, and till the money metals
came in quantities to be the media of
general exchange.
The ancient poets had legends of the
golden age, the silver age and the Iron
age. It was beautiful in theory, but a
mistake in fact. Iron is king. Gold is J
good in its place, silver too; copper too.
But through iron man has obtained his
victories over Nature and his mastery
of the world. Within its limits -gold is
indispensable to industry and com
merce. Silver has become less impor
tant; copper rises immensely in utility
since the era of vast electrical develop
ment began. Behind all is coal; for
coal is the smelter, the power, or the
chief source of it, through which thus
far most great things have been
achieved in the modern industrial
world. '
For It is through the industry of
mining and the production of metals
that the world has been transformed
from old conditions to those of modern
times. .In Western America we have
greater variety of metallic product
than in the Eastern part of the conti
nent; and it was largely to the discov
ery of gold that the rapid settlement
of our Pacific States was due. Hither
to, however, only the surface of our
metalliferous wealth has been touched.
The search has been chiefly for gold
and silver, but there will be broader
basis of wealth in iron, copper and
coal. Gold and silver leave the new
countries that produce them? but the
baser metals, as men call them, remain
a basis of industry, for permanent in
dustry. . Yet. our productive mines of
gold and silver are immense, auxiliaries
to our agriculture and to every other
form of Industry among us. Every one
sees for himself how the mining indus
try helps every other, in our Rocky
Mountain and Pacific States.
The Mining Congress, to sit at Port
land this week, has purposes In which
our whole people, In whatsoever line of
business engaged, cannot but be Inter
ested. Every other line of industry and
production, every possible effort and
movement of commerce, will be stlmu
lated and supported by the working of
our mines. Employment of labor, a
local market for the products of agrl
culture, ad support of factories of all
descriptions will attend this develop
ment. It is the object of the Congress
to awaken an interest in this subject, in
its wider relations. Mining industry
will do more for a country than mere
production of ores and metals. It will
open large vistas of Industry and profit
in all other directions.
GOLD WHEREVER YOU FIND IT.
. For the first time since its organlza-
tion, the American Mining Congress
has come to the Pacific Coast to hold
its annual meeting. Portland bids the
delegates welcome. They represent the
intelligence, the progressive spirit, the
latest and best achievement in a very
important industry. Thirty-five states
and territories are included in the rep
resentatives who will be with us .dur
ing the week. Most of them are prac
tlcal, successful miners who have won
fortunes, small to great, not by chance,
but by labor pursued on approved
scientific plan. With them It is a con
viction that the mining industry of the
country Is only In development and has
many years ahead of it before It shall
reach its highest stage. What applies
to other sections of the United States
Is also applicable to Oregon.
Itr Is well known that the annual
meetings of the Congress in South Da
kota, Colorado, Idaho and .Utah were
followed by greater activity in mining.
Local owners and operators learned
through personal contact with visitors
more about what to do to increase out
put and what not to do to save unwise
expenditure. They were stimulated to
larger effort which proved profitable.
"Visitors after investigations made In
vestments and changed prospect boles
into dividend-paying mines. Cool
pleaded men believe that some such re
suit In 'Oregon will be consequent upon
the meeting here this week.
Portland 1b conservative. While
there is always surplus capital seeking
employment, only a small part of it has
gone into mines. Of the score or more
rich p?eperties developed in recent
yearjS in the Pacific Northwest, to say
nothing: of comparatively obscure yet
reasonably profitable mines. Portland
men have had slight, share. The marked
tendency Is toward slower Investments
considered by the conservative as safer.
If It should turn out that this Congress
be Instrumental In diverting idle capi
tal to digging Oregon gold at a profit,
it will simply be repeating the history
of its good effect on four mining states
in as many separate years.
Attractive programmes have been
prepared for each day's session. "Who
goes to them with attentive ear will
increase his theoretic and practical
knowledge. And after all has been said
he will learn that gold exists wherever
you find it. Since prehistoric time men-
have dug the earth- for the precious
metal. In the past 50" years a consider-.
able mining bibliography has been cre
ated, and yet no scientific miner would
have searched Cripple Creek, the
Transvaal or Klondike with expec
tancy. According to the books, paying
gold wasn't there". These discoveries
upset every theory. In Oregon the hid
den places have scarcely been
scratched. It may be that this state
will furnish another great exemplifica
tion of the new adage that there is
gold wherever you find It.
VALUATIONS AND STATE TAX.
A curious misapprehension seems to
be abroad with reference to the law
which makes provision for dividing the
expenses of the state government
among the various counties. The no
tlon that this act affords any encour
agement for increased "revenues"-
that is to say increased expenditures
is far from the truth, inasmuch as the
natural and proper bearing of the law
is one of caution upon all such reck
lessness.
It has been asserted that the appor
tlonment of state revenues in propor
tion to the county expenditures takes
effect in 1905. This Is an error, inas
much as the last Legislature extended
the time to 1910. This defers the day
of reckoning, but the delay Is likely to
operate In the direction of county ex
travagance. rather than otherwise. In
fact, any tendency to increase rev
enues and thus indirectly expenditures,
will be the more disastrous In 1910 the
earlier it is put into effect.
Assessor McDonell's effort to pledge
the city authorities In advance not to
make increased valuations the excuse
for heavier taxes bespeaks the alert
and conscienti9Us official that Major
McDonell has always shown himself to
'be; but the reception he has met with
may serve to show him the futility of
seeking to keep taxes down by any
such device. Higher valuations mean
simply heavier taxes. As for the ap
portlonment law, we shall only reach
the same result indirectly under It
that we should reach under the old
system.
In the 'long run, Multnomah County
will bear a larger share of the state
tax by reason of any increased valua
tions, as we stated the other day; since
larger expenditure for county purposes
would certainly follow large Increase
of the valuation. If the money is in
any treasury, or can be plausibly
raised, It will be spent This is all but
universal; for though possibly there
may be exceptions, they only establish
or prove the rule. The city of Salem
long under the salutary pressure of
economic administration, has developed
hitherto untried methods of raising In
creased revenues, and now every add!
tional dollar Is used up, the cry is still
for more, and even interest payments
begin to look doubtful.
It is infinitely easier for officials to
comply with clamors for lights, im
provements, etc., than to say firmly
'No." They can make no friends, ap
parently, by denying local ambitions
and they can make many friends by
granting them. Subordinate officials
are always urging, with great variety
of plausibility and the "pull" of friends
increase In their salaries; and the head
officials do not like to - be considered
mean." These are some of the reasons
why every extra dollar raised from tax
ation is at once absorbed and the cry
is still for more. There is only one
safe course In these matters and that
is rigid discouragement of all tendency
to "loosen up."
If the city had access to customs or
internal revenues, then additional taxes
could be so disguised as not to be par
ticularly burdensome, though there Is
violation of sound principles in every
such excess. But where only direct
taxation is available, it is necessary
to repeat that no Increased revenue
can be raised without corresponding
burden on subsistence and Industry.
Taxes on real estate coma out of the
workingman who pays rent. Taxes on
stocks of goods come out of wages and
purchasers. The one thing you cannot
eliminate is the owner's or employer's
profits, for when you reach that point,
property loses its value and business
suspends. The -cry for more revenues
is largely the product of a popular
fallacy that operations undertaken by
the Government, Federal or local, cost
nobody anything.
A VICTIM OF THE HEADING MANIA.
And now it is said that Mary Robin
son, the 14-year-old girl who disap
peared last month from her home in St.
Helens and who spent the interval of
some two weeks between her escape
and arrest in the "woods "wher she was
fed by on old man, conceived the ro
mantic idea that she thuB carried out
from reading sensational love stories.
For months preceding her disgraceful
escapade,t so the story runs,, she had
been a voracious reader of sensational
novels. Owing to the mania thus In
duced she saw in the aged, bent, un
kempt old recluse of the scow moored
to the river bank near her home a
hero to whose guidance she might safe
ly, or at least romantically, commit
herself. Acting upon this foolish and
unreal belief she took counsel of him
and obeyed him. The rest of the story
has been told.
Here Is a case In which the "reading
mania" to which reference was recently
made In these columns took a' different
and 'more immediately virulent form
than in the examples cited in the for
mer article. In this case a young girl
was suddenly bereft of the plain virtue
of common sense, Jbe priceless virtue
of maidenly or womanly modesty and
the simple shall we say oTd-fashloned
virtue of filial respect. Dominated by
a desire to emulate the daring experi
ences of some one of the heroines of
the stories upon which her inflamed
fancy had fed, she cast about her and
saw in the ordinarily repulsive old
scow-dweller her hero. Faugh! The
story, disgusting enough before, be
comes by this rendition doubly nause
ating.
With the chief cause of this young
girl's undoing standing forth in its
bald nakedness, it may be weU to em
phasize anew the necessity" of correct
ing in its inciplency an inordinate de
sire to read that, unchecked in lmma:
ture minds feeds gluttonously upon
every printed story upon which the
subject can lay hands, and which, if
given fulllreln, develops Into the read
ing mania. Taking an acute form in
this case thus early Jit possibly pre
vented Its victim from becoming later
the slatternly mistress of a disorderly
b.ome, the absent-minded, dreamy
motner .or a troop or negiectea cnn
dren, the despair of a husband anxious
to do his duty by his family. We know
(If this report of what the mind of this
perverted young damsel fed upon is
true) what has happened as a result of
the reading mania in this case; we can
easily surmise what would -have hap
pened had the case been one of pro
gressive Instead of acute mania.
In the meantime let us not fall into
the mistake of thinking that the In
telligent supervision of the reading of
young girls by judicious mothers is ex
clusively "old-fashioned." The world
today is full of judicious, careful moth-
ers intent upon their duty. If this were
not true the case of Mary Hobinson,
modified to meet local conditions, would
not be as rare as it, most happily, Is.
THERE IS DANGER.
"Organized Labor," a paper published
at San Francisco, in its Issue of August
13, has an elaborate editorial carrying
the title, "Fundamental Principles of
Unionism." In this -article it is argued.
with elaboration, that unionism ought
to control all labor, for the general
good, and specifically, that the right
claimed by or for Individuals to "sell
their labor In the open market for what
ever they please," though "proclaimed
by press, bench or pulpit," does not
exist; that the claim to or for such
right ought to be resisted by organized
labor, and that, inferentially, nonunion
labor ought not to be allowed opportun
ity to work, and should be prevented
from doing it. Here is the statement
The man or woman who exercises this sup.
posed right of selling his or her labor for
what he or she pleases, commits a crimo
against the state and the Nation, Just as dis
tinctly as does the highway robber who takes
life and property, because In ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, the labor sold In an open
market Is vended at a price detrimental to
society, for the reason that It Is ruinous to
the standard of living. In fact, this supposed
right that we hear so much about is purely
an Imaginary right It does not exist,
This thesis is defended on the ground
that wages can be maintained only
through organization; that "the right
of the individual Is In no instance equal
to the right of all;" or, in other words,
that "the rights, of all are at all times
superior to and far exceed the rights
of any one man or woman." Private
bargaining, therefore, between the em
ployer and the person seeking employ
ment should be forbidden, and only
collective bargaining, through the or
ganization or union allowed.
It Is an interesting question whether
there is to be general avowal by or
ganized labor of this statement or doc
trine, as a definite and inflexible prin
ciple. Unionism does Indeed look to
ward it; but cautiously hitherto. Now,
however, It Is virtually asserted by the
strikers In the meat Industry at Chi
cago, who claim the right to use force
.to prevent others from taking up the
employment they have abandoned; and
to do this they are blocking' the streets
with crowds and beating men to death,
or near to death, every day. While
city and state authorities do not admit
the claim, and try to prevent the vio
lence employed for enforcement of It,
they do not act In any vigorous man
ner, and the disorder apparently lnr
creases from day to day.
They are not good friends of labor,
or of organized labor, who announce
this radical and violent doctrine, and
pursue It. The social organization, as
a whole, Is above organized labor; and
it is bound by the very conditions of
its existence to insist that the man
who does not want to work, on terms
upon which himself and the employer
can agree, has no right to interfere
with the man who does. Much will be
patiently borne, and indeed must be;
but at last society will rise against
such assumption, and If it cannot meet
it and cope with It through forms of
law, It will act outside the law, as It
has been doing in Colorado which is
deplorable, . indeed.
There is no right superior to or high
er than the right to work for one's
dally bread. Men may combine if they
will and often it is best they should
to get better terms for their labor: and
a workman, either singly or In combin
ation with others, has a right to sell
his labor or to withdraw it. But it
cannot be accepted as a principle that,
either singly or with others, he has a
right to maltreat, or to menace with
maltreatment, those who may want to
wprk. It may be feared that this Is
going to come at some time to a ter
rible issue; for which the conditions
may be ripening in Chicago, even now.
When that which is claimed, wrongly,
as a "fundamental principle" clashes
with what Is a fundamental principle
in fact, there always is danger.
NEED OF CATHOLICITY.
The letter that appeared yesterday In
The Oregonian on Dr. Brougher's obser
vations in Paris was a wholly proper
protest. This young gentleman has tal
ents, but bas been brought up, evi
dently, in a certain narrow range of
ideas, observation, study and reflec
tion. Undoubtedly the great contrasts
of -this world are In Paris, as nowhere
else. It Is the world's chief seat of
the humanities of science, art, culture,
refinement. In such a capital the oppo
sites of these great things appear The
opposites, constituted as man is, are
necessary foils. There Is no great
genius, even, as one of our own greatest
writer's has told us, without some mix
ture of dementia. Paris never can be
studied with any profit in the spirit, or
with the spirit, of Puritan England or
New England. England has been get
ting over this during two centuries
past, and New England America will.
in a century or two more.
He who goes to Paris to look upon it
with the eye of the narro'w, exclusive,
obsolete or obsolescent Puritan world,
gets nothing for his time or money.
There is a wider world than he knows.
On this earth there Is no country where
the great virtues industry, -sobriety,
prudence, self-sacrifice, chastity, valor
have stronger hold than in France.
And though we boast of our English
and Teutonic extraction, and justly are
proud of it, yet our English-Teutonic-American
life, deprived of what France
has given us, would have a cheerless
aridity that would make us loathe It.
The trouble with us is that we have
the cant ofijnorals, without sufficient
stock of morality. In France cant' Is
almost unknown. So it will be here,.
after a while, when we shall have
reached a higher culture and civiliza
tion. Vice with us Is gross. In France
and Southern Europe much less so.
He was no mean observer who said
there were conditions in which, vice
loses half of its evils by- losing all its
grossness.
What we Americans haven't learned
yet, and what it took Britain a great
while to leantindeed Britain hasn t
learned it fully yet Is that, outside,
away and beyond our provincial and in
sular bounds, is another and greater
world of mind and of man. based on
history, experience, knowledge, litera
ture, development of art and science,
religion and morals, in which we have
large inheritance, though scarcely
knowing it, but which we are apt to
condemn because we can't measure It.
English travelers and writers long
since ceased to be censors of the morals
and customs of France, of Italy and of
Spain. Our own travelers and writers
will become similarly wise, In time.
In a note published in one of the early
editions of Scott's Life of Napoleon a
story is told of a young English officer,
named Ellis, who, on his way from In
dia to England, touched at St. Helena,
and was admitted to an audience with
the great exile. Colonel Ellis recorded
his astonishment. "Here." said he. "I
found a mind of the highest order.
dwelling in a world to me wholly un
known. The order and range of Ideas,
vast beyond all my former thought,
were totally different from anything I
had ever conceived or Imagined. The
impression Is Indelible." There .was a
man who was travellner to some Dur
pose, Inasmuch as he had found that
the cult of his own country and race
did not include the whole , range of
human ideas and activities. Rapid
travel and transmission of intelNgence
will, in course of time, largely clear
up the remaining spirit of provincial
ism. Intercourse develops the eye and
mind of catholicity. We have had much
rrom u rance, ana tor our own gooa we
ought yet to have more. One of the
chief needs of our country is deliver
ance from self-sufficiency ana near
sightedness. In this direction France
can help us.
That General Nelson A. Miles should
declare for Parker and write fulsome
letters to him and for. him Is not sur
prising. For many years, even before
he went on the retired list. Miles was a
fussy politician. He has a notion that
he is a great man, neglected by an
ungrateful country. His connection
through his wife with the Sherman fam
ily led him to an exalted estimate of his
deserts, both as soldier and statesman.
Even McKinley, with all his ourtesy
and suavity, couian t get on wnn mm.
Roosevelt he hates intensely; for when
he started. In his style of pompous
and dictatorial vanity to give himself
his customary airs before Roosevelt,
and even to bully the new President,
the latter met him quickly with the
treatment that his insolence and pre
sumption deserved. Since then Bom-
bastes hasn't had an hour's rest from
his wounded vanity. The greatest state
paper delivered In his time, Is what he
now calls Parker's strangely dull and
extremely arid acceptance speech. Gen
eral Miles, thinks, or says he thinks.
that if Roosevelt should be elected the
Constitution would, be lost and the
country with It. "Superfluous lags,"
etc.
Before Japan's meteoric appearance
had attracted so much attention to
Asia, and also before there was so
much glib talk of Oriental progress In
Occidental civilization, Kipling wrote
his story, "The Man Who Was." Dirk-
ovitch, the Russian in the story "would
unburden himself by the hour on the
glorious future that awaited the com
bined arms of England and Russia
when their hearts and territories should
run side by side and the great mission
of civilizing Asia should begin." Con
cerning this Idea Kipling incidentally
remarks, "That was unsatisfactory, be
cause Asia Is not going to be civilized
after.-the methods of the West. There
is too much. Asia and she is too old.
You cannot reform a lady of many
lovers, and Asia has been Insatiable In
her flirtations aforetime. She will never
attend Sunday school or learn to vote
save with swords for tickets." In 'the
sugar-coating of Action Kipling may
have hidden a pill of truth.
Portland in the next few weeks is
going to entertain a large number tf
Knights Templar, every one of whom
will take at least a hasty survey of
the most beautiful city in America.
What the town prays for now is one
day's hard rain to put out the forest
fires and clear the air of smoke that
hides our mountains. Still the situa
tion Is .far better .than In 1883, which
was the worst since 1862. Henry Ward
Beecher visited Portland 21 years ago.
When asked by a reporter how he liked
the scenery of the Columbia River, the
pastor of Plymouth remarked with 111
cdhcealed disgust: "For all that I saw,
I might just as well have come through
In a mall bag."
An ominous silence has fallen over
the scenes of war In Manchuria. The
same cessation of news preceded Kiul-
ienching and Nanshan, and, In a lesser
degree, the operations around Tache-
kiao. When the present silence Is
broken, the correspondents, in all prob
ability, will have a chance to "spread
themselves," and gory dispatches may
be expected; more especially since the
Japanese custom has been to strike at
all points simultaneously. It is there
fore likely that Port Arthur and Llao
Yang will presently have some Impor
tant dispatches to file.
In sharp contrast with the conduct of
the master of the ill-fated steamer
General Slocum, Is the quick percep
tion and prompt act of a railroad ferry
captain In New York harbor Saturday.
Having collided with a passenger ferry,
his bow crashing half way through, he
realized Instantly that the only hope
was to push the wrecked bpat to a
wharf before she pould sink. He obeyed
his judgment and saved a hundred
lives. The man for a great emergency
is one who uses, not loses, his wits.
"The Association also expressed Its
opinion that the most efficient means-of
preventing the Influx of American shoes
Is to be found in improving the Ger
man-made article," says Consul-Gener
al Guenther in a report upon the Ger
man Association of Shoe Manufactur
ers, which discussed at length, "How
to Combat the Importation of Amer
ican Shoes." The Association seems to
hold an eminently sensible opinion.
By marrying a former pupil, Mr. Pot
ter, of the Chemawa Indian School,
has manifested his thorough confidence
in the Chemawa system of training.
But what an old lool!
A BALANCE WHEEL FOR INDUSTRY
Maxwell's Talisman.
It is indeed a strange thing that so few
think out to the bottom the great eco
nomic problems which confront thebusi
ness interests of this country or attempt
to devise a comprehensive plan which
would serve as a balance wheel and pre
serve the equilibrium and stability of our
social and business conditions at all
times.
It Is quite possible to do this, .though
it would require an organization of the
various Interests affected, including com
merce, labor, manufactures and trans
portation, and a great educational cam
paign. The primary and original source or ail
our .National prosperity is agriculture,
and if our economic conditions were so
adjusted that, in any time of temporary
trade depression, all surplus labor could
be turned immediately back to the land.
that fact-alone would actVas a regulator.
This surplus labor, instead of becoming
a dead weight upon social and business
conditions, and causing them to sag
lower and lower as the number of un
employed increased, would at once be
come again a factor in profitable produc
tion, and this Increased production wouia
in turn restore prosperity.
. We are informed through the press that
11,000 men are to be discharged by the
Pennsylvania Railroad because there has
been a shrinkage in the valume of busi
ness and there are no signs of a speedy
revival. It-is said other roads will also
be forced to largely reduce the number
of their employes, and that at least 75,000
men will be discharged by the railroads
within a short time. '
Every employer who is compelled to
lay off men in this way increases the
danger of general business depression.
Inaction creates inaction, and a down
ward trend in trade conditions Is a most
dangerous thing when it once gets well
started.
Labor suffers and capital suffers the
whole country suffers from such a ces
sation of Industry. . I
And yet, the way Is at hand to safe
guard for all time against this danger.
No one thing will accomplish it, but a
comprehensive general National policy
of educating every man so that he would
know how to get his living from the
ground, and then creating conditions
under which every man who needed it
could get the ground to till for a living.
would create this great balance wheel
and equilibrium for our social and trade
conditions which is absolutely necessary
to relieve us from the dangers which are
inevitable from recurring oppressions In
trade and industry.
A comprehensive plan for drawing off
surplus labor to the land would begin
with the child In the public schools. It
should include school gardens, nature
study, and farm training for every boy
as a part of the public school system. It
should Include a carefully organized sys
tem of vacant-lot farming In every city,
where every man out of work could learn
to farm. It should include philanthropic
assistance on a large scale to the Sal
vatlon Army Farm Colonies. It should in
elude the systematic establishment In the
outskirts of every city farm Instruction
colonies, in charge or capaoie- instructors
In farming, where men, and women, too,
could get temporary employment while
they learned to farm.
And In addition to this, it should in
clude a carefully planned business system
of small loans to families who have
learned to farm and give them a start
on the land. The fact should never be
lost sight of that the farmlnc to be done
would be farming for a living by the in
tensive cultivation of a very small tract
of land
And beyond all this the gigantic pos
sibilities of the public domain for afford
ing "homes on the land for multitudes and
millions of our people should never bo
lost sight of.
It may be said that, such a plan as that
above suggested Is incapable of being
practically carried Into effect.
It Is no more Impracticable than was
the original conception of the National
irrigation Idea, arid the building of IrrI
cation works costing many millions of
dollars by the National Government.
Five years ago that project was looked
upon as chimerical. Today there are
$27,000,000 In the United States Treasury
to build these great irrigation works and
there Is published in this paper a list of
the projects already approved for con
struction by the Secretary of the In
terlor.
Some idea of the swarming multitudes
who could be furnished with employment
In hard times In this country upon such
gigantic works of public improvement
as these great irrigation systems may be
formed by looking at the picture which
nortrays the work or construction of the
Nile Dam, recently completed at Assouan
In Egypt, which appears on the inside of
the front cover of this paper.
And yet, notwithstanding all these pro
found reasons deeply rooted as they are
in social and political economics and;
stasemanshlD. for preserving tne rem
nants of our public lands for actual sot
tiers and homemakers, what remains of
that magnificent domain 13 being reck
lessly and extravagantly wasted througn
the delay and Indifference or congress to
the repeated warnings of Secretaries of
the Interior and of Agrlcluture, uommis
sloners of the General Land Office and
Presidents of the United States
Dog Died With His Master.
Philadelphia Press.
Lying side by side, Alexander Perot, of
Sixteenth and Wolf streets, and his faith
ful dog were both found dead yesterday
by his daughter. Perot had been 111 for
some time, and It Is believed that while
temporarily Insane, as a result of the
sickness, he determined on suicide and
turned on the gas. The faithful dog re
fused to leave his master, and both fell
victims to the deadly fumes.
Not Peace, but War.
Chicago Chronicle.
(Lillian Russell says she agrees with the
Kansas City woman who asked ior a di
vorce because per husband never opposed
her in tne sngnxest degree.
Says airy, fairy Lillian Russell
Tho fair and much bemarrled fay:
'I think It tiresome to have a husband
"Who always lets mo have my way..
If married life Is ever happy
I think It should be good and scragpy.
"It palls to have a meek companion,
"Who never shows hl3 teeth for fight.
Who never tears his hair in anger
And always says that I am right.
I want a spouse with lots of muscle,"
Says airy, fairy Lillian Russell.
"A passive husband gives me heaaacho;
The goody-goody one Is worse.
It adds a splco to humdrum living
To have vour man Ket un and curse.
A man should growl, his wife should hear It,
Or else It shows a meachlng spirit.
'It irks me when my husband meekly
Submits to every touch I make
And never tries by actions fiendish
My trusting little heart to break
"Who has his pufso strings loosely swinging
Ana always -narKens io my stringing.
"I want a husband who has gumption
To turn mo down when I get gay;
"Who, when I plead for high-priced Donnets
Or sealskin sacks, declines to pay;
"Who says I chase ior things delusive,
I And when I sniffle gets abusive.
"I want no man who calls me darling.
And duckle- dear, and things like that.
I want a pugilistic husband '
A strong one, who can start a spat.
It Is a bore to live In quiet.
I want a husband who can riot.
"I like to fight about my bonnets;
I want to scrap' about my togs.
The ohly happy married people
Are those who live like cats and dogs.
It lends a zest to yoked existence
To meet with masculine resistance.
"I want no namby-pamby fellow
Who never swats mo In the Jaw,
Or blacks my lovely little optics,- s
Or strikes me with his. doubledpaw.
I like a strenuous man of muscle,"
Says airy, fairy Lillian Russell.
PERTINENT COMMENT. .
, The Argonaut.
The first thing to be noticed In Alton B.
Parker's speech of acceptance of the
Democratic nomination, for the Presi
dency is his characterization of the St.
Louis platform as "admirable." Then' he
proceeds to modify it In a dozen particu
lars. The St. Louis platform, for ex
ample, says: "We denounce protection
as a robbery." Parker points out that,
as the Senate Is sure to be Republican
during his term if he should be elected
nothing, probably, can be done, but he
states "our position" to be "in favor of
a reasonable reduction of tariff," which
differs not so much from the position of
the Republican party.
Regarding the trusts, Judge Parker
thinks no further legislation necessary,
prosecutions under the common law suf
ficing, in his opinion. Here he differs
from the platform, which uneouivocably
demands "an 'enlargement of the powers
of the Interstate Commerce Commission,"
and, if necessary, demands the enact
ment" of further legislation. However,
Judge Parker iswllling to -be convinced.
He, says:
While this is my view of the scope o the
common law. If It should be made to appear
that It Is a mistaken one, then I favor such
further legislation within Constitutional lines
as will give the people a Just and a full meas
ure of protection.
He speaks of the position of the Unit
ed States as a world power, and contin
ues: J
I protest, however, against the feeling, now
far too prevalent, that by reason of tho com'
mandlng' position wo have assumed, In the
world, we must take part In the disputes and
broils of foreign countries, and that because
we have grown great we should Intervene In
every Important question that arises in other
parts of the world. I also protest against tne
erection of any such military establishments
as would be required to maintain the country
in that attitude. '
In other words, the candidate sets his'
face against the enlargement of the Navy
to adequacy, which Is an essential fea
ture of the Republican policy.
The most striking thing In the long
and. it .must be said, not very stirring-
address. Is the statement with which he
concluded: "I shall not be a candldato
for nor shall I accept a renomlnation."
The reason for so remarkable a deter
mination, it elected, is that he believes a
President "should be unembarrassed by
any possible thought of the influence his
decision may have upon anything what
ever that may affect him personally.
Judge Parker takes pains to say that this
statement is not made in criticism or tno
several Presidents who have accepted re-
nomination; nevertheless It is a criticism
for only bv viewing tho evil effects loi
lowing from "the acceptance of a second
term in the past can Judge Parker argue
harm in the future. The Presidents wno
have served more than one term are
Georce Washington, Thomas Jefferson
James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew
.Tackaon. Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses &
Judge Parker makes no allusion to Pan
ama. He says notning or me race pruu
lem" unon which the platform Is so em
phatlc. He does not say he is "for" the
gold standard merely mat ne consiaers
it "established.
Quay's Sauerkraut.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Politicians who knew Senator Quay are
familiar with tho little kegs of sauer
kraut he sent to them every year between
Thanksgiving and Christmas. He was as
regular with them as Rhode Island ben
ators are with their turkeys. rooming
pleased Senator Quay more than to have
somebody nralse his sauencraut. ne su
perlntended the making of it himself on
his Beaver County farm, and always had
sunnlv at his home In Washington
Thus it happened that he sent a keg to
Bram Stoker, who was in that city at
the time with Sir Henry Irving. The .
Senator did pot say in his note tnat tne
keg contained sauerkraut. He wrote
simply: A little aeiicacy irom
farm I hope you'll enjoy."
Bram Stoker produced tno Keg at an
after-theater supper. I wonaer wnais
in it?" he said to his guests.
"Scrapple, perhaps." suggested vviiue
Collier.
'Scrapple be blanked," saia a uerman
named Wundt, who was mere at
time, looking after Herr connects inter
ests. "Don't you Know mai you uo.vc
of Senator Quay's famous Keg3 ot sauer
kraut? Man, It is wortn us weigut m
gold." ...
Wundt was told he could have the
sauerkraut provided he did not eat it on
the premises. Something else was oraereu
for supper, wunat went noma wnu mo
prize, greatly rejoicing.
Long Time Between -Battles.
Pueblo Chieftain.
Sir William Butler, an Engllsh.soldler of
distinction, said recently in giving testi
mony before a British commission in re-
. 1 1 1 . i OA,.,ritn- "WnroHnkshlrfi
gara to mmua ocir.. ---
men, miners and that class of people, like
to get to the sea for ten days if they can
possibly afford to do it. J-ney uu uawc.
r havfi a very long seacoast, and wo
have a number of miners who really en
joy being out with their regiment of gar
rison artillery near ine seu. xuc bU
t-ho aoa Tuvaiisa thev lire over tne sea,
v, v,ovitrip- nnradft Is as valuable. If
not more so, than the drill; it freshens
tvia TYion un and cleanses them. .
"An officer told me last bummer mat
when they were bathing there was one
fellow with a very black skin, and he
heard a man say to him: 'Jack, you are
hv rUrtv' 'Yes. he said. 'I was not
out at last year's training.' "
Make Way for the Lady.
Chicago Record-Herald.
One of the lady poets sings:
Let us go down to the sea, ere the noisy day
he over.
Let us go down to the sea and strip
We wish to explain here that the lady
Is supposed to be addressing her remarks
n wntioman. But to continue ma
noem:
and strip us or care ana oi io;
There are graves In the heart of man that
only the sea can cover.
There are deeds In the life of man to be sown
as the deep sea spoil.
We can't ouite understand why the lady
wants to do this before the day Is over,
but nerhaps she has her reasons, or a new
bathing suit that she desires to exhibit
to the multitude.
Dives'
Deathbed.
William Frederick Harvey
In Westminster
Tteview.
Draw the death-cloth o'er his head.
Tawdry, glided roses strew;
Let his wantons wake their dead.
Priests, this is no place for you.
Put your crucifix aside
Fitter jester's cap and bells!
Which his scoffing voice decried
For fair Monte Carlo's hells.
From yon stoup next pour away
Holy water; to tho brim
Fill It up with absinthe, pray;
With Its poison sprinkle him.
Stay. O hallowed bells, your toll:
Cease, pale priest, your mass to sing,
For tha requiem of his soul, t
He took heed of no such thing.
Low buffoons his corse should bear
To unconsecrated earth;
Ribald songs for Latin prayer
Drunkard's jests are all he's worth.
In his coffin lay by stealth
Gold snatched from his pander crew,
Symbol of the boundless wealth
Once he lavished, pimps, on' you.
Life was but a sorry jest.
Death stole on him unaware,
While futurity, ho guessed,
. None but craven souls could scare.
In his hands a dlcebox place.
On his brow a harlot's klss.
Daub with rouge his bloated face;
Can death ghaatUcr be than thlsT
NOTE AND COMMENT. :
Samovar'and ;Samisen.
Our great story of .the Russo-Japanese
War.
(Summary of previous chapters MIchaei
Popoff Falls In and is Out a itoume
Disguised as a Bale of Hay, ne maK.es
his escape from a Japanese Prison, and
is on his way to Niuchrwang when there
Is a Terrific Explosion and Popoff.)
CHUNK IV.
was thrown high In the air, and was
caught fast in a passing cloud. A strong
wind wafted him rapidly over Mukder
and after - many, days of travel Popofl
found himself above St. Petersburg., The
sight of the site made the 'Cossack anxi
ous to descend, but he was imprisoned
within the cloud. There seemed no way
of escape, but finally Popoff found the
thunder-bolt arid, shooting it back, the
cloud -opened and began to dissolve. Fear
ful lest he should be accused of leso
majeste for appearing to rain over Russia
Popoff hastily slid down a sunbeam and
stood In the grounds of the Peterhot Pal
ace.
In the meantime, the-regret-to-report of
the thunderbolt had aroused the Palace,
"Who frew dat bomb?" cried the Hered
itary Grand Wet Nurse. "They've done
woke up the Czarevitch."
It was true. The squalling of a royal
infant was heard from the steel-clad nur
sery.
Popoff trembled. He could hear the Lit
tle Father running wildly up and down
his bomb-proof cellar, shouting, "Won't
that child ever stop yowling?"
Just as Popoffs fate trembled in the
balance there was an overwhelming crash.
Port Arthur had fallen..
(To be continued.)
A Tragedy of Opposites.
CHAPTER I.
Smith is on.
CHAPTER II.
The horses are off.
CHAPTER III.
The winner la In.
CHAPTER IV.
Smith is out.
Consideration.
Russian nihilists are reported to be ex
perimenting with a noiseless bomb, in
the hope of being able to kill- the Czar
without waking the youngster.
That must have been a wicked storm
at St. Poul to "demoralize" the telephone
wires.
Half a million dollars' worth of Pari
sian gowns arrived at the World's Fair.
If that isn't heart-breaking, what is?
Emperor William and King Edward as
god-fathers should be a guarantee of the
best religious training for the young Czar
evitch. John Sharp Williams is now being
taught that there is no crime so atrocious
as to be funny when one should be plati
tudinous. Paragraph from the New York Sun:
With all thy faults, Theodore, we
Suggested ending:
have compelled ourselves to swallow you.
Another child story from the New York
Tribune:
Little 5-year-old Edith, a Chicago - girl, was
taken to a dentist, who removed an aching
tooth That evening at prayers her mother
was surprised to hear, her say: "Forgive ua
our debts as wo forgive our dentists."
According to the New York Times the
Harrison-street Court in Chicago has es
tablished a price list for slaps adminis
tered to wives by husbands, the schedule
being as follows:
A slap with the left hand, $1.
A right-handed slap, ?2.
A slap while Bitting down, $4.
A slap while standing up, $5.
A slap while standing flat-Hooted. ?3.
A slap while standing on your toes
This latter price must be left open until
August 20, when Justice Caverly will have
returned from his vacation, during which
ho will give some thought to the case of
Mrs. Williams, of 25i La Salle street.
whose husband is charged with being a
warm advocate of slapping as an exercise.
i
A -New York correspondent says that
Americans will be especially pleased that
the heir to the Russian throne is to be
christened Alexis, as there Is a "very
tender spot In the hearts of the people
of this land" for the Grand Duke Alexis,
because the Grand Duke once spent two
months in America. This rot of saying
that such and such a prince is dear to
Americans or well-known in America, be
cause he rushed about from one million
aire's house to another for a few weeks,
ought to be given up. The truthof the
matter is that the people hope Prince
Schnitzel or the Duke of Makaklak will
have a good time during their visit, but
otherwise they don't care two snaps
whether Prince or Duke Is in Newport or
In Constantinople. WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"What are the probabilities for tomorrow?"
"That the weatherman will again be wrong."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Whale Tou'll have to get out of this. Jonah
What for? Whale I'm not chartered to car
ry passengers. Town and Country.
Nodd How Is your boy getting along In pol
itics? Todd First-rate. The papers have
taken him up and aro beginning to denounce
him. Life.
"How does Punchum's second wife get along
with his seven email boys?" "Oh, beautifully;
she used to be a teacher in a reform school."
Detroit Free Press.
His glance waa freighted with love. "Some
things are bard to express," he faltered.
"There's no hurry," protested the maiden,
with a gracious smile. Puck. '
Mopsy Dat pitcher ain't no good? Why,
say, he kin pitch an In-colve wot goes out.
Red Aw. wot's dat! Walt till you see Mc
Feeter"s risln' drop colve! Puck.
First Physician So the operation was just In
tho nick of time? Second Physician Yes, In
another 24 hours the patient would have re
covered without It. Harper's Bazar.
Tom And so you won on the last race?
Harry Yes; but the finish was so close that
I would have lost if the other horse had stuck
out his tongue. Kansas City Journal.
Mrs. Gollghtly This la my new $63 bathing
dress, my dear. What do you think ot It?
Gollghtly Think you got less for your money
than any one I ever knew. Town Topics.
She I ifo a green diamond has been found
in a South African mine. He Oh, well, what's
the use of It? Nobody wants to play baseball
In an African mine! Yonkers Statesman:
Sign Painter I don't see any suitable vacant
space on your walls. Where do you want tho
motto. "Terms Strictly Cash," painted? Barber-Shop
Proprietor On the ceiling, of course.
Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Winks How much better oft a man
would be if he would tako hla wife's advice!
Mrs. Blinks Yea. I've advised Charlie time
and again not to bet on horses that don't win,
but he will do It. New Yorker.
Mr. Newly Rlche We must learn kow- to be
have. Maria, It 'we are going to enter society.
Mre. Newly Rlche We will, my dear. Tho
new set of servants I have engaged have been
In the best families. Detroit Free Pressj
She Mrs. Sparker has done nothing lately
but run down her neighbors. He I had no
Idea she was such a gossip. She Who said
anything about gossip? She Is learning to
, drive her new motor car. Town Topics.
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