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ROOSEVELT IS STRKNTjOTJS.
Strenuous? Tea. A man who was a mem
ber of the Assembly of the State of New
York; who was twice re-elected; who was
easily one of the leaders on the floor and
In the councils of his party in that practical
end hard-working body; who was the can
didate for Speaker of a strong minority In
that Assembly; who was a delegate to the
State and National Conventions; who Is the
author of standard historical works, and a
candidate for Mayor of the greatest city In
the New World, all before the age of 50;
who was Governor of the Empire State at
40, Vice-President at 48, and President of
the United States at 44, Is strenuous, but
that Is by no means all. A man who can In
twenty years make such an Impression on his
fellow-citizens is a man of parts. There is
po record like It In this country of young
6nen.
THE GREAT SIDESTEPPER.
It Is something of a surprise to find so
- Considerable and serious journals as the
World and Herald, of New Tork, pro
pounding the tobacco conundrum to
President Roosevelt, with the air of one
Who submits a poser that the unhappy
victim cannot answer. Here is some-".-thlng,
they say, that he can't dodge.
iHe must choose between the tobacco
jtrust and the Independent producers.
?Be must come out one way or the other.
iAha! Now we've got him!
The most careless observer of Theo
dore Roosevelt's character will wonder,
Jf he stops to think, what act in the
President's career has given these
hilarious Democratic organs the notion
lhat Mr. Roosevelt will be inclined to
idestep any proposition that he has a
chance to tackle straight out. The im
pression has been general that one im
portant function of Messrs. Hay and
Root, Knox and Moody, has been to
;it on thePresldent's neck and keep him
from rushing into a conclusion worse
than that, even, to action on every
topic that has showed its head above
the Executive horizon. This is the first
lime, so far as we can recall, that the
"Rough Rider" has been twitted with
caution and prudence. "We do not know
much about the tobacco war, but we
shall hazard the guess that if it should
really be up to "Teddy" to act, he will
not leave anybody long in doubt as to
this views or as to what he proposes
to do.
There is an obvious confusion of mind
here, whose cause may not be far to
seek. The World and Herald have been
.reading the Parker letter of acceptance,
wherein it says every few lines that we
should go forward with all brakes set,
and should not proceed so distinctly
toward the North as to disconcert any
who feel we should go and are going
South, JLet us reform the tariff so as to
please the protected interests and main
tain the gold standard in some way
that will please Bryan and proceed
against the trusts on lines that will
meet the approval of "Wall street and
give the Filipinos complete, independ
ence, just like the Incomplete Cuban
form, and humiliate the age-limit pen
sion order by going it one better with
.a service pension. It is clear that when
the World and Herald cast the Presi
dent for the role of the Great American
Bidestepper their act is one ' of mis
taken Identity. It is to say as Tom
Seabrooke does when he hangs the
becklace on the heavily veiled battle
ax, "I may be wrong."-
PARKER ON PENSIONS.
Candidate Parker rests his case
against Pension Order No. 78 upon its
alleged "usurpation." He does not ven
ture to object to the principle of gener
ous treatment of the soldiers, for he
offers to help Congress pass a service
pension law, which has always been
bitterly opposed by the Democratic
party; but he holds the pension order,
Issued by Commissioner Ware and ap
proved by President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Hitchcock, to be "unwarranted"
and an "encroachment" by the Execu
tive. How much truth isHhere in this
charge? jj
The fact is that under the Constitu
tion and the laws the facts as to an
applicant's disability are determinable
by the regulations of the department
and the results of examination. This
responsibility was recognized by Presi
dents Cleveland and McJCinley, who in
turn accepted it and issued orders fix
ing the age limit of probable disability
at 75 and 65 years, respectively. Each
of these orders is based upon precisely
the same interpretation of the act of
June 27, 1S90, granting pensions to
those who are unable to support them-
selves by manual labor. The acts of
Cleveland and McKInley. were in cou-yL Journeys, "t5 where the master of the
formity with the law, and do Is Roose
velt's. The celebrated pension order
No. 78 is as follows:
In the adjudication of pension -Jt 'un
der said act of June 27 1800, as amended.
It shall be taken, and considered as an evi
dential tact, Jf the contrary docs not ap
pear, and Jf all other legal requirements are
properly net, that when a claimant has
passed the age of 68 years he is disabled
one-half In ability to perform manna! la
bor and Is entitled to be rated at 83 per
month; after 65 years at $8 per month; after
C8 years at $10 per month, and after 70 years
at 812 per month.
The words show that the age of 62 is
not established as definitely proving in
capacity, but that it will be so regarded
"if the contrary does not appear." That
is, if It appears that the old soldier of
62 can earn his living by manual labor,
he Is shut out from his pension. In 1887
all survivors of the Mexican War of
the age of 62 were granted pensions of
$8 per month. It is clear that the
charge of "usurpation" is without the
slightest standing In law or In fact. It
was issued in obedience to a law, and
supported by two exactly similar prece
dents. The only question Is as to the
correctness of the judgment which se
lects 62 instead of 65. There is no
"usurpation" about it, and the charge
is a very silly one to make.
THOUGHTS ON CLASS HATRED.
Mr. Debs is very certain that class
hatred Is a permanent institution. At
least he seems Jo hope so. It would be
a black night "for Pred Dubois when
the Mormon issue failed him, and in
prosperous times the calamity wall of a
Bryan falls on heedless ears". And so
Mr. Debs promises himself, as he puts
it, that "the class of capital and the
class of labor are antagonistic and can
not be harmonized." Hence there will
always he room for the apostle of class
hatred. Hence, always. Debs.
Now it is the plainest of earthly phe
nomena that the poor are not rich.
Neither are -the weak strong or the mis
erable happy. Chance and natural law
have so ordered It that heredity and
environment combine to fix one man
under a lucky star, as we sometimes
say, while another is claimed by Melan
choly for her own. The race is not
always to the swift nor the battle to
the -strong, says the Wise Man, but
time and chance happeneth unto them
alL Some of us are born with a white
skin and a proud pedigree, some with
a black skin, without pride of ancestry
or hope of posterity. Some of us are
born with genius or the passion for
work, others with insurmountable lazi
ness 'and a gift of gab. Napoleon "was
born Napoleon and Debs as simply
Debs.
Now it is the able and uplifting gos
pel of men like Debs that the reason
why some men have nothing is be
cause others have something. The rea
son why one man is too lazy to learn
anything is because Shakespeare was
wise. .JThe reason why one man lets
every "opportunity slip through his
grasp is because Napoleon was the per
sonification of alertness, energy and de
cision combined. The reason why one
man never has a clean shirt to his
back is because Rockefeller has made
550,000,000. This is what we gather
from the philosophy of Debs, towit:
The history of the human race consists in &
long struggle of class and of class distinction.
A few have worn the purple of power, have
lived in luxury and have enJoyeTS-the fruits
of the toll of the masses, but the great mass
of the people have struggled in poverty and
have died in pain. . . . You give to the
Federal Judges the power thej have, and they
paralyze you with Injunctions; you make guns,
and you find yourself at the wrong end of
them; you construct palace cars and walk; you
make silks and eatlns that your wives may
dress in calico; you. build palaces and live in
hovels.
We are to infer, of course, that in a
world constructed by Mr. Debs when
elected President and collecting a sal
ary of $50,000 a year, the decisions of
the courts would be handed down by
the janitor of the Courthouse, the gun
smith would fire off his own guns, the
cabinet-maker would spend the rest of
his life riding about in the Pullman he
had made, the poor would dress In silk
and the rich in calico, and the stone
mason would live on Fifth avenue while
the president of the steel trust slept on
the window sslll alongside the Third
avenue elevated - It Is monstrous, of
course, that the man who can earn
$10,000 a year should get any more
than the man who lives by his wife's
taking in washing. No man should live
in a hovel who would find a palace
more to his mind. When Mr. Debs
comes into power there shall be seven
halfpenny loaves sold for a penny and
the three-hooped pot shall have ten
hoops.
The Idea is, moreover, that these de
lectable operations of the rich are pur
sued to the loss and pain of the poor.
It is a fair inference that the work
in groan would be better off if there
were no demands from the rich for
silks or satins to be woven or Pullman
cars and palaces to be built. Having
no luxuriese themselves, the lower five
are out and Injured because the upper
ten put factories into operation which
furnish employment to the poor. We
shall not attempt the endless and fruit
less task of showing how large a part
of human earnings can be directly and
indirectly traced to the demands of the
rich which would come to an end with
the end of their riches and plunge
thousands into Idleness and want.
Nor shall we undertake to estimate
the proportion of our people who are
enamored of the Debs doctrine that
they are poor because others are rich;
that the way to build themselves up Is
to tear others down, and that the
proper attitude of the manly man
toward wealth and -power is not so
much hope and resolution as it is envy
and despair. We are content to point
out that if there is class hatred it
arises not in the nature of things where
inequalities are obvious and eternal,
but In the mischief-breeding activities
of those who go about teaching the po'or
to hate the rich for their riches, in
citing the weak to enyy the strong, and
counseling the vicious, Indolent and de
praved to resist the courts and the due
operation of law against the lawless.
It Is not necessary that the unsuccess
ful should hate the successful. It is
weak and sinful, as Mr. Debs, benighted
though he be, doubtless kriows.
There is another thought on the text
which is perhaps worth suggesting, and
that is that Mr. Debs has somewhat
overestimated the lugubrlousness of the
lot of the masses who "have struggled
In poverty and have died In pain." If
Mr. Debs has ever been in the homes of
the poor, he has seen happiness there
more honest and genuine than the gay
ety of the smart set. If he has ever
visited the palaces of the rich, he has
seen misery there in all its shapes, from
'cloenlacii n4ftvi find 111 iA1fVi Ia a i
w ..-... ..0.w --. -.. i j ucoyiur
over children gone astray and honored
names dragged In the dust. "Tonight I
climbed the marble steps of a mansion
on Fifth avenue," says Elbert Hubbard
in one of his early and best I,ltl
house sat in splendor surrounded by
every luxury that IngenuItyVcan devise
or money can buy. But his wife is a
stranger to his heart, his son Is in an
Inebriate asylum and his daughter's
name is never mentioned. So that hap
piness left this rich man's houseMast
night and flew Into a mud-thatched
cottage In Ireland, where six rosy chil
dren were sleeping soundly In one bed
of straw." Oh, yes, Mr. Debs, the
masses of the people "have died In
pain." But so has Dives. The agony
of the dying hour Is no respecter of
persons. The gospel of class distinc
tions is sufficiently answered at the
cradle and the grave.
NO GOVERNMENT BY SPASMS?
It Is In every way to be regretted that
the school district's finances do not
seem to justify an increase of the
teachers' salaries. This is one of the
functions of society which it is little
less than a crime to stint and which it
is actually a crime against posterity to
neglect. And yet the district's financial
condition Is what it to; and it 16 not to
be mended, nor are the teachers to be
helped, by senseless and 111-ternpered
railing against the School Board. The
Directors are. careful, prudent persons,
who manage the schools with the same
circumspection they devote to their pri
vate affairs. They will not be swerved
from their duty by ignorant abuse,
nor will the district's affairs be turned
over to intellectual scavengers who pay
no taxes, send no children to the public
schools, or never take any interest in
them except to throw an occasional fit
of vituperation:.
It is a distressing thing that several,
of the' school buildings "are not ready
for occupancy. But this Is a comnon
thing everywhere. All growing com
munities are constantly embarrassed by
the pressure of school population faster
than schoolhouses can be made ready.
It Is so In New York, it is so in the
rural districts of the Pacific Coast A
Job of rebuilding that takes three or
four months to complete cannot be done
In two. School buildings are not the
only buildings that fall to be delivered
by contractors on time. It is enough to
ask that the Directors,' architect and
contractors do the be3t they can; that
contracts are seasonably let and fail
ure to deliver is properly penalized.
These things seem to have been at
tended to with average conscientious
ness, and where, penalties have been
forfeited they must be assumed to be
enforced. Matters will not be mended
by wholesale and epileptic frothing over
the entire community.
The present garbage facilities of tfie
City of Portland have been outdated by
the city's rapid growth during the past
eight years, and the reduction plant it
self is so near wearing out that its end
can be distinctly foreseen. Nothing is
more natural than that the authorities
should be casting about for ways and
means to solve this surpassingly im
portant municipal problem. It might
even develop, in the Judgment of the
officials responsible for its solution, that
garbage collection Is as natural a mo
nopoly as water works, street lighting,
telephone or transportation service. In
all this there is nothing to justify
spasms. So far as a mooted "conspir
acy" is concerned, there Is no conspir
acy. The proposal in question has
never been considered by the authori
ties, and may never be. But if it
should, and If it should be accepted, all
sane persons know that the city's in
terests are in the hands of Mayor Will
lams and other officials who will not
collaborate on a steal of a million dol
lars or any other sum. It is to be ex
pected that they will conserve the city's
interests. There Is no occasion for
alarm.
The City of Portland has managed to
get on all these years In a steady, plod
ding sort of way, facing problems with
soberness. , resolution and sacrifice -as
they arrive. Its school affairs have
fceen in the hands of men Hke Richard
Williams, D. P. Thompson, W. M. Ladd,
ai. c. oeorge, Jay Beach, R. K. Warren.
Herman Wittenberg men whom abuse
and misrepresentation and frantic fit
throwing could hot swerve from their
loyalty to the public school system or
their conscientious care of the taxpay
ers' money. Its present municipal ad
ministration is presided over by a man
whose whole life Is sufficient answer to
flighty innuendos of milllonHiollar
steals, and who has "been too long in
public life to be swerved from my judg
ment by popular clamor or newspaper
criticism." He is an old man now, yet
he will live long enough to see confu
sion light on the heads of his calumni
ators. OREGON'S MOST EFFECTIVE
ADVERTISING,
t
The Oregonlan or Washlngton.an who
wanders through the Middle West, or
even farther east, has more than once
felt a thrill of satisfaction akin to
pride at the sight of a carload or not
Infrequently most of a trainload of
magnificent clear lumber of great size
and length. Whenever this lumber was
of exceptionally fine quality or of un
usual dimensions, it was almost a cer
tainty that emblazoned on the car or
stenciled In large letter on the lumber
was a sign informing the admiring
crowds who viewed it that the lumber,
came from Oregon or Washington. This
is the kind of advertising that has
brought immigration to the two states.
In a carefully worded pamphlet accom
panied by photographic illustrations we
can set before the interested Easterner
the information that we have trees
from which a 36-lnch square timber
forty to sixty feet and even longer can
be cut without striking a knot.
Repeated Investment In gold bricks of
various kinds has taught the Easterner
a caution which is not yet painfully
noticeable In the West and he Is skep
tical. The big tree In the picture may
be only a photographic trick and the
reading matter in keeping thereof. But
when the trainload of these big sticks
pulls In to a siding to'remaln until the
express goes by, skepticism as to there
being a place where such trees grow
vanishes, and not Infrequently the man
who has been manufacturing lumber
from eight-inch sawlogs buys a ticket
to the Pacific Northwest and begins
business. This immensely valuable ad
vertising Is responsible for greater ac
tivity In the development of our lum
ber resources than In any other direc
tion. As a matter of fact it' has gone
a llttleoo far at present, and the sup
ply is now slightly In excess of the
demand, a condition which will be rem
edied very shortly. Similar success on
a less important scale has been met
with in our fruit industry. It began
with prunes and has since drifted into
apples, peaches and strawberries, and
wherever any of these magnificent Ore
gon, Washington or Idaho-grown fruits
were exhibited or sold they acted as
immigration agencies of no mean pre
tentions. Just at the present time the. three,.
states have a better opportunity than
ever to secure direct tangible advertis
ing in wholesale quantities at an In
significant cost. Ten thousand carloads
of wheat has "been sold to go from the
three states to a dozen different states
well east of the Rocky Mountains. Ev
ery car of this wheat should bear a
label large enough to be read at a conr
slderable distance and Informing the
reader that the car contains wheat
! grown in Oregon, Washington or Idaho.
j.i wm not taice the reader or. tne laoei
long to grasp the Importance of the
information, for it will tell him of a
land in the West where wheat can be
produced in enormous quantities at a
cost so low that it will stand a 3000
mile rail haul and. still net a handsome
profit to the grower. It may be some
years before we have another such an
opportunity to advertise one of our
greatest resources, and full advantage
should be taken of. It while It Is avail
able. Ten thousand carloads of wheat go
ing out of a territory populated by but
few more than 1,000,000 people makes a
wonderful showing, and It Is all the
more remarkable when we can supple
ment it with facts snowing that our
exporters. In addition to handling the
Eastern business, are also shipping
large quantities of wheat or wheat
product to Europe, Africa, the Orient,
Hawaii, Central America, and far
away islands in the South Pacific
The retirement from the grain trade
of W. S. Sibson, in years of continuous
service the oldest grain exporter in the
Paciflo Northwest, has been announced.
Mr. Sibson gives as his reason the
steady encroachment of the milling de
mand for wheat on the supplies which
In former years were available for ex
port. This change in conditions in Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho has been
coming so rapidly that It has frequently
been commented on in the past, but
when the oldest exporter In the busi
ness gives up the struggle against the
inevitable change it -shows that the date
of shipment of the last wheat cargo 13
much nearer at hand than seemed pos
sible a few years ago. Mr. Sibson, en
gaged in the less strenuous but perhaps
equauy profitable business of rose cul
ture, will be missed by the business
Community, in whose rniinHIa Via
always stood high, but as the changing
economic conditions which caused him
to abandon his former calllne- will add
to the wealth and prosperity of the
tnree North Pacific States, the regret
at nis retirement will be softened. The
""cai cjjurung ousiness has "been a
big factor In our commercial growth.
The flour-milling industry will prove
more beneficial, and the change will be
welcomed.
Pierre B. Cornwall, who died in San
Francisco Sunday, was one of a rat
many old-time capitalists of the Bay
v-ij huo were neavny interested finan
cially in Oregon and Washington. In
recent years Mr. Cornwall's holdings in
the north have been mostly on Puget
Sound, but a quarter of a century ago
he ook an active part in the ocean
transportation business out of. Port
land. He Is best remembered in this
city through his ownership of the Great
Republic and the "Little" California.
The tragic ending on Sand Island of
the Great Republic's career after a
year of the hottest competition ""ever
known to the Portland-San TTVn TV Icon
trade caused Mr. Cornwall to abandon
the route, but he operated the Califor
nia as a mail steamer between Portland
and Alaska for a number of years
thereafter. There was nothing spec
tacular in the operations of Mr. Corn
wall, but In the upbuilding of the Pa
cific Coast he played an Important part,
and no part of the vast fortune which
he leaves will bear thetaint of "high
finance."
With the growth of population the in
crease of patients in the Insane Asy
lum has kept step. This does not or
should not cause surprise. Life in Ore
gon is as strenuous as elsewhere, and
the forces that make for insanity are
abroad throughout all the land, seeking
restless or weary brains in which to
find lodgment. From the ranks of
farmers' wives the women's wards In
the Asylum continue to be recruited,
and from the ranks of those given to
strong drink and the feverish pursuit of
finance recruits of the men's wards are
xuu auuwuis as a eau. one, DUi
Its presentment Is softened by the
abounding pity of a generous common
wealth that rises fullhanded to meet
the increasing demand for shelter and
food and care for this army of unfor
tunates. It will require an appropriation of
$40,000 to complete the payment of the
claims of Indian War veterans, and
there is no doubt that the next Legis
lature will set aside this sum for that
purpdse. The Legislature of 1903 ap
proprlated$100,000 for the payment of
these claims, but this sum was soon
exhausted. Though there is doubt
whether these claims were legal obliga
tions of the State of Oregon, the Legis
lature very generously accepted, them
as moral obligations and, having paid
a portion of them, will see that the
cancellation of the claims Is completed.
It is very gratifying to know that the
money has been paid only to the vet
erans themselves and not to their per
sonal representatives or assignees.
Southern Oregon people are winning
the admiration of the rest of the state
by the vigor with which they are en
deavoring to secure the location of a
new military post In that section. Gen
eral MacArthur having recommended
the establishment of such a post in
Western Oregon, the leading business
men of the southern counties have sent
to the War Department a statement of
the reasons why Southern Oregon
should be chosen as the most desirable
location. Whatever the outcome may
be, the Southern Oregon people will
have no cause to be ashamed of the
showing they have made In their own
behalf.
That heavy dews kept pasturage
green In Tillamook County is a story
that many people will receive with
some hesitation, yet it Is strictly true.
All through the Coast section of the
state the air Is so heavily laden with
moisture, even in the dry, season, that
the grass is 'green nearly all Summer
and furnishes feed for livestock. It Is
this characteristic of the Coast climate
that makes the western slope of the
Coast Range so admirably adapted to
dairying and stockralslng.
Oa the whole our people earn more and
live better than ever before and the pro
gress ef which we are so proud could not
have taken place had it not been for the
upbuilding- of industrial centers, such as
this In which I aa speaking. Preeldent
Roosevelt.
EARLY ROSSI AN STRATEGY. -
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch.
The visit of a Russian Bhip at this time
to an American port recalls an interest
ing Incident of the same character which
made a sensation In Virginia some 20 years
ago.
In the Spring of 1SSS, when war was Im
minent between England and Russia, the
Russian corvette, Strelok, Captain Skryd
loff. put in at the port of Norfolk one
evening, followed closely by the English
man-of-war Garnet, Captain Hand. The
two vessels dropped anchor off Atlantic
City, a suburb of Norfolk, and, as an
hourly declaration of war was expected,
the simultaneous appearance of the hos
tile vessels in Norfolk waters created In
tense interest. The vessels remained in
port for several days, and were islted
by large numbers of people In that section
of the state; but while the officers were
more than courteous, they did not talk
of the threatened war, nor did they inti
mate that they were likely to engage each
other in deadly combat. Courtesies were
exchanged between the officers of the two
vessels, but each Captain was In constant
communication with his government, and
the officers knew that if war should be
declared they would be compelled to go
at once to sea. and aftpr thpv hnd rasscfl
the three-mile limit, they would have to
go at it. hammer and tongs. The Nor
folk peode also understood th- situation.
and some of them actually made prepara
tions to rouow the vessels and see tha
fight.
The Garnet was built at Chatham In
isiz. one was 260 feet long and drew 19
feet of water. Her armament consisted
of 12 64-round muzzle-loaders, ftvn hrnnd.
side guns, and a "chaser" In stern and
oow. in addition to these were four
Nordehfeldt guns, four barrels each, and
two "Gardners." The shin
armed with 200 breech-loading rifles. Her
lonnage was saw, ana ene carried 231 men.
The Stelok was built In St. Petersburg
in 1SS0. She was 214 feet long and drew
14 feet of water. Her tonnage was 1353
and she carried ISO men and 12 breech
loaders of modern construction. She also
had a torpedo equipment. Her arma
ment was far superior to that of the Gar
net, and she. was a much faster vessel.
In a fight she could easily have kept be
yond the reach of the Garnet's guns and
yet have pelted her antagonist with her
long-range rifle guns. Captain Skrydlofr,
the commander, had distinguished himself
in the Turko-Russian war by blowing up
two of the Turkish men-of-war In the
Danube. He went over to the vessel un
der cover of night and placed some explo
sive material under the hull, made an
electrical communclatlon therewith, and
blew the vessel skyhlgh. For his gal
lantry he was promoted to the position
of commander in the navy.
While the vessels were In pot an indus
trious newspaper man In New York wrote
several articles about them, and the
English vessel finally dropped down to
Old Point for the purpose, as Captain
Hand afterwards explained, of getting rid
of the "beastly reporter." Captain Hand
thought that In that position he could
watch the Russian vessel as well as he
could in the Norfolk harbor, but in that
he was mistaken, as the sequel shows.
A night or so after the Garnet's depar
ture Captain Skrdyloff and his staff at
tended an entertainment at the Norfolk
Academy of Music. The Captain chatted
pleasantly with some of his lady ac
quaintances and seemed as unconcerned
as thoush he had no scheme In mind;
but suddenly. In the midst of the enter
tainment, ho arose, passed by his com
panions, tapping each one of them on
the shoulder as he moved along, and In
a moment they were up and gone. In
the meantime he had engaged a well
known Pilot, Captain W. H. Face, of the
Virginia Pilots' Association, to take the
vessel out of port. Captain Face agreed
to be at the wheel early the next morn
ing, but Captain Skyrdloff was unwilling
to take such chances, and finally pre
vailed upon the pilot to go on board and
remain overnight. Captain Face had Just
begun to make himself comfortable when,
to his surprise, he found that the vessel
was under way. He went on dock and
was soon ushered Into the pilot-house.
He observed that thero were no lights on
the vessel, and refused to take tho wheel,
but tho Russian commander ordered him
to do so, and he dared not disobey.
Captain Skrydloft was In a good humor,
however, and laughed heartily at the
pilot's dilemma, declaring in his broken
English that "It was so funny." Every
Inch of the ship's canvas was run up,
and, with a stiff breeze and the engines
going at their full capacity, she made
rapid headway.
As the Strelok neared Old Point much
anxiety was manifested by the officers
lest the Garnet should be on the alert
and ready to give chase, but the officers
on the Garnet were taken unawares, and
perhaps never even saw the Strelok as
she passed. When Tvell out of reach of
the Garnet the officers of the Strelok
held a carnival of glee, and gave every
evidence of their delight. "O. pelot," said
Captain Skrydlofr, as he slapped Captain
Face on the baek. "ft in on fnnmr -a
12:45 the Strelok passed out into the" broad
Auannc, ana when six miles off shore
discharged that pilot, although It was
fortunate that one of the pilot-boats was
near by, otherwise Captain Face would
have made a sea voyage without hi3 con
sent. Captain Face told the story the
next day to many of his admirers. "It
was a clear case of kidnaping," he said,
"the way those fellows got me on board;
but the whole thing was one of the clev
erest bits of strategy I ever knew."
Reducing the Military Force.
Boston Transcript.
As some of President Roosevelt's critics
claim to have discovered, after reading
his letter of acceptance, that while he
is peaceful enough now he Is preparing
for war It mav he inferooMno.
their attention to the fact that the Army.
nu tar ltoui oeing increased. Is of less
streneth than it tcna tvio cj
uuuurei LTUiUi O
he succeeded to the Presidency. The
actual strength of the regular Army. In
cluding the hospital corps, the Porto Rico
regiment and the Philippine scouts, was,
juno au, isui, zjw oracers and 78.646 en
listed men: total Rl.KKfi. At tho.
tho last fiscal year, June 30. 1904. it was
eaumaiea at W.536. Though this Is an
estimate. It is not HkeH- that
, I 'J ."- - I.UUi'V
pleted returns will materially change these
.ifiurtu. rora man wno is preparing for
war tho President Is following a most
peculiar method Jn reducing the organ-
-cvi mimui j- iorce ol me country.
Methods of Teaching History.
San Francisco Chronicle.
To teach hlstorv ba it shmilrt , ...
In OUr DUblic BChooLq the methno it.
- - -.-..o VJ1. UH
universities must be adopted. The scholar
should not be required to load his mind
with dates; the aim should be to give him
a -vivid Impression of the doings, not only
of the chief actors, but of the people of
the period treated. To tell a pupH that
virgu aiea on a certain date and that he
was an excellent Doet is not ri...T..j
to arrest the attention, but link his name
wim me liierary ana other exploits ot
the Romans of the centurv hefnra tv. v
ginning of our era and that object will bo
accomplished.
The Botched Democratic Campaign.
Boston Herald.
The Democratic tamnnlm lo -nnt-.-i.t .
a serious imnresslon snvwlm
- - - ..-..., ovj io. IU
we can find out. Tom Taggart may be a
great man in maiana, out he has not cap-
turea jxew -or.. August Belmont may be
a jrreat man In Wall street Vmt hi in
fluence is not large elsewhere. According
to the best Information tt a Mn nhin
there never was a National campaign so
botched as this one Is by the conceited lit
tle groat men who are responsible for Its
management. '
Where the Preacher Works.
Yonkers Statesman.
Church The average man likes to sit
Idly and see some other man do all tbo
work.
Gotham "Why is it, then, that more men
don't go. to church? j
. A SPEECH UNFIT TO BE MADE. '
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Eagle published Bourke Cockran'a
speech In full on Sunday. That much was
due to news. The Eagle gave to the
speech not only full publication, but
prominent placement. That was due to
the-magnltude of the meeting. The Eagle
made no comment upon the speech when
it published it, but cannot withhold can
did comment from it today with Justice
to its readers or itself.
As much of the speech as condemned
tha conduct ot'the Governor of Colorado,
against mobs, which claimed to act as
labor organizations, should not have been
delivered and should be pointedly con
demned by every law-abiding newspaper.
The mobs were made up of murderers,
maimers, terrorizers and outlaws. As
many as 21 murders and twice as many
mannings were scored against them. 'Ar
son and terrorism further decorated the
conduct of these "organized" outlaws.
They drew down the law. They sacri
ficed life. They wounded whom they
could not kill, and they followed such
performances, congenial to them, with
dynamite and the torch. "What they did
was Infamous. The condition which they
brought about was intolerable. They
made war, with Its worst atrocities, on
government, on order, on property and
on life.
What was done against them by the
state government of Colorado, either in
Its Judicial or in Its military capacity,
was rightly done, bravely done, laudably
done, sternly done, admirably well done.
We hope that the doing of It will be ap
proved by the people of Colorado. -It
will be approved by them, if they love
liberty, respect human and natural rights,
and deserve to enjoy those rights. It will
be approved, If the punishment of murder
ers Is to be preferred to murder, as an
Industry, and if tha vindication of law Is
to be preferred to the coronation of sys
tematized crime.
It should be Incredible that even Bourke
Cockran should attack the action and
misrepresent the record of the Governor
and the government of Colorado lh this
matter. But being not Incredible, because
he did so, h3 condemnation of It should
of Itself be condemned, and the injury
which, without Tebuke of him would en
sue, to those whom he professed to advo
cate should be repaired as far as It can
be, as explicitly, as earnestly and as soon
as possiDie.
From much that Bourke Cockran said
about free trade and the glorification of
boycotts, from much that he said on col
lateral subjects, the Eagle differs, but
those are matters of mere opinion, how
ever unwise, premature or over-dogmatic
Bourke Cockran's opinions on them may
be. They can be let pass. The things
which we have detailed, and denounced.
were Immoral, incendiary and scandalous
We can Imagine nothing mora hurtful
than those things to the cause which
Bourke Cockran would, or would affect to
favor. As that causa is sincerely sup
ported by the Eagle, this paper feels
bound to note and to denounce the injury
to tnat causa which Bourke Cockran. wit
tingly or unwittingly, has sought to In
fllct upon It. His was a speech. In tha
respects set forth, unfit to be made.
What's In the Wind?
Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.)
Things do not look Just right In and
about the National Democratic headquar
ters. There is a good deal of talk and
where there Is 50 much smoke there is
sure to bo some Are.
Tom Taggart had a time of It in ob
taining the National chairmanship. Tom
sold newspapers and peddled pies when
he was a boy. Later he conducted a lunch
stand and a hotel, and he was not accept
able to tho aristocratic East. The "hay
seeds," as all who do not live In New
Tork are called, forced his election aa
chairman. Then came an election for
chairman of the executive committee of
the National Commlttcer and Blue-Eyed
Billy Sheehan was chosen. It was said
that Sheehan ignored Taggart and tried
to horn him out of tho paddock. All these
rumors were denied, of course, but now
comes the silent man from Maryland.
Senator Gorman, who Is said to occupy
an advisory position, while others claim
that he Is the whole thing and' ranks both
Taggart and Sheehan. At all events,
Taggart has gone Into the West and
Is now at Indianapolis. His mission in
the West Is not the mission of Tom
Hood's fair Inez "to dazzle when the
sun goes down" for a surety, and Just
why he left New Tork Is not easily ex
plained.
If Taggart Is not nice enough for Bel
mont and his brother millionaires, Judge
Parker' chances are Imperiled, be causa
there are a great many Democrats who
are no nicer than Tom Taggart.
Women at the Polls.
Philadelphia Ledger.
In four states Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah and Idaho women possess the right
to vote on equal terms with men at all
elections. That is the goal for which tho
woman's suffrage movement Is striving in
cverv state, and it must he rnnfoat-
that much progress has been made In that
direction, .tamer run or partial suffrage
for women exists In 26 states. In 18
states women oossesn school miffrotra
In Kansas they have municipal and
scnpoi sunrage. Montana and Iowa
permit them to vote on the Is
suance of municipal bonds. In 1S93
Louisiana srranted them the nriviUtro if
voting upon questions relating to pub-
uu ujkjjiuuiiurva. iui iuia exception, tna
Southern States have been slnw in nri.
vanclng tho woman suffrage cause. Tho
women ot wyommg, uoiorado, Utah and
Idaho vote for Presidential electors.
Russia's Rotten Government.
New York Globe..
The present covernment of Russln. n re
cording to all testimony, Is as vicious In
practice as in principle. Its chief is n.
weak and vacillating man who Is lncapa-
Die or a settled policy. First one nalaee
cabal" and then another Is In control. Cor
ruption la the rulo In all departments of
the vast bureaucracy. It Is dishonesty
and inefficiency at home rather than lack
of valor in Manchuria which has brought
disaster to the Russian arms. A group
of reactionary nobles, aided by a reac
tionary church, is In power, and Is using
It not for the Czar or for Russia, but for
the nersonal enrichment of Its memhe
Manifestly such regime contains in itself
tne seeds or its own ending.
Bullion and I.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Bullion occupies a palace.
In a flat live I:
Peoplo stand aside for Bullion
When he paeees by.
Bullion has a big: red devil
That goes like a streak;
Bullion's income's more per minute
Than 13 mine per week. -
Tet he's poor and I am wealthy;
"When my work is""done,
"When, at night. I hurry homeward
There's a little one
"Wno stands at the window, peering:
Fondly down the street, -"While
he kicks the cheap wainscoting:
"With his little reet.
Once in Bullion's splendid palace
Thera were childish cries?
Now the Autumn leaves are falling:
"Where a baby lies.
Some men envy you, O Bullion;
Some men hate you, too '
Here's a word of heartfelt pity
That I give to you.
Twilight.
(These verses by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the
negro poet, now on the point of death, appear
in the October Upplncott's.)
'Twlxt a smile and tear,
'Twlxt a groan and a sigh,
Twlxt the day and the dark,
"When the night draweth nigh, .
Ah, sunshine may fade
From the heavens above;
No twilight have we
To tho Cay of our love.
NOTE, ANDC0YlMENT.
"Meet me on the Trail."
Parker's bugle-call proved a sigh.
Now for a good scrap In the. peace con
ference. In Chicago the open shop appears to be
a closed question.
"I'm trying, to make both ends meet,"
as the snake said when he was swallow
ing his brother.
The Irish Unionist Alliance and tha
Irish Reform Association are having a
great time helping Ireland by fighting
each other.
Dr. Wagner, author of the "Simple Life."
Is calling upon President Roosevelt. In
ventor and patentee of the Strenuous
Life. Delightful.
There are many ways of writing ads.
One in the Skagway Alaskan begins: "I
ain't got much of a stack." and Is signed
"-Keelar, the Cheap Guy." -
"Advice to Subscribers" is the heading
the Argus puts over this paragraph from
the Seattle Times: "Look out, kids I The
truant officer will get you!"
In a Manchurlan hut the correspondent
of the Evening Post found a Chinese
sign, saying. "Life itself is but a Jour
ney." He might have added in Russian.
"And war a blooming foot race."
About the only thing known of the an
cient Britons whom Caesar mat Is that
they stained themselves blue with woad.
It curious to note that, woad is now
used to dye the blue uniforms of tha
British police.
A school ia to be opened in Paris ahortlr in
which people will be taught to sleep properly
with closed mouth, limbs restfully placed, etc.
New Tork Evening Sun.
And yet they say tho French are ceas
ing to be churchgoers.
A Colombo. Ceylon, paper circulated
among the Cingalese informs Us readers
that Japanese swordsmen are fired Ilka
shrapnel from cannon, thousands of tnen
being thus thrown into the Russian lines,
where they proceed to butcher the sur
prised enemy.
Tha sailing ship having been displaced
by the steamship, It Is now the turn of
the "ship of the desert" to be displaced
by tho auto-car, which is to career over
the sands of Egypt Instead of the camel.
However, the camel should hump Itself
and cheer up; no automobile can take its
place In the circus parade.
A'n exchange tells of a Londoner who
lent a street bookmaker his watch so that
tho bookmaker might be sure that he dod
not take bets on a race that had already
been run. The bookmaker kept the watch
and -the lender sued, for it. The Court
decided that, a3 It had been lent for an
unlawful purpose, It could not be recov
ered by law. This beats playing Portland
slot-machines with lead slugs.
A writer In Farm and Field says that the
hornet is as docile as the butterfly and
may be tamed by the exercise of a littla
patience. This Is one of the things that
most of us are ready to take on trust.
All the Joy of having a tame hornet for
three months would be obscured by ono
moment's misbehavior on tha part of the
pet. The Winter wind, the serpent's
tooth, man's Ingratitude, are far less un
kind than one Jab from the hornet.
Now and then an editor, dissatisfied
with the boldness of such a statement as
"tha bride looked lovely In pink," at
tempts to paint tho lily. Hero is how the
Appleton (Wis.) Post man tackles the
Job:
At tha outset of this paragraph the pen fal
ters at the task of describing so much sweet
ness. Imagine, if you can. a bride of etat
ueeque pose, gowned in dreamy white chiffon,
through the filmy mystery of whose veil
glowed a mass of pale gold hair like a sun
kissed cloud at morning. It was no wonder
that tha guests crowded each other and craned
their necks to look.
An officer's field equipment, offered as a
prize by the Kaiser, contains, besides
cooking necessaries, surveying Instru
ments and so forth, cigar and cigarette
holders. This seems to establish definite
ly tho cigarette's "position in war. Soma
time ago we called attention to its sig
nificance as the badge of courage, and
this significance appears to be now real
ized by Germany. It Is a question, how
ever, whether it cigarette should be
smoked from a holder or without ona
upon the battlefield. The officer who
rolls a cigarette and carelessly puffs it
with no Intervening amber Is surely more
of the dashing soldier than he who adds
a holder to his Impedimenta.
Thero Is more than one newspaper In
Montana. This Is not a very interesting
piece of information at first sight, but
when we remember that Butte journalism
would 16se its present volcanic qualities
It there was but one paper, its importance
Is manifest. In a short editorial devoted
to another Montana paper tho Butte
Miner says of its contemporary that its
purpose Is to quietly circulate slandera
throughout the state. Of the editor, who
is described as "unspeakable," we read
that "aa a dog returned to his vomit" he
Is again at work; that he U a "wretched
cur" who Is needed because the "ordinary
slop-Jars of Journalism cannot go deep
enough Into the sewers;" that he Is a
"mad dog." a "brute" and a "tank of
sewer gas" used by Ingeniously mixed
metaphors to brace up tottering fortunes
and to galvanize a lost cause.
WEJC- J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Tommy Pop, what makea the fountain play?
Tommy's Pop The water work?, my son.
Philadelphia Record.
'"Work ain't so bad." "So?" "Nope. It
gives a feller an elegant thirst an' the price
of a can to squlnch it with." Houston Post.
Hobo You don't have to judge a man by da
clothes he wears. Cop That's right; I could
tell that you were a hobo if I saw you in a
shower bath! Chicago Journal.
JIggs What's the difference between a hectic
flush and a bobtail flush? Jaggs A hectic
fluah makes some one red and a bobtail flush
makes someone blue. Philadelphia Bulletin.
"I dropped in at CItily's room last night."
Boom? I understood he had a flat." "So he
did. but he's taken all the partitions down,
and now he has a real nice room." Philadel
phia Ledger.
How did they ever come to send him to the
Legislature?" "Well, you see. they were pre
vented by a technicality from sending him to
the Penitentiary, and he showed no disposition
to move out ot town." Chicago Record-Her
ald.
"Who was the leading man in that company
you went out with last season?" asked the
critic. "I really forget," replied Lowe Com-
eray, - out i was tne leading man coming
back. I always was a good walker." Phila
delphia Press.
"I wish I was an angel!" little Johnny B!alr
astonished his mother by exclaiming. "Wonder
ing why holy thoughts were filling his young
mind, she waited for the reason. "Then I
could fly up higher than the fence and see all
the ball games." Cincinnati Commercial Tri
bune. "Tour race is run!" hissed Harold de Vere,
In the last act. The villain drew a large bot
tle from his pocket. "Think not I am unpre
pared!" said he. "Poison!" "Sterilized dust!"
exclaimed the wretched man, with emotion, and
poured out a quantity, which he bit it to
crack of tt avenger's pistol. Puck.