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Palace Hotal News Stand; F. ,W. Pltte. 100S Market; Frank ScotW- SO Ellis; N. Wheatley, 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 59 degrees; minimum, 46 degrees. Precipitation, trace. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers, southerly -winds. I 1 jf PORTLAND, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER L19M ROMANCE FROM THE NORTH. The Spokane Spokesman-Review pub 5t llshes the ridiculous story that The Ore gonlan has been "bludgeoned into sup - port of Mead for Governor of Wash ington by a -threat that the influence of the Republican state organization would be used in the Legislature at QlympJa against an appropriation for the Iewls and Clark Fair, if The Ore jfcgonian didn't stand in." Alsb, that "to "John iu Wilson is credited the scheme whereby The' Oregonian was subdued end Tarought into line for Mead." The Spokane paper is making a fran tic effort for Turner, and of course draws on its invention for its state ments. It certainly has done so In this case. That the State of Washington will! - participate in the Lewis and Clark Fair The Oregonian has no doubt who ever, her - Governor' may be.- -It -te?,her Interest to do so, and she has the good will to do so. But . if she .shouldn't; do so the loss would be chiefly her own, and the Fair would still be highly suc cessful. Neither ex-Senator Wilson nor any other citizen of Washington has ever had one word with The Oregonian on the line of this trumped-up statement. Persons of sense and sensibility never do things in this way; and The Orego nian, moreover. Is a journal that wouldn't be found to yield readily to "club" influence or practice. Aside from the fact that he'Is a Dem ocrat this year ex-Senator Turner Is a type of man particularly disliked by The Oregonian, because his career has shown that he has no principles. Within a few years he has swung completely round the circle of politics and parties, in his search for personal success. He has been a member of every party, and has deserted, betrayed or abandoned each in turn. The Oregonian, there fore, would be very glad to see him fall in this his latest un dertaking. It thought, however, that a mistake was made in nomination of Mr. Mead not that it sees anything, to censure or complain of In Mead, but because there are factions in the party that oppose him; and The Oregonian believed that some other man might have been a stronger candidate. Turner Is playing a demagogic role against the railroads, simply, for his own, personal and political, advantage. The Oregonian detests that sort of thing, and hopes he may b defeated, Mead is the Republican candidate and a worthy man, while Turner has-been everything by turns and nothing long; and having no principles he makes commodity of opportunity, under the maxim delivered in the play "A plague of opinion! A man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerklnj" LET 'VS. MAKE THINGS PLAIN. In his speech at Carnegie Hall, New York, Secretary Hay said: , . Kane -of us will make the itnls take of. think ing the contest of this year unimportant.' On the contrary. It goes to the very foundations of our National welfare. It is not campalfm rhetoric; it Is merely Ihe simple' fact, ' to say that nothing but disaster could follow the re versal of the policies to which we are In debted for the prosperity of the last few years. The country cannot afford to give up the gold standard and to drift In the shifting currents of financial experiment and quackery. It can not afford to give up the principle and practice of protection to American Industries. Upon this statement the Chicago Rec ord-Herald makes the following com ment: Now, It that is the Import of his comment, Mr. Hay has certainly taken a little flyer in campaign rhetoric, despite His disclaimer. Judge Parker has himself been cautious enough to point out that a Republican Senate would prevent radical action on the. tariff. So It -would on the money question. Moreover, the Judge Is pledged to the gold standard and to slow methods of tariff reform. Well, if Judge Parker is not opposed to the gold standard, why did he vote against It in 1S96 and 1900? If he is protectionist, why does he accept the declaration that protection is robbery the declaration of his party's platform and add his own argument to enforce it? Is there no honesty among men? Again, where is the honesty in say ing "Oh, well, let us in; we can't do much Injury: you will still have power enough to hold us down?" There is one recommendation in the biennial report of the Superintendent of the State Penitentiary which all the people will .approve that the prison library be enlarged so as to provide the nrisoners with srood reading matter. And the books supplied should not be dry. but should be of a .class that will arouse the interest of. ihe max ponfined within the prison walls. A good novel well read will do much .more to raise the ideals of the. prisoners than any number of unopened dissertations upon - morals or religion, ilore than that. It would, be . a very poor novel indeed that would not lead a convict Into bet ter lines of thought- than he would find if left entirely to falB own reflections. After giving the prisoners plenty of work to keep them busy, a sufficient amount of plain food to nourish their bodies and a collection of good books from which to select reading matter, the state can reasonably, feel that it has done what it could to make the way easy for the criminal to change, from the error of his. way. In almost every Instance the man who goes behind prison bars has gone there after the ex ercise of his own power to choose be tween right and wrong. The choice of a-course for the future lies also with the Individual prisoner, and upon him rests the- responsibility. -The state .can do little.mopft than make th an r mil rid ings as favorable as possible for reform. HAS THE PARTY CHARACTER? The Democratic party is noted for bringing Into -.National contests men who have no pronounced individuality, but are merely party men. Men used to; 6ay "Poor Polk" "Poor Pierce," "Poor Buchanan." The reason was the complete subservience of these to the character and policy of their party. Cleveland stood 4or something; Bryan stoo'd'fbr something; but'Parker stands for nothing that anybody can define. Parker is and always has been merely a party man. He has stood with his party or has fc-Hpwed it Had he lived- a little, -earlier he would have been known as a pro-slavery, anti-war Democrat. As It was and is, he has followed all the vagaries of his, party. He has had no mind of his own. He has the "party mind." Whatever the party has declared for free sliver or whatever else he has accepted. Forty years ago the party he acts with was sympathetic with secession and disunion, declared the war for the Union a failure and demanded that it should' cease. Parker was young then and had no name, but he would have stood with "the party." Its course has forced many men at various times to quit It, but he never left it nor ever will. He is of the quality of Polk, Pierce and Buchanan. His political character is the character of his party. What would be the state or condition of this country had men of the Polk-Pierce- Buchanan-Parker tyoe controlled It these forty or fifty years? THE PANIC-BREEDING TORPEDO. With bis usual grasp of the essential elements of a situation, Kipling, In his verses on "The Destroyers," speaks of the "panic that shells the drifting spar," and the line is a sumcient expla nation of the shot-riddled trawlers in the port of Hull. The true lesson of what Is euphemistically described as the North Sea incident" is that the torpedo is to the modern Admiral all that lee shores, head winds, fireshlps and other perils were to the Admiral of the days of canvas. The torpedo-boat,. although its achievements have not been numerous, Is the greatest poten Tttai; danger 'with which the -.modern sailor has to contend, and the wear and tear on his nerves is such that -the un seasoned commander will break up un der the strain, and'take -to promiscuous shooting, as the small boy whistles to keep up his courage In passing a grave yard. After the attack of the Japanese on the Russian fleet at -Port Arthur, when the war opened, the critics of the Araer lean -press hailed the torpedo-boat as the chief arm of modern navies, and began to discuss such topics as "the obsolete battleship." Far from having led experts to conclude that the battle ship is obsolescent, the operations of lhe war have confirmed Its Importance as the ultimate factor in naval victory. Togo's care for his ships of the line shows this. He has not hesitated to Imperil his gunboats and torpedo craft, but he has nursed his precious battle ships as If they were made of glass. The proposal of some American naval authorities that this country should build a few battleships of 20,000 tons displacement shows how the matter is regarded in Washington, and the in dorsement of Sir William White, who Is responsible for the designing of almost every ship In the British navy, shows how it is regarded abroad. Battleships, built to fight and not to run away, remain the "final dependence of a maritime nation. Even the tor pedo officers, who naturally hold the highest opinion of their own branch of the naval service, do not claim pre eminence in the fighting strength of their country's fleet. They- do claim however, the power of InHictlng irrepar able-damage upon a careless enemy and of harassing almost beyond endurance a vigilant enemy, and In these claims 'they will be upheld by all. Nelson, who did not leave his flagship once during two years of blockade duty, could hardly have stood such a strain if there had'1 been the added danger of a'- viper ous enemy that might steal out on j dark night and send to the bottom the finest vessel of his fleet with a single stroke. The torpedo-boat Is -a breeder of panic, In Its foes, an ever-present menace, to be dreaded not so much for what it does .as for what it might do. OCTOBER'S STORY ALL IS TOLD. And a bright story It was, glimmering with sunlight, fragrant with the subtle perfume of late roses, gorgeously illus trated In green and golden and crimson tints! "Such Autumn weather in Ore gon Is unusual," say the critics, who later on forgetful of the long, dry Shmmer and the balmy days ' of Au tumn will declare that "it always rains in Oregon." The one assertion Is as wide of the truth as the .other, as every man who ,has spent even a few years in Oregon can, if his memory serves, testify. It would be nearer the truth to say October Is - sometimes rainy month here, but more often It is bright and pleasant, -sending the plow man afield, the fruitgrower to his or chard and the thrifty farmer about his business of winding up- the work of the present year and preparing for that of the next with a long look toward another harvest, o It Is not only the constitutional growler who Is responsible, for the cheap wit that. is. launched, In season and out of season, against Oregon's ell mate, and for the general roisconcep tion that prevails in the East and Mid die West In regard to It Loyal Orego nians whoknow better often thought lessly indorse the exaggerated idea of the 'disagreeable climate of the Will am ette valley in .the Weather greetings that they exchange In public places. For example, men and women who have llYed here from thirty .to fifty, year, have been heard to declare that the month just closed was the finest Octo ber they had ever seen in Oregona statement that showed either a very In firm memory or a very thoughtless habit of speech. The records of the weather Bureau. going back to 1873. tell of many bright October days interspersed with days on which needed rain fell and in which winds blew a warning note of the near approach of Winter. The memories of many thoughtful persons duplicate this record, and press it back beyond the point where the Weather Bureau took up the story, finding balmy and bright October weather in various years all along the line back to and through the pioneer era. One woman recalls an October In which she sat many afternoons under the oak trees at Forest Grove with her sewing, the dry corns falling softly. tne garrulous jay cnaitenng nujanj and out in the openings the meadow larks singing cheerily. Another recalls an October in which for days and all day long she picked apples full-grown, ripe and rosy, from sunlit trees, while more than one sturay, ic-renanaeu farmer recalls the sowing- of his Sum mer fallow In that month, the soil be ing just moist enough to work prop erly and the grain responding promptly with a verdure that promised an abun dant harvest. So while telling tne story of October, 1904, as It was re corded day by day, let us not make the mistake of saying that the weather dur ing the month was unDrecedented for warmth and brightness and the absence of rain. The truth about the climate of Oregon Is easy to tell, and the telling of It reflects much more credit upon Oregonians than does the easy com plaisance which Induces them to Brmle Indulgently at the vapid, threadbare statement put out as a witticism, that it rains thirteen months In the year in Oregon." DECEPTION AT "LAST BABE. Why was the local option law enacted at the polls last June? Simply because many men. not prohibitionists at all. wanted saloons ejected from their home precincts.. They thought they could just as well get liquor down town or In the other fellow's precinct They de sired to banish saloons from the route followed by their children to school and to make peace with their wives, who were eternally ding-donging into their ears in behalf of the rising generation. Local optlonlsts and prohibitionists propagated the notion that a man could vote his own precinct "dry" and leave others "wet" The stratagem was cun ning. But what Is the truth? Multnomah electors cannot vote for prohibition In any precinct without declaring them selves for prohibition In the whole county. The question on all the ballots for voters to answer "Yes" or "No" is: Vote for or against prohibition of the sale of Intoxicating liquor for bever age purposes for the entire County of Multnomah." In precincts "numbered 60 to 74 inclusive the following question Is added to the other: "And for subdi vision of Multnomah County, consist ing of precincts numbered 60 to 74 In clusive." ThR two nuesttons are as one, for the voter must give one answer to both, The ballots are already printed and the words are clear. Where, then, are the fine promises of the local option prohibitionists? Where are the Invectives which they spent on those who exposed the deceit last June? How can a man who regards the well- ordered saloon as a legitimate and re spectable business. In Its proper place. be a precinct optlonlst without being county prohibitionist? Is it not an insult to his credulity and Intelligence that local ootlonlsts. holding a bait be fore him, have tried to decoy him into total prohibition? At last .the scheme of the so-called local optlonlsts Is naked of its deceptive draperies. It is clear now that the scheme aimed not at precinct option. but at county prohibition. This truth is so patent that It can endure no de nial and no extenuation. It Is a bare faced fact In spite of all those solemn promises made last June, voters cannot hold an election In a particular preclnet to de clde whether that precinct alone shall keep out saloons. Those precincts which vote for prohibition will get It even If the total county vote shall favor saloons. But no precinct even If It de clares Itself against prohibition, can have saloons If the county shall go for prohibition, or if a subdivision in which the precinct is contained shall declare Itself against liquor-celling. One such subdivision exists In Multnomah; made up of precincts 60 to 74 Inclusive. A one-sided arrangement Is this, sure ly. It was exposed before the election, but the promoters of the local option law glossed the matter over by assert ing that the law was justly unfair be cause the liquor traffic was not entitled to fair treatment In the face of this admission, is It not strange that so many voters were led astray? Mount Tabor residents In voting against saloons in their precinct will vote against those at Fourth and Washington streets and everywhere else In Multnomah. A vote for prohi bition in any precinct will" be counted for prohibition In the entire county. even though the elector wants prohibl tion only In his own precinct The local optlonlsts behold the deceit and try to make scapegoats' of their, erst while brethren, the prohibitionists. They say that the prohls have broken faith in invoking the" law for county prohibition. How? Does not the law permit what they are doing? Is not the law now in just exactly the same words as when it was offered to the people? The people voted or supposed they were voting ror precinct option. They didn't get It Maybe the Legisla ture will be asked to give It The stress at Port Arthur Increases day by day. The determination of Gen eral Stoessel not to surrender is in sense admirable, but it can scarcely be called- wise. His bravery and the brav ery and endurance of his men have long ago been proven. Stubbornness of purpose can add nothing to It The Boers were censured for the sacrifice of life pushed beyond a point of possible victory; the surrender of Geenral Lee at Richmond, when further contention could only result In further disaster to valiant soldiers of the Confederacy was accounted the act of a brave soldier and a wise man. To "die in the last ditch is the determination of folly rather than of patriotism. The duty of the patriot to die for his country merges. Into his duty to live for it when it has become apparent that his death will not advance the cause for which his country Is contending. The farewell which General Stoessel recently tele J. graphed to hi Emperor jeeM a petketio note of despair; his announcement of surrender would voice a brave man's purpose to live that he might nuder more favorable auspices again draw his sword for his country. There seems to be good reason back of an agitation that has been started in favor of the use of tinted paper with a dull finish for schoolroom purposes. It is claimed that this paper is easier on the eyes of children than a perfectly white paper with a glossy finish, and nearly every one who has tried both kinds of paper will agree that the claim Is well founded. A paper with a glossy surface reflects the light to such an extent that the printed page must be held at the proper angle In order to be read easily. Constant reading1 or study of books printed upon such paper soon tires and weakens the eyes, especially when the readers are children. Salem Republicans have raised a fund of J250 to pay the expenses of one big rally at which there will be enthusiasm enough-to make up for whatever apa thy there may have been at other times'' during this campaign. The rally will be held tonight, when Senator Mitchell will deliver the principal address and State' Chairman Baker will preside. This meeting will not only be a credit to the Republicans of the Capital City, but to all the people, regardless of party, for It gives evidence of that commendable spirit of not doing things by halves. Baldwin -thinks he is demonstrating at St Louis that his airship is "dirigi ble." No doubt It will perhaps re main ' "dirigible" as long as the wind lets him alone, or until his apparatus gets out of order, or the gas escapes, or something else happens. The peculiar problems the airship must olve are the transparency and the slender, buoyancy. of the element in which, it floats, and the instability and irregularity of the air currents. How are these ever to be overcome? Rev. S. C. Lapham is possessed of the courage of his convictions. Discussing the divorce question from his pulpit Sunday, he declared that "when mar riage ceases to be a sacred relation it becomes an Immoral relation." This Is a plain statement of a well-established fact from which few conscientious minds will dissent Ex-Senator Turner, candidate for Governor In. the State of Washington, resent3 indignantly the imputation that, completing the circle, he might be a Republican again. He says that to do that would be to "acknowledge himself an Idiot or a scoundrel." Why this heat? Who ever has denied that he Is either? The absence of the Philippine exhibit from the Lewis and Clark Fair will keep from our eyes the spectacle of Igorrotes In native garb. Perhaps It's just as well for the Igorrotes, since it's pretty chilly down- by Guild's- Lake sometimes. A spectacle, Indeed, was that rap prochement ofSenator Mitchell and ex- Senator Simon at the reception given In honor of Simon Wolf. The two war riors bridged- the chasm with a hand shake. .Cohgratulajtlons. . " 7 ? Rumors floatr Inf from Washington County- of a plan to repeal the (165,000 portage appropriation. The, 'jplan Is doubtless, for "home consumption" only. Other parts of the state, need no such food. 'All Judge Parker's speeches," we are Informed, "will be short" Unexpected wisdom on the part of the Democratic management There will then be fewer misstatements. Viceroy Alexleff will receive and be entitled to the congratulations of the Czar on his return to Russia. He got away from the Japanese all right Now that Mr. Brownell Is Acting Governor, we knowVfor sure that no body m the Penitentiary will receive a pardon unless he deserves It If It was as wicked as Parker says for Roosevelt to make that treaty with Panama, would it not be wicked for Parker to build the canal? Now that Judge Parker has taken the stump at last, perhaps he will tell us why It was not dignified to take the stump at first Conclusive Against His Fitness. Providence Journal. It? Is puzzling, indeed, to try to . account for Judge Parker's amazing misstate ments regarding Governmental affairs. That any man of his education, occupa tion and general intelligence should be so ignorant as these misstatements, if honestly made, show him is so inconceiv able that the suspicion must arise that he Is deliberately seeking to deceive. Yet it is almost equally inconceivable that any man of his Intelligence should make state ments which he must know can .be so easily and quickly shown to be false. The other explanation, that he is lacking In intelligence and discretion to the verge of imbecility, seems precluded by his record as a lawyer and on the bench. But if the misstatements are hopelessly puzzling they are clearly conclusive against his fit ness for the office he seeks. That a man whose previous occupations have left him Ignorant of the more Important details of public affairs might still make a good President Is at least conceivable. But when a candidate shows himself not only thus ignorant but beyond that either un willing to Inform himself before speaking about them or unaware of how and where to get information, that .-is warning enough, apart from all consideration of his abstract views of National policy, of the unsafety of electing him. Pitiable Decline. Providence Journal. How far General Miles has tottered down the . oath of anti-imperialist dementia pathetically apparent in his latest public letter, of which over, a quarter of a news paper column Is devoted to reprobation of tho erection of, the statue of Frederick the Great in Washington as an indication of the spread of the Imperialistic .spirit over the land. He is horrified that has been publicly and repeatedly an nounced that thl3 statno is to be one of four, the others being Alexander the Great Caesar and Napoleon all mon arena, all imperialists, and two of them overthrew republics to gain their power.' Evidently General Miles was relieved of hi 3 responsibilities as General command ing the Army none too soon. Te Editor's Pride. Atchison Globe. We are glad money le an object to us, anff that we do not belong to the 400 which study extravagant and ridiculous nae'thoa of separating thexneelT.es from their wealth. We are glad we have some uacrtil employment and that we do not ii4ein a tally-ho a a -swell, and blow a horn to cal attention- to the tact' that we do net have to work. WHAT ROOSEVELT STANDS FOR, William Allen White In Chicago Tribune. All Americans believe this is the best government on earth; but only those who have society's license to steal by making something-out of nothing in the upper circles "of high finance believe it the best possible world, and desire to shut the door of progress and throw the keys out of the window. But they are mere flies on the whecL With all the power of 'Standard Oil." with all the control on American affairs that the railroad syn dicate has through its influence on legis latures and courts, with all the force of dishonestly organized capital In this country, it cannot stand a day against the clearly defined intention of the Amer ican people to go ahead solving the prob lems of the distribution of wealth as they have gone forward with the problems of production. The most potent thing on this continent is the American spirit. manifesting itself In changing institu tions, in innumerable newspapers voicing the soul of progress, in the sudden rise of the clean man in practical politics, and the contemporaneous decline of the dema gogic shyster, in the appearance of maga zines a new element in political life de voting themselves to civic decency, and in a hundred ways making itself felt liko a dominant consciousness, like a sentient thing commanding the race to move on. And all that Is good in this spirit of in dustrial and economic progress Is found incarnate in Theodore Roosevelt Ho is the man who is the living soul to speak and act for bis times. His face is for ward. His bands are untied; his mind is trained In scholarship and his heart schooled in practical experience. Indus trially he Is of the middle class under standing the honest claims of the honest rich,, sympathizing as a brother with the wrongs of the struggling poor. Its well-known clairvoyant Instinct for suicide directed the Democratic party' to align Itself this year with dishonestly or ganized wealth and then to make Theo dore Roosevelt the issue in the campaign. There has been some question during- tho last 20 years about tho relations of tho Republican party and the pirates of com merce. In the days of Hanna's control of the party its relations with the finan cial powers that prey, vacillated between scandalous flirtation and intrigue. But Theodore Roosevelt has shucked bis corn without reference to the red ears of flnan cial emolument; he has not danced to tho lascivious pleasings of the fiddle of high protection for large campaign contribu tions, and therefore has no violinist s bill to pay. In all the years when Congress was making Its questionable tariff schedules Theodore Roosevelt was the bound boy at the husking. Ho has been a consist ent Republican, but his associates In the party have been men of Ideals, not men who fried the fat The fat may have been simmering a little during his ad ministration as president, but he has turned his back on tho skillet and the cooks and scullions ot politics, and has worked with the people and for the peo pie. If he has erred,'' it was when he erred in candor; if ho Is strong, it is tne strength of manly courage. He Is the best American type, clean, frank, shrewd, and brave, and the Democrats, with the charming consistency, slipped into the liaison with Wall street which Roose velt had spurned and are now making his character the issue of the campaign. No wonder, then, that the Incense burn ing at the altar of their glided joss smelts like embalming fluid doused on punic: There is no hope from the Democratic party for the solution or tho problems now facing tne American people. u.ne best that Democracy can offer Is a four years period or tasting ana prayer oe fore the Republicans come In to do tne work?1 But is this season in the wilderness needed? Times are good and the people are sane. Four years of adversity would make the people angry, and public wrath never made a Just law. It Is only in times like these, when people reason together and do not get their view in tho heat of passion, that wisdom comes Into the councils of tho Nation, "here is no disposition In any honest quarter of this country to be unfair. The ' laws that would be made under the coming Roose velt administration the railroad laws, the anti-trust laws, the labor laws, tha agrarian laws, the ltvm or business would be fair laws. Every one desires capital to have a) square deal. ' The American people are not revolu tionary. They dislike tho mus3 and clut ter of shattered Institutions. They are long-suffering and In the end they are just In their judgments. They admire Theodore Roosevelt because they believe he Is fair embodying the American spirit Under his leadership, they will meet the problems of today, whlcn call for more unselfishness tljan the country has put into its public acts since the War of the Rebellion, and settle those prob lems with Justice toward all and with malice toward none. For Roosevelt Is conservative. Dealing with him as leader, opposing forces In the industrial armies may make fair terms. They will be the terms of peace. But if these problems are allowed to remain open, if tho people who demand justice are tricked of It the day will surely come when dishonestly organized wealth and unfortunately honestly organized wealth also will meet some rampant radical with a senseless mob Denma Him. Fpr Populism is not dead. When bad times come it will rise. Tho Republican party today stands b tween capital good and bad, between or ganized and unorganized labor, and the mob. The question ror business men for worklngmen, for capitalists, for pro fessional men, and farmers, to decide at the noils this Fall .Is whether they desire their differences adjudicated by the Re publican party In, times of peace' and nrosDerity. or whether tne mob shall up set things when the people tire of Demo cratic -delay. No Cause for Pessimism. Des Moines Register. It is a matter of commc-n .observation that at the passing of the great men of each generation tnere is a pessimistic feeling prevalent that "there were giants in those days." But the feeling has never had any warrant in the actual deficiencies of the oncoming generationa. Orators have come and gone, and statesmen have corns and gone, and sometimes their im mediate successors' have not been dis cernible. But In time the men have emerged who have taken their places and who have improved upon the patterns they left Religion of the Wood. Upplncott's. tlader the swat cathedral ot tba tky. Far down the pillared aisles of ash. and. pine, I Join tfce. prayer or popples Deuced low. And count tha beaded rosary of the viae. A transept of blue heaven overhead, A choir of birds half hid In copse and oear. My worship Is the pleading of the pine, Tha burning- adoration of a star. The pleading of the pine that reaches op With outstretched arms, confiding as a child The trees, are they not born Into the faith. That when the sun has shlned,,thea God has smiled? The Joyous lark, hlsh-monnted on his sons, Has lifted me la rapture iram the sod; And though I tarry, hnrnbte In the grase; I am f. little while the guest of God. And like this untaught winged hart of cong. Sweeter for liberty, the breezes All The vale with holy laeense of the flowers, And consecrate the altar ot the hHU .The snnllt altar of the hill, far up The pillared aisles of arching ash. and pin. Where nature offers dally sacrifice. And Night and Day kei watch, before her shrine. And now, at eve, the priestly how has eosed A 'purple -vestment for the vier' win; The stars have lit tha tape ot t-w. And hare and lark are taeeusf la de sras. Throstles Intone, the offertory otf And lot upon tfce tllar-lUU ot xry. A bSood-re 3mt Ht mtrrt4tm The iauaafeUca ut drtae earl THE DEMOCRATIC SURRENDER. Extract from speech of Thomas E. Wat son at Chicago. The great National Democratic party went down to St Louts like ah army with banners. It had a creed which it had dared to proclaim for "eight years, real Jeffersonian doctrines. It Is true, 'they stole them from us in 1S96. but neverthe less, although they were stolen goods they were good goods. (Laughter and ap plause.) For eight years, with the excep tion of our railroad plank, they had pro claimed the soundness of the essential principles ot the People's party. For eight years they had told the American people that those principles were Jeffer sonian Democracy applied to modern con ditions. For eight, years they had had champions who dared to go up against the Republican party and fight the Principles of that party. (Applause.) For elgh't years the Democratic party was aggressive with an aggressive creed and an aggressive leader, and when it moved In lines of battle. (Loud applause.) It skulked in no ambush. It stood behind no blind. It formed Its lines in the open. planted Its batteries and gave them the charge ot "Forward, march" without fear except that of failing to follow the flag. (Applause.) Tonight tonight, where ares those principles of the Democratic party? They had them for eight years. Where are they now? They had aggressive lead ership for eight years. Where is it now? They fought plutocracy and Republican ism for eight years. Who is fighting, It now? The most singular campaign that the American people have seen since the Civil War presents thl3 as its most pecu liar symptom, its most peculiar feature. that all of the real battle was previous to the nomination, and the skirmish. what little there is of it, take3 place after the nomination. (Laughter and applause.) Heretofore in the history of political combat tho skirmish line was what pre ceded the National conventions. It was the battle that was joined after the Na tional conventions. I put it to your in telligence as thinking men tonight why is It, why is it that there was 10 times more energy and 10 times more money in the Parker cam paign previous to the St. Louis con vention than there has been since? Isn't it a singular situation? There was a fight on for the nomination; there laa been no fight since. A great line of patriots, edi tors, politicians, calling themselves Demo crats, marched to August Belmont's office In iew ibrk City, came forth with bulg lug pockets (laughter), and in a little while all the country was shouting "Par- Iter, Parker. Parker," a man of whom nobody had heard. (Laughter and ap plause.) Identified with no great speech. Identified with no great measure, identified wun no great struggle for Democracy, identified with no great decision even, and he a Judge (laughter) Parker a discovery (laughter and applause), a regular find (laughter). - made by David B. Hill and August Belmont In the somnambulism or political -necessity. (Laughter and ap plause.) Oh, what a flght there was to nominate -arKt-r. iiaugnter and ap plause.) The editors were armed and mil itant. Politicians were armed and ag gresslve. The nomination was made; the nomination was made. Then you would have suposed that the real war drum would have sounded and the battalions would have gotten in the line of march up against Roosevelt and the Republican principles. Whereas, a dead silence fell upon the country after that nomination and the silence still is like a pall all over tne American people. (Laughter.) No war drum sounds, no bugle blows, no flasr floats, no leader says "Follow me and let us fight Roosevelt and the Republican party." Isn't It queer? Can you explain it? The Japanese Exhibit at St. Louis. Walter Wellman In Success. There can be no question that tha most spectacular and most significant exhibit' at St. Louis is that of Japan. It Is the handiwork of a new nation, a marvelous one at that which the people here have spread before them. At Chicago, tho Jap anese appeared as interesting and pic turesque makers of toys and knickknacks and articles of virtue of characteristic form but of limited range a sort of half developed, peculiar people, with a hazy past not iar removed Irom actual sav agery and with au uncertain future. At St Louis they appear as one ot the first nations of the world. The greatest world event of the last ten years is the rise of Japan, and the Japanese have. taken good cafe that their attainment of manhood's estate shall be duly and fully celebrated In this exposition cosmos. To best realize what Japan Is. today, one need not go to Port Arthur nor to the plains of Man churia It may be taken for granted that the little brown people have startled the world with their military prowess, with their unprecedented combination in one national character of the most thor ough preparation and provision, the high est type of strategy, the most fanatical bravery, and the most abundant caution the bravery which assaults desperately with torpedo-boats and charges, savagely with battalions, and the caution which never risks a battleship near the big guns of a foe. Finer than Japan in war is Japan in peace. Parker and the Philippines. Milwaukee Sentinel. Coming from a fellow Democrat emi nently qualified to speak as one having authority, the reply of General Wright is well calculated to raise the question in the minds of ihe American people: Is Judge Parker, after all. the conservative and temperate-minded gentleman which he has been represented to be by Demo crats of the HIll-BelmonE school? A Presidential candidate who recklessly makes statements, so entirely at variance with the facts is clearly not conservative or temperate minded In the matter of al legation. Mr. Bryan's propensity to paint ridicu lously distorted pictures in the heat and fervor of platform oratory, so frequently made manifest during the closing weeks of tho campaigns of both 1SS6 and 1900, Has been set down as one of his chief weaknesses as a public man, but surely the Nebraska statesman never trans gressed to a greater extent in this respect than has "the quiet and conservative cit izen of .Esopus" In his portrayal of condi tions In the Philippines. Republicans' and" Labor Laws. Omaha Bee. No candid person, familiar with the facts, can hestitate to admit that the Re publican party has shown a much greater Interest in the welfare of-labor than has the Democratic party. Take, for example, factory Inspection laws. Out of 2S Republi can states, 21 have established factory inspections services, while but three out of 17 Democratic states have such serv ices, and evert In these three states the service Is not thoroughly enforced. Thirty pne of the 45 states prohibit the employ ment in factories of children under 13 years of age. Of these 31 states 21 are Republican and ten Democratic" Twelve states have enacted laws to regulate "sweat shops" and all but one of these states are Republican. Love and Logic. They sat by the eea when the moon glimmered o'er them. The waves murmured melodlra low at their " feet: ' 11 As they sllenUy Bared oa the waters before them His heart was a-flutter, his Joy was complete. "Be mine, dearest Clara I love you to mad ness; ' My heart with suspense doth 'Incessantly Weed; ' Tour smile, lights my soul like a halo of. gluA-aessr- ' -'"Wltfcost yoa my life would be lonely indeedt" ' 9 "Vm honored." she said, "in your coming- to court me; -your passios'a a turbulent wave, wi to epealc; THat Sow lar tfce world could -you ever support W&ea -yor .salary's: only -slue caHara a NOTE AND COMMENT. Some vocations are provocations. New York potters are on strike. Bishop 13 not among thenu We notice that the price of shingles ad vanced "yesterday. Hallowev.e warnings to Young America must have been dealt out liberally. An advertiser in last night's" telegram wants "board and lodging" for a dog. This Is better than having the dog room In a house and get his meals at restau rants. Co-eds at Lawrence University attend football matches wearing the college col ors, blue and white. They wear one blue stocking and one white. The Lawrence co-ed Is evidently loyal from the ground up. A quiet game of football was j?layed Saturday between the Chemawa second team ,and the Deaf Mute School. The rooters for the latter must have had some good physical culture work in giving tho college yell. An Indianapolis paper runs a column headed "Facts and Fancies" on Its mar ket page. This Is a frank acknowledg ment that despite the vigilance of the best commercial editor, a fact will now and again creep Into the market reports. Dr. Ughtner WItmer, of the University of Pennsylvania, lecturing before a teachers Institute, said: ''Children's false hoods are not lies, but simply the result of untrained imaginations." That explains why adults do so much better, their imag inations are trained. Just after Major Seaman had reported that not a single operation for appendi citis or any such disease had been neces sary In the Japanese hospital camps, Mr. Takahira, the Japanese minister in Wash ington, has to be cut open. It looks, as If it would be a good thing to go to the war for one's health. Most of the pastimes of the world are reflected In the sports of chlldhooct "V you see two sides of boys trying to hllate each other, you can be sure the playing at being Japs and Russians. IiT Pennsylvania last week seven boys tried to burn a playmate at the stake in the most approved style of lynching. Of course It was Inconvienient for the eighth boy, but think of the fun his companions had. It is gratifying to know that Washing ton has a Ladies' Cabinet welL drganlzed and ready to run social affairs with an iron hand. There will be no question- of referring disputes on precedence or on clashing dates to Tho Hague; war-irill be declared by the wives of the cabinet offi cials on all offenders and opposition will be crushed out .of existence. With order well preserved In Washington society, the safety of the country is assured. Pinero has taken to "Joshing" the pub lic in the manner of Barrfe. On the pro gramme 'of his latest play appears this piece of advice: ''As it is quijvdhcer- taln at what point if any, the interest of this pieces commences, the audience Is respectfully requested to be seated at the rise of the curtain." But It is safe to say that the audience wilt not be seated at the rise of the curtain, nor until the first act, at least ls.pretty well through. Except the revolver; no deadly wsapon figures In so many affrays as dofes the hatpin. Some time ago we cited a number of instances in which assaults hadbeen made with this handy stiletto, and also a number ot Instances In which it had been used to repel assaults. The "petrolt Tribune has collected similar stories about the hatpin, and also two of a dif ferent character. In Los Angeles a kit ten, 14 inches long, after eating a bird from its mistress' hat, swallowed a hat pin 7 Inches long, knob-end first, to be sure. The pin was pulled out and the kitten is as lively as ever. In New Tork a Maltese terrier, one inch longer than the kitten, swallowed another 7-lnch hat pin. That also went down with. the blunt end in front, and the dog also recovered its health when the pin was pulled out. Can the dumb animals have been, hunt ing a substitute for the human's break fast food? After 31 years of herding sheep, Mr. Morse comes to town with $1200, accumu lated by exercise of the greatest economy, and proceeds to have a good time, or, In other words, to throw away his money as fast as possible, and to pour as much bad whisky as possible down- his throat in a limited time. The police took Mr. Morse in charge when about 1250 had gone In the cause of good fellowship, and they tried to persuade their reluctant guest to place the remainder In a bank. This is very wrong on the part of the police, and such action is an evidence of pater nalism in Its most pernicious forjnThere are scores of men whose life alternates between laborious toll, combined with penurious economy, and the most unre strained extravagance. Far better for the shepherd, coming to town with the sav ings of years, were he-sandbagged at the city limits and relieved of his wad. Then he could' go straight back to healthy work, and would not damage his inslde3 with fire-water. WEX. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. The young lawyer fa a necessity, but fre quently, like necessity, he knows no law. Philadelphia Record. "My kingdom for a horse!" cried Richard- III. And a moment later he was eeen slowly emerg ing from under his balky automobile. Cleve land Plain Dealer. "Do you still think of going to the front, eirer"' asked the trusted adviser. "Frequent ly." aswered the Czar; "and always: with a Bhudder." Washington Star. "I' -a afraid, Johnny," said the Sunda school teacher, rather sadly, "that: I shall never meet you In the better land." "Why? What have you been do in now?" Plck-Me-Up. Oyer My brother has been greatly benefited by patent medicines. Myer So? What kind did he take? Gyer Oh. he didn't take any. He's a druggist. Chicago Dally News. Church Science Is a great thing. I see thej have a method for changing the shape- c a man's .none. Gotham-On. welt a good, warm game ot football could nearly always do that: Tonkers Statesman. . Hoax My wife -went out to shop today and lost a pocketbook containing Joax Did she lose It going to the stores or.comlng back? Hoax Going; I said there was money In-, 1U didn't I ? Philadelphia Record. "My daughter has developed a perfect passion, for music." eaia the woman next door. "TesT replied Mrs. nappe. "I'll bet-it .Isn't a cir cumstance to the'paaetoa your daughter's mur sic a routes In my husband." Philadelphia Ledger. "Don't you think- To Harlem in fifteen min utes' sound good?" asked the Harlem! te. ."Well. I think if you say 'Away from partem. In 15 minutes," It aoasds' a good deal better." replied th JRa o lived below Fortyisecocd street. Toekew States. "Now. my .child," said the casalb? -wthr to her youngest hopeful, "1 waafyeu icrU on your good "behavior ad not make a-3 pig of yourself-" "Wht for?" demanded the- young; mvm. "Because. weVre going to have .thstt sew inlnWtT for dinner." Philadelphia. Press It is