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Farce Comedy at the Marqnnm.
The Ricketts Troubadours tvil! present a
production of the musical comedy, "Colonel
Jack," at the ilarquam Grand on Monday,
Tuesday and "Wednesday of this week.
The play is pure comedy, and there is just
enough pathos to throw the mind at any
time from the continuing gaiety which the
play inspires. Colonel Jack, a lawyer with
a decided penchant for gold, plays his
charms upon Surepty Podsnap, who has
an equally positive predilection for the
same thing. Each of the scheming pair
thinks the other is deceived. They marry,
and, to their mutual horror, it is discov
ered that there is no money on either side
of the family. This misfortune is followed
by the most comical domestic discord.
Paul Stanton and Ruth Tasselton are
clients of Foxglove, and love each other
too well, but unwisely. The old lawyer,
who is at bottom kind in heart, finally
contrives to bring his clients back to each
other's arms, and he succeeds in doing so
by making them sign a legal document
which they think provides for separation,
but which he knows is a bond for their
future welfare. Incidental to the comedy
numerous specialties will be introduced.
Georsre Kcnnan'c Lectures on Russia
nnil Siberia.
On Friday and Saturday of this week
the distinguished, lecturer, George Kennan,
will give a series of Illustrated lectures at
the Marquam Grand, the subject for Fri
day night being "Sketches of Personal
Adventures in Siberia," and for Saturday
night "Russian Political Exiles." Jlr.
Kennan began his great lecture tour of
18S9-90 in Northampton, Mass., October 14,
traveling over 30,000 miles, and lecturing
20(1 consecutive secular evenings. The sea
eon of 1890-1 he delivered 100 lectures, clos
ing in February in order to complete his
book which he contracted to have ready
for his publishers (The Century Company)
by the 1st of June- The season of 1S91-2
Mr. Kennon began in the fare West. He
delivered 50 lectures on the Pacific coast,
returned to'Xew York from San Francisco,
and delivered 50 more lectures in the East
ern states.
Dramatic Xoten.
Edythe Chapman remains the Warde
James leading lady.
Guy Lindsley is playing the leading
parts in support of Warde and James.
Since H. Grattan Donnelly wrote "The
American Girl"' he has -presented the
stage with "In Darkest Russia" and "Vir
ginia." Primrose and West will celebrate their
silver anniversary season next year. They
have been partners 24 years, and may
justly have the distinction of being called
the David and Jonathan of minstrelsy.
It is said that when De Koven and
Smith's great comic opera success. "Rob
Roy," is produced in London, its manager,
Fred C. Whitney will have as partner
Charles Evans, the ex-farce-comedy co
median. William Costleman, the new baritone of
the Bostonians, began his career in 1S92.
He was picked up from behind the desk
of a hotel office by Alexander Spencer, and
put through a course of summer opera.
He survived the ordeal.
A lively theater party was on hand re
cently In San Francisco. It was called a
"Hard Times Theater party," and was
composed of 42 ladles and gentlemen who,
not wishing to pay the prices for orchestra
seats, procured gallery places at 25 cents
a seat.
Harry B. Smith says: "The new opera
upon which Reginald DcKoven and I are
now at work and which Lillian Russell
will produce in May at Abbey's theater.
New York, has Russia for its locality.
A tableau will bring Napoleon upon the
stage."
Otis Skinner, who is starring in comedy,
romantic drama and tragedy, has this to
say of the older classic plays of Shakes
peare and others: "Whenever they are
animated by a notable performance, a
striking production or a new and power
ful individuality, the public will never
pas them by. let flop-slick comedians say
what they will."
On March 9, "The Fatal Card" will leave
Palmer's theater in New York and go on
tour. The country at large -will then have
an opportunity to see William H. Thomp
son's frightfully realistic impersonation
of a man who is in turn a forger, a bond
robber, an accomplice in a murder and a
bomb-thrower, and yet retains the sym
pathy of the audience.
Joseph Haworth's engagement in a rep
ertory of tragedy at the Castle Square
theater, Boston, which terminated on Feb
ruary 9, was so successful that Edward
E. Rose has booked Mr. Haworth to play
a return engagement on February 25. Mr.
Haworth will then produce for the first
time anywhere a five-act tragedy by Er
nest Lacy entitled "Rinaldo."
While Mr. and Mrs. Kendal, of London,
are welcoming Beerbohm Tree to our
snores in the name of America which
thc are about to leave forever with
American dollars Marion Lea, their lead
in? woman furnishes a pleasing contrast
trte is a Phtladelphian. but until this sea
son she has played only at London the
aters. She is going to play henceforth,
however, in her own country.
During James O'Neill's recent engage
ment in Pittsburg, there was presented to
nim one of the finest tloral pieces ever be
stowed upon an actor. It was in the shape
t f a horse shoe, S feet high, with a star
pcn.lant in the center. It was composed
cf roses, pansies and carnations. It was a
tribute from friends of Mr. O'Neill in
Rochester, who made a social trip in a
special ear to sec him play Virginius.
Jennie Eustace, who plays Mrs. Page,
the leading feminine character in "Ala
bama," has announced her intention of
taking the play to London next spring.
Miss Eustace says she will risk $12,000 in
the venture. She has engaged E. M. Hol
land to pUy his original character of Col
onel Moberly, and probably others of the
old cast will be secured. If "Alabama"
succeeds in England It is probable that
Nat Goodwin will take "In Mlssoura"
over.
What should be one of the most impor
tant events of the theatrical season of
1S25-W is the production of what David
BolascD says is hie greatest effort at play
wntlng. It is "The Heart of Maryland."
The play has been completed a year, and
although several managers have been after
n, it has only jst been secured by Fred
C, Whitney, owner of the "Rob Roy" com
pany. ad Max Blomten, associate of
Charles K. Evans, of the Herald Square
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theater. New York. These managers have
signed contrasts to produce the piece with
a star cast and the elaborate scenic ef
fects it requires. The date of the initial
presentation of the piece has not yet been
fixed, but it will probably be at the open
ing of the coming season, in the autumn,
at the Herald Square. Mr. Whitney's
success in the comic opera field ha3 been
almost phenomenal. His advent into the
managerial field of the dramatic world
will be watched with interest.
"The Bostonians," says Jessie Bartlett
Davis, "are continually on the alert to
discover new talent among singers. Some
of the engagements they have made have
been very successful. Some haven't. For
instance: About a year ago H. C. Barna
bee imported from Italy a tenor. Out
doors he was magnificent. He wore an im
mense fur coat and a brilliant smile that
disclosed gleaming teeth. He swung down
the street like an avalanche and we would
skurry around to give him elbow room to
salute with charming grace. He sang one
night with the company."
Colonel W. II. Fife, -who played the lead
ing role in "Brutus, or the Fall of Tar
quln" in this city something over a year
ago, is hard at work at his home in Ta
coma, perfecting himself for a professional
career on the stage. Colonel Fife possesses
all the qualities required for success in the
histrionic profession, especially In tragedy
and the legitimate drama. Blessed with a
fine physique, a rich, deep and resonant
voice, an Intellect capable of grasping the
subtleties of the characters he represents,
great command of facial expression, grace
ful in his gestures and movements, and
above all, studious and persistent in his
purposes, he should scon become a national
figure on the stage. It augurs well for his
success that he has not rushed untimely
before the public, but has been content
quietly, but earnestly and unremittingly,
to study and prepare for his chosen ca
reer. His many friends will watch his
progress with pleasure and interest.
HAWAII, THE BEAUTIFUL.
p The cocoa, with Its crest of spears.
Stands sentry 'round the crescent shore.
The algeroba, bent with years.
Keeps watch beside the lanal door.
The cool wind fans the mango's cheek.
The mynah flits from tree to tree.
And zephyrs to the roses speak
Their sweetest words at Walkikl.
Like truant children of the deep
Escaped behind a coral wall.
The lisping wavelets laugh and leap.
Nor heed old ocean's stern recall.
All day they frolic with the sands.
Kiss plnk-llpped shells In wanton glee.
Make windows with their patting hands.
And singing, sleep at AValklkl.
O Walklki! O scene of peace!
O home of beauty and of dreams!
No haven In the isle of Greece
Can chord the harp to sweeter themes;
For houris haunt the broad lanais,
"While scented zephyrs cool the lea.
And, looking down from sunset skies,
The angels smile on Walklki.
Uollln M. Daggett.
AN INTERESTING HOUSE.
The Bnildinc; "Where "Washington
Wrote His Farewell Addrens.
In the quiet old village of Rocky Hill,
N. J., a few miles distant from Princeton,
rich with story and tradition of colonial
lore, is pleasantly situated on the side of
a gently sloping hill the old Berrian man
sion, now -famous- as the last headquar
ters of Washington and the place where
the "Father of his country" penned his
farewell address to the Continental army,
on November 2, 17S3.
Possibly no house in this state is wor
thy of more Interest than this quaint old
fashioned mansion. Here General Wash
ington, Mrs. Washington and his mili
tary suite passed the latter part of
August, the month of September and part
of October and November of 17S3.
The Continental congress at that time
was in session in this town and the en
voys of foreign powers were quartered
here. Thither Washington came dally to
consult with the statesmen of the time,
and there was a constant stream
of messengers and visitors along the high
way leading to the old Berrian mansion.
It was no uncommon sight upon a cool
morning to see General Washington and
his aides galloping along the road, gay
wlth the buff and blue of the Continental
uniform, followed by a retinue of col
ored servants.
The conditions which led General Wash
ington to make his headquarters at Rocky
Hill may be briefly noted. Congress had
retired in the spring from Trenton to this
town, and was anxious to close the hos
tilities. The articles of peace had been
agreed upon, and the Americans earnest
ly desired the evacuation of New York.
The Continental line, to a large extent.
had been mustered out, and the state mili
tia awaited the formal announcement from'
the commander-in-chief.
To this end the farewell address of
Washington was prepared. It bears the
date "Rocky Hill, near Princeton," and
local historians point out the room in
which it is said the patriotic document
was written. Tradition says that upon
the east wall of the room Washington
made notes upon the wall which were
visible until covered up by paper. The
Berrian house, in spite of Its great age, is
in an excellent state of preservation.
The old Berrian mansion is at present
owned by the estate of the late Martin
A. Howellv of New Brunswick. Through
the efforts of William McFarlane, a prom
inent resident of Rocky Hill, the Society
of the Cincinnati has interested itself in
the old mansion, and it is proposed to
erect a stone and tablet to properly com
memorate the Berrian house in history.
Plans are also being completed with a view
of securing the co-operation of some of
the patriotic organizations to purchase the
bouse and preserve it as long as possible.
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X Use for the Dra&ron Calendar.
The Corean legation has served notice on
tho Chinese minister at Washington that
Corea. is independent, a fact that he had
ignored in sending to the Corean charge
d'affaires a copy of the Chinese almanac
for the current year. Ordinarily the pre
sentation of a calendar might not be con
sidered a matter of great importance, but
the Chinese years are arbitrarily managed
by the emperor, Kwang Su, who has ar
ranged for this sear to have 13 months,
including an additional month of May.
This calendar is annually distributed to
the subjects of the emperor and to the
rulers of vassal states, who are command
ed to govern their dates by the emperor's
system. Heretofore the Coreans have used
the Chinese yeir, most of their transac
tions being with China, and this has been
considered by China a satisfactory proof
of vassalage. When Yang Yu, the Chi
nese minister at Washington, sent to the
Coreans an official calendar, several days
ago. it was promptly returned to him, with
a notice that they had no use for it, as
hereafter they intended to count time
as other clvilUid nations. It is understood
that the Corean legation has hitherto ac
cepted this annual gift from the Chinese
minister, who has thus been able to de
clare that the Corean representative in
America, was subject to his authority. Af
ter this, however, he will have nothing to
base his claim upon.
BCSIXESS ITEMS.
If Baby Is Cnttlnt? Teeth,
Be sure to use thxt old and well-tried remedy.
Mrs. Wlaslow's Soothing Syrup, for children
teething- It soothes the child, -Softens the
rums, allays all pain, cures wind colic oad
dlarrhota: . ,
KUiDREB.
I watched a, ship go down at sea.
Once from a storm-bound shore;
Its Capping sails In Jealousy
Green waves leaped high and tore.
Fierce winds with curses trod the deep;
Bach cloud a vulture flew;
Poor, feeble bark, why should this storm
Its fury spend on you?
Pale sails, who seem my very ghost.
For you 'neath hostile skies;
For you beyond all human aid
My heart In anguish cries.
Such desolation I have known
Upon an alien sea;
That life Itself had failed, save that
God sent a friend to me.
Helen J. Holcombe.
Mew of flew Books
"The Amateur Emigrant," by Robert
Louis Stevenson, is a new book in the
sense of being published for the first time
in January, 1S95, but the dedication bears
the date of 1S79. It is scarcely fair to
Stevenson's reputation that these observa
tions, made on a 10 days' voyage in the
steerage of a small vessel plying from the
Clyde to Sandy Hook, should appear with
nothing in the title to suggest the slight
ness of his material. Hawthorne or Thack
eray would nave called such gleanings
"notes," and arranged them as a part of a
sketch book of travel, and the delay of all
these years in their publication suggests
the probability of Stevenson's having
some such modest intention. The inci
dents described in Stevenson's two delight
ful out-door books, "An Inland "Voyage"
and "Travels with a Donkey" are, in an
outward way, as meager, but through
them breathes a delicious spirit of open
air and sky that makes a perfect atmos
phere for the peculiarly delicate and joy
ous philosophy of the writer. Stevenson's
senses were "ethereal for pleasure" of
every sweet and wholesome sort, but this
very responsiveness, in spite of all his
brave philosophy, made him suffer por
portionately in surrounding such as he
rashly chose in becoming an amateur emi
grant stowed in a dirty ill-smelling cabin.
When in "An Inland Voyage" he said,
"Discomfort, when it is honestly uncom
fortable and makes no nauseous preten
sions to the contrary, is a vastly humor
ous business," he was thinking of a rain
drenchins In the open air and not of sea
sick shipmates and a pantry smell that
mingled with the closeness of unalred
bunks. The man who can stand the most
of natural hardship is often the one who
succumbs most quickly to perversions of
what are called civilized life. All this, one
who feels the charm of Stevenson, which
is so largely the charm of a gay and
gracious personality, reads between the
lines, for he makes almost no complaint of
the disagreeable incident to his experi
ment and has written with grace and
spirit of the voyage and his companions.
Although in "An Amateur Emigrant" we
have not Stevenson at his best, there have
been enough readers who are eager to
come once more Into the circle of his in
fluence to have forced this little post
humous book of travels Into its third edi
tion in as many weeks from its first publi
cation. "A Woman of Impulse." by Justin Mc
Carthy, Is a readable story of a clean and
wholesome sort, and congratulations are
due to Mr. McCarthy for succeeding in
making his bold and adventurous heroine
attractive as well. It is one of the contra
dictions of English society that, in spite
of its conventionality, eccentricity is more
respected there than among Americans,
and when a young English woman does
depart from the national standard of the
bread-and-butter miss, she may go farther
than one of our women without faring
worse. The conspicuous clamorous part
played by many English women in elec
tioneering shows that public opinion al
lows them a wider latitude, In certain di
rections, and a story like this one of "A
Woman of Impulse" Is more probable on
English soil than in the land of the" free
and the home of the brave. "For which
we return thanks," says the staunch
American.
"Dust and Laurels," by Mary L. Pen
dered, calls itself "a study in 19th century
womanhood," but the limitation is un
necessarily narrow. The gifted, excitable
creature who Is under the dominion of her
senses at one turn and under the lash of
self-scorn at the next belongs to no es
pecial age nor sex. It is the element of
the human and universal that gives to
this book its strength, for it is a study of
the gnawings of "the worm i' the wood"
that Browning tells us of, what St. Paul
calls the warring of the flesh against the
spirit about which our own consciences
have not been silent. There is a truth
and fearlessness in the delineation of char
acter in the story that makes one regret an
indefinable flippancy in its treatment. We
miss in it something that corresponds
with the dignity of a fully self-reverencing
manner in the man and without which it
is difficult to render the respect due to its
worth.
"Jolnt-Metallism," by Anson Phelps
Stokes, the latest of the "Questions of the
Day" series, though in book form is scarce
ly a book. It is a collection of letters by
Mr. Stokes, most of which were published
in the New York Evening Post in answer
to the criticism of that paper upon Mr.
Stokes' plan, by which, he claimed, "gold
and silver together, at ratios always based
on their market values, may be made the
metallic basis of a sound, honest, self
regulating and permanent currency, with
out frequent recolnlngs and without dan
ger of one metal driving out the other."
The Post's editorials on the subject are
also reprinted -at length. Mr. Stokes,
though frequently led Into temptation,
never leaves the road of quiet reason for
excursions into mere polemics.
"Guide to the Yukon Gold Fields." by
V. Wilson, comes from a Seattle publish
ing house, and is a practical little hand
book illustrated with maps and from pho
tographs, showing the route to the Alas
kan gold fields. The book seems to have
been written in good faith and without
"boom" intentions, and certainly the dan
gers and difficulties described in making
the journey to the new Eldorado are
enough to deter all but the most resolute.
Before the book was through the press,
the author, a young engineer, died from
the consequences of exposure and hard
ship encountered in his Alaskan explora
tions. "Defective Speech and Deafness," by
Lillie E. Warren, is an analysis of the
various forms of defective hearing and
utterance, and an insistence upon the ne
cessity of especial training for the de
ficient. Few practical suggestions are
given for the overcoming of defects, and
all details of the modern methods used in
giving a language to those born deaf are
as carefully ignored as though it were
a trade secret. On this account it is
diiflcult to see in what way the book con
tributes anything definitely new or use
ful to the subject.
"United States Income-Tax Law, Sim
plified for Business Men," Is the title of a
little handbook compiled by F. A. Wyman,
who gives in it an account of the income-tax
law, as it is in operation in
several foreign countries, the text of the
new United States law, and a digest of
it simplified in such a way as to en
able any man of business to make his
returns to the government with ease and
accuracy.
"Robert H. Hatch's Recitals," is a col
lection of poems and scraps of plays which
the elocutionist has tried upon "critical
and cultured audiences both here and
abroad," and we must take his word for
it that they have been successful. Viewed
through the colorless medium of a first
reading, the selections seem, with a few
exceptions, flippant and commonplace.
"Pantomines, or Wordless Poems," by
Mary Tucker Magill is intended as an aid
to teachers of elocution, and contains a
number of recitations with directions fcr
1 their rendering in paatomine. Some of
the exercises areiset to music, which is
given in the body?of the book. Reproduc
tions from photographs are given by way
of illustration of poses and facial expres
sion. "A Siren's Son' by Susie Lee Bacon,
is a story that seems to. have been evolv
ed from the writer's inner consciousness
rather than from observations of life. If
young writers could only forget what they
have read and remember what they have
seen we should have fewer of these dead
alive books.
Appleton issues each year a revised edi
tion of a hand-book of American winter
resorts for tourists and invalids. The
pamphlet for the winter of '94-5 is very
full, containing all essential information
needed by those unfortunate classes, in
the way of routes, fares and maps.
"The Justification of Andrew Lebrum,"
by Frank 'Barrett, is another' variation of
the old theme of the chemist who holds
the secret of life and death and brings
about dramatic complications by the use
of his power. The story is a readable ex
ample of its kind.
"The Income-Tax Law" is published by
Brentano In a little pamphlet with the
treasury regulations relative to its col
lection. Under the same covers is print
ed David B. Hill's speech delivered in elu
cidation of the new law.
"Billtry." by Mary Kyle Dallas, a vul
gar and pointless parody of Du Maur
ier's "Trilby," is the latest issue of the
Waldorf series of paper books.
Literary Xotes.
The Bankers' Magazine for February
contains a number of very strong articles
on financial questions affecting the coun
try at the present time, and much finan
cial and commercial news.
The most interesting and practical ar
ticle in the Sanitarlon for February is one
on the disposal of garbage. The publica
tion of the proceedings of the American
Public Health Association is continued.
"Reality" is the title of a new English
monthly periodical which will shortly
make its appearance. It claims to be a
"fearlessly conducted and outspoken jour
nal." Leading social questions and neces
sary reforms are to be discussed in Its
pages.
Macmillan & Co. have determined to re
issue tho entire series of "English Men of
Letters" in 13 monthly volumes, each con
taining three of the original books. The
first volume of the new issue will include
Professor Ward's "Chaucer," Dean
Church's "Spenser," and Mr. Saintsbury's
"Do-den."
Dr. Parkhurst will pay his respects to
clubs and club life In hl3 article in the
next issue of the Ladies' Home Journal.
"I consider the club,' writes the great re
formpr, "to be one of the cleverest devices
of the devil to prevent homes being made
and to sterilize and undermine them when
they are made."
Mr. Page, of Charterhouse, is complet
ing his edition of Horace's Odes In Mac
millan & Co.'s "Classical Series," by add
ing those of the Epodes, which are suit
able for school reading. These will be
ready in the course of a few weeks. Mr.
Page has also undertaken to prepare a
complete edition of Horace for school use
in one volume.
The New Cycle for February contains
many articles of interest to women, most
of them by women writers. It is the
organ of the General Federation of Wo
men's Clubs, in which more than 700,000
women are interested. It has just raised
the price to $2 a year, and offers special
clubbing inducements. Cycle Publishing
Company, New York.
The third edition of Bryce's American
Commonwealth, containing four new
chapters on Tammany, the new South, the
negro problem and the influence of geog
raphy on American history, fully noticed
in a previous number of The Oregonian,
has been received by Stuart & Thomp
son. It is published by Macmillan at
Ji for the two volumes. ...
An article in- the "February number of
Babyhood, by Dr. Yale, throws further
light on the new cure for diphtheria. -which
is attracting such universal attention. Of
equal interest to mothers are Dr. Kerley's
paper on "Coughs and Colds in the
Young," and the editorial remarks con
cerning the effect of tea on children, rem
edies for bowlegs, the treatment of a
wakeful baby, the respective merits of
milk, soup, etc.
Among the most interesting of Macmil
lan & Co.'s announcements is that of their
"Illustrated Standard Novels," a series
of reprints of famous English works of
fiction. An Introduction by a critic of ac
knowledged competence will be contrib
uted to each, and they will be fully illus
trated by the most prominent artists of
the day. The first volume, containing
"Castle Rackrent" and "the Absentee,"
by Maria Edgeworth, the introduction by
Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and the charm
ing illustrations by Miss Hammond. Is now
ready.
Jenness Miller Monthly for February
contains an animated discussion of the
New Year's reception at the White House,
bearing the novel name of "The Golden
Gate," which sets as a foil to Mrs. Jen
ness Miller's keenly intellectual article
on "Law, Order and Art in Dress." The
latter Is the sixth chapter in a series which
is attracting widespread attention, and
which has elisited warm comment from
20 MONTHS,
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THE CONTRIBUTORS.
R. L. Stevenson,
Rudyard Kipling,
Bret Harte,
Herbert Spencer,
Andrew Lang,
A. Conan Doyle,
Octave Thanet,
W. D. Howells,
Stanley J. Weyman,
Charles A. Dana,
Sarah Orne Jewett,
Joel Chandler Harris,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Clark Russell,
Beatrice Harraden,
Robert Barr,
Henry M. Stanley,
Professor Drummond,
Louis Pasteur,
Edward Everett Hale,
Louise Chandler Aloultpn,
Gilbert Parker,
Mrs. Spofford,
G. W. Cable,
Archdeacon Farrar, .
Thomas Hardy,
Sir Robert Ball, -
1 0of, E. S. Hojaeh,
M?CLURE5
many artists t.nd other cultivated people
who appreciate Mrs. Miller's true concep
tion of dress, and are ardent believers In
her ideals. This clever woman has created
a new era In dress, and has a clear con
ception of the philosophy of her art.
The Chicago Dally News Almanac and
Political Register for 1S93 is complete
and comprehensive. An Interesting fea
ture is a review of the serious labor dis
turbances of the year the great coal
strike, the Pullman boycott, the Great
Northern railway and other strikes. To
supplement this is given the labor arbi
tration laws of the various states. Pro
portional representation and the referen
dum are discussed. The Japanese-Chinese
war is treated is detail. The election
tables comprise full official returns from
44 states and four territories. The volume
for 1S95 exceeds in interest and value any
of the previous issues.
Macmillan & Co. are about to issue a
third edition of the late Professor- Stan
ley Jevons "The State in Relation to
Labor." The matter has been brought
up to date by the help of footnotes, and
the editor, M. "M. Cababe. contributes an
introduction on "The Present Aspect of
Some of the Main Features of the Labor
Question." Mrs. Jevons, in the "Letters
and Journal' of her husband, says that
this book was the result of his maturest
thoughts upon the subject, his conclu
sion being that no hard and fast rules
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CHINESE AND JAPANESE.
Creelmaa's Estimate of Them as Mil
itary Autlous.
When the story of the battle of Wei-Hal-Wel
comes to be told, says James
Creelman, the American correspondent
who has been with the Japanese army, and
who has just returned to New York, it
will be found that in spite of the resist
ance offered by the Chinese squadron the
principal warships were really unfit for
use outside of the harbor. When they
left Port Arthur November 12, to escape
being captured there, most of them were
patched up hurriedly, and were considered
to be useless for seafighting. They were
then commanded by John McCIure, a
tugboat captain in the employ of a Taku
lighterage company, who had been raised
to the rank of admiral after the battle of
the Yellow sea, incorrectly known as the
battle of the Yellow river. The Japanese
generals have not hitherto considered the
capture of Wel-Hai-Wei to be an essential
element in the advance upon Peking, as it
was easy to transfer across the Gulf of
Pechill from Klnchau to some point on
the coast out of range of the Taku forts.
But the fall of Wei-Hai-Wel and the oc
cupation of Che-Foo will have one very
important effect. The British fleet has
kept up active communication between
Corea, Japan and Che-Foo and the
Japanese have for a long time suspected
that the Chinese obtained most of their
information concerning their enemy
through this channel. The Chinese capi
tal and Tien-Tsin are now both cut off and
must remain in complete ignorance from
this time on.
The Chinese army is simply a mob of
untrained, unpatriotic men, and no vic
tory over this rabble can establish Japan
as a high-class military power. The Jap
anese have altogether in the field about
65,000 fighting men, attended by about
43,000 coolies. China has nothing but her
great forts, which simply represent an
expenditure of money. The more scien
tific the fort, the more, highly trained must
be the men who defend it. In the Jap
anese camp all is order, sobriety, patriot
Ism and self-denial the Port Arthur mas
sacre excepted while in the Chinese camp
all is confusion, drunkenness, cowardice
and lechery.
Wherever one goes he will find the Chi
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nese garisons littered with playing cards,
umbrellas and frippery. The Chinese are
merchants and scholars. The scholar
takes the highest rank in China. In Japan
the soldier ranks first. The real military
capaclty of Japan can only be tested
when her soldiers face European troops
or come into conflict with the Turks or
Afghans or Sikhs. They are wonderful
artilleryman, but poor marksmen with
small arms. At present they are not
highly skilled In the use of cavalry be
cause there are few horses In Japan and
that branch of the service is necessarily
a mere trifle. The officers are very highly
trained and the generals have displayed
a very high order of strategic ability.
It is certainly a very singular thing that
In every battle In this war the Japanese
have left a way of escape open. It was so
at Asan, at Ping Yang, at Chlullencheng,
at Klnchau, and at Port Arthur. In an
swer to an inquiry why the Japanese left
wing had not been extended down to the
sea so that the retreat of the enemy could
be cut off, the answer was that there were
not troops enough present to cover the
ground. My own belief is that the Japan
ese generals shrewdly counted on the read
iness of Chinamen to run away and felt
that It was a good strategical policy to
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IPMORTAL WORDS.
Lincoln' GettyHhur;? Ailrtresa to Be
Engraved on Bronze.
Congress has offlcially determined the
disputed question as to the exact text of
President Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg
address, by incorporating a copy of it in
the bill recently passed creating the Get
tysburg National Military Park.
The government's official sanction is
thus given to this particular version of
the address, in section 8 of this act, which
appropriates $5000 to enable the secretary
of war to cause to be made and erected
in the Gettysburg National Military Park
"a suitable bronze tablet containing on it
the address delivered by Abraham Lin
coln, president of the United States, at
Gettysburg on the 19th day of November,
1S93, on the occasion of the dedication of
the national cemetery at that place" and
then, after providing that the tablet shall
bear "a medallion likeness of President
Lincoln," proceeds to furnish the text of
the address with the following introduc
tion "which said address was in the fol
lowing words, to wit:"
"Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a
new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedi
cated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, so con
ceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battle-field of that
war. We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field as a final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedi
cate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, liv
ing and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world will little
note, or long remember, what we say
here; but it can never forget what they
did here. It is for us, the living, rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished
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by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth."
One Result of the Flood.
The high .water of last spring left sand
and sediment on Deer island to the depth!
of several feet, says the St. Helen's Mist,
On Muckle Bros.' place the sand filled in
from three to 15 feet deep all over it. The
lower places were filled in, making many
of them on a level with the higher ground.
Several acres, which were a lake before
the high water, were plowed and seeded
to grass last fall. While the filling in by
the sand killed all the grass, the island
is now placed above ordinary high-water
mark, and once the soil is formed again
I the land will be more valuable than ever
before. The same is true of all the over
flowed land along the Columbia.
Rend the Bible and Departed.
Alexander Wilson was Wednesday com
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charge of obtaining by false pretenses
the pay of C. Bunnell, whom he imperson
ated at the pay window. Chief Crossan
placed the prisoner in a corridor of the
old jail pending the arrival of an officer
to take him down to the new jail, and,
as a comfort during his wait, handed him.
a Bible, with advice to read it. When, at
the end of half an hour, the chief returned
he found the cell empty." Wilson has not
been found. Both the city and provincial
officers are on his trail.
Janitor's wife, (St. Fashion's flats) A
number of the fine ladies in the upper flats
called on me today, and stayed here chat
ting quite a while. Janitor You ought to
feel proud. Janitor's wife Y-e-s, but the
trouble is, I can't tell whether they came
because they like me or because they
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