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Letters relating to advertising, Bubscriptions or to any l-jslness matter should Tbe addressed simply "The Oregonlan," The Oregonlan does not "buy poems or stories from Individuals, laid cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts, sent to It without solicita tion. No stamps should be Inclosed lor this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue. Taopma. Box 855, Tacoma postoffioe. . Eastern Business Office The Tribune build ing, New York city; The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth special agency. New Tork. Per sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, ?46 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and tit Goldsmith Bros., 238 Sutter street For sale in Chicago by the P. .0. News Co., &17 Dearborn street. TODAVS "WEATHER. Fair and continued cool weather; east to southeast winds. JPORTLAJTO, SUXDAY, JANUARY 28. EDUCATTOXAL TEXDEXCD3S. Perhaps "vre have no better answer, to pessimism than an instinct, and per haps that is enough. A noble woman once made answer to a. subtle casuist 'Yes, but there are some things that are simply right"; and In that there is a world of philosophy. So there are Borne things the well-ordered mind in sists on talcing for grante'd. One is that there Is a God. Another is immortal ity. Another Is that the end of all is srood, and the purpose behind the uni verse is just. Modern inductive phil osophy has not explained these ele Snental convictions of the mind, though that Is not to say it never "will. The "world is new since Darwin and Spencer wrote, and we have not yet had time to take our bearings. Instincts are not to be catalogued, yet neither are they to be set aside, and the belief in prog ress toward a sublime goal is well-nigh universal. Primitive man cherishes a firm belief in the coming of a Messiah, and the reign of goodness and peace. The familiar traditions of the Old "World are matched in the Hew. Hia watha is expected on the north, and the Mexicans recognized in the Spaniards the heavenly messengers who were to herald their God made flesh. These ex pectations linger in the minds of the most cultivated, as Tennyson voices them: Behold, we know not anything, "We can but hope that pood may fall At last, tar off, at last, to all, And ev ry winter change to spring. "What is to become of the viarld de pends on what is to become of the children; and It is therefore true that as for the world's future no more use ful thing can be -undertaken and no more important thing investigated than education. "What is going on, and is it In the direction of higher things? Blind faith in the triumph of good returns a favorable answer, and it is not with out support in contributory evidence. Any one that has followed the recent magazine discussions on educational topics must have "been impressed with the breadth of view and earnestness of purpose manifested by our promi nent educators. Here is a paper on History in the February Atlantic The author has gone back to the source of historical achievement. He tells of Herodotus, Thucydldes and Tacitus. He shows tis the greatness of these men, the reasons why they were supreme, the reasons why they are Indispensable. It means a great deal for modern edu cation that its exponents apprehend the past. But they must do more than appre hend the greatness of the past they must apprehend also its limitations. The one thing ancient history didn't know, the thing In whose Ignorance Its achievement is almost a miracle, is the method of Nature, In all her fields of development. At length science has taught us the constructive processes of cosmogony, from astronomy to psy chology and sociology. At length this wonderful machine Is uncovered, so we can see the wheels go round and under stand the grandeur of the, process of evolution, now committed into the hands of man. The wisdom of the an cients, explained and enforced by the discoveries of the moderns this is what our best educators are giving us today. Hadley has it at Yale, Ixjw at Colum bia, Jordan at Stanford, "Wheeler at Berkeley, Strong at the university of Oregon. They are on fire with the sci entific spirit, but they are guided by the visions of the past. In this mar riage of the classics to the newest sciences is a sign of unquenchable hope for the coming generation. There is one other manifestation of present day education that is big with promise. It Is the rediscovery of the body. Sanitation and the laboratory are doing their share; and In the cur riculum there is technical training and there is athletics. The mind is not to be exalted at the expense or the sac rifice of the hand and eye. A man needs to know what has been done In the world, but he must be very sure to know what he himself can do In the world, and know how to do it. The old way had its advantages. Sometimes we miss the seriousness and thorough ness that distinguished the schooling of past days. But if we were to send our thousands of graduates forth today with the excellent "book-learning" that was provided twenty-five years ago, and with nothing more, half of them could never earn their bread. They must be taught to do things with their hands. They cannot all be teachers, or preachers, or law yers, or doctors. Their education must fit them for, and not lift them above, the pursuits of trade and manufac tures. And they must have strong, healthy bodies. Greece has come again In the Homeric game of foptball. It is not to be frowned down by the sneers of loafers and gamblers who have de graded the once noble art of boxing. It and its companion sports of field and gymnasium will give us a race of men. This is not the least promising of mod ern educational tendencies. The South African war thus far has "been passing through the tentative stage. From this time it will begin to eettle down to a trial of resources. The British d?xtbt care to risk the waste of life that would follow an effort to "rush" their enemy, but will under take to wear him out by the slow pres sure of superior strength. They may not relieve their garrisons,, but it will be practically the same If they do not. The Boer states cannot stand for an in definite period the pressure of force that the British empire can put upon them for an indefinite period. It may make a long war, but the British em pire can stand the strain for any length of time, while the Boer states cannot. COLONIZATION IN ACTION. It may be true,' as the antls assever ate, and as Mr. Benjamin Kidd with more reason maintains, that white men cannot live in the tropics. If It Is true, it has no bearing on the course we must pursue in suppressing the Tagal insur rection, though it will have some bear ing on our subsequent programme in the Philippines. But such information as comes to us from the Oregon colony in Xrtizon indicates that perhaps in this as in everything- else the antls are wrong, and Mr! Kidd defective in his premises. Oregonlans in the Philippines seem In the main busy and hopeful. Mr. Taille Is running the postal department In . first-class style; Mr. Anderson is mak ing a fine record as superintendent of schools; Ed "Wetzler is assistant postal superintendent; Charley Weed is a clerk in Anderson's office; Harry Lewis Is president of the Manila chamber of commerce; George Duval is a clerk in the custom-house'; W. C. Johnston is in the quartermaster's department; Frank Coyne is a customs inspector; Charles Cull and James Maddy are partners In the paint huslness; Harry Aldrich Is In a drug store; George B,eichweln Is In charge of the Army and Navy Club; Arthur Bodley is in a grocery store; Fred Coleman has a merchandise store at San Fernando; Claude Nash Is keep ing books; Dr. Albon Is practicing med icine; Budd Chapman is a brick con tractor; Charley Franklin and W. A. Gourley are In the postoffice; Bay Green gets $200 a month representing the peace commls'slon; and so on. Some of these boys are better off than they were at home. Some of them, who had no apparent future In a country town, have had their eyes opened and their wits sharpened by travel and ob servation. Some of them, who never did a day's work In their lives and won dered what they were good for anyhow have been made men by the discipline of army life, and have seen the vision of a career before them. Nothing but this war and the shaking up it gave them would have taught them the one thing without which nobody Is any use in this world and that is how to work. Good for them and their folk at home, this colonization Is also a good thing for Luzon. There, on the border of the Old World, whence our Aryan race took up its westward march be fore the dawn of history, is planted a bit of the newest life of the New World. There, in contact with bar barism of a staQp older than the life of Abraham, is set a fragment of the lat est civilization of the nineteenth cen tury. These sons of Oregon pioneers are a curious refinement of westward progress. As the American colonies drew, from the venturesome and inde pendent spirits of Spain and France, England and Holland, so the Oregon immigration drew from the still rest less, ambitious sons of the Western re serve, the settlers of Iowa and Illinois and the Kansas Immigrants. The names of Northmen and Briton, Frank and Teuton, are mingled In these new Asiatic chronicles. It has taken a. long time for -the circuit of the globe to- be completed; but it is almost done; and, the work these uregon Doys are auuw In the Islands of the Pacific is to sow and tend the seeds of civilization ma tured by the culture of all lands from Babylonia and Thebes, Hellas and Home, down to the capitals of the mod ern world. German patience, French enthusiasm, .Irish wit, "Viking stead fastness and British love of law we have sent In the hands of these Ameri can volunteers to the people of our newest province of the New World in the confines of the Old. Their part in that upbuilding is sure to be useful; and If they do their full duty it may be glorious. A LIBERA! - SllNDED EPISCOPAL BISHOP. Phillips Brooks . did not preach in vain, for he has left a bishop behind him in the Episcopal church Jn Massa chusetts that inflexibly refuses to be In tolerant and bigoted to please some of his stupid clergy and lay communi cants. The Episcopalians recently founded a church in Cohasset, one of the resident suburbs of Boston, on the coast of Massachusetts bay, and the corner-stone waslald December 8, 1899, by Bishop Lawrence, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts. On that occasion the rector, Rev. Milo H. Gates, placed among the corner-stone documents a hfstbry of the old Congre gational church of Cohasset for 150 years, which was written by Rev. W. R. Cole, pastor of the old church; and he also asked Mr. Cole to speak a few words, which Mr. Cole did. The bigots discovered that Mr. Cole was a Uni tarian, and that his church was a Uni tarian church. These provincial bigots at once called a meeting, at which Iwenty-six affrighted Episcopalians made a most lugubrious protest to Bishop Lawrence at his dereliction of duty. Here is an extract from the let ter, which would hardly seem to justify the expectation of Justice Brewer, of the United States supreme court, that before the twentieth century is com pleted there will he only one Christian church; that is, that not only all ortho dox Protestant denominations will be come fused into one church, but that the Church of Rome and the orthodox Protestant churches will become one. Here is what these clerical and lay Episcopalian bigots of Massachusetts say to their bishop: "We ask you, our reverend father in God, to listen to our distress and. to respect the reelings of those of your own people who cannot help regarding such an action on your part as pass ing all the bounds of charity and true liberality, and as amountingto a compromise of faith by our proper representative, a recognition of Uni tarian denials and an Insult to God the Father and to his eternal Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior. There Is, sir, in your diocese, a strong, earnest, devotional feeling tor Christ, Let It be called sentiment, or love, or the Christian con sciousness, or by any other name, it was planted by the Holy Ghost, it Is nourished by the church and her 6acranents, 4t is deepened and strengthened by the many personal spirit ual experiences of "human life. This devotional spirit you have grievously offended. We. hear tily wish the' sad occurrence had neer taken place. We still hope you had Eorae good reason to justify it. But the act was a public act. It was published: in the dally papers. And now we astk you as as our muhop and father In God, to give -us some publlo assurance, In such way as -you deem bcst,"that you sympathize more with the loyalty of our devotion than with the liberality of those who have tiot our faith to defend, and that you believe the Uni tarian conceptions of God and of Christ to be false and .inconsistent with the faith you rep resent, and If we may be so bold, we ask' you; whatever your own opinion may be, to respect this devotion and not trample It under your feet. This letter will excite the derision, the contempt and compassion for the writers on the part of Christians of all denominations, for the authors and signers of this exceedingly silly and stupid protest would have been just as severe "had the minister of the old church of Cohasset been an orthodox Congregatlonallst, a Baptist orsa Meth odist. But Bishop Williams, of, the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts, is a man who stands to" his guns, and In his clear and vigorous answer says: For nearly two centuries the Christian relig ion, as the pastor and the people of Cohasset have understood It, has been preached and practiced In the village. God has been wor shiped, the name of Christ revered and o. Chris tian community upbuilt. Had they Waited for the Episcopal church we should have found there last week a community of heathens. Now that the Episcopal church Is entering the vil lage, how graceful a thing It was that the pas tor of the yirst church, instead of meeting it with hostility of a moody silence, should have been present at the laying of the corner-stone and have welcomed the church Into the fruits of the labors of the ancient parish I I trust that you will feel how huppy It was that the rector of Christ church, instead of affirming to the people that the faith and polity of the churches of Cohasset for nearly two centuries has been false or Imperfect, and that how the true faith and church had come here, ihould have offered Jthe opportunity to the pastor of the First parish to glvo his gracious words of Welcome. Bishop Lawrence is a full man and a gentleman from the ground up; which Is far better than to have been a mitred bigot, as he would be if he s mpathized with the absurd protest of some of his clergy and lay commu nicants. It was often said during Colo nel Robert G. Ingersoll's life that there was no need of him, because the big otry and intolerance he satirized had become obsolete. It has not become obsolete, as this correspondence be tween the bishop of Massachusetts and his clergy attests. Churches peopled with such provincial minds as these will always be subjects for justifiable laughter and popular contempt- BRYAN. Because he was not elected president, Mr. Bryan thinks very 111 of his coun try. It Is a placej he says, where "the young man, as things are going now, can only hope to be a poor clerk for some monopoly." It Is a strange utter ance for a man to make who pretends to the wisdom and character requi site for the highest political honor in the world. It Is addressed to the baser instincts of the mind, discontent with a humble lot and rage at those better off. It Is neither patriotic nor helpful, and, what is of more consequence, it is not true. To 4be a poor clerk Is not the worst thing that can happen to a man. He might, for example,- descend from an honest clerkship to be a demagogic agi tator, or an apostle of anarchy? It is not clear, either, that Mr. Bryan him self occupies a pinnacle of achievement so high that Its natural relation to a clerkship is one of commiseration. He was an actor, and members of his com pany say he was far from being a good one. He was a lawyer, but the long and laudatory, biography of him that lies before us makes no mention of any practice or any verdicts. He was an editor, but Ieftno Impress on journal ism. He enlisted In the war, but If he accomplished anything or gave evi dence of being able to accomplish any thing, the proof Is not forthcoming. In all his speeches, delivered almost incessantly . since he was 12 years old, there is no sign that he has made a single contribution to the sum of hu man, knowledge or shed a single ray of light upon the problems that engage the attention of thinking men. The me is no evidence that if he lost his re markable., voice, any business firm in the country, monopoly or otherwise, would have use for his services as a clerk, or for anything "but to walk their floor as an advertisement. But with his limited qualifications for success, Mr. Bryan Is himself a liv ing monument to the falsity of his doc trine. He is making money hand over fist. He Is the best-advrtlsed man In the country. He considers that nobody but himself has any business with the democratio nomination for the presi dency. Yet he was a poor boy. He be gan life on a farm. Under the republi can party, which he denounces; under the gold standard, which he cannot un derstand, his rise to prominence and affluence has been undisturbed and un impeded. His la a common experience. Mr. Carnegie Is just now telling us that he was reared' in poverty. Senator Perkins was reared on a farm; Senator Fairbanks was born on a farm; Sena tor Beverldge was a newsboy, Speaker Henderson came to America as the 6-year-old child of poor Scotch immi grants; Senator Hale was a Maine country boy; Senator Wellington had to be put out to work whea he was 12 years old; Senator Nelson came with his parents from Norway at the age of 6; Senator Clark, the Montana multi millionaire, was born on a farm and worked on farms and in mines till he was 30; Senator Thurston struck Omaha on foot, with only a dollar In his pocket; Senator Galllnger was horn on a farm; Senator Sewall was a poor Irish boy, and came to the New World In his childhood Senator Butler was born on a farm, and his mother was his teacher; Senator Foraker was born on a farm; Senator Hanna began life as a grocery clerk; Senator Pettigrew was a laborer at 21; Senator Foster was a poor school teacher; President McKin ley was a poor man; Secretary Gage almost starved to death before he could get a job in Chicago; Secretary Root's father was a teacher, and he had his own way to make. Take our merchant princes and our eminent professional men, our college presidents and out great manufacturers, and. you wljl find them to be not brought up In rich men's houses, but the children of the poor, who did not -bewail their fate In having to work, When most of these men began their career, a poor clerk ship was something they were very glad to get. , But Mr. Bryan, If he has his way"i will fix It so there shall be no poor clerks, but only well-to-do proprietors. How wil. he do this? One way Is by free coinage of silver. That means financial ruin and national dishonor. Another way Is by turning tall In the Philippines. That Is a craven policy no red-blooded American will approve. Another way is by declaiming against trusts, and this Is something anybody can do and everybody Is doing. How to control the trusts, how to crush mq nopolles, Mr, Bryan doesn't know, and he is the last man in the world that is likely to find out. We can't haye. free trade. We can't have free silver. We can't destroy the trusts wl.th rhet oric and elocution. This can only be done with well-considered legislation, which 'partisan cries have nothing to do with. The only thing left for Mr, Bryan Is "to inflame the prejudices-of the un successful and the discontented -which Is the last resort of ' thelunscrupulous" demagogue. t ' 5g v i HERO-WORSHIP AT ITS LOGICAL END. Washington correspondents are busy with the details of the "ruction" in society circles of the capital city over what one of them very fitly designates the "fool question of precedence." Ef forts to transpose the term, "army and navy," so that the officers of the sea arm of the service will rank those p the military arm, have thus far proved futile. Notwithstanding the brilliant achievements of the navy in the late war and the elevation of Ad miral Dewey to a pedestal at the foot of which hero-worshipers by the thou sands flock and fawn, the term "navy and army" Is too unfamiliar to fall glibly from the nation's tongue and nothing less than this and the prece dence at official and social functions that It signifies will, it Is said, be ac cepted by the female relatives of the admiral. Gossips have made much of the fact that neither Admiral Dewey nor his wife was present at the dinner given by the president to the diplomatic corps on the evening of the 17th of January, and, though the plea of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs. Dewey was entered as a reason for their absence, the general understanding and belief is that this same "fool question" caused them to remain away. As the pro gramme was arranged, they were to walk behind General and Mrs. Miles on that occasion, and this, it is asserted, Is just what Mrs. Dewey declares she will never do. The navy was given pre cedence on New Year's day, and .the brilliant and ambitious woman whom the admiral has married does not In tend to take a retrograde step In this matter. The president will receive in honor of the army and navy on the 14th of February, when it is understood that a strong stand for precedence will be made by the newly constituted -head of the navy. Secretary Porter has decided this momentous question In favor of the army. Being called upon In his capa city of "buffer" for this administra tion to decide the matter, he cited the fact that the war department was es ablished long before a separate organ ization for the control of the navy was thought of, and upon this" citation he based the decree that places the gen eral of the army and his wife at the head of the ofilclo-soclal column. This is not a new question. It Is, Indeed, old, so old that people generally wonder that the intelligence of the nation, as represented In official circles, has not outgrown It. This, however, should not be considered strange. The, ego in of ficialism, as In everything else, Is pam pered by fawning and Increased emolu ment. Having grown by what It has fed upon, It was never more rampant or more demanding at the court of the republic than now. It is unreasonable to expect our heroes to rate themselves lower In the scale of greatness than they are rated by their worshipers. We exalt them literally to the skies for the acceptable performance of the duties of their station, pose the women whom they marry at the zenith of their fame as the most envied and enviable of their sex, -and then exclaim In wonder or reproach when these take on the airs of royalty and forget the maxim of true gentility and senslbllty compre hended In the Injunction "in honor pre ferring one another." This is unrea sonable, and the American people can depend upon iUthat as long as they do not discriminate 'between patriotic pride and fulsome adulation in their treatment of their heroes, the discus sion of this "fool question of prece dence"wlll be given unseemly promi nence in the social life that buzzes about1 the ears and hangs upon the skirts of officialism. We can scout the fact if we will, but, having pampered and fed and paid for it, It is ours as much as though it had descended to us through generations of royal blood. It is merely an example of the fountain rising to the level of its source. THE CRY OF THE DREAMER. John Ruskin, who has just been borne to. the grave, will never be forgotten as a master of most eloquent, poetio English prose, but as a thinker his m" fluence Is already dead, although he wrote on every great subject with en tire self-confidence and gigantic ego tism. He Inherited a million of dollars; was widely read; splendidly educated, so far as a scholastic training stands for education; was'a man of rare gen ius In his mastery of words, and yet today artists repudiate his art system; art critics rate him low; geologists repudiate his theories of geology; po litical economists think him crazy, and theologians are doubtful of his sanity; His praotlcal experiments at benefi cence failed because he could read everything but human nature; he as sailed railroads; was the Implacable enemy of labor-saving machinery; he could not see that railroads alone could enable a worklngmau to procure the discipline of cheap long-distance travel; he could not comprehend that labor saving machinery has lifted the level of labor for the toller; that In the country where It Is most used the position of the workingman is highest. The clear explanation of Buskin's failure as a practical social reformer and statesman is that while the man fondly believed he was a philosopher, a political economist, a statesman, a theologian and art critic, he was really nothing but a man of very rare and fine genius as a descriptive poet. What he called scientific thought was noth ing but the cry of a dreamer, of a gifted descriptive poet, born to great wealth, Who had been carefully educated for ceaseless dreaming, not for .rational doing. As a descriptive prose poet of great genius he is one of the Immor tals of English literature, but as a solid thinker; on any of the -vftai questions of modern social, polltlcaf or scientific life, Ruskin has no more rank than our own Hawthorne, Wendell Phillips or Thoreau, Personal benevolence, per sonal purity, spiritual refinement, po etic imagination, fine mastery of words .all these men-had, but their quality is that of the gifted, dreamers-rather than the great doers of this world. Something of moral inspiration and appeal such poetic-minded men haye, even as had Carlyle, a glgSntlo egotist of splendid imagination, bjut, quite as impracticable in his utterflack of s the quality that fits a man to do the work of a Burke, a Franklin, a Fox, a' Wash ington, a Hamilton, a Marshall, a Web ster or a Lincoln. Intense moral sen timent and a passion for reform will not make a statesman, and men who stand for the cry of the dreamers rather than the doers" are not long re membered as thinkers, except wfien they are men of poetic imaglriatlon, too, and then they have more or less tran sient fame because of their charming eloquence, not because of their thought, which Is generally visionary or their capacity for government, which Is gen erally without wisdom or vigor. Some men of pure life and purpose govern wretchedly, while some men whose character, like that of Franklin, Fox and Webster, Is not witho'ul scars In flicted by sing of the blood if not by sin of the spirit, always govern well. The Continental congress sent Franklin to Europe as agent of the colonies, in spite of a well-knowii blemish on his private life, because he was known to possess the public talents, the tact, temper, integrity and patriotism, inval uable for the public duty given him to discharge. So "the great English statesman, Fox, was implicitly trusted as successor to William Pitt as prime minister in a most critical period of English history, although he had been In his youth and even mature manhood a reckless gambler and a spendthrift. So with Daniel Webster, of whom his biographer, Mr. Lodge, confesses that "he was a splendid animal a3 well as a great man; he had strong pas sions and appetites, which he Indulged at times to the detriment of his health and reputation." Lodge's criticism Is not perhaps unjust from the standard of abstract moral justice, but in our judgment a man of the physique, tem perament and public career of Frank lin, Webster and Hamilton should be fairly measured by their peers, men of action, of worldly work and ambition. Who can tell but the great searcher of all hearts whether these men, meas ured, by their lives of public conflict with animate human nature, by their enormous opportunities and atmosphere of worldly temptation, did not make as good a fight as men like Ruskin, Hawthorne and Thoreau, who kept their virtue unspotted from the world by avoiding all contact or conflict with the world tha' lives and breathes and fights and yells in the warring rival ries of business and politics? The moral of all .this Js that moral judgments passed upon men who are always doers and men who are never anything from the cradle to the, grave but dreamers, must always In justice and charity be comparative. Some men are born with armor on, while other men are born to a temperament that is a temptation, to circumstances that are full of militant malarial Influ ences against absolute spiritual and moral refinement of character. Surely no man will pretend that the scientific and philosophical pursuits of a Spen cer, a Darwin or a Huxley, or the de votional atmosphere of- a Newman or a Martlneau are as full of temptation to organize and Inflict wrong as those of a Cromwell, a Napoleon or a Bismarck. Circumstances do mould men. It Is less difficult for an Idealist, shrinking shyly from contact with his fellows; for a religious mystic and poet, a de vout recluse and critical dreamer of moral, literary or scientific quality, to do right than It Is for a man who from youth up has always had to face the temptations and buffet the waves of the stormy stream of life. BASELESS CLAIMS. Thursday's telegraphic columns con tained a copy of the resolutions adopted by the National Board of Trade, favor ing the Payne-Hanna shipping bill. Like every proposal In which merit Is lacking, misrepresentation Is used In order to make the desired showing. In this case, the misrepresentation may have occurred through Ignorance; for, reading between the lines of the resolu tions, there is certainly a lack of knowledge of the subject displayed. The first resolution calls attention to a "lamentable decline In our merchant marine in the foreign trade." Further down the list a resolution says: "The enormous decline In our ocean mer chant marine Is due to the lower wages paid abroad, and to the subsidies paid. by foreign governments," Great Britain alone, according to document No. 470, miscellaneous series, issued by the Brit ish government In 1899, paying last year 13,266,380 in postal subsidies, and $233,005 additional to the same lines in naval subventions." The ships which receive the heavy postal subsidies mentioned do not prop erly belong In the "merchant marine" class. The vessels which today are carrying the bulk of the ocean com merce of the world are the tramp steamers and the sailing vessels, neither of which are receiving any sub- sldles from the government whose flag flies from their mastheads. Great Brit ain's merchant marine, which, accord ing to the resolutions mentioned, Is car rying such a large proportion of the world's commerce, is 'an unsubsldlzed marine. British, merchant vessels trade the. world over, and are frequently away from their home ports for years at a time, shipping crew after crew at the same wages as American, Ger man, French, or any other vessels pay for men. The Payne-Hanna bill makes provision for about the same subsidy as Is paid by the French government, and herein the plea of lower wages Is not entitled to consideration. A vessel now loading in Portland will receive from the French government a sum sufficient to pay all wages of the crew In full for the round trip from St. Na zalre to Portland and return, so that the French owner has no wages to be considered In operating his vessels. The natural inference drawn from the statement that "we pay the for eigners 5200,000,000 per year 'for carry ing our freight" would be that this was a direct present to the shipowner, when, as a matter of fact, we pay that sum (presumably $200,000,000) in return for $200,000,000 worth of service rendered. If the sum was excessive, and paid un reasonable profits to the owners, Amer ican capital could seek no more pro ductive field for investment than in ships. That the payment of a, bounty or a subsidy by any government Is pro ductive of an unnatural condition of business, is shown by the working of the French subsidy act. A Greenock, Scotland, shipowner, In the last Issue of London Falrplay, writes as follows; It Is. noteworthy that, whilst British sailing ships are gradually disappearing from the ocean, our neighbors across the channel are thanks to the large building and sailing boun ties which they receive from a pate'rnal gov ernmentsteadily Increasing their fleets, both by purchase and building. One result of this la to be seen In the fact that out of IT vessels Whoso names 'appear In the overdue list at present elx fly thft French jlay, thrse. of then being coal laden from Swansea to San Fran cisco (which trade 13 being rapidly monopolized by Frenchmen), two being In ballast for As toria, one from Limerick; and one from St. Nazaire tho navigation bounties earned per mitting of such voyages being undertaken un der conditions which would spell ruin to Brit ish shipowners. The British shipowner asks no sub sidy for the operation of his merchant marine. He is content to go into the freight markets of the world with his ships, and, trusting to his long experi ence and perfect knowledge of the business, he will make It pay. It is this superior knowledge, born of experience, together with the lack of opportunity for profitable investment in other di rections, which have given the Britisher control of the ocean commerce of the world. It Is the same knowledge of the business that has enabled Arthur Sew all, William H. Starbuck and a few other Americans to pile up colossal for tunes without the aid of subsidies, and to sail their ships In any part of the world, In direct competition with the British ships. The acquisition of this same kind of knowledge and experience will enable other Americans to do equally as wfelL as -the few men whose actual work gives the 11& to all who assert that the American merchant marine cannot float on Its own bottom unaided by subsidies. The American shipping subsidy will do just what the French subsidy is doing; that is, create an unnatural trade condition. In which the few will profit at the expense of the many. The farmer feeds the world, and the farmer pays the freight; so, If he Is the man to reap the benefit, give It to him In the shape of a direct bounty, Instead of a subsidy which Is certain to fall into the hands of a few Shipowners and shipbuilding syndi cates. Matters of recent American history appear to be given over to "black-smlths"-by the Chicago Tribune, which recently announced that? the late Con federate General D. H. Maury was a member of "the most famous class" that ever graduated from West Point, that of 1846, which Included Generate McClellan, Couch, "Stone wall" Jackson and Pickett. Any body familiar with General Cul lom's "Register of-West Point" knows that the most famous class that ever graduated from West Point, meas ured by the number of soldiers of dis tinction found in Its ranks, was the class of 1841, which included Generals Wright, Tower. Whipple, Howe, Lyon, Garesche, Brannan, Hamilton, John F. Reynolds, Richardson, R. S. Garnett, Richard B. Garnett, Buell, Brooks, Samuel Jones, Anderson, Plummer, Sully, John M. Jones. There were a half-dozen classes more famous than the class of 1846, measured by the av erage military distinction won by its members. The class of 1840 Included Sherman, Thomas, Getty, Ewell. The class of 1S42 Included Rosecrans, Long street, Newton, A. P. Stewart, Pope, Doubleday, D. H. Hill, Van Dorn, Mc LaWs, Sykes, R. H. Anderson. The class of 1853 Included Sheridan, Scho fleld and Hood. The principal opposition to free rural mail delivery comes from the employes of fourth-class postoffices, whose oc cupation would be endangered by the success of the system This is not at all surprising, and, since every petty postmaster has a political pull, the op position Is quite formidable. In the ag gregate, these officials constitute quite an army of occupation, so to speak, and their Influence Is strongly felt by rep resentatives in congress, by the depart ment, and even by the president him self. The embattled fourth-class post masters, therefore, may be considered the most formidable obstacle which rural postal delivery has met. It is, In fact, a veritable "kopje" which must be successfully stormed before further progress Is made in that direction. The West Virginia case adds another to the many evidences that the time for popular election of senators has come. Montana and West Virginia, by their elections; Pennsylvania, by its high-handed appointment; Delaware, Utah and California, by their dead locks and vacant seats, supply all the arguments required on the score of practical needs. It Is time that the legislatures were relieved of the work they are doing so ill, and given oppor tunity to attend to the business of lawmaking. Two hundred and seventy violations of the pure-food laws of New York were discovered and prosecuted last year. In the face of the probability that many times that number of vio lations were undiscovered the pure food authorities of the state feel greatly encouraged, and advertise ex tensively the fact that they are in the field for service this year, doubly armed for effective duty as stomach patrol for the people, in vigilance and experience, In detecting spurious foods. Under the present administration cir cumstances have forced upon us a friendly policy toward Great Britain, which other circumstances may at any time reverse. Yet because this has hap pened under a republican administra tion, democrats feel that they must hold the administration responsible for that friendly policy and censure It for it. This is the real reason for the pro-Boer activity on the part of the antls. The pretense of sympathy with struggling republics need deceive no one. When the funeral service over Gen eral Wauchope, of the Highland bri gade, was held, after his death in bat tle at Magersfonteln, the pipers played "Lochaber No More." When Colonel Cameron, who commanded a Highland regiment at Waterloo, lay dying of his wounds on the battle-field, the piper of the "Cameronlan Highlanders" played "Lochaber No More." The demand of the pro-Boer meeting last night for a proclamation from President McKinley as to the status of neutral traders In the Transvaal war Is not very relevant. The belligerent pow ers declare their purpose In these mat ters, just as we did at the outbreak of our war with Spain. Fears of subjugation and slavery to follow British occupation seem strange in view of the, near proximity to us of the British North American possessions w'lth their free and orderly government. "What has become of our winters?" a Chicago paper asks. It is a proper question to ask at Chicago, when, an open winter; occurs. But In Oregon we have no winters. TO ARMSt. I. Now let the cry. "To Arms! To Armsr Go ringing round, the world-, , And swift a -wave-wide empire swarma Round battle-flag unfurled! Wherever glitters Britain's might, Or Britain's banner flies, Leap up mailed myriads with ttie Ught Of manhood In their eyes; " Calling from farmstead, mart and strand, "We come! And we! And welt That British steel may hold tho land. And British keels the seal" II. From English hamlet, Irish hill, Welsh hearts, and Scottish byres. They throcff to show that they are still Sons worthy of their sires; That what these did. we still cam do. That what they were, we are. Whose fathers fought at Waterloo, And died at Trafalgar! Shoulder to shoulder, seer them stand. Wherever menace be. To guard the lordship of the land; And Trident of the sea. IT HI. Nor In the parent isle alone Spring squadron! from the ground; Canadian, shore and Austral asne With kindred cry resound: "From shimmering plain, and snow-fedstream. Across the deep no come. Seeing the British bayonets gleam. Hearing the British, drum. Foot In the stirrup, hlft In hand. Free men. to keep men free. All. all will help to hold tho land. While E nc land guards the sea!" IV. Comrades In arms, from every shore Where thundereth the main.. On to the front they press and pour To face the rifles rain; To force the foe from covert crag. And chase them till they fail. Then plant forever England's flag Upon the rebel wall! What! Wrench the scepter from her hand. And bid her bow the knee' Not while her yeomen guard the land. And her Ironclads the see! Alfred Austin In London- Telegraph. THE MAX WITH THE HOE. The Other Side. Lo, here I stand, the Independent man, The flrst of men, who won, when Time waa young. By strength of arm, from Nature's niggard grasp. And needful things for those who looked to me. And down the logging ages subtle nrates Have multiplied Inventions numberless. Evil and good, but nono to supersede My trusty hoe. While thrones have risen and gone To darkness. It shines brighter than of yoro When forged by Tubal-caln. Te bookworms pole. Why point at my slant brow and rugged hondst Why wonder at my shoulders bent and wry When on mo rests the. burden of the world With your own feeble selves? Great Atlas L Kings, nobles, millionaires, all hang on me, I, self -sufficient, have no need of them; They, should I leave them. sooc. would starra and die. Ye pinched and pent In cities, look, at met I breathe the dewy freshness of the earth in open fields resounding with the song And jubilance of bird and beast while ye Jostle each other In the smoke and grime For leave to labor at the beek of gW. To herdllng fools, come out where there Is room. Make howling deserts laugh with runntus brooks. Turn pathless woods to green rejokslnp fields; Lot the vast lonesomo plains with cheerful homes; Workfor yourselves Uvo healthily, content. On your ovm land's productions. Doing thus. The last curst anarchist will pass from earth. Eric Duncan In. Montreal Witness. THE 3IAD MAID'S SOSQ, Good-morrow to the day .so fair. Good morning, sir. to you; Good morrow to mine own torn hair. Bedabbled with the dew, x'.4, a Good morning to this primrose, too. Good morrow to each maid That will with flowers the tomb bestrew Wherein my love Is laid. Ah! woe Is me. woe. woe is met Alack and well-a-dayl For pity. Bir, find out that bee Which bore my love away. Til seek, him In your bonnet bravo. I'll seek him In your eyes; Nay. now I think they've made his gravo I th bed of strawberries. I'll seek him there: I know ere this The cold, cold earth doth shako him But I will go, or send a kiss By you, air, to awaka him. Pray, hurt him not, though he be dead" He knows well who- do love him. And who with green turfs rear his held. And who do rudely move htm. He's soft and tender (pray take heed). With bands of cowslips bind him. And bring him home!1 fiut 'tis decreed That I shall never find him. Robert Herrioli. WO DD3 GOErTTER MCHT SIXD, WAL TEN GBSPEXSTEU. Where gods are not, ghosts reign. When Phoe bus fled Forth from his laurel-girt Parnassian shrino .With, hollow shriek, that shivering o'er tha brine Thrilled through earth, air, the news that Pan was dead; Dragons and demons reared their obscene head From,fanes oracular, fierce serpentine Hissings, In lieu of Pythian runes divine. Poured on the night perplexity and dread. Thus, In the temple of mun's mind, when faith, Hope. love, affection, cods of hearth and home, tt. -unniohArf- -writhe dim sibilant desire -Phantasmal superatltitlons, hist the wraith And greed the vampire-, spniaiujw ueuua um room Through ruined brain cells, ringed with fret ful Ares. . . M J. A. Symonds In the Academy. GOD'S PltESEAXE WITH HIS PEOPLB When Israel, of the Lord beloved. Out from the land of bondage cams. Her father's God before her moved. Aa awful guide, In smoke and flams. By day, along the astonished lands The cloudy pillar glided slow; By night Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow. ThU3 present still, though new unseen. When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of thee a cloudy sereen. To temper the deceitful ray. And O, when gathers on our path. In shade and storm, the frequent night. Be thou. long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and a shining light. Sir Walter- Scott. LIXES. When the lamp la shatter d, Tho light In the dust lies dead When the cloud Is scattered The rainbow's glory la shed. When the luto Is. broken. Sweet tones are remember d not; When, the lips have spoken. Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendor Survive not the lamp and the lute;, The heart's echoes render No song when, the spirit Is mute No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruux'd cell Or the mournful Bursts That ring the dead seaman's knell.j Shelley. IX" THE CATHEDRAL. The city's burning heart beats far outsldo This dim cathedral, where tho mystle air Vibrates with voices of Impassioned prayer From generations that have lived and died. Calm saints, despairing" sinners, here hove cried To heaven, for mercy; myriad Uvea laid bars Their secret places, yielding" to Christ's care The burden, where His sacraments abide. Soft from the Jeweled windows falls the light. Touching the Incense-laden atmosphere To glory, while a deep antlphony Rolls from tho organ- to the arches' height. To soul and sense a Presence ltveth here. Instinct with power of Immortality Kathariao Coolldge In Atlantic Monthly,