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THE SUNDAY bREGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY II, 1900. ;tis satficfct Attend at the PestorBee at Portland, Oregon. as .aoaoad-cteas matter. TKLSPHOKSS. Mttorlal Itoome....llBsraess Offlee....6S7 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BASTES. Br Mall (postog prepaid), m Advance Sally, with Sunday, per month .$0 85 Dally, Sunday ncua4cd. per year 7 50 Daily w.th Bandar, per year . 00 tamday, per year - 2 60 The wkl, par year ..... 1 50 ae ek,y I months. W To CH Suboertticre Bally, ptr week, delivered. Sandays excepted.lSc Dally, per weak, delivered. Saad&ys iactaded.2ec Xew or fllncnaston Intended lor pnblloatlen la Tae Oregoman should be addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregpnlan." not to the name of r lndiidual. Letters relating to advertising. ttbscrlptluns or to any business matter should toe adurecsed S'mplr "The Oregontan." The Oreg niaa does not buy poems or stories from lnd wduale, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without seiiclta. tlon No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Paget Sound Bureau-Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue. Taooma. Bex 855. Taooma poetomee Eastern Business Office The Tribune build ing New TorJc dty. "The Rookerj." Chleago; the S C Beckwith special agency. New York. For sale in San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, T Market street, near the Palace hotel, and fct Goldsmith Bros . 2W Sutter street. For sale In Chicago bj the P. O. News Co., ti" Dearborn street. upon practical educational lines. The effort of the correspondence schools is legitimate enough, but its results fall far short of the demand, and, if Mr. Stone's estimate Is formed upon a sub stantial basis, they do not in any sense represent the value of the money paid for them. The response which the ef fort meets is creditable to a multitude of young men, and of young women, only perhaps in a lesser degree, -who desire to fit themselves for the Indus trial battle of life before they assume its gravest responsibilities. It is safe to assume that the "man with the hoe," as depicted by Millet and interpreted by Edwin Markham, is not among those who catch eagerly at the proffer of the correspondence schools in the hope of bettering their condition. TODATS WEATHER. Fair, wits southerly Wind. JPORTLAXD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 t THEB aniDDLBJ IX KKXTDCKY. Taylor does not yet surrender In Kentucky, though the odds are tremen dously against him. Tet he will be compelled to surrender, for the legis lature and the courts are in a con spiracy to defy the popular mandate as recorded at the ballot-box. That old democratic leader. General Buckner, truly gays that the first necessary step toward the restoration of good govern ment la Kentucky is the repeal of the Goebel law and the restoration to the people of the rights which it has wrest ed from them. But there is no possi bility of repealing it now; and the con spiracy hatched by the late Mr. Goebel Bad his lieutenants will certainly be Upheld by the partisan courts of the Btate. Taylor will be forced out, there fore, by the edicts of the courts, under the forms of law. And yet there is not plain sailing for the usurpers. The democratic mem bers of the legislature, constituting a majority, did not make their decision In favor of Goebel in legal form. United States Senator Lindsay puts the case thus. "The constitution of Kentucky declares and the Goebel law provides that the two houses of the general as sembly shall pass on the report of the contest committee. There can be no valid action by the two houses in joint session, and, in my opinion, a title at tempted to be created by a vote of a Joint session will have no more con stitutional validity than a resolution passed by any other body of Kentucky citizens." But if the courts of the state, in conspiracy with the usurpers, declare the action valid, as they will, protest win come to nothing. The courts may hold this way, within the law , but the fact that Taylor received a larger vote than Goebel, and there fore was sleeted, creates a moral claim which ought to be both a legal and a constitutional claim. There to another matter of much in terest. Blackburn has been elected senator. Yet one of the claims against Taylor is based on the assertion that in forty counties carried by him the elec tion was void because ballots printed on thinner paper than the state law rermit were used. These ballots were furnished by the democratic election officials, and ballots printed on the same paper by the printers were used in thirty-three counties carried by C bel. Republican members have, h wever, been thrown out of the leg islature on the allegation that these I allots were Illegal, while democratic members elected by use of the same ballots retain their seats. "Without the ictes of the democratic members elect el by these ballots, Blackburn would fc t have had a majority in the legisla ture, and If the elections in the coun ties where these ballots were used uere void as t Taylor, they were void also as to many members of the legis lature who voted for Blackburn. On these grounds Taylor, who was unques tionably governor when Blackburn was elated, has refused to sign Blackburn's certificate of election, and an effort is to le made to bring the whole matter in some way before the United States senate for review. Here is the muddle into which an un scrupulous partieanefeip has brought tre state of Kentucky. Taylor's posi ts -n is morally right, yet we can have t) confidence that he will be able to r aintaln it. Posocooion of the legisla ture and the courts by those who are resolved to set aside the results of the e action makes the odds against him two heavy. It is a case wherein forms c? law may be made to prevail over t-th and Justice. BROTHER AGAIXST BROTHER. The British empire is unjustly ac cused by many of the unlearned and unreasoning; but It Is also taking In a harvest whose seed of arrogance and superciliousness has been scattered broadcast through all civilization for centuries. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. It is a favorite fancy of the EngllBh speaking world that the language, Ideals and institutions of Shakespeare, Burke and Gladstone shall pursue their path to universal sway. But along with these Invincible concepts of Jus tice, reason and liberty, the candid can recognize mistakes of judgment andt unlovely qualities of soul that impair the effect of work that otherwise might be all but perfect Unhappy Ireland is perhaps the most striking illustration In point. The Emerald isle Is its own worst enemy, but it is to a certain ex tent the victim of misgovernment. The rights and privileges so long withheld by the dominating influences of non resident landlordism are fresh In Irish memories, and there are no more sin cere prayers for Boer success today than those of the countrymen of Oli ver Goldsmith -and Robert Emmet, A painful revelation of England's sowing on the Continent is given In a letter published In the February North American Review, written by Theodor Mommsen. In this letter, which was written to Mr. Sidney Whitman, an Englishman, who applied to Dr. Mommsen at the Instance of the maga zine, the great historian discovers the source of anti-British feeling in what Mr. Whitman calls "academic Ger many." This brief contribution from one of the ablest and most venerated of modern minds should be read by all, and cannot fail to exert a profound in fluence among thinking men. It will not impair the necessity of British as cendency or mitigate the crimes against liberty perpetrated by the Transvaal oligarchy; but it will ac count for much in the attitude of edu cated Germany, and It may serve to point a lesson by which the British themselves may profit. Dr. Mommsen Indicates that the love academic Germany felt for England as represented in its Ideals of justice and freedom, shown forth in its asylum for refugees from political persecution, and enshrined in the works of Byron and Dickens, has been turned to hate. Since then, he fancies, England has learned to trample on subjugated peo ples, to enthrone money, to neglect its military organization in overweening pride in the sea and its naval power. Britain's sun, he thinks, may be set ting. She may fail in the conflict with America, perhaps even in that with Europe. He quotes Bismarck's saying that "the English will not allow us to like them," and he approves it. He cherishes resentment for British inter ference In the Schleswig-Holstein crisis, and cannot forgive the short-sighted taunt, "Made in Germany." Why Germany sympathizes with the Boers, then, as Dr. Mommsen frankly concludes, is "partly because the hate against your countrymen (the British) has reached fearful, and, I must add, unjust dimensions." This prepares us for Dr. Mommsen's further declaration that the war against the Boers is "an Infamy," and he regards it is "the reve lation of your moral and political cor ruption," as well as "military and po litical weakness." Dr. Mommsen's letter is a sad and solemn contribution to the historical literature of humanity. It lays bare the deep and wide abysms between two great, wise brothers of? the same fam ily. It is disconcerting to see the Eng lish trader and the German manufac turer making spiteful faces at each other. It is dramatic enough to see the official heads of the two nations watch ing each other suspiciously across the Channel. But to see the mutual love alienated and the mutual veneration destroyed, that once bound the world of Shakespeare, Byron and Darwin to the world of Goethe, Schiller and Haeckel to see this once lovely garden of de light and confidence laid waste in jeal ousy and anger, this is nothing short of tragedy; and in Its grief and gloom humanity sustains n loss compared with which all the gold and diamonds of South Africa, and all the slaves and plunder of Kruger's pocket govern ment are as nothing. the finished product. Despite Ihls in creasing expense, the British Columbia mills, as well as. those on Puget sound, are constantly extending their busi ness. Down on the Columbia, however, the industry has lagged. There is plenty of business and the mills are working overtime, but the capacity is hot equal to the demand, and already Portland dealers have been obliged to turn or ders over to mills in British Columbia and on Puget sound, where the cost of getting logs to the mills Is greater than it la on the Columbia. Astoria, the fin est location on the Pacific coast for an Immense export lumber mill, cannot turn out a cargo a week with her small mills, although she is in an ideal posi tion to put lumber afloat cheaper than any other port on the coast. The Co lumbia, draining an empire thickly dotted with tracts of virgin timber, would float logs to her doors. As mat ters now stand, logs are frequently towed past the city by the sea on their way to Portland, where they are cut Into lumber and the lumber Is then towed back down the river in the holds of vessels. A large export mill down at the mouth of the Columbia would not only be of vast benefit to Astoria or Flavei In providing a big "payroll," which Is the mainstay of all communi ties, but at times like the present, when Portland mills are crowded with rail business, it would prevent export or ders going to British Columbia mills, as they are now doing. A single order diverted from the Columbia to mills at Vancouver, B. C, and Puget sound, to be shipped within the next sixty days, amounts to nearly $60,000, and others will follow. With timber equally as good and plentiful, and much handier to tidewater than on Puget sound and in British Columbia, where near-by supplies have been exhausted, the Co lumbia river should be reaching out for export lumber business, instead of turning ft down and sending It to rival ports. seal fisheries dispute. Our ministers to England have included men of great eminence, such as Van Buren, Buchan an, Edward Everett, Bancroft, Bayard, but, with the possible exception of Ev erett, it Is doubtful if our country was ever more ably represented at the court of St. James than it was by B. J. Phelps. Mr. Lowell despised the petty duties of his position, and he was not fitted by exact political learning and knowledge of international law for the able discharge of Its highest functions. In this respect he was as weak as Motley. century continued at every periodical j give up one place or the other. Also, "CORRBSFQXDHKGB SCHOOLS.' As indicative of the wide and earnest I niand for practical education, the at- ntion of The Oregonlan has been a tdto advertisements that are sown l1- adcast over the country, through tl o medium of the preset offering for a consideration to furnish & home v urse of education that will insure " - student practical knowledge In the r xhanical arts that will eaable him t si cure a responsible and remunerat I" position. Mr. BL W. Stone, secre- of the Y. M. C. A la this city, 1 -." ing looked inte this matter, states at he has secured evidence showing -1 at over &MM was seat last year f mln and around Portland to corre- ndence schools of this character, i ..ng: I e net fswsd a single r .r. who will say that he has received c benefit from the course received, . e many admit that their money has r. thrown away." Irr fair inference is that there exists ' his eonwnnnity.a real and pressing - ".and for practical instruction In the ' haniesi arts which is aot being r- i erly or even partially suppMed. It '3 ay to understand that those who a i.pt these courses of study are v t who most noed a teacher, they 1 5 young men who have not had v educational advantages, and are v oustosMd to habits of- study. I of fcsurse, muc of the matter & to diem through the mails, while ent. sad. tads, rather superior n iality. Is absolutely useless in the 1 of those who receive It. rti.i truth, as deduced from statements, Is that we should BETTER THAN "TEHMIXAL RATES. Another mammoth sawmill, with a capacity of 40,000 feet per hour, is to be constructed on Vancouver island, to cut lumber exclusively for the export trade. The projectors of the new en terprise state that tho mill will not run more than 10 hours per day; but even at this rate it will turn out from seven to ten cargoes per month. Lumber ships do not disburse quite as much money on an average as grain ships, but each ship sufficiently large to go foreign with upwards of 1,000,000 feet of lumber will leave from $3000 to $4000 In port, wherever she loads. From this it is apparent that the disbursements through shipping alone, in connection with the mill, will amount to from $25,000 to $40,000 per month. This Item of expense Is small, of course, in com parison with the amount paid for labor for operating the mill, the logging camps and other expenses, nearly all of which speedily find their way into active circulation in the community "where the mill is located. Over forty years ago British Colum bia commenced shipping lumber to for eign ports, and for at least thirty years this industry has been one of the great est wealth-producers in- Canada's west ern provinces. Naturally, an active crusade against the forests extending over a period of a third of a century has resulted in denuding vast tracts of the fine timber with which they were onco crowned. This gradual removal of the timber nearest the water has compelled lumbermen to go farther back each year, thus adding to the ex pense of getting out the raw material. MR. PHELPS AND MR. LOWELL. E. J. Phelps, who was our very able minister to England In President Cleve land's first term, while at death's door recently with pneumonia, received a very gracious message from Queen Victoria, expressing regret for his ill ness. The Springfield Republican, while conceding the fine ability of Mr. Phelps, says ( that "as minister of the United States he did not reach the level of Lowell In distinction or vogue." It seems to us that as "minister of the United States" Mr. Phelps rose entirely above the level of Lowell In distinc tion, for Lowell, as a minister, was dis tinguished for nothing so much as a cynical contempt for the duties of his office, for the highest performance of which he offers no comparison with Mr. Phelps. Mr. Phelps was a very able lawyer, and he was perfectly learned In international law; he was a very fine, impressive extemporaneous speaker, a solid thinker and vigorous writer on all great political questions Involving the history of the English speaking race. Mr. Lowell was a man of fine poetical genius; he was a charm ing literary essayist, but these were his only qualifications for a diplomatic position of the very first importance. Like Washington Irving and Motley, M Lowell was a great social favorlt'j, but as a diplomat he was without any such distinction as that obtained by Mr. Phelps, or even by Mr. Bayard. After the death of Mr. Lowell, Lord Cranbrook published a private letter written to him in 1881 by Minister Low ell. Among other things, Mr. Lowell wrote; "My head is humming with the three Ps piscatory rights, pigs and Paddy, and so to distract my mind from the irritation of the fleas afore said, I have hammered out the verses written opposite." By "piscatory rights" Mr. Lowell meant the questions arising out of the outrage on American fishermen in Fortune bay, and the con sequent dispute as to the interpretation of the fishery clause of the treaty of Washington. By "pigs" Mr. Lowell re ferred to the unjust exclusion of Ameri can pork from the European markets, a matter that involved the commer cial interests of thousands of Ameri cans to the extent annually of many millions of dollars. By "Paddy," which is the third "irritating flea" that pre vented Mr. Lowell from easily mak ing rhymes for Lord Cranbrook's au tograph album, Mr. Lowell meant to refer to the arbitrary arrest and im prisonment of certain citizens of Irish birth, but claiming the protection of our government as American citizens. The only interest that Mr. Lowell took In the wrongs of these Irish-Americans was to make them a subject of jest with a titled English tory. This indiscreet and flippant reference to official questions of the highest pos sible Importance was a conspicuous il lustration of the fact that a man may be a fine scholar of high poetic genius and yet be wanting In good sense and diplomatic prudence. A foreign minis ter who could write so contemptuously of his gravest duties was 'not fit for his position, and had this letter been published while he was still minister to Great Britain, it would probably Have occasioned his recall. But Lord Cranbrook kept his secret, and Mr. Lowell came home and lived long enough to write some sorry verses con cerning Grover Cleveland as "one who did his best," A poet who could rise to the lofty flight of the "Commemora tion; Ode" in 1865, with its splendid lines on Lincoln, who "did his best" when Cleveland was doing his worst to make Lincoln's best a military and civil defeat, stooped to fly very low when he selected the democratic politi cal woodchuck as a theme of serious poetical panegyric And yet this weak ness is not an Infrequent Infirmity of genius, for Bacon and Marlborough both took bribes, Napoleon habitually told lies and turned pale at the sight of a spider; Nathaniel Hawthorne out did Lowel by writing a flatferlng cam paign life of Franklin Pierce. Mr. Phelps was a very able man, of versatile talents, professional learning and accomplishments, and had none of Lowell's "genius" for writing letters inconsistent with his diplomatic dig nity and duties. Purely literary men have made but indifferent diplomats. Mr. Lowell's literary culture did not make up to him for his lack of legal learning and the training of the courts. He was a charming social favorite, for he had wit, humor and epigrammatic aptitude, but outside of his agreeable quality as an after-dinner orator, Mr. Lowell enjoyed no serious distinction as our minister to Great Britain. The great ability exhibited by Mr. Phelps in his diplomatic correspondence caused his selection by the Harrison republi can administration as one of our American counsel before the Paris tri- SEA. POWER AND OPEN DOOR. Neutralization of the Nicaragua ca nal comes with a rude shock to Amer ican traditions. It is not consonant with protective tariffs, it is nothing like the hegemony we have talked of for this hemisphere, it doesn't square with prearranged plans of Morgan and Hepburn, and It disturbs visions of an American zone across the isthmus with glowering fortresses at either end. For all that, It may have to come. Perhaps It Is written In the stars, and very certainly it is written in the Hay Pauncefote treaty. At any rate, there is no sense what ever in resisting the treaty because it doesn't contemplate fortifications. The canal in war Is to those who can con trol its entrances, and it is not so much a question of the canal itself, after all, as a question of the merchantmen. When allied fleets of Europe are mask ing in the Caribbean sea, the hopes of this nation will not rest upon the Iso lated batteries at Brito or Greytown, but upon our battle-ships and armored cruisers and the naked men at their smoking guns. Our defense against Europe, for our seaboard, our teeming transports, our harbors and our isth mian canal, Is sea power. Sea power alone can hold the West Indies and command the canal. The admiralty is our hope, and Mahan is Its apostle. The old order changeth, giving place to new. The old order we are called upon to part with every day Is isola tion, excluslveness, self-sufficiency. Two short years have knocked all the old themes out of us. Where It Is all going to end nobody -seems to know. Our entrance into the West Indies and Into Asia was the first shock. Next we discovered that our ancient conception of tariffs was inadequate. Now it be gins to look as if we are a part of the outside world in a more revolutionary sense than we had supposed. Having forced Europe to acknowledge us as an Old World power, we are apparently to be no longer able to Ignore Europe In New World affairs. It Is hard to see how we can deny the neutralization of the canal. We shall not deny equal rights there to Great Britain without grievous offense, and we are trying to treat her as a neighbor. She does not ask equal rights at Nicaragua for her self alone, but for all Europe Indis criminately, and if she were not doing so, treaties with European states have been made by Nicaragua and Costa Rlca, such tbat any exclusive privi leges there could only be secured through vexatious and prolonged nego tiation. It was Great Britain that suggested to us the, Monroe doctrine. It was Great Britain that acknowledged it be fore all the world in the Venezuela negotiation. And now It Is Great Brit ain that says to us, on the eve of the second hemisphere-dividing canal, We must make this a great, untrammeled highway for the commerce of all the nations. What is left for us but to stand with England in defense of the Open Door, from Puerto Rico to Ma nila, against the historic American policy of Russia, Germany and Spain? opportunity to risk life and liberty and property and exile for the sake of this despicable Stuart dynasty, It Is nause ating to hear that In free America there Is a society whose business It Is an nually to execute genuflections before the portrait of "our blessed martyr, Charles I of England." If Charles I was a "blessed martyr," what was John Hampden.? Of course, at the bot tom of this "blessed martyr" nonsense lies some ancient ecclesiastical prac tice which Is sought to be perpetuated after It has wholly survived Its useful ness. Of course, when Jacobltism stood for Jiving politics, "the blessed mar tyr" bugaboo was worthy of Invoca tion, but today, when even the Eng lish house of commons has voted to erect a statue to the memory of Crom well, who sent "our blessed martyr" to the block, the "blessed martyr" busi ness in Boston would seem to be de cidedly a back number. she dropped from the city payroll a man who was working in an alder man's saloon. Also, Mrs. Paul Insisted that men who held Jobs should do gob2 work. Two views are taken in Chi cago of her transfer to another ward. The first ward aldermen are supposed to want her out of the way so a lot of loafers can be put on the payroll to aid in their re-election; but to the public the idea is held out tbat ln other wards there Is need of cleaning the payrolls of dead beats as well as1 removing dirt from the streets. It is possible that Mrs. Paul will receive a hint as to the real reason for her transfer, and If she falls to stop her Interference with "friends of the aldermen," she may find herself dropped from the payroll "for the good of the service." - a school in' PcrUana. conducted I and Incidentally Increasing the cost of j buna! which assembled to arbitrate the "'OUR BLESSED MARTYR." On the 30th ult. a special vesper service was held in the Church of the Advent, Boston, In commemoration of Charles I, of England, who Is still a "blessed martyr" in the estimation of certain Boston Episcopalians. These Boston Jacobites Include a society called the Order of the White Rose, which is a branch of the society found ed by James III in 1710, and received its charter In 189S on "Restoration day." The White Rose, it Is reported in the Boston Transcript, has members from Manitoba to Florida, including "a descendant of Montrose, Flora Macdon ald, Rob Roy, and also one of the de scendants of one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I." Every year these Boston Jacpbltes get up a pasteboard, on which is print ed In big, black letters the word "Re member," said to be the last word of their precious "blessed martyr." The second page has upon It a -picture of the king described as "Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, Ireland and Virginia, Defender of the Faith. Murdered January 30, A D. 1649." This Order of the White Rose is "looking forward confidently to the time when the present order of things shall be swept away 'and the king shall come to his own again.' " This so-called "blessed martyr" was the greatest liar that ever sat on the English throne, and one of the most cruel tyrants. The whole line of the Stuarts," from Mary Queen of Scots down to Charles Edward, the Pre tender, whose rising was beaten at Culloden In 1745, Is justly described as always fair-spoken and always false hearted. Thackeray, in "Henry Es mond," says that there never was a royal line so despicably mean, treach erous, cruel and instinct with ingrati tude as that of the Stuarts. More hlgh souled men and womerr in England, Ireland and Scotland suffered death, or exile with loss of property, in the cause of the Stuarts than) for any other dy nasty. The love or hate of Mary Stu art was equally fatal. Her son, James I, was a drunken, cowardly, cruel pe dant. Charles I had no virtues save those of martial courage and conjugal affection. 'John Morley's new life of Cromwell paints Charles I as an utterly heartless, treacherous, cruel tyrant, who was equally ready to consign. Sir John Eliot to the grave of the dungeon where he died as to suffer his ablest friend. Strafford, to go to the block when he had no further use for him. And this is the detestable king that the ecclesiastical dudes and snobs pf Boston continue to seriously honor by the title of "our blessed martyr." Charles I was the very worst of the bad line of. Stuarts, for he was the only sober, chaste scoundrel among them all. He was a man with as fine taste in art and literature as the great Ital ian tyrant of Florence, Lorenzo di Medici, and, like that tyrant, he stood for exceptional culture combined with unflinching inhumanity and habitual treachery, perjury and bad faith. When we remember the long list of splendid THE NEWEST ELDORADO. The rush to Cape Nome this spring will be as great as that to the Klon dike two years ago; indeed, it is likely to be much greater, for the indications are that the Klondike country will be all but depopulated In the stampede to the coast, which has already begun, and many thousands who were de terred by the hardships and uncertain ties of the Yukon basin will join In the rush to Nome. There are no mountain chains to cross to reach the diggings of Cape Nome, no rocky channels to navigate, no perilous rapids to pass, no foreign flag to claim allegiance and di vide profits. Men will not have to wear themselves out getting to the golden sands of that far north ern cape; they may arrive there with vitality and equipment unimpaired, and may devpte their energies to the ob ject of .their pilgrimage. Men expect to find conditions at Cape Nome that will enable them to do well for themselves. In the Klondike country conditions were frequently such that goldhunters were denied the benefits flowing from their own efforts. It Is discouraging to miners to have to feather official nests as a prerequisite to the exercise of the right to labor and to risk. A fair field and no favor is the pros pect that allures many to Cape Nome. All the beach of Behring sea lies ready for the rocker, as the miner steps from the ship's gangplank. The free, unlim ited expanse of the thing is attractive, It may be suspected, however, that not all the glitter of Cape Nome is gold. Some of the sands of the seashore doubtless are not golden. Probably not all the opportunities there are equal. It would be strange, indeed, If Utopia should be discovered on the icebound shore of an Arctic sea. gold-strewn though it be. Human selfishness and greed, man's inhumanity t6 man, will be In evidence at Cape Nome, and It may be the lavlshness of nature In that quarter will turn out to have been overestimated. Disappointment Is In store for many. But the chances of reasonable success seem greater at Nome than on the Klondike, and he who starts with a round-trip ticket in his pocket will endure fewer necessary hardships and perils at the coast than he would in the interior of that frozen land. It may be doubted, too, that there Is good pay dirt available for everybody's washing. It does not appear that there Is yet a settled practice as to the taking and holding of claims; and from the Insistence of the miners that corpora tions or others shall not be permitted to "monopolize" the diggings and the alleged transfers of groups of claims to corporations, as if the titles were al ready secure, it is evident that some local lnharmony is likely to result, and that disputes over possessory rights may grow bitter. Action yet to be taken by congress may have an Im portant Influence on this question. The miners oppose-the proposal for the gov ernment to lease the beach claims, it being conceded that the government cannot alienate title to the property. Their motto Is that the beach shall be for him who shall work It, and for none other. If they shall be successful in their contention, It will add vastly to the claim that Nome is a poor man's country. The Cape Nome beach is an extensive strand, and practically, if not literally, there is room for all upon it. However this may be settled, it is not likely to have much bearing on the spring rush. This Is already taking shape, and gold-mad people will pause not for the deliberations of lawmakers or the results of those deliberations. Every ship that can be 'pressed into the service will be freighted with gold seekers for months after the breaking Of the Arctic ice bonds. Thousands will go down the Yukon and overland. and, In fact, have already started. Cape Nome will afford a study of ab sorbing in'terest in this year of grace. It Is evident the operations of Gen eral Buller on the Tugela river have for their object only the detention of the Boer forces now in that vicinity. The great British army, forming for the movement by the (Grange river Into the Orange Free State, shows where the main blow Is to fall. This army Will consist of 80,000 to 100.QOO men, under the personal direction of Rob erts. It Is Bullers business to see that the Boer forces opposing Roberts are not reinforced from the vicinity of the Tugela river and Ladysmlth. This is the interpretation of the continual skirmishing about the Tugela during a week past. It may be expected 'that these tentative attacks will continue daily, but no desperate fighting is to be looked for in that quarter. The main effort, In preparation, is on the line of the Orange river. It will be pressed within the next fortnight. This rational method of relieving both Lady smlth and KImberley would have been attempted three months ago, only the British had not forces adequate to it. The great strike almost witMn the limits of the old Elk City mining camp recalls the rush to that region, on ac count of gold discoveries. In the spring of 1861. A few fortunes were made as the result of the discovery of free gold In "the fissures and sands there at that time, notably In the transportation business, in which the old O. S. N. Co. was the chief factor. After the placer diggings were exhausted, the camp was abandoned to the solitude of the moun tains, to become again Instinct with life at fever heat, through the discov ery of quartz mines nearly forty years later. The time was not ripe, either in mining machinery, transportation facil ities or practical knowledge of quartz mining, for the development of these old-new mines thirty-nine years ago. Hence the retreat of the baffled gold hunters after securing what was In the reach of their hands, leaving the bulk of the harvest to a succeeding generation. General Buller Is to detain the Boer forces collected about Ladysmlth and the Tugela river. General Methuen to detain the Boer forces collected about KImberley and Modder river. This work is purely Incidental to the great effort of the campaign, on the central line, via Naauwpoort, Colesberg, across the Orange river and on to Bloemfon tein, In the Orange Free State. Great masses of troops are now reinforcing the divisions of Generals French and Gatacre in that quarter. This central column, consisting of the preponderant weight of the British army, under per sonal command of Lord Roberts, will be directed upon the vital parts of the Boer states, while" the forces of Buller on one side and Methuen on the other keep actively at work, to detain the Boer forces in their front. The plan of campaign is now clearly unfolding. WB FULLERS DK3OT8C CLAMS. FkwJc vteek. PiMfc, ptaaM StabWx aawat k atatSat araakt Ev'ry time I ttft aw taMk. Hearts' the beet oC aqr M. teat asek It seesn to me Utftt a trarL ytepa eat. Aad I've listaa atto mk aR't.o deaM It's 9taefc. pufc. vtaak. And plaok. aad tfe Jafe tfcajr et agreo Dig- etaaas, mr to. H a. wMte aa seal Itfs a otlr Ma4 VMstaees wfcere yeuJuiT to BHtBtMt "Tataetbed It ain't bo oeeerjH fer Dm miWinalro a- teots. Bat 'tata' ao mtgbty nm, mr fe. It'a a aUiMy ktad of Bes9 -nfeere there ain't bo roesa far dattkt As to wfe&t 'alt be tk praftt a4 Jest wfeert yew' re aomtaC out. ir there ain't no feeohs a4 ledgers os4 aa feetherte' with deafe. No dodgta' law aad lawyeis as& bo teafe-aee- trlTla" steak). Tar yet take a. kkr cy aaa a kaafeat aa a Aad you're feed tor date Wih-rvrx low kas a kw. Waea tke M Attest eeaa jwH awar kt sweektR tide, "Why, the bank Is there before yeu aRftt&a-deera are oponofl wte. The flats are there eternal aad yen. sorer Sb4 tbesigB SayiB "Bank baa shet w bwtfmoaa yroaa skipped acrow the ttae." Sbuek aw'ay yer eet aad -ffeaktt. s?aJ tb otaa- koe3 BHiddy haft. Aad Indorsed by grtt aad BHtseto yeu'R get cash or erry draft. For yer cheekbeok's there, the ohwa flat, aad yer pea, Mr. k the bee, And aeeatnts are bateaeed deJigr b t& tide eteraal flow; For the cHmbtn', erawtta water rata the dlff gin' marka away, Aad the ektats are jest aa sleaty tyfiea yon eoeae aaether day. Aad tke sleep that JoUeas labor ktad e ce&eot3 va. as the tide Smooths the Btekta.'a oa the eJasa-flata -when eur busy hoes have pried. So tke Bights are atgbta of eesafeart. aad X aiostly eaa forget That the days are days of dtggta.' oold aad muddy, fcuae and wet. Tet I'd rather have a baekaebe than a rattled. buratR' braia. Aad I gaess I'm fair eoatoaied -wKa tae dam For Tai tMakta worried erttters Is ta rnabta pueMn.' jaaw Likely 'aough ain't sigh so-aaVp? aa-wo Uart dtggla' enaa -Hokaaa F. Day ta lowtetoa JoaraaL FIRST iOVB. 'TIs sweet te bear. At midnight or the Mue aad JaoosHt dee. The sesgr aad oar of Adrla's goadoHer; By dtetaaee ateJtowed, o'er the waters crwep TIs sweet to see the eveatag star appear, 'TIs sweet to Hetea aa the night wlads oreep From leaf to leaf, 'tis sweet to view onhlgb Tke ralabow, baaed oa oeeas, epaa tae sky. 'TIs sweet to hear tae wateftdog'ff aoaest bark Say deepmotttbed welcome as we draw near home; Tte sweet to kaow there Is aa eye Will saark Our eomlBg, aad look brighter waea we eeaaa. TIs sweet te be awakeaed by the lark. Or lulled by falMag- waters: sweet the ham Of bees, the voice of gtrts, toe aoas of birds, . The lips of ohHdrea. aad tker earliest words. Sweet la the vtotage, waea the showerta grapes In Baeehaa&I profasloa reel to earth. Purple aad guahlag; sweet are oar eseapes From clvie revelry to rural mirth; Sweet to tke aatoer are his gMtterlag- heaps; Swrt to the father Is bis arst-bora'9 birth; Sweet Is reveage, especially to wobmr. Pillage to soldiers, prlae atoaey to searaea. 'TIs sweet to win, no matter how, oaes laurels. By bleed or rok; 'tis sweet to pat aa ead To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Partiealarly with a tiresome frlead; Sweet is old wine la bottles, are in barrels; Dear Is the helpless oreatare we defend Against the world; aad dear the aekoolboy spot We ne'er forgot, though tfcere we are forget. But sweeter still than this, tbaa these thaa aK, Is first and paaolonato love It steads aloae, Like Adam's reeolleettoa or his M; Tke true knowledge bad beea pawked aJVs Ksewn And life yields nothing- farther to reoall Worthy of this ambrosial am, so shown, Ko doubt la fable, as tke wKforgtvea Fire which Prometkeaa fllaked for as from heaven. Lord Byron. A collection of books and pamphlets by negro authors has been suggested as a feature of the Paris exposition, in connection with the United States' ex hibit. The librarian of congress, at the request of Commissioner Peck, has un dertaken to co-operate in the work of collecting negro literature, and an ef fort will be made to obtain a copy of every book or pamphlet of which a col ored man or woman has been the au thor. The task will be a difficult one, owing to the obscurity of much of the work, but a strong effort will be put forth to make it successful. At the close of the exposition the collection will be placed In the congressional library, for future reference. It3 value to future investigators of the bibli ography of negro authorship will be almost inestimable. SERVICE, aps" la . there lew" ate words of Bko de ars Bo There is fierce criticism, by Oregon's partisan democratic newspapers, of the course pursued by Governor Taylor in Kentucky. His mistakes since the as sassination of Goebel are palpable. He was wrong in declaring" a state of in surrection and in calling the legislature to meet in session in Laurel county. These blunders were made during time of great excitement, and possibly dur ing Taylor's belief that he was In per sonal danger. But these errors are in no sense an assault upon majority rule the distinguishing principle of popu lar government. Open to criticism as Taylor's later actions may be, they are insignificant compared to Goebel's wan ton and unscrupulous assault upon the state of Kentucky. His murder does not blot out his own record the kill ing of Colonel Sanford, the theft of a state convention, and the passage of a most flagrant law, designed to rob the people of their choice for governor and to put himself into the usurped place. Taylor's mistakes are dwarfed by Goe bel's misdeeds. The errors of the one may never be used to mask the crimes of the other. Is it "Winter's Tale,'' "A "Winter's Tale," or "The, Winter's Tale' ? Knight Is an authority on Shakespeare's plays, but a glance at bis compilation leaves one slightly in doubt. The title page marks It "Winter's Tale"; the index, which Is probably the work of a recent publisher, has it "A Winter's Tale," but In commenting on the play Knight al ways speaks of "The Winter's Tale." When Wagenhals & Kemper were pre paring their lithographs last fall, they investigated the subject thoroughly, with the finding that "The Winter's Tale" was nearest right, and they use this title. However, there is authority for each of the other forms. A Chicago woman has given; evidence of her sex's unfitness for practical poli tics. Mrs. Paul, who had been In spector of street-cleaning In, the first ward of the great lake city, where it Is said there is need of exceptional ca pacity, was recently transferred to an other ward. The change, along with several others, is announced by the al dermen to be4 "fox the good of the service." The necessity for the im provement of th.e service grew, out of, Mrs. Paul's meddling in matters that did not concern her, but did very much concern the aldermen of the ward. For example, Mrs. Paul notified a foreman in the street-cleaning department, who was also a bartender in a saloon owned by frierjds of the aldennen, tha he Adjustment of the Nicaragua canal appropriation has a hint for Oregon members of congress in their fight fbr the Columbia Jetty. The appropriation was cut down from 5140,000,000 to $10, 000,000, enough to start the work and. commit the government to it. Let this be done with the jetty. A small be ginning can be made, and all the funds that can be spent the first year would not require a very heavy appropriation. If our delegation Is not strong enough to effect this, it ought to be strengthened. soldiers and statesmen that for a full could not! serve two masters, and. must j facts. Not one-fourth of the voters of Mult nomah county have yet registered; and the same Is true of other counties of the state. If you Want, to vote, you would better look to it- Pretty soon there will be a tremendous pressure to register, with great chance of half a day, or perhaps a whole day, to get in. Register now. Remember that no one can vote who Is not registered. This is a new experience in Oregon. Hitherto there has been no registration. But it is required now. There are no "dowas," For "high aad gree; He wao Hgfct of heart waea fortaae frewas, He Is kiag tfeouga namolcm la tae towas. AK things are good art tatags iaear a debt. And all mast pay tae same, as, soon or late. The sua will rise beMmes, bat he mast set; And man mast seek the laws he would fturget. There are ao meefeeries i the aalverse, Ko false aeooaats, ao errors that will thrive; The work we do, the good things we rehearse. Are boons of Datura basely aamed- a eurse. "Give us oar dairy bread'." tae ehHdrea pray. And motaers plead for teem walls thus they, Bot "Gtve us work, O Godl" wo men should say. That we may gate oar bread from day to day. 'TIs not aloae tae orowa that makes the kiss; Tla serviee doae, 'tis duty to Ms ktad. The lark who soars so Wh Is quick to Mrtg, Aad proud to yield atlegraaee to the sprisg'. Aad we wfeo serve oat solves, wbate'er befaaV Athwart the dangers of tae day's bekestot Oh, let's not shirk, at Joy or sorrow's call. The service due to God, who serves as alll Brio ataokay. A FARKWE1.I "WMU all ray wlB. be maok against my heart. We two aow part- My Very Dear, Our eotaee te, the ead road Hes so olesjv It seeds ao art. With farat, averted feet And many a tear, In our opposed paths to persevera. ,- Go thou to Bast, I West. We will not say v' There's aay hope, it is so far away. But, O my Best, , When the one darHag- oar wtdew&eaav The aursttag- Grief, Is dead, Aad ao dews bwr oar eyes To see the peaoh bloom osme ta eveaag- skies, Preare w may. When bow this ntgat te day, Aad evea through faith of stltl averted feet. Making- full circle of our baaammtnt. Amaaed wo meet; The hitler Journey te tae hearse so sweet Seasoning the termless feast; ac oar oeateac WKa tears of recogatttoB aerer dry. Coventry Fatmero. BXGLAXD IS ATJVBRSITT. Kngiaad, I love thee to adversity. Whoa thou art ap aad straggMag with: tha Fates, Then dead as dat are an oar cM debates, Aad every one sees clear aad eye to eye. Like scattered petals dead oar pteaoarao Me, And we pat ofZ from as oar eavetess pride. Fotrtes, aad Inxartee we oast aside And stand, all adamant to d aad die. Boaad the oJd Mother ftgfct her seas from far; Fight far oa timpht aad one ancient race, One freedom of lorg- yeejrs oar polar star. One Is oar dnty. one were oar dtsgsaee, Aad be that fails or falters m the war, Let has aot look Ms Mother m tho faoe. London Chronicle. TRHAXLAXD. Dewey says he did not promise In dependence to Aguinaldo. The; remark Is superfluous. Nobdy of sense sup posed he did. As for the true anti, he Is not concerned for facts. They do not support his theories. Dewey promised Aguinaldo independence, is the axiom of anti-imperialism. If the facts are in conflict, SO much the worse for the j j o deep antaom of tb acli-ettas sea. O acty Hyanoo, Mttoa to my prayer: Toaek my dosed oyoMds warn Stay magw wand, That r may seek far borunoo of Lethe's laad Aad find tke key of vision bidden there, Sreaattty drifting through the hasy bm, To pafcwes where all that seems Is true. There dwelt pare spirits of the forms oa eartk, Tke whispered secret of the woods at even. Wake Same of stars that gtow ta highest beavea. The arcana of the springtide's woader-Wrtbt The lily's heart, tho rainbow's mystery, Katharine Coolldf.