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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.
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JPORTLAXD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11
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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.