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THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 4, 19001 to xz&otncm Entered at the Postofilee at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooms 160 I Business Office. ...G6T REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Daily, with Sunday, per month.. ......?0 S3 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year. ........ 7 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year 9 00 Sunday, per year ............ 2 00 The Weekly, per year ...... 1 SO The Weekly. 3 months... ."....... 60 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays excpted.l3c Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded.20a The Oregcnian does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solicita tion. No stamps ehould be Inclosed for this purpose. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregonlan." net to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue. Tacoma. Box 833, Tacoma postofflce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune build ing, New Tork city; "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth special agency. New Tork. For eale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 76 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros., 235 Sutter street. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co., g!7 Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Occasional rain, with eouth to west winds. PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MARCH 4. "APPEALING TO HER BOYS.' Many men and "women who were echoolboys and schoolgirls thirty or forty years ago have read In class, de claimed at Friday afternoon "exer cises" and listened to the declamation of a "piece" beginning: Our country stands with outstretched hands Appealing to her boys; From them must flow, through weal or woe, Her anguish or her Joys. The truth of the sentiment presented In this verse was recognized then. The statement Is not less true now, but is It pressed upon the attention of the Echoolboys of today with the simple fervor that characterized its present ment in the yesterdays of the ruling Generation? One does not need to be a special worker in a mission field to be able to answer this question sadly and tmderstandingly in the negative. It is only necessary to pass street corners where numbers of boys of the public schools, Including the High School, con gregate after dismissal, smoking cigar ettes, chewing tobacco, making re marks about girls and women who pass their way, reciting some of their ex ploits in pool-playing or telling of their "luck" with nickel-ln-the-slot ma chines, to enable one to form a fair estimate of the disregard of this senti ment in the schools Looking closer, and yet not closely, cannot the ordi narily observant person see in the fre quent brutal persecution to which in offensive Chinamen are subjected upon our public streets the result of a fail Tire to Impress the boys with the first principle of justice, which is the foun dation of reputable, responsible citizen ship? Coming yet closer to the heart of the state, and yet without looking with prying yes into its homes, is not the neglect of boys in the wholesome les sons of manly uprightness, as embod ied in unselfish actions and self-control, plainly apparent? Would a Frank Mc Daniel be a possible product of com munity life if boys were taught to rev erence their own bodies, and trained In ways of decency, self-respect and re spect for the sex to which their moth ers belong? Certainly, those who are acquainted with boy life in many of the phases which it presents today are jus tified In the belief that the country, in "appealing to her boys" to maintain her honor at home and her greatness among nations when their time shall come to gather up the reins of govern ment, may well cast an apprehensive glance toward the future. The most serious phase of the matter Is in the happy-go-lucky attitude of the people generally toward It It is customary to speak of boys as repro bate in the ways of decency as a nat ural result of the generic fact that "they are boys"; to comment In an in dulgent tone upon their dwarfed stat ure (a condition exceedingly noticeable in any congregation of boys between the ages of 12 and 20 years) as the result of cigarette-smoking; to refer to the shacks, hallways and corners under the wharves, where they assemble by night to listen to ribald stories and learn to smoke and drink beer, as places for the existence of which the police is wholly responsible; in short, to take the fact that so many boys walk in evil ways that dwarf their bodies, corrupt their morals and make boyhood a precursor of debased man hood, as quite the thing to be expected of them, since they are boys. It is manifestly time for the men and women of the ruling generation to take , this matter seriously. The country now, as perhaps never before, is "appealing to her boys." It is time for her men to hearken to the appeal and to ask themselves what the answer is likely to be. The large and growing percent age of young men among the convicts in our penal institutions; the multi tude of boys dwarfed in stature through cigarette-smoking; reform schools crowded with boys from the age of 10 to 16 years; the manifest lack of reverence for age. and of cour tesy toward women; the brutal exer cise of strength against weakness among themselves, are so significant of neglect in the training of boys along the higher levels of humanity that con stitute the basic structure of honora ble citizenship as to cause the present ment of the country -"standing with outstretched hands, appealing to her boys," to be a picture, pathetic in a dark background of apprehension. Truly, if the country's appeal to her boys Is to be met in due time by the response of true manhood to its obliga tions, the boys' appeal to the ruling generation for the instruction which their Inexperience demands, the oppor tunity for direction through industrial schools and the moral restraint of home life and example, upon which the wholesome development of both the body and mind depends, must not go unheeded. Having completely covered, by the aid of various witnesses, bank accounts and notes of hand, the various finan cial transactions in Montana for a term of two years preceding and supple menting his election, Mr. Clark now rests his case, trusting to the Judgment and conscience of the United States Senate to say whether he paid too much for the delivery of the goods, or not. Behind the hororable Senators stand the great American people. They have long been conscious that seats in the Senate come high how high they never knew until now. It is but natural, therefore, that they look on wondering and ashamed, and withal not a little anxious for the outcome of the great case of Daly vs. Clark, or Clark vs. Daly, or each vs, the other. OLNEY'S ATLANTIC ARTICLE. In Mr. Hlchard Olney's article' in the March Atlantic appears the conserva tive at his brightest, perhaps at his best. He shows us the trained Intel lect and the sound conscience, appre hending the Present, yet clinging to the Past; civil to the New, but loyally de voted to the Old. Mr. Olney writes of "the growth of our foreign policy," and where that growth follows established lines he welcomes it, but where it makes wholly new departures he looks at it askance. As the issue is shaped In political life today, Mr. Olney would have to be accounted an anti-imperialist. That is, he sees no good, but only mischief, In retention of the Philip pines. He pokes fun at "the strenuous life," he deprecates the larger army and navy now Incumbent upon us, he finds that not honor, duty or self-interest re quired acquisition of the islands, or now demands their retention. He says the white laborer cannot live in the islands, he thinks very little if any thing of the capacity of the islands for high civilization or for consumption of our products. And he insists that, so far from aiding us in our foreign poli cies, their possession will only impede, instead of advance, our ambition for the open door In Asia. Anti-Imperialist, then, as Mr. Olney Is, he is far from the typical anti-imperialist with whom we are familiar. He is without Atklnsonlan mania, the demagogy of Bryan, the blindness of Hoar. He can see, and what he sees he has the courage to tell. As for the Philippines, he says, they are ours "as much as Massachusetts or Illinois." Whether we want them or not, they are ours. "The thing," says Mr. Olney, "is done." And now the only thing is to acquit ourselves of our obligation as creditably as possible. We must have a navy, large and fine. We must transform and elevate our diplomatic service by selection of good men and paying them well. The islands, in par ticular, must have a large force ot highly educated and trained adminis trators. The navy must be supported by naval stations and bases of supply, and the tremendous drain on our re sources must be met somehow. Yet the actual possession of the Islands and their defense for "not to maintain the integrity of American soil everywhere and against all comers would deserved ly expose us to universal contempt and derision" make of their administration a domestic problem, not at all part of our foreign policy, therefore irrelevant to Mr. Olney's topic, so at length he leaves them. On the whole, however, the growth ot our foreign policy is such as to please Mr. Olney greatly. It advances us among the nations, and we know from the ex-Secretary's Venezuela letter how dear to him is his country's glory and honor. A hermit among the nations once, "Uncle Sam is a hermit no longer. He is a man among men. Introspection gives place to -action, isolation to an active place in world affairs, .air. ui ney welcomes this, largely because (he does not conceal it) in this way has disappeared the protection ideal and the ancient gods of the home market. The typical anti-imperialist is small souled enough to carp at expansion be cause it puts the protectionists on the defensive. He used to want free trade, but if it is to come through McKln ley. perdition .seize it. Mr. Olney rises above this malignant pettiness. He Is glad to see isolation abandoned, and he does not despise the wagon that brings it along. Det us make a quotation that discovers his view of our gain in this direction. In considering what we once endured, he leaves us to infer what we have now achieved. He says. The Isolation policy and practice have tended to belittle the national character, have ld to a species of provincialism and narrow views of our duties and functions as a nation. They have caused us to Ignore the Importance of sea power and to look with equanimity upon the decay of our navy and the ruin of our merchant marine. They have made us content with a diplomatic service always inadequate and often positively detrimental to our Interests. They have Induced In the people at large an Illiberal and unintelligent attitude toward for eigners, constantly shown in the disparagement of other peoples. In boastings of our own su periority, and In a sense of complete irrespon sibility for anything uttered or written to their injury. The best thing about this notable article la its long vision. Its author is a man who looks very far beneath the surfact orthlngs. We are apt to think that the Spanish war killed our policy of isolation. Mr. Olney says tnis is a short-sighted view. We were coming to It anyway, he says. The home mar ket had served Its day. We had to go out into the world, we had to protect our coasts, enlarge our borders, prepare for self-assertion among the Powers. Cuba itself was about ready to fall into our lap, and its destiny is to be Amer ican in name and nature. The sooner Cuba is annexed, the better for all con cerned. In these two changed aspects of our Nation, Industrial and political entrance into the family of Great Pow ers, Mr. Olney rejoices. The new or der will import, he says, "no decline of patriotism, no lessening of the loy alty justly expected of every man to the country of his nativity or adoption. But it will Import, if not for us, for coming generations, a larger knowledge of the earth and its diverse peoples; a familiarity with problems world-wide in their bearings; the abatement of racial prejudices; In short, such en larged mental and moral vision as is ascribed to the Roman citizen In the memorable saying that, being a man, nothing human was foreign to him." Mr. Olney is a man of great useful ness and power. He Is too good to be President. He has little if anything In common with the Republican party's traditions and policies, and as for his own, it has never recovered from, the nausea it experienced upon the discov ers' that it had elected to the Presi dency a man of convictions and decis ion of character. These qualities are too conspicuous in Mr. Olney to admit of his being taken up unawares by the Democracy. Perhaps the next best thing for him is to write this useful and suggestive article for the best of the magazines. The strong hold that Mr. Cleveland has upon the interest of the people was attested both In the general conster nation and regret with which the re port of his low state of health was re ceived a few days ago, and in the feel ing of relief that was experienced upon the announcement that the statement was greatly exaggerated, and that, in point of fact, the ex-President Is In his usual health. Mr. Cleveland had and has his political enemies, but their enmity is of the robust kind that finds expression. In a pronounced difference of opinion with a man who knows his own mind and abides by his convic tions. 'Experience with a man who vacillates on matters of national im portance induces wholesome respect for one who abides by his decisions in a degree that renders It worth while to differ with and if it comes to that fight him in the political arena. TWO KINDS OP PACIFIC TRADE. . Details of the exports of domestic products from Portland to foreign ports during the .month of February, which were printed in yesterday's Oregonlan, present in a most favorable light the strong position of Portland as a com petitor for the ocean commerce of the Pacific. Of the total exports for the month, less than 2 per cent were prod ucts brought from beyond the confines of the state. This means that 98 cents out of every dollar represented in a foreign cargo shipped from this city was distributed In the various channels of trade in Oregon. This is a distinct- Ive feature of Portland's Oriental steamship business, which h.as made the port to a certain extent Invincible. So long as we can produce cargoes for our ships without the necessity of going east of the Rockies for them, the State of Oregon and Portland, its metropolis, will reap a much greater benefit than can be derived by any port which makes up the greater portion of its Oriental business from cotton and manufactured products shipped across the continent. Exclusive of the Oregon products ex ported from Portland in February, the most prominent item was a shipment of 250 bales of cotton, valued at $5250. Cot ton Is a valuable commodity, and, when shipped in large quantities, the money valuation rapidly reaches large propor tions. It is this fact which has ena bled Puget Sound ports to make a showing in figures which, If not sub jected to analysis, give out the impres sion that a traffic of vast importance is being handled. When Portland ex ports $10,000 worth of wheat, flour, lum ber, paper, beer, canned goods cr other commodities which go to make up a typical Oregon cargo, it is a certainty that $10,000 has been distributed among the people of the city and state. When she exports $10,000 worth of cotton, the city gains about $18, that being ap proximately the sum paid the truckers and stevedores for removing It from the car to the steamer. Of course, each steamer disburses a certain amount of money for stores, fuel, etc., but the aggregate is insignificant in comparison with the amount paid out In the city and state for the cargo which she carries. Portland is now exporting over two thirds of the entire wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest. As yet the greater portion of it goes round the Horn to the European markets, but the trade with the Orient, and demand for bread stuffs from that direction, have shown such a phenomenal gain since it first started, about 15 years ago, that it is apparently a matter of a few years only until all of the wheat In the Northwest will find a market across the Pacific. For the first eight months of the pres ent cereal year, 31 per cent of the total wheat shipments from Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho have been in the shape of flour to the Orient. It will not require fifteen years for a further gain of 30 per cent, as the business has doubled In proportions within less than five years, and Is Increasing at the present time faster than ever before. The building of the Nicaragua canal will put an end to such transconti nental freight shipments as are now reloaded for the trans-Pacific shipment at Pacific Coast terminals, but nothing can stop the growth of Portland's Ori ental trade, for the traffic is produced in a territory over which this city has full control. ANTONY AXD CLEOPATRA. The Antony and Cleopatra that Shakespeare drew are not Identical with the French sketch of Antony and Cleopatra that holds the stage today. The "Antony and Cleopatra" of Shakespeare Is a great tragedy; the French coloring of Cleopatra is about of the quality of sensational passion we find in Hugo's "Ruy Bias." But the "Antony and Cleopatra" of Shakes peare is an exquisite work of art. Shakespeare draws no women of the quality of "Camllle." His great women are very good, and his bad women are intolerably bad, like Cresslda, Gonerll, Regan. His Cleopatra Is a creature of tiger quality in her capacity for cru elty, for direful rage, for stealthy pur suit. She hates and hunts like a tiger, and, so far as she has any capacity for love, It Is Instinct with fierceness, not tenderness. Her capacity for ani mal Jealousy is infinite; her capacity for affectionate loyalty and courage Is very small. When she takes to flight In battle and Antony weakly follows her, his gallant captains, more in sor row than in anger, call him "the noble ruin of her magic" Shakespeare's Antony shows in a masterly manner how fearfully a man of great natural powers can degener ate If he allows himself to become the "fetch and carry" creature of an ut terly worthless woman. In "Julius Caesar" Antony Is the only man of genius In the whole play after the con temptible crowd of conspirators have done their work. He is the most artful and eloquent orator; the most stout and skillful soldier. His manliness is shown in his fine speech over the dead body of Brutus. Had Antony fallen in victory at Pblllppi, he would have been one of Plutarch's most heroic men. But when Antony walks the-stage with Cleopatra. Shakespeare paints him from the very first scene as one who has be come a degenerate man. His friends describe him as "the triple pillar of the world become transformed Into a strumpet's fool." His conscience Is not utterly extinct; his soldierly sense of shame, because of defeat made possible by his dissipation, flames up fitfully at times, and he sighs, 'O Rome; once more I would be son of thine," and then weakly whimpers, "Yet dying, I would die upon "her. breast." This is what Antony has" become from the stern, stout soldier that even the envious Octavlus confesses he saw In war endure famine with patience, drink the gilded puddle which beasts would cough at, eat the roughest berry on the rudest hedge, and browse, like a stag In winter, on the barks of trees. Finally he becomes a poor creature who "kisses away kingdoms and provinces." As he declines lower and lower In In famy, bis old heroic spirit comes back in flashes of self-reproach and remorse.. He murmurs, "I have offended reputa tion, a most unno'ble swerving." And yet, like all men, high or low. In such condition, he cannot refrain from re proaching Cleopatra with her responsi bility for his base flight, even as Adam hastened to impute his ruin to Eve. The original power of the man rises to his lips when he says: But when we In our vlclousness grow hard O misery onat!--the wis gods seel our eyes; In our own filth drop our clear judgments, make us Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut To our confusion. Antony's farewell to his armor is most pathetic: Bruised pieces go: Tou have been nobly borne. Cleopatra, when Antony is dead, dies with so much dignity that "nothing In her life so became her as the leaving of it." Cleopatra does not "hypnotize" An tony, but Antony tempts Cleopatra to risk her throne for him, and when she lost It because Antony had not the skill or the prudence or the luck to de fend it, it Is Cleopatra that thinks life no longer worth living, and applies the asp to her bosom, where had so long been pillowed the head of Antony. The art and skill of Shakespeare are shown I to- the highest advantage in this great pla fQr whUe ym fegl tn&t cleopatra had a tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide and that Antony had dropped from the level of a hero to that of a reveler, a glutton and a gross sen- suallst, nevertheless Shakespeare plays them off so completely against each other that we feel, so far as either of them were capable of loving anybody, they loved each other, and cold-blooded Octavlus was for a moment noble minded when he said: She shall be burled by her Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip In It A pair so famous. Caesar was right; there was a flash of fine spirit in Cleopatra's confession over Antony's dead body that "the dull world In his absence was no better than a sty; that there Is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon." A XEAF FROM THE PAST. The presence 'In this city of Miss Kate W. Armstrong, born and bred a missionary in British Burmah, recalls the fact that Baptist missionaries have been laboring in that far section of the "moral vineyard" for the greater part of the century. The work of the Judsons In Rangoon, Calcutta and Am herst was set forth fifty years or more ago. In a llttle-.book called "The Jud son Offering," and the zealous labors of Rev. Adonlram Judson and his three wives in that distant field are a sacred legacy to the denomination that kept them many years In the field. The first wife, Ann H. Judson, died at her post, and was buried at Amherst; the sec ond, Sarah B., died at sea on a home ward voyage, taken In the hope of re storing her shattered health, and was burled on the island of St. Helena; and the third, Emily C, returned to her home In New England after the death, from nervous collapse, of her husband, broken In health and spirit, to die a few years later of consumption. The interest that attached to these early missionaries and their work was wide spread, and it yet revives In some de gree at the mention of their names. The visit of Miss Armstrong, who was born in the. mission field of Bur mah, recalls the existence of another woman born in the same field more than seventy years ago Miss Abby Judson, daughter of Dr. and Sarah B. Judson. Miss Judson was educated In the United States, being en route for that purpose with her parents when her mother died. She did not return to her native land as a missionary, but engaged In educational work In this country, in connection with church institutions, for some years. Finally, becoming a convert to spiritualism, she withdrew from educational work along orthodox lines and became a writer of books and lectures on spiritualistic phenomena and philosophy. Some of her writings had wide vogue, and all were characterized by the gentle, Christian spirit that was her heritage from self-sacrificing parents, fostered, no doubt, by her early training. She is still living, though In seclusion-, having become partially blind and unable to pursue her literary work. Her life has been a most peculiar one, covering a much wider range than that of years, Its expression throughout, though sin gularly variant, bearing In all of Its phases the stamp of conscientiousness and of truth, as it appealed to her un derstanding. Even thrlftlessness and waste that find expression in bad roads discover In this generous age people who render gentle excuses for them. Thus It is said that America's railroad system Is so complete, that, by comparison with those of the Old World, its highways' have been "rather neglected." It Is added, however, in a most hopeful spirit that influences are now at work which promise to effect great changes. Among these is the use of rubber tires upon bicycles, the automobile and fam ily carriages. There is shrewdness of observation in this estimate, but after all the basis of good roads In any dis trict is the determination of thrifty people to have them. Soft tires and broad tires encourage this determina tion, since they promise that the roads when once constructed will not be sub jected to needless wear and tear in the common course of traffic. It is. In ef fect, the same as the decree of the country housewife, who banishes hob nails from the shoes of her men folk when a new carpet is laid on the. floor of the sitting-room. It is only necessary to scratch the cuticle of the civilized warrior to find the savage. Witness the report of the "British punitive expedition" sent out from Rangoon, British Burmah, to avenge the murder, a few weeks ago, of two British commissioners engaged In marking the Burmo-Chlnese bound ary. A group of villages implicated In the affair, containing some 2000 houses, has been burned to the ground, and sixty of the villagers were killed. Of course, it is folly to contend that jus tice is done in a case of this kind, or that any discrimination worthy of the name was used. The act was simply an exemplification of the old rule of savage reprisal, viz: "If you can't kill the right one, kill any; only be sure and kill enough." The Kearsarge went into commission on the 20th, ult, four years and one month after the contract for her con struction was signed. The modern navy represents swiftness, but not of construction. The work on the Kear sarge was pushed vigorously and with out intermission to its finish, and the result is a magnificent battle-ship, which is not less a thing of growth than of art, embodying in its detail and equipment many things that represent the afterthought In naval architecture as demonstrated by the actual test of war. Working Its way along lines of Invention and of test, slowly, consider ately, yet withal so vigorously, the modern battle-ship Is no Jonah's gourd in creation, but a miracle of carefully directed human skill, patience and labor. Two passenger steamships "are aground In Gedney channel. New York harbor. Gedney channel Is the main,. thoroughfare through which all of New York's great ocean commerce passes, and accidents similar to these are of frequent occurrence. According to the theory of some of the nuisances at Astoria who are having so much to say about the grounding of the St. Irene In the Willamette, New York should now go out of business as a seaport, but she will not, and neither will Portland. A few expressions" like that of ex President Harrison may yet have a good effect on Congress In the Puerto Rican matter. The House bill Mr. Har rison has no hesitation In characteriz ing as "a most serious departure from right principles." There ought to be enough sense and conscience In the Senate to send a just bill to conference and to prevail there. It has only to show the determination shown on the financial reform bill. It seems but Just to say that at least one stanza of the "Recessional" might with great propriety and wholesome effect be sung in all the churches of the United Kingdom today, viz: If drunk with sight of power we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee In awe; Such boastings as the Gentlleo use, Or lesser breeds, without the law. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget, lest we forget. The foreign demand for American handiwork Is developing at an astonish ing rate. Witness the showing that ex ports of manufactures from the United States were nearly $10,000,000 greater in value in January of this year than in the corresponding month of 1S99. The statement that the "per capita" In theOnlted States Is just $25 Is said to provoke a smile In Montana, where, according to the most veracious testi mony, it is at least $2500 during a sena torial campaign. POLITICAL CONDITIONS. Portents anil Prospects In the State of Indiana. New York Evening Post. A prominent Republican of Indiana, early in the present winter, expressed the opinion that Eastern members of the party wero mistaken In counting that state as sure for McKInley this year. He re called the fact that It went for Harrison In 1SS8. and then rejected Us "favor.te aon" In 1S92, when the country was far more prosperous, and he made It plain that his party would have to make a harder light to retain the state In 1900 than to carry it in 1S96. This opinion was ex presseo t :crf Congress had taken any action. The tono of the Indiana press toward the cn.se of winter emphasizes the warning. The Indianapolis News, the influential Independent newspaper at the capital, which supported McKInley In 1KJS, and which still opposes Bryanlsm, 13 greatly disturbed over the outlook. In considering what the News says. It must be remembered that It speaks with entire Independence, and with a strong de sire to avert the danger of Bryan's carry ing Indiana and the country. It "re minds our Republican friends that the coming campaign Is going to be no mere one-lsaue affair." It tells them that "they will be attacked, and with visor, along several lines : It points out that "trusts will cut a large figure, and an attempt will be made to hold the Republlran party responsible for the remarkable develop ment of these great organizations"; It adm'.ts that the action of the Senate in Incorporating a bimetallic declaration in the currency bill "will have a depressing effect on some of the sound-money people," and declares that this "action Is regarded as a piece of cowardice and cowardice never helps a political party with the people"; It recalls the fact that "tho action of the President in removing thou sands of places from the classified service has angered the civil-service reformers": and It says that "on top of it all are tho many and grave problems growing out of the Spanish war." The News clinched Its argument by an earnest protest against loading the shipping subsidy bill upon the already heavily burdened party, saying on this point: Why should the party, especially in the West, be compelled to defend a law taxing the fanners for the benefit of the shipbuilders and ship owners? The anti-trust argument could be pow erfully enforced by denunciations ot this ship- subsidy bill. The Democrats would certainly make the most of It and they would have a good case. Their orators would ask how the teople could expect relief from the trusts, at the hands of a party which had voted millions of dollars of the people'o money to enrich a private Industry. Seriously, therefore, we In sist that the bill should net pass. It Is a bad bill. e IMPERIALISM IX PUERTO RICO, Tho true .and unanswerable argument against the Puerto Rican tariff bill Is that, while It Is fully within the power of Congress to pass such a law, It will not be. fair, humane, or politically expedient to do so. A platform of starvation for the Island that came to us with smiling face and open hands will b a sorry Republican rallying cry In the coming campaign. New York Sun (Ind. and Expansion). Expansion Should Mcnn Generosity. Generous treatment of the Islanders Is In volved In expansion. If wo are unwilling to treat them well we ought never to have accepted tho transfer of their allegiance. Mllwaukeo Sentinel (Expansion Rep.). Mcnnncss, Cruelty and Perfidy. The Ways and Means Committee has re ported, and Is trying to "Jam through" a measure of meanness, cruelty and perfidy to tho Inhabitants of Puerto Rico. New York Times (Ind. Dem. and Expansion). The Moral Standard at StaUe. Free trade with Puerto Rico should be established by Congress. Otherwise, our action may fall below that moral standard which makes governments tolerable and constitutions respectable. Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem. and Expansion). A Question of Dolnc Justice. It Is not a party question; It Is not a question of protecting anybody. But it Is a question of doing justice to the Puerto Ricans. and of departing as little as possi ble from American precedents. Indianap olis News (Ind. and Expansion). "We Cannot Break Our Pledfires. Tho Republican party should take higher ground than that of present political ex pediency. No petty, opportunism can ex cuse tho violation of the Constitution or the breaking of our pledge to the Puerto Ricans. Chicago" Inter Ocean (Expansion Rep.). What the Question Now Is. The question now is, whether the Repub lican managers in Congress are going to yield to tho measureless rapacity of a few protected Interests In the face of -what the President calls "our plain duty," and the clearest requirements of good policy, humanity and good faith. Philadelphia Ledger (Ind. Rep.). Protectionist Theories vs. Dntyv The protectionists are called on to decide between adherence to their theories and the duty which this country owes to Its new possessions. The islands certainly would profit from free trade with the States, and they have a right to demand a tariff policy which will benefit them. Kansas City Star (Ind. and Expansion). Trusts at the Party's Throat. I think It Is both' generous and politic to assimilate our tariff with that of Puerto Rico. I do not, however, think that we are constitutionally bound to do this. It Is In equity. Justice and policy that we as similate our tariff with that of the Island. Should the present Congress adopt a tariff for Puerto Rico against the recommendations-of the Commissioner and President. and against every man's sense ot Justice and generosity, the orators of the Democ racy can say with truth during the next campaign that the trusts went down to Washington and grappled the Republican party by the throat and made Jt choke to their advantage. President Schurman, of Cornell. Onr Duty to Puerto Rico. Since the cession Puerto Rico has been denied the principal markets she had long enjoyed, and our tariffs have been con tinued against her products as when sho was under Spanish sovereignty. The mar kets of Spain are closed to her products except upon terms to which the commerce of all nations Is subjected. The Island of Cuba, which used to buy her cattle and tobacco without customs duties, now im poses tho same duties upon these products as from any other country entering her ports. She has, therefore, lost her freo Intercourse with Spain and Cuba without any compensating benefits In this market. Her coffee was little known and not In use by our people, and, therefore, there was no demand here for this, one of her chief products. The markets of the United States should be opened up to her prod ucts. Our plain duty Is to abolish all customs tariffs between the United States and Puerto Rico, and give her products free access to our markets. President Mc Kinley's Message to Congress. a p Cronje's Record. PORTLAND, Or., March 3. (To the Edi tor.) Will you please answer these ques tions? Is Cronje a citizen of the Orange Free State or Transvaal Republic? Did Joubert or Cronje command the forces that captured the Jameson raiders? READER. General Cronje Is, like General Joubert. a citizen of the Transvaal, and Is a vet eran soldier, who has fought In every war In which tho Transvaal has been engaged during the last 40 years. He Is known as "The Lion of the Transvaal," and he com manded the forces that captured the Jame son raiders, about the first week of Janu ary, ISM. When the Boers declared war their first act was to send General Joubert through tho Drakenberg mountain passes Into Natal, while General Cronje moved against Mafeklng and Klmberley. s o -Tastes Differ. New York Weekly. Mrs. Splnks Yes, I wish to hire a ser vant girl. Do you like dogs? Applicant No, Mum. Mrs. Splnks Then you won't do. Applicant Iease, Mum, when I told Mr. Splnks I hated dogs and 'ud like to klil them, every one, he said I'd Just suit. o Handy Refuse. Chicago Record. "Does your husband's sprained ankle trouble him any more?" "Yes; he gets a dreadful pain In It whenever I want him to make evening calls with me." o The Gains of Protection. Philadelphia Record. The fellow who runs a gambling estab lishment realizes that If you take care of the "coppers" tho dollars will take care of themselves. n Ccorgc's Clever Guess. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "What Is phonetic spelling, George?" "Why, It's spelling It's spelling that comes over the 'phone, of course!" Its PecnIIarlty. Detroit Journal. It Is a peculiarity of the culture of wild oats that the harrowing part of It comes at harvest, rather than seed time. e The Pipes at Lucknow. J. G. Whittler. Pride of the misty moorlands. Voice of the glens and hills; The droning of tho torrents. The treble of the rills Not the braes of bloom, and heather. Nor the mountains dark with rain, Nor maiden bower, nor border tower, Have heard your sweetest strain. Dear to the Lowland reaper. And plalded mountaineer To ,the cottage and the castlo The Scottish pipes are dear; Sweet sounds the ancient pibroch O'er mountain, loch and glade; But the sweetest of all music The pipes at Lucknow played. Day by day the Indian tiger Louder yelled, and nearer crept; Round and round the jungle serpent Near and nearer circle swept. "Pray for rescue, wives and mothers Pray today!" tha soldier said; "Tomorrow, death's between us And the wrong and shame we dread." Oh. they listened, looked and waited. Till their hope became despair; And the sobs of low bewailing Filled the pauajs of their praytr. Then up spake a Scottish maiden. With her ear unto the ground: "Dlnna ye hear It? dlnna ye hear It? The pipes o' Havelock sound1." Hushed the wounded man his groaning; Hushed the wife her little ones; Alone they heard the drum-roll And the roar of Sepoy guns. But to sounds of home and childhood The Highland ear was true; As her mother's cradle-crooning The mountain pipes she know. Like the march of soundlca3 music Through the vision of the tecr. More of feeling than of hearing. Of the heart than of the ar. She knew the droning- pibroch. She knew the Campbell's call: "Hark! hear ye no MacGregor's. The grandest o" them all!" Oh. thay listened, dumb nnd breathless And they caught the round at last; Faint and far beyond the Goomtee Rose and fell tho piper's b'ast! Then a burst of wild thanksgiving Mingled woman's voice and man's; "God be praised! the march of Havelockl The piping of the clans!" Louder, nearer, fierce as vengeance, Sharp and shrill as swords at strife. Came the wild MacGregor's clan-call. Stinging all the air to life. But, when the far-off duet-cloud To plalded legions grew, Full tenderly and bllthwomely The pipes of rescue blew! Round the silver domes of lucknow, Moslem mosque and Pagan shrine. Breathed the air to Britons dearest. The air of "Auld Lang Syne." O'er the cruel roll of war-drums Rose that sweet and homelike strain; And the tartan clove the turban, As the Goomtee cleaveo the plain. Dear to the corn-land reaper And plalded mountaineer To the cottage and the castle The piper's song Is dear. Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch O'er mountain, glen and glade; Butthe sweetest of alt music .t t The Pipes at Lucknow played! 1 MASTERPIECES OF LITERATURE-HI Milton's Noble .Elegiac Poem "Lycidas", Yet once more. O ye laurels, and once more. Ye myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come, to pluck your berries harsh and crude. And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves befor he mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compel me to disturb your seat -a. due: For Lycldoe is dead, dead ere his prime. Young Lycldas. and hath not left his peer: "Who would not sing for Lycldas? He knew. Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wntery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind "Without the meed of me melodious tear. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string! Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse: So may some gentle muse "With lucky words favor my destined urn. And as he passes, turn. And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill. Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade and rill. Together both, ere the high lawro appeared Under the opening eyelids or the morn. "We drove afleld, and both together heard "What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dewa of night. Oft till tho star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his wester- ing wheel. Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute. Tempered to the oaten flute: Rough satyrs danced, and fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long: And old Damoetas loved to hear our song. But. oh! the heavy change, now thou art gone. Now thou art gone and never must return! Thee, shepherd, thee th woods, and desert caves "With wild thyme and the gadding vino o-'er- grown. And all their echoes, motirn: Tho willows and the hazel cop3es green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their Joyoua leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose. Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze. Or frost to flowers that their gay wardrobe wear "When first the whlte-thom blows: Such, Lycldas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. "Where- were ye. Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycldas? For neither were ye playing on the steep "Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie. Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high. Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream Ah me! I fondly dream. Had ye been there: for what could that havs done? "What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son "Whom universal nature did lament, "When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent. Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? "Were It not better done, as othera use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Neaera'3 hair? Fame Is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last Infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon when we hope to find. And think to burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shear3 And silts tho thin-spun life. "But not tho praise." Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame Is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor In the glistening foil Set oft to the world, nor In broad rumor lies. But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-Judging Jove: As he pronounces lastly on each deed. Of eo much fame In heaven except thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honored flood. Smooth-sliding Mlncius, crowned with vocal reeds. That strain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeas. And listens to the herald of the sea That came In Neptune's plea; He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds. What hard mlshaa hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust, of rugged wings. That blows from off aoh- Tboaked-Dromontory: They knew not of his story: " L And sage Hlppotades their answer brings. That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed. The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark. Built In the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. That sunk so low that sacred had of thine. Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet eeCLge Inwrought with figures dim and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower Inscribed with woe. "Ah! who hath reft," quoth he, "my dearest pledge!" Last came, and last did go. The pilot of the Galilean lake. Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain. The golden opes, the Iron shuts amain. He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake; "How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,. Know of such as, for their bellies' sake. Creep, and intrude, and climb Into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Bund mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have Jearned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped. And. when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw. Rot Inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw. Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine ac the door Stands ready to smite once, end smite no more." Return. Alpheus, the dread voice is past. That shrunk thy streams; return. Sicilian Muss, And call, the valep. and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low. where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushin brooks. On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks. Throw hither all J our quaint enameled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed show ers. And purplo all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. The tufted crow-toe. and pale Jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with Jet, The glowing violet. The musk rose, and the well-attired woodbine. With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head. And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed. And daffodillies fill their cups with tears. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycld lies. For so. to interpose a little ease. Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise: Ah me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled. Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides. Where thou, perhaps under the whelming tide, Vlslt3t the bottom of the monstrous world; Or whether thou, to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old. Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold: Look homeward, angel, now, and melt with ruth; And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more. For Lycldas, your sorrow. Is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star In the ocean-bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head. And tricks his beams, and, with new-spangled ore. Flames In the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycldas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves. Where, other groves and other streams along. With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of Joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops and sweet societies That sing, and, singing, in their glory move. And wipe the tears forever from his eyes. Now, Lycldas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood. Thos sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and s rills. While the still morn went out with sandals gray; He touched the tender stops of various quills. With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt Into the western bay: At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blu; I Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.