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PORTLAND, St'XDAV, MAY 27, 1000.
If you are out of a Job and never ex
pect to have one because you are too
ialnt-hearted to get It and too empty
beaded to hold.it; If you are broke and
expect to be always broke on the gold
or the silver basis, under free trade or
protection, -with ?24 per capita or 24
cents; if you are penniless and always
"will be because you have nothing to sell
ior money and nobody will trust you
tyith a loan; If every successful man
fills you Tilth rage because he reminds
you of your own uselessness; if you feel
that every man that has anything is
at natural enmity with you and your
-class then come to me, says Bryan,
and I will give you rest. 'Whatever the
cause of your discontent, if you are
discontented, I will soothe you; if you
are enraged, I will avenge you. All ills
that fret you and griefs that bow down
spring from the Money Power, whose
mortal antagonist you behold in me,
whose activities shall be forever stilled
with my panacea of free coinage. For
coughs, colds, rheumatism, headache,
backache, dizziness, loss of sleep, weak
eyes, catarrh, diabetes, cancer, con
sumption, scrofula, eczema, appendici
tis. Inflammation of the throat and
lungs, bowel complaint, sallow com
plexion, torpid liver, inflamed eyelids,
deafness, chapped hands, freckles, chil
blains, corns and bunions, take 16 to 1.
That was a tine thought, if a daring
Venture, of one of the speakers at the
Queen's Birthday banquet, that the
Victorian era's immortals will be not
Its soldiers, but its phillsophers and
poets. And as liberty was the saHent
theme of most of the discourses, the
Idea might have been extended to In
clude the truth that the men of thought
have been mightier than the men of ac
tion in the advancement of true free
dom. "We are wont to say that war is
the great corrector of enormous times
and so it is. But a converse is just
as true, that the great battle Is only
the harvest hour of seed that has been
own and brought to maturity through
3gor years of work and waiting. The
real revolutions are the slow but pow
erful operation of enlightened minds
"working through literature upon the
masses. And if we look critically at
the literature of the Victorian era, we
shall see that In great measure It has
been a battle for freedom.
The tyranny that has been assailed
is the tyranny of thought, the most
degrading of all. Oppressive tradi
tions in art were assailed by Mr. Rus
Jdn; in political and social institutions
Toy Dickens and Charles Reade, In
fiction, and Grote and Macaulay In
snore direct methods; in religion by
IKenry Drummond and John Watson,
Mlvart and Martlneau; in society by
George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte; in
philosophy by Spencer and Lewes; in
history by Lecky. Carlyle, Buckle,
Proude and Macaulay, though at least
one of these set up Intolerance of his
own equally as severe as the tyranny
he sought to abate; in poetry by Ros
eetti and Swinburne, while the lyrics of
both the Brownings are as redolent of
liberty as the pages of Bj-ron and Shel
ley. No labor ever done in behalf of
liberty exceeds that performed in the
Victorian era by British scientists, Dar
win, Huxley, Tyndall and Max Mulier
In one group, and Faraday, Sir John
Herschel and Hugh Miller in another.
These men have ransomed the human
race from a tyranny as old as history
and more galling than the yoke of
Rameses or Alexander. The arguments
men use against British dominion to
day, the very names and phrases they
use to conjure with, have been dug and
molded for them .by British thinkers.
The attention of business men is
earnestly drawn to the outline, else
where printed, of a spectacular and
amusement carnival projected for Sep
tember by the Portland Lodge of Elks.
The drawing power of celebrations like
Mardl Gras or the flower fete of South
ern California shows what may be ex
pected of an affair of this kind if wisely
directed and loyally supported. No
man should go down town to business
Monday morning without having given
this project careful consideration and
made up his mind on It one way or the
ther. The best enterprise on earth nn
be killed by apathy.
It is not easy to get up a scare in
tS&n Francisco over the Asia bubonic
horror. Even the newspapers of that
city resent the appearance there of the
Tiuague. Perhaps they fear competition.
William Fraxier has made the best
leriff Multnomah County has ever
id. He has brought to the office rare
executive ability and systematized its
wowc in a manner never oeiore at
tempted. There has been prompt and
fsithful service of all legal documents,
"which is In Itself no small item, as it
involves the accommodation of lawyers
and the public at large. TAll funds
which have come into his hands from
tax collections and other sources have
been promptly paid to the County
Treasurer, and there has been no jug
rling with the people's money for Inter
est or other personal profit. One of
Sheriff Frazler's first official acts was
to stop the vicious practice of charging
exorbitant rates for legal advertising
to provide fat commissions for favor
ites and grafters. In doing this he
earned the warm approval of lawyers.
litigants and the small newspapers that
accept this class of advertising. His
conscientious and efficient service and
the "high plane to which he has lifted
the Sheriffs office commend him to the
voters of Multnomah County and as
sure his re-election.
THE AMENDMENTS.
Five pending amendments to the Ore
gon constitution are to be voted on at
the election, June 4. In more than 40
years of Its existence, the organic law
of the state has not once been altered.
In the Judgment of The Oregonlan, no
sufficient reason has been advanced
why a change should now be made.
We do not need an "up-to-date" consti
tution and .new laws so much as we
need a wise interpretation and Impar
tial enforcement of the old. The
framers of our organic law were good
men and true, who profited by the long
experience and wise example of their
forefathers, and the sound Instruction
of their contemporaries, and who did
neither too much nor too little in lay
ing down fixed principles for the gov
ernment of themselves and their pos
terity. Times change, but essential
truths do not.
The first amendment is distinctly a
step In the wrong direction. It pro
poses to open the door for the Increase
of public Indebtedness. It provides that
any county, city, town, school district
or other municipal corporation may be
come indebted in an amount not ex
ceeding five per centum of the value of
taxable property therein. We have
somehow contrived to get along under
the present $5000 limitation, and not a
few cities, towns and school districts
have managed to pile up respectable
obligations. Our county affairs are
proceeding under a Supreme Court de
cision which declares substantially that
they are not thus prevented from In
curring the ordinary and necessary lia
bilities of county government, whether
or. not they exceed this limit. The $5000
provision was designed to enforce cau
tion and economy in public affairs, and
to prevent extravagance. It cannot be
said that it has accomplished all that,
but It Is nevertheless a restraining in
fluence, an admonition that there Is a
line which cannot safely be passed. In
days of Inflated values and Inflated
Ideas, the five per centum provision
would give large scope for the accumu
lation of debts that would prove a
heavy burden.
Three Judges constitute the present
Supreme bench. Statistics have been
prepared to show that they are far be
hind in their work, and that delays
are expensive and annoying to llti
gents. Doubtless. But why this con
gestion? The true remedy Is reduction
of the number of appealable actions.
We are too litigious. If petty and com
paratively unimportant causes, Includ
ing certain criminal cases, were by leg
islation made finally determinable in
the Circuit Courts, there "nould be a
perceptible falling off In the work of
the Appellate Court, The Legislature
can afford all needed relief.
The Irrigation amendment Is designed
to give a final, authoritative definition
to certain proposed public and private
uses of water, and to confer the right
of eminent domain upon Irrigation and
drainage companies, and to declare the
"right to collect taxes or compensation
for the use of water" a "franchise."
The statute-books of Oregon contain
several successive Irrigation acts repos
ing large powers in private corpora
tions, and otherwise endeavoring to en
large water rights for a great variety of
purposes. The validity of these laws
was several times attacked In the Su
preme Court, which first upheld the
constitutionality of the act of 1892, but
Intimated broadly that It was of doubt
ful utility. Continuing, the court said:
"It Is an act the execution of which
must be closely scrutinized by the
courts, and all of Its provisions con
strued strictly. Whoever claims any
thing by It must bring himself clearly
within Its terms." The court later de
clared that in the absence of a Con
stitutional provision, the courts alone
could determine what is a public use of
water. It Is to avoid this clear drift
of judicial decision that this article Is
proposed. It seems to open wide the
door of opportunity for invasion of
property rights. The citizen who wants
to establish a duck pond would be
able by process of law to appro
priate his neighbor's land. There
should, too, be a warning In the mourn
ful experience of both California and
Washington In the formation of
Irrigation districts. Under the orig
inal Wright law in the former state,
and under the similar Sharp statute
in the latter, communities were plunged
Inextricably In debt, individuals were
bankrupted, and altogether great em
barrassments were Imposed upon many
who embarked upon Irrigation enter
prises. We have a large arid territory
In this state, arfdjit is Important that
It should be developed. The Oregonlan
Is disposed to give every proper en
couragement to the investors in and in
habitants of those districts; but It does
not believe that this Is the right way.
Female suffrage Is not a long-felt
want in Oregon. We have discovered
nothing In the experience of Wyoming,
Colorado, Idaho and Utah to commend
their experiment to our favorable con
sideration. It is urged In behalf of the
proposed amendment that it will "bring
thousands of first-class immigrants to
Oregon," and it "will be worth tens of
thousands of dollars to Oregon as a
free advertisement for the state in all
parts of the Union." Wyoming has had
equal suffrage since 1S70, and today has
not much over 100,000 population, be
ing the most sparsely settled state In
the Union, except Nevada. Nor does
Colorado seem to have made any note
worthy gains in population or public
esteem since women began to vote In
1S93. If so Important and sweeping a
change Is to be made in our electoral
system. It seems to The Oregonlan that
It should be for some higher reason
than the mere advertisement; but, if
that Is to be the basis of action, Colo
rado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming have,
In the last few years, so conspicuously
advertised themselves in their unsound
ness on a question of great public
policy that It is well enough to refrain
from Joining them yet awhile.
Another proposed amendment, rela
tive to negro suffrage. Is a matter of
no consequence. The present section,
to which objection Is made, Is nullified
by the Constitution of the United
States, under which negroes have full
suffrage. The Oregonlan offers no ob
jection to the repeal of Eection 35, ex
cept the general one that the change Is
unnecessary and Immaterial.
It is desirable that every voter pass
upon these amendments. It Is true that
failure of an elector to record his de
cision for or against an amendment Is
tantamount to a vote in the negative.
Inasmuch as the constitution requires
a "majority of all electors" in the state
to declare themselves In the affirmative
before any amendment shall be adopt
ed. Failure of the public to give full
expression Is certain to lead to renewed
agitations; if any of these questions is
passed upon decisively and completely,
we .shall likely hear no more of it
for some time. It is but Justice, too,
that the decision be not reached by any
species of snap judgment, but that all
the voters render their verdict.
IS ACTING AN ART?
The question of what Is art has re
ceived discussion from many points of
view without a satisfactory result. The
sculptor and the painter and the archi
tect are disposed to deny that name to
anything that lacks permanence, that is
not creative or is asy of accomplish
ment. On this basis they have in the
main denied to music and the drama
a place among the arts. There is a
gradual broadening of the conception of
art along these lines and a more liberal
definition is being framed, one that in
cludes everything that satisfies the ar
tistic instinct or taste and arouses and
educates It, no matter how ephemeral
the thing Itself may be. Under this
definition may be gathered a multitude
of things that have hitherto stood out
side the gate, and especially does it
open the door to music and the drama.
Sir Henry Irving recently presented
the claims of the drama to a place
among the arts In a masterly way at a
lecture before the students of the Uni
versity of Chicago. Certainly the pre
sentation of the creations of the poets
as living and breathing souls is as much
a work of art as their presentation In
cold marble, the lack of permanence of
form being but a limitation of the
method of presentation and not of the
art of the presenter. Irving says on
this point most gracefully:
Homer, the poet, conceived his thoughts and
gave them utterance, but the fashion in which
he molded them in giving them birth waa a
work of art. "When others declaimed his verses,
so as to give forth their mighty roll and rhythm,
the fashion of their speech was the work of art.
When, later on. the sculptors modeled tho
forms of the gods and heroes as Homer de
scribed them, translating the thoughts of tho
poet Into graceful form, whose inner signifi
cance men could understand this waa tho work
of the artist, too. It was no detraction from
the merit of the work, as & work of art, that
the sculptor set forth Homero Ideaa and not
his own.
The matter of permanence aB a cri
terion of art Is only one of degree.
Nothing lasts forever. "Where are
now," asks Irving, "those mighty
works of man's art which came to be
known as the 'Seven Wonders of the
World'? Gone. Aye, and gone with
them millions of art works, by myriads
of workers In countless ages men now
nameless, but once full of honor, and
whose work was and Is placed In the
existing category of the arts."
In education of the artistic sense in
mankind, in lifting them up to the
higher and more beautiful, who can
say that Garrlck and Booth and Sid
dons and Cushman and Irving and
scores of others have performed a less
work, have advanced true art less, than
hundreds whose works have unhesitat
ingly been classed among the produc
tions of art through the centuries?
"Acting," says Sir Henry, "may be
evanescent. It may work in the media
of common nature; it may be mimetic
like the other arts; it may not create
any more than does the astronomer or
the naturalist, but It can live and can
add to the sum of human knowledge in
the ever-varying study of man's nature
by man, and Its work can, like the six
out of the seven wonders of the world,
exist as a great memory."
THE TniJE EVANGELISTS.
At a recent meeting of the alumni
of the Union Theological Seminary,
Rev. Dr. Hill is, of Brooklyn, made
much of "'the difficulties of modern.
preaching," and first among them he
put the "Increase of knowledge which
makes critical a congregation fresh
from the pagep of the greatest authors
who have written In a Christian spirit
and expects the preacher to equal those
great authors." This Is not true; first,
because the vast majority of a preach
er's audience know little by careful
reading of the greatest authors, and are
not persons of severe scholastic, intel
lectual training; and second, because
purely literary or theological learning
Is not the primal source of a preacher's
power. His learning and his culture
are -not tho essential thing; but It Is the
nobility of his soul and Its oceanic hu
manity that is the real divinity that
clothes his lips with the Pentecostal
flame of Impressive speech. Dr. Chan
ning was the greatest preacher of his
day and generation; even as Theodore
Parker and Phillips Brooks held the
most potential pulpits of their time.
They were very different men in mental
temperament and quality of speech,
and yet they were all men who owed
their full congregations, not to their
learning or their culture chiefly, but to
the nobility of their spirit, their unfail
ing sweetness and light, their unquall
lng spiritual humanity and tolerance.
They all built up great congregations
not simply because they had brains
enough to construct a powerful and
Impressive sermon, but because they
were all men with not only an intel
lectual "but a spiritual title to stand in
the pulpit. They were all men with a
spiritual message they felt compelled
to deliver. They not only preached
against slavery, but they took the slave
by the hand and treated him as a
man and a brother. They not only
preached temperance, but gave untiring
personal effort to help with purse, wis
dom and affectionate counsel all those
who were in the chains of spiritual
slavery to unworthy appetites. They
were pre-eminently great and useful
pastors as well as preachers, and were
proudest of that pastoral work of which
the world could know comparatively
nothing. The gold of their character
was utterly free from the dross of self
love, and they were therefore destitute
of the taint of pulpit sensationalism.
They believed that there could not be
less of true religion and righteous liv
ing In the world when the churches cut
loose from that Inhuman creed that
rests upon an utterly unreasonable
view of divine justice, vi-t, that a small
minority of the race Is to be saved
while the great remainder are to suffer
unspeakable tortures to all eternity.
Faith in that unlovely creed Is largely
because of these men gone with the
pews and now even old-time orthodox
pulpits no longer fear to fling boldly its
ugly corpse out of the church door.
Phillips Brooks, the most recently
dead of these great American evan
gelists, sincerely believed in the quest
of the Holy GralL He was a. Sir Gala
had from youth to the grave. In his
youth he was a fearless preacher of
equal civic rights to the negro; the pas
sionate defender of? National patriotism.
m) iiiiinrlimii iMttJj.,iHi-nrift-MWi,i r - rr.'MT
the most eloquent pulpit defender of
the Union In a church which then In
cluded Northern defenders of secession
and human slavery among its clergy.
The superiority of his sermons did not
lie in, their thought so much as in the
fact that the thought was always sur
charged with the warmth and ruddy
color of an exceptionally great and
noble heart. Brooks became n preacher
for the same reason that John Wesley,
Channlng, Parker and Moody became
preachers; because they could not help
it. A great, tender and manly heart;
an overpowering belief in the father
hood of God and the brotherhood of
man saturated the whole spirit of these
very different men, and they were
called of God to preach. So of Theo
dore Parker, who for fifteen years had
3000 hearers every Sunday. His sur
passing power was not his learning,
which was great; not his head, which
was nobly endowed; but his great
heart. Of artistic eloquence of voice
or manner he had nothing; but of the
kind of eloquence which colors th
speech of a great-hearted man full of
moral enthusiasm and devoutness of
spirit he had a great deal. He was a
man "nerily-furnaced In the blast of a
life that had struggled In earnest." He
was better and greater than any of his
books or sermons, and that explained
the perennial magnetism of his public
speech. His learning was not greater
than that of many dumb scholars, but
when he used facta he set them on fire
with the glow of his high moral and
humane purpose. His religion filled
Matthew Arnold's famous definition of
it as "morality touched with emotion."
The scholastic learning and literary
culture of all these great preachers was
the smallest source of their exceptional.
Inexhaustible drawing power. It was
their beautiful humane personality,
"the man behind the gun," that im
pressed Itself upon their hearers and
made them aspire to become noble men
and women, unselfish and inspiring cit
izens. They all belonged to that school
of great teachers, men of mingled
strength, sweetness and light, who be
lieve that the ultimate purpose of a
live teacher or preacher is "to build a
man." They all believed that a man
was better than a sheep. They were
all, like Emerson, men of abounding
hospitality and enduring friendship.
They all, like Emerson, loved flowers,
the beauty of outdoor life and little
children. In the breadth of nature they
found relief from and rebuke to the
narrowness and meanness of petty
men. They were men of transparent
sympathy, kindness and candor. They
all stood in the pulpit not by right of
their scholastic learning, not by right
of their literary culture, but 'by right
of their divine fitness for the pulpit,
for they accepted every opportunity
in the service of their calling by which
they could elevate the people to the
noblest and highest life. This Is the
quality that gives men of various men
tal endowment but identical spiritual
nobility of purpose their perennial
drawing power in the pulpit. It is the
heart and humanity under the preach
er's vestments; it is "the man behind
tho gun."
MISTAKEN AND DISCRIMINATING.
Chairman Cannon, of the House com
mittee on appropriations, is reported as
planning for a bitter fight against the
$250,000 asked for in the sundry civil
bill for work at the mouth of the Co
lumbia. If Mr. Cannon Is to make this
fight through motives of thrift, and
with a view to saving money for the
Government, he would do well to inves
tigate most thoroughly before making
nis attack" in conference. The Govern
ment at the present time has a large
and costly jetty-building plant at Fort
Stevens, which Is rapidly becoming
worthless through lack of funds with
which to keep it in repair. The Jetty,
as It now stands, was built at a cost
of 50 per cent of the estimate, and the
work done has demonstrated beyond
question that any depth of water
needed at the mouth of the river can
be secured by a continuation of the
jetty, and by keeping In repair the work
that has already been done.
When the vast Interests at stake In
the entire Columbia basin are consid
ered, It does not seem possible that a
fight would be made to Jeopardize these
interests by refusing to aid them with
the best possible entrance to -the river
for all classes of ocean carriers. It
seems more probable that Mr. Cannon's
objection is not against the ultimate
continuation of the work, but Instead
against the expenditure of any money
for river Improvements at the present
time. This policy might be excusable
In cases where work had not actually
commenced, or where It would not suf
fer by a protracted abandonment. In
the case of the Improvements at the
mouth of the. Columbia, however,
prompt action Is needed, not alone to
improve the channel to the sea as
quickly as possible, but also to protect
Government property, which Is certain
to be called into use again sooner or
later, and which Is deteriorating
through Idleness.
There are miles of tramways,
wharves, barges, buildings, machinery,
etc, which will most assuredly be
needed again, and, as a matter of econ
omy, provision should be made for
keeping this plant in repair. The beg
gardly small appropriation asked for
will not make much of a start In di
rectly securing the 40-foot channel
which we must and will have at the
mouth of the river, but it will put the
plant In good working order again and
enable preliminary operations of con
siderable scope to be carried on. The
entrance of the river has undoubtedly
shoaled considerably, and the action of
the channel, as shown by recent sound
ings made by the pilots, indicates that
the entrance should be made narrower
and the Jetty built farther out. The
volume of water Is there, and It Is only
a matter of confining it in certain
limits.
A stream, which carries commerce to
the value of over $20,000,030 annually
Is of more than passing Importance,
and It should be given the recognition
due It, even though it Is made on the
Installment plan. The Portland Cham
ber of Commerce and the kindred or
ganization In Astoria, being in close I
touch with the situation, and realizing
Its gravity, have been making strenu
ous efforts to have something done im
mediately, and it will be the poorest
kind of Government economy for the
work at the mouth of the Columbia to
be deferred for want of the small
amount asked for in the sundry civil
bllL Chairman Cannon will do well to
direct his batteries at less expensive
targets than the Government work at
the mouth of the Columbia.
It has been suggested that, as the
alleged election of Clark took place in
February, 1S99, and .that the Legia-
Jlature had adjourned' when -the vu-
i
cancy happened, on March 4. 1899, the
vacancy must therefore be considered
as one happening In recess, which the
Governor is entitled to fill, but the va
cancy In the Mantle and Corbett cases
arose In exactly this way. The Legis
latures were not In session when the
vacancies actually happened, but as
they could have anticipated the vacan
cies and had had an opportunity to
fill them, the Senate held In each case
that the Governor -mld not fill the va
cancy by appointment. Clark's .title,
under appointment, Is not better than
Mantle's or Corbett's, which the Sen
ate rejected. The appointment of Ma
glnnls creates a contest which must
necessarily be referred to the. commit
tee on privileges and elections, which
will doubtless prevent either man being
seated this session, for the committee
will not take time to consider the cre
dentials of Clark and Maglnnls before
adjournment. Next December the
meeting of the Montana Legislature
will be ao near that the Senate prob
ably will not think It worth while ta
waste time on an appointive title so
near its expiration.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting
of the Oregon State Grange,, held last
week at Independence, has drawn to
gether the usual number of capable
men and women who represent the
farming Industry of the state. The
Grange has long been an Important
factor In the social as well as In the
substantial development of the agri
cultural sections and Interests of Ore
gon. For 'more than a quarter of a
century of active existence the names
of very many of the prominent men
of the state have been enrolled In Its
list of membership, while from the
very first and therein lies the true se
cret of Its vitality and a full measure
of Its usefulness the best women of
the farming districts have given It their
encouragement and support. No coun
try neighborhood can be lonely or un
social that has Its Grange meeting to
look forward to once a fortnight. Sur
viving political upheavals, financial de
pression and agricultural discourage
ments, the Grange reports at this meet
ing conditions of present prosperity and
excellent promise for the future that Is
gratifying to all who are Interested
in the welfare of tho state.
The thirty-first annual reunion of the
Army of the Potomac reminds us
of the fearful repulse of that
Army, under command of General
Burnslde, December 13, 18G2, when the
Union -Army lost 10.8S4 killed and
wounded In a few hours, while the
missing swelled the total loss to 12,653.
In the thirty-five years that have
elapsed since the disbandment of the
Army of the Potomac, nearly all its
eminent soldiers have departed from
this earth. The only survivors among
the corps commanders are Generals
Franklin, Fltz John Porter, William F.
Smith, O. O. Howard, Franz SIgel, O.
B. WIllcox, Daniel E. Sickles. John G.
Parke, James H. Wilson and Wesley
Merritt. Among the division com
manders who survive are Generals
Miles and Brooke, of the active list of
the Army, while the retired list In
cludes Generals Getty, Ruger, David
M'Gregg, Frank Wheaton and John P.
Hatch. In civil life the surviving di
vision commanders are Generals Adel
bert Ames, Joshua L. Chamberlain, J.
D. Cox, Carl Schurz and Alexander S.
Webb.
Among the craft cleared from Seat
tle for Cape Nome within a few days
past we note the name of that vener
able bark, the Jane A, Falkenberg. A
carrier of merchandise on Pacific
waters when Alaska was, but a geo
graphical name, locked In the white
silence of the great North; a sailer
since upon every sea, having success
fully outridden a thousand gales, the
old bark Joins the rush to Nome, pos
sibly as well equipped for the carrying
trade thither as many a newer vessel.
Still, her name, with Its suggestion of
age and years of service that strain
the stoutest timbers, Is suggestive of
grave possibilities when the gales of
the North Pacific and the Ice floes of
Behring Sea are encountered. Since
she has entered the lists," however, she
will be bidden Godspeed by thousands
who would hear with keen regret of
disaster having overtaken her at the
close of so brave a career.
A monument was unveiled Thursday
to Major-General Joseph K. D. Mans
field, who was mortally wounded on the
battle-field of Antletam, September 17,
1862, while deploying the Twelfth Corps
of the Army of the Potomac. General
Mansfield's corps contained a number
of raw regiments, and he was killed by
the fire of his own men. General Long
street was severely wounded by the
fire of his own men on the second day
of the Wilderness, and General "Stone
wall" Jackson died of wounds received
by the fire of his own men at Chancel
lorsvllle. One of Bonaparte's gallant
division commanders was killed by the
fire of his own men in the Italian cam
paign of 1796.
There Is an apparent inclination
among Republicans to view the position
of District Attorney as an office with
out political significance. So It has
been under Mr. Sewall, and so it should
be. But In the hands of the Demo
crats It could be made an Instrument
of serious obstruction to Republican
success. This Is a fact which should
not be lost sight of. The District At
torney elected now will be In power In
1902 and 1904.
It seems superfluous to defend Mr.
Rowe from the charge of being un
friendly to labor. Here Is a man whose
rule of life always ha3 been religiously
to render every person his full due. He
has the respect and confidence of all
who know him as a Just and fair-dealing
citizen, who has Independent judg
ment on all matters that require his
personal attention, and the will to en
force it.
G. E. Henderson, who wrote The Ore
gonlan that "we are out of harmony
with the law of Moses In restricting
the right of suffrage to men only,"
needs to be reminded that we are also
out of harmony with the law of Moses
In the matter of human slavery, polyg
amy and concubinage, which were rec
ognized institutions under the so-called
law of Motes.
The Southern Cotton-Spinners Asso
ciation, at its recent convention at
Charlotte. N. C, passed a resolution
congratulating the House on its pas
sage of the Hepburn bill for an Ameri
can interoceanic canal, and calls upon
the Senate to do likewise. This surely
is cold comfort for the antis.
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ADVICE BY THE ROUNDER.
He Holds Hcart-to-Heart Talks With a
Candidate or Two.
"Tea, sir," said the rounder, with con
viction, as he settled himself comfortably
in a splint-bottom chair of one of the
North End refreshment parlors, and faced
the crowd that was gathered about him.
"yes, sir, the pote was right when he
wrote:
Full many a candydata is bora to blush unseen.
And waste his boodla on tho barroom air.
"Them words applies to my case like a
friend of McBrido for a Government posi
tion. Flndin that Mackay wasn't dis
posed to avail himself of -.the gloryus op
portunity of havin' me sound the note of
liberty for him, I went to Dan McLauch
lan, and asked for a job on the police
force.
" They alnt no vacancles.ln our depart
ment,' says Dan, 'savin an exceptin on
the vag rolls,' sczze, "an Ab Lawrence
Is la tralnln for most of them.' he says.
"Seeln' that the straight ticket had made
up its mind to go down to lngloryus defeet.
an' havin' an eye to wlnnln on the winnln
side. I seeks out Jim Hunt, who was sittin'
In his private office readln Ella Wheeler
Wllcoxes pomes makln ready for a cam
paign speech.
" 'James, I says, "How's the campaign
goin? Is it hot enough for your I says.
" 'Never jou min',' sczze, 'I'm a sawln
wood an a-sellin' hardware,' sezze.
" 'Embractn' an includln' gold bricks?'
sezz I. 'James,' I says, 'this here will
never do. You are looked upon by the
right us,' I sajs, 'as the tom-cat of eter
nal vigilance,' I says, 'awakin' the popu
laco from the sleep of apathy an' settln
them to throwin' the bootjacks of reform,'
I says. Tou need a spieler to cut the
cord that binds the eagle down; to wag
the silver tonguo of oratory, an fill the
dull, cold ear of the voter with the words
of wisdom, I says. 'I'm the boy you are
suf'rin' for,' I says.
" 'Oh, I dunno,' aays James, 'I'm some
thin of a orator myself,' sezze. 'I been
roastin the police force on the East
Side,' sezze, 'to a finish,' he says. 'I
guess I'll do,' he says.
" 'James,' says I, 'alnt you a member of
that there police board yourself?'
" Yes,' sezze, 'I be, but I alnt got no
voice in it, sezze, 'nor yet no finger,' he
adds regretful like. 'I got to keep roastin
it to keep square wth the revrend X-Ray
Palmer et al,' he says.
" 'James, I says, if the Rev'rend X-Ray
Palmer listed to the voice of rumor when
It's nolsin' abroad that you teen holdin'
conferences with gamblers in your private
office,' I says, 'he'd bar you out of the
game unlessen he had a brother shepherd
in the lookout,' I sajs. 'He'd pass jou up
like a white check,' sezz L
"Don't you worry about the Rev'rend
X-Ray Palmer,' says James; 'that's my
friend,' says he. 'Me and the Rev'rend
X-Ray is old college chums,' he says, 'and
these parsons never gets wise, anyway,'
sezze. 'Besides that them rumors alnt
true,' he says. 'I never took them
gamblers Into my private office; they
talked to .me in the store,' he says.
" 'Well, James," I says, 'we're wand'rln"
from the p'int,' I says, 'are you goin'
to give me the job of carryn the mes
sage of the Fusion candidates to the
llstnin' ears of the grim visaged sons of
toll that constltoot the electors of the
County of Mult-o-nomah and the State of
Oregon,' I says, 'or are you goin' to eat
the crow of defeat and spend the rest
of the year extractln' the thorns of dis
appointment out of you with the pinchers
of remorse? I says. 'This Is the last
show you'll get,' I says, 'so you better
chew the cud of reflection.' I says, 'before
jou get hooked on the horns of the di
leema,' I says, 'an' are a dead one,' sezz L
' 'Well,' he says, 'I'll think It over.
" 'James,' says I, 'you- better do your
thlnkin over while I wait for the car,
so to speak, for the time for action has
arlv, I says. 'Let me tell you a little
anecdote that'll show you about how
strong you stand,' I says.
" 'Go ahead,' says he.
" 'Well,' I says, 'when I was passin'
through the tesselated halls of the lobby
of the Chamber of Commerce bulldin' the
other day, the fairy-footed and willowy
Jedge Tom O'Day came trippin' down the
stairs an' meets up with Jack Matthews,
who, by the way, was lookln for Charley
Carey.
Tom," says Jack, "this here man
Hunt Is a lobster," he says, "we can't
elect him." he says, "which we don't want
to anyway an' furthermore," he says,
"we can't trade him off," he says, "for
tho reason that nobody wont have him,"
he says.
" "Cant you trade him unslght un
seen?" asks Tom.
" "No," says Jack, "we cant, because
everybody knows we got him, an the
astoot politician alnt buyin' no pigs in no
pokes, nor yet no gold bricks," he says,
"with all dew respect to the mem'ry of
Pennyer when he applnted Napolyun
Davis," he says.
" ' "Well," says Tom, "sposin we drop
him," ho says, "like a hot spud," he says.
An that's all I heard.'
"James he turned a little pale when I
told him that movin' anecdote, but ho
says: That's guff you are glvin me. Me
an' Tom O'Day Is as thick as Tom Is In
the beam, he say3. Tom wont throw me
down,' he says.
" "Well, maybe he wont," says I, 'but If I
was you I wouldn't give him no chances
at me,' I says. 'By the way, what's this
I hear about you respondln to the toast
of "The Ladles" at the "banket tho other
night?'
" 'Look here," he says, firln' up, "you're
glttin personal. I was never at no ban
ket; my mlndl3 taken up with my busi
ness and with the large dooties of poli
tic?.' he says. 'Who said anything about
any ladles,' he says.
" 'Oh, nobody,' sezz I. 'Only I Just
wondered,' I says.
" 'Well,' sezze, you keep your wonderln"
to yourself in the hereafter, will you, an'
with that he called the porter an' had me
throwed out,
"Takin this a3 a gentle Intimation that
the Interview might be considered .t an
end, I wended my weary way homeward,
like the plowman In that pome of Judge
Whalley's, an" left the world to darkness
an to Jim.
"No, sir, the efforts of a true friend of
the politician 13 despised In this man's
town. The hard hand of lnappreclatlon
is passed to him, the marble face of mls
understandln' Is turned toward his efforts,
and he Is pierced by the Icy eye of sus
picion. Here I come all the way from
Dawson City hopin' to bo of some use to
some one, to allevyate the burdens of the
candydate. In return for a mere handful
of the base metal that rusts not neither
doth it corrupt, an' here I am become as
soundin' brass buttons and tinklln" eym
bles. It alnt no use of tryln". but mebbe
some day the prejudice of ignorance and
superstition will be dlsippated by the fiery
glow of the rennisance of common sense,
an" then I will have another show. But
at present I feel like the famus pote,
Walkin Miller, when he wrote:
There ain't no graft a man can get
But what gets took away.
There ain't no war a man can bet
An" make that business pay.
His ole friends all win pass him up.
As scon as he goes broke.
An leave him suppln sorrow's cup.
Which ain't no campaign Joke.
Oh! could I havo what I have won.
Or keep what I have stole.
I'd have an awful lot of fun
Before I spent my rolL
As quarters in a cast-off vest.
TT-
Fills one with gorjus glee,
And of all treasures are the best,
That dough would be to me.
MASTERPIECES OF UTERATURE-XV
"Alexander's feast; or, The Power of
Music" John Dryden.
'Twaa at the royal feast for Persia wba
By Philip's warlike son
Aloft In awful state
The godlike hero sate
On his Imperial throne;
His valiant peers were placed around. - '
Their brows with rose and with myrtles bound
(So should desert In arms be crown d);
Tho lovely Thais by Ms side
Sate like a blooming eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride:
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave.
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserves the falrl
Tlmotheus placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
"With flying fingers touch'd the" lyre;
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly Joys inspire.
The song began from Jove
Who left his blissful seats above
Such Is tho power of might love!
A dragon's -flery form belled the god;
Sublime on radiant spires he rode
"When he to fair Olympla prest.
And whlla he sought her snowy breast; . '
Then round her slender waist he curl'd,
And stamp'd an Image of himself, a sovereign
of the world. . '
Tho listening crowd admire the lofty soundt ,
A present deity! they shout around;
A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound t
WUth ravlsh'd ears "
Tho monarch hears.
Assumes the god; o
Affects to nod "
And seems to shake the spheres.
Tho praise of Bacchus then tho sweet cm-
slclan sung:
Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young:
The Jolly god In triumph comes!
Sound the trumpets, beat the drums l
Flush'd with a purple grace
He shows his honest face:
Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he
comes! . i
Bacchus, ever fair1- and young.
Drinking Joys did first ordain; r
Bacchus" blessings are a treasure.
Drinking Is the soldier's pleasure:
Rich the treasure
Sweet the pleasure.
Sweet Is pleasure after pain.
Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain;
Fought all his battles o'er again.
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice ha
slew the slain!
The master saw the madness rise.
His glowing cheeks, bis ardent eyes;
And while he Heaven and Earth defied
Changed his hand and check'd his pride.
He chose a mournful. Muse t
Soft pity to Infuse: r
He sung Darius great and good.
By too severe a fate
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from hl3 high estate.
And weltering In his blood;
Deserted, at his utmost need.
By those hi3 former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies
With not a friend to close his eyes.
With downcast looks the Joyless victor sate.
Revolving In his alter'd soul
The -various turns of Chance below; '
And now and then a sigh ha stole.
And tears began to flow.
The mighty master smiled to see
That love was In the next degree;
'T was but a kindred sound to move,
For pity melts the mind to love.
Softly sweet. In Lydlan meauree
Soon he soothed his soul to pleaaurea.
War. he sung. Is toll and trouble, '
Honor but an empty bubble.
Never ending, still beginning;
Fighting still, and still destroying:
If the world be worth thy winning.
Think. O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee.
Take the good the gods provide theet
The many rend the skies with loud applarae;
So Love was crown'd, but Music won the causa.
The prince, unable to conceal his pain.
Gazed on the fair
Who caused his care.
And sigh'd and look'd. slgh'd and looked,
Slgh'd and look'd. and slgh'd again:
At length with love and wine at once oppreet
The vanquished victor sunk upon her breast.
Now strike the golden ljre again: f
A louder yet, and yet a louder stralni
Break his bands of sleep asunder " -
And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder?-
Hark, hark! the horrid sound
Has raised up his head:
As awaked from the dead : .
And amazed he stares around.
Revenge, revenge, Tlmotheus criea.
See the rurles arise!
See the snakea that they rear
How they hls3 in their hair.
And the sparkles that flash from their eyes I
Behold a ghastly band v
Each a torch In his hand!
Those are Grecian ghosts, that In battle wert
slain
And unburied remain
Inglorious on the plain:
Give the vengeance due
To the valiant crew!
Behold how they toss their torches on higR",
How they Dolnt to the Persian abodes
And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
The princes applaud with a furious Joy;
And the King seized a uamDeau wim zeai so
destroy;
Thais led the way
To light him to his prey.
And Hko another Helen, fired another Troyl
Thus, long ago, .
Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow.
While organs yet are mute.
Tlmotheus. to his breathing flute
And sounding lyre
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle toft
desire.
At lost divine Cecilia came, -Inventress
of the vocal frame; ,
The sweet enthusiast from her sacred atore
Enlarged the former narrow bounds.
And added length to solemn junds,
With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown
before.
Let old Tlmotheus yield the prize
Or both divide the crown; .. y iii "n
He raised a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down!
PLEASAXTRIES OP PARAGltAPHEHS
Good advice to Admiral Dewey: "Don't give
up the ship." Yonkers Statesman.
Her Preference. Minister Now, little girl,
you want to be a Christian, don't you? Ethel
No, sir; I'd rather sing in the choir. Puck.
ReflecUon. "Food for reflection," observed
the ostrich, with a certain rude wit, as he swal
lowed the fragments of the mirror. Detroit
Journal.
"Do trouble In dls life." said Uncle Eben,
"Is dat do voice o duty can't do no md"n
whisper, while de voice o" pleasure uses a
megaphone." Washington Star.
Football enthusiast (during heavy rain last
Saturday) This is a grand day for the fltba",
Tam. Tam Hoo dae ye mak that oot, Wull?
Wull (moving off) Because It'll no get a
klckln'. Glasgow Evening Times.
Proof. "Did you say that trusts were the
means of raising wages?" "Certainly." an
swered Senator Sorghum. "I know the pres
ident of a combination who ha raised hU
salary four times In the last two 5 ears."
Washington Star.
Consistent. Now, It being up to the woman.
she said- "I think a man sbouid do master
In his own house." "But you " some one
started to say. "The proposition still holds."
said the woman, smiling. "We board." Her
subtlety waa admired of all her hearers. In
dianapolis Press.
In Chicago. Ida Who Is that strango man
over at the Smythes" on the Lake Shore drive?
The one that wears bearskin breeches and car
ries a brace of revolvers? May He is a cow
boy they Imported from the Northwest. They
pay him $5 per night to shoot burglars. Chi
cago News.
Woe. ' I
Chicago Times-Herald.
Her children's cheeks are rosy.
Their limbs are strong and straight.
Her husband loves her truly, .
And servants on her wait!
Tet oft she sits and sighs
And oft alone she criea
Out bitterly at Fate.
The ancient rugs aro costly
That He upon the floor;
The lawn Is broad and shady
That stretches from the door;
She has enough, you say?
Her sister, o'er the way.
Has Just a little more!
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