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THEJTORTH CAROLTVA PROCEEDING
The kernel of the suffrage amend
ment Just adopted In North Carolina
Is in the following paragraph:
Every person presenting himself for regls
tratlon shall be able to read and write any
eectlon of the Constitution In the English lan
Eua.e: and. before he shall be entitled to .oto.
he shall have paid on or before the first day
of May, of the jear In -nhlch he proposes to
vote, his poll-tax for the previous 3 ear. as
prescribed by article 15, section 1, of the Con
stitution But no male rerson who was on
January 1. 1S67, or at any time prior thereto,
entitled to rote under the laws of any state In
tbe United States wherein he then resided, and
no lineal descendant of any such person shall
be denied the right to register and lote at any
election In this state by reason of his failure
to possess the educational qualification herein
described, provided he shall hae registered In
accordance with the terms of this section prior
to December 1. 190S
This amendment, it will be seen, is
devised expressly to disfranchise illit
erate negroes and yet to protect Illit
erate whiter.. Of the latter, there are
very large numbers in the state. And
of course, since the administration of
the law will be carried on in a partisan
spirit, It will be easy for the officer of
registration to decide .that the negro
cannot "read and write any section of
the Constitution," in a satisfactory
manner; or if his vote can be vouched
for by a politician of the dominant
party, he may pass for registration,
though his power to read and write be
of the lowest possible description. At
the same time the illiterate white man
may register, without question. This,
of course, is not fair; but It will stand,
even though, as ex-Senator Hansom (of
North Carolina) ay, "if makes dus of
the fifteenth amendment."
The truth Is. the fifteenth amendment
is the most colossal political mistake
ever made In the United States. In the
states where the negroes are numerous
it Is now practically nullified. Experi
ence has shown the nullification to be
necessary. It is nothing less than a
hideous doctrine that all persons have
an equal right to participate In gov
ernment, on equal terms, or that "self
government" or "consent of the gov
erned" requires the acceptance or ap
plication of this doctrine. Our people
have practically changed their opinions
on this subject, since the fifteenth
amendment was adopted; for, through
out the Northern states, scarcely a
voice is now lifted against this whole
sale disfranchisement of the negroes in
the South. Again, nothing could be
more inconsistent than the course of
those who are denying the right of the
negroes of our country, to participation
in the Government, and to control of
the Government where they are a ma
jority, and yet who utter a stream of
mumbling cant about "consent of the
governed" In the Philippine Islands
asserting at the same time that the
Filipinos are unfit for liberty and self
government and therefore that, while
we must not assert our sovereignty, we
should maintain a "protectorate" over
them.
Why should the "niggers" of the
Philippine Islands have better right to
"self-government" than the "niggers"
of our Southern states? As a whole,
those of the Philippines are far less
fitted for it. Here is a problem which
your Democratic antl-lmperlalist might
"tackle," but he will not The .truth is,
the doctrine of "consent of the gov
erned," except perhaps as an ideal, and
that unrealizable, is silly vapidity. The
fittest must rule, will rule and ought
to rule. Difference of race Intensifies
the principle, or the fact Imperialism
is the rule of those best fitted to rule,
and the cry of "antl-lmpcriallsm," now
heard so much. Is an unmeaning jargon.
OXE TOUCH OF XATURE.
A "Walla "Walla farmhand, having told
his faithless wife he should be away
from home all night, returned a few
hours later, found her, as he had ex
pected to find her, in btd with a guard
from the neighboring penitentiary, shot
the intruder through the heart, spoke
a word of reproach to his wife, and
left the house. Thus, in another sphere,
we see re-enacted the Deacon-Abeille
tragedy of years ago at Paris. There is
no difference in the plot or the motives
of the actors or the tragic denouement
The only variation is in the costumes
worn and the settings of the stage.
So much of superstitious fancy Is
thrown about the actions of variant
social groups that It may be worth
while just to turn aside for a moment
and note the Identity of human passions
In all the sundered walks of life. "We
hear a great deal about the immorality
of Parisian society, but here is the iden
tical temptation, sin and vengeance
which once set the world awag at the
evils of aristocratic circles. Down in
Whitechapel exactly the same things
are going on for which Captain
Thomas, of New Tork, made his dra
matic raid on the Tivoli, Thursday
night only in humbler clothing. The
heir goes home drunk in his carriage
and the hoodlum lies intoxicated in the
gutter. The dice are loaded on the bar
of the Sailor's Retreat, and in London's
"West End clubs the smoothest cheater
wins at baccarat In French novels you
can find out a great deal about the Im
morality of Paris, but In the country
paoer must be found the story of Incest j
with the "wife's connivance. The knock
out drops will perforin for the -Bowery
tough the same service that th pois
oned pin of the badge of honor used to
render, and perhaps does ye, at" St, Pe
tersburg. Get rid' of the idea. If you have it,
that vice and crime, or contentment and
misery, are creatures of attire, 'or the
neighborhood, or the latest session laws.
The error has been welL exploited by
Shakespeare, by Thackeray, by Emer
son. Rich and poor, the Lord is the
maker "of them" all. And the pattern, in
tbe main lines of elemental passions, is
little varied. "What we have we -estimate
as of no account. What we have
not we crave. The prison guard is as
welcome to the farmhand's wife as the
courtly Abeille was to the equally
tempted Mrs. Deacon. And he sleeps
just as soundly. "We shall see if there
is any difference In the treatment given
the avenging husband.
"FREE" EDUCATION.
In his interesting annual report,
printed yesterday, County Superintend
ent Armstrong inveighs almost spirit
edly against state aid to higher educa
tion. He has nothing against the 'bene
faction, per se, but he resents its ap
parent injury- to the primary sohools.
"If money cannot be appropriated for
both," he says, "common schools should
be given the preference over those of
advanced-grade. The school system of
the state is already top-heavy. The
remedy for this undesirable condition is
plain and simple divert money from
secondary schools to the elementary."
It is difficult to see how such a -position
is successfully to be maintained.
The major premise.understood is that
public policy is more concerned in primary-education
than in 'higher educa
tion a doctrine that is popular, but far
from established. Education used to be
conceived as the sole and adequate
equipment of citizenship. The theory Is
that the state In its own defense must
make its subjects wise, or they will be
Its ultimate undoing. Experience has
called the doctrine into grave question.
"We have seen, as the old "Virginia an
nalist puts It, that education enables
many a man "to err very learnedly,"
and Invariably "makes the fool more
abundantly foolish." A-good man is a
better man for his education, but a bad
man Is worse.
Through our American public school
system we have raised up a tribe of
creatures who threaten the safety of
our institutions with a smattering of
knowledge. The assailants of peace
and honor, sound economics and honest
finance, are not the ignorant so much
as the immature scholar. "We are
threatened with confusion from the
half educated. Every man, that can
read is an original thinker. Every man
that can write is a publicist with a
party, a philosopher with a 'school. The
man to reach the reading and writing
masses must not know so much of his
tory or economics or human nature as
to be careful of his assertions, or "thor
ough In his thinking or honest in his
views. He must know no more than
to be plausible, he must not have too
great Insight into truth, to be specious
in flattery and superficial In reasoning.
"What show would Burke or Mill stand
for the Senate .as against Mason,or De
pew? "Who would 'flock to Goethe or
Bacon, so he might listen to Bryan and
"Coin" Harvey, or Coxey and Sover
eign, or Altgeld and Tillman, or Wol-
cott and "Web Davis?
It Is open to doubt whether we need
many more semi-educated worse than
we need a few more , thoroughly , edu
cated. ' The country needs men ( who
have learned the lessons of history, as
applicable to government, and who have
the force to compel obedience to those
lessons. It is an end beyond the reach
of primary or secondary schools, pri
vate or public.
Men are coming to see that educa
tion Is nothing more or less than a
part of the Individual's equipment for
the battle of life, and on the same basis
as regards the duty of society on which
any other artificial endowment rests.
Mr. Herbert Spencer, who has pointed
us to the higher education as our only
bulwark against socialism, has also
shown us the communistic nature of the
public school. Theoretically Superin
tendent Armstrong Is wrong. Practi
cally, It is necessary to agree with him,
In order that the diversion of taxes 'to
the delectation of the Individual may be
kept at the lowest point possible.
CAVALRY IN FUTURE "WARS.
It has been a common prediction that
modern firearms would make cavalry
useless in war. But it does not prove
true. It does not follow that because
a direct cavalry charge cannot now suc
ceed, as formerly, cavalry therefore
will be superseded as a military arm.
On the contrary, cavalry, under the
conditions of modern warfare, becomes
more necessary than ever. "The mobil
ity of a force is the chief factor In war.
Modern arms, it was said, are so
far-reaching and destructive, and bod
ies of cavalry so big a target, that Such
bodies would be cut to pieces before
they could ever. reach their enemy. But
the direct assau.lt is not the purpose
for which cavalry is to be employed.
The quick movement beyond .the Infan
try, the long circuit and sudden attack
on some vulnerable point, can be effect
ed only by cavalry. The Boers won so
long as they had this advantage over
the British; the British won so soon as
they formed a cavalry that gave their
forces the necessary mobility. There
could be no relief" for Klmberley or for
Mafeking, till the "dash" could be made
by mounted men.
A military critic in the London Na
tional Review for July says the British
might have learned from the American
Civil "War the lesson necessary for suc
cess In South Africa, without having
to reach it through an actual experi
ence. The cardinal problem of this war,
he says, was how to deal with an enemy,
whose whole force .consisted of some
40,000 to 60,000 very mobile mounted in
fantry. "There Is no modern war," he
continues, "In which masses of mounted
Infantry had been used, save the great
struggle of the Federals and Confeder
ates In 1S61-65. The campaigns which
our professional advisers should- have
been studying last Autumn when they
had to arrange for the checking of the
Boer Invaders of Natal and Cape Col
onywere those of the great leaders of
mounted Infantry across the Atlantic,
such as J. E B. Stuart, Forrest and
Morgan. None of these officers ever
had more than 10,000 men concentrated
on a single spot for a single stroke;
yet when one reads of the astounding
forced marches of the Confederate Gen
erals, of the way In which they rode
completely round their enemy's army,
cutting communications, capturing
wagon trains, breaking railways and
capturing isolated bodies of men, one is
filled with a sense of deep thankfulness
that the burghers sat down to conduct
sieges."- . - . .
Our military "writers, especially those
of the Confederate states, fairly how
that the South never begun really to
fail till the Northern military authori
ties had organized large bodies of cav
alry, to raid the country, destroy the
gathefed-crops and other supplies,.bura
mills and barns and agricultural imple
ments, cut lines "of communication and
harass the people remote from the main
armies. This wore the South out.
Again, as the Federal armies, penetrat
ed further and further into the "South,
the supply, of horses for the Confederate
cavalry ran short, and the advantage
of mobility turned In favor of the
Northern .arnjs.
Cavalry will be used no more In war
as Napoleon used it; but, Instead of
being superseded, it becomes more nec
essary than ever. Modern firearms ren
der front attacks on chosen positions
next to Impossible. A This the British
found "to their cost in South Africa.
But so soon as thoy had obtained a
cavalry force and were able to make
circuits around' the positions "taken by
thV Boers, -the latter at once withdrew.
Thus the- beleaguered British garrisons
were relieved and' the Boers were turned
out of every position, from their fron
tiers to Pretoria.
Use of cavalry from this time is cer
tain to 'receive more attention in war
than it ever had before. This result,
not abandonment of caValry, is to be a
consequence of the improvement of the
effectiveness of firearms.
THE ROMANCE OF DISCOVERT.
On Thursday last the Marquette
monument meeting was held on the
parade grounds at old Fort Mackinaw.
About two thousand persons were pres
ent The -Marquette Monument 'Asso
ciation is not sectarian in Us composi
tion, for Its president is Franklin Mac
Veagh, an eminent citizen of Chicago,
and its membership includes General
John C. Black, Pension Commissioner
during Cleveland's first term, and
other American non-Catholics. , -The
memory of the great Jesuit missionary,
and discoverer is worthily honored, be
cause he was a man of humane and,
gentle spirit, who lived a pure and
heroic life. , Father Marquette belongs
to humanity and to history, a beautiful
man, an adventurous voyager at once
of religious and romantic spirit. Father
Marquette and his companion voyager,
Jollet, were Jesuits who fitly repre
sented the heroic virtues of Loyola', the
great founder of that famous order.
Loyola had been a gallant Spanish sol
dier in his youth, but wounds had made
him a cripple for life. A man of passion
ate, imaginative mind, of morbid Inten
sity and energy of temper, he rose from
his bed of sickness, resolved that since
he could no longer be a soldier of the
world, he would be the soldier and
knight-errant of the cross of Christ.
The spirit of a religious enthusiast
and the soul" of heroic chivalry were
mingled In Loyola, who in the great
Catholic reaction bore the same part
that Luther bore in the great Protes
tant movement. A man of vehemence,
a man of policy, a man of exact
discipline, a man of self-denial,
superior to the dearest private ties, a
man of Intense and -stubborn devotion
'to a single end, a man of 'dauntless
courage, Loyola taught the great or
der which he founded how to fight the
battla of their church, and the history
of that order is the history of the great
Catholic reaction, and in the spirit of
'their founder the great order soon went
forth conquering and to conquer. The
Jesuits crossed oceans and deserts,
faced hunger and pestilence, dungeons,
racks and gibbets. They Invaded all
the countries which the great maritime
discoveries of the sixteenth century had
laid open to European enterprise. They
were found In the mines of Peru, at the
slave marts of Africa, In the Philip
pines, In the heart of China, The lead
ers of this great order included many
men not Inferior In sincerity, constancy,
courage and austerity of life to the
apostles of the Reformation, and their
evangelists overspread the world, eager
to expend every drop of their blood In
the cause-of their church.
Of this great order Father Marquette
was the pupil, the faithful servant and
heroic apostle from seventeen until he
died at the foot of an humble altar In
the lonely wilderness of Michigan at the
early age of thirty-eight, prematurely
worn out by the physical hardships
of his patient yet passionate "service of
his Order and Its church. It was be
cause he was the child of this remarka
ble order that the gentle, poetic-minded
Marquette became not only a great mis
sionary, but a great discoverer. .Left
to his own natural ambition and ta'stes,
such a man would have been the faith
ful cure of a quiet village In France, or
had he turned to literature, he would
have wrltten.ln the .spirit and style of
the humane, splrltual-mlnded Fenelon.
But he was a soldier of the order of
Jesus. The order sent him to Canada,
and in his heroic ambition to become a
great and successful missionary he be
came an adventurous voyager, who,
protected only by his religious garb and
mission,' made that wonderful water
journey through the Ottawa and St.
Lawrence Rivers and through the Great
Lakes, which, as recited In the eloquent
pages of Parkman, is the romance of
discovery In North America. - 1
The discoveries of De Soto, of Cortez,
of Ponce de Leon, were the work vof
armed soldiers, whose purpose was as
worldly as that of Pizarro; for the Span
ish soldier In North America was noth
ing" but an Insatiable, ferocious gold
hunter. The Englishmen, who settled
Jamestown and the Puritans who set
tled New England were first of a(l trad
ers; their passion for discovery was lim
ited by "souls curbed, in a sixpence"
compared with the spirit of Marquette
and his fellow Jesuits. The, English
men, neither in. New England nor In
Virginia, were missionaries to Indians
and martyrs like the Jesuits Lallemet
and De Brebeuf among the Iroquois, or
missionaries and discoverers like Mar
quette and Joliet The Englishmen' In
North America had no us.e ior the In
dlans except when they wanted to buy
their furs or steal their land. For the
body of the Indian In this world or his
soul in the next world the Englishmen
who settled North America from Casco
Bay to the mouth of the Savannah felt
not the slightest concern; the Indian
must treat or trade or travel. But to
Marquette even' Indian convert was
another soldier of Christ; another soul
rescued from perdition and fitted for
paradise. And so, taking his life in his
hand, this heroic Jesuit missionary vis
ited every Indian tribe between Mon
treal and the Mississippi. Something
about him won the affection or imposed
on the. superstition of the savages, for
they not only never insulted or injured
him, but treated him with absolute af
fection and reverence. Of course-, he
was fortunate in not meeting the Iro
quois, who would have murdered him
at once, not because he was i, .Christian,
but because he was a Frenchman.
The story of this gentle-hearted, heroic-minded
missionary traveling from
Montreal to Lake Superior, from Lake
Superior to the Mississippi; protected
by nothing but ills unarmed personal
ity, i3 in striking contrast with the
story of English settlement of North
America. The French 'carried their flag
from New Orleans to Minneapolis; from
Montreal to Lake Superior; Jrom Lake
Superior to the prairies of Illinois and
Indiana, within a comparatively few
years, but the Englishman, from the
day he landed at Plymouth Rock and
at Jamestown, never Extended the do
minion of his flag In the spirit of dis
covery. He was purely a man of busl
ness'and a home-maker. He was ready
to extend his boundaries only when furs
became scarce and fertile farms dear.
This difference was due something to
the, fact that he was not s. romantic
Frenchman, but It was due far more
to Jthe fact that the omantlo French
man was a devout Catholic, whose
priests were ardent Jesuits eager for
discovery, not merely to enlarge their
worldly empire, but to convert heathens
to , Christianity and multiply the sol
diers "of Christ.
If the report that the Chinese Gov
ernment has given notice that any at
tempt of the allies to march on Pekln
will be followed by the murder of the
foreign Legations is 'true, it will be
treated with contempt,' The Ministers,"
so far as we know, are not yet prison
ers, and aro not likely ,to surrender to
a government that proposes to murder
them If their friends advance to their
relief. The Ministers can probably hold
out until relief arrives, but at all events
It Is their best chance1 of safety, for a
government that threatens to treat
th'em as hostages is" entirely' capable of
murdering them or turning them over
to the tender mercies of the mob. To
die fighting is not worse than a cruel
death at the hands of a treacherous
government or a brutal ,mob. The prob
abilities are, however, that, the govern
ment at Pekin Is only "playing a
biuff," for it knows that' ultimately the
murder of the Legations would be most
terribly punished. The government
knows that the members of the Legation
Hying might be both willing and able
toT'plead with their governments for
leniency, but that thefr murder would
never be forgiven. The murder of the
Legations would meaiythe Ultimate de
struction of Pekln and the execution of
every member of the government re
sponsible for their death. s The only ef
fect of the threat to murder the foreign
Ministers Is to confirm the conviction
that the Pekln Government is acting
with characteristic Oriental duplicity,
and Is really the architect and engineer
of the insurrection.
David Starr Jordan, .opposing reten
tion of the Phlllpplrie Islands, Bays:
"If we admit as citizens any number
of millions of people tfrat are not ready
for liberty; if we admit them with all
the degradation which t they must bring
into our politics, we must take the con
sequences." "We shall not admit the
Filipinos as citizens, 'to participate in
government, further than we think
proper and safe; but shall hold them
down, for their own good and for the
common good, as the South holds down
the negro. There is no -more danger of
our "degradation" from the one pro
ceeding than from the other. President
Jordan says we "must not be respecters
of persons." But we are, always have
been. And we always must be, If we
are not to lose civilization. The basis
pf the' Bryan party is subordination
of the negro. "What hypocrisy in that
party to exclaim against subordination
of the Filipino nigger! There are about
eight millions of each sort, but the
American negro is by far the fitter for
participation in government.
General James H. "Wilson, who Is now
on his way to China to report to Major
General Chaffee at Tien' Tsln, spent a
year in China in 1885-86, and Is the only
general officer in the United States
Army who is familiar with the country
"where the coming military operations
will take place. He knows Pekln, and
has traveled six times by night on
horseback from that city to Tien Tsln,
and has ridden twice by the road from
Taku to Tien Tsln. In China he stud
ied the people and the customs, knows
all' the leading Chinese statesmen, and
Is personally familiar with their mili
tary organization. .General "Wilson
wrote a book called "China and
Glimpses of Japan" as a result of his
first visit to the Flowery Kingdom.
Arkansas has a political sensation.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee Invited ex-Governor "William M.
Flshback to canvass the state. He re
fuses, in an open letter, in which he
Intimates his belief that Jeff Davis, now
Attorney-General and. nominee of the
Democrats for Governor, has been im
properly influenced by trusts tq drop
suits against them. Republicans get as
much satisfaction from his letter as
Bryanites do from Tom Reed's neglect
to answer the Republican National
Committee's request to him to make
some speeches In Maine.
Europe's urgent needs for gold post
pone the day predicted by currency vis
ionaries when the yellow metal must
be demonetized on account of its abun
dance.. London's bank reserves are fall
ing, and discount rates stiffening. The
least visible surplus ot,gold here is sure
to be scrambled for by England, Ger
many, France and Russia. There Is
gold enough, and the effort to prove it
too- scarce is apparently no more unsuc
cessful than the one to prove it too
abundant
The German critics have been obliged
finally to come around in support of
Secretary Hay's policy. Not that
they relish it, but there comes a time
when even the German sense of humor
asserts itself. The keenest sufferers are
the Aunties. How galling It must be to
find foreign-and almost hostile nations
uniting in praise of the acts of an Ad
ministration whose every act they are
bound to denounce as subversive of our
liberties!
Representative Dolllver, of Iowa, an6V
-Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, are toehold
a political debate August 9 at Shelby
vllle, I1L It may not prove of- much
value In swaying the Judgment of vot
ers on the matters before the country,
but it ought to be highly Interesting
as a display of oratorical fireworks.
New Jersey's decision to prosecute Its
anarchist conspirators- If evidence of
guilt appears reflects credit upon its ad
ministration. But it puts in ridiculous
light the first brandishing of technicalities.
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
Haad SXnUer As&la
Hand Mailer ox a Summer's day
Got sick of raking up the hay.
And, togging out In bright array.
For Paris gayly sailed away.
"While papa "hooked the. crop of hay"
That Maud's expenses he might pay,
She stayed three weeks In Paris say.
And came back feeling dead blase.
And when tho 'judge she met one day
She asked -him: "Paries vous Francais?"
The Judge in English said. "Nay, nay";
And in disgust Maud turned away,
She sized tbe Judge up for a jay.
Because he couldn't talk that way.
The Judge thought Maud had got too gay.
And so did not propose that day.
Thus Maud's one prospect soared away.
And now she's hack at raking hay.
"The moral of this simple lay.
Requires but few words to say.
Just stick to English, come what may,
Or you'll be in the consomme.
In the Weather Office.
"You always stand pretty high, don't
you?" Inquired the thermometer.
"Yes," 'said the barome'ter, "but I have
my ups and downs. How do you keep
up so well?"
"Oh, that's easy," replied the thermom
eter. "You- aee, I got some high de
grees when I was graduated.
Hear to Heart "With XCwnng- Han.
"We're afraid that your Minister Wu
Kwang Hsu
Isn't telling us all that la true
Of you.
He's keeping: tis guessing
By things he's suppressing
A course which is not going to do,
Kwang Hsu.
Which is piling up trouble for you.
We're afraid that tbo Boxers and you,
Kwang Hsu,
And our smooth friend In Washington, tco
That's Wu
Are birds of one feather,
And "flocking together.
To do all the harm you can do,
Kwang Hsu,
And there's trouble ahead for your crew.
If you'd like to hang on to your queue,
Kwang Hsu,
And the headpiece that goes with it too.
Tell Wu
To give information
On this situation, J
That schoolboys can't see isn't true,
Kwang Hsu,
Just send those instructions to Wu.
A-Playia Go.
The following was received from a
rural contributor, and indicates that the
people of his vicinity axe becoming up to
date:
There's a cur"us race o people down behind
tho pastur' lot.
An we can't make out exactly if they're
clean gone daft or not
Every day we see 'em down there, cttttln' op
the queerest Jinks.
On a piece o' rolling meddar which Is called
by them "tho links,"
All they do is aanter easy, takln' now an
then a crack '
At a ball with sticks that s carried fcy a
youngster In a sack.
Once I asked a feller down there If he wasn't
. kind o" off.
An' he said he guessed not hardly, that he
Jest was playln' goff.
It would make you smile to tell you how
these these funny folks is dressed,
Wear knee pants and big thick stockins,
little coats an' nary vest.
Folks down here bollere they fancy that
they're playln at a game.
But there ain't no game about it that is
worthy o' the name.
All they do is wander slowly, like men Jest
about to drop.
An they never ffaXic a minute 'fore they
turn around an' atop;
But of course we dont disturb 'em; tain't for
us to mgck or scoff.
At the poor unhappy fellers let 'em play
their harmless goff.
But the strangest thing about 'en la the
lingo that they speak.
Some of-us believe It's Indian, while there
others think It's Greek.
Words like "loftin'," 'tee" an "fooale,'
"bunker," an' such things as that.
They talk oft right smooth an easy, Jest as
if they had 'em pat.
My boy packs the goff sticks fur 'em, an
hears everything they say.
But he never understands 'em when they talk
that funny way.
Course they may be all well balanced, hut
they seem a little off,
Fur it looks as if a sane man wouldn't b
a-playin' goff.
Camo by It Honestly-.
Englishman, proudly I can trace my
ancestry back to "William the Conqueror.
Shanghai "War Correspondent That's
nothing. I can trace mine back to
Ananias.
AoBTUBt.
Gettln kind of hasy,
'Bound the edges of the sky.
Trees is kind o dusty
An' the grass Is gettin' dry;
Birds has quit their slngln',
An' the cricks Is runnln' low.
Flowers' is a-fadln'
In the pasture down below.
Nature's gettln' thirsty
Fur a cool, refreshln' rain.
Streams an' hills an meadows
Say that August's here again.
J. J. MONTAGUE.
Belief In n Future State.
PORTLAND, Aug. 4. (To the Editor.)
The writer has frequently heard the
statement made, not only In conversa
tion, but -from the pulpit that all races
of men have a religion of some kind, and
that all peoples believe In a future state,
or life after death. On the other hand,
a correspondent In your paper some time
ago stated, that many races have no
conception of .1 Ci eator or Supreme Being
or of life after death.
I have anxiously waited to see the sub
ject more thoroughly discussed, but have
bocn disappointed. In view of this "con
flict of authorities," will not some of the
erudite furnish your readers with the
facts? G. S. WHITE.
The subject Is the largest In the history
of the human race, and the literature of
the subject Is Immense. The whole space
In this Issue of Th Oregonlan would be
inadequate for a catalogue of a tenth
part of the literature. Start with Tr
ior's "Primitive Culture" two volumes
Williams & Norgate, .London.
1
The Increasing; Une of Metal.
Cassiers Magazine.
In the United States steel cars are
being substituted for wooden ones on
railways, and to this one new departure
a goodly share of steel industry activity
Is ascribed. The various uses to which
electricity has been applied In late vears.
the water supply of cities, and all kinds
of engineering enterprises, have also
greatly Increased 'the demand for Iron
and steel in all countries; and, 'lastly, a
new "era in rallway-bulldlng has com
menced In Russia, the United States and
some other countries, the great Siberian
enterprises of Russia alone calling for
Immense quantities of railway material.
A "World-Sermon.
Atlanta Constitution.
I reckon de Lawd is a-runnln' de sky,
En he know w'en ter bind en deliver;
W'ene-verdey starts in ter prayln fer dry,
Down come de rain' lak a rlvsr!
En w'enever dey prayln' de Ioudes' fer rain
Wen dey never a cloud up on high
De sun shine so hat on de hill en de plain
Hit des cracks de wort' en de sky!
Don't take me ez sayln' dat prayln ain't right
(De bes' er do people hes done It).
But de Lawd made do wort', wid Its green en
Its bright.
En I reckon he knows how tar run It!
AH OREGON -POEM BY BURROUGHS
"When John Burroughs was In Portland
a year ago, on bis way from Alaska with
the Harriman expedition it was whis
pered .about that he had written a poem
on our Oregon robin. Naturally our curi
osity was somewhat piqued to know Just
wnat ne was going to say to tne woria
about our Western songster, who, truth
to tell, must seem a bit shy and unsocia
ble to those who are familiar with the
good comradery of his Yankee prototype.
He is rather a sad fellow, with a plain
tive, unfinished song of five or six notes,
regularly descending In a dlrge-llke
minor key, and is distinguished from the
common American robin by the black
collar he wears about the neck, the
orange wing markings and the habit of
perching on a tree in somber silence. So
perhaps Mr. Burroughs who. after all,
could not be unkind It ha tried Is not
to blamo for presenting our feathered
friend in rather an unflattering light.
But there must have been some sort
of fascination about him to have inspired
the genial verses that are now published
for the first time in the August Century.
Mr. Burroughs made his acquaintance
with the shy creature on Kadlak Island,
along the coast of Alaska; for our robin
leaves Oregon on a long Journey north
ward each year In May, and does not re
turn till October. Here are the attractive
scenes amid which he disports himself
in his own sad and gloomy fashion when
away from home on his Summer vacation:
"We all climbed the mighty emerald biF.
low that rose from the rear of the vil-
lage. some of us repeatedly," writes Mr.
The "Varied Thrush," or Oregon Robin.
Burroughs. From the ship it looked as
smooth as a meadow, but the climber
soon found himself knee-deep In ferns,
grasses, and a score of flowering plants,
and now and then pushing through a
patch of alders as high as his head. He
could not go far before his hands would
be full of flowers, blue predominating.
The wild geranium here Is light blue, and
it tinged the slopes as daisies and butter
cups do at home. Near the summit there
were oatches of most exouisite forgat-
me-nots, of a pure, delicate blue, with a
yellow center,
"They grew to the height of a foot,
and a handful of them looked like some
thing Just caught out of the sky above.
Here, too, were a small, delicate lady's-
sllpper, pale yellow striped with maronn.
and a pretty dwarf rhododendron. Ki
large purple flower sitting upon the moss
and lichen. The climber also waded
through patches of lupine, and put his
feet upon bluebells, Jacob's Ladder, Iris,
saxifrage, carJBlopes, and many others.
The songbirds that attracted our notice
were the golden-crowned sparrow and the
little hermit-thrush. The golden-crown
had a peculiarly piercing, plaintive song,
very simple but very appealing. There
were only three notes, but they were
from out the depths of the bird's souL
In them was all the burden of the mys
tery and pathos of life.
"In the spruce groves to the north,
opened up by the old grassy road, be
sides the birds named, one heard the
purple grosbeak, the gray-cheeked thrush,
and the weird strain of the Oregon robin.
This last bird was very shy. and hard
to get a view of. I reclined for two
hours one day upon the deep, dry moss,
under the spruces, waiting for the singer
to reveal himself. When seen, he looks
like our robin In a holiday suit. His song
was a long, tapering note or whistle, at
times with a peculiar tolling effect.
TO THE OREGON ROBIN IN ALASKA.
0 varied thrush'. O robin strange!
Behold my mute surprise.
Thy form and flight I long have known.
But not this new disguise.
1 do not know hy slaty coat
Nor vest with darker zone;
I'm puttied by thy recluse ways
And song in monotone.
I left thee 'mid my orchard's bloom
When May had crowned the year;
Thy nest was on the apple bough,
Where rose thy carol clear.
Thou lurest now through fragrant shades,
Where hoary spruces grow;
Where floor of mo' Infolds the foot
Like depths of fallen snow.
Loquacious ravens clack and croak.
Nor heed me In my quest;
The purple grosbeaks perch and sing
Upon the cedar's crest
But thou art doomed to shun the day.
A captive of the shade:
I only catch thy stealthy flight
Athwart the forest glade.
Thy voice is like a hermit's reed
That solitude beguiles;
Again 'tis like a silver bell
Adrift in forest aisles.
Throw off. throw off this masquerad
And don thy ruddy vest
And let mo find thee, as of old,
"Besldo thy orchard nest.
It must be conceded that Mr. Burroughs
has treated our Oregon robin with all
the gentle grace and courtesy that was
possible under the circumstance"?. But
we cannot refrain from wishing that he
had remained with us long enough to see
some of the grand and beautiful things
of nature upon which we really pride our
selvesour fir forests, our river crags,
our mountain peak3, and mossy, fern-clad
waterfalls and tangles of vine-maple and
starry dogwood. We have never boasted
of our native songbirds. With some
abasement, we are obliged to confess that
we are represented chiefly by the fierce,
uncanny birds of prey, those ghouls of
the feathered world the hawk, the buz
zard, the eagle. But at least It must be
granted that we have a proper sense of
our own deficiencies. Have we not im
ported a whole colony of songbirds from
Germany? GERTRUDE METCALFE.
John "W. and Edward IU Genry.
This item has appeared in several news
papers, including The Oregonian:
John W. Geary, the last Alcalde and the first
Mayor of San Francisco, has been Invited to
take part In California's eml-centcnnlal cele
bration of Its admission day.
John W. Geary. ho was a Major-General
in the Civil War and afterwards
Governor of Pennsylvania, died In 1S73.
Is It possible that San Francisco's Invita
tion committee was not aware of nls
death? He was a "brother of Edward R.
Geary, of, Oregon. They wore natives uf
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
John W. came to California In 1843; Ed
ward R. to Oregon In 1SSL
The Greatest Sonnet.
When I consider how my light Is spent
Ere half my days In this dark world and
wide.
And that one talent which Is death to hide.
Lodged with mo useless, though my soul more
bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He. returning chide.
"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?"
I "fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His
state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding- speed.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait."
Milton.
MASTERPIECES OF LITERATURE
XXV..
Emerson in His Happiest Form-
The Problem.
""
I like a church; I ilka a cowl;
a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles
Yat not for all his. faith can see
Would I that cowled churchman b.
Why should tho vest on him aJtura,
Which I could not on me endure T
Not. from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought!
Never from lips of cunning fell
The thrilling Delphic oracle;
Out from tho heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old;
The litanies of nations came.
Like the volcano's tongue of flame.
Up from the burning coro below,
The canticles of lovo and woe.
The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Born
Wrought In a sad sincerity.
Himself from God he could not free;
Ho bullded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Know'st thou what wove yon woodblrd's ns
Of leaves, and feathers from her breast?
Or how tho fish outbuilt her shell.
Painting with morn each annual cell?
Or how the sacred pine-tree adds
To her old leaves new myriads?
Such and so grear these holy piles.
Whilst love and terror laid the tiles.
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon,
As the best gem upon her zone.
And Mornlns opes with haste her lids
To gate upon the Pyramids;
O'er England's abbeys bends the sky.
As on Its friends, with kindred eye;
For out of Thought's interior sphere
These wonders rose to uppper air;
And Nature gladly gave them place.
Adopted them into her race.
And granted them an equal data
With Andes and with Ararat.
These temples grew as grows the grass;
Art might obey, but not surpass.
The passive Master lent his hand
To the vast soul that o'er him planned;
And the same power that reared the shrine
Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Ever the flery Pentecost
Girds with one flame the countless host.
Trances the heart through chanting choirs.
And through the priest the mind uuplroa.
The word unto the prophet jpoken
Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
The word by seerr or sibyls told.
In groves of oak. or fanes of gold,
SUU floats upon the morning wind.
Still whispers to the willing mind.
One accent of the Holy Ghost
The heedless world hath never lost.
I know what say the fathers wise,
The Book Itself before me lies.
Old Chrysostom, best Augustine,
And he who blent both in his line.
The younger Golden Lips or mines.
Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.
His words are music In my ear,
I see his cowled portrait dear;
And yet for all his faith could see,
I would not the good bishop be.
Each nnd All
Little thinks, in tho field, yon red-cloake4
clown
Of theo from the hilltop looking down;
The heifer that lows In the upland farm.
Far-heard, lo-vs not tnlne ear to charm;
The sexton, tol.Ing his bell at noon.
Deems not that sreat Napoleon
Stops his horse, and lists with delight.
Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height!
Nor knowest thou wr-at argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent
AH are needed by each onei
Nothing is fair or good alone.
I thpught the sparrow's note from heaven
Singing at dawn on the alder bough;
I brought him home. In his nest, at even;
He xingf the song, but It cheers not now.
For I did not bring home the river and sky;
He sang to my car, thoy sang to my eye.
The delicate shell3 lay on the shore;
The bubbles of tho latest wave
Fresh pearls to tholr enamel gave.
And the bellowing of the savage sea
Greeted their safe- escape to me.
I wlDed away the- weeds and foam, ,
I fetched my sea-born treau,s homo;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore
With the sun and the sand and the wild up
roar. The lover watched his graceful) maid.
As 'mid the virgin train she strayed.
Nor knew her beautj 'a bst attire
Was woven still by the snow-white choir.
At last she cams to his hermitage.
Like the bird from the woodlands to tho
cage;
The gay enchantment was undone,
A gentle wife, but fairy none.
Then I said. "I covet truth:
Beauty is unripe chlldhood'3 cheat;
I leave It bhlnd with the games of youth:
As I spoke, beneath my feet
The ground-plno curled Its pretty wreath.
Running over the club-mo-a burrs;
I inhaled the ilolet's breath.
Around me stood tho oaks and flrs:
Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground;
Over me soared the eternal sky.
Full of light and of dolty;
Again I saw, again I heard.
The rolllnr river, the morning blrd
Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
Concord Hymn.
(Sung at the completion of the Battle Monu
ments April 10. 1S31.)
By tho rudo brldgehthatt archtsd the flood.
Their flag to Arrlf 1 breesa unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since In silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream.
We sot today a votive stone.
That memory tray their deed redeem.
When, llko our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die. and leave their children free.
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Brahma.
If tho red slayer think he slays,
Or If the slain think he Is slain.
They know not well the subtle waya
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Far or forgot to me Is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.
They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am tho wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt.
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
The strong gods pine for my abode.
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, roeok lover of the good.
Find me, and turn thy back on heavs
Friendship,
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs.
The world uncertain. coms and goes;
The lover rooted stays.
I fancied he was fled,
And. after many a year.
Glowed unexhausted kindliness.
Like dally sunrise there.
My careful heart was froo again,
O friend, my bosom said.
Through thee alone the sscy Is arched.
Through thee the rose Is red:
All things through thee take nobler form,
And look beyond the earth.
The mill-round of our fate appears
A sun-path In thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To roaster my despair:
The fountains of my hidden llfs
Are through thy friendship fair.