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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1900)
' ur-w rtr -f r THE SUNDAY OBEGQyiAK, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 7, 1906. te romcm Entered at tho Postoffice at Portland, Oregon. as second-class matter. 1 Editorial Rooms. ...160 i Business Office. ...007 T?TJ?VTCET1 eTtnnnnmmrnn T rwa I -jpy Mail tpostage prepaid). In Advance I tvTi r olth Sunday, par month $0 S3 i Tlrr ouoay excepted, per year. i &o : Dally, -with ftiinria. .0,. . o rm Jjgnday. per year ... 4 . 2 00 VStr" vveoKiy, per year 100 ' ? Weekly. 3 months 50 ally. per week, delivered, Sundays ercepted.l5c DftUy. per -week. dellerod. Sundays ihcluded.20c POSTAGE RATES. TJllit.W5 Ktxitjta PnhBn -i TaaA !l J IS-0 PaP1" " lo Rto 32 page paper .........................2c ureiea rates double. News or discussion lntendJ fer nuhllmtlon ? Tl10 Orsoniaa should bo addressed lavarla- l)ly "Editor Thft rtrofnnlon " nut n in. nnmn hot any Individual. -Letters relating to advertls- ng, subscriptions or to any business matter iBbouia bo addressed simply "The Oregontau. J Tho Oregonlan does not buv ooems or stories nfrom individuals,, and cannot undertake to re-j turn Any manuscripts sent to It without boIIcI- atlon. Ko stamps should bo Inclosed for this iiuwposo. Pugot Sound Bureau Cantaln A. Thomnson. Bffico at 1111 Pacific avenue. Taefimo. Bi 055. glTacoma Postofflce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune bulld ng. New Tork Cltr: "The Rookerv Chieniro: ttbe S. C. Beckwlth snecinl nirenev. ICetv York. For ealo In San Francisco br J. K. CooDer. 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Gold smith Bros.. 220 Sutter street: F. W. Pitta. 100S Market street: Foster & Ownr. irrrv Jews Stand: I. . Loe. Palace Hotel ICows Stand. For Bale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, SO So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. lOfl 6o. Spring street. For sale In Omaha by H. C. Shears. 105 N. 3ixtoenth fctrect. and BurkoJnw Bros.. 1012 iFarman street. For atlg In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News 3o.. 77 TV. Second South street. For sale in Now Orleans bv Ernest & Co.. 1115 Royal street. Oa file In Washington. X). C. with A. W. unn. B09 14th Jf. TV. For sale in Chicago bv tho P. O. 3Cews Co.. 217 Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair: winds mostly aorthorly. ORTIjANDj SUNDAY, OCTOBER. 7. A THEME FROM OREGON Not a day passes Taut Bryan pre sents new illustrations of his mental ibit of flippancy, evasion, subterfuge, tergiversation, and whatever other ver satility characterizes the operations of Cty insincerity. It is the mental labit of evading a direct question or issue, and of answering, with smart equivocation, on some other matter.. )ne of his recent performances in this line was given at Marlon. Ind.. on Friday. The clause in the Constitution 3f Oregon against free negroes waB his expedient. In the Southern States, where the legroes are numerous, Mr. Bryan's po litical friends and supporters have un- lertaken to disfranchise them by en actment of constitutional requirements for exercise of the suffrage from which le whites are specifically exempt. ?hat is, educational qualifications are required in the blacks which are not required in the whites. It is no fair rround of complaint, indeed, if a state see fit to take measures to curtail the lischief of ignorant suffrage;, but there :an be no defense, on fair principles, of ademption of white men from educa tional tests to which black men are subjected. At Marion, Ind., a man in the audl- nce put a question to Mr. Bryan on lis subject, asking about these laws. istead of making answer, Bryan, ac cording to his habit, evaded In this ray: My friend, I am glad that you asked ie that; I am prepared for you. Now am going to assume that the Republl- wiho asked the question is an honest I am going to ask "him about the institution of the Republican State of Jregon. I will read a provision of that institution. It says: Section S5. No free negro or mulatto, not residing In this state at the time of the adop tion of this Constitution, shall come, reside or within this state, hold any real estate or any contract or maintain any such jtheroln. and the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws for tho removal by pub lic officers all such negroes or mulattocs, or lor their effectual exclusion from the state. ad for tho punishment of persons who shall arlnff them Into the state or employ or harbor lem. That amendment was adopted before the ml War; it makes it unlawful for -a prea negro to go into the state, and it xuthorlzes the officers to put him out. But jou say xhat it is old. Let me remind rou that last June an effort was made to apeal that portion of the Constitution, id the effort to repeal it was defeated. lthough the state went Republican. This was pure demagogical evasion. entirely consistent with the speaker's lental habit. In Oregon, where every sme understands this matter, no expla- ition is necessary. Our people know about this provision of the Consti- ption, and how it got into the Consti tution; how perfectly inoperative and Ibsolete it is; and why, since It is so ierf ectly inoperative and obsolete, . it is allowed to stand, rather than, by itriking it out, to give encouragement lo a current craze for amending the institution. But people elsewhere lay not fully know; so The Oregonlan ?ill make a statement for them. ! The provision in the Constitution of Oregon that Bryan cites was inserted by the oia pro-slavery element that lominated the Democratic party in )regon, before the Civil War. Mr. ran himself comes from that element If the party, and he takes his party gelations by heredity from it. Even in ie early days of our statehood no at- ition was paid to this feature of the Constitution, and no attempt ever was lade to enforce it, through legislation gr otnerwise; paruy no aouot Because If a sense of Its injustice and absurdity, Jut chiefly for the reason that the re- lotenees of Oregon and the difficulty len of reaching the state virtually lut free negroes out. Seldom was a egro seen in Oregon till after the Civil 7-ar; when the amendments to the Con- itution of the r ited States iad over- wn the limitations upon the rights the negro which Mr. Bryan's party id insci-ed in the Constitution of Ore- sn, iiesiaes mis pronmiuon or the mi ction of free negroes into Oregon, the ionstitution of the state expressly ex- iudes the negro from the right of suf- ige, and all foreigners except rbite" foreigners from rights of resi- lence and property. But if one of these rovislons has not been stricken out, ither has another; because the Con- itution of the United States is para mount, and It is not necessary. The jgro in Oregon has and ever has had ice the amendments of the Constitu- ion of the United States that followed ie Civil War were adopted, all the Ights, civil and political, that white feople enjoy. It was not necessary to lend the Constitution of Oregon to bve the colored man the ballot, for the Ionstitution of the United States did it; it was not necessary to strike out ie- inhibition, as to the coming of the 1 .Segrointo the state, "because IhaVhad been a dead letter from the first, and through the progress of events had passed completely out of men's minds, till it was revived, or partially revived, by a proposal t' remove it from the Constitution, by amendment Now we are come to the answer of the question why it was not removed. Be cause it was not necessary; it Is utterly obsolete; the negro suffers no injustice from it; he has all therights of other citizens, including the suffrage; there is no thought, not the slightest, of de nial to him of any right In Oregon; and the people wanted to rebuke the dispo sition of faddists, of cranky, whimsical and freaky people, to amend the Con stitution of the state. To this particu lar amendment there was, in Itself, no objection; but it was presented in con Junction with a mass or bunch of amendments which the people didn't want, and they voted them all down to gether as a method of emphasizing their disapproval of tHe restless dispo sition of a class of our people to force their vagaries and crotchets Into the Constitution. But Bryan knows well that this feat ure of the Constitution of Oregon, as well as that which excludes the negro from .the suffrage, is obsolete. He knows that negroes are not excluded from Oregon nor denied the right of suffrage, or any .other right, In Oregon. He knows thaf this dead clause in the Constitution of Oregon which, let it be said once more, was- put there by his own party, yet has been nullified by de feats of his party and the great events of forty years bears no relation or re semblance in practical effect to present conditions in Southern States, where educational qualifications are required in the negro which are not required in the white man. There is, however, a resemblance or relation in this, that the same political party that put this now obsolete and harmless clause into the Constitution of Oregon more than forty years ago is the author now of this unfair legislation in the Southern States. But In Oregon the wrong was long since overthrown, through defeat jof Mr. Bryan's party and" its long ex clusion from power In the United States. We need not remove these blemishes from the Constitution of "Oregon; for they belong to a past that Is utterly dead in this, state, and, as particles of extraneous matter encysted in a living body, they remain harmless. This par ticular one met the fate of others, be cause its affirmation was In no way necessary to anybody's rights; because it was bunched with a lot of other pro posed amendments which the people didn't want, and because the people, Impatient with this mania for amend ing the Constitution, wished to check it This prohibition of the negro, being Inoperative, may as well stand as an historical relic even though it be called up at times to remind Mr. Bryan's party of its past It Is not un usual, after the animal is killed, to keep the skin with the claws on, for curiosity or wonder. REFUTATION AND ACHIEVEMENT. The loyal Oregonlan feels that for his state to be known is for it to be loved and sought, and he Is right. But he Is often discouraged at the slow progress made by knowledge of Oregon in the East. This progress is certainly alow, and perhaps always will be, but there are adequate reasons for it, and it is always well to remember thaf the most useful and enduring fabrics are not the creations of a day. Time and toll must have "entered into whatever is really worth while in this world. The bubble reputation that is blown in a night Is apt to break in the morning. After the boom comes the collapse. Tet It is a fact that Oregon is gaining reputation in a substantial way in quarters where reputation is desirable. Those who are attracted by superficial evidences of feverish activity and by the chance to get rich In three months are not the most eligible additions to a community. The miners that flock to one excited camp today were flocking a year ago to another, and next year will be scurrying somewhere else. They are birds of passage. The veteran pros pector meets the same faces at Nome that he saw at Dawson, and Cripple Creek, and Leadvllle, and Virginia City, and perhaps in South Africa. Then there are other birds of pas sage. Agriculture has its. The Ok lahoma boomers are always on the move from one netvly opened reserva tion to another. Trade, also, has its birds of passage. There's money to be made at Cripple Creek, or Nome, or Rossland, or Seattle, and forthwith hun dreds who have no lasting ties pull up their newly driven stakes and are on the move. , The best man for Oregon or any Western State is not the man who can cut loose from his moorings on the in stant and go where fancy leads. You can yank a weed out of the ground with one hand, but the tree that bears fruit or runs profitably to board timber has its root down deep in the soil. It is much that way with men. The farmer or mechanic or capitalist, that is 'worth having doesn't read a pam phlet and leave for a new field on the next train. He can't He has connec tions and ties that can't be broken at once. He knows it takes time to form new ones. Acquisition of desirable ad ditions to our population and wealth is, therefore, a matter of slow growth. Slow and substantial growth of this kind is being made here, and the re sulting product is a strong and homo geneous social and governmental fab ric that is not easily swayed by passing fancies or appeals of demagogues. The two principal reasons for the slow advance made in acquainting th'e country as a whole with Oregon are the intense provincialism of the East, and the self-sufficiency of the Oregon com munity. It is needless to dwell on the dense and shameful ignorance concern ing Oregon manifested in the- East Every one who goes from here there meets it at every turn. And the need of help from outside is not felt keenly here as it Is in other parts of the West Home capital can be had In almost un limited supply, and all the ordinary in centives that send new communities out clamoring for money and settlers are lacking. At little while ago a Portland-agency for photographic supplies took a prize for the best advertisement of their wares. This is as good an advertise ment as Oregon ever had. It has in directly been the means of Interesting not only business men, but lovers of scenery. In the Oregon country. It Is akin to the notice brought us by the Mazama excursions and the artistic work of Mr. Felloes. There is a pas sage in one of Mr. John Fiske's his tories referring lo Portland, as a. beau-, tlful and charming New England city on the "Pacific CbastT T.I3u7rougns has lifted the Oregon robin into fame, and Mrs. Dye's "McLoughlin and Old Oregon" is so well written and so happy tn is choice of materials that it must open up to the world of book-iovers a suggestive hint of the unworked veins of historical romance that Oregon holds for the gifted writer. After all, the advertising Oregon needs the most Is in the hearts of her own people. Bank clearings and census gains and steamship lines and visits from Congressmen are well enough in their way, but they are mere incidents and accidents of the life of the com munity that must be grounded in char acter and intelligence if it Is to achieve anything worth notice now or hereaf ter. As the Army and Navy do their duty because they emulate the exam pies set before them by the great names of our past, so the active generation here must be fed and inspired with the high traditions of Oregon's history. Those who most need to know Oregon are the young men and young women of Oregon. They need to know its mountains and rivers, valleys and for ests, the slopes of Hood and Jefferson, the palisades and swirling mouth of the Columbia, the gleaming sands of Clat sop and Bandon, the crystal depths of the McKenzie and the green-walled, winding Umpqua, the flocks of Sher man and "Wasco, the waving fields of Umatilla, the orchards of Jackson, the continuous woods of the Coast Range, the fertile acres of Polk and Benton, Lane and Linn, Yamhill and Washing ton. Above all, they need to be Imbued with the ideals of the builders of the state, the sagacity and broad humanity of McLoughlin. the devotion of Lee and Whitman, the spirit and labors of such' men as Williams, Deady, Ladd, Shat tuck, Failing; the men who founded the state, made Its constitution and formed its manners; its rank and file of consecrated missionaries and rugged pioneers who did their duty and cov eted solid achievement rather than the activity of ostentation. Upon this foun dation let us build the Oregon of today. Let us do things, and there1 will always be those to tell them. The history of the pioneers Is well worth writing. How will it be with ours? "HARD TIMES" AGAIN. -The main feature of the Bryan cam paign Is an appeal to those who have nothing against those who have some thing. It Is a feature always present ed, to some extent, -in politics; but Bryan makes It the basis of his chief appeal. No right-minded person con tends that the man of property is en titled to more consideration In govern ment or by government than the man of no property; yet it Is atrocious to try to marshal men of -one of these de scriptions against men of the other. Property, however, carries the burden of government; Is essential to the ex istence of a civilized state, and should be protected against -spoliation, wheth er under forms of law or by direct vio lence. Bryan's effort Is to make it appear that the men who own property and do business are the oppressors of others, and to -foster the idea or belief that they can be and should be deprived of the advantages which ownership of property and direction of business give them. But the next function and duty of government after making life se cure. Is to make property secure. It can allow no man to take away the property of another:, nor take, any man's property itself, without awarding him just compensation. The right of combination In business Is a right that belongs to citizens. If two or more wish to put their capitals together, In sums large or small, gov ernment can hare no just right to for bid them, and no just power to prevent them. Yet Bryan Is trying to make it appear that if he shall be elected means will be found to strip men of property and credit, of the right to put their re sources together and do business with their united capitals. Underlying all Is a subtle appeal to the growing social istic feeling of the - time. Here Is the main feature of the Bryan campaign. It is an assumption, more or less openly suggested, that every possessor of prop erty has that 'which belongs to other persons, and that he should not be per mitted to keep it. The effort for free coinage of sliver and debasement of money, four years ago, was the same thing, In another form. The Intent was spoliation. It came in the seductive dress of casuis try; but the country saw through It and rejected It This same money question Is still in the contest; it re mains as a part of the appeal to those who have nothing or little against those who have something or much. Social istic doctrine is the basis of Bryan Ism; one sectiom-of the party is for re distribution of private property, another for its conversion into collective capi tal under direction of government The first method of spoliation to be expect ed from Bryanism would be its favor ite scheme of free coinage of silver and debasement of the money of the coun try. This would be the quickest of methods for Introduction of the system of general confiscation. It-may be said that it Is lunacy. Perhaps It can Be defeated, even if Bryan should be elect ed. But it would make a sufficient sense of danger and give rise to con cern and uncertainty enough to inter rupt the currents of business, suspend credit, cause men to contract their business operations, and create "hard times" again. ' This is what we. should expect as a result of the election of Bryan. PRESSURE UPON AMERICAN COL LEGES. In the last half of September many thousand young men and young women adjusted themselves to the conditions of college life and settled down to a year's study. Never, Indeed, before In the annals of the educational life of the country were the colleges so well filled with students as now. From all sides come the same reports. With hardly an exception, the universities and col leges have a greater number of Wesh men on their lists than ever before. Everywhere the young people are showing a thirst for knowledge and are surging to the doors of colleges. Complaint Is freely Indulged In re gard to the public schools, the basis being the lack of practical knowledge that a course of public instruction im plies. Objection of this kind cannot He 1 against the modern college course, since it is of a progressive tendency. A col lege course means more now than it did twenty years ago. "It' Is now," says the New York Ttlbune, "'recognized that the scholar must be a man of af fairs, the man of thought must be a, man of action, and so the. college Is kept In closest possible touch with the gen- J eral progress of the Nation in social, industrial and even political affairs; In proof of this last assumption it 13 I added: ' t No sooner is a new popular want manifested or a new "sphere of activity opened than the college establishes a chair of instruction or a department to deal with it More than one noteworthy Illustration of this fact is to be perceived at the present moment in local and neighboring institutions. Thus the marvelous, expansion Qf American commerce and the dem onstration' Of the fact that this Is henceforth to be ono of the chief commercial nations of the world, promptly Inspired New Tork TJnj- versity to found a School of Commerce, Ac counts and Finance, and Columbia University to create a similar department, while the widespread, demand for a higher grade of pol itics and for a better dissemination of the higher roforma of political mtelllgehce ha3 led to the "establishment of a chair of politics at Princeton. It is held, therefore, that modern col leges are, demonstrating by their faith and practice,, nqt that men and women are made -for colleges, but that colleges are made for men and women, for the betterment of society and for the ad vancement of all that makes for the best welfare of humanity. There may be some specialties In which an Amer ican youth can receive adequate train ing, only by going abroad, but for most practical purposes, using this term in its widest sense, he can find in his own country all the opportunity needed to fit him for the highest usefulness in community and National life. Perhaps American boys are coming to appreci ate this more and more an apprecia tion that Is shown by the way in which last month they poured Into the col leges, universities and other institu tions of advanced education. In this view, the opening of another college year and the crowding to the very doors of these" Institutions may well be a matter of: the widest and-deepest popu lar concern, and incidentally of public congratulation.' Steamships already under charter for the Oriental trade out "of! Portland as sure this city a. larger amount of the trans-Pacific traffic than It has ever before handled. For fifteen years Port land has supplied the greater part of the Pacific Coast products which helped make up the cargoes of" the steamers sailing out of all ports north of San Francisco for the Orient Seattle, Ta coma and Vancouver annually re ceived credit for thousands of tons of flour, paper, etc., which was shipped from this city to fill out cargoes of cot ton, railroad iron and similar Eastern freight, which constituted the bulk of the traffic handled by-the lines sailing between the northern torts and the Orient Portland's Oriental steamships were always , crowded with Oregon products, and. very little freight from the East was handled by them. Now the advantage of producing cargoes for our steamers right within the confines of the state Is apparent The war in the far East has paralyzed the busi ness of handling cotton, railroad Iron, etc., rind .the finances of Japan are in such shape that her manufacturing growth has been suddenly arrested. The European demand Is taking up all of the cotton that can be bought in the South, and there lsv'nonsto haujjacross the continent to swell '.'the exports of the ports from which". It has been Shipped to the Orient-' The Santav Fe, the Great Northern and' the, Northern Pacific lines to tjie Orldnt ?have rechar tered as may of theif steamships' to' the Government as it "was possible to get rid of,;aridthose which are stilltn the-route are running with light car goes. Meanwhile, Portland's demands for steamer space are greater than ever before. The largest cargo of flour that ever left the Columbia for the Orient cleared this month, and two . other steamers are to follow before November 1, with as many more under engage ment for the following month. We should retain the Philippine Islands because It Is their Interest, our Interest, the interest of civilization and of mankind. Who doesn't know that all the conditions will be better for liberty, humanity, 'progress and civilization, If we stay than If we withdraw? Be sides, we have a right to consult our own National Interests. The Philip pines offer us Incomparable outpost and station for1 our commerce In the Orient. Through steamers and transports and ocean cables and mercantile connec tions, a great commerce will be built up, which' will become the life of our Pacific States. The connections of our merchants and shippers, here arrd In the "islands, will be extended to the Asiatic Continent. A vast shipbuilding Industry will be developed among us. The Bryan party Is against all the in terests of our Pacific "States, in this campaign. The only answer attempted Is the inquiry, "Is commerce to weigh against liberty?" This Is mere cant and hypocrisy employed for a partisan end. Liberty will be established and protected, 'if we remain in the Philip pine Islands. If we withdraw, there will be nothing better than anarchical and semi-savage conditions. Who are the more likely champions of liberty and civilization, Americans or Fili pinos? ( The difference Is, Mr. Bryan, that under the nullified section of the Ore gon Constitution the negro enjoys full civil and property rights; under the reign of the shotgun, and the threat of the toroh, he enjoys no rights at all In the South. The people of Republican Oregon respect and obey the Constitu tion of the United States; the people in the Democratic South donot The ne gro there e'njoys such rights and privi leges 'as do not conflict with the de crees of Judge Lynch. Here he has everything that the Constitution meant him to have. Tacoma has a population of 37,714. It claims- a public school attendance of 8000. Seattle Ib officially declared to have 80,671 people. It has a school at tendance of 9300. Thus the one city ap pears to have more than 100 per cent greater population than the other, yet It has but 16 per cent more pupils In its schools. Where was ever more obvi ous fraud ? i To kill Hanna with a chunk of ice Beems to have struck some Bryan en thusiast' as & piece of dellclously cool 'humof. -The Democracy really ought to save all tlje ice It can accumulate between now and November 6. It will come handy the day after The directory-makers figure out that Portland, with its suburbs, has a pop ulation of 103,025. This is about right, and will bej found not greatly to exceed the officia.1 census when the returns of the suburbs are declared. Messrs. Wood, Cox etal.wlll ob serve by the dispatches from Indian apolis thatfcthe Gold Democracy contin ues in business at the old stand. GRAND OPERA IN ENGLISH. A surprising thins happened at the Metropolitan Opera-House, in New York, last week. For the' first tJmG In tnanjt years grand opera "was. sung. In English to an English-speaking people. A com pany purely American, both In principals and in, chorus, Invited the American peo ple to hear It render, "Faust," "Tann hauser" and "Mlgnon" in English; and the American people are accepting the in vitation. Such an extraordinary innova tion has turned the eyes of the entire musical world toward the great New York opera-house. This temple of fame has been the resort, year after year, of the world's greatest singers, an aggregation of foreign stars, such as cannot be found inany other oity of the globe4 These have given, opera In German, in French, In Italian; but tho hallowed precincts have not been profaned by opera in our mother-tongue. English might be good enough for the hotel lobby, even for the pulpit, and for afternoon teas,' where It must be conceded Its resources are se verely strained, but for grand opera this was desecration. And so It happened that vast audiences of good American citizens continued to go, season after season, to listen to words they did not understand. Was It not bet ter than, anything Europe had to offer, and therefore did it not deserve encour agement? Society found it a pleasant lounging-plaeo In which to show off their jewels and digest their dinners. For this they paid $5 a seat, with privileges of conversation thrown in. But, after all, Americans are not a no tion of Snobs. Their gift of humor alone would savo them from this. To pretend to admire what they but half understood Is. foreign to the nature of the masses, East and West For them opera must be in the mother tongue, the language of the passionate loves, sorrows, antipathies and aspirations of their dally life. Then, and then only, will It appeal effectually to their emotions. Our Europeanized dil ettanti may be willing to smother their yawns through an evening of German gutturals or French sibilants, but the great mass of honest-hearted, plain thinking American people will pocket their dollars .and stay at home by their own hearth-fires. And yet how music hungry they really are Is shown by the eagerness with which they crowd the foy ers when "The Bostonians" are billed for an engagement This Is opera they can understand, for the jolly monks in "The Serenade" and the merry-hearted "Begr gar Student" sing their songs in English, not in Italian or in German. And what Is true of comic opera is true also of grand opera, as Henry Savage and the Castle Square Opera Company have dem onstrated In, the past five years. As to English being a suitable vehicle for the recitatives and arias of the prima donna, surely no argument Is needed. It may not have the liquid flow and honey voweled sweetness of Italian, but at least It need not yield precedence to the heroic syntax and explosive gutturals of the German, which jolt one In the utterance quite as much as ridng over a corduroy road. Surely the language that was melo dious enough for such Anglo-Saxon poets as Spenser, Milton, Byron, Tennyson, Ed gar 'Allan Poe and Longfellow can fulfill the requirements of grand opera. The outcome of this' venture at the Met ropolitan is being awaited with eager In terest by music-lovers In every corner of America. If It succeeds, as all sighs in dicate it will most brilliantly, It will un doubtedly lead eventually to the fouhding of a purely American school Of opera. About 15 years ago Mrs. Thurber and Theodore Thomas attempted, on a very magnificent and extravagant scale, to ef fect this end, but the effort dwindled down to a rather dismal failure financial ly. Evidently at that time the American people were not ready to do justice to such an enterprise. Since then, however, there has been a well-defined growth of National spirit. Moreover, Henry Sav age, the man at the helm In the present venture, Is a sano, cool-headed, passion less, business man, with a quick and sure intuition of the wishes of the people That, In Itself, may not be genius, but it brings what many Americans rate higher than genius material success. His logic Is simple enough: Every country In Eu rope furnishes grand opera to its people In their own language. Why cannot the same be done in America? GERTRUDE METCALFE. Spoiling; a Castle. New York Commercial Advertiser. The Marquis of Buto, says the London Chronicle, has been guilty of an act of gross vandalism. He has started to build a modern addition in red sandstone to the ruins of Rothesay Castle, one of the old est and finest remains of ancient archi tecture In the country. The oldest portion of the castle 1b supposed to have been built In 1098 by Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, and the more modern part dates from the time of King Robert II, who used it as a royal palace. The castle has stood many sieges, and was even captured by an English force, who, however, in 1311 surrendered it to Bruce. The renovation which the Marquis of Bute has com menced is in the northern portion, close to the drawbridge, and the modern atone makes it a hideously painful contrast to the old structure. The Marquis action Is the more incomprehensible, Inasmuch as he did a real public service some years ago in clearing away several tenements of houses which almost hemmed In the cas tle from view, and In re-excavating and fllling up the moat, across which he caused a drawbridge to be thrown. To Disprove Immortality New York Commercial Advertiser. A citizen of Hartford has left a will be queathing a legacy to combat the belief In Immortality, and the Supreme Court of Connecticut is asked to decldo whether such a will Is or Is not contrary to pub lic policy. This recalls the famous cases In which similar wills have been contest ed, and In which the point at issue was whether or not Christianity, Is a part of the common law. On that ground Web ster argued against the famous Glrard will, which prohibited Christian teaching In the college founded by Stephen Glrard. The Hartford will Is only Interesting in case it produces a judicial decision. It calls for 3uch because It Is immortality as taught in the Bible that It impeaches, and the testator expressly mentions that If this were abolished "the entire Christian system may be readily and clearly per ceived." Flprnres of Prosperity! New York World, Dem. The 'Daily Stockholders publishes the figures of the quarterly payments of in terest on bonds of a par value of ?1,199, 695,387 and of dividends on stocks of a par value of $1,622,884,322. The combined In terest and dividend payments make the following remarkable showing In compar ison with the figures for October 1 of the previous four years: 1900 157,726.137 1899 43,646,373 1898 .'. 42,654,384 1897 -. t 38,650,256 1S9G t....v 35.833,103 There Is no mistaking the meaning of these figures; they indicate a uniform and gratifying prosperity in a wide range of industry and investment. SLINGS AND ARROWS. Xeedia' Doagrb. My boy he's down to college, aa X can't git straightened out Jus what the letters that he's sent up here Is all about ' Last week he wrote to me: "Dear Dad, I thought I'd let you know I've dropped tho stake I brought with me, an now I'm needln dough." I never knowed that when he went he took along a stake, A'n a'posln' he did drop It; the blamed thins Wouldn't break. An as fur needln' dough, I'll swear that there has got to stop, Or ho can need It here to home in tones' bakln' shop. His achoolin'B goin to cost a heap o' money, I'm afraid. An' I can't have him waste no time to learn the baker's trade. An' yisstlddy he wrote again that he was needln' dough. An' said it "all was off with him," an" he was "keepln' low." He said he went out on a skate an got a lovely load, An' then was pinched Just when his-last si- molcon was blowed. Now how he went out on a skate when all the country 'round Is mild a3 June an' skatin' ponds Is nowhere to be found. An' why Just 'cause some feller pinched him he should write to me An' tell me all about It Is Jus' more than I can see. , Slmoleon's all Greek to me, but I suppose he meant (He said that he had blowed It) some new brass band instrument. From, what ho writes I kind o think that things 1b goln' wronsr. A letter came today that said Tm up against It strong. Tho tipper classmen pass md up, the profs has throwed mo down. They pass me gold bricks every timo I take a run down town. The best I get's tho worst of it, no matter where I go. Fur Heaven's sake send down a stake, fur I am needln' dough." Now I can't make much meanln out o what he has to say, But I Jus think I'll pack my grip an travel down that way. An' when I see that son o mine, I sure will let him know That I ain't cddlcatin' him to be a'needin' dough. The Table of the Candidate. Once upon a Time there was a Candi date who gave a quiet Tip to tho Sov ereign Voters that Money was a Hlgh Friced Luxury, and Unless they Elected Him it would Be All Off. But the Sov ereign "Voters elected Somebody Else, and the Candidate came around again after a While and give them tho Inside Information that the Country was a Mon archy, and that they were ground under the Heel of Oppression. Having been able to accumulate a Good Deal of the Hlgh Prlced Luxury, the "Voters couldn't see the Heel of Oppression, and they Asked tho Candidate: "How about that Spiel you gave us a While ago?" The Candidate prepared a long Speech In Reply, and he is still making It. Moral. A Sure Thing In the Hand is Worth a Barrel of Theories from an In habitant of the Cold Outside. Natural Advantages. The town o' Deadvillo long fcgo had prospects that wuz great; "Wo built It in tho very best location in tho stato; An' nateral advantages wuz scattered 'roun so thick It couldn't help but get to be a city mighty dulck. A railroad line wuz boun to come right through the heart o town, TherS wan't another right o way fur forty mile aroun'; An so we all Jus' settled down expectantly to wait Fur them there big advantages to make our village great Them nateral advantages, uv course, they stayed right there. You couldn't uv surpassed 'em In the state or anywhere. An bo we sat an' waited roun' to seo the city grow, But somehow population seemed to come un common slow. The railroad passed our right o way and tunneled through a hill. An' built ten bridges Jus to reach the town o Upstartvllle; They had somo fellers over there that had a lot o' gall, But nateral advantages, they hadn't none at all. An' we Jus' kep aurveyln' fur to get more city room. Them nateral advantages was sure to mako us boom. We'd look 'em over now an' then an' feel a swellln' pride To think they wuzn't ekalled In that country, far or wide. It wan't no use to hustle, fur the time wuz boun' to come When nateral advantases would make old Deadvllle hum. An purty soon they built ten stores, a feed an' flour mill. An' got another railroad in the town o Up startvllle. Them nateral advantages is layln roun there still. But Deadvllle Is a sooborb uv the town o' Upstartvllle, That didn't have a nateral advantace to be gin. But Jus' kep on a growin' till It took ole Deadvllle's In. We been a waitin' patiently fur nigh on forty year Fur Deadvllle's boom that couldn't fall to miss us to appear. An' if you think a-gittln' rich, you better wrlto It down That nateral ' advantages Is sure to kill a town. lilterary Notes. William Muldoon, professor of Graeco Roman "In tho Heidelberg University, Is said to be at work on a poem of nature entitled "A Hard Fall." Wj, Hohenzollern, the German play wright, has just completed a farce-comedy called "It's Off With tho Chink." It is dedicated to his friend, L. H. Chang. It is rumored that Rudyard Kipling and Robert Fitzsimmons are collaborating on a new society novel, for W. R. Hearst, to be known aa "The Has Been; A Tale of Experience." T. Roosevelt's magazine article on "A Colorado Reception," which. It is expect ed, will shed a new light on high life In tho great mining state, will soon be ready for the printer. Richard Harding Davis, is now engaged, according to his most intimate friend, Peter Dooley, In writing a character sketch to be called "I, Myself & Me," In. 10 volumes, W. J. Bryan's new serial, "I Still Have Hones," will be begun In the December number of the Jadles' Lome Hournal. "Domestic Bliss" Is the title of a now short story, which W. A Brady Is writ ing for James J. Corbett Mrs. Corbett has been in New York for some time, gathering material for a one-act tragedy, which she will name "A Discontented Woman." "A History of the Boer War," weighing 10 tons, will soon be published by the Scribuary Magazine. It will bo edited by Webster Da-vis, and will contain material from the pens of Admiral Dewey, General Miles. W. J. Bryan, Senator Pettlgrew, Emllo Agulnaldo. and other wrltera who were not there, and consequently will be able to give unbiased reports of what might have taken place If they had been. W. R. Hearst promises the public this season articles from such well-known au thors as George Dixon, J. L. Sullivan, Al bert Wettin, Tod Sloan, Kwang Hsu, W. Hohenzollern, Bath House John, J. Ham ilton Lewis, Captain Dreyfus, BressI and Richard Croker. Grover Cleveland has compiled a neat little Volume of fish stories, tho most amusimj oi wmen is caueo, -i Am a iDemocrat" J. J. MONTAGUE. MASTERPIECES OF LITERATURE, xxxm. Contrast Between ihe Frqnchman and tho Arab Alexander Dumas. Since the period when it fell Into the hands of the French, Algiers has greatly changed. Save the Mosque, which has held its ground, all the lower part of the city Is French. The only remains of the old city are to bo found In proportion, as one ascends the rising ground. A prediction of a Mussulman saint who lived in the 16th century says: "Th! Franks, O Algiers!, shall tread the pave ments of thy streets, and thy sons daughters shall open to them their doors." - Never was prophecy more thoroughly f ul- filled. How is it that the Moorish families, rich under Turkish dominion, have fal len into abject poverty under French do minion? No one but myself, perhaps, thought of asking this question. I aiked It. and this Is what was answered t The conquest of the country deprived the Moorish families of nothing. Unri3r Turkish rule the Moor3 were the proprle-. tors of houses, and they received tho rents; owners of cattle, and they sold the meat; owners of lands, and they so d the harvests. When the French arrived, the Turk3 left the city, then the Kolough, the children of Turks and Moors, then the Moors followed. On leaving the city whence their own will drove them forth, they sold, not their lands and houses -no one would have wished to buy them but their effects, their trinkets, and ali at a third of the real value. The trinkets which they did not sell in Algiers, they carried away with them, melted, and sold wherever they lived. But after two .or three years of valun- t tary exile, the exiles began to percetv that their portable resources were ex hausted. They made Inquiries, and learned that no harm had befallen tho people who had remained in Algiers, so they re turned and recovered their lands and houses. Confidence was In some degree established, but they still sold their prop erty, and at low prices. They who returned during this first peri od were those who had fled but a short distance; later came those who had fled to Tangier. Tetuan. Constantlna and Tunis. The former began gradually to sell a little dearer, then they took in tho Idea of renting, and they rented their houses. In consideration of the rent, the leases were renewable every three year3. But the tenants, accustomed to the ways of Europe, took care to have It put in writing that the renewal was to be a their pleasure. Finally returned the people who had fled to Smyrna, Cairo and Constantinople., They did as the others did, rented fietr houses, sometimes oven in perpetuity. For a bonus In, cash the Turks made alt sorts of concessions. This arose from their conviction that, at any moment the Phophet might restore them to favor, and drive the French out of Algeria. But the Prophet was not in a hurry, tho bonus was soon spent, and it was im possible to wait for rent day. They al lowed a discount gave three years for one year, six years for two, twelve for three what odds did it make? must not the French some day quit Algeria? The French did not quit Algeria, and the peo ple were ruined. Hate exists between people and people. It is maintained by contrast Between the Arab and us all Is contrast Would , you like to see some of the differencest they are strange. Christ promises Mt disciples a spiritual Paradise. Mahomet promises his followers a sensual Parauise. The Frenchman can marry but one woman. The Mussulman can marry four women, and can have a3 many more In his harem as his fortune will allow him to take. The French woman walks with uncov ered face and appears continuaily In the streets.. The Arab woman Is a prisoner In her own house, and If she goes out, can only go veiled. The Arab, if there is trouble in his house, restores peace with a cudgel. The Frenchman who strikes a woman is dis honored. The more wives an Arab has, the richer he Is. One wife is often enough to ruin a Frenchman. The Arab marries as early as he can, the Frenchman as late as possible. The first question asked by a French man on meeting a friend, is as to tho health of his wife. To ask an Arab about his wife Is one of tho greatest insults that can be offered him. We drink wine. Wine is forbidden to the Arabs. We wear tight garments, they wear loose ones. We say that the head should bo kept cool, and the feet warm. They say that tho head should be kept warm, and the feet cool. We salute by taking off the hat, they by pulling the turban down on the brow. Wo aro laughers. They are grave. Wo fasten the door of the house. They raise the canvas of the tent. We eat with a fork, they with their fingers. We drink often while eating. They drink but once, and that after eating. Our fasts are light Their fasts ara severe. From the break of day from the time when one can distinguish a whlto thread from a black one until evening, the Arab can neither drink nor eat, smoke nor take snuff, nor kiss his wife. We have, In general, more love than respect for our parents. The Arab can neither seat himself, nor smoke, nor without permission speak in the pres ence of his father; nor can a younger brother do so In the presence of his elder brother. We love traveling for pleasure's sake, the Arab travels only on business. We always know our age. The Arab Is al ways Ignorant of his. It Is a point of honor with us not to recoil a step In bat- tie or in duel. The Arab files without dishonor. We eat the meat of animals that have been knocked on the head. The Arabs eat only the meat of animals that have been bled to death. Historical painting Is with us an art. The painting of the human form is with them a sin. We worry ourselves about everything. The Arab does not worry himself about any thing. We believe In Providence. He is a fa talist If some great misfortune happens, "hakoun Erbi." says he the will of God. An Arab once said to me: 'Tut a Frank and an Arab In the same pot, boll them for three days, and you will have two different soups." Bryan's View of Pensions. Regarding the pension appropriation for Union soldiers, Mr. Bryan, In an article In the Omaha World-Herald of November 18, 1892, made use of these expressions: "One would not complain If It were an honest debt." "It was never earned by any act of patriotism or heroic service." It will be readily seen that the old soldiers had small reason, prior to the pressure put upon them by Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, for inviting Bryan to be present at the late G. A. R. encampment in Chl- cago.