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Why does so large and worthy an felement in the Presbyterian Church 2-eslst revision or supplementation of the "Westminster creed, when the ma jority of the church and all the world outside see clearly the propriety of the change? The answer is that the op posing factions base their campaign on -grounds utterly dissimilar and their fcppeal lies to sources that have noth ing in common. The revisionist appeals to the intellect, the anti-revisionist to the heart. One Is desirous of a creed that is best adapted to the needs of the hour. The other stands by the "West minster document with a passionate devotion, born of the feeling that to Question It Is an act of disloyalty. To the conservative mind the pro posed new departure is a turning of the back upon a true and tried leader, o.n old and valued friend. Perfidy such as this revolts them to the soul. They "will have none of it, and for those -who advocate it they have small patience. In this rock-bound sentiment of loyalty and in the radical's appeal to utility, there obviously is no common ground. The two can, never 'agree. One element may be and apparently now is outnum- . tbered by recruits . to ,the other from younger accessions," but it can neyer be convinced. Its fidelity "will last as Jong ns does the moral integrity of its ad herents, and that is till death. If one "wishes to know the strength of this conservative emotion, he has only to measure it against the over whelming testimony it stoutly resists. It says in the "Westminster Confession that the pope is Antichrist. The con servatives admit this is erroneous,, but St is better, they feel, that the confes sion should -stand;- even if wrong, than that they should be disloyal to it. The confession implies that certain infants ore disposed by God to eternal damna tion. The conservatives admit this is Twrong, but rather than be false to the old confession that has sustained the church these many generation's they 'will perpetuate the error. Evidence of error in the creed is lost upon them. Argument for utility falls upon heedless iars. They -will maintain their loyalty iat whatever inconvenience or martyr dom of the judgment. If we pass from details to the essen tial nature of the Confession, the seri ousness of the obstacles over which the conservative fidelity triumphs be comes apparent. The Westminster Confession is the child of the civil war in England, whose inci dents were the execution of Charles I, the Cromwellian era and the Restora tion. It is therefore political as well tes ccleslatlcal in its origin and its na ture. The germ of Presbyterianlsm was the presbyter, or the elected represent ative, set np against the pope or bishop. Presbyterianlsm was long the leading tforce in Puritanism, and came with the Puritan migration to America. But It was .soon at war with others of the re form forces, and controversy soon be came bitter within its own ranks. Add to these the lights with the RUng and with Cromwell, and we get a glimpse of the disputes of the time which are re jected in the famous Confession. Struggle for supremacy among the reform forces developed rapidly as the project for reform of the Church of England came under discussion in the assembly which Parliament ordered to meet and sit at "Westminster, July, 1643. The King denounced the assembly and tforbade its meeting. Episcopalians who had at first attended withdrew. The assembly continued Its labors dur ing the civil war, and Its Confession, conditionally accepted by Parliament, was hardly completed before Charles was beheaded and the masterful career of Cromwell bad begun. Cromwell was an independent, so-called, in religion, and looked upon the assembly with disfavor equal to that of Charles. He thought their work was a form of tyr anny, and Milton expressed their com mon protest In his famous line, "New presbyter is old priest, writ large." The game of war and politics soon played into the hand of the independents, and broke the strength of the Presbyteri ans. Cromwell ordered the 140 Presby terian members of Parliament ex pelled, and -with the speedy establish ment of the Commonwealth, the dream of Presbyterian supremacy passed away, together with their actual plot with Charles I, which was subse quently renewed, more successfully, as an aid to the Restoration. The transitory character that must inevitably stamp any document born out of such, political as well as eccle siastical throes is thus apparent Fur thermore, as nas often been pointed out, no fixed expression of truth can long re- mankind comes upon It In different as pects and views It from different angles. The Views of one time are not the views of another time, nor are the religious needs of one generation the needs of another. The need of all Is In one sense the same, that is, the religious impulse as the basis of conduct, but the means with which that Impulse Is to be aroused must vary from age to age. The church Is apt to think that Its creed Is of no concern to any outside its precincts; but these are matters of gravest concern, not only to leaders of thought and action, but to all society. The part the church plays In the "world is of tremendous importance; for by it and through Its dominating Influence in the family, successive generations are formed. The air Is full of complaints of increasing immorality among the people and Increasing wickedness among the young. "What truth is in them becomes a vital question for the hour: and as religion is the most potent force In. moral conduct, the Inquiry is a pertinent one whether subservience to old forms and resistance to changes in the direction of greater efficiency may not constitute a profoundly mov ing cause of the decline of religious force. If the church is not reaching the masses as it should reach them, must we necessarily conclude that the masses ara inherently more perverse than I Elliot when an osteopath was brought before him charged with violating the medical-practice law by practicing without a license. The defendant pleaded that he had not administered any drugs, but only manipulated the patient's limbs. The Judge decided that medical practice did not consist exclusively In the administration of drugs, but in the use of any agency for healing disease or restoring abnor mal conditions of the human body; and the osteopath was convicted. In their relation to the public and the law, Christian Science practitioners are medical practitioners, because they practice healing, and they should be required to submit to the legal restric tions which are held binding on other .medical practitioners. ment of social parasites and swindlers, while its sexual side means the abolish ment" of the family and the substitu tion of "go-as-you-please'' marriages. A CHEERFUIi DOGMATIST. those of an earlier time? May we not at least inquire whether in this field as In others, an indispensable condition of success is enlightened adaptation of means to ends? BEGINNINGS OF GREATXESS. The fruitful vein of humor that has added so notably to the literary output of the South -since the Civil War is fully equaled In merit by the lyric qual ity of much Southern verse, both before and after the "war. The South has given us no such body of poetry as Emerson thought out and Whittler struck off and "Longfellow painstak ingly composed, but many of its poets have been real singers with a music unsurpassed by New England's proud est names. From the South have come Key's "Sta'r-Spangled Banner" and Theodore O'Hara's unmatched "Biv ouac of the Dead" and Folger Mc Kinsey's "The New Arlington," which stand unique in their respective spheres. Poe save us our first inter national fame, Lanier sits in the charmed circle of lamented youth with Chatterton and Keats, while Prentice's "Closing Tear" belongs with high achievement of pensive contemplation, and Margaret Preston's lines bequeath a tender memory to all who have fallen under their peculiar spell. The greatest literary name of the South is Poe. Swinburne said that Poe's is our one pure note of original song, utterly true, rich and clear. Brander Matthews truly says that "at the end of the nineteenth century Poe Is the sole man of letters born in the United States whose writings are read eagerly In Great Britain, and in France, Germany, In Italy, and in Spain, where Franklin Is now but a name, and where the fame of James Fenimore Cooper, once as widely spread, is now slowly fading away." It is the judgment of Mr. H. W. Mable, the critic, that Poe's work holds a first place in our litera ture "by reason of Its complete and beautiful individuality, the distinction of its form and workmanship, the pur ity of its art." With Hawthorne, Mr. Mable thinks, Poe "shares the primacy among all who have enriched our liter ature with prose or verse." "Virginia should be credited with Poe, perhaps, though he once said he was born in Boston, and though Baltimore was the scene of some of his triumphs and failures. Virginia also gave us Lanier, "Father" Ryan and Margaret Preston. Lanier's fame is very high, and apparently rising. Some have put him "beyond Poe in achievement as he was immeasurably beyond him in moral purpose and life. He has been cor rectly described as a rare Illustration of the "union, in a son of genius, of high character and artistic production In harmony therewith; a spectacle feed ing the heart with tender thoughts and pure ideals." "Father" Ryan was a delightful singer of pure note and ex alted Ideal. South Carolina gave us Henry Tlmrod, probably the most finely endowed mind In the Carolinas if not In the whole South, and his ode for the Confederate dead at Magnolia cemetery, Charleston, printed in another column, is a wonderfully perfect piece, pro nounced by Whittier "the noblest poem ever written by a Southern poet." Irwin Russell was of Mississippi, Key and Pinkney of Maryland, Prentice and O'Hara of Kentucky. Perhaps In all our literature there is no more grace ful poem of tender melancholy than that nameless gem of Richard Henry Wilde, the gifted son of Georgia, be ginning, "My life Is like the Summer rose." Its Imitative line about the moaning sea on Tampa's lonely shore is pronounced by George P. Marsh to be without a superior. There is a good deal of mourning at the absence of a, great literature in America. Vast numbers are bewailing the dearth of genius and conducting inquiries as to its cause, who have not, it is to be feared, become familiar with such good literature as we have. Whoso has stored his mind with the vast store of really true and beautiful things American poets have written need never complain at Its insufficiency. To study them, moreover, is the pre liminary to further achievement. Half of Shakespeare Is to be explained by the materials with which he had satu rated himself, including the work of Englishmen before him. The most or lnlgal genius, like Milton, or Keats, or Poe, becomes great by means of the classic and English models upon which he has fed, and thoughts and fancies which he .has Imbibed. Half of our English literature is Greece and Italy revived. There Is no more promising equipment for an American author than to become impregnated with the best that Americans have already done. Judge Elliot, of the Circuit Court, sitting In Milwaukee, recently, dis charged two Christian Scientists ac cused of practicing medicine without a license, and based his acquittal on the fact that the defendants had given no drugs. It Is possible that the Judge in ruling that drug-giving Is essential to medical practice did no more than strictly interpret an existing law of Wisconsin, but every intelligent man knows that medical practice means the practice of healing. In this sense it is authoritatively used, and so dictionaries define it. Drugs are only a portion of the agencies used In healing, for exer cise, baths, massage, hygiene, regula tion of life and, diet, electricity, heat and cold, and many other things jCiaia adequate in a world of constant Jare as truly medical, that is, healing, j Miss Lena Morrow, the local socialist, whose communication is published in another column, is probably a cheerful dogmatist who is iridifferent to facts and reason In the matter of Professor Herron, or she would see that Profes sor Herron's deed Is simply in line with his peculiar form of socialistic creed. He not only preached free love, but he practiced It. His creed is the repudia tion of "the coercive economic with the coercive family system." His creed Is that whenever one ceases to love the other, he or she should be at liberty to withdraw under the influence of the stronger affinity. The creed and the deed of Professor Herron are in exact logical line, and he Is not the first radical socialist who has preached this doctrine of hostility "to the coercive family tie." Professor Herron's utter ances and his performances are part of his peculiar kind of socialism, which is as old as Plato, who advocated com munity of property and community of wives. Monogamy he regarded as mere exclusive possession of property that belonged to the public; the wife was part and parcel of the husband, even as Shakespeare makes Petruchio shout, "She is my goods, my chattels!" Plato's plan was to have the institulton of the family abolished and all children brought up by the state. But if it be said that the socialism of Plato is so ancient as to be obsolete, let us turn to Fourier, the great founder of mod em socialism, and consider whither his gospel led. Fourier held that the full. free development of human nature or the unrestrained indulgence of human passion is the only possible way to hap piness and virtue; that misery and vice spring from the unnatural restraints Imposed by society on the gratification of desire. The institution of marriage, which implies unnatural bonds on hu man passion. Is of necessity abolished and an ingenious system of license sub- Binuiea. xnis .bouriente form or so cialism covered more ground than that professed .by Miss Morrow, who only looks forward to the day when man kind will not say of riches, "This is mine" and "That is yours," but "These are ours." Fourier went as far as this, but also went as far as Professor Her ron Impliedly does, and instead of say ing, "This is my wife" and "That is your wife," said "This is our wife." Miss Morrow tries to break the force of the example of the Oneida commu nity by saying, "It was founded on religious, not socialistic, principles," She is mistaken. It was not until John H. Noyes became converted to Four ierlte socialism and its "complex mar riage" that he abandoned his preaching In Putney, Vt, and formed his indus trial community at Oneida, N. Y., in which communism in property was married to communism in women. For twelve years Noyes preached his theo logical concept of God as both male and female to his congregation of "Perfectionists" in Putney, Vt., with out disturbance, but then becoming a convert to Fourier's industrial and sex ual communism, he threw his theology aside, and as he undertook to preach Fourierism, public opinion drove him out of the state in 1848. Noyes said: "There is no intrinsic difference in per-' sons and property or things, and the same spirit which abolished exclusive ness in regard to money would abolish exclusiveness in regard to women and children " For more than thirty years Noyes enforced this Fourierite social Ism in the shape of industrial commun ism and stlrpiculture through what he termed "complex marriage." This same form of socialism was advocated elaborately in a book published a num ber of years ago in Boston by John R. Tucker. Its author was a German scholar and socialist, an exile of 1848, who pleaded against the sanctity of marriage with Its legal safeguards and restraints, and urged that couples should be permitted to separate when ever either one became tired of the other, the law taking no part in the matter, save to enforce provision for the support of the children to be exacted of both father and mother, according to their means. This German scholar was a man of learning and I ability, and he advocated this system of volun tary divorce whenever man or' woman had found a new affinity as the best policy for human happiness and for social morality. There are many shades of commun ism, but they nearly all agree, from Plato down to Fourier, in hostility tc the Institutions of the family and mar riage with their modern legal safe guards and restraints. The Essenes admitted nobody but men into their sect; the Shakers enforce celibacy, and are recruited by cdnverts and adopted children. So far as abuse of Professor Herron Is concerned, he has not been abused unless it be abuse to tell the shameful truth concerning this latter day apostle of the stale doctrine of a new deal in property and marriage. As for his silence, it is entirely natural, but it is as utterly non-heroic as the silence of a chicken-thief caught red handed", or a pickpocket taken with the stolen watch or purse in his hand. He is silent because he cannot deny his deeds, which are in strict line with the' doctrine he has preached as well as practiced. He may be the dupe of his own moral delusion so completely that he feels no more sense of self-reproach than a cannibal who has killed and eaten a fat missionary or an Indian who has taken a fresh scalp. But to the ordinary American,. an, intelligent, educated man who will so conduct him self with other women as to furnish his wife with just cause for divorce is a disgrace to the public function of teacher in any school or preacher In any decent pulpit. On its industrial side, communism has been felicitously described in these lines of Ebenezer El liott, the "Corn Law Rhymer," who de fines a communist as One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. Its industrial side means the endow- PULPltf AXD STOCK GAMBLING. Bishop Lawrence, in his t recent ad dress to the Massachusetts Diocesan Convention, -described "vicious gam bling" as "but the symptom of a spirit pervading the community," the spirit of "unreadiness to work steadily for the legitimate reward of labor, unrest at the moderate and fair returns of capital, a making haste to get rich." This preaching in "glittering generali ties" against the rage for stock specu lation and the unscrupulousness of men who make haste tg be" rich Is very well as far as it goes,"but when we pass from stock gambling and ill-gotten wealth in general to the great stock gambler and railroad wrecker in par ticular, the clergy cannot altogether es cape a large share of responsibility for his influential existence and large fol lowing of imitators, because whenever the great st6ck gambler or railroad wrecker happens to belong to a leading church, or if he belongs to no church but is liberal in his gifts to the church, the church has bows and smiles for him living and benedictions upon him dead. No influential newspaper in the land had any praise for Jay Gould while liv ing or any whitewashing tribute to him when dead; it was reserved for the lead ing Presbyterian ministers of New York City to break into applause when Jay Gould told them that "after many years' deliberation he had become con vinced that the Presbyterian Church was the best and truest religious or ganization in the country," and then subscribed ?1Q,000 to the cause of church extension. Then the Rev. Dr. John Hall rose and told how Jay Gould had once given him a free pass for a returning missionary. . One of the causes of the decline of respect for the church is the religious sanction given by great metropolitan pulpits to vulgar toadying to ill-gotten wealth. Of this class of wealthy men, whose ship was loaded to the gunwale with pirate spoil, Jay Gould was the most notorious representative. These leading ministers knew that Gould had robbed the Erie railroad so ruthlessly that from a dividend-paying road It ceased to return anything; that the poor small investors were frozen out of thejr stock by the combination of the Erie rine and the Tweed Judiciary ring". A.11 these eminent ministers knew that Gould illegally overissued thousands of shares of stock in his fight with Van derbilt, 'and that after the "ring" Judges were impeached and removed, Vanderbllt made him disgorge. All these eminent ministers knew that Gould came out of Erie with $12,000. 000 cash, pure plunder that this robber and wrecker of a great railway trust was permitted to carry away by the English stockholders in order to get him out of his position, intrenched as he was behind a venal judiciary and a corrupt Legislature. When the mon ument to "Jim" Fiske, Gould's "wicked partner," was dedicated, on Memorial day, 1874, in the presence of thousands of people, a clergyman folding a repu table position delivered a fulsome pane gyric over a man who was notorious as the most reckless robber and most daz zling example of a successful knave that this cduntry has seen. There is no more historical doubt that "Jim" Flsk and Jay Gould were the successful confederate robbers and dlsmantlers of the business trusts they administered than there is that Bene dict Arnold was a traitor to the cause of the American Revolution. And yet the moment Gould was so broken by dis ease that he was not able to plan and execute any more raids upon railroad properties, he telephoned for" the lead ing clergy of New York City to call on him. They came and he droppe'd $10. 000 into the Presbyterian contribution box. That settled it; the church had nothing but applause for this reverend iniquity living; t nothing but ornate euloglum when dead. There is nothing immoral in the ambition to get rich: there is nothing Immoral in the ambi tion to get rich rapidly. It may be imprudent to make haste to get rich, but it is not immoral, and the desire deserves no censure. But the disposi tion to rob and swindle and break faith with your business trusts and your fellow-man in order to get rich rapidly is immoral, and deserves nothing but denunciation in this world and fiery discipline in the next. Bishop Law rence talks to no purpose in his vague denunciation of stock gambling and making haste to be rich, after the lead ing pulpits of New York City had no word of denunciation in life or death for that most successful stock gambler, swindler, trust-robber and railroad wrecker. And that is the trouble with all this pulpit "reformer" business. They always want to reform all the scdundrels In general, but not their own ' notorious scoundrel in particular, who has paid or is likely to pay $10,000 for masses for his soul. And yet the very pulpits that always whitewash a rich- communicant are never tired of bellowing about "the servility of the political press." If it were not for the leading newspapers of the land, the truth about bad men in business or politics would never be spoken, for the pulpit never performs an honest moral autopsy upon a rich or powerful parish ioner. ties in this state. A feeling oC nelgh borliness existed prior to the establish ment of the order, to- be sure, but this element was needed to crystallize It into the social delights of companionship and comradeship that followed the weekly or fortnightly meetings of the "lodge." Herein lay Its promise of per manence, and herein lies the pleasure with which the annual convention is anticipated by the representative men and" women of the order. A consolida tion of interests, so to speak, comes from the neighborly touch made pos sible by the Grange in the more sparse ly settled farming communities. It is thus that it has outlived the changes and vicissitudes of nearly a third of a century, and maintains still a firm hold upon rural life, the amenities of which It has done so much to develop. The observance of the recent anni versary of the birthday of Queen Vic toria throughout the United Kingdom and its farthest holdings was loyal without being pathetic. There was no display of grief, or even of regret, by her family or her subjects upon the occasion of what would have rounded out eighty-two years of life for the Queen, but rather of rejoicing that she had lived among them so many years, and in passing had left behind, her the record of a glorious reign. It is, of course, the sheerest folly to assume that the death of the aged and be loved Queen was a national calamity. The reins of Kovernment did hot for one moment fall to the ground, tout were simply transferred from the trembling hand of age to the strong grasp of mature manhood. To remem ber Victoria reverently and to asso ciate the day of her birth with many national blessings is wise and right, and to celebrate it "with thanksgiving well becomes Intelligent, loyal, practical Britons. GEMS FROM SOUTHERN POETS To Helea. (Edgar Allan Poe.) Helen, thy beauty 1 to me Like those Nlcaean barks of yore. That seotly, o"er a perfumed Sea. The weary, wayworn wanderey bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas lone wont to roam. Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face. Thy Naiad airs, have brought me home ' To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lot in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like t see thee stand. The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah. Psyche, from the regions whlca Are Holy Land! It is said that the old Standard mill building at Mllwaukle Is threatened by the rising waters of the Willamette, and is likely, since its timbers are sol idly mortised, to start intact for the sea, to the menace of the bridges at this city. This sturdy old structure a reminder, even in its desolation, of the steamboat era of Oregon in the ze nith of its prosperity has withstood the floods of Winter and the warping suns of Summer for forty years or more, but the erosions of the river banlc have at length made its site in secure. If it withstands the present pressure of waters, it will be the part of prudence for Clackamas and Mult nomah Counties to combine in the ex pense incident to the undertaking and have the old mill demolished. Ode. (Henry Timrod ) Sleep sweetly in your humble graves. Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurtl In the earth The blossoms of your fame is blown, Ahd somewhere, waiting for its birth, The bhaft is in 4he atone! Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep in trust your storied tombs. Behold! your sisters bring their tears And these memorial blooms. Small tributes! but your shades will smile More proudly on these wreaths today. Than when some cannon-moulded pile Shall overlook this bay. Stoop, angels, hrther from the skies! There Is no holler spot of ground Than where defeated valor lies. By mourning beauty crowned! A Serenade, (Edward Coate Pinkney.) Look out upon the stars, my love. And shame them with thine eyes. On which, than, on the lights above. There hang" more destinies. Night's beauty is the harmony Of blending shades and light: Then, lady, up look out. and bo A sister to the night I Sleep not! thine image wakes for ayo "Within my watching breasi; Sleep not! from her soft sleep should fly, Tv'ho robs all hearts of rest. Nay. lady, from thy- slumbers break. And make this darkness gay, "With looks whose brightness well might make Of darker nights a day. Three ships drawing from 22 feet 9. inches to 23 feet 6 inches have been towed from Portland to Astoria this week,' and the greatest length pf time any of them were on the way was 13 hours. When it is considered that it was only about a dozen years ago that 18-foot ships could not get down the river without lightering, the remark able Improvement in the channel of the Columbia is apparent. The towboat service on the river was never better than at the present time, and no fleet of ships has ever been handled as satis factorily as that for the grain season of 1900-01. The results already achieved augur well for the future, and Port land's 30-foot channel to the sea Is not as far in the future as the 25-foot chan nel was a dozen years ago. Disciples of Dowle, the Chicago Zlon- lte, continue to die when attacked by disease or overtaken by accident, just as I they were subject to the Ills of mortality in common with other people. Recently a woman utterly devoted to the faith died from the effect of severe burns, and now another has succumbed to an ailment that could have been cor rected by simple surgery. The demise of fanatics is clearly not a public ca lamity, and it may be doubted if it is a private affliction, even in the most lim ited sense. Hence, when death thins the ranks of the Dowieites, his visita tion should be accepted as beneficent rather than sharply inquired into as pernicious, as they are now doing in Chicago in the case of this latest fanatic gone to sleep. My Life Is Like the Summer Rose. (Richard Henry "Wilde.) My life Is like the Summer rose, That opens to the morning sky. But ere the shades of evening close. Is scattered on the ground to die! Tet on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of nlxht are shed. As though she wept such waste to see But none shall weep su tear tor xne! My life Is like the Autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray: Its hold Is frail Its date is brief, Restless and soon to pasa away! Tet, ere that leaf shall fall and fade, The parent tree will mourn Its shade. The winds bewail -the lcaflass tree But none shall breathe a sigh for me! My life is like the prints which feet Hae left on Tampa's desert strand; Soon as the rising tide shaJl beat. All trace will vanish from the sand; Tet, as if grieving- to efface All vestlgo of the human race. On that lone shore loud moans the sea But none, alas! shall mourn for me! The State of Connecticut has enacted an indeterminate sentence law, which is expected to Increase the efficiency of the parole system of reform that pre vails In some of the states by enabling the prison authorities promptly to re ward good conduct on parole by a dis charge from official supervision. Under the new Connecticut law the court Is to establish a maximum term for which any convict may be held. This shall not be less than one year, and, as pa role may not be granted until after the expiration of a year's term,-this reward for good conduct cannot be extended to those punished for lesser offenses, and jail prisoners are excluded from the operation of the law. The first census of the British Isles was not taken until 1801, and the census-taking of the empire only dates from 1S7L According to the returns collected on Aprjl 1, 1901, England and Wales have .a population of 32,525,716, which, with the estimated population of 4,350,000 for Scotland and 4,250.000 for Ireland, will 'give a total of 41,000,000, as against 38,104,975 in 1891. The in crease in England and Wales represents a gain of 12.15 per cent, while, as will be recalled, our own population of 76, 295,220 is a 21 per cent increase. Lon don shows a population of 4,536,03"4, as against 4,228,317 in 1891. The total pop ulation of England and Wales in 1801 was but 8,892,530. In 1801 the rural.pop ulation was 4,721,252, and in 1891 it had only increased to 5,534,000 in a popula tion of 27,002,525, arid today it presents even a smaller proportion to the total population, such towns as Liverpool, with 629,548 people; Manchester, with 505,368, and Birmingham, with 478,113, and -twenty others rating over 10D.000, absorblpg the people. The Oregon exhibits at Buffalo are of high quality. They are four in num ber: The agricultural, the horticulT tural, the mineral and the forestry, each in a different part of the general exposi tion. An exhibit of our school work is also to be made In the educational de partment. Our exhibits all occupy prominent-and conspicuous places in the exposition. All of them are taste fully arranged. In the forestry depart ment there is nothing from any quar ter that can bear any comparison with our exhibit; and in the other depart ments there Is nothing better than ours. An account from a Buffalo journal, which we reprint today, "presents the plain truth. The annual meeting of the Oregon State Grange, which will be held in Albany from May 28 to 30, Inclusive, will bring together a company of rep resentative farmers and their wives, in tent upon social pleasures, as well as upon the discussion of graver matters pertaining to the agricultural life. The Grange may be regarded as the begin ning of social life in rural communl- It Is pleasing to learn that proceed ings are to be commenced in the near future to recover at least a small part of the $31,000 lost to the school fund through the defalcation of ex-Clerk Davis. However, the statement by members of the State Land Board that there has been no unnecessary delay does not explain why so much time and money was spent examining the books of Napoleon Davis for errors that did not exist, while the George W. Davis defalcation was left to await a more convenient season. The Grapevine Swing. (William Gllmore Slmms.) Lithe and long as the serpent train. Springing and clinging from tree to tree. Now darting upward, now down again, "With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see: . Neer took serpent a deadlier hold, Neer the cougar a wilder spring. Strangling the oak with the boa's fold. Spanning the beech with the condor's wing. Tet no foe that we fear to seek The boy leaps wild to thy rude embrace; Thy bulging arms bear as soft a cheek As ever on lover's breast found place: On thy waving train Is a playful hold Thou Shalt never to lighter grasp persuade; "While a maiden sits in thy drooping fold. And swings and sings in the noonday shade! O! giant strange of our southern woods, I dream of theo still in the well-known spot. Though our vessel strains o'er the ocean floods. And the northern forest beholds thee not; I think of thee still with a sweet regret. As the cordage yields to my playful grasp Dost thou spring and cling in our woodlands et? Does the maiden still swing in thy giant clasp? The Conquered Banner. (Abram Joseph Ryan.) Furl that Banner, for 'ia weary; Round Its staff 'tis drooping dreary: Furl It. fold it. it is best; For there's not a man to wave it. And there's not a eword to save It, And there's not one left to lae it In the blood which heroes cave It; And Its foes now scorn and brae it; Furl it, hide it let it rest! Take that Banner down! 'tis tattered: Broken Is its staff and shattered; And the valiant hosts are scattered Over whom it floated high. Oh! 'tis hard for ua to fold ltj Hard to think there's none to hold it; Hard that -those who once unrolled it Now must furl it with a sigh. Furl that Banner! furl It sadly! Once ten thousands hailed It gladly, And ten thousands, wldly, madly. Swore It should forever wave; Swore that foeman's sword should never Hearts like theirs entwined dissever, Tillhat flag should float forever O'er their freedom or their grave! Furl it! for the hands that grasped It, And the hearts that fondly clasped it, Cold and dead are lying low; And that Banner It Is trailing! "While around It sounds the walling Of its people In their woe. For, though conquered, they adore it! Love the cold, dead hands that bore it! "Weep for those who fell before It! Pardon those who trailed and tore it!, Bu,t, oh! wildly they deplore it. Now who furl and fold it so. Furl tha-t Banner! True, 'tis gory, Tet 'tis wreathed, around with glory, " And 'twill live In sons and story, Though its folds are in the dustr For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages. Shall go sounding down the ages Furl its folds though now we mt Furl that Banner, softly, slowly! Treat It gently It is holy Fqr It droops above the dead. Touch it not unfold It never. Let It droop there, furled forever. For Its people's hopes are deadl SLINGS AND ARROWS John. Morgan. John Morgan's at your country's door. Oh Where's your railroads, Johnny BuUt Ha'll buy them all and ask for more.. Oh Where's your railroads. Johnny Built He'll not waste time on you, not h. The longest roads you've got, you see, W1U look like sidetrack to J. P. Oh Where's you're railroads, Johnny Built John Morgan's buying steamship lines. Oh Where's your commerce, Johnny Bull? He's got some very largo, designs Upon that commerce. Johnny Bull. Tou'll wake up some, lino day to find Tour ships all sailing down the wind. , For John will leave not one behind k Oh Where's your commerce, Johnny- Bull? The Bank of England's pretty large. But keep your eye on't. Johnny Bull, Or John will take the bank in charge. Then where'll your bank be, Johnny Bull? He'd like to purchase everything. And what he wants you'll see take wing. Tou.'d best nail down his nobs th King. Or John will buy him. Johnny Bull. The Record. (Being documents found on the person ot the late Mr. John Smtth.i I. Bought of Barke & Bight. Dog" Fanciers-- One bull-terrier pup $r Received payment, B. & B. II. Mr. John SmithDear Slrr Please call at my office and settle for two Angora, cats, the property of my wife prior to their destruction. THOMAS JO-NES, III. Mr. John Smith Dear Slrr I cannot af ford to feed that bull pup on Plymouth. Rock chickens. You will confer a favor on "me by sending me your check for 57 50. HENRY JOHNSON. IV. Mr. John Smith My Dear Mr. Smith: I assuro you, sir, that your bul'dcg has buried nothing In my yard, and I wish you would endeavor to dissuade him from digging It up every day In search ot cer- tain bones which he seems to believe ho lias concealed under my tulip beds. I am sorry to have to do It, but I am obliged to Inclose a bill just sent me by my gar dener. Sincerely yours. HENRIETTA BROWN. DIgrge & Grubb. Landscape Gardeners, in account with Mrs. Henrietta Brown Replanting tulip bed and sodding 3 square yards of lawn ..IS 00 V. I Slaughter. Butcher, in account with John Smith To dog" meat .................. .... 515 VI. L. Hassenrode Emerson, Veterinary Sur geon. In account with John Smith To curing one bull pup of distemper.. ..$25 To curing " " " of mange ..... 25 Total ?50 vir. Mr. John Smith Dear Sir: As that bel ligerent animal you keep around your place will not allow the carrier to ap proach your premises, I hereby notify you that you must hereafter get your mall at the Postofflce. Yours truly, HENRY THOMPSON, P. M. VIII. John Smith. Esq. My Dear Smith: I know that a warm friendship lias always existed between us, but I cannot concelva how any man in his right mind can allow such a villainous whelp as that of your3 to remain around his house, and I mu3t insist that you pay me the full value of my fine bird dog, who is now lying at. the. point of death as a result of an encounter with your cur the last time he followed me to- your house. He came home three days after I lost him. and if he ever does re cover he is ruined forever more. I don't want to quarrel with you. Smith, but this is a serious matter, and while no money can replace my fine old Brutus, I feel that , it will be only justice for you to pay me $250, which is the price I paid for the dog two years ago. CHARLES KANINE. . . . IX. John Smith, Esq. Sir: Complaint comes to this office that you are violating city ordinance 41144, which makes it a misde meanor to allow a vicious dog to run t large. I shall be obliged to send a police man to your neighborhood to Investigate this matter If you do not immediately take steps to abate this nuisance. The maximum fine In your case Is $1C0 or 50 days' Imprisonment. Respectfully, ROBERT PULL, Chief of Police. X. , Mr. John Smith My Dear Smith: The Widow Brown Is mourning the loss of her 4-year-old child, which, while playing near your house yesterday, was seized (Mr. Smith evidently destroyed the re mainder of this letter, as the foregoing was all of It that could be found on his person.) XI. Hard & Ware, Firearms, sold to John Smith One Smith & Wesson revolver. 48 caL.$12 (Extract from Morning Paper.) John Smith, a well-known resident of the city, committed suicide last night by shooting himself through the head. Mn Smith was a man of means, of happy do mestic surroundings, and the motive for his rash act Is shrouded in mystery. Procrastination. I thought of a Joke worth good money to msl( And ket It a week to gloat o'er it. A friend whom I told It to heard it with g!ee And I" still had the Joke when he told mo that he Had received two simoleons for It. Perry Heath, in trying to push Mark Hanna for the Presidency, is "unneces sary .and superfluous." The Anaconda (Mont.) Standard rightly says that Hanna is "merely a passing phenom enon"; that "he came in with the Mc Klnleys and will pass out Into privacy with them." McKenzle is a Republican of the most approved machine type one who al ways "stands in," whether in the In terest of ring promotion or railroad j lo D Dying, rtence ms paruon. The Moelclnsr Blrd- (Paul Hamilton Hayne.) A golden pallor ot voluptuous light Filled the warm Southern night; The moon, clear orbed, above the sylvan scene Moved like a stately queen. So rife with conscious beauty all the while, What could she do but smile At her own perfect loveliness below, Glassed in the tranquil flow Of crystal fountains and unruffled streams? Half lost in waking dreams. As down the loneliest forest dell I strayed. Lo! from a neighboring glade. Flashed through the drifts of moonshine, swift ly came A fairy shape of flame. It rose In dazzling spirals overhead. Whence to wild sweetness wed. Poured marvelous melodies, silvery trill on trill: The ery leaves grew still On the charmed tree to hearken; while for me. Heart-trilled to ecstacy. I followed followed the.brlght shape that flew, Still circling up the blue. Till as a fountain that has-reached Its height, Falls back" In sprays of light Slowly dissolved, so that enrapturing lay. Divinely melts away Through tremulous spaces to a music-mist, Soon by the fitful breeze How gently kissed .4,,, , . . , 1 Into remote and 'tender silences. A. Seasonable lay. It is upward and ever onward. That the path to, happlnoas goes; Though dim in the shrouding darkness The beckoning beacon glows; There Is rest from the heat of battle Where the breeze ot success blows cool; For so says the maid who s sweetly arrayed In a fair fetching gown ot soic tune. There Is always the hand of friendship To grasp when the way is steep. But we- still must be tolling forward. While our laggard comrades sleep: We must found our castles firmly On the stanch, unyielding rock: We are told by the girl with the graceful, curl And the dotted Swiss muslin frock. 'There's a goal in the misty future That we ail are striving for: Wo must still sail on though the breakers Beat loud on the rock-bound shore; By the compass of high ambition We must steer when the stars are gone; We can. learn all this from the dainty miss Who looks charming in Persian lawn. We have gathered the rose of knowledge;, Tis a bud with Its petalfe furled, But under our care 'twill open. And make fragrant all the world. We must store away our blessings. As honey is stored by the bee. Or they-'Il ail take wins, says the sweet young thins In the filmy white organdie. 'Tis a beautiful" thing. Is knowledge1, For It opens the rose-strewn way. To the rostrum that's bright with bunting On the glad commencement day; But beside its Joyous beauty 'Tis of practical value, too. Don't think It's nou for without it.what Would the dressmakers ever do? J. J. MONTAGUE.