THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 11, 1901.
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NEXT WAR FOR HUMANITY
Problems Confronting the American
Nation, as Seen by Rev. C. E.
Locke, Formerly of Portland.
Rev. Charles Edward Locke, D. D., for
merly pastor of the Taylor-Street Metho
dist Church of Portland, now of Buffalo,
N. Y glories in the greatness of the
American Nation and the high station
which It occupies among the governments
of the world, but says it has problems
at home more serious than any which
have confronted It abroad. His book.
"Freedom's Next War for Humanity,"
emphasizes the necessity of an imme
diate attack upon the internal foes which
are a menace to the Nation. He dc
lieves, with Abraham Lincoln, that "all
the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa
combined, with all the treasures of the
earth (our own excepted) In their military
chests, with a Bonaparte for a com
mander, could not, by force, taTje a drink
from the Ohio, or make a track in the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand
years," and that "If destruction be our
lot, we must ourselves be Its author and
finisher."
The American Nation, according to Dr.
Locke, is a child of Providence. Colum
bus was a providential man, and the dis
covery of America Tvas a providential
event. With the opening of the seven
teenth century great principles were
struggling for the ascendancy. The new
country opened a field for the operation
and triumph of ideas. With the landing
of the Pilgrim Fathers the human mead
was emancipation, and It no longer was
a crime for man to think. The provi
dential sequel of the coming of the Purl
tans was the struggle for liberty in 1776,
and the reinforcement of the purpose of
the New World in 1812. The Civil War
was the logical sequence of the landing
of the Pilgrims. The victory in the war
with Spain thrust new and unexpected
"burdens and privileges upon us as a Na
tion. In our role as a propagator of lib
erty we cannot be Indifferent to "the
world's wrongs, the world's woes, and
the world's wars." While it Is with
pardonable pride that we recount the re
cent victories won for liberty and civili
zation by the Stars and Stripes, It is with
humiliation and anxiety that we return
from signal victories abroad and examine
the dangers and problems and short
comings of a popular government. ''As
we have fought a. war for humanity, for
peoples of other blood and language,"
says Dr. Locke, "so. If our Nation shall
be perpetuated, we will be compelled to
wage a war for the oppressed and vic
timized portion of our own citizenship.
Though swords and gunboats may not be
employed, yet the struggle will be no less
Intense; and It is certain It will call for
as much courage and endurance as any
battle that was ever won in the combat
with arms." The lines of battle are
formed, and the causa helli Is thus de
fined: Two great problems present themselves to
this country for solution: First, shall we be
able to maintain the Bplrlt of liberty the
genius of our Republic; and, second, shall we
be able to perpetuate the typical American?
These two considerations Involve all questions
of statesmanship and politics, of morals and
rellrlon.
The history of the Nation Is but tho story
of the evolution of history. "Wars have been
Sought and epochs have been turned as this
magnificent principle has gained the ascend
ency in our National affairs. We believe
with the savior of this country that as a Na
tion "we cannot endure half slave and half
free." Inimical forces are desperately and
with demoniacal persistence at work day and
night In this Nation, that are determined
upon the overthrow of the Republic and the
destruction of personal liberty and character.
The Internal foe is our most dangerous enemy.
Our history attests the truth of Benjamin Har
rison's statement: "It is not In the power
of any people on earth much to harm us, ex
cept our own people."
A republic is the divine ideal of govern'
ment. The commonwealth of Israel under
Moses and Joshua and the Judges was inter
rupted during the days of Samuel because the
people demanded a King, that they might Imi
tate the heathen nations about them. A gov
eminent of the people, for the people, by the
people, Is the highest conception of national
organization, but for Its Integrity and per
fection must depend upon the probity and
virtue of the individual citizen.
Republics have perished In the past from
extravagance, luxury and frivolity. Frugality,
simplicity, economy and seriousness are In
dispensable to national vigor and life. Five
hundred years before Christ, Carthage was a
flourishing republic, and Hannibal was greater
than Caesar; but the magnificent city with Its
triple wall could not withstand the invader
without, when prodigality and dissipation
wera. holding high carnival within.
Republics cannot withstand avarice. The
Pythian Apollo said, "Nothing but avarlco
can conquer Sparta." In national life the
rapid increase of wealth produces selfishness
and cupidity and arrogance. Rome once had
a law prohibiting the individual citizen from
owning more than 500 acres. Wealth ordi
narily despises poverty. There is a danger
ous chasm in the forum of any nation if the
rich grow richer and the poor become poorer.
At this point republics suffer great danger.
The caste lines fixed by selfish wealth are as
cruel and Inexorable as thoso which come by
tradition. A republic must recognise the
equality and rights of each citizen, rich or
poor. Many republics have died becauso the
power became Invested In the few who ac
quired the nation's wealth, and an oligarchical
government was the result.
Envious poverty Is equally a menace to na
tional prosperity. It is often forgotten by
the honest man struggling against poverty
that Industry, frugality, eobrlety. content
ment and reverence, or religion, offer .a way
out of the distresses of poverty. "Godliness
is profitable unto all things, having promise
In tho life that now Is and of that which is to
come." The luxuries of this life do not seem
always to be fairly divided. If one will study
closely men and things, and forces which
constantly operate, he will discover a benign
law of compensation which gives to families
that practice tbe virtues of upright citizen
ship immunity from the embarrassments
of poverty and the other rewards and oppor
tunities t hlch are promised to those who honor
the laws of God and man.
Our Government should wage a fierce battlu
against the oppression and neglect of the
poor; against the diabolical slave-masters ot
tho cruel sweatshop. Laws must be passed to
prevent great corporations from unjustly
crowding down the wages of labor; and as,
well capital must have some defense against
the dissatisfied anarchist who, seeks to arouse
discontent among tho honest laboring classes.
There Is no greater peril to our Nation today
than the acknowledged corruption In munici
pal governments. It Is appalling how bosses
are recognized; how many hordes of hangers
on feed at the public crib, and bow many men
have become suddenly affluent In the public
employ. Republics cannot, survive when the
statesmen becomo demagogues, when politics
are corrupted, and when true and self-sacrificing
patriotism disappears. Athens and
Romo and Venice and France have taught the
world unmistakable lessons on this point.
WfcM laws cannot be enforced, and when of
ficers of the law connive at criminal Infrac
tions of the law; when public sentiment cannot
be aroused and does not resent insult, bub
consorts with cruel enemies then republics
speedily disappear.
We arc rapidly coming to be a Nation of
cities. There Is a slumbering volcano under
nearly every city in this Nation today. Good
men must go Into politics, or our Nation is
doomed. Public treasuries are looted, vice Is
practically licensed and under police protec
tion, franchises become personal property
which rightfully belong to the municipality,
and Immoralities are universal. All this be
cause the busy, moral, lofty-splrlted ana
patriotic citizen has, as ho thinks, neither
time nor inclination to concern himself about
political affairs. Just as It takes a man to
make a soldier, so it takC3 men, true men,
to make worthy citizens. There are many
men who would willingly bear arms and go to
the front In defense of the flag, who fall to
recognize the virulence of the attack of these
Internal foes. We would better voluntarily
destroy these enemies now. than to wait until
we will be compelled to fight in self-defense.
Republics are doomed when citizens become
Impure, when reverence cannot be found, when
the temples are neglected, and the altars of
worship are thrown down, and when a nation
no longer produces mothers. The Anglo-Saxon
mother has made England and America. When
the mother-spirit dies a nation deserves to
disappear. It Is a familiar classic -that upon
one occasion, when Caesar saw Roman women
earning dogs in their arms, he stlngtngly
Inquired whether the women of Rome no
longer bore children. Napoleon's reply to
Madamo de Stael. that the greatest woman
was she who bore the most children, has
become an axiom.
The permanence of our Republic depends
upon America continuing to be a Nation whose
God Is the Lord. It was Emerson who said:
"America is only another name for oppor
tunity. It is God's final effort in behalf of
the human race." Our perpetuity as a Nation
depends, therefore, upon the moral character
ot our citizens and our obedience to the com
mands of Almighty God. If America fails In
her opportunity It wlH be the disgrace and
catastrophe of history. All events ond epochs
of the past havo led to the age in which we
are living. America occupies the stragetio
point of the world. America's victor' meana
America's mortality. Courage, conviction,
humility and purity, emphasized in the char
acter of our citizens, will develop giant men
and women here in this Western Hemisphere,
who, by the conquest of love and meekness,
will conquer the whole world In the name ot
Christ!
A few months ago our Army and Navy re
sponded to the cry of the starving reconcen
tradoi oft in Cuba, and rescued them from
the clutches of cruel masters. May we not
adapt the Oriental proverb, and vehemently
demand, "Whatsoever we have heard done In
Cuba, do also here In thy country"? Do we
not as a Government and as a people hear
the wailfng of tho reconcentrados of vlco here
In our own towns and cities? The war In
Cuba cost pur country 550 lives and J500
wounded and was prosecuted at an expense of
$225,000,000. Theso are appalling figures; a
great price to pay to redress tho wrongs of
that neighboring isle. But how our hearts
should stand still when we know of the vic
tims of vice in this boasted land of the
free and home of the brave! How many
young men have been entrapped! How many
young women have been Inveigled! How many
homes have been desolated! How many hearts
have been broken! How many family circles
hae been severed! How many children have
starved! How many wives and mothers have
been murdered! How many asylums have been
crowded! How many prisons have been peo
pled! Oh, the tears and the sobbing! The
blasted lives and hopes! The graves and the
gallows! The maniacs and tho Invalids! All,
all because vice Is not sternly rebuked, and
because the citizenship of this Nation does
not demand its rights, and gallantly defend
the helpless and the weak. In the midst of
all this havoc and death, I am ready to bor
row tho words of Frederick Douglass: "I
welcome the bolt, come It from heaven or hell,
that shall break the power of these allies
of American slavery."
Answer me I If General Wood could stop
the fearful ravages of vice and whisky In
Havana, why cannot the authorities do as well
for our home cities? Is a military regtmu
better than a civil government?
War should be declared to a finish against
all forms of vice which enslave our people
FAMOUS BROOKLYN BRIDGE, IN WHICH STRUCTURAL "WEAKNESS WAS RECENTLY DISCOVERED.
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The recent breaking: of a dozen or more of the steel straps or suspenders supportlns the
cables of. the famous East River bridge, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn Boroushs of
the City of Cireater New York, and which has been regarded as one ot the englneerlnp
wonders of the world, has set New Yorkers by the ears and caused almost & panic anion?
the hundreds ot thousands of people who have dally occasion to use the structure. It is
and imperil our National life. The orders
Issued to Admiral Dewey at Hong Kong,
"Find the Spanish fleet and destroy it,'' must
be repeated against all tbe foes of the Re
public. Too many of our preparations to
meet these enemies are like the fort of the
Revolutionary War which General Washing
ton Impatiently called Fort Nonsense, when
he saw that It was -constructed a mile away
from the road along which the enemy would
pass, and the guns of the fort would not
throw more than half a mile. Our methods
have been insufficient; questions of mode and
expediency have divided the forces, and whllo
tho rescuing army has differed and dallied,
multitudes of the prisoners of vice have been
tortured and massacred. It Is for this ago
to disprove the unjust characterization made
by Matthew Arnold when he said, "The Am
erican idea of greatness Is bigness," and show
to the world that goodness and greatness are
synonymous on this side of the Atlantic.
"When this Nation can no longer perpetuate
the typical America, when men of courage ana
sympathy and convictions and piety can no
longer be built, then will decay and decline
appear. The vices of a nation thrive upon the
destruction of the manhood and womanhood of
the nation. When good laws are not en
forced the citizenship is poisoned and victim
ized. The degeneracy of the individual citizen
means tho disintegration of the foundations ot
the republic; hence, there la no foe as fierce as
the demon who attacks a nation's manhood.
Many times in the history ot nations there
has been a lamentable scarcity of men as
when Deborah defeated 8 Is era at the battle
of Mount Tabor; and again, when Elijah com
plained in Horeb that all men had departed
into idolatry; and, also, when Jeremiah
feared lest not a single man could be found
in Jerusalem. Such a calamity had befallen
Greece when the doughty Diogenes with lighted
torch threaded the streets ot Athens In
broad daylight seeking for a man. Hosea de
clared the penalty which would befall Eph
ralm. because of the lawlessness of the tribe,
to bo that "there shall not be a man loft."
Nor Is this to be understood as an arbitrary
curse of high heaven, but tho logical fruitage
of national sins. A nation will decline and
totter to Its fall, and finally tumble Into
oblivion, when, by reason of encouraged vices,
men no longer possess the Indispensable traits
ot real manhood. There are certain 'processes
which are directed against men, which, unless
deterred, will result in the abolition of men
as vigorous and noble factors of society. While,
therefore, as a Nation, we are providentially
led to assist struggling peoples in their con
tentions for their personal rights, we must
not be unmindful of the paramount interests
at home, which. If neglected, will speedily
shorten our career as propagators of liberty,
and exhibit the American Republic to the
world as a pitiable spectacle a Nation which
could save others, but which could not save
Itself.
Our mission Is plain! As the gallant ex
ponents of freedom our own land shall be
the granite citadel of liberty, and all op
pressed people shall be assured of our symt
pathy and assistance. In the midst of his de
votions one day, while lying prostrate before
the holy sepulcher In Jerusalem, Peter the,
Hermit declared that he heard the voice of
Christ distinctly say to him: "Peter, arise!
Hasten to proclaim the tribulations of my
people! It is timo my -servants phould re
ceive help, and that the holy "places should be
delivered!" There Is a call to arms todayl
There are modern crusades which are waiting
for the bold Peter of Amiens. Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes was a prophet of the new
humanity when he said: "There were holy
wars of old in which it was glory enough to
die; wars In which the only aim waa to rescue
the sepulcher of Christ from the hands of
infidels. The sepulcher of Christ is not in
Palestine. Ho rose from that burial place
more than 1S00 years ago. He Is crucified
wherever his brethren are slain without pity;
he lies burled wherever man. made In his
Maker's image. Is entombed In Ignorance, lest
he should learn the rights his divine Master
gave him."
Dr. Locke puts forward George Wash
ington as a typical American and as
representative of the kind of men that
are needed to flght the country's in
ternal foes. The great moral business
before the Nation today, says our au
thor, is to suppress and destroy the rum
traffic. It Is a problem for statesmen,
and if we would do good It must be done
In the right way. All alcoholic beverages
ENGINEERS -WILL STRENGTHEN THE GREAT STRUCTURE WHICH BINDS NEW
are a curse, whether the percentage of
alcohol be large or small, and beer 1$ the
greatest curse of all, because It Is train
ing men Into alcoholic habits -who could
not be Induced to begin with gin or
whisky. To defeat the enemy, Dr. Locke
suggests: "We must wage- a war of un
conditional surrender. First, concentrate
the enemy, compel him to retreat into his
.habitations of darkness and death; and
then, by force and strategy, the power
of men and the help of God, finally for
ever destroy the most colossal and fiend
ish conspiracy for the debasement of the
human family that was ever concocted In
the habitations of hell."
American Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame. By Henry Mitchell Mac-
Cracken. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York.
This Is the official book authorized by
the New York University senate as a
statement of the origin and constitution
of tho Hall of Fame and of its history up
to theclose of 1900. The work falls natur
ally Into two parts. The first part is a
history of the Hall and the second part
contains biographical sketches of the 29
Americans whose names have been se
lected for enrollment. 'The origin of ,the
Hall of Fame Is thus described in the
first clause of the agreement between the
New.York University and the giver of the
Hall:
A gift of $100,000 is accepted by New York
University under the following conditions:
Tbe money is to be used for building a colon
nade 500 feet in length at University Heights,
looking toward the Palisades and the Har
lem and Hudson River valleys. The exclusive
use of tho colonnade is to servo as "The Hall
of Fame for Great Americans." One hun
dred and fifty panels, each about two by olght
feet, will be provided for inscriptions. Fifty
of these will be inscribed in 1000, provided 50
names shall be approved by the two bodies of
Judges named below. At the close of every
five years thereafter five additional panels will
be Inscribed, so that the entire number shall
be completed by A. D. 2000. The statue, bust
or portrait of any person whoso namo is
inscribed may be given a place either In the
Hall of Fame or in the museum adjoining.
A list of names deemed worthy of a
place in the Hall was first obtained from
the public. This list was In turn sub
mitted to 100 electors, including presidents
of universities, editors and authors,
Judges of courts, professors ot history
and scientists, who selected the follow
ing 29: George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Frank
lin, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall,
Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emer
son, Robert Fulton, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Washington Irving, Jonathan
Edwards, Samuel F. B. Morse, David G.
Farragut, Henry Clay, George Peabody,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Cooper, Ell
Whitney, Robert B. Lee, Horace Mann,
John F. Audubon, James Kent, Henry
Ward Beecher. Joseph Story, John
Adams, William Ellery Channlng, Gilbert
Charles Stuart, Asa Gray.
The Langroase of Crlnie.
Joslah Flynt's frequent sojourns in what
he calls the Under World have enf"lch.ed
his vocabulary with many vigorous and
picturesque terms. What is more to the
purpose, they ' widen our horizons into
dark and troubled territory. In "The
World of Graft," a recent publication of
McClure, Phillips & Co., as in "The Pow
ers That Prey," we learn of "guns," of
"dips," "yeggmen," and "Strong-Arm
men," who work In "mobs' untroubled
by "wise elbows," never "pinched" unless
a copper gets "leary," and never pun
ished unless the "Front Office" cannot be
"squared." Mr. Flynt's very lingo, bor
rowed from the grafters to give color to
his facts, is of sinister import, bearing
the implication of systematized crime,
which will not disappear while the Upper
World Ignores what lies below.
Doom Castle.
Doom Castie. By Nell Munro. Doubleday.
Page & Co., New York.
Mr. Munro has tho happy faculty of en
tertaining, but his novel win not keep
the reader on the alert for startling situ
ations. He deals with conditions In Scot
land in tne1 middle ot the 18th century,
but the cause of the exiled Stuarts plays
only a minor part in the story. Doom Is
simply the family name of a poverty
stricken baron who lived la a lonely old
barrack on the shore of Loch Lomond,
not far from the seat of the Argyles. The
search of Simeon McTaggart, chamber
lain to the Duke of Argyle, for the baron's
daughter, Olivia, furnishes about all the
romance there Is in the story.
THE MAGAZINES.
In the August Review of Reviews Dr.
Shaw discusses the great steel strike in
its various aspects and comments on
many other matters of current interest
at home and abroad. M. de Bloch's re
cent address at Paris on the lessons of
the Boer War Is reviewed, and Its appli
cation to the military situation In tho
United States, as well as in Europe, is
pointed out.
The August Atlantic is a strong and at
tractive fiction number, containing six
complete stories or sketches by famous
hands. Miss Jewett's "Tory Lover1' comes
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to an end and Miss Johnston's "udrey"
increases In Interest with the new install
ment. Brooks Adams opens the number
with a discussion of the state of our
foreign relations; commercial and Na
tional, entitled "Reciprocity br the Alter
native"; Henry A. Clapp begins his long
looked for "Reminiscences of a Dramatic
Critic"; J. D. Whelpley, under "The Iso
lation of Canada," discusses the national
policy of that colony; P. A. Slllard de
scribes James Boswell as "The Prince
of Biographers"; A. R. Kimball treats
of "The New Provincialism."
The Cosmopolitan for August reveals
the late Grant Allen In a new light that
of a keen and clever satirist of modern
society, not only In England, but In the
world at large. The Cosmopolitan, Im
mediately on his death, secured from his
son all his papers, and the clever alle
gory, "The Temple of Fate," in the Au
gust number, is one of those selected.
Like "The British Aristocracy" In the
April Cosmopolitan, the present article
impresses itself on the reader wrlth a di
rect fearlessness which is a new quality
In the author's work.
"The Failure of the Two-Party Sys
tem" is the theme of a timely article
In the August Forum by Albert Watklns,
who condemns the present system as put
ting a blanket mortgage on truthfulness
and on Independent thought and action.
The history of Bryanlsm is used to point
his moral. Mr. WatKlns prefers the
group system, prevalent in Germany and
France. He speculates on the probable
results if the "sound money" Democrats
and disaffected Republicans had forsworn
their party allegiance and formed a new
group of their own.
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, whose "Face
of the Waters" and "Hosts of the Lord"
have had a multitude of American read
ers. Is a name not often seen In American
magazines. In Leslie's Monthly she tells
a new story of India, "The Squaring of
the Gods." which shows that she is still
a perfect interpreter of the mysteries
and superstitions which make India what
it is. Then there are other stories by
LllUe Hamilton French, William McLeod
Ralne and W. B. MacHarg, genuine an
ecdotes of Lincoln, whlea tne editors havo
secured at first-hand, an amusing mis
cellany of little stories and a very sug
gestive article upon the expenses of
yachting, which gives facts and figures
to make one think that the old Roman
times have come again.
In the Engineering Magazine for Au
gust, "Ore-Handling Machinery on the
Great Lakes" Is strikingly described by
James N. Hatch. His clear account of
the vessels, apparatus and methods, to
gether with the many really beautiful il
lustrations, give an excellent idea how
large a part these labor-saving methods
have played In securing the present
ascendancy of the United States in steel
making.
The Popular Science Monthly for Au
gust opens with an artlclo entitled "On
Bodies Smaller Than Atoms," by Profes
sor J. J. Thompson, the successor of Lord
Raylelgh and Maxwell in the chair of
physics at Cambridge, who here describes
for the first time ih popular language
the discoveries that have made him the
leading living physicist. It seems almost
Incredible that he should not only have
discovered but also weighed bodies smal
ler than atoms.
The Woman's Home Companion for Au
gust isa fiction number. It contains five
short stories: "An Idyl of Central Park,"
by Brander Matthews; "Her Grace of
Stoke Pogis," by Elizabeth O. Cuppy;
"The Man From Mars," by Katharine
Holland Brown; "The Sorrows of Jim
Jamphry," by Minnie Thomas Boyce;
"After Many Days," by Frederick M.
Smith. The children's page gives one of
Margaret Johnson's illustrated poems,
and a short fairy story. Two notable
features aro a double page illustrating
famous beaches, and "The Lady War
wick School for Women Farmers."
THE NOBLE COLUMBIA.
How a Toiirlst Appreciated the Great
River of the Northwest.
PORTLAND, Aug. 3. (To the Editor.)
Following Is an extract from a letter of a
tourist, which shows how much the Co
lumbia River Is appreciated by those who
have visited it:
"Leaving Portland, the Gatzert, after
skimming down the placid waters of the
Willamette a dozen miles to its mouth,
turns her bow up the grandest river on
.this continent the Columbia. At first the
country is more or less open, with blue
mountains In the background. The old
military post at "Vancouver soon comes In
sight, where General Grant was stationed
in his youthful days before the war.
"Presently, however, the hills begin to
close In, crowding tho river into a nar
row channel. Rooster Rock looms up
ahead, a great rough-coated monolith, the
outpost of the grand, wild country that ia
to follow. Now the steamer plows her
way around Cape Horn, a huge point of
solid rock, whose lofty sides are smooth
and perpendicular. The Palisades of the
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and that unless steps at once be taken to remedy the situation there is danger of a col
lapse and consequent frightful disaster. Engineers are now examining It. with a view to Its
reconstruction and practical rebuilding-, so far as may be neceseary to Insure Its safety. The
atroctare was opened to traffic Hay 24, 1SS3, and cost about $21,000,000.
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esting, so exciting, so full of
dramatic incident, so abso
lutely absorbing, that there is
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massive wall.
"You have now entered a gorgeous, glo
rious region. On either side the mountains
rlso to the verv cloud. Hero a peak Is
capped by a' pinnacle as sharp as any
thorn; the summit of another draws a
long, straight line across the sky; an
other Is rounded like tho papal crown, so
each assumes Us own extravagant shape.
Vast forests of fir stretch away up tho
less steep slopes, completely cloaking them
in a mantle of green. Here a rugged
face of rock, richly colored by a dozen
shades of red, takes, on a look supremely
gorgeous. Over some of these steeps come
leaping mountain streams, forming ex
quisite waterfalls. But the acme of splen
dor is reached In the great snow-capped
mountains (five in all), which rear their
lofty heads far up into the heavens, away
above all the surrounding country. Any
thing moro nearly divine Is unthinkable at
best. Words fall to convey any satis
factory idea of the grandeur of this re
gion; the solemnity of the huge bulks
and dizzy heights awe one to silence. The
traveler, whose stock of descriptive ad
jectives is quickly exhausted, can but
gazo In mute wonder.
"The rler Itself is no mean part of
the scan?, as it comes racing down its
narrow course or billowing over the cas
cades. Doubtless Job had some such
places in mind when he wrote: 'He cut
toth out rivers among the rocks
"The pigmy fish wheels (pigmy In com
parison with the Titan tic heights), moored
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to some outjuttlng crag, add an element
of picturesqueness to the scene, and are
watched by .the traveler with no small
amount of Interest.
"A word about tho steamer on which
you spend the day will perhaps be apropos
at this juncture. Tho Bailey Gatzert Is
a sw If t and powerful boat, her round trip
of 220 miles being made in 15 hours. Her
furnishings are luxurious, the decorations
attractive, the culslno excellent, the offi
cers polite and attentive, so that the pleaa
ure, of the day Is thus materially enhanced
by these surroundings
"On the trip down stream, ono Is simply
astounded at the new wonders revealed
and marvel3 that they escaped tho eye
before. Words are inadequate to describe
the sunset on tho Columbia In this re
gion, but exaggeration of Its splendor la
well nigh Impossible.
"Finally the Gatzert reaches her wharf
and lands a crowd most enthusiastic in
Its praise of tho trip."
LAMAR SEELEY, JR.
BIG RUSH FOR PATENTS.
Automobile Section. Busiest in. tha
Patent Office.
By all odds, says tho American Auto
mobile, the automobile tsectlon is the bus
iest of all the 'divisions of the Patent
Office at Washington these days. Slnca
all the fashionable world has taken to
automoblllnr, and this sport Is no longec
a fad, the Inventors of the country eoera
to have turned their attention to bring
ing out Improvements in motors, car
riages and other parts. The number ot
applications that are being received for
patents on devices for automobiles Is so
great that It has been found necessary to
havo five special examiners on the work.
Four separate divisions have been or
ganized, to which are referred patent paw
pers according to tho specific kind ot pat
ent that is demanded. One division han
dles electric motors, another steam mo
tors, another gas and acetylene motors
and another looks out for the compressed
air motors. It is very seldom that the
rush of business for a certain division Is
so great as to cause an Increase in the
number of special examiners or to bring
about the establishment of additional di
visions. One special examiner is ordi
narily able to take care of all applica
tions relating to one branch of work.
The only record there Is of a greater
volume of work coming to one division
than now falls to the lot of tho automo
bile bureau, occurred some years ago at
tho time the bicycling craze was at Its
height. There waa such a deluge ot
claims for patent on wheels, chains, bear
ings, handles and the other parts of a
bicycle, that 10 special examiners were
detailed to help out the chief of tho
division. These cases have dwindled down
since, until now only two men are re
quired In the bicycle division.
The electrical division Is pushing the
automobile section for first honors in the
matter of work. There has been a marked
Increase in the development of electrical
science In the past five years, and this
Is shown In the Patent Office to a greater
degree than anywhere else.
Bnllnde of Dead Humorists.
If you sow Success, you must harvest Wo
For fame was ever a fickle Jade.
And sequels never were known to "go,'a
When Art deteriorates Into Trade.
A song too long on the lyre Is played.
And lo, your ictory Is reversed I
The Critic crlea, in his wild tirade,
"He's not so good aa be was at first!"
The praise of the Public melts like snow,
Tho smiles of your Favor quickly fade;
Unless a chameleon garb you show.
Or change like Proteus, unafraid.
Your name Is likely- to retrograde.
The deluge comes! Lest you be immersed.
Pray change your field ere the plaint tM
made,
"He's not so good as he was at flrstl"
E'en Chlmmle Fadden was voted "slow,"
J. Ford too long at the counter stayed,
And Bangs' Houseboat we did outgrow,
While Dunne too long after Dooley strayed.
Oh, tremble now for the slangy Adet
The Publisher urges him to his worst.
But Critics are crying In ambuscade,
"He's not so good as he was at flrstl"
Envoy.
O Wits, I'm calling a spade a spade;
Havo done with your stunts ere your bubbles
burst
Too much ot a Muchness, add you are flayed!
"He's not so good as he was at first!"
Gelett Burgess, la tho Bookman.
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