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C, In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale in "Washington, D. C, by theEbbett House news stand. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 905-912 Seventeenth street. TODAY'S "WEATHER Cloudy, with show ers; southerly winds. YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 59; minimum temperature, 44; pre cipitation, 0.14 inch. 1 1 PORTLAND, SUXDA.Y, JANUARY 5. "VITALITY OF R03IANTIO FICTION. New and expensive editions of Scott, Thackeray and Dickens have recently been put upon the market in England and America, and it has Just been an nounced that Charles Reade's novels are on the eve of handsome republica tion in England. These facts illustrate the vitality of the romantic school of notion, whose highest expression Is found in Shakespeare. "When the world ceases to read Shakespeare, it will cease to- read Scott and all the great modern masters of the heroic school the men who paint the highest possibilities, the aspirations of human nature, not mere ly make tinted photographs and articu lated anatomical preparations of Its cheapest and most commonplace activ ity and accomplishment. It is not enough for the realist to plead that the world is full of imbecility and meanness and small talk and Insane avarice and seven-by-nine folk of all sorts. On this ground the stage, instead of heroes and villains of heroic stature, would be filled with nothing hut squeak ing dudes and simpering dolls. The cheap novel has had Its day. The in telligent reading. world is slowly but steadily going back to the romantic school of Scott, who nobly tells a noble story and tells It decently, but declines to people his books with persons who, as Charles Lamb said, "go on forever en couraging each other In mediocrity." Fiction wrought by the school of Scott, Thackeray, Dickens and Reade will always be read with recreation and profit so long as heroic poetry is read with recreation and profit for its wisdom and its inspiration. If roman tic "fiction is to be derided without dis crimination, then we might as well de ride all literature that is not content with bald facts, or the lives of non romantic, non-heroic, depressing people, who, being self-made, worship their own creator. -Mr. Howells is never weary of saying that the heroic type of hu .manlty sketched by Scott, Thackeray, .Dickens and Charles Reae stands either for pictures of morbid persons or for an obsolete expression of humanity. The fiction of the future Mr. Howells would fill with what he calls realism substituted for what he calls the ideal ism of the heroic and romantic school. The argument is iiiat "Walter Scott be comes obsolete in modern life, where 'there Is no heroism save when the man is morbid. American life at its best is only prigs and snobs when it is not Silas Laphams or Bartley Hubbards. ,Thls is the plea of Mr. Howells for peopling his fictions with the unherolc or imbecile In American life rather than the heroic that 'not seldom comes home to his eyes in his morning news paper. So we have a dreary, depressing real ism In his fiction that stands for the living death of the best of human na ture; it is instinct with nothing that stands for warning and rebuke we find in "Vanity Fair" and "Pendennls," or for the inspiration and aspiration we find in "The Cloister and the Hearth." "We get the dreary dribble of the petty social world, where the men are all col orless snobs and depraved dandles, or vulgar, coarse, boastful American doubles of Mr. Bounderby.. Mr. How ells Is a charming essay writer, but when he attempted to criticise the ro mantic school of fiction by writing a series of realistic, non-heroic novels he failed, for his fictions stand for echoes and lights from a world of moral and mental opacity and fatuity; for folly without blood, and selfishness without byains; for sentlmentalism without soul; for superficial refinement and social languor without good feeling; .for a very gross materialism whose delicate hands and soft voice do not make Its wooden head invisible. This is American life which Mr. How ells sketches in exposition of his theory that Scott and Thackeray were all wrong; that romance is really rot, and heroism only the diseased action of morbid minds, that systematic selfish ness Is the every-day guide, philoso pher and friend of the best American life. This Insipid, forceless, yawning, feeble, frivolous, silly social life, peo pled with nothing but feather-headed dolls and cackling dudes, has, of course, a real existence among us, for it is not in any large sense American life, for It is the non-talkative, non-brooding, non sentimental, non-morbid American com mon people that are always surprising us by heroic action and'chivalric con duct Real heroism Is the characteris tic of healthy minds and bodies, not morbid organizations. Morbid minds may, under the influence of supersti tion or monomania, be capable of self- torture, but heroic unselfishness and un flinching devotion to duty, "when ex pressed In deeds rather than words, is the expression of a healthy, not a mor bid mind, -whether you find It In a humble miner or a high-bred Prince. The sentimental affectation of heroics, the garrulous enthusiasm of perennial cranks, never crystallizes into a life or death of genuine heroism or self-sacrifice, but it is the healthy, plain people of the world's great races, not their maniacal, fanatical, sentimental folk, that oftenest "without effort rise In stantly to the level of heroic self sacrifice. Men of all ranks and conditions of life, of different degrees of Intelligence and culture and circumstances, illus trate frequently how the poet's dream, the novelist's ideal of the heroic possi bilities of humanity, are made part of the glowing actualities of existence. The dream becomes a deed; the ideal hero is constantly bursting out of the ground In unexpected places, like a gnome In the forest, or coming up like a lovely fairy out of the dark bog, whose slime "we had scarcely suspected hid in its depths a soulful shape of beauty. The great artists of the ro mantic school of fiction are legitimate objects of criticism, but romantic fic tion "will always appeal most strongly to popular taste and feeling, because It is human nature to worship ideals in life and to be captivated by them In literature. The other extreme Is Zola with his disgusting realism. The best answer to Howells' deprecia tion of Scott Is the fact that the "Leatherstocking Tales" are the only ones written by Cooper that have en during popularity, and this is because they are written In the spirit of Scott; they are picturesque, dramatic and non dldactlc, and are the only American novels that ever excited and held the admiration of tho great English critics 6ave the psychologic romances of Haw-) thofne. THE REWARDS OF HEAVEN. Captain Leary's life was strangely eventful, and about his death there hangs a peculiar pathos. He was en titled to promotion to the rank of Rear Admlral, and this long-hoped-for but still-delaying honor was the one thing, it seems, that troubled him in his last Illness. Dally he asked for the expect ed appointment, but day after day it failed to come. Somebody interested himself in the matter, and there was a little stir in the Navy Department. The appointment was made out, signed by the President, and rushed on to Chel sea. But it was too late. Another mes senger, he of the Pale Horse and silent tread, had entered Captain Leary's chamber first and borne him beyond the reach of red tape and official cliques. When his brother-in-law, Dr. Irwin, re turned from the funeral, he found the appointment in the mail. Nobody had anything against Captain Deary's promotion. The honor he wished to pass on to his survivors would have taken no credit or emolu ment from any jealous comrade. It was Just that somebody didn't think. And how many bitter tragedies are due to no weightier cause than some well meaning person's thoughtless procras tination. The letter that wasn't writ ten, the kind word forgot to be spoken, the hand with aid In need that was meant to be outstretched, but was not till too late have all scattered sorrow and disappointment on the 6ne hand. and remorse on the other. All the world knows now that Leary died a Rear Admiral, but the one who most wanted to know it died and never knew. It is a common story. Many a word is said above a lifeless form and printed in obituaries that would have gladdened the now dead heart when alive. For giveness and atonement are "often In tercepted on their way from its gener ous giver to needy recipient, and trains are rushing on this morning with anx ious occupants, who will be too late for deathbed reconciliations to which they have long looked forward. The dream of humanity has been of another world where all these mistakes shall be made clear; that after the night of death there comes the morning of im mortality. Listening Love, said Inger soll, can hear the rustle of a wing." There the wrongs of earth shall be righted, its doubts set at rest, Its mys teries revealed. There the wicked shall cease from troubling and the weary be at rest. There shall be no night there, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. If It is a delusion. It is the most persistent delusion of history. If It is only a dream, then it is the most stupendous hoax of the human mind. It has warned millions back from the ways of sin and consoled other millions In the dying hour. Nothing could be more worthy the soul than its aspira tion to come come day into the presence of its Maker with his approval. The hope is one that ornaments character. Even on grounds of public policy one would not wish to see the believers in immortality put to shame by the order of Nature, which has raised man to his noble stature of body and mind. Is man nothing more than the beasts of the field, the grass that wlthereth, the tale that Is told? Material conceptions of heaven, how- .ever, have done' much to discredit the belief in a future state. If Captain Leary, for example, realises that he en ters heaven as a Rear-Admiral, what good will It do him? There are no na--vles there, we can be sure, and rank will be an impossibility where all human. Institutions are unknown. We like to think of the great man as pursuing his achievements beyond the grave, but of what avail, there, will be his history, and seventeen languages, and political economy, poetry and philosophy, botany and numismatics? What we long for in terms of earth it is depressing, but un deniable will be Impossible in heaven. The rich man can feel no sense of pov erty, and the poor no sense of riches. The earthly lazy will not have to work, and the weary, can know neither weari ness nor rest. How much is left for de light when the things of sense are stripped away.? Beauty of sights and sounds, sunset and shore and sweet music, household voices and the embrace of love these are of the mortal frame and perish with the eye and car, heart and brain. We have refined a little upon the African who expects a hell of ice, the Eskimo who looks forward to walrus and snow In infinite profusion, and the happy hunting-ground of the Indian; but we are all apt to adorn the future state with furniture as essentially earthly as .the bow and arrow with which the In dian is expected to greet the other world. The wrongs of earth may be made right in heaven, but not in the coin of earthly values. What the dis embodied spirit, bereft of government, science, language and family ties, will require for Its highest enjoyment or greatestjpaln, our data, unfortunately. Is Inadequate. The critics are finding fauk with the Apocalyptic's celestial di mensions; but their evidence Is no more trustworthy than his. COME AND WELC03IE. It seems that the complaint of French masters against the cost of sailors in Portland harbor is taken very seriously In the East, whose newspapers are calmly discussing the prospect of a pow erful French fleet coming here to stop such proceedings. If a purpose of this sort Is really entertained at Paris, we sincerely hope It will be persisted In. Some years have passed sUice a war ship added to the attractions on Port land's water front, and a whole squad ron of French battle-ships and cruis ers would afford objects of unusual in terest and diversion. People would come from miles around to see them. Travel would look up, and business In general would receive a decided stimu lus. As to the Issues in hand, they could be readily arranged, and the stay of the squadron could be made pleasant all round. In return for so distin guished a visit, all hands hereabouts would promise anything. The seaman's abuse committee would spread a sump tuous banquet to the officers of the fleet, at which Consul Laldlaw, Larry Sullivan and Mons. Labbe would bury their differences and agree to furnish able seamen at nominal ratea Inci dentally a little spirit might be infused into the French character, which would forbid the French sailor to allow him self .to be. treated "like cattle," as the complaining documents have it. The French seem to need a little enlighten ment on the sailor's true Inwardness, which has come to be apprehended with reasonable accuracy by the British au thorities. It is to be regretted, "however, that the matter has attained such publicity; for It will -only serve as notice to the ports of Puget Sound to get a hostile squad ron of their own. Seattle would mas sacre every Frenchman In King County for the sake of selling the squadron what coal and other supplies It would need. If the promised flset does set sail for Portland, look out for blood along Seattle's water front. THE LATEST SHIPWRECK. Too often to the story of shipwreck Is added that of the selfishness, insub ordination and brutality of the crew In putting off from the doomed vessel with the boats and life rafts, leaving the helpless, terror-stricken passengers to their fate. To the honor of American shipmasters and sailors be it said, this record seldom follows the wreck of an American ship. The latest disaster on the Pacific Coast, by which the steamer Walla Walla was sent to the bottom by a blow from an unseen vessel, showed no exception to this rule. The brave captain as competent as brave went down with his ship, but later was released by the breaking of the deck above him, and lives to tell a story of suffering and rescue that has Its coun terpart In a thousand tales at sea. His call to the stranger that ran his vessel down to "stand by" him was unheeded; she veered off into the all-engulfing gloom of night and fog, was lost to sight, and his ship went down In thirty five minutes after receiving the fatal blow. Though not so disastrous in "point of the number of lives lost, the wreck of the Walla Walla Is similar to that of the Pacific, which many years ago" went down from the effects of a midnight collision off Cape Flattery with the American ship Orpheus. The Pacific, overladen with living freight, groaning like a sentient thing, went swiftly down, but three survivors of between 200 and 300 souls remaining to tell the awful tale. There was simply nothing to be done In this case but to go down with the ship, so inadequate were the lifesavlng appliances on board, and so quickly did she disappear. With but little more time, the boats of the Walla Walla were launched, and of ICO souls on board less than a fourth of the num berperhaps less than a fifth were lost. ' We are disposed to think upon impulse that nothing can mitigate the horrors of a shipwreck, especially If this occurs In the darkness. The record of the ex cellent discipline maintained on board the Walla "Walla while It was certain that she was rapidly sinking, and of the humanity displayed by the officers and crew of the vessel toward the passen gers and each otljer, dlspoves this Idea. Contrasted with the scenes on board the French liner La Bourgogne, that went down on the Newfoundland coast some months ago under similar circum stances, the Incidents of this latest wreck prove that there Is worse and better even In disaster at sea which in volves great loss of life. Horror in the one case Is overcome by Indignation as the recital proceeds; In the other It Is softened by the admiration that hero Ism and devotion to duty everywhere Inspire. Pity for the fate of the un fortunate ones who lost their lives by the disaster is not the less abounding because of the admiration aroused by the calmness, the discipline, the hero ism, the humanity, that combined so ma terially to reduce the loss of life in the face of probabilities so appalling. This latest shipwreck differs from many that have preceded In that these probabili ties were prevented from becoming cer tainties by manly courage and compe tent seamanship, beginning with the master of the vessel and extendlnc to his subordinates to the last man of his 1 crew. WAKING UP AT LAST. , The Willamette Valley appears at last to be "getting a move on." It is doing nothing very wonderful, to be sure, but far more in every material way than at any former time always excepting the very earliest time when the simplest manifestations of progress were mar vels truly. But for the first time since wheatgrowing for export first attracted the energies of the Valley, more than a quarter of a century ago, there is through its length and breadth a new spirit, an unwonted stirring of the blood. It makes no great show upon the surface, but Its indications are plain to careful observation. For example, every Valley bank of standing is carry ing deposits greater in number and larger In volume than ever before. This comes in part from sales of land to newcomers, but in larger measure from savings from the sale of crops during the past two or three Beasons, and one source is as significant and promising as the other. Again, the Valley Is more than supplying Itself and Its natural markets with those things which it is capable of producing, but of which in times past it has not produced enough. We are getting1 not merely our tradi tional "soap, socks arid pickles" from home sources, but our whole supply of bread, beof, pork and pork products, 1 poultry and what not. It has come about so quietly that the change has escaped general notice. But comparing conditions in this respect with, the con ditions of a dozen or less years ago, the change Is a radical one, and it is a change of mighty significance In Its re lation to the industrial and economic life of the "Willamette Valley and of Oregon. Another significant fact: Almost dally there Is chronicled In the local news papers some special Instance of com munity or personal 'prosperity on the basis of some new industry or some re vival of an old Industry. Here some body has made a small fortune on his season's apple crop; there an old cream ery long abandoned has been started up by new enterprise or the pressure of the expanding milk production; here a whole neighborhood is 'full-handed be cause of good fortune in the hop sea son; there a farmer Has made a sale of his season's hogs with results unheard of; here another has sold his prunes and paid off a lcng-standlng mortgage; there a new man from Iowa or Minnesota or Illinois has come into the neighborhood, bought some old and neglected place, and with new energy and modern meth ods Is giving the local community an object-lesson In how they do things in other countries; here a farmer long barely able to "keep up his Interest" and hold his head above water Is build ing a new house with the profits of a fortunate crop. And, better still, every now and again there comes a report to the effect that some up-to-date newcomer or some enterprising old timer" for It Is not always a new comer who blazes out a fresh path has Inaugurated some new and profit able line of productive effort. There is in all this a tremendous sig nificancenothing less than that the rich and long Inert Valley of the Wll- J lamette is at last coming Into Its own on the basis of new ideas and modern enterprise. It Is a consummation long waited and long hoped for. For rea sons partly due to Its position and unique character, and partly due to Its curious tradition and habit, it has lagged In the march of Industrial prog ress. It has seen the Puget Sound country, the Palouse region, the great country of which Spokane is the center, and the equally great country of East ern Oregon, rise up from the wilder ness and in a sense -pass it by in the race for development. There have been reasons for all this, but they have not always been obvious, and it has long been the fashion to make odious com parisons and upon the basis of contrast to belittle and deride the Willamette Valley. This has never been generous or wise; and events which are rapidly bringing the Valley to the fore In many material ways will soon make it ri diculous. In the large value of Its poten tial conditions the Willamette Val ley Is far and away superior to any other section of this fine country, and a few years under the present rate of progress cannot fall to mark an ad vancement of which very few now even so much as dream of. The larger prog ress of Oregon, as these columns have man-y times declared, rests upon the awakening of, the Willamette Valley, and the beginning of that movement Is plainly at hand. THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACE. An Englishman, W. T. Stead, In the current number of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, quotes Cecil Rhodes, Andrew Carnegie and the great inventor, Hiram Maxim, as agreeing in the conviction that the political unity of the English speaking race is the great problem of the future. They are agreed that in order to secure the unity of the English speaking race we must recognize the fact that the center of unity has shifted from London to Washington. Mr. Rhodes said that his one idea about home rule for Ireland was that it was "the beginning of the Inevitable and In dispensable Americanization of our In stitutions." Mr. Carnegie thinks that the triumph of democracy will not be finally attained until the whole British Empire has merged l,tself In the Ameri can Republic. He thinks that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland would cut up nicely Into eight states, each of which would be about as populous as New York or Pennsyl vania. He looks forward to the time when the American Republic will be come the Federated Republic of all the English-speaking peoples; when mon archy, aristocracy and established church will disappear In the political union of the whole English-speaking world organized on a republican basis. Rhodes, Carnegie and Maxim agree that this prefigured unity of the English-speaking world Is supremely desira ble In the Interests of the peace, pros perity and progress of the world; they agree also In believing that America has succeeded the United Kingdom in the leadership of the race, and that the only possible basis upon which the race, which has the same language, the same law, the same religion, the same litera ture, the same family life, the same moral Ideals, can be reunited 13 a broad, elastic, federal system which finds Its most complete expression at present In the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Carnegie Is quoted as believing that any overture on the part of Great Brit ain would be welcomed with out stretched hands by America, but Mr. Stead admits that certain American journalists tell him that "Uncle Sam Is now too big a fellow to care about entering into partnership with John Bull." Mr. Stead admits that the Im mense majority of the English people In England would today recoil with horror from the suggestion that they should sacrifice their independent im perial existence in order to secure a per manent place In the great federation of the English-speaking people, but he points out that In less than 100 years the position held by Austria in 1S15 has been usurped by Prussia and the Ger man race has been unified under the scepter of the Hohenzollern. He think3 it bighlyx probable that the English speaking race will undergo the same revolution In the twentieth century that the Germans underwent in the nine teenth. He anticipates that one by one the various colonies of Great Britain will tend Inevitably to gravitate toward the United States. Every one of these colonies has adopted the American constitutional system and rejected that of the old country. There Is no established church In the British Empire outside of Great Britain. The colonial Legislatures are all paid for their services. The English land system has never been exported, nor the English House of Lords imi tated in any of her colonies. The ties of kinship, the force of tradition and sen timental loyalty are probably sufficient for the present to keep the British colo nies to their allegiance, but this senti mental loyalty would endure no severe strain. The Instinct of self-preserva- tion no longer holds Australia or Can- ada to the mother land, for the Boer War has taught the highly intelligent people of both these great colonies that they need no longer have any apprehen sion of an Invasion or conquest by any foreign power. These great British col onies no longer need to believe that but for the shelter of the British fleet they might be annexed forcibly to Germany, France, Russia or Japan. The new Australian commonwealth has established a protective tariff which excludes impartially from the colonial market goods of the . mother country and those of foreign states, pnd America can, through reciprocity, pur chase reductions on goods ImportedJnto Cape Town and Melbourne by reduc tions of the American -tariff on colonial goods, while the English have nothing to give the colonist in the way of re mission of duty. The Immense and In creasing wealth of the .United States will ultimately attract to' the American Union colony after colony, beginning with those like Canada and the West Indies, which are geographically within her orbit. This is the forecast of an Englishman that Great Britain is des tined to see one after another of her great colonies leave her to Join the United States. Mr. Carnegie years ago said: "The only course for Great Brit ain seems to be reunion with her grand child, or sure decline to a secondary place, and then to comparative Insig nificance in the future annals of the English-speaking race," The late Captain Leary, first Gover nor of Guam, was a somewhat eccen tric character, but withal a man pos sessed of the courage of his convictions. As Military Governor of the little Island of the Pacific he rule'd the easy-going, happy-go-lucky people as he would the men " hIs Ip' Accrdn& to,hls in" terpretatlon, there are but two elements In government command and obedi ence. He sought to break up immoral ity among the natives by compelling them to marry; to eliminate laziness from the native constitution by calling upon men for a certain amount of work every week; to induce thrift by pre scribing the minimum number of poul try which should be maintained by each family, and to stop what he deemed unnecessary noise by confining the ring ing of church bells within distinct 11m lta Though a conscientious man, he was not popular, and soon had the Government in a mlIdA sort of ferment with the natives, whose habits and tra ditions he took in hand so boldly. He was In due time relieved of his com mand and ordered to report. Yet he was a gallant sailor who had been in the Navy for nearly half a century, having entered the service from Mary land in 1860. Throughout his long serv ice he never shirked what he conceived to be his duty, and when the end came a few days ago, in the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, he was laid, to rest with honors befitting a faithful servant of his country. The Oregonlan heretofore has re printed a sample or two of the bur lesque biographies of notable persons that are amusing London, under the head of "Lives of the 'Lustrlous," and herewith It gives another: Llpton Sir Thomas Johnstone, the King's cupbearer, was born at Sandrlngham, which he chose for that honor partly on account of its la3t syllable. After sen-Ins for some years as an Admiral of the Ceylon Navy; he returned to this country, a master of teamanshlp. In spite of a course of Sandow's exercises, ho cannot yet lift the America cup. but he has recorded the opinion that a finer set of gentlemen than those whor malde it, who won It. who protect It, and who write about It In the papers, could not exist. It Is confidently conjectured m sporting coteries that the good Sir Thomas will win the cup in 1929 with Shamrock XXX. Sir Thomas' address Is tho Mast Head. City Road, and Ham Common. His motto Is: "The cup that cheers, but not Inebriates" These burlesques upon the names In the "Dictionary of Natural Biography" are having an Immense run In England. Each of the two editors of these biogra phies makes it a personal request that persons having a grievance for this sort of treatmen.t will call on the other edi tor. Yellow fever has been completely stamped out at Havana. Not a death occurred there from It during the month of November. Within the long period of 140 years there has been no parallel to this exemption. It Is attributable to the rigorous sanitary measures enforced by the United States, and to means em ployed for protection against the "yellow-fever mosquito." That this disease Is transmitted by the bite of a variety of the mosquito Is now accepted as a sure truth of physiological science. It is one of the most wonderful of recent discoveries. In the estimate of state expenses for the year ending December 31, 1902, there Is manifestly an oversight. There is no specific provision made for music for the Deaf-Mute School, magic-lantern shows for the blind, or candy for the Inmates of the Reform School. Per haps, however, these Items come under the head of "Improvements" contem plated for these Institutions, or "contin gent expenses," for which reasonably liberal estimates appear. There se,ems to be an oversupply of Rear-Admirals In the Navy. Almost every day we hear of Rear-Admirals on the active or retired list whose names are new to the history of their coun try. How did we get such a crop of Rear-Admirals? In Shakespeare's time the word "Captain" had become so common as to be as cheap as the word "occupy," on which some gag was then running in London. Let us now sub stitute "Rear-Admiral." No actor who comes to Portland Is more welcome thtrh Mr. Fred Warde, not because of any transcendent genius he possesses as actor or producer, but because of his conscientious methods, his admirable character and his lov able personality. It Is to be hoped he brings us that beautiful play "The Mountebank" this time uncut, for at his last presentation of it here some of its most effective parts were missing. The State Reform School buildings were not, it appears, intelligently, in sured against loss by fire. For this oversight on the part of somebody who was supposed to know better the state Is out in the value of the Industrial building of that Institution recently burned. The reward In the Dalton-Wade case, whoever is entitled to it, should be paid promptly and made an end of. The litigation menaced by opposing claims .filed with the County Court would be discreditable to all concerned. The Panama Canal Is developing a good deal' of strength. The railroad crowd, who 'don't want any canal at all, are all going for Panama. IT'S WOMAN'S WAY. "Two women placed together makes a cold weather," says Shakespeare. A com pound of Susan B. Anthony and Ida Hus ted Harper Is a very frigid element Just now. Mrs. Harper, In carrying on a war J against a wicked world and a downtrod den sex, has got Into a dispute over a physiological question pertaining to wo men. If the weather were not so cold, the argument might get heated. But now Is the Winter of Ida Husted Harper's discontent, and the mercury is so cowed that it dares hardly to peep above the freezing point. The focus where the forces of argu ment unite their energy Is the "modem woman" and the decay of family life. The battle has been on for the past month. It Is a stirring episode in the "emancipation" of women. The amazon in the fray is equipped with a magazine of verbiage, which she draws upon so volubly as to" show she has not yet ef fected her own "emancipation" from the frailties charged against her sex. If the poet was right who said that "to be alow In words is a woman's only virtue," he was not acquainted with Ida Husted Harper. "AH the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women." observed Voltaire. "Very learned women are to be found In the same manner as female warriors." The opinion of the biographer of Susan B. Anthony appears to be such a sentiment. Although woman has always borne the burdens of the world, and although our amazon warrior speaks poniards and every word stabs: although the lady has emancipated herself, she has not alto gether made herself free, according to the intrinsic evidence. She rather finds her self In the plight of other slaves sud denly come to their freedom, who do not know how to use it. It is said In "King Lear" that there never yet was a fair woman who did not make faces in a glass. Let us trust that the glass of Ida Husted Harper Is not notoriety. Tho battle was started by the Rev. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Rochester, N. Y. In an address several weeks ago he made some very plain remarks, which caused no small sensation. Seemingly he let loose the wlnd3 of Aeolus, for a vio lent storm has been raging ever since. Tho object of his remarks was the Ameri can college woman. He said: It Is a very clearly established law that the more a woman Is educated, the fewer chances she has for becoming a mother. A woman Ph. D. has about ten to one less chance of be ing married, and if married of being a mother, than If she wcro a Digger Indian. But the reverend gentleman unbolted himself still more. He let himself loose In language which, although containing perhaps a grain of truth, was Improper and shocking to many prudish people. Here are the words, reprinted with such apologies as are due: More than ever beforo does the young brldo go to the altar with the distinct purpose never to become a mother, but on the contrary to devoto herself to a life of lust and pleasure. even more Inconsistent with the perpetuation of society than the life of her less charming and less guilty sister of the pavement. The fault of Mr. Hendricks was, per- haps, not so much what he said as how he said It. He pronounced in a bold way what thoughtful people have been talking about for a long time. Many thlnss are said nowadays about the decline of fam ily life. Much of what is said fails to get Into print. The debate on divorce In the Episcopal convention brought out many facts which will not bear repetition. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark Uni versity, has pointed out the failure of ed ucation of women to cope with the social problem. All physicians and scientists of repute point out that culture and educa tion are a physiological disadvantage. The proof of this is Irrefutable. No wise per son would dare to attack it. Now enters upon the scene Ida Husted Harper. She denies the established ev idence. She does not attack Mr. Hen dricks and Dr. Hall squarely, and In the smoke of battle gets mixed up and sup ports the enemy. Here again she has been unable to emancipate herself from the reputation of her sex. She denies that motherhood Is the highest achievement of woman, even though she herself, the heir of all the ages, for whom the world has waited ever since it began, had a mother. She declares that woman has an individu ality of her own, which she Is entitled to enjoy without danger to her life and com fort, even though her own mother hazard ed both. She asserts that the "expense and responsibility of bringing up children are out of all proportion to what they were a century ago," and "when the fam ily is large It means for parents in mod erate circumstances a lifetime of self denial." "Think," she says, "what It means for a woman to give the core or her life, the beautiful years between 20 and 45, the time when the mental powers are at their best, when enjoyment In the pleasant things of this world Is keenest, to the exacting demands of the nursery!" If there Is any argument that !an dam such a flow of selfishness, we do not know of it. If there is any method where by we can preserve our comfort and our individuality without paying back to our mothers what they gave for us, even Ida Husted Harper cannot suggest It; even she who imagines herself the final out come of Nature's triumph. When we be hold such a travesty on Nature aa she, we exclaim, "Frailty, thy name is wo man." even though the name should be long with equal force to man. Forget there 13 a world before us, and we have no world to follow. Remember how the world has come of agony and pain, ot peace and joy, and we do honor to our mothers' memories. In the language of Ida Husted Harper, the "modern woman" wants herseir. Thank goodness she can have herself, and she Is getting herself. But Immortality, the only kind given to man, that every person wants, who Is not given wholly to self-love, she will not have. Women have ambitions. They desire a wider life.They are encouraged in their ambitions, and will as much as possible get all the Intellectual advantages there are. Civilization requires education ot women. The gabble of such wo men as Ida Husted Harper Is proor that some women need more education. But there are recognized dangers which increase as culture and refinement ad vance. So-called reformers will not re fute them by denying them or magnify Ing something else into a grievance. In telligent women will not fly In the face of physiological facts. They will rather try .to meet those facts with remedies. Un less they can do so, culture will be like to vanity, and as a shadow that passeth away. In Ilnrd I.uclc. Thomas Youse look Tattered sick Mouldy. Mouldy Murphy Well, no wonder. I hain't had nothln' to eat all day but cold health food. SLINGS AND ARROWS. lament of an IgnoramHi, I do not know The square of 2xy plus abc; I cannot show Eow one triangle may be made to equal three, T cannot tell At what degree of heat white lead will bolL Nor what befell The men who first set foot on Zulu soli. I have not heard What kind ot disposition Homer had. And not a word Can I repeat of all the Iliad. 1 I have no ground For speculation as to Job's content. And never found. Or tried to find, forsooth, what Browning meant. My dull mind lacks The requisite ability to think John Halifax The greatest lesson taught with printer's ink. I never fed My fancy on the works of Sophocles, And have not read A single page writ by the late Thucydldes. I don't believe That Wagner's music is sublime or grand, And do not grlevo Because Chopin I fail to understand. I cannot see Tho merit In Dan Chaucer's shady song; No use to me Ars German bards with names ten Inches long. And that Is why. As I have been reminded o'er and o'er, I'm not deuce high In the esteem of her whom, I adore. I'm but a fool. And willing that the world should call me sucl But, as a rule. I think that modern maidens know too much. It Floored Audrey. "Touchstone," observed Audrey, as they left the wings and started for their dressing-rooms, "what's the difference between tho stage carpenter and the author who was back here just now to look at the stage?" "Too many for me," said the F00L "One set the scene and the other seen the set." "Audrey!" exclaimed Touchstone, "the next time you endeavor to perpetrate conundrums, you will do well to remember that your education has been sadly ne glected as to grammar. But here is one for you to untangle: What's the differ ence between Edwin Booth and Iago?" "Lor!" said Audrey, "what is the differ ence?" "One played Othello, and the other worked him. When you get that doped out, come back and I'll give you another." But Audrey didn't report In again that night. By the Sounding? Sea. This Is the side of the sea. The breakers come roaring and booming In with tho turbulent tide, the whitecaps to seaward are gleaming And poising and wheeling afar, o'er the crests of the moan-making billows. The gulls are lamenting the statcsjf affairs that close borders on famine. This is tho side of the sea-; but where are the youths and the maidens? Where Is the tender young thing. In a soul moving dress of white flannel. Crowned with a halo of hair that the breezea delighted to rumple. Speaking such wor.ds as "Ah. no; I feah youh addresses ah useless: My mothah would neveh consent to a wedding outside of ouh circle." Sitting upon a 'high stool, with her ear wired up to a switchboard Tou'Il And her today. If you seek, calling con stantly. "What Is your number?" Where Is the marble-browed youth with a golf suit of intricate pattern. He who said: "I was advised by my doctor to seek recreation. Far fr6m the worries and cares that distract a man so at tho office. So I reluctantly left the duties that needed me sadly. And for a few weeks or so will recuperate here by the ocean"? Go to the great marts of trade, where the clearance sales now are In progress. Behind a long counter piled high with ribbons and dresT goods and laces. You will behold the same gent, and if you at tentively listen Tho voice that so mournfully told of the heart breaking work at the ofllce "Will rise In a well-practiced shout, and the words It will say will be "Cash, girl!" This is the side of the sea. but lonely the storm-beaten bathhouse: Silent the shuttered hotel, and abandoned the wind-shifted sand dune. This is tho side of the sea. but the time of the year is midwinter. A Man to the Front. Telegraph editor There has been an other terrlblo naval battle. Managing editor Good, I will send a man to Washington at once to interview the participants and get the names of the probable members of the court of Inquiry. Tlic Song of the Ofllce Boy. "Oh, sing us a song full of peace and rest," They said to the minstrel pale. "No mighty measures that stir the breast. But a placid, soothing tale." The minstrel's face looked pained and bored, And with manner devoid of Joy. Ho struck a barber-shop minor chord. And sang of the office boy. "His pace is slow and his face Is sad. And his fastest gait's a creep. And when you are needing him very bad, lie's hidden away asleep A dreamless sleep, out of which no man His sad soul may decoy. For an up-to-date, masterly sleeper you can Depend on the offlco boy. "He reaches his work exceeding late. And makes but a fleeting stay. For his lateness ho alm3 to compensate. By going quite early away. When the lack of ink and the want of pasta. The offlccmen much annoy. To escape, with a faint approach of haste Tou can count on the ofllce boy. "And when tho morning mail Is late. And you're needing it. right off. quick. You may calmly settle yourself to wait For the office boy Is sick. But hurry, we know, affects the heart. And all hurry to destroy Is ever tho only us"eful part That's played by the offlco boy." A Premature Interruption. Professor If you Will go away back Class Rats! What are you giving us? Come off. Try It yourself. Who do you think we are? Get onto the minstrel gag. Where did you hear It? Professor I shah be obliged If some one will explain this Ill-mannered and un seemly Interruption. I was about to say that If you will go away back to the be ginning of hlstoiy, you will be in a posi tion better to understand what I am about to say. You can consider yourself excused from recitation until such time as you see fit to apologize. All the Brighter. Now an" then a sunbeam Cornea a-strayln by, Iilghtin' up the mountains, Flllln' all the sky With a rosy glory" You don't see when you Been aDsorbln' sunshine Fur a month or two. Let the rains keep pourln All the dreary year; Sunshine looks the brighter Fur the while It's here. J. J. MONTAGUS.
