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For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 "W Second South street. For sale in New Orleans by A. C. Phelps, C03 Commercial Allej. For sale In Ogden by W. C. Kind. 204 Twenty-fifth street, and C H. Myers. On file at Charleston. S. C. in the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For tale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kcndrlck. OOG-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. 15th and Lawrence streets; A- Scries, 1C57 Chcmpa etreet. TODAY" S WEATHER Occasional rain; cool er during the afternoon; brisk southerly winds. YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 04. minimum temperature, 43; pre cipitation. 0 70 inch. PORTLAND, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1G. IT IS VnilY TIRKS03IE. In the Senate a continual flood of drhel is poured forth on "tyranny, and oppression" In the Philippine Islands. "Yet every one knows that we shall maintain there no system of liberty leas complete than that which we main tain at home. AVe only require obedi ence of the islanders to just laws, which we shall ourselves obey. The first re quirement, there as here, is that the peo ple shall accept the sovereignty of the United States. Senator Culberson, of T-xas, asked Governor Taft, one of the commissioners to the Philippines, this question: "Is it true that they (the, Filipinos) are not at liberty to advocate a separate or independent form of gov ernment?" "No, they are not," -was the answer of Governor Taft. Of course, they are not, and rightly they are not. But Governor Taft might have made the answer a more pointed one. lie might have said in addition to "No, they are not" "Nor were the people of our Southern States, from 1SC1 to 1SC5, permitted to do so." There is the same absurdity in talking about tyranny and oppression in one case as in the other. A great Nation's purposes are not to be confined within any little measure. No reasonable man who believes that It was right to compel the Confederate States to submit can object to the de mand that the Philippine Islands shall submit. Each demand is In accord with the larger purposes of our National life. Acquisition of territory is a right of National sovereignty else the United States would still be held within the limits that contained them at the time of the formation of the Constitution. As to the word-mongering about "citi zens" and "subjects." The distinction ,Is merely nothing. We are all subject to or subjects of the sovereignty of the United States. The people of the Phil ippine Islands, when they cease their resistance, will have all the rights that nny of us possess. States, however, un der our system, have certain powers that territories do not have; but the rights of individuals are the same in both. All persons under the sover eignty of the United States have the rights of citizens and the duties of sub jects. The sovereignty of the United States is over all. "What's the use of disputing about words or terms? "We are all subjects. Our Civil War taught those who thought otherwise their error. "We shall gradually plant local self government lr. the Philippines, on sound foundation. AVe are making the condi tions for it, and making them rapidly. Governor Taft explains that submsision to the sovereignty of the United States Is being followed up everywhere by or ganization of government or civil rule. In which such of the natives as have any sort of civic capacity are invited and encouraged to participate. Though the theory appears to have place in the minds of Senators at AVashington that the merely savage and wholly illiterate, who constitute a majority of the island ers, are as fit .for self-government as were our ancestors of the Rex'olution, it Is a notion too absurd to provoke even the response of contempt Shallow men are talking, for the supposed effect on political ignorance In the United States. As rapidly as resistance In the Philip pines shall cease, our familiar system of territorial government may be put In operation there. Ever since the for mation of the National Constitution we have been accustomed to the govern ment of territories, through Congress. There will be no more tyranny, no more oppression. In the government of the Philippine Islands In this way than there was in the long-continued govern ment of Oregon, Washington and Utah by the same methods; or than there now is in the government of New Mexico by them. AA'herever, in the Philippine Archipelago, there is found any class or body of people who know anything at all about government, or are fit to take part in it, their participation will be sought iu the affairs of local admin istration. Local legislation will be guided, as always in our territorial pos sessions, by the supervisory powers of the United States. Likewise there will be superintendence of the administra tion of public justice. In short, the system with which we have long been so familiar in the government of our territories can be set in motion In the Philippines as rapidly as armed resist ance shall cease and civic ideas may be developed among the people. But it is said these islands never can become states. Who knows? They may or may not become a state or states, some time. That will depend on their development, on changes that may take place within them, on the views of the Congress of the United States, here after, as to the propriety of making them states. Most probably we shall have Cuba, after a while. Even our Democratic party heretofore has called for annexation of that Irland. When Cuba comes we shall act as we deem best about it But, under our long-established territorial system, we can gov ern both Cuba and the Philippines, in a manner perfectly consistent with free dom and justice to them and honor to ourselves. AA'ho, in his senses, casting his parti sanship aside and forgetting its twad dle, does not know that this system, supported and extended by the United States, will be conducive to liberty and enlightenment in the islands? Who does not know that he utters cheap non sense when he calls it a system of tyr anny and oppression? It is tiresome, indeed. A TALC OF FOUR CITIES. It has always been The Oregonlan's agreeable custom to print from time to time sympathetically descriptive arti cles of the various Pacific Coast cities where members of its staff upon occa sion visit for business or pleasure. The practice has been rendered difficult at times by the assaults made upon Port land by other cities and their newspa pers, and by the trouble of discriminat ing always between an attacking news paper and an inoffensive community behind it. It is easy to forget that Jour nalistic undertakings having for their object the cloeing of the Columbia River are not necessarily chargeable upon the entire community where the attacking journal is printed. If this is ever for gotten, it is wide of The Oregonian's general purpose. San Francisco is a great city. It ceaselessly delights not only the loyal Californlan, whose steadfastness in local pride is without guile or Fhadow of turning, but the traveler, whencesoever he comes, whatsoever he seeks, how ever long or short he stays. Human ity is under heavy obligations to it for wealth produced in mines and fisheries, railroads and steamships, grain and wool; for luscious fruits that charm while they nourish, and for wines that gladden the heart of man; and for the joyous character of its people, nowhere matched, perhaps, but in Paris itself, which makes its streets and homes, its audiences and congregations, and even its clattering cars and scurrying ferries a refreshful memory in the hour o distant toil or gloom. The genius of Old AA'orld romance hovers over the Golden Gate, the blue haze of Italy lies upon the hills about Its bays, and through the aisles of its mission church yards stalks the spirit of Eld. Seattle is a wonderful city. If there is anything In this world like the lower end of Manhattan Island, where ship ping clusters, it is the water front of Seattle. If there is anything in this Pacific land like the elastic energy that rebuilt Boston and Chicago after calam ity had laid them waste. It Is in Seat tle. How it rustles and hustles and bustles! AA'ith what relentless grasp its men hold on to what they have, and with what dauntless faith they build and plan and reach out for the future! One by one Seattle passes the mlleposts that were to see the end of her growth. The Northern Pacific took up Tacoma. but Seattle only set her teeth and grubbed the harder. The Klondike boom burst, but Seattle failed somehow to go down with it- Hill's antipathy to the Northern Pacific was communi tled out of him. but Seattle is no more to be overlooked by Northern Securities than by Great Northern. So there upon Elliott Bay Seattle sits as undaunted and unresting as ever, and lays out streets and rears skyscrapers and launches steamships and compels the admiration of every man who loves grit and measureless ambition. Tacoma is going to be a great city. It has a situation of great strategic im portance, it has wealth, it has deter mination. It has experience of both prosperity and adversity. The one never turned Its head, the other nevei dismayed Its heart. There is no weak ness in the solidity of its mercantile, maritime and industrial life, no flaw in the splendid character and cultivation of its people. In the volume of its transactions, in the eminence and dig nity of its business life, in the New England nobility and fineness of Its homes and society. It has the founda tions of a city whose greatness some day will be reckoned in other terms than the terms of money and Judged worthy by higher standards than the standards of miles long and stories high. Tacoma will grow as its neighbors grow and as its surrounding country grows. It will keep its place in the galaxy of Pacific Coast cities a place that will com mand respect and perpetuate its justi fiable pride. Enough time should have elapsed to show the four chief cities of the Pacific Coast that the prosperity of one place does not necessarily involve and is not dependent upon a corresponding loss to some 6ther place. The business done at Seattle, within recent years. Is not the business that used to be done at San Francisco, Portland or Tacoma. It is new business. All have grown while each was growing. Portland was never at so high a mark of wealth, activity and contentment as It is today. Its building, shipping, jobbing, manufactur ing, railroad construction, bank, produce and mining exchanges never before were so solid, so active, so inspired with hope and resolution. It was not by seeking to destroy each other that the great cities of the Atlantic Coast got on, but by each serving in Its own way the development of its own field. Boston and Philadelphia and Balti more could not be New York, but each grew while New York was growing. So it will be on the Pacific Coast. Here, where from the Straits of Fuca to San Diego is half again as far as from Portland. Mer, to Savannah, a great empire is to be built up with cities like those on the other edge of the conti nent. It is not a time for diversion of ecergies into costly rivalries. A crisis in Pacific Coast history is coming on for settlement at AVashington, and every nerve here should be strained to see that it is settled right. Our com mercial bodies and our delegations in Congress must work together till Uncle Sam turns his face instead of his back to the Orient and the great Pacific Sea whose commerce is to exceed the might iest that the world has ever known. Representative Wheeler, of Kentucky, was born in 1S63, and is old ehough to have read the history of his country. If he will read it he will find out that not many years after the foundation of our Republic the people of New Eng land treated the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, with universal marks of public respect when he made a Win ter journey from Montreal to Boston. The selectmen of the New England towns, in calling upon him, said they desired to express their "respect for him as one of the sons of the King of Eng land." President Jackson repeatedly extended the hospitality of the AVhite House to distinguished English noble men visiting AA'ashington. The Grand Duke Alexia of Russia visited this coun try in 1S71 and was received with dis tinguished public honors. At the ban quet to the Grand Duke, December C, 1S71, Oliver AVendell Holmes read a beautiful poem of welcome, which in cludes the following lines: Ay, guest of the Nation; each roof is thlrre own. Through all the broad continent's star-bannered rone. In September. 1SG1, Prince Napoleon of France was given a public banquet in Boston, at which Dr. Holmes read a beautiful poem entitled "ATive La France." The Chinese and Japanese embassies were also received with pub lic honors in 1SGS and 1S72. THE PATHETIC SIDE OF LIFE. There is an exceedingly pathetic side to every great career. This pathetic side is sometimes visible to the public eye; sometimes it has to do with the inner life so completely that the world knows little of it. Cromwell died In out ward victory and peace, but in inward gloom. Behind the blindness of that grand old Puritan, Milton, there must have been a great deal of mental suf fering, for he had lived to see the re ligious principles of his youth insulted in high places and the political com monwealth he loved replaced by an ob scene, dissolute and tyrannical mon archy. The pathetic side of Napoleon's great career needs no argument. There was a pathetic side to Grant's romantic career. The premature wreck of his military career by his own hand Is fol lowed by eight years of painful, ill-paid, apparently hopeless, humiliating toil, from which he is suddenly rescued by a vast civil war whose emergency fur ishes a splendid opportunity for his ob scure light to arise and shine. But the clouds and darkness do not clear rap idly from his path; McClellan will not see him; the War Office at AA'ashington makes no reply to his offer of service; the Governor of the state has nothing to give him, until finally a regiment so tur bulent that no one wants Its Colonelcy Is given to Grant as a bone to a hun gry dog. After Donelson's great victory he is shelved by Halleck; after Shiloh he Is severely snubbed and practically shelved for a second time. It was not Halleck's fault that he was permitted to persist In his operations against A'icks burg. Lincoln's good will and confi dence alone saved Grant. Had Hal leck's dispatch arrived in time ordering him to join Banks at Port Hudson. Grant would not have taken Alcksburg. Not until after Chattanooga, in Novem ber, JSC3, docs Grant jret fairly out of the woods and feel that he was master of the situation, including Halleck. But his closing years of life are daikened by political obloquy, by overpowering financial disasters, which wound his personal honor, and finally by the long-drawn-out suffering of a fatal and cru elly painful disease. Surely, there was a very pathetic side to Grant's roman tic career. And yet it is doubtful whether, meas ured by the capacity of his inner life fcr suffering and his power of spiritual endurance, Grant sufiCored as much as Lincoln. AVe do not count Lincoln's as sassination in this estimate, for Lin coln's death by the bullet .was euthana sia compared with Grant's torture by disease; we consider the comparative sensibility to mental suffering and spir itual suffering of the two men and their power of endurance. In our judgment Lincoln suffered the more because he had a highly developed imagination, while Grant, like Washington, had an excellent understanding, a strong will, great courage, but no imagination. This lack of Imagination was at once Grant's strength and his weakness, even as Lin coln's highly developed imagination was his strength and his weakness. AVithout this Imaginative quality, Lin coln would have been a logical, a forci ble, but not an eloquent writer. AVith out this imaginative quality he could not have written that wonderful second inaugural, the closing passage of his first inaugural and his famous Gettys burg address. And yet a man of this imaginative quality must have been a man of very deep sensibility to mental and spiritual suffering all his days. Men of this temperament through suf fering may finally march to strength, but they suffer far greater than a man of the Grant type, for they suffer not only from what is seen and known, but the large and magnificent eye of their imagination sweeps the field of the pos sible as well as the actual, the field of the unseen as well as that of the visible. Such imaginative, brooding natures. If they are strong men, survive their suf fering and their melancholy, and some times achieve great distinction, and sometimes they break down premature ly and lead fitful, misanthropic lives. Lincoln's early career was marked by incidents that caused anxiety to his friends for the outcome. Doubtless the intense political activity of his day and generation helped to restore his equilib rium and maintain it. But Lincoln's face has the mark of deep sadness and melancholy upon it as much as that of Michael Angelo, the sad-browed Floren tine, and there can be no doubt that he was a man who from youth up must have experienced an unusual amount of mental suffering. It was not because his trials perhaps were unusual but because his Imagin ative temperament implied morbid sen sibility to and capacity for mental suf fering. He was born to be a man of sorrows, not only because of his own suffering, but because of his keen per ception of and deep sympathy with the sufferings of others. With every great Union defeat he greatly suffered, be cause his poetic imagination brought vividly home to him the terrible grief and distress that battle brought to the thresholds of thousands of humble homes in which the lights would burn blue because of their dead soldiers. Then, on the heels of great battles would come appeals of mothers and sis ters and old fathers to pardon desert ers sentenced to death. Then came the bitter criticism of impatient friends, like Greeley, or the insidious depreciation of ambitious rivals, like Chase and Fre mont. Then he had to face what he must have felt to be the ill-concealed con tempt for his ability shown by such men as Sumner, Richard H. Dana and Charles Francis Adams. In the dark days between June 1 and September 1, 18G4, how Lincoln must have suffered! He knew that AArade, Sumner. Greeley, Chase, Fremont. Schurz, Thad Stevens, nearly 'every leading Republican except Rcscoe Conkling, was openly or se cretly striving to force him off the ticket that had already been nominated. He expected at this time to be defeated, and he would have been If Sherman had not taken Atlanta and Sheridan beaten Early In the Shenandoah Aralley. He was a lonely man, a despairing man, in those days, until victory came. He suf fered greatly, not becauee of personal pride, but because of what he deemed a great and noble cause doomed perhaps to final defeat. No wonder at this time his nerves were impaired, his face looked wan and even his kindly temper be came acrid and his voice sharp with anxiety. His great suffering, the pa thetic career, was relieved by a flash of triumph and a stunning thunder-roll of final victory, and then the long-suffering man who had waited so patiently for his hour of glorious and ample thanksgiving, dropped dead in his tracks Just as his tender, thoughtful eyes rest ed upon "the promised land." He was our Moses who perished just as he saw the glittering waters of the great pacific ocean of a restored Union rise on his patriotic sight. Truly, it may be said that, even if Lincoln had never been murdered in the hour of victory, his painful march from youth to the grave before he grasped victory with dying hand makes his life one of pathetic qual ity and circumstance. "SPRAY AVITHOUT CEASING." Mr. E. L. Smith, of Hood River. Is doing a great service to the productive industry of Oregon in the efforts he is making to keep Its apple orchards clear of pesta Mr. Smith Is no mere theor ist; he is no book farmer. His relation ship to the apple industry is that of a practical man who works with his own hands and not only with his hands, but with his head as well. To him more than to any other individual Is due the high repute in which the Ore gon apple stands in the general mar kets, and his place at Hood River .Is easily the most famous apple orcharc In existence, so far, at least, as com mercial fame Is concerned and It Is a species of fime by no means to be de spised. Ask any New York apple mer chant what state stands first In apple production, on the point of quality, and he will promptly answer "Oregon"; ask him what district of Oregon stands first and he will answer "Hood River"; ask him whose Individual brand is worth most and he will say "E. L. Smith's." All this explains why Mr. Smith is en titled to give counsel to apple men Spraying, Mr. Smith declares, Is the first essential of successful apple-growing, or at least It Is the thing without which success In npplegrowlng is not possible; and here is the formula which he recommends after many years' ex perimentation and of success: White arsenic, one pound; salsoda, two pounds; boll for 15 minutes, or until the liquid become clear; add enough water to make up for evaporation, or until the boiled material makes one gallon; then use 14 pints of this to each 50 gallons of water, to which has been added six pounds of fresh slaked lime. This formula was printed In yester day's Oregonlan In the report of a fruit growers' meeting at Corvallis; and be cause it Is so vastly Important we here print It again. Every Oregon apple grower ought to commit it to memory; and, lest he forget it, he will do well to paste it in his hat. "Spray without ceasing!" Is an injunction which the applegrower ought to write down as number eleven in his list of sacred com mandments r and Mr. Smith's formula will greatly aid him in what he may well regard as a moral and religious duty. The verses entitled "The Infidel and His Daughter," published in The Sun day Oregonian of the 9th Inst., refer ring to Ethan Allen as a "stern infidel" and implying that he was an atheist who did not believe In Immortalitv, are without historic foundation. General Ethan Allen was simply a deist. He held the same views as Jefferson and Franklin. He believed In God, but did not accept the belief in the miracles, nor did he believe in the supernatural birth and .divinity of Jesus. In other words, General Allen's belief was identical with that of the liberal Unitarian Church of today. That General Allen believed In God Is evident from the In scription on his original tombstone, erected on his grave shortly after his death at Burlington, Art., in 17S9: "He tried the mercies of his God, in whom he believed and strongly trusted." Gen eral Ethan Allen was not an irreligious man, but he did not believe In "revealed religion." He was a rationalist, as his published writings attest. The story of his "dying daughter" Is a pious or poetic fraud. Allen allowed perfect free dom of belief and opinion In lils family, and his daughter had no need to ask him In what faith she should die. In Burlington, Art., where Allen lived with his family the last years of his life af ter his return from captivity, the story is unknown. One of his daughters, the grandmother of the present Secretary of the Interior, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, survived her father a number of years. Allen's wife was a widow when he mar ried her. She was as bold, resolute and independent-minded a woman as he was a man. The daughter of such a strong minded pair would be sure to have a faith of her own to live and die by, and would not ask her father needless ques tions on her deathbed. Under Senator Hoar's bill advancing the pay of members of Congress the A'ice-President and the Speaker of the House would be paid 515,000, instead Oi SS000, and Senators and Representa tives would be paid $7500 instead of $5000. The increase takes effect as soon as the bill becomes a law. The enact ment of this measure would take more than a million of dollars from the pub lic Treasury, and Its passage is sure to be followed by Increased salaries for Cabinet Ministers, for if Congressmen need an increase of pay on the score of the expense of living at Washington, Cabinet Ministers equally demand it, and with this advance the whole civil list will ask for an increase of salary, as well as the military and naval es tablishments. Fully half of the Con gressman's time is his own, and he can follow his private employment to some extent while a member of Congress. The increase famous In political history as the "salary grab" of 1S73 was from 53000 to $7500, and was retroactive. That Increase stood for ten months, but was repealed In January; 1S74. This bill of Senator Hoar ought not to become a law. "It Is a sad thought," says the Provi dence Journal, "that Rear-Admiral Sampson's retirement means nothing to him. Broken in heart as in body, the brave commander knows nothing now of the abuse and calumny that were for months a greater load than he could bear. The bravest are the gentlest. Americans may well sigh that so great a wrong hae been done to so courageous. patient and self-sacrificing a sailor and a gentleman." Everybody must sympa thize with Admiral Sampson in the af flictive darkening of his mind; but it cannot but be remembered that all the criticism to which he has been subjected he brought on himself by his claim of all the honor at Santiago, and by his refusal even to mention anybody else. Accidents from the careless handling of giant powder are scarcely less fre quent than they were when this high explosive was first Introduced as an ad junct to industrial economy and achievement. The same is true of fa talities resulting from the careless use of coal oil as an illumlnant. The rea son Is not far to seek. Disaster that fol lowed ignorance in handling these de structive forces in the first place now result from a famillaritj- with them that makes light of or ignores danger and induces carelessness. Fatalities from these causes long ago reached the mini mum; a further reduction in their num ber cannot reasonably be expected, for the simple reason that there is no pos sible defense against lapse in careful ness. Of all the vile sidewalks In this town none are worse. than some of those at tached to property of which the munici pality holds the fee. Of all derelict "abutting holders" the corporation of the City of Portland is easily the worst. For proof of this charge, examine the rotting walks along the Park blocks. It Is shamefuL Surely the municipality ought to set an example by creating and maintaining decent walks in all cases where its responsibility exists. AVhat can be expected of Individual property holders when the city government is so neglectful of its duty? Great Britain and Japan want peace, and for that purpose they have joined fleets and armies. Russia wants peace, and to that end, she announces, her army and navy are always ready. Great Britain and Japan want the Integrity of China and the independence of Corea. Russia also desires the independence of Corea and the Integrity of China. Where all are so anxious for the same result, it is a pity to maintain such costly armaments of offense. It is hoped that the acute and highly respectable critics who are forever holding up the Senate to the House as a pattern will observe, In view of AA'heel er's speech, that the House is. after all, something in the way of a deliberative body Itself. The Kentucky orator Is almost as deliberative as Dubois and Tillman almost, but not quite. "Was your wife resigned to her death?" somebody asked of the bereaved husband. "Gosh, yes," he answered, "she had to be." And Russia, by the way, seems exemplarlly acquiescent in the Anglo-Japanese agreement. RAFTING AND IMBER INDUSTRY The effort of Senator Frye. of Maine, to stop the practice of lcg-raftlng In the open seas Is based on sound considerations. At best, the log raft Is a danger, and at worst and the worst often happens It Is a menace so serious as to Justify inter ference on the part of the Government. Even when a raft holds together it Is a menace to every ship which parses in its course, for It lies below the surface of the water and is not easily seen at night, while it Is certain disaster for a vessel to strike it. And when It falls to pieces, as" it oftentimes docs, and scatters over the sea. It makes a condition of widespread hazard and one which may last for weeks or months. The practice continues in spite of many disasters incidental to It because the profits of the successful ventures are eo great that they sustain the loss of one raft out-of every four or five. And this being so, there will always be found "plun gers?" ready to "take a flyer" Into the business, heedless of the menace which It creates for shipping in which they have no personal interest. The interest of the timber countries Oregon, AVashington and Maine He wholly with the movement to prohibit rafting. The exploitation of our forests Is bad enough in its ordinary methods by which at least we get such advantage as comes from tho working up of our timber product Into lumber; and it becomes Infinitely worse when our great trees are cut down and carried away in the rough without contributing anything worth speaking of to the Industry or capital of the country. Under this system we are merely despoiled of our forests. Complaint, of course, ac complishes nothing, but we may be able to enjoin the system through the movement which Senator Frye has eet in motion. It !s a case in which our representatives at AVashington can serve the country by giving the weight of their Influence to the prohibitive effort. By this time the timber business of Oregon and AVashington ought to be get ting on the basis of a homo manufacture in line with the development of our wheat business. It is only a few years back when every bushel "of wheat grown In Oregon and AVashington was sent out of the country in the form in which It came from tho harvest field, and much of It still goes out In this shape. But, thanks to the enterprise and capital of Portland, a very large proportion of our wheat product Is now being worked up Into flour and sold as a manufactured product. Many advant ages come, too, through this better prac tice. It has created a new Industry here, that of the commercial mill; It has found for us a new and large market In the countries which border the Pacific Ocean where never a pound of raw wheat was sold; and every farmer knows, or ought to know, that it has been the means of giv ing us from 1 to 3 cents per cental more than the Qld "Liverpool parity" price. Something, like this ought to be done in the cise of our timber. Surely, if the right man with the right equipment of capital and energy should come along, it would be found more profitable to work up much of our timber into finished goods than to send it out of the country in the form of rough lumber to be worked up else where. The saving to be effected in the form of freight rates as between the tim ber In bulk and in finished forms ought to be considerable enough, indeed, to make a premium upon home enterprise. It Is, we know, the rule to presume that it is not "business" to do the things which nobody has done; but we cannot but suspect that the primitive state of our timber industry rests leas upon Its Impracticability than upon the fact that the man of the right qualities and of suf ficient means has not yet taken hold of it. We can but recall that the business of commercial milling was universally pronounced "Impracticable" until Mr. Theodore AA'ilcox took hold of It some 12 or 15 years ago. Having witnessed the rising of a Moses in connection with our grain industry, we are the more hopeful of a M&sefi to lead us to better things in connection with our timber industry. THE ESSENCE OF DIPLOMACY. Chalmers Roberts has a strong and practical plea in the current number of the AVorld's AVorl: for the proper educa tion and training of young men for the diplomatic service. He urges in this con nection 'that men in the service who have the proper education and breeding for di plomacy should, in consideration of our widening National interests, and because of the formalities which in the courts of the world give character to the service, be assured of a permanency in position, to the end that long years of training would not In the end be brought to waste by chances of political, favor. "Make." he says, "the career a permanent one, just as the Army and Navy are, and there will be no lack of capable men ready to prove there, as has been proved elsewhere, the breadth of American ability." In the icw of Mr. Roberts a view cre ated and sustained by large observation In the field of which he writes as long as our present system of placing untried and unprepared men In- the Consular "serv ice, stinting their salaries and failing to provide them with suitable and perma nent quarters in foreign capitals, pre vails, just so long will the charity-boy diplomacy of our Government be a jest abroad and a shame at home. He con cedes that there may be limits to the shame at home, but to the Jest abroad ho declares there is none. So true Is this, he says, "one has come to look for the current story in which tho unfitness of some American diplomat furnishes amuse ment for his colleagues in almost every capital in Europe. Two of these stories he repeats as samples of the social blun ders committed by the kind-hearted, homely folk whom chance or political fa vor has brought suddenly into surround ings for which they are hopelessly unfitted. The first story, which, he declares, must still amuse The Hague, Is that of the wife of an American Minister under a former administration who, on being granted an audience with the Queen's mother, then regent, looked up at a largo portrait of her gracious majesty. Queen AVIlhel mina, and said: "Your little girl, I sup pose, ma'am?". On receiving an affirma tive reply she added, to the horror, as well as to the amusement of the court In waiting, "Well, I must say she is a mighty flno child." None, says the chron icler, of the many who used to laugh over this story, always told in an ex aggerated American accent, ever doubted the good woman's kindness of heart. They simply rated the country from which,, in an- official capacity, she came, as want ing In a proper sense of Its own dignity. If not. Indeed,' wholly without dignity and culture. The second incident Is related as fol lows, supplemented by tho statement that It was the one good story of the AVIn ter capital for days: The story concerns a former American. Minister to St. Peters burg at one of the elaborate and very formal receptions or levees which the Emperor and Empress give on New Year's day. All the diplomats stand In line in their order of precedence, and Their Majesties walk down the line to exchange greetings with each in. turn. On this occasion the Empress, now the Dowager, -was not present, having just given birth to one of the younger Prin cesses. It seems also that the good wife of the American Minister was at home occupied with a similar domestic duty. The Emperor came down the line and asked after the health of each of the gen tlemen present, at the same time ex changing the usual seasonable greetings. Then, as was also his custom, he asked of each what was the news from home. This always means in the diplomatic world: "How Is my good brother the Emperor of Germany, or what Is the news from my dear sister, the Queen of Holland?" It is supposed that all of his questions were properly answered with pleasant information about his fellow rulers. To the usual question to our Minister, "I hope you have good news from home," our full-hearted representative responded, "Yes,, thank Your Majesty, ex cellent news. It Is a boy, and weighs 12 pounds." This perfectly natural answer produced scarcely suppressed merriment, which almost became ex plosive when the American with the overflowing heart stepped out of line as the Emperor passed on, tapped him on the shoulder and said: "I beg Your Maj esty's pardon. I failed to make inquiry about the health of the Empress and the little Grand Duchess." These stories, says Mr. Roberts, mlgnt bo duplicated almost without end. AVe may assume a democratic attitude at home and affect to despise the etiquette that they offend; but it may be as well to acknowledge, since the fact is known to all men, that all the good nature In the world does npt compensate for ridi cule. Nor Is there any record to tell of the actual agonies that our sturdy, common-sense American diplomatists and their timid, shrinking wives have suffered nnd the slights they have borne at for eign capitals, solely because of their Ig norance of and Indifference to all the thousand and one little courtesies that are the very essence of diplomacy. It is not to underrate the sterling qual ities of Americans who have represented, under this serious handicap our country In foreign capitals, but to exalt them rather, to agree with Mr. Roberts when he says: "To my mind no more really pitiable situation exists than where, as is often the case abroad, some great, strong hearted American Is faithfully serving his country, terribly sick for home, in the midst of a foreign atmosphere to which he cannot adapt himself and which in Its turn cannot see or appreciate his sterling qualities under an unconventional demeanor. The usual American repre sentative abroad has been, plucked tip suddenly from some small town, where no doubt he seemed a paragon of gentil ity, and set down In surroundings which made him look a boor, and that, too, at an age when old men cannot learn new graces. Here is where the Minister, as well as the secretary, needs years of training. It Is all very well for our stanch Republican Governors to dismiss with a wave of the hand any such thing as a consideration of social fitness In the selection of public officials. Either they must do away with the whole thing or they must be brought to realize that manners arc the very breath of di plomacy, and that the proper bow and the proper smile, to say nothing of the proper dinner, have often won in Inter national contentions over justice and In disputable right." A SltlewnlJc Prescription. New York Times. The busy doctor was hurrying down the street when he was stopped by a man noted for his ability to get "sidewalk" advice. "I am thoroughly worn out and sick and tired. AVhat ought I to take?" asked the man. "Tike a cab." replied the unfeeling doctor. SLINGS AND ARROWS. A Word to Prince Henry. Now let foreign Princes tremble, let all poten tates beware. For the voice of old Kentucky like the thunder thrills the air; Chivalry, that blood-red flower, blazes on tho verdant soil. Breathing forth the heavy perfume of tha , fragrant fusel oil. Rifles crack and sheath knives glisten, pistols sound on every side. And the tierce and outraged Colonels gather 'rour.d from far and wide. "Wrath Is flowing- like old Bourbon, and condi tions all evince That the air of old Kentucky Is unhealthy for a Frlnce. Ah, most noblo Kaiser's brother, if.your body ou'd keep sound. Don't extend your glad excursions to tho dark and bloody grounds Quart the steins In fair Milwaukee, sniff Chi cago's varied scents. But look out for old Kentucky and her flre- brcathlng cents. For the Colonels who reside there are most patriotic souls. And they'll make you good for nothing but a frame for bullet holes. Route your travels to the northward; It will pay you better, since Things just now in old Kentucky don't, look healthy for a Prince. There Is something most unpleasant la tho as pect of a gun. And the presence of a million possibly would spoil jour fun; Though the prettiest of maidens and tho speed iest of steeds You will miss by keeping out of that fair land of gory deeds. Still, we think jour ro-al brother will be glad you missed "them when He shall greet your proud home-coming and behold j'ou whole again. Therefore shj- at old Kentuckj-. let these few brief words convince You that the region of the blue grass is un healthj- for a Prince. One on the Cow. The cow jumped over the Moon. "Cow," we observed, when she again alighted among us, "if you are acting thus eccentrically merely to attract Attention and get your Name in the Papers, well and good, but if you are endeavoring to establish a Record fof altitudlnous Beef, the retail Butchers have got you looking like a Two-spot in an Ace-high Cut." At this stinging Rebuke the Cow ad mitted that the Gentlemen we mentioned had her skinned, and promised to sit into no Game unless a Limit was placed on the Steaks. The foregoing Fable shows why a Roast Is of such great value. Ye Happy Farmer's Life. Of all j-e Lives I wot of. Yo farmer's Is most Blest. Ho tills ye Soli with sturdy Toll, And wastes no Tj'rr.e In Rest. He rises In je Horning When half past Two has struck. At Tennc he hlttes j-o Bedde again. If jt he has good Luck. He Journejs to j-o Stable And milks two dozen Klne. At half past Four ho hungers sore. And for j-e Food does Pine. Of fried Pork Chops and Coffee He gladly does partake. And to complete je Meal ddes cat Ye luscious Buckwheat cake. He rises from j-e Table, And Follows forth j-o Plowe, But leaves his Placo full soon to chase Back home j'e straying Cowe. Returning to j-e Meadow . He labors hard till Noon, And then does munch a Bito of Lunch, Which he despatches soon. All daj he gnllj- labors In Field and Stablr-Yard, Nor Weary grows as on he goes, Nor finds his Work Is hard. He beds down all je Cattle. When roosts ye tlrod Lark, A eickly Glim he takes with him To light him after Dark. From-one Year to another He Harvest saws, and reaps. He lives an 1 thinks and works and drinks An also cats and sleeps. AVhat work he has not Tj-me for Is managed lj- his Wyfe. All must concede 'tis good to lead Ye happj e Farmer's life. Ajax'K Mistake. Ajax stood under the open sky and shook his fist. "What's the matter, Jax?" asked Achilles, who happened to be returning from his club, for the hour was early. "Szt! Don't bother me!' replied Ajax, angrily. "Can't 'you see that I'm defying the lightning?" "Lightning be hanged!" answered Achilles, with fine scorn. "That isn't lightning; It's the last speech of Tillman's going to New York by wfreless teleg raphy." Naturally, Ajax folded himself into tho smallest possible compass and sneaked off. Lulltiliy. There Is never a wink of that little eye As hour on hour goes dragging bj. Tho clock is ticking the night away. And it's not verj" far to the edge of day. Tho moonbeams over tho carpet creep. But they find no babj- that's fast asleep. Is this a time to be wide awake. When the disoluto owls their moanlngs make. And every bird in the trees outside Is sleeping and silent, far and wide? Is this .1 time to be looking out Of those little ej-es, with an air of doubt And wonder at cverj'thlng j-ou see. And to 'chuckle and laugh in fiendish glee? But who am I to question thus. Or to fume and fret, and scold and fuss? You've been King 'round here since j'ou came along. And of course the King can do no wrong. The AVIt of the Spenr-Bearer. "A horse." observed Richard III, with some emphasis, "my kingdom for a horse." The youth with the spear, whose chief duty consisted in saying, "Mylordtheen emyapproaches," looked up. "It's a bargain, Dick," said he; "I'll go you." "AVhat do you mean, your drivelling Idot?" inquired the King mildly. "Don't you see that It's a horse I want, not a donkey?" "Yes, sire," proceeded the youth, "I see, but I am a little hoarse myself-thls after noon: the prop man left the stage door open." But for his well-timed retreat through the right upper entrance this sally would have earned for the young man t. hard slap with a tin sword, but as it was. Rich ard could do nothing but continue to make his reasonable proposition to the women and children in the matinee audi ence, who wholly lacked the business 'sense to take advantage of it. A Poser. Life worth the llvin'? Kinder hard to saj Mayba 't wasn't j-esterday; Maj'be 'tis todaj. Can't sea through tomorrow. Ain't no way to know In the days that's Just ahead "What'll come an' go. Ain't no answer written In any kind o" lore; All depends on who an" what A feller's llvin' for. J. J. MONTAGUE. "To Lie LlUc nn Epltnnh." Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Carnegie suggests as his epitaph. "Here lies a man who knew how to get around him cleverer men than himself." "To lie like a tombstone" 13 proverbial. AVhy should not the candor of Mr. Car negie get a chance? "Here lies a man who made a fortune out of a robber tariff and glorified himself with the proceeds" would be nearer the truth. li - ?v
