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East and "West Indies, India, gypt and great part of Africa! Noth- g could more forcibly reveal the trength and nature of this the great- jest ethnic force in the world today, or iever in tho world, than the will, Just bade public, of Cecil Rhodes, an em-.re-builder fit to be named with Cllve jand Hastings and "Wolfe each dlffer jent in his way, but each a monarch jGtaong men of action and men of brain. . The lofty conception of this bequest 'is worthy of an imperial mind. -It alms at the closer union of the sev eral branches of the English-speaking race, a)nd it chooses its instrument wise ly f6r that end. It is in the great uni versities that those minds are formed which mold human thought and guide 'human action. It Is in that common Jiistory and literature that powers must be derived andforces set In motion which IflhaU perpetuate and further cement the (common customs, Institutions and laws which constitute the framework of Brit ish and American civilization, spreading as it does over five continents and dozn jlnating the destinies of mankind. Nothing better could be done for the 'ffaca than to realize the Rhodeslan Mream. In his life he advanced the 'British civilization in Africa, and la his fleatn he advances and solidifies it everywhere. BritiBh Africa will become the same eort of confederation we see jjn Canada and Australia, but with larg er possibilities than either, yet each a mart of the British Empire. j These advances of English-speaking iVlVXU.VLlUUS WU1 UUVUEKJe me cause 01 ireeaom m. me worm, a cause of which $hey are the most effective exponents. jWlmt the British are doing in Africa .we ehall do In the Philippines. The Requests of Mr. Rhodes serve to show as how closely touch the faculties of Im agination, and of practical achievement. They also put us a day's journey on ward toward the vision of which Ten- inyeon sings in "Locksley Hall": "The parliament of man, the federation of th world; JOS IRRECONCILABLE) CONFLICT. JWnen President Roosevelt consented to the retirement of Commissioner Ets&s he set out upon a perilous path. tPhe Integrity of the pension list is n moral question, and is therefore one of ixnosa wnicn are most dangerous to trifle with. In the realm of absolute right and wrong, compromises are apt to engender greater evils than they essay to remedy. On one hand is the unscru pulous clamor for more pensions pen sions tor the rich, pensions for the dls honset, pensions for deserters, pensions fo? everybody, so long as the attor neys and examining boards have been taken care of. On the other hand Is tha moral KenRA nt he "Ma firm nr f 'such part of the Nation as has not been already debauched by corruption or pauperized by the quarterly disburse ment. v If the President has yielded to the 'demands for Evans ecalp in the hope of pacifying the clamor, he is likely to find himself in the unenviable lot of the storied wight who fights and ' runs away. The cormorants will be no better pleased with another honest man 'than they have been "with Evans. The G. A. R. of Kansas has already called upon Senator Burton, of that state, with the demand that he should use his in fluence to prevent the confirmation of Henry Clay Evans to any office to which the President may nominate him after he relinquishes the Commissioner ship of Pensions. They are far from 1 pacified by Evans' projected transfer. War cannot be settled by putting up a new man at the head of the attacking column. The President speaks In his letter of Mr. Evans "excellent service," yet Mr. Evans says his course has be come "embarrassing to officials and statesmen." The straightforward course is to reward the service with retention and let the "officials and statesmen" ( stand -up to the rack. The pension claimants will not be mollified, and tlf an honest man Is selected for the 'succession, the battle will have to be fought all over again. That is, gentlemen may cry 'Peace! peace!' but there Is no peace. No j peace Is possible along the lines of at once protecting the Treasury and sat isfying the raiders. The President can do one of two v things. He can turn over the Treasury to the pension at torneys, or else he can administer the laws honestly. It is inconceivable that he should surrender a. post that Mc Klnley held so firmly. He can only stand fast; and if he means to stand fast, the retirement of Evans only adds to his difficulty., A CRISIS IX THE DRAMA. Many persons have gone to see the clean and healthful pictures of "'"Way Down East," which left us yesterday, and many will go to see the noble play of "Arizona," which comes ' tomorrow, who find the sexual problem as pre sented in the multitude of "Zaza" and allied creations both unsatisfying to the judgment and offensive to the taste. Illicit love Is portrayed in the unhappy story of Anna Moore and In Mr. Thomas' stirring scenes, but the possible merits of wrong are never broached, and no one's sympathies a're played upon from rise to fall of curtain on behalf of the conscienceless scamp who trades In woman's virtue and throws honor to the wlnda There Is a sort of desperation In the efforts that we see on every hand to befoul the stage with wickedness tricked out In attractive guise. Half of our producers seem possessed of a certain Mephlstophellan estimate of hu man nature, which impels them to emi nent casts and elaborate furnishings of plays In which villainy prospers and immodesty arrays Itself in fetching gowns, and the artificial canons of deca dent society supplant the peremptory voice of conscience. Some of our most talented actors, men and women, lend themselves to these displays, and money Is- lavishly spent on scenery and cos tumes. Their vogue is most lamentable, and the thinking portion of the public should rouse itself to their disapproval. Among a large proportion of the very best of our people the stage as an in stitution exists only on sufferance. An cient prejudice Is not gone, but it has been mollified by two things the moral quality of plays and the pure private life of a few eminent actors. -Of these causes, th first is the more potent; and If the theater throws away that vantage ground it will stand socially In a very perilous position. Profits may still be made by catering to the unthinking and the unprincipled, but the exploita tion of lasclvlousness, or the confusion of love with lust, and of vice with good fellowship, is but to sow the wind from which some day will be surely reaped a whirlwind of popular contumely and aversion The modern stage is drifting on to some such eclipse of usefulness and power as It suffered under before the days of Henry Irving and Joseph Jefferson, Gillette and Heme. The moral sense of the people will not always slumber. PerhapB even now the beginning of discretion may be seen; for such audiences as " 'Way. Down East" has drawn to Its eight perform ances could not nearly be duplicated by Leslie Carter in "Zaza," or Blanche Walsh in "Ia Madeleine," or Rose Coghlan in" "Lady Barter." There are parts in Nature to which no mirror need be held. They are best blue-penciled both in letter-press and illustrations for contemporary annate. They are best portrayed, if portrayed they must be, to empty houses. CULTURE BORIC OF APPETIT AND DIGESTION. John Burroughs, in the current num ber of the Century, has a timely word instinct with strong sense concerning the worthlessness of the so-called "cul ture" obtained by young men and young women who go to college to take a course in Shakespeare, or Chaucer, or Dante, or the Arthurian legends. Mr. Burroughs points out that much of the current college study of Shakespeare is little better than parsing him; "they have had intellectual exercise, not an emotional experience; they have added to their knowledge, but have not taken a step in culture." And finally Mr. Bur roughs says: To dig Into tha roots and origins of tho great poets is like digging Into the roots of an oak or a maple, tho better to Increase your appre ciation of tho beauty of the tree. There stands tho tree In all its Summer glory; trill you real ly know It any better after you have laid bare every root and rootlet? There stand Homer, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare. Read them, give yourself to them, and master them if you are man enough. Tho poots are not to bo ana lyzed, they are to be enjoyed; they are not to ba studied, but to bo loved; they are not for knowledge, but for culture to enhance our ap preciation of life and our mastery over Its ele ments. Mr. Burroughs is right, and his argu ment applies quite as forcibly to so called popular lectures on Emerson, or Carlyle, or Shelley, or Tennyson. Any person who, as Mr. Burroughs says, is "man enough to master" these great writers wouldn't give a fig to hear such lectures, which are always mere fluent dilutions of their thought. Every man equal to the enjoyment of these great writers already knows a good deal about them, their thought and their lives. The shallow answer to this la that the popular lecturer "illumines the rut," but people who are equal to the enjoyment of such writers do not need anybody to illumine the rut for them. In fact, in so far as these great writers were true, they were themselves "rut illuminators." Able men, on the other hand, do need to read or hear some one who can really illumine history, not be cause it Is a "rut," but because it needs to be painted by an artist who knows where to put what is called the "high light" In black and white draw ing there should be one point which is whiter than all others as If the light struck it, and so the whole picture seems more real in consequence. An admirable and impressive historical writer or lecturer needs this artistic perception of where to put in the "high light." It would be a vast saving of time and mental dissipation If there were no such thing as so-called study of literature as a fashionable fad. People born with a thirst for reading are the only persons who ever read to any real purpose of knowledge and culture. People with this natural thirst for good literature find their way to the best water. You cannot teach a man or woman how to feel and understand Shakespeare, or any great writer, as you can teach a man arithmetic or geography. John Milton said that a great book Is filled with the life blood of a mas ter spirit. If you are not man or woman enough to appreciate a great writer whose thoughts seem to take your breath away, why, then you are only fit for pedantic grubbing into his grammar; you will not get any culture out of him, no matter how long you moon over his poetry or his prose. You may pick up enough to pose as a liter ary charlatan, you may be able to fur nish your memory with- a string of cut and dried quotations fpr delivery at favor able social occasions and opportunities, but you will get no culture out of your literary quackery. There will be no Increase pf ruddy vigor of thought or simplicity of style. There was not a boy In Boston who had not as good a chance tO'read as Ben Franklin had. The only advantage that Franklin had was that he had a born thirst for knowledge and a desire for Its attain ment. Abraham Lincoln had not as good a chance as a boy to read sound literature, but he alone of all his boy hood's companions was a well-read man in sound books before he was 40 years of age. It was not because either- Franklin or Lincoln ware men of literary genius; it was because they were born with a thirst for knowledge and a taste for reading. So far as they were men of genius they were men of political genius. There is not a village between the At lantic and the Pacific of a thousand In habitants in which you may not find the same difference displayed between men born under the same circumstances in this matter of thirst for knowledge and taste for literature. Men who have It are always well-informed; men who have It not can never be made men of decent culture, no matter how mtny colleges they frequent or how many "Browning" clubs they are annexed to. England was full of apofhecary appren tices who had been given better school ing than Keats, who was the son of a livery-stable keeper; but Keats had the thirst for literature, the capacity to di gest and make part of his own life blood. the great books Into which the master spirits had poured their life blood. Franklin had no poetic qual ity whatever; Lincoln had a poetic Im agination, and yet Lincoln and Frank lin both sucked into their style the life blood of great literature, because they had a born thirst for it. Culture, as distinguished from mere knowledge. Is bom of appetite and digestion. EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC LOVE. The publication of a new edition of Flnck's "Romantic Love and Personal Beauty" recalls the fact that its author holds that romantic love and courtship not only belongs to modern life, but that there is small evidence of this concep tion of love In literature until we reach Dante, in the fourteenth century. On romantic love Greek literature is silent, while in Penelope, Alcestls, Hector and Andromache conjugal love Is beauti fully celebrated. Fraternal love is pa thetically drawn In the Antigone and Electra. of Sophocles. The loves of the gods In the Greek mythology are gross and of course reflect the average Greek's comprehension of sexual attach ment. Love of wives and children and parents and kindred and country the Greek knew, and for the sake of this love he could rise to the highest level of heroic self-sacrifice, but the Greek clearly did not comprehend our modern romantic love, with its gallantry, its courtship before marriage. The posi tion of woman among the Greeks was so degraded that there was an absence of opportunities for courtship and free matrimonial choice. In Roman litera ture there is no recognition of romantlo love in Virgil or Horace. The first poet who evinces any con ception of the higher possibilities of j love was Ovid, in some of whose poems we see the birth of the modem spirit of romantio love. Conjugal love is nobly depicted in tho history of the life of ancient Rome, The figure of Volumnla, the mother of Coriolanus, the reverence and love which she obtains from her great son, are a Just picture of Roman life. The passionate cry of Coriolanus, when he says to his wife, Virgllla Oh! a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the Jealous, queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip Hath vlrglned It ever since. Is a true picture of conjugal love In ancient Rome's best days, but no such passionate, romantic lovemaklng pre ceded marriage as in our day. So the deep affection delicately expressed by Brutus for his Portia, the deep suffer ing he undergoes when he hears of her death, Is true to the best traditions of lofty lives In ancient Rome, but Portia never heard such tender, passionate speech from her Brutus before mar riage, for marriages among tho ancients were conventional affairs. Shakespeare sees this clearly, for In "Trollus and Cresslda" the only noble love Is the conjugal love between Hector and An dromache, between Priam and Hecuba. The love of Achilles for Polyxena. of Trollus for Cresslda, of Paris for Helen, is llko the ill-starred passion felt by Antony for the wanton Cleopatra. Shakespeare clearly perceived that among the ancients the only noble love was conjugal love. Romantic love as we understand It In our modern life first takes visible shape In Dante, and after Dante in Shakespeare. It is safe to say that modern romantic love was born out of poetic literature. It Is safe to say that no nation without a high poetic literature, or access to a high poetic literature, ever rose above the ancient level of decent love; that Is, con jugal love, love of wives, children, kin dred and country. Dante's poetic con ception of love far outran the thought and practice of his time. In the Middle Ages woman was represented by Ter tulllan and other of the church fathers as "the door of hell, the mother of all human ills." The victims of tho witch craft mania were for the most part women. In the Middle Ages women were treated with contempt and were perse cuted by both feudal and ecclesiastical tribunals. Much has been made of the ameliorating Influence of chivalry In the Middle Ages, but while In one sense it superficially-lifted women out of one form of social degradation It did not surround them with an atmosphere of purity, for the' average" knight was a Lancelot or Tristram rather than a Galahad. Loose morals were the rule among the lords and ladles of the days of chivalry. The stories of Boccaccio, of Montaigne, of Rabelais, df Margaret of Navarre, are full of proof that romantic love bad no appreciable recognition In Conti nental Europe even as late as the six teenth century. Then we come to Shakespeare, and in him we find the modern thought of romantic love and courtship in bright, consummate flower. Where did Shakespeare get It? Not surely from the ancients, by whom it was not recognized; he could have ob tained II from no writer of Continental Europe save Dante. Before Dante there Is nothing but conjugal love In great literature, and after Dante until we come to Shakespeare there Is no recog nition of pure, upright, romantic love, the love that makes Miranda prattle affectionately to Ferdinand, the love that Perdlta excites In Prince Florlzel, that Ophelia In vain lavishes upon Hamlet, and that most romantic court ship, the wooing of Desdemona by Othello. In Olivia, Viola, Hero, Juliet, Rosalind, Portia and Beatrice Shakes- ipeare draws beautifully the figures of charming women, notily planned, who are won by our modern methods of ro mantic courtship to accept honorable marriage, Where did Shakespeare get his thought of romantic love for, while It may have been the theory, It was not the practice of his day? The average Englishman of Shakespeare's day was not more refined in his philosophy of love and marriage than is Petruchlo in "Tamltfg of the Shrew." The published correspondence of Shakespeare's day shows no such noble philosophy of love and courtship and marriage. The only solution of Shakes peare's noble women is that, like Dante, his poetio vision made him paint women not as he found them, but as they ought to be, and surely wpuld be when popular Ideals of womankind were higher and had a genial atmosphere for growth. At all events, between Dante and Shakespeare the philosophy of love In literature is low and mean, and since Shakespeare our women have only been growing up to his high Ideals. ' Since Shakespeare. Milton, Thackeray and Tennyson have all written nobly of true love, but none of them has outrun Shakespeare's conception and none of them has approached him in passion ate eloquence of expression. AH mod ern thought concerning romantic love and courtship dates back to the great est poet of Italy, Dante, and the great est poet of England, Shakespeare. Be tween Dante In the fourteenth .century and Shakespeare in tho sixteenth cen tury, our modern romantic love had small recognition in theory or practice, In life or literature. AN OLD STORY. The trial before the Police Court of David O'Dell, "a well-known boy of Center addition," for assault upon Post master Channlng, of that place, repre sents an all too familiar phase of un ruly boy life In this city. Subjected to annoyance for many months by this boy and others of a "gang" that Infest that region, Mr. Channlng at length made complaint to the parents of O'Dell and a lad named Davis, asking that they be restrained from annoylngh!m further. This aroused the ire of the lordly youngsters without effecting the object desired In fact, the troubles of the Postmaster increased rather than diminished, until they culminated last Sunday morning In an assault upon his person by the lads, which resulted In the arrest of one and the disappearance of tho other, at least temporarily, from his home. It Is always a sad case when a boy outgrows parental restraint before he comes into years of discretion sad for the boy himself, for his parents and for the community. It has been found to be almost universally true that appeal to parents under such circumstances is useless, or worse than useless. They either champion the cause of their un govemed sons, rendering them ungov ernable, or they pay no attention to the appeal of tha persecuted neighbor, thus encouraging a continuance of the an noyances of which complaint is made. There Is but one recourse left, and the community Is shocked and disgraced by having boys haled before the minor courts to answer to misdemeanors that their parents should correct, or, going farther back, should prevent, by a watchful discharge of parental duty. It is not at all surprising that later on misgoverned, impudent, insufferable lads frequently find their way as youths into the higher courts to answer to seri ous crimes, and later, but etlll early In life, into the penitentiary. The ques tion of restraint Involved In this chain of circumstances is before the parents of unruly boys for adjudication; falling to settle it, it will in due time come be fore tho courts to be decided according to laws framed in the interest of society. This Is the logical sequence of parental Irresponsibility that permits impudent, unruly, ungoverned boys-to associate themselves together, run In gangs, be come night "prowlers and ruthlessly trample upon the rights of citizens. The lesson of arrest, trial and Impris onment is a severe one; the necessity of administering It to boys is always to be deplored, and the more so since It Is society's only recourse In ouch cases, the parents having proven a quantity that cannot safely be reckoned with. Public sentiment In Oregon City, as attested by the signatures of 300 voters and 450 women, is up in arms against the slot machine and other open gam bling devices In that city. Well It may be, since these devices are among the most subtle and pernicious of all the menaces that shadow responsible, self supporting, honorable manhood. The boys and youth of a community brought up in familiar contact with nlckel-ln-the-slot machines and other forms of gambling are fully imbued with the "get-somethlng-for-nothlng" Idea before they attain to years of dla-. cretion, and in the very nature of things they carry this idea into public life and private endeavor as men and cltl zena Slot machine gambling and the cigarette habit are evils closely allied, and it Is high time that "voters and mothers" should awaken to this fact and work together for Its abrogation. Boys may, with great advantage to their moral and physical well-being, be dealt with to a certain extent as reason ing animals, but the virtues of restraint and compulsion have long ago been proven in connection with moral suasion In bringing up men. As for men so lost to all sense of duty and responsi bility as to place temptation systemat ically In the way o.boys, and make It as subtly enticing as possible, their sensibilities have become so dulled that they can only be dealt with by law and its penaiyes. Upon these lines the citi zens of Oregon City intend to fight the gambling question. Educational and proper restraint for boys and youth compulsion for men. Whether the law and order element the responsible citi zenship of the city strengthened and encouraged by its intelligent woman hood, is strong enough to overcome in open battle the craft and subtlety of the opposing element, remains to be seen. Evidence of the fact that Baker City Is a wide-awake, up-to-date, growing municipality accumulates. Its Council, backed presumably by the strong sen timent of Its progressive, self-respecting citizens, has enacted a law against expectorating on the sidewalks, the minimum penalty for Its violation being $1. the maximum $20. Supplemental to this and running parallel to it In lines of publlo health and personal cleanli ness Is another ordinance that, it Is said, will soon follow, to prohibit women from walking the streets In trailing skirts, or skirts that touch the ground with the motion of their wearers. If civilization were a sentient thing Instead of an abstract quantity. It would, after all these years of growth, view with, shame and confusion of face the necessity that exists for legislation upon these simple matters of public decency and health. There li no reason why thega ordl- nances, as well as any others that per tain to the cleanliness and well-being of the city, cannot be enforced. Let Baker City set the example and perhaps Port land will be encouraged or shamed Into following It. The address of Dr. A. D. Walker Fri day afternoon to the students of the High School on "Tobacco and the Evil Results of Its Use" can scarcely fall to profit all Intelligent boys who heard It. The cigarette habit is contracted usually In thoughtlessness, and is con firmed by the boastful spirit which It encourages, If It does not first induce. The boy who can smoke without seri ous consequences at first, who Is deft In rolling the pernicious substance In Wrappers for use, who can retain the smoke longer In the process of Inhala tion and exhalation than his fellows, learns quickly to take an Ignoble pride In his achievement and to fortify him self In the habit by a sickly, Impudent vanity. After the habit Is once formed to this extent It la perhaps Idle to ex pect its victim to reason concerning the deleterious effects, of the drug upon his system. To such as these the advice of Dr. Walker, "If you persist in using tobacco, smoke a pipe or cigar, chew or take onuff, even 'dip,' but don't smoke cigarettes," may be some benefit. But It is pleasant to believe that all manly boys who heard this address harkened to Dr. Walker Intelligently when he said: "My sincere advice to you Is ab stain from the use of tobacco altogeth er during the years you are going to school." Those who order their habits by this advice will have good cause In later years to rejoice that they listened with open minds to this disinterested exhortation. Mr. Harrison KIncald, of the Eugene Journal, says that Mr. Furnish ought not to have been nominated by the Re publicans, because he formerly was a Democrat. Mr. Furnish therefore Is set down as "an eleventh-hour adventurer, who Is entitled to nothing." Has Mr. KIncald a right to talk about eleventh hour gentlemen? He was elected by the Republican party to the office of Secretary of State In 1894, but soon ad ventured Into the Democratic party, and in the very next election was the Democratic candidate for the same of fice. For a lightning change this beats any performance yet recorded in Ore gon. Mr. KIncald's next prestidigita tion was to get himself nominated on the Democratic ticket to the office of County Judge in Lane County. He went over to the Bryan Democracy In 1896, at the same time that Mr. Fur nish left It. Which man Is entitled to and. more credit the country, that has passed upon the lseu,es presented by the Bryanlzed Democracy, will not fall to judge. It Is to be regretted, however, that Mr. KIncald Is so severe on adven turers, turncoats and renegades. Alas for this exhibit of lean-faced envy. In her loathsome cave! Prince George of Bavaria, who re cently attended 'in uniform a lecture in Munich by Professor Ranke, a leading Bavarian scientist, took offense at the asseveration of "man's descent from the ape," and, strutting up before the old professor, Informed him that "the royal family of Bavaria could not possibly be descended from an unreasoning animal, having been placed on earth by Provi dence to rule." The astonished scien tist did not reply, but no doubt he found in the attitude and speech of this conceited fellow "additional evidence of the truth of his theory, with a sug gestion that seme men were nearer their arboreal ancestors than he had supposed. The self-conscious airs of the monkey may be human, or the self conscious airs of this young Prince may be apish. Certainly there is a similar ity between them that is suggestive of kinship. Resistance to American authority in the Philippine Islands Is virtually at an end. The exception Is the Island of Samar. where Spanish authority never was established. But even In Samar organized resistance has ceased, and such troubles as are experienced grow out of mere brigandage. Of the con duct of our soldiers during the trying times of three years past Secretary Root recently said: The war In tho Philippines has been conduct ed by the American Army with scrupulous re gard for the rules of civilized warfare, with careful and genuine consideration for the pris oner and the noncombatant, with self-restraint and with humanity, never surpassed If ever equaled In any conflict, worthy only of praise, and reflecting credit upon the American people. The Vancouver correspondent who spoke lately through The Oregonlan of the milk supply of Portland was right In the assertion that milk at "present prices charged by those who deliver It Is "high enough." There Is no reason to doubt the further statement tnat good, healthy, clean milk can be sold In this city at a very good profit for 6 to 7 cents per quart An observant man who recently made a tour of the South says: "Everywhere from Ashevllle to New Orleans you find the people reading, and the books they read are to a great extent the historical romance we have had so much of late ly." If this observation Is -supported by fact, It Is to be regretted; If carelessly made. It Is a slander. Since the Salem Statesman was earn est and ardent in support of the unit rale for Geer In Marlon, It would seem to have small ground for .complaint of the unit rule In Multnomah against him. But, by the way, there was no unit rule In Multnomah against him. The Boston Herald "records with re gret the Roosevelt Administration's first surrender," adding: "Nor does the proposed promotion of Pension Com missioner Evans to the diplomatic serv ice make the surrender any less abject." As a Summer resort for crowned heads, the United States is looking up. Prospective visitors should come early and avoid the rush. Dirge. Fear no more the heat o the sun Nor the furious Winter's ragw; Thou thy worldly task hast done. Home art gone and ta'en thy wagest Golden lads and glrla all must. As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown 0' the great. Thou art past tho tyrant's stroke; Cars no more to clothe and cat; To thee tho reed is as tho oak; The Boepter, learning, physic, must All follow this, and como to dust, Fear no more tho lightning flash Nor tho all-dreaded thunder-atone; Fear not slander, censure rash; Thouhast flnlsh'd Joy and raoant All lovers young, all "lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. WlllUm SbukVBW. GOOD YARNS ABOUT STATESMEN The Governor's Memory. Governor Van Sant Is credited with having an excellent memory for people, and the circumstances under which he has met them. Horace Bennet, of Du luth, relates the following: "During the campaign a year ago lost Fall one of Captain Van Sant's friends brought him to my store and Introduced him. He said as he shook hands with me that he was going to be the next Governor, and I retorted in a joking way that he would be Governor if he got enough votes. You see I was a Llnd man and was not making any admissions' that the Republican candidate was going to ba elected. Many months afterward I called with some friends to see tho Governor. Captain Van Sant had been elected, as wo all know. Before we had time to state our business Governor Van Sant extended his hand to me with the remark: 'Well, I got enough votes.' I was very much surprised that he should recall that con versation with me. one of. the hundreds of a similar nature experienced by him all over the state every week for months before the election day." Duluth News Tribune. aicClenry Is Cautions. Congressman McCleary, of Minnesota, seems to have profited by Speaker Hen derson's experience. Some of the Minne sota statesman's Mankato constituents wroto to him urging a reduction In the tariff on lumber. In reply they received a nice long letter of 1500 words or more. In which the constituents were assured their Congressman was bestowing deep thought on the subject, and that he found on both sides of It arguments worfny Of the most serious consideration. Sioux City Journal. One of Klttredgc's Beat. Senator Klttredge, of South Dakota, tells a story about a reception which he attended, which Is especially appreciated by some of tho "cllfCdwellers," as the Senators who have their offices in the sub terranean part of the Capitol are called. One of the guests at the reception was a young man from the West who was asked to take a glass of wine. "I never drink wine," he said. "Never drink wine?" said the host, in surprise. "No," said the young man. "So that I cannot Induce you to Join me?" persisted the host. "No," was the reply, "I don't touch wine, but If you can find me a little plain old rye whisky, I think I could be per suaded to take a drink." Washington P03t. "Why Depeiv Refrained. "Mr. Depew," said a gentleman, speak ing recently of the .Senator to the Times, "pays a compliment as gracefully as any man, and one would never expect to see him fall to ri3e to the occasion. It was therefore a matter of considerable sur prise to mo when, at a dinner where the Senator was a guest, I observed that he allowed to pass several excellent opportu nities to compliment a charming young lady of the company. Afterward I com mented upon the omission to Mr. Depew himself. " 'You observed the lady?' he said. " 'Yes,' I answered. " 'You noticed that she might be ex tremely sensitive?' he went on. " 'Yes,' I replied, though, truth to tell, I hadn't considered the lady's disposi tion 'at all. " 'Well.' said Mr. Depew slowly, 'I once told a sensitive girl that I thought her as sweet as honey, and the result was disastrous.' " 'How so?" I questioned, though I ought to have known better. "Tho Senator answered me In a whisper. Next day the lady had hives.' "New York Times. Mr. Bryan's Prosperity. Denver Republican. It Is Impossible to consider Mr. Bryan's prosperity, however, without contrasting his theories with his present condition. "Under an Administration which he de nounced as meaning anythlns but prosper ity to an average American Mr. Bryan has gained enough of this world's goods so that a $20,000 residence, with an ornate brick barn, Is not an Impossibility. He has progressed faster than the average citizen on the rising tide of prosperity, perhaps, but tho general conditions must have been good, else he could not have mado so proud a record. If there Is any way by which Mr. Bryan's dark theories of Republican despotism and despair -can be made to fit the glorious thought of hovlng into a $20,000 residence (again not forgetting the ornate brick barn), we should like to have the distinguished edi tor of tho Commoner show us. Mr. Bry an's forte has always been the plausible explanation, and perhaps he has one up his sleeve In this Instance. Or perhaps the sight of a prosperous editor In prosperous times does not need any explaining. In any event wo shall not withhold our con gratulations. Only 42, and moving Into an ornate brick barn, with a $20,000 resi dence growing under the hands of the bricklayers! What more could a man ask, even If his own condition of prosperity upset all his pet theories? PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAFHERS Definition. Teacher Willie, what Is greedi ness? Willie Wanting something that older people want themselves. Chicago Dally News. One of Them. "Elvira pretends to have high Ideals." "I know. Tho follow she Is engaged to Is over six feet." Philadelphia Evening Bul letin. Miss Fhlzbad "Oh, I know they consider Miss Itgsemere good looking; but she is not my stylo of beauty." Miss Cuttle "Oh. no; anybody can see that." Boston Transcript. He But don't you think you are somewhat extravagant? His Daughter Now, papa, don't be unreasonable! Tou know I never ask you for money except when I haven't any. Tit Sits. Grindlcus A man can't get an education nowadays without money. Sportlcus In other words, jou claim that tho tree of knowledge sprouts from Jh rP2J? ' a11 vl!. Harvard Lampoon. Hostess Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Nlght Jngalal What a lovely songl Vocalist (pleased with himself) I usually And it goes down very well. Cynical Old Gentleman It went down nearly a semi-tone this time! Punch. Casey's Truism. Dennis "Tls th' ear-rly bur-rd gets th' wur-rm, Mlsther Casey? Casey 'Tls thot. If yo want lo keep yere head above wathcr these days, je ca-ant let th' grass grow under yere feet, Mlsther Dinnrs. Detroit Freo Press. ' The Secret "How does it come you write such lovely dialect verse?" asked the enthu siastic editor. "Why you see," replied tho budding author, "I use a stub pen, lots of ink. and write left-handed with my eyes blind fold." Ohio State Journal. Those Testimonials. "What real benefit," asked the disgruntled roan, who objected to paying 53 for a seat, "does the average mor tal derive from our prima donnas?" "They tell him what kind of soap to use," answered the youth. Chicago Post. True Helpmate. "Mary," said Mr. Mllyuns, hoarsely, as he sank dejectedly Into a chair, "the 'Steenth National has failed, and all our money's gone with It." Oh, John," she cried, but, recovering herself, added, "never mind; I'll have my Easter bannet charged." Phila delphia Press. In tho Art Gallery. "Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. Oldcastle, who was again enJoIng the splen dors of her new neighbor's art gallery, "a Corot, I see." "Where?" asked her hostess, looking doubtfully at tho canvas which seemed to claim the other's attention. "There," an swered Mrs. Oldcastle, pointing with her lorgn ette. "Weil, now. I declare. I can't see a single crow anywhere around. You don't mean them little black spots In the left-hand corner, do you? Them's clouds." Chicago Record-Herald. Tho Dignity of tho Senate. Senator Pettus solemnly arose as it to address tho Sonate, His tall and venerable 'form towered above hiB col leagues. The Sonato became silent, waiting for the words of wisdom which should fall from his lips. With every oyo upon him. Mr. Pettus reached around into the tall pocket of his long frock coat and drew forth a plug of tobacco. Then he took a chew and sat down without wylPff n word, Wftiblnctoq Post, SLINGS AND ARROWS. Sons; of the Messenger Boy. I bring dismay to the gaping "gray" Who Is seeing the sights of town; And I chuckle with glee when his wrath I see As I suddenly knock him down. Then with great unconcern the next corner X turn. And before I havo Journeyed far. I dart like a flash right under the dash Of a thundering trolley car. The timid young maid who Is out on parado, With a push-cart and baby in tow. Turns pallid with fright as in my mad flight. Careering up to her I go. And if ever I strike the cart with my bike And land on the youngster for fair. There's a mix-up indeed, and immediate need Of an active youns surgeon right there. With a whlstlo that's shrill I scorch down a hill. Nor worry about what's ahead. And the man whom I meet further on down the street. Will spend the next fortnight In bed. Although on the wrflk the tall copper may stalk And grab at my wheel with a frown, I 'cheerfully tell him to go plumb to well. To the far distant rear and sit down. When the curtains of dawn by the sun have been drawn. And the mists of the morning arise. My Jubilant shout from the sidewalk without. Steals sleep from the heaviest eyes. And when falls tho night without sign of & light. I streak through the darkness along. And the man In my way who lives through tfll tho day, Needs a vigor unusually strong. The stories of old that so oft have been told. Of tho laggardly messenger boy, Aro legends that I with much energy try, To completely disprove and destroy. For though I may spend the day to Its end. In going a half of a mile. I use the delav alT tin on thn wav Giving telephone girls the glad smile. And when I am mounted my speed Is accounted Ahead of the whirlwind's best style. I am the kid with the gray and gold lid. To destruction and accident born'. I Journey through space with a look on my face Like tho Cyclops of old might have worn. And If any man has a hunch that he can Put a stop to my deadly career. Let him try. and he'll find time for changing his mind In a hospital ward all next year. A Few Spring: Poems. In order to arouse the Interest of the ( youth of the city In the weather a topic j that has been rapidly falling Into neg- j lect of late, we some time ago offered a prize for the best poem on or appropriate ' to Spring written by a pupil in the kin dergartens or under kindergarten age. i "We have received 489 manuscripts, all' of which are highly Interesting, but ow ing to limitations of space we are able to print only a few. Hore Is the first: My Ma is In tho kitchen. My ra Is at the store; The sun Is shining on the grass, And I won't write no more. The birds sings at the door. Ltko It ain't shone before. P. S. You can take any of tho last three lines that you think 13 the best. My name Is Henry Alexander McKInsey. Here Is one from Muriel Marsh, aged 3, which seems to be about the correct thing: In the Spring a brighter crimson comes upon the robin's breast. In the Spring tho wanton lapwing gets himself another nest. In tho Spring a livelier Iris mantles on tho burnished doe. In the Spring the oung man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. There Is something In these lines that Is reminiscent of tho late John Phoenix, but possibly it is merely tho sentiment. Another contribution comes from Hol ana Moore aged 6. Here It is: The amethyst clouds that float abovo Are tinged with a golden glow. The mists that arise at oven hov- Er over the hills below. A spirit of peace and calm content Thrills the wakening atmosphere. And the leaves and birds proclaim that gent- Le Spring at last Is here. The only criticism we have to make of the foregoing Is the rather surprising division of the syllables, which occurs in the third and seventh lines. Otherwise the poem seems to be perfect. Frances "Wllllston, aged 2, gives us the following: Again the moribund aspect that Nature as sumes In the Autumn Has anlshed as fades the gray mist when tha sun bursts over the hilltops, The tender grean leaves have put forth, tho earth Is onco more robed in -verdure; Reviving, refreshing, the Spring peeps in through the wide open casement. And out on the wings of the wind, that Is laden with wonderful perfume. To the realms of the fairies of old, my soul, newly kindled, goes soaring. These verses are rather Immature and awkward for one of Miss "Wllliston's years, but still they are rather pretty, and we feel Justified In printing them. Herbert Atterbury, 4 years old, offers this effusion: Whon the rooster crows on the back-yard fence. And the colts begin to neigh. And the 3tlff-kneed calf. In Innocence, Eats up the brlndle's hay. When price of eggs soars toward the sky And th hens refuse to lay. When milk is high and tho cow runs drj Look out for the first of May. This Is Interesting, but rather too sug gestive of the rural drama. Here 13 the last of the series. The au thor Is Cecil Berrlngton, aged 6 months: I lie here in my trundle bed The whole enduring day. And sleep and cat. and eat and sleep The weary hours away. Big, blue-eyed Things come looking down. And grab my hands and feet. And say, "Ze tunnln little mite, Dood dacious, ain't urn sweet?" I don't know what they want with mo. Or why they stand and stare. If they would never come around, I'm suro I wouldn't care. I only want to eat and sleep. And laugh and coo. and grow. If I need help from Things like that I'll howl, and lot them know. But sometimes, when it's blue above, And warm and soft outside. They put mo In a wicker box. And take me out to ride. And then I open wide my eyes, And coo like e'crythlng. Because, like all the world, I fed , The happiness of Spring. A Recipe. A canvas barn, a painted tree, A slow New England drawl: A largo square room, with two or thrM Worked mottoes on the wall; A hint of wicked city lite By some one In tho ca3t. Who plays an honest farmer's wife With something of a past. A roan from town whose shirt Is clean. And has at least two suits. To brighten up the rural scene, Of overalls and boots; A cow. if one can be secured: A soft-nosed mare named Bess, A dog or two, and you're assured Unqualified success. Just take these few ingredients And mix them as you may And keep them free from common sense. You'll havo a rural piny. J. J. MONTAGU!!. Jennie Kissed Sic. Leigh Hunt. Jenny kissed mo when we met. Jumping from tho chair she sat ta. Time, you thief! who love to get Sweets Into your list, put that In. Say I'm weary, say.l'm sadj Say that health and wealth hav roissad rao; Say I'm growing old, but add JenjJlo kissed mil V
