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FROM HEJTGEST TO RHODES.
Unique In history and passing: strange
that out of that little peninsula whence
the Jutes and Angles fared forth as
pirates to the Kentish shore "went In a
humble iray the eeed whose full-grown
(tree spreads its branches today over
jthe British Isles, North America, Aus-
,11a. 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
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