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TWO POIXTS OP COMPARISON.
Mr. Chamberlain is a "good, fellow."
This much is universally admitted by
iriend and foe. Nor are pleasing social
qualities to be sneered at or despised.
But on the other hand, excessive good
fellowship, carried into public affairs,
baa often proved a menace to a com
munity and sometimes to the entire
assemblage of communities that consti
tute the Union.
Thlg dangerous side of genial amia
bility was notably exemplified In the
career of that prince of good fellows,
William Jennings Bryan. Rapturously
hailed everywhere during his campaign,
even his former adherents, forced to it
Tjy the logic of events, now admit that
his defeat was a blessing la disguise.
Such may perhaps be the aftermath of
public opinion when our own local good,
fellow Is also defeated.
"William Jerome, who occupies the po
sition, of prosecuting attorney in Great
er New Tork, as Mr. Chamberlain does
here, is not considered a-' good "fellow,"
as the phrase goes, but a stern, uncom
promising, uncongenial' adversary of
municipal abuses within his jurisdic
tion. He aggressively proclaimed his
lack of good fellowship during the cam
paign preceding hjs election. Tet he
!waa elected in spite of or perhaps be
cause of his forbidding traits, and has
Blnce kept his pledges to the letter. In
season anil out of season, he has relent
lessly hunted down evil-doers in high
or low places, and persistently scoured
the slums of New Tork at great incon
venience and risk of personal violence
In pursuit of the vicious and criminal
classes. These things he has done of
lis own initiative, without waiting for
putside information or complaint.
But has George E. Chamberlain, un
doubted "good fellow," as he is, been
equally diligent, or actively diligent at
jail, "as prosecuting attorney for this dis
trict. In attempting to check the orgy
Of lawlessness and) vice prevailing in
Che "badlands" of Portland the North
jEnd?
Unwhipped of Justice, practically un
Snolested on might almost say encour
aged In its practices this section has
spread, during his term of office, into a
moral "blot upon the fair name" of Port
land, that Is viewed with amazement
and. disgust bj strangers and with
ehame and apprehension by respectable
citizens. There is a wide distinction
between a closed town, which no sensi
ble man desires, and such wide-open
Jhelllshness as exists in these purlieus.
-William Jerome, not a goodellow,
Jwould have abated the nuisance and
compelled crime at least to prey upon
itself, and not upon the innocent or
over-confiding. He would have returned
from a political canvass to hound down
and punish the brutal assailants of
Faith Stewart, if it required the clos
ing of every suspected dive in the North
End to secure their surrender and pun
ishment. On the other hand it may be admit
ted that W. J. Furnish is not-a "good
fellow," according to the vernacular.
He Is not magnetic, not a fluent speaker,
and does not arouse emotional outbursts
of applause on the platform. But he Is
a good citizen of broad views, and
clear powers of discernment, a success
ful business man, and enjoys a full
measure of esteem and confidence In the
community where he resides, as has
been proven by his several elections to
office, due to his satisfactory adminis
tration of public andprlvate trusts com
mitted to his charge.
Take the principles of the two candi
dates, the walls against which they are
expected to stand and meet the enemy.
Mr. Chamberlain, "good fellow," but
perhaps not quite a candid fellow, dis
claims the possession of either princi
ples or walls. Every time he makes an
address he claims to be the representa
tive, not of a party or a platform, but
of every man who has a vote, and bold
ly affirms that there is practically no
difference between the principles adopt
' d Tit, the Republican and Democratic
state conventions. , Honestly now, can
even good fellowship quite excusevsuch
flagrant insincerity as this, when one
platform flatly declares for the reten
tion of the Philippinesand the other as
flatly demands their abandonment, to
say nothing of other points of variance?
Mr. Furnish, jer contra, a man of
"some worSs," although stronger in ac
tion than verbiage, pleads guilty to the
possession of principles and a wall to
etand against He declares briefly thai
he stands on a Kepublican platform,
that he is unqualifiedly In favor of
holding the Philippines, and supports
President Roosevelt in his assault upon
th,e trusts, and his patriotic determina
tion. that the flag shall stay "put."
Principles and men; which camp
makes the better showing?
MERELY A SUGGESTION.
Mr. Harrlman is coming to this city
at an excellent time for observations
regarding the wheat traffic which has
made the profits of the O. R. & N. Co.
the admiration and wonder of the rail
road world. Dropping In on us at the
tall end of the season, when the returns
are about all In, he will find that the
position of Portland, and incidentally
the O. R. & N. Co. has been reversed,
and we are not handling the share of
this rich traffic which properly belongs
to the port with the down-hill haul.
The figures at the close of the season
July 1 will show Tacoma and Seattle
to have shipped well up towards 60
per cent of the total wheat shipments
of Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
while Portland has dropped back to
ward 40 per cent.
It will not offer Portland any vast
amount of consolation to be told that
this heavy increase in the business of
rival ports and corresponding decrease
In our own, is due to a phenomenal
crop In the territory of our rivals, and
a poor crop in our own territory. We
are slightly familiar with this phase
jf the matter, and It does not trouble
us. What Portland would be pleased
to see is a move made by the O. R. &
N. Co. toward hauling as much wheat
out of Northern Pacific territory, as the
Northern Pacific hauls out of the O. R.
& N. territory.
Between 6,000,000 and 10,000,000 bush
els of the wheat which was shipped
from Puget Sound during the season
now drawing to a close, came out of the
Big Bend country. This rich region
might as well be in the valley of the
Nile, so far as affording the O. R, & N.
Co. and Portland any revenue Is con
cerned, and yet a hundred-mile stretch
of easily constructed railroad would
make that vast wheat region directly
tributary to Portland, and pay big divi
dends on the Investment. If Mr. Harrl
man is afraid of losing money by build
ing that spur, Portland citizens will
build it for him, whenever he will agree
to give them satisfactory traffic ar
rangements. Another 4,000,000 bushels of wheat,
barley, flax, etc., are produced up in
Idaho every year, and hauled out to
market by the- fearful grades up Pot
laich Canyon, and thence over the Cas
cade Mountains. Mr, Harrlman has
the grade, right-of-way and nearly
everything but the iron, for a road-up
Snake River to that rich country, and
he can haul that freight out at a profit
at a rate which would rrake the moun
tain grade road a heavy loser. Mr.
Harximaa undoubtedly knows Jus. own
business, but Portland is similarly sit
uated, and has -a desire to enlarge the
scope of her operations.
PRACTICAL MISSIOXARYEFFORT.
Notwithstanding all the interest and
sympathy excited throughout the land
by the capture and ransom of Miss
Ellen. Stone, says the Boston Herald,
"it is doubtful whether the stirring in
cident has contributed a whit to any
Increased respect for the methods of
the regulation type of missionaries, or
their narrow dogmatic effort" With
this plain statement as a preface, that
journal goes on at some length to con
trast the methods designated and illus
trated by the work of Miss Stone in
foreign fields with those pursued by Sir
Andrew Clarke, who died recently and
who Is characterized as the greatest
missionary of modern times, "because
the most enlightened as well as the
most benevolent." If, it is added, "the
worth of a missionary's task is to be
estimated by the numbers, of his fel
low creatures he has lifted from the
last extreme of poverty, tyranny. Idle
ness, disease and fatalistic despair, to
an encouraging standard of well being,
health, industry and belief in' justice
and good will, then Sir Andrew leads
the American board, and all other mis
sionary boards." "Specifying further,
this Journal says:
"Take up the map of Asia and briefly
study the position of the Malay penin
sula, stretching down 1000 miles from
the south of China to the Malay archi
pelago, and terminating in the British
settlement of Singapore, opposite Su
matra. Through these straits Ilea the
grand highway of commerce to the
Orient, and once their shores were lined
with nests of murderous pirates. A
more wretched population and a mo"re
jungle-choked, malarious region than
the peninsula presented can hardly be
conceived. Tet by patient administra
tive effort, and the use of as little force
as possible, by mainly setting a series
of striking object lessons of the gain of
every kind that would come to the mis
erable inhabitants and their tyrannic
rulers alike, from the resources of mod
ern civilization, he at last succeeded in
uniting them into little confederacies of
states, largely administered by them
selves, under the protectorate of British
official residents.
This was brought about, first by re
specting their prejudices, customs, hab
its of life and their religious or super
stitious faiths. He thus avoided arous
ing against himself and his plans the
most Inveterate passions of the human
heart. How could they help being In
dolent, fatalistic and without hope,
plundered as they were of the faintest
show of prosperity and isolated from
one another by impenetrable jungles
that made It a week's work to get from
one village to another? Sir Andrew did
not blame them for the palpable results
of their environment, nor did he for a
moment think that a change in their
religious belief would overcome this en
vironment td the conditions that grew
out of 1L He did not prescribe a cer
tain scheme as necessary to their sal
vation from present and future Ills;
neither did he expect utterly to trans
form their natures. The cure for the
isolation of '-the Jungle was good roads
cut through them.' Theological dogmas
were not introduced, Sociability and
human good will were engendered by
bringing them face to face, trading with
them, dancing with them, uniting with
them in mutually advantageous pur
suits. Oriental' despots find that they
can g'eT larger tithes out of prosperous,
happy, contented subjects than out of
those who are poverty-stricken and
miserable; hence their favor was enlist
ed In this missionary work. A compar
atively bloodless revolution was brought
about on these lines In thirty years. by
a handful of Englishmen, guided by Sir
Andrew Clarke.
As detailed In an article in the April
Forum under the head of "The'Exam
ple of the Malay States" we find that
where in 1875 there was not a mile of
cart road, there are now 1500 miles, and
over 1000 miles of bridle-paths, and be
fore this year is out there will be 364
miles of railroad In working order. Ed
ucation under native rule was so scant
that a Malay who could read and write
was a curiosity. There are now 1S3
vernacular and state-aided schools, with
S092 pupils. Hospitals were unknown.'
There are today government free hos
pitals throughout the reclaimed states,
exclusive of jail hospitals and insane
asylums. Cholera and smallpox, that
ran riot among the natives, have been
practically extinguished and population
has increased 60 per cent in the last
ten 3'ears. Revenues have gone up to
millions; security of land tenures have
been established for peasants and sub
stantial justice is administered in the
courts.
Here, indeed, is missionary effort
worthy of the name. True it leaves the
Malays still Mahometans. But surely
to make them peaceful, happy Mahom
etans ought to be regarded as one step
toward what constitutes the fundamen
tal Idea of Christianity, which Is gen
erally understood to mean the coming
of the Kingdom of God on earth.
WHAT IS A DAB PLAT?
There Is a deal of cant and nonsense
written about the evil influence- of the
stage, about good and bad plays, but
the real test of the evil quality of a
play Is not its superficial coarseness,
but its pervasive Immoral spirit. To
illustrate: Few of Shakespeare's plays
are "free from, occasional lapses Into
coarseness of language, and even inde
cency of illustration; but none of them
are Immoral In the teaching of their
plot and final catastrophe. The inci
dental coarseness of Shakespeare is
found In Cervantes and Montaigne, but
It Is the utterance of rude health, like
the gambols of a frolicsome colt in a
pasture; It does jiot suggest a mind
mildewed with filthy vicea The general
drift of Shakespeare's thought Is man
ly and Instinct with moral sense. He
looks at life In a large, genial, generous
and heroic spirit. He never devotes his
art to the morbidities and monstrosities
and eccentric obscenities of existence;
he knew that while there Is an Indecent
aqd obscene side to life, a deadly night
shade to human nature, nevertheless
this Is not the rule, nor ultimate of life.
And so Shakespeare never herolzes
vice, never gilds shame. He Is so clear
In his moral perception of the serene
heights of human nature that he nobly
paints nobler women and more heroic
men than he ever knew In his own day,
unless he knew Sir Philip Sidney or
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
It Is easy to convict Shakespeare of
occasional indecency, but It cannot be
fairly said that the spirit and atmo
sphere of any of his plays are Immoral.
Falstaff, who litters a vast amount of
wit and 'humor, tarnished with inde
cency, Is infinitely amusing, and yet in
the final catastrophe his vices and his
folly deliver him over to the withering
contempt and denunciation of his sov
ereign. Women of evil and dissolute
lives and brutal men who tie their fu
tures to their shame meet terrible retri
bution at last, like Edmund in "Lear,"
and the King In "Hamlet." Antony, a
creature of nobler parts, is a terrible
picture of a great warrior spirit becom
ing the tool and fool of a wanton wom
an. He Is a Roman Hercules helping
an Egyptian Queen Omphale spin un
til his thread of life Is exhausted. What
a powerful lesson is told here how a
man with a head of gold, but feet of
clay, can be rapidly and hopelessly
ruined by stooping to be the slave of a
wanton woman!
In no play of Shakespeare Is there
any absence of rakish folk, of able and
artful villains of both sexes; and yet
in no play is there any whitewashing
of vice or any plea in abatement of vil
lainy. The virtuous lovers, like Romeo
and Juliet, like Hamlet and Ophelia,
like Othello and Desdemona, are not
always either happy or fortunate, but
they die without moral shame, and the
guilty lovers, whether .they die within
or without wedlock, die most infamous
ly, most wretchedly, whether they die
crowned or discrowned. The most as
tute and intellectual of Shakespeare's
villains die draining the cup of retribu
tion to its dregs. Shakespeare's moral
metal rings true. He was clearly no
Puritan in speech or habits or man
ners, but he was a man of clean hands
and a pure heart; it is safe to say that
while Shakespeare might have been an
honest courtier to Queen Elizabeth on
even to her grim father, he could never
have been obsequious to such an un
clean beast as Charles H.
So much for the argument that mere
incidental coarseness or Indecency does
not make Shakespeare's rankest plays
In any sense bad plays. Now, let us
turn to the modern popular French
drama and see how a play that Is not
baldly indecent In speech and Is full
of eloquence, may be a very bad play,
an evil play; we mean the play of "Ca
mllle," by the younger Dumas. In this
play, Marguerite Is to be redeemed from
a vicious life by a love for one only,
Armand. Then when she yields to the
prayers of Armand's father to sacrifice
herself for the good of Armand, and his
sister, who Is about to marry Into a
worthy, family, she makes Armand give
her up by destroying his faith In her.
She does not simply make Armand be
lieve she was the mistress of another
without being such In reality, but she
does in fact become the mistress of an
other. In this play a charming woman
of noble qualities, who had been re
deemed from the life of a courtesan by
her love for one man nobler than the
rest at the last In what is represented
to be a supreme act of self-sacrifice,
tried to save him from a ruined life, by
becoming In fact the mistress of another
man, with the motive of destroying her
true lover's faith in her. This shock
ing Immolation, not of a noble woman's
love for the worldly welfare of her
lover, but of her nobly redeemed self, is
what makes this play evil and corrupt
A story in which there is such a per
verted moral sense is when dramatized
a most immoral play, in spite of Its
noble, tender and- touching passages.
Shakespeare's plays Include Immoral
women who remain such, to the end,
like Creaslda, and Immoral women, who
seem to rise to 'the level of a certain
wild passion such as Cleopatra mani
fested for Antony; t but Shakespeare
never wrote an utterly rotten play like
that of Dumas, In which a woman is
eloquently heroized for sacrificing not
only her love for lover to serve his
welfare, but for sacrificing her re
deemed self. Of course nobody can
make the stage decent save the public.
We have no censorship of plays, but
public opinion is a powerful censor, and
plays which are not simply Indecent
and vulgar, but which absolutely seek
to make the worst and most inexcus
able kind of elf-surrender an act of
heroic and admirable self-sacrifice, do
a deal more harm than "Tom Jones"
or than a good deal of the literature
that x Mr. Anthony Comstock stigma
tizes as Immoral.
PfGEOX ' TOURNAMENTS.
The shooting of thousands of pigeons,
trapped and let loose for the purpose at
an Interstate tournament on Long
Island a few weeks ago, and later at a
like bloody carnival at Kansas City,
has aroused humanitarians to protest
that may, it is hoped, be carried to the
Legislative halls of such states as have
not laws against this cowardly and bru
tal pastime. Ralph Waldo Trine, the
author, is bitter In denunciation of such
tests of marksmanship. He declared
at the close of the Long Island tourna
ment that 'Isuch a carnival of slaugh
ter Is a disgrace to a civilized commu
nity," a statement which not only every
lover of birds but every lover of fair
play in short must cordially indorse.
Of necessity, such rapid shooting as Is
denoted by the score In these tourna-
.ments resulted In wounding many birds
that were not retrieved, but died by
slow torture, while the piles of the dead
creatures numbering, it Is saidV at least
18,000, at Kansas City, and nearly twice
that number a the"Bnootlng grounds
on Long Island, Illustrated a sickening
tale of slaughter.
In a more primitive stage- of existence
man did not kill beasts and birds as a
pastime, or simply in order to demon
strate "his power over them, but merely
for purposes of self-defense, or to serve
his needs of food and clothing. In the
early transition from barbarism Into
comparative civilization, the hunting
down of wild creatures developed Into
sport, which eventually became one of
the perquisites or relaxations of royalty.
Being debarred from these sports, seml
barbarlans took to cockfightlng and
bull-baltlng, and, strange a3 It may
seem, the dawn of the twentieth cen
tury has witnessed a revival of these
brutal pastimes which the kindly In
stincts of American civilization of a
past era frowned upon and practically
refused to sanction. In proof of this
we have only to refer to sundry gory
bullfights that .have taken place on
American 'territory in recent months,
and to an announcement only last
month of cockfightlng In Missoula, Mon
tana, so persistently cruel that the po
lice was called upon to Interfere and
break up the exhibitions.
Protest against this spirit of wanton
cruelty has been made In behalf of
what is known as game birds and song
birds In various sections with such ef
fect that laws for the protection of these
two classes of our feathered friends
have been enacted. Unfortunately for
pigeons, they are not Included In either
class, hence their wanton destruction
in the name of sport as witnessed with
in a few' weeks past In the center of
two wjdely, separated communities, one
of which stands for the civilization of
the East, and the other for that of the
great Middle West.
Untold thousands of these pretty, gen
tle, harmless creatures, with cruel pre
meditation bred for this sacrifice, have
thus1 been killed that men might boast
their skill In the use of guns. Hun
dreds have fluttered away to die of
starvation. The shock to the sensibili
ties of humanitarians was not lessened
by the presentation of many of these
dead pigeons, to the poor and the sick,
to be used as food. It Is the wanton
and uncalled for sacrifice of these crea
tures upon the altar of so-called -sport
that has aroused Indignation and pro
testthe taking of life that could be
avoided, and the same tests of marks
manship secured by using clay pigeons
as targets.
Cowardice Is unmanly under what
ever pretext It Is indulged. And cer
tainly it is a most cowardly act to place
timid, harmless birds In traps, liberate
them suddenly, in direct range of the
guns of men skilled In rapid firing and
bring them down without giving them a
chance for their lives. Sportsmen
should be called upon to show that live
birds are necessary as targets In order
to prove their skill as marksmen; falling
to do so, the legislation desired by hu
manitarians for the prevention of the
ruthless slaughter of pigeons in such
tournaments should be enacted.
Oregon can no longer lay claim, to
youth. Willamette University, historic
In name, In fame and In endeavor, will
celebrate Its 58th commencement during
the first days of the coming June. The
history of this our oldest university, If
written, would fill many thick volumes.
Of its history that cannot be written,
but which Is the very essence of Ore
gon's life for nearly three score years,
no adequate estimate can be made. Go
ing outward over Its portals, ambitious
young men and capable young women
have passed In the long procession of
the years to link their endeavor. If not
With the name of the state, with her
worthy, Industrious citizenship. The
roll-call of thl3 old university in teach
ers, patrons, students and graduates,
would give voice to many names that
have been written high In the annals of
the state, but which have long been
given to marble and granite In her
scattered graveyards, as well as to
many others that would meet still with
the hearty response, "Here," as they
fell from the lips of the caller. His
toric Willamette, In honoring thee, the
people of Oregon honor themselves.
The Spaniards have a striking relig
ious form by which they designate the
boy king who yesterday took the oath
of office before the Cortes as constitu
tional monarch of the realm. They
describe him reverently as the only
child born a king since the birth of the
Christ child in Bethlehem. His birth
after the death of his father, when the
advent of two princesses had left the
succession in doubt, endeared him to
his subjects, and the rare glimpses that
they were allowed of the slender lad In
his childhood Invested him with a cer
tain sacredness that appealed both to
their affection and their loyalty. They
have moreovef taken great pride in the
special training that he was receiving
for his career as constitutional ruler
and approved the methods of the Queen
Regent In his bringing up. Throughout
hls boyhood, nothing worse has been
said of him than that he flinched and
begged to be taken away when he saw
Jhls first bullfight a squeamishness
which it is charitable to hope- he has
quite outgrown since- in the list of file
coronation fetes are fifteen bullfights,
at which 100 bulls and nobody knows
how many horses, with perhaps more
than one luckless matador, will be
slain.
Advocates of the Irrigation "bill now
pending before Congress assert that the
Irrigation data furnished by the census
of 1900, just closed. Is practically value
less, as it does not bring the facts in
the premises anywhere near up or down
to date. For example, the President In
his message stated that over 5200,000,000
Is invested in Irrigation enterprises
in the West, whereas, according to cen
sus data, these- investments do not ex
ceed 160,000,000. As Indicating the Im
portance of bringing the census returns
down to date, it is cited that the area
under Irrigation in Texas and Louisiana
since the census of 1900 was taken has
Increased not less than ten-fold. Cen
sus compilers can scarcely be blamed
for not closing the reports of the ten
years ending with 1S99 with statements
of Increased development In this line
that followed In the succeeding two
years. The promoters of irrigation,
however, are to be congratulated upon
the Industry with which they have com
piled and the energy with which they
have presented these facts, whether they
are regarded as supplementary to the
last census report or preliminary to
that of the next In either case they
are very properly and profitably set
out In, conjunction with the efforts of
the irrigation committee to get the facts
before Congress, to the end that the Irri
gation question may be properly under
stood and Intelligently voted upon.
Among recent deaths Is that of Gen
eral Charles -H. T. Collls, a gallant
Irishman, who entered the Union Army
as a private soldier and came out a
Brigadier-General of ' Volunteers. At
Fredericksburg he was Colonel of the
One Hundred and Fourteenth Pennsyl
vanla Volunteers and won a Congres
sional medal for gallantry. He fought.
at Chancellorsville, and at Spottsylva
nla he was made a Brlgadler-Generai.
At Petersburg. April 2, 1865, he person
ally led a charge of six regiments
against the works at Fort Mahone and
captured them. For this service he
was made Major-General by brevet He
thrashed two Hungarian officers once
In Vienna for Insulting a woman, and
the British minister, Sir Andrew Bu
chanan, gave a dinner in his honor.
He was Commissioner of Public Works
of New Tork City under Mayor Strong,
and displayed great administrative
ability.
Bad weather this Spring has cut down
thecatch of the Victoria sealing schoon
ers to such an extent that much higher
prices are being paid for the skins
taken. It Is over seventeen years since
the American schooners were driven
out of this business by the American
Government the prediction being freely
made at that time that the continuation
of a fleet of any consequence In the
business would result In the' speedy ex
tinction of the fur-bearer. The seal
catches In good weather, however, con
tinue about as large as ever, and when
bad weather shortens the supply the In
creased price makes up for the shortage
In the catch. The sealing industry la
of nearly as great importance to Vic
toria as the salmon fisheries are to As
toria, and statistics have not yet" shown
that the seal Is In any greater danger
of extinction than Is the salmon.
The monument to the soldiers and
sailors of Indiana that was dedicated
In Indianapolis Thursday of last week
Is a magnificent tribute of the living to
the dead patriots of the state. The cost
of the monument was $598,218. Its corner-stone
was laid thirteen years ago,
and Its completion marks the end of
much labor and many discouragements,
in securing funds. Let us not despair
of our soldiers' monument Movements
of this kind have periods of growth
and depression and lasting memorials
to the dead are proverbially of slow
growth. Even the great Washington
monument was but little more than a
pitiful ruin In Its incompleted state, for
more than a generation, when a tidal
wave of woman's patriotism came In
and carried it swiftly to completion.
The return to Cuba a fortnight ago
of Tomas Estrada Palma as President
of the Island that he left twenty-five
years ago In chains, Is one of the most
romantic events of recent history. He
was exiled as the penalty of resistance
to Spanish misrule; he returns the ex
ponent of self-government to try Its
theories in the practical affairs of the
Cubans. Whether or not he will suc
ceed depends upon the Cubans them
selves, not upon their chosen President
since there Is every reason to suppose
that he will administer the affairs of
the Island wisely If permitted to do so.
The country schoolma'am Is not, It
seems, always the Inoffensive damsel
of song and story. Here we have In Ba
ker County the necessity of placing
under bonds, pending trial, two of them
for assauit upon a Justice -of the peace.
Sad, Indeed, that the majesty of the
law should thus be assailed! Since the
assault was committed if committed
however, we may at this distance tim
idly hope that the young women made
a masterful job of their undertaking.
The famous Lisbon-earthquake of 1755
by which 70,000 persons perished, Is
made an episode of one of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes' poems, "Agree," In which
the mistress of Sir Harry Frankland
rescues him from death, and In grati
tude he makes her his wife.
"What guerdon shall repay
His debt oC ransomed life?
One word can charm ail wrongs away.
The sacred name of wife.
By reason of his experience In all
branches of his profession, Mr. W. C.
Elliott, Republican nominee for City
Engineer, la peculiarly fitted for the
position. Few vmen In- the Northwest
stand higher In his calling than Mr.
Elliott His work, of whatever charac
ter, has always been faithfully and
exemplarlly done.
IS THERE ANY REASON
For surprise at the couse of Democratic Senators In traducing our Army
and trying to make political capital by encouraging Filipinos to acts of
violence, when you consider that the Democratic party has for 30 years
based all hopes for success in National politics on force, fraud and de
fiance of law?
TO VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC 'TICKET
Is to sanction and encourage that which is repugnant to-cvery impulse of
patriotism.
In i tttfttjLitf ti nmuiiij
MUSINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.
If the managing committee of the pro
posed Lewl3 and Clark Fair are wise,
they will choose, other things being equal,
such a site as is best provided or
can be readily supplied wlttu- trans
portation facilities. Wherever the location,
ninety per cent of those who attend will
ride there and a few minutes longer on the
trip will cut small figure. Tho problem
will be not to get the people to the fair
without delay, but to get them back
promptly. Every night just before the
gates are shut there will be a crowd
eager to get home at once, and on special
nights, with good weather, a big crowd.
Make them wait half an hour for con
veyance when they are tired out and they
will shrug their shoulders the next time
some one suggests another visit. It would
seem that a site which combines rail,
electric car and river transportation
should be chosen to meet the reasonable
demand.
There has been much unnecessary worry
(among those who have not subscribed
to the stock) over the question jot a big
fair. Portland does not propose to dupli
cate the St Louis exposition. For the
sum of money which Is certain to be
raised we can get together a novel and
attractive exhibit. If Portland could sur
pass St Louis, we would still have out
side the fair walls attractions greater
than those within. Throw out of consid
eration Oregon's Incomparable scenic
beauty and we have for the stranger's
comfort and pleasure the long twilights
and cool evenings " to be found nowhere
east of the Rocky Mountains. When
you are away from home on business' or
pleasure, the evening meal disposed ot
and the lamp lighted, is not your first
thought. What -shall I do tonight? Gen
erally, you will say, what shall we do
tonight? And almost always you, have
the 25 or 50 cents or the dollar to do it
with, and are anxious to let go of the
money.
Every visitor will ask himself or his
companion the same question, and there
will be a variety of rational answers.
Shall it be a steamboat ride up or down
the river? No, tonight we will pull or
sail a boat to Ross Island. Tomorrow
night, let It be the band concert on Port
land Heights, or Willamette Heights.
We've taken the river ride to Oregon
City; let us see Vancouver this evening.
The theater? Yes, I had forgotten thai
one could be comfortable In a playhouse
in July, and I like comic opera. Let's
stay three days longer. I'd like to take
aVfllp In the ocean, and we must not miss
the ride to The. Dalles. We haven't been
extravagant and ?3 is cheap for a horse
and buggy to Riverside. We'll have to
take that In.
And try to figure out how many visitors
from 7 In the evening until 9 will take
pleasure in walking the streets and getting
into touch with our gardens and their
wealth of roses. These rational enjoyments
are not at the expense of the fair man
agement Private enterprise may be de
pended on to supply the demand for
"amusement" in every form. Revenue
from admissions will come in great meas
ure from our home people. To Induce
them to go often to the fair, the execu
tive committee must locate the fair where
every transportation facility may be made
available and the returning crowds moved
with the least possible delay. This Is tho
prime requisite.
Baseball is once more with us and we
shall have it In spots until the Fall rains
begin. As one who saw the game in its
infancy, 25 years ago, I regret that it
has undergone such evolutions as to make
It a science. Our one distinct American
field sport ought to have been maintained
for amateurs. In' England men play and
enjoy cricket up to 60. Here we abandon
baseball on or before graduation day.
Throwing, catching, batting and running
are not beyond the average school boy,
but for some reason young men, when
they have seen professionals, abandon
the sport From participants in manly,
healthful exercise, they change to spec
tators, and far too many become "fans."
Is this bit of slang an abbreviation for
"fanciers" or "fanatics"? Anyway, to
quote Dan Quin, they get plum locoed on
baseball.
This country needs more outdoor ath
letics. True, we have Imported golf,
which furnishes field exercise of unques
tionable value for persons of either sex
of middle age and a bit beyond, but It Is
not destined to become popular. Tennis
has been laid hold of by only a few.
Bicycling has been dropped by many of
those who took it up as physical exercise.
Only the well-to-do In cities can afford
horseback riding. Football can be played
only by boys and trained athletes. With
the latter, it has degenerated into com
mercialism. Oh! for a return to prim
itive baseball, with straight-arm pitching
and no masks for the face or pillows for
the hands or armor for the breast; all
afternoon for a game and the score any
where from 35 to 110! I mean a game to
be played by the populace for sport, not
by hired men.
Bishop Scarborough has said to the dio
cesan convention of the New Jersey Epis
copal church that he disapproves the
growing custom of women appearing hat
less in church. If the feminine members
of his diocese have a spark of tho spirit
of their ancestors, they will answer:
"Hands off!" when he cries "Hats on!"
Physically It is burdensome to wear dec
orated headgear when one Is in a sitting
posture, and women have enjoyed the
respite enforced by statute for theaters.
He who would try to deprive them of the
same privilege in a place of worship is
behind tho age. . L.
Ground for Suspicion.
Philadelphia Press.
"Mary," said the young matron's
mother, "it seems to roe you were very
cold to John this morning?"
"Yes," she replied,- "I'm beginning to
suspect him."
"The Idea! You have no reason to, I'm
sure."
"Haven't I! I dreamed last night that I
saw him kissing another woman."
Martinique'; Distinction.
Martinique had- two Interesting claims
to distinction, in that the Empress Jose
phine was born there, as was Madame
do Maintenon, the latter passing her girl
hood on the island as Francolse d'Au
blgne. At Fort do France there is a mar
ble statue of the Empress Josephine,
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
The "Dastard."
Eyes ahead I steady tread!
Oh, to bo a soldier!
To fit a molded uniform and swagger on pa
rade! Shoulders square! martial air!
Oh. to be a soldier!
Tho heroes that we cheer for and whose faraa
shall never fade!
But pack 'em in the steerage of a reeling.
rocking ship.
And feed 'em beans and bacon all the long.
heart-breaking trip,
And hike 'em through the rice marsh in tho
sizzling, broiling sun.
Where Filipinos pot 'em from behind the trees
and run.
They earn the execration ot their pious fellow
men.
And it's murderers, not heroes, that we're free
to call 'em then.
Khaki torn! spirits worn!
Who would be a soldier?
To swelter through the tropic night, and
breathe the poisoned air?
Sick and hot! God-forgot!
Who would be a soldier!
To die with never loved one near beyond tha
reach of prayer?
To plod through foul and reeking swamps, to
wallow and to wado,
To stumble Into ghastly traps a coward foe has
made.
To make a camp where fever fills tho mist
that breathes around.
To long through all the sleepless night for re
veille to sound.
With broken ranks and broken hearts, to sail
for home again.
There's never any cheering crowd to call them
heroes then!
Fleer and Jeer! Scoff and sneer!
See the caitiff soldier!
Still he thirsts for glory, though his weary
steps may lag,
Gruit and grim! Down with hlml
Crush the cruel soldier!
Shama the brutal butcher who Is following
the flag!
Deserved His Xante.
"Yes," said the old man, pensively;
"we called him Oregon."
"Because he rolled high once In a while,"
we suggested, for we were familiar with
the works of William Cullen Bryant
"No,'' said the, old man; "because he
had two seasons wet and dry when he
was broke and when he wasn't."
Not having the gift of repartee, our
only comment was "Oh!"
A Grasshopper.
Jus' smokln, smokin. smokln.'-.
When April skies was blue.
When April rain an' sunshine
Was makin' natur" new.
When other men was plowln
An' harrowln' the field.
To earn the golden Increase
Tho soil an toll will yield.
Jus smokln', smokln', smokin.
In Summer's rosy glow,
A blinkln' at the cornstalks,
An watchln of 'em grow;
When other men was busy
Through all the hot July,
Preparin' for the harvest
They'd gether bye an' bye!
Jus' smokin', smokin. smokin'.
When harvest time hed come,
A layln In the wheat field
.To hear tha thrashers hum. ,
They gethered in the harvest.
Them kindly farmer folk.
An' bought him more tobacco
Fer him to smoke an' smoks.
An now his pipe Is empty.
His dirty pouch is lost.
It's somewhere in tho pastur
That's white, these days, with frost
An' him? I couldn't tell you.
But anyway I'll bet
, That where he went, down yonder.
He's Jus a smokln' yet.
Origin of a Fnmons Expression.
"My dastard uncle," said Hamlet "has
killed my father. Let me consider a suit
able punishment'
Just at that moment a 10, 20 and 30
actor came out of the stage door of the
theater across the street and hastened to.
ward a neighboring sandwich parlor.
"Aha!" muttered the astute Prince, 'Til
make him sit through a melodrama!" and
suiting the action to the word he pro
ceeded to prepare for the wretched King
the most horrible torture known.
It was the dramatic critic who wrote
the show notice of that performance who
originated the expression, "There's some
thing rotten In Denmark."
A Real Tragedy.
Them boys that lives across th' street.
They want me t come out an' play;
They've got same ginger snaps t' eat.
An" they'll Jus' have a Ume, they say.
But I can't help but sit an cry
It seems as if I can't let up.
Las' night th' pound man he come by
The mean ol thing an took my pup.
I Jus keep thinkin how we'd lark
An' romp if he was only here.
An' how he'd wag his tall an' bark.
An' I 'ud Jus' pertend to skeer.
I almost 'd rather lose my maw.
Than haf to have to give him up.
An' I Jus hate th' nasty law
That let the pound man git my pup.
Sites for the Fair.
After mature deliberation and earnest I
conversation with various promoters, wo j
are prepared to submit the following lists"
of suitable sites for the Lewis and Clark i
Fair, with the reasons for their suita-,
blllty:
Tatoosh Island, because it Is a long was
from Portland, and at the end of a highly
scenic journey.
Skagway, for much the same reason.
The top of Mount Hood, because if the
fair were located there it would be neces
sary to build a railroad to it, and a rail
road would be a good thing.
Crater Lake, because If located there
the fair could not be any deeper in the
hole after It Is over than befor it begins.
The North Pole, because In that event
it would have to be discovered.
Mount Pelee, because then we should ba
able to give our guests a live time.
Astoria, because It is so cheap.
Tacoma, because something should ba
done for the town.
Third and Alder streets, because It is
within the reach of so many street car
lines.
Heaven, because then we can alt go
there.
A Difference.
When I was nearly four years Jd,
And you were only tw.o, v
I well remember what untold
Contempt I had for you.
For I was very big anfl strong.
And you were very small;
And I knew all my letters long
Before you talked at all.
I'd go to bed, aa good as gold.
They Had to sing to you,
When I was nearly four years old.
And you were only two.
Now I am twenty-four years old.
And you are twenty-two.
The universe can hardly Tiold
The fear I have of you.
For with that autocratic frown
And air of chill distrust;
You pull my fond ctr castles down,
And humble me In dust.
And never more dare I bo bold.
Or lord It over you.
Now I am twenty-four years old
And rou are twenty-two.
-J. J. MONTAGUS,