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THE BIBLE IN" ENGLISH.
A writer in one of our magazines pre
sents a plea for a new English transla
tion of the Bible, for the purpose of
adapting it to the modern forms of
'speech. It is argued that the version
eo long in use, since it does not be
long to the language of our time, is
not suited to ordinary and common
use for the present day, and to
many is even scarcely intelligible.. It
oes, indeed, abound with a peculiar
phraseology and with single words long
since abandoned, and its style is main
tained nowhere else in our literature;
but these are precisely the features-that
make it impressive, concentrate atten
tion upon it, and give it the sacred
character is possesses. Through this
translation the Bible means more to
readers of English than to those who
use any other tongue. The general an
tique color of the diction perpetuates
this translation as the literary repre
sentative of our sacred speech. In the
literature of any other language there
is nothing that corresponds to it.
It is not too much to say that there
is no possibility of Bupersedure of this
version by another. It is a part, and no
small part, of the intellectual, moral
and religious culture of all English
speaking peoples. The forms of expres
sion in which the text is rendered have
long been household words unto mil
lions, and the change of a word or a
syllable would produce a Jar to many
ears as harsh as dissonance- in music
As a work of literature, this version is
a transcript of' the religious and intel
lectual energy that produced it Its
downright, sinewy and idiomatic Eng
lish, coming to ua from the best age of
our literature, is strong, where a new
version would be diffuse and feeble.
Prom the same type of mind that pro
duced this version flowed those innum
erable tributary streams that fed the
mighty sea of Shakespeare. To sub
stitute another version for this one
would be to abandon one of the strong
ist clews to the entire living existence,
moral, -Intellectual and religious, of all
who inherit the English tongue. Of
course, therefore, it cannot be supplant
ed. It makes the highest ideas, -clothed
ln words of compass and power, part of
the daily life and growth of multitudes.
No substitution of another version for
fit, nor even any material change, in this
one would be possible; or, even were
rft possible it would be a positive loss to
literature and history, and would tend
to impoverishment of the soil in which
the moral, and religious ideas of a great
.people have their nourishment and
iigrowth.
Here is the genius of the English
tongue at its. greatest and best, flinging
its full strength upon a task which at
the time lay close to the heart of the
English people. The English Bible is
the masterpiece of our prose, as Shakes
peare's work is of our poetry; it beats
not only with the divine Impulse of its
original, but also with that immense
vitality of religious life in the -days
when to our ancestors religion and life
were identical. In this version we have
that tremendous reach of emotion,
borne on a style majestic and clear,
which has been and will continue to be
one of the great forces in the move
ments of history. This English Bible
is among the greatest of the agencies
in spreading the English language
throughout the world, and in extending
the principles of liberty and of juris
prudence, that go with it and find their
expression through it This view shows
that missionary work carried on in the
English tongue throughout the world
has a field vastly -wider than propa
gation of mere ecclesiastical dogma. It
is introductory to and part of a greatly
wider field of effort and progress. Its
potency lies in the fact that the relig
ious feeling is the most powerful of the
forces through which men are moved,
and in all times has been the under
lying force in the expansion of civiliza
tion. This is not to say that It has not
been abused, or has not run into errors,
pr at times even into crimes, some of
them colossal. Nevertheless, without
the religious impulse the -world never
could get on.
There are two sides to the labor riots
that have recently disturbed Paw
tucker, It. L, and the predominance of
public opinion is with the strikers. The
last Rhode Island Legislature enacted
a ten-hour law which applied to the
big corporation known as the United
Traction Company. Instead of obeying
the law, this company tried to evade or
Ignore it. The men were notified that
if they would work under the old sched-
J ule they would be guaranteed legal pro
tection against enforcement of the ten
hour law, which the corporation de
clared could be proved unconstitutional.
If the men Insisted upon the ten-hour
schedule, the corporation would Insist
upon a proportionate reduction of
wages. The men rightly refused this
proposition and Insisted upon the en
forcement of the ten-hour law and re
sisted a reduction of their wages. Hence
the strike. The United "Traction Com
pany has refused to obey the law of
the state and has treated the Legisla
ture that enacted the law and the Su
preme Court that must construe It with
contempt. Under these circumstances
It 19 not remarkable that popular sym
pathy In Pawtucket has been with the
strikers. The Town Council of Cumber
land. H. T,, passed resolutions denounc
ing the United Traction Company for
its refusal to obey the law, and ex
tended, its "sympathy to the striking
employes who have refused to work
until the company complies with the
law."
BEATJTIFICATION OF PORTLAND.
All these incidental and ephemeral
projects for making Portland attract
ive in 1905 are in the highest degree
commendable; and not only that, but
there should constantly be borne in
mind their relation to the larger and
more abiding problem of the City Beau
tiful It would be hard to overestimate the
importance of the artistic spirit in tbe
metropolitan life. "If there is one
thing necessary for a great city," it
lias been wisely said, "it is beauty."
The great cities of history have been
beautiful cities. Men and women love
to go and to return often where their
sense of the "beautiful had been chained
and charmed. "Who that has seen the
noble piles and monuments of Wash
ington, the restful slopes of Druid Hill
at Baltimore, the stately stone struc
tures of Fifth avenue gleaming through
the foliage of Central Park, the pensive
retreats of Greenwood and Mount Au
burn, the cathedral aisles of New Ha
ven elms, the shapely lawns of Evans
ton sweeping down to the shore of Lake
Michigan, does not often, in the mo
ment's -leisure of his bifslest day, long
for the peace und uplift of those scenes
of beauty, and in fancy transport him
self again beneath their restful influ
ence? Yet it seems always too late to beau
tify any large city. It is laid out when
it is small, and by the time the errors
of Ignorance or selfishness are discov
ered, the streets are irrevocably fixed,
the water-front occupied, the grecti
spots relegated to landlord and tenant.
In our great cities, complaint is general.
The last Architectural Record upbraids
New York bitterly, while pointing out
Philadelphia as a pattern, but in the
Philadelphia Times we find this coun
terbalancing assertion, which is of in
terest and pertinence in Portland also:
It Is customary to ascribe the relative deollno
or Philadelphia, as compared with New York,
to the latter's advantages In commerce. This
Is true enough; but New York much earlier
learned the necessity of municipal adornment,
and It Is today, or is rapidly becoming, one of
the most beSuUful cities la the -World. It Is
tho attractiveness of the city Itself that draws
tho crowds who go there to transact business
which might moro easily be done here. In tho
Increasing competition among the cities of this
continent, those whoso prosperity will endure
and whose influence will extend will bo thoso
that take most thought for their wise adorn
ment. Tho early Philadelphia, with its discreet
architecture, its shaded streets and open spacer
and with Its unspoiled rural surroundings, was
really a beautiful city. Ignorance and care
lessness and tasteless stupidity allowed Its
beauty to be lost, and with it the city lost its
attractiveness and its dominating Influence. It
was neglected by the country because It neg
lected itself.
The feature of municipal adornment
which needs most attention because,
unlike pavements and parks, it seems
unable to take care of itself, is its arch
itectural arrangement. The secret here
is not so much style of structure as
adequate room for its display. Tall
buildings with narrow streets are fatal
to any artistic effect. A building can
be tall if there is space enough before
it for the eye to take it in with ade
quate comprehension of its whole con
tent. One of the most beautiful spots
in Portland is the view of the Portland
Hotel. The hotel Itself is not at all
beautiful, but the space in the Post
office Square and in Mr. Corbett's
grounds gives the hotel when seen form
a proper angle a setting of something
like adequate space. Imagination can
readily comprehend how pleasing the
effect would be if a structure surpass
ingly beautiful in Itself occupied the
square where the hotel stands, or even
the site of the Posfofflce.
The new Custom-House, with its
pleasing exterior and generous inter
nal proportions, affords, with the green
Summer setting of the park blocks, a
hint of what could be done here, if
wider streets or open spaces in the
center of the city had been provided
for in the original townslte. Philadel
phia gets such an effect by building
its City" Hall at the head of a street,
where Its massive proportions form an
impressive picture in the mind of every
visitor. The new "Washington is to be
full of such artistic arrangements,
made possible by the fact that the Na
tional Capital, alone among American
cities, was laid out with a view to its
future greatness. As Portland grows,
no present possibilities of space should
be sacrificed. Probably we shall never
be able to do as they are doing in Bos
ton," buy a large tract of city land at
public expense, lay put the ground
adequately on new lines, and then sell
the remaining lots at a profit But
we can, and we must, hold on to the
park blacks, both south of Salmon
and north of Ankeny, facilitate by
public sentiment every proposed widen
ing like that of Seventh and Grand ave
nue, and whenever opportunity offers
bring about some grouping of import
ant buildings.
It is a most lamentable pity that our
most creditable buildings, ouch as the
City Hall, Public Library, Custom
House and High School, are so widely
separated that they can never be
brought into a comprehensive scheme
of municipal adornment If we had a
large public square with one of these
buildings, or better ones, facing each
side of it, and our gift fountains and
historic monuments grouped within it,
the mrfnumental effect would be of in
estimable value to the city in a com
mercial sense. Our short blocks and
narrow streets, our absence of broad
avenues, and" especially of sweeping
curves, are drawbacks that seem Insur
mountable now, but may be somewhat
ameliorated by chance opportunity as
time goes on. Portland is favorably
situated from a scenic point of view,
and the hindrances spoken of are just
such as every city is called upon to
encounter at some time or other In Its
history. The opportunities are gener
ally found when the citizens are eager
to discover or create them, and the
interest in arboreal and floral under
takings indicates a lively interest on
the part of our people In the esthetic
side of municipal life. No great work
of enrichment or adornment can be
carried out without great labor and self
sacrifice. As lon& as we have miles of
sidewalks so loosely put together that
life and limb are unsafe" in treading
them, the path to municipal loveliness is
encumbered by many obstacles.
GENESIS OF ANTI-ISM.
If any doubt remained that anti-imperialism
is an idiosyncrasy, it could
not survive the revelation . carried in
these lines from the New York Even
ing Post:
Why cannot American statesmen and Army
officers speak publicly such words of generous
appreciation of a conquered enemy as" those we
are bearing every day from British mouths?
King Edward loses no opportunity to praise
the heroic, .constancy of tho Boers. General
Kitchener addressed one of thf jsurrendcring
contingents of the Boer army, and told them
that, if he had been ono of them, he would
have been proud to have had such a. rpoord for
unflinching valor as they had. "We wish we
could parallel such magnanimous language
from any of our addresses to tbe Filipinos. If
there are any parallels we cannot recall them.
A strange superstition seems to have mado our
public men tongue-tied.
The British, soldiers and public men
are noble, tho American soldiers and
public men are pusillanimous that Is
the only explanation of the phenomenon,
if the premises assumed In the two
cases are equivalent, for nobody is
tongue-tied; all are talking freely.
The pusillanimity of American sol
diers and public men Is not to be taken
for granted. If they do not acknowledge
the Filipino warriors as foemen worthy
of their steel, other explanation must
first be tried before we accept, as the
last Inescapable resource, the aspersion
of the American name. The Boers are
recognized because their methods and
spirit deserve recognition. They would
not get the praise and good-fellowship
they are getting if they massacred sys
tematically under flags of truce, disem
boweled captives alive, dismembered
corpses of their fallen foes.
It is thoroughly anti-Istlc to accept
the sterling qualities of the Filipinos,
Interchangeable with those of the Boers,
as a matter of course. There is not a
single antl-Imperlallst dictum concern
ing the Philippine insurrection that Is
formed from evidence or has been mod
ified by evidence, or is based on any
thing whatsoever except preconceived
notions derived from intuitive con
sciousness. The Filipinos -are entitled to the same
tributes the Boers are receiving why?
The only reason is a preconception
the evidence is that their warfare ia
totally unlike that carried on by the
Boers.
The Filipinos are fighting for inde
pendencehow do you know? Because
we like to assume so the evidence la
clear that they originally had no
thought of independence, and that to
this day they have no accurate con
ception of it Liberty in their eyes
means license to pillage, burn, torture
and blackmail.
The Filipinos stand In the same rela
tion to this country that the American
colonies held to Great Britain why?
Because it is a pleasing assumption,
easy to treat sympathetically. The
facts are that the colonies' rebelled
against specific acts of mlsgovernment,
while the Filipinos rebelled Tsefore we
had established government.
The Declaration of Independence Is as
fitted for the Philippines as it was for
the American colonies how so? Be
cause it affords a convenient base of
hostile criticism. The fact is that the
Declaration set up a categorical list of
outrages in justification of revolt Not
the Declaration or anything else ever
established the doctrine that secession
of territory from rightful sovereignty
is justified by a state of mind in the
secedera They must have grounds
more relative. They must show, as the
colonists did, how the home government
has abused and forfeited Its authority.
- Such ready acceptance of the pusil
lanimity of the American character
must spring from minds that are some
how wrongly constituted. Notice the
difference between the antl position and
the fierce denunciation of the British
Navy just Indulged by Lord Beresford.
Nobody will question that Beresford is
a thorough patriot, though he holds the
Admiralty up to scorn and estimates
the warships at a very low valuation.
But the hostility of our anti-Imperialists
to the United States Army Is a very
different thing from Lord Beresford's
hostility to the British Admiralty. He
wants the Navy Improved so It can bet
ter win Its battles. Do our antis, in
their denunciation of our officers at
every breath of accusation aim at Im
provement of the Army, so It can the
better win its battles? No, they are
only the more exasperated at every
American victory In the Phlllppinea
They are determined, if possible, to
exalt the character of our foes and dis
credit the character of our own. They
were wont to say they hoped the Tagal
hordes would drive our soldiers Into the
sea, but since this is no longer com
patible with the retiring disposition of
the Tagals, the antls are content to
assert that their sympathies are with
the Filipinos, to rejoice at every Ameri
can defeat, to gloat over every fault or
error discovered in our representatives,
and to make as odious as possible the
homecoming pf every ' gallant officer
who has led our columns through the
unspeakable hardships of Luzon and
Mindanao and Samar.
The common people are not learned
in the niceties of antl-Imperlallst dis
tinctions, but their heart is sound, and
their instinct true enough to discern a
copperhead when they see one. They
know when the object of a propaganda
Is the humiliation of Amerloan soldiers
and the embarrassment of tn American
cause. Their rugged patriotism is not
to be beguiled by the specious reason
ings and pumped-up hysterics of antl
imperlallsm. Such aid and comfort as
they have to give are for .the ranks
that march under the American flag,
and for no other, savage or civilized,
British or Bostonlan.
A PROMOTER, OF GROWTH.
The week just ended has been one of
memorable activity in this city along
social and fraternal lines. Commercial
ly also it has been notable, if we may
judge by the crowds that have thronged
the department stores, the street-cars,
the restaurants and the hotel corridors.
The social feature was, however, the
most prominent in this, the most dis
tinctively "get together week" in the
history of Portland. Shall we say that
the spirit shown presages success to
the Lewis and Clark Fair? It certainly
Indicates a breaking-up of the isolation,
the seclusion of our people, the spirit
of which has been a bar to the growth
of the state in population, and to the
wholesome friendliness that is the sub
tle essence of all real progress.
Portland does well to Invite thither
in annual reunion, the pioneers and
the Indian "War veterans; to meet them
cordially and feed them bountifully.'
It does well also to extend all possible
courtesies to the delegates of fraternal
and beneficiary associations that come
here to hold their conventions; in gen
erous patronage of the rose show, and.
in Interested attendance upon the grad
uating exercises of the schools, partic
ularly of the High School. Any effort
that has a tendency to cultivate the
fraternal feeling along higher lines is
worth while. Business interests follow
these movements, multiplying at every
step. When Oregonlans come to know
that Isolation is stagnation and socia
bility Is a promoter of growth, they will
have taken a long step to meet the de
velopment that they have so long and
vainly ogled at a chilly distance. This
leseon, judging by the events of the
past week, they are learning rapidly,
and clearly to their profit.
A NEW ROLE, 3UT AN OLD PLAY.
Jerry Simpson, the Popullstic Kan
san of a former distressful period in
the history of the Sunflower state, has
changed his base of operations, and has
taken to a money-getting vocation in
New Mexico. Once the eloquent cham
pion of the people, scorning the luxury
of "socks" and by this sign proclaiming
himself "one of them," Mr. Simpson Is
now a cattle baron of New Mexico, and
lately was abroad In the Rocky Moun
tain States In the interest of the cattle
trust To complete the transition from
Populist to capitalist, Mr. Simpson has
taken to wearing socks, of which Im
portant fact he assured an audience at
Helena a short time ago, as prelimi
nary to an address In which he urged
stockmen to organise. Of course, Jerry
disclaimed all indorsement of the
"trust" that monster of hideous mien
at which, under the names- of corpor
ate power and soulless greed, he was
wont to hurl anathema In the old days
when he was the standard-bearer of
Populism in Kansas and in Congresa
Hear him:
"In urging upon you the wisdom of
organization. I do not wish to say that
I am in favor of trusts. I have come to
the conclusion, however, that such com
binations of capital are only a natural
result of the conditions that prevail at
this period. It is an age of economic
evolution and the men who are organ
izing combinations of capital are work
ing out these problems of Industry In
the way they deem best I believe that
the stockmen should organize for their
own good. If they do not look after
their own Interests, others will not do it
for them."
In other words, what was at one time
an aggregation of greed a coalition of
capitalists, the result of which was to
make the rich richer and the poor
poorer, is now merely a feature of "eco
nomic evolution." "a natural result of
conditions," and the men who- are ef
fecting combinations of capital are en
gaged In the laudable enterprise of
"working out problems of industry in
the way they deem best"
Truly all depends upon the point of
view. Jerry Simpson, politician, and
seeker after Congressional honors In an
agricultural state in a period of great
agricultural depression sophistical and
sockless saw the problems of indus
try in a very different light than that
which Illumines the brain of Jerry
Simpson, cattle baron of a grazing ter
ritory, which hopes soon to become a
state, and as such have seats in the
United States Senate to give out The
combination of capital In order to work
out Industrial problems was from the
one point of view monstrously iniqui
tous in an economic sense; shifting the
view, such combination becomes not
only desirable but necessary to the in
telligent solution of the "problems of
Industry." Championship of the "peo
ple's rights" from the first view point
landed Jerry Simpson in the National
House of Representativea Pursuing the
topic after an enormous wheat crop
attended by high prices of that staple,
shifted the popular vision from depres
sion to prosperity, he made a hopeless
struggle for a seat in the United States
Senate. This defeat aroused him to the
necessity of the abandonment of his
old observatory, If he would again se
cure recognition in the political world,
and now after several years we find
him a wealthy cattle-owner of New
Mexico, fully equipped with arguments
befitting his new point of view, and"
in full career for the United States
Senate when that territory shall be add
ed to the llEt of the grazing states of the
Union. As becomes a wealthy cattle
man, urging, his class to avail them
selves of the benefits of combination, he
wears socks and announces this fact
to his audiences as before he proclaimed
himself to be as sockless as the most
grasshopper scourged farmer of Kan
sas. As he himself says, this Is only
a natural result of prevailing condi
tions. Under conditions that prevailed
in Kansas ten years ago, he po3ed as
the people'3 champion and landed In
the House of Representativea Under
conditions prevailing in New Mexico
at present, he appears as champion of
the cattle-men, hoping no doubt to land
in due time in the United States Sen
ate. As a politician. Jerry Simpson Is
to be admired for his sagacity. It Is
only when he poses as a reformer and
ohampion of the abstract rights of the
people that his pretensions excite
amusement or contempt
SUPERVISION OF FORESTS.
The benefits o4 National forestry con
ducted by the Government for" the good
of the whole country are readily dis
cernible. That which Is everybody.'s
business is nobody's business, and while
we may all assent readily to the state
ment that our timber supply is under
the menace of practical extinction un
der the slip-shod methods that have long
prevailed in regard to it, thlB conviction
does not, and has not, protected our
foreBt lands from being ruthlessly de
nuded of timber by theaxman or by fire.
The best schemes that can be devised
for forest protection are, however, car
ried out with much difficulty. The chief
enemy of these schemes is the common
enemy. Its comprehensive, though in
elegant name is "the political pull." A
"Washington correspondent of the New
York Post has this to say concerning
it:
"The General Land Office is wholly
under far "Western control, which means
that however excellent the broader
plans and purposes of a Secretary of
the Interior, the administrative atmo
sphere of the forest reserve system can
not be of the best The decrepit or lazy
or Incompetent ranger," appointed be
cause he, is a Senator's father-in-law or
a Representative's cousin, or a Cabinet
member's nephew, will still be held In
office and continue to neglect Its duties
at a distance of two or three thousand
miles rom the center, of disciplinary
authority; whereas, under command of
an officer who takes a scientific pride
1 In the work of forest conservation and
f would be ehanled and professionally
discredited by failure, "we might fairly
hope to see a different order of things
prevail without any greater ultimate
cost to the taxpayers."
As has been said, all well-informed
persons agree In the utility of forest
preservation. Only those who are not
well Informed regard the unsupervised
use, and the consequent ruthless de
struction of our forests with indiffer
ence. To conduct forest supervision"
successfully It must be In the hands of
competent men men who take a Na
tional interest and honest pride In their
work. It follows that such men can
be had only through selection upon
other than political grounds, or through
personal or family favoritism. In brief,
men who are competent to carry out the
Intent of National plans for forest
preservation must have some kind of
training for the work. A woodsman,
thoroughly schooled In practical knowl
edge of the forest. In love, so to apeak,
with trees and inspired by intelligent
zeal for their preservation, will make
a valuable ranger, regardless of his
political or family affiliations. There
I can be no argument upon this point
The practical road to the desired end
is In the appointment of forest care
takers upon evidence of special suit
ability for the work required. A change
in this direction cannot come too soon.
Its approach, however, Is still unher
alded, though th enlistment of popu
lar feeling In the matter gives some
promise for the appointment of compe
tent men as forest rangers In future.
The United Irish League will be con
spicuous during coronation week by a
settled, defiant attitude of unhapplness.
It has proclaimed coronation day "a
day of mourning in Ireland," and this
the Irish people are urged to observe In
a manner befitting the crowning of the
English King, "to whose government
the people are so much Indebted for
famines, cofiln-shlps, coercion and Castle
rule." From this point of view, the
league certainly makes out a doleful
case. To the extent that It la based In
real grievance Intelligent Americans
sympathize with the feeling while they
doubt the expediency of thus express
ing it. The simple fact Is that it can
do no good. Unhapplness may not be
without cause but it Is doubly distress
ing when it is without effect The
counsel of Irish leaders is exactly op
posite to that of Eoer leaders who
earnestly counsel the defeated, sore
hearted burghers to win the favor of
the government by exemplary conduct
It is too much to expect either the
Irish people or the Boers to join heart
ily in the cheers that greet King Ed
ward as their crowned ruler, but they
should at least observe a decorous, dig
nified silence, for the simple reason that
angry protest is of "no use."
The proposed bill providing for the
removal of the wreck of the battle-ship
Maine from the Harbor of Havana Is
approved by the Navy Department It
would be unwise to revive, in connec
tion with this work, the Issues raised by
the destruction of this vessel. Hence
every effort will be directed toward the
removal of the hulk as an obstruction
to navigation merely, and for the fur
ther purpose, indorsed by patriotism, of
the recovery of bodies of the American
sailors believed to be still In the hold.
The revival of the old cry, "Remember
the Maine!" at this time would be both
foolish and Irrelevant, since the Issues
upon which it arose have been fully
settled by the arbitrament of the sword
and the ratification of the treaty of
peace. While, as a matter of news, the
American people may be glad to learn
from the disclosures of the wrecked ves
sel the nature of the explosion that sent
her to the bottom of the harbor, these
disclosures, of whatever nature, sfcould
cow arouse no resentment and little In
dignation. Public sentiment In Paterson has at
last responded to the call of law and
order. A determined effort will be
made to rid that city of anarchists
whose pernicious activity In hatching
vain empires has long been a menace
to the public peace, and a discredit to
the Nation abroad. . The "reds" will
be Induced to leave the city quietly, If
possible, b'ut they will be assisted, in
their departure by a vigilance com
mittee if necessary. One could almost
wish for the latter process, as it is, all
things considered, the surest, and has
the Incalculable advantage of being
permanent. The men dealt with by a
vigilance committee in San Francisco
in a troublous period of its history did
not return to vex and plague the mu
nicipality. The need was great, and
the work in dealing with It was thor
ough. Peace followed, and with It se
curity of life and property. So it will
be In Paterson if the vigilance commit
tee is forced to help anarchists to leave
the city.
Martinique, visited now by fire and
now by flood; scorched now by fiery
gases and again enveloped in scalding
steam; its rivers boiling, and the ocean
receding from Its shores to return again
and overflow them, is a place terrify
ing to the imagination, and one that
must be more dreadful in reality than
"fables yet have feigned or fear con
ceived." The abandonment of the is
land as a human habitation seems in
evitable. Homeseekers' rates on the Great
Northern Railway will be resumed July"
1. continuing on stated days until No
vember. This will give nym pf this
class a chance to see the Pacific North
west In its harvest season, including
that of grain, hay, fruit and hops; the
exhibit can scarcely fall to Impress
practical agriculturists and horticultur
ists favorably.
We received the other day two bulky
pamphlets containing newspaper com
ment in opposition to Cuban reciprocity.
This renders somewhat mystifying the
complaint of Senator Burton, anti-Cuba,
that the press has published only one
side of the case.
Sane;.
Thomas 'Carew.
Ask me no'more where Jove bestows,
"When June Is past, the fading rose; .
For in your beauties. Orient deep,
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do 3tray
The golden atoms of the day:
For, in pure love, heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your halrr
Ask me no more whither doth haste
The nlghtingalo when May is past;
For in your sweet, dividing throat
She winters, and keep warm her note.
Ask me no more where those ptars light
.That downwards fall in dead of night;
For in your eyes they alt, and there
Fixed' become, as in their sphere.
Ask me no more if east or west
The phoenix builds her spicy nest;
For unto you at last she files,
And in your fragrant bosom dies.
THINGS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
Large attendance marked the Pioneers'
Reunion on Wednesday, and no sharp
vision was needed to see Increased interest
In the one distinct Oregon day. The sec
ond generation now holds the stage, and
strain our eye3 as we may in the as
semblage, we can pick out no more of
the prominent original pioneers than can
be counted on .one's fingers. Pioneer
names are plentiful, but they are borne
by toen and woxnen not far from 50.
And the pioneer spirit is not less strong
than it was when tho association formed,
a quarter of a century ago. Here and
there you will see grandsons of those
who came the plains across In the '40s,
taking hold of affairs, and it will not be
long until from the third generation will
be chosen tho grand marshals, tho presi
dents, the orators and the historians of
future gatherings. No fear need be felt,
for 50 years at least that these reunions
will be perfunctory. On the contrary, as
time advances,, kinship with those who
founded this commonwealth will be re
garded as - a patent rlsht to nobility.
Where pride of ancestry based on merit
is Involved, the social Importance of
ploneerdom is certain to grow.
Nowhere? on the Pacific Coast does the
pioneer spirit live in such strength as
in Oregon. It had a hold in California,
notably In Sa"n Francisco, but unfortu
nately few of the distinguished pioneers
have" been-succeeded by worthy sons. In.
the southern part of the state there are
only a handful of people who came prior
to the '60s. In Washington, outside of
the counties bordering the Columbia, and
a few spots on Puget Sound, it is en
tirely lacking. Tacoma and Spokane were
hardly on the map 30 years ago. In Seat
tle you will find a few men whose fath
ers aided Henry L. Yesler, the founder
of the town, to repel the Indian attack
of 1S53, but probably not more than 3 per
cent of the population have the pioneer
spirit There is a little of it at Olympia
and over Gray's Harbor way. Walla
Walla may be considered one of the coun
ties bordering the Columbia. Here there
is centered the memory of the first sac
rificial tragedy and of such heroic pio
neer effort thai the spirit can never die.
The pioneer spirit Is planted deep down
In Oregon soil, and no waves of immigra
tion will uproot it In eix months a
stranger can get citizenship in this state,
but not fellowship. Corning with estab
lished character, his way will be no harder
than In other sections of the country
where righteous living prevails, but he
must get Into the Oregon spirit at once
If he aspires to leadership. Every Port
lander can recall more than one man of
brains and moral backbone who failed
here only because he attempted the Im
possible task of engrafting on the com
munity a spirit that grows elsewhere.
This is notably true of ministers of tho
gospel, who could" not grasp tho broad
spirit of tolerance that the first mis
sionaries planted and the pioneers and
their descendants fostered. The stranger
who comes here to win spurs must first
prove himself, and this takes time. Un
like the Suite of Washington, Oregon does
not pick out her Judges, Congressmen,
Governors or Sonators from carpet
baggers. A hundred years hence, when Oregon
has shall I cay? 3,000,000 peoplo, will
there be annual reunions on tho 15th of
June? Perhaps not,, but-there. -will be
dinners, after the fashion of the New Eng
land Socloty. McLoughlin will never fall
of toasts. At least 20 merr of later date
are worthy of eulogy. To make a list is
easy, bat a precedent has been set by
those who founded the American Hall of
Fame that the name of no man who has
not been dead at least 10 years shall be
Inscribed there. Some of Oregon's most
distinguished pioneers have died since
1S32, and there are still living four pioneers
whose service to Oregon will not be for
gotten by the speakers of the next cen
tury. Whenever a rich man dies in California
the public watches eagerly for extra
wives, and children who wear the bar sin
ister, to begin suit for their alleged share
of the estate. Not often Is the public
disappointed, but a few days ago the yel
low journals treated their readers to
somethIngnew in the line of posthumous
sensations. Herman A. Tubbs, vice-president
of the Tubbs Cordage Company,
was killed In a runaway accident last
Sunday. Hfc$ relatives. Ignoring his con
sort, sought to take charge of the fu
neral arrangements and subsequently of
his estate. They had been opposed to his
marriage, and though he introduced Mrs.
Tubbs. as his wife wherever he went, and
showed her all the respect and gave her
all the love and protection she could ask,
he fold his sisters and other relatives that
he was not married to hrr hence their
movement looking forward to the Probate
Court The sensation developed two days
after his death. It was proven by Indis
putable documentary and personal testi
mony that Mrs. Tubbs was legally his
wife.
Not all the men who went gunning after
Tracy and Merrill were minions of the
law. Among those who joined 1n the
Clark-County hunt was E. C. Johnson,
manager of E. J. Bowen & Co.'s seed
house, in whose veins flows Saxon blood.
He Is a man of considerable means, has a
wife and three children, and is credited
with being a well-disposed, level-headed
citizen. "But "the "Berserker rage" was
evidently aroused in him, and he shoul
dered his rifle and joined the posse, stay
ing with them three days. He had chased
and been chased by Apaches In New
Mexico and he considered pursuit of the
outlaws neither more strenuous nor dan
gerous. He gave no hint of his destina
tion," but when he returned he related his
experiences in tire man hunt and then re
marked: "What a blank fool I was." L.
The Poetry of Dress.
Robert Herrlck.
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness
A lawn about the shculders thrown
Into a fine distraction
An erring lace, which here and thera
Bnthralls the crimson stomacher
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Riband to flow confusedly
A winning wave, desorvlng note.
In the tempestuous petticoat
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
' Song:.
William Shakespeare.
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle bat, and staff,
And his sandal ihaon.
He Is dead anil gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
Athl3 head a grass-green turf.
At his heels a stone.
White his shroud as the mountain enow
Larded with sweet flowers;
"Which bewept to the grae did go
With true-love showers.
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
The Comedian in tlie Country.
Ring down the- curtain on the closing day,
The stars are' almost ready to come on;
And set the second act in somber gray.
With dark green for the wood wings, and tha
lawn.
This rooted treo, that over me Is spread.
Can never be reset and used again;
Although once Blrnam Forest, so 'tis said.
Did follow forth its route to Dunslnane.
The grass that grows within thl3 cooling shad
Is part and parcel of the very land.
Nor will It roll up tightly, to be made
To flt tho stage of ev'ry one-night stand.
Far. far away from theater or stage.
From ancient fairies, and from senile elves,
1 read the lines from Nature's glowing page.
And heed the prompting of the stars them
selves. This calm asylum, la tbe mountains set.
Has for its heart a pleasant, shady dell.
As old as that of our esteemed soubrUe,
Like hers, abiding In a padded sell.
I love this truly rural state of things,
No frost Is here, and only snakes can hiss,
The graveyard, 'ncath the maple yonder, brings
A cheering vision of ghost-walking bliss.
And on tho back-drop of yon paling sky.
Without a wrinkle, Btretchlng near and far,
I fancy as I look at It that I
Can see an angel back of ev'ry star.
a
But. backward country, actors should collect
Whole barrels of back-royalties from you.
We taught your farmer all his dialect.
Our lines are read long ere your breezes blew.
The passes In the mountain over there.
These Hies, those stalls, we had long years
ago. ,
We fade your Summer pallid on hot air.
And build far better whiskers than yoit grow.
What drop was that? The long-expected ghost?
I like It not. although I know 'tis dew.
Ah, Nature! you have played the trusting host.
So, au revolr! I will not say adieu.
Alas! the countless ties that Intervene
'Twlxt me and where I Join the rising su
Too distant are to skip the one betweea.
Too closely lie to step on every one.
So exit r, and that the world may see
The sort of candid player that I am.
Til deeply carve upon this spreading tree:
"Here rested, not F. Bacon, but A. Ham."
The Pessimistic Clam.
Once upon a time there was a very
small Clam which sat by the sobbing Sea
and sighed and sighed, for it could never
understand why the Tide was full only
when it had not been out all night The
Sea was bound by a golden Shore, but
the Tide was not bound although it was ,
Tide, and that was another thing the lit
tle Clam could not understand, so It con
tinued to sigh and sigh. At length on
Day a large fat Clam came along and,
observing the little Clam sitting so dis
consolately on the beach, said to him:
"Sigh no more, little Clam, for on your
Interior Is a very valuable pearl."
"Pooh!" said the little Clam, "I don't
see where I get off In raising Pearls for
Women to wear, when they give me Ap
pendicitis." For the little Clam was some
thing of a Philosopher, and he continued
to sigh.
The following day a Crab arrived, walk
ing backwards. He was due in "Unalaska
July 4, and was already ten Years late,
and was growing later every Day. "If
you were like me, little Clam,'' said the
Crab, "you might sigh with Cause, for
the farther I go the farther away I get,"
and the Crab chuckled at his Original
ity. "Ah, no," said the little Clam, "for
if I were like you I would one day be
made Salad," and he wa3 about to draw
an explanatory Diagram, with his Boot
on the Sand when the Crab moved off In
the opposite Direction from that in which
he was going.
At last as the little Clam sat and sighed,
a Man came along and gathered in all the
Clams on the Beach into a large Sack,
all except the little Clam, which had dug
deeply Into a Hole and escaped.
"Sigh no more, little Clam," called ona
of the fat Clams in the Sack, "for if you
were In our place you will soon be In the
Soup."
"What matters that," sighed the llttla
Clam, "since I am now In the Hole?"
jwiu ne uuimuueu to sign. gi
Jiuiiu e pessimistic ana you wui oa
happy.
A Texas Lullaby.
Look here, you little bunch o howls.
Does you all feel secure.
A-hootln like a pair o owls
That's crazy past all cure?
Don't you all know that ev'ry sheep
Out yonder on the plain
Is puttin' In his time in sleep
With all his might an' main?
Tou mind that thar coyote, what
Considered It was fun
To kinder rouse my slumbers, not
A-thlnkln' 'bout my gun?
"Well, Jus" you look around the bed
That you're a-sleepln' In.
JSn' you will find that that long-lread
Is minus 'bout one. Bkln.
"Why, Dead-Shot Jake got drunk one night
An' como around an' made.
To put my peaceful dreams to flight,
A rifle serenade.
That's been threa months ago an mor
I mind you had to cry
Fur me to take you to tho door
To see the hearse go by.
There ain't no man o six foot thre
In all this boundln' West
That thinks about dlsturbln me
When I lays down to rest.
An you, that ain't quite two foot hlgX
An' never packed a gun.
Tou keeps me settin' up till I
Says "Mornln!" to the sua.
I'd like to hev you flgger on X
The chances you'd of had
With me along about the dawn.
If I'd got gocd an' mad.
With me a sleepln like no man
Kin ever try to tell.
Why you Just suddenly began
To set up that thar yell.
I knowed there wa'n't no Injuns out.
But I'd a shot for true.
If when I turned an' looked about
I hadn't seen 'twas you.
An' you! you seen me grab my gun.
An" Just set there an grin.
As if you thought that It was fun
To seo a fight begin.
Well, p'raps you're right, your ma ain't hera
To fight with you no more.
An' you all ain't no call to fear
The ole man's out for war.
For howlln low or howlln high,
I ain't got much to do
O nights but slnglV lullaby,
An slngin It to you.
Answers to Correspondent.
Anxious Wife. Smoking Is injurious as
practiced by Mount Pelee and we have
hcen assured that the Mount will aban
don the habit as soon as it finds an ac
ceptable substitute.
Inquirer. The word posse In German
means a farce. There seems to be. reason
for accepting that meaning.
Sport We understand the club won a
game once, but all record of It has been
lost, and the offense will not be repeated.
Real Estate. The Island of Cuba Is not
owned by J. P. Morgan yet
Summer Girl. There are many ways,
but the best one Is to charter the minis
ter and take him along.
Just Around the Bend,
Just around the bend the stream,
Is tossing rainbow spray.
And there the happy sunbeams' drears.
Through all the golden day. '
There the birds' are merrie3t.
Flowers brightest-hued;
There is peace, and calm, and rest.
And no rough winds Intrude.
On we wander up the 3tream,
But our Journey's end
Finds that spot of which we dream
Just around the bend.
-J. J. MONTAGUS.