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2SIOKEY AND MORALS.
It is a sound philosophy that of Mr.
'tWatterson "when ho teaches that the
'yoijng man should he brought up with a
higher ideal than that of money-making;
that he should bo taught there are
'things in this "world more important
rthaa bonds and mortgages, and that
happiness after all seeks not tha envl
ous palace. any more than the squalid
hut. It reminds us of the marble pile
'on Fifth avenue described by Mr. Elbert
Hubbard, from -which happiness fled
away and entered a mud-thatched cot
tage in Ireland, where six rosy children
Blept Boundly-at night on one bed of
straw. "Wo shall not call in question
the soundness of the Wattersonlan phil
osophy, which seems, by the way, to
inform this year's annual addresses of
the college presidents; but there may
be a question aa to tho urgency of its
bearing.
Is the average young man, as Mr.
"Watterson seems to think, in danger of
becoming a miser? Are the temptations
that confront American society, as the
college presidents seem to think, those
of devotion to money-getting? Is avar
ice our National sin, and are the really
dangerous pitfalls in our -way those
that inordinate -wealth has dug? Not
to prolong the inquiry needlessly, let
us say at once that tho average-young
man seems to us moro likely to turn
out a spendthrift than a miser; that
more Americans suffer from improvi
dence than from stinginess and that the
maxims of Epicurus are in less demand
for the National safety than tho say
ings of Poor Richard. Our rich men
are scattering their millions in spectac
ular and often undlscrimlnatlng bounty,
and one reason they do so is that if they
don't their heirs -wilL The passion for
-wealth is rarely strong enough to in
duce its victims to practice the neces
sary self-denlaL
Acquisitiveness is proverbially the
source of multitudinous -wrong-doing.
Tet if these forboding college presidents
of New England -were required to educe
a historical demonstration of their the
ories, they might find themselves in
awkward straits. The New England
ITankee was a model of acquisitiveness,
not to say sharp practice, but his mor
als have been highly regarded. The
passion for money-getting Induced in
hJm. assiduous toll and rigorous self
denlaL He got rich, but if his riches
led him astray, his descent to profligacy
has escaped record. Morgan is very
rich, but his church record is exem
plary; so is Rockefeller's; so is John
JWanamaker's. Carnegie's" millions have
left him untainted with suspicion of
moral lapse. It is possible there is
some disciplinary force in the earning
'and saving of money Jhat imbues the
mind- -with self-control. Inheritances
.and lottery winnings are apt to undo
their beneficiaries, but the decay of
society may bo long deferred if it waits
on the moral collapse of those who earn
their own fortunes, however vast.
All the old saws about the evils of
wealth were largely based upon the
theory and partly established fact that
great possessions were once the mark
of violence or fraud. Before the advent
of highly developed commercial life and
the evolution of credit, immense for
tunes represented the proceeds of con
quest Jn war, or palace intrigues, or
feudal abuses, or ecclesiastical oppres
sion, or common brigandage, or cruel
usury and chicane. When Shakespeare
was written and the Bible was trans
lated, great wealth was not acquired
in the honorable ways through which
our commercial civilization obtains it.
Tho proverbs accordingly, are mal
apropos If not anachronistic. The rich
man is not necessarily the enemy of the
human race he was once accounted.
It is a most impressive fact that tho
Jewish race, whose sacred writings
teem with denunciation of wealth, from
the assertion that the love of money Is
the root of all evil, to the apotheosis of
the poor and the qualified denial of
paradise to the rich, has itself demon
strated that the commercial passion can
go along with the highest personal and
domestic virtues. The Eblonism of the
Hebrew Bible could find no more de
structive antithesis than the rich and
upright American Jew.
In the death of N. K. SItton at his
home near McMlnnville a few days ago
Yamhill County loses one of its oldest
and most respected citizens.- A resident
of that county since 1843, Mr. SItton
had seen the development of a savage
into a civilized community, and the
passing of a territory scarcely known,
even by name beyond Its borders to a
state the resources of which are at
tested In thousands of happy, prosper
ous homes. Settling in Yamhill County
hut a few years later than Fletcher,
and Cook, and Crawford, and Bailey,
and Martin, and Newby, and Bird, and
Perkins he survived all of these by
many years, and, a cheerful old man,
passed, serenely -to his rest as the la
turn had passed to theirs. Many tender
memories of pioneer life in Yamhill
County cluster round these names and
others that personal knowledge ot those
early times suggest. "With the passing
of each pioneer some of these memories
are revived only to "fade again Into the
mists that presage eternal eclipse.
THE REIGN OF HUGGER-MUGGER.
The most cursory observer of public
life must often have been struck with
the falsity of much that passes for
trustworthy information concerning the
conduct of measures and Ihe acts of
men. Ostensibly we have a true and
faithful record of what goes on, but
the surface account is generally recog
nized as an inadequate Interpretation
of the real motives and causes In opera
tion. Then we have an inner circle of
professedly "Inside" Information, upon
which certain favored correspondents
pride themselves, but which escapes the
inveracity of the perfunctory narrative
only in degree. The bottom truth is
seldom or never told, till long after the
death of the active participants. The
cause of Napoleon's aversion to Jose
phine, the source of Carlyie's. domestic
infelicity, the reason why Sumner was
retired from the head of the Senate
committee on foreign relations, the use
of morphine by Poe, the differences be
tween Dewey-and Anderson at Manila
are a few of the things which fatuous
courtesy conceived must be concealed
throughout the substitution of some
harmless or mischievous Action.
Politics is full of these humbugs. The
Minnesota delegation is home from
Congress and seeking to excuse itself
for its opposition to Cuban reciprocity,
made doubly odious from the act of
their Republican State Convention in
strongly indorsing the Administration's
proposals. A great many high-sounding
explanations have been givei, but
all shrink, except In private, from an
nouncing the true one, which is that
nothing could bo done with the so
called sugar Senators, and the whole
thing consequently went by the board.
Of course, this true explanation should
be given freely .and jfrankly to the
world. This Is not done, because the
Minnesota Senators hate to incur the
enmity of the sugar Senators; and upon
the altar of this misguided courtesy
they suffer themselves to be under the
cloud of havitfg opposed the President,
and to labor, together with their party
throughout the campaign, in a tariff
reform state, under the suspicion of
having betrayed tariff reform. Our
public life is full of just such mistaken
notions, and the interference thereby
offered to progress and justice is most
serious.
Society needs a deliverer from the
idiocy and injustice of its polite lies.
Every event of any magnitude is the
signal for a small army of persistent
busybodles to arise and Insist upon per
version of the truth. If a married man
runs away with another woman, any
and every statement but that must be
concocted to serve for the truth. If a
man commits suicide, the 'actmust be
explained as accidental. Friends will
swear to" all sorts of lies in order to save
the feelings of the survivors, regardless
of what injustice lo done to the memory
of the helpless dead. Much, as Murderer
Beldlng's crime is to be deplored, there
is a refreshing and commendable can
dor with which he denounced a caller
who offered the conventional suggestion
that he must have been Insane. Is it
creditable to the young fellow who shot
himself on his marriage day to ask the
community to believe that he did It for
no graver reason than that his father
kindly asked him to go home, as his
mother wanted him? Is It kindness to
the husband and father who heroically
went to death so that his life Insurance
might benefit his impoverished family
to assert that he died of heart failure
in a bath-house, or Is it just to the
careful keeper of the baths?
In the millennium, of course, these
things will be differently ordered. Then
we shall get the facts, and on this wise:
PRESENT STYLE.
There was no meet
ing of tho Lonelyvllle
School Board yester
day, owing to tha un
MILLENNIUM STYLE
Chairman Reservoir,
of the Lonelyvllle
School Board, was out
all night drunk Monday
avoidable absence of,
night, so tne scnooi
Board meeting; fell
throuch.
Chairman Reservoir.
Mr. Willieboy left!
Mr. "WIMeboy has
yesterday for Metropo
llsvllle. whero he will
encaco In business, ac
skipped for Metropolls
vllle. He can't come
Back, as ho Is an em
bezzler, and has ex
hausted the patience of
his high-toned friends.
Mrs. ifob Hill has run
companied by tho re
grets of his many
friends.
Mrs. Nob Hill left
yesterday for Florida.
off to join her lover,
where she will remalnl Billy
smootnsysiem.
some months In search
of health.
Nobody knows where
they have gone.
The nomination of
Colonel Jsonesucn was
crammed down the
throats of the unwilling
Colonel Nonesuch was
due to the unanimous
desire of the delegates
that be would serve.
Mr. Smith declared
delegates In order, if
possible, to save- the
ticket.
Smith had to support
Brown, for the latters
friends had evidence
enough against .him to
put. him in Jail for Ufa.
Talkative Is for Emp
tyhead because Empty
head Is engaged to his
wife's sister, and he
can't offend his mother-in-law.
The Jury were all for
the plaintiff, but would
not agree till they got
their supper from the
county.
that Mr. Brown's su
perior fitness for the
omce nas set au oojee
tlons to him at rest.
Mr. Talkatlvo de
clared that the public!
welfare demanded the!
renomlnatlon of Mr
Emptyhead.
After supper, the
foreman convinced Mr
Thriftless that the
plaintiff was entitled
to a verdict.
It's a queer world we live In, but It
will not be so queer when people will
permit tho truth to havo some show in
its contest with fiction. When the
actual facts can be printed without pro
voking massaqre. men In the public eye
and everybody else, for that matter,
will be more circumspect.
INDEPENDENCE OR. UNION T
Mr. Schurman journeys to Minneap
olis to assuro the teachers of the coun
try that Filipino independence li the
goal we should aim at. Yet there are
certain current goings-on that cloud the
certainty of his conclusions. Which Is
hetter off today Pqrto Rico, with free
trade, or Cuba, with Its comparatively
profitless Independence? Which would
the Philippines prefer to look forward
to free trade under American sover
eignty or Independence under the Ding
ley law? We must positively find out
with some degree of accuracy what In
dependence carries with it and what It
denies. President Schurman himself
must agree that independence may be
an empty name worth nothing of actual
value, unless economic conditions are
supplied which afford trade and Indus-J
try a chance to llve.v There are two
practical considerations that Imperii the
Independence programme. One con
cerns the domestic tranquillity of the
Islands and the other their foreign com
mercial relatlcna
Observe that the disquietude, appre
hension and brigandage prevalent in
the Philippines, and not wholly eradica
te for a period Indefinitely long, abso
lutely require a strong government.
T.hls Is strikingly exemplified in Aguln
aldo's fear of attack from his enemies.
The fear he' feels would be general If
the only bulwark of order there were a
native government. The situation la
much the same In this respect as it was
at the fall of Manila. The whole Phil
ippine revolution was soaked with Jeal
ousy and mutual hate, fear and suspi
cion. Had It been left alone. It would
have crumbled into anarchy after a
bloody riot of mutual conspiracy, rebel
lion and slaughter. The only safeguard
against this now is the sovereignty of
the United States. The only protection
of the native leaders Is afforded by
American troops. It was well said by
one of the returning officers that the
Americans have saved more lives In
the Philippines than they have de
stroyed. Yesterday's dispatches state, and no
doubt truthfully, that the friars are
gathered, in Manila. Why? Because
there only are they safe. They must
have American protection or they would
be murdered and their holdings seized.
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate
the necessity of American rule than this
extremity of the religious orders. These
bodies own a great deal of property In
the islands, which the insurrection
would have stolen without compensa
tion and dissipated In riot and extrava
gance. The United. States is going to
buy this propprty and put It at the dis
posal of the Philippine people for use in
their Industry. It comes out again In
the negotiations at Rome that the friars
of the religious orders would be slaugh
tered If they returned to the Islands.
The United States Is protecting those
who remain there, and providing for
their peaceable removal without sacri
fice of their property by arrangement
with their religious superiors.
Mr. Schurman doubtless assumes
without argument that the United
States would afford the Filipinos the
same advantages In our markets under
Independence as under political union.
This will not do. Our Cuban imbroglio
shows how hard it Is to get Congress
to grant even moderate concessions to
a quasi-Independent land situated right
at our doors. How much harder It
would be in the case of the Philippines!
Mr. Schurman and all those who stand
with him, and all those who have acted I
as If freo trade with Cuba were to be
given for the asking, need to be re
minded that free trade la not this Na
tion's policy. We have a political sys
tem on which protection of our own
producers is an established principle.
We may give free trade to our own
Islands as we have to Porto Rico, but
those not in our political union cannot
expect commercial union. Before Mr.
Schurman demands Independence so
confidently for the Philippines, he
should advisa himself thoroughly
whether It Is worth while to buy them
a glittering bauble with the price of
sustenance and comfort.
PRACTICAL
MEN FOR
COLLEGE
WORK.
Hon. Hanls Taylor, lawyer of -dlstlnc-tlon,
author of notable works on Inter
national law, late United States Min
ister to Spain, has been elected to the
chair 6f English constitutional and
common law in the School of Compara
tive Jurisprudence and Diplomacy of
Columbia University. Mr. John Hays
Hammond, of California, late engineer-in-chief
of Cecil Rhodes' mining opera
tions In South Africa, and probably the
most distinguished working mineralo
gist of the time, has accepted a pro
fessorship in Harvard University deal
ing with the science ahd practice 'of
mining. These announcements are very
notable, for they are suggestive of a
new spirit In education. It means
something when two schools and two
among the greatest in the United States
or elsewhere have by their invitation
of these very notable and practical men
into their teaching bodies Illustrated
a respect for practical and working suc
cessfor the man of affairs as distinct
from the. man of pure and Ideal schol
arship which has not commonly
marked the attitude of the academic
world. It has been the habit of the
law school to select its Instructors not
from among successful practitioners,
but from students of abstract law who
for the most,pajt have failed to make
head In practical life. And pro
fessors of mining have most commonly
been book, men pure and simple, full
of academic knowledge about geology
and chemistry, but never by any chance
familiar with operations pursued with
less consideration for theory and for
mulae than for practical results.
The working world understands that
the only man who really knows things
Is the man who can do things; that no
man is really skilled and wise whose
whole knowledge has been got out of
books. Nobody who wants to win a
lawsuit seeks out a student of legal
abstractions to take his case. Profes
sors of geology or chemistry are not In
demand to manage mining properties;
landowners are not hunting professors
of agriculture to operate their farms;
tho state Is not seeking students of the
Ideal to put in charge of the practical
operations of government. The work
ing world understands that while these
abstractionists and Idealists contribute
something to the materials with which
practically capable men operate, they
are commonly 'something worse than
worthless as guides In practical busi
ness. But the schools have not yet
generally recognized this fact; and in
the organization of their teaching forces
th'ey oftener than otherwise reject the
man of working knowledge for the
smoother, more mannerly but less ef-
fectlve man of purely academic type
and experience.
This has come to be ridiculously the
practice of late years, since the demand
for teachers has been so stimulated by
the multiplication and growth of schools
under the double Impulse of private en
dowment -and state support. Of the
teaching body in what are called the
great schools, only a small fraction
have had any experience of life outside
of academic halls and lecture-rooms.
Nothing Is more common than to dis
cover In visiting a modern college that
the men who do the teaching have not
one in ten ever In a working sense had
anything to do with the things which
they are teaching. The professor of law
and quite possibly the author of half
a dozen text-books never had a case in
court in his 'life. The professor of ag
riculture never operated a farm. The
processor ot mining- irever womea in a
mine excepting In a small way perhaps
during vacation for the sake of what he
call3 practical experience. And so all
the way through the ranks are filled UP
with students and theorists, charming
fellows many of them, but absolutely
unfit to teach because they have no
acquaintance with practical things lit
tle true knowledge, little real wisdom. ,
The "academic world Is full of Incom
petents and mischief-makers, men like
Professor Ross, of Stanford, and his
kind, men really amiable and well
meaning, men of considerable scholar-
ship, who have no qualification as teach
ers beeaupe they have not had the
practical acquaintance with life which
enables them to determine where the
sphere of Ideal or abstract truth leaves
off and where the sphere of practical
truth begins. To this type of academ
ically instructed but really ignorant
mind there is but one kind of truth, and
It Is to be maintained though the heav
ens fall. The practical mind the mind
Instructed by contact with the .real
things of life knows that there may be
several kinds of truth; that while the
surveying Instrument may say truly
that It Is fifty miles to Mount Hood the
stagedriver may with qual and prac
tically more precise truth say that It is
sixty; and that while Johnnie may eat
one apple in sixty seconds, he may not
In spite of the logic eat sixty apples In
an hour.
Education the world wants as It never
did before, but it wants the sort of edu
cation which will enable him who re
ceives it to see things as they are. And
the thing as It Is the real thing Is not
an academlo -theory, not the Ideal fact,
but the practical fact. For while- the
Ideal fact may be vastly helpful and
usefuMn Its way, the practical fact Is
the real thing. To the working world
to the man with a pack on his back
It Is sixty miles to Mount Hood, though
all the scientific Instruments In the
world may declare It to be fifty.
The movement which hasrbrought Mr.
Taylor. Into the faculty of Columbia and
Mr. Hammond Jnto the faculty of Har
vard, if it may be said to be a move
ment, looks toward a greater scholastic
recognition of practical as distinct from
abstract truth. These men have learned
to bend theory to fact, not to'inslst that
the fact must accommodate Itself to
theory- They have not won their rank
in the practical world by holding fast
to theories, no matter how fine, which
cannot be made to work in harness, and
as instructors of youth they will not
waste much time or moral force in
vainly , Insisting that things are not
what they are but what they might
be or ought to be. They may stir up
spme dry bones and play havoc with
some venerable traditions-,' but their
ministrations in the world of education
are likely to do good.
HANDICAPPED DY NUMBERS.
The man-hunt that has been In prog
ress In and about Seattle for the past
fortnight has developed nothing new In
human nature or official acumen. At
the first sound of alarm the usual host
of Inexperienced men and pugnacious
youth sprang up and out Into tho field,
each eager for a chance to distinguish
himself" for bravery and Incidentally to
earn the offered reward for the capture
or killing of the convict. Cupidity
joined to the fighting instinct in men
and- boys of the more boastful class
jumps eagerly to the front, regardless
of the fitness or unfitness of Its sub
jects to become useful In an emer
gency. A wholesale demonstration of
this fact was seen when the late Span
ish War broke out. Boj-s by the hun
dreds presented themselves before the
military authorities for soldier's duty
who did not know how to handle a gun
without danger to themselves and their
comrades; who had not the least
training In the practical school of phys
ical endurance; whose hearts- were
weakened by the use of cigarettes, or
excessive bicycle riding, or both, so
that they could not run 200 yards with
out fairly gasping for breath In brief,
who had not a particle of stuff In them
out of which emergency soldiers could
be made caught the war fever in Its
most virulent form. Many of them were
rejected by men of experience In mili
tary life, but others passed muster and
In due time (which was In the nature of
the case a very short time) filled the
cots of hurriedly Improvised hospitals,
from which, if they escaped with their
lives, they were "Invalided home" to
form the basis. In later years of an
enormous pension list Some of this
was avoided by the rejection of the
more" palpably unfit; much more of It
was avoidable, but yielded to the pres
sure of Influential friends. The pension
roll a generation hence, big with the
names of "Spanish War veterans," will
tell the rest of the story, making plain
the fact that, regardless of physical un
fitness and utterly untutored In the
simplest details of taking care of their
bodies, many young men were permit
ted to "go to war" whose eagerness
should have been restrained for their
own and the country's good.
In a "small but still perplexing way
Sheriff Cudlhee, of King County, Wash
ington, has been brought up against
this spirit of eagerness to be In the
fray which possesses the unsuitable, as
well as the efficient and able-bodied. A
sort of"go-as-yoU-please" hunt, the re
sult of which has been to thwart repeat
edly the carefully matured plans of the
officer and permit the quarry to escape,
has followed. A few men, steady of
nerve and of well-proved marksman
ship, who were on duty not to chal
lenge Tracy, but to shoot him on sight,
would have prevented the tragical oc
currences that have been features of
the encounters with the outlaw and the
posse thus far, and would have prevent
ed the escape of the latter at different
times when surrounded and brought to
bay. The more Inefficient men who are
engaged, In a chase of this kind the less
probability of capture. Men taken at
the Sheriff's estimate for fitness are
tho men that he 'needs. Near Ger
vals. In this state, the hunt took on
"go-as-you-please" features, with a
squad of 'state militia as an element.
In Seattle the pursuing force has con
sisted largely of well-meanlng citizens
whoso eagerness has outrun the Sheriff's
prudence and upset his plans.
Every man to his trade, and no trade
Is mastered without some training. In
recognition oT this fact, Sheriff Cudlhee,
we are told, has reduced his force, and
with "tried men" will continue the pur
suit of Tracy as long as the outlaw
remains in the vicinity of Seattle. Upon
this showing, a reasonable hope that
the murderous convict will be taken
may be based. The heavy handicap
removed, the goal may be won.
As between a husband and wife, the
one drunken and both disreputable,
who were last week before the court In
this city contending with the represent
ative of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Soci
ety for the custody of their children,
and tho pair outwardly moral, pro
fessedly Industrious and manifestly
able-bodied, who came later before the
court and testified to their complete
willingness to give up their three little
children and "never see them again"
because, forsooth, they "could not
agree" In domestic life, the first are In
finitely superior In character. The
public, through Its various Institutions,
is too ready to assume parental author
ity; too ready to relieve irresponsible
parents-from the care or their offspring.
In taking charge of the- children of this
last-named pair, the community should
at least be in a position through a law
covering such cases to exact a guaran
tee that It would not be saddled later
on with the maintenance of any more
of their progeny. Charity, too often
blind, should not be trusted to engineer
such matters. Sturdy, justice, dominat
ed, by practical common sense, would be
a much better guide. The precedent es
tablished by relieving this man and
woman from the care and maintenance
of the fruits of their union, simply be
cause they were tired of each other
and of their children, is, if not danger
ous to the public weal, one of at least
very doubtful expediency. It need not
be a matter of surprise if parental Irre
sponsibility thus encouraged shall ren
der a commodious addition to the build
ings of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Solcety
ap. absolute necessity within a year or
two. It Is the part of wisdom to check
a pernicious growth In Its beginning.
To this end it would have been well
for the court to dismiss these parents
with a sharp reprimand and a pointed
suggestion that they adjust their differ
ences and go to work for their children.
Tho injunction might not have been
heeded, but It would at least have
shown the keen temper of the judicial
mind In contrast with the easy-going,
Indulgent temper of charity, and per
haps have sent one pair of parental
shirks out In meditative mood while
conveying a wholesome warning to oth
ers. Johnstown, Pa., seems to be sched
uled as a theater of horrors. Its name
has passed Into history as representing
disaster to human life, the destruction
of property and the annihilation ot
homes. The great flood ot May 31, 18S9,
made the term "Johnstown sufferers"
a synonym of the world's sympathy and
the Nation's charity. Except In name
and site, the place had scarcely an ex
istence after one wild night of storm
and swirl of waters. Subsequent disas
ters of lesser magnitude have followed
the rebuilding of the town, and again
It stands face to "face with a calamity
that, searching many homes, has found
a glut of victims for its wrath. While
this was caused by an explosion In a
mine and does not differ either In cause
of results from others of Its class, it
yet shadows the namo of Johnstown
with another cloud of human misery.
The loss In this case will be heavy, not
only in human life, but in property and
in the; payment of money, which, ac
cording to the custom of the Cambria
Steel Company, owner of the mine, will
amount to $1000 for each family who
lost an earner In the explosion. The
scene at the pit's mouth, around which
i distraught women and walling children
are gathered, Is the usual one In such
cases. Between 100 and 200 blackened
bodies have been drawn from It, while
the missing number twice as many
more. No appeal will be made to out
side charity in this Instance, but human
sympathy, shuddering at the name of
Johnstown, is awakened .at the voice
of this walling and responds to Its call
in full measure.
Building operations, so seriously In
terfered with by the mlllmen's and
sympathetic builders' strikes the first
of May, have been resumed, though
neither side In the contention admits
to having capitulated or even to hav
ing made concessions lodklng to an
amicable adjustment of differences.
Large sums have been lost in wages
through this unfortunate strike, and the
business affected has suffered In a sim
ilar manner, while the public in various
ways has suffered from delay and
other Inconveniences to an exasperat
ing extent. In the meantime, two
months have been wasted the two best
months in the year for building. If any
good has been accomplished, it is not
apparent to the public. Many work
men have, it is said, left the city, some
In defiance of their unions have gone
to work, and others are still out of
work and In anything but a cheerful
frame of mind. The situation Is not
less regrettable than In the beginning of
the trouble. Settlement of industrial
differences, achieved by wearing out
the patience of one side or the other, 4s
not an Intelligent or permanent settle
ment. It leaves suspended In the Indus
trial atmosphere the element of discon
tent, that at any time- may alight upon
Industry and paralyze It.
The tragedy enacted Thursday night,
In which a vengeful man took three
lives and deplores the fact that his vic
tims did not number twice as many, is
more than shocking It Is sickening.
This murderer came Into a family,
seeemingly on his own, plane in social
and Industrial life, became a violently
and viciously disturbing 'element
therein, and, meeting with resistance,
coolly and deliberately determined to
exterminate It root and branch. There
are two sides to the domestic story, of
course. But both by his atrocious act
and his boastful tongue A. Li. Beldlng
has proclaimed himself a member of
that most dreaded and diabolical class
composed of men with whom wives can
neither live nor get away from. In
sane? , Perhaps so, but his is the type
of Insanity which should and usually
does send Its poseessor to the gallows
rather than to the Insane asylum. He
himself has sense enough to see the flt
nes of this and scouts the remote sug
gestion of defense on the ground of In
sanity. Choice of Mr. Henry E. Dosch as the
executive head of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition Is eminently wise. In Mr.
Dosch there Is combined business thor
oughness and habit, great personal ac
tivity, a very considerable experience
In connection with the special work to
be done, .and a loyal enthusiasm for
Oregon and the Northwest. There Is no
vice of the politician about Mr. Dosch,
as his management of 'Oregon Interests
at Omaha, Buffalo and Charleston has
shown. His administration of the Lewis
and Clark Fair will be a strictly busi
ness affair; under him there will be no
jobbery and no waste due to Inattention
or to shiftless and loose methods. On
the'whole, we belleve-the- very best man
for the place to be found In the whole
Northwest has been chosen.
On Ilia Belnjr Arrived at the Age of
Twenty-thre e.
John Milton.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth.
Stolen on his wlnz my three-and-twentleth
year!
My hasting days fly on with full career,
But my late Spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Perhaps my semblance might deceit o the truth
That I to manhood am arrived so near;
And Inward ripeness doth much less appear
That some xnore timely-happy spirits endu'th.
Tet be It less or more, or soon or slow.
It shall be ztlll In strictest measure even
To that same lot. howover mean or high.
Toward which Time leans me, and the will of
Heaven:
All Is. If I have grace to use It so.
As ever In my great Taskmaster's eye.
THINGS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Tracy Is still holding his place on the
first page not only of Pacific Coast papers
but of conservative Journals aa far East
as Portland. Me. He arrested the coun
try's attention Ave weeks ago, and has
held It, with brief Interruptions, ever
since. Interest in him Is deeper now than
ever. Extra sales of Portland and Seat
tle dailies are much larger than they
were during the Spanish-American War,
or when McKInley lay dying In Buffalo;
so great is the deslro to learn of the out
law's movements. Tracy knows that he
Is the "cynosure of the eyes" of the
whole country, and he proposes to be a
"hero" until his career is ended by hot
lead. It Is easier to accept this theory
than to believe he Is Insane. The real
criminal loves notoriety. Tracy has won
more of It than' any other murderer of
his day and age. And his story is not
yet finished. Perhaps he is getting ready
to hold up a train In the Cascades and
force the engineer to detach the engine
and carry him over the mountains. True,
he will not be safe wherever he may
choose to enter the woods, because he
must have food sooner or later, but he
will have created a new sensation.
Except on the theory of notoriety,, how
else can one account for Tracy's sailing
voyage from Meadow Point across Puget
Sound to Port Madison and his return
the next 'night? If a criminal were
among friends at Tongue Point, above
Astoria, what motive could Induce him
to sail over to Knappton and back-track
to Tongue Point by way of Lower As
toria? His piracy at Olympla Is another
Instance. Impressing a vessel and her
entire crew, single-handed, In broad day
light. Is such a unique act of daring that
people in London, Paris, Constantinople
and Portland wduld read It almost with
equal Interest. Tracy must have consid
ered the eager public, not his own safety.
Love of notoriety Is no -new phase of
crime. English law books tell of a case
200 years ago where 12 men, acting inde
pendently, each confessed to a myster
ious murder which baffled the London po
lice. It was proved that not one of them
had the least connection with the crime.
With friends and relatives In the wilds
near Seattle, Tracy could have secreted
himself for an Indefinite period, but he
could not do that and get on tha front
page of the newspapers at the same time.
Tracy is a menace to the community in
more ways than one. He is certainly
awakening the murderous Instinct that
we know from experience is latent In the
minds of many- men. He Is the spark that
Ores the brain. I believe that Beldlng,
the latest murderer. If he confess the
whole truth, will say that Tracy "In
spired" him to shoot down his victims.
Suicide generally begets suicide. Mur
ders beget murders No metaphysical an
alysis is needed to demonstrate that cer
tain minds on a balance under ordinary
conditions are seriously disturbed by the
recital of bloody deeds. These seem to
destroy the poise, and disaster of some
sort follows. It will be neither strange
nor surprising If within the next month
there should be a succession of homicides
in Oregon and Washington. Tracy's trail
of blood may not be confined to the State's
Prison at Salem, to Bothell and to Wood
lawn Park.
It Is astonishing to hear the number ot
law-abiding, decent people who speak of
Tracy with admiration. They seem to
classify him with Funston, Walnwright,
Hobson and Dewey, and are incapable
of drawing a distinction between an un
selfish, noble act of bravery and a. deed
of murderous daring. Tracy Is left to a
choice of death between the bullet and
the halter. He naturally prefers the lees
Ignoble form. In either case he dies "In
his boots." Unfortunately, the penalty
Is no greater for murdering 60 men than
six. He has shown great Ingenuity and
he has proved himself a skillful marks
man. The best that can be said of him
is that he Is no coward; but a coyote will
fight when he Is cornered.
John Fleming Wilson, a Portland young
man, has written a short romance,-set at
the mouth of the Columbia. It Is pub
lished on another page In this Issue. In a
collection of short stories which came to
me recently, there appeared "Malva," by
Maxim Gorky, the new Russian writer,
with the publisher's declaration that it
was the most popular of Gorky's produc
tions. Mr. Wilson's story, like Gorky's.
deals with flsher-folk, and the Oregon
man's is easily the better of the two.
Public speakers ought to remember lo
cal conditions when these are used to
illustrate the subject in hand. Last Sun
day, Miss Maud Allen, an Oregon woman,
who has served as missionary In India
for several years, addressed the children
of the First Presbyterian Church. Sho
compared the environment of Webfoot
youngsters with those of England's Ori
ental possessions and dwelt briefly on tho
suffering occasioned by famine which fol
lowed drouth. To Taring It home to her
hearers, Miss Allen asked: "Now, chil
dren, suppose here in Oregon, In tho
course of a whole year, not a drop of
rain fell, and" That was as far as she
could go. The Illustration was too much,
even for Dr. Hill's staid congregation.
Everybody, young and old, began with a
smile and ended with audible laughter, in
which Miss Allen Joined.
Judge McGinn tells this story. Two
days after the last election, when the re
turns showed a very close race between
McGinn and Dr. Harry Lane for State
Senator, two Irishmen met. One asked
tho other:
"How Is It, Mike, that in so manny
votes it should bo nick an' nick atween
Hinnery an Dock Lane?"
"Well, I'll tell ye." was the answer.
"They're bo-oth very onpoplller roln, an
If ye knowed wan, ye'd be certain to vote
fur th other, an' bo-oth av thlm are
d d well known."
But to enjoy the story, hear McGinn
tell It. You can't put the unction Into
cold type. L.
The Old Conntry.
Josephine Daskam In Harper's.
"Where's the land o Dreamland?
How should I know?
On the moon's further aide,
"Where the drift clouds ride,
And the stars hang low.
What's the look o' Dreamland?
How should I cee?
All the air's silver gray.
Glinted with star spray.
Here and- there a tree.
What's the sound o Dreamland?
How should I hear?
Bell tone from far below,
Night's haunting cockcrow.
Olden songs and dear.
"What's the speech o Dreamland?
How should I say?
Great eyes that fill the heart.
Soft handa that clasp and part.
Calls from far away.
Where's the gate o Dreamland?
How should I tell?
Sudden you stand before.
Slip through the, qult door
Ah. but all's Weill
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
Thoughts oa Vacation.
There's a murmuring brook In a mountain re
treat. That over the boulders Is Cowing.
"Where the scent of the hemlocks Is spicy and
sweet.
And the llfe-glvlng breeses are blowing.
The grass Is like velvet beneath the tall trees.
The squirrel Is Joyously calling.
The high branches whisper ot far-away seas.
And the needles like snowflakes are falling.
And there the mosquitoes are blsger than dogs,
..Tnd never stop work for a minute.
And tho hillsides are sprinkled with treacher
ous bogs.
Each one with a rattlesnake In it.
There each stretch of woods Is exactly alike.
And the camper, for exercise yearning.
Who starts out at dawn for a half a- day's hike.
Must spend the next week In returning-.
There's a surf-circled beach by the side of th
sea,
Where the billows are tossing and combing.
Where tho tall ships are leavlnc the rocks on
the lee.
And the skies are aglow in the gloaming.
The campflres gleam on the sand, dunes by
night.
And the night birds to seaward are screaming.
And tho moon rides above while Us broad belt
of light
O'er the uneasy ocean Is streaming.
And there the hotel bills are half a mile high.
As Is also the fl3h that they feed you.
And unless you do utterly nothing but buy.
The sweet Summer girl does not need you.
There Is nothing to do but meet each dinky
train
That brlnrs crowds to the four-by-nlne sta
tion. So when I consider these places again
X guess I'll not take a vacation.
A Family Affair.
V
Tampa, Fla., July 12. David Merrill, tha
Oregon convict, passed through here to
day, on his way to Key West, to visit his
sister-in-law. He carried a gun, and was
followed by a bloodhound.
Martinique, July 12. The Oregon escaped
convict, David Merrill, Is at present visit
ing his mother in this place. He says peo
ple hero do not know anything about a
hot time.
Washougal, July 12. Merrill, the partner
of the notorious Tracy, was seen near "hero
last night at the farm of his sister. He
looked tired, and when asked the cause
said It was a superabundance of rela
tives. Nome, July 4. David Merrill, whose
brother lives on his claim 10 miles north
of here, was In the city today looking for
work. He found it, but made his escape
immediately.
Nagasaki. July 12. David Merrill spent
the last week In Nagasaki, visiting his
uncle. He denies that he Is dead.
Johnstown, Pa., July 12. Among tho
victims of the mine tragedy was David
Merrill, who was positively identified by
his cousin, who Is a resident ot this city.
Berlin, July 12. David Merrill, the Ore
gon convict. Is due here tomorrow to visit
his brother-in-law, who promises to turn
him over to the Emperor.
Black Diamond, July 12. David Merrill,
recently shot by Tracy, expired here at
1:55 this afternoon In his mother's arms.
Yuba City, Cal., July 12. David Mer
rill has no relatives In this city, which
has achieved a National fame in conse
quence.
That Baby.
It ain't no trouble now to And
Tho things that used to be
A-scattered round about the house.
Or hid away from me.
The paper's alius right to hand.
The tidy's on the chair.
My hat don't leave the front hall pea
'Most 'foro I bang It there. r
An everything Is orderly.
An Just the ay It's put.
"Without a raft o cuVus truck
A klckln' under foot.
But when I look around the room.
An see the chairs Jus so.
An' all the things a settln la
The place they ought to go,
I'd give the rest o this ol' life
If I could only see
That baby strewln' things around
The way they used to be.
Keeping Down Expenses.
"So you want your wages raised," said
the trust magnate to his office boy. "Let's
see, what are you getting now?"
"Two dollars a week, sir," replied tho
boy.
"And you want how much?"
"Two dollars and 10 cents."
"Well, my boy, you go back to work and
think it over. We. pay our employes ail
that we can afford to, and feel that we
are dealing very liberally with them. This
corporation only made $64,407,153 In the last
six months, and we are not going to cut
down our earnings by any extravagant
measures.. You may rest assured, how
ever, that as long as you do your work
faithfully your salary will not be re
duced." An Optimist. ,
Jus had a sort o' quiet way
O' sowln sunshine, ev'ry day.
He always could skeer up a smile.
An" kinder b'lleved that life's wuth while.
The folks that lives ten miles an ay
Ain't never heard o' him today.
But when we laid him to his rest
A lump was in each feller's breast.
An' I'm mistaken If he ain't
Bight now a Joy-dlspensln' saint.
Just the Thlnsr.
"I don't know what to use to raise my
bread." said the young wife, petulantly;
"I've tried everything."
"Judging by the samples I have seen,"
suggested her inhuman husband, "I should
think a couple of Jackscrews or a derrick
ought to do it." And Ee wondered why he
got a cold supper that night.
Concerning the Chnse.
The posse came down like the wolf on the fold.
With rifles and pistols and shotguns untold.
And the roll of their musketry rattled, around.
Like the roll of the aurf on the shores of the
Sound.
'
Like police on the street when the town, la
seren".
That death-dealing posse at sunset was seen;
Like police on the street at a general fight.
That posse at dawn had departed from sight.
For the convict came forth from the brush with
his gun.
And the posse decided It safer to run.
And there rode a Sheriff direct to the rear.
With a bullet uncomfortably close to his ear;
And there went a Deputy back Into town.
With a sturdy distaste for reward or renown.
And the sound of his panting was heard through
the glade.
Like an engine ascending a five per cent grade.
And the convict departed, unmarked and alone.
His movements unquestioned, his doings un
known. The bloodhounds are plaintively loud in their
wail,
Kor they never sot half of a chance at the
trail.
And the convict continues at pleasure to roam,
"While the powe sings softly: "There's no place
like home."
-J. J. MONTAGUE.
The Year's at the Spring.
Robert Browning.
The year's at the Spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seen;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing:
The snail's on the thorn:
God's In his heaven
AJl's right with the worldl