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THE SUXDAT OEEGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 20, 1902. its rB0xmxcm Catered at the Postoffice at Portland. Oregon, as eecond-cl&ss matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall portage prepaid. In Advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month ,9 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year 30 Dally.swlth Sunday, per year, Sunday, per year ..:.......... 2 00 The Weekly, per year 59 The Weekly. 2 months - D0 To City Subscribers Bally, per week, delivered, Sunday excepted.l3o any. per week, delivered. Sundays lncludetOo POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper... ...... ...............1 1 to 2S-page paper ...-23 Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Orcgonlan should be addressed Invaria bly ''Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name or any individual. Letters relating to adver tising;, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Offlce, 48. 44. 45. 47, 48. 49 Tribune bulldlnff. New- York. City: 510-11-12 Tribune building. Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth Special Agency. Eastern representative. .. For sale In San Franclsoo by I. E. Lee. Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Cutter street: .F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market street; J. K. Cooper Co.. 740 Market street, near the Palaoe Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry nows stand; Frank Bcott. SO Ellis street, and N. Wbeatley. 813 Mission street. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 259 So. Spring street, and Oliver Jfc Haines, 305 Bo. Eprlng street. For sale In Sacramento by Sacramento New Co.. 429 K street. Sacramento, Cat For sale In Vallejo. Cal., by N. "Watts, 405 Ceorgla street. For sale la Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald, 63 Washington street. For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1012 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1S0S Farnam street. For Bale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. For sals In Minneapolis by R. G. Hesxsey & 'Co.. 24 Third street South. For sale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbttt Souse news stand. For sale ln Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 000-912 Seventeenth street; Louthaa fc. Jackson Boole Be. Stationery Co.. ISth and "Lawrence street; A. Series, Sixteenth and Cur tis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy and oc casionally threatening, with possibly showers; tcooler; southerly winds; shifting to westerly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 05; minimum temperature, 03; pre cipitation, none. SPORTLAJiD, SUJfDAY, JULY 20, 1002, 1 THE BICTCLB ANARCHY Prosecution of deputies for enforcing , the law and threats of $10,000 damage suits show pretty clearly how keenly vappreclated are the paths constructed for the bicyclists. And this episode is only one in the long category of law less proceedings which ornament the history of this beautiful and indispensa ble piece of mechanism. Two bicycles run into each other and the less dis abled rider feels entitled to address ouch words or blows to his antagonist as occur to him in the heat of the mo ment. There is no way to keep a bi cyclist off your sidewalk but to swear at him or turn the garden hose on his retreating form. If a reckless express man runs down a peaceful wheelman, there is no recourse for the injured but blasphemy and loose granite. If a bi cyclist jars a non-bicyclist off his or her equilibrium, with whatever damage, etiquette requires only that he get away as soon as possible without identifica tion. An able-bodied deputy will collect fees from all bicyclists who are not fleeter or abler-bodied, than himself. That is to say, we are, so far as this means of transportation is concerned, la a primitive state of soicety, wherein every man cute out a path of action for himself. "We Americans are wont to pride ourselves upon our ready adapt ability to new conditions, but here is a new vehicle whose status, conduct and regulation are still the subject of un civilized strife; yet It has been in use these ten years, and nobody knows whether a bicyclist is a pedestrian or the driver of a vehicle; whether he has any rights that he can maintain or whether others have any rights they can maintain against him. Even peace officers and courts seem in doubt 'Whether the new machine and its ma nipulator occupy any such subordinate delation to the law as the pedestrian ,end wagon have had disciplined into them by thousands of years of hard knocks. How many centuries will it take us to evolve a bicycle common law, which shall measurably supersede ithe present regime of adjudication by individual prowess? A "WAY OUT. "We trust that every farmer and shlp 'per in the whole Columbia Basin has followed with fidelity the 15.000 words or so that have come from Rome, "Washington and London the past few days in re the Philippine friars; for i therein la embodied with great plain mess the way to get a deep channel forthwith at the. river's mouth and thereby augment the facility and cheapness of transportation for some (150,000 square miles of productive terrl Jtory. . Observe the flying colors with which 'Secretary Root emerges from the dip lomatic engagement, and especially the impressive package of hot air handed ' him and Governor Taft by the "Vatican at the closure of the incident. There is the "liveliest satisfaction" at the high consideration in which Root holds the fitness of the Vatican's proposals, with 'incidental reference to the "deep polit ical wisdom of the United States"; the "happy influence of the holy see"; "hom age to the very great courtesy and high capacity" of Taft himself, etc Observe more closely that the Vatican expressly characterizes the final agree ment as the proposal -of the United States. "In conformity," he says, "with the proposals made to the holy see in a memorandum." Of course, the fact is that the agreement to settle the -controversy at Manila through a repre sentative of each side is just what the United States did not want and what the- pope has been contending for all along. So while adjuring Taft to stand firm, "Washington has nevertheless in structed him to yield. You propose a postponement and settlement at Manila, do you, say3 Root Aha! Not on your life! This Government will not be bul lied. You are required to accept at our hands as an ultimatum, postponement and settlement at Manila! Thereupon this ultimatum Is graciously, almost humbly, accepted by the holy see, bou quets are ordered for all the American negotiators, and the useful and vic torious cardinals are seml-officially re buked for their stubbornness. Nothing more, obviously, could be desired. "Who would grudge the game to a competi tor who actually congratulates you on your victory? It is clear from this plain tale how Portland should proceed to get atten tion to its river channels. There is no use petitioning. "We must resort to diplomacy. Get up a bureau of diplo mats and open up ppur parlers with Secretary Root, who can't think about the Columbia's mouth because his offi cers must attend the naval review and maneuvers. "We take it that the Intel lectual astuteness and polite accom plishments of three or four Portland gentlemen whom we could name, act ins in unison, are equal to this manifest duty. T4re call upon the military, the Arlington Club and the Chamber -of Commerce to open up a jollying match with the "War Department, whose ob ject shall be to secure at length in due diplomatic deliberation and sweetness a formal denial of everything Portland wants, coupled with an ultimatum of immediate work on the jetty and the Instant employment of a deep-sea dredge. No words, phrases, clauses compound or complex sentences, foreign quotations or punctuation marks, should be spared on the ground of economy in so laudable an undertaking. For the final note of felicitation to the Sec retary upon his complete victory, The Oregonian will tender the services of four dictionaries without reservation upon the use of a single word. TOO TRIPLING TO MEXTIOJC. All Paris is agog over a personal en counter between a Prince and a lawyer in which a lady's name Is Involved. It appears that the lawyer, a Maltre Bar boux, produced in court the picture of -a veiled lady, and asserted that Mad ame de Gaste had served as the model for it. This Madame de Gaste, a widow, is affianced; to Prince de Sagan, whose brother married Miss Helen Morton, of New York. He thereupon gives the lawyer a light blow, having a duel in view, and the lady herself conceals a horsewhip in her sunshade to punish the lawyer in a way befitting his con duct and conforming to Parisian stand ards of dramatic propriety. We are given to understand, by in ference only, that there was something discreditable in the picture itself, the attitude or habiliments of the subject, or else in the fact that Madame had so posed, admitting for the moment that she actually had so posed. "Why it be came necessary for Maltre Barboux to advert to the picture at all or Introduce it in evidence or in argument i3 not explained. "We should say that this is of no consequence whatever in Paris. The spicy scene in court, the encounter between the men, the horsewhip In the sunshade, the impassioned speeches of the undoubtedly pretty widow, the pros pect of a sensational ir bloodless duel all these are matters of such moment as to Justify resort to the cable to the extent of several hundred words. But what we should be particularly pleased to know is, Did the lady so pose as alleged? To this there 1b no answer. One could suppress with com parative ease the desire to know why the picture got Into court, if there were only some hint as to the facts of the Barboux allegation. But In all the nar ratives the cable brings there is not a sign of Interest or knowledge as to whether the lawyer's assertion was true or false. Clearly, it makes no differ ence. "What place has truth, anyhow, in a Parisian scandal? "What are facts in the presence of that supreme thing sensation? SPEECH AND ACTION. Hiram F. Stevens, a prominent law yer of St Paul, Minn., in a recent ad dress before a New England college, severely criticised Charles M. Schwab, president of the Federal Steel Company, because at a banquet he said: "I do not believe in a college education for a business man. and I have noted how few successful business men have re ceived such an education." In our Judg ment Mr. Schwab was right in the lim ited sense that a man who is equipped by nature with brains enough to become "a captain of Industry" cannot afford to surrender four years of his youth to the academical training of a college. This is not Impeaching the worth of the college; it is only saying that the loss of time could not be afforded by a man whose ambition and native powers and tastes are those of a Commodore Van derbllt, a Carnegie or a Schwab. Loss of time means nothing to mediocrity, but It means a great deal to a man who, to reach the head of a great busi ness, must start at the bottom of the ladder and work himself up. In this sense a man with the ambition and peculiar powers of a Schwab, a Carne gie or a Vanderbllt could not afford to give up four years of the best of youth to obtaining the academical training and culture of a college. Mr. Schwab did not say that a college education was without value; ho only said that for a man with such powers and pur poses as he possessed a college educa tion demanded a fatal sacrifice of time. The truth Is, colleges do not rest their plea for support upon their ability to make a man more successful in the world of action than he -would have been without a college, "We do -not send our "boys to college because we ex pect them to become abler men of af fairs, more profound Jurists, more elo quent orators, more successful In the art of money-making, more supreme in the world of commercialism and manufactures than they would bejwlth out a college. It would- be difficult to prove that the majority of the eminent men of Europe or America In law, statesmanship, science, literature or the world of business affairs owed much of their usefulness and success to any col lege. The brief college training given a youth has small Influence on his fate If he is naturally a man of eminent parts. The real justification of a col lege is not that it doubly arms the youth for a battle with the coarse utili tarianism which is behind all the life of-J the business world, but that it stimu lates his spiritualities; It enlarges his humanity; It clarifies his taste for sound literature; it teaches him that the ulti mate of every sound human life and effort is not bloated pecuniary success, but a sweet and high-minded character. If there is another life In which we live and move and have our being, we shall not bring to it any of the riches we have won here, save enlarged spir itual wealth, and if there is not an other conscious life we shall enlarge the happiness of our fellows by behav ing as if the path of duty is the way to glory. This Is what the college on the whole teaches as contrasted with the apotheosis of mere wealth for wealth's sake, or mere brutal power for power's sake. Mr. Schwab, then, Impeaches the col leges for not doing what they could not possibly do and be true to their high est philosophy of education. They do not promise to make a pupil a success ful money-maker or "captain of indus try." They simply say, "We shall try to make a man of him in the highest and noblest sense; we do not agree that he shall become rapidly rich or gener ally a winner when he plays the "slot machine" in "Wall -street, within or wlth--out a "trust." And yet en the other J hand Mr. Stevens and the other critics ? of Mr. Schwab Are wrong In attempt ing to whistle him down the wind and pretend that the college does do for a man what it does not promise to do for him and what nobody can do for him but himself. Brains of supreme quality always have been and always will be sufficient unto themselves. Ben jamin Franklin did not found the Uni versity of Pennsylvania because he ex pected It would increase the productiv ity of superior minds in America. He founded it because he knew that its Influence would serve to help humanize and cultivate the people of Pennsyl vania; he did it tor the sake of the amelioration of themental and moral mediocrities that are always in large majority in every clime and every time. The critics of Mr. Schwab- seem to Imply that Shakespeare and Burns would both have been benefited as poets by the academical training of Harvard or Tale; that Cromwell even would have left a more portentous military name if he had been a graduate of "West Point Colleges, outside perhaps of purely technical schools, are of small consequence to men of supreme ability whose career is that of men of action. Bismarck lamented the years he passed in the University of Gottlngen as so much invaluable time lost, but this was because be was a man of Napoleonic genius, an Intensely practical rather than a contemplative mind. Bismarck and Schwab are both right that men who seek to be captains of states in tempestuous times or "captains of in dustry" against fierce competition can not afford to devote four years of their young manhood to a college. There has always been this war between the utilitarian and spiritual forces of hu man nature. The ambition cf Mr. Schwab, Carnegie, Vanderbllt and oth ers in ancient times would have given us only the commercial glory of Tyre and Corinth, while, on the other hand, the nobler ambition of ancient Athens gave "us literature and art; the nobler ambition of ancient Rome gave us law, civic government and military science. The mark of Athens thrrfhgh her litera ture and art; the mark of Rome through her laws, art of government and mili tary science, is immortal, while Tyre and Corinth are merely names of rich merchant ships wrecked long ago. THE GREAT INTERPRETERS. An article on recent American his torians, expressly exclusive of John FIske, should not expect favor at Bos ton, whence that writer hailed; yet we find that it does; and the reasons given by Professor H. Morse Stephens In the "World's "Work that FIske was not a searcher of original documents, appears adequate to the Boston Herald, at least, for refusing to FIske a place among the great makers of history. This is a severe yet not unfair test Professor Stephens declares that "the newer scientific conception of history demands that narratives of what has happened in the past should be based upon the careful examination and ap preciation of documents." He thus rules out as authority for the historian personal memoirs, contemporary chron icles, inaccurate diaries, collections of letters or biased newspapers. All the latter may be employed, but they must not be relied upon. The historian of the first rank must "base his history upon something better. "With this rule laid down. Professor Stephens finds five modern Americans who are In the fore front as regards historical writing. They are Henry Charles Lea, Captain A. T. Mahan, Francis Parkman (who Is Included, though not living), James Ford Rhodes and Henry Alams. The name of FIske is excluded, and for the reason that he cannot fulfill the conditions of the test He is not a his torian who goes to original sources for his authorltiea Mr. FIske wrote for the general public, and was not careful to qualify himself for a more select audi ence. Professor Stephens compares him to the late J. R. Green, of England. Both fascinated readers, and Professor FIske certainly not the less of the two. The latter did not obtain a .place famong what Professor Stephens calls the "great masters" because he did not seek It It requires greater wealth than Professor FIske possessed, or greater self-denial than he sought to put In practice. He might have been all this, but he preferred the other sphere. It will not do to say that he was not equally useful in it, and, as the Boston Herald is disposed to conclude, no one who has read his histories will be likely to risk the assertion that they are less readable and attractive than those of the best of his contemporaries. Between the great originator and the great interpreter, one might have some difficulty In choosing. The thoughts of Herbert Spencer have been filtered for American readers through the clear and beautifying minds of John Fiske and Henry Drummond. For themselves they discovered nothing, created noth ing, but there is so much they made plain! American history was unearthed and perfected by original research, but the man who chiefly put it Into the Amerfcau mind was FIske. The world of thought Is full of such phenomena and It is an Interesting question whether one should prefer to quarry the stone or dress It for the edifice. Thou sands have read Emerson for whom the original reflections of Plato have no Interest or availability. Darwin. Is as little read as Spencer, and their dis coveries and theories have been pop ularized by many interpreters. Nle buhr Is the great mine of Roman his tory, but it is with the more fascinat ing pages of Gibbon that readers are concerned. Like all questions bearlns on human life and character, the complexity of this study must hold In check the pas sion for generalization. Sometimes the interpreter is greater than, his original. Shakespeare Is worth more than all the translations and old plays from which his materials were drawn. "When we consider the errors Into which historians like Prescott were drawn, the labors of FIske In correcting them bring him up to a place. In serviceability at least, beside Parkman, whose combination of charm with accuracy raises him to an Inaccessible eminence of his own. Of tentimes the warmed-over viands of the clever Interpreter are preferred to the originals. Such are Mrs. Browning's "Sonnets From the Portuguese" and Longfellow's beautiful lyrics "From the German." In Arnold's "Light of Asia" and Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," and even in such translations as those of Pope and Bryant it is impossible to dissociate the creative from the Imi tative, as it is certainly impossible to deny Imaginative work to the Inter preter. Perhaps the difficulty arises from "bur insane predilection for comparisons. There Is, a vindictive streak in us all which finds delight In glorifying the Idol f the hour In the disparagement J of some one else. "Why is it that we can't praise Thackeray without de nouncing Dickens, or exalt Jefferson without Incidental discredit to Hamil ton, or .appreciate "Watson's ode with out carping at j)oor Austin's, or Jay a wreath on "Whlttler's tomb without shying a brickbat at Poe's? These things belong to the age of unmitigated war, and should have no place In a pretentious civilization. Is It anything against St. Paul that he was doing his best to expound the truth he had re ceived from another? Is old Omar to be less esteemed because an equal or perhaps a greater Introduced him to the modern world? There ought to be a sort of freemasonry in the literary world that would forbid Internal strife and enable Its devotees to present a solid front to the barbarians of trade and machinery. But it Is mostly au thors who denounce authors. The field of thought and learning Is ' the only place where the defensive resources of the trust and the trades-union are not understood. THE REAL FOE OP WILD FLOWERS. The Springfield Republican and the Boston Transcript both commend the organization of a society In Boston for the protection of native plants from the reckless devastation of school children and still more wanton grown-up collect ors. The organization of this society We predict will be of no avail, for civ ilization, not the children and the other reckless flower collectors. Is the fatal exterminator of many beautiful native plants. "We have before us a scientific ally prepared list of the wild plants of New England, published as long ago a3 1841. Outside of the New England may flower, the trailing arbutus, we believe there is not a flne, delicate flower on that list that has been extinguished by the depredations of flower collectors. Tho only fine flowers that have grown scarce are certain swamp orchids and other bog plants, which have disap peared with the draining of the swamps. So with orchids that grow in dry pine woods, like the red lady slipper, when you cut off the timber the flowers dis appear with the forest. So In rocky woods, the large yellow lady slipper dis appears when Its natural habitat Is vio lated by reform; so In tamarack swamps the white or showy lady slipper departs when the swamp Is drained. "With the exception of the New Eng land mayflower. which would hardly survive the removal of the pine thick ets In which it grows, and the bog orchids and other plants whose num bers have been lessened by the drain age of lands, we do not believe that there Is any choice New England wild flower that is in any danger of extermi nation by the hands of flower collectors. Colonel Thomas "W. Higglnson long ago pointed out that civilization, with its ax and drain, was the real enemy that appreciably extinguished the number of our choice wild plants. Five years ago a comparative stranger could And about Brookllne, Mass.. the rue-anemone, the rhodora, the cyprlpedlum acauie, the flowering dogwood, the splranthes cer- nua, the calopogon, the "ragged" orchis, the habenarla trlcjentata, the habenarla pyscodes, cardinal flower, azalea vls cosa and clethra alnlfolla. If this was the floral situation around one of the oldest suburbs of Boston, there Is not much danger that wild plants will be extinguished, save by civilization. You can chide the children and the reckless flower collectors as you will, but the deadly extermination of wild native plants Is the draining of swamp lands and the clearing of forest lands. The Boston society might as well dis band; It cannot cry halt to civilization effectively, any more than the pope can Issue a bull to any purpose against the comet. Fortunately for the peace of mind of these flower-lovers of New Eng land, there.are a great many charming native plants that canpot be extermi nated by the woodman's ax, or by drainage, but Colonel Higglnson was right when, a quarter of a century ago, he predicted that civilization, with its refdrmlng hand, would prove quite as deadly a foe to some flowers of New England as it had to many Indians. It will be a great comfort to a num ber of foolish folk to learn that the Imported foreign weed, the ox-eye daisy. or marguerite, Is Indestructible. There Is danger that civilization, through ax and drain, will destroy the calypso and all other beautiful orchids that dwell In damp places, but those Infatuated flower collectors that are In love with the malodorous marguerite may rest assured that, like Tennyson's brook, she Is likely "to go on forever." A SUGGESTIVE BULLETIN. A late census bulletin on manufac tures in Massachusetts discloses that Btate as a "humming workshop of pros perous industrialism." It is recalled In this connection that the state Is not one of many or great natural resources. Time was. In the not distant past, when the fishing industry was its greatest source of revenue, a stinted agriculture making up the small balance. The fish erman's boy looked out upon the sea as the source of his livelihood, and the farmer's boy looked upon the oil as his only means of support, chafing at Its meager promise. But the haddock and cod fleets and the whaleships In yearly dwindling numbers stand for an out dated Industry, while the cry of "de serted farms" has gone up from the In terior, telling of the decadence of the sta'te's agriculture. The developed skill of the community has, however, proved a vast resource, and in the manufacture of such staples as boots and shoes, rub ber goods, cottons and woolens and fine grades of paper, Massachusetts leads every other state In the Union. Manu facturers have here risen grandly to meet opportunities that they were saga cious enough to recognize and energetic enough to multiply to meet the growing commercial demands of the Nation and the world. The record quoted shows a billion dollars' worth of manufactures In the single year-1900. Even in the steel and Iron Industry, the- death of which, in Massachusetts, was seemingly foreshadowed some years ago by the closing of the Norway Steel and Iron "Works, of Boston, the product Increased in the ten years following 1S90 one-fifth. The panic produced in the New Eng land textile Industry a few years ago by the growth of textile mills In the South, where nearness to the raw product of the cottcn fields and the abundance of cheap labor would, It was thought, un dermine this Industry In the North, Is -well remembered. But the record shows that In 1900 the cotton manufacturing Industry of Massachusetts surpassed that of Pennsylvania, her nearest rival, by nearly $60,000,000 In value of output, and added to its equipment 2.000,000 spindles, which was over 49 per cent of the whole country's Increase. In the single decade closing with -the last year of the century the army of factory wageearners creased 50,000; aggregate wages, $23, 000,000, rind manufacturing capital nearly $200,000,000. The record i3 one of which any com monwealth might well be proud. It Is cne of creative energy; of closing with opportunity; of the production of wealth by skill and the Judicious investment of capital. Great natural resources, ex cept as to location and consequently unrivaled transportation facilities are not elements in this mighty result. The cotton and vast bulks of the wool that feed the looms and- keep the spindles of the immense factories whirling are the products of other states. .The coaj that feeds the furnaces of the great in dustrial plants, and the iron that Is transformed Into steel and Implements are transported thither. The industrial growth of Massachusetts proves beyond everything else the economic value of good training; the available power that may be developed through the conjunc tion of brain and muscle that Is known and hailed thrdughout the world of In dustry as "skilled labor." "While it Is high time, no doubt, for the old Army uniform to be displaced by a uniform made of modern materials, in accordance with modern ideas, the re tirement of the old "Army blue" in favor of "olive drab" will occasion some regret of the sentimental type. "The boys In blue" have been endeared to tho American heart through dearly bought victories and bitter defeats upon many historic battle-fields. Sentiment will shrink back and take flight when we come to speak of the "boys in olive drab." Still, there Is not much senti ment In war waged with modern weap ons and according to modern methods, but stern reality instead. This demands that the uniform of the soldier.shall correspond In color as nearly as possible with the hues of the surrounding land scape. Possibly "olive drab" will more nearly answer this purpose than any other tint It is a fact beyond dispute that the red coats of the British soldiers have been answerable for more fatali ties In the British Army than any other single cause, and it has been said that the heavy losses in British officers in the Boer "War (the soldiers were clad In khaki) were in a"" great degree due to their glltering uniforms. If England has learned her lesson properly, this will not occur- in her next war. On the contrary, her army officers, like the rank and file, will be made inconspicu ous by uniforms of some neutral tint, thus 'giving them at least a chance equal to that of a private soldier to es cape the unerring aim of the enemy's sharpshooters. The Chautauqua Assembly, that closed Its annual meeting at Gladstone Park yesterday, gave occasion during the ten days or more of its continuance for a blending of the social and educa tional elements in community life in a quiet, rational and enjoyable manner. The fact that man cannot live by bread alone finds expression in an opportunity of this kind that Intelligent people have learned to Improve. "Whether Chautau qua appeals to the "outing" habit that has become fixed upon the American people and here meets response In the family camping party; to the mildly religious Instinct that finds food in the discussions of the Ministerial Associa tion; to the temperance idea that finds encouragement in loitering about the "W. C. T. U. tent and listening to lauda tions of Frances Willard and her work; to the sectarian bias that finds expres sion in a Baptist tent and furnishes pleasure, to all who find pleasure In creeds and delight to make Christian ity wear the regalia of denominatlon allsm; to people anxious to hear and see and learn by contact socially and educationally with their neighbors. It was an occasion of unstinted pleasure. Above and beyond all this was the higher educational opportunity thatlt offered. A chance to hear Henry "Wat terson upon "Lincoln" and John Soble skl on "The History of Poland" was eagerly Improved, "by the multitude. If the association had not carried on Its programme any other educational feat ures, these two lectures would have jus tified Its purpose and crowned its effort with success. Nothing truer has been said about the World's Fair location than that there is grave objection to every site pro posed. The City Park comes nearest to the desideratum of being a place where the bulk of the local population might be expected to drop in at odd hours, especially evenings, but the transportation problem menaces Its eli gibility. East Side locations may make up In accessibility for transportation, therefore, what they lack in easy access for foot travel. Nothing Is clearer than that with all Its merits the site chosen will have serious drawbacks. The "Ideal location," of which we have heard so much on all sides, does not exist Doubtless the railroads can get to the park If they desire, but they do not, and they will not be Ignored. The patience of the directors of the Lewis and Clark Fair Is only equaled by the perseverance of men who have locations to boom. Busy men and men of affairs, they give unstinted time and. to all appearance, unwearied at tention, to the matter, anxious only to select the Bite thatall things consid ered, will prove to be the. most suitable. The .question Is a perplexing one, and much depends upon the way In which it is decided. Both the committee and the public will be Justified in feeling that a most Important matter is disposed of when the selection Is finally made, which will probably be within the next week. And now it seems that a diplomat cannot with safety to his reputation and without placing his position in jeopardy, comment adversely in a con fidential letter to his wife upon the Government's Cuban policy, or Intimate that there Is not the best poslble stuff In Cubans for United States citizens. Of course, much depends upon the wife, as some women are discreet enough to avoid quoting sharp points- on official matters from their husbands' letters, even to close personal friends. Some, again, as appears from the dilemma In which General Bragg finds himself, are not. It Is proposed to build a fireboat sim ultaneously by private enterprise and by special tax authorized by the Legis lature. This Is the clumsy programme that defeated a drydock so effectually In 1893. "Who Is so opposed to the fire boat that this perfect Instrument of Its failure Is devised with such unerring acumen? Chicago has no use for Mary Mac Lane. That unsentimental young woman frankly declared that she was not In terested In the stockyards and flatly $CS A THINGS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE. A correspondent asks: "Should a gen tleman raise his hat to a lady lit an ele vator?" It depends on the gentleman, the lady and the elevator. So many con ditions enter Into the problem that a yes or no answer without qualification is dif ficult if not Impossible. Where 13 the elevator? In the Portland Hotel or the Chamber of Commerce building, or a de partment store? Is the lady an ac quaintance or a stranger? Does the cor respondent seek to learn whether good manners require that a man entering an elevator containing a woman or women must raise his hat as an act of deference to the sex in general and to no woman In particular? This also depends on cir cumstances, and no inflexible rule can be laid down. A well-bred man will raise his hat to a woman whom he knows wherever he meets her. Ho will seldom uncover his head to a stranger of the opposite sex. An eelvator In a business building. Mke a street-car. Is a public conveyance. What would be good manners In one would not be bad manners in the other. To raise your hat on entering a street car simply because woman passengers were aboard would be apt to raise a sus picion of mental unsoundness. In a pub lic elevator, the women would probably charge you only with excess of polite ness. If a woman acquaintance or friend be recognized in either conveyance, ralso the hat; not to the assemblage, but to the one person. Now, a hotel elevator, unlike a street-car, is not a public con veyance. It3 service is limited to guests and visitors. The hotel Is, In fact the home of those who stay there tho year round, and must be regarded as the tem porary home of transient guests. Except In the office, which 13 a public place, a man naturally indulges the fiction that he is in home surroundings; therefore. If, on entering the elevator, he sees a wom an or women, he instinctively raises his hat This, then, seems asafe rule: Re main covered in a public "elevator, except when you wish to give such salutation as you would give on the street In a hotel elevator, imagine yourself In a residence. If we accept the highest Greek philos ophy, manners are the lesser morals; but we know that environment Influences manners quite as strongly as etmcat training. At the Gait House in Henry "Watterson's " town you cannot fall to notice this. It is a stately buVldlng of solid stone, with elevators of the size of a bedroom, that do not move with tho speed of trolley cars, and have uphol stered seats around three sides. Suppose 10 men are seated when the cage stops on the fifth floor to admit a gentlewoman. Ten men rise as one man, remove their hats, keep them removed and remain standing until the woman is seated. Still the men of Kentucky, I am certain, are not more manly than the men of Oregon! but It seems that they are more skilled in the technicalities of manners toward women. If Chicago were situated south of Mason and Dixon's line, and if first last and all the time every man was not bent on trading and boasting of the trade in tho corn belt capital, women would likely be the grateful recipients of many llttlo courtesies so dear to them. Their sisters of Louisville get these in abundance-Yesterday's dispatches announce 'that 730.798 Immigrants came to the United States during the fiscal year ending Juno 30. 1902. Italy", Austria-Hungary, Russia arid Finland contributed 457.715. Would injustice be worked If every immigrant intending to make his home in this coun try were required to furnish a certificate of good character? The other day an Interesting story came to mo touching the acerbity be tween Admiral Dewey and General Thomas M. Anderson. Though the old Colonel of the Twenty-first is now on the retired list, he has not suffered the hero of Manila to be the only witness to testi fy concerning the capture of that city. True, he did not appear before the Con gressional investigating committee, as did Dewey recently, but he went into print with his version and showed, or tried to show, that the Admiral's memory was faulty. The fact Is, the sailor and the soldier have "had It In for each other" these four years past Not being in either arm of tho service, hence im mune against possible rebuke from tho White House. I am freo to give publicity to an incident which has been known and discussed privately' slnco August, 1S9S. It canfe to me from an officer of the Second Oregon, who heard the language employed. After Anderson arrived at Manila Bay with 2500 men, including the 1400 Webfcet. he wanted to get on the first page by doing something. He visited Dewej on tho flagship and proposed to take the town. Dewey dissented to the proposi tion. Anderson suggested that perhaps Dewey was not the only pebble on the beach, or words to that effect Tho Ad miral mildly hinted that tho battle of May 1 had given him some distinction as well as authority, to which Anderson, who is given to plain speech, rejoined: H 1. All you did was to come In hero and smash a few pewter Bhips." This remark disestablished the "entente cor dial e," and they haven't played together since. k. The Maid of Neldpath. Sir Walter Scott. O lovers' eyes are sharp to see. And lovers' ears la hearing; And love. In life's extremity. Can lend an hour or cheering. DUease bad been In Mary's bower And slow decay from mourning. Though now she alts on Neldpath's tower To watch her Love's returning. All sunk and dim her eyes so bright. Her form decay'd by pining. Till through her wasted hand, at night You saw the taper ehlnlng. By fits a sultry hectic hue Across her cheek was flying; By fits so ashy palo she grew Her maidens thought her dying. Tet keenest powers to see and hear Seem'd In her frame residing; Before the watch-dog prlck'd his ear She heard her lover's riding; Ere scarce a distant form was kenn'd She knew and waved to greet him. And o'er the battlement did bend As on the wing to meet blm. He came ho pass'd an heedless gaze As o'er some stranger glancing; Her welcome, spoke In faltering phrase, Lost In Wis courser's prancing The castle-archv whose hollow tone Returns each whisper spoken. Could Scarcely catch the feeble moan Which told her heart was broken. Fenr Tliy Klane, Gentle Maiden. Percy Bysshe Shelley. . I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden; . Thou needest not fear mine; My spirit is .too deeply laden. Ever to burthen thine. I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion; Thou needest not fear mine; Innocent la tho heart's devotion - J W" ;S.hkk worship thine. SLINGS AND ARROWS. The Tales of Today. Have you, heard that O'Reilly DeVllIe, The talented, young, leading man. Has gone In an autoniobllo To the shores of far-off Ketchikan. Where, 'neath a tall totem pole's shade. Lulled to rest by the song of the tide. Is the dusky and proud Indian maid Who's to be the great leading man's bridal Such, believe. Is the Interesting truth, Tho story In detail, you'll find.. Is being created, forsooth. In tho up-to-date press agent's mind. Do you know the great opera queen. That lovely divinity who Worships nightly, alone and unseen. At the shrine of a stuffed kangaroo? Who only haa tapers to light The shrouding and shadowy gloom That enfolds, like the wings of the night. The wealth of her rich dressing-room 7 Tho story Is true on Us face. To doubt It were really unkind. The worshlnlns: really takes place In the up-to-date press agent's. mlnL. Have you read of the dainty soubrelte Who won twenty million plunks, cold. From the head of a trust, on a bet That she wasn't culte sixteen years old? And who took all the coin she thus got And. like a same zlrl. out It up To build a new slngle-stlck yacht To defend the America's cup. Such. Indeed, you will find Is the case. The yaeht Is already designed. And It soon will be sailing the race. In the up-to-date press agent's mind. No longer thieves break through and steal The gems of tho great player folk. For the papers are wont to reieal That such gems both are paste and In soak, No longer arc actreses sought In marrlare by Princes of rank. For Princes are prone to be caught By girls with accounts at the bank. The old yarns are faded and gone. But better one3 daily unwind. In hues like the roseate dawn. In tho up-to-date press agent's mind. Story of a "Wire Mnttrea. Bronson had never taken a wire mat tress to pieces, but he always thought he could. The mattress was too big to go up the stairway of the new house, except on the installment plan, and it had to go up there, the thing being so ordered by Mrs. Bronson. Bronson examined the mattress, and found that It was composed of four modified scantlings, framed to gether by bolts and kept firm by the wire web. He diagnosed the case as one re hiring a monkey-wrench, and after ha had searche half or three-quarters of an hour, he found the wrench. He noticed that the nuts on the bolt turned hard, but said that they were rusty, and a little pa tience would conquer. When the nuts finally came off the two end frames flew together like long-lost sisters, and shut Bronson up In the folds of the web like a salmon In a gillnet He got out after a while, and when he had expressed him self succinctly, carried the mattress up stairs, where he set about putting it to gether again. To his great surprise, he found that the web had shrunk about four sizes, and that the frames refused to .resume their former positions. He tugged and .hauled for a while, but the sticks had an Irritating habit of wrenching them selves out of his grasp and Joining forces, and he always happened to be In the tra jectory of one of them. At last he nailed two of the scantling to the floor and be gan drawing the other two Into their places. Mrs. Bronson here entered the struggle, but still further reinforcements were required, and the children came. The family lined up along one stick and pulled till Bronson strained his wrist, and let go. Then the web got In Its work, and two children were thrown violently to the cell ing, while Mrs. Bronson, caught by the. escaping frame, was knocked breathless. Bronson said a few things, gathered up tho children and renewed the attempt But the esprit de corps was gone from the community efforts, and after a few further trials, in which the list of Injured was like that of an excursion train accident Bronson summoned a neighbor. The two men toiled all the afternoon, and then tho neighbor let go of the straining wb at tha wrong time. It was Bronson's Jaw that suffered. Bronson thought he did it pur posely, and the two fought earnestly and convincingly for half an hour, at the end of which time tho neighbor's wife came and called him to supper. "My dear," said Bronson, that evening, when tho doctor left the house, "I think if the second-hand man will give you 25 cents for that mattress, you bad better take it I always despised that second hand man. and this will be a glorious op portunity to show my ill-will toward him." "Wliere the Woods Is Deep. What's tha use o talkln' 'Bout the growln heat? What's the use o walkla Down the dusty street? Ain't the brook a slngln. Where the woods Is deep? Ain't the winds a brlngln Tunes that lulls to sleep? Ain't the riffles flashln Where they Jlnes the pool? Ain't the water splashln'? Ain't the hull woods cool? Let's get shet o moanln Bout the heat o' day, Ifs let up on groanln', Lets Jus hike awa. Tako the trail that's leadln, Where the woods Is deep. Find Jest what you're needln. Rest, an peace, an sleea. A Coronation Programine. The date of the coronation having been set for August 9, wo beg leave to submit the following programme, which we be lieve will bo both entertaining and inex pensive: Reading of Letter of Rregret from P. Kruger. Presentation of Million-Dollar Bills to tho Maddening Crowd J. P. Morgan. Reading of Ode A Austin. (During the reading of this ode. His Maj esty will kindly order that the audience be excused.) Reading of Real Poem R. Kipling.' Subject "The Laurels That I Wrote for Went to Alf." Presentation of House to Gen. Kitchener. Reading of Protest on the same from Admiral Dewey. Presentation of Double Cross to Gen. Buller. Reading of entire editorial page of New York Tribune by Whitelaw Reld. Reading of Timely Advice to Eddie from Nephew Wllhelm. Omission of the Reading of the Declara tion of Independence by Mark Twain. Coronation. Nuts. Cigars. Cognac. Those Pants. Ton got t mind me. dolly, N run. or Jump, or dance, Fer If you don't, by golly, I'll make you wear these pantsl My papa, he once wore 'em. But years 'n' years ago. When he fell down 'n tore era. Ma cut 'em down fer Joe. JJ then, when Joe outgrew 'em. M' wore the knees all slick. '? punched big holes clear through 'em. Ma patched 'em up fer Dick. X' Dick, he rlpp-d 'n frayed 'em. Till by-um-by ma said: "Let's have them pantsl" 'n made 'em. The sire fer llttlo Ned. N then, when Ned growed taller. My ma she took, 'n' she Jus cut 'em down still smaller, 'N clapped 'em onto me. So now. If you don't mind me. 'N do Jus' what I've said. You'll get 'cm, 'n 'they'll find me A Uvln In my bed. J. J. MONTAGUS. of Massachusetts in- refused to,vislt themv
