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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