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THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 2, 1902. its rjegmtxott Entered at the Postofflcc at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid. In advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month . gj Dally. Sunday excepted, per year 0 Dally, with Sunday' per year 0-00 Sunday, per year -J-"" The Weekly, per year 1 The Weeky. 3 months 50 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.le Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.200 POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper c 14 to 28-page paper 20 Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual. letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to nny business matter should be addressed, simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office." 43. 44. 45. 47. 4S, 40 Tribune bulldlngr New Tork City; 010-11-13 Tilbune building. 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For rale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 90G-012 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain, with brisk southerly wind?. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 55; minimum temperature, 42; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, SUNDAY, NOV. 2, 11102. When the New York Church Club de termines to recognize the theaffcr a a thing to be encouraged, if Its plays are morally commendable, and appoints a committee to Investigate productions' and make recommendations, its work is done. The achievement Is note worthy, but it ends there, for the subse-j quent ban or approval will have little effect. Communicants will not be bound by pastoral .recommendations,' just as now they marry divorced women at their discretion. Provided only that love exists, between the couple, ecclesi astical prohibitions or penalties have little effect. It is of the highest impor tance that the legitimate function of the stage be fairly apprehended by preach ers as well a9 laymen, and that Improp er plays be punished severely at the box-office. But the power of the pulpit in. either direction is very limited. Probably most pastors would be sur prised to know how large a proportion of their flocks find their way at one- time or another to dramatic perform ances, and it is perfectly certain that they are, as a class, ignorant of the tremendous moral uplift carried by ade quate portrayal of such plays as "The Charity Ball," "Bonnie Brier Bush," " 'Way Down East" and the sublime creations of Shakespeare. The pulpit is narrow enouch to insist on Hftlnir men uprn-ffsvrnway or not at all. It d cllnes the help of- -i--MLJI stage, be cause It will not help puPTiy it, prefer ring the profitless and Illogical attitude of indiscriminate opposition to bad .na good alike. A statement of the affairs of the United States National Bank, printed in avother column of today's paper, calls attention to the growing hold maintained by Portland upon outside capital. The amalgamation of this bank with the Ainsworth National not only advances the new concern to a first-class position among the city's financial institutions, but it anchor to Portland, through the United States Na tional, some very powerful interests, notably those represented by Mr. Hell man, president of the Nevada National and Union Trust Company, of San Francisco, whose combined deposits range between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000, and also president of tne Farmers' & Merchants', the leading bank of Los Angelea Portland has every reason to be proud of its banks, first for the homt capital whose honorable record In the First National, Ladd & Tilton and United States National so creditably weathered the storm of 1893 and the succeeding lean years, and second for the powerful connections which safe and felicitous management like that of Mr. F. C. Miller's is able to Induce from outside. The tremendous business and industrial activity which seems In store for Portland these coming years will be adequately served by the city's splen did banking institutions. Every cloud has Its liver lining. The agitation evoked by the proposal for an extra session is evidently destined to produce avery favorable effect upon the Centennial's cause Itself. The peo ple's sober second thought is one of re vulsion at the invidious criticisms 'that have been directed for political purposes at the Fair's board of directors. Who ever undertakes, to be funny or hostile toward the Lewis and Clark Centennial is going to find out that the undertak ing is one very dear to the hearts of the people. Most persons of sound instincts and decent state pride who oppose the, special session do so for the very rea son that they fear its advocacy does the Centennial more harm than good, and they are as eager as anybody to repel Insinuations against the management. A more creditable, public-spirited, self sacrificing enterprise than this celebra tion was never undertaken, and Presi dent Corbett dos perfectly right to ap peal in a manly and dignified way from the politicians to the people, who recog nize and appreciate the patriotic and generous spirit by which he and his as sociates on the board -are actuated. Spe cial session or no special session, the people are behind the Centennial, heart, soul and pocketbook. The only com plaints about the appropriation will be from busybodies who pay no taxes. An interesting coincidence is the al most simultaneous repudiation of Gene sis by Rabbi Hlrsch, of Chicago, and the disclaimer of the immaculate conception by Dean Freemantle, of London. One can but admire thfe moral coura'ge of these men in braving the orthodox storm that is certain to break over their heads; and yet the abyss of rationalism whose verge such thinkers tread Is lS4le short of appalling. If Genesis is not his tory, why should Judges be, or Kings? The same discoveries that derive Gene sis from -Babylonian legends puts the attainder of ingenuous Oriental ro- mance upon every page of the Hebrew Scriptures." With the New Testament the case- Is parallel, and involves the basic doctrines of Christianity. Dean Ripon holds, for example, .that the res urrection "was meant spiritually, "and not materially." Tet nothing could be clearer than that a material resurrec tion was taught b.y Jesus himself, and by every apostle from Paul to the Jo hannlne school. We are at the stage of Christian development when theologians construct a fairly rational hypothesis of sin salvation and punishment, con sistent with evolution and with higher criticism, and then undertake to prove it out of the New Testament writings. Let us not say that their undertaking is vain; above all,' let us not censure their sincerity or slander their zeal for souls; but it makes the honest inquirer tremble when he thinks how discourag ing this task must some day appear. If you can interpret- the gospels as exclud ing the Immaculate conception, and the epistles as eliminating the resurrection of the body, and classify Genesis as a bundle of Chaldean myths, where Dr. Hirssh has long been preceded by Chris tian scholars, how long can any super natural support be maintained for the Christian religion? y 3IATERIALIS5I OR IDEALISM. - President Woodrow Wilson, of Prince ton, in his recent inaugural address, spoke a .manful and timely word of pro test against accepting increased facility in wage-earning as a proper reason for shortening a college course or replacing by professional studies those on which higher cultivation is and must be based. The language of President Wilson Is, "We must deal in college with the spir its of men, not with their fortunes," and he declares firmly for the humanistic and against the utilitarian ideal of edu cation. President Hadley, of Yale, ar gues with President Wilson that while the making of a large fortune Is an honorable and legitimate achievement, nevertheless the purpose and end pf a college training Is to make a thorough man out of the student, if possible, and not specifically a money-making ma chine. These able "teachers believe In Idealism,-not simply in materialism, be cause they know that it is the idealist to his own day and generation to whom humanity owes the growth of free insti tutions, the widening circle ofi philan thropy, the evolution of Its science, its literature and Its art. This is the answer to Schwab's Im peachment of a college education, when he said a boy of ambition who began .at the bottom would get on faster, be come a millionaire quicker in any prac tical calling than a boy who gave four years to college before he went to work in the world of business. LJpubtless this is true, and If the sole purpose of edu cation were the growth of commerce, the conduct of railroads, the dredging of the channels of trade, Mr. Schwab's indictment of a college education would stand. Bui a high clvilzatlon 'means a vast deal more than the gross materi alities of life, even when they are fair ly won and virtuously enjoyed. Civil ization Is not merely banks and lands and bonds and ships and bullion. It in cludes the development of the spirit ualities of human nature; the side that makes a Shakespeare, a Milton, or even a Cromwell (for he, too, was an Idealist); the most permanent figures of modern life. Technical schools can be criticised If they cannot teach what they pretend to know, but President Wilson is right when he declares that Is not the busi ness of a college, to "make men excel lent servants of a trade or skilled prac titioners of a profession," for "general training, with no particular "occupation in view, is the-very heart and essence of university training." Such a training would not help a man who wanted to be a Schwab. It would probably hinder him In the race against a boy who began at the bottom, as Schwab did, with the ambition to become rapidly a very rich man. For tunately, there are a great many gifted young men in America who aspire to something other than Mr. Schwab, even If they do not become multl-mllllonalres. You cannot test men altogether by the records of the Probate Court. Men are to be prized for what they are able to con tribute to the common stock of human happiness, and not dispraised or de spised for what they were not and could not have been. Some men behave like a beautiful, tuneful, airy-winged bird, while others recall the nocturnal, erratic flight of a repulsive bat. Some men are like a flywheel In the force of their men tal revolutions, that furnish power to the world of action, aggressive ambition and utilitarian effort. The man of birdlike flight of soul, of beauty and grace cannot afford to and does not depreciate the man of fly wheel force, and the man of flywheel force cannot afford to forget that It is the idealist who is the Interpreter and prophet of that sovereign spirit of beauty within and without us that really makes life worth living- for both rich and poor, and rules the world at last. The world would be an uncleared w.ilderness without the man of flywheel force and fighting quality, and the world would be nothing but a vast corn field and stockyard; a world of nothing but ships and soldiers and stocks with out the man ot the winged spirit of .beauty and grace which expresses itself in outward form of art, or speech in stinct with thrilling and inspiring spir itual aspirations. The world of plows is good, but the world .of plow is better and brighter even for the plowman at last because art has her victories as well as agriculture; because poets have stirred the heart of man to its finest Is sues, because beauty scattered by the hand of the artist mind has like a gar ment wrapped with its radiance the dull earth. If this be true, then it is clear that the purely utilitarian theory of a col lege education will not endure criticism, because a high clvlllzatlo'n cannot pos sibly be erected and maintained upon the mere mastery and expansion of the materialities of life, trade, commerce, wealth, ships, stocks, etc. That kind of civilization was Illustrated by Ven ice, which wa3 nothing but a rich mer chant ship defended by bands of mer cenaries. But a high civilization, which stands for the development of both the high materialities of modern life and of those spiritualities which Words worth called "the glimmerings from the unknown s?a,' Is a civilization like that of England or America; a civilization that Is a warship manned by patriotic men who are fond of honorable peace, but are not afraid to wage a just war. The demands of such a civilization could not possibly be met by a one-sided pure ly utilitarian training. Scholars in nil ages have been conspicuous patriots, like Milton, and not seldom gallant sol diers, like Hampden, and this because your scholar views life from the point of view of an idealist. Even the intensely practical Napoleon was an idealist. The story of Plutarch's men at school was the inspiration pf his astounding ambition. Had he been merelj' a man of military genius, he would have been content to be nothing but a soldier. - Utilitarian civilization alone would make the world very dull even for the materialists. The care and development of th'e spiritualities of hu man nature are necessary to the highest equipment of an enlightened civiliza tion,, and because" this is true It is worth while to send a boy to college, where he Is not educated specially for any par ticular cabling or profession, but la given a general training that will make him a man capable not merely of win ning material wealth, but of dying for a barren ideality, like 'his country's flag. THE DEVIL GETS MORE THAN HIS DUE. Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, of the University of Nebraska, has resur rected the devil and cast upon his Sa tanic Majesty the odMam of hoodlum college football. One can Imagine the straits to which a man of scholarly at tainments and enlightened mind has been reduced by the unseemly hilarity, bordering upon ruffianism, of the foot ball team of his ceilege, celebrating a victory over a rival team. He could find no excuse Jn legitimate enthusiasm for the rowdyism that found vent In wrecking a street-car upon this occa sion, and remembering the days when ne was young ana tne terms couegian and "gentleman" were interchangeable, he fell back upon the idea of a personal devil as the only elucidation of the problem presented by the outrageous actions of presumably well-bred young men laboring under -football mania. While most people will be wllilng, no doubt, to characterize theacts of these victorious football-players as deviltry, few will Indorse Chancellor Andrews' view that these acts were epeclfically tho "devil's work." The truth of the matter is that the virtue of self-control is not sufficiently impressed upon and Instilled into the minds of young people. If the youth wants to do any thing, that fact is too often considered a good and sufficient reason for doing It. The wishes, the rights and the feel ings of others are not taken into account in the .matter. In the case referred to bj Chancellor Andrews, the victors were simply wild with exultation, and gave full rein to the mania that possessed them. They did not want to curb themselves. That was to them suffi cient reason for the excesses In which they Indulged. Their censor was right In estimating thatit would have been far better had the Nebraska team been defeated than to have made such an ex hibition of Itself In victory. Better still, however, would have been a gentleman ly, even though an exultant, bearing in the face of victory. The test of charac ter comes not in lack of opportunity, but in meeting the occasion as It arises with manly spirit, the leading element of which is decent self-control. Foot ball is a rough game. It is not, how ever, necessarily a ruffianly game. That it begets at times a ruffianly spirit is too true. The acts of a victorious team dominated by this spirit may for con venience' sake, or to relieve the over charged feelings of a man wlio is In a sense responsible for the players, with out being able to control them, be called the "devil's work." But the causes that lead up to rowdyism, whatever the oc casion, may readily be fixed without giving the devil more than his due In the premises. WOMEN AT MEN'S WORK. The Oregonlan. has always maintained that the Introduction of women into the every-day industrial or political life of men, whatever' Its effect upon men, would slowly and surely desex the women. An illustration in point was recently given in Chicago, when several hundred women employed In a box fac tory went on a strike that was ordered by a union to which they belong. Their places were promptly taken by other girls. The strikers proceeded to use all means used by men when they strike to keep and drive away the non unionists. Finally one evening a riot developed, and the strange spectacle was seen of 500 young women In the street strlklngfat one another with their fists, scratching, pulling hair and the like, in which several were Injured to some extent. In one case a policeman who interfered was set upon by three or four of the girls to prevent the arrest of an associate. The same disposition to behave as badly as men was exhibited at the Women's Congress at Chicago in 1804, and the Homestead riot, and during the horrors of the Commune.! Women polit ically associated with men do not make men either better or 'worse, but women become desexed and imitate the super ficial infirmities of the stronger sex. In a New York factory employing a large number of girls an offensive girl was placed by her fellow workers In a barrel and rolled up and down the store until she was nearly crazed. A pack of rough boys could hardly be more Inhu man. A woman Is not naturally more heartless to her fellow-creatures than a man, but sometimes through Ignorance of consequences she is more reckless. In politics or business women will take on the behavior of tne most influential men they associate with. That Is the public opinion of the men will be the standard of public behavior of the women. The opinion of the women will not be the standard of public behavior for the men In politics or business. The man will not become effeminate, but the woman will be desexed In time. .Newgate, London's ancient and gloomy prison, Is being torn down. The process is a slow one, -and has now been in progress many months, so that the old pile is now little more than a vast rubbish heap. Upon this site a prison has stood for 1000 years, and within its 'walls and dark cells hundreds of thou sands of prisoners, representing all grades of misfortune, misdemeanor and crime, have been confined. The debtors' prison, that hopeless hell of misfortune, mismanagement, dissipation or dire ne cessity, made Newgate for many years the dread and the terror of the masses. Religious fanaticism here held fierce reckoning with unbelievers, and crimi nals of various grades met death within its walls or dragged out long years of penance in .solitude. On the site of the old prison, with its 10G0 years of his too', its long record of sufferinglPand cruelty. written and unwritten, buildings that will be occupied by the Central Crlmi nal Court of London will soon rise. Here all criminal trials in the London district will be held. Though British justice is stern and unyielding, cruelty has long ago been eliminated from its decrees, Religious persecution no longer finds audience' in its courts, and the wretched debtor, shivering in his rags, no longer has the door of hope shut upon his en deavor In Its yame, The passing" old Newgate marks the progress of - the ages. Its steps Tiave been slow. Often, as It has seemed, a halt has been called, and again a countermarch seems to have been ordered. But the onward cours? has been eteadljy maintained throughout the centuries, until at length the horrors of old Newgate "have been given to the past. The evolution of hu manity is here chronicled. He who yearns for the "good 'old times," and they who in pessimistic mood persuade themselves that the world Is growing worse instead of better, would ido well to read the history of Newgate prison and take note of the fact that It has been torn down to give place for a court of justice from the decrees of which per secution and cruelty and revenge have disappeared. The sufferings of the Doukhbor fa natics In Canada are pitiable. They glory In them, however. In true fanat ical spirit, and continue their mad march by day and sleep In ditches ahd upon railroad tracks by night. This idea of robbing the present life of all joy and comfort In order to Insure hap piness in supposed life to come Is as old as human folly. .Its exemplification in this casef presents a new phase of an old story, chapters of which appear in termittently through the great volume of. human history. Humanity cannot stand klly by while these people exter minate themselves. In the words of the Provincial Colonization Agent, "the Doukhbors must be taken care of.-" An emaciated host, ragged, starving and Jabbering prayers In a strange tongue, these frantic Russians must be compelled to abandon, their march, and if they, cannot be induced to return to their homes, tliey will have to be segre gated and confined until such poor wits as they originally possessed return to them. There are some things which a government with monarchical features can do better than can a republican gov ernment. Dealing with these Doukh bors is, we are glad to believe, one of them. Marion County wants a state hop in spector, and Columbia County wants a state timber warden, to have and to hold office after the manner of other state functionaries. And specious reasoning is forthcoming In support of both de mands. If a way can be shown by which these proposed officials could do the .hop Interest and the timber interest any real good, there would be no ob jection, but it Is not easy to see how this can be done. It may he that the State Game Warden, the State Biologist and the State Dairy Commissioner and other similar functionaries do useful work, but we believe it would be hard to dem onstrate it, and there is a shrewd no tion very generally entertained that things would go on just about as they do If any or all of these several officials were to lose themselves. So far as we have been able to observe, the chief practical business of the very excellent gentlemen who fill these various posi tions is ,to negotiate arrangements for continuance in office, a very human and not unworthy purpose, but of doubtful value in its relations to the public In terests. At the funeral of Elizabeth Cady Stanton appeared, Susan B. Anthony, her co-laborer for many years, her frame bowed with years and the frost rime of many Winters upon her brow; Lily Devereaux Blake, a younger cham pion of reform, but still old In its en deavor, was there also, and as the late Autumn sun fell" across the new-made grave in Woodlawn cemetery, Rev Phoebe A. Hanaford, who has often with tongue and pen paid tribute to the persistent endeavor of Mrs. Stanton, pronounced her last eulogy and benedic tion. The rites were not more .Impres sive in their rendering than was the ap pearance of this handful of veterans, a feeble remnant of a vigorous host that in the middle .years of the nineteenth century worked together in the field of reform, gleaning as the years went on many goodly sheave. Hamilton King, United States Minis ter to Slam, has hinted that King Chu lalongkorn would like very much to visit this country as a guest of the Nation. It is further said that His Im perlal Majesty has set apart 1,000,000 taels ($650,000) to pay the expense of such a visit. Secretary Hay computes the cost of entertaining the royal visitor at $10;000. If for this outlay the King will leave behind him the large sum above named and give a free show all along the route, the visit will not be a bad investment. A real King, traveling with full retinue, will be something new, Foreign Princes are no longer nbveltles, but an Oriental monarch traversing the country In full regalia would be worth while. Let the invitation sought be ex tended by all means, even If it's accept ance puts "Buffalo Bill" out of business for the time being. The wife of Russell Sage attributes her husband's financial success in life to the fact that he never dissipated, was always regular in his habits, was possessed of tireless Industry and saved his money. These are things that make for crimpetency,but the great wealth represented by the Sage millions was accumulated in addition to these funda mental virtues of thrift, .by a shrewd ness In turning, investing and safe guarding savings, that must be born in a man. If Mr. Sage had not been equipped, with this quality by Nature, he would hardly, with all his thrift and steady habits, have' been known as one of the Nation's great financlers. General Corbln significantly observes that "In Germany there is no legis lative ' Interference with the army," whereupon the Pittsburg Dispatch says: "In Germany, also, an Adjutant-General is kept In his place, and not per mitted to run the whole show." Of course. General Ccrbln's dignity will not permit him to notice this base innu endo. Every vote in the State of Washing ton for a Democratic candidate for the Legislature Is a repudiation of McKlnley and Roosevelt, a slap at the United States Army, a blow at Pacific trade, and a demand for free coal and free lumber. George Turner should be suc ceeded by a man who will not misrep resent his stated Portland needs a line of. steamers everywhere; and that Includes the Phil ippines. Nothing can be gained except with effort. A Portland-Manila line of steamships would be a strong card to play In Pacific Coast commerce. If the Democrats carry New York on their platform of Government owner ship of coal mines, it will be a far cry from the ancient Democratic hostility to paternalistic Government. CENTENNIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION Like Last Year's Bird's' Nest. ' Brownsville Times. "The extra session proposition looks like a last year's bird's nest this week. Let Legislature Reform. Sheridan Sun. Oregon needs a special session of the Legislature about as much as a dog needs two tails. When- the regular ses sion meets' In January, let them get down to business and pay more attention to work and less to the lobbyist, and they will have ample time to transact all the business that is necessary to come befojre it. A Patriotic Vlevrt Prlnevllle Review. The people of Crook County want to see the Lewis and Clark Exposition made a success of, and are perfectly willing for the Legislature to appropriate money to have the' enterprise carried forward to success. Our people will pay their share of the taxes without a murmur, as they never kick about the cost of anything that is gotten up to enhance the people's Interests. Will Be as Good as'IIIs Word. Woodburn Independent. President Corbett, of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, says that if the Legis lature and the people do not give $500,000 It Is all up with the fair. Mr. Corbett never makes bluffs. Probably the people of Oreson. after hearing from the Legis lature, will make up the required amount through private subscription, now that Mr. Corbett has spoken . Courage, gen tlemen. "Faint heart never won fair lady.'" Referendum for the Appropriation. Hillsboro Argus. The people will pay for it and, there- fdre, the people should say whether or not there should be an appropriation for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. That Is the way The Argus looks at it, and that is the purpose for which the direct legis lation amendment carried to give the people a chance to say what they want. The Argus- was the first paper in the state to suggest that the people have a chance to say what they were willing to give for the -Fair, and it still adheres to that idea. An extra session to lap on the regular, would not hurt matters at all If it will be arranged to give the people a chance. Need of Publicity. Eugene Register. The thing the people of Oregon want to know before they give freely and llberally fb the Lewis and Clark Fair is the extent and scope of the undertaking. The pro ject has been under way for a year and no one outside the directors seems to know just what shape the enterprise Is to assume, and It may be that the directors themselves are not fully decided on that point. It should be a National affair in' the broadest sense. The recent prospec tus issued throws no light on the charac ter the fair is to assume, and that Is what the people want to know. Legisla tors, if called to meet In special session, will be asked to vote for a $500,000 appro priation without hardly knowing what it is for. The whole matter needs thorough publicity that the public may fully under stand the scope of the fair. The appro priation cannot expect to win general ap provaj until the public is fully informed on the question. No Excuse for Opposition. Albany Herald. There Is no excuse whatever for any Oregonlan opposing a liberal appropria tion for the Lewis and Clark Exposition Cqngress should, and probably will, make an appropriation for this fair, as has. been done for others: and the state should be progressive in the matter. The eyes of the country are directed to the Pacific Coast. The new markets in the isles of the Pacific Ocean and in the Orient, the trend of business to the Pa ciflc Coast, mean the building up of greater industries and greater commer cial activities in our midst. Oregon ha"3 the natural resources, the, raw material the advantages of climate, and the wealth of timber, mines and productive soil We should let the world know what our rich resources are. The proposed fair will do a great good In this direction. We want to see tho exposition a success, and to that end urge that Its broad, natural sebpo should be given publicity before the Legislature meets. Treats It as a Dead One. m Oregon City Enterprise. The Oregon Legislature will not be con voked by the Governor in extraordinary session this Fall. as had been hoped by many -neonle and many politicians. This being a fact, has caused much excite ment.and no end of disappointment to those who had pet schemes they hoped to have enacted into law before the regu lar session. Among these were tho flVt salary proposition for state officers, to decide upon the constitutionality of the late-adopted amendment to the State Con stltution the initiative and referendum and the appropriation of money in aid of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The expediency of an extra session had been strongly urged by many very influential people in all portions of the state, while on the other hand there was strong oppo sition from every portion of the state, from motives well rounded, out none seemed to grasp the situation as it ex isted until the matter was submitted to the Attorney-General, whose opinion has completely flattened the whole matter. Regular Session Sufficient. Lebanon Criterion. The question of an extra session of the Legislature is again being vigorously dis cussed, and now many who heretofore have opposed It are in favor of such a session. The Initiative and referendum and the Lewis and Clark Exposition are the things most strongly urged as de manding a special session. So far as the first Is concerned, we believe It to be as much In force now as It can bo made to be. The only thing the Legislature can do Is to provide some simple plan for tho working of this new law, and thus re lieve the embarrassment of a doubtful procedure. The Lewis and Clark Expo sition should receive a liberal appropria tion, and we believe It will; therefore it is our opinion that it can be attended to just, as well at the regular session. But If the people could have the assur ance that a special session would at tend to these matters and do nothing else, the matter might then be consid ered under the appropriate title of a "necessary evil." Let the People Decide. Oregon City Enterprise. There is a strong hnd growing senti ment throughput Oregon that the pro posal for the state to appropriate $500, 000 or any other amount in aid of the Lewis and Clark Fair should be left to a vote of the people. Some of the indi viduals connected with the management of the exposition are opposed to the ques tion being submitted to a vote of the people, or, In other words, permitting our late Constitutional amendment, the initiative and referendum, taking its course in tho premises. The fair people want nothing less than half a million dol lars appropriated by the state. If the question i3 worthy of any consideration at all, it deserves to be fully and freely discussed, and should be left with the people for their approval or otherwise, as the case anay be. If the purpose of the initiative and referendum is to allow the people to express their sentiments, the exposition management should not op pose the proposal to submit the matter to a conservative, intelligent, patriotic constituency, so that the amount given would be spontaneous and a free gift by those who will have the burden to shoulder. FIVE-MINUTE BOOK TALKS. No. 0 Poetical Works of George Crabbe. The first complete collection of Crabbe's poems was published by 'Murray in 1S34. That of 1861 was virtually the same book. A copy" of it Is within reach of the writer's hand a copious, much-cherished volume, containing a charming life of the poet, by his son; the poems, ad mirably edited, with critical notes frdm eminent pens, and engravings, which in clude a fine copy of Phillips' portrait of tho author. Another -edition was an nounced very recently, and various pub lishers have brought out separate poems md selections. So Crabbe Is by no means a neglected poet, though many persons J who would resent the Imputation of Igno ranee know scarcely more of him than his-name,. But his is a great place in literature, and familiarity with him adopts with Intelligent enthusiasm a dis criminating criticism prophesied shortly after the poet's death, In 1832. from the pen of John Duncan, of New College, Oxford Thy verse from Nature's face each feature drew. Each lovely charm, each mole and wrinkle, too. Iso dreamy incidents oi wua romance. With whirling shadows?; wllder'd niinds en trance. But plain realities the mind engage. With pictured warnings through each polished rare. Hogarth of Song! be this thy perfect praise Truth prompted, and Truth purified thy lays; The God of Truth has given thy verse and thco Truth's holy palm his Immortality. The composition of poetry, begun In hla boyhood, raised Crabbe from a mean condition of life to eminence and wealth. He was born in 1754, and began life as a literary adventurer in 17S0. Edmund Burke befriended him, and the publica tion of "The Library" the next year was welcomed by the literary journals. En couraged by "the great commoner," Crabbe took orders in the University of the Church of England. Burke and Dr. Johnson corrected "The Village" prior to its publication in 1783. Crabbe continued poetically silent after this untW 1807, when his "Parish Register." saw the light: "The Borough." three years later, and "Tales In Verse" In 1812. "Tales of the Han- was published in 1S19 by John Murray, who. with characteristically liberal re gard to the just claims of literary abil ity to substantial recognition, paid him 2000 for the manuscript and the remain ing copyright on his works. At the time of his death Crabbe was rector of. the parish of Trowbridge, in Wiltshire. The above quotation so aptly describes the minute truthfulness of his work that one needs to add hardly more than to speak of his verse, which is, for the greater part, Pope's without its elaborate finish, and to note the prevailing' sadness and misery of his narratives of humble life. As Byron said, he was "Nature's sternest palnter.lbut the beet." I suppose he meant by this because the most faith ful. Sir Walter Scott is said to have read him with admiration almost to his last hour; as did Fox, so widely different from "the wizard of the North," in per sonality and opinion. In character Crabbe was pious and modest, gentle and sim ple as a child, but a keen observer who looked "quite through the deeds of men." Lord Thurlow, who presented him with two church livings, told the . poet that he was as like Fielding's Parson Adams as twelve to a dozen; Thomas Campbell, on the other hand, wrote: "I recollect remarking that there was a vigilant shrewdness that almost eluded you, by keeping its watch so quietly." There Is no difficulty about seeing how both de scriptions may be just as applied to the same person the great man the little child. Writing of "Sir Eustace Grey," Crabbe remarks: "In the struggle of tho pas sions we delight to trace the workings of the soul; we love to mark the swell of every vein, and the throb of every pulse; every stroke that searches a new source of pity and terror we pursue with a busy and inquisitive sympathy." It is from this cause that Mr. Crabbe's delin eations of the passions are so just so touching of the gentle, and of the awful po tremendous. Remorse and madness have been rarely portrayed by a more powerful hand. For feeling. Imagery and agitation of thoughts the lines In which Sir Eustace Grey tells the story of his in sanity are second to few modern produc tions." To illustrate this piece of crit icism, I quote a passage from that part of the poem which relates how two fiends of darkness set down the'ir wretched victim on a tombstone in a graveyard: AVhat Fleeplnff millions wait the sound, "Arise, ye dead, and come away!" Alas! they stay not for that call; Spare wo this woe! ye demons, spare! They come! the shrouded shadows all 'TIs more than mortal brain can bear; Rustling they rise, they sternly glare At man upheld by vital breath. Who, led- by wicked fiends, should dare To Join the shadowy troops of death! I trust that the following description of the pride of a noble peasant.'1 vith Ita touch of humor In the third and fourth lines, will go a long way to promote In terest In the "Parish Register": If pride were "his, 'twas not their vulgar pride. Who, in their base contempt. he great deride; .Nor pride In. learning, though my clerk agreed If fate should call him Ashford might succeed; Nor pride in rustic skill, although we knew None his superior, and his equals few; But if that spirit In his soul had place. It was the Jealous pride that shuns disgrace; A pride in honest fame, by virtue gained. In sturdy boys, to virtuous labors trained: Pride In the power that guards his country's coast, And all that Englishmen enjoy and boast; Pride in u life that slander's tongue defied; In fact, a noble passion, misnamed pride. A sailor-lover returns to his sweetheart to die. She" nurses him: One day ho fighter seemed, and they forgot The care, the dread, the ansulsh of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seemed to think, Tet eald not so, "Perhaps he will not sink." A sudden brightness in his look appeared, A sudden vigour In his voice was heard; She had been reading In the Book of Prayer, And led him forth, and placed him In his chair; Lively he seemed, and spoke of al he knew. The friendly many, and the favourite few; Nor one that day d!d ho to mind recall But she has treasured, and she loves them all. When In her way she meets them they appear Peculiar people death has made them dear. Ho named his friend, but then hla hand she pressed,- And fondly whispered: "Thou must go-to rest." "I go," he said, but as he spoke she found His hand more cold, and fluttering was the sound ; Then ghzed, affrlghtenwl. but she caught a last. A dying look of love, and all was past. The same poem. "The Borough," con tains the dream of the condemned felon. Arm In arm he and his betrothed walk by the seashore. Pretty and familiar ob jects amuse their pleased attention, among them: Those bright red pebbles' that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon'; And thosa live, lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by; Pearl shells and rubied starfish they admire. And will arrange above the parlour fire. Tokens of bliss! "Oh. horrible! a wave -Roars as it rises save me. Edward, save!" She cries. Alas! tho watchman on his way Calls, and lets in truth, terror, and the day! The range of Crabbe's stories -in verse comprises over CO plots, constituting de lineations of life and character unique, detailed and just; with marvelcusly ac curate passages of minute description. Great problems, the greatest that can em ploy the mind, of social philosophy, mor als and religion engage the attention of the reader. If he has read "Tales In Verse" with appreciation he will not be conte'nt -to live without all that the en terprise of John Murray has made pro curable of the production of Georga drabbe. HENRY G. TAYLOR. NOTE AND COMMENT . Sweet Sabbath belles! -The early worm is run over by the milk wagon. Mayor Tom Johnson evidently .believes in protection. Does a Scotch dance always end in a Scotch high-ball. The court could see only the "Myste rious" side of the sailors' row. What is the animal most like a man? The creature that talks during the soft passages at a concert. A man in New York killed himself on thQ eye Qf h,s gecond marrl Deatn has no terrors like a woman sometimes. There are still some property-owners who, when confronted by a sidewalk in spector, think itjis never too late to mend. President Roosevelt first issues a Thanksgiving proclamation and then goes turkey shooting. He always does every- " thing up to the handle. Accordjng-to the New York Journal tho true sign for a man that a girl loves him is jthe trembling of her hand In his. It does not explain how the man Is to get hold of the hand. Every year some youngster finds his Hallowe'en Joke end In a few weeks in bed. There Is always a curmudgeon who thinks he Is entitled to defend valuable property from destruction. She was a sweet young thing, and as ho walked along by her side he suddenly remembered that she had been vaccinated and hastened to make inquiries, says November Lipplncott's. "You have been vaccinated, haven't you?" he asked. "How Is your arm?" She turned to him a face that only too plainly showed that she was suffering, and replied mournfully, "Oh, It's so sore I can hardly walk on It." And then she wondered why he laughed. Babies in the theater are not the at traction some people would like to eup pose they are. A baby anywhere Is a doubtful element and when a shrill yell greets the ardent lines of a wooer who has trouble enough to foil the villain be fore the -curtain goes down on the fourth act, there is always a temptation to offer the Infant as a sacrifice to outraged Thespls. "There is but one sort of public amusement where the baby is quite in its place. Concert-goers will never notice an Infant's wails, because, you knowr everybody talks anyway while the music Is going. Sol Smith Russell, who saw humor in many commonplace happenings, used fre quently to tell of meeting an old farmer at a railway station in a small New York town whose philosophy was particularly pat, even though hlSj deductions were hardly complimentary to the actor. Russell and his companions were await ing the train when the" old gentleman walked up, eyed the star a minute or two, and asked: "Be you the feller that cut up capers at Parker's Hall last night?" "My company and I gave a performanca there last evening yes," replied Russell, politely. "I thought so! I was there and I had to laugh sometimes. I wanted to tell you about my boy. He's just your way ain't no good for work. Won't otick to any thing, but wants to play clown and crack jokes all the time. He's got a job at tho hub factory .-but all he does Is to keep tho men a-laughln when th"ey orter be work In. You orter take him 'long with your troupe, for he's the derndest fool I ever seen!" When President Roosevelt, during his recent tour of New England, stopped for a few minutes at White River Junction. In Vermont. Senator Redlield Proctor, of Vermont, was in the party and "noticed Captain Horace French, of Lebanon, N. H., In the crowd that had gathered around, says the New York Commercial. Senator Proctor was In the same regi ment as tho Captain the Third Vermont In the Civil War, and immediately called to French to come up on the platform of the President's car. Captain French did so, and was Intro duced to th President as "one of the bravest men In the Army." "I am certainly most pleased to meet you. Captain." said the President. "Tho Senator has paid you a'great compliment that statement in which he places you among the bravest men In the Army means a good deal." "Senator Proctor refers to the War of the Rebellion," said Captain French. "The hravest officer in the Spanish War is be fore me." The President was apparently much pleased with the compliment, as could be seen from the smile that he wore as the train. pulled out of tho station a few minutes later. The other night, after the cars had stopped running, a woman walked wearily from the darkness of Front out under the lights of Morrison-street bridge. When she reached the middle of the draw, her strength seemed to give out and she leaned for a moment on the rail and looked out and down the river sweeping silently under the dark sky. The bridge tender watched her for a second and then quietly beckoned to a companion. "It's a clear case," he whispered. "Catch her before she goes over," said the other. The. two men stealthily stepped across the roadway and halted a little behind the unconscious woman. She shifted her po sition and stretched her arm out on the rail. Her face under the sizzling arc light showed beauty and utter weariness. The bridge-tender detected, as he thought, a tear trickling down her cheek. He nudged h!fi companion and they stepped forward within arm's reach. Suddenly there came sounds of hurrying feet and a man dashed along the west approach. The womais turned half around and then turned again to the river. "Now!" whispered the res cuers. But before they could catch her. a man rushed up and cried: "Mary!" She swept fiercely about and her voice rang out bitterly. "We've missed the last car to Sunnyslde!" "And I'm wearing patent leather shoes,"- groaned her husband as tho bridge-tender and his comrade van ished. The Nile. Leigh Runt. It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, ' Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream. And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeplnp along It their eternal stands, Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roam'd through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostrls. and that southern beam. The laughlnji qUecn that caught the world's sreat hands. Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong. As of a world left empty of its throng. And the void weighs on us; and then we wake. And hear the fruitful stream lapsinir -alons 'Twist villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.