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THE SUNDAY OKEGONIANj PORTLAND NOVEMBER 16, 1902. JCstertd at the Postofflce at Portland. Oregon. 1 as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. fiv HI&U frtncfftf Trrvilr1 In nluftnr Dally, -with Sunday, per month 3 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year 7 BO really, with Sunday, per year 00 l in ay, pp.r year.. 2 00 Th Weekly, per year 1 52 The "Weeky. 3 months M To City Subscribers ' Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.Me Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday included.20c POSTAGE RATES. (rtnItv? states- Canada and Mexico: emancipation from this awful stigma al- the Rational Guard, but -when nave they ever disciplined a man for dynamiting: ! a nonunion workman's home? To all these things -"President Mitchell pleads not guilty, and it Is evident he1 does not approve violence any more than he rel ishes its rehearsal. His demurrer that punishment of lawlessness Is the law's affair, and not the union's, Is Ingenious, If not convincing. 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TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain, with brisk to high gusty southerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, G7; minimum temperature, 48; pre cipitation. 0.36 inch. PORTLAND, SUNDAY, NOV. 10, U902. -Devotees of magazines will find noth ing better in the November numbers than the paper on "The New Ethics,' contributed by William DeWitt Hyde to the Atlantic Monthly. In strength of thinking, enticement of style, and espe cially In moral effectiveness, Dr. Hyde Is not surpassed by any man that writes English today, and by few of the great authors of any age. Perhaps there is no more seductive place for the writer of power than the almost vacant field where recent scientific discovery and philosophic deduction may be applied to the supreme problem of living. In the Atlantic for July, '1901, Dr. Hyde had ,an article on "The Cardinal Virtues," Which was widely read and noticed, and which no man or woman could read without a conscious lift into higher lev els of personal resolve. His present con tribution Is as good m as that, possibly better. It holds out hints of the result ant in ethics from the rapid strides made in recent years by psychology and sociology. It Is suggestive of the hercu lean task that awaits that practical phil osopher of the twentieth century who shall supply for cultivated society the moral impulse that formerly arose out of the supernatural. Hqw, great is the need lor this achievement Is attested in society everywhere, from the frivolous rich to the malignant poor. Apropos of the current indictment of education, it Is reassuring to recall that Dr. Hyde Is not only a great writer, but the presi dent of Bowdoln College. It means al most everything to a young man to fall under the influence of such men In hie college course. No one knows anything worth while of education in the United States who has not grasped the signifi cance of great institutions of learning with men at their head like Dr. Hyde and Dr. Benjamin Ide "Wheeler, of Ber keley, who is another contributor to the November Atlantic. Posterity will owe them a greater debt than to Pierpont Morgan with all his wealth and Carnegie wtih all his charities. ready begins to appear. An earnest of it is in President Mitchell's disclaimer. Nor may we forget that the, labor leader is himself a product of condi tions. Why he hates the Armyand the militia Is a little because of. Ijard-heart-edness in the one and snobbery in the other, and 'very much because he has recognized all too clearly In both a per sistent ignoring of his rights and his, ambitions. Society cannot expect mucn of the man It Is" determined to make into an Ishmael. Take Mr. Agitator himself, dress him in good clothes every day, set him down at a banquet with gentlemen once a month, introduce him into the magazines along with preachers "and lawyers and college presidents, have him to dinner at the White House and in a generation you won't know him. He is cbmirig on up' the ladder with the rest of us; and he will not be helped the leasf bit by starvation wages and purse-proud disdain and the badger ing of sharp-tongued lawyers. We are indebted to Senator Burrows, of Michigan, whose arduous labors to preserve the gold standard1 by doing something for silver are still green and painful In memory, for a three-sheeter In colors designed to defeat the cause of Cuban reciprocity, and to creat.e sym pathy for the beet-sugar industry in the United States. The mailing of this paper under Mr. Burrows' frank was synchronous with the arrival of the re doubtable Oxnard at Washington a co- Incidence that may or may not signify. At any rate, it Is gathered from the ex hibits offered that the production of beet sugar In the United States has grown from 1000 tons in 1888 to 185,000 tons In 1901, under all sorts-af tariffs; that while the world's cane sugar has stopped at 3,850,000 tons per five-year period, beet sugar has risen In twenty years from 1,343,000 tons to 6,860,000 tons per five-year period; that the profits of beet-sugar production in the United States have been such as to attract to the business some $50,000,000 or $60,000, 000 of- capital now employed In prepara tion or construction of plants, In actdl tion to the $30,000,000 already at work; that something like $80,000,000 of Amerl- and suppression of versatility, the emas culation of rugged , boisterous virility of mind and body. The city-bred man has courage; he has Indoor brains and talent sometimes, but he is cynical, in different, languid and nonenthuslastic compared with the country-bred man. Mental and moral virility, vivacity. In tense and energetic Individuality, If they do not dwindle and die in cities, are very seldom' born there. From the foundation of the Grovern- ment to the present time the men- who have ruled America in the world of in spiring Ideas and the world of innov ating revolutionary action have nearly all been farm-born and bred. The ex amples of Lincoln and Greeley are fa miliar, but they were only the highest types of .hundreds like them whose Har vard College had been the rude prairies of the West, whose culture had been only such as farm life and labor can give, but was sufficient to teach them what Harvard College had not taught Everett, Choate and Winthrop that men were not cattle, that a human soul, was not a thing to sell or slay like a steer. These farm-bred graduates of the primitive American- common .schools stood up for primitive human rights when New England'college-bred states men were either silent or howled on the hounds that followed the flying ne- ro's track. These farmer-born and red statesmen created an atmosphere of humanity in our politics, and this same type of farmer-born and bred men like Manager Blodgett enforce human ity and' justice In the administration of the railroad business. When we read the brutal answer of President Baer to the striking coal miners, when we read the evidence of gilt-edged depravity in rich circles of New York City revealed in the Mollneux trial, we naturally won der If the spirit of Baer stands for the commercialism of America; If the Moli neux trial fairly reflects the social life of our great cities. Th4 answer is that the excrescences on the American body politic do not .stand fairly for the ruling spirit of American life in business or society. The cities of our land have never ruled our National life. Antaeus is described in Gre"ek mythol ogy as a giant who gathered new strength every time he touched the earth, and so It might be said of Amer ica whenever she seems transiently to dwindle, her strength and spirit are re stored by some stalwart farmer-born and bred son, through whom his coun try renews its touch with the unexhaust ed kindliness of mother earth. Great cities will continue to breed corrupt dudes and great colleges multiply myopic snobs with the fecundity of rab bits; may continue to prove in the pres ent as in the past that mere academical culture cannot nourish moral courage gentle womanliness' and patientjendeav or, waiting for the end. The life of Frances Fuller "Victor Is in itself a history. It 'touched at many vital points the life of a wid.e. section still too new to civilization for its full and permanent history to be written. Those who knew her in theYearlier as well as In the later years know that she was always a. straggler in-theanks of labor, though never an obtrusive one. Disappointment rather than success fol lowed many of her endeavors, but she kept through all a gentle courage, ad- mlrable In the days of her effective strength, and became touched with pathos In the weakness that attended her declining years. Amorig the wide circle of acquaintances formed bv Mrs. Victor during the long years oi' her act ive literary labors she .left many friends who recognized the value of hr work HISTORIAN OP THE NORTHWEST tA. Woman Who Loved Oregon. - Poems, 1831. n . Florence Fane Sketches, 1883-65. The River of the West. 1870... All Over Oregon and Washington, 1872. Woman's War-Against Whisky, 1874. The New Penelope, lSiTl Bancroft History of Oregon, 2" vols., 18S6. Bancroft .History of Washington, Idaho and Montana. Bancroft History of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming. Bancroft History of California, vols. C and-7. History of Early Indian Wars In Oregon. 1893. V -Atlantis Arisen. Poems, 1000. By the death last Friday of Frances Fuller Victor there was" removed the most versatile figure In Pacific Coast literature, a literary pioneer on the Coast, and a woman to whom Oregonians owe much. Frances Fuller N was born in the and admired the sterling qualities of township of Rome, New York, May 23, her character. The voices of her crit ics, never harsh, will now tak on gen tler tones or cease to be heard, and Frances Fuller Victor will take her place among those ho did what they could for those that are to come after them. Awoman so- utterly alone in the world as regards kindred as was Mrs. 1826, and had, therefore, reached the ripe age of 76 years. She was a near relatiqn of Judge Reuben H. Walworth, Chan cellor of the State of New York. Through her ancestor, Lucy Walworth, wife' pf Veach Williams, who lived at Lebanon, Conn., In the early part of the eighteenth century, she could trace her descent from Egbert, the first King of England, while Veach Williams himself was descended " FIVE-MfNUTE BOOK TALKS. Victor Is In her age a pattletlc figure on from Robert Williams, who came over V. Atl TT 1 t . 1 I -r-. . -.nnn 1 f.ii.j T . the dial of time. Her passing Is In the course of Nature, ai)d can only be viewed In the light-of a gentle release from untoward conditions. from England in 1637 and settled at Rox- oury, Mass. q When Mrs. VIctpr was 13 years of age her parents moved to Wooster, O., and her education was received at a young ladles' seminary at that place. Fsom an early age she took to literature and when but 14 years old wrote both prose and verse for the county papers. A little later No. S Of the Imitation of Christ. Thomas a Kempis, that Is to say, Thomas from Kempen. This, his birth place, is near the city of Dusseldorf. Thomas Hammerken's father was a peas ant, married to a frugal wife who taught as dame schoolmistress in addition to heir tolls as the house-mother. Marked out and destined for the devout and Intellect ual life, Thomas was 12 years old when. In 1332, he ffntered as a student the head quarters of the Brethren of the Common Life, at Deventer. In Holland. There were monastic features about this Insti tution, but life there was freer than that of the established orders and without vows. One step more and the outward life of Thomas Hammer ken ended. This was his removal In 1399 to the Convent of Mount St. Agnes, -at Zwolle, Holland, where he died In 1471, at the age of 91. He had lived In years as politically troubled, perhaps, as any since the be ginning of the Christian era, copying manuscripts for his support and sparing tlmeenough-to write three collections or sermons, tracts on the monastic life, some hymns and the Imitation, speaking or this the late Archbishop Trench says it Is "the book, which, after the Bible, we may be bold to say Is dearer to more hearts than any other book in Chris tendom, which has been printed many thousands of times, and for which orders and kingdoms have contended; a book which, despite of all that is wanting to it, deserves the reputation which It has obtained." An anonymous writer, tersely and well, puts his conviction on record that in his work "Of tne imitation oi Christ" Thomas a Kempis sums up "the heart rellsrion of Latin Christianity." A book of the heart indeed, ana nence so NOTE AND C0SIMENT. Pay dirt poll tics, Especially in Colors). A' wedding ring a matrimonial syndi cate. i v The eagle never files so high as whea on n Kola piece. .. Steam heat will do for other days; but Sunday must havean open fire. A musical comedy may be described asi. the place where Jokes go when they die- Now a famine in eggs is announced; 'it has always been a mystery what the chick died of. The 'man who marries and then declaims against women in general proves himself twice a fool the fool he made of himself when he married and the fool his wife knows him to be. A good example of "what "news" is de- manded by the public 'is contained in its dispatch from New Tork that says a maniac who stabbed three people escaped. Not a word about the welfare of the vlo- tims. Two young women were walking down the strt yesterday, and a man who hap pened to have nothing better to do w&3 favored with the following scrap of con versation: "Look at that chap across the way. He looks much like the man I was engaged to first." "Sarah, tell me the truth. How many times have you been engaged?" Dainty finger was laid on rosebud mouth and presently the answer came In perfect The true friends of labor, the cham pions, of Independent manhood, those who find In thrift, economy and personal responsibility the saving grace of hu- the Cleveland Herald paid for her poems widely used; and protracted controversy simplicity: "Why, Jennie not very often, manitv. must nrotest aealnst the reso- some or wnicn were copied m .cngus-i ,r ' Mrs. Victor's younger sister, Metta, who subsequently married a Victor, a brother of Frances husband, was also a writer can capital Is Invested In Cuba and in volved in Its prosperity. These repre- nor hlgh-souled 'humanity, but out of sentations are Interpreted by .the Ox- the ranks of the plain people will con- manlty, must protest against 4he reso lution before the American Federation of Labor which declares that any citi zen who has reached the age of 60 years and whose annual income has been less than $1000 shall be given a life pension of 512 a month. The proposition is ab surd, and Its spirit is belittling to manly endeavor. Its tendency is to discredit saving and put a premium upon un- thrlft to relieve children during their active accumulative years of the filial duty of providing for parents who have spent the returns of their industry upon their offspring. While there Is fortu nately no reason to suppose that this resolution will obtain serious considera tion or indorsement, the spirit that it represents is to be deplored as having found expression before an intelligent body of men, to the possible detriment of the cause which they represent. The popular heart has .been brought to in dorse all legitimate efforts for the im provement of the condition, of work ingmen; It will never respond "aye" to a proposition to sap heir independence and virtually pauperize them in their old age. nard literary bureau as showing the peril and inadvisabillty of granting con cessions on Cuban imports to the United States; but they are readily susceptible of a contrary reading. And If the United States is really able to 'make all the 2,600.000 tons of sugar It consumes an nually, at a fair profit, Is It justified, in shrinking at a moderate concession' to" the unhappy island to the south of us? The bureau s aspersions upon the ne farlousness of this sort of literary activ ity (when. Indulged by opponents of Ox nard) we pass over as of too painful and obvious pertinence. tinue to come the men who, whetherIn peace or war, in business or statesman ship, .will be sure- to ruleand fix our fate. Our strenuous President takes natu rally to strenupus play. There is more method In his bear hunts than the mere fancy of a bellicose temperament. Res pite Is a necessity for the mind of great responsibility and worry, and the essential requisite of its vacations is that they must be absorbing. Rest that only enables a man to think more freely and cogently about his w.ork is not rest at all. It is only a little less mischievous in degree'than the night spent in tor menting dreams of the day's work. It must be- .feared that the President him self does not correctly apprehend the philosophy of rest, for certain of his ut terances convey the impression that he looks upon bear hunts and fierce pleas ures generally as of a higher moral effi ciency than those of the library, for example, or the drawing-room. Herein he shows-the impulsive as distinguished KAR3I-BORX AND WELL-BRED. Among recent notable deaths is that of Philip S. Blodgett, general manager of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He was a native of New Hampphlre, who went West In 1864, when he was21 ears old, worked as a farmhand in Illinois, and then got a place on the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana road, which subse quently became the Lake Shore. From this petty place he worked up until he became" general manager. He was in his 60th year when he died, and was regarded as one of the foremost railway managers in tne country, ana nad a remarkable talent for dealing with worklngmen. It Is written of him that "during times of dispute and strikes and blockades It was his voice and his hand that turned chaos Into order." His last service was in arbitrating the teamsters' strike In Chicago. These are the men that redeem our civilization from the sneer of Europe when it says:. "America has no art or literature that is not a cheap reflection of that of the Old World." There are not. lacking distinguished American crit ics who say our millionaires are not equal to their fortunes. "They live in fine houses and have common thoughts, have costly libraries and cheap culture, and their rich- clothing poorly hides their coarse feeling." Granting that this criticism Is true in measure, never theless the multiplication of such men as- Railway Manager Blodgett dlsprove3 the view that our civilization stands for little besides a Nation of peddlers and traders; It stands far superior to Eu rope In this that we breed, because of our free schools, the largest number of superior men. In England, in spite of from the reflective man we are fast coming to know in him. He does right Its free Institutions, the distinction is to take his bear hunt, and he should still drawn so sharply between, the have his reward. But what Is one man's J -man who Is a gentleman and theman meat Is another man's poison. Cleve- wno 19 cot that the public or "board" A CURIOUS SECT. The Doukhbors originally lived In the heart of the Caucasus Mountains, in Russia. One of the articles of their re ligiftus creed was that they should not bear arms, and because of their refusal to do so they were cruelly persecuted by the Russian government. Count Tolstoi persuaded Canada to accept them as colonists. He paid the expense of their transportation to Canada, and the Canadian government paid a cash bonus of 1 per head, as well as giving them free land. Ten thousand of them came to Canada in 1899 on these terms and settled In several colonies In North western Canada, about 280 miles from Winnipeg. These colonists were sup plied with horses cattle and farm imr plements by Philadelphia Quakers who had become, interested In their welfare. These fanatics abstain from all kinds of animal food, and refuse to wear as clothing any animal product, or to era ploy animals as beasts of burden. In the matter of marriage they are little short of free-lovers. A man takes a woman as a wife, and if, after living with her, Ije finds he does not like her. ne simpiy tens ner so, ana she goes back to her parents. They are a very industrious, energetic people, and the men are of splendid physique, tall, stal wart and handsome. They live under a communal system. Each village has a central treasury or common fund, a common granary, the threshing for which is done by the whole community and the yield pooled. A few of them,.-on their arrival in Canada, realized that their old Ideas must be adapted, to new conditions and have become prosperous, but in two set tlements, one at Swan River- and the other near Torkton, the Doukhbors have clung to their old doctrines: They fol low the dictates of their own consciences and refuse to submit to the authority of the state. In obedience to their faith, lifter keeping their horses and cattle for more than two years, they drove them into the forests and performed all 'the farm work themselves. Women were harnessed to the plows, and young men hauled heavy loads of produce to the market forty miles away. The razing of Trinity Church build ing, just completed, is an example of the inevitable surrender of sentiment when it comes in contact with business. The old church building had its day and tlm& It served faithfully its gen eration and denomination in churchly lines. Bridal parties stepped to the joy ous strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march up its aisles, and funeral pro cessions, headed by the clergyman, re peating with solemn voice, "I am the of marked ability. Between the two a devoted attachment existed, andMn those days the two were ranked with Alice and Phoebe Carey, the four being referred to as Ohio's boasted quartet of sister poets. The Fuller sisters contributed verse to the Home Journal, of New York City, of which N. P. Willis and George Pv Mor ris were then the editors. Metta was known as the "Singing Sybil." In eulogy of the two sisters N. P. Willis at this time writes concerning them: Ono In spirit and equal in genius, these most Interesting and brilliant ladles both still in earliest youth are undoubtedly destined to oc cupy a very distinguished and permanent place among the native TTuthors of this land. In her young womanhood Frances spent a year in New York City amid helpful literary associations. Being urged by their friends the two sisters published together a volume of their girlhood poems in 1851. In the more rigorous self-crltl clsm of later years Mrs. Victor has often called it a mistaken kindness which in duced her friends to advise the publica tion of these youthful productions. But In these verses is to be seen .the. true poetic principle and their earnestness is especially conspicuous. Metta Fuller Victor after her marriage took up her residence in New York City, and continued her Jiterary work' both in prose and In vere'e until her death, number of -years ago. Frances' husband, Henry C. Victor, was a naval engineer and was ordered to California in 1S63. She accompanied him and for nearly two years wrote for the San Francisco pa pers, her principal contributions con sisting' of city editorials to the Bulletin, and a series of society articles under the nom de plume of Florence Fane, which, we are told, Dy tneir numorous mis, elic ited much favorable comment. About the close of the war Mr. Vic-- Resurrection and the Life." nassed through them, in and out, with bowefl tor resigned his position and came to heads. A tender chapter, now joyous, Oregon, where his wife followed him In now pathetic, of community history Is written In the archives of the old church building, which, together with Its un- wrlftiii history, now belongs to the past Agahlt the hopeful, cheerful exhorta tion tl 'look forward, and not back ward,'14 which Is the essence, of spiritual teachings, sentiment protests for a mo ment as the old church building totters to Its fall. But taking counsel of ex perience in the futility of battling against the inevitable, It stifles its pjaint, taking refuge In the assurance that the new will speedily and effect ively supplant the old In a widening field of use and usefulness. 1S65. She has often told how, upon her first arrival in this state, she recognized Uln the tjipe both of the sturdy pioneers OI urcgucranu uicji iiisuiuLiittia auuic thing entirely rJiw to her experiences and at once ditermlVfed to make a close study of Oregon. As she became acquainted with many of threading men of the state, and learned mc.a and more about it, she determined to write Its history and began to collect material for that pur pose. In doing this she iperformed service of inestimable value to the state, since our statebuilders were then nearly all alive and facts concerning the begin nines of tho state were well known to na to Its authorship, which was undis puted until the beginning of the 17th century, leaves the majority of scholars content to Delleve. wun universal jnns- tendom until then, that the little fresh- colored man. with soft brown eyes, or few words and who quietly withdrew from company In which conversation had become lively, who was known as nom as a Kempis, but whose surname was Hammerken, and who spent 2 years in the convent at Zwolle. was Indeed the author of the book usually now, per haps always, printed with his Christian name and birthplace on tne title page. The scholar reads- his Imitation In Latin and finds the copy published by the lead ing Roman Catholic house of New York convenient for the pocket and the study table. Of English editions the name is ledon. and he Is a poor man indeed who doesn't own a copy, that Is, If he wants" one. For a dime or even less it is pro curable at the second-hand stall, where one is apt to "browse"; and such an edi tion as that of Rlvingtons, London, lisi. well eUlted. In compact and durable form. with Biblical references, may be easily picked up. The work Itself the wonder grows that the dignified ecclesiastic and the untu tored religious enthusiast both find spirit ual nourishment in its fervent pages John Wesley, must needs print an edi tion for the use of "the people cauea Methodists." when his "followers had no more than an accidental association, ex cepting In their leaders, with college- bred divines and scholarly tomes and periodicals. The composition of a Ro man Catholic recluse, none the leS Is the Imitation a book for Protestants. The devout believer of every name relisnes, as he- needs, the comfort and succor It brings In the struggle against sin and worldllness, and the means experience finds in It of access to the common father by the faith of the common Chris tianity. It consists of four books: I, Admonitions. Useful for a Spiritual Life; II. Admonitions Concerning Spiritual Thincs: ni. Of Internal Consolation, and IV. Concerning the Communion. In its more than 100 sul&titles the pious reader Is apt to find meditations, counsel, com fort and devotion helpful in thewnany va rious conditions of the Christian life. And the breadth of the book Is the more remarkable as the writer Is stanch to the sacraments and activities of the organ Many of these who decry tradition and demand progress with the chisel marks on It are not aware of the deep debt they owe, to what Is of despised antiquity. When the church bells are ringing the instinct is to take out one's watch and see whether they are on time. Before the modern chronometer is back in Us pocket the mind has slipped away and into a past where love and affection, Joy and pain, high hopes and dear memories wero companions to the house of simple prayer. How many a man will spend a happy mo ment In tho closet of his heart each tlmo the church bells ring. Some day these gentlo reminders of religious duty will cease forever. And a share of our in heritance will be dissipated. A small and Inquisitive youth was taken by his father into the telephone exchange not long ago. The little chap watched proceedings for a while, and as he gazed commenced to rub his left hand up and down on his coat. His father recognized this as o. sign that he 'was puzzled, and asked him what It was that he didn't know. The diminutive questioner pointed a finger at the young woman who sat at tho switchboard and said, "What are them women doing?" "They're making switches," said his father, casting an ad miring glance at one of the fairest of the maidens. The kid stared a little while in silence,, and then said Bhrilly, "Arethem the switches they wears on their heads?" The man laughed and lightly answered that they were. "Well," said the sprig of humanity, "Mamma's in't a bit like that." And all Portland tried to get central for 10 minutes In vain. Mr. Horace Lewis, "the actor,, tells a story on his friend, Edwin Morrison, that illustrates the difficulty artists sometimes have In k&aping up appearances. Morri son was down on his luck, but believed In making a good showing publicly. Hl3 room In New York was not expensive, but In a cood part of the city. One of the stringent rules of the house was that no lzed church; he is no mere mystic, raptj cooking was allowed in the rooms. Mfar- ln individual, exclusive contemplation; while the concern of his earnest pen is for, the reader's right relation with the Supreme, to whom he owes personal con secration and service. rlson emptied his trunk, lined It with oil cloth and placed a gaa stove inside, con nected to a Jet above. This was his kitchen. The suspicions of the landlord had It not been for Mrs. . . . were aroused, and one noon he knocked Volume XIV of the official records of the Union and Confederate Navies In cludes a note found on the Island of St. Simon's, Georgia, April 17, 1863, fastened to a stick In a prominent position on the road. This note, which was directed to the "commander of the Federal forces," and signed William M. Hazzard, is a bitter denunciation or our soimers, who are accused of "desecrating the rraves of our family." The note closes as follows: Beside their graves I swear by heaven to avenge their desecration. If it Is honorable for you to disturb the dead, I shall consider It an honor and will make It my ambition to dis turb your living. I fanpy, sir, the voice of tho departed Issues from their desecrated homes exclaiming that such a Nation may truly say to corruption, thou art my father; t'o dishonor, thou art my mother; vandalism, thou art my ambition! If a Northern Yankee had written this bit of fulminating rhetoric, we should at once suspect that he was better fitted to manufacture blatherskite than to face bullets, but there Isjt type of Southern man who Is a perfect Gascon; he Is as prompt with his sword as he Is with his tongue, and never loses a chance to use either or both against a real or fancied enemy. land is out after ducks, Quay is loung ing in Florida, William was but now frisking with Sir Henry and Bouchelr. Each is at what can engage and hold his attention. Bear hunts would leave the great majority of men with nothing school in England ia. a mock for the upper classes and a synonym for cheap ness and vulgarity. When Wendell Phillips addressed the Boston school children in 1865 he said that the boy who sat- by his side in the public school to keep their minds off the business they bougnt nis dictionary with money had sought to escape. Numbers of gen- earned by picking chestnuts. Phillips tie and upright souls Indulge themselves was the son of a rich man who was at football games, and even prizefights,, then Mayor of Boston, but It was Bos- because In the excitement of the con test they forget their debts, their duties and their troubles. Doubtless it would pall upon the President to sit for hours gazing at the Bay of Naples; yet Shelley did that and was consoled. . Byron swam -theHellespont, andPoe theebblng James, but Wordsworth's joy was In meditation on flower and tree, and, English litera ture doubtless owes as much to Mermaid Tavern as to Sherwood Forest. There ton's pride-to make her public schools so good that no rich man could And a better school than Boston furnished to all her boys, rich and poor. This American free school helps to multiply men of excellent quality, for it gives the American with a thirst suf ficient elementary impulse so that he ,wlll be sure to find the water if he seeks it In earnest Railway Manager Blodg- FRAIVCES FULLER VICTOR. Frances Fuller Victor, whose death occurred in this city Friday afternoon, was a notable figure In. the literary life of Oregon and the Northwest. She was not one of the ?earliest pioneers of the state, but she was a pioneer in its litera ture and one of the earliest compilers of its history. Her style was graceful rather than forceful, and though, from the difficulty experienced In collecting data for her early historical work, this was not always accurate, still it may truly be said that accuracy was Mrs. Victor's aim in her historical work, and If she had been able to revise her 'books, as she fondly desired to do, many errors that unavoidably crept Into them would have been eliminated by her own hand. She had written some before coming to the Pacific Coast in 1863, hen literary efforts up to that time being Last year 5698 soldiers were dis charged for disability or dismissed by order of court-martial, and 4667 de serted. General Corbin Intimates that this startling record for our compara tively small Army Is due to the abolition of -the former privileges of the canteen. Inspector -General Sanger Is of the same opinion, and so is Surgeon-General For- wood. Major Ebert, Chief Surgeon of the Department of the Columbia, re marks that the habits of the men are not up to the standard existing before 189S, or to what they were under the canteen system now abolished. From the Philippines it is reported that in temperance has increased since the post exchange was abolished. ett was a child of- these New England are statesmen in Washington who seek common schools, which were excellent chiefly poetical. She saw, upon her ar surcease 'of labor In jackDOts and red teachers of democratic virtuesfifty years rival in the Pacific Northwest, Its story Take your bear hunt, Mr. Presi- ago. Ninety per cent of the great rail road men of the country were, like Mr. Blodgett, country-born and country bred. The city-born and bred man loses robust vigor of Intellect In the whirl of social life, which is not favorable to liquor. dent, b,ut let the rest of us choose our sport with equal freedom. Attorney Wilcox Is shrewdly pressing home upon President Mitchell the weak- est spot In all the framework and pre- the practice of Indomitable-Industry and tensions of organized labor. This Is Its animus toward the independent work man, and those who'Tecognize his right to prosecute and enjoy the work of his hands. Who can estimate the hostility unions have earned amongthe fair minded by the mere use of thdfce op probriqiis epithets "scab" and "rat"? Who can palliate or condone the simple fact that organized labor looks with dis pleasure upon officers of the law sworn and assigned to Keep tne peace xney hate the militia, they hate the regular unwearied economy. The temptations to habits of self-Indulgence are numer ous; the opportunities for various pleas ures are always present; the pressure to -make a worker a machine rather than a man Is immense and intense. The early influences of city life are so unfa vorable to assertion of independence and individuality of character that rarely does a city-born or bred man become a leader- in any walk of useful and elevat ed outdoor talent. The city training of childhood and youth stands for the ex- Army. They discipline men for joining tinctlon of individuality, the stunting waltlncr to be written, its data (confined mostly to the domain of memory) iiT peril of being lost to history, and with such materials as she could, after much painstaking care collect, she set about the work. "The River or the West," published In 1870, was the first fruit of this endeavor. This was followed, In 1872 by a volume with the comprehensive title, "All Over Oregon and Washing ton," In which such facts as she could collect upon a subject so vast were at tractively set forth. Her diligence In historical research, combined with her ability to present facts of history in an attractive way, secured for her employ ment for a number of years In San Francisco upon the Bancroft historical series. This work ended, she returned to this city, where for several years she has lived in quiet seclusion a life of The restive spirit shown by different branches of the Federated Trades in the matter of control must be curbed or uhfons will soon be fighting among themselves. This seems to be the opin ion of. labor leaders from President Gompers down to the presidents of all local unlona "A word to the wise Is sufficient." Are the men composing the xank and file of labor unions wise? The test of wisdom confronts them. Will they stand It? Their leaders are hope ful. Let us also hope that a labor war within labor ranks will be averted by the timely advice of the great labor chief. The "high-priced meals" taxed up a&alnst the city by jurors of the Mu nicipal Court furnish a sample of the "little leaks" through which the sub stance of the city has been filtered while Its bridges havfe rotted, tottered and fallen. This i3 relatively a little thing, to be sure, but "many a little makes a mlckle," as all economists admit,-and even spendthrifts, when put to the test, must allow. them, which. Victor's efforts would have been lost to posterity. Her first book on the history of Oregon was "The River of the West," a biogra phy of Joseph L. Meek, which was pub lished In 1S70. Many middle-aged Orego nians tell what a delight came to them when in their boyhood and girlhood days they read the stories of the Rocky Moun tain adventures of the old. trapper Meek as recited by this woman of culture and literary training, who herself had taken so great an Interest In them. The book was thumbed and passed from hand to hand as long as It would hold together, and today scarcely a copy Is to be ob tained In the Northwest. Mrs: Victor be fore her death prepared a second edition for the press and it is to be sincerely honed that the work will soon be repub lished. For, intensely Interesting as the "River of the West" is. the chief value of the -work docs not He in this fact, but rather in its value to the historian, Meek belonced to tho age before tne pio neers. It was the trapper and trader who explored the wilds of the West and opened un the way for the immigrant, inai nis torlans are just beginning to work up ihn histnrv of the fur trade in the far West, the number of books in that pad ticular field published within a year will testify. And such men, for instance, as Captain H. M. Chittenden, who last year published his "History of the American Fur Trade in the Far West," freely con fess their indebtedness to Mrs. Victor's 'River of the West" for much of their material. And so the stories of the Rocky Mountain bear-klller Meek, roman tic though many of them are, check with the stories given by other trappers ana traders and "furnish data for an impor tant period in the history of the North west. In 1872 was published Mrs. Victor's sec ond book touching the Northwest, "All Over Oregon and Washington." This work, she tells us In the preface, was written to supply a need existing because of the dearth of printed information con- rpminc- these countries. It contained od servatlons on the scenery, soil, climate and resources of the Northwestern part of the Union, together with an outline nf its earlv history, remarks on its geoi nrrv hntrniv and mlneralosrv and hints to immigrants and travelers. The pre face closes with the prophetic words The beautiful and favored region of the Northwest Coast Is about to assume a com mercial importance which la sure to stimulate inaulry concerning the matters herein treated of. I trust enough is contained between the covers of this book to induce the very curious to come and see. . Her devotion to the Northwest and her Interest in it could not be more clearly expressed than In the words Just quot ed. Her 'interest in the subject led her at a later date to revise "All Over Ore gon and Washington," and to publish It Arisen." In 1874 was published "Woman's War With Whisky," a pamphlet which she wrote In aid of the temperance movement In Portland. Her husband was lo3t at sea In Novdmber, 1S75, and from this time on she devoted herself exclusively to literary pursuits. During her resi dence In Oregon she had frequently writ ten letters for the San Francisco Bui letln and sketches for the Ov.erland Monthly. These sketches, together .with some poems, were puonsnea m lsu in-a volume entitled "The New Penelope." This last volume was printed by the Bancroft publishing establishment in San Francisco. The Bancrofts were an Ohio family of Mrs. Victor's early acquaint ance", and Hubert Howe Bancroft laid before her his plan for writing the his- To quote from the Imitation Is by no means an easy thing. If this be done with discrimination and judgment. Possibly the following, from chapter 21, of book III, may be regarded as a sort of key to the whole contents: "Above all things, and in all things. O my soul, thou shalt rest In the Lord always, for he himself Is the everlasting rest oi me sainis. urtnii. me. w umai sweet and loving Jesus, to rest in thee. above all creatures, above all health and beauty, above all glory and honor, above all power and dignity, above all knowl edge and subtilty, above all riches and arts, above all Joy and gladness, above all fame and praise, above all sweetness, ana comfort, above all hope and promise, above all desert and desire, above all gifts and benefits that thou canst give and im part unto us, above all mirth and Joy that the mind of man can receive ana feel: finally above angels and archangels. and above all the heavenly host, above all thlnra visible and invisible, and abov( all that thou art not, O my God." Chapter 54 of the third book presents a masterly analysis in antithetical form Of the Different Stirrings of Nature and Grace." 'Tis here that Is said: "Nature is unwilling and loth to die, or to bo kept down, or to be overcome, or to be in subjection, or readily to be subdued: but grace studietn seir-morim cation, reslsteth sensuality, seeketh to be In subjection, is desirous to be kept under. and wlsheth not to use her own liberty. She loveth to be kept under discipline. and deslreth not to rule over any, but always to live and remain and be under God. and for God's sake Is ready humbly to bow down unto all. Nature stlrreth for her own advantage, and consldereth what profit she may reap by another; grace consldereth not what is profitable and convenient unto herself, but rather what may be for the good of many. Nature will ingly recelveth honor and reverence; grace faithfully attributeth all honor and glory unto 'God. The substance of the concluding sec tion of tne dook nas been oiten ex pressed, but where else so well? "All reason and natural, search ought to follow faith, not to go before It, nor to break in upon it. For faith and love do here specially take the lead and work In hidden ways, in this most holy, most supremely excellent sacrament. God, who Is eternal and Incomprehensible, and of infinite. power, doeth things great and un searchable in heaven and In earth, and there is no tracing out of his marvelous works. If the works of God were such us that they might be easily comprehend ed by human reason they could not be Justly called marvelous or unspeakable." HENRY G. TAYLOR. Concluded on Page 7.) N A Vlllanelle at Verona. Century. A' voice in the scented night, A stop where the rose trees blow O Love, and O Love's delight! Cold star at the blue "vault's height. AVhat Is-lt that shakes you so? A voice in the scented night. She conies in her beauty bright, She comes In her young love's glow ,0 Love, and O Love's delight! She bends from her casement white, And she hears It. hushed and low, A-voice in the scented night. And he climbs by that stairway slight Her passionate Romeo: O Love, and O Love's delight! And it stirs us still In spite Of its "ever so long ago," That voice In the .scented nlsht;' O Love, and O Lovers delight! on the door of Morrison's room just as some -liver and bacon were frying on one side, and a pot of coffee was making on the other. The astute actor winked at Lewis, turned off the gas, dropped the rubber tubing Into the trunk, closed the latter, sat down on it and yelled, "Come Inl" The landlord, whom Mr. Lewis de scribes as a lady-llko man, came In. and sniffed the air suspiciously. "Mr. Morri son, sir, you know the rules of the house about cooking?" "Yes, I do. Not allowed, I believe." "But, sir, I distinctly smell It here, have smelt It, sir, several times." Morrison took a turn at sniffing the air and failed to find any trace of obnoxious vapor. Then he assumed an attitude of injured innocence, and said: "See here, where do you suppose I would do my cooking? In my trunk? What do you mean?" And after the landlord had retired with apologies, the trunk was opened and the cooking finished. The London Critic publishes "a, conver sation at Sklbo Castle," apropos of the recent visit paid to Mr. Carnegie by King Edward: (BEFORE HIS MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL.) Mr. Carnegie. Dear me, what did I say in "Triumphant Democracy" about kissing the hand of royalty? (Refers to the book) "Tho man who feels as he ought to feel would smile and glva It a hearty shake or knock his Royal Highness down." Perhaps I'd better shake It. (ON ARRIVAL.) H. M. (extending his hand) Pleased to meet you, Mr. Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie (shaking it heartily) Thank you. sir. H. M. You have a fine place here, Mr. Carnegie. Balmoral Is nothing to it, but then we're jroor people. Mr. Carnegle-Ah! Your Majesty, you should .have tried iron works, they pay better than monarchy. As the poet says: Pig iron is more than coronets, And rolling mills than Norman blood. Your Majesty did not begin rightly for colossal wealth; the only way to get that is to start with half a crown. Your Majesty has a whole one. M. What Is- your rule of life, Mr. Carnezic? Mr. Carnegie It' may be summed up In the phrase, '-'When In doubt, found a li brary." I And the rule admirable, and most restful. If I receive a begging letter, and don't know how to reply to It, I found a library, and when that Is over the solution is simple. If I miss a train, I found a library. If dinner is late, I found a library- The- other night " I couldn't sleep; I got up and founded three libraries. On wet days, when X can't play golf, It's something fearful the number of libraries I found. The past Summer has much to answer for. H. M. You wrote a book, I believe, Mr. Carnegie, called "Triumphant Democ racy." .(Mr. Carnegie winces.) I haven't rea'd it (he revives), but I understand you contrast the condition of affairs under a republic and under a monarchy. In what way do you think a republic superior? Mr. Carnegie I don't. I did once, but I hadn't met Your Highness then.