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PORTLAND, SUXDA.T, JANUARY 11.
A SXAXLT PROTEST.
Dr. John Bascom, former president of
the University of "Wisconsin, In a recent
address to the Wisconsin Teachers' As
sociation at Milwaukee said:
No money that is obtained at the expense of ,
the people can ever be used for tho good of the
people. There are no trusts in the Intellectual
world, and no corners in the kingdom of
heaven. I doubt the power of any university
or college or theological seminary to turn
money that has been made at the expense of
the community Into the welfare of the commu
nity The taint of a bad temper will cling to
It, will lurk in it like a flavor in an unclean
Infusion.
Dr. Bascom is an old-fashioned New
England man who always thinks
straight and speaks plain, and he fur
ther said that he had reference to the
Chicago University and its gifts from
John D. Rockefeller. Dr. Bascom holds
that when a college accepts money
which has been gained In direct defi
ance of the laws It vitiates its Influ
ence In the minds of the students. The
money- of Rockefeller Is Ill-gotten at
the direct expense of the people. The
practices of the Standard Oil Company
are directly contrary to law, both eth
ical and statutory, and "the college
which accepts the profits from such
practices accepts a portion at least of
the responsibility for the act whereby
it was gained." The Springfield Repub
lican says that the great wealth of Mr.
Carnegie, another large giver to col
leges, has not been wholly derived from
tariff protection; that Mr. Carnegie used
to enjoy special railroad favors, such
as formed a considerable part of the
Illegitimate basis of Mr. Rockefeller's
fortune.
No matter whether Professor Bas
com's arrow hits one or both of these
multi-millionaires, it was well sHot and
has taken effect in Mr. Rockefeller's
university at Chicago. The galled jade
winces; the wounded bird fiuttera
These professors and various officials of
the Chicago University evidently feel
that the blow struck by this old man
eloquent, Dr. Bascom, will be sure to
echo around the whole educational
world of the country. Dr. Bascom as an
educator and political economist stands
in the front rank, and a man of his
age and eminence cannot be whistled
down the wind as a reckless, flippant
critic.
The criticism of Dr. Bascom Is both
Just and timely, for the colleges of the
country are showing altogether too
much obsequiousness to very rich men
who are credited with ill-gotten wealth.
It may not be In good taste for a col
lege to hasten to confer degrees upon
leading politicians and popular military
heroes, but it is not half so disreputa
ble as this worship of rich men by col
leges to whose sack the millionaire has
contributed liberally of his shekels. Sir
Robert Walpole boasted that every man
in the British Parliament of George ITs
day had his price. It begins to look as
if the multi-millionaire could say that
everything in America had' its price.
Jay Gould found out that the pulpit had
Its price; if Rockefeller should die to
morrow not a pulpit in the land that
had received any of his "pork" would
Tefuse to whitewash him; the multi
millionaires have found out that not
only churches, but colleges, have their
price. The dirty finger of King Midas
tarnishes everything in our American
Ufa
Professor Bascom indignantly tells
these colleges that if they share the
swag1 they cannot escape some of the
infamy that attaches to the theft, and
he Is right Rockefeller and Carnegie
are cunning in their gifta They know
that gifts to colleges and churches and
town libraries spike some of the Influ
ential batteries of public opinion. They
are buying fulsome panegyrics and flat
ulent puffery for today and purchasing
masses for their souls tomorrow. There
is no sort of doubt but that the pulpit
and college have both become more
notably servile to very rich men than
they were fifty years ago, and Professor
Bascom has done his day and genera
tion a service in sharply rebuking It.
lien of learning and the institutions
they represented used to respect them
selves as entirely superior to great
riches. The "poor scholar" felt rich in
his own right of high Intelligence, but
the college today cringes 'cap in hand
to ill-gotten wealth.
We can get consideration at Wash
ington by going after it, as is shown in
the case of the Columbia River im
provement "Vigilance in one's own in
terest pays. The dredge for the bar and
the report on the jetty would probably
have been forthcoming in the course of
time, anyway, but too late to be of ser
vice this year, and perhaps for next
year and the year after. Senator Mitch
ell's activity in the matter has given us
a reasonable prospect of relief this year.
Theee efforts must be followed up, how
ever. If the desired end Is to be
achieved. Other localities and other in
terests press for consideration, and we
are likely to be overlooked if we have
not sufficient concern to urge our own
cause. Now something should be done
to get those strong-minded engineers,
who are sitting on the jetty plans, to
come to an agreement. Their strong
mindedness doubtless gives much joy to
opponents of the Columbia River, but
there is a way to make these ponderous
bodies move, and it is about time to In
sist on action of some sort. We have
waited with great patience. In all these
matters vigilance and ceaseless activity
will bring results.
STILL ERECTING SCARECROWS.
The Wilson organs of Seattle and Ta
conia are greatly distressed over the
prospect that Washington may elect a
Senator disposed to be fair to the Inter
ests of the great Columbia Basin, in
which three-fourths of the State of
Washington lies. They want a man
who is chained to their little corner of
the state and who can be depended
upon to pull for Puget Sound, regard
less of the great producing country of
the Interior. They want a man who
will put every possible obstacle in the
way of Columbia River commerce,
though fetters be thereby riveted upon
the inhabitants of three-fourths of their
own state. And why? Well, in the
first place, they are wedded to the Idea
that Portland should be punished be
cause it occupies a position 'commanding
the commerce of the Columbia Valley.
It must be observed, however, that they
require the producers of the Interior
continually to dig In their pockets to
pay the costMf punishing Portland. In
the second place, they are wedded to
the idea that the only man who can
represent Washington .properly In the
United States Senate is that eminent
carpet-bagger, the Honorable Johnny
Wilson, resident of Spokane, and news
paper publisher in Seattle. ,
One of the Puget Sound papers shiv
ers at the idea of choosing a Senator
who Is not Interested in opening the Co
lumbia River but would be likely to act
with the dreadful railroads In keeping
the stream rock-bound. Work toward
such choice, It says, Is a shameless con
spiracywhen it Is not directed to
the election of a Puget Sound poli
tician. Another of the organs is sure
the Southern Pacific Railroad controls
the Walla Walla candidate; the South
ern Pacific think of it! which Is tied
to San Francisco and Portland, and
which, if it should ever enter the State
of Washington, would wither, the whole,
country. That Influence is wholly per
nicious and debasing, but their own
railroad-owned and railroad-promoted
candidate, how truly lovely he Is!
Of course, the Puget Sounders erect
these scarecrows for the purpose of
holding their cinch on the Interior
country. With transportation rates
down to the figure that would be In
troduced by a free river, their mountain
railroads could not afford to climb the
range with the traffic that now goes
that way. The river would then exert
its full Influence and the producers and
consumers of the Columbia Basin would
gain Immensely. That result will not
come through railroad" competition
only the open river will bring it. And
only those who have interests to be
benefited by the open river will work
for it. Portland gladly joins hands with
the citizens of Eastern and Southern
Washington and Idaho for a free chan
nel to the sea. The people have a right
to demand it, the people of Washington
and Idaho as well as those of Oregon.
The hallow pretense of a hostile rail
road Influence will not long serve to
scare all Washington Into the Puget
Sound corral. The Prometheus of the
Columbia Basin will not always be
bound to the Mount Caucasus of the
Cascades.
And then, why should Puget Sound
object to the opening of the Columbia?
Isn't Puget Sound the only real port in
the world, and can it not afford to
humor the whim of the people of three
fourths of the state, who imagine they
need the relief that a free river would
give them?
PATHETIC AND PERPLEXING.
Pension Commissioner Ware le wrest
ling mightily and manfully with a
proposition that made the days of his
predecessor full of care and his nights
devoid of ease. The old soldiers" of the
Pension Bureau, incapacitated through
age and Infirmity, present in the eager
ness with which they cling to clerkships
in that department a spectacle at once
pathetic and perplexing. Plainly speak
ing, they cannot do the work required
of them; yet the work must be done, and.
without the expense Incident to hiring
two men on regulation salaries to do
the work of,, one man. In the ordinary
course of nature very few of these old
men have any one dependent upon their
earnings but themselves. This simplifies
the matter in one way, yet in another it
seems to complicate it, since they are
practically without homes except as
their earnings supply them. The move
ment to keep them in employment at
lower pay seems the best and indeed the
only way out of the dilemma, as per
emptory dismissal is not to be thought
of. This compromise, however, is ex
ceedingly distasteful to the veterans in
the Pension Office, not so much, per
haps, because they cannot maintain
themselves on the decreased pay as be
cause of their repugnance to the idea
that their effective earning days are
over. From the standpoint of the
younger man the old man ought to ac
cept the decree of nature stoically, if
not cheerfully, since it is the common
lot. Such humiliation as follows indus
trial incapability is, or should be, elim
inated when age is the disabling force.
Yet -when all is said and done, 'the fact
remains that the question of disability
from age is a most perplexing one. The
Civil Service Commissioner dealt with
this matter In his recent report in terms
that disclosed at once the desire of the
responsible man to do his duty by the
Government, and that of the sympa
thetic men to deal kindly with men who
in their age must continue the work of
their more effective years.
The lesson in all of this is to the
young and middle-aged, who still have
before them the opportunity to save of
their productive years something for the
winter of life. It Is said that a number
of the old men who occupy clerks' posi
tions in the various departments at
Washington have been in the service
for-a core of years and more at an an
nual salary of $1800. No doubt had
they been less confident of holding their
positions for life, they would not now
face aj-eduction of their pay empry
handed, but would have had to their
credit In bank modest savings that
would have insured their comfort for
their remaining years and made the
prospect of well-earned rest pleasing In
stead of distressing.
This touches one of the evils of the
civil service system and of any Indus
trial pension system which It Is Impossi
ble to eliminate. No wage-earner Is
likely to save against a contingency
from which he Is protected by a suffi
cient guarantee against want.
NOT A PURITAN.
Emereon shudders over Shakespeare
because his occasional robust, spon
taneous Saxon rankness makes Emer
son's delicate flesh creep. Shakespeare
was a practical, full man of the world
as well as a poet; was manager of a
theater, actor, poet, social wit and cour
tier; a man of mental and moral versa
tility, and because he could do many
things and relish much company that
Emerson shrank from, Emerson shud
dered as he read and distrusted Shakes
peare; he felt his oceanic genius, but
he evidently suspected that Shakespeare
led a comparatively vulgar life; he dis
trusted Shakespeare because the great
dramatist seemed to him to rest with
"the symbol; with the festal beauty of
the world." Shakespeare, Emerson
thinks, was not wise for himself; he did
not lead a beautiful life, but ate, drank
and reveled with all manner of per
sons and quaffed the carnal cup of life
with gusto and relish. Emerson did not
understand Shakespeare's limitations;
he was a great poet, a man of Incar
nated imagination and color, throbbing
with passion. He was not a priest at
all, while Emerson was a cross between
a poet and prie3t like Wordsworth or
Whittler. If Shakespeare had been all
that Emerson wished, he would have
been less of a poet but more of a formal
prophet and preacher.
Leslie Stephen la his essay, "Shakes
peare as a Man," holds that the kind of
man he was is clearly revealed In his
plays. His plays show that he was a
man of vivid, subtle mind, with a
unique power of blending the tragic and
the comic His plays make clear that
he possessed an accurate knowledge of
field sports. The description of the
voices of the hounds In the hunt in "A
Midsummer Night's" Dream" could only
have been written by a sportsman. It
Is clear from his plays that Shakespeare
had the intense love of nature married
to deep sympathy with man you find In
all large, contemplative natures. His
love of flowers blooms forth In many of
his plays; his description of the wrath
of the mighty sea Is the grandest pass
age in "Henry IV." His knowledge, ob
servation of, love of the beauty of out
door nature crops out In "The Tem
pest," in "The Merchant of Venice," In
"Cymbellne," In "Lear," In "Hamlet,"
In "Romeo and Juliet." In "Macbeth"
Banquo drops words of sympathy with
the birds and the pure air that sur
rounds the marten's haunta Perdlta
and Ophelia scatter flowers; Romeo and
Juliet describe the coming of sunrise on
the mountains In language that shows
not only poetic eloquence but the keen
power of observation that is born of ex
perience, not simply of imagination.
It is clear that Shakespeare was fond
of convivial meetings at taverns. He
was certainly hostile to the Puritans be
cause the Puritans viewed his calling
with moral horror and treated Its
votaries with contempt He was, of
course, a courtier because the theater of
his day depended upon the patronage of
the court and the nobility for its sup
port. This was not only true of the
stage, but of general literature. It was
as late as the day of Queen Anne before
an English author grew rich out of his
books without the solicited patronage of
the nobility. In any event however,
Shakespeare would have been hostile to
Puritanism, for he had a large, tolerant
nature, the very antithesis of a Purl
tan, and In 'any event he would have
been an intellectual aristocrat who be
lieved that the cultivated and Intelli
gent should rule and the common herd
have small voice in public affaira In
this hostility to Puritanism and con
tempt for the mob Shakespeare was In
sympathy with the two great humorists
of the sixteenth century, Montaigne and
Cervantes. Shakespeare's plays thus
reveal that he was a humorist, an in
tense lover of natural beauty, a scorner
of pedantic scholars or theologians, a
man taking a tolerant view of human
nature and radically opposed to Puri
tanism, or any sort of fanaticism; a
man of popular sympathies, but dis
trustful of popular rule. Mr.' Stephen
recalls that Emerson could not
marry the fact that Shakespeare was a
jovial actor and manager to his verse,
to the theory of life implied by his writ
ings? It seemed to Emerson incongru
ous that the best of the world's poets
should have led an "obscure and pro
fane life, using his genius for the public
amusement" Mr. Stephen points out
that Shakespeare was a money-saver,
an evidence of worldly prudence and
self-restraint which implies that he did
not drive his life with a loose rein. His
power of intellect and imagination evi
dently lifted him equally above gross
sensualism and acrid Puritanism. He
must have led a wise, well-ordered life
to retire with a competence before he
was 50. He must have had a good deal
of the home wisdom of Franklin in
him, which made that philosopher retire
from business at 40 with the conviction
that he had made money enough.
Franklin had wit and humor, but lacked
the poetic Imagination; nevertheless In
their serene good humor, their toler
ance and their hostility to Puritanism,
Franklin and Shakespeare were not
very far apart In their philosophy of
life.
Emerson makes the common mistake
of expecting a man to be at least as
good if not better than his book. As a
matter of fact, a man may be better
than his book or he may be a good deal
worse than his book. In some men the
artist and the poet are absolutely sep
arate, while in other men they are In
extricably blended. Thackeray as a
man was as good as his books, but
Dickens was not as good a man as his
books foreshadowed. What was called
conviviality In Shakespeare's day was
nothing but the ordinary habit of good
society, and, measured from this point
of view, it is probable that Shakes
peare's life was that of a temperate, cir
cumspect man who habitually practiced
self-restraint There Is every reason to
believe that Shakespeare's life was bet
ter than that of Goethe; there Is no rea
son to believe that it was a dissolute or
dishonorable life. There Is no reason
for believing that there was the same
violent contrast between Shakespeare's
life and his poetry that there was be
tween the . life of Goldsmith and his
works. Shakespeare for his day proba
bly lived the same large, free, tolerant
life that we find In Franklin; a very
large, calm, versatile brain married to
a good-humored spirit is apparent in
both of these remarkable men, and
there is every reason for believing that
Shakespeare, measured by his time,
lived as wise and well-ordered a life as
Benjamin Franklin.
In an article entitled "The War
Against Disease," contributed to the
current number of the Atlantic by C. E.
A. Winslow, a just tribute Is paid to the
inestimable value of Dr. Jenner's dis
covery of vaccination. Smallpox has
been so held in check by vaccination
that Its horror is forgotten. Two hun
dred years ago every one had smallpox,
first or last, as children have the
measles today. From palace to hovel
none was safe. King William III of
England lost. -by smallpox his father.
his mother, his wife, Queen Mary; his
uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, and his
cousins, the eldest son and the young
est daughter of James IL He himself
barely survived his own attack through
the personal devotion of a gentleman,
of his court, who nursed him night and
day. In Iceland in 1707 out of a popula
tion of 50,000 over 18,000 perished by
smallpox. In Mexico 3,500,000 people
were suddenly smitten down. In the
last thirty years of the eighteenth cen
tury about one-tenth of the Inhabitants
died of the smallpox, and among Its vic
tims was Louis XV of France. Medical
skill and sanitary science were of no
avail until In 1798 Edward Jenner, a vil
lage doctor, suggested the practice of
vaccination. In the City of Berlin 3422
In every million of the population died
of smallpox per annum from 1781 to
1S05,' before the Introduction of vaccina
tion; from 1810 to 1S50 the average num
ber of yearly deaths was 176. In Swe
den the yearly death rate from 1774 to
1501 was 2050; from 1810 to 1850 It was
158. Germany, by the enforcement of
the most rigid system of vaccination In
the world, reduced Its smallpox death
rate for 1895-99 to less than one In 2,000,-
000 of population. England and Amer
ica suffer from smallpox more than
Germany because a portion of the com
munity Is allowed to neglect this simple
prophylactic.
Henry Phlpps, of New York, who,
with Mr. Carnegie, made an immense
fortune in the steel business. Is, like his
late partner, exceedingly generous with
his money. Mr. Phlpps latest benefac
tion took the form of a contribution of
$300,000 for the establishment of an In
stitution In Philadelphia for the treat
ment and study of consumption. Dr.
Flick, a specialist of that city, has
demonstrated that tuberculosis is a cur
able disease, and he Is firmly convinced
that with proper equipment It could be
completely stamped out of Pennsyl
vania in a few years. His plan Is not
to attempt to fly from germs that are
at work sapping the strength and un
dermining the vitality of the sufferer,
but to make a stand and fight them
with sunlight, life In the open air, a
nourishing diet and the avoidance of
bodily fatigue and mental depression.
Mr. Phlpps' generosity in support of
this Idea cannot fall to be a benefit to
mankind, since it will make possible a
retreat" for the consumptive poor of a
'great city and state who are most sorely
in need of assistance.
Mr. Prouty, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, In his recent .address
before the American Economic Associa
tion declared that publicity of rates has
been absolutely futile, as against the
disposition of monopoly- arbitrarily to
advance rates. The rate on grain from
the Mississippi River to New York Is
today nearly double what It was In 1899
The combined anthracite coal roads
have within three years Increased the
cost of coal to consumers from $1 to $2
a ton, and the market value of Reading
common stock has Increased 545,000,000,
or about 300 per cent. The Commis
sioner continued.:
The railroad is the greatest and the most dan
gerous of all monopolies. If the anthracite
coal combine advances the price of that com
modity to the consumer $1 per ton It levies
upon the property of this country, which uses
that coal, a tax of $50,000,000 annually in favor
of the wealth that engineered and profits by
that combine.
Major-General George W. Davis, U. S.
A., and Lleutenant-General Miles are
bitter enemiea General Davis, then a
Major, was on detail In the War De
partment throughout the last Cleveland
Administration as Secretary Lamont's
military adviser. A letter was sent to
the War Department by one of the mili
tary committees of Congress Inquiring
if General Miles' military services in the
Civil War warranted the revival of tho
grade of Lieutenant-General for his
benefit Major Davis drafted a reply
which very distinctly asserted that
General Miles' Civil War record Was not
commensurate with such rank, and the
Secretary adopted Davis' draft and sent
it to the committee with the signature
of the Secretary of War. His reply
was made the pretext for killing the
bill. Miles did not reach the grade of
Lieutenant-General until six or seven
years afterward.
Mrs. Llsetta RIst, an Englishwoman
recently deceased, expressed in her will
her sympathy for overworked horses In
a very practical way. Mrs. Rlst lived
In Islington and noticed in her journey
ings to and from London the tortures
Inflicted on the omnibus horses, who
were scourged Into drawing heavy loads
up the Incline of the road in muddy
weather. Under her will the sum of
$7500 was bequeathed as an investment,
the interest of which was to be devoted
each year to graveling certain portions
of the road where the mud Is deepest
and keeping it In repair between No
vember and April of each year. This Is
one of the largest legacies ever left by
any one for the benefit of animals, and
attests In an efficient way the humane
instincts that prompted It
Hon. John Barrett Is doing a great
work for Oregon 'and the Pacific Coast
generally. The exhibits which through
his efforts will find their way from
Asiatic countries to St Louis, thence to
Portland In 1905, will place us In com
merclal touch with countries that have
heretofore existed to us only In name.
Mr. Barrett's success In this field goes
to show that a man can serve his coun
try and state upon occasion without
saying "by your leave" to local poll-
ticlana
It is very evident that the officers of
the National Livestock Association, at
Kansas -City, recognize Portland's call
for the meeting next year. Indeed, the
press dispatches seem almost to concede
that Portland will get the big meeting.
This Is due to activity of Oregon live
stock men, at the head of whom. In this
work, Is C. J. Millls, "livestock agent of
the O. R. & N. Co.
Montana legislators spurn a cheap In
sult like a 60-day railroad pass. But
an annual is quite a different matter.
That's an honor and It entitles the rail
road giving It to at least respectful consideration.
HOW BAD PUBLIC SERVANTS HANG 0 N
Chicago Inter Ocean.
It Is not In Chicago alone that difficulty
Is experienced In ousting unworthy public
servants who have proved themselves
false to their trust All over the country
there seems to be the same trouble.
Men who are dismissed from the public
service because of corruption or Incom
petency simply go before the nearest
Chancellor and secure an injunction re
straining their superiors from completing
the act of removal. Eventually, o course,
a majority of such cases are decided
against the discharged employe, but in
the meantime action Is delayed and the
moral effect of peremptory punishment is
lost
New York has recently had a series of
struggles to evict from office police func
tionaries who were proved to be guilty of
corruption. The accommodating Chancel
lor was always on hand with the restrain
ing writ, and it has taken months to ac
complish what the law Intended to be done
peremptorily.
Indiana Is enjoying a similar experience
In the case of the Sheriff of Sullivan
County, who was removed from office by
the Governor because he permitted the
lynching of a prisoner In his custody. The
law is unmistakable. It Is not only the
right but the duty of the Governor to re
move the Sheriff. The Legislature made
the statute explicit with a view to stop
ping the lynching of prisoners who were
under the protection of officers of the law.
But the Sheriff simply ignores tho law
and produces the inevitable Injunction to
restrain the Governor from removing him.
No one can tell when the matter will be
decided.
All these episodes appear to Indicate
that statute law is becoming of less and
less authority, and that so-called "equity"
proceedings, which Involve nothing save
the personal opinion or prejudice of a
Chancellor, are to constitute the actual
jurisprudence of the country.
It remains to be seen whether this con
summation will be accepted by the people
as desirable. There are some Indications
which point to a negative conclusion.
President and the Trnats.
New York Evening Post.
Dr. Albert Shaw, in his Century article
on "The President and the Trusts," In
nocently sets forth the disillusionment of
Mr. Roosevelt In that matter. He says
'it Is understood" and when a man who
writes as an. Intimate friend of the Pres
ident says that. It may be taken as offi
cialthat the President frankly talked
over his trust views a year ago with
"men thoroughly representative of the
great Industrial combinations." They "af
fected, at xeast, to accept without dis
favor" all that was-said In Mr. Roosevelt's
first message. The President also thought
that he had the "concurrence of some of
the foremost financiers ard leaders In the
.trust movement" in his proposal of a
Constitutional amendment to give Con
gress more power over trusts. Imagine,
then, his surprise and pain when "news
paper organs that they were said to con
trol," as well as their "personal and po
litical representatives." took up a posi
tion of "concerted hostility toward the
President." All this sounds amateurish
In tho extreme. Did the President think
the trusts would care two straws what
he said In his message, so long as they
could make sure that Congress would do
nothing? Did he not suspect a smile
larking behind the gravity of the foremost
financiers when they expressed a willing
ness to adjourn the whole thing to the
Greek Kalonds of a Constitutional amend
ment? Message us all the messages you
like, say the trusts to Mr. Roosevelt, but
touch us or our protection tariff at your
peril. He Is wiser now than he was In De
cember of 1S01: and his message of 1902 j
is naturany saaaer. jur. anaw s connaen
tial revelations light up the situation with
a charming simplicity.
Dooley on "Women's nights."
Woman's rights? What docs a woman
want lv rights whin she has prlvieges?
Rights Is th last thing we get In this
wurruld. They're th' nex' thing to
wrongs. They're wrongs turn-ned inside
out. Wo have th right to be sued f r
debt Instead iv lettin th bill run. which
Is a priviege. We have th right to thrlle
be a jury lv our peers, a right to pay
taxes an a right to wurruk. None iv
these things Is anny good to me. They'ea
no fun in thlm. All th' r-rights I Injye I
don't injye. I injye th right to get money,
but 1 niver have had anny money to splnd.
Th' constlchooslon guarantees me th
right to life, but I die; to liberty, but I
thry beln' too free I'm locked up; an' to
th' pursoot if happiness, but happiness
has th right to run whin pursood, an I've
nlver been able to three her yet Here I
am at Iver so manny years Iv age bloown
an' exhausted be th chase, an' happiness
is still able to do her hundred yards In
tin mlnylts flat whin I approach. I'd give
all th rights I read about for wan Drlv'
lege. If I cud go to sleep th mlnylt I go
to bed I wudden't care who done me
votln.
No, sir, a woman don't need rights.
Th' pope, Imprors, kings an' women have
privileges; ordhln'ry men has rights. Ye
niver hear lv th"Impror of Rooshya de
mandln' rights. He don't need thlm In
hlti wurruk. An' so It Ls with women.
They haven't th' right to vote, but they
have thf prlv'lege lv conthrollln' th man
ye illlct. They haven't th' right to make
laws but they have th' priviege iv break
in tnlm, which is betthcr. They haven't
th right lv a fair thrile be a jury iv their
peers, but they have th' prlv'lege lv an
unfair thrlle be a jury lv their admlrln'
lnfeeryors. If I cud fly d'ye think I'd
want to walk?
Oar Dwindling Timber Supply.
New York Journal of Commerce.
The most competent authority on ques
tions of the timber supply has just de
clared that the total wood consumption of
the United Stataes ls 25.000,000.000 cubic
feet, of which over 7,000,000,000 Is log-size
material, per annum. He added that an
estimate of the present stand of virgin
timber in the United States ready to sup
ply the demand for lumber brings out the
Improbability, If not impossibility, of meet
ing the increasing demand for another 20
years under present methods of utiliza
tion. Even If the entire forest area of
500,000,000 acres was supposed to be still
fully stocked with the average stand per
acre, which ls, of course, absurd, the stock
on hand would be exhausted within that
period. Unfortunately, no efforts to secure
better forest management or greater econ
omy In the use of timber can greatly delay
the Impending exhaustion of our wood sup
ply, and in the light of tnese facts the
folly of permitting the opposition of a few
lumbermen to operate as one of the rea
sons against the conclusion of a reciproc
ity treaty with Canada becomes monu
montal. Moving: Upward Steadily.
Detroit Free Press.
There was never a time before when so
great a part of the energy of all man
kind was devoted to peaceful pursuits. To
be sure, this condition la not permanent,
and no man can say when this peace will
be shattered and the armies of the nations
meet on a new Armageddon, but a con
dition is a condition, and whoever careful
ly examines tHe map of the hemispheres
today must carry away with him the con
viction that, however crude the method
may be, the peoples of the earth are slow
ly working their way toward the parlia
ment of mankind and the federation of
the world.
Xeiv Route to Army Promotion.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
unmgs seem to dc cnanged ir a young
man can get an Army commission more
promptly by enlisting and working up
from the ranks than by going through
West Point If the son of an Army officer
who has resigned, from West Point. to en
list In his- father's troop makes It jvork
successfully It may make Army service
more popular, and. In addition, give a
pointer to the Navy.
FIVE-MINUTE BOOK TALKS. j
Xo. 10 The Complete Angler. j
Angling has its proper season; literature J
has all seasons for its own, whatever may j
be its class or object So. even amid the
snows of the nascent year, the time Is
right for a talk about "The Complete
Angler" and Its amiable author. The book
is the man in a degree unusually full. As
Izaak Walton Intended that It should be,
it Is a picture of himself, autobiographical
of the real, the Interior man who wrote
It. Its pages accordingly breathe out the
placid content simplicity, unworldliness,
genial wisdom, poetic appreciation of nat
ural sights and sounds, gentleness and
sympathy, and serene piety which marked
the angler himself. It takes the reader
away from towered cities beside the wat
ers of pleasantness to be benevolently
and Gcd-fearlngly happy, in edifying com
panionship with friend3 of like mind; in
dolent but sweetly occupied, at peace with
self, the world and the Creator; ready at
proper times for shaded rest and refresh
ment by the river's brink, or for a feast
on freshly-caught fish and a modest
"quencher" at the country tavern, and ex
pediently to lodge between the lavendered
sheets of its spotless chambers. Passages
of natural description, curious statements
of natural history, odd conceits and fan
cies, morallzings and devout reflections,
all spontaneous as the music of a bird.
while evidencing the symmetry, propor
tion and learning of consummate literary
artistry, make a book which is unique and
delightful to a marvelous degree. 'Tis
the work of an enthusiastic angler every
where, but no less beloved of thousands
who have never carried rod and line and
have no concern at all about bait or
the victims of piscatorial skill and pa
tience, and the dressing for the table of
scaly prey drawn from sliver streams.
To read Walton Is to enjoy a vacation
with competent means, remote from dis
traction and worry, in scenes of purity
and peace, sharing In conversation befit
ting the innocent and sacred suggestions
of place and time, and gaining uncon
sciously in health and vigor and charac
ter for the tolls of the morrow.
"The Complete Angler, or Contemplative
Man's Recreation," was first published in
1553, when dear old Izaak was 60 years of
age. He had retired from business as a
linen draper in London, 10 years before,
with a modest fortune, enabling him to
cultivate his literary tastes and go a
flshlng at his own sweet will, alone or
with friends of tried adoption. Through
the troubled years of the war between
Charles I and the Parliament, he. had pur
sued, as It would seem, aneasy and pros
perous way, devout and loyal to the
Church of England, benevolent and charit
able, master of his own spirit, and culti
vating a loving intimacy with Nature In
the pursuit of angling, when he might
leave his tiny shop In the heart of the
metropolis, for neighboring streams, and
fields, and green woods. He was well con
nected, having married a sister of the boy,
then 10 years old, who became, in due
time, the learned and saintly Bishop Ken,
author of the morning and evening hymns
sunsr universally In churches of the Eng
lish-speaking nations. His literary prod
uct was very considerable, extending
throughout his retirement of 40 years and
three years previous to the year of his
death. Besides his masterpiece, which has
appeared In many editions and ls procur
able for 10 cents," as a number of Cas
sell's National Library. I mention one
work only his life of George Herbert
esteemed for Its saintllness, and a quaint,
pathetic, simple and Impressive diction all
his own. Everything bearing the name
of Izaak Walton appeals to readers of
refined appreciation In letters and charit
able and devout feeling, and who enjoy
withal characteristic eccentricity of
thought and expression.
Not that the gentle angler Is invulner
able against criticism, even, In the expo
sition of his absorbing sport As one In
stance Is his advice for preparing the frog
for bait: "And thus use your frog that
he may continue long alive; put your hook
Into his mouth, which you may easily do
from the middle of April till August, and
then the frog's mouth grows up, and he
continues, so far at least, without eating,
but Is sustained none but He whose name
Is Wonderful knows how. I say, put your
hook. I mean the arming wire, through
his mouth and out at his gills, and with
a fine needle and silk sew the upper part
of his leg, with only one stitch, to the
arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's
leg about the upper joint to the armed
wire, and. In so doing, use him as though
you loved him, that Is, harm him as little
as you may possible, that he may live
tho longer." I can't but hope that the
modern follower of the gentle craft Is not
put to the necessity of such seemingly
torturing ingenuity as la here described.
Such wholesome talk as this Is never out
of place: "Let me tell you there be many
that have 40 times our estates that would
give the greatest part of It to be health
ful and cheerful like us, who, with the
expense of a little money, have eat and
drank, and laughed, and angled, and sung,
and slept, securely; and rose next day,
and cast away care, and sung, and
laughed, and angled again, which are
blessings rich men cannot purchase with
all their money. Let me tell you. scholar,
I have a rich neighbor that ls always so
busy that he has no leisure to laugh; the
whole business of his life Is to get money,
and more money, that he may still get
more and more money; he is still drudg
ing on, and says that Solomon says, 'The
hand of the diligent maketh rich'; and It
Is true indeed: but he considers not that
It Is not In the power of riches to make
a man happy; for It was wisely said by a
man of great observation, 'That there
be as many miseries beyond riches as on
thl3 side of them.' And yet God deliver us
from pinching poverty, and grant that,
having a competency, we may be content
and thankful!
"My advice is, that you endeavor to
be honestly rich, or contentedly poor; but
be sure that your riches be justly got, or
you spoil all, for it Is well said by Caus
sln: 'He that loses his conscience has
nothing left that Is worth keeping' . . .
And, in the next place, look to your health,
and If you have it, praise God, and value
It next to a good conscience; for health
ls tho second blessing that we mortals
are capable of a blessing that money
cannot buy and therefore value It, and bo
thankful for It As for money, which may
be said to be the third blessing, neglect
It not, but note, that there is no neces
sity of being rich. ... I have heard a
great -divine say that God has two dwell
ings, one in Heaven and the other in a
meek and thankful heart which Almighty
God grant to me and to my honest schol
ar!" I end reluctantly with a lovely passage
on the nightingale: "But the nightingale,
another of my airy creatures, breathes
such sweet, loud music out of her little
Instrumental thrqat, that It might make
mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
He that at midnight, when the very la
borer sleeps securely, should hear, as I
have very often, the clear airs, the sweet
descants, the natural rising and falling,
the doubling and redoubling of her voice,
might well be lifted above earth and say:
'Lord, what music hast thou provided for
the saints In Heaven, when thou affordest
bad men such music on earth!' "
HENRY G. TAYLOR.
Doinjc Without Ment.
Boston Transcript
Now that it seems to be a fact estab
lished by certain provlsioners' reports that
people are eating less meat than formerly
in spite of the decline In price we shall
have to find some cause for It before we
can have any contentment of mind. And
happily this cause Is not far to seek; It
Is just a fresh Illustration of the old say
ing that when one door closes another
opens. When the beef took to soaring we
had to find substitutes for it and In the
search found several that, wmte they did
not strike meat from the dally bill of fare
altogether, made Its presence less exigent
than we had believed It could be. And
we grew so healthy and happy with the
reformed diet and we legally adopted It
If only a similar condition could come to
pass with regard to fuel!
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Salem is braced for the shock.
You can't even keep the whales from
trying to get Into Portland.
Even the commercial travelers are In a
minority in the city hotel, lobbies these
days. r
There is some talk In. Kansas of organising
a new political party. Washington Post.
Only some?
Indlanola may have lost its postofflee,
but the fact has been advertised that it
is on the map.
There is something In a name after all.
Mr. Oats has been appointed a grain In
spector at Buffalo.
Portlanders can no longer buy four
blta worth of coal at a time. The deal
ers refuse to break up the lumps;
"Papa," asked Little Henry, "who is
William J. Bryan?"
"He isn't," answered papa. "He was."
Bremerton may be bad, say the Bremer
tonlans, but It wasn't until Uncle Sam's.
warships began putting in there that it
became so.
Some local church people want to estab
lish a free soup kitchen down town. They
announce that they will stir the matter
up at once.
It Is to be hoped that the Legislature
won't wait until the services of the ves
sel are required to send In an order for
that fireboat
The report has It that the new Tammany
organization In New York City Is in the
control of honest politicians. This has the
right ring to it
The first protest against the eeatlng of
Reed Smoot, the Mormon apostle, aa a
United States Senator from Utah, accuses
him of trigonometry. k
Those Vienna doctors are retracting theit
criticisms of Dr. Lorenz, now that it is
announced that the. sinewy specialist Is
on his way back home.
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, who cannot
be classified as either a bull or a bear
or a lamb in Wall street might, how
ever, be labeled as the Noah of the finan
cial ark.,
A local advertisement offers a half In
terest in a traveling theatrical company
for 5150, and says it has plenty of paper
on hand. Maybe that accounts for tha
low price.
Composer Mascagni has adopted, the
modern method of avenging his wrongs.
He Is writing a book and he may call it
"The Judgment Day; or Sheriffs That I
Have Met."
The new Army regulations require all
officers on full-dress occasions to wear
uniforms with robin's egg blue trim
mings. Thus are the victims of the water
cure avenged.
The remarkable discovery has been made by
Chicago University professors that carnivorous
animals can live wholly on a vegetable diet.
Medical Journal.
It would be more remarkable, judging
by their record, if they hadn't discovered
it '
The Boer Generals have been finable'
stand the strain of their European lec
ture tour, but Joseph Chamberlain is
making speeches twice a day in Soutb
Africa. This shows the survival of the
fittest to make speeches.
The Democrats of Portland enjoyed a
series of moving pictures at their Jack
son day smoker. It was their first since
last Spring, when Grover Cleveland and
David B. Hill embraced on the same plat
form at tho harmony meeting in New
York.
George C. Perkins, George C. Pardee and
George C. Pendleton seem to be the three
G. C. P.s at present In charge of Cali
fornia's public affairs. They are, accord
ing to a man who has studied the signifi
cance of initials, generally creditable poli
ticians. At a fire in a Chattanooga hotel tha
day before yesterday, tho lives of tho
guests were saved by the clerk sending
out warnings over the room telephones at
midnight We can Imagine that it would
be somewhat disconcerting for a guest to
be abruptly awakened with an announce
ment of this sort, and sometimes it might
cause more casualties than the blaze. A
nice, pleasant, breaking-it-easy aort of
method may come In vogue. Suppose this:
"Hello. 411."
"Hello." ,
"This Mr. Sprlggins?"
"Yep."
"Gone to bed yet?"
"Sure. D'ye think I"
"That's all right How"re you feeling?M
"Sort o' so-so."
"That's good. Feel equal to a hurry-up
slide down the fire-escape?"
"Well. I might If I had to. Say"
"All right; that's Just how It stands.
You wiggle Into your clothes now, and
make a record doing It You see, the ho
tel's on fire, and and gee! don't talk
like that mister, there are ladles in the
next room. Good-bye."
Mornlity of the Theater.
Sarah Bernhardt, in Cornhill Magazine.
There are minds distorted enough to
think the theater immoral but nothing i3
more untrue. The theater, on the con
trary, as I have tried to show, ls a moral
influence. It makes us realize the road3
of virtue and vice, although there are
some who even think it wrong to take
young girls to see certain pieces "Ca
mille," for example. '
One day when I mentioned this to a
charming lady of our Faubourg Saint
Germain, she said: "Oh! but my daughter
knows the piece" "How, madame?" I
asked, "has she read It?" "Oh, no!" was
the reply, in a shocked tone, "but she has
heard 'La Traviata.' " "But," I returned,
"it seems to me that Is just the same."
"Indeed, It is not" was- e rejoinder,
"for the music so corrects the realism of
the piece that my daughter did not realize
that what she heard sung could really
take place." Could anything be more mis
taken than this lady's notion? If the young
girl had been prevented by the music from
taking count of the story of "La Trav
iata," so much the worse for her, and it
would have been well to take her to see
"Camille," where Ihls Would not be the
case, for the tragedy of the sufferings and
the death of the heroine ls a lesson by
which any young girl should profit I
have been asked If I do not think that the
glamor of the stage and the acting might
blind a young girl to trie Instruction of the
piece, and I Teply, "No," emphatically
"No." The more powerful the piece ls
represented the more potent Is the lesson.
Stuelc on His Books.
Yonkers Statesman.
JPcnman You say you like my books?
Wright Well, -I'm stuck on two of them.
"Which two?"
"The two I bought"